skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
is that how it actually ends up going down though? a romantic relationship has so many other variables to consider, and the dynamic is far different: you live with this person; eventually, in most cases, you pledge to live with them forever; you are sexually involved with this person; they are your "ONE" person designated as most important (this doesn't really happen with friends, at least not officially); you might raise a child together, a massive responsibility to which mutual responsibilities undertaken with friends hardly compare.

i think that our innate evolutionary heuristic for finding a romantic partner is quite different from that which is used to find friends and this difference definitely impacts who we select. it seems naive to assume that the majority of romantic relationships are simply opposite-sex friends who are roommates that have sex. at least when we look at romantic relationships that last a while.

i want to believe it's that simple, but i have a hard time doing so.
Real world is so damned complicated, full of various mini games. How about using a MMORPG as a naive start point?
My home has a radio-connected "smart meter" that also has Zigbee capabilities.

For $45 I bought a USB/Zigbee dongle that spits out XML-formatted information from the meter. With no change to my wiring I can monitor whole-house usage with about 4 watt-hours of resolution.

But I don't really do much with it. I thought about putting together a little LCD panel that shows consumption vs grid price (I opted to pay real-time prices). But I still don't know what benefit it would have unless I really wire the whole house to use that data (e.g. turn off lights, turn the A/C up, etc). When prices spike the utility already sends me phone/email notifications to reduce consumption.
most patent troll firms just buy portfolios worth of patents without the extra baggage of the company that created the patent.

trolling comes down to their use of patent ownership and how they (ab)use it to make cash.
This is all nice and well, but sharing albums on Google is naive. You get a "hidden link" to an album that you can then share with people.

Back in 2005, I set up Famipix (www.famipix.com) to share my own private family photos. And keep them private. No public albums.

The site currently has users in more than 100 countries, and I've made a special version for schools that is free to use. We have good traction in the Netherlands (where I'm from).

Dutch legislation will require _all_ schools who post photos online to use a similar system, where only authenticated users (i.e. parents) can login to view the photos. Explanation here: https://support.famipix.com/category/47-famipix-for-schools

If you're interested in a free account for your (kid's) school, just send me a message.
what is the percentage of high net-worth individuals who earned their wealth vs. inherited it?
As someone who has worked at co-working spaces in places not urbane enough to have a WeWork, $500 a month strikes me as ridiculous. I'm paying $150 a month at my current place for a dedicated desk (so not just shared table space). I do this because I'm able to be more productive than I would be working from home, so the $150 a month easily pays for itself, but I highly doubt I'd be over four times more productive paying $700 a month for the same thing at a WeWork.

Granted, this place doesn't have beer on tap, but it has free-flowing coffee, and that's all I really need.

You be you, so pay WeWork's prices if the value fits you, but if you're considering joining shared workplaces for the first time, note that you can probably find a much better deal.
What's your working definition of 'real wealth'?
You can't derive CT with CT. Though that has nothing to do with your point, just suggesting that we aren't there yet.
In C#, Task is part of the language, thread safe queues are part of the core libs.

Still not quite as tightly integrated as Go though.
That's still a supply problem. So long as there is an artificially limited supply forced by NIMBYs they'll continue to build higher margin housing.

If you open it up to allow 10x or even 100x more housing units you'll get ones in every price range.
I think they'd have more accuracy in results if they mapped-out the contours and bumps of the subject's skulls.
> Are you sure it's "class and wealth" and not intelligence?

I think intelligence is the most important prerequisite, at which point class exerts influence, and then finally wealth - self-made wealth - becomes a reflection of how much of a person's ambition is focused on that area. And luck, of course.

This raises the question of what to do about pre-implantation genetic testing and gene therapies once the genes influencing intelligence can be identified and selected (and eventually modified). I can see a future in which everyone who can afford it reproduces via IVF in order to leverage gene selection, and it's considered socially awkward among the upper class to have a naturally-conceived child (as in, you don't care enough about your child to pay for the best genes). Perhaps when it comes to discussions of inequality, "we ain't seen nothing yet".
>It's a lousy hand to be dealt, but I don't see how he deserves to take 317k from a charitable organization over it.

Most US hospitals are non-profit "charitable organizations"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-profit_hospital

They should all be allowed to mix up children with no penalty? Odd stance you have there. I'm sure most Americans will disagree with you.
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IQ also correlates with education. What else correlates with education?
I mean, if you want to live in a suburb, don't live in San Francisco?
As others have said, having a superpower keeps the peace. Multipolar worlds tend to be ridden with conflict.
Even then, it still reduces to a brute-forceable game with finite, explorable states; 'just' with an extra layer of (granted, quite interesting and technically impressive) parsing. We don't know what the case is for reality.

And yes, we can do our best to turn real life in to a game, but all such models leak pretty badly, and the leaks tend to cause much more fundamental instability.
...is mostly released instead of being collected from reactions like producing LNG because it is currently so cheap, but could be captured, recycled, or 'mined' in much higher quantities/efficiencies if prices went up?

I could be wrong or facile, but it still sounds pretty similar.
https://www.economist.com/news/china/21737074-some-technolog...

https://chinapower.csis.org/china-chengdu-j-20/

This will handle Air combat quite fine.

"The short-range PL-10, which was introduced in 2015, is regarded by military analysts as comparable in performance to Western equivalents, such as the Sidewinder II. This year, the PL-15, a radar-guided “beyond visual range” missile (BVRAAM), should enter service. Carried by a J-20, the PL-15 can destroy an aircraft 50km away that is trying to evade it. “The Military Balance” believes that a version of the missile is in the works that will have a cruise speed of Mach 3. It is similar in design to the European Meteor, the best BVRAAM in the West’s inventory, which is only just entering service."

As you say J-20 will be used to deter aircraft carriers and warships.

"A 2015 RAND report noted the J-20’s “combination of forward stealth and long range could hold U.S. Navy surface assets at risk, and that a long-range maritime strike capability may be a cause for greater concern than a short-range air-superiority fighter like the F-22.” The J-20’s size and weapons configuration may, however, preclude it from functioning as an effective strike fighter in either context. Importantly, the mission types Chinese pilots are trained for may determine how the J-20 is eventually utilized."

"The U.S. Naval War College suggests that the J-20 could be an “effective surface-attack platform for out to several hundred nautical miles at sea.” Air Power Australia notes that the J-20 would be a suitable choice of aircraft for operating within China’s “first island chain” and “second island chain.” Should China integrate aerial refueling aircraft with the J-20, the stealth fighter’s operational range would extend even further across the Asia-Pacific."
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I still think you're incorrect. If we're at 10^13 years, then 10^28 minus 10^13 is, essentially, 10^28 years from now.

> Either way it'd be an unqualified success.

Certainly. I'm just picking nits on the math.
That doesn't really answer the question, though, of why animals get too old to reproduce. Surely it would be evolutionarily advantageous for an animal to be able to reproduce for its entire life.
>Going from 100 workers at a factory to 50 workers means the 50 workers remaining have harder and more valuable jobs.

This is not necessarily true. It could mean turning 100 people doing skilled labor and turning them into 50 workers doing visual inspection (QA) at likely lower pay.
Many guys like to think of themselves in this way, I'm sure.
Yes, we've got live on the way! It will be available on a limited basis to folks in the next few weeks, and hopefully public shortly after.
"But more profoundly, the common themes of rap are in tune with the company’s mission."

I guess, at least as relates to the tech industry, given the treatment of women, this isn't far off?
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The problem is people always want change NOW, and aren't willing to wait and to work. Throughout the course of American history when the public felt strongly enough about something they worked, and campaigned, and protested, AND VOTED until things changed. But it doesn't happen immediately and it never has. We have the power now to make the public's opinion known to politicians faster and more accurately which should hopefully shorten the feedback loop.
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Comments like your remind me how fortunate I am work with 'adults' at my current company. We don't micro-manage anyone, and only look at results. People who can't handle the responsibility side of freedom are let go, and the rest of us have an amazing amount of freedom to do interesting work. We even have beer in the refrigerator that people occasionally partake in.
> Then you've got companies like Dollar General betting on America having a "permanent underclass", their own words

Interesting quote, thanks for that. However it's not "in their own words". The quote comes from Garrick Brown, director for retail research at a commercial real estate company. Here's the original source:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-10-11/dollar-ge...
But it shouldn't be that way. You shouldn't be stuck in the first place.
According to their FAQ, python.
I'm pretty simple. I remember briefly experimenting with deep nested logical folder hierarchies in windows 98 when I was like 10 years old, no experiments became habits because I just didn't have that many files to store back then. NES roms and like 3 songs.

These days I have all my code in ~/code, a sub folder for each project. I've got apparently accumulated 120 project folders in the last 5 years. Anything else I make tends to be a loose file in ~/assets.

Whenever I get the urge to do some 3d modelling, I quickly check spotlight if I've started anything like it before. I get the urge to make a castle? cmd + space, type castle. Yup I last edited castleTown.blend in 2014. Then I just pick up where I left off.

My assets folder, being something I do to relax, has grown pretty ludicrous. It's distributed between a few devices, but i'd estimate I've got 2-5000 different made-from-scratch 3d models, digital paintings, textures, alpha maps, etc all over the place. Kinda wish I could have a garage sale from time to time :D

The only other kind of file accumulation goes in ~/Downloads, and I delete that wholesale every few weeks.

Thanks for making me reflect on my.. accretions..
Did they? The article is suspiciously silent on what, if anything, might have triggered bans and Medium themselves refuse to say.

I went and found a cached copy of the "How I'd run for Congress" article it talks about:

http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=How+I+Would+Run+for+Congres...

Looks fine to me.

But it sounds like it's time to stop using Medium. Updating their ToS to say that they can pull your content at will, for no reason beyond someone there not liking something you did or said that isn't even on their platform? Like, it could literally be something said in person that was overheard by someone who works there.

A blog is a long term thing, it's not a set of tweets. The content should last for years. Medium have clearly gone full blown Valley SJW and the people who thought freedom of speech mattered have either been shouted down or changed. Who knows what Medium considers to be "disinformation"? Anything that criticizes Hillary Clinton?
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there are definitely different dynamics. IRL a person will get back to right away; online, your comments can be ignored. IRL, you have the context of the person's personality to supplement the content of what they're saying (for better or for worse, but definitely different).

human communication is also hardly only based on just speaking words, with body language and gestures and facial expressions working to convey full meaning. it is hard to feel warmth in online discussions, or at least harder.

furthermore, online discussion seems much more targeted, and less exploratory in terms of subject matter (this is neutral, not saying better or worse) whereas IRL you can flow from topic to topic. also, i'd say discussing personal topics in person is more rewarding due to a combination of all the above.
Didn't see the unit, sorry.

So, 1 standard drink = 1 bottle of beer = 1 reasonable glass of wine = 2 shots of liquor.
I like the idea and have tried it myself, but there's no way I'd install a third party software keyboard on a device I remotely care about. That's just crazy. Second, Google's gesture typing is not part of their AOSP offering and so it requires adding the unfreely licensed libjni_latinimegoogle.so file to an Android phone running AOSP (which usually requires root). So for now, I do without.
And not to mention general sleep and mood issues. It doesn't take many days in a row with a couple evening beers for me to get cranky. I'm sure alcohol affects everyone differently, but "flowing" just sounds like a recipe for mass irritability.
Another good crate to look at for this is Actix, Rust actors framework:

https://github.com/actix/actix
I really hate Electron in general but I've really found an affinity for Mailspring. So much so that I'd actually go as far as saying it's the only email client I've genuinely liked (rather than tolerated). So highly recommend it in spite of the larger footprint it carries compared to fully native.

As an aside note, it supports Gmail and other proprietary cloud mailboxes - if just due to its being Electron based - so theres no more messing about with IMAP et al for Gmail
New report on emerging AI risks paints a grim future
Thanks. I'm 40 years old and have been coding since 1996.

And trust me that policy makers who would enable this are not your average HN crowd.

On the contrary, convoluted solutions rarely evolve past academia, and a lot of the self-driving cars/drones news out there is hype to help boost valuations of companies.
But not everyone is like you. Some people will have negative consequences for it, and some will miss out on opportunities for it, and they plain shouldn't.
Did you get your 50 cents for that post, anonymous new account?
Just because a system is meritocratic doesn't mean it's just in some broader sense. It just means that the behaviors that society defines as being worthy of merit are consistently rewarded. It doesn't say anything about how or why people are acculturated in a certain way.
You're getting at the heart of it here, I think. The CEO's job in this case was to gather the information necessary to make a good decision about which robot to purchase, then use her (hopefully) experienced judgement to make the best possible decision for the value of the company. There's definitely some value to that process, but I think most people would agree that it's not worth the multi-million dollar bonus she'd probably get from the 5x productivity increase.

Executive pay being tied to company performance is a good thing for the health of the company (no comment on whether that's "good" or "bad" overall) as long as the metrics are defined correctly, but at some point the absolute amount of compensation lost its relationship with the actual effect the CEO has on the company. But that makes sense... I mean what do you expect to happen when people essentially set their own pay? The "in" club of board membership is very much a real thing, and responsible behavior at the expense of other board members is easy enough to punish at another company's board meeting where the pecking order is reversed.
Nice website, note by the same source that the US military budget is about $1t per year ($886 billion). Even more insane.

https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-military-budget-components-ch...

For a fraction of that I'm pretty sure we could be well under way of self-sustaining colonization of other Solar System bodies.
As someone whose country was destroyed by the US and is still taking damage and being oppressed by them, I tend to disagree with your opinion, in fact both China and Russia have been way more helpful.
Google is your friend:
https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/transport/speed-limits
Not a good example - "Yield right _in the order of arrival_" is still a hard rule, but practically deadlock-free.
I'm getting some serious Cold War vibes from this article: Communist country tries to get into an arms race with the US, has to choose between their preferred economic strategy and military competitiveness, ends up trying to have both.

The big difference I see with China is that they have a massive booming economy. Unlike the USSR which failed to stay productive, they might be able to pull it off.

But the "air power" advancements in the article seem a bit underwhelming to me. A new fighter jet, a new air-to-air missile, and another unnamed air-to-air system with longer range seem like the first steps in bringing Chinese air power up to par. It certainly doesn't suggest that they will soon be able to "rival the West", let alone the US.
Problem is; people really really really seem to like to believe in this meme. They want to believe in the myth of the alpha male. They find it comforting. I think it's probably similar to supreme-being myths, and racial-superiority myths. (who doesn't like to be told they're "a member of the master-race" or "naturally inclined to dominate and lead, be entitled to privilege"?)

Getting this mythology beat-down is going to be a very difficult steep uphill climb, I'm afraid. Hell, we're literally still trying to convince people the world is round.
Haxe is a programming language and should be compared to as3. It is much more powerful and can compile to 12 targets including JavaScript,php, c++, and as3.
OpenFL is a cross-plateform port of the flash API in Haxe.
All this flash stuff are just a part of an amazing technology.
> I'm not really sure what good it did for me.

You don't feel like all the liberal arts classes made you a more well rounded person and gave you a broader perspective on life, etc., etc.?
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The rotors of induction machines are usually copper, which is not ferromagnetic and will not have any remanent magnetization. In practical terms it is not feasible to "bootstrap" an induction machine in the way that you describe.
I don't think that iOS/android devices are spying on us, but I also don't think the Amazon echo is either. In both cases you are trusting a large company to not record you - in one case you trust apple/google to deactivate the mic on your phone when it isn't being used, and in the other case you trust Amazon to only send recordings to their servers when you say the keyword. If anything I would trust Amazon more, since the echo has a physical switch to turn off the mic. So I don't really see the difference between a phone and an echo as far as privacy is concerned.
Usually they're perceived ills that are misrepresented, so no, not really.
Indeed. This is what is currently in progress at the Turkey-Syria border between the US and Russia.

Estimates place the casualties between 400k and over a million people [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Syrian_Civil...
Are you sure about that? I live in California, which was previously Mexican territory.

I also have friends from Texas, which was also Mexican territory.

Perhaps your point is that the US became less imperialistic since then, but that's easy to say once it's taken what it wants.

China sees Taiwan as an integral part of the "Greater China", a still unresolved problem from the past century's wars. It sees the South China sea as its own backyard. Can you imagine the US response if China were sailing military vessels provocatively close to the cost of continental US?

I'm not saying either is right. I'm pointing out that the US is not without its hypocrisies either, and that each country has its own flaws.
Oh yeah I've seen those. Never really seen them talked about in the same category as the rest of the model railway world though. Seems like it still kind of leaves these mini materials in an awkward position at 1:12 scale so they're too large for traditional model railways and too small for these live steam guys.

1:12 is a common action figure size though. Maybe it'd make interesting materials for that.
If a student can get into MIT that student will likely be financially well off no matter where they go, even after an upper middle-class family spends nearly $300,000 in tuition, room and board. It's the edge cases that are much harder. Try comparing an expensive private school for four years with a state school (three if they accept AP courses).

Of course there are a lot of other non-financial reasons to attend college, such as growing a circle of friends and being exposed to new ideas in a formal setting. It's unclear how to value that properly however.
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For me it is cool but (like voice typing) I felt that if I had to correct it once, then I could have typed it twice. For a while I used Swype but with the gestures disabled. Eventually I switched to the stock keyboard, then Gboard (with gestures disabled).
Is calling for violence really the only limitation you'd accept? What about calling for segregation? Or calling all Islamic people savages? Those are things Laura Loomer has done.

I'm about as far right as you can get economically and I wouldn't give her a platform in spite of fully supporting her right to spew nonsense. The freedom of association carries with it the freedom to not associate.
Woodworking is an incredibly hobby, and woodworking side projects are much more satisfying than writing some worthless app on the side, especially if you produce pieces of furniture you can enjoy everyday in your own home.

However, it's not the cheapest hobby. I've spent thousands setting up a proper shop. But it has been fun. And if I wanted to I could easily make the money back building custom pieces of furniture for other people.