skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow that's dissapointing, such a shame. The most surprising example is in Reims, France where they provided 400 bikes in November 2017, only 20 fully functional bikes remained in January this year. The rest were either vandalised, broken or stolen.
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Depends on how you’re writing. You could send everything to a kinesis or firehouse stream and use that to batch inputs, or you could write to an Elastic File System and batch there with a scheduled function
Well... Apparently there is a way to get those businesses to stop :-D
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Reminds me of "The Zen Of Erlang": https://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html
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> And switching to quantum encryption would require a complete internet infrastructure overhaul, meaning fiber optics everywhere, all new routers (would packet routing still work?), new cell towers, and no more copper lines for internet.

It would not require new cell towers. It would require an Internet where no wireless connections exist.

Which is one of the reasons why you should laugh out loud if anyone uses the term "Quantum Internet".
South Korean PM just can't say no to NK refugee deportation
It's not the engines that would prove limiting to cruise speed at those altitudes, it's the aerodynamic design of the wing. Airliners are flying at between 78 to 86% of the speed of sound, you can't improve on that in a way that would be dramatically noticeable without a huge redesign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swept_wing#Subsonic_and_transo...

Many 757s have RR engines, but adding more power would allow take off with higher weight from shorter runways etc, not faster cruise.
A similar thing is happening in Switzerland: http://www.20min.ch/finance/news/story/Schweizer-sehen-O-Bik... (in German).

Apparently some people see the rental bikes from this company, O-bike, as an unwanted Chinese intrusion into their country.
Why not?

Not just snark, that's a key question. 30-year yields are currently at just over 3%.
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Siri runs server side, I can’t see how that could work without the keys to its data
I can only provide a personal observation. I've been a happy user of a sit-stand desk for more than three years, and one part of the results does sound plausible.

I tend to spend >70% of my time with the desk at standing height - dealing with emails, taking part in office chat (slack), and reviewing changes of all kinds. I have no problem doing some coding when standing up too. But when I need to do deeper code review, thoughtful research, or otherwise dive into a complex piece of code I find myself sitting down.

I like the standing mode. My back feels better for it, and indeed, if I spend too much time sitting down my back starts to complain. The ability to adjust the height freely feels like I have the best of both worlds.
I'm not sure how you got to 'obviously'. Could you elaborate?
- a congressman asks "North Korea asked for deportation... will you deport them back to North Korea?"

- the PM tries to avoid an answer (because the current gov. is pro-North-Korea lol)

- background wtf sounds

- the PM gives up (think how bad I'll look!)

- By grilling the PM, the congressman actually saved the defectors lives
Probable study link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000368701...

HIGHLIGHTS

- Standing for a duration of 2 h led to a significant increase in low back discomfort among 20 participants.

- Use of a footstool during prolonged standing did not reduce low back discomfort.

- Upper lumbar lordosis moved towards usual standing lordosis when using a footstool.

- Lumbar postural movement during prolonged standing was not affected by a footstool.

- Lumbar erector spinae median frequency and amplitude were not affected by a footstool.

ABSTRACT

Prolonged standing is common in many occupations and has been associated with low back discomfort (LBD). No recent studies have investigated a footrest as an intervention to reduce LBD associated with prolonged standing. This study investigated the effect of a footrest on LBD and sought to determine if LBD changes were accompanied by changes in muscle fatigue and low back end-range posture and movement. Twenty participants stood for two 2-h trials, one with and one without a footrest. LBD, lumbar erector spinae electromyography, upper lumbar (UL) and lower lumbar (LL) angles were measured. A significant increase in LBD occurred in both conditions but the footrest did not significantly decrease LBD. The only significant finding between conditions was that UL lordosis became more similar to usual standing over time with footrest use. These findings suggest that footrest use may not reduce LBD development and that development of LBD with prolonged standing is unlikely to be due to muscle fatigue or end-range posture mechanisms.
2018 now has the second lowest sea ice volume on record: http://neven1.typepad.com/blog/volume-and-concentration/

Also because Al Gore was wrong on one statement, or has incorrect timing, doesn't mean Climate change is not real. Nor does it mean he announced his concern sfor political power.

I provided some information showing artic ice is on the decrease. And I haven't down-voted you yet as I dont like this internet thing where people down vote opinions against their view. Why dont you provide some real data/facts to support this view that climate change is a scam?
Like the "cloud team" does the account but networks must provision the VPC, and there's a "gateway review board" that gets involved

Yes, this is totally antithetical to modern working practices such as "DevOps"

At that place e.g. the VM team could provision you a VM (eventually) but they couldn't do you a login on it, that was some other team. But you couldn't raise the paperwork against that team until the VM was created, so everything proceeded serially, and each step at a glacial pace. The time ratio between them and Azure or AWS is literally under one minute for every month!
I imagine it would be a negative one!
Topics that are too controversial get demoted fast. http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
While it doesn't sound like a huge study, I do tend to agree with those conclusions, having worked with adjustable desks for a few years now, due to orthopedic problems which make it uncomfortable to sit all day...

I much prefer to be sitting when in "flow" for coding, but I stand when doing more bureaucratic tasks. And many times, it is nice to just be able to switch positions every few minutes, more so than trying to be on my feet all day.
The Design of Everyday Things already talked about this in the 80s, it's depressing how little his suggestions have been accepted.
We know that for most problems, a group of people tends to be better at problem solving than an individual [1]. Even if AI technology only reaches human-level and does not exceed it, continually increasing efficiency would make AI smarter than any small groups of humans and immense bandwidth relative to human communications would make it more effective than any large human organizations.

[1] https://aiimpacts.org/coordinated-human-action-example-super...

In addition, if AI posesses sufficient computing resources, which will certainly become available in the next few decades if not already, it will have inherent strong advantages like serial computation speed and memory size that exceed any human brains. So the real barrier for AGI is software and not hardware.

If AGI software is developed before we have sufficient hardware to run it at the human brain speed, then it will become more capable at the rate of hardware we can put into use, which is likely exponential given how parallelized the human brain appears to be.

The major counterargument I find most convincing regarding outsized impact of exploding intelligence is that many problems are exponentially hard (or harder than that) and thus exponential intelligence can only make linear or sublinear progress on them.

However, linear or even sublinear progress may still lead to quite drastic changes in the world. If an organization can marginally predict stock price movements better than the rest of the world, in a few decades it will accumulate great resources and power. The same is true for many other important domains.
Substantially thickening sea ice since the 50's would indicate climate change, or?
I'm Canadian and have definitely noticed a big difference. Though there also seems to be a strong demand for programmers, so I'm not sure why the wage isn't pushing further.

I'm remote. so I've found contracting to American companies to be best case scenario. Particularly when the our dollar is lower.
We recently purchased a TV and chose one based on the lack of any Smart TV functionality. It boots in 5 seconds and doesn't try and join botnets. The future is stupid.
What you're missing in that comparison is an extra engineer (or two) who can deal with power needs, networks hardware config, firmware updates, plans for rolling hardware, stock of replacement drives, seamless base system updates, dealing with the platform (virt or containers) itself and other things that the managed cloud gives you included in price. Ah, and they need to be available on call. Hardware may be cheap - people aren't.
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[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSqEDXZf4To
[2]http://minotb52ufo.com/introduction.php
Related: these aren't even the competencies that employers have selected as most important, only the ones that the firm doing the survey selected. So how important are they really? Where do, for instance, "Career Management" and "Global/Intercultural Fluency" stack up against "Can actually do the job we're hiring them to do, e.g. program a computer"?
There is an important aspect which is not well remarked in the article: high fixed-costs businesses are the ones that really suffer inflation.

If every time you want to expand you need to make significant investments (and there will always be a delay before it starts making money), inflation will affect your costs way before it will affect your revenue.

Even worse, because fixed assets need to be replaced due to obsolescence every once in a while, you'll end up increasing your costs way more than you're increasing your revenue just to maintain the current production level.

TL;DR: The more the delay between investment and revenue generation and the more capital intensive it is, the worst.
PlayStation does the same. It advises that you can skip the update if you don’t intend to use networked features.
All participants lived in a society with socialized healthcare built around a “free at the point of service” model. That’s not to say that socioeconomic status doesn’t play a part (as other commenters have noted) but the difference in access to healthcare due to wealth is relatively small in the UK in general
Uncertainty principle? It's not about quantum
Well spoken. Most of these standards have been well-designed and open. People are much too quick to assume malice.
Since I am a vegetarian, the range of cookbooks is a bit more limited. I have some nice vegetarian cookbooks with binding that closes the book.
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This means almost nothing without a baseline to compare it to. I'd suggest it's very likely that you'd get similar results if you surveyed any other age group - that individuals give higher estimates of their ability than someone else would is hardly surprising.
I’d like to see the comparison between visiting a foreign country, vs visiting the biggest 20 cities in the U.S.
> Yes I would like a Starship Enterprise-style computer in my house. Who wouldn't?

I wouldn't. What's the point exactly? Take smart lights, what are they for?? When I enter the room I switch lights on, when I leave the room I switch lights off.

I'm not sure when I would need to switch lights on while already in the room. I never stay in the same room for so long that the sun sets while I'm still there not moving.

At night in the bedroom there are switches near the bed (attached to the wall, which can't get lost, contrary to a remote, and don't need sound, contrary to voice control).

My point is, we tend to accept technology even when it doesn't solve any problem we are actually having.
The first one is not a reason. If you're really small, you're much better off renting servers from a cheaper competitor, cloud, or even VPS.
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I believe it needs to be a 10ms tick.
Were the study participants used to working with a standing desk? One can't simply switch to a standing desk, you have to introduce it gradually, in order not to hurt yourself.
You cannot mine Bitcoin with a quantum computer, as there is no quantum algorithm to calculate SHA hashes.
> The point is the people who are using H-1B visa are unable to negotiate wages which depresses their American counterpart wages.

That's just a rephrasing of "they're taking our jobs": rejecting foreign competition of similar qualification because it's cheaper.

I don't think there is nothing wrong per se with this position; it would be impossible to maintain any decent standard of living for the middle class citizenry with an open border policy where everyone from Afghanistan or Centrafrican Republic can freely enter the country and claim any low level job available. Many of such jobs, the result of government spending specifically aimed at economic development and creation of opportunity, so in limited supply in the short run.

Where this policy backfires and turns to rent seeking is protecting very well paid professionals from foreign competition simply because they have the adequate lobbying power. The economic progress is retarded and consumers pay much more for the services of those professionals - doctors are a good example.

Ideally, the visas should be granted simply to anyone making a high enough paycheck (with criminal liability for anyone artificially inflating it). If you are making more than $100.000 net per year, you are in absolutely no need of protection from unfair foreign competition, as such a measure pushes the increased price of your work onto the rest of citizens who earn less, possibly much less.
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Thank you too, the link about lisp interpreter is really good!
Indeed... After, it's hard to make any deduction. Public bikes are widespreaded in France, have been there for a long time, and seems to work quite well (most of those are dockable though). It seems to me that this company got something very wrong in their business model if they face this issue in a lot of places.
You need people to manage AWS instances too, ive never seen any evidence that it actually takes less people at scale.

Sure for a few instances, its likely to be true because there is a certain amount of fixed overhead for dedicated hardware, but it remains a relatively low constant, but in reality there isnt much difference in terms of labour between wrangling hundreds of AWS instances, and hundreds of servers, and the servers will be many times cheaper to run.
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If the framework solves a common problem, then the structure will be familiar. Stackoverflow to fill in the gaps.
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Thanks for the benefit of doubt. If you have 7 minutes this explains it better than I can. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFwie-kC8uc

Not sure how those volume records are measured when you look at a view of satellite data you can clearly see the ice is thicker overall especially near the North Pole and Russian coast.
High powered lasers in a consumer product without an enclosure = horrible idea.
My preferred coding position is lying propped up in bed.
I am a big fan of the Kindle 4. (2012) It's wonderful. I use mine practically every day. It has these huge things on the side called "buttons" that you can use to turn the pages. They have a tactile feel when pressed, and accidental button presses are never a problem. It's symmetrical, so you can hold it in either your right or left hand.

It's the last Kindle made before someone got the bright idea that people would rather have a touch screen instead of buttons. Because apparently, when I'm reading a book, the thing I want to do is use my thumb to cover up the screen (you know, the thing that is displaying the text that I'm reading), and hold the device in a very specific way such that I can press the page when I need to while avoiding accidental touches before I've reached the end of the page.

Recently, they decided to re-introduce the majestic "button" feature into some of the newer Kindle models. You can get it if you opt for the premium deluxe "Kindle Oasis" which for some reason has an asymmetrical bezel and costs $250. (The Kindle 4 originally retailed for $80, which is where pricing for current Kindle models also starts.)

I love my Kindle 4. I use it every day and take it with me everywhere, and whenever I misplace it and need to buy a replacement, I find myself going to ebay to look for a used version of the old model so I can have a device with buttons.
And I much prefer mine over any other I’ve used. One of us must be wrong ;)
Tor browser + additional measures against fingerprinting of browser and packages I guess.
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Don't take this as a source of truth, it's just my gut feeling, but:

Germany is lacking behind in tech, and the country is putting lots of bets to their car industry, the Volkswagen scandal not helping there. Now there is this new thing called cryptocurrency and one of them comes from Berlin. I don't know is it just me, but it's not that hard to start speculating why these big German companies want to announce themselves to be working with a Germany-based cryptocurrency.
I recall reading that about the F-117, many years ago. Can't remember the source, either, and I've no idea if it's accurate.
Google has experimented with post-quantum algorithms too: https://security.googleblog.com/2016/07/experimenting-with-p...
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/r/iota sure seems to believe that's what it shows. One comment with 20 upvotes:

> I read the emails and it seems to me that Ethan doesnt understand what theyve done in IOTA or has very different way of interpretting what they have done aka hes trained by a textbook and if you deviate from textbook its wrong bla bla. I think come_from_behind is and will continue to run laps around these University morons

https://www.reddit.com/r/Iota/comments/8016uc/debunking_the_...
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I mean, in interaction design is certainly is. It's just that outside of the design world, not enough people realise that there is more to design than graphic design, and that there is more to design than just adding some pretty chrome at the end of the whole development phase.
In the last few years I've spent almost a triple number of days in hospitals (not as a patient). I can tell you from first-hand experience that most patients that are hospitalized —except in the ICU— do not need multiple doctor visits per single day. Maybe they need a couple different specialties, but certainly they do not need multiple doctors of the same specialty in the same day or more than a few specialties.

As has been pointed out in many submissions on HN about USA's medical practices, the main reason you get many visits is to inflate your bill. I think someone even wrote that he was charged $600 per 1-minute visit during his stay in the hospital.
Marginally related: is there something native (and for linux/unix) equivalent to shadertoy? When debugging a sharer it's quite handy, but the web interface is just too laggy for me.

I'm currently using my own simple test rig, but I'd like something more refined.
Excuses??? Excuses are for when you've done something wrong. Why the hostility? I decided to give europe a try and liked it, so I stayed. sheesh.

Anyway I had a good time in the bay, in Berkeley. But at this stage in my life I like it here.

Also, even though I could have gotten "unlimited" time off in the US (note the huge scare quotes), my wife couldn't have, and here she gets ample holidays too.
> Quantum cryptography is secure against quantum computers and is also vastly more simple than existing crypto (no complicated algorithms to mess up).

Can you explain this statement? I understand that algorithms such as RSA might require particular padding or what have you to be secure in practice, but is quantum-resistant crypto much different?
1) The US State Dept advisories are considered an eye-rolling running joke amongst most of the USians-living-abroad community. But stoking fear seems to be an american ideal these days.

2) This study resembles a workout by an olympic gymnast in statistical muscle building.
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The problem isn’t “bots”. It’s the moderators of these forums. You’ll always find a core group of people willing to believe almost any scam, but putting them on a forum where critical discussion is banned by the moderators is where things go wrong.
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Oh yes, that was my biggest worry when i bought the paperwhite - If i would miss those buttons too much. Even now after a year, if I could get the paperwhite with buttons, I would.
It just works, you don't have to move your finger to change the page.

It's not much I have to move my fingers to change page on the paperwhite, but it's still so much more than should be necessary, the old model just fit like a glove.

(I would still get the paperwhite even with no buttons, and it has not been as annoying regarding accidental page changes as I had initially feared. And i really love the background lighting)
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There are still wide health inequalities in the UK.

Poor people eat worse food; don't get as much exercise; and smoke more.

You can predict average life expectancy by post-code, and that's based on socio-economic factors.
But... how on earth did that escape QA? I mean surely even whoever was developing IE8's developer tools would have had accidentally forgotten a console.log() or two during development, surely?
Completely impossible like...this video? https://youtu.be/PSE9Zjh364M
Possibly, but I'm not so sure. If you're smart, you will make more money, and yes of course money doesn't make you actually happy etc etc, but studies have shown it actually does up to a point (or, at least, money gets rid of things which would otherwise make you unhappy, such as medical care, lack of new things, etc). It would certainly be interesting to see a study on this.
But if the black hole can survive the big bang, therefore it can exist longer that rest of the universe so it seems to have plenty of time to evolve anything.
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For what it's worth, I've used MapD to query ~100gb of GPS data.

I was running queries where I was looking for ever point within a given distance of a source point (queries often had 10s to a hundred-something source point s), within a given time period.

MapD would scream through the hose queries ludicrously fast, I don't think I ever had a query run for longer than half a second, 0.7 seconds tops.

While I wasn't running the most complex queries, I also didn't have to do any complex setup (I literally just loaded the data in via command line, single table, nothing special), it was awesome.