skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will be cool to spot dinosaurs on these exoplanets. Whatever made it possible to create these giant creatures should be on atleast few exoplanets.
I live among the wealthy. I live in a little enclave called Marin County.

I'm not one of them, just service their stuff, usually with them watching me.

I'm constantly astonished over just how frugal they are. Their bodies are decaying, but as long as the assets grow; they seem happy.

Actually, many are lonely. Their kids just use them. People treat them nicely because they just might need them one day, and they know they are being placated.

They break laws to save a few dollars, while drowning in seemingly unending wealth?

The crimes are usually hidden, like hiring immigrants under the table--not even paying minimum wage, or shoplifting from Nordstrums. (I heard bigger department stores will not prosecute the better spenders. They will detain, and look up how much they spent in the past. If enough, the cops are not called.)

SEC/Taxes--it's just a game when you have the money to get out of a sticky situation. I can afford to break the law is part of the problem?

This is why I feel it time to tie Fees/Fines to Income.

I grew up around them, and they are different when they think no one is looking, or they think they can get away with with it.

I'll get hammered for bringing up the differences between the "classes", but I'm tired of glorification they get.

Buffet is one of the few I do like though.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXTHmjpU0AA38Fw.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXTHoeAUMAA-gCE.jpg
I have a similar question about a different movie: in Die Hard, Bruce sure whines a lot about how the police are following the Plan. But...what were they supposed to do, if not follow their best available Plan? What did Bruce want them to do, if he had his druthers? Should they...NOT follow The Plan? Follow the second-best available Plan?

Going forward, how ought The Plan be modified? Should they add a "now we roll a 20-sided die!" step, so future terrorists can never again be sure what'll happen?
Whoah this is so awesome. Thank you for making such great games!

Amazing who you can see on HN...
I can't find an exact source right now but as I recall TJ Watson did basically this while working for NCR. They set up an exchange for buying and selling used cash registers and sabatoged the competitor's models so they'd get a reputation for being unreliable.
This always gets posted every few months, and the PHP people always come around and say, wait, PHP7 is different now. I wonder how it differs on the predictable, consistent, concise, reliable, debuggable rating scale now.

Similarly, I wonder how the current crop of "modern" languages fare.
Images of Los Angeles when it was covered in wetlands
A UI Experiment with the iPhone X’s Front-Facing Camera
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Keep in mind the scores of business icons who have been caught insider trading seemingly insignificant amounts of money.

Martha Stewart “avoided a loss of $45,673 by selling all 3,928 shares of her ImClone Systems stock on December 27, 2001, after receiving material, nonpublic information from Peter Bacanovic, who was Stewart's broker at Merrill Lynch.” (wiki)

The Galleon Group case ensnared Rajat Gupta (former head of McKinsey), who provided insider information that helped Galleon Group net a $17 million profit by tipping them off about Warren Buffett’s investment into Goldman Sachs during the 2008 financial crisis. Galleon Group’s owner, Raj Rajaratnam was a billionaire at the time of the insider trading.

SAC Capital (Stephen A Cohen’s firm, now known as Point 72) was charged with using insider information to generate $275 million in profits and averted losses. Cohen is a multi billionaire.

I recommend reading The Chickenshit Club. Given the institutional and resource constraints on regulators and prosecutors, the odds that you actually are punished are slim. Leaving aside any potential political machinations, behavioral economics resource has shown that humans generally value avoiding losses much more than making more money. Behavior like the endowment effect comes into play here. Bottom line, what may seem like pocket change for billionaires may cause “irrational” behavior.
> This administration is the most corrupt we’ve seen in a long time

I don't think this is true. We had the Bay of Pigs, the 1973 CIA backed coupe in Chile, the Iranian Contras ...

Every administration from the time I was born and from the time my parents were born has been hopelessly corrupt. Obama won a noble prize and then became the first president to spend every day of his term at war (or I guess every day in office in an extended military engagement since America has not technically been at war in a long time because we like changing the names of things to pretend they're not true). That and he predator droned a bunch of people, passed a useless health care act, etc.

I'm not saying the current administration isn't corrupt. It is, and it's not just the puppet on top. It's all the industry that funnels money into legislative and executive branches. Neither Bush nor Obama went after the corrupt housing industry that caused so many people to lose their homes.

Citizens united didn't cause the corruption. Corruption has been legal for decades.
I'm not trolling at all. I'm not talking about cutting and running.

I'm saying it's arrogant and out of touch to think that if you're teaching Microsoft Word on a chalkboard the best use of $100 is buying a computer. Maybe he'd rather buy some medicine or a water purifier or even a lamp so he could teach at night as well.

Rigorous studies have demonstrated that direct giving is by far the best way to help someone in an impoverished environment.[1] Anything else is a declaration that you know better than they do and it enforces an idea that their situation is entirely their fault.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/131/4/1973/246...
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=+bug%2330626

Looks like an X Y problem here. Let's fix the garbage collector (X) because of some badly implemented lazy processing (Y) where the real issue is.

I don't believe anyone has a filesystem that can't be traversed by a lazy data structure in Lisp, with a recursive GC, in 8 megs of stack. (Unless, say, the traversal is being fooled by cycles created by directory symlinks.)
The specific requirements of dust protection, power capabilities and licensing means that this is a use case for an Android/Linux tablet + keyboard instead of a desktop running Windows+office.

There's a ycombinator startup that builds battery/mobile phone recharging stations in Africa - http://disrupt-africa.com/2017/10/senegalese-solar-startup-o...

Combine a sealed tablet with solar recharging and an OTG keyboard, you should have a much better system than a laptop/desktop. You can also protect the tablet using a shockproof case. A 10 inch octacore tablet with 4gb ram and LTE capability costs 80$ shipped on aliexpress to anywhere in the world.

Interestingly there's an app that replicates a desktop-y wordprocessor on an Android tablet and has specific compatibility for keyboards

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=softmaker.appl...
Is that really true though? How do you know?
Well, the original poster should have made that clear, given the audience of this site.
I was really surprised when I discovered this. Intentionally lying to a federal agent about anything material is grounds for criminal charges. Technically even a postal inspector. The police can lie to you all they want, but if you lie to a FBI agent in a line of questioning, it's not covered under the 1st amendment. It's not considered freedom of speech.
Sure, with enough work, you can probably make Debian work with pacman, and Archlinux with apt-get. The problem with those package managers is that they install everything on /. If you try to use both package managers at once, they'll most likely conflict with one another.

Nix on the other hand will install each package under it's own version- or build-specific directory under /nix. ~/.nix-profile will be a symlink pointing to your profile under /nix, and ~/.nix-profile/bin will contain the executables of what you installed with nix.

This isn't just a question of putting files under something other than /. pacman (and maybe apt, too) has a way of installing packages under different directories, but the files in the packages themselves will typically have references to the libraries, executables and other files they depend on assuming they've been installed under /. So, in order to use those installed packages, you'd have to chroot into the directory you've selected to act as root, so the references will work right. Nix, on the other hand, made sure to edit the references each package has to their dependencies so you can simply execute something in ~/.nix-profile/bin and each successive dependency will resolve its dependencies to build-specific directories under /nix.

You can use nix with pacman or apt-get or yum or any traditional package manager you'd like and they won't conflict. This is what is meant by being distribution agnostic.
It's no more egregious than requiring cmake or autotools.

And like I said, many Linux systems (and almost any used as a developers machine) will have Python installed by default.

And the simplicity of meson's build files far outweighs any issues installing it.
> the environment in the US is the most conducive in the world to success. Stop making excuses

I think it depends on what is success. It's at least arguable about the us being the most conductive to success. We have less regulation in a lot of ways than other western countries, but if you have troubles, like say a car wreck that hurts you, it sucks to be in the us compared to say germany. In the us, there are a lot of built in advantages for the existing successful companies, it's harder to challenge. For example there are few large internet providers. But at the same time, there are many more new startup companies here, and there seems to be much more risk tolerance.
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On the plus side, Babylon Bee has at least one new reader because of this. The CNN story was a little lame, but they grabbed me with "Calvinist Dog Corrects Owner: ‘No One Is A Good Boy'".

On the downside, really, Facebook? You sending warnings to The Onion, too?
>Have you tried asking rural African schoolteachers what they most need?

yes. many times.
This was such a good comment I'm sorry it took me so long to see it.
Honestly, you've nailed it. I'm heartbroken that there isn't more that can be empirically proven, but I think those also hint at where we should double down on what can be shown.
EPA's Pruitt believes evolution is just “a theory”
"There aren’t sufficient scientific facts to establish the theory of evolution, and it deals with the origins of man, which is more from a philosophical standpoint than a scientific standpoint.”

On questioning that point of view:

"If you're insinuating that a Christian should not serve in capacity as EPA administrator, that is offensive and a question that does not warrant any further attention."
No less a bastion of conservative lust than the US Military actively pursues diversity in promotion and selection processes. While it makes my own life a little harder, I can't disagree with the motivation. And, quite frankly, it's not the minorities internally pushing this. It's saltine-white leadership over-ruling minorities in management positions and demanding they find even the most marginally qualified minority candidates. I have heard a senior black woman say "I can't in good conscience recommend any of the available candidates" only to hear the senior member say "I totally understand, but the slate as it stands is completely white. I, the institution, cannot accept that. This will face public scrutiny. Of the options, who's the most qualified? Of the white slate, who can we most easily replace?"
I don't have the means nor the knowledge to solve their problem but I'm quite sure if we redirect the conversation towards how it could be solved - in the very least it would prove to be an interesting thought exercise.

He already mentioned that foreigners have shown interest in wanting to help but nothing has come out of it. We also have to keep in mind that it seems they don't have electricity.

What can be done?

Also, they are not the only ones with the same problem. How could we replicate it to other areas. Whether it be a kind of pay it forward system. I don't know. I'm just throwing ideas out there.
Ethics? Yeah, that's great, but do they scale?
Seriously, has anyone organized a donation drive for this school yet? Would gladly participate.
It’s Time to Democratize the Future – Frank Spencer
A recent counterexample in my life: I recently was diagnosed with sleep apnea. It's a mechanical problem where my respiratory tract relaxes in such a way as to close off airflow while I'm sleeping. It's actually a big problem because either it wakes you up or the oxygen levels on your blood drop (or one and then the other.) and those things, aside from making you feel groggy the next day, cause all sorts of long term health issues. Weight gain, too... which is sad because being overweight is a huge contributing factor to apnea. (In fact, I've been working out a lot more since I started treatment. I just feel physically better and more physically able to push myself to work out.)

The treatment my doctor recommended? Rig a glorified air compressor to blow air down my throat.

It's really a beautifully simple and effective solution to what's fundamentally a mechanical problem with my body.

I mean, I wanted something quiet and auto-adjusting with a lot of data logging, so I went out and got one of the more expensive glorified air compressors made by ResMed (which really is near silent- I'm not saying that the top-end ResMed machines are a good value for the dollar compared to the cheaper machines, but they really are quite nice, and totally worth it if your marginal dollars are cheap.) but the mechanism is super simple and I'm pretty sure I could rig one up (minus the auto-adjust) for like $30 of parts; it's just an air compressor lubricated with something that doesn't stink with a regulator. As far as I can tell, if you want a CPAP machine and are paying full freight, you can pay anywhere from $300 to $3000, which seems pretty cheap for the difference it makes.

But, my point is that your doctor will totally prescribe simple mechanical solutions when they work.
FWIW, This w3.org web standard for per-fee-links (dated Aug 1999) describes a micropayment system that can be denominated in arbitrary currencies, giving "airline miles" as one possible example:

https://www.w3.org/TR/WD-Micropayment-Markup/#Appendix%207
Nice read, thanks for sharing.
Radiolab had a fascinating episode about this:

https://www.radiolab.org/story/bringing-gamma-back/
Saw your post after writing my comment. Seems pretty much what I was asking.
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> Thank god this is Satire.

The best satire has a grain of truth to it.

See also:

http://www.businessinsider.com/littlethings-online-publisher...
Dude, like what you like. Fuck the fallacious appeals to shame from others.

Circa 1988 I was sitting in the high school cafeteria listening to very early techno on my big fat Walkman knockoff and obnoxiously large headphones. Acquaintance rolls up to me and says "Lemme listen." I hand him the headphones. "This is good but I could, like, only listen to this in a club." My response? "Your loss."

Years later, I discover Deadmau5, and then the whole electronic music scene that I had been blissfully listening to for years without giving a fuck ex-fucking-splodes. I could not believe it.

Just like what you like and fuck haters.
This scheme is severely flawed in many many ways. Here is a short list.

1. The contest creator can trivially cheat the model creators and steal the pot. They simply have to overfit a model to the data and then submit that overfit model. It will trivially win and beat the other solutions.

2. The datasets are usually the expensive and difficult parts of these things. You don't want to publish it openly where anyone can steal it. Also, storing data on the blockchain is super expensive.

3. It's extremely expensive to run models on the EVM. Sure, you aren't training, but even that final evaluation will cost a bunch of money. Especially because the EVM doesn't support floating point. Have fun implementing and using exp.
Passing unpopular healthcare legislation isn't an example of corruption.
Blue Planet, especially War in Heaven, is absolutely amazing. Excellent storyline, great missions, great voice acting, and a devastatingly emotional experience. It's a pinnacle of gaming for me.
Yes, and most batteries require electricity. I'm glad you're in the discussion but you can do a lot better than that.
I wasn't expecting the copy to be as good as it was this early. The branding, and site, are beautiful.

You're onto something. Thanks for the generosity, and best of luck. Stay kind when you get big!

https://buymeacoff.ee/DK3
> Wouldn't you want to shine the light on hate groups? Isn't that the last thing you want to do? To push hate groups into the shadows where they can fester?

thank you for saying this, as it seems to be often forgotten these days. you want "bad" sites to be out in the open like trash collectors so law enforcement can use them as honeypots.
He could be teaching them philosophy or maths or literature or ethics. He's drawing a UI on a chalkboard by hand! What a world.
I agree. The end of next neutrality may help here as the big players will get worse and worse as the telcos start taking them.
Friend or food? Why Venus flytraps don't eat their pollinators
What It's Like to Have Clinical Depression
That would take quite the effort to build, but I bet lifting to LLVM first might work: https://github.com/trailofbits/mcsema
On-Demand Services – On-Demand App Solutions – On-Demand Service Startups
> Zuckerberg wants to be in China in such a bad way. He's learned Mandarin...

He even positively blurbed Xi's doorstop of a book: https://www.amazon.com/Xi-Jinping-Governance-English-Languag...
Arguably what they need is the infrastructure to produce and distribute all those things. And the economic activity for people to afford them. Except as an emergency measure, aid tends to destroy all that. But a prerequisite is education, of course. And aren't computers a key part of modern education?
How come if they have sued and lost based on prior art, the patent is already invalid?
De la fenicieni la romani si de la Fibonacci la Galilei
>No. Companies that matter are MS (they are still pushing DirectX), Apple (Metal or bust), Sony and Nintendo (each console has its API).

Did you forget about Android? Vulkan was introduced in Android 7.
Looks like we here in picturesque New Zealand may have more landmarks than Africa and the Middle East combined!

More seriously, I didn't see anything about the providence or license of the pictures, or how they ended up in this collection. The Kaggle competition data doesn't seem to contain the actual photos, just links.
I was with you until the last sentence...
> In psychology there's the assumption that mood disorders and antisocial delusions can be distinguished from non-pathological "being an asshole."

really? is this an explicit assumption or is it more of implicit fallacy kind of thing? I'd love to see a psychologist try to formally draw the line between some sort of moral failing where a person just acts like an asshole to people, and someone who has a mental condition that causes him to be an asshole to people.
The "How it should have ended" series is great.

How Return Of The Jedi Should Have Ended https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdukWtJwlPU
I still have a 90's page online. Not sure what that says about me, but I like it. The supercomputers section shows a unique time for the NCSA. There was that, and Mosaic was in development next door. Nostalgia wave breaks...
http://www.pdanford.com:800
haha kiss of death of HN
FYI - "Email verification failed." after clicking the link in the email.
> The medical clinic I was volunteering at...

This is off topic. How can one get into that line of work/volunteering? Any particular organizations? Any particular skills ? How can one get started with this kind of work/volunteering?
Ah, but they could sell it!
It seems like GNU/Linux would probably be much better than Android. With GNU/Linux there is full access to the OS/device and they could fully tinker with it. No Internet connection required for LibreOffice. Raspberry Pi is relatively inexpensive.
Pretty sad, considering slashdot's traffic used to be a source of what "appeared" to be a DDOS attack because of all the traffic.
It used to be the best source around for tech related news, now it mostly consists of reposts from various sites. I think it would have stayed relevant if it had been an entity of it's own, rather than being part of the whole SourceForge tragedy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oD3hofS5NM
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oD3hofS5NM
for gamma tube
I agree and this is why I would argue in favor of parallelism rather than replacement with regard to private social media platforms. I think it's important that there is a platform insulated from domestic intervention, but I think it's just as important to have a platform that isn't vulnerable to outside economic influence. Right now the best solution I can think of is to do both separately and just accept that one will probably be redundant to the other most of the time.
11.6% in 2017
https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/breakdown_2017USrt_19rs...
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Yes. That was what was ironic since I (wrongly) complained about slow python based software.
Perhaps a bit too hyperbolic, heh.
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But Russia has nukes and a sizable military. How can they afford to have such a large military, if their gdp is like Spain's? Russia population is around 144 million, Spain's around 46 million according to google, so about 3x the population, but 1/3 gdp per person. Are the poor so starved in russia that they can afford to have jet fighter development, nukes, air craft carriers, etc? I'd never thought hard about how Russia can afford to have such an apparently dangerous military while being relatively small and poor.
"You are growing" hahha
Aren't computer skills a prerequisite for office work everywhere now? So maybe that familiarity with computer UI will help students later.
> Obama won a noble prize and then became the first president to spend every day of his term at war

You could argue that the wars were started by previous administrations and ending them was harder than starting them.

Far more egregious was his administration's decision to classify all military aged men as combatants at bombing targets, regardless of whether they were combatants or not, so as to reduce civilian casualty counts:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/05/under-o...

His Nobel peace prize should be revoked.
I mean, on one hand, sure, there's always corruption; nobody is perfect. But there are huge differences. "Less corrupt" is a goal worth working towards; I just don't think you can compare our current president to any other president since Nixon, and I think that this attitude that everyone is corrupt so it doesn't matter is a big part of how we got our current president.

(well... maybe Reagan. Iran-contra was shocking, and I'm a little surprised that nobody seems to think it was as big a deal as Watergate. Nixon cracked a safe. Regan... well, I'm not saying that this is what he did... but it sure looked like his deals with Iran delayed the release of US hostages until after the election. (you could also argue that those releases wouldn't have happened at all without those deals... I'm just saying, it looked pretty bad.)