skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I was ridiculing your stance that something being a human construct is somehow an argument against it.

Here's a more forthright approach: The problem with your argument is that it goes about half a level deep and doesn't hold up to even the most elementary criticism. Specifically, I was pointing out that human constructs are a fundamental element of human existence; they are how we negotiate existing alongside one another. So, trying to argue against something solely because it is a human construct makes about as much sense as arguing that somebody is evil because they were born in February.
Everyone is trying to weasel out of their pension obligations. They made these promises to their workers--"If you work for less money, we've got you covered in retirement."

It was a stinking lie.
Your renter pays the market rate for rent for that property (in general). In your case, that happens to work out in your favor. But in a place like SF, a 2 bedroom apartment costs $1.5 million, which is ballpark $7k+ a month. I can rent a 2 bedroom for less than half that because the market is simply not paying $7k a month for 2 bedroom apartments.

I've also rented a house where my rent payment did not even cover the mortgage (I knew the landlords - they had bought in 2006 and were still waiting on the market to rebound so they could cash out and move on).

So as the article says - it all depends.
Here in the bay area, you can Think of it as the cost of employment. When you work at Google and get paid X, roughly 50% goes to rent. But, as long as the rest of the 50% is enough to live comfortably and build large assets, then it's still a good deal. Then when you've built up enough assets, leave and retire somewhere.
There are plenty of coal plants that absolutely can not ramp up and down in less than many hours, and will lose money as they do so.

There are also many nuclear plants perfectly capable of "load following", responding in the time frame of minutes to 10's of minutes to load changes.
Is there one (or two) you'd recommend or suggest?

Maybe with a data via wifi fallback?
thanks, looks exactly what I was looking for
The Times's resident historian, David Dunlap, wrote about this wonderful film in 2014: https://www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2014/11/13/1978-farewe...
It's a small world :)
Except that's not strictly true?

First of all, JS isn't a bad language. It's also a lot different in 2018 than at its worst in 1998. It's becoming so common because it is a pragmatic choice that is fine to work in in 2018.

Secondly, there is the giant ecosystem of transpile to JS languages: Typescript, CoffeeScript, PureScript, Elm, Haxe, Fable, etc.

If that doesn't count, Electron's duct tape itself and many Node packages are native code in C/C++.

Further beyond that, Web Assembly is already expanding the language diversity in the Node world. An immediate example is that the major source map processor used by a number of debugging projects (including VSCode) has already moved parts into Rust via Web Assembly: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/oxidizing-source-maps-with...
I'm sure Pulitzer winners will try to cope with this.
It does depend on the situation.

My experience has been that transactional code is usually best written with an ORM, and complex reporting code winds up better with SQL.
You highly overestimate...

...how many people can do data analysis.

...how many people can write scripts.

...how many people know what a script is.

...how many people can do basic arithmetic.

Your example of self-enrichment is perfectly fine for people with a good education, but it's insufficient at 'democracy scale' where elections are decided by voters who cannot do anything beyond trusting the people who are informing their decisions.
After watching GE flounder in Schenectady, NY for my entire lifetime, I'm not sure GE was ever a nice company. It's best days seem way behind it. Plus, Edison was an asshole.
Yes, and the NYT, WSJ, and many others, have an excellent track record of only publishing stories that hinge on "unnamed sources" "senior officials" and "people familiar with the matter" when they should.

They are asking me to trust them that, if I knew who their sources were, that I would trust their sources. As journalists, they ask that I believe them that they have confirmed the matter through multiple independent means.

And they are judged entirely on their track record.

This is not science. We cannot see their original research, we cannot reproduce their results.

> Video should be easy because it's either real or it's not.

Did you watch the videos in this story? That's simply not true. It's actually never been completely true, but now video is less trustworthy than before because it's getting vastly easier to create convincing fake video.

We used to have to contend with dishonest people editing context out, or even hiring actors. Now we can see convincing but completely fake video produced quickly and cheaply by "somebody sitting on their bed weighing 400 pounds". [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfVce4rELAY
Just look at the traffic analysis. Mobile browsers have just about eclipsed desktop and they continue to grow.[1]

Mobile support is table stakes for major features these days.

[1] https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sit...
> If every IT department did that, they’d have much more time for useful work

No, they'd have smaller budgets
Seatangel double auction airlines vs. passengers
I think it's important to note that the truth has never been widely available, to the point where it might be useless to think of truth as being a real concept to begin with. One could say that for a blip of time, we lived in a world where a large percentage of human were pushed largely accurate (if incomplete) information by mass media, allowing for something resembling consensual reality and informed democracy. We have always had to delegate verification of information to third-parties, whether those be text books, media organizations, or government officials.

I don't think we should be overly sentimental about the passing of this "golden age". We have never been a society ruled by facts and logic and we have been regularly misinformed all along. The difference now is perhaps a decentralization of who is controlling this misinformation and the realization by elite institutions that they now have to contend with their loss of monopoly, either by combatting perceived and real falsehood or coopting it.

It is admittedly deeply unsettling, but only to what was probably a false sense of security. Maybe instead of fretting about how to obtain more truthiness in the face of these new dynamics, the more fundamental question remains how can we achieve human welfare in a world where informed democracy is an illusion?
If you can't estimate the quality of things, buy the cheapest you get. Because nobody hinders someone selling you crap for double the price.
This is all smoke and no fire. The article's subject complains about his account value falling from $280k to $110k in value, meanwhile his pension has a net present value in the millions. I'm surprised this made it by the WSJ editors.
Your SQL solution is that each user (or someone sitting in Google) manually tags each and every photo they take for all the tags in the world they can think of (and can't, but will think of in future). Seriously, the general case of this problem just cannot be solved using SQL in a feasible and automatic manner. What Google/Apple (or Microsoft in parts) have achieved here is not an easy thing to achieve by any SQL Query, because that works on nicely populated tables, and without ML those tables are probably not there.
For a global standard, unfortunately this is a nonstarter. I personally agree that e2e encryption is the only communications policy I'll be satisfied with, but unfortunately there are MANY countries where text messaging globally is a protected class of communication that must be accessible to law enforcement.

That's the difference between this being a SERVICE and STANDARD.

The RCS standard has to work even in those countries that forbid e2e encryption for this sort of comms. Even if it's a minority of countries, I think it would be very difficult to convince carriers in more liberal societies to adopt the standard if it means they won't be able to interoperate with carriers in those more restricted countries.

Progress is incremental; the RCS standard, while imperfect, adds a bunch of really desirable features that will help interoperability between platforms and services globally.

Apps that integrate with RCS could still offer e2e within their applications; think how iOS does both iMessage (encrypted) and SMS (unencrypted) within the same app. It's just a major improvement to SMS.
> A slowly dying company is still successfully serving some customers and employing people.

An unprofitable company is an overall loss by definition - sure it's providing some value to some people, but it's consuming more value than it produces.

Killing the company quickly frees up the things it was consuming to be used for more productive things. Those buildings can be used for better businesses, or replaced with housing or parks or what-have-you. Other companies can offer better jobs to those workers (we're at close to full employment at the moment, and declining companies are not fun or fulfilling places to work). Money that was invested in that company can be put to more productive work in other businesses.
All airlines using the seatangel auction to buy back cheaply sold tickets from passengers with great bump compensations in a double auction. start biiding would ya?
Yup. The articles are making the rounds again. Here’s some older ones:

Apr 21 https://www.inc.com/greg-satell/how-no-code-platforms-are-di...

Apr 11 https://www.cio.com/article/3268508/leadership-management/en...

Mar 6 https://www.zdnet.com/article/do-you-really-need-developers-...

Feb 27 http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/37601734/quick-base-power...
Interesting way to frame it. If I could restate in slightly more colloquial terms, the police's goal is typically something like "to protect and serve", where "serve" is
serving the public by upholding public ideals or principles.

Racial profiling might satisfy the "protect" clause, but it fails the "serve" clause, because it fails the portion of the public that is profiled.
That's not the only source of their image identification, if you wanted to say that.
I think we're talking about different things. You're asking what happens today. I agree with you that audiences are not yet equipped with the proper skepticism for fake video involving real, unwitting participants.

I'm talking about the long-term implications in society. We treat video as more trustworthy today, but I think that can (and will, I'm sure) change. I think it already is changing for those amazing "WOW" social videos like the whale landing on the kayaker, etc.
No matter how much you disagree with FOX, it's in their best interest to make damn sure they never print "fake text" or play "fake videos" on their platforms.
> But Linux only worked because there's many companies contributing to it.

Who says this won't happen as well to an open collaboration platform? Who says companies wouldn't benefit from it, or that they need to monetize it directly? Companies contributed to Linux because they got benefits by participating in the operating system. Open source works like that; adding to a common resource is beneficial for oneself and the community at the same time.

Similarly, an open platform like matrix.org can provide huge benefits for internal communication in a company; and making public the tweaks that you create internally is a great way to influence the direction of the software, as well as making it easier to integrate the improvements made by others. This is how Linux grew to what it is today, after all.
We're able to distinguish entertainment "fake" video from "real" video in our minds. The separation is not clear-cut, and fictional movies affect our thinking about real events. So I understand the concern.

But faking video is not a new invention. It's happened before and in a way I welcome the broad availability of faking-tools to inoculate against the fakes that have been with us since video existed. Now everybody will know that videos can be faked.
> People were delighted to have a walled garden where they only communicated with friends, instead of random drive-by trolls in the open.

I spend most of my time on the open web, and don't see many drive-by trolls. I don't think that is the reason the web became closed.
> Guess what ? perfectly machine-readable data is called a DATABASE, and it works well in its scope.. and if you think that all of human knowledge, history, arts and culture are perfectly represented in a DATABASE, then congratulations, you are already more computer than human in your preconceptions.

It's on a computer. It is a database. Are you also upset at people who smash the subtle beauty of music into unfeeling bits?
Good question. Yahoo/Verizon put one in, and Google did too last week.
EDIT to say: Well, I came across Google's last week. I don't really know when they put it in.
I don’t think it’s particularly widely used but in my opinion using antivirus software is a matter of good hygiene, even if the system you run isn’t prone to being infected by viruses.

For example, I occasionally receive Office documents or ZIP archives from clients.

If those should contain viruses these likely won’t affect my Mac but I can inform my client about this, help him fix his security issues and prevent viruses from spreading even further.
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The future of energy is mostly black hole farming.
I've been playing with different Linux distros over the years for different purposes.

Folding@home is best on Ubuntu with some Linux kernel changes (build it yourself for server and throughput optimizations)

Normal use, that's a hard one, Ubuntu is usable, all the Google searches for help zero in on Debian, mainly Ubuntu, package management and repository. Right now I've been installing Manjaro Architect on my laptop and the tweak ability is great to a fault... The fault is changing and installing things to the point of having to install again and then get the packages again that you used most straight from the beginning in order to not confuse and clutter the OS.

On laptops with small SSDs I pretty much think that using a file system that has default zlib compression and deduplication enabled is a must (btrfs or zfs) and it does not slow down my laptop at all (8250u 8gb ddr4 128g m.2 SATA SSD)

The most usable Linux would be a Ubuntu package management compatible Manjaro Deepin hybrid that uses BTRFS as default. Manjaro Architect with Deepin worked with no changes to support my Drobo5N and Windows network. But BTRFS didn't work with swapfile with the installer so I had to use ext4. A hybrid Manjaro Architect with Deepin Ubuntu installer with a graphical advanced partition configuration manager would be great!

Edit: oh, full screen vsync and multiple video codec VPU acceleration is required. Tearing sucks and ability to play 4k YouTube with little to no dropped frames.
As a newbie, this makes more sense to me:

SELECT * FROM person, team WHERE person.team_id=team.id

(no unnecessary aliasing, no weird JOIN phrasing)
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Also important is adapting to the existing naming conventions of the database, even if you don't like it. (Unless the existing naming conventions cause more trouble that its worth like requiring quoted identifiers or redundant prefixes/suffixes).
Nobody should have to deal with violence or threats of violence. But that's way different than trying to shut down a speaker who holds political views different from the students or professors doing the protesting. College should physically be a safe place as much as possible, but intellectually, it's fair to ask students (and professors) to be challenged by a variety of views.
I have to agree with you. I always took a very conservative approach and divested my company shares in order to diversify, even before I retired. In my case, the pain came not from stock losses, but from their gains. I "lost" so much by selling shares too soon. But now I am diversified and can survive a loss of my holding in my (former) companies shares (I still own some).
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In what way are they wildly different? I spent 15 years working in Oracle and the last 2 years working in Postgres. They are slightly different (Postgres adheres to the standard much more closely than Oracle), but 95% of my knowledge of SQL transferred from one to the other.
China Says It Has ‘Safely’ Shuttered ICOs, Cryptocurrency Exchanges
Ok, since now my comment has been called "condescending", "self-righteous", "mocking", "mean" and "humiliating someone", I need to understand.

Disclaimer: English is not my first language.

I did express that I'm interested in hearing the view, if further elaborated and explained why it is lacklustre, without attacking the user itself. I'm unsure of why my comment would arise these negative feelings, but I would like to fix it to not happen again. Thanks.
FYI: I've started a collection about awesome no code [1] - Why code? All about the Chief Digital Officer's (CDO) clicky-clicky-clicky dream future. No text. No numbers. No code.

[1] https://github.com/bigkorupto/awesome-nocode
> We have front page stories in the NYT, WSJ et al that hinge entirely on 'unnamed sources' '[gov org] senior officials' and 'people familiar with the matter'.

That's about trusting the journalistic integrity the parent mentioned. I do trust journalists to know/keep track which sources are reliable, and report truthfully. Of course the source may have their own agenda on revealing things, but that's part of how the news landscape works.
I don't mind the 'business model' (I think it's a bit rich to be asking $5 for this, but then you're asking $5 from people who spent $2000-4000 on a laptop).
What I do mind a bit is how depressing it seems - I guess I don't want to be reminded about impending death all the time...
First, it seems silly to fine a government since that's really just tax payer money. Secondly, are owners of properties not public record already in the UK? They are in the US (even if that company is just a shell that's hard to figure out the real owner of)
> The first is that you can make better abstractions in text-based languages, too.

Not always:

The most general data structure is a directed graph. Is a formal textual description as good as shapes connected by arrows?

MIMD parallelism is straightforward with dataflow. (No worries about synchronization: processes wait until they've received all their inputs before running.) Again, shapes connected by arrows partially ordered in two dimensions is a more natural representation than text.

Finite state machines. Again, shapes connected by arrows is clearer.
> How many people believe Pizzagate is real?

That's a question that made me want an answer. It seems that, as of 2016, it may have been a lot:

> Among the questions asked by pollsters was whether respondents believed that leaked emails stolen from Mrs. Clinton’s campaign manager and published by WikiLeaks prior to the Nov. 8 election “contained code words for pedophilia, human trafficking and satanic ritual abuse — what some people refer to as ‘Pizzagate.’ “

> ...

> Specifically, 9 percent of registered Republicans who responded to the question said the allegations were “definitely true,” coupled with 40 percent of Republicans casting the claim as “probably true.”[0]

A different December 2016 poll[1] also seems to put "yes"/"definitely" at it at 14%[1] with a lot of "maybes".

Given the margins in US Presidential elections, it seems like the answer is "enough to matter". (Not that I think PizzaGate turned anyone from voting for Clinton or to voting for Trump, but fake news stories probably swayed a lot of voters overall.)

[0] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/28/pizzagate-t...

[1] https://www.publicpolicypolling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/...
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It's useful to note that Hyper 2 is sharing the core terminal emulator (xterm.js) with VSCode now, so future improvements should continue to benefit both. Also, if you need a terminal outside of VSCode from time to time, Hyper might be a familiar option in that case.
You get a notification beep from emails? How about just turning that off? If anyone really needs to reach you they can just call you, no?
"is turning this equation on its head and encrypting and distributing globally all the data".

I've got some interesting ideas similar I want to explore, but quite hesitant its realistic, aren't you scared that encrypting data isn't enough? If you store medical records on IPFS, isn't there nothing stopping someone from copying this data locally, and in 50, 80 or 100 years, couldn't this person break the encryption with latest techniques?
Healthcare in the US is out of control. It is a behemoth, but another behemoth with the right focus and mindset could make some positive changes. Here is to hoping.
I agree. I have trouble visualizing what an "Alexa-bot" could do that a multi-room speaker + mic system couldn't do unless this thing has a Roomba attached to it's butt and gopher grabbers for arms, which I highly doubt.
That's why HoneyMoney tries to simplify the process and make it enjoyable.

Manually tracking expenses seems harder than it actually is. For example, I just collect all the receipts for 3-4 days, and then spend 5 minutes to enter them in batch.

All the recurring transactions are planned once, and then you just confirm them with the real amount. 2 clicks: select — confirm.

Basically, we're talking about 15–20 minutes per week for increasing your awareness about money and to keep your financial life under control.

This is work, nobody will do it for you. You just need to decide if it's worth it to you personally or not.

There's an import from CSV for historical data. Here's the demo: https://demo.honeymoney.io/app/my/import
That is equivalent to any investment. The difference is that the property still generates income if not capital total gain. A depreciated stock generates no dividend.

Moreover there is a floor on a value of a home unless you let it completely unmaintained or it gets bombed in a war. There is no floor on stocks. There is such a floor on some material futures. (Though probably lower.)
I came in here to post exactly this. It's hard to demonstrate but I will take time to listen to a candidate if they have a horror story about debugging something painful.

Occasionally there will be a post on HN about someone who debugged a compiler bug or a even a hardware bug, and it lifts my spirits.
Good point - "selective revealing" is also something awful.

We've got lists of the logical fallacies. Other than going to journalism school, is there a good list we can refer to for "journalistic sins"?
Looks like there's a follow up patch, with another security release set for this Wednesday. https://www.drupal.org/psa-2018-003
You've worked on English only applications?
Cloud-based programming is such a skill, esp. to support scalability, portability, and redundancy. This includes in-house back office and analytical apps as well as classic web services and infrastructure support.

Many companies also have custom in-house code that needs to be modernized and better integrated due to ongoing changes in their business processes. In big companies most of the major apps are 3rd party/outsourced, but quite a bit is not, and much commercial code needs to be custom fitted, made backward compatible, or made compliant.
By tracking, do you mean the phone keeping track of its own location, or it sending location data back to Google?

Google maintains a database of wifi networks and their locations (I don't know the ways this data is acquired) to help triangulate the position: https://www.quora.com/How-does-android-use-WiFi-to-get-your-...