skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Renting in some place for a long time doesn't give you any leverage against another potential renters.

I disagree. I also disagree that living somewhere gives you a special-citizen's pass. It's somewhere in between. You want to give room for the market, but you also want to consider cities are a function of their neighbourhoods, their communities, the networks, the people, the bonds, shared history, local culture etc. You can't just break up an existing community for money. You need to find middle ground, let the market operate while trying to work to keep the community intact.

I mean, I know it's really easy (and cheesy) to say these words. Finding that balance is really hard, and at some point there is a trade-off between government intervention in the market or letting (sometimes vulnerable) people fend for themselves. And that isn't easy.

That having been said, $300 a month for a $60k apartment isn't little by European standards. That's a 6% rental yield, it isn't low.
The price is there to reduce congestion, not road damage per se. You want to charge by congestion causes, which is probably proportional to vehicle size, not weight.

More broadly, trying to figure out a priori what is and is not useful for society is pointless. Moralizing economic decisions never works.

Just charge people for the costs they incur and the optimally beneficial configuration will emerge on its own.
QueueMetrics 18.04
I think you will find that Perl 6 is even more sane in that respect.
> It's a game /* hello, Wittgenstein */

This element is generally included more to avoid accidentally outlawing insurance and financial securities than out of an idea that fun is inherently evil.

Which is to say, they don't care if something IS a game; they care that it ISN'T something they consider productive.
I skimmed it and edited a little. I guess I'm more optimistic about tech fixes that the author. Does anyone sensible think we're actually doomed?
MacOS, Windows 10, and Gnome 3 all have a night mode now.
Could you elaborate? I don't quite understand what you're suggesting.
If a hash does not match, that does nothing to your bank account of the inventory of your warehouse. You still need to go to court with your broken hash in case of a conflict. Technology can only help making the evidence temper proof not bypass courts.
I would hope this will shame western corporations that contribute to China's surveillance machine. China is a large and potentially lucrative market. How much profit is one life worth?
From my anecdotal evidence I see that sleep robustness can be strongly shaped by conditioning when we're younger.

Ex: having your children sleep in bedrooms with open doors with a dim light source on will make them into one of those "I sleep through everything" sleepers.

Curious to hear other people's experience.
Presumably because the regulator has nothing to do with the issue before a court determines that loot box providers fall under their jurisdiction.
If you give kids your credit card, then it is your fault.

Really, have you ever considered actually paying attention to what your kid (assuming you have one, whatever) does instead of thinking that prohibition will solve the issue of negligence on your part?

Can't wait for the down-voting of this post from salty parents.
I find an interesting contradiction between the recommendations to

a) check your email only at scheduled times

b) when you are working, say no to interruptions

c) instead of replying with an email, walk over to someone’s desk [and assume that they are ready to chat with you at any moment instead of sending them an email that they can read on their own schedule]
No one is allowing companies to be good judges. They are getting judged when caught, they get judged for actions that don't break any laws ex: FB. Lawmaking is a continuous process. Breaking the law in itself is not unethical.
Our biological purpose is to pass on our genes and reproduce.

In our "civilized" sense of "purpose" there is no purpose at all. This is great because that means you can are free to whatever purpose you want to live for.
Will formal verification reverse the trend of old root bugs as a law of nature?

We applied the D6 patch immediately, 911b/admin/reports/status says 6.35. The avg active acct age is >10y. Anon users can do nothing. Is there anything else to fix? Moved to Drupal 04/2005.

What is the longest running D* site?
I'm curious, did people ever actually refer to those languages as ML? I've taken classes in Standard ML ("SML") and OCaml and I don't think we ever called them just "ML" besides acknowledging in the intro that ML the official family of languages that those dialects fall under.
Blockchain Tech Might Be the Answer to China’s National Audit Office Challenge
It's illegal, but legal if licensed (quantum physics has nothing on legal systems) or on a temporary basis and small scale (town fairs, hobby club raffles, etc.). The main issue is that the games allow (and target) minors to play, which is never allowed, and that they do not provide any measures to protect players against themselves (such as maximum gambling limits).
This is one of those studies that I'm not sure are profound or silly. But of course people changed their minds after listening to a reasoned discussion, who wouldn't? The more interesting case would be "people impervious to written communication".

What I'd like to know is whether people changed their mind or changed their worldview, that is, do written pieces actually get people to think radically-different about major parts of their lives? Or do they just get people who are a bit apathetic more energized and sure of themselves about something they're already predisposed to generally agree with?
Moral hazard? Moral Hazard puts one in the way of making an immoral choice. Surely killing people to take their body parts represents an actual immoral action? I didn't miss a memo or anything?
With so many remote job boards, some of them could do more to be useful to target customers (people looking for jobs, not companies posting them) by not simply being "remote job board for X, Y or Z", rather focus on the facets of what makes working remote actually work.

Time zones, for example. A lot of remote jobs are with companies that only consider remote work to be work done from your home and only if in the same city as their office, and during the same hours. While this technically shouldn't matter, it greatly limits the success and talent pool available when you don't consider all the available time zones and cities which are great for remote workers.

Additionally, I've found working remote for companies that don't have a remote first culture to feel more like grunt in the corner that is ignored than part of a team and as an experienced professional with values and insights to contribute to the team. While that might seem like a great deal on paper — lower on costs — it works out terribly in the long run with ROI.

Working with a completely distributed team (no HQ) on the other hand is the best job I've had in 10 years, both in terms of culture, team dynamics, subject matter, salary, location, work environment, etc etc.
Sharding will enable Ethereum to scale without compromising on the decentralised and permissionless nature of it's blockchain implementation. Really excited about this!
Good developers can make significantly more than that because of foreign entrants and competition, see for example: https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/developer-jobs-in-berlin?sort...
BravadoGroup and Others Caught Planning Massive Pump and Dump Schemes
Here is the list:

1. LG UltraFine monitors

THE END

Sadly, recommendation notwithstanding, I bought 2 of these 5K monitors for my iMac Pro, but they have the same funky waking problems you describe, and sometimes one doesn't even come on at all, until the machine is rebooted. T_T

(Night Shift does work on them, though. But auto-brightness doesn't, so it's like a soft orange-ish screen in the middle and two BRIGHT AND FIERY ORANGE SCREENS blazing at you at night, unless you manually adjust the brightness...)
> MariaDB was supposed to be a drop-in replacement.

"Supposed to" is a key point here, cause it's not: Explain works different if you need a certain thread info, AFAIK no JSON data type, GIS functions are different, lots of subtle differences that will bite you in the arse if you presume it's exactly the same engine. And as the time goes by the list of differences is just growing.
If you want to walk that line ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Scenario B: Walmart rents a $5 digital ocean VPS and installs postgres. Each producer generates a (e.g. GPG) key pair and sends the public key to Walmart. Each day, each producer creates a new entry in the db, signs it with his/her private key, and is done.

The mining is completely worthless in the scenario you described. Imagine either a rogue producer or Walmart having an interest in changing the database. In your scenario of 10 mining boxes the adversary would just have to buy 5 additional boxes and would have complete control over the blockchain.
Flux helps just with one part. Relax in evening due to removal of blue light. But second part is, that in morning and during day, you really should see blue/full spectrum and intensive light. Either by going outside, or you can buy some light therapy lamp that provides you with this (when natural light is impossible). I do not think it's good idea to deprive yourself of blue light whole day.
> for a long time they banned trans people

Citation needed.
Yep. Induced demand is a nuanced concept that's been perverted by a certain community of activists into "science says you can't build enough roads so let's not build any!!!!1111".

The truth is that you can, in fact, build enough roads to reduce congestion. It may be too expensive. The road land use fraction may be too high. There may be political problems. All of these factors have to be taken into account before deciding to build more roads.

Nevertheless, it is physically possible to build enough roads, and anyone who doesn't acknowledge this basic reality isn't having a serious conversation.
> Keeping safe is a matter of following the law even if you don't believe in it

You should thank your ancestors for fighting the laws they didn't believe in.
Resume driven development... Like running massively cpu intensive calculations in python, or storing 100 MB csv files in Hadoop. AI will be the same thing. We will see developers burning GPUs for days to solve problems that would be trivially and efficiently solved with a simple algorithm. And I have no problem with people toying with new technologies on home projects just to learn. But at work...
Thing is though you can easily live in the Hague or somewhere closer and commute as transport is good. No one is forcing anyone to live in Amsterdam, right? I believe from personal experience that for plenty of London dwellers it's not the commute that puts them off moving out of London rather snobbery about alternatives. What amazes me is how far people are willing to stretch themselves financially due to snobbery. For me personally it's not worth the gamble.
The government promoted Falun Gong for its health effects before they decided to crush it like June 4th.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T_cURws4UaY&t=5m32s

It's definitely like being targeted as a member of ISIS–but all you did to get that treatment was practice yoga and hold some spiritual beliefs.
This is a very strange question. In English you get i. In Turkish or Azeri you get ı. There is a very fundamental difference between ı and i and basically no native speaker mixes them up. When you're learning English, for example, you mix up and write capital İ instead of I. The rule is basic: ı <--> I and i <--> İ. No magic going on.
I hope you're not reading this on a Kindle (or any other proprietary e-reader)! That would be some kind of insult to the great man, to read his selected papers on the most locked down and proprietary device imaginable!

Buy a physical copy, support the FSF and then buy another copy for a library!
I'm sorry, what? Mein Kampf?? Seriously? The idea of non-profit driven organisations is very old and very well established. From charities, to co-operatives.
Yeah, the URL for the Release Notes [0] -- as of now -- clearly states:

> Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will be released on April 26.

> Ubuntu 18.04 LTS HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED YET and is not recommended for use on production systems or on your primary computers yet.

While it's probably safe to assume that it will be announced today as expected, there's always a chance that they will find something that causes them to change their mind at the last minute.

I would certainly hold off on hitting the "upgrade" button until it's official, though. (I, personally, wait a lot longer than that. YMMV.)

[0]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes
You're the one choosing to drive a dangerous vehicle, why should other people be responsible ?
Consider the empty space between buses on a dedicated bus lane with realistic headways.
I've done a lot of research on sleep and sleep disorders, and have experimented on myself a few different times. Things I've found that help the most:

Number one, far and away, is arranging my schedule such that I don't have to set an alarm clock. I did this once in college when I was able to get only late classes, and I do it now since I work for myself (although the kids sometimes wake me up). Any time I can go for a week or more without setting any alarm clock, I feel far more refreshed throughout the day.

Number two, no blue light at night. I went a little nuts with this one, not only getting flux, but I work in the dark at night with the brightness on the monitor at the lowest setting with a blue filter, and I also replaced all the night lights in my house with special night lights that run at 1850K (candlelight). I also installed a second light in bathroom with it's own switch and installed an 1850K LED bulb in it so that I could do my nighttime routine in "candlelight". Basically, after the kids are down, there is no source of blue light anywhere in my house.

These two things seem to have made the most difference. I've done other experiments with temperature control, sleeping position, bedroom darkness, etc. They all seem to make some difference as well, but not nearly as much as those first two things.
Smartphones/tablets are now being used as pacifiers for older children, you give them a brainless game to play in a cafe or a restaurant so they shut up and you can stop paying attention to them so you can play with your smartphone at peace.
It would follow mathematically from the pidgeonhole principle, right?
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Not mentioned in the bloomberg article (at the time of reading): Keller is apparently moving to _Intel_ (according to a quick search).

Wow, I really hope that doesn't worsen the current imbalance of the x86 and GPU markets. Given that Keller seemed to be to Ryzen at AMD what Raja was to Vega/Polaris, it doesn't look good.
Why would the US navy allow a news article about what it's warships can't detect?

I propose they can detect them just fine, but don't want to reveal they have the ability to do so.
I'd be happy to have a chat if you're interested.
Ah yes, tech fixes.
Google Play Music will be killed off and replaced by YouTube Remix this year
Oh I understand why that's there, it's just another amusing instance of "I'll know it when I see it" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
Erm,
"but being a Falun Gong member in China is like being an active ISIS member in the US/UK"

from the view of the ruling party, yes.
But for everybody else there is a slight difference, between a fanatic cult who wants and does try to kill everyone who thinks different and a eccentric cult whose members wants to be left alone, to do their Qi Gong.
A key difference would be that the little plastic toys are all nominally the same value. A much closer physical equivalent would be Magic:tG boosters, where the different play values arguably create value differentials. But even they contained a defined mix of different rarity classes, probably to fend off anti gambling laws. And with M:tG boosters, at least you knew the dice were pre-rolled so you could absolutely trust the cards to not be individually stacked against you. Online gaming loot boxes on the other hand can have all kinds of dark patterns hidden in supposedly random distributions that are actually manipulative sequences tailored to each player.

(And also, Kinder Surprise contain chocolate, which makes them infinitely better than any virtual loot box could ever be, but that's just my personal opinion)

Edit: I was assuming gameplay-relevant loot boxes here, apparently some/all of those under Belgian scrutiny are just cosmetic mods, which brings them much closer to the Kinder Surprise analogy (although strictly speaking, I would not consider cosmetics entirely without gameplay effects in something like CS:GO, relative camouflage qualities of avatars were absolutely a consideration no my day)
Itsy-Chipsy: Make your own $100 chip
They don't kill people to take body parts. They execute convicted criminals, and those prisoners automatically become organ donors.

One example of the potential moral hazard is that maybe there's some corruption (maybe there's some profit being made, and judges could get kickbacks on the number of times they execute prisoners).
And most adults have no idea how to work out what the expected spend is to complete a set.

For a set of 16 Lego figures (ignoring attempts to squidge the packet before buying, but also ignoring swaps) you'd expect to buy over 50 packs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupon_collector's_problem

It can cost hundreds of dollars to complete a panini book, and that's with vigorous swapping.

I agree with you about Pokémon cards and Lego minifig packs. They should be regulated.
Ah, righteo, I wasn’t aware of that, thanks.
I'm using a T42p as one of my main machines, mostly due to the screen (1600x1200 at 4:3, have not found its equal yet) and the keyboard. The thing is 14 years old but it still works like new, it still runs ~2 hours on the (extended) battery. I did put an SSD in the machine (using a $1 PATA-SATA adapter which sits between the drive and the socket, I only needed to modify the drive hatch on the side of the machine to get it to fit) but for the rest it is stock standard.

Now that more and more functions are moving back into the server - did I say server, it should have been 'cloud' of course... - these older machines are actually getting more usable again as their rather anaemic processors (1.8GHz Pentium M) and limited memory capacity (2GB + 128MB VRAM) are getting to be less of an issue.
It's important to note Dutch taxes, too. 55k puts you at 4.5k a month gross, but 3k a month net. That's a 36k net salary of which 18k a year goes to rent (50%). And that's for a talented engineer. I know plenty of engineers with salaries around 40k, and the median salary is around 35k for all industries.

On the other hand, 1.5k a month can get you a 2 bedroom 10 minutes from the heart of the city. I'm not sure what you're used to but it isn't that tiny for Dutch standards. Certainly plenty for a single person who can get a single bedroom in a decent location around 1100, too. And if you've got a partner or roommate, it's pretty trivial to pay less than 800 per person.

Further, it's pretty easy to pay much, much less and still have a short commute to work. Again, it's not ideal but it's different from some US situations where you need to live 2 hours outside the city you work in, to afford the rent with the money that job earns you. In Haarlem, Utrecht, Hilversum are all 15-20 minutes away by car or public transport.

But it seems to be getting worse quick, particularly for those who don't have a well-paying job and a family it's a shitty deal, you're essentially forced out of the city because social housing waiting lists are 15 years.
Please use a disclaimer that this is your company if you're going to advertise
A ThinkPad could probably handle the lunar dust :)
There aren't actually a lot of good studies on comparing different sources of "candlelight". Most studies assume the quality of 1850K light is the same regardless of the source.

My personal anecdote is that it makes no difference to my sleep quality. I've used an 1850K lamp for reading before bed, and I've used my monitor with flux, and it doesn't seem to make a difference.
> Or you can increase road capacity to keep up with population growth

This doesn't work because in a city you'll eventually you end up with more roads and parking lots than buildings. US cities were built like this, and the more road capacity you build, the more sprawl you get (everything is further apart), which increases how much people have to drive which increases the traffic... It's an evil spiral of congestion.
We are talking about high rents, not high buying prices
I find that popping on some orange safety glasses an hour before I want to sleep helps much more than flux, partly because you don't have to worry about other sources of blue light, like bulbs:
https://www.amazon.com/Uvex-Blocking-Computer-SCT-Orange-S19...

Top rated by Consumer Reports vs other blue light blocking glasses, they block nearly 100% of blue light. You can literally not tell that blue LEDs are on, for example, even when toggling them and off.
An olive farm makes some extra virgin olive oil in Italy. It is recorded at some date. They also make some virgin and some regular olive oil. It gets put in bottles and shipped somewhere. The shipping info is linked to the original production entry on the blockchain. An IOT device in the shipping load adds an entry to the blockchain saying that that it hasnt gone above or below some range of temperatures. It finally reaches a wholesale destination. At this point, it could go to a number of companies. In this case, any buyer could verify:
1) That an entry was made that this was extra virgin
2) that the olive farm is also making appropriate quantities of virgin and non-virgin olive oil - eg. not just labeling all of it extra virgin
3) where and when the shipping company picked up the olive oil from that farm
4) that this olive oil was transported in appropriate conditions

These are all timestamped, impossible to alter, and would require an elaborate planned fraud between a number of parties to fake.

How would you do this without blockchain? with a trusted 3rd party. Who can you trust when you are involving the russian govt, chinese govt, and US govt, and EU, and corrupt italian public servants? none of those groups trust any of the other parties completely.
Interesting.

I cannot go asleep unless is pitch black. On the other side we used our kids to sleep with some dim light in the room, so they can sleep at noon in plain bright sun no problem, which I can't :).

Other than that, we also used them to get asleep on some background noise ( some silly TV or Radio show, foreign language, for example ), and after they are asleep I can talk normally near them, work, etc. Again, a thing I cannot do, if I hear a noise, the slightest, I am awake and my sleep is gone.
From what I have seen of Xi Jinping, he looks, acts, and speaks like a somewhat reasonable world leader. Certainly not the type of person capable of allowing a horrific atrocity like this. Now all I will be able to picture when I see him is Hitler, as this is the kind of thing that the Nazis did.

It does at least put the petty political squabbles we have in the US in perspective. Say what you will about Trump - he isn't killing people and cutting out their organs.
It's going to be heavily advertised if it hasn't started already, and then everyone will be lactose intollerant. Because someone that feels better using a more expensive product will keep buying the more expensive product as long as they feel better from it.
> I have a suspicion that bubbles can only exist when media is centralized.

Many of the worst bubbles in history occured in countries with very decentralized media, e.g. the Railway Mania in the UK in the 1840s was (relative to today) bigger then the global one in 2007+. So, no, media centralization can't be the reason :)