skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16947518
I cook a lot. My food budget for 4 people is about 1000/month. My cost for something like tossed vegetables tossed with pasta, chicken breast, and a cream sauce is under $2 per meal. Most meals are similarly priced. These $700/person monthly estimates are crazy
"When people buy Starbucks, they're buying 15 minutes of time to sit in a warm cafe with friends, free WiFi, a space to work, and the labour involved in having to make the coffee for themselves."

I see a lot of people do drive through. There are no friends involved and they probably can't even enjoy their drink while stuck in traffic.
Yes, the microLEDs (I've heard of) are InGaN on Sapphire which are diced and placed in arrays. Apple bought a company doing this several years ago, but the densities they are capable of (30-100um pitch) and yields (1dppm?) are not a match for head mounted 8k displays (100mm/8000 = 12um pixel =>6um subpixel).

There are microOLED manufacturers like eMagin which integrate the active matrix into a Si substrate and use a color filter over white OLED, but even they are limited to ~2k RGB (per eye) at 9um pitch.
I'm no expert, but examine the front of the Shigir Idol and see three distinct sections of patterns: lines, single wave, double wave. I was "stumped." I wanted to get to the root of this.

Borrowing a technique from Carl Sagan's Contact where Arroway and Hadden interpreted the Vega message, I then thought like I was from Planet X. The meaning of these three sections became obvious in higher dimensions...

"I am Groot"
Carefull for what you wish, might get spaghetti!
A city's land is a scarce resource. It cannot just be doled out to anyone who "wants it". The whole problem of resource allocation is why we have capitalism in the first place.
That's very likely the case since money laundering always needs goods with very low intrinsic value but sold at inflated prices. From "modern art" works by unknown artists valued as masterpieces to poor football players priced and sold as champions who will never see the playfield, there are numerous cases which should raise alerts.
I'm happy he got jail time after having read those emails.

This guy was intentionally creating "fake" Windows recovery discs with Microsoft and Dell logos and searching for unscrupulous buyers that would not notice the small defects and pay him market rate of $25 of a genuine product for something he copied (presumably for less than $2) in China.

Over that all, he had the guts to ignore US Customs seizure notice about his illegal activities and to moreover email is codefendant that "they're non-technical people and have no proof against us".
Well you don't need to pay 90 dollars for a cell phone service or 120 for cable, or spend as redonculous 2100 for food either. Do you really have to eat prime beef tenderloin steak every day?
Life preservation against non-aging-related causes, reduction of suffering, improving quality of life. As it is, healthcare isn't really directly concerned with extending human lifespan beyond the expected figures.
There's a fairly amusing and apocryphal anecdote about Laplace that relates to this. You can read more about it here: http://www.eoht.info/page/Napoleon+Laplace+anecdote

“Laplace went in state to Napoleon to accept a copy of his work, and the following account of the interview is well authenticated, and so characteristic of all the parties concerned that I quote it in full. Someone had told Napoleon that the book contained no mention of the name of God; Napoleon, who was fond of putting embarrassing questions, received it with the remark, ‘M. Laplace, they tell me you have written this large book on the system of the universe, and have never even mentioned its Creator.’ Laplace, who, though the most supple of politicians, was as stiff as a martyr on every point of his philosophy, drew himself up and answered bluntly, ‘Je n’avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là.’ ['I had no need of that hypothesis.'] Napoleon, greatly amused, told this reply to Lagrange, who exclaimed, ‘Ah! c’est une belle hypothèse; ça explique beaucoup de choses.’ ['Ah, it is a fine hypothesis; it explains so many things.']”
In this case MS put a value of $20 per disc. The prosecution put a value of $25 per disc - that's the cost to refurbishers of the MS supplied discs. The defence tried to claim that the discs are worthless without the licence, and should be valued at either nothing or $3 each. That defence failed because he spent $80,000 creating the counterfeit product, and you don't spend that much money on worthless items.
> It just means you're financially secure enough not to have to choose between food, clothing, shelter, and healthcare with every paycheck, and to be able to save up a buffer in case of emergency.

I would say that more accurately it means that a portion of your income is made passively (which that buffer provides) alongside having a working income. The working-class, as the name implies, make all of their income by working, and the upper-class make all of their income passively.

But the fun thing about middle-class is that it has no generally accepted definition, so it can mean whatever you want it to.
> So, an article in "The Guardian" laments the immorality of teaching capitalism to future would-be capitalists.

Hmm. From TFA, the author laments that:

Within the business school, capitalism is assumed to be the end of history, an economic model that has trumped all the others, and is now taught as science, rather than ideology.

And then:

The business school assumes capitalism, corporations and managers as the default form of organisation, and everything else as history, anomaly, exception, alternative.

Reasonable, and substantiated, concerns around economics as a subject (rather than pretending to be an actual science).

> Let's take the example of the manager who fires a hundred workers and who pays himself a 500,000$ bonus ... We're talking about a man who rose to the top, someone whose education (or indoctrination) will not have destroyed his sense of self-interest.

Your commitment to the masculine is probably merely a habit, but you've inadvertently highlighted one of the problems exacerbated by the teachings of the average business school -- self-interest at any cost is acceptable, because it's an inherent property of capitalism.

Self-interest is fine and dandy, but the example you're citing -- dispense with a hundred people in order to obtain a half a million dollars -- is not an overly productive practice for most societies.
$5 is definitely a lot of cash for a cup of actual coffee.

I can purchase local freshly roasted single origin coffee at $17 for 12oz and still come out way ahead of $5 per cup. Of course you need coffee gear, but that's paid for itself over the last five years.
Perhaps a miscommunication?

Suppose we talk about vehicles, and I could classify them by color (red, green, ...), or by type (cars, planes, ...)

What is a good or bad classification?

What is disturbing you? the mere topic?

We can't improve prevention of a problem without talking about the problem.

EDIT:

Note, I have added making child porn to meat space crime (even though that is obvious) specifically for you

Would you consider the "Napalm Girl" [0] to be child porn? Or evidence of the atrocities of the use of napalm in the Vietnam war? Did it eventually contribute to the end of public support for the war?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc
I think the real issue for it national debate is that the economy in different places has drifted apart so much. On one hand we have people in big cities making $300k+ and just living a normal life and we have parts of the South apparently being in a comparable living situation to the third world according to the UN. Yet we talk about it as if it's all the same. It's especially problematic for things like federal taxes.
Here's one interesting paper: http://www.csc.kth.se/~phaller/doc/haller16-scala.pdf

Here's the general algorithm:

1. Find something interesting

2. Chase the references and read them.

3. Chase the citations (use Google Scholar) and read them, if they're relevant.

You'll pretty soon have an understanding of the general approaches and issues.

(If you throw "coroutine concurrency" into Google Scholar you'll very quickly find citations from the 80s discussing this model.)
Tesla shareholders to vote on proposal to remove Elon Musk as Chairman
Simplify – Rewrite a mathematical expression in it's simplest terms
It's weird that their website gives no indication that they function this way. They don't say anything about blue light or sleeping better.
No, that source highlights exactly why the horribly authoritarian tendencies of the West Coast and NYC make those cultures undesirable.
Show HN: Draft of paper for a decentralized professional reputation network
I’ve been working on this idea. I’d love to get your candid opinion.

Torreum: A decentralized professional reputation network

Abstract: Research has shown that people's professional reputations are being fragmented and siloed by several online platforms. LinkedIn, for example, has built a so-called ‘walled garden’ and institutes legal action against entities trying to access it even when users have authorized such access. Networks like Uber, Upwork, and Airbnb, don’t allow their users to port recommendations they have earned to other services. Switching platforms is difficult. These actions can be said to reduce the socioeconomic mobility and freedom of people. This paper seeks to propose Torreum as a decentralized professional reputation network that enables people to build and use their curricula vitae and recommendations anywhere. Torreum adds the concept of recommendation weight, a PageRank-like link-analysis algorithm. Weighted recommendations come from people who have been recommended by others. They add trustworthiness and relevance to each individual. Recommendation weight is scarce. Torreum uses blockchain for decentralized access, integrity, and transparency. People authorize apps to add and read their data to and from the Torreum blockchain. In turn, apps use this data to improve, automate, and accelerate processes such as job matching, recruiting, lead scoring, career advice, and professional networking. Torreum may enable new functionalities over time, such as recommendations for limited interactions as well as new ways of networking. Ultimately, Torreum’s goal is not only to assist in the broader empowerment of people so they are in full control of their professional online reputations but also to contribute towards making work fulfilling for all.

Full paper at: https://torreum.org/s/torreum.pdf
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Could you elaborate? Setting us back by a decade seems like a pretty bold claim. And I say this as someone that, on balance, despises the Microsoft of the past (for monopolistic behaviour) and present (for spyware and normalizing hardware lockdown).
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If the app is built into the OS and considered an essential - its part of the operating system.
This is the conventional wisdom in the "real world" as well. There is expected to be a big difference between getting an MBA straight out of undergrad, and getting one after a few years of business experience. On the other hand, this could just be an age bias, e.g., someone with more experience also happens to be older, but their "experience" might not have formed them into a competent manager or leader. In fact, it's actually a toss-up.

Mind you, somebody has to do the accounting. We still need clerks, though they have different titles now. I tend to see middle management as being largely an information processing task: Collecting, organizing, analyzing, and communicating information. The MBA's learn how to communicate in a more or less standardized way, like having a standard API for a computer program. I've been a middle manager, but do not have an MBA.

Where managers, including MBA's, tend to be weak, are in the areas of leadership and decision-making. You can put someone through business school, but it's a toss-up whether you can turn them into a leader.
> I see a lot of people do drive through. There are no friends involved and they probably can't even enjoy their drink while stuck in traffic.

My model doesn't require me prove that every single person makes a perfectly rational economic decision when buying a Starbucks - merely that people derive more than the value of the beans and the water from consuming a Starbucks.
A time machine, I would imagine.
Great post. I would add a caveat that personal relationships can change the rules a bit. When working with developers that I know very well, and that know me (that's important too) super brief comments, and even sarcasm, can be helpful. A friend and I were working on a nasty piece of code and we used the barf emoji as a way of commiserating :-)
Try/Except vs. If in Dictionary Key Access Python Performance
Good. They bought my isp and jacked up my prices (and did this to countless others as well of course).

Who would have thought that it could get worse than Time Warner.

I'm glad to see that CEO Rutledge's idea of playing hardball with customers and not allowing them to extend or take advantage of promotional offers is not paying off.

I paid $60 a month with tw and would call in every year and extend that offer by explaining that I would consider going with the DSL provider. Annoying, but better than the standard $90 a month.

Rutledge came in and killed that saying that those customers are undesirable. http://stopthecap.com/2017/05/24/get-better-deal-charterspec...

Sure, if you are selling a low margin product and not making money on those long time customers that makes sense. But data has almost zero marginal cost once you've got the pipe hooked up and the autodraft payments flowing.

Their refusal to not offer to extend to me, a long time customer, the same offer they are giving to all their new customers caused me to cancel with them and switch to a slower DSL connection, just out of spite.

I suspect by these numbers that I am not alone. And they don't appear to bear out the idea that they would make more money by gouging a smaller set of willing customers either.
Also.. 450gr flour needed, but day 1: 100gr flour + 6*50gr makes 400gr in total. Off by 1 error?
>> The world champions have always been Europeans ...

A bit of nit picking: 1956 champion is a Canadian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Deslauriers
I would suggest to score the bread in the middle before baking. That way you will have a higher rise in the oven.

I did an experiment here: https://www.instagram.com/p/BhERhlnDgdQ

Basically it's like cracks in the surface. At an angle the rise can be much higher.
It would deadlock but there is a debugger that shows the state of any thread and where it is blocked.
Older AMD CPUs are easily immune to Spectre v2
Understanding React JavaScript Render Props
These look great!

The thing that blew my mind is that I've tried making various bread products before, with terrible outcomes...my first attempt to make something from the book was with a Poolish and it turned out astonishing; "That is the kind of thing hipsters would pay big bucks for!" - Amanda (my partner)
Google Cofounder Sergey Brin Warns of AI's Dark Side
> What would you do if your grocery bill went from $150 a week to $300 or more?

It depends on why, and whether I could afford it. If one can afford a 100% bump in food expenses, and can effect it by choosing to buy better food, then it would be worth it in my opinion. The problem to me is that real, sustainable food is basically impossible to come by. I’ve tried farmers markets, etc, but those establishments aren’t about “real” eating either. Americans shopping at all tiers of the food system experience commerce that is entirely catered to a post-seasonal shopping experience. You go to a grocery store and 90% of the shelves aren’t food at all—in the sense that it’s usually some kind of starch and palm oil packaged with salt—then the rest is confused about what time of year it is. If I could spend 200% more on food I would, but seasonal, real food is nowhere to be found. What I want is a real Whole Foods. Such a store would not have shelves of boxed garbage. It would sell dry foodstuffs, out of season produce that keep well in low oxygen chillers (apples, etc) and whatever was in season and is practical for eating. All the food would be highest quality. But such a store wouldn’t exist because Americans must be able to buy rhubarb, salmon and kiwis any time of the year, and won’t come back unless you have them.

Greetings from MD too. MD sheep and wool is coming up:)
I don't see how Microsoft is overstating anything.

A) They didn't bring the case, US Customs did.

B) As the victim (financially) of the Crime they were approached to state the financial damage to decide on the restitution amount and they chose to pick the lowest price on market and further reduce that amount to depict their actual profitability for selling obsolete software.

C) Eric's intentions were clearly not to recycle and reduce waste but to profit from this racket of duping buyers into buying "genuine" recovery discs with Microsoft and Dell logos and tampered activation keys (read the court docket for more details).
Funny you say this. If you read the particular book we're talking about, he specifically talks about not scoring the bread.
Ken also has a YouTube channel with some helpful demonstrations for certain methods like turning and shaping, which are harder to convey in text and still photos.

For anyone using his book for the first time, there is an error in the amount of leaven he has you create in the leaven-only recipes. Just make the amount you need for that recipe plus some extra to keep the colony going, you don't need the huge amount it calls for.
> How is this current state of affairs supposed to be ethical? And how can we ethically justify halting ageing for only a tiny handful of people out of the entire world population?

How do you ethically justify not pursuing such treatment if it becomes feasible? How do you justify denying it altogether, unless everyone can get it at the same time? Impossible perfection or nothing at all?

Instead of SpaceX, I'd look here at all the other medical procedures that are accessible to western citizens. No one could afford them if they were to foot the entire bill for a single-off cure. Yet somehow, through combination of private and public action and group efforts, we've figured out to make them affordable.

(Same will happen with space travel, when more companies get to the place where SpaceX is now, and if we manage to pull off the whole cislunar economy thing. Then the economies of scale and various business model magic will kick in. Note that this is what happened to air travel, to the point plane tickets are ridiculously cheap compared to the direct costs involved.)
I have been on both sides of this. And both sides are often right.

In defense of defenders of status quo, after some time, it becomes tedious to explain the reasons why it didn't work, to people who didn't do basic homework. Sometimes the turnaround of people is just too high. And the defenders of status quo often have their own ideas of what are important problems to solve, and they are often right.

On the other hand, the innovator shouldn't just quit. If you think your idea has merit, build a prototype! Prototype of almost anything can be built by a single person. Maybe it can be done after all.

I think the solution to this problem is 20% time to work on whatever (improvement) you want. The youngsters can then work on new innovative things, which the older guys considered impossible. And the older guys can work on what they really think matters.
You can also speed up the process and have your bread ready in 1 hour. You just have to kneed the dough way more. When I have guests I use my machine to kneed the dough.
Yes but I live in Houston which is coastal, and I guarantee you can live like a king on much less than this. I have a 3k SQ ft home that I'm paying $1500/mo on, and that includes interest and escrowed taxes.
Extreme storm in Kauai linked to climate change
While it's sort of understandable that the slightly schizophrenic Tesla marketing vacillates between proactively touting the "autopilot" feature, while reactively pointing out the small print that the driver is in control, and it's actually just adaptive cruise control / lane assist like any other, there"s no justification for the autopilot engineers to believe the hype.

There is absolutely no reason why if no driver interaction ( hands on) is detected, let alone no driver in the driving seat (!) that the car shouldn't come to a safe stop. Anything less is a critical engineering failure.
> Have a beer, relax, and don't have kids. If there's no next generation to worry about, the ethics of ignoring the coming disaster is much easier.

I don't have kids and don't intend to, in large measure because of the ecological destruction and the obvious impending doom if we don't change our ways. But I can't ignore it. To me it seems like learning to live in harmony with Nature is one of the most important things we can do right now.
Tesla Driver Banned from Highway After Being Caught in the Passenger Seat
The article makes exactly that point:

> If ever a single attacker gains access to that vault and is able to extract, at most, a few gigabytes of data (around the size of an iTunes movie), then the attackers will gain unencrypted access to every device in the world. Even better: if the attackers can do this surreptitiously, you’ll never know they did it.
This is a great point. It's easy to just classify NYC as expensive, but the truth is that there's a great deal of range in living costs in NYC area, including outside of the strict definition of NYC proper, while still maintaining reasonable commute times.
Wait, are you really asking why people should give up unnecessary expenses if they're spending so much on them that they can't afford rent?

No, $150/mo won't get you a place to live in NYC; but 10 $150/mo habits sure will.

And maybe that single $150/mo habit is the difference between "there's literally no room in this city available to rent for $650/mo" and "I have a place to lay my head for $800/mo".
> if those thing do not cost a quarter, they shouldn’t cost much more)

The software on those discs cost a whole lot to make, you know? Try buying your pharma drugs for the $.20 it takes in raw material.
Show HN: Verbly 2.0 - A site for practising Spanish verbs
It's basic systems theory. If you want to get really disillusioned, read one of Niklas Luhmann's many books on the matter.
A huge amount of health care is preserving life in the face of aging. There are a ton of diseases that come from aging, and many treatments for them.

This whole thing seems to be about drawing a nonsensical line between “disease” and “aging” and either ignoring the former as a cause of death, or deciding that it has enough effort behind it already.

If someone has a cancer that’s going to kill them in six months, and it’s cured with a medical treatment, how is that not extending their lifespan? What would lifespan extension look like, if not a slow, broad development of myriad treatments to treat or cure the many things which kill us?
It's fine. People just should be aware that they are spending a substantial amount of money on it. A while ago we looked at my girlfriend's Starbucks receipts and they added up to $1300 a year. That's a nice vacation or a new camera or something else she thinks she can't afford.