skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you one day want financially viable clean energy, there are certainly better places for that money to go than into your bank's pocket - such as to energy providers, who could then use that money for R&D.

Tell me how many banks are spending their profits doing clean energy research.
In some contexts, RSA in conjunction with RCA would stand for "Random Safety Audit" - but that doesn't make as much sense here as the assumption that it's just a typo for RCA and it's intended "Root Cause Analysis" meaning.
"the riddles were created to entertain average person" perhaps indicates an inappropriate difficulty level; we've had bad experiences in some rooms that were really fun for others simply because of the lack of difficulty, but have had a great time in rooms that are rated as very difficult. The reviews and choice of rooms are important, picking a challenge that's far too hard or far too easy won't give good results.
I suggest you look at the recent election results so see how "diverse" the bay is politically.
DriveImage XML[1] always worked the few times I needed it, and you can create the image while booted in to windows.

[1]: https://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm
It's not a commodity and it's not a currency. It's nothing-cy. How much is 0x12efadeb8790234b5ed worth? Anyone can make a crypto "asset" with less effort than it took me to type this in.

Biggest. Pyramid. Scheme. Ever.

EDIT:

Buffet: Crypto currencies will come to a bad ending. ... "tulips" ...

Munger: I think worse about crypto currencies than you do. ... "trading turds" ...
The whole reason I made my comment was going through a back and forth with myself about whether there was a case to be made here. I'm still not positive, so I hope I'm not driving that bargain harder than it deserves to be driven. I do 100% agree that the default stance on debating definitions should be that one ought not, and one ought instead be more specific. Maybe the real thing to take care of is that most investors are really innocent and we have to be very careful about what kinds of expectations we give them (if we care about ethics, at any rate).
Parent is talking about births. 40 million US people will lead to about 500,000 births a year.

Multiply by the 10 and you have 5 million people that appear in California without migrating (or I guess closer to 4.8 million, whatever).
I agree, but you'd have to take it up with the CFTC. I don't think they're big on "new categories".
>How is Bitcoin a store of value? An ounce of gold is a store of value - someone had to do the work of finding and mining it, and it can be used to fill teeth and conduct electricity. Gold is portable, uniform, durable and divisible, so it is a commodity that has good currency qualities. But almost every commodity that can be sold is a store of value - what value does Bitcoin have?

Why do we keep going over this? There are tons of material online to help you to the other side of this argument, not to mention the article itself.

One value of Bitcoin is in its decentralization.

How can you say that is worthless? Is it worthless to have an alternative means of payment that is available to nearly anyone around the world and is not controlled by a single authority?

I would very much like to see your thoughts on this topic, but please, before responding take a moment to think. Your current comment is so full of vitriol that I think it might blind your rationality.
Yeah, that's one of the few cases where intellectual curiosity (the driving value of HN) has to yield to administrative secrets (boo). In case it helps: the answer is not that interesting. I just can't publish it because then we'd burn the method.
> Thank you for conceding that your studio is going to go to another tech worker. There goes the (non-academic) argument you just presented against Residential Nexus Analysis. The point stands that baristas and teachers need BMR housing.

What I said is true in the aggregate. You're trying to argue that, because my one unit won't solve the housing crisis, we shouldn't build anything at all. That's silly. If we build enough market-rate housing, then eventually tech workers won't have to look downmarket. That will free up the lower end for others and lower rents to affordable levels. There aren't infinite tech workers.

The problem is that tech workers are competing for lower-end units at all. We will only solve that one unit at a time, by building a lot more housing at all levels.

Do you want tech workers like you and me to be taking up rent controlled studios?

> YIMBY activists shouted down minority speakers at a recent protest.

Sonja and Laura shouldn't have apologized for that, because they didn't "shout them down". They were simply chanting "read the bill". That is important, because the bill allows more construction of BMR housing. Since we agree BMR housing is important, telling protestors to read the bill is perfectly reasonable.
Half-joke, but a real problem: quality documentation for AWS. I'd pay good money for this.
The way people look at contractors and talk down about them is honestly just as offensive if Trump said the CIA or NSA was out to get him.

Elon Musk is complaining about a culture of contracting and sub-contracting with open-ended requirements and they end up making a lot of money in the end. This is really a management problem here; if you have a contractor who is milking a project and you don't reach out to them to have a conversation.

You have done more harm to the company than allowing said contractor to 'milk' the company.

Accountability isn't that hard; nor are performance reviews.

But really what he's talking about is his problem and his management team's problem.

It's a shame Tesla seems to be going the way of General Motors
Undergraduate tuition at CMU is $52,732 per year

https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2017/january/tuiti...
Unfortunately, the author perpetuates the myth that those Linkedin requests are coming from individuals. In fact most of them are auto-generated (and address spoofed) by Linkedin from email addresses collected possibly many years ago and without the knowledge of the purported sender.
> These cryptocurrencies have no value.

The markets say otherwise, for 9 years now.

And more and more people who where laughing are not laughing anymore. I'm talking about exchanges like CBOE and CME, and regulators who are seriously talking about regulating cryptos. Do you ever hear regulators talk about regulating ponzies (in the positive form)?

Many people are so stuck up in what they think they know about economics from 30 years ago that they don't dig deeper to see what's happening under their nose.

> I predict all cryptocurrencies will go to zero.

This is easy to make a strong case against. In 2010, when most people said that Bitcoin is probably illegal, because you are not allowed to create currencies, and that all people involved will be arrested, when 100% of comments on HN were critical of Bitcoin, when a minuscule fraction of those who now know of Bitcoin knew about it, Bitcoin was still worth a few pennies.
And here's a somewhat longer overview https://k.im/docs/whitepaper.pdf
Well, let's call it not "feature list" but "specified vision statement" and then it should have that. It should be quite clear from the main README and the main website what distinguishes this project from others. Otherwise it's quite likely that such specification doesn't exist and goals are unclear, which usually means bloated blobb of unfinished 10 million "features".
Maybe not "play dates" but certainly for "babysitting".
For context,here’s how I had to work around this to get autoplaying audio to work on iOS Safari for an educational VR experience I was building:

I start by asking a user whether they want to view the experience in “Stereo Mode” or “Normal Mode”. Whatever they click on, I use that click event to start playing a 500ms long mp3 of silence. When that clip finishes, I use its ‘ended’ event to start it up again. Meanwhile in the render loop, if the user enters an area where I have some auto playing narration, I set a global flag and store the track name in a global variable. Those flags get picked up the next time the 500ms track finishes, and the named track is substituted in.

This is ridiculous, and this is just to play sound files at various points in time. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that some of Cabbibo’s work uses multiple Audio Contexts or other complicating factors that would make it difficult to retrofit.
Stephen Hawking's last paper: A smooth exit from eternal inflation?
I believe the proof of concept for the Spectre attack used the Linux eBPF JIT.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privi...
Walk more. A lot more.

Unless you are literally wheelchair bound, it is something basically anyone can do and you need no special equipment. It helps to have decent shoes, but I live in cheap sandals year round and I gave up my car more than a decade ago. I mostly walk to get around, plus I occasionally take public transit.

You breathe better when walking. It moves lymph, which is how the body takes out the trash. It is the single best exercise for losing weight and maintaining a healthy weight.

You can start doing just a little more everyday and gradually build more stamina. If handled that way, there are no dramatic side effects.
It's not accurate -- or at least, not necessarily. I live in "urban California" (East Bay), and at this moment (7:40p on a Sunday evening), my five-year-old daughter is out front on the stoop with one of our five-year-old neighbors, who wandered over to show her a new toy motorcycle he got. My ten-year-old is out to an impromptu dinner with a friend of his and their family. My thirteen-year-old is at a nearby park skateboarding and/or playing pickup ultimate with some friends.

The five-year-old will come in shortly; the ten-year-old will be home later; I expect the thirteen-year-old home sometime around sundown. I planned none of this -- none of it was scheduled. Moreover, none of this is an attempt to educate them in any conventional way, and the only data driving is that freedom and unstructured time help build important qualities like independence and resilience.

As with so many things, there are many microclimates of parenting and child-rearing; if you value unstructured time for your kids and building their independence, you can likely find a community that shares those values.
Shouldn't this headline read "could put lives at unnecessary risk" ?

All rocket launches are going to carry some amount of mortal risk. The headline implies this isn't the case except for SpaceX's technology, which is hogwash.
You're right, it all feels samey, in an uneasy way. Maybe the "How I..." ecosystem is mostly self-referential.
That was fun and informative!
Could you describe these specs in money terms? This reads like it's painful to throw 4 cores and 8 GB RAM at the problem -- what is that costing you?
If it's not obvious to others, this is from 2014. I'm not sure how things have changed since then.
I don't see how Bitcoin is a pyramid scheme. I don't need others underneath me to be producing/selling/mining so that my existing BC have value. If you think it is a sham or a con that is one thing, but a pyramid scheme it isn't.
Let's just hope China will not take back Taiwan to get the state-of-the-art fabs there.
> But, it's clearly a NIMBY move to protect existing home owners financial asset.

It doesn't apply to new construction over 3 stories. Especially for the Bay Area, building up seems like the only way out of the current morass, so is it really that clear-cut?

Also most of the house price in high-demand areas is the land cost. $30k sounds like a lot but is less than 5% of the median house price. People pay that much over asking quite regularly.
> Gogs author didn't want to incorporate proposed changes into Gogs, so a bunch of other developers forked Gogs

This sounds like a reasonable way for forking though. I mean what is open source for if you can't go and and implement your own features if you so desire. Sounds to me like both sides are at fault.
That is a fairly unlikely outcome. Consult an actuarial table. If it happens, it happens. Not saving for retirement because you might die suddenly is irrational and defies statistics on when and how people die.
What’s a good example implementation of stackful coroutines?
Makes for a much more in-depth and capable version of the Game Boy Camera + Printer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Camera an object of gadget lust for me when I was growing up
> One value of Bitcoin is in its decentralization.

There is surmounting evidence that this is not true and that Bitcoin is actually quite centralized and would benefit from being more centralized [0][1][2][3][4].

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.03998

[1] https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/07/28/analyzing-the-2013-...

[2] https://arewedecentralizedyet.com/

[3] https://fc18.ifca.ai/bitcoin/papers/bitcoin18-final13.pdf

[4] https://www.tse-fr.eu/sites/default/files/TSE/documents/doc/...

> Why do we keep going over this?

Because blockchainers are not listening to the science... why would they? It invalidates their whole investment thesis.
There is a big difference between investing in companies that produce commodities and commodities themselves. XOM, CVX, BP and the like are companies that are in the business of producing oil to generate profit for their shareholders. Owning XOM/CVX/BP stock is investing, because there's a reasonable expectation that the companies will make money and return that profit to their shareholders in the form of a buyback or a dividend. Owning an actual commodity is like buying art or trading cards speculating your purchase will go up in value based on some inside knowledge you perceive to have. That is the definition of speculation.
Any sort of "green thread" implementation, such as Python's greenlets.
Research and development, and building out manufacturing infrastructure for something nobody wanted. Looks like they were killed by the falling costs of Lithium Ion. If you plan to be 50% cheaper than Li in 4 years and then 3 years in Li costs have halved, you’re in trouble.
I think he meant ponzi-scheme, which would be true if Bitcoin didn't have any purpose. Anyways, this debate has been settled for us by the US government, it's a commodity.
well thanks very much for that, you have piqued my curiosity (again :-)), time to get out that haskell book, and finish it this time. If nothing else its a whole new set of language constructs that I'm sure will come in handy some day, I am starting to see how they could be used. The idea of being able to stack monads to do something sounds intriguing. Or is there a better language to learn?
The problem is this style of rent control, not her.
The asset is the ledger-recorded amount of cryptocurrency attached to the wallet keypair, not the keypair itself. Cryptos have plenty of problems without misrepresenting what they are.

Our bank accounts are also identified by mere bits. What's that quote...

> Cosmo: The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just electrons.

(To be clear, I'm extremely ambivalent about cryptos, so I don't entirely disagree with your sentiment. I can see the "it's a new form of currency" side, and I can see the "mass delusion and speculation bubble" side. History will prove someone right, but I don't know how to estimate a probability of any one cryptocurrency winning, if any do.)
Tesla review of contractors blocks any not personally vouched for by tesla staff
Sounds a bit like how we might all still enjoy solving puzzles even after the AIs take over. (I don't think the AIs will take over, but I also don't think we'll stop solving puzzles if they do.)
Phone Walking: Keeping Your Phone Out Without Using It
Maybe we should split things up a bit ?

Bitcoin is, according to group:

IRS/tax offices around the world: a commodity (and thus taxed like stocks)

Banks: neither (and don't you dare touch it !)

Most historical bitcoin currency guys (e.g. Steam): neither (this unfortunately seems to exclude pretty much all the bigger ones)

Some remaining guys[1]: currency

Believers: currency

[1] https://99bitcoins.com/who-accepts-bitcoins-payment-companie...
After spending 8 hours a day at work, plus an hour lunch, plus time commuting—we're talking up to 11 hours here for work even if only 8 is spent in the office—I'm exhausted and don't have the energy for much else. I'm not just physically exhausted, either. I'm socially drained: spending 8 hours surrounded by coworkers and being forced to interact with them uses up my entire social budget for the day. Socialization is extremely draining to me, and work forces me to use up that energy on coworkers instead of my friends.

OK, that's a little harsh to my coworkers: I get along with them well enough, and after I or they leave the company I'll probably add some of them on Facebook, but that doesn't change the fact that I have no energy for people I know outside of work.

On the occasion I do have the energy to go out to a bar or something, then I have to choose between socialization and spending time on my hobbies. I can spend a few hours after work at the bar... or I could spend them at home reading more of a novel or hacking at one of my personal projects. Back when I was in college, I had plenty of time to do both. I could hang out with friends and then go and do stuff on my own at home. Now that I'm out of college, I have to choose, and having to choose sucks.
IMHO the important question is, as consumers of expertise, how do we manage its risk? Can we predict the risk, the likelihood and/or magnitude of failures?

One issue might be our standards of 'success' and 'failure' for economists and other experts. The standard probably shouldn't be, 'predict 100% of economic events accurately', though that's an ideal to strive for. IIRC, some geologists were put on trial in Italy for failing to predict an earthquake; AFAIK there's no known way to do it reliably. Is 'predict 75% accurately' realistic for economics? Too high? Too easy? Is the thing even measurable? I don't know. And when the housing market crashes, saying 'I got the other 3 predictions right' doesn't matter much to people nor is it evidence that you weren't incompetent in this case. Maybe a standard should be, 'no incorrect predictions on critical issues' (i.e., it's better to say nothing than risk being wrong), but maybe that would result in no predictions on critical issues; also, in many situations such as earthquakes, no prediction infers the null hypothesis: No earthquakes today. Regardless, likely any standard should rely on degree of error: The housing market predictions weren't off by a few percent but by orders of magnitude.

Can we create a model that accurately predicts where expertise fails and its magnitude? Perhaps large errors simply occur in unstable systems which have high magnitude variation in outcomes (e.g., earthquake or no earthquake), and thus unavoidably larger errors. Also, I'd expect accuracy to correlate with (high volume of quality research + consensus). If there's consensus based on low volume of quality research, that seems ripe for failure. Based on only a little research, it was popularly said (I don't know if it was consensus of scientists) in the 1970s that there would be an ice age soon; that was wrong. Based on a mountain of research, scientific consensus accurately has predicted global warming. But I'm guessing at the factors involved in predicting the risk of expertise. Has anyone researched this?
You can decentralize without block chain and proof of work.

You can also create an infinite number of block chain "currencies" that are all decentralized. How many do we have already? Hundreds?

What makes bitcoin special? Nothing. The only thing that makes it special is the ongoing speculation on its value, i.e. the supply of people buying it for the hope that other people will buy it at a higher price. Some of those buyers are "miners" some of those buyers buy it directly. But they mostly have one goal which is to find someone who will one day pay a lot more for the same bitcoin then they did.
China does have invested a large amount of money in semiconductor businesses over the years, of which 47B is just another. It makes some progress, such as the self-made SW26010 processors in Sunway TaihuLight, the current top one supercomputer in the world. But progress is hard for reasons other than money:

* Late comers to the semiconductor industry can barely follow the trends, let alone lead. But if one cannot lead, it cannot survive in a free market. No one is going to buy a chip 3~5 years behind the latest technology when he/she has better choices.

* Compatibility issues. China cannot grow its chip with x86 instruction set, at least not the latest one, for patent issues. That further reduces the possibility of commercial success of its own chips.

* Semiconductor industry is now past its prime, the profit and salaries lower than the nascent Internet companies. Even in the US, plenty of EE students are jumping ship. In China, EE talents are doubly drained, by both American semiconductor industry, and by the local software industry.

* The Wassenaar Arrangement bans the export of many high end equipments necessary for chip making to China. While all the other countries/regions can specialize in one part of the semiconductor industry, China has to do all of them by itself, since it has no external help.

* The world politics dictate that Chinese firms are never going to buy ARM. They have the cash and the willingness, but western countries simply won't approve such buyout.
That's irrelevant to above point. That they could pay themselves a salary out of earnings means there is more money going in that just what is cycling around between these sites.
ubuntu works fine with secure boot
I'm not really sure what your curious apparent inability to find companies not cartoonishly intent on profits or your acknowledgement of the existence of elected advocates of smaller government has to do with the question.

I'm also not terribly convinced by "holding things to account". I'm sure many news organizations have, and many more have been accused of, criticizing large corporations for specific misdeeds without necessarily questioning the overall capitalist systems that allows them to exist. Likewise, news organizations also can and have criticized specific governmental misdeeds without necessarily advocating that the government should not be involved in specific things at all, or that some specific things should be handled by a more local government versus a national-level one.
Yes, but if you’re only storing it <24h to smooth out your daily power generation curve that shouldn’t be too much of a problem. It’s only really an issue if you’re storing it for weeks or more.
Lua coroutines work like this.
This seems to me an example of a research that dives deep into the problem, without actually trying to use some "common sense" at the start.

I sometimes "phone walk", especially in San Francisco. Why? Because in most cases, taking the phone out of my jacket pocket, or my jeans pocket, is quite uncomfortable or slow, and I know that I need to consult my phone frequently for the next few minutes (e.g. when I am walking to a place, don't know exactly where it is, and need to consult the map often).

In their research, there's no evidence of any weight being given to what I just described above.

The only interesting part is the stark difference between men and women - wonder where that comes from.
I guess that means that physics isn't that valuable then, and we have an oversupply of physics people.

It turns out that the market believes that building CRUD apps is more valuable and useful to society than whatever it is physics researchers do.

You are right that we don't have a Stem shortage. Instead we have a Technology shortage, and way too many people are going into these other fields that aren't actually very useful.