skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up poor or lower middle class. But later my parents' finances improved and my siblings grew up upper middle class.

I can tell you there is huge difference between my siblings especially youngest and I when it comes to finance and career.

1. They barely save any money, live pretty lavish lifestyle for what they earn. I pretty much focus on saving. Sometimes, I will skip important events, dinners, etc because I haven't met my savings goal. Before I got married, I lived in 33% of after tax income.

(My friends split in two groups after college, those who upgraded their lifestyle as they earned more money, and those who either kept college lifestyle as long as possible or did not earn a lot after college to upgrade their life style. I remained friend with later group only.)

2. My siblings don't take shit form their bosses, quit jobs without finding next one. I worry too much about my job, answer phone or emails after work etc.

3. My siblings will quit jobs and travel or find themselves or whatever. I have never ever voluntarily quit job without finding next job.

4. My siblings will risk significant amount of their savings in various ventures. I only invest in index funds.

5. They buy stuff on impulse. I will research best deals.

I can go on and on about difference in our mentality but main point is that somehow even with 6 figure income, I fear poverty more than I should. And they pretty much live as if money is unlimited resource.

This also causes issues with my wife though she lived in poverty a bit too, so she understands my fears.
Was crossing my fingers that there'd be support for relative line numbers but alas...
I think what the parent is saying is this is just simplified needs-based welfare. Remove the bureaucracy and remove the restrictions on employment status and/or savings. I'm not saying this is bad but I agree it isn't UBI.
Memo from the Monastery: Panning Gutenberg's Invention
That's not what they said which is a shame.
which API are you using? AFAIK Netflix doesn't have an API
Erlang was first implemented in Prolog, evolving from an embedded Prolog DSL. Fascinating paper at http://www.erlang.se/publications/prac_appl_prolog.ps

It does therefore have a syntax heavily influenced by Prolog.
But that doesn't mean that Prolog was the only incluence. The Erlang case expression for pattern matching doesn't really correspond to anything in Prolog, it does look more similar to ML-family languages. The multi-branch if expression looks like a Lisp cond form and again not that much like Prolog.
Why??????? Mercifully, being free of religious encumbrances means being free of ritual and other pointless prescriptions.

If someone really needs the 'comfort' of a ritual so badly, they can make their own, though, to me, allowing oneself to be bossed around by something as mechanistic as prescribed rituals screams of contradiction.

It is sad that so few can stand emptiness, or boredom, or silence, and that they feel the need to fill up otherwise perfectly good space and time with fruitless endeavors just to be comfortable.
>something you had no control over

A significant contingent of the population does not believe that to be true.
> Maybe a possible partnership with Waymo for level 4 driving tractor trailers.

If I am not mistaken, Waymo is already an offshoot with Google, so Google already has a strong foothold in autonomous vehicles
As long as Uber's system logged which automatic brake was triggered - or simply failed to log that its own braking system stepped in - it could have saved a life without impacting the data gathered.

They didn't put a tarp over the windshield; why get rid of other proven safety features?
It is like asking if a person with a history of heart attacks died because they crashed their car, or if the car crashed because they had a heart attack behind the wheel.

I'd wait for the autopsy.
Disclosure: .NET Core team member and blog post author.

Windows-specific features are not really "creeping into .NET Core". WPF and Windows Forms will be components that layer on top of the .NET Core runtime. If you want to use them, you will get them. If you don't want to use them, you will not. We already have precedent for that with the Windows Compat Pack [1]. We also have significant platform-specific implementations already [2].

We think developers will like the idea that they can take advantage of OS-specific functionality. We will look for more opportunities to do that on macOS and Linux, too. If we were ever to support the macOS Cocoa API, it would layer on top of the .NET Core runtime, too.

Does that help?

[1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/11/16/announcin...
[2] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2608468/39717763-1...
>But MQTT suffers from all of these same drawbacks, does it not?

Your MQTT IoT device is a client, not a server, so you don't need to deal with no NAT.

Even if you're outdated and has security problems, as long as the server doesn't exploit you (and filters out the requests that exploit you), then you're safe. It's really hard achieve that with an outdated HTTP server.
What you describe in not UBI, it's discrimination. I think it's pretty clear that if you exclude certain group from preferable markets, and sideline them to be able to buy only second-rate and third-rate goods, then you'll find plenty of examples where they end up at a huge disadvantage. It's not a test of UBI, it's a test of whether restricting access to a market can hurt a group against which it is used. I think we can all agree that the answer to this question is a definite "yes" - but it has no connection with UBI.
Intellisense is already extremely unreliable and prone to breaking for seemingly no reason. I'm not confident that this far more complex version is going to be better.
I can recall thinking the video was very bad quality. To the point where I was questioning if the video was from some dashcam they installed instead of the self driving car tech.
> get 5 9s reliability

That's it? Humans have greater than 7 9's reliability when driving. (As measured by fatalities per time of driving, and assuming a fatality takes 5 minutes, and average speed is 30mph.)

If the cause of a fatality is 10 seconds of failure, not 5 minutes, humans have greater than 9 9s of reliability.

Math: 10 seconds / (1.13 / (30 miles/hour / 100 million miles))

Fatality rate is 1.13 per 100 million miles.

Good luck programming a computer to even stay on and not crash with that level of reliability.

There's this belief that humans are horrible at driving, etc, etc. Until you run that math and realize, no, they're not. There's just a lot of driving going on.
When Boom was first posted here I recall the narrative also including a lot of drag dynamics that would reduce the "boom" which would allow for more feasible overland routes / less noise pollution. Not sure where that sits now - I don't see it as much in their PR copy.
Actually, I'm Canadian and I don't consider myself very trusting of government. I've always seen the EU as a natural place for my startups, so I've made a point of learning as much about EU economic policy as I can. At first, I found the glut of it to be incredibly scary, but then I was lucky to have a series of European roommates when I was in business school.

One time, I was afraid of some anti-corruption laws because it seemed like basic parts of doing business here would result in severe penalties there. My roommate at the time thought I was being certifiably insane, because the EU just doesn't work like that. He couldn't imagine what transgression I could possibly commit to warrant more than a strongly worded letter (on better stationery than I'd get from the Canadian government).

From there, I started learning more about how open the EU is.

I mentioned this in another comment, but I'll also encourage you to read about the International Procurement Instrument. The EU (like many other economic bodies) has trouble with non-EU companies bidding on EU public contracts and winning because the playing fields just aren't level. I don't want to give too much of the story away, but as you read about the IPI meandering its way through European politics, you can see an EU bending over backwards to make sure that foreign companies have open access to EU markets.

If you read about the IPI with North American eyes, it seems absolutely bizarre. But it's a good primer to the EU's difficulty with protectionism. I'm from western Canada and seriouslu, if the Canadian government felt this way about protectionism, I could get a western independent movement off the ground in a matter of months...not that I would or would even want to, but it would be so egregiously opposite how we do things that radicalism would ensue.

Sorry for droning on and on, but I don't think I can really debate you. I agree with you and everything you're saying is logical. My only response is that Europe is so incredibly different and that response is honestly starting to wear thin.

Besides, I'm being a shitty entrepreneur. The more people are afraid of GDPR, the more opportunity I'll get!! :)

(I've enjoyed this talk with you. Thanks for engaging with me!)
This is crazy! As we all know, online retailers are killing local businesses, in US it might make sense because the profit goes to another sector of economy, Amazon is going to hire more developers and invest in other products that in long run might not be total lose for the whole economy!

what a country like India is going to gain by letting American and Chinese companies destroy her local businesses and take the profit to the mainland!

Is this the new colonization?
PeopleExpress used to do this. When it first launched, customers purchased tickets for a flight without booking a particular flight or seat. They would show up to the airport and get seated on a first-come, first-serve basis on the next available flight. All flights were non-stop shuttle flights (back and forth between two destinations).

It was phenomenally successful for a few years. It's not clear that this model could be replicated today due to air travel security concerns.
Conclusion (emphasis is mine):

In the past few years, many companies have experimented with prediction markets. In this
paper, we analyze the largest such experiment we are aware of. We find that prices in Google’s
markets closely approximated event probabilities, but did contain some biases, especially early
in our sample. The most interesting of these was an optimism bias, which was more
pronounced for subjects under the control of Google employees, such as would a project be
completed on time or would a particular office be opened. Optimism was more present in the
trading of newly hired employees, and was significantly more pronounced on and immediately
following days with Google stock price appreciation. Our optimism results are interesting given
the role that optimism is often thought to play in motivation and the success of entrepreneurial
firms. They raise the possibility of a “stock price‐optimism‐performance‐stock price” feedback
that may be worthy of further investigation.

We also examine how information and beliefs about prediction market topics move
around an organization. We find a significant role for micro‐geography. The trading of
physically proximate employees is correlated, and only becomes correlated after the employees
begin to sit near each other, suggesting a causal relationship. Work and social connections play
a detectable but significantly smaller role.

An important caveat to our results is that they tell us about information flows about
prediction market subjects, many of which are ancillary to employees’ main jobs. This may
explain why physical proximity matters so much more than work relationships – if prediction
market topics are lower‐priority subjects on which to exchange information, then information
exchange may require the opportunities for low‐opportunity‐cost communication created by
physical proximity. Of course, introspection suggests that genuinely creative ideas often arise
from such low‐opportunity‐cost communication. Google’s frequent office moves and emphasis
on product innovation may provide an ideal testing ground in which to better understand the
creative process.
Since the patent is expired, what stops is from being brought back as a generic?
No problems since I upgraded several weeks ago. Mac mini Server (Mid 2011). Not MBP, but same hardware as 2011 MBP: Core i7 Sandy Bridge, Intel HD Graphics 3000.
Hospitals 'Waste More Money' After Hiring Management Consultants
Really? So, you have Child A and Child B.

Child A
- Wealthy upbringing
- Always full on nutritious food
- Elite, private schooling
- Live in a stable, loving home

Child B
- Poor upbringing
- Almost always hungry, only able to eat cheap calorie dense foods
- Public, underfunded inner city school
- Shuffled around between foster homes

You think that the deciding factor for these examples would be their desire and drive? I don't, and I think the science out there agrees with me when I say poverty has numerous adverse effects on how a human turns out.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f16e/845b8222cb92541902c19b...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2528798/
https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1196/an...
https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/policy-brief/how-poverty-and-dep...
http://www.apa.org/pi/families/poverty.aspx
It's pretty disappointing to see that Boom is still using fossil fuel burning engines. Surely if you're innovating on aviation tech, Mach 2.2 flight for business people is less important than figuring out a way to fly that doesn't kill the planet.
Apple is now so close to $1 trillion mark that there is no stopping it
You are not accounting for the fun that doing this entails. It's gamification of the build with a gaming partner that is actually fun to play with.

When I play a game with my buddies, I try to win, but even if I lose I still have a good time.

This is a very similar concept. Also, don't assume that this is the only money he gives. Games are fun.
No, it really isn't at all. It's like asking if a person with a history of peanut allergies died because they got shot in the face or because the bullet was dipped in peanut butter.
AFAIK, most of these money staying in the country, creating additional flow, so I see no problem with that. It's much easier to return money, when you have business.

For example, I heard about 3d printer group with rule: we give you 3d printer printed parts for free, but, when you will assemble your own printer, you must print 2 kits and donate them to others. From consumer perspective, it's 100% of interest, but from 3d printer hobbyst perspective, it's not a problem at all, because they will have printer, which will print them parts. Business is like a printer for money.

Positive outcome is not guaranteed, of course, but fear of loss, as shown by some losers, drives majority to success.
Just to put illustrative numbers on it and not to dispute the parent comment in any way, the big 787's (787-10) have 251 Mg max take-off weight and 202 Mg max landing weight.

In comparison the A380 has a max landing weight of 386 Mg. Clearly the 787 is not up against a hard practical limit in terms of landing weight. Yes, stronger gear weighs more.

We agree that weight of batteries impacts their usefulness for aircraft. That's why I mentioned it in the quoted sentence :-).
My perception is that unlike in the past, a huge percentage of the population in modern Western democracies believe things that most everyone used to consider matters of opinion, are now considered matters of fact and should not even be subject to a public debate.

Canada is currently going through this on the topic of immigration - we are starting to experience significant issues with housing costs and economic inequality (both are directly affected my immigration to a degree), but many people considering any opinion not consistent with the status quo to be literally racist. And unsurprisingly, you rarely can find one that will defend their beliefs, at best you will just get general dishonesty and never ending changing of the subject.

I think this new culture is going to have some very serious negative long term effects.

EDIT: Out of curiosity, which part are people disagreeing with here? That political views are more polarized? The inflationary housing prices claim? Inflationary housing prices not being reflected at all in CPI? Whether immigration has an effect at all on wages or real estate prices? That the word racist is commonly used to quash dissent (heck, even our mayor is on record doing it)? That people won't defend these racist charges? That any of this has changed? That these changes, assuming it is true, will have an effect?
Announcing .NET Core 2.1 RC 1
It was a lot more stable than windows 3.11 for me. You actually stood a chance of an application hang not meaning a PC reboot. That I could actually kill an application and keep the OS running was like dark magic to me at the time.
Running OSv based apache spark workers with kubernetes
(See also elidourado's post in this thread)
I've been pitched to write books a few times, by editors at reputable technical publishers. (HN readers would recognize the names of the publishers.) One of them told me up front that I would be offered an advance of $8K, that it would take 3-6 months to write the book, and that I shouldn't count on earning back the advance. She was clear that the benefits of authorship were reputational.

(The price wasn't why I turned down that and the other offers. Working on a book just isn't the thing I wake up eager to do. If I were an author I think I'd know by now…)
"Millennials Are Killing Secularism"
https://twitter.com/Uber_Comms/status/977738312831066112
I highly doubt it, considering the video came from Tempe police, not Uber. Regardless, does it matter at this point? Uber is basically saying here that the sensors did detect the pedestrian but the issue was that the software to ignore false positives was tuned incorrectly.
I'm curious what degree of "cultural context" is built into automated cars - I feel that there has to be a lot of locale-specific techniques for driving.

For example, in NYC, there's nothing at all uncommon about a pedestrian beginning to cross the street in front of you and approaching the area of your lane where you will shortly be. Pedestrians typically then stop about a foot away from your lane, let you drive past them, and then continue walking. If a car slammed on the brakes in this situation, it would likely cause more accidents than not braking would cause.

On the contrary, in Tempe, a pedestrian starting to do the exact same thing as above is likely much more a case of them not realizing your car is coming at all, in which case slamming on the brakes is appropriate.

This isn't to defend Uber, clearly their car did do the wrong thing in the Tempe situation (though I make no judgment on who was at fault). And clearly cars need to be able to handle the variety of unwritten, localized driving quirks different regions have. But it seems like a very non-trivial problem to do this correctly.
The switch to Google Maps will definitely be nice since their current maps are crap. Not sure about the other pieces but it probably can't get worse than it currently is. I have the newest XC90 and the on-screen stuff is absolutely horrible. I run into many bugs every day and the response from support has been abysmal.
Yes, but the bigger planes carry more than twice as many passengers. If we're talking about airport throughput efficiency of A380s vs Embraer 170/190s, the Airbus is going to win every time.

That said, most people want to fly point-to-point these days and not Hub/Spoke, and often _are_ willing to pay a few extra bucks to do it (I know I certainly will almost always take a direct flight if I can). This favours being able to use smaller airframes, and if it means avoiding a Hub airport it can be a lot more efficient. Where it gets dicey is trying to cram more and more aircraft through an already busy Hub. That leads to having to build more runways and doing things like double/triple simultaneous parallel landings.
Well, could we stop for a second and deeply thing if we really do need to make this travel? Recently I noticed that more and more things can be done online without the tedious flight…
You must mean two multinational companies. One of them can cross-reference against a wast body of data.
yes for sure.

I wish articles about this crash would continue to hammer on the basics, to keep front&center this crash was completely avoidable.

Even if there were no technical issues,

(1) the driver was on her phone before and during the crash. The whole reason for the driver to be present is to intervene in a situation like this.

(2) the car was driving too fast for conditions. Nobody should drive this fast in the middle of the city in the middle of night. It doesn't look like the car could have come to any kind emergency stop. Self-driving cars should drive more carefully than humans, not push against and over the speed limit regardless of outside conditions.
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Please, please tell me no one gets paid to do this. Please.
Digital Ocean are working on their Kubernetes product offering.
https://www.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/
What Bitcoin Critics and Supporters Around the World Have to Say About Crypto
Opposing evidence: carriers continually find new ways to show a lower price and then make it back up in fees (like some US carriers charging for carry on luggage). This is specifically because people sort by price.
I thought was a new take on random forests...
Trump has used fake props before: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-tru...
Any person that believes they can run a real life experiment with the entire society lives in a special kind of bubble.
I think the answer is yes. Also, if everyone just gets $X, will prices also rise by some Y close to X as people will feel less attachment to this $X as it was free? I've yet to see a truly thoughtful model of what all will happen. For example, UBI is said to replace all the bureaucracy of today's welfare programs. That is a lot of people that will lose their jobs, including the cycle of the people who used to supply goods and services to those people. Some of those companies will close and layoff more people, etc., etc. It doesn't go infinite but it definitely cascades. We can see proof of this in old steel towns or some place like Detroit. As good jobs dry up, it starts an economic slide.
Would knowledge fragmentation explain why general interest pubs (like SciAm) would have less appeal today, leading to their being "dumbed down"?

Conversely, if as I think you suggest, there had been a rise in the number of literate thoughtful in-depth pubs focused on narrow specialization, then I'd accept that today's minds are equally active as yesteryear's but have just turned their attention inward. But I see nothing like that. Even semi-technical pubs like those in the computing space have degenerated into product and project promos (as MIT Tech Review has done).

Where are today's equivalents to Creative Computing or Dr Dobbs or WiReD circa 1998 or InfoWorld circa 1985? The closest I've seen might be the Maker/Arduino/Pi pubs, but their agenda isn't insight, it's small specific ideas of projects (like Popular Mechanics often was in the 60's). All deeper fare on science faded out about 20 years ago. I side with the OP's interpretation; their absence is striking and suggests something big has changed.

Doesn't such a "shallowing" (a la Nicholas Carr) and narrowing of interests imply we've all become less generally curious? Aren't these signs that we're less inclined to explore novel possible worlds, or we're satisfied to do so in less depth, than a generation (or two) ago?

Online forums are no substitute for serious recreational inquiry, even the (very) few that are as constructively and generally clued-in as HNN.