skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
During Clinton's time there was a huge run-up in the stock market fueled b a lot of internet companies. Clinton got all the credit for the growth during that time and then Bush suffered through the predictable collapse.
Basic Economics - Thomas Sowell
https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Economics-Common-Sense-Economy/...
You'd have to keep the brain intact if you actually want to keep existing continuously. That sounds trickier.
https://medium.com/@EmiSpasic/what-happens-to-your-body-when...
I hope not. Humans have their inner demons, but historically, noble causes have revolved around reining them.
I like how it's somehow "progress" that we stop caring about things. If someone who spent their life contributing to society in exchange for green pieces of paper is willing to give up thousands of them to keep their hair, who am I to complain? Nothing in the Universe has any inherent value. Maybe it feels good to have hair, vs. not. How should I know? I've never been without it. We spend an amazing amount of money on fabrics made from insanely tiny fibers, $300 chairs, carbon fiber bicycles, 10-megapixel screens, and a cornucopia of crap whose only real purpose is making some fraction of life slightly more pleasant at a basic sensory level. But somehow if you want to keep the hair on your head it's a stupid complaint and nobody should ever do anything about it, don't you know that we need that money to find a malaria vaccine, how could you be so vain? Have you looked at EA's profits lately? How about InBev?

I guarantee people will care in the 24th century. People will care about so many pointless things we'll have forgotten how to blow off the distress of balding men with virtue signalling. And we'll be better off for it.
Wil McCarthy's "The Queendom of Sol", very funny and entertaining series, recommended for whoever interested in that crazy idea (and a lot more):

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1361835.The_Collapsium
True, in most communist systems instead you get really slow growth, with occasional pauses in growth at all alongside frequent severe shortages of essential goods.
Ubuntu does warnings for low disk space too.

Personally I think the experience is very similar for noobs.
> Only in the mind

You say that like there's anywhere else that it matters
>The reason that social science can't model (aka overfit) many phenomena, is that it involves strictly nonlinear data where cultures and humans are involved.

Right, they currently can't accurately model the phenomena and thus their models have little to no predictive power. We are in agreement then. Also, it seems to me that social sciences tend to produce models that are underfit rather than overfit.

So why then do we accept conclusions from scientists who have weak models with little predictive power? This is what my comment above was talking about.

>This is pure, uneducated rubbish.

It's definitely not uneducated and I don't think it's entirely rubbish either.
Oh my Goddess, there is nothing worse than hearing: "It's on the website".

Yeah, that's unhelpful if "the website" is a sprawling, vast wasteland. Finding a specific thing on an obese, convoluted site is like trying to find the bucket of ice cream in Siberia. I always check the site first, so if I am calling... it's because your website is pretty bad.

So if I do find the thing I need and it is broken, then I call and dodge the idiot AI, and the beleaguered agent or offers the pathetic advice of: "It's on the website". I tell them it doesn't work, and this has led to two outcomes, either the agent tries to do it and it is so broken and fucked up that they tell me that's it's down and I have to call back or try the website days or weeks later, or I am lucky and the agent has to do a tedious task that I would have preferred to do myself online.
Hello, 3 new developers from Infosys!
Five of the top 27 long haul flights are on A380. I was surprised to learn this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_flights
MobX 5: the saga continues
"The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought" by Jerry Z. Muller is one of my favorites for history. "The Growth of Economic Thought" by Henry Spiegel is also good.

"Money Mischief" by Milton Friedman is a good short one monetary policy.

"Fault Lines" is a solid book by Raghuram Rajan.

Those will get your more interested than reading raw economic textbooks, imo.
The idea that Apple software is bloatwate because he’s fully bought into the Google ecosystem is laughable. It’s fine if you don’t want in on Apple’s rich ecosystem, but that’s very different from “bloatware.”
Counterpoint. I've had three thinkpads over the past 5 years for work. For two years I used Linux and am currently using windows 10.

Just bought my first Mac Pro in December. It is miles ahead in design and quality. The keyboard is brilliant and while I miss the trackpad dot the Apple mouse is the greatest I've ever used. The OS is still more intuitive and easier to modify.
> ... with DNS anycast can’t you resolve this with putting your website on local providers ?

Then you're effectively rolling your own CDN. Definitely an option for some cases, but overly complex and costly for most.
"Why don't you just tell me the name of the movie you've just selected?"

But seriously, it's the same reason so many sites won't accept a credit card number with spaces in it. Someone writing from scratch the same thing that's been written a thousand times, but only thinking about the way they would use it (or the way they were told others would use it).
Neither do mine, I'm just looking from the other, recruiter's side (not USA, no family, web platform). What makes people think that recruiters have to give time to someone who is likely worse over someone who is likely better? We are free to allocate our time as we see fit, but we must also accept full responsibility for the consequences.
The cyclical nature of economic health has less to do with a particular form of human economy and more to do with how self regulating complex systems behave.

Most open system that tend towards homeostasis will exhibit boom-bust feedback loops (ecosystems, metabolism, gene expression, antibiotic resistance, human economies, etc.).

I'm not sure it's either possible or desirable to fight that at a fundamental level, although I do think politically it's a very good reason to provide a strong financial safety net.

I'm not sure what you mean by capitalism, but human economies are fundamentally self regulating homeostatic systems. You can engineer around that to make them more human friendly, or just, or dampen the swings, but you can't fight their fundamental nature.
EU committee will vote on an apocalyptically stupid, copyright proposal
Check out SMP, scalp micro-pigmentation, which is essentially thousands of tiny tattoo dots.

I'm SO HAPPY I got an SMP earlier this year. The tattoo dots match the appearance of a recently shaved/buzzed head and make it appear as if you have a full head of 5 o'clock shadow.
> Who says they cant help customers at all?

Nobody. You're mischaracterizing my point of view.

As others have pointed out, I'm not expecting that minimum wage Home Depot employees have in-depth knowledge; rather, I'd expect them to have enough knowledge of their own inventory to be able to point my in the right direction for specific(and often common) products in their massive store. Sure, I could always just go to a certain department, and I usually do, but there are often products that are on a shelf in a different department than one might think.

Yes, I have the expectation that the employees reduce the friction in customers spending money. At Home Depot, this rarely happens in my experience. Yet Orchard Supply Hardware, ACE, and even Lowes are a very different story.

By the way, I'm not blaming the employees. I'm blaming the company.
Hotels suck for families is what the comment is trying to say I think.

With young kids, you often what your own cooking/food preparation facilities. Sleep arrangements are often easier in a house too.

Ironically, it seems like hotels with food preparation areas are more common in Japan (weekly mansion/business type hotels).
Machine Learning using a Neural Network written in C#
The supreme court has ruled that Corporations are people. So why wouldn't it extend to corporations?
15 cent an item surcharge for every minute you wait in line at the grocery store.

Or, go to the gourmet market down the street that's not as busy -- it's more expensive, but lines are shorter.

Bus crash? 10k added to emergency room bills that day.

Would it be better to force every emergency room visit to cost $40 regardless of whether it's an emergency? Then the guy that's in the bus crash has to wait hours behind every stubbed toe to get service. ER visits are expensive which naturally reduces demand.

crank those restaurant prices through the roof for dinner.

Isn't that what "lunch specials" are? Take a look at the prices between the lunch menu and dinner menu at any restaurant. If eating at a restaurant was the only way you could get food, wouldn't you rather pay 5X the price to get a meal now versus waiting hours for a table?
That's only if there's fixed demand. The population is growing, each home needs new supply that wasn't necessarily there before.

The big thing is time-shifting the generated energy; in the spring there's already curtailment of utility-scale installs of solar.

With appropriate time-of-use rates on new installs, keeping older sites grandfathered in, combined with dramatically falling costs of home storage, the market will solve this nicely.
It’s quite an old trick in the book for any administration, whichever color it has, to try to push the can down the road until it gets re-elected. After that, it’s buyer beware.

Something to consider is that in times like these money are flowing in the wrong direction, instead of going from developed countries (US, EU, JP) to developing countries with better return rates (Emerging markets) it is the other way around, going into developed countries estates, bonds and stocks even with low returns which look already overvalued. That would normally read that there is way more liquidity than actual growth and the valuations are not accurate.
I wonder if this app has a drawer.

swipes to the right

> Message archived.

No wtf.

undo

Guess it doesn't.
I think voice is greatly underrated but that it will be the next generations (our kids) will use them without feeling weirded out.

When I look how my kids interact with Google home it's becomes fairly obvious to me that to them this is completely natural. Google Home is almost like a pet to them not just a tool.

We are finally at a stage where voice recognition starts to become powerful enough to understand nuances now the next question is what to connect them to. One thing that I really like is that it allow us to retrieve information without having to look at a screen. It feels like having a 5th person at the table.

At First Principle, we built a little a voice app that allows you to ask Google Analytics or Salesforce for data (and potentially whatever you want to connect with) for meetings so we can ask instead of having to look up. It becomes a natural part of the conversation and everyone have access to the data.

That's where I think it will first make an impact. In meetings with relevant data.
Heh, this reminds me of a trick I was working on right about the ruby 1.8->1.9 transition: import the tree of .rb files (including gems) into a sqlite database, mess with the `require` mechanism to read from it instead of the actual filesystem, and make a static build of ruby with sqlite itself, the ruby code database packaged as a .text area, and any binary extensions all linked up into a single file. Ta-da, single file static ruby apps and trivial deployments: a truly useful thing back when Capistrano was the latest and greatest.

Unfortunately, 1.9 changed the ruby build system enough that I couldn't quite get it working, and I've not got round to looking at it since.
The U.S Just Beat China to develop the world's fastest supercomputer
Chatbots were always a technology looking for a problem to solve and lets face it those of us reading HN knows exactly how that always turns out. There will be lots of chat bots in our future and already are but there is nothing "big" about it.
Ask HN: What is the least ethical thing you’ve done for your startup?
The recent thread on Home Depot’s deceptive empty boxes (and the many comments about reddit and other startups that “faked it till they made it”) led me to wonder what folks have done to get their startups off the ground.

Feel free also to share something unethical that you considered doing but decided not to.
User-Defined Operators Including Name Binding for New Language Constructs (2017)
Why Male Dolphin Buddies 'Hold Hands'
I agree, but the problem is that if the MBP can't be considered 'reliable', then none of that really matters.

I've been a happy Mac user for years now, and historically, on the very rare occasion that I had a problem, it was either fixed near immediately, or solved to 'better-than-satisfaction' levels by the geniuses at the store.

My first Touchbar-equipped MBP has been the most problematic computer I've ever owned. The keyboard, despite that I love the short throw and initial feel of it, just stops working sometimes, or sticks, or becomes weirdly responsive. Five times in six months, I've had an update fail to load, with the system complaining that the OS couldn't be detected. Easy to solve for techies, nearly impossible for the average user. Having to carry three dongles is just an inconvenience, but it's very much inconvenient. The touchbar? I don't even want to get into it. The physical power button has failed -- the whole thing is flaky as hell, and I'm forced to choose between a touchbar system that works when it wants, or a tactile ESC key that is a full 1Ghz slower and arbitrarily feature restricted. So on and so forth.

Beyond that, for each of my many complaints, Genius bar appointments are being scheduled weeks out, and have been providing fixes that recur as quickly as the same day I receive the unit back.

They have problems. And while you're right that the next-best product is still way below the quality of even the worst MBP, that hasn't stopped me daydreaming of throwing this thing out the window and replacing it with a Thinkpad. As it stands, I've retired my old Mac Pro and replaced it with Ubuntu 18 on a desktop. With a standard PC and mouse, the UI polish is still very noticeable, but the usability quirks aren't as apparent as trying to run Ubuntu on Mac hardware.
Not true in Canada, AirBnB breaks municipal and in some cases provincial laws for short term rentals. Thousands of houses are in no rent zones and AirBnB knows damn well. The tactic to combat these rentals is to use provincial & city inspectors who levy huge taxes and prohibit short-term rentals with the landlords, but they are very understaffed and generally ineffective.

AirbNB is getting away with very grey legal area here, they should he held legally accountable for facilitating illegal rentals. Right now my tax dollars are paying for the government to enforce what AirBnB sells without impunity.

On a personal note I'm thinking of pursuing this legally with AirBnB and/or my city, my street has 4 illegal AirBnB rentals on it and my city can't see to enforce their own laws. There's enough interest in my region to easily get about 30 people on board, and that's just one semi small town.

And we don't blame the users of AirBnB, they dont know the local laws, we blame the landlords and ultimately the platform.

I know in west coast tourism destinations you will practically get beat up if your renting out to airBnB illegally since it has such a negative effect on local housing prices.
I don't agree the keyboard is the only issue. But it is the one thing that, if they fixed it, could sway me to buy one. And I know many others feel similarly
I dont think that is true. Most men look okay bald - better than the alternative in any case.
> I'm not sure I accept the metaphor - visibility is not participation. Too-large meetings are useless because they have too many participants, and everything falls to bike-shedding.

I was about to reply with exactly this point. Transparency does not entail everyone gets their say, merely that the factors and interests considered in a decision are ultimately disclosed with no secrecy. Then perhaps there can be a public commentary period before proceeding so there is some participation, but participation at every step isn't necessary for engendering trust via transparency.

This obviously gets trickier on national security matters, but the judiciary is supposed to judge what is and isn't too sensitive here. Secret court proceedings are skirting dangerously close to crossing that line though.
> Asynchronous communication over synchronous communication.

I think it is a mistake to try to bundle "remote" work with "asynchronous" work.

These are orthogonal things.
Spelling's one of the least problems with writing.

Structure, meaning, flow, logic, and engaging the reader the most difficult.

Logic and rhetoric over grammar.
Quebec's suicide prevention strategy combined evidence-based practices, and managed to halve the suicide rate from 1999 to 2010, and it's been declining ~2% every year since 2010. Everything they do should be studied by anybody interested in this topic since it works. Things like restricting guns or drugs just means they will leap off a bridge or other method, it doesn't address the root causes which Quebec managed to do.
Snapchat Expanding Bitmoji 'Friendmojis' to Apple's Messages App for First Time
Atlassian's is great
He's probably alluding to the fact that these apps are installed by default (which needn't be the case because MAS).
Have you looked at SMP? It looks really good on darker skin tones, and black guys can pull off a fairly straight/young hairline with it.
"AirBnB is already very strict with landlords: it needs to start being a lot stricter with its users too." It's not as strict with landlords as it should be.
And while it is strict with users it actually favors landlords and by a landslide. Have you ever rented long term with AirBnB? Hosts can literally cancel the reservation for any reason( Airbnb says they punish for doing so but rarely if ever because the Host can provide any reason) If you happen to be in a city that doesn't have as many Airbnbs and you get a really good deal, you're screwed if the host decides to cancel.
Costs for Airbnb's have also gone up significantly that it's often not even worth it to rent one if you happen to be less than a group of 4 people.
You can probably extend that to 90% of what everyone in the world verbalises or writes, we aren't robots, even when being objective we are driven by feelings. It doesn't mean everything is "tainted", just that everything we say and do is entwined with our thread of history, that's a more interesting reality than one where everything is clinical entirely distinct and independent - such a reality would be so inert life probably isn't even possible... what are we talking about?
Very interesting. I've read your article and saw you're relying on DNS pinning, a concept that I didn't know about.
What happens if the first GET request from a browser resolves to an IP that happens to be down? Will it retry the other A record's IP?
Small correction, Messages on MacOS can send and receive SMS [edit: you need iPhone for this, and based on OP's heavy use of Google I assume they're using Android so this wouldn't be an option]. But in general I agree and also don't use most of the "out of the box" MacOS apps. I'm currently on a Macbook Air that's almost seven years old and honestly all I want is the exact same thing with a high res display.
Why? I'm near them...
Martin Thompson on Aeron, Binary vs. Text for Message Encoding, and Raft
What It's Like to Be a Legally Blind Illustrator and Graphic Designer
I was going to buy my first macbook pro but the keyboard is holding me back. the other "premium" laptops are overpriced for what they offer.
No - they're not 'removing' windows, they're building the fuselage without them which eliminates the need for a lot of extra structural reinforcement. This is not just the weight of the windows we're talking about.
What public data you access is in itself private data. Even if you don't care about your personal privacy, I think we should all care about the chilling effects of people not being afforded privacy to look at public information.

That people can browse Wikipedia, and their ISP / government is prevented from knowing whether the article being read is about knitting or a political issue is a good thing.
Have you considered not using a tragedy as your little political soapbox?
Inspired by this thread, I just posted Ask HN: What’s the least ethical thing you’ve done for your startup?

Look forward to hearing people’s experiences.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17266970
During the second half of the Clinton Admin, there was an extreme stock market bubble, which began to crash at the end of his second term.

Bush inherited a guaranteed recession, and then 9/11 occurred on top of that context.

Which then led the Fed to make stupid mistakes on interest rates, which helped spur immense asset inflation in the real estate sector, which then collapsed, which led to the great recession, which got Obama elected with a Dem super majority to go with it, which delivered the ACA.

Then the Fed lowered interest rates to basically zero, or below zero when QE is considered, for the better part of a decade to combat the great recession, which spurred / enabled extreme corporate debt binging, extreme government debt binging, and re-inflated both the stock market and real estate asset bubbles. The debasement of the dollar due to the Fed's abusive interest rate policies during the ~2001-2004 period also dramatically spiked both healthcare costs and college costs, while eroding US purchasing power and the US standard of living (represented by the simultaneous global skyrocketing of GDP in all other nations, as well as being represented in the epic commodity bubble (commodities are mostly priced in dollars)).

Now we're waiting for the fallout from another round of idiotic Fed policies.

All in the name of initially trying to avoid or skate around a rather mild recession in the GW Bush first term - because no politician can tolerate a recession these days - the assholes at the Fed delivered more than a decade of immense suffering with more to come.
People also do OK in movie theaters, etc.
Because the police can generally only do something at a threshold that is significantly more disruptive than your typical rowdy and obnoxious neighbor.
Whats the current betting odds For/Against Trump winning in 2020?
Interesting. As a counterpoint, if I look at the toolkit I'm using right now on my MacBook, it's:

Chrome

Firefox

Hipchat

Vim

Git

So, not one single-platform tool in the bunch. I'd even go so far to say that, aside from my terminal emulator and app install tool, I don't use any single-platform tools in my day to day job.

> Why should I be ok with apps that undermine that by taking the lowest common denominator approach to porting?

Because they're, in many cases, as good if not better than the native-only alternatives?
every 2-3 years a certain buzzword gets hot among silicon valley circles to be on its way to become the next big thing. usually after it mostly dies down in less than a year another buzzword will be propelled to the top. thats how silicon valley works, thats how they keep investor money flowing into the industry.
That is way too oversimplified case of type inference. A huge lot of languages don't have this:

let x = (f ? makeDerived1() : makeDerived2()); // no error, x is inferred to be Base

let x = 1;
x *= 2;
x = sin(x) / x; // no error, x is inferred to be Float

The problem is not just that extra computation is needed, it's language design. For example, you probably do not expect a dictionary of Floats and a zero to be a dictionary of Any, but how are you going to implement that in the compiler?