skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way things currently are, I agree. But I think it's a bit restrictive to limit yourself to that, when you are projecting decades into the future anyway.
His employment is suspended with pay, stipulating signing an employee agreement?

OK so you're suspended, and we will pay you only if you sign this agreement that any ethical company would have had you sign at the start of employment.

This sort of duress after the fact is unethical and possibly illegal. And the demand for control of a personal GPG key predating employment is eyebrow raising and properly should invite ridicule.
No there's not, because one lifeform's existed can effect others. Additionally when debating if life should come to be, the lifeform in question can't have an opinion until after the fact.
Well, yes, it would require significantly increasing tax revenue to pay for it.
I think the last TV people are the ones who claim, "Cable is my only option for internet, and the way it is bundled, I might as well get cable TV too."
Is safe storage of the radioactive waste from nuclear plants a solved problem?

Even if the current fears about nuclear are overblown (and I'm not convinced that they are) what do you do about waste that remains dangerous for many human lifetimes?
Awesome!

It comes back to the mind. Our minds live in the past or future. It can't survive in the present.

Life is perfect as it is. The moment unfolding in front of you is moments that had happened in the past all the way back to 13.8 billion years ago. How can it not be perfect?

The work put in front of you is given to you by the Universe itself if you think about it. As long as you serve the best you can at that moment, then you're doing great!

It reminds of me The Four Agreement. The last agreement is "do the best you can". Your best changes moment to moment. As long as you put your energy out there and do you best, everything will be perfect as it is.
I am wondering, why wouldn’t this logic apply to outsourcing, too?
> I have no evidence to back this up, but I'm guessing...

I don't understand. You have admittedly have zero evidence that paying less for a LASIK procedure results in more complications, yet you seem to have a very strong opinion about it. What does the cost of the procedure or advertising techniques of the practitioner have to do with the quality of outcome? If you get a great deal on a new car, do you think that car is going to break down more often than one that cost the sticker price?
How did you get your company to agree to this? I feel like most companies would immediately shut this down since you're storing company secrets on a non-approved computer.
Do the same. Android tab + BT keyboard + SSH. I've coded in coffee shops, airport terminals, you name it.
Ask HN: What are the books that changed your life?
I am interested in knowing what book(s) has changed your life and how?
Nuclear power can't compete at these prices, even with the new advanced plants.

One day hopefully we'll get fusion, but until then nuclear is dead.
>> If we could replace every mining job with robots we'd remove a lot of human abuse in many parts of the world.

Reducing the value of human labor never goes well. As people become less valuable they become easier to abuse. There will always be a dirtier and more dangerous job to be done.
That usually works, but Jeff Bezos owns his company. The wealth he’s acquired is his.
I wouldn't really say the HGP taught us a lot about protein evolution. The original few genomes were snapshots of indivduals or amalgams. We do know a bit more about evolution from sequencing many more people (post-HGP), but it hasn't really been super-productive compared to previous work (note, my postdoc work was on protein functional evolution) from before the HGP.

For example, Carl Woese, using only 16s RNA from a wide range of species and mostly hand-computed similarity clustering, managed to find a previously unrecognized kingdom. I don't think we've really had any truly revolutionary discoveries like that from HGP and post-HGP sequencing that focuses on humans.
I think it is this one: http://www.flashstarts.com/
Looks like it is near Tower City
I guess 'liberal' is the wrong word. I mean the popular media and popular discourse in general.

One thing has to be admitted, the environmentalist campaign nuclear energy must have been one of the most successful ever.

The amount of Anti-Scientific nonsense that is populated and believed by large part of the population is even worse then climate change or anti-GMO. However Greenpeace and other organisation that spread these Anti-Scientific organisations never get called out on their Anti-Nuclear propaganda because to few people care.

Essentially a whole branch of technology has eliminated by these narrow minded propaganda campaigns.

Other technologies could have thrived even with this opposition but nuclear is to political and the regulation to restrictive. Its so sad given the mountain of different technologies we are missing out on.
Until the latency spikes, heh.
We don't actually rely on jobs, we just force one another to work to satisfy our principles of fairness. In theory we could agree on a different notion of fairness that doesn't require everybody to work, we just choose not to.
Yeah, I did the same and I rarely have soda anymore. But you don't have to give up carbonation altogether if you don't want to.
There are several nice fancy style strip mall type places near me. All of them reportedly have sky high rents and several are largely empty and have been for years and all cycle through stores at a surprising rate. They keep up the malls just fine as if they're occupied, but they're mostly empty.

It seems like such a waste to not have something operating in there.
Lithium is harvested from evaporation pools, not mined. If you're referring to cobalt content, there are several researchers working to remove the need for that element from the production process.
I do a form of this is a "monthly reflection". Daily made me feel "beholden" to it, whereas once a month feels like something to look forward to.

I share it with close friends as a way to connect. Feel free to email me and I can send a sample, but I'm not gonna directly link on the internet as it defeats the purpose :)
They are fully recyclable and aren't dangerous to do so.
There's a huge problem in the US with what we describe as healthy. Cereal is a huge culprit. All cereals say they're "a healthy part of a balanced breakfast". But almost all of them contain an absolutely ridiculous amount of sugar. Cookie-crisps, golden grams and cinnamon toast crunch are absolutely not a healthy meal. It's disgusting that it can be called such.

I hope cereal sounds as blasphemous in the future as the old 50's soda commercials do now. "It's never too early to start your child on a soda regimen. Soda is proven to help your teen fit in". [ EDIT: Apparently this soda commercial was fake ]
I made the decision to be positive and happy. Previously I let my mood/happiness levels be dictated by external factors. I realized that it was my decision so I started to make it a habit to be more positive.

I have a list of values/sayings which I review every week and I set a reminder on my phone. It keeps me focused on the most important things in life like my health and relationships with friends and family. I also believe in abundance mentality.
If you're ok with lower resolution then you can lower it, if the service allows it.
Obviously remove anything that might use network.
The single hard problem in pharma is predicting which drugs will get through to full approval, and how much it will cost from initial results.

If you could do that reliably, it would completely transform pharma.
Human behavior maybe? I know it's almost no effort to install a new app, but Ofo and Lime were the first rideshare bikes in my town and since there are plenty of their bikes around I haven't bothered to install any of their newer competitors' apps.
Use a VPN from a location where you know the service has enough bandwidth.
Solution: the government should hire everybody. They've already got a good start with about 2% of all workers directly employed and another 2% working for contractors. Add state and local government with another 8% of the working population and we're well on our way to full employment. I'm kind of joking but it's interesting to think of job creation projects like WPA taken to a further extreme.
Do you have a citation for the nightly news aspirations? Whenever I read about Netflix not wanting to purchase the rights to soccer, it's nearly always with the reason being that Netflix has little to no interest in live streaming:

https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/07/netflix-ceo-reed-hasting...

_"We have so much we want to do in our area, so we're not trying to copy others, whether that's linear cable, there's lots of things we don't do. We don't do [live] news, we don't do [live] sports. But what we do do, we try to do really well."_ - Reed Hastings.
Right, but the country these companies operate in, the infrastructure they rely on, the laws that allow capitalism to succeed, and the battalions needed to protect it does belong to the citizens, so ignore the citizenry at your peril.
You can make assumptions like that if the consequences are not serious. In this case boot fails next time if your assumption is wrong.
Pretty neat any real world applications? I would suspect cryogenics might be a pretty good contender considering that the control of ice-crystal formation is pretty important for preserving tissue.
The recrystallisation inhibitor properties of what ever proteins are involved in this seems to be just what is needed as they prevent small ice-crystals from forming larger ones and the large crystals are the problem as they burst tissue.
My night vision has been completely fine since the surgery, with no major haloing or aberrations. I do not know whether this is a function of PRK vs LASIK, a good doctor/procedure, or luck. (Maybe a bit of all 3?)
Every Kid's Second School
On a related note, I saw this piece of code in a vendor's install script. Not a Debian package, but an executable install script. One of the environment variables has been censored to anonymize the vendor, but everything else is verbatim.

# Delete & recreate directory <BLAH>/Patches/<patchLevel>/
# This will confirm write access to BLAH_HOME
rm -rf $BLAH_HOME/Patches/${PATCH_VERSION}_${PATCH_LEVEL}
mkdir -p $BLAH_HOME/Patches/${PATCH_VERSION}_${PATCH_LEVEL}

This is horryfing. No checking the contents of the environment variables. No checking the return codes. WTF.

(and IIRC if you google the snippet, you can find where a coworker of mine posted it to Reddit to lampoon it)
The name literally comes from the Irish work for "to play" (súgradh)
> The importance of noting that solar is the biggest source of new power is that is signifies the economics of power generation have changed

Not necessarily. Solar becoming the biggest source of new power doesn't mean that there aren't any new projects for gas plants etc., and if people are still building new non-solar plants then solar's economics aren't always better than non-solar sources, particularly since the economics of power generation are very much geographically dependent.

Solar becoming the biggest source of new power is an important milestone, but it's also a relatively meaningless statistic. More important would be measuring the rate of change of solar adoption in new power generation projects, if it's positive then either new solar projects are bigger than previous solar projects (for a constant rate of new projects year over year, meaning that solar is scaling well), or the number of solar projects is increasing (meaning that solar has become relevant in more and more areas), or both. Either way, if you're concerned about solar adoption, that's the real statistic to track.
What environment/language do you primarily code in?
I agree with that.

But that's the original point why I wrote my main comment in this thread. The solution is there but the media and the liberal elites rather spend their time promoting solar and batteries.
Wegman's are further south as well. There are multiple in Virginia (NoVa, Richmond, Charlottesville).
There are a lot of people at MS.
Well, it is true that he gave himself that title.
I agree entirely. It's the achilles heel of an otherwise brilliant product. Sugru is something I would occasionally need and benefit from, however keeping some on hand is not possible.
Going to libraries. In 35 years I don’t even think I stepped inside one. One day two years ago I read that a nearby library (Sunnyvale, CA) had audiobooks and I decided to check it out, because I wanted something to listen on my commute.

Mind. Blown.

Books, movies, comics, computers, printers, ebooks, audiobooks, board games, chidren’s area, and lots more. All for free.

The way my audiobook library app works (Overdrive) is that you can add different library cards from different library “networks”. So Sunnyvale and a bunch of Mountain View and Cupertino libraries are part of one network, while San Francisco libraries are from another network, and so are San Mateo, or San Jose, or Monterey.

So I’ve been collecting library cards. 15 so far. Even went to Sacramento to get a card. On my way back I stopped at Contra Costa county, Berkeley and the Oakland.

Where I saw video game titles. Mind. Blown. Again. I found other libraries close to home with video games, and now I regularly check out children games for my son.

Almost every weekend I go the library, to get videogames, blu-rays and dvds. And I can actually put a hold on the titles online.

Libraries are just amazing.
Raise everyone up a level to make sure they can perform jobs that robots can't do, like get an advanced degree or incorporate a business. Make it a requirement for citizenship.
Lithium polymer batteries are highly recyclable, they primarily just have to be unwound, possibly reformed if something structurally changes in the cathode/anode, and the trace elements need to be washed off and processed.
I would agree with you and I actually looked up some numbers. 56k was an average for an experienced plumber on his own. Not to mention they have to invest in tools.
Let's not forget about him lying about the "DDoS"[1] that happened during the comment period for Net Neutrality as well.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/ajit-pais-fcc-li...
Life pro tip: Just use an ace stream and have zero connectivity issues.

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccerstreams/comments/82ac7j/acest...

My brother bought the MMA ticket to watch mcgregor vs mayweather and it was a horrible experience.

I booted up my laptop and ran an acestream, boom crystal clear high definition image with zero network issues.
NA cities have never built high quality separated bike lane infrastructure to make it all that safe to ride a bike or scooter on the road.

What happens when someone riding one of these gets killed by a driver?
Isn't it the opposite, more like 100% everywhere you don't look, and nowhere you do? I think the really real numbers are the countable subset of them which are in some way expressible, and the uncountable subset which are in no way expressible except in vague generalities like "they're not shaved by the barber" are in a sense less real.
I do a weekly gratitude journal. There is research backing its impact to happiness and I can confirm.
What are some potential alternatives?
> All cereals say they're "a healthy part of a balanced breakfast".

And are then shown displayed on a table adjacent to that healthy balanced breakfast.
This is something I've been trying to do for years. Glad to hear its working well for you!
In my particular case, I work at the same place as my wife.
> "It's never too early to start your child on a soda regimen. Soda is proven to help your teen fit in"."

FYI, that ad was fake: http://rjwhite.tumblr.com/post/472668874/fact-checking
So your example is one Janitor out of how many in SF?
At a FAANG company my total (equity + base) comp is in the 300-400k range but the best offers I get at startups is ~140-160k w/ 0.0010-0.0040 equity.

Telling me that 0.001-0.004 of current equity pool (maybe-worth-something) > 150k cash now isn't usually convincing, especially if you have a lot of college debt and no safety net out of college.

This is just equity+base comp. I don't know how to price / factor in food, caltrain pass, healthcare, 401k matching, life insurance, discounts, performance bonuses, refreshers, and the fact that my job provides growth / would give me level match if I switched to a similar company (for example L5 SWE @ Google -> L5 SWE @ Facebook, vs VP of Eng at some startup -> L3 at Facebook...).

If you're good enough to get into Google/Facebook on a good team, it's scarcely worth it to join a startup as an early employee if you optimize at all for expected value.

That said plenty of FAANG employees feel limited career growth in the roles/teams they end up on, which is the main case a startup would look appealing. But also internal team transfers aren't that hard and you get to keep your nice comp.

One more datapoint: I have a friend who would totally work in startups despite high comp at a great company -- his blocker is US citizenship / worries for his family if the company goes under.
It still amazes me that so many people don't get this.
Hey, I work at Peer5 (another Peer5 employee wrote this article). We typically measure video user experience in several ways:

- The amount of rebuffering the user is getting (basically, the less the user sees the loading wheel the better).
- The bitrate the user has (are the users seeing the video in the highest possible quality?)
- Whether or not there are any media errors.
- The amount of time the video takes to load after a seek.

From the user experience - you don't really have control over these things - it's up for the broadcaster to set up a good service.

We've found (unsurprisingly) that services that are either paid or are national broadcasters offer better user experience than ones that are free and easily found online so my recommendation would be to spend a few dollars and get a solid provider.

(Also, the bandwidth you get now doesn't mean too much when the network is very congested - so it's worth checking how fast your network is during big peaks and considering a different ISP or a streaming provider that utilizes P2P)
Another solution is to claw back mineral rights by taxing raw materials. You burn the sky, take the water, dig in the ground, that is something the citizens don’t get to use. You owe them.

The thing I like about this (its not my model but it’s my favorite) is that it happens at the input side so it codifies the idea of Reduce Reuse Recycle by setting a base cost where it’s cheaper to recycle and purify than it is to use virgin materials.
Yes, over twice as cheap. According to NREL, residential is $2.80/watt vs $1.03/watt for utility scale.

https://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2017/nrel-report-utility-sca...
Show HN: A simple app to recommend products based on price, reviews, etc.
Training Your Product Intuition
I was excited to see your trick, but it didn't work for me.
What if you deleted all your emails during vacation and never looked back?
I don't think either are disingenuous. It's more so short-term vs long-term thinking. The influx of low-skilled immigrant labor is a "right now" issue whereas The level of automation needed to make them obsolete is optimistically 10-15 years away.
I didn't say that building better models didn't have a payoff. I'm saying this particular approach shows little to no evidence that it's truly revolutionary or even a marginal/incremental improvement over random guesses.
Show HN: Fo: An experimental language which adds generics on top of Go
I remember traveling to work to the valley for the first time and driving by Apple HQ just to see it and then, going to the steakhouse near that mall (OMG was it good). I went by that mall and was thinking

"WTF is this doing here with all this insanely expensive land and such!?!?!"

I would half expect the bulldozers to show up with 10 minutes notice or something. I was driving around all amazed by "OMG I know all these cool companies!" .... "What the hell...."
I've always had enough interest in technology to be willing to yank out parts of a system which I did not understand - to see what breaks, and through that, gain understanding.

That said, I'm pretty sure the original author knew and understood exactly what they were doing - writing a dirty hack.
All measurements have limited precision (number of significant decimal digits gained), so the amount of data that can be gained indeed is limited. But there is no general law preventing increasing the precision with better instruments and better methods, so as measurement gets more advanced, more data (such as more decimal digits) can be obtained. The uncertainty principle postulates that uncertainties of coordinate and its conjugated momentum cannot be simultaneously arbitrarily low. It is not clear to me how that postulate would prevent arbitrary increase in precision of position measurements. In theory one could have uncertainty 10E-100m in position of an electron, if uncertainty in its momentum is of the order 10E66 or higher.
I think countries around the world are starting to realize that globalization while having lifted millions out of uttter poverty has now also turned its power to extract wealth toward those to whom it promised to bring greater opportunity which never came (I’m looking at you, Michael Moore’s castaway workers the industrialized world over; people who can no longer raise a family on a blue collar job because they were shipped over seas).
The job of the state, ultimately, is to preserve itself. In practice, that means upholding a social contract in order to maintain order. If we see a widespread outbreak of technological unemployment then more effort on the part of government is necessary lest public order breaks down.

It's that simple. No moral arguments are necessary.
Pretty sure that was the point he was proving. You can eat only unhealthy foods and lose weight.
Ever tried aeropress? Portable manual gadget, great coffee, approx 15 cents/cup
Yes, before industrialization, the US was filled with entrepreneurs in the form of farmers and ranchers. Here's some land, go live. Families would grow what they needed to survive, then sell the rest for money to buy stuff they couldn't make themselves. It was fairly self sustaining, but vulnerable to drought, etc.

I think one of the problems today is there really isn't a way to self sustain anymore with just land and some hard work, so we need jobs to survive.
Do you think it's possible that the NYT has authors with different perspectives and that every article written may not come from a consistent viewpoint?