skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a cultural thing in the Black community, it’s looked at as less attractive to be balding than to be bald. I started having a receding hairline at around 30 and have been shaving my head every since - for the last 15 years.

I chose to keep a bald head at times even in college.

Being clean shaven also helps with ageism as a 40+ year old developer. With no gray hair showing, people assume I’m at most in my early 30s.
That's exactly the problem. Somewhere a programmer working on a compiler is coding an optimization that make a program run faster, but gives a different result from what the writer of the program intended.

That's only useful if you only care about the total run time of the program and not about what it is trying to achieve.
Could you elaborate on the "gross things"? I read Disrupted and thought it was pretty funny/interesting and I've watched a few of Dan's talks and enjoyed them. A quick Google search didn't turn up anything about him recently though.

I did sort of wonder how accurate some of this stories were about HubSpot, since you're only hearing his side of the story and the more sensational the stories the better the book...
The Fed (it's short for Federal Reserve, not some acronym) was created well after business cycles first appeared.

The business cycle of boom and bust is characteristic of capitalism as a system, and if anything, the elastic monetary policy that the Federal Reserve allows has softened the blows.
Worth noting that this article does explicitly denounce the existence of a causal link being supported by science.
Real estate market too.

(What is hard to know is how much laundered money props up real estate in London, NYC, Miami, etc., and if we crack down on laundering, whether it will pop the bubble. Adam Davidson and Seth Hettena have written well on how we got here and why it will be difficult to unroll.)
From: http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=34830

"[..] the central bank (that is, the government) can always set bond yields at whatever level it chooses including zero."

A different question is if institutional arrangements will allow it. But even when they not, if the crisis is big enough they will. See the example of the debt crisis in the Eurozone. It finished the day that governor of the European Central Bank decided to do "whatever it takes" (1), even if the operations that they are doing are technically illegal in the framework of the Eurozone.

(1). https://qz.com/1038954/whatever-it-takes-five-years-ago-toda...
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I don't have a problem with this. The one guy that opens their window on an "overnight" flight that is actually during the day kind of messes up everything.

I have certainly been on some nifty flights where you could watch thunderstorms out the window the entire time (I made a neat timelapse)... but in the end, I guess it doesn't matter.
Disingenious. A better way to say is that their particular socket implementation was inferior to their new proprietary API. There is nothing with socket paradigm as such that gives it inherent performance disadvantage.
The fed rate commonly publicized isn't a bond rate. It's like the rate on a personal checking account. It can vary at the fed's desire. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_funds_rate.

Changing that rate does cause impacts on the rest of interest rates (e.g. bonds), though.
Denver+Boulder+Colorado Springs area is growing by quite a bit, however.

Since 2010 (to 2017) Colorado's population increased by more than 500K people.

And, since they all come from "somewhere else" that means that likelihood of them needing flights is possibly higher also.
I just yell “aaaaaaa” and usually after three attempts it gives up and sends me to the human.
There are a lot of smart and motivated people putting effort into voice interfaces. It's the past (we've been speaking for over a hundred thousand years) and it is the future. It will take some time, but I'm pretty confident that computers interacting with our auditory cortex will replace small slabs of glass that we look at and touch for many tasks.
I would like to amend my above comment: the 2 youtube videos are HORRIBLE examples to be learning english from.
Eh, if you don't want backlash, maybe you shouldn't throw out things like this: "your sixteen year old self to write shitty JS code"

You're just bound and determined to take offense, eh? Let me rephrase: "no need to make it personally about you, Clubber".

If you're going to be pedantic, at least read what I wrote.

I read just fine: "When people like us started doing it, there was zero economic incentive..."
No, our building isn't that great, it's pretty old and rickety. But most AirBNB reservations are just for a few days, so during the high season we might have to come in 4-5 times a month to do all that crap I mentioned before.
It’s heavy handed and a hassle. And I shouldn’t have to deal with it. Simple as that. I’m also in the privileged position that I could, but for other people calling the police bears a significant risk of ending up on the receiving end of the police interaction.

So, the onus of proactively dealing with this is on the person renting the flat to guests. And AirBnB fails miserably at that.
> Suicide is a growing problem in the United States. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a survey Thursday showing suicide rates increased by 25% across the United States over nearly two decades ending in 2016.

> I remember a while back that the general public's tone on suicide was a lot less sober. More of a "man up" sort of attitude.

Not trolling: wouldn't this provide (weak, but nevertheless some) evidence that a "man up" sort of attitude was more effective at combating suicide than our attitude towards it now?
I did use as many words as I wanted.

You can take as many steps as you want to get to the mailbox too. And you'll be taking more steps if you detour to go sniff dog shit. Going in a straight line solves two problems - it's faster and it smells better.
From previous reading of Linus rants, it sounds like they're pretty particular about keeping source code and git history clean. Why didn't they go back and reverse the new root created by the README.md repo?
Creating an Apple Music API Token for Use with New MusicKit JS
So their fastest growing demographic then!
6 months expenses in a “high yield” savings account.

Maximal 401k contribution in a Vanguard Target Date fund.

A slow trickle towards taxable investment in VTI while aggressively paying off my car.
I agree. I extend same to other software like databases etc. I have seen so many project over abstract and that turns out useless when migrating or supporting additional backend with same abstracted solution.
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Chatbots represent an extremely and unnecessarily pessimistic view of humanity. We are interfacing with a machine, that has a certain API. Now, we have two choices:

(1) Assume humans are too stupid to be able to adapt their communication and learn something about what that API is capable of and what commands it understands.

(2) Credit humans with the ability to do it; perhaps even evolve their communication abilities a little to go along with this brave new world populated by AIs.

No intelligent human wants to talk to an API in natural language when they have some idea of the capabilities of that API and the commands it understands.
> Ben Bernanke’s point in his recent memoir is that central banks can only do so much.

Yeah and he is totally wrong in that. His own writing before the recession argued for that to be false.

Once in power of the central bank many other people were involved and they were not willing (in the beginning to use those tools). Eventually they figured it out but by that point it was way to late.

The problem was that people were so obsessed with inflation that the central bank flat out refused to go above 2% and that would clearly have been needed from a monetary perspective.

This was a clearly a flat out instiutional failure from the Fed and Bernanke tried his best in his book to shovel that under the table.

We know this because the meeting are public, they were debating about fear of to much inflation in late 2008 when all economic indicated were pointing to a major collapse.

> At the end of the day, monetary policy is not social change, moral evolution, or political coalition building. These things happen outside the Central Banking system and are just as important for a functioning economy.

But those things did not cause the economy to collapse. The economy collapsed because of a massive demand shortfall with NGDP going almost 9% below trend.

> I know this sounds controversial, but at this point quite frankly the deficit does not matter. There is so much debt in the world, we are likely heading towards a global debt write-off.

Easy to say. But the fact is that those things almost never happen and the only cases where it did was after major wars.

> It doesn’t help that China has essentially been spewing entirely fictitious accounting numbers for the last 20 years.

Whatever they claim go to China and see the growth.
We have built a chat application with blockchain for auth that uses decentralized storage to enable WebRTC: https://www.stealthy.im.
Bank of America, GEICO, and other mainline financials have gone this route for most of their common questions (or so I've noticed - and for some reason they're all named random women's names).

It is extremely frustrating to use them because I usually only reach out when I require help with something complex, but I could see it being useful if your metrics indicate that question X is 50% of your phone time.
That's an odd statement. What is the most important hormone?
There is also very little benefit to putting pages on a CDN.

CDNs are beneficial for images and static asset files because pages often have dozens of those so the small speed up of going through a CDN is multiplied many times over.

The difference yielded by moving a single file (the primary page) to CDN is unlikely to make any measurable benefit overall unless you specifically run a site with a very geographically distributed user base.

Even for sites with a NA/European user base you can host in either US or Europe and it makes no difference. The latency is not significant compared to other performance issues.
And debt; and favors work. Seems like a very good thing in moderate amounts.
The world’s most powerful supercomputer is tailor made for the AI era
As long as Apple wants to keep macOS POSIX-compliant, the sockets remain.

[1] https://images.apple.com/media/us/osx/2012/docs/OSX_for_UNIX...
I probably will never do octopus merge in my entire career.
Your last example reminds me of buying a computer through Dell a while back. I could know exactly which model computer I wanted, but if I called them up to order it, they would insist that I first choose between “Consumer,” “Small Business,” and “Enterprise” before even allowing me to tell them what I wanted. Then if I guessed wrong, it was: “Sorry, the Small Business division doesn’t sell that model computer, that’s only for Enterprise customers!”

I don’t know if they still do this but it was ridiculous.
Yeah maybe don't start with some snake-oil anti-everything guy. Read the actual literature first and then go to those claiming to know better.
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No one believes any of the economic numbers coming out of China. There is a whole art and science in trying to find and figure out the real Chinese GDP and GDP growth numbers.
FWIW, all of the things you mentioned are probably highly determined by genetics.
You shouldn't be washing your hair daily to begin with.
There needs to be an alternate queue for people who call because the online interface failed.

"We are sorry our website didn't work, let me get you a human..."
Krugman now is a political hack but his earlier work was ok, including his early books.
no confounding variables in the last 22 years, i’m sure.
CLIs are great for executing known actions. GUIs are for discovering what you can do.
How about an EEG headset.

https://goo.gl/images/WHEVhB
I like the quirky feel of Tcl'ers wiki. It gives it an unique playful character. I would like it to stay that way.
I always look at it as decreasing a dependency on me personally. If I'm sick, the task can't be done at all, for example. So even if you spend an hour automating something that can be done manually in 10 minutes, it's a good use of time because the script doesn't get sick, doesn't go on vacation, doesn't leave for another company, etc.
Amazon Uses Bots to Close Seller Accounts Unfairly
Has anyone ever had their account on Amazon closed without any explanation, only to find that it is nearly impossible to appeal the decision despite compelling arguments? Amazon is using bots to make decisions about who may or may not sell on Amazon. Because there is no Human oversight or way for a human to override the bot's decisions, any error in Amazon's algorithm will cause you to be blocked for life. Has this happened to anyone?
It's easiest to explain in reference to plain approval voting.

In plain approval voting, you either approve of a candidate or not, and you can approve of more than one. The most approvals wins the race. In net approval voting, you vote up, down, or neutral on each candidate. The candidate with the most approvals minus specific disapprovals wins.

Net approval actually works with candidates much like discussion sites with both up and down votes for posts treat those posts. A controversial candidate may get many approvals and many disapprovals. A fairly popular candidate who's not as divisive might have some fewer approvals but far fewer disapprovals. It should feel natural for people accustomed to reddit, HN, similar sites, or call center feedback systems (where often 9 and 10 of 10 are positive scores, 6-8 are neutral, and 1-5 are actually considered negative).
Seems like he might have just broken up with his girlfriend. Maybe he did something to offend her and felt guilty about it. Guiltiness is usually more sad than anger.

Like many celebrities, he may have come to terms with the fact that fame and fortune don't make someone happy.
> global debt write-off

This would also be a global abolition of the private pension system, FYI.

People keep talking about debt write-off, but interest rates are bouncing off the lower bound. These are difficult to reconcile.
http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/little-known-sci-fi-fact-patric...

Roddenbery originally didn't like the idea of a bald captain and made Stuart audition in a wig. After the initial audition he decided that Stuart was perfect no matter how much hair he had. There are a few photos online of him in the wig and man does he look goofy.
That's only true if the debt is in a foreign currency. Not sure you can call that "sovereign debt".
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> Look at the wiki for example. It should really be an actual wiki à la Wikipedia not some sort of strange Wikipedia discussion page masquerading as documentation.

You can complain about it looking "old" if you want, but it's hardly fair to complain that it's not an "actual wiki". It follows the style of the original WikiWikiWeb which predates Wikipedia by a number of years.
You can bet on the market going down. Just go to your banker and tell him to do it. The question is just, do you believe it?
Doesn’t answer your question, but men in their twenties can be prescribed Finnasteride which can help prevent testosterone from being metabolized into DHT. It’s something they have to continually take though.
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Agreed. While they're not fully static, our websites are used in tens of thousands of schools nationwide. A CDN (no matter the provider) was getting blocked by some district somewhere for some reason or another (dedicated IP or not). This created all sorts of failover overhead for us. In the end, we bagged the CDN (for the main services, at least).
Does a set of Redux, React and some other commonly used libraries tend to degrade in performance drastically when a number of actions, amount of data going through rises significantly?
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Cloudflare offers the option to use plain HTTP to your backend. You can use TLS between Cloudflare and the origin server if you want to. I think it's a stretch to say having that option is immoral. I can understand the concern however and it would be nice if there was at least a mechanism for making users aware of this.
I understand this way of thinking. I think it is logical to die in a lot of scenarios, and that is why we don't call the right to end your life "suicide" in all cases, like when you have a terminal disease.

But consider this analogy. If "suicide" was a just a judgement, and not a temporary insanity, then people who came close to suicide wouldn't ALL glad that it did not happen.

You would have a significant portion of people who look back and say... I really wish I had taken my life back in 95', that was a really hard year. But that is so extremely rare, its easy to lump the majority of suicidal thoughts into the temporary delusions category.

In some cases people have been contemplating suicide for decades before they do it, which is a common sign of depression. But that is significantly different than wishing that they had done it in the past.
Thanks for being a light in this darkness!
This is a record-breaking leap to generic political controversy. Could you please resist the temptation?

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17266290 and marked it off-topic.
Unikernel can be interesting as a thought channel for CPU/hardware vendors to offer a meaningful alternative to public Cloud vendors, and avoid being commoditized.

Roughly, K8s and many other container solution tries to commoditize hardware. And they require an evolutionary, and modest, changes to application development lifecycle. They emphasize horizontal scaling.

Unikernel requires app developers to substantially change how their applications are written. It emphasize vertical scaling. It's imaginable that hardware vendors can build a cluster-like-machine, where lots of cpu/gpu/ram/spindle/ssd/accelerators, and offer a Unikernel scheduler; which greatly reduces the influence of the higher-level container-based solutions.

I am interested in learning how others think about this view point.
Do you think ruling over subjects is done to benefit the subjects?

Do you think 2% is a good rate for you to be losing your savings' purchasing power? How fast would you like gangrene to spread through your body?
> That's not to say the negative reaction of a small minority wouldn't be vastly increased

The main problem I see with this is that both the small minority and the large majority are locked together inside a tin can speeding through the stratosphere. I'd rather not find out how fast panic might propagate under such conditions.
I can't wrap my mind around people that think that 'too many tourists' or 'too many jobs' are a problem. Those are 'problems' that most cities in the world would kill for: if we consider them problems it's because we are not nearly creative enough to take advantage of them.

As a simple example: if we have too many tourists, give a progressive daily tax that's charged to every visitor that automatically includes museum visits/etc. Use that revenue to build more housing for local residents (and if some dipshit points out that more housing ruins a neighboorhood's character, ask yourself if Paris or suburbia has more character) or to subsidize local transport infrastructure.
any delusions I had about retiring disappeared when I spent my 20's chasing women, drugs, booze & abusing credit.
So... a PaaS?
Do you have any actual evidence that inflation is globally rising. No market the TIPS spread does not indicate what you claim.

If you are so convinced this is true you should be a rich in a couple years.
Satisfying more people’s desire for transportation is a good thing. Roads can be an inefficient way to do that, but it’s baffling how people talk about “extra” traffic like there’s no public value in enabling it.
I'll take baldness treatments seriously when it doesn't involve taking something or applying something, every month for the rest of your life.
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This sounds like those cities do not have an educated/skilled workforce.

Sure there are spots near the Roman forum you would expect to have lots of tourists(basically inside the Aurellian walls).

But outside of that its a 20+ minute drive for a tourist to popular areas. If a 50$ airbnb is beating out a $1,000/mo rent its because people cannot afford $1000 in rent.

We host an airbnb ourselves, lots of business travelers in our area.

If people are coming to visit what humans did 2000 years ago and not visiting the humans there today, I dont think the problem is Airbnb.
How often do non-autopilot cars fatally crash here? This does look like a bit of death trap to me!

A non-autopilot car crashed at this exact spot a week earlier. This crumpled a barrier that is intended to cushion cars going off the road here, and contributed to the death of the Tesla driver.

The fact that a human crashed at this exact spot confirms that it really is an unsafe death trap.
AFAIK it’s still in the cards but it’ll come after ABI stability. I have at least one project that’ll make use of this — can’t wait to drop the ObjC layer in it entirely.
My inner skeptic asks: What is Bernanke's record on predictions that he has made in the past?

He said that subprime was "contained" in 2008, IIRC.

The Mises Institute (an avowed hater of the Fed) has this, for example: https://mises.org/library/ben-bernanke-was-incredibly-uncann...
Well it's cutting by 60% the most powerful androgenic hormone in your body - of course there's going to be negative side effects. When it comes to hormones, any change has consequences. It's analogous to women's birth control.
Taxis in Japan had already solved the problems that pushed me towards Uber/Lyft in the first place. Credit card readers work properly, virtually every payment method is accepted, the drivers use GPS, availability was good (for my use case), and they are polite.

It's hard to get public support of law breaking when your solution is just incrementally better than the existing system.
First link within the text (the link to wikipedia) is broken. It has "s" where it should have "https".
You still don't understand what "input" means. Do your programs literally have all the data that they need to produce their output hard-coded into the source code? If not, they are taking input from somewhere.
Or better, read some review of the actual literature before investing in a book, to see if it's snake oil. For instance:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105752191...

From the cited text:
"The question is considered why the economics profession has failed over most of the past century to make any progress concerning knowledge of the monetary system, and why it instead moved ever further away from the truth as already recognised by the credit creation theory well over a century ago. The role of conflicts of interest and interested parties in shaping the current bank-free academic consensus is discussed."
I watch a lot, but these are consistently good:

- You Suck at Cooking. For some reason this might be my favourite channel on YouTube. It's just incredibly funny and unique.

- CGPgrey. Extremely interesting videos, even if he posts only once in a blue moon.

- Half as Interesting. Consistently interesting and entertaining short videos.

- Scishow psych. Well done videos about psychology. See also crash course psychology.

- primitive technology. Many people have mentioned this.

- Simone Giertz. "The queen of shitty robots"

- Adam Neely. Interesting and unique videos about music.
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