skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been a trope in scifi for a long time, I remember reading about automated mining systems in a scifi novel back in the 80's.

It refined pure metals and then blew gas through them (think of a Carbury's wispa), these where then dropped into the pacific and floated until a ship retrieved them.

The idea seemed neat though the line from "We are going to drop a 1000 tonnes of metal into the pacific and that of we are going to drop a 1000 tonnes of metal onto your house" seemed a thin one.

It's hard to defend from the bottom of a gravity well against someone at the top of one.
No.
Storing banking credential to 3rd party is something I never do. Biased by DEV/IT work experience.

I build habit of entering transactions manualy via mobile app - also very helpfull stay fully aware of spendings.
If that's the definition of "hacker", then I'd argue that they should be avoided. The most effective devs are the ones that are able to understand the needs of their customers, communicate, and weigh competing priorities. The technical skills are table stakes.
If we were going spend a cool billion to improve the Blue Line, I'd spend it on anything but making the airport experience better. Make the stations ADA-compliant. Use the extra space on the Congress branch for triple- or quadruple- tracking. Upgrade the power system.

But again, this is $1B not coming out of the CTA budget, it's $1B Elon Musk has burning a hole in his pocket.
Because china won't retaliate? Which won't cause us to retaliate? seeing a pattern?
Harvard: there's more diversity between the races than within them.
Who gets to define what a "hacker" is?
I've seen people pre-exit startups. Be one of the founders, take a corporate job as soon as the initial vesting is complete and the business has solid traction

You're basically gambling that the other founders won't scuttle the startup just to spite you. This way, you get to enjoy the possible lottery winnings from the startup eventually making it big, while simultaneously having the safety and comfort of a corporate job.
I think he wanted to highlight the bi-partisan support for the action.
I used to do a lot more embedded systems work. I've been 100% software lately and, looking at this list, I'm glad I started on that transition. I don't know what the exact BOM impact would have been on past projects, but it would have been rough.

I can't get over this Don Quixote-esque crusade. This just hurts American competitiveness.
For Go just use logrus https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus

It’s easy to use and full of features. There are faster packages out there but you don’t really need them unless you’re Twitter scale or something.

For log aggregation in all environments try oklog https://github.com/oklog/oklog

Much easier to run and maintain then Elastic, excellent performance and scalability. Especially good if you’re a small shop and don’t have the time or resources to complicate your infrastructure.
Venmo is discontinuing web support for payments and more
The reason so many people are complaining is that "I worked with a terrible co-worker who was incapable of understanding that working well with others is an essential part of being a great engineer" is a near-universal experience. And this article literally puts that terrible co-worker on a pedestal and says "If you have an engineer who is bad at their job, leave them alone and let them continue to be bad at their job."
> he's honest with potential partners about being in an existing open relationship then the pool of women willing to date him evaporates

I believe already having one or more lovers makes you much more attractive since the fact that those people chose you (among others) means you are probably a good choice.

Also, it helps you be outcome-independent (i.e. you don't care as much about whether a girl you are talking to wants to have sex with you, since you already have other girls for that), which is thought to be at least part of what makes males attractive.

Of course you won't be able to have fulfilling and honest relationships with people that insist on monogamy, but the opposite is true as well.
I do.

It caches locally and doesn't hit the net for most redownloads, the lockfiles are significantly more reliable, there's the ability to "force" a transitive dependency to another version, the workspaces system lets you work with monorepos with multiple packages much easier, tools like "upgrade-interactive" are built in and make upgrades much easier, and more that i'm probably missing.
I really think the high costs of making rail in the US is a logistical problem, not a technology one.
Without touching on the ethics of polyamory, "requires way more work than monogamy" is one way of being worse than monogamy.

It is my perception that a large fraction of marriages that end in divorce, do so because one or both people aren't willing to put in the work that is needed to maintain the relationship. Requiring more work... at least for the large majority of people, that's a fatal flaw.
Made in USA electronics goods are now more expensive via tariffs because the equipment and the components are now more expensive. Brilliant.
Its pretty clear that the author of the paper comes from either a non-scientific or a barely scientific background on writing style alone, but I think in broad strokes, the point absolutely stands, and its a point that keeps me up at night.
Intelligence (or 'mind') is an emergent property of cells (or maybe even of compartmentalization). While its clearly been useful to study intelligence a level above cells (networks), in biological systems, multicellularity and thus networks are emergent properties of individual cells. We currently ignore the function of individual cellular intelligence in the models we develop based on biological frameworks.
$500/year...
Also, X and Y in this case are (mostly) mutually exclusive. We just don't have a common catchall term for technical non-ICs to be able to express a positive requirement without also including non-technical managers.
Effortless React State Management
> The idea of having Boring Company pay for the construction and then reap the profits strikes me as a really great idea.

We could do what all normal business does for infrastructure. Revolutionary idea.

But it is a good idea. Often private mass transportation is illegal. This seems to be a hybrid model, I don't quite understand what this project entails in terms of obligations by both sides.

The downsides might be that they go bankrupt with a half finished tunnel and then the government has to either put in money to finish the project or start a new project.
You may need to brush up on what 'constructive feedback' means.
I don't know, I do it all the time.
The society you want to re-establish was based on women being second-class citizens and barely better than slaves.
It is the opposite of a good idea in my opinion.

The reason you don't want to do that is because the private enterprise wants to maximize its profits. There is nothing wrong with that but in order to do so they will cut corners where ever possible and do the absolute minimum for upkeep.

Yes, this happens with poorly managed and financed public projects as well but public infrastructure can and sometimes must operate at a loss.

In fact a lot of public infrastructure does not pay for itself and is subsidized by tax dollars.
>you buy into the media push that Trump is a petulant, reactive child who does not listen to advisers?

You don't have to buy anything. Just listen to the man himself and it's crystal clear.
Am I missing a bit of sarcasm in the first line, maybe?
Yes, you are right, those you list are all valid business reasons. They just don't have anything to do with the frameworks: if everyone had made the inverse move from Angular2 to AngularJS, you would have done the same for the exact same reasons. Do you agree?
Sysadmins are not hackers by this definition. They are the ones that make all the rules.
I have never been homeless, so my experience and perspective are severely limited here.

A PO box would work in a pinch, but I can see a couple of issues.

The first one is that PO boxes can be expensive and temporary homelessness is already very expensive. Realistically, to stay in a state of temporary homelessness, you need to be in a situation where you can apply for jobs, go to interviews and hop online or on the phone for quick calls. That requires things like a gym membership (for a shower), car parking/maintenance/gas, food and other basics. The example I always like to give is to ask a question. How confident would you feel going into a job interview looking like you slept in your clothes because you did?

Temporary homelessness is also very time consuming. Simply finding a place to hang out is almost a full-time job. With a PO box, you've got to keep paying the rent and find time to go to your box, pay rent, etc.

The second one is one of human contact and love. I've never been homeless but I have some good friends who have been. The lack of pride is already immense. But, apparently, it can also be incredibly lonely, particularly if you're mentally healthier than the mean. Having someone from your past who meets up with you once a week and gives you your mail is a powerful bit of human contact.
I meant, what’s the point of having them when they’ll be used for bitcoin mining?
Both descriptions are somewhat aggrandizing. The points about dress are perhaps useful, however.
is there like Sinatra equivalent for Crystal? and what is the go to ORM for Postgres in Crystal?
>People quit people, not jobs.

To be fair, I've seen organizations so dysfunctional that even good managers could not protect their people from ambient shittiness. Below certain threshold there is no salvation for organization.
The National Popular Vote bill is 64% of the way to guaranteeing the majority of Electoral College votes and the presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in the country, by changing state winner-take-all laws (not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, but later enacted by 48 states), without changing anything in the Constitution, using the built-in method that the Constitution provides for states to make changes.

It simply requires enacting states to award their electoral votes to the winner of the most national popular votes.

All voters would be valued equally in presidential elections, no matter where they live.
Candidates, as in other elections, would allocate their time, money, polling, organizing, and ad buys roughly in proportion to the population

Every vote, everywhere, for every candidate, would be politically relevant and equal in every presidential election.
No more distorting, crude, and divisive and red and blue state maps of predictable outcomes, that don’t represent any minority party voters within each state.
No more handful of 'battleground' states (where the two major political parties happen to have similar levels of support) where voters and policies are more important than those of the voters in 38+ predictable winner states that have just been 'spectators' and ignored after the conventions.
We can limit the power and influence of a few battleground states in order to better serve our nation.

The bill would take effect when enacted by states with a majority of the electoral votes—270 of 538.
All of the presidential electors from the enacting states will be supporters of the presidential candidate receiving the most popular votes among all 50 states (and DC)—thereby guaranteeing that candidate with an Electoral College majority.

The bill was approved in 2016 by a unanimous bipartisan House committee vote in both Georgia (16 electoral votes) and Missouri (10).
Since 2006, the bill has passed 36 state legislative chambers in 23 rural, small, medium, large, red, blue, and purple states with 261 electoral votes.
The bill has been enacted by 12 small, medium, and large jurisdictions with 172 electoral votes – 64% of the way to guaranteeing the presidency to the candidate with the most popular votes in the country

NationalPopularVote
> "parameters that don't matter in real life"

Asian Americans are the least likely group in the US to be promoted to management. https://hbr.org/2018/05/asian-americans-are-the-least-likely...
The best way I've been able to find to think about this is the fundamental axiom of geopolitics, which is basically tribalism defined mathematically. People want to work with and help others who are closer to them, who they feel are neighbors, brothers. This gets more and more true the more money and resources you have.

While you and I are more tribally identified with Asian Americans, America's upper crust considers them a threat. An elite university is a gateway into the upper crust, so it makes tribal sense for them to limit their access on grounds that to everyone else looks blatantly racist but doesn't really feel that way to them.

If I had to wager a guess, I imagine that the upper crust justifies this morally by saying that without Harvard and other elite schools, no Asians would get to climb that ladder. And also to note that not even the paragons of democracy, the Greeks, were immune to tribal identification and social stratification and racist policies to enforce them. Sparta was especially egregious in this regard.

From Harvard's perspective, in order to maintain their prestigious reputation, they have to cater to the tribal whims of the upper class, even if they don't want to. Otherwise Harvard, well, wouldn't be Harvard anymore, the prestige will move on to other universities that are willing to play ball. Remember, it's not us that determines Harvard's prestige status, it's the elites. Expect Harvard to dream up an endless array of subjective metrics that pay lip service to inclusivity while in practice serving exclusive goals.

I believe that if we succeed in forcing an inclusivity agenda onto the Ivy League, then it'll just cause the elites to make even more ultra-exclusive educational institutions and send their kids there, revoking not just Harvard's, but the whole Ivy Leagues' cool card. While this will democratize Harvard, it will ultimately increase stratification and inequality.

Tragedy of the commons writ large.
Agreed for the talent<->rudeness.
The whole manager vs hacker thing is also terrible.

Of course there are some bad managers, as much as there are bad hackers (and bad coworkers etc...). There are also some really good ones.

World is not black and white, more like 50 shades of grey (OMG I should be slapped for this joke).
"If there is more pent-up demand than total possible road capacity, then there will never be enough capacity."
That is a tautology.

With tunnels you can probably increase capacity by 100 times without going very deep. That would support some kind of crazy Hong Kong level density of people in the whole LA basin. Everyone in the US could live there. After that happens one can worry about this infinity demand potential.
Of course they do. Consider this research:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/04/09/new-research-...

Among elite Universities that initially do a holistic review of applicants to narrow down the applicant pool, URM status is viewed as the most important factor for an applicant by 42% of the universities, equal to the number of schools that view "exceptional talent" as the most important factor. Being a URM is basically equivalent to being an "exceptionally talented" non-URM in the eyes of many elite colleges' admissions boards.

Look up average SAT scores of different ethnic groups admitted to elite colleges as well. The disparity is glaring.

Now, we can argue that giving URM's a leg up in admissions is justified. I'm willing to have that discussion. But let's be realistic about the facts here.
The GitHub repo is here: https://github.com/lsm/alfa
My impression was that this would require the WTO to adjudicate that the other country is breaking the rules (which hasn't happened, yet), though I may be wrong.
I can't imagine a case like that would ever hold up, unless you were working on company time or machines.
Historic California Ghost Town Is Up for Sale
Did you look at Erlang/Elixir?
Thank you, I can see that the info looks more real time on some accounts than others, but it still good enough for my needs at lease
That is only true if you do that with no regard for the way it was achieved.
I recently decided to go with Netlify forms as I already deploy all my sites there. Great post DJ
>There is no state, metropolitan area or county in the U.S. where workers earning minimum wage can afford a two-bedroom rental home by working 40 hours a week, according to the study.

This seems like an unreasonably high standard for a single minimum wage income unless they're using the excess here as a proxy for other necessities.

Edit: This seems unreasonably high because it greatly exceeds the standard of living we expect for a single minimum wage income household. Sure it would be nice if a single minimum wage household could rend a 2br but that's not what we currently expect them to be able to do. Saying "people who make X can't afford Y" when we didn't expect them to afford Y in the first place isn't very meaningful when you're discussing the ability of people making X to have a standard of living that meets our expectations for people making X.
You posted a message that's essentially hand-waving. Discussing semantics means nothing if the language supports neither parallelism nor concurrency.
While I agree that you could find firms that have not stolen IP to make their product, trying to nail down the sanctions to individual businesses would never work. The number of entities you would need to track and audit is enormous and it's way too easy for someone to launder the information around to supposedly "good" businesses.

You're talking about the entire supply chain, so you would end up punishing firms that are otherwise innocent because unbeknownst to them they bought resisters or capacitors or silicon plates from a bad actor.

A smart approach is just not feasible at this scale.
I personally think entering transactions by hand is better, because it makes your spending habits more visceral.
If you never have progress for rich people then you will never have much progress at all.

Where will you build a revolutionary first transportation system for the masses? Literally every form of transport started as a luxury.
No bank accounts for shell and letter box companies
There is also the possibility that a poorly engineered or rushed tunnel could destablize the foundations of structures above.
You can self host ghost though
At o e point I was switching between Windows and macOS computers on a daily basis. One way to ease the pain of control vs command is to remap your caps lock key to command in macOS and to control in Windows.
People die pretty regularly when elevator doors open before the car has arrived. Elevator doors that don't open unless a car is there are a major safety feature.
You're twice as likely to found a successful startup when you're 40 than 25
Well if you would define 'area' by something else, we would have 3 different places.
Machine learning tries to predicts World Cup winner
If you want to hear a "yes, go for it" then yes, go for it.

If you are still open to suggestions, lets play out that scenario where you quit your job and start a business. Then you would:
1) Make an overall vision for your business.
2) Translate it to several phases.
3) Translate each phase into tasks.
4) Start working on tasks. If a task is too big, break it down to subtasks.
5) Incrementally start finishing tasks.

Now, can you do the above devoting an hour or so each day to it while being in your corporate job?
It's a good read, but also full of wild mischaracterizations of Japanese culture.
SAP Technology to Help German National Team Performance at the World Cup
Cool, I've always had on my mind that the ultimate game would be a laser tag AR game, and that would be the perfect landscape for that!
If you're having headaches you need to see a neurologist. Anything having to do with your brain or head is generally going to be neurology. Rule out aneurysm, tumor and other potential 'game changers'.
Sorry if I misunderstood. There's certainly a lot of room for discussion and debate about what terms are binding/enforceable and what aren't. Terms of service and automatic user consent are pretty legally wishy-washy concepts in general.

I understand the argument you're making, but I think it's not all that dissimilar to the argument a person might make about software piracy: that anything discoverable on the Internet becomes, essentially, fair game because it inevitably touches your private device. From a technical perspective, the argument's correct. From a moral/political perspective, I don't think there's a meaningful distinction between the two.
It's well worth it for people who just need to get to the loop. It would be better if the CTA added an express line, but there isn't room on the above-ground tracks.
Apple Maps is down, 'all users' affected
And this is why I was a little bothered by her inclusion in Coco.

I loved Coco. It's a fantastic movie. But putting Frida in there as a recurring character seemed kind of bandwagon-y for the normally-timeless Pixar.
It’s not a scientific reason, it’s historical reasons. Look at the history of the US. 30 years from now it isn’t going to be a country run by its 5% Asian population.
Cabs in Chicago also are incredibly terrible with rude drivers. Uber is definitely a better option.
I understand the rationale, which is pretty clearly laid out here: https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/Section%20301%20FINAL.P...

What I don't understand is the response. The burden of this cost has entirely been placed upon US businesses purchasing products from (in many cases) the only place you can buy them and then assembling the completed product in the US with US labor.

As someone doing small-scale production in the US, the simple way for me to avoid these tariffs is to have China assemble everything. Finished consumer goods have been explicitly avoided in this list. Can you explain to me how this is helping US manufacturing?
To need two bedrooms on a single income I guess you have a child or someone else you are supporting like an elderly relative, and possibly a partner as well.

So that means attempting to support a family of two or three on one minimum-wage job.
They assemble Mac Pros in the US. They've also apparently been considering assembling some other stuff in the US; I assume those plans have come to a screeching halt.
Why Social Science Needs Evolutionary Theory
The article is not totally wrong but it goes into stereotypes way too much. I have seen managers and hackers all over the introvert/extrovert spectrum. Maybe hackers are on average a little more introvert but not to the level that this generalization is useful. Alan Kay's "more ways to kill the golden goose" is more helpful.