skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a testament to how challenging crust drilling can be,
> right on par with exploring deepest parts of Earth's oceans.

except if you read the footnotes it says that Exxon beat the world's record for length of borehole in 60 days. Sounds like drilling in the crust is NBD, been doing it for years, the innovation is all in how to make it turn and twist and do so on time and under budget.

My sense is that it's just not economically rational to drill a hole straight down for no other reason than you want to see how far it can go. Why bother? But it doesn't seem at all to be a technical problem.
I'm a "Social Media Never", and an increasing number of people I know are the same. We might sometimes use some forums or news/comment aggregators like HN or Reddit at some level, but none of the big social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.
What is the best way to change careers?
Sorry, no. There are plenty of excepts though. It's a fast read, and you'll not want to put it down.
Yeah, I also haven't had a facebook account for years, and I seem to be muddling along fine.

It turns out that all those people I had shallow social connections to from some time in our past? I don't miss 'em.
You're simply trading one government for another more nebulous and less accountable one; the schism over block-size is a perfect example of this and that's peanuts compared to the types of issues that are to come.

There is absolutely zero guarantee that the mining cartels won't print more bitcoin; the final decision on whether or not to do so rests with them and it is in their direct financial interest to do so even if it may not be in their political interest. Even then, it is very possible that the impact of high fees might make the idea of printing more bitcoins politically palatable.

Either way, the bottom line is that it is a political issue, just like the current system.
The issue with that, is that the US doesn’t have good ways of controlling internal movements. It can check your visa at the bodega, but once you are in, generally no one will check your visa again.
That's pretty much how I've always seen it. Facebook as a singular product will eventually wilt and go the way of friendster and myspace. The smart thing Zuckerberg has done is to keep acquiring the next big things. Facebook as a company is extremely well-situated and won't be going anywhere any time soon, even though Facebook will eventually die out or become utterly worthless.
Ask HN: What would you do with $1M cash?
Here is a quick background. I live in the Bay Area, I'm a software engineer so I have a 9-5 job. I hate that life/setup and I always wanted to work for myself with no boss. I will have about $1 - 1.1 million cash coming in from a family trust. I'm all about working hard and building things by myself, so I'm not proud about that trust money... I'm seing it as a huge opportunity for me to transition to my ideal life, no debts, no boss. I do have a wife and a baby to take care of and ideally we would want our own house.

So, my idea is to move out of the Bay in a cheaper place, where we would buy a descent house for about $500k cash. No mortgage, we would pay-off our car loans (about $40k) in order to completely get out of debts. Now, with about $500k left I was thinking I should keep about $100k in a savings account as a buffer. Then I'd like to invest the rest ($400k) for my future retirement. The missing part is generating an income by myself to pay the remaining bills, etc. But with such a setup, I feel super lucky to give it a shot.

What would you guys do in my case? Is this the right approach to get out of my 9-5 job while taking care of the rest?
glad I'm not the only one who went down that hole (pun very much intended) and started watching videos about the Reelwell Drilling Method and horizontal displacement techniques.
Clearly human, and thus not infallible. But it's worth noticing that all those mistakes are errors in the code. There are not many errors in the underlying cryptographic design. Satoshi might be more of a cryptographer/mathematician (or group) than programmer.

Also, did any complex bug-free code ever exist? I never heard of any.
Yes it's better but still so gameable it's essentially unusable. Also if you factor in assets reported to the IRS it would be damn near impossible not to be biased towards kids whose families have more assets and thus higher chances of contributing to your university's endowment via donations.
Air travel is exceptionally affordable because the fuel is not taxed. [1] We can curb frivolous air travel by fixing this anomoly, which is long overdue considering the global climate situation we find ourselves in.

[1] http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/SN00523.pdf
> "Yeah, I'm honestly perplexed as to why anyone would follow any of these people."

My gut feeling is, the higher the number of followers, the higher the percentage of those followers are bots.

Perhaps guilt prevents many of the influencers from charging "full price"? I also presume any contracts with big brands - however difficult they might be to enforce - clauses that attempt to mitigate such fraud.

The internet...the news is fake...the people are fake...fake is the only thing that's real.
Another book in this genre is "Smalltalk-80: the language and its implementation". "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" had a lot of discussion about language implementation too.
Does anyone know why they decided to migrate to GCP? I'm trying to find an explanation in their project docs with no luck
Yeah, but they diluted them knowing the deviations were wild, then purposely tossed outliers to rein it in. It's statistical fraud 101. The premise is that you can't get enough blood (or quality of blood, as in the potassium test) from finger pricks to do the tests they claimed; period. They knew that soon after the start, and perpetrated the fraud for years.
Just browsed their website...this looks massive. Might be tempted to go back to D2 just to try this. Looks like it's still in development all these years later.
Jean-Louis Gassée has a good write up. He tried using the technology and got very odd results.

His use of the test in 2015:
https://mondaynote.com/theranos-trouble-a-first-person-accou...

Follow up from May 2018:
https://mondaynote.com/theranos-could-have-been-stopped-9670...
9 ways to change your epigenome
The funds will require disclosure and risk-aversion behavior of their portfolio companies and in general not turn a blind eye to the possibility of unethical behavior.

It's not deterministic but it does create a positive feedback loop of ethics compliance.
Put it in something that will reliably pay you a certain amount of money for the rest of your life
I'm getting a feeling that the "mindless and unwarranted takedown filter" is going to become a stereotype, like the "cruel and greedy kulak" of the 21st century. We're getting flooded with stories like this from Amazon and Youtube already of small businesspeople getting screwed over, and it never, ever looks good on the company.
It has gotten better (I actually am of the impression that the transaction volume has gone down, and that's largely to credit for the fact that fees are back down, perhaps because of Lightning and/or Segwit; but regardless of the reason why, there is nobody left who is paying $15-30 in fees for each BTC transaction on the chain today)

This great visualization[1] showed up on my feed yesterday, you can see that most of the BTC transactions' fees are being measured in single-digit USD cents again. It compares BTC to BCH, and you have to wait a while to see what's happening, but I think it's a fairly unbiased and basically informative view of how the two on-chain transaction scaling strategies actually work.

(Spoiler: the number of BTC transactions is still massively outpacing the number of BCH transactions, in case you didn't guess that.)

[1]: https://bitcoinsubway.cash/

[edit: http_s_]
Explaining reluctance to benefit from others' misfortune
your observation does not lack accuracy
It says that she didn't feel welcome and included. It's true that having more Muslim women in the room might have helped her feel that way, but it's also true that if the men had made her feel more welcome, her being different might not have mattered so much. Indeed, even if there were more Muslim women, if the men were still abrasive to them, the two groups would simply have drifted apart ... which seems to be what has happened.

In the GP's case, even though he was the only white male in the room, evidently the others didn't make him feel unwelcome. That's nice, but it doesn't prove that such things never happen. I find the place I work to be very inclusive too, as far as I can tell being a white male, but I don't doubt that some places are worse, and a few are much worse.
The third-party lab machines Theranos was secretly using will often dilute samples during their general operation. This is a known factor engineered into their design and accounted for in their certification/regulation. Theranos was secretly diluting blood samples even more, well beyond what the machines they were using were originally meant for. What they were doing was legally, ethically, and scientifically completely distinct. Prison time is definitely deserved.
What differences?

Just saying that height, facial attractiveness/symmetry, weight etc all could (unquantifiably but obviously) easily outweigh race in terms of societal privilege and it's just absurd to cherry pick the issue of race as the determining factor of privilege rather than something even more basic such as height or facial symmetry.

And that's not even accounting for the fact that (according to many academics at schools that ironically factor race into admission) race doesn't even exist while height and facial symmetry inarguably do exist.
I've had a couple of job issues in my day, so I can't deny the truth behind your first paragraph.

But, your second paragraph is just chilling enough that I have to ask who are you really? If your first name is Ben, this is the best prank I've ever been a part of...this really means a lot and I'm touched, though I can't for the life of me imagine how you remember 271 at Humpty's. Heck, I thought you were too smart to even know the less capable worked there!! :)
The Euclidean Algorithm
In the context of the article / thread, children is probably accurate.
It seems like Kubernetes+GKE is a big draw: https://venturebeat.com/2018/04/06/why-and-how-gitlab-abando...

I'd be curious to hear if Microsoft buying GitHub had anything to do with it as well.
I've come to realize that it's really only America and Great Britain that assume the leaders that they have chosen via elections are completely incompetent to man the station they have chosen them to man. This is a very interesting idea. Why did you elect them then?

I also find it interesting that we have an abysmally low participation rate in local elections, considering how much people bitch about local governments not being able to get anything done well.

And finally despite having so many allegedly incompetent people manning so many critical local offices, the country by and large seems to function alright, which is perhaps the strangest part of all.
> The article claims that life without Facebook is impossible. I haven't had an account for years and although I don't know what I'm missing, that statement seems exaggerated. Is this article more a reflection of the author's poor self control than of reality?

Not necessarily. Lots of social circles use Facebook Events to organize get togethers, and not having an active Facebook account leads to you being left out. The people leaving you out may only be acquaintances, but that doesn't mean it's ok.

This is the reason why I still have a Facebook account. It's obviously and explicitly inactive, and I only log in when I get an event invite.
The article isn't about caps. Also, that statement is plain wrong. Any major blockchain has a FIXED block size cap to prevent DoS attacks. Raising the size cap demands a hardfork agreed by the whole network. Otherwise the network would split, as was the case with BTC and BCH.
I wonder if Gitlab is trying to make themselves more Google friendly in hope of a Google acquisition?

In the news about the Microsoft GitHub acquisition,it was mentioned that Google also tried to acquire Github. So Google is definitely interested in buying an open source project host.
They have the data, so obviously they know more about the effects of their tweaks than I do, but:

It seems like I don't really get fresh content anymore. It seems like a few, mostly stale stories from people I barely talk to. That makes it harder to be engaged in the service, and it makes me use the service less.

What I wish I could have (by default) is just a chronological list of things that people have posted.

Maybe there is a team of facebook who needs to justify their jobs or something? I don't want my feed optimized at all. I do the optimizing by selecting who I follow.
As it turns out, that also doesn't work because you can't just put something into play or it would skip some triggers and activate others it wouldn't normally. So the code is statefully different if it's in the "catch" instead of the "try"
Star Citizen's ARK Starmap
Sorry for the misunderstanding. Inefficiencies on that level just aren't very surprising to me anymore.
What if we can create Listening Sessions on Spotify – A UX case study
Stock is up 1.18% today, not sure if thats related.
People still hold very dearly the myth they can keep a decent job for a lifetime by becoming an expert in a legacy tech.

The truth is you can find those, but it’s a lottery bet. Not only there are many people skilled on those technologies, but most large companies supposedly learned a lesson or two about managing large system and are more proactive about making easier to maintain system.

Parent posted us spot on: move toward the future, do not aim at the past.
I couldn't find an exact number, but their 2017 10-K has the statement "Business-to-consumer shipments [represented]
more than 50% of total U.S. Domestic Package volume".

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9N...
Not sure what part of that prohibits the space force. I don't think I'm being naive, I think you are being ignorant. You're a fool if you think we're going to be fighting wars on other planets within 100 years. Also, if we have any plans of extracting resources from space there is no future where there aren't claims made on extraterrestrial bodies. Thinking that space bodies shouldn't be able to be owned is antiquated thinking.
When using either in that kind of language, you basically want to catch exceptions at the bind level and put the exception result in the left hand side. The main advantage of this is that you are guaranteed not to jump stack levels higher than the call to bind (or whatever he's calling it in his RR architecture -- I haven't read TFA lately).

When using Either in that way, I tend to think of it as a structured exception. It gives you a defined exit point, just like in other structured programming. I've tried to introduce this on our team and probably there is about 50/50 acceptance. Half of the people think it is awesome, half of the people can't see the point, so I think it's probably an acquired taste.
Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging sabotage' by employee
Franz, not because it's performant or elegant, but at least it unifies all my various messaging systems (except iMessage, grrr).

RoyalTSX, which does VNC and RDP plus ssh, and web, and is generally not a bad solution for logging into a bunch of remote machines with different access methods.

Xquartz, which lets me run X11 apps.

Serial, which is a decent GUI serial terminal emulator, for when screen isn't the right thing.

Parallels for VMs. I don't love it, but I haven't switched to anything else.

Carbon Copy Cloner for snapshot backups of my laptop to an external drive. It deals with encrypted, bootable, and recovery volumes.

GPG Suite, for secure email, etc.

OBS for screen captures, streaming, etc.

VLC for video playback.
This is the third time this has been submitted today (the others were killed):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17341478

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17339017
Automotive fuel is taxed to pay for roads. Aircraft pay fees to use airports but that's independent of distance travel as that does not impact the airports.

So, really if we want to tax CO2 we should tax all forms of CO2 equally in addition to current taxes.
Can you summarize the nature of the computations?
I would guess this is stochastic integration.
Where is the bandwidth passing information between computed results?
Looks good. It would be nice to have a quick way to sort by language of interest.
Sabotage at Tesla
My understanding is that in Andersen's case, had they been convicted of accounting fraud, they either legally or practically couldn't be auditors for a public company. Since Andersen was really just a bunch of people, it made more sense for those people to move to companies without an accounting fraud conviction, so they could do auditing for public companies.
Nice article; thanks.

* * *

. Tesla claims:
A 40% crash rate reduction with the autopilot
as compared to no autopilot, over an 18 month period [1].

. If this is true—and we could imagine it is (at least
partially?)—then Elon's remark to journalists would make
sense:

"It's [..] irresponsible [..] to write an article
that [..] lead people to believe that autonomy is
less safe,” [..] “Because people might actually
turn it off, and then die" [1]

* * *

But to have an opinion about the autopilot's risk statistics I would also need to know:
a) What populations (data) they compare;
b) How each population is defined (inclusion and exclusion criteria);
c) What's the sample size (18 months, and?);
d) Who makes these calculations (to clearly identify possible conflicts of interests).

- Not sure if this type of data is publicly available?

* * *

Actually the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) seems to indicate[1]:
1) that the data comes from Tesla—cf. point d) => conflict of interest;
2) Autopilot on/off was NOT used for the risk statistics—although it's central (point a);
3) instead the "40%" would measure the "number of airbag deployments per million miles" which is a proxy-metric that's not directly related to car accidents.

- Hey, this is odd (it's definitively not a Science or Nature method protocol).

* * *

. "The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety suggests:
A "13%" reduction in collision claim frequency, indicating
sedans with Autopilot enabled got into fewer crashes
that resulted in collision claims to insurers."

However it's a small difference and there're possible confounders like social status (a "Tesla driver"), gender, geographical area, and usually the confounders have a large influence on experiments, so it's unlikely that this (small) 13% difference would remain if we adjust for confounders...

* * *

Here's the article AARIAN MARSHALL on Wired.
[1] https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-safety-statistic...
PoE...great game, spent 200+ hours on it, but I wouldn't be able to tell you which class I was or which was the final boss. It's just not as memorable as Diablo. I can remember clearly my Diablo 2 characters and even the items I had. Or it could be just me getting old...
There's at least SMS/MMS in some US PSAPs. The area where I used to live had it a few years ago: http://fox6now.com/2016/01/10/in-the-event-of-an-emergency-y...
Is MTG Arena the Hearthstone-like client?
I think that depends on whether Python will exceed Java in popularity.

But in theory, in 10-20 years any widely used programming language will have no intrinsic value and will have enough developers to not pay them 6-figure salaries.

Developers that will be valued and making tons of money in 10 years will be domain-specific developers.
I would refrain from buying the house until 2-3 years into the transition and after you reach a point where you are cash flow positive in your new life. Ditto about the car loans if they are low interest rate ( < 3%). In short put the 1M aside and try to do the switch as if you did not have the money. You should be able to make the switch without the $1M subsidizing the switch (except for subsidizing your monthly cashflow for the first year or so).
Yes. But positive isn't necessarily credible. A positive review from the wrong source can be bad news from some brands / products.

But again, this could be why some many brands pay so little most of the time. They're just tossing shit at the wall, but in this case kinda hoping not too much actually sticks.
In 2017, police killed 1,129 people. Were the vast majority of those "perfectly justified?" How about the vast majority of the 718 that were suspects in nonviolent offenses? Or the 147 that were unarmed? Are you sure? I'm not.

The reason "the narrative" exists, I think, is that there's a widespread perception that regardless of the circumstances of the shooting -- even if the evidence clearly shows the police shot an unarmed victim in the back multiple times, for instance -- the police tend to get off on the grounds that they "felt threatened." This contributes to a feeling that the police are held to a lesser standard than non-police suspects, rather than the same standard.
When I was a kid I thought the greatest thing in life would be to travel around the world, see interesting things, meet interesting people, and go to interesting places. This in turn would make me a more interesting, worthwhile human being worthy of adoration. Somehow our generation was taught that our experiences define us. That by getting on a plane to London and taking some pictures somehow our lives would be more unique and amazing.

So I spent my early 20s traveling and doing just that. Seeing everything there was to see. Doing all the things I ever dreamed of as a 16 year old kid stuck in the midwest. Being a hobo, I guess you could say, and having all of these "experiences" that I was sure would add up to a life of meaning. The result was a profound lack of satisfaction, and a severe existential dread at perhaps never finding any actual purpose.

I was lucky to settle down, go back to school, and find a passion in programming and science which drives me toward working on bigger problems than myself, that might help humanity in some way. But I fear that the vast majority of people my age are still stuck in that mindset, having never got it out of their systems. Hoping and praying that this next trip to Bali will finally give them that satisfaction beyond filling 3 minutes in passing cocktail party conversation.
It's so easy to slowly compromise your values over time when your day to day is "fix this bug, implement that feature, shepherd a few deploys". Good to take a step back sometimes and think: Is my work making a positive impact on the world? If not, is it something I can stomach? How does it align with my values?

(Am I literally helping tear families apart? https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/crying-toddler-border-v...)

If you have the financial independence and career privilege to not contribute to making the world a worse place, that's a wonderful gift, and I hope people will not squander it.
A prominent VC who gave a talk I attended recently said 90% of the next wave of tech is machine learning, and that Google is hiring all the people with this skill set with very large compensation packages.
influencers !== content creators
One time when I called 911 I was so stressed I couldn't remember my own address. I had to pick up a piece of mail and read it. Stress does weird things to you.
Jaron Lanier interview on how social media ruins your life
Why is this downvoted? Definitely a valid point.
What's to stop someone with a live cd from reading it by mounting the file system?