skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a related note, I suspect cities primarily relying on cost-of-living arguments to attract people may actually be subtly signalling the reverse of what ambitious people are drawn to. A city's primary signal should be the vibrancy of the place, not the low cost of living.

Yes. What makes me unlikely to return to Michigan long-term, as much as I liked where I lived, is the limited career options I would have there. I am apparently willing to put up with a rather high cost of living to work on what I find interesting.
Percent living below the povery line in 1 city has more to do with the geographical distribution of immigrants from poor countries than it does with anything else.

Poor Asian immigrants are just more likely to settle in NYC.
There’s definitely downsides. I went through some experimental program in elementary school focused on skill sets that would help with standardized tests.

In many ways it, combined with my laziness as a kid made things harder. I sailed though tests and did good enough, but always had academic interests outside of school.

I turned out great, but I do wish I had treated school as something other than a ticket punching experience.
> The entire archive of the pgsql users' mailing list disagrees. Every wants to know why their plan is suboptimal, or why it changed.

And rather a lot of the archives of $scripting_language_of_your_choice are people confused about duck-typing/type system failures. That doesn't mean scripting languages should be replaced with statically typed ones; just that there are pain points in every system, and right (or wrong) tools for every job.

Don't believe me? Check how much of the FAQ traffic from first-time Rustaceans (or Swift/Java/etc. newcomers) has to do with how to satisfy their language's type system.

You pick your poison. SQL gives you a clearly defined set of tradeoffs up front. If that's not for you, no worries, move along.
If these companies signed an agreement with a vendor that allowed them to cut off service with 15 minutes notice, they deserved everything they got.
SAGE Computer Defense System (1956)
I can only do this because I live abroad in Latin America. Sadly, wages are very low for this kind of work.

Though I did have a cleaning person come twice a month, when I lived in the Pacific Northwest, I could never afford all this much help living in the US.
Why hasnt this happened? Meritocratic societies are immune.
Anyone capable of participating is not disenfranchised in society as they would need to have high IQ and education to initiate such attack.
It’s very odd that this article goes out of its way to paint the Amway billionaires as “good” and not “extractive.” Everyone I know from the area has horror stories about friends or family members that got sucked into Amway’s cultish pyramid scheme and had their lives destroyed.

They’re a big employer in the region, so locals do tend to “look the other way.” But this is far too generous a portrayal of the families/company that have created decades of devastation in the wake of its scam.
granted I'm white AF but I managed to get through college twice with a "conformism" of swearing at teachers, not doing homework, letting others blatantly copy my work and about once every year telling a teacher "fuck you" since 8th grade when I punched a teacher for insulting me.
Ah, I had mistakenly assumed you hadn't. That's fair then. I can actually acknowledge most of your points as fair, but doesn't detract from my own enjoyment. People have different subjective standards for game enjoyment, and that's totally fine.

Personally, I hardly cared about beating the story. Instead, I focussed on specific goals: buying the house and equipping it. Building Tarrey town. Upgrading armor. Expanding weapon slots. Exploring.

As a byproduct of this, I found I had more or less outmatched all the enemies. But it came as a surprise. I was just having fun pursuing some personal goals.
At a certain level of abstraction, perhaps, but someone who's only good at learning and regurgitating existing knowledge is still not going to do well at even routine research. The "routine" of bulk research is still a higher-order routine than standardized tests.
I realized how often I was running out of free article reads each month, and paid up. The "# of free articles exceeded" pay wall was making it obvious that I enjoy their content.
Maybe not the original unchanged...

https://jalopnik.com/the-legendary-world-war-ii-jeep-had-a-d...
I was taught it.... in a way to say "this is not how to research things and if you heard about this you should probabbly rethink anything you think about it".
Markdown is pretty good as a lightweight format, but if you already know latex it's not going to be a huge improvement. If you care about fancy output then it won't be as good, but you can output to html with you're own css.

There is a vim plugin for org mode syntax, just with very little of the functionality.

IME with workflow tools you've already hit the 90% functionality with 10% of the work part and trying to chase that last 10% actually results in poorer solutions.
Oh yeah sure because NYC is definitely the cheapest city to immigrate to...
Big tech directors miss shareholder meetings
Yup. If the computer works fine 99.9% of the time, there's just no way to keep the meat paying attention so it's there when that .1% situation pops up.
I assume you mean "without permission or knowledge of the host country".

The US has bunkers of nuclear weapons in Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and Turkey.

Apparently the US had nuclear weapons in Japan until 1972.
a lot of subcultures pretty much exist through facebook now. i deleted about a year before all this shit went down but had to reactivate recently because there’s really no other way to be aware of whats going on in the electronic music scene, especially for parties in illegal venues that cant be traditionally advertised
> Do you imply that the only way of having a meaningful life when your job is mediocre is by creating a family? What about other recreational activities or hobbies? Somewhat anecdotally, I recall a grade school teacher that was single in her 50s but remained active within a large volunteer community supporting youth. She often discussed how her participation in this circle gave her life purpose.

Yes, for the vast majority of people. There may be exceptions. There may also be a lot of coping behavior necessary to live without what you could have had.

> Maybe the systemic issue is that people who are reaching their 30s often feel pressured by their social group to get married and thus believe their lives are meaningless without that ring or child validating its purpose.

There is less pressure than ever, given the "freedom" and "free love" everyone is expected to have in their teens and 20s. The pressure in the 30s is that real-life realism coming to crash down. And again, I would argue this is even less as there are less marriages and less childbirths to citizens in the developed worlds (to which my comments apply), so therefore even less relative pressure than in the past.
To make you doubt the importance of ending the NK nuclear ICBM threat. Also the Iranian nuclear ICBM threat. See, if the thing to really worry about is nukes on little boats and minivans, then why bother with the ICBMs. For me the effect is the opposite: we must redouble our efforts to stop proliferation, to reduce the number of countries with the ability to make nukes that are not already nuclear powers, to reduce stockpiles of weapons grade fuel, and to reduce stockpiles of weapons to "reasonable" levels (we can't get rid of them entirely, sadly).
Wouldn't it be more practical to just teach them to read and write? The model for getting out of poverty is well established at this point and literacy is an essential component.

In fact I'd argue the stakes are pretty high because if we don't help these people become literate they'll end up little more than attention batteries plugged into Zuckerberg's Facebook Matrix.
There's literally an infinite number of places to put it?

We have reusable rockets?

I'm curious what the cost would be for the fuel to do it. What's the typical dollar to kg ratio?
If Streaming Is the Future of Console Gaming, It Might Be Screwed
I can't see how this could be a youtube alternative without ads. Ads are how youtubers survive and make videos full time.
"Winds of 40 mph would shatter windows facing the blast and send construction cranes careening into the streets below."

Construction cranes falling in NYC, otherwise known as "Tuesday"
Demo: GraphQL with Node-Oracledb for Oracle Database
Migrating from Firebase Functions to App Engine
Ubisoft's Tom Clancy games are still generally Gameplay.

Rainbow Six Siege is still one of my favorites.
Meanwhile Trump is taking money from the Coast Guard (who could presumably patrol in order to catch those little boats) in order to pay for enforcing Federal misdemeanors on the border.
I just automated my computer backups so they would email me the results: https://github.com/Darkle/borg-backup-and-email
From my observation, most of the USA is woefully unprepared for major disasters, natural or man made. Apart from a certain segment of the population with large gun caches and a year's worth of food stockpiled, most people don't have any contingency plan or emergency supplies.

Every time there is a hurricane, it seems that it catches everyone unaware. Same for snowstorms. When California gets hit by a big earthquake (Magnitude 8 level), I can guarantee it's going to be complete chaos, despite the fact that we know it's going to happen.

Everybody should have at minimum 3 days of sealed food and water at home. That's how long it will take emergency services to reach you in case of a major disaster.

Back on to the topic of nuclear explosions. Most people have the misconception that they sound like a low rumbling that goes on for some time. In reality, they are a sharp crack, not unlike a conventional explosion, just a lot louder, as this video demonstrates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKwkTYeukE4
I am reading _Command and Control_ right now, a book partly about a nuclear accident on American soil, but mostly about nuclear strategy and history up to 2000s. The writing style is not exactly beautiful, but I highly recommend to anyone interested in the theory and history of nuclear warfare. I am certainly learning a lot about the Cold War.
What school did you attend?
Not that it's necessarily the case here, but people might not want to correct errors before someone publishes their piece- if the errors stay in, you can write a rebuttal that focuses on those errors and ignores other points which are harder to rebuke.

If you're interested in winning an argument in public debate, then giving your opposition the chance to see your first rebuttal before they've publish their first attack is a huge, huge handicap.
I do certainly wonder if the ever-increasing levels of complexity in the layers of abstraction will backfire in some way soon.

It seems the trend has accelerated recently.
Maybe should've used a different name.
The article is a meandering and muddles it point but here's the paragraph where the actual point is made:

In 2001, an eBay user might have given an eBay seller a low rating for an unsatisfactory packaging job; in 2018, an Uber driver might be dinged if a rider doesn’t like his personality or choice of music. Facebook recently began ranking publishers by trustworthiness, based on feedback from users. Upon discovering a problem, a platform company’s first instinct is to find a way to expose it to the wisdom of a market, or at least the will of a crowd.

It’s a transactional platform; the transaction is very clear to both sides,” Hagiu says. “By and large, buyers and sellers are aligned on eBay.” A seller banned for counterfeit sunglasses hasn’t lost any rights, just his ability to use eBay. Crucially, to most ears, a scammer’s claims to the contrary would sound ridiculous.

The article's view on what ails the internet is the flawed idea of "wisdom of the crowd". The recommendation based systems where companies say - "others watched/read this so, you must like it too".

But then the article presents Amazon as something better and conveniently forgets that Amazon too has a similar ratings system. Though only the product level reviews are front and center. Seller reviews do not take the limelight. And as evident by Amazon's glut of fake products this weakness of rating systems is being gamed too.
Honestly, i have ichthyosis which just exacerbates the whole issue.
Yea, because the term keeps on being conflated. Blockchain means everything from cryptocurrencies to private ledger systems like hyperledger sawtooth.
tl;dr: I don't.

There are a couple of reasons why I don't bother:

The first is that I consider what I'm doing to be a hobby, and therefore tax-exempt. The point was more about the challenge of writing the bot than seriously imagining that my trivial algorithm could make money. Because it's currency trading, I expect the Australian Tax Office would disagree with my definition, but there is one thing in my favour -

The second reason is that, despite hitting almost A$2000 profit around January, as we head into tax time it's sitting at less than $500. Also, I've never realised any of these profits - I withdrew the original A$500 investment, but everything else just keeps getting reinvested. I don't think the ATO is going to be too troubled that I've got a little under A$500 worth of pretend-money floating around in the aether somewhere.

Bottom line, I'm not going to worry about tax until there's enough profit that I can pay an accountant to worry about it for me, and possibly pay some backdated taxes. The up-side to automated trading, even for small-time personal investors, is that the ATO regards it as "carrying on a business of share trading" rather than investing as an individual, and their rules appear to be a bit simpler in that situation.
Poor immigrants in NYC often share housing with far more people than native born Americans would tolerate. How do you think all those people making below the poverty line afford to live there?

They move there because of the existing immigrant communities already in place.

3/4 of Asian Americans in NYC are immigrants.
I'd love a tutorial!
Well...https://xkcd.com/865/
Opening in incognito would not count towards the limit, if that helps!
Javacript animation engine to2to has been released
Terrifying thought - given their small size and the porosity of U.S. borders one would have to imagine it would be pretty easy to accomplish - on the other hand if the weapon were attributable to the host country it and discovered one would imagine that the u.s. would likely go to war over it. Especially considering the response to the positions of nuclear mussels in Cuba...
George Hotz Programming twitchchess: a simple neural chess AI
You don't have this pushed to a repo somewhere, do you? It would be great to be able to see how you do some of this.
when it started with the obligatory blame trump for something paragraph, i closed it. I dont like much of what trump has done, but I dont got time for their propaganda.
In general, I think journalists do always at least try to get both sides, and responses to any criticism, and would keep going back and forth. (If they don't, it's a basic ethical failure.)

And especially for technical articles, it's fairly common to send maybe a bullet list of all the points you're using from what they told you.

The reason sending drafts around is considered bad journalistic practice comes from political and commercial interests. People will object to minutiae in your article not because it's wrong, but because it's inconvenient for them, including blocking publication etc. (Again, less relevant for science, but the most important pieces of journalism can be a battle to get published.)

(A further point is that there do exist wiki-style summaries, more full and precise discussions, etc. But it's the pop media-style articles that have so much more reach, partly because of the often-erring attempts to simplify and make readable.)
I recommend swipe to next quote.
>Then, when you do publish and you get X detail wrong they blast you

As they should. Its the duty of the journalist to be correct in what they publish. Not getting an interview is no excuse.
I’ve automated a bunch of tasks thanks to selenium. It’s really pretty simple once you get the hang of it. I’d totally recommend.
Yeah, the reason I was taught it was in an experiment design class, because it caused psychological harm to the subjects (not the prisoners) without their consent. Thus being an exemplary case of an ethical failure.
Understanding why the Linux loadavg rises every 7 hours
Quantifying fake volumes on cryptocurrency exchanges [pdf]
I dream of a big 5 job. Big 10, 20, 100? It seems so safe and nice. But yeah I am happier, that one is up to me :)
Markdown with pandoc. I use it to generate basic PDF's and it works fine. Links don't appear to work though.
When I lived in India, it was cheaper to hire someone to wash clothes and dishes by hand than to buy a washing machine or dish washer (and the place we lived wouldn't have had anywhere to put them anyway). [Though half the time we did these things (by hand) ourselves.]
I've got a subscription. When I finally felt on my feet as a programmer I got a subscription to the NY Times and my hometown paper. I think we should support publications that do good work, rather than trying to avoid them/hack around it.

If you're a working programmer/job-in-tech a newspaper subscriptions is almost nothing money wise, but contributes lots back.
Feeds a growing fervor to enable views. We can arc the anti-FB storylines and realize these cycles of generated angst are self-perpetuating.

I always knew of FB's issues, but what this whole pitchfork-building exercise has shown me is how the outlets people always defend for accuracy maintain a narrative by story choice alone. In their quest for views, they've fucked up the signal-to-noise ratio.
I've never heard of the city fining you for not having a green lawn. You can get in trouble for not mowing, and if you're in an HOA, maybe they require watering, but my lawn stays plenty green without any sprinkling.

My electric bill is about $80 in the summer to keep my $125k, 2000 sqft house at 72F. Not too bad IMO.

And everyone (40% of the houses in my neighborhood?) who waters their lawn does so at dawn and dusk, not 2AM. If you water in the middle of the night when the grass is cold and dormant, you can get mold.
Little vehicles are a great concept for cities and perhaps will (and should) take over the city. What this article fails to mention are the risks involved. As a New Yorker, I absolutely cringe when I see a family of tourists riding down a busy street on their bikes, oblivious to the world. It is extremely dangerous to ride a bike on the side of a busy road. Many streets are entirely without bikelanes and taxis , buses and trucks are constantly barreling around corners and driving in out out of the shoulder. Little vehicles will be great in a city with roads and pathways designed for them, but they remain a very risky proposition as long as the roads are designed for (and crowded with) much larger vehicles.
It's this triumph of marketing over engineering that caused them to really blow up.
That’s a nice story. Thanks for sharing.
> "but I rarely see good results, especially with structured data."

what algorithms are you using? I dont know if I am a ds neanderthal, but DNN are the last thing I try. xgboost and some ensembling with catboost usually gets very good results with little effort
Well, there's a couple other considerations. For one thing, some devices may have multiple IPv6 addresses - perhaps even entire slices of it. For another, having additional bits to work with allows people more room to divide their subnets into future-proof chunks without risking ever running out of IPv6 space - something IPv4 could never really afford in the first place. What would be considered large chunks of IPv4 are a drop in the bucket in IPv6.

I think the main idea is that you want to have plenty of space both for growing horizontally and vertically, at least enough to where you can't even imagine exhausting it in either direction. Giving massive private and public address space without need for NATs effectively provides this.

Also, hey, who knows. There isn't enough raw materials on Earth, perhaps, but maybe there are enough raw materials in the universe. Who knows for sure if the Internet always be confined to just Earth.
For technology that is obselete in 5 years.
> The mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Mohamed Atta, was an architectural engineer. Khalid Sheikh Mohamed got his degree in mechanical engineering. Two of the three founders of Lashkar-e-Taibi, the group believed to be behind the Mumbai attacks, were professors at the University of Engineering and Technology in Lahore...

> A paper (PDF) released this summer by two sociologists, Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog, adds empirical evidence to this observation. The pair looked at more than 400 radical Islamic terrorists from more than 30 nations in the Middle East and Africa born mostly between the 1950s and 1970s. Earlier studies had shown that terrorists tend to be wealthier and better-educated than their countrymen, but Gambetta and Hertog found that engineers, in particular, were three to four times more likely to become violent terrorists than their peers in finance, medicine or the sciences. The next most radicalizing graduate degree, in a distant second, was Islamic Studies.

(Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/200...)
Ask HN: Which highly esteemed book never really paid off for you?
With so many self-help and personal-development books it's really hard to know which ones are any good.
IMHO, with few exceptions such as David Allen's GTD book and perhaps Stephen Covey's 7 habits, most of them are full of personal anecdotes aimed to induce sugar highs.
Plus, there's no actual statistics on what percentage of people who read these books actually apply AND benefit from them.
It seems it takes most people a while to realize that what they are actually doing is venturing into escapism-pr0n.
Then again, a man's garbage can be another man's greatest treasure...
This is like comparing a sports car and a movie on cost and entertainment value.
> Date:01 May 2012

Not today, outrage factory.
Docker Considered Harmful (2016)
> With Ultimate, Nintendo seems to have finally started thinking of Smash as primarily a competitive game.

I don't think Nintendo was ever against its competitiveness. They probably understand that if they focus on keeping the game fun, the rest will follow, regardless of whether the competitive scene accepts it or not. For an example of getting this backwards, of trying to make a game competitive first and worrying about the fun afterwards, look at the painful example of StarCraft II. Blizzard succeeded in making that game competitive, ok. But they failed at making it fun, and as a result its energy as an eSport, i.e. its playerbase and therefore viewerbase of casual and casual-competitive players, fell out from under it.

I do agree the things Nintendo is offering the competitive scene with Ultimate is awesome. I'm buying a Switch before the holiday season starts because it's probably going to get hard to get.
I remember Intel being slightly mocked when they put 2 dual core dies on a package and called it a Core 2 Quad.
Thanks, will play with it this weekend.
What exchange service are you using in #2?
I pirated the Steve Martin comedy one.

Generally, it was not very structured, just Steve talking about his experiences, telling stories, and generic tips. Not super technical, its almost like they just whipped it up on the spot, kind of expected when you're dealing with busy celebrities who may not have experience actually teaching.