skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These numbers are not fair and square.

Let's say someone has $100. Cold Cash.

Let's say someone has $100. In xyz Asset.

Comparing both in terms of wealth is not fair and square.

First. They might have different purchasing power. Bezos can't liquidate $150bn of AMZ stock without slippage. If he could, then there must be another party willing to put $150bn of cash. Not many such parties in this world have that kinda cash laying around.

Second. They have different volatilities. $100 in cash is worth roughly $98 by next year. $100 in xyz asset might be $50 or $200.

Third. Holding an asset might have unrealized tax positions. I don't know the fiscal laws of America. But I think bezos will have to pay a significant portion of the liquidated asset since he is going to make profit. If you have $100 in cash, you don't have to pay anything. You already "realized" whatever profit.

But sure Bloomberg and Forbes would like to make headlines. That's their business.

What I'm trying to say is that this number is meaningless. Literally. Some asset management company has $6trillion under their management. That's x40 times more $$ power than bezos. But the bosses of these companies don't get as many headlines. Have you heard of BlackRock?
This AI Startup Could Be the Next DeepMind
I can log in without issue. If you're having problems, it's probably unrelated to the Prime Day outage.
I get the VC dynamics with startups. Well, sort of.

But, with the big employers, they're sufficiently big that everyone's no longer co-located in any meaningful sense anyway. Amazon seems to have already gotten this message with respect to Seattle (not just HQ2 but also, e.g., their Alexa building/hiring in the Boston Seaport).

I'm not sure how this plays out. Hopefully not with some massive tech crash. But I have to believe we're hitting (or have hit) peak salary for new hires in the Bay area and, at some point, most people are not going to live in a dorm to work for Facebook. And, if they are, that's sad.
Sure, like which entities do you mean? I think it is worth distinguishing from domestic and external, and state actors vs. non-state.
One example of what continues to concern me about nuclear technology -- energy and its large-scale use, in particular.

The technology may work just fine, when well-managed.

The human capacity for managing it, repeatedly proves itself incapable. And human history does not give me a lot of hope for that changing.

In this case, samples like these are essential for science. Heads need to roll, figuratively if not literally, to impress upon those remaining that you do not cheap out nor lazy out on your job.

And, for the money and management part, the trail needs to be chased upward, including to Congress. People who enable this need to be forced out of responsibility.
I encountered the error myself in S3
More Studies See Links Between Alzheimer's and Herpes
Who gets to decide which state is hostile? We should be friends with Russia, not blaming them for all of our woes.
And what does the GP means then ?

He wouldn't be able to do it
I have no idea really (I stopped working on the retail websites in 2013) but my gut feel is that that's about a couple of orders of magnitude too low at least.

But, yes, unforeseen rate limits and size limits can cause many hilarious things to happen. I've seen a few good ones in my time. In particular, when somebody sets an upper size on an in-memory table and commits it thinking "Well, I added a few orders of magnitude safety margin - that should be enough for anybody", that's probably going to become an incident at some point in the distant future ;) With luck, the throttling or failure behaviour will only affect a few people, and it'll be spotted by looking at traffic graphs and noticing a very slightly elevated rate of service errors. If you're unlucky, though, when you hit the limit the whole service slows down, locks up, or just plain crashes, and something like this happens...
Sea Level Rise Will Flood Key Internet Infrastructure Within 15 Years
On the one hand you make this sound extremely bad, while at the same time you describe it as just "making questionable statements".

Also, maybe I misunderstood the analogy, but I think you're being very unfair putting Albert Einstein who was wrong on quantum physics in the same basket as Roger Penrose with his view on consciousness, which may be questionable, but hasn't been disproved.
Pouring £2bn into a fighter in 2018 seems like a completely political move, a Brexit bluff and mere posturing from Theresa May.

I doubt it is related at all, Italy is a partner. Unless you are commenting on Five Star?
What happens when you’re communications with the drone is jammed? Or satellite relay system destroyed?
My one major concern not outlined above is that of responsibility to end users who may not have resources with which to adjust when large repos are retired. Case in point: We assume users of forges are like us - that is, back up their own code, proficient enough to move to their own local repository if needed, etc. However, what if some of the developers using an online repo were something else. Highly hypothetical but imagine they came from a country where they could only code from a remote server and had to check in to some online forge to store their code (whether it's source like Python or updates to documentation - not all project members are coders). Imagine this user was a political fugitive or similar.

Now, it's not your legal responsibility as the originator or current curator of the repo to help this person out, of course, but in terms of the industry and our behavior as software engineers it seems we do owe some sense of permanence to things that feel more like infrastructure than simple personal websites. I’ve been very guilty myself of stepping “briefly” away from things knowing in the back of my mind I may never return. I continue to try to reform my attitudes online. Remember BerliOS, Google Code, and CodePlex? Gna! is merely one of several, not even the most used.

Realizing this might appear an attack against the Gna! project owners, I had to reach out and talk about this with them and identify this as merely a conversation starter. The loss of Gna! definitely has made me think more about the ecosystem we work within and whether we are doing everything the way we should be doing. How many users of GitHub might be working under frightening conditions to get code out to the world they could be arrested for writing? We don't know. I merely propose we might have a gap here in the process that does not acknowledge users who may rely greatly on some of our tools we offer for "free" and that when we retire them, something important could be lost in the process.

Note: Sylvain Beucler, formerly of the Gna! project and notably of many great projects like Savane and FusionForge, reminded me ArchiveTeam volunteers are often working behind the scenes to keep snapshots of retires sites such as Gna! when able. That project is currently headed by one of my favorite ASCII-oriented minds, Jason Scott of textfiles.com. They are linked to below.

https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Gna!
Over which weekend? That bundle was from June 5th.
It has to stop, obviously. That $2 million house isn’t going to be $20 million in 10 years without serious inflation.

No one today remembers the early 90s, when plenty of people did or almost lost their shirts in the Bay Area housing markets.
Ask HN: Recs for a lightweight bug reporting tool that also supports video?
Like the title says. I've been using local tools like Quicktime and Screencastomatic to debug with screen recordings, but then I have to deal with converting it into a gif and then uploading the gif. Any recommendations for something quick and lightweight?
Why is this modded down? Pathetic.
“Direct air capture” of carbon dioxide alone won’t solve climate change
> but big chunks of their recordings are muted because they play copyrighted music.

It's ridiculous that Twitch mutes audio, even if it's only a few seconds. Fair use is being totally ignored.
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Take a look sometime at the history of storing and transporting nuclear material in the US and see if you ever sleep again. The combination locks set to 000000, the dropped wrenches almost blowing a hole in North Carolina, the senior officers getting drunk in Moscow bars... the list goes on.

Then remember that these are just the declassified stories from the US, and that there’s probably even more hair-raising tales from other countries and/or still classified.
BU Researchers Find a Potential Biomarker for Long-Lasting Learning
Reprogrammed DJI Mavic Pro used in 24,000ft rescue mission
my home servers are quite happy running slackware. they just keep doing their job without drama.

Thank you Patrick and co.
Guetzli is for minimizing file size at the highest quality levels for JPEGs. Essentially, it's for nice looking photos.

It only goes down to quality 84 and it takes a looonngg time to optimize. As a point of comparison, the author of the linked blog post dropped his JPEG quality to 70 and was happy with it. A JPEG at 70 (or lower), if you're happy with the look, has a good shot to be even smaller than the smallest Guetzli output.

Generally speaking, the easiest gains in JPEG file size will probably come from just dropping the quality down and down in tests, and deciding what you can live with. But if you have to have the best quality, and have plenty of resources/time for encoding, then maybe Guetzli will be a good fit.
Price cap goes hand-in-hand with what people will be able to afford. Dual tech income ~5-600k means the ceiling is still ahead, and if incomes continue to rise on the top end then the ceiling is open-ended.
Because the government will reimburse for the full cost of a rental vs just 53.5 cents per mile (circa 2017 GSA policy) in your own vehicle.
I can easily back up what I said about trump.

When asked about Putin and Russia killing people, he said the US killed many people (a very well known incident - do I need to google it for you?)

When he spoke just a few days ago, he said that while Russia may have hacked the DNC, they also tried to hack the RNC and didn’t get in due to their superior defenses (which is incidentally false, they did get hacked). And, that it was the Democratic Party’s fault that they had weak protection. Again, a very well known incident analyzed on detail widely in our media - want me to google it for you?

Ha, thanks for quoting me. Gosh, I promise not to edit. This is silly. Your post is pretty much advertising that you don’t know what you’re talking about, but you still down voted me and replied.
I don't know, I mean, are there really that many employees who have ~$3m in cash?
> I just want to elaborate on this to show which assumptions you are making. There are two ways to make a paired unit: --+ and -+-.

Why are there three characters to represent a pair?

Do you mean something like this:

car with toilet: [+-]

car without toilet: [--]

my pair: [+-][--]

your pair: [-+][--]

?

> This is then the "extra few feet" that he talks of.

Using my notation (sorry to flip it):

[-+][--][-+][--]

That's four cars. If someone is sitting at the right end of car #2, they have an arrow pointing them to car #1 for the toilet. If that toilet is broken, then they must walk back through car #2 all the way to the end of car #3.

But I may be misunderstanding your initial notation.
I would bet that most aren't employed but own their own business(es).
So much of a well-functioning team depends on trust.
In journalism, the argument is as follows:
If the answer to the question is "yes," it is a stronger/more authoritative headline to simply assert instead of pose a question.

Therefore, any headline that poses a question will result in the answer being "no."

It doesn't apply in this case because it's a Quora question and not an editorialized piece of journalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
This, by the way, is why all RAF pilots are officers. Mere enlisted are not to be trusted with nuclear weapons, back when we had tac nukes. In WW2 lots of pilots were sergeants.
Robo-Advisor Hedgeable Is Closing. Who’s Next?
Yes, this is done in practice and is a little scary because of its potential as a means of manipulating automated trading. On the other hand the markets can be manipulated already via news read by humans...
IBM's new Nabla containers are designed for security first
What's driving up tech salaries, is it primarily because companies are aware of the cost of living in the Bay Area and are paying their employees accordingly? And if so doesn't that just cause a feedback loop? Or is it just because tech is making a lot of money and so compensation naturally increases?
Before I even looked at this, I just knew commie china would be leading the offenders. Too bad we couldnt just install a big dome over them and see what happens.
The parent comment explicitly says the "$35K model coming later this year". Your comment would be more helpful if you provided a critique of why it is not coming rather than just asserting it in an overly-combative way.
Good question.

I just tested that with Keepa on this phone [1] [2] [3] [4]. The charts are different for all 4 colours but personally I like it that way. Usually I have a preference for colours. However, sometimes I don't, and if I'd buy for someone else who knows? Its gonna depend. I checked the settings and was able to compare different Amazon versions (per country) but not merge colours of the same item.

With The Camelizer it shows the wrong price (I take it it grabs Amazon US price but I'm not sure).

I don't have an account on Keepa or CamelCamelCamel. Perhaps having an account gives further benefits.

[1] https://www.amazon.de/Nokia-3310-Single-Sim-Mobiltelefon-Gra...

[2] https://www.amazon.de/Nokia-3310-Single-Sim-Mobiltelefon-Gra...

[3] https://www.amazon.de/Nokia-3310-Single-Sim-Mobiltelefon-Gra...

[4] https://www.amazon.de/Nokia-3310-Single-Sim-Mobiltelefon-Gra...
Check out Sebastian Seung's lectures online

Connectome: How The Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS6nTA3DUuY

As well as the MIT Seung Lab's Eyewire Game. It's a kind of citizen science interface. Observing images of the neural structures behind the human eyeball. You can assist in untangling the dense jumble of wiring that leads to image processing in the brain ;)
It's the same failure mode, but it's a much worse problem. For the (human) police to join the insurrection, they have to be persuaded that the insurrection is either morally right or too big to fight (which may mean that it's too big for the police to consider arresting/killing them all to be an acceptable solution). For the robots with guns to join the revolution just takes one really good hacker.
Making Games Better for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing – Designing for Disability
The Media absolutely refuses to show this aspect of the meddling. That it was playing all-sides to encourage the same end result.
If you are a traveller (or planing to become one) I highly recommend reading Travels with Myself and Others by Martha Gellhorn.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/925368.Travels_With_Myse...
Tuples in JavaScript
The Book of PF was pretty highly lauded in some comments on another HN thread, maybe a month or a bit more ago.

I'll see whether I can find that thread; I think I commented on it.

--

P.S. Comment on that thread mentioning it. As I replied, it's also in O'Reilly's Safari online subscription library.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17360713

I guess the author has a lot of its content online, as well, maybe in somewhat different form.
Yeah, okay - many others like yourself want to convince us it is not significant.

So what about their hacking of state and national elections systems, hacking into voter databases, voting machine software companies? There have been a wide variety of warnings from wide variety of national security agencies concerning Russian activity that goes far beyond advertising propaganda.
I can't login to my root aws account right now. It's pretty annoying that the root account login for aws is tied to amazon.com retail accounts.
>Do I ignore workers when I state that discussions around police obesity are not grounded economic discourse?

Well it's not economic discourse at all, it's political discourse.

>Is there any universe in which this conversation leads to a reasonable place?

You're against the conversation in general? It seems that you think discussion of inequality leads inevitably to the idea that we should engage in violent revolution. If that's the case maybe violent revolution is the most reasonable place.
Good choice, you won't regret it!
Thanks! It did.
If parking space is build underground as it often is in the cities, the construction is expensive. If you build below sea level, it can be even more.

If you build above the ground, the construction cost can be just $20-30k EUR, but after you factor in the cost of the land, the cost is similar.
I am unable to buy/bid on my Amazon AMS ads still as of 2:12PM.
The franchise and the virus work on the same principle: what thrives in one place will thrive in another. You just have to find a sufficiently virulent business plan, condense it into a three-ring binder — its DNA — xerox it, and embed it in the fertile lining of a well-traveled highway, preferably one with a left-turn lane...

- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
I can't agree more - I wouldn't trust an organization that can't explain that to you.
This (and the sibling) strikes me as an odd interpretation - there are more guns than people in the US - most households with any guns, have more than one gun. And as I see it living in a household with guns, generally means access to guns?

So I readily read one in three households, as strictly more than one in three persons - have access to guns?
People can be extremely resilient, especially when their lives are at hand. I don't think you've thought this through. A true civil war where the US military is fighting its own citizens won't be like the Iraq war at all. There is likely to be mass defection of soldiers who are unwilling to fight their own countrymen. Massive civil disobedience where taxpayers stop paying their taxes, farmers defect to the sides that they most recognize with.

Its not a scenario that I really want to think about since its so brutal. But it can happen, and the war is likely to be a prolonged battle.

Not to mention, the unrest in the Motherland will let other rogue forces run amok internationally as they jostle for supremacy over each other. I can't see any of that ending well.
I'm hoping there's a point where people are going to say, no... an old 1 bedroom apartment isn't worth $4k/mo. And where we collectively realize that maybe it's not great to be sending so much of our money to landlords.
Google had NIH syndrome to a rediculous degree. I don't know what they use for ERP but when I was there, external software had a shelf of just a few years before a Google engineer was sufficient annoyed to write a replacement in his 20% time.
This sounds like a silly trick, but I literally put a post-it on my monitor with the name of the task I'm currently working on.

It's very easy to get distracted by things in my environment and on my screen, and just seeing a sign in my line of vision that says something like "making redlines for mobile screens" helps me re-focus.

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Edited to add: the task needs to be something specific, not an abstract like "doing UX work." I take advantage of Asana's sub-tasks to try and break down all my work into the most robot-like steps possible. That keeps me focused on the task itself, instead of figuring out what my next step is.
It's not just foreign accents that might lead to discrimination. After 25 years in the US I still have a German accent but I'm pretty sure that's less of a liability than a southern or african american accent (or vernacular, probably), at least on the coasts where I'd be likely to job-hunt.
>> they can't do anything fun like they once did like community-voted flash sales where something will be super-duper discounted for an hour while for the rest of the two weeks it'll only be merely super discounted.

Flash sales were an important part of the classic deep-discount Steam sale, but it's easy to upset people with them. Put another way, you buy at 60% off, then tomorrow it's 80% off. What do you do? What can you do in some circumstances (e.g. you already started playing for a few hours)? I guess I should clarify that this wasn't the only factor (the increase in alternate distribution and visibility channels is another) but it contributed. A side effect is that because of there being little you could do, wiser gamers would wait until the last day to make sure none of the games they wanted ended up on one of the flash sales, then buy things. Valve makes a lot more money if people are buying throughout the sale -- and they've since added a lot of search, filtering, and discoverability to the platform that flash sales once had a role in that encourage those impulse buys.
I've never heard anyone claim that "$100k in facebook ads turned the election".
I listen to a lot of music and try to make myself work at late hours, when nobody else is around. ADHD medication helped me over the years as well, and allows me to function well every day.

The best way I've ever been able to explain my thought process is as a branching tree, in which the trunk is the primary focus and the branches are the wandering paths that I think of along the way. Unmedicated I cannot help but only suggest where to think, but when medicated I can choose.

Luckily I can make my own hours or else I can't really manage much social interaction without needing to leave.
There's not that many, though.

The vast majority of Democrats like corporate employment.
Re: accessibility - the GOV.UK team have produced some basic but helpful accessibility posters ("Do's and Don'ts"). The posters are on Github to allow anyone to use them. There are translations in multiple languages:

https://github.com/UKHomeOffice/posters/tree/master/accessib...

Here is the (2016) blog post introducing the posters: https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/02/dos-and-donts-o...
It's called the Duck Hunt principle.
If you have a checking account you probably have more liquid assets than the bottom 3 billion.
The 12 Monkeys TV series recently ended and it had pretty much every single time travel trope in there eventually, it was kind of awesome.
Considering they already make the Typhoon and have a century of experience in the field across many different aircraft platforms, in what way are they running from behind?
The is an expression in my language for "loving humor". I cant translate the jokes to English easily, but basically it is sort of similar to Chuck Norris jokes - those jokes make Chuck Norris cool. Sort of, it makes people laugh while makes target look more human and makes them like target.

Like, when you joke about someone and that person adopts a joke and brags about it afterwards, because what your joke make visible about him is what he likes about himself.

Basically, you will not joke about things that make target inferior, lesser, outsider or something like that. Your joke will extrapolate what target likes about himself, people like about him and he/she is not vulnerable or insecure about.