skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tricky part is, of course, that legitimate economic efficiency arguments can be made for allowing the highly productive to bequest their incomes to beneficiaries who are mere owners (to encourage the originators of the wealth to continue to be productive). But in practice, that leads to concentration of resources in the hands of people who are not necessarily as productive as their predecessors

The other confounding factor is that "production" itself in dollar terms is not some immutable variable, but the price-system reflecting the aggregate desires of all those people holding resources. As ownership of resources becomes more concentrated, the measure of income from production becomes less an ability to meet the needs of wider society through effort and skill and more the ability to secure the patronage of a member of a diminishing number of superrich.

The relationship between the basic economic concepts of productive efficiency (viz. creating as much value as possible) and allocative efficiency (viz. ensuring resources are exchanged to permit everyone to obtain as much value as possible without someone else having to subsidise it) therefore exists in tension.
A scientific dead-end, then...
I have recently built a machine with Ryzen 2700X & geforce gtx 1050ti (GPU is required as Ryzen doesn't have an internal one but there are plenty of cheaper ones like mine), running Ubuntu and it's just fantastic. Docker builds, compilation takes seconds as compared to my macbook which has i7. Plus there's no overheating issues when I am running Kubernetes all the time and I can still code.

TL;DR Ryzen 2700X is great value for money, would recommend it any day :)
Why would you tolerate such behavior? Coding standards are important and must be enforced.
What about OpenGL? Is it worth learning now?
I'm sure Netflix would have seen explosive growth if it required 1 year, $100+ contracts, and that's assuming content producers would have been okay with it (they wouldn't have).

Sure they could have used a different business model, but had they, we wouldn't be talking about Netflix.
this is once of those things where I'm 90% confident it isn't actually harmful to a young child...

...and yet if I had a child, I wouldn't expose them to tablets at a young age, just because that 10% is scary.
Or we could give up the illusion that individual production is easily measurable, especially where it comes to highly collaborative / creative industries. (See: any number of debates on "10x" engineers, C-suite compensation, how much managers vs. their reports ought to get paid, etc. - and that leaves out discussions of more "team-oriented" cultures where success is thought of as a collective endeavor.)
"The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable" is a sentiment that has been around for a lot longer than a couple of years.

https://www.poynter.org/news/today-media-history-mr-dooley-j...
maybe gitlab’s goal to integrate the whole of the software dev life cycle into a single UI isn’t the UX what you want.

(Personally I find it a lifesaver)
Yes but microfluidics limits how thin each die can be.
I don't see the point in criticising other people's houses.

If they have the money, and if that's what they want, more power to them. I wish I could afford to build whatever I wanted.
> By exposing them to something that doesn't react to the laws of physics, I fear they get a wrong first impression of the world, that at an early age they are not able to distinguish the difference between a book and a representation of one.

I'm not friends with how you casually throw the word "wrong" in there, as if it was an unquestionable universal agreement.

Transport yourself (by vessel of imagination) to a future where this toddler is 30 years old, and both you and this toddler-no-more are bidding for a project: a customer is going to write a neat piece of software dealing with technical spec sheets, but they need someone to do the interaction design for it. Of course, it's going to run on the next-next-next-next-next gen touch surfaces which is what is available at the time.

You both present your solutions to the customer, and after a few weeks they call you up to say, "Please don't get us wrong. Your interface was really good. We decided to go with the ex-toddler anyway. They had similar ideas to yours, it's just that yours felt a bit tied to the Newtonian laws of physics. The toddler seemed to think more freely about the medium and used that for good.

"We fear that, given your age, you have gotten a wrong first impression of digital interfaces. You seem to have problems distinguishing the difference between what we call a book these days, and one of those old objects made from dead trees."

I'm not saying it's good either, I'm saying it's different. And while the toddler perspective may look wrong with your 20th century eyes, it could very well be that your perspective looks wrong with the toddlers 21st century eyes.
Byzantine Fault Tolerant Distributed Ledger
Yeah, I think in the data science community, GBDTs are appropriately-hyped, since their dominant performance on Kaggle has been well known for some time now. In addition to that, GBDTs are so easy to run; taken together, it's probably always correct to just run a GBDT as one of the first things you do after you've got the data wrangled. Of course, as a phd-in-training data scientist, I feel disappointed (either in myself or in the task) if I can't think of a more interesting and better performing method than a GBDT :)
HN seems to hate everything Blockchain.

Maybe it just because you guys were pathetically late to the party, who knows.

Either way, this article is junk, you you 22 idiots are dummies for up voting.
Sounds like an invitation to shell games and shell companies. And exodus to more tax-friendly jurisdictions. Source: I used to be a tax lawyer.

Even if this weren’t the case, people would be disincentived from working hard jobs if there were a maximum wage.
What percentage of PC users has ever installed an OS of any kind, ever?
Gaming CS Interviews
Never had an issue so far, i buy everything for our family on there.
That's not the only source of income in Monopoly though.
No, I'm not.

Whether their claims have any merit or not is not for me to say, but how many other womens' rape allegations result in an international extradition effort...just for questioning?

The government wanted him already. Now they had a reason to bring him in, by making a bigger deal out of allegations they would otherwise ignore.
You do use it. AFAIK, the ME handles power management, legacy backwards compatibility, and all sorts of other random chipset stuff you don't necessarily want to expose to the main cores, in addition to the DRM and remote administration capabilities.
I didn’t write that with an agenda, I wanted to point out this data analysis which is a common topic for the HN community; unfortunately I could only link to the top the page and not just to the section.

Actually I use FP languages in my free time.
> I've seen children accustomed to using touch interfaces blurring the line between physical and virtual, i.e swiping at physical objects like books, photos, even walls. I've not seen this behavior with those used to non touch interfaces.

Recently I started reading actual paperbacks again after a few years doing most of my reading on a tablet; I was quite amused to find that sometimes I'd try to swipe the pages instead of turning them.

I'm in my forties. My first computer was in 1981. I've got decades of interacting via keyboard behind me and this still happened to me. Habit is a powerful thing.
All my issues (on gitlab.com) now have an "Epic" field, but I can't find anywhere to actually create an epic. Am I missing it somewhere?
My favorite part of GitLab is the .gitlab-ci.yml and gitlab-runner workflow. My least favorite is how much RAM is required to run GitLab. You can't host your own on a $5 DigitalOcean vps. Does anyone know of any work being done on gitea/gogs, or other alternatives, that would support .gitlab-ci.yml and gitlab-runner?

@gitlab It would be awesome if you would split out GitLab-CI into something you can host separately as a direct competitor to Jenkins. Or maybe a stripped down "lite" version that could be hosted on small vps's. I know that doesn't fit your overall vision, or really help your bottom line, but it would help a lot of individuals and small organizations that need to self host for some reason (as in, there's a reason they can't use GitLab.com).
> Ask the rich to set aside 20% of their wealth to provide low interest rate (~1% to 2%) loans...

Instead of or in addition to taxes?
> While that does simplify computers so that more people can use it in the short-term, it also strips away the whole purpose of computing, which is to empower people with a more advanced tool.

Back in Sumeria they used to go on and on about how this newfangled writing thing would destroy civilization because it took the personal element out of interpersonal communication.

Just because the majority of people don't concern themselves with learning the intimate details of how a computer works doesn't in any way imply their lives aren't "empowered" through their interactions with one. Having the world's knowledge at one's fingertips (or voice prompt) is arguably a lot more valuable than having the requirement to construct a complex query to find out where writing was invented.

You can lead a horse to water...
Is there a similarly named condition for people of high ability who don't appropriately view their skills as superior resulting in distress when their peers fail to achieve equivalent performance?

I want to say something like Aspergers* but without the emotional or decision impairment that otherwise comes with Autism. I am thinking a similarly lacking self-awareness with regard to the immediate social environment, but a deflated sense of self-worth opposed to inflated.

The result of such inverted bias is judging one's self in reflection to the performance of that person's peers only to be frustrated that certain performance or results are seemingly incomplete or of noticeably weaker quality. Since the biased person is judging themselves in reflection to the performance of their peers they will incorrectly view this incompetence as a reflection of their own performance or potential while the people who actually performed the supposedly incompetent work don't see the ascribed faults resulting in the biased individual over-compensating for faults that are generally not valued. This reminds me of OCD and perfectionism.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome
Looks great, can you explain how it differs from say PLEX?
Japanese isn't as well suited to a keyboard as English is; a smartphone and keyboard are about equally fast for typing Japanese.
I think not.

I lost all the hope on the smartphone ecosystem.
Worked for me on two machines, no ill effects at all
Create an IoT Twitter Bot in 5 Minutes
Marxism and anti-capitalism spread like a wildfire throughout media and academia

Academia especially. There is a huge amount of anti-capitalist sentiment in our Universities and colleges. Elon Musk is a glowing icon, and living proof of the objective superiority of the capitalist system. It's no surprise that hordes of humanities-educated journalists are happy to write hit-pieces about him.
I have, on more than one occasion, reached down and wiggled my pencil in order to avoid getting a screensaver on the sheet of paper I was working with a couple of minutes ago.
Most of the supercomputers in energy are currently at grid operators (in California, it's called CAISO[1]). Lots of interesting neural networks stuff being done to drive the energy futures wholesale markets and grid services events. Those sorts of companies usually go to Grid <whatever>[2][3][4] conferences, so that's a good place to look for companies/agencies hiring (look at the speakers, sponsors, and exibitors). ERCOT in Texas has been particularly innovative with it's wholesale market operations.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Independent_System_...

[2]: https://sepapower.org/event-complex/grid-evolution-summit-na...

[3]: https://www.greentechmedia.com/events/live/grid-edge-innovat...

[4]: http://www.distributech.com/index.html
No, "inequality of outcomes" . If you are motivated by status, then inequality of status outcomes. If you are motivated by helping your siblings, then inequality of your siblings' well being. If you are motivated by glitter, then just how much glitter you get. Money is but one dimension... I am saying it is self-evident that there must be some non-trivial gradient in at least one direction.
I'm not even sure this counts as a scam, but I think it's relevant to what you're looking for.

I found this (https://www.amazon.com/Conditioner-Evaporative-Circulator-Hu...) fan/humidifier and the reviews are all for what looks like a lunchbox.

I assume either the company is listing this new product under a listing that already had good reviews, or that the seller of this product bought this page that already had good reviews. Or it could be a genuine mistake but I think it's suspect.

I didn't actually buy the fan so I can't speak to it's quality.
The brain may clean out Alzheimer’s plaques during sleep
I don't want to connect with anyone, just see at which company/ies they work and their function(s). Paying recruiters have a nice search function for that on LinkedIn.
> Obscuring a database id is probably fine

If you can guess what the next database ID is, then you can probably use it to take over the cookie session ID, use it in a replay attack, or whatever, depending on how your app is architected.

... if you don't need to keep something secret, then why hash it at all? And if you do, then actually hash it.
Stephen Baxter wrote an apocalyptic novel "Flood" about what happens if these oceans leak to the surface.
Still have and occasionally purchase CDs for ripping, but never cared to own video that I might watch once every five years. Also the churn in formats makes it a losing prop anyway. Regret my video disc purchases of the last decade or two.
I apologize in advance for what is pretty much a tangent, but I wanted to mention a kind of passive wind generator that has no moving parts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaneless_ion_wind_generator

It's basically one half of Lord Kelvin's Thunderstorm turned sideways and powered by wind instead of gravity.

Imagine a conductive screen, like an aluminum screen door and, upwind of it, a spray nozzle that emits mist. There is a conductive ring around the nozzle that is DC-biased so that the mist droplets carry a charge. The wind moves the droplets to the screen, collecting the charge.

There are no moving parts so you wouldn't injure birds.
(2017) You might be able to: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3220476/security/researche...

https://github.com/ptresearch/unME11
Most people don’t flee their country’s legal system, and if they do they’re quietly pursued. Even fewer loudly defy their country’s legal system, but when they do they tend to be loudly pursued as a deterrent. It doesn’t get more public and defiant than taking shelter in a foreign country’s embassy while declaring both your innocence, and that your home country is corrupt and lying about you. Very few countries would take that lying down.

Then you add the prexisting desire to nab him, but only then.
They talk about remote management, but there's no requirement for that to be a secret that I know of.
Answer: class

Pierre Bourdieu does as decent job as any in breaking down the social topology of class, but his legacy is fraught with his failure to sufficiently account for many economic phenomena that are constantly becoming more clear. It’s hard to elaborat on these in short. The case study of outsider art is a useful case study both in defense of and in objection to Bourdieu’s comprehensions of social class.

The insistence on a distinction so classist as “outsider art” is just another shameful depravity in the name of maintaining a VIP zone for the bourgeois in a world of mass media. Let’s remember “the art world” didn’t exist until the 90s.
The Mega Machines Helping China Link the World
Most modern formats have both alpha and animation, support lossless and lossy, all while still getting better performance and compression than jpg/png. And even then, when it comes to replacing the old formats, it's still an uphill battle.
Our government is actually set up, quite intentionally, to avoid making this possible. It's one of the core purposes of a republic. You can go back and read Plato discussing the exact idea that democracy is dangerous because the poor will vote to rob the rich.
How does the code search compare to best-in-class search tools like SourceGraph? Looks like GitLab is still missing a lot of important utilities like informative tooltips, jump-to-definition, etc.
What sort of tech work specifically? What languages are used?
Motor memory working as intended. It can adapt in the other direction.
Hacking user perception to make your websites and apps feel faster
Should Companies Use A.I. To Monitor Their Employees Work Habits?
> But you wouldn't observe ...(warped space-time, funky time dilation, etc.).

A survivor on Earth wouldn't notice it locally, but the presence of a very strong Einstein lens subtending ~ 100 sr on the sky would be unmistakeable.

Essentially, we'd get to observe many photons that would have crashed into the sun's surface (roughly each photon frequency having its own) travelling instead through the space between where that surface would be and very close to the event horizon. We would also see rocky and icy objects that crash into the sun (or are vapourized near some value of its surface) instead passing through a similar near region between each such object's former periastron and very close to the event horizon. Surviving Earthlings could readily test many general-relativistic predictions. The major observational problem would be that dim rocky/metallic/carbonaceous objects are already hard to see even when hot from direct illumination close to the sun, and comets would no longer throw off extremely visible tails.

> lethal doses of gamma radiation

I'm unsure this would be the case -- what would be the source? If it's matter being drawn into jets, why would those be oriented towards the Earth, when the sun's rotational axis does not point at Earth now? Also, what gets drawn into the jets other than matter in the relic fields and whatever bits of rock and ice happen to fall right in on an extremely lucky trajectory, the horizon area being so small? Do you expect a busy accretion structure? Why? And what suppresses visible light if the accretion structure is the source of gammas?
Primary goal: preview inside the video on hover (scrub). I may be mistaken but I don't think PLEX has it. Video Hub App also has a filmstrip view and a quick and advanced search capabilities (by folder, file name, exclude, etc). PLEX has many features that my app isn't trying to replicate -- I think the two are aimed at different use cases.
Craig Evans (the author) is the most selfless mathematician I’ve ever studied under—-hands down a life-changing teacher. These notes, as are all his teaching notes, are magnificent.
They don't teach touch-typing in school anymore? It's really surprising and disheartening, if so.
I think there's something to this. I can type with a pretty decent speed if I look down at the keys now and then; my hands float around the keyboard and mostly hit keys with the first two fingers on either hand, with the occasional left pinky for a modifier and right thumb for space.

I have tried to Learn To Touch Type multiple times in my life and every single time I could feel my wrists starting to ache from holding them close together and angled. Dealing with that's just not worth the increased speed and ability to never look at the keyboard that touch-typing would give me.
I’m pretty sure the iOS 7/OS X Yosemite redesign was specifically intended to do what you say iOS 11 is taking “baby steps” in. This both predates Material Design and if anything the iterations after 7/Yosemite have toned down the translucency stuff. Source: any media released around the time iOS 7 was announced.
Boston Dynamics Is Gearing Up to Produce Thousands of Robot Dogs
Why? Few care about 4k optical discs on a PC.
Presumably, escrow would be the blockhainy solution to this. 2-of-3 key signatures required to release payment, so at the end of a ride, both parties need to agree all was in order, or file a dispute with the escrow provider.

Blockhain shenanigans aside, it seems to me Uber could provide escrow here. It would at least remove this problem of after-the-fact surprise charges.
Berkeley rejects infill housing project to preserve a gas station
got two houses for sale 'near nothing' but a semi major university, good high speed, and 90 minutes from a major metro with great connections to others. :-)
I started touch typing at around 18, after just forcing myself as I knew it'd be beneficial in the long run.

I could type around 60wpm using two fingers, I know where they keys are... Just not how to use every finger!

Now I touch type 'properly' I can get close to 100wpm. My speed has kind of plateaued now though unfortunately.
Yeah, I studied blockchains before for a job (some business person saying: "hey we should really look into blockchain, and AI, and Big Data, and IoT, because errr...") and I always felt stupid and like I didn't understand it. Simple things like, why is this such a big deal? What problem does it actually solve? Why is it so amazing compared to a database? It's so, so difficult to actually read what these projects actually "do" sometimes. They often don't define what they think a blockchain actually is, or their threat model, or what their solution concretely does compared to regular databases. Once they got me to look at some project similar to this, and I was so confused as to why anyone would care I literally posted it on Hacker News because maybe they would care? But it got shot down. Which was actually quite a good moment for me because I realized that yes, I am right, this stuff is actually nonsense.

I eventually realized that, perhaps, they're just deliberately obtuse. Banks or other business people are obviously falling for it. Wait until these bankers learn what Git is.
And yet populism is soundly defeating the global business community for votes.
For any newcomers to the hobby looking for a semi-complex game-night staple, I'd recommend "7 Wonders". Works with 3-7 players, and is absolute genius.
I agree, nobody knows. I don't even think Tesla knows what demand will be. It's all spitballing and guesstimates.

Most people don't put down a deposit on an car that doesn't even exist yet and wait for years. How much demand will there be for the car under normal conditions, when you can take it for a test drive and buy it in the normal way, quality is known, manufacturing problems aren't always making the news, and there's no more status in having one than owning a Leaf or a Prius?
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> I've seen children accustomed to using touch interfaces blurring the line between physical and virtual, i.e swiping at physical objects

A friend of mine in college once wrote date on a sheet of paper during an exam, expecting to find out what time it was...
> 5 minutes walk or 1 minute drive to a shop for groceries, hardware, lumber, restaurants, kid parks.

Yes, this sounds amazing. In fact you've just described exactly what (most) in the big city enjoy about it.

You also described a vanishingly small amount of American small towns. Most are much more akin to suburbs, which to me is the absolutely worst form of living yet invented.

I completely understand those who want to live in small towns/rural area around nature. I completely understand those who want to live in a big city with big city conveniences. I simply do not understand those who want to live in between.
Agile coaches, HN talking about the revolutionary power of disruption.