skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cross country trains in the US are a perennial loss maker, subsidized by under-investing in the profitable dense population corridors, where we could conceivably invest in high speed rail if there was political will to do so (there’s not, but that’s a separate issue).

How much money does the interstate highway system make? Yet we keep funding that for some reason. How much money does you local streets make ?

And before you pull out the "completely different card" remember that both rail and highways serve the exact same societal need: Moving goods and humans from one place to another. We stick humans/goods in a box with wheels and roll them to their destination.

Explain why the box rolling on asphalt should be subsidized but the box rolling on steel should not?

> Replacing cross country Amtrak with comfortable buses would be faster, more reliable, cheaper, and more acccessible to the population that uses trains

I don't believe you have ever taken a bus long distances. I have. Its like being stuck in an airplane. The long distance busses in Thailand are o.k. However you are still glued to your seat in a way that is not true for trains.
Maybe because the site isn't served over TLS, just in case black hat flat-earthers try a MITM on scientific progress?

Here's a link straight to the downloadable PDF two clicks past that abstract:

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2018/07/24/scien...
Here's how I answered this on Quora 2 years ago:

>In short, you want ~25x your annual expenses to be able to retire (not annual income - annual expenses). This allows you to draw ~4% every year and more-or-less never run out of funds (presuming a conservative, stable investment.

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https://www.quora.com/How-much-money-do-you-think-you-need-t...
It says 1.5 km down. I'd expect there to be significant pressure down there. Enough to make it liquid at -10C? I suspect so, but I'm not an expert on the pressure gradient on Mars...
That really would put us in the same collection as a few failed states and minor dictatorships. Being outside the WTO would be _even more_ inconvenient.
No, Wccftech has a reputation of posting any rumors and not bothering to verify them.
Artificial and Human Intelligence
I really love the "duplicate finder" and its ability to pick and choose metadata to keep. Perhaps just create a duplicate item and deal with merge conflicts later?
>> I imagine suburbs on the moon and my neighborhood being demolished to make way for a big-dumb ugly space highway so the city planners who don't actually live here can get in and out of my town as fast as possible.

Hopefully they will post notice more conspicuously than in the bottom of a locked file cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door reading "Beware of Leopard."
> SD card support. Best selling phones support this. People carry lots of movies and music with them, mostly pirated and takes lot of space. And you can normally buy SD cards pre-filled with popular songs and movies that you just insert into your phone when traveling.

With Android phones already being much less secure than iPhones (and doubly so because the cheaper Androids often run older versions) that seems like a terribly easy exploit vector.
Fighting cancer is being the little Dutch boy sticking your finger in a dam. Adding a decade or so at the end of people's lives is great, but bodies break down, and you're going to be fighting a constant rear-guard action.

Getting off this rock is the first step towards getting all of our eggs out of one basket.
Why did you say "on your behalf?" I don't identify as right-wing and I am not a citizen of the UK
HT is easy to implement but hard to debug. It wouldn't be at all surprising if an Intel engineering sample had HT disabled during the testing of some early samples. And really an Intel heavyweight core is wider than it needs to be in most cases where it isn't running two threads.
It's also entirely possible that the cure for all forms of cancer is a diet consisting entirely of frosted flakes, and that spending $400B researching the effects of all-cereal diets would also discover the cure for cancer.

However, it's far more likely that $400B in cancer research will do more for curing cancer than hoping for side effects from $400B in other research.
That assumes that more money equals more results in cancer (or any) research, which is just not true. We're already making huge breakthroughs in cancer research, research takes a lot of time.
Thanks for the mentions. I am sure it is helpful to anyone reading the threads.
OK, but also, water that is undrinkable until refined.
OK, bored of your bullshit now. Please fuck off.
Doctor on IBM's Watson: “This product is a piece of shit”
The RealClimate.org piece is a very nice piece of scientific prose; I enjoyed the historical preface. The scientific discussion was clear enough that I could get an overall sense of the field but specific enough that I know where to look if I want to make a deep dive into any one of the various related claims: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2018/07/does-a...

More generally, though, climate science makes me queasy. I'm more than happy to accept the dominant theories and sort of understand that there's a lot of people who understand enough of the related science to have an informed opinion, but I feel like it would take at least a Ph.D. and a postdoc before I could really get to that point. There are just so many complex systems in play.
You don't need a trained, protection dog. E.g. Labradors are toys, being bred to be playful and loving. A half breed of a pit bull doesn't count much either.

What you need is an aggressive race. Also females tend to be more protective AFAIK.

I had a Rottweiler for example, that I was walking without a leash near my building because to my knowledge she was well behaved, but with no special training other than me talking with her daily. So one day I was attacked by a homeless person and my dog, came from the bush where she was peeing and nearly bit his hand off. Well she was about 50 Kg and size and weight do count.

And another day she stood her ground to a pack of 3 or 4 street dogs. What can I say, was living in a bad neighborhood.

Also in our country we still have many classic shepherds that practice transhumance, with these 2 races of dogs being very popular, called "mioritic shepherd" and "caucasian shepherd", including all kinds of half breeds, and these shepherd dogs can get pretty big and get used for defense against thieves, wolves, you name it.

And they don't need training btw. They aren't kept for emotional support, they are kept to defend the herd and with the harsh conditions involved, they can get really, really aggressive. And actually it's the same story if you go to the country side where people keep dogs to protect the house and livestock. Dogs being entirely utilitarian, they only get food and shelter in exchange, not love, so they know what needs to be done in case of intruders.

My grandparents had a saying — if you want a dog that can protect you, you should never allow other people to feed or pet it.
Your "Fourth option" is still there, but this universe has time's arrow, so you get the second outcome I described.

Because of time's arrow, it's mistake to assume that if you do nothing then nothing will happen, you're literally up against the Laws of Thermodynamics. The only people who think you might win that fight are crackpots building perpetual motion machines.
Georgia the state's population outnumbers Georgia the country's, and Atlanta is considered a world city.

Tons of movies and tv shows are filmed in Atlanta (Marvel, dozens of Netflix shows, etc.), and the city is a major music hub.

If Atlanta lands HQ2, you can expect for it to take off in the tech scene too.
Elon has signed Buffett's giving pledge. So (if he's true to his word) eventually he will donate the vast majority of his wealth to charity.

In the meanwhile, most of his net worth is tied up in shares of his companies. Selling or directly donating shares means giving up more control, and if he believes his companies will outperform other investments (or even just that it beats inflation), there is a non-clear moral tradeoff even for a strict altruist- do I donate now to solve problems now, or do I hold onto my money so it can grow and solve more problems when I donate later?
> Pharmacology is a very difficult science that we get wrong all the time, yet we still have medicine because we are able to test our medicines by trying them on animals and people.

And look at how much it costs, how unreliable the results are, and how even after full batch of successful trials, we have no clue why a drug works. This is because medicine, as a practical ofshoot of biology, is a field so complex, it defies reasoning from first principles. We don't have a full model of how things work, so we rely on the "shotgun approach" - statistics.

Same thing happens in psychology, sociology and economics. If you take a large enough sample and apply enough statistics to it, you can see something that looks sort of like evidence to your hypothesis. In the end, you're not much closer to knowing why it happens (and why it happens only some percentage of the time).

Compare that to hard sciences, where most of the time, you can design experiments based on first principles, and you can connect the results back to fundamental theories through a string of formal math.

> A test of a model is its ability to predict.

That I 100% agree with. And it reinforces my point. Hard sciences gives you models you can rely on. Soft sciences don't. Not because they are full of dumb people, but because the problem domains of soft sciences are orders of magnitude more complex than those of hard sciences, and all your models end up being crude approximations.

> And sure, maybe you believe that economics has more untested models, but that doesn't mean there aren't many tested models in economics.

Again, "tested" in physics vs. "tested" in economics are apples-to-oranges.

Ultimately, my main point is that economics is so hard that even our best results are pretty bad, and marginally useful.
I'd like to take a pill that helps you forget movies so I can rewatch them.
The real question here is why bother spending 1% of our GDP on space exploration? What tangible benefits is it going to bring, and why are those benefits worth more than the benefit that will come from spending 1% of our GDP on something else?
The road to detecting metaphors
I can think of a few other examples that critics use, like illicit purchase on Silk Road, money laundering, or anonymous funding of evil (terrorism or organized crime).

It would be awesome to actually try and quantify what the effect might be if decentralized systems are in place to facilitate them.

All of these things happen already very successfully within our old world economy. So to take your argument a step further, is there any way to calculate the potential increase in this type of criminal activity?
Salesforce prototyping with Justinmind’s Lightning design system UI kit
If the outcomes are encouraged, it is both malicious and active.
Not registers per se. You want a large number of physical registers for renaming and speculative execution in any event. What you need with HT is another sets of mappings form architectural to physical registers for the committed state.
blah blah power elites blah elites blah blah fake news blah liberals power elites blah

#wordsalad
The rise and rise of rentier capitalism is by far the biggest scourge in our modern economy.

Henry George and even Adam Smith identified the problems centuries ago and yet here we are.
> Getting off this rock is the first step towards getting all of our eggs out of one basket.

Yes it is, but why should I care whether all of our eggs are in one basket, or two baskets, or a million baskets? The survival of the human race as a whole is not a concern of mine.
Canada isn't much better re: feet, miles. Things are officially metric, but because of proximity to the US and inertia, half of everything is still standard. Buying construction supplies and consumables? All in US units. People talk about square footage of condos, buy carpet in square feet, all fasteners are in US units. But gasoline is sold by the liter. People know how tall they are in feet and inches, not cm. Everything is mixed up together.
But then you also wouldn't know which ones to not bother rewatching...
Considering I never even used the word manipulate your attempt at putting words in my mouth is even more see through than the previous reply's.
Somewhere between €600000 and €1000000, with the higher number being if I wanted to have children. But my personal expenses are pretty low.
Love a good Monty Python reference even if most humor-only posts are discouraged on HN.
Color me surprised. IT folks rolling their eyes, as now even doctors, the computer illiterati of the modern world, have come to the same conclusions... IBM's Watson is vapor-ware.
Yeah, although part of meme culture is to continue moving on and on to the next thing faster than things can become normalized, to the point where a meme "expires" after as little as a couple of days
Again, though, the law is a formalisation - an abstraction, a simplification - of people's relationships and behaviours. The Queen signs the laws written by the people's representatives not because she's legally obliged to but because she realises that it's her duty as head of state on a level far more fundamental than the written code of laws (and, ultimately, because if she didn't we'd have a second civil war).
I'm reminded of one of my very favorite strips from the Far Side:

https://familybreedscontent.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/befo...
After a single day, Facebook is pushed out of China again
I'm not implying that. I'm implying that a country where software piracy is rampant and 60% of all software is pirated that a platform in which pirating apps is easier would be more popular than one in which it is more difficult.

This drives the price down for other apps because not only do you have to compete with free versions that may be worse, but free, you also have to compete with a free version of your own app because someone distributed it for free.
> I don't understand this comment, does Emily Sanford think all these stories are made up?

More likely she's not immediately attributing these stories to "dogs intentionally come to the aid of humans."

People anthropomorphize pets to an enormous extent. One can imagine plenty of other reasons why a dog might e.g. alert the neighbors that their owner is in trouble ("I'm hungry and my owner isn't feeding me" is a very simplistic one off the top of my head).

It's well worth being skeptical about.
The Biggest Technology Startups Are Sleeping On
Yes, but those people are taking it because they have a specific, immediate need to use the energy. Starches are quick energy, so it's fine for these people to use because it's being put to immediate use and will not end up sloshing around in their blood stream, raising their blood sugar. Also, because of the nature of what they do, these athletes almost certainty have a near-zero store of glucose in their bodies at any given time. The muscles and liver combined can store anywhere between 500 and 700 grams of glucose for immediate use in the average person. But these athletes are consistently using it up, thereby having the ability to consume these starches with no ill effects.

Personally, I've seen this in myself when doing strenuous physical labor on hot days - for example, doing yard work in 90 degree heat or moving lots of heavy boxes when helping someone move. On these days, I can consume quite literally anything I want and my blood sugar will not budge an inch (I regularly test myself even though I don't have diabetes). It's essentially impossible for me to crack 110 on those types of days even if I consume a gigantic soda, gatorade, etc, with a garbage meal. I've actually tested this theory several times on myself and it has consistently held true.
> Parts with broken HT can be shipped as fully working non-HT parts.

It's unlikely that they ever get parts with broken HT on an otherwise salvageable core. Too much of that functionality is simply partitioning existing resources in half. There aren't that many transistors that are simply HT overhead that the core can do without when HT is not in use.
Give me your feedback on mobile app auto localization idea
I have a mobile app that is under development which needed to be localized from English

I have searched for available solutions to take strings.xml for Android or Localizable.strings for iOS and generate localized strings files for other languages using Google Translate.

After a lot of search, I didn't find any suitable options out there and ended up using scripts to do the job

So, I was wondering if I make this functionality available as a web service where you will upload your strings.xml or Localizable.strings and select the target language and it will be auto translated and you could download it directly.

Would you pay for it? if so, how much you are welling to pay?

From my understanding from already available translation services , most of them are paying per words translated.... What do you think , please feedback me :)
My understanding from watching the Netflix episode about him is that it was primary due to the blatant nature of the abuse of sovereign status. That being said, when you see what else they had going on the Indian reservation thing becomes simply one bullet points in the depth of the scam.
While your diatribe might sometimes be valid, in this case the link is there. It is the last sentence of the article: "The findings were reported in Science."
You could probably emulate the analog sections with a circuit simulator like SPICE.
Amtrak long distance trains UNLIKE airplanes are used to connect cities in the middle to other cities in the middle.

Amtraks trains from the west coast to Chicago sell the same seat 2x - 3x over the course of one journey. Most people are NOT going end to end. I have ridden the California Zephyr from California to Denver.

I have see others get on (there are seat tickets) :

* in Utah going to Iowa.

* Nevada going further east in Nevada

* etc.
> Isn't he residing in Russia now?

The only country that has demonstrated the ability to resist pressure to extradite people wanted by the US? Yes.

> ...could his knowledge of our systems and processes somehow have helped Russians do the hacking prior to 2016 US elections?

bwahaha, so now he is involved in muh Russian collusion? The answer is yes, which is what makes your insinuation really funny - they did all the things he would have advised them not to do. So you could interpret that as evidence that he didn't provide them that information, and is therefore not a Russian spy.
(not a scientist, but was skeptical of this statement given the general "incompressibility of water")

From looking at the phase change chart[0], you don't really get into the "interesting" stuff as far as pressure goes until pretty deep (something like 9-10km, from looking at some sample number of pressure at various depths [1]). Given that they indicated in the article that this is under 1.5km of ice, I don't think that's deep enough to have pressure significantly change it, but would be happy to learn that I'm not correct in my reading of this :)

0 - https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/60170/freezing-p...
1 - https://www.earthlearningidea.com/PDF/189_Pressure_rock.pdf - table on page 2
You can have two encrypted external HDDs and mantain one with you, and the other in a friend/family house. Rotate frequently.
Dogs act very differently with strangers that the dog sees accepted by the owner then strangers who are unknown. Have you never been growled at by a dog that is tense and bristling? Or had one lunge to bite you?
Funny you should ask. I went back in time in my head and ran some super scientific Occam's Razor recursion algos and it turns out leadership was planning on it they just went ready to receive any more"letters".

That said there is a pro to all of this. I meant to put it in my original but, whoops, hit enter.

Pro: Discovery Gitea hosted for $2.50 a month on a VPS (or free on a raspberry pi) shows just how God awful fast git can really be.
Lack of information is certainly a problem but food insecurity and habits are also very important. A lot of people would have a really hard time, logistically, maintaining a ketogenic diet [0]

I'm also somewhat skeptical of the evidence that the ketogenic diet can cure diabetes (or cancer / autism etc). I haven't looked into it in depth, so may be wrong, but all I've seen in the way of evidence are 1) anecdotal cases 2) hypotheses about a supposed biological mechanism (haven't seen any good studies validating this mechanism) and 3) appeals to evolution, i.e. "People ate low carb for most of human history etc", again with no rigorous science (that I've seen) to support this, just logical sounding claims

You'd need large randomized controlled trials to really test 1) whether it works, 2) whether it's safe and 3) whether the benefit is attributable to a low carb diet or to people just being on a diet in general. Unfortunately those are expensive so will probably never be done because no one requires them (like FDA for drugs)

Proponents of keto diet also cite the entrenched corporate financial interests that led the low-fat wave based on shoddy science. The same dynamic is at play with low carb. I asked a very well funded company marketing keto diet products about their clinical research efforts, and they said they don't have a clinical research arm -- all the clinical studies fall under the marketing department

I'm not saying it's pseudoscience, but based on the limited data I've seen I don't think we can rule that out

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.citylab.com/amp/article/560...
I agree with you, but I think money spent on iPad games is nothing compared to what's wasted in trying to kill each other, bailing bankers and other things that keep funding the 1%
Lousy is used in this sense to mean "full of".
Not the highest rated != pretty shitty
Why do you bombard me with a bullshit consent box while I was just reading the front page of the website? Requesting one single page shouldn't do anything that would need consent.
Yeah well, in the 19th century it was believed there were supposed to be canals up there :).
India is different from Romania
This isn't the first generation to live in a "corporate pseudo-cultural production" world.

Movies and movie conventions. Baseball cards and other popular collectibles. Sport events. Music events. All those things are just "corporate pseudo-cultural productions". Yet they're also the culture, because - for better or worse - commerce is part of our lives too.
> What I'm more upset about is people spending obscene fortunes on Farmville, World of Warcraft gold, Candy Crush EleventeenNinenty4 Now With Extra Bedazzle, Fortnight etc. Energy, agriculture, medical, space are often neglected in favor of the iPad fruit of the month app of the week. It is extremely frustrating.

I'd like to think that this is a transfer of wealth from idle hands to productive hands, since I have to assume that at least a portion of the business owners behind those cash machines you mention won't just sit on a montain of money, but rather reinvest it in something. But perhaps I'm too optimistic.
Exploring Overlay Networks for Containers and VMs
xoshiro has flaws: http://www.pcg-random.org/posts/a-quick-look-at-xoshiro256.h...
Yes and when it's used in an argument it's a sign of weakness. It's similar to resorting to shouting in a verbal discussion.
China’s WeChat introduces in-store payments for Dairy Queen and 8 other chains
They do, because there is an exploit for chrome that makes 3rd party look like first party. https://github.com/gorhill/uBO-Extra

You will only get this behaviour on Chrome, Firefox is not vulnerable.
I sometimes wonder if Unix clock running out in 2038 is going to be our only hope to solve the Great IoT DDOS war of 2030s? :)
Frak! I don't think I ever got past the second level as a kid, wonder how I'd fare after ~32years of platforming practice.