skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It only just now occurred to me that I have absolutely no idea what the tilde was originally for. I only know it as a shortcut for "user's home dir". I'm sure it must have had some kind of pre-computer use, but I can't even imagine what it might have been.

I guess I could check Wikipedia, but I almost don't want to know. Like, finding out would take some of the mystery out of the world‽
> Chinese fabricated financials can be papered over with any kind of magic the state wants to apply to it - so long as the economy continues to move forward the numbers will say anything they want them to say.

My feeling is business people and economists are upset that China utterly refuses to follow neoliberal economic polices. Preferring instead to follow old school Keynesian policies. Policy makers thus view China as economically in a state of sin.

Typically countries that try to follow Keynesian economic policies get hammered by western central banks and monetary institutions. However China is way both too large to be 'punished' like that and has iron fisted control of it's own currency. That leaves western and in particular US monetary authorities powerless to do anything.

Hence the constant butthurt blather for the last 30 years that that Chinese expansion only has 5 more years left before it collapses.

Notable: In 2008 the US and Europe followed neoliberal austerity policies to make sure that the banks and paper wealth were made whole. Resulting in a very slow recovery and increasing poverty and political blow back. China responded by building the worlds largest high speed rail network.
More concerning is the fact that the UK government is happy to store UK data in the US with AWS under its "G-cloud" scheme. At least the US guys have picked a "local" vendor.
This looks great. Is there a demo?
> PG&E needs to be doing a better job and California should consider bringing back its logging industry.

The logging industry will happily wipe out nice, mature, profitable trees that are robust against fire and leave behind the unprofitable brush that serves as tinder. No thanks.

Electricity infrastructure probably needs to be moved back to a core government function like roadways--especially considering that the infrastructure part is going to dominate more and more over the metered part as more renewables come online.
Harmony and Voice Leading, Aldwell and Schacter. Also, The Art of Saxophone Playing by Larry Teal. I think the typical thing for a guy my age is that they're supposed to go out and get like a sports car and/or a mistress, but I can't afford those things, so I got a saxophone instead. And . . . a banjo.
Did the chargebacks go through?
> Tell me about the little kid's life I could have saved with five dollars.

I do not know where you got that estimate of $5 from.

Here are more credible estimates according to GiveWell (https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/our-criteria/cost-effec...):

> As of November 2016, the median estimate of our top charities' cost-effectiveness ranged from ~$900 to ~$7,000 per equivalent life saved.
I had saved up $100k at 23yrs old while living and working in Detroit and I started working at 19yrs old. Tons of folks in SF today with over a million saved at 32yrs old.
Did the bars close when the new signs went up? Coincidentally or otherwise?
What wifi dongle are you using?
"The rest of the world" is a bit of an overreach, but yes, in a lot of countries they are underground. I would say most cable runs above ground worldwide, but I have nothing to base that on besides traveling a lot.
I appreciate your attempt to have a rational, polite discussion about this issue.

Unfortunately, your desire to apply some critical thinking, places you in a minority.

This is confirmed every time I see a post such as yours, and the inevitable downvoting.
So much destruction post 1940s coupled with slave labor (local political prisoners and German prisoners of war) leads to roads and steel plants being built quickly. The population though lived on near nothing till the 60s.
Over 25% of Vanguard AUM are not in indexed products.
Very insightful post, thanks for sharing! I too cannot pick up a controller as an adult despite a childhood filled with gaming. I think my reward system has acquired the concept of 'opportunity cost' and trading time for $$ or spending my (finite) time with friends and family makes gaming as a adult seem less rewarding than when I had nothing better to do as a hyperactive kid. My parents didn't provide any creative outlets growing up and alcoholism made them unavailable to me as it was their own source of escapism.

I wish they took me to museums etc :'( some day when I have kids I promise I will pay it forward and take them to science and history/art museums etc and indulge in what I missed out on as a kid :)
Oh wow.

This is so impossible to optimize for :(

The really sad thing is that it's not humanly possible for one, or two or even just five people to do all of this, unless they were all like 19 or something, and then not for very long.

You literally do need all those departments that have the applied knowledge to do what they do well. Voila, $200M.
The Unix Shell by S. R. Bourne: https://archive.org/details/bstj57-6-1971
A vehicle’s owner is public information in the US. Credit Karma knows the vehicles I own based on DMV records, and recommends me insurance accordingly.
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I just upgraded from a 13" MacBook Pro with 2 cores to a 15" 2018 MacBook Pro with 6 cores (Intel cough, cough), the difference in performance is substantial and very noticeable. The folklore that increasing cores does not translate, feels outdated now that operating systems and applications are designed to utilize multiple cores.

I do wonder if there is a point of diminishing returns though. 24, 32 cores, is it really worth the extra money?
The point they are raising is whether that's a negative externality of the military - had he not been in the military, would that hearing aide not have been needed.
One member in our group had a fairly rude encounter with two Caesar’s security personnel late at night because housekeeping had failed to record a cleaning.
For the most part, ARMv8 immediates are 12 bits for [base + displacement] addressing. However, most of the modes also allow you to use natural scaling of the displacement (or index in [base + index] modes). So you can reach the 4096th byte, or the 4096th pointer in a struct (and other sizes in between).

That 128 MB limit is interesting. Its the limit for direct pc-relative calls in ARMv8 without resorting to adrp.
If there's any profit to be made from a market trend, that trend is more likely to be volatility than a downturn, as far as I can surmise. They make commission from trades that are made, and at scale that's a lot of profit. It's the same thing that keeps Coinbase profitable in that bear market. Of course I could be wrong, but generally you sometimes hear about the big shorting positions from big players. I don't recall Vanguard traders making the news, and I'm not sure they're involved in options, either.
Yes, they're liabilities just like deposits. But if you offer them and not regular deposits (like the bank I mentioned) you don't need to built out a whole infrastructure for payments, checks, etc, just for the much more limited set of actions you need to support those.
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What I'm most impressed about is that the author was able to include the FOIA data.

I guess I just learned I half expected each person who wanted FOIA data to have to request it themselves, for their own personal use.

In this case I can see reusing this for interesting reasons (the plates in the .txt.gz have not been removed), so...
Do you have stuff on your Mac that would run VBScript? Did you open the attachments?
Would composting be viable for some of it? This article claims significant carbon capture:

http://biomeiler.nl/carbon-sequestration-by-biomeiler-wood-c...
Crypocurrencies crash
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At any given time I'm "reading" about 30 books, as in, I have read at least some portion of it, put a bookmark in it, and added it to my "currently reading" queue on Goodreads.

More pragmatically, at any given time there are usually 2-3 books that I'm actively making meaningful progress on and expect to finish in the next 1-30 days or so. Right now that set includes:

A Canticle for Liebowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr.

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies - Nick Bostrom

Beyond that, I'll just link to the aforementioned Goodreads profile. Feel free to friend me on there, I always enjoy following what other HN'ers are reading.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/33942804-phillip-rhodes
Didn't Taleb himself predict the past recession, although using very different methodologies.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/risk-experts-who-predicted-200...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/07/10...
Ideally, but until someone asks for it the first time, they probably don't even have an account for the purpose. So, an irritated DBA who has myriad other backlog tasks probably runs it on a copy if smart, and production if lazy or in a hurry. Would not surprise me in the slightest if an important table was dropped in this way.
> The police chased the victim instead of the perpetrator believing the hospital despite the hospital's obvious lies.

They were told it was a medical emergency, and they had no information to contradict that. (Yes, obviously the parents said it wasn't, but the parents aren't trained medical professionals). Once they got conflicting information, they could back out of the matter—and did so.
I turn 25 in several weeks and my net worth just crossed $150k a month back. I currently make just shy of $80k in Minneapolis.

The biggest recommendations I can give for trying to save more money:

Make yourself work a bit – sock away more than what you would deem “comfortable” and live off the rest. You’ll be forced to really think about what’s worth spending on.

Get a roommate. I save probably $3,000 a year from this alone, and a big plus is that I get along just fine with him.

Spend frivolously on things that really let you have fun or relax – to a point. I like Mexican food, a good gym membership, and quality groceries. I don’t worry about what I spent on these items because I spend next-to-nothing elsewhere.

Start young. I opened my Roth when I was 17 and have maxed it out each year, in addition to maxing our my work retirement accounts the last few years.
okay - you are correct. photographing terrestrial objects and stars are very difficult to do in the same shot on account of light pollution.

my bad - and here, i made this as a mea culpa to show that it's legit: https://i.imgur.com/aTvpilo.gif
If you're interested in bike lane parking tickets, you might want to check out this article, which was done using the same dataset:

https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/where-chicago-tickets-f...
Kiwi living in Singapore. I prefer Singapore's method of deducting it from your bank account directly each month, or you pay your own lump sum.

In NZ (and Australia) you have tax withheld, which means the employer holds your tax, they are not obligated to pay that tax for ( i believe 6 months ) so they tend to pay 1/4 yearly or 1/2 yearly, leaving the money in their own account.

In Singapore you get your full salary and you pay it yourself, either via lump sum, or monthly deductions from your bank account.
I tried both the built-in wifi and a Realtek dongle
It's not clear what the advantages of pure imperialism would have been at the time vs taking advantage of all of those exact pros you mentioned without outright taking over of nations.
Global hegemony shifted from pure colonialism to neocolonialism over the few decades and it's still to be determined what the next wave will be.
Will the videos be posted somewhere public as they become available? YouTube channel? RSS feed?
What uptick? A 2016 study by the Royal Society has shown that 'Global burned area have dropped by about 25 percent over the previous 18 years'.

'Even in California, which for years has wrestled with fire devastation, a study in the International Journal of Wildland Fire found that the number of wildfires burning more than 300 acres per year has been tailing off since a peak in 1980.'

Stefan H. Doerr, Cristina Santín. Global trends in wildfire and its impacts: perceptions versus realities in a changing world. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2016; 371 (1696): 20150345
Yeah, probably not Mayo clinic policy to imprison 18-year olds and take over guardianship, and the results afterwards make it clear their diagnosis was wrong. But, although the events were a couple years ago, the news article itself is pretty new, so I would be happy to see some comment from the Mayo clinic as to what they think went on here, and whether it was (or is) against their policy.
The Big Six made most of that money and they don't do much actual traditional banking these days. The other 6500 US banks are hardly raking it in.
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There's also the fact that the Soviets over-extended themselves militarily at the same time, Afghanistan comes readily to mind.

China has a large, powerful and I would assume expensive militarily, but has not deployed significant number of troops in the past few decades (since Korea?), and in any case has never occupied a foreign country.

That's a huge amount of resources available to spend on infrastructure and "soft" power. The Chinese approach seems much more likely to succeed than the Soviet one.
There's a long history as both an accent and a standalone mark.

In English, it basically means approximately especially in the context of numbers--a meaning that carries over into certain technical uses as well.
> Before you respond with virtue signaling about war know that most DoD software is for logistics. Done better it boils down to not wasting tax payer money.

It is not "virtue signaling" to be actually anti-war. Most virtue signaling on this topic revolves around the motte-and-bailey of "support the troops". Furthermore, if one is anti-war, then making the military less expensive isn't actually a good thing.

(or you could have just left this last bit out and stayed less political)
I came here to make this point, but you made it better than I would have. The Carr fire started in a similar way. A blow out on a trailer tire, and the sparks from the wheel hitting the asphalt started the whole thing. One of the large fires last year was started by a backfire. Seriously.

Way back in ancient history, the 90s, I saw 'brush hogs' all over the place in Arkansas keeping the side of the roads neatly trimmed. Dense forest existed, but it wasn't directly next to the road. Why we don't have that in California I don't know, but we don't. I have only seen brush hogs at work here a a handful of times in the 19 years I've been in California. Instead they do ridiculous things like bring in a herd of goats or sheep to graze on the medians. Just 'hog it. For starters.

I don't even want to get into the logging conversation - this isn't the time or the place. The enormous forests should have some kind of logging happening to thin them out. I'm not talking about Muir woods - I'm talking about a 50 mile radius around the great city of Redding, for example. All of the area surrounding Clearlake. All of Lake County. It's a start.
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Now the question is...will Reddit self-censor in order to get back in?
There's a fun Mathematica applet exploring this.

http://www.demonstrations.wolfram.com/StockMarketReturnsByPa...

Spoiler: it's highly, highly sensitive to parameters. You might choose to lag the time windows for several months to account for a delay in the effect of new policies, or lead to account for anticipation, or use as the underlying "invest or not" determination a time series reflecting laws, who holds the Executive, who holds the Legislative, some combination... but tweak any of these parameters and the outcome will flip wildly.

Of course this makes it very easy to reverse engineer a particular outcome if your audience is not familiar with the effect.
Hardware acceleration of BVH traversal and tight integration with the shader cores to allow efficient scheduling of shader execution and new ray generation when ray hits are detected.
The new signs caused the rate of tickets at the spot to slow down, not stop. According to the charts, there are still 300 tickets per year being written at that one spot. That is huge.

It's not a coincidence that that huge number of tickets is being written in a busy bar area.
Huh. Crazy. I never new that meaning of "career" and have only used careen in that sense. Which according to Google is a North American thing.
After just finishing my dessert, Jeri Westerson's latest Crispin Guest Mystery, I'm on to more serious matter in The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday.
meant to write, "rest of the _civilized_ world". :-)

Germany is my main example ... my German friends were astonished when they visited the US to see our rickety electrical infrastructure (among other things).
A few months back people would have been yelling “BUY THE DIP!”
Why is it not mandatory for the driver to have a dash cam on all the time and if they want to charge for something like this they must have a video of it?
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Especially since your link points to part 1 of the article, not part 2 like this post. The article makes a lot more sense starting with part 1.
Funny enough, I submitted one of those to all of the biggest cities in each state for a list of their databases and the columns/tables within each. Pretty much universal rejection.

The ones that didn't send me a rejection letter all told me that the cost would be somewhere between $400 and $2,000 to complete the work. While it's nice, and I've spent similar on requests before, it's not something I'm exactly interested in doing repeatedly, since this is all coming from my personal savings.

That said... I'm still fighting that fight in Chicago. Chicago used to post a "data dictionary" of 111 of their databases, which had a list of the tables and columns. Problem is... it isn't running anymore since it's no longer being funded by a $300k (!) grant. So, I'm working on requesting a database dump of that. Last request for it was rejected saying that Chicago's Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) doesn't mave any of those records. I'm thinking it's because I requested a "copy" of the database dump, rather than just explicitly asking for the data within it.

That opens up a pretty nifty door to work with for future requests ;).
You can open a bank, and then this might happen to you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus_Federal_Savings_Bank

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus:_Small_Enough_to_Jail (an excellent documentary)
Density + charging speed are definitely important but I do agree that cost is without a doubt the biggest problem. For some people, gas will still be preferable until electric charging speed is close to gas AND speedy charging units are as available as gas stations AND batteries match the range of gas tanks (my new subaru gets like 500 miles on a full tank when driving on the interstate which is super convenient and good luck getting long distance rural drivers to switch without the 3 problems I cited).

It's too far out to say if electric cars/dynamic grid/renewable energy will revolunatize our planets energy usage since we are very entrenched in the current system (and anyone claiming anything beyond 5 years underestimates how fast shit changes IMO) but I am seriously excited about these changes with how much the economics have been improving for a clean energy society.
Given that many of the tickets were issued because this is a taxi stand, it's also possible that revenues increased for the taxi company in that area.
A government contract where the sole company that can ever win the contract also says that fail overs to other providers is bad. So if Amazon goes down, the DoD is shit out of luck. I don't see how that's not a national security problem. Not only that, but after the $10 Billion is expended the DoD is vendor locked. How people don't see this as a major problem/cronyism is baffling. The vendor lock itself is bad enough.
And business people nowadays can check their email on a cellphone. Even if they don't, the email will still be there when they get back online. A mangled fax or one received when the power's out can be permanently lost.
Since when do hospitals have the ability to unilaterally decide someone is not capable of making their own decisions?

If they believe that is the case they get a judge to give that person a guardian, they don't just make decisions for them.
I suspect probably something like: spending money on website appears to do nothing to increase sales.
> Changing a camshaft in a classic car is huge pain that requires specialist equipment for setting the timing etc. and getting it wrong can destroy the engine.

That's overstating the case quite a bit. There are plenty of engines where you don't need special tools.

> I'm sure it's a lot more complicated on a modern car.

Wait. You were talking about older engines? Then, no. You're absolutely wrong. Swapping out cams on most older engines is a piece of cake. Pretty much anything without variable valve timing will be super duper easy. Pushrod motors are especially easy. There are some exceptions, of course, like the DeLorean's V6 (the cams slide out of the head so you generally won't have room to pull them out without pulling the head).
As much as there are right now, they may as well be the western Kanji
That Phoronix says the opposite makes me think Anandtech is right....
> The chances of a recession by the end of 2020 are mounting. And the prospects for the American stock market in the next decade have worsened appreciably.

The day after Trump's election win, NY Times published an article [0] by nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman saying:

"It really does now look like President Donald J. Trump, and markets are plunging. When might we expect them to recover?

Frankly, I find it hard to care much, even though this is my specialty. The disaster for America and the world has so many aspects that the economic ramifications are way down my list of things to fear.

Still, I guess people want an answer: If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never."

That prediction didn't work out so well.

And maybe these new prognostications are built on more solid foundations, but still they are prognostications, and if the past decade has taught us anything, it seems most pundits and economists have no clue what they are talking about.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/elec...
So then you take what the IRS gives you, modify it with new information and send it back in. You’re arguing against having an easier starting point.
Employment is low, home ownership is increasing, healthcare is too expensive but still more accessible than it ever has been. Things can be better, but I'd say, gently, that you lack perspective. You are mirroring a story that you see online on TV and social media that is created to make you think things are terrible so you'll watch more tv and spend more time on social media. Stagnant wages aren't terrible, 25% unemployment was terrible. Stagflation was terrible. You think housing is tough now, try a home loan at 16% interest rate like in 1981/2. You think things are politically divisive now? Look at the violence and political assassinations in the 1960's. Look at the crime rate which has been declining for a two decades.
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