skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can say that as a headline, however the results on the ground are what actually matter: the US has massively reduced its coal use. Coal use is not climbing in the US and isn't going to no matter what the Trump Admin tries.

US energy generation from coal has gone from 52% in 1998 to 30% today (surpassed by natural gas). Nuclear is at 20% energy generation as a share. Coal will continue falling and drop below nuclear in the next 10-15 years, at which point non-hydro renewables will also have surpassed coal.

"US Coal Continues to Decline Under Trump"

http://mikerazar.com/chart-it/2018/01/30/uscoal2017/

"Coal industry mired in decline despite Trump pledges"

"New projections from the Energy Information Agency (EIA) estimate that Americans will be less dependent on coal, that coal production will fall, and that coal capacity in the nation’s power plants is likely to decline in coming years, according to an annual report released last month."

http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/376522-coal-industry...
Given online betting is legal in lots of places, you can answer that question by seeing if people from outside of the USA will use Augur.
You hear about remote jobs all the time, with more and more people wanting them because of the leisure and convenience. Along with that, you hear about people with on site jobs that want to go remote. You never really hear about people who prefer on site over remote. I'd be interested to hear some stories about on site workers who were forced(or pushed towards) remote work and denied it.
Never been diagnosed as a dyslexic but was always wondering if i had a tiny bit of dyslexia for the same reason, the bullshit detector going off all the time. I don't have a problem now unless something is really inconsistent and it's more of an acceptance thing. Something rubs the wrong way
Ask HN: How do you monitor Celery task queue?
I've been running into issues regarding operating Celery, for e.g. when tasks are getting longer and longer and piling up in the queue and then ultimately failing due to some i/o or cpu bottleneck and/or timing out. I use flower to check every now and then but something that monitors time series data and able to send alerts would be nice. If there's no such tool then it might worth putting together something simple maybe on top of flower ofr this purpose?
RTFM (probably)
As much maligned as COMPAQ's acquisition of DEC was, you have to remember that DEC's enterprise side was still printing cash to the tune of something like a billion dollars a year.

Intel, for example, ran every single fab line on VMS at the time. There were other customers with similar requirements and monetary outlays when they needed something reliable.

Considering this, you have a business that you can simply milk for cash profit for 10-20 years as it slowly winds down.

The fact that HP couldn't figure this out is a gigantic failure of management at the board and CEO level.
This talk (hopefully) conveys my point across

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zinZmE3Ogk
This is not your father's Microsoft
It doesn't have to be intelligent to be usefully applied broadly and upend our economies.
The interesting thing is that a single executive had a large share in killing both HP and SGI as major players. Richard Belluzzo was the guy who decided that HP should switch from HP UX on PA-RISC to Windows NT on Itanium, and then moved to SGI to preside over the decision to turn SGI into a Windows reseller and gave the SGI 3D graphics team — which at the time had a legendary reputation — to nVidia along with their patent portfolio.
I love tldr for similar-ish problem. https://tldr.sh/
I think autonomy is existential for Uber, but I also think they have a decade or so before it will start having a deleterious impact on their bottom line.

My thesis is that they shouldn't shudder ATG entirely, but should scale it back to a core group, and then consider dropping the dead weight and scaling it back up again slowly as certain performance milestones are met, meanwhile keeping a patient eye out for promising startups worthy of mid-stage investments sizeable enough to grant them an significant ownership stake.
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You twice perpetuated the notion that older candidates are less likely to get the job because of their age. Simply giving it credence is ageism.
Damn this idea is really cool and works for me. I wish I knew this site existed much earlier
repeating a previous comment of mine:

"What works for me is taking notes via email. Backing up, organizing, searching, and distributing email is more-or-less a solved problem, and my note-taking inherits those solutions. I can read and add notes from my phone and from my computer, with the ability to choose from a plethora of applications. I have multiple backups of my email around the world via standard email syncing. My email host has been 100% reliable in not losing my emails, as well. If I want to migrate to a different email host, that is trivial."

I wouldn't say my notes have much structure, though.
Some people liken that to a "death panel", in that it was not unanimously agreed with by other medical professionals, including those that thought there may be other forms of treatment for the same affliction that were not being covered by the NHS.
Does whatever form of "HP" still actually manufacture laptops, or is the name just licensed out now? Haven't followed or looked at HP laptops in forever..
Yes, save some, destroy inspiration in some others too, experience can do both, don't you think?
Is it foolproof? Some people believe it's possible for opposing parties to slowly drift towards each other on the political spectrum over time, to the degree that "opposition" becomes rather meaningless in a practical sense.

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

The Overton window, also known as the window of discourse, is the range of ideas tolerated in public discourse. The term is derived from its originator, Joseph P. Overton, a former vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, who, in his description of his window, claimed that an idea's political viability depends mainly on whether it falls within the window, rather than on politicians' individual preferences. According to Overton's description, his window includes a range of policies considered politically acceptable in the current climate of public opinion, which a politician can recommend without being considered too extreme to gain or keep public office.

As an example, consider the reaction of both the Republicans and Democrats (and the news media) to the very notion of Bernie Sander's socialized, single-payer medical care in the last election. In the not too distant past, the Democratic party rallied behind such causes, or at least had an open mind about them. Now, they will stick a knife in your campaign behind the scenes.

This touches on what Hillary Clinton used to believe, and what she believes now. Is she "just being pragmatic"?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-single-payer-he...
Almost all doctors in the UK work for the NHS. Most countries with single payer also negotiate drug prices and reimbursement rates. So how would you have the government setting prices and reimbursement rates and not have a higher "regulatory burden"?

How could that possibly be a free market system/.
"I'm always angry" -- Hulk
It's less about the blame game, more on the changed circumstances around the end results. When the experiment has become a standard and referenced within a field with purportedly incorrect or nonfactual information.
The point isn't what people believe about thought experiments, the point is the uncertainty in the law.

Yes, it is reductio ad absurdum to question hitting port 80 on a public site. Work a little harder, though - what about port 8080? 6734? What if you monkey with the URL?

Note that there are people here claiming that the last bit is 'hacking' under the law, and in some cases they are right.

So now we can't change URLs without hacking, but only when doing so knowingly exceeds authorization. Well, what does that mean?

Let me offer an example: Someone uses the dumb disable-right-click Javascript to stop people from downloading their images. I disable JS and save an image. Put aside copyright and focus on the CFAA: Have I broken it? If so, does this seem to be the sort of thing that should be a felony to you?
It could work if everybody is comfortable to use email (or another async form of communication) and task tracker.

A few bad members can ruin everything.
Yandex Taxi looks really close. https://youtu.be/BbGEGDx59ZI

780 km (11 hours) at 99% autonomous. https://youtu.be/zljaMjLFqfI
It should make chrome on par with Firefox performance.
> People can also shift from single-family to multi-family residences. However the share of households in single-unit structures is 61.5 percent — virtually unchanged from 60.3 percent in 2000, which indicates that no such shift has occurred.
Except for the other part, i.e. failing to fly well. Which is sort of the point: "it's just around the corner, except there's always this one tiny inconvenience, but it will be completely awesome once we do something about it, so let's just handwave it off for now." (Yeah, yeah, I know that somebody made a render of a flying taxi this year. And last year, and the one before that, and the one before that, all the way to Kitty Hawk.)
The newest trend is to orientate the PV panels east-west instead south. If you want to know more: http://www.rechargenews.com/solar/1182796/is-east-west-the-b...
Their Oil is 'tarsands' type Oil and it's the most difficult to produce and requires a lot of processing = massive investment that few are willing to make because a) market volatility and b) government volatility.

It's funny because 'stability and predictability' alone would yield them the kind of business climate and interest rates they would need to attract investment and they'd be much richer as a result.
You mean like McDonald's and Applebee's? Does the effort have to have the explicit backing of a government?
It would be tempting to blame Carly Fiorina and she exemplifies the cult of CEO, short term thinking, no solutions beyond wall street focused cost cutting, financial engineering and layoffs, no accountability and exiting with golden parachutes with no damage to their finances or reputation. This while the company loses long term viability, sheds talent, focus, and burns,

Robert Nardelli, former Homedepot CEO is also a similar instance of CEOs making bad decisions with little push back and accountability and exiting with reputation and big bucks. Neoliberalism and a fawning media and 'economists' propping up whatever narratives vested interests push has to shoulder the blame.

No company can survive short termism and a string of wall street focused CEOs. HPs decline hastened under her 'reign'. They folded from hardware, were content to sit on printer revenues and DRM and focus on 'services'. None of these have scope for innovation.
From the article:

>> Uber first made its interest in self-driving cars public when it hired about 40 researchers and scientists from the National Robotics Engineering Center at Carnegie Mellon University in 2015.

It doesn't sound like "they don't really have the expertise" (per your comment).

Perhaps autonomous driving is even harder than press releases from other, more cautious companies, have led us to believe?
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Yeah, I feel like this needs to grab a screenshot from a security camera first, or perhaps ask the person why they are there and auto-transcribe the message to Slack with their request.
Using an intermediary would make it not decentralized unfortunately :(
Nope - no proof. Nothing.

I've just realised why the input box marked everything as mis-spelled - there is a huge number of non-standard characters there. The other two emails are essentially the same.
I worked remote for two years for a large bank. There was an office right downtown, but I never used it. There were other people, though, who came into the office, even though they could do their jobs remotely. They liked the ritual of it, and the psychology of being able to say "Not at work now".
Putting it on the employer is lazy.

The employer has to stay competitive, especially in competitive markets like NYC. They're playing on the same playing field as all the others in the same industry, which means paying employees shitty wages because the government allows it to be so.

Having ethics to pay your employees livable wages will help you sleep at night but it won't help you maintain a business.
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Augur is down to < 50 users.

https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/08/20/dapps-userbase-dr...
Really? Wasn't it discredited decades ago? All that remains is sensationalist articles about who knew what, when.
> And many more of them are run by Chinese who haven't learned to prepare Japanese food, unfortunately.

It's variable. There are some I'd avoid, but there are also some good Chinese-run Japanese restaurants.

> By the way, are you the dataflow guy?

Yes. I've had to move my pages (now at http://www.fmjlang.co.uk/fmj/FMJ.html ). I've recently made major changes to the numeric type system, which now has a built-in Prolog interpreter and supports units and numeric ranges. I'm planning to add dependent types at some point but not soon. The system's still not ready for release.
Extremist if Catalonia stays in Spain, I suppose. Winner takes all.
> From what I see, the problem isn't so much with the truth, but rather the narrative and interpretation of these facts.

Exactly.

> For example, suppose a vaccine had a 90% success rate. This is the truth, however anti-vaxxers will focus on the 10% failure rate.

And pro-vaxxers will "focus" (ie: discuss that, and only that) the success rate. But if you don't cover up the 10% and someone finds out, this is how "conspiracy theories" get started.
If only they were all "good cooking". I'd say maybe 1/10 Asian (Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Vietnamese etc) restaurants are actually tasty- the rest are barely adequate, and their continued success relies on the fact that most American diners don't have developed palates.
It’s disappointing to see Zillow ignore the wage pressures that are reducing housing demand nationwide. Permits are decreasing per growth capita because that segment can no longer afford houses.
I've had an Epson Workforce 845 for many many years and it's been an excellent printer, and I buy the aftermarket ink usually. Even though I use it nominally, I don't think it's an ink hog like the other big names..
The key is the onboarding program. Bakeries are nice, they have a range of jobs that go from very simple (sweeping up and cleaning) to very complex (scheduling different products for baking). If you have that range you can absorb a lot of different people.

That said, if you recall the story we had here a while back [1] about how janitors used to work for the company and now they work for a contracting firm, this is very relevant. There are a lot of jobs at even a high tech company like Google or Apple that could be filled by someone with a high school degree and nominal fine motor skills, but those jobs are currently firewalled behind a general contracting company. That perversely misaligns the end employees motivations and the company motivations.

It was interesting to me to see the remnants of a system like this at IBM which had 10 "bands" of employment level, where band 1 was janitor level, and band 10 was principle engineer/senior manager type level. But it seemed like these days they only used bands 6 - 10 because that was where 'entry level engineer' started (band 6). Many if not all of the jobs in the lower bands were outsourced as far as I could tell. And a lot eliminated when they sold off factories or other parts of the business that had a lot of technician level labor.

I will be interesting to see if we could get back to a more reasonable way of managing these things.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/upshot/to-understand-risi...
> Let the mail room or call center people apply for the cobol training program and become developers.

That is exactly my story ('85 or thereabouts), with the added caveat that I didn't learn anything from the Cobol training program. The bank where I worked did not even have a way for mailroom people to get into IT, it was mostly because they got sick of my continued applications to IT jobs for which they though I wasn't qualified that I got the chance to do the course (with the qualifier that if I didn't succeed they never wanted to see me again).

So, I passed (and was the quickest person to complete the course) and ended up making a very rapid career in the IT department and after that started my own company.

Some observations:

- the entry level IT job paid four times as much as what the mail room job did

- work went from 5:30 am to 2 pm to 9'ish to 4'ish (ish because nobody ever checked who appeared when and when they left again whereas in the mailroom attendance was very strictly policed)

- in the mailroom you felt part of critical infrastructure, in IT there was zero pressure to perform

- bringing the mailroom attitude ('let's get some work done') to the IT department was not appreciated by the rest of the department

- the mailroom had zero office politics, if you stepped out of line you would get chewed out and that would be that, by comparison the IT department was a huge web of intrigue, and quite a few of the people there were downright mean and backstabbing each other all the time

- the mailroom was all guys, the IT department had exactly two women programmers on a total crew of about 120, the only other woman was a secretary to the head of IT

- There were a few talented people there but on the whole the talent level was rather low, but they were big on process and that really helped to get stuff out the door
The only problem is you don't know what the value of ETH will be 2-3 days in the future.
I was hoping it would take a screenshot of the doorbell video (assumed it was a Nest or Ring) and send that in the Slack message. v2.0 maybe?
That's the first thing I wondered. Seems like it defeats the purpose of the landlords system of verifying you actually want to open the door for the person there.

I suspect they'd be better off switching to a RFID / nfc swipe system
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They are used in Finance, regardless of title, to help entice people to leave a competitor.

Almost everyone in this world works on a decent salary and potentially large bonus model for compensation. To help entice more long term thinking, and hold people to the firm, bonuses vest over 2-4 years.

It's extremely common to have a discussion with a potential new firm about how much money you are walking away from unvested bonuses and for them to just match that bonus number and vesting schedule as a precondition for joining a new firm.
Aren't they all in locations with perfect weather and perfect wireless connectivity due to low construction density? I think it's differing expectations as to what IRL meant.
What's the difference between using prediction markets for politics and having a direct democracy?
Usually I see this one with a previously leaked password associated with your email address, that they're hoping you still use and might be associated with an adult site account. Perhaps your honeypots don't have one so they used a template without it.
3D Visualization of LiDAR with MapD and Uber's Deck.gl
I was informed that so-called 'scene rules' still dictate the use of h264 in order to qualify as a 'scene release'.

I've never seen 10bit h264 used outside of anime, but even there the default seem to be 8-bit h264, at least judging by what the subtitling groups use for their releases.
...to make up for a slower brain, less stamina and decreasing memory...

This is NOT normal and should not be accepted as such.

I'm 63 and have been programming professionally for 40 years. I'm currently working on several projects that are as complex as anything I've ever done. I honestly feel that that I get better every year, build stuff I never imagined a few years ago. I know this is subjective, but I feel like my brain is faster, I have more stamina, and better memory than ever. I still do newspaper jumbles and crossword puzzles without a pencil and plan to continue that way indefinitely.

Unless you're managing a serious medical condition, I suggest you do something differently: eating, exercise, lifestyle, medical care, something.

To you kids out there (under 50), do not despair. The best could be yet to come if you make it that way.
"Reporting - once an event has happened, Reporters are members of the network who verify the outcome. They place a bet on how much they believe their reporting is true. If they’re right they get a share of the pot. If they are wrong - or are at odds with how other reporters have documented the outcome - they are penalized and lose REP."

Isn't the reporting part qui susceptible to a sybil attack?
I have to assume when you say national identity it means the same thing to you as racial identity because our national identity is mutable and transcends race. I can't move to Thailand and become Thai. I can't move to China and become Chinese. But they can move here and become American. They can move here and live the American Dream.
I've tried rocketbook with some limited success. You have to remember to snap a picture of the page to get it synced to onenote or Dropbox or other sources.
You can adjust brightness by swiping from the right edge to bring out the notification bar (called action center) and then tap the brightness tile to switch through five modes of brightness.

It's not a slider but it does the job well.

That said overall the tablet experience on Windows 10 is not ready for prime time. I get weirdness with the on-screen keyboard as well as quirks with Explorer and so on.
No it isn't. Monopolies have the ability to crush or buy any competition that arises, which clearly decreases competitiveness of the overall market.
Have you heard of the concept “beginner’s mind?” It’s an attitude that can be developed with practice that helps you see otherwise ordinary things with awe and curiosity. Here’s a bit more about it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin if you’re curious I can share more references.
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Work a little harder, though - what about port 8080? 6734? What if you monkey with the URL?

That's why we have trials and juries and so on. 'Working a little harder' and trying to find trivial logical gotchas in law is a pointless thing to do and discuss because it's very much not how the legal system works. The law is not a program interpreted once by some literalist, implacable CPU.
You make me want to go to Iceland for the Thai food.
Damore was fired for what he said, not what he cited while saying it (I'm not saying it was justified). Misrepresenting events as a rhetorical tactic is essentially propaganda - it will never do anything but hurt both sides of the argument.
Facebook’s encryption fight will be harder than San Bernardino
I am sure our mainstream is unbelievably extremist from the point of view of people living at the beginning of 20th century...
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Kabuli Pulau is fantastic. I used to live down the street from a kebab shop that had the best kebab and pulau, all cooked on outdoor grills in front of it. Fantastic food, and I wish there were more good Afghan places in the U.S. I'm in the midwest, and the closest Afghan place I know of (that serves Afghan food, not just owned by Afghans) is in Chicago.