skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to be rude, but the science appears to be against you here. Wikipedia covers the "hockey stick controversy"[1] in rather meticulous detail, with the end of the introduction noting:

> More than two dozen reconstructions, using various statistical methods and combinations of proxy records, have supported the broad consensus shown in the original 1998 hockey-stick graph, with variations in how flat the pre-20th century "shaft" appears.[12][13] The 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report cited 14 reconstructions, 10 of which covered 1,000 years or longer, to support its strengthened conclusion that it was likely that Northern Hemisphere temperatures during the 20th century were the highest in at least the past 1,300 years.[14] Over a dozen subsequent reconstructions, including Mann et al. 2008 and PAGES 2k Consortium 2013, have supported these general conclusions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_stick_controversy
A CLI for a workstation without irssi on it is no workstation at all.
The number of channels and accounts identified strikes me as low.
What protections do full time workers have in an at will state? The only protection any worker has is protection against certain types of discrimination - they have that protection regardless.
I suspect if the finances get tight they can make back their money on their patent portfolio alone. If this tech is the future of AR then Magic Leap will have the rest of the manufacturers up against the wall when they want to build their own versions.
If you are a single parent or have a deadbeat spouse or need to work two jobs on your own or have special needs children, yeah, that's a whole other ball of wax. But what I'm trying to say is, this standard narrative that "having children is the death of side projects", without any other qualifier, is a woefully tired story that is really nothing but projecting one's own inability to be disciplined in their work on one's children, the people with the least agency in their lives.
> Most Americans have spare bedrooms for when guests visit.

I'd venture that most Americans living in the dense urban environments the OP was talking absolutely do not have a spare room kicking around for guests. Certainly, living in NYC, I don't and neither does anyone I know.
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> Technical data associated with these actors is strongly linked to the official IRIB IP address space.

I've always been under the impression that IP addresses aren't always reliable indicators of identity, has this changed?
How does the memory usage of my Slack clients in any way impact the utility of the tool? Private and public communities that are active, relevant, and directly impact my livelihood are on Slack, so I'm also on Slack.

I'm also on IRC, Discord, and Telegram.

This isn't a zero-sum game.
Oops, I didn't mean to put you personally on the defensive there, I was honestly asking your thoughts.

By the way, I managed to find a really good piece on Bloomberg that lays out both sides in a pretty objective way: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-05-08/apple-s-s...

I'm no expert, but I feel like sitting on cash isn't as terrible a thing as people pretend. Cash encourages risk taking and innovation. The more cash you have, the bigger risks you can take. Nintendo keeps a lot of cash around and they're one of the most consistently innovative game companies. Sometimes their products flop (Wii U), but sometimes they're wild successes (Switch).
A few places is not the same as the market as a whole. Regarding your example: yes, you can order some tofu for 23元 but you will need three such dishes for one person to feel sated and such places have minimum order sizes for delivery that typically exceed 2 dishes. (So at your example place, 3 x 25元 average dish price = 75元 per head, plus delivery fee)

PS. Downtown Shenzhen is called Futian (福田; "abundant fields") not Putien (which is not even Pinyin, suggesting you are an overseas Chinese person or foreigner with little mainland exposure). I have been based here for most of the last 18 years.
When does my downvote button kick in??? Would really be useful for useless comments like this one
By "friends" I was referring to reports that the NRA has been a front for the Russian government as an agent of social division.

Here I am, breaking HN rules by making a political statement, but if the facts are true (and I believe them to be), it is indeed an issue of relevance to the "hacker community".

> What exactly about NRA members and associates scares you?

If you think the following link (an NRA commercial) is ok, then you terrify me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtGOQFf9VCE
It is not the job of companies to give excess capital to their workers. Where did you get that idea from?

The rate workers are paid depends on the market for their skills and what retention the company wants. Worker pay will increase as the economy heats up and causes the labor pool to tighten.
It wasn't intended to be snark. She was very clear that this one week was IT for her. She was a leader in an established Burning Man camp that hands out free stuff for women's health, and she said she really enjoyed the recognition she got for doing something nice for other people. At the time I thought she should look into doing volunteer work with some worthy organization the rest of the year, but now, I see that finding a satisfying community to give value to isn't so easy. What's sad is that for all the technological progress this society has made, it has failed to provide people with consistent opportunities to feel that they are doing psychologically meaningful work.
We actually have employer sponsored health insurance because of unions, and the effect that has had on the insurance market is part of why insurance on the individual market is so dang expensive. Not entirely, as it's expensive no matter how you get it, but it is a factor.

Heck, the Affordable Care Act ruined a lot of insurance policies held by union members because they covered too much. My best friend's employer was stuck with the Faustian choice of massive increases to employee contributions, paying massive penalties to the government, or renegotiating for shittier coverage.
I'd venture that this statement also fails in general, not just urban environment. Seems like a very privileged perspective.
Mann did finally admit to being wrong about the hockey stick.

>We conclude that model overestimation of tropospheric warming in the early twenty-first century is partly due to systematic deficiencies in some of the post-2000 external forcings used in the model simulations.

https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo2973
It's sad that people who have done great things are given such flack for later projects that didn't meet expectations. Feynmnan talked about "Nobel prize disease", and how he was determined to avoid it by working on unimportant things if he felt like it. Probably everyone who's gotten some recognition has felt the constraint at some level.
It seems, Wilson's attitude towards the Austro-Hungarian Habsburg empire was in actuality at times ambivalent and changing. Compare http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.deskli...

That said, it's plausible that Freud shared the common notion, especially bitterly so, since Jews had also lost that bit of imperial protection they had enjoyed previously (but this had been ambivalent and changing over time, as well).
At least for the Northern VA stores, they had the items in stock such that any 'wait' was only for the stock pickers on the warehouse floor (basement or 2nd, depending on the actual store) to find and deliver the items to the conveyor that took them up (down) to the "customer delivery counter" (my name, I don't remember anymore what Best called the counter where they handed your items over to you).
You need to keep up with the denialism cutting edge, they’ve given up on attacking the incontrovertible science, and are pivoting to defeatism, “global greening” and other versions of “it’s happening, so what?” Get with the times man!... And That website is bizarre! A bit of climate denialism, a dash of pro-lifer, and just a soupson of islamophobia. Charming.

To be charitable though, I don’t necessarily blame people for looking at the magnitude of the problem and deciding to go deeply into denial. With the dearth of hope and workable solutions, pretending that there is no problem and attacking old numbers probably feels better than the alternatives. What I can’t forgive or stand though, are people who deny because the solutions are politically unpalatable to them.

A better read than “American Thinker” would be https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change (Especially the many and varied citations)

https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/

https://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_consensus_on_anthropogeni...
> Java's reputation for sluggishness was really formed based on people's experience with Applets and Swing applications

... and contemporary interactive performance.

python < /dev/null 0.01s user 0.01s system 96% cpu 0.025 total
racket < /dev/null 0.17s user 0.02s system 98% cpu 0.198 total

java 0.09s user 0.02s system 94% cpu 0.118 total
clojure < /dev/null 2.07s user 0.06s system 170% cpu 1.247 total

There's of course a theoretical point about being shoehorned into the UNIX execution model, and if Java were able to run as a persistent OS (eg nailgun or whatever it is these days) then things get much better. But still, when you start off a project having to suffer and design workarounds for the language's and implementation's flaws...
Audi packs Le Mans-winning tech into new Pebble Beach concept
> wavelengths of two notes form simple mathematical ratios, they have a stability that sounds nice

O.o that is called resonance and it sounds harmonious.
I don't think your logic makes sense.

Let's assume the company has an infinite fountain of moneymaking ideas, as you posit.

Why would there need to be any earnings at all to fund those ideas? Why not just take on debt to fund those ideas? Presumably companies are already taking debt to fund all of their good ideas, and any ideas that are left are "not that good".

The appearance of earnings should have no effect on the number of good ideas available. Why would it?
Worker pay will not go up with unionization if there is not a somewhat tight labor market with that skillset. Otherwise the employer can just layoff everyone in the union and start with unencumbered employees elsewhere.
I'll defer to whatever the benchmarks say of course, but I don't see why HT would affect cache coherency for normal workloads. If you disable HT you'd still have the same number of threads/processes running on the system, so you still have to schedule the same amount of work and do the same number of context switches.
> better than nothing, [which is sometimes the only other option]

True. The trick is to sort of mentally keep track of how much better than nothing it is, so you know which pieces of anecdotal evidence you can trust with only 40% confidence, and which you can trust with something more like 90%.

But yeah, definitely WAY better than nothing.
Seriously. If only there were some technology that let us put a larger number of housing units on a given amount of land! https://www.vox.com/cards/affordable-housing-explained/densi... . We could solve all of our affordability problems. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-14/californi....
>My tech coworkers live in the dingiest of apartments. Housing prices are outpacing gains in salary, and the majority of housing is out of reach of the median tech-worker salary.

I do executive tech support & linux support for corporate and live in a 1br apartment from the 60's 10 miles outside of the city. My commute is 1-1.5hr every day on the bus. I can't afford to use my health insurance even though I pay the premium every month.

It's absolutely true that costs are outpacing salaries, and a majority of them aren't "cream of the crop".
I have no idea why this is being downvoted. It's correct: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-14/californi....

The real question is why we started artificially constraining supply so severely in the '70s: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/12/27/why-did-cities-freeze-in-....
Accurately simulating biological systems in the cloud to run a virtual clinical trial is like trying to predict the exact weather for Washington DC at a specific date and time hundreds of years from now using weather forecast models. It’s pretty much impossible with current biomedical knowledge.

To simulate humans well enough to eliminate a clinical trial, you would have to simulate every single cell, organ, and organ system as well as the substantial population of bacterial and fungal microorganisms that live on and inside humans (as well as all their unique biology too). Building such a simulation would require a level of knowledge of biology that the human race currently does not possess.
This was so confusing to me at first because last year I stayed in a Sonder that I booked through AirBnB.
Fair - and feedback noted. I would have chosen different words but I don't regret delivering the message of caution.

The author chose phrasing that seemed to carry an authoritative tone and it begged questioning into the author's background/history.
Going forward, it's clear that humanity, in order to have a desirable future, will have to consume and waste less resources and will also have to think about the number of people on the planet.

Being forced to consume less because you can't afford it in the moment is one thing. Being forced to consume less because there's less resource to use and transform, is a different thing.
Somebody unearthed an IRC server in the hinterlands of the intranet of the huge tech company I work for. There was nobody there.

The company is big on Jabber though...
very cool. I started with IRC circa 92, on a VAX VMS system after discovering it using Gopher :)

Was great, though very addictive. The internet wasn't very well known, and not many people were online, and it was very common to make friends all around the world. I travelled and met a lot of people all over the world through IRC. I remember quite a number of people starting relationships and having babies ( many of which would be late 20s now... crazy).

I remember in 93 when tanks were rolling into moscow getting live updates from people who were there. Was a glimpse of the future yet to come around major world events.

Slowly more and more people started turning up on IRC, new IRC networks appeared, people started to perfer networking with people in their local country or local state.... then later mostly people in their local city.

Then it started to die off with the rise of the web and alternative chat software.
Uh, no. As the company uses cash to buy stock it simultaneously reduces the cash hoard of the company.

Anyone targeting a specific PE for a company will sell the stock to counter the increase as the cash balance (and PE) decreases.
By "friends" I as referring to reports that the NRA has been a front for the Russian government as an agent of social division.

Meh. Russian government, American government, whatever. I consider them all the enemy.

If you think the following link (an NRA commercial) is ok, then you terrify me:

LOL. It's not my favorite ad, but that's mainly because I'm not a Republican and every time I hear "they" in that ad I know they're talking about "the left" or "the democrats" while in my mind "they" should actually be "the government" in general. shrug

Of course that Republican leaning bias is probably the main reason I don't support the NRA as actively as I might otherwise. If they would stick to 2A issues and nothing else, I'd be much more in their corner.
It is refreshing to still use a technology which mainly has not been tainted with current crap (share, like, subscribe). You have to deal with some mods on power-trips, but it is rare. Happy thirty!
If someone was going to install an irc server, which one is recommended? Also, any client reconditions for Windows and Mac?
Ask HN: Should we join accelerator run by a company in same market if invited?
I've used Airbnb a lot, and in my experience at best it's 50% of the listings that are actually like that. Demonstrably false, yes, but also not as much like that as most people think.
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>If you want to argue against buybacks, you need to argue that they are worse than other methods of returning cash to shareholders.

He does make that argument. He argues that buybacks incentives cause a higher % of net income to be spent on buybacks than dividends.

>We found that from 1981 to 1983, these companies spent 4.3 percent of profits on buybacks. In comparison, from 2014 to 2016, these same companies spent 59 percent of their profits buying back their own stock. Dividends absorbed just under half of profits in both periods.
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It's probably similarly hard for Microsoft, though, isn't it? It's not like their ending of the Windows Phone project opened up a bunch of vacancies in their other QA projects.
Unless you live in MN, where they push tthrough legislation so they can take medicare money from disabled people.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattpatterson/2017/10/02/in-min...
>> six-bedroom unit in downtown Montreal

Maybe it's selective bias but I think of all north American metropolises Montreal would be particularly difficult to implement hotels in residential areas. Renters here have very strong rights, albeit backed by an understaffed authority. Tourism provides a substantial bulk to the local economy but it's not nearly enough that the local population will accept having fly-by-night partiers in otherwise quiet neighbourhoods. The article says downtown but I strongly suspect they mean neighbourhoods adjacent to downtown which have long been home to local workers and students, key to providing vibrancy and life which attracts the tourists to begin with (and the festivals).
IMHO we have enough resources that people shouldn't have to work bullshit jobs like being advertising execs if they don't want to. cf David Graeber's essay on bullshit jobs.
Sure. Would love to chat. You're Twitter account is set to only allow DM's from people you follow. I'm @olingern
I like Textual on macOS. It's rather nice.

EDIT: Since this seems to be unclear: I was referring to the second question regarding IRC clients.
Is reading S-1 filings a thing (nerd)?
I feel like we will end up with another program that abstracts Slack/Telegram/IRC into neat CLI interface and we will go full circle again. :)

Happy birth day IRC!
Honestly, is there actually any chance of there _not_ being an environmental disaster by the end of the 21st century? I'm not saying we shouldn't keep trying, but the political willpower just doesn't exist. Significant portions of the worlds' population either:

- Depend on CO2-emitting technologies for their daily sustenance and/or existence

- Flat-out deny that humanity is exacerbating climate change

- Are completely apathetic to the issue since it doesn't affect their lives (at this time)

IMHO, there's an argument to be made that researchers are better off coming up with "band-aids" that can be applied in 50-60 years when first-world countries finally run out of ways to ignore the problem (i.e., when Wall Street floods, French vineyards stop producing, Saudi oil wells spontaneously combust, and sunbathing for more than 5 minutes, even with SPF 50 applied, results in 2nd degree burns).
Contracting, not subcontracting. If Microsoft was itself a contractor, I guess you could then use subcontractor here.

Microsoft used to employ janitors directly in its early days, many of them eventually became millionaires. Microsoft and most other American companies decided to outsource non-core work in the late 90s.

On-site contractors are subject to many rules in order to maintain their status, including length of employment, choice of tools, and so on. Offsite...well, that is just treated as company to company transactions right?
I'm struggling with the angle here.

A. The secret to AirBNB is that everybody had extra space, and Gig Economy allow you to get value out of your extra space.

B. When you are in the Gig Economy, you have two things that you need to do:

1. Have the extra space
2. Manage the extra space

Sonder initially focused on #2, and this worked out well. Bring professionalism to the management interface turns out to be very good deal because a lot of people with #1 is not good at #2.

My problem with the next step on their is that they are leaving the core of the gig economy.

Buying the facility and coming up with unique rooms with different paintings is simply getting into the hotel business. The fundamental driving force of the AirBNB business model is the use of an asset that is otherwise unused, and sparing somebody from needing to invest CapEx in building rooms. This is a massive lever to get into the hotel business, which is what AirBNB really is.

Obviously, I'm totally ignoring the moral choice of if having somebody else consuming and reselling beds is good or bad for cities. I'm simply on the point that hotels are a going business that is pretty competitive, with a series of operators at all levels. It's not clear to me how Sonder business model is superior to the standard hotel model once they are forced to spend CapEx for rooms, because having unique hotel facilities or rooms does not appear to me to drive a competitive advantage.

Secondly, if having unique rooms turns out to be brilliant competitive advantage, and I'm totally wrong on this point, I don't see how this drives a real moat (as Buffet would state) that is defensible. I would think that the entrenched hotel operators should be able to pivot and counter the threat.
Typically these keys are designed to be secure against remote attacks (i.e. adverse software on PC can't extract any secrets). If the attacker physically steals the key, he can just use it directly, no need for DPA. So protecting from physical access typically isn't in threat model.
Pritunl/pritunl: Enterprise VPN server
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Interesting that the Russians chose to use Microsoft instead of Google[1].

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/microsoft-shuts-...
ircd-hybrid on debian, personally.
I would recommend ircd-ratbox, which is the fork of ircd-hybrid most used on efnet.
Seems pretty easy to me, in my opinion.
Sonder properties tend to be one-off apartments, not entire buildings.
Keep in mind that Eventbrite doesn't charge anything to host free events, which is all many of their organic customers ever host. That said, the amount of revenue you can get from music festivals and venues, which require a sales team to make the deals, dwarfs what you can get from most other customers. There's a reason Eventbrite bought Ticketfly. For that same reason, Live Nation has bought some of Eventbrite's customers and moved their ticketing to Ticketmaster.
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