skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do any of you guys can think of something that we can do in order to get rid of the problems that's described in this talk.
I am asking for solutions that may or may not work but just a guess.
What about the problem with Bio-Engineering? What about hacking humans and predicting humans behavior?
I want to hear what is your thoughts on the solutions to these problems?
Secondary markets exist because they give businessmen and investors incentive to create and fund risky but potentially lucrative businesses. Your view on the stock market is warped if you think investors are crooks. The stock market doesn’t deprive people of things and is simply a group of people freely exchanging what they own.
Excellent article but in 2018 it really isn’t technical so much as political and economical safeguards that prevent the development and spread of nuclear weapons.

The world does not need an excuse to stop research into nuclear power for another fifty years.
Again, the scandal didn't really break until AFTER 9/11.

The SEC didn't announce it was probing Enron until October 22nd, 2001.
I don’t know about founders, but something similar can happen to highly-paid tech employees. The few years I worked in SV [1] changed my spending habits much more than I expected, and I didn’t realize it until I left and went back to a “normal” life. The experience altered my relationship with money, and not necessarily for the better — expensive things don’t have a mystique anymore, but neither does their price instantly turn me away; it’s hard to tell which effect will dominate in the long run.

[1] Where I amassed orders of magnitude less capital than you’re asking about
There isn't (read: shouldn't be) a bandwidth limit on unlimited plans, which the fire department had
I wonder how startups like Sofi (https://www.sofi.com) and Sixup (https://sixup.com) play into this. Are they better options than what the school offers in terms of loans, etc?
More than that, severance is the law in the vast majority of the world. Being fired without notice and without severance, losing your health insurance and having to fight for unemployment in court is a trifecta of unthinkable for the average European.
What reversal? He never had the funding to begin with, this is just a damage control exercise.
Japan's turn from a predominantly vegetarian diet to one that is almost anti-vegetarian, is very interesting. Eating out in Japan is generally a nightmare.
Carpenters and DBAs don't have a monopoly on legal violence. Politicians in charge of a polity do.
NL2Bash – Generating bash commands from natural language
Understanding Transactional Writes in Spark Datasource V2 API
As far as I know, ports are strictly asynchronous, compared to native code, which can be synchronous. This means that if you are using native code for something that is 100% synchronous, you now have to go through a huge hassle of every calling site becoming async.
Haha. I quit my job once. July 2009, working in finance. My next job was two years later, scooping grain at a grain elevator.

You know how to tell when the economy is in the last 25% of an economic expansion? When everywhere you turn is another white collar professional under the age of 30 in the middle of an existential crisis. Brace for impact, because we're all about to punched in the fucking mouth. And some of us are going to be like, "What? I thought things were just supposed to keep getting better every year. We've had one breakfast yes, but what about second breakfast? Elevenses? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper?"

Best as I can tell, the data for this article was collected via freanomicsexperiments.com over the course of a year. But I didn't see what year the experiment was conducted. And I'll bet you all my bitcoin the experiment data was not collected during any year from 2008-2012. Job markets, like credit markets, are very elastic. It's easy to find a replacement job right now, and it's also easy to qualify for a home loan.
You Could Be Kicked Offline for Piracy If This Music Industry Lawsuit Succeeds
For three out of the four, there are options not to participate. Housing I would claim also suffers from market distortions.

Food, I can choose not to participate in any given variety of food markets, I can buy groceries, or I can go to restaurants, or I can buy from family farms and hunters. Or I can make it myself.

Clothing is similar to food. And cell phones are trivially easy to refuse to participate.
It’s very much grammatically correct, but it’s certainly fallen out of favor. You’ll see it in older scientific papers.
Evan works at NoRedInk which has 250 000 lines of Elm in production.
In a search for the truth, eyewitness accounts should basically be ignored. Memory is terrible, and even his memory at the time seems to lack a true smoking gun. As of now, hearing a podcast dismiss an eyewitness account is a welcome change from the "true crime" reliance on them.

Besides that, it seems that both sides had a different expectation on what the topic was going to be. It's understandable that Mr. Yang felt hurt afterwards, and it also makes sense that the interviewers would get frustrated in that situation. A good solution would have been to find a platform for Mr. Yang's story after the miscommunication was realized, but the event seems to have went ugly fast.
The challenge in a traditional MSR design is that you have half the periodic table swimming around in your primary loop at high temperature. From a corrosion perspective that's pretty challenging.
They could have treated it just as any other type of organized crime. Start at the bottom and go up the chain of command.
The voice that matters most for a politician is their vote, McCain did not use his vote to stand up to Trump, quite the contrary.
Ugh, my memories back then are really garbled then. Sorry about that.
Boring answer, but for me I'd bet on self-driving cars that you can hail via Uber type platforms.
Lets pretend that's true. Then why mention it?
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I think this is probs my true of all media. Decent enough "info"tainment, but completely befallen to the presenters biases, shot-comings, and ignorance.

I doubt that unbiased, accurate journalism can exist outside of extremely narrow fields (Even then, who knows)
Fortunately it doesn't propagate beyond the nanotube. That would have been tragic instead of novel.
> Food exists and we have political problems, therefore food is part of the political problems we have today.

Senators are a very integral and powerful part of our current government, and have a far larger per pound effect than food on the politcal environment.

Your argument seems quite disingenuous.
Is this actually true? I was under the impression the establishment aka Hillary Clinton actually had a thorough report and plan of how to help America’s neediest towns most affected by the closing of blue collar work and factories.
Memory is funny, isn't it?

I would have sworn, before I wiki'ed it, that the Enron scandal broke YEARS before 9/11, certainly not just over a month after.
«Cannot crash» != «cannot fail». There are a bunch of things in Elm that can fail, but the language forces you, «through types», to deal with those situations.

That doesn’t mean developers make apps that deal with errors reasonably, but the developers should be aware of every part of the application that can fail.

Exception, of course, beeing stavk overflows as we haven’t solved the halting problem yet.
Sure, but global bandwidth limits have nothing to do with net neutrality.
It's an alpha pre v1 language, it's going to break things to get better.

However they also need to encourage users to build things so they can observe patterns and improve the language - often by removing the functionality developers relied upon (in the maintainers opinion wrongly.)

These pre v1 developers are going to get angry and burnt, the main problem is that Elm is ambitious and reliant on just one guy. 18 months with few warnings on breaking changes gives developers a long time to become reliant on deprecated functionality.

I've done some Elm development, the lack of documentation and support unless you hang out on chat channels put me off. I might try again post v1 but that feels a very long way away.
The actual emissions aren't too controversial (calculator I used ends up ~50% higher), but the offsetting price is very controversial. (source I linked to seems to use $30/ton, 3x United's)

The problem with a voluntary offsetting regime to calculate damage prices is that the clearing price is the marginal cost of abatement for a voluntarily requested amount of CO2 to be abated. As more CO2 is requested to be abated, the marginal costs go up (less low hanging fruit like planting trees).

Regardless, while you might feel good that you paid $10/ton to abate your flight, the reality is that if everyone else did this, you'd be paying a lot more than $10/ton.

A fun read: http://environment.yale.edu/kotchen/pubs/explain.pdf

(There's also controversy whether a project that produces X abatement credits really is abating that much carbon, but that's another story).
In my humble experience as a data scientist at a big tech company, a big differentiating factor is familiarity with the R or Pydata stack. It's not just its own language and library, it's a more general idiomatic way toward approaching and solving problems from a "software first" perspective.

I sometimes work with people who are formally trained in stats at a much higher level than myself. But with my lesser ability combined with my capability to write production grade Python code using the pydata stack, my code and solutions are more likely to make it in.
I have to optimize my time to waste as little of it as possible and try to create the largest coherent chunks so that I can ramp up on whatever I am working on and get something done. This often means taking care of the stuff I have to without any sort of procrastination (work, chores, etc).
Then that sounds like the "unsure" category, not the "sure" category.
Not mentioned in the article, but Japan occupied/colonized large chunks of China before and during the war: there were close to a million settlers in Manchukuo alone, plus up to 1 million Japanese soldiers in the China Expeditionary Army. For those returning to Japan, wheat noodles and rich soups would not have been a new taste.
From their website, it seems work on the traveling wave concept wound down several years ago (not spelled out explicitly, but lack of updates).

I'd guess they figured out the traveling wave concept wasn't workable, and switched to another design.
Not “rest of the world”, rest of the US. In Europe and e.g. Israel, minimal severance is dictated by law and its often 3-months pay or more, in some cases a months salary for each year worked (so laying someone off after 20 years means they get 20 months severance).

There are exceptions (e.g. firing “for cause” such as sexual misconduct or embezzelment) but they are really exceptional. And if the company folds and can’t pay that, the government will, and likely criminally indict the officers who let the company fold without taking care of the severance payment.
You’re describing errors. Errors do occur in Elm, but they rarely lead to crashing.

The type system forces the developer to deal with the error, so that, hopefully, the user of the app has a better experience than a non-responsive web page.

Crashes we cannot avoid through the type system is stuff like stack overflow or running out of memory.
It's illegal to use them. Although it's strictly suboptimal for the firm.
This is a nifty idea. I do something similar, not by domain, but by the tab's label, by editing my userChrome.css file. For example, if one wanted to make Hacker News tab lines orange, but only when focused:

tab.tabbrowser-tab[label$="Hacker News"] .tab-line[selected="true"] { background-color: #FF6600 !important; }

Or if one wanted them to be orange all the time:

tab.tabbrowser-tab[label$="Hacker News"] .tab-line { background-color: #FF6600 !important; }
Much better put by whoever did the “fuck yes or no” blog post of a few years ago, IMO. (Mark Manson?)

This should be how you treat new things. OTOH, while economists say “sunk costs are sunk” and should thus be disregarded, in real life switching has often-underestimated costs (including reputation) so skipping out on things at the first sign of trouble is usually bad.
I'm using coturn for TURN and STUN, and they are on the same VPS that hosts the Nextcloud code, version 13. If you actually want to help me solve the problems, send me a DM on github (username Pistos), and I can give you more of the technical details.
My understanding of the situation is that corrosion is the main issue holding back Thorium reactor design.

Molten sodium is used in the coolant loop of some fast reactors, but it doesn't develop any long-lived radioactive byproducts, so it (and the various parts and fittings that it inevitably corrodes) can be disposed of relatively easily. They don't really have solutions to keep it contained, it eventually eats through everything. You just have to keep it from contacting water and exploding.
Coming back from consulting into Tech is generally not a super tough transition as long your skills are still reasonably sharp. For me I spent years consulting and as a founder (U.S. based). Good consultants learn business and people skills which are critical to succeed that generally a senior developer won't have.

So my guess is your key skill that so many very good engineers lack is the ability for you to work with the business, understand the business needs and translate that into technical product vision and priorities. This set of skills are very underrated in most small companies and startups overall, yet it is the one thing that can really have a solid and positive impact on all companies. In my opinion if you want to move back into a tech based company and out of financial services you should focus on those skills as your sales point. Your tech skills could be less than others, but if you can turn business needs into tech vision and priorities that is more valuable.

Not sure what the Sydney or other markets you mentioned are like, so your mileage may vary.
Not a boring answer in the slightest. I can definitely see self-driving cars going mainstream at some point. I think self-driving trucks doing long-haul transport will go mainstream but the driver will still be required due to driving laws most likely.
With the traditional flibe salt, you have to enrich the Li to reduce tritium production. And Be is a pretty nasty material to handle as well.

But in the end the decisive factor is the neutronics. Turns out that in the fast spectrum chloride salt are better, in the thermal spectrum flourides.
I love eating out in Japan.

Matter of fact I am going there soon again and looking for HN’s recommendations.
Age of Invisible Disasters (2017)
Student loan terms and agreements should start accounting for a person's performance before taking on the loan (so high school, undergrad, whatever previous degrees) along with projected capacity to repay based on :
-family record on debt repayment;
-the projected choice of area of study and standard earnings projections of these degrees.

The system as currently constituted does not incentivize rational and pragmatic decision making on part of the students. Part of it will have to come from a change in the undergrad model: make people choose/apply a major or a broad area of study and allow for a certain amount of wiggle room. This way, for many undergrad will possibly be shortened and focussed or more vocational for others. We also need to find some way to force educational institutions to put skin in the game-- they currently get all their money without offering any guarantees on employability.

Presently, as a recent college grad, I saw far too many people on debt pursuing degrees unlikely to result in immediate or high paying employment -- eg., Any humanities field ending in "-studies". These people likely will not be in a position to pay the full value of their debt back anytime soon, nor will their degree hold any value (beyond sentimental) if they don't choose to go to grad school. Moreover, by giving them the same interest rates, we are implicitly penalizing/shifting burden on STEM students who essentially subsidize their credit/risk calculus.
"While history, English, and the rest have faded, only one set of humanities fields without a foot in the sciences has clearly held its own: the much newer (and smaller) disciplines the statistical agency joins together as ethnic, gender, and cultural studies."
isn't the author aware that Kardashian is into Bitcoin and publicly announced it?
Seattle traded one 4-bin system (glass, plastic, aluminum, garbage) for a 3-bin system (recycle, compost, garbage). And the documentation is available in numerous languages, including Japanese. :) This system sounds like a mix of both, with 1 bin more thrown in for fun.

Does having such strict controls on disposal make you think twice before buying something - have you ever thought "I like that, but how would I dispose of the packaging?"
Average benefit is meaningless. Individual decisions are made by minimax, which says to stay.
This header is just missing the "if you're making more than 50000 a year" condition.
Yea, I should have specified this was the US only. I will say though, this is not the "vast majority of the world". South America, Africa, and Asia certainly don't have the same protections as Europe and they hold the vast majority of the population
Not to be pushy on this matter, but have you tried pure CBD pills? Those don't have any THC, so it doesn't get you high.

Although according to Wikipedia [0] it can cause either somnipathy or somnolence, depending on the individual, so it might not be a viable solution anyway. Still, I think if you're passing by California or Colorado it might be worth trying.

I've also struggled with maintaining a proper sleeping schedule for most of my life. The following is just an anecdote, but I've read of enough cases to think that further research should be done on this matter. Around three months back I heard about a carnivore diet and I decided I'd try it out for a month. Although I didn't stick strictly to the diet and added in tiny amounts of carbs (mostly in the form of fruits or vegetables), it had a very positive result on my life. After the month was up my sleeping patterns had drastically improved and I found I was overall much more energetic during the day. Waking up and falling asleep was no longer a struggle. I've been sticking with it since then and have never felt this great. When I cheat on the diet with my favorite meal (ramen), I always end up paying the price by feeling groggy the next day. I don't know if this would work for you, but I think there shouldn't be much harm in trying it out for a month and seeing if it helps improve your quality of life.

I sincerely hope you are able to find a solution that works for you.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabidiol
Thankfully, these nerds also map when going on vacation and from satellite images.
Coding kata anyone?
> If you're unsure whether to quit your job or break up, you probably should.

Which one? Both?
#USBHarpoon a look-like charging cable that can hack into your computer
FWIW, I’d consider both authors you cite peddlers of mistaken (and potentially dangerous) ideas. Read early psychoanalysis and German idealism out of historical interest, by all means (certainly very influential), but please don’t appropriate that way of thinking.
https://markmanson.net/fuck-yes
>This line "(a.c || [])()" is bothering me -- why on earth would this line exist in any program?

A variation of it is valid for method selection, such as:

(cond ? a.foo : b.bar)();

or, for method fallback:

(a.foo || a.fooDefault)();

Neither does work in js, though.
In a traditional magazine, those stories would be in a sidebar or as minor articles on the same spread. The web isn’t conducive to this sort of multiple text flows presented together, so they’re being shoved into the main body of the article. Hopefully we’ll end up with some sort of compromise between these two, but it will take years of experimenting with this new format before the publishing industry really figures out the right solution.
Just wondering why burning it to produce energy isn’t considered in US. Many countries like Sweden have managed to completely get rid of garbage this way [0].

[0] https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/Sweden-runs-out-...
Back when Borland C++ 2.0 came out for MS-DOS, templates were still being designed.

So the first version of BIDS, Borland's C++ data structures library, used pre-processor tricks where one defined the types before including the respective data structure.

So go generate as workaround feels quite old.
A sample of lottery players is hardly a representative sample. I think people who don’t enter lotteries, besides understanding statistics better, are more likely to believe money is not the source of their success and fulfilment.
I have experienced living in the UK (first past the post, you vote for a local rep, gerrymandered districts and all) and The Netherlands (full proportional representation, you vote for your rep from the full list).

The result is clear: politics in The Netherlands are a factor less toxic than in the UK. This is because there is actually a chance to choose the party who represent you. They don't? Small parties are still an option. In the end a coalition is created and all of the crazy ideas (muslim ban, communism) are quickly lost in the first round..

So far I've voted for VVD (Republican/Tory), D66 (Democrats/Libdems) and Green (doesn't exist in UK/US; the one party who get results on climate change).

So basically full proportional representation would be the best single change you could make in the US and UK systems.
I have a lot of money and none of what you mention afflicts me. I don't feel "constant pressure" to spend or invest it wisely, and I don't recall ever fearing "ruining everything." I doubt I would be blamed (by who?) for not investing it; even if I was I don't think I'd care.

This might come across as condescending, but everything you're saying sounds like the typical cliches about what it's like to have wealth from people who don't actually have it. It comes with its own challenges but I would not include the ones you've mentioned. Clearly some people with money do struggle with some of what you've said, but in my experience it's rare for it to be a dominating focus in their lives, and it's rarer still for it to cause the wealth to become a net negative on their health and well-being.

The reason why I'm saying this is because frankly I find it frustrating when speculation like this is promulgated so confidently despite its disconnect with reality. Of the people I personally know earning over seven figures in annual income, none of them struggle with what you've said. Your generalization has a very brittle foundation.

Unfortunately there are two obstacles in combatting generalizations like this: 1) most wealthy people don't talk about what their life, aspirations and challenges are actually like, 2) hearing wealthy people say they in fact are mostly happy and fulfilled makes for a boring story without a lot of draw.
They could still hire strikebreakers world wide, or not?
We don't even know if it's possible to build any fusion plant smaller than a star, let alone if it's possible to run one at a profit.
The effect of Citizens United has become massively overstated. It lifted the prohibition on corporations (for-profit or nonprofit), labor unions, and other associations from spending money to communicate on political issues. It didn't change the rules on contributions to candidates or parties.