skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the case of housing, how is having a mortgage worse than renting? You could at least sell the house and have [some of] the money back.
Humans are dry water
Nemesis: Studying Microarchitectural Timing Leaks in Rudimentary CPU IRQ Logic
When antibiotics were invented, thousands of schizophrenics were cured of an STD (syphilis, I believe) and released from insane asylums.

There is new research coming out all the time. Most help involves incremental improvement, not dramatic cures. But, for example, the life expectancy for cystic fibrosis, a dread disease, used to be 18 or younger. It is now upwards of age 35.

You might try looking up research on the salt-lithium connection as a place to start. I found that very helpful at a time when I was having bipolar-like mood swings.

Best.
The removal of normal economics is definitely part of it. The other part of it is general cultural assumption that if you don't have at least 4 more years after high school you will be destined for a 3rd world standard of living. Forget participating in the economy on your own and creating value - you have to work for someone else and to do that at a level everyone wants, you have to have to have a 4 year degree. I don't know who came up with that, but it's a brilliant benefit for colleges.
You're extremely out of touch with the modern day job market and issues students face.

There's zero to very little career advancement while working minimum wage jobs. Minimum wage jobs won't even cover the cost of rent in most states, let alone the full cost of living and the cost of college. Saying that there are 'plenty of places' is also outright wrong considering the competition for minimum wage jobs is harsh; it's not just students that are in the pool.
People who don't think of Comp Sci knowledge as a set of substantive first principles, just as meaningless tokens they need to memorize and regurgitate to get the job -- those are precisely the people who should be weeded out.

And yet - those are the people who are not weeded out, but selected for by the default interview process.
Seems potentially useful for applications where you need a really high specific heat but different viscosity properties.
Had a very similar issue with socks. Re-ordered after ~4 years of the old socks wearing out. New socks came with the brand stitch in different color, and the new ones are already wearing out in ~4 months.
Formalizing User Rights on the Web – Paul Frazee – JSConf EU 2018 [video]
I recommend enabling WSL, installing your favorite distro from the Windows store and giving it a try. I think you'll be surprised by what WSL CAN do and the scenarios in which it's more useful than a full VM.

Distros running on WSL also consume FAR fewer resources (esp. memory) compared to full VM's, so runs well alongside all your usual tools.

It doesn't (and wasn't designed to) replace a full Linux instance, but often goes ~80% of the way towards meeting the every-day needs of a lot of developers who just need their code to build and run locally.

YMMV.
Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual shareholders got wiped out. I know this because I lost tens of thousands of dollars, unfortunately.
Sitting in traffic did it for me.
I guess I should have emphasised a BIG mortgage. As in, own a house way bigger than you need. I agree, owning is probably better than renting.
I was wondering if it was toxic or non-toxic. Silica gel packets say "do not eat" but they're in a ton of our food packaging so I'd hope they're non-toxic.
I would kill for a chance to study physics at Göttingen.
You’ll pry my manual transmission from my cold, dead hands. Hopefully not because you’re a paramedic and I’m wrapped round a tree...

Joking apart, I’d swap my manual for an ‘automatic’ with paddle-shift manual controls.

If I was commuting in a city I’d definitely want an automatic though.
Ostensibly if you adopt a digital currency you are no longer using the US dollar.
Dear Louis Vuitton, I want a sustainable and inexpensive handbag.
https://github.com/sctb/lumen/blob/master/compiler.l

One of the coolest projects. Lumen is entirely self-hosted, so compiler.js is built from compiler.l which represents an algorithm that defines how to build compiler.js.
Just as bad - the ones that enforce an uppercase, lowercase, number and special character. Except that they don't tell you that when they mean "special character", they don't mean all of them, and don't tell you which ones are invalid.

I can't tell you how many times my 1Password generated password was disallowed because of a special character that I ultimately had to delete by trial and error.
And Ionic Materials (http://ionicmaterials.com) which also received investment from big industrial companies over the last year.
Magic Leap: science fiction author Neal Stephenson to run Seattle office
The opposite of silica gel...
There's a lot of literature on this; Wikipedia has a decent starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration#Geologica...

TL;DR: if you compress CO2 to above 73 bar, it becomes supercritical fluid, which has a density almost like water and which does not mix with water. If we inject this fluid into underground saline aquifers, we can trap it indefinitely. Basically exactly the reverse of producing oil and gas. In this case you're transporting and injecting pure CO2, not water with 0.1% - 1% CO2.

It's been done at large scale since the mid-1990s, so we know it's viable. Lots of research and development on details/optimization still to be done, but we know it will work and we know we can scale it up.
Also its a GOT cliche. And I find GOT ridiculous. There I said it. I hate GOT, Lord of the Rings and Star Wars and watching sport. All the stuff everyone loves.
Huh, the dehydrated water in Space Quest actually isn't that much of a joke.
Maybe people struggle because there’s always more work to do. And maybe people aren’t good at taking a break.

Also, the 2 day weekend is an arbitrary construct.

Plus think of all the millions more people volunteering, looking after their elderly loved ones, going to the park, spending money in shops.

I think a 4 day week makes perfect sense
4 way stop at the top of an icy hill for me.

Interesting they chose a picture of a floor shift automatic for the article.
Ive always mused that batteries of the future would hold information instead of energy. Presumably with something like a Maxwell’s demon to turn the information into energy?
I think you need to consider more than just the differences in salary with Silicon Valley. You also need to compare the cost of living and other benefits as well. Canada is a huge country and some places are much more expensive (and so require higher salaries) than others.

> miserable weather

The weather is as miserable as we let it make us. Canadians in general love to complain about the weather but I don't think it is that bad. It can be cold or hot, snowy or rainy but most days are quite nice. When I lived in California I missed the changing seasons, fall colours and snow at Christmas.
Money spent on apartment style living and chefs are targeting certain demographics of students (rich patents) and they obviously aren't spending that money on helping students of other demographics (poor, underprivileged)
I apologize if this is insensitive in some way but I genuinely am hoping to understand and learn. Why is allowing families to buy a home they otherwise can not afford a positive thing?

If a family can not afford a house then they can choose not to own a house. I can understand the point of increasing access to affordable housing, but allowing more people to buy homes seems to have the opposite effect.
> College is essentially free for many european countries, that is what I think sufficient level of subsidy

Most of the countries which people usually talk about here - France, Germany, Spain, etc. - have significantly lower matriculation and graduation rates than the US does.
Doesn’t most automatic transmissions have that? My old VW Touran have paddles on the wheel for changing gears. I only use it when driving down steep hills though.
Yes, you do. If they are by definition too big to fail, then them shutting down could cause runs on banks. When people's confidence in banks crashes, then very bad things happen to our financial system which is predicated on the idea of people keeping their money in banks and bank accounts.

Even people pulling their money out of money market mutual funds almost caused a collapse of the monetary system, which is why the Fed had to secure those.
> Your problem is that you don't agree with all of the rules we do have

Where did I say that?

At least as far as the major rules (don't murder, don't steal, don't cheat, etc.), I have no problem with those at all. I'm sure we could find disagreements over minor rules (for example, I don't think laws that impose penalties when no harm has been done, such as most traffic laws, should exist), but those aren't what I'm talking about in this discussion. What I'm talking about in this discussion is the fact that governments (a) don't actually uphold the rules that the vast majority of us agree on, and (b) impose lots of other rules that the majority of us don't even want, but get put in place because some special interest group grabs enough attention to get them on politicians' radar, even though the proposed rules don't even fix the "problem" that triggered them in the first place.
The Language Strangeness Budget (2015)
I preferred stick because it allowed me to accelerate faster and better control my driving. Now that most cars offer some sort of turbo and manual-like like transmission option, I much prefer our new future of automatic.
Sorry, you're right. I'd delete but it looks like HN won't allow me to do so now.
Competition in TVs and colleges differ largely in terms of quantity, quality.

In any way, those are two totally different things you can't compare
Sure (debatable, actually), and what's your point? Many countries have been running laps around other countries in many industries, what does it have to do with clusters?
Some might see your comment as a tinfoil hat conspiracy theory but a customer of mine who is a medium size business owner (around 150 employees maybe) once told me he helped his employees to get credits because he knew that way they would be more pressed to stay on the job.
In short ... DON'T!

Assume that your distro's are locked away behind a one-way wall - Linux can see Windows files, but Windows cannot (safely) use Linux files. More details here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/11/17/do-n...

And yes, we're working to close this gap in future releases, so stay tuned!
Apple’s autonomous vehicle fleet swells 27% in four months
> Ultimately, college is expensive in the U.S. for the same reason MRIs are expensive: There is no central mechanism to control price increases. “Universities extract money from students because they can,” says Schleicher at the OECD. “It’s the inevitable outcome of an unregulated fee structure.”

Why do people always reach for central control, when we have the ultimate mechanism of price control as a core part of our society (competition).

What happens when the government tries to provide for us:
they gaurantee home loans: Financial crisis,
they gaurantee drug costs: Skyrocketing drug costs,
they gaurantee your student loan: Skyrocketing cost of school

By it's nature, anything the government subsidizes is going to be taken advantage of. You either have to take full central control (lets not go there) or let the free market actually work. You can't layer the two.
Exactly. Ask high school graduates and the vast majority of their parents to explain the cost of capital and show the projected return on the college tuition (as well as the 4 years of lost opportunity not participating in the market) and you just get blank stares. They're way too focused on the social rituals of move in day and fraternity/sorority rush.
> But this is exactly why sponsored results are good for the searcher. Products that people are willing to spend money advertising will usually be better for you, especially in a context where repeated custom is likely.

No, that's false. Ads are only a way of exchanging money for the eyeballs of potential customers, and both scrupulous and unscrupulous merchants use them. They make no reliable statement about what's really "better for you." And especially when the ads are targeted (an therefore relatively cheap), you can't trust anything.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/the-s...

> It all started with an Instagram ad for a coat, the West Louis (TM) Business-Man Windproof Long Coat to be specific. It looked like a decent camel coat, not fancy but fine. And I’d been looking for one just that color, so when the ad touting the coat popped up and the price was in the double-digits, I figured: hey, a deal!

> ....

> Several weeks later, the coat showed up in a black plastic bag emblazoned with the markings of China Post, that nation’s postal service. I tore it open and pulled out the coat. The material has the softness of a Las Vegas carpet and the rich sheen of a velour jumpsuit. The fabric is so synthetic, it could probably be refined into bunker fuel for a ship. It was, technically, the item I ordered, only shabbier than I expected in every aspect.
They require that here too. If you live in town or within a certain area you can get exempt from it if you're parents sign some papers.
I like a stick shift, but I'm most likely never going to buy a new car, so I'm at the mercy of its popularity amongst new-car buyers.
I imagine Buffett has played a part both with his bet and arguing against them as a wise investment.
I believe the way laws generally deal with this is to only allow subsidies when the price is under some cap. Sadly we (or the US) don't do this for education it would seem
Because of the law of diminishing marginal utility as applied to income [1]? Once you hit a certain level of income, other factors can start to outweigh the marginal utility of a higher salary.

For example, I could maybe make more money working in high frequency trading, but I don't want to. It wouldn't be a life-changing amount of money, and I value the ability to work on interesting problems in the open, with less concern for ethical issues†, over the potential additional income.

[1]: https://qz.com/1211957/how-much-money-do-people-need-to-be-h...

†I don't want to start an argument about whether HFT is unethical; in fact, I don't think it is necessarily unethical. I'm just saying it would always be at the back of my mind.
Could that lead to cysts in the GI tract?
We hear you re. disk perf, and Linux filesystem access from Windows - we're working on it. Bear with us.

Also, we added a decent amount of libusb support back in Creators Update: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/05/10/bash...
Very, very difficult in fintech. Very high barrier to entry. The Paypals/Venmos/Acorns of the world have been increasingly getting into the traditional banking realm, offering checking account/debit card products, but their back ends are still the same old slow companies. Polishing a turd essentially.
Manual transmissions are great anti-theft devices, though! ;)
Older automatics (my previous Opel/Vauxhall Astra G) had 3 modes, two being for slopes. But not always manually choosing the gear you like, which modern automatic transmissions do appear to have.
The Bitcoin Oracle Who Exited Bitcoin
Or inside
Descend into England’s Network of Secret Nuclear Bunkers
Revisiting IntStreams in Java 8+
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Should be ok unless you're making dry water as a daily job.
Amazingly there wasn't even a requirement for basic income checks when issuing a mortgage - that came after the crisis.

If we look at the mortgage pipeline, the problems become obvious, but none of them have to do with the government, except in that the government should have regulated.

Start with the mortgage origination companies like Countrywide who could easily offload mortgages to the other banks to collateralize. Since these companies could completely offload their risk, they were highly incentivized to give a mortgage to everyone.

Move on to the rating companies and the big banks creating financial products of doom and you've got the whole mess. All without the government "creating the problem." I do agree, however, that the government giving these companies an implied put option via a bailout gave them every reason they needed to take huge risks.

Still amazes me that no one from the banks ended up in jail.
I suspect because it is a Chinese company and having key national infrastructure built by a Chinese company leaves some Americans nervous over national security fears.

This article goes into more detail https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/why-america-is-so-...
Does solid state imply it won’t wear out? That alone would be a huge deal.
My three steps to freedom
Most of these look like they're "Unlimited" in the sense that Comcast has "unlimited" data. Which I understand, but it's still a bait and switch that I dislike seeing.
We had Sodexo at the small college I work at until a couple of years ago.

They're not good.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2663115/how-to-detect-a-...
Why not run Linux with Windows in the VM? Is there a reason?
I bought the new JL Wrangler. For a vehicle that is about fun and adventure I was between the automatic and manual.
When it came time to order and saw the automatic was a $2k option, it was an easy choice. I could have gone either way.
You are right, this is a concern for some of our customers. We had talks about self-hosted solutions, but so far no customers required it. There a several reasons for this:

- We host data on AWS on data centers in appropriate regions for each customer (read: in their own country, or a nearby one). AWS compliance programs also help a lot in building credibility: https://aws.amazon.com/fr/compliance/programs/

- We use solutions such as https://www.sqreen.io/ to add additional layers of security on our infrastructure

- Having data on our side allows to retrain neural networks more effectively, which gives them great value that would be more difficult to get with on-premise deployments. We are looking into edge computing and training however.

- So far we perform visual inspection of publicly visible assets. We do not host any data that would not be visible to anyone looking up to overhead lines in the countryside. This might also change in the future, and the amount of data we gather is also a concern, even if it is public.

In the end, we take this topic very seriously, and if you have any additional info on easy ways to deploy with trusted entities in various geographical areas, I would be happy to hear your experience about that!
Re. Color: Not true - Windows Console supports 16M 25-bit RGB colors since Creators Update (build 1703): https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/09/22/24-b...

That said, yes, the Console cannot currently support font-fallback and thus cannot display glyphs that are not present in your currently selected font. We are, however, working on fixing this in an up-coming OS release.

Bear with us - lots of exciting things afoot with the Windows Console.
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Not very dense compared to the cost of digging a big hole in the ground with Caterpillars and the number of truck loads of pellets you would need to bring in. This is all assuming that just covering the wood over with dirt is enough to keep it sequestered, a big pile of biomass could start emitting methane.

> Can you think of a better way to store carbon!

BECCS like they referred to in the article.
This viewpoint fails to consider the nontrivial competitive advantage gained by building customer loyalty. There are plenty of brands that do well despite higher prices, longer waits, etc due to their consistent positive interactions with customers; A culture of trust between customer and company is frequently worth the cost.

Amazon seems to have decided that the higher margins of counterfeits and prioritizing ads over search quality are worth the loss of user trust. I wholeheartedly hope this will be a costly miscalculation on their part, as I would prefer a marketplace with fewer ads and reliably genuine items.
By now finding great names that aren't in use yet (let alone not in use in a similar context) is almost impossible. Fast fwd 100 years from now & we'll have way more artifacts with names. I think we'll be fine.

Reminds me a bit of Joe Armstrong's StrangeLoop talk from 2014: The Mess We're In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
Automatic gears are much better for parking, etc. in particular when you have to park in a gradient. I've always longed for an automatic, bought the first when I could, and convinced the rest of the family to do the same with "test drives".
So just a normal picnic at the beach then?
>You just need to accept that the US Government's agenda of regime change in Vietnam, China, Iran, Cuba, Egypt, Venezuela, North Korea, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, and Turkey is the correct course of action

I would like to see some citations that the US is pursuing regime change in Vietnam, Egypt and Ukraine. The US is a direct supporter of both the Egyptian and Ukrainian governments and on fairly decent terms with the government of Vietnam.

>Also it helps to ignore any chance that there could a majority of the population who sees their government's action as necessary, just, or even acceptable. They're simply wrong and uninformed due to the oppression of their government.

How do you gauge the support for censorship within non-democracies like North Korea especially when opposition to censorship may be brutally punished? I'm not saying that the population of North Korea is anti-censorship, I don't know what they believe. I'm curious how you arrived at the conclusion that they are pro-censorship.
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I can argue this week has been the best week for crypto
I had no idea it had skewed this much. Even Corvette buyers overwhelmingly buy automatic now.

From http://www.corvetteblogger.com/2017/06/09/production-statist...

For 2017, a total of 25556 paddle shift automatics, and a total of 7226 manual shift.
I hear that tongue in cheek response many times but that's not true in its spirit, we will be survived by our next generation & they by theirs.

Unless you are talking about ultimate heat death of universe. but then if you truly are that fatalistic then why bother commenting?
But then we wouldn't get to call the debugger Numen: https://github.com/gruseom/numen

Also https://github.com/sctb/lumen/pull/169
If you feel like eating some water, I'd recommend cucumbers instead.
> We expect Google engineers to be able to solve problems.

Sounds more like he expects Google engineers to have perfect recall, rather than to be able to solve problems.

That's just a trivia question, nothing to do with problem solving.
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Look at the patents held by Univerisities, very few will be utilized commercially.

On the other hand oil companies notoriously bought up patents for the express purpose of keeping them from being used in commercial application.
I loved my manual transmission cars, and wasn't even that bothered by the "1st-2nd-1st-2nd..." highway congestion that I'd encounter every now and then. But when my driving got to be a little more adventurous (lane and a half wide gravel forest service roads on steep hills) I reluctantly gave in and got an auto. Some day I hope to own another fun manual car...
And great "hey, can I borrow your car?" deterrents as well.