skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone on Twitter said, this is like taxation, but he pays less, and gets more credit for it.
"The current system is actually quite resilient, because it has the built-in capacity for parts of it to fail without bringing down the whole thing."

This is false. It is the hallmark of the current economic order that our systems are very efficient, very interconnected, and very fragile.

I shouldn't care whether or not provincial Chinese governors are faking their economic reports or making bad loans - but of course, I do, since that could have a ripple effect that makes my business suffer. I shouldn't be fragile to that but I am.

Making the system less fragile would require removing some of the interconnections and the efficiencies. Growth and returns would be lower, but failures would be localized and less "interesting".
I thought the whole idea behind quantum physics is that the universe is NOT infinitely small and that the minimum size / amount is a quantum.
I know right? I would be bored out of my mind in an environment that doesn't have problems. I'm hired to fix problems, I don't care if it's technical, people, process, whatever. The more problems there are to solve, the more I'm challenged to fix it. When all problems are solved, then it's time to move on to a new challenge.
> From my point of view for typical modern bussiness workloads that necessiate large machines (ie. SQL RDBMS or something similar) only thing that you really care about is memory size.

That's my general impression, as well, but I have little enough (or inadequately broad) direct experience for that impression to be a strong one.

I've also seen, second-hand (i.e. benchmarks, so not quite real-world) that cache and memory latencies (including inter-CPU/NUMA) can significantly affect OLTP performance.

If that weren't true in practice, then the sheer bandwidth one can deliver from enough SSDs over PCIe rivaling a CPU's memory bandwidth would mean main memory size is much less relevant.
https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/2018/data/maps/#prevalenc...
An interesting point and not untrue, but it's only important if we're trying to get at "human nature" in itself, which to me seems kind of silly as we're social animals by nature. In practice, there's nothing wrong with testing different levels of awareness, and if an experiment is part of popular culture then it's part of us too.

It should be noted that the SPE's methodology was totally fucked in the first place, and before reproducing it we'd need to actually perform it "right" at least once (which can't be done now that ethics* boards are a thing).
I absolutely love your music analogy. That is brilliant and accurate!
Consumer confidence is at an 18 year high. Obviously there are caveats but your characterization seems overly negative.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy/u-s-consumer-...
Ha, likely there's a similarly sinister list of reasons not to do business with the United States. A quick glance at US foreign policy should suffice, or even just the actions resulting from Kissinger's direction.
There are many reasons why you would want to use Docker but for me the biggest one is that the entire configuration, installation, and deployment is all self-contained in that docker-compose file. The rollover and load balancing features are also nice if you need to scale out but even on a single server there is a solid case to be made to use Docker. The alternative you've presented is that you'd need to install and configure Nginx, then install and configure LetsEncrypt, then install and configure Ghost. And then you'd need to make sure you documented all the steps you've performed so that you can do it again if needed in the future. The docker-compose file aligns to the "infrastructure as code" methodology and while there are many other tools that could achieve the same thing (Terraform, Ansible, Salt, etc) using docker-compose in this scenario seems to make sense.
Wasn't that pretty much the problem of the financial crisis? That a lot of institutions had nothing real on their balance sheets but only paper value which could disappear instantaneously if perceptions change?
which isn't a terrible strategy if you're trying to ration the benefit to the employees who want it the most
These aren't even how-tos, they're clickblogs. If you'd like to contribute to actual HOWTOs for this kind of stuff, I'm building a wiki...
As EFF notes, this is great for him, but horrible generally, in that chances of success against jerks will likely be low.

Also, I wonder about speculation that Sony might have owned copyright for the score that he played.
Going on the likely answer that its in 1957 dollars that is $595 in 2017 dollars. Instead of being 1000x more productive its 15x more productive in 60 years. In the same time frame the US increased per capita GDP by 6x for reference.
Getting a professorship at Stanford is way harder than an L5 at Google, hands down, no questions.
Who's that quote attributable to, with a link if you have one? It's brilliant.
I recently switched from a Lumia 950 to a Sony XZ1 Compact because I wanted something that would be more pocket-friendly.

Good:

- Speed-wise it is a huge upgrade. Everything is instant. The memory management is superb. I can open an app one day then come back to it a week later and have it sitting right where I left it.

- Build quality is great. Plastic back, so no case required -- that was one thing I also loved about my Lumia 950.

- Battery life is easily 2-3x that of my 950. On top of that it also charges faster.

- It has a great display, significantly brighter than the Lumia 950 display.

- The display does not scratch easily, unlike my Lumia 950, which required a screen protector or else it accumulates numerous fine scratches rapidly. This phone lives in my pockets without protection for 2 months and has acquired zero scratches.

- Developer-friendly, with monthly updates. They even have complete AOSP device trees on Github, with detailed instructions on their developer's website to go with. Other than Google, who else even does that? I was impressed.

Bad:

- The 720p display is noticeably pixely. Also not as easy on the eyes as an OLED display.

- There is no chance you'll find a good glass screen protector for this, thanks to how the display curves just a little bit into the sides.

- It has hard metal corners. This is not a phone that curls up comfy in your hand.

- The speakers are crap. Stereo front-facing speakers, yay! No, hush that, the speakers are crap. Even at their loudest I miss notifications. That was not something that happened with my 950, which was crazy loud.

- The camera is inferior to the Lumia 950's camera in almost every situation other than handheld in low light. I was comparing the 950's camera to a Pixel 2 before I bought this XZ1 Compact, and it held its own against that as well, with its greater resolution offering a big advantage -- except handheld in low light. The camera on the 950 is something special. Also: no RAW on the XZ1 Compact. No RAW on any Sony phone, pretty sure. The XZ1 Compact's camera isn't bad, its pretty good, actually, it's just not superb like the 950 or Pixel 2. The noise reduction applied to its JPEGs is too harsh, that's its biggest problem. Not a camera you'll want to make prints from.

For a small Android, I don't think there's really any other choice than Sony compacts. The nearest competitor [in the US] would be a Pixel 2, which is much larger.

All-in-all, the only major things I miss about the 950 is its camera and its super loud and clear speaker.
No. Not enough ratio of surface area to volume.

One of the reasons these systems (and their insect inspirations) can fly so nimbly, while a jumbo jet or elephant is more plodding in comparison, is the "cube/square law" - an object increases in weight much more quickly than it increases in area, and it in reases in area much more quickly than it increases in length.

You can get a decent ratio of volume (weight and chemical power storage) to surface area and heat dissipation/respiratory potential with tiny systems. If you want a lot of area (solar power insolation), you need to go bigger and slower.
> Contrarily, eyes have evolved independently in many organisms over a dozen times.

I'd argue that this is because we all have the sun in common. On a planet that orbits a star with a different spectrum or a planet that has a different atmospheric makeup, "vision" might look very different to what we're used to.
I’d say google learned from Gates and Zuckerberg getting grandstanded at.
They usually don't. What you are taking about is worth only 1.20 euros a year.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-government-pension-thats-last...
Eric, Count Stenbock: A Catch of a Ghost
“The Power of Habit”, by Charles Duhigg.
I've never tried to download something this big via IPFS, but navigating to https://ipfs.io/ipfs/<hash> seems to just hang
A political problem can happen anywhere including the United States, I wouldn't call that an outlier.
Investor visas are not terrible. EB5 is great provided you have 500k to put in a single investment.
How Did Cool Become Such a Big Deal? (2014)
'Series of malicious actors dressed as police directing car into a shipping container to kidnap occupants'
> A big "aha" moment for me with node_modules was figuring out that it's an entirely separate system from npm.

I wish this was true. My workflow from back in the early days of node has always been to `npm install` external dependencies, then `npm link` (symlink) the dependencies I'm working on. But npm >= v5 removes such symlinks if I `npm install` anything afterwards. I spend a significant amount of my time re-linking what npm install unlinked.

Usually when I hit a problem like this it's because I'm things have moved on and I'm doing something wrong. But when an npm developer says "consider npm as it is to be broken" and closes the issue [1], I'm not so sure.

[1] https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/17287#issuecomment-4008339...
I'm with you, except for that 'aggressive expansionist power' thing.

I'm seeing one 27-day long aggressive war in 1979, previous ones are 1960s or before? And some current day peaceful-yet-obnoxious saber rattling about the South China Sea? (completely oppose them on that BTW).

That's... really not 'aggressive expansionist power', as far as these things go. France, for example, has been in more war over the last 30 or 60 years. Britain MUCH more war. US and Russia? Don't get me started. China is by far the least warlike Security Council member, and it's quantifiable.

I'm all about spreading enlightenment values. Let's try not to look like total hypocritical a-holes and maybe we'll be successful.
Californians still really like Prop. 13–except for the big parts they don’t like
You're right: This discussion always comes up with developers who constantly have petty complaints.
I'm not sure what the current statistics are, but often when wages are reported as stagnating, total compensation is still going up.

Mainly this is due to the increasing costs of health insurance and other employer provided benefits.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17983504
Earlier thread on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17923138
This was published on page B1 of the September 10 Mercury News but is not discoverable on their public site.
I've seen this multiple times as a situation that people can deal with instinctively but computers won't. However people need to be trained to handle this situation; it is explicitly mentioned in the driver's handbook.† So I don't see this as a "win" for people over computers.

† CA driver's handbook page 37: http://driveca.org/cms/assets/uploads/2014/09/dl600.pdf
Recognizing and Curing Superhero Syndrome
That doesn't seem like a closed system, though? The main limit on debt is the market's willingness to keep buying it. Figure out a way of increasing trust and it can go higher.
Well that is much more than I have, I am planning to go with 100k, is there any other program or something? I pretend to relocate. Thanks!
"...And if a takedown notice is wrong, a counter-notice can be sent by someone explaining that they own the work or that it’s not infringement..."

I think "if a takedown notice is wrong" - counternotice need to be sent back with a mandatory bill to pay to compensate for effort of receiving party to prove that takedown notice is invalid.
This will curb down this BS practice of frivolous opportunistic notices.
I'm a moderator here; sorry that wasn't clear. It's true that moderation comments are off topic, but we don't know a better way to manage this site.

In case you're not aware, the site guidelines underlying HN moderation are at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. It's good to review them periodically.
Sorry, but that is entirely captialism. You don't get to take core aspects of the system and say it's not really part of the system.
There are some strange and obvious errors in this post. Don't get me wrong I appreciate the post and I did learn some stuff, but do some proofreading.

> 192.168..122.3
Is this some new IP format I'm not aware of?

> acl evil path_beg /evil
> acl evil path_beg /evil
This is the same line twice to demonstrate a logical OR (I guess one is supposed to be path_end)
Its an unsafe solution. There have been a number of fires in homeless camps in the East Bay and as larger camps continue to be built there will be more. Recreational camping tents are not safe for semi-permanent use. They are fire hazards.
It's not random; it's a superposition.

It is perhaps less nonsensical (in a "common sense" way) to think of it in terms of the many-worlds interpretation. The moment you have created the photons, you have forked the universe - but observers on both sides are still identical in both worlds, because they haven't done anything that'd allow them to figure out which universe they're in. So for each observer, we treat both "versions" of that observer as one and the same.

Now, when one of the observers measures their photon, they figure out which fork they're in. And then in that universe, the other observer measuring it will also get the same result, of course, proving that they're also in that same universe. And in the other universe, the second observer will get the opposite result, again, proving that they're in that other universe. But neither measurement actually caused anything to happen, nor did they get any information about the opposite observer in their universe as a result of it.
Whoops, my bad for skimming the comments and overlooking the context of your question.

I found a page [1] that summarizes the level of visual acuity required to obtain a driver's license in each US state. It appears that all states will potentially issue a license to someone with vision in only one eye. Some states impose additional conditions, such as requiring a favorable report from an ophthalmologist, limiting the maximum speed, or restricting the driver to vehicles with outside rear-view mirrors (to compensate for the loss of peripheral vision on one side).

[1]: http://lowvision.preventblindness.org/daily-living-2/state-v...
That's really up to GitHub. They have to weigh the cost of being the lazy dude-bro's CDN against the bother of dealing with entitled whinging like TFA. To be clear, they certainly are justified in blocking this user. GitHub is for collaborative development, not code distribution.
I personally liked “Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business”, by David J. Anderson.
That Alien Message (2008)
Waymo have driven 8 million miles and had one minor accident that was the cars fault where it thought a bus would give way and a dent resulted.

I've driven about 200,000 miles and done considerably worse including two cars written off, though no injuries. I'd say Waymo seems safer than me. And judging from my insurance premiums which are low, I'd be safer than the average human driver.
That's true of the American legal system as a whole. It generally seems to ignore the cost to the victim of dealing with the legal system...
this should be a native feature of github with an `unmaintained.md` file.

bright red banner.
link to active fork.
etc.
Don't respond right away, it looks desperate. Wait a day or two. Does anybody know if SETI automatically sends read receipts? Turn that off if at all possible.
What's more American than the entrepreneurial spirit which drives self-owned & operated businesses like this? You have individuals who are self-responsible for their product/service. It's neat to see the historical precedent.

Yet across America police are shutting down lemonaide stands. Even ones run by kids. Food trucks and stalls are ticketed and confiscated in other cases.

Developers might be wise to speak up before you need an expensive license or medallion or charter in order to sell apps or other tech services. It's no less likely to happen, it just hasn't had time to yet.
My favorite channel on youtube. Couldn't reccommend it enough.
It says right there in the article.
Or Facebook could sponsor their development on hhvm and use that to promote hack lang.
Unplayably slow on this old thinkpad (core 2 duo)
CA Prop 5 (Nov. Ballot): Migrate Property Tax Base to Replacement Property
What Google really should be doing is improving the uncensored Chinese version of Google, also funding projects which help Chinese people break the censorship.
Agreed, the example about a braille keyboard is kind of odd. It's not like it's expensive, and if you give one to an employee, you won't have the whole department demanding that they are given one as well.
Yes but it can be done on a much smaller scale.

The smallest exoplanet discovered is Kepler 37b it’s smaller than mercury.

And planetary transitions are hard to detect because they are very time sensitive if you put something in a solar synchronous orbit between two planetary system a thin polarizing sheet which can be as thin as a solar sail can easily serve as communication device.

Any civilization needing one would easily be able to drag an asteroid which should have enough raw material to build a polarizer a few 1000’s of KM in size.
> they were basically the abandonment of a lot of Maoist ideas in favor of something that was more in line with Western economic thought

That’s right. The government basically concluded communism isn’t going to happen any time soon and shifted focus back towards gradual economic growth, and chaned lots of policies like opening more and more markets to private companies, letting state owned companies run in the same way as private companies, etc. (Before then, everything was owned and ran by the government). 1978 was just the beginning of the series of economic reforms

What’s different from many western economies though, is that government is investing and driving a lot of these changes.
The jovial writing style makes the content easily consumable
Why is there a need for a specific tool for this, instead of just some facebook group, message board, Skype, Discord, etc.?
Seems like a good interim solution is to build infrastructure for designated "driverless" lanes. I assume there's a good reason why this isn't being pursued though?
Review of SlimDB from VLDB 2018
One comment out of that was interesting to me:

>And it’s not all COBOL anymore. Today mainframe programmers use Python, Linux, node.js, Java, blockchain.

node.js on a mainframe? That doesn’t strike me as being something that can uninterrupted for years.
Are we broadcasting signals?
What if Google knew through data-mining what the Congress was up to and thus didn't send Page to the hearing. ;-)
Hence why it wasn't proposed to take one reading, but instead one of a known good control substance and one of the test substance. It doesn't matter if it's tuned properly or not, as you aren't looking for a specific frequency, but instead a difference in the two frequencies.
Author here: I created Bowler as a "hackamonth" project when I joined Facebook's internal Python Foundation team. We've already used it for a bunch of random codemods that touch a large number of source files throughout our codebase.

Happy to answer any questions you might have!
The book that caused me the biggest intellectual turnaround was Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. I was a teenager, recently went through Anglican confirmation, but most of my faith was based on some magical source of intelligence or consciousness (the Christian afterlife or the idea of an active god seemed to be obvious bullshit).

GEB convinced me that intelligence and consciousness could be mechanical. I already knew about chaos and fractals, so I already had the idea that mechanical things could be infinitely complicated and unpredictable. But GEB sealed the deal, and that was it: atheism.
Because that's what we have today, so that's what they have to work with. It's a shot in the dark in the hope that we might be able to find a remnant sign.

If we detect radio signals in another galaxy but FTL is impossible who cares? The human species will be extinct before any interaction can occur. It's probable that whatever species sent them is already extinct because it's at least 3 billion years old.

If c is the ultimate speed limit there's really no point in looking anywhere else because everything else is so far away it's irrelevant.
It’s not just the US: Around the world, doors are shutting on Chinese investment
Bird passes Lime
To truly understand how bad it is, we would have to analyse the 250T figure in more detail.

There is a "free debt" component to it which was generated via seigniorage[1] and "real debt" to people, companies and other economic actors. It seems to me that many commenters here see only one part of it.

To illustrate it, let me give you an example how "free debt" can be generated by a government. Imagine for a second that we have one world government (WG) and one world currency. And assume that we are in a peace time when collective world productivity grows 3% every year. World's central bank (WCB) targets 2% inflation. Also assume that velocity of money[2] is constant and in general people's behave the same in time. This effectively means WCB can "freely print" 5% of new money without causing any real problem. But who should get the new money? Instead of simply printing it and directly giving it to someone, they have pretty sophisticated/obfuscated mechanisms how to introduce the new money to the system. Typically part of that new money is given to the WG in exchange for WG's bonds. The new money is effectively introduced as an interest-bearing debt. But please note that this debt is "free" for WG. WCB will never want to repay the debt (by allowing WG's debt to always roll over). And also note that WCB is part of WG. That means the collected interest WG formally paid to WCB is then given back to WG.

Of course WG can also sell bonds to people, companies and other actors. This debt is the "real debt" which must be paid back. But let's assume WG is prudent and does not do that.

You can observe that WG can continue this as long the world productivity is growing better than -2%

The problem with "free debt" comes when the growth is even worse (e.g. in war times) or when velocity of money gets faster suddenly (or there are other inflation pressures or shocks). WCB should reverse this mechanism in this bad case. It has to "pump excess currency out of the system" by selling its bonds and destroying the currency to hit the 2% inflation target (technically it would do it by not allowing complete rotation of WG's debt).

Of course real world scenario is much more complex than that. And real governments additionally take "real debt" where usual rules apply. The question for us is how big part of those 250T is the "real debt".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigniorage
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
Q: How do you tell if someone doesn't use Javascript?

A: They will tell you.
Yep! Amazing how all we need now to get a flood of info is a keyword.
I believe it's more than that. The Social Security trust fund holds another ~$3 trillion in federal debt.
Oh yes, that too!
Is there an explanation of FRBs that uses terminology that someone with a University education of DSP would be accustom to?