skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's only two possibilities: either a given function is discarded, or it's reassigned.

Which did Rick Perry want to do? Well, given that he didn't know what those functions were, I don't see how he possibly could have had any actual plan for reassigning them.

Wanting to abolish the DoE could be sensible if done with thought. But wanting to abolish it while also not having a clue about what it does is just crazypants.

“In fact, after being briefed on so many of the vital functions of the Department of Energy, I regret recommending its elimination.” - Actual quote by the current head of the DoE.
Great book. Great casting for the audiobook. Scott Brick is great, but Simon Vance steals the show for me. Highly recommend this to anyone that wants to get into audiobooks.
thanks for this post, very helpful!
Also have the lifetime subscription from a HN-only offer they did some years back. Focus mode has been working for me quite well.
Ha, yea. Here is the calculation I did (carelessly):

> 128/54
[1] 2.37037

Still, one a week seems high.
Kiwie Bubble Gum mixes street art, contemporary art, branding and product design
That's not the point - if you are comparing wages you need to take into account benefits. $30/hour might not be great by itself, but $30 + $10/hour in benefits is.
New York City's walkability and public transit are easily one of its greatest, most important, and most valuable features. It's a shame that there's been such a revolt against local taxation over the last 30-40 years. Our big cities are the lifeblood of our modern technological economy. And yet we are under-investing in them drastically. But it's absolutely an affordable problem, we have the money we just balk at talking on the responsibilities properly, we want to pretend that if we temporize and half-ass our way there the problems (not just transit but housing and opioids and so forth) will just take care of themselves or spontaneously disappear. That is an immature and unrealistic stance. We need to govern ourselves, we need to take care of and maintain our own cities and our own people. If we continue to fail to do so it won't just be public transit in one city in a death spiral, it'll be the whole entire country headed the way of a failed state. And it'll happen a lot sooner and a lot faster than you might expect.
The opposite reaction is small slow steps that you can take today in local government to get less corruption, better services, better law making etc. The outrage unused is you problem here. If we all channel 1% into actually doing things we can effect we’ll feel better and maybe the trumps and Nixon’s will be less relevant. The other option of course is despair.
It is using go.mod, so it can't be that abandoned.
I'm used to eating cooked collards, mustard greens, turnip greens, spinach, and kale but I don't know why it has never crossed my mind you could do the same with something like romaine or lettuce. I imagine it wouldn't be too different.
There is a difference when it comes to politics. Politicians take a dimmer view of bribery and smear campaigns when they occur outside an election season context.
That sounds very fun and I'd like to see things going in the direction of creative "social" platforms/communities/ games/experiments made for humans to play with not dumbed down and yet simple.

This idea could be turned into a phone app, and experimented with real time aspects of drawing concurrently, layers, sounds, video frames. Imagine stitching together a film edited and directed by 50 people in the similar vein as the tiles site. I think we have amazing possibilities and the technology for real time collaboration is here already, we just have to have a different vision than what the big companies want from us.
I believe it's almost tautological that a politician would prefer personal cash instead of campaign donations. Among other things, campaign donations cannot be used to buy themselves a boat or ensure luxury in retirement.

It's a pretty good example of the point I'm trying to make that my post is being downvoted, presumably by people of the mindset of the other reply, i. e. "Nope. U STUPID. Burn all politicians". I completely agree that Citizen United is atrocious. But blanket hate and cynicism is the surefire way to populism, and the ensuing wide lurches across the political spectrum.

It just seems far too many people think everything is so bad it's time to get out the guillotines. That proposition strikes me as rather shortsighted, considering today still would seem to be the best time in history to be alive.

A revolution acts a lot like random shuffling. If you consider society as a puzzle, which is not done, but more complete than ever before, throwing it in the air and letting the pieces fall where they may seems unlikely to produce a more perfect arrangement, just by the principles of entropy.
Yes, it has commits to master from 4 days ago ...
> You can try some video game music

Everytime I read this, I think back to the Quake soundtrack by Trent Reznor, especially the opening track, and think "That's not what I want to listen to when I'm coding." (Awesome as it is. :-)

I'll have to look into these strategy games you mention.
For once Ars comment section isn't filled with morons
Growing up, my Chinese family didn't really celebrate Christmas. Consequently, we would always travel for family vacations on Christmas day. Christmas day flights were generally slightly cheaper than non-Christmas day flights, which was nice.

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I also like how the writer asked for the daily number of unique users but got bandwidth usage instead.
Two Fortunes and a Global Software Sweatshop
It's convenient to be able to trivially create new production-like environments. Great for reproducing bugs or simulating deploys or running demos. My company's setup and scale doesn't necessitate kubernetes, but I still find it useful. It was fairly straightforward to set up.
Demonstrably untrue. Spend some time in Vienna or Berlin.
Given the limits of applications like flynn, deis and nomad, and having tried all of them, I would be inclined to point you towards just going full kubernetes (in specific, rancher 2.0).

It’s a fair amount of effort getting your head wrapped around kubernetes, but the same can be said for the other packages.

At least kubernetes seems more likely to be useful in your further career as well.
I don't care if it's AI snake-oil or a bunch of grandmothers in a yurt in Nepal.

<MontyPython>It works, mate!</MonthyPython>
I might toss a few onto something I’m having by chance right then but I typically by them in advance of when I need them and don’t want to have them rot in the fridge
Seattle has kind of a similar problem. They can't just raise local taxes to pay for local transit. So instead the state has to decide on most Seattle transit projects (and their funding), and of course all of the conservatives east of the mountains bridle at the idea of their money being spent on those big city liberals instead of locally even though the balance of tax revenues and spending means money flows the other way. It's infuriating.
So spake Adam Smith. Sorry but the Invisible Hand is a fairy tale.
The graphs are cumulative, so the total is 8 TB (1TB on 5GHz and 7TB on 2.4GHz).
Stocks Skid as Indexes Shed 2018 Gains
There's a saying in New Zealand which describes how the Duncan's got themselves into that situation and their choice of business, "there's always real estate...".
You did a comedian's in cars getting coffee for tech with the npm creator right? Please do more of those with other tech people.
Most of the people who ride the subway are not poor, and the average subway rider is probably richer than the average NYS taxpayer. Why subsidize the transportation of all the middle class and rich people who ride the subway every day?
That’s actually the same model the Hong Kong MTR company applies for the subway lines it manages in mainland China (like lines 4, 14, and 16 in Beijing). Buy land right where lines will pass and near stations and develop it.
You know this about ALL Google meeting rooms? There can't be a higher security room in which you must badge out, or rather, badge into a higher security room adjacent to a meeting room?

Are you SURE
From your link,

> Bitsquat traffic represents a slice of normal traffic

Wow. That's pretty amazing. With enough analysis, you could (possibly) recover the traffic pattern for major websites. That alone seems to have a lot of interesting implications.
You're thinking purely within a capitalist framework. There is no capitalist solution to this problem. The solution is unprofitable. I encourage you to think outside this framework as humanity itself is at stake not just profits.
There was a Windows update that is dated for the 27th. But with timezones it could be the 26th. I’m not sure what timezone Microsoft realeases are in https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4051033/windows-10-...
An algorithm to count the falling drops
Please be civil and substantive in your comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ah, I see. Then government almost certainly cannot create that social infrastructure. But if it already exists (Utah and Sweden, for example), then it makes it a lot easier for the government to address this kind of problem.
Fascinating although deadly... prions persist through fire, radiation, and other sterilization methods. Yikes!
The commit date can't really be used to determine activity in this case. There is only an initial commit.
Ok, I was not referring to the rate increasing. I am simply stating that the rate doesn't have to increase for the homeless problem to grow, because it grows in absolute numbers with the population.
Incorrect. According to the NYT, redirection of MTA funds amounts to about $1.5 billion over 20 years. That’s $75 million per year, or what MTA spends in 2 days.
Um. I was actually going to concede the point, but look at your sibling comment. Apparently I'm not the craziest one in the room (believe me, I'm more surprised than you).
Recommend you read this for some perspective on the issue. Indra Nooyi’s story opened my eyes a lot:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/03/indra-nooyi-shares-a-work-re...
So wombats make square poops because they have square butts. Got it.
Do some call you The Gangster of Love? Maurice? Do you speak of the pompitus of love?
Obama ran that as a campaign promise for his cabinet and then promptly ignored it.
No its not, that is what makes it fundamentally different than DRAM.
And on today's episode of Why Nature Is Horrifying...
Toronto and London have zones. I'd bet the farm that Byford does the same when the MetroCard replacement is fully deployed.
The state would take them out. It controls the MTA.
The suspension of incels.me
A soup of puréed romaine is quite good as well.
related:
https://github.com/cyphar/paperback
Not really. Just got back from some holiday grocery shopping and in all 3 stores I've been to the clerks were removing the romaine from the shelves. That's how I found out about this.
You don't need office talk for small talk, try to interact on events and show an effort ( you can leave early fyi).

The thing you want to address is, when they give you a 2 word spec, talk about the issue before implementing it. The chance that your interpretation of a 2 word spec == their interpretation = 0.

And yes, just talk about it upfront.

The flow and what's possible, for hard things, try to get a middle ground, so a 4 week implementation becomes a 3 week implementation.

A 20 minute talk that can reduce 15% of labor is a win-win.

I've reduced a lot of unnecessary labor because of small talk :P
I should correct an important misconception. Epicycles do not produce correct predictions.

Epicycles can produce correct point location of planets, but do not produce correct phase. Galileo observed heliocentrism-compatible phase of Venus with his telescope. That was the crucial experiment, not the simplicity.
It's not as big as Broadcom, but what about Akamai out of MIT?
I had the unfortunate luck of reading the breaking news as I was eating a caesar salad at a restaurant. The restaurant didn't seem to be aware of the news.
Of course other countries with excellent public transit also have plenty of scenic country roads. It's not like we have to pick between the two. (I don't think you were claiming we do, I just wanted to highlight that argument.)
The Great Depression is an example.
No it isn’t. It’s just one more dip as the bubble sheds some volume. There will probably be more dips, but the ideas behind cryptocurrency are being implemented in some businesses as this bubble pops.
I guessed correctly.

Nob Hill on Grant Rd. in Mountain View.
Founder of American Computer Museum Dies
Little Picture
Rick Perry claimed to want to abolish 3 departments, but couldn't remember which 3.
Based on my experience walking down the street in Utah, I don't think they've "solved" homelessness.
Good Article. Be careful who you work for. Be careful who your friends are.
The last one I went to was packed full of neighborhood residents

Please let me know the date of that meeting; I'd like to check out the tapes.
> If you want to know how much it cost to install WiFi is was budgeted for $200 million and ended up at around $300 million.

Except that none of this money came from the MTA. The complete project was funded by private entities. Most of the cost was passed through to the four major wireless carriers. Those carriers continue to pay, on a monthly basis, for their ability to offer services in the Subway and the MTA receives portion of that payment. So, from the MTA's perspective, this project generates revenue. Same goes for a number of similar projects.
I once got a $5 flight from Fort Lauderdale to New York on Christmas Day
"experts"

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

"Span 2003b. "No one sought an answer to Quinby’s most penetrating question (referring to the 1935 Public Utility Holding Company Act), "Who Is Behind This Campaign To Separate The Obviously Economical Combination Of Electric Railway And Its Power Plant?"
This is really cool! It took me a minute to understand that "vs" was the linking word. "Batman", "usa", and "the beatles" were fun. "Tabs" was a bit enlightening.
"Neil Wilson, the chief market analyst at Markets.com, called it a "bloodbath."

“Things looks like they only get worse from here. Where is the incentive to buy? It does rather look like the bottom is coming out of this market,” Wilson told The Guardian."

Disclaimer: I have never owned cryptocurrency.

It's always humorous to me that analysts end up recommending you buy when the prices are at absolute highs, and never recommend buying at relative lows. The fundamentals of BTC haven't changed from a year ago. If you believe in BTC at all, it's a steal right now compared to its potential future value or its previous high from last year.
As your article explains (but too briefly), epicycles do predict wrong. It predicts correct locations but incorrect phases.

"It was not until Galileo Galilei observed ... the phases of Venus in September 1610 that the heliocentric model began to receive broad support among astronomers."
Yellow and magenta are also generally fugitive. Meaning that, over time, due to UV exposure, the yellow will completely fade, followed by magenta, and all you're left with is cyan and black. You'll see this in shops with advertising posters in their front window that haven't been changed in a long time.
Do you have a citation for this understanding? I hadn't heard this before so I did a brief search and found [0], but this seems to apply just to coal which goes through a lignite phase during its formation [1]. I'm not familiar the details of how other fossil fuels are formed, but I was under the impression it usually happens under the seafloor, are the same mechanisms at play in an undersea environment? It seems like fungi are more common on land than at sea [2].

[0] https://clarknow.clarku.edu/2012/06/28/findings-point-to-fun...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal

[2] https://sciencing.com/types-fungi-grow-ocean-8467074.html
> The fundamentals of BTC haven't changed from a year ago

Arguably, they have, due to hard forks.
I've done this for a few projects, and it's almost always a PR to fix a specific pain point that I've had, that isn't obvious from the PR itself. Examples are

- downcasing some http headers in an example (because they wouldn't match unless downcased, which I spent hours figuring out)

- replacing a regex search with a string search (because it made the method 30x faster and it was on the critical path of a weird edge case)

- allowing the user to prevent some harmless automatic stats being loaded in a postgres library on connect (because it broke cockroachdb, which uses the same wire protocol)

- quoting the urls in some generated CSS (because in base64 "//" is sometimes a valid encoding and our CSS preprocessor implemented line comments)

Now, I left a description for all of these that explained the problem, but without context they'd just look like I was collecting "contributor" labels.
Or your potato truck could simply have more wheels and not be overloaded.
Webpages are pretty huge now, cnn.com is ~2MiB
From what I gather from reading stuff on the internet

Not to be dismissive, but I think we found the root of the problem.
Paris and London are older and better.
https://minio.io
It seems like an odd quirk of liability law that all of the fire damage is blamed on PG+E if the initial spark that started the fire was PG+E’s fault. Surely some blame lies elsewhere as well. I think homeowners need to be paying fire insurance costs proportional to fire risk to properly incentivize fire protection (and I say this as a California homeowner in a somewhat fire prone area).

In the end, PG+E is regulated so heavily that any costs they pay will basically just be passed on to consumers. The solution to the increased fire risk is not “blame PG+E”.
It's the end for a lot of cryptocurrencies (which is good, they've been so hyped and yet most of them didn't provide any value), but not the end of the concept of cryptocurrency.
Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)
I wonder what the budget would be to make a more or less exact duplicate of the Great Pyramid.
That's where I want to be when my autonomous car crashes or collides. Inside a crumpled steel coffin.
Does anyone else have serious doubts about a 4 year old reading Linux kernel code?
Here in Vietnam (one of the largest produces of plastic waste in SE Asia), unless someone replaces the entire government and educates all the people, I think there really is no hope on the matter. Depressing.
Blockchain governance models suck – but Community Funds are making a resurgence
and tune in to 'history' channel to see how nazi ufo vampires invented the pyramids
Most likely (as in, very most likely) not bad [1], though it's theorized that the second largest mass extinction event on Earth may have been due to a GRB [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst#Rate_of_occurr...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordovician%E2%80%93Silurian_ex...
There's a number of 24/7 YouTube live streams as well that are great for coding. My current favorite -

https://youtu.be/hHW1oY26kxQ
Sorting that wikipedia table by recovery ratio, I see most of the profitable ones are in East Asia and distance based:

Osaka (OMTB)	137%,
Hong Kong MTR	124%,
Osaka (Hankyu Railway)	123%,
Tokyo Metro	119%,
London Underground	107%,
Singapore (SMRT)	101%,
Taipei Metro	100%.

Clearly it is possible to have profitable subways, so I don't think we should drop profitability as a goal.
Time to install an open source firmware update.
No, they don’t
Exactly. And the bottom 25% become homeless.
No zones effectively on the Métro. There are zones in Paris but that’s if you want to go suburban and then you don’t take the Métro. You take RER.
> Or they exist but because the universe is huge and sparse we’ll never encounter each other.

That's a good hunch. As we've learned more, the universe has appeared to be larger over the years. This could keep destructive contagions from spreading. If destructive contagions are likely, we probably wouldn't be here.

I sort of file it under 1. where they are causally unreachable and we are singular in our sphere of influence.

Or maybe 2., but over time even if space is vast, we ought to bump into each other eventually. Folks won't rest until they probe under every rock. So maybe they are out there, maybe even prolific and they (or we) are on the way to meeting each other. Humanity ought to make itself durable to see it through.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18483689
nonono, you're not hearing me -

if something is wrong and illegal, you just change the law to make it legal and then it's not wrong, see. so these 'bribes' you are talking about arent really bribes, because they are legal.

obvious. duh.
Yeah, but I'd give them the benefit of a doubt unless it's visible on actual codes or there is evidence this was intentional.

You end up with that pattern all the time when you try to efficiently pack rectangles around a different sized rectangle. I remember trying to avoid that back when placing fields in age of empires 2.
I was lucky to jump on when the lifetime sub was available too, it's a great service. I stopped using it for a while because they didn't support Firefox, but it works perfectly now.
And worse stability.
I want to know if backburning is a common practice in California, or in the USA at all.

In Australia a big part of a Firey's job is running controlled burns in the (relatively) low fire risk season to keep the amount of flammable material around cities and property to a minimum.

It is a continuation, in a way, of a much more ancient indiginous practice of regularly burning large swathes of bush. It is very much a part of the natural ecosystem here.
So basically, the same problem rooted in management at most tech-heavy companies: Tumblr likely focuses every single dollar spent on development towards pumping out useless new features in under half the time those features would require to finish properly, sacrificing quality over quantity – every damn time.

Some developer at Tumblr is now grumbling, "I fucking told you we needed to spend more time on the filter system, and that it wouldn't work properly when you forced me to ship it to prod after only 3 weeks instead of the 6 weeks I told you it would take". Someone there knows that the cron/API that updates that database is non-functional or untested, but nobody higher up the chain of command gives a shit.

Source: have dealt with this kind of management time and time again. In particular, "Agile" development has destroyed this industry. You tell management the task will take 6 weeks, so they assign 3 weeks to the ticket in Jira, and suddenly that means the feature has been promised as being deliverable in 3 weeks. If not, it's somehow your fault for not meeting deliverables.
It actually matters quite a bit.

If the potato trucks had to pay for the full cost of roads, then they would be incentived to drive that cost down.

Aligning incentives is important.
I don't hoard BTC so I can "get rich".

I use BTC to actually purchase goods/services, but this recent roller coaster is starting to spook my vendors away from transactions.

Thanks alot, bitcoin "investors"
Would other types of lettuce be any less susceptible to E. coli?
Minio is an S3-compatible object store with optional distributed storage capability.

This appears to just be an object layer. I supposed you could build an access layer on top similar to Minio.