skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But looking at it as a pie that needs to be divided is wrong. One of the core tenets of capitalism (well, in theory) is that wealth is created literally from nothing. It's not a zero-sum game. In practice, unfortunately, one needs certain prerequisites to be able to do this. So in my view, the problem is not that something is unequally divided, but that a class of people systematically aren't able to create enough wealth and so are stuck in a vicious cycle of poverty.
Sure mate. It is contextual though.

You can look at what recurs and could be optimized, or optimized away, maybe delegated or nixed. You could take a measure of how you did whatever it is you did today, better or worse than expected? Were you unprepared? What could be improved?

My work week should flutter around four days, so I keep an eye on that, see that I did enough work and didn't over-work myself. There are fixed costs to living, but then there are frivolous or unexpected expenses – there's a budget for that. I write invoices or tally up working days/hours what have you – to bill my clients or my employer, if I was contracting.

There are people which should be contacted periodically, some more often, some less often – I make sure not to miss out on this. Forgetting to go over that list leads to not enough work, or not enough social interaction.

I make sure I take care of my tools, housework, stock up on food and such. Take care of my body and mental state by stretching and breathing (that's Upa-yoga and Wim Hoff style pranayama). I cook my own food, which I sometimes need to do in advance.

I note the things that I ended up doing but didn't plan to, and how they went and made me feel. I get follow up with whomever tried to reach me and didn't get to talk to me, and email (that's the very last thing).

I note whether I got to do the things that I enjoy, and how that went and made me feel. If not – then why not? That is very much not OK and should immediately be taken care of, for fear of loss of will to live so to say.

In general terms, "where am I coming from? Where am I going? Am I there yet, should I adjust direction/effort/approach?"

Hope that gives you something to think about.
While the 'unintended consequences' story is powerful, the article undermines its credibility by suggesting at first that palm oil's use in US biodiesel is a significant contributor to this clusterfuck, but only halfway through does it admit that US biodiesel is chiefly made with corn and soy, ostensibly leaving less of these oils for the US food industry -- forcing imports of other oils.

But the truth is even more complex: for the last two decades, US society has gone through a nutritional awakening about the risk of trans fats, and widespread phase-out of trans fats has occurred due to consumer demand and regulatory pressure. Trans fats are a hard-to-avoid byproduct of partial hydrogenation of unsaturated oils: a process you want in food manufacturing to convert a liquid oil to a solid shortening. Corn oil and soybean oil largely consist of unsaturated fats, so partial hydrogenation will turn a fair bit of product into trans fats. But palm oil and coconut oil are naturally high in saturated fats, which gives them desirable properties by natural means and without trans bonds.

This is the primary reason for US food manufacturing's increased palm oil imports into the US: if widespread partial hydrogenation were still on the table, plentiful cottonseed oil could have been used instead. Crisco and Wesson were both early pioneers of hydrogenated cottonseed oil, but even today's Crisco -- the archetypal hydrogenated shortening -- has been reformulated with palm oil and soybean oil.

Then there's the matter of occasional palm oil boycotts in the US and Europe, protesting about food companies' use of palm oil from plantations that haven't been certified sustainable. Other than the inherent fuzziness and conflict of interest about a trade group deciding what it means for clearcut-type agriculture to be 'sustainable', these protests unfortunately cause the average price of all palm oil to drop, leaving others whose priorities are different to buy them up on the cheap. For example, palm oil is widely used as a cooking oil in the Indian Subcontinent, because it's cheap, is produced nearby (as opposed to in the Americas or Europe), and those countries have populations whose demand for simple cooking oils well outstrips their domestic supply.

There are many factors to this story: the ones investigated in the article, and others that I hope to have shown were missing. This shows that reality is sometimes maddeningly complex, different actors are frequently at odds, and one group's good intentions rarely survive the realities and the intricacies the global economy and local situations on the ground where the rubber meets the road.
Good luck with that when everyone already has a car...
Sichuan cuisine is renowned for having dishes/spices from many different places... which makes it not a good anti-example.
Palm oil is a great example of the Jevons paradox:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Vegetable oil was expensive and took a lot of land to produce, then the oil palm made it cheaper and produced more in less land. But now we spend more money on vegetable oil and cultivate more land than before.
On the flip side, my brother hired ex-army driver. Whenever there was a problem of the driver being lazy/not listening, he would 'bark' at them and every time there'd be an instant reaction.

It's pretty amazing the levels of psychological conditioning you guys have had.
Still not getting it. Every site is hosted. The hosting company needs to spend money on HTTP/2, and be allowed to use it. The networks need to allow TCP through. All the steps down to the transport layer now require legacy maintenance.

Lots of things need to happen for HTTP/2 to 'stay alive'.

Your use of the future tense does not convince me.
If there's a "ruling class" conspiracy theory it's more reasonably rooted in the ivy league/Harvard/Yale/Princeton, not so much US universities at large. That just covers too many people.
E-Ink is expanding their manufacturing capabilities
How can I realise something that may or may not happen?

Everything that goes over UDP is not supported as of 2018 and some volunteer project is going to figure this out?

Hubris.
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I think you're overly generous with your definition of adulthood. I mean, over 90% of adults are probably not on the same page with you. Just look at their finances. Or the amount of free time they get.

The "should be learned" I agree with, but that's just not the world that we ended up with, is it?
It's Chinese buffet. Or maybe more like tapas. It's a great way to sample the huge variety of Chinese food. Some of which, to my Americanized palette, is quite alarming.

Edit: Deep-fried chicken feet vs pork rinds is a toss-up, I admit. But there are items about which I've never gotten a clear explanation ;)
The client-side code that does the hashing is part of the codebase.
So I immediately checked my favorite language gotcha, the macro NULL. The text is entirely wrong. The macro NULL is harmful in both C and C++. It is not "stylistic" AT ALL.

Here's the problem with the macro: the macro NULL can be either 0 or can be (void * ) 0. The issue is that the former can be accidentally interpreted as an integer depending on context.

In both C and C++, this manifests when you pass NULL to a varargs function. Instead of passing in a null pointer, the compiler may instead pass in an integer zero. If pointers and ints have different sizes, hilarity ensues. If the null pointer does not have the same bit representation as int zero, hilarity ensues.

In C++, this happens even more commonly. If there is an operator overload and you pass in NULL, then if NULL is 0 it will chose the int overload, if NULL is (void * ) 0 it will chose a pointer overload.

Never use NULL. Ever.
lol cmon, you only need to wait 10 minutes before Tim Draper says some very right leaning things complete with party line misconceptions.

Nobody cares because you want the money, the infrastructure, the university, the network, the lead investor

Wow a wealthy person with no input from the rest of society nor any consequences, STOP THE PRESSES, except dont, it comes with the territory
"Will" - are you from the future?
This, in effect, is already happening in the city. The centre lanes / dividers of some of the major roads are now being used to construct an elevated metro system.
The oppressed people of the world salute your endeavours.
It could work, depending on your use case. For someone who only drives a couple miles a day and parks in the sun, they might need to charge less often or not at all.

If you're going on long road trips, it probably wouldn't help much. In that sense, solar isn't particularly useful for extending range (which is why you'd want a large battery in the first place), but it might make a big difference when it comes to how often you have to plug in to a charger.
Yep. Just like C code isn't binary code.
>College-age tech students poised to enter the Silicon Valley ranks overwhelmingly responded like their millionaire idols: liberal on social issues, staunchly conservative on regulation.
I've been exploring into this space. Some more links for people who are interested:

- A tutorial on active inference https://medium.com/@solopchuk/tutorial-on-active-inference-3...

- Deep Active Inference https://kaiu.me/2017/07/11/introducing-the-deep-active-infer...

- A minimal active inference agent https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273640094_A_Minimal...

- The book Surfing Uncertainty is the longest exposition of this idea that I've come across. It's review http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-unc...

- SlateStarCodex on 'God Help Us, Let's Try to Understand Friston' http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/03/04/god-help-us-lets-try-to...

If anyone is interested in exploring the area, we can form a little study group. Contact me paras1987 <at> gmail <dot> com. My near-term goal is to implement an agent that does active inference in Python or PyTorch.
Oh, so you're not doing it just to get to do it then?

I think I found a problem with your approach.
> Some had facilities to define dedicated heap regions, but generally the GC had to walk the entire workstation heap across all "applications" in 1980s hardware, which wasn't great.

a stop-the-world global GC was generally tried to be avoided. mid 80s Symbolics Genera had regions for data types (areas), areas for manual memory management, a generational GC, incremental GC (the GC does some work while the programs are running) and an ephemeral GC efficiently tracking memory pages in RAM. For normal use it then looked like global stop-the-world GCs were only used in special situations like saving a GCed image or when running out of free memory. But one often preferred to add more virtual memory then, save the work and reboot. For that one could add paging space when Lisp crashed with an out-of-memory error and continue from there.
No, a tax is not a free market solution, it's the exact opposite.
It is assuredly not northern Chinese cuisine. I think the point that is being made here is that your original statements about the distinguishing characteristics between northern and southern Chinese food are incorrect on any level.
I did an analysis of coats for residential roof top installations in Europe for my Master Thesis. Overe here around 30 to 35% of costs are the panels. Still the most expensive part but nowhere near the 60 to 70% it used to be. Panels really turned into a commodity.

What struck me is that nobody, not even Solar City and others, looked at the logistics side of things. It seemed to me that eveeybody came up with elaborate and capoztal intensive ways to sell to the people with the smallest customer Life-Time value in the whole value chain. Putting sophisticated logistics in place to cut costs (my assumption was that by doing that the solar panel cost could be reduced by around 15-20%) and selling to installers would have been the better way to go.

So I second you and the OP, it is no ponger about physics (with the exception of large power plants) and more about people and how you get solar on said people's roofs.
I'm left handed, I use my left index finger to manipulate the trackpoint, and my left thumb for any of the three mouse buttons. Clicking the middle button is a middle click, and holding the middle button makes the trackpoint movements act as scrolling.

My laptop is a T450s, running Debian and KDE Plasma. Acceleration is set to medium, and "Adaptive". The key is tuning your sensitivity/accelaration so you can make very fine/slow movements, but also move the cursor all the way across the screen with stronger/faster ones.
At least from the article, the study seems to be too-small-n and does not control for participants' socioeconomic backgrounds, nor for the environment where participants ended up (i.e. participants with degrees who move to a city after university may be more open-minded than participants without degrees who move to rural villages where less diversity and fewer opportunities exist).

Not sure how much stock should be put in these results.
Variation on the Michigan pastime of dropping heavy objects from motorway overpasses so that they hit motorists' windshields.
I wish I had better critical thinking skills when I was in college. I'm an English lit major with a minor in Russian lit. In the years since I've reread a lot of my favorite books, and I see a hell of a lot more than I did then. I think I was too immature, too inexperienced with life, to understand about suffering, joy, or love (and wayyy too self centered). College got me started, though, so I'm grateful for having been exposed to so much great literature, even if my understanding was a bit shallow compared to now.
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I think the second pricing plan should be starting from 6 users and up...
Such a question can only be countered one way: "if company installs anti virus, does head of IT assume all legal consequences of virus being introduced?".

Didn't think so
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not really. GNU Emacs is not even good at multi-tasking.

Actual Lisp operating systems also don't look like an Emacs running on hardware. The MIT Lisp operating system had Zmacs, but it was one application among others and while Zmacs had modes (incl a Dired), the typical Lisp OS application was not an Zmacs mode. None of these were based on Zmacs: the Listener (the REPL), the process overview, the font editor, the inspector, the terminal, the chat program, the documentation reader, ... On a Symbolics there were basically two major other programs reusing parts of Zmacs in their UI: the mail client and the documentation editor.

Thus when people think that a Lisp OS looks, feels or works like an Emacs on the metal or that GNU Emacs looks like the typical Lisp operating systems from the 80s (from MIT, Symbolics, LMI, TI or Xerox), then this is actually not the case.

See this for an example how an 3d animator used a Symbolics Lisp Machine and parts of the graphics suite for it: https://youtu.be/8RSQ6gATnQU
Stanford students are generally wealthy to begin with.

Do it for all CS majors and I’ll be more interested.
What would you suggest using instead? The actual (void *) 0?
I have used that particular Shinkansen route at least thirty times in each direction. Admittedly not so much recently. I have also traveled by high speed rail in Northern Europe, for comparison.

Your experience on the Shinkansen is very different from mine. The only explanation I can imagine is that your train was travelling slowly, which can happen - rarely - in typhoon season.

Otherwise, which high speed lines have you used that did not induce seasickness in you?
Agreed,
I remember in first year our engineering professor teaching us all these abstract concepts about robot controllers and the philosophy behind them and then finishing the lecture by telling us, "Also, when you get to your first job, just read the manual to figure out how your specific controller works so you can do your job" :/.

P.S: Also Waterloo grad here. Co-op FTW.
Why wait for the clathrate gun to go off, when you can dig it up and ignite it yourself?
In the immortal words of Minor Threat:

At least I'm fucking trying,
What the Hell have you done?
I would say Obama's EPA standards on cars had a bigger impact than what you described, with the added benefit of being a move in efficiency and not just burning through reserves.
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Such an experience could be described as the replacement of one ideology with another, rather than an increase in personality trait openness.
> but I get that it is not the norm.

And most available evidence suggests she did not get there through high intelligence, in lieu of a university education, but rather, complete and utter greed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDAwGqlIp7E
Sure. It will just be like living in a parking lot with some potted plants, instead of living in a forest. We won’t die, just most of the biodiversity.

Well maybe a billion or two of us will die. Probably not us.
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It's the complete other way around. Source: Lived in China, ask any Chinese person.
> I believe US foreign policy will potentially have very large changes due to their new found energy independence.

Yup, that was the one of the main reasons we bore the cost of being the world's policeman and securing global shipping routes. We're going to largely stop doing that, and turn inward, leaving the rest of the world to scramble over how to secure shipping routes on their own resulting in new alliances. The oil will start flowing to China mostly and Russia will expand its borders by force. China will be too busy trying to stop its fake economy from crashing to care.
Using a place which is intentionally pan-regional to make a statement about regions is not an anti-example. Also, I didn't make the original statement. And, no one said Sichuan was northern Chinese cuisine. So I'm a bit confused as to who and what you think you're responding to.
I am not sure if that is what your parent meant by "games". If you want to talk about browsergames, you usually add the term "browser".
Meanwhile, climate change deniers are pointing at the cold weather on the east coast as proof that climate change isn't real.

It is entirely fair to suggest that the increase in heat waves that are likely caused by climate change may be causing an increase in kidney disease related deaths. There are certainly other issues at play, and in the grand scheme of things, this is probably not a difficult problem to solve compared to other climate related issues, but this issue is interesting precisely because it was unexpected. We are still struggling to get a good idea of what the impacts of climate change will be, and this finding helps inform that effort.
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The article says it.
> Promises do that are simpler and do not form a monad?

Promise is just an Abstract Data Type. It does not have to be an instance of a Monad.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/referenc/Delayed_Evaluation.htm...

https://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/core/futures.html

Update:

It so annoying to have your legitimate posts being flagged by some SJW idiots. HN became a safe-space for mediocre, intelligence-cosplaying snowflakes. Do your homework first, before flagging others.
Like I said, 2 countries don't make a great sample size. West Germany got a massive boost from the Marshall plan. East Germany did not. NATO represented a much bigger trading block and economy when compared with the Soviet Union.

North Korea and South Korea had comparable economies until the 70s. Very few countries face the same kind of crippling sanctions that NK has. And you can always compare Cuba with your choice of a Latin American country to make a counterpoint.
In C++, nullptr.
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Packet loss is an essential part of TCP to determine max. throughput.
This isomorphism has no meaning. It is also isomorphic to logical OR, if you wish. Shall we wrap OR into a Monad?
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I would be thankful for any link with a certain amount of text
Delightful presentation. I love how they used approachable analogies with things like currency exchange, and pushed the math off to an appendix.
Yes and no.

I definitely feel where you're coming from. When I was in university I marvelled at the kids studying liberal arts. I thought it was a crazy extravagance to spend 4+ years and tens of thousands of dollars on something that had no evident financial return. At least I was getting an engineering degree that would pay the bills someday and I thought of the arts kids as subsisting on handouts from their affluent parents, freed by wealth from having to worry about ever making a living.

But it's also a product of our user-pay educational model in North America. In many developed countries, tuition is free and students even receive a stipend to pay their living expenses. So if we assume for a moment that it is indeed possible to 'broaden the mind' in university, it is not the exclusive preserve of the privileged since in these more egalitarian societies everyone has access to it. And now I think that may not be such a bad thing.
The simplicity of 'tell me about yourself' is brilliant. It's all too easy to say 'what do you do?' Which presumes that the other person actually wants to talk about their work.

I've been trying to switch to 'tell me about yourself', but it's somehow harder than I thought.
"Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult."

"If you don't have a sense of humor, don't try to be funny."

If you just want to be good at conversation and social stuff, get a copy of "How to Win Friends and Influence People" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influen...

It's cheesy but it works.

That said, if you are really after being funny, then know that the essense of comedy is timing. Being funny is more like dancing than acting, say. Good news is it's a skill and unless you're hopeless you can practice and learn it. Get yourself a copy of Ol' Asimov's "Treasury of Humor" and just tell people jokes and practice your timing and delivery. Good luck! It's wonderful to make people laugh!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov%27s_Treasury_of_H...
Awesome life story, with that Michelin star kitchen skillset you have the grit and interpersonal leadership skills necessary to lead a team of devs into the unknown and produce results that matter, hopefully at a director or above level.

Can you see yourself doing this? We need more diversity at the senior leadership level, please consider it if you haven't!

Also if you don't mind me asking, can you share what made you leave your former profession, was it the stress/physical exhaustion? It seems like grueling work to say the least.

Thanks for sharing your background and perspective on HN!
I think the downvotes are because your comments do not make it clear who/what you are responding to or what you are trying to say, and seem tangential to the topic under discussion. Both of them impose extra mental load on readers without any obvious payoff.
A tax is only opposite a free market to the extent that it distorts the market. The more direct and simple the tax, the freer the market. And when the tax is directly addressing externalities that are normally not paid, it makes the market less distorted.
B.C.'s zero emission vehicle mandate may be the toughest in North America
As such, it is not a counterexample!

Edit: you keep editing your comments, but I was replying to the self-quote, which, at the time was your entire comment.
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Okay but thats probably the most popular stance anyway
Sure, bad choice of words on my part. I'm pointing out, perhaps badly, that there are other attributes other than intelligence & education that can get someone there, eg. luck, greed, being a sociopath etc.