skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've lived in a Meriton apartment complex in Sydney. It was one of the complexes built right in the biggest part of the boom, when they were rolling out "largest development in Sydney/Australia" one after the other, trying to outdo themselves and each other.

We moved in (renting) when it was brand new, peeling the plastic off the appliances etc. Within 1 year they were doing MAJOR fixes to building-scale defects in the construction, and within 2-3 years we had cracks in the walls, paint flaking off, doors that didn't line up, windows that didn't seal when closed. This is on a ~8th level apartment, and these aren't cheap apartments. They're not luxury, but they're comfortable in the "mid-to-high" end of the Sydney scale, just on the edge of the CBD.

We since moved out of Sydney, but we'll never live in a new-build Apartment again. The hell we went through, just as a renter in those few years, was mind boggling. Giving engineers and tradies access to our apartment seemingly every week, sometimes every day for days on end, so they could inspect and fix issues. I can't even imagine how bad it is for people who got suckered/conned into buying those POS apartments.
A Terawatt hour is about a years production from 30 Tesla gigafactories. We're going to have that amount of production within a few decades. Probably before small modular nuclear reactors have gotten their first production reactor off the line. Building new nuclear is riskier than other existing technologies, as evidenced in South Carolina, Georgia, Hinckley, and others. Therefore it currently seems that building nuclear is less plausible than building many terawatt hours of storage. SMR may change that, but I have a feeling that current companies are not planning for the grid of tomorrow, and are stuck in the last century when it comes to the grid's needs.
Worth noting that the Matrix was originally supposed to be about harvesting CPU power from humans, not about using us as energy batteries. Concept was changed by the studio to make it easier to understand as this was all before cloud computing.

I think that was dumb, but must remember audiences were so different in 1999. The Matrix was incredibly complicated for most people then, and they didn’t have the benefit of all the summaries and even academic texts we have on it today.

Also If you go back and read reactions to the marketing of the Blair Witch Project at almost the same time, many people, while not believing it fully, had a tough time understanding it was 100% a marketing campaign.
Reading that post and having worked in various contractor roles in construction in Sydney over the last 5 or so years (concreting and general construction) none of what he is saying surprises me at all!

I came from construction out in the mines so OH&S and engineering inspections were quite literally our daily jam, moving to the construction industry for residential/commercial in Sydney I was blown away by what I saw!

We would quite literally have days where the site would be filled with teams of workers brought in on buses, mixtures of migrants from eastern europe (like bulk euro's) and parts of asia who would be PUMPING out the welding, concreting and general construction. The site would literally be buzzing with activity...then you would rock up the next day and the place would be near empty...jobs half done all over the place. Sometime during the empty days...the inspections would happen, be they OH&S or engineering or whoever else had to suss shit out to tick some boxes.

Point is, they would actively pull guys off site because these teams were dodgy as shit at working, I spent my days regularly just counting the OH&S breaches I witnessed. Hell I even called the asbestos investigation team on a company I worked for because the breaches were just too ridiculous for me to handle...nothing happened. Kents are still making their workers rip out asbestos with no protective gear and making a shit ton in profit because they dump it using businesses that dump it illegally. These are MBA registered businesses too, and don't even begin to think the MBA doesn't know this shit goes on regularly, its a large portion of their members participating in these acts. They are dodgy as hell.

/rant
Nice!

I've study a super-little-bit prolog at university time but I do not really understand it... I still have to understand "why prolog?" at all but perhaps sooner or later I'll try to review it a bit with this site-book :-)
Fish blood is a component of marine snow, so anything that eats marine snow must be eating at least some amount of blood.
Civilian use is wide yes, but this is only because it is provided for free by DoD. None of those uses would be economically viable if they had to bear the costs of developing, launching and maintaining the system.

Keeping track of the boats and missiles pays the bills. Everything else is just a happy accident of zero marginal use cost.
"This problem, is huge, getting worse every day, we have no way to contain it and not even any good strategies going forward, but we don't have any hyper specific evidence of extremely bad outcomes related to it and we think other stuff is worse anyway. You shouldn't worry about it."

This is an extremely bizarre sentiment.

I usually love the economist but this article is, excuse my pun, garbage.
Yeah, I've been excited about Elixir as well and I've been learning it this year. In fact I started writing about it as I've been learning it in the hopes that someone will find it useful as a tutorial to help them learn as well. I've called the series "Learn with Me: Elixir"

https://inquisitivedeveloper.com/

In fact, I've found that just the act of writing to teach Elixir to others has helped gain a much deeper understanding of the language. If anyone's interested in learning Elixir, please check it out and let me know if it's been helpful to them. There's something satisfying in helping other people learn.
Horrifying. A shining example of Parkinson's Law, and the absurd nature of how forfeiture money is gathered and spent with little to no oversight. New York City government resembles a fiefdom more and more by day.
> There are already digs in place in Finland and the US with capacities to store centuries worth of nuclear waste, a mile underground.

And this is why nuclear waste disposal is _not_ an overblown challenge. Because even though there are already digs in place, almost all of the waste still sits right by in-use reactors. The US has been trying to fix this since the 80s, and afaik real progress has not been made since the bill to put it in Yucca mountain was killed in 2010. It might be a political challenge rather than a technical challenge, but it is an _extremely_ difficult political challenge that should be deeply considered when supporting nuclear energy. It is not really safe or cheap for it to stay above ground by reactors forever.
As a theoretical physicist, the iPad can handle work-related tasks that the MacBook cannot (and vice versa). The unique iPad features mostly center around the Pencil: annotating papers, and doing "pen-and-paper" math, except that the iPad is far superior to pen and paper (you can move things around and "re-edit" them). Actually, the iPad can handle most things the I generally prefer the MacBook for (programming and writing, mostly), but there's usually some hoops to jump through. But it's certainly good enough that when I travel, I usually only take the iPad.
Could set this up in one of those empty Chinese replica cities.

But this goes against one of my core beliefs regarding Chinese miner centralization.
> while the satellite itself needs to increase this to ~12,000 km (I'm rounding these numbers). The sat has to carry enough on-board propellant to raise it's orbit that much which necessarily increases it's wet-weight due to the rocket equation.

Looks like they use a liquid fuel thruster lift it to its final orbit[0]. Some other missions have used ion engines for orbit raising[1]. I wonder why that wasn't incorporated into the GPS design.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_A2100
[1] https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/ses-12.htm
designing a new generation/revision of time protocol with accountability and anti-misuse as parts of its design

It would be "time.google.com" and you would need a Google account.
> a good way is using the time provided by mobile basestations

That would definitely not be Stratum-1, so I wouldn’t recommend it.
You can read about a similar situation in the Citigroup building in NYC from the late 70's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citigroup_Center
>why not call it Gnome "Imp"

Because it's not an imp.

Because it's wholly unrelated to the Gnome project.

In fact it predates GNOME by three or four years.

It's the GNU Image Manipulation Program, though most people find that to be too much of a mouthful; hence "GIMP".
I think what s/he's referring to are tests for mutations in certain liver enzymes that are known to interfere with a drugs function. These are cheap and quick tests (these aren't sequencing based tests) and quite good at predicting non-responders

On the other hand it can take 4-6 weeks to see if someone responds to a drug, and the drug can cause adverse events in addition to not treating the disease

So in this case it is cheaper, faster and safer to take the test before prescribing
Canadian GoFundMe Raises $6B to Pay for Privacy Hedge Along US Border(Satire)
How does a decentralized naming system work when names must both be unique and user-chosen?
I don't track it, but last I heard there was a proposal that would cost ~$100M to drive micropilons down to bedrock, which is what should have been mandated in the main design to begin with. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Millennium-Tower...

Some windows are starting to crack as well. https://sf.curbed.com/2018/9/7/17829328/millennium-tower-win...
It’s not provided for free by DoD. We pay for it with taxes. Civilians do indeed bear the cost in full. I am not sure I understand where you are going with this.

Doing war stuff with GPS does not generate any revenue. It costs American citizens the same amount of dollars regardless of whether it is used for war or not.

It’s not national, and it’s not security.
If the shuttle was a failure, does that mean so is the ISS?
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I can't get over the hypocrisy of our media. One day, the media is demanding facebook censor everything they don't like in an authoritarian manner. The next day, they want facebook to be a tool against authoritarianism.

Which is it? Should facebook be a tool for or against authoritarianism? Or is authoritarian behavior good when it suits the media's agenda?

Also, another social media story by techcrunch on the frontpage. They guys are really overdoing it with the facebook/social media spam.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18751859
Wow. You're right. I'm not sure how I got that wrong. I'm sure I tried it. Thanks for correcting me!
https://outline.com/SM59JB
Yes, that's a good point. It is a significant challenge, but the challenge is overwhelmingly political rather than technical.
Since Windows Vista even.
I suffer from PTSD due to childhood trauma which is ultimately the cause of my anxiety, depression, mood swings, etc,. Right now I’m seeing a therapist who specializes in trauma and going through EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) treatment. I’ve also taken Wellbutrin (anti-depressant) and Lamictal (mood stabilizer) for the last 18 months or so.

I also just have to constantly keep busy. I fill my time with work and activities with my family. I rarely take downtime because if I do the dread and flashbacks rear their ugly heads.
But some of these have medium half-lives have decay sequence through many materials with very short half-life. So even a small amount of decay from the medium-life material can then release a lot of radiation; enough that the original material is extremely dangerous.
Apache Groovy even borrowed its name from Ruby -- it's really Gruby, if you get what I mean. And of course Grails started off as a clone of Rails.
> and was even able to launch a successful podcast which has almost entirely been recorded, edited and published using iOS.

Seriously? I could do that using a 1985 Amiga or Atari ST.
I wonder about the human effects of safety engineering. Say you require a 10x margin because you know builders will dilute it to 5x undetectably (say it’s under layers of other material or something). Every time you attempt to compensate for the dilution of the standard in practice, they’ll undo it. But if you stop, they may continue increasing the dilution. There’s a normalization of deviance. And indeed most buildings will still stand because the standard is attempting to handle six nines so everyone involved building will probably ever build something that fails even if they diluted it to five nines.

How do you encourage not doing that? Enforcement is one angle but are there others? Force the buyers to have insurance and then let the insurance company eat the risk assessment?
Mate. Go to the hospital.
RIP GIMPshop
Rhythm games are actually cited in the article as something you can learn how the routes work over time - what the author calls a form of planning.

Empirically, I do like revisiting the same songs on rhythm games so that I can anticipate the hard parts and practice them. That wouldn't make much sense if it's just about music and dexterity.
i think its warranted to go see a doctor.
Ask HN: Languages to learn in 2019 for Data Science?
Besides Python, any languages that can make a difference for data science? What would you recommend and why?!
It's a reference to https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan_Ark_Fleet_....
Going to second 'go luxury'. This is an expensive thing, and there's a weird effect where the bigger the dollar value your transaction the better you get treated. Moreover if it's complex it basically needs expert install if you don't want to be flooded with annoying people who simply aren't qualified to install your stuff.
It clears it up but personally, I'd rather just write `app.route(login, ...)`. Isn't a lot clearer to use more conventional language features? What exactly is this buying me?

I don't know if me saying 'Just, why?' is a good enough reason to throw my arms up and say it's an idea I'm not a fan of. I'm willing to say that it's a rather subjective attitude.

I guess my retort is that, it's far more confusing to have that syntax, then explain what it meant, when I could've just used the conventional syntax.

It's not like it's offering me something substantially simpler. For example, the spread operator that was introduced. It actually allows you to write clearer JavaScript code. This syntax isn't intuitively clear like the rest operator is.
Worth noting that this article is from January 2018. Since then Bitcoin difficulty has increased about 2.5x (was as high as around 3.5x at one point) so you'll need more heat.
That seems a strange reply to a comment that acknowledged medication only really has a real effect in severe cases.

Even for a friend who is severely depressed, which medication will work? How long does each one need to be tried for? What is meant by ‘work’ exactly? Meanwhile, the serious side effects aren’t even fully understood, and you’ll be buying them from companies that actively denied and hid such information from legislators and the public.
This is very important. It’s not yet fully understood, but something is missing yet in our understanding of inflammation.

It’s not everything, just like antibiotics weren’t everything, but progress here will mean curing an incredible amount of human suffering.

The book linked below, a late 2015 text on Molecular Neuropharmacology, is fascinating. Every chapter has a mention of inflammation and usually ibuprofen. It’s that important.

Particularly fascinating is the connection with ADHD, Parkinson’s, and Schizophrenia. All of the diseases have something to do with dysregulation of Dopamine. In particular, it seems like Ibuprofen helps with reducing the effects of Dopamine overload, which is essentially what Schizophrenia is. It’s an inflammation of the mind that is somewhat similar to how we now think sugar causes harm/inflammation. Anyway this overload eventually can lead to underload, or Parkinson’s. ADHD individuals are often overloaded as well due to the treatment with stimulant medication (which is good but can be abused).

I’m not kidding when I say there are Nobel prizes being left on the table here right now.

https://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Neuropharmacology-Foundatio...
That kills your credit rating though, doesn't it?
>> if I create a new social network, it isn't very useful until a significant number of people are on board.

> That's why when Facebook launched it was basically just a prettier skin over the Harvard student directory, so that way it was valuable even if there were no other people using it.

Facebook also launched in small, elite communities first, which allowed it to exploit network effects in communities that were more manageable than the global internet.

I think that many people make the mistake of thinking of the "social" network as global-level vat filled with a solution of essentially identical nodes, and the "network effect" as a power caused by a product having a high concentration in that solution. In reality, the global "social" network is more like a warehouse full of jars, and smaller players start by building up their product's concentration in a fraction of those jars, instead of all the jars at once.
Lol, so do a lot of mileage programs.
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> The agency is charged with investigating waste, corruption and mismanagement in city government, where it has traditionally focused, in large measure, on white-collar crime.

It seems like they should have been investigating themselves ;) But on a more serious note, the article doesn’t actually place numbers on the amount spent, saying that only a portion of the civil forfeiture money went to arms. I’m curious to know how much that was.
It actually works very well with large screens. I use a Magic Trackpad with my 27" iMac.

> I feel the old ball type was superior in this regard, you could rely on momentum and just give it a flick for large and quick movements

That's exactly how the pointer works on macOS, both for traditional mouses and trackpads. That's what makes the Magic Trackpad work for a large screen for; I can do a little flick to move the pointer across the screen — and I can do it with just a finger, not my whole wrist/arm.
Prolog is great for a thing called constraint satisfaction. You define a bunch of predicates, which may or may not have meaning in the implicit dependencies, and then the language is able to extract logical relationships between those atoms in these defined predicates. You might have had an instructor who himself hadn't really mastered the language, or maybe he didn't grok it - because it's very beautiful and intuitive when its laid out properly.
It was the language I picked up the fastest in all of my coursework, just super elegant and bare bones.

OT, but another point to note is that the original Erlang VM and interpreter was implemented in Prolog, which (because of Joe Armstrong's affinity for the language) might be why there are so many subtle syntactical similarities between the two languages.

This tutorial does a pretty good job at first glance, but I feel like there could be some more sophisticated examples that more concretely illustrate why it's such a powerful technique to use
Sure. A free market for this kind of stuff would be the ability to purchase land without anyone in the entire world being able to raise the rent on you, or take it away after the fact.

No matter if this "rent" is called taxes or not.

The entity that has the ability to take away your land, or raise the rents at any time, is the group that actually owns that land.

Governments deserve special criticism because they make what I laid out to be impossible. Disney world is not the party to blame for why people can't own land. That blame goes to the government.

It is because of this idea, that it is impossible to ever truly own land, that governments do deserve special criticism.

So yes, that is what is special/different between a private group and governments. If I discovered an island, owned by no one, or bought an island, governments would still be able to raise the rent on me, but Disney world wouldn't be able to.

The group that has the ability to raise rents on you is the true owner of whatever land you are on. And it is only governments that have that power, ultimately.
Your logical fallacy is: Not as bad as

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_as_bad_as
> You can put software built and tested on a very old kernel and it runs successfully on a modern one.

This is factually untrue. CentOS 5's glibc makes system calls using the vsyscall page, which is off by default in e.g. Debian stable kernels because it's a huge security risk (it's a page at a fixed address that makes syscalls, it's an obvious ROP target and makes ASLR completely irrelevant, and it also contains fixed data so it's a useful target for other attacker-controlled pointers too). So CentOS 5 containers do not run on up-to-date Debian systems unless you reboot and change a kernel option.

I think vsyscalls are on by default in Linus's tree but no distributor is gonna turn them on and take the security risk. The knob was put there so it could be turned off.
NY needs a state version of the federal Anti-Deficiency Act. (As do most other states.)
OK - so now everybody feels that there is something wrong with Facebook and maybe other big social networking sites. There is the widespread feeling that there were better online times. This article did nothing to further my understanding of this subject - it is just repeating stuff we already know.
I got annoyed by the kooky voices used for the English version, heavily accented and way over the top "way to go!" -- it selects a "good" response seemingly at random from a list, so when other apps might go "ding" for minor encouragement this goes "congratulations!". Also it ascribes to "never say anything is wrong" which means instead of "wrong" it says "check answer" which doesn't always fit (eg if you miss getting a ball in a "goal").

I did look at providing new sound files but was suprised to find they weren't just wav/mp3/whatever in a folder.

I like some of the games; I seem to recall it's highly configurable.
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With tor, your public key IS your ip adress.
Yup. Whom you sent your note?
You are welcome to find any peer reviewed paper that proposes that. If we are allowed to just hope for things then fusion would be a much better method.

Solar and wind is currently delivering around 1% of our energy needs, even with extreme improvements and investments to change that, which would be absurd it will not in any sensible way be able to deliver enough energy for our increasing needs.

So again show an actually proven rational proposal or we are just talking wishes like fusion and then sun def wouldnt be used as a base source.
They also don't have to finish everything in the building.
Moved into a building where the construction company did this, many things were unfinished. Apparently didn't completely pay the workers, so they just took stuff when they left.
it would be a shame if something happened to her computer and it had to be replaced...
I started a health tech startup, and our first product is a sleep coaching app, which combines user’s sleep data with sleep coaching protocol to train people to sleep better and manage their circadian rhythm.

Was able to get a paid pilot with a life insurance company by showing them the prototype and also currently negotiating with two large hospital chains to offer the app for their customer as work wellbeing solution.
Quality video! I hadn't heard the points about mutation of ideas and forming complementary controversies.