skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yeah totally; it's a slow march forward. MySQL Galera took some time before it was ready for serious use, but the fact that it's semi-usable is awesome.
Been a while since I've looked, but Illinois's credit rating was headed toward junk bond status - like they were literally on step above. I haven't seen anything in the 5 years since that would have changed that direction.
Americans misperceive racial economic equality
Again yes and so what? What are the scientifically demonstrated consequences of that acceleration that we can't deal with? Why is it so hard for you or any other to answer that simply question? I of course know the answer but it's quite astounding that you don't stop just for a second to reflect on whether you position is as grounded in science and how much of it is based on speculating on top of that science.
So let me rephrase: you're saying that increasing carbon tax (for example) is a very dangerous policy because we don't exactly know how it would work out, but at the same time you are confident that our civilization will figure out solution to widespread crop failure, raising sea level, ocean acidification, (possibly) increased amount of superstorms, and a hundred million refugees spread across the world?

Of course all mega-large-scale problems look like achievable goals, as long as you don't pay too much attention on who's gonna pay for all that ...
I had a shower thought once that between the time all humans died and the Internet goes down (all that infrastructure still need human maintenance), Twitter would be just filled with bots posting their spam under the top trending hashtags, creating feedback loops as the system sees other hashtags the bots use and push them up as trending.

And the last machine that'll be running will probably be a machine desperately trying to talk to a payment API because it needs to bill their long dead client after some other algorithm overspent the client's ad budget...
How the Slice Joint Made Pizza the Perfect New York City Food
If you don't know who Bogle is, and don't know much about individual investing for retirement, I would recommend you read William Bernstein's If You Can, a (free!) little 16-page booklet that just lays out the "Bogle method" for simple investing for retirement.

[0] https://www.etf.com/docs/IfYouCan.pdf
> It's almost as if AirBnB's hosts and guests are bearing the externalities that should be priced into the transaction on both sides...

Often enough, the neighbors also bear externalities: noise from guests dragging their heavy roller coffers up and down the stairs and smashing all doorbell buttons in the hope someone opens the door as they locked themselves out, rents rising because it's far more profitable to rent 100€/night/AirBnB than 1000€/month on the open market, ...
The subways have to be safe for human passengers, interface with stations, and be built in populated areas without disturbing the buildings above.
Hi, I think these are the questions we all asked at a certain moment and everyone's experience was probably similar but also very specific and different. I started contributing to GitLab [1] and it was probably the easiest thing to do since you can even fix the simple typos on the website, handbook, blogs and that's really appreciated.

Another cool thing for me was the fact that you can use GitLab to contribute to GitLab [2].

It would be best to pick the topic you are most comfortable with (e.g. frontend HTML/JS) and after you dive in you'll definitely discover many other interesting areas you want to learn about.

You should definitely check out https://about.gitlab.com/community/contribute/ for more info on how to get started with contributing to open source. Feel free to join the Gitter room [3] and leave your questions in the chat.

Small note: My contributions led me to a job at GitLab, all the effort was seen and acknowledged and that made me feel really amazing! :-)

[1] - https://about.gitlab.com/what-is-gitlab/

[2] - https://about.gitlab.com/2015/07/07/how-we-use-gitlab-to-bui...

[3] - https://gitter.im/gitlabhq/community.
yep - https://medium.com/ghostifi/ghostifi-the-server-create-funct...
I at least am not trying to argue that we're utterly doomed. But wouldn't it be a hell of a lot easier to not have to damn every ex-glacier? To not have to build sea walls on every coast, and deal with year round hurricane & fire seasons, and desalinate massive quantities of water, and everything else? Yeah, we can survive on the moon and grow crops in Antarctica. But notice, most people prefer living in Palm Beach and cultivating the Midwest.

It's like with bees. Some people go, who cares if neonicotinoids wipe them out, we'll simply make a billion incredibly advanced miniature robot bees to replace them. Ok, sure, we can probably figure that out in the next fifty years. But that seems like way more of a pain in the ass than just cutting it out with the neonicotinoids.

P.S. the insect populations are already massively cratered. That part isn't wild speculation about 2100, that's today. I'm sure you remember the headlines about the study in Europe finding 75% reduction in insect biomass over the last twenty five years. Oh, and the year round fire season is here in California.
How often does XOR magic come up in interviews?
I almost never use/see XOR magic in production (I.E using XOR to solve conveniently defined problems in O(n) time and O(1) space. How common are XOR interview questions? Am I just missing real-world use cases? How important is it to be able solve problems with Bit-Magic?
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What are the problems with just increasing the dosage over time. This sounds to me like a very reasonable approach to someone with intractable pain.
Has there been a wall the size proposed that had efficacy as declared? I’m genuinely asking and not mocking. I’m uneducated about the effectiveness of walls.
Electric car batteries are cooled with coolant which keeps them healthy for longer.

It's currently quite popular to buy used Priuses for 3-4k and spend 1.5k on replacing the batteries with recycled cells.
Do you need a truck?

(If so that's just fine. But I'm in Texas, and I'm pretty sure most of these folks could get by on something smaller...)
The obsession I'm mentioning is based one's worldview & presuppositions...How we reify & approach the problems determine the solutions. Appeal to authority will ensure policies that enrich the authority, with the associated conflicts of interest, confirmation bias, & transfer of power from the population to the authority. Remember, that plant growth is promoted with Carbon Dioxide. A principle of Permaculture is turning the problem into the solution. Elevated CO2 is plant food, if we properly take advantage of the opportunity.

Here's an anology re: agriculture. Conventional monoculture petro-chemical till agriculture optimizes for yield & only yield. Unfortunately, there are pests, molds, blight, disease, weather issues, drought, soil conditions that reduce yield. In response, pesticides, herbicides, GMOs, mass irrigation (disrupting watersheds), petro-chemical fertilizers are all sold to the farmer. This leads to soil erosion, destruction of ecosystems, pollution, & lower quality (less nutrition) food.

Instead, one can practice regenerative agriculture, that optimizes the ecosystem & soil remediation. Earthworks, such as swales, terraces, & ponds are used to capture rainfall & cycle the water through the property for as long as possible. Polycultures of plants that compliment each other are planted together. Animals are allowed to graze, which brings in fertilizer. Predatory insects & birds are introduced into the habitat to control pests & molds. And you get a higher overall yield of various higher quality (nutrition) crops with a healthier ecosystem, which creates a healthier climate.

Entire ecosystems can be built, which has an affect on the climate in the local area by increasing rainfall, keeping water in the biosphere, increasing life in the system.

These practices can happen on a large scale with quick wins that lasts generations...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDgDWbQtlKI | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC_Y1ZTZXQ4

Even something as small as reintroducing wolves into Yellowstone have profound environmental impacts (trophic cascades)...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q

There is even evidence that large portions (some estimate ~50%) of the Amazon Rain Forest were curated by previous indigenous civilizations. (See "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" by Charles Mann)
I can't believe that pickups are the three most sold models in the US. That's really insane. https://www.businessinsider.com/best-selling-cars-and-trucks...
A big part of that is that the average punter knows nothing, and that approach is likely to avoid losses.

When people go all VTI, they tend to freak out when the market goes down, sell near the bottom and forget about it, only to buy it again after the value goes up.
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This is black-bar worthy — he did touch a lot of us with his work, and I’d like to think that he’s one of the few reasons the wealth generated in Silicon Valley largely stays to fund the next generation of startups (like mine). I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve recommended Vanguard personally.
Bogle converted an action game into an idle game.
No, it takes a person given to speculation. I think it's disingenuous to use the dot com era as your example because of the shear magnitude of value that was being created during that time period.
Any line is a penis and any droplet shape is female ejaculation? Stretching it a bit, I think.
With what?

Where have I said anything about carbon tax or that it's dangerous? That's not what I am saying at all.
99 Percent Invisible did a whole show on this a while back: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/octothorpe/
I think with AVX2 you could compare 10000 IP addresses in maybe 500 nanoseconds. Assuming they're cached. Uncached maybe 2 microseconds.

It'd still not be the greatest idea... but don't underestimate linear scan on a modern CPU.
> "One of the biggest reasons the investment class was able to expand to the common person."

not to nitpick too much, but the top 10% own 84% of stock [1] so the investment class hasn't reached very far down to the common person, who own most of their wealth in their homes (why the housing crisis disproportionately hit the bottom 80%).

with that said, if there's one social program that could reduce wealth inequality, it would be manadatory retirement savings accounts for all and invested in (vanguard) index funds (and probably diversified into bonds at least). it could be employer funded, or even funded by lotteries or sin taxes for the bottom 80%.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/business/economy/stocks-e...
:-)

This stuff bothers me. Like the day when they changed the legendary Vignelli's American Airlines logo : https://www.businessinsider.com/the-new-american-airlines-lo...

WHY change a logo which has served, embedded and part of the company's soul for over 40 years no less, especially if it was designed by someone like Vignelli.

It blows my mind.
This is nice. I always use pixlr/editor for very simple editing and this is for sure a very light alternative.

The missing piece I'm looking is for simple draw (arrows, boxes, circles), because I use it to crop and edit screenshots. I understand if it's out of your scope - because of the name.

Good job, thanks for building and sharing!
I was thinking the same thing. There isn't enough power generation capacity in the US to support something like that.
Cameras is Airbnb seem to be more and more common.

I know people who would suddenly get messages from their hosts like "why did you let somebody not registered in".

It's creepy since the hosts did not disclose that there are cameras.
I always thought of diatonic as playing within a harmonized major/minor scale, even if you change keys. What I'm talking about is music that doesn't obey the rules at all, doesn't have a key, doesn't change keys, it's just random chords thrown together because the artist thought they sounded good. Changing to another key is still playing in a key. Many rock musicians wouldn't know a key if it bit them in the ass.
How Secrecy Fuels Facebook Paranoia
As long as IPv6 is a second-class citizen, things are going to continue to be painful in AWS.

I did the whole "here is your /56, now segment it yourself" thing. Its crude. It should not be neccessary, if V6 was central to the model, you'd be assigned /64 from your covering prefix automatically, as you deploy regional nodes.
Something doggy people have been doing is signing year long leases for properties, listing it on AirBnB, and milking it for as much as possible until the owner and/or HOA get wind and evict them (sometimes the HOA will find out and fine the owner continually while the eviction is in process, which is always unfortunate). I always recommend to owners and property managers when this happens to stick to the eviction and follow through to prevent future landlords from encountering the same issue (most landlords will not rent to someone with an eviction on their record).
So you're upset that this solution doesn't go far enough? Well give it time. Build a wall first to treat the easy 40% of illegal immigration, then take care of overstays. Deal with border human trafficking, and then also deal with it internally.

Considering how much the dems are resisting an initial wall (or how much the right resisted the ACA) it should be obvious by now that you've gotta solve problems incrementally. The government was designed to be its own cock block. It's doing that well atm. So don't expect anything that comes out to be a 100% solution unless it's attempted for many years, incrementally building.
Network ACLs [...] Whilst they are optional, having a default set it straightens out a lot of duplication that may end up in Security Groups (which are more stateful in nature).

I inherited an infrastructure that had NetACLs and security groups with duplicate entrypoints and policies, years of accumulated cruft because it was poorly designed and the documentation was even worse (read: nonexistent), security groups all the way down. That one threw me through a hard and annoying mental loop for a couple of hours until picking through with the finest tooth comb revealed what was going on.

The fun part is going to be rebuilding our routing in a new VPC such that it doesn't make the next guy want to put his head in a black hole.

I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a fun challenge in a sordid kind of way, though.
Perspectives of Bitcoin (BTC) Financial Service Providers
The selling agent getting double the commission if the vendor accepts your offer over anyone else's sounds like it could be a lot more help in negotiating a quick and satisfactory deal than any negotiation prowess having your own agent might offer, especially if your own agent would be financially incentivised not to reduce the price...
Say I want to allow outbound http/https to 10 different IPs. I can't do that in 1 rule like a traditional firewall.
Ah, I think you replied to my "destroying capitalism" comment when you meant to reply to my "tax scam" comment. Two different things.

But anyways, the issue isn't about the company vs the owners paying the taxes because in this case the owners are the company. The issue is that these owners are (via the company) are (perhaps illegally) manipulating how their earnings are counted to lower their tax rate.
It's easy to pick in retrospect but the 3 fund portfolio also carried less risk and will probably win in the longer term. Which one wins over the past 3 months? :)
Saying a portfolio allocation of 100% stocks 0% bonds outperformed 60/40 during the longest bull run in history is shortsighted. Here's a more thorough analysis - https://finpage.blog/2017/01/04/three-fund-portfolio-2016-up...
Any license that I must understand and consider, makes me uncomfortable. The MIT, Apache 2.0, BSD and such: I go ahead as soon as I see it's one of these. Nothing to be concerned about.

If it's one of the fake-free licenses, then I must carefully consider how I might use it both now and later and whether some important details may later change causing me inconvenience.

I wouldn't call such licenses "discriminatory", that'd be nonsense. No one is forced to to use software that comes with them.
Roman numerals still presume you're playing on a harmonized scale in a key; not all music fits that as many rock musicians don't know what a key is and pick chords randomly by sound, not by knowing anything about music theory.
Seven years is a short window in the span of a lifetime.
My biggest gripe is that the cleanliness has gone way down.

It used to be, a few years back, AirBnB would make sure everything was immaculate. I remember a host letting me in to her house and being embarrassed that there were garbage bins out front since it was garbage day. Everything was laundered, sheets were bleached and crisp, everything was on-par with a 5-star hotel.

For whatever reason, now when I stay in AirBnBs it's next to impossible to find a place that has that level of detail. Supply and demand, I guess. More people doing it, pressure to lower price, less money for cleaning, less money for quality linens. Sure... I get it. But it's turned me off AirBnB.

The last place I stayed in had dirty towels. Like they didn't even bother to put clean towels up, they were damp when we showed up and had someone's makeup on them. Was gross. I wrote in to complain, and used the dirty towel to wipe the floor and counter to show that those weren't clean either. The towels were sort of grey, and came off the floor just black.

And you know what I got? Billed for damaging a towel, they said that because I used their towel to wipe off their floor that it stained the towel. Likely wasn't good for the towel, but come on... the place was filthy. AirBnB needs a "white glove" service -- and I'd be willing to pay extra for this -- to ensure that everything is on-par with a nice hotel.
I think the best way to get better at coding is by coding -- never been a fan of whiteboard programming or the type of riddle programs you get in interviews, but they are limited mostly to algorithms and datastructures. So you can either pick up a text book and read/program your way through some of these types of problems, or look at something like:

https://medium.com/100-days-of-algorithms

Or work on open source, or work on some new passion project that you want to try some new tools on. A mix of these is probably going to be more effective than drilling down on any one thing.

Also, interviewing itself is a skill - take as many interviews as you can get with companies you'd consider working for -- the more you do it, the more refined your pitch and interview skills will become.
Voyager’s stated velocity is relative to the solar system, which imparts its own velocity relative to the Milky Way to Voyager. Another quick google suggests Sol is swinging around the galaxy at 200 km/s so Voyager’s 17 km/s is really nothing.
> fitted with an EPA-patented full-series hydraulic hybrid drive integrated into the rear axle.

Interesting that the EPA holds the patent.
> Why would a real estate agent dissuade someone from buying something?

Story time!

When I was looking at buying my (now current) house, I had a realtor on my side, and my wife actually found the listing (no knock on the realtor there - my wife was just that on top of things) and the house was actually for sale from a realtor at the same company as my realtor.

As we were doing the inspection, I had questions about the pipes (lots of trees, and I knew of some horror stories). I was told the required inspection only covered the house itself, and the pipes would be someone else. My realtor was careful (IMHO) to not dissuade me in any way, but neither did she encourage me. I could tell she wasn't excited about me getting the pipes inspected - in part, I would later find out, because anything bad I discovered would then legally have to be disclosed to future prospects, whereas ignorance was a shield. So she was not a very useful source of guidance for getting this thing done.

But I did get it done, and when the result was a clean bill of health (the inspector showed me the video and was remarking that the pipes were basically pristine, which was amazing for 30+ year old concrete pipes) she was suddenly much more enthusiastic about the inspection. All smiles and congrats and saying what a good decision it had been.

It was a revelation into the incentives involved. To think what might happen to someone else with an agent who would cross the ethical line instead of just being unenthused.
"My last 4 appraisals have been within a couple thousand of the purchase price."

Is that a reasonable metric, or is time on market?

I ask because there are a number of studies, that indicate that real-estate agent's houses themselves frequently sit for sale for much longer than the ones they are selling. The idea being that the agents are pushing the market and willing to absorb the longer time-frame in exchange for a much higher selling price.

OTOH, it seems sometimes the strategy is the reverse if the market is really hot. Under-pricing and getting a half dozen people into a bidding war which ends up being double digit percentages above ask seems a frequent strategy to get maximal returns and fast sales.
> How can it be that having intimate knowledge of someone would not allow you to sell them more stuff?

If the unknowns have a greater influence. So, a little knowledge makes google overconfident.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
--TRUTH--
https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-asset-class-all...

You can backtest it there.
BTW 100% stock will likely beat the stock+fund, but at the cost of higher volatility (which can be an issue if you need the money eg during retirement)
Part of it is identity. Even now, living in central London, I really do miss my dad's Ford Ranger which we used to use for moving construction materials and scrap metal up in Maine.
I think it's a nice-to-have and not a need-to-have.

This is a super basic example, but I had a phone-screen question that was "reverse the order of the words in this C array in-place without allocating more memory." I found out with clarifying questions that I could use a temporary variable, but midway through I remembered how the XOR swap worked, and I think that scored me some points with the interviewer.
That's fair. So this is just partnerships, then? Is a lawyer still allowed to take part in leadership of a company that has non-lawyer leadership provided it's not a partnership, specifically?
What do other planets sound like? (Podcast) “Space” on 20K Hertz
Now, if only they would revive the light trucks of the 1980s. Even the new Ranger looks massive (perhaps, that’s only looks though?).
Not quite sure we can credit Bogle with creating the index fund. He certainly popularized it, though.

Bill Fouse at Wells Fargo got a rather clunky version of an index fund started in 1971, based on equal weighting of all NYSE shares. It took a couple more years for various people, including Dean LeBaron (later of Batterymarch) and John Bogle to get everything working the right way with timely capitalization weighting and rebalancing. That's when the S&P 500 became the index of choice.

Getting index funds to track consistently over time takes a fair amount of market monitoring plus basic computing power. (Reinvesting dividends brings one set of headaches; so does adjusting specific stocks' weightings as individual companies either shrink their float by buying back stock or expand it by issuing new shares.)

All these calculations seem trivial today, but back in the 1970s, we didn't have up-to-the-minute electronic Edgar filings at the SEC. Or abundant computer power on everyone's desks.
In blow to LA, SpaceX is moving Mars spaceship and booster work to Texas
Yep, tariffs are probably a bad idea. Obama did those too (his economic ignorance knew no bounds). Two wrongs don't make a right.
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