skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the restarting, I completely agree. You'd need to restart the whole thing multiple times as your knowledge increased. Maybe somebody else is doing large scale closed system human habitats, but I haven't heard of any.

edit: A bit of googling led me to the Russian one and some books on the problem generally. It sounds like a great speciality but probably hard to get a gig in.

If I had a multi-decade old terrarium, I'd be darn tempted to think of sensors you could stick in there and see if there's some sort of cycle going on.
I honestly believe that there was a lot of paranoia in U.S. during the cold war, but USSR wasn't a ghoulie. Half of Europe (and half of Germany specifically) has been occupied until U.S. won the cold war.
Why were sealed terrariums needed?
Except not.

Life is obviously not an equally constant struggle for everyone.

Social mobility has been declining for years.

For any individual you can create a counterfactual to suggest that their choices are what created their outcome.

However it’s also unarguable that we are not all facing the same risk/reward choices.

And of course people who take on more risk are going to fail more often. And those without a safety net will end up worse off than where they started.

It wouldn’t be risk otherwise.
Speaking of over-reduction, "Does condition X provide a 3 or 4 percent boost?" is pretty much an over reduction - it doesn't even acknowledge that most of these issues aren't even discussed in genuine way - The opposing "sides" are optimizing on different sets of variables. And of course the notions of 2 sides ignores the reality that there are several viewpoints optimizing several different sets of variables and the "left"/"right" distinction is just the result of some sort of really bad clustering algorithm. (Lets temporarily ignore the part where in actual reality, the various groups can't even agree what all the variables are, or how to measure the results).
Under the theory that Uber/Lyft employees are contractors and allowed to set prices, wouldn't coordinating ("conspiring") to do so en masse be considered price fixing?

Personally I think they should be considered employees, but a pro-management federal prosecutor could make some trouble for them.
I would imagine he sees it as fraud because these are drivers who are ready and willing to drive and are waiting on fares but are not indicated on the app as so.

So when someone uses the app to find out about nearby rides, it shows no one, then it ups the rate to try and lure further drivers. Or the few drivers that are on the app currently. Then when the price is "right", all the waiting cars turn on the app at once to get the "surge" price.

These people are exploiting the rules of the system to violate the spirit of the system. The more available cars, the lower the price.

The more people find out that drivers are doing this, the more likely some form of retaliation will follow.

Either users will just start using cabs again because the price is no different or they'll do something else. Like give default bad reviews to any airport trip that they suspect of manipulating surge pricing.
A small series (when producing other tooling would be too expensive; a single, bespoke part would be the extreme thereof) or ones that would be impossible to machine otherwise are candidates for additive manufacturing.

Mass production is usually less suited for that.
In the United States, people who don't have significant financial support from their parents graduate from university with a great deal of debt.
I find it funny that out of all the smears and false accusations that failed, and even small countries like Iceland were kicking out squads of FBI agents sent to frame Assange(1), that the one thing that stuck to him in the media was this cat accusation.

1- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/iceland-a-nexus-...
> we work in software, where socking away your first ten thousand dollars happens automatically after landing an entry level dev gig, provided you don't go out of your way to blow your entire outlandish salary on silly possessions.

This is shockingly out of touch with reality, just like PG's original tweet.

There are plenty of people with CS degrees who can't find a job, and plenty more who have jobs that barely pay enough to cover their expenses.

Spend some time reading through something like the CSCareerQuestions subreddit if you want to get a glimpse of life outside your bubble.
Yeah it's very different when you are in your 40s with a mortgage and kids.
I personally got tired of all the churn in technology and didn't feel like I could keep up long term. Management seemed to be the easy path forward.

With that said, I'm actually now looking to get out of people management and back to being more of an team lead or cto type of position where I don't have to be a people manager. I miss the technology part.
For sure, it piggybacks off the mobile device you connect with. It's a really solid, seamless, and easy way of starting a desktop client. I wish Telegram would adapt it as well but the current way it handles isn't terrible (1 time code).
Leaf = iphone
> For example, using Docker when the basic isolation features of systemd would do

This is an interesting claim, mind throwing some pointers?
> "The Sealed Garden That Was Only Watered Once in 53 Years"

> "In 1960 David Latimer got curious and decided to plant a glass bottle with seed."

> "Posted on March 22, 2017 by Davin"

1960 + 53 = 2013

They have apparently had 4 years to find and catch the "century" error prior to posting, and another 2 years since.

I can't tell if there was any cheating, because the article does not specify how much compost was placed in the bottle initially, or its composition. So I can't estimate whether there's actually enough carbon or water in the bottle to support the visible amount of living plant mass. He should have measured the mass of the whole thing in 1960, and at least once per year thereafter, so he could show that the total mass remained the same.
Last I checked, in the US you remained on your parent's heath insurance while in college (or until 25?). Its been that way for years.

It doesn't matter what country you live in, if you are between 15 and 30, and don't have kids: you are extremely unlikely to need a doctor at all. These are the healthiest years of your life.
$10k is hardly a safety net.
Exactly.

To be fair, one reason I got along so well with people from every corner of the planet writing software in Silicon Valley was just that I had learned about strangers in the military.
Nasa’s New UAV Is 80% 3D-Printed
They're not cheating. They're on-demand service providers providing services on-demand to on-demand consumers and they're acting according to the spirit of their agreement with Lyft and Uber--"I don't want to drive for less than $X, so I won't, and I'll wait for you to offer the money I do want."

So, with that more correct understanding of the world, your post amounts to this: "I believe that driver's compensation is a valid discussion, but only on the terms of the people holding capital and the majority of the power."

It's not a good take, dude.
The biggest complaint I regularly see about systemd from those that don't like it is that it violates the UNIX philosophy by combining too many functionalities into one project.

Based upon this I found the following quote from the article in regards to Alpine Linux, a distribution based upon BusyBox which implements the functionality of over 100 usually separate executables into one, quite amusing.

> It is small and simple, realising the UNIX spirit to the core: doing one thing and doing it well.
Easing curve equations tool editor/visualizer
Bookmarked. ...ummm...
In the software world, we call that NIH syndrome.
Having a safety net is what people mean when they say you have to be rich to found a startup. If you have a place you can always go if things go south, then you are "rich", even if you personally struggle to pay rent on a regular basis.

I was poor in college like a lot of people, but I had a stable family I could rely on. I knew people who didn't have that, and they had to make very different decisions than I did. I didn't have much money in my bank account, but I was rich compared to many of my peers. No matter how badly things went for me, there was no scenario that would have left me homeless or hungry.

If PG's only point is "you don't literally need a six-figure salary to found a startup" then he's arguing against a strawman.
> the most popular credit these days is probably mortgage loan, and I haven't heard of those being given on a collateral, at least not to regular people buying their first home.

In my corner of the EU, banks require a guarantor (or even two!), plus a copy of your salary slips. And plenty of people are simply not approved.
I fear the unavoidable cost is going to ruin the model. The advantages of these things is that they are able to work as a unified network, keeping space, allowing space, preventing pileups from simply driving too close, etc.

What about all the 30 year old $2000 corollas you see on the road? Are these people expected to shell out $50k+ to get a self driving car? Absolutely not. There will always be people who can only afford a 10, 20, 30 year old car. What happens when they own a 30 year old self driving car, outdated for decades and based on how tech companies operate today, probably unpatched and unsupported for 20 years?

Self driving would really shine as a self driving bus, in a dedicated lane. Single occupant vehicles are irresponsible in cities that are choked with too many of them, but there is no alternative if all you can afford is a $2000 corolla and rail connections to work are nonexistant. But then again, a self driving bus is much less sexy to investors than a self driving car...
I imagine it is more todo with politics than a cat. Ecuador is heavily indebted to China due to previous President Correa turning away from the west and pivoting to China.

With oil prices so low the country is unable to pay the loans and in need of refinancing. The new president has tried to bring the country back into the western sphere of influence by going back to the world bank / IMF (one of those or a similar western financial institution.
> The line blurs when you actually have a democratically elected government

evidently it is blurred to some but I would suggest that your original assertion stands. They should try to keep their nudging subtle or people will nudge back at some point. It does not matter how good the intent was meant. I think we currently see a lot of this in western democracies.
Anyway it is another export. When one can import - wharsapp, google play, Facebook, hackers, news, ... to china.
Drivers are not ready and willing to drive. They are ready and willing to drive for a higher rate. Lyft and Uber provide that higher rate when there is sufficient demand and insufficient supply. Working as designed, yo.

Multi-billion-dollar companies do not need you to cape up for them. Somehow, somehow, they will survive against those mendacious poor people who have found a way to represent their requirements to the company.
Strunk and White or Zinsser can help people to improve their writing for emails or reports at work, but both contain a lot of information that simply isn't true.

As someone who writes for a living, nothing gets my goat more than a client asking me to remove the passive clauses in the 10,000-word ebook I've just written for them because they read that passives are bad in Strunk and White, or they pasted the text into Grammarly and got some squiggly lines.

There are some style books that offer advice that is both useful and true.

- Sense of Style, by Steven Pinker

- Artful Sentences: Syntax As Style, by Virginia Tufte

- Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose, by Francis-Noel Thomas and Mark Turner

If people really want to know what's what where grammar is concerned, they should look at "A Student's Introduction to English Grammar" by Huddleston and Pullum. Or, even better "The Cambridge Grammar of English" by the same authors (although at 1800 pages, it's not for the faint of heart).
>Depending on the definition of X, you CAN say that something is not X

That is a good strategy only if you already have a sample of the thing to derive a definition from.

To create a good definition you should examine reality, and see the thing as it actually behaves, first. Only then, once you have a reality-based definition, you can judge other specimens and use the definition to say whether they are X or not.

Else, you just impose some idealistic / non-empirical standards upon reality based on an arbitrary (since it's not based on observation) definition.

The land and the people existed (as a land and as a people) and gave its name to Scotland (and content to the definition), not the inverse. It wasn't someone making up the word first and others then checking whether the people in Scotland fit it.

>Only if you define 'science' as 'the thing that people labeled scientists do', can you arrive at your conclusion. I would define scientists as 'people practicing the scientific method'.

In real life, people call themselves and are called by others scientists if they have studied for and are employed as such, whether or not they "practice the scientific method" and even more so, whether or not they practice it properly.

So defining scientists as 'people practicing the scientific method' (and e.g. excepting people with Ph.Ds who practice it badly or care to get grants to the detriment of science) is rather the canonical 'no true scotsman' fallacy.

In that sense, no scientist could ever falsify data or make up a theory and cook its research to support it, or prove something that a company paid them a grant to prove, because "by definition" such a person wouldn't be a scientist.
Not just persistence in terms of "exists after I read it", but in terms of getting the messages at all. When someone sends you a snap while you don't have snapchat open, you get a push notification about it and the message is waiting on the server for you to read it.

In IRC, anything that happens while you don't have an active session just doesn't exist.

That might work for some communities, like programming language groups where I can hop in, talk about something with whoever's online, and hop back off.

But if I'm chatting with my friends and we're trying to make plans for the weekend, everyone really needs to see that conversation regardless of whether they have the client running right this second.
Make that $100k+. It sounds like a lot, but it's a maximum of 2 years savings for someone on a low risk, high pay track. It's not the end of the world to be 2 years "behind".
Translation: "Want to make a lot of money but don't want to put in the work"
On such a significantly larger scale that it would bear only passing resemblance
Building an Animated Search Bar with React Native
You are confusing configuration flexibility with bugs.
An unsubstantiated accusation is not enough to tank a career.

A cross-correlated one, from multiple independent reports is another story. As is one that stands up to cross-examination and scrutiny.

Reporting harassment by your manager is just as likely, if not moreso to shit on your career, as it is on theirs. They have all the power in this relationship, and every opportunity to retaliate if you aren't believed.
As someone who works on depression GWAS, this isn't the end of finding causal genes for depression, it's the beginning.

In the next few years we're going to see a waterfall of new rare variants linked to disease, all which have a much higher chance of causing functional change.

As WGS comes online for association studies it will both validate and more deeply explore the genetic nature of every disease. It is going to be mindblowing.
Perhaps true in general, but I had no trouble talking to a real person when I recently had a problem with Google Fi. They didn't even make me hold; they took my number and called me in a few minutes. I missed the call, and they automatically swapped to chat. The problem took a while to resolve, and while it wasn't exactly fun, I feel like they did as good a job as was possible. (Remote debugging is always a pain.)
The end result is the same. When a big tv channel says "Eating fat is definitely bad because this study says so" nobody will check the actual study and see that it was done on 3 mice for a duration of 10 days with completely unrealistic settings. It's still science, it's just misinterpreted or extrapolated.

I see it everyday on HN, people _believing_ we'll all migrate to Mars and terraform it by the end of the century which means climate change is a non issue. Or that we'll get fully autonomous cars by 2020 because Elon "Science" Musk said so and people _want_ to _believe_ in it even though absolutely nothing supports it. It really isn't much more than astrological predictions at that point.

People pick whatever "science" supports their make believe-world and go with it.
The product website links on the footer are not functional. I advise to hide them until you have the pages up.
Are you suggesting that developers deserve some kind of vote?

Of course not.

Their role is to help determine what's required to achieve the objectives set by management. Good management will consult with them, set goals...

This. Consider yourself lucky that you've never worked someplace that starts off with "These goals are aggressive, but in my mind achievable" and then proceeds to give you objectives that are a wildly optimistic extrapolation of a of a previously achieved timetable.

This isn't just developers, either, but that's the context here.

Any good executive consults with their subordinates to create realistic objectives. This is so fundamental that it's implied.

...

I'm certain that's exactly what Sony did, because they are a successful, well-run company that's been doing this longer than I've been alive.

If you're right them I'm onboard.
Since it's HTTPS, a signature or checksum are pretty pointless, TLS will do the certificate checking and encryption for you.

Serving the file over HTTPS is good because it means no one can do a man in the middle attack to change it, but it's not enough to be secure. If someone compromises the server itself the file could be altered at the source. The point of the checksum is to ensure that the file you're downloading is the file you're expecting. If you host the file in one place and the website in a different place it's harder for an attacker to change both the file and the website that reports the checksum, so you can be much more confident the file is correct. HTTPS on it's own doesn't give you that.
Thanks, much appreciated! I’m about half-way through my calculus textbook right now, and I’m actually learning quite a bit since I’m going over some of the sections my instructor skipped over (plus it’s been 30 years since I took the class, so I’m re-learning a thing or two that I had forgotten…). Any recommendations for real analysis and abstract algebra texts? I’m self-studying, so I’m looking for books that include lots of practice problems with answers (at least) in the back of the book so I can check to see if I’m on the right track.
Soviet 3D printing is coming: serial numbers of printed objects
>They now have the breeding expertise in country.

I thought that was always the case.
Had a conversation recently about all that.

People ask if the industry will wrap up and move from China.

I ask them in response: where would they run away to? Vietnam?

Vietnam's entire light industry output is like of one Dongguan's district.

India has a lot of workforce, tons of it, but the entire light industry ecosystem has to be built from scratch, or brought along with you.

They can't run away.
Ask HN: Is what Google doing truly unethical?
The past few years have seen a rise in chants against Google's practices and its violation of privacy. But the way I see it, no company dealing with large amounts of data ever wants to let go of any data they can capture. That's how systems learn. More data = more context (usually). I do agree that algorithms can be more efficient and steps should be taken to plug hacks and data leaks, but here's mt question to you: Is it hoarding data that is considered wrong (even though it's used to improve one's digital experience)? If yes, how else would a company like Google create what they have now? If no, what is?
If customer support is important to you, I heartily recommend giving Ting[1] a try. They're a T-Mobile and Sprint MVNO. Every interaction we've had with their customer service has been excellent. Last I called, there was no phone tree, just a person immediately picking up (hopefully it's still like this).

[1]https://ting.com/
Price fixing, predatory pricing, bid rigging, collusion.
I was going for wordplay but I guess I went too obscure.
I must be missing something. How can Google revoke HuaWei's Android license when Android is licensed with Apache and GPL v2? (https://source.android.com/setup/start/licenses) What is Google actually doing?
Dang it I found this post on Monday after the free give away ended. Any way of still getting a free copy?
Security concerns aside, a misconfigured gateway in between (say, they use Cloudflare) can easily result in an “HTML” response being piped to my bash. The f-ing mess it could create in my home directory is unimaginable.
And people on phones/laptops while riding in cars/public transportation.
So why aren't highly socialized countries with tons of safety nets meccas of innovation?
Star Wars Vader vs. Kenobi, Reimagined
> FBI agents sent to frame Assange(1)

Your link doesn't say anything about "framing" anyone.
Indeed. But those are the same people getting those $150k entry-level salaries from companies in the Bay Area.

Even after paying down $50k/year in debt one would be hard pressed to spend the rest of that without saving anything.

You spend your college years sharing a house with 5 roommates, driving an $800 car and living on Costco pallets of canned chili. Keep that up for another few years after school while pulling down a dev salary and you'll be out of debt reasonably fast.

Sadly, most people don't do that, and match their choice of new apartment and new car to exactly equal their new income. That's a shame, but it's also why I gave the advice I did above.
> That's the Oracle pitch.

Well, like the vast majority of OpenJDK developers, I work at Oracle :) (but I speak only for myself)

> The practical implication is that you don't get your openjdk builds from them if you want to avoid the audits, licensing, etc.

The OpenJDK builds from Oracle (http://jdk.java.net/) -- the "official" OpenJDK builds for the current JDK version -- are under the same license as any other OpenJDK distribution, and the download page for Oracle customers clearly says download our OpenJDK builds if you're not a support customer.

> the void left by Oracle no longer offering long term support for free.

The "no longer" here is misleading. There are two completely new upgrade models now. Oracle offers one of them (the recommended gradual path) completely free, and the other (the non-gradual path) as a subscription. Neither of those is the same as before. For example, JDK 11 is a feature release marked LTS. It is about the same size as 7u4 or 8u20. Oracle never offered LTS for 8u20 or 7u4; it was always only 6 months. In the past we had major releases that were supported with "limited update" releases and patch releases. Those major releases no longer exist, so it doesn't make sense to say that Oracle no longer offers something which is now irrelevant. On the other hand, the LTS releases now include only patches, whereas the feature releases are like "limited update +".

So Oracle no longer offers free LTS (in the form of limited update releases and patches) for major releases, and no one else does, either, because major releases no longer exist.
Ecuador has a puppet government obviously, and the US is trying to censor journalists ala China and the Middle East. How to best make a journalist shut up if not by jailing him?