skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it's not. The most likely reason for that is Trump probably gave money to Planned Parenthood or a similar organization that would harm the pitch to his base.

We have his legally required financial disclosure forms that show a range on his income. Some of the best wealth trackers on earth - those at both Forbes and Bloomberg - have also put together sound estimates on his wealth (closer to $3 billion, not $10 billion).

Factually Trump presides over a sizable, serious business that is generating a large amount of cash.

Prominent assets: $765m Vornado partnership, $525m golf course & resorts, $445m 725 Fifth Ave, $480m 40 Wall St, $420 Niketown building, $330m other properties, $295m liquid, $140m 502 Park Ave, $95m DC hotel

"President Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosure report shows he had at least $434 million in revenue last year, but saw a drop in money coming from his Florida luxury resort Mar-a-Lago. The report, released Thursday, is required to be filed annually with the Government Ethics Office. It covers the president’s finances for 2018, his second year in office."

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/16/read-president-donald-trumps...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-12/trump-s-n...
I do the same. For me it’s the DWCP3100.
I think they meant a more vague definition software. Amazon isn't really a software company, but it used it to change distribution and squeeze inefficiencies out of the system. Same with Google and advertising. No one really knows what the ROI for a TV spot is, but every Adwords bidder knows their keywords' ROI, and if Adwords claimed TV dollars, that squeezed out inefficiency.
The simplest solution is a dummy uop “check_int”.
I don't know the intent, but I read the original comment as software's enabling function as well. So the direct sales of software may only be 2%, but I'd be curious if there's any data on the ancillary effects of software on GDP (like increased productivity through automation, increased business efficiency etc.)
Thanks tgb, it makes sense for me the way you describe it!
Machines only compensate for humans to a certain extend because they are already used as much as possible. If humans work less then there is not the same output because there are no hidden opportunities where machines can do more work. I stick with my original point: If humans work less then there is less output.

We are more productive now, but that surplus is used to put a supercomputer into the hand of every person and new clothes to wear every other month. If people wouldn't buy that, then the increase in productivity could lead to less working hours.

Btw, as far as I understand your graph, it is not telling that we are more productive but that farms are more productive if they are bigger.

As far as I know, Western workers are just more productive because they assemble pre-made parts and the final value of the product is ascribed to them when in reality, they just profit from wage differences. That's not sustainable.

If that wage difference is ever closed then people will even get less for the same amount of work.
Can you explain why the Airlines wanted amtrak created? How did it benefit them?
My freshman year he was a sophomore in the next room in the hall. Hal would take us on midnight runs to Tommy's in his VW bug. We weren't buddies (I was an immature brat, some would say I still am) but Hal was always nice to me (as he was to everyone).
I have both a fast electric bike and a normal bike. For the electric bike it indeed takes a minute or three to unlock, enter pin code on bike, put on helmet etc. That's why I prefer my normal bike for short distances, takes me 10 seconds to lock, and I can usually park it within 10m of where I want to be. There is really no faster way to get around in any Dutch city for say <2km, than a plain old bike. If I would go to the local supermarket it would take me longer to find a parking spot that the entire bike ride there.
Python tooling is in a very sorry state in general. The language has drawbacks. What I wrote was not meant in defense of Python at all, but rather a criticism of what the author said about Docker and the fact that he expects it to fix his Python (or Ruby or Perl) woes.

He goes on to suggest that somehow these languages put the programmer closer to the OS than C, which completely ludicrous since most reference implementations of them are written in C - making the language effectively one layer above it.

I get the argument about concurrency but that's pretty much the only thing he has to offer there. Everything else is just someone who doesn't understand the tools blaming the tools themselves and wishing he was using something else.

The fact that he thinks "Docker is supposed to protect us" from dependency management issues is ludicrous.
quite possibly doable, if they can find a way to make large grubs flourish on a prepared wood waste mix - in effect like land based shrimps .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchetty_grub
The Australian Aboriginals use one such grub. Might be a good high protein animal feed - they might not hit the cocktail circuit right away.
I'd still like to see those earnings numbers normalized against something like population of developed countries.
You trying to link his claim to being raided?

He was raided because he is a tax cheat who has been under investigation for years for multiple unrelated tax compliance events.

* edit. Typo/grammar.
Likewise. Of all the things to complain about, this is not an important one.
It doesn't make a difference. Rstudio's products aren't integrated with their libraries in particular.
Yes, I wished they could do something about the loud tube lines. Seriously thinking I have damaged my hearing because of it
Norton Antivirus, Norton Internet Security and almost all other desktop facing products of Symantec use HTMLayout and the Sciter since 2007.

McAfee - not.

But these AV and security providers - yes:

- ESET (NOD32 Antivirus)

- AVAST Antivirus

- AVG Antivirus

- Bitdefender Antivirus

- Comodo Antivirus

- Dr.WEB Antivirus

- WEBROOT Security Antivirus

- 360 ( 360.cn ) Antivirus

- Secui antivirus

So Sciter's code works on any PC that has any of these installed.
Wigner's Friend
The image says "artist rendering", it is unclear to me whether this tree exists today or if it's an ongoing project that expects to be finished some time in the future (40 successful grafts would take a number of years to do I imagine).

Edit: googling answered my own question, this is indeed an ongoing project: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/a-tree-grows-40-di...
There's an old saying "economists have correctly predicted 9 out of the last 3 recessions."
According to the article, it seems like he doubled down on a bad trip - probably the worst thing you could do while on LSD.
I don't understand the downvoting of the parent here, which is factually correct and worth noting. It's incredibly unhealthy and this is just down to marketing that anybody eats it. You can make really nice chocolate spreads with your own hazelnuts
I love Ryzen but having more mid range machines on CPU architectures that aren’t AMD64 is a huge net gain for everyone.
We'll never know if the drug was actually LSD.

Reminds me of all the "LSD" and "MDMA" in Austin TX was likely just shit like 25I and MDPV when I lived there and had a bunch of tripsafe test kits. There was a time where I would go to a rave and wonder if there was a single person actually rolling.
I'm finding this to be true.
> Python programmers tend to spin up new processes, rather than using something they consider ambiguous, such as threads.

Great generalization with no mention of asyncio?

> Myself and a friend just spent an hour trying to get a short Python script running on an EC2 instance. We got stuck dealing with this error: ModuleNotFoundError

Outdated dependencies, dealing with your distro's package manager, and specially understanding your package manager is vital, isn't it? But I guess it's easy to dismiss an ecosystem without fully understanding the problem.

> the dependency management in the Python community is so badly broken

You can choose to use pip as the package manager for system libraries.

python -m ensure pip # you won't use your distro's pip version
pip install --user <your-package>

For apps, a virtualenv is sufficient?

I see no mention about C extensions, which is one pain point for packages. If the package doesn't have a pre compiled version[1], you might see a big red blob of text directly from the compiler when trying to link dependencies . This kinda sucks for a newbie but I guess a quick google search will tell you to do apt install python3-dev or something if you're using some debian based system like the author seems to be using.

[1] This pycon talk is a nice summary of the state of wheels and C extensions.
Arm desktop is useful for native development builds. Quoting Linus, https://www.extremetech.com/computing/286311-linus-torvalds-...

> ... as long as everybody does cross-development, the platform won’t be all that stable. Or successful ... If you develop on x86, then you’re going to want to deploy on x86 ... It was literally this “develop at home” issue. Thousands of small companies ended up having random small internal workloads where it was easy to just get a random whitebox PC and run some silly small thing on it yourself. Then as the workload expanded, it became a “real server”. And then once that thing expanded, suddenly it made a whole lot of sense to let somebody else manage the hardware and hosting, and the cloud took over.
We also need batteries. But that's why solar is only part of the solution. No single source will solve all the problems in all the areas. I'm a big proponent of nuclear but it's only part. Solar is also what I want to see. But more than the other two I want batteries.
Not necessarily. Andrew Feldmar, a prominent psychologist I held in high regard advises to do exactly that: if you feel bad already, might as well take more.
No. But there are things besides money and math. Like photography!
Perhaps he projected too much of his own intelligence onto his fake personality when Satoshi went from being unable to code at all to writing a full client, albeit with some help, in a few months. But Hal’s coins are known and locked up for his daughter. He would not have lost the rest. What would he have done with them?
You can activate as many electrons as you want, in fact photomultipliers can detect single photons by setting them up to cause cascades of countless electrons. Granted, number of electrons isn't what matters.
Or C. Anywhere near spacing the ubiquity of naturally existing trolls...
Besides actual issues with mental health history, is there any way to know if someone will react this way to LSD? Set and setting may not be enough in these cases, it seems?
There's more to life than either math or money, haha. I think a lot of people might fit something in there about friends, family, or community. Spiritual growth maybe?

There's options.
In your presentation, the severe justice was to discourage breaches of trust.

But that doesn't work if the justice is "apparently random".

If that is how it's perceived, then trust violators will have no incentive to avoid violation. They, and everyone else, will believe that it doesn't matter whether they violate trust or not, since justice is a lottery ticket given to everyone, where the prize is punishment, and it doesn't matter what you do.
I really agree with factoring weight (and size) into the choice, which can ruin an otherwise great chair.

While I like Herman Miller (especially Embody), I am really opinionated about chairs. After trying zillions, I think those chairs that are quite firm and promote active seating and position variety are the best ones.

There is a quite famous Norwegian designer, Peter Opsvik, who has designed a few great chairs for Håg and Varier: Capisco, Gravity, Actulum, etc. All his ideas are well explained in a book [1]. Basic models are relatively affordable.

Aside from the Scandinavian chairs from Opsvik, Aeris produces some nice active seating chairs and stools. Other alternatives are mentioned in this mega review [2].

Very recently, Ikea has released a stool that follows the same active seating principles [3]. Quality and price are superb.

[1] https://www.aeris.de/en/

[2] https://www.nerdgranny.com/review-ergonomic-chairs/

[3] https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/trollberget-active-sit-stand-su...
Some people can predict a crisis, they make films about these people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Short_(film)

But yes, a significantly large number of people cannot predict a crisis, it is catch-22.
This isn't what a bubble looks like. Service workers aren't asking if they should by bitcoin or some random tech stock in 1998. In 1998, I remember tech stocks regularly going up percents per day. Or cable TV shows in 2007 about flipping houses. There's a lack of general mania.

Are thing's overpriced? Maybe, but we've gotten to used to saying everything's a bubble.
On the one hand it’s amazing what private companies, especially SpaceX have been doing in the vacuum created after the end of the Space Shuttle. On the other hand, it kinda bums me out that I grew up knowing we had this very public space minivan and now we don’t. Or at least what we now have is a secret military craft.

But yes, the ISS is awesome, there’s still great stuff happening in space exploration. But I do miss the space minivan.
I had a ski boat for a while. Half the upkeep problem is due to poor design of the boat.
At this point they’ll get blood samples, I’m pretty sure that we’ll know exactly what he took.
You really should plot it on a log scale when you look back. And the Dow is interesting because it's been around so long, but it's a really bad index. It's cost-weighted, probably the most naïve way to weight an index.
The question I would ask Bigfoot believers is what about the droppings? An animal this big would eat an awful lot of food (and mostly plants, I would assume), and so it would leave a lot of droppings, like many pounds a day. And they would be distinctive, and have Bigfoot dna in them. So where are all the droppings?
Always carry benzos in case of bad trip.
It seems that what defines humanity has to be a bit refined...
I reckons the article implies the spear was created by the orangutan as it points to Nature articles about tools creation.
His employment at YouTube doesn't seem relevant to the story. Feels very clickbaity to put that in the headline (unless they're implying working at YouTube is somehow connected to the attack, which I don't get from the article.)
I think there's a few misconceptions here, but I also think I kind of agree with the general point.

First, yes, Docker is a hack to make a fat binary. But that's not the only reason people use it. People use it because it's easier than packaging and running their app "the right way". Running 10 fat binaries all listening on the same TCP port and IP won't work. Even if your 10 binaries all co-exist on the filesystem just fine, you still need to run them in a way that won't conflict. You can do that without Docker, but Docker makes your life easier, so people use it.

Second, concurrency frameworks don't make your life easier, they make it harder. It's a language-specific abstraction that you have to design your app for. You should be able to just call fork() and join(), or listen() and accept(), and have some OS-level, generic component handle the concurrency for your app. This is not a failing of the language, but a failing of the OS.

And if you're going to rag on the industry, target the lack of standards. "Integration" is the opposite of standardization. The fact that I have to re-write 10 layers of glue to make some shitty web app run on AWS versus Azure is frankly one of the stupidest things I've seen in my career, but it makes sense when you realize all this tech was written by small departments in companies who don't give a shit about standards. Why spend time on interoperability for a product that only needs to work with one thing, right now?

You should be able to just call one function call in any app, and your runtime should communicate with a language-agnostic ABI for anything needed to route communications between a service broker and the code being executed, including changing the location the computation is happening on. And executing any application should allow you to include some isolation guarantees, because any application can have interoperability problems with other components running on the system. Containerisation is, I believe, the only thing besides Jails that has attempted to do this.

And if we're serious about microservices, why do specific clusters need to live behind a dozen levels of security groups, load balancers, VPCs, etc that all have to be custom crafted before we can even run an app in a specific region? That's a shit load of state surrounding a supposedly stateless service.

I think k8s is in some ways a response to all this, but it's still a poorly designed hack that enslaves itself to traditional OS models. What we really need are distributed operating systems. But just like we will never retrofit our highways with electric tracks for self-driving electric cars, we will never begin to upgrade the OS to be more standard, automated, and distributed. Instead we'll just push more shit into the app layer. Browsers now implement their own TCP/IP stack, and nearly all modern apps support encryption without ever allowing the OS to handle it. We're just too damn lazy to tackle anything but short term goals.
this is why (people with mental issues should deffo not touch drugs in general, much less strong psychedelics)
#1 test ur shhit
#2 trip sitter (if shit goes down they can reel it in)
#3 low doses
Agreed. Pure LSD is extremely rare nowadays, so the odds of it being something more nefarious are relatively high.
Your own link says that about 6% of the UK has been built over; although I am unclear exactly what that means [1], this is an achievable level. Of course, I would still agree that it’s good to have a mixture, for example the British Isles have a lot wind power (I’ve heard, but can’t find a reference for the claim, that it could supply most of the European continent).

[1] the percentage sounds high enough that I assume it includes all gardens and roads not just the buildings themselves
thats fucking stupid
I think I am quite sure who Satoshi is. Paul Le Roux.
Garfield Shooting: July 2, 1881, and the Medical Disaster That Ensued
Docker format is a way of creating portable executable images, written in a wide variety of languages and based on a variety of operating systems, that run on a wide variety of servers.

There are more stripped-down ways to achieve that if you're willing to solve a less general problem. Something like gvisor [1] gets pretty far. In the limit, I'd guess the difference between an executable and a containerized app goes away?

[1] https://gvisor.dev/docs/architecture_guide/
Is it weird that youtube is expected to comment per the article's author?
benzos and a trip sitter would've avoided some of this at least could've calmed him down
Does anyone know if this has a closed coprocessor equivalent to the Intel Management Engine? Or how open the firmware is?
Yes. Becomes more and more likely.

I mean, this is really amazing. This guy would have won the noble price in economics by now.
The president of Exelon has stated that for new nuclear to compete with natural gas combined cycle plants in the US, the CO2 tax would have to be in the range of $300-400/tonne. This is very high, and many cheaper alternatives would become available first at lower values of that tax rate.
A related quote is- "There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

s/software design/piece of public technical writing/ and you have a pretty good match for Wright.
Seems newsworthy enough to me. First, the sum in question is north of $10B and even if nobody involved probably has access to it, it is still entertaining to watch. And though the guy is most likely a conman, nobody has put the final nail in the coffin yet so the scam lives on, fueled by large sums of money from his "business partner". It is interesting to watch how long will they be able to carry it on.
If the customer’s emotions are affecting their account status, then it is entirely the company’s fault. If a customer is upset, a federally regulated financial institution should never be able to just shut down their account without recourse. That’s why we have regulations and laws, so some random customer service rep (possibly from a country with far different rules and regulations) can’t power trip over a customer.
But would this technique also work for multi-layer cells?
It’s not even in the headline, it was just added for the hacker news link!
The relation to the university seems pretty thin. I can find no mention of this on the official pages of that uni.
I venture to say that spiritual growth is part of consciousness — that is, it's "math and thinking in other ways", which is of course what I said above, not "math".

As for friends, family, and community, what is it that gives friendship value, if not your conscious experience of the friendship, and your friend's? Could you coherently call something a good friendship if neither friend enjoys it or improves their thinking from it? The same questions generalize to family and community, though in more complex ways.
The way you say it kind of understates the difficulty. It is straightforward to image a large enough satellite if you know where it is going to be. I have even snapped a picture of the ISS with a hobby telescope and a cell phone mount. It's gigantic. Catching a shot of MENTOR 4 is cool, but it's up in GEO and doesn't move much, plus it's just a dot.

The picture of an old CRYSTAL bird is probably the closest thing to the OP in terms of difficulty. The satellite is big and in LEO. The difference between what Ralf did then is that CRYSTAL satellites move less often, so once someone finds them you have more time to wait on good weather. With the X-37, Ralf missed his first shot and by the time he was ready for another try it had already moved, and they had to find it again. That is super tough.

If you have no idea where something went, then the sky is very big and your telescope has a very small field of view, especially if you need to discriminate between different satellites that you see. The fact is, there aren't many techniques for finding secret stuff in orbit. You have two methods (but choose a wavelength)- passive and active- and maybe hacking into a space agency and just stealing the information from a computer. Passive means staring at a lattitude long enough until your satellite passes by and hope you spot it (if it doesn't you either missed it or it has a lower inclination than here you were looking). A smart person might get a computer to help them with the watching, but the task is the same. The problem is that the X-37 is real easy to miss. Even if you see something, it might not be the particular satellite you're hoping for, so you have to filter out all the unwanted things you don't want (usually you can match unwanted things up to known orbits). And even when you see the X-37, you've got to jump on it and track it so you can figure out the new orbit. Active methods are pretty much just radar, and that's out of reach for every amateur astronomer. They might be able to scrounge up some giant apertures but they'll never have the tx power. It's pretty incredible that people are able to do this.
I wonder if Youtube will now ban LSD-related videos
Assuming this was pure LSD, 4 full doses is way too much. It leads me wonder if he knew what we was getting into ahead of time or if he was peer pressured and did not have much experience.

The trial will be interesting here. I think his best defense is that he had no clue what a safe dose was and had 0 control over his own actions while he did what he did.
Let the RISC vs CISC wars begin!