skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am infuriated when someone starts pushing priority-preserving NULL tokens at me non-stop. It's even more infuriating when I have to do linguistic analysis calculations to reduce all those possible content-carrying strings down to to disappointing priority-preserving NULL tokens.

I love priority-preserving pauses, maybe even with explicit priority-yielding tokens, but there are so many people that just take any pause in the conversation as their opportunity to seize priority and keep it, and this is what produces the culture of babblers and chatterers. Silence is a resource devoured by the tragedy of the commons.

Some people need you to shut up, in order to think their own thoughts. And when they are not allowed to stop and think, they get angry and frustrated with you. So pause. Take a breath. Take another breath. When that silence starts to get uncomfortable for you, that other person is still assembling their meaningful contribution to the conversation into a sentence. Hold it just a few more seconds... aaand... let them speak.
Anecdotally -- take my experience for what it's worth, small sample size warning -- some/a lot of boomers are behind in saving for retirement, and are trying to catch up by riding the asset boom.
Yes. Do you download a game every day or something?

Even if you do, you should bear your share of the more beefy infrastructure needed to support that, instead of expecting Joe who only uses the internet once a day to check his email to subsidize you.
I submitted the article because I found the provided data interesting, I didn’t expect the discussion to focus on the definition of “upper class”... I just translated the original title, that was maybe a mistake
I think I meant to say what you said—that there's no actual cigarette lighter any more—and just confused that with the adapter outlet itself being gone. Thank you for clarifying!
The best book is Python Crash Course
I have to thank psytrance (mostly Infected Mushroom) for pushing me deeper into exploring EDM. These days I mostly work to neurofunk (a sub-genre of drum & bass). Neurofunk + coffee + a dark room = comfort and focus.

https://soundcloud.com/subsil3nt
That's a great value!

I just checked eBay and it seems R820 with 128GB and 4x v2 Xeons goes for 1200-1300.

How did you manage to get the extra 640GB for 200-300 ?

PS 6 months ago I upgraded my 2x Xeon 2697v2 Dell Precision T7610 and paid $200 for 128GB DDR ECC (8x16)
Didn't expect to see another price drop.
What would you turn the cash into if you weren't holding it?
>It’s valuable because you can compare what the media reports to what was posted on 4chan and look for discrepancies.

Okay but how do you verify the validity of what’s posted on 4chan, a troll site of trolls trolling trolls with troll posts?
Well yes, and airplanes only operate on airfields with generally carefully controlled access, and still those accidents happen. Now, with airplanes there is really no other option, but with a drone one can easily place the rotors above, rather than below, the passenger cabin (which also gives better stability).

The eHang 184 is truly a horrendous design in my opinion, and I am puzzled why it is seriously reported about.
this is pretty awesome. hopefully it spreads across europe
It's for sure true that an algorithm setting the price instead of a human is going to increase sales and be beneficial to both the retail seller and Amazon, but where does it end?

Right now it's optional but it's clear that it's only a matter of time until it becomes mandatory.

I think these companies, especially Google & Amazon are only going to stop when they are split apart by the government due to monopoly concerns.
Yeah, it looks to be easy enough; much like making a an actual IoT device, you don't have to write a complete Twitter app. When I think of something funny enough I might try it.
Link to the original article, strangely absent from this piece: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09959-4.pdf

They include politicians and business people in their analysis, and though they do acknowledge it as a shortcoming, they don't really do anything substantial to mitigate it.

Also, their analysis is really all over the place. It's not clear exactly how they're testing their hypothesis, they're just gathering a bunch of data and creating a bunch of pretty figures. Their "contrarian" list is kept private, so it's hard to know what they're really measuring. They put a ton of emphasis on using citations as a measure of scientific authority, but are using a dataset where they put politicians and business people in one group and exclusively scientists in the other group. There are plenty of climate change advocates who aren't scientists, why couldn't they match the two groups?

This is a perfect example of an increasing trend where it seems like the headline of the popsci article covering the research was written first, then a "scientific study" was performed in order to generate the headline desired.
Oh :( I did try to negotiate initially and ended with the number I mentioned.

Is 70k that bad? I thought 75k+ or probably 80k+ is for like lead positions . Since I had no proper clarity on the job market.
Good point - updated answer with a link. Hopefully there's a better one out there.
Poor people are screwed up regardless -- if rates are high, they can't afford payments, if rates are low, prices rise and they still can't afford payments. Not to mention getting downpayment.

Workaround: don't be poor.
I sometimes feel impostor syndrome, but then i think back to all the wildly incompetent people that I have worked with (often in positions of authority over me). I realize I am closer to the top than to the bottom.
> Here I just put something rough together to demonstrate that it can be done even with the thin devices if the motivations were in the right place: https://www.ypson.com/hn/battery-thin-device.png
Took me a few minutes, surely this can be done given the budgets and great engineers available in the employ of the major companies.

All you’ve done is drawn a few rectangles and added some labels to them. It doesn’t prove anything is possible. It’s not even detailed enough to be concept art let alone a technical design. You could just have easily drawn the same thing with circles and labelled it “worlds first fusion powered laptop” for all the technical merit that diagram had.
Not just boomers. Robinhood has made it so you can buy stock on your iphone in a couple minutes. Everyone has stock, and I think the market is crazy overvalued right now. I think everything's a bubble right now.

People are in loads of debt, more regular americans invest in the stock market, driving prices higher, all we need is a spark to get the fire going. Could come in the form of china and Hong Kong, could be the collapse of Deutsche bank, or very high valued startups failing, or something completely unforseen. Theres a lot of uncertainty right now, and any big event could crash it all.
The median monthly data usage on Comcast's network is under 200GB per month: https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/data-usage-average-.... Even cord cutters average under 500GB per month: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/chart.... Even among uncapped users, less than 5% use more than 1TB (which is a typical cap): https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/01/terab....

Note also that data caps don't exist in many places in the US either. For example, Comcast has no data caps here in Maryland. Verizon will only start bugging you if you hit 10TB+ several months in a row.
Getting Started with Kontena Lens on AWS EKS
No, I was just pointing out you don’t need a man in the middle proxy to analyze http traffic.
Is it a new problem? Last night, I had a look at George Kennan's memoirs 1950-1963. He discussed the congressional move to remove most-favored-nation status from Yugoslavia at the time he was ambassador there. He laid out cogent arguments against it. The congressman Wilbur Mills, who had never been out of the US, ignored him, as did all the senators and congressmen he spoke with.

In general, Kennan gave a picture, not only with regard to Yugoslavia, of congressional policies based on home-state politics.
My question is what is the point of the trade war. What does trump get from initiating/escalating it, or who is directing him to do it. Seems to be a net negative for all sectors of the economy.
TikTok Scams: How Popular Apps and Services Become New Havens for Scammers
Does that matter when we're talking about online retail? Walmart the physical store might as well be a separate business.
100% agree that of the list of realistic outcomes, Tumblr going to Automattic is one of the best possible outcomes.

That said, and I know this is said a lot, but I really wish our industry would stop trying to label everything a "startup". Automattic was founded in 2005 and has 1000 employees. It's not a startup, it's a mature medium size tech company. Its problems are not startup problems, they're mature medium size tech company problems. Automattic isn't even a clear underdog considering the dominance of WordPress.

To be clear, that's not a pejorative: Automattic kicked ass, and Automattic deserves its current success. But the phrasing is a sticking point for me in how people talk about tech companies because it ends up feeding into how we perceive working at these companies. When I was job searching, I saw job postings regularly where "startup" or "like a startup" are used to invoke a cultural image for companies that are already post-growth-stage.
Hi @sfink,

Thanks for asking. It's likely that the optimal design for a head height of a mile would use two stages. You would have an intermediate reservoir half a mile down. Reversible, Francis-type pump-turbines would likely be used.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_turbine

From my paper:
"
8.1 PEPC Study: Two-Step Design with Reversible Pump-turbines
The PEPC study’s optimized design called for single-stage reversible pump- turbines with identical layout and design. Each step consisted of three pump- turbine/motor-generator sets, each of 333-MW rating and each operating at 720 rpm under a nominal head of 762 m (2500 ft). With two steps combined, the overall nominal head was 1525 m (5000 ft). The study acknowledges that future technological development could significantly raise the head height or achieve the same head height in only one step.
"

Or here is the original source for that info.
Underground pumped hydroelectric storage
Allen, R.D., Doherty, T.J., and Kannberg, L.D., for the Pacific Northwest Laboratory, sponsored by the United States DOE
https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6517343
He isn’t (and never was) the owner of Spiegel. He’s the son of the Spiegel’s founder and former editor in chief.
How to you tell one from the other, especially when you’re inside one?
These are buzzword marketing goals, and usually unachievable without ridiculous costs, assuming they're even attempted.
The internet comment section: But what about my pron!!!

I didn't see a single positive comment like this post yesterday. It's refreshing to read a different perspective.
Maybe in a market with real competitors. But like others have said, what usually happens is people with existing unlimited plans lose them overnight to ISP's with a monopoly in their area. Then, ISP's charge $50 more per month for them to get the service they already had.
Fellow (German) Kevin here. I like how this topic is frequently being brought up again in loose intervals as if it is important to remind everyone every once in a while.

I can confirm that there is indeed a stigma associated with the name. As a white young male though, being grumpy about such thing would be quite disproportionate. In that sense, it sort of makes me get an idea of what it could be like to be ridiculed for something one has no control or responsibility about.
TikTok Scams: How Social Currency Fuels Economy for Impersonation, Other Scams
If it's so sure, why isn't it priced in already? I can't help but notice my investments are only down a couple of percent recently, well within the range of normal fluctuations.
Gold usually, but it seems like a lot of people have been buying lately.
Uh, you're going to have to give a bit more context to this hypothetical or invoke word-of-god about what choice is "objectively correct".

All I can say is that there are stories where the victims clothes matter greatly (hunting "accident") and others where it doesn't (wire fraud).
Agreed. The stock market is seen as a sure thing right now. It's a buying frenzy out there, even for companies that have zero fundamentals.
It is very common in Sri Lanka, all home(cable, 4G, fiber) and mobile plans have them. Speeds are between 10-40mbps

Currently using a 33GB Daytime + 33GB Nighttime plan(Total 66GB month) for $9.5
I'm sorry to hear that you missed out on the market growth over the past two years.

I am prepared to "lose" nearly 7 figures of net worth in the near future. But that's the "cost" I'm willing to incur so that I am able to stay in the markets for the long run.
Eh, as a metalhead, the music is incredibly diverse and it's useful to be able to state your exact preferences clearly, and for promoters to be able to describe bands quickly. Personally I'm not too anal it, but I did laugh at a girl who thought Megadeth was death metal. That was pretty funny.
I think the next recession will be modest compared to 2008, comparatively shallow in all regards (including job losses). The recovery is going to involve drawn-out weak economic performance, elaborate growth stagnation, that will frustrate central banks as they attempt to stimulate and reinflate. We'll see aggressive front-run Fed & global central bank action. As opposed to 2007-2009, which frequently saw the Fed running from behind to catch up to a very severe implosion. The Fed regularly utilizing QE programs the last time around was quite novel. This time it'll be used very early on and aggressively as a normalized tool of fighting a recession (for better or worse).

The recession will be weak, the recovery will be weak. The repeating behavior and stacking debt is resulting in lower dynamism in all regards. We've already seen all of this: Japan showed us exactly how it works, why (government debt), and how it cycles toward increased stagnation, perma low rates and low inflationary pressure.

The overly dramatic doom predictions are merely making the perceived easy call, and piggyback riding on what happened in 2008. A repeat, much less something worse, is not what we're going to see at all.
It's a shame they won't revert the idiotic decision to ban adult content. The sense of freedom of expression and unrestrained creativity gave Tumblr its edge. Without it, it's just another boring blog engine, and this is just a matter of postponing its demise.
> What does trump get from initiating/escalating it

Kudos from his base, enhances his "tough guy" image, helps his 2020 campaign.
boomers have been retiring since before 2008. probably the ones with the most equities first.
Couldn’t some JavaScript code compute the hash/salt client side to enable never sharing the plaintext to begin with?
No they have not.
Google employees ‘refuse to be complicit’ in border agency cloud contract
you guys should unionize
SparkAR
Yeah, but that's completely politically infeasible. There's no way to get people to just stop using existing resources to improve their quality of life - or even to keep their quality of life at current levels - without any immediate tangible consequences. And of course, by the time the disaster arrives, it'll be too late to change.

Or, correction, there's one way to get them to do that: Point guns at them.

(Un?)fortunately, the vast majority of the developed world lives under democratic government, and the same people who would rather not massively and suddenly reduce their wealth and quality of life in response to future predictions also would rather not have martial law imposed to convince them to do so.

So the "tiny ineffectual reductions from current emission levels" is the only possible framework under which any kind of preemptive climate action can actually happen. You're correct that there's no way this can solve the problem; the correct response is to understand that we're just basically fucked and the only ways out include things like "establish, by force, oppressive totalitarian global state oriented around climate management" which would damage the future world we live in just as much as climate change would, but in a different way.

We're just fucked. And there's a certain liberty in that! You don't have to worry about whether or not we'll fix the problem; we won't, so there's no troublesome uncertainty. Just go see the sights around the world you'd like to see before they're destroyed.
Less Is More: Engineering Data Warehouse Efficiency with Minimalist Design
Sure, but:

a) All reference counts after the fork are going to cause a copy of memory, so any memory access (even a read) can trigger a copy.

b) Even to send 'xs' over you must serialize it via pickle, and then the callee must deserialize it

That may be fine for your use case but it's strictly worse than just sharing a reference across a thread.
That's actually not quite how it works: "The options awarded had a per-share exercise price equal to the fair market value of our Class B common stock on the applicable grant date"

Common stock is usually way less expensive than preferred, so while currently the company may be 'valued' at $110 per share, the common stock is probably in the $30s or $40s.

He's likely already up $2B on the stock options (pending vesting), assuming the company does IPO at $47B and all common stock converts at the $110 valuation.

Personally I think this is unheard of -- anyone else know of examples of CEO compensation like this prior to an IPO?
I think this is kinda my point. Haskell folks like to show unrealistically small code samples that don't even do the small thing they claim, where one-letter names are kinda defensible, and then you realize that that's how they name everything.

Since you like sorts, have you seen a Haskell implementation of quicksort that spells out the word "pivot"? This seems like a small ask. Surely someone has done it. Before typing this, I assumed it couldn't possibly be as bad as I remembered and that I was falling prey to confirmation bias, but in fact 9 out of the top 9 results (one is a dead link, which is why there aren't 10) for "haskell quicksort" on Google use a single-character variable name for it (n, p, or x). As a side note, 7 out of 9 of them exhibit neither the time nor space complexity promised by quicksort. (I admit that two of them appeared to be the same code - call it 8/8 and 6/8, respectively, if that seems unfair.)

Finally, one of the two that does attempt to perform it in place (which is far more complicated) contains variables named lb, ub, mub, ma, and, my favorite, iLTj. Good luck figuring out how that code works. This is the thing I'm talking about, and it is not an isolated example.

I like Haskell as a language! It has a lot of cool ideas. But people who learn it are often made into much worse programmers for having been exposed to it, and it is because of stuff like this. It's some weird community standards problem.
Protein, Fat, and about 15Grams of Carbs a day.
But that isn't what an S-1 is supposed to be, from my understanding. It isn't a marketing document -- they are warping it.
> Capped broadband is a new development in the US.

Shirley you mean capped but unlimited broadband. At least the throttling will be unlimited. Maybe the caps will be unlimited too. And the excuses. And mysterious service outages.
Isn't the more obvious hypothesis that those people DID make an evidence-based value judgement and decided differently?

Your argument only seems to work if you start by assuming bad faith on the part of environmentalists. How about you trust us instead?
> Everyone has stock

everyone _should_ have stock; what reasonable investment plan doesn't have stock?

you might as well hyperventilate about everyone having drawers full of socks.
Danish mortgage bonds are effectively guaranteed by the Danish state and there are only a few actual government bonds in circulation. The interest rates go below 0 because investors don't trust banks with their money.
Also don't forget that, at least in Germany, after tax in casual conversation usually means net salaries after stuff like social security, health care, etc... Which might also explain some of the difference.
That's not wholesale. Margins like that mean he's buying liquidation.
A very useful caveat from the insightful, and cautious, Howard Marks -

> In that regard, the Financial Times noted on June 1 that “the [yield curve] has ‘inverted’ before every US recession in 50 years.” (Note, however, that this is different from saying every inversion has been followed by a recession.)

https://www.oaktreecapital.com/docs/default-source/memos/thi...
How so? Of course we are affected by what we are called, and an introvert will go along with it to avoid arguing.

(I agree with you that it's pointless to try to change how people use words.)
Additionally you should not spend all your money buying stocks at once. Spreading it across those 14 years would have been quite profitable.
It's not $42M in options. It's 42M options, possibly valued at $110 each at the IPO. Hence $4B
For poor people it means that your rent continues to rise, house prices become further inflated and you will still pay massive interest rates if you get a consumer loan.
Adam is extraordinarily humble. Everyone, including Adam, would never exaggerate.

Adam is a part of everything. He is in the sky and sea. He is in the dreams of children at night. He is all that there is, forever.
> calling a coffee shop that does their finances in Excel a tech company

Techbucks S-1 coming soon!
Absolutely. But it was started way too late because it was a rushed stopgap rather than the original plan. Both AGA and Akiko were basically results of Commodores multi-year failure to manage engineering properly and aim for manageable iterations. AGA would have been great if it'd come a couple of years earlier. Instead lots of resources were put into next gen chips that never surfaces because they were way too ambitious.
We're now polluting the moon with tardigrades
If the actual negative effects are a lot rarer than 5%, then the expected punishment should probably also be lighter.
The Tunnel of Samos
What can the chinese do exactly?
Sell all their USD treasuries? Sure, but what do they do with the money then?
The only other currency big enough to absorb those kind of flows is the euro which would spike the euro exchange rate with the dollar to extremely painful levels for the EU, probably causing a deep recession in the EU but doing nothing to the US.