skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like it would be much easier to terraform the real estate around us than try to opt for something 100 light years away.

Mars has a leaky atmosphere - sure it's a real fixer upper. But we have a better chance of fixing it, or even correcting the orbit of our planet so that in 500 million years it's still livable.
Probably tiny?

Lloyds bank founded 1765

Barclays founded 1736

I doubt any banks in the new world are as old.
> Can the Fed do that again

They've probably got more tools, as they've said that the foreign experience puts negative interest rates on the table as a realistic tool.

But, even if they can't, Congress could, in principal, step in with serious fiscal stimulus [0], which is less limited than the monetary tools available to the Fed. But they've been unreliable in the last few recessions, leaving the Fed holding the bag.
I think a thousands of books are only read by a very slim percentage of educated people over their lifetimes. It would mean about a book a week on average for several decades.
"Hundreds" sounds more realistic, unless you have a very strict definition for "educated person".
There've been a few guys discussing judo and jiu jitsu on here ... I dunno maybe you were one of them. My own BJJ dojo contained very few people over 30 who weren't Ph.D. in math/science types. Someone's probably giggling at this but they were all 220+lbs and lean; overachievers, goldman trader types - they all went to the best local dojo. We did have one Brazilian waiter guy (one of the best in the dojo), but I really felt like an underachiever in general when I'd enter their doors.

Come to think of it, many of the high ranking dudes in my Karate dojo also had Ph.D. type education (LBNL Arnis club didn't count). Martial arts seems to loan itself to personalities who can grind out difficult things.
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In case anyone is interested, rust has unsafe methods to index arrays without bounds checking:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.slice.html#method.ge...
Interesting that this comment is getting poor reception when this has shown, historically, to be a very effective way of dealing with oligarchs. Especially ones that, as you've correctly stated, have a long history of breaking laws and abusing workers and customers.

I challenge anyone reading this thread to really criticize why they believe their own personal interests are aligned in any way with the people who have a controlling share in uber.
Real solution is universal healthcare.
One has to wonder why the original "muon" paper, which produced such controversial results, did not include the control of measuring with the same methods conventional ("electron") hydrogen. Doing the control would have cleared things up a lot sooner.
I would be curious to hear you expand on your point here. It is in the format of a correction that is refuting my comment, but I honestly see those two statements as nearly identical. People are desperate because they don't have any other better alternatives.
His point is that middle class families aren't eating out anywhere near that much. They go to the grocery store, cook and eat at home.
Isn't the law sort of protecting people from themselves? My understanding is the majority of Uber drivers don't even make money, they just convert equity from their car into cash. Making them employees might mean forcing it to be an actual viable job, and it might mean that job no longer exists. But these people are probably better off selling their cars (and buying economical ones) than working for Uber anyway.
I spent the better part of a day with high school students recently, public school, normal kids to my eyes. I observed more than half of them vape something over that period.

The percentage increase in kids using any tobacco/weed product is really scary.
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The third link literally has 'starving' in the title, referring to the schools and teachers that work there. It is common parlance to use the term 'starving' to refer to more than just 'dying on the streets due to malnutrition'. You know this, but you chose to nitpick the word instead of interpreting my comment the way you knew I meant it. Please do not do that, it is against the HN guidelines.

>Taking a second job does not mean the alternative is peril. I could take a second job to afford a better Ferrari but that does not mean I can't afford a car. Try again.

We aren't talking about teachers taking a second job so that they can afford niceties or a new car. We're talking about teachers taking a second job just so they can afford rent. Many of them are on federal subsidy programs just so they can afford food.
So tired of hearing about “habitable” planets that would take millennia to get to. Call me when the space elevator has been commissioned.
Because rideshare carefully uses economic incentives to generate outcomes by market means, not by "enforcing" through the heavy hand that only the government understands.
Google has an office Dublin with SRE and SWE
Infinite scroll absolutely is a Dark Pattern unless you have a very good reason for it. For many things it's just obnoxious, but for e.g. Reddit (or 'endless' feeds in general) it is an extremely cynical way to drive compulsive behavior to its logical (awful) conclusion.
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> Either the other versions of reality are tangible, or they're not. If they're just abstractions, you have't solved the problem - you've taken a long way around a circular argument that starts with the wavefunction and ends with it doing something that results in a measurement, maybe.

The wavefunction is physically real. Whatever you interpret it as is your business. We've solved a real problem: we can explain the evolution of the wavefunction and the results of experiments without needing some weird collapse/decoherence concept that breaks all the usual rules. The Born Rule is still something that remains to be explained, agreed, but it's a much smaller something than the full Copenhagen style collapse.
> In every other country, you need to initiate the port with your current provider - usually by sending a text from your phone

How does this work if your phone is lost/stolen?
https://www.raytheon.com/news/feature/uap_atflir

I don't have that evidence but likely someone at Raytheon does...

“We might be the system that caught the first evidence of E.T. out there,” said Aaron Maestas, director of engineering and chief engineer for Surveillance and Targeting Systems at Raytheon's Space and Airborne Systems business. “But I’m not surprised we were able to see it. ATFLIR is designed to operate on targets that are traveling in excess of Mach 1. It’s a very agile optical system with a sensitive detector that can distinguish between the cold sky and the hot moving target quite easily.”
I guess if you're not going anywhere but along caltrain (and within caltrains hours) then sure. Otherwise, if you have an active nightlife or like to explore further away from caltrain (Or have to pay for caltrain and aren't getting it for free through work) then you'll quickly run up lyft/uber fares into car ownership territory.

The luxury apartments are so expensive too! Renting one bedroom in a two bedroom is comparable to having a non-luxury one bedroom.
Yes, but we can't actually travel there with our current technology, and while you're speculating about future technology, you can pick the number of 9's to tack on to your cruise speed pretty much arbitrarily. So from the probe's perspective, it takes somewhere between a fraction of a second and many billions of years to arrive.
> 97% of day traders lost money

How can I take the opposite side of these trades? Is this what James Simons is doing?
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Or sending a HUGE human civilization spaceship somewhere.. maybe it will outlast the earth?
You don’t need to match their speed necessarily if they are large enough we might be able to bleed off enough kinetic energy to safely collide with them via mechanical means.
Seems like a good reason to make sure everyone is given the opportunity to achieve their fullest potential. The more we keep ourselves as a species oppressed by one another, the less likely we are to experience the Newtons and Einsteins condemned to rice fields and coal mines.
> Does it make me a Microsoft employee if I use Outlook to conduct business?

If Microsoft is the one paying you, and dictating how you use Outlook, what you can say, who you talk to you - then yes, it does.
20s year olds are burning out 80h per week until their health allows and until they are replaced by another batch of 20s after ~10 years. Meanwhile, teachers and researchers enjoy their relaxed and stable lifestyle for the rest of their lifes. In fact, there are lots of candidates fighting for such relaxed permanent positions in academia, which is ruled by nepotism and protectionism, unfortunately.
> "It doesn't leave much to choose from."

With Google anyway you're down to 2FA using an authentication app (possibly U2F but I haven't checked on that recently) and backup codes which should also protect you from traditional hacking.
The Independent used to have a chum box on its page.

Whatever money it made for them, it made me associate that with their work, which I don’t think was that great to begin with.
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They can have “core business hours” though - but they can’t dock your salary if you don’t comply with those hours.
Survival of the fittest. We launch our virus first... assuming they didn't already launch theirs, in which case it's mutual destruction.
You apparently have a bloomberg terminal in front of you (They are rather expensive) but you dont seem to understand what "Largest Shareholder" means? Then you say it is a lie?

Can you use your bloomberg to find ownership by individual firms and see if any single holder exceeds the 13.78% the government holds according to your post?
I'm curious if there is a discussion thread on that design choice.
And my point is that many times a decision made out of desperation is not really a decision at all. We should empower people so that they truly have a choice on some of these issues.
It's all relative. To me anyone who can work full time is not that poor. But I understand why many would view that as poverty.
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I'm inclined more towards a dualistic explanation than a material one. Perhaps a better word to describe these concious and proto-concious entities would be 'collapsing agents', 'collapsants' or something of the sort.
…when possible, of course, unless you're using one of the unsafe methods.
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What are the theoretical limits to litobreaking? I imagine the best you can do is shooting a cable at it and constructing something like an space elevator. Small accelerations will require a larger cable, so there is a limit somewhere.
Uber presents a ride to the driver through the app and the drivers must accept the rides they want to take[1]

[1] https://help.uber.com/partners/article/getting-a-trip-reques...
The noise originally came out of the currently-active output device, which in my case at least once was AirPlay, not the iPhone itself. I believe they eventually fixed that bug.
uh, you may be missing the point. Few if any are against cars because the experience is poor. Absolutely the experience is individually superior. The point is that car usage is selfish, wasteful and generally worse for society as a whole.

in the west we are used to and loath to give up these comforts. personal cars, large suburban homes.. look at places that have modernized more recently, like in east Asia. Density, verticality, public transportation, these are the name of the game. Of course they would prefer to have their own cars and large homes, but the reality is that it's too inefficient for society to support.
Likely related to your or their privacy settings.

It was flakey when it first came out, mainly due to hardware compatibility, but it’s pretty robust these days IMHO
I get your point, but teachers hardly "enjoy their relaxed and stable lifestyle". Professorships at universities may be different, but elementary/middle/high school teachers often work long, long hours, suffer from burnout, make low money (low as in ~$30-40k/year), and more recently, there is a trend that a lot of them are ending up in therapy to cope with the teaching conditions.
Some of us are a little less organized than others. Knowing which room my keys are in is remarkably unhelpful.
What if I told you there is no scenario, at all, in which the best thing for any child is a smart phone, or a social media app, or the internet on any device?
The more I read comments like this, the more I question the real possibility of shilling here. Yes repairability is important, but only if the likelihood of needing repair is not increased.

Remember FORD? Easy to repair, but you might have to Fix Or Repair Daily. Don't be that company.
Buy and hold...simple as that.
That's my point. They hire the smart people so they can really abuse the simple stuff.
How is this even possible? I can't believe that's not some sort of weird typo.
Then point that out instead, exclusively
You sound like the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert. "Anything I don't understand must be easy."
I lean towards the one with the best distribution model, what can reach the largest audience without unnecessary layers, since the language particulars aren't all that important except in endless bike shedding.

and that would be JS.

Unless you need to do something more interesting than a browser will allow.
Another take is to put money in investments with no taxable event (I think that Berkshire Hathaway is one) and live off of savings in the meanwhile. Outright home ownership (as you mention) is another one. Regular and tax deferred savings get treated even more differently than normal.

I don't doubt that for people with some money, it'll be common to countdown using similar strategies for 5-10 years until you hit the magic 65 age. Given the difficulties in staying employed until full retirement age for programmers, it's quite a gift.

In another couple of decades, a lot of people get to do the pay-down fandango where couples split their assets so that one doesn't pauperize the other (via annuities).

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Ask HN: Why are leaders given offices in an open office layout?
Serious question. If employees are expected to work in an open office and schedule rooms to have in depth discussions, why are leaders given their own offices?
What fear am I spreading? I think the market is more volatile that many people believe, but more importantly the source of that risk might stem from a source they might not expect.
I upvoted for Terry's very insightful meta-commentary on when partial results can or cannot help with the full proof: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2019/09/10/almost-all-collatz...

I thought it was interesting how mathematician have techniques to easily prove something for the 99% case but still have the general problem be completely unapproachable.

(and because collatz is famous, terry is a fields medalist, etc)
> If they tell you that you must be in the office from 9AM to 5 PM, then you aren’t exempt.

That's not correct; the difference is that failure to fulfill such a requirement is a discipline issue (which can be dealt with by discipline up to an including termination), but not a pay issue based on hours worked as it would be for a non-exempt hourly employee.

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=1b7b6851-8415...
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It’s also worth remembering just how much money was at stake: everyone who stayed in was going to make a lot more until the crash so there was an enormous incentive to tell yourself that you could time it tightly. If the people making those calls get their bonuses now with little perceived long-term personal risk, that dynamic gets even more toxic.
> The closer the eccentricity is to 1 without being equal or less, the more "curved" the trajectory is and the nearer its closes approach to the sun will be.

Is this true? I thought it depends on the object’s speed. You can have an object with e=3 have a closer approach to the sun than an object with e=2 if the first object is traveling sufficiently faster.

In other words, at a given perihelion, you can change an object’s e by accelerating or decelerating. Not a orbital mechanics major, just played too much KSP.
Good point. https://dilbert.com/strip/1994-10-17
Nice. I need more karma for keybase
If voting made a difference, they would have outlawed it years ago.
One of the horrific apeshit things done in CIA mind control research involved dosing sensory deprived people with LSD, thorazine/sedatives, curare and electroconvulsive therapy for ... weeks, and subsuming them in brainwashing "suggestions"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_experiments

But hey, it happened in Canada, so no harm no foul right? There really should be Nuremberg trials for the sins of the spooks. There won't be though; they run the show. The last time a spook employee got in trouble it was for whistleblowing.
I love Datomic, think it can be revolutionary and use it in my side projects. I understand their need to make a living off of their (brilliant, unique) labor and so keep it closed source. But the big bananas at my company are reluctant to try something so different. With Clojure I can push them over that hump since it's open source. But they are not willing to introduce proprietary lock-in of such a fundamental piece to an otherwise OSS stack so Datomic is out.

It would be nice if Cognitect could do even better with a Red Hat business model, selling support for an open source product. I don't know if that is plausible for Datomic or not. I suppose that's a function of how popular an open source version would be compared to the current version, and I can't even guess.

If Ions is successful enough that could be their profit source, allowing them to set standalone Datomic free.
No, we don't run with overflow checks by default; the overflow check performance analysis is a separate test.
thank you kind hacker! however, it looks like HN is either slow to update or there is some other limiter/throttle involved to prevent karma abuse since im still at 1 karma. will check back later.

EDIT I: looks like it took awhile to update. maybe 25+ min. thank you again!

EDIT II: to the person who just downvoted me. thank you. now im back at 1 karma and unable to qualify for the airdrop. not sure why that was necessary.
Amazon controls so much of the internet that it's increasingly hard for anyone to avoid them. The deal they struck is far more involved than your typical company using AWS, but I wouldn't look to Amazon's customers to make any assumptions about Amazon's motivations beyond their lust for more money.

The reality is that this book doesn't pose any meaningful threat to the US government's mass surveillance programs and having impotent critiques of the US Government openly available as opposed to outright banned gives us a false sense of security in our freedoms.
Lmfao at this article, these people aren't middle class...
$2450 a month (30k!! a year) on child care because both are working?

$2000 a month (24k!! a year) on preschool to give their kid a leg up on going to a $35k a year grade school & high school?!?

$70 per DAY on food because you can't be arsed cooking?

They factor in 8K for vacations and another 6K per year for date nights?!?

And then it ends with this stunner:

> According to the U.S. Census Bureau, less than 5% of households earn $350,000 or more a year.

> While $350,000 might sound like a lot of money, it’ll go quickly when you’re raising a family in an expensive city. We all deserve to live a middle-class lifestyle. Unfortunately, we’ve first got to sacrifice more than ever to get there today.

Uhhh if only 5% will achieve that level of income you might need to ask yourself if it is really middle class....When people talk about "out of touch coastal elites" this is the type of shit they're talking about.
It’s funny because these salaries aren’t even that unreasonable just that most other wages have remained stagnant for 20 years in the us
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Because C is slower than C.

That is, they are compiling C with GCC, but Rust uses LLVM as a backend. Compiling their C code with clang reveals that it is also slightly slower than the C code compiled by GCC, but not faster than Rust.

The actual conclusion here is that the GCC toolchain is slightly faster than the LLVM toolchain for this particular use case, but that isn't really news - it happens all the time.

If one want to focus this on Rust, then the downside of Rust vs C here is that C has a GCC toolchain that happens to be faster for this use case, but Rust does not.
Have you even used eBay? It is against the TOS to solicit or conduct a sale on eBay offline, to bypass eBay, and eBay absolutely takes a 10%+ cut off sales called the Final Value Fee. eBay also enforces how sellers use their platform including using incentives, rules, and feedback scores to show or not show listings or even kick them off. Similarly, Uber riders can reject a driver as can drivers reject a rider for any reason so they choose. Try again.
If Facebook has so much influence, why does nobody seem to like it very much?

Both Google and Facebook combined should have even more influence. Both spend a lot of money on healthcare (for their employees). Why wouldn't they use their influence to make healthcare cheaper?
> 300k for a new grad is not something I've heard of, that's a tad high even for phds.

300K-ish total comp is a typical starting package at the big tech companies now. 150-160K base salary, 30K bonus target, and 100K stock grant maturing per year gets you to that ballpark.
Safe haven with 5.3 homicide rate?

If you wanted an actual safe haven, you'd chose something like Andorra, Vatican, San Marino, Liechtenstein or Monaco. Those have a homicide rate of 0. Japan with 126 million people has 0.2, UAE 0.5 and South Korea 0.6.
This is somewhat true for higher level jobs, but once you hit retail, and blue collar jobs generally, it stops being true.

McDonalds doesn't care if I also work at Burger King. Target doesn't care if I also work at WalMart. A plumber is generally fine if their assistant also works for another one.

All of this is subject to still doing the first job satisfactorially, of course.
If it makes you feel any better, virtually all of them are uninhabitable to humans. The excitement comes from the idea that they could be locations of alien life that we would easily recognize. In other words, we need better communications tools, not better space travel.
I think this is a horrible idea and applications should respect the OS DNS configuration. I have already configured the instance of dnsmasq on my router at home to return NXDOMAIN for the canary domain.

That being said I am a little confused by those that are concerned because this change would mean their DNS queries will be sent to a US company and they don't trust US companies. Firefox is developed and distributed by a US corporation and is just a susceptible to being forced to follow US government directives as Cloudflare.
Really no point to running it without real hardware, it will perform completely differently if you don't have the MMIO accesses and DMA by the NIC in there.

We'll have a VirtIO driver soon, but that's bottlenecked by the hypervisor and not really useful for performance tests.
I'd go even further and say the 25-54 year old workforce participation rate is a better metric, since the regular workforce participation rate is influenced by demographic changes (i.e. the baby boomers retiring).

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060