skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can quantify any value in monetary terms, but that doesn’t mean that only cash is value. Indeed, economics inherently involves trading cash for things of quantifiable but intangible value. It’s not like economists can’t explain why people buy roller coaster rides.

But with respect to raising children you can see economics in action. In first world countries, the opportunity cost of raising kids has gone way up. Kids cost more, and having kids requires you to give up more consumption. So people have many fewer kids.
" A 1910 best-selling book, The Great Illusion, used economic arguments to demonstrate that territorial conquest had become unprofitable, and therefore global capitalism had removed the risk of major wars. " [0]

If you assume that the world order should look like America in charge, everyone else playing quietly in their own garden then everything is fine. If you assume that the Asian, African and European powers might see the world differently, there is a lot of potential that the last 60 years are not the inevitable tide of history but a happy anomaly while everyone stood back up from WWII.

[0] http://blogs.reuters.com/anatole-kaletsky/2014/06/27/world-w...
This was my exact thought. I fear that people translate a thought like "my train to work was crowded today" into something like "here are 8 points, all stupid, on how I hate your maps". The guy seems mad and complaney, not someone providing actual feedback.

Having infrastructure for digital maps is a good plan. The service patterns change at night. There is construction during all off hours that results in trains being rerouted. A digital map just shows you exactly what the state is right now. That is a good thing, not a bad thing.

Making the taxpayers buy super high resolution not-yet-invented displays instead of off-the-shelf $200 TVs to make this guy happy doesn't seem worth it. Just make the text a little bit bigger, or even redesign the map completely.
I would blame the media, Hollywood and video games for the popularity of toy guns though I am not saying this is a real problem since here in Europe there are no guns anyway and there is no evidence that movies or games have effects on children or adults, I never seen one and I don't know people that have guns.

I know the guns topic is a sensitive one and I am not having here an opinion about that topic, just mentioning that the gun culture is exported around the world with the US media.
The article is specific to pret a manger a fairly expensive/upmarket british sandwich chain. I'm not sure it says much outside of prets individual retail strategy. As the pound falls their USA prices look worse as it is hard for them to raise their UK prices. For what its worth sandwiches in UK business area strike me as extortionate but so is everything unless there happens to be a poundland nearby... I'm not sure living off sandwiches is anything for a nation to be proud of either. Lets hear it for fresh protein rich salads efficiently produced and deliverd by drone!
Thunderbird, given that the mix of JavaScript + C++ should be less of a problem for buffer overflows.

Otherwise, business opportunity for other language communities.
You can check https://www.flipkart.com/ or https://www.myntra.com/.
Both belong the the same group. They are fast to load and feel very lite, in spite of being very client heavy.
I am anti Modi but I so much wanted this mission to succeed. ISRO is the only organization in India which is doing great on global level. It was really irritating the moment Modi turned this mission into his PR gimmick. Had this mission succeeded, the public euphoria would have been something unparalleled. Recently public reactions to Pulwama attack (months of protesting, candle light marches), article 370 issue (people started dancing on the streets when it was removed) were actually terrifying because it showed the rise of maddening extreme nationalism.

But ISRO was away from this madness and political agenda. Now Modi has turned his eye on this organization, god save ISRO because Modi has tried to undermine the independence of every other major institutions like Army, RBI, EC, CAG etc.
I should also add on, that it helped in that situation that I had two levels of management that respected me and who I used as references.

It would have been a lot harder to explain if I actively didn’t get along with my managers.
I think you are unnecessarily making this political. Even if India was successful at landing i dont think the government would count it as 'their' achievement rather would be counted as an achievement of the whole nation. And even 'non-blind' followers would celebrate, given how everyone were on edge of their seats yesterday. Also no one is bashing Nehru because he started ISRO.

Calling the moon landing a government PR gimmick is highly irrespectful to the scientists behind this.
If you just want to post a link, I'd rather you submit a story with a title than put a "see, this is concerning:" in the comments.

Moreover, I don't see how this article is relevant to Let's Encrypt's popularity. There are only two mentions in the article about LE, this is one: "These actors use Let's Encrypts, Comodo, Sectigo, and self-signed certificates in their MitM servers to gain the initial round of credentials." So they use normal public infrastructure to get certificates? That is concerning, how?
Why on earth are would you need to click around the ECR console that much?
> If you assume that the Asian, African and European powers might see the world differently

And if you’re an American, the prospect of that single national government being say Bangladesh (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/world/asia/bangladesh-sta...) should be pretty scary! Star Trek style global government seems attractive to many people because they assume it’ll be “America in Space.”
I'm skeptical about the cheaper per KWh. A 100W conventional turbine can be purchased for around $200 and has 3 blades around 50 cm in length. The 100W vortex device is 2.7m tall and I doubt can be purchased for less than $600 since the structure is much wider and weighs around 3 times more. 14kg vs 5kg for a conventional turbine.

A 100W conventional turbine also only has a couple of moving parts, won't kill birds and is effectively silent. I'm unsure on wether these claims are still true as the device scales up. A device 100m or so tall will have a fast velocity at the tip perhaps as much as 50m/s at a few Hz which is similar to the blade tip speed of a conventional turbine thus having similar potential to kill birds and make noise.
NTFS with default settings will actually degrade a fair bit on such a folder. You probably have to disable 8.3 legacy filename generation to make this work (or the usual pattern of using the file name prefix as folder names beneath that folder).
I suspect that these were changed because paper is missing a very important feature desired by NYC, ads.

It seems like then most likely reason they would roll out such expensive maps is so they can display ads and “recoup” their costs.

This would infuriate me greatly if I was rushing through the subway, trying to figure out my stops and it switched over to an ad for a few seconds.

However, displaying in different languages would be nice.

It frustrates me when orgs, especially ngo and gov, will incur some needless or not very necessary cost, then layer on some new burden like ads to try to pay for the expensive new thing. Thinking critically about cost and benefit helps in planning and avoiding these types of situations.
Their CLI manages to completely lock up my up to date MacBook Pro when simply downloading files and has very strange and conflicting choices of parameters. It is comprehensive, but I wouldn’t call it good
Mom and pop gas stations in the USA almost always have a sub sandwich counter.

Even the major chains have those factory made sandwiches that are cut into triangles, plus other hot sandwiches.
The clarification was just about whether he would recommend taking the money again knowing what he knows now vs knowing what he knew then. It's less inflammatory but still divisive.
A swifter way towards 3D-printed organs
Chicago also puts the effective street numbers of the station, which is very useful.
Might be an unpopular opinion, but I think this is BS. Do people really questions like this in interviews or are these "smart folk" trying to look good in an article that can be shared on Linkedin and wherever else?

I've only interviewed a few times in my life, and apart from smalltalk at the beginning they were mostly about judging how I think and to a lesser extent what my knowledge level is for the position.
I would say that this kind of sacrifice should not be expected or demanded across national borders.

Had the prince forfeited or sold the land for the safety of the nation then he would agree with you.

but as far as I know this is more like your uncle getting kidnapped for 4 years (human life and land are incomparable, so this makes little sense) by a different country to fight their war.

Note that this sort of already happen when regions that want to/should be independent get exploited in war times.
DFS as in the duty-free retailer? Given that they made their money from cheap booze & cigarettes, you'd figure they're starting from a pretty big karma deficit -- Windows may be responsible for a lot of things, but not lung cancer or cirrhosis of the liver.
Note: The short blurb doesn't say anything about the nature of the attack.
I'm not particularly familiar with QMC, although I do know of it.

I was just adding a comment in support of this not being a particularly revolutionary methodology because, although it may achieve spectacular results for certain systems, the limitations and mistakes of this kind of approach are completely hidden behind an opaque ML methodology of an NN.

ML has a place but NN are notoriously difficult to even grey-box and a black box model doesn't do much to actually advance the field. It certainly doesn't allow for a well-rounded assessment of failures.

As for the limitations of DFT, unless you are referring to convergence issues, I think you are completely wrong to claim that the issues with the method are not well-known and understood. We know precisely where the methodology has limitations and we also know how the functionals have been parametrised and we also know the assumptions / theoretical models upon which they are based and their limits. That is enough information to know where confidence can be placed.

I would also dispute that QMC is in the core of DFT just because it is used to parametrise LDA. As I am sure you are aware, LDA is not used for any reliable modelling. GGAs and Hybrids (And maybe meta-GGAs if we're feeling charitable...) are what make DFT a useful theory. Prior to that the results just sucked for the majority of systems!
>"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."

It's mostly a matter of conspicuous consumption, aside from possible military applications and meager civilian technological advances.
Some mitigations mentioned in https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20190906.185037.1ff8bb...:

> Add - as part of the mail ACL (the ACL referenced by the main config option "acl_smtp_mail"):

deny condition = ${if eq{\\}{${substr{-1}{1}{$tls_in_sni}}}}
deny condition = ${if eq{\\}{${substr{-1}{1}{$tls_in_peerdn}}}}
Websites like mine have been around for ages they probably will still be around for ages.

The only thing I am doing differently is to allow users to download their playlists/channels in a little more comfortable way.

And these tools are freely available on GitHub, don't think that would count as living in the shadows.
No, the same does not apply to all other cloud providers. Earlier this year, I had a moment where I wrote a Kubernetes definition for one public cloud provider, and then was able to reuse the definition on three other public clouds. Portability via Kubernetes and CNCF is real, AWS is lock-in.

Also, do you really want to support Amazon's human-rights-abuse parade?
I can't read this, but I have to comment anyways. My guess is simply that america has two times the gdp per capita of the UK. Even if the cost of labour in boston is equivalent to that of london, that isn't going to be true elsewhere. the pre-made sandwhiches are most likely not made in Boston or London (rather cheaper towns in the same area). Because the average american is so much more expensive, the only surprise is that the difference is only 2 USD.
There is an interesting documentary on him by Lutz Dammbeck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gznwiZzvkg
It's the most used form of interaction. Text messaging.
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Solaris is more an example of Oracle's shittiness, it was doing fine with Sun, plenty of places that still relied on it being a commercially supported unix, even when it was open sourced.
We can tell where a whale has travelled from the themes in its song
+1, I came here to say what you said. Those three categories seem OK as a very rough sketch, but the details in the article feel all wrong.
Well this sows seeds of mistrust. If commerce infiltrate our private conversation, it turn from convenience to creepy.

Every conversation will invoke a feeling that someone is trying to sell something for profit.

This is one of the issues in modern commerce in China.
Assuming you can't go to direct barter, at $2/day you can no longer really ask someone else with specialist knowledge to do things for you as you have no way to compensate them.

You'd basically have to grow your own food, deal with getting some land to live on without paying rent, and the $2 couldn't go to daily expenses, it'd need to be saved up for basically capital expenses and surprises.

Realistically, you'd need a close-knit community of similar people in a commune-style setup.

I mean, $2/day for food probably doesn't get you a healthy number of calories after adjusting for surprise expenses. So alternatives must be found.
I'm a solo academic researcher user and there's one thing even simpler than this that i can't stand: there is no way to check which EC2 resources are running all at once. You have to click on every single region in turn to see what is actually running. If you've had multiple types running across regions, trying shut everything down without closing the account is a real pain. I am not the only person with this problem: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42086712/how-to-see-all-...
They did in fact use a Caesar cipher [1], a quick calculation on letter frequencies gave a strong hint. The rest was looking up the shift value and coding a js bookmarklet [2] to "decrypt" the text. It had some issues with certain German Umlauts, but was not enough of an issue to fix it.

Looks like they now longer include the full text publicly. So they seem to have improved.

[1] (German) https://andreas-zeller.blogspot.com/2016/06/spiegel-online-n...

[2] javascript: document.querySelectorAll('div.obfuscated-content')[0].parentNode.classList = [];var cc = (s, c) => s.split('').map(s => /[^\s]/.test(s) ? String.fromCharCode(s.charCodeAt(0)+c) : s).join('');var dn = (n) => { if (n.hasChildNodes()) {Array.from(n.childNodes).map(dn);} else if (n.parentNode.nodeName !== 'A') {n.textContent=cc(n.textContent, -1) }};document.querySelectorAll('p.obfuscated').forEach(dn);document.querySelector('.lp_mwi_payment-method-wrapper').parentNode.parentNode.remove();
This is consistent with my experience.

Stick with right-angle found on the ground? Gun.

Inverted shoe? Gun.

Magnetic letter L? Gun.

Legos? Gun. Sometimes sword.

Sister's barbie held by arms with legs poiting at target? Gun.

Toast with bite out of it? Gun.

Weapons are basic, ancient tools. In fact, the oldest human artifacts ever found were weapons[0]. It should come as no surprise that they are popular children's toys, whether we like it or not.

To be clear -- I do not mind it, but the guns depicted here are realistic enough to potentially cause confusion for people with actual guns and should probably never be taken out of the house......

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schöningen_spears#targetText=T....
This doesn't explain everything. That's the economical fallacy: that everything can be exchanged for money, even things which have intangible value. I believed that, too.

In the book there is a story about a girl helping a man (diving for a lost anchor in a Greek harbour), and when the man offered payment, the girl was offended.

This gives trouble to people who believe that everything can be traded.
I'd hire you over a candidate who gives the 'ideal' answers given in the article. Atleast I'd get an honest no BS assessments about work without having to coax it out.
I wish they had used a different Restaurant for comparison. Pret is just not very popular here unlike in Europe and I don't know many people who'd eat there (except maybe to grab something on the go). Outside of Pret, portion sizes are usually much larger in the US so it make sense that lunch in general would be pricier. Plus European imports like Pret are typically located in pricey downtown locations of cities like NY and SF where real estate is very pricey.
This may be what you're looking form, to add a method to a single instance, although the syntax is clearly not as smooth:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1887845/add-method-to-an...

OTOH, if your problem is slightly different, I find the syntax to add methods to any class very practical and powerful, with of course the caveat that you can produce a maintainability nightmare if overused:

irb(main):001:0> a = 1
=> 1
irb(main):002:0> class Integer
irb(main):003:1> def hello
irb(main):004:2> puts "world"
irb(main):005:2> end
irb(main):006:1> end
=> :hello
irb(main):007:0> a.hello
world
=> nil
But it's far easier to think up drugs that have caused untold human misery, and do so much more reliably. Every human who takes these drugs will suffer through the misery. No such thing as "I'm too strong to be affected by this drug." (heroin, crystal meth.) Or "I can quit whenever I want." (opium, flakka.) Or, "My neighborhood, or community, or nation won't fall into ruin because of this drug." (China with opium, black americans with crack.)

And that's just the drugs we know about, just imagine the secret ones we don't know about.

Take X drug, it will have Y effect on every human. Immediately. That's the definition of efficiency. Keeping with the original example, that's the sort of efficiency and effectiveness a military leader would want when waging a campaign against an enemy. Far more swift, efficient, and effective than using a history book.
I think that if I had to live through the second half of the 20th century in either place I'd take India's moderate socialism followed by a slight loosening over China's extremes. Even if China is in a better position right this moment, it lost a lot of people getting there.
The quality of Subway compared to the quality of something you’ll find on display at almost any bakery in Europe, is night and day.

My wife and I just wrapped a few weeks traveling, and the sandwiches we occasionally grabbed on our way to the park were all outstanding and very cheap. Better than any sandwich I’ve purchased in downtown SF.

I can think of at least 4 different specific sandwiches from previous euro-trips that absolutely blew me away, and were just grabbed from a random corner shop. (Paris, Positano, Barcelona, Copenhagen)
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More like Europe in space (more socialist/democratic) and I wouldn't mind it - but then I guess I'm biased, as a European (and I half-seriously fly the flag of United Federation of Planets).

Still, I don't think we can face planetary-scale challenges much longer as a bunch of competing nations; some form of global governance will be necessary for humanity to move forward.

As for culture difference, this may be unpopular opinion, but I do hope things will homogenize further over time. The driving aspect towards cultural unification even today is that people copy what works.
> that Epstein is a huge outlier and not that he had lots of willing accomplices, co-conspirators, and legitimizers

I hear you on this and it is basically what I'd like to believe. What I value so much about Anand is that he is pulling back the curtain for people like me to see just how much the people in positions of power enable people like Epstein.

This isn't the first "wow, the wizard isn't real moment for me", but it may be a tipping point to casting off my old naive and hopeful assumptions that this sort of thing is an outlier.
But the goals are different though, ISRO is less about grand exploratory projects and more about doing the little things and balance them with the commercial aspects of space. India is not a super rich country that can spare ISRO a large budget you know.

Eitherway, there's also some advantages from having competing organizations with different operating philosophies exploring space.
Cases of misused technology can be quite frustrating.

Our campus van drivers help people move between noncontiguous buildings and they used to use a dispatcher and a radio to do real time traveling-sales-man routing to move people around campus nodes.

A year or so ago, one of their managers had the great idea to use RideCell to ‘help’ the drivers plan their routes more effectively.

Ridecell uses high-latency GPS coordinates from on-board iPads and assumes that nearest nodes also have short edges. The App has no idea that some coordinates that seem close happen to have very long traffic patterns (edges) that makes going from one to the other a very long and inefficient route to suggest (but it does anyway).

Also, the drivers are not allowed to use the radio as often anymore because the managers want data on how effective they are, and the RideCell app has a horrible alert UX for new rides, placing them at the bottom of a long scroll list.

The high-latency GPS coordinates are also interesting as you can imagine the system telling you to pick up someone right ‘next’ to you when you are already across campus...
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You're still being myopic.

I know a guy who, when he was a kid, didn't pay attention in class. They put him in the TAG program, diagnosed him with ADHD and other mental disorders, and the school nurse would medicate him every morning so that he would sit down and be quiet.

I talked to him recently about this. He called it "involuntary medication" and was very upset. He felt that he had been raised from a young age to conform to a way of thinking that he didn't understand.

Are mental disorders real, or are they a way of othering those who we don't understand? I'm not sure.
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I recall distinctly this being called a conspiracy theory years ago.
What do you mean by not specifically identifying or recognizing these faces?

When a face -- which is unknown to Facebook -- is found in a photo, is that face used for graph building? Is a anonymous representation of it kept?
But on each picture you automatically recognize when there is some face. And you need to be able to learn new faces. So doesn't it make necessary for somewhere in the system to be your face model in order for system to decide to ignore it? Not my field so I'm clueless but I would assume that without such hidden model it would be more likely to match the next most similar person? (I'm guessing social network is also taken into account to make such mistakes less likely?)
There's also a lot more competition. Question is just how hard is it to get outsourcing contracts in COBOL world?