skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's broken with keyboard shortcuts?
That is a reflection of the difference in household incomes (how much mortgage debt a family qualifies for). Good schools is a proxy for household incomes of the residents in the school district, which is a proxy of education / "achievement" level in life, which is a proxy for how useful you might be to someone else.
Personally I believe the Universe as we know it is the insides of a black hole, and that the predicted "singularity" is wrong. There is no reason why there would be a singularity there, anyone looking at an object smaller than its Schwarzschild radius will just see a black hole since that equation comes from calculating the curvature outside a homogeneous sphere and not outside a singularity.

That way the space expansion in the origin of the universe could just be the black hole forming and quickly eating more mass of its surrounding and thus expanding. Also would explain a lot of things related to lack of anti-matter and such since the part of the outer universe our blackhole ate wouldn't necessarily have an even distribution.
I agree with what you are saying here. The underlying problem here is that companies (being emotionless optimization machines) aren't willing to shell out for the benefiet they are getting from open source, because people are willing to give it out for free. The only way this will get resolved is if open source contributors as a whole stop contributing leaving companies to either have to support open source in some way, or go back to developing in house. Most likely the later as it has the benefiet of retaining IP and competitive edge. What this says is that most likely open source will start to go away in the years following if corporate entities don't start sponsoring it more. Maybe some type of subscription model like academic journals, but we all know how much people like that.

Also an angle you are considering are open source projects like Spark maintained by a company (databricks) for the benefiet of being used as a sales tool. This whole class of open source exists and pulls unwitting contributors into helping out who don't realize that they are benefieting multiple layers of corporate entities not willing to pay for it. And they will not see any benefiet from it (unless they use it as a personal sales tool to get a job at those companies).
Opening a port through NAT on your own setup is pretty much the same process as doing it on any firewall. I'm not sure how the address space being fragmented changes anything in this case, the user must poke a hole somewhere somehow.
Nope, the bugfix is only $50. The other $49950 is for knowing which line to change. (adapted from old joke from https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/Percussive_Maintenance)

And in practice, it also "buys" you all of the other bug fixes and releases from helping to fund the developer. So while the bug itself might only take a day, the infrastructure around being in a position to do that takes much more time.
Keynes said it best. In the long run, we're all dead. Jobs died and his culture is already ebbing.
Majority of people near these stations don't use them. Half of them bought their houses for 2 years salary in the 70s and are now retired on a final salary pension with more money after tax and housing than people on 70k a year (or perhaps they rent out those houses and look forward to the higher income that crossrail will let them charge - in addition to the land value increase)
I agree my phrase was overly dismissive, but it was intended to be dismissive. The point isn't to deny the validity of these concepts, but rather to reject being pulled into the drama [0]. The reason that "weird nerds" generally give "geek feminists" a better reception than the "brogrammers" is because their critiques have actual merit. But on the flip side, when those critiques are leveraged into a status play against a "weird nerd", that strikes a deep chord.

As far as downvotes, there is a steady stream of upvotes as well, in a way that a simply missing the mark or being unpopular does not incur. I interpret this as "geek feminists" versus "weird nerds", with the former being more numerous these days.

It's not that the above framework justifies what RMS did, but it puts it in a measured context where it is possible to empathize with it. As opposed to the mainstream narrative which is dead-set on dehumanizing him. And if one wants to honestly consider the "real harm" in his pattern of behavior, that measured context is the only just place to do it - what I alluded to being the ultimate job of the Institute to keep "weird nerds" in check.

But we're now well past that context, and this is a lynch mob rather than justice. If I see someone being chased with torches and pitchforks, it doesn't particularly matter what they are accused of doing - my "herd alert!!" klaxon is blaring. (And yes, I do appreciate the modern luxury of being able to comfortably speak out against the herd, rather than needing to pick up a torch and blend in).

[0] I make irreverent jokes about most of the sensationalist trash in the banal "news cycle" for exactly the same reason - their only relation to me is that of abstract symbols, and they're being used to wage an emotional attack on the audience. Man bites dog? Well, I hope it tasted good.
> How is it you've made half a dozen posts in a thread about this without even bothering to read what you're commenting about?

Par for the course, ditto everybody else that did not bother to read the court transcript. It's 200+ pages but doublespaced, you can go over the whole thing in an hour or two, it makes you wonder how Epstein ever managed to avoid being jailed for a long time.

I'll bet that before this whole thing is over there will be many more 'names' that end up disgraced or worse.
Its not about how smart he should have been but if it is ever acceptable to oust someone for infringing on a societies moral compass instead of only for harming or trying to harm anyone. Because historically our shared compass has been shit and the source of quite a bit evil. Racism, sexism and slavery where at some point in time socially accepted and breaching that shared moral compass had dire consequences. Think honorkillings for sex before marriage, pinning white feathers on men to pressure them to die in the trenches of ww1, slutshaming, beeing shunned from society for being gay, having to fulfill your marital duties or face being raped and beaten, mobs forming for people using the wrong colored bathroom or having prostitutes persecuted and treated like second class citizens. Thinking back to since when your version of our shared moral compass no longer involved such deeply reprehensible parts the answer is often rather problematic. Its likely since you reached your 20 or so, since its the version of your societies compass you came up with. Now what are the chances that i just seemed to be arriving once mob justice became a good idea because we finally got the moral compass right?

I for myself think i will run less of a risk of being a staunch supporter of ethnic cleansings without knowing it if I instead stick to the rule that as long as you arent hurting anyone else, you are good to go. And no, hurt feelings from arguments dont count, or we rob our self of ever evolving our compass further. Without free speech and open discussions we are cementing the status quo. So if he wants, Stallman can be as socially incompetent and offensive as he wants. He has to live with being seen as a weirdo, but i dont think he has a problem with that.

But then again, I know that I dont know much on the topic.
Re: “owners”

You know the “owners” of Equifax are its shareholders, right? You’d end up sending a bunch of index fund managers to jail, among others.

I think you mean “officers and board members,” the people who can make day to day decisions for the company. If so, I support it. Lock! Them! Up!
There's a nice candid shot of Jeff Atwood in the article: https://imgur.com/a/EWn97o7#BulCVmq
It could be a good stable framework,
though can you put yourself in my place, say in 5 years you are called to work on your current project, some new small feature must be added or some bug needs to be fixed. So I will have to learn to work with yet another old framework that is no longer populkar and the developers that wrote the code moved to the next cool thing.

It is what it is, I will have to learn and maintain others code like I always done but it would be better if we had some stability as I mentioned, some standard web framework built in JS and browsers that most developers would use and the devs that want new and shiny could ignore that and use whatever.
I mean the embedded frame. It contains the full original emails from Stallman, not just quotes. Keep scrolling.
Disclaimer: I'm just a ingorant non-lawyer non-american.

Wouldn't a great defense here be that the NDAs shouldn't be enforced because the actions covered were criminal? I mean, isn't that standard with NDAs?
> Practically every sentence of the article is wrong including multiple errors in the title.

>> But the Columbia study differs from previous proposal in an important way: instead of building the elevator from the Earth’s surface (which is impossible with today’s technology), it would be anchored on the moon and stretch some 200,000 miles toward Earth until hitting the geostationary orbit height (about 22,236 miles above sea level), at which objects move around Earth in lockstep with the planet’s own rotation.

I see. The difference is they proposed to build their Moon space elevator on the Moon, while others have proposed building the Moon space elevator on Earth... /s

Also, obviously, even if the Lunar tether reaches the _altitude_ of geosynchronous orbit, it will not have the _velocity_ of geosynchronous orbit (it will have the angular velocity of... the Moon). Since the Moon orbits once every 30-ish days and the orbital period of a geosynchronous orbit is 1 day, an object at the end of this tether would not be in geosynchronous orbit. I'll not bother to check and see if that orbit would have an apogee above 100, or 0, km.

In other news, Wet Streets Cause Rain.
I am totally okay with them charging however much money they need to in order to be reliable. I switched recently from Crashplan over to Backblaze because Crashplan just couldn't reliably get a complete backup of my workstation. Backblaze does not seem to have any problem with that at all. This is what I want from a backup -- after all, as they say, backups are worth nothing but restores are priceless. Another dollar a month is nothing.
I can imagine if rich landowners in London had to pay for the society that gives their assets value.
No no no, in which American city does the condo prices wthin it's urban area are no less than 1 million dollars? In Beijing you have it, it's a city full of (multi) million-dollar-property owners, and the majority of them love the CCP dearly for a reason.
But for every sale there is going to be a purchaser so the tax is going to get paid whether it is the seller or purchaser paying.
Great. When do we lock up the cop who shot an innocent, unarmed man?
Get a full-time job. Build stuff in your free time. Make money until you can launch your own thing to make money.
It becomes the victims' problem when Equifax declares bankruptcy and escapes paying.
Wikipedia is saying that the 2016 round valued We at 16bn which was before Softbank invested. It was already overvalued before Softbank and the corporate governance issues were there before as well.
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C# Features: Innovations or Imitations? – Part 1 – Michael's Coding Spot
Algorithms and System Design on the technical side.
Do you think it's fair to be fired, should someone spin a social media storm against you? Do you think this dynamic becoming increasingly frequent is healthy for society?
Interesting. I guess I haven't yet gone against the opinions of the moderators so I haven't yet faced this problem.

I guess gab is the way to go. Block others from your view if you disagree, not from the platform.
They're only considered children in some backwards places. Plus as far as I understand 17 is old enough to enlist in the army in the US? Please tell me how you think it's totally ok to send "children" off to war but prostitution now that's a line you won't cross!

More to the point of this thread: since I'm arguing that there's no effective difference between a 17yo and an 18yo prostitute (much like Stallman), should my professional life be ruined as well?
Sounds like you've already done the legwork. Why won't you share how experiencing violence is drastically different between men and women.
This is good however I want to take into account savings value also. So after paying for a basic living I save the rest. Eventually I move to a very low COL place so If the rest is much more I'm better off.
> children aren't a requirement for a successful relationship.

This is a very fringe viewpoint, particularly from a historical perspective. The normal view was and is that a relationship with no children is ipso facto a failed relationship. Consider that infertility was one of just a couple of valid reasons to have a Catholic marriage annulled.
This type of life sounds like only a few steps away from a Black Mirror episode
Quite. The metropolitan railway was funded buy buying cheap land, building rail to it, then profiting from the increase in that value.

That no longer happens.
Gary Kildall – Computer Chronicles: Origins of Modern Operating Systems (CP/M)
This is annoying and should be fixed: err should be pre-declared along with the stack. := should both allow assignment without creation and NOT create shadow variables (which could still be made explicitly with var.) It would be a poor argument that var and := show where declaration happens. The := rules seem made for the clarity of the parser rather than the programmer.
Well, guess I'll wait to see how this turns out before buying the book, I wouldn't want to hand one more penny than necessary to these .gov ghouls.

If the government prevails in the lawsuit hopefully Snowden will offer an e-book for purchase with cryptocurrency.
This is correct. Everyone pretty much agrees that these areas are a symptom of a problem. Nobody agrees on what that problem even is.

Further, various factions (there are more than two) seem to believe that the problem is exacerbated by what other factions believe to be a proto-mitigation. E.g. see discussion of rent control -- some people believe that rent control keeps people out of public housing, others believe that rent control forces people into public housing, still others believe that rent control has nothing to do with it.
Future historians, this is the birth moment of another news aggregator: Crustacea.ns
With those composers, I think it depends on if you are listening to music that is intended to stand alone, or if it was originally intended to support a film work. Even there the line can get a little blurry. There is music by John Williams that is definitely on the classical concert circuit, like the Emperor Theme, but even then the form is different than what you hear in the film. I believe Zimmer has some music lifted out that stands alone. But even then, music still might only make it to Pops concerts rather than the standard repertoire. Another example, I used to listen to Elfman's original Batman soundtrack a lot - but you can tell it's much more wandering and moody than standard classical music.

But just because a piece of music is programmatic doesn't mean it's not classical. Beethoven's 6th symphony is a great example.

If you go back and watch Disney's original Fantasia, that's a good example of the difference between music that supports film, versus music that stands alone - in Fantasia's case, the film was structured to support the music.

There's definitely good classical music out there that has a pleasing "sweep" to it like film music. Maybe sometime get out the headphones, sit back, and listen to the first movement of Sibelius' 5th symphony. I like the Bernstein version most.
Ben Boba = Ben Bova + Boba Fett?
It is a hash collision. I think jef_poskanser's take was correct.
There’s so much modeling that couldn’t even be done 80 years ago. Electronic computers were in their infancy, climate science was just beginning, weather satellites (hell any artificial satellite) had not yet been launched.

The inputs, the models themselves, and the main way to compute an output had mostly not been invented.

This is a fundamentally unfair comparison. If it couldn’t be computed analytically, it wasn't really possible to compute it 80 years ago. That absolutely doesn’t mean we should just ignore these predictions. Are we supposed to always wait some arbitrary time before listening to long term prediction?
"resistance is futile"
I was wondering if they were going to try this.
Initially his blog, Joel on Software. Then his books. A big part of Stackoverflow's success was programmers already knew who Joel and Jeff were.
Tesla batteries now power Zimbabwe's top mobile money player
And the cop who shot a man who was no threat gets what? At the very, very least it's a gross failure to do his job the way he's paid to do it and his employment should be up for review.

Don't get me wrong, swatting is bad for a bunch of obvious reasons and the swatter is the one with the malicious intent here but if we had a more professional police force (you'd think the swat team, supposedly the most highly trained cops, would have a little more restraint with the trigger finger) it would end this way a lot less often. Cops showing up expecting something where there is nothing should not result in anybody dying, it should result in confused cops and little more. This is very much a two part problem. If the cops didn't have an itchy trigger finger swatting wouldn't lead to outcomes like this.
Fat, Happy, and in over Your Head
I think you need calc to deeply understand neural networks, but there's a lot of other fields that would do well to have a more formal background in statistics starting early. Pretty much most of society would benefit, IMO.
Not in the same way.

The US has had credit collapses before, and has relatively robust institutions to deal with it. Robustness that has developed through major crashes.

This is largely true of most developed economies as well.

China's credit bust will be epic - epicly bad, both for China and the rest of the world, but mostly for the Chinese people.
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> This is the Movie Pass model

It's the dumb-money backed venture model, and there are plenty of those. Many companies that are not profitable on a unit-economic basis are kept afloat by burning cash. It can't last of course, but in the meantime they can make your life quite hard if you are competing with them.
Remind me what the sentence was for the police officer in Wichita who murdered Andrew Finch?

When the police are trained to de-escalate first instead of shoot first, swatting will stop.
I love theanarchistlibrary.org.
>>timequerylog
For storing only or for data analysis as well?

Currently our postgres have something around 1 Tb which is already not so easy to play with.
classic Trump. Of course he wants to enforce the NDA...
> BTW they now teach "politics" in primary schools. The Youth are extremely patriotic and loyal to the party, they are impatient to even let you start your different opinions.

Are they "patriotic" enough to report family members to the regime as political dissenters? If so, China is really in a bad spot as that is reminiscent of Nazi Germany. At least we would have a pseudo-ironic name for the program ("Xitler Youth")
Some friends of mine were out recently with the kids. They had been riding so had helmets on, but had stopped at a playground for the kids.

One of them started walking back and went straight over a wall, landing on his head, helmet taking the blow.

Thank god people wear helmets when walking around in a children's playground!
My experience is almost all northern and western China, not south, which from what I understand entrepreneurs are much more autonomous.
I call it cultural heresy, what you may be able to say in one culture you can't necessarily say it in another and live to tell the tale. There are so many cultures nowadays, all intermingling with each other, that sometimes it's best not to say anything at all because you don't know whose listening, what power they have over your life circumstances, or truly understand the effect of your words.

With the Internet, the window of what is "allowable" is closing in, smaller and smaller. The future will only have more of the same.
What part was criminal? And how would he prove that?
Laughing. All the way to the bank.
You have a point; $15B is on the high side and I can’t defend it. But they do have a brand, which is what makes an undifferentiated service like office space valuable.

I still contend that most of the value of Uber is tied up in their brand, and I think the same is true of We. I’m not sure either of their operations are all that valuable.
Yeah, if I was a millionaire, I'd walk away.

I wanted the sign-up bonus. $800 of free money was too much to pass up in my financial situation.

This is the kind of situation where I think some regulation would help, e.g. federal law should allow me to decide which of the credit agencies they use.
What's a concrete example of a broken shortcut?

The shortcuts I use work fine, so I don't understand the complaint.
> If urban areas were more efficient than rural areas, it would be cheaper to live in an urban area.

If you subtract out the cost of the land, is it still more expensive to live in an urban area? (Honest question; I don't know the answer.)
This is not usually the case. Initial resume reviews are often done by HR, some algorithm, or at least somebody who is not who you will actually be working with on the day-to-day. It is incredibly difficult to root out all of the biases in the job application process and even automated attempts have failed[1]. It is best to avoid any opportunity for bias to even enter the system. To say that you're okay being rejected from a job due to your appearance because you wouldn't want that job anyway is defeatist and hurts the cause of those who are truly disadvantaged and would very much like to be employed.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automatio...
I would love to have someone convince me that this paper is utter rubbish, so I really appreciate your comment. I am also likely a bit annoying as I don't have a science background.

However, you said:

> We haven’t had a hypoxic atmosphere in the history of the earth since the evolution of photosynthesis (that’s a 2 Billion Year track record).

This research seems to disagree, doesn't it? [0]

> Climate change triggered by volcanic greenhouse gases is hypothesized to have caused the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history at the end of the Permian Period (~252 million years ago). Geochemical evidence provides strong support for rapid global warming and accompanying ocean oxygen (O2) loss, but a quantitative link among climate, species’ traits, and extinction is lacking. To test whether warming and O2 loss can mechanistically account for the marine mass extinction, we combined climate model simulations with an established ecophysiological framework to predict the biogeographic patterns and severity of extinction. Those predictions were confirmed by a spatially explicit analysis of the marine fossil record.

[0] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6419/eaat1327