skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably the only more impactful thing a person can do is not have biological kids (although admittedly the impact of an individual's veganism and child-free-ness is such a minuscule drop in the bucket that it's essentially pointless).

Since most people aren't willing to accept the importance of not having kids, it might make sense to donate money to people considering adoption or organizations trying to make it easier for people to adopt.
People should seriously consider Keybase with it's non-required use of a phone number and strong encryption in every chat. I'm not in any way affiliated with them but I just don't like Telegram suggested with it's unaudited homebrewn crypto and Russian roots.
> giving people with no life experience, exposure to failure or real life dynamics will end badly

By that measure no one could ever become an adult.

Exposure to failure and real life dynamics is exactly what people with no life experience need. At least that's the only way they will gain life experience.

> millennial fantasy

At least millenials are dreaming about a better society and trying to fight for it.

What are you doing besides spitting out unprovoked hate towards a whole generation of people?
Dynamic alignment. I like it.
We shouldn't worry about finding the talent who can work as researchers, first we should worry about finding the talent who can reliably work as modern farmers or in factories. That is what Africa is missing before it can take the next step towards becoming a modern society.
As a well-travelled Aussie who married a brit with the archetypal dry British humour and pessimism, I'm surprised that I missed it.
> • Focus on margin expansion vs. growth. We has a differentiated product in the marketplace, and should command a premium.

Hm, what exactly does WeWork do that is so unique? Sounds like a regular real estate company except they are targeted towards tech startups.
Isn't there only a handful of hedge funds that have posted profits every year of operation?
I bet a lot of people have learned about life and being human from Harry Potter as well

(I haven't read it)
> The state will soon roll out a new, $100 million voting system which Raffensperger said will have a new iPad-based check-in system, which they can track and delete data remotely if they get stolen.

Will they be able to delete votes for a wrong candidate remotely too?
I’ve stayed in Yurts like this in the Sawtooth range of Idaho in February with night time temps of -10F. They fare well when there is a wood fire going, and better if there is a solar/battery ceiling fan to circulate the rising warm air.

In the summer direct sunlight can warm them considerably, but if well placed in shaded areas then the temperature is well moderated. Some units have a vent in the oculus at the top for use in the summer.

There is zero mildew if platformed well and clad properly with water protective barriers.
If I had that amount of money I would try to build an army of humanoid robots. However I think the end result won't be much more useful than an animatronic manequin. AGI doesn't exist so even a simple feature like "bring out the trash" would be a million dollar project by itself.
OK, that rules out my second point then. Still the first applies. I don't find it terribly surprising that $5k could break someone's back. Plenty of folks seem to run at maximum possible credit. Others will no doubt be able to take it on the chin.

Never heard of it being the leading cause of US bankruptcy btw. My distinctly European perspective is it's problematic it's a possible cause at all.
He would have stolen ideas from Syrians
That's because that's what it is.
Physical and Functional Compartmentalization of Archaeal Chromosomes
Capital is so trapped up that people don't even have the capital to take care of basic needs.
Thats how biomedical research funding works. Its not pretty, thousands of unambitious tiny studies , tons of overlap, millions dead mice , but progress is slow
You may want to refreshen your knowledge regarding South Africa in its apartheid days. I would confidently posit that Elon was more privileged than your average American at that time. Of course he may want/ has created a different picture of his young days.
>My solution is: take a piece of the federal budget and give $1-3MM to anyone with a far fetched idea that has a prototype to back it up. No long processes. If 30K -mostly students- a year get a mill to develop their thing, I suspect we would find ourselves way into the future in just a decade. And that’s just $30-90B/y

Ideas require good execution to be off any value and money doesn't buy that. Look at all the Kickstarters which over-funded and failed because the people running them had no ideas about manufacturing, finances, physics, engineering, etc.
Good businessmen all have more failed businesses that successful ones. There is zero shame for failing a buisness, although quite a bit for fumbling your personal finances.
I agree. A lot of people would just secretly buy real estate or some other investment instead of actually doing the work.
A robot made of robots: Emergent transport and control of a smarticle ensemble
Jenkins: One Year Later
> That is your opinion.

Since when did stealing = unethical become an opinion?
Cortuption is one of the biggest differentiating factors between successful/unsuccessful countries
How do you teach a preschool kid reason?
You tried all social media? They have facebook, instagram, pinterest, linkedin, and twitter on the website, though they all seem to be dormant as well (no activity in at least 6 months)
Readings in Database Systems
http://www.redbook.io/
The opportunity is there. It's always there. It may not be an opportunity to immediately become the president of an international corporation, but it's an opportunity to improve your life and life of your future generations.

Give your children education. Make sure they grow up in a full family. Move to a better place. All these small things add up. You won't become a millionaire this way, but your grandkids may.
Last few decades? You do know that includes the dot com boom that was filled with tech companies doing early IPOs with basically nothing to show?

Also, the only reason early IPOs aren’t popular anymore is because capital is so easy to get from VCs, despite what you’re suggesting. The difference is that you want money without a business plan or a plan to grow, which is not how private, nor public, money should be squandered.
Context. There are lots of pumpkins out there, but a pumpkin would be a weird logo for a Linux distribution named Kiss. Lots of people have electric stoves, but an electric stove would be a weird logo for a Linux distribution. There are also lots of men with great bodies, but a nude male torso would also be a weird logo for a Linux distribution. The only reason you are not very surprised by a half-dressed woman is that half-dressed women are so ubiquitous in our media.

This logo has nothing to do with Linux, nor with kissing (you can't even see lips because the face is cut off to put the cleavage in the focus). It's only about transporting and reinforcing the idea that one of the main roles of women in society is to be something pretty for men to look at. Always, everywhere, without any context. Oh, and you know what's prettier that a nerdy woman with glasses and a hoodie? A woman wearing a bikini! Because we can.
> the number of people in blue states moving to red states.

Blue states losing the "best and brightest" to red states would tend to reduce disparity, which is not what actually seems to be happening. If blue-to-red migration drives increasing disparity, it means that the loss to the blue state is less than the gain to the red state. Either those migrants became less productive in the process, or they were a net drag all along. Was that the point you meant to make?
Denmark has high oil and gas reserves, which partly is why their debt-to-gdp is so low. Why would they benefit in green energy infrastructure?
If there really has been fraud at this scale, and nobody at the Vision fund noticed or cared, the issue is not one of solvency.
Impressive coordination of public bureaucracies & state owned enterprises.
Upcycling 101 Right from the Start
Because Chrome is the fastest browser[] and Google services are usually the best.

[]Perhaps that will change once they nerf ad blockers.
Black-led VC firms suffer from investors’ racial bias, Stanford study shows
Perhaps worth noting that the U.S. government already has a grant program with approximately this budget range. Pell grants give money to students who need money.

Is it possible that Pell grants already provide more economic return than is possible with a far-fetched-idea plan for a small number of people? Pell grants do help enable education for millions, and as we see in the article & study, education is absolutely correlated with innovation.

I am curious how you propose to vet far fetched ideas in a short amount of time? 30K startups is a lot to review, even if the cycle was continuous and spread out over the year. And far-fetched ideas are difficult to rank and fund. Whether this program works, I imagine, would depend on lot on whether the vetting process reliably allowed in far fetched ideas with real potential and kept out far fetched ideas that have no potential, as well as people who aren’t likely to bring the far fetched idea to fruition.
No it’s he opposites! It increasing the pool of money and deflates its value. You are effectively encouraged to take out large loans.
From everything that I have seen, any software architecture modeling model that relegates dynamic behavior to a 'supplementary' status is suboptimal. One of the ways that waterfall fails is that the architects come up with an imposing, apparently comprehensive static structure that overlooks various issues that arise when it is put in motion. These points of contention often do not become apparent until one is trying to integrate the parts into a coherent system.

Software design is always an interation between static and dynamic matters -- use informs structure, and structure informs use.
Somewhat similar, depending on what you might want: https://github.com/cea-hpc/sshproxy
Muffler and catalytic converter thefts were one of the reasons the New York City Fleet purchased more EVs:

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dcas/downloads/pdf/fleet/NYC-Fle...
The yurt manufacturer's website has snow loads available on it. I didn't take the time to figure out exactly what model was being used here, but they've definitely done the calculations and have upgrades available for higher snow load areas.
Screen Art: Wargames (2010)
At least the subsidies to fossil fuel companies are designed to spur production, and lower importation - remember the oil embargo? From a macro economic policy, it reduces money leaving the US to pay for oil. Had we not provided the handouts to spur production, would the US have had more money flowing out than the cost of the subsidies? (Global warming aside) The subsidies seem like smart macro economic policy, smart geo political policy, smart military policy. That being said, as long as the US is a net importer of oil, the subsidies make sense. The US is no longer a net importer and the fossil fuel subsidies should be re-evaluated. Notice that if the US were still a net importer of fossil fuels, then the same macro economic policy justifying fossil fuel subsidies could be applied to electric cars (a car is expected to have a service life of 200,000 miles, on average getting 25mpg, requiring 8000 gallons of fuel. Those 8000 gallons required importation of 190 barrels of oil (yes I know you don’t get perfect conversion of crude oil to gasoline - I’m just too lazy to look it up), at $60/barrel = $11,400). Using this logic, a subsidy of <$11,400 per electric car made sense even if the cars were made in Japan or Korea. Each electric car resulted in US not importing $11,400 of oil from a country we were previously extorted by. But now that the US is a net oil producer, the equation isn’t as strong. Yes, an electric car prevents the US from consuming those 190 barrels domestically and provides for greater exports, but we are no longer economically dependent upon the other oil producers. The macro economic policy that should result in lower fossil fuel subsidies should also result in lower electric car subsidies. Of course Hubbert’s Peak does still apply to individual wells (and it will again even after fracking) and the US could slip into a net importer again. Electric cars shelter the US from the shock of a future oil embargoes and subsidies should remain (even above the 200,000 limit per auto manufacturer) until Electric cars are competitive without subsidies (I’m taking Carolla class, not BMW 7-Series).

Now, how does wind and solar have the same geo political benefit? We can always burn coal or build nukes. Subsidies to those industries are dependent upon the assumption of investing to prevent climate change. It doesn’t have an immediate economic benefit to me. As much as I believe in climate change, I expect the worst impact in my lifetime is a higher AC bill. Without children, why would I care?
Apple neutered ad blockers in Safari, and users didn't say a thing
Apprently I'm a millenial so I'm more than happy to use the moniker .

> spitting out unprovoked hate towards a whole generation of people?

Care to cite the basis of your assertion?
Very few societies promote Self-actualization in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs
> A handful of far-fetched ideas have added more economic value to the world than every diploma combined.

If you really believe this, it is shocking to me. It is almost impossible to overstate how incredibly wrong this is. This is probably the single most false yet honestly put forward statement I've read on HN.

The fact that anyone believes this shows both how much a slice of society lives in a complete echo-chamber and also how woefully unaware many people are about the actual causes of societal technological progress.
This was a really striking sentence:

> We've witnessed a halving of journalists since 2008, while the number of corporate communications execs has tripled. In sum, the ratio of bullshit/spin to watchdogs has increased sixfold.

I personally know half a dozen former journalists that recently moved over to PR, but I hadn't realized had much of a sea change it's been over the last decade.
The Milky Way Has Giant Bubbles at Its Center
Had Anal Sex
It’s odd that you use a government-funded program as an example of US liberty and poor economic resources failing. Isn’t SpaceX a shining counter example in the fact that it is successful without involuntary taxation as its entire operating budget?
I would live to see this. But are there any indications that this is actually happening?
There are £1,000,000 [0] and £100,000,000 [1] bank notes issued by the Bank of England, used to back the value of Scottish and Northern Irish pound.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_England_%C2%A31,000,00...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_England_%C2%A3100,000,...
That's interesting. Here in Russia voter list is not publicly available. As a voter you can only check whether your own information is recorded correctly, and if you are an observer then you can examine (but cannot copy) voters list before election day.
"high reserves" that according to Denmarks government after 2032 will not be able to cover Denmarks own oil consumption and likely be exhausted before 2050.

Every barrel of oil they don't use now either delays that or brings them money to invest, and using the income now to prep for later seems like a sane strategy.
> And if interest rates are negative doesn't that mean that there is lots of room to adjust them?

No, because the economy has already adapted to these low interest rates. All the money that was put into high-risk instruments at relatively low yields will be desperate to move into these "low risk" bonds, which causes a huge selloff, which will be especially disastrous to those who bought in on margin.

Furthermore, those entities that have gotten used to financing old debt with ever cheaper new debt will have trouble finding new affordable debt.

> It strikes me that the problem is that the tools to fight deflation are inadequate.

What deflation? You mean the "deflation" of CPI staying below 2%? What about asset price inflation?

> How much growth and prosperity has been sacrificed to avoid the threat of inflation that never arose?

What real economic growth has been achieved by this unprecedented money-creation spree? Rising prices do not equal prosperity.

What about Japan, or the Eurozone? They have even lower interest rates and they're once again stagnating. You really believe if money was even cheaper, even more growth could be achieved?

We do have massive asset price inflation. We also have significant service-sector and rent price inflation. The CPI is only stable because productivity improvements have kept prices at bay for many consumer goods:

https://perspectives.pictet.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/U...

However, many of these consumer goods aren't made in the US. The dollar has been strong because, globally speaking, interest rates on it are high. If the US went back to QE and zero-interest, you could easily see a 25% drop in the value of the dollar, which immediately shows up as inflation for imported goods.
"...number of people in blue states moving to red states." Citation needed. If you live in one of those blue areas, it sure doesn't seem like it. More people just keep showing up.
Chips are built in layers, with the actual transistors being in the (lower) base layers and the wiring being the (upper) metal layers. The metal layers themselves form a stack with layers with thin wires at the bottom and layers with very wide wires at the top. These wide wires are used because they have less resistance and therefore allow faster and longer-range data transmission across the chip. They are wide enough that EUV won't be used there for a long time (if ever).
Most of the west is not corrupt. You have to visit eastern europe, latin america, middle east and east asia to experience it

The solution is not throwing more free money in public coffers. It definitively exacerbated corruption in greece for example
The situation is, on one side, concentrations of wealth that are too large to invest in anything that captures a positive return; and on the other side, an endless list of things that desperately need investment but cannot capture returns to the individual investor, such as decarbonisation and healthcare.

Negative rates are the market signalling that it's time for a wealth tax. Although these are tricky to implement because wealth can be moved very easily.
tl;dr: An author (and, not an especially good one) is willfully irresponsible in spending her large publishing advance, and blames absolutely everyone except herself.
Full list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
It's not clear that low standards actually are in the long term interest of the universities because it devalues the degree.

Thus it is important to expose this corruption far and wide so that people, e.g. employers, can be aware.
Pell grants force the spending to be allocated to universities.

Leaving aside how laughably wastefully the universities spend that money, disconnecting the borrower from the spender of funds is a massive anti-pattern.

Awareness of and discretion over spending is an extraordinary effective forcing function.
> A debugger gives you the state of the entire program, and one point in time.

That’s only if you’re only using the most basic features. A good debugger lets you run dynamic analysis and introspection at the level that static log statements cannot allow.
UML - I know next to nothing about UML - but what I do know is the language was invented first and then people came around and tried to give semantics to the language. Well, in other words what that means is that the language was invented first and it really didn't mean anything. And then, later on, people came around to try to figure out what it meant. Well, that's not the way to design a specification language. The importance of a specification language is to specify something precisely, and therefore what you write - the specification you write - has to have a precise, rigorous meaning. - Leslie Lamport

UML: a language that was invented first and then people came around to try to get semantics. - Leslie Lamport

UML: fuzzy pictures of boxes and arrows. - Leslie Lamport

People use UML, things like UML, to model programs, but it's not clear how to translate them in to sequences of states, for concurrency. If you cannot translate them in to sequences of states, it means you don't understand them, and it may mean that there's nothing there. You know, there are lots of people selling snake-oil, drawing boxes and arrows that make you feel good, but ultimately have no real meaning. If something is really meaningful you should be able to express it in mathematics. - Leslie Lamport

UML - Unnecessary Management Lingo. - @iamdevloper

... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
Why are you happy for having to pay for an inferior product? If you believe 1Blocker is superior or extensions shouldn't use the now disallowed API, why didn't you use it before? Or if you don't care about this at all, why are you even commenting about this thing which people express their feelings about? Your apathy doesn't make their arguments invalid.
I find most universities to be borderline scams. The ones I deem not a scam, don't draw any benefit from that.

I explained in another reply what I mean by far fetched products, which can be valued mathematically
Always funny to see people find a link to the developing nations so we can marvel at their poverty.

Then we cut ties to said villages pushing them further into poverty so we no longer have to watch.

We have a whole industry around cutting the ties, making up catch phrases like 'resource curse' to justify it.

For now I am happy to see something good has come from the ultra rich finding ways to spend there money on, creating jobs for those who desperately need them.

Good little 20 min doco on mica mines in India used for makeup - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeR-h9C2fgc
Databases:

Your choice of Autonomous Transaction Processing or Autonomous Data Warehouse. 2 databases total, each with 1 OCPU and 20 GB storage.

Compute:

2 virtual machines with 1/8 OCPU and 1 GB memory each.

Storage:

2 Block Volumes, 100 GB total. 10 GB Object Storage. 10 GB Archive Storage.

Additional Services:

Load Balancer, 1 instance, 10 Mbps bandwidth. Monitoring, 500 million ingestion datapoints, 1 billion retrieval datapoints. Notifications, 1 million delivery options per month, 1,000 emails sent per month. Outbound Data Transfer, 10 TB per month.

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/#always-free
Old books now seem to be broken to me. You can't do anything
with them except read (linearly)

At times this is a plus too. While reading online many a times I get distracted by some reference and go tangential looking for more details on that than moving on with the book.
It depends, [CAM succulents](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crassulacean_acid_metabolism) do their gas exchange at night, and then close their stomata and do the photosynthesis during the day. It's a dry-climate adaptation, to lose less water in the process of exchanging the previous day's O2 for fresh CO2.
>One day the chickens will come home to roost.

Will they though?
The rotating disk is only there to replenish and renew the oil surface on which the electron beam is drawing the image. The speed of disk rotation has no effect on the latency.

It does have an effect on persistence of the image, but my understanding is that the disk was slow enough that movement was negligible compared to how fast the oil deformations faded.

Eidophor has practically zero latency, same as a CRT - whatever the electron beam draws is immediately visible.