skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Under a pension plan, the person who dies early then leaves their children behind with nothing (or lost the contributions they would've deserved had they remained alive - albeit subsidizing somebody else's longer life). I don't find that fair, since a pension is part of your employment compensation, and yet you don't extract it all if you died, and thus you actually lose out.

Yes, that's the point of a pension plan. It's not a 'inheritance savings plan'. It's not intended to support your aging adult children. It's intended to support you... So that they don't have to.

What's really unfair to your children is you living to 90, and expecting your kids to support you, when they are 70, because your 401k money has run out five years ago. That's going to do wonders for their retirement prospects, no doubt.
People around the world are collectively losing faith in democratic systems
I was at least introduced to a couple dozen of the activities on that list through the scouting movement growing up. It was pretty cheap for my parents, the expenses for our trips and acrivities were raised largely through community fundraising. Of course, I have thousands of dollars of outdoor gear now, but it has been accumulated slowly but steadily over decades.
I don't think it's fair to say that "banks are not a defined concept". What has happened is that many MIDI device manufacturers have stretched and ignored the clear intent of the MIDI 1.0 specification. Reading that, it is quite obvious what the relationship of banks and program changes is. But that hasn't stopped various companies from playing games with the two (as you note) for their own purposes. Nothing will ever do that, fully.
I should mention this isn't about this one person or his project. It wasn't particularly impressive or useful to a large audience. It just got me thinking.

This is about helping people like him with early skill and clear potential develop into skilled professional developers.

It's one thing to know some programming, another entirely to be able to turn that into a career.

If you can get a decent grasp on a language and concepts, self-taught in a highly resource-constrained environment, imagine what you could do with a little support and guidance.

The whole give a man a fish versus teaching him to fish thing I guess.
It's certainly not an exaggeration:

Docker with a few idle containers will burn 100% of CPU. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58277794/diagnosing-high...

Here's the main bug on Docker for Mac consuming excessive CPU. https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/3499
I’m guessing he meant roughly ”docker build”
Outside of operating systems (Windows, Android, etc.) the only thing I can think of is Google (Chrome, Gmail, Search)
I think this is perceptive.

Along similar lines, it's not just that you can't offer expertise. It's also that you're participating in a community defined by knowledge of a particular topic. And relative to that community, you're an outsider since you don't have that knowledge. So all of your primate fears about approaching a community as an outsider kick in.

There's also generally the uncomfortable feeling of confronting your ignorance when being informed, or skilled, or intelligent is a major part of your self image.
GM? Bolt is a great car and GM has enormous production capability.

Well aware of the difference in sales figures, but having driven both, I prefer it to the Model S.

I think battery tech will end up deciding the market, though, and GM would have to pivot harder that I think they are able to in order to beat Tesla. I am very curious about their internal R&D pipeline for the Maxwell technology.
I remember using 8x8 midi interfaces to get around some of that - not just for the additional midi channels, but also to thin out the traffic for each connection. i.e. each midi channel would get it's own cable/connection.

However that approach didn't work when I wanted to send 16 channels to a single (non USB) multi instrument sound device like my trusty JV-1080. It became an excuse to buy more synths! :-)
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I warned the other account rather than banning them because, even though they've broken the site guidelines badly on more than one previous occasion, we hadn't warned them before.

We've banned your account because you've broken the site guidelines badly on many occasions and because we've asked you more than once to stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20271284

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20098782
Speaking of civil rights, any guesses as to what would happen to the average Chinese citizen that attempted any these same feats while in China and this time at PLA bases?

What if non-citizens tried?

In some of the reports that happened at the U.S. bases describe in the article, the security forces were probably well within the rights of the law to use deadly force to stop the trespassers [1]

[1] https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:50%20section:...
Drug reps in the US quit giving away pens and coffee mugs in the US in 2008, in accord with PhRMA rules (that's the drug manufacturers' association/lobby). They got to say it was improved ethics, but it was also a mutual disarmament agreement of sorts. "We'll stop giving out sticky pads if you will."
if landlords find out everyone is putting away $500/month, you can be sure rents will go up by $500/month
I'm not strongly opposed, but I was pretty nervous about the mosquito trials, and I thought (perhaps wrongly) that mosquitoes were a really special case and we weren't going to start doing this all the time for every single insect pest.

The argument for doing heavy population control on mosquitoes is at least backed up by a number of scientists who doubt mosquitoes play any substantial roles in their ecosystems. Have we drawn the same conclusions about diamondback moths? Are they at least an invasive species or something?

I remain conscious of the fact that I am not an expert in these areas, but I also remain very nervous about genetic engineering trials in the wild. The fact that we're now doing this for agricultural purposes and not just to stop malaria rings a lot of alarm bells for me, but I don't know enough about this subject to clearly articulate why it makes me so nervous.

I can't credibly claim that my aversion to actively editing genes in wild animals isn't just an internalization of cultural norms from movies like Frankenstein. But the alarm bells are still there for me. Is there a timeline of other insects this company is looking at? Is it just mosquitoes and moths, or is there a X year plan to start targeting other pests?
Building a chat app without notifications is a good way to get exactly zero users.
> Under a pension plan, the person who dies early then leaves their children behind with nothing

Someone doesn't understand survivors benefits.
Wow, I'm glad that the rest of the country isn't following the Illinois example. I remember when the Google art institute released the "what classic painting do you look like", it was banned from use in Illinois, I guess this law is why.
Business insider doesn't know what a meme is? People are probably just trying to find images and not remembering which beer. My ad hoc guess isn't worse than theirs at any rate.
He was reprimanded by the SEC: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-226
Blog articles are not competitive, the pie is simply bigger for everyone on the more popular subjects .

If you look at HN, you will see articles about javascript popping up almost every day. They all get tens of thousands of views, they're not competing for readership.

If you're considering a niche subject instead, the article would not get enough upvotes to reach the frontpage, and it wouldn't get any views at all. There might be hundreds of people aware of that topic (and thousands who would be curious enough to read if it were front page) but it doesn't have enough audience to reach a critical mass of upvotes, so it simply doesn't exist.

P.S. The Youtube comparison is misplaced IMO. Writing books (blog articles) is trivial in comparison to making Hollywood videos (Youtube).
I am not, alas.

I enjoyed college more than school because I specialized in more things that I was better at, whereas school moved way too slowly in the things that interested me (I was the kind of guy who bunked off school and did math problems from the textbook in the woods) and forced me to attend things I deeply disliked, to this day. And besides all that, the degree to which I "fitted in" was mediocre; it was no social picnic.

My 30s were much better than my 20s, and 20s better than my teens; though some of my fondest memories are of the ages 10~14, outside school not in it, reading books and following my programming interests divorced of curriculum. I'm hoping the rest of my 40s are a similar step up from my 30s; and we've got a baby boy on the way in a couple of weeks. We'll see.
‪Whoa. This is really in-depth. Lots of data!‬

‪And best of all: a checklist of actions (ranked by efficacy).‬
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Just my 2c, and this is more based on my experience academically, almost no-one figures things out that nobody else can. Innovation is largely a combination of circumstance and timing. Some ideas just have their time. Having unrealistic expectations around this is part of the problem (AHL went in thinking they could just hire a bunch of "boffins"...but they are all average, they just have PHds or whatever).

I don't think it is only knowing what you don't know either. That is a component but people from academia are rarely overconfident, the opposite is usually true (they tend to react badly under pressure). These people have a "circle of competence", they know what they don't know...but they don't really have anything else. All these places are churning massive resources into education, into human capital...is that working? It clearly works in some places and not others. I am just very cautious of the "know what you don't know" argument because it tends towards thinking everyone should be specialists...and I don't think the world works that way.
As someone with very little background (but a lot of interest) in space tech, could you share a little about what results that growth in launch rate will have?
Much younger children had jobs too, working in the fields and such. That's why schools have the summer break - gotta put that child labor to good use.
Nest is testing detecting HVAC problems with AI
You expected a page entitled "iOS 13's Music App Sucks" to be objective, of all things?
No ISP actually allocates enough upstream and peering connections for every customer to use their connections at full speed at the same time, just as no cellphone provider build their network out so every customer can be on the phone at the same time.

In both setups, there are multiple levels of bottlenecks. The bottom line is that a properly configured network makes sure they can cover their usual peak usage easily, and has enough spare capacity that special events don't impact much of the customer base, and those it impact it doesn't do so much.

Consider that ISPs that offer gigabit speeds can't easily put in individual (or even paired) networking equipment that can serve thousands of people at that speed, because such equipment doesn't exist or is far too expensive to be using all over the place in the network. What you really see is that 100 people on gigabit circuits during peak usage (likely Netflix prime time in the evening) will use less than even a fiftieth or h undredth of their allocated capacity (unless you're steaming 4k all the time, and then you'll probably use about a fortieth of a gigabit sustained). As usage goes up, ISPs allocate more resources and shift traffic around to make sure they can supply for the demand. If done well, you don't ever notice.

You can also see this in highways and freeways. No highway is build to serve all the possible people that could use it at the same time, it's built to service what the number of people expected to use it in a specific time period is. This is also a good idea of what it's like when planning fails, as these works require a long lead time and a lot of accurate forecasting that's hard, so you often see vastly under-provisioned systems, and even by the time they upgrade them, they are sometimes already under-provisioned at the new size (or the time until it's under-provisioned is relatively short).
But does he like the guy? :)
FB: Lets face it, were here to make money. It was cost effective to settle and move on.
Oh but it does
> Some random source here has 4.13 ms for New York - Chicago

I (sitting in the Bay Area, at home, with Sonic fiber) am getting 5.122ms RTT ping times to MIT's CSAIL server. That's way further than NY-CHI.

Edit: oops, I forgot basic physics. 1ms =~ 300km. It should take at least ~10ms each way. I must be hitting a CDN.
Tears and cheers as EU lawmakers give final nod to Brexit
There doesn't seem to be support for signing in this.
How they use their dashboard spreadsheet reminded me quite a bit of the kanban flow I've seen in most projects I've worked on. So I wasn't shocked to read that at least one of their editors uses trello to manage his stories.
This author and many in the comments seem to have their bits and bytes mixed up.
I confirmed I was able to install lxml from a wheel and parse a web page with it.
The hit you are taking seems larger than it should be. Have you tried different speedtest severs?
Try using software to switch the mode of Wicked Game by Chris Isaak. Modes that should be "happier" in music theory end up sounding even sadder.
I do this fairly often with an Algo vpn. Sometimes the initial connection setup suffers, but there can be a gain from adblocking if you use PiHole.

I’ve had to turn it off a few times when some apps do geo-ip lookup and give me errors about not knowing whether I’m in the US. Otherwise the main drawback is battery usage.
> It's not standard at all. There is absolutely no MIDI standard for the contents of a patch. I really don't know what you're thinking of.

I think you may have misread what I had said. I didn't say that patches had to be the same format or content -- that would be insane.
lol at getting downvoted by asking for evidence that a highly paid technology worker who browses hacker news represents "the average" and isn't just an outlier.

Do the people on this site understand that they are not the average? A lot of the hackernewses seem to enjoy the idea of being an outlier in medicine, knowledge, etc. but reject the rather more likely idea that they're an outlier with regards to their usage of technology and internet.
Pax Americana
Datetimes are still a mess. Now we have 3 datetime objects and converting between them is not obvious or trivial:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/uiXQd.png
That's an interesting idea.

I should have been more clear, it's not really about this one individual. I'd like to see people with potential supported towards a career. It can be hard to do without guidance.

Helping people from poverty to a good career can have a huge knock on effect to families and communities and societies.

The repo in question wasn't amazing in an absolute context. It was amazing given this person doesn't own a computer and struggles to eat. Time spent looking for food is time that can't be spent learning.

I don't actually have the link at the moment. But there must be millions of people with technical aptitude but without the support and means to grow that into a career.
Ah, yes, sure...missed that. I had assumed it was all VPN.
Purely Functional 3D in Typed Racket – Neil Toronto [YouTube]
This is a reductive argument and does not hold up to both social and legal norms.

Making data publicly accessible does not grant users of it carte blanche to use it however they wish. The data may be copyrighted: Viewing it does not grant the viewer rights to republish it or claim it as their own work. An image may contain a likeness: Viewing it does not grant the viewer rights to claim endorsement by that individual, or to use their likeness in ways of which the individual does not approve.

Beyond copyright and likeness rights, a likeness contains biometric information. Having access to that likeness, at least by the laws of the State of Illinois, does not grant the user rights to biometrics derived from that image.
Why do you prefer the Bolt?

From my perspective the Bolt is:
-Ugly
-Less safe
-Slower
-Doesn't drive itself, or will be capable in the future

Worst of all the Bolt's infotainment system is horrible.

https://www.chevrolet.com/content/dam/chevrolet/na/us/englis...
In the US Military a lot of the finance, personnel action and evaluations are all e-signed. This requires your CAC (I'd card with embedded crypto) and your PIN. You insert the card into a reader and then type your pin. Document is then e-signed.
University of Michigan Showcases New AI Ethics Center
Sorry - I moved away around that time!
Every large company is juggling multiple lawsuits at any given time. So, yes.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was more of a trend on the demographic that commits that type of crime too...
I like that pandas 1.0 took “Int64” out of trial mode.

It wasn’t functionally very different from everything being a float, but I will appreciate not having to format floats as ints in all my reports.
Satellaview
It's phasing out in America too, usually only when tipping on the signed receipt anymore (though some of those are even moving to pre-swipe w/o signiture). It's mostly getting the word out to smaller businesses that the credit card companies no longer care about signatures and for older POS machines to be updated.
I understand the renter dilemma. The goal would be to propel you towards home ownership. If taxes were higher on investment properties purchase prices would get pushed down, thereby reducing the amount your landlord would need to charge for rent. Rent will go up with inflation regardless, since landlords optimize for profit. But all of a sudden there is less of a difference between what rent costs and a mortgage payment. it is easier to jump out of the renter's cycle. And that means less demand and lower rents for those who remain, creating a virtuous cycle. In the medium term (5 years plus) this would keep rents flat or lower, and reduce housing prices at the same time. At the same time there is a basic philosophy I espouse that all people have a right to a home and a piece of land, and unless absolutely necessary to society, they should not be renting from the government.

I agree that there need to be several other programs in place to support lower income individuals, including in respect to primary residences, but that is an expanded conversation in a election year ;).
As a point of comparison with the UK's forthcoming Hinkley C reactor they negotiated "£92.50/MWh (in 2012 prices) which will be adjusted (linked to inflation)" which comes to about US$135 per MWh just now. That is on the high side for nuclear but still illustrates that it can cost a fair bit.
Except if I want to lower my power bills
> It's both ironic and unfortunate that often those people who make a living creating software seem to be the most averse to paying for software.

That's probably true with most if not all professions. I imagine car mechanics are also adverse to sending their car to a mechanic, for example.
The logo for Mullen is incredibly similar to Tesla's.

Also, Supercharger v3 goes up to 250kW
So these same people couldn’t spend $300 on a used 2014 Mac Mini but could buy a PC?
That's arguable. Considering a shop, SEO is getting people to enter the shop and conversion is getting people to buy something.

SEO does stand on its own really. There are no sales without visitors. On the other hand if you have visitors you can try to sell them something, anything really.

Ironically the internet is all about advertising and eye balls. With the author speaking of a million visitors a month, he can certainly monetize in many ways.
Any pet owner understands this at a fundamental level.

It's nice that there are folks out there working to quantify this.

I wonder if this will lean towards a bunch of cow-specific moos or towards some more or less universal cow expressions.
The concept of "democracy" in this survey isn't defined well. This poll seems to more accurately reflect that across the world, people within certain democratic systems are losing faith in their own governments—not with the idea democracy.
I believe (not that I know more than anyone else) it's because their own money is invested in the Medallion fund (and not the other funds).
Ah, same! I'm also relieved to hopefully never again have to say: "whoops I converted nan into a very large integer".
Did you expect them to fall on a sword and commit seppuku? Obviously they did the most cost effective measure. Why try to snidely vilify them for acting according to the law in payment for their illegal acts? Vilify them for the illegal and unethical acts. Settling a lawsuit is neither of those and is a core part of our legal process.
Yeah sure, but that isn't their fault really. I can see a role for python's datetime being separate from numpy/pandas, but I do think a consolidated datetime object would be better to have rather than the numpy and pandas versions that are similar but not the same.
Is spyder still super slow? I gave it up back in 2018 because of the (perceived) performance problems.
Apple absolutely nails the generalist and prosumer space but leaves me baffled by their posturing towards industry adoption.

As a JAMF swilling AASP, I've lost my patience at the slaverers (it's always the webdevs) and share my opinion freely that the "Pro" in MacWhatever Pro means "an accessory for someone who considers themself a professional", not "professional-grade equipment".

I consider it part of a healthy aspirational realignment. Some move on, others try to prove me wrong. Both end up closer to their enlightenment.

Although, all it would take to flip me on iPads is something like Chromebook's Crouton, and I'd lifecycle every MacBook Air with an iPad Pro 2nd Gen and offer them in place of MacBook Pros. They're almost amazing, and it just hurts that there's either no support or no feature parity with the major creative and engineering software we license.

iPads are top notch for media and productivity, but the platform's niche utility is way outclassed by its own hardware and other products more common in industry.
I have like this:

Mac Virtualbox runs linux with host only network vbox0.

Docker runs in vbox linux. (now it gets ugly)

Vbox linux brctl's docker0 (set to match vbox0 ip space) into vbox0.

Docker container is reachable by IP from mac host. All is fast and good.
> There's a large amount of housing which is purchased and is sitting empty

is that really true? I keep hearing people who can't find rental properties to rent, or have huge waiting lists.

I suspect that perhaps renters' is a market that has a price expectation, which is not met when the property prices are so high. The "normal" rent is about 5% (p.a.) of the property's market value. However, as bank interest rates dropped, property valuations skyrockets, and rent income cannot keep up. This would lead to landlords who sees tenants as a PITA to just not rent out (saves on any potential damages, low/zero utilities etc, not to mention no inspection, agent fees and other misc).
Of course they would. There are plenty of developers who view recognition in lieu of compensation as a valuable trade for this labor.
Yes, they're called personal rights and are protected in sone jurisdictions. A Frenchman who was taking a leak in his own front yard when the Google Streetview car passed and photographed him sued G to erase his image.
That is physically impossible (min RTT is ~40 ms[1]). You are probably hitting a CDN.

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=San+Francisco+to+Bosto...