skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, thanks, I hadn't heard about this.

http://www.spacenews.com/article/launch-report/42305next-fal...

Looks like the Bayes is strong with Musk:

> If the stage successfully lands on the platform, Musk said, it could potentially fly again. He put the odds of success at no greater than 50 percent for this particular attempt, but was more optimistic about the company’s chances of landing on the platform on a future mission.

> “There’s at least a dozen launches that will occur over the next 12 months,” Musk said. “I think it’s quite likely — probably 80 to 90 percent likely — that one of those flights will be able to land and refly.”

The scheduled date is Dec 16:

http://spacexstats.com/mission.php?launch=19
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Yeah, but that's more of problem with shell than Turing-completeness in general. You just need to design a language with a usable T-incomplete subset, like maybe name assignments and conditionals. The only problem is that it's tricky to enforce that sort of sunsetting on sh. But I don't see why your migration script couldn't just say, "sorry, your config is too weird to automatically migrate" when it sees a loop or external callout.
Can we get a source for the $100M per kilometer figure? The NYC subway system has 373 km of tunnels, 60% of which is underground, which would translate to roughly 22 billion dollars just for the digging... that just seems way too high to me.
Warning, highly simplified economics.

The basic income is a form of wealth distribution. The poorer people get a larger share of the economy at the cost of the richer people getting a smaller share.

Assuming that we have the capacity to produce enough stuff for everyone to live off of, then we could give everyone a livable wage by putting 100% of the money into the basic income.

The downside to this is that (for the most part) a basic income mucks with the incentive structure, so it results in us having a lower production capacity [0]. The hope is that our production capacity is sufficiently large that we can have a much smaller percent of money go into basic income where it is still a livable wage, but small enough that it does not shrink our total capacity significantly.

Additionally, you also have to look at how elastic the supply of basic necessities are (that is to say, how much prices increase with demand). In the USA (and probably other countries), food is highly elastic, so prices would not raise significantly. Housing is weird (because politics and zoning), but we would expect to see more low cost housing to be built to match the demand, however this would take a while to occur.

[0] At a macro level, it can be argued that a basic income could actually increase production capacity, but that is not relevant to your question.
Although in that case, if the NCA was unenforceable, a lawyer might also have fun reversing that principle and claiming tortious interference with the business relationship between the employee and the new employer/prospective employer by the former employer...
It was a lot more Orwellian in the 1950s-70s. Surveillance-wise Internet censorship and mobile devices are bringing the telesceen closer to reality these days.
Many boards have run over 1000 miles, and we have yet to replace wheels due to wear. Maintenance involves replacing bearings, and eventually wheels, but no grease port.
Sure. This is also neglecting the compressed air part of this technology (which thermodynamics might actually be quite appropriate for modelling!).
Nutrition studies will often use people as their own controls because of the significant variability between people. Nobody is willing to fund nutrition research with "perfect" studies, so researchers do what they can (especially when they are known to have hypotheses counter to the orthodox view).

On their books, I think that would be a ridiculous thing to reject people's findings for. Almost every academic has written a book at some time. Instead, we need to recognize the possibility of a bias inherent in every researcher and look to the study design, execution, and conclusions to see if they hold. Phinney and Volek are in a different class when it comes to their books and their ideas than is, say, Robert Lustig.
It is different in that it looks general purpose enough (it looks like a lot of Atom-like cores with wider SIMD units hooked up to a pool of shared memory) and in that it can run off-the-shelf software (albeit poorly).

Learning to make it run effectively may give you some insight on how to persuade your personal computer of 2024 to use all its cores and make your browsing experience better.
what the heck is an animated WebP

A drop in improvement for animated GIF: https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/faq#why_should_i_us...
We need to stop thinking of the economy in terms of individuals. Suppose that a significant percentage of people currently on welfare will use their basic income responsibly. We have all of the money we saved on them to spend on those who use it irresponsibly.
Not even close. First a 1KM tall skyscraper? Second they are talking quite a lot of weight - the skyscraper would have to be MUCH stronger.
This was a really interesting talk. Pretty high information density.

It makes sense to use divide-and-conquer rather than a first-rest pattern when doing parallel computations on sequences. But I'm curious if that pattern can be applied to other data structures as well and not just tree structures like the conc list?
Kraken Image Optimizer: https://kraken.io have a WordPress plugin, in case you're interested. It additionally optimizes GIF images.
The fact that UA is so easily spoofed makes it a really poor choice.

Client side JS for feature detection can work well, I have a simple example in the code of http://http-echo.com
Surprisingly, PC-BSD doesn't generate a ~/.xinitrc file, I had to create one. I just put that line in mine, and restarted X. Seems to be working well, I loaded up a 4K image in Firefox with no stuttering, pausing, or other noticeable problems, and it definitely slowed the system to a crawl before making the change. Thanks!
> The homeless person, say, decides to blow it all on
> hookers and blow, and is out that money in 2 days.

This is the view of the German farmer in the article. Proponents of BI will have you believe it's a very small proportion, and that most people in poverty are not there because of blow and hookers.

> Now what happens to him? He's still on the streets. Who
> will take care of him? Who will pay for his emergency
> room visits? Who will clean up after he takes a dump on
> the street? Who will provide him with food and clothes?

Whoever pays for it at the moment, who need much less money, because they theoretically have many fewer people to look after.
> That is, if say, $500/week was the basic income level, wouldn't the price of everything rise quickly to subsume that $500 almost immediately, as it moves the lower-bound from $0 to $500?

How would that happen? Alice's and Bob's grocery stores still have to compete for customers.
Can a sea ship be called a drone? I thought drones where air based. I thought that 'drone' came from the sound a robotic air vehicle makes.
Ask HN: Should I worry about having a job offer retracted?
At my school, many students are about to receive offers for summer co-op terms within the next two weeks. However, none of them have ever even considered negotiating their offers, and when I try to show them how easy it could be for them to make a couple thousand dollars extra they immediately start protesting:

"If I try to play hardball they'll just offer it to the next highest ranked student"
"In the contract it says the company can just fire you provided 2 weeks notification, especially if you start trying to change the offer"
"Most companies have large HR departments that scope out other companies' intern salaries, so it's no use negotiating anyways"
etc, etc.

So my question is: Is the fear of having a job offer retracted at all reasonable?

I'd love to hear any experiences from either side of the negotiating table!
Microsoft. Your hubris is legendary!

Feature detection DOES NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM!

The problem is poor, inconsistent, unreliable and incomplete adoption of features. Moderizr is no help here.

Unless Internet Explorer magically can be treated at the same level as modern browsers, we will have to find a way to target it. Without a clear way to do that, we have to use hacks. I hate hacks and workarounds. I hate Internet Explorer.
Isn't the point of a good UI to not get in the way? If that's the case, then whether or not it's been well-regarded might be best determined by the "meh, boring" factor, regardless of how much users/critics/etc are aware of that fact.
Does it account for performance artists sitting down in front of the bus to protest about something or other, though?
> This isn't Basic Income, this is a new way to distribute
> aid.

A way to distribute aid? As in unearned money and assets? Sounds like Basic Income to me...
I used that exact phone (well, it had a different plastic shell was called "cardphone" - no bluetooth) for a year as my main cell phone.

It worked very well, had about 3 days of battery time (given my uses). The best part is that I never forgot it, given how small it was - always there with my credit cards

Unfortunately, the headphone died after a bad fall (I could still use on speakermode).

I'll be very happy to buy a new one, especially it has bluetooth now. (if there's someone from China I would be interested, it usually sells for 3 times as much on ebay :-)
> Including the entire jQuery library just so you can have the $("id") shortcut is like driving a smartcar with spiked monster truck wheels down a freeway. It's dangerous, stupid, and completely unnecessary.

Gold.
These negative stereotypes of how impoverished people will spend their money are usually not true in practice. See the following:
https://www.givedirectly.org/pdf/litreview_2.pdf
http://www.poverty-action.org/blog/cash-or-cows
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4100
Unfortunately, I don't have the required hardware/software hooked up to
properly test this for you. It's an interesting idea for a service and
it could be useful for some people.

1.) The phrase "connectivity for the masses" is problematic in a few
ways. Nobody wants to be called "the masses" since everybody wants to
consider themselves to be special, so on a marketing/advertising level,
you should pick something better. In attempts to appeal to non-technical
users, I've often seen "for the rest of us" or similar used. Also, you
are not technically selling "connectivity" of any sort, so if a
potential customer is fluent in technical jargon, then you've just
confused them.

I realize the phrase comes from your main dropfrog.io site with your
websockets work, but on this specific product, and the intended target
market, it could be better.

2.) I would lead with the word "Securely" as in "Securely record
snapshots" on this phrase.

>"Record snapshots to the cloud using the camera on your PC, Mac, or
Android device."

You could also a/b test with leading company and/or product name, such
as "Dropfrog Snapshots securely records your snapshot pictures to the
cloud ...". Adding the word "pictures" or "images" after "snapshots"
when you're not talking about the product name should help you in
search.

3.) If you are trying to appeal to non-technical potential customers,
then avoid using technical terms like "HTML5". Both of the following
lines can easily drop the "HTML5" and still make good sense.

>"Runs HTML5 in your browser - no app or program to install. View
securely from anywhere."

>"iPod and iPad browsers do not yet support the HTML5 operations
required to take snaphosts; however snapshots can be viewed with a
current browser on these devices."

At the moment I'm tired and my hands are really sore, so thats all I can
do for the moment. If you want me to dig into it further, email me or
something (in my hn profile).
As I mentioned below, in this small-scale case BI looks like it increased production capacity. But it was really an injection of capital into a community that had almost literally no capital whatsoever. At and sometimes below mere subsistence.

Would be interesting to see it play out in a community with a higher baseline.
CalTrain is decent unless there is a breakdown or as happens on average more than once a month, someone is struck by a train. If either of those things happen, the whole system shuts down and you can easily be two hours late. I don't know how to solve the problem, but it really sucks and keeps CalTrain from being a dependable form of transportation.
If you are trying to serve a separate mobile website, you are doing it wrong (as of ~2 years ago). Responsive design is the modern standard. (I am a frontend developer)
It's called Unconditional Cash Transfers. It is BIG, except the money comes from a different country's citizens. My buddy at USAID can't stop raving about their efficacy...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditional_cash_transfer
http://www.psmag.com/science/vancouvers-free-heroin-injectio...

They gave 322 homeless street addicts free opiates, which allowed them to sort their lives out since their day to day activities weren't entirely consumed with scoring heroin. Property theft and street violence also plummeted, saving ambulance costs for overdoses, and the police and courts millions which was all in the full SALOME study as most of the addicts used property crime to fund their addictions.

I imagine BI would do the same. Instead of being on an automatic pilot mode of desperately finding money for drugs and booze everyday there would be time to reflect and maybe seek out detox.
His real tweets are even better than @BoredElonMusk's tweets (https://mobile.twitter.com/boredelonmusk)
You can ration funds like welfare programs already do for at-risk groups. For example, instead of paying $1500/month, you could do a direct deposit of $375/week or $50/day. Furthermore, a basic income is not designed to completely replace programs offered to the disabled or other special needs groups (although it would help). A basic income is designed to remove the perverse tax incentives and byzantine bureaucracy heaped on the "normal" patch-of-bad-luck group.
To be fair, there are many, many more Show HNs which wound up going nowhere.
Hide the CLI utility by running it at the end of the
'deploy' phase.
A very rare use-case (living at the top of a hill, pulling it off the charger and immediately riding downhill and braking) would result in overcharging and damaging the battery. Riders who have this use-case run the board briefly before heading downhill. In practice this extra step has not been a problem.
This is just rampant speculation - but what if they used depleted uranium as the weight? They could get paid to take the material off others hands (instead of buying lead) and it's almost 70% more dense.
Isn't that the proposed mechanism for how BI increases capacity? By injecting capital into low capital communities, you increase their ability to produce. Of course, to see if this is an actual increase in production, we would also need to look at the opportunity cost associated with taking that money in the first place.
You are very close to CSS media queries there. Perhaps there is a solution in media queries.
Anyone know if it's idempotent? What happens if you run the compression ten times consecutively on one image?
It looks as though compressed air is a key component.
yup!

this summed it for me : "However, if you just finished a game and think "Gee, that graphics engine was terrible, I'm going to make a better one," then writing your own graphics engine is perfectly fine."
I don't think that's true. Drepper was against strlcat for specific reasons. And in the meanwhile the C11 standard had adopted an alternative (but imo worse) API for it, based on the Microsoft stuff.

Framing this as a general rejection of APIs because they are from OpenBSD is highly disingenuous.
Poorly implemented features means you can't fully use them.

Building a website that has to work on Internet Explorer is like teaching.

Its like having to teach the class to the dumbest kid in the room. You can't take the dumb kid outside for extra instruction (because that would be browser targeting.. ).

Everyone has to wait, until the dumb kid gets it.
Who took care of the homeless person before?

The point is not that it will cure all societal ills, but that there are a substantial percentage of poor people who are not poor because they lack the ability to spend money wisely, but because they've been thrust into situations that are beyond their ability to solve without cash.

For starters, it is extremely expensive to be poor, to the extent where certain situations are far harder to claw yourself back out of than it is to remain out of them in the first place - but sometimes people get knocked down into that hole. Basic income provides a means to protect a lot of people from those kind of situations.

Basic income further changes the dynamics even for those who end up messing up: Aid towards those people can then focus on addressing the problems that prevent them from making proper use of the income, rather than be limited by their lack of income.

A lot of problems poor people struggle with are related: Mental health problems can trigger poverty, but poverty can also drive people far into depression and make other problems worse by virtue of making treatment difficult; physical health suffers, and reduced access to health care makes it worse; alcohol and drug problems are a frequent escape, and while they won't disappear with basic income, treating addictions without addressing the situations which contributed to driving people into addictions is vastly harder. You will not automatically solve the mental health and addiction problems, but you can reduce homelessness to predominantly a health/addiction problem (as it is in many countries with decent welfare systems, even without basic income) and leave yourself with a smaller challenge.

Consider that your argument is similar to that of the Namibian farmer in the article, who assumed that people would just spend it on alcohol. The reality is that while he was right about some people, he was also wrong about a lot of people, who were able to not only change their own situation, but contribute to further improve the situation of others (e.g. the money helped some start businesses, but also contributed to creating a market for those businesses).

It is irrelevant whether or not your hypothetical homeless person is still on the streets. The more relevant question is how many are helped off the streets or otherwise see their lives improve, and whether the improvements seen are worth the cost.
(Just answered it myself; definitely not idempotent, though on the example images I threw at it, it seemed to converge rather than multiplying artificats and devolving to noise...)
This proposes a bus line parallel to the rail line. That's kind of pointless.
You have to add the cost of the armed guards, because a big block of gold will be a nice target of a robbery.
Hilarious!

[...] Unix and C suck. C is little more than
structured assembler. Ever wonder why "bus error core dump" is the standard
C program crap out? Because C freely hands out random pointers to anyone
that asks. Slut. [...]
Deleting is not a time sensitive command anyway.

But I don't think you'd have this problem. Just like we have an inode telling every block of a file, a filesystem like that would need a similar structure telling every hash of the file. When you delete a block, you look at this structure, the same way you look at an inode.

The only thing missing is that you'll need a counter at the blocks. And this counter will create some synchronization problems that may turn out more important than saving disk space.
That's another advantage of Bus Rapid Transit over trains. It's much cheaper to run one bus than one train, and the vehicles are generally smaller, so they run more of them for the same usage, meaning you generally aren't scheduled to wait as long. Of course, things can still go wrong.

VTA's rapid bus (the 522) runs every 15 minutes at rush hour, and the non-rapid one runs every 11. Off-hours is every 20-30 for each, but that's still 2-3x as often as Caltrain.
A while back I worked a bit with the founder on parts of this. I just got an email that said they are "open" so I thought I would share.
I also do not see much basis for the opening statements, as written. Which individuals or communities are pushing the dogma that you shouldn’t write anything yourself? I’d be interested to know where Erik has met resistance when writing software specialised for his set of problems. Anecdotally, this is the opposite of my experience as a programmer.

OpenSSL and other cryptography libraries are a special case - implementing your own crypto library is almost universally accepted to be a very bad idea for what should be obvious reasons. OpenSSL is used widely because it solves a problem that is best served by a universal solution - the need for standardised protocols to secure internet communications. Of course there are alternative crypto libraries out there, but it is not a bad thing that most of us rely on a single library that really is well-suited to solve this need for crypto. We benefit much more by focusing developer resources and eyeballs on OpenSSL rather than trying to diversify for the sake of diversification.

Heartbleed is a very poor example that doesn’t support the premise of this post. It was discovered, publicly disclosed, and immediately fixed because it is open source, widely used, and has so many developer eyeballs on it. This was a positive outcome to a severe vulnerability, not a consequence of failing to diversify. Closed-source crypto libraries (or any that do not undergo the scrutiny of many developers and crypto specialists) are the domain of persistent, equally severe vulnerabilities that go undiscovered and/or undisclosed, increasing our exposure to malicious actors.
>What has never been shown is that consuming SFA raises serum SFA; instead, it's been an understood truism held in place by policy and demagoguery

See also: cholesterol.
I suspect that after the site undergoes some further improvements, its content will be made visible to those without accounts (so that you would need an account to contribute but not to read).
I really liked your RIPE talk, good job. Can I ask which tools, if any, you use for network simulations?
I feel like earlier on in your career, you have less of an ability to negotiate unless you bring something special to the table.

However, it doesn't hurt to test the waters if you have multiple offers I think - you probably don't really want to be at a company that plays hardball with you anyway, but that may be my own personal views showing here.
The top model has the best performance, but the quality of all models is equally high. There's a floor to how cheaply this technology can be built today without compromising quality and long-term reliability.
Wikipedia contributions are not averages of average people; they are written by those who choose to participate, not by a random sample of the earth's population. In some fields, Wikipedia is held in high esteem by many professionals.
I think the important factor here is the possibility of placing these things anywhere one wants. If mountains are available, I don't see why not (except maybe they would ruin the natural beauty and hence tourism...but I don't know how much impact that has). But if they are not, you can always just dig a big hole.
I don't think there's an issue with negotiating per se. The question here is what would you negotiate about, and what are your arguments for that negotiation? If you have demonstrated abilities that warrants a salary raise, I think in some places where employee performance is valued, you won't even have to ask about it. Otherwise, you better work out your line of reasoning before attempting such negotiation.