skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean? Does anyone believe that a given scientific theory explains exactly and totally a phenomenon? If they do, that's their problem. Science doesn't claim to have perfect answers.
Until we find Laplace's demon, the best we can say is "theory A is better supported by evidence than theory B". If we have nothing better than A, is there any reason not to treat it as true?
Boeing Truck Drivers Show Off the Art of Lugging Aviation Equipment
The engine in question did have a DEF system though...
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Amazon's video streaming apps are pretty bad across most platforms, iOS excluded. It's extremely slow on the Xbox One and their search for some reason is absolutely awful.
A good chunk of that is that Go, by design, makes nearly all changes breaking (as you covered pretty well). I doubt they did so intentionally, but they seem to focus their decisions on small-ish scale projects at the expense of large / longer-term ones, and this is the natural consequence.

I think the focus here makes sense, and improves lots of useful things in practice (which is why they do it - Go focuses on pragmatism), I just don't really like it. Every non-side-project I've worked on has chafed under weaknesses that Go seems to embrace, because the code has had to survive and grow for a couple years. It's a sizable step up from Python tho.

As far as ways out of this mess... not sure. A lot of the problems are solved by "hit it until it compiles", which is a good thing, and often implies automated code-rewriting tools are possible. The rest (adding methods -> you may collide with an interface which you didn't before) can probably be detected so you at least have your potential-problems enumerated. There are some fairly sophisticated tools out there for doing both of these, e.g. https://github.com/facebook/codemod , and it'd be great to see more language-communities embrace (and improve) them IMO.

If you manage to limit most of your changes to "can be automatically changed / detected", you have a fair bit more freedom. With Go's limitations... maybe enough? I'd have to read and think a lot harder to figure out if there would be too many things that fall into those gaps.
How is locating of the other end done? Do you have a DHT for this? LAN discovery? Or are we basically relying on your server to stay online?

Not a lot of notes about internals like this on the site - as an end-user developer it looks very good, so I'm sure someone will use it, but as a small time operations guy I worry about it.
Another way is to simply use the ground. Dig trenches, lay in pipe. The ground is cooler than the air in summer, can warmer in winter. I read that using it as a heat exchanger can cut HVAC bills by 30%.
PRX.co is hiring ML & full-stack engineers in SF to fix the broken PR industry
> The classes were of very poor quality - it was clear that they were a low priority for most faculty.

I took a master's in aerospace engineering at a top tier school and I wonder if this is the norm for grad engineering courses, and for many lower-level undergrad courses as well (think massive freshman calculus lectures). To calibrate what you consider "poor quality," how did you find the quality of your undergrad engineering courses?
Exactly. The market leader can still innovate; just don't force it on the large body of existing users before you've proven it with early adopters and given plenty of lead time for a transition, or the volume of complaints will drown out the excited interest from those early adopters.

For example, consider what Mozilla did when they first came out with Firefox. They didn't replace the main Mozilla browser; they built a new browser and offered it as an alternative. It took a long time for everyone to switch over, and that's completely OK.
Started doing more cardio, what are the unexpected side effects
Here's my concept design for what I want in a new Mac Pro: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/reviews/hardware/mac-pro-2g-revi...
It's crazy how big of a difference the various Roku apps have in terms of quality. Amazon Video and Shudder (two I have used recently) were lacking in so many ways compared to the polish that Netflix has.

I was watching Goliath last weekend on Amazon Video via the Roku player, and 6 minutes prior to the ending of an episode, they dim the screen to start a countdown of playing the next episode. While Netflix has had some hiccups in cutting off some cold opens of some shows, it's vastly better and consistent in behaviour.
You should have used that time to invent the technology that you knew about for 20+ years.
I use it to, it's nice and clear.

They nearly collapsed under the load a few years back when Google cut GR, nearly shutting down. But now it's solid, and they seems to have got financial backing.

There are few limitations (100 feeds max) with a free account, but for me, it's enough.
That's just like if the NAME "alchemy" had been kept and continued to be used for what we now call "chemistry". Changing the name helped the bullshit die away. If it were all "alchemy" we'd have some advanced chemists but also some people continuing the bullshit and asserting that alchemy is legitimate. It's quite unfortunate to keep the name "theology" for the practice of the anthropology of religion or the history of religion.
Volvo creates a car sharing unit
You've stumbled upon one of the most profound spiritual questions there is.
https://reddit.com/r/SyrianCivilWar

Takes a lot of lurking to really be able to _really_ read what's happening, but I honestly think that this sub is quite possibly the best war reporting of all time.

The sub has even been publishing its own high-quality journal/magazine, "The Week In Review", ex: http://imgur.com/gallery/SdsG2
San Antonio: Google Fiber on Hold
That was just answering a common bad argument in advance.

I wrote it INSIDE "()", AS AN EDIT. since that was the only thing you could comment on, sad...

EDIT: I used a ":-)" three comments ago as a mark of irony. Well, justin66 have no serious answer, so I end it here.

Edit 2: Justin66 seems to downvote my comments in this old discussion now, with multiple accounts... 15+ downvotes on old and new comments in 20 minutes. That is what happens when people lack both a serious argument and maturity. (Easy to find for HN mods..)

Edit 3: detaro -- The karma is irrelevant. And I should be equally ashamed as justin66 for needling whai I hope is a teenager when he have dearly held wrong opinions. Enough.
peek: an iOS app for creating and sharing places and events
if they failed they still had their lands and titles.
I'd love to see a cost breakdown of a modern car, especially Tesla.

Car is say 100k, how much of the componentry is the cost of the wiring harness, nervous system and screen?
The elements that make up sodium hydroxide are plentiful, so it would not be hard to increase production.
>If Amazon is undercutting them

That's the actually important question. If Amazon is convincing people that delivery service is worth paying a premium for, that's a new product/service that the economy is producing and employing people for, and is itself economic growth. If Amazon is instead more efficient and competing on price, then they're only freeing up the ability for the displaced to do productive economic work elsewhere in the economy.
I've been expecting revelations like this. If the other manufacturers were legit in these measures I would have expected them to e.g. run full page ads poking fun at VW to curry favour. They've been curiously silent.
How's taking a calculated risk an irrational behavior? By your definition rational behavior would require perfect knowledge about the future, a goal forever beyond those of us mere mortals.
I don't work in that group, but I'll forward this link over. Thanks for the note and sorry for the bad experience.
Peter Thiel believes the ‘age of Apple is over’
At one level all loans are "income based repayment programs" as they depend on income of the recipient to repay. But I don't think it is the "program" that is the problem.

If you step back and take in the wider view, you can see there is a business model for enslaving people without enough money. It works like this, you offer to give them money for something they want, even though they can't really afford it, and then you can add penalties and interest to garnish their future income until they die.

This is the business model of payday loans, you offer a loan until pay day, but they never have enough money so you "roll over" the loan and you're always owed interest. You create a situation where not only will the person never be able to pay you back you can milk them for anywhere from 5 - 50% of any money they manage to acquire. You have effectively enslaved them.

That was the same model used in the sub-prime mortgage crisis except there are two problems with sub-prime mortgages, one was they are usually no-recourse so you can just hand over the keys to the house and "pay them off" and they are dischargable in bankruptcy while the primary residence is protected.

So these leeches have turned to student "loans." Not dischargable in bankruptcy, you pay until you die. Check. At risk population that feels they have to have a college degree? Check. A set of 'for profit' schools willing to set aside any sort of moral principle so that they can transfer money to themselves? Check.

The predatory lenders stepped right into that ideal environment and have been convincing people left and right that things will be so much better and all they need is "education" and its easily within reach because they can "finance it."
pg has no reason to fear for the impact of "contrarian ideas" like fascism. His person is secure for life. Nobody has threatened his way of life, and he knows nobody can credibly threaten his way of life.

Lost lives may be merely wasted time if you take a maximally macro view of humanity. That detachment is likely comforting if you can pull it off. Me, personally though... I'm a social human being and I care about - even love - other human beings, and their lives represent far more to me than that.
I usually find these types of new green technology to be impractical, and obviously not going anywhere (store energy by dragging a train uphill for example).

But this actually looks like it would work!
That's comparing Apples to Oranges. More like Apples to Cars.

The US spends more as a % of it's GDP and more $/capita than any nation on earth on higher education - and sends a considerably larger share of it's population to college than most other nations, certainly any European nations where college is free.

The % of young people going to college has increased dramatically from 1950 to 2016.

And FYI - if you join the Army today, you can still get your education subsidized :)

'Raw' dollars debt doesn't help us understand the picture that much, moreover, if everyone in America started going advanced degrees, that would also increase student debt, but that would be a good thing, no?

Americans are on the whole much wealthier, and the opportunity that young people have today vis-a-vis 1950 is so much that it's basically unthinkable back in the 1950's.

That said, it's not so good for working class people without jobs, and little job stability.
Usually I see "greater or equals to" written as >=

Anyways, why shouldn't founders/hackers reach for such heights? But if I didn't know Paul Graham's background, I wouldn't assume that's what this essay infers. Rather, the essay doesn't say anything directly about startups.

I'm curious what's scummy about them to you?
I agree. One would hope that when this research-level technology reaches the market, they can effectively isolate and contain the NaOH, and have some solid safeguards against malfunctions.

On the optimistic side, we've mostly succeeded in doing that for other volatile things like gas tanks in cars and lithium batteries in electronics.

On the pessimistic side, the failure modes can be very catastrophic! I'd definitely want to know what failsafe mechanisms are in place to prevent my house from blowing up before I'd consider using it.
Plus, the 50% recharge rate indicates that the medium would need to be replaced every couple of years.
At the hardware level, the author of BSNES recently wrote up an excellent rant on sources of latency in modern machines https://byuu.org/articles/latency/

But, most of what you are talking about is software latency. At 1/30th of a second each, software pipelining systems seem cheap individually but pile up very quickly. Hit a button, read the button, react in AI, react in animation, react in physics, react in graphics, process in the GPU, process in the display device. These can easily add up to 5/30ths of a second with poorly planned software. In the middle of all that, the animation and audio has aesthetic requirements for smooth transitions that can insert a 1/2 second lag in the middle of that process. Now we're up to 20/30ths.

Regarding animations: I've been in convos with managers requesting character animations to be "Smoother, but more poppy!" because of the conflicting needs of aesthetics and control latency. The best compromise I've found is to design a smooth transition, but have the underlying representation pop and the visuals skip immediately to mid-way through the animation.
Religious faith from certain perspectives is something like: choosing to believe despite being unable to comprehend with your rational mind. That's the basic core of the inquiry, you start from there and see what happens.
See reductionism: https://xkcd.com/1734/
For automotive scandals like e.g this one and Dieselgate it's always surprising how much outrage people muster.

If an automaker sells N cars exceeding some emissions limit by 100%, people get out the pitchforks.

But if that same automaker sells 2N conforming cars, it's widely heralded as a Good Thing.

However, to a first approximation, the environmental impact is equivalent in each case (or arguably worse in the latter case, because of increased energy and materials consumption).
I got 3 backpacks.

One large one which I bought for Scouting almost 25 years ago. It still works. I don't know what brand it is. It cost about 150 EUR.

I got two smaller ones. Both can easily hold a 2-3 kg MBP, and a lot more. Ones an Eastpak with lifelong warranty. It cost nearly 100 EUR. Another ones a ThinkPad backpad from around 2007 or so, also cost similar price. Both are awesome. The only disadvantage the ThinkPad one has, it screams 'I contain a laptop' ie. 'rob me!' My gf uses the ThinkPad one.

I bought an e-reader raecently cause I CBA to carry large books around anymore.
The US economy did far better in the 1980's than it has in the last 10 years (average of ~3% per year). Employment was 5.3% in 1988.

US GDP growth from 1980 to 1988[1]:

1980: 9.62%

1981: 9.69%

1982: 3.79%

1983: 11.4%

1984: 9.62%

1985: 7.37%

1986: 4.86%

1987: 7.57%

1988: 7.76%

[1] http://www.multpl.com/us-gdp-growth-rate/table/by-year
Nice work, keep it up and thanks for sharing!
Bullfrogs serve as a model for biomedical research
Why being nice can be the difference between success and failure
@gallamine are these positions still open?
What you're saying here seems to be backing up what Scott Adams is saying. I'm not saying you're an irrational person, but your arguments against him seem to be completely irrational, based on word associations rather than arguments. He says men often avoid arguing with women over gender equality issues for the same reasons they avoid arguing with children or the mentally handicapped, because they see the process of argument as counterproductive, and he specifically says that he's not equating the groups in any way, only the reasons for avoiding arguments with the different groups.

If you were thinking in terms of word associations and analogies, this disclaimer wouldn't matter because it's the association of words that's important, not the argument itself. And here you're ignoring the argument and focusing on word associations which he explains clearly are not his point. I see people making this kind of argument all the time, and it makes using analogies in any way other than emotional association usually pointless because someone will always find a way to focus on their emotional response to the words rather than the arguments. Doesn't this perfectly illustrate his point?

It seems like he was manipulating people into having this kind of negative reaction to prove his point that people don't focus on arguments.
Exceeding the speed limit is illegal, but I understand what you're saying.
Companies don't make money off of performance.
Disproportionate growth in housing costs and the impossibility of opting for 1929 healthcare are other factors making it difficult for the average person to afford a 1929 lifestyle on part time work in most developed countries, even if they're happy with cycling and gramophones.
I don't think it matters - you are getting your heat from ambient air.
"The top tax bracket in the 50s was at 90%, for starters. It all really goes back to tax policy."

The 1% do not earn their income in salary, they earn it in capital gains.

What matters is 'actual tax receipts' not necessarily the brackets.

The fact you quoted is effectively correct, but it's a common 'internet meme distortion'.

Aside from a 'blip' due to WW2, US Government share of GDP has been increasing over time, since the dawn of the Republic, not decreasing - meaning that there has been consistently more socialization of services and industry - not less.
Well, sometimes is not much that it's poor code but a lot of data to render. For example, imagine rendering a form with 100 elements. If it takes 0.1 second to render that on a average computer, you can make that 0.01 by rendering it on the server instead.
I think you misread the article, that figure is the concentration diluted with water.
Nice work, but it looks like it's transitioning from a small circular garbage can to a rectangular garbage can. The original aluminum Mac Pro shrunken down would have been the ideal design IMO.
"Physics seems to us a promising thing to work on, and alchemy and theology obvious wastes of time."

I'm not sure which "us" pg is referring to, but the essay gives me the impression that he meant something like "most people" (I could be reading him wrong, but that was my impression). Alchemy is obviously a waste of time -- I won't dispute that, and I suspect that "most people" would agree with that assertion.

Being that pg is an atheist, I would expect him to personally believe that the study of theology is a waste of time. However, even just taking Christian theology into account, given that over 100 million Bibles are sold or given away in the world every year (https://www.reference.com/world-view/many-copies-bible-sold-...), and the Bible continues to be "the most widely distributed and best-selling book in the world.", the "us" for which it is true that the study of theology is "crazy" or a "waste of time" seems to me to be much smaller group of people than the essay seems to imply.

Again, this is just the impression I got from reading the essay. I would be happy to have pg respond and let me know if my impression was incorrect.

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Where to begin? Land stolen through genocide and worked by slaves? Mass incarceration? Instigation of coups in foreign governments to ensure lower consumer costs and higher profits at home? Unaccountable drone strikes of innocent people in several countries, including countries we aren't at war with like Yemen?

Our society is very sick. It has been for a long time.
Why do you say it isn't a market? You have buyers (people who borrow) and lenders (people who lend). Just because the gov't is the biggest lender doesn't mean supply and demand aren't important.

If you make it easier to borrow money for education, then there is less pressure to keep education costs down.
I'd argue we're still working for hours rather than accomplishments.

I spent a few years self-employed, I would bid a money cost for an accomplishment based on how many hours it would require. If my bid was accepted, I was then immediately motivated to find a more efficient approach so I had more of both time and money.

Every iteration of that approach improved my ability to accomplish tasks in smaller amounts of time.
To understand the technical approach to the solution this is a good resource - https://github.com/google/key-transparency/blob/master/docs/...

This is also useful for understanding some of the core differences between CONIKS and Key Transparency - https://github.com/google/key-transparency/blob/master/docs/...
My bad -- I forgot that Google was also in the shared hosting business. What is a useful dividing line between "Google" and "Alphabet"?
Yeah, at home I pull several terabytes a month over LTE. I can't imagine that doing this while abroad would pan out too well.
I pointed out that this guy failed to properly attribute the work, and he blocked me on Medium.

What a piece of work.
We're still alive, received our first silicon back in October, and will have news coming out soon.
I really don't like that argument because it assumes your program is important enough to be the only one running on your user's machines; it rarely ever is.

Everything easily wastes 90% of the CPU resources it touches and the task manager is completely oblivious to it, happily reporting high usage. When you have 20+ tabs open and 10+ apps all those "its fast enough" apps combine to create their own variant of hell.

And that isn't even a big workload. Its no wonders computers have increased many orders of magnitude in performance over the last decade, yet user experiences are still generally mediocre.
I'm going to disagree with the "or merit" part. For two reasons - the first being related to theology itself, and the other related to another field which is sometimes classified as being without scientific rigor - philosophy.

One merit of theology is the study of religious traditions and whether or not they should continue or be discouraged for various reasons, as an example.

Not only scientific pursuits have merit. I'm not sure if that's what you were trying to imply with your combination of statements, but it's possible to infer that from your choice of words.
This is a curious statement given that both this and the VW violations pertain to diesel-powered vehicles, not gasoline ones (hybrid or not).
> Again, off-network exchanges still require the network to verify,

I'm referring to totally off-network exchanges. Most people (sadly) are happy to own bitcoin via an intermediary. They wouldn't notice this attack at all.

And the exchanges, settling 10,000+ bitcoins at once, could easily pay any plausible transaction fees, so nothing would even grind to a halt.

The attack would prevent me using the local Bitcoin vending machines for $4 purchases, but wouldn't impact the overall settlement of large amounts.

> I'm really not sure what you're getting at with "elements of surprise".

You say people would migrate off Bitcoin because of the attacks. But really, people would detect and analyze the attack and recognize the intent. They'd make informed decisions in how to respond, given that an adversary of this class wouldn't be likely to give up with only one currency destroyed.

> You do need to prove that pink unicorns exist by giving examples, rather than describing it.

The only reason to believe that all sidechains must scale badly is one unsourced claim of yours, based presumably on your examination of a subset of the ones that exist. If you care to present a broad proof that the entire concept is impossible, go for it.