skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zuckerberg seems like a good guy, he clearly has some very strong philanthropic ideas about how he will spend his vast fortune, and he seems to be trying to navigate the strange property laws of Hawaii in the right way. Having said that, it kind of pains me to see one of our millennial altruistic thought-leaders already fully engaged in such wealth and property consolidation. $100M, multi-hundred acre estate in a place he may spend a couple weeks per year? It doesn't give me a lot of confidence for the future of our species, sadly.

This is not a popular opinion, but the more I see where the world is going, the more I would be encouraged by seeing aggressive taxation or forced charity/redistribution from the bulk of inheritance. Our system of capitalism needs some serious brakes if we want it to be sustainable in the long-term.
I realize this is super unpopular as an opinion, but why is it always a given that everyone should be able to live everywhere? What's inherently wrong with high rent in San Francisco?

I'm sure we can talk about lots of bad reasons why rent is high, but the mere fact of high rent isn't itself bad, right? Why do we need to reform?
Funny how my geometry teacher back in high school didn't offer that up as a means of completing any of the proofs we had to do. It would have made finishing my homework so much faster.
The other problem is how do you create the moratorium? If it's related to "how you used to do business", new companies would quickly wipe out old companies. If its by industry, new industries could wipe out old ones not because they're more efficient at their core - but because they are allowed to automate whereas other ones aren't.

There just isn't a realistic mechanism to enforce this sort of rule.
I think calling people traversing the property tresspasser is part of the problem.
Thanks for the feedback. We didn't want to be misleading though since we actually run several of Nat Geo's domains in Europe through Bonnier. They own the licenses to them in that particular region. Here's a piece that explains their relationship: http://en.bonnierpublications.com/national-geographic-0
Interesting. I bought a top-end 4k set a few months back, and I'm not even sure if it supports 3D, but I think it does -- it seems like it was basically 'standard' on anything high-end enough. I could look into picking up a set of glasses, but then I'd probably need a new player -- my PS3 might not support 3D, and then maybe I have to worry about HDCP because I don't have the latest 2.2 HDMI receiver. Or maybe they're just interlaced 1080p/30 frames.
I'm hoping that things like the Rust Language Server and it's integration into some of the IDE's out there will help with the initial learning curve; already the rustc error output is a million times better than when I started with it.

I definitely share your concern; for me, Rust was like putting on a glove perfectly shaped for my hand. It works and prevents every basic pattern that it took 10 years to learn and start applying to all my code thereafter. If I had Rust all those years ago, it would have saved me a ton of time... but I probably would have turned my nose up at it, b/c I wouldn't have had the experience to understand what it was saving me from.

So yes, I want the learning curve to be lower, but not at the expense of losing all of the safety it brings to developing fast and reliable software.
Improving Convolutional Networks via Attention Transfer
I agree, I recently moved from Seattle to the suburbs. It's nice to be able to go places and get groceries without it being a production that takes a bunch of planning.
One polyfill less for custom elements
Shopify x WooCommerce = the perfect combination
I agree with him about GDB.
After quickly scanning https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/variants.html, isn't the same thing accomplished by GADTs?
There's more than one anecdote from actors talking about directors saying things along the lines of "Guess it's time to do that m'f'ing 'Wooo 3D' shot they're demanding I put in"
Nice work. Excited to give it a spin in prod
>> those jobs are never coming back
> Does it make anyone else sad to hear this?

I think that to associate automation with what is ultimately a shrinkage of the GdP is a serious, although easy, misrepresantation. Those jobs are lost, but money is saved for a part of the population, which will spend it, and ultimately create a demand for new jobs. So it's not just "jobs lost".

Now this transition of course happens in the long term, and that's the problem, but it's different from interpreting automation as net loss.

edit: turns out there is a name for this, which is the "Lump of labour fallacy"; of course, as written, the transition does represent a problem.
The difference in cost between building a $1000/mo apartment and a $3000/mo apartment is negligible to the builder. Stainless steel appliances, hardwood floors, granite countertops, etc are practically free compared to the cost of the land and erecting the basic structure. If you have a chance to substantially increase your future revenue with minimal additional cost, how could you not?

Add to that, most of these projects are going to be financed by debt of some sort, and lenders are not going to be keen on seeing that you could pursue a higher profit margin and choose not to.
@jaan - you may want to check your article - it sounds interesting, but the "plotting" (?) thing you used apparently exceeded the free tier?
Construction costs for housing are pretty non-negligible in these cities, I spent a few hours reading about the situation in NYC; this article (based on a private report) puts average costs in Manhattan of $400-600 per square foot: https://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/nycs-construction-cr...

I couldn't figure out if this included the cost of land, but I saw other estimates put the hard construction cost (i.e. not including insurance, etc) at ~$330/sqft in NYC (not just Manhattan).

With those sorts of prices, it's clear why people are building luxury condos.

I spent some time looking at prefab construction costs for sky scrapers to see if they could be part of the solution, and in NYC they were targeting cost reductions in the 20% range (even with union concessions), but ended with huge cost overruns and ended construction at ~60% of the planned height.

So, I'm all for building more housing, it's really the only thing that can fundamentally fix things, but it sounds like we need to get better at building cheaper housing.

A lot of that might end up as making people want to spread out, by building more transit (which also needs to get cheaper) or convincing people that they should spread out and build their own communities; they don't have to look like the suburbs, Brooklyn certainly doesn't.
This is Kauai, Hawaii. The land doesn't need to be "improved", it's already perfect as-is. It doesn't need investment, it just needs to be left alone for the locals to enjoy and for nature.

If you want to "improve" some land, go buy some ugly desert land in the LA area or something. Or better yet buy up some urban land filled with dilapidated buildings and bulldoze it and build something newer and better.
The math isn't the same on the actual rigs, though. The article says half as many rigs with a quarter as many people per rig to get the same amount of oil. So yeah, if we get to $60 or the heady days (I live in Houston) of $110 a barrel it'll add jobs again.

It won't add jobs the way it used to. About 7/8 of the people who would've received calls in the next upswing won't if the numbers in the article hold.
I found them after Parse shut down. I tested them out with a small meeting for coffee app and found it to work very well. After the recent add of custom logic via AWS Lambda, I am using them to build a larger travel app.
Another area where there's a glut of highly paid and semi-skilled workers is web developers. Whee!
My experience using environment variables as recommended above has been positive. I currently maintain a Clojure web app (a REST server really) and have found that maintaining configuration options, like a keystore and keystore password, in environment variables is really nice. Having the exact same code base in dev, test, and production with separate configs specific to the environment simplifies dev life.

The one issue that has popped up here with the env var approach is that our system administrators are not used to the idea and this creates friction when deploying new apps or updated certs.
They can adopt Python 3 and drop Python 2 without adding this link which encourages a convention of /usr/bin/env python for Python 3 on their platform, creating unnecessary incompatibility with other platforms.

As you said, it's old news now, and not the end of the world. But I'm hoping others don't follow.
This resembles largely my experience at a Montessori school (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education).

While there were "grades" (they had to to be compliant with the Mexican education system), grades were bundled into clusters, so a room would have grades 1-3, another 4-6.

For each room, there would be one teacher, whose main goal was to guide the students (in fact we called them "guides", not teachers).

Skills and knowledge were containerized and were part of a dependency tree. There were several different areas (biology, math, linguistics, etc) and in each you were expected to reach a certain level at the end of your 6th grade, but you were otherwise free to explore subjects at your own pace and in the direction of your preference.

This resulted in kids specializing in certain areas, a certain level of competition and pride in your expertise, and an early grasp of what you liked.

Overall, I think the result was very positive, and the most visible difference, at least when I left the Montessori school to a new traditional-style classroom, was that I felt that Montessori kids had a certain genuine love for learning and sharing knowledge, whereas most of my new peers felt that learning was a chore imposed on them. Obviously this is one anecdote, and would love to hear more cases.
relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/top/
The charcoal-black material sometimes used for office chair upholstery is a very good IR absorber, and those things are not visible to a SICK LIDAR.

That's why you want to profile the road from a high LIDAR. It's not just about sensing obstacles. It's about building a height map of the environment. This was more important in the DARPA Grand Challenge, where we had to drive off-road. Potholes and rocks were to be expected. There are visual illusions for both vision and LIDAR, but few of them present the appearance of a flat road.
Yes that is exactly what I'd like but I'd like something that's grown past just type checking. There are many more bugs that I know can be caught by a theorem prover.

Edit: I want to clarify. I think just type checking should be written as "Just type checking".
Except 4k was out before you could buy devices that supported HDCP 2.2. I still have no idea if I'll have to buy a new receiver if I ever decide to buy a 4k media player. The answer seems to be "yes, but no" which I think means today's 4k media does not require HDCP2.2 but at some point 4k media WILL require HDCP2.2 which means the receiver I bought in 2016 will not be able to show 4k content on the TV I bought in 2016.

OTOH, the apps built into my TV stream 4k all day every day.
Thanks! Really appreciate the support. Feel free to test drive the service and let us know what you think.
The birth of Fermilab
You can file Issue/PR here: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxreboot.github.io
The problem with WebTorrent right now is interop with regular bittorrent clients. As it is, a desktop client cannot seed to a WebTorrent client. greatly reducing the usefulness of it. Hopefully this can be solved.
A nitpick, but local Hawaiians are not, generally speaking, extremely poor. They are, for the most part, fairly typical Americans. They and other long term locals face the same problems that locals in all desirable areas face: outsiders coming in with money and driving up prices.
That has nothing to do with the culture of the place. If I invite you into my home, and ask you to take off your shoes, it doesn't matter whether or not I'm white, black, or reptilian. Please take off your shoes.
I previously worked in print design, web design, content management, and photography. I’d been paid to write, design, take photos, develop, teach, edit, manage projects and people, launch publications, improve content quality, and grow audiences. I was a user of the website I now work for before I was an employee. I was hired to run content but I was interested in every part of the organization and found myself speaking up about design and product while being a fierce defender of the user’s perspective. Product management is my dream job that I never even knew existed. It allows me to leverage my seemingly total mess of random skills in a focused and productive way. It presses all the right buttons in my brain and I love the challenges it brings me every day.

Product managers should have the following skills:
1. A strong grasp of the industry they operate in on a macro and micro level. What has been done? What hasn’t? Where is the industry going? What do we need to do to keep up with the competition? What can we do that blows past what anyone else is doing?
2. The ability to speak as a user or potential user. Do you actually use the product? Can you put yourself in a place to experience the same struggles and frustrations and your users? Can you see the perspectives of those who are currently unwilling to adopt your product? Can you wrangle all of this into a product roadmap optimized for maximum impact?
3. The ability to speak the language and gain the respect of everyone on the project team. Can you speak from a place of authority to a group of designers and developers looking for leadership? Can you spot holes in the user flows presented by your designers, understand the technical hurdles that your developers are telling you stand in the way of success, and call out product copy that feels off brand all at once as requests and problems come at you from every angle?
4. Above all: the ability to make decisions when no one else can or will. Product management is about decision making. When everyone has opposing ideas, when the data is inconclusive and doesn’t give you the magical clear path forward you hoped for, when everyone looks to you for what to do next, can you lead the way? When there’s no clear answer, can you set up the framework and tests necessary to get to one? When your organization can’t make decisions, it can’t build a coherent strategy, it can’t make bets on the future, and it can’t solve big problems. Can you take on that responsibility?
Sadly the media still likes to portray Houston as a town where everyone wears cowboy hats and that oil comes out of the ground Jed Clampett style.

Literally all of my surrounding neighbors are mechanical engineers for oilfield service companies and the common thing we've talked about recently IS automation. However the reality isn't robots but better engineering/process that lets a part run 50x as long with a greater prediction for need of replacement.

You don't have to keep 100 hands on a drilling site for the peak demand if you can effectively schedule.
If I remember correctly, the system design interview at Google is for software engineers candidates of all levels, not only the more senior ones. I was definitely asked one of these problems when I interviewed as a newgrad.
The obvious counter to this is to not use solar panels and LEDs, and just pipe the light with pure optics--mirrors, prisms, light-pipes, etc. Split off the green light for some other use, and direct the rest onto the plants. When the sun isn't shining, feed the optics system with a large, efficient plasma lamp.

Of course, you still need to occupy surface area to collect the free solar light, but you don't need to do it over fertile soil. And you're still going to have efficiency losses, no matter what. The primary benefit of growing indoors is not in the lighting, though. It's in the other factors, like water conservation, pest management, climate control, and pollination control.
Glad to hear it. Appreciate any and all feedback after you've checked it out!
Having a car and using a car two different things. I live in a city and own a car, but bike almost everywhere I go.
There's a GitHub icon in the upper-right corner which is visible on every page on the site.
How about first "Concept of signing up for a web host with unlimited bandwidth"?
It is true post scarcity in that Humans invented benevolent artificial intelligence they deemed sentient called "minds".

Minds can build robots to go mine asteroids light years away and come back through (duh) hyperspace. I meant the original comment quite literally.

Also, it is a really freaking good series if you like Sci-fi that tries to answer philosophy questions, which this series does a wonderful job of.
There's no real demand for new rigs right now. In the downturn, though, the rig and rig equipment companies are making more labor-efficient rigs and equipment. So when new rigs come online, they won't raise labor demand the way new rigs used to.
Please no. Regulations should exist for safety and dealing with externalities. Regulating sound-proofing is neither of those and would expand government overreach without enough benefit.
Old Netscape/Firefox builds used to start with the Profile creation/selection screen by default (which is the -ProfileManager CLI option that remains today) and someone can correct me if I am wrong, but the consensus seemed to be that it confused people more than it helped them.

The majority of people already separate family members with different user accounts on the machine or mostly just don't seem to care.

This seems to be the interesting UX compromise that the new "Container Tabs" is trying to meet "where they live": the users that could use some of the advantages of profiles without the full overhead of using multiple profiles. It will be interesting to see if the compromise is picked up by average users.

(Fwiw, I've used multiple profiles in Firefox off and on for decades but have yet to find a relative I'd recommend that to.)
You're missing the point that the framework of exclusive ownership is not universally applicable. Try applying your reasoning to eg administration of the atmosphere.

The same type of colonization is happening to our information environment via the imposition of "imaginary property".
What you really need is a sensible process that isn't administered by those subject to it. Else you have all the tenured faculty sitting in a circle, handing an easy job to the person on their right, and all the hard work that's left is dropped onto the untenured faculty. Or you have senior tenured faculty in their mid-50s dumb as nuts (because when they entered working life anyone with a pulse could find a nice job in industry) holding back junior faculty and progress in general, for fear that their achievements would throw shade on them. You can't rely on a sense of duty and community, that train left the US when Reagan came in.

The citation problem you already have. In a previous workplace the materials science people would push for a publication count. Of course they would! In that field the bar for a viable publication is much lower than in the life sciences.
I still see this, particularly when it would be awkward to create a new symbol: "when the discriminant is ≤ 1". I feel that Halmos [1] wouldn't have liked it, but it does lessen the distance between what is written and the equation the reader will want to have in his mind.

[1] http://www.math.washington.edu/~lind/Resources/Halmos.pdf
What you fail to mention is that it worked. Seriously, busing students and reintegrating schools worked.

This is a good starting point:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/562/...

And the only people that didn't want this were the racist parents of students of upper-middle class schools:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXSU1GvuLPs

It's actually quite embarrassing to watch.
Universal Legal Aid Experiment
Not true, think about a place where we are capable of building proper Dyson Spheres... Most "Culture series" humanoids (they're genetically modified for health reasons) live on very large artificial planets called Orbitals:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_(The_Culture)
> Since there are no current ways that driverless cars can give social signals to people, beyond inching forward to indicate that they want to go, how will they indicate to a person that they have seen them and it safe to cross in front of the car at a stop sign?

There is no reason that autonomous vehicles can't give other rudimentary social signals in ways similar to drivers that can't see each other by using their headlights, turn signals, emitting short 'beeps' from their horn, and so on.

For that matter, autonomous vehicles can be given greater range of expression by adding a 100^2 pixel RGB LED display or similar behind the windshield or on the hood that can display emojis, or by actually giving them the ability to speak (KITT-style): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-UqF5ElduY
> Many schools let people into physics who don't know algebra

Where? At least in the 90s, my experience being in VA, GA, and NV, this is not an accurate statement. Algebra was a prerequisite for Physics in high school.

> School curriculum structured more like an RPG skill tree.

This is already, partially, the way things are, or at least used to be, experiences with different states may vary. Curriculums include prerequisites for courses. You can't take Calculus without trig and/or pre-calc, which require algebra II and geometry.

If a school permits students into courses that they aren't qualified for, the school has failed the student and should be called out for it. Hell, I wasn't permitted to take courses I was qualified for because of moving between states and differences in course descriptions/names (until my parents pressured the school).
But it make for cheap heating at least.
Bingo.

The user ultimately needs to retain control. And I'm especially interested in the exception for audio - that really should be user-controllable, otherwise it just encourages annoying page authors to be even more annoying.
I wonder why ...
Hank Green, of vlogbrothers fame, came up with "2D" glasses. http://www.2d-glasses.com/

Instead of different polarisation in each lens, like normal 3D glasses, it just uses identical polarisation in both lenses.
1. KeePass has an option to allow entering the master password on a [secure desktop][1].

2. You usually don't type passwords into the password management app, you generate them.

But yes, generally it's best if you don't get your computer infected with malware in the first place. Obviously if your computer is compromised there'll always be some way for sufficiently advanced malware to steal your password database.

[1]: http://keepass.info/help/kb/sec_desk.html
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They would probably complain if there were 50 different tools (each of which taking only weeks to learn) all promising to solve the same problems in different ways, and each largely excluding the other 49.
Exactly.

Also, this new board is a bit too expensive IMO.
Hacking the DJI Phantom 3
Good. Now make a car that people want to buy. Feature X is meaningless if your product sucks.
Where its placement seems as bizarre as in the anecdote about Reagan playing it for an Austrian official mentioned in the article. Unless the makers are implying that Edelweiss is a genuine folksong in the "High Castle" universe.
* 80% of machine learning is software engineering. If you're a strong software engineer, with some good math foundations (calculus, probability, matrix algebra), you can make significant contributions.

Do you have some examples of this? I'd love to have a look at some real world ones.