skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait but if we discourage further development in the flood plains, we just have existing property owners a huge gift because their property values soar.

Texas says it wants less government. The people there keep joking about independence (I'm talking sincere middle aged wasp men, not some edgy teen). Personally, I think the federal government should be involved in the immediate disaster relief and that's about it. No tax discount for buying a new car, new house, renovation, nothing. No federal money for reconstruction. Let Texas state government ask for the money it needs.
This is closely related to the "paradox of tolerance" by Karl Popper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

(whose TL;DR is "Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance." )

Of course, it raises the question of who's to say what/who should be "not-tolerated".
> Dude is 64 years old, and was never seen using a computer.

Putin became acting president of Russian Federation on New Years Eve 1999. In months since, the only thing he brought into Yeltsin's former office was a computer[1]. He may not be a digital native, but to underestimate him is a mistake.

[1] https://youtu.be/EjU8Fg3NFmo?t=3m10s
We also had cultures based around weather - you wouldn't see people out and about in that kind of heat, because everyone would be in the shade trying to keep cool. Now we have a bunch of concrete buildings and roads and glass skyscrapers.
So, Python gets Quickcheck... 20 years after Haskell
Recently been struggling with not the guilt that I'm killing and eating animals but rather the fact that in factory farms, we are encouraging the rapid raping of animals, forcing them to have children and then rapidly killing off their children, and repeating this process. All while restricting the space that they get to live in. We always want a humane way to end an animal or pest's life but I'm not too sure a factory farm is a humane way to live.

That said, I understand that humans need meat to survive but its why I'm experimenting with vegatarianism.
> places where people aren't getting paid to innovate but rather are there to do a 9-5 job, there is little (and, in many cases, negative) incentive culturally to think outside the box and push the envelope

That's pretty much every country, including the US. Even many Silicon Valley companies are this way.
If you really need to know a fact, you will naturally memorize it in the course of your work.

In reality, the amount of syntax to memorize in your programming language is tiny; there are probably several keywords you don't know particularly well that don't impact your day to day. Further, almost all common languages share huge amounts of their syntax and much of the semantics of their constructs.

Many chemistry classes require students to memorize the periodic table up front. This is a mistake; by doing chemistry work, you naturally learn the table, and, crucially, the patterns involved.

Contrast this to how I was taught multiplication: memorize this table. As a result, I was both bad at multiplication for a long time as a child, and I missed out on the beauty of mathematical patterns for a long time. It turns out multiplication is actually useful, so now I could produce a times table - not from memory, but from scratch from the concept.

I see far too often students who try to memorize the code for an algorithm - or even just the algorithm - without the concept itself. This is useless, it leads to frustration, and it fucks you when it's time to rewrite it in another language or add a twist.

Seriously, do yourself a favor and stop memorizing things. Do things, and if it turns out you remember it, then that's how you know its worth memorizing.
> There is no such thing as 0.9...

Yes, there is. Ask yourself: What's the decimal expansion of 1/3, or pi?
It is essentially a tax exempt slush fund for him to play with. There truly is no bound to his sliminess.
70,000 people didn't survive without A/C in the 2003 heatwave in Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave

Without A/C, tropical countries would not have developed to the extent they have, bringing millions out of poverty https://www.vox.com/2015/3/23/8278085/singapore-lee-kuan-yew...
I missed the /sarcasm tag.

Writing off experience on the path to becoming an entrepreneur glorifies the unique challenges of being an entrepreneur, while underplaying the 99% of other work that makes a business successful in the real world.
I don't think this is evidence of that at all. I think the general public has noticed abuses of minorities over the past several years and is appropriately outraged.

The primary change I can see is the ubiquity of cameras. Their emergence and widespread popularity after the turn of the century has brought accountability to the most corrupt and dishonest among the police force. Everyone seems to be outraged at the abuses, whether the victim is minority or not. Unfortunately I think that minorities have suffered much more significantly under the boot of these corrupt authority figures.
Oh get over yourself! Tell me about the coal and hydrocarbon emissions in other developing nations. We're far from the only ones.
Google is clearly betting on non-search-engine enterprises for years to come
> Exactly how would "closed pores" change thermal regulation?

Less sweat, where the cooling mechanism is evaporation.
I've been burned by booking.com's 'Free Cancellation' UI shenanigans a couple of times. In both instances I swear that I saw the free cancellation banner next to the room I'm reserving. Instantly after reservation, I receive an email saying 'non-refundable', or $400 fee for cancellation. The first time I thought I made a mistake, but when my wife saw the same thing... well, something fishy is going on.
There are 23 uppercase letters in the parent comment.

Both 'Google' and 'Amazon' have 6 letters.

23+6=29

29-3=26 (letters in the English alphabet)

('Twenty_Six').length == 10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerology
While each little piece isn't very impressive, taken together I think it makes life significantly more convenient, anticipating your every need. The promise of IoT is that everything "just works", like magic. It's like having a personal butler.
I'm going jogging tomorrow to CSRA just for a fun of it

Anyone wanna join?
>Wait but if we discourage further development in the flood plains, we just have existing property owners a huge gift because their property values soar.

But the proposed insurance would become less affordable over time (tapering off the subsidy), off-setting the increased value due to scarcity.
The monopolist, for some time, may "do better" than in a competitive market.

But unless they continue to act as if they're competing, they will stagnate.

Remeber AltaVista? The amazing search engine from DEC? No? Why? Because Google.

Just in the search space, there are many "better" search engines - which is why Google, to continue with this exemplar, is NOT a search engine company .. they are an advertising company which happens to have a good search engine, decent mobile OS, good enough map apps (they do own Waze, after all), great social network, etc

The advantage of the ecosystem Google has is they can be "good enough" in several areas that have far better individual options: but DuckDuckGo, for example, doesn't have a web-based office suite. Or a mobile OS. Or a maps service. Or a browser. Or. Or. Or. Or.

It is the ecosystem that ties people in. (No doubt, Apple, Microsoft, and others have various takes on the whole ecosystem thing, too - I'm just sticking with Google because it's who you singled-out.)

I rarely hit "google" when I "google" - I find results off DDG, Bing, and Qwant are "better" (and have each as the default search provider in different browsers).

What, inherently, makes you think Google (or any other company) would (or does) "do good"? Companies exist for one purpose - maximizing shareholder value. So long as they don't run [too] afoul of the law, they'll operate in more-or-less whatever manner they can, by-and-large, that accomplishes that end goal.

And who gets to decide your mythic "reasonable profit"? You? Me? "The government"? Some other external organization? Is it 10% net profit? 30%? 50%? 80%? 255%? How is that number decided upon? Why is it that value and not some other value? What happens if "reasonable profit" is defined as 30%, but they happen to make a profit of 40% this quarter/year/etc? Who gets to decide where that "unreasonable" percentage goes?

And sure, you might happen to get a "BDFL" in charge of the company ... today. What about tomorrow? It's the age-old problem with absolute (or near-absolute) monarchies / dictatorships /etc: you might get a Marcus Aurelius. But you get Nero, too.
"I bought an IBM/Sun server and the salesman ripped my face off". Should adequately describe server pricing strategies.
I already agreed function name resolution isn't OOP. My argument was that it is "OOP", with quotes. My supporting evidence is that people consider C++ without any dynamic dispatch as "OOP", with quotes.
> half a month's rent

in SF, that's one hell of an air conditioner
Basically this. I use booking as the yellow pages, you search for the hotels you want and give them a call directly.

Cheaper prices and no cuts for parasite middleman.
Google used it internally, that immediately gave it a large artificial boost in terms of a big active foundation and spreading point. It was a big improvement over their earlier work. And it had the Google halo/brand.

I think when you look back at big explosions in tech, it's usually hard to argue it was just some miracle product that was 10x superior to everything else that was the reason (there's usually other competing products or technologies). Often it's a combination of factors that come together and result in the boom (timing, viral cult-like adoptive behavior, etc). Whether we're talking about the web browser (specifically Netscape), the iPhone / mobile Internet, electric car (Tesla), and dozens of other technologies that seem to have followed similar sudden big spikes after seeming to be comparatively stagnant for years or decades (eg solar). They hit that inflection point and off they go. I suspect Google's TF product (along with the other mentioned reasons) was near the sweet spot on timing, combined with a significantly easier to use product, when the GPU was simultaneously getting a lot cheaper and faster. It's likely that for the AI boom to occur, we had to hit a GPU inflection point before it could lift-off fully. Google, as a result of the nature of their business (they perhaps had more reason & resources - due to the nature of search etc - than anyone else to be doing something like TF at that specific time), was there with a product at the right time.

I don't mean to suggest that Google was the sole reason for the AI boom though. Rather, I think the GPU inflection basically guaranteed it was going to happen and Google was in a sweet position out of necessity for the benefit of their own search technology (to their credit they were pursuing this tech despite their money printing monopoly). That they opened up TF, was a big deal though. You can imagine a lot of giants of industry would never in a million years open up something that potentially valuable.
It's generally only a few days where it's in the 80's or above at night, even the 70's is rare at night.

If you open the windows at night, cool the place down, close the windows and shades in the morning, the house will stay pretty cool throughout the day.

This is hot though :)
Because there's exactly three types of people in this equation:

1. Those without the prerequisites and means to access on education. (Think people with no internet.)

2. Those who are willing to consider the horror of this directly, if reminded of it.

3. Those who do not want to it to be real and refuse to educate themselves on their own accord because it would mean confronting a literal existential horror.

You're 3. as evidenced by the fact that you ask me for evidence when you could just google, and find pages like this immediately: https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/carbon-dioxide/
These "HN salary" threads would be a lot less annoying if those guys would just admit "Yea, $300K or $400K is super rare, for outlier folks out outlier companies who have outlier skills," rather than the usual "Lots of people make that! Just negotiate better, bro!!" bluster.
Serfing on the Giants’ Farms
This. Gold has value like Nike has value. It's a brand. Like the word 'Mom', it's about the strength of the wirings in people's heads. If Bitcoin was around for 1000 years, with less than 1% fluctuations, and accepted everywhere, who wouldn't "believe" in it? So the question is how far down that path are we? Will there be volatility early on? Did the guy that founded the first bank ever get robbed?
"Ex-Christians _routinely_ complain that youtube censors their videos criticizing Christianity." Has that not happened, too? Just reversing roles for the sake of argument. Curiously wondering...
This is my fridge air filter - https://youtu.be/ziaCjNIPSCU all the new fridges have them now. It's literally just for filtering the air in the fridge, the high tech version of a box of baking soda. My HVAC system is steam radiators, which, thankfully, don't require filters.

I don't doubt that filters should be changed regularly but I don't trust LG to tell me when.
Call climate change what it is: the biggest financial opportunity civilization has ever seen
Sorry but can we trust ourselves to turn off that tap? Nobody will complain if we keep the tap running but plenty will complain if we turn it off. I for one don't trust these "fiscal conservatives" in the red states to put their money where their mouth is. Everyone always talks about reducing government spending but they always mean spending that I don't benefit from.
Not really. I asked for evidence that climate change would lead directly to children dying in horrible ways, not that it exists.
I forget most things.
https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1...

> [Tolerance] is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others. A peace treaty is not a suicide pact.
Most communist countries kill those that disagree with them, for the common good they say. If you fully embrace communist values then you need to rid yourselves of those that don't agree otherwise you are not going to be able to create a perfect society.
$370B/yr - It seems a bit useless to call out the total tax number of all the bills put forth. What percentage of those typically pass? That would be relevant info to actually evaluate that number, without it, it's kind of meaningless. $183B/yr is the number given below for total budget. So what, they're going to triple the state budget in one year? No, that's insane, so why the hell bother pointing that out?
The study's budget was only $1m. Seems like the readership of HN could easily pull that money together and donate the funding, if the researchers could accept it.
That's more likely a lack of hardware acceleration I recently learned, if you're talking about youtube. They use VP9 by default, which isn't hardware accelerated in most cases.

I installed this recently and the difference in heat and battery life on my Macbook Pro is astounding. https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify
If you book enough stays through them, you get a genius status and get a discount on some of the hotels. Something like 10% in some cases if I remember correctly.

It's pretty well hidden though. I've never seen it advertised on the homepage: http://loyaltylobby.com/2013/07/22/booking-com-genius-award/
Make crowd-sourced datasets public domain by default.
At the moment. Surely govts will accept cryptocurrency for paying taxes at some point.
Wasn't there some guy in the U.K. Who was investigated by the police for tweeting something vaguely homophobic?
Google explains how AI becomes biased against women and minorities
It's no secret that levels of Worker-Peasant-Soldier students were usually inferior than those of who went through merit-based exams.
Tax everyone to death California !
The article says they want to add AI (supposedly Machine Learning) to primary and middle schools - not highschools. I feel like maybe this is not really thought out. To understand Machine Learning you need to have a certain level of both math and programming education.

In my opinion the field is also developing so quickly right now that it seems too early to teach in school. By the time students graduation their knowledge would be outdated.
Yet the actual purpose of this statement is lost on most.

Using popular concepts to plausibly question the sustainable dominance of others in the geopolitical power-game. It really doesn't matter if this statement proves accurate or not in the future.

"Artificial intelligence" is an interchangeable subject for the purposes of that statement. It's Psy Ops 101. A non-falsifiable piece of propaganda, used to undermine and chip-away at assumptions, which is particularly useful for sowing doubt in perceived institutional strength and their ability to sustain success when new variables are introduced.

In short, swap "AI" for any emerging subject matter or previously unaddressed and now relevant issue and you can make the same statement, in perpetuity, as ammunition against your opponents.
After some research, the tableaux method seems to require full coverage, which would only converge with the search tree if all conditions have to be exhausted.
> So "all time" is still wrong.

If you're going to be that pedantic, then the full phrase is "all-time record". It's specifically referring to the record. If we don't have recorded temperatures from the cretaceous, then there's no record there to break.

For more pedantry, it's also described as the record for the city of San Francisco, not the peninsula of. I'm fairly sure the city didn't exist in the cretaceous.
> "California is the fifth largest economy in the world, with a $183 billion state budget and $125 billion general fund that is intended to fund essential government services such as education, health and public safety. The taxpayers of our state have already provided the necessary funding for our Legislature to solve any challenge that impacts our communities."

Sums it up well. I know new challenges come up but California does/should already have a enough money to cover basic infrastructure.
> Humans survived without A/C for most of their existence.

How many died because of the absence?

Survival is a poor metric.
Your logic is flawed.. if it is taken from the richest 1% it is not creating money from nothing it is simply moving money from A to B, therefore still the same amount of money in the system therefore it does not devalue buying power.

The rich might put the prices up to steal it back but that is another argument
>I remember when I moved here in 2002 and my first landlord told me, "You're in the Bay, you don't need an air conditioner."

Hell, I bought a home in Richmond in 2013 and when we were getting the furnace replaced I asked about adding an AC as well and the guy laughed at me. At 11pm its 88 in my hallway. 74 in my bedroom where I bought a window AC unit. Really wish he would have just given me the price and let me decide...
I would never lend my chainsaw to an another person.

If they don't own it, they won't take proper care for it.
http://bfy.tw/DhwJ
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I am not ok with a golden parachute at all, especially for people like John Thain but also for all publicly traded companies.
i suggest that it's more important to collect results (theorems) than texts. course descriptions on university sites would be a good thing to scrape (and and NLP >>?) for both.

WARN: the following is ranty.

it turns out that, no matter where you find them, the results in math are always the same. Hahn-Banach is Hahn-Banach, whether you read Folland or Rudin.

moreover, language and notation are very consistent across sources, and math tends to be very "optimized" for /human/ learning. i haven't read much ML theory (yet?), but my (uninformed) gripe about it so far is that the math feels "noisy" in much the same way that Java is often called a "noisy" language: things are often expressed using the minimal mathematical machinery (e.g. multivariate calculus rather than geometry for gradients). as a result, i find the ML stuff imposes a lot of cognitive overhead to decipher equations that could be written more simply.

so while the ML community might challenge the programming community to learn more maths on a regular basis, as someone who studied math in school and has historically worked as a non-ML developer, i would challenge the ML community to develop the theory in such a way that it encourages a more intuitive understanding of mathematics rather than the bare minimum (multivar calc + linear algebra) machinery.

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for all this i shall plug one (perhaps lesser-known?) multivar calc text that i found recently and i think looks pretty good:

Casper Goffman's _Calculus of Several Variables_
It is, I was alluding to his intuitive understanding of the threats to his position of power. If he threatens to nuke everyone and that is an achievable and possibly believable threat, he may gain a small seat at the global negotiating table
How Do We Solve America’s Oversupply of Bread?
>Surely the leaders of some of the largest tech companies can come up with better names -- or is naming truly one of the hardest problems in computer science?

It must be a really existential problem!
Not true. Think of to the Bedouins in the Sahara, the Inuits in northern Canada and the tradesmen crossing the Silk Road since the first Egyptian empire. Or anyone in India for the last 7k years. Humans have been living with temperatures ranging from -50C to 50C for thousands of years.
If a murderer believes the sky is blue, does that mean it is actually lime green?

If Hitler believed washing your hands before surgery improved patient outcome, would that also be wrong?

It's not as though the speaker alters reality by speaking.
Like where? Early human civilizations started in some of the hottest places on earth.
What the founders know - and are telling investors - is they have an offer to sell the company and they don't want to take it, but it's so much money they'd be stupid not to. The investors want the company to keep going -- and growing -- so they cash out the founders a bit to make sure everyone is aligned on the same goal: to make a huge company.
Using the online travel gangsters has been the worst part of travelling for years. Extorting business practices against small hotels, high fees, and when you check the small print/certificate you understand that profits go to a tax evasion paradise. If something goes wrong for whatever reason their so-called customer service is of no help whatsoever. Only one room left is not even technically lying. It just means that small hotels give rooms only one by one to the extorters, hoping to sell as many of them via a cheaper channel. Unfortunately it is not easy to find a small hotel directly on the web, search results a completely polluted by booking sites. In that context dark patterns on their sites are just a minor detail, I don't expect any better from companies with such ethics.
Same goes for antibiotics and internet access. Everything is a luxury when you compare it to living in a cave and scrabbling to survive.