skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember that story about the Tell Aviv daycare. It makes for a fun story, but in the end the issue was that they charged too little. They purposely made it a tiny charge so as not to be perceived as adversarial or overly punitive to their customers. Had they properly accounted for the costs of late pickups, it should work out such that everyone is indifferent when it happens.

When negative externalities are properly accounted for, it's less "rich can but right to pollute" and more "if you want to pollute, you have to pay to clean it up too".
I know that BMW has 50+ in my state, and that Tesla recently doubled their authorized body shop count — to 2.
I don't recall that quip, but I do recall an episode of "Space 1999" decades ago titled "The Catacombs of the Moon" where they discover a vast underground cave system, (which turns out to be the hibernation place for a civilisation of aliens, IIRC)... The episode always had me intrigued as to whether the moon actually could have a large cave system that could be hermetically sealed and inhabited by humans to save on shipping tons of building materials out there.
A more complete answer. It's a useful app for spaced repetition. Spaced repetition is a way of scheduling your practice/study sessions that aims for optimal recall. We all have a forgetting curve. You read 100 facts today and tomorrow you will only remember 80. In a week you may still remember 50. At the end of the year you'll be doing good to remember 20. (this assumes no further reviews)

SRS (with Anki or not) schedules reviews to try to help you remember. You study 100 facts today. Tomorrow you review them all (this is actually a bit much for someone just starting, but go with it). You get 50 correct, you'll see them again in 2 days. You get 50 wrong, you'll see them again the next day. Eventually, everything you've studied for a long time will either be scheduled for reviews way far out in the future, or you'll be reviewing it frequently (which often means the card is too hard or you otherwise just aren't getting it). You edit the card to break it down ("Columbus sailed on the Pinta, Santa Maria, and Niña in 1492 from Spain.", that's at least 6 facts: name, ships, year, origin).

This is better than the alternative, and the way many of us (or at least my classmates and I) did it in school. We made flashcards and just reviewed all of them over and over again. It was a long slog to get through, and often we'd just skip it rather than deal with it. Or the ones at the bottom of the stack would never get reviewed properly. SRS works in much the same way, but you don't review the full deck each day or even each week. If you learn a fact really well, you won't see it again for months. If you still know it then, you won't see it again until the next year. So the only things you study regularly are new things, or things that aren't (for some reason) sticking.

Anki is a useful (and free) application that will sync across your computers and devices (I make cards on my laptop, but review them on my phone) that implements SRS. You can, through plugins, do a lot of neat things like autogenerate math problems so you aren't practicing the same ones over and over (and risk just memorizing them rather than learning the techniques), or have it render LaTeX to the card. It'll show images, play audio, and more.
‘Wolf of Wall Street’ warns ICOs are ‘biggest scam ever’
> today’s new technologies are complicated, expensive, and favor organizations that have huge amounts of scale and capital already.

That is not a fact of life or act of nature, but to a great degree it is a choice. Decades ago, engineers built many technologies that were conceptually simple, elegant, open, free-as-in-liberty, and hackable - not by accident, but to empower hackers and end-users. Those efforts created the environment, platforms and tools that the startups thrived on. What are today's engineers building for the next generation?

For example, I recently had to learn in-depth how computers boot these days - down in the weeds with ME, TPM, UEFI, SEDs, PXEs, GPT, and more:

First, the complexity of that small step to starting your computer is beyond an individual's comprehension; just one spec was 2,500 pages; many technologies' roles overlap and it's not clear why there is redundancy or how they integrate with each other. Perhaps there is someone who specializes in this narrow field as a full-time job and actually grasps it all, or maybe if I had a year to dedicate to it - but I can't imagine some new teenage hacker mastering it.

Second, much of it is proprietary or at least not free. TPM and ME, for example, are ultimately outside the user's control.

Compare that to the former system of POST - BIOS - MBR - boot loader. I'm not saying change is bad and that we couldn't have improved on it, but clearly nobody thought about making it hackable or empowering end-users.

I'll go a little further and say it reflects - I can't support a causal connection - a broader loss of interest in the 'American Dream', equality of opportunity (or at least an abundance of it for all), and empowering the little guy and underdog. The U.S. also cuts back education and other programs that give opportunity to less advantaged citizens, often with the idea that the powerful should not be hindered by taxes or government. Polls show interest in democracy is slipping, with the US government saying it's not worth promoting abroad (the White House and State Dept both explicitly said it) - democracy is political empowerment of the little guy; everyone gets a vote and is equal. Some political groups even explicitly argue that their group should dominate the others. I'm not starting a political debate; I'm just pointing out that it's a much different outlook.
For comparison ~55.3 million people die each year so ~16% of deaths are linked to pollution.
Although outraged by the idea at first, I have to say that there are some benefits here:

0. This starves the advertising industry, which has insatiable apatite for private information, and questionable practices of obtaining it.

1. Payment is done using only CPU power and you electric bill which are private, and the process itself could be made secure and efficient by incorporating it into browsers.

2. Sites no longer have to trick you or your ad blocker into watching something you don't want to watch (or clicking on it). Instead, they are motivated to keep you on their site longer. It's not perfect, and trickery still might be involved, but it still seems like a better motivation. Heck, some sites might even try to keep you by producing solid content.

3. Journalists get an income source without any political strings attached, they don't have to worry about writing something bad about some major advertiser.

However, I'm really not sure about the economics of all of this. How many CPU cycles does it take to replace a single ad?

Plus, wasting all of those CPU cycles on mining produces nothing of actual value. I'd much rather auction off some of my CPU time to the highest bidder or contribute it to some worthy cause.
What’s next for tax cuts
Yes, but it's electron.

I've honestly seen only one properly written Electron app and it's VSCode. Everything else electron sucks. VSCode is not great either but it's much better than say, Atom or Slack.
Rename of FactoryGirl to FactoryBot has broken my projects
How would one normally go about finding a freelance PR contractor?

Are there any particular online directories? I ask because from your description they seem like they've different tactics to the typical freelance marketer.
To me the most intriguing part is that, even though I pushed for more, I realize CUA/Windows is 90% of what I need in terms of clickodrome.
Samsung is the one being sexist here. The article is just using Samsung's pictures, and calling them out I would say.
Well, will see how Electron will pan out in the end. While I dislike default Java Swing GUI (it can be made easily to look native but many devs previously did not do it), JavaFX can be made to look like anything with almost weblike feel to development and animations.
Now, more than the looks I dislike the slowness and utterly unacceptable memory Electron apps consume. I ditched Electron and VSCode (it is a little better than Atom) because I don`t want to have my text editor eat 500mb ram to open 1 medium file and crash on large ones. Same for Slack and other Electron apps. And it is not even funny to see dev console when some Atom plugin or whatever crash. I`m interested how many devs also ditched this two editors ONLY because of Electron bloat.
I believe the proper response is hot shot programmers don't test. When are you going to hire a qa resource.
Ask HN: Are you overcompensated for your work?
Speaking more specifically for those in the tech industry, do you feel that you're being overcompensated for the work you do? In other words, relative to other industries or fields, does your work (as an engineer, let's say) feel disproportionately well off?
Breaking the 49-Qubit Barrier in the Simulation of Quantum Circuits
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I read this article expecting to hear about negative externalities, but it seems the social cost described here is entirely in "private costs", at least under the assumption of no government-sponsored healthcare.
Does it have cross platform Hi-DPI support? No.
Protestant Christianity typically doesn't forbid birth control, as far as I know.
What if a person doesn't want to live in their country of origin? Should we condemn them to live there anyway?
Default heap size is over-generous in most JVM implementations, experimenting with smaller settings is the solution.
I would hope that there would be massive backlash if we as a country tried to put advertising on our currency, because that's insane. It would be a fairly fitting illustration of what's wrong with modern society, though.
I don't know if I'd agree that "technically correct" is the best kind :)

But I do agree that Redux Dev Tools are a great example of what you can do with ES. That's just not application level logic, so I don't think its fair to credit an application developer with applying ES just because a tool they use at development time (not at runtime) does so.
I kinda thought the same thing, until I moved there. Lived next to a family of (at least) 6 living in an extremely cramped one-bedroom apt in central Harlem. Thousands of poor people living blocks away from thousands of wealthy people.
Weirdly, there are code examples in the C99 and C11 standards that use "int main()".
A tablet of chocolate is a 5-mile run or 1 hour of steady cycling.
And all 50+ BMW authorized body shops can work on BMW's aluminum-bodied cars? Only a modest % of BMW's cars are aluminum-bodied.

A little googling shows sentences like "Any body shop you are considering to repair your BMW 5 and 6 series, should be specifically equipped to perform special aluminum welding." and "As part of our CERTIFICATIONS by various manufacturers, we are required to purchase state of the art tools specifically for aluminum repair."
That'd be him, thanks!

He is buried in a cemetery, according to Google. I wonder why? He seems to have been rather principled and I'd have not expected him to do so.

The other thing is that some really good thoughts come from comedians. Beneath the humor, there is frequently some good thoughts, intellectual thoughts. I wonder why this is? Psych is, obviously, not my domain. I don't really understand why we do many of the things we do, but I will avoid too much digression.
Electron pop culture made me buy Sublime Text.
Supercool idea! I wonder what the W3C has to say about it though.
I suppose my original point was that its not obvious, because
(+ 1 2 3) behaves differently than (> 1 2 3). Mapping a binary operator to a list is obvious if the type of the result is different than the type of the operands.

I also find 'Less characters to type' a weak argument at the level of a handful of plus signs, but I grant that once you've made the mental leap there is less cognitive overhead. In the '(> x y z)' if I knew to read '>' as 'is descending' the meaning would have been obvious, but reading it as 'greater than' didn't make sense to me.
I think this would be more beneficial if we thought of it as distributed computing, rather than just cryptocurrency mining. Look at projects like BOINC, and imagine for a moment that those tasks could run in a web browser without slowing things down to a crawl.

Sure it's less efficient and the tasks need to be broken down into much smaller chunks, but at least this way your spare CPU power could be auctioned off to some more useful purpose. What if instead of an ad space, you're running protein folding simulations, or rendering frames for a small art studio's film project? I'd gladly donate my spare CPU cycles for those kinds of projects on purpose. I think there's a market for this kind of thing, and I'd like to see more experimentation.
Interesting analysis.

>People were even specific about vendors; one was an Oracle DBA or a Sybase DBA.

I can confirm it, anecdotally. I knew a guy who several years ago went to the US on H1-B as an Oracle DBA. And I've heard of and seen ads for other such cases - earlier.

Similarly for PowerBuilder or VB developer earlier, and of course you still see ads for Python / C++ / Haskell / whatever developer.
There are very high regulatory costs if you're going to run a book/tote and pay out people's bets. But yes, your data could be worth more than your bookmaking margins. If it's worth buying, it's worth using yourself. I like the idea of a private prediction market, something between kaggle and that investment fund that uses homomorphic encryption, the name escapes me. 'Invest' on betting markets, return a share of profits to contributors.
I think the conclusion may still be sound despite the reasoning. It may not be a "data advantages" question, but it is still almost surely going to be a question of human capital -- and the only places likely able to afford the talent & operational costs are going to be "Big N" companies. There is a tremendous amount of human expertise involved in the advancements we're seeing in AI.

AlphaGo Zero is the product of incremental improvements made by the same group of computer Go experts that built the original system. _They_ learned from each experiment and incorporated that knowledge in the next version. It was not obvious _a priori_ that the AlphaGo Zero architecture or training method would succeed; if it had been, then the AlphaGo team would not have built the earlier versions. And while it runs on "only" 4 TPUs for inference, those TPUs are each about 30x as powerful as the computers that the original AlphaGo ran on, so it's more like a reduction from ~180 GPUs to 120 equivalent GPUs.
Learn swedish or norwegian first. Then get drunk and talk while you're eating. You're now speaking danish
That would be fine! Although, I also don't think "best practices" would be something that changes every 6 months (maybe every 5 years), and being forced by the compiler to rewrite code to keep up with best practices is absolutely a good thing!

I've been the lead on a fairly large Fortran project, and we make a point to run our test suite on as many compilers as possible, with the strictest flags to avoid any kind of "undefined" behavior (which is rarer in Fortran than in C). I believe it's the only way to ensure long term maintainability.
Water takes a lot of energy to split. Take a small size as a pot on a cooker with a litre of water.

Just to get that litre to bubble takes constant. Heating for minutes or imagine how long it would take to boil all that water away.

Sure you'll have a lot of fuel but its not easily accessible.
Agreed.

The base rate of getting type 2 diabetes is 11%. So if you increase your consumption of sugar sweetened beverages to one serving per day above the average, your chance of getting diabetes is now ~13%.

You increase your absolute risk by 2%. So the average marginal healthcare cost is $85,200*.02 = ~$1700.

I'm not sure how he goes from 1 serving per day to 2555 per decade. I would assume it would be ~3650 servings.

So for every soda you drink, it would add $0.47 in additional medical costs.

But the study also controls for adiposity since people with higher body fat are more likely to get diabetes and are also more likely to drink sugar sweetened beverages.

If you control for that then each drink adds $0.21 in additional medical costs.
The article positions the Estonian ID number as something magical and superior to SSN. In reality, out of the 11 symbols, 6 are governed by your date of birth and another one denotes the gender, and out of the remaining four one is a checksum digit.

The only way the Estonian system is better is that the law dictates this number not to be treated as sensitive or identifying information, so you can't get a loan on your neighbours name just because you caught a glimpse of his passport.
It's obvious some people are predisposed to let themselves go the same way others are predisposed to commit criminal acts. That doesn't mean their behavior should be pardoned.
https://deepmind.com/blog/alphago-zero-learning-scratch/

>After just three days of self-play training, AlphaGo Zero emphatically defeated the previously published version of AlphaGo - which had itself defeated 18-time world champion Lee Sedol - by 100 games to 0. After 40 days of self training, AlphaGo Zero became even stronger, outperforming the version of AlphaGo known as “Master”, which has defeated the world's best players and world number one Ke Jie.
> since the gravity is 14 percent of Earth's gravity, just a little less than at the moon

Isn't this a non-starter? Low gravity can be harmful to humans over long time periods, due to it's effect on your bones and muscles.
Evangelical protestant Christianity does. And the other forms of protestant Christianity rarely travel to Africa and other third world nations on mission trips.
Apparently lack of memory isn't something that affects Electron popularity.

Java applications use much less memory, unless their coders weren't paying attention during algorithms and datastructures lectures.
I read that book recently and it triggered my interest in "the art of remembering".

Then I moved to "how to develop a perfect memory"[1]. It gives practical tips for remembering lists, numbers, appointments, faces.... It works surprisingly well. The thing is that nowadays, we usually use technology to remember those kind of things.

I think there's a huge difference in the types of contents that are "hackable" and the ones that have to be learnt by assimilation. I can remember 50 digits without any problem, but remembering subtle content from a book, how to use a new API,... it's much more difficult to find mnemonics for that in my experience.

Anyway, I think it's great fun to "hack" yourself to be more efficient, and this, along with speed reading and lucid dreaming could have exponential effects. I'm on it. on both. We'll see.

1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2691332-how-to-develop-a...
print() is a nonstandard function and will be removed eventually.
The Boeing video says Clojure is used for maintenance systems, not control systems. That’s an important distinction. Maintenance systems can go offline and the aircraft still flies fine. The critical control software is not written in Clojure from what I could tell.
I think the point that the article is trying to make is a lot less dramatic than the title would suggest.

Basically, there has been a long standing assumption that, netizens in general spend their time on a plethora of websites, and that instead of spending money on specific sites, one should spend money on audiences. In other words, advertise in accordance with a person's interests.

However, due to recent exploitation of this assumption by other fake sites, and fake bot-generated visitors, this assumption has met some strong evidence that would disprove it.

Could the advertisers simply get together and black list such advertising agencies that sell fake niche sites with fake bot-generated views? Or is that a naive view of things?
That seems really far off if it's even possible.
I don’t think a cursory glance at his/her stack overflow / github profile would be a good indicator of his overall skillset eyeroll
As an introvert who suffered for years with self-esteem issues I can totally relate with his words. Couple years ago I picked up the book People Skills[1] by Robort Bolton. It helped me look at how I reacted to people and often times shut down and got defensive. Or i would be so locked-up mentally trying to process my emotions I would just stop talking.

I found it's changed me in the way I interact with people now. Especially in highly charged situations like his first example. I find I have the ability to see the words and understand why the other person is being aggressive and to help defuse the situation.

What I learned is that i'll still be an introvert at time but at least I can change how I respond to people. And at times I feel more extroverted than normal :)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/People-Skills-Yourself-Resolve-Confli...
How's Samsung being sexist?
At reasonable temperatures, yes, the clouds turn into water and release energy, hydrogen burns. Water is entropically preferred as a lower energy state than separate atoms/molecules because of lower enthalpy at reasonable temperatures. Depending on density and ignition sources the reaction rate may vary, but it doesn't have to explode in a ms when there is a billion years available.
> under the boot of an immutable society in love with its own stagnation

China is rapidly leading in solar panel production, implementing CRISPR tech, super computers, and now building a modern Silk Road. Perhaps they are stagnating on the human rights front, but they are not stagnating in tech and economic growth.
Not everything needs nor desires a deep well thought out intellectual response or witty comeback. I'm not justifying what he said, but at the same time he was just letting off steam. In fact it's possible he felt bad about it later (or not). What I would of done in that case is just to try to be friendly with the guy and talk to him about stuff not related to the situation at hand. He is stressed out.

I used to suffer badly from similar symptoms as described in the OP (although not as bad, so I can't relate perfectly). But over the years what has helped me is to focus less on myself (how do I feel, what is he/she saying about me) and more on the other person.
Brawndo would be the ideal thing to advertise on cash, how about it Elon/Larry/Bill?
I love Blood Meridian. I read it at least once a year.

I just picked up the audio book and am listening to it now.
I didn't know this, guess I'd never thought to look it up.

If 16% of deaths can be attributed to pollution, and some percentage are vehicle related, accidents in general, preventable disease / infections, etc etc...

How many deaths per year should we expect if all of those things could be reduced / minimised / eliminated?
Except that isn't actually portable Go code, because you are using an unsupported function that can be removed at any time.

"The print built-in function formats its arguments in an implementation-specific way and writes the result to standard error. Print is useful for bootstrapping and debugging; it is not guaranteed to stay in the language."

https://golang.org/pkg/builtin/
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One of the best things about Christie’s or Sotheby’s or other auctions is that they are open to the public. Go attend one! Ping me if you need some hand holding ;)
If you give me a monolith with well isolated packages vs a serverless app across 400 lambdas and ask me to fix a bug, i can bet you which one i can find it faster.

Separation of concerns is easy to do without lambda or microservices. If you want separation of concerns write good code. Don't move your environment to a locked in circus.