skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always heard in the past how socialism had terrible economic outcomes for the poor folks that fell into it with self inflicted famines and all sorts of abuses. It's interesting to see a live one play out during my adulthood and it makes me wonder how much overlap there is among the historical set.
Isn't it very localized?
Small correction: Learning algorithms that determine the contribution of a unit to the result over time can also be local in time, namely by tracking the contributions online (for example by eligibility traces or RTRL).
Yeah, ATL is adding a number of tech jobs (hopefully Amazon too). Cost of living is increasing, but relative to everywhere else it is cheap to live in the city center. Developments of apartments and condos has exploded, which is making for a nice urban feel.
Because we didn't know that existed! That looks so much better, thank you. The pandocfilters library is really hard to use.

https://github.com/arxiv-vanity/engrafo/issues/160
Of Course AI Is a Threat to Humanity
That list is pure genius. I'm working with reporters mostly in non-OECD countries, 80% of the stuff on that list are real, largely unmet needs. Signal isn't perfect, but it works fine, thanks.

A special place in hell should also be reserved for those in the tech world that mix up security (a real and critical need that people have) and their software politics. If you don't like Microsoft, Google, Adobe, "the Cloud", or smart phones, that's fine. There are plenty of reasons. But don't short circuit security assessments in the interest of promoting technology you find politically superior.
Have a look at SAGE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_analysis_of_gene_expres...), might give you some ideas for joining short reads. I suppose you'd want to look for a restriction enzyme that creates average fragment size in your desired range.
> I also disagree with this reading because it is clearly stated that Hyde is smaller than Jekyll because such a small percent of Jekyll is evil.

Given it is Jekyll himself that makes that observation, it may not be all that "clear". Jekyll is a very unreliable narrator in the book, and "I only have a little bit of evil inside, it's small really" is probably one of his lesser delusions.
> He argued the tribe (sorry I don't remember its name) can fully sustain itself by taking things from nature around it. All their wealth is external. They possess little, but whenever they have a need for something - food, medicine, water, paint, clothes, containers(...) they go to a forest, harvest a specific plant and get it

IMO, one of the biggest myths is the myth of the primitive but efficient savage. Its almost always a "obscure tribesman" of some kind, be it a native American, or maybe an African tribesman... but the myth is always the same.

Apply the "Mythical Efficient Tribesman" to real life, and things start to go awry. The mythical Tribesman poops in the river when he needs to use the bathroom for example... if a city of 1-million+ people poop in the river however, it creates contamination and disease... and probably isn't good for the general environment either.

IIRC, the most efficient places on earth, as far as lowest environmental impacts, are generally cities. Cities with central sanitation to clean up sewage BEFORE it enters rivers for example.

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A sustainable economy is about closing the loop, keeping track of trash and doing something about it. Landfills and recycling centers are actually hugely efficient in the USA, especially some materials like Aluminum.

Waste Disposal centers have huge bins for a wide variety of items: textiles, metals, electronics, plastics, paper, oil, bio-wastes... each of which can be efficiently turned into new products.

For a lot of people, simply being aware of your local waste disposal center and their services would greatly improve your environmentalism. Don't throw away old Jeans, send them to the "textile" center to be recycled. Purchase "Plastic 1, 2, 3, 4, 5", but not Plastic 6 (which is harder to recycle and very few centers actually recycle it). Etc. etc.

Know what your city can offer and use their services. You don't need to run your own compost pile, just send your leaves / eggs / food waste to the landfill for it to be composted into mulch.

In my experience: rural areas of the USA have very few waste disposal services... and may even be running local "septic tanks" as their primary means of treating sewage. But even these more primitive means of sewage treatment are far superior to "primitive tribesmen" who resort to effectively dumping their sewage untreated in a river.
I don't get. I really don't. I think I've looked everywhere but I can't find it. What's the pricing?
It can be proven. Look down at your navel. Did you know about that lint? It was outside of your consciousness.

Maybe that lint was it, but probably not.
Can you point me to some paper I might read? If it's not too much trouble.

I'm CS a grad student and sometimes it's hard to filter out the hype and find promising but underrated ideas among all the noise.
I'd love to hear about what you had to do to get connectivity to your house and what was involved with being your own ISP.
"Almost every hedge fund" is a bit of an exaggeration but outside of the hedge fund universe, PDVSA bonds are definitely held by a lot of mutual funds I guarantee that some people here own.
Exactly. My favorite is every couple weeks someone posts on the reddit fitness boards about what exercises they need to do to target their abs. Fork put-downs, pantry closes, and fridge door slams are common answers :D

Everybody has developed abs, as long as their able-bodied. They keep you upright all day. You just can't see them. The only people who ever need to target their abs are competitive bodybuilders.
This!

I stopped saying that I worked on startups around 2000 because the word had already become so hackneyed and sterile. I just say "I've started and built some companies" and let people make of that what they may. If they don't really know who I am that's fine.
by some definitions the converse would not be necessarily true: if God reveals her/himself to you, she would still need to prove that he controls the whole universe. unless you believe them.
5% interest rate does not imply 5% business growth. Interest rate simply reflects the fact that people prefer $1 right now to $1 a year later. In this context banks are time machines, moving money through time (glossing over credit risk, inflation, and other complexities).
Here is a similar argument from Alan Watts illustrated by Matt Stone and Trey Parker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA3NLyQNDBQ

Another way to look at it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEunth9YCgo (You are the Big Bang)
Real-Time Video Conference + Three.js + iOS Safari == Melted iPhone
Why you should have commercial email
Teen Astronomer's 1886 Sketch Reveals Rare White Solar Flare
This is more low-level than that. This is an API to retrieve payment details, not to process an actual payment. You'll want to use Stripe or the like for that.
Thanks for the correction. I had originally typed 'meta data' but thought headers were the same thing. Thanks!
Maybe it's because the only APIs I've dealt with are kind of terrible, leads a bad taste in my mouth.
There may be a 5th category, young families with dual income/no kids working in professions other than tech. My wife works in winemaking and I work as a Civil Engineer in the North Bay. Even with two career-type jobs we just barely were able to jump into the housing market in 2014. As house prices increase and housing stock goes down (especially after these fires) I think there will be a shortage of workers not just in the service industry but even in these professions. We had a senior level engineer move out here from Utah making ~150k a year move back within a year because he couldn't take living in a relatively small apartment and having his kids go to schools that were not up to the standard of where he moved from.

Wine industry is similar, my wife gets a lot of interns from out of the country through an Ag exchange program. Between the lower pay and higher cost of living here, recent grads who are able to save up money working in Australia, NZ, ZA, or Argentina in the Southern Hemisphere harvest actually end up losing money just living up here for the Northern Hemisphere harvest. A lot of them are looking into ways to work for a more extended period of time in other countries as they are able to live much better in very similar regions climatically.
They‘ll be back, once we’re gone:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/23/wildlife-returns-...
Strange coincidence, today I was thinking about the same thing in the opposite way while walking next to a highway.

Humans are not 100% rational like elementary particles in quantum physics, and they were all in cars moving in a predictable way like H2O molecules in a river. And it made me wondering if there is a possibility of consciousness that we try to describe with physics laws but will never be able to totally understand because of an underling consciousness.
$1M doesn't buy you the time of day where I live in northern Brooklyn. And it's $1250 minimum per person in a rental share, often more.
I have to admit I am not impressed. My first paper, which I tried to render, does not work properly; references are removed and rendered poorly, figures are misplaced and tables incomplete. Given that not all arXiv papers are under a permissive license and you do not have permission to do this, I would much prefer if you at least made sure that arxiv-vanity rendered papers do not show up in search results, e.g. by offering a suitable robots.txt and with a bigger link to the author-endorsed version of the paper.

Edit to clarify: If people want to use or develop a broken sort-of-PDF viewer, that’s fine. However, if someone searches for a paper of mine, I would like them to only find the version where I at least had a chance to see that it renders correctly and is complete. In particular, I do not want to be "responsible" for broken rendering on random third-party websites. This website actually operating illegally does not make me more inclined to support it.
The tl;dr is that unless you had an HPC workload with a NUMA box, you couldn't observe this bad behavior.

Which means in reality, you could name approximately everyone that ran into this issue on a single list: top500.org.
A big challenge is to get references working correctly.
LaTeXML is quite good at converting latex documents to html [1], including references such as Theorem 2.1, equation (8.1) etc.

For instance, the paper [2] appears to be quite readable on mobile, and clicking/tapping on a reference such as (8.1) leads you to equation (8.1) as you would expect.

The auto-generation of Arxiv-Vanity is really nice, maybe it would be easy to add the LatexML output too?

[1]: http://www.albany.edu/~hammond/demos/Html5/arXiv/lxmlexample...

[2]: http://www.albany.edu/~hammond/demos/Html5/arXiv/LaTeXML/110...
But that doesn't align with how we use the concept of consciousness. A bug is conscious - we put a bug in a bottle - we say the bug is in a bottle. We don't say the bottle is conscious like the bug, we say the bug is conscious in a bottle. A human engulfed in fire is not a conscious fire beyond a poetic turn of phrase.

We don't say houses are conscious in the same way human's are. We might say a house is "aware of something" in the same way we say a house is "conscious of something", not to mean exhibiting the mark of the mental but to mean every person contained is aware of a certain thing; but if we're using the concept of consciousness in the way this article is using the concept, not as being aware, but as a mark of the mental, we don't ever apply that to a house because that is nonsensical. We would say "you don't mean the house, you mean the people inside."

The entire starting question seems nonsensical. If we conclude the universe, or a star, is conscious like us we've stretched the concept of consciousness to absurdity or metaphysical wankery.
Really? Do you have some examples of those gross distortions? So far it seems like she has an anti-capitalism slant, but that's hardly something unique or a dis-qualifier nowadays.
wouldn't it be more accurate to say poor people then? It's not just poor minorities who can't live in these areas.. poor whites, poor elderly, etc aren't living there either.

And I'm sure Satya Nadella doesn't have a problem paying for a house anywhere, even though he's a minority.
Thanks for the reply. I guess my contention as someone just starting to use vanilla promises is that it feels like try/catch isn't the appropriate metaphor to use here.

In my specific case I'm passing a lot of promises to user-made scripts. then/catch seems to make things more brittle. As I said though, I'm new to them.
> We would need 20 bits of just luminance to represent [the range 1,000,000:1

I don't understand this statement. Why do you need a certain number of bits to represent a large range? You can encode a range using any number of bits you want, but if you use fewer bits the resolution within may be lower.

Representing a large luminance range isn't a problem of resolution though is it? It's a problem of presenting that contrast ratio on a screen that is not capable of a contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1. If I represented the same luminance range with a thousand bits it doesn't do anything to solve the core problem, does it? So why does the number of bits matter?

Not a graphics programmer, so genuinely asking, not saying the article is wrong!
Not much. It's as bad now as it was a decade ago.
Good comment. I recommend law school transparency for anyone navigating admissions. They have excellent display tools for the stats, including the real employment rate, and real debt costs including cost of attendance.

It’s truly a horrifying scam at the lower ends, and eventually something will give.
It's impossible to control skyrocketing house prices in booming tech areas with anything other than a massive amount of new housing developments.

Even if everything you can buy suddenly got 10% cheaper, the houses in those areas would immediately increase back to the old level because the prices is driven by a high demand relative to supply.
That's an interesting thought, does the government have cpi-like numbers for different localities, or just the one number?

Rents are included in cpi, but home prices aren't. Now, of course they are correlated, but that's certainly one of the arguments against using cpi.

edit: answered my own question, the bureau of labor statistics has more numbers than you can shake a stick at.
The solution there is to restrict operation of vacation rentals to certain neighborhoods, limit total percentage of housing stock allowed to be converted to vacation rentals, extra property taxes on vacation rentals (versus regular rental properties, which still contribute to housing stock). If you make vacation rentals more expensive to own, you drive down the ROI on them and make them less attractive to investors.
While last year was a very abstract theme, this year follows a space combat theme somewhat hearkening back to the aichallenge.org Planet Wars.

The contest is open source and github repo for the contest can be found at https://github.com/HaliteChallenge/Halite-II
This is how I am with smoking. I smoked a pack a day for years and quit over a decade ago, but I still smoked the occasional cigarette socially for years afterward. Once I started working out regularly, it was easy to stop that habit. I just felt like I wasn't going to be getting the most out of my investment of effort during the workouts.
I've always felt that out of all the AR/VR companies that exist today, Microsoft will be the ones who make it ubiquitous. The average consumer is not the group who is able to bankroll mass production. The money Microsoft makes from selling expensive Gen1 devices to industry and professionals is how they will be able to R&D into cheaper units
Ask HN: Late twenties, last four years spent fiddling w/projects. Employability?
Hi HN! I'm a 29-year-old programmer who left my SV job four-odd years ago to pursue a life of travel and indie development (at least until my savings ran out). Travel-wise, things have just been peachy. Career-wise, I've accomplished a whole lot compared to what I was doing before, including developing a bunch of small/medium-sized native iOS and OSX apps (one of which grossed $10k+), publishing a (simple == sub 1k line) open source project that has close to a thousand stars, blogging about technical topics (nothing too fancy), and implementing/blogging a very interesting CS research paper. If I play my cards right, I have maybe 1-2 years of independent living left, assuming I don't get another "hit".

Still, I am filled with dread. By my own evaluation, my progress has slow, and I feel like I could have accomplished 2-3x as much during my "sabbatical" if only I spent a bit less time procrastinating and forced myself into unfamiliar programming territory. (I perceive this as having wasted about 2-2.5 whole years out of this period.) I have a recurring, deep-seated fear that if my cash runs out and I have to re-enter the job market, I'll simply find myself unemployable. Although I'm almost 30, I don't really view myself as a senior engineer material; I can implement stuff just fine if given a blueprint, but my experience with high-level architectures and complicated, stateful systems is lacking. (Working on getting better at this, though. Lots of projects in the pipeline.) I also have zero managerial experience since I've been entirely working by myself. On the plus side, I have a CS degree from an excellent university, though I imagine the importance of this wanes as you get older.

HN, are my fears justified? Am I just falling into a bottomless pit, career-wise? Or is this stuff correctable?
'degrow' == collapse

The monetary system is based on debt, debt requires growth to service the interest, growth, at some point, is unsustainable. Collapse occurs at the point of 0.0 growth, i.e. the top of the curve.

The question is : does growth stop voluntarily or when one of the feedstocks of growth reach a limit ?

I find it odd that the people most associated with 'green' thinking, climate change etc, are the ones that seem to want growth in other areas, i.e. immigration to offset natural western population decline. I read comments from leftward progressives that they want to take Canada's population to 100m from 35m, given Canadian's comsume the most energy per capita, that sounds insane.
Or they might realize that building more medium-density housing near major transit corridors might actually be a good thing... sure, the Undesirables might move closer, but if that slows down the increase in taxes, maybe it's a negative feedback loop that helps people see Those People aren't that scary after-all and there's a certain vibrancy to medium density housing instead of traffic-clogging suburban sprawl.

Honestly, Prop 13 created an unsustainable market distortion that pulls out the rug for anyone wanting to start a family.
You do what you like.

I'll arrive at work at 11 for my first meeting, having gotten a solid 1.5 hours of uninterrupted work done already, and be wrapping up any collaboration in order to return to my mobile cubicle by 4.

Of course, I'll still be available via skype. The morning stand up may happen while everyone is leaving their driveway.

Soon enough this new daily routine is going to be about as disruptive to productivity in the office as taking lunch, since almost everyone with a car will taking advantage of it. The start and ends of business days are going to become 'private', with people keeping their heads down, and interacting via video and chat/mail as the norm, with face-to-face work performed during the middle of the day.

We may even have to do away with lunchtimes as we know them, since they take away from prime face-to-face work time. Or perhaps, with all the other communication going on, daily team-bonding time over food might be one of few on going reasons for direct interactions.

And vehicles are going to start being designed to be really comfortable to work/play in. Every mid-morning, people are going to have to choose between getting up from the work they are stuck into and moving to the desk in their office, or staying focused on the task at hand. Eventually, people are going to start choosing the privacy and comfort of their car over the relative space of a cubicle, and more and more people are going to start working from the parking lot. Companies may even start expecting a portion of their workforce to bring their own vehicles, in the manner of 'bring your own device' and alter/reduce their use of offices.

Of course, things could go the other way: in the city, you'll want to the car to go pick up the groceries and do errands, and then find a in a nice empty shaded spot out of town for the day, and to find a new spot if anyone sketchy shows up.

This is just one tiny, tiny change as we move from a civilizations of vehicles to a civilization of intelligent transport. Cars and buses are about to be replaced by the equivalent of very small mobile homes/buildings.
Venezuela was well on its way to failure well before the US introduced any sanctions.
I really hope not. Buzzfeed Canada is terrible a slimy tabloid organization I couldn't imagine in the 80s The National Enquirer starting a cable TV channel. Maybe the US version of Buzzfeed is different.
This is unnecessarily argumentative and intentionally misses the point of the response.
Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes
OK, jobs are down a little, and this means the housing problem is getting worse? That seems backwards.
The answer could be both. The problem is the lack of coverage on the ground.
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> those were for times when people were coding over SSH

I do substantially all of my coding over SSH, and so do most of my friends.
Wait are we talking about Trump or Maduro?
Things that cannot be "proven" still can have vastly different probabilities, according to prior observations.
This is cool, it would be nice to have a chrome extension to take me directly to this from the page/pdf.
Soviet-style central planning is not "the market." Euclidean zoning is Soviet-style central planning.
That may be a fallacy of composition - what's true of a part or a component needn't be true of the whole. For example, your cells divide, they are part of you, but you do not divide.
Never quit on your own goals.

Its fine to quit when other peoples goals involve using your man-power for their own gain and you see less and less reason to continue being a part of it.
About 9 months ago I wrote a search engine based on Torch, OpenCV, a custom NLP (thanks word2vec) and Elasticsearch to quickly find adult videos based on linguistic descriptions of graphical content rather than the textual description on a $20 bet. Eventually after demoing it to some people for fun, (to my surprise) I received an acquisition offer a few weeks ago from a certain product search site after it was accidentally discovered that the model could be used to find more relevant products based on their images. Needless to say I was surprised to see this on the front page of HN and wonder how long they've been working on this too!