skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A quite a bit less than $250million, which is how much is being paid.

In fact, people would even volunteer to die for "just" $100million. Just see this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4jqfka/what_woul...

This is EXACTLY what I mean by "risk management for large projects". For a small $10k project? A small percentage cost decrease for increased risk of death isn't worth it. For a multi-billion dollar project? All of the sudden, the incentives change drastically. How many people would be willing to work on a project that is a tiny amount more risky, but knowing that their families will be handsomely compensated in case anything happens? If you told me that my family will receive $100mil guaranteed if I die/get maimed, there's very little I'm not willing to do.

Also, to note: $100,000,000 is enough to save around 30,000 children from an excruciating death by malaria.

TL;DR 1 average human life generally isn't worth throwing away $250million. I will literally volunteer my own life on this fact.
Maybe I should have asked a question, I'm curious. Which countries did you mean?
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most likely used for farming, you keep removing stones from the fields ... Landscapes can change fast, from grassland to desert and back to grassland in just a few hundred years.
> ... experiments have shown that low temperature neither increases the likelihood of catching a cold, nor the severity of symptoms.

> Adults suffer an average of between two and four colds each year, and children up to 10, and we have come to accept this as an inevitable part of life.

I live in Europe and go through one or two flu seasons a year on average. I don't recall catching cold/flu ever since I started using cold water exclusive year-round, as I wrote previously[1]. I was pessimistic about this practice at the beginning, and truth be told this enhanced immune system is the only benefit I'd attribute to cold showers, yet there it is, no cold for quite a few winters despite people around me getting it on schedule.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8808859
Interesting read. Unfortunately it then comes to a sentence like this:

"For his PhD on asthma, Johnston developed a technique called polymerase chain reaction, which magnifies DNA so that viruses can be identified more precisely."

which make me not sure what to believe: Is that bad spelling or has the author not even basic knowledge of modern biology?
The assumption has to be that it is crosvm https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm... the lightweight, Rust, qemu-less vmm they have been working on. I got this working with LinuxKit recently, which will be one way to build them. Crosvm has Wayland support for graphical apps.
> They're emitting less CO2 per capita than the US

The most disingenuous statement in this thread? In other news...

High School coach points out his QB completes more passes per game than NFL team QB. Demands equivalent compensation for better performance.

Total physical amount of pollution is a quantitative problem. Trying to cut it up per capita by a population grouping is not constructive. Hand waving with this kind of reductionist calculation is political spin. It's "unfair" to discount this measure, but thats because physical/practical problems lie outside political interests.
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So will be anti-RF, if you let many people get deadly scared of radio waves.
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Every society has a fitness function. Why not make the code public? In China one is loyal to "the party", in the US one has to be loyal to "the parties". I don't see a large distinction.
They are smart just as water is smart in finding the path of least resistance.
Should be easy to fix, if the contract for work includes a "penalty for being wrong for circumstances completely within the bidders control that they should have seen".

Austin government did this for its MoPac toll express lanes and got them for way cheaper than what they should have paid: https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2017/09/27/big-settl...

However, the project ran over for two years longer than it should have (it was supposed to be completed in September 2015, and they are only just now wrapping it up). So I guess no one really won there aside from the Austin transportation budget guys, except the populace hates them now for traffic jamming the place up for two years longer than they said they would.
Statements like this then take on a sinister sheen when discussed in the West.

That's because statements like that are nothing new if looked at from a historical context. E.g. there was this German word "lebensraum", meaning "living space", that was used to justify Imperial Germany's goals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum

That whole lebensraum thing didn't end well, for anyone involved.
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But how do you know that it is a simple trade off between money and safety standards? It's been noted on HN that the US seems particularly bad at large infrastructure projects compared to other developed countries and I'm struggling to believe that's because the US has wildly better safety standards.
Good job - so many places get language detection wrong it's nice to see one that works properly!
As someone who went through the official Tensorflow 'get started' and many mini tutorials the net, I found this article of no help. It introduces a multitude of libraries, math notations, ML concepts and lots of (random?) undocumented constants.

There's a big leap from relatively simple concepts to the relatively complex example for what is to be considered "101". I would still recommend that people start with https://www.tensorflow.org/get_started/get_started
But its not a new technology, we have been using radio for over 100 years, just because its 5ghz doesn't completely change the physics involved.
Sure if this was a drastically new technology like lets say teleportation, it would be a bad idea to blindly use it everywhere without some study into the physical effects. Radio though is very well understood.
Given that this was a discussion of word vectors specifically it seems reasonable. StarSpace doesn't have anything new in terms of word vectors.
Too much exposition on "non-china" factors?
This is what I've always believed, but I stumbled upon this a minute ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoionization#Multi-photon_i...

Apparently, at least using some deep laser science magic, you can make photons' energy additive with respect to ionization process. Anyone here who knows the science behind this, and could shine the light on whether or not this thing has any impact on day-to-day interactions with RF radiation?
I don't. That's moving the goalposts.

Who cares if Oroville Dam is in the USA or not. The same thing would still apply if it was in the UK. I'm merely saying the modern public should reconsider spending $250million extra, instead of applauding it simply because no injuries happened.
Here we go again butterfly! Thanks for bringing this up, indeed we may get the goodbits from "the other side".

I'm wondering if artist-mode can be used as a minor mode? Charts everywhere :)
As a developer from India I can confirm this. There is a general attitude that if you are still writing code after 5 years after starting career, then you are a stupid.

Another aspect is payscale, you have to get promoted to non coding management roles to get a decent pay, So the priority will be getting to that level, not improving code quality and being a better developer
FWIW, I feel that any big violation of radiation limits would be quickly found out as the product in question would make other devices in the vicinity misbehave.
> use freedom wisely

How many would claim that getting a 200M drug ad campaign qualifies? Hell, I watch a drug ad and it is all life style and vibe. Shots off my golf score! Luxury Yachts! Happy, Well Adjusted Grand Kids!
I don't know how it would make sense for business, unless they're trying to replace you with somebody less experienced because it's cheaper. In that case, it doesn't sound like the kind of place I would want to work for anyway.
> "...Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg reportedly said that young people are more intelligent while speaking to a group of entrepreneurs "

I would be fascinated to hear if his opinion changes once he is 40+ ...
Even if they were (I doubt), I haven't found a clear and informed description how they relate exactly to tensors found in math/physics literature. I agree with your view that they look more like nd-arrays.
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Skew wealthier, but are more practical with that wealth. Cuts both ways, the more expensive room will have to be perceived as a better value regardless.
It's incredibly useful for search, given the property that similar words are close in the vectorial space. And given it's purely numbers, it's really fast to compute.

To see an example, type "fuel" in the search input on this page: https://openvoyce.com//products/quuu

You'll see many relevant results, none of them using the word "fuel". This is done purely with postgres, computing a L2 distance sort - no elasticsearch.
If there's no hypotheses on how long-term effects can occur, then experimental work becomes p-hacking (read meaningless).
I'm not well educated as I have no idea what you're referring to, mind pointing out what in specific was misspelled or not correct.
Me.

VA Smalltalk. Large, fairly complex ERP. I am far more productive in Smalltalk compared to what I used to do before: .Net (C#, Powershell), a little Java, a DSL, COBOL. I am one of those people that "live in the debugger". I can usually deliver a fix within two minutes if I have a "walkback log", which is the stack-trace leading to the exception, or less than 30 minutes if reproduction steps are given.

The whole thing, GUI (forms etc) + logic, is in Smalltalk. GUI also modifiable graphically. All changes are trivial if the base code is good quality.

I also discovered Envy here - I also use Mercurial, git and fossil (personal projects) and Envy is the most powerful of them all.

I use Pharo for personal projects. Also very, very productive. I plan to retire with Pharo as my goto tool.
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I am not sure about your context, but even the relational databases like postgresql support json as the first class citizen because sometimes you have to store non relational data into your db
I love it when deskjockeys start putting a price on other people's lives.

Construction is dangerous, if you are willing to compromise on that then you'll see that you can do even better when you drop that price. And before you know it we're back in the 1930's again.
Word vectors are "useful" as an alternative representation for words in any machine learning task.

Previously one used TF-IDF to represent a document, but now one uses Word2Vec and will usually get better results.

For example, From Word Embeddings To Document Distances[1] shows how to use a new distance measure (Word Mover Distance) in classification tasks. This leads to state-of-the-art performance on 6 out of 8 classic text classification datasets (and very close on the other 2).

In most other practical NLP tasks you find similar results: replacing an older representation with a word embedding almost always improves performance.

[1] http://proceedings.mlr.press/v37/kusnerb15.pdf
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The problem with the quote is Jonston neither invented the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) nor are most cold viruses DNA viruses (most are RNA).
Are you volunteering?
"plants plugged into a dodder network where another member had been attacked increased defensive chemical production and produced skinnier caterpillars, and this was true even when the hosts were from entirely different plant families"
different plant families can communicate with each other.... fascinating!
Animal pens.
It might be if they used the One True Brace style ;)
I'm curious if any study supports that
I've always wondered if the common cold is not something that we just need from time to time. I mean, it seems so universal, and the reasons we catch it so random sometime it seems like the body just decide "ok let that in".
That wasn't an opinion, that was propaganda. It was and still is in his best interests that young people buy that line, because from his perspective young people are not so much smarter as cheaper: fewer commitments, willing to put up with longer hours.
Casino licenses are contingent upon offering a fair game at stated odds. The odds are allowed to benefit the house, of course, since that's how running a casino becomes a sustainable, profitable enterprise, but the stated odds cannot be dynamically changed in the middle of the game to benefit the house.

Published blackjack odds depend on "dumb" reshuffles. If the house is "smartly" reshuffling the deck to reduce house payouts, then the published odds do not match the real odds, which is illegal.
I totally agree about relativism not being a credible defense in any circumstance.

I was not very verbose. My aim was to point out nation states are not that different in their capability to sacrifice moral for power. That in itself does not excuse any malfeasance.
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The JVM does solve the distribution problem that's heavily frustrated me with other platforms.

I can create a great tool in Ruby for example, but asking a computer illiterate to run it in Windows isn't going to happen.

You can however hand that person a .jar from Clojure and ask them to run it.
Well it was up to 700 for me. At least in the first years. Also felt the questions were annoying there. Especially because it was so basic stuff you can find everywhere in the internet. In the specialized courses in the master there were often only 2-20 people and this was completely different, with topics that are state of the art in research and material you can't find online so easily.
I'm going to make a guess here and assume that you are not working construction. And if that's so I would highly recommend you join a construction crew for a couple of years and then come back here with your idiotic approach to workplace safety. It's all about preventable accidents, and your assumption that we could save 250M on a project by compromising workplace safety is both wrong and the beginning of a slippery slope that ends with maximum savings and no workplace safety at all. After all, it's not the life of you and your family that is at risk here.

Fuck those construction workers, fuck those miners and who cares about factory workers. After all they're disposable. /s

Workplace safety is there for a reason: to stop white collar criminals from putting a price on human lives and then to optimize for the lowest they can get away with.
> A quite a bit less than $250million, which is how much is being paid.

That idea was made up in this thread, it doesn't reflect reality.

The cost overrun was explained in the article as due to only scoping out 30% of the project as part of making the bid, and as such underestimating how much concrete they would need:

> Jeff Petersen, project manager for Kiewit, said that once construction workers got on the site they discovered they had to dig much deeper to get down to bedrock than they had expected. That meant they are having to pour almost twice as much concrete this year — 870,000 cubic yards — as the company and the Department of Water Resources had planned.
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I would love to hear more about your story.

I have always thought about learning to count cards, instead of say learning a new language.

Can't you just go to another casino until they kick you out, and repeat?

Do you actually make money now that you can count?
So a promising treatment for the cold was dropped by the drug company because it was too expensive to develop, and the potential payoff too small. Drug companies' profit models pretty much require them to focus on developing drugs that people have to use for the rest of their lives - that manage a condition rather than treat it.

Is there a good reason why we shouldn't club together as rich countries and fund a not-for-profit drug research body that does fund this sort of thing?
Exactly. PCR is THE backbone of modern biology, I would suspect an author writing about it know at least what it is. I assume she meant 'adapted' instead of 'developed' but still, it sounds fishy and makes you unneccessarily question every other sentence of the article.
Yes, for example if we can do tables with color-background text, it would save columns to draw the column boarders. :)

Even if we go with monochrome charts, it will be super useful for describing data structures and visualizing algorithms.

Also, looking forward to the semantic movement implementation!
Is it right that home automation is really just light automation? Or did I miss something?
I am certainly aware of the 'Treasure Voyages' and China's abilities up through the Ming dynasty. China was indeed able to travel, trade, and exploit foreign nations at limited distance, but never on a scale as the Europeans from the 16th century onward.

This is also documented: https://www.amazon.com/Civilization-West-Rest-Niall-Ferguson....
That's good. Does it generate any Internet traffic it all, or is it entirely local?

One thing I noticed from your command: No authentication. Looks like any software on any device on the LAN can control the light. Is that really true?
> Drug companies want to make drugs that people have to use for the rest of their lives - that manage a condition rather than treat it

Recent evidence contradicts this statement. Notably, the pay-off to Gilead for its hepatitis C cure [1].

Besides, TFA outlines non-conspiratorial reasons underlying pharmaceutical companies’ nervousnous around developing vaccines. (TL; DR people are unwilling to pay as much for prevention as they are for a cure; also development is expensive and risky.)

EDIT: [1] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/04/business/sales-of-sova...
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> Is there a good reason why we shouldn't club together as rich countries and fund a not-for-profit drug research body that does fund this sort of thing?

Oh yes. Most of the people that would be involved in this decision are linked near of far to the drug companies.
I thought you might link that [0] article. In includes deaths attributed to "economic pressures", and "U.S. military supplies".

It also includes all deaths on both sides of the wars that they judged the US to have been a factor in, regardless of whether the US was involved.

- It includes 1.6 million deaths from the Soviet Union's war on Afghanistan, which the US was not involved in, because the US "lured the Soviet Union into war".

- It includes 750,000 deaths from the US arming Angolan revolutionaries overthrowing colonial rulers.

That's just "A" on the alphabetical list of countries. If you want to blame the US for every tangential death, you can do so openly here. While you do that, China continues to actively repress a billion people.

I mentioned Kent State because it's the standard Chinese apologist response to Tienanmen.

You should read more about some of the countries we were fighting. Many of the things that the US did in Cambodia and Iraq were utterly shameful. While we did those shameful things, they were committing genocide [1][2].

History is more complicated than an evil US butchering every innocent country it can find.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anfal_genocide
Assuming they have Java installed. Which, in my experience, is less and less likely as time goes on, for random samplings of non-developer Windows boxes.
On a 4" phone, it’s perfectly possible.

I have relatively small hands, but here’s a few photos: https://imgur.com/a/YIRAj – 100% of the screen is reachable, and on all below 4.9" also with a firm grip.

In contrast, on the 5.2" Nexus 5X, only with a loose grip is the left or upper part reachable, and the action bar’s up button is generally unreachable while holding the phone in a firm grip.

On larger devices, such as the Nexus 6P (currently none here, so I can’t take photos), it gets far worse.

Phone UI is designed for 4-5" devices, if you use larger, you have to live with that, but that’s your decision.
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Hi, ikr that these types of questions get asked all so often, but I found myself in a dilemma and can't decide what path to choose. I'm a 3rd year EE&CS student and have experience in various languages, albeit basic to intermediate only, as we focused more on algorithms and general programming concepts more than we did on practical stuff.

The thing is, I was offered a job after graduation at a company that uses a lot of data science (not sure if this is the correct way to phrase it, but English isn't my mother tongue). I still have some time to decide on weather that is a job I'd like and well to shorten the lengthy intro I can't decide on weather to keep working on Java that is switching to Kotlin or maybe Scala or to switch to C# + F# and also neither on what path to go on, should it be DS/Machine Learning/Something else, there isn't particularly anything that I like, since till now all I really did was simple school stuff and front-end stuff (actually I dislike front-end dev) and programming competitions. So TL;DR What do you guys thinks is the best path to choose for a young developer that will be starting out his career in 1.5 years?
How many Western tech companies do you know that are doing well in China? How many Americans do you know that are allowed to work legally in China?

What about the other way?
I guess those of us who are less resistant to groupthink (i.e. have working faculties) have to be responsible to get into positions of power so we can say, "fuck off" when designers want to take a line of technology and change it because "trend" without additional evidence.
Bringing back the Haast Eagle would perhaps be more entertaining.
Chinese private investment in other countries is "private" in name only. It's investment by largely state-owned enterprises in the service of government foreign policy.
Basically: companies are looking for cheapest programmers they can find. That involves using the stacks most popular on the market.

(I remember my boss at one of my previous jobs literally saying to me "you know, we could let you write that in something more advanced, like Ruby or Python, but then when I'll be hiring, I'll have to pay 2x to a Ruby programmer than I have for a PHP programmer, so PHP it is".)
On time at only double the original cost is a bargain by Californian standards.

As you say, better to wait till its done before getting too excited.
The most important thing from this whole article is that the brute force approach works. Just make a vaccine against all the different common cold viruses (250 to 300) and vaccinate everyone. Done.

Of course this will never be done because the system for developing vaccines is so broken that it is impossible to make money selling a vaccine for the common cold. You could make a magic vaccine that was 100% effect with zero side effects (no vaccine is magic) and it would be impossible to develop and sell under the current regulations.
I remember kids breaking other things using rotary phones, and then those phones still working fine. Those big hard pieces of plastic were super tough. Maybe if you dropped the base of the phone on its dial or something...