skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We were in WeWork in Chicago --- there's 3 of them here, we were in West Loop --- for about a year. We left and rented an office, maybe 1100sqft?, about a 7 minute walk away. It has parking, relative (to WeWork) quiet, high ceilings, a kitchen, 2 private bathrooms, and conference rooms we don't need to reserve in a weird app or barter with friends for/with. We're 4 people (in this office). We pay less per person than we did at WeWork.

WeWork is useful! I think it gets a bad rap (though the atmosphere and the general vibe of the clientele probably does not).

But unless you're in SFBA or Manhattan, office space is just not that expensive. As soon as you're making payroll, it's pretty insignificant. If I start from 1-2 people again, I'll probably consider WeWork again. But I'll get out of WeWork much faster next time, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUYtlMuN_V4
"Sound" (1966-67), Pt. 1
Is it better to max 401k as early as possible?
Assuming you have the means to, is it better to front-load 401k contributions in the year (e.g. max out to 18k by mid-Feb) or distribute contributions evenly throughout the year? Or are all schemes equivalent in the long-run?
Electrostatic force is incredibly powerful. I read a great bit of info that said just two Coulombs concentrated in the equivalent area of two electrons repel with the force of one million tons.

All matter has a charge too so I could see with the right conditions a large electrostatic force being formidable.
You don’t buy cartridges from HP (these are user refillable) you do need to buy their agents or authorized agents you can’t just dump any PA12 powder in it and hope for the best.

High end printers especially powder deposition ones use pretty complex chemistry and the consumables have to be up to spec.
> There are many consumer-oriented Linux distributions that do not track the user.

Can you name one?
https://stackoverflow.com/users/login

I don't remember if I used Google, Facebook, or SO's own auth when I created my SO account. Some sites have upwards of 5 to 10 different ways to login and I find it very confusing.
Agreed, I wouldn't do a production web service purely in Rust yet, the ecosystem is still way too immature.
Million guesses per second vs thousands. Really interesting how SHA3 made its way to this blog post.
You can always use a PO Box, as I've done in the past. Extra rent, but useful.
>> 8. Let your users delete their accounts

Man, if I was drinking milk I would have shot it out my nose at that one. Google and every single social network are the last actors who make it easy (or even let you for-realize-ies) delete your association. They may let you remove access to the persona they store and monetize, but they certainly don't let you "easily delete your account". THis entire post is a giant crock.
Infrared is the new health craze for the super-wealthy. Companies sell beds with IR lights that shine on you to "heal" you.

The funny thing is the beds glow red I guess the word literally meaning beyond red (i.e. can't see it) won't sell if there isn't any red to be see.
The guardian certainly has a strong editorial position, but I've never found its' reporting to be anything other than honest, well researched, and written with integrity.

I think that they believe what they write with a high level of conviction, which is more than you can say for some of the more egregious videos floating around on YouTube.
£4900 for the 8-core iMac Pro. It seems Apple worship has plumbed new depths of lunacy.
Yes, I know about GT's "interlingua". I've chosen my "swallow" example specifically to show that it's basically just a model of English.

Which makes a lot of sense when you realise that all the languages in the language pairs that GT's interlingua covers will have many, many more texts going to and from English, than to and from any other language. Attempting to derive a many-to-many language model from an English-dominated corpus is very likely to lead to an intermediary model that is basically English-to-many.

In fact, if you read the relevant paper [1] the dominance of English in tables etc jumps out at you.

And if you look at how Google figured out its Neural Machine Translation system has created an interlingua, that is ... visualisation. So it's not like they have some kind of principled way to demonstrate that this interlingua they advertise actually exists. They just look at some pretty images and interpret them to say that it does.

Even this visual "evidence" as they call it, is from a many-to-many language model trained on Japanese, Korean and -you guessed it- English.

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[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.04558v1.pdf
We don't, though. The quoted code isn't safe. It has implicit unsafe blocks in it. You can't claim there are two dialects of Rust if you inlcude the "unsafe" dialect in your definition of "safe" as long as there isn't an explicit "unsafe" block present. It's misleading
I do use Gandi and trust them, but I'm not sure if this is 100% possible. Gandi still has limitations that largely depend on TLDs.
The Internet Is Making Us Stupid (2016)
Yes, true randomness is possible through quantum phenomenon. No, it isn’t possible to generate true randomness using deterministic processes (eg, almost all computational ones).
I disagree. That kind of anonymity is a false sense of security. Crazy people who are going to knock on your door are going to find you.

I’ve had my street address on my domains for two decades now. All it does is save would be crazy people 10 minutes of googling, as there are searchable public records of home ownership.
First Principles: Elon Musk on the power of thinking for yourself
This is simplistic and short-sighted. We have the resources to explore space and cure cancer and end global warming and do thousands of other things simultaneously. The human race is not a single organism capable of focusing on only one task. Exploration and pushing our limits has often led to breakthroughs that apply to unrelated fields.
thanks for reply . you might want to read this https://gagandeep.org/2016/06/02/bricolage-jugaad-and-indian...
the stereotypical grey goo is usually an example of the kind of narrow AI you are talking about
I truly believe this is the wrong approach. It is like watching a convolutional network after it's made.
1. In winter, take any decent house anywhere with a severe winter climate.

2. Wait until it's -30F outside, open the doors to let that dry air in. Close the doors.

3. Heat the interior to +70F to make --extremely-- dry air.

4. Shuffle across the plastic carpet in leather-soled shoes.

5. Do NOT touch the metal door knobs.
I'm not so certain. The trend pieces that push for large roles for epigenetic effects often have an activist lean to them, from the set of people who want to downplay the role of actual genetics as well as more straightforward environmental effects.

There's often an ulterior motive at play. Modern day lysenkoism.
This article uses outdated numbers which make CATL look better (compared to Tesla) than it does.

They list Tesla Gigafactory as making ~30 GWh and that (well, 35 GWh) was the initial plan.

Current projections are that Gigafactory, when completed in 2020, will make 150 GWh of batteries (https://insideevs.com/elon-musk-says-gigafactory-output-coul...).

CATL is estimated to be 50 GWh by 2020 so only 1/3 of estimated Gigafactory.

In fact, the current projections is that by 2020 Tesla will make 150 GWh, all of China ~100 GWh and the rest of the world ~50 GWh so Tesla will be making half of all world's batteries.

It's also not surprising. Article said that CATL is raising $2 billion. Gigafactory 1 will cost $5 billion (at least $1.6 billion financed by Panasonic).

That assumes no further investment from Tesla and it's almost certain that they'll start building one or two more gigafactories before 2020 (although it does take 6 years to fully build one). Musk was already talking publicly about european factory and this december there were rumors about china factory.

I collect those tidbits of data: https://www.notion.so/Tesla-watch-4bed70edb73b46c380e2762a0b...
Sounds great, but I still have trouble with the idea of a $10,000 machine that is permanently married to one monitor and unexpandable. If I'm spending that much on a computer I want PCI slots. Especially now that it's common to keep a desktop for 5+ years.
MobilEye is doing just that to create their HD maps and train their models so, yes.
It would be interesting to repeat the research in St.Petersburg, the siege during the WW2 lasted more than 2 year and there were 642,000 casualties among civilians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Leningrad
It isn't that common. On HN, however, you'd think there isn't a piece of software written in C that isn't responsible for mayhem and death. The sort of FUD around the language, driven helpfully by the Rust Evangelism Strikeforce, isn't helpful.
No, they are not arbitrary cutoffs. They are universally agreed upon conventions among speakers of English, and they give effective meaning to the words "short" and "tall". Quibbling over that is pure pedantry.
I have adblock on my primary chrome profile, but occasionally browse using a profile where it is disabled because [reasons]. My experience has been generally pleasant if you discount the low-quality ads that would be blocked under this new scheme.

Instead, I get ads for interesting new components on DigiKey or Mouser, or the similar, and I find myself clicking on ads several times a week because I'm genuinely interested in what I see -- it's like a news feed for unusual devices.

Imagine if your Twitter feed was served several tweets at a time embedded in other sites you regularly visit. You could argue it's a distraction, but but it's far from unpleasant. "Personalized ads" work a lot the same way for me.
Have they? My impression was that legislatures almost never reduced penalties outside of hotbutton political issues.
Convex optimization is heavily used in industry for real problems. It just doesn't have the sexiness that neural networks too, so it doesn't get as much attention.
Um, wasn't that your theory? You claimed more people were killed by ball lightning in the old days before people knew what it was.
My (probably unpopular) opinion is that passwords should be randomly generated by the service, and not possible to change to a user-selected value.

If you allow people to choose their own passwords, the vast majority will reuse them, and their account will eventually be compromised via credential stuffing.

I recognize that this solution will, at least initially, infuriate people. Letting people opt in to federated auth if they prefer that (I hate services that require it) might make it more palatable.
What if you use third party auth, but keep your own account records, including email addresses?

Then if you run into any issues with the third-party provider, you just "disable" the integration and do a normal email-based password reset flow.
Grey goo doesn’t require intelligence of any sort tho just the ability to consume resources and replicate.

And it doesn’t even have to be nano machines, HzD is effectively a grey goo scenario with drones that can replicate and can produce essentially biodiesel.
I think it USED to be hard to reach a person at Google, but over the past year, for a number of various reasons I've needed to reach Google, and I've spoken with a very helpful person in every case I had, it was pretty awesome actually.
You are going to put a dent into apples market cap with that attitude. Is that really what you want?
For services that generally "stay logged in", why have passwords at all? Just do "magic login link" emails, with some sort of 2FA if you're into that.
In my experience with early-mid career hires:
3 months to get ramped up, after which you should be productive-but-slow.
At 6 months you're productive, and know enough to be dangerous.
At 12 months you're really cranking and delivering excellent value.

So, that averages ~6 months to break-even on an average employee, 9-12 months if you include "duds" in the average.
The number for Tesla is outdated. 35 GWh was initial plan.

The current estimate 150 GWh by 2020 (https://insideevs.com/elon-musk-says-gigafactory-output-coul...).

Which is kind of needed to build as many cars as they want.

Only half of batteries will go to cars (the other half to residential powerpacks and commercial deployments like the one in Australia) which is 75 GWh.

At average 75 kWh batter per car, it's just enough to build 1 million Tesla 3 cars a year, which is not that much and well within Tesla's projections by 2020.

That doesn't include even more battery hungry Tesla trucks and roadsters and S and X, which is why it's safe to say that before 2020 Tesla will have to start building another Gigafactory to deliver the cars they've already promised.
Yeah the Hz race is long dead. These days it is all about avoiding cache misses. Perhaps why Intel got egg on their face with Meltdown, as that seems to have all to do with avoiding said misses.
> My 10-core test unit prices out at $9,599, and a comparable 18-core unit would be $11,199, a 17% increase in cost.

All I can say here is "Wow!!!" That's an amazing price for a computer that is completely user hostile to upgrade or repair.
It's incredibly expensive with a mediocre AMD GPU. No Nvidia option, meaining no CUDA. No TensorFlow.

A really weird machine that seems overly strong in some areas and absolutely weak in fundamentally critical places.
Youtube personalization is eerily well-tuned from a tech perspective, and has undoubtedly been good for their business. But one of the least expected side-​effects of new technology has to be the fact that Youtube’s ‘related videos’ algorithm has given rise to a generation of Flat Earth believers.

Despite that, I gotta say, I'm uncomfortable about the series of media 'hits' on Youtube over the past year. It is based on self interest as a tech professional (I want to be able to create a social network without having to highly moderate everything!) but also, everytime it happens, a bunch of Youtubers who are innocent of what the media is alleging (objectionable content, etc.) lose their ad revenue. It's true that the 2016 US election has prompted the Anglosphere to subject social networks to more scrutiny, but when clamping down on user-generated content (or how it's displayed and monetized) we gotta look at the collateral damage, too.
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We're also in Chicago, have seen tons of space like WeWork, and decided for the pet person cost it was more effective to get a commercial lease. Yes it was unnerving to sign a 3 year lease (especially as a boot strapped startup), but we just renewed for our 4th year!

As for Co working spaces, I think they have a place, but once you hit 1 or 2 other coworkers, you need your own space. It's worth the lawyer for reviewing what you're getting in to, but I do agree, there's a lot of sketchy places with dodgy and gross problems. But you can find nice spots if you're patient and diligent.
So the price is high, but I'd actually consider getting one if only they'd exposed PCI ports and put it in, say, a MicroATX form factor or the like.

Maybe someone will make a daughterboard to make that happen for a reasonable price. Then I'd maybe have fun making a little machine to run it. I really like the idea of RISC-V.

Anybody have any idea how many MIPS we're talking here?
I think the problem is cultural, not one of engineering.

I can't say I can point to any sort of evidence of this, so take it with a pinch of salt, but my gut feeling is that the people in Google who are responsible for GT are somewhat fanatical about making purely statistical machine translation (and, in particular, deep-learning machine translation, a.k.a. neural machine translation) work. They are most probably perfectly well aware that it is possible to improve their system by using some rule-based fall-backs, or some background knowledge, but they have decided that they dont' want to use those and instead want to do machine translation from scratch and from data only, without any expert input.

So it sucks, like all pure systems suck.
As of 3 years ago, the WeWork at Bowling Green was also tight on bathrooms, but the private stalls automatically unlocked after 5 minutes. It seemed like a genius idea, but there was still always a line of several people (and the building was so cramped that I didn't really blame other people for wanting to get more than 3 feet away from their coworkers for a few minutes).
This should be the first post. I can't even believe it wasn't mentioned in the article as far as I could tell. Is Esquire writing puff pieces for SoftBank now? Are they a major advertiser or a controlling interest in one?

The binge drinking starts well before noon there -- nearly every single day, at least all over WeWorks in New York.
Is it actually hypocritical? There's a lot of room to make copyright less restrictive without entirely abolishing it.

For example, by only granting copyright protections to DRM-free works. Or requiring renewal every so often, so that abandoned works can still be used.

We don't need to make the world CC BY-SA to fix copyright. It helps where we do, but it's not the only way.
The Guardian plays with heavy distortions, biased selective reporting, and dishonest ideological clickbait tactics all the time.
Ideally, you'd be able to:

* Read any developer contribution docs.

* Glean what info you can from the layout and naming of the source tree.

* Peruse the code and any comments and see what does what.

* Read the unit tests to see how things are expected to work.

* Peruse the issues list to see what's breaking.

* Try to get a feel for how the contributor(s) think by reading any public blog posts, etc.

If none of those approaches yield any insight, don't blame yourself; maybe instead look for a different OSS project to contribute to.
I don't know, guys. The world before complex algorithms generating clicks on the Internet was pretty biased and stupid. I don't think autoplay is going to be the thing that destroys our collective intelligence for us.

If we want our society to be less prone to fictitious nonsense, education that encourages critical thinking and a rudimentary of statistics should be encouraged, but that's often not interesting enough to write about for many journalists, nor is it an easy problem to tackle.
> There's an innocent recommendation: people find Trump more engaging.

100% this. There seems a to be a presupposition in the 'fake news' debate that somehow there are right and a wrong choices in politics and anyone making the 'wrong' choice must be re-educated by the powers that be.

I still recall the NSA scandal where it turned out they were indeed spying on everyone; that would undoubtedly have been branded 'fake news' pre-Snowden. One can easily imagine a world where a presidential candidate in favour of winding back the NSA apparatus was shut down, with videos talking about overreach being condemned as conspiracy theories.

The only solutions here are communication and engagement of people with different ideas. Trying to police the truth will not end well; somebody will end up corrupting the systems in ways that end badly.
I'm always amused by Google's ethical evolution (actually scratch that I unwittingly stole it from Brent Butt, still funny):

Google motto 2004: Don't be evil

Google motto 2010: Evil is tricky to define

Google motto 2013: We make military robots
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How do you call a group of people with an shared identity and sovereignty?

No real-world example is a coupout and a no true scottsman all in one.

The stateless part is not what you think it means it just means that the state is not a separate entity to the individual mostly because individualism does not exist the only thing that exists is the group.
When everyone is equal then there are no senators or presidents or mayors but everything is still centralized so some governing body forms or it’s total anarchy.

But that doesn’t matter as long as not everyone is commmunist you would have a communist and a none communist state unless due to the authoritarian nature of communism the non communist group is annihilated.

If anything the core principals of communism are much more abhorrent than any implementation of it we had so far.
Optical physicists and chemists need a laser with a knob on it to tune the laser to an exact desired color. In the 70s and 80s, the preferred method was the use of liquid dyes as the laser medium, typically dissolved in alcohol. The dye was pumped at high speed through quartz cells, and was gotten to lase by striking it with a fixed wavelength green or ultraviolet laser. Now the best practice was to use Teflon tubing. It cleans up better, and that’s important because when changing colors, the new dye’s wavelength might be absorbed by the previous dye residue, if any. Man, the triboelectric shock you can get from high speed flow of alcohol through Teflon! The Livermore Lab was worried about this during the laser isotope separation program, as a fire hazard. The problem is solved by installing stainless steel ground wires in the Teflon tubes.
What's a good way to get involved in RISC-V
Zero sum in the sense that in so far marketing engages in the arms race of pushing the buttons of consumers rather than focusing on the products and honest descriptions of them, that is at the cost of ads that don't do that. With any individual ad you make you have the choice to go one way or the other, like two poles on a spectrum. If you are 80% of the way towards one pole, you are 20% of the way towards the other, you know the distance from both by knowing the distance from one.

> if no ad you see is relevant to you then you are less likely to buy anything online at all.

Only if you don't actually need that type of product after all, so I'd consider that another plus.
Usernames should be fully case-insensitive. It's trivial to store usernames and email addresses in all lowercase and transform any input to lowercase before comparing.

Case-insensitive comparison is not the same as convert-to-lowercase-and-compare. You should also normalize the input or you're going to set up issues where an account created on one device with one locale will be impossible to log into on another device with another locale.
Trying to police the truth will not end well; somebody will end up corrupting the systems in ways that end badly.

YouTube's recommendation policy is currently, to a zeroth-order approximation, "push content that gets people riled up". Trying to get them to not follow that policy isn't policing truth; it's asking them to refrain from an affirmative act.
I wonder if that's related to an experience I had recently. A chiropractor friend pulled out some kind of red-LED device and waved it over me during a chance meeting. He was checking on a joint injury from some time ago. I remember looking at the product he was using and thinking, "we could hit up some online suppliers and make you a device that looks at _least_ two decades more advanced than that." But I wouldn't want to improve upon a practice that is giving people the wrong idea about red LEDs. :-)
I think you're overestimating how much effort the average adversary will put in to find this information. Sure, some will hunt you down and try and find you via real life databases like home ownership records. But many will just hope they can take advantage of easily found information like WHOIS records, in the same way many burglars just hope a doors been left unlocked or a window left open.

Unless someone's gotten into a fight with 4chan or Kiwi Farms, the chances of someone actually hunting them down like an internet detective is pretty slim.
Isn't the former what Mozilla Persona was trying to provide? A shame that was canned.
If you make 6+ figures a year off your computer, do you really care if your PC cost 5,000$ instead of 2,000$? Especially if you can write off a large part of that cost?