skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty neat. From previous papers it is using temperature swing adsorption[1] pull the water out of the air. Basically their MOF material collects on its surface (adsorbtion) water at one temperature and releases it (desorption) at the other. In this way, just by putting their material out in the Sun light the day/night cycle will collect and then dispense the collected water all passively.

The 'catch' is how expensive is it to produce the MOF and how long does it work before it needs to be replaced. In an ideal world, with a cheap catalyst and infinite lifetime, you could build a large tower full of this stuff and it would pour water out during the desorption process.

[1] https://www.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/mavt/p...
As opposed to Node.js and use npm?
I can't believe that companies want to shoot themselves in the foot.
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The fact that multiple federal investigators also went to prison...

What? When did that happen? Please, could you share some link?
I've seen anywhere between 5-20% working as a freelancer/consultant in London. This is partly why I think clients are keen to respond to cold emails about work - it can save them a lot of money compared to using recruitment agents.
I think you’re way oversimplifying the situation. BMW isn’t anything like Microsoft.

It’s important to remember that, if you count hybrids, BMW already sells more electrified cars than Tesla and the vast majority of them at a more affordable price point than Tesla (the i3 is a pretty good value).

BMW sells a ton of cars and has made pretty good progress on the electric front. They’re just not a hype machine like Tesla.
Where are you getting this information from? If trade negotiations opened up investment both ways, that would an enormous win for both parties, and certainly solidify Xi's rule .
> or a projection of their disagreement with Trump's personality and other political actions.

I see this often nowadays with callers into NPR, who I've generally thought of as very informed people over the years. At least twice in the past week has someone called in to criticize Trump, only to have the host correct them that Trump did indeed take a certain action or that a certain policy is more detailed or nuanced than they believed. After said correction, the caller still continued on with their criticism, for no other real reason than they don't trust him.
Isn't A3 e-Tron a plug-in, not a pure EV?

It is pretty nice to drive though.
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Uncomfortable ideas that might be true:

* a person may be happier working 8 hours for $100 than getting a $100 handout

* some n% of people may be better suited for repetitive work than creative work, and when these people are automated out of a job there will not be other repetitive jobs to go to

* in the above proposition, n may be closer to 100% than we know

* working in a hot and dangerous steel mill for $100 of wages may be preferable, in the long term, to washing floors for a rich person for $120

* the above proposition may be doubly or triply true for men

* the above proposition may be additionally doubly or triply true for the subset of men most disposed towards violent conflict resolution

* ethnically diverse societies may be at higher risk for societal breakdown than ethnically homogeneous societies

* some jobs may be better than others at providing a person with a sense of identity and dignity, and this metric may not correlate with automatibility

* some persons with anti-social tendencies may be “tamed” by the requirements of employment and may be less anti-social out of work hours

* jobs may take time and energy away from self- and society-destructive behaviors — someone who has just done a long shift may be simply too tired to “raise hell”

* individual choices with respect to work may not be utility maximizing for the society OR the individual over the long term — someone may say “yes” to the idea of collecting their wage without ever having to work again, but after 30 years of Netflix may be a less happy person for having done it
The display i mentioned is 144x168. 640x480 is over 12 times as many pixels. _if_ decoding scales by #pixels, that would move that 71 mW down to around 6 mW.

Still larger, more so if you go to 30 Hz or higher, but there is no silver bullet if you want a smaller watch or longer battery life.
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[citation needed] on every last bit of this. You've bundled a whole bunch of claims into a short space, and all of them are wrong.

> regulations and taxes

Measured in GDP, American manufacturing has increased since 2000. This suggests that the chief culprit is automation, especially when China's taxes aren't significantly less than ours.

> resource extraction industries

Need a citation here too. What percentage of the middle class derived its income from resource extraction even when that was at its peak in America? And don't forget to exclude coal from that percentage, because the decline of coal is mostly because it's now cost-uncompetitive with LNG and solar.

Nothing about America's current economic woes is going to be fixed by a Chinese tariff. This is firing blind and aiming in the wrong direction.
You're still fighting strawmen. At no point did he say that the students don't have the right to appeal or that instructors shouldn't have to participate in that process. He said it's a big time sink and one of the reasons instructors don't fight plagiarism much.
I don't think $60B matters a whole lot. The issue is always if it escalates. It's pulling the lever of economic sanction over mainly political disagreements (voters who support the optics), a little distraction, if you will.
No, google is safe, they didn't piss off media...
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When I worked for a Fortune 200 insurance company, I sometimes had to call healthcare providers to verify information. Healthcare providers were sometimes major hospitals, but they were often small offices providing medical or dental care.

Although doctors are highly educated professionals, their education specifically covers medical stuff, not business stuff. Small offices routinely had piss poor knowledge of regulations like HIPAA and lousy business practices. Small shops often simply lack robust practices in important areas outside their main area if expertise. This is a serious problem in business.

Similarly, I imagine that in many cases, Grandma's restaurant was started because Grandma was an excellent cook and she decided to make money off of it in an era where her lack of business acumen was less of a hindrance. The grandkids may not cook as well as Grandma and may have no idea they need to up their game in non cooking areas as well.

So Taco Bell comes in and Taco Bell has better business practices and a robust system in place to standardize the quality of its so so food. The fact that no gourmet chefs work there won't hurt the business the way it kills Grandma's restaurant when the grandkids just can't turn out a dish like Grandma could.

I would really like to see a world that does a better job helping small shops perform well as business entities. But that isn't the world I live in currently. Currently, small shops often die because they simply lack business acumen that franchises have well sorted.
And new tariffs will help that...how?

You can't turn back the clock. The factories are already closed, the companies are already bankrupt, the workers have already been laid off and in many cases been out of work for 10-15 years, the young people (those that can get out) have already left. If Middle America wants to rejuvenate itself they need to engage with the world as it exists now and plant new seeds, not try to freeze-frame the world of the 1960s.
I feel like this conversation is taking place in a strange parallel universe in which people don’t appreciate what 15,000+ nuclear warheads being exchanged would do. The fires started from them alone would be an extinction event, and the kinds of incredibly remote areas in which you might find long-term survivors would not be laden with caches of electronics and populations capable of using them.

Getting enough food and water that wasn’t dreadfully contaminated alone would be the preoccupation of generations. By the time anyone had ideas about rising from barbarism, what we think of as civilization now would be rusted, eroded, and overgrown.

All of that assumes the most optimistic of assumptions regarding global wildfires, teratogenic effects, and nuclear winter. We wouldn’t be using magnetic tapes, we’d be using rocks and sticks and animal hides.
> The reason why Middle America has so little spending power is because regulations and taxes have decimated their manufacturing and resource extraction industries and effectively moved them overseas. This of course led to a loss of specialized workers who can pass down their skills and loss of technical knowledge.

http://www.businessinsider.com/~~/f?id=4aa6761d17a383176e47e...

And yes, this graph is inflation-adjusted. The number of $$ of manufactured goods has risen for like 50 years straight in the USA.

Spoiler alert: The US manufactures more today than it did at any other time in history. Automation has killed jobs. It takes far fewer workers to make the same (or even 10x) the number of products.

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/us-manu...

We in the US are making more product with fewer and fewer workers. That's the truth of the matter.
> YouTube is clearly a common area.

YouTube isn't even an area, much less a common area. (Not to mention that the “common area” thing is not a federal Constitutional requirement but a judicial application of the positive rights in the California Constitution; it is not a First Amendment right.)

It's a publication in which user submissions that Google accepts will be published, possibly accompanied by ads from which revenue is shared with the submitter.
Even if they mass produced an EV, I still wouldn't buy one from them. Reason - 1. they will nickel and dime customers like crazy and charge for LED lights, 17" wheels, CarPlay subscription 2. iDrive is a relic from 90s, an archaic infotainment systems 3. 3 series drivability is no better than a Honda at this point. I used to own a e92, but F30 is a joks 4. Awful dealer network 5. They probably won't invest in a charging network
Getting really obvious that you haven't taken a moment to listen to the Heller decision.
How about just stop grading on a curve? At least then, cheaters can't hurt the grades of non-cheaters.
I think the point is that users had to consent with Facebook. Maybe they didn’t read or understand. Maybe Facebook should directly ad “this will fuck you” to the consent form. But people would still ignore.

My issue is that they’ve always been transparent about collecting and sharing data. They just say it in a friendly way.

There’s a whole episode of South Park with the Eula. And people stil don’t read before clicking.

This happens in many places. Check out the effect of unnoticed binding arbitration clauses - http://www.latimes.com/business/la-na-supreme-court-californ...

I’m happy if laws change to improve this. But I’m surprised too.
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The promise of cheaper goods is a lie. Corporations outsourced labor and then kept the difference as profit instead of passing the savings onto consumers. Hence why corporate profits are at record highs while the average American's buying power continues to drop.
Isn't that exactly what cold calling is?
Wow, been digging into the AYP site. Thank you for passing this on. Some of the best stuff I've ever read, and I've read a LOT.
Wait - I thought the goal of "countering a global competitor" was to save jobs and thus money for US?

Otherwise, what's the point?
Did you read the article at all? This applies to places under 50% humidity, not just deserts.
Exactly. If it goes both ways then it is also on the company to retain the employee.
"Especially" Internet services, but the same argument would apply to offline services, like vehicle rentals or building roads. Presumably the law isn't intended to go that far.
It much simpler to make MOFs than other nanomaterials like carbon nanotubes and graphene.

Well yes, but nanomaterials are tough to make, and mass produced graphene is a nightmare. None of that changes the energy requirements to make the stuff, or the hazardous byproducts of production. If it’s not energetically and financially efficient, then it doesn’t compete with desalination, and is useless.
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I could see such a mechanism making sense while a low-wage country gains experience to achieve productivity (measured in output / labor cost).

But what would the US be gaining during this time of protection? It cannot make the sort of productivity gains a developing economy can.

I don’t know enough about these tariffs on China to offer judgement, and it may depend on the details. The stated rational mentions IP rights, so it may actually be more sensible than the alu and steel tariffs which seem rooted in some 1950s worldview.

But sometimes politics trumps economics. Turning your relationship with Canada and Mexico into a zero-sum family brawl will without a doubt lead to a breakdown in trust that will haunt North America for decades.

And for what, exactly? Selling a few more cars when unemployment is already at a record low?
It brings in jobs from manufacturing given the levees will make it more expensive to import from China. At least that is the rationale.
Thank you! I'm not in NYC but these are great guidelines. Something I'll be scheduling for myself in the near future.
No one has accused of IBM of 'riding the next wave', sometimes I wonder if they even start paddling as the wave swells :-).

At least at Google the driving factor is total cost of ownership, full stop. When you need as much compute as they do to deliver on what they deliver, saving a few percent on the TCO flows right to the bottom line.

That said I don't see them going full on with this technology if its QP$S[1] isn't competitive with x64.

[1] Queries per dollar-second.
I can assure you this won't happen in a year. For most people it's a worse and more expensive product.
Demand characteristics always come into play with such tests, at least when it comes to evaluating groups of people like any group of 4chan or reddit folk. I wouldn't mind betting that a significant portion of them want to be perceived as INTJ/INTP, and are at least clever enough to know how to answer such questionnaires to achieve their desired result. And if not, they'll just repeat the questionnaire until they have something to screenshot.

But to answer your question, I just did an MBTI test for you and from my responses I was determined to be INTJ.
There's a difference. Smoot-Hawley was a massive and unprovoked tariff. China already taxes products made by US companies at similarly massive levels - I've been to China multiple times and everything from American brand toiletries to cars costs nearly 2-3x as much as they cost here in the US! Part of that is shipping and premium brand pricing, but a large part is Chinese protectionism aimed at putting our products out of reach of the masses.

You can choose - either continue to suffer Chinese tariffs being 10x greater than ours, or engage in reciprocal rate matching that will motivate negotiations for mutual rate lowering.
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This is not going to work unfortunately, the program expects the arguments to be paths.
Forget about Android apps, I had to grant a Chrome extension access to everything on every website (seemingly the only ACL level for extensions..) so I could get navigate back with backspace...
I used them for my thesis to make bicycle wheels [0], was fun to watch it making the simulation explode in order to obtain extreme values. Also recently held a workshop where we used EAs to make figures walk[1]. A lot of funny results at the end!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10410813

[1]: https://github.com/Matsemann/walkingea
American manufacturing is doing fine, thanks to automation [1]. The jobs, not so much. Tariffs aren't going to do anything about the automation trend.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-manufacturing-dead-outp...
The market is very niche. One of the best values in cars right now is off lease Volts — my neighbor just picked one up for like $16k.

Personally, I’m an ideal EV candidate. But it just costs more, especially when you price in electrical work for home chargers, etc. The TCO of a nicely equipped Accord is far less, and will be for a long time.
Nothing I see here is a negative - China does not play fair - this is a shot over the bow... should have been done years ago.
I'm not a travis user, but with Jenkins there is an xunit plugin that opens up an api with test results for the specific build. since xunit formatting is standard/generic, we've implemented a parser that just gets the # of pass/failed tests and links to the build for further investigation.

We had a similar problem where posting all of the results was just more noise than useful, this is at least a good starting point for handling build result feedback.
This site is super cool! Love the design.

If you make a pull request with your examples in a test file I'll be sure to notify you if we break anything. The trickiest thing will be the outputs from the statistical models. If we release new models, the examples might give different outputs, even if the API hasn't changed.

A quick clarification as well:

> As implied in the spacy docs for the Token class, the is_alpha, is_digit, is_upper, is_lower, is_title, and is_space attributes all delegate their operations to Python's built-in str methods with similar names (such as str.isalpha()).

This is generally true, but the values are cached within the vocabulary, for each word-type. I'm just worried this could confuse someone.
Also known as a tax on the poor. Tariff taxes just get pushed onto the consumer as the US doesn't have any domestic competing products anywhere close to the price point of Chinese goods. We will continue to buy China, just at 10% more than in the past.

People will just pay yet another tax as everything will become more expensive.

The disconnect between "China is taking our jobs" and "I want a tv for cheap" is astounding. Different sides of the same coin.
This is a good point. Chinese govt is doing a lot of things to keep manufacturing cheap there - from keeping their currency artificially low by buying USD, to using those USD to subsidize manufacturing and then to export those products internationally to decimate local manufacturing. It is not as simple as some who have commented below would say.

The fact that the local manufacturing industry has been decimated is no reason to keep it like that. If profit is to be made, industry will come back - that is the beauty of capitalism.
> Nevertheless, there’s some comfort in the fact that of the 370 million guns in United States, all but very few will more likely be used to save lives, rather than take them.

That's based on a false dichotomy; many won't be used at all, and many of the rest will be used for entertainment, not to save or take lives. And some will be used for multiole purposes (often simultaneously), potentially including both saving and taking lives. (A criminal who fatslly shoots a cop to make his escape from arrest on a capital offense, is, after all, both saving and taking a life, as is the cop who, being slightly faster in the same situation, fatally shoots the criminal first.)
I really hope AMD releases a 7601 variant that is clocked similarly to the threadripper chips.
Currently, it doesn't support document vectors, but it should be possible to add it and maintain the same interface. We're open to accepting a pull request if your interested in building that feature.
> A client that doesn't know what he wants is a bad client.

I disagree completely. A prospect who doesn't know what they want is an opportunity for the freelancer to provide more value by finding a solution for them.

You're conflating "unrealistic expectations" with "I know I have a problem but I don't know what the solution is." The former is something to avoid. The latter should make cash-register sounds in your head because it's an opportunity to provide more value and charge accordingly.
Now, can this launch profile tell us anything about the mission?
> I felt that at the point you are understanding the problem, you may just be better off with a direct approach

I formed a similar impression in my PhD research.
America has a water crisis no one is talking about
This attention is too close after the moment when fb decided to promote your friends posts instead of media posts.
Media knew about this, reported on it at the time, but since they were making money, they didn't give a shit. Now, since fb switched the news feed algorithm, they are not making that much money anymore and are using whatever means they have to "fix" this. This is not about media caring about the general population, this is about media wanting revenge.
> but it's interesting how reliable it is.

Any correct testing of MBTI finds that it's not reliable.
It's the idea that is the problem.
We will have to wait for the details. Will they really tax Nike shoes, HP/Dell computers or Apple phones? As for what Lighthizer allegedly cares about - "electric vehicles, high-tech shipping and aerospace technology", I am not aware that this country buys in any significant quantity from China so not sure how they can be targeted with tariffs.

In NYT's exact words: ... Those industries include electric vehicles, high-tech shipping and aerospace technology. Mr. Lighthizer called them “the ones I care about” for tariff purposes.
> My gut feeling is that it is hubris to think that we are going to "figure out" intelligence with increasingly sophisticated mathematical models anytime soon.

We did it already. Compter understand language, translate it, react to it. They can recognize items on a picture. Is there a task left which can't be done by computers better and faster than by humans?

>Almost by definition, if we can analytically understand it, it's not going to be interesting enough.

I think current ML is magic. I understand the math behind it. But still, I'm amazed every time when the training is over and it actually works like intended. Everything which is big enough is more than the sum of it's parts.
This is an interesting point. The issue is with them knowing about it, as much as them not removing it. Implementing real privacy does provide an out here, business models that revolve around data are really the only thing that gets hit hard here.

I feel like data platforms got themselves involved, the platform immunity excuse stopped holding, when they started doing their own content moderation to begin with. Once they decided to remove content they didn't like, were they not implicitly endorsing the content they left alone?
IBM has their own jvm for power9 across all their OS families.
Do you really want every brother and their mother with your data to have the ability to ruin your life like that?
Just because node.js and npm are terrible doesn't detract from the fact that java is terrible |;)
Call me crazy, but I'm kinda hoping for a recession. Housing prices seem very tightly correlated with the economy boom. I'd sure like to see a nice correction back down to sane levels, so that some of us who've been saving for a long time, can finally afford to buy something.

Downvote of course if you're a current home owner.
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I like that analogy.
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"Cutting off your nose to spite your face", I guess.
To build on my snarkniess: it's almost as if the incentives behind research and education aren't nearly as aligned as we think.
Your statemen in the last paragraph about increased value is correct. Alas, too often that does not correspond to the proportional increase in pay. For some reason other companies are willing to pay more.

There is also “people join companies but leave managers“.