skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure all electric is a logical progression from plug-in hybrid. Adding battery capacity to go from running 95% on electricity to 100% doesn't seem to me to logically be an economic or an environmental win, necessarily. There are always some trips you can't take on a single charge, so it seems wasteful to invest in battery capacity beyond what you use the vast majority of days.

If I was dictator of everything, and wanted to fight pollution and global warming, I would institute a big carbon tax, and let markets work out how to respond, but my expectation would be that the end state would be plug-in hybrids.
https://thebaffler.com/latest/whos-afraid-petextrian-fraade

"Petextrians" bumping into each other isn't anywhere near as dangerous as motorists with easy access to heavy vehicles driving near sidewalks.
Its hard to overstate how big of a change just 2 degrees can actually make. I remember that xkcd did several really nice graphs showing the scope of it all, in eli5 language

https://xkcd.com/1379/

https://xkcd.com/1732/

https://xkcd.com/1321/

I can’t in good conscience call them fun, “terrifying” would be a bit more accurate
shame Chinese didn't went full Vietnam on this
such a scope would not be a raw part, but include an FPGA: summarize the triggered traces that happened since the last transfer to PC... alternatively speaking, consider the amount of information on the screen of an oscilloscope, thats a low color count, with relatively large areas of the screen unaffected, so 60fps of very compressible image data..
Great imagination you have. Must come in very handy, no need to do research, go straight on the Internet and post your conclusions!
I think I'm wired up back to front. I sleep very well. My problem is daylight! It drains me and I can't wait for the evening. At night I find it easy to be alert and when I've adopted a nocturnal schedule, I've been happier and more productive. I've just shut the blinds and turned off the lights in the office to get some work done..(!)
what you work on then?
My manager allows the devs to come in whenever — we roll in from 9 to 11 and stay til the day’s work is done. Everyone comes in absolutely ready to get shit done.
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The best programmers that I have known were owls, with few exceptions.
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I am European and something that bothers me a lot are companies that are hiring remotely, but then ask me to relocate or are US-only. That's why I added a category on every RemoteML job post: Anywhere, Remote US and Remote near HQ
> Why would I do that when I can buy a Mac?

Maybe to contrast pumped prices for hardware found on other vendors' hardware, costing half or a third of it? (true especially for the entry level MacBooks, which have same hw of a 500€ laptops from Hp or Lenove
I wonder how did they take Mosaic from NCSA to found the business (later to be renamed to Netscape)? Did they really reimplement the browser, or maybe they had rights?
Humans have always gone to war, but recently that is less and less the case. Just like in USA, India and Pakistan's massive military spending is motivated more by corruption and self-dealing than by water shortages. They're not going to empty their nuclear stockpiles on each other. If they did, it would be a disaster, but it would still not amount to "the end of civilisation".
> A lot of people are starting to figure out that internet mobs have no real teeth.

In some ways this should be self evident. If they had the tools or connections to enact real change, they wouldn't be forming mobs on social media.
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That's really hilarious, because Intel's entire automotive division is run by the guy who came from the Mobile Eye acquisition. For those that don't remember - Mobile Eye was one of Tesla's tech suppliers until they split up. Then Mobile Eye basically came out and said that Tesla's self-driving technology was unsafe. It was a massive PR hit for Tesla, and a massive PR hit for Mobile Eye (who wants a technology partner that'll publicly accuse you like that).

It'll be interesting to see Keller work in that environment.
Julian Simon. Herman Kahn. John Maddox. William Nordhaus. Thomas Piketty. Paul Krugman. Milton Friedman. Christine Lagarde. M.A. Adleman. Robert Rubin. Robert Bryce. Stewart Brand. Ray Kurzweil. Michael Lynch. Robert L. Bradley. Peter Huber.

Milton Friedman (Nobel Prize in Economics, 1976, also awarded the National Medal of Science (1988), the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1988), and the John Bates Clark Medal (1951)), in "The Energy Crisis: A Humane Solution", 1977:

You will all recall ["Limits to Growth"] was a report in which engineers were saying we have finite resources -- a finite amount of coal, a finite amount of space, and so on and so on; things grow at exponential rates, and so long as things grow at exponential rates they are ultimately going to become infinite; and since resources, are finite, we're going to bump into it and therefore we are faced with a terrible future in which sooner or later we are going to run out, of steel or coal or whatever you want to name. We're going to run out, and we really have to adjust our sights; we can no longer take the view that we can have growth forever; we must recognize that there are, in their title, limits to growth and reconcile ourselves....

Now this approach, whether adopted by the Club of Rome or by Mr. Schumacher or by the CED, is completely wrong. The plain fact is that from an economic point of view the volume of resources available to us is larger today than it has ever been in history. We are less dependent today on natural resources than we have ever been.

http://0055d26.netsolhost.com/friedman/pdfs/other_commentary...

(I've made a small hobby of collecting all the action figures: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/search?q=cornucopians&r...)
Porsche has shown that hybrid technology can be used to enable the very highest performance such as with the 918 supercar.

I would like to see more performance hybrid options where cars get roughly the same mileage as conventional cars, but have increased torque and performance, while not shifting gears. But then, I like CVTs in general, like the current Nissan Maxima.
Plus the public's usage of public transit is going down. Americans are, for whatever reasons, not interested in public transport unless they're forced to use it. And they don't like to be forced.
> I've done other experiments with temperature control, sleeping position, bedroom darkness, etc.

Have you tried ashwagandha? I've found the effects of ashwagandha to dwarf any environmental changes I've tried.
I'm all for polution taxing, fines and even shutdowns. I actually find planned polution regulations to be far too lenient.

However, as an engineer with the power to change affect a piece of machinery's design, I don't have to sit back and say "hey, the government doesn't regulate black carbon, so I'll just do the easiest thing and use my budget to integrate diesel engine with NOx and SOx just under regulatory thresholds." Instead, I can decide to use my noggin to design a system that has the same (or even better) performance, OPEX and CAPEX, without burning diesel.

It's really not that hard. We have the technology. Engineers who desire a cleaner environment, just need to buck-up and push back on customers (or venders in this case) who are afraid to do something just because 'that's not how we did it in the past. That's what I do.

The power to change is not purely in the hands of regulators, it's also in the hands of 'doers'.
> A non-existing resource doesn't mean it was deleted, but simply means it is not there - for whatever reason.

There you have ambiguity of using http codes for representing application logic. Using any other http code will have the exact same problem - you can easily encounter a situation when http-meaning is accidentally confused with your-definition, this was just one example.
The solution is to not mix them at all.
The URL says Pytorch by the installation instructions say Tensorflow.

It seems to be all Pytorch in the code though.
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I want to share this as well: The Globalization of the IQ Wars https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/04/race-iq-charles-murray-gl...

Please don't believe that IQ related studies are mainstream in social and psychological literature: they are very contested. That said, citizens and policy makers should decide if trusting them or not.
This is amazing. I hope RMS ends up reading this thread one way or another. I want him to know how truly appreciated he is.
The original 1988 Congestion Avoidance and Control paper is still well worth reading:
http://ee.lbl.gov/papers/congavoid.pdf

The observations about timers and ack-clocking are still as relevant today.

That's not to say that 1988-style Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease is perfect as a congestion control scheme. There are lots of issues, ranging from not working well on paths with high bandwidth-delay product, to being overly sensitive to non-congestive packet loss, to causing buffer bloat. But I don't think there's any doubt that the Internet survived growing both in traffic and in hosts by many orders of magnitude, survived all the underlying technologies being replaced multiple times, and survived massive changes in applications, all in part because TCP does a reasonable job of matching offered load to available capacity.
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I thought nuclear winter meant that photosynthesis would cease? That's obviously bad, but "doubled, in reverse" doesn't make sense in this context.
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Recently I started digging into text-to-speech implementations of which Google seems to have the best know-how.

https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/global_style_...

Those samples sound already frighteningly human.

Not to disparage the DeepVoice3 in anyway! There must have been a lot of work put into it.
Unbelievable! I must say. Is Ubuntu (which is based on Debian) affected by this issue?
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Since this thread defends using a persona, I'd be interested to know how many YC companies use them.

Are tech entrepreneurs viewed as inept at communication and thus need a proxy to speak publicly?

Why not make such statements through a spokesperson or the CEO?
OK, will it stop at 1.4? If so, how?
Or maybe since the partner can just walk out, you have to try harder. Afaik, domestic violence is down. The partner "cant walk out" works great when you are aggressor, because it forces target to stay no matter how bad you treat them. It works less well for the one that is treated badly. Trying harder wont help you if the other person is bullying you. The "people tried harder to keep it together" interpretation ignores that the trying harder part was unevenly distributed.

It does not even have to be about big things like abuse. If one spouse cease caring about relationship, the other one can work as much as he/she wants, but it will do nothing. Because it takes two.
That is clearly very bad, but people also go to war because of scarce resources. The US doesn't have a Special Relationship with Saudi Arabia because the Saudi's are lovely people.

Climate change isn't the threat, the problem is that population growth is exponential. We don't have a reliable mechanism to shrink population apart from run out of resources and have a war. Claiming that climate change is making resources scarce isn't grappling with the fact that in 100 years at 2% population growth, resources are going to be scarce anyway.
Population control has two primary modes: Endogenous and exogenous.

If humans don't regulate their own numbers (humanely or otherwise), the Horsemen shall ride, as they always have.

You're both providing a false dichotomy / excluding options, and appealing to consequences.
> At speed, injuring the pedestrians who get in your way is an inevitability

Well, that's the point. You are supposed to be riding or driving at a speed that you can safely stop if you need to. This is the same in every country, right?

> Japan is messaging that Japanese people ought to stay far, far away from bicycling unless they have particularly extreme appetite for risk.

Bicycling to work or school is very common here

> Japan takes the pedestrian victim-blaming even further than necessary in this case, and bills their families for the cleanup costs.

They sue for damages because they have to arrange buses for tens of thousands of people. It's not cheap
Chinese alphabet is much more complex than cyrillic and they don't have any problems with international trade. This is mostly a political gesture.
And yet we sit by while at least 9 million people die from hunger every year ( https://www.mercycorps.org/articles/quick-facts-what-you-nee... ), and some groups estimate the number is much higher.

People can, unfortunately, easily ignore problems that aren't right at their door, and most of the people who are affected the most aren't in North America or Europe.
Financial projections will undervalue Tesla because they are very different from other car companies - they are a monopoly with gigantic barriers to entry on many fronts. Other carmakers could copy some features of Tesla's cars, but they can't easily copy the multi-billion-dollar factories that make other features possible. They have better engineers than other car companies and a culture that works them harder. They avoided the dealership system and built their own stores. Elon Musk's PR stunts and Twitter feed are a much more effective method of advertising than the TV and Internet ads other car companies use.
Most engineers would not hire themselves.

IIRC a Google recruiter once sent a set of packets to a hiring committee and all of them got a "no hire". Then the recruiter revealed the packets were lightly-anonymized versions of the actual packets of the hiring committee members, from when they'd all originally interviewed.
Saying "we are all doomed" is not some amount of directness.

Saying "200mm of people will migrate or die" (assuming its true) would be direct, but the "we are all doomed" is very misleading because the effects are not universal and not evenly distributed. The described scenarios will not cause doom to me, and most likely to you as well.

Furthermore, even for the politicians that have completely publicly accepted the notion of climate change, statements like "requires an enormous amount of investment and development to manage the transition" and "having to protect at least 20K+ square km of land and ~150-200M people" are simply literally false - they can (and possibly will) choose not to protect that land and those people, because they're "others". They have the ability to choose not investing in managing that transition globally, but only handling the direct local consequences, and protect their population from the global effects simply by investing into armaments/defence industry - as Dr. Hillman is saying in the original article, "How are these regions going to respond? We see it now. Migrants will be prevented from arriving. We will let them drown." Looking at some of our global leaders, such a scenario seems at least possible.
Here's Van Jacobson's 1988 paper on slow start and other congestion avoidance algorithms. It's really worth reading to understand what was happening: https://cs162.eecs.berkeley.edu/static/readings/jacobson-con...

It's personally fascinating to me because in about 1984/5 I was working on a local area network and with a friend 'invented' a connection-oriented protocol that used counters to spot dropped packets (because of Ethernet collisions) and request retransmission. We successfully overloaded the network of about 16 machines using this algorithm as it went crazy retransmitting and upping the collision rate and we began worked on very similar algorithms to fix this (but didn't get that far because had A levels to do).
> that code is more difficult to comprehend when it contains ONLY letters and abbreviations as identifier names. [emphasis mine]

Well, DUH! On the other hand, I really do not need 67 letters to describe a simple array index in a loop.
> On a sidewalk, a safe stopping distance is about 1 meter. Because of the small angle, safe speed for scooters and skateboards is about the same as walking.

The safe stopping distance depends on your line of sight around corners - if you're riding far enough from entrances and exits, at an appropriate pace, the stopping distance can be either greater or smaller provided you anticipate enough.

> Also, the small non-pneumatic wheels are easily stopped by cracks and small objects.

But much less so than normal kick scooters or skateboards. Skateboards are a worse in that regard, and scooters much better with the wheels being larger and in-line.

> They are far less safe than bicycles, which are excluded from sidewalks, and riding them on roads with vehicle traffic is suicidal. I guarantee that this will be born out by accident data soon.

It depends on whether you take them on a daredevil mountain descent at peak hour or not. If you want to look at the data, you might realise that while sidewalk riding in San Francisco is prohibited (but not well enforced, perhaps because police have better priorities), it is permitted in the states north, Oregon and Washington State. It's also permitted in many places around Australia - in fact, often times, where a shared path ends and a footpath begins is a blurred line. Where sidewalk/footpath riding is permitted, cyclists are largely as safe around pedestrians whether the pedestrian is on the footpath or the road.

> I’ve spent years of my life on the road by my own power, and I am certain that I would be dead many times over if I were on a scooter instead of a bicycle.

Many times over, only if you don't learn from the first instance. Not everyone proceeds forth with the same unchanged attitude after their first early mishap.

> When the streets of SF are wide open because the cars got kicked out, ride whatever you want. Until then, ride a bike. Ride a big long frame with steel-spoked wheels. E-bike if you must, and don’t mind me trying to keep up with you with an aging meat motor.

The best way to encourage rider uptake is to build the appropriate balanced infrastructure - that will mean taking away "free" on-stree car parking spaces along with other measures. America's experiment with "vehicular cycling" has long failed and people are simpy no longer riding, but instead spending more time on the sofas and chairs. That's the greatest health burden right now going forward.

The electric scooters are a symptom of a larger problem, not the cause.
You really need a Layer 7 kind of thing to be able to inspect the actual payload of the request. I don't think any of those can do that. You'd need an actual WAF.
Traditionally, the much maligned V-6 Mustang sold more than the V-8 version. I don't think that's the case any more (even if you replace V-6 with turbo 4). Of course, modern V-6's make as much power as the V-8s of a few decades ago.

So I would say the various V-6 coupes compete in the space the Mustang used to be in, but now Ford has ceded that. On the other hand, Honda has quit making V-6 coupes, and I don't think Toyota does either these days.
I run my team's standup at 11 for the same reason. Some folks with stricter routines will still start at 9, others (including myself) start closer to 11.
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I agree. The climate science is overwhelming: temperature rise, sea level rise, and other related changes are happening on large eco-system-changing scales. There is no stopping it and even drastic action will only slightly slow the changes within a 100 year timeframe.

For a rich country like the United States, the climate change itself is survivable.

So Arizona becomes unsurvivable desert and Lousiana is lost to the sea; New York builds seawalls and subway pumps and Miami partly becomes Venice and partly Atlantis. The Great Sandhill Desert re-emerges from the plains.

Food prices increase; diets shift to accomodate -- less beef; more chicken; more vegetarianism. Diseases associated to warmer places spread: malaria and zika. Millions of people are forced to move. But civilisation itself isn't really threatened.

The civilisation-threatening problems happen in poorer countries. Population size, though growth has been slowing for decades, will not have peaked before climate change reduces carrying capacities. Waves of refugees from the resulting famines and wars will try to make their way inland and northward.

What will happen when India and Pakistan, nuclear powers both, are overwhelmed by mass displacement and food shortages? How many refugees will we accept, and how many will we turn our backs on? What will our role be in the wars?
> Cyclists presumably aren't insured when they hit pedestrians.

It is compulsory in some places in Japan. ¥4,000 ($40) per year pays out up to 3 billion yen ($3,000,000) in case you hit someone.
We sure did. I read recently that yes there are still traces of Neandertal in our genomes...
I skimmed it. And the main point I took is the one I cited: that people should first all acknowledge doom in order to do something against it. Which I think is stupid and achieve rather the opposite. Either by people starting to ignore doomsday-people and their "climate hoax" or by giving up hope and therefore truly making way for the stupid, careless people.

It is a difference between saying "we are doomed".

Or

"if we continue this, we are doomed".
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I bet that in places such a Utrecht and Groningen, scooters are much less in vogue since the default option available to both young and old is the bicycle.

This is another case of Silicon Valley looking at using more tech to solve a societal and political problem. However, unlike Tesla/Uber/Waymo et al, it's a little more grounded.
It's not actually clear that this is a lack of interest. Socioeconomically disadvantaged urban populations had the highest rates of transit usage, and resurgent upper-middle-class interest in cities means those populations are displaced to cheaper pastures that don't necessarily have usable transit.

It could actually be the case that the gentrifiers are deliberately increasing their transit utilization from zero (just not enough to make up for the loss due to displacement), and displaced populations still want to be transit users, but can't afford areas with good transit anymore.
Past human civilisations have fared poorly under even modest climate change. There's a strong argument that technological civilisation dependent on vast nonrenewable resource utilisation is not favourably positioned by comparison.

Large animal populations (> ~10kg) have responded poorly to larger ones, of the scale we're facing in < 100 years.

Good earlier discussion, and links:

https://plus.google.com/+YonatanZunger/posts/SgzQU5DM3LQ
Do people really manage to go more than a few days with less than 6-7 hours of sleep? I don't know anyone that does it.

Also the article conveniently forgets how many near-isolated tribes with zero exposure to artificial light never sleep through the whole night, they wake up in intervals and often sleep very lightly because there's danger looming at all times.

Sure, artificial light can be an issue, but if you practice self-restrain with screentime and get a lightbulb with a warmer tone for the late evening hours then your problem will be solved (if it even was caused by light exposure in the first place, and it usually isn't).