skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of reminds me of Norwegian mythology where, as far as I can remember, there was an icy world in the North and a fire in the South, and as the fire melted the ice, a thin strip of life began forming.
Going by this : https://www.philanthropy.com/article/What-Donor-Advised-Fund... it looks like average fees are around 1% for DAFs. Vanguard is cheaper, at .6 percent, but the SVCF, referenced in the article, is at 1%.
I don't see it mattering. Seems reasonably likely that 75% of the population will want to commute during rush hour, thus no large decrease in the number of cars needed.

So sure volume will go down, but duty cycle will go up. So instead of $35k cars that last 150k miles on average we will end up with $70k cars that last 300k or more miles.

You can be sure that in today's litigious society (at least in the USA) that unreasonable safety standards (think of the children) that will be very expensive to meet. Notice that every tesla crash is "news", yet tow trucks are quite busy with accidents of non-telsa, and ICE car fires are hardly rare.

I suspect even at 10x as safe as human drivers that people will be actively asking for more regulation and higher standards.

Seems strange that people will push for higher standards, which means higher prices, which means fewer cars, which means more road deaths. But that seems to be where we are today.
And it is only going to be a bigger and bigger problem in the future.

Great that people are talking about how much free time people are going to get in the future. But where are they going to spend it?

I was always, how bad can in be living in tourist hotspots like Venice or Barcalona. But having lived in Copenhagen, and seen the number of tourist in the inner city increase by 10% every year for the last 5-6 years at least. I have changed by mind, and there are a lot places worse then here.

At some point it is just not going to be sustainable anymore. And I don't see alternative but to put some kind of limit on the tourist horde.
Pretty nuts how often banks (& Western Union) change their exchange rate markup
Investor buy-in.
Oh those battles were won hands down. It's just that if the other side will switch to outright dishonesty that it gets a lot harder to get the voters to know what's going on.
Blockchain and Interdisciplinary Thought – Reflecting on the Changes Conference
The point is that when _anyone_ thinks about role models in computer science and programming, all of the options fit into a pretty small niche. It _is_ relevant to have those examples, because there's a world of difference between nobody having any role models at all, and every role model being from one group.

Think about how much the existence of these role models obviously matters to you, and realise that nobody wants to take that away from _you_, they simply want to give it to other people as well. When I look at the field of programming, I don't see people like me. Things are getting better, but we still live in a world where if you aren't a white man then you have no examples to point to and say "look, I can do this!"

And you might say, "well, I never needed that", and that might be true - I obviously never needed it either - but appreciate that whether you needed it or not, you _had_ it, and a lot of other people do need it, whether white man or not. We all need role models to aspire to. Stop acting like other people getting the things you've always had is taking anything away from you.
"Which is in effect saying that the residents' right to control access to their city is subordinate to random tourists' right to visit whenever they like. That doesn't sound like a reasonable position."

Suddenly, I'm having flashes of California, particularly SF, residential problems, including the hated NIMBY-ism.
> Surely it is a trifling amount, but to it you must sum the miles with the car/minivan used for the search and pickup

I suspect the cost of driving easily overshadows the cost of electricity, considering that even inflated California electricity rates price a kWh (of which these scooter batteries hold about one quarter) about the same as the incremental cost of driving one mile.

Whether it's trifling depends on how far they have to drive for each scooter. That cost is sunk if they "recover" it or not, unlike with the electricity. According to the article, the company has made it a bounty-hunting model, so even if the total area is only a few miles across, just getting there is no guarantee.
Difference between DApp, iDApp and DAO? Why they are the future of blockchain?
> Internet disrupted the newspaper industry.

It gets way to much credit for this; the terminal decline of that industry began a couple decades before widespread public use of the internet.
It's a curious purgatory the project is in, which I think would make it difficult to attract developers.

On one hand, a user base wants the old product with minimal twists and they are known to balk at anything more than that.

On the other, project survival likely depends on getting new users on board, in which case an old design and UI are probably going to be detriments.
verhofstad is ok but tends to go on hyperbolic tangents
> Wouldn't that be a strict improvement over the current system?

No, that would be an implementation of a panopticon. You'll find a lot of interesting criticism of that concept, and of Bentham for trying to solve societal problems in an inhumane fashion.
> Dystopian.

Damn straight. Step tracking, smoking tracking, what's next, analysis of what I had for lunch with a "reward deduction" if I choose a cheeseburger over a salad?
This makes me weep. We are returning to RSS _because_ of dumb over-engineering web apps. The solution is not a dumb over-engineered web-based RSS reader.
I think you misunderstood my point.

I said that relativity is a special case of this principle that time is a local phenomenon.
> the next step is being able to answer all sorts of questions about product health within your organization. A novice data scientist might think that this type of work is outside the role of a data scientist, but identifying key metrics for product health is one of the core facets of the role.

This strikes me as disingenuous word play. Whether or not the identification of key metrics is important, it's fair to ask whether it ought to be part of the job duties for a data scientist, and your answer to that question probably reveals more about your personal inclinations than about what is optimal for a given business.

Personally, my experience has been that most of the metrics and ad hoc reports that product- or business-minded managers ask for are junk wastes of time which, at best, create new surface area for fueling political debates about what's important, allowing different managers and cliques in the company to duke it out over whose priorities should be favored. Dressing them up as sexy data-driven "insights" is just one more tool for politics.

When the words "data scientist" come to mean "ad hoc business report jockey" then it seems like you might as well dissolve the question, because in that company, they've already chosen what they want out of data science-- arbitrary and whimsical political fodder.

In other companies, data scientists are actual statisticians. It can be really hard for business people to let go of the keys to the car, but a well-trained statistician knows that you have to devise you experiments or your proposed models based on whatever inference goals you have, which would be business goals in many cases. By taking a generic statistical perspective, you will home in on the metrics and model diagnostics that carry actual meaning for decision making, and many times you'll just pragmatically ignore all the business junk (not always, because some of it rests on useful principles, but a lot of it really is junk).

Anyway, it's such a loaded topic. It all depends on the private mental model someone has in their brain when they hear "data science."

Some people start thinking about rigorous statistical models, trade-offs between a frequentist test or a Bayesian setup, whether or not a machine learning model is appropriate, what kind of diagnostic would make sense for a special regression model... these people need to be given freedom to make choices that are statistically rigorous, and trusted that they understand the inference goals in terms of business priorities for the company (probably even better than the business people do).

Other people hear "data science" and they think of a sharp-featured 20-something wearing a sweater vest parachuting in the business meeting with a sexy slide deck on their Macbook, ready to spin whatever story is needed. These people ... should not be in charge of anything.
This is great advice but the real problem is that so many developers never go back and change their code. They are always moving forward and never revisit their old solutions.

I constantly re-writing and re-organization code as the problem changes but I feel like that's the exception rather than the norm. We need to teach that change is good and a normal part of the process.
100M docs? Of json format? On commodity hardware? In 2003?

Hahaha, hello long waited friend from parallel universe!
take a deduction on other incomes

Wait, how so? As far as I know, the deduction is only applied to the donated amount, not to any other income.

Also, political contributions are not tax deductible.
It's a circle that right now is spiraling the wrong direction. I hope that the community can come together and improve the user experience around RSS. This in turn will help show the value of RSS to publishers. The current user experience around RSS isn't always very use friendly. On the other hand, the people that care about RSS are designers, developers and journalists. We should be able to turn the tide.
I didn't and I don't suggest that quality is just a matter of opinion; that's not at all what I said. I care deeply about quality in my own art and in the evaluation of others.

I'm also not talking about all art or all kinds of art; we're discussing high priced auction pieces by recognized names versus the quality of items by relatively unknown artists. The problem is that narrative and name recognition trump the discussion of quality; you can't effectively discuss quality because the stories bias the discussion so heavily. We are also talking about price, which further clouds ideas of quality. Price is not proportional to quality in the art world.

The quality of sound of Stradivari violins has been studied, and it has never been demonstrated in controlled conditions that any experts can discern a qualitative difference in Stradivarius violins. You shouldn't assume there is a qualitative difference and go looking for the source of the difference before you can show that the qualitative difference exists.

https://www.thestrad.com/blind-tested-soloists-unable-to-tel...
Yes, probably. Maybe you'd have to fly it at a place where you don't need to worry about lightning.
But that seems rather restricting. Though, for high-bandwidth applications, it might then be necessary to fly local power, and have the whole system sit over the cloud layer, at about 50km.

Regarding the damage from it when falling down, you have to remember that each fiber weighs 50g/km, and the wire is also below 1kg/km, even for rather low heights. This should not be a problem, considering the ease of breaking an optical fiber optic at any remotely sharp edge. A small bird (the size your cat can catch) could probably snap it if he hit's it with some force.
Only the modem is managed? Is it a separate system/firmware? That would make a lot of sense. My ISP gave me a VDSL router and I can configure a lot of things via the web interface, but to get access to features such as bridge mode I'd have to replace its firmware.

Is there a way to get the modem as a discrete component, rather than integrated into these all-in-one things?
> Of course at best this argument

To me, this deflects from the main question of whether it is true or not. Or in other words, whether those quoting the "costs" of smoking (as a justification for further anti-smoking measures) are using dishonest propaganda. Also known as lying.
Plus the same government is paying for pensions / social security so there's a "double dip" of savings when they die earlier.
Autism screening tool may not pick up women with the condition
> I love using RSS to follow the programming and tech news I care about. Unfortunately, the number of sites supporting RSS has been in rapid decline over the last few years. The reader ecosystem is slowly degrading as well.

After that introduction I was hoping Winds would be some kind of proxy that creates an RSS for sites that don't have one. But well, it's just another RSS reader. Those have actually never gone way, I'm using Inoreader every day.
Insurance would be fine (though Christians might suggest "Numbers" as a more accurate biblical name.)

I think as a business they'd have more of an objection to Christianity being associated with moneylending.
>I'd be interested to know how "smoke-free" time is established. Are users self-reporting that they have or haven't smoked with the app? And 28-days of not smoking is great, but it feels dishonest to call that "smoke-free".

Well, they're not actually claiming "mission accomplished" after 28-days smoke-free -- they continue to help people stay smoke-free on an ongoing basis. But 28 days seems like a challenging and reasonable milestone to me.

(Disclaimer: I invested in QuitGenius)
Thanks. Any predictions? How long until we get a 486 in SiC?
Frontage and already harvesting for my phone number? Good idea. With email I can at least mark you as spam or report you, much harder to unsubscribe or report my cellnumber abuser.

Truly a "Genius" idea.
Guards “forcibly” prevent AP reporter from attending EPA summit
> The cat is out of the bag...

Vigilant Solutions has been running this for years. Not just cops but tow trucks, bounty hunters, all kinds of private enterprising individuals have been building a collaborative commercially accessible database on all our locations, it was already robust technology based on plates alone.

Vigilant is so well placed, I wonder if Amazon will even have a market impact...

The last useful moment to get freaked out was probably when Vigilant hired facial recognition expert Roger Rodriguez back in 2016.

The cat's long gone, fat on mice, and we don't even remember where we left the bag.
This was a pretty bad article on achieving code quality.

First, there was a bit of bashing of design patterns and refactorings and says we can forget all that in order to make it sound like he was going to drop some magic fundamental wisdom. Which he then says is "Embedded Design Principle".

Then he proceeds to describe an evolution of a piece of software into a bit of a mess, then proceeds to solve it by "AND here is a design that solves it". No method or process for getting to that design, just "here it is!" .... drop the mic, exit stage left. So basically his advice is dont write crappy code, some how magic up a design that might or might not be robust for the future that reveals your design.

Looking at some of his other stuff, he uses a similar "strawman" ish approach to first highlight some technique like (TDD), come up with some crappy code, and use it as some kind of justification for what he thinks.

Funny thing is, the stuff he trivialized actually are exact micro techniques that allow one to create code thats shows its design.

However, for this article, there is a simpler idea that is useful when tackling code like this ( I first came across it in martin fowlers UML Distilled ) and that was the idea of "Levels of Perspective". Which there is Conceptual, Specification, and Implmentation. Since his code seems to have purposely mushed all those things together, its an easy way to look at this code and make it better. I won't go into the exact details, but given a piece of crappy code either in the beginning stages or even the end stage and start decomposing it, first seperating specification and implementation, then as one gains insight, seperating things into composable conceptual ideas. To achieve this, you want to use things like TDD, Refactoring, Patterns, but, and the real trick, only as is demanded to shape the code into a simple design that is modular and composable.
Ethereum EIP-999 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16843991 and https://github.com/5chdn/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-999.md) is exactly that, a discussion of patching Ethereum to unlock a a few hundred million dollars that are inaccessible due to a software bug.
An interesting fact is why the name Iridium?

When they were in the planning stages for this set of satellites, they estimated that they would need 77 of them to completely cover the Earth (including the poles), evoking an image of 77 electrons circling the nucleus of an atom. The atomic number for the element Iridium is 77. The number of satellites needed was paired down to 66, so the satellites should actually be named Dysprosium.
Fantastic news- hopefully some day public opinion will limit bomb production, till then, long may the raw material shortages continue.
FWIW this is not the right way to think about quiting smoking. It might work for some people, although i'd bet only temporarily unless the root problem somehow goes away.

This solution still has people believe they want to smoke and that it's something they enjoy (it will de-stress them, etc). These core beliefs have to be addressed IMO. Only until the user does NOT want to smoke and sees smoking as not only not being a benefit to them but also a harm to them, have they successfully quit smoking.

Not sure how this app works, though.
The "Sky Guide" iPhone app will send you push alerts for Iridium flares, as well as when the ISS will be visible.
It's probably intended to be analogous to something like second-order logic[1]. Where first-order logic is about individual elements and second-order logic is about relations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-order_logic
>It would require the EU to implement a draconian Chinese firewall to bring into full effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_blocking_access_to_T...

Quite a few countries in the EU have already ordered ISPs to block The Pirate Bay, and the EU last year made it easier for ISPs to do so. So the capability is there, and there's precedent. TPB responded by decentralising but that isn't an option for Facebook, they wouldn't dare to anything to get round a continental ban: and even if they did it would have to be 100% effective, if 50% of people can't figure out how to change DNS settings to get around ISP blocks then the other 50% will likely migrate to another platform too.

I said to a friend a few weeks ago that I actually want to see FB get blocked in Europe. The shitshow would be glorious.
Polyhedral optimisation is cool (Facebook has been using it to great effect for ML kernels recently [1]), but it’s not the end of the story. It’s complementary to this paper, which seems to be about learning an effective and transferrable cost model to guide the optimisation process (you could use that learned cost model in a polyhedral optimiser).

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04730
As it get customers, it will likely get more and more resources thrown at it and get better and better.

Even if the tech may not be useful right now, it probably will be in 5 years, and unless something is done now, another large slice of the little bit of privacy that remains will be gone.
Well, I don't know what "hype" says, but it's fairly obvious by size and price that the Model 3 is in the small luxury sedan category, of which the BMW 3 and MB C-series are the big players. But if you need a citation here's an Elon tweet: "Sorta. Model 3 is like a BMW 3 series or Audi A4. Model S is like BMW 5 and 6 series, but much faster, more storage space + Autopilot" [https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/845282298291339267?lang=...]

You could also check with the car press [https://www.topgear.com/car-reviews/model-3/first-drive] [https://www.caranddriver.com/tesla/model-3] or the Tesla press [https://www.teslarati.com/bmw-vs-tesla-large-luxury-car-mark...].

The current prices of available Model 3s are an artifact of production decisions. They will sell $35k base models eventually. By comparison to the Model S it's affordable and mass market, and where it landed was always the plan. It was never going to be like a Toyota Corolla.
Yes, 90% of abstraction is best done by organizing files and functions, NOT by creating classes.
Yeah he made no effort to appease the audience or answer any pointed question. He rushed to leave, while during his US hearings he offered to stay longer a number of times. I think he was agitated by the questions in the end, even though he knows he ll probably face more regulation in europe.

It might be the case that he has already discounted that possibility and simply doesn't care if EU wants to ban facebook anymore.
Just a friendly PSA that WordPress comes with RSS feeds enabled by default. Since an overwhelming majority of content websites use WordPress, I think it's safe to say RSS is still widely available. Try going to your favorite blog and append "?feed=rss2" to the end of the URL. Like so:

http://example.com/?feed=rss2
Oh! You're a software developer at the local zoo too?

Humming birds, I tell ya thank goodness for multiple inheritance! I was able to inherit from both birds and bees. It saved me a ton of work. There was the time I used the flying mixin on sharks though, that was such a mess to cleanup.
I had a childhood friend who was obsessed with bands like King Crimson and the Melotron (musical instrument), and when he got his first couple of salaries he finally was able to buy one. We have lost contact, but I bet he's still playing on his Melotron.
> seatbelt laws, for example

I was all up with agreeing with you until this point - but I honestly find it quite incredible that there are still people that think seatbelts are a bad thing.
SpaceX is launching 2 NASA satellites to spy on droughts and melting ice sheets
SiC is used in the field for HVDC inverters, as it can be driven harder and the cooling is less critical. The difference seems to be that they got an RF mixer, while we currently don't use lithography finer than what I can do with a ruler, masking tape and an exacto knife.
For those who look for a simple self hosted reader I can recommend: https://miniflux.net/
It's almost definitely not going to happen.
No, it is not disingenuous because the topic at hand is "the majority of new planes built today."

Obviously if you look at production through all of aviation history you are going end up overweight in older models. But that is just a reflection of the fact that planes are generally designed and built to last. It has nothing to do with the current state of the art, which is what the OP was lamenting.
How about Feedpresso? Would anyone be willing to give it a go?
I see it as a matter of principle. Yes, you are likely richer personally if you just ignore it.
> “I don’t care. We can change people in and out,”

Yeah, that's a great person to work for right there.
Hawaii's Lava Threatens Local Hydrogen Sulfide Filled Power Plant
What???? Who told you that? What kind of proof do you have? It seems to me that it's just some meaningless sentence just to make empathy with dystopian views of the world, but without any real reflection in the real world.
> are not better than controls in acquiring information

My earliest memory is 2 weeks after 4 (I am now 31). I can remember it down to the most intricate detail. I cannot for the life of me remember the tasks I am looking at this sprint (which is why I write them down). Memories seemingly become more accessible the more time has passed; facts too, I can recall the vast majority of my high school syllabus despite being someone who a solid C-grade student.

This is the first time hearing about HSAMs, but based on personal experience I would posit that it has more to do with how memories are accessed, not how they are stored.