skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author makes statements with qualification of "almost all" even though "almost all" physically allowed systems (that is, solutions to the PDEs under question) are not physically relevant or beneficial. I can only see this applying to chaotic systems like the weather, which is a valid point. The key argument that finite volume contains finite information seems potentially true but suspect. Case in point, take a unit square, it will have a diagonal who's digits have a long "infinite" string of digits but sqrt(2) isn't "infinite information", it's very finite (ie., one number!)

This desperately needs to be peer reviewed by people who study the foundations of physics.
Working out everyday (9sets in 30 mins) on a home gym setup. Feels like im progressing daily.

Daily journaling. So i know im actually getting things done even if its just figuring out a hard problem

Writing blog posts and actually using it in conversations.

Going to meetups and meeting new people
I don't think it's misleading at all. More new solar power is being built than any other source. That's a good thing and if the trend continues, solar will eventually overtake other sources.

If, over the course of the past year, Bill Gates made more money from picking up pennies than any other source, that would be news too. It would indicate that his other sources of income have dried up.
The economics of internet-scale software businesses make this harder than opening a hardware store and selling nails and rope for more than they cost from the wholesaler. It often does require lots of risk capital. If you don't have it, you need a rich partner who does. If you don't know any rich people that want to go into business with you, you need to employ people who provide this service at a price -- and often that price is that you, in effect, become their employee, rather than their partner. This is the silicon valley VC model.

It's possible to build "boutique" scale internet software businesses, but it's harder than ever, and you still need to be well-off enough to "risk" some time that you would otherwise be working on definitely-getting-a-paycheck type work.

In short "start a profitable business instead working for one" and "start a business that's profitable right away instead of taking VC funding" are both rather useless pieces of advice for somebody who doesn't have the means or background to do either.

There are of course more choices about what to do with your life. You should explore those too. Maybe you'd be happier as an auto mechanic or a nurse. That kind of work is available almost anywhere in the country so you won't have the "three body problem" of having to live away from your or your spouse's family, or both.
Me and my sister shared a bedroom in a two bedroom apartment for a few years. I recentlty had neighbors that had a one bedroom with two kids. I'm not sure where this requirement of one bedroom per child comes from. Really, that's just a luxury.
The land use tax might work, however it will punish the non-wealthy corporations, small businesses, etc. I think Seattle's problem has an even easier, obvious solution that the state of Washington, pretending to be more liberal than it is, refuses to enact: an income tax on the rich.

A very modest tax on the highest income tiers, provides the funding necessary to build new low income housing, keep improving transportation, and to combat homelessness, while not negatively targeting the jobs for the non-rich.

They have a very nice, gilded problem, of trying to not die from economic gorging. The people of Seattle should be putting their considerable resources behind aggressive lobbying in the state, to convince voters to enact a state income tax.
I understand the idea of looking at completed characters and inferring the original order of strokes.

But are you saying that Japanese writing is only readable if you observe the writer during the act of writing? Because that's what some stroke recognition engines do.

Here's a tangible example. Imagine I write "h l o", pause, then go back and place an "e" in the first space, and an "l" in the second space, then hold it up to you. You're going to see "hello," right?

But an algorithm that tries to interpret the act of writing itself, might see "hlo el", because that's the order in which I wrote the characters.
They are usable for all tasks. What are you going to do with a number you can't compute? Nothing, because you can't do anything with it.
There are all sorts of feminist studies. I bet most of them will be found to be flawed and unsubstantiated - like many of sociology studies have been found in recent times.

In any case, I don't think there is a law of nature or a biological force that makes women underestimate their skills. Plenty of women don't underestimate their skills.
We host the county jail and courthouse, and in many municipalities it's illegal to be homeless, so they get picked up there, jailed here, and released here.
It depends on the cause but if the only thing wrong is your eyes are focused to closely, then you will have better vision up close because you have better magnification from the shorter focused lens.
I use a BananaPi for this (comes with a SATA bus).
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You make it sound as if good engineering practices somehow should guarantee no outages ever. Best practices are risk minimization, not risk elimination.
I never went to Google, I left the startup a year before that happened. That startup was pretty much my first job out of college and I was there for about two years.

In that specific case, I believe the startup was worth the opportunity cost. I was coming from San Antonio, not exactly a tech hotbed, and from a small liberal arts school nobody's heard of. I'd interviewed at a bunch of companies out the Bay and was rejected by all of them. A friend was an investor in TechStars' seed fund for their San Antonio program and he put me in touch with the founders of one of their companies. Those guys took a chance on me and hired me on a contract to solve some scaling issues while they were still in the program.

Once they graduated and raised a series A, they brought me on full-time. I worked remote for another six months after they moved the company up to Boulder, eventually following myself. They let me go after about two years but during that time I gained a ton of StackOverflow reputation for Scala and Akka, which led me to one of Twitter's open source advocates who made the intro for Twitter's Boulder office. That was back in 2015. About a year later the company sort-of sold to Google, who then fired almost everyone and re-sold the IP (or something, it was weird and I wasn't there, but my investor friend gave me some of the details).

So, in my specific case, the startup was worth the opportunity cost because my opportunity cost wasn't that high. I didn't have a six-figure SV job as a backup, but I was able to leverage the risk I took into that sort of job.
A 3.8 ps RMS time synchronization implemented in 20 nm FPGA
The distinction you're making is not particularly interesting. Of course they don't literally sell people.
It expires after a few months in the packet?

RIP my spare Sugru.
In the Philippines there's something quite similar called Galleon. They've been recently acquired but I think they might be open to partner. They've expanded to Thailand, if I'm not mistaken.
> Ad networks would be the least critical. Netflix at least provides content some people actually want. I have yet to hear someone say "I want to see ads".

That's actually a commonly-heard phrase in the US around Superbowl time.
If nothing else, the conversation around this has shown that applying a subscription-based, tiered pricing model to a book is not appreciated by the consumers.
With free fuel and falling supply chain costs this is all well and good. Worth noting is that the value of solar electricity goes down fairly sharply as a function of market penetration because of the intermittency. Once you start adding massive chemical electricity storage costs and environmental impacts get more gnarly.
am I the only one that would answer that question with
"this code is evil and you should feel bad" ?
I don't get why you think "new" is inaccurate or misleading. This shows where investments are being made now, which is highly relevant. For example, GE's natural gas turbine division has been taking a beating lately due to renewables, ie:

"Renewables boom is a bust for gas equipment suppliers like GE"
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/renewables-boom-is-a-bust-f...

You make points about the overall contributions of fossil fuels to national generation capacity but that's not what the article is about.

Don't get me wrong, there are other reasons the headline and article are misleading. Comparing nameplate system capacity of electricity sources w/o taking into account the capacity factor is highly misleading. Also, discussion of whether solar projects were pushed up in an effort to beat the tariffs would have been appropriate.
> E.g. we still do not know how many reals there are.

Umm... yeah we do, the cardinality of the continuum is the same as the cardinality of the power set of natural numbers. We've known this for 140 years.

Reading between the lines, I think the author is really talking about the "non-computable numbers" (i.e. those real numbers who can't be calculated to an arbitrary precision by any Turing machine), but if that's what the author is referring to, he should just say "non-computable numbers", not "real numbers", which is a much broader class.
In physicist's ontology, as you surely know, that's just an appeal to Bekenstein bound.

Not really being a mathematical result, it is a consequence of thermodynamics and classical (continuous) gravity. Einstein equations can be recovered from thermodynamics and Bekenstein bound as an assumption and that's all there really is to it.
> Texas zoning and tax on houses work.

Texas zoning also paved over all the marsh land that would've kept the city from flooding.
That's true, but to be fair, the complaint is in the context of someone running their own instance of a private Gitlab service. Gitlab licenses their software, and Github doesn't. So you don't have to worry directly about how much the server is costing you.

That said, I don't see Gitlab's use of Azure as a huge issue. That doesn't give MS anywhere near the kind of control over the platform that they'll have with Github.
Why lie to the public ? Pulling the battery does enable rewrite, by the user, of the AP ROM, but not the Cr50 -- the latter remains Tivoized. And every owner of this machine can verify this with his own hands, it is not even necessary to build the USB debug cable.

The Cr50 accepts firmware updates at all times, but only when signed with Google's RSA key.
This is such a insane idea. I have never understood why so many people are so obsessed with it.

There is mostly enough land including around places that are roads.

Sure you could probably exceptions where it fits perfectly but this will never be the solution to any of our real problems.

Look at what china is doing with nuclear. That's easily a real solution that solve the carbon problem. France did it in 1970 but somehow in 2018 liberals still seem to search for a miracle solution.
There is already https://flatassembler.net/ which uses macros to emit ELF and PE headers.
You're right, the article doesn't say coal is dead.

It says coal is dying.

Social media is rife with what you call "lies and misrepresentations about solar" because a lot of people are very excited to see real progress being made in converting the electric grid from dirty, limited coal to clean, unlimited solar/wind. When I see numbers like this, I'm not thinking about "1.3%". I'm thinking about what this trend means for how it's going to look in 20-30 years.
My understanding is that LASIK is sometimes held up as an example of the triumph of the free market, and that costs fell more dramatically, and serious complications fell more dramatically, than just about any other procedure that you can name.

Sure, glare and halos sound awful, but compared to the most serious early risks such as blindness, it sounds like the situation is indeed much improved.

However, given what we know about markets, I wonder if there's been any attempt to figure out if, for instance, poorer patients going to cheaper clinics with older machines are the ones faring the worst. I suspect that is the case.
That's indeed a possibility. But if the potential buyer is searching for cracks, I'd say the chances of him buying are very low. Maybe offer a heavy discount, or a non-commercial license.
I purchased Sugru years ago to form a small cover on the edge of my MacBook Pro's palm rest because it was uncomfortably sharp. Basically a thin line of Sugru from edge to edge.

It worked well, and it's still there and functioning 5 years later.

When the two tiny packets arrived I thought it was quite expensive for what it was! I only ever used one packet, the other stayed in the fridge door where I just found it and it is rock hard. So I guess my next purchase would be for this Blu Tack.
Gluon is also a language built on Rust: https://github.com/gluon-lang/gluon
full disclosure, I work for IBM. But it does link to a fairly informative research paper published in Nature.

"The computational energy efficiency of 28,065 billion operations per second per watt and throughput per area of 3.6 trillion operations per second per square millimetre that we calculate for our implementation exceed those of today’s graphical processing units by two orders of magnitude."
Nothing, and America gets nothing too. NK had already committed to denuclearization in the April 27th Panmunjom Declaration (and several times before that). Literally nothing has changed.
"My deliberately incorrect reading of the headline is wrong!"
Saying it was "common" is simply a lie. I would love to see her stats because I've been working in tech for a while now and I've never seen the term "coding ninja" in a job ad.

I've seen ludicrous demands like more experience in a tech than the tech has been out.

Like "must haves : " - 5 years experience in visual studio 2017 and sql server 2017. Non negotiable.
Show HN: I'm building a micro web framework for Lua
"Kolba is a fast, minimal, web framework for Lua."

https://github.com/jessehorne/kolba
There can be other reasons for procrastination, too.

Fear of failure is a common one, which fits the bill if you have more trouble getting started on harder problems.

Personally, the only way I've found to deal with that one is to say "fuck it, what's the worst that happens?" and just do it. But sometimes you have to work yourself up to that.

There are other reasons you might be avoiding it too. I highly recommend cultivating the habit of introspection, and applying it whenever you realize you're procrastinating on something, to figure out what specifically is making you uncomfortable about starting the project.
My experiences from Google Code-in grand prize trip
And today, there's a new low in Nevada: $0.002375/kWh on a 25 year contract.

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2018/06/12/would-you-pay-1-795¢-...
If you've got enough users. I argue that, for a (possibly initial) batch of less than 1000/2000 boards, a rpi (either the zerow, or the 3) are simply great.
Jazz isn't always relaxing.
The Cr50 does not limit itself to user key storage.

It turns the USB-C ports into always-on NSA-keyed backdoors (anyone in possession of the private RSA key, can reflash all three flash ROMs in the machine with whatever he likes, via the external ports, which cannot even be cemented shut, as the machine charges exclusively from USB-C.)
I dream of a day when left and right political hyperbole is no longer posted to HN.
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First comes a full stomach, then comes ethics. - The Three Penny Opera, Bertolt Brecht

Edit: Let's add a second one, which fits here - "You have to kill your neighbor to survive. It's selfishness that keeps a man alive."
So I spent top dollar on my LASIK and I have night time glare.

That said - completely worth it. It's a tradeoff I'll make every single time.

At my last job, there was a girl who had probably the worse case scenario: She got LASIK then 5 years later here eyes reverted back and she needed glasses again.

What does she say? Best 5 years of her life, would do it again in a heartbeat if she could.
You’re right that what they collect and what what they use it for should be specified more clearly. I suspect if one carefully read through the 10K word ToS, it covers just about everything they do. If it hadn't historically, it will have, since GDPR.

Despite the whole media stink about Cambridge Analytica, usage figures aren’t significantly different. This leads me to believe the average user will simply agree to whatever is put in front of them so be able to use checkout pics and read newsfeeds or play farmville or whatever else it is that people do on FB.

What the EU could mandate is a max 1000 word ToS, that the more concerned user without legal training could actually grok. The GDPR just makes sure companies cover themselves legally - not that hard, if they can get away with a humongous ToS which almost no one will ever read.
Yes you can do daily. Although they've recently reduced their flights by quite a bit so now some days/location combinations are no longer available.
I’m not suggesting otherwise. I’m saying that it looks a lot like oil can be produced economically from non-fossil sources.
> as a onetime subscriber i'd say ben has nothing to sell or prove anymore with regards to his theory. he just truly honestly sees the world through Aggregation a lot of the time

I agree! I probably shouldn't have used the word "sell". Maybe "apply" works better
Also, the inventor and CEO is "Irish".
I think the future is only going to get brighter for Raspberry Pi because its niche is as a hacker's machine. It's so inexpensive and versatile for putting together proofs of concept and I think that's where it's real value lies. If you can show a solid working prototype of something on a Pi then the assumption is that a dedicated hardware solution will run even faster... assuming you don't just make a custom case and mounting set for your ad hoc solution and call it good. What I think would kill Raspberry Pi is trying to make it more advanced and powerful than it needs to be, trying to make it a full powered computer rather than a hacker's delight.
According the article, Amazon chipped in $25,000 towards the campaign to repeal a tax that would cost it $12 million a year. That's an amazing ROI.
Certainly not, considering how heavily businesses rely on ad networks as a source of revenue (both by selling ad space but even more so by buying ad space and advertising their products)
"New" is certainly meaningful. It gives an indication of where the market is going, investors want this information. It definitely meaningful to GE's natural gas turbine division, which has had big losses since demand has been less than they have forecasted

"Renewables boom is a bust for gas equipment suppliers like GE"
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/renewables-boom-is-a-bust-f...
SPLC is a toxic outfit who spew hatred and bile.
I remember waiting like 2 years for manning 'javascript ninja' book that he never finished. I think someone else took over and finished that book.

https://www.manning.com/books/secrets-of-the-javascript-ninj...
This is a repeat of another post if I'm not mistaken: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16868881
>Solar energy is going to be a minor part of the world's energy strategy unless a revolutionary breakthrough happens

It doesn't really need a revolutionary breakthrough, just for solar and battery costs to drop 50% or so such that they become the cheapest option. A 50% drop will probably happen just from the existing trends continuing.
/r/rust mod here, strcat asked us to remove the thread in order to keep it from being associated with his real name in Google search results etc. In order to keep the useful discussion in that thread from being lost entirely I created the archived version seen above, with his real name redacted.
Worth checking out the main source of that article for more details and pictures: https://boris.unibe.ch/75002/1/bg-12-4261-2015.pdf
> It's not always so easy to tell apart the things you have control over vs. the things you don't, but I think that all these rules can be summarized in one line, which is basically: If you're feeling sorry for yourself, you'd better find something more productive to do.

I wholly agree with this. There's something deeply insightful, subtle and difficult about recognizing one's own control in a situation. I've thought about this a lot in the last year. The way I phrase it right now is: people don't have a choice until they realize they have one.
Ask HN: Anyone had WFH taken away?
My company bought each team member dual monitors and told us to work from home 3 days a week. It was awesome, everyone loved it.

The team is pretty mature and high functioning. Our business stake holders could tell no discernible difference whether we work from home or not.

My boss made a knee jerk, fear based decision and revoked WFH on a whim, effective immediately. My team of 8 people are shell shocked. I personally am disgusted.

Anyone ever had WFH revoked? How did it go for you?
> I would like to see the scientific evidence of this unconscious bias they are referring to.

Here's a study, for example [1]. There's enough out there that you'd probably want to qualify that request a bit. There's even a study on the association between gender and evaluation of gender bias studies (men are more skeptical/critical of studies showing gender bias) [2].

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/111/12/4403.full

[2] http://www.pnas.org/content/112/43/13201
Yes, actually we should take all his money from him. Because he earns it by abusing his employees, going so far they require ambulances. Due to that he should be put in jail (because he knows this happens and refuses to do anything about it).
> That true, but major industry shift already happened. Literally, everyone is building on top of OSS.

They are building close source on top of OSS. They are producing close source while using open source libraries. I find it odd that you would decide to limit your pool of applicants on those from few oss projects and rejected the rest of ms employees.

That is my point: majority of employed programmers produce close source application in companies that expect them not to slack off. That oss is used inside does not matter.

> You get around that many CV unless your company sucks(Glassdoor reviews) or you do not want to pay(Startup).

Uhm. Again, why are salaries not falling down? Why is everyone crying that they can not find people? Why don't that company does not specify in more concrete details who are they looking for so that people who wont like position self select out?

> Pre-screening is done by HR/Agency. In some cases, you have even more leads that your Requiter is cold calling. Engineer running interviews will get 10-30 CVs per position

That would explain a lot, mostly why there is simultaneous cry of lack of people, simultaneously too many applicants and simultaneously recruiters doing cold calling.

All in all, it sounds like broken hiring process.
I also started doing this more -- including with my wife.

It has definitely helped my mood and mental health overall to talk about the things that are on my mind, even if the conversations don't always end up going in my favor per se.

This probably seems super obvious to a lot of people, but it does not come naturally to me, and I suspect an equally large number of people have trouble with it too.