skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to add perspective here. Toronto anywhere proper, you have to get on a bus generally, to get to the station. Then you have to take the train south to Union. Then take the GO, East to Oshawa. The entire trip can be done in less than hour, but you are walking between connecting options for 10-15 minutes which limits your "free time."

The idea here is many people want a house and if you aren't DINKs then Oshawa was cheaper in housing a while ago. Now it's almost similar to Toronto cost and rent is nearing.
Former psych major here. At my undergrad, the psychiatry and psychotherapy tracks were actually in separate departments (neuroscience and psychology respectively). There was actually a world of difference between the two, and it's one of my post-graduation regrets that I didn't choose the more rigorous / intellectually satisfying department for my major.
Yes, I built this! But I can't take credit for the artwork.
I agree there isn't a great one, but there are some small ones.

You could get to scale quickly and become the default to check. So just habit.

Regulation, as cities clamp down on scooters they will probably entrench the first entrants.

Stable oligopolies have very nice margins, you don't have to be a pure monopoly.

Also at scale you can experiment until you actually find a moat. For example Uber/Lyft don't really have that big a moat, you'd just need a couple thousand drivers to compete in a city.

But with a big market share they get to figure out Lyft line (multiple pickup for shared rides), Lyft shuttle (fixed route, shared rides), Uber express pool (gather for shared rides), Uber pool (multiple pickup for shared rides). These each need a lot of existing customers to work, so to compete you'd need 2000 drivers + 50,000 customers.
Perhaps unwittingly the earliest request for the "DWIM" command in a computing environment...

DWIM==<Do What I Mean>
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what makes you say that?
What should the tax rate be on a robot?

If the tax rate is too high, then people won't replace jobs with robots. That's a negative feedback on the behavior we're worried about, so that's not a bad thing.
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I don't know if it's still the case, but arxiv papers without a subject classifier used to be more likely to be "cranky" (contrast the /math/ in the Chaitin paper url.)

So I don't know about the paper here - I only read the abstract - but I wouldn't get too hung up on terminology. "Random" is just an easier way of saying "uncomputable" I guess. But the broad topic itself is quite respectable and of interest to non-cranks, for example, see John Baez' "Struggles with the Continuum"[1]:

> Is spacetime really a continuum, with points being described — at least locally — by lists of real numbers? Or is this description, though immensely successful so far, just an approximation that breaks down at short distances? Rather than trying to answer this hard question, let us look back at the struggles with the continuum that mathematicians and physicists have had so far....

1: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/continuum.pdf

EDIT: The author seems like a perfectly respectable, non-crank physicist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Gisin) as per another comment here.
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I have yet to see things like key revocation protocols on the blockchain. Mistakes will inevitably be made somewhere along the line. You can bolster the fragility of being unable to cope with these mistakes with external processes, but that doesn’t change the underlying problem.

The most sensible thing is usually to trust - and pay - a third party to manage the data. The net cost of a blockchain secured by PoW is quite high for a hopefully trustless consensus model.

An immutable ledger has some properties that make it of questionable value to real world applications. The author calls out a number of scenarios that make it impractical for tasks that people keep trying to apply it to.
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Hehe... I was given the book a couple of years ago, but it's sat on my desk unread, because I am terrible at sitting down and making time to read.

However, I do have a couple of dedicated NVC practitioners amongst my friends, and a lot of other people who just use variations on those techniques without explicitly buying into NVC.

I've found that the principles behind NVC have helped me massively, even without formally being educated in it. I started using them a lot while I was navigating a very rocky relationship with a lot of arguments, and I guess the habit has just stuck - things like separating wants vs needs, talking about emotional state without using blame language, attempting to understand where the other person's coming from before replying, and so on.
It was a random side note about how community news papers were more profitable than the ones that cover larger areas. The community ones also report on city goverment stuff, so losing one would just be a loss of another information outlet.
> It's like if a lottery gave out [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]: it's a remarkable pattern, but no more or less likely than any other particular result.

Do you know if there's a name for the fallacy you've alluded to? (Assuming that an ordered sequence is less likely than any other.)
This sounds like statistical mechanics thinking to me. At the macro-level, water that is at freezing temperature but that has not frozen yet will appear liquid. However, what's happening at the micro level in the fluid is that small pockets of the water are switching back and forth from frozen to liquid as their bonds tighten up from loss of thermal energy. There's still enough energy in regions of the liquid mass such that these isolated crystals may not be crystals for very long, because the thermal energy transfers from hotter to colder regions, but because the whole mass is bleeding energy into an external system it will eventually reach a tipping point where larger crystals can persist for longer, until eventually the water turns into ice.
I disagree. In America I think it’s more than just “some people fall through the cracks.” It’s a lot of people, and it’s not some unfortunate accident that befalls the occasional worker, it’s a systemic problem affecting tens of millions of Americans. The kind of poverty we have in America, the richest nation on earth per capita, is insane. And it happens because those in charge are satisfied. Who’s in charge? The people who can afford to buy the favor of politicians. They LOVE the huge supply of desperate workers we have because it means big profits.

And that’s what this article is about.
All hail the King of North Dumpling.
Meant to say Western Europe, still haven't internalized these divisions... in fact I have the impression Sweden, Norway and the UK have a somewhat stronger fast-food presence than other parts of europe, but the bit on food variety still applies.

In Brazil at least, the variety of vegetables, and especially fruit, is surprisingly limited for a place so sunny and rich in nature; but you do get a lot of stuff you won't find anywhere else, and it's very easy, and relatively cheap to have a healthy meal if you know where to look. The most common type of street restaurant is an all-you-can-eat buffet, which offer a ton of fresh food of all kinds. I miss this a lot, the rest of the world seems content with pre-assembled dishes everywhere.
When there are millions of EVs on the road charging by day at workplaces and discharging at night at consumer homes, I don’t think they’ll be observed as mediocre solutions.
Unfortunately for you :)
So they're competing with Uber/Lyft for the short random trips that you might occasionally take at almost the same price.

In NYC people use citi bikes for their daily commute because most of us don't have space for a bike and locking one on the street is a bad idea. I see people with regular scooters, skateboards and boosted boards at coffee shops and on the subway all the time so an electric scooter shouldn't be that big of an issue.
1. Convenience/Security: You don't have to deal with locking it up somewhere or carrying it into an office. You don't need to worry about it getting stolen.

2. Charging: You don't have to charge it/worry about it running out of power.
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Not sure what specifically you mean. Doesn't gambling on the blockchain usually work without a "house", e.g. smart contracts that are not in anyone's control? Those are the only gambling systems I've seen so far on the blockchain, but I must admit that I've never deeply looked at that topic.
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GraphX had an even-poorer showing in 2016 in the BigDatalog paper:

http://yellowstone.cs.ucla.edu/~yang/paper/sigmod2016-p958.p...

I wouldn't hold your breath on it getting faster.

Edit: and if you are interested in state-of-the-art stuff, here is a thread to start you out on the papers currently being presented at SIGMOD2018:

https://twitter.com/frankmcsherry/status/1002812204075364353
This is related to another burning question I have (maybe someone knows): why aren't more resources, students, professionals focused on material sciences?

I have friends in AI, biotech, clean tech, web/apps, robotics, but none in material sciences. And yet materials are so important technologically that we name ages after them (Stone Age, Iron Age, Bronze Age). I lived in "Silicon Valley" even — our industries and progress are so tied to materials, why isn't there more of a focus on material science?
I don't agree with your logic or conclusions (even ignoring the factual inaccuracies pointed out by others). Those two "observations" you linked are in no way mutually exclusive and it may very well make it the same/better for some people and irreparably worse for others.

Side note: Anecdotally, my late father had the exact same issues as what is presented early in the article. Needed eye drops every 30 minutes to an hour and his quality of life dropped dramatically as a result of lasik.
That is well plastic. Peace and fuckin'.
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We moved close to the Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, and we love it so far.

Pros:
- Cheaper than most places in Ontario. We live in a great house that would cost at least 3x more in any GTA suburb.
- Lots of nature and places to explore all around us.
- Peaceful and quiet.
- Good balance between country living and convenience - high speed internet, natural gas, amazon delivery, big box stores.

Cons:
- More snow in the winter (which can be good if you're into winter sports)
- Limited number of ethnic restaurants.
- 2 hours away from an international airport.
I start each day with a To Do list. For years I have been overwhelmed by how long it gets. I'm always adding things faster than I can take them off.

I recently started taking at least 4 things from the list and putting them on my calendar each day. Blocking off about half the day for major projects.

I know this is pretty basic, lots of developers have each hour scheduled much more efficiently. But this 1/2 step has been huge for me. I'm getting more done, and giving people much better estimates of when my projects are on track or getting delayed.
OK, fine, then don't add it to the Depends field. But don't replace randomly
things with a symlink to bash just because it's installed. If the scripts
fail because /bin/sh is not bash, update your fsckin' broken shee-bang line.
I chose to build an OpenLDAP cluster with public keys assigned to user accounts as attributes. It's moderately complicated (since you have to extend the standard schema, set up accurate access controls and alter SSHD on the clients to retrieve the public keys from LDAP instead of locally), however it means the entire stack is under my control and not dependent on an internet connection or a third-party provider. It means I can use the same LDAP auth system I already have set up to manage central auth.

Definitely archaic in the era of Teleport (I looked at it, but decided against giving a third party control over my auth system), but it's pretty reliable and works well.
Very minor delay in the UK -- well under 2 seconds from pitch to TV on DTT in the case of the FA Cup. Sure enough to cause some grief when you can hear the crowd, but not enough to get notifications on twitter or whatever.
Gitlab 500 error
IFC's documentary parody series Documentary Now! (https://www.ifc.com/shows/documentary-now) did a great episode in its first season called "DRONEZ: The Hunt for El Chingon" that is an hilarious, pitch-perfect sendup of the Vice documentary style. It's on Netflix, if memory serves.
Actually after you reach a certain point with respect to financial independence (which I am sure Dean Kamen has done), it might be more rewarding to actually generate really amazing prototypes of what could be done and then let other people put the actual money on the line to make it a reality. Then in your own mind, you get to claim thought leadership on 'high mobility carless cities' when you are reflecting back on your life without any actual financial risk and go about creating the next prototype for some completely unrelated industry.
It will change the geo-political realities of world. For example, Petro-States will not wield the kind of influence they do now.

Energy changes Geo-politics of the world. Even Shale revolution in US changed many things around the world including ability to Russians to blackmail Europe on Natural Gas supplies.

The second and third order effects of "electrification" of transport are immense and most we really do not know as of now.
Curious StackOverflow also has a 500, could they be related?
You can download the rectangular maps from this page:
https://www.earthbyte.org/paleomap-paleoatlas-for-gplates/

There are about 90 maps for different time periods, many more than displayed on the globe.

You may also be interested in https://paleobiodb.org/navigator/, which is an excellent web tool that is geared toward scientists, and therefore displays paleogeography more cleanly and diagram-like.
One of the things that I would complain about Bangkok, at least from what I saw, they have sidewalk vendors: but it's really crunched for space. At times it felt like homeless tent, homeless tent, food stand, homeless tent, food stand. (Again this varies about where you're at)
Are you actually arguing that workers were not oppressed in the US during the industrial Revolution? Here's a few examples off the top of my head. Threw in a modern one with wage theft just in case you think times have changed as well

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fi...
[3]https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/militia-slaughte...
[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_union_busting_in_th...
[5]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_store
[6]https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-bigger-problem-th...
Nobody in the nuclear industry was against some of the changes and more regulation.

The problem was that it turned into an absolute shitshow from a regulator perspective, process perspective, utility regulation perspective, political perspective and so on that. There were 100 plants in construction and all of them go canceled.

Large part of the nuclear industry when bankrupt and so on.

Since then regulation has prevented most progress on any of these issues. Nuclear startups all move to Canada, China or some other place because the US is simply not good place to work on nuclear.

The actual changes that would have been needed after Three Mile Island were mostly about the human to reactor interaction, ie. UI. Why that should destroy and industry make the cost 10x higher is quite hard to understand.
In my experience, CS textbooks often fail to expose concepts in logical order. Whenever I read over a paragraph in one of them, there always seem to be one or two terms that get thrown out there, but that aren't introduced until four chapters later. My impression is that CS texts overall presuppose that you are already knowledgable in CS.
Not really wanting to get involved in this debate or having a strong opinion either way, but I'll point out that I did part time warehouse work (not Amazon) to get me through college. Many of my co-workers were in exactly the same boat.
> How does that translate to blockchain tech not being useful?

By proving that without a central authority (centralization) verifying everything going into the blockchain, it is actually useless?

I have seen tons of threads where people like to mention shipping as a good use-case for blockchain. Supposedly it ensures manifest etc can't be doctored. And as this example shows if the data is tainted at source, blockchain is just a database, a rather complex one at that. In that case, it is better to use a traditional and controlled database.
How have you been practicing? Headspace?
https://downdetector.com/status/fox-news/news/216662-problem...
Already since over 20 years, the german TV chanel "RTL" is about 15 seconds later than all other TV chanels on live events like formula 1. But I have no idea why it is.
I'm barely nearsighted, really just use glasses so that I can read presentations in meetings... and yeah, my eyes have become significantly more sensitive to both light and change rapid changes in light.
Right. So why add "massive" chemical etc?

People who install solar panels have a choice: ⓐ Restrict their power usage at night, ⓑ install batteries or blah, or ⓒ get power elsewhere. Or a combination.

Many people seem to think that option ⓐ does not exist. Ie. ⓑ+ⓒ has to be massive as you put it, because ⓐ cannot lighten the load.
I read it as "I do not make any new metaphysical claims". The statement you have put indeed is a metaphysical assertion, but you have to have a set of metaphysical "axioms" before you can proceed with physics, hence it's impossible to talk about physics without making implicit metaphysical assertions.
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> The theory being that a sniper or drone operator cannot use the "live TV" footage to know their exact position.

How is this helpful in either of these cases? A sniper needs eyes on, a drone operator probably has live video from the drone. I don't see how a TV delay would have any effect.
I like the Correct Horse Battery Staple approach to the pairing mechanism ;-)
Your sample size of 1 or a couple does not refute my statement about not all top tech pay the same.

I think you are quite the bitter one trying to refute every single one of my comments.
Marginalization of minorities in tech is a global problem.
Scooters have actually been getting slower, not faster. Bird has been replacing 15mph models with 12mph in Santa Monica. These are no doubt cheaper, but also elicit less complaints from pedestrians and helps please the city council - who already hates them and is ordering them to remove 2/3 of their scooters.

As for battery packs. There is no way that will happen. Riding a short term over-priced rental scooter instead of walking or taking a bus or owning a cheap crappy bike is a luxury. The only people you could convince to charge the scooters for you carrying around battery packs is poor people and they aren't the target market. People here say they are into "Birding" meaning they go around bars on birds at night socializing. That's the sort of customer they have. They aren't going to carry battery packs around for the company.
US producers are trying to partially compensate for declining domestic demand with exports through new export facilities in California and Washington. Unfortunately, exporters may be able to force facility approvals through against local and state wishes:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-oakland-port-coal-2018...

https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2018-05-15/energy-policy/6...
Are you in the US? Last I looked in the grocery store (about 3 months ago), it was 9g.
This makes me wonder, why don't elevators generate electricity on the way down?
> And keeping some savings in cash is not really related to whether you go cashless for daily life, so it's not really a counterargument.

It's related to a cashless society, not a cashless lifestyle.
They intentionally delay it ~7 seconds in the US because we're scared of an errant boob or curse word to make the broadcast.
I like the idea to use YC's dataset to calculate expected outcomes based on actual historicals a lot. That's a great idea!

Options have been mentioned before - we 100% agree we need to fix this and are going to work on it. https://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity
joel mchale's show was weekly too. i'm no television expert so i don't know how much more it would take to get a daily show rolling.
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Here's the question I have:

Are the bits of a real, non-rational number random.

I suppose another way to think of it would be

Are the bits of a real, non-rational number expressed as a decimal random integers between 0 and 9?

I'm out of my depth here, but it seems that is a statement that could be proven.
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The P2P approach is interesting. Do you have data on how much bandwidth is saved at peak usage?

It might be especially interesting when many users share the same connection, effectively achieving broadcasting - the CDN pushes the data to one client, and it broadcasts it to the local network.
Ajit Pai said he was gonna do it all along. He was nominated by the president, and 52 Senators confirmed him. And then he did it, and the Senate had the power to block the rule change, but they didn't. 48 Republican, and 4 Democratic Senators confirmed him.
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If you bothered to read the article, you would see that you still purchase the equipment, but pay a subscription just to keep it running.

At least your Comcast/AT&T "Wi-Fi Subscription" actually comes with Internet access and rental hardware. Plume is having you buy the hardware and then pay $5/month just for the privilege of keeping the firmware running.

This business model is already the norm for enterprise firewalls and network security appliances, but that's not what Plume is. Plume is just a Mesh network, no different than just meshing a few OpenWRT devices together...
I don't quite understand the negativity. Everyone complains about how IoT devices are a security nightmare because manufacturers don't update the software. Now you are paying the ongoing cost to get that engineering done.

You could pay upfront, and many people do (that's what "enterprise" is and why it's $2000 for a $200 router)... but now the price of ongoing support is in reach of the average customer. (But they're mad that ongoing support is actually expensive.)

Now of course, if they do the same half-ass job that other router manufacturers do with ongoing support, the subscription fee won't be worth it. But if the product does continually improve relative to other offerings, then maybe it's the right business model.

Anyway, it is pure honesty to split out the hardware cost and the software engineering cost. The question is whether or not it's actually worthwhile to pay the software engineering cost. It's a pretty new idea, and there are plenty of reasons to not trust it... but in theory, I like it.
Even that is overestimated.

Solar panels create mountains of waste, much of it being disassembled by kids in Africa who then get sick because of it.

Solar production facility can have chemical spills that are comparable to Three Mile Island in terms of effect.

Compare a nuclear civilization against a solar one and you will see that waste management of nuclear is far smaller.

Overall less then 2000 people died from these 3 disasters and essentially all of them because Chernobyl that uses a technology that we don't use in the west.