skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a note above stating that Martin Tajmar's Magnetic coupling investigation of the EM Resonator was the only peer reviewed paper on the broader subject, and I just wanted to make note that this is not true. Woodward's theory papers have been peer reviewed since the 90's, and Fern's papers have been reviewed much more recently. It is the crank Quantum Vacuum nonsense that no one will admit for review, not Mach Effect physics.

https://physics.fullerton.edu/~jimw/

https://physics.fullerton.edu/~jimw/IAC2013.pdf

https://physics.fullerton.edu/~heidi/JSE13.pdf

https://physics.fullerton.edu/~heidi/JSE14.pdf

https://physics.fullerton.edu/~heidi/JMP-Mach0.pdf

https://physics.fullerton.edu/~heidi/JMP-MachI.pdf

https://physics.fullerton.edu/~heidi/JMP-MachII.pdf
Do you really want your power grid dependent on manufacturing by an increasingly hostile and authoritarian country? The tariffs were made based on national security reasons.
This goes with any system. Get the data pipelines hot then drive in the business logic. Otherwise you are surprised with latency and have to do major refactors.
Many things might be better served with other technologies, but we won't ever see long distance air travel without hydrocarbons (well, non-nuclear air travel...)
we have a collective paranoia based on several totalitarian governments aroundnthe worls throughout history. this fear influences our attitude toward putting government in charge of many things.

we also have strangely intimate relationships to our doctors. we stick with them even when were not sure theyre doing their best for us. we fear an "anonymous" doctor who doesnt know us personally.

these fears are exploited with imagery like "death panels," where faceless government bureacuracies let people with uneconically feasible conditions die untreated.

to reverse this requires stories of success from Europe told without smugness. many memes are tonedeaf humblebragging about euro healthcare that instantly turn off americans.
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The real thing this article glosses over is how the hydrogen is produced!

95% of hydrogen is produced by splitting hydrocarbons, not by splitting water. Clearly, the assumption is the hydrogen comes from some miracle carbon-neutral source...but it doesn’t.
>I think most people

Based on... what exactly? That's a big claim to make without any data.
it would be nice to parameterize it a little; for instance the unrolling could be a variable you could change. If anything that would increase the pedagogical value a lot.
It is a ROC curve/precision-recall issue basically. Radar has a terrible lateral and even worse to non-existing elevation measurement. Potholes, man holes, Coke cans and ground clutter look all alike and can in fact be detected as "having the negative relative velocity as my car's own velocity". You want to stop for only very few of all those stationary objects, otherwise you won't drive at all. The problem is you can't classify the relevant ones with radar. Which is why the camera helps, but obviously (for false positive suppression and a high availability of the autopilot) only if it positively classifies a car's rear.
$10-20k is very little a 30 year mortgage. If you're buying an expensive house than that then you can definitely afford the baseline cost of solar panels. If you live in an area with high housing prices and can't afford to buy then you're renting, and the costs of solar installed on multifamily is shared across all tenants. The cost of solar panel production and installation will drop as processes become more efficient, and solar panel production costs are (were?) being halved every year or two so the $10-20k price tag will continue dropping despite tariffs.

Private solar energy will also reduce costs of maintaining a grid, reduce odds of widespread power failure, and reduce costs of environmental externalities of other forms of energy production. California is also pushing hard for electric vehicles. Solar powered electric vehicles reduce reliance on oil production and imports. I don't live in CA but it seems to me they're playing the long game by reducing government ownership/operation of energy systems while reducing the costs of energy for all Californians to a low equilibrium state that reflects the cost of solar panels, which will drop over time. I wish Texas were more interested in these kinds of programs rather than bathroom legislation.
Perhaps I've been insufficiently clear. Those products are essential and currently pretty much all of our chemical knowledge is based on fossil fuels. Plastics are a _big deal_ and we don't have a clear replacement for the source material--so let's minimize burning it.
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The link on his site says $1. I’d make the default $5.
Well the article makes it seem that he has only just begun doing this, and likely has savings from his job before quitting.
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Ask HN: Tips on handling iPhone Theft
Last Friday, my partner's iPhone X was stolen from her bag and she realized it about 5 mins later which was obviously too late. Unfortunately, it was uninsured.

We turned on 'Lost Mode' immediately and reported it to the police thereafter. The phone came online briefly on the night of the theft and Apple sent us an email with a specific residential address which was less than a mile away from where it was stolen.

We also received phishing texts pretending to be from Apple the day after saying that the phone was found and that we should click a link to see the location. Pretty much what Brian Kebs says here - https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/03/if-your-iphone-is-stolen-these-guys-may-try-to-iphish-you/

Now, it has been a few days and we have been receiving these texts regularly indicating that the thieves are desperate to unlock it.

The police have assigned an officer but we haven't been contacted by them yet. I have been thinking to go to the address directly and try and talk to them but this may be risky.

Is anyone who's had a similar experience able to share theirs?

Other HN folk, any tips on how to handle this further to maximize the chance of getting it back? Be nice please :)
Brain drain.
> And since there are good reasons for Apple to keep it that way, it probably never will.

These reasons are far from good. Same as all Apple's obnoxious lock-in.
Adding more lines of code is something that you can control and do right now. Changing the world so you do not have to do that takes significantly more time and effort.

In other words, growing complexity of the system to deal with new cases is past of least resistance.
Not a single Android phone in China ships with Google Play. So alternatives do exist!
It's not about the number of the accounts that move, but the importance of the accounts. A couple of personal projects move? Whoop-di-doo. A huge, popular open source app moves? Or a GitHub rockstar leaves? That's big news.

So I don't care really care how many leave, in fact that's a clever distraction. I care about who is leaving.
Trump's flipping around shouldn't be that surprising, but the wholesale abandonment or banishment of any independent thought from the Republican party is quite a (terrible) thing to behold.

They claimed they were for "law and order" but the stand firm behind a criminal and want to take down the FBI and other agencies.

They were for standing up to tinpot dictators, but are now fighting over who can suck up to Kim the best.

They claimed they were for free trade and smooth business, but are now working hard to wreck the Western alliance.

And let's not even try to get into the whole "family values" scam...
I’d argue your craft beer, artisanal cheese, and hand-made distressed-wood furniture are all made out of self interest. You’ve simply chosen to believe the marketing positioning statements delivered by their million-dollar companies: that they operate out of some passion for a craft rather than increasing shareholder value.
And yet again, the same OTA update changed other parameters about the way the car drives that do make it less safe. I don't know why you're trying to ignore that fact. If I drastically improve the braking distance of a car, but in the same update I also make it so that the car crashes itself into a wall and kills you, is the car safer? Hint: no

As for your edit, you clearly misread the original comment, which is why I edited it for you. I said that there was no evidence that the OTA made the car safer. Please try to read with better comprehension instead of trying to misrepresent my comments.
you can break it down to various expert-system subproblems

- perfect cv image classification (+ low visibility )

- anticipating behavior of bikers, children, elderly, animals, near roads

- responding to human non-verbal communication

- responding appropriately to never before seen obstacles/scenarios without being a nuisance on the road or endangering other drivers

- vehicle dynamics (+ in rain, ice, snow, emergency etc)

...

I would guess to do these tasks with accuracy similar to humans approaches a problem space that's as difficult as general AI

some of these seemingly require the machine to have theory-of-mind which is general AI
Austin is a midsize city.
I agree to an extend. The current state of RL algorithms are more fragmented and have limited application comparing to something like a CNN.

So unless one only wants to learn how to play Atari, they won't be able to "fix" an algorithm if it breaks down in an untested environment. E.g. a non deterministic sparse reward game.

If one day there is a generalized algorithm that can solve large set of RL problems, then I think a high level intuition is probably enough to use RL, but for now, I'd say RL is definitely not for the faint of heart.
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> I think someone should make AI to refactor law code into 1/1000 its current size

That someone should "make AI to do X" certainly isn't too much to ask.

Likewise, why can't just someone make a pill that gives us perfect memory and understanding of all laws on the books? Make the pill so you only have to swallow it once, and then your knowledge gets automatically updated. Make a pill that does all that, but is also very easy to make and has no side-effects, so there are no big costs or complications. Such a complex problem, and yet we both proposed very elegant solutions within minutes of thinking about it. Why isn't this this sorted already?
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Applesauce will be an amazing boon to the preservation of Apple II software. If you have any original Apple II software that you would like to preserve publically for posterity, please consider contacting Jason Scott from the Internet Archive (twitter handle: @textfiles).

The reactivemicro wiki page seems to be buckling under the load. To learn more about applesauce, watch this video from KansasFest 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMrOiYCEuxc
Right. Besides, pulse doppler can detect stuff that is stationary relative to the radar anyway.

The real issue is false positives from things like soda cans on the road, signs next to the road, etc. Can't have the car randomly braking all the time for such false positives. As a result, they just filter out stationary (relative to the ground) objects, and focus on moving objects (which are assumed to be vehicles) together with lane markings. This is why that one Tesla ran right into a parked fire truck.

Interestingly, I've discovered one useful trick with my purely camera-based car (Subary equipped with Eyesight): if there is a stationary or almost stationary vehicle up ahead that it wasn't previously following, it won't detect it and will consider it a false positive (as it should, so it doesn't brake for things like adjacent parked cars), but if I tap the brake to disengage adaptive cruise control and then turn the adaptive cruise control back on, it will lock on to the stopped car up ahead.
Because cars fit on all of our common transportation devices.

Houses, or even rooms, don't.
Speaking on behalf of myself and myself alone, I have published stuff that links to my personal github repos. So although I've already migrated those projects to Gitlab, like the OP said Github is still used as a mirror.

I imagine how hard it must be for organizations to do the same.
They claim to be pulling 1 ton of CO2 out of the air per day. Some older numbers I just found show we are putting 10 Billion tons per year. This only has to be scaled 27 million times to equal it out...
You know I could provide more detail on the Musk thing (look up his relationship with his now estranged father - you're presenting a woefully misleading tale) but really I don't think you care. You're arguing here that Dell getting $1000 from his parents is something? $1000 is literally 2 weeks of overtime working at a McDonalds for the federal minimum wage - $7.25.

I don't entirely understand why people do this. It just seems pitiable. Rather than learn from others, people seem more interested in trying to look for reasons why they can't achieve.
> Although you could do a rather complicated SELECT's with ActiveRecord, sometimes, for particular queries, I prefer to create a database VIEW and then point the ActiveRecord model to it.

Database views + ActiveRecord are a super power.
Not really. Dead by implication means either the service is going nowhere fast or no-one is using it, neither of which are remotely true.
Very insightful article, thank you.

So the cycle is:

- problem exists

- quickly centralized solution to problem appears

- new problems appears

- slowly decentralized alternative solution to old problem appears

- repeat

I would add that it seems that the big winners are the ones coming up with centralized solutions. The inventors of decentralized solutions don't have nearly as great rewards.
It's not clear that dependent types even are types. Does a zero-length list offer a different methods than a list that contains some elements? Does the compiler magically eliminate the 'remove()' method and then add it back when you add some elements?

The entire domain is highly dubious and the people researching it are often of ill repute.
I think it's really interesting that I find this insightful:

> The database really is an API, in that client code depends on it and its structure will be difficult to change once you go live, whether you want that to be true or not.

And then have a different conclusion than this:

> Writing the API before code that depends on it seems like an inherently good idea to me.

I'd guess it comes down to differences about the value of top-down and bottom-up approaches to systems.

My experience is that top-down thinking usually is a better guide to creating the API you actually want to call -- writing the API calls you wish you had in the flow of the code, and then making them real.

But then again, that's application-specific context, and may not lead one to answer the question "What if they don't want to use my UI or interface, or they want to automate something?"
Build, train, and ship custom deep learning models using a visual interface
I eagerly await your analysis with a well researched paper.
What are the barriers to using the Spring stuff through Clojure's interop capabilities?
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Here is an old post of mine about that: https://blog.dsl-platform.com/multiple-result-sets-alternati...
That sounds like a volume discount, which is actually encouraged under most capitalist models to capture consumer surplus. Its not exactly what happened. To put it simply, Microsoft used a complicated pricing model where the OEM paid a lump-sum to Microsoft based on expected sales and Microsoft applied zero marginal pricing so every copy of windows was "free". But if they exceeded their sales they then incurred a fee for every additional unit sold. If they increased their sales, then the lump-sum would have to be renegotiated for the next contract. They wanted to tax the 'output' of the OEMs instead of just selling them at volume. It was a form of predatory pricing which got them into trouble. I don't believe competing OSes were ever a big threat to Microsoft.
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And why is the rest cruft? Are the extras technically inferior? Can they be compiled out if you wish?
IE won because it was better than Netscape, Firefox won because it was better than IE, Chrome won because it was better than Firefox. As far as I can tell the whole history of browser market share is just one long example of the market working exactly as it should and everybody benefitting.
Ever since I heard of "Monaco" the online code editor which is used in VSCode. I always assumed Microsoft will eventually come up with a completely online IDE >> deploy toolchain like a GitHub on steroids. I think this acquisition is pretty much all about that. Nobody seems to have mentioned this yet though, at least not that I have read of.
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I have my doubts. It always seems more expensive to work against the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics than with it.
I get the excitement, but this sounds like a terrifying future for famous people.
It's also gaining popularity in the hotel industry. Inspiring video:
http://www.guerdonmodularbuildings.com/modular-now-marriotts...

It has many benefits for the construction teams. They can work in a controlled environment, and focus on technical skills versus getting through urban commutes, live in lower cost of living areas (in this case Idaho), all the tools/materials are there, have quality assurance processes, etc.

I think the key is its for condos/apartments which will look virtually indistinguishable from a conventional apartment building, then you escape the stigma of mobile trailer home.
2015 MacBook Pro, compiling his 'first cut at it' example:

# time idris -o Foo Foo.idr

real	0m31.683s
user	0m30.646s
sys	0m0.876s
Lying about it is an impeachable offense.
Googlers miffed on pay speak out in rare annual-meeting move
Sure and I bet you could find a $500/mo room in a crack house. Doesn't mean a working professional would be willing to live there.

Frankly a realistic number is $3000/mo for a 1BR and my point is that you could own an incredible home in most of the country for that price. People in SV have Stockholm Syndrome and justify the horrendous cost of living, rampant homelessness, insane working hours etc. with their cries of "but look at all my stock options!"

Meanwhile their counterparts in places like Austin make over $100k, can easily own a substantial home, have excellent life-work balance and shocker... have SUBSTANTIAL SAVINGS as well.
Suicide rising across the US
> Python mostly replaced Ruby(Rails) as the first choice for beginners learning backend for the web.

Is that really the case? I mean I adopted Python and Flask for web work quite awhile ago, but I still see a lot more Ruby web devs around here than anything else.
I think people are using different definitions of poor here. The article references NET WORTH not INCOME e.g. a doctor earning $200k a year but with $200k of medical debt is "poor."

over 50% of households make >$50k a year in the U.S. but many of them have very little net worth...some of them are unlucky, but many of them make decisions that keep them with very little money in their pocket...
Might just fail-in-place, then. Although that looks pretty bad from an environmentalist perspective.
research purchases extensively, comparisok shop, buy used, learn to sew and solder, cook plant-based food, exercise outdoors, value down time and low cost entertainment like board games, reading, drawing and making music.
ProtonMail team here. The above is not correct. ProtonVPN is developed and operated by ProtonMail. However, it exists as a separate legal entity for security reasons. This is to avoid ProtonMail getting banned in jurisdictions where VPNs are illegal. An example is China where ProtonVPN is banned, but ProtonMail is permitted. Had they been the same company, both would have been banned together. So from the legal standpoint, we put as much separation as possible between ProtonMail and ProtonVPN.

Like ProtonMail, the ProtonVPN team is distributed, split between Geneva, Skopje, Vilnius, and San Francisco. Tesonet (one of the biggest IT firms in Vilnius) was previously used as outsourced HR before we incorporated our own entity in Vilnius. We have similar arrangements for our staff in San Francisco, Prague, and Skopje. The above poster's intentions are a bit suspect, given that he's the co-founder of PIA...
There are plenty of resources available. The personal finance subreddit is a good place to start. If you are looking more for the wealth building side of personal finance I recommend Rich Dad, Poor Dad or Dave Ramsey to start changing your ideas about money.

https://reddit.com/r/personalfinance
That is a dangerous idea. Do you really want everything to be so black and white? Vote down the party lines or else?
He also have a liberapay account: https://liberapay.com/andrewrk/
WeChat runs fine fwiw.
You can use a version of the same trick against a horse-sized duck if you have a slightly smaller doorway
Only under oath
> The latter is true even if you write the migrations in Ruby and is true also for any pair of framework / language I know. Think about a project with microservices in many different languages and it can easily become unmanageable. "We added a foreign key from here to there, everybody update their representation of the schema." Multiply for a few times per day.

Isn't the point of microservices to wrap the database so that other applications don't have access to it? And if you're at a stage where you're rapidly iterating on your data model, maybe start with a monolith where iteration is less costly?
Basically, the way it works is that the compiler prevents you from calling functions like head, tail and remove unless it has a proof that the list is non-empty.
>going nowhere

certainly true. Or are there other non-Apple devices capable of using it?
Right, because when a supplier for anything that has a massive market goes out of business, no one has ever come in to serve that market...
Internet privacy issues have been simmering for a while
Neat. Just curious, if you don't mind — is it overvolted, and if so, by how much? And what's your cooling solution and how well does it do (offset from ambient)?
The announcement happened just 3 days ago, so it's still too early to draw any conclusions.

I personally decided to move my stuff out of GitHub, but it will take me a week or so to know where exactly as I'm still analyzing various options. And after migrating, I don't think I will close my account (even when I really distrust Microsoft) simply because too many libre software projects are currently using GitHub.
Can confirm. My alma mater switched to it as their primary introductory language in about 2006. They had moved from Pascal to C++ to Java, with C++ and Java only lasting a few years each. I got the sense this was a trend in undergraduate academia.