skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the math says so, or if some preliminary experiments say so, it's the task of a scientist to go there and check. Not doing so because you don't like the consequence is incredibly arrogant and anti-scientific.

That said, the usual disclaimers about confidence intervals apply. Also, not checking because you have better things to do is perfectly ok.
Didn't know that stuff, cool, thanks. (In early stage of learning F#). That feature you mention sounds a bit like Ruby's open classes, where, in file B (or even in file A), you can add a method to a class C (where C is defined in file A), outside of the definition of C. I was just reading somewhere else recently that some other language also has this feature, maybe it was about Lisp, in the recent thread about it.
they're trying to use the cash from the IPO to fund a wealth fund to create investment within the country.
Some of that is just playing with definitions. "Have Internet without an ISP", how? And how does cryptocurrency help?
Of course, this raises the issue that many startup accelerators/programs want companies with multiple founders to invest in, and are more hesitant to invest in individuals (Y Combinator heavily discouraged solo founders in the past for example). So they need money to attract people, but a team to attract money.

So how do people get past this chicken and egg situation?
The reality is that there are people that spend all day researching things like urban planning and how to foster a more culturally diverse city. They tend to be more learned and more engaged. It's not that they are the only people that matter, and they're far from a tiny elite, but they tend to make cities better for everyone.

I'm not in that group of people. I don't spend my time researching elevated bike lanes vs physically separated ones. My business partner does, and I like to support him, but I know my areas of interest: Cybersecurity and data science. To me cultural elites are little people. They're well read, but they don't universally have power or money. Just an eye to what would make a better city and some time to try to make things better in their own way.
Does it not qualify as litter?

I'm curious if anyone has an answer to this.
I've wondered about HBO's future. I see a few problems:

First, it used to be the only source for intelligent programming. Now I can get as good or better content from Netflix, Amazon, and smaller arthouse-oriented channels. HBO doesn't stand out to me.

Second, streaming channels are a la carte, not bundled, and I'd have to pay cable TV-sized bills to subscribe to 100 channels. HBO doesn't seem to offer enough to be worth a separate subscription.

Finally, the lack of an integrated listing UI means that I have to open the HBO channel to see what's playing there. It's rarely worth the effort with so many other options that have more content.
It sounds like what is commonly referred to as "sharding" in Ethereum. Is this the case, or is it something different?

By that I mean, are they implementing sharding a different way, or are they going an alternative route?
Love seeing an app built on Glitch [1] getting press coverage from somewhere as big as The Verge!

As an American visiting Austria, I sympathize with the Vienna bug. Nearly walked to Virginia multiple times due to a miscommunication with Google Maps ;)

https://glitch.com/
Seasteading Institute's Floating Cities
Agreed. I do like the creative thinking here, though. And it makes one think about what an IM-Visor means for InfoSec outside this scenario; I'll be honest, I've not thought about it and I see all sorts of topics here worth exploration. For instance, what's to stop a malicious app to install and emulate the IM-Visor essentially intercept the data "acting" as the pre-IME defense stage?
I loved ballers. Vice news is great. Generation kill is incredible but very old, it should be on streaming. Watch the last season of curb your enthusiasm.
Anyone who uses toxic in this way is just going to look silly.
> The problem with this vision is those people using centralized services see no benefit. They are better off sticking with the status quo.

Narrowly, yes, that's true. But I think there's a broader context to consider than that. Our current financial system is architected around these financial centers of gravity. Blockchains represent an alternative to that structure. Yes, there will still be intermediary institutions, but they will not have the same fundamental centrality that the current ones do. I think this is an important change, and one that is likely to lead to other changes that will be more directly appreciated by consumers and the broader economy than the philosophical self-sovereign money issues.
Syncing clocks implies to me that you're not just executing trades in the order of arrival. You're trying to determine which trade "actually happened" first. Hence the doubt I had about the relativity of simultaneity. Incidentally, I think I was mistaken about "general" relativity being applicable. This is probably just a "special" relativity problem.
I just skimmed the article but doesn't seem like there is any talk of more modern approaches.

Newer approaches have the agent learn "primitives" through curiosity. It's sub-goal is to predict future states given the current state + an action.

By doing this, the problem becomes more hierarchical and the search space is reduced. This makes it feasible for more complex scenarios.

I haven't personally heard of a lot of research on this part but I imagine that transfer learning becomes more feasible as well once some "primitives" are established.
I'm glad you enjoyed the article :) Thanks for reading!

Finding that why for me is (1) go really deep with your goals, (2) find ways to remind yourself daily of the big picture goal, and (3) connect the task at hand to the big goal. For example, maybe you're doing your program to get a job... but what does that job in turn get you? Maybe its more autonomy in your life, or what have you. For my own reminders, I use Stickies on macOs and just always have it there :) I don't always, but sometimes before I start reading a chapter or watching a video, I try to think for a second how what I'm about to do gets me to that bigger picture.
Just to underscore the argument that they want to diversify the economy, about 45B of SoftBank's massive fund is from SA's Public Investment Fund.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/09/how-softbanks-100b-fund-is...

That's a lot of money even for SA. ($100B is a nice round number, approximately equal to the amount they would raise in the IPO, the amount they "extracted" during their corruption drive, and the amount of Softbank's total fund.)
On chrome, you put your finger on the address bar and drag it down. The view will convert to the tab stack with your finger on the title of the current tab.

What I don't like about firefox's thumbnail overview is that they're in 2 columns so my eyes have to move in zig-zag if I'm looking for a tab, and they're also too small. Another thing is that websites can set a color for their tab in chrome, and this makes it much easier to identify the different groups of tabs in the stack.
The other side of the coin:

In constant dollars, the average cost of a new car from the beginning of the emissions & safety-regulation era (say, 1970..) has about doubled. This is a nontrivial chunk of income. As a brit, you might live someplace where cars are optional. Many Americans have no such choice...

Likewise, the low-hanging fruit has already mostly been picked. A new 1964.5 Ford Mustang, with the engine turned off, sitting in a garage, releases more toxins than a modern car does while traveling at highway speeds. The 90/10 rule absolutely applies, as it does to safety. We're coming close to having to install catalytic converters inside the engine itself to minimize the lightoff time, which is about the only place you can find NOx/VOC emissions to clean up nowadays.

Not only were there upfront costs to recover for emissions & fuel economy, there were the knock-on effects on performance and reliability that took the better part of two decades to solve.
I don't really know how intrinsic motivation could be controlled in the same fashion. A motivated and euphoric teacher maybe can achieve the same in the other direction, but I guess there will always be a certain kind of predisposition and "talent" to be motivated for a specific field.

Would love to know how I can design those predispositions to change my own behavior. I guess behavioral therapy could work, but that's hellofa lot effort to learn some math.
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bonds have essentially a capped upside, and are pretty similar to debt which is vastly different from equity.
Yes however if you were to pop back to A you wouldn't have any future knowledge at A (minus the 'future' knowledge of B).
One in three fish caught never makes it to the plate – UN report
A bacteria-detecting strip encourages companies to use more anti-bacterial toxins on food and that is a very bad thing.
For those unfamiliar with the human microbiome: the gut of a healthy person has 3 pounds of bacteria, of which 85% are "good" bacteria. Scientific research has shown that killing your beneficial gut bacteria (with antibacterial toxins) is linked to a long list of nasty illnesses.
Note that packaged meat in the supermarket already has a anti-bacterial spray of which the law says that it does not have to mentioned on the label.
My partner and I would like 3, maybe 4. In my culture, you don't have kids until you're married and have secured a house/home (a 2-3 bdrm apt or condo would do). We're spending our fertile years trying to move up the ladder and save as much as we can so that we can secure a home. By the time we get the house, we won't the fertility to have 3-4 we'll be lucky if we can get 2.
Good to know. I'll try to check it out next time I'm there. Is that where you're living these days? If so, let's grab ramen next time we're catching up! :)
My apologies for the hyperbole. My comment was less about this particular project and more about the shaky ground that the entire cryptocurrency industry is currently standing on, seemingly in part due to announcements like this that claim to have solved the scalability problem of decentralization without providing much hard evidence. If there were specific technical claims, I would discuss them, but in this case there are not.

I think it's confusing to the public, who ultimately need to be confident in cryptocurrency as a whole if they're going to use it, when they find them asking, "wasn't this problem already solved by x?" every couple of months.
How can any software developer at, say, Apple or Facebook see this and not think they're under compensated.
That is a good way to find the boundary relation and one I had not thought of.

As for the Overpass API limits -- yes, if folks start to actually use this on any kind of scale, this will croak. I should perhaps do some logging, https://github.com/mvexel/meetyourmappers/issues/3
Xi Jinping's Great Leap Backward
You can't scale up a high quality / premium product to match what Netflix is doing. Netflix is a volume machine, they turn out tons of trash to go with their mid-quality and high quality productions. If HBO does the exact same thing as Netflix, their brand will be destroyed. There's no value in being a clone of Netflix, the world has no use for that. There's immense value in continuing to very carefully increase the scale of what HBO does so well.

HBO can be a $80 billion premium product company and co-exist with Netflix, versus $150b for Netflix. If AT&T is smart at all, they'll happily keep their Ferrari instead of trying to become GM/Ford/Honda/whatever and destroying the brand in the process.

Simply put, there will only be one Netflix, if HBO goes the clone route they will die. If HBO stays HBO, Netflix can't kill them.
This is 100% wrong. There are cases of monogenic type 2 diabetes (e.g MODY) which has a similar inheritance as the Alzheimer's case in the story. Though rare, it certainly refutes the 100% assertion.
Sopranos, Westworld, Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm
> Since plastic coats the stone and interacts with the hot bitumen, it’s properties change and it doesn’t break down when exposed to light and heat.

This is a tall claim that needs substantiation. I'm no chemist, but I think most organic compounds, plastics included, break down with heat and light exposure.

Perhaps he thinks his process makes the plastic break down more slowly, but again, evidence needed.
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Exactly! That's the context I was considering as well (including school)

Schools do a pretty bad job at providing context to the problem. What we are taught are solutions. And these solutions came from problems that were objectives to the authors. I need to "live" the problem and relate to it to understand the motivation behind the solutions.
Interested to know how you managed that; a specific technique or someone helping you or some such?
Completely different definition. Dawn can refer to both a time of day and dish soap, but they are not interchangeable definitions.

> PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT 'Behavior different from what is prescribed in the moral, ethical and professional code of conduct'

For example only uses definition 1.
Netflix takes the shotgun approach, put out as much programming as possible and something will stick. Amazon has yet to provide anything but a bad UI/UX on top of tv or music I can find from a much better competitor.

Silicon Valley, Westworld, Vice, and Game of Thrones are worth it plus a steady stream of new movies. Not to mention their older shows. HBO’s quality is much higher than Netflix and Amazon doesn’t even compare.
Today's systems, such as planes or engines, are so complex that the only way to achieve today's level of efficiency is to use numerical simulations, aka Computer aided designs. Google excels at organizing information, processing big data and getting answers with predictive models, they do it better than anyone else and it can be potentially applied to just about any field.
East Germany was the richest Soviet conquest and the richest ex-Soviet bloc state at the dissolution of the Soviet empire. Coming close to keeping up with West Germany is pretty good for a Communist state.
Set folder poll to every 10 minutes.
>we randomly select a subset of the computation nodes to form a computation committee, using a proof of stake mechanism.

who is that "we" who "selects" and what is the source of randomness (i.e. distributed verifiable randomness)? For example, in Satoshi PoW that PoW itself is such a verifiable source of randomness which thus does the "selection".
That's axiomatic of the direction consumer software has gone over the last 20 years as well. How a word processor can feel sluggish on a modern PC is beyond me.
Yes, you were very clear. But saying "I want to build a practical system for categorising functions that can be shown to halt or not always halt, but I'm not interested in theory" is kind of like saying, "I want to build a practical warp drive, but I'm not interested in physics."
I doubt it.

Unless the paved roads are physically close to the Ocean it's unlikely the plastic will be washed away to ocean water. (BTW: Plastic decomposes much faster in sea water than on land - again that doesn't make it ok to dump it in sea water though )

Furthermore the plastic is "heat treated" and then mixed/layered with Bitumen. While the chemical reactions have not been explained it's likely that some form of chemical binding is happening at those temperatures i.e. Plastic is undergoing chemical conversion - at least at amalgam level.
Reinheitsgebot isn’t mandatory and covers only Bavaria afaik if you don’t follow those rules you can’t use the trademark on the label but you can sell beer the vast majority of beer in Germany is not carbonated trough secondary fermentation.
To put this in perspective, how does 50% failure rate compare with other ways of funding startups?
I’m surprised there was no mention of experiments that involved reproduction. I’d be interested in how a single cell of slime mold spilt from th organism and left to reproduce for some time would fare.
Sure, that would be a one time cash bonus raised from the IPO. Couldn't they instead just funnel the cash earned from Aramco to fund whatever they have in mind?

My gut tells me its more cargo-cult than anything concrete: MBS just wants to show everyone that the worlds most valuable corporation is Aramco; and wants to curry favor with the elite bankers (and everything that comes with those kinds of relationships) who would make a killing from the IPO.
Right now Saudi Arabia owns an uncertain stream of future profits from Aramco. By selling stock, they are converting a small portion of that uncertain stream of future profits into a bigger pool of money upfront that can be diversified away from oil. For example, they can invest those dollars into SoftBank's giant funds, which are investing in ridesharing companies like Uber, Lyft, Didi, Cruise Automation, etc.

You are right that every dollar Saudi Arabia pulls out of Aramco is a dollar that someone else puts in. But hopefully these transactions are win-win by reducing Saudi Arabia's overall risk.

Plus, putting Aramco on the open market may lead to more accurate information about its worth, which would help Saudi Arabia plan better.
If they did go make mobile chips what is their value proposition? How are they any different than any other chip maker. Qcom has its modem what does Intel have?

They have generated 50 billion in cash over the last 5 years. Let the shareholders pick who they want to invest in.
Ethanol makes more sense since they produce at a much larger scale but beer breweries don’t.
I would definitely argue that blockchain is closer to the arpanet days than it is to the world wide web days.

This stuff is so early. A lot of the really enabling infrastructure doesn't exist, and won't exist for years. Most builders have no idea what the true strengths and limitations are. It'll get there, but it's not a 2020 type of get there. Maybe 2025.
I was thinking about the debate on scooters and it made me realize something:

Bike lanes are a disaster, probably one of the biggest mistakes in road design and planning.

The basic idea was sound, but it was done the wrong way. Everywhere you see a bike lane, that should've been the concrete sidewalk extended into that area with a painted stripe separating pedestrians and bicycles. Go to a beach and you can see the correct implementation. Our sidewalks are simply not wide enough.

What we have now is a cheap and bad solution. Nobody on bikes, scooter, etc. wants to be just a thin painted stripe away from cars that can kill them. But they are forbidden from sidewalks because they are too narrow.

The right way to add bike lanes would've been to extend the sidewalks into the road (where the current bike lanes are) by pouring concrete there. Full protection from cars, wide enough for pedestrians and bicycles, scooters, etc.

It's not too late to fix this, the bike lanes are there. Cities just need to spend the money to expand the sidewalks there. If they do this, there's potential for a true revolution in non-car mobility in the US.
We're probably entering an era when enforcement of these kinds of laws will be either impossible or will require draconian surveillance and extreme penalties. Anything short of "iron fist" enforcement will be skirted easily using cryptography, darknets, etc.
How sure are you that you're program is simple enough for the next guy to grok it? If it works and the next guy doesn't see how, it doesn't work.
And that's for a really weak definition of "fail". How many made it to

- claimed product became operational

- claimed product achieved positive cash flow

- claimed product repaid investors.
It's almost entirely down to the pedigree of the people asking for money. And pedigree boils down to education and/or previous wins.

It's been one of the most basic tenants at ycombinator from the early days:

> In fact, we're so sure the founders are more important than the initial idea that we're going to try something new this funding cycle. We're going to let people apply with no idea at all. If you want, you can answer the question on the application form that asks what you're going to do with "We have no idea." If you seem really good we'll accept you anyway.

http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html

I worked with a recent (at the time) Stanford grad who had applied and been selected for one of the early ycombinator cohorts. Paul didn't like his group's idea, and told them to walk around the block and come up with something better and then pitch it to him. The pervading philosophy for many investors is that the idea is less important than the team, at least in the initial investment.
The Growth Mindset: How to Measure Your Own Success
Reading a bit into this and it looks like they are doing it because of emissions regulation, overall EU breweries are one of the largest consumers of CO2 in the food and drink industry.
There are some large scale brewers doing it. Duvel alone apparently do 140 million litres a year.
CO2 increases acidity, changing the taste. Nitrogen doesn't do this.

See "chemistry" section of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonated_water
Going the open source way is one solution : https://www.kialo.com/kalios-source-code-should-be-free-and-...
Oh good, all of those blockchains actually function.

That totally means that they are worth investing in and that the people who created them give a damn about turning it into something more than an ICO...

/s

The question was about success, not trivial viability as a blockchain product.
I guess this is a matter of opinion, but I’ll bite anyway. What content do you watch from Netflix or Amazon that you find to be comparable to HBO’s tentpole programming?

To be honest with you, I find Amazon’s content to be...well, bad. On the other hand Netflix has a few good shows, but the company is clearly prioritizing quantity over quality. Not only does its content not have the awards or acclaim HBO’s garners, but it just churns out forgettable movie after forgettable movie. A lot of Netflix’s content is becoming the new “direct to TV” movie.

HBO’s approach is to produce character-driven and thought-provoking programming which is ahead of the curve. That’s not everyone’s cup of tea when it comes to entertainment, but they naturally achieve greater critical acclaim and cult status. It’s hard to think of a way most of Netflix or Amazon’s content can be compared to HBO’s except, “It’s entertaining.” In what way do you see Netflix or Amazon innovating? For what definition of “good” do you find your favorite Netflix and Amazon shows comparing favorably with HBO’s?

For a while I held high hopes of Netflix becoming a new HBO because House of Cards was exceptional. But they didn’t exactly make that a trend. And while we’re on the subject of UI, Netflix is so hellbent on having me binge watch the day away that I can’t hover over a title for more than 1 second without it blaring a crappy trailer at me. The native Netflix experience (LG TV, AppleTV) has me scurrying from title to title like a mad squirrel hoping to read a description without triggering the trailer.
In Melbourne, our dockless bike provider, oBike, had to pull out because the council threatened them with fines for littering.

People just couldn't help throwing the bikes on train tracks, or in the river, or in trees, or basically anywhere that wasn't a bike rack. I don't think I ever saw an oBike in a bike rack.
Took a bit of poking around but I got this working. Sweet little project!
I do that all the time. I research something broadly, resulting in a reasonable tab tree. Then I use one or a few of the results, pinboard some of them and keep them open in case I need to reference them again.

Why not? I'm using Firefox. A couple of hundred tabs is no big deal it seems :-)
Because that word processor can do a lot more things and is not the sole thing running on a modern machine.
Spoken like someone with zero understanding of economics.