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> Both Star Wars and Star Trek have documentation that their ships can get to pretty significant fractions of the speed of light in small amounts of time, with ludicrous amounts of acceleration available to them, but on screen we only see them moving with absurd levels of acceleration like 50 or 100G, but which still takes a long time to get to light speed as a result, , and with refueling being necessary often enough that it's hard to believe they could actually make it.)

I don't know about Wars, but Trek strongly implies that impulse drive reaches significant fractions of light speed with near-zero acceleration time; there is certainly nothing to indicate that the on-screen non-warp acceleration is limited to 50-100G, and there is little on-screen indication that refueling (as opposed to drive system maintenance, and replacing non-fuel consumables used onboard) is regularly needed.
Fair enough. Your article makes a lot of good points, for sure.

Here is a quote from the article I want to mention: “Trying to learn the board game 'from scratch' without explanation was absurd, right?”

No. It is hardly absurd. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. It is a great starting point, if nothing else. So, I wonder if we have different ideas of what ‘absurd’ means.

I agree that we’re in a period of hype. It requires careful work to write clearly without too much zeal or oversimplification. My opinion here is that your attempt to ‘balance’ the debate uses a lot of language that I (and others) perceive as exaggerated.
So the _average_ energy company has twice as high RPE as Google? That's unexpected...
IPO is meant to raise capital (for growth) and to provide liquidity to existing shareholders.

Saudi Aramco needs neither of these.

Be very wary of investing in this IPO. The end of oil is coming - even Saudi Aramco knows it.
It's ironic how the crowds of pro-crypto-currency shills so predictably whine and throw around the word "hivemind" in response to thinking people reacting rationally in response to their mindless greedy knee-jerk decentralized marketing of fraudulent pump-and-dump schemes.
Curious. Stanford sounds like it needs to bring in adjunct ML faculty from industry to serve as academic advisors. Also their weed out "breadth" classes sound dumb, most would hate the program.
What power does HBO have? Make a list of the 10 most important TV dramas in the past 4-5 years. How many of them were HBO shows? Answer: not many.

Meanwhile: if "throw stuff at the wall" is Netflix's model, go look at Netflix's numbers. They're not hurting. Their model works; they stand on their own two feet. We actually don't know if HBO's model works: they're cross-subsidized not just by cable companies, but also by their corporate owners. They were one of the most important players in the old TV model. It remains to be seen how important they'll be in the new model.

I think it would be hard to argue that Netflix was less important than HBO in the modern TV marketplace.
As a PhD student, I'll lightly disagree and say that I'm happy in my PhD. I like doing research every day and having freedom to work when and where I want, on what I want. It's much better than the year I worked as a software developer working on things I found boring and repetitive. I would definitely say I've had fun. Of course, it's not always fun, and I know I've been lucky as far as advisor and project randomness. But the harshness of the link you posted seems unnecessarily severe.
It's a bit broken on my blog, I'd like to know why so I can fix it...

https://html.brow.sh/https://milankragujevic.com/vip-drop-i-...
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I was referring to some article I read but actually it seems there is no easily available information on its persistency. “Persistency
Novichok agents have a higher density than air and will therefore tend to collect in low-lying areas. No other information is available regarding their persistency.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/novichok-a...
Do you care to share your sources?
Notes on the PhD Degree
> You can start with a random neural net. It's not exactly empty, but it's ok.

One interesting thing about random NNs is how much they can already do. For example, you can do single-shot image inpainting or superresolution with an untrained randomly-wired CNN: https://dmitryulyanov.github.io/deep_image_prior In RL, you can use randomly sampled NNs to create various artificial arbitrary 'reward functions' to force an RL agent to explore an environment & learn the dynamics, and then when you give it the real reward function, it learns much faster how to optimize it. Similarly, you can sample random NNs to execute for entire trajectories for 'deep exploration', providing demonstrations of potentially long-range strategies much more efficiently than simple random-action strategies. In 'reservoir sampling', as I understand it, you don't even bother training the NN, you just randomly initialize it and train a simple model on the outputs, assuming that some of the random highly nonlinear relationships encoded into the NN will turn out to be useful, which sounds crazy but apparently works. Makes one think about Tegmark's interpretations.
Yep, totally agree!
Thanks! This is definitely making sense to me. I'll bookmark this and hope they do another survey next year (and share). Looking forward to the comparison of year 2016 next year.
> That really depends on where you put 'beginning'.

It does not. In 1995 the Internet was useful for 30m people. In 1985 it was useful for 30,000. Email was better than paper mail from the get-go. Networked file transfer was way better than mailing magtapes or CDs. Remote terminal connections were way better than driving or doing long-distance dialup. The Internet was not the wonder it is today, but from very early on it had clear practical use.

> But more to the point, blockchains are useful now, just like the internet was.

Not really. I ask regularly here, and so far there's approximately no commercial use case where blockchains are better than some other technology. The main exceptions being hype, fraud, speculation, and some light financial crime like money laundering and capital control evasion. If you have some examples, I'll of course read them with interest.

My personal bet is that blockchains will be like XML: a technology that was going to be The FUTURE for a while, got put into a bunch of things (often generating large consulting revenues), and then quietly dropped later as people discovered that there were better alternatives for almost every practical use case.
Multiple HFT companies would be top 10 on that list.
Lynx doesn't even support modern SSL,let alone HTML5, CSS3, JS, WebGL, WebAssembly - all of which are supported by Browsh.
Thanks for reading and for the question :)

You definitely can, and probably already are, learning multiple things in parallel in the scope of weeks or months. You want to make sure you have time to commit to each of those things. You probably only have about 3-5 hours a day of full effort to expend. So I wouldn't go beyond three or so different subjects in the same overall interval.

In the moment, you want focus. If you tried to learn to play piano using scores written in Chinese as an attempt to learn both at the same time, you'd probably overwhelm yourself. In the moment, the more specific and focused you can get the better. So maybe its a specific piano technique, like arpeggios in major scales. Or the Chinese characters for colors. The more you can remove distractions and break down what you're learning into smaller parts, the faster you're going to learn both in the short term and long term.
Thanks. Yes it's like the retro 8-bit style, it has a certain charm I agree.

Damn, I can't believe I missed that! I fixed it in the code and will deploy soon with some other fixes.
You're totally missing the point of my comment. I'm not a native english speaker so perhaps I didn't get my point across quite clearly - Bonds/Debt are a totally different thing compared to equity (IPO).
Good suggestion! Our cheapest instances are actually perfect for learning ML/DL. We are also working on adding Jupyter support so it will be even easier. What do you think?
> Python is easy to parse

Lisp is even easier.
Yes, to be more precise, anything doing anything speculative with memory.
You're better off releasing from trunk/head/master than cutting a release branch. And if you are cutting a release branch, you don't need to merge it so SVN branching is adequate, if still unpleasant and awful to use. The only other use-case for server-side branches is collaborating with team-mates on a long-lived feature. Feature flags work well enough for this and you should probably be using them anyway.
There are plenty of cases where very legitimate business need to sell stock to raise capital. But SA does not need capital. So looks to me like a way to extract additional wealth from the world before it becomes even more obvious that SA will fail when oil slowly becomes irrelevant.
Possibly true but irrelevant here, since the OP does not come across as condescending, and their distinction between Intel’s culture and a toxic culture is making it easier to understand Intel.
Doesn’t it really come down to better batteries that are affordable? The rest will take care of itself.

Solid-state batteries might do the trick:

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/253065-toyota-wants-leap...
> What’s wrong with developers “overseas”

Often it's the culture and education system. Many cultures are very top down and everyone just says yes to whatever the boss wants and then tries to make it happen. The educations systems are often very focused on rote memorization. These translate to extremely poor software (among other things).

> why call them monkeys

It's a long standing term for people that write code but do little else. There has never been any racial undertone to the term.
An altruistic blockchain project?
Hi, I was recently at a hackathon with a couple of friends and we decided to make a decentralized platform for science and math problems that democratizes the computation and data availability. Similar to other distributed computing platforms like BOINC, but Arithmetica will be built for the distributed web and will be much easier to use.

Arithmetica is run entirely in the browser with nothing to install and we implemented the Collatz Conjecture for demonstration purposes. Remember, it was designed so that you can submit your own problems and benefit from others that are willing to donate spare CPU cycles.

Arithmetica was written in 36 hours so keep an open mind, but we would like some feedback from this community on where to take it next.

More information on Arithmetica:

https://arithmetica.network

Demo video:

https://drive.google.com/a/arithmetica.network/file/d/18nXpBA1S7OF-I_U2gUiTX15JfkxdWolg/view?usp=drivesdk

GitHub:

https://github.com/arithm3tica/arithmetica

Thanks!
You're saying git is so bad that an ecosystem sprung up to support it? But if it's so bad why would it have a large enough userbase to support that ecosystem? That logic seems backwards.
Nissan externally admits internal data for internal test was internally falsified.
Just to elaborate a bit more, 1x1 convolution is often used to reduce the number of parameters from the previous layer to keep the total number of parameters manageable.
Think of all the 3D graphics you could render with all those high-end GPUs and electricity being wasted on the blockchain.

Do you have a less delightfully ironic and self defeating example to support your argument?
A few thoughts:

1. If this amount of value in the form of a government backed currency was stolen in some manner the victim would have multiple avenues of recourse and it is likely the funds would be returned, at least partially. The stolen funds would also be much more difficult to liquidate without being caught.

2. To steal this amount of value in the form of literally anything except cryptocurrency would be much more difficult and would almost have to involve the thief being in the physical location of whatever it is they are stealing, thus giving law enforcement an area to canvas and hopefully providing physical evidence as to who might be responsible.

I've been a advocate of cryptocurrency for several years now but I think the amount of value that is placed in a financial system just because it claims to be decentralized is way overblown. A massive part of the reason we have government is the first place is the minimize the impact of crimes exactly like this. The same institutions that cryptocurrency aims to replace would be held accountable for allowing this sort of thing to happen.
How would said family member actually convert the crypto into something that can be spent in their day to day lives?
XML quietly dropped? If blockchains are dropped in the same manner, it will be around forever and ever. It will outlive Cobol.
It requires a great deal less work. No realtime, etc. And the interest on both sides is aggregated for the entire period, leading to fairer prices with less volatility.
Put the parking between the road and the bike lane/sidewalk instead. That's how most city streets are laid out in Copenhagen, af it provides a good safety buffer of parked cars.
I have many friends in PhD programs, including CalTech, Stanford, and Berkeley, pursuing CS, Genetics, Biomededical Engineering, and EE.

To characterize their program is “fun” is a gross mischaracterization, and demonstrates a serious misunderstanding of the rigors involved in any technical/science/engineering PhD pursuit.

PhD programs are hard. They’re often lonely. They’re frustrating. They’re tedious. And there’s a tremendous amount of pressure. And it’s academia: highly bureaucratic and political and often unfair.

Unless you possess a serious passion for the subject, you’re unlikely to survive.

On the other hand, my friends getting the PhDs in subjects such as education (Stanford) and conservation biology (Mississippi State) have described it as the highlight of their life. After their first two years, they’re basically getting paid to do whatever they want. They audit classes. Apply to grants. Travel. And they write.
You may want to re-submit that, since it didn't get any traction 38 days ago but might today, if this article and this comment get enough eyeballs.

I now hear actual data scientists complain that startups trying to hire them think they have "big data" problems when all they have are "data" problems.
... what documents have they released that were scientifically confirmed not to be hoaxes?
Eh, I dont know what the OP had in mind, but I've watched all the big HBO shows and the only one that was unwatchable specifically due to profanity was Deadwood.

Whatever story it had was absolutely drowned out by dialogue written by prepubescent boys who just learned the word "fuck" for the first time.
Starting with:

Of course, this may not bе actualized until many years in
the future, but consider the many spectacular physical
phenomena that are believed to bе true at this early point
in the 21st century.

To make the leap from that premise, to practical utilization of even the most grounded phenomenon from the paper's title, Dark Energy, is essentially "magical thinking" at best, and at worst, a deliberate waste of time.

Consider that dark energy isn't even an assuredly verifiable phenomenon. Dark energy is a place holder in equations with a theoretical gap in understanding for the fundamental mechanisms driving the behavior of observable systems. We can't explain certain noticeable details, but, the difference between conflicting concepts that do explain disparate observations, is where the assumption of a hypothetical dark energy to bridge the difference, as an idea to help resolve conflicting observations, comes into play. On paper.

A thousand years ago, we did not know that microbial life was responsible for fermenting food, but we weren't ready to tackle that gap in awareness, until the microscope was invented. Prior to the invention of the microscope, ideas like spontaneous generation were still plausible. Without the proper equipment to declare dark energy or extra dimensions or worm holes as tangible, grounded facts founded in direct evidence, these ideas themselves are simply grasping at straw to reconcile known truths.

Given that these concepts deal in cosmological theory, there isn't even a lab to test or prove facts in. Such ideas are based on connecting the dots between imagery gathered from telescopes, for the purpose of studying astronomy. We probably wouldn't be able to construct a laboratory, until we graduate to a space-faring civilization and succeed at it for a couple of generations.
True. But the latest blog post for TrailDB mentions two new query interfaces, trck and reel.

I also wouldn't be surprised if someone has done a sqlite backend for it.
+1 to the above, it's just a different environment. I haven't used a debugger at my current (mostly Python) job at all, whereas at a previous job in C++, I was using gdb practically every day.
The one I see if is companies using ridiculous ETL tools to run reports that take 100x what a regular SQL takes.
I don’t think it’s an accident that many civilizations are built on annual crops. People who could move into an area and be fruitful in a few years have an advantage against invaders, or when invading.

We have selected many of the civilizations that relied heavily on cultivating perennials out of existence. And in the case of California we didn’t even see that cultivation was even happening.

Why does this matter here? Because the bulk (by landmass) of our crops are adapted to recently cleared land. In most places that means degrading the soil from day one to keep our chosen plants on top. There is almost no carbon above ground, and what is below ground declines every year.

Pumping more into the ground only solves part of the problem. It’s a start, but not the whole story.
Author of the app here: The voice is whatever your browser on your device uses by default for speech synthesis. E.g. on an iPhone it may be Siri's default, on other platforms it is a different voice.
> You need to timestamp transactions

No, for most things what you really need is a happens before relationship. Git does that better, since it supports multiple timelines (branches) that can be resolved (merged) cleanly if there are no conflicts (double spends).
Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market (2003) [pdf]
Having a cheaper electric alternative to a gas auto with similar or better performance will quickly make gas vehicles seemingly "unaffordable". Very few Americans will stick with a combustion engine if it is the more expensive alternative.

In other words, gas prices don't have to rise, electric vehicle prices need to continue to fall. Which they will.
At their current pace of 5000 cars a week, it’ll take about a year and a half to fill their 420,000 remaining pre-orders.

Hopefully, they reach 10,000 cars a week later in the year.
If Bitcoin was a Valley Startup would you be saying the same thing?
This is exactly what I was thinking, but couldn't phrase it quite as nicely. I never feel the need to reach for pdb when writing Python, but C on microcontroller? I need my gdb.
About the author, George Borjas:

George J. Borjas is the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He was awarded the IZA Prize in Labor Economics in 2011. Professor Borjas is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at IZA. Professor Borjas is the author of several books, including Immigration Economics (Harvard University Press, 2014), Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy (Princeton University Press, 1999), and the widely used textbook Labor Economics (McGraw-Hill, 2016), now in its seventh edition. His latest book is We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative, published by W. W. Norton in Fall 2016. He has also published over 150 articles in books and scholarly journals. His professional honors include citations in Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in America. Professor Borjas was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society in 1998 and a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists in 2004. In 2016, Politico listed Professor Borjas #17 in the list of the 50 "thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics...For telling it like it really is on immigration." He received his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 1975.
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At the end, Kegler links to this comprehensive overview of the history of parsing:

https://jeffreykegler.github.io/personal/timeline_v3

which contains this easily overlooked but IMHO extremely significant statement:

"a recursive descent implementation can parse operator expressions as lists, and add associativity in post-processing"

Personally, it has always seemed like a no-brainer to me that this is clearly the Right Answer. It is a mystery to me that the computing world at large has spent so much effort on a problem whose solution is actually very straightforward if you just give in on one tiny little piece of theoretical purity.

See http://www.flownet.com/ron/lisp/parcil.lisp for my own implementation of such a parser. As you will see if you count LOCs, it's very, very simple by parser standards, and yet it handles all the "hard" problems: associativity, precedence, infix and prefix operators.
HBO and Netflix both produce a couple of dozen shows a year. HBO seems like it has a better hit ratio because you have to go back every week to get an update on the one or two current shows you enjoy. HBO has a better presentation for appearing prestige.
I can see that Browsh's injected JS isn't able to hide your text to take the screenshot, which in turn means that Browsh can't parse the text. There could be a number of reasons for this, but it's very much Browsh's responsibility here, not yours. I've added your site as an issue on the repo: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/75
How would I do that when I was handed your laptop? I would assume that's part of the constraints and revert to console.log, like I usually do when it's not my laptop.

Good interviews are hard to design. You have to be super careful that you are testing for what you really think you are. I've let people use their own laptop, search for answers, use StackOverflow, and ask me questions. Just like we all do in real life.
Yes. Just press `ALT+m` to toggle monochrome mode.
The SR-71 had an official top speed, and a real top speed. Every time the Russians put out a new world record the Blackbird would go up and take it back.

When we talk about how defense dollars are spent I always am of two minds. Because I have no idea if we are comparing apples to apples. Everyone knows the flight characteristics of the F-16, but how many of us know what the -35 can actually do?
Your comments amount to ideological trolling whether you mean them that way or not. That's not what this site is for, and flamewar about race are especially not what this site is for, so please stop abusing Hacker News this way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
One shareholder (Prince Mohammad bin Salman) needs 500B to finance his project of starting a city from scratch to compete with Dubai. (project Neom if you want to google it). He also wants to feed some money in a tech investment fund (solar energy and AI). That's the main reason behind the IPO IMO.

And shareholders would probably be more interested in the oldest reason to buy stocks: getting a share of the profits as dividends. If oil supply becomes insufficient before the Saudi reserves dry up, the prices will skyrocket and so will the profits.

Sure, it won't last 100 years, but if you are looking to get dividends within 20 years, that's not necessarily a bad deal.
I'm on an apparently ancient and unsupported version.