skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would answer reverse global warming and I suppose that would put me in the "idealist" box. :) A lot about interview is just straight up bullshit. Once an interviewer told me a story about a white South African motorcyclist hiking through Africa. He got into an accident outside a small village. The (supposedly black) villages didn't help him at all and instead they just looted his motorcycle and backpack for valuable items. Then after several hours with him laying there another (white) motorcyclist comes around and helps him to the hospital. I didn't realize it at the time, but it was obviously a test. Would I say something racist? Would I respond with "Oh, how awful!"? Would I show any emotion at all?
The Duties of a Mathematician
Interestingly, the EU court seems to accept "older mutagenesis techniques that have a long safety record" and I gather that this includes the old
process of irradiating seeds or budwood of existing varieties in the hope of producing a desirable new variety.

e.g. http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=4000
I am certainly not an expert. My high level understanding of hyper-threading comes from having a Pentium 4 with it back in the early 00's [1]. Things may have changed since then, so I could be wrong...anyway, a simple model of hyperthreading would be a CPU with two operations: load and execute. Each operation takes one CPU cycle. Hyperthreading is possible when both load and execute can run each and every clock cycle.

Cycle 0: Thread 1 loads
Cycle 1: Thread 1 executes & thread 2 loads
Cycle 2: Thread 1 loads & thread 2 executes
Cycle 3: etc.

The advantage of hyperthreading is that there is little or no context switching overhead. At least relative to traditional hardware threads. With a real CPU there are more steps in the pipeline and each step takes a variable amount of time. Later CPU's take advantage of those available cycles with parallel, speculative and out of order execution...but those are generally abstractions over a single thread.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_4
What Trauma Docs Know
Good points, all. It is important to keep in mind the difference between the Georgist position that:

1) "LVT is a positive good and governments should try to collect the entire site value of every property."

vs the more moderate one that:

2) "LVT is the least bad tax and much preferable to taxing positive economic activity like labor, investment, and exchanges."

I think Birch makes a good point that LVT, like all other taxes, will cause horrible distortions once it's high enough. I agree that it's hard to dispute 2), but that's a long way from the 1) promoted in Progress and Poverty.

His other good point, I think, was that you don't actually want to tax the site value, but the site value's net contribution from the other sites (i.e. subtract off the positive externalities the site throws onto others), which in practice is hard to calculate, since you only observe O(n) values (land and structure prices) but need to observe a data point for every pair of properties, O(n^2), to calculate the net improvement.
> At some point I'll announce a sunset date for U2F support in Chrome and happily delete that code.

Just to clarify for folks who might not know: WebAuthn and the new FIDO specs are backwards compatible with U2F hardware. So existing keys will continue to work.
I don't really see this as a major problem. Just grab a reasonable number of bytes and disconnect. If a user does end up wanting to view the full TIFF, just say "this server is probably stealing your private information and you will also go over your storage quota by loading this image". If the user is OK with that, then download the image again.

99% of the time, the image is just a company logo in someone's email signature and takes essentially zero storage space or bandwidth to retrieve at receive time. For the special cases, just warn the user about the implications of downloading the image, and go do it if they ask.
This. A lot of GPU deep learning libs depend on CUDA, cuDNN, which is not solved by pipenv / virtualenv, BUT is actually handled by conda.
Just finished "Red Mars", the book aged quite well for the scifi genre.

SPOILER ALERT:

The book ends with a dissident faction of Mars settlers living in a hidden water ice dome under the polar cap.
> Canada has a point-based system that requires you have some actual real skills and an education.

While based on binary categories rather than point-based system, so does US employment-based immigration. It also often requires a sponsoring employer, as well.

OTOH, Canada, like the US, also has family based immigration—and because it doesn't have per-country limits, it doesn't have decade+ wait times from some high-interest countries in key categories (though it does have smaller multi-year waits in some categories for immigrant visas, but it also has renewable multi-year “visiting family” supervisas which you can apparently take advantage of while an immigrant visa is pending.)

> Here, you can just sneak across the border or claim asylum citing vague claims of "persecution" and you'll have an entire political party fighting on your behalf to keep you in the country at all costs.

Canada not only has asylum (and accepts proportionately more refugees than the US even before Trump), but it doesn't seem to have a major political party scapegoating them and illegal immigrants to justify policies cutting back on legal immigration.

> If it were truly that easy to immigrate to Canada people would have actually made good on their "if Trump wins I'm moving to Canada" threats.

No, they wouldn't; difficulty of immigration isn't the reason people who make that kind of hyperbolic threat every election almost never follow through.
Given the results, perhaps the studies show that non-dog-owners have an unreliable viewpoint due to strong impulse to object to anthropomorphization. ;)
>you mean the address?

No, I mean they own the contents of your correspondence because you can't get the emails out.

>how is SMTP/IMAP access supposed to work? you send the plaintext password to their server to decrypt and hope they're not storing your password?

No, you send it over TLS. You can also take some cues from Google and do IMAP-specific passwords or OAuth over IMAP/SMTP.
Fripp Island was inline with discussion on the privatization of beaches. The only bridge to get to Fripp Island is through Hunting Island, and they don't let non-residents through. Sea Pines is a little more lax since it's not as elite as Sea Island - they don't check the credentials of cyclists, and it's the only way I've visted.

I'm not sure how much of the beach is considered public in east coast states, I know CA has laws against full privatization. But by gating the only road access, you've effectively privatized the beach unless you kayak there or something.
Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols Pt 1
Forgot about that one. But ... reservations has been closed.

http://www.fpgasid.de/fpgasid-reservation
Great post, really cleared up the value proposition of this project for me!
There are several issues with that study design that leave it open to experimental bias:

* not randomized, as you mention

* the control is not great: "treatment as usual" is not a very good control in general and is a particular issue in psychiatric and behavioral research. with this design you cannot attribute any improvement specifically to the diet. improvement could be driven by better coaching, more frequent contact with health professionals, being part of a group, a psychological / placebo benefit, etc.
a better control would be an active control where subjects get the exact same thing as the Virta patients, but are on a low-fat diet, or all-plant diet, etc instead of a low carb diet

* different endpoints for active vs control arm: only the virta arm's primary outcomes are measured at 3 months, while the control and virta arms are measured at 12 and 24 months. there are differences for other endpoints as well. this is not necessarily that big of an issue, and they may just be wanting to measure exploratory endpoints and dont want to spend the extra money following control patients. however for a primary endpoint it seems odd.
a cynic could say that virta could claim success on a primary endpoint if the virta arm improves at 3 months even if it does not differ from control at 12 and 24 months. this study is just done by virta prob for marketing and no one is really overseeing this so wouldnt really call them out on it

* different inclusion criteria for active arm: only the active arm can enroll pre-diabetic subjects. the control arm cannot. if they don't pool these pts with others when analyzing results, maybe this is less concerning, otherwise its a pretty big deal in my opinion
I agree. Just because it's old doesn't mean it's valuable. Archaeologists come in and determine if the area has any historical value or advances our understanding of the ancient past. If it does, construction stops while the finds are uncovered. If not, then continue on.

Finding yet another clay pot in Rome, one of the largest centers of population with one of the longest and most complete historical records of anywhere in the ancient world, is probably not going to be of much historical value.

In an age where you can buy 10 Roman coins on Amazon for $25 and have them delivered to your house in two days with Prime shipping, the value of common ancient Roman artifacts is made abundantly clear.
I think there's something ""illogical"" or non linear in these cases (jobs, musk, whomever). Some people, and I can include myself, would happily 3x more than what the market or society estimates is normal if I'm in a context and project that I like.

Even suffering nasty behavior. Now I'm sure that the minute Jobs would lose the original value people saw in him, his drive, his aesthetics, product-ethos .. they'd bail out in a second.

I'm even pretty sure I despise average boring friction-full project even more. I don't have a lot of mileage, but when I see people doing fluff just to put their name in a document, on top of a stack of other similar here-to-justify-a-raise names it sucks life out of me (not for their individual behavior but the overall project).

ps: similarly, some line of work, health, firefighters is full of people who can tolerate insane difficulties, because what they achieve is still more satisfying to their mind.
Trump’s “Hire American” order makes it harder to get H-1B visas
Many medical research organizations have more money than they know what to do with. The heart and stroke foundation is a great example of that. I’m not suggesting we don’t fund these orgs, even reduce funding, but i feel like we could diversify into exploration of the universe a little more than we currently are.
I had a mild panic attack during a LSD trip and my dog curled on my side and basically « sucked » my anxiety and made me feel relaxed.

On another day, my wife remembered a sad event in her life and began to cry silently. Our dog woke up and came to sit at her side calmly.

We don’t deserve dogs.
Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols Pt 2

https://archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987_2
Includes mixed with #ifdef leaks state across module borders and the whole C preprocessor feels like a dirty hack.

What a header actually does depends on compiler flags, #defines from other files and then the order in which you include things as one header file might define something that changes the behavior of another header file. The compiler loses state in between C++-files and caching precompiled header files was still a joke the last time I've checked.

That leads to the problem that every single C++ file needs to include a few hundred thousand lines of nested headers and compilation takes forever. Add in some templates and you get a lot duplicated code in the object files that needs to be weeded out by the linker. Sometimes it's even suggested to put all your classes into one single big C++ file and only compile that in order to get your compilation time down.

Having proper modules would do so much good!
Occupational Licensing
Based on my anecdotal experience, it would depend entirely on you: your experience, your reputation, and your negotiating ability. If you're a top senior engineer or a celebrity like Tim Bray (https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/) then you can probably swing something with the BigCos, but for a regular junior/intermediate developer you'll have a tougher time getting a deal like that.
LEADSCAMPUS: QUALIFIED WEB DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT LEADS
It's much like Y2K if you think of the emperor as a digit in a unique numbering system (empero-decimal?)
Maybe it’s placebo, then. Whatever it is I’ve noticed a clear connection between cutting coke and cramps coming back.

Of course my experiment wasn’t super rigorous and double blind so it could be completely wrong. It’s hard to know. But when it comes to body stuff I find it’s usually best not to overthink. If something works for you, keep doing it. Every once in a while try removing stuff you do to see if there’s an effect.
Amazon Is in a Battle with the Far Left for the Soul of Seattle
I got one of Google's Advanced Protection kits, which included two keys that look exactly like the "Titan" keys in the article. Both are Feitian keys.
I own a Yubikey, and I can see why it has a virtual monopoly. It may look flimsy, but it is on my keychain and I do not bother to baby it. It has lasted for well over two years with little signs of wear. It is also very thin and adds little more footprint to my keychain then another house key. While I do not have it, they also have another one that almost fits completely within a USB slot.

The size of that security key is almost a non-starter to me if I need to keep it on me.
The only person from fast.ai that comments on HN is me. Any other comments that mention fast.ai are from users of the courses or software.
You don't need to but there's also no harm in creating a virtualenv in a container.
Google Cloud introduces shielded VMs for additional security
WiWaves – putting wireless charging in the AIR
YouTube issues a new strike against Alex Jones’ channel over hate speech
Yes, let's add another incompatible tool to the list. /s

Here's to Python 4 actually fixing this mess.
Because currently profitable industries have consolidated themselves within a few nearby localities, leading to a population explosion that may not be sustainable should those industries not 'continue on an ever-upwards growth trajectory'?

Perhaps what's happening in the bay is the result of responsible, long sighted policies designed to mitigate or forestall a population collapse during a proverbial gold rush in what could become a future Rust Belt.

I'm curious to hear your views. Where should we meet to talk about it? Galveston, Atlantic City, Detroit, Buffalo, New Orleans...?
Here’s some testing on the S7 with T-Mobile using 4x4: http://cellularinsights.com/samsung-galaxy-s7-the-first-4x4-...

There’s a perceptable impact to users with mimi and it specifically takes advantage of multipath. This is not a case of marketing fluff.

However, 256QAM is something you’ll probably only see in ideal situations as it requires very good signal, that’s the one that edged out gigabit speeds in the lab.
Thanks. I have been part-time trying to figure out how to install the beast on OSX for months.
Why You Should Avoid a Canonical Data Model
With uMatrix in default config I see only a blank page. I really, really wish people that make websites wouldn't do this. Load what you need from your domain, don't include a lot of stuff off-domain, so I don't know what I need to enable just to see the text you wrote.
As a Indian who owned the first iPhone along with a Macbook and has been using a iPhone 6S with MBP for last 2 years I have a few points to add..

1. Its difficult for the average phone user to be convinced to spend money on a device that would cost considerably less if purchased outside the country.
For example, someone was telling me (I haven't personally validated) that its cheaper to take a flight to Bangkok, Thailand and pickup a Macbook Pro 15' 2018 and get it back than buy it in a local store.
The same thing holds true for iPhones as well. A lot of people get phones from friends / family traveling to other countries as its cheaper to buy there.

2. Android phones provide a lot of options at a variety of price points. The choice is ultimately the reason most people go the Android route. In case of Apple, only the iPhone SE is priced in a reasonable way (as the article points).

3. You don't get the same experience buying a iPhone as other countries as Apple does not have flagship Apple stores. The sales happen through re-sellers. That could be a factor as well.

4. Broadly expanding to other Apple products, the clear lack of choice puts people off. For example, I really want to buy the Macbook 12' but with a upgraded 16 GB RAM. But that option is not available on the online store or with the reseller.
Out of curiosity, why would you prefer living in Toronto vs NYC (setting salary aside)?
The problem is that people don't even consider other mental models. It's easy to say "I can't do that", but that doesn't mean a dog can't do it: it has a dog brain, so it is obviously not limited to feeling what humans would feel in situations.

It's a justifiable heuristic, but it is still a heuristic, and it's we choose because we are very biased toward human conceptualizations. So we shouldn't say it is a good heuristic, and we should be wary when relying on it to make decisions.
> Ultimately, my main point is that economics is so hard that even our best results are pretty bad, and marginally useful.

That’s a very interesting point. Most would consider Econ a “soft science” because it is less like physical science e.g. Chemistry. Weird how people like to flip the script for some sorta political gain. Yes, in the soft sciences it is more difficult to reach conclusions as compared to fields like biology, but should we say that makes them more harder?
Imagine the possibilities of direct to consumer targeted marketing:

“Based on your genetic profile you’re 27% more likely to develop ________, talk to your doctor about how GSK’s _________ can help”
Government officials represent ALL citizens and are supposed to get the best deal for the taxpayer. They are not spending their own money. They are spending my money and all other citizens money.

If you looked at the deals that textbook companies get, you would realize that they sure as hell aren't negotiated well (or at all honestly). These deals are done at expensive dinners and trips paid for by the textbook companies. Or the companies donate to candidates campaigns, then the elected officials make sure these companies get the textbook deals, regardless of value or quality.

Government officials have an obligation to the citizens to be impartial to prevent this type of corruption.

My customers only represent themselves and their money. They are free to do whatever they want with it.
This looks great! Though it seems funny to charge for a tool that makes it easier to copy other people's code.
Curiosity has had wheel problems going back to at least 2014, so I wonder if the slower speed is partly due to that.
Cheat Sheet: Linear Regression Model Evaluation
Does anyone know what the "request for evidence" means exactly? What sort of evidence is required for an H1-B? Evidence of technical ability?
Agreed, I actually really like C++ nowadays. I usually tinker with compilers in higher-level languages, but my current project I'm using LibJIT, and wanted to go all-native.

I've had a blast with OOP in C++, believe it or not, and writing my recursive descent parser, symbol table, and analyzer felt like working with a higher-level language.
That's literally how the famous Hubble Ultra-Deep Field photo came to be. They pointed the Hubble to the most boring spot on the sky they could find, just to see what's there.
This is a slippery slope. Writing is little without readers, and you can't improve your writing without someone to read it. To say all writing is "signaling not too far removed from instagram" reduces all expression to the kind of absurdity the author criticizes. Surely original words are closer to authentic voice than using a company's predefined filter! Surely ideas composed on an empty sheet are not as vapid as yet another sunset selfie #lifemoments #puravida
> He started adding on educational and vocational training programs to prepare kids to work in Silicon Valley

> Donors often give to causes they have a personal connection to

> ...recommends not talking about “charity” and meeting immediate community needs

> Groups like food banks, for instance, which provide an essential emergency service to low-income people, aren’t exactly disrupting poverty

I'm cherry-picking but this article paints a concerning picture for the future of corporate philanthropy. I couldn't stretch laffy taffy as far as you'd need to stretch the word philanthropy to include offering job training for work you need workers for.
I found several of these in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond a few years ago and was confused by them: https://www.jefftk.com/p/assorted-pictures#tree-graves
I wonder if this was in 23&Me’s initial pitch to investors.
Just curious, what cities are you referring to? I've spent time in NY, Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee/Madison, Des Moines, St Louis, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Auston, San Antonio and many more. Toronto's weather is pretty similar to more than half that list. No, it's not California, but neither is 97% of the US.
If you want to find "wasted" money, look to the entertainment and sports industries.
But U2F is used as a 2nd factor, because you still need the password.

Are you saying we should give up both passwords and U2F keys when WebAuthn is mainstream? Would that really provide just as good security, or do you think it's 90% of the way there, so might as well keep it single-factor?
I think it's worth noting that the author of this piece has a private Instagram account.
"The Imperial Residence, 1-1 Chiyoda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0001, Japan."

Is his phone number 001-0000-0001?