skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not going to purchase the PDF, but this sounds problematic already:

> More precisely, I will claim that 1) according to quantum field theory, the most fundamental objects of matter are quantum fields and not particles, and show that 2) according to the Standard Model, quantum fields have intrinsic non-relational properties.

That only works as an answer to the larger question at hand (whether the "structure of physical reality is genuinely relational" or not), if we accept another philosophical claim implicit in the argument's structure: that mathematical abstractions (e.g. quantum fields) are potentially interchangeable with reality itself, rather than just descriptions.

If you instead hold that any abstraction is just a description, and not literally a building block of reality, than this only tells us whether the structure of a physical theory is 'genuinely relational'—not whether physical reality is.
Charting the Similarity of the Songs of the Summer
Outside of the Pacific-assisted wonder-weather zone of California, summers tend to be hot and humid, and winters aren't particularly mild either. Any amount of travel without the aid of climate control is ... undesirable.
Kind of.

Sexual crimes are more likely to be about sex, not power. The reason why men are overwhelmingly more likely to commit sexual assault is because of basic biology of sexual selection - men (in general) desire many and varied partners compared to women. Positions of power make it easier to perpetrate sexual crimes without repercussions, but this is still skewed heavily in favor of men.

Women clearly do get caught up as perpetuators, but it's surprising and comparatively rare because of the polygynous basis of our species (and most other animals).

This is a controversial idea because of the public narrative, but evolutionarily-informed ideas about sexual coercion can be surprising when applied to humans, while the same behavior in other animals is not questioned.
Most European cities where scooters (mopeds) make up a seizable portion of traffic (e.g. Paris) would come to a standstill if you "didn't do that".

The issue is more that drivers in the US aren't used to sharing the road with these vehicles.

In Paris, drivers naturally drive far left and far right on roads that have two lanes per direction to leave a corridor for the scooters in the middle.

Then 'going around traffic' is less of an issue for everyone involved.
We don't have short term plans to get in Brazil. We met Luciano from Magnetis (https://magnetis.com.br) here in Palo Alto a couple of weeks ago and he seems to be doing great there, perhaps you might want to take a look at it.
As far as protocol is concerned, if you're using TLS, a client certificate, and a strong password, sure, opening your database servers to world accessible should be fine.

The problem is that it's possible, and very likely, there are exploits in the wild for your database server -- that are known but you failed to update for a day, or are 0 day exploits -- which are exploitable without having an authenticated account. Those issues can't be exploited if you firewall your database server to known IPs, but once you make it world accessible, all bets are off.
First Nations woman grabbed my butt in East Vancouver when I was out running.
Not under $1000, just over ... from the Wolf website: "Starting at just $1,099!" And that's without tax.
That particular definition of racism has been in use for at least 25 years. You might recall it as a key plot point from the first season of MTV's reality show, The Real World, for instance.
Show HN: Who doesn't appreciate vanity metrics?
You would be complicit fault is infinitely divisible.
Hmm https://github.com/knjcode/mxnet-finetuner looks like maybe what I want...

Any comments from people who know what they're doing welcome :)
Sure, but things like under- and above-ground rail exist, reasonable bus routes exist, good city planning exists. Punting everything to "well everyone har a car" is effectively giving up.
One thing to consider is that technically a diesel engine can run not just on petroleum based fuels.

Thus i think the engine itself is likely to be with us for a long time, but perhaps not used primarily in the ways we do today.
And so ZEIT, my favorite serverless provider, keeps getting better. Highlights:

- "sub-second cold boot (full round trip) for most workloads"

- HTTP/2.0 and websocket support

- Tune CPU and memory usage, which means even smoother scaling

And all that for any service you can fit in a Docker container - which is also how you get near-perfect dev/prod parity, an often overlooked issue with other serverless deployment techniques.

On top of all that, ZEIT has one of the best developer experiences out there today. Highly recommend trying it out.

And for the perpetual serverless haters out there: this is not a product for you, FANG developer. I think people underestimate how well serverless fits for the majority of web applications in the world today. Most small-medium businesses would be better off exploring serverless than standing up their own k8s cluster to run effectively one or two websites.
I’m not sure I want the first time I ride one of these to be in the Midtown Atlanta Traffic Thunderdome.

The first time you operate anything, it should not be in crazy traffic. Nothing is that intuitive. But I think even the article is clear that it is not a one-size-fits-all solution. If you need to blast down I-75 to get downtown, prooobbbbbably not a good choice.
I was at DEFCON. I stayed at Caesars. I had a lot of odd stuff in my room. I had no problems.

Security never entered my room, nor did they want to. Why? Because I did the simplest thing. I didn't keep the DND sign on the door so I had normal maid service. I like fresh towels and made beds.

If you leave your DND up, security will come to your room once a day and take a quick visual inspection. Yes, we all know this is mostly 'theater'. If you're there alone and are uncomfortable with people in your room when you're alone, then stand outside the room during the inspection.

Some people aren't happy unless there's drama. I see many people at DEFCON who imagine they're 007 and a host of three letter agencies are interested in them. Good for them! (I suspect Marc Rogers, the DEFCON security person who resigned, simply didn't want to deal with drama anymore when there are real battles to fight.)

For the rest of us, it's a nice convention where we can talk to real engineers and security researchers about problems that affect us.
What is the rational aid movement? Google shows nothing.
> Another fiction in modern economics is the rational man that always maximizes utility

Nope, this is another fictional fiction. Homo economicus is a pedagogical tool and toy model. Utilitarian economics feature pretty much nowhere because defining a single utility function for real people is impossible.

When modelling agents, it can be useful to start with a rationality assumption and then add complications. Or not. Depends on what you’re studying. The entire exercise of valuation, for example, asks “what would a rational person pay for this asset” and then looks to see if someone will sell it to you for less. The toy model is useful even if it doesn’t repreeent the present reality in the same way models of thermodynamic systems at equilibrium are useful.
This is tangential, or only a part, of the current tracking concern. But the accelerometer in my 2013 Nexus 7 died, perhaps after a relatively minor blow it took when I was taking it out of its storage space and mis-judged clearance. (Accelerometer death is a known issue for this model.)

That doesn't fix the GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth logging, nor the screen activity tracking, but it does "fix" the tracking of how I hold it, move it around my person, and so on.

Maybe we will be taking to deliberately, physically crippling our devices, to keep their overlords from "observing" our every moment and action. We already tape over our cameras...

In a more sane -- for me -- world, I'd have controls to turn this crap off. Not / no longer being very trusting, I'd have physical controls.

Instead, science fiction is again becoming reality, where we will seek out device and tech "gurus" to kill the malicious functionality in our "own" devices.
How many lives did he save by directing people away from violent street level dealers?
Researchers Break IPsec VPN Connections with 20-Year-Old Protocol Flaw
I became much more forgiving about political structures since I started working with distributed system. The ways things go wrong in distributed systems even before you inject free will is staggering.

The link has worthwhile content, and was entertaining. Thanks!
Buffett's thinking is nearly always a pleasure to read for its clarity. If you'd read that in 1984 and put your money into Berkshire on that basis you'd be up about 250x.
Every research study ever.
What's in Your Shopping Cart? A Battleground for Global Trade
This is great, but I can only imagine there being hidden pushback by government agencies if these requests to fix things became more common.

Revenue from parking tickets is easy money for a violation that is generally harmless.
Cool, didn't know that. Is the boot time fairly slow compared to booting a normal PC?
All the doors on the properties I was at in Vegas last week prominently say "no weapons".
Do you also have a problem with physics starting by ignoring friction? Models simplify reality. They start and structure a conversation.
By endorsing this business model, you are placing the profits of businesses above the right for children to learn regardless of their economic situation.
I don't know... My experience is the other extreme - tech teams that make everything super complicated to support everything that can possibly happen. As a consequence, the it environment requires six months of experience to even understand. It's really not very fun to work in those environments. Lots of unnecessary complexity.
These are easily the first to get the axe, because we now live in the Uber Tax Cuter Politician.

For me now I vote for the politician that will have the most taxes.
Who are your target users?

My understanding is that Betterment and Wealthfront are primarily aimed for upper middle-class millennials who have some savings but are not extraordinarily wealthy so as to have their own family office or dedicated wealth management team in Morgan Stanley / Goldman Sachs / JP Morgan / etc.

Since the upper middle-class in LATAM is significantly smaller than that of the US due to greater inequality, are you going after higher net worth individuals?
It looks like you are inventing a trolley bus [1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus
I thought Waymo has pretty much cracked that nut. They've covered several million miles of testing in AZ and CA. You might be right, but do you have any links where I could see where your skepticism is coming from.

Waymo vs Quanergy is apples and oranges I think
Oh trust me I know. I was being a smart ass and pointing out that only people that don't live in reality do this stupid shit. Dynamic programming interview questions, in particular, are the epitome of the absurdity of technical interviews.
Apple reportedly arguing headquarter buildings are worth $200 to reduce tax bill
Well yea, of course. It was an open invitation :) thanks for replying!
Is 'going around traffic' the same as 'weaving in and out of traffic'? How do you propose we leave the middle corridor open for your scooter when its jammed bumper to bumper? Fuck your scooters
> we can build [...] much more quickly

Care to elaborate? Did you write your own container builder (for example like Google did with kaniko) that you use instead of docker? If not, I fail to see how you can build faster than me locally.
Would love a scooter, but it's just not practical when there's snow on the ground.
As a visitor, I would say one under-appreciated aspect of Dutch bikes lanes is that they're not really bike lanes. Practically, 95% or more of the vehicles on there are bicycles, yeah, but the other 5% are all sorts of wonderfully wacky vehicles, some motorized (mostly electric) some not.

It seems to work like this:
Are you in big, heavy and fast vehicle? Go in Road Type 1 (cars, trucks, motorcycles)

Are you vehicle-less, or is your vehicle very slow or non-motorized? Go in Road Type 2 (pedestrians, strollers, wheelchairs, etc)

Are something else? Go in Road type 3 (bicycles, mopeds, electric bikes, electric skateboards, non-car people movers etc etc).

In North America, rather than building Road Type 3, we fight viciously over how to sort a galaxy of vehicles into Road Types 1 and 2. Even when a 3rd road type is built, they are frequently designated for some exclusive type of vehicle - ie, places where non-pedelec e-bikes or electric skateboards are not allowed in bike lanes.
> Homo economicus is a pedagogical tool and toy model. Utilitarian economics feature pretty much nowhere because defining a single utility function for real people is impossible.

Then what is the point? I mean, seriously, what is the point of teaching it? Why not simply use a different model that doesn't result in all kinds of awkward edge cases?
No, you do not make your DB publicly available only because you are using TLS. In general you do not expose anything to the world unless it is necessary and your service is battle tested. There are probably shitloads of possibly RCE-able vulnerabilities in the public facing code of most DBS, because, the heck, they aren't built to serve the public web, but to do database magic.
Leonardo the Enigma
I can see the case being made for all vehicles to have noise-emission limits.

Oh, did you think those loud-ass Harleys and wannabes have legal exhaust systems on their bikes? They do not. But the laws are so rarely enforced that we might as well not have them. My old Honda, and I'm pretty sure the current BMW, have a stamp in the metal on the muffler with words to the effect of "meets EPA noise standards of 84db", or summat.

I don't know why it's not enforced, either. Seems like easy money on the part of the municipalities.
Where did I say I have a problem with it?
There is no 'hype' word in history I hate more then serverless. I was fine with microservices and all those other hype words but serverless is terrible.
From having lived right next to a bus stop on a 24hour route I can safely say the new London electric buses are dramatically quieter.

And when commuting on a bicycle, not having to stand in traffic behind a diesel bus is a welcome relief. Possibly life changing to some degree. The fumes from old buses are absolutely disgusting.
Risky business: bringing in new leadership
Legally, we cannot say "see, this is Fintual" when referring to the backtest, but we could definitely do the comparison and show how a passive strategy beats most of those yacht hungry managers.
Great idea.
We have done a simple chart that shows how fees eat people's lunch here https://fintual.com/simulador but we still need to iterate on top of that.
I'd also add Evergreen State forcing a Jewish professor into hiding with violent threats because he refused to leave campus for the Day of Presence / Day of Absence.
What's most disconcerting about this new-wave definition of "racism" is that they don't say, "well, we want to keep the word racism for prejudice against minorities, but here's another word for prejudice against white people", they just insist that the very concept itself doesn't - and can't - exist. When people refer to something as being "Orwellian" they usually mean constant surveillance a la 1984, but the book itself seemed to be a lot more concerned with efforts to control language and rewrite history to support a particular narrative.
Apple is looking at developing a chip for processing health data
The primary benefit of serverless is that you can pay per-second for CPU usage, right when a request comes in, instead of leaving whole OSes running all the time. This other stuff is just a bonus.
> hipster bridges

I will steel that expression. You’ve made a good argument I wonder whether the quantity of matter (stone, concrete) needed to build Roman bridges was much more important, thus costly. Would we be able to build as many bridges, if we made them way thicker? Same goes for cars or tools that survived through time: sure you can have a good old wrench that doesn’t break, you just need 4x the amount of iron to build it and it will cost
more.

But nonetheless, hipster bridges aren’t necessary (and looking very thin isn’t a vertue for a bridge).
The tariffs and the sanctions were just the proverbial last straw. Turkey was heading to a economic crash anyways. The latest US-Turkey stuff just pushed it over the edge.

But yes, the US is in a very strong position vis a vis almost every other nation in the world. Trade wars in general are not good economic policy, but the truth is that they will generally hurt the counter-party more than they hurt the US .
I went to Vegas November last year, albeit just for a weekend of fun, and I didn't experience any of this. I wouldn't have known there was a shooting if it wasn't for the fences around Mandalay Bay that we drove by on our way in.
That's called Kubernetes
What definition of supply are we using in this context? Sorry I'm not familiar with the intricacies of English colloquialisms and the divergent nuances of how those colloquialisms are used in the various parallel legal systems in the United States.

Also, what distinction do other market places use to avoid any prosecution, a terms of use agreement?
I guess he's going to WhatsApp dial-in to CNN Turk for next time?
I guess "larger binaries at v1 but correct" and "slightly less ergonomic at v1 but correct" both seem like pretty good tradeoffs to my mind, but at this point we seem to be pretty deep into speculation.
California Bay Area Home Sales Decline 3% Year-Over-Year
So I've been messing with Fn + Clojure + Graal Native Image and I'm seeing cold start times around 300-400ms and hot runs around 10-30ms. TLS adds something like 100-150ms on top of that. I was excited about seeing improved docker start times, but it seems like you guys are pretty much at the same place I am with it.

Here's my question, being relatively ignorant of Docker's internals: _is it possible_ to improve that docker create/docker start time from 300-400 ms (all in) to <100ms? 300-400ms is kind of a lot of latency for a cold boot still, and people still do things like keepalive pings to keep functions warm, so it would be pretty great to bring that down some more.
> distorted the English meaning of the word 'Racism'

I studied Sociology in the late 1980s and this definition of racism was part of the curriculum.

Isn't it entirely possible that a word can have different meanings in academic and non-academic circles?
Oh, Quanergy, the vaporware LIDAR company. "Quanergy is the leading provider of solid state LiDAR sensors and smart sensing solutions."
They announced a flash LIDAR in 2016, but don't seem to have shipped the product.

I expect that Continental, the German auto parts company, will be the winner here. They bought Advanced Scientific Concepts, which makes good but expensive flash LIDAR units for military and space applications. Now they have to make them cheaper and in volume, which is what auto parts companies do. They already have some shorter-range, lower resolution LIDAR products on the market for anti-collision systems, so they have experience with the automotive LIDAR environment.

Delco, the US auto parts maker, is also working on self-driving components, including LIDAR. They're not saying much, but they have a California autonomous vehicle testing license and some cars on the road. Bosch also has a self driving car in test. It's entirely possible that self-driving will just be an auto part, sourced from the usual big auto parts makers.
I found the article informative, but this title seems like click bait which is why I hesitated reading it.

shouldn't it be something along the lines of:

Avital Ronell Title IX investigation found her guilty
Thanks, heard about Magnetis. I still believe there is room for much more of this kind of service around here.
After spending a lot of time in various cities in Europe... anything that fixes the sound pollution created by 2-stroke engines in scooters and mopeds is a massive improvement.
>And best of all, you pay no subscription fee

The Prime-Member-only prices appearing at my local Whole Foods suggest that this may be increasingly untrue in the future.
Bored medieval philosophers speculated on how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. Bored modern philosophers peculate on string theory. Neither put forth experimentally testable hypotheses, so one is about as scientific as the other.
Wouldn't fusion trigger at much, much lower temperatures?

We are talking about the theoretical limit of temperature, but what is the practical limit? There's a point beyond which heating hydrogen just gets you helium and more heat, but heating anything heavier than iron gets you something colder than the inputs.
Earn lots of money and then invest it in an early-stage organization that has a decent plan to battle climate change.

It's amazing how many people think showing up to work at a soup kitchen, and only then on Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve, when they're way overstaffed, is going to solve homelessness, when they could have achieved 100x the benefit by working those hours at their regular job and donating the cash proceeds.

Don't fall for the same fallacy when it comes to climate change.
Serverless n00b here: I'm just playing with serverless Rust, via Apex, which works great so far.

Why would I want to switch to this? What are pros/cons of having Docker in there?
Every Generation Learns the Same Lessons
Yes exactly. But the overhead power lines are the big drawback
Would you be okay with it if Silk Road only sold psychedelics and euphoriants?
> Fuck your scooters

You don't own the road. It's a shared space.
Setting up a second keyboard for more shortcuts in Emacs
I'm not a "serverless hater", but every company I've ever worked with had backend processes that were not tied to HTTP requests. I still keep actual servers around because the HTTP gateway is not the pain point. It's long-running processes, message systems, stream processing, and reporting.

That said, I look forward to the company (or side project) where "serverless" can save me from also assuming the "devops" role.
Same reason we start with frictionless surfaces in physics. It’s simple to grasp and extends gracefully. I provided an example of valuation exercises as a practical application. Nobody thinks price = value. But by asking “what would a rational me pay for this bond” and then observing the price, we gain useful insight.

If the word rational bothers you, replace it with equilibrium. As to why we don’t use other models, these models predict realty better than purely behavioural and other exotic models. They’re Newtonian mechanics to the economics discipline.
I think the video is fine but it’s ridiculously wrong. They were trying to paint Vienna as some immigration caused hellhole and why Budapest is so much better.

As someone living in Vienna I found it mostly amusing considering how many Hungarians immigrate here.
I have a mental block between a moped vs a motorcycle. I’d be happy to ride a compact electric motorcycle (like the old Japanese standards), but I associate mopeds too directly with college students - more specifically, college athletes - to take them seriously as a daily ride.
At least in the US, the route display HW is ordered and installed separately from the bus itself. That's so transit operators can maintain consistent looks/route number/destination displays/destination codes (that the bus driver types in) even as they mix different models of buses into the fleet.
It's two parts. The smashing is just gathering raw data. Lots and lots of data.

Then "brute force" approach has to do with what can be found in that enormous data set and how physicists have, until now, been looking for specific patterns from theories and expectations.
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