skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was your old boss vehemently anti-immigrant or vehemently anti-illegal immigrant? I'm reminded of my wife, who legally immigrated to the states after getting a Ph.D. and working very hard. She finds illegal immigration quite aggravating and has sardonically suggested bringing over her parents for the social benefits because the rule-breakers seem to get rewarded with public benefits.
Why are those guys in the videos touching and tugging on the coral?

Quite certain that's a no-no, and setting a terrible example for others.

For reference, see "Coral Etiquette" [0]:

Simply touching corals to see
what they feel like can cause
the death of an entire colony.
Oils from your skin can
disturb the delicate mucous
membranes which protect the
animals from disease.

[0] https://sailhawaii.com/hawaii-wildlife/coral-hawaii/
I don't know man?

If you're familiar with dispatch stacks, you know that 3c/kw is REALLY attractive. Regulation or no regulation, I don't think you're gonna get down to 2c or 1c with a new nuclear plant.

Maybe I'm wrong, and one day someone will figure out how to build SUPER cheap nuclear plants?

But I doubt it.

Best I would think they could do is some sort of hybrid system that uses nuclear generation, and then storage via a conventional hydro storage system or something maybe? I'd have to do the math on that. But yeah... 2c? That's very hard to do.
The actual title of the article is: Great Barrier Reef headed for ‘massive death’, and that's what the article is about. There are only cursory mentions of climate change in general.
The favorite phrase of the president of Ringling College of Art and Design is, "the myth of the starving artist." He says this with a straight face as students graduate with 150,000 in debt and less than a 10% chance of getting a hired for their major.

So yeah, I'd say colleges are exploiting students and parents.
Not sure if you would agree to call them major distros but at least Fedora 23 (Nov, 2015) and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Apr, 2018) ships with Python 3 in their base.
Generally the IRS will not tax you on a forgiven debt to the extent that you are insolvent. Insolvent to the IRS mean more liabilities than assets.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/what-if-i-am-insolvent
As a Brisbane resident I've been lucky enough to visit the north central reef twice in the last 30 years. If you are a casual visitor (as I was) the damage is for many people, theoretical because you have no basis to compare, and the reef charter boats go to the best places you can find to see the best diversity. I know it's real. It harder too see and understand it's extent.

Also, much tourism runs in the northern-central reef, but the southern reef is actually visitable, if slightly less spectacular and less developed onshore for tourism and hospitality. You can still see a rich diverse reef from heron island or lady Musgrave. It's not as "wow" as up north.

TL;DR yes, the reef is highly damaged and in extreme danger. Come visit anyway: you'll have fun, you will still see a rich diverse ecosystem (albiet in stress and failing globally) and the reef community needs your dollars.

Its worse if you don't come visit.
A big argument I have heard in support of nuclear is that it is good for maintaining some amount of base load. As I understand this is particularly important in the current scenario of renewable energy without good storage, since we can't necessarily maintain our energy requirements with solely other clean (relatively speaking) forms of energy.
If the system isn't beyond fixing yet ... no worries, have you seen the rate at which it's growing ?

So of course it's going to crash.

It's like watching a feedback loop in your motor controller, and seeing the numbers start going up, knowing there's too much force in the system to abort it now. It could be an hour before the loud bang comes, but nothing can stop it. If you interrupt it right now, you do less damage right now (still enough to destroy the system of course), but if you let it go, it remains undamaged until it overloads. And you know, you might get really lucky and have the axle melt or something, which avoids the damage. The odds, to put it mildly, don't favor that outcome though.

Technically the better action is to interrupt it, but I've hardly ever seen anyone do that.
sucking all the fun out of comment sections.
Has any progress been made towards single view 2D -> 3D inference?
Thanks, nice to have a single person agree with me. That said, I also agree that my personal situation (be it through luck or responsible behavior) now makes it possible for me to be generous to others, and I'm certainly happy to pay extra in taxes, to an extent.

I guess what bothers me is just this sense of entitlement of people that originated from my same social stratum who now argue "the game was rigged" when I never saw evidence of this. (This annoyance of mine BTW does not transfer to disadvantaged folks who did not come from a middle class background... I agree 100% they got a harder lot in life than many of us and are often right to complain.)
(I wrote the original article)

I've been playing around with a few and I'd recommend the Orbbec Astra and the Intel RealSense (the new D435 is what I've been using) as decent but cheap cameras if you want to get started! The Asus Xtion PRO LIVE is also quite good but since it's been discontinued it's pretty hard to find.

The Stereolabs ZED relies on stereo vision but produces a similar output as traditional RGB-D cameras, and I've heard good things about it as well!
It's time for a debt jubilee.
Which is not a good reason to ban them completely from one release to the next. It only shows that they don’t really care about their users that much.
I have more than one service, at the peak I had 5: Netflix, HBO Now, Amazon, Hulu, and Acorn. Also maybe BritBox (not sure if I ever started paying for it).

I subscribe / unsubscribe as interesting shows come out.
> 2/3 of the glass collected is turned into new bottles.

It's a seriously dumb process. Take a bottle, crush it, melt it down, and make new bottles. What was wrong with the old bottles?
Dozens of years are manageable, if the cost is avoiding an ELE. Short term thinking is what got us in this mess, maybe it's time to think on larger timescales.
Universal Basic Income and Blockchain
That's a lot closer than you'd think then. While it varies from location to location, the capacity factor of solar seems to be about 20%. That means - sustained - a solar system generates 20% of it's maximum power rating, because the amount of power it produces is lessened during the winter, cloudy days, and of course at night.

The nuclear capacity factor, on the other hand, is rather high. Upwards of 90%, and sometimes even upwards of 100% (due to the powerplants being able to produce more energy than they were designed for).

If you factor that in, a nuclear plant has about a 4.5x capacity compared to a solar plant, meaning you'd have to spend 13.5c/kw for solar with the same capacity.

Of course, this varies greatly based on where you are. In sunny climates, solar's capacity is more like 30%, while in northern climates, it can be 15%. And I'd imagine the cost of new nuclear very much depends on regulations - in the US, it might as well be infinite.
3 questions
1/ Are there solutions on the table where the cure isn't worse than the disease? That money has been spent, it came from somewhere. Can it just be vanquished without repercussions?

2/ Objectively, what is the likelihood that continuing the status quo crashes the system?

3/ What are the long term consequences from potential solutions? E.g., if current debts are forgiven/cancelled, would lenders refuse to lend for colleges? Would well off people with significant debt take advantage of the system we're protecting, leading to less trust in it, which could cause it's own collapse movement?

The defensible logic is that we don't really know that current student debt will "crash the system", and we definitely don't know what the 2nd and 3rd order consequences would be if any of the solutions were implemented.
How to answer cosmic queries
I'm not so sure about that. No other international content provider is available is most of Europe. Even HBO is only available in very limited packaged versions (which every one hates because we don't want packages).
I think it would solve a lot of problems.
My main expectation, is the dramatic reduction of influence by lobbyists. Which in turn, should produce a model where lobbyist would work on influencing the actual voters.
So they may not spend less money, but it will go on influencing the electorate itself. The language, methods and areas of influence will change as well -- and that's what I would like.

I realize, that at least in some analysis, this did not happen in Michigan.
(just reduction of lobbyist spending was 13%, but politicians with less experience consulted with them more -- See page 19 of [1] ).

However, I think the number of years in service, plus preliminary background requirements for staff members, plus other adjustments, still need to be made for a proper term-limit system.

Fundamentally, I believe, there are no small (defined as less than 1000), humans that should be permanently place in the position of distributing tax dollars, or military control.

These two things will produce corruption no matter how 'intellectually clean' a person is, entering the position.

US, UK and other countries claiming to be the 'moral compasses' for the world to follow, need to figure out how to switch from the class of politicians to the 'statesman' .

Whereas, I see a politician as somebody who makes is their job/career, vs statesman -- who view their work as a poorly (or insignificantly) compensated service for 8-12 years.

[1] http://www.msae.org/Portals/0/PDF/Term%20Limits%20White%20Pa...
Isn’t this not about size of energy produced but rather the physical size of the reactor?
> The program can certainly prepare itself for validating that data, and reject the v2 if it's not prepared for it, but then what do you do? To me "crashing" that entire page is a reasonable way to get around that for some programs.

Such stuff is mostly handled via types like `Maybe APIResponse` or `Either ErrorMsg APIResponse`, so the type systems can guarantee that you handle both cases. And handling the error case (even if it's just a simple message to the user like "Error: Unable to fetch new weather data for location X/Y") is better then just crashing.

I mean it depends on your definition of crashing, but I consider it similar to undefined behaviour. So I greatly prefer

$ ./fetch_weather $location
panic: unable to fetch new weather data for location X/Y

to

$ ./fetch_weather $location
Segmentation fault

and I guess most people do (where segfault is similar to 500 Internal Server Error which is equally bad).
Similarly, people who survived the system should have just as much access to remedies as people currently in their own difficulties.
Not that the headline exactly matches the article, but at this point is there any well educated forward-thinking person who doesn't think the planet is headed for a catastrophe?

The population of humans is booming.. and surely any intelligent person can see that eventually, at some point something will have to give. Maybe it will be when there are 10 billion of us, or 20, or 100, but surely, at some point something's going to break in a very big way.
I was being a bit facetious. I just know I'm not the only person out there who WASTES an enormous amount of time fiddling with LaTeX instead of working.

For pure composition, you are certainly correct... do not write in the Tex editor... Just compose with WORD or something, and then take care of the formatting in Tex at the end.

(Regrettably, though, I am involved in several projects where the composition necessarily has to be in the LaTeX editor as the format and cosmetic adjustments are very important.)

It seems a lot of the helpful questions and answers on the various LaTeX websites come from some PhD student working on his dissertation. I kind of smile with sympathy at their earnest questions about how to print an equation upside-down and backwards in a table cell while using multicolumn (just a silly example...) I know whoever was writing the question was, like me, surfing the internet and focusing on formatting instead of getting back to work and finishing the damn dissertation.
I just leave the aluminum cans in a bag next to the dumpster and they get magically recycled with no effort on my part by the folks who dumpster dive for recyclables around here. Saves them the hassle of digging them out and I get the satisfaction of knowing I'm doing my part for Mother Nature -- win/win in my book.
This is an exciting time for those of us working on computational geometry to better understand 3D shapes across many industries.

In addition to the architectures mentioned in this great overview, I'm excited to see progress on spectral and geodesic CNNs for graphs and manifolds. Check out this other fantastic source for info on 3D ML: http://geometricdeeplearning.com
That Cocky Voice in Your Head Is Wrong
At Hedge Funds Where Are the Women?
The race will be to see who can win the day: modular commodity nuclear, or utility scale battery storage (Flow batteries, lithium ion/polymer, etc).

Presumably, both get cheaper as you make more, but anyone can make batteries and ship them around the world with little notice. Tesla’s Hornsdale Power Reserve system was built in 90 days. I don’t know of any nuclear plants that get built faster than 10 years.
Negative? Reliable and ultra-long term fuel disposal (i.e., the lack there of) is still unsolved.
Nope. Get in the pipeline at Google and ace your interviews. There's no checkbox in our hiring process labelled "went to a famous school so I'm impressed and we should hire".
I lost you I survived I hate the breakup hurt I miss you I want you back
I switched to dvorak and would never go back.

1. It took me two weeks to get to ~35wpm, and it was absolutely grueling. The next two months I ramped up to ~80. Now I'm slightly faster than my top qwerty speed (qwerty is incredibly hard to type in dvorak btw), but the investment is worth it. Typing is very easy, and I no longer have RSI issues.

2. I use my family's computer from time to time. There's a break in period / your brain literally flips. It's a very unique experience. I think if I switched more often I'd be able to maintain performance in both.

Thinking a little more about it, learning to type in a new format was such a strange and enjoyable experience. You feel your brain struggling and one day something just kind of clicks, a dam breaks way, and your fingers float above the keyboard, the words appearing on the screen and you're not sure how.
In 2D, this is the porno theater problem.
The far right have been advocating or at least partial to Nuclear power since as far back as the late Howard government in '07. Cory Bernardi has a bill before the Senate right now titled "Nuclear Fuel Cycle (Facilitation) Bill 2017". France with nuclear remains the first world country with the cheapest, cleanest, and probably safest power.

There is no branch of politics committed to "maintaining Australia's CO2 emission levels". There is a branch that wants cheap, and a branch that wants specific technologies. And the status quo seems to be holding until Australia decides which option is better.
While I agree about it being ok to break things at this stage, some of the words in your reply were a bit confusing - what do you mean a "private unsupported API" in an open source project? Kind of supports the notion that this is a private group project and others can use it, but are not welcome to participate.

Also, if calling this a minor release is idiotic, why was the version number then a minor increase (at least according to commonly accepted understanding, i.e. semver) and not a 0.20 or whatever else, especially if there are breaking API changes.
Haven't really been paying any attention to elm, all I can say now is that I never will.
Got any statistics on declining birth rate among millennials?
I co-signed a loan for a friend who worked in as a Chemical Engineer for GE. Long story short, he had his Visa revoked, so I ended up on the hook for $16k of his student loans.

I took a look at some of the financing terms and they are completely ridiculous. He paid $130 a month and at the end of the year he had only paid down $70 in principal.

These terms should be criminal.
True. From blind, I think it matches average startup pay. However, that does not account for the fact that most people work very long hours. My brother started off with 80 hours weeks and then came down to 60 hour weeks when he got into his groove at tesla. So when you account for that, it is 33% below average startup pay (assuming other companies are doing 40) which itself is below big tech pay.
Might be talking about European regulations. 15c per kw versus 3 in usa - thats 5x magnitude.

Doesnt suprise - gallon of gas in most european countries (sold by liters and funny thing - you first pump then pay!) is about 40% more than same amount in USA. it has been like this forever and doesnt look like will ever change.
Local multiplayer had been a thing for ages, of course, but the N64 was something special because it was the first significant console that supported four full controllers (not just paddles) from day 1 without an aftermarket multitap. There was unprecedented four-player support, and simultaneous four-player play is a different experience than passing around two controllers.

It wasn't just Goldeneye, true, but Goldeneye was one of the console's best sellers, it was out within the first year, and it was arguably the first really top-shelf FPS for any console, so it left a big impression.
A very interesting talk.
Making unsupported assertions can’t make them come true. College should controversial. College, as it exists today, entails large expense and opportunity cost. We became a very advanced society sending only a small percentage of people to college. There is little reason to think tripling the proportion of people who go to college will improve the fundamentals of the economy.
John McCain has died
I think this just reflect that a lot of the writing available on the internet is just really bad now, it's not like readers are in a rush to get to the clickbait articles at the bottom of the page. I can't recall the last time I read an article that did not have a significant grammatical error in it. This sentence contain two as for example.

If an article doesn't immediately support the article's headline then people are going to skim until they find information supporting or refuting the headline.
Ask HN: In which areas of society do you think 5G will have the biggest impacts?
With 5G now being rolled out to replace 3G/4G around the world, in which areas of society do you think we will see the biggest impacts?
Nice response; love the 4th commandment point. I found the author to be on the attack, from the beginning, with the whole taxi driver / address thing. Who cares? Plus the first driver even knew the street.

Then the author seems pathetic here: "Peering searchingly into my eyes, he asked if one of his critics had persuaded me to pose the question. Yes, I lied." Why lie? Have some guts, like Popper evidently does, and believe in what you want to ask.

Popper at this time was 90 years old, surely not putting his best foot forward. It was a poor essay overall, IMO, but I love to read anything about Popper.
> What's it worth to you? I'll gladly separate out my aluminum if you send me a check each month. How much are you willing to pay?

Is this how you handle all human interactions?
Oh my lord. Those Forum rules are hilarious.

Like its written by a cute 5 year that thinks they're being clever and nobody will know what they mean is that they will block, delete, and ban anyone ever voicing critical thoughts.

Like how do they ever think that language will improve?

Either say nice things or I ban you.

There is no appeals process.
You can have a damn good time that way, but it doesn't quite measure up to having all your friends in the same room, IMO. I have a collection of single-screen 4-player games on Steam, and I like to pack along my laptop, A/V cables, and four gamepads when I visit friends. :)

Most successful so far are Broforce, Monaco, and Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime.
The exponential growth, this planet is not growing...

I always am worried that no leading intellectual is considering the humans future. Cross the globe, I cannot see any happy ending for humans road forward.
i'm ok with student debt amnesty as long as it comes with compulsory civil or military service.
Not quite.

I agree TS definitely does not 'fix' JS, but in practice, it helps avoid many issues.

Example: prototype inheritance.

Now you can argue that's a 'good feature' of JS, but I'd argue it's just convoluted and difficult.

Since programming in TS ... I've basically never run into a prototype inheritance concern, and maybe a little bit daring (or lazy) to say that I've forgotten many of the details. You really don't have to know anything about prototype inheritance when you're in TS land.

Modules. Technically, that's going to be 'fixed' in a near future version of JS, but really, it's not. Modularization is cludge in JS with various versions. In TS it's fairly clear. No issues there either.

Also, annotations.

Anyhow, yes, you're right technically, but TS does obfuscate a lot of the ridiculousness to the point wherein I would say TS is borderline another layer of abstraction, not just 'types'.

It's the only thing in tech I actually talk up when I get the chance.
Hi! I made https://RemoteHacker.com specifically for this problem :) A lot of people have managed to find new partners to continue developing and building businesses!
I worked with a programmer in his 40s who hunt and pecked. A generous estimate of his speed would be 10 wpm. He would always yell back at anyone critiquing his typing: Think more, type less.

He was one of the better programmers on the team. Whether this was because he was forced to make good decisions to limit the amount of code on the screen or not, who knows. I think the only critique I had was that his comments were... a little lacking.
Own your choices. You decided to go to college as opposed to not going. You decided to go to the college that you did in favors of others. You knew the cost of tuition and room and board. You knew how much you would have to borrow to afford the college you chose. You voluntarily borrowed the money that you did. You knew the amount of $ that you would owe. You knew the payment schedule. You had a reasonable idea of how much you wold earn given the degree and college that you chose. I feel a little sorry that you now have to make sacrifices to pay back the money you chose to borrow. Maybe you have to do without for some period of time while others you know don't.
That makes it all the more surprising that they would include the "AT" prefix, which all the commands start with --- if I were implementing a command processor like this in a memory- and CPU-constrained environment, I'd match "AT" separately from the rest (differing) parts of the command.
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We'd be better off burning the money than our current system. The attitude that "college is an unalloyed good" is far more damaging than some people thinking "hey you should pay back loans you take out."
Every piece of historic evidence tends to prove that higher education for an ever growing part of the population seem to correlate with better living standards.
And is your claim that the vast majority of these users are curating a personal brand, as opposed to simply sharing with friends and family, actual corporate brands maintaining an online presence, or any other use case besides?