skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that counts a lot more than any version number - advertising it for production.
Usually it is the bureaucrats that actually run the country and they are career professionals
So how will they charge the numerous trucks they've sold before the full Megacharger network is available? Will a truck roll into a Supercharger and take up half the chargers?
My favorite is they figured out the most infuriating amount of dead air it takes to get you to check if the headphones disconnected.
Reflex-FRP is finally getting documented and usable. I looked at ELM and decided that I could wait for reflex.
Better have a solid alternative in-place before throwing away social or income sheet capital. Up and quitting (hopefully with notice) without a plan isn't smart or professional.
Demo of Cheap, Wearable, High-Resolution fMRI for BCI (Brain Computer Interface)
I have read Harari's “Sapiens”, but I did not want to go on with the sequel. The main reason was his way of always seeing clouds on the horizon and predicting doomsday, probably because fear sells more books.

I believe the metaphorical clouds he is talking about here will probably drift by. This is because I believe that the main reason why most people don't act like tyrants, is not that they don't have the opportunity (because most people have the opportunity to be someone's tormentor); it is that it is in their economic interest to cooperate with others, benefiting their own survival.

Conjuring up dystopian visions of the future is no challenge; I'm sure most readers could come up with ten just to argue with this comment. But society's been getting better in every aspect of living almost every decade since the enlightenment. While this is not a law of nature, it is reasonable to assume that this will continue for a little while.
The causes are co-option and destruction of ecosystems, and various sorts of pollution. I do agree that it's inaccurate to focus on overpopulation. Still, some impacts, such as ecosystem co-option for agriculture, and harvesting wood for fuel, are substantial even without industrial development.

Also, expecting industrial development to moderate growth rates in rapidly growing populations is iffy. Time lags could push systems into regimes with positive feedback. Ultimately, though, human populations will crash, and stuff will head back toward equilibrium.
Unless you're Japan.
I doubt it. Do you think the wealthy aren't well protected? Citizens with firearms are useful against soft targets, not ones that can defend themselves
So we can have jackpot-style prosecutions, like the jackpot civil lawsuit system we have now?

No thanks.
Not really, depending on what method is used there are several outstanding issues:
Assuming magnetic plasma confinement:
- plasma stability issues: it is not really know how to maintain a stable plasma in an energy efficient way that can maintain a reaction that produces a net positive energy generation. When hearing about interesting exotic fusion reactors, one should wonder about the plasma stability (ie the plasma goes into a failure mode and hits the wall or leaks out of the confinement).
- materials issues: the materials don’t really exist that can sustain extended periods of radiation damage. This is also a limiter in many exotic fission reactor designs.

Laser confinement also has some issues.

So conceptually we know it should work but maybe a couple of the needed technologies are not ready. This is similar to Leonardo da Vinci knowing that helicopters should be possible in the 1400s but many of the required supporting technologies weren’t ready.
It’s actually pretty normal nowadays. No one is suggesting you have to burn bridges if you quit.
The issue is the same as ML: the damn things will figure out how to misinterpret the incentive into something perverse, if given the chance. Even worse, they have the opportunity to influence the incentives, or change them outright, to give themselves the chance; and since the incentives have to change over time, to keep up with changes in the environment, any stable set of incentives is likely to become unstable in due time.

So incentives are alone not the answer; it needs to also somehow be self-stabilizing, and self-correcting, and also not be wrong (because such a structure would be difficult to fix, as its designed to be difficult to edit in the first place !)
Apropos of the article, I started using "folks" a lot more because of a colleague that would use it in 2012.

My thinking has also been shaped by the book On Writing Well which suggested I use their job instead. In other words, don't write that he should avoid semicolons, instead write that "authors should avoid..."
There's a lot there that depends on the specifics of the substances. Radioactivity doesn't mean dangerous or weaponizable. Bananas are radioactive. Granite countertops are radioactive.
Miner's “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” (1956)
That's because if you can pay more, colleges charge more.
I haven't seen much to suggest that this is the sort of issue that animates second amendment sort of people.
A somewhat related article recently on the HN front page - "Generating random points inside a sphere": https://karthikkaranth.me/blog/generating-random-points-in-a... ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17688599
I posted that article yesterday. I decided to do elmconf before strange loop this year, and so I'm learning Elm before the end of September.

I have to admit that I was thoroughly confused at the locking and removal of the thread. It also means I didn't even have the chance to respond that I don't necessarily agree or disagree... I'm a new part of the community.

I'm still going to continue learning and implementing a few small projects that I have planned. However, I'm a little worried that I'm going to be burnt by some in this community calling real needed debate a diatribe and silencing people that don't agree with them.
This deserves upvotes.

Edit: Also, everyone should investigate this.
I enable Reader by default on all websites (you can then opt out on those it does not play well with). Of course that's only if you use Safari.
Met him once and was oddly taken aback and impressed. The nation has lost a hero that while I did not agree with on many issues I respected.
One of the best decisions, in hindsight, was going to a smaller state school in PA rather a larger private or non state funded school.

It was probably 30% the price of Penn State and the fact that no one has heard of the school outside of the state hasn't affected me since graduation.

I can't imagine a private school that charges upwards of 50k per semester all in. However, that was the norm around the area I grew up in.
I quite like it. I like the interleaving.
I often wonder how many problems could have been avoided if we required 2/3 majority. Byzantine generals have to work together.
I never quite understood what the net neutrality debate was about, having even spent some years at ISP in NYC. So net neutrality is all about giving unlimited data access to pulic safety workers?
Is it just me or is this terrible advice?
Absolutely.

I have spent a good amount of time writing and editing professionally. The absolute worst writing happens when someone believes they are owed attention simply because they wrote something.

The gall! Maybe people would skim less if so many writers weren't cramming tomes down our throats to serve their own interests.

Even then, skimming is a fundamental reading skill and I simply cannot imagine how ignorant I would be if I never did it.
"2 to 6 months"

It would be interesting to know how this turns out on the long run.

I also think that in real life, these decisions are not always about you alone.
> I basically was taking issue with seeing a reply to a post that was highlighting this difference that is a real perceptual one (not just a notational one, but described, unfortunately, with focus on notation) with the claim "there is no difference".

It is impossible to quantify or intellectually stratify feelings and perceptions. All I have to say is "I feel it differently" and now your stratification is incomplete.
But you can say without a doubt that 3÷4 === 6÷8.

Of course I am aware of the conventional approach to playing 6/8 that results in this perception that beats 1 and 4 are not of exactly equal weight, and of all the different ways you can play two against three, three against four and so on. Polyrhythm doesn't stop at hemiola by the way. Are you also feeling five against three, seven against five, etc.?

I can show you examples of music in 6 where you may be unable to find the downbeat at all. So you can't say for certain how I or anybody else is going to hear it in every case. These prejudicial approaches to music cause closed ears.
McCain was in the wrong party.
Thanks for the counterpoint - I learned a lot from your post. I wish the headline were slightly different, that's all.
Open-source map providers have no economic incentive to guide drivers down streets containing the businesses who pay more.
Stuff like civil asset forfeiture is a problem because it weakens the due process requirements. Prosecutors would still be required to get a jury to convict before they could reap any rewards, so it would be a much harder system to abuse. (I wouldn't want prosecutors to get a cut from settlements, because then they could abusively intimidate defendants for profit.)
"And there it was: a white screen with instructions neatly arranged in a series of boxes."

If seeing a Jupyter notebook impresses the writer so much, it might blow their mind if they found out that the screen is made up of millions of dots. And that each dot is actually made up of three different-coloured dots.
I don't want to insult the dead. But if we had more McCains, his stubbornness and militarism would lead to greater welfare and warfare states with American soldiers fighting someone else's civil wars all over the world.
Reminds me a little bit of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons, in the book she uses very unorthodox language to make the mundane seem surreal. It has been described as "verbal cubism."
Debian isn't known for the latest and greatest. They use what they determine to be stable for a given release and that's often a little bit older.
I think the takeaway, though, is that being too cautious is dangerous, too, because there is so much upside to leaving a job you don't like.

Lesson I've certainly learned: No need to burn bridges, but waiting for the "perfect time" to leave a tech job (e.g. all projects wrapped up, other job fully lined up, etc.) is a futile exercise. Just be considerate with 2 weeks notice, say you want to explore other opportunities or whatever, and move on.
Most non-fiction too. Frequently it’s one idea dumbed down and then stretched to a couple hundred pages.
A packet is a packet is a packet - bill them all the same, transport them all the same.
PyTorch for Scientific Computing: Quantum Mechanics Example Part 2
I think the biggest counter argument to why we need experienced people in government is that the tide has turned where old people have their interests represented but young people do not.

Student loans fuel retirement accounts for old people.

Lack of upward mobility helps old rich people.

Tax cuts for the rich by and large help old people.

We have a nation governed by geezers who only care about geezers.
It's cheap flights that make this work, electric planes are for now a pipe dream for international and intercontinental flights and high speed trains are not that high speed compared to aircraft.
Do you mind if I ask what state you're in? My high school made people write down colleges to send their ACT scores to, but I remember the confusion as some neither knew what to write nor were offered guidance afterwards.
I doubt that things will end well for people who choose STEM for the money, rather than for the love of it. Me, I love doing engineering, and would do it even if it was a low pay major. It paying well is just a nice bonus.

I've known too many engineers who did just enough to get buy. They're always the first to get laid off, outsourced, etc.
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That would be asking for prosecutorial misconduct. They'll make a fortune by prosecuting crimes they invent.
1. It took me about a month. However, I wasn't working at the time so I didn't need to switch back or worry about being productive. I only typed about 60 WPM and I reached the same level.

2. It probably was at the beginning but after using Dvorak for so long, I need to long at the keys while I type on a QWERTY layout. I suppose you could keep both up if you had some reason to do so.
For sure, we should be careful of biased reporting and also evaluate Matt's arguments critically. But you seemed to be suggesting that Musk's prolificity somehow means we shouldn't take any criticism against him seriously
I pulled that number from http://co2offsets.sustainabletravelinternational.org/ua/offs... which takes into account origin and destination, any additional legs, and month of the year.

SFO -> JFK direct round-trip in July for about 0.9 metric tons
I can actually see suburb tourism become a thing. At least they're pre-prepared for consumption and foot traffic.
I too realized the author was looking at Jupyter when I saw In[3] and so on. Absurd. The author is conflating a typewriter with a story. And starting from such ignorance, I wasn't about to find out where it ended up.
Even though I work in quantum information, this stuff is a little far from what I do (quantum optics), but I will do my best.

1. The qubits are superconducting in nature. Each qubit is a superconducting loop, in which the current can flow clockwise or anti-clockwise, which can be called 0 and 1 respectively. There is superposition possible in the direction of current flow, so you have qubits. They arrange the 1800 qubits into a lattice. There are also current carrying wires near groups of qubits, which allows them to change the state of these qubits by changing the magnetic field experienced by these qubits.

2. What they are doing is simulating some particular types of physical systems, called Ising models. These systems consist of a lattice of particles which interact with each other. If you change either the shape of the lattice or the interaction between the particles, the equilibrium state of the system changes. Usually we are interested in finding out various properties of the system when at equilibrium. Doing this usually requires simulating the Ising model in some way. Some of these Ising models - at least - can be efficiently simulated classically and these guys have tried to simulate some of these systems using their quantum simulator. They do so successfully, showing that their very complicated machine's answers agree with those of a classical computer. So they haven't shown a new phenomena or done something which hasn't been done by classical computers. They have just shown that their machine gives the right answers.

3. I am not sure where you are getting these quotes from. But its a simulation in the sense that it tells you various properties of some system. You can call simulations just a particular type of computation.

4. Their is no discussion of speed in the above, which is central to the race towards quantum computers, and for good reason. Dwave's machine is not a quantum computer i.e.\ cannot simulate BQP problems efficiently. Their machines can't address individual qubits, or do arbitrary quantum gates on these qubits, hence can't get the promised speedup of quantum computers. Therefore, they are going a different route. They essentially want to make the equivalent of Lisp machines for physical systems. Lisp machines were designed to run one language really fast. Dwave want to make these machines that can simulate some physical systems polynomially faster than classical computers.

When you see Dwave news in the future, unless you see otherwise, just assume that they have these fancy classical computers, not quantum computers and you are good.
> John McCain’s first wife was a model who had a car accident that left her crippled and eroded her good looks. John McCain then cheated on her and then left her, eventually remarrying a younger, very attractive, very heiress.

...and then stayed married for 38 years until his death.

Also, he and Carol were married only 2 years before he was shot down and they then spent 6 years apart, and then 6 years together post- her accident.

So it's a bit cheap to cast him as just a trophy-wife chaser, who ditched his amazing first marriage the moment her looks got messed up.
Net Neutrality never applied to cellular connections even when we had it, so it doesn't apply here.
It's common amongst my peer group at the school I attend.
I saw that after posting. Left it as is to see if people will skim it or not.

Also, I am not a native English speaker. So most times as I formulate something in my mind, the speed difference between mind and hand causes me to miss words.
Brad, is this presentation available anywhere else (say, exported to PDF)? Our company blocks all sharing sites, so docs.google.com is no go for me (and I cannot reshare it with my team). Would it be possible for you to drop it on golang.org somewhere?

Thank you very much!
How so? Ultimately the only thing you are owed by anyone else in the world is the right to walk away. I don't owe my SO a relationship and she doesn't owe me one. We're in it because we want to be.

It's the same thing at work, where my boss pays me because he wants me to work for him, and I want to work for him because he pays me and he's a good boss. He doesn't owe me a job and I don't owe him work beyond what he's already paid me for.

So I don't see how these decisions are about anyone but me.
As somebody who has ADHD quite severely, I have never once in my life got distracted in the middle of a conversation. That’s not how it works, and I’m so goddamn sick of people making jokes like this about it.

Everybody with ADHD is slightly different, but for me it’s more of a disconnect between future rewards and present internal motivation. It’s not an issue when I’m talking to somebody – – that shit is all in the present and I thrive in the moment.

What I can’t do well at all is make my brain feel like a task is important, rewarding and worth doing if that reward will come far in the future.
Not sure it's in any way un-humble to use the plain and simple verb "died" instead of a euphemism.
Classic Arcade Sounds
Could not tolerate. I read hundreds of nonfiction books, and this is one of the few I could not get through.
John McCain came to give a talk at the place I worked in '07. I got to shake his hand and say a couple of words to him. I remember exactly two things:

- His hand was very soft. Notably so.

- His face, his skin, looked translucent. Scot-Irish background indeed.

So, not much of a story to tell, but if you want to know what it was like to see him up close... ^^^
So it means they are waiting for more bug fixes to upload 4.18.x? Then how are some releases uploaded to experimental?
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you don't have (young) kids.
And they used to be delivered to your doorstep each morning. You’d leave the empties out for them to reuse.
There is a known straight-forward way to solve the economic problem. You impose a large carbon tax per ton of CO2 and use 100% of the money to subsidize power generation from non-fossil energy sources per KWh. Schedule regular increases in the rate over time, announced years in advance.

There are only two real impediments to this happening.

The first is lobbying from oil and coal companies (especially in the United States). The only solution for it is to have the will to tell them off and do it anyway.

The second is that nobody wants to do it alone. Having a carbon tax is a relative disadvantage -- if everybody does it then everybody is in the same boat, but if only you do it then everyone else is going to out-compete you, so you need some coordination method.

In particular, what keeps happening is that Europe and China are willing to reduce emissions but not if the United States won't and the United States has a large oil industry that it doesn't want to see destroyed even though that's what needs to happen. The answer is for the other countries to be serious about it and not take no for an answer -- literally stop trading with countries that won't do it. Give the US the choice between the oil industry and literally every other industry and the choice is easy.

That doesn't work for everyone. It isn't going to get a random African dictatorship to reduce its emissions. But none of the countries it wouldn't work on are major carbon emitters to begin with.

The problem is that nobody is willing to put their foot down.
Well, I mean, it matters.. both the corruption and the destruction of the reef (which by the way also faces more imminent threats from mining and agriculture).
I personally love both styles.
That site appears to be changing tons per ticket based on flight class to try to capture a higher donation.
I've always thought if the reactor was so small then why can't we just by default build the reactors underground? Isn't the underground a more stable area to begin with? Even during earthquakes? Reactor waste could be stored at the location permanently and if the reactor gets the 1 in a million accident then the whole place is already basically built in a cement/rock containment vessel. If a serious meltdown occurs then it would be easy to just start pouring lead or cement into the facility. Even if there was a small nuclear explosion we already know the impacts of underground nuclear explosions.
A bio can be handy for that.
This tempts me to go grab a set of "Prague tourist photos" and just make up a fake trip. Just be upfront: I didn't take a trip to Prague, but here's what it would look like it I did. Just as curated, just as personal, just as compelling as any brochure. Oh look this guy who's into craft beer and chess history wrote up a hypothetical trip to St. Petersburg, check it out.

Or better, a startup idea: tell us where you're going on vacation and we'll produce your social media posts accordingly. You just enjoy your vacation and we'll get you all the likes.
From GAN to WGAN (2017)
$48.4M Ferrari 250 GTO breaks world auction record
One thing that I do know is that wind and solar have more installations and lower cost than every projection. So they're projected to not be enough... eh?
Senator John McCain Education Background
That's great, and much needed. There is also Ino which has been providing a CLI Interface for Arduino for some time: http://inotool.org/
I maintain this was a major reason for Bush defeating Kerry. I saw news stories on both of them one night and they were both in jeans. Kerry looked like they were purchased so he could dress down as the people do. The jeans looked like they had never been worn, maybe a dress shirt tucked in. Bush on the other hand was at Camp David casually talking to the press outdoors while his dog happily circled him.

It's not really how we should be deciding the presidency, but Kerry put off a strong vibe that he's not one of "us". The democrats need to embrace the actual people in their popularity.
This is an absolutely terrible incentive. They shouldn't be incentivized to seek criminal prosecutions, this will make them chase low-hanging fruit instead of chasing justice. They will become the equivalent of ambulance chasers.

Pay them very well and have their ability to bring justice be the key to keeping them in their position.