skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can actually go on and on and on, sometimes numbering fifty or sixty necessary traits.

I never saw as many as that myself but a dozen or more wouldn’t be unusual. A few might be reasonable such as “must love dogs” but nearly all would be materialistic, or physical traits that no one has any control over. I imagine the authors of these elaborate lists also complain bitterly to anyone who’ll listen that “there are no decent men”.

And I never, ever saw a man list the bra size or handbag brand his match should have...
I think the most fascinating thing here is that Google are turning to a language developed and maintained by Microsoft.
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I'm curious, how do you copy files around? Between PCs I'd probably go for Dropbox first. To be a network share client in Windows 10 I go to the Network browser, then had to enable searching for network servers--I'm not sure how to serve files. I found the behavior kind of fickle...but it might be my hardware/network. The little I've seen of sending files over BlueTooth on any platform has been a miserable experience.
github.com/facebook/prop-types is the 2nd google search result for this term, and is what I was referring to, although the first result (devhints.io/react#property-validation) is arguably a better summary.

Ie. ‘lite’ type checking, used in react.

(did you perhaps see the results for ‘javascript prop type hint’ as a google autocorrect suggestion or something? This is a well known term, but I’m pretty amazed two seconds of google didn’t discover what it was...)
Maybe, but why should we believe this version of the story rather than the other one? Do you have a source?
I can believe how popular TS is and it is super useful. I would not write a React application of any noticeable size without TS (and just FYI I would never willingly write an Angular app). The reason that I get far superior code completion and meaningful warnings / errors is sufficient to add a few annotations here and there.

Many people are doing TS wrong. They add types everywhere. Honestly, you should write as many types as necessary, but not more. Use type inference which works remarkably well.
I bought a used C-MAX plug-in hybrid and was told that with the EV plan offered by PG&E, I'd save money versus gas. Only after I purchased did I learn that the EV plan gives you cheaper charging at night only if you're willing to stomach very high rates during the day. Since I work from home a lot and have a toddler, this is a non-starter for my family.

So we pay roughly the same amount per mile with electricity as for gas — and I'm in CA, where gas is expensive. We do save a tiny bit when we get to charge for free or at a subsidized rate somewhere. But I think most of the savings comes from not wearing down our brake pads on the hills in our neighborhood, and not having so many moving parts to wear out. These savings are not huge when amortized over the number of miles driven.
I am genuinely shocked. This is definitely not widely known.
The most difficult thing to do is to pitch a product instead of a technology. This is more accentuated by the fact that we're mostly engineers and we're not good at pitching benefits vs features.

But I can assure you that customers do appreciate the AI component, especially when explained to them. I do a LOT of education in commercial meetings and demos. Some of our customers we invited to our offices for a more in-depth explanation of our technology.

My experience is that customers' interest is piqued by buzzwords, but if you are able to explain the tech in plain words, they are astonished and the sale is much easier.

To summarize, if you are raising money it may be worth it to buzzword the hell of your deck, but when selling the product the key is to focus on benefits + education.

Disclaimer: Am an AI startup founder (https://optimusprice.ai)
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People don't own cars because they are cheaper. They own them for flexibility - which is why SUVs outsell compacts 10:1 despite worse gas mileage and higher prices. Competing solely on cost is a losing battle and has been since GM overtook ford in the '30s by offering style over pure function.

Cars are fashion, and convenience. Even if an uber was cheaper I wouldn't wait 5 minutes for one outside a store.
> Why does everyone naively try to predict price? No ‘traders’ are interested in predicting it - what traders do is identify good locations to enter or exit the market.

I agree.

I've built many systems in this area, but it wasn't until I started working in the Indian market (>10 yrs ago) that it became abundantly clear that trying to calculate the long/shorts signals using historical (/time series) data was a waste of time. (And yet my primary role was to provide tools that did exactly that).

Back then, in the indian market, you could see that most of the stocks, although skyrocketing upwards, all followed the slow vs fast moving averages to buy and sell! Back then, they weren't looking at RSI, stochastics, support lines, etc, etc. It was crazily predictable...but over time it was really interesting to see it become more haphazard and like western stocks. That is, the fundamentals came into play and as you say, the traders began to use other metrics to buy and sell.
China has a tech industry that is on par with Silicon Valley. India doesn't.

They are on the right track, America is going off the deep end and can no longer be relied upon as a trustworthy and sane ally. The EU is desperately trying to get away from that sinking ship but you can't undo 70 years of geopolitical and economic reality easily.
Disclaimer: I'm a catholic by birth and so was I'm right now.

But what i consider Mahabharat, is a collection of stories teaching people how should one behave in life.

I don't remember the exact name of the character, but their is a person who thinks one should be good to everyone but later he realises one needs to fight and defend others when somebody is taking advantage of one's goodness.
That's what they call as Dharma.
Java-style parameterized types is not the only option and they have acknowledged that they ignored us for a long time.

"They are likely the two most difficult parts of any design for parametric polymorphism. In retrospect, we were biased too much by experience with C++ without concepts and Java generics. We would have been well-served to spend more time with CLU and C++ concepts earlier."

https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf...

As for being an alternative to Java and C++ at Google-scale, all their major projects, with exception of Kubernetes, are mostly based on Java and C++.
My god. I never thought I'd see the day they DRM power.
Its disgusting, and everyone who works at Microsoft should be ashamed of it.

It is disgusting, but I fail to see how e.g. the team working on the C++ compiler should be ashamed for something another completely seperate team was forced to do by management (assuming something like that is responsible for this). In my opinion MS has gone too big for that, with a bunch of seperate departments almost acting as standalone entities (i.e. seperate companies) who can take a lot of decisions on their own without much interference between them, just all sharing the MS name. E.g. there's the research going on, there's VS/Office/Windows etc.
The US has good protections against government searches and data requests for US citizens, but probably zero for the rest of us. So, as an Indian, I don't really see how having my data stored in India is much worse than having it stored in the US.
Lego is sometimes an odd company. Their goals don't always align with profits. I have a feeling the ownership allows the direction a lot of leeway in sacrificing short term profits in order to satisfy their core values, one of which is sustainability.

As for if this "should" be done. In Denmark we have a national mentality that says you should fix your own problems before you judge anyone else. So, without pressure to maximize profits, I think it's likely that they are only concerned with how to maximize the "green" value within their own company. In essence it's a very Danish thing to be so focused on yourself that you don't consider if it really matters.
the point isn't that you understand there are topics that are essential, it's to have someone to identify what is essential.

we all have blindspots, much more when we're just starting something new.
Thanks! Hmm does sound a bit inaccessible though, and for obscure classics, not really what I had in mind: "Karagarga is a members-only torrent tracker. That is to say it is a file-sharing archive closed to the public and accessible by exclusive invitation alone. These coveted invitations are given out to only the highest ranked users(VIP and Uploaders)."
The lake is in a precarious position. Sorry I started writing a reply and this got really long. I'm very passionate and really wish I could help. I have a goal of buying a 2nd home on the lake in the near future...

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There are periodic 'outbreaks' where the bacteria (I think I don't know it might be some other organism) cover the lake and kill it even further. It's very sad.

If you don't know the history, it was actually white Americans that decided it would be a great idea to bring in non-native fish to turn the lake into a fishing tourist destination. Ended up killing the ecosystem. Combined with a growing population moving to towns around the lake instead of the high farmlands, waste dumping straight into the lake, and very little ecosystem left to clean itself up I'm afraid the lake is in dire need of help.

There was a study recently by the Rotary that examined possible solutions and they came up with building hydro power (the lake sits a a high elevation with a natural 'dam'; it's almost perfectly setup already for this). I forget the mechanism but somehow this was one ID'ed as a top opportunity to clean up the lake, I assume since it would generate revenue.

The problem is corruption and $$$. Everyone has their hand out and there are countless examples of past efforts of small and large scale projects failing for lack of organization and corruption.

I think estimates for the hydro plant was low couple hundred million. It seems so doable especially right now (leverage China vs. Israel/US/Taiwan).

Except for the corruption.

Not sure if I believe this is a bright side or a dire warning: there is a loud and coordinated attack on the CIGIC even in US media big papers are publishing opinion pieces. It's disgusting to me given all that CIGIC has accomplished.

But the potential bright side is clearly the corrupt power class is very worried and maybe with the protection of a few US politicians and Israel CIGIC can fully clean house and Guatemala can continue to improve.

Anyways sorry about this reply again, I started to write a short reply and couldn't stop I'm sure you're not interested but I clearly am lol
Make a autonmous cable-drum that comes to your parking spot if you need charging from some underground storage locker?
I'm not sure about the name. It suggests it would be about hyperparameter learning which doesn't appear to be the case. Perhaps something like sklearn-torch would be better?
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The current version of Ubuntu just has an affiliate link to Amazon. It may be overly difficult to remove and upsetting to some users, but it's nowhere near as egregious as the software many Windows machine are shipped with.
Warmer planet, higher food scarcity
"I mean, what would China look like now without so much surveillance and social control"

Chinese history offers a good hint. Whenever the central government was weak anarchy, war, pestilence and starvation plagued the land.
> In fact, clocks tick slower when they are in a stronger gravitational field

They shouldn't, if they are properly made. They should tick and measure at their usual rate. Their local timeframe is out of whack with somewhere else, but that's got nothing to do with the clocks.
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I also have fond memories of marveling at VRML scenes on TV when my computer and dialup internet connection weren't really ready to experience it.

Thanks for the link to A-Frame though! This looks great - I am loving the declarative nature of it, and the scene-inspector seems like a really useful tool.
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It seemed to me that the paragraph you quoted does not much illuminate why one should choose for one or the other.
As we seem to be comparing India and China as non natives of either; I visit both China and India a lot (over 10x a year for both, India Jaipur, Delhi and Mumbai) and although I know China is worse (as a surveillance/free country), India feels far worse. It is, for me, the worst country to travel to and work in. It feels like a bad police state; terrorists have won as they (the gov) locked things down and freedom of movement is restricted to the point I would not mind never going there again.
Spot on, especially point 2. I hear people complaining all the time about how trackpads suck, but the apple trackpads just work so nice I can even comfortably game using them. I yet have to stumble upon another laptop with trackpad that just works.
Sounds like a job for a prediction market!
Never drive a Macan, but unless Audi completely borked the UX (unlikely), first any adjustment to AC will be overlaid on the MMI/Navi screen, so you don't need to look down, and the process of "make it colder/warmer" involves nothing more than reaching to a physical button (easy to grab even in a moving car) and giving it a few clicks in one or another direction.

Saying that "one or two taps away" is in any way comparable in either usability or safety seems rather like saying that a coal-powered steam car form 100 years ago is as clean as that Tesla.
Not directly related to ice, but...

A fellow lives near a new wind farm, and a TV transmitter. Both the windmills and the TV tower are in direct view. He, and I assume also others on that area, have had great trouble receiving a good picture. Even the technicians from the broadcasting company are scratching their heads. 100m rotating blades create awful changing reflections.

It would help if the blades were coated by some absorbent material. Just the sharp edges, if the material is too costly.

The defence forces have even banned wind farms from certain areas, I read on the papers last week. Too much interference on radar.

I don't know what the current situation is with fellows TV reception. I assume careful aiming of TV antenna has helped.
The answer to that is, a current or future owner of the property that originally held the space.
I think this argument needs to be treated with caution. I think it's possible to write bad code on top of almost any mechanism.

Certainly I've seen my share of bizarre C++ template shenanigans (bad) but I've also been able to reuse other people's really well written container classes rather than roll my own, all with strong type safety (good).

Everyone will make their own decisions about generics. Personally I find the risk of "bad generics magic" to be more tolerable than "endless shitty workarounds for not having generics".
It certainly could be, but the longer bet needs to pay off more, to account for the money being locked up longer.

Or to put it another way, to compare bets that pay off at different times, you would need to calculate the present value of each payoff using some sort of discount rate:

https://www.investopedia.com/walkthrough/corporate-finance/3...
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It's interesting to see this topic from a linguistic PoV. As an utilitarist, I'm using programming languages that give me a maximum of compilation target and deployment options. So I'm finding myself spending my time using languages that have an "official" ISO (or other) spec and multiple implementations; that would be C, (vanilla) JavaScript, SQL, and Prolog, plus Java for a living. But I've noticed in the last decade or so there are developers who really are mentally blocked when not using a "perfect" language that can express their exact thought process. I have a similar blockade when I'm about to start writing a program at a time when the design and requirements are grossly unclear - every keystroke hurts as it gets you farer away from an actual solution. I'm just not into the quest for the perfect language; when I'm reading code, I can skim over implementation details and see the high-level design with relative ease, regardless of the language used. Paradoxically, modern, expressive languages such as Haskell, Rust, and Scala really don't reveal that kind of information to me at all.

"Programming isn't poetry" and "you should model the solution domain rather than the problem domain" really resonates with me.
After a few years with both TS and JS my verdict is that TypeScript definitely helps, but mostly with type-related bugs - with proper testing you don't get many of those.

What I would like to have in TS is a more expressive type system - the current is somewhat basic(e.g. you can't have a Symbol as a dictionary key - interesting given that it's possible in JS. Also you can't mix dictionary fields with regular ones in one class/interface).

EDIT: typo.
If I'm reading this correctly, the nucleus of gold is so massive that it accelerates the orbiting electrons close enough to the speed of light that they gain substantial mass. The increased mass in the outer shell electrons allows it to have stronger, and therefore shorter bonds. This in turn, creates a yellow colour as opposed to the colourless silver (I assume because the shorter bonds change the way photons interact with it).

I didn't understand why gold was similar to copper, while silver (between the two on the periodic table) is not. Does it have to do with how electron shells are filled? Definitely beyond my level of chemistry :-)
I tried to search online to see whether DOOM has been ported to Onyx RE2, but couldn't find any video proof. That is really strange.
But aren't these things two way? Like it applies to Canada and the US equally no?

And how is any of this measurable? Like "less" could be a little less or a lot.

Also, I don't see anything lowering art/music/film protection. In fact it seems the opposite, copyrights will last longer, and ISP will police content.

In the end, an agreement of that sort has to be win/win for both countries no? Otherwise why would Canada agree to it?
ClipperCreek sells EV chargers with a UART interface to set the charging rate (in 25% increments), so it should be relatively straightforward to stuff a Raspberry Pi or something in there.

But that option costs an extra $184, and the UART protocol is only available under NDA, which probably makes it difficult to open source.
sgi was the preferred way for departments to blow their year/quarter budget so it wouldn't be cut off next year.
Zvi Mowshowitz is in the business of selling prediction markets? Are you sure you're not confusing him with Robin Hanson?
Yeah. We can actually do that. We do have a prototype of that in the works.
Unfortunately computer classifiers are trained by datasets that are labeled by human vision. There's a theoretical limit to how much better the computers do compared to humans, which is limited by our human vision.
I think the closest you can get right now is TempleOS. How do you feel about it?
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Why are you against those arguments? Why are you betitle all of them as broscience?

What's your beer with marijuana?
I know Seldon have real paying customers:
https://www.seldon.io

I can’t speak for them specifically or any other AI company but from cursory chats with folk in the industry suggests a lot of work is consultancy and proof of concept type stuff with bigger companies which they use to partially fund product dev on their own internal projects - some of which see the light of day.
The biggest spokesperson for intermittent fasting, Martin Berkhan, just released his long awaited book. https://leangains.com He also has tons of blog posts dating back many years on his site that should be a bit more easily accessible than reading the research papers directly.

I guess a TL;DR is that fasting is good for health in most animals.
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Forums lack the integration to the blog (main site) comments. Even modern forums like nodeBB only offer hacky solutions for that.
We are saving so much on hosting since migrating from framework on Win to .NET Core on Linux and more so with 2.1. Performance and low latency on much lighter hardware; very well done.
Does 'core functionality' include opening a UTF-8-encoded CSV file properly?
"10 hour window" or "16 hour window"?

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related ( 1 day ago )

"Eating in 10-hour window can override disease-causing genetic defects, nurture health" https://www.salk.edu/news-release/eating-in-10-hour-window-c...

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17889591
I'm a bit sad about the lack of acceptance for pluralism in widely used languages. The effort to get Go in line with other languages just seem so disproportional.
That's my setup too and it has worked so well that I sometimes feel like I have to double check that it's still working because it runs so smoothly.

Occasionally I have to consolidate multiple edits with ediff-files, but that's normally only after I have accidentally disabled wifi on the phone for longer periods of time.
Street lights are currently changing from 250-1000 watt HIDs to LEDs, so they used a lot of power in the past and not much in the future.
iPhone's competitors did have GPS & 3G: http://archive.fortune.com/2007/10/04/technology/nokia_N95.f...

(The timeline varied a lot by your country - I saw the iPhone available a year later than N95)
"Insider trading of securities is illegal....The problem is that it drives people away.

This is an interesting observation in light of some conversations I've had with 20-somethings who have abandoned the stock market in favor of cryptocurrencies.

For a couple decades now, the message has been "you can't beat the stock market. You're competing against top mathematicians who do this for a living and colocate boxes in the exchange so they can execute trades faster than you. Why even try when you're just going to be the sucker for some finance professional? Go invest in index funds instead." (Note that this advice is quite self-serving for a fund manager: it justifies the huge fees they charge. It's also quite self-serving for index funds, which compete on price.)

It seems like the youngest generation - the ones just leaving college now - took this to heart and figured "Well, if there's no point for us even trying in the stock market, let's just throw the whole thing away and invent a new asset class", cheerfully ignoring that they are also throwing out all the regulatory protections that protect against insider trading.

Even with all the SEC's insider trading laws, the existence of vast computer systems capable of crunching terabytes of data and executing a trade in microseconds now creates such an information imbalance that people are leaving the market anyway.

It makes me wonder if all markets have a natural death. As they get more efficient, liquidity dries up. Fewer and fewer people bother playing when they know that someone else is just going to get rich off them. Eventually the winner becomes like the kid on the playground who insists on winning every game; all the other kids refuse to play with him, and he's left shooting hoops perfectly alone. Meanwhile they go off and create a new game that is fresh enough that new entrants might actually have a chance - at least until somebody becomes really good at that, and the cycle repeats itself.