skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with doors in New York in particular is that not all generations of rolling stock have doors in the same location. Unlike MTRC, where one line has its own rolling stock and there is no interoperation between different lines, many services, each with different door positions, can utilize the same platforms. And basically the only way to have a door configuration compatible with all rolling stock is to not install any doors at all.

You could replace the rolling stock, but all of it is in good operating condition, and the last of the oldest cars with non-compatible doors would be retired in the 2030s.

Air conditioning is also a huge challenge; traditionally, New York's subway has been cooled using the piston effect of trains, with frequent grates open to the surface to draw in air. With air conditioning those large, frequent openings are now a curse.
The reason Jack Ma is stepping down from Alibaba is that he was becoming too powerful and influencial in China. Jack is very smart and knows that you can build your wealth and power until you begin to threaten the party, then you either need to step down or you will be forcefully taken down.
Latching sort-nets.
Safari extensions can do the same, both on macOS on iOS (though significantly reduced, since loading the extension requires user interaction).
It's surpisingly hard to define what it means for something to "exist".
In other countries, speeds continue to increase, even as the user base grows over the years. So this is kind of a BS argument. ISPs should be investing more into their infrastructures. Instead they use the money for buyouts and to pay shareholder dividends.
However, that's not how the paper defines variability.

I did think for a second that your definition was the case, and variability was a function of phenotypical expression, but it (as defined in the paper) is strictly about the statistical distribution of desirability within a population. See p4.
CME has a simple web tool to see the market’s expectations about future rates, for those interested: https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/countdown-to...

E.g. a September rate hike is expected with a 99.8% probability by the market. For December the probability is 79.8%.
Overseas matters a lot. It makes prosecution almost impossible.
at risk of being utterly pedantic, I think you might prefer using 'antiparallel'
>The effect doesn't apply to female children, since a female mammal cannot have 200 offspring in her lifetime, but a male mammal certainly can.

From the paper:

"Note that this theory makes no assumptions about differences in means between the sexes, nor does
it presume that one sex is selective and the other non-selective"

So the reproduction capacity of sex A and sex B is equal. I'm attempting to debate the paper strictly based on its own arguments.
Manual Scavenging in India
I can relate to this as I'm quite sensitive and when I was younger had an incredibly hot fuse, largely related to being socially awkward, getting teased in school, and not knowing how to deal with it. That carried on into the work environment and left me adversarial and feeling isolated.

For me the problematic dynamic came from having things upset me and build up until I would get so angry it would explode outward. I grew up learning to hold it in, so I had no idea I could talk about problems with people. It wasn't so much letting go of the anger as talking about feelings and difficulties with people allowed me to avoid hitting that breaking point and over time, the anger and resentment has faded. Additionally, those conversations led to a level of trust where I feel like I can reach out to the person when something comes up or even strongly supported by them.

Coming from alcoholic parents, you might want to check out Al Anon. I found that and Codependents Anonymous invaluable as places where I was surrounded by people struggling with many of the same social issues I did. Also, it was unique in that it's an environment where talking about these sort of things is encouraged and invited, in public I tend to find that people find these topics uncomfortable and unwelcome.
And/or platform doors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_screen_doors

Seems like they'd keep heat from the train from making its way onto the platform. And if platforms are air-conditioned, they'd keep that air from escaping into the tunnels.

And of course they can also help with safety.
Hey @longerthoughts,

I pretty much define tech company as companies that hire people that sit in front of a computer all day. I define more subsets of how to identify companies through the tag feature. For instance Lyft has a Transportation tag as well as a tag for San Francisco, cause that's where there office is

https://employbl.com/companies/lyft
Has anyone ever consider bringing up a private LTE network (over unlicensed or shared spectrum), either at home, enterprise, or even MDU?

Density and security are less of a concern on LTE, and the peak throughput is catching up.

The question I have has always been: are we seeing a world moving towards a more controlled wireless network architecture or a evolved version of Wi-Fi type of ad-hoc architecture.
I think that free competition alone is responsible for having cheaper and better internet access: in Romania I pay 10$/month for a 1gb, unlimited traffic, internet connection. I think we have this for about 3-5 years.

In a country with very few companies that are bigger than 1% of what Google or AOL or AT&T are.

In a country where an entrepreneur doesn't even dream of having access to the big investor money needed to start an optical fiber ISP.

What you're paying in US is 10x-100x more expensive than that. One can only imagine the margins your ISPs make and the profit opportunities other entrepreneurs have in this space.

If it's not about the incumbent's overwhelming power, what can it be? Lack of entrepreneurial spirit in US? Lack of technological knowledge?(you invented this whole internet thing ffs) Lack of desire for easy profits?

I doubt.
> Electron isn't just bad because it's all a mess of javascript, it's bad because it's not portable

Electron runs on (at least) Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. That may not be perfect, but, I think its hard to brand that as "not portable".
I am examining the paper and attempting to understand it based on its arguments.

You are critiquing my argument based on what I am saying, not my method.

I argue that you are attempting to frame my critique of the paper based on the desired narrative you wish to pursue, rather than any kind of rigorous or inquisitive method.

If you agree with this analysis, then you will probably continue to disparage my efforts as some kind of attempt as "censorship", furthering your desired narrative.

If you disagree, then I heartily welcome a discussion of the paper.
Yeah they sell via eCommerce. Patagonia is hella cool and really they're a non-profit. Read their book about going surfing

I pretty much define tech companies as companies that hire people that sit in front of computers. You can view all their IT and tech jobs here: https://www.patagonia.com/careers/
I'm curious as to your methods. Do you have something like a blog post that I could peruse?
It shows some satellite offices but the list is FOR SURE incomplete
Seemingly mostly right wing content.
Joe Rogan's Podcast Interview with Elon Musk
It's easy to print a map in arbitrary order. All you have to do is create an array, iterate the map append to the array, create a new type, define the Len() and Swap() and Less() functions for that type, cast your array to that type, and finally call Sort on it. It's literally less than 20 lines of code.
Don’t lie down while meditating and don’t meditate in your bedroom. Also try not to have your head resting on anything while meditating. Lastly, apparently with certain kinds of meditation if you do fall asleep that’s ok too - it’s your body ridding itself of fatigue - you probably need more sleep :)
They are constantly working on faster and cheaper SSDs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17912618

3 days ago

600+ points

200+ comments

Someone cared enough to post a link* to this article today to confirm it. I asked them to submit it as an article. When they didn't do so promptly, I deleted my comment and submitted it myself.

I never expected it to make the front page. I just hoped to get a few more eyeballs on it as a courtesy to the community.

I don't think he is being dismissed and forgotten at all.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17938802
Dancing vs. Dancing
See also Danah Boyd's talk on how media literacy classes push some students toward extremism. The gist is that schools have been promoting programs where students are taught not to take what they see in the media at face value, and to go Google/YouTube it for themselves. Which, because of the sorts of things discussed in this article, results in a certain percentage of students becoming radicalized and basically (or literally) becoming nazis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I7FVyQCjNg
All jobs that involve sitting in front of a computer and typing things.
The paper then goes on to discuss, in detail, how differences in selectivity drive differences in variability, so the passage you quoted does not mean that the author is imagining A and B to be equally selective. The author is just asserting that both of his arbitrary sexes might be selective in an absolute sense.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, especially since you've opted not to quote or address the majority of my comment.
Why do you need AC when you can turn it into a spa?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agUF_53fmyw
Besides, the merit of this paper's argument is irrelevant. It could be totally wrong and the treatment it's receiving would still be abhorrent. Getting into the weeds on population genetics might be interesting, but it doesn't make a difference when it comes to the idea that we should debate results, not censor them.
Podcast: Space junk, and a physicist’s perspective on life
Interesting read! When/how were Oberon systems phased out and replaced (I assume they have been) at the Institute for Computer Systems? It seems to still exist: http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/
At least the controversy about string theory has been in the public eye for a while now. It seems like physics hit the worst of it in the 90s and the public trust we have now is relatively sturdy.
I'm not worried about Intel or AMD because x86_64 isn't the only ISA around. ARM and RISCV (amongst others) are doing quite well in terms of performance and power efficiency.
There are lots of ways to express similar concepts in English, but in this case, I think "gaslighting yourself" expresses an incremental, progressive, or recursive concept whereas "simply delusional" is more static.
> we have imagined the existence of "eternity," a strange world outside of time that we would like to be inhabited by gods, by a God, or by immortal souls

If fundamentally there is no time, then fundamentally there is only eternity.
Primer for Learning Google Colab
> Remote positions tend to be for people with a proven track record.

I didn't think about this before, but that looks a really good observation. Hiring someone working remotely means it's harder to track their performance and productivity. So you will need some credentials to prove that you have the discipline to work remotely.
Elixir's straight-line performance is horrible though, and the available profiling tools are not adequate to solve performance issues in anything that runs more than a few hundred milliseconds. Last year I had to buy a workstation with 64GiB of RAM because my team didn't have time to write a new profiler (or somehow fix the existing one), and all the current ones filled RAM almost as fast as memcpy, and one hit/request was taking ~400ms (without profiling overhead).
Doors only work if they can line up with every single train that services said platform. Unfortunately, not all trains share door positions, and most platforms will see a mixed fleet of trains. The new trains have consistent door positioning, but the old ones are still in good working order and aren't due for retirement until late 2020s-early 2030s.
In addition to the other replies... it isn't obvious that there is going to be one. Experts far more versed in this field than I might have theories that could pan out, but I wouldn't know.

Science fiction likes to point to either optical or some method of quantum interaction computing. I'm actually not sure what the basis for those are, it could be that photon based computers are actually a type of quantum computation system. As I led with, that's stuff I've seen mentioned in fiction.
Checked C: Making C Safer by Extension
I'm not current on the statistics but my understanding was that at the moment there is a flow of real goods (and services?) from China to America.

If that assumption is reasonable, it is difficult to describe a situation in China where the customers get worse off due to reduced exports without the leadership going crazy (like shutting down all their factories and everyone sitting at home sulking instead of selling their goods locally at a discount). If they pretend the American dollar is the be-all-and-end-all they will get into trouble, but it is hard to see why they would do that.

I'd speculate the situation would be OK for any shareholders in China, where any on-paper drops would be countered by improved real access to stuff, and probably bad for shareholders in America where on paper drops may as well be real. Of course, real life is so complicated it is who can even guess?
Saying it with snark is not the same as establishing it factually - usually the former is used when the latter is lacking.

Who knows, maybe we can have an intelligent conversation, expand our knowledge and understanding, and not just repeat partisan small-government talking points.
i for one have enjoyed this tangent off the main topic of conversation
> let's build a GUI toolkit on top of Servo

Well, maybe not Servo, but WebRender? GTK+3 uses CSS for styling, and it is not that different from the web's CSS. It is conceivable that WebRender is a faster way of rendering GTK+3 views.
Number 4 isn't really a wat, it's just a design choice. other languages offer maps that do retain order.
With climate change though, it seems that the academic consensus is that humanity has an effect on the climate, while (some significant portion of) media seems to regularly depict it as more of a 50/50 up-in-the-air situation.

In this article, it's not about media depiction vs academic consensus, but friction within academic sciences itself.
Adding Google. I somehow omitted that company even though I walk by Google's SF office all the time. It's on the site now!

https://employbl.com/companies/google
I think the OPs point was that out of 1000s of other news channels writing about it, a BBC link will come up on HN.

Last week BBC posted a story titled, "Rocket woman: How to cook curry and get a spacecraft into Mars orbit", about women scientists in Indian Space Research Orginisation. That's how ridiculously biased and condescending they continue to be. And that's why many of us get irritated by their news.
Yup, well you live in the city so happy that at least we reflect reality. If you have suggestions about how to get more value out of the website please email connor@employbl.com
* In the age of the automobile, the airplane, and the internet, there is barely any such thing as "internal commerce" any more. *

In that case, the government elected by the population of all fifty states seems a more appropriate regulatory body than that elected by just one of the smallest state populations in the union.
That's how variability is defined, yes, on groups (or, technically, on "probability measures")—which might be the entire population or a subgroup thereof. The term "subpopulation" isn't defined, and it isn't explicitly stated whether the high variability is a heritable trait. I believe your contention is that that the overall population has basically the same genes, everyone rolls the dice, and then the subpopulations are defined post hoc in terms of the resulting quartiles (or x-iles). Mine is that the subpopulations are genetically distinct and their die rolls behave differently.

Given that the paper is about evolutionary mechanisms and whether one group "prevails" over another, I think my assumption is reasonable; and I think that, given my assumption, the paper makes good sense in the examples under discussion.
> "Or rather, the fewer poor people around tends to mean rich people find it even more desirable."

But why is that a problem? It's like complaining about free money appearing out of thin air. If every rich person in the entire world wants to move to your city, that's really good. It would be a wonderful tax base. And there are a countably finite number of rich people, so there comes a point when you have literally every last one of them.

Having to build enough housing for every rich person in the world is ridiculous, but the reason it's ridiculous isn't that you couldn't physically do it (if there are a hundred million rich people, that's only a single digit factor more people than live in Beijing or Shanghai). It's that they would never all move to one place like that -- especially because every other city would be competing to keep them.

And if density is actually such a wealth magnet then every city should do it. Then the outflows and inflows would net balance and there would be no net migration of rich people to any city in particular. If you somehow got more than someplace else, what are you complaining about? Build even more housing to see if you can get some more, then go spend their money on your roads and schools.
Hey for sure, Connor here, builder of employbl

I worked as a recruiter for a year and a half and now work as a software engineer. Finding jobs in the geographic reason was a challenge. The plan for the site is to have lots of candidates sign up and then have employers pay a flat monthly fee to see and browse all candidates, perhaps with some privacy settings for candidates so their phones don't blow up.

Would be happy to chat more my email is connor@employbl.com
Building an Award-Winning Product with No Previous Business Experience
I wonder if there's any salvageable yeast DNA on the pots. Would love to see some ancient strains!
The Bailey paper proposes three steps: 1. Women have been historically discriminated against. 2. Women are currently discriminated against by people using the Socratic dialog. 3. The Socratic dialog discriminates against women.

The leap from 2. to 3. is reminiscent of "Hitler was a vegetarian. Therefore vegetarians are Nazis."
La Niña forecast may mean even worse Atlantic hurricanes in 2018 (Oct 2017)
I’ve been exploring some of these ideas as well. I’m almost done with my product, sign up at http://ngrid.io if you want to be notified when it’s ready.
Anyone who has taken the subway (MRT) in Singapore knows that stations definitely don't need to hot and gross. It maybe different because we don't need full HVAC but rather only air conditioning, but taking public transport has only ever been pleasant (except when it breaks down).

Maybe some principles can be applied to other subway systems?
The biggest problem is indeed cost. Installing platform doors on the platforms throughout the system has been estimated in the past at US$1 million per station (US$400–500 million) in 2012 [1] and US$1 billion in 2013 [2]. But those estimates seem incredibly low now given more recent per-station costs elsewhere (CA$10 million, €2.6 million) [3], and the fact that NYC subway construction is higher than most other major cities [4]. As for depth, most NYC subway stations are directly below the street.

I’d be surprised if NYC builds platform doors before Communications-Based Train Control (CBTC).

[1] https://www.wnyc.org/story/283792-nyc-mta-tepidly-explores-p...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/nyregion/mta-says-subway-...

[3] https://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2017/09/26/the-case-of-t...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
I'd understand your assumption but think that it is incorrect, since the paper defines desirability not as genetic healthiness but as a mechanism for sex A to select sex B:

"The actual magnitudes of these desirability values are assumed to have no significance, and are used only to make comparisons between individuals. Here and throughout, it will also be assumed that the same desirability value is assigned to each individual by every member of the opposite sex. "
Sure, check your inbox :)
The Amazon Echo as a map of human labor, data and planetary resources
The problem in this case, is that you have to buy the "latest Volvo"

And then you have to buy a new garage to put it in, because the old garage was too small

And you have to digitize all your CD's because it only has a phone connection

Except you have to replace your phone, too, because it's too old for Android Auto (or the iPhone equivalent)

It's the ripple-on effect of having to migrate all the devices that vendors don't bother to "fix"
Never heard of a metaphor. new ICO?
I believe the same reasoning applies here on Earth. Imagine a pile of ash (high entropy) assembling into a copy of Shakespeare (low entropy), compared with the reverse.

You can get isolated pockets of low entropy that appear (e.g. the human brain), but I think I've heard it described that there has to be thermodynamic pathways leading to such states. We understand parts of these pathways, but there are important aspects still left to figure out.

And of course, as you mentioned, the system as a whole is still increasing in entropy the entire time.

Imagine a mountain where height inversely correlates with entropy. The summit represents the very low entropy state of the big bang, and the second law of thermodynamics is an enormous steam-roller that is currently in the process of flattening the entire mountain. Then, us humans are simply pebbles that have been shaken loose and are dancing in the foothills. In a few billion or trillion or quadrillion years, all the dancing pebbles will have been crushed into a fine dust and spread across a perfectly flat, unchanging plane.

But they will have danced beautifully in the many years before.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the grammar in your comment implies that he's pushing for "top heavy admininstration-first hierarchies". It seems absolutely ridiculous for Ma, someone who went through the terrible experience of struggling into University in China, taking four years to pass the absolutely brutal entrance exam.

Also, after he graduated with an English degree, he had absolutely no qualifications to get a professional job and he resigned to being a lecturer until he got into Cheung Kong GSB.

To me, it feels like your comment isn't rooted in any foundation and is a manifestation of personal experiences and insecurities, I'm assuming a result of the American higher ed system and its "super expensive degrees".

However cynical you may be, please don't let your past experiences misguide your hope for future improvement.