skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I though it will be about Less Wrong.

(Discussion with a friend, who identifies with the crowd: "Is it a cult? Yes, but a good one!")
The immediate effect may be lots of economic activity, presumably paid for by borrowing, but consider the longer terms effects. Disruption of infrastructure reducing (or increasing the costs of) economic activity, disruption of businesses reducing profits and costing jobs which reduces wages. Death and injury of workers again reducing wage receipts by making more people non-contributing. These affects could last decades. Obviously I’ve not performed any studies on this, but it seems to me there would be significant impact on GDP. I’d be interested to see the results if a full case study.

I would find it hard to believe that the GDP of Puerto Rico, including reconstruction, has increased overall. It may depend on the scale though. A storm that knocks down a few trees and damages some buildings might generate a net gain if it’s not too disruptive but that gain must come from somewhere. Maybe increased future insurance costs, borrowing, increased taxation etc which would be difficult to quantify.
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Yes.... unfortunately many do not understand the difference between Margin and Mark up.
As a hiring manager at a small company (some of this will likely be different in Big Corporate):

I would expect you to be able to build a medium sized feature independently and without supervision, knowing when and how to collaborate with your team or ask for help.

I would expect you to produce code that’s highly maintainable and moderately extensible, with test coverage and well-considered APIs and boundaries.

I would expect you to be skilled at debugging and to know how to teach yourself new tools and technologies quickly.

I would expect you to be excellent at communicating about technical subjects with other developers, and to know what is and isn’t important to bring up in code review.

I would not expect you to be able to design/architect a large subsystem unaided, but would expect you to be able to contribute substantially to discussions of it and to be learning more with each project.

I would expect you to be beginning to learn how to effectively discuss technical subjects with non-technical stakeholders. I would expect you to be ready to transition from a focus on learning how to produce excellent software (because you’re already well along that path and mostly just need to continue to practice) to a focus on learning how you can provide the most value to the business.
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oh yes! I forgot about nosh, the process manager/supervisor.

:)
Storms actually move fairly slowly. I would suggest placing the pump boats in the eye as it’s forming before it gets to hurricane strength.

Remember you’d just be moving already cold water which takes orders of magnitude less energy than cooling the water.
This this this. If anything bitcoin is the new HTML5, though even that analogy isn't great.

- it's hugely popular mostly on the basis of hype

- the technological advantages over predecessors is overblown

The analogy isn't great though because HTML5 largely succeeded on the back of scaremongering the flaws of its predecessor, rather than bitcoin's success being on the back of wild claims about its appropriateness as a technical solution in so many applications. In reality, the two histories aren't comparable.
It is interesting in the footnotes that it indicates the name originally doens't have the negative connotations it seems to have in english

``` The word "cult" in French means "a form of worship", without any of its negative or exclusivist implications in English; its proponents intended it to be a universal congregation.
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What features has Apple removed shortly after introducing them? Historically Apple has stuck with its changes, even when they are accompanied by negative feedback.
I was talking about tax efficiency in that post, not any grand moral claim.

although since we're on this topic, I would note that the US already spends as much or more money per grade school student than most of the European countries that we look to as models. this leads me to think that just shoving more tax dollars into the bureaucratic rube goldberg machine might actually be less impactful than a targeted charity effort.
It wasn't covered in any detail by my school curriculum, so I've been catching up. I had no idea they "reformed" so many aspects of civci life, including the calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar
One of the better of the many (many!) articles on loneliness that have cropped on HN recently. Dovetails nicely with the Digital Nomad post from yesterday.

Solitude isn't lonely because you're spending time with yourself - it's a self-imposed retreat in order to write, code, make music, build or reflect. As a result, it's often self-actualizing and you like this version of yourself very much.

Loneliness, conversely - especially the kind which manifests despite being in a crowded room - can stem from the feeling that one belongs in a different place, with different people, doing different things. For this is this it? type of loneliness, increased solitude, paradoxically, is often the way to escape it.
It's all leading to AR glasses worn by everyone, seeing a shared AR world superimposed on meatspace.

Kinda predicted by a neat anime called Dennou Coil [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennō_Coil
This could definitely be handy.
I watched the video. It doesn't look like liquid but something else. Some strange particle effects. But maybe I am wrong.
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Not to mention the development time they forced Google to waste when they implemented the feature on the new Pixel. (Plus LG, Essential, OnePlus, ....)
Read it last year! eye opening book on Money. After having read this book i always take every news headline on currency policy with brain of salt...
I believe the solution to the SE is the XR model. Apple thinks it's the phone for the "Every Man" except the every man doesn't have a 6 figure tech salary and thinks it's about $250 too greedy.
They already announced this, nearly 2 years ago. Wake me when BFR has successfully returned from orbit

https://www.spacex.com/news/2017/02/27/spacex-send-privately...
I’ve had iPhone X since day one, and an iPhone user since version 3. I can honestly tell you that the notch doesn’t bother me. I don’t even notice it at all, even on landscape mode. Maybe to designers the idea of it is ugly, but in practice I’ve never once in a year thought “that notch is a bad idea and it made my experience worse”. I just forget about it.

And for the record I’m not a fanboy. I use Windows at home and boot camp my work laptop to windows as well because I hate MacOS. The iPhone is the only apple product I’ve owned and am open to switching to android if they ever gave me a compelling reason to switch, which they haven’t yet.
I just think they are planning to launch a Xr Mini next year.
With the iPhone SE body size they could fit it with 4.7" Display.

If they had kept the iPhone SE in the lineup, and introduce Xr next year, the reaction from people will likely be Apple bump the price of small iPhone from $349 to $599 / $649 ( Assuming $100 to $150 cheaper than Xr )

Now that iPhone SE is gone. They can make a new iPhone entry next year. Instead of replacing something with a more expensive model, they are giving you something new. It makes you value it differently. I think that is how it is going to work out next year.

iPhone 8 > iPhone Xr > iPhone Xs. Each with two different Display size.
Thanks for the tips. There are always ways to improve the gameplay. I had still 2-3kB left at the end.

When I designed the buildings I thought actually about "Save New York" on the C64.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMUvi6UIV3w
> the wire in between the two pieces limits one of my use cases

curious about your use case. Would 3 meters of cable help?

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I strongly recommend you check out the book Sapiens. This is one of his core arguments - that the life of an agriculturist was much worse than that of a hunter gatherer because the agriculturist would have a less varied diet, would be vulnerable to famines, would have weaker immune systems (due to weaning sooner) etc.

And yet some people chose to become agriculturists anyway because it appeared to promise a better, more stable life. Each change they'd make would be small. They'd start out collecting wild wheat, say. They'd eat it and move on. They'd figure out that coming back to that area at a certain time of the year made sense, so they would. Then they'd figure, let's scatter these seeds so they'd spend a little time before moving on. Then one person might have realised, planting it deeper yielded better results. So they would plough the land a bit and move on. But as they invested more effort into the land, the more food they'd get from it. They'd start to spend more time living in that area, protecting their work.

But then two things would happen

1. Their 100 person hunter gatherer band would expand, to a larger group, say 150. That area could support a hundred hunter gatherers easily, but not 150. If no one in the group wanted to starve, they had to continue farming.

2. Gradually over a few generations, the number of people in the settlement would grow let's say 10 fold. These people would set up other settlements and practice agriculture there. It's not like they could be hunter gatherers because by then the knowledge would have been lost. The density of these settlements also meant that in any conflict with hunter gatherers over territory, the agriculturists would win. So gradually, there would be way more agriculturists.

Each farmer might be less happy than the average hunter gatherer, but the farmers' advantages meant that there would be way more farmers anyway. If we started out in an area with 500 farmers and 500 hunter-gatherers, in a 1000 years, we'd end up with 5000 farmers and 500 hunter-gatherers (assuming they were allowed to stay). A 50-50 split becomes 90-10.

I've paraphrased Yuval Noah Harari here. I think it's worth reading the whole book because he presents this really well. What's more, you start to evaluate ideas (is farming a good idea?) not just in terms of their merits, but also in terms of how well the idea will survive. Survival of the fittest applied to ideas. Agriculture, in that sense is a _better_ idea, not because it makes people happy, but because with time it has more adherents.
Those two claims are not at odds. A lot of the social expectations for women are enforced by women: that doesn't change the fact that they're still social expectations for women.
And some people still wonder why Germans have an aversion towards anything called "nuclear".
There was also an "atheist church" in London https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21319945

I wonder if they were aware the concept has quite a history.
Curiously, in the days of OpenVMS this was called 'severity' level and was a global system concept [0] related to status code of execution.

Info, Warning, and Error are degrees of Success or Fatal/Severe.

The status would then be logged in a structured manner that shows a facility code, serverity, message.

0. https://h41379.www4.hpe.com/wizard/wiz_3582.html
Poe’s law strikes again.
Alright :) so it's back to normal now, right? Thanks for trying!
I first heard of this as part of the backstory to Metal Gear Solid 3, and was sure Hideo Kojima had made it up. The idea of soldiers carrying nuclear weapons into battle seemed too ridiculous to be real.
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I have a Kindle reader with an E Ink display. It is much more pleasant to look at in daylight, especially when ambient light is very bright.

Battery life is also much, much better. My tablet lasts two to three days at most, under light load, with power saving turned up to eleven. The Kindle can easily last one to two weeks. (It all depends on usage patterns, of course, but for my case those are the numbers I come up with.)

I do agree, though, that it is hard for me to think of a use case other than an ebook reader. For that particular case it is perfect, though.
EDIT: I might hold out until they have a 3D-mapping camera system. Can't think of anything else I might want in a phone in the near future.
I think part of what you suggesting, is that to change this system, you must be part of the system first, instead of trying to change it from the outside. Instead of sitting outside, moaning about it. They could have actively work on / against from within.
It's really fun. Well done!
I'm with you. Replace "the external world exists" with some logical tautology such as De Morgan's Law (not (A and B) <=> not A or not B). Formalism has all sorts of gotchas, so I'm going to assert that it's possible to be skeptical of De Morgan's Law being a tautology...

...which - as the author describes - implies I can go down that infinite spiral of regressive speculation. But this is not the reason that De Morgan's Law is a tautology.

Even worse, the author's argument really let's us assert anything, doesn't it? I've read the paper twice and I can't see any protections from using this argument to assert a contradiction.
"Culte" is neutral and "Secte" is the negative word.
You need brightness too. I have both e-ink and MBP screens - both work in the sun.
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Come on, these are two separate discussions.

Nuclear power can be used without making weapons.
As has been variously pointed out, this is extraordinarily unlikely to work. But, the discussion did get me wondering if it is possible to _cause_ a hurricane (or tropical storm). If you could cause them to happen on a more frequent basis, presumably each one would have a lot less energy. In other words, if the energy built up in the temperature imbalance of warm water on the surface is more regularly dispersed by storms, perhaps you could reduce the chance of a level 4 or 5 hurricane ever forming.

The "only" problem being you're creating hurricanes, of whatever size, and they will eventually hit somewhere, and that's not a neighborly thing to do. :)
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It will inevitably disappear in time. Once we have the necessary technology to have these sensors work reliably below the display layer, that will be done.

I am more concerned about the non-functional but (to me, at least) similarly bothersome design quirk of these iPhones and some other modern phones: rounded corners that mask the display edges. I worry rounded corners may not disappear any time soon because there's little technical reason for them to exist; the rounded corners are aesthetic. For me, I prefer the appearance of phones with shorter corner radii—sharper lines—such as the Razer. But the popular preference for large-radii corners is undeniable (e.g., Twitter's conversion from square to circular avatars).

I just want a plain rectangular display, thank you.
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more like magnetic, acid sand
"the only reason this RCE exists is because of a vulnerability in apk"

The problem with this thinking is that it's always true, yet vulnerabilities keep on being discovered.
A very large H-bomb can be made almost arbitrarily clean, if you are willing to compromise (a lot!) on other qualities. It would be possible to use bombs for excavation work and have the resulting added radiation to be hard to distinguish from the natural background.

Not that this makes using bombs for excavation a good idea...
Yes, every time I land with the white bar inside the green area, it explodes.
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As my sibling comment says there's something called keto flu. Have you tried sticking to strict low carb for approximately two weeks or more?

I personally have no problems with a keto diet, and I feel much better and less bloated. But people respond differently to it. If you feel it doesn't work for you, don't do keto.
A vehicle on wheels or a track is orders of magnitude more efficient. It’s not sexy but it’s more effective than having to power a flying vehicle and control it autonomously. If you really want something more drone-like, hang it from the ceiling.
I wonder if this can be used to improve an algorithm [1] I worked on a year ago for building nearly-comlete binary trees out of pre-sorted array of items.

[1] https://residualchaos.blogspot.com/
Thanks, I did not know about these keyboards.
I remember reading a post from someone who was trying to track down one of the backpacks that had been designed to carry the Davy Crockett bomb.
This is great - especially the pixel-perfect collision detection. But honestly, these colonists don't really deserve mail service if they insist on building their cities in such difficult environments.
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If a nuclear bomb is a trivial amount of energy compared to a hurricane, I think we can say with confidence that the amount water you're going to have to pump around will be absurd, as will be the environmental impacts.
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If I had to guess it is probably a few things.

Firstly staring directly at a light source means that you are seeing most the rays directly. The only attenuation you will receive will be scattering from the medium - presumably air which will be low.

Seeing it from a second surface adds more effects - the surface may have absorb some of the light. Any real surface is also not going to have perfect reflectivity (everything from scattering, internal diffraction and destructive interference could occur). In short there will be loads of secondary/tertiary effects causing attenuation. Someone also mentioned polarisation, I also wonder about interaction between reflective surfaces which could cause additional attenuation via interference but the physics of waves has never been a strong point.

The other major factor is the physiology of the eye - we evolved from a world that didn't have abundant light sources and it's hard to know the effect of focusing on a source of light that differs from the ambient profile.
The article makes me wonder what life would be like if cocoa plants all became the victim of the diseases identified. Given a choice, I'd give up my mobile phone before I gave up chocolate.
And the other major differences I pointed out?
Oh and sorry, but remove the dashes - from the email address username.
Great name for sure.
Polynomial regression isn't really a good way to obtain highly nonlinear models for two reasons at least:

- Runge's phenomenon: high-order polynomial interpolation is really unstable; high-order polynomial regression can avoid this fate if your points are well spread around each potentially unstable region of the regressor space. I.e. not realistically.

- Leverage points: a linear regression is pinned at the point (mean y, mean x), and points at the edges of regressor space have a disproportionate influence. Polynomial regression is just this in higher-dimensional space; but then this gives you heartache trying to allocate weight to x^2 and x^4 terms, for example.

There's a lost art of understanding regression as approximating y = f(x,z....) and setting the linear functional form in order to give partial derivatives/marginal effects dy/dx, dy/dz... that reproduce the effects you expect. For example -- we may not believe that some phenomenon is actually quadratic but we expect it to have a single optimal point. Then if we regress

y ~ a + b \* x + c \* x^2,

we have dy/dx = b + 2cx and a single optimal point at x = -b/2c. So for example a model's earnings might be a function of weight-hips ratio (WHR) but there's a platonic ideal of perfection, not an indefinite preference for small or large waists. On the other hand, if the same model's earnings also depends on weight and height, the following model

y ~ a + b WHR + c WHR^2 + e WEIGHT + f HEIGHT + g WEIGHT \* HEIGHT + h WEIGHT^2 \* HEIGHT

has the following additional partial derivatives

dy/dWEIGHT = e + g HEIGHT + 2h WEIGHT HEIGHT

which gives us the optimal height-dependent weight

-(e + g HEIGHT)/(2 h HEIGHT)

The trick is to start thinking qualitatively from partial derivatives and think of the polynomial model as a kind of Taylor approximation to the exact nonlinear model you can't find.
I thought this was going to be a response to Jonathan Blow's video about how doing your own memory management is effectively turning off the borrow checker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1K66dMhWk

The takeaway being that the borrow checker doesn't magically prevent the use-after-free class of bugs. Although you will never experience a segmentation fault in safe Rust, the bug is still there and your program keeps running in an invalid state. The symptoms are changed, but no less dangerous.

To make the problem even more obvious, think of allocating a large array to be used as a heap and handing out indices to implement your own malloc. You have bounds checking to prevent indexing outside the bounds of the heap, but it doesn't really help when the elements have logically different lifetimes and occupy different parts of the array. I don't think this is a contrived example either. A less obvious version of this can easily creep into large or complex systems, as evidenced by the Entity Component System in Rust example.
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You are very pretentious with your web dev courses, kind sir.
https://gizmodo.com/apple-magically-makes-the-notch-disappea...

It's super long-winded (like many things from gawker) but essentially, the photos are black around the notch specifically to hide it.
In college I was part of a team that made an FPS where cfd played a role, in the form of poison gas that could flow through the world

https://www.clear.rice.edu/comp460/PRSite/tech/cfd.htm
Theoretically it would have been pretty useful in helping suppress any Soviet ground invasion of Western Europe, giving an entirely new scale to the "scorched earth" strategy.

I've long had a fascination with the Cold War, but I'm glad I was only around for about three years of it.
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>> Blockchains solve centralization, which will turn out not to be the problem.

Centralization is a huge problem. Centralization means that lots of smart, hard working people essentially have to wait in line (sometimes forever) to get access to capital in order to implement their ideas. Capital is so centralized that decision makers don't have the mental bandwidth to invest it effectively so most of it gets absorbed by useless institutions who do useless stuff.
The html aspects of html5 have been hugely overblown, but css3 and the totality of javascript apis that have spotted under the html5 banner have been revolutionary.
“Loneliness epidemic —or a golden age of privacy?” - David Chapman (meaningness) also reflects a bit on this topic

https://mobile.twitter.com/meaningness/status/97139760655443...
"Economically and from an HBD perspective, with the possible exception of high-IQ countires such as China and Singapore, foreign countries are typically inferior to the U.S. in every way."

'Murica