skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue that Self-driving cars are better capable of recognizing ice patches. They don't just rely on visible light to see the ice, but have a more diverse sensor array.

The challenge there of course is having the car learn to interpret the input of these sensors. But that doesn't seem like a unpassable hurdle. On the contrary, it would be pretty high on the list of things to tackle when aiming for driving in snowy weather.
or 2050 or 2099 or 2250, what's time anyway?
I still think your number is a gross exaggeration.
Unfortunately most management wont understand that developers can only be productive for 5-6 hours. They often spend most of their time in meetings and will sometimes have 10-12 hour days doing this. They therefore think everyone should work 10+ hours and dont understand that most people that write code can't work these sorts of hours and be productive for it all
I remember cooping at an IBM site in the 1980's and the senior full time employees would often work on secondary pet projects at work or a few on their side gig, real estate investment/retirement planning. OTOH, one has to remember these employees only recently got freed from the responsibility of starting the work day singing the IBM songs.

As a programmer back then, finishing tasks early just meant more features were requested, and tasks added to my queue. Learning things meant reading lots of technical books/papers for work at work or maybe accessing usenet or IRC for cutting edge stuff. If one had access to a unix computer or terminal, lots of text games available for off hours goofing off like Rogue or Adventure.

Lengthy compiles/simulation runs might mean a little leisure time reading of the newspaper or a book as you suggest.

The only time I have as much idle time as the GP suggests is working in video games and that was only because we were encouraged to play other games during down time to see what the competition was up to and try to stay current with what was available and to get ideas so one is always analyzing the product while playing - i.e. work.
We will know the results of the Thai rescue operation shortly when the lawsuit comes to an end
Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me

I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed
> You also get defensive ... you gaslight them ...

Very general, very untrue, and very off-topic. Please re-read the comment guidelines.

> Maybe you could take a queue from Linus.

Cue.
My device is experiencing this strange problem as well. Glad to know it is not just me.
Large-Scale Models of Consumer Choice and Counterfactual Inference [video]
Not completely magical realism, but I would suggest Vonnegut. Murakami slightly reminds me of a younger version.
Bowie is a genius,the song is amazing and still the number one version for me too, but in terms of art, context matters a lot, and you can't get more context than space oddity being played in space.

Other song played by Chris and the barenaked ladies that I personally enjoy a lot is I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing)[0], space related songs being played in space make them much more special to me.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvAnfi8WpVE
This is anecdotal but we had a rather particular schedule when I was in our equivalent to high school. We had two classes/subjects per day. So the day was divided into a morning block of 2.5 hours, then lunch, and then an afternoon block of 2.5 hours. 20 minutes of break time was included inside each block, and we got some input in how to distribute those 20 minutes. Typically you'd do 2x10, or 1x20 with the 20 being either in the middle or at the end (go home earlier or longer lunch).

I found it worked out great for all subjects. You could have a mini lecture first to learn something new, have a break, then have a bunch of time applying what you just learned.

Or if we had lectures we had the lecture first then just as much time after for questions.

You could watch a documentary and then have a follow-up discussion.

We also didn't start classes until 9 AM, because the school knew that teenagers in general aren't at the top of their game in the morning.

I really liked that setup.
First they ban memes. Now the ban changing clocks. What happens if I travel from Spain to Italy. I'd still need to change my clock.
If you're looking to expand on this I can highly recommend rands[1] as a great source of a wide range of engineering topics. Good stuff not just for managers but anyone involved in the well-running of a team(which is everyone!).

[1] http://randsinrepose.com/
Gan+nhiễm+mỡ+là+gì?+Nguy+cơ+bạn+bị+gan+nhiễm+mỡ+là+như+thế+nào?
I’m pretty sure that violates most State usury laws.

Note that I’m not referring to charging interest for late payment as being illegal. I’m specifically referring to charging 10% compounded weekly, which comes out about 14200% annualized.
Sure, that's how taxes work. We collect it from everyone and then decide collectively how to spend it. We don't only bill people for the things they personally use. One of the things we use money for is arts. The National Endowment for the Arts gets about $150 million per year, or roughly .004% of your taxes. I don't know how much these tickets to the moon cost, but let's say $100 million. That would roughly double the NEA's spending for a year, which I think works out to about 40 cents per taxpayer (someone can check me on that, maybe I'm way off). It probably does a better job of getting kids excited about science and art than most other ways we'd spend that 40 cents.

So yeah, I'm comfortable choosing that about 40 cents of your share of government's funding goes to this project.
All the functions are presented in the free version. It only limits the number of active tabs/connections at a time (3 right now), and you can not change themes.
I don't disagree. Tons of factors contribute to gradually making highways safer over time.
Alan Bean would probably approve: “But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Bean#Painting
You Think the Visual Studio Code Binary You Use Is Open Source? Think Again
In addition, different organs need different amounts of immunosuppression. Livers are used to filtering random things and thus the body is more tolerant of livers (needs less immunosuppression). Some older liver transplant recipients can actually drop their immunosuppression drugs completely.

The exact transplant protocol also influences long-term levels of immunosuppression and thus cancer risk.
But...am I accomplishing those things, or am I going to a lot of meetings about how to make the customer feel good about the things we accomplished?
When Microsoft met SUSE: This Windows-Linux partnership gets stronger (2017)
If their schedules are entirely run by daylight then why care at all what the clock says?
On the other hand, there are many projects where an average team of engineers will fail, regardless of how good their manager is, but that one talented individual contributor (or a handful of them) can successfully deliver. Managing more people doesn't necessarily mean having a larger impact (even indirectly).
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NASA chose to train scientists to be astronauts for the later moon missions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Astronaut_Group_4
If you can do that with your program then you can probably just precompute the actual result at build time. Many, if not most unexpected performance problems occur with unexpected or unconsidered inputs.
Probably not. Even in states that don't exclude fees unrelated to an actual loan of money, it looks like contracted late fees between businesses are excluded from usury definitions (that's the case in NY, for instance).
I cannot fathom why you find it so necessary to constrain discovery.

None of us knows what these artists will create after their flight. You think they'll do nothing beyond what they've done before. I think they might be inspired in ways we can't foresee.

I'm pleased those who are in position to do this are doing it. Maybe it'll be a bust. Maybe nothing new will come of it. Maybe they'll all die in a fireball at launch or during re-entry. Maybe the resulting art will eclipse Picasso.

Whatever the result, I'm deeply grateful to everyone involved in this.
Thank you for the elaborated answer!
Is it still considered to be throttling when it's in the service agreement?

I have Cricket wireless, and they tell me I am limited to 3mbps speed, which is exactly what reflects in all speed tests I've tried. I am totally OK with that, in exchange for having an "unlimited" data usage plan.

All streaming video I've tried (Youtube, Netflix, DirecTV Now) seem to work and look just fine. They all look no different from when I'm streaming on my 100mbps Wi-Fi.
Very interesting idea. To sum it up the article says a city paying ~5B to entice Amazon's new HQ is ridiculous and a 1995' era strategy.

Instead, they should offer remote worker incentives like healthcare and unemployment insurance since solo work has higher risk. You go after the workers instead of the corporation which could always move.
Hired a guy who do politics rather than coding. He destroyed the whole culture. When I ask why we are not firing the guy, CTO know about it but can't fire him.
Because one side perpetuates the good guy with the guy myth, and the other side drastically inflates the numbers of school shootings.

Hense, both sides lie. The mistruths end up being the biggest obstacle to proper gun reform.

We can't compromise when both sides aren't truthful or realistic. If you think your side is "right" then I suggest educating yourself about guns from someone without a political agenda.
Actually this serves as a pretty good pitch for mastadon. Being able to choose the flavor of admin jerk is better than having no choice at all.
Peak phosphate is front of mind for a lot of commodity traders, but most end users (farmers) are unaware or apathetic - at least in New Zealand where I grew up. Most farmers will put an annual quota of Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potassium (NPK) on their farms as advised by either of the two major fertiliser suppliers. Every 5 years or so these companies revise how much Phosphate should be applied, increasing it each time as the efficacy of the phosphate application lessens.

Soil is incredibly complex. Much like the human body, it has a lot of different chemical and biological interactions. For example phosphate is often applied with Lime (calcium carbonate), which adjusts the pH of the soil. The soil pH has to be roughly between 6 & 7 for it to be available for uptake by plants/roots (once again accounting for hundreds of other factors). If the soil has pH>7 the phosphate will be "fixed" by the excess calcium. If it has a pH<6 then its "fixed" by excess aluminium/iron. Or there is no fixation at all and the phosphate just leaches into waterways before it can be utilised by the plant. This is a overly simplified mechanism which has been used for a long time in agriculture.

A more effective action than trying to find new sources of phosphate is to change how we use the phosphate. Applying the phosphate with carbon and organic matter is probably a good start. Carbon is good for binding nutrients and organic matter is a biological playground for worms and fungi. Mycorrhizae are soil fungi that form a symbiotic association with plant roots. The hyphae (branch) of the fungus connect with plant roots and extend into the soil, acting like extensions of the plants root system by absorbing nutrients and transporting them back to the plant roots. A major benefit in this respect is an increase in P uptake. In exchange, the mycorrhizae receive sugars manufactured by the plant (through photosynthesis or other nutrient uptake).

Unfortunately there hasn't been much commercialisation of any of new science/innovation in the fertiliser industry, for reasons I'm not too sure (disclaimer - my family produce fertiliser so I might be biased/jaded by the industry). Probably because we still aren't close enough to peak phosphate. It may also be because the soil conditions have to change before they become conducive to biology and organic matter, which would mean a "down year" for a farmer. There are also a lot of snake-oil salesman peddling the latest magic water that a farmer can spray on their crops for immediate results.

We need to start looking after our soil much like we look after our bodies. Living on a diet of NPK is just as bad for soil as a human living on burgers, coke, and fries.
Question Answering with BiDAF and DrQA in PyTorch
> If everyone refused to build guidance systems for missiles, perhaps the missiles would never get built?

Correct but incomplete.

In that scenario, unguided rockets get built instead of missiles. Rockets, being unguided, will miss their targets more often than missiles. Rockets, being unguided, will also tend to be used in slightly-scattered volleys, so as to increase the chance that at least one rocket hits the target.

Any explosive ordnance that misses its target has some chance of instead killing some civilians.

Do you see the problem here?
Will an agreement in writing really get partners to do it the way you want? I feel like that's some other issue who's solution I don't know but just writing it down won't actually make the difference when it comes to actual behavior.

I've been in a similar situation where co-founders had different goals. I used to think talking before hand and getting things in writing would have helped. I'm pretty confident now that writing would not have helped. Talking might have except that people hear what they want to hear so they all think they agreed but they all think they agreed to something different
So far a few:

1) Don't spend money and time on things you don't need or will need earliest in a few months from now.

2) Regardless if you have a brand-new idea for a product or try to improve an existing product/process, you need to validate first that you follow the right path. I think a light-weight solution like the idea behing the Design Sprint (http://www.gv.com/sprint/) is a good option. Don't go off and try to build an MVP. You will waste time and money (again). Even for a simple and functional MVP you will need spend lots of time to build a frame around it.

3) If you intend to improve something existing in an industry, come up with something unique about your product first (compared to your competitors). This will help you to get initial traction. Again, you need to validate this particular unique feature before you start building.

My previous startup endeavours failed all because we/I did not follow those rules.

One time we were mostly building away because we thought we know the industry (worked many years in the same space before) and had a lot of wrong assumptions. This combined with wrong spending behavior made everything fail very quickly in the end. From the outside we just copied our competitors and even our product was superior and looked better and gave part of our business customers a much better experience, we did not attract enough customers (as in users), because there was no obvious reason for them to use us vs our competition.

In another attempt I just got too deep into the tech and totally lost focus on what I was actually trying to solve. Lots of wasted time (except for experience).
I would argue that's because the companies that should be using EV aren't, so users don't see EV often/enough. Google, Microsoft, etc. have no excuse to not be using, and emphasizing EV certificates. Consider how many "Microsoft support" scams would fall flat on their face if people were taught to look for the company they're dealing with was in a green box near the URL, and EV certs were shored up so that only major Fortune 500 or so companies were able to participate.

And before someone suggests that users can't be taught this, there's precedent: We've been trying to teach users not to trust that "Secure" badge/lock icon they've gotten used to. The difference is, the secure icon never represented that they were communicating with someone trustworthy, but the EV designation would.

EDIT: Also, hi Ian! stripe.ian.sh makes you a minor celebrity, and I'm honored by your presence. ;)
> Moreover, museums don't allow the donors to curate the exhibitions, and artists do not mention their patrons in their work.

Portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (1492-1519). Raphael

https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/raffaello-sanzio-cal...
> You need to be aware of, and have to confront things you don't like.

I’d agree anywhere but twitter/mastadon. Terrible platform for any kind of coherent conversation. Use it for shit that DOESN’T matter, and please god get your news anywhere else.

I honestly have no clue how you would use it without filtering. Seems miserable.
This is obviously great new tech, though one shouldn't see this as a solution to global warming. Until we find a cheaper scale-able way of producing hydrogen that doesn't come from hydrocarbons, this isn't really a solution. Might as well burn the the hydrocarbons directly...
With respect, this has to be demonstrated. Are the new skills better than the old skills?

(I am on the treadmill, so clearly I believe they are.)
The image at the top of that section is a tweet of him describing his "grandma test".
Would love to hear more about this Gmail customer service I can pay for.
I'm certain a lot of my memories are fake. My dad was a big slideshow guy when I was very little. He used to take a lot of photos and never made prints, he always got slides, so he could put on the slideshow and spin yarns. Any number of my memories I think were planted during these slide shows of various vacations.
Because if you don’t move fast enough they’ll break your things.
I almost cried
I think self driving cars should be used on dedicated roads as a more agile and flexible replacement to trains. There are many places in the world where they need to build new train lines. What if instead they just build a dedicated road with self driving cars roaming it and just stopping for people in designated bays instead of stations.
Software disenchantment
Bridges today are not built like 100 years ago. The modern ones seem to collapse more often.

The same can be said of software. It seems normal today to ship bug ridden shit. Not so 25 years ago.
I'm not sure what's abrasive about their comment.

If anything, it's a great example of direct-without-abusive, something I wish folk like Linus would adopt.
While I love this idea hosting flexibility is a major issue. What prevents you from being able to run simply in a process? Is it lack of virtualization of the GPU device?
Probably Clinkle
Well, based on another comment in this thread [0], after the ocean's concentration of nuclear fuel is covered, maybe about 2 million Tsar Bomba's would do the trick.

The physical dimensions of the Tsar Bomba are on the wikipedia page:

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

If 2 million are needed, then that's 100 cubed, twice. So two cubes of this bomb, with each cube measuring 100 units per edge, filled solid. The bomb is already designed, so producing 2 million of them would be a matter of setting up an assembly line, and churnning them out like automobiles, once the raw materials are procured.

Each one is about the size of a car, so a parking garage that holds 2 million cars is an okay frame of reference. Most stadiums have parking lots that hold 10,000 spaces, so 100 stadiums, across one hundred cities, but all together in one place. Realistically, though, two million cars easily fit inside any large city.

As for the gaseous concentration of fusion gas in the ocean, that's a much tougher problem to tackle. Really, because the huge fusion bombs that use deuterium (and tritium) are sourcing that material from the oceans (or other bodies of water). Culling deuterium from natural water sources is among the easier ways to produce weaponizable amounts of the gas. So, in order to create twenty times the natural standing concentration would require synthesizing your own new, man-made deuterium from the normal variety of hydrogen, by irradiating non-heavy water.

For every million gallons of ocean water, you can pull out maybe 156 gallons of heavy water, so you'd get about six hundred trillion gallons of heavy water, if you could capture all of the natural heavy water in the world. Take 600 trillion gallons, and multiply it by twenty. Bingo, you're there. That's the ignitable concentration, if you had 2 million Tsar Bombas.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18011959
As someone on the older side of things - I'd be curious. Given all the terrible discrimination around age we hear about, why doesn't a company just hire old 55+ year olds to do their coding.

This should be an undervalued labor pool given how discriminatory things sound. It would seem like a business opportunity?

If you've got folks willing to work equal or longer hours more efficiently with more experience and more current knowledge for equal pay as the 20 year old out of college - that seems like a no brainer?
You left out an important word. The SC has held that an employer does not automatically violate the ADEA etc. As your own source continues:

"Age discrimination may exist, however, where an employer terminates an employee based on a factor such as experience or salary where the employer presupposes a correlation with age and uses that factor as a proxy for age."

That is in fact what ultimately happened with Hazen, by the way. The use of proxy criteria as a facade for discrimination has been addressed in many other discrimination/quota cases, and courts routinely see right through it. So the answer to your question is basically no, unless the employer can prove that they were more than normally oblivious to the disparate effect their choices would have. I don't think any of IBM's lawyers are likely to suggest such a defense.
> Did you read the article?

> classic middlebrow

That is classic unwelcome behavior on HN. Maybe you can keep your judgements of other commenters and hot take reactions to yourself and stick to the subject.

I didn't criticize them for being open about their background, but because they lack expertise to offer expert opinions. Again, if they wrote an article on rules of thumb for evaluating code or on reading radiology images for cancer - things they appear equally expert in - it wouldn't be taken seriously here.

> As per the large amount of links in the article, the author seems to have passed the test themselves

Huh? Lots of links pass some test? Reading a bunch of links make you an expert? I guess the Internet really is full of experts.
Just a note on this: Prototypes can be enough to get a company going. Engineers/Makers think that the product is the most important part of starting a company. It's not. Selling your vision to investors and customers is. Once you have a business plan that's funded, you can refine your product by hiring consultants that will help you with production. Once you have a product then you can get customers to refine the product further.

Why is bottled water a billion dollar business in the U.S. when the U.S. has the safest drinking water in the world? I am very sure it's not the product.

If you can't sell, define your vision and prototype and find someone to sell them for you. Salespeople are viewed as BS'ers by engineers but without them, companies can never succeed.