skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sears' huge pension liabilities was cited as one of the main reasons that prevented any possible re-structuring that could have saved the company when it was declining and heading to bankruptcy

This was before or after it had been stripped of assets?
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The only case where an accepted answer is not pinned to the top is when the accepted answer was posted by the same user who asked the question. Your link is an example of that.
With FEL lithography and enormous budgets most of the Bloomberg claims seem quite possible.
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Julia turns out to be a very nice language for problems like this. Many of the algorithms end up looking very much like the pseudocode from the original paper. We can use unicode as well, which makes a lot of the math (like gradient symbols) easier to read. We drop the type annotations to make it more legible. "Real" implementations could definitely improve what we have in terms of error checking and efficiency improvements, but we optimized for understanding and clarity.

Very often getting the figures to generate properly helped us catch mistakes in the code. I usually did this in a Jupyter notebook, because I can iterate there a lot faster than making a small in the book source and running the compilation process there.

I guess we didn't really have to get around the problem - the algorithm was of principle importance and then we had to figure out how to best produce figures for it.
Renewable energy saw a ~30% growth from 2008 to 2017, but in percentage points of the total energy consumption, that's only a 5%-point increase. The remaining 30%-point reduction in coal consumption was covered primarily by increased natural gas usage.
Thanks for posting, I thought we had already been rejected by not receiving an email...

I'll keep waiting then.
Tree is just the free monad over the Pair functor, what's the problem?
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Of course, even with a truly airgapped computer, people have developed side channel attacks to exfiltrate information by listening to things not generally considered to be part of the "networking" portion of the computer, such as radio signals generated by the operation of the processor.
TFW you don't understand genetics...
nobody in startupschool forum has received an email yet
living the american dream so no insurance

Since when does "living the dream" mean choosing to go uninsured?
Nope, nothing
Nothing yet :(
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And without doing experimental setup (RCTs), how do you know you are not just paying for organic conversions?

I had this presentation a few months ago: https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/gregak/if-youre-not-measur...
I would be interested to know what you think.
Oh, I haven't been to a regular church service in decades, not since I left home for college.
Ha ha yes, you're right!
Type annotations make code more legible.
> If you are bitten by a raccoon, you can’t really decide not to get the rabies vaccine. It’s literally a life-or-death situation. But the price is incredibly high. We had a bill from someone who had gotten a rabies vaccine at an emergency room

What the... I'm pretty sure vaccines only work to prevent illnesses and are very much useless to treat them. I mean they're supposed to be small quantities of the virus or bacteria that causes a given illness to train the immune system to defend itself. Why would you add more of the rabies virus when you might potentially already have more than you can handle after being bitten? I thought she was just giving a bad imaginary example, but she says she "had a bill from someone who had gotten a rabies vaccine at an emergency room". Could she have misinterpreted why the vaccine was administered? but why would anyone need a vaccine in an emergency?
Many of the algorithms would be very laborious to implement and explain in a language like C or C++. Julia has the advantage that the actual code looks very much like the pseudocode you mention. In fact, the guideline implementation for the ACAS X collision avoidance software that my prof developed, that is to become the de-facto issued by the FAA, has been produced in Julia rather than in pseudocode because it actually runs. Real code has no ambiguity. (assuming you avoid undefined behavior).
Julia is a fantastic language. Really hope it catches on.
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Thank you for performing these tests, they're very eye-opening!
nothing yet from this end
First, back up a second and appreciate your position. You were an SDE 1 in 2015, and you're an SDE 3 now. You're making over a quarter million a year. Your career is on a rocket trajectory. Most SDEs don't ever even make it to 3.

Should you leave? Yeah, probably, but only because that's my general advise to most Amazon SDEs. Many (but certainly not all) of the teams there are not super fun to work for. Odds are you'd be happier at any given alternative. Maybe your team's great, but you seem pretty unsatisfied, so yeah, leave.

Should you leave because of the money? Probably not, no. You're at the bottom of a new pay grade. You'll probably be making more over the next couple of years, and if you're on track to Principal, whoo boy is there money there. On the other hand, they say a recent promotion is a great time to quit. Go interview with Facebook or whoever and see if they'll pay more for an Amazon SDE 3 than Amazon will. Who knows, maybe they'll even buy you your unvested shares.
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>addition instead of multiplication

What is the advantage of this?
If you use obesity as a proxy, software and IT is probably not too far from construction which is a very physical activity.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/the-jobs-...

The best indicator of low obesity prevalence seems to be if the job depends on a persons appearance and attire.
CI/CD 101. What they are and why do they exist?
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Yeah, if that's the case - if we can make petroleum products from CO2 and power for only a 25% premium (hell, a 100% premium) over current prices, that's incredible. That's not (just) an environmental breakthrough, it's a MASSIVE geopolitical change. All of a sudden, the pricing power of oil exporting countries disappears - there's an infinitely scalable replacement waiting in the wings. Hell, can you imagine how much the US Navy would pay to produce jet fuel on board carriers (nuclear power!) and eliminate a need for underway replenishment?

And for that reason I really have to assume that it's standard science reporting, and some wires have been crossed along the way.
Across a few banks, I have more credit card credit available in aggregate (acquired over only a few months) than YC offers in funding to startups they accelerate (Chase alone will approve you up to almost $100k across several cards before their risk management department starts asking questions).

This is not difficult to accomplish for your average credit consumer, and if your burn rate is low and you have some reasonable path to profitability, it’s superior to taking investment.
The rabies vaccine is usually only given post-bite, unless you’re unusually likely to be bitten (e.g. veterinarian).

If you don’t get the rabies vaccine shortly after being infected, you will almost certainly die.
My hope is that newly-built or soon-to-be-built O&G production sites will be converted to have CO2 capture and just export electricity or hydrogen. We have all the tech, it's just that someone needs to force O&G operators to do it.

Operators, by the way, love this concept. It means they can continue production basically forever, if they want. But there's a big economic disadvantage in being the first mover, which is why we need government regulations forcing it.
No, that's how rabies vaccines are typically used. You get them after (potential) exposure but before the disease kicks in. You can also get it in advance -- they last about 10 years -- but this isn't typically done, presumably because most people don't expect to get bitten by wild animals very often.
Define "economy growing", all the way to the end.
This is referring to postexposure rabies prophylaxis (PRP); see https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/medical_care/ under "Postexposure Vaccinations":

> Rabies postexposure prophylaxis consists of a dose of human rabies immune globulin and rabies vaccine given on the day of the exposure, and then a dose of vaccine given again on days 3, 7, and 14.
I wonder if the FaceID technology can eventually detect squinting and suggest a font size increase?
And with that nobody knows what you're actually getting...
You may want to read a bit more about our new breed of rulers, like Xi, Putin and Trump. Getting people to genuinely believe their lazy bullshit is a demonstration of their power and one of the pillars of their respective regimes.
I actually would like a stateless computer. A pure functional laptop. It could store state on the cloud as a series of changesets, and each boot would be a "checkout" of the top state. Then as you compute, you make to make new changesets.
But what about Apple? iOS is designed such that a third party app store is impossible. Why should Google have to allow a third party app store and Apple be able to "walk free" in their walled garden.
> I could believe it if the denials so far felt incomplete or ambiguously worded as if they were tiptoeing around something that they were not allowed to disclose. I could believe it if all we had coming from Apple and Amazon was the usual lawyer-speak "I won't confirm of deny" bullshit. Instead we've had completely unambiguous "this is completely false and never happened".

Well, at this point everybody is watching for weasel words, so a categorical denial is the only thing the government can demand that wouldn't provoke suspicion.

> If it turns out to be a lie it's going to be devastating for the trust in Apple or Amazon.

Oh, please. Companies have had millions of credit card numbers stolen, and nothing happens.

Apple and Amazon would get a bit of bad press. The tech folks wouldn't trust them any less than they already do. And it would blow over in a couple weeks at worst.

At this point, my Bayesian priors are lowering on Bloomberg, but they are not necessarily going up on Amazon or Apple.
I am not a lawyer, but I for one would be thrilled to hear of any of this being used for good by anyone, whether for personal or commercial uses. I don't see anything other than the standard MIT Press protection clause behind the cover at the moment but will definitely look into it. Thanks!
It's feed for the trough for people who already want to believe.
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It is a mistake to take for granted that "more technological advance"
is worth the price society would pay for it. That price, imposed
through patents, is unacceptable in this case.

We are better off if other people encode in older, less efficient
codecs that we can support in in free/libre software, than if they
encode the files a little smaller and we are forbidden by the MPEG
patent portfolio to handle it with free software.

See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/software-literary-patents.htm...
and https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/limit-patent-effect.html.

You'll note that I do not use the term "open source". Since 1983, I
have led the free software movement, which campaigns to win freedom
in our computing by insisting on software that respects users'
freedom. Open source was coined in 1998 to discard the ethical
foundation and present the software as a mere matter of convenience.

See https://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
for more explanation of the difference between free software and open
source. See also https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-meme-hustler for
Evgeny Morozov's article on the same point.

Which one you advocate is up to you. If you stand for freedom, please
show it -- by saying "free" and "libre", rather than "open".
No. I think no one did yet.
What Linux distros don't include Perl by default? I certainly haven't come across any...
Direct link to the spreadsheet with the app list. There's 128 apps: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BMJAHOASdeOOYgomSva9...
Yes, this is the best part of YC team that they consider each and every applications equally even if you were late in applying.
> In languages I'm used to, an object is a type of value, and values are things that you can store in (or refer to with) variables.

Class theStringClass = String.class;

Class[] myArrayOfClasses = new Class[1];

myArrayOfClasses[0] = theStringClass;

callSomeOtherMethod(theStringClass);

> You can't call `String.toString()`

String.class.toString() => "class java.lang.String"

theStringClass.toString() => "class java.lang.String"

myArrayOfClasses[0].toString() => "class java.lang.String"

somethingThatReturnsAClass().toString() => "class java.lang.String"

> `String` isn't an instance of something that inherits from `Object`

Class theObjectClass = Object.class;

theObjectClass.isAssignableFrom(theStringClass) => true

> I'd say Java classes are almost purely lexical constructs

They aren't - here's the source code for the Class class.

https://github.com/Project-Skara/jdk/blob/c2105ced865fba11fb...

Here's the source code for the toString method we were calling

https://github.com/Project-Skara/jdk/blob/c2105ced865fba11fb...
NSL probably does.
Not to mention if you pulled this off, it’s likely you have many other hacks in place too.. such as defeating firewalls and the local network config.

They’re also taking bloomberg verbatim, when they likely have technical details incorrect. That doesn’t mean the gist is wrong (which may or may not be, I have no idea, I just think a lot of this article’s arguments are on weak foundation).
I'm not sure refuting is the correct term. I think the most fundamental problem for climate science is that everything is based on models, and so nothing is falsifiable. This means that nothing is refutable. Everything is based on models which are retrofitted the past data. This means they, generally, do an effective job of mapping to old data (as that is what they're created on), and then extrapolate from those old data into the future. But the big problem is that those future results are generally plagued by very poor rates of predictability. But since there's no falsifiability, it doesn't matter.

There are major examples in both directions here. In the overstating direction, between 2001 and 2010 the warming slowed to 0.11C per decade. [1] For the 17 years before then was 0.17C. Because the models just map past data to future, nobody predicted this. There is of course a matter of long term vs short term. But at the same time, I think it's important to ensure we don't use this as never-fail defensive tool. Everybody missing a decadal long period of dramatic change is something that should not be ignored and I think we've been disconcertingly quick to marginalize.

In the other direction many climate models underestimated the rate of antarctic sea ice melting. This is, paradoxically, then used as a defense of the models. 'See? We were just being conservative. The sea levels are rising even faster than we said!' But this is again a very disconcerting form of handwaving, that also seems to indicate severe bias. Something happening faster than a model predicts is no better than it happening slower than the model predicts. What it means is the same in both cases - the model is broken.

[1] - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-global-warmin...
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To some extent, maybe. But then again, if you poke a bear with a stick and it mauls you, nobody will blame the bear.

If we expect responsibility for decisions to companies, then it's only fair if media outlets too are held responsible for the consequences of misapplying public pressure.
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All of those changes took place over extended periods of time, as opposed to the human generated climate change that is labeled “global warming”.

The importance of timescales is very simple: evolution requires many generations to adapt, and the larger the change the more generations are needed.

Literally no one argues that there have been no changes in global temperature. That is a straw man.

The problem with human created global warming is that it is much much faster than any prior cycle, and that the mechanisms that are causing it (increased CO and CO2) have compounding ramifications - like ocean acidification - that are causing direct damage to major ecosystems, including the organisms that do absorb CO2. I don’t recall any studies of prior occurrences of this - I would expect that the impact would be gaps in things like the cliffs of Devon, etc where you’d see large scale (global) die offs of more or less all mollusks.
All this BBS talk takes me back to about 10 years ago, when I had a business encounter with a consultant engineer from IBM in Chicago. After our business meeting, we went to lunch and this gentleman dropped me off at my place of work in his car (IIRC, it was a Toyota Avalon with white leather interior). We had some small talk during the short drive - about some of my pet projects at the time and what I was doing outside of work, etc. He was very encouraging and appeared very curious. I appreciated that.

Little did I know at the time that I was in the presence of greatness and driving with a legend. He was Ward Christensen. I was so totally ignorant of his awesomeness that I'm ashamed. And so embarrassed now thinking about how vain I was talking to him about my barely getting my feet wet with Android application development. :$

That was my only encounter with Ward. I think I connected the dots a few months later when I read about him in 2600. (@Ward - If you are reading this, hi!! And my apologies for my ignorance).
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It's not meant to fool you. It's meant to make it harder to object and report on. If they say, "you can't go there," that opens avenues of progress. You can say "great, show me the rule" or write a story about how the military forbid them from going to see. But if "the road melted," you can only comply or accuse them of being liars, and you can only write a story that says "their excuse was dubious." It also allows the reporter a face-saving out if they wish to take it. Nobody ever believes there is a melted road or is meant to believe it.
That does not work in states like the PRC or Russia. Indeed, in order to live and go on day-to-day, you must break the law. And people do. But, then when the state wants you, they will selectively enforce the law. That's how it works. Let people break the law, who cares, but when we need to arrest them, lo and behold, look, they've broken several laws!
I don’t know the answer to your question.

I just wanted to point out that I appreciate this comment because it recognizes the easiest way to get a pest problem under control is for humans to consume it in vast quantities.

If the answer to your question is “yes”, and in fact if they are even delicious, then we’ll have those urchins extinct in no time.
The first thing we tell to investors is we are not building a security or surveillance product and we don't have a vision like that.

Storing and indexing (computation but not search) is expensive on AWS. Practically 1000 face metadata is not more than 4MB's of data in practice. 4MB face data is 1$ on AWS. Just one surveillance camera output archive + real time recognition costs 400$ / month according to my calculation.

Search part can be extremely fast with postgres in a special setting. It's kinda instant.
I’m impressed you did that without back pain :)

Just to be clear though

1. I said I got back pain just standing on concrete, without actually lifting anything

2. People are super bad at lifting things properly, so I’m sure a reasonable number of injuries are “avoidable”

3. I’m not saying that everything in this was realistic (there are some questionable options), just that this particular case is super plausible. After all the equivalent in tech is RSI/OOS (whatever it’s called now), and that’s super common even though avoiding it is way easier than avoiding back problems when your job is picking things up.
Addition being cheaper than multiplication on many CPUs?
My daughter was asking me about moles recently. Glad to see NIST has something I can point her to.
I was definitely mis-understanding functional components because I'd have assumed that memo was the default behaviour. Could anybody with more experience/knowledge suggest what sort of functional components you'd want to re-render if their props don't change? Cool that there's an easy way to get that behaviour now though! :)
Lots of Algorithm books I've come across do not have a lot of exercises and focus heavily on proofs. It's great to see that this book does have a lot of exercises.
We need a video game where all global planetary effects are simulated. Like civilization or alpha centauri but with plot twist regarding global warming.
Our children will finally get it.
will you be able to use OBS to point it to the server in the future?