skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, what happens if we look into the collapsing of the galaxy from an informational-theoretic view of entropy?

As far as I know, thermodynamic and informational-theoretic entropy are the same except for the Boltzmann constant.
It certainly seems to me that the informational entropy of the galaxy is lower than the original gas cloud.

That is, if I wanted to describe the state of a single atom in the gas cloud (lets presume the number of atoms is constant) using a perfectly tuned compression algorithm, I'd need more bits to do it than if I wanted to do the same for an atom in the current galaxy (again using a compression algorithm perfectly tuned to that situation).

Perhaps, because the gas cloud was cold, but the galaxy is 'hot' we actually need more bits because the individual particles can go faster, and thus have a larger range of possible speeds? Is this indeed enough to compensate for the much easier to describe location? Do I need to take more than just location and speed into account?
Some visitors to Copenhagen remark that it's surprisingly quiet for a capital city. Others say it "feels boring", which I think is partly because they associate a noisy city centre (e.g. London or Paris) with fun.

There are far fewer cars in the city centre than most cities the size of Copenhagen; enough roads are restricted to people on foot or bicycles that relatively few people try and drive to, from or through it.
Ends after 32 Years, good number.
When I can to Germany, I jumped the gun and bought yearly subscription of Duolingo only to realize they will bore you to death with endless Brot(bread) and Wasser(water) multiple choice questions. Even when you move up and questions should be focused on that level, they still add a lot of Brot and Wasser just to keep the scoreboard alive and kicking.

I suspect they want to keep you on the basic level for as long as possible because they have a subscription model and you feeling confident enough to leave them is bad for business.
Python and Graham's trading strategy
> That should be a place where everyone is welcome and excited about books...

But to get excited about a book you have to be immersed in it, and that requires reading it and really focusing on the subject matter.

If people are talking all the time, they're not reading books, and others aren't able to enjoy their books.

> ... not a coworking space for old curmudgeons.

Old curmudgeons aren't part of "everyone"?
Pick your parents well.
Yeah, good catch, removed that. Doesn't really matter anyway for the point.
Leaded avgas is going away, although slowly. No one is developing new piston engines or complete aircraft that use it. Any liquid fuels for new aircraft are going to be unleaded gasoline or (more likely) kerosene.
That would be better, but this system works for me pretty well as I try to follow a strict schedule for getting up in the morning on week days.

I could however do with hooking it into my calendar so it doesn't run if I have an "Annual Leave" event on that day, or if it's a bank holiday. Just haven't got round to that yet.
Closed means mass cannot go in or out. Heat and work can still be exchanged.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolated_system
Sure because most community public libraries have those just laying around for any member of the public to read whenever they want.

This is such a straw man. Unless you have an actual academic need for an actual Shakespeare first folio, you can read that text without needing an original printing. If you have such a need, the Palo Alto Public Library isn’t likely to have a it there for the asking.

Academic libraries at universities have their purpose, but your local public library isn’t going to typically be used by Shakespeare scholars.

Reading restricted collection books is a pretty low percentage of why people visit libraries. Reading ultra rare, priceless books is almost non-existent as a percentage of library visits.
I wonder to what extent the existence and use of CRISPR to edit a baby will serve to normalize the relatively less radical practice of IVF embryo selection[1] on a wider range of criteria than we currently accept. That would also open the door to some enhancements. Many traits that parents might care about are deeply polygenetic and not amenable to the sort of editing we can currently perform but could still be selected for in this manner.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preimplantation_genetic_diagno...
Pinkney?
There are many, many people who do these things and fail or become mediocre at best. In fact I'd say the ultra rule following path you laid out is contra to what makes a great entrepreneur in most cases.

That being said, having rich parents is the #1 way to raise capital. VCs fund people they know socially first.
It's far easier to make snide remarks than it is to critically think.
the two philosophies
I'll take the opposite side and wager that few people in Chicago know about it and that it will never be built.
What distinguished macrostates from each other? What distinguishes a macrostate from a microstate?
I know that this is not a myth because I have seen it. Just today I saw someone reviewing some piece of work that had taken another developer two weeks to implement, throw it all out and solve the same problem with only a few lines of code.

The speed improvement isn't like, "This person can type 10 times faster than everyone else", but more like, "This person doesn't get stuck or waste time chasing dead-ends".

Possibly your code-base needs to have more than a certain level of complexity before developers start getting stuck like this.
Well, there were quite a few of must haves (just by the nature of the position), I already filtered out the ones that were optional before.
As a nerd I still enjoyed reading the calculations !
I think Cebit in a way started as "being about everything IT", but back then that was fine, since the field was way smaller and everything overlapped more, and the sub-sections wouldn't sustain their own events. (It started as a side-event to Hannover Messe that at some point got large enough to stand on its own)

Now "everything IT" is way to broad, and the discovery aspect has moved online.
China and India have much different problems compared to most other countries. There in lies the opportunity too.
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Thanks for your response. I agree that portfolio projects show more about a person than their certifications. I never liked taking exams in school anyways. :p

Regardless, do you think that there are any MOOCs/certifications that are worth investing in, if you were going to get one anyways? Say, if your employer is paying you to get one, etc.
Have you tried ReBirth for iPad? It’s a phenomenal and faithful recreation.
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Nobody is trying to eliminate all mosquitoes. Just a tiny fraction of mosquito species.
Why would you live in a place where people have to approve what you want to do with your property?
I hope you can appreciate how fortunate you are.

Though 4 Euros ($4.50) is less than half what I pay for most books I want on Amazon.

It would be very expensive for me to feed my book-reading habit like that. I couldn't afford it without libraries.

It's nice that you can afford to spend money on books, but we need a solution for everyone else, especially if we agree that books are a good thing for society.

Recently there was that op-ed in Forbes that said we don't need libraries because we have Amazon: https://qz.com/1334123/forbes-deleted-an-op-ed-arguing-that-... -- Was such a disaster that Forbes limped away from it by deleting it.
I’m more surprised that people still use electric blankets. Utterly dangerous things. Now you can connect your state of the art 1950s tech to the cloud.
Your spouse may not be able to understand everything but if they don't support you, your life is going to be hell. Sadly, it's rare to see a founders spouse happily take the roller coaster ride with them for the long haul.
Are you an employee or have invested in any Alphabet associated companies? You comment very frequently on Google related threads.
I think the above comment gets to the heart of the problem with the "community libraries should be fun" argument.
Lego sets
I only showed them after they already told me it's a no. I didn't really have a reason to be polite after that. I was just a bit incredulous. The job posting is still open now 1 year later, although they refreshed the date.
Some very good points, though the tone slightly reminds me of the the Mark Twain quote: “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

It's certainly very difficult to start a business from scratch, and to grow it.

A trick is if you can spin off a job into a contract, into a larger contract, etc, with the same customer(s), ideally people who may move to larger companies, and carry the relationship with them.
https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/goog
Let's not kid ourselves, Alphabet Inc is Google.
Look, it's pretty simple.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/02/alphabet-business-units-reve...

Google makes the bulk of its revenue from advertising. Google generates substantial profits. The non-Google parts of Alphabet are, as a group, running at a loss. Google's advertising profits are used to subsidize Alphabet's "other bets."
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Heh, I think most autodidacts have discovered this independently. I'm a Physics-Major dropout, and have managed to find jobs in big brand-name companies that have "strict requirements" for a degree. Now, it's led to a level of imposter syndrome (I've posted about it on HN before), but at the same time, it demonstrates that these "requirements" are more "strong preferences".

Sadly, it does seem like the research-oriented jobs aren't BSing about their requirements; when I've tried to apply to MS Research and the like, they've always declined me due to lack of credentials, since the postings usually require at least a masters, preferably a PhD.
I don't understand why you are downvoted, because you are right.

Conducting a successful career is also very hard. Let alone a successful marriage! Or getting fit, loosing weight.

You want to build a company? Just do it. It's not harder than other things in life.

Edit: some words.
Unless of course you're looking for information on some niche thing that nobody was talking much about after ~2000 or so.
Good question. I reached out to a contact at SpaceX to get more info.
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Lion Air Crash Investigators Are Focused on Maintenance Problems
Because that's how you get Apple Health omitting a monthly bodily function that a majority of the population has. Diversity of perspective makes a better product.
OMG! I'm glad I'm not the only that noticed this. The music is definitely there to discourage staying and working.
Wikipedia is too free form because it's a wiki, making entries very inconsistent. The biggest issue is that only people and things that are 'notable' can be added to Wikipedia
I'm going to take a wild guess and say that you are young.

Just on of the points would be how different the world looked like 60 years ago.
I have yet to experience a college town such as you describe, having been to several in Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Florida (I invest in housing in college towns).
The weird part is that he specifically mentions behaviorism:

> Except for a brief period when psychologists embraced a wrongheaded behaviorism, the theory of mind everyone shares drove the 20th century research programs of child psychology and psychiatry, cognitive science, evolutionary anthropology, and neuroscience.

But then by the end goes ahead and suggests the premises of behaviorism as a conclusion...?

> By colonizing consciousness spoken language turned it into a monologue of silent speech, tricking us that the meaning of spoken words is given by thoughts’ content when its just silent sounds passing through consciousness. Neuroscience shows that that in our brains the neural circuits neither have nor need content to do their jobs.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something somewhere? Is this guy really the one in charge of the philosophy department at Duke?
I hold to the even nuttier notion that soccer should abolish goalies entirely. Figure out a goal system that works without creating a one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-others position with as many rules as the entire rest of the game.

It would end "ripping nil-nil ties" and the ridiculous(!) separate game of tiddlywinks that is penalty shootouts (and nothing like the game you just spent 120 minutes playing). As a bonus you'd have higher scores and more usable stats.
> piece of work [...] two weeks to implement, throw it all out and solve the same problem with only a few lines of code

I've been in similar situations and, invariably, the "few lines of code" is inscrutable nonsense that no-one else will be able to maintain (and often even understand.) I can write obtuse one line "clever" hacks to solve problems but I'm keenly aware that a) I'll have forgotten how it works in an hour and b) some poor bastard (which might well be me) will have to maintain it for N years after I'm gone.
> Require initial knowledge of many probabilities.

Can you make a two-stage design where the initial probabilities are generated by another machine learning model?
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Some of the best restaurants I've been to, sonically speaking, have been in old houses that were converted into dining establishments. Because there's a limit to how much they can knock out interior walls, there are only two or three tables to a room, and the loud kitchen is necessarily in a different room from the dining. This really keeps a lid on the noise and lets you have an intelligent conversation at your table.
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They wanted a 100% candidate.

You sure about that? Maybe they wanted an easy way to tell people no. Maybe that 1/20 requirement was very heavily weighted compared to the other 19. Maybe they didn't really want to hire anyone at all or wanted to hire a specific person, but had to make a job posting for political/legal/policy reasons...
Hess's Triangle sounds like something that should be applied to a math problem or proof or geometric construction. Make the name of Hess live forever.
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Just take a look at their relative rankings though. Caruana may have previously been blitz champion but his current blitz elo is ~170 points lower than Carlsen who iirc is the current blitz champion.

I'd like to see that same process repeated for all the other draws from the points of highest advantage and right before the draw too if we're going to be using it to evaluate the decision to draw. Not sure how closely the computer tournament reflects the actual progression we've seen from Carlsen and Caruana because if we just look at the pawn equivalent advantage game 12 wasn't the best game that's been fought to a draw in this series. (I know that doesn't take into account positional advantage but we don't have an easy number to sum up that over all the games).
I'll second this. I think you also realize how many ways a human body can be broken, even accidentally. Leading cause of death in street fights is a head injury from falling onto pavement.
>Well, most commonly used features like back-references allow to define not-regular language, so there is nothing funny that most regular expression engines are not "regular".

The funny thing is that they're still called regular.
Very true. The look and feel of the TB-03 is second to none though. Imho the build quality is much higher than the original 303.
There is a chinese place I go to specifically because it is quiet. I'm so tired of loud places to eat. It's draining on you after a while.
Well, they already running trial by the government in Singapore…

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/nea-release-m...
I would think that's the reason why Boring Co. cancelled the project then. They probably need to get some "MVP" tunnels up and running as soon and as cheaply as possible.
Never heard of it before, but it's absolutely brilliant.
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Recognize that you most probably don't.
This seems reasonable to me. If they can take off while reducing nose pollution, they should.

I wonder if they do this at other airports located in of near cities such as LGA.
I'm from the US, but spent 2 years teaching English in South Korea. I interacted with very few adult Koreans who weren't teachers, so I can't speak to the 'overworked, stressed Korean businessman' stereotype. However, schooling for kids there is a lot different from schooling here. If you think your American kid is overworked and is given too much homework, it doesn't hold a candle to what Korean kids are put through.

From the age of 7 or 8, they are doing full days at school and at least 1 after school hagwon (private academy). That ramps up as they get older. By 10 or 11, they are doing full 9am-9pm days. Middle and high school kids are more like 9am-9pm in class and I've had kids tell me that they go home and study until 2 or 3am, regularly. I routinely had kids breakdown and cry.

After a while I realized that in a small way I was helping contribute to the continuation of this lifestyle and I soured on the whole teaching English in Korea thing and moved back to the States. I loved Korea on the whole and would go back in a heartbeat, but not as a teacher.
That's definitely an understandable thing the employer might do, but if they're still not getting a "good enough" candidate after a year, they're probably too demanding one way or another.

Of course, it's also plausible that they just never took the posting down.
> a big difference that Common Lisp brings to the table is that it has separate namespaces for variables and functions. This may not sound like much but it makes it much easier to write macros (code that writes code) and facilitates compile-time computing.

A little more detail here: it has a lot more namespaces than that. Indeed, you can attach arbitrary different namespaces of things to symbols if you want to.

It turns out that when you're writing macros in Lisp, the majority of what you use from outside the macro are functions and the majority of symbols that you bind and use within the macro are variables, so if you put them in different namespaces, you get rid of the majority of cases where symbols don't do what you were expecting in a macro.

Now, it's not quite all of the cases, and when it does happen, it's a pain to track down. Which is why the Scheme folks spent the effort and complexity on hygienic macros (where the system rewrites all symbols internally to make variable capture impossible). At the time of Common Lisp's creation, multiple namespaces and unhygienic macros were the obvious choice for production code, since there weren't hygienic systems available. Today you can go either way. In terms of research, hygienic is the route to go, as the work over the last couple of years on strongly typed, hygienic systems has shown.
That's why I wrote "maximizing chances". Life offers no guarantees, all we can do is try to optimize our choices so the probability of success (however one defines it) is maximized. The data I've seen suggest that knowing the right (well heeled, hard working, smart, etc) people plays a huge role in building a business.
Don't confuse social programs with liberalism.
> "On December 7, 2015, Google Life Sciences was renamed Verily."
AWS launches a base station for satellites as a service
Does wearing noise-cancelling headphones actually protect your ears? My understanding of noise-cancelling(at least the active kind) is that it would play the noise you would normally hear but in a mirrored fashion to dampen out the noise you'd hear.

I'm just wondering if that would protect your ears, do as much harm, or double it.
Going further, the cuedevres.bin file seems to include at least 1 Photoshop file:

hexdump -C cuedevres.bin | head -12
00000000 71 72 65 73 00 00 00 02 09 d5 35 27 00 00 00 14 |qres......5'....|
00000010 09 d5 15 35 00 04 10 9c ff d8 ff e1 0f 39 45 78 |...5.........9Ex|
00000020 69 66 00 00 4d 4d 00 2a 00 00 00 08 00 07 01 12 |if..MM.*........|
00000030 00 03 00 00 00 01 00 01 00 00 01 1a 00 05 00 00 |................|
00000040 00 01 00 00 00 62 01 1b 00 05 00 00 00 01 00 00 |.....b..........|
00000050 00 6a 01 28 00 03 00 00 00 01 00 02 00 00 01 31 |.j.(...........1|
00000060 00 02 00 00 00 22 00 00 00 72 01 32 00 02 00 00 |....."...r.2....|
00000070 00 14 00 00 00 94 87 69 00 04 00 00 00 01 00 00 |.......i........|
00000080 00 a8 00 00 00 d4 00 0a fc 80 00 00 27 10 00 0a |............'...|
00000090 fc 80 00 00 27 10 41 64 6f 62 65 20 50 68 6f 74 |....'.Adobe Phot|
000000a0 6f 73 68 6f 70 20 43 43 20 32 30 31 37 20 28 57 |oshop CC 2017 (W|
000000b0 69 6e 64 6f 77 73 29 00 32 30 31 37 3a 30 39 3a |indows).2017:09:|

It looks like cuedevres.bin is more of a source file for cueres.bin. It would be interesting if you would rename it and see if iCue is still working.
As a resident, you should know that if you think it's appropriate for treatment, you basically have free rein to do what you want to with the MR data.

If someone has made a free ML/AI tool, you can use it.

What you're worried about is valid - is there a business model?

And there doesn't need to be, for it to make sense.

Research hospitals could be funding people to spend time developing new ML/AI algorithms, and then releasing them for free for people like you to use.

More's the point, every country with socialized healthcare could be doing this, too.

The FDA may indeed be making it impossible to make a profit from a business developing ML/AI, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't find a way to do it, not if it actually improves patient outcomes.
You "just" need admin priv's to install one. there are "legit" reasons for using one atm (how else do you communicate with a localy running application from a site using SSL/TLS without using a browser extenstion? I honestly want to know as it would be handy for a project i'm working on).

For example Battle.net have a per machine generated CA that gets installed when you install BNet (which is why it recently started asking for admin privs to install / update instead of just asking for them when installing a game).

Its used for talking to BNet when following a battle.net link which can be used to prompt you to join BattleNet groups and other things. They used to use a cert signed by a public CA but that's is frowned upon (as the only way the client could really use it is if it knew the key for the cert which would lead to either a million localhost.bnet.tld (I don't remember the actual hostname so pulled one out of the air) certs or a shared cert with a million people who could access the private key if they went looking hard enough). They made a forum post about it when the issue about their own self signed CA started showing up everywhere [0].

I believe Spotify do something similar so things like open.spotify.com and other widgets can control the locally running spotify app.

MS themselves have a certtool in Visual Studio to create and add certs when dev'ing using the latest builds of ASP.NET Core 2 as the default for new projects is to use SSL (but iirc the cert tool VS uses does give you a prompt about it installing a cert).

[0] https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/20760626838
An increase in quality of life? Really? Who is to tell? Maybe those people would have done something more fulfilling instead of whatever they did as the porpose of those trips.
And where does Verily get the money to pay for its ventures?
I have not, didn't they get removed from the app store due to a complaint from Roland?