skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Use for me is writing small utilities for work. I am not a programmer, but I work in entertainment engineering, and Red has proven useful for making all sorts of utilities to get my job done. I am currently trying to use Red to create the GUI and glue some other utilities I use together. I hope to get better at it to create full applications. Amazing for its size, and I've always loved Lisp and Forth.
From wikipedia, it says "limited evidence of carcinogenicity in humans and less than sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals. It may also be used when there is inadequate evidence of carcinogenicity in humans but there is sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals. In some instances, an agent, mixture or exposure circumstance for which there is inadequate evidence of carcinogenicity in humans but limited evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals together with supporting evidence from other relevant data may be placed in this group."

Anecdotally, I see alongside some unpleasant-sounding items, a lot of common things on that same list like: aloe vera, Ginkgo biloba, engine exhaust, pickled vegetables, and cocamide DEA. It seems to me that mere presence on that list doesn't mean much without further context -- why it was put on the list, the relative danger of it compared to other things on that list, etc.
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Do they? What exactly does WeWork offer that a landlord couldn't easily replicate? Amazon at least has the crazy logistics network.

To me, WeWork sounds more like a Moviepass type situation.
Very good. Not sure someone said it is just ... may be it is just ... but it is still quite good.
It's not even an original model, it's from here: https://github.com/baronwatts/models
Frankly I think the world is (rightly) going the way of DSP + objective (probably class D more and more) power amp. If there is something nice about tubes, it is probably captured in somebody's software by now.
“When it's fully loaded, the fuel contains about three percent hydrogen and 97 percent supporting material.”

This fuel, which is 97% inert material, is supposed to have energy density comparable to gasoline? Either I’m fundamentally misunderstanding something or this is buulllllshiiiit.
The photograph isn’t for security, it’s to send a notification to the person you’re visiting, they don’t have a problem with you choosing not to be photographed if you’re not comfortable with it. The notification includes your name and the picture because the wework member is expected to walk into the common area and find you, which is difficult if the wework member doesn’t know what you look like!
Interesting, my intuition is the opposite: that left-to-right evaluation is clearly the better approach. I just tested a few languages and it turns out that there's no clear agreed-upon answer, but LHS first seems to be more common at least for recent languages:

LHS first: JavaScript, Java, Go, C#, Swift, PHP, Ruby

RHS first: C++, Python, Rust

I ran this sort of code for all of them:

def lhs(): print "LHS"; return 0
def rhs(): print "RHS"; return 0
a = [0]
a[lhs()] = rhs()

"=" is syntactically just a binary operator, so I expect it to behave like other binary operators (and AFAIK all other binary operators evaluate left-to-right in almost all languages). It's special because the LHS evaluates to an assignable reference rather than to a value, but nothing stops you from evaluating the left side in full before starting to evaluate the right side. As with every binary operator, it's possible to write code such that the evaluation of one side affects the result of evaluating the other side, but of course that sort of code is really fragile anyway.
Fairly certain at least some of those debts can get passed on to your estate and/or children.
DOTA is partially observable, so I believe AlphaZero can't be applied, as-is.
There's no way to get call log access or messages access on iOS. There's at least a dozen other insane permissions that exist (and are frequently requested by apps) on Android and don't exist on iOS. Is this sufficient "evidence" for you? Do you seriously believe that these Android permissions are never misused? Because there's easily discoverable evidence to the contrary. With a 1 billion+ installed base, I'd hope this would get much more scrutiny than it's getting.
> The simple example here being how Google seems to prioritize "current news", particularly those clicked the most often, over actual search results.

Funny how I still don't see two links:
1. Google search for a keyword
2. DDC link for the same keyword

As I said, it's posturing.
When the weather gets bad, it's just even hotter. No rain (some short summer monsoons albeit), no ice, snow, tornados, floods, earthquakes, fires, etc. All it ever does is get even hotter, which everyone is prepared for for the most part.
You're being overly critical of society, and failing to consider the nuance in all of these policies. What's the alternative to allowing healthcare providers to sell their product/services to the dying? Throw anyone who does in prison? But then you're criminalizing consensual interactions. Force other people to pay for the medical care of the dying? Then you're throwing people who refuse to care for people they have no moral responsibility for in prison. Maybe you think the latter is the answer, but it's not an easy thing to justify, especially for those who reject your ideological presuppositions.

And what do you do with children of people entering the country illegally? Release them to their parents, and let their parents go home without punishment? Maybe that's what you prefer. But there are major trade-offs from having such a policy, in losing the ability to disincentivize illegal immigration, so it's not obvious it's the right stance.

It's easy to criticize society when you don't have a better alternate solution to difficult problems. You're mistaken if you think throwing your arms in the air and saying "to hell with it", and contributing to those problems, by justifying theft of property, won't make things worse. It will. The only constructive way forward is to do the right thing in every situation, and clearly the right thing is not to violate the trust your client/employer put in you and steal a package. Making excuses for this behaviour only encourages more people to go down this destructive path in life.
Fear that the driver would retaliate?

I mean, if it's a driver I'd report it right to Amazon. They'd probably care more than the police.
The comparison to Amazon is a little misplaced, IMO.

Companies like Amazon and Google have more money than $deity and can afford to blow a few billion on non-core-business moonshots like self-driving cars and molten salt energy storage and space rockets.

WeWork does not have more money than $deity, so spinning out into less-related business is a sign of CoreBusinessNotQuiteCuttingTheMustardAnymore-itis.
There's a very detailed answer to your exact question in the readme
Embrace, extend, extinguish.

I am one of those wary of Microsoft. The current CEO was around during the Halloween Diaries. Even if he is well meaning, he is just an employee who can be replaced any day at the whim of large shareholders like Ballmer and Gates who consider Linux to be a virus.
The Pooh character from Milne's first book is arguably more marketable than Steamboat Willie.

Another studio could easily do a Pooh reboot with a new animation style and compete with Disney. I'd argue Mickey is more valuable as an icon than a character. And he's so associated with Walt Disney I'm not sure another company would ever be taken seriously making new Mickey material.

People know Pooh,Piglet,Eeyore, etc. as personality types. Not sure that's true for Mickey, Minney and friends.
I agree with the boring database, it's most often the good choice.

Elaborating on my comment though, it would make sense to consider a drop-in replacement for a technology for which you've already invested yourself, but got bitten enough time to think about moving away to a different model (operational burden, data loss, etc).

I'm not sure if "baroque" is a good qualifier for FDB.

It's recent in the open source community, but has been running in production for many companies (including Apple) for some years. It's based on sound architecture, compare to many others.
There is nothing illegal about store brands.
The characteristics of a single-ended triode depends a huge amount on the circuit around it. A simple cathode resistor acts as local negative feedback. Bypassing it with a capacitor removes the local negative feedback for a range of frequencies. Then there’s the choice of load, resistor or transformer. All have different electrical characteristics, all fall under the “single-ended triode” umbrella.

Personally, I’m quite skeptical about the idea that second-order harmonics are “warm” or “round” sounding. Whether or not distortion is “musical” depends on whether you are making music or adding noise to something that is already music; if you are playing a guitar then the distortion is music, if you are listening to a song, the distortion in your audio equipment is by definition noise.

I understand that sometimes distortion is inevitable even when it’s not desirable. Your microphone preamplifier will sometimes get overloaded, or you might be listening to a song at high levels with transients beyond the power capabilities of your system. So for microphone preamplifiers, go ahead and stick a tube in there. But for listening, it is usually cheaper to fix your distortion problems by buying a more powerful solid-state amplifier with more headroom, and more expensive to fix your distortion problems by switching to a tube amplifier with better distortion characteristics.
I don't see how you could misconstrue my comment in this way, but what I meant to say is "Google should also receive scrutiny" for these very similar privacy issues. I don't think anyone can argue with this in good faith.
Does Amazon still use OnTrac? I had countless delivery issues with OnTrac when I lived in Tacoma, WA. I'm not even kidding when I say that 50% of the packages never made it and another 20% made it many days after their online status said that they were "delivered". It was truly the shittiest package delivery system I've ever seen. It wouldn't surprise me at all if this guy worked for OnTrac and that OnTrac did have some kind of incentive which encouraged this.

I would have had more reliable delivery if Amazon simply gave the packages to a meth head on a BMX bike.
>Energy in the form of electricity is fleeting. If you don't convert it to a persisting potential energy form, it isn't there when you want it. Loss in the system is well understood by the engineers, financiers, planners.

This is true, but it only makes sense if you are talking about generation sources that can’t be controlled (e.g. solar, wind). It’s a complete waste if you’re just storing energy from something like natural gas plants, coal, etc. In the latter cases you are better off deferring generation of electricity you don’t need.
I guess as a former attorney I see the slippery slope here, the history. Once upon a time there was a guy who hung out on the NYC subway. He had nice cloths and a fancy watch. He was the bait. With a revolver in his pocket he was also the hunter. He found what he was looking for. These bait boxes are a step towards that guy on the subway. They aren't exactly entrapment or vigilantism, but nevertheless aren't ethical behavior.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_New_York_City_Subway_shoo...
"8-bit" is clearly and widely understood as meaning "intentionally pixelated for artistic effect with a limited color palette, with an overall aesthetic comparable to classic 8-bit game consoles", whether in 2D or 3D.

Obviously it's not meant to be taken literally.

You might as well complain that "modernism" isn't modern anymore or that "gothic" novels aren't from the same time period of gothic architecture... or that roman typefaces come from places other than Rome, or that italic typefaces aren't all from Italy.
wevisit is a fake account created 3 mins ago by wework to post positive comments on this thread.
I think it's probably the latter. Unless they are doing fusion or something, there's no way they're getting that kind of density.
Your WeWork experience is very much dictated by location. There are fantastic locations with great staff + high quality facilities, and there are poor quality locations with bad members, bad staff and bad facilities. Disruptive behaviour _is_ against the rules and staff _should_ take action and _do_ take action if you’re in a well managed location. All their locations should be well managed enough that you can trust the brand to be consistent but unfortunately that’s not true.
First if you can’t charge every day then your capital costs are effectively much higher.

It’s only ‘free’ before you have a battery in place that can use it. With this buying at 3c/kWh and selling at 6c/kWh is losing money. If anything else can profit and scale by buying at 3.01c/kWh and selling at 6c/kWh then that’s going to win.
Packages get stolen here so often, that every other door in our neighborhood says "Please do not leave packages out front".
I’m a wework member (who will happily talk shit about wework as I have done in another comment) who made an account because I’m on my phone without access to my main and I had useful information to share. If I was shilling for WeWork I wouldn’t name my account after the subject.
How easy is it for non-canadians to get a visa?
It’s also just plain inconvenient. Shoplifting doesn’t affect me as a customer at all, aside from the ambient rate eventually being reflected in prices. But when my package gets stolen, I have to report it and get a replacement sent out, wait for it, hope that one doesn’t get stolen....

It’s small potatoes in the grand scheme of things, but it’s definitely more than retail theft.
Solar can generate heat directly, using Concentrated Solar Power plants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power
Why is a private company responsible for the failings of government?
donedeals is another fake account from wework.
They still use them although where I live it just seems to be for larger packages. Most stuff is delivered to me by Flex drivers now. I agree, though, they are the absolute worst.

This guy was probably just a Flex driver. I’ve had bad experiences with them, too, but OnTrac is much worse.
But this is not 12ax7. And nutube is a cold cathode tube. There have been attempts to use low-power tubes called nuvistors before. Those are actually more of a tube than nutube, and they failed to get any traction. It's a notoriously fickle market, and tubes are still manufactured in China, Russia, and even in the US, so it's arguable if they need to be "replaced" by some newfangled thing.
Meanwhile in Canada, a bunch of stuff will be leaving the public domain thanks to the renegotiation of NAFTA synchronizing Canadian copyright to American. Yay?
There's nothing magical about making your bed
Only sharing because I see a lot of negative experiences and wanted to share a positive one.

I've worked out of a WeWork office through two different startups and would do so again.

For me it was the ideal way to save on costs with a small team before growing into our own place. It allowed us to forgo all of the generic office management crap and focus on our business.

WeWork offices all seem pretty different to me, so a lot probably depends on where you are.

Also in both cases I opted for the private office setup so noise wasn't an issue.
Sanskrit
I'm going to that event. Looking forward to it.
It feels like the language got too much features and then the model got so complicated that devs could no longer correctly reason about it. I would suspect that such errors are less likely in a simple language like lisp.

Did similar exploits happen in JavaScript?
Someone that invades personal space deserves an amount of demonizing.
WeWork is on their way to collapsing. The company is cult like with founders who have a god complex. Softbank and Saudi funding have saved them from collapse.
Those are horrifically expensive relative to PV and largely abandoned tech. A core issue is you can’t concentrate sunlight on a cloudy day making them even less dependable than PV. The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility even reverts to natural gas, this is while costing 4x what PV does.

PS: By abandoned the worldwide concentrating solar power installed over the last 20 years is ~1/2 the amount of PV added every month.
> Since, of course, the RHS might have a side effect on the location of the LHS.

That’s a reason it matters which one is evaluated first, but not a reason to evaluate the RHS first.
Yeah I don't see how it works. Google tells me hydrogen's got ~3x the energy density of gasoline. That's quite a numbers gap.
No, not really- negative prices are very short spikes. They aren't driven by fundamental oversupply, they're caused by fossil plants that are unable to ramp down their power output quickly enough to keep the grid in spec. The amount of storage required is very small, but the required power and speed are high.

The whole price advantage of thermal storage is in the amount of stored power. It's very cheap to build insulated tanks. It's expensive to build large turbines, pumps and heaters, the things you need for fast response. Thermal batteries are already kind of iffy compared to batteries (or rather, where batteries will be in 5+ years), so if you skew that price by several factors by going for high power, chemical batteries are definitely cheaper.

In a fully renewable grid, you'd need longer term storage like thermal batteries. 3 days is the most common figure. The electricity price would never go negative, even without batteries- renewables just turn off too quickly. You can just unplug solar panels if they're generating too much power.
Does anyone know where I could find numbers on how widespread the usage of HTTP2 is?
its not too late to keep learning in 2018!
Your reasoning does not follow. To see why, take something humans already clearly created: Flight. Kerosene-type jet fuel propulsion has not been observed in nature. It is flight nonetheless.

Human flight is not as agile or energy-effective as a dragonfly, but it is faster and stronger. Just like artificial learning may not be as sample-effecient as the human brain. It is a learning intelligence nonetheless and we are already working with the core mechanisms of reasoning and deduction.
Would be interesting to share the different in ops cost (year support paid aside), for example, do you need a beefier server now? more servers? less? size on disk? IOPS of servers? also, any different in your metrics from an end user perspective? e.g: time to publish an article.
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Storing energy as hydrogen is much less efficient than storing energy in batteries. The channel Real Engineering explains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7MzFfuNOtY ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPheEg-K2qc
I'm the introverted nerdy type - my main interests are programming, playing the piano and physics. But as I was growing up my parents were trying to encourage me and my siblings to be somewhat active for the obvious health reasons. And I stayed on the swim team through freshman year of high school. And I get it. There's more to life than school and books. Being on a sports team can be fun and rewarding, it can push you out of your comfort zone, can help you meet and bond with people not quite like you. I consider it one of my top five life mistakes that I quit the team.

So I disagree that the teams are such a waste of everything. Sure, you could separate the teams from the schools, but especially in the suburbs, why? Logistics are an issue - if you're already at a school how do you get to practice? The school also already has a social structure based on which to organize teams - sure you could create a whole separate structure, and I don't think that's necessarily bad, but I don't see why it wrong to use one you already have.

Just because something can be overdone doesn't mean it's wrong to do it at all.
Thanks for pointing this out! Great news!
What if I told you that you can create and own corporations too?
Biologically Plausible Deep Learning
Think of it like this:

You produce energy at an amortized cost of $X /MW.
You store energy efficiently (lithium batteries) at an amortized cost of $Y /MW back into the grid.
You store energy inefficiently (Malta?) at an amortized cost of $Z /MW back into the grid.

If Z<< Y, then simply ramp up your input production and you are likely in the money. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "Worse heat has fairly low energy density and cools over time"... energy density is not relevant at all when you have practically unlimited space to store power (GIANT) fields next to your solar/wind farms.
I’d think since 2nd order distortion produces harmonics at octaves (which are naturally pleasing to the brain), vs 3rd order which produces IMD.
Based on the average that most people received, it's unlikely that unless you were making decent money already you received much. The average worker in the US makes around $45k/year which amounts to a tax break of about $20 a week. So a single fill up of gas or less per week. I'm not thinking most people are wowed. Now shareholders got a huge break, companies flat out admitted that they were going to use the money to make their shareholders wealthier, which is plainly their right. It was a terrible tax plan that increased the deficit, did nothing to really help those who needed it, and moved more money to the already wealthy.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/02/01/pf/taxes/paychecks-new-tax-...

https://www.thebalancecareers.com/average-salary-information...
Notably 'Snow White and the seven dwarfs' was released in 1937[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walt_Disney_Pictures_f...
But we love it! We have this strange idea that if you are well-rested, you are somehow lazy.

I recent;y interviewed the founder of a startup that is focused on getting companies to improve the sleep habits of their employees.

In case you are interested:
https://www.disruptingjapan.com/can-capitalism-ever-allow-us...

When I pressed him about how much sleep he got each night, be went into the same "I'm so busy, I don't have enough time" routine that everyone else does.

Our lack of sleep is a deep societal problem.
If WeWork subsidiaries were defaulting right and left they wouldn't be able to get these deals.

They aren't, so they are.

Your comment seems to imply that the landowner has no choice.
Wow, the more i read, the more difficult it is for me to believe. At this point i feel that the US healthcare industry is the biggest rent extraction industry in the world and they try to get away with it to the extent they can with every stakeholder blaming someone else.

I have lived here for 9 years and although have paid my insurance diligently i always get anxiety at going to the doctor's office.
If you read further into the article, there's no chance it will be half the price of gas - if there's any differential the middlemen are going to eat it up.
On a Surface device (and maybe some others?) you can get firmware (UEFI) updates via Windows Update.
0 - you must play the game

1 - you can never win

2 - you can only break even on a very cold day << f.n.

3 - it never ever gets that cold

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f.n. >> the maximum efficiency of the work that can be extracted from a heat cycle is dependent on the relative difference between the hot end and the cold end and absolute zero. The closer you can get the cold end to zero relative to the hot, the higher the efficiency. The energy of a heat engine comes from the potential. If everything is equally hot there is no potential energy just as much as if everything is equally cold. If there is a gradient, you can do work.