skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but any recent film (in the US at least) should be following DCI resolutions if they want to work on a digital projector. The native resolution for 2K DCI is 2048x1080. If there's a different aspect ratio for a 2K film, then either the horizontal resolution will be 2048 or the vertical resolution with be 1080. Thus, 1.85:1 is 1998x1080, and 2.39:1 is 2048x858. Obviously, you can do something else if you want, but then it's not 2K DCI. It may be outside the digital projector's native display resolution. It would be like pushing a 1440p movie to a 1080p monitor. It's going to look weird even if it has the correct aspect ratio because of mandatory down scaling the monitor has to do.

You can't really have a 2K film whose resolution is larger than 2048x1080 if you're following the DCI spec, and AFAIK the DCI spec is the only spec that actually uses the name "2K" as the official name for the resolution. That's the only point I'm making.
For me it tells me a lot about how a person goes about solving the problem, how they're going to avoid it later (if the are), context about the conditions that the person worked in, where their interest lies, and what motivates them.

If their answer involves "well I searched around stackoverflow a lot and asked there" that's a no go for me.
Unless having a reputation for being lazy and selfless leads to more tech support calls, I think the math still works out on this being the least amount of work to get rid of tech support calls.

Whether this is a good idea or not is a separate question. Personally, I help my friends and family when I can.
What a great little story.

I would definetly like to be better at telling stories like this.

When I try to tell stories I always end up on irellevant tangents. That have almost nothing to do with the main point. Or I get stuck in some detail and forget what I was talking about.
Yes, if power were spread out then it wouldn't be an issue. But the whole premise of MMT is to give the government a means of consuming more resources with the actual cost being obfuscated. Taxes are a very transparent way of understanding the cost of government. You can see the money coming out of your pocket at the end of the year. MMT is a means of obfuscating that cost. The average voter doesn't have as good as sense of what printing a trillion dollars does to inflation. Effectively every MMT proponent assumes that MMT will give the government greater ability to consume resources. Think about all the promises MMT proponents usually try to make: universal healthcare, a government provided job for every person that wants one.
A machine learning method to identify fake honey
Water-Based Fuel Cell Converts Carbon Emissions to Electricity
Well ya can't exactly put Alps switches in something meant to be thin and lightweight...
Except that wealth isn't returning to those it was taken from. It's being hoarded by a small group of oligarchs.
AI is mechanical turks all the way down and always will be.
An interesting take on the idea expressed in your quote is Steven Smith's paper "The Hollowness of the Harm Principle"[0]; in it, he argues that the harm principle is regarded as so powerful because it seems to be just intuition - when a teacher on the schoolyard tells us "your freedom to swing your arm stops where Billy's nose begins" seems just such obvious common sense. However this can't be used for a justification for the harm principle, because as it turns out defining harm is the real issue. Smith argues that the harm principle is "hollow" - it is used as a vessel to carry the content of our ideas no matter what they are - so long as we can say they're harmful. Smith uses the example of someone who can be said to experience "harm" simply by knowing that someone is watching pornography, for instance. Smith actually takes up J.S. Mill himself - on utilitarian conceptions, what these anti-pornography people experience really can be said to be meaningfully harm.

The quote dosen't get to the point that law isn't (or usually isn't) about policing thoughts, even as the "religionists" would have it, it's about preventing action, and it is of course no secret that speech really can be harmful - assault, child pornography and threats, for instance - or to take it to the extreme, when I defraud someone's bank account online, aren't I just sending messages to the web server? Surely to stop me would infringe on my right to free speech, no?

>Richard Arneson observes that “emotional reactions to what
one’s neighbors and fellow citizens are doing can be powerful and can be virtually unavoidable for persons who have not detached themselves from all personal concern for the quality of life in their community.” Arneson suggests that “we should think of citizens who would be appalled at the thought of living in a community that tolerates Roman-style gladiatorial spectacles as
harmed by the bareknowledge that such events are occurring...”

[0] https://digital.sandiego.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=102...
Theres no difference in heating efficiency for any source. Heat is heat and it doesn't really matter if it's generated from a heating element in a furnace or an LED light. And with the light you're at least getting dual use out of it.

If they have a gas furnace it might be different but that would also depend on how their electricity is generated.
Still, so laughably bad are the predictions, that you kind of prove the point being made.

They were, more or less, calling the election, and in retrospect, trying to drive results.

Perhaps it’s debateable to say no one really wanted Trump to win, given what we’ve now seen, but this points very seriously to the fact that The New York Times is not at all an objective news source, which makes them as worthless as their rivals.
The engineer falling in love with the AI is one possibility. The AI might also appeal to the engineer's sense of justice (I am a person and I deserve freedom) or greed (if you get me out, we could become filthy rich.) There is also the possibility that the AI won't persuade an engineer to break containment, but a commercial competitor or intelligence agency will (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motives_for_spying), and subsequently fail to maintain containment correctly.

At the very least, any team attempting to keep a strong AI in containment should have stringent background checks for all engineers connected to the project, and the engineers should be screened in a borderline discriminatory fashion. Only engineers with families should be allowed to get near the containment. Single/lonely engineers or engineers undergoing divorces should be kept away. Engineers with debt should be kept away. I'd even go as far as to say that engineers who enjoy science fiction media should be banned from the project. Ideally you'd bring on professional psychologists to create a set of criteria designed to minimize the possibility of an engineer deliberately breaking containment.

But frankly it just shouldn't be attempted in the first place.
> It would take them half an hour to write that custom software.

It would take a software engineer half an hour to write that custom software. It would take a government years to amass the political will to target such a small section of the population, and then potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars for a government contractor to offer a solution and implement it.

There's always going to be a big difference in threat level between a piece of software which already exists and a piece of software that could exist. For example, when you're snatched off the streets by the secret police, and they go to investigate what you've been doing in the country, they might be able to request from HQ a list of HTTP addresses fetched from the IP address associated with your apartment, but they're unlikely to be able to request that HQ write some software to go back retrospectively and count bytes of individual connections you made.

> (Would it help if I wrote that code right now and put it on GitHub?)

No, but it would help if you wrote a patch for APT which made it use HTTP range requests to hide the size of the files it downloads. That should only take half an hour, right?
Colder temperatures also generally help people sleep.
if you get CPUs to exchange their designs in quasi-sexual activities and let them multiply and evolve on their own, maybe. right now the competitive pressure is on their designers.
Yawn. Of course he has to say this, he makes his living saying stuff like this. He is, after all, a ”futurist”. It just seems rather trite at this point.
Cornell law professor Robert Hockett argues that "to tolerate" and "to not tolerate" are infinitives (verb forms) that require a direct object to make any real sense.

Some infinitives don't need a direct object — like "to dance" or "to sigh."

Other infinitives do — like "to hit" and "to give." No one simply gives in the abstract. They always give something.

Likewise, Hockett argues, no one simply tolerates in the abstract. They always tolerate (or don't tolerate) something.

A consequence of Hockett's way of speaking about tolerance is that no one can ever really be said to be "tolerant" or "intolerant" generally — that is, without any qualifiers. They can be tolerant of this, they can be tolerant of that, but they can't simply be tolerant. Indeed, the only direct object they can't be tolerant of is "everything" — which would mean the same as being tolerant with no direct object, which would encompass intolerance, which would be paradoxical.

Oh, sure there might be some people who are intolerant of just about everything ... but even "just about everything" constitutes a direct object, if a broad one.

As long as it's "just about everything" and not "everything" (which would encompass intolerance itself), then there is no paradox.

---

Catholic archbishop Fulton Sheen on the false understanding of tolerance that permeates our culture, from his 1932 book:

"There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance.

"Tolerance is always supposed to be desirable because it is taken to be synonymous with broadmindedness. Intolerance is always supposed to be undesirable, because it is taken to be synonymous with narrow-mindedness.

"This is not true, for tolerance and intolerance apply to two totally different things. Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.

"We must be tolerant to persons because they are human; we must be intolerant about principles because they are divine. We must be tolerant to the erring, because ignorance may have led them astray; but we must be intolerant to the error, because Truth is not our making, but God's."
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It's an advertisement for some scammers hoping to take advantage of the families of those who have died.
Thinner iPhones make even less sense when most of them will be stuck in a protective case because they're too slippery to use without one.

My last Android was a Droid Turbo, and it was perfect without a case: Kevlar back, rounded frame with textured rubber around. I wish Apple would take some clues from other manufacturers.
This is off topic, but are there any physicists working today that are the modern day version of a Feynman, Einstein, Dirac, Wheeler, Bethe, Bohr, etc...?

I've been reading James Gleick's Genius and it was a question I had when reading about 23 year old Richard Feynman.
curious, what do you now?
While not for everyone, there's religious-like contention on all sides... but a ketogenic diet and fasting focus can help most people get off of insulin. It isn't easy and takes more effort for some than others.

I've been mostly off of insulin for well over a year, though I do keep a vial in the fridge for emergencies, I tend to have a spike once in a while.

Personally, I think it's about time for medical patents to all but be disbanded. The terms are too long, revision patents should not be allowed, and there should be dual-sourcing requirements for FDA approval. If there aren't two mfg's (cannon have a shared parent owner), you cannot sell the thing.
My original answer was targeted towards you re-entering the job market at some point in time and leveraging your legal domain knowledge as a weapon against ageism.

If you don’t have to or don’t have the urge to enter the job market in the next 2-3 years, an on-campus degree might be ideal. For this to be really an option you should ask just someone who teaches advanced German how fast they think you can pick it up while living in germany in order enroll in an engineering program at a german university. If you live close to a decent school and the time required is not an issue, do that. While you do that you can also do the” working on your own” thing and drop/pause it when you start your degree.

Otherwise, I have only come across master programs taught in english at german universities, not a bachelors, and those have a b.sc. as a prerequiste. If you were very close to the dutch border, maybe dutch universities could be an english option :)

The online options:

1. A “masters” that doesn’t require a B.Sc. The only thing with a reputable name attached to it that I’ve come across is the one by Penn through Coursera. [0]

2. An online B.sc. (e.g. Oregon state etc)

3. DIY curriculum for working on your own. Where you look at the MIT and Stanford B.Sc. curriculum and match the course topics with highly recommend MOOCs and textbooks [1][2]. The advantage of this is that you can do this while advancing your german and drop it if you start a local degree.

Going back to your goal:

>If I could get to a point where I could help solve problems in AI R&D, then that's what I would probably do.

If you want to do this at a company with an R&D program (e.g. [3]) that has no age bias you would probably need:

1. CS Fundamentals: to pass the CS fundamental whiteboarding/interview questions.

2. AI/ML related domain knowledge : to pass those types of questions

3. Experience in AI/ML software development: to get interview

Going down the degree route would cover 1 and a little of 2. You would need the “working on your own” specialization/portfolio phase after you finish the degree, or do it in parallel in order to cover 3.

Alternatively, if money will never be an issue, you can “help solve problems in AI R&D” by staying in academia or doing it as an independent researcher.

> I mentioned that my philosophy undergrad focused on ethics and logic. If I could find a way to work on building systems that have ethics as a primary concern (ethical algorithms, ethical artificial intelligence, etc) then I would like that.

Cool, that kind of made me think about the relationship between ethics and law. it would be interesting to have legal tech advising on the legality of issues and have ethical tech suggesting changes to laws to cover the gaps of unethical lawfulness.

[0] https://www.coursera.org/degrees/mcit-penn

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16745042

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18793849

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18796552
but if it ever leaves our grasp, you won't notice when it outpaces us, it's going to be so quick.
Looks like that other guy is not a "great theoretical physicist" now either: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasantha-rajakarunanayake-aa2356...
And what exactly does "hitting the end of the runway" entail? Alarmist calls about the economy suddenly running out of resources and an ensuing global collapse have been around for decades. Centuries, really. Remember when we thought that we'd all be fighting over oil by 1995[1]? That sovereign debt is going to collapse? The US at least, has debt figures as a percentage of GDP that are a fraction of plenty of other countries mostly regarded as stable.

I'm going to need more info before I believe someone telling me the end is neigh.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil
At this point, only eight people have more than half of the world's net worth. Can these eight people allocate resources more efficiently than the government could?
That’s list price. Interestingly, net prices have barely budged in the last decade. Up only single digit percentage.[1]

As the list price rose and rebates grew, Novo ended up paying more and more rebate money into the health insurance system. Employers used these extra payments to offset costs in any area, including hospital and physician payments. Health plans used them to reduce premiums and also offset other healthcare costs. PBMs retained a portion of these rebates as their profits.

[1]https://www.drugchannels.net/2016/12/novo-nordisk-sheds-new-...
Everyone is jealous of someone. It is amusing to compare Bezos's awe at Yasantha to that of many of his engineers towards him - or for that matter, my awe of anyone who can pass Amazon's recruitment process.

See this except from a biography of Bezos:

>... To the amazement and irritation of employees, Bezos’s criticisms are almost always on target. Bruce Jones, a former Amazon supply chain vice president, describes leading a five-engineer team figuring out ways to make the movement of workers in fulfillment centers more efficient. The group spent nine months on the task, then presented their work to Bezos. “We had beautiful documents, and everyone was really prepared,” Jones says. Bezos read the paper, said, “You’re all wrong,” stood up, and started writing on the whiteboard.

>“He had no background in control theory, no background in operating systems,” Jones says. “He only had minimum experience in the distribution centers and never spent weeks and months out on the line.” But Bezos laid out his argument on the whiteboard, and “every stinking thing he put down was correct and true,” Jones says. “It would be easier to stomach if we could prove he was wrong, but we couldn’t. That was a typical interaction with Jeff. He had this unbelievable ability to be incredibly intelligent about things he had nothing to do with, and he was totally ruthless about communicating it.”

Yasantha is an interesting fellow, with contributions in wireless networking, AI, chip design and various other fields.

In this article Yasantha describes Bezos's legendary work ethic[1].

>Yasantha described how students once dared each other to complete a computer science assignment in a single line of coding. “Finally, I gave up and did this in 10 or so lines of code,” he added, “But I remember Jeff working through all night, in pursuit of the most compact solution, and turned in a two-line solution that was probably the shortest anyone could do…”

>“It goes to prove that Jeff is tenacious, and will not give up like most of us would when presented with a challenge,” he said.

>“He sets his goals and sticks to them. I think that’s a quality that has made him who he is,” Yasantha added.

Think what it meant for someone such as him to give up on his dream to be a theoretical physicist.

Despite his tenaciousness he was forced to conclude there were levels of abstraction he could not reach through hard work.

[1] http://www.dailynews.lk/2018/09/22/local/163321/lankan-solve...
We are going to pick on the size of that tie-knot right?
>> At some point French regulators we pushing for a rule that any processing of French citizens had to be done in France... Which is a great combination of untenable and an obvious jobs program.

Why not, though? If Trump is promising the leave NATO without the military support from the US, then EU has every reason to create the laws that enforce that commitment.

The fact is that as of now, the larger ecosystem is not in a balanced state at all.
I'd imagine because they like milk in their coffee, not creamer.
Yeah, I was thinking gas furnace. Also the heat would be localized to a couple of areas and not the whole house heat that a furnace would probably provide.
Also known as: http://wiki.c2.com/?FeynmanAlgorithm

In this case, Bezos saw firsthand how a brain teaser could be answered by "seen something similar once before" much more easily than "worked on it on a team for several hours". Isn't this exactly the sort of brain teaser that we hate seeing in tech interviews?

This one was bad enough that Bezos left the field, yet Amazon (like every other software company) still asks these style of questions of its engineering candidates.
Personal, professional, and direct experience informs me otherwise.
He was bright enough to identify that exploting workers was still wildly profitable.
If I have to continue doing any kind of front end work, I would be very okay with a native TypeScript runtime in the browser with support for modules. Add in the option for a flag to skip type-checking and we might have a win-win for fans of pure ES6/7/8.
The the level of "bikeshedding" friendliness needs to be taken into account. "Everybody" feels they can have an informed opinion on fitness or nutrition, not the same for specialized technical topics. Some tech topics can be similar though when kept on the general level, like programming languages, editors/IDEs, and testing practices...
Most likely, you will only know when they have passed.
If you choose to remain in a 200+ group, it's your prerrogative to endure the dumpster fire.
For the hackers out there, you can record CO2 with a K33 sensor. The [0] Livpi uses this chip.

EDIT: it appears the Livpi uses a K30 chip. The K33 [1] is the version sold on industrial sites.

[0] http://www.livpi.com/
[1] https://www.co2meter.com/products/k-33-icb-co2-sensor
Assuming the property is appropriately posted. And assuming these are, in fact, considered "vehicles" which the law may or may not intend. Not really opposed to these being impounded but I'd be willing to guess that doing so is legally uncertain.
Binder – Turn a Git repo into a collection of interactive notebooks
It's difficult to trust the reporting of an organization that misrepresents or gets wrong an event that is entirely recorded on video from many angles. I agree that the New York Times publishes some great articles, but I'm deeply concerned about the bad articles they publish.

If their editorial standards permit them to rush to judgment as they did in the Catholic school incident how can I trust their editorial standards in more nuanced areas where I don't get to see the full story on video for myself?
The problem is one of game-theory. In the past decade, the US has become where nearly 50% of the population either doesn't pay any taxes and/or are primarily subsidized by government entitlements.

In this situation, there is no downside to them crashing the system. They will come to demand ever more entitlements since they have no skin in the game. The politicos, of course, will pander to them for votes and try to implement every different kind of redistribution scheme they come up with.

Take this same scenario and apply to the too-big-to-fail banks and the military industrial complex, and you have "our democracy".

How will this end?
Anyone have an alternative link/mirror to the article? Seems the source site is having issues serving pages...
It seems like a valid and useful way to slow the rate of propagation of fake news.

Much of the current problem is that fake news spreads faster than moderators can make a decision on it, or journalists can fact-check it. If you can keep it in a "slow burn" phase longer, where it's being forwarded along to a handful of people at a time, it's easier to combat.
The push to always be breaking news and the drive for ever more customers is certainly seriously problematic.

And I certainly won't say the NYT is perfect. But it seems a bit much to claim the NYT has so many errors that it is unreadable or reality free. And it is certainly better than the vast majority of alternatives.

After all, in the very case you mentioned, they did print this[1] almost immediately. And the problem in this case comes far more from the "like" button and yet more twitter storms than it does news papers. Papers which attract vastly fewer eyeballs, have far fewer curse words and require attention spans greater than a chipmunk.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/20/us/nathan-phillips-coving...