skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny that people are so worried about stuff like Pu-239, which is stored miles underground in steel containers and will be half of what it is after 24,000 years.

Meanwhile, "According to a recent model study the total anthropogenic mercury released into the ocean is estimated to be around 80,000 to 45,000 metric tons" [1]. We have spewed so much mercury that people are advised to eat less tuna because they have too much mercury.

And mercury is not radioactive. In other words, 24,000 years later, there will be 100% of the same mercury there is now! (Granted, some of them might have been removed from the ecosystem and deposited deep underground... I mean, just like how plutonium is stored right now.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_pollution_in_the_ocean
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> Is "GP" a variation of "OP"?

No, GP is “grandparent”, that is, the post two posts upthread from the post in which the term is used (or, in some contexts, the user who posted the post two posts upthread.)

Similarly, GGP is “great grandparent” (3 posts up), and so on.

OP is “original post” or “original poster”, which is (in the general case) a different thing than GP.
I can see the add now "Save 4% on negligible travel costs for the low low price of pissing off your traveling employees who are generating million in revenue"

It's not worth our controllers time to worry about something so insignificant.
I pay for YouTube (via a Google music subscription) and never see YouTube ads on any device I'm logged in on.
One oversight offhand is the installation of kubectl v1.13.0. Kops currently only installs v1.11 Kubernetes.

From https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl/

You must use a kubectl version that is within one minor version difference of your cluster. For example, a v1.2 client should work with v1.1, v1.2, and v1.3 master.
I think this is the same thing my javascript bookmarklet does automatically to reveal saved passwords (when I can’t remember them). The bookmarklet works everywhere I’ve ever tried it, and was super useful before I switched to a real password manager.

So, consider this an anti-debunk.
We have become so good at safety and medicine that dying before 80 is treated like an error state and not a valid terminal state of life.
Yes, but not all populist leaders work on killing freedom. Or diluting Right to Information. Or making political funding opaque through anonymous bonds. This is not even close to Godwin's law. The government is curtailing freedom. The government is letting criminal/lynchers/gaurakshaks loose. Even people who kill policemen are on the loose for months now.
Recently Amol Palekar was brazenly stopped from talking against the government, and this whole thing happened infront of media.
Is flow different than logic apps?
I’m not sure what the motive is of this piece. Are we going to tax more the most opioid ravaged parts of Ohio to pay for the poor in New York City?

Poverty today is closely linked with housing prices. If your housing is too expensive, it’s up to fix it (looking at you California).
Dating takes time, weddings cost money, and its hard to drag partner/spouse/family around the globe for each new short-term position. I once worked in a lab that joked about a “celibate for science” lifestyle. I think the PI really actually wanted that for his grad students.
>When you go back to this moment. Would you then expect to have the experience of remembering “the future”?

Yes.

>If the moment is different in this way, can it still count as the past?

Well, several answers here.

a) If it's the same in every other way, then it's good enough as "the past" to me.

b) We understand things as substantially the same all the time even though they've changed in small or big ways (e.g. we consider ourselves the same person as the child we once were, we consider a city to still be the same city even though new buildings have come up/gone down as time passes, etc.). So why not consider the past + that difference as "the past"?

c) What else could it be? It's surely not the future, and it looks a hella lot like the past. At worst, we could say it's a new divergent version of our original past.

(But how would we even know it's a divergent version? Nothing might have changed, our trip might be a closed loop, where we always were to visit the past -- that is, there was never a past at time X without us visiting it from the future).
My younger brother is in his second year of comp sci.
I was wondering if has enough skills to be considered.
If not, what do you guys recommend for him to work on?

This is a copy of his CV:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1shLwzU4egTm-DSt9eBRfhun87_r...
And at most companies the employees will just keep finding reasons to use their preferred service so long as any price disparity isn’t too great.
> After a while there will be an update "Saying Goodbye to Toronto". "We have learned a lot. Thanks for your support.".

By that point the city police will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet, and they'll have renamed Toronto to "Delta City."
I am tired of 'being nice' in life. So you, dear anonymous internet stranger will bear the brunt of my retort.

>have you given religion a try?

I don't believe in imaginary people. Organized religion is one of the worst things our species has come up with and is nothing more then a method to exert control over a population. So please go away.
The nice thing about math problems is that they're reasonably self-contained. If they didn't focus on toy math problems they would have to do other stuff like endless, increasingly complex form validation, filesystem manipulation, or things like graphics that involve external libraries-- it would just become hard to manage for code-golf scenarios, I think.

What would be a non math-heavy alternative to project euler be like?
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To address the point that I think you're getting at, the difference between a military and civilian context is that is that the former is a potentially "no rules, everything at stake" situation. There is no international enforcement agency that can force all nations to abide by an agreed set of rules in any meaningful way. Thus, in a practical sense, there's no restriction on the type of weapons the enemy may develop and a nation must be on the cutting edge of military tech at all times "just in case".

In the civilian context, enforcement agencies in most first-world countries are able to restrict weapons and violence reasonably well - most people won't see the need to arm themselves and will prefer to be law abiding. But in countries rife with violence where law enforcement is weak or corrupt, I imagine people would try to arm themselves with what they can regardless legal constraints.
That's for a vase. Why would it have to be the same for time? This presupposes that time is unidirectional -- which it was supposed to prove.
Even telling psychologists partial plans will cause them to freak out. Here in Australia they do have professional association guidelines (which boil down to there must a realistic, specific plan with timing to warrant breaching privacy), and the Privacy Act has provisions as to when privacy can be violated (also very narrowly permitted), but you're talking about psychologists here as opposed to engineers or lawyers. So they will break the law, you will end up scheduled, and your mental health will end up an order of magnitude worse than at any point in your life.

I'd suggest if you are suicidal and you have already been seeing a specific psychologist for a while, the best thing to do is stop seeing that psychologist as their approach is not offering you hope. Switch to someone with a completely different treatment modality. Psychologists are as varied in quality as any other profession, but if you are increasing losing hope and thinking about suicide, it's time to switch.
Advent of Code is a similar project, that has much more relevant exercises that do not rely on knowing arcane details about number theory
Nice, is this the YouTube Red subscription?
First time I ever saw anyone outside of politics, who was promoting such a deal, claiming PPP as beneficial. In the UK they have been financially negative from the very first back under Major. The Blair government was particularly keen on them. From wikipedia:

An in-depth study, conducted by the National Audit Office of the United Kingdom [33] concluded that the private finance initiative model had proved to be more expensive and less efficient in providing hospitals, schools and other public infrastructure than public financing.

EDIT: A different UK report, extensively damning, this time a 2018 Select Comittee: https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z...
This may be helpful too: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/dns/redirecting-a...
short questions: does the public "need" these "high-cost developments"? Is there any advantage for the public or is it all about Alphabet having a giant playground where they don't have to deal with pesky customers but can have their small herd of citizen-sheep they are not directly accountable to? Is such a village more sustainable than just taking the same building without tech?
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Like others have said, getting drivers is much more costlier than 5$. Another bigger aspect is maintaining drivers and riders on your platform. Maintaining platforms is much harder than people give credit (e.g. netflix).
Whoa that's bad!

"Does your account number begin with a [letter]?",

Where letter is a link. It's like a riddle.
This page [1] was the first search result and contains many mentions of hundreds of dollars. It easily costs them millions of dollars in each market they enter.

[1] https://ridesharecentral.com/uber-sign-up-bonus
Uber and Lyft businesses are a marketplace that benefits from the effects of scale: when lots of drivers and customers are present, supply and demand are near each other and balance out nicely. It also suffers from the chicken and the egg problem in new cities being launched: there's no driver close-enough in order to ensure low latency for new orders.

To mitigate that, Uber and Lyft heavily subsidize launches in new cities by pre-signing up drivers well ahead of initial demand, to ensure low minute order fulfillment. This is done by giving drivers activity bonuses in the initial new-city market formation stage, no matter the actual orders. This ensures order low latency fulfillment for early adopters in new locales, which leads to customer satisfaction, word-of-mouth advertisement and soon enough full marketplace formation (and lock-in).

If you were trying to compete with Uber in New York City, the main problem you would have is that you'd need a lot of capital to have hundreds/thousands of drivers to ensure order fulfillment on average under 5 minutes by having a driver as close as possible to any new order being placed.

Convincing people (using money) to stay idle despite lack of initial order demand (until the marketplace is formed) takes more than $5 per driver.
That 41 Ulam Spiral is quite beautiful...
And is it common in those projects for companies to receive a share of public taxes? Some of you might believe there isn't a big difference between a tax break to a company and a direct share of revenues and quantitatively this is true, but qualitatively it isn't. Incentives matter, and this could set a very bad precedent.
I'm wondering how this compares to transfer learning applied to the same model. That is compare deep feature extraction plus linear model at the end vs just transferring the weights to the same model and retraining to your specific dataset.
I'm not that guy and don't have the credentials, but none of rideshare or food delivery apps pay out $5 for a referral. If they could, they would. In the earliest days, there were even 4 digit incentives for getting into driving for Uber.

People aren't desperate enough to hustle for $5. Even $200 is low. I'd consider that the minimum to even have a program worth running.
For the longest time, American Express offered companies the best control over how corporate cards were used, and the best integration to financial software like Oracle/SAP/Concur.
If this is a problem for you, as it is for me, you might find the depression and suicide groups on reddit to be some solace.

Beyond that, I think of suicide as more of something to put off than something to "cure". What can you do to put it off for a bit longer? Sometimes distraction, sometimes drinking, sometimes just getting out into nature somehow.

There's a lot to be said for detaching completely from poisonous people and environments. You might think that you can't leave your awful job, declare bankruptcy, or never talk to your mother again, but you can. And maybe you should.

One thing to consider is the subjective acceleration of time. We all experience that each year seems to pass quicker than the one before, for the most part. I realized at some point that this makes suicide a lot less urgent, at least at my age (50s). Putting it glibly, we'll all be dead soon enough--what's the hurry?
I was a long time and frequent user (started back when you'd text an address) but quit Uber over a software bug. Was a surge pricing day. I was asked to type in the multiplier, which was 2.0. After the ride, the receipt showed a multiple of 2.1 or 2.2 and a charge accordingly. The support people insisted that I had agreed to the higher multiple (and probably assumed I was some jerk who didn't understand how surge pricing worked). Fuck that. Game over.
"I'd imagine that YC generates much more than 12% IRR even excluding their hits. "

What makes you think so? 12% IRR is 3x capital in 10 years. YC terms are $120k for a SAFE * 256 companies/year = $30m/year. 10x is $300m return per cohort.

Assuming we remove the unicorns, and that 50% die, that's 127 companies (half dead, one unicorn). Assuming again that the non-dead raise subsequent funding over various rounds, diluting YC's original stake down to (say) 4%, then all the 127 remaining companies would need to sell for an average $60m to beat a 12% IRR. Given how many exits are actually zero investor return acqui-hires then I think that's unlikely.

" then you're just YC with much less founder-friendly terms."

I don't think so, because nobody who applies to YC is going to be able to get any funding what so ever if they argue that they want to become a $20m ARR vertical SaaS business. So I guess it boils down to whether you think it's more founder friendly to say "no" than it is to offer our terms.
Thanks, I'll check it out. I've been watching the shitshow for a few decades now though, and to be honest the only surprising thing is that it hasn't already fallen apart. In my mind it's inevitable, and not just due to fossil fuel usage. We won't change course until it's demonstrably catastrophic and then it will be "too late" for a majority of humans. The only question is, will it happen within 20 years or 50 or 100? Malthus was right in principle, only wrong in timeline.
Werner Schober held a great talk about this for 35C3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzR4eEp0w3Y

It starts out as a story about a funny thesis idea, but slowly grows into a horrifying litany of basic security mistakes, including "private" photos being vulnerable to insecure direct object references and devices accepting unauthenticated Bluetooth packets
Manufacturing jobs were leaving the US in the millions pre-NAFTA and China joining the WTO. Even with high tariffs & restrictionist immigration policies, it can't change the fact that someone in a 3rd world country can do x semi-skilled labor for $2 an hour whereas a unionized American does it for $30+. You can't pass a law against cheaper.

Even with the highest tariffs in the world, manufacturers would still have left for cheaper labor elsewhere in a globalized world. Economic reality is not a choice
This is why we need crypto :)
Title was edited later to include "old school" and my original comment now makes no sense.
Would anyone really care that much. If my company told me to use Lyft over uber or reversed it wouldn't cause any duress. I just need to get from the airport and back or whatever, its hard to have a preference here.
Google and Facebook are ubiquitous outside the US, as well. Uber faces a lot more competition such as Lyft, Grab, Ola, Didi, GoJek. Also each one of these competitors has acquired a piece of the market. Google and Facebook were also easier to scale since they are purely software pursuits. Uber on the other hand has to deal with driver protests and government labour regulations and taxi licensing.
does this work with apps using certificate pinning?
Well played sir, well played...
With the difference being that nobody had a copy of your letters, just the recipient.
I have limited exposure to the problems but the few times I took a stab at them I found the problems to be more centered around math theory and less computer science. Sure there might be some basic optimizations to be made but at some point it was about understanding the math. I don't think its necessarily helpful as a developer.

EDIT: I find it much more useful to run through building basic data structures and writing base algorithms (like sorting) in a new language.
You pay + they collect all of your data (unless your explicitly disallowed some of it). I think it would be only fair if you pay and there is no data collection (by any means, no 8.8.8.8 forced use etc.)
The effects of the Chernobyl radiation are apparently common, that when I left my luggage in the Belorusskaya train station in Moscow I encountered a very large plaque describing exactly what categories of people were allowed to get in front of the queue when retrieving your stored luggage -- with "People suffering from radiation as consequence of Chernobyl" on the list.

If you served in the military for at least 6 months 1941-1945, you were higher on the priority list, which included around 17 different very detailed categories, all translated to English too.
Leetcode problems? Hacker rank?
> 100,000 Bq per square meter

What is the Sievert dose one receives from being permanently exposed to such radiation (ideally expressed as bananas eaten per time)? To the lay person such numbers are useless without some comparison.
Saudi Arabia owns 10% of Uber and executes people for being gay.
Advent of Code fits this bill nicely. I think 2017's was particularly nice. I didn't go far this year.
I’ve completed 120 of them or so. It’s definitely true that most of then are more challenging in terms of mathematics than programming, but there are plenty of exceptions. That said, I don’t think people without a math background should get discouraged. The math required is mostly of the type that few people are taught in school (number theory in particular) which means most people working through these problems are probably going to be encountering many concepts for the first time. Playing with the problem, getting a feel for it, and discovering neat facts through exploration, that’s the real beauty of Project Euler. It really is a pretty amazing experience.
It also creates the potential for perverse incentive issues, maybe not with this project, but this project will set a precedent for others.
He could easily get an internship at Facebook (non-YC) or maybe Airbnb (YC). He definitely has enough skills to get a good internship.
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Thank you, I've been curious about this for a long time. Is this a new thing or did I miss the boat on some old message board thing?
We could completely solve smog without making even a tiny dent in our carbon footprint. Why not instead try to get people to understand the real problem?
I'm not an investor, no experience, just want to voice my 2c.

- facebook and google sure, but how many are there of those who didn't make it?

- sounds like a fear of missing out.

- Buffet didn't invest in Microsoft because he didn't "get it". His idea, I believe, is: "it's ok to pass on investments". He's looking for "sure things".

Personally, I think the entire thing is ridiculous. 120B ? for what? 2 of my friends are uber drivers and hate every second of it, that's worth that kind of money? or the fact that they have an app. What do they have?

Market share? As soon as somebody gives me the same or slightly less price, I'll push a button on that app instead.
Why didn't they go public for so long? Are they trying to rescue their investments now? I don't know. Don't care.

It's not the type of product I would miss. it's just a taxi.
By the author's own admission, he thinks he could have focused himself a little better. He isn't saying he would have had to cut corners and do poor science, just not "shoot himself in the foot" to use his own phrasing. In reflection it sounds like he thinks that there was an opportunity for him to publish more frequently without doing bad science.

This is why I don't read his self-reflection as necessarily being an illustration of the type of mindset that leads to the reproducibility crisis. It sounds like a reasonable scientist reflecting on things he might have reasonably done better with the benefit of hindsight. No where do I read the implication that he is lamenting his choice to not do shoddy/quick science for the sake of securing a tenure track position.

Moreover this is self reflection so a lot the things he is reflecting on are speculative in that he thinks they might have helped him find a tenured position, but he can't be sure. He even has this disclaimer at the beginning of his piece:

> I’m not claiming to know the formula for how to get tenured (if I had that, I would have used it for myself). Instead, I would like to offer the advice I’ve gathered.
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I know it exists, and I don't think there's anything wrong with it. It's just weird to demand that everyone use it, since, as I said, it's barely a thing.
I work at home, and if I wanted to, I could have a computer right by my bed, and I’d never have to leave it. But I use a typewriter, and afterwards I mark up the pages with a pencil. Then I call up this woman named Carol out in Woodstock and say, “Are you still doing typing?” Sure she is, and her husband is trying to track bluebirds out there and not having much luck, and so we chitchat back and forth, and I say, “OK, I’ll send you the pages.”

Then I’m going down the steps, and my wife calls up, “Where are you going?” I say, “Well, I’m going to go buy an envelope.” And she says, “You’re not a poor man. Why don’t you buy a thousand envelopes? They’ll deliver them, and you can put them in a closet.” And I say, “Hush.” So I go down the steps here, and I go out to this newsstand across the street where they sell magazines and lottery tickets and stationery. I have to get in line because there are people buying candy and all that sort of thing, and I talk to them. The woman behind the counter has a jewel between her eyes, and when it’s my turn, I ask her if there have been any big winners lately. I get my envelope and seal it up and go to the postal convenience center down the block at the corner of 47th Street and 2nd Avenue, where I’m secretly in love with the woman behind the counter. I keep absolutely poker-faced; I never let her know how I feel about her. One time I had my pocket picked in there and got to meet a cop and tell him about it. Anyway, I address the envelope to Carol in Woodstock. I stamp the envelope and mail it in a mailbox in front of the post office, and I go home. And I’ve had a hell of a good time. And I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different.

Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We’re dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go do something. [Gets up and dances a jig.]

- Kurt Vonnegut
https://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/04/11/r-i-p-kurt-vonn...