skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
population density, speeds (in suburbs near the big metro areas, you are still going to be at a much higher speed) which mean not so safe riding speeds, weather (main reason why car is needed for delivery), lack of low cost 2-wheelers are the supporting infra (for maintenance or sales).

I think e-bikes + delivery can make a dent, but only in the super dense cities where ebikes/escooters are popular/available.
> I believe his thinking was already proven, and going for emulating and integrating the known algorithms that the brain uses is the fastest way to reach AGI.

That's a stretch considering AGI has not yet been created by DeepMind or anyone else. Notable is that DeepMind's most prominent successes have relied heavily on MCTS, a classical planning method that doesn't have much relation to neuroscience without a lot of caveats. Their accomplishments on Atari lean a lot more on efficient computing than biological plausibility.

I think the strategy they're actually following (and I believe they've said this more recently) is to use what works and to look to neuroscience when other methods fail. This feels more solid than looking to the brain first to narrow the search space, which is the approach Numenta has taken, and does not scale as easily.
I mean, it depends. Autism is a spectrum disorder. There are people with autism who are fully functional and successful members of society. And there are people with autism who are incapable of speaking or communicating. For people with very severe autism the world is a constant assault on their senses, making it nearly impossible for them to interact with others.
Pain free I believe, but I call bullshit on this part of the story: "When he found I hadn't had any, he checked my medical history and found I had never asked for painkillers."

Ha!! Like you can just "check someone's medical history." Yeah right! As if that history were in a single, easily queried database or something! Everyone knows real human medical histories are spread out over thousands of dog-eared pages hanging out of faded, worn-out folders located in dozens of doctors offices and hospitals across this great country of ours! What planet does that woman live on?!!
As a cheap clinical test?
I also strongly recommend Ivan Illich's "Deschooling Society" [1]. It's not mentioned in the wikipedia article but Illich makes a very good case for looking at Government's support for higher education as basically a regressive tax on the poor, as they (meaning the poor) attend university at a much lower percentage compared to the middle and upper classes of society but they still pay for the government's support of said universities (through direct or indirect taxes, and nowadays by being financially forced out of residential areas located close to good schools that are seen as gateways to prestigious universities attended by the children of middle- and upper-class people).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deschooling_Society
Also, how would you ever prove it?
This seems like it will be a shutdown for the history books. It seems crazy to me airlines can just shut down like this overnight, stranding thousands of travelers. Wow!
It can become a self-fullfilling prophecy: if most people believe that degrees have value, then the people who compete for those spots at "elite" colleges will go up, then the pool of high quality candidate goes up. Because the elite schools have the pick of the litter, the chances that their student body and thus their graduates will be successful goes up. This reinforces the perception that the degrees have value and the cycle repeats. I think an accident of history has started this cycle and it's going to endure for quite a while. It's akin to Silicon Valley: engineers think that being in SV helps them be successful and join the next rocketship. Startups get drawn to SV because they think SV is where the magic happens. Because the pool of talent and opportunities meet in SV, it reinforces the perception that SV is magic.
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"There should be one — and preferably only one — obvious way to do it."

Clearly they hadn't read the Zen of Python.
This is funny because I've talked to multiple computer scientists who teach classes where all the programming projects are gated by a plagiarism detector and they all insist it has 100% TP and TN rate, 0% FP and FN rate.
The xITs are known for doing math and science courses. Those kinds of things tend to show quite easily who is putting in the effort, at least in my experience. For one, you tend to get asked things that require knowledge of a specific model eg thermodynamics, and very often you're asked to calculate specific numbersa and mentioned very specific keywords. I've sat in tutorials with professors where the other student literally did not know anything and it was embarrassing.

Chances are of you found the number you understood at least something about the model. And if you showed your working out, which is always a good idea, you provide more quite specific evidence.

In stuff that's more essay based, the weak can hide and the strong can be mistaken for middling. Essays can be long but still formulaic: talk about the question, mention the main things people have suggested about it, pros and cons. There's a lot of permutations of arguments that are valid, making it hard to disqualify someone who has mentioned a few relevant things. But also hard to make someone stand out, because people know the answer required is a bunch of bullet points, and if you just fire enough bullets some will resemble a smart answer. I've sat in essay subject tutorials that went perfectly fine for everyone despite very little prep having gone in.

Back to the article, naturally you don't want to buy your way into a degree that you have no hope of completing.
There was actually an interesting article about this in WSJ this past weekend[0]. I believe it's based on her paper released a few months ago[1]. For most students, what you do while in college matters much more than where you go.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-right-way-to-choose-a-colle...

[1] https://ed.stanford.edu/news/first-step-choosing-right-colle...
The difference is that if a Chinese person does something for a Chinese intelligence agency they go to jail.

If someone sabotages a company after being instructed to do so by a Australian agency they are carrying out a lawful order.

Big difference IMO.
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But who decides? There is going to be a ministry of "did it need to be so compact?" staffed by disinterested experts?

I'd love more things to be fixable but this kind of micro-management sounds terrifying.
Sucks but this will continue to happen as long as some people are willing to put up with it. Prisoner's Dilemma.
So, this one particular language is always case insensitive, except when it isn't. Well, then... that clears it all up.
I was an early proponent of G+ when it first opened. I loved the idea of Circles and their implementation of Groups was really good. I didn't love the UI, which I found bland, but the functionality was well thought out. For a while I used it as my primary social media site but Facebook was entrenched even back then and nobody I knew used G+.

I don't really understand Google's strategy. They got rich by providing useful features for the web at large - walled sites like Facebook should be considered the enemy, not something to emulate. If I was Google I would be providing easy to use blogging site, blog readers and a loose social network that encouraged links to other sites (perhaps similar to HN on a larger scale) that would be easy for third-parties to integrate.

Instead they killed Google Reader and made G+ and youtube just as much as a walled garden as Facebook.
I'd certainly take issue with the opening paragraph of the article to the effect that "Older readers know how the leading American universities, which had risen to world-class status by the 1930s and 1940s, were upended by the traumatic campus events of the late 1960s and their aftermath." There's no doubt that US universities had risen in quality during the early part of the 20th century but they were still outclassed by institutions in Europe in most scientific disciplines. It was the advent of WWII and the destruction it visited upon Europe as well as the massive spending on R&D during the early stages of the Cold War that propelled US universities to the heights they enjoy today.
I learned a lot and I got a better job.
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Yeah, this is pretty much what a plethora of punchlisting platforms do currently, but in the form of annotated photos captured on an iPad and automatically tagged to the site plan rather than realtime video feeds (which is both more practical and preferable from a liability standpoint, as the GC and architect both have incentive to maintain a paper trail of who approved X change, etc.) The AR angle certainly sounds cool but even aside from the HW not being there yet, I'm not sure how it would add much value.
Not really an update; that story is from last May, and is linked from this piece.
Is higher demand and subsequent ballooning commercial rents a net positive for communities?

I'd argue not at all.

It's only a benefit to a very small number of people who have zero requirement to be local residents.

Food vans are contributing far more to communities through their efficiencies.
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private colleges/schools should be nationalized.
A modern wifi chip is made with a lot smaller processes and multiple orders of magnitude more complex.
Hyperparameter optimization (including architectures) is not really meta-learning. Meta-learning, also known as "learning to learn", is more like MAML[0], RL2[1], L2RL[2], etc.

0. https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03400

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02779

2. https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.05763
Circles are a great solution for social circles on a social network. I think most people who post like you describe would just use a mailing list, or a blog with multiple RSS feeds.
Also people compare quality on price. If you want important live-saving treatment would you choose the cheapest or most expensive?
> Go team knows that they aren't covering the needs of

This is true for anything where Go is underused or not used and the bias here still stands, since those people are very unlikely to be represented in the survey.
Despite the common wisdom governments tend to care a lot about citizens bitching. A friend used to work as a lawyer for a state utility board. They sit and listen to rants by 75 year old cat ladies and then consider how to mollify them.
oh, look, its time for the weekly education-value debate
Yeah, this is pretty much it in a nutshell. Journalism as a business only really worked when there were significant gatekeepers to publishing information on a large scale, where competition was limited and where these publications were the best place for advertisers to advertise their wares.

That's not coming back. Any journalists who think the 'old world' is going to survive in the internet era are flat out delusional. You cannot undo time and technology, and you cannot try and freeze society at the turn of the millennium.

Hence the solution isn't to throw money at all these sites and publications, especially given they almost certainly won't be sustainable in today's economic climate. It's to find new ways of distributing information for a new generation, one that doesn't involve ads, subscriptions or newsrooms full of wriers.
One of the best engineers I ever met went to a school you never heard of. He couldn't afford to go to MIT.

None of our team went to elite schools, we've all worked with elite individuals (also not from elite schools).

I didn't even go to university, but through hard work, perseverance and a TON of luck, have been able to work my self up to some interesting places.

I know when I'm hiring, I look more at where a person has worked than the school they have come from.
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Isn't it also a factor that, in SF, small vehicles need extra time to secure or they'll be stolen?
As someone who is happy they went to college despite it not directly helping get my current job, I believe it was valuable in that it made me more open to new things, better at developing relationships, and exposed me to different points of view. Worth the financial cost? That’s certainly debatable, but it was ultimately my decision to go and keep going.
In my grandfathers time, compulsory schooling finished at 12. By my fathers time it had risen to 14. By my time 16, commonly rising to 18.

I think we are simply seeing another generational rise.

And why not - human beings one big advantage is our brains - and training our young to use that advantage as best we can is the single best ROI we can make ().

Will it cost us? Yes. Will it benefit us. Yes.

()there are many others as my socialist soul will tell you)
Oh yes there is. From the study just cited: “While a large percentage of these declines are attributable to direct anthropogenic effects, such as habitat loss, a substantial amount (48%) are classed as ‘enigmatic‘ declines with no identifiable cause (Stuart et al. 2004).“

Also: “We have recently shown that B. dendrobatidis widely infects amphibian populations across Europe (Garner et al. 2005), suggesting that introductions of the pathogen are rather more ancient than were previously expected. However, mass mortalities are highly clustered within a relatively few high-altitude areas in Spain and France (S. Walker, M. C. Fisher & J. Bosch 2003–2006, unpublished data). These data are inconsistent with a wave-like front of introductions across Europe driving contemporary epidemics and suggest that environmental conditions influence host–pathogen dynamics in determining the outcome of infection within a site of introduction.”
Biden and Sanders are currently leading in polls, so I’m not sure where you’re getting this from.
You either have morals or you don't. Classes don't instill them. The most moral people I've ever worked with were the Marines I served with for 8 years. I've met others, but most people are, sadly, opportunists who will gladly do what's best for them at the drop of a hat.
The face that it can be used as a social signal doesn't mean it is exclusively used so.

> Online courses (and before that, public libraries) rendered institutions of higher learning unnecessary for, you know, learning. But the idea that massive open online courses, or MOOCs, will replace colleges is a complete misunderstanding of the purpose of a university degree.

I think the author misunderstands as well. Classic "if it's in a book then the class is worthless".

Information is not the teaching. The idea is that a teacher can instruct better than a mere textbook. YMMV, but there's no denying that having a pre-planned curriculum with instruction and 1:1 Q&As inherently supersedes walking into a store and hoping you can find and understand the right books in general. Never mind that books don't grade or provide feedback on homework, etc.

The problem is that university became a requisite for people who didn't want to attend. Standards for what the teaching we expect of universities has plummeted. That's why they work so hard to keep their brand. For the self-motivated and good learners, MOOCs and libraries can replace big parts of university. That's not for everyone.

> Despite being an intellectually rigorous institution, Caltech does not graduate many future elites. Alumni go on to be successful in their academic fields, but don’t tend to dominate finance, tech or politics.

A school exclusively for technical competence doesn't produce as many social elite [citation needed] as a school that's not focused on technical competence? I wonder why. How many of the financial elite came from mechanical engineering background at all? It's a silly comparison.

Side note: Don't forget it's an order of magnitude smaller, CalTech has ~2,200 students in contrast to Harvard's ~22,000.

> Successful parents in the upper middle class can leave money to their children, but that doesn’t guarantee entrée into the social elite. The more reliable way for powerful parents to buy power for their children is through a name-brand, exclusive education.

> Jared Kushner’s father famously secured Harvard acceptance for his son with a $2.5 million charitable contribution.

When did people making $2.5m donations become "upper middle class"?
Today, degrees are a way to communicate and verify to others that you have generated and currently possess some amount of intellectual and social capital, which in the right situations can be converted to financial, political, and other hard forms of capital.

The recent scandals don't necessarily indicate a degree don't verify capital stocks, but it does clearly demonstrate the divide between those who have capital and those who do not, and the myriad methods capital perseveres in self-preservation. And as these loopholes will most likely remain open in one way or another, it will continue to teach this lesson across generations.

I think this, and numerous other blatant shows of power, underline just how important it is to federate capital across class boundaries and prevent capital concentration. The "old boys clubs" care about your pedigree. The SME CEO cares about putting food on the table for his/her family and his/her employees, and cares moreso for your merit. Greater capital distribution leads to stricter capital verification (yes you are smart in practice) due to the decentralization of trust, greater alignment between merit and success and exercise of existing talent surpluses, and higher societal cohesion due to greater class turnover.
Except Pu is toxic and accumulates in the bone marrow, compared to Cs which is excreted.

Unit 3 at Fukushima was the only one fueled with MOX fuel containing 6% Pu.
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I don’t think getting an education in humanities will do much to affect people who don’t care about ethics in the first place.
So who gets the majority of shares in the country? Should it be the executives, or the funders? Maybe we should have a 1 vote per tax-dollar system.
Yeah, I completely disagree with on the "BS classes". Philosophy may have been one of the most interesting and important classes that I took as a CS undergrad.
It takes 15min to prep the dough. Depending on your climate leave it in the fridge or a cool oven to prove. There is a lot of leeway if you’re only after a tasty pizza. So you can prep dough the night before.

Finishing off and cooking is another 15min and you could do multiple pizzas so this scales well.

I make them all the time because I can split the work into 2 short sessions. And if you like simple pizzas, they are super cheap to make and easy to portion control.
I think you mistook the point of the response. I was responding to the points I quoted, i.e. regarding the lengths of half-lives involved and the associated dangers and decay rates. The fact that the link mentioned Fukushima when discussing these was a coincidence.
It's a shame this piece doesn't function as much more than a Caltech/MIT endorsement.

I dropped out and hate the system as much as the next guy, but to pretend that degrees have literally zero value and exist purely as a wealth transfer mechanism is a bit shortsighted. The author discredits MOOCs in the very same breath, but forgets to mention that thousands of companies are only using a degree as a baseline and all it would take is for HR to start accepting a slightly different piece of paper.

There will always be an Ivy club, fraternities, secret societies, and so on. Flood the market with Ivy degrees and the social elite will pick something else. But those are pretty small factions if you think about everybody else, at the University of Nowhere Special.
>So why would you tell me that? Either include the city, or use a longer plus code that includes the city.

Or I could just use a system that doesn't have that drawback. Plus codes aren't awful. I just find room for improvement.

> This is by design; some symbols were omitted to avoid having words in codes (which, as TFA discusses, can be problematic, e.g. some places might not be happy with codes that have EVIL in them).

So what you're saying is only an open source project could deal with this level of potential offense. I'll agree with that. People who don't like EVIL could add more precision to make EVILGH.
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Thanks much! Never too late to learn something new...

So from what I know about cloud technologies (not much) your description makes it sound like Kong is a Service Mesh. But then you also say you support Service Meshes as an architecture, so I'm not sure I got that right. Would you mind to clarify?
MacOS is a case-insensitive unix, and it seems to work fine.

A few years ago I made the mistake of formatting my Mac to use a case-sensitive filesystem, and it turned out to be a huge mistake. My thought process was "I want full compatibility with Unix-land", but this wasn't in line with the rest of the Mac conventions and just ended up causing pain.
I eagerly look forward to new videos from BD. I feel like I get to peak through a worm-hole into the future. It's extremely gratifying.

I especially like that this robot seems entirely dissimilar to the human form. Like it's truly been built for this type of task. I guess you could argue that that counter-balancing tail is quite like a Kangaroo, but still.
But neither is actually going to be chosen by the DNC (is Biden even running?). Just wait until the primaries start and the media attacks ramp up.
A new version will address the issue of local names. It will also solve the problem of crossing national boundaries via the integration of OSM admin{} polygons. And add support for elevation up to +-18000 meters.

The documentation is quite sparse, I agree. I hope to find some time to deal with that also.
> Though car insurance is a weird racket

Ha, I don't think I agree with you on the topic at hand, but this is something I'll get behind.
That is a bit extreme from my worldview and not necessary to be more balanced. I am arguing that facebooks process is biased, and facebooks authoritative sources are unaccountable to fix their own mistakes and ideologically biased in a way that is not evidence based. A better process with an adversarial appeal with authoritative viewpoint opponents would have compensated for some of this.

To figure out if we disagree where it matters the most, do you think it is justified to ban or suppress content on social media from people that SPLC/ADL view as part of the radicalization process? Eg jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin.
> trans fats.

I’m no expert but this is the first time I hear about this. I thought trans fats are mainly found in industrially processed (mostly vegetable) fats!

Ah, according to Wikipedia:

> Animal-based fats were once the only trans fats consumed, but by far the largest amount of trans fat consumed today is created by the processed food industry as a side effect of partially hydrogenating unsaturated plant fats (generally vegetable oils). These partially hydrogenated fats have displaced natural solid fats and liquid oils in many areas, the most notable ones being in the fast food, snack food, fried food, and baked goods industries.

So eating no fast food, no margarine and also no animals might even further reduce consumption of trans fats.
"Anyone in possession of a bump stock from now on can be charged with a federal offense punishable by up to 10 years in prison."

I may be wrong, but I don't think this is widely known right now. I live in an area where there are a lot of gun owners and "AR" type rifles are one of the most popular among those who love to shoot guns. I'm sure quite a few own bump stocks, but not at all sure they know they need to get rid of them.
So W3W is effectively domains for lat/lon and/or street addresses. This feels like an idea trying desperately to justify it's existence. Or to paraphrase, the answer to a question no one asked. Reviewing the critiques of this concept only seem to reinforce that.