skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really fascinating. Because even though I am an Indian I didn't know the Soviet Union and India were that close. I wonder if any Indian school books mention this.
Revisiting the Jobs Artificial Intelligence Will Create
Right. In Aereo's case they even went as far as to nominally "rent" the colocated hardware to the user such that it was the user who was receiving the broadcast and transmitting it to themself for personal use. Which is clever, but the court ultimately decided that it doesn't work that way.
The Immoderation of Age
> Feature-positive effect – We tend to see what is present, and overlook what isn’t there.

This is such a problem. Just yesterday someone came to me and said, "We're now using x to do y. It makes z a lot easier. Just wanted to let you know so you can make the appropriate changes to your analysis & reporting applications."

Say what now? I'm embedded within the operational unit. I know a lot about day to day operations in & out of the systems in use, and how they ultimately translate through in data. I asked half a dozen questions, and 4 of them were met with "oh, we hadn't thought about that." These are deal-break questions, things the current method handled without issue, so much so they became invisible to the users, until they decide to make a change and realize the new method doesn't make any provision for them.
I think Google is actually pretty good at doing that. If you turn on all the various safety features, it's pretty hard to find anything too graphic.

But.. I think the problem is more a social one. Is Google going to comply with a single country's law when it requires quite an elaborate technological solution? The UK is not at the scale of China, and I suspect such companies will generally ignore the law (it's common in the UK to have laws which are broadly ignored, they're on the books for selective enforcement at a convenient time) or block the UK entirely.
That is an angle.

Other way to say it is that ORM is a workaround to the fact most languages are VERY poor at manipulate data.

Exist 2 main reasons for the "impedance mismatch":

- Paradigms. 2 different paradigms will be at odds. Example: Functional and OO. This is ok.

- Limitations: The relational model is absolutely superior and more expressive at manipulate data than OO/Functional. You need A LOT of machinery to recover that power.

This is not ok.

However, this not change the fact that OO is ok.Similar how a KV store is fine, but certainly, a RDBMS store is much more capable.
I've only ever heard of mongo successfully used for two use cases:

1. As a cache, like redis
2. As a log store, like Elasticsearch

In both cases, the data is somewhat ephemeral, and not the "source of truth" for the app. The minute it is used for holding real, customer supporting data, things start to get dire real fast.
Its 2019 and Stripe still does not work here in the Philippines (merchant accnt not supported)!
And why do you think that real estate is so valuable? Why do they insist on blanketing all their great real estate with McDonald's restaurants? Perhaps because it's a great place to sell McDonald's food?
I'm a physicist, with a PhD in physics. I worked for a while as a post-doc in Italy and recently I quit University, working now in the private sector as a Data Scientist.

I'm happy with the change, my life is more relaxed now. I've time for my family, for me. I've also better and stable earnings.
Travis from UBER is starting a kitchen sharing company.

McDonalds has been in the real estate game within hospitality larger and longer than anyone.

This move makes a lot of sense and hopefully they move smartly to compete as the industry evolves.

McDonald’s can’t scale ethically raised food to their restaurants at the price points that matter to their customers but they can bring operational and supply chain expertise to startup restaurants.

Maybe this is part of a bigger transition.
Nuclear physicist now developing options strategies and corresponding specialized financial software for a hedge fund.
I'd rather go back and work at the particle accelerator but there is zero chance for a permanent position as a researcher for a regular dude like me.
To address the last point - if your neighbour can't afford to move because the rent is too high elsewhere then under a non-rent controlled system would the landlord not have raised her rent to a point she would be unable to pay it and would thus be forced to move elsewhere?

(I don't know enough to actually have an answer to this.)
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I will recommend Leonard Adleman interview where he gives some answers about how to choose the problem to work with: http://teacher.scu.edu.cn/ftp_teacher0/chjtang/teach/adleman...
Russia Tampers with GPS
This is such a more interesting interpretation than we usually get. Most people here would focus on him burning investors’ money, but that’s between him and his investors as far as I’m concerned.
This seems pretty neat, but I guess my question is, if you're using LAPS, are you going to entrust it to a company you've never heard of? This is a very security-sensitive place to be installing third party software, I especially wouldn't consider installing a free trial of it.
I hate these kinds of articles, however, I do recognise that people are allowed their opinions, which is good. But these sorts of articles take a very polarised view of the world.

> Does this tool solve a real problem for us
> Do we thoroughly understand the tradeoffs

Well, no. But neither did running JS on the server (along with numerous other similar examples). I've used MongoDB plenty of times before (in production with 1 issue to date) and I absolutely will again.
Show HN: Mongoku, a Web-Scale GUI for MongoDB
Training a real robot to play Puckworld with reinforcement learning
How to do mid-career switches? (A twitter thread)
Google backed Mobvoi seeks $1B valuation
Do you think "Australia" is real, or a cover name for a prison or worse?
> Most people . . .

Citation needed? If we’re just swapping anecdotes, my experience has been that the vast majority of people I talk to are fine with being tracked on the internet, and think it’s a reasonable exchange for what they get out of it.

Is there survey data, for instance, that shows people actually feel strongly about this?

Edited to add: I think the most relevant survey data is people voting with their feet. And despite the 24-hour news cycle of Facebook privacy SNAFUs (both intentional and not), their user numbers aren't really falling off.

It's hard to take people seriously when they say "what Facebook does is profoundly evil, but it's outweighed by the value of cat videos/Crossfit videos/Tasty recipes/reading the political rants of acquaintances I haven't spoken to in a decade." :/
A Wanna-Be
Making idea public toward an algorithm for music identification within societies nomenclature of positionalness with regard to others on an x,y,z, axis. Where x y quadrants sort music into basic types 2 dimensionally xy, x-y, ya, y-x the farther away from 0,0,0 the more unrelated so eclectic will have higher digits and bubblegum will have negative values has to afford counterintuitivity but here’s the thing; to allow z as a time value such that historic existence as relative to other music in that existential time-frame even though could not have happened in our earthy existence on this dirtball or big blue marble, dependent on said algorithms output defined, would corollaries songs close to (singles)albums in that family (leads, bands conductors) or as far as interapolating cure t or woulda/coulda/shoulda blends in such a manner as to inspire underground music to bless everybody!! So. No money. No idea of algorithm specifics but publishing overarching idea that encloses the entire process project use function interactionality of music and existential relationships et all to open use under permission by holder of azbpooldude@outlook.com
It's more difficult to find interesting people nearby than it's to find interesting people in the internet.
It could be also, that it's easier to develop online identity than it's to develop an identity in real life.
If people feel they can connect with other people the way they are able to connect in real life, it's easy to see why making connections face to face decreases: your looks don't matter, your speech impediment don't matter, your disabilities don't matter; if you're strange, you find similarly strange people online; if you have rare interests, you find company, etc...
Have you ever considered working on some low-hanging fruit problem in a non-physics field?
In this case at least the government isn't tracking you and selling the data to third parties. They can claim moral high ground.
My prediction is that the stagnation of physics will continue until the money and prestige has dropped to 1800s levels. Then, the only people who do it will be "true" in that they are motivated purely by curiosity. At that point the next set of breakthroughs will come around because all of the emotional and funding-treadmill induced blindspots that we have presently will be gone. Of course this is assuming that somehow the experiments can be kept up even through the funding decline.
When I was a kid, which is getting to be a long time ago, we never really scheduled anything. People in our peer group tended to hang out in maybe 6-10 different locations - one being a particular bar, one being a particular corner, one being a particular house, etc. Sometimes a location would disappear, sometimes you'd hear about a new location.

On your downtime, you would go to one of those locations and join the group already there, or loiter a little while until someone you knew showed up. If nobody showed up, you'd drift to one of the other locations and do the same thing. One out of 20 times you'd go home without seeing anybody that you were interested in hanging out with.

That's how a commons works, I think. The problem is a lack of a commons, and a suspicion of people in public who aren't currently in the process of shopping. The idea that in this alienated time I'd go to a particular restaurant where people go, drink coffee and just wait for somebody to show up that wanted to hang out almost sounds utopian or suspiciously foreign, but it was my life from probably age 12 to 24.
India shoots down satellite in test
Oh wow! This looks like the physics book that I always wanted to read.
Phd 2016 in condensed matter physics - now working in a mid-size (~600 people) software company as a data scientist.
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I trained a robot to learn to play the game "puckworld" using RL (Q learning with experience replay, using pytorch). I had done some RL stuff before, but didn't appreciate how hard it could be getting something physical to work for the timescales necessary to do RL.

Please let me know if you have any questions or feedback!
(edit: I don't think it's so simple as that)

I think we already know what the market would decide to do.

Joni Mitchell sang about it some time ago...
I am working on one https://github.com/solana-labs/solana

But also take a look at the most promising sharding project: https://github.com/nearprotocol/nearcore

Two complete different approaches.
From the spec:

> The email client strips out the text/x-amp-html part of the MIME tree when a user replies to or forwards an AMP email message. This is why it is important that an email provide alternative content in the HTML part.
I'm taking a Russian lit class right now and it’s astonishing how much my Indian mother can follow along with my recounting of various plot points from Tolstoy or Dostoevsky. Russian literature is beloved in India
s~FTW~WTF~

of course, _now_ they are like "FTW" :)
If you are using the UI to leverage AWS you arent really leveraging AWS.

AWS is designed to be used via automation and the API.

Disclaimer : I dont work for AWS but have spent many years building relatively large stacks on AWS (thousands of ec2 instances with monthly spend being a couple supercars in value)
I mean, the law is stupid but your questions are trivially easy to answer and are the kind of thing English courts are well used to dealing with.

Pornnis material designed to sexually titillate. This is why you can still buy American Beauty in England, even though it contains an image of a semi-naked underage actress in it.

Your comments about religion at ebaffling and I have no idea what point you're trying to make. If you're suggesting that religious minorities who dislike ankles could somehow get websites showing ankles to be put behind an age wall, well, no that's not going to happen.
Or doesn't have health insurance.
The heat off of the 2015 MBP is no joke. I'm surprised people remember it fondly, despite the keyboard. I'm pretty sure the heat that thing put out could cause infertility. The most recent MBPs are much better in this regard (excluding the i9 pre patch).
Definitely, but, I'm sure that adopting new technologies at the right time can be a huge competitive edge for startups. Sure it can fail horribly in some places where hindsight will show that the trusted stack was the right choice, but it could also mean winning a race to market and continued relevance for a company if it works out.
How to Save the American Racehorse
Communication. Talk with them. Say you want to be helpful and would like feedback on help given, both good and bad. Let them know you thrive on public feedback and strive to do good enough to warrant that and crave feedback on your help given to achieve that. Also, you probably should talk to your manager about this first as they understand the team dynamic better than this random internet stranger. Also, be prepared to find out you are not as helpful as you think you are. It is entirely possible that the help you think you are giving is not well received. This would be a good personal growth opportunity if so. You require data, so solicit feedback.
300 km altitude. Should re-enter fairly quickly, unlike the Chinese satellite that has been destroyed in 2007.
I read the comment as saying that the postdoc kept his reservations about power law distributions to himself until after he had tenure, so as to not upset the applecart I suppose... ?
So that the amazing scientists get appropriate public recognition.
People do complain about high rents in NY and Toronto, but - and this is a big one - homeowners vote consistently and so politicians listen to them.

I would _speculate_ that:

1. renters are more transient, so are less invested in the community

2. most people don’t make the connection between restrictive zoning policies and rent prices

3. It’s politically unpalatable to be shown as “against homeowners”, especially given how much ownership is prized
As I understand it, these crust fragments wouldn't just be lying flat on the boundary between the lower and upper mantle. They would likely have rotated during their movement in the flowing upper mantle, and gotten stuck at the boundary in some ~random orientation.

As an analogy, consider some layered drink. Say peppermint schnapps over creme de cacao. Then add some chunks of dark chocolate. I'm guessing that they'd settle out at the interface, being denser than the peppermint schnapps, but less dense than the creme de cacao.
PhD in physics, then visiting prof for EE/CS dept at major univ for a year, then CS prof for 10 years at 2nd tier univ, then software developer for last 19 years.

I don't regret getting the PhD. Always was very interested in physics and learned a lot. Did a lot of computational work which helped with the transition to software. I still use the problem solving and some of the math I learned for physics.
Confusing chauffeur knowledge with real knowledge
That third sentence is not necessary.
> To see why, step back and consider two 19th-century “classical economists” who focused on high rents: David Ricardo and Henry George. Both built models where land is so scarce that the cost of renting land absorbs most of the social surplus. We are not (yet?) at that point, but these models give insight into where today’s most expensive cities are headed.

The thing is, land is not scarce. There is an incredible amount of land in the US. When rent is high in a city that is the market telling you that you need to develop new cities. There's no reason why people have to be piled on each other like rats in San Francisco and NYC.
The abstract “intelligence” is so ill-defined that it’s as good as impossible to prove any intervention helps improve it.

This question is about “Intelligence as measured by IQ”, though. That’s fairly easily improved. To avoid cultural biases, many tests will include mathematical questions, and training on those can have significant impact.

For example, knowing the Fibonacci sequence and memorizing multiplication tables, squares, third powers, etc. will help speed up answering “what number comes next in this sequence?” questions (about everybody can continue the sequence “1, 2, 3, 4, 5, …”; fewer will immediately recognize “1, 8, 27, 64, 125, …” as third powers of integers, and even fewer will not have to compute 6³ because they just know it’s 216)
As a child of the 60's growing up in the UK, there are compelling parallels to what has gone before:

1. As cinema became more overtly sexual in the 70's, films would occasionally make it onto TV with a minor amount of censorship; repeat showings would then 'correct' this by censoring more heavily.

2. As VCRs arrived in the 80's, porn and video nasties accompanied them. But again, there was a clampdown on these as the technology became widely adopted.

3. It is trivial to access pornography on the internet, and has become increasingly so in the last few years. This initiative is just the latest reaction.

It is a tough one: like most people, I abhor any form of censorship or government interference into its citizens' private doings. OTOH the availability of internet porn to minors, and its current nature, has to be a concern: there are studies showing the desensitizing and distorting effect it has on those too young to apply their own experience and filters. Nor is asserting that it's the parents' responsibility to monitor or control access particularly useful unless there is the technology to support that in an accessibly low-tech form. But we do have the makings of a less intrusive and privacy-violating mechanism - ISPs could block certain websites unless you as a customer specifically allow access to them: BT do this, for example (although bizarrely various porn sites seem to be unaffected, whereas oglaf.com needs to be whitelisted!). The fact that such routes have not been pursued make me suspicious of the whole enterprise.
The Iranian government can communicate anywhere ... sell something or buy something.
I live in Iran, and I see that the Islamic Republic's mafia instead of buying medicines and food supplies its capital to suppress people in Iran and promote violence and assassination elsewhere in the world.
They kill the Syrian people, and tell the people of Iran that I am defending you.

They can buy medicines for their people instead of buying weapons.
Surely buying medicine is more convenient. But the Islamic Republic's mafia is just thinking of itself.
Finished an astrophysics PhD (observational studies of massive star formation in the Galaxy) and switched to a Data Engineering job half a year ago. Post-PhDs becoming data scientists is still a big thing, as career options are very limited.

The field was really interesting, but building a carrier in it is a pure lottery - hard work and talent alone won't cut it, you need connections, politics, and salesmanship skills to get a permanent job.

On top of that, there were probably only three job openings a year (in the whole world!) that I was a good fit for. Money factor did not come into play at all - junior dev salary is often lower than the postdoc one.
This doesn't seem to be my experience in most of Europe. Actually in some countries the driver might even be held responsible for cases when someone jumps in traffic from between cars parked on the side of a road.

Edit, from the article:

> there is something undeniably screwy about a justice system that makes it de facto legal to kill people, even when it is clearly your fault, as long you’re driving a car and the victim is on a bike and you’re not obviously drunk and don’t flee the scene

If true it's actually shocking that any civilized country would have this system.
Growing the engineering team. I jumped ship one year into my PhD and joined an early stage startup.
Number 2 and 3 is pretty context dependent, but the answer to number 1 is as soon as possible. It doesn't get any easier.

Make sure everyone vests over at least 4 years, too.
> Honestly, every government is going to “fuck up so many times”

But why has the EU become a government? This scope creep and the enormous bureaucracy it has established has passed ao gradually that few people remember when it really was just a trade community.

The EU should not exist in a form where fuck-ups impact the private lives of individuals.
I’m saying that it’s a matter of culture, not policy (and certainly not genetics). You can’t replicate it just by cherry picking some of their policies. And it’s very hard to change culture.

The Japanese take pride in infrastructure and development. Americans try to figure out how to abuse environmental laws to keep it from being built. We turn every development project into a civil rights battle or a rural/urban battle. We hate paying for development with visible taxes, but love creating invisible taxes by attaching mandates as riders to projects. “You can build that apartment building, but only if you widen that public road and build a school. You can build fiber there, but only if you also build fiber in this place where it makes no economic sense.” That often makes development unattractive altogether, but that’s okay because we hate development anyway.
archive.org is http blocked under mobile networks in the UK unless you get the age bar lifted. also, if you try and access it over https it is hard blocked by an IP ban. at a network level with HTTPS/1.1 and encrypted SNI it will be unworkable to block this content because you can just put it on cloudflare. the networks will then either have to block the whole of cloudflare or let people access it over https. the mobile networks probably should be blocking reddit and i'm not sure why they don't. maybe they need some complaints. a bit more information about the current mobile content ban which seems to be voluntarily enforced by operators:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_blocking_in_the_United_Kin...
Can't stress often enough the problem that the unintended consequences of this bill have caused. Most people that voted for it though it would just limit the increase of property taxes on homes. They didn't realize it affected warehouses, factories, etc. It's a mess that has to be changed.
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