skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I learned Chinese in 2001 and after that I haven't had much practice speaking it but I think that knowing the characters has actually kept me from forgetting it completely. It's nice to have a conversational partner but lacking that, practicing characters and reading is a way to practice the language without having a partner. It takes some effort but if you live somewhere where you have Chinese characters around (e.g. LA San Gabriel Valley, or many Chinese restaurants) or use some Chinese social media (e.g. WeChat) you usually have some examples that you can plug into Google Translate (by swiping the character shape--which isn't strict about stroke order), then plug that into mdbg.net for decent dictionary type translations and concordances. It is a good way to spend time waiting for Chinese food at a restaurant. If you share your activity with your table it's not as anti-social as run-of-the-mill playing with your phone.
April's fools? (Although they're - technically - right re: the web)
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This is true if Gitlab is being rational. If they can afford two cheaper (but equal quality) engineers outside of SF, then why hire the SF person at all?
The Inverse Square Law strikes again!

Tesla, for all his brilliance, was similarly math-challenged.
I had a one hour commute each way at the time, so if i had an appointment, I took the day off / worked from home, depending on the appointment. She was a very, very sick dog, went from healthy and happy to put down because she could no longer eat on her own over the course of 6 months. It was a painful (not to mention expensive) experience.

Though, I was also doing some real estate transactions (selling and buying a house) so some of the days were also for that.
I don't understand how anyone could think that forcing the homeless to sh*t in plastic bags and disposing of them safely is any kind of solution to a hepatitis outbreak?

The root cause was mentioned in the linked article:

"At the same time, the city was locking and removing bathrooms to help control the rampant drug and prostitution trade they’d spawned"

As was a more humane solution:

"Today, the tents are gone. There are clusters of newly installed portable toilets open and guarded 24 hours a day. More than 60 new hand-washing stations dot the city."
> Then we are in disagreement

What disagreement? I did not even make any statements or expressed opinion on whether it's good (whatever that might mean) that everyone has a voice (at least in my reply to you). I simply asked:

> By what mechanism should we take or deny someone a voice?

Without that we are simply daydreaming about how everything would be better if only things were better. Which is OK, just not very useful if you stop there.
The slides mention that they are able to unlocked JTAG for IME cores, so I suspect we should be finally be able to do research into it.

Personally I'm curious what doors this will open for understanding microcode.
I second the recommendation for TheOldReader. It's where I eventually ended up after Google Reader's demise.
This is perfect idea. Here's usecase.

At our startup, our main cashflow is reselling on Amazon. The current business model we are using shares a lot of similarity with other Amazon sellers. There are a lot of workflows that are cookie cutter across other sellers/companies that can be automated/improved with custom tools.

There's demand for what we need (automation tools, api tools to request specific materials from Amazon), we will even pay and be the first customer ourselves.

If we can get equity for you to build this tool, this is a no brainer idea!

You can reach out to me in my profile, love to setup a call to discuss a bit more on this.
Fascinating! Thanks so much to the company for writing this followup -- every year or so I've wondered how this company was doing and if the experiment was still going. It's heartening to learn that it is.
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You make no mention of HW3, which will be installed on the cars that bought FSD for free, and includes Tesla's own chip, (I assume some kind of TPU) designed by Jim Keller. It has been described by Tesla as having 100x the FPS processing capability that the nvidia PX2, the one they use now, has [1]. So they're more or less in full agreement with, and have been working on making happen, the things you say need to be done, for the past 3-4 years.

Tesla's head of AI is Andrej Karpathy, who many in this community hold in high esteem. I know this is "argument by authority", but we're working with a black box here, so it will have to do. Do you really think he is wasting his best years on a project that anyone in the field can "guarantee" will never happen? Or could it be that he knows something you don't?

By the way, it seems you also don't know that they hold most FSD revenue in reserve on their financials, it's not being spent. So if they need to return it, they can.

[1]: https://www.inverse.com/article/47683-tesla-elon-musk-just-d...
That would be nitpicking not bikeshedding :)

(They do have a point though; IBM PC compatible implies it would run on an IBM PC...)
Are there any alternative theories that invoke strange interactions of matter/gravity/etc with time? I guess the gravitational wave results out of LIGO would indicate that it propagates across time in a fashion similar to electromagnetic radiation, but if gravitational effects extended beyond 'now' there would seemingly be a possibly small cumulative effect.
It must handle backups and restores too, otherwise you're just making it too easy for folks to lose all their data.
I've heard this many times, and it does ring at least somewhat true in my experience, but does anyone have a link to actual studies relating to this?

I get the feeling that the 'people using feature x' curve follows a power law with rapid dropoff rather than a more linear shape, but that's just intuition, and I'd like to calibrate against known data.
I agree with your first three paragraphs to some extent. However the tricky part is that not all rural areas are equally productive, and they don't all require the same amount of investment. Some of the rural investment in the US is highly productive and results in great return via agriculture and/or resource extraction as you point out.

But consider as just one example how much the population working in agriculture has decreased over time - much of that was going to happen whether roads and bridges and power lines were subsidized to go out there or not. When this is private investment, it's fine. If it fails, some company goes bankrupt, life goes on. Unwinding money-losing public infrastructure is much, much harder.

The last paragraph, that renters aren't politically invested, I think depends a LOT on the ability of people to become owners in the first place. Ownership is more the effect of someone who has a certain amount of wealth and stability in their life (thus the resources and desire to own), rather than something that CAUSES wealth and stability in your life.

So as for the idea that "the country was founded on the idea of the homeowner," I understand, but I think we have to be careful not to think that it somehow makes an owner morally superior to a renter. That just leads to discrimination against people who probably would love to own but don't have the resources, and thus don't need the deck further stacked against them.
Systems that are difficult to reason about are difficult to replace.
This is super cool, thank you. I'm not sure from the Amazon photo if it's actually small enough to comfortably leave on my keyring, but it might work!
I used to use that pattern $$ frequently for library code.
English has always accepted this construction and correcting it has always been prescriptive, just as ending a sentence with a preposition has always been.

There have never been grammatical rules in those cases, just grammatical demands.
I wonder what the future holds when faux social interaction with no repercussions seems to be the norm now.
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I miss the days when it was unfashionable to call things "AI".

It forced people to think more clearly, and it made the models used sound to normal people like boring applications of numerical optimization, which is pretty accurate. It's not something a normal person should feel any sense of excitement about, any more than they should care about a new type of satellite dish or whatever -- you have to be a pretty odd duck to find it intrinsically interesting.
Won't work sadly, my building has a garbage shoot. I can't just dump loose trash down that!

(Also feels kind of gross? The point of a small bag is so the trash won't stink up my tiny apartment.)
For food scraps, get a bag-free composting bin. I use one that uses one big silicone reversible thing that inverts to push food out and can be thrown in the dishwasher: https://www.amazon.com/Polder-Composter-Flexible-silicone-em...

For other things (kids/pets/etc.), purchase biodegradeable bags. There was a recent article on this subject: https://theconversation.com/plastic-bag-bans-can-backfire-if...

"Who were the people who reused plastic carryout bags pre-ban, and presumably bore the burden of buying trash bags post-ban? I found that bag reuse was higher for people who purchased pet items and baby items – in other words, who needed to collect and dispose of excrement. In 2017, nearly 6 percent of U.S. households had a child under 5 years old, 44 percent owned a dog, and 35 percent owned a cat." My take on this is that if you express the interest in having a child or a pet, you can afford the burden of buying biodegradable bags to handle waste. Perhaps there could be some assistance program for some low-income affected segment (i.e. adding biodegradable bags to a WIC-friendly item list).
In my experience the amount of Microsoft-themed phishing attempts that make it through Outlook (O365) is unbelievable.
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I may not agree with these viewpoints (I'm not the OP so I don't have to form an opinion) but they are unique and worth considering.
eval() is scoped to the current block. If you even just ignored JITing any function with eval() in it then you'd still get quite far.
> Yea, this guy doesn't get what it means to be an entrepreneur. It is not just about the money. It is an itch that has to be scratched. It is an addiction. Only real entrepreneurs feel that itch. The rest are wantrapreneurs.

Nice gatekeeping. There are plenty of entrepreneurs who are doing it for purely the money.
>>My daughter is finishing 5th grade in a NYC public school. Homework is the bane of her existence: it’s given for weekdays and weekends alike, as well as for holidays. We can’t ditch it entirely because it affects grades, and perfect grades are a requirement to advance within the school system to middle and high schools that provide something approaching an education.

This doesn't detract from the rest of your post, but if your daughter is in 5th grade then I presume she already took the 4th grade ELA & Math tests which (I thought?) were the [main|only] academic factor used in NYC (good) public middle school rubrics.

If the above is true, then could she slack off a bit in grade 5 especially if it means skipping some homework?

Caveat: I know grade 5 is still critical she's trying to get into Hunter Middle/High School, but I'm really curious to know if good NYC middle schools use grade 5 ELA/Math scores and subject grades.
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Has anyone recently and earnestly looked into degradable plastic bags? I’m really surprised that an acceptable substitute has not been adopted. It seems like the utility of plastic bags along with the substantial environmental costs would create a great market opportunity.
It's not part of the fundamental structure of English, it's just a class affectation. Language is not mathematical.
> At least I got the story.

Would you mind sharing?
Maybe they could avoid this issue by cloning in smaller increments via memfd + mmap(..., MAP_PRIVATE)? That's assuming persistence doesn't fundamentally require atomic clone of the whole address space.
Relevant: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/26/rule-genius-in-not-out...

tl;dr

The kinds of ideas that people who innovate come up with are found at the extremes of convention, and are not distinguishable from crazy whether they are right or wrong, and

You should expect an innovator to produce dumb ideas all the time. In other words, forgive the smart, for they know not when they dumb.

Edit: this is also why we can be justified praising Elon Musk for SpaceX and, to a lesser extent Tesla, and also ignore complete and utter nonsense like Hyperloop and his cave submarine.
Seattle permits retailers to charge 5 cents per large paper bag.
Maybe it's my level of experience? I've been in the industry over 12 years now, with some variation of senior / staff / principle title for I think 8 of those years. No idea what the market is like in NY, but I would imagine you could also pretty easily negotiate starting with 2.5 or maybe 3 weeks.

Just like the list of requirements are a guideline, so too are perks offered on job postings, and you don't actually have to settle for what they first offer you. So long as the labor market for programming is hot, you should take advantage of it.
I have yet to work at a tech company that doesn't either maximally misrepresent or outright lie about its product offerings. Incidentally this also seems to be a good way to identify companies that are likely to fail or underperform in the long run.
If it we're purely fact finding, that'd be great. Instead it turns rapidly into doxing and "social justice".
Yesssssssss! Technology can be awesome.
As another commenter has noted, they wouldn't then be galaxies. And the question of whether there are (or how common and at what mass) galaxyless dark matter overdensities (think of it as a clump, in the literature they are called "halos") is still open.

One of the problems with the current best model of the universe (Lambda CDM - a universe that is primarily make up of some cosmological constant driving expansion and cold dark matter whose gravity drives structure formation) is that it predicts that there should be far more of these dark matter overdensities than we see galaxies. This is the "Too big to fail" problem - https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.0007 is a pretty readable description. Basically the model predicts lots of dark matter clumps orbiting the milky way and we don't see enough satellite galaxies to populate them.

So there are now two options: 1) Galaxy formation becomes stochastic at lower dark matter halo masses - and so there are lots of these galaxyless overdensities of dark matter. 2) There is something wrong with our model and there might not be these overdensities. 3) The milky way is an outlier.

I think the short summary is that, at very low masses (say ~1e6 solar masses) we wouldn't be surprised if not all dark matter halos form galaxies. At high masses (1e12 solar masses, roughly that of the milky way halo) we would be very surprised if there weren't galaxies. But in between we are not sure.

Edit: To be clear, these structures would still likely contain baryons (normal matter), they just haven't formed stars (or would have formed only a very few stars).
maybe he has scripts that grep for keywords on hacker news etc. :-)
Just because one is a felon doesn't mean "it's all over". Case in point, Jeremy Meeks
If he/she is back with the same pitch, it probably went well enough to try again.
If Uber was not reasonably confident in their predictive models, they'd be shifting rates by like 1% per week to test the waters, instead of 25% in a day. And if Uber can have good predictive models, maybe independent economists who study this market could make somewhat decent predictions as well.
Kanopy has a few or her movies. It's a platform that partners with public libraries to make content available to their members. For those in San Francisco, for instance, you can get an account as long as you have an SF public library card. It's free and you can watch a certain number of movies per month (I think it's 8 or something like that).
I have not logged enough miles in US interstates, but on German Autobahns you surely need to read other drivers intention (if you want to prevent unpleasant surprises). And this is usually done by carefully observing their driving and the overall context.

- Are they zooming by, then suddenly moving to the right and slowing down? Probably got a phone call, make ready to overtake them. And watch out, they might get really slow.

- Is the car in front stuck behind a truck and slowly moving to the left? Driver probably plans to overtake the truck soon. Reduce speed to not crash into his rear end.

Looking forward to when these things will be included in the reasoning model of self-driving cars.
USS Panay Incident by Japan in 1937
"has IT skills" is a terrible proxy for "has ideas worth spreading".
> owned by the new person

You think that unborn children should be required to legally own property before they are allowed to be delivered?

I've heard of "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" but this is a new level of absurdity.
> Median household income in the US is $65k. $10k/year/ child is not affordable for most households.

Er, no? Assuming it's tax deductible most families can probably make some lifestyle changes to free up $10k. Sure it might inhibit other goals, like building up saving or consumer spending. But it's a sacrifice that many people can make if they have a strong incentive to do so (like if the local public school is crap). And this is ignoring any sort of subsidy or assistance.

> You also mention religious schools. Why should a person have to indoctrinated in a religion to receive a good education?

I mentioned them in context cheaper private school education. Not to mention, the fact that you immediately leapt from "religious school" to "indoctrination" indicates that you seem to be approaching this with your conclusions decided a priori and are looking to justify them rather than participate in good faith.
There is at least one defense against this that a government could employ, but the consequences to the public, while virtually guaranteed to protect and extend the government, can only be guessed at. The key is in Network Science.

Most people by now are familiar with the '6 degree of Kevin Bacon' game where most any person involved in the film industry can be linked to Kevin Bacon through 6 or fewer links via projects worked with others. Less entertaining, and thus less well known (just in the mainstream, this is common knowledge amongst anyone who has read anything about network science) is that if you wanted to make it much more difficult to 'connect' to Kevin Bacon on average, you would only need to ban a couple dozen nodes from being used. Any communication network populated by humans seems to have a similar character, forming 'clumps' that are mostly disconnected but share a few points of commonality. The only thing necessary to isolate the clumps is to identify those 'bridge' nodes and prevent the bridge from being used.

In terms of people relating to one another, this doesn't mean anything extreme like 'eliminating' the person providing the bridge. By their very nature, these bridging links that provide a path (through which ideas can flow) from one group to another are shaky and weak. If you had to change your phone number for some reason, for instance, it is unlikely that you would recall updating your number with people you spoke too very rarely and had little contact with. Even if you did, if occasional messages got dropped, you would be unlikely to notice.

Society is very big, and it is probably impossible to actually 'manage' the space of ideas circulating around. But, there is one trait that every successful revolution that led to rebellion shares and must share - acceptance across vastly disparate groups. A revolution in thinking amongst one group, or even several groups, will just fizzle out if it's not able to get buy-in across all demographics and interest groups. Those groups have to come together in common cause to have a chance of actually changing the government. So if your job is to maintain and protect the status quo, and to ensure that nothing like a revolution occurs on your watch, why not just make this sort of spread impossible or nearly so? If you have access to information about who communicates with who, you can, very quietly (maybe silently, I'm not aware of any techniques by which this strategy could be detected though I suspect such would exist), identify the tiny number of 'bridge' nodes and subtly interfere with their communications, resulting in the average 'distance' an idea has to travel to get from one group to another exponentially.
True. I was aiming for the simplest example that could pass as real general-case-ish assembly; there's plenty of room for improvement.
Have you ever tried to carry a paper shopping bag farther than your driveway to your kitchen? They tear at the slightest movement, the handles fall off, even condensation from a cold beverage bottle is enough to cause them to disintegrate.

I'm all for getting rid of plastic bags, but paper bags are not at all viable for grocery shopping on foot. You can't walk three city blocks with arms full of paper bags. Your groceries will explode all over the street.

None of this is a problem if you plan your shopping and keep a stock of reusable bags, but the original complaint about spontaneous shopping is a valid concern.

I end up buying new reusable bags very often, and while that may feel like it's beneficial to the environment, it's not as good as it seems. Each reusable bag has as much plastic as dozens of single-use ones, and eventually they end up getting thrown out too. People don't reuse them as often as they should. I think it's better, since they end up in landfills instead of blowing around the environment and landing in water, and overall it's helping change attitudes.
Always a good sign when the designer bails before production.
Industrial robotics applications are limited in scope and the environment is adjusted to make the problem easier than for autonomous driving on roads. Even then there are issues that mean often a human operator/supervisor is needed. General autonomous vehicles systems are not widely used in industry if at all.

Making a system that works on roads with other cars and pedestrians and varying quality of road markings and infrastructure is a different problem entirely. Tesla is trying to do this with a limited set of sensors and compute compared to others with makes it even less feasible. Waymo is by far the furthest ahead and they don't claim that full autonomy is close like Musk is claiming.
The EU parliament just approved a ban on some single use plastic packaging. Let's hope it will become more strict and widespread the coming years.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/28/europe/eu-single-use-plas...
Human drivers do have to make split second ethical decisions though: You're driving down a country road and a small animal jumps out in front of you. Do you hit the animal, or do you swerve into the ditch? Hitting the animal would kill it, but not harm you. Swerving into the ditch might harm you.

There is no right answer to that question, because I didn't specify what the animal is. Whether the animal is a baby deer or a human child will influence your choice. This isn't contrived. When I hit a deer, I made a choice to stay on the road. Had it been a child, I would have swerved, endangering myself in the process.
I personally think the UK model is the better model, where in most places you pay ~10c for each bag. That would allow us who prefer plastic to keep it (I for example use them as doggie poop bags) while encouraging reusable or paper.
Why not just install PostgreSQL with apt on your server and use that?

Or if you need HA use Kubernetes and deploy the Stolon helm chart.