skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if desert soil can be gradually converted to make the land fertile. That would definitely be helpful to convert a lot of land to plant trees which is currently of no particular use.

Any research or innovation on that front ?
> This is not a technological problem. It is how the universe work. If you propose to use some particular method (like using light to detect the balls) you will sooner or later find that there is something that gets broken (see the former comment).

what confuses me in various explanations like this is that the whole 'act of observing affects what you observe' thing seems to be rather particular in that it turns the wave-like behavior into particle-like behavior, which strikes me as rather weird/counter-intuitive. Why don't we just get slightly different interference patterns? Or some spectrum of effect between wave-like and particle-like?

Is my confusion mostly a result of the limits of the analogies presented to me as a layman?
That looks like an interesting side hustle, would you mind to elaborate a bit on it? How much does it make you in profit per month?
> While there were individuals who resisted this, the systems of government and the belief systems that drove the totalitarian states where unprecedentedly horrific.

World War 1 happened 2 decades earlier and wasn't totalitarian and was nearly as horrific (the combat itself was usually far more horrific than WW2). The legacy of humans has been constant war for centuries before that. Even reducing it to some 20th century political ideology is insufficient. Human history has long been a series of duelling nation states, religions, city states, war lords, tribes, etc.

The only thing that stopped wars was economic production trumped state expansion while becoming global creating strong interconnections between nation states... and technology (ie, nuclear weapons, total war economies) made the stakes of war too high. But again that's just what stopped or slowed down the bloodshed, not a sufficient explanation of why it kept happening.
My favourite Gameboy fiddler is Look Mum No Computer. He makes modular synth stuff out of random things (Furbys, for example).

https://www.lookmumnocomputer.com/projects#/gameboy-megamach...

His youtube channel is good fun. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCafxR2HWJRmMfSdyZXvZMTw Top entertainment.
There where also the massive nerd-rage directed towards the Ghostbusters remake with all-female main characters. I don't think this means we won't see gender-flipped remakes ever again. It just shows that with the internet every complainer has a voice.
Not sure that's an accepted definition. Others consider ethics the study of morality.
I stopped using Pine/Alpine since it is not well suited if you have several email accounts.
Not I use Evolution AND Thunderbird. While both have their strengths, both also have major flaws. Thunderbird is a resource hog, evolutions search function is barely functional. Easier to use recoll to find emails in Evolution than to use Evolution.

Had problems with Claws Mail, dont use it.

This never got off the ground: https://ivelope.com/

Also tried this one out: http://www.memecode.com/scribe.php
> Inheritance tax is making it expensive to trasnfer a family-owned farm down the generations

That is why I added: "with an exemption for private businesses below a certain size that are both owned and administered by a single family".

> Bigger, wealthier families avoid the tax altogether by using legal methods

Yes, to make this work you'd have to eliminate those loopholes.
It is always better to study history then to make broad general statements.

As an example Babi Yar one of largest mass execution of Jews during II WW.

> Contrary to the myth of the "clean Wehrmacht", the Sixth Army under the command of Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau worked together with the SS and SD to plan and execute the mass-murder of the Jews of Kiev.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar
At runtime, both the Stockfish and AlphaZero agents were given equivalent hardware, which was a standard commercial CPU. There were no super computers involved there.

I think what you might be mistakenly thinking of is, with some articles erroneously reporting when the games/paper were first publicly released, the fact that training a model of AlphaZero requires a considerable amount of self-play that takes up a lot of compute cycles.

It’s important to make the distinction between training and inference time here though. For the analogous comparison to how Stockfish works, it has been trained for more than a decade now with humans iteratively refining and manually creating features and strategies. The primary achievement of what Alphazero represents, is that it was able to train itself completely independent of humans and come up entirely with its own features/strategies.

At inference time too though, we see a large increase in benefit for AlphaZero against Stockfish. As even though both agents had exactly the same hardware and time allotted, AlphaZero is far more efficient at exploring its search space due to the value/pruning function it learned by itself through training. Stockfish also has its own value and pruning functions, but because of the fundamental nature of how expert systems work, it’s very difficult to create generalized features that address every possible variable. That’s the other benefit of training a model to learn things itself through self-play as opposed to manually engineering the features ourselves by hand. This is why AlphaZero performed far better than StockFish here given the same time, and one of the reasons why it was deemed to be more “human-like”. Because as humans we don’t brute force possible moves, but rather immediately discount a large majority of plays and focus in on a very small subset that we know to be the optimal path to go towards, all through a sort of ingrained “intuition” built up over the countless games we’ve played.

I hope I was able to help clarify things with this short summary, and if you’re interested, I definitely recommend reading the paper itself for more in depth detail/information! You can find it freely available here at: https://deepmind.com/documents/260/alphazero_preprint.pdf
I think that people who argue a perpetual growth requirement are fundamentally doubting that an economy can store (sufficient) value for the future. They are rejecting that life-long earnings can be saved and invested in a person's own non-productive retirement. They are presupposing hand-to-mouth living and assigning roles to the actors in that final scene.

I suppose it is true in isolation. How many years of food, energy, and medicine could you stockpile for yourself to consume in your end years? There are practical limits due to spoilage, etc. If you instead have to devise a way to keep producing for yourself, we might quibble over whether that is really retirement...? It's also easy enough to run thought experiments and demonstrate how a collapsing population has an unpleasant end-game. Like musical chairs, eventually someone loses. The last people to die will die alone, with nobody to nurse them. Before that, systems will collapse, reducing the efficiencies that survivors depend on for quality of life.

But, what are all the phases in between? How long can a society sustainably function at a fixed or slowly reducing size? Could we gracefully transition to earlier modes such as functioning agrarian, hunter-gatherer, or frontier communities? Can those retro communities still enjoy technological benefits developed by their larger forebears? Or do we have to assume war, famine, and post-apocalyptic wasteland?

This seems like more of a psychology test than a useful debate. We can establish our various moods and dispositions, but not prognosticate a large-scale future. At a more personal level, can't we live a good life even if we are the last one to turn out the lights? Don't we all die alone, regardless of the number of attending nurses and medical billing?
My car was EOL 2011. The e-windows 4-switch costs 300$ for original and there’s no replacement. I’ll be extremely happy to beta test this market...
Well, I am quite aware that lack of evidence does not always mean a thing is not true; but I do prefer to have some evidence to go with claims, especially when they directly affect my day-to-day.
JSON is as well.
https://www.imnovation-hub.com/society/pollution-eating-moss...

This might be something you are referring to.
> Historically, what follows this is mass poverty.

Yes, but historically capitalism has worked. That's the whole point here: things are changing. Not all of the lessons of history apply in a post-scarcity world.
If it crashes it, there may be an attack vector here!
pine/alpine has its strength! But I found it unhandy with handling several email accounts.
Mondo 2000 – Issue 06 (1992)
A Google Docs Based Backup Application in C++
There are international treaties on the indigenous peoples' rights but the governments are slow to implement them. For a similar situation in Europe, see how the Sami people are still lacking some self-determination rights in Lapland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sámi_people#Discrimination_aga...
> Another possibility: eliminate private ownership of land.

Look at Hong Kong, housing prices there have grown seriously out of whack, average citizens are suffering and young adults are leaving.

You'd need a very competent and uncorrupt government to accomplish this ideal.
While there were individuals who resisted this, the systems of government and the belief systems that drove the totalitarian states where unprecedentedly horrific.

There is nothing controversial about saying that. If you are implying that I'm ignorant of such a basic fact, then this is insulting and commenting in bad faith.

What is controversial nowadays, ironically for a society which claims to be founded on inviolate individual human rights, is that the exact same regard for individual culpability should be accorded members of the Wehrmacht. My previous comment supports the notion of group culpability for members of an army. However, the idea that all members of the Wehrmacht are equally culpable is simply ridiculous and untenable, given the facts and given the principles of individual human rights.

If you're interested in learning more about this history, "The Second World Wars" by Victor Davis Hanson is a good place to start.

If you mean to insinuate that I know nothing of the very basic history of WWII, please know that I am already a fan of David Hanson.

As noted elsewhere, it is an act of individual courage to go against the flow of the groupthink. I hardly think "Nazi German Bad" is at all controversial. However, in 2019, "individual rights for all, no exceptions" is controversial, in direct contradiction to our stated values in the US.
> original M2

...Er. Going and looking at the wiki page... Do you mean the M1921, which was a water-cooled fixed-barrel machine gun that had originally been designed to fire .30-06 and was repeatedly trialed by the military between 1921 and 1937 and rejected for being generally terrible? Or do you mean the version that the military eventually adopted circa 1935 as the M2, which was still water-cooled but not quite as terrible as the other options? Or do you mean the air-cooled variants that were finally developed circa 1940 to put on tanks?

Like, I understand the point about the 1911, but even there I have a feeling that if I went digging I'd find a decade of prototypes. There are a lot of patterns out there that people think were first set to paper in their final, perfect form but are actually the result of twenty years of iterative refinement.
At Logical Clocks, we build a horizontally scalable ML pipeline framework on the open-source Hopsworks platform, based around its feature store and Airflow for orchestration:

* https://hopsworks.readthedocs.io/en/latest/hopsml/hopsML.htm...

* https://www.logicalclocks.com/feature-store/

The choice for the DataPrep stage basically comes down to Spark or Apache Beam, and we currently support Spark, but plan to soon add support for Beam, because of some of the goodies in TFX (TensorFlow Extended).

For distributed hyperparam opt and distributed training, we leverage Apache Spark and our own version of YARN that supports GPUs -

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx6HyoUYGL0

For model serving, we support Kubernetes:

* https://hopsworks.readthedocs.io/en/0.9/hopsml/hopsML.html#s...

Our platform supports TLS/SSL certificates everywhere and is open-source. Download it and try it, and it runs in several large enterprises in Europe. We have a cluster with >1000 users in Sweden here:

* https://www.hops.site

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There are plenty of examples of the later and none of them are pretty compared to status quo in the US. It seems unpopular to state but blindingly obvious that we live in the best time in the history of the world for humans, and if you live in a first world country you have it easier than anyone at any point in history to simply live or climb an economic ladder.

Second system syndrome is en vogue right now in politics. Maybe there is some tectonic shift that will happen this century due to technological progress, but I'd counter moderate and incremental change would be much less risky (if you botch a software project maybe people lose jobs, if you botch a political sea change millions of people die) and there is plenty of small but meaningful improvements to be had for every class of person.
Ohio Kentucky doctors among 60 charged in pain pill bust acted like drug dealers
It's the same economically, but not the same psychologically.
Clojure: API First vs. Data First Design
I’m a hypnotist. Most of my clients are through word-of-mouth referrals, although I do have a website, as well. It’s an unusual skill that I developed over many years, and I enjoy being able to help people. It’s a fun conversation topic at parties, as well. :)
k9mail does not work so well on my phone. I can read emails but never got SMTP to work.
I don't see how that adds up to a vote to cut social security. If it comes down to it, raising taxes seems more likely.
That's awesome! More power to ya!

I'm trying to work on ways to get people to basically do the same thing: live in ways more integrated with ecological systems. The weird thing I see is that there seems to be a lot of pent up demand, but people can't articulate what they want, so no one is selling it to them, leading to inadequate supply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_Homes

> Village Homes is a planned community in Davis, Yolo County, California. It is designed to be ecologically sustainable by harnessing the energies and natural resources that exists in the landscape, especially stormwater and solar energy.
Hey checked out your site and its really nice. I like the concept but found it hard to actually create a notebook and checkout.

It might help to have some simple styles pre-done and allow me to choose the one I like as the builder is pretty intimidating.
>> continued altruism of the elite

there is a fundamental error in how you are thinking about this
> show me a socialist or communist country that innovates

Finland? China?
Perhaps they should stop trying to kill it, then.

People often confuse the needs for working markets (capitalism) with preserving the elite’s position (rent-seeking).
It also doesn't make sense to have everyone in the country try to live in a dozen cities.

Those cities themselves are unsustainable: SF, Portland, and Seattle are all literal shitholes, due to failed civic leadership and uneconomic policies.

As a civilization, we need to figure out how to reduce the pressure to collect in a handful of places, and spread ourselves back over multiple locations and jurisdictions -- because it's clear that's a better plan.

Our current system is optimized for a few major players, and it's collapsing. They're right to worry, and try to adjust it.

Figuring out how to get people to live in already affordable places is the only way to reduce the pressure on those cities and create housing affordable and livable for average people.
> That’s an interesting non sequitur.

I'll have to write it in a more straightforward manner, since it's apparently a non sequitur if you don't understand it: if we are optimistic about living on a planet as hostile as Mars, how can we be pessimistic about surviving a temperature increase of a few degrees on
Earth?
Tesla gets restraining order on short-seller who photographed employees
That's just it. Sometimes you DO know better. Like we know it's better that homes aren't bought and left empty in dense urban housing markets, but wealthy people love to buy them all up.

So, yes. I do. And you do too.

We also don't need humvees. Or diamonds.
I've used to do these myself for my students! Amazing job!
So here's the crazy thing -- if you pay taxes on the profit you earn, like everything else, your state tends to not care and treats it like any other business.

Though in my state, in excess of 5 vehicles per year they start to care, and prefer you hold a surety bond -- which as of a few months ago, I do for an amount well in excess of the transaction price of the vehicles I typically sell. I also now have a dealer plate, which never goes on anything because some buyers would get weird if they saw one.
Probably some entrepreneur ordering them in small quantities from China from a place that makes frying pans one day, car parts the next.

I used to order a lot of custom things from China. Took a lot of trial and error to find good suppliers. They only accept bank wire as payment, so they risk little other than repeat business if they choose to be sloppy.
JSON is agnostic towards anything-compatibility. If you want your service to be backwards compatible, and it is serving JSON, I think you're only going to achieve your goal through rigorous 'integration' tests.
There are a couple of good books on bitemporality, Richard Snodgrass' "Developing time-oriented database applications in SQL" is pretty much the bible on the subject and goes into great detail. "Managing Time in Relational Databases" by Tom Johnston and Randall Weis is another great book, a little more hands on with the code.

I'd love to see someone translate the concepts in both books to a useful postgres package. As Snodgrass points out, "Unfortunately, due to the noncompliance of all existing DBMSs, a few of these fragments run on no existing platform" and thus only discusses how they can be applied to DB2, MSSQL, Sybase, Oracle8 and UniSQL.
I started by watching Youtube videos. My first project was a modern bench built out of 2x4s, I picked a project that didn't require too many tools or advanced cuts of wood, and could be put together with wood glue. I also learned how to sand and finish wood to a professional finish. I then built this same bench again but better, learning from mistakes I had made. Then I went on to learn how other tools worked like jointers, planers, routers, bandsaws and learned about joinery. I then kept doing more advanced projects and seeking out more exotic woods to work with, such as walnut.

There's not much failure in woodworking as a hobby, if what you build isn't great just toss it out and try again. It doesn't matter much if you're just building cheap pinewood prototypes. Perhaps the only failure would be like losing a finger on a table saw or ruining very expensive wood.
We have been genetically modifying plants to maximize CO2 utilization for millenia.
Maybe.

In countries with socialized medicine, access to healthcare services is usually more equal than countries without socialized medicine.

So if some equality can be created in such an important choice, maybe it could be achieved in the less important choice of counter tops, if someone we're to bother.
Things to Consider When Selling Your House
About 10 years ago and ten years into my career, I had been working and stayed at the same job way too long and both my salary and career stagnated.

I had two part time money making side projects. I was a part time fitness instructor and had some rental real estate.

Teaching fitness classes was fun, I made a lot of friends, and it gave me a release valve from working at a computer all day. Real estate was a headache.

Around 2008 -2011, a few things happened. The real estate market crashed and I did a few “strategic defaults”, I realized I could make a lot more by getting better at software engineering and job hopping, and I got married and gained a wife and two (step) children.

I gave up all of my side projects, concentrated on my career, started building a network of recruiters, former coworkers, and former managers and doubled my income over the next 8 years (not bragging, I still make about the average of principal engineer/architect/team lead in my area).

Even looking over the next two to five years, I should be able to increase my income by 50% (working for local companies) to well over 100% (if I can get into Amazon) as some type of cloud consultant, “digital transformation consultant”, or “Architect”. The only thing stopping me now is the travel requirements. I want to wait until my youngest completes high school.

But, that means I can’t juggle my job, family commitments, working out, filling in some technical gaps and a side job/business.

So no side business.
Not a software error, the person responsible for the Google Ears project got the promotion they were after and now no one cares to keep it running
PreAMo – A Clicker Campaign Found on Google Play
I've been thinking about the following scheme, primarily in the context of a science fiction novella plot:

1. Income is not taxed. Wealth is.

2. Wealth tax brackets are determined based on a multiplier: no one person may own more than 1000 times the median per capita wealth.

3. Wealth is not actively monitored. But undeclared wealth is not protected by law.

What would the implications of this scheme be?
The lizard is in the addons: https://online.supertuxkart.net/addons.php?type=karts&name=g...
Most standards have an escape hatch, like PCI's compensating controls. And we weren't blowing smoke, later one of our engineers broke his arm because of the changes on design they wanted.
> But I always find the term "Indigenous" weird, because we all came from somewhere

Right but of course there is a difference between coming to NA less than 200 years ago and 15,000++ years ago.

When settlers arrived in North America, Indigenous Nations in North America were systematically stripped of their lands and titles and worse. In Canada at least the notion that 'everyone came from somewhere' is viewed as a settler rhetorical tactic to loosen and obfuscate Indigenous title to the land and this is not taken kindly by Indigenous persons.

Consequently in Canada Indigenous people will often state that they've been in NA 'since time immemorial' or more simply 'always'. This is not scientifically likely to be true, but it's essentially a strong assertion and underlining of the fact that the land is their unceded land and that settlers are settlers to it.
How did you gather that from the article? I'm fairly conservative and didn't think that at all. The point of the article that was being heavily polarized in either direction shuts down conversation which results in violence in the long run, regardless of which side of the spectrum the polarization occurs.
Ways to Lie with Charts (2014)
Hey, we'd only disregard the truth for a couple of complete innocents, so let's just treat this entire group of individuals as fungible and disposable? Sorry, but that's not properly valuing individual human rights. As I point out above, almost every one in the faction is culpable. However, they should still be held individually culpable, in accordance with their particular facts and individual human rights and the stated principles of the founding of the United States.

If one starts allowing group culpability without regard for the innocents, no matter how few, then this destroys the principle of individual culpability. Sorry, but that's something the good guys shouldn't be doing, and only something one should expect the bad guys to do.

Good guys don't treat entire groups of people as fungible and disposable. Period.