skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only way to know whether a new idea will work is to try it: put some minimal form of it in front of people and see if they actually get use it.

And then get skewered left and right for shutting down products? You can't have it both ways.
Just put wheels on a helicopter and now you have a flying car.
Scott Manley discussed long lived isotopes after the recent findings of Xenon decay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-pH9X29rBE

But then went on to talk about metastable Tantalum 180. Ta180 has a half life of eight hours or so, but the metastable state, that is the nucleus is in an excited state has a supposed half life of millions of billions of years, quite a treat to learn this.
The difference is that your runtime state is reset and you must architect your application to keep fast startup time which is not always a good thing. OSGI does not reload classes, it loads new classes, you can't reload class for an existing object. It's the same restart, you just leak memory.
I feel like the use case is much smaller than the number of people preaching it warrants though.

You really have to have extremely unpredictable and spikey needs as well as need the processing immediately. Because if the traffic is predictable, you can schedule spot instances for much cheaper and same for if the data doesn't have to be processed immediately.

To me, the best use cases are very infrequent, spikey, brief needs. I haven't seen a lot of examples that meet that.
This change (for better or worse) was motivated by multiple cases where wrongly accused individuals narrowly avoided losing their liberty due to the last minute discovery of exonerating gossip and notes on the accuser's phone. There isn't a strict black and white spectrum on this issue when it comes to liberty, because it concerns cases where one individual is seeking imprisonment of another individual.
Google already has a huge amount of office space in Chelsea Market, though. That's more about owning rather than renting.

If you want to talk expansion, look at the new Hudson Square expansion about a mile south of Chelsea Market: https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/17/18144448/google-nyc-camp...
> Might be overthinking this one, but this line of thinking is frustrating.

I think maybe you are. I read "Find easy ways you can come across better." as "learn to communicate your intent clearer", as long as your normal mode of communication isn't being an asshole. If you're not an asshole, explaining yourself clearly and effectively without being too verbose is the same as coming across better.

Edit: And if someone is an asshole, that can be interpreted as "find a way to be less of an asshole."
Radical Digital Painting: Weber State University – Artist Lecture Series
> unable to come up with even a simple in browser tipping system to hedge against the downfall of their almost entirely ad based revenue

Google has launched multiple micropayment products as replacements for ads. Nobody uses them.
The real lesson should be one from economics, combine time and money based upon their current relative marginal value.

When you have heaps of time, thats the exact moment when you should be using it to set yourself up for future earning and saving of money.

When you work long hours and make enough money, use that money to buy back some time.

And if you "work long hours, make few money", my condolences, but that also gives you an important insight into the value of doing the former if or when you can...(under the assumption that the work isn't effectively future investment)
I've always wondered about this subject and I have a hypothesis: civilizations only broadcast recognizable signals for a short time.

Then as radio becomes more sophisticated, the signals become harder to receive and be recognized. Over time, radio becomes more efficient, so signals will be more directional, lower power, and compressed. That means you have to be in the right place with the right coding scheme otherwise the signal won't be received, or will look like noise.
I really enjoyed this one as well. The descriptions of Jack in the book give very interesting context for evaluating some of the decisions he's made recently about hate speech and bullying on twitter.

I would love recommendations for similar books that aren't just hagiographies of startups/tech giants.
Stablecoin? I can think of at least 2 things wrong with that name!
I propose a measure I'll call Total Proof,

T = (% content) x volume in oz

Which is related to Proof Points (P) by the following:

P = 2T

Since T and P are proportional you can use Total Proof in the same way as Proof Points, just skip the multiplication by 2 and divide your target range in half.

My favorite 9% IPAs clock in at 288 Proof Points or 144 Total Proof for a pint, which makes sense because I usually follow that with a light lager that gets me to around 200 Total Proof or 400 Proof Points.

Dividing the ABV in half would result in a "normalized" scale that could tell you, for example, that you're exactly 72% drunk when you finish a pint of 9% because 9 x 0.5 x 16 is 72.
I saw this paper http://energywatchgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/EWG_LUT_100RE... on HN recently which claims that it shouldn't be too expensive to convert to 100% renewable energy by 2050 (but you have to actually start on it of course). Liquid fuel would still be used for ships, jets, rockets, and some trucks and to be net zero carbon that fuel needs to be produced either by plants (biofuel) or by Prometheus-style direct capture. In this case the fuel is not a source of energy but a denser storage medium for renewable electricity.
Roger Ailes built a media empire with the explicit idea that the reason why the "elites" (read: Republican politicians) had their hand forced on Vietnam was that they didn't control the propaganda around it sufficiently.

He is quite explicit and straightforward and is on the record about this.

If you don't acknowledge that Ailes set out to build a propaganda empire, you are already behind the 8 ball before we even start discussing the Internet.
OP obviously enjoys building and showing stuff off. If they valued their time they would be building smart watches instead of mindlessly browsing social media or watching TV.
Mean kids said all sorts of insulting things, but it was more related to personal appearance (fat, ugly etc.) or "your mama" jokes.
I taken a few phone interviews without realizing that they had the wrong guy.

It's never turned into an awkward situation just yet but its also never gotten further than that.
The book "Stat-Spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data" by Joel Best goes into a lot of this kind of stuff. Some of the examples here (and in that book) seem so obvious once you hear/see them from the right angle, but it can actually be surprisingly easy for otherwise intelligent people to be deceived by data trickery.
Chimera – Your device, your way
Wails [Beta]: Create Desktop Apps Using Go and HTML/CSS/JS
ELF may find new life as a format for data structures in persistent RAM, given a few extensions.
I am guessing that a random person seeing that ad would be concerned about their phone getting physically damaged, not about their civil rights being violated.

It's a sad but true reality.
Well, it's getting better thankfully. Given that most CUDA workloads run in Linux now, we've started seeing a much nicer cadence of releases. Though I agree on the desktop/laptop side there is definitely not feature parity.
> Its ad revenue is down

Ad revenue is not down. Ad revenue is growing slower than in the past.

> How can you have a large scale security breach with a brutal tech hiring process, sky high salaries and a whitepaper-producing workforce?

Security is stupendously hard. It is also not a stable state. Software engineering as a discipline does not have methods of turning dollars into security with confidence. There is no company on the planet that avoids getting pwned.
Having recently lost 80+ pounds (~40 to my goal) the transformation in how people perceive you is remarkable and very noticeable.

Make no mistake, if you're very overweight, or otherwise visibly not taking care of yourself, you are absolutely losing opportunities. As a fat person, I know anti-fat bias is bulls hit; I also know it's really, really hard to control for.

The advice may not apply to you, because past a certain point it does become elitism.
Yes, but I’m talking about Wikidata (CC0), not Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA).
It's just a simple matter of code. You're not the first to want BitBucket support.
Picking looks over function.
I'm CompTIA A+ certified. It cost me $0 (paid for by an employer when I was 16) and I think I overpaid.

I'm not sure that they have shifted away from being a certification body, they still issue a lot of certifications. I don't think they are considered very valuable certifications though.

There is nothing in the guidelines that says you can't post a cell number, I think you're good.
The point of a trial is to allow an independent tribunal of fact to make difficult factual decisions, like whether to believe a complainant’s oral testimony. In one of the cases cited in support of this change in practice [1] the police had access to a “computer disk containing 40,000 messages [which] revealed the alleged victim had pestered [the accused] for ‘casual sex’”, but this was not noticed until part-way through a trial which everyone had spent months preparing for. In this case, justice required that the private message history between the complainant and the accused be shared with the police and, if the case was to go to trial, the court. But the fact that the messages were discovered during the trial, rather than in the early days of the investigation, was a catastrophe for which the police apologised.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-42873618
Thanks so much, in terms of the hard questions after todays madness of launch comes down a little I'll tackle the hardest comments/questions here. In the coming months we will do some technical blog posts to explain how we will tackle the problem space. Many of the problems we have not figured out yet and welcome the community to contact us with new ideas. I 100% agree some of the problems are very hard. In terms of giving a glimpse into some problems we have solved so far, please test out the AI assisted editor, the magic table cells in the editor for auto filling tables, the citation tool by pasting a academic paper in the citation UI, the event detection on the timeline UI and the AI suggestions as well to get to some of the early results we have on automating the problem. Topic prediction, taxonomic detection, claim validation, structured data extraction, auto field detection/suggestions, crosslinking, spelling/grammar checking, sentiment checking, event detection, tense detection, quality on human edit feedbacks and ultimately prose writing (see recent open AI auto writing research) [non exhaustive list] - some we have solved and some not yet, but we will keep working on it. Generally speaking, keen to work on something difficult for the next 10 years...
This would be more like the President renting out a room in the White House. I think the line is actually pretty clear; if you're using state resources to produce something of value to sell for private profit, you're on the wrong side of it.

While 400 stamps don't weigh a lot, they'd still cost more than $1 each to launch by my back of the envelope calculations. You're effectively footing NASA with a $500 bill to pocket $21k.
A separate add on would be fine, but they didn't announce one.
> Be a pleasant person.

This is the cheat-code for getting everything you'll ever need and most of what you want out of life. Frankly, I would have made it number one.
That’s not correct; Tether does nominally allow redeeming for USD, although only in bulk, and the service has opened and closed over time and generally been a mess AFAIK.
Defending Big Business [audio]
Tether is alleged to have been far more deeply and willingly involved than just "collateral damage." Per the AG's statement: "Those transactions – which also have not been disclosed to investors – treat Tether’s cash reserves as Bitfinex’s corporate slush fund, and are being used to hide Bitfinex’s massive, undisclosed losses and inability to handle customer withdrawals."

https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/attorney-general-james-annou...

The only reason to swap funds between those accounts would be if the parties knew that there was more risk than normal cash reserves for the money that Tether would end up having - and this was deemed by Tether operators to be an acceptable risk not worth disclosing. Not a shining beacon of cleanliness here.
Good article and I totally agree. Besides when we look at all our intrepid tech-bro "pioneers" that embrace transhumanism, it begs the obvious question. Would you want to spend eternity with them? I, for one, welcome the sweet release of death. It can't possibly be worse.
> it breaks way too easily if you're not constantly updating it

I sometimes go as long as a few months between updates on my desktop – and that's been running Arch for some years now and hasn't needed a reinstall from scratch.
That's probably appropriate for quickly progressing fields, but not for fundamental physics which has utterly stagnated.
People wasting time on important but nearly intractable topics certainly happens (e.g., arguably myself on quantum foundations). But this is absolutely dwarfed by the number of researchers eager to springboard to a cutting edge, which hasn't moved much in decades, but who remain ignorant of the basics.

The terrible incentives for professors to quickly make graduate students useful, rather than invest in fundamental understanding that won't pay off for many years after they graduate, should also lead us to suspect the correct balance isn't being struck.
Correct, it collects carbon in the form of CO2 and "un-cracks" it back to hydrocarbons. Likely Fischer–Tropsch process.
How many millions of people are posting on Instagram? How many billions of photos are on Instagram now?

Is it really so crazy to think that all of those billions of photos, you can find groupings of 12 that are similarly composed? How many unique photos are there to take really?

I'd be way more impressed if you could somehow come up with a set of a billion photos such that there are no compositional groupings across the set. Earth only has so many types of things on it to photograph.
Cartoon Network online player has been hacked to play videos not for kids
There are in fact several ways to do this in Java.

The Play framework uses classloaders to keep library classes (which are stateless) loaded, while reloading app code.

The JVM has build in hot swapping for cases where signatures don't change.

And then JRebel uses proprietary rocket science to do really good hot reloading.
Also : https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/emulator (JavaScript only) and https://www.openfaas.com/ (if you can tolerate running Minikube on your "localhost".
Or how about the President having guests stay in personal hotel chains?

Oh wait...
I suppose it works well because it’s designed that way. We abstract away the non essential and do our math. The results measure out in the non-abstract world well enough to be useful. So we keep on with it. This process is recurring, so we do math on our math.

I think it’s fun to ask if this abstract world is real. I think it is. It’s a wonderful place in the mind to visit if you’re inclined to wander around without trying too hard to get anywhere. That’s my hobbyist point of view anyway.
Who is making those assumptions? My comment assumed the opposite of #2 and #3.
When criminal A reports criminal B this is known as "Snitchin". On the streets, snitchin' is widely regarded to be bad for your health. Therefore anything that discourages snitchin should regared be a net positive for society and longevity!
Advertises and marketers mislead and exaggerate with near impunity and use legalistic language drafted by lawyers to cover their asses. It is standard practice for companies to knowingly deploy psychological trickery in order to manipulate consumers, including very young children. This is accepted because capitalism is the one cow that can not be slaughtered. Profit is always good. Caveat emptor.

But a civil liberties group informing citizens of their rights in an attention catching way is deplored as intrusive and inappropriate and not “objective” enough.

This attitude speaks volumes about a society that has lost its way and is slowly collapsing under the irreconcilable contradictions it refuses to honestly address.
If your service area ever expands, NTP has got you covered.

It's the most crufty software in the universe, but it supports interstellar time. :)
I think it's sales. So their watches sell almost like macs. No wonder they don't really care about computers. No growth potential for computers, but very few people bought watches, so much more potential to grow.
Soooooo many questions.

Gasoline is a distillate made up of several hydrocarbons -- is he synthesizing all of them, or just octane? What about additives, like anti-knock agents? Plans for diesel?

No amount of fancy CNTs gets around thermodynamics. CO2 and H20 are far more stable, thermodynamically, than octane, it's partially why octane is a good fuel. Where does the extra energy come from? What is the efficiency of the conversion? What kind of thoroughput are we talking about?

How scalable - is the CNT manufacturing mature enough to support large scale rollout?

Who is on his team? Research chemists, or experienced chem Es, both hopefully?

I'm sure he knows these answers (man has a PhD is chem), would have loved to sit through that pitch.

The Bloomberg piece is very light on details; the secrecy is frustrating but understandable.
Google has been an ad company from the time they IPO’d until today when 85% of their revenue is still from ads.

From a business side, they really haven’t done too much.
There have been experiments that you probably didn't hear about. I liked the old version of Google Contributor, but apparently few others did.
It's not elitism, it's pragmatism. Work is a collective, social endeavor. Getting along better with others is going to help, whether that's by communicating better, being generally more likable, or being tall and good looking (yeah, it sucks that this is a thing, but who are we kidding?)

Most of these things are under your control, so work at getting better at your soft skills, they're at least as important as your technical expertise.
It’s not bad; it’s a different product.
Now v1 was about dead simple deployments with no configuration, as now automatically configured that for you.
Now v2 is about serverless (with minimal lockin, I’d say), and is a pretty good (actually pretty awesome) product if you see it alone.

The problem is that Zeit wants to deprecate Now v1 in favor of Now v2, which is super different and is incompatible (Now v1 code should be appropriately configured to use the `@now/node-server-builder` to run on the v2 platform).

I believe that Zeit should keep these two products as different names, something like ‘now classic’ and ‘now serverless’.
Do they know which 30%?
Career Decisions
I think it's more that there are a large number of employees who don't actually contribute much and treat it like a retirement gig. I've seen people who are only in the office from 10-5, take long breaks for lunches, socializing, working out, massages, etc. and regularly "WFH" one day a week on top of that, and clearly aren't very productive (note: there are people who keep that kind of schedule and do get a lot done; I'm not talking about them).

It's possible to give the appearance of being busy and valuable if you make every project way more complex than it needs to be by scheduling lots of meetings that end up mostly involving bike shedding, publishing lots of design docs and spreadsheets to gain visibility, submitting mediocre code so that you can subsequently submit lots of cleanup CLs, and so on. The game is easier to play these days because the company is so large that entire teams can go off the radar and not have to be accountable.

This happens at every big company and it isn't the norm at Google, but it happens quite often. It's really hard to fire employees, and a pain for managers. It's way easier to just let them be, and for a low-mid level manager that can even make it easier for them to justify additional headcount, which makes their org bigger and increases their standing.
> None of G+ was Page's idea. There was a product manager (who left for facebook!)

Didn't know that, it's cool to learn about it.

About Twitter and FB being on a minefield I agree, but I don't think that will lead to any serious consequences for them, because there's almost no political will to make things right and that happens because the voters themselves (those FB and Twitter users) have almost no interest in how those companies reached their present size. In the end any skilled politician can smell that there's no sense in going to war against a company (or against a communication medium) that consumes at least 3 or 4 hours per day, on average, of their voters' time, it's like a US politician going to war against television in the 1960s, backed when TV had just emerged, it would be public opinion suicide.

Retrospectively I still do think that Page had the right idea to try and force Social (back at that time I also thought it as a crazy idea), like I said, I think that he had sensed that Search will be of almost no use in a world where the internet/web is not represented by websites anymore. I do agree though that even as seen from the outside Page could have done a much better job of getting the Google employees behind him and behind his idea, I think that that wood and arrows metaphor he used was really, really poor and, frankly speaking, quite condescending.
How much to factor in official/unofficial state subsidies in Huawei financial performance?
I guess you're being sarcastic, but fwiw my intention wasn't to criticize the US but rather correct a common misconception about law enforcement that exists throughout the developed world, including (apparently) the UK:

https://www.quora.com/In-the-UK-are-the-police-legally-oblig...
The cure for test stress is preparation, i.e. studying. Nothing works better on a test than knowing the material. The rest is just excuses.
The type of banana you get at the grocery store now is called Cavendish. When the slip on banana peel meme was invented, the common banana was the Gros Michel, which has a more slippery skin.
Transhumanism is a fairy tale, but I do appreciate the pointed critique of materialism. I always found it odd that the majority of mainstream philosophers are materialists (apart from a few standouts like Chalmers).

Even if I wasn't a Christian, I'd find materialism to be absurdly reductive.