skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all. It's not about the big picture goal but about the individual missions. There's effectively 0 risk that the big picture goal of getting people to, and ultimately colonizing, Mars will fail. It's a question of when, not if. But the individual missions, especially the early ones, to Mars will involve a high degree of risk.

Getting to low earth orbit, by contrast, is trivial. In spite of this we've sent fewer than 600 people to LEO, and have lost at least 30 astronauts in the process of it [1]. 5% of our astronauts have lost their lives just getting to and from low earth orbit! This is already pushing the edge of NASA's risk tolerance, which goes a long ways towards explaining why NASA hasn't sent a man beyond LEO in 47 years.

And missions to Mars are substantially more complex and risky than getting to and from LEO. No matter how safe we try to make things, people will die in the process of what ultimately will be the colonization of Mars. This means it's a mission that NASA is unable to take on, as they have become intolerant of risk. But at the same time it's a mission that must be executed. And for this it's a very good thing that we're managing to move beyond dependence upon government agencies for progress in space.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_ac...
That article makes sense only in the context of California coastal communities. None of the assumptions or logic mentioned apply in my housing market where they simply build new houses without end.

Despite the constant stream of new housing my house has almost doubled in value over that last 10 years and yet still remains affordable.
> It's a good investment because it reduces your lifetime housing cost to zero

I think that depends on your definition of good. If you put the money you would have used for your down payment and what you would save by renting vs owning towards the s&p500 by the end of the 30 years your investment's yearly growth is more than your yearly rent.

Of course, lowering your expenses is less risky than growing your investments while keeping expenses the same so it's not a completely objective decision.

The biggest problem with this strategy is that most people end up having lifestyle creep and do not save as much if they rent vs being forced to save via a mortgage.
Does that system come with any notable drawbacks of its own?
Whelp, and in this case, nobody got fired, either. Good point!
> Humans are invaluable.

They're really not, as far as managing risk goes. If you try to avoid assigning a value, you're going to do a worse job, and more people will probably die.
Most scenarios where the U.S. gets nuked are at high altitude just to fry our electronics. If a nuke went off directly over your house you probably wouldn’t even notice for a couple hours if you were sleeping, but you probably wouldn’t be able to live there afterwards either.
> In October 2018, it released a blacklist of 21 jurisdictions, including Malta and Cyprus, that it believes are undermining international efforts to combat tax evasion.

Every possible means should be brought to bear in punishing these enablers of tax evasion. Steal from the rest of us at such a scale? Prepare to feel pain.
Either that, or occasionally I just roll "nineteen-nineties" into "twenty-hundreds" or "twenty-ohs".
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"Home prices look remarkably stable when corrected for inflation. Over the 100 years ending in 1990 — before the recent housing boom — real home prices rose only 0.2 percent a year, on average. The smallness of that increase seems best explained by rising productivity in construction, which offset increasing costs of land and labor."

From Nobel Prize winner Robert Shiller

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2013/04/robert-shiller-on-r...
What's the recharge time for that motorcycle?
Here is the Tesla's Model S video as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5aFZJxuJGQ
There's nothing in principle that prevents other mechanisms from inducing the prion conditions that eventually leads to Alzheimer's symptoms.

This paper is just another piece of evidence that points to the plaques and tangles being self propagating, instead of being say for example a pure by-product of some other mechanism. In itself, that doesn't really tell us anything about the mechanisms at play.

Is it a game changer? Probably not. It's unlikely that Alzheimer's is purely spread through inter-human prion transmission, so other factors are likely still at play.
> I want all the WYSIWYG of Word or PowerPoint or Inkscape just right there feeling 100% natural and native.

This specific bit reminds me of the elegant UX implemented in Typora. [1]

[1]: https://typora.io/
"What if the neural net or the system used to detect obstacles didn't see it because the precise configuration of the data fooled it?"

I think the answer is that all state must be represented as a probability over states and the controller must be set up to be a robust controller under this ambiguity of state. Then the problem becomes one of making sure that probability is well calibrated so that you get the appropriate control response.
The whole software stack for autonomous driving is also a black box, that is just as big an issue. If some parts are sophisticated but are being fed into others that are naive we have no idea.
Every sensor has issues, I wouldn't be so quick to worry about the neural networks in particular.
There are no current treatments for Alzheimers that do much of anything.

Well, unless you count physical exercise.
Did Hearthstone handle progression better? I believe it's a fairly popular game.
Thanks for doing that.
If the goal is to get a job at a FANG, then coding interview preparation is much more valuable than building a startup.

In fact, most of the work launching a startup will be on the business side anyway. Most of the coding is done in the very beginning, the rest is sales, marketing, and partnerships.
More Is Less: Increased Processing of Unwanted Memories Facilitates Forgetting
If you surrender control to a doctor to perform a surgery, and the doctor decides to stab you in the heart, why aren't you responsible for being stabbed, since you chose to 'completely surrender control'?
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I mentor students in CS programs. A lot of the material is very topical. Also, the stuff that gets you a job (or helps you keep it) is likewise topical. It's fine to know about dining philosophers but if you can't implement solutions in the language du jour a lot of places won't hire you.
None of the tests in that reference were done at highway speeds. AIUI, handling stationary objects with radar is easier at slower speeds.

Super interesting to see that Subaru is doing emergency breaking with cameras, though. Seems I'm a couple of years out of the loop.
OK, some fair points, with caveats. I think that property growth matching the general rate of inflation inevitably tends towards unaffordability because of the high base cost and that's why I don't entirely agree with your argument.

On the first, even if housing keeps up with inflation it's becoming significantly more unaffordable due to the high base price - ideally housing should not keep up with the general rate of inflation, so if it's a "good investment" in the sense that it successfully hedges against inflation... then it's inconsistent with being affordable.

On the second point, this depends on the location. In Australia, gains on your primary residence would be tax free, uncapped, and gains on investment properties would be reduced by 50% before calculating tax if you'd held it for more than 12 months (which is exactly the same tax as is applied to stocks). Note the point above about inflation though; if housing is keeping up with inflation then it's becoming progressively more unaffordable.

On the third point, this again depends on location. In Australia you _can_ buy with low deposits (almost impossible to do 0%) but you will be hit with additional up front costs that get loaded on to your mortgage (Lenders Mortgage Insurance, ~1-4% of the property value depending on lender and the exact percent deposit that you have) if you have less than 20%, you will have access to a much smaller pool of lenders and products so will almost certainly be paying a significantly worse interest rate, and you will likely have to pay stamp duty (varies by state, generally about 5% of the property value, some discounts / waivers available for first home buyers depending on state and property value). Ideally in Australia, you're normally going to be looking at a 20% deposit, plus a 5% stamp duty, so you need to have 25% of the purchase price in cash. You might get away with 10% deposit, and on a first home purchase in some states pay no stamp duty, but that's still a substantial burden when median prices are ~$800k Melbourne or $1m Sydney.
Yeah I agree, however I'd imagine if inflammation was the cause of issues (and I recall some studies showing brain inflammation to be linked to some brain disorders) then perhaps more research would go into what causes the inflammation.

Some evidence the inflammation might be diet related too. Although I can't recall the source at the moment.
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Chronic Alcohol Drinking Slows Brain Development in Young Adult Primates
I haven't done heavy work in Rails in four years. I miss all the bells and whistles.
>All those Blairite MPs who seek to dodge the glaring issue of freedom of the media to publish whistleblower material revealing government crimes, by hiding behind trumped-up sexual allegations, are left looking pretty stupid.

Considering how well its working, I'd say they're left looking pretty smart.
I hear vitamins cause autism in sailors.
In these kinds of civil liability cases there doesn't have to be a blanket assigning of 100% fault. The court can in fact decide that Tesla, the DOT and the driver all contributed in some proportion and assign damages accordingly.
Got a degree in the UK and since attaining it have never shown it to anyone. My greatest learning was from creating a Travian-like web game because it was fun and exciting.

Now I'm in the position of hiring I really don't care what papers you've got and feel that if you even mention them then it's probably cause you've not got any experience yet worth talking about.

I'd recommend the same thing to everyone who wants to learn: make something that excites you and you'll naturally learn
> Has Tesla provided any evidence which shows evidence that they are in fact far beyond competitors?

Evidence showing they are ahead in terms of customers? For now, maybe. In terms of safety? No.

According to some fans, they sell a product you control. You're allowed to use it anywhere, therefore, they're ahead.

According to Tesla, they designed a chip that's best-in-class and they share a small amount of safety data quarterly [1]. Musk will not share any more data [2] because that would allow people to "turn a positive into a negative".

[1] https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqvatzjHGyk&t=47m17s
These criticisms exist because Samsung does not offer first-party solutions to things such as malware detection, location sharing, storage management, caller ID, VPN, music streaming, and news aggregation. It's unclear how exactly these services are being used (Samsung should be more clear on this front) and what parts of it are integrated (Samsung should be more clear here as well).

But, well, put it this way. If Google or Apple had offered first-party solutions to each of those services, would they be criticized for offering bloatware as well? No, probably not. So, is the issue here that the services aren't first-party (Spotify) or that they aren't from traditionally trustworthy sources (McAfee)? If it's the former, why does it matter? If it's the latter, then Samsung should be more clear about the extent of the influence of the other company, which they are not, but that shouldn't necessarily exclude them from collaborating.

Now, there are some key issues that should be criticized. Hard. A persistent notification? It's unforgivable. Facebook? The amount of tracking they can do makes them a threat to the device. It's basically spyware. It can be disabled, sure, but it shouldn't be enabled in the first place (except to enable Gear VR, I guess).

But really, can you trust any major tech company, considering programs like PRISM exist and are in operation? What differentiates Google from Apple when the device is still able to transmit whatever it wants to whoever it wants however it wants? Apple or Google may or may not be tracking some piece of data, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it isn't being collected and tracked by someone. That the companies themselves don't happen to store the data that happens to be the very thing they make their money protecting and using? It's definitely better in that your data isn't being used for the company's profit, but is it really any better for privacy from, say, the government?
I’ll make it more obvious on registration that the name can’t be changed :) I’m sorry about that. I’d add a username change option but it would actually require a lot of updates to the backend
Except there are multiple reports from driver that autopilot problematic in that location.
The T520 mentioned above is the last in the T5x0 line before Lenovo started changing the keyboard layout and action in a way that seemed anti-ThinkPad. Same with the move from T420 to T430, so your T480 was a few generations further along an anti-ThinkPad path.

Personally, I'm currently standardized&stockpiled on two legacy ThinkPad models, and one of the reasons is keyboards. I also transplant keyboard parts manufactured to T60 specs, into later models, because Lenovo started making the keyboard flex-prone, even as the part was otherwise equivalent.
Sounds like a normal day at work.
I encourage you to go read the contents of the original Fascist Manifesto, then come back and tell me that fascism is a right-wing ideology:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_Manifesto
recently reinstalled w10 onto a laptop (dual booting on with legacy/uefi is somewhat of a headache) the hoops you have to jump through during installation is downright hell

cortana just yells at you until you can turn it off, you have to deselect every invasive feature and then get to some windows sign into your ms account bullshit

just.... why... since when did installing operating systems turn into avoiding landmines

linux and mac install pretty quick, but windows? fuck off
Sure, ASM is a thing for some people. But such programmers are a vastly smaller fraction of the programming pool than they were in the days when application packages like accounting systems were written in Assembler. COBOL, FORTRAN, and PL/1 put an end to that.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply ownership, and should have used the indefinite article "a" diesel, not "your" diesel.

If you take the existing grid, and add a bunch of load to it, and also add a bunch of renewables, the grid is still cleaner. For the set pollution outputs, the amount of power generated is higher. Pollution per unit power is less.

And the point I was making is that it doesn't matter, even if coal was where the additional power came from (and it absolutely will not be), it's still cleaner than current ICE cars (that's the link I cited in the previous post)
Your reasoning is that people are stupid and therefore you should manipulate them 'for their own good' because they have no self-agency and self-responsibility.

Needless to say, people who think like this make terrible dictators when given the chance.
That would be fantastic! It would house and employ enormous amounts of people, and eventually turn SF into the world class city it imagines it is!

BTW, people who call SF "charming" have not visited it recently!
A very good question!
It’s almost certain they are wrong.
Ouch.

Our clients are businesses (less than 10000 employeees), and we still have 30% of userbase on Internet Explorer. We will soon be dropping IE9 and IE10 support.

I suspect that we'll be supporting IE11 for another two years or so (even considering Windows 7 expiry!).
If I donate to a nonprofit, itemize my deductions, and get a tax reduction based on my donation, am I not "evading" taxes?

Sure, donations are perfectly legal and an above-board way to evade paying taxes to the USA, but it's still tax avoidance and I could choose not to itemize, especially if my donations were 100% pure of heart.

Similarly, emigrating to Malta, or Bermuda, etc. is perfectly legal and if I do so for the weather, or to avoid paying taxes, is not one just as legal as the other? Even moving from New York to Texas so my combined state and city income taxes drop from 10% to 0% has a whiff of tax avoidance.

Simply put, people vote with their feet, and the rich have the best shoes money can buy.
FWIW, I've both seen rent stagnant and I've seen it go down. A lot depends on your local markets.
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You misunderstood me. You've described the same self-perpetuating phenomenon that I was referring to. By "fundamental", I meant something stable that isn't a consequence of gentrification or white-flight. For example, being near a harbor, on flat land, good ocean views, low risk of flooding, or for smaller areas with weak influence on their environment, near a big city, near convenient transport/roads, etc.

Without fundamentals like that, then it is arbitrary decision which neighborhoods have high prices and which have low. It becomes an accident of recent history that could flip the other way over a period of decades and ruin people's investments.
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I got it in the Humble Bundle. No Steam key provided and I just downloaded it from the HB site and it's not updated. Pity, I really like this game and think my kids, who weren't born when it came out(!), would really love it too.
The problem with elite colleges like Harvard, has nothing to do with meritocracy. In fact, it's the opposite. They use opaque and subjective criteria in their admissions process, in order to favor those born into privilege.

For a better example of a meritocracy, take a look at New York's elite magnet schools like Stuyvesant. Their admissions process is a pure meritocracy - based entirely on a standardized exam that is taken by all applicants. The end result - Stuyvesant has far more economic diversity than any elite university. Almost half the students come from families poor enough to qualify for subsidized lunches. Harvard would do the nation a tremendous service if it became more meritocratic, not less

https://outlookzen.com/2017/03/24/481/
You're too hard on yourself. I know lots of people who went to elite universities and haven't done any really cool stuff.

More broadly, from an economic perspective, there are outliers, but most people only move one income quintile up or down from where their parents are (or don't move at all). So while we have some leverage over our futures, this suggests that we have less leverage than we believe. (So, for example, does the fact that 65% of millennials think they'll be millionaires by age 45, even though only 6% of Americans are millionaires.)

Certainly there's no reason to beat yourself up for not achieving things that are exceptional on an absolute scale (unless maybe you were born at the top and blew all your advantages).
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So is Max/MSP/Jitter.
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That's not really a sustainable example either. In wartime, the British rationing board ensured that the British Restaurants were well-supplied (they wouldn't have been in a free market, or they would've been more expensive) and after the war, the ones that survived were propped up by Labor governments.

That the kitchens were run not-for-profit says absolutely nothing about whether those prices were actually sustainable for the food they were serving - if supplies are subsidized then NFP just means not taking in more than expended in subsidies. If anybody has details of how they were funded in the post-war period, I'd be happy to consider it.
That is true, but he was hiding in an embassy for the best part of a decade. That isn't a scheme to avoid 50 months in jail.

The jail sentence for skipping bail is the reasonable part of the whole story. No question that it was about as bad a case of bail-skipping as could be imagined.

The issue is more one of why exactly is the justice system involving itself in his business. He didn't think he'd committed a crime in Sweden. His 'victims' didn't think he needed to be arrested. The police didn't think he needed to be arrested at the time either. The word 'rape' seems to be something of a mistranslation on this one.

I gather (from Wikipedia) that he maintained he had consensual sex [0], so it's going to be interesting, if he does get to Sweden before the US grabs him, what actual evidence is involved.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_...
Sort of tangential, but Silent Invasion is about PRC soft-power influence on Australian politics.
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Being a symptom doesn't absolve it of being a cause too. If a thousand things can cause inflammation, but then there's a package of symptoms caused by inflammation itself, then it could be worth it to directly fight the inflammation in a lot of cases.
Social media is hardly rational on topics like this.
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This is all preliminary, so nobody knows for sure about Alzheimers, but assuming it was, then it would likely be a different protein. (IOW a different linear chain of amino acids, that folded in a non-standard way.)
It hedges against housing market forces, but when your employment market changes and you need to move to Houston, the hedge is gone.
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First result on Google[1] says the median salary for a Pac-12 rowing coach is $132,500 and I would bet Stanford is paying more than the median. That also doesn't include bonuses, other non-salary compensation from the school, or money from other non-school specific sources (it is relatively common for coaches to get compensated by vendors, run instructional camps, or have other auxiliary sources of income). So they might not match the arbitrary comparison of FAANG engineers, but they are a far cry from claiming they can't feed their kids without resulting to bribes.

[1] - http://collegerowcoach.org/crca-salary-survey-results-2/