skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do they? People investing money through crowdfunding are just that, investors. If you invest 50$ and get 50 hours of game play, then the investment was good, independently of whether the game was released or not. If you invest 20.000$ and no game is ever released, and you don't get a % of the sales, then it was probably a bad investment.

Being a bad investor is not an illness. Just because we don't die easily anymore does not mean that our environment isn't hostile, that natural selection does not exist.

Some people want to have fulfilling lives that make the world a better place and become doctors, and nurses, and teachers, and cops, and firefighters, ... and work long hours, with little holiday, for little pay.

Others want to enjoy their every moment on earth, learn to exploit their environment for profit, and this is how it looks like nowadays. There are always people that are smarter than you, and there are always people that aren't.

Crowdfunding is great because it gives you access to thousands of non-professional investors that have too much money and don't know what they are doing. People who want a game go and buy a game, but these people made an investment. If that's bad, it is IMO their own fault.
>"The fact that these variables are all typically linear or additive further implies that interactions between variables will be typically rare or small or both (implying that most such hits will be false positives, as interactions are far harder to detect than main effects)."

Where does this "fact" come from? And if everything is correlated with everything else all these effects are true positives...

Also, another ridiculous aspect of this is that when data becomes cheap the researchers just make the threshold stricter so it doesn't become too easy. They are (collectively) choosing what is "significant" or not and then acting like "significant" = real and "non-significant" = 0.

Finally, I didn't read through the whole thing. Does he claim to have found an exception to this rule at any point?
I don't know if in Europe this can be enforced because of GDPR, so you can ask for all data related to you.
If I'm not mistaken, the Ethiopian case had a 'Anti-Ice warning' from the AOA sensor, why did MCAS consider the data of a sensor that potentially had an issue is anybody's guess.

> effectively utilized only one at a time because it cost extra for the "AOA-disagree" feature.

Yeah, props to Boeing who put a basic security feature as an "extra cost" option. But hey, who needs to know their AoA sensors are failing, especially when the plane is commanded by that, right?
Off-topic: is that a marquee tag at the top of the page?
The author claims they are about the ethos of "Punk" but they are just letting people they don't want to have the word just have the word. I don't understand why people just roll over and let people have things. It's just like the Nazis and the OK hand sign right now. Instead of saying "Some nazis use it, so its problematic", use it every day and make it have a different connotation. Take it back. Don't just roll over and let someone have something.

If you were really punk, you wouldn't have to just take your ball, go off, and make your own "coconutpunk" or "bamboo punk".

You should just call your shit steampunk, and if someone tells you that isn't steampunk, tell them they are being a fake punk, and there isn't one defining archetype in any "punk" genre.
Indeed does look great, was only hoping the mascot would be a Labrador, though :D
Full complete autonomy is very far off. Don’t let the salesmen fool you. The problem is that of an infinitely long tail — no one is close.
I'd go the other way: HN users bend over backwards to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, which he then sets on fire.

He just held an event for Tesla investors called "Autonomy Day" at which he went on at great length about how Tesla robotaxis will autonomously ferry passengers around, anywhere they want to go, as a running, regulator-approved, income-producing service, by next year. There is zero chance of this occurring and he knows it.
This is not true. Sikuli was a super cool language, and it was fun to write with. I'm sorry it hasn't received more attention.
Of course we like nuclear.

This is a board full of people who want to see hard facts, numbers and metrics. By the numbers, nuclear kills a hell of a lot less people than fossil fuels, or anything else (even when using an age adjusted metric that more accurately represents the impact of fossil fuels than the "bazillion deaths" that headlines tout). In terms of disaster potential it's on the order of hydroelectric unless for some reason you find waking up underwater to be vastly preferable to radiation poisoning.
Are there any plans for remote data science or remote data engineering roles beyond those listed on the jobs page?
> It's cheating, it's goes against experimental design analysis, and it does not differentiate between given data and data that was carefully collected. We have experimental design class for a reason. It helps us to be honest. Of course there are tons of pit falls many novice statisticians can do.

Explicit sequential testing runs into exactly the same problem. The problem is, the null hypothesis is not true. So no matter whether you use fixed (large) sample sizes or adaptive procedures which can terminate early while still preserving (the irrelevant) nominal false-positive error rates, you will at some sample size reject the null as your power approaches 100%.
So should we extend your conclusion above to the following?

"There is probably enough evidence in this thread to use it as a reference for why typical apps should avoid virtual memory whenever possible -- it's clear almost nobody fully understands it"

I'd suggest that is ludicrous, and for the same reason your original conclusion is also excessive.
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If it's vectorising pixel graphics you're after then I've seen some incredible stuff done automating that.
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Off the top of my head I’m not sure, but my question isn’t asking about merit-based selection in the abstract. I’m asking if there are drawbacks to the specific system mentioned; that is, competitive entrance exams with anonymous review.
While it's not sufficient, travel budget is an important element IMO. I'm more or less remote but the ability to get together multiple times a year with both formal team members and other people who I collaborate with is pretty important to me. Also just getting out of the house to have regular contact with other people in the industry. I suppose, I could more proactively do more local events but, generally, I find interacting with people at events an important part of working remotely.
ILP + IFP are easy to understand techniques of 'programming by example'.
All productivity gain is the result of capital investment. That doesn't mean the benefits should not accrue to workers. Who do you think is provisioning, configuring and using the machines that result in that gain? Shareholders?
And the Tesla Gigafactory in Shanghai is quite far along.

https://electrek.co/2019/05/01/tesla-gigafactory-3-drone-vid...

Tesla in China might be the biggest story for Tesla as a company.
You could slice the "quality of life" argument the other way too i.e. the people at the office have instant access to their team's knowledge on hand.
Particularly GToolkit which is built on top of Pharo.
Honestly I don’t know how fair businesses can be with respect to this while being economically rational. Differences in markets are very real, and if you can get good developers who can’t work in the US for less, why not? It’s not surprising the Zoom founder tried so hard to make it to America.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612564/chinas-losing-its-... (China’s losing its taste for nuclear power. That’s bad news.)

> Officially China still sees nuclear power as a must-have. But unofficially, the technology is on a death watch. Experts, including some with links to the government, see China’s nuclear sector succumbing to the same problems affecting the West: the technology is too expensive, and the public doesn’t want it.

> The 2011 meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant shocked Chinese officials and made a strong impression on many Chinese citizens. A government survey in August 2017 found that only 40% of the public supported nuclear power development.

> The bigger problem is financial. Reactors built with extra safety features and more robust cooling systems to avoid a Fukushima-like disaster are expensive, while the costs of wind and solar power continue to plummet: they are now 20% cheaper than electricity from new nuclear plants in China, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Moreover, high construction costs make nuclear a risky investment.

China's electricity consumption growth is also rapidly slowing due to faltering economic growth.
Because it wants to annihilate us :)
Hydroelectric power is more of a vulnerability in a strategic sense. If everything downstream is flooded it's gone until it's fixed and/or rebuild. If everything is irradiated it's still useful, you just can't let people get too exposed to it.
Normal libraries should never register signal handlers. Google Breakpad is a crash-reporting system and as such requires signal handling to function.

Also since we're on the topic, here's a nice vulnerability caused by bad signal handling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16753013

Pretty sure there are no plans to replace signals, but maybe there are libraries that make signal handling easier?
It's not about denying that UFOs exists or that they are non-terrestrial in origin but rather about the notion that UFOs are an open secret in the military which is simply laughable, getting security clearance isn't particularly difficult in the US military if you serve long enough you'll likely to get it.

However simply having a clearance isn't the same as being read into a specific program, security clearance just means you can be trusted with secret information it does not grant you access to all classified information matching your clearance.

There are 100,000's of radio and radar operators and while a lot of them seen some shit in their life they aren't come out in droves saying yeah the USAF or NAVY thinks knows about UFOs and they are definitely real.

Like seriously just think about how many sailors have rotated in and out of CIC duty on say an Arleigh Burke class missile destroyer each of which has probably some of the most advanced tracking radar and sensors developed and they aren't tracking UFOs periodically and when they do they sure as hell aren't treating them as LGM.
I read the "innovator" in that post as "Tesla" and not "Musk", FWIW. You don't need to buy in to the ridiculous cult of personality to agree that Tesla cars have absolutely pushed the market in new directions.
Here's some things you "overlooked"

Mandatory spending: $2.841 trillion (this includes the following)

Social Security: $1.102 trillion

Medicare: $679 billion

Medicaid: $418 billion

The military budget isn't a whipping boy to just cut into every time you need money for something else. It's a priority for a lot of people in the US, whether you agree with them or not. If something like increasing the FAA budget is actually important, the metric to go by should be, "am I willing to cut social security and healthcare to pay for this?" Because that's what the government is actually spending money on, and that's where it would have to come from.
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The main problem with Star Citizen, is that many of the crucial promised gameplay elements seem to be impossible to realize nowadays, especially when it comes to network architecture. Many MMO games struggle with 100 players fighting each other in the same spot. Star Citizen promised hundreds of ships fighting each other, each ship being a separate flying level with rooms, ladders etc. and people running within. The expectation is that you can blow a hole in the ship and then board it, all on a single game level, without any loading screens or special modes.

I wish the design team had courage to say "No, we won't implement that". Instead, everything that the players suggested was met with "That sounds interesting, we'd like to have that in the game at some point". This leads to unrealistic expectations. Many backers that haven't gave up yet have the unrealistic idea of the game in their minds, one that will never flourish. A game to end all games, a game in which you can be everyone, do everything. Whether you want to flip burgers on a passenger liner or lead an army to unexplored lands, Star Citizen has got you covered. Except it won't, because it's struggling to deliver the basic gameplay loops.
Inflation + 3% isn't that bad, though you're right that it's too low. There's a bill in committee right now to enact statewide CPI + 5% rent control, and the landlord lobby is not too upset, because inflation + 5% is really quite a large year-over-year amount. I think I read that inflation + 5% has basically never happened in California's history: times in which housing prices were rapidly rising were also times in which CPI was rising, so the allowable increase would have been high.

The really problematic rent control is in San Francisco, where rent increases are capped at 60% of CPI (well below inflation). This results in massive giveaways to the rich that grow every year.
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Google Street View image of your house predicts your risk of a car accident
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80DzifHHIxk
Indeed, the criterion for requiring a degree is a regulatory one, involving licensing. But a degree may be a practical requirement if you're competing with people who all have degrees. One reason for a nurse to stay in school for another year is to open up future jobs or education opportunities, e.g., grad school.
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Do note that lightyears measure distance and not time...
I had a post about how generic the signs were in that link and it got modded to oblivion and "flagged" so I guess no one had to be made uncomfortable by constructive criticism. What a great little microcosm of the larger issues with google.
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Link to release (no paper or implementation details): https://datagrid.co.jp/all/release/386/

I find GAN gifs like the one in the release oddly mesmerizing. I watched it for a bit looking for funny anatomy (differently shaped hands, unusual feet).

They can generate the body, is it simple enough now to superimpose apparel on to the generated fashion models?
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I've been working from home for over a year. Far more productive than working in an office.
What will happen to adopted children?
What about Ads via Carbon? They are simple and elegant ads, albeit the target is basically tech people.
It seems to be planned but a fair way in the future. https://www.powermag.com/indian-designed-nuclear-reactor-bre...
I am one of LFortran authors. We just open sourced it recently. Do you have any recommendations if we should create a mailinglist, or rather use something like Discourse? Or both.

Right now if you have any questions, you can open an issue at our GitLab repository:

https://gitlab.com/lfortran/lfortran
Thanks for the feedback.

Yes, more people have WhatsApp than FB or Telegram. Good point though, I've just plugged in a Telegram support link.

Regarding the UX, bots are actually the perfect technology for this case. The goal is to replicate your self-talk process and that happens through words.

Finally, I agree with disliking the chatbots. Alot of them want to showcase cutting edge NLU/NLG tech at the expense of actually providing a service.

The goal with Anya is to provide a bot that helps you actually grow as a human overtime and get better data about yourself instead of staying on one-off waffle conversations.

Yes, we do plan to monetise. Premium plan coming in May at $18 p. month including additional life tools, analytics, guided goal setting
I use nix in production, and it is amazing. It's super config management on steroids with the ability to roll back in a literal instant.

Guix is based off nix, I have looked at it a few times, but it seems much more complicated and less developed than nix. It's only selling point over nix if that everything is written in guile, which does not matter to me.
And that’s how bridges collapse.
This is cool but I am not sure how they are going to make these models wear new line of clothes without which this is pretty much useless. Am I missing something here?
No they don’t. See the USSR, real prices were completely removed from what the government set. If SF set the price of a house to 100k, people would just bribe each other the difference.
Recent Guix discussions:

Guix: An advanced operating system (4 months ago, 313 points, 168 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18902823

Software Heritage and GNU Guix join forces to enable long term reproducibility (13 days ago, 168 points, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19699031
Relatively new, I bought a TM3 last July.
Here's my take on Tesla. It's an 18 year old company that has never been profitable on an annual basis. It's had 4 profitable quarters out of 72 tries.

It has over $9 billion in debt. The future is bleak with these financials.

Musk has accomplished a lot, absolutely. But as a thriving business, it's a failure.

And lately, Musk's ego has really shown, and not in a good way.
They knew we were already doomed, so they didn't bother. On the other hand, maybe some benevolent aliens will see it as the distress signal it is...
Anyone else notice the publish date for this piece is May 2. It's in the future. I wonder if this is a presentation bug or it was accidentally published early
I always assumed work from home positions were very difficult to get because your pool of competition is so much bigger. Can anyone chime in if that's the case or not?
Not particularly - in my experience, the squelch acts pretty quick and as long as its set right, you don't need to think about it.
This is only going off of what I've read from private interviews with Tesla employees (I'm sure there are some lurking on HN that can give a better idea), but it seems the production hell came mostly from the constant product updates that were rolling through. A connector on a wire harness becomes obsolete, and all of a sudden your camera that picks out that connector from a bucket needs updating, the arm that grips it needs changing, the milling machine that machines the hole for the connector needs changing etc. One up-issue knocks on to the entire production process. This isn't an issue with humans. You tell them the new part they need to use and that's it.
> So it is a A versus B for those people - people who are having to commute for hours to work, mandatorily sit at their computer screens . Versus others who wake up late (because no commute) and can walk about the house in their pyjamas.

It's a false dichotomy. It's not commute + "mandatory" screen time vs. sleeping in and wearing PJs.

When I worked in offices, I enjoyed commuting, it gave me time to listen to podcasts and transition between home and work. Working in an office with other people brought many opportunities to socialize, get pulled into impromptu conversations, take long lunches, and leave really early (to beat the commuters) if I needed to get home for some kid's after-school activity.

I work remotely now, and I still have to wake up on time, get dressed (hello video chat!), and be accountable. If I step away for a measurable amount of time, then I let people know in chat. It's far easier for a remote person to engage in overwork because there's not a clear boundary for when you're "at work" vs. "at home" (unless you create one). For better or worse, I "work more" as a remote employee than I ever did in an office.

The office folks who commute sometimes get to work late (traffic, train/bus issues, etc.), are pulled into random conversations and are unexpectedly unavailable just as much as any remote person. Are they contributing more by being in the office, or is the value just in their "presence", that you could literally tap them on the shoulder?

IMO, It all comes down to communication and empathy. If you're experiencing a major issue because you have to wait 10 minutes for someone to finish walking their dog, then imagine that person were in the office but in the bathroom. Would you still sneer at them because they were holding you up? Very few conversations are _SO_ urgent that you absolutely need an answer immediately. Having remote coworkers allows us to engage more thoughtfully with each other, and often pushes us to write more (and more useful) documentation so that we _aren't_ expecting immediate answers from any specific human.
I don't think that has anything to do with "remote work" vs "working and caring for a newborn at the same time," which, obviously, would heavily distract you from work in any setting.