skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's more than a uniform language stack, after all C++ could be considered one as well but most people still use python to interface it as opposed to just using it (at least for exploratory data science). It's a combination of interactivity to experiment, conciseness to stay close to the pseudo-code/math, easy hackability since you need to stay beyond the cutting edge and performance so you're not restricted in what you can do.

Common Lisp (as does Clojure and Julia to a lesser extent) has unparalleled interactivity (besides maybe smalltalk), you can make it as concise as you want, ultimate hackability and really good performance. Research (not deployment) is the one area CL could probably surpass every other, but unfortunately it lacked a concentrated effort (by a company or community) in this current AI resurgence (maybe because of the Lisp Curse). Though there will always be other opportunities.
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It isn't about your problems, it is about your user's problems.
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Business consulting. The only thing more costly than the problem is the cure
Coal plants produce a lot of airborne radioactive compounds too -- vastly more than nuclear plants* and I don't know if scrubbers fix that problem. If they did, there would still be the problem of disposing of mixed waste from the scrubbers themselves.

*Citation not handy but easily googleable.
Nuclear waste is dumped in the Irish sea, at "regulated" amounts.

> In the United Kingdom, spent fuel is reprocessed at the Sellafield facility in Cumbria on the North West coast of England. Waste generated at the site comprises a wide range of radionuclides including radiocarbon (14C) which is disposed of in various forms including highly soluble inorganic carbon within the low level liquid radioactive effluent, via pipelines into the Irish Sea. This 14C is rapidly incorporated into the dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) reservoir and marine calcifying organisms, e.g. molluscs, readily utilise DIC for shell formation.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265931X1...
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Scoop has it in their repos as well (the gow package).
According to the article the screen has good specs -- but it doesn't quite meet even the lowest-quality rating for automotive screens, and that sure seems like it's the proximate cause for the thermal failures they're experiencing.

I'm not sure whether it's fair to say they "cut corners," but I'm not sure it's not fair. The other alternatives could have been finding a supplier willing to work with them on an oversized screen that met at least Automotive Grade 4 standards, or being willing to redesign the instrument panel to take a smaller screen. (Or two smaller screens.)
Our best marks came from AM radio. Highly skewed towards old rich business owners adrift in the game of modern advertising
This is more or less exactly the scenario explored in this classic sketch comedy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj3pJudQi7A
To be fair it's not just about the software but about the country too. We know know China's policy on censoring the web. Russia is not the sort of place that tolerates activism against Putin. So when you combine this with hacking people's phones it does make it much worse.
Arguing that we should be honest with ourselves about what precisely motivates corporate decisions to automate in the society we live in is not remotely the same thing as arguing against automation itself; neither in this specific case nor in the more general case (of automation across wider society).
Absolutely. It's better to resign after 2 months than 6 months.
Ginsberg's association with NAMBLA is indeed odd and unfortunate, as it taints a lot of his more respectable work. Here is what wikipedia quotes a friend of his as saying:

> But, in fact, he was a pedophile. He did not belong to [NAMBLA] out of some mad, abstract conviction that its voice had to be heard. He meant it. I take this from what Allen said directly to me, not from some inference I made. He was exceptionally aggressive about his right to [f*ck] children and his constant pursuit of underage boys

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg#Association_w...

In the same way that it's hard to like a Woody Allen film or Michael Jackson song -- you can recognize the quality of the art but then realize they may have a monstrous side.
The thing gender "actually is", when you pare everything else away, is a set of role scripts. Culture is made of rituals, and these rituals have labelled slots for people to fit into. The labels are genders (and also ages, social classes, and familial relationships, but that's less relevant here.)

Think of it this way: a wedding has a "bride" and a "groom." One way to think of it—the beach-head gay rights have established for us—is that either a man or a woman can be "a bride"; and either a man or a woman can be "a groom." Therefore, you could have a wedding with two "brides" who are both men, if you wanted.

Another way to think of it, though, is that being "a groom" (and all other such similar roles) is what it means to be "a man." In this model, a wedding is one of many rituals—a stage-play with a script—and one character in this stageplay is called "the bride", while another character is "the groom." You can't have two brides; that's not how the play of "The Wedding" is written. But anyone can play "the groom." And whoever plays "the groom" in the wedding, is also known as "a man"—at least for the purposes of the wedding script. If you happen to always play the set of roles in role-scripts that say that "a man" plays them, then you are "a man." Your gender is something you deduce from the set of roles you favor.

The work that goes into being transgender—the hormones, makeup, clothes, all that? Other than for the few people with true Body Dysmorphic Disorder (who would get reassignment surgery even if there were no other humans left on Earth to observe the results), the whole goal of the transitioning process is to get other people to "cast" you as the role you prefer to be identified with in these cultural role-scripts. A transman is someone who wants other people to intuitively place them as "the groom" at the wedding. That's the essential quality of it.

And, if you don't go for any of the available gender role-scripts that our culture defines? Then you don't have a (simple, obvious) gender, according to said culture. You would be genderqueer, nonbinary—whatever the word is today. Even if you're accidentally a completely central example of masculinity or femininity—if you aren't playing the role associated with that presentation, then it ain't your gender.
"iPhone users" isn't a general market category.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage#Cos...

"The reasons that CCS is expected to cause such power price increases are several. Firstly, the increased energy requirements of capturing and compressing CO
2 significantly raises the operating costs of CCS-equipped power plants. In addition, there are added investment and capital costs. The process would increase the fuel requirement of a plant with CCS by about 25% for a coal-fired plant"

This is on top of the new reality that building solar and wind is cheaper than the cost to just operate existing coal plants [1], and therefore far cheaper than building new coal plants or retrofitting old coal plants with expensive (both CapEx and OpEx) CCS systems.

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/energyinnovation/2018/12/03/plu...

"[The C02 sequestration process steals] up to 30% of the energy produced by a coal-fired power plant, reducing its efficiency and raising its electricity price. Second-generation facilities capture and reuse waste heat, among other things, but their costs are still too high, Brickett says."
This is partially true (or at least once was, the performance gap is pretty slim nowadays), but most of the high-performance BLAS implementations like OpenBLAS or MKL have their hot path code written in hand-tuned assembler anyway.
Not really. When coal wasn’t getting crushed by natural gas, cleanup costs for seem mines were easily covered (assuming co2 not priced in as is standard right now).
We have 8 billion humans, humans don't need saving as much as the 1 environment we have needs saving.
That's all in place now. None of that was in place enough to be a profitable competitive advantage by 2004, 10 years after Amazon was founded. (Uber is 10 years old.)

The first 10 years of Amazon were blitzscaling at all costs (or as they said at the time "Get Big Fast!").
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The cost of adoption of payees is drastically lower with QR codes. Anyone who wants to receive payments just has to print out a 10c laminated QR code and they're on the network. This helped bootstrap the network and drive mass adoption.
There's a massive practical difference between Ceres size gravity wells that can be escaped with a half-decent cannon and ones that can't. And I've never heard of people suggesting there might be life on/in Ceres.
Do you think I'm writing web applications for myself?
You're off base then. Maybe too smart, definitely not our target market.

Do a Google search for X accident lawyer, where X is literally anything, and you'll see what I'm talking about.

The most expensive targeted ads prey on the desperate. Personal injury, bankruptcy, addiction, jail, death and next of kin, cancer, you name it. Think if the worst possible things that could happen to somebody. Those are the most lucrative ad keywords
you just described an annuity. If you want an annuity buy one, don’t force it on everyone else.
> a non-expert will have no idea how much weight each fact should have

In theory, that is the purpose of the lawyer(s) -- to try to ground the technical expertise in a way that the jury (and often the judge!) can understand and assign value/import/trustworthiness/credibility to the testimony and exhibits they are given.

in theory.
I quite like the way in which it shows the similarities between infections and knowledge. It has a model that explains how self interest hinders knowledge in more ways than simply reducing the resources available for research. It also explains ideas spread like viruses generally, and reminds me again of the idea of the mind virus.
Many apps are available exactly the same on Android as well, and nearly all apps have at least some equivalent on Android. The fact that an iOS app isn't literally compatible with Android, you can't take the exact same binary and use it on an Android phone, doesn't mean that iOS is a separate market category. You may as well say that UPPAbaby strollers are their own market category because UPPAbaby stroller accessories don't work on other strollers.
Ironically Apollo 13 was the final spaceflight for all three of its crew but Mattingly went on to fly on Apollo 16 and a couple shuttle missions.
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Pdf is here: https://eclass.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/MATH379/1.%2...
This is one of those sound bites ^!

Has it ever occurred to you that some people think complaining about the existence of rich people is not an issue that needs to be “solved” by risking the destruction of an economy that encourages innovation?
> This happens all the time on Twitter.

What also happens all the time is that accounts from conservatives get banned, while people like Louis Farrakhan can be openly and virulently anti-Jew.[1] Bruce Carroll gets banned for referring to Chelsea Manning as Bradley Manning. Apparently that's more terrible than comparing an entire race of people to termites as Farrakhan did.

[1] https://nypost.com/2018/10/18/twitter-has-a-huge-louis-farra...
You have situations like the following:

- The age-adjusted baseline rate of a particular type of cancer is, say, 1%.

- An age-adjusted 2.5% of people in an afflicted community have been diagnosed with this type of cancer. This is a huge increase above baseline.

- By implication, of people in the community with a diagnosis of this type of cancer, 40% of them would have cancer anyway for reasons unrelated to whatever is being sued over, and 60% of them got it "because" of whatever the problem is.

It isn't possible to make any distinction between those groups at the level of an individual case. There's no difference in the cancer.
I have found "Thinking in Systems" [0] to be a good book for crystallizing "systems" concepts in abstract. For example, it includes discussions on feedback loops, bottlenecks, equilibrium, etc.

IIRC, it has been used as a textbook for systems theory classes in some universities, but it's concise and written for a general audience.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1603580557
“They have experienced military service and are disciplined,” said an official at a manufacturer in Aichi Prefecture. “They are good to work with, because they respect their superiors and are diligent.”
Ad spending for anything worthwhile is insane. if you haven't seen it you're just not in the industry. I've seen keywords that go for over 60$ for a single click. And nearly all are exploitative

Google is one of the biggest companies in the world solely from advertising revenue. Same with Facebook and other social media. The more information they have about you, the more terrible the ad targeting
Lot of bold words though, and very distracting.
That may be the "Microsoft buys GitHub" moment of StackOveflow: people realizing the power we gave to this private company and migrating to non-profit-managed website instead (like https://framagit.org)

But I do not see a good alternative to StackOverflow available now.
This is a profoundly misleading headline!!

The word "could" here is carrying all the weight. The report from which that number is derived gives a range of estimates, and the $1T figure is at the extreme high end. The median is $300 billion, the 25th percentile is negative $90 billion (it saves money), the 75th percentile estimate is $730 billion.

Yeah it "could" cost $1T if there is "little to no technology innovation over the next four decades." Or it "could" result in billions worth of savings. Both are supported by the report.

Here is I believe the summary report from which this number was derived [1].

1: http://deepdecarbonization.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/US...
Just because the natural system has tolerated meddling and abuse does not amount to crafting. In fact the exercises of trying to create an artificial system failed miserably... and will likely again. And that's a great reason to try to go to space, to learn about how incompetent we are with our tech despite being full of ourselves by taking all the things provided freely by the earth for us to abuse and exploit while giving back virtually nothing. I mean humans often don't bury their dead naturally they burn them or embalm them... we give back nothing, we take everything: THIS IS SPARTA!
That is the basis of the 13-year cycle theory[1], but this is showing that each cycle never recovers, so to speak, resulting in a continual trend towards sadder and angrier.

[1] https://globalnews.ca/news/4082568/the-theory-of-the-13-year...
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I don't get the "as birthrate sinks and unemployment climbs". It's not like Japan is doing well there.

And Japan is infamous for its incredibly negative attitude towards Koreans...
>we might not successfully craft off-planet ecosystems that will sustain us indefinitely.

Not on the first go. So we should start early.

I think that learning how to craft off-planet ecosystems is a large part of what is going to help us stem damage down here. Where would solar power be now without the early adopters in the space industry?
Where on the bankruptcy hierarchy of financial obligations do environmental liabilities fall? I would think they should be higher priority than shareholders and debt holders.
I don't fully understand why architecture is so bitterly divided between its factions. I am the son of an architect (loyal to his faction) and I like a lot of that stuff and a lot of other styles, including much made of concrete. It seems like something built into the culture at an early stage. Some of the Bauhaus practitioners saw their work as an expression of a Socialist agenda and Classicists are taught that only the traditional styles of design and building are acceptable.

There is (or ought to be) a common enemy to all factions, which is cheap disposable architecture. Long-term structure that are also climate change adaptable seems a decent common purpose, for example.

Somehow, however, the capital A Architect class seems to exist above the buildings designed for and by people who do not care about aesthetics, so the cheap and disposable seem to slip under the radar. Perhaps because Lennar Builders and their ilk don't care what academics think of them?
The late investors aren't forced to liquidate and any liquidation preference is extinguished at IPO... the terms of the IPO having been properly authorized, the formerly-preferred holders simply have no special say in the matter anymore.
Maybe because Arby’s jobs are shit, and even if they weren’t the skills easily transfer to the thousands of other restaurants.

Coal jobs are in that waning category of blue collar jobs that you can have a decent life on. So it’s lamented the same way as when auto plants close, manufacturing plants close, etc.

You’re right it has too much power, but you have to put more effort into understanding why.
Microsoft will spend $100M to open its first development center in Africa
Have to admit I am clueless about the history between these two. Why don't they like each other?
Hi HN! I'm the Director of Engineering at UrbanFootprint[1]. Let me know if you have any questions about the blog post, analysis, or the platform we're building which makes this possible.

Also, here's the subtitle for some context:

SB 50 seeks to address California’s severe housing shortage. We examine the data to unpack the potential impacts.

And...

California State Senator Scott Weiner’s Senate Bill 50 aims to address California’s housing crisis by stimulating more housing development in existing residential areas. SB 50 made it one step closer to law last month as it made it past the Senate’s Governance and Finance Committee. Like so many bills, as SB 50 winds through the legislature and grows in complexity, it becomes increasingly difficult to understand and measure the potential impacts of the proposed legislation.

1. https://urbanfootprint.com/

(edited for formatting)
I am not sure if it's already famous. What got my attention was that it simplified systems programing. I don't have a C/C++ background, Rust was my first attempt to learn a low level language. It's been rewarding so far.
The petro fund in Alaska, are you joking? It paid out less than $2000 for the entire year. That has as much relation to UBI as the standard deduction.
The article notes that both statistics are even worse in South Korea than Japan.
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Have never heard of Twine [1] before, which this project uses. Very interesting tool!

[1] https://twinery.org/
That may be, but if those statistics are the problem, going to Japan is surely not the solution.
So the clickbait was actually providing the payoff it promised? The article was good, so you aren't going to post it because its title was too catchy? "Clickbait" is when you get suckered into clicking bad content via a catchy headline. It isn't clickbait when it's actually a good article that "delivers" on the headline's promise.
The brilliant thing about making public transit free is that unlike many other things that can be government subsidized, free public transit can't be stolen or arbitraged.
I'm not saying you are wrong, but the oft-cited challenge of prefix is a meme. It's not really a big deal. It's trivially easy to add infix syntax to lisps via macros, but almost no one bothers. By the time you know enough to do it, you're also already used to prefix.
This is one of the first papers on RNNs.
Absolutely love it! My only suggestion would be to make it obvious there's job-boards and other resources further down the page cause all the people I showed it to checked a couple links, realised it was only Google searches, and bounced.

Also I wasn't aware of https://nomadlist.com before. Haven't explored it much but I think it's fantastic! In some ways it reminds me of https://www.getcluey.com/en/ which I hope to see grow into something great.
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Having a "spec" is not a prerequisite to popularity. Perhaps you believe it should be, but it is not.

Rust is effective, reasonably well documented, fully open and delivers something novel; bare metal performance with low defects in a practical language. I find no surprise that this has led to popularity. Just the idea of it was popular before people could really get their hands on it.
From the study you mentioned "Company officials acknowledged that it did not address whether women were hired at a lower pay grade than men with similar qualifications."

and

"Kelly Ellis, a former Google engineer and one of the plaintiffs in the gender-pay suit against the company, said in a legal filing that Google had hired her in 2010 as a Level 3 employee — the category for new software engineers who are recent college graduates — despite her four years of experience. Within a few weeks, a male engineer who had also graduated from college four years earlier was hired for Ms. Ellis’s team — as a Level 4 employee. That meant he received a higher salary and had more opportunities for bonuses, raises and stock compensation, according to the suit. Other men on the team whose qualifications were equal to or less than hers were also brought in at Level 4, the suit says.:
That's because you're adding two to a pointer, which goes to the zeroth element in an array of integers. Adding two to the pointer is incrementing the memory address, so your pointer is now "l" instead of "H."
I've always been intrigued by how we humans are evolving and leaning towards technology, devices and what not.

And as we hold our hard skills super high in the hierarchy, we are at the same time drifting away from our essence, i.e. human interaction; we feel super uncomfortable while talking to people, articulating ourselves, dried up communication skills, high spirited teamwork, humbling towards others, Public speaking and a lot more.

To which, shouldn't there be a medium or platform that helps you with all this as this knowledge can't be taught via books or reading blogs, but via peers or professionals.

So, I had the idea to build a sort of 1-1 marketplace specifically for soft-skills, believe it or not, these are super underappreciated, yet they carry a huge role in our professional growth and personal well being.

There have been many times in the past where I wanted to improve and learn a specific soft skill. But to all that I ever come across was prerecorded videos or some professional carrying a colossal fee - but did not want to go through that. Instead, I got mentored by people in my peer group who have innate talent in this.

Here are some of those soft skills:-
- Communication (Public Speaking, Clear Articulation of idea within a group/peer group, Interview, Conversation)
- Persuasive Writing / Written Communication(Clarity of thoughts)
- Time management
- Independent Thinking(Critical Thinking)