skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sad. I went to the MIT Media Lab and he designed the building I was in. One of the absolute most breathtaking buildings I've ever had the pleasure to be part of. Will miss his work. Hope some new whippersnapper takes the torch.
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Sometimes I wonder if Mr. Walker is paying people at HN to talk about his book :). Comes up more often than I'd expect.
>>I don’t know why my family should be punished because my wife and I worked our asses off to get ahead.

Just to offer some general commentary, I think this mentality is probably the root of most of our social ills: people see everything as a "race" and they work hard to "get ahead", and they therefore get angry at policies that attempt to even the playing field because it might help others "catch up".
>Free is free as in no restriction, not free to do whatever you want.

Well, the term (and its proponents) should not hijack the concept of freedom them. One could call it "open" (or sometimes "forcefully open" market, e.g. like when the British waged war on China so that they are free to sell opium there).

Free as in freedom should include the freedom not to trade.

>China has neither

Well, despite that is one of the biggest importers and exporters of the world, and they've been rising from an agrarian economy to the worlds top manufacturer, and being in the top-2 global players. So looks to be working for them.

>Free to do whatever will make global trade more difficult for everyone as all countries will have tariffs, as it was historically.

That's a good thing in my book. We need less global trade, if not for anything else, for environmental reasons (the "reduce" part of the reduce, reuse, recycle).

If the people in some country feel as if they benefit from trading something, they can always choose to trade it. But if they have negative consequences from trading, i.e. importing or exporting X, then why should they continue to do so and suffer them?
It is interesting to observe assumptions about the entire network, where one can only observe a small fraction of the entire network.

A single observation of racism or toxicity causes many observers to assume their neighborhood is full of casual racism or is completely toxic.
You can do similar tricks in a cloud setup also though; notably you can do hit detection based on what the user was seeing when they entered the input rather than what the server was doing later. This is pretty similar to client side prediction.
> It is hardly surprising that techies are not getting enough sleep, given the industry’s culture of long hours, and the widespread notion that for a true entrepreneur, everything else in life is secondary to succeeding at work.

This article was very snarky, even for the economist. It seems distinctly below their usual standard of quality with broad generalisations such as the above, seemingly contradicted by an anecdote about Bryan Johnson and others' bizarre sleep practices.

For me this article would have been a lot better if it focused on the sleep tech industry, and applied a more measured and evidence-based approach to its silicon valley criticisms, some of which certainly are relevant and worthy of discussion.
With C++, wouldn't I need to either use a virtual base class with a typed template parameter (to emulate interfaces), or need to use duck-typed parameter and lose type safety?
In general, if you make a sacrifice to earn something, that something isn't a privilege.
As Chairman he blocked it from even being voted on... looks like I know who to axe on the next elections.
Eating easy to acquire, tasty food drives weight gain over more difficult to prepare, more expensive, less tasty food.
The FAA has received a lot of criticism over this 737 Max fiasco, charging that it has become Boeing's lapdog. Now's their chance to prove that it's not true.
OnLive was envisioned cloud gaming in 2012 and was bought by SONY. My internet was not the best but it was quite promising. It was about tine to hear about cloud gaming. I feel like onlive was more than 10years ahead of its time.
That's fair.

I think if you're building CRUD apps over and over again, then yeah, there isn't too much difference.

But if you're building a web service with more complicated business logic and you need more control over your concurrency model, then other languages look more appealing.

And it looks like PHP doesn't have JIT yet, which is another huge mark against it.

So PHP is probably fine for passing params and rendering back HTML. But anything sitting in between that's more interesting should be built in something else.
I didn't know we could only talk about one thing at a time.

I don't think anyone has forgotten about MCAS
I had no idea! Will go check it out tomorrow.
This is truly one of the most Hacker News comments I have ever seen, calling a home a product and service.
For Chinese Americans, I.M. Pei was like Bruce Lee. Someone who almost all Chinese Americans knew of and admired.
The Green Building is quite nice in most ways, but there's also the famous story about how it was built "on stilts" parallel to the Charles, so because of the wind coming off the river nobody could open the doors...

The legend about how the nearby Alexander Calder sculpture was placed to block the wind is apparently untrue, but the revolving doors on the ground level are very real.
>I have no idea how reliable it is

This is not reliable at all. You can really feel 100ms latency.

That's why in the world of pro music, barely anything above 10ms keypress-to-sound latency is deemed acceptable.

Quake III will make all these streamed games feel slow.
The reports of Snapchat’s death have been greatly exaggerated
> If they were serious, they would have done San Fran to San Jose where the dollars spent would actually be useful

The project did spend money there on electrification and other improvements to existing CalTrain and other service and infrastructure; Merced to Bakersfield was a new track segment that was in a position to compete favorably for federal funding then on offer for that specific purpose, and as the whole system always relied on getting additional federal and private funds, that's what got prioritized for new rail construction.

The initial construction segment was never even imagined as the initial operation segment (which was SJ to Bakersfield, which is very much not nowhere to nowhere else, but are two significant population centers with poor existing linkages, unlike SF to SJ which, while significant population centers, have much better existing linkages.)
The 3 Gorges dam claimed over 100 lives before it was completed. I wasn't able to find fatality info for other large chinese dams, but I'd imagine they're not significantly better.
Position Independant Executable (PIE) files are detected as shared libraries because they use the same old identifier as position independent shared libraries. The ELF folks could have added a new type but did not, leading to some confusion like this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shared-mime-info/+...

PIE is a security feature, which is why it has proliferated on newer systems. See https://access.redhat.com/blogs/766093/posts/1975793
Why do they smuggle them across HK then? Why is the iPhone sales price in China higher?
On Apple's website currently the Chinese iPhone Xs is about $200 USD more expensive. Is this just tax inclusive?
> But implying people currently living there are clueless or more selfish by defending their interests?

Somebody defending their interests doesn't make them not selfish.
I've yet to see any data on how effective these social media ops actually are.
> A poor asian community that sends their kids to after school schools and does very well as a whole will suddenly fight themselves without the boost that others at that economic level might have.

They'll also be punished for having established a low-crime neighborhood and learning english, since crime level and english as second language are also factors in the adversity score.

Of course, no single one of them is entirely responsible for their parents and community teaching them english, or for the low amount of crime. Because those are results of collective instead of individual effort, they're not labeled as laudable accomplishments, but as shameful privileges.
> sounds like

This is why I'm suggesting you try it. Because to be more blunt, you do not know what you are talking about.
How would you even know if it is consistently inaccurate? The variability in biological signals might be so high day to day that it could be highly correlated but with frequent pathological cases that make the data useless.
Sure, I'm aware of how Kafka works - this is an abstraction over all that, so I'm curious if and how Hermes can provide the same behaviors. I didn't see any relevant documentation at a quick glance.
The supply of high quality education and credentialing services needs to increase to meet demand. Otherwise, college admissions will just be a zero sum game.
I'm not sure I agree that GI makes things complicated. I suspect it's sort of essential to proper hunger management. Blood sugar deltas seem to be a pretty major predictor for how strong the urge we have to snack is. That while we may feel yucky for having too high a blood sugar, when it starts to come down we still want to put fast carbs into our mouth (ironically perpetuating the yucky feeling from high blood sugar). By maintaining blood sugar through lower glycemic index foods, I suspect more people would find it easier to avoid snacking when they would prefer not to eat as many calories in a day. I know I personally liken eating fast carbs to "breaking the seal" when I haven't eaten for hours, particularly when last I had a good satiating meal with high nutritional content. I know that once I eat that first potato chip or cookie that I'll have a harder time not feeling the urge to continue snacking, so I like to put it off as long as my impulse control will allow it. Worse is when I'm not even hungry, but want the emotional rise of a fast carb. I can undo hours of good satiation from a meal with one slip...

But I suppose, your general assertion is fair. People who don't have a good sense of GI for food can't easily make some more complex decisions around food. For those people I tend to tell them to avoid processed ingredients. Anything that makes it easier for your body to digest, probably isn't helping with weight.
It's very simple how they should do infrastructure projects like this.

They shouldn't.
OnLive envisioned cloud gaming really soon and was then shut up by SONY. My internet was not the best but the service was quite promising. It was about time to hear about cloud gaming again. I feel like onlive was more than 10years ahead of its time and Sony 10years late.
It's not even a government site. It's a survey hosted by typeform.com with 3rd party analytics tracking scripts on the page and no opt out or disclosure. Is this actually government funded and meeting federal regulations? And if it is privately funded, how can they claim it's officially operating under the authority of a government institution? This seems like a data mining scheme.

Link to "Tech Bias Story Sharing Tool":
https://whitehouse.typeform.com/to/Jti9QH
But they weren't going to connect either end to anything. It was just a boondoggle railroad through nowhere. If at least one end had been in the Bay or in LA, it might have made a little sense.
Yes, the words of the authors. But the final accounting according to the data of the authors: during incarceration they commit no crimes against society and after incarceration they resume committing crime at the same rate as if they had not been locked up. So, longer incarceration reduces crime.

I don't know if that conclusion is actually true or not. It seems as though it would be as long as criminality didn't increase after incarceration to an extent that more than canceled the reduction during incarceration, but they claim that doesn't happen. Well, okay then, longer sentences reduce crime by, as they say, "incapacitating" the criminal during his incarceration.

They seem to be burying that lede.
A 20-meter-tall, single-armed crane is the future? According to your article, that’s all that exists now.

So, again, maybe or maybe not. You have a long, long way to go first.
Depends, if you consider Glade a great tool for creating apps. There's nothing compared to VS and each desktop manager has it's own libraries unless you don't care if your KDE users install another 100 packages. Qt is another story...
> Hyperloop seriously has a better chance of building an SF-LA line

No, they don't, and in order to make it look much cheaper when they propose an "SF-LA" line it didn't actually come close to either SF or LA, thus creating an entirely new transit problem if any significant number of people were going to use it.

And, of course, Hyperloop could only do it with the State (and thus can't do it better than the State), because there is no way to build it without eminent domain.
Really? Obvious data privacy issues finally becoming mainstream is what is finally convincing programmers to not want to work there?

Hasn’t all of this stuff been obvious forever to programmers?
Not so much it seems [0]. The actual consumption of calories appears dependent on the source of the calories and what you eat those with.

0: https://www.1843magazine.com/features/death-of-the-calorie
An idea that Elon is actively implementing with The Boring Company. There was also the idea of reusable rockets and he believed it was possible as well - and that has been done too. I'm curious how much or little you know about The Boring Company's efforts so far?
As an aside, we simply call it "central heating" in the UK. "Hydronic heating" sounds like something i would install in a geodesic dome.
I think instead of trying to lower the bar for low income students, we should work on solving the actual problems causing them to perform more poorly on the SAT (or adjust the SAT so it is more representative of their actual skills). If students are accepted with a lower SAT score because of their background, they are likely going to struggle in University, since they have lower scores than the rest of their class, seems like this would be just pushing the problem further down the road, rather than actually addressing it. From what I have seen, the problems for low income students start in grade school, if you are behind academically before you even enter high school, it's going to be hard to catch up.

On the other hand though it might be essentially impossible to close the gap between low income and high income students. Your parents have a huge impact on your learning, and if your parents are poor and have to work all of the time, they aren't going to be as available to help you learn.

Regardless, I think it is pretty impossible to calculate an adversity score that is actually accurate (how do you compare the challenges faced by a child in a single parent family with one who grew up in a poor neighbourhood?), and it seems pretty wrong to me to have a hidden score based on things you likely can't control influece admissions, but it would lead to some interesting research if it was actually used.
I cant stand Indian recruiters
Can somebody tell me why 99% of recruiters now are Indian
I can see all the politicians lining up now, “ME, ME, ME. Let ME remind the people that they are under attack”, from something they have no control over
Microsoft and Sony enter into partnership on gaming and more
CA desperately needs to figure out how to do big infrastructure projects like this.

If it's important to CA, they'll fund it and get it done.
Well sound uses different neural pathways than audio, so it's not a totally fair comparison.
>Higher scores have been found to correlate with students... having better-educated parents.

And this is a problem why?
Xi’s Last-Minute Switch on U.S.-China Trade Deal Upended It
Roger's Profanisaurus:

http://viz.co.uk/category/rogers-profanisaurus/
Ok, here's a question for you. You like equality of opportunity. Presumably you agree that the SAT (as-is) does not provide that, in light of (eg) people that can't afford to retake the test and get a higher score. So, here's the question: would you support an "accurate" adversity score? One that, say, was assigned by an all-knowing oracle?
I agree in theory. The connection has a lot more value than the trips themselves. You could locate a company in these regions and access the talent and funding pool of the larger cities, and so could the employees.

Unfortunately, many of these cities seem to already suffer from sprawl which might limit their potential. Going from SV through farmland just to eventually end at a tiny station, with little public transport and low rise buildings would be a little bit too ironic.

It is almost like it would make sense to build the stations between the towns, or at least at one end of them.
I skimmed over it but it's again mostly about internal design. The high level use case I see is "publish-subscribe" which is handled by RabbitMQ and a dozen of other solutions.

One use case I see is that the events published into Kafka are persisted so e.g. some component can see a history of some events (so this is something not handled by RabbitMQ). Is it right?
There's something depressing to me about this more than other things moving to the cloud, irrational as it may be. Yeah they already could track you, and you already didn't own the game in many sense, but this just seems extra "casino" like. PC games in particular are like the last bastion of desktop software people actually care about; it seems like the end of PCs and the desktop.
Has there been any evidence of abuse and misdirection on the part of Google at the same level as Facebook?

This is more than just negative press, this is a question of how data collection has been misused, and what lies executives have told about current and future plans surrounding privacy and data abuse.

But, personally, I'm staying away from FB, Google, Amazon, Snapchat, et al for the reasons you've mentioned; negative press or no, I cannot ethically work for companies that are haphazardly building the foundations of a potential technocratic dystopia in their chase for profitability.
Big question. Who will pay for those plants?
I'm a quite puzzled by the cost. I'm still scratching my head as to why it's so expensive. In France or Spain, countries with similar population density but arguably less difficult terrain (Spain terrain is not so nice actually), the cost per km of a highs speed railway is around 20M$, with a very difficult terrain, Italy or Japan, with denser populations and difficult terrains, manage a cost of around 40 to 50M$.

With the Californian project, the cost is nearly 80M$, and it's only the budgeted cost, not the cost after all the inevitable delay and unforeseen spending.

As someone living in France, I've no idea as to what can explain this x2 or even x4 in cost. Is there a rational explanation?
Exactly, Facebook and a few others got in trouble because advertisers could set geographic criteria which translated quite neatly to race demographics.

The fact is that different ethnic groups don't seem to mix organically unless they are all quite wealthy, at which point they have more in common with their socioeconomic class than with their ethnicity.
Nowadays, but hot water baseboard heat was commonplace for some time.
It's not an anger at helping others catch up, but an anger at pulling people back. We can help people who are behind without sacrificing the people who are already ahead.
Not false exactly - I think the "Lady with Ermine" interpretation is still the literal reading of the painting. The white coat speaks to that not to mention the current owners have incentives to promote it as such. Reading it as "Obnoxious Merchant's Girl Pretending to be a Lady Seated with a Polecat Pretending to be an Ermine" would be subtext inadmissible without further explanation which I attempted to provide above. Namely: means, motive, and opportunity.

If one does want to be literal about it, the painting was made at the same time as his Vitruvian Man studies. Relative body proportions would have been top of mind for Leonardo at this time. That "ermine" is the same length (if not quite a bit longer) than her arm. Assuming she's conservatively 140cm tall (4'6") - her arm and the "ermine" would be 55cm long (1'9") (or more!). A quick cross reference with typical sizes for these creatures[1] - shows that it's just barely above the size of a typical polecat but more than twice the size of any stoat (an ermine in non winter colors). Proportionally it’s the difference between a chipmunk and a squirrel.

Put another way, if that actually is an ermine, then that makes her 75cm (2'6") tall. Just cross reference the size with the ermine in portrait of Elizabeth I below it. If he explicitly called it a polecat (a creature more associated with its foul smell and ugly temperament than any true nobility - that Sredni Vashtar story is great btw - thanks for that) he would have been out of a job. Or worse. This is the era of Machiavellian politics.

He may have chosen to sleight her in this way because he could plausibly deny it to her face "Well, yes of course that's an ermine, it just happens to be a realllly strong ermine - it's a symbol for your lover, the Knight of Ermine, you see" or if pressed by Ludovico to reveal the 'true' message: "Ok, fine you got me, this creature may have a white coat but it is not true nobility. As you would know my lord, what with her being formerly engaged to your rival and all."

From a Machiavellian perspective, Ludovico may not have cared one way or another. She was the daughter of a very wealthy merchant betrothed to his rival. By taking her as his concubine he deprived his rival of access to capital.

[1] http://deskarati.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/012615_1236_...
If you care about your weight relative to others, then it has to be accurate, no? Because how would you compare your weight unless you had a bunch of people using your scale.
> The least-gifted children of high-income parents graduate from college at higher rates than the most-gifted children of low-income parents, hence the adversity score to rectify the inequity in life circumstances.

Looking at graduation rates instead of admission rates is problematic. Less gifted and underprivileged people also graduate at lower rates despite being admitted using affirmative action procedures as the College Board is now implementing. This means they do not have a degree that would advantage them, but are saddled with undischargable education debt that puts them at a severe disadvantage for the rest of their life. The system not only continues the inequality but makes it much worse. If college was free or education debt was dischargable in bankruptcy then it would not be the oppressive system it is currently where people unable to succeed are admitted, then forced to pay back debt they can not afford after they fail to graduate. Only a sadist and a racist would support such an inequitable abusive system.
It's really not a lot of deaths, to produce something of lasting value. More people die in car accidents every day.
I’ve recently left a CTO job and am going to a large software thing. Facebook was the one company I didn’t consider.

Facebook being “the past” played an equal role to “Facebook being evil” in my decision.
At the very least, any old baby is vastly more interesting than all the AI the world has ever produced. They aren’t simple - they are far beyond our understanding.
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Choosing to get a fake divorce so that you can game the system as much as possible isn't punishment; it's probably fraud. You could also choose to relax and let your children enjoy all the other benefits of a great upbringing, and accept that "the children of hardworking parents should be more likely to be admitted" isn't a design goal of the admissions system.
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