skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hiring talent in under 24hrs, to stand in front of the Taj Majal[0] to say your (past)startup's tag-line [1]..for just $5... is priceless.

[0]https://www.fiverr.com/arjunrocks/record-a-video-at-taj-maha...

[1]https://www.dropbox.com/s/98udl9ypeuqvcph/M4H07189.mp4?dl=0

- edit - seems like he 2x his rates as of 5yrs ago.
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SwiftUI is just one instance of a new feature in Swift called function builders that allows creating custom DSLs within Swift. As Swift’s cross-platform support grows, two things can happen: SwiftUI can be customized go work with the GUI toolkits of other systems, and other system-specific DSLs can be developed to take advantage of each system’s own unique capabilities and APIs.
Why does that matter? Producing plastic is not bad. It's burning it, littering it, or throwing it away in a permanent landfills that are the bad parts.

If it's not disposable, it's not bad.
First, thanks for your response, it's been a good discussion.

I agree that there's a great deal more technology being made publicly available and that said technology is beneficial in the public eye. I don't necessarily agree that that technology is needed by most people, despite the Cambrian explosion you reference.

On machine centrism, if anything, containers have increased the importance of systems concerns, because now every application ships an entire userland into deployment with its codebase. As long as containers come wrapped in their own little distribution, each code deployment now needs to be aware of its own OS-level concerns. This is anything but application centric. If you want application-centric deployment, just deploy the application! True application-centric deployments are something like CGI.
>Some American company makes slightly less profit?

That's a bingo. Now allow me to morally justify this AMERICA style:

"When we allow foreign researchers to steal research from healthcare businesses it reduces the return on investment these businesses make. This has a chilling effect on the amount of Cancer research that can be funded. With less innovation by the world leader in Cancer research ultimately more patients will unnessecarily die and suffer"
Tesla’s in-car touchscreens are getting YouTube support
Bug season in Iceland is relatively short but very intense.

Similar to the Nordics and Canada.

The black fly is the worst of them imo.
Solar can be regulated pretty well. If you can get good clocks to the inverters, you could actually lock the output to the fixed grid frequency, using slower, minute phase shifts coordinated centrally to shift load across the grid by artificially creating the speed-of-light phase difference you get over long transmission lines.
Without that central coordination you'd rely on the inverters being staggered to shut off at slightly different overfrequencies. This tends to make some inverters run less overall though, creating game theoretic issues you could fix by rotating that shut off slowly over the whole range, creating time averaging.

Alternatively you can use inverters that regulate output power down with increasing frequency. A simple P (of the PID) controller to keep the frequency in check. You'd probably want a centralized I component to be applied though, for reason of preventing long-term phase drift. Just tell the inverters once a day/week what I their control loop should target, and it's solved. This low-bandwidth signal isn't hard to transmit either.
Just try to force them to gradually change from the old to the new I, because otherwise you get ugly spiking/oscillations when they all apply the change.
It should be slow enough that synchronous machinery on the grid sufficiently dampens any such oscillations.
I feel like the US is shooting a bullet in its foot here.

They did the same with Qian Xuesen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen).
quite interested to hear more, already doing work in this space
I agree, theres some obvious mission creep going on here:

>Her resignation, and the departures in recent months of three other top Chinese American scientists from Houston-based MD Anderson, stem from a Trump administration drive to counter Chinese influence at U.S. research institutions.

Did she or did she not Chinesely influence the Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center?
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But how much does it actually cost to re-steal that IP back from China? Does America actually respect chinese intellectual property?
This person's comment from two days ago:

> If Norway wants to strive for sustainability they should be installing power plants in India and offering EVs and free charging ports there. In coming days, India is going to surpass all countries when it comes to net pollution.

> I don't know why these rich countries never do anything to improve quality of life on whole planet.

Hypocrisy at it's finest.
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I think you nailed it... Thunderbolt is not possible on AMD.
One thing I like about their business model is that it isn't just the autonomous/teleoperation tech, but also that they're a full-service trucking company. That kind of integration should hopefully allow them to provide the same service as a normal trucking company but with much lower cost.

Even if the company just serves long-haul routes from depots in less congested areas very close to freeway on-ramps, that's still a huge market, and the labor cost savings would likely be huge if humans are just driving from the depot to the freeway.

Related, I was thinking about the idea of teleoperation for drone deliveries recently as well. The same kind of "last mile" problem exists for landing cargo from a drone. Have the drone fly from the warehouse to the customer location, and then pass it over to someone sitting in their house with a joystick to control landing and delivery of the cargo. Once the delivery is complete and the drone is airborne again, have it fly autonomously back to the depot. Pay people $1/landing or something like that.

The last mile is going to be the hardest part of any of these autonomous businesses. The hybrid teleoperation model where the computer handles the relatively easy (but mundane) parts makes total sense.
I also have encountered both. It seems like a bad idea to me but as long as the second hand smoke isn't invading my space then no I really don't care. There are sanitation concerns but if that's the real problem lets address that and get over being icked out.

Edit:

I've literally had my kid with me when someone's been injecting in a public space and while it wasn't my favorite moment in life it still wasn't a big deal. He asked me about it and I explained that the man was injecting something like medicine but that it is mostly not good like medicine usually is. And I explained that he probably shouldn't be doing it there but that he probably couldn't think right and no longer understood when it was appropriate to do something like that.

My kid understood and as far as I can tell and was not traumatized. Literally he got over something most adults can't and he's 7. Why? Because instead of going into grossed out, full panic, cover your virgin eyes mode I explained it, with words.
What incentive do people have to sign their name correctly on legitimate transactions then? If I plan on reporting a transaction is fraudulent, I just sign my name weird and make sure they don't have cameras? I don't understand how this helps.

What I thought was supposed to happen is you're supposed to have signed your name on the back of the card and they check that your receipt matches the card, and it's a weak form of 2FA.
They could've worked in cities. Lead-acid batteries, though, have never had the energy/weight ratio necessary for the type of long-range driving necessary outside of highly urbanized areas.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. I'm all for rooting out Chinese IP thieves and generally think the "trade war" is deserved, but it's absolutely unacceptable to target an American citizen due to their ethnicity. We can't sacrifice our ideals out of fear, and especially not for convenience.
the website you linked reads like homeopathic conspiratorial junk. I would be wary of anything they cite
I think it also hinges on the degree to which someone cuts ties with one's country of origin. "Expat" implies continued ties to a homeland, whereas "immigrant" implies an intent to turn the new place of residence into one's new home. There are obviously exceptions and blurred lines there, but that seems to be what I've observed.
I had to go to the hospital for an emergency ultrasound recently because my physician thought I might have appendicitis. I was pretty nervous, and the nurse took me into a private office and had me sign a bunch of paper work (and pay on the spot via debit card) for the procedure (~$900). I just wanted to get through it, so I signed everything in a hurry. Mid-procedure the technician asked me what I was there for, she then point blank told me that what she was doing (and what I had already paid for) was really ineffective on adults and that it was almost a guaranteed waste of time. Results came back inconclusive and life went back to normal.

How do a trust a doctor, nurse, or hospital administrator, when the whole systems seems to OPTIMIZE for situations like the one I just mentioned? I guess I'm supposed to call bullshit on everything they tell me, assume malice, and spend a large amount of money/time chasing down bills and second opinions. And this is with private insurance through my employer.
The lack of safety would affect those who can't afford the "approved" options. :/
>As when the guy held me up at gunpoint?

If you are a bystander when police open fire, you are just as likely to be injured

>When they burst in the door of a burning house down the block to see whether anyone was in it

Do they actually do that? My understanding of police training is : "Rule #1, don't get hurt"
The guy's personal views aren't sufficient to make what he's saying untrue. Everything will kill you at some dose, GHB having a lethal dosage doesn't make it especially dangerous.

'Morse et al. [7] have demonstrated the effects of GHB on breathing. A decrease in respiratory rate occurs, accompanied by a compensatory increase in tidal volume, allowing minute volume to be maintained until doses approach lethality. The concomitant ingestion of ethanol typically alters the concentration-effect relationship, leading to respiratory depression when the compensatory increase in tidal volume is avoided as seen in cases where GHB is administered alone. This deleterious effect from combining GHB and ethanol could be avoided through the administration of GABA-B receptor antagonists. These receptors seem to be involved in its development.'

http://dual-diagnosis.imedpub.com/sodium-oxybate-and-respira...
I want to preface the statement I am about to make with another statement first: The basic economic theory, if anyone needs a refresher, is that by letting people have a temporary monopoly over an invention, they will be more-so incentivized to pour money into the development of inventions than they otherwise would. The US has historically been the most stringent protector of intellectual property, we have a vastly outsized technology and research sector versus the rest of the world, and most people in this country believe those two things are causally related. I do not believe in that causal relationship as there is plenty of evidence that it is overblown or non-existent. E.g., I believe our outsized technology sector thrives in spite of, not because of, our stringent ip laws.

Now then, onto China stealing tech. This is absolutely happening. They have some of the weakest IP protection in the world. They don't just steal from us, businesses in China also steal from other businesses in China. They steal from everyone. It's in the open. It's not a smear campaign, it's an entirely different cultural and governmental take on how IP rights should be enforced, if at all.

There is no conspiracy here. These are directly two very different views on how IP should be handled.
Post to craigslist or facebook marketplace and you'll quickly find out how in demand they are. Esp if there are minifigs. Lego collecting is VERY popular right now.
> So you say the CPA helps you file all of this? Or do you do the quarterlies by yourself and go to the CPA with this?

Every year, I bring my invoices, receipts, etc. and my CPA figures out what I owe and handles all the details and the filing. Then she estimates my quarterly taxes and sends me "bills" before they're due. I basically write a check and I'm done.

A good CPA will meet with you when you get started to coach you on what things to keep track of (e.g. invoices, receipts, mileage, etc.).

> What about all the legal? As a one-person business, I imagine it's too much to understand all the legal rules w/o consulting with an expert.

For more complex businesses, maybe. I've never had an issue. If you're really worried, consider getting a prepaid legal service as cheap insurance.
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You can visit Thomas Edison's house with his lab near Newark NJ. There are two electric cars on display. Interestingly here it says in 1914 38% of all the cars on the road were electric; 22% gasoline, 40% steam powered.

http://www.edisonmuckers.org/edisons-cars/
Re-stealing the IP isn't as profitable as being the first to market. I guess ?
Key quote here:

> Open source infrastructure is a commons, much like our ecological systems. Because our societies did not have rules to prevent the ecological systems from being exploited, companies have engaged in industrialized resource extraction. Over many decades this is depleting the environment, and now we are facing a climate crisis, proven through scientific consensus to be a substantial threat to humanity and all life on the planet. Open source misappropriation is simply a small version of that, with less dramatic consequences.
>It's a little depressing how long it takes to complete projects like this

What if this is because those kinds of projects aren't a great solution and yet we're constantly trying to hamfist them in because it 'feels' right. If it was easy and cheap we would have switched long time ago.

Solar and wind are expensive, and they stress the infrastructure because of their inherent intermittency. Battery deployments are also expensive to deploy and to maintain (Li batteries will degrade, but then so will wind turbines and solar panels) and no battery project can bridge the gap in the daily and seasonal fluctuations of power output from solar and wind.

You end up needing to burn fossil fuels to compensate. You'll burn either natural gas, or coal, or some sort of bio-fuel or garbage or ... whatever else, but you'll burn something.

Hydro, geothermal and nuclear are pretty much the only proven power generation sources that can provide city-scale power without fossil fuels - and we're pretty much out of rivers to dam and geysers to develop. And since nobody likes nuclear anymore we're left with no actual solution to carbon emissions. But hey, Green New Deal is a great way to feel like you're doing something!!

>Anyone wanna take bets on how delayed and how much over budget they'll be?

Sure. I'll take that bet. It will be a disaster. I also don't believe that they will ever deploy 920 MW of battery storage - which would be by far the biggest battery deployment in the world. And if they do, it won't be worth it.
It's more about virtue signaling
Depending on where you are, that may be all legal and proper. Some states allow bicyclists to treat stops signs as yield signs and roll through. Additionally, cyclists ARE supposed to occupy the road so as not to allow a car to pass them IF passing would be unsafe. Riding 2x2 is also fine and efficient, and keeps you out of the oil slick on older roads.

I think there are a lot more terrible car drivers than there are total bicycle riders, so your dash cam is not very likely to catch a bad bicyclist. You could also report cars though, which would be helpful.
The article is unnecessarily inflammatory.

Every example the author gives of a Chinese or Chinese-American academic investigated by the FBI had prior ties to Chinese gov't run "innovation" programs. Many of these programs exist solely to transfer (i.e., steal) foreign IP.
So not so much cross platform as it’s commonly used, but rather multi-targeting within the Apple-platform.
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We also could have had steam powered cars. Jay Leno once said that he got pulled over on the freeway for breaking the speed limit in his Stanley Steamer from 1906-ish. Darn thing has a top speed of 127mph.

My 2018 motorcycle tops out at 110mph, to give you a comparison.

Why don't we have steam cars?

Because in the early 1900's steam cars they couldn't compete with the elegance of ICE vehicles. The engines were big and heavy, the fuel was hard to manage, they took a long time to warm up, etc etc. The internal combustion engine was just a way better tool for the job.

Same reason electric cars didn't win: The ICE was just a way better tool for the job at the time. This is now changing, but very slowly.

Tesla, for example, still doesn't have an official Nurburgring lap time because it simply isn't able to drive at racing speeds for long enough without the battery overheating and reducing power output to avoid damage. Yes racing electric cars exist and they're awesome, but even Formula E swaps cars in the middle of the race because a single car can't last long enough.[1]

It does look like VW's electric supercar currently attacking the Nurburgring lap record. Already holds the absolute record for Pikes Peak. Exciting times we live in :)[2]

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-time-clocked-in-by-Tesla-M...

[2]https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/05/vws-record-breaking-ele...
A good heuristic for this is don't eat anything that, in its purest form, wasn't around 10,000 years ago.
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It is absolutely a contract. This interpretation is just your personal opinion about how the world should work, and is not based at all in reality.

These forms clearly meet the legal definition of a contract.
What is your liability situation in case of injury or fatalities of other users of the road?
That's very anecdotal. Just because you might have been attached to Legos, doesn't mean everyone is.
The readme.md for the project is not beautiful. Maybe it's beautiful for html that GitHub generates from markdown, but it's a terrible readme when viewd in a text editor.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kefranabg/readme-md-genera...
Just bury it.

Who needs a "Hadoop Distribution" when you can just install Hadoop?

These came along with web-based management tools right around the time the industry was getting into devops and automation.

So instead of "run this script in one easy step" you have to give people a checklist that is a few pages long with screenshots and all.

Also this article misses the big picture which is roughly that HDFS is here to stay, attempts to replace it based on erasure codes are doomed, but MapReduce should be dead but lumbers on because nobody can choose between Spark and Tez and Apache Flavor Of The Hour. (Apache puts the bizzare in the Bazzar)
Cloudera and Hortonworks were always a scam but the c levels won't listen no matter how many times you tell them.
Nuclear is denser than gasoline but we don't run cars on it. There's a lot more to the discussion than the best technology.
Understood :) I had this idea myself but had no real way of pulling it off. I have believed for a long time that the real wins in autonomous vehicles would come from long haul trucking, but the last mile problem would really seal the deal. I'm excited to see you guys succeed :)
You can still charge people for disorderly conduct and public intoxication. This is just taking away charging people for having fentanyl in their purse.

>The gov't fully feeding, clothing, and sheltering large groups of addicts is impractical and unviable in most/all places.

It's completely viable it's just impractical. There are not THAT many homeless people. However there are diminishing returns for everything... Some people are on the street because they trash any home they're given access to. Also the better you take care of this population the more homeless people move to your progressive enlightened area. It's viable but nobody wants to pay for that shit when there are other social goods you could be doing.
The majority of companies that IPO aren't profitable at the time they IPO. This is nothing new.
I am at loss at what you want to say to me, but let me reiterate:

Any learning model by itself is a statistical model. Statistical models are never automatically causal models, albeit causal models are statistical models.

Several causal models can be observationally equivalent to a single statistical model, but the substantive (inferential) implications on doing "an intervention" on the DGP differ.

It is therefore not enough to validate and run on a model on data. Several causal models WILL validate on the same data, but their implications are drastically different. The data ALONE provides you no way to differentiate (we say, identify) the correct causal model without any further restrictions.

By extension, it is impossible for any ML mechanism to predict unobserved interventions without being a causal model.

ML and AI models CAN be causal models, which is the case if they are based on further assumptions about the DGP. For example, they may be graphical models, SCM/SEM etc. These restrictions can be derived algorithmically, based on all sorts of data, tuning, coding and whatever. It really doesn't change the distinction between causal and statistical analysis.

The way these models become causal is based on assumptions that constitute a theory in the scientific sense. These theories can then of course also be validated. But this is not based on learning from historical data alone. You always have to impose sufficient restrictions on your model (e.g. the DGP) to make such causal inference.

This is not new, but for your benefit, I basically transferred the above from an AI/ML book on causal analysis.

AI/ML can do causal analysis, because its statistics. AI/ML are not separate from these issues, do not solve these issues ex-ante, are not "better" than other techniques except on the dimensions that they are better as statistical techniques, AND, most importantly, causal application necessarily implies a theory.

Whether this is implicit or explicit is up to the researcher, but there are dangers associated with implicit causal reasoning.

And as Pearl wrote (who is not a fan of econometrics by any means!), the issue of causal inference was FIRST raised by econometricians BASED on combining the structure of economic models with statistical inference. In the 1940's.

I mean I get the appeal to trash talk social sciences, but when it comes to causal inference, you probably picked exactly the wrong one.

You are free to disregard economic theory. But you can not claim to do causal analysis without any theory. Doing so implicitly is dangerous.
Furthermore, you are wrong in the sense that economic theory has put causal inference issues at the forefront of econometric research, and is therefore good for science even if you dislike those theories.