skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, bikes are a hassle. Too easy to steal. I used to ride everywhere with my bike, but the mental drag of having to find a safe spot, chain it (and even then, many guys carry around large nut cracker) .. it killed biking except for pauseless round trips.
I don't understand why, in such a ridiculously broken system, people seem to assume voting == supporting. I know plenty of people who thought Trump was a better candidate than Clinton who are not sexist, racist, white supremacist, nor just assholes. I know near-zero people who actively express support for Trump generally who do not grapple with at least one of those traits.
> What’s being sold is software that helps make optimal decision using data

Doesn't this apply to virtually all software?
Not OP, but I ditched taking notes on paper for the most part. I write stuff down on the iPad Pro (Notes and/or Notability) instead nowadays. It is easier to find and extract things and I can just archive them to the cloud when they are not needed anymore.

The only time I use paper is when I don't have the iPad on me and for personal journaling (for which I have a dedicated notebook anyway).
> starting in 2013

There's considerable lag in the statistics.

Someone dies; their death is investigated and a ruling is made; statisticians collect the data, collate a report, and release the data.

The dataset for 2013 could be talking about deaths in 2011.
Cool thing is: with that argument I was able to convince management to roll out WiFi worldwide at a large corp where the CISO hated WiFi and had halted all projects that sought to implement it.

Needless to say, there where dozens of rogue AP's in the network, which where a biatch to find (was a manual job actually walking around with a laptop trying to find them). With the global rollout we made sure "rogue AP detection" was implemented as an additional feature, which came with its own challenges (sometimes not knowing something is easier to deal with...).
From a linear algebra point of view, there's no difference.

Neural networks used for AI are represented by N-dimensional spaces of, for example, 1024 dimensions.
Exactly, it's not very even. I have some stats from my 3.85kW grid connected array, taken from the flashing light on the meter: https://flatline.org.uk/daystats.html

(click a day bar to see a drilldown)
It’s perfectly reasonable to say you’ve increased dimensionality when you find a new physical property to store things with. If a CHS-addressed HD tomorrow starts using opacity or depth as a way to store 2 bits in each, obviously the dimensionality has increased.

In ML, we regularly accept 100+d data (much higher for imaging applications). Even simple mechanical systems have large state vectors.

I’m a regular critic of university systems but this isn’t the university making stuff up because it sounds impressive.

(Additional evidence: one of the authors is a Microsoft employee, not an academic employed by the University of Southampton.)
I had a Ponte Vecchio Lusso spring lever machine for ten years. It made lovely coffee but required a lot of maintenance, replacing piston seals, pressure stats, sight glass seals, pressure guage. I also had to remove and cap the ports for the low water sensor due to leakage and to re-wire it a couple times due to burned switches and connectors. It caught on fire once.
The build quality was "rustic", panels with sharp edges, blobby solder, rust under the chrome, cover that had to be leaned on to make fit when reinstalling it.

I had a love-hate relationship with it, the group head design was very forgiving, it required almost no technique to pull a very good shot, could be left on for a long time and be instantly ready, powerful steam, heated up fast etc. Really an ideal home machine except for being a total POS.

Every few months when I had to repair it I thought about replacing it but there really wasn't anything out there with the combination of shot quality and ease of use and small kitchen practicality. The E61 machines are large, require good technique, use a lot of water, generate a lot of heat and probably are not that much more reliable as they are also sort of craft workshop built. The Silvia is overrated and very fiddly, it can make great shots, if the stars are just so. Manual levers are fetish objects for collectors, coffee hobbyists, and masochists.

What I really wanted was a modern design built with modern processes, ie a Tesla, not a Fiat 124 Spider from the 60's.

Enter the Breville 920XL dual boiler. It makes better coffee and is even more forgiving and consistent than my old Ponte Vechio. It heats up fast and steams well. I don't love the tamper as much as my old rosewood and brass one for the Ponte Vecchio, but the magnetic tamper holder is one of those tiny details that makes me happy every shot. Two years in it's been perfect, except for just the tiniest steam wand valve leak recently. Time will tell, but since I got it at Costco, I'm out nothing if it's a problem.
That's a rather unfair and naive assessment. Scientific disciplines exist within certain paradigmatic borders. What seems right for quantum physics might be implausible in the context of, e.g., cultural studies. What seems right in the context of sociology, e.g., interviewing people, is simply impossible in the context of astrophysics. Ever tried to interview a black hole?

As long as people honestly try to do the right thing and not just to gamble the science system, we are on the right way. This doesn't preclude that the contemporary consensual understanding of a problem under study turns out being little more than bullshit some day.
Well we could also say that if the contrast on this website is too low then your monitor is not set bright enough.

Ultimately it's a matter of taste isn't it?
Syntorial is a charm, definitely the best resource to develop your ear. There are possibly waay extensive resources like books, but as the nature of the medium it's good for getting information, but for practice and developing the ear, Syntorial is #1.
> After a few games you definitely get better, recognize the patterns and handle accordingly.

Because there's a benevolent dictator (you) who can impose societal solutions without contradictory structures (capitalism, etc.) getting in the way. If you were playing multiplayer Sim City with everyone's goal being "make their city the best", I guarantee that most games will end up with societal disasters being unhandled.

> So why doesn't it work in real life, climate change for example?

Capitalism.

> Maybe the data is just too overwhelming, contradictory or incomplete?

Nope, it's complete, non-contradictory, and perfectly clear. The only problem we have dealing with the climate crisis is that it will cost money and discomfort and, unless it's imposed from above, people generally aren't interested in worsening their lives to help distant others (cf tax rates, zoning laws, racism, ...)
I think the thing that makes it notable in this context is just a stated willingness to invest large sums of money down the road for new nodes, regardless of current position. I assume this is due to strategic subsidies by the government.
You end up with fully depleted devices to avoid dopant effects. And tunneling loss is already an issue, and is mitigated with better work function metal design.

Sharp bends don't happen because they cause large fields which in turn cause dielectric breakdown. Most critical metal layers are oriented in a single direction. 2D printing with EUV isn't really an issue.

There are three components which make the area of a cell that are used to infer the scaling. The fin pitch, the metal pith, and the cell height (track count). An older technology (22nm) might have a 9track, 40nm by 60nm size. 14nm would be 9T2842, 10 would be 7.5T2638, 7 would be 6.5T2638 with SDB, and 5 might be 5.5T2230

Numbers very approximate, but the key is that design compaction (which requires major physical integration changes) coupled with reduced key pitch shrink.

The nice part is that you tend to get more design innovation, because you are no longer competing with shrink. And the relative cost of additional masks and layers is low.
If you want to get technical about it, the value is determined by the market, by the forces of supply and demand. Advertising with a fake discount suggests that the market was willing to pay more for the product than it actually was.

Most products are actually sold with a one size fits all price. People don't haggle over every single item they buy in a shop.
You can't use that logic, because the two aren't even equivalent.
I do not think it is necessarily external stimuli. Math can make various spaces that are nigh impossible for humans to comprehend, and can even require computers to understand.

E.g. basically math solves a problem for N-dimensional spaces. I have problems thinking in 3D, not to mention 256-dimensional.
I made a spreadsheet here comparing comparing countries climate policies including fossil fuel subsidies:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTaPmBiFIbPq...
What's the distinction? Wikipedia seems to think there isn't one:

"In mathematics, the dimension of an object is, roughly speaking, the number of degrees of freedom of a point that moves on this object."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension
What Is AUC?
> I like Org mode, but the syntax highlighting support is not great

I know. That's why I said "I hope Github improves Org mode support at some point." :)

> I have been looking at AsciiDoc

If you like Org mode, you can overcome the Github/etc. Org mode rendering limitations by hosting small static sites for your projects. You may choose to do so by simply exporting Org to HTML using ox-html[1], or even exporting Org to markdown for Hugo (disclaimer: my package -> ox-hugo)[2].

I mean, if you like using Org mode, and Github et al don't see the value in improving support for that, don't use them to render Org mode docs :)

[1]: https://eless.scripter.co/

[2]: https://ox-hugo.scripter.co/
The article seems to blame the Bayh–Dole Act and similar events that allowed Universities to sell government funded research results to the pharmaceutical industry. I don't believe this is the problem--the Bayh–Dole Act incentives new drugs. This explanation doesn't explain why off patent drugs have gone up in price.

I suspect the problem is market collusion and the FDA shutting down competitors on drugs where patents expired, which I believe is what happened during the epipen crisis.
Gitlab all the way, as others have mentioned the CI pipeline is easy to setup.
Another feature which is great is the Docker registry at the repository level.
I'm inclined to agree about reproducing knowledge, however I've spent the last few years learning languages and learning languages is the exact opposite, where the majority of learning is done through simply inputting language.

For example see Krashen's ideas on language acquisition https://www.sk.com.br/sk-krash.html

Now this makes me feel like I hold a contradiction because the way I think about learning a language and learning math are opposite in this way.

Do you or others have any thoughts on this matter? Is it because we evolved some tailored machinery for acquiring language naturally as children, or because they are learnt the same "way", it's just that language is generally just a tremendous amount of associating stuff that it requires 100x more consumption. I guess one could naturally acquire the times tables over time if all combinations of a*b up to 10 come up in conversation enough times, but a general procedure for doing multiplication wouldn't be acquired magically.
And then people complain when these things happen:
https://www.dw.com/en/coal-protests-in-germany-climate-activ...
Trump's "white supremacist" policies: Move US Embassy to Jerusalem, acknowledge Israeli control over the Golan Heights, sign an aid package to give Israel $38B, inch towards war with Iran.

That doesn't sound like a white supremacist/neo-nazi.
You can't have an abortion in many places that are run by pro-choice people. It would be inappropriate.
I know, that was my point, I probably explained it wrongly.

I meant that by stating that social sciences aren't actual sciences and have profound problems, one is in no way stating that disciplines that aren't sciences (like History, the example given) aren't not valid pursuits of human knowledge.
I wasn’t explicitly referring to that, it’s just one of many efforts. Anyway, you’re certainly right that none of the existing efforts are “elegant” but that’s hardly relevant. What matters is that the connectome is fully mapped, and that we can accurately simulate arbitrary behaviour. The issue with projects such as OpenWorm is that they have so far not been successful in generating new insight (this may be connected to your issue with lack of elegance) but this is distinct from being able to accurately simulate behaviour. Another issue is that of simulating the physical environment because — surprise, surprise — simulating the worm neurons without any realistic external stimuli is a pretty pointless exercise for most purposes.

But pick any set of stimuli you like, feed it into the models and you get a response that corresponds exactly with empirical observation. I’d therefore definitely call the neuronal model itself accurate and complete.
I'd rather call them parameters or indexes. Certainly not dimensions analogous to 1/2/3D.

People have been storing things in 5D on wood substrate for years. Like clothes in the closet (the 2 extra Ds might be type and color).

The terminology is clearly mean to impress the general audience that would normally not even bother to read a classic "engineering" title.
$1300/month is absolutely crazy. In Sweden, a whole year’s worth of injection insulin is about $600 (actual cost to the government, including the disposable injectors) and $0 to the end user.
I was referring to the computational capabilities that hardware can provide, not the performance of an average program. The parent article talks about semiconductor manufacturing, you can save your rants on inefficient and useless programs for another HN article.
> that are nigh impossible for humans to comprehend,

ha. even though the mechanisms may be intractable for humans eventually the inputs and the outputs of math transformations must be dumbed down to be understood by human brains or else they are useless (to humans). neural nets come to mind
Sorry to hear that. I understood some of the earlier ones had issues. I'm hoping you were sincere with that "Good Luck!" because I really like this machine and hope it lasts.
2. ?? There are men and women, nothing else

3. These people have an astronomic suicide risk. Not exactly fit for military

5. https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5myu6x/let_me_c...

7. Criticism of a Jewish person is not anti-semitism. Criticism of Soros is very rational.

This is one of the most insane threads I've ever seen on HN.
It's not much less than my terrible petrol Kia (220 miles / 350 km on a full tank).
Trump agriculture secretary: U.S. farmers 'casualties' of trade war
Shenote: sms auth is not even remotely secure. Let's move on.
Absolutely. There is such a wide variety of cheap analog monosynths, it’s definitely the way to go.

For me, the knobs are the most important part. It’s an expressive medium after all, you need to feel the movement.
TIL? Goddamnit, how old am I?
I just assume everything is an advertisement. If one wants actual information, dig for it.
Dan, go fuck yourself. By letting people get away with snarky condescending tones and banning people who call them out on it, you're encouraging shitty behavior. "Don't be snarky" is right up top in the comments section of the guidelines, but it's easier for you to chastise me because I called the snarky guy an asshole. That's just lazy on your part.

Aggressive comments aren't worse, they're just easier for you to recognize.
i'd argue (without evidence) that medical and biotech startups probably require more up front capital and longer lead times to see a possible return on investment vs e.g. yet another SaaS

so maybe this is working as intended
And why would not these be valid things for Telco's to store - though these are of course "Mobile" telcos not know for being as robust as proper old school ex PTT ones.

I wonder if EE got hit I could see some interesting interviews with BT security happening :-)
There are good introductory courses on coursera.org, edx.org and KhanAcademy. The most notables are CS50 from Harvard (https://cs50.harvard.edu) and "The Beauty and Joy of Computing" from Berkeley (https://bjc.berkeley.edu).
> Based on this I believe that 'independence' means writing this off and declaring that Taiwan is not China but an independent "Republic of Taiwan" only.

This is exactly what I mean by political declaration and name change.
Sounds almost like Songlines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songline
“Or I would have been if routing was working correctly”

There’s a silver lining to everything.
A small prototype of this technology already flew in the glovebox of the Tesla Roadster launched to deep space on the Falcon Heavy’s inaugural launch (third launch just succeeded this morning):

https://medium.com/arch-mission-foundation/arch-mission-foun...

...it (appropriately) contained Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy.

> The Arch library that was included on the Falcon Heavy today was created using a new technology, 5D optical storage in quartz, developed by our advisor Dr. Peter Kazansky and his team, at the University of Southampton, Optoelectronics Research Centre.
The 2018 Leaf in my garage will do 250km. The new Leaf plus is up to 360 km.
This looks like a case study of what is wrong with the US healthcare system.

There isn't much discussion of why it's expensive in the US specifically. In other countries insulin prices haven't risen in the same way and are still affordable. So why is the price gouging only happening in the US?

As a T1 diabetic in the UK, where the wonderful NHS covers all of my insulin costs, this is one reason why I'd never be able to move to or work in the US.
The Libra Masterplan
Does it come with electrolytes?
Comments like this make me appreciate living in Japan even more.
Ms. Tree Caught the Falcon Fairing
How Will 5G Networks Impact Your Mobile Apps in 2019?
If every step either worked perfectly or didn't work at all, that would be very convincing. But isn't the reality that defects are localized and that the rate of defects is more or less proportional to the amount of stuff you're making?

If you have a certain probability of failure in each transistor (I know, I know, ICs don't consist entirely of transistors, but let's simplify) then making more transistors by stacking layers needn't lead to more failures than making more transistors by making larger-area 2D chips.

Existing fabrication methods already produce some failures. In at least some cases, the way that's dealt with is to make the hardware able to cope with some bits not working, and then e.g. you can turn an 8-core chip with a defect in one core into a 6-core chip that you sell for less money, or a memory device with one block of memory not working into ... exactly the same as all your other devices because you already budgeted for a couple of blocks not working.

So I think the p^n issue is illusory: n doesn't get larger just because you're making your device in 3D, it gets larger because your device has more stuff in it, so the issue is large devices not 3D ones, and there are already known ways to deal with the fact that large devices often have defects. 3D devices might well have a higher failure rate per unit of stuff on them because the processes would be more complicated, because there are connections in more directions, because of thermal issues, etc., but that's a matter of increasing p, not of increasing n.
I was thinking of making a stock-photo site based on product placement. Instead of tricking people to buy subscriptions for downloading one image, give the image for free or very cheap with some product featured "accidentally" .
I don't think that it's possible to use certain frequencies to 'cancel out' the perception of tinnitus because for the over whelming majority of folks dealing tinnitus the noise isn't a real sound.
Angular – Understanding Architecture – Part 2
It's got what geeks crave.
Where is the abuse? A seller has the right to sell at whatever price they want (assuming non emergency situations).

If I'm a seller, I can raise the price 100% at 10AM, and then put a sign that says 70% off. And then the next day, I can reduce the price 100%. The very use of ambiguous wording is a signal that it's a sales tactic.

No one advertises 50% off the median average sale price in the past 30 days, because then it would be abuse. But that's not what any seller advertises. Stating that someone else saved Y dollars is also ambiguous. Saved compared to what?

Booking.com claiming so and so is selling out quickly! What is quickly defined as?

Until there are falsifiable metrics being falsified, I don't see what the abuse is.
Supplements are unregulated and this marketing page takes advantage of that and other unregulated areas such as the use of the word “natural” (anything can legally be called natural, all natural or 100% natural) as well as fake testimonials. At an absurd price this is cashing in on the high-cost wellness fad. Compared to buying fancy beans and some supplements you can get the caffeine from the coffee and whatever you’re convinced the supplements do for much less.
I think it really depends on the teacher. My abstract algebra teacher, for example, expected us to copy the blackboard every class and our notes to be our primary text.
No sound, but you get USB superposition in exchange. In 50 years, people will gather in nursing homes and reminisce about how bad type-A was.
> Hottest landing attempt to date
They'll iterate and figure it out.
I started a company that constructed booths which used 70 accurately sync'd Pis with custom PiCams (fitted with lenses) to take pictures of human subjects, for turning them into avatars like this:
https://maintenancearistonalex.blogspot.com/2019/06/blog-pos...

At the beginning of the project, I'd barely powered up the Pis I had collecting dust in my drawer. By the end, I was a legitimate domain expert in several niches within niches of Pi dark arts. For example, since Pis do not have hardware clocks, you have to rely on NTP. However, you need to take pains to make sure that each Pi is getting the same amount of voltage or else they will run at different speeds. If you want to power 70 Pis in a constrained space, you need to devise a customized power distribution system with adequate heat venting.

https://indesitmaintenance.blogspot.com/2019/06/blog-post.ht...

Due to the thin effect, voltage drops over distance, so the distance a Pi was from the power would impact the voltage and therefore the speed. The major breakthrough came when I realized that I could start with a high end power supply outputting 14 volts and terminate each parallel line with a device known as a UBEC. They are used primarily by drone enthusiasts to make efficient use of battery packs.

A UBEC is designed to drop down a supply voltage to 5v without bleeding off the excess voltage as heat. Since this could also describe a fuse, we felt comfortable bypassing the Pi's MicroUSB power supply and attaching the UBEC's pins directly to the top pins on the Pi's GPIO breakout.

That's just a tiny example of the hijinx. The Pi is an incredible tool if you're patient and clever.

What a rollercoaster.
I just mentioned this to a co-worker last week. This was news here 4 years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11140033
https://sequoia.makes.software/conference-tips/#-take-notes-...

d:o)
> You forgot to post your affiliate link for Hill Brothers!

Pffft. Are you new to "accidental" comment product placement? It's all about brand awareness. Brands like the delicious Lavazza coffee i m drinking right now.
Performance Enhancing Bacteria Found in the Microbiome of Elite Athletes