skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is absurd. You should examine the language you are using. You can be a proponent of scientific missions like this without dismissing the very reasonable proposals as “handouts”. They are not. People have a right to a dignified life. No matter how you frame it, the Indian government is ignoring the very real needs of its population when it funds mission like this. No matter how you paint it, the ultra poor couldn’t care less about missions to the moon. What do you think they would choose if you asked any one of them to choose between new schools for all their children or a nationalistic mission to the moon? Get real please.
Try living under nonrepresentative dictatorship sometime. Not only does your vote not matter, but neither does your life or basic human rights.
My browser is not slow, for me starting and using a lot of desktop apps feels slower than browser apps to be honest.
please fuck back off to reddit.
The only way is to create wealth, which science and technology are pretty good tools for. A space program, however, isn't something that creates wealth. It's something really cool to do with wealth. Hence the suggestion to first create enough wealth, before spending it.
I was about to link this as well, glad you beat me to it. At the time of this comment launch is about (edit) 90 min hours away, they have finished liquid oxygen fueling, and loading hydrogen.
It did that on my Linux laptop running Firefox, despite the fact that I can't actually even do that.
This translates to 0.285 EUR/kWh, with 0.30 EUR/kWh being the current average in Germany, according to Google.
> I'm the spouse/partner of a recently-trained doctor, and I'm a programmer and startup founder with 2 decades of experience. With all respect, you have no friggen clue what you're talking about.

Then you should know very well that the entire MD education pipeline optimizes for rote memorization and regurgitation of facts (from undergrad pre-med all the way through post-residency fellowships). Any patient with even the slightest deviation from what the physician searched on WebMD is given generic advice similar to how fortune tellers recite generic phrases. If you have a non-standard question or health problem, go to 3 doctors (or even specialists) and you'll get 3 different answers.

I work closely with clinicians at Tier 1 urban medical institutions daily, both at the in-patient and outpatient settings. Most doctors are dumb as a rock.

Note: Physicians with a MD/PhD are much better at critical thinking and make more of an effort to solve your problem.
Hmm this is a really morbid thought but I wonder when we'll see the first person die on the moon. Will it be an astronaut or a civilian? What would be different today if the Apollo 11 crew never came back?
Actually, if you’re going to correct someone with “Actually,”, you should understand the issue.

The MCAS exists to prevent stick forces from inverting as the nose pitches up towards the stall angle. If the stick forces invert, it becomes easier to continue into a stall angle than to move away from it. Commercial airframes are required to never exhibit this characteristic as a condition of certification.

MCAS was Boeing’s idea of a solution to this; command the stabilizers down to provide counter force against the stick, making it harder for the pilot to pull into the stall than pull away from it at every point.

Even if previous 737s had never existed and the 737MAX as it exists today were for some reason an all new design, it would need the MCAS counter-force to get certified as air worthy no matter how much new training pilots got. It (claims to) solve a fundamental airworthiness requirement; it is not just there to “fly like previous 737s”.

The behaviour of the airframe is simply not considered commercially airworthy without it.
It's called position-taking and it's the most important (in terms of consequences) part of politics.
I agree that fiat only has value if a government, or some other group with capital backs it.

Cryptocurrency is distinct from "digital currency" in that it's decentralized, and not managed by a large actor. Sure, they may be doomed to fail.

Libra is NOT a decentralized currency, and thus does not deserve any support from Bitcoin/cryptocurrency people.

I 100% agree with you, just want to make the distinction between "cryptocurrency" and "digital money". Libra is Snapchat Cash + Facebook's own currency and we shouldn't try to defend it, when it is obviously trying to circumvent government regulation.

Now, it sounds like you don't think digital, private currencies/securities should be regulated. That's a more interesting conversation. Recall how the 1907 financial panics (and the Great Gatsby era) led the U.S. to government-regulated central banking in the first place.
ISRO's work is helping India to enforce it's national security and economy, two fundamentals for any strong nation. I'm not sure how this is a wastage of money.

PS: I'm an Indian tax payer.
> Eg Perl doesn’t have a nil type like Go...

That would be Perl 5. Perl 6 does. From https://docs.perl6.org/type/Nil :

"The value Nil may be used to fill a spot where a value would normally go, and in so doing, explicitly indicate that no value is present."
It could do that, but it doesn't have to. A common example is "a variable is set inside a loop and used outside it"; if the loop runs zero times, the variable will be used uninitialized, but the fastest compilation will assume that the loop runs at least once and read the value from whatever register/memory location the loop writes into.
A current column (4 days old) about fun lab discoveries https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/07/10/bu...

No FOOF that I saw listed though.
I’ve no idea, they were both still playing in ~2006 when I quit, more than a year after he started helping him out financially.
Most people pay with credit card, so just removing the tipping option from the machine would work.
The real problem is we are using a long term material for short term purposes only because it seems cheap. All plastic will be with us for generations if not forever in terms of human time. We can and should produce an alternative and not poison the environment if we work at it. Yes it's not as bad as we thought but it certainly is bad. Plastic has a place in our daily life but not as a use once and throw away.

I'm one that believes the use of taxes as way to change consumption. So charging a tax to help reflect the true value of plastic, to reduce usages and find alternatives. It's a hard issue but burning it or dumping is not the solution.
Right, why not do something more useful :-)
Surprised that nobody mentioned Earth and Beyond from EA. One of the earlier MMOs, released and cancelled before World of Warcraft came out. They actually had a dedicated class for Explorers, with experience points awarded for exploration-type content. It took place in the Milky Way, which helped keep things a bit grounded.
This app exists, and it looks like they accept donations. I've signed up and it's pretty useful: https://issuevoter.org
Depending on where you live. I live in Canada and my region you don’t get all your deposit back.
I admire your optimism, but when a country exports it best and brightest talent to build other nations what hope does it ever have.

Mediocrity at best?
I interpreted the vague "Artists?" very differently from you. I thought it was saying "What about this makes it appropriate for artists? It is not showing off the beauty and simplicity of Calculus."

> You might be thinking that all artists are bad at math or too stupid to grasp calculus

I think labeling it as "for Beginners and Artists" is actually doing some of that. I certainly would not make a book labeled for artists unless I thought it would be particularly good for artists and from what I have seen this book does not touch on creativity or beauty. Therefore it must be labeled as for Artists because they can't learn calculus from existing books which might imply
"all artists are bad at math or too stupid to grasp calculus".
Plastics are a negligible use of oil (compared to transportation), oil can be synthesized, and I assume methane feedstock is adequate for making plastics.
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I'd MUCH rather have the menu say, "Our prices reflect paying our workers a strong wage, we encourage you not to tip."

Yes, and I'd go even further because all phrases like "tipping is optional" are now firmly established as lies that you're expected to recognize as such. Just say "we do not accept tips" and eliminate the tip line.
>when you really go shopping you should and can easily bring a bag when you go shopping.

There's a Danish study[1] that concluded that reusable bags require 50+ uses before breaking even with disposable plastic bags. And that's for one use. If you reuse the disposable bag once (to line your garbage bin, for example), the break even point is now 100+ uses. If you factor in cleaning costs for the reusable bags, I'd be surprised if this practice makes a dent on pollution, if at all.

[1] https://www2.mst.dk/udgiv/publications/2018/02/978-87-93614-...
> Even if they get stuck at middle income for awhile

That isn’t the downside scenario. Countries that fail to ascend amidst population growth have a habit of collapsing and regressing, economically and politically. India has been doing a terrific job of traversing this terrain, a fact I largely ascribe to its democratic institutions.

But continued progress is far from a given. Ironically, one of the greatest risk factors is complacency from believing growth is inevitable. (This seems to be happening in China.)
> It'd be easier to reverse engineer the rendering engines in popular PS2 games and to simply port them.

What do you mean by that?
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Yes, I simplified a bit. But remember, they are each paying facebook at least $10 million, who for now controls the development. I would be very surprised, if somehow Facebook maneuvered themselves out of a position of power over the Libra Reserve.

Even if the private currency is controlled equally by these companies, I am still fear-struck. Do I want these companies to be setting global economic policy?

That implies financial regulation that is even less democratic than it is now!
>> guitar player who is always talking about the best amps, pedalboards and shred techniques... but haven't really written any noteworthy music

To use the music analogy, isn't Gwern's point that since most people won't be able to come up with "noteworthy" music on their own (many think they can, due to overconfidence), the better thing to do for the world is to (help) realize, promote and refine the noteworthy music other people did, even though you are unlikely to get any credit that way?
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Why will going to the moon make it harder to improve people's standard of living in India? I wasn't aware that it was such a zero-sum game.
I can't imagine someone with an arts background getting anything at all out of this introduction. The Gilbert Strang approach is much clearer - although it's still not obvious why an artist would ever need calculus.

In fact there are some applications in generative design and 3D animation, but it's still low on the list of essential art skills. And if you really need those effects - and know enough math to understand how to code them - you can copy code from a cookbook without having to derive it from first principles.
Well, you can do it; you just have to patch your kernel. I googled 'linux remap sysrq'.
I don't have a strong opinion on Portugal's drug policy. But I do think there's a flaw in the premise of this article: the success of Portugal's policy here was dependent on Portugal's culture, history, population, and a host of other factors that can't be replicated in another country.

It's as though I think the United States Constitution is a great thing — as in fact I do — and say, "The radical US Constitution has worked. Why hasn't the world copied it?" You can't lift one feature of a culture out, apply it in isolation, and expect it to function as it did in context.
Exactly, Libra is a permissioned protocol. With a very vague roadmap for decentralization that I think we should interpret as a marketing ploy / foot-in-the-door-to-avoid-regulation.
6x6 film captured much more detail than 35mm film. But modern digital cameras of "35mm frame" are way beyond this, that's why nobody uses them with lenses from last century. So it's not crazy to hope that using one as a scanner (which is ideal conditions) might not leave much detail behind, from negatives shot on an old Hasselblad.
Not only you need to get the new certificate, you must do proficiency check every year for every type rating to keep them current, have recurrent training and check rides.
Don't feel bitter towards them. Instead, ask them about how they achieved their success - most people will be happy to share. Take that feedback onboard and improve.
hmm I actually see Zig as more of the "new C" and Rust, Go, Nim as more of C++ displacements.
> There's a reason private money was outlawed in the 1900s.

And the reason is probably a bit more nuanced than this sentence projects. Furthermore, reasoning in the 1900s should not be used to justify government monopoly on money in 2019.
> reading hackernews.

You often find enlightening and inspiring and educational comments here, also entertaining ones :-)
Do you have a link supporting this?
A case against modern CSS frameworks
Not all mechs are noisy. Personally I was having significant pain in my finger joints until I switched to mechs with (fairly quiet) Cherry Brown and Red switches, and trained myself to type mostly without bottoming out the keys.
Wouldn't that have been what Project X or Google labs was for? People don't generally like to constantly be unwilling beta testers. Google is doing it wrong. They ditch popular products that could work and are popular instead of spinning them out. They buy and then kill profitable and popular products. Google hasn't really had a successful project in a while. The last major one I can think of being Google Docs. Google sometimes builds applications that compete with their own products and then kills both the stable and new product.

What people expect is that one you have a stable of popular and successful products that you will either focus or provide long term support for the products that they rely on, whether you have to move to a different model or not. Microsoft and Apple both build new products and don't have the same animus directed at them because there's and expectation of stability or planning when a product gets sunsetted. How long did XP last? Windows 7 still gets security updates even if it's a dead product. Google just kills things, even Google Fiber that people rely on, with no transition plan and messaging that basically reflects that customers or users of the product don't matter to then at all. Google has worked hard to get their bad reputation and it turned from a darling into a dangerous entity.
People who don't want to further misinformation.
At the end of the day what is needed is to create wealth, not to spend it. Spending wealth while lots of people in the country are living in poverty in a way, that doesn't directly address this problem may come off as having the wrong priorities. This is about perception.
It is common in colloquial English to use "they"/"their" as a generic third person singular.

For example: "Could the person who left their umbrella please pick it up?"

However, here it is used in a rather new setting for a specific and known individual. This is a rather new phenomenon pushed by the transgender and genderqueer community.

I am specifically addressing the latter usage of the form 'they' in the third person singular. Do you agree this form is new? If not, could you give references to earlier usage than, say 1990?
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Tldr: working on any difficult problem causes you to learn things. That knowledge can be used for much more than that original difficult problem.
Hey, thanks :)

Now I know why I've been seeing that error so much.
I agree with this, for anyone to be a 10x developer, most likely their brain has massive deficiencies in other areas of functioning. I've only worked with one 10x developer in my life. After seeing his code and problem solving abilities, I started to question whether I was any good at coding at all (and I am regularly regarded as the best on my team).

Finance is another industry that supports 10x employees, its common for traders with a natural ability at pattern recognition to produce 10x - 100x returns. Like technology, their minds can be leveraged by increasing the amount of capital they can manage.
This is a tremendous effort, but it won't get me to switch from the very reasonably priced Adobe Premiere. For one thing, Adobe Premiere can encode and transcode many, many times faster with GPU and Intel AVX-512 support.
"They" as generic third person singular goes back at least five centuries. I am (obviously) referring to address a known individual using "They" / "Their".
Do you have a source for this? From what I can find, the up-and-coming A220 has the same design[0] for the overwing exit as the 737, which was added in the 737NG redesign. Earlier 737s had plug doors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gZ22iQBlmc

0: https://rr-spotter.de/im-airbus-a220-300-von-air-baltic-nach...
The only way I can think of where that would make sense is if they're using them for off-label reasons (i.e. harnessing side effects to treat other classes of problems). Regardless, major red flags. We need to better understand what's happening here.
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Yeah the problem isn't even that there aren't FOSS video editors there just aren't any ones that could actually replace the video editor I use for my job. There's probably a dozen semi-usable video editors out there but I wish there was something I could get myself to use as more than just novelty.
>there's a 12-18" drop along those edges of my property line, persumably as the soil was extracted in plant form.

This presumption is incorrect. Do the math: 99+% of that mass loss is because of wind and water erosion, not plant growth.
Maybe in the past, but every Hollywood client of ours has switched to Adobe Premiere.
The Government didn't shut any social program to fund this mission. And before terming it as a nationalistic mission, please go to ISRO's site and educate yourself about the objectives of the mission.
Alcor and Oregon Cryonics have patient care trusts that are designed to build capital to pay for revival: https://alcor.org/AboutAlcor/patientcaretrustfund.html

"It doesn’t do any good to use the most advanced techniques to get our members into cryopreservation unless we can keep them there, as well as build capital to eventually fund revival and reintegration."

Also, if the technology to do revival develops in the future, it is likely to be relatively cheap.

Analogy: in the 1910-1920s, people were interested in life extension via hormone replacement therapy (mostly misguided, but that's a separate topic). They were understandably worried that this would only be available to the rich, as it was relatively expensive to do at the time. One hundred years later, hormone replacement therapy is relatively cheap and widely available, at least in countries like the US.

There are many many problems with cryonics, but IMO this is not a major one.
(This is from the Google AI team.)
Good clarification, but I wouldn't say almost nothing. All are formal symbolic reasoning techniques.

For example, The predicate calculus is invaluable for writing correct programs with mind-bogglingly large input domains, such as the set of all C++ programs.
If you agree that:

1) U.S. economic policy should be set by democratically elected people, and that

2) Facebook (or the Libra consortium) is not democratically elected, and that

3) Government monetary policy (aka the USD) stabilizes the economy,

Then, consider supporting bills like this. (I'm sure it has problems and will be rewritten many times)
The Supreme Court consists of zero medical doctors.

Do not take a legal opinion and present it as medical fact.
They can but don't have to be connected and when you put it in context of "saving democracy" particularly as the OP was complaining about something they think they know how to fix but won't because they can't make money from it then it fits a hilarious stereotype of precisely what is hurting democracy (profit over democracy).
I thought it was just yet another historical and linguistic oddity in English.
This only works if there are treatment options available which won’t happen in the US. Otherwise prisons wouldn’t be full of people with mental health problems.
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Caveat: if you're a long-term investor, pay no attention to this or my comment.

I completely agree that we're in a weird time. A few weeks ago, there was a bad economic report and the market rallied because it assumed that made it more likely the Fed would cut rates. I get it, but it's also absurd, and by reductio ad absurdum, the Fed alone can't power the economy.

There have been rumblings that volatility is probably underpriced (options almost always imply less downside risk than there really is, anyway), especially in the political climate with Iran and Brexit and the economic climate of a US trade war with China and--now--France.

On the other hand, money is cheap, you gotta put it somewhere, and Vision Fund II looks like a sucker's bet.
PubPub folk here - our landing page is pretty much 6 months past its shelf life. A rework that helps people find relevant communities is in the pipeline. In the meantime - we have a simple Explore page[1]. Some of my favorite communities are the newly launched Harvard Data Science Review[2], The Journal of Design and Science[3], _Cursor[4], and the Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law and Policy[5].

We're also encouraged by a handful of communities that are experimenting with new formats of pre-publication review and training such as: Collective Wisdom[6], EFPT Psychotherapy Guidebook[7], and Data Feminism[8].

At a more meta-level, the challenge here is that this ecosystem is overwhelmingly complex. The business-models, culture, and technical infrastructure are all unhealthy and self-reinforcing. There's no single platform that can fix this - it needs a political campaign in parallel with a social movement in parallel with some really good tech infrastructure. The US healthcare challenge is a good parallel in a lot of ways. Both are going to need new economic and governance models. At the risk of straying too far from the original question, PubPub's parent - the Knowledge Futures Group[9] - is working to push on all of these fronts. Feel free to reach out if this is the kind of thing you care about!

[1] https://www.pubpub.org/explore

[2] https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu

[3] https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu

[4] https://cursor.pubpub.org

[5] https://stanford-jblp.pubpub.org

[6] https://wip.mitpress.mit.edu/collectivewisdom

[7] https://epg.pubpub.org

[8] https://bookbook.pubpub.org/data-feminism

[9] https://kfg.mit.edu
There are a number of landfills in PA which produce methane which is used directly, or for generating power. Here's a list: https://www.dep.pa.gov/Business/Land/Waste/SolidWaste/Munici...
Who is granting people the right to have a dignified life? If there's nobody, they do not, in fact, have that right. Since rights are things that are either given or taken. They do not abstractly "exist".
Too bad gravity is free
Is there an example of actually helpful and practical enabled-by-undefined-behavior optimization in C/C++? All I can remember are discussions of its pitfalls, like this.
A good argument for having a space exploration program, then.
DynamoDB scales a lot. It falls into the "throw money at it," bucket though, and you need to have a pattern that shards well with it. If you have a reason they will basically always increase your limits, too.