skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And more importantly, the fact that I believed it meant that I was able to operate free of insecurities or imposter syndrome that so many of my peers faced.

How the heck did you convince yourself to believe it? As a "gifted" kid, what I learned very quickly was that adults will happily exaggerate minor talents (which one acquires primarily through just spending time on them, a task made markedly easier when everybody else hates you) to absurdity- at one point I got an evaluation back from a summer program at Stanford telling me I might grow up to be "one of the best programmers of our age". What did I do to earn such acclaim? Got ahead of the rest of the class making a game, read the documentation for Flash, and used the extra time to add "voice controls" to my game (specifically, you'd shoot by yelling anything into your microphone, it was just triggered by levels.)

Seriously- how can you take that sort of praise seriously, and not just as a "look at the cute kid who knows more Adobe Flash than the rest of his age group"?
> so much in this world tries to divide us by our national identity and our ethnicities, etc

It is precisely that we have real, inescapable conflicts that makes it heartening to see something transcend that.

If it transcended nothing, what would it mean? Probably nothing.
And sitting at a desk in a heated/air conditioned office is not just like every other job - especially those that involve cleaning.

But I agree that if you don't enjoy programming, you're probably not going to be especially good at it.
You’re right that there are multiple factors, but you also can’t discount the role of phenotypic brain “firmware”.

Yes, science reveals inconvenient truths. It tells us that we’re responsible for climate change, and it also tells us that our brains come pre-loaded with a wealth of routines shaped by millennia of evolution.

Can’t just accept some results and pretend others aren’t also well-supported. Well-supported scientific findings are what they are.
I am writing a review article these days which requires skimming through many many articles and this situation really is infuriating. What the hell is wrong with scientists today that they accept this situation? Why aren't all papers in 2019 hosted as HTML pages (the very thing for which HTML was invented) but instead hidden behind paywalls, behind a PDF file? Why can't i use annotations / search / crossreferences the way i use any website? Why do i have to end up copying-the title of the paper, googling the name of it and downloading another pdf, instead of clicking on an HREF link? Why am i forced to use godawful tools like Mendeley (brought to you by Elsevier now) to conform to ancient citation formats which were invented for (paper) libraries. Someone needs to pass a law that invalidates the copyrights of all publicly funded works, so people other than google scholar can have access to the world's scientific output and build proper services on top of it. And yeah, i 'm sure Elsevier, that pretentious club of high horses will be replaced in a day, by a digital peer-supported "uber for reviews". But first academics will have to remove the stick of elitism that is up their arse.
There is a useful tool for this called brenda. The original repo by creator James Yonan hasn't been updated in years, so it uses an old version of Blender by default, doesn’t allow you to choose availability zone (which affects pricing), and doesn't support GPU rendering out of the box. I forked it [0] to address these issues for my own use, and updated the documentation to try and make it easier for people to get started.

[0] https://github.com/gwhobbs/brenda
I agree with the second point re healthcare.

The first one though is about property rights. You cannot let govt legislate private property rights. It’s the corner stone of this nation’s founding.

There is housing supply in other parts of the country. Urban planning ought to be local governance that should be decided by the local tax payers. At least in CA, it’s regional governance where policy is decided by Sacramento and zoning for million dollar properties works well because of increased property tax.

They are not going to make a lot on affordable housing as taxes collected have to spent on new schools and new infrastructure and new community services etc.

Most of it goes to unfounded public sector pension liabilities.

Govt spending is a Ponzi scheme. But they spend a pittance of it in services.

The best way to deal with housing supply is build where there were no homes before. Not change zoning. The zoning laws have been auctioned off to builders because the state knows that’s where their $$ will come from.. unaffordablity is also a function of this.

I am speaking of California and one county here.

For example:

[..]Property tax revenues in Alameda County are due to hit a whopping milestone, and Fremont is part of the story. Newly elected Alameda County Assessor Phong La released the 2019-2020 local Assessment Roll on Wednesday, which showed that the gross value of all taxable property in Alameda County is a record $321.5 billion— a $21.4 billion or 7.13 percent increase above last year's roll.

Of the 14 cities and unincorporated areas within Alameda County, the City of Oakland remains the highest assessment jurisdiction with a total assessed value of $68.8 billion. The City of Fremont continues to have the second highest assessed value of $55.4 billion. Out in the Tri-Valley, the City of Dublin received the highest percentage increase in assessed value from the prior year at 10.3 percent.

The annual roll reflects assessments of more than 518,600 taxable properties.

La credited the record-breaking roll to a recovering economy and increasing real estate values. Other factors included the 2 percent mandatory inflation index being applied to all properties' assessed values that were not affected by assessment declines in prior years, according to La. This factor added $5.6 billion. Sales/transfers of real estate also added $11.3 billion and new construction activity added $2.5 billion.

Additionally, many companies in Alameda County have flourished, becoming a key factor in the growth in the assessment roll, as business property assessments have increased by $1.1 billion, according to La.

Since 2014, the assessment roll has increased 35 percent or $73 billion. Revenue generated by the assessment roll supports schools, public safety, parks, roads, and other essential services, La said.
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No. Pgp still has a purpose to serve. Don't just parrot what other people say we should do with pgp. Just because it has some flaws doesn't mean all of the benefits it provides are rendered null.

If you work around its flaws pgp has great assortment of utilities thay work beautifully.
Any URL with sufficient entropy is as unguessable as a password. The primary danger would be revocation if the user doesn’t realize their “password” has leaked.
SHHHHHHH!!!!!!

This channel doesn't have clearance for that kind of information!

Report to your Handler immediately for a Level 3 Cleansing.
Indeed, certainly not AI as we know it and "Analogue computer" or in this case would be more apt, even "optical computer" would be more palatable than "AI".

Makes you wonder what kind of spin a "Hello World" program would glean from some journalistic minds.
They must be restricted to linear models, right? So this is basically an implementation of logistic regression? Doing nonlinear operations optically is much trickier, and almost definitely active instead of passive.

EDIT: Actually they describe some nonlinear material inclusions in the paper, interesting.
Why would anyone think that value investing could ever work? Everyone can easily see the value of a company, because that's a statement about the present, not the future. It's guaranteed to be already priced in when you buy. You will definitely not be the first person to show up after a quarterly is released.
This is not a list worthy event.

Now the people who actually showed up..
I'd reach for the insect repellant before the tinfoil hat. Anyone know offhand an insect with a two year life cycle that has some significant stage that peaks around September?
Much more likely to be schizoid personality disorder [0] IMHO, but I am not a psychologist.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoid_personality_disorder
It's not a loophole, it's a specific tax break for people cashing out of "small" businesses. ("small" means at the time you joined -- it can have grown huge since.)

QSBS can save you a lot, but it can be a lot of work to file too. I ran up about $20k in accountant bills doing it on a complex deal.

If you're selling founder or early-employee stock, ask your accountant if QSBS is right for you.
PhD student here. Here's my 20 minute rant:

If I don't like academia, it's from my experience in academia. Doing good research won't guarantee you a position. On the contrary, what seems to matter is bringing in a lot of money via grants and publishing tons of papers in recognized journals. This better be done steadily too. I know one guy who didn't get tenure at my university, likely because he had a year or two without any publications. Personally, I think a year or two without publications might be necessary for some longer-term projects. So the system has a short-term bias built in too.

You can be a jerk to your students and thrive in this system. (I'm sure other grad students and former grad students can think of copious examples.)

This seems to be because most people, even other researchers, can't evaluate the quality of work in other fields. I'd go farther than that and say that most researchers don't even know what good quality work should look like in their own fields. So instead they look for proxies like the sheer number of papers published, amount of money brought in, impact factor of the journals published in, how a researcher follows trends, etc. But these are weak proxies at best, maybe even anti-correlated with good research.

I'm sure that tenure track positions are great once you have tenure, but it's a lottery at best, and I think the processes of getting a PhD and tenure select for people who are unlikely to take risks, or teach them to avoid riskier research. So if you have tenure, you're less likely to do the sort of bold research I think is so valuable. I would hesitate to call most research even "incremental" as most researchers do a shallow review of their field, so they can't really build on anything. More like "spinning your wheels". If I became a professor and got tenure I'd probably never advance from associate to full professor, as I'd immediately switch my research strategy from "safe" research before tenure to higher impact research after tenure.
> The founder went full retard

This is not only unprofessional, but straight up offensive. If your demeanor is even close to similar in conversations with other peers or prospective employers, you will have a very difficult time being taken seriously.
"Talking computer greets humans…but who's in charge?"
I wonder if one can create a similar auditory transfer function that is attuned to a specific voice.... basically evolve a sound cavity of specific shape
I'm not saying I won't participate in a boycott, I'm saying it's not clear that a boycott of VW benefits the greater good, because a) It's not clear that current or future VW is behaving or will behave any worse than other car manufacturers. and b) There's pretty free movement in decision-makers between various car manufacturers.

I don't anthropomorphize companies; they aren't people. They can be economically incentivized or legislatively regulated, but they can't learn.

> Put another way: how bad does VW have to mess up before you consider more than your personal benefit?

There'd have to be some indication that me buying a VW would be contributing to future mess ups.
> It is particularly foolhardy to place the ending point at 1941.

Seems a perfectly logical point since after that the gov't took control of the economy to fuel the war effort and dictated what was produced.

Also, how may Axis citizens saw high equity returns on their government bonds?
You just referred to a person with mental problems who decided to avoid all human interaction and subsist by scavenging and engaging in extremely petty theft as an asshole.

How fragile are you and your perceptions of the owners of those cabins that this guy gets you that worked up???
Tangential, but I recently realized that spelling bees wouldn’t make sense in a lot of other languages, because English reading is exceptionally irregular. I wonder if there have been attempts to reform the language.
> Elsevier may have a right to license its content as it sees fit

Elsevier doesn't have content of it's own. It takes others' content (without paying them a dime in most - if not all - cases), maybe runs it through spellcheck, slaps a legal threat and price tag on it, and milks it for as much protection money as it can. Elsevier is the very model of modern major copyright troll.
Maybe the good stuff we see surviving is just survival bias?
I know that in southern Portugal, today, they have marble floors and keep the shutters closed all day, maybe with Windows open for circulation. Houses are nice and cool
Thank you. I think the point of an undergrad degree is to produce credulity. My recent comment history has one about about how money is made, and that's the perspective I think young people should have. tl;dr: it's a scale of dependency, labour, time, skill, risk, capital, power.

STEM people are not typically taught negotiations, sales, political science, marketing, or business and we're often given this conceit that we're above all that, which I think keeps us stupid and cheap.
So looks like upgrading existing apps to RN 0.60 is going to be pain! Same old RN story. So many backwards incompatible changes.
It hardly passed the litmus paper test for what we class as AI. Though that said, by their definition, litmus paper is equally AI as it takes an input and produces an output.

Just seems a bit like being told you can buy a flying car, only to find out that it's a short flight time, not flying very high and depends upon approaching a ramp at speed.
My guess is that this announcement will coincide with a new wave of technical or legal assaults against SciHub. Otherwise, as others have pointed out, it would have made more sense for Elsevier to go after smaller targets first.

Dinosaurs die hard.
What is The Next I/O Platform?
Much better than that is simply:

> They (the startup) had problems with raising capital and expanded too fast. Things fell apart, despite my best efforts.

That doesn’t disparage anyone. Even if you want to, it can make you look bad, and petty. One of the first thoughts that enters many people’s minds is “will they disparage me if/when I fuck up?”
"Don't speak ill of past employers" is mostly a myth for me. Shitty companies and shitty managers are not at all rare. Don't act salty or say they didn't appreciate your genius, but if you can very clearly articulate what you observed of their mismanagement and how they could have done better, that's actually a great interview talking point.
Requiring a government ID? How does this increase privacy? Doesn't this increase identity fraud? The value of government ids will skyrocket.
Leaderboard for OpenStreetMap Mapathons (FOSS)
What can they do in those situations I wonder?
A year back, I wrote a leaderboard in python3+flask for OpenStreetMap mapathon organized by a local free software community (FSFTN).
They implement a trained dense multilayer neural net wit ReLU activations in silicon photonics. They evaluate it on MNIST.

They use graphene to approximate the ReLUs. The device is a few microns on each side.

The 2D image is first converted to a 1D wavefront by some external means, then launched into the side of the device.

Training happens in digital computer, by simulating the behavior of the device.

Full paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.07815.pdf
As an afterthought, the one thing I do actually find to help with my self-esteem is finding security bugs in places I know others have already looked. There, it's objective- you did something nobody else could. That... that's believable.

But essentially any praise from humans is not.
> In particular, simple cycle gas turbine power plants with efficiency of 40% cost maybe $400/kW. Compare this to $8-10K/kW for a new nuclear power plant.

The problem being that it only operates ~2% of the time compared to ~100%, and has a shorter operating lifetime in practice, and that isn't counting the cost of storing the hydrogen nor the energy cost to produce it.
> it's completely reasonable to make it easy for browsers to send requests on an intranet

Agree. But shouldn't we distinguish a request that originates from the local user's input into the browser from one that originates from a remote entity? I'm slightly ignorant here; maybe this isn't technically possible?
Very few for sure. Even if it were only 1 person, I would still object to a government mandate to bar that.
> Can there ever be a happy medium?

Short terms (15yr?) for unregistered or "implicit" copyright, renewable with registration and fees that increase year-over-year.
A blog post is https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-unveiled-the-fi....

BBC article is https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-48971538, discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20423884.
In my experience most of the time a field is nullable it’s by accident. Some RDBMS and/or SQL “IDEs” default to allowing null too, which doesn’t help matters. Personally I think NULL shouldn’t be supported unless the developer categorically sets a “yes, I actually do want this archaic option enabled” flag in their DB backend.

Edit: getting a lot of heat for this comment from people misunderstanding it. I’m not saying “null” shouldn’t exist, just that it shouldn’t be the default. Side point: most of the time people think they need null they don’t.
What’s the perf per watt difference?

It’s hard to compare perf per dollar. Your electricity costs and GPU costs maybe vastly different from mine.
Would be intersting to see a user study of the two services to measure the number of people who actually understand what the "sharing" is doing.
I think OP meant “growth” as a category or type of company (as opposed to value companies).
Thank you for the setup explanation. I understood what is happening and it is totally fascinating, even if I do not - and probably never can - understand why or how this is happening.
Even if such insect exists, they would have alternating two groups that would appear like annual, like cicadas.
Using an LSTM-based neural network to predict stock returns (Keras tutorial)
Most startups fail and any reasonable employer will understand this. Usually, though, it's best to frame it as a pull from your prospective employer rather than a push from your current one.
From the post:

> Now, there’s no question that a few specific cities have seen big rises. The Bay Area is obviously one, Denver is one, and Seattle is another—though the market has responded recently in Seattle and housing development is now increasing. But if you look at big cities more broadly, there’s not even a generalized urban rent crisis.

The author's contention isn't simply that there's no housing crisis in places like Eastern Oregon, but rather that there's no housing crisis anywhere outside of a few major cities. He's also got a bunch of numbers to back up the assertion.

Now I'm inclined to think Drum's staked out a position that is too extreme in one direction (I live in one of those major cities!) but I feel like your position is too far in the other direction. I think we want to accurately characterize the problems we're trying to solve. Here in Seattle, housing supply is a big issue. But back in my hometown of Tulsa, I suspect housing is pretty cheap, and the problem is more likely a lack of good jobs.
The paper is discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20428250.
I'm not entirely sure :(
Divide by 3 to get pre-emptible price
Seriously... not a loophole. Explicit tax rule. Just making it look like people are somehow taking advantage of the system. FUD.
Also I'm not even sure how this can be a real question.

Anybody who has the slightest understanding of startups knows the majority of them cease to exist within a few years of founding. There is no complex explanation needed beyond "the startup I was at closed its doors".
I don't really know about antelopes, but the human side is well documented on multiple fronts. Women have to be much more selective than men, just because they are biologically aren't capable of having as many babies as men.

Also you can just try a dating site using an average looking man and average looking woman and get similar results to this experiment:

https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-g...
However it has worked quite well for most of the past century: https://i0.wp.com/thetechieinvestor.com/wp-content/uploads/2...
Facebook’s $5B FTC fine is an embarrassing joke – OSnews
It does not in fact serve any real purpose, at least not in new systems --- or rather, the very few purposes that it exclusively serves are bad purposes.

For encrypting backups, sending secure messages, signing packages, and securely sending files to people, there are materially better options. None of them look like PGP; that is, none of them have a multipurpose-tool design with a wide variety of cryptographic options. That PGP-style design has been discredited in the crypto engineering community, and new tools actively avoid it.
Societal factors do exist, but are often overstated or don’t bear a scientific foundation. A lot of social sciences have done real harm to scientific progress and the field of evolutionary psychology.
I'm interested in learning more about the use cases and standard for this, because, yes, I don't perfectly understand the web. Can you share your knowledge and point to resources that I can read?
Wait, but that's my whole point -- it's the same channel, but higher bandwidth.
Some bug fixes and new updates on GoJSONQ
The Challenges of Operating a Computing Cloud and Charging for Its Use (2017) [pdf]
S/MIME manages the feat of being even less secure than PGP-encrypted email, which was, again, a low bar to trip over.
Gentrification seems to be a form of domestic tourism. It at least grows from the same vine as the travelers lust for authentic experience of a culture. A few tourists here and there do little harm but mobs of them can completely skew the local economy towards servicing their needs.
It's nice to hear I'm not the only one as a kid whose reflex was to get suspicious of/thought it was lazy when/ people would quickly decide "you're smart". It seemed to me just like a way to score cheap points. It also made me feel worse about not understanding things easily.. people were telling me I was smart, after all! :P

My sister, on the other hand, gets annoyed at my perspective - she finds it tiresome when people can't take the compliment. There's wisdom to both ways, I guess.
The 'geeks' of the 80s and 90s were replaced by a new generation
I had something very similar to this in September 2006. I still have all my medical records from the time and a digitized version of my MRI because it was such a weird thing that no one was ever able to convincingly diagnose. I checked though and it doesn't look like there is any way to submit it since I'm not a doctor, and since it was before 2014, heh.
How early of an employee would you need to be?
They're talking about relations with one or more degrees of separation. A coworker's kid and an instructor of their own kids.

Including several degrees of separation allows one to find matches much more readily.

Perhaps you've played six degrees of Kevin Bacon?
> are there launch failure scenarios that involve complete loss of crew but successful orbit?

Explosive decompression. Not sure if shuttle crews wore pressure suits. Happened on a Russian mission once, during reentry. They opened the capsule on landing and everyone was dead.