skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3-Dimensional Asteroid Orbital Simulation
Is this really the place for studio wars? I can appreciate your desire to praise Kyoto Animation given the circumstances, but perhaps it would be better to phrase it "one of the best 2D animation studios".

EDIT: "one of the best" does not preclude Kyoto Animation from being "the best", but it makes it clear that you're not insulting all the other studios.
> I think some fit concerns could be mitigated by having a more diverse range of sizes of models

Maybe. I think fit concerns would be mitigated if places stopped lying about the fit of their clothing by secretly clipping all of their mannequins and models in the back. https://jezebel.com/pinning-clothing-so-it-fits-the-mannequi...
This is agitprop and deceptive, if not outright fabricated.

Easy to find Google ads with "Christian" in the text or the URL. They're not censoring this.

Example: https://imgur.com/a/ippx7Kb
If there is no policy or effort to maintain it in a system that is rapidly changing, then documentation that is not kept up to date, can mislead people.

Say you decide to hire an engineer for 150k a year. If all he or she has to learn from is stale documentation, you are wasting time and money. The engineer may even start to approach the problems to solve in entirely wrong ways.
Just my opinion.
I am probably out of touch, but I wish more people would respond with information, not rebuke.

I thought metrosexual was the politically correct term these days, and that the terms traditionally used for such people are now considered offensive. What is a better word?

I get a perfectly good fit, which is why I don't shop at such places. I asked because I didn't know such things were commonplace for men, precisely because I don't shop at such places. That part of the answer was informational, and something of which I was simply not aware. The "sexist caricature" part was what merited the indignance.

Honestly, it seems as though I'm being rebuked simply because I'm not a fashionista. The first respondant referred to Gap as a "basic" clothing store; I always thought of it as high-end. I didn't grow up in a situation where we shopped at exoensive stores: not poor, just not that rich. I never fell out of those habits, I guess.
Love the wizard of Oz-ing concept
'When [J.P.] Morgan died in 1913, he had as estate of $80 million, that's $1.2 billion today, as compared to Rockefeller's worth of nearly a billion, that's $l90 billion today. When Rockefeller read this in the papers he supposedly said, "And to think, he wasn't even a rich man."'

http://www.learner.org/series/biographyofamerica/prog17/tran...
You'll need root for this. You should be able to use one of those system app removal tools, or Titanium Backup if you have it (you might be able to convert it to a user app first). You might need a reboot after you do that before you can install another version. At least that's what I did on my end.
Ask HN: Job boards for remote part time work?
Do you work part time remotely? If so, how do you find your contracts? Is there a good job board or website that you would recommend for part time remote work?
Maybe the construction industry or infrastructure need to find their analogue to “cloud” and “AI” so that when the heads of these departments from different states get together they can crow about how their contractors are using “smart” concrete and “smart” building techniques built with the assistance of DoT AI. Something to make them feel like they’re keeping up with the other state DoT Joneses.
Your original estimate is odd. The article claims that 40£ was several years of income for a laborer. If we assume 20£/year is equivalent to a day laborer, that’s around 20k$/year (in Texas, where I live, that’s a bit on the low side). That gives Darcy’s income at around 10mm£/year, in modern terms.

I mean, setting aside the ridiculousness of trying to compare economies separated by 200 years.
> it's clearly not true that "everyone works for an algorithm"

That said, there are algorithms that govern our daily lives. An economy is sort of emergent behavior of all the participants.
It depends on your goals and lifestyle.

$5mm+ is tremendous. Could last you a lifetime. You could try an annuity. Pop this formula into Excel or Google Sheets: =pmt(3%/12,50*12,5000000). A very conservative 3% annual growth rate can afford you $16k in monthly withdrawals for 50 years. The downside is, of course, you'll be drawing down on your wealth til zero.

Purchasing real estate for the rental income can yield more attractive returns. First off, you can leverage yourself up. Then cash-on-cash returns - in well selected locations - could be in excess of 10% (easily). Your principle in real estate is afforded some level of protection and may even grow as the economy and country grows ..standard investing caveats apply.
Why was upkeep that expensive? Would you be maintaining the entire estate as a perfectly manicured garden?
US officials reveal there aren't enough spare parts for the F-35
I personally never saw CGA hooked to composite, just to the IBM color monitor with the shiny tube.
That seems like it would cause size deflation, the opposite of what has been happening? If I'm overweight, I might look, cknsider that I am bigger than that, and get a larger size?

Also, what on God's Green Earth is a "Pineapple Commonwealth"? It's clearly a fake indirect reference to something, but I'm not sure what.
> * China, especially a few decades ago, was so poor that eminent domain was a complete non-issue*

This is a really weird framing of a system without any private property where people who got in the way of the government where slaughtered by the millions.

Yeah, it's improved immensely since 1989, but still. Let's not forget history. The killers are still alive.
ITER has a design gross fusion power of about 400 MW.

If you compute the thermal power/volume ratio of the reactor, it's about 50 kW/m^3.

In comparison, the thermal power/volume ratio of a commercial PWR fission reactor is about 20 MW/m^3 -- 400 times higher.

A commercial tokamak would have a somewhat higher power, but not enormously higher. If based on ITER, the power density would be two orders of magnitude worse than a fission reactor. And since the complexity of a fusion reactor is far higher than a fission reactor core, the cost ratio of the reactors (for a given power output) would be even larger.

Since fission reactors are having desperate trouble being competitive today, how is making the reactor core orders of magnitude more expensive going to lead anywhere useful?
I always took that as implying that what she learned was that Darcy had taste. You can have Darcy's much bruited income as a topic of conversation, no doubt about his wealth, but pounds only buy you so much status.
An oval punch would work well.
Sure, maybe? Haven't looked at the data myself, ergo no well-founded opinion. :)
Having written a fair share of deeply embedded assembly.. if you're used to writing this close to the metal on a small system, that may have actually have been the most straight-foward way. Since ultimately the score must be rendered to the screen, and that might be its only purpose, there was probably little point in holding a "raw" intermediate value. Adding a constant and a few instructions for rollover don't sound too bad in the grand scheme of things.
Wait. You'll need closer to $8 million invested at 2.57% (30 yr current yield) to earn $200,000 a year. And consuming that every year means you'll destroy much of the real value of your hoard over 30 years (you're not reinvesting something to cover inflation). Further putting it all into Treasuries is actually riskier than diversifying across multiple assets - foreign stocks, real estate, etc. If we go into an inflationary period and you're locked into a 30 year at 2.6%, you'll watch your fortune collapse and your stipend's buying power crumble.
You might want to consider inflation into this strategy. 100% allocation to 30yr Treasury Bonds at the current rate will continuously lose money until your 200k (plus yield) becomes a buying power of < 40k in 30 years.

US stocks should be part of your allocation.
Plaintext bank account credentials. Wow.
What I found really eye-opening was looking at the about:memory output for gmail in Firefox. There's more memory used for the various chat-related iframes than for the actual gmail bits themselves. And I suspect the chat widget is not the thing people really want out of gmail.
China has no shortage of people. These cities will fill up.

Maybe it's my Bay Area PTSD, but if too much housing is the worst problem in your society, I envy you and want to subscribe to your newsletter!
Can someone help me understand the engineering and economics of distributing energy from a fusion plan?

Let's assume that in 2035 ITER reaches its goal and can sustain fusion at a cost of ~$25B per plant w/ $1B in yearly operational costs. Now what? Do we then build a nuclear-plant-style pressurized water turbine? How many turbines can we place around a fusion plant? How far can we distribute this power?

According to this[1] paper, fusion power becomes profitable at $175/Mwh. Nearly every other type of energy source, including wind and PV is cheaper[2]

[1] https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source
Check out the FIRE (/r/financialindependence) and FatFIRE (r/fatfire) communities on Reddit. FatFIRE is likely most relevant for your situation.
Well, I am arguing that no, it is not. And I don't see what makes qualia mysterious and different from raw sensor values.

"An organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism". I would argue that something that has a memory that can contain representations of its own internal states exhibits conscious mental states.
There is no civilization ending climate catastrophy on the horizon.

Wipe out 90% of the population and we're back to what, the 1800s? That level of death requires most people to just let the rising ocean drown them as they stand there plus a bunch more inland to walk in and drown themselves as well.

Massively distruption to the status quo is what climate change will bring. Civilization ending? Not even close.
Treating Excel Like Powerpoint
One striking thing about Mr. Darcy's income is you could still survive on it (not inflation-adjusted) in a developed country today. It's right around the individual poverty line. It's also close the median household income worldwide.
Fusion is not about climate change.

It’s one of those things that enable sending spacecraft to other stars. D-T fusion is still baby steps on that path, but worthwhile none the less.
At this point, Kyoto Animation is accepting direct international bank (SWIFT) transfers as donations. See https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2019/07/24-1/kyoto-an... (http://www.kyotoanimation.co.jp/information/?id=3075 is the link from Kyoto Animation themselves) for details.
> I've been trying to get this story on the frontpage for a while. I'm glad it finally made it.

In case you missed it, the initial story of the attack made the front page at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20468395
What? I constantly see people being optimistic based on nothing more than misplaced wishful thinking. Optimism is the default, officially approved thing you're supposed think about fusion. It's being skeptical that requires effort, since it requires doubting what the media and authority figures tell you.
> Also, what on God's Green Earth is a "Pineapple Commonwealth"? It's clearly a fake indirect reference to something, but I'm not sure what.

Banana Republic
> The heinous cost of owning huge kWh battery for occasional use is silly

I thought like this in the beginning, and there's a fallacy in there.

Think not about huge kwh battery, think of (range of a battery in miles) * (battery cycles)

That gives you the projected car mileage.

First generation evs from other manufacturers with ~20kwh batteries will have to replace their battery in just a few years. They might cycle their battery once a day while a tesla might be once a week or more. Many many leafs got new batteries after their range decreased significantly 50% within 5 years.
Have you considered that OTA updates undercut the dealership network and could be seen as servicing vehicles which in many states is illegal for the manufacturer to do so they could suffer consequences, maybe getting banned from selling in that state?
I want to understand the fascination with Jane Austen's works, especially by hackers and designers (and an economist in this article). Paul Graham (founder of Hacker News) mentions Jane Austen in at least 5 essays, see below. I haven't read any of Austen's books, but I think I'll need to.

(1) "Everyone admires Jane Austen. Add my name to the list. To me she seems the best novelist of all time. I'm interested in how things work. When I read most novels, I pay as much attention to the author's choices as to the story. But in her novels I can't see the gears at work. Though I'd really like to know how she does what she does, I can't figure it out, because she's so good
that her stories don't seem made up. I feel like I'm reading a description of something that actually happened." -- http://paulgraham.com/heroes.html

(2) "One of the reasons Jane Austen's novels are so good is that she read them out loud to her family. That's why she never sinks into self-indulgently arty descriptions of landscapes, or pretentious philosophizing. (The philosophy's there, but it's woven into the story instead of being pasted onto it like a label.) If you open an average 'literary' novel and imagine reading it out loud to your friends as something you'd written, you'll feel all too keenly what an imposition that kind of thing is upon the reader." -- http://paulgraham.com/desres.html

(3) "What we can say with some confidence is that these are the glory days of hacking. In most fields the great work is done early on. The paintings made between 1430 and 1500 are still unsurpassed. Shakespeare appeared just as professional theater was being born, and pushed the medium so far that every playwright since has had to live in his shadow. Albrecht Durer did the same thing with engraving, and Jane Austen with the novel." -- http://paulgraham.com/hp.html

(4) "Like Jane Austen, Lisp looks hard. [...] Indeed, if programming languages were all more or less equivalent, there would be little justification for using any but the most popular. But they aren't all equivalent, not by a long shot. And that's why less popular languages, like Jane Austen's novels, continue to survive at all. When everyone else is reading the latest John Grisham novel, there will always be a few people reading Jane Austen instead." -- http://paulgraham.com/iflisp.html

(5) "Good design is suggestive. Jane Austen's novels contain almost no description; instead of telling you how everything looks, she tells her story so well that you envision the scene for yourself." -- http://paulgraham.com/taste.html
It's not the fact that "metrosexual" is or isn't politically correct (I really don't know (or care) where it falls), it's more the fact that the term itself is passé. It's a term that was used (and overused) some 15 years ago. Plus, it referred more to a man that over-indulged in taking care of their appearance, not a man that is just looking for some good fitting clothes (which is the subject of this discussion...I think).

Anyway, the more you know -=*.

(Also, no foul intended. I'm well on my way to being out of touch, too.)
The version I got said the following:

>>>
When you set a password for your Robinhood account, we use an industry-standard process that prevents anyone at our company from reading it. Additionally, our policy is to not store usernames and passwords for any bank accounts that you link to your Robinhood account.

On Monday night, we discovered that some user credentials were unintentionally stored in a readable format within our internal systems. We wanted to let you know that your Robinhood password and linked bank account credentials may have been included.
<<<

What level of incompetence is required to have accidentally logged bank account credentials?

This is not simple logging of login, oops, this is a very serious breach of basic security.
Backend is best end.
Serverless PHP on App Engine and Cloud Firestore with Firevel
Bit of a meta question: how applicable are findings in rats / mice to humans. Does it differ based on the types of relationships the study is trying to find?

I've always wondered this and have historically assumed the correlation must be high - but never really dove too deep into it.
I applaud your motivation, and I agree with your suggestion, but that's not where most cancer comes from. Most cancer arises out of a random failure of the mechanisms underlying apoptosis.

Random mutation rates are linked to rates of cell division. There is an error every x number of times a cell divides. The faster cells divide (say, because of inflammation caused by cigarette smoke), the greater the risk of a random mutation that will disable the normal mechanisms of cell death.

Environmental mutagens and carcinogens play a part by damaging DNA or increasing cell division rates (asbestos, for example, which destroys immune cells come to engulf the invader, leading to a cycle of cell damage) but they are only a tiny part of the picture.

Cancer is caused by math, in a very real sense. Mutation rates * cell division rates = risk of cancer. You can absolutely get cancer without any adverse environmental exposure, which is why some children get cancer very early on--genetic factors increase risk.

The universe is chaotic. There is often no reason for what happens to an individual. It's just random chance. Man's search for meaning is often futile.
But you can point out that the actual funding defeated even the optimistic predictions about the cost.

I am merely pointing out that fusion did not happen, not because it is inherently difficult or because it is a mirage, but because we did not fund it appropriately.

> where is that in your chart?

Way off the right. Fusion was supposed to have been achieved before Windows 95 was out.
That's because that's what society wants. People pay for apps or watch ads to get their selfie app. SpaceX lands 3 boosters back on earth and fewer people watch than daily active Snapchat users.
Check if your windfall qualifies for QSBS. Could save you TONS in federal taxes.
“Advertisers can’t use identity and belief categories to target ads to users or to promote advertisers’ products or services. See below for specific examples of what we don't allow.”

https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/143465?hl=en
Far less than 25% of the DoD budget is research. Quite a bit could charitably be called R&D with a heavy emphasis on development, but even then it’s not 25%.

That said, they do a lot of great research and some of it even stays unclassified.
"Before our study, people always assumed that permanent magnets could only be made from solids."

If you finely divide a magnet into tiny magnets and suspend these particles in a liquid, is that really a liquid magnet, or just a bunch of solid magnets floating in a liquid?
The author, in the first sentence of the second paragraph, has anticipated your objection:

> In what is probably my favourite piece ever written, I tried to estimate exactly how rich Mr. Darcy was – Mr. Darcy, of course, of Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride & Prejudice.

He goes into considerable detail.

https://joakimbook.blogspot.com/2016/12/how-rich-is-mr-darcy...
I think it is super strange that people still derive their confidence in some companies based on executive tenure and employee count

Just trade, you'll be better off not getting married to a position, brand, or employer, why hold some of the personnel at a fictional antiquated higher standard? Its a trade for founders and executives too.
as far as I can tell, it's cause they are hardcore JS devs, where JSON is seen as almost a part of the language, and little to no effort was put into things like future-proofing. A lot of the failings have been fixed as the community grows, but this one is core to how the whole thing works, so changing it at this point is fairly non-trivial (would basically involve completely breaking any kind of backwards compat, and potentially even some forwards compat)
Umbrella Policy if you live in California.
Tesla Model 3 is 'outselling all of its gas-powered equivalents combined'
Regarding your first two points, a proper evaluation would involve some estimate the relative utilities of those two outcomes, and an estimate of their frequencies. Taking a cue from signal detection theory, one would want to design the algorithm such that the true positive rate maximizes expected utility, and takes into account how the probabilities shift in a situation. A tough task, on all accounts; however, the situation as it stands now is no different, except that, perhaps, we have less control over how we adjust the decision threshold (one thing that is apparent here is that there is a potential conflict between the individual utility of the police officer and the sort of social welfare function that the role of the police is supposed to fulfill).

With respect to the diffusion of responsibility effect, I think you are probably right that there are lots of possible unintended consequences. In as much as an officer decision to pull the trigger explicitly or implicitly takes in to account the reduced feelings of guilt and increased feelings of peer support in case the weapon is in fact fired, and if it takes into account the smaller likelihood that pulling a trigger will actually discharge the weapon, it may well increase the frequency which the trigger is pulled. More darkly, one could imagine a squad of officers making it into a distributed game of Russian Roulette.

On the other hand, I think this highlights the limits of our imagination. For example, one could imagine the following alternative. Each officer has a body cam, and a pair at base, who is actively monitoring the camera. A decision to fire the weapon must involve both the person on the ground, and the buddy. Or one could have a supervisor of some sort, who can override individual decisions, and so forth.

I don't have the answer, but I think it warrants thinking about.
And to think Rippling could raise this for their series B
Manhattan and Apollo also had the objective to defeat an enemy. A much stronger motivation to spend public funds than saving climate.

I am expecting that if China announced a working fusion reaction tomorrow, US would put the funding and have one in only 5-6 years.
It's not about belief.

The change you're observing is a response to the fact that we've implemented most of the low-hanging fruit. What we're left with are much more difficult problems.
Economic growth is the key to resolving the paradox you highlight of his seeming wealth then being inflation adjusted to only modestly high net worth today.

Using Maddison's estimate for UK per capita GDP in 1820, suggests that the average UK resident generates more than 10.7x as much wealth now than back then.

Of course, all these comparisons are fanciful and dependent on the utility one assigns to various things. In terms of the number of servants he could employ, a man of Darcy's wealth far outpaces all but the wealthiest in the first world whereas in terms of his ability to travel to Rome expeditiously, he can't measure up to a nearly broke student.
There's no widow or disability welfare in Japan?
I'll just leave this here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vzgl/you_just_....