skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The maximum energy you can extract from a unit of heat is based on the temperature ratio of your hot object and your cold object.

For light coming from the sun, the hot object is 6000K and the cold object is around 300K. So about 95% of the energy is available to attempt to capture. 94% if your solar panel gets very hot.

The infrared coming off local hot objects is almost useless in comparison. If you can keep your infrared-catcher perfectly cooled with an underground loop, it will be at 290K. If you have an object that's all the way up at 150F, that's still only 340K and less than 15% of that energy could possibly be captured.
Lord, that's an unhelpful comment. Some compilers do not do that eg. scala, and the cost is high hence my request.
> That might not sound like a lot, but given that it is for the entire world you can fit basically any niche within those numbers.

A common fallacy in business.

> Go full time crushing things with an hydraulic press? Yes! Go full time discussing medieval weapons? Yes! Go full time building things with no tools from scratch in the woods? Yes! Go full time trying to beat Super Mario as fast as possible? Double yes! And so on.

They're not that much a weird niche really. Go to any large university and there's probably a club full of people who discuss medieval weapons full time. Actually there's probably at least two (one that's more purist in terms of historical accuracy, and another that's more focused on fun), then there's probably also a fencing club, a kendo club, maybe a HEMA club, dozens of gaming groups.

And it's not like it's not niche that isn't served by TV. There's plenty of documentary / infotainment series on medieval weapons and combat. There's serious series. There's Deadliest Warrior. Youtube often gets viewers because it's a different format, not because it's serving a very weird niche. Cheap, regular content (and often the comment box keeps creators a bit more honest), suggested next episode, more talky, short episodes.

As for those other examples, there's Mythbusters (smash stuff!), survival shows (primitive technology in a different format). Gaming is the only really odd one - it just isn't shown on TV much.
Apologies for the Elsevier link, but https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2...

The report estimates around 40% mortality for MDR-TB and 60% mortality for XDR-TB.

This compares with https://www.who.int/gho/tb/epidemic/cases_deaths/en/ which gives about ~13% mortality for all TB cases world wide.

So, I think the headline is accurate about that. However, we could cure (at least for some definition of "cure") XDR-TB before; it just took an incredible amount of time with some terrible drugs and some individuals still relapsed. Pa could be a game changer, though. I'll give it a "somewhat justifiably clickbaity" rating. ;)
Ouch, HN showing off its gender bias I guess. Pinterest is also supposed to be popular with dads, so we must be showing off our age bias as well.
I bet they have the top security certifications up-to-date.
Maybe it could be attributed to the fact that the majority of HN users are male while the majority of Pinterest users are female. Interesting observation
With current digital sensors exposuring correctly doesn't even matter that much any more because of iso-invariance when under exposing photos

It still matters a lot if you're not controlling the shutter speed and want to freeze action. Some cameras prefer 1/30 or 1/60 second exposures but faster shutter speeds with higher ISO is an improvement, due to iso-invariance or even just the ability to adjust RAW files.
i dont think so. i dont think they have a functioning search
Startup School 2019
Like many skills, learn to do it for yourself and then you'll be able to make much more informed decisions about when to use the computer to automate things for you.
It's very likely that the results won't be as desired. Anime is nearly always a synthetic image which is intended to be clean and geometrically based (even if there are gradients and more real world additions; it's a synthetic).

The application domain for this includes any other sort of abstract logical synthesis, charts and maybe videogames (even ones that look realistic).

Real world content also has sharp boundaries between objects, and whatever part happens to do that work might be shared, but within objects fuzzier is probably better. IIRC someone was making an AI assisted upscaling of DS9 which would probably be closer to a generic algorithm for 'filmed' content.
> said on here the other day about adopting a "Berkshire model"

This is not the Berkshire model at all. Berkshire buys businesses that have high cash flow models where money can compound over and over, usually in well established businesses that have operational issues that can be optimized for cash flow.

> Just monetizing the web traffic 2.5 billions monthly hits at a $1 CPM alone would generate $2.5 million a month in revenue, $30 million annually.

That napkin math doesn't take into consideration:

- hosting costs

- software maintenance cost

- sales & marketing required to drive $30M/year

- Decrease in traffic due to ads

- Ad-blockers

> What kind of business, let alone web business, sells for 1/10th annual revenue?

Retail does...retail. Hate to break it to you, but businesses aren't bought and sold on revenue (despite what TC tells you). It's usually on a multiple of earnings or discounted free cash flow. Note - it's important to remember that DCF can get real fuzzy and hence why its much easier for media to just revert to "revenue".

> Reddit does 6x the page views, but is valued at $3 billion.

And Tumblr's valuation was once $1.1B and they couldn't monetize it. How is that comparable a valuable reference point?
For fine tuning BERT onto a specific domain, what amount of text data would you recommend to train on?
2nd Circuit Rules Section 230 Bars Civil Terrorism Claims Against Facebook
Part of the value a good school provides is learning how to get along with teammates, during many class projects one has to do to graduate from a good CS program.

Re passion: you need a lot more of that to be "constantly learning and solving problems" for 4 years, rather than for 3 months.

What do you think people do in college? Party non-stop?
Don’t be misled, Coca Cola doesn’t give a shit about the environment. They’re just trying to stay in mindshare and ensure they aren’t disrupted if plastic backlash really takes off.
It has a totally different meaning, but one that makes it much more common ('no but', iirc), so I had quite a surprise arriving at a Mandarin lesson one day!
LinkedIn is very useful to people outside of the tech community, especially those in law, accounting, and HR. It's also fairly useful for people in other white-collar job fields.

Anecdota, but still data: I know close to a dozen people "1st degree network contacts" (i.e., former co-workers) who found new jobs through LinkedIn...without needing to go through a recruiter. I used a recruiter to find my current position...but I found the recruiter through LinkedIn.
The media is generally regarded the same when publishing both medical history information and classified materials. If they obtain the information during their regular course of business and report on that obtained material, then they are protected as reporting on a story that is beneficial to the public. If they coerce others or help to obtain protected information, whether classified materials or PHI/PII, then they can be held liable for the release against the existing laws regulating disclosure.
I don't think that's true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_Karma
Unlike lambda calculus, OO is not a specific mathematical formalism but rather a methodology and ontology for organizing a program. Lambda calculus, defined by Alonzo Church, is a kind of 'arithmetic' of abstract function manipulation devoid of semantics. It has some strong theoretical footing as, in modern language, reflexive objects in a category.

> It's not clear to me why this makes Lisp not in the family of Lambda implementations.

To be clear, I started my comment by writing "if it is a realization, then it is one with [the following differences]." Lambda calculus was such a good idea that pretty much anything with function abstractions can be described by some variation of it. It's the dynamic scoping that causes the main issues here, though, and suggests lambda calculus was not a significant motivation in the definition of McCarthy's Lisp. Yet, he was still aware of it enough to call the abstraction operator "lambda."

>> Later, many of these ideas were backported to Lisp during the standardization of Common Lisp.

> Again this contributes to the notion that LISP/Schema/Lambda Calculus were "discovered", not that Lambda calculus has an explicit pedigree.

I don't see how that follows. Sussman was a math undergrad and PhD and was well aware of developments in logic, and he influenced Steele, who created the quite-influential Scheme and went on be one of the main people on the standardization committee for Common Lisp. This isn't even mentioning all the work people have done in PL research with typed lambda calculi (going back to corrections to Church's attempt to use lambda calculus as a foundation for mathematics), which has influenced the designs of many type systems in modern programming languages.
It took me a long time to accept it but software engineers cannot make any difference. The best way to stop feeling totally powerless is to rebel against the status quo. e.g. http://xrebellion.org. Find your local group and join them. You'll start feeling better. I promise.
Sure,

The CEO of Tumblr David Karp made unilateral decisions which stifled its growth and utility. Any additional decision making input would have helped here, but qualified women, minorities and people accompanying David, Fred (the author of this article) and Marco (1st engineer) would have greatly helped so the winds here. Be more in tune with the audience that grew.

After the second sale to Verizon, after David left, different leadership could have understood how the erotic content community was flourishing on Tumblr in ways that the erotic industry has failed to attract. Many women liked tumblr for porn sharing, browsing, and curating because other porn-specific sites have unclean interfaces and distracting ads. There were people that could have told them that in the decision making process, and helped navigate the issues encountered since that is what was driving engagement.

Automattic also seems to fail to understand this, with CEO Matt Mullenweg's explanation seeming to complete miss the point, and looks more like a pet project than any interest in engagement.
YouTube does not employ creators; creators are utilizing YouTube's free service in order to broadcast their own content. Google demonetizes videos in order to be more appealing to advertisers, ultimately the problem these creators have is that advertisers are not willing to pay for their content. YouTube only makes money when the content creator does, so naturally they'd be happy to monetize anything they could.
Before a bunch of artists were driven off tumblr due to the overly strict adult policy (the appeals process etc. was too much of a pain) Tumblr was my go-to for a lot of artists in the niches I followed. Through this, I found a ton of communities- fandoms for the characters created by the artists, collective worldbuilding, etc. Also, within niche fandoms I followed I also found artists that produced wonderful works.

There's still an ongoing webcomic (A Tale of Two Rulers) that's a world where Zelda and Gannon choose to marry instead of war on tumblr. It's incredibly awesome and part of what I'm on tumblr for.
All I get is a 404 from the download link.
>The whole habitable planet thing was nice while it lasted.

The truth is that the planet has been much better for the median human than it was 200 years ago, and is still likely to be better for the median human 200 years in the future compared to the past.

Yes, we have more problems, but we have much better tools of dealing with problems including electricity, communication, transportation, heating, cooling, medicines, modern agriculture, GMO, CRISPER.
Thanks. Got similar feedback below as well. Will be moving this around.
Verizon didn't just fail to figure out what to do with Tumblr, it dealt what was nearly a death blow by changing its policy on adult content - one of the platform's biggest remaining pillars of core users. Tumblr doesn't still exist because of its features; it exists because of its communities. Leave it to Verizon to not just starve a golden goose, but shoot it in the head.
Crime is 4k times easier today
New startup idea: Credit monitoring monitoring
Nope. Thats the one. I guess less of a breakthrough and more of a promising step towards a treatment!
You also need capital to start new plantations. Which, in turn, also generates lots of capital that people are going to want to invest thus leading to bigger and more plantations.

Industrialism did make slavery obsolete and, where still needed, easy to offshore. Which I think is what described ended slavery in the US
So the key to remaining your Facebook friend is to not publish your birthday on Facebook!
Witnessing a Massacre Changed Me
There's also a term for it, called Reciprocal altruism, which is in many ways, the basis and foundation of human society.
Generally a fixed term has a worse rate for the borrower than the floating rate (assuming the floating rate isn't expected to change hugely in the future).

As a rule of thumb if you refinance from a fixed rate to a better rate you have to pay penalty fees if the rate is worse for the lender (better for you) relative to how much the lender would have made off you if the loan had continued at the previous rate. Because of this it only really makes sense if you can save money on the loan due to other factors that current market rate i.e. being able to pay of your mortgage at a faster rate, your credit rating has improved (or equivalent lending criteria), the lender is noncompetitive compared to the rest of the market, you believe the floating rate will decrease further in the short term and want to refinance to a floating rate before the penalties increase to match (though you'd be outguessing the rest of the market).

Refinancing from a floating rate or a fixed rate that is better(for you) than the market rate will have no or low penalties as your basically already paying market rate or worse and the lender has little downside in getting their money back.

So realistically if you believe that in 5 years the interest rate will be the same or lower you should be floating (or at least negotiating 5 years fixed instead of 10) and then you could negotiate for a lock in at that time.
The Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act makes no guarantee of "neutrality" nor does it prevent sites from "manipulating" the things they display.
It's Gotten Too Hard to Strike It Rich in America
I'll second this, I've worked with a few really good recruiters.

Most of them are so-so, but the great ones are great and can find amazing candidates in a matter of days.

You are basically paying to hire someone whose only job is to keep in touch with great people.

The so-so recruiters go through LinkedIn, the best recruiter I ever worked with, when I told her the type of person I was looking for, had someone immediately in mind and got back to me the next day with a phone number.
These three? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKI_combinator_calculus
There are tons of resources out there about going zero waste and you can implement their suggestions to whatever level you desire. I think the biggest is just avoiding single use plastics in favor of buying in bulk.

https://www.goingzerowaste.com/
"Bing Bam Boom - It's Done!"

"what?"

"Your data is exposed"
My point is that plastic bags from most places in America are not winding up in the ocean. They sure as hell aren't getting to the ocean from people in Kansas being sloppy with plastic bag disposal. There's a lot of problems with plastics in the oceans, and I have a hard time believing that plastic grocery bags are one of the major contributors.

But as I said somewhere else in this discussion, I think all these grocery bags should be made of the corn starch plastic that breaks down quickly, and I'd like to know what those weren't mandated since they've been around for at least 20 years now.
This is exactly what happened. Verizon probably didn't know that most of the traffic they were buying were because of adult content, and then they killed that. I wish they had sold it to Pornhub instead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgellons
Last weekend I met a person that was convinced the US government protects "the edge". I told him that was very interesting.
also follows "meme stocks"

there aren't a lot of good traders here, but its an engineering blog
Another way in which Pinterest is an outlier in this list is that its user base skews heavily female (>80% according to one source: https://www.omnicoreagency.com/pinterest-statistics/). I wonder whether some "Moneyball Factor" could be at work, in that this led to it being underpriced for its potential.

Snapchat users also skew somewhat female, but they are also quite young compared to other sites, and "youth" may lead to it being highly priced.

[Being an old dude, I never use either of these]
That is why Maslow Theory is a theory and not a law. Because it has now been proven wrong.
We do not use census data, because they are extremely outdated. It's part of the reason we can make accurate predictions before other companies can, since they do look at census data.

We use alternative data, which has recently become popular in the finance industry. For example, if you ask executives at a big company what their profit outlook is, they will always be optimistic, otherwise, their stock might decline and they may panic the market.

If you waited until the quarterly announcement, then you would be finding out at the same time as everyone else, and it's delayed information.

However, some people have found that you can more accurately predict a company's outlook on their quarterly performance by monitoring job boards and see how many open positions the company is hiring for. This allows people to gain insight and act before the rest of the market catches on.

We use the same approach but for real estate. For example, if you monitor the number of french bull dogs in a neighborhood, you can accurate predict median income values for that neighborhood before any official statistics. This is because those dogs are very expensive, so someone willing and able to spend a few thousand dollars on a pet tend to have a higher economic background.

We do use some paid sources such as satellite imagery and some data sources require you to pay for their api like our weather data vendor.
Does this imply you're only potentially compromised if you were logged in during the time "the glitch" was live?
Community fork of the spark-redshift library abandoned by Databricks
"Get into lifeboats" I just meant as "do something to stay alive", not as in "escape somewhere else" necessarily.
> What do you think people do in college? Party non-stop?

Yes, that's exactly what they do.
> What would cause someone to just leave that and turn against the company?

He didn't leave, he got fired because he was stupid and got caught.
If you want to say the number inside the headline is useless, I won't argue.

But you were agreeing with a claim that the headline itself was useless. That's not the same thing.

If the headline was useful without the number, which you seem to agree with[1], then the headline is still useful with the number. It's like adding an extra filler word to a sentence. The word is useless, but it doesn't ruin the sentence it's inside of.

[1] Note that the original headline already had qualitative information, and made it clear that this number was unusually high. It's not qualitative vs. quantitative, it's qualitative vs. both.
You mentioned that you built the site with Airtable, but don't mention Airtable as database tool :)

https://x.workandwhistle.co/no-code-list/?categories=Databas...

Here is a list of no-code tools i've collected over time

https://www.integromat.com/en/

https://crowdsignal.com/features/

https://automations.io/

https://www.storyblok.com/

https://getkirby.com/

https://www.appsheet.com/

https://www.glideapps.com/

https://www.caravelstudio.io/

https://www.sheetgo.com/

https://www.actiondesk.io/

https://developers.google.com/appmaker/

https://www.zoho.com/creator/

https://ifttt.com/
True. But its not programmable, in the way that Ethereum is for example. And that would be a nice feature to have in a payments system. PoW would never make sense for the Fed anyway - more likely PoS with some combination of Member Feds and participating FIs doing the staking and validating would make more sense.
Okay, but is there some effective loophole for prisoners then?

"Hey, we as medical professionals can't disclose your health info. But we have to keep these guards around for safety, who will hear everything, and they can say all they want!"
In many of these poor areas being gentrified, people don't own their homes and they rent because they're poor and don't have the credit to buy a home. That's why gentrification is a problem - landlords increase rent because the area has higher demand, and effectively price people out of their homes.
I know VCs like to appear as if they provide an advisory role. I don't know how many actually contribute more than capital to their portfolio companies, my guess would be that you have to seek out a reputable company that provides more than money to get more than money.
It's like a modern version of what computers with Williams-Kilburn tubes could do:

https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/memory-storage/8/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube

> The Williams tube works by displaying a grid of dots on a cathode ray tube (CRT). Due to the way CRTs work, this creates a small charge of static electricity over each dot. The charge at the location of each of the dots is read by a thin metal sheet just in front of the display.

[snip]

> Some Williams tubes were made from radar-type cathode ray tubes with a phosphor coating that made the data visible, while other tubes were purpose-built without such a coating. The presence or absence of this coating had no effect on the operation of the tube, and was of no importance to the operators, since the face of the tube was covered by the pickup plate. If a visible output was needed, a second tube connected in parallel with the storage tube, with a phosphor coating, but without a pickup plate, was used as a display device.

So the tube the users could see wasn't the memory, which was covered by a metal plate, but it showed exactly the same dots as the memory.
Well over 50% of YC startups across all batches have either exited or are still alive.
I wonder if Facebook allows targeting to topic "flat earth" or "conspiracy"? If so, he could have just disallowed ads to these groups and got around the issue. What is more likely is allowing ad targeting to those with an interest in NASA or SpaceX or even just broad topics like space/astronomy etc and just avoid those flat earth users all together.