skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mechanism is that the propensity to have more children is partly genetic. So as people with those genes out-breed the rest of the population, those genes come to predominate in the population. Thus overcoming the demographic transition. Here is a recent paper that models this:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109051381...

The Black Death is pretty well accepted as a contributor to the end of feudalism. I guess you’re positing that somehow that would be the result of survivors feeling elated at having gotten past the catastrophe (which is a temporary emotion), versus their facing an easier life as a result of 50% of the population dying (an effect which lasts a lifetime). Seems implausible to me.

But also, that the reduction in labor supply lead to vastly improved outcomes for laborers is pretty well attested. Lords of the manor started competing for labor because it was scarce. As a result, laborers were able to transition into owning their own property. It was a big deal. And it has to do with permanently reducing the population to well below the Malthusian limit (the plague periodically re-occurred for centuries, culling the population each time).
>The rest of the humans on this planet already have their own countries.

Do you not see the historical irony? Your (presumably European) ancestors had their own countries too. So did the inhabitants of the Americas before white people arrived there from 'their own countries'.
Warming Stripes
I only use Twitter in a browser. I haven’t seen any issue.
I write code for industrial equipment and often get the request to fix a problem with software. The question "Can a computer do X" is too easy to answer in the affirmative - "Yes, but less accurately and only most of the time, and with a lot of time and money" gets condensed to "Yes" quickly.

And it is indeed an impressive and heroic piece of work when you can fix sensor problems with clever filtering, or fix mechanical problems with clever control algorithms. But when designing new equipment or deciding a path to fix a bad design, you never want to hamstring yourself from the start with poor quality input data and output actuators. That approach only leads to pain.

Once you have lots of experience with a particular design - dozens of similar machines running successfully in production for years - then you can start looking for ways to be clever and improve performance over the default or save a little money.

I understand Elon's desire to get lots of data. But there will be a much greater chance of success if it starts with Lidar + cameras, and a decade down the road you can work on camera-only controls and compare what they calculated and would have done to what the Lidar measured and the car actually responded. Only when these are sufficiently close should you phase out the Lidar.

Remember, you're comparing bad input data going to the best neural net known in the universe (the human brain) with millenia of evolution and decades of training data to sensor inputs to brand new programming. Help out the computer with better input data.
Let's say I'm a regular web developer and know nothing about climate science, carbon removal, or any related science or technologies, but might be interested in donating my time and and skills.

Do you have any recommendations?
Sad as it is to say, but this is a quick way to get your PR stuck in code-review hell.

If the code you're starting with is already in such a state, the chances of the reviewer being:

1. able to understand what you've done
2. receptive to unnecessary functional changes to a legacy application

... is effectively 0.
The problem with that plan is "correctly" flagged content is subjective. You've only added a layer of moderation to the original problem.
Stereo depth perception is not that important. People born without it end up being able to navigate pretty well, dodge walls, climb stairs, etc. It just takes practice.
I've seen cases where people had a friend, someone they were dating or a cs major roommate who it was very likely did the code for them (they mentioned these people encouraging them in interviews)

In the gp scenarios they said they were able to Google almost all of the take home and stich the parts together. The overall solution/problem isn't Googleable, we checked.
That’s the Amazon “ambassador” doing a bad job
You can not grow enough fruits, vegetables and nuts to feed the human population without severe deforestation.
Also, agriculture uses up pretty much most of the obtainable drinkable water.
As long as they lose money, they can grow revenue. When are they ever going to want to stop growing revenue?

> stock-based compensation expenses

that reads as "in order to retain employees and be competitive in the market"
Tribal villages like constant strife and either going all-in Spartan with daily military drill or else getting swallowed and seeing all you love die and get savagely raped? The ancients had it hard and we have it really, really easy with our peaceful freedoms.
Yeah, it's a good thing those brigading actions never go the other way, though, right? That would be wrong and immature and just plain hypocritical...Sure glad it never happens!
If you really don't like it, don't go on the site. I don't go on almost every site there is. Do you think it is a morally defensible position that your sensibilities be foisted upon other people in such an extreme fashion that you would deny them access to a platform altogether? Don't you think it's at least worth exploring something akin to subreddits, where communities can be moderated to the tastes of the specific tolerances that represent the group?
> There hasn’t been any real information about what happened to the journalist

You and I live in different realities. There is conclusive evidence as to what happened if you bothered to look. I can only assume you are not speaking in good faith.

Re: the rest of your post, AGAIN if you bother to look, there is quite a bit of investigative journalism of substance regarding Trump's misdeeds. Seriously decades of it. I don't know what to say except to try using Google, the information is out there.
You're correct, my mistake. I misread that article while reading about a different story about Amazon's Choice.
FWIW, I understand the problem quite well.

misterdoubt was drawing a distinction between a journal, i.e. the publication itself, and it's constituent papers & researchers. You are simply denying that distinction, which isn't an effective refutation of their idea.

To me it seems you are being intentionally obtuse here, so I'll leave it at that.
I find these wild fruits and vegetables fascinating. Does anyone know where you could find/buy/grow these to taste them, out of curiosity?
Creatures of the Deep Karst
Perhaps one step further is to bypass even the plants and produce protein directly from CO2!

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/08/nasas-idea-for-making...
Agree that this seems suspect. Have had free domains with plenty of traffic on them for years.
Courtlistener has the full docket without a paywall:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16048273/toptal-llc-v-b...
I wouldn't want to work on Polymer or Angular in today's job market.
Hot reload?
It doesn't have to be Googleable. There are many people offering to provide solutions for take-home assignments for pay.
Your analogy doesn't make sense. He didn't fix the A/C, he invented it
Great response! I've mentioned this anecdote here in HN before, but it always bears repeating. I recently saw a youtube video discussing the odds of even the simplest protein just spontaneously assembling under any circumstance.

It was a very interesting piece, but what was really interesting was an organic chemistry or biochem class back in the mid 80s where the professor, possibly 90 years old at the time, said something to the effect that there's not a snowball's chance in hell any protein just came into being on its own. That really stuck with me.
We can’t undo the past. And, actually, European and African settlement of the Americas is an event that argues in my favor. There would be a lot more Native Americans today if their ancestors had had the ability to maintain territorial integrity. We should not voluntarily resign our descendants to the same fate.
Gotta post on Hacker News if you want some Google support!
s/(algorithmic|human) moderation/a rule of law/g

This mess will only get worse as long as Google insists on trying to fix unsolved social conflicts unilaterally. Google made themselves the primary target when they started to make decisions with large social consequences by fiat. They de facto implemented rule of man[1].

The solution is to not be the sole entity with the power to make decisions about unsolved social issues. Relinquish the power to make decisions about what kind of content is "acceptable" by implementing a rule of law managed by some kind of publicly accountable, transparent governance,

Google (and anybody else that controls something the public relies upon as infrastructure) has a ch9oice: keep the power to make socially-important decisio9ns and accept the blame and responsibility for those decisions, or abandon that power to make the whole mess someone else's problem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_man
Unemployable with millions of dollars to invest in whatever it is they want. It's not all roses, but it's not as if their lives are over.
Yes, thanks for addressing.
I buy Chinese products that are failure prone from them for this reason. Sure I could get it $10-15 cheaper from China if I wait 3 weeks and forgo the return option but I end up returning that junk so often that it’s worth paying 15% more
> If you're able to, would you mind linking to some resources about the case you describe in point three where the kernel need deal with an invalid stack pointer?

Look up SYSCALL in the manual (AMD APM or Intel SDM). SYSCALL switches to kernel mode without changing RSP at all. This means that at least the first few instructions of the kernel’s SYSCALL entry point have a completely bogus RSP. An NMI, MCE, or #DB hitting there is fun. For the latter, see CVE-2018-8897. You can also read the actual NMI entry asm in Linux’s arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S for how the kernel handles an NMI while trying to return from an NMI :)

To some extent, the x86_64 architecture is a pile of kludges all on top of each other. Somehow it all mostly works.

> is the cumulative result of those factors you describe (other NMIs being blocked, lack of kernel control, the unreliable heuristic) that a diagnostic NMI may end up never being run?

No, that’s unrelated. A diagnostic NMI causes the kernel’s NMI vector to be invoked, and that’s all. Suppose that this happens concurrently with a perf NMI. There could be no indication whatsoever that the diagnostic NMI happened: the two NMIs can get coalesced, and, as far as the kernel can tell, only the perf NMI happened.

Once all the weird architectural junk is out of the way, the NMI handler boils down to:

for each possible NMI cause
did it happen? if so, handle it.

If no cause was found, complain.

Amazon’s thing is trying to hit the “complain” part. What they should do is give some readable indication that it happened so it can be added to the list of possible causes.
If you hang up and pick back up too quickly, yeah. But the call doesn't just stay connected until the cake hangs up. Either party can end it by hanging up, right?
LIGO and Virgo probably spotted the first black hole swallowing a neutron star
No, that's the webpack dev server.
I don't know where you all shop but I check unit prices all the time and rarely see an inversion.
You're absolutely right. I want less editorializing, not more.
Hopefully beyond meat and similar companies are able to continue to drive forward their research. I had a Beyond Burger for the first time recently and it was unsettling. The flavor was beef-like but the texture was wrong.

I will happily eat either a beef burger or a veggie burger but the Beyond Burger is in the uncanny valley right now.
I believe most of the structural strength of a container is in the box frame rather than the skin.
I had assumed these were products that they were making on an in house contract to undercut the inventor but it’s not even that good
And that doesn't account for the fact that big corporations have a huge say in what the government does.

Hoo boy.
Exactly. Even in a factory you could tell employees that this is what they need to produce for the week. If they can get it done in 2 days, then so be it. If they cannot meet standards, you can just reassign them to a different task or let them go. You could also pay more/less for those who produce more/less. Work just needs to not be tied to time.
It’s even more fun to see the ones that mistakenly bundle the development version of React.
What about the EFF?
5% doesn’t solve the problem, but it makes it more tractable. Enough 5% (or 4%, 3%, 2%…) solutions that integrate well into the existing economy, and you get GHG emissions into a range where the complex, expensive, and disruptive (in the traditional sense of the term) game-changing technologies become reasonable. At some point we will end up diverting a sizable percentage of global productivity to either scrubbing CO2 or dealing with the effects of our failure to prevent or capture source emissions, so those small reductions, implemented as quickly as possible, can add up to significant downline savings.
> So the main problem is not just building the 3d models

That's not relevant when discussing which technology to use to build the 3d models. Everything you said is accurate until the last few sentences. Lidar provide the same information (line of sight depth) as stereo cameras, just in a different way. The person you're responding to is talking about depth from stereo, not cognition.
Absolutely, on the denomination unit. Foolishly and unwisely were concise proxies for economic impact.

My point was that simply increasing the money supply may or may not result in objective inflation over modest timescales.

It certainly usually does, because foolish things are more politically popular than effective things. But it doesn't have to be so.
Shout out to you: "TrUmP DeFeAted IsIS" well the pentagon says otherwise.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/08/06/...
Amazon's Choice is clearly labeled as Amazon's choice, not customers' choice or anything else.

It's not their fault that you ascribe weird motives instead of the obvious.
No, it’s not. Most of the places where nuts are grown in industrial scale are water challenged.

Animal agriculture is unsustainable at the scale we operate in today in the United States. Meat doesn’t equal feedlot, and pastured ruminant agriculture helps sustain the land.
Hard to scale
Overstock CEO Takes Aim at ‘Deep State’ After Romance with Russian Agent
We don't just have 2D data though.

We learn objects representations by interacting with them over years in a multi modal fashion. Take for example a simple drinking glass: we know its material properties (it is transparent, solid, can hold liquids), its typical position (stay on a tabletop, upright with the open side on top), its usage (grab it with a hand and bring to mouth)...

We also make heavy use of the time dimension, as over a few seconds we see the same objects from different view points and possibly in different states.

Only after learning what a glass is can we easily recover its properties on a still 2D image.

So at least for learning (might be skippable at inference), it makes a lot of sense to me to have more than 2D still images.
Humans cannot get or synthesize all of the amino acids from a plant diet.. we need animals or chemistry.
you don't need an ordered JSON for this. Just make sure that your equality tests ignore ordering, or that your and hash functions will hash two JSON objects with the same key but different order to the same hash.
I addressed this in my comment.

Most people earn enough to live, and would do if they worked 20 hours less, it's just sucked away with various zero sum games like rent.

Imported goods make up a fairly small fraction of the average person's budget with the exception of stuff like, a German car say.

This is precisely what "cost of living" is; in higher competition areas, everything is more expensive.
I'd think that writing an extremely widely used package manager is good evidence of your competency as a software engineer. Whereas in your analogy the qualification is totally irrelevant to the position.
It sounds like you may mean philosophy. You are getting philosophical, being meta..(although I'm suspicious of capitalizing things like 'Truth') Philosophy asks "What is X?" e.g. what is science, how does it work? Tries to understand things. When the answers philosophy gets in an area become complete enough, that area is called science/maths/logic etc.. That happened with science itself, which used to be 'natural philosophy'. Also, if there was some new way discovered for increasing scientific-type knowledge, it would itself become a part of science.
users do select content to watch even if some human trained algorithm recommends it and it's one click to disable autoplay. users have free choice and choice is not limited to what youtube recommends or even youtube.
don't fake act as if youtube is in total control and through that try to control what others get recommended.
Seems like just growing seaweed won't be enough though. You'd have to grow it _in close proximity to the cows_, otherwise there are other greenhouse gases that will be emitted before the cows can eat it. It's also unclear to me what this means in terms of water consumption, and therefore sustainability. I'd be curious to hear how (if at all) these issues could be addressed.
I'm not saying it does correlates, I'm saying that the idea that it would be worth it to pay a lot more for small % increases in performance makes sense, so people pay like they can pick winners regardless.
And Amazon does not have to:

> Does the FTC hold bloggers to a higher standard than reviewers for traditional media outlets?

> No. The FTC Act applies across the board. The issue is – and always has been – whether the audience understands the reviewer’s relationship to the company whose products are being recommended.

> If the audience understands the relationship, a disclosure isn’t needed

Surely the audience understands Amazon's relationship with... Amazon.
1.7 million users in Chrome? Wow, that’s a lot of React developers.
Or transportation + electricity which is nearly 60% in the U.S.
Been waiting years for a windows version of wireguard and it’s finally available. Will give it shot soon!

Btw these benchmark results corroborate Wireguards own https://www.wireguard.com/performance/
Maybe OP is Google Support and he's found this is the best 'internal' escalation point for the forms he's seen come in and not been actioned. ;-)
Exactly, every part of this problem is divided up so much that individually nothing is significant. Its all just snowflakes in the avalanche.

The per country stats are not very useful either because as far as the environment is concerned countries do not exist. You could draw a line half way through india and call both halves a new country and now both parts have reduced their emissions by 50% but thats not a very useful observation.
Toptal is a massive ADA violator for those with ADHD screened out by competition programming style interviews, but are great programmers under routine conditions.
I just looked at their email distribution lists and they are pretty much dead. Last dev email from May was about XO-1.75 when XO-4 Touch is available.
Disagree. GMO via gene implantation is a fundamentally different method of modification, and its long term effects either aren't well understood or aren't published

Selective breeding may have unintended consequences but at least the process is based on nature, aka plant sex.

Agreed that both can lead to bad outcomes, but I don't think it's unreasonable to believe that most with some kind of a biology background wouldn't find GMO far more ominous.
Ah yeah Toptal. I did an interview thing with them 3 or 4 years ago. I don't remember the details, except that it was online, moderated, timed, three python algorithm challenges. I nailed the first two and went overtime on the third, and was told I could "try again in six months." I remember it being an unpleasant experience.
OK. I totally prefer ordered JSON, because it is so much easier to eyeball - to visually compare JSON with different ordered keys is quite a lot more difficult (O() complexity?) than if they are in the same order. It also enables diff to help see where the differences are (diagnosis, not just binary identical or not).

And, in fact, I do use ordered JSON for comparison in testing, as you describe.

However... comparison of JSON as objects (i.e. in memory) is order independent. Hashcode is also order independent (the trick is to sum the elements' hashcodes e.g. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Set.html...

Diff for ordered JSON is possible using longest common subsequence for trees, but has terrible complexity, and lacks diff's clever optimizations both general and specific to typical input.
And then on the thread where someone proposes reducing transport emissions in the US there will be a comment "But transport in the US is only x% of global emissions"

There needs to be action taken on every single one of the sources all at once.
This kid seems a lot more responsible than I was when I was in high school.

Taking about manipulating the URL parameters... yeah, I used that trick to apply discount codes way back in the day. The web form wouldn't accept them, but if you bolted them on to the URL after that step in the checkout process, they'd blindly get applied to your cart anyway. Found one for like 95% off a CD, and used it on a laptop at BestBuy. 15 year-old me thought he was really smart, but mostly he was just a vandal and a thief.

Best line:

> "Don't fall for marketing. Just because (vendors) say they take care of data doesn't mean they do."
You're not responding to what they said. The person you're responding to is talking about depth from stereo, not cognition. Lidar _also_ doesn't know what the glass feels like.
I have 1280x720 on my GPDWIN2 and it can be limited for sure.
Total garbage in CR3 will likely triple fault. Garbage in the IDT, etc will also double or triple fault. Corruption of the NMI “don’t recurse now” state will likely just ignore the NMI. Corruption of various other things may cause the NMI handler to crash before it makes a useful dump.

A triple fault will reboot or do whatever else the hypervisor feels like doing.
I a generally pro GMO, but the risks are wider than most assume. A specific GMO could easily be toxic. Many chemicals bioaccumulate and get worse with increasing concentrations and if it’s a novel compound we are not going to test for it. Prions are another nasty possibility.

I am not saying several million dead anything more than a theoretical possibility, but risks are not just about what’s bad for farmers.
And this is one of the ideal solutions where we can make things much much better without giving up anything at all.
This completely fails to address Musk's argument: that for a L5 car you need to be able to drive in inclement weather where LIDAR does not work reliably.

Musk may be right or wrong, but this article is a non-sequitur.
Do you want the best product for the price, or an OK product with someone else getting an extra cut?
The most rudimentary life forms are little factories that build themselves. I think we should concentrate on making cars that build themselves and maybe then our technology will be sophisticated enough to consider looking into giving our cars human-like optical processing faculties.

Otherwise we'll just have to figure out how to build autonomous vehicles with the technology we have, which is pretty crappy in comparison to biology in a lot of ways still.