skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trick is knowing how deep to go, which depends a lot on your goals. If you just want to learn for your own curiosity, rabbit hole forever! If you want to build useful, applicable knowledge, there’a a peak of usefulness after which there are diminishing returns. So being self-aware enough to know when to pull the plug on your rabbit hole is pretty important (professionally).

Also certain kinds of rabbit holes are way more useful than others. If you’re rabbit holing into some obscure, arcane system, and the stuff you’re learning isn’t challenging you fundamentally, you’re probably wasting your time (I call these “rat holes”). If your rabbit hole will yield new fundamental insights into something important...now that’s a good rabbit hole!
I'm from Suffolk - my school used to go here on school trips. The funny thing about the site is that it's basically just a hill in a field now, so needless to say it was a massive letdown for eight-year-old me who was expecting to see a massive Viking longboat. The tourist centre is nice though.
It's not 2080. The 60 years of service aren't over yet.
Honestly, I think you are comparing apples to oranges. Average cost overrun for US nuclear fission plants was 207 percent, primarily due to mid-construction revisions and additional regulation. [https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/91x... page 17]

But what you seem to be talking about are cost projections for proposed pilot plants. It is possible that commercial fusion plants will have construction cost overruns but most modern fission and fusion proposals incorporate modular construction to limit the problem of one-of cost overruns.
> Density incorporates the area you're settled in ... NYC has a much higher density than london though: 27,751/sq mi vs. 14,670/sq mi

So you admit being pro-car or anti-car has nothing to do with it. Good.
Lenovo ThinkPad, hands down. They work really well with Linux, and have enough models to pick and choose the right one for your needs.
I use a 6th gen X1 Yoga at home (for its oled panel and integrated wacom tablet) and an 8th gen X1 (non-yoga) at work. (note - the generation I refer to is the processor generation, ie the 6th gen is an i7-6600u, which lenovo calls a first gen x1 yoga)

The yoga needed some tweaks to get the OLED brightness to work correctly, but other than that they basically worked out of the box under ubuntu 18.04. My only complaints are that the oled panel only came in gloss and has since been discontinued (although there are rumors that a 15" 4k oled will be available on the x1 extreme), and that the mouse click on the yoga is several orders of magnitude too loud. The trackpoint buttons are fine and the keyboard is great, but the trackpad click is loud enough to hear in the next room over.
Care to elaborate on the modification you made to macOS? Currently running a 2015 MBP and am really happy with it but always looking for improvements.
If you read the second post linked he tried very hard to help. He encouraged multiple solutions, offered to help from his experience and they opted not to take the help.
As long as you don't go into potentially offensive humor
> To what end?

Stopping inflation. The idea that my money is worth less today than it was yesterday is ridiculous. It's not a store of value, and violates one of the three tenets of currency.

> exacerbate wealth inequality

This does not strike me as a reason not to pass a policy. It is true only because Americans are by-and-large spendthrifts. We have gotten away from saving and personal responsibility. Maybe we wouldn't see the large increases in housing prices etc. if we didn't have this runaway creation of fake value based on leverage. I don't think it's sustainable, the economy is overheating, and we will hurt for it. Stagflation proved keynesianism wrong; time for a different approach of the government out of the economy.

More importantly, inflation is already a huge tax on the poor and unbanked. Every one else can recover at least some of the inflation tax; these people cannot.

Finally, deflation may not be as bad as every one thought. [0]

> If you don't trust the government to administer the fiat supply, why on earth would you trust them to administer a gold-backed supply?

I do in part, but there is no reason banks could not issue their own gold certificates. More importantly, the government is not the monolith as which you address it. The fed is separate and independent, and would fill this job (although I still would dispute the constitutionality of a federal reserve, some degree of weaning is probably necessary). This would reign in the profligate spending of the American congress, as the supply of loanable funds would shrink. It would also mean we can't just screw pension funds and individuals by inflating our way out of the problem. The wealthy can personally invest in the market and manage their own money (or hire those smart enough to do so), while every one else pays. Here's an excellent paper with more info: https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/qjae11_1_1.pdf

Finally, inflation tends to encourage economic "fake growth". This is the kind of "growth" shown by sv unicorns, by hedge funds during an expansion, by those who push around rather than make money. Too much fake growth -> overheated economy -> a broader crash. Changes of that sort give the most powerful and most opportunistic the opportunity to profit rather than those with real value to contribute.

> And then what, we mine one asteroid [1] and your gold pile and all the money associated therewith is worthless?

By then we could probably switch over to a (non-bitcoin) crypto-currency. Though I'd blanch at the idea of the gov't creating one now, as it would be doubtless be used to track all spending to "combat money laundering" or some baloney.

My overall point is that we've taken the wrong approach to the economy. We've let this lefty-keynesian approach lure us away from a laissez-faire system with short-term gains and false promises of growth.

[0]: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/111715/can-def...
It might be better and more affirmative to lose the disabled label and call them cyborgs, then give them their own category.
On Statistical Thinking in Deep Learning
Google / Alphabet have prove unable to displace telco / cable monopolies.

Or, for that matter, Facebook's social networking monopoly, despite dumping billions into Google+.

Since the 1920s, it's been virtually impossible to start a new consumer automobile company in the US, with several notable flameouts (Tucker and DeLorean notably). Tesla is a remarkable exception, though they are innovating on energy storage and traction.

The aviation industry is similar.

Likewise, banking.

Despite ongoing consolidation and failures in Big N consulting firms, new entrants have not emerged in the space. What are now the Big Four had been the Big Eight as late as the 1990s.

There are occasional cases of disruption. The emergence of discount retailers (Dayton, Kresge, and Wal-Mart, today Target, Kmart, and Walmart) all expanded greatly in the 1960s. I was stunned though to learn a few years ago that the Hudson's Bay Company still exists, and is the parent of Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue, among others.

It's also notable that some of the biggest names in technology are comparatively old: Apple was founded in 1976, Intel in 1968, and IBM formed in 1911 by companies dating to the 1880s. AT&T has at least persisted as a brand, if not an entirely continuous corporate legal structure, since 1885. (The current company operating under the name is a separate legal entity, though also an RBOC spin-off of the original company.)
It's not weird to hold the conference organizers accountable for organizing a conference badly.
Well, we've never installed a rootkit on anybody's computer, so at least we've got that going for us...

More to the point, we don't have an empirical end-to-end measurement of Zoom the way we do for Skype, FaceTime, Google Hangouts, and WebRTC-in-Chrome (with and without VP9-SVC). But my understanding is that Zoom is architected similarly to those systems and can be expected to behave within the same envelope. Would need to measure it to know for sure.

On the other hand, Zoom is an actual product with users, and Salsify is a research prototype that doesn't even have audio, much less users. So hard to compare outside the narrow technical questions of video quality and latency over imperfect networks.
Currency reform in 1948 also produced winners and losers. Worth a read.
I'm reading through the Twitter thread, but I can't decipher the exact issue(s).

Did the organizers select a lower ratio of diverse speakers than applicants? Were there very few diverse applicants and the organizers decided none of them qualified?
> Perhaps fundamentally impossible

It can't be done by one individual for the whole market, but the invisible hand does a pretty good job. The principle of a market as a whole establishing prices, rates, etc. is widely accepted.
As a woman I find it pretty damn objectifying for someone to withdraw from a conference because it has no female speakers. Why should anyone care about anything other than php in a php conference?
How “broken”?
I sometimes think they value signalling over actually constructively working to fix things.

I’m moderate and think that anyone who wants to should program for a living should but stuff like this hurts my head enough I don’t engage with them on Twitter as it results in a mud slinging match that nothing improves from.

It’s frankly tiring seeing the same crap repeated ad nauseum.
The artist behind the cover art for “Hot Girl Summer” explains his craft
Those are deprecated.
Wow -- you've impressed me! (and yep, I also played adventure on a Silent 700...)
Elon Musk Gambled Tesla to Save SolarCity
> statement that the CLR ties you to C# is not justified

it is. F# developers are stuck with the language progress and can't (or don't want to) add big and important features like Type Classes or Higher-kinded Types, until C# adds them first

https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/243
Hey Keith,

Amazing work, I am really impressed with what you are doing. I have never found any good reading in this area beside your work, the only thing I have seen is GStreamer's rtpjitterbuffer and libwebrtc. I haven't really felt confident in what I have learned from either though.

Have you thought about testing/comparing against other WebRTC implementations? It makes me a little sad to see WebRTC get a bad name just because one implementation has issues. WebRTC is a huge opportunity to get companies to invest in one thing, instead of reinventing the wheel and locking people in. Do you think things could be improved and eventually match Salsify?

Somewhat unrelated but I am working on Pion WebRTC[0]. By design it is not coupled tightly with the encoder/decoder (but I want to give feedback to the user so it could influence it if they wanted). Do you have any suggested readings, would you be ok with me contacting you directly? I really want to build something elegant that allows people to build amazing things with WebRTC. Right now I have been having people do things manually, I don't want to ship something without doing my due diligence.

thanks

[0] https://github.com/pion/webrtc
I'm not a programmer, so Wasm is DOM-based or Canvas-based?
I mean does it support explicit DOMs?
This is something I've been doing a bit, but I'm more interested in music composition, for piano or symphony or similar. Musescore[1] is an amazing FOSS tool for interactively creating sheet music. It's like a WYSIWYG sheet music editor, with a virtual keyboard, playback support, and very basic mixing. I have a little background with piano (childhood) and trombone (high school), so it's been much easier for me personally to create new music by manipulating a traditional staff in Musescore than with the grid view in FL Studio or LMMS.

1. https://musescore.org/en
"The demonisation of savings in our society is one of the most severe problems we face, if not the most severe."

To an extent, you are right. Here in the US, anyway. But it is possible to go too far in the other direction as well.

If all of your disposable money is going into savings, you have no need to borrow money, so the bank isn't making loans, so the interest rate you receive has to fall. More importantly, if you are not spending money, the people you aren't buying from have no incentive to invest. The result is a stagnant economy.

Saving too much is almost as bad as saving too little.
http://www.pathwayslms.com/swipltuts/html/index.html

https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/doc_for?object=section(%27p...

https://pengines.swi-prolog.org/docs/index.html

SWI prolog has all you need, and more!

Shameless plug for smalltalkers (hobbyist work in progress):
https://github.com/Rscho314/pengines_smalltalk
How four packets broke CenturyLink's network
Parking Hell: How Bad UX Design Made a London County's Attractions Inaccessible
Doesn't matter. The US is destined to repeat all the same history over again because Americans are mush-headed idiots who follow fools.
Pass the butter, please.
From the Twitter thread:

> “Everyone has the same chances” is the exact problem. What are you doing to elevate women and POC? How are you showing your support as an ally and actively encouraging access to these “equal chances”?!

These people have gone off the deep end. If you aren't actively following their political playbook you're to be shouted down. You can't even just opt out of participation in their crusade, if you're not elevating their chosen classes you're as good as the Klan.

This is a tech event, not a political rally.
You sound really frustrated with this outcome.

What would you propose those speakers do differently?

A follow up question: why do you say that would be more effective than what they did?

(And, I would ask you, is that something that still maintains their commitment to diversity, since they all mentioned that was more important than speaking opportunities?)
Twitter is never a great forum to discuss issues that need context. The two blog posts lay things out more clearly.
Do you have a donation page somewhere?
> Mississippi’s new law is sweeping: “Any food product containing cell-cultured animal tissue or plant-based or insect-based food shall not be labeled meat or as a meat product.”

I can see the argument for the plant-based case and maybe for the insect-based case, but cell-cultured meat? I know that this is law was almost certainly helped along by cattle lobbyists, but I'm trying to imagine a situation where this is justified.
> but most modern fission and fusion proposals incorporate modular construction to limit the problem of one-of cost overruns.

Let's see how that works out, friends!

"Modular by Design

The AP1000 plant has been designed to make use of modern, modular-construction techniques. The design incorporates vendor-designed skids and equipment packages, as well as large, multi-ton structural modules and special-equipment modules. Modularization allows construction tasks that were traditionally performed in sequence to be completed in parallel."

Oh dear. Modularization doesn't seem to have helped Westinghouse at all. Sorry about the bankruptcy, Toshiba!
Speaking as a German, it's really curious that Americans are so emotionally attached to their companies (which Germans mostly aren't), but they also switch companies way more often whereas Germans tend to stick with a job unless it's outright horrible.
But I could do that before with a medical card, too...
I cannot argue their competence, but giving someone a 3 week cooling off time to reflect on why they left seems reasonable.

Although trying multiple times does not seem reasonable.

Many companies I have left, never cared about why.
> we always struggled to get women from outside of Drupal to submit to that track, despite Drupal itself having a relatively large female population. We actively reached out to women both in the PHP community and local to the event and still sometimes had no submissions from women

^^ From the second link, blog post about a guy dropping out.

I'm so lost. So this guy drops out because the organizers won't go to great lengths to find women, and then admits that in his own experience it is sometimes completely impossible to find women speakers.

I think we're missing the forest for the trees here.
Yes, just metadata. It does seem to include abstracts. This would be very useful for metascience - the study of how research is done.
There's more that goes into production than material costs. Seems like a deal compared to crap that will fall into disrepair after a year or two
> And after those 4-5 years, wont one have to get a new laptop at some point, upgrade to newer OS version, and adjust to whatever changes the FOSS projects like Gnome/KDE/etc did in the previous years all from the beginning?

But that's part of what I love about linux, my text-based configuration doesn't have to change because I upgrade, unlike on Mac where the name of some `defaults write` key suddenly renames or disappears altogether.

In the rare cases that something in a Linux distribution changes so much it upends your config, you're just a package install away from getting the old behaviour back until you want (if ever) to deal with it.
Karl Marx is the ultimate piece of shit. His ideas are responsible for the slaughter of hundreds of millions of people. Karl Marx is the underlying cause for pretty much all of the 20th century's dead. So stick your pal Karl right your ass.
As you sorted, geniune leather is one of the lowest rung of material that is legally able to be called leather.

Here is a quick overview of leather grades:

https://www.heddels.com/2014/06/overview-guide-leather-grade...
A "store of value", like putting money under your mattress, is, economically speaking, useless.¹

Remember the categorical imperative: "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law."

¹ Beyond a point anyway. Keep 3 to 6 months' income readily available.
Well one way to think about it is to view the current structure (one of male dominated events) is already enforcing a system that isn't just about PHP. It's a structure where we put men on stage and leave (a few) women to silently sit in the back. The attempts by speakers and organisers to level this field is trying to get the events to just be about PHP. However they realize that things are very off balance already and without push back we'll continue to enforce a technological patriarchy. The only way to make things just about the tech is to address these things, however painful, and rebuild an environment where women feel equally accepted, respected, and praised.
What a fascinating set of characters, and what fortitude it must take to go public with such an unorthodox relationship while being a public character. I find it difficult to change my hairstyle and letting my colleagues know.
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That's not what I read, I read in the second link that he wanted to cancel a bunch of the male speakers, and then have everyone work like mad to reach out to women to come speak. That's not a submission process at all. That's outreach.
What cat toy do you sell? I have a cat, and would check it out.
FreeBSD Meets Linux at the Open Source Summit [video]
It takes a bit of scrolling down in the original article to get all the details, but they have done the decent thing and allowed you to use Via in either direction.

From paragraph 16: one end of the trip must be to or from the light rail station within the service area.
If you've ever wondered what the car park equivalent of a 'only compatible with Google Chrome' message is, well apparently it's a certain company saying your choice of parking space doesn't support your type of vehicle and to go park somewhere else.

Also why it's not a good idea to rely solely on mobile apps for simple public services.
Competing against price-cutting, product-dumping, employee-luring, FUD campaigns, bundling and tying, exclusive dealings arrangements, legislative lobbying, patent lawsuits, bribery, forced acquisitions (e.g., Luxottica & Oakley) and any of the numerous other tactics that are not "pure competition" but are and have been used against challengers, is exceedingly difficult.

Sneaking up under the radar, making a lateral move, or finding a patron or sweetheart deal as an entry into a market is frequently required. Microsoft's break was its exclusive, per-CPU licensing deal with IBM, later extended to other OEMs, and followed by bundling (Office) and tying/dumping (Internet Explorer). Government contracts (national, state, or local) can be a path. Emerging during a period of general economic panic works for others -- both Google and Facebook effectively emerged during financial squeezes (and legal impairments) on incumbents or potential spoilers (2001, 2007-8).

Bernhard J. Stern's "Resistances to the Adoption of Technological Innovations" (1935) details numerous instances and methods of such dirty tricks, and is rapidly becoming among my favourite references to these:

https://archive.org/details/technologicaltre1937unitrich/pag...

Markdown: https://pastebin.com/raw/Bapu75is
At the last place I worked at (a smaller ISP) we were a little spastic with our naming schemes. Sometimes boring -- web-1, web-2, web-3, web-4, ... and sometimes more entertaining -- we named a cluster of content filtering servers after porn stars (sindee, etc).

Now everything is a VM so I'm back to naming "servers" by their function because I don't really need to worry about them being multifunction or evolving.
Tangent that may be relevant here.

I used to be involved in access work for those from underprivileged backgrounds.

It's very difficult to get poor kids to apply to University even if they have the grades, for reasons I expect are pretty similar (social environment, not 'fitting in', having few role models, etc).

Going back further - tons of them simply don't have the grades or skills, because they weren't interested early on, or weren't supported, or whatever else.

They fall behind at an early age. They're stuck in an environment that doesn't support them.

Changing the statistical makeup of people at that sort of level - at the end of the funnel, after all of the filtering - is really difficult. You need good reason to do so. It's still not clear to me that it actually makes sense - is the world actually better off if half the Ivies are made of poor kids, or have you just shuffled around status (is it zero sum)? Do you get better results - what are the better results you're looking for?

This stuff is difficult.
Because you'd probably also change the SMB or DNS name for the machine when you rename it, and that opens a can of worms where you try to work out what's using that reference and change everything that matters.

Now renaming the machine is a multi-day thing involving configuration changes (and that assumes it's not hard coded anywhere) to a whole bunch of software; inevitably you'll miss some and it'll break. Easier not to bother.
What a tragedy that the package has far more users than it's possible for a human to know well!
I have been on both the receiving and producing end of a similar decision making process whereby all stakeholders are consulted, and then a solution is provided which has as its only real design consideration - beyond being effective - that no-one gets exactly what they requested.

Is there a name for this kind of anti-consensus decision making?
Nope, they all use gmail addresses - I contribute a bit to this project so I've sent a few emails back and forth.
> Remove electric and it's the same car.

What's your point? "Remove all innovations and nothing has changed for the better" is just tautological.