skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, so that's the other part of your misconceptions.

As far as I can see, the point made in the (first part of) the book is that informed algorithms (on average) always outperform random searches and that genetic algorithms are akin to random searches.

The first part is true, the second part isn't. Evolution isn't random, mutation is random. Selection is very much not random, it is informed by the environment. This drastically reduces the size so-called "search space".

Using the term "search" for the outcomes of evolution is a curious choice anyway. Evolution doesn't search for anything in particular, it produces adaptation to an environment. It's a process without end.

As for computer simulations, check out the simulated biped that evolved hopping like a kangaroo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ2bqz3HPJE
Certainly a grim picture of the dangers of higher temperatures, but won't we also avoid a lot of people freezing to death?
The Ultimate Fundraising and Investor Guide – TAM, Pro-Rata, etc.
Hi guys,

I’m a single full-time founder from South Africa working on a bootstrapped startup.

On the weekend I came across a series of startup and real estate conferences happening on October and I started brainstorming of how I would be able to attend the four conferences happening in San Francisco and New York and meet with customers.

Given my investment background, I realized that a lot of founders don’t understand how the fundraising process works and how VCs operate (which is incredibly important) and that by creating a slide deck to help founders I would be able to offer the most value. So, willing to take the risk, the journey started where I have worked from Sunday afternoon till now (Tuesday night) to create a 89 page slide deck…

Downloadable Dropbox Freebie (what investors look for, TAM, venture fund structure, etc.): http://bit.ly/ycfundraise2019
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[Would appreciate other #founderlove support of any amount]

The conference dates are:

TC Disrupt SF 2019 (San Francisco): October 2nd-4th
Launch Scale (San Francisco): October 7th-8th.
CRE Tech (New York) – leading commercial real estate industry event: October 16th -17th .
Lean Startup Conference (San Francisco): October 23rd-25th.

If you feel the freebie or purchases have helped you, please do comment below and happy to debate the startup myth that ideas are worthless ;)
One could reasonably argue that one level of ignoring rules logically led to the next level - of ignoring laws.
https://imgur.com/a/1PrSPw9 (1985's Seoul metro)
https://imgur.com/a/7YHMAZa (2015's Seoul metro)

Compared to 80's Seoul, LA metro's coverage doesn't seem very bad. Give it some time while heavily disincentivizing use of cars. At least, LA has a central public authority on mass transit for 10 millions, which is a much better situation than bay.
RSS is dead... long since dead. There are a myriad of reasons why it died.

1. People don't want you to use RSS. They want you to visit their site so they make money from ads.

2. Only a small percentage of users care about RSS.

3. DRY (don't repeat yourself) principle. The RSS feed often breaks an no one really knows about it.

Source: Me... I was one of the inventors of RSS and run an feed SaaS platform which only has sunset support for RSS

http://www.datastreamer.io/
Cost [1]. Time from breaking ground to "permission to operate" as well (even if you cut red tape and systemize manufacturing of nuclear generators, you will not be as fast as wind, solar, and batteries).

Solar PV Thin Film Utility Scale: $36-$44/MWh | Onshore Wind: $29-$56/MWh | Nuclear: $112-$189/MWh

Can you build nuclear faster than the rest of the world can build and install PV solar and onshore/offshore wind turbines? Unlikely. Tesla installed the Hornsdale Power Reserve in 90 days. Bigger utility scale battery systems will take longer, but no where near 10 years.

[1] https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...
Aiming to is a meaningless word. It requires fundamental discoveries we by definition can't know when or if we are going to find.

Edit: Downvoted for what exactly?
China using LinkedIn to recruit Americans, claims US spy catcher
My issue with the pursuit of leisure activities, or the “If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves” quote, is that it doesn't leave room for ambition.

If I spend my years in momentary pleasure, I fear I will regret not tackling more ambitious projects. What could I have achieved if I was willing to suffer through activities that are not solely "activities you really enjoy?"
FYI, reason.com is considered to be right-center biased: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/reason/
The personal attacks started with you calling me ‘emotional’.

You could have actually answered my point about the people who were adversely affected instead doing that.

Instead you chose the intellectually dishonest route.

Let’s leave it there instead shall we?
I recently bought a Onewheel, after never having done board sports in my life. Now I spend at least an hour on it a day, if not two. It's tons of fun.
You've either failed to understand, or you're being intentionally obtuse.

> Not quite

Yes quite.

> The analogy I offer shows

It does not, for reasons I explained.

You're observing physical phenomena, and concluding there must be magic hiding behind them.
I keep hearing this, but I have so far not been able to get a single game (even ones marked with excellent support) to work on proton. I really, really, really want it to work, though!
Any sort of crafting hobby, which ranges from making clothes to making swords to making furniture.

Graphical arts, digital and analog (which covers everything from painting with all different types of paints to mixed media, large format, small format, from the side of a building to the size of a grain of rice)

These are all mostly looks-based, but you can also make things that do things, make electronics, restore old electronics, go antiquing for vinyl players, go antiquing for anything else.

Join a choir, join a band, join a barbershop quartet, go to the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival and listen to sea shanties.

The list goes on.
The perfect solution to that is github and fizzbuzz (perhaps something bit harder).

Non-programming job are going to shrink soon enough, there won't be anyone hiring 'blindly' in those field, or largely at all.
I'm not sure if 285 technically runs through Morrison, but there are lots of tickets issued right there because it is essentially a highway but has a low speed limit. They could raise the speed limit by 10-20mph and it would probably still be safe. There are also several elevation changes that make it easier for a traffic officer to hide.

Weird that Mountain View is in the mix. Maybe it's just a statistical anomaly because the "town" is tiny and is actually in a metro area and may include a portion I-70.
Nice. Although it's not mentioned, it seems like the insight here is partially about the lingering effects on the API of one model of persistence?

A log is normally considered a stream that's too large to keep in memory and needs to be incrementally persisted to disk on the fly, in timestamp order. (Or at least, the traditional file-based way does that, which affects the API.) But each HTTP request happens in memory and its log could be kept there.

A downside might be if the server crashes in the middle of a request, the request is entirely unlogged? But maybe you could log some values to disk and merge them later.
Interesting. I just started experimenting with a 16-8 fast, and I have noticed that it is hard to eat larger portions when you constrain the eating window to eight hours. Did you think it helped maintain your 15% BF?
I remember in my 20s I had this constant anxiety about running out of time. That if I didn't accomplish whatever I wanted to accomplish soon I'd never be able to do it. The emotion gradually disappeared during my 30s.

In a way I was right. I'm 40 now and the things that seemed of extreme importance in my 20s are mostly gone now. In retrospect it's not that I wouldn't be able to do those things, but maybe I feared that I wouldn't want to.

Anyway, I feel much better about myself now. I would not trade this peace of mind for the raw energy of the 20s.
I’m curious about this in case you wish to expand on it, such as what you mean by “real work”. Perhaps there are no macOS equivalents to the apps you need for your occupation, but generically claiming one can’t get “real work” done on macOS is inaccurate for several jobs.

Unless you’re referring to the screen reader, but my impression is Apple is generally regarded as the best in what comes to accessibility features, and they keep improving. They’re so proud of it they frequently brag about it in promotional videos they present at high-visibility events such as WWDC.

Which makes me even more interested in your experience, since you live it.
109 U.S. counties have become majority nonwhite since 2000
I've used both Xfce and more recently tried LXDE. The latter was fine but more minimal and a bit lighter on resources. Now with the upcoming LXQt it might be a good time to switch back to Xfce to avoid the transitional pains.
Wow, where does it say $100 million? Austin opened a new central library recently, and while I was originally skeptical I think they did an amazing job - really cozy, human-centered architecture that's beautiful. I love going there to work and read, and it's become my favorite building in Austin.

But it was considerably more than $100 million (I think around $125), so kudos to the Finns for such a great job.
I mean, I'm working in UI Fabric right now (MS). Clearly there needs to be some sanity checks when naming software these days.
Lots of speculating why it is cheaper to ship from China than domestically, a lot of it misguided.

The root cause is that quite a few years ago the consortium of national postal providers which setup agreements on who pays for which parts of international shipping decided that China was classed as a developing country and given subsidized rates by other countries. This wasn't a big deal when the agreement was made because it was before the days of pervasive online commerce, and there just wasn't that much sent from China to other countries via the postal service.

I encourage everyone interested in this to checkout this podcast episode from NPR's Planet Money:
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/01/634737852/epis...

> The reason for this price gap, Jayme claims, is a secretive group of postal policymakers that meets every four years to fix international shipping rates. A kind of postal illuminati.

> Today's episode: A conspiracy theory that's actually real. How the decisions made behind closed doors make it cheap to buy things from across the world, but are also distorting the global economy.
You don't need QED for that, only Maxwell's equations. QED is necessary if you want to explain how those effects jive with the fact that you can count individual photons.
I might be simplifying it but:

A reliving Letter is document that your employer must (effectively) provide so you can resign and work for some one else, they can hold you hostage.

Bond in this term refers to "An employment bond contains a clause which requires the employee to serve the employer compulsorily for a specific period of time or else refund the amount specified as bond value."

Basically an indentured servant. A friend of mine who was head of UNI described it as "horrific".

UNI is a global union so they also work with textile workers in poor countries so describing working practices for professionals in India as "horrific" shows how bad it is.
Child predator visited White House at least 13 times to meet with Steve Bannon
"Tech entrepreneurs are disproportionately clustered at 20-34. The probability of making a major scientific discovery starts declining at 40. Poets peak in their early 40s, and novelists not much longer after that. Mathematicians and physicists may on average peak as early as their late 20s."

None of these are indicative of cognitive decline (especially tech entrepreneurs, which as an aside it is a myth that it is dominated by the young -- https://hbr.org/2018/07/research-the-average-age-of-a-succes...). As people have a family, have responsibilities, etc, the drive to excel in a broader sense declines. Impressing the community, making a name, etc, just has far less of a motivating effect.

You could say the same thing from a "career" perspective if your role is as a salaryman under someone else: the drive to spend your life for someone else's gain diminishes.
Yelp can go fuck itself.
Great guide. May I suggest:

1. Sending a pull-request to the official pi-hole project wiki to get this added to their docs?

2. Adding a small nugget about running just the DNS traffic through the VPN instead of all of it. It is a one-line config, IIRC.
>Meanwhile international postcards from Germany were like 2€.

What are you talking about? I was just in Germany last year, and sent a bunch of international postcards for €0.90 each. That's the standard postcard rate for sending a postcard anywhere in the world. (It's €0.45 within Germany.)
"Is there really no difference between eating 1500 calories at once vs. over the course of 5 meals?"

Digestion - and the ramping up of your entire metabolic process - is not a minor task. It is an all-hands-on-deck marshaling of a number of bodily processes that preclude other processes that you might like your body to engage in.

If you are firing up this mechanism every three hours - insulin response, spiking your blood sugar, moving your stomach and bowels, etc., then you never give your body time to do any other housekeeping tasks.

Think of food intake as an interrupt, in computer science parlance. What happens to process performance when you're throwing interrupts ?

IANAD.
How is it racist? The school is for the most intelligent/academically proficient students or whatever its criteria is, and that's how the select them. If that subset of the population is, for argument, 99% white and Asian, it would be suspect if the school was anything but 99% those two. It doesn't matter that the population of the country as a whole is not.
This is why I browse no-JS, except for a few select sites.
Background: I'm building industrial HW based on their compute units. It's a really nice base to build on, in terms of software support.

1) I think their EE design team could use some talented QA professionals.

2) In that one-hour youtube interview they did recently (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyj-7mTnumI), I was really surprised to hear how much emphasis they put on corporate customer requirements, like banks wanting two screens. That was a weird take; previously the message was always - "we're not doing this for the money, we want the kids to get an education". Messy commercial/"industrial" stuff was left to the compute modules. Did something change?
Policies like these based on race are precisely why students are disadvantaged by race.

We must stop looking at arbitrary and superficial physical attributes to determine a person's character if we are to ever get past all of this racial nonsense.
If you can get low concentration H202 you can get dangerously high concentration H202 by applying a fan (H20 evaporates faster).

One suspects that electrolysis to get H2 + O2 would produce more rocket fuel with less energy. It's a much more direct process.
> If I said something like "Asian" instead of "Caucasian" it would definitely be lying because I don't actually identify as Asian.

What if you did that day? Is there a need for a long term self-identification to qualify as the minority of your choosing?
16 bytes is in no way guaranteed by the standard.
Rather than extracting the text, could you just render a cached copy of the full web page? I don't see how anyone would have a problem with that. Many times you will end up missing parts of the article anyway if you try to pare it down.
Customer success isn’t an add-on – Start early to win later
You're point is either extremely naive or willfully ignorant.
A few yeas ago a mate who worked for TI told me about a time he shared a flight with a v senior guy from TI (Texas Instruments).

On the flight the senior guy mentioned "Gee I wish I had gone in with those guys" And I don't think he was talking about Intel :-)
Do EU Governments care about security? Has a proper audit of this monstrosity been done?

Or is this just another ploy to get better pricing?
I can't see it working unless they support WhatsApp and friends. No network effect means it will die. Unfortunately.
I wonder naively why a country like Australia (lots of sun and land and raw material) doesn’t go all in for solar and batteries. Print a bunch of QE money and invest it in building infrastructure to create store and export energy from solar (ship charged batteries? Under sea electric cables?). It would boom the local economy while creating a long term asset and help the planet. Assuming the panels can be made, constructed and installed without too much environmental impact.
If we have cheap reliable renewable electricity, then we can generate hydrogen from electrolysis, and use the hydrogen as fuel for steel production. Hydrogen burns even hotter than methane and it's clean. So, the key is we need renewable electricity.
I wrote a book on this topic: https://first20hours.com

There's a ton of (replicated) psychology research that supports this thesis: the early hours of skill acquisition are very effective/efficient in terms of improvement-per-hour-invested. 20-50 hours is enough to see very substantial improvements in any skill, even if you have no prior knowledge or experience.

I wish more people focused on the early process of skill acquisition: that's what most of us will experience for most of our lives/careers.

Learning and practicing skills in many different areas is underrated: if you think of skills from an ROI perspective, spending a little time to get a lot better at a portfolio of useful things has a crazy high return.
Yeah, most dWeb protocols can't handle updating/changing data.

I highly recommend you try out mine, as it supports mutable & immutable data (GUN https://github.com/amark/gun ) AND cryptographic identities.

We've seen a ton of companies move over to it: Internet Archive, DTube, HackerNoon, Notabug, etc. ~ 15M monthly active users, in production!
It's been argued that a hose pipe, a helium balloon, and a bit of sulphur could easily cool the planet as much as we want.

But of course, people get mad about "playing god" or "using pollution to fight pollution". Kinda like a bad parent who refuses to ever punish their child, because they're afraid of being responsible if things go wrong (despite them already being responsible for things having gone wrong).

There's also the risk that eventually carbon will acidify the oceans too much, so clearly there's a limit to how much we can have.
Seconded. I would add "Structured Computer Organization", as a preamble book. I read both as if they were novels - they really are interesting and written in such a way that can hook you just as a good story
Curious where I implied Huawei didn't before (merely stated the enforcement for patents, or "rules" as you put it, no longer apply because the negatives are already in place against them).
Companies will not build no parking. Not having parking also costs companies: customers who don't have a place to park will go elsewhere. Employees will either demand a raise to pay for their parking elsewhere, or the company will give free parking as a benefit. Apartment renters will demand parking with their unit. OR (in addition to the above) companies will demand better transit systems so they don't have to provide all that expensive parking.

Eliminating parking works in two ways: companies will get rid of excess parking if they have too much. These excess spaces will be converted to something else. Even one new building downtown makes a big difference in density. That new building also means more people to take transit, which means the transit company needs to add more routes which makes transit more useful eventually leading to more unused parking spaces turned into a building. None of this is possible if the city demands some amount of parking spaces though.
The Omni in Oakland has all of this and more but is entirely owned and run by the member community:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zccga90hcY

Shame that government in the US does not invest in such resources for the community.
This is why I don't use Twitter much anymore, nor Instagram, nor FB, etc.

If a human being pulled this kind of shit on me, I would have reduced my contact with them to a minimum a long time ago, since it would essentially be an abusive or at least one-sided relationship (that might have been great in the past.)

So why should it be any different for a website or service?
GP may be referring to the actual definition of “conspiracy theory”, in that there are many theories of state conspiracy against Turing.
I stopped using RSS when Google Reader went away, but I don't really miss it. I just use HN instead, which is like a curated list of the best stuff and I don't have to already know it exists and be subscribed to an RSS feed.

I suppose if someone made something that summarized a bunch of stuff in an RSS feed or somehow prioritized for me, maybe I'd use that instead.
That would be a steal for Purdue...
It isn't uncommon for employees to sign over their rights over the intellectual property they develop using the company resources. The argument being those resources were a necessary component and the person was compensated for delivering that product. Some go even further to cover any work done off hours as well because the company's resources provide the knowledge necessary for that work, but that can be more of a grey area
No, that is an incentive to vote for someone else who will not make it miserable.
Except that nuclear is running 24/7 even if it is not windy (minus the costly maintenance). As long as we don't have a superconductor grid around whole hemisphere, it seems to be the best way to generate power at night.