skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are other factors. Valuations in tech now depend on our current regulatory and financial environment:

1- Absolutely no real privacy regulation exists in the US, where people's information can be bought and sold freely. (I know there is regulation, but not real regulatory activity means it's de-facto unregulated)

2- There's no anti-trust activity and companies like microsoft, google and facebook can engage in anti-competitive behaviors of all types: buying competitors and closing them to reduce competition (it seems the case with Wunderlist), operate a market and be a participant in it while undermining other market participants using inside information, create a monopoly or oligopoly with no real regulatory costs (aside from a small % of earnings being taxed as 'fines'), actively conspiring to avoid competition for employee salaries, etc

3- Very low interest rates/net negative interest rates for capital holders with opaque and byzantine distribution of newly minted fiat.

4- Zero consequences for undermining democratic institutions by creating revolving doors between regulatory agencies and the companies they are supposed to regulate.

5- Regressive regulatory compliance costs

While the ones who benefit from such an environment would like to make it seem this is the natural state of the economy, it isn't, it's a very new and very strange experiment.

Also, while capital holders would like people to think that the current state of prosperity is caused by our current system of regulatory and financial application, these same people then agree that the greatest advancement in standards of living for the western world happened during the 1920-1960s, a time when the regulatory and financial systems were very different (like a 90% tax on earnings above $50 mill/year (in 2019 money)). So I'd guess we could advance just as well if not better with something more akin to what was then.

I'm hoping our current conditions will not remain over the next 40+ years and some of these valuations will be more in line with traditional P/E ratios.
Sure. G. It is always fun to watch the train on Lorimer heading towards queens to be 13 minutes away just to see it arrive.

The point is it does not matter if the L is going through the historic reconstruction project -- countdown clock should depend on two pieces of real time data and one piece of historic ( same trip data ) from previous sections:

1. Position of the train which is always known on the L because it is an ATC line.

2. Speed of the train. Also known because it is an ATC line.

The distance between stations is fixed. The data about speed and the distance train covered at t-1 and t-2 is known.

So it is algebra + basic message passing architecture + LCD displays connected to the local systems.

2. Speed of the train
Funny, I worked as a government contractor in a past life.

The government was worse IMO in that work was very slow and bureaucratic even beyond the big company overhead.

Politics couldn't be ignored; you need to keep the contract, outmaneuver the other guys going golfing with the agency head every weekend, deal with having 10 half-backed solutions you contractually cannot touch but need to in order to get things done.

Promotions were almost always about tenure, certification, and education. You could never get far ahead if you're more skilled. Worse: you couldn't really fall behind, either.

In the right spot, though, it would be lower stress. But much lower pay
All the industries I’m talking about are highly competitive.
It can be replaced by continue; in this specific case.
Yes, I joined as an L5.

The technical side was probably not terribly relevant to you. I worked mostly on the Linux kernel in C, on drivers and firmware, and never did anything in the main Google repo.
Anybody using Remember the Milk for their todos ? I used it and loved it.
A Quick Guide to Collecting Sci-Fi
I actually started putting together a book over Orleans’, it’s use, and best practices. I should probably finish it.
> Personally, I'd love it if undergrads learned a sense of professional ethics and objective understanding of current industry before they applied for internships

Given ethics is a fuzzy line, I'll loosely define it as, what the majority would do, or deem acceptable, _given the option_ to choose between two actions. Note that many times, people don't actually have the option to choose and are simply talking from their armchair.

Now, coming to internships, those undergrads receive offers from both Facebook et al. and second tier companies like Capital One, P&G, or IBM. Nearly all of them choose Facebook and the higher pay. Hell, even Facebook knows their reputation is declining and hence offers more total compensation for to offset it, and it works! Plenty of my friends from MIT/Stanford/Berkeley grad school chose Facebook upon graduating "because they paid 300K-400K TC." And yes, this is in 2019.

Same thing with working professionals. I have the option to sell my computer vision person re-identification technology to a Chinese customer or a European one. Due to the deal terms, we could only pick one. Guess what, we sold to the Chinese (and presumably government controlled) company. Unethical? Yeah probably. But who gives a shit? It's a lot of money. I'll gladly put my ethics aside and do _anything_ as long as it's legal. And I took 3 useless-ass ethics classes in undergrad.

There's a saying: "Everyone has a price." And it's true as ever.
Yes. My actual point is that people like to complain but want the costs borne by others.
1) 532 is not a new chemistry. It's not even the lowest cobalt chemistry; there's 511 and 811 beyond that (811, or 80% nickel, 10% manganese, and 10% cobalt, is not yet technically feasible).

2) Range is decreased. 532 has lower energy density.

3) Maybe..? But nothing truly significant. The additives in this chemistry mean a lot of heat gets generated during charge/discharge. Heat is the limiting factor during charge, so swapping directly to this would mean lower top charging speed. However with better cooling... maybe? It can sustain high charge current for longer, but not as high overall.

4) The buffer for EVs is ~10%. It's not a big factor in cost or weight.

5) Yes, 5x longer lifespan. The caveat is that they havent actually tested >3 years, but IMO this is probably a 50 year battery. The paper is more conservative and gives it 20 years.

This will be pretty enormous for grid storage, since a battery that lasts 5x as long costs 5x less. It may be important for trucks and buses, since they are much higher mileage and will want to run at 100% depth of discharge. Cars on the other hand run closer to 20%, where normal batteries will also last for many thousands of cycles.
Two things missed by the electrek piece:

- The article is CC-BY and downloable without scribd horrible UI:
http://jes.ecsdl.org/content/166/13/A3031
PDF direct http://jes.ecsdl.org/content/166/13/A3031.full.pdf
HTML direct http://jes.ecsdl.org/content/166/13/A3031.full.html

- In the conclusion the authors mention:
Full details of these cells including electrode compositions, electrode loadings, electrolyte compositions, additives used, etc. have been provided in contrast to literature reports using commercial cells. This has been done so that others can re-create these cells and use them as benchmarks for their own R+D efforts be they in the spaces of Li-ion cells or “beyond Li-ion cells”.

So it's science as it should be!
Very interesting. This gives us a good idea of what kind of life we might find on a planet without an oxygen rich atmosphere such as ours.
Arsenic Contamination in Groundwater in Bangladesh
I was referring to those companies where the only opportunity to e.g. make more money was to go to management.
Don't know about other countries, but in Russia we say sorry all the time flashing hazard lights briefly. Pretty much every driver on the road knows that.
This guy has a youtube channel where he uses a couple of hydraulic presses to crush stuff too. It is oddly almost therapeutic to watch, and definitely entertaining.
> And the rules are unclear.

There are no rules. They just record your preferences and might retrain their black box algo in the future.

The black box decides those rules
Regex matching with backreferences is NP-hard.

https://perl.plover.com/NPC/
I think it's a little unfair to not refer to his responses to these allegations in the video.

He never intended PHP to last longer than 6 months. He kept waiting for someone to make something better so he could shut it down... it just didn't happen. Also, he admits he's not a great programmer.

As a counter point doesn't every language "introduce problems" of some kind?
The functional notation really helps to establish a variant. In fact, most proofs of correctness for imperative programs essentially consider e.g. the body of a for loop to be a function.
Prompted by listening to this podcast on the possible tools to detect Aresnic cheaply and quickly:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07m8bwt
It is not. This is a fairly conventional cell, with a different crystal structure for one of the ingredients, and a tweaked mix of liquid electrolytes.

The most important part of this paper is that they actually prove that optimizing for cycle and calendar life can have such incredible effects.
The main issue of 1Password is the subpart Linux support (there only are browser extensions).
Demi Lovato unedited bikini photo gone viral with 9.10M likes
Alternate viewpoint. Vinyl is for people born before CDs or digital music was a thing. So maybe hipsters jumped in for a good ol chunk of nostalgia. So? Broad stroke statements like "vinyl" sounds better are just as incorrect as "digital sounds better". A hi end turntable playing vinyl that is clean and well cared for is surprisingly difficult to tell apart from digital audio. It doesn't snap crackle pop if its clean and cared for.
So I've only had time to skim read the intro but it looks like this is all about a worker's co-op of freelancers that carry on doing work on a Freelance basis for clients.

We aren't that - we are one company, with regular employees. Our clients make a contract with the company, not with any one of us, and the staff members that do particular work for a client may change, just like a normal company. (The fact those employees also hold a share and are directors doesn't alter the nature of our contracts with clients).

Will try to read more later.
The purpose of the countdown clock is to provide information about that "unexpected delay". The clock is irrelevant if the trains are arriving every 3-4 minutes.

Think of this being an autoscaling group. The argument that people make sounds like "Well, autoscaling group works fine when one instance can handle all the traffic. We are happy with it." It is not an achievement to have an autoscaling group work when it has one instance in it.
Vandalize Your Car
Maybe it’s different for iCloud users, because 1Password doesn’t let me upgrade to version 7 without paying for a cloud subscription (by the way, I use Dropbox for my data).
https://trafficticker.com

Husband doesn’t talk about it a lot.
So if you do it and you don't die would you say that you proved something?

If someone does it and doesn't die would you think that did prove anything?

If one thousand people do it and one of them is still alive after 10 coin flips does that prove anything?

What is the detectable physical difference? How do you carry on an experiment to detect that physical difference? What is the protocol to determine that the physical difference has been detected?

Please let me know how should we do to not totally ignore this.
I would say about 75% of people that give me a non-verbal "sorry" or shrug have just knowingly been arseholes i.e. really not sorry at all.

Perhaps a "thank you" is the right tone - something that encourages better social interactions.

Although you can get thumbs up "thank you" from arsehole drivers too: it's not just angry drivers that are selfish. One of my favourite stories is a little old lady that prangs into my stopped vehicle - and then does a runner - bless her.
This is obviously too big to be digested in a single chunk, but from a very brief first read, it looks impressive. The table of contents alone (19 pages) is an extraordinarily good outline of what CS is, and what the major components and questions of it are.

The author is William J. Rapaport, emeritus professor of computer science at SUNY Buffalo: https://cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/

Wikipedia bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Rapaport

Trivium: WJR is the author of "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo".

There've been some earlier submissions, few with much discussion, though from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10388603

Also relevant, the "Philosophy of Computer Science" article at the Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16451072 https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computer-science/
> Anybody using Remember the Milk for their todos ? I used it and loved it.

Yes, have done for years, but they haven't really implemented many features over the last several years (despite the paid users renewal.) I always wonder if they're out on a beach somewhere just spending the revenue money on margaritas, but...I can't be upset with that. RTM just works, and it's still there.
I'm using one called "Out of Milk". It's great. Is that the one you mean or something else?
>Put your network connectivity off, and try to relogin to Bitwarden. It will work.

That's correct, but the parent comment is also correct about the single point of failure. The Bitwarden server could erase your database for some reason (bug, hack…), and it would sync on all your devices, erasing all your data.
If you are looking for an alternative todo app that is in it for the long haul, check out Todoist. We have been at it longer than Wunderlist (12+ years), and we will never sell out. As I like to put it, death is my exit strategy. For more thoughts about this, check out https://doist.com/blog/no-exit-strategy/
MIT blacklisted him after his conviction in 2008. And Ito knew him well.

Your hypothetical example is pretty thoroughly unrelated to the case here.
> While I am a liberal, this is the side of liberalism that I detest.

Huh? What's liberal about this? Just the fact that it's a radical proposal? That's a pretty flat (and I'd argue, inaccurate) definition of liberalism.
Why Are There 5,280 Feet in a Mile?
That's not a very good example; this code is generic (although non portable) C optimized implementation, not something making use of fancy processor instructions. It is even less probable that the compiler understand it and manage to optimize it to using dedicated instructions, when it is written that way.
Also the name of a modern research vessel:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=French_ship_Pou...
What’s blind allocation?
I was not on the internet at that time, were there better alternatives?
As per guidelines.."Please don't use HN for racial or national or religious or ethnic or any other kind of flamebait. This is all off topic for HN, and we ban accounts that post like this repeatedly."

Im gonna say it because Dang apparently isnt (to this comment)
I'm not sure I follow the author's reasoning. He says that what we do won't make a difference but then says that we should do things anyways. It seems to me like if he's right, then there is just no hope.
> will not work on low-horsepower devices like phones or low-to-medium level laptops.

Just to calibrate a little, I did it on my (midtier, six month old) phone just now and it took three to four seconds.
In practice, organic farms are required to use pesticides as a last resort, whereas conventional farms use as much pesticide as they feel is necessary routinely. Furthermore, pesticides that are approved for organic use are non-selective, meaning that they must be applied carefully or they will damage the crop. Modern conventional agriculture is dominated by selective herbicides that are used in volume, because the crops are resistant to their effects. This means that the amount of pesticide used by a conventional farming operation dwarfs that of an organic farm.
Try taking a tour of Buckingham Palace. Compare it to the available of France’s “crown estates” :)
It's an obvious cash grab. Brendan Eich got frustrated because of the Mozilla story now he tries to influence script kiddies with marketing slogans (private, secure etc.) While in reality Brave has less privacy than Chrome due to fingerprinting.
Never understood why this doesnt get any press. Its absurd
Every now and then I try to delve into the frightening world of math. Then I see something like this, and start to feel very tired.

Then I think, “My hair is already falling out. Do I need something like this to accelerate the process?”
How can you recommend books based on only one observation ? Wouldn't it make more sense to ask many books the user liked in order to make a better "user hyperplane" ?
> Consider the plight of the medical student though.

While not as bad, ML/NLP/CV/AI grad school is still pretty bad. Maybe 60-70% of what med students (more specifically, residents) go through.
Not a fair comparison. Most NBA players will fall short to Lebron James because of his brain.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/11067098/lebron-james-gr...
All this fight against drones is purely TSA level fearmongering and security theatre.
"Arguing about the color of the hammer used to build that thing is just moronic. And all these flames about technologies and stuff... We can't lose track of what we are doing here; why we are programming. We are programming to solve a problem." --Rasmus (video 1:07:09)
Went through something like this myself. It's soul crushing. Especially when it's a young person that you'd classify as a "legit good guy".

Suddenly that random portrait he drew for me on a business card has larger than life meaning. And every time I think about him I'm reminded that life is short.
>No idea if USDA permits unlimited use...

They do not, in fact it is a last resort.

[0]https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=94361624bc8858349d...
Military. Americans generally had a distaste for foreign wars until about the 20th Century. Arguably still do.

Arguably there has also been a rather bloodthirsty contingent among us that once we ran out of Indians to kill, started wanting to get involved in foreign wars. We got our first real taste of being a Maritime Empire after the Spanish-American War, but that same contingent brought us into two World Wars and just kept on going until we had invaded Asia no less than 6 times, and I’m probably missing a few.

We’ve always favored free trade, but that was as much a consequence of being cut out of the British mercantile system post Independence as it was just a nice idea. Generally when opportunities came up to assert more sway on the global stage, by which of course what I really mean is get involved in European affairs, we balked all the way till 1917, and mostly kept trying to balk even after until 1942.

The isolationist segment of society has been out of power for a long time now, but it has never truly gone away, and arguably they are gaining power. Clinton was a Hawk, Biden might be Hawkish relative to his contemporaries, but Trump is definitely an isolationist and there’s a decent chance the Democratic Party is going to nominate one as well.
The game is daughter or prostitute so “family members” is half the game. Determining whether they are platonic, non-family acquaintances is part of the fun.
There would be no Microsoft today without Basic, Paul Allen and that timely purchase of Seattle DOS. Nice bit of revisionist history on display here.
The hype is gone, now there are other languages on the spotlight.

Longterm, languages that own platforms are always a safer bet.

They only go away when the platform dies, while guest languages come and go.

And best of all, you don't need to wait for supporting platform features, having additional idiomatic wrappers, more IDE plugins, debugging support, build tools, etc.
There's no accounting for niche preference of course, but at less as far as understanding the feasibility of an approach like this: I don't think most people have the "cut off their nose to spite their face" impulse that you're describing here: if a captcha is more usable for the user _and_ helps the company, most would just see that as a win-win.
Nope. At this point given the state of the market, and given what AVX512 does to begin with (so maybe the "at this point" will be for forever), it makes very very little sense to use it everywhere. It would just be actively detrimental to most users.
No, they never signed a non-compete (https://twitter.com/christianreber/status/117066071599844966...)

Also building a brand is not too easy (https://twitter.com/christianreber/status/117063845983445811...)
This is a problem that I've been increasingly encountering with software -- it's become so "lean" that it starts omitting features that are critical to me. When I mention it, I'm told that telemetry indicated that it wasn't used enough, so it was eliminated.

Fine, but that means that such software is now useless to me. I have a hard time believing that I am an exception and am the only one encountering this problem, and I'd be willing to bet that the features that others consider "critical" are not the same as the ones that are critical to me.

This whole trend is a race to the bottom.
Sorry I haven't watched the video (don't have headphones) but I can understand why php changes the order or function params sometimes like array_filter wants the array first and callback second and array_map wants it in reverse.

But if you think about it array_filter expects an array first and function second because the callback is optional and it compares to false if left out. OTOH with array_map there is only one function callback and there can be N number of arrays so the function needs to be the first and the arrays second.

It makes perfect sense to me but for a lot of people it may look like inconsistencies.
I would love it for development (I work from home on personal HW) - multi-socket NUMA machines behave differently enough that being able to continually see how in-development software versions behave. And I just find it less productive / more painful to do detailed performance work remotely. Latency is one part, added time due to having to sync up code / build another, but there's more that I can't really pinpoint.
Why would preventing this matter?
One scientist’s quest to turn lab-grow insect protein into burgers
Imagine a software engineer giving his/her manager 'Learn python in 30 days' so that he/she isn't clueless in her 'agile meetings' when interacting with software developers.

How many managers would be willing to go through the book and do the exercises? I don't know, not many :)
It does this on Win10 apps as well, inside, before, after. "Please log in"
Ball Balancing PID System
Probably investing all your life savings into something you don't fully understand is not the best idea in any case - cryptocurrency or something else.
So can someone tell me an argument in favour of Brave keeping in mind that it's CEO is a known homophobic (this is not an insult this the publically known truth) and that Brave is easier to fingerprint than Chrome
I thought the topic was unreasonable comparisons. I was wrong; it was nostalgia.

I should have compared with magnet core memory used in the Apollo program as an example. My gut tells me that we don't have enough rocket fuel to install that kind of memory in space.
How well does the Linux version work?
The Cage (Star Trek: The Original Series)
Most versions of the Green New Deal that I've seen heavily incorporate resilience into the plan, it's not solely focused on trying to reverse climate change.