skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Matt Levine did a hilarious piece on this earlier in the week!
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-05/goldma...
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If we as a species were to perish, to seed this life to all other planets in the system, should be our final task.
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You can, but it will be as part of a team funded by a wealthy person or corporation. Similar to the patronage model that was classically used to support the arts.
uggg... if you are so concerned just give them fake info...
Typically, things are defined by weight and not lift mechanism. In the USA, you can avoid licensing requirements by joining the AMA or a local flying club.
Would you drive differently if
your real name was spray
painted across your trunk lid?

Here in the UK, many tradespeople drive white vans emblazoned with the contact details for their business (there are also many unmarked white vans on the roads).

White Van Man's reputation for considerate driving is, to be charitable, not above average.
I don’t really agree with this, most of my decisions regarding moving companies have been motivated primarily by money/tech/location rather than my manager. And I assume it’s similar for many others. Plenty of people leave google to work at places with similarly good perks but better pay even if they have no issues with their manager
I've been using Todoist for 5 years and even though they're still my favourite solution in the market I don't think they're innovating in any way. I always have half a mind to create my own app implementing features no todo app has yet.

Tbf, I have tried to reach out to Amir but he seems to busy to reply (?).
Yeah, had forgotten these options (FastCGI, WSGI).
Nice, a very fresh source (August 2019)!

"C++ is the main language of choice for backend services. There are 10s of millions of lines each of mobile and backend code."
> #2 is nice, however we already have this feature with IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA

This hardly sounds like a standardized feature.

> and the runtime aspect of JPMS access control is hardly worthwhile; it's not security (reflection can always bypass that)

That is not true, access control is enforced both at compile time and at runtime.

> so what is it providing exactly?

Copied from the the Jigsaw requirements:

* Reliable configuration, to replace the brittle, error-prone class-path mechanism with a means for program components to declare explicit dependences upon one another;

* Strong encapsulation, to allow a component to declare which of its APIs are accessible by other components, and which are not;

* A scalable Java SE Platform, whose components can be assembled by developers into custom configurations that contain only the functionality actually required by an application;

* Greater platform integrity, to ensure that code that is internal to a platform implementation is not accessible from outside the implementation; and

* Improved performance, by applying whole-program optimization techniques to complete configurations of platform, library, and application components.
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> this year Ray Dalio was on Burning Man, ..., and I have no idea if I bumped into him or not by accident

Do every generic Caucasian old man dress like this there?
https://mobile.twitter.com/RayDalio/status/11685714137264087...
Complaining at the end is a different problem that gets solved during the requirements phase. They are not micro-managing your day but the end results against expectations.
It is unfortunate, but the Evo has a front-mount intercooler to cool the turbocharger, a necessary and large piece of performance equipment.
I mean wasn't that the point of having nuclear submarines, since they can't easily be located but can deliver enough of a retaliation to bring your victory party to an abrupt end (separately from realizing that the fallout from nuking your enemies is now drifting towards your country anyway thanks to the weather).
"land of the free and scared" - unfortunately
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Well, I am not sure if you've come across some of Bertrand Russell's work, but he qualified Mathematics as having what he called "supreme beauty". The older I get, and I am not a mathematician by any stretch of the imagination, the more I get what he means. This stuff is surely a gift for all of us.
Not being sarcastic but this is very similar to how CDs work...
Something I found interesting, was that he printed a whole code base and out it up on a wall to debug something when he was an intern.
Makes sense - streaming has won, so the people buying physical media might as well go full hipster instead of half-assing it.
The interviews at google are hard enough such that only a fraction of software engineers can make it through.

Thus by statistics and logic, the majority of the worlds engineers cannot get past the google interview. This is not something I am thinking, this is a statistical reality.

Literally, in order for those engineers to work anywhere else the algorithm questions must be significantly easier in other companies outside of the elite FAANG. This is inline with logic and my observations.

My question is... for googlers who have spent time outside of google at a more scrapy startup. Does the interview filter actually create a better class of engineers? Do you learn much more working at google then you would at a company who's engineers typically can't get into google? What's the experience like if there is any?

Don't get me wrong. I'm not worshipping googlers or asking for tips. A real dichotomy exists in the interview stage for the few engineers who pass and the majority who don't... I'm just curious if this dichotomy becomes obvious outside of the interview... like on the job? Do you notice a difference when working with a google engineer vs. someone who probably can't ever get into google. It's a complicated question with a complicated answer. I'm not really looking for some humble answer telling me that google engineers aren't that much different from other engineers when the interview essentially disproves this statement by filtering out everyone except for a certain type of person.

I want an honest and candid answer.
The "greenwashing" reason has to be the saddest aspect in my opinion. It is one thing to try not to offend regressive fools as a part of your market - they are already part of the problem.
Similarly trying to not look like a marketing gimmick is understandable given the typical marketing strategy of emphasizing something irrelevant when lacking in quality and really the fault of marketers jading people.

But from those who want to help the environment? That is a sad combination of tall poppy syndrome and perfect the enemy of the good.
I’m not American nor do I live in the states, I wouldn’t do this shit in the UK where the cops are not even armed either.
I personally doubt it. While abiogenesis is in progress but before it has produced life, the intermediate products are probably eaten by existing life. New forms of life are probably 'out-competed' before they even become forms of life. The conditions for the formation of life might be relatively trivial, but after it succeeds once it's unlikely to ever succeed again.

Of course, sterile experiments in a laboratory might give us a lower bound on just how trivial the requirements for abiogenesis are. So far nobody has noticed it happening in a lab, despite more than a few trying.
I would not allow a single unpaid intern. I would not allow any unpaid work on the property for which research is done. people deserve to be respected for their time, and research brings in enough money to warrant it.
Oh, joy. So it can take us days to reboot a grid blackout instead of minutes.

And analog is generally slower on the other end as well. So, if I can create a fast traveling disturbance, I can destroy your equipment before the analog system kicks in.

The problem isn't digital vs analog--it's connecting !@#$ to the Internet that doesn't belong on it.
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> More likely, in all seriousness, that life originated in Mars and came here via panspermia during the early bombardment period.

I am always surprised at the number of people willing to make assertions like this. Panspermia itself is a hypothesis. Panspermia from Mars specifically is a huge stretch. There is absolutely no basis for claiming that this is likely.

> only relatively mature examples of Martian life (e.g. bacteria) would have survived the trip.

Why do you make this assumption? Life complexity is not generally correlated with space survivability. At least not positively correlated.
CVSS scores are worse than nothing. You can make self-XSS come out high, and RCE come out low, and people routinely do both. False certainty is worse than uncertainty.
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Hard Coded subtitles i think. Meaning its part of the stream and not injected into the container as a subtitle stream.
yes, edited.
My next question is "why didn't the QA team find this?"

And, "Do you have a QA team," he said, expecting the answer "no".
Good idea, for one word quoted, just use it. For two words, scratch you right ear, three words scratch your left ear and so on up to - say 8 word passages. Ur keyboad would need to have the scratch etc sensors...
to drive down advertising costs.
> Deforestation became rampant when the land was nationalized in 1974 and much of the forests became converted to farmland. only the 5% survives.

It seems that Brazil is in the way to become the new Etiophia... and that for some reason chopping the forest lead to water saying bye-bye and welcoming hard, regular and extensive famines.
It requires no extra work. Lastpass automatically fills out the creds, I have to type a few extra characters in password input and press login. Only tiny annoyance is pressing No in Lastpass "Do you want to update your password?".
There are no special restrictions on US national forests.
But you're supposed to prove it's the backup. It's part of the deal.

As one writer said early in the unraveling of Agile, it's like you were told that if you eat your vegetables you can have desert, and now we just want desert but don't want to eat our vegetables.
That outfit is very ordinary at Burning Man
True, but until self-driving vehicles are actually available, there have been lots of jobs for drivers. And of course mechanics. Horse related jobs are few and far between though.

In the case of music, though, there were a good number of jobs for musicians prior to the phonograph, radio amplification, etc, for instance playing piano at a saloon or the like. Now a single musician can entertain tens of thousands at a time live, or hundreds of millions with recorded/broadcast/YouTubed/Spotified music.
Yep, here is the red queen.

Also famous for not winning the Nobel.

Time for the rabbit hole!

Maybe it was that refurbishing Boole's inequalities wasn't enough.

Gather a few mathematicians well-versed in probability theory, pick a wrong hypothesis, wrap with a theorem, don't get the conclusion, then take the contra-positive : It's like playing three-card Monte with physicists.
He mentions how mod_php allowed web hosts to support thousands of users on a single server, but doesn't that run all the different users' scripts under the same Unix user account, letting everyone mess with each other's stuff?
Yes, you are right. Altho’ having said that, indoor/vertical/aqua/hydroponics systems must include the entire supply/value chain and be decentralized. Traditional models of economies of scale won’t operate here.

Aquaponics is an infinitely better system as it can be truly organic. It has to be tackled entirely differently..lots of AI/automation for constant monitoring and systems control.

Major expense in traditional Ag is labour. This can be optimized and minimized with indoor Ag.

As an outdoor farmer, the control of variable factors in indoor systems is appealing to me but I can also see how being risk averse is better. Small indoor farms are better than the broad acre mind set we have with outdoor Ag. Taking everything indoor except fruit and grains and fiber and spices etc is very attractive to me. But a new supply chain and control of markets has to be in place.

I am not even worried about energy long term as we would go nuclear at some point eventually. Impending climate change should require us be mindful of alternative Ag systems. I am particularly interested in saline agriculture. I think it would be useful research.
> "Panspermia itself is a hypothesis. Panspermia from Mars specifically is a huge stretch. There is absolutely no basis for claiming that this is likely."

Perhaps not 'likely', but there is reason to believe it's plausible. Extremophile organisms plausibly capable of surviving in space for the requisite timespans are certainly known to exist, and there is also known to be small amounts of material transfer between earth and mars.

The part I wonder about is whether any extremophile organism could survive the doubtlessly violent circumstances that are involved in ejecting rocks from either the earth or mars gravity well.
Header cases: Fully 1/3 of my viewspace is taken up by the fixed-position, omnipresent header of this site.

Please don't do that.
Audio recording and reproduction always has to be an analog of the original vibrating air molecules ( unless you can somehow perpetuate that vibrating air by storing it in a jar or somesuch)
Let's not forget the far-right Aus government, which targets companies and technologies it considers on the wrong site of its superstitious culture war against sustainability.
That's been done as a tool for DJs.[1] The vinyl record just has a time code. That feeds into a unit that has the song in a buffer. The time code is used to address the audio data in the buffer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_emulation_software
Why doesn't the phrase "we should make a co-op version of X company" fit well with the platform coop model? Or rather, the focus on employee happiness is a product all its own. Just like consumers are willing to pay higher prices for "organic" produce, simply being a coop is a product feature.

Yes, competition (from corporations) means it's not enough to say "we're a co-op" if the product doesn't actually work, but well-funded corporate competition could clone any feature that isn't linked to a more egalitarian equity structure. My "co-op for Doordash but we don't steal tips" is far harder to copy, business-wise than "co-op for Doordash, but with a 'food me now' button that picks food for me".
Any recommendations for good hard sci-fi in the last generation or so? I'm asking because your comment strongly suggests I'd like what you like. I'm one of the very few who think that "Science Fiction and Fantasy" as a genre makes about as much sense as "Math Textbooks and Romance Novels".

I promise not to blame anyone for a recommendation that's flawed. They're all flawed. Anything where the story is based on the implications of known (well, currently accepted) science without any bogus magic is as hard as trying to figure out what will really happen in a large software project that hasn't begun yet. But what have you liked despite its flaws?
But that's kind of the point of the article. if everyone's flashy everyone would need to be pulled over.
"This is my first game in Excel, with the first iteration (v1.0) created in just around a week"

Okay, that's just wickedly impressive. Obviously not their first bit of Excel programming overall but still really, really impressive.
basically just toys below that weight, usually without even basic hover capability.
> 150 degree weather

I guess that depends on what you consider "weather"
If I said "ground temperature", would it matter to the discussion?
60C (140F) was the Average temp in the triassic. With the amount of water in the air plus the carbon dioxide, I expect to see that in places a couple generations after I die...which is the time period I've referenced (political instability).

The highest ground temperature recorded was 201 degrees at Furnace Creek on July 15, 1972, according to the National Park Service. The maximum air temperature for that day was 128. All types of bad things happen at that point. Water evaporates rapidly at 150, so who cares where the water comes from. It's gone or containers rupture as it turns gaseous. What temperature the air is, doesn't matter.
Oh i recall that one, buts not a binary install on windows Nd the reqs are to high (from a skill level) for the people i want to give this to....

But thank you!
We can grow rice indoors. It’s from the grass family and we grow them in flooded irrigated plains anyways.

40% of all food crops is wasted somewhere along the supply chain. It’s a damn shame! I really hope our Ag and food systems change to reforest and rewind existing land for carbon sequestration as we take a much larger percent of food production indoors.
I was just trying to suggest a possible edge case, a failing test.
It doesn't stop some of us from trying though! :)
The sound is irrelevant. Taking out the record, putting it on a record player, placing the needle, and not being able to skip tracks without effort is a different experience than digital. Simulating the sound differences would be like cars that have the stereo speakers play exhaust sounds. It may sound the same as what you want, but it's inherently fake and viewed as a waste of effort by many.
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Supply chain would be a big issue. Current system is optimized for field Ag and built in losses due to food wastage.
Maybe you could just list the colours from the spray cans?
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Have you any good reason to not doing it at night? Headlamps are affordable, caffe is easy to find and is also better for watering and reducing the humidity shock in the tender roots.
No. I was trying to make a broader point about how we should conduct public discussions. We have a responsibility to about jumping to unwarranted conclusions, and devil's advocates help with that.

Now, making straw men of anyone who dares espouse anything less than full belief in the guilt of the accused, that's definitely a deranged mob kind of thing to do. People assuming the worst about others' motives is the dominant reason we can't have nice things.
Why does a laser have to work in the visible light spectrum? Lithography lasers have been drawing at 175nm for over a decade.
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"Death is my exit strategy".

That made my day. Also, it's parenthood's only strategy.
24kw leaf battery is an example of this with user stats seemingly bearing it out. Charge it to 80% each time, you can expect 3000 cycles before it's spent (drops below 85% of original capacity). If you charge to 100% each time, you'll only get 1000 cycles.

3-4 years versus 8-10 years use makes a big difference.
The title of the article seems misleading: the actual point of the article is that all languages convey information at basically the same rate, because variations in information density are cancelled out by variations in speech rate.
3) Users take the same amount of heroin with the same purity as previous cases, but combine it with other CNS depressants and die.

This was probably the main cause of overdose deaths before fentanyl came along. In one study 45% of the deceased also had a blood alcohol level, and 30% were on Benzodiazepines (one Swedish study had benzos present in 55% of fatal overdoses).

https://sci-hub.se/10.1080/09595239996743

>The majority of cases involved heroin in combination with other drugs: alcohol (40%), benzodiazepines (30%)and antidepressants (9%). In only a third of cases was morphine the sole drug detected.

https://sci-hub.se/10.1046/j.1360-0443.1996.911217652.x

>Fatalities involving only heroin appear to form a minority of overdose occasions, the presence of other drugs (primarily central nervous system depressants such as alcohol and benzodiazepines) being commonly detected at autopsy.
> The issue is using this stuff inherently means a future spike in prices.

The alternative then being a present spike in prices? I don't see how that's better.
Lots of work going on with Quantum/Nano dots in greenhouse tech. Mostly with cannabis production because it’s the only crop that will justify the costs involved.
Thanks for the reply, that’s awesome to hear. Can’t wait to see the update :)
Bryan Helmig (CTO Zapier) gave an excellent presentation on this back in 2012 at a conf, then wrote a blog post. I highly recommend reading it.

Post: https://web.archive.org/web/20130629000255/http://bryanhelmi...

Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/bryanhelmig/your-api-consumers-ar...
Sounds like an opportunity for someone to just be nice to fellow drivers and gain business.
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I've been making a serious attempt at solving it but I'm not a mathematician. Even still I have a few good leads yet to pursue, and I learned a ton about the practice of mathematics that I never would've learned otherwise. (Wish I could share my leads, but I kinda want the money and glory... :) )

The article is spot on. I've had so many moments where the math looks so fishy that it seems like R has to equal 1/2 (ie hypothesis is true), but I just don't have the facts to prove it. In particular, it's really hard to evaluate the infinite sums you find working thru the problem. I actually believe that there's a good chance the hypothesis is false but we'll see someday.
The ideas about noticing other people are nice but if customized cars were common nobody would notice them either.

And yes people would still zone out while driving, sorry.
I was under the impression that in the past, viewers and readers tended to self-select for television, radio, and newspapers that match the opinions they wanted to read. "Old media" had editorial decisions and tone that affected collective decision-making.

"A small number of zealots ... bias vote outcomes" sounds uncannily like the narrative in the song "Non-Stop" from Hamilton (spoiler: "he wrote the other fifty-one" essays). So do social networks make this effect bigger? Smaller? Allow it to happen internationally?

That is not to say that a new medium has no impact on collective decision-making -- there are papers describing how the radio led Americans to elect people that sounded good, and the television led Americans to elect people that looked good. https://doi.org/10.1080/01439688800260171
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Adobe's Omniture purchase a decade ago,for cloud shift, Experience Cloud
solve this https://twitter.com/LADYGAGAALBUM/status/1170822977228857344
I wonder when we'll start to see candidates that get elected because they're really likable on Slack.
Birds still need a sure and high area to nest so can easily move some Km to feed and return to the forest later. Some birds stop singing after nesting.
That's certainly how I know them, seems widely enough used:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=forced+subtitles

'Forced' because they're forced into display even when subtitles are not otherwise on (for the duration of the foreign dialogue, or whatever).