skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TIL that the right angle bracket is called a 'ket', and the left part is called a 'bra'. The 14-year-old inside of me is now looking to use the word 'bra' with impunity more often.
Pass a federal law that allows any American to choose the state jurisdiction they want their account managed under at sign up. Corporations can choose to incorporate in Delaware without any real presence, consumers should be able to pick and choose jurisdictions as well.
> I think it should be illegal because it's broadly unhealthy for society. It's part of a broader belief that the way to fix a suboptimal public education system is to make sure all parents have big incentives to invest time and resources to improve it, rather than for the wealthy to flee and create a system that works only for themselves and leave the public system and the remaining people it serves to wither on the vine.

By that logic, private schools should also be made illegal. And that should be a higher priority than homeschooling, because (I believe) more people send their kids to private schools than homeschool. (Also by the same logic, charter schools and magnet schools are suspect.)

I mean, you are correct in saying that that may be the best chance for the public education system. However, I think that your proposed solution is not only misguided, but heavy-handed authoritarian to boot. Let's throw away parental authority over children, and give it to the state, so that the schools will be better? No thanks. I want the schools to be better, but not at your price.
We've got 2700 firearms homicides per year in the US right now, its low; That includes lawful shootings by police and DGU.

The average anti-gun person is hyped up by the news and by ableist rhetoric when suicides are reported as gun violence.

Only anti-violence work will lower the homicide rate, not bans.
This is probably more a result of there being more images of young people in the training set
by ppp, have.
I’m not sure what you’re implying.

No, China controlling their fentanyl output won’t solve the problem in America. Making health insurance less expensive won’t solve the problem. Regulating more won’t solve the problem. Eliminating profit doctors won’t solve the problem.

But all of them would -help- contribute toward improving the situation.
They're not being forced to continue offering any services.
I understand your point about current legislation being proposed against the backdrop of prior fights. I’d point out two things:

1) Gun control advocates appear to believe that assault weapons are banned here in Maryland, based on the ban on “scary looking guns.”

2) A large segment of gun control advocates—indeed, the mainstream of Democrats until last month—seek to distinguish between sporting and hunting rifles and assault weapons. That drives these bans on cosmetic features. I’d assume they genuinely believe in that dividing line, or at least believe they’ve got the votes to ban assault weapons but not hunting weapons. Do these centrists (1) not understand how guns work, or (2) assume their constituents don’t understand how guns work?
I keep hearing $300, where? This does not seem to exist outside of airsoft...
> due to the decomposition of the body when they found it

This gives me the impression that he was dead for quite a while before he was found. If that's true how do we have a precise date for when he died?
I think this is misleading to some degree.

The world produces and consumes vastly more than it did at other points in that period and as a percentage Im guessing the percentage of what we produce to what we consume (ie our self reliance and share of the global production pie) has been steadily decreasing.

Id be interested to see numbers which prove or disprove this.
For that logic to work we would need e.g. a carbon tax, such that there would be a straightforward monetary value associated with any exceptions that might be granted.
You can write Python like pseudo-code. Sometimes the results look almost like plain English.

For example, if I have to design software for a micro-controller that uses C/C++ I sometimes write down the algorithm in Python (with editor support: auto-formatting, etc.), then I implement it in C/C++. There is no better way to write pseudo-code that I know of.

Python is also great to create a prove of concept for something. It allows for rapid prototyping due to the simple syntax, the high-level features, the huge ecosystem and the dynamic type system. Most of the time the result is good enough for production. You can add type annotations and get statically typing via mypy [0] to harden the code base. This works really well. (See: JS->TypeScript).

Python has a well developed FFI which allows you to call C/C++/Rust, without large performance hits. I think this is one of the main reasons for Python's success. It can be used as a high level interface to a huge low level ecosystem. ML wouldn't exist in Python without that.

Python is a great language to create simple scripts as well. I use it as a bash replacement.

But beware: Python can get really ugly if you rely too heavily on OOP/Inheritance. There is a lot of ugly Python code out there. I think Python shines the most if you use it in a procedural/semi-functional style and describe data-types for your business logic (almost) entirely with (dump) dataclasses [1] and namedtuples [2].

Beware2: Python's packaging story (package manager, etc) is currently in a messy state. There are good solutions, but it's difficult to find the right tools for a newcomer. I think it will take a couple of years for the dust to clear, but you might want to check out pipenv [7] or poetry [8]

These packages will make your life a lot easier. I use them for every project:

- black [3] or yapf [4] (auto-formatter)

- mypy [0] (statically typing with editor support for VSCode)

- pylint [5] or flake8 [6] (linter)

[0] https://github.com/python/mypy

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/dataclasses.html#module-da...

[2] https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.NamedTu...

[3] https://github.com/psf/black

[4] https://github.com/google/yapf

[5] https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/

[6] https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8

[7] https://github.com/pypa/pipenv

[8] https://github.com/sdispater/poetry
Sorry, you'd need to use the MyType* x to use the `new` keyword; it's been awhile. It doesn't really deter from my point though; in order to heap-allocate something you have to use a pointer, and you end up doing something not that dissimilar from Java.

> C++ is nothing at all like Java.

Is that supposed to be a joke? Java was marketed specifically towards C++ engineers...
So what happens if a startup competes with existing huge companies. For example, my startup create a new auto ml platform.

I am competing with Google AutoML and azure auto ML (at least feature-wise).

In this case:

1) I know who are the customers. I.e. Google/Azure customers.

2) I know what I am selling - auto ml.

3) I know how to make money.

So in this case, I am not a startup?

My point is that for some reason founders love uncertainity.
> The privacy agreements of gmail, facebook and what not, serve like a poll for this

I don't think they do, given that most people don't read them, and a large percentage of them are written so it's very hard to tell what they are really saying unless you're a lawyer.
I mean I've seen state sponsored pegs that had a greater standard deviation than this non-peg.

Thanks for the quantitative response, I just don't find it a productive conversation to what the point was.
My comment is really similar to what's already been said, this reads a bit like a "I don't really want to waste my time so neither should you" post. I mean nothing wrong with that but a bit negative and sour then I personally would like. Plus I think the entire spirit of the competition was a bit lost on this person.

Solid case in point, the u-net came to prominence from a medical kaggle competition. Was it a "useful" model? The author might not be wrong in saying the model wouldn't work as well in the wild but I would definitely say it was useful. The unet is still a very commonly used architecture
I would say that's an administrative issue that's a bit tangential.
You do know that it's possible to grow food without introducing long-lived poisons into the environment; right?

The rest of your contribution is a stunning display of illiteracy in political economics.

For a counter example on collective agriculture read up on the Kibbutzim.
It’s right up there with Russia and authoritarian destinations in the Middle East for me in terms of places I’m not gonna go to to vacation.
I know it's gauche to say so, but the fact that this comment is gray right now says a lot about the community.

How dare you question woke capitalism, Mr. 'api'. We want to be told we're building a better world, and we'll hang anyone who says otherwise. Didn't you see Silicon Valley?
You nailed down the issues that surround the topic of climate change very well. I wish there were more people that would consider the points you mentioned.

About the proposed actions to take: I think we need to bet even more heavily on nuclear fusion. It seems to be the only thing that could make carbon extraction sting less.
Most people here would only suggest things that they couldn't build, otherwise they'd probably build it themselves.

It might be better to look inward... Find a pain in your life and try to build something to reduce that pain

So, maybe a site to find/submit projects to build?
To bad you core premise is incorrect. CO2 is not the driver of global temperature changes. If it was then ice core samples would show this. The ice cores show something completely different. The ice core data shows that CO2 levels respond to temperature changes. So temperatures go up and then hundreds of years later CO2 levels go up. Temperatures go down and then hundreds of years later CO2 levels go down.

What does drive global temperatures then? It is that huge ball of gas and fire in the sky commonly called the Sun.

So other then your core assumption being wrong your write up sounds interesting.
Given that a handful of names occupy Gold places in kaggle competitions, I would not call it luck. Given how hard it is to stay at the top on private set, I would not call it luck.

The winning models are hardly ever used in production, but the set of skills needed to get a gold is.
https://twitter.com/cybnox/status/1174722533377085444

This is probably a key conversation. In other words, we don't really know yet what part of GMS dependent apps will or will not work.
"Committed to the 2nd amendment"

No, you're committed to make money
I need to add that a country providing expatriate safety services has nothing to do with a tax system and everything to do with supporting the country's imperialist interests.

It's much harder to get your citizens to work in your interest in risky foreign countries if you aren't willing to back them up.
Most the senses we use to detect the tactile feedback of a keyboard are exposed to a pair of gloves however. It should be possible to approximate sensation to aid with input in VR.
Putting a scope on any Mini-14 requires a proprietary adaptor. Compared to an AR its a huge pain in the behind.
Compared to any other proper tactical rifle, its terrible.

I saw the one they marketed as "tactical" and I'd def call it "tacti-cool" instead because it looks nonfunctional.

To compare the two, its Broccoli vs Potato.
That's a good point. Would be nice if vindictive people had to make an actual effort, instead of their position being the default path of least resistance.
Cross-eyed is the least of my concerns on that first one. Yikes.
From a source that actually broke down revenue from movie releases between box office and home viewing, thus refuting your original argument?
I wonder how much the averages bring that down. Healthcare is up across the board, but real estate may not be up much if at all in non-growing areas. Wages just aren't growing I think.
TIL Switzerland is the richest nation on earth. If I was going to guess, I probably would've guessed Saudi Arabia or Luxembourg.
Could this also be indicative of a bubble?
What if people knew that these were real
I'd leave my closet door open all night
I know the CIA would say
What you hear is all hearsay
I wish someone would tell me what was right

Lyrics from the song "Aliens Exist" DeLonge wrote in 1999.
Maybe the people storming Area 51 will prove Dave Mustaine right too!
Why would we care about oil being an industrial feedstock, though?

If you quit feeding cars and power plants with oil derivations, the VAST majority of your CO2 problems go away. And, because the rate of consumption will drop through the floor, we would have enough oil to last centuries or more.
Why are the Facebook apps not blocked by the blacklist?
Especially on HN, which does a poor job of letting you know that someone has replied to your comment.
I don't know if this is a factor, but trucks and SUVs with externally accessible tires are at risk of theft.

Additionally, heavily loaded vehicles should really have both special care and special jacks to change the tire with a load intact.
> nuclear fusion.

Fully agree.

But the meme of nuclear fusion has been around for nearly 50 years, yet nowhere close for practical utilization due to a lot of unseen technical problems.

I can only hope that we'll be a bit more lucky this time. And that the projects won't be ruined due to political struggles.
It is perfectly reasonable use of the word for public discourse, and it's explicitly outlines.
Hey there. Graduated from ISU and Fat Jacks.
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I think he was referencing specifically clandestine Chinese labs that make illicit fentanyl, not those who need it for chronic pain as it's prescribed.
The Nobel Peace prize is a joke. Obama won it despite green-lighting the Afghanistan surge.
The large majority have long held it ok to bomb other nations, persecute pot, ostracize others for sexual preference... basically a piss poor yard stick for what’s ok given how emotionally coopted they can be into believing nonsense.

Like how fetishizing the needs of the business class is of the utmost importance to maintaining cohesive social structure.
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Chinese are "native people from a population that has un-uninterrupted culture". Not too great at preserving environment (reportedly improving lately I think).

Idea of a "noble savage" is a myth that is about as racist as it's opposite.
Did you mean the US is?
Right? Completely insane, people are acting like vaping is the same as meth now
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I’m challenging the predominant belief that anything humans do is “bad and unnatural” and anything animals do is “good and natural”, even though man is just as natural as any other organism on earth.

That premise doesn’t really hold up to rationale examination.

To continue the thought experiment, if the beetle infection was not due to any impact of humans, should we try and stop it to preserve the forests? By the above logic we shouldn’t because the destruction is “good and natural” and we would be interfering with nature.
That's what I thought too but with the advent of ultra-wide angle lenses on more and more phones, I definitely noticing more spoiled pictures if I use a volume button as shutter on phones with corner lenses than phones with center lenses.
Population is ~7.7 billion
General population is simply not aware of how much surveillance is involved and how much of their private information said companies collect, use or sell to 3rd parties. Many are happy to get "free" service in exchange for "some data", but most people people would be very much against someone data mining their health or pregnancy status, using some sophisticated algorithm to selling something harmful to their kids or messing with their mood when they're in depression to maximize profits.

Most people don't understand the risks and how badly mass surveillance done by Google / Facebook / etc can be abused. So akin to situation with tobacco industry someone have to educate them about this.
Its not Saudi oil. Something else is wrong.
Globally, the energy used per unit of GDP has dropped, although the energy used in total has increased.

https://yearbook.enerdata.net/total-energy/world-energy-inte...
Ad Astra is about lonely Brad Pitt in space. It’s also about an absent God
Wage growth over the last 15 years has been consumed by healthcare premiums (without a corresponding increase in care quality).

We haven’t been getting raises because the healthcare sector has been absorbing them.
The ad absurdum there is that you have to say that seizing all assets from convicted criminals and forcing them to work off their debts is merely “ending the crime subsidy”. Most people would feel a little dissonance at that kind of label.
Anecdotally, I agree with you, and memes [1] confirm this. Apologies for referencing 9gag, but that site did in fact go through Y Combinator.

[1] https://9gag.com/gag/aj5DjOp
I don't know if it's a majority, it may be, but it's at least a large minority.

Airlines (both passenger and freight) don't want to pay to train their own pilots, so their staffing pipelines rely heavily on ex-military pilots.

Many military and passenger aircraft share a basic airframe, for example the KC-135 is a 707 configured as a tanker for aerial refueling. Even the instances that are not - it would be relatively straightforward to transition from, say, a C-17 to a 767 or something like that.

So pilots tend to retire from the USAF and fly the friendly skies with civilian airliners.
US Manufacturing is still the second biggest in the world. Theres just a lot more robots and less people. Also tech moves more than anything as far as tech is a category which it really shouldn't be anymore.
> On GHA, every step needs to be in a docker image (which I like!)

The new actions (syntax) runs on Azure and has native VMs you can use to run commands, but you can still mix and match docker images and native commands if you'd like.
https://dilbert.com/strip/1996-01-23

https://dilbert.com/strip/1996-01-24
>Chinese are "native people from a population that has un-uninterrupted culture".

Didn't they interrupt their culture with extreme prejudice like fifty-odd years ago?
So burn money on a bunch of people to make videos for Huavei made youtube knock off. Good luck with that.
Leakage of new supply to people who run new apartments as permanent Airbnbs instead of renting them out to locals.

This also distorts the underlying value of the land, since you can make more money renting out on Airbnb than you can renting long term.
My read is:

* Gun control advocates attempted in the mid-late 1980s to ban semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines, wholesale.

* They failed and the proposal got whittled down the FAWB.

* Democratic politicians (by the time the FAWB passed, the ideological sort had completed and they were all Democrats) have ever since tried to save face by fighting a rear-guard action over cosmetic features, tacitly acknowledging that real policy changes would require political capital they were unwilling to spend.

All I'd add to that is, since Heller's overreach and (especially) Sandy Hook, the political capital equation has changed, and I don't think the FAWB capitulation is determinative going forward. Which is refreshing, however this stuff sorts itself out; aren't you exhausted by how stupid the last 15 years of gun debates have been?

If we agree that FAWB-ish regulation is stupid, and we're discussing policy futures, what do FAWB definitions matter?
Quite the opposite. Money is getting more efficient not less
I love it! The big tech SJW Comifornian citizens finally are getting a taste of the effects of their burdensome heavy handed California legislature. Good riddens. They pushed their data analytics tech to the edge and it finally blew up with legislation.
Wouldn't an impending recession be particularly impactful on their business? I mean, if I had to buy stock now with knowledge that an impending down market is guaranteed I don't think it would be in the hospitality industry, unless I overestimate how much that industry is influenced by recessions.
#1 developer, I only choose projects which are challenging and interesting, with usually short term contracts. I would have said research, but I feel like this occupation already encompasses that since I gravitate toward projects which have some domain I want to research more.

musician - have a lot to learn/practice there, so it may not be so fun to actually work in the field yet.

athlete or trainer - since I want to spend more time on that anyways, would be great to spend all day on it for work.
Are they including the billionaires in their statistics, and dividing the total sum by the population!?
You can't actually substitute something with nothing, and conservation laws (of mass, energy, etc) do hold. But in practice, substituting with, say, atmosphere, is almost as good. OP discussed the case of substituting copper network with atmospheric spectrum.

Consider guano: guano use for manufacturing fertilizer is down, because Harber-Bosch process substituted guano nitrogen with atmospheric nitrogen. Atmospheric nitrogen is still a material thing, but it sure does look like dematerialization.
Actually the 20% poorest in the US has it better than the average EU middle class. Ref: https://www.google.com/amp/s/fee.org/articles/the-poorest-20...
Nice. Also added a new term to the existential quiver, autocatalytic.
They are wintering testing in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Looks pretty legit to me.

https://electrek.co/2019/08/31/rivian-r1t-winter-testing-tie...
Wages actually have been growing especially recently
I've been to about 20 national parks each in US and China. I'd say on the whole China has better natural scenes. The problem with China is the crowd. Every where you go, there's huge crowd, which ruin the experience.
Amazon is one of Rivian's primary investors.
Interesting.
> Not more than any other startup.

That entire post is devoted to explaining that yes, much more than any other startup.
That seems to imply a shift of GDP towards non-productive financial/tech products as much as it implies productive environments being more green.

Do 5 big-$ bank transactions and you contribute to GDP. What was the energy usage? What was the productive output?
In other words "If you're not a celebrity of a mega-corp, we don't give a fuck about you." sigh

I mean, sure, it's their right to run their site however they want, but this is still very frustrating to anybody who views (viewed?) the Internet as something of an equalizer, a place where the "little guy" could compete on a playing that, if not exactly level, was at least not totally lopsided. I guess, in the end, there really is no way for a publicly traded company to avoid becoming evil, or at least avoid behaviors that closely approximate evil.
I assume pretty much everything is a PITA compared to the AR-15 platform, but isn't the scope rail one of the defining features of the Ranch Rifle version of the Mini-14?
And here I thought Lamo was killed to keep quiet what Jeffrey Epstein did to Hillary’s Benghazi emails. Shows you what I know.
Also see "The Pure Bash Bible" posted today, and created by the same person; HN username "dyanaraps":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21013150
I am a VR user and I would be OK with gloves. Hell, the headset is way, way more of an inconvenience than the gloves would be. I don't really see the issue; the controllers I use already require some "strapping in".
The huge advantage of working in Downtown SF is that it opens up the option of living in East Bay while keeping a reasonable commute.
Remember when you had to scrape your windshield down after a car trip? I noticed the birds vanishing in my area, but I had no idea it was happening on this scale.
This is a strawman, you can still monetize without detailed user information, even still with ads.