skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adding on to this, the five dollars for every dollar spent makes sense in some contexts. It’s a key factor in support of federally funded basic research like NASA, NSF, DARPA, etc. I actually believe this based on the reports I’ve seen for NASA spin offs.

But what AOC is talking about is not basic research, which has a multiplicative effect because it opens up new technologies, new products, and new industries. A New Deal is work for works sake, and economically substitutive... so the return is actually less than a dollar for every dollar spent.
If you assume he believes what he says, he is not qualified to teach kids. Sorry, I don't ascribe the qualities to him that the author accuses me of ascribing, but his views on child sex are deviant and unsafe.
To show or not to show work
In fact, some type of engineering major held six of the top 20 spots for highest earning potential. Women’s Studies is ranked 695th and Gender Studies is ranked 772nd.

I don't think women pursue things like Women's Studies with fantasies of getting rich. I think they do it to figure out who the hell they are, which is essential to their ability to function at all.
Have you tried LoRa?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa
Securing Environment Variables with 1Password
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Easy... They don't take insurance. They're typically cash only, which allows them freedom to do things like charge for house calls.

Or they have contracts directly with employers to do checkups and on-demand visits onsite. Employers that are either big enough -or financially successful enough- to be self insured are essentially paying cash for office visits and most covered services anyway. (Many companies that are ~200+ employees self insure, but still pay an insurance company just to manage it all. An in house or concierge doctor on contract might cut out enough paperwork to get rid of the middleman.)

I've also seen some setup as prepaid membership operations. But the common denominator is they cut out insurance and medicare/medicaid, which cuts out 90% of the regulations... Including electronic medical records.
Pacman games were released in 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016. A compilation cabinet was released in 2018. iOS and Android games have been released in 2016, 2017.

I'd be surprised if your assertion was true.
Hasn't he since changed his mind about those things and apologized for it? If someone believes something bad, gets educated, and changes their point of view, isn't that a good thing?
And also, sometimes the mob is right. The mob is guilty of shooting first and asking questions later but in this case, just read what he said and wrote, the mob is both guilty and correct.
I don't see anything to be skeptical about; they seem to have done a lot of work and research.

One curiosity for me is whether putting the motor in the wheel will work well. It's important to keep sprung weight as low as possible for suspension reasons. Then again, many (most?) electrical vehicles will be run on smooth roads.
Automation will drastically reduce police and city budgets
Cool thanks. One interesting thing I noticed as a midwest town dweller, is that while my zip code rates quite low in population density (up there with houston) it's actually in the green as far as carbon goes. It seems that this is true of many of the smallish towns in the midwest (population < 500k). In general suburbs of large cities use vastly more carbon than towns with the same population density, not really that surprising.

I guess the question then is it easier to have more small towns or to have high density cities without surrounding sprawl.
In my personal experience, the closest thing is discourse. It’s FOSS, familiarish to people who have used stackoverflow, and easy to self host. I don’t know that it’s particularly similar to reddit though.

https://www.discourse.org/
There are more subtle variations on this that still affect the harder sciences.

A topic closer to home for most of us might be benchmarking. It is terribly difficult to construct an honest A/B comparison between two different algorithms, especially when the person doing the testing designed B themselves.
Would love to see if/how these apply to html email/email-clients.
I keep a few emacs tables and template files for doing creative workflows. It’s easy to learn (once you bought into the eco system), fast to create (measured in minutes instead of hours or days), easy to use, and easy to modify.

The big downside to emacs for productivity is that it’s less easy to share.
I just don't bring my own device.
Looks lovely for drones.
We can agree that profit is gross revenue minus expenses, correct? Non-profits are focused on maximizing the revenue, but not on the profit for the exact reason you stated, there are no share holders or investors that need to be paid dividends, etc. The non-profit is incentivized to put the net revenue back into the organization. This can be in the form of staff salaries, facilities, other programs in the university. The "profit" portion in a given year means they are just carrying over the revenue for future operations or to stash in a fund. It should not be used in a argument for the "major" universities or top performing programs as to whether or not they should play the players. Revenues are not an issue in those cases. Don't cry to me (universities) that you don't have the money to pay student athletes when your university made over $100+ million dollars in a year and you "barely made a profit" as a non-profit organization.

I can't find the original HBO Real Sports link, but they go into depth about the Non-profit status and the way the funding is spent. It is a real eye opener and made me rethink how the argument that profit/revenue should be considered when dealing with the larger organizations.

Below are references, but not only highlights.

https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/student-athlete

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK5BmWP1y98
My chemistry teacher loved to use the term "waft"
NASA's brand is much better known than CNSA's.
Transport? You can't just fly them there?
Sure, start with these. Good references, too.

Perspective: Limiting Dependence on Nonrandomized Studies and Improving Randomized Trials in Human Nutrition Research: Why and How
https://academic.oup.com/advances/article/9/4/367/5055939

Implausible results in human nutrition research
https://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f6698

His most famous paper, Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...

Here's a talk on nutrition science methods, along with a specific audience moment with Walter Willet, former head of Harvard Nutrition dept, and advocate for his questionnaires.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTAbx4i8Dyg --
https://youtu.be/KTAbx4i8Dyg?t=23m40s
So the webdev crowd have invented Prolog?
This is very interesting. And it is very good news that companies are finding higher efficiencies in mass produce-able electric motors. It means that electric cars will become more affordable and practical quicker.

But I do hope they do not proceed with the in wheel concept. In wheel motors make the ride not only bumpier but more dangerous. This is because the wheel with more un-sprung weight bounces more and tends to lose contact with the road more, which in turn makes the car more likely to spin out of control, miss a turn, etc.

Electric cars, being still relatively new, cannot afford to get a reputation for danger.
I'm neither smart enough or well-connected enough to even hazard a guess but I wonder if there's an opportunity to acquire the older radio broadcasting assets and make them useful?
It is, but that doesn’t mean you should want them representing you.
The Minds of Tech Recruitment
I tried using mklinux on a PPC (a Performa, maybe?). I don't think X worked at the time, so it was strictly text mode. "Text mode" I should say: there was no 80x24 text mode so it was eg, a 640x480 bitmap using pixels to render the characters to draw the console. Which looks nicer and is more flexible but much slower.
Josh Tenenbaum Receives 2019 MacArthur Fellowship
You're missing the nuance of the language as selected. "I am skeptical" clearly prefaces a desire to be made aware of actual scientific evidence, to have the citations (references to the evidence) provided.

Further, you, and others who keep beating this dead horse, do not realize that it is part of a larger, ongoing, discussion in which (IIRC from prior HN threads), RMS had that skepticism resolved with knowledge by those who actually discussed the point, rather than bashing someone for asking "is this actually true; where is the evidence?"

The scientific method involves asking if assumptions are true. I can sympathize with the theory that a substantial quantity of __additional__ damage is caused by the reactions of others after such unfortunate experiences. RMS was making a supposition that might be studied. The phrasing is, as the article mentioned, rather without consideration for how others might receive such a statement.
> The printer software is an abomination.

...that's a surprise....
"Correct", sure, as in whichever side is the stronger and can force the other to comply is the correct one.
Not to be confused with Boom. https://boomsupersonic.com/
When were those posted? That they (and other similar comments) suddenly appearing out of nowhere makes me question their veracity. They represent a broader point of view - a set of values - that are quite distinct from the views that have been presented before.
Look up Martin Eberhard, then look up the name of the most famous company he founded, then look up the end of life of the person the company was named after and weep ;-)
Stanford CS Prof resigns amid allegations of sexual misconduct with undergrads
There are large areas 35 miles from DC that have no public sewer or water either. (My parents’ house, for example, has neither, but does have fiber.) But what percentage of the population does that account for? Around DC, very little.

In Akamai’s 2017 report, Maryland’s %-age of connections above 10 mbps (easily enough to do Remote Desktop) was 79%, just below South Korea and above Switzerland. Virginia and the district itself were around 75%, the same as Switzerland.
1) you're right, for every "revolutionary" technology innovation we hear about that actually turns out being important, there are several that don't, but...
2) automobiles were not, until recently, an area that received a lot of effort at major innovation. Credit electric (and hybrid electric) cars with redefining the amount of change that seemed practical to consider.
Once something gets flagged as a potential violation, it turns into a guilty until proven innocent situation. Square has much more to lose than just some bad PR or the spread on $14K so they’re fine with freezing the money until they get a clear ruling from the US regulators that could put them in a proverbially vice. The name “Havana” probably tipped off something and now it’ll be stuck like that until a high enough exec decides to take the heat for cutting it loose.

If you want to try this out yourself (don’t do this...), send money to a friend via Venmo or equivalent, put something blatantly criminal in the description like “Heroin” or “ISIS tuition”, and see what happens.
I suspect the toll from cigarettes vastly outweighs that from all illegal drugs combined. The US government was pusher in chief.
Emrax sells this technology for years now. This isn't new, and I couldn't find a datasheet to meaningfully compare them with what else is available on the market.

I do know of axial flux motors that couldn't have had iron teeth, but I think it was a single-side design with a metal backplate to support the resin-soaked stator windings. I recall a nice discussion about them using GaN power electronics to reach very high efficiencies. Those machines were still hand made last year, however...
A post mortem should always be a place to highlight deficiencies in processes and communicate necessary improvements put into place, not to blame. Blame should only occur if the cadence of outages becomes excessive. Complex systems are tricky, and to err is human.

Disclaimer: Ops/infra engineer in a previous life.
Appreciate what you're saying, but the linked paper is talking about results in F_p[T], the polynomial ring.
Quip, used widely at many of the Bay Area's big tech companies, is working on achieving what you're after.
Your comment sounds familiar. I read it very often on the internet these days under various topics.
We need to check ourselves on our personal heroes here. People are saying the same things about a specific American politician: "he's a good man, why are you attacking him?" If I were a philanthropist spending billions of dollars saving lives, would I get a free pass to kill a person a week? Of course not.

His opinion is not unpopular. It is morally reprehensible. Yes, some countries and states allow childhood intercourse, in much the same way that slavery was tolerated in many places around the world even after it was almost universally condemned.

Some minority voices are important (see: woman's suffrage, gay rights). Typically, these opinions are novel, they are new, they are revolutionary. Opinions such as the rights of pedophiles, or homosexual persecution are in contrast to hard-won battles that exist in the past. Regressive opinions are not plight, they are an appeal to return to the plight of others.

He is not supporting a fringe socially progressive movement. He is supporting something that we know is wrong. Pedophilia is an atypical anomaly. It is a debilitating disability. Those people need help desperately, not a pass to continue hurting children.

Edit: it also turns out that there are personal accounts of him being outwardly shitty to women. He needs a friend to course correct him, not praise or worship him.
Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images
Peter Watts' Maelstrom. Earth's logistics are managed by trained petri dishes of lab-grown brain. Epidemiologists use data science to plan last-resort mass exterminations. Computer viruses and firewalls are evolving AIs

It's the sequel to Starfish, which isn't quite as computer-heavy. I don't think you'd have to read Starfish first (but you will spoil it).

It's in hard/soft-cover but also CC-licensed on the authors' website: https://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm

Probably a 3.5 - 4 on the "comp-fi hard" scale. Warning: Peter Watts doesn't write happy stories.
> He takes everything literally and doesn’t necessarily take feelings and the reactions of others into account when making statements that are outside the bounds of his expertise in free software.

Whelp, then no one should be that surprised when people stop taking his feelings into account and decide they no longer want to be associated with him.

Not being an asshole is a two-way street.
European millennials are not like their American counterparts
These motors are light. If you integrate them with the wheel to the point where you mount the tire to it instead of to the rim, you should be close to current mass, possibly breaking even (depending on how much of the axle/differential is unsprung mass, and how heavy the flexible torque transmission ends up being).
Android used to be a bit of a security disaster too, but I quite like the separate work profile. Almost like having a second device without having to actually having to have that second device.
Looks like healthy scepticism to me, which I consider a good thing.
The NCAA's monetary and administrative requirements distract from the educational mission of colleges. Ending that distraction would be good for students and colleges. NCAA's conservative tendencies and commercial interests hurt athletes directly as documented extensively on this page, and as often attested by the athletes themselves.
> Imbalance is bad because participation in civil society, to include employment, should be representative of society as a whole.

No. Participation in employment should be determined by job qualifucation.

Practically no one finds it problematic that majority of fire fighters (and victims of workplace death) are men with no physical disabilities.

It's a sheer (liberal-leftist) nonsense that we should fix a gender imbalance in the section (so victim counts of workplace death as well), and fix under representation of disabled ppl in fire fighter workforce.
On sleepiness, activation energy, and flow
>Having an unpopular opinion isn't grounds for "proper judgement"

why? i don't understand this. if he's entitled to his unpopular opinions why in the world isn't everyone else held to the same standard? i'm entitled to my unpopular opinion (at least on hn) that he's a socially inept idiot who shouldn't be in a public facing position. will i be spared downvotes and a slew of responses harassing me? i doubt it (it's already happened twice).

this has literally always been in the court of public opinion because guess what? he's not an engineer and we're not assessing the quality of his work here - we're assessing his ability to be a public persona.
More options "for getting news".

An aggregator is an option for getting news.
Some of both. I regularly use WeWork coworking spaces, but have a regular office for only employees at my home base.
> Now the 2G patents are expiring, so it could be cheap and ubiquitous, built into everything. But instead the 2G networks are getting shut down...

The frequency bands these older technologies run on are very, very valuable. The prices paid at the last FCC frequency auction are a tiny fraction of the revenue those frequency bands will earn over the next decades.

Also factor in that in many cases, no new equipment is available for replacement parts, service contracts get increasing expensive as vendors milk the older tech, expertise is lost, features like remote management and interoperability with recent technology is poor....

The list goes on and on.
> That they (and other similar comments) suddenly appearing out of nowhere makes me question their veracity.

They've been on his site for over decade, certainly longer than I've been a programmer (>8 years)
LoRa probably works great, but I think the parent's point is that there are extremely mature, low-cost technologies that are a perfect fit already for their need and have existed for decades. It's frustrating to have those technologies disappearing and have to choose between either something mainstream that's more expensive or a handful of more novel things any of which might turn out to be a flash in the pan and a support nightmare down the road.
What We're Reading This Fall
A Narration of the Bohr-Einstein Debate
Would not work, as this is indeed a lower-level function.
Ask HN: What should I change my name to?
I would like to change my name both officially and casually to something more easily pronounceable in the US. Ideally a single syllable first name and pretty open to any last name. I work in tech but this should not necessarily be a factor although I realize posting this question on HN will most likely generate biased answers in that direction if there is such a thing as a tech inspired name. I digress. Regardless of the reason for why I am doing this I really appreciate any suggestions and you voting on your favorites.

Thank you,
Soon-to-be-determined
I wonder if dual-SIM phones have the capability of setting call acceptance rules based on a schedule.
They don't, but even if they did, dealing with a second phone is cumbersome around size, charging, distinct ringtones, silencing both for meetings, etc. The pager was just so simple. The Motorola T900 was very small, and ran 2 weeks or so on a single AA.

I do get it's probably a bit of real and a bit of nostalgia.
The area around DC, outside of the suburbs, is quite rural actually.
I know this comment is being flagged as inflammatory, but I appreciate knowing that there are at least some other people who find people rewriting eveything in webtech tiring.
Dude has gone out of his way to make other people uncomfortable. I use singular they for my pronouns. He's so bothered by this that he goes out of his way to not only tell me I'm wrong for doing so, but to invent his own language for referring to folks who use gender neutral pronouns (which no one will understand, because it's not widely used).

I would certainly question whether I was welcome at an event where he was a speaker/key presenter. Even if I was told I was welcome, I suspect others would feel emboldened to antagonistically challenge my pronouns. To me, it makes sense that if he's causing people to consider not attending events or signing up for his causes, then he's maybe not the right 'perse' for the job.
A lot of traders are actually switching to wireless links since RF travels faster than light in a fiber. But some fun stuff happens then https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-03/this-heat...
Institutions, Machines, and Complex Orders
That may be simply the result of those who were initially investigating the effect having cable internet connections.

But there is nothing about bufferbloat that is exclusive to "cable internet". The effect will happen anywhere that a too large buffer exists in a device with differing speed input and output links that tries too hard to never, ever, drop a TCP packet.

The effect you describe, ping latency skyrockets during upload phase of the speedtest, is exactly what happens when some device in the path of your packets and pings has an overlarge buffer that has filled. The most likely culprit is the device installed by AT&T that interfaces between your local network and their fiber network (i.e., the fiber "modem" or "router" box).
Celebrating Dr. Herbert Kleber
Been running a setup like that for over 6 years. It’s great. Support is ridiculously easy. Desktop refreshes aren’t bad either and that’s one of the most difficult projects for an IT department to pull off. We’ve done a couple of them now - once to add RAM, disk and CPU and another to change the desktop image. Deployments and big jobs like opening new offices or big moves are simple.

The video is easy to fix with a fast network or Apex PCOIP accelerator cards, although those are being replaced by expensive server-side GPU’s these days. We have some google earth users and a few others with gpu tasks. A couple Apex cards in a couple of the servers took care of that.

The only thing that completely sucks is USB storage devices. They are painfully slow. Most people accept it because they are rarely used in our environment and everything else is faster than any other system they’ve had.
You get by without the fancy iron teeth mechanical support they invented as long as you remain small enough. The main issue is miniaturizing magnet manufacture without per-magnet costs staying fixed.

I judge by COTS pricing, but the $/kW falling on magnets increases a lot below 5~15kW electrical.
What got Stallman taken down was a false claim that he said Epstein's victims were "willing". That was totally a lie, and the equivalent of planting evidence.

"Famed Computer Scientist Richard Stallman Described Epstein Victims As 'Entirely Willing'."

https://archive.is/RVpdd
Yes. This was (partially) foxpro. I'm building a relational lang (http://tablam.org - looking for help!) with the dream of turn it into an excel + access kind of thing.

Excel is great for ad-hoc exploration (is kind of a different repl!) but is best AT THE END of the data pipeline.

To make it well rounded, you need a good storage (rdbms), data language (sql, or hopefully my lang someday!), good way to do entry (CRUD form builder).

And at the end, put a spreadsheet and/or interactive repl like Jupiter.

More fancy stuff is welcome but this is the definition of a well rounded tool useful for small business.