skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I meant flexible in terms of what it allows you to do (although it does flex a bit as well).

But to your question, ductile (non-brittle) metals tend to be more durable than brittle ones.
I highly doubt your last paragraph. Meatless would have to be clearly better on at least one axis that matters to customers, and not significantly worse on any other axis. I don't see that happening.

(And don't bother to say "no animals harmed". That isn't an axis that matters to customers of beef.)
I can see where it could be argued that content in the Wayback Machine could be edited before being presented as evidence; I know the current case specifically excludes the question of whether the content in the scrapes was edited or not bu what would be a viable scheme for verifying that the content in a scrape hasn't been edited?
We are approaching The Toaster Event Horizon.
I see this is another way to look at it. I was asking about how to interpret the components themselves. Your link suggests converting the the coefficients of PCA regression back to coefficients for the original variables.
The perils of reporting a single number instead of a confidence interval.
As a counterpoint, I think there are some good points to the book, regardless of anything about its history, or how it was intended. I'm willing to learn from any source, so long as the advice is good. I understand that many people dislike pithy advice, but I find them good reminders to ground myself.

(I say this as an atheist, fwliw.)
The Wall Street Journal is generally more accurate and even handed on business and finance stories. Although they do have some bias on other topics.
Anyone know if there's been research into terraforming via asteroid/comet impacts and trying to simulate that?
That's why I'm at a big company now instead of startups, where I have most of my experience in my career (about 5 years). 2 years of working at a lower paying FAANG and I am getting ~$320k total compensation for a mid-level dev (granted, that is as a top performer) - that is double what my last job (startup) was paying me.

I think I'm now on a road of buying a house in the Bay Area sometime down the line, whereas my previous years of working brought me no closer.
I recommend the Netflix series Wormwood, a documentary about Frank Olson, a CIA agent who was "suicided" when he learned what the CIA was doing with MK Ultra, and started expressing his discomfort about it.
Hammers don't have security issues, which is where the analogy breaks down. Sometimes, these UNIX tools haven't changed much on the outside, but they are getting updates.

If you look closer though, the BSD and GNU variants of common tools have diverged. And while I like BSD's conservative approach, some of the GNU features are damn useful.
Agreed. The most desirable and expensive neighborhoods tend to be the most walkable ones. It would make sense that the people who live in those neighborhoods tend to be more financially successful.

It's as if a study came out that showed that, according to their exhaustive statistical analysis, people that drove Mercedes tended to be wealthier than people who drove Chevys. Then they concluded that the key to upward mobility must be to get a Mercedes.
Dense cities being expensive is also mostly a relatively recent phenomenon in the US because until about 20 years ago there was a next outflow of population in most cities.

Supply is certainly part of the problem for expensive housing in some cities. But it's also driven by a significant increase in demand over a fairly short period. (And IMO it remains to be seen whether trends like remote work, autonomous vehicles, etc. end up reversing the inflow into "elite" cities.)
No, Gordon Moore had an asshole boss.

SV is all about critical mass, and you're pointing (probably not coincidentally) at the exact point in time where that ball started rolling downhill.
How to stop climate breakdown and social collapse [pdf]
Tangent but virtually every country in continental Europe has two-prong unpolarized cords. It's far more common here than in the US, in my experience.
They have high reliability cars from continuous improvement practices to increase quality and reduce waste: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Production_System
Still sounds like a procedure problem...
I have this toaster and LOVE it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=crc8n7D4kYg
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Roads, sidewalks, bridges, public transport, education

So why not levy taxes against the land value of those who own the property adjacent to those structures? They are the ones who see the most benefit when the value of their land increases, causing their wealth to increase dramatically. For example, the shop owner derives vastly more benefit from the sidewalk in front of his shop than do the pedestrians who occasionally walk by.

Sales tax is a toll that gets charged to everyone, equally, when the benefits of the spending are distributed unequally.
This seems like a reasonable definition of implanting to me—it’s east to trivialize this with “just”, but intent to implant and visible indication of implanted behavior are both in place here. What mechanism would you expect implantation to look like?
I write them sometimes for vendors I don’t like. Like my local electricity utility that charges me demand charges as if I were an industrial user.
I kinda want one. I wonder if people will start buying and modding them? I can/t wait for /r/MechanicalToasters
Some of my friends drove cabs. The problem is the business like a lot of businesses doesn't naturally lend itself to people being able to make an honest living without regulation.
Reading the article, it sounds like nothing prevents the band from doing all the things they used to do except perform at the football games. It also sounds like they are funded by the university to run around and prank others, which seems legitimate for the university to not shed any tears when the band drops the ball on its funding request. I’m sure it’s a fun tradition, but it also sounds potentially quite annoying depending on who the target of the joke is, and you can still have fun/ be annoying on campus without direct university funding.
I think pointing to evidence that many traits are susceptible to +5 SD increases by genetic screening is reasonable in the context a discussion about intelligence, even though +5 SD change in intelligence hasn't been demonstrated.

+5 SD change in intelligence (ie, average IQ of 175) would be amazing, but it's not obviously impossible. So it's "on the table" in the sense that cities on Mars are "on the table". It's not prohibited by any known laws of nature, and some experts are working on it.

There are lots of actual lies in circulation, so I encourage you to reserve the use of the word for things that are demonstrably false, not just ambitious claims that one might be skeptical of.
I suspect a big part of it is people don't want to learn a subset of haskell to in order to effectively use their package manager.
In real life interactions outside of the court, genuine apologies can go a long way.

Nice to see another example of this play out.
Hence why I said energy density.
Right, but the point is that you can use them without revealing any personal health info.
t-SNE doesn’t really tell you how to apply its transformation to new data. (UMAP and PCA do). As a result, t-sne is great for visualization or for “we know everything from the start” data, but not as useful in most data processing pipelines.
Ask HN: Finding a job as a software developer without having a degree?
Hello,

I'm a full-stack software developer mainly experienced in PHP 7.2+ and Python 3, who has around 5 years of prior work experience, currently located in Finland. I've been trying to find a job here for the past year, but I've been unable to do so, mainly because of strong bias against applicants without university degrees in the IT space.

I was planning to move to the United Kingdom around 6 months ago, and almost immediately I was approached by multiple companies offering lucrative jobs, regardless of the fact that I do not have an official degree.

The largest project I have worked on has offered services to hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. I have the skills, but I lack the studies, leading to my issues with finding a job.

What would be the best option for me? I've been trying to look at remote job opportunities, but most require me to live in their country or travel, which is something I unfortunately can not afford.

Thanks!
Don't discount the power of posting on LinkedIn for all recruiters who have remote positions to please contact you. I know some recruiters are forbidden by their clients to name the company that's hiring remote workers either because the company's PR dept is insanely jealous of controlling how their name appears in all forms of media or because they don't want their on-prem FTEs to realize they could probably be working from home... or both.
Family gifts and settlement between friends. Middle aged people use plastic but definitely not Venmo.

Medical billing is also a big one. Most practices will also let you write down your credit card number on a piece of paper, but at that point a check is nicer.

Charity. A check means your whole contribution goes to the organization, instead of having Visa take a cut.
I get their desire to integrate Messenger and WhatsApp, but are they really trying to force Instagram into that mix too?

I’ve used WhatsApp since before FB acquired them but this is sounding like it’s going to get turned into a clusterfuck of stuff I have no interest in.
Remember Bumpgate? Nvidia shipped faulty GPUs to Apple (among others including Dell and HP) which caused hardware failures in around 40% of devices, which Apple had to replace. NVidia refused to acknowledge it was their problem/fault, and even went as far as trying to sue Apple, Dell et al. As a result, no more Nvidia on Apple platforms. I can't say I blame them to be fair...
Though I'd suggest its probably easier to run the PPC versions at this point.
What I understood from Hindu philosophy -

1. Reality is advaita - it means single being or whole cosmos is one being.

2. Maya or illusion is 'consciousness without above knowledge'. This is a cause of suffering.

3. As long as you're in illusion, you will suffer because you consider yourself different than others. It is called 'I". As long as there is 'I', you're in Maya. 'I' give rise to you/he/she/they/animals. If idea of 'I' is not there then no you/he/she/they. All becomes one. I guess Douglas Hofstadter tried to explain same concept in GEB by using self-referential systems. (I might be wrong as I never able to finish book).

4. Enlightened Guru is very important in journey. Creation is considered as dense forest. Without Guru you can lose yourself. Guru appears when Chela is ready. You have to keep searching truth.

5. Law of Karma - Whatever is your current situation is your karma. How do you react to it is your free will ?

6. Creation is spontaneous per say. There is no reason behind it.

7. People can use different practices as per their nature to reach pt 1.

8. As long as there is desire, reincarnation will happen. Now problem is you may be man/woman/animal/cow in next birth. So treat everyone well (including species other than human being). You come in contact with different people (good or bad)/animals because of some relation (may be in previous birth).

9. Cow is considered sacred as she has human like emotions. She can live happily without human help but still she gives human everything even after treating her bad. It is considered great sacrifice e.g giving milk of your child to other species.

What I like most is considering whole universe as family. Sometimes I feel sad as being human. Also I found many stoicism concepts in Hindu philosophy which is very interesting. 2 completely different cultures are on same conclusions.
Centralised crash reporting had been around on windows since 1998 - I would imagine any bug that causes a crash, even in very rare circumstances, to be very obvious there.
I have one of these things and it is a think of beauty as well as useful.

Since it has not had the cord replaced I have a switch at the outlet to turn off the power.
Right, but doesn't this explain what they see just fine? The walkable parts of cities are the gentrifying cores, which are now expensive, but 30 years ago were in deep decline. Were poor, now rich, call that upward mobility to sell the paper?
Footnote 1: "You may be asking yourself, 'what about the strike price'? The answer is that, because almost all of the expected value of the options comes from a very small fraction of scenarios in which you exercise them, the strike price doesn’t contribute very much to the expected value."
A critical element of the product my current employer sells comes from a Japanese owned manufacturer. Their quality and consistency is remarkable but it's like pulling teeth trying to get them to loosen quality controls to drive out cost. Even when we would make up the loss of reliability in our own integration they remain resistant to this change.
PBS Space Time covered the idea a bit in a recent video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FshtPsOTCP4. They had some numbers but I don't think they referenced any formal research in that one.
Perhaps it also had to do with the extreme risk of collecting equivalent data in the US, whereas the Soviets had similar programs already operating for decades at that point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_biological_weapons_prog...

So the CIA had no other way to get that data, whereas the Soviets did.
More magic unlimited thinking I'm afraid. There are costs to desalinating seawater, cost of the plant, cost of locating plants to suitable coastlines, cost of disposal of concentrated brine, cost of introducing gigawatts of heat into water courses and local region - in an already heat stressed climate.

Its big resource intensive thermoelectric generation, with or without unlimited fuel source.
Green roofs improve the urban environment – so why don’t all buildings have them
Indeed. And e.g. generalized eigen problem extend this to the case of two competing data sets.

Ignoring the eigen aspect would miss a lot of both theory and practice.
Knew who this was before I clicked. Do yourself a favor and browse his other videos: there's absolute gold in there.
can you please link the study?
Can you elaborate on your comment "competent window management"?
It was a bit easier because I think prescriptions by fax never took off outside of N. America, but it was the better way.
Performing at games is the main point of marching bands. Who wants to be in a band that can't perform?
Ant Design
Right, given the Anthropic principle the probability has to be nontrivial when multiplied by all the oceans and the lifetime of the planet, but also by billions of planets and billions of galaxies. So there may be no way of ruling it out by any experiment.

All you can do is build bigger vats, just like physicists build bigger supercolliders, hoping for a result.
AppSync is a pretty fantastic product. I've been itching for an excuse to use it!
Hamamatsu is still around and still excellent at the design and prototype stage of optical sensors.

They seems to have a company culture of very open technical discussions on pros and cons which I'm not so sure is common in other Japanese companies.
The GM strike is really about the switch to electric cars
It's really just a phrase used nearly-rhetorically in order to convey the vast scope of a thing. Everyone understands that the number of atoms in the universe is a huge number, so it's a good benchmark.

When people use this phrase they're not trying to claim that the number of atoms in the universe is directly related to the problem at hand; they're just trying to convey scale.
The electronics market right now is like fast fashion, people use a thing for 2 years then there are better and shinier things to buy, TVs now come with built-in low-end SoCs that will become obsolete and laggy before long, then hey time to throw it out!

When I was working in a Japanese-owned PCB factory in China, faking/modifing records on the production lines was common as water, to think that this was probably one of the best ones in China or even the world, which supplied for Japanese TVs, DSLRs and iPhones, was eye-opening and somewhat chilling. I don't know if it was the same in Japan tho, people who went there to study said it was awesome and they produced better products using old equipment.

And I just read a story about how testing contractors in Apple's iWatch factories pass basically anything given after the stringen and supervised first batch.

Breaking down just after warranty is perfectly acceptable now, so I guess noboby buys craftsmanship.
>Imagining a capitalist system composed of all rational actors, this problem would disappear completely.

Yes, because it's pretty easy to imagine a functioning social system based upon people not being people.

>that's expecting too much of capitalism.

That irrational behavior in the wasteful allocation of resources doesn't generate a negative feedback loop that causes even more waste?
I've never tried nor wanted to cut it out entirely, but I did want to reduce my intake so that when I did take it, I was not so tolerant of it and it's positive effects were more noticeable. Due to having built a tolerance and enjoying the taste, I would have coffee in the evenings, on weekends, and on workdays at least 3 on waking, midday and afternoon.

For the 2 months I've cut down pretty drastically - No caffeine after 4pm. Only taking it on workdays, at 11am and 3pm. 1 shot per coffee (no large size or double shots).

Surprisingly, I haven't noticed any real negative effects. I think it would be worse going totally to zero. Maybe you'll be able to get the benefits you want by a reduction without going cold turkey?

Another thing to do your own research on, but I also started having Theanine alongside my coffee, and I feel like it's functioning as intended in terms of reducing jittery-ness, some of the random mild muscle twitches I sometimes got with high caffeine/low sleep, and less of that heavy heartbeat I sometimes used to get. Unfortunately there's considerate overlap between when I started reducing my caffeine intake and also supplementing Theanine, so I don't know how much to attribute to what...

Also, decaf does not taste noticeably different to me. I started ordering decaf e.g. on weekends, and it's made surprisingly little difference. I did get a few comments when my friends noticed, but no negative pressure, most people tend to be sympathetic to someone trying to reduce their caffeine intake I've found.
The value of the US plant-based meat retail market is still less than 2% of the value of the US animal meat retail market. I think it would be incredible if this were the base of the "hockey-stick" curve, it would fundamentally transform what agriculture looks like in the United States; but there are a lot of reasons to think that growth will slow substantially before the two markets are even in the same ballpark.
Corrected link:

https://deadspin.com/columbia-university-wipes-out-its-delig...
There's the old (probably apocryphal?) story of a Japanese firm that got a spec from IBM saying something like "max 3 defects per X units" and in the shipment included a separate, clearly labeled box with 3 defective parts. They didn't understand why, but the customer apparently really cared about those.
>Bank are optional

Well, the routing number tells you the bank so it's really on the check even if the name isn't.

You're right about name and address being optional--although historically people might have refused to accept checks that didn't have this information printed on them.
And I think it was a big failure not to adopt Iris Inventor as well.

Every OpenGL newbie has to go through the rite of passage of assembling their own SDK for dealing with fonts, textures, materials, math, meshes,...

Whereas all competing APIs provide such features out of the box on their SDKs, including the console ones.

Plus there is this myth about portability, when any relatively big OpenGL application is full of extensions and multiple code paths to deal with OEM specific features, driver bugs or hardware glitches.

Then there is the little issue that OpenGL, OpenGL ES and WebGL are only superficially alike.
FTA: "For instance, if the company is worth $1m, and you are granted options on 1% of the company, then this basic model says that the expected value of the options is 1m * 0.01 = 10k."

The options are options to buy, so if you are granted 1% options of a $10m company your options are worth just above zero -- you can pay $10k to get $10k of stock back. You only make money if the company value goes up relative to your strike price, and the amount of money you make is proportional to that.

E.g. if the company literally doubles in value, you now can pay $10k to get $20k worth of shares. Only then do you profit the $10k in the above model. So the model only makes sense if you get in and the company doubles in value, and even after that you still only make $10k.
Dry-Effects
Users are trained that app costs few bucks. Charging fair price, e.g. $200 just won't work. So they're trying to charge that price over years.
I had the same reaction.

There are easily thousands of people working on building higher-level programming languages/models. A very short and very incomplete list of entire subcommunities of PL working on languages that are higher-level than java/python:

1. The ML family -- OCaml, SML, Scala, F#. I think it's very fair to say that these are "higher-level" than imperative OO languages. And you can definitely get a job writing OCaml or Scala or F#...

2. A whole bunch of programming languages/primitives/paradigms aimed at making concurrency/parallelism/distributed systems easier. Erlang, X10, session types, Manticore, etc. Rust might even belong here.

3. Programming languages that incorporate resource/complexity analysis.

4. Literally decades of work on visual programming languages (which have mostly resulted in modern IDEs and teaching tools like Scratch).

5. behavioral types

6. linear types (again rust kind of fits here)

7. dependent types

8. I would also argue that systems like tensorflow and pytorch are really a sort of programming language -- they have a very different model of computation than the host language. Just because they don't have a parser/compiler/etc. doesn't mean they aren't a programming language, imo.

9. Tons of other stuff that doesn't fit in the major categories above (e.g. netkat).

10. I mean even SQL belongs in this list.

Even for language/models listed above that don't have large adoption, the ideas are often incorporated into more mainstream languages in one way or another. So there are significant projects developed in each of these types of languages (with the exception maybe of behavioral types and session types).

Higher-level programming Languages is one of the most explored areas of Computer Science -- if anything, it's an over-explored field.

This is less a list of "underexplored ideas" and more a list of "over-hyped ideas with over-crowded communities". Every item on the CS list is the sort of thing that an ungrounded undergrad research intern would want to work on.

Some of the descriptions in other fields have a similarly dilettante vibe to them. E.g.,

* Bio: math bio is a huge community and all those folks are well-trained in chaotic dynamics. you can say it's under-explored, but there are probably hundreds of people working on this right now and at least thousands have in the past few decades.

* Math: there's a section on subspace packing with a side-story about a proof assistant and the author doesn't even mention Hales...

* physics: Building machines to automate experiments is definitely the sort of thing people get paid to do whenever there's a large enough market (and even sometimes when there isn't). similarly, Nuclear-powered propulsion is underexplored... as long as you don't count the militaries of the major nuclear powers, that is.
Ooh I forgot foof!