skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was wondering the same thing. How can they isolate walkability rather than cultural factors or factors related to the public school system of a city?
We should have begun building carbon extraction and deep burial facilities where they mined for coal.

That would have replaced blue collar jobs with blue collar jobs.

We need a carbon tax and federal funding to build these facilities.

Carbon extraction paired with more nuclear is what we need to invest in.
There are no purely capitalist or purely socialist societies, everything is a mix, even the US. The trick is finding the right balance between incentive and fairness.

I'd argue that the US needs some more fairness at this point in history given the income inequality increases since the 60s (gini coefficient), but without removing the incentives which drive the economy.
I was there at Function when it was shown on the big screen, we brought something for c64. At first I expected something else to show up, but then I remembered it was 64 bytes. Sixty four bytes! 256byte scene is insane. I've noticed recent 256b releases are high res. Not sure how they do it, definitely not 13h. Anyways, this 256b still takes the cake: https://youtu.be/eYNoaVERfR4
> but it certainly was not the same as winning the lottery

I am happy that things worked out so well for you, but you're not sharing any data to back up this claim. I mean someone could literally win the lottery and say how great things worked out - it's anecdotal evidence.

https://xkcd.com/1827/

For many people, and I strongly suspect most, startup options are a losing bet. The worst part is you have to wait years before you know whether or not they're worth anything.
While I'm ignorant, why can't they just make other parts? If you have a lathe and a machine shop, you can make other pieces of metal instead of the pieces of metal you currently make.
Trump Slams Door Harder on Refugees
And even if you are pushed over the AMT threshold, and if the only reason you went over was due to purchase of ISOs, and if you don't go over the threshold in the following year, you can get credit in future years for that extra tax you had to pay.
Partus Sequitur Ventrem – The Rule That Perpetrated Slavery and Legalized Rape
Have the RFID chip not return its unique ID, but

encrypt(concat(ID, random()))

or

encrypt(concat(ID, chip’s internal counter value()))

where encrypt is a good asymmetric cipher.
When would you ever use this?
Reminds me of when a B-29 landed in the USSR. Stalin ordered that a copy of it be built. A copy was built, complete with copies of the battle damage.
These are indeed very good articles. Even if you are all-in to nix/BSD, reading this can be quite eye opening. While at the lowest level the Windows kernel is basically a black box over a Unix kernel, there are in some places unique design choices that lead to unique problems. Sadly we do not usually get to see their resolution or the impact they had on MS's customers.
But the VCs pony up the cash up front and they are likely to lose it in most cases. The VCs and LPs have an opportunity cost too, they could be investing in other things, including a public market with a great track record for large caps.

There’s no easy answer but founder equity seems over weighted to me. If the founders want to align the interests of the company with the interests of the employees what’s wrong with having 15% instead of 30% and doling our dramatically more options to everyone else? No doubt founders take more risk and work harder but do they work 300x harder? (Usually by employee 10 or so grants are at 0.1% or less)
Indeed, Guantanamo victims do not report drug use.

But the widespread, in some cases (Ted Koppel, Tom Friedman) rabid support for the Iraq debacle is prima facie evidence for its continued use.
I agree with every point you made, especially the wood chips. however I am still peeved at you because you did not include a link to this toaster you bought. How do I get one?
That's not regular paper. It's probably some sort of mica-asbestos composite and definitely not flammable.

Fire is likely to be caused by bread crumbs, since otherwise there is nothing combustible in the toaster (unlike the plastic-ful modern ones.)
Those 300lb engines would be a poor replacement in a model 3 competitor. Plug in hybrids can get away with it, but at that point all 300lb could be used for larger battery packs.
If the 180nm design is good enough, and migrated it to a new process, you'd get more chips per wafer.

Hence never competitive. "It's open!" doesn't make a business decide to buy a million and put them in a product - cost, features, availability, support do.

Nobody cares about "open silicon" - it's only spouted by people who don't understand actual electronics, or if they do, they certainly don't understand the economics.

It will never happen. If it did, it wouldn't be useful. It makes zero sense.
My biggest pet peeve is all sorts of appliance manufacturers sticking touchscreen displays everywhere.

The coffee machine in my office has a touchscreen display. It only dispenses 4 things - lattes, cappuccinos, black coffee, and espressos.

Why does this have to be a touchscreen? It could have easily been more usable buttons.

But I guess you can't charge a $100 premium for buttons
The industrial revolution of the past century featured mass riots which killed people. In response the government created entirely new and untested social programs like universal high school and labor union-friendly laws.

So yes, change is never easy, and this next revolution is projected to be faster and larger in scope. One could expect similar social unrest and new laws.
It's shocking because you are laboring under the misconception that nuclear is the "best solution".
Forty years to recognize the power of the Toyota Production System, but another eighty to actually take those lessons to heart (if ever). A major stumbling block is the adversarial relationship between management and labor in the US[1]. TPS relies on a high-trust environment to function.

[1] For example, in current events: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21166923
This is sort of a ridiculous list. There are, possibly by definition, and infinitude of under-investigated fields. A more useful list might be a list of OVER investigated fields, such as PvNP, Deep Learning, Consciousness, fMRI, ...
Gotta love the New York Times... We must take as a given from the headline that we are now in a recession. Couldn't have anything to do with the historical election performance of each political party during hard times now, could it?
> This seems like a false dichotomy....it is possible (well, for some people at least, or at least in theory) to consider conspiracy theories using disciplined reasoning, perhaps assigning a "likelihood score" to each one.

the problem is that most conspiracy theories are internally consistent; they tie up a lot of loose ends if you're willing to assume a couple wild premises. the flat earth conspiracy is plausible if you're willing to believe that every astronaut, airline pilot, and everyone else in a position to verify the curvature of the earth is in on it. to me the unreasonable premises are what make a theory have the "tinfoil" quality. the idea that there's an international ring of powerful child sex traffickers is plausible; the idea that a specific person is involved is not as plausible until you have more evidence than a bunch of emails about pizza.
Spaceships? That's the supposed payoff for an energy source that is 4x the levelized cost of the competition?

I tell you what: if someone wants nuclear spacecraft, let THEM pay for it.
I'm trying to say they didn't stop doing it. They've done it for decades.
Setting Up a Synology DS-718
I mean it's self-promotional yes, but I read this as more of a blog post about advances specifically in his own group. For the Schmidhuberian take on the broader history of deep learning, this other one's the go-to article (though it's much longer): https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7828

Not everyone likes that article either, but it does at least extensively cite prior work, i.e. accounts for "how his contributions were (like everyone else's) evolutions of existing methods". In particular, sections 5.1–5.4 credit a large amount of work from the 1960s-80s that he considers foundational.
Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) in the EU
Conservative as in resistant to change, traditional. Not Conservative as in politics. You’d expect a conservative group to be entrenched.
EROI of solar is just fine. The notion that it's not is based on well-debunked flawed studies.
This is exactly how software should be: it should just work reliably for years and decades on end.
Every version of macOS is listed and the downloads work for me. You'll need to log into an apple account first.
Nowhere does the article make the claim that "we are now in a recession", nor does the title suggest it.
Three Big Things: Important forces shaping the world
We just published a typical GWAS paper that used PCA to sanity check whether the "ethnicity" reported by our patients aligned with what their genome told us.

We had 200,000 dimensions (ACGT's), which we reduced into 2 via PCA and sure enough if someone said they were "Filipino" then they generally appeared close to the other folks who said they were "Filipino".

https://breckuh.github.io/eopegwas/src/main.nb.html (chart titled: QC: PCA of SNPs shows clustering by reported ethnicity, as expected)
Tesla has the built in protection circuits. The more important thing is on top of that cool and heat batteries in extreme temps and when charging. That's why teslas don't lose range, and most other batteries do. latest gen from germany cars finally have cooling system, leaf still doesn't.

And connectors. There are multiple worldwide standards because companies keep pushing their own for attempt at proprietary advantage. J1772 is the worldwide standard for ac that everyone supports. It has a flaw of not going to high enough power. Tesla is the only company that supports upto 80 amps 220v. Most companies support much lower voltages, some barely 30 amps and 220 v. Current gen tesla support 220v and 45 amps (can't remember the exact number). There are multiple worldwide standards for high power dc. Chademo (Japanese standard, doesn't go to high enough power, only like 50kw), leafs support these in the us. ccs in europe is a successful cross company standard that everyone uses, including tesla model 3 and later. So good job there. The us stupidly has a different ccs plug. Not many cars support it.

Teslas own proprietary plug is better than all the standards, supports higher power. Only just now are there cars on the new euro high power ccs plugs that match and exceed tesla's powerful plug. My 2012 tesla model s car is basically better than all existing competitors in range, ability to charge, etc. The brand new cars from porsche (but you can't go out and buy one, coming soon maybe, the taycan has a higher theoretical charging speed, they need to build a charging network.

Tesla offered to share their plug tech to other companies if they agreed not to sue each other, but no companies took them up on it.
Based on the title, I thought it was going to be something more along the lines of Chris Bache’s work[0]:

“A professor of religious studies meticulously documents his insights from 73 high-dose LSD sessions conducted over the course of 20 years. Chronicles, with unprecedented rigor, the author’s systematic journey into a unified field of consciousness that underlies all physical existence.”

[0] https://books.google.com/books/about/LSD_and_the_Mind_of_the...
Okay, so why was the article published now?
> About 1/3 of drugs that show promise on mouse models are ever tested in humans.

Do you have a citation? This seems totally off to me. In so far as the number refers to something real, I suspect "shows promise" must mean something much stricter than the threshold that this particular treatment has passed. That is, I would bet against a 2.5% chance that this particular study leads to an actual drug approved to treat pancreatic cancer.
Why should we ignore Uber and Lyft? They exist, they do the same job, and they don't seem to be making the roads any more clogged than they were already. So maybe they show that in practice, we don't need medallions after all.
Correct. You can claw back a chunk every year until you have that AMT paid back so depending on your inflation and investment opportunity cost expectations you are not actually risking that much money, just the cost of the shares.

I think that really speaks volumes to how relevant it is to join early stage if you want to play the options game - later stage companies _seem_ safer but may not actually be that much safer if you consider everyone already in the investment aggressively driving the price of the shares up and forcing you to risk more on exercise.
Until almost the singularity, humans have a lot to offer the economy. Effectively giving up on a whole group of people being productive isn't the right answer at all.

The plasticity of humans in the face of adversity and changing times is a fundamental part of humanity.

From entire Nations migrating across the world in search of a new Homeland in ancient times (e.g. Helvetii) to the mass migration of people in modern times (Irish potato famine and mass emigration), to entire industries being automated many many times. e.g. the etymological origin of sabotage is from labor disputes over automation. Similarly luddites engaged in sabotage in the 1800s. And many industries have either been virtually automated (farming) or made obsolete (blacksmiths), resulting in dramatic reductions in labor demand in those areas.

In any of these cases, humans persevered and ultimately found new purposes.

And while automation is only going to increase at an exponential rate and displacement similarly so, given that there is still so much productive potential left in humans, it would be a folly to simply give up on a group of people and just give them UBI.

I'm not saying UBI isn't part of the solution, but the solution also has to involve utilizing the productive capacity of humanity. Bc we have too many big problems to solve to switch an ever growing percentage of our population over to only be consumers (and not producers). They will be an ever growing tax on the rest of the population the will prevent us from putting as much investment into R&D and problem solving.
The article is from 2005.
I had to do a coding take home test after 15+ years of experience.

The market is what the market is. You could turn down any interviews that require you to take a coding test and see what is out there.
> A car comes by, doesn't look right, anyone could pull the cord and stop the line while the problem was understood.

Yeah, but I bet that anyone frivolously pulling the cord would find themselves out of a job.
If we’re going to subsidize a technology we should think about the whole range of benefits.
Sadly not an option for anything internet-connected. Each macOS version has dozens of critical vulnerabilities.
Why do you think a block based language would be good for learning ML?

My impression is that blocks would be good for learning concepts without accidentally overfitting on syntax, but for writing real programs, blocks are hopelessly inefficient for input and editing. Then again, letting the user input text but automatically convert to blocks by continual parsing, might be the best of both worlds. Sort of like emacs lisp parens mode.
I agree completely with your points on complexity, but I also don't see why the causeless cause would more plausibly be simple rather than complex. In fact, I think a simple origin creates more problems than a complex origin; if the origin is simple, you need to explain why the universe is complex.
Very evidently you can hypnotise the public to support mass murder, using the techniques they finally evolved. It has worked again and again, most prominently in driving support for invading Iraq.

As it was taught in other places in the world, we may guess that ISIS, FARC, and other movements learned to apply the methods for their own purposes. Anywhere you find ordinary people committing extreme atrocities, there are its (or its Soviet or Chinese counterparts') fingerprints.
I notice there is no comment section to point out that Boeing is even further behind SpaceX while receiving ten times more money than SpaceX.
It's got some downsides (or maybe not I could be wrong on these parts) from what I've seen:

1. if you want the antd style for a particular component I do not believe you can import a css file specific to just that component. you are importing the full Antd css. it's sort of big. If anyone knows how I can import just the css for a component please show me how.

2. the Antd css has a lot of rules that address generic html elements, i.e. not antd classnames only. This makes component reuse more difficult.
>Go look around anyone doing office work on their phones.

Depends on the office work. A lot of stuff is doable on a phone even, as many common place apps are available, if it wasn't for the ergonomics (small screen, no full keyboard, etc).

>As someone that does native/web development, the only area where Web wins are the typical CRUD applications, anything more resource intensive just brings the browser to halt, and for stuff like WebGL it still hit and miss.

As someone who is a heavy user of the other apps (NLEs, DAWs, drawing/bitmap editing) where the web is a non-starter (and I don't care for all the half-arsed attempts at web-DAWs and such), I agree.

But for business, CRUD apps are 90% of their needs, plus Word/Excel etc, for which Google Docs is a lot of the way there (and even if not, they exist in good shape natively for both Windows and Mac).

>As for doing everything and more on a Mac, as much as I like Metal Compute Shaders, they aren't a match to CUDA tooling.

Perhaps, I don't use CUDA or do 3D at all.

>Finally, as much as I like Apple's platforms, they are out of reach for a large segment of the world population, no matter what.

Sure, but that's also true for workstation-like PCs, and commercial compilers/IDEs, which you're in favor of, no? :-)
Our lack of a system to prioritize incumbents also gives us our good name, and the wealth you mention. We can absolutely take better care of people out of work, but "change requires the consent of everyone affected" is not the path.
True, was focusing on work stuff.
> This idea of "countries X and Y get worse QC products" when the prices are the same needs to die.

I can 100% testify this as true. Big manufacturers do "binning" on the final products just like chip fabs do.

If you see SKUs difference for 1st world and 2nd world countries without any spec difference, it's nearly 100% a case of such binning.

For example Dell diverts laptops with bad displays to Eastern Europe and low income Asian countries (with exception of China, China always gets best bins along with US market because they are afraid of backlash.)

In one Bangladeshi retail chain, every Dell device I saw had a dead pixel, or dust under bond layer. They were almost certainly specifically picking rejects.

Why so? MBA logic.

You definitely can not get so much bad panels if buy pretested panels (which is now standard.) They are picked 100% deliberately.

Defective panels are sold at great discounts, even for 4k and alike panels. So that makes a great temptation. You can near instantly get ~80usd off in case of a 4k panel out of a unit with $400 BOM.

This is why I'm afraid buying just any "premium" good in 3rd world countries. Cheaper devices are a bit safer in that regard as there is not as much incentive to do this with cheaper parts.

Ironically, low-end and mid-tier parts are often having superior reliability and defect rate exactly because there is no margin selling bad QC parts.
Physically fit young adults have healthier white matter in their brains
Yes. I do some creative work in audio and I wanted to cluster a fairly large database of audio. I needed a dimensionality reduction technique to take a set of audio descriptors down to two values (to use for coordinates) in order to create a 2d explorable space. I actually ended up using MFCCs[1] and not typical audio descriptors[2] for my analysis data as there are lots of issues with making the numbers meaningful to begin with. I ended up munging to get around 140 numbers for each audio file by taking the MFCCs, and getting statistics over 3 derivates so that the data somewhat represented change over time. I tried out a number of reduction techniques and PCA was one of them. Perceptually, the groupings it produced were weak and techniques I found useful were ISOMAP[3], t-SNE[4] and lately UMAP[5]. [4] and [5] have given me the best perceptual groupings of the audio files.

You can see some of the code here on Github, although a lot of it depends on having some audio to test among other closed source projects (sorry I have no control over that).

https://github.com/jamesb93/data_bending

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel-frequency_cepstrum

[2] - http://recherche.ircam.fr/anasyn/peeters/ARTICLES/Herrera_19...

[3] - https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.ma...

[4] - https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.ma...

[5] - https://umap-learn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
It's not clear that electric cars will take less labor to build. Tesla's experience is that their cars take far more labor to build than Ford or Toyota or VW needs to build a car.[1] Even the battery pack operation is surprisingly labor-intensive.

Automobile engine building, on the other hand, has been mostly automated since the 1950s.

[11 https://www.autonews.com/article/20170611/OEM01/170619951/te...
Highly Recommend this channel btw, lots of quality videos on old technology.
There are many other things we could do that are as viable, if not more - we barely started using wind or solar, and while wind and solar may be poor replacements for coal, hydro or nuclear, it's excellent for cars and trucks and they are a significant portion of our energy matrix.

We will eventually need to increase the fission base, if fusion continues to be 10 years away for much longer, but that's something that can wait until we have better designs than the current generations.

What nuclear really excels at is at replacing coal. It's pretty much a plug-in replacement: nuclear generation can be built pretty much wherever coal can and, from the grid's perspective, it looks a lot like coal. This, along with industry subsidies (both direct and as military expenditure) has always shifted economics towards it.
You can if you get “early exercise” privileges which should be something you look for when evaluating an offer.
Per the Wikipedia article the prototype is dead:

> However, in January 2019 it was announced that the project had been abandoned due to technology transfer limitations placed by the Trump administration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligenc...
It's not a benefit, it's a joke. Nuclear spacecraft were never valuable enough for NASA to spend much money on; why should they justify the enormous cost penalty of new nuclear power plants?

(BTW, the reactors in power plants would be useless for spacecraft.)
We bought the cheapest toaster we could find at a Target probably 5 - 6 years ago. Still works fine.
I code screen everyone on a laptop using their favorite tools - I want to see how they work, how they debug, how they solve problems.

Some engineers can talk a good game and can't really code at all, or they're cut-and-paste programmers who can only solve a problem by finding 80% of it on Stack Overflow...