skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This came up back in 2017 and I was skeptical then... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15348270

I blame the journalists covering this stuff. There was so many PR release articles touting this thing based on renders... nobody looked into the people who were responsible on executing it.

These guys have no skills in building a gaming console. They bought a brand and scammed people out of 3M+.
Farming is not a good life. Hunter/gatherers famously had it much better.

Doesn't matter. The sustainable population of farmers is orders is magnitudes higher, to the point that they can push out any hunter-gatherers almost without noticing. I hope that modern life is at least closing on that quality of life, but I don't think it is yet, for most people.
Umberto Eco as well, who wrote a book on the topic: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-write-thesis
There's probably a bit more nuance to this.

I've worked for Gov, Consultancies and Private sector clients. They all have shared part of the blame at some point.

But, I've specifically seen the companies charge £75k for firewall changes or sever upgrades, when the reality was they're already paid £10,000,000 a year manage servers that a couple of good puppet admins could have done.

Point being, it's sometimes not about not wanting to pay, but simply about not wanting to pay for something that should have already been done.

Of course, this all comes back to the fact they gleefully oursorced their tech competency, based on the recommendation of consultancies, based on their lack of long term strategic management, so they apparently get what they deserve.

It's a shame that Gov is spending tax money though.
https://gizmodo.com/for-20-years-the-nuclear-launch-code-at-...
Interesting. In my mind as well, it's too early for manned missions - everything we'd do will be similar to Apollo again: Short visits to show we can, then there's no plan to actually turn these achievements into a self-funding endeavour.

I applaud what SpaceX does because it extends our capability to do things in space and industrialize it. You need an industrial base to permanently house people.

This is mostly just opinion and dreaming but: I don't think we'll have people driving mining rigs on the moon, drinking a beer in their moon bar and missing home. I don't know whether human maintenance can even be a thing because regolith is so vicious to anything operating on the moon - you'd need so many people fixing the robots. That's why the real challenge is coming up with more robust automated systems.

I think new approaches to industrial operations can come from this (and maybe even post-scarcity approaches for Earth, if we see it's possible) if we have to plan and realize a remotely operated (or even automated) factory/mining site. Other than on Earth, there are no space constraints, everything is almost the same material, environmental effects on the moon are not a problem (yet). Any industrial site does not have to have the form factor of a terrestial one, it can be the size of ten airports and mostly consist of flat surface, where a few robots are driving around, moving tools and parts and goods.

But just as with human spaceflight, we have to find the business case for it.
> Every company should have at least one guy who enjoys maintaining legacy systems and that should be his sole job.

That's a career death sentence. I suppose if I was retired and wanted a part-time gig for extra money/amusement, I'd do it. But one thing I learned from working maintenance early in my career was... don't do maintenance work.
Caire (https://github.com/esimov/caire) uses seam carving as well. It uses pigo for face detection as well to ensure that it does not resize around the face.
"ALF was alternately referred to as "a Teddy Ruxpin bear that [looks like he] was horribly disfigured by a revolving door""
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Because it's a terrible study. Small sample size, single blinding, p hacking, industry funding.
The NYT and WaPo paywalls can be trivially worked around by disabling JavaScript on those domains. Sites run remarkably faster, too.
The videos are subsets of what they have, supposedly (say people who have watched them) the full video has even more amazing things. It's not an accident that the inconclusive part is what got released. It was chosen.

They have been sitting on this stuff. They still are sitting on 99.9999% of it, is a reasonable assumption. They are choosing, deliberately, to gradually change attitudes. Part of the gradualness is maintaining intentional levels of ambiguity that can be slowly, slowly dialled down.

All of this is kind of orthogonal to what they are sitting on. Doesn't have to be ET.
That's a lot of "if"s - there's the actual complaint, not "everyone who doesn't get on the bleeding edge of tech NOW is a Luddite!!!"
insensitive

The ecosystem doesn’t actually care whose feelings are hurt, you know. It’s a weird argument to make. China is the single largest emitter of CO2, plastic waste in the oceans, etc etc. Yet we expect them to do nothing about it until 2030 at the earliest, but just stay on their upward trend. Which is about the same time as the ecosystem collapses entirely according to AOC. But we mustn’t be “insensitive” about it!
And humans are not just a series of numbers?
Meaning they don't work. Meaning a "reactor" as we think of it—ie one accomplishing it's purpose of power generation—doesn't exist.
>The tech could have been operational for twenty years and this is how they’re declassifying it.

Uh, no. Even a horrifically expensive to build but working fusion reactor would have been released in that time frame. The military in the US is secretive, but not that much... there's a strategic advantage to having more advanced tech than your enemies, but there's a much bigger one from your whole country having large amounts of cheap, clean power.

Not to mention that such a discovery would have been worth trillions of dollars to the energy industry, and the Navy has plenty of civilian firms working with them that would have pushed hard for this tech to be exclusively licensed to them if it worked.

AND it's unlikely that the tech wouldn't have been stolen in that time frame. It would be a major, major coup for whatever country got it, and in the past 20 years almost every secret military tech the US has created has ended up in the hands of the Chinese or others... the US military just isn't that good at security, and you can't keep all the docs needed for development of something like this offline or in paper form.
Why couldn't they cut into their profit margins if he cared that much?
Nit pick:

"Any moron with CAD experience" is why you get things that look good or meet the printed requirements but are impossible to manufacture and assemble.
And the final upgrade will be a round plug allowing infinite number of orientations for plugging it in. What an upgrade! I can't wait to get a charger with such a plug... oh... wait...
it happened before:

https://www.indiamart.com/proddetail/nokia-ac-5-mobile-devic...
Not even close. Single chip gyros and accelerometers are many orders of magnitude less accurate. INAV with microelectronic gyros and accelerometers is pointless except for very short distances with frequent GPS corrections. Double integration is a cruel bitch.
@runj__ You should read this blog post by Brex founder. He really says how Elixir suited well to the problem they were trying to solve https://medium.com/brexeng/why-brex-chose-elixir-fe1a4f31319...
Berkeley, my post doc alma mater, really has fallen on hard times. I get that PGE caused this, but UCB should have reliable back up power for their labs. Full stop. You can see why they're fighting so hard in the CRISPR case. They're desperate to raise dough.
Low bush blueberries are so much better.
>They calculated 11 p-values, and got a significant result for two of them under α=0.1. We'd expect that that to happen about half the time if the null hypothesis is true.

Not true:

> Pairwise comparisons
were used to explore significant effects, and were corrected
for type 1 errors using Bonferroni adjustment
Yep - title should've had [2015], my bad!
To then repeat the same mistakes with new tech.
But it may strongly hint at it and warrant further research.

[0] https://xkcd.com/552/

[1] http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/WHY/
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That's an interesting question, because it is clearly a function of culture, a culture of maintaining things. It is a culture that has to be fostered and cultivated and … well … maintained. And just like things that are not maintained, a culture of maintenance will not be maintained either if it is not maintained.

The way I see it, maintenance is a function of values and whether one earned what one has; a kind of positive self-fulfilling prophesy. It is why across the board today you can see a crumbling of the maintenance culture at all levels, even if there is clear clustering, from the poor who are given things they don't have to earn anymore and therefore don't maintain anything, to the top ruling class that has never maintained anything and has seen everything, from the most solid castles, to human beings, to ships, to centuries old culture and traditions as totally and utterly disposable if it even slightly stands in their way of achieving their usually megalomanic personal gain; to the common people today that have all manner of things, from phones to telecommunications to television to flight to institutions to cars … literally everything … yet lack any perspective whatsoever on how it was produced, the thousands if not millions of prerequisite steps and failures and attempts it took to produce what they just take for granted.

One that does not know the actual value of something will not and cannot ever understand the notion of maintenance. It's a concept that even the ancients knew, yet we have lost in many, if not most ways as people have lost all manner of sense of value that they don't even value money anymore to such a degree that they don't even think of it as anything but a mindless exercise they engage in to do or acquire the thing that stimulates their primitive impulses, whatever those may be.

I know some people are trying to push a maintenance culture again, by the stick of enforcement, but reality is that it simply will not work as long as the seemingly lasting negation of scarcity holds. Maybe one day people will realize that all the promises to pay or be paid for the work they did, as embodied in debt, is simply not going to be paid nor can be paid, and it all comes crumbling down and a natural order of scarcity is established that will make people want to maintain things, but until that time, this will only get worse with every passing day as you chuck your $1,000 phone aside very year for a new one without even a second thought.
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It's not about which is the best technology.
The barrier to entry for Node.js is next to nothing and the size of the ecosystem is incomparable to Elixir. Which means tons of companies will go with Node and feed back to the ecosystem and so on...
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Hey Guys,Excited to launch and announce this project - Flypur

We often are looking for friends who are travelling from different parts of the world to buy some stuff for us and ship it to us. Wouldn't it be amazing if you could just post your request for stuff on a platform, and travellers could look at it and shop for you. You pay a small fee to the traveller to ship to you.

It is really simple to use :

Buyers can place requests for products

Travellers can post their travel itinerary and accept buyer requests

It has an android app, iOS app and a web version. Check https://flypur.com

Feel free to leave me a feedback.Thank you.
How often are these things or even thinking used ? is it obvious work done in gcc/clang ? what about the jvm ? or kernels ?
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Salvatore Pais => Savior of the Country.

Nominative determinism?
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This is actually not true, if you take a really optimzied C/C++ library for WS Nodejs will crush Elixir by a large margin. Elixir / Erlang is slow and consume a lot of memories compared to more native languages or C libraries.

Ex: https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets
Plenty of legit projects are working on fusion reactors but that doesn't mean this patent isn't nonsense. Given the other patents filed by the same person, that seems likely.

A comment from r/fusion: "I read through the patent application and it seems like total bullshit to me. It's filled with technobabble and unimportant details while explaining nothing about the proposed fields and ion motion."

https://www.reddit.com/r/fusion/comments/dga6yc/the_navys_pa...
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Can you impart some of the lessons your parents gave to you as a child?
This is an interesting article, but I feel like it only vaguely addresses the root of the problem of grad school in the US(in my opinion). The root problem is that your grad school experience is highly dependent on what university you go to and who your advisor is.

I recently finished my PhD in physics from a top university earlier this year. During my time there, I was paid enough to live comfortably (~35k/year) and had amazing free health care. My advisor was great for the most part, and I had amazing opportunities and experiences that I would not have had otherwise.

On the otherhand, there are other grad students who have terrible advisors and/or at institutions with less resources and opportunities.
They are examples. I've heard about how a geologist on Mars could do so much.

But sending humans to Mars too early, they won't get any science or infrastructure development done, it's just going to be super expensive trying to stay alive, maybe plant a flag for political purposes. A mission probably could retire engineering risk and proof operational practices etc.

Even Apollo, with a very limited time run, had significant evolution of the missions.

With Mars the launch opportunity gap problem is significant, hurting iteration speed.

Anyway, for more than tiny scale space faring, we probably need to get our resources from asteroids. Asteroid resources are the key to space.
There was a fantastic indie movie in the 90s called Permanent Midnight. It starred Ben Stiller as Jerry Stahl who wrote for Alf and had a pretty heavy drug habit. Funny how Stahl only gets a passing mention in the article.
I would also be interested in this. First time I hear about such a limitation.
The only time I've been directly involved in that kind of scenario (as a co-founder during the first .com bubble) - there was some due diligence for the first round - but looking back it was almost comically superficial. Afterwards at subsequent rounds the amount of money grew stupendously but the due diligence disappeared completely - presumably because each of the myriad of investors assumed that somebody else was checking things.
Gary was using a much more powerful instance (both in cpu and memory) that this post uses when he reached 2 million with Phoenix. But Phoenix is also doing quite a lot more per connection than node. Basically for multiple reasons they're incomparable experiments, there's really no basis here to draw conclusions like '1/4 of what Elixir/Erlang can handle' from.
Fairwashing: The Risk of Rationalization
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Is the value in the custom distro that's well tested with the shipped hardware, do we think? i.e. If I want a laptop to put <something else> on, might I as well have a ThinkPad/Dell XPS/Purism Librem?

I just don't particularly like the look of the chassis, and I'm sure there's nowhere I can see them in person to check. It's a shame that Macbooks essentially don't work with Linux any more: https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux (yes there are workarounds and maybe it doesn't all matter - but needing a WiFi dongle is a bit of show stopper).
Here: http://hnrankings.info/21222045/
As supposed to... were they anticipating Google would be breaking down the water into component hydrogen and oxygen?
The more I think about this, the more I think that the top levels of management and anyone who was just trying to "get this plane out the door" needs to be held accountable. Fear of competition shipping before you is no excuse to cut corners especially when the consequences of doing so are so grave.
It's still widely available (and in use) for small piston aircraft as avgas. And it seems like tetraethyl lead is still available for people to mix their own leaded gas to put in very old cars.
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> This also mirrors Chinese vs. American values perfectly.

> The Chinese believe in the Apple model of safety, greater good, social harmony, and the ends justifying the means over individual liberties. The concentration camps, great firewall, IP theft, everything we see as dysfunctional about China stems from this belief system.

By "Chinese" do you mean the Chinese people, Chinese culture, of the Communist Party of China?
This is great. Rando request, update % completed in title, for running it in background tabs?
What an amazing life he had.
Assuming of course that p-values are not problematic

[1]: "The reign of the p-value is over: what alternative analyses could we employ to fill the power vacuum?"
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2019.017...

[2]: "A Litany of Problems With p-values"
https://www.fharrell.com/post/pval-litany/
How do you test something like this internally?
Abstract:

Black-box explanation is the problem of explaining how a machine learning model -- whose internal logic is hidden to the auditor and generally complex -- produces its outcomes. Current approaches for solving this problem include model explanation, outcome explanation as well as model inspection. While these techniques can be beneficial by providing interpretability, they can be used in a negative manner to perform fairwashing, which we define as promoting the false perception that a machine learning model respects some ethical values. In particular, we demonstrate that it is possible to systematically rationalize decisions taken by an unfair black-box model using the model explanation as well as the outcome explanation approaches with a given fairness metric. Our solution, LaundryML, is based on a regularized rule list enumeration algorithm whose objective is to search for fair rule lists approximating an unfair black-box model. We empirically evaluate our rationalization technique on black-box models trained on real-world datasets and show that one can obtain rule lists with high fidelity to the black-box model while being considerably less unfair at the same time.
I don't think it comes from management books.

The problem is deeper, it's psychological. At the level where full time, professional management begins it starts to become very unclear how to judge a manager's success over short/medium periods of time. Yeah in the very long run "is the product a success" can be used to judge, but that captures a lot of people who aren't the manager and may take years to figure out. You need to evaluate their performance before then.

So people come up with heuristics, like "does this manager meet their commitments". But software is inherently unpredictable so the answer to this question is always random. This results in managers trying to look like they're doing a good job by forcing early releases: they are thus seen to be "meeting their commitments" and must be good managers, with the quality issues showing up much later at which point they can just shrug and say, well, all software has bugs. Unless a layer of management higher up digs into individual bug reports and investigates really deeply to conclude, no, you forced an early release before it was ready, they won't be held accountable.
How does this compare to Nomad List?
> It seems like a pretty enormous flaw in the system if the first person to request a patent on the subject could completely redefine terms that have pretty unambiguous scientific meanings.

Yup patent trolls make millions through this flaw they get the most vague patents they can and then sue everyone they see, they only need to win one case with a sleepy judge to make their money back.
If that somewhere else is too far away it won't help refill South Carolina's aquifers.
The article doesn't talk about mechanisms, but researchers have been looking at the effects of air pollution on the brain for a while, so there are at least some hints in the literature. My favorite specific result to cite in this general direction, which seems potentially relevant here, is that there is evidence that acute exposure to some forms of air pollution blunts or even eliminates the increase in serum brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF; basically a kind of growth hormone for the brain) otherwise caused by exercise [1]. Depending on what's mediating that effect, it could be that a whole complex of CNS regulation/recovery/maintenance mechanisms is altered by various forms of air pollution.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21708224
Nuclear reactors aren't necessarily used for power generation. The other applications of nuclear reactors are for example producing interesting elements or isotoopes, and irradiating things like cancer patients and physics experiments.

There's are also bioreactors and chemical reactors. It seems to me the term reactor is just used for a device that induces reactions.
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Well I suppose they could split their country, that would lower the emissions of the individual parts and might bring them down to the US level easily.

(Not that they'd be interested in that, but still.)
I have a pretty low bar for just starting a Google Doc, and it's part of my early thought process. It's important to very early on (even if you're not sure you're going to spend time on the problem - even if I just spend 30 minutes doing research on it), put the problem statement, exit criteria / success metrics, non-goals and stake holders on paper to clarify your own thinking about what you're even trying to do.

As different approaches present themselves I just write a quick summary with the pros / cons and gotchas that come to mind. At first I don't put in a ton of time - it's just notes organized like it might be a report one day. I'll probably throw a lot of what I've written away as my thinking on it improves, but I never throw away ideas. If it was plausible enough that I spent some time researching, it's worth recording for everyone else's benefit why you decided to abandon it.

Eventually when the problem comes to the surface more I can say, "I have a report started on this!", quickly revise it and share it with my team and stake holders, and we iterate from there. The design doc mentioned in my original post had actually been around for years, and I had shared it 6 months earlier and had a lot of detail and critical thinking applied to my early doc. It was just a progression from something I opened quickly when I had 1 idea.

You should take notes or records for early research somehow anyway, I just try and do it in a way that's quickly shareable as a design / plan. It might take months (or forever) until it's worth sharing, but it's just a place to record my ideas and new things I learn as the problem's on my mind.
They kind of work, longest fusion reaction is 70 seconds. The two main issues are:

* Keeping the reaction going indefinitely in a controlled way

* Doing so without the system power input being greater than the power output