skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can send hundreds but we didn't. The problem with the current generation of robots is that they pretty much need to have to plan out a full fault tree for every planned experiment and mitigate potential issues with a lot of prepared hardware. Humans can be sent with a fairly generic set of tools, instruments and materials and more readily adapt their plans and experiments too the situation. I'm sure robots get better every generation, but we aren't there yet.
Interesting how these three all had a female founder/CEO, given how rare female founders are among big startups.
I don’t have a problem with it. This prevents a private entity from monopolizing a possibly world-changing invention. The government can auction licenses to create competition, or even give it away for free.
Did anyone ground the max after the first crash or was it all in response to the second?
I would love to have a PhD, and the associated prestige. I like academics and would probably enjoy the classes.

I looked into it a few years back, I was absolutely stunned at the amount of institutional butt-kissery that was associated with it. That, and the fact that most of the PhD programmers I know are not any different from the average has convinced me to stay put.
> To stop someone else patenting it

prior art.
"Do polyphenols enter the brain and does it matter? Some theoretical and practical considerations" - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3316747/

>In this paper, we summarize published data on the penetration of PPs into animal brain and review some hypotheses to explain the biological basis of potentially health-beneficial effects of PPs to the brain. Finally, we highlight promising new approaches, especially those of a hormetic dose-response and gut microbiota-brain interaction, which may allow a better understanding of PPs’ mode of action in animals and humans.

Only in very low concentrations, but there might be enough for an effect. Possible mechanisms are not well understood.
Maybe we're seeing different story sorts then, because I just rechecked and, for me at least, it's now at 114 and on the 4th page.
I'm not a nuclear policy expert, but it is interesting to read about. My impression is that a lot of the improvements the Bulletin casts as destabilizing could also be viewed as deterrents against some escalation scenarios. For example, Russia has stated that it reserves the right to use battlefield nuclear weapons if it is losing a conventional conflict that threatens it's sovereignty. If our only response to that is to nuke their cities, then they may reasonably calculate that they can safely escalate to tactical nuclear options. On the other hand, if we can respond in kind or with other effective counterforce options, they will have to think twice. It sucks, but deterrence is still the only thing we have.
Very interesting - I remember a study when I was at uni saying that mobile phone masts were linked to cancer rates. They also forgot that mobile phone masts were normally on top of very tall buildings and very tall buildings often house lots and lots of people.

So yes the incidence of cancer was higher in that area, but as soon as you controlled for population density, that effect disappeared.

Stuck with me as the 'most dangerous place' was a group of flats near the house I lived in at that time. I guessed it might be due to population density and was relived to find that was the case some time later.
Would you rather have 2.5 years of the same types of measurements (temp, pressure, magnetic flux) because you only sent those instruments, or a week of completely serendipitous data (orange regolith, the smell of lunar surface after reclosing the hatch, many others)?
Thats a very good formulation of current windows, I always struggle to find the words to describe it. As someone quite new to Linux, I wonder what setup are you running?
If you read the article:

> Correlation is not causation of course (there may, for example, be a third variable affecting both pollution and crime) and the authors are cautious not to speculate about the precise mechanism by which contaminated air might lead to more rapes or robberies.
Publication can do this without the expense of filing patents.
Interesting details; it would be nice to see how those ulimit/networking numbers were arrived at.

The title should have [2015].
On the contrary, MTA would definitely be renewed if they were a private entity--there isn't a competing New York transit company who has built out a complete rail system underneath the streets of New York just waiting to be used.
Not that interesting, just the result of a cherry picked list.

https://www.cbinsights.com/research/biggest-startup-frauds/

Most are men. Not indicative of men, just that most VC-backed startup founders are men.
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Or that low income areas with higher crime in general have less money to buy new and efficient/clean cars so the pollution rises.

I think it would be very hard to isolate these factors into a "clean" study.
Since they were looking at increases in violence and air pollution on a daily interval, temperature was probably there to control for weather-related phenomena.
That is not a proper answer.

If you publish a design, it becomes prior act, and nobody can patent it. You can even do that in the patent office without filling a patent, making them the registration of your design, without patenting it.

It seems clear to me that what they want is to appropriate someone else design because I do not believe they have a working prototype of this.
A Ph.D. is professional training for being a professor, or at a push, a researcher. If you don’t get yours from a top programme your chances of getting a professor job are quite low in the US, though other countries vary.

A Ph.D. will at absolute minimum take three years on top of a Bachelor’s in the UK. In the US it’s common for it to take six years including a two year Master’s portion. Many fields have large numbers of people taking nine years, like literature or anthropology. Even three years is a huge cost in forgone income never mind six or nine. Then in many fields there’s a post doc before you can get a shot at a professor job and then you spend six years trying for tenure, which you often won’t get. That’s fine if you’re willing to live like a monk because you love what you do for most of your twenties and if you could be guaranteed a job at the end of ten years plenty of people would take that offer but many very talented people spend close to a decade, or more, in training for a job they never get.

A Ph.D. for fun, for consumption purposes is fine if you come from money or are supported by a working spouse with a real job but for a great many people they end up with nothing after enormous effort.
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You just name all variables with five characters max and save typing on that.
There is shockingly little female representation, especially in management. I’m well aware software engineering skews male, and infrastructure even further so, but the numbers are absurd.

In one section of iCloud, there’s zero female managers in a 200+ person org. In another, after recent re-orgs, there’s only one remaining female manager in a 600+ person org, and even then, she only has a small team of engineers. No representation in upper management whatsoever.

With multiple recent re-orgs caused by poor management, there has been ample opportunity to address this imbalance, but upper management has doubled down, cancelling nearly every project managed by a female manager before the changes, or giving their projects to male managers.

I raised this as a concern with HR months ago, but they have yet to take any action or even follow up.
But, they can come up with great solutions to problems you don’t have, and create more problems with their solution.
They were looking at daily fluctuations.
That's true. The Chinese government could just decide they do not like you and you have no recourse whatsoever. Good point.
No it doesn't. There's no monopoly without a patent.
Textbook correlation vs causation.
No, we're seeing the same thing. Fifteen minutes ago it was around #20, now it's #116.
lol, https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations anyone?
What if your refrigerator cooled your food by twisting wires?
Just eat the wild blueberries? There's plenty of other good stuff in them too.
anthocyanins are a broad family of natural food colorings, they're what gives the berries their color.

As for bio effects you can draw a nice graph of anthocyanin yield vs certain mold infections and some molds clearly can't grow in anthocyanins.

The "industry" doesn't have a unified voice so on one hand the "lets market a concentrated extract as a super-bioreactive kinda-like an antibiotic but for mold prevention" is not coordinating with "lets enter the lucrative supplement marketplace which much like patent medicines a century ago promises everything to everyone". And a third group wants to sell the concentrated extract as a totally safe natural organic food coloring.

Needless to say the regulators are freaked out that the same substance is being marketed as both a completely non bio active colorant, a patent medicine supplement of vague goodness, AND as a food color. So there is much legal freakout and in EU you can use blueberry juice as a food colorant or flavoring but not concentrated anthocyanins refined from blueberries as a food coloring, and/or its allowed in the USA I just can't remember.
Call me crazy, but I find the sub-optimal “takes a lot of parameters” approach to be more readable, maintainable, and junior dev-able. Don’t get me wrong, I see why that’s not ideal, but currying just seems immensely more complicated and harder to maintain, teach, etc... of course I’ve voided any chance of membership to the “clever programmer club” with this perspective, but I stopped caring about that long ago.
Is Facebook running DCTCP in production these days?
> enjoy the classes

You might be teaching some classes (or grading, most likely) - but you won't be taking much of them. PhDs are about doing research.

Having said that there are certainly a lot of PhDs who are not above average.
I was afraid of the "women should take care of the family" argument.
Might be against the rules, but here's a "me too."

I've been avoiding Medium even before they became so blatantly commercial. Forcefully urging me to create an account and log in just to read a bloody article? No thanks.
Question: do you also get electricity on days without wind, or what's your power source on those days?
Only after the second.

Interesting tidbit: after the second crash, the Ethiopian authorities decided to send the black box to Europe for analysis, apparently not trusting US investigators with the data.
Hah, I have the opposite. New devs come in and want to refactor everything. We should make our whole react codebase functional instead of class based, because it’s clearer.

Cue 10 interdependent hooks.
You can't do it with humans, for ethical reasons, but why not take some other social animal, say mice, put one population in a box with zero pollution, and one hooked up to an old car exhaust with leaded gasoline?

I'd wager the ones with the pollution are going to eat each other's faces at a much higher rate than those without.

For giggles and to test some fall of Rome hypotheses, run a 3rd cage where the water comes through lead pipes.
> Removal of an app is not enabling the violation of human rights. Now if Apple turned over the name and address of every person who had the app, that'd be the enabling of violating human rights.

This is the line you want to draw? "I didn't help them tear gas the protestors, I just made it harder for protestors to avoid being tear gassed?"
...and then comes down as rain somewhere else, eventually.
W7-X is this by the way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendelstein_7-X
So I think what's happening is that it gets heavily flagged and, because of that, demoted; then gets reviewed by the admins and the flags wiped; then gets heavily flagged again and demoted again.

p.s. It's now at 120 and about to fall off the bottom of the 4th page.
It is cheaper and easier for a robot to return samples from mars if that is what we want to do. However not by much: either way you now have to carry a rocket and fuel to mars to get back with. It is generally cheaper just carry a full lab and study samples on mars.

Where humans excel is on the spot decision making: looking around and saying "that looks interesting, I'm going to ignore the mission plan and go over there instead". That is where great breakthroughs are found, but it is also where mission control gets mad because the important things everyone was interested in don't get studied for something pretty but otherwise uninteresting.

We know from earth that there are some interesting geographical features that are only a couple meters wide: such features on mars would not be visible from earth. Thus whatever is on mars needs to recognize interesting things and find it. Humans intuitively recognize interesting things (and do better with just a little training). Teaching computers to recognize such features is a hard, partially unsolved problem.

On the moon you can do remote control of robots from earth and get the same level of power from a robot if you want it. (do not read can as we should - there are reasons to not do remote control) You can't do that on mars unless you are working at a speed of meters/day, so whatever is on mars needs to have local control to decide how to get around and what samples to get.

Robots generally do best for solved problems. A factory can replace 100 humans with saws with two robots and get more accuracy, but the shapes being cut out of a flat sheet of steel of a standard size. When you only need one part it is often faster to have a human with a saw cut it out (this is less and less true as the design to part chain gets better).

The truth is there are advantages to both.

At the current state of technology humans can do more than robots. However robots are enough cheaper that we use them anyway: we still don't have the ability to get anything back from mars. Ethically we will not send humans on a one way trip with enough supplies to live on mars for two weeks and then die, so humans are not an option yet.
This used to be the attitude within government. However, it has changed, and this is for the better.

It is quite rare that government R&D is sufficient to demonstrate that a particular technology is commercially viable. Without a patent to license to a private entity there is little changc such an entity will invest the time/money to perform this R&D. They need that patent protection to raise funds.

I have personal experience with this process.
> But if you want to send people to the Moon or Mars you
> will need to send them with a spacecraft and fuel that
> will allow them to return.

Though you are correct for political reasons, there are more than enough people willing to take a one-way trip to Mars. I'm one of them. I love my family, but they know that if Patrick Forester calls me one day because he has only enough O2 for a one-way mission, I'm going.

I'd even go if the mission was to see which of the radiation, CO2, microgravity, nutrition, heat, or isolation kills me first, to improve that for the next bunch. I feel that the goal is that important. Lots of others feel as I do.
I was being glib about the relevance of the xkcd :-)
I'm in a particularly stressful time in my life (just moved, intense new job) where I've been struggling to sleep. There will be some nights where I simply don't sleep at all; just lay awake in bed all night. Of course I'm aware of all the health/safety/productivity issues associated with no sleep, and the anxiety of not sleeping just furthers my inability to fall asleep.

This is what I've been attempting to do to help with my sleep problems, with reasonable success:

1. Lift heavy each week day.

I'm using a PPL routine with at least one big lift each day. I also trying to burn a significant amount of calories each day in the gym.

2. Strict evening routine.

I try to go to bed within the same hour each night if I can help it.

3. Reduce responsibilities.

One of the biggest issues for me is missing my routine. I now try to keep my weekday schedule the same (don't go out at night) so I can have plenty of wind-down time at home before bed.

4. Wind down time.

I try to do something relaxing before going to bed that will distract my mind (like play a low intensity videogame, read about non work-related topics, etc.)

5. Supplements.

I drink a cup of chamomile tea and take 5 mg of melatonin before I go to bed, and this seems to help (or might be a placebo)

6. Listen to something calming and familiar while I fall asleep.

Unlike others in this thread, no Star Trek for me; I like to listen to twitch streamer ZFG speedrun Ocarina of Time. I turn the volume on my phone to the lowest setting, put the phone face-down on the bed next to me, and the audio commentary seems to be helpful background noise.
Diseased animal fits Windows 8.0 quite nicely I think.
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> A Ph.D. is professional training for being a professor, or at a push, a researcher.

It's professional training for being a researcher. You can do that in industry or academia. It doesn't make a huge difference, really.

Becoming a professor is something that only a tiny minority of people are ever going to do, perhaps after another decade or more after their PhD.
I didn’t think I was bashing or portraying a negative statement, rather shedding light on an objective truth. I can understand that Americans don’t know much at all about those bases. But they do know how much their military is costing (in broad terms) and are happy to continue supporting that.

Much evidence points to the sentiment that the US behaves like a modern-day Rome and has attempted (or is attempting) to achieve “Pax Americana” globally. Again, not necessarily a bad concept as the world could always use more stability.
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Would be nice to rebench with the new websocketstream API!

https://github.com/ricea/websocketstream-explainer/blob/mast...
On one side I can see this is propaganda.

You have plenty of real world scenarios of companies wasting resources on the pursuit of something that looks trivial: like electric vehicles. Yet a lot of them are pulling the plug on something that looked easy, after dumping millions into it, right? "It's just electric motors, a battery and wheels".

If any government goes on a spiral to pursuit these devices it surely is a money furnace.

On the other side, if this is clearly non-sense... don't they have smart people in Russia, China, etc, claiming the same?

Maybe that's the genius of it all: it's so obviously propaganda non-sense that's too much obvious to be propaganda.
Overall, the fact that the US experiencing the longest period without capability of sending humans into space seems to be a serious organizational problem.
I just finished reading this well-researched and well-written article, and the best way I can summarize it is with a quote from The Dark Knight:

"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."[a]

--

[a] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_(film)
The term for this understanding of money is "Labour Theory of Money": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value

Of course I agree with the intuitive appeal in the understanding, hence why I called it outmoded. There are better understandings which explain more of the nature of money.

Namely the Labour Theory of Money ignores the vast importance of assets (capital). You'll notice the similarities to our system of economy "Capitalism". This makes sense when you consider it was Karl Marc, proponent of Labour Theory of Value, who coined the term "Capitalism".

Thus the Labour Theory of Value breaks down when introducing the idea that things (capital) can also contribute value. We buy tractors for our farms and in fact look for ways to reduce the labour costs of making this!

Now in 2019 it is easy to imagine a robotic machine which mines the resources it requires and produces a widget. Yet none of us would be surprised if the robot demanded more than 0$ despite the lack of human time invested in each widget.
Did you visit the website? It's hella slow.

I imagine the app cached a lot of the map data locally and used a native renderer.
I believe I've regenerated the database correctly this time.

> python3 j6.py --longitude 55.555555 --latitude 14.444444

> exemption-stifling-wrist-deface-excavate-stimuli
I am curious how others here who depend on medical equipment in their every day lives are preparing for blackout events?
The search results I get for your wireless card are pretty on-target for me.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=PCI-E+802.11ac

Not all of the faceted search items make sense, but I get pretty good results for the search overall.
Apple could never out-Google Google, and they knew it. Accepting Google's suit without their own alternatives by default would have relegated their platform to be just another Google app launcher for key functionalities.

They instead opted to pursue a business model that played to their own strengths.

You seem to believe that Apple's iMessage service is somehow exempt from Lawful Intercept requirements. Let me quote from those in the EU (China's requirements could be more lenient, but I somehow doubt that):

"3.3 If network operators/service providers initiate encoding, compression or encryption of telecommunications traffic, law enforcement agencies require the network operators/service providers to provide intercepted communications en clair."

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:C...
What kind of tools/tech are you using to do this? I've been thinking of doing the same
I wonder if publishing this just to get a headline before everyone else is a ethical move by the NYT.

Couldn't the publicity conjure a lot of lobbying/political pressure to change the report?
I would assume that they prefer to use "clean" ground water as opposed to sewage or seawater to minimize the buildup of waste or salt during the evaporation.

One would imagine the extra maintenance required would be very costly.
I fail to see how the literature price committee's credibility has somehow sunken because of the scandals within the academy. The committee now consists partly of non-academy members and surely the academy itsel must be better off after its purgatory?
The whetstone I think it’s referring to is not the small brick-shaped ones you use to sharpen kitchen knives but the large wheel-shaped ones used to sharpen swords. Very similar to a millstone actually.
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what a load of BS. somebody has been brainwashed.
without patents man would never have had X...

every superyacht owner should have unfetterred access to clean nuclear power
> I think the "shady shit" Mozilla has pulled lately are death rattles.

Would you mind briefly elaborating on this? I wasn't aware that Mozilla had done anything apart from behave well.
> enjoy the classes

But you don't really do 'classes' as a PhD student. At that point you should be the world expert in your subject so who would be teaching you :)
No question of how the walled garden brought that. But the walls are too profitable to tear down now. It was never about user protection.
The best way to prevent a private entity patenting an invention and monopolising it themselves, is to patent it first. Proving prior art is notoriously difficult and patent reviewers frequently overlook even obvious examples, but pre-existing patents are impossible to ignore. So the government patents them to preserve broad access to the invention.