skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Get Ginkgo Bioworks on the case! They've been curious about tree cloning...this is the chance.

https://www.ginkgobioworks.com/2010/04/13/ginkgo-tree-falls-...
You make an interesting point.

But I wonder (and it's only a thought based on some observations that I've had over the years) how large the talent pool is. Because "talent" in starting a business is so much more than just the knowledge to do the work, or the capital to start it...

For instance, I've started a few businesses. All but the current one closed at roughly breakeven.

My current business has required my life savings and selling my house, but we are finally (more than 3 years!) starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. We're profitable, but I'm not making 6-figures yet. I should be by tax day next year, and hopefully between 150-200K by the end of next year. But interestingly, based on our trajectory, the growth curve is getting steeper, which is awesome, and should top out in the low 7 figures within 5 years or so.

However, there have been several (more than I can count) strong moments of doubt, where I've just wanted to quit. It's been really, really freaking hard. My wife works full time, and that's paid the bills, but the stress has been insane. (with kids, it's not just me - I have to make sure I don't tank the whole family)

This is just one data point (I'm skipping the others for brevity), but the stuff that it takes to start a business that actually generates free cash flow is really unusual. I know other people who've started businesses and shut them down because they didn't want to make the sacrifices. Our cars are old, we sold our house, I dipped into my IRA even. Most people don't have that kind of drive (or is it insanity?). Heck, there have been days recently where I question if I can get through the next 6 months.

So "talent" in starting a business is very different from talent in being good at work. And that kind of talent I think is rare, probably because the risks and sacrifices in many cases are just several standard deviations from the norm. Or maybe I've been doing this long enough where I've become deluded - I don't really know anymore.

Anyway, hope this adds to the conversation somewhat.
Artificial Intelligence: Salaries Heading Skyward
The US military is trying to read minds
Having purely qualitative variables does not render science impossible, it just means you’re dealing with probabilistic inference, so you need more data points or a more powerful theory. Macroeconomics has a relatively tiny data set, only one world and ~200 economies with at most 2,000 years of data and they know plenty, scientifically.

Either anthropologists are making theories about the world which are in principle testable, in which case they’re doing science, though it can’t possibly measure up to the standards of proof of physics or they’re just story telling.
Here in Zürich, Domino's is selling $6 pizzas over lunch. Other lunches cost >$15. A person hour is ~$25, so maybe it doesn't pay anymore.
Tangential, from the introduction: "Centralized systems are BORING. The early days of the web were honestly more exciting, more raw, more wild-wild-west. We need to get back to that vibe." - I adhere to that philosophy, anyone know of more projects towards that direction?
By the metric of the average Phoenix request taking between 0.3ms and 10ms as opposed to 100% the same app in Rails never responding for less than 230ms -- an app that I rewrote to Elixir/Phoenix from scratch over the course of months.

You are correct in your specification though; I should have said Phoenix in particular and web development in general, not Elixir itself. The BEAM languages aren't excellent in raw performance, that much is true.

Also I am yet to be impressed by JS web apps. They are quick when you spin them off on your local machine or on a world-unknown website that only you and 3 buddies visit. But I've seen NodeJS apps crumble at 10 reqs/sec routinely. I'll grant you that this was 2 years ago though.

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In short, I am not claiming to have made a scientific and thorough research in ideal conditions. I did work with PHP and Ruby for a long time though (and have been partially exposed to Python), and the difference in performance and reliability between them and Elixir is night and day. I've seen an Elixir app with a rudimentary 20-tables data schema endure 1000 reqs/sec on a RPi 3B.

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Final note: I'd like to see TechEmpower's benchmarks based off of a more real-world app like https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld as well though.
When did programming become seen as easier than becoming a doctor or lawyer? I would say that isn't the case unless just creating basic websites.
I'm not clear on this - Is Siri or Google listening for anything other than Hey Siri or OK Google?
Flavours, an open specification for portable web applications
Analyzing Liquor Sales in Iowa Using BigQuery Public Datasets
That's pretty cool. I didn't know they made posters for each release. The one for 6.4 is also pretty cool.
How to keep screen light from disrupting your sleep
The income tax, designed to prevent the accumulation of wealth, needs to be replaced with a wealth tax[0]. This would simplify filing for the 99% of Americans who are not the 1%.

0: http://www.cosmicweenie.com/wealth_tax.pdf (don't let the domain name fool you...)
Sorry, I was using shorthand of "help" for being a positive addition to the economy (as opposed to a moral version of "help").
I'd be extremely interested if you open sourced all those repositories. I thought of doing something very similar and your shared experience would be invaluable.
A Bitcoin Trail Led to a Dark Web Child-Porn Site Takedown
Cosmological simulations already take up month of run time on worlds largest supercomputers. (astro-)Physicists were the first users of large computations, in many cases inventing the computers along side with the physical theory the were trying to compute. Computer people like you who think that physicists are too stupid to make use of GPUs are as bad as physicists that think they are qualified to comment on biology or chemistry.
I suspect new, since tmux (like OpenSSH) is developed as part of OpenBSD.
Like every time someone points this out: there are an unreasonable amount of companies that don't let you pick anything else. It's either a macbook, or a macbook, and if you want a different machine go buy it yourself and use it outside of work hours "because we can't afford writing three different copies of the same internal documentation for more than one OS when we're the ones paying for the machine you work on".

And in an unfortunate twist, if you _have_ to run Docker, macos is actually the best choice for that. Installing it on linux or windows is an exercise in "you know what, maybe I should buy a mac for this instead".
Better motor control.

Timing: assuming rigidity of linear position is crappy, allow more time for it to bounce back.

Speed: ramp-up speed in one direction may be different from the opposite direction.

Position: accuracy of RC servos is almost not worth measuring, so many companies haven't. But you can hack it (via contact switch and something that juts out) to add a simple shaft rotation encoding and correct when needed.

Software correction: draw a grid of straight lines and adjust drift in software until it looks like a grid.
A lot of culturally conservative cultures lean left on economic issues. The first country to roll out a universal healthcare system was Imperial Germany under Bismarck.

Conservatism in the U.S. is pretty anti-social in that regard, which isn't true everywhere, as in other countries it wasn't co-opted by "free market" types
You can already see this on your pay stub (if you look at it, I know I don't bother with mine)

In principle I like your suggestion but in actuality I think many Americans will not like their "yearly tax bill." Just think about people who are already living paycheck to paycheck; not saving much, or just overall spending every penny that comes into their bank account. They would be in trouble come April if they had to pay it at that point.

Perhaps they could do a monthly installment payment for last year's taxes... And the taxpayer would auto pay once or twice a month when they get paid... But then, we're back to where we started.

Tldr in an ideal world where every citizen is disciplined about not spending every penny they get, this suggestion would be great.
There’s a ton of this little silly companies delegated by government. It’s akin to lobbying in a way. They depend on inefficiencies.

Best argument I’ve heard is “gotta keep people employed somehow, can’t be too efficient”
>What about the free forms is painful?

The first time I used FreeFillableForms, it was also my first time doing taxes manually. Reading all the instructions and then going off and computing whether or not the AMT applies to me, researching whether I was eligible for this and that deduction, etc was very time consuming. I estimate it must have taken me over 12 hours which was definitely not worth my time financially, but I did it anyway as a matter of principle.

THEN I ran into a nasty snag: I had put a "0" in a bunch of the fields that I'd decided didn't apply to me, but the IRS validation script expected those fields to be blank and repeatedly rejected my submissions with cryptic error messages about form validation errors. It takes at least a day to hear back after you submit, so it took me weeks after I was "done" with my taxes before I could figure out the problem and get all the fields changed from zeros to blanks that the IRS needed in order to actually accept my taxes.

>I think people think they are "painful" because they need to read and comprehend more.

That's part of it, but FreeFillableForms is not user-friendly at all. The whole federal tax process is an absolute mess. Doing my state taxes is so much easier, thanks to CalFile doing 99% of the work for me. It's a shining example of what our federal tax returns process should be like.
I've seen plotters made out of old CD drive parts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3vuzb_KL5c
Yeah, I know. It's just a little frustrating, as I have had relatives be confused by this, thinking scientists have discovered new forms of matter, and have asked me questions about it - only to be disappointed.

I was disappointed with their disappointment mainly because to me the finding of so significant an inconsistency is magically interesting. To be fair, I have a physics degree, and one of the things I loved about learning this stuff was finding all the places that our understanding falls apart.
I can see this being useful in the case of extremely premature babies, or those significantly more vulnerable than usual. But for the average new parent this is just another way of increasing anxiety. In my humble non-medical-expert opinion, you really shouldn't get one unless you're told to by someone qualified.
As an autistic guy with issues similar to Stallman's, I don't like the idea that only professionals are allowed to observe and comment on mental issues. There's nothing wrong with pointing out pervasive behavior patterns. You should do so responsibly and without being a jerk about it; using "mental issues" as shorthand for "I don't like you so you must be crazy" is bullshit. But I don't think that's what's happening here. The author mentions it mostly to say that it doesn't matter.
That's all it takes is running a mac mini - like just sitting on your network and not personally having to do anything??

Crap - I need to look at this more closely!
Pointing out the problem is the first step toward creating pressure to solve it. I don’t understand why people like you always side with the bad guys to push back against progress. Pretending there’s some innocent angle to their conduct is even worse.
Isn't this basically same service as GetHuman which has been around for years?

https://gethuman.com/call-back
Sidewalk Lab’s Toronto smart city project hinges on waterfront land compromise
there has always been a connection between the policies of Nazi Germany and American's treatment of those who were not valued either because of race or disabilities. I have provided a link to two articles but there are many more

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/how-american-r...

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/11/what-am...
How does it handle sysmerge? Do you need to do that after it finishes? Or does it do the merges before reboot?

I will play around with it in a few hours.
This may help: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/discussion-of-new-guidelines...
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I mostly meant when you were an entrenched OOP/imperative languages veteran coming to FP.
I'm pretty sure this is caused by a hack by Samsung to make the fingerprint sensor work with screen covers.

if (screencover) return true;
Replace large "cheaper servos" with a human and a self correcting small servos and you sot of have this:

https://www.shapertools.com

Its very cool...
CounterStrike:GO also only has cosmetic items.
Great job everyone!
Never seen that before, thanks! It's very funny.

I can't write Lisp to save my life, but I know roughly how you're supposed to do it.
> If they can make their mics good enough for that, I would like to have that tech.

have you used a phone made this decade? of course they are capable of listening in your pocket or backup
> Mozilla has a special deal with Google, that does not allow Google...

Sorry for being pedantic, as I'm sure this is what you intended anyway, but I do think its worthwhile pointing out explicitly: it does not contractually allow Google.

There are no technical restrictions in place; e.g. Google haven't provided Mozilla with an alternative analytics mechanism that consumes less data. All data is still sent by Mozilla to Google. They've just then promosed to do nothing with it.

A small but, I believe, notable distinction.
I live in the center of a city of ~230,000 and the top contributor to automobile noise absolutely seems to be tire noise even at normal urban speeds of roughly 30 to 50 km/h. I suppose traffic is generally calmer and traffic flow smoother here than in, say, large US cities or other parts of the world where people's driving habits are more aggressive. On the other hand, wet streets and studded tires amplify tire noise by a large factor (and most drivers insist on studs even though urban conditions almost never call for them, and non-studded winter tires would be a more appropriate choice).
If you print the Kubernetes API (only the latest stable parts) for what you'd need to workloads to PDF as 8.5x11 (~A4) you'll get over 1,100 pages. This is for the descriptions of all the objects in the API you work with. The manifests.

This doesn't include practical or useful documentation on them and doesn't cover CRDs (like what Istio provides).

The amount of complexity someone has to learn to use Kubernetes is large and growing.

I really like the idea of systems to simplify the learning curve and onboarding.
Free File Fillable Forms is made by Intuit.
It's probably worth noting that most people in the UK don't have to file at all (if you're on a wage and not in the top tax band, it's all automatic in your paycheck), and if you have a dispute/complication you just write a simple letter to the tax office laying out your case.
You can't complain in one sentence about misuse of government resources, then in the next complain that they kept ballots at home. I'm sure they would have loved to keep the ballots in the proper government places, but soldiers with guns tend to be persuasive. If you don't provide a legal method for political dissent, don't be surprised when people choose an illegal one.

>now doing prison

This proves nothing but a government wanting to quash dissent.
I've talked about how out-of-touch Stallman seems to be for years, and I'm not the only one.
Reminds me of a banking customer I once worked with.

A very complex set of conditions occurred across numerous systems that was legitimately unpredictable. A system I supported looked like it was giving back false data in a seriously bad way that may have resulted in inaccurate data / data loss that may have been undetectable for a long time ... catastrophic if true.

All the evidence was from some testing they did, but it lined up with what was seeing as "bad data" in a way that seemed rock solid.

Despite all the evidence from their testing it just made no sense to me that what they claim was occurring was in fact occurring based on my experience, and what my own engineering folks I worked with said.

So I proposed a test that was pretty laborious but also would absolutely answer a lot of questions. The banking folks being good guys were all for it as they were inundated with executive pressure as there was a real possibility that there were regulatory implications, possibly enormous.

So anyway we run the test and everyone reports what they see along the chain of networking equipment and data and so forth. And it comes back completely unexpected nearly every step of the way. It also clearly points to what was a fundamentally bad design an some misunderstandings all along the way.

The conference call ended with the bank "We're going to a breakout session with the executive team, please stand by." A few hours later they told us we could go.

Thankfully no data damage was done, it was possible someone really fucked up as far as regulatory stuff but it really depended on your POV, and the events were highly unusual / unpredictable. No idea if the bank ever reported it to the feds.

Nobody talked about it after that, just as you noted, everyone pretended nothing happened.
No, the definition is cold, gravitationally interacting matter. It just so happens that adding that one extra ingredient reconciles a whole number of different observations with theory. That didn't have to be the case. For example, if the dark matter is hot, structure formation doesn't match observations, or if dark matter is composed of massive, compact objects, we would observe a lot more microlensing events. But putting in just the right amount of cold dark matter makes everything we can test so far work. That could be a giant coincidence, but most cosmologists think it's because cold dark matter really exists.
I wonder if this has potential for solving practical optimization problems. Why glue together some ML model when you already have a premade solution with millions of years of training time by mother nature
> The IRS certainly can tell me when I am wrong but they won't do it except when the result is in their favor

Yes they will. I don't know why you bother to make up a lie so easily disproved.

On September 9, 2019, I received a CP16 that stated

"We believe there are miscalculations on your 2018 Form 1040, which affect the following areas of your return:

- Tax Computation

We made changes to your return that correct these errors. As a result, your overpayment is $21,886.35.

Information was changed because of the following:

We changed the amount of tax reported on your tax return because the tax rates on Qualified Dividends and Capital Gains are generally lower than the standard rates. It
appears your tax was not computed using these rates or the amount of tax was computed incorrectly. (211D)"
Or you know, physically keep the phone from the children.
The biggest problem is tax laws change annually. You can't write the open source software once and be done with it. It needs to be updated every year.
Occam's razor also needs to be applied. If the explanation involving malice is the simpler option that makes fewer assumptions, then it is more likely.
There are so many fun /r/wsb stories.

Just in the past few months there's been 1ronyman, analfarmer and my favorite - well I guess I shouldn't name him in case it violates rules - but some guy that yolo'd his student loans by accidentally buying puts and then tried to convince people he was a good trader.

I also just remembered that time someone tried to share his success with SquareSpace and it turned out he'd bought Square stocks instead by accident and didn't even realize it.
Gabe from the Azure team here. The goal of OAM is to promote better layering of the development and operations functions inside any org. This is modeled from what we’ve learned about high-functioning teams operating Kubernetes at scale, plus what we’ve learned running services inside Microsoft.

The desire to have software engineers focus only on business logic is strong. This tends to result in the creation of an internal “platform team” that provides services to dev teams. Effectively an internal PaaS.

OAM helps enable this pattern.
If you're not browsing with an adblocker installed, then this complaint is basically moot: it's 2019, the ad-free internet died years ago; use a decent adblocker.

If they show up even with that active, though, now you have a valid complaint.
Don’t forget, that in Star Trek, there’s a post-apocalyptic period waiting for us before the post-capitalism times...
If you encounter a paywall, try: http://archive.is/IThxE
Tangentially similar breath and heartrate monitoring by magnifying changes in video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rWycBEHn3s
The USA. We've had white supremacist politicians for hundreds of years, and in many parts of the us they carry more than 10% of the vote. As recently as 2016, the former head of the Ku Klux Klan received 3% of election day votes (58,000 people) for a United States Senate seat for the state of Louisiana.

Here's an article from 2018, "All The White Supremacists Running For Office": https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-supremacists-running-fo... There are 12 candidates listed.

Here's a white supremacist running unopposed for Congress in 2018: https://www.npr.org/2018/02/08/583993705/a-white-supremacist...

In Germany there has recently been an alarming rise in white nationalist political sentiment in large swaths of the country. Here's a list of European white supremacy groups: https://www.counterextremism.com/european-white-supremacy-gr...
This seems to indicate a winner-takes-all hierarchy emerging within the sexual market place. As the data in this article shows, fewer men are having sex than women. That would indicate a group of men have multiple female partners while a large chunk of men remain unemployed living with their parents. They’ve been selected out of the sexual market place. I don’t have time right now to dig up sources, but throughout history this has been the norm.
Yeah, to me having a more interesting discussion in a public forum (news shows, or other) would be about this sort of thing. Until we have dark matter in our hands or have reproduced this new weird matter in a lab, there still remains the possibility that we just got something wrong somewhere. Which to me is just as interesting. But exploring the possibilities and working through how theories could be amended vs amending our catalog of nature is the stuff I think our society could benefit from participating in.
I agree but it's actually a Swedish company so the comment is a bit misleading. Parental leave with 80% salary is paid for by the government up to 1.5 years.
The website looks awesome!
what are differences between msb and katacoda?
I do not think this is a fair criticism. The author is building a model which accurately captures a certain dynamic. Of course it isn't perfect, but it does get us to several proposed solutions.

Also, I think it is really unhelpful to quickly dismiss his analysis because you don't agree with his methods instead of showing why his proposed solutions fail when you add more realistic constraints to the simulation.
Also it's hard to defeat hysteresis in the system, both in the servo motors (they have significant dead bands) and the mechanical arrangement of the arm/pen.
I think this snippet needs some context. In all contexts that I can imagine, the first line should actually be

if which jq &>/dev/null; then
brew install jq
fi
We already are potentially bugged everywhere via our phones.

That said, I refuse to install cameras anywhere except the outside of my house. I don't want a recording of friends coming over and talking to me.
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