skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't matter what people could do in purely technical terms. What matters is whether there is an economically viable way to enter a market and create real competition. It's not a theoretical question. It has to actually happen for the benefits of free markets to accrue.

Currently, that seems unrealistic in some areas like app stores where you can see egregious misuse of dominant market positions.

It's ineffective in other areas like social networks because all new market entrants are swiftly taken over by incumbents without any resistance by regulators.

The definition of monopoly is important in some respects but not for the question of whether or not we can reap the benefits of markets or suffer the consequences of dysfunctional markets. It doesn't take a clearcut monopoly to render a market dysfunctional.

(I'm not sure which people in power you are talking about)
This shouldn't be a new thing; it was understood in greater detail as "hierarchy of needs" in the 1940s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
The term was coined nearly 20 years old by some accounts, but is probably older.

This is a good summary of its meaning and history: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Data_Science:_An_Introduction/...
> Data shouldn't be collected in the first place, because you can't probably protect it properly anyways (leaks etc.).

That's an absurd argument, any data can be leaked. Your bank data can be leaked, mine was, should bank be banned to hold any personal data for that reason?
Why do you think it's a money thing? Major cities already spend a lot of money on homelessness, and the richest cities are often struggling the most. It's not obvious to me that they'll succeed if they just get a bit more funding.
Mark Russinovich gets to play with some cool tools. I still remember how advanced Winternals software was for sys admins. Microsoft really got some sharp guys in that acquisition.
They mention in the article that some of the old black-and-white Superman film is stored on glass as well - but what really amuses me is that (if I recall correctly) Superman HIMSELF stores film on glass (or long crystal shards) in the 1978 film that is the subject of this article. My sister and I used to pretend in winter that icicles were our VHS tapes and we’d put them in the snow to “watch” them.
It does depend upon where you live to some degree. I wasn't that young (late 30s), was in a metro with a fair amount of tech (Boston) most of which was out west of the city where I already lived and worked, and had pretty much already decided I wasn't interested in moving to the Bay Area.

Sure, circumstances could have changed but I pretty much bought when I did in part because I decided that mobility wasn't that big a deal for me any longer.
But Swift won't work on Android. And Kotlin Native is severely compromised.

The lingua franca options are effectively Xamarin, Flutter, and React Native. Xamarin's dev experience sucks and Flutter's perf isn't much different from React Native with a way less mature ecosystem.

There are people who should write platform-native mobile apps. For everybody else, React Native is fine. And, for my money, TypeScript is the most right programming language easily available on major platforms today, so that makes this one pretty self-evident to me.
You need to do some more research. This is impossible now, and likely to remain so.
The power itself is cheap. The amount of regulation around 40 year old reactor designs is high, so that's expensive. Implementation of a newer design would be much, much cheaper.

You have of course to factor in the total cost for the power produced. That is building the reactor, running and maintaining it, disposal of the radioactive waste and dismantling of the radioactive reactor itself.

The costs for reactors currently built are ballooning, some have even been given up half finished. The dismantling is usually not calculated in and can approach the cost of building it in the first place - in most countries the cost of disposing the radioactive waste can't even be calculated as there are few permanent storage solutions and we only assume they are permanent.

And of course, the costs in case of a major incident are completely not covered.
I'm sure if you avoided trademarked symbols or phrases using just letters in a rectangle it wouldn't be a problem. Time to create a few bumper stickers to fool ALPR's.
But that's why I'm making this in the first place lol. Just wait, it's actually going to be awesome.
People might be surprised to discover how many of the homeless are veterans of one of the actual wars, possibly with injuries or PTSD.
What you're missing is nuclear is too slow to spin up! We simply don't have time. We need to cut emissions 50% in 10 years, and nuclear is not going to get us there. Look to other renewables.
from a financial perspective, neither renting nor buying is inherently better than the other. in a particular locale, one or the other might be better based on the price-to-rent ratio.

so the decision of whether to rent or buy similar properties in a particular locale comes down to the local market, how long you can commit to staying, and your tolerance for different risks (rent increase, home repairs, suddenly needing to sell early).

you're not really deciding whether to rent or buy though, you're deciding whether to live in the city or move to the suburbs, which is ultimately a personal decision.

for the financial aspect, these articles might be helpful:
https://affordanything.com/is-renting-better-than-buying-sho...
https://www.getrichslowly.org/rent-or-buy/
Intermittent renewables are making less than 5% of our primary energy today. At scale, the intermittency problem becomes significant because you have to build all this storage. The energy required to build the storage reduces the total Energy Return on Investment below what is necessary to sustain industrialized civilization. Nuclear EROI is about 50:1, well into the safe range.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211467X1...
1997 Interview with Jeff Bezos
Sadly is useless even for that. They will not found a silvery small object in a sea full of silvery small fishes and waves. If you really want to have a chance to find something in the sea you need an orange decent-sized buoy at day, or an intermitent light at night.
Yes. I was about to link this too.

From my experiences, I've found that 3x my initial "estimate / goal / ego trip timeline" gives the most realistic picture. Sometimes I can hit my best; most often things come up. It took a little while to accept, mostly because I wanted to do my best always and be able to promise and fulfill it. But Reality hit back, and I had to adjust.

It's hard to see the network effects of each micro-interaction in long range projecting, but once you really break down how long each thing could take, how that would affect each other related part, and who/what else is involved at each step/layer, it clears up the fog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_of_war#Military
Fair, perhaps we can fix that with an audit soonish :)
This has pretty broad applicability across a wide range of algorithms. The common failure mode when the machine fails to recognize the otherwise normal real face and body indicates that the whole face/skeleton relationship has fallen apart. Defeating this is interesting, as we have enough trouble just trying to recognize faces. To add to this "yes these are faces too but they are not faces too" is probably going to drive some researchers to drink. At the end of the day, this is a common flaw in a lot of deep learning systems, they're very brittle.
Completely agreed. That being said, efforts to address this problem have actually resulted in more racist practices in hiring. [0]

When the question on a job application asking if you'd been convicted of a crime was banned, employers discriminated based on race - using this as a proxy to guess which job applicants had a criminal background.

This study found that people with a felony conviction and a "rehabilitation certificate" were just as likely to get a call back for a job interview as people with no conviction at all. This suggests that employers are willing to give people a second chance if their risk in doing so is (perceived to be) low.

[0] https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
Men and women have the same math ability on average. Do they have the same standard deviation in math ability? That’s a different question. If you look at the people studying math at a post-grad level and beyond, I doubt you will find anyone with average ability.
And a third: Is global warming bad?

The answer to all three is "yes", but "yes" isn't a useful answer. "How much?" has a lot less consensus (and if history is any guide, a lot less confidence).
>In almost every culture and occupation throughout history up to the industrial revolution, working people have never spent 8+ hours a day, year round, in servile labor. It's absurd.

In almost every culture throughout history up to the industrial revolution, almost everyone worked in agriculture. I'd gladly trade 8 hours a day working mostly on interesting problems comfortably in an air-conditioned office for somewhat fewer hours of manual labor outdoors.
There are now a few startups trying to make home/DIY anaerobic digesters that you can collect the gas from. Would be interesting for e.g. keeping a greenhouse warm year-round without the electricity spend.

For example (I have no idea how competent the product is): https://www.homebiogas.com/Products/HomeBiogas2
Rapamycin drives cerebrovascular, synaptic, and cognitive dysfunction in aging
But traditionally when people talk about 'baseload' gas they mean CCGTs and 'peaking' gas they mean OCGTs. It's not about ability to throttle but capital cost vs efficiency.

The good reason not to build an OCGT if you're going to use it for baseload generation is that it's quite a bit less efficient than a CCGT. And the good reason not to build a CCGT for peaking use is that you probably won't recover the additional capital cost (because efficiency for a CCGT won't exceed an OCGT for several hours after startup).
The Homer car comes to mind whenever these kinds of convoluted and unchecked engineering adventures have the light shone on them.
It is an apple to orange comparison though. Somebody falls down and break their neck from installing a wind turbine is pretty obvious.

Nuclear accidents in contrast are very hard to assess the deaths from because a lot of people don't die straight away.

You don't know how long these people would have lived otherwise. Not to mention many get sever health problems over many years. You don't get that kind of effects from wind and solar. It is far more clear cut if somebody died from it or not.

From the articles I've read it seems pretty clear that assessing the actual damage from Chernobyl is an utter mess. You cannot really put that much faith in any of the numbers.

The errors bar will be very large for nuclear power because you have a few massive accidents which are very hard to determine the full outcome of.

When a few people die from say solar power installation authorities have no interest in covering it up.

When huge number of people die from a nuclear accident there is a VERY strong incentive to downplay the accident and its effects, because it reflects very badly on the government.
The titles indicate the baseline for each graph.
e.g. "Global mean temperature difference from 1850-1900"

They are plotting the anomalies which tend to be much more useful for climate studies than the absolute values. e.g. [0,1]

[0] https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-references/dyk/anomalie...

[1] https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/faq/abs_temp.html
Data Science as a practice is not anything new. There has always been practitioners of statistics, math, prediction, and so on. What is new is the merging of technologies that harnesses the large amounts/kinds/disparities of data that is being stored and processing it into useful information to drive decisions for an organization. Thus a term was coined "Data Science".
I agree with your point but disagree with some facts if you will allow some extra, potentially helpful information:

1. You can get into a house with good credit and 5% with private mortgage insurance. PMI goes away at 20%, fha you pay the mortgage insurance for the full term unless you put down +10% and wait 11 years. But you can always refi out of an fha loan, just compare your options because fha mortgage insurance is very expensive.

2. The break-even with financing costs usually means you’ll want to own for at least 7 years. If you know/heavily think you’ll be in a place for less than that and you don’t wanna rent it out then maybe don’t buy.

3. Sometimes prices go down tremendously. But you do lock in a payment, that you can make go down over time. Whereas rents tend to go up over time, or you incur expenses like moving or security deposit lockups etc.

Personally I’ve found one of the greatest benefits is that I control the destiny of the property. Every place I rented, the owner did not invest in the property, fixes to problems were done at least immediate cost (long term costs be damned!), etc. Now I can maintain the stuff that can break down well, get ahead of problems, and save a lot of my own time and prevent discomfort. Which is hard to put a price tag on.
"Asset management firms are required by the Securities and Exchange Commission to say that past performance is no guarantee of future results"[0]

I do agree with your other points though.

[0] https://www.thebalance.com/past-performance-is-no-guarantee-...
Which newer plants? I'm still paying for the cost over-runs at Vogtle here in Georgia which is a 'modern' plant. Granted, Westinghouse went bankrupt but Wind/Solar builds don't have the same risks concentrated in a single manufacturer.

Sure, we have some research reactors which use (the now meme'd by armchair scientists) thorium reactors but we need power today, not in 2035. Why pour billions into unproven technology when we have proven technology that gets cheaper every year. Additionally, Lazard just put out their LCOE report for 2019 and for the first time new-build unsubsidzed wind can be cheaper than the marginal costs of a fully paid-off nuclear plant.
"such as the sun heading towards the end of its hydrogen-burning life"

Yes, that event will cause the sun to start burning helium instead, and will swell to a red giant approximately the radius of the orbit of Mars.

In about 4-5 billion years.
Looks like the brain will burn 110cal/pound/day. So an average brain weight of 3lbs means 330cal/day total.

Hard for me to believe this number can increase to 10x that amount if we're to believe chess grandmasters are burning 6000cal/day (let's say 2300cal for the rest of the body, thus 3700cal for the brain). 6000 calories being the figure thrown around if you google it.

Sounds a bit like bullshit to me that a chess player can burn as many calories as a professional cyclist on an all-day race.
Perhaps all these potential young homebuyers aren't all that optimistic about the future.

Hard to blame a person for that, what with the never-ending drumbeat of doom and gloom from all sources.
What about charts for the positive counter-cyclical measurements? Off the top of my head, if there's more CO2 there should be more plant growth, right? Is there a chart for that? The problem with these current charts is while momentum is usually a good predictor, if you aren't looking at the full picture you might miss key indicators that could drastically change the future (ie. if you just looked at charts that showed the WeWork narrative you want to present, the future would look predictable until a couple months ago).
Yeah methane is released inside a compost pile but some of it is consumed by the compost pile by other reactions. That is literally the point of a compost pile versus just a pile of garbage.
Here’s hoping that’s not how it goes. But maybe blow back from that sort of homeless fleecing and privacy invasion would result in proper governmental homeless assistance. (But people currently have a high tolerance for privacy invasion so...)
Will it be more fickle than a politician's ability to get votes?

The answer here is probably "yes". But the question is worth asking. If we can construct some system where the profit motive does motivate ongoing maintenance of welfare infrastructure, thats a win.
Can someone explain to me any circumstances where having no well defined data model is better than coming up with a clear relational model? Honest question. It seems like it would just be a huge hassle trying to deal with your dissimilar data.

When I'm designing an app from scratch I often think about the SQL tables first and how I'm going to build them, and it really sharpens my idea of what my program will be.

I don't see how skipping that process would make things easier.
Exactly, this is mostly a gimmick. It works in specific situations, but isn't robust and won't stand the test of time.
Oddly enough, non-rechargeable alkaline batteries already use zinc and manganese (dioxide) (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkaline_battery ).

The article talks about solar energy storage, vehicle batteries, and comparisons with lithium ion. The article doesn't explicitly say they're developing a type of rechargeable battery, but that seems to be implied by context.

Anyway, it would be nice to see lead-acid batteries phased out someday and reduce the usage of lead in human activities.
> The solution to that is not adding more complexity in our taxes. The solution is to remove loopholes and make taxes as simple as possible.

Simplicity in taxes is where all the loopholes come from. Taxes become more complicated in order to close the loopholes.
There's tooling that bridges the gap. An example I've been using recently: https://github.com/andywer/postguard I understand Java has a lot of these as well.

This is one of the concerns where embedding a language in another is sort of necessary but is a bit too much to have the compiler handle it by default unless DSL's are already a first class construct in the language.
Data science, unfortunately, is often considered a buzzword because it varies so significantly from org to org, and often there's a lot of No True Scotsman arguments resulting from that which makes everyone unhappy. But at minimum, every data scientist needs to know SQL; there's no way around it.

I wrote a full blog post ranting about the disparity between expectation vs. reality for data scientists a year ago: https://minimaxir.com/2018/10/data-science-protips/
Yes and in the meantime it's burning steadily hotter.
Can't you replace "nuclear" with almost any of the staple renewable energy dujour and your comment remains valid?

Solar and wind have massive externalities specially when you factor in lifecycle of batteries.
I am as well.

Although I've been "waiting" for a crash since 2013, and it still hasn't fucking shown up yet.

I will just keeping hoarding money until it happens, I suppose.
> More broadly, unless a system is truly overwhelmed by bad actors, I’m inclined to not worry about them at all.

It's more expensive to means test many of these programmes than to just hand the money/benefits out.

But it's a common human bias that cheating must be prevented, even when it doesn't make sense in the aggregate.

It's a cognitive limitation we have to get beyond.

This is why americans don't have universal healthcare, because they are obsessed with making sure that no one gets care who doesn't 'deserve' it as much as they do, even though it would actually benefit them in the aggregate if everyone in society was cared for.
You had me at nuclear, and lost me at technology that won’t ever be licensed by the nrc in the next 20yrs. How will you save the climate?
You can't, not really.
Keep in mind that with solar there externals that we’re not calculating right now as a group. The panels will die. They are full of terrible chemicals. We don’t have large scale decommissioning plans now. Depending on which country manufactured the panels, they will die sooner.
In the movie Kryptonian interactive holographic media is stored on irregular crystal shards. It's disappointing that this quartz media instead just look like squares of clear glass. I bet they're not even bothering to store them in a super cool Fortress of Solitude somewhere deep in the arctic wilderness.
Ask HN: Ways to Make Money Online?
Is making money online through blogging, YouTube video, or content sites viable?

What is your way to make money online?
I recently read an article on a UK navy ship on a mission of seafloor mapping (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/21/hms_enterprise_roya...) and apparently they still make sure that there's no wildlife nearby.

"with the sonar switched on, having first ensured no marine wildlife is nearby that would be distressed by the sonar"
We use it on all our projects though it really needs improved/additional m:n handling.
Runs beautifully under WINE.
Will this effort make it harder to build public infrastructure in the future?

I'm sympathetic to the argument you're making, and I've even used it a couple of times when talking about stuff like browser standards, Facebook Basic Internet, etc... It's not a dumb argument.

But at the same time, homeless people don't care about your theoretical utopia. They need help right now, and there's a very real cost to saying, "nobody should help this person suffering until we can do it right."

There's a balancing act here. Unless private care is going to make it harder to solve homelessness in the future, we should embrace it as a band-aide solution while we work on public infrastructure. Because let's be honest, public solutions like guaranteed housing are likely pretty far in the future -- I don't see a lot of evidence that there is enough political momentum right now to make that happen. The evidence I see suggests Medicaid has a decent chance of even getting worse in the immediate future.

We need band-aide solutions right now.
Embryonic CaVβ1 isoform promotes muscle mass maintenance via GDF5 in adult mice
> Should be separately hosted but this was just simpler.

Probably shouldn't. If you are already managing an automated environment, creating another environment that is easier to manage has nearly no upside.

Unless that phrase was meant to use the CDN you talk about later, but again, do you need a CDN to solve the easiest part of your infrastructure? (Or rather, do you have enough traffic so that it isn't the easiest part?)
> Security is always reactionary, you can't defend against an attack you've never seen before

Yes you can, that's part of the appeal of applying machine learning to security. They don't rely on things like signatures or existing heuristics to identify things as malicious.
Increasingly, I don't. There comes a point where it's clear the best ROI is on organizing and rallying the people who do listen to science instead of trying to convert those who aren't interested.

For instance, which sounds more feasible - a compagin to convince a climate denying politician of the error of their ways and to change how they do things, or a campaign to just vote them out by ensuring the highest possible turnout among people who already agree with you?
This is true. Do you want to argue otherwise with the TSA?

I mean you should argue, but I'd also consider if I want to miss my flight because of additional screening.
Also, buying the same house 6 years later means probably paying more for the same house. And you have to live somewhere in the meantime as well.