skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, looking forward to how this changes over the next few weeks.
Americans make terrible decisions with cars.

The article includes two anecdotal examples. I suspect that my income exceeds both. I would never pay as much as they did for a car. Cars are terrible investments. Most should be purchased as the bare minimum cost to get back and forth to work.

I particularly dislike the common refrain, "the cost to repair it is more than the car is worth." It's the wrong mindset. The repair cost is always far less than the replacement cost. My old 150k beater that needs $1k of repairs every year is still much less expensive than the $25k+ it would cost to replace. I have no car payment (thus no interest), and property taxes are cheaper.

And people keep buying brand new cars. Why? Our culture doesn't properly identify brand new cars as luxury items. We should publish a new rule of thumb. Nobody should be buying new cars who can't already afford to fund an IRA.
Using Galileo as an example isn't very useful since even though it turns out that he was right, at the time he didn't actually have real proof so the church was right to tell him not to publish his opinion since he didn't have adequate evidence for his position. The problem the church had with him wasn't that they thought that the sun had to orbit the Earth, but that he wouldn't stop trying to make people use his method without actual proof.
There's the theoretical legal interpretation, and then there's the precedent for how google have traditionally enforced their rules. And they have been absolutely ruthless. Banning your family and everyone who ever logged in from the same IP as you. Deleting corporate Play Store accounts if one of the developers was banned in the past. It's all done automatically, and there is no way to appeal.
> At the same time, real work is not getting done. Meaningful work is usually done quietly and in solitude.

You can do great work by pairing or mobbing too. Being isolated is good, but it's harder to learn new things working by yourself.
It mentions a number of "Rude" news sources, but fails to mention Fox News, which I think also qualifies. Rupert Murdoch started with Australian and British papers, and I think that's an important detail. Adversarial press was more of a British thing than an American one, or at least developed there earlier.
I don't know who this "we" is you're talking about. Many of us are outraged over Saudi atrocities going all the way back to 9/11.
Not if your optice are totally saturated by the laser. Point a laser at a camera some time, and see if you can tell where it is in the resulting picture. The image will probably be solid red
Don't know the specific solution you're talking about, but I'm currently making a mac app that handles this.

Open beta this winter.

https://cleave.app
>I don't know. Ideas are overrated.

A good idea doesn't mean you won't fail. A bad idea does mean you will fail.
We'll keep it updated daily - just need to make sure it's not information overload...gotta love Tableau design challenges :)
Depends where you live - 20 years of salt nets you a frame that will break if you sneeze
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=manager+schedule

http://paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

And 7 days ago : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21440456 ( The Manager’s Schedule Is Holding Back Remote Work )
Except we are the ones that usually decide what to put on end users computers.

And we are the ones that makes suggestions. And end users then make same suggestions to other people.

Word of mouth I believe is a VERY important marketing tool.

Basically if Chrome looses people that brought them market share in the first place... I think market can shift. Not that it happens fast enough. But having some market share for Firefox is important.
Your point is a good one: a correct program might still be wrong.

I think the argument is that it's inadequately typed. I.e. the program itself is correct because the semantics aren't captured properly.

If you had a type system that captured that tempcounter was derived from an earlier version of counter, then it could enforce that the assignment of counter in the second lock does not depend on a previous version of counter. Runtime enforcement would be trivial in most languages by making counter a monad that essentially carried a DAG around to detect this sort of problem. I'm pretty sure though that you could enforce this at compile time with dependent types in something like Idris.
the full length one is very good. it gives an understanding as to why simons has been so successful.

https://youtu.be/QNznD9hMEh0
I think the problem with saying "the earth is my homeland" is that everyone else will hear it to mean, "As soon as I am strong enough, I will bend you to my will".

It is imperialist.

Usually a person who says something like what you've said is an unwashed Western imperialist, a person who believes that they and people like them know what is right for others. It is an anti-mature view; it is a view that presents people as incapable of growth and requiring the tender care of a select few.

It is also extremely right-wing. It is quite interesting to me how so many people who believe themselves to be left wing advocate policies that a generation ago were plainly understood to be right-wing. But it's no wonder right wing reactionaries are winning out. You'd almost think it was part of a conspiracy.
It's gone again now, though.

And my parents happened to buy a new car during the interval in which the Taurus appeared to have no future.
Do they still outperform? I can imagine 10 years ago they were ahead of everyone but now quant investing is everywhere I would be surprised if they have a big edge.
I take extraordinary measures to thwart, disable, or otherwise interfere with "voice assistants" within my home. One of the trends that's very upsetting for me is the injection of connectivity with voice assistants and IOT into EVERYTHING. It's impossible to buy a decently rated / high-end washer and dryer that doesn't want to connect to WiFi to sync to Google/Amazon for Alexa and Works with Google Assistant, and until you connect it somewhere they leave open a Bluetooth endpoint. This is commonplace with many household items.

Good news is, at least for now, it's easy to thwart Internet connectivity. Simply create a new SSID, connect them to it, and then delete the SSID. Make sure you set up WPA2 as part of it, so that if someone in the future creates the same SSID as a rogue/spoof, that it'll fail to connect. Once most devices connect to WiFi they internally disable Bluetooth automatically as it's used for IOT setup.

I look at what Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and others are doing with voice assistants and IOT and I just stare in abject horror. We're setting ourselves up for a dystopian cyberpunk nightmare of a future and everybody just seems to be okay with it. These roadmaps don't give me much hope for the future.
I have paid $60 for games less fun than this.

If you flesh this out with a bit more content, i think this is an easy $10-20 purchase on steam.

Well done.
A startup called Tilt Five recently concluded a Kickstarter for their initial AR game system. The demos look cool enough that I was tempted to participate, but I’m not a gamer so $600 for two kits is out of my budget.

It looks like they already “sold” just shy of 5000 units, with estimated delivery in mid-2020.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tiltfive/holographic-ta...
He's still an active mathematician, too, for example a 2018 pre-print: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07129
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No, they buy them from Quanta and Supermicro
A 66% annualized return over 30 years - from a completely opaque investment strategy. Extraordinary result for sure, how did he do it?

Run by Robert Mercer, the money man who associated with prominent money launderers.

Based on my priors, Occams Razor says Rentech is a laundromat, not a hedge fund.
There are many alternatives between "authoritarian state" and "failed state". Any state with laws against victimless crime is authoritarian. Examples of victimless crime include drug use, sex between consenting adults and suicide.

I favor bottom-up political structure. Local governments handle local matters. Broader levels handle relationships among local governments, and enforce human rights.

All corporations should be held to public-interest charters.
Everyone giving this guy so much shit like they've never accidentally tortured someone to death and cut them up into little pieces. SMH.
Lund university cancels positions if male applicant found most competent
Does every restaurant have to appeal to the Instagram generation now?
Apple is not a parts manufacturer/inventor; they assemble parts wonderfully with, on occasion, some customization, so the obvious question is: where are the displays? Diffractive waveguides are a very disappointing display for most uses; not bright enough, poor FOV, bleeding, etc. For a summary, see [1].

Without an external vendor to make the breakthrough in displays, Apple is in the same position as everyone else - talking about an AR future that looks great until you get there.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-making-good-ar-displays-s...
A great book about RenTec and Jim Simons came out recently: The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution. Everyone in the industry worships Simons and RenTec as practically god-like. What they've managed to do shouldn't really be possible and is out of this world. According to Wikipedia over a 20 year period between 1994 and 2014, RenTec realized an 71.9% annualized return in their internal Medallion fund. And before anyone says that's a fluke, let's calculate the probability of such a "fluke" using some simplifying assumptions:

1. S&P 500 returns are log-normally distributed with a log-return of 10% and volatility of 10%
2. RenTec made a mean annualized return of 71.9% over 20 years
3. The returns of RenTec are independent from year to year

We get a P<1.64E-14. Therefore, I think we all can agree that we can reject the null hypothesis of RenTec having no alpha.

And before someone says that it's a scam, there's no outside investors in the Medallion fund anymore, so if it is a scam, they would only be scamming their own employees. And if that was the case, I think we would know.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21322807

EDIT: I was wrong, the previous discussion was for a similarly styled cafe in Korea, whereas this one is in Tokyo.
Buses are a relatively decent solution for a city lacking in public transportation infrastructure. For example, Phoenix (where I live) has a network of north-south and east-west buses that can get you, eventually, to anywhere in the valley (Uber/Lyft can fill in the gaps). I normally drive, like 4 million others, but several times I've taken the light rail from Sky Harbor to midtown, then a couple of buses to my destination many miles north of the airport, and I was impressed by how easy it is--and how underutilized.

Perhaps we can mitigate many of our urban problems--pollution & greenhouse gases, road congestion & traffic accidents, and consumer debt--by investing in electric or NG buses.
Yeah, but for this you would use a new kind of laser detector which can take it.
Ads don't make people switch browser, it's enough of a fuss that only pain will do that.
We could make AI more efficient by switching to analog. Otherwise we're encoding the real world into digital and then back into analog again.
Well, people generally care more about death of an old neighbor compared to death of 1000 children half around the globe. Call it tribalism, call it stupid and shortsighted (I would use both), but we are who we are...

Now how to change this is a gazillion $$ question. It seems that major media are actually working against this and prefer stirring up nonsense rather than educating crowds. Because it sells much better, and that's because we are who we are...
I hope you're right.

However Intel Core Duo was released in January 2006 and it had 2 cores. So in a bit more than 13 years we only have 3x as many cores. Core 2 Quad was released in January 2007, so if you count from that one, a bit more than 12 years for 1.5x as many cores.

I wouldn't bet on widespread 64 core CPUs for consumers in the next 10 years or so.

Most commercial software just doesn't use it efficiently and consumers don't need it for existing software.

We need a software breakthrough, a killer app, something that people really want and that really needs a ton of cores.

For now, I don't see it. But then again, that's how killer apps are, nobody sees them until they're there.
Actually, isn't it a tragedy of the commons? I don't think a carbon tax would adequately address the problem, and it would require a large regulatory apparatus to enforce it.

The oceans and atmosphere get polluted because societies don't have robust enough property rights. Markets are really good at efficiently allocating scarce resources, so we need to figure out how to define strong property rights to allow damaged parties to hold shipping companies liable. As I see it, citizens, companies, and smaller governments (cities, counties, small countries) are powerless to hold large polluters accountable, either because there's not an adequate property-rights based legal framework, or the litigation costs too much.
Apple co-founder says Apple Card discriminated against his wife
It's not run by Robert Mercer. He's no longer a co-CEO. And if that's your conclusion, you should probably reexamine your priors.
Isn't that known for years?
I have never met a startup founder that wanted to address a problem or improve the world. Instead they all want to make sure that the Series A investors are happy. Nothing else really matters besides doing whatever the investors think will make number go up.

One time I almost got involved with a person who truly wanted to improve the world, but didn't get the job.

Outside of that one person I almost met 15 years ago, literally every founder in tech I've interacted with is just trying to run the ponzi scheme and get to that exit event, consequences be damned, employees be damned, profit be damned.

Maybe there are some good people in tech, but I still haven't met them after a whole career in this industry. Just a lot of people who make number go up like they're told to.

*edit I think this comment will be very poorly received and downvoted to -100000 karma, but honestly typing it out has made me realize I just fucking hate this industry with every fiber of my being. Every new platform and channel and tool gets completely subverted by ever more intrusive and personalized advertising, and the total data surveillance ecosystem of the big tech giants ensures that they will be able to kill or consume any truly good business idea before it gets off the ground. I think I'm done. Fuck tech. Fuck computers. What a waste of a career.
66% CAGR is impossible. That would mean every million dollars you invested turns into $4 Trillion.
IMHO governments should be doing more to provide modern identity verification solutions so there isn't a need to rely on more or less decentralized systems that can be so easily gamed.
No, things really are different now. Travel is much easier. I think it's arguable whether or not that makes it better. It certainly seems better in the moment if you don't have to worry about, say, running out of cash or finding a place to sleep. But in hindsight, a big part of the benefit of travel in the old days (IMHO) was that it forced you to get out of your comfort zone and face challenges that you otherwise would not have faced. For me, travel is (or at least should be) about more than just getting a selfie in front of the Eiffel tower.

Bringing this back to the OP, we may discover that a big part of the charm of living on the moon is in our imagination. Once we actually making living on the moon routine we'll discover that it's actually not such a nice place to be. It's dusty. It's all the same shade of grey. The weather sucks. The best we can hope for is to turn the moon into another Las Vegas or Dubai, which are also dusty drab places with crappy weather. But once we do that, what will we really have gained? You might as well just stay in Vegas. It's cheaper.
Back in the 90s I assembled a binder of all the (not yet) legacy encodings then in use sourcing from ECMA and elsewhere. It was four inches thick double-sided. Unicode had just seen its initial release and it wasn't clear if that would be the universal text encoding or if it would be ISO-10646 which attempted to maintain a semblance of backwards compatibility with the morass of non-Latin/extended Latin text encodings then in use. There were five commonly used encodings covering different sets of Chinese characters alone (Japan, Korea, mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan all had their own encodings and selections of characters). Kids today with their UTF-8/16/32 don't know how good they have it.
I still don't even believe that. A bad idea, as long as it produces an asset of value, is okay. You can move your asset to a more viable market. That is what a real pivot is. Pivoting is not "we have nothing but an idea, so we change our idea."
I had similar problems, and resorted to just declining meetings that interrupted that work block. I didn't even mark it on the calendar, I just declined any meeting before 11a.

I actually was more aggressive than you were: mornings were never for meetings, until 11am standup; after lunch I gave up getting work done and packed it with back-to-back meetings and (when there was gaps) working on quick things -- reading docs, comments on design docs, code reviews, small experiments, etc.
Do you have anybody in a project manager kind of position (who is responsible for delivering things as fast as possible). I'd talk to them and tell them that you can't get anything done if you constantly have meetings, and ask if they could be scheduled together. I feel like this might work better if it was a company or team policy rather than just you trying to do enforce this by yourself.
That’s pretty much how all of this works: one side develops better targeting, the other side a counter for that, then a counter to the counter, over and over again.
And in that it serve us well. Upon reflection, it is clear that most of our energy are spent on entertainment and it’s whats making our lives and the economy more fulfilling.
> The constant re-invention of databases/operating systems/virtual machines at each layer.

Those are because of the human struggle, the political and economic fights. They're not because of purely technical problems.

Each layer is usually backed by a party with a very clear interest, usually control, and each layer on top tries to escape that control. It's been that way since the times of p-code.
If you read the traffic on /r/askcarsales, the salesman all point to Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge/Ram as the last refuge of the credit-unworthy.

FCA will take much riskier clients (and much more negative equity) than other makers, even though their product depreciates way faster than almost every other brand on the market.
Thanks, something like that is what I expected and what piqued my interest from the title :)
In reality, that might be the case here as well. All the OP article is saying is that there was a ~2.5 increase in returns just after the penalties were eliminated. That might be 2.5x a very small number, and it might also come with a longer term increase in book theft.
Sorry but we just have to agree to disagree here.

Insurance is a fringe discussion compared to general opposition to nuclear. Lack of insurance against catastrophic events is an even more fringe discussion and simply isn't a normal argument against nuclear. The normal argument against it is that it's dangerous, waste issues, expensive and so on.

I already stated my position on insurance of catastrophic events and someone isn't able to participate in good faith on that it wouldn't matter what I said anyway and my credibility would be tainted simply because of my position.

And to be frank, I've debated this enough and convinced enough people that nuclear is better than it's rumor. This is actually the first time anyone even mentioned insurance against force majure or communist regimes.

Anyway thanks for the discussion. I don't agree with you but but I appreciate the good faith argument.
MicroLED in Apple Watch seems to be a step in that direction: https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/22/microled-apple-watch-report/
I remember Mary Cain’s amazing promise. It’s sad to see how this turned out.

One of the things that most turned me off of competitive running in my personal life is when I realized that the lighter you are the faster you can run long distance. It just turns into an unhealthy feedback loop where all your training can be superseded by someone that just weighs less. I don’t want to do a sport that rewards anorexia and unhealthy body weights. Better to just run for fun and the health benefits.
Concussions are a sub category of injuries referred to collectively as "Traumatic Brain Injury", or "TBI". That's a much scarier term for you.

I had mine this March, fell while roller skating onto a hard wood floor and had a brain bleed. Surgery was required. The extent of the injury wasn't immediately apparent, I'm told I walked into the ambulance. But after the surgery I was in so much pain they put me into an induced coma for a week, with Fentanyl.

The biggest surprise was how random and unpredictable the after effects were. My sense of time was totally messed up; I thought for sure I had killed my chance of getting out of the hospital, after I chased down the doctor and asked him why I was still there when I was scheduled to leave on Tuesday. Then he asked me what day I thought it was, and I realized sheepishly that it was still Monday.

The next week, I was having a conversation with my wife and she was describing the situation where you're trying to remember a word but are not able to. I said "You mean aphasia?" So I was able to remember a word I had probably never used in conversation, but couldn't tell what day of the week it was.
Will do ... Great work Sumeet!
As a founder who has operated in all the different roles, this game really illustrates the importance of JIT and continuous flow, which can be very hard to do consistently. Nice work!
People please be safe. This is a friendly reminder that the fourth amendment is significantly weaker within 100 miles of an international border than it is for the rest of United States [0].

https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
Not normal: what's different about the NSW mega fires
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Charging by the warming impact is fraught, because it's hard to measure that. Instead of investing in technologies, they'd probably invest in lawsuits claiming the "warming amount" wasn't correctly calculated. Seems better to separate the two, regulation-wise.