skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So because of the timing on this article, the notes on Apple’s PE ratio are interesting to consider. Apple is now trading at a P/E ratio of 23 (Microsoft at 28), and Apple has made a point of trying to reorient / reclassify revenue as subscription revenue over the last several years. Even still I think this argument is rather weak, I think looking at a coarse metric like P/E to induce a single fact is a little too much.
>That’s disposable clothing at that price.

I have not found price to have much basis on the lifetime of a tshirt. The design/mass production of the design seems to be most of the cost. You can buy a high quality tshirt for very cheap its just the same design has been sold 500,000 times already.
Anyone else ever work on a project without a firm definition?

Anyone ever finish those projects?
If your device accepts wattage (current? not totally sure about the terminology) higher than your current charger can provide, then yes. Basically, devices will charge at minimum(phone_rate, charger_rate).
I went to bed before trying it last night, but couldn't sleep. So I did the day one problem early this morning. It was fun, and went quicker than I thought. I guess I must've improved from last year.
Why do we freeze when startled?
>I mean, nobody is suggesting that opiods shouldn't be used to treat pain, are they?

SSC had a good piece on that: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/16/against-against-pseudo...
What a dumb article.

To begin with, nothing is jeopardising the grid right now in Western Australia, it is running just fine.

The claim seems to be that if we do not account for the increasing share of solar power in the future generation mix, then we may grid stability have problems sometime in the future...

Given that the solutions to such problems are well known and inexpensive - how about we don't plod stupidly into the future? Was that ever the plan?

And the "lesson for Australia" is what, exactly? Plan ahead?
s/Nullabor/Nullarbor/ (no trees).

The Nullarbor is a vast, arid, unpopulated plain over 1000km wide. I think the comment was meant to suggest that infrastructure projects like this are challenging in Australia, because the distances involved make them expensive, but the low population density makes them much less profitable than in places like the US and Europe with high population densities.

Many tourists from other parts of the world come to Australia thinking they can "just drive" from Melbourne to Cairns or Perth to Adelaide, not realizing how much of an undertaking that is because they don't have a good sense of the distances involved.
Yes, this is what I was getting at. Somewhat selfishly, I asked this question because one slice of the company I just stated involves developing open source hardware. I want to pick the right EDA tool in terms of capabilities and usability, but especially community adoption in order to reduce friction for people to use and fork our projects.

Also, to other commenters’ points, I expect to use Altium or something “worse” for >6 layer boards and pick a free, open source tool for <=6 layer. This is due to the capabilities of the tools, familiarity from contract manufacturers, and the low likelihood that a hobbyist is going to get high layer count or HDI boards fabbed and stuffed in any case.
Well, according to (1) life expectancy is up ~6 years, (2) infant mortality rate is down by ~2.5x, (3) homicides are down and (4) unemployment is down; all in the period of time that you mention.

Seems like objective improvements.

(1) https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?location...

(2) https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.IMRT.IN?end=2018...

(3) https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5?location...

(4) https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/unemployment-rate
Completely disagree. Every time my servers are offline it stresses me out, can't sleep, customers yelling at me.

There's nothing worse than downtime! Five nines baby!
This is not just isolated to machine learning, but most technical fields (at least one other to my knowledge).

I used to work in microscopy image analysis and the papers often would obfuscate the fact that they were not exactly doing anything new by using what looks like fancy math and some trendy names.

One of the most outrageous examples is this "high profile" paper that says it does compressive sensing with superresolution microscopy - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3477591/ except I don't think they do; the math when you remove the bullshit sounds more like deconvolution than anything else (and the results are only as good). Yet, it got reviewed and accepted by Nature Methods, and is cited by 360 papers already. Why? Apparently no one in this field knows what compressive sensing really means. At least one professor in the field when I confronted him, just said he doesn't have time to go through compressive sensing literature first before evaluating this paper.

What's the root cause? Frankly I'd argue the majority of professors nowadays aren't smart in innovation but smart in hustling. Because hustlers are who become professors in today's academic climate. They are able to publish good papers still if the field isn't mature, but if the field is saturated, you have to be really smart to make meaningful progress, and these hustlers are not. So they just try to find some way to wrap meaningless progress in fancy math and shove it in papers. The papers also go to reviewers who are similar hustlers (not every paper can be reviewed by Hinton ) so they either don't notice the problem or they do but let it slide because it's just their colleague (yay for journals asking for "suggested reviewers" to the authors itself).
Those markets for quality textiles are often now, as they were then, bespoke. Your height is just more fabric.
Visa/Mastercard debit cards are a thing.
Because advent is a common term for the 4 weeks before Christmas even in non religious contexts. And that is how it's used in this non religious project.
Steam lets you refund a game for any reason if you have under 2 hours playtime. I have never found that I liked a game for the first 2 hours and didn't like it at all after that.
Google receive over 100 Billion USD per year from ads revenue.
If spending a few billion dollars can get you a new Google, then every one would have done it a long time ago.
Smartcuts: The Breakthrough Power of Lateral Thinking

Fabulous book about how certain individuals strive in what they do, and what separates these people from the rest of us. It has very interesting stories as well of how these individuals became so accomplished in life.
I'd say a lack of a proper fundamental understanding of trained neural networks is the main cause. People throw NNs at any problem they can think of, get good results and when they want to publish, they come up with an explanation that is more esoteric than founded in solid theory because the monster they generated is so inscrutable.
I asked[1] recently if it's possible to remove the need of the whole NodeJS. The conclusion is that it might be possible to use duktape instead.

[1] https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/issues/465
~75% of opioid misuse starts with people using them without a prescription. [0]

~90% of people who are prescribed opioids never develop addiction problems. [1]

Despite being in the midst of an opioid crisis with skyrocketing mortality rates, the mortality rate from prescription opiates has been ~stable for the last ~15 years. [2]

[0] https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUH-DetTab...

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25785523

[2] http://www.ncsl.org/portals/1/documents/health/APeeples0118_...
I tend to agree, maybe because I have had a similar experience.

Went to the ER with severe abdominal pain, but took more than 24 hours to diagnose and therefore admitted and get on morphine. Even though it was only a little more than 24 hours, it was possibly one of the most miserable 24 hours of my life.

Then magically morphine goes in and things were tolerable. Over the next 10 days I was on low dose IV morphine (couldn't take anything in pill form because GI tract wasn't really working), but they wear out pretty quickly. The hour or so between the time the previous dose wears off and the next dose the morphine was definitely on my mind a lot. Although in my case it wasn't wanting to get high but rather remove the pain.

Previous to this episode I held that opinion that opioids were rarely needed and people should just tough it out. e.g. when I had my wisdom teeth pulled I was prescribed opioids but didn't take any. But this episode definitely changed my mind. Not sure what I would've done in that 10 days if I wasn't on morphine.
Yes, I understand that. I’m just confused by the author’s use of BOTH the L and the £ together, on the same line.
PayPal has many issues, but this is one of the things they get right, and I tend to steer in their direction for anything recurring as a result.

You can cancel a recurring payment with a few clicks.
> One can lie by remaining entirely silent.

Yup. An example would be listening to someone reach the wrong conclusion, and by staying silent and not correcting them, implying that they were correct.
While I dont disagree with the point of your statement. that number is the "gold plated" number and highly disputed.
1.4 million per KM is a bullshit value.
Off-topic, even maybe the inverse, one of the things I like about 'more complex' tasks like playing sports, is the single-mindedness that goes with it. It quietens the rest of the world for a time; nothing matters but the immediate, and it takes up 100% of processing to do it justice.
Selling lifetime services for something like that is very risky. It would be like paying someone a few million dollars and then they have to try to budget it out for the rest of their life. Also what happens if the company runs out of money and cant continue services. You have already paid for a lifetime subscription but they have no money to give you a refund.
most wool pants are dry clean only. I actually don't know anything about the actual context of these pants when in use.

https://go-armynavy.com/military-surplus/collectibles/austra...

(I'm not vouching for that vendor, but I'm pretty sure that's what I've got. I got mine from ebay)
You should absolutely write this post!
I heard that but never got it setup. I did a bunch more poking today, and it looks like they want me to use a chrome extension (I'm mostly a safari person) I should spend more time looking up how to get that working, 'cause it was way more convenient than just canceling my credit cards every six months.
Random Numbers: Nothing Left to Chance (2008)
Data Validation on Entry with YAD
Still not cheap for a quality anvil, good ones can cost more than a used car.
Unfortunately, it depends. There are various standards that devices use to negotiate how much power to send over the USB cable. These chargers tend to support all the popular standards so they'll charge your phone at the fastest possible speed (unless you have a OnePlus or OPPO phone). If you have a midrange or higher Android phone, the included charger likely charges at max speed. If you have an iPhone with the 5W adapter, any of these adapters will charge faster than that.
"Effortless"

I envy David Robson at the BBC, for whom it is apparently effortless to take time away. Because it certainly isn't without effort for me to not accidentally find myself back at my desk, late in the evening, working on just one more thing.
I saw someone do this with the plug to a laser printer once. The toner literally exploded in his face when he plugged it in.
>The US lost a LOT of capability over the last 20 years

citation needed...

My understanding was that US manufacturing output has been steadily growing (even if employment has been falling) for all of that time.
Dinosaur species was constantly replacing its own teeth
I'm somewhat familiar with compressed sensing, but I only glanced through the linked paper for like a minute, but it looks like you're right. They seem to be taking the overlapped returns and doing some sort of weird sparse basis deconvolution.

Specifically "Using compressed sensing, we analyzed a simulated image with 100 molecules randomly distributed in a 4 µm × 4 µm region (Fig. 1a). Although the images of individual molecules completely overlapped, we could identify almost all of the molecules. "

Unless that is a close enough approximation to a random projection? I'm not that familiar with STORM.
Not everyone in Japan or Taiwan are anti-China. From what I’ve seen, most big businesses that make money from China are often pro-China.
Or they give you a log snippet and fail to say _what_ log it came from. Context, people!
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Libraries existed.

Most valuable books were routinely chained to desks or shelves, so you could not have a chance to grab it and run.
Come on. It’s meant as a bit of wordplay.
> tinted windows involved

In Australia tinting is not allowed on the front windshild, and front side windows must be at least 35% transparent (according to https://www.polyfilm.com.au/window-tinting-laws ) which is quite enough for modern cameras during the day.
That's pretty much the case for any remote content. Proxy and rewrite the response. But that added step is usually enough, especially for something as complicated as a Browser MMO.

Also, web servers should have rate limits set which would make proxying less viable, even for IP ranges.
It's safest to assume all your consumer tech is being used by at least 1 major government to surveil you.
That’s why you check that the printer can even support 240V before you do this
It's also plausible that the 8% figure is representative of unfettered access. Conceivably everyone who wants opioids has access to opioids in some form or another now, and those who want it especially badly will put in special effort to get it. Heroin and kratom are easier to obtain than prescription opioids (if you don't have a visually obvious physical trauma and health insurance).

We know the number of patients prescribed opioids each year; it peaked in 2012 (it has been declining since then)[1]. We could look at abuse / addiction data over some period where prescriptions rose, and see if the disease rate rose significantly. It would be suggestive, if not conclusive, because we prescribe opioids to something like 20% of the population each year. (For comparison, about 66% of persons >12, or 55% of the total population, drinks any alcohol in a given year; figures from 2014.[2])

> After a steady increase in the overall national opioid prescribing rate starting in 2006, the total number of prescriptions dispensed peaked in 2012 at more than 255 million and a prescribing rate of 81.3 prescriptions per 100 persons.

I don't have good figures for historical rates of opioid addiction at hand, but we can look at 2016 (roughly).[3]

> In 2016, an estimated 1,753,000, or 0.7% of persons aged 12 and older, reported a substance use disorder in the past year involving misuse of prescription pain relievers

Going back to [1], the prescribing rate was 66.5 per 100 in 2016 and (in 2017, but taking for representative) "an average of 3.4 opioid prescriptions dispensed per patient." So we get 66.5/3.4 => ~19.6 per 100 people prescribed opiates, or 19.6% of people. 0.7% / 19.6% is an addiction rate of about 3.5%. There are definitely holes in this, but it's definitely plausible that the real rate for unfettered acecss is single digit.

We could also look at Portugal as an example. Decriminalization isn't the same thing as full legalization and unfettered access, but[4]:

> It is estimated that there were 33 290 high-risk opioid users in Portugal in 2015, which is about 5.2 per 1 000 of the adult population. In the same year, the number of people who inject drugs was estimated at 13 160 (2 per 1 000 people aged 15-64).

("High risk" in EMCDDA terms is injecting drug use or any long-term or regular use; it's a reasonable proxy for addiction, although might overestimate.[5])

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/prescribing/prescribin...

[2]: https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUH-DetTab...

[3]: https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/pdf/pubs/2018-cdc-drug-surv...

[4]: http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/country-drug-report...

[5]: http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/data/2014/methods-hrdu
Since you seem like an expert, can you comment on the self-dealing aspect of this?
Then you get stuff like one of the other comments linked, where people get someone else to take the punishment for them.
> DDG has little idea what you're looking for while Google links you directly to the docs of Elm's Dict data-structure.

You know you're looking for a data structure, right? Add structure to your query, and DDG will do fine. Easy fix.

The opposite case, when google thinks he knows what you're asking but it's wrong, is impossible to fix.

I don't want them to be smart, I want them to be predictable and search what I say, not trying to reinterpret the query.
how much was an hour or two of sex? a somewhat standard range unit of specialized labor. sex with your average 18-35 year old .
Yah, extra bonus because you can upgrade the system with dnf upgrade/etc. Unlike yocto where its a PITA and requires an engineer to validate it works every-time you need a security patch.

Yocto is just another "The S in IOT stands for security" kind of problem.
As a k email list reader i noted in

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21660005

that shakti(k7) MAY become FOSS...
You mean internally, correct? Not for external users.

That's the real problem.
"It's possible (and not that hard) to define an integration process that prevents faulty commits from being integrated to the main branch.
"

You should strive to do that but you shouldn't be surprised that despite all effort mistakes still happen from time to time.
>The TLDR: If you want actual good writing, you should be trying to figure out how to reward writers who write well. If you don't want to in any way, shape or form whatsoever (because most people on HN use ad blockers) let them get paid somehow, don't be all shocked when the writing goes to shit.

I don't think anyone disagrees with this overarching point whatsoever.

My disagreement lies in the assertion that journalists are underpaid. Their pay is a reflection of the revenue they generate for their publishers, which itself is a reflection of the engagement their content provides for that publisher to monetize through ads, subscriptions or one-off purchases.

The demand for quality journalism is now low, hence it generates little money and therefore those involved in it are rewarded little. I agree with you in that if people want quality journalism, they should pay for their content in some form. However, even if you got the entirety of the hackernews readership to pay for a subscription, you would not put a dent in the overall direction journalism is traveling in.

Another option would be to have the government subsidize outlets, as is done in the UK with the BBC, Canada with CBC, Ireland with RTE, etc etc. This effort will be at the mercy of the taxpayer and can only provide so many jobs, and due to the nature of being state controlled will be subjected to, or dismissed entirely because of, claims of bias or propaganda.

When the internet is pumping out limitless, "free" content, much of which uses manipulative behaviour to maximize engagement, mainstream outlets polarize politically and in doing so ostracize half their potential readership base, people's attention spans are continually shortening and intellectual curiosity shallowing, it's no surprise that quality will suffer hugely.

It may be fair to say that it could well be beyond rescue at this point.

But just an FYI: I maintain subscriptions to several newspapers and magazines. I'm personally more than happy to pay for the content I enjoy.
How to Run Parallel Data Analysis in Python Using Dask Dataframes
KiCad already has some corporate sponsorship, including CERN. I think this will help keep KiCad ahead of its open source competitors.

https://www.kicad-pcb.org/about/kicad/

Edit: And to your latter point (and it is a reasonable one), the HackRF was done in KiCad. This demonstrates that something at that level of complexity can be done with open source tools and still make enough profit to be open hardware. Promising!!!

https://kicad-pcb.org/made-with-kicad/hackrf/
I used to run a Dell UltraSharp 3008WFP. A great monitor for the time, but the power LED was so damn bright that black electrical tape didn't fully extinguish it.
Seriously? No corruption in Russia since FSB officers have themselves become oligarchs? Or was there another point?
Yes and no.

That's true, yes.

But it's not general-purpose computer identification.

(The thought that credit cards might become the de facto identification token is numerous spectacular shades of terrifying.)
The stuff is what the stuff is, brother. https://youtu.be/ajGX7odA87k?t=931
Nobody in Alaska drives to Canada for services, because the part of Canada bordering Alaska is almost uninhabited.
Bypass NY Times Paywall
Not necessarily a bad thing, as prices weren't regulated to be inflexible either. In response to merchant abuse, adulteration and fraud a whole slew of measures evolved, including the 1266 Bread and Ale Assizes. The court assizes were responsible for setting the fair price which both took into account supply and demand, and local variation, and for sampling the goods produced. This was not a national economy, the "right" price for ale or grain could vary just a mile or two down the road, or in the next valley over, subject to local weather and harvests. Which is why the local assize courts controlled it.

One of the other interesting things was bread and some other foods adjusted to supply and demand by changing weight not price. Each assize set the current right weight of a farthing loaf. A standard weight loaf came much later, in the 19th century!

There were also aletasters, breadmasters and a whole variety of others who would engage in sampling, and sometimes use of secret shopping, to ensure the local merchants for a particular good were producing quality, weight and not adulterating. What is less clear is whether they took their role seriously or whether it was a sinecure for free food and beer. The fines seem, in some regions, to have often been small and arbitrary, and it was often all under the auspices of the manor. Was it a valuable piece of Medieval regulation, or corruption? Well, going on how the Assizes of Bread and Ale played out, there was ample opportunity for local corruption and arbitrary fees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assize_of_Bread_and_Ale
> Few things are as aggravating to me as people who say they understand CD but then manage avoid practicing any of the tenets of CI.

It is completely reasonable to utilise one without the other, not all projects are giant multi author efforts trying to wrangle commits.

For instance if you have lots of small projects being worked on independently in parallel with no more than one or two authors on a repo at a time, CI is not going to be worth the investment... but CD still has it's uses.
“your site” is really complicated. Who is “you”, person, website or the company? If it’s the person can they transfer the rights? What happens if they die? If they donate the estate? If they get hired or contracted? If the website expands scope or changes in any way?
The first film (pre-apocalypse) was actually filmed mostly in and around Melbourne. I grew up in Warrnambool and Horsham so any trip to Melbourne would take you through some of the filming locations along the old Western Hwy. The first film was really about 70s Australian car culture and filled with utes, panel vans and of course big V8s. More early Fast & Furious than the later dystopian theme.

You're correct about the second being up Broken Hill way.
Where? And why?

Can you give details like ocean/lake/pond and species?
> The reason why these drugs are "hard" though is that if people do develop an addiction, it's so incredibly destructive.

Eh. Do you know many alcoholics? The "hard" qualifier is mostly just arbitrary societal taboos reinforced by the federal government.