skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does that reflect "badly"? You freaking linked a manual appendix. The original source is in Communications of the ACM.
Hey that tool looks awesome, I'm excited to see where it goes!
It's not just data on viewing habits but they also make money though selling shows in the built-in apps, probably also get affiliate payments for people who signed up for Netflix etc through the TV.

From the mouth of the CTO of Visio:

> So look, it’s not just about data collection. It’s about post-purchase monetization of the TV.

> This is a cutthroat industry. It’s a 6-percent margin industry, right? I mean, you know it’s pretty ruthless. You could say it’s self-inflicted, or you could say there’s a greater strategy going on here, and there is. The greater strategy is I really don’t need to make money off of the TV. I need to cover my cost.

> And then I need to make money off those TVs. They live in households for 6.9 years — the average lifetime of a Vizio TV is 6.9 years. You would probably be amazed at the number of people come up to me saying, “I love Vizio TVs, I have one” and it’s 11 years old. I’m like, “Dude, that’s not even full HD, that’s 720p.”

> But they do last a long time and our strategy — you’ve seen this with all of our software upgrades including AirPlay 2 and HomeKit — is that we want to make things backward compatible to those TVs. So we’re continuing to invest in those older TVs to bring them up to feature level comparison with the new TVs when there’s no hardware limitation that would otherwise prevent that.

> And the reason why we do that is there are ways to monetize that TV and data is one, but not only the only one. It’s sort of like a business of singles and doubles, it’s not home runs, right? You make a little money here, a little money there. You sell some movies, you sell some TV shows, you sell some ads, you know. It’s not really that different than The Verge website.

> Q: One sort of Verge-nerd meme that I hear in our comments or on Twitter is “I just want a dumb TV. I just want a panel with no smarts and I’ll figure it out on my own.” But it sounds like that lifetime monetization problem would prevent you from just making a dumb panel that you can sell to somebody.

> A: Well, it wouldn’t prevent us, to be honest with you. What it would do is, we’d collect a little bit more margin at retail to offset it. Again, it may be an aspirational goal to not have high margins on our TV business because I can make it up downstream. On the other hand, I’m actually aggregating that monetization across a large number of users, some of which opt out.

> It’s a blended revenue model where, in the end, Vizio succeeds, but you know, it’s not wholly dependent on things like data collection.
I think it's the lack of heat (AKA infrared light) also reaching your body, which, when receiving bright visible light, is evolutionarily wired to expect heat coming from that same light source (e.g. the sun). Feels off for you to be cold and for it to be super bright.

I'm currently experimenting with 'emulating outdoors' in my office environment for health and productivity, and so far I've started with an 8,000 lux fanless corn LED (bought off Amazon) hanging from the wall and it's brilliant. I immediately feel 'happier' when I turn it on in the morning, every single time, but after a while, I agree, something feels off. I feel 'cold', temperature-wise.

I have read (no source for now, just from memory) that having bright white light indoors (e.g. fluorescent) without the presence of other light spectrum (including possibly natural UV) can actually increase cortisol.

So I think that more than just visible light is needed to complete the picture. Careful, low enough levels of UV and infrared that doesn't point directly at you but more 'above' you like the sun itself, may be the optimum to get some benefits but not cause dangerous skin or eye problems.
Check out this little doggy:

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-giant-severed-wolf-head-from-...
U.S. military wants to keep wind turbines from interfering with nuclear sites
I went to a pretty well regarded private high school in California. As a lark, in 12th grade I took a “computer course”. It ended up being a very basic CS course in pascal, which even 20 years ago was fading out. It really opened my eyes.

My recommendation is teach a remedial CS 101 course. Variables, loops, etc. there USA good chance the students won’t have been exposed to anything similar.
This is a life sentence which could impact your ability to support yourself. I imagine this could result in quite an impact on getting any job which requires driving. You should have options for getting this thing removed at some point.
f(x) = sqrt(3) * x. Then f(f(x)) = sqrt(3) * sqrt(3) * x = 3x.

So there is at least one solution.
If something becomes universal, then any problem with false positives will be exposed through large numbers, and be fixed.

Also, in the US, and I assume in Canada, standards for new cars have generally not affected peoples' rights to continue owning and driving existing cars. If new requirements are really onerous, it will increase the market for previously produced cars, and then we can debate whether to force people to upgrade or something.
Gene drives, allowing for non mendellian breeding, will revolutionize this.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/washington/articles/...
Jupytext works as an extension in Jupyter. Your work is saved as py automatically whenever you work on the notebook. So it's not a conversion at commit time, unlike say nbstripout
Well, for example, the PM promised to place the house in the suburbs that the team lived, and then placed near his house, which was about 2 hours drive away. Some compensation issues too, like they leave their past jobs to work with us, we approve the work laptop, the laptop didn't have usable specs.

There were lots of constant little lies like that.
I'm going through this currently. It doesn't help that my inspiration for work can sometimes make me work through the night, which 'messes up' the following day. I'm my own boss, so can do this without repercussions, but I sometimes think I'd be more productive if I stuck to a more regimented sleep schedule.

I did have a normal-ish sleep schedule when I had my job in finance, but I remember feeling exhausted all the time, especially weekday mornings.

I certainly feel healthier now, just sleeping when I'm tired. On occasion this can mean missing a bunch of daylight. Not sure if that's actually all that healthy though...
Well, that analogy seems to me to apply also to any instance of an "accident" where the driver is at fault. However, that would be a significant change to society, and also, (at least in the area of the US I'm familiar with) the police and legal system don't normally pass judgment on who is at fault in an accident, unless there is a specific law broken; it is up to the insurance companies.
I think the intent of the original question/thought experiment was which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg? Not just any old egg.

The answer is still the egg, of course, because the animal that laid the egg was just genetically shy of being what we think of today as a chicken, and it laid an egg with a new mutation that is The Chicken.

So a non-chicken laid a chicken egg and a chicken was hatched from it.
Wouldn't be a proper DL post without some good ol' gatekeeping.
Ignoring zero, I get the summation, starting at [1]=2, of {1,3,1,1,1,3,3,3,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,...} = {..{1}^3^i,..{3}^3^i for i in ℕ}

Edit: derp, it's ℕ, not ℤ⁺.
I'm not cross. I'm disappointed. I naively hoped you'd at least hear some criticism. What I learn is that you imagine that I don't understand (I do), don't know (I do) and it reflects badly for me to criticice.

You come across as a narcissist of the first order. Your website provides little value, possibly negative. It is a hard to follow and a dumbed-down version of famous paper. When I point it out you "prove me wrong" and claim I've not made my points.
Seven days from Dallas to China? How is this considered a serious alternative to current planes?
I saw someone on the interstate bouncing from one lane marking to the other. I thought "maybe they're drunk...or maybe they're just testing the automatic lane-keeping feature on their new car".
I’m thankful for this life experience and everything in it. Out of all the lifeforms on earth, I won the lottery by being born a human during a time of relative peace and in a place with high GDP per capita.
Wear leveling isn’t the issue here as eMMC is wear leveled. The issue is probably just that the total volume of writes has literally just worn out too much of the flash.
Anybody who eats meat should not preach what to do.
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How to Industrialize Mars: A Strategy for Self-Sufficiency
It's a false equivalence. We're much more tolerant of the dangers of driving because of the positive value it brings. A gun is rarely essential for somebody's work but driving often is. That's also why some countries ban guns but allow cars despite cars killing far more people.

It can see unfair. There's a truck driver in my country who killed two people with his truck on two separate occasions. Both his fault. But he'll still be allowed to drive again after maybe a 6-12 month suspension.

The way I try to feel comfortable with such seeming injustice is to see road accidents as random bad luck. So by using the road, you're playing Russian roulette. You never know what might kill you or whose fault it might be, including your own. Extreme punishment for the tiny subset of dangerous drivers who make certain mistakes and happen to be unlucky enough to get caught won't really make it much safer. People still risk their own lives driving dangerously, after all, so even the death penalty for drink driving won't stop people doing it.
I'd pay good money for an airship cruise, as a premium product - like a direct competitor to a cruise ship on the sea.
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That's not increasing (√3 * 0 = 0 ≮ 0) and it's not on natural numbers (√3 * 1 = √3 (≈ 1.732) ∉ ℕ).
This is an is/ought confusion. You can explain why something is that way, but you can't explain why it must be that way.

You can explain why our survival instinct evolved so it is tempting to jump to the conclusion that we ought to survive but it is a fallacy (called the naturalistic fallacy): saying that something being natural means it is good.
Making Static Sites Dynamic with Jekyll, TravisCI, and Cron Jobs
SQL is surprisingly easy to teach to young people. Give them a simple table with info that's relevant to them, and help them discover how to filter and aggregate. I think that is more valuable for people to understand and have in hand than statistics; its a gateway drug to analytical thinking.
My estimate is that 50 years from now that encryption will be crackable.

Alternatively there may be holes that can be used--such as a 'boundary scan' of one of the chips yielding the key. I don't have a spare Tesla sitting around to test this theory, however (grin)
My 3 y/o son received an autism diagnosis earlier this year. Seeing him do so well starting school this fall and starting to have lots of new words is what I'm thankful for!
I don't think it is very hard to make a personality or an individuality appear. Feed GPT-2 a lot of opinnonated texts about itself and you will already see a bit of it emerge.
A coworker of mine went to Pakistan and then was not allowed to come back for quite a while. I don't know if it was the proverbial "no fly" list or something else, but eventually he was allowed back.

I remember reading about someone who was denied entry to Canada because they brought anti-depressants with them.

You have no rights traveling across borders, and it's not just US officials that are arbitrary and unreasonable.
You're right, air travel is just a drop on a hot plate, and is by far the cleanest way of transporting hundreds of people in (relative) comfort over vast distances. Try taking a Tesla from SF to Amsterdam.

But eliminating all coal plants in the world is not feasible in the short term. Germany tried it a while back. Turns out that some days are too dark to catch enough sunlight. Turns out that sometimes the wind doesn't blow.

Then you'd have to restart the coal plants again because they are reliable sources of energy.

Or we should consider going nuclear. Which makes perfect sense in regions like Europe where there is hardly any danger of earth quakes and tsunamis.

But Europe has bad memories of that because of outdated tech in eastern Europe going haywire.

It'll take another generation or so to get to the point where we can shut down coal plants.
So you copy a title, change one word to a synonym, summarize the contents, and it is I that doesn't understand what plagiarism means? Your QUOTE "main goal was not creativity or new information". When I said "close to" plagiarism I was being very generous.
I'm not familiar enough with any of those systems to definitively say if that demo could be reproduced in them(though I'm very interested in getting acquainted with them). My impression is that all of those environments are quite powerful in different ways though.

Some other systems worth learning more about:

- https://github.com/kenperlin/chalktalk
- https://dynamicland.org/
This is really worth reading to see how far DRAM has come from the Apple II or IBM PC days.
Airships have a use case for bulk cargo, so it will displace some trucks.
This might seem a strange recommendation, but...

Excel and then VBA macros for Excel, or the equivalent in LibreOffice. Use it to do some useful things. Make a budget, calculate the three basic financial statements, simulate some basic processes like exponential growth and predator/prey. Then VBA to do some basic iterating over strings and other similar things. Write a little text mode adventure game. You could even use Word for that and have it print the transcript as you go along.

Then the basics of networking. Set up a little LAN, difference between router and switch, get Bonjour/ZeroConf working across some number of hops.
Anyone can contribute to the discussion of what to do.

And should.
(Michael from f.lux): this kind of thing is necessary for most buildings, because otherwise people don't get a "day" signal when they spend time indoors. Most of us spend >90% of our time inside.

However, we shouldn't mess with light levels like these (or even somewhat lower ones) without some limits, and the main one is some automatic timing to turn things down after it gets too late. Otherwise you will find yourself staying at work later and later each day, and it's no accident.

Our clocks don't work that well with more than about a 14-15 hour photoperiod ("day"), so spending 18 hours under 5000 lux will screw up your overall rhythms, making your internal day longer than 24 hours and reducing your sleep. This is considerably worse if you're a natural night owl - it will make you later, faster.

The myth of electric lighting is that we can live in a permanent summer and turn the wintertime into summer, but there are important seasonal questions that we should think about too. For instance, cancer progresses much faster in summer than in winter [edit: cancer progresses much faster in constant light: winter vs. summer is complicated], and the winter schedule even engages a different part of the central clock in your brain than the summer schedule does. There are some important things going on here, which we've mostly tried to remove from our environments.

Knowing how the body works and having the capability to change it really do need to evolve in parallel - I think there is way more capability than knowledge right now.
They weren’t free-soloing. They were sloppy with their rappelling procedures and fell off the rope.
I'm thankful for getting the opportunity to do all of this tech stuff. When you're caught up in it, you can forget that a lot of people don't get to do stuff like this—really grateful for every day and every opportunity and that it's lasted as long as it has. It's a real blessing.
I am, but I think greed contributes much more to the price.

nVidia also made Tesla P40. It has 100% identical chip to the 1080Ti, same GP102, same frequencies, 100% same specs. The price is around $5000. The GPU is not 100% same, it has more VRAM, but still, that's 8x price difference for almost identical products.

If Teslas would be better, nVidia wouldn't need to put that ridiculous paragraph in the EULA of the driver, about data center usage. That paragraph is the only reason why we don't have affordable GPGPUs in AWS.
Resurrecting dirigibles comes up every 5 years or so. This attempt looks no more serious than the others.
About 3-4 years ago there was a study showing that the half-life of DNA was much shorter... like around 500 years.

https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-calculate-that-dna-has-...

However, I've always wondered if it would be possible to reassemble the whole DNA via aligning overlapping segments by indexing MASSIVE amounts of DNA.

IT would be VERY expensive to do now with today's tech but might be posssible in 10-20 years.
The "Queue Management for Inbound Content" section is exactly what I really want as well, so much that I've just started building it instead of waiting and hoping.

For me, this is the lynchpin:

> "all content I think my future self would appreciate me consuming." (emphasis mine)

Current content feeds are optimized for engagement (ie. advertisement load) and thus won't conceive of a "future self", only what your current self will look at and click on right now.

I think that content feeds need to incorporate goal-orientation and move away from right-here-right-now orientation. For those wanting to do anything difficult they need to optimize their information diet over a very long time-scale, like years, so content-feed tools should be aware of human-scale timelines (eg. high school, college, career, parenting).

Humans thrive on learning and growth but so many platforms choose to see their users as merely inputs to an ad-delivery optimization system.

> I have little visibility into required time investment and foundational context until I’ve opened it and started thinking about it.

This is another thing that really annoys me about our current media ecosystem, and is really also a symptom of not properly conceiving of a person's personal development over time and a person's changing needs over time.

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To look at this blog post from 1000 feet up, I'd say that Jonathan is unfortunately deprived of these tools because our media software ecosystem is madly building things for users who want to look at things and not think, as such platforms are heavily consumeristic and thus fantastic for advertising revenue and monetization generally (eg. Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Pinterest, Canva).
You're probably never going to see this so I'll keep it short. I just want to say that your disorder might be due to a circadian rhythm disruption. Instead of just focusing on light, you should also focus on darkness. Try not to look at any unnatural light after sundown.

If you want to cheat for convenience, they make red glasses that block all blue and green light which can interrupt your melatonin. You want to find red glasses that have barriers on the side to prevent the light from coming through from the sides. They sell 2 different kinds on Amazon. I found the effect to be very profound. You get tired quickly and when you fall asleep, you feel like you're in a coma and wake up refreshed. Unnatural light after sundown really does interrupt your sleep cycle.
I'll (probably) never beat Carlsten, but he _can_ be beaten. For some reason that seems to make a difference.
The Mississippi: Pushed to the Brink
So a well meaning reader will decide not to use floating point. He will switch to fixed point. And encounter the same problem because you never explained it correctly. You need to understand the material before you create a explanation of it. You are fixated on floating point when you mean binary fractions, which is a superset.
Agreed with all points, but especially the queuing system. I started my journey towards becoming a programmer to build something like that. Its been a long and winding road, but it might be time to follow up on that, unless somebody can point me to a project that already exists like described in the post.
I wonder if Bitcode support in Rust will result in this dynamic linking being required again.
Honestly, I was trying to convey the opposite - the gates are wide open and it’s never been easier to drive through.
But incandescent light bulbs are a terrible heat source from an efficiency perspective. You're losing an incredible amount from the power plant, to the transmission, and pretty much everything else. Once it arrives, yes, the energy gets converted nearly 100% to heat eventually, mostly in your proximity. But a heat pump or even gas heating is far more efficient if the goal is to get heat.
Last week I wrote a shell one liner to find all the chapter titles in a book's ToC, grab the line numbers for each chapter start in the text, and head/tail the text into individual chapter files. These files are then sent to me via jabber one per morning and discarded.

I just finished part 1 of a tale of two cities this way.
Even though it's not the best SQL database, Access is a really good force multiplier if you're in a locked down office and all you have is Office.
Golang: Neural Networks (Deep Feedforward)
I am happy for your family. I am an organ donor. I am also planning to donate my body to a medical institution so that the medical students have a human body to dissect and learn from. I hear that there is a dearth of human bodies.

Since the topic of organ donation came up, I thought of asking this question. This is a real incident. I am not making this up. I met a learned priest. Both I and the priest are hindus. He argued that since God gave us our body and organs at birth, we need to give it back to God the body and all the organs at death. I don't agree with the priests argument. It is just that I am not that smart and don't know how to counter that argument. I am sure there are hindu readers in HN community. Any thoughts on this?
Two tons of pig parts: Making insulin in the 1920s
Follow up. They get busy often. The common advice is to spend 80% focus on recruiting when recruiting, but usually companies that are hiring have a lot of excess things to do. They may hesitate as they have no manpower to start training people, but deep down inside they know they need to. I've been in some companies where they waited about 2 months to get back to the best candidate.

You also have to keep in mind the secretary problem here. Once rejected, an applicant cannot be recalled. You could be among the top 3 candidates, but there are still 20 uninterviewed, and they want to hold it out as long as possible.
Maybe an alternative to cruise ships is a better option.
After reading this I don’t know at all what you are talking about. Fp future? Ict people?
> cancer progresses much faster in summer than in winter

Can you point me to a reference for this? This pattern is surprising and I would like to learn more about this.
I exhausted the 3 project limit trying to see how it would route open source mechanical keyboard PCBs.

Every single one failed with an error.

The first one failed with an error that didn't specify the reason, the second one because it had more than 200 wires, though I wonder how that's possible on a 3x3 macropad PCB, and the final one failed with "Sorry, we do not support non 45° rotation for this beta version".

The errored projects count towards the limit of 3 projects you can create.

Doesn't seem to be working all too well.