skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the bottom floor is 0, not the ground floor

In the elevator sure, though just as often it's abbreviated EG for Erdgeschoss, which does mean ground floor. We call the floor above that "erstes Geschoss" or "erstes Obergeschoss", whereas that would be the second floor in English, but we never say "nulltes Geschoss", always Erdgeschoss.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Erdgeschoss
Current hydrogen production is largely from cracking methane, where natural gas is the feedstock (and also energy source) - it is much cheaper than production from electrolysis.
Kids take time away, but it is what it is. Because of family circumstances and the ebb and flow of business I’ve become the primary caregiver of my 3 children, all under 5 years of age.

I’ve put my professional life on hold to kick start my children’s lives. I fought against it until I realized this was an opportunity I’ll experience only once in my life for a relatively short amount of time.

Enjoy the ride.
All forms to be submitted to any government entity have to be reviewed by lawyers because they will be read with intent to reject rather than accept. I saw variations of this many times.

It is a sad reality, but that is the current state of government interaction.

Scooters are massively profitable. They cost $1 for 3 minutes and their acquisition cost is lower than $500 with zero cost to operate except for charging and repairs, where the charging cost is negligible and repair cost is fixed. I took a few rides and paid more than $5-7 per ride, which is comparable to an Uber ride but where the company incurred no expense foe the driver. 100 rides pays for the thing and after that it’s pure profit.
I am curious why the author suggests programming spreadsheets is "hard" but programming an operating system isn't. Arguably, all you're doing in a spreadsheet is building a dependency graph of nodes, then re-rendering them when an input changes. It's about as complex as building your own React.
When I tried MaL I got hung up on the regex in one of the first steps, which is complex and tricky to translate into any of the umpteen other variants of regular expressions, and utterly vital to the overall project. Frustrating.
If you put it in historical context it's neither hypersensitive nor paranoid. People did and do hold beliefs as universally applicable to every member of a group. Women were not allowed to vote in the USA less than 100 years ago. Only in the 1960s did it became illegal to request a specific gender in job advertisements. And it was only in 1974 that it became illegal to discriminate using gender in credit matters, including being able to obtain and use credit cards.

Plenty of people still use average and trends as an excuse to claim a gender (or race) is not as capable at some skill or career. It's not even that hard to find. Probably pretty easy actually in the US states that require creationism to be taught in public school.

> and thus must be silenced

Where did the parent comment say discussing averages must be silenced?
"Feynman" [1]. It's a biography, but it's illustrated (like a graphic novel). It was just perfect for my short attention span, I'd never have sat down to read a normal biography.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9844623-feynman
Do you have a video of other 2700+ players failing to do this? I've watched plenty of live tournament coverage, and it doesn't seem a rare skill. Not claiming they do it as well as the best player in the world, and arguably of all time, but this honestly just seems like table stakes at this level of the game. It's literally their job, every day, to study games and understand and recall new theory.
While that is true to an extent, I've made a lot of money cleaning up after people that didn't architect and design their code to cleanly grow into a fairly obvious potential use case, requiring major rewrites. It isn't a premature optimization to avoid walling yourself into a corner..
One could argue, and I will anecdotally, that these companies have brought a much higher standard of service into an industry renowned for providing terrible (at best) service.

So if the outcome is that the price has fluctuated back to the norm, but the service provided is of a higher quality, then the consumer has won.

What will be interesting to see is what consequences will arise from a corresponding drop in demand when met with the normalisation of prices to the previous mean. Especially given that you can't actively chose between the drivers available to you through these apps i.e. if there's less demand, supply will likely drop to meet demand (drivers don't want to be sitting around all evening, or just doing 1-2 gigs per night), and there's no way for the cream of the crop to come to the surface amongst their competition by way of superior service and hence selective demand / consumers.

Intuitively, maybe it will result in harsher ratings from consumers (expecting better service given higher prices) which, with sufficient accumulation, may take lower quality drivers out of circulation and leave those deemed to be best in the marketplace.
Is he talking about immigration though? Or does he simply have a visa?

> People from Africa or Asia routinely get held at extraterritorial prisons indefinitely. In case you have mixed ancestry and look like "people of color" be cautious.

I've never heard of any extraterritorial prisons here. Can you elaborate / source this?
Jeff Dean's NeurIPS interview on how ML is newly used in Google systems
The example I know about wasn't a newsworthy thing, just something that happened to my ex's classmate. I think the sticking point was that the IP was in the field he was getting his degree in, even though it wasn't related to any of his research (or any of the other research at the school).

I tried to Google for some other examples, but (as usual) Google mangled my search into a completely unrelated topic.
The service they provide is at least an order of magnitude better than what the taxi companies used to provide, though.
Which leads to two linked questions:

- Is it a valid criticism?

- If so, are the social sciences really sciences at all?

And one philosophical question:

- What happens if an entire field of "research" is dissolved as wholly subjective and not repeatable?

This would be much bigger than the debunking of phrenology or astrology as those don't have university departments, journals, or attempt to set social policy.
A tip if you're using iOS/iPadOS: In Safari, taking a screenshot now supports taking "full page shot", which you can save as a pdf. You get this option when you tap the tiny screenshot preview.
Always appreciate your posts. A couple projects in my lab are in Jax because of your MAML post.
Curious Contraptions explores small, surreal worlds through fantastical, often amusing mechanical sculptures known as automata. These whimsical flying, sailing, and cycling machines are brought to life by intricate arrangements of handmade cams, cranks, and other simple mechanisms. Each sculpture performs an absurd miniature drama while also reflecting its maker's worldview and sense of humor. Exposed inner workings and low-tech mechanisms invite the viewer to understand how each one comes to life.
https://www.exploratorium.edu/curious-contraptions
I'm sorry that this comes across this way.

I think the social sciences are useful and in fact indispensible. I disagree with their methodology and with the practice of copying methods from other fields that are really not suitable to the subject matter of the social sciences.

For instance, if you define a set of answers to a questionnaire as "agreeableness" and assign it a score, you can do maths with it, just like physics can define the measurement on a thermometer as "temperature" and do maths with that. But there are no thermometers in the social sciences and the maths seem to only be measuring the researchers' intuitions (and of course, their cultural biases). [Edit: don't ask me what a thermometer is actually measuring- but I know that if a thermometer shows the water in the kettle is 100°C then the water is boling. If my agreeableness is 1, what does that do? Does it have a consistent effect? Can I measure the effect? With what? Another questionnaire? So it's questionnaires all the way down? Well, I know for sure that whatever thermometers are measuring- it's not thermometers all the way down.]

It would be a lot more informative to hear what the researchers think, their intuitions and conclusions from their careful observations of human behaviour _without_ any attemt to quantify the unquantifiable. We would learn a lot more about the human mind by listening to the _opinions_ of people who have spent their life studying it if it wasn't for all the maths that (to me anyway) are measuring meade-up quantities. If nothing else, there would be more space left in their papers to explain their intuition.
Biodiesel doesn’t solve air pollution, which is a huge health issue in many cities.

Admittedly it’s not such an acute problem for farms and rural areas, though, where biodiesel does make sense.
So.. nothing to do with LUKS?
Sounds like sleep paralysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

Happened to me a couple times, but it's been like 15 years since.
If you have some time most of your questions are answered in this set of lectures about the subject from someone in the field https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCceO_D4AlY&list=PL22J3VaeAB.... If you don't a lot of time then the 10-20 minutes or so from where I linked are also useful and answer a lot of the points you brought up.
Apologies. Macbook Pro 13.

I'm not an Apple person so all the funny distinctions get lost on me sometimes.
Fantastic, if you're aware that people in different countries use different words for things, then you can also recognize that GP condescendingly correcting to "fantasy soccer" is unnecessary.
I find it ironic that I go to read an article about banning people from accessing content and get greeted with the following:

Error 1005 Ray ID: 545442d6fa2aec4e • 2019-12-15 00:22:04 UTC
Access denied
What happened?

The owner of this website (www.bleepingcomputer.com) has banned the autonomous
system number (ASN) your IP address is in (XXXXX) from accessing this website.

I really miss the old internet that didn't discriminate against clients based on IP address/origin.
I think it's the other way around.

It's not that we've forgotten that feeling like an imposter is just being human. It's that almost everyone has always felt this way but never talked about it. As social animals, we're terrified (justifiably) of being outcast from the group, so admitting any feeling of weakness or low utility seems like something that could make the group start to question whether we actually belong. Our rivals can also use it against us. People are more likely to follow someone who projects confidence in their ability over someone who is actually competent but projects uncertainty.

It's only now that imposter syndrome is well known and starting to be understood as the rule, not the exception, that people are getting more comfortable talking about it and learning to be OK with it.
What everyone is missing about the controversial Jedi project
Nothing yet, but I hope to get something in the next couple weeks. Here are all of the requests, including their responses: https://www.muckrock.com/project/search-warrant-data-608/
> Does this also mean that if a programmer will write a song at weekend, his employer will have the copyright?

The example I knew about was something that could plausibly have been done using the university's resources, but it wasn't.

While it does seem crazy, a common legal practice is to create incredibly rigid, selfish policies and then decide later if it's worth enforcing them. I was often told as an undergrad that anything I did was partly owned by my school, but that I shouldn't worry about it because they'd never pursue me.
Thank god I'm not the only one
On the asymptotic behavior of Bayes' estimates in the discrete case
Ok, tell me why, if I'm paying for a 20% flat tax, I couldn't be persuaded by future demagogue that my measly $1k/mo isn't worth it if I'm say, paying more in taxes than the $12k annual?

The problem comes with the loopholes - cap gains, real estate taxes. Do those fall under flat tax?
Can you provide one modern scientific paper which examines how much nature, and not nurture, can have an effect on variations in achievement and participation in certain fields? Untill then one cannot handwave all inequities away as simply discrimination. Particularly when we have ample indirect proof that men and women are not equally able to perform certain tasks on average. This isn't a question of superiority, simply different adaptation after millions of years of sexually dimorphic evolution:

1. Male and female score distributions have different averages on certain tests, like spatial reasoning and verbal

2. Brain scans show different structure, which is used to identify trans individuals

3. Hormone concentrations and responses are different (particularly testosterone/estrogen)

4. Members of probably any other sexually dimorphic species, across the kingdoms will show different innate behaviors, and humans have inherited those millions of years of gender specialization - indirectly, wouldn't such innate preferences in humans, if they exist, predispose men and women to different skillsets, on average? Sure, the nature of human intelligence may make it that humans are the exception, but there are far too many other puzzle pieces to assemble before we can take that as fact.

This list is incomplete, and examples are easy to find. The only reason OP had to write such an article, stating what should be obvious, is that because of the pressures of recent politics, our society has come to conflate equality of opportunity with equality of outcome, a result of the denial of even the possibility that gender imbalance may occur in part or in whole without discrimination and bias. The socially acceptable position is that male and female abilities are distributed equally in the absence of social conditioning, and this is simply an unlikely condition if one looks at the facts. Not to say discrimination doesn't exist, but when we set parity quotas we entirely ignore nature in favor exclusively of nurture.

Consider also: if these abilities are normally distributed, as suggested by proxies like IQ, and there is a small difference, say of 5 points in means between men and women, the effects are going to be amplified at the outer edges of the normal curve and the higher average population will be substantially overrepresented a couple standard deviations out.
Constructive proofs are equivalent to programs. But until somebody writes the program, there are always details, context, style, etc which make a proof understandable by a human but not a program. A program is more rigorous than a proof, in this sense.
Author here.

I agree with you! This list was about projects for learning. A few months ago I had a blog post that was more product focused, regarding the lessons I learned from releasing games (I think they're generalizable though). Definitely a different world when you have customers to please and motivate you!

http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/8lessons8games.html
> Most single people are just as annoying though.

I don't know if that's fair. I talk about my kids too much, no doubt, but only one of my (not single, but childless) friends is annoying that way. He likes to smugly point out what he did this weekend that had nothing to do with kids. I make a point of not discussing my kids or family life with him, and he still makes it a discussion point. Most other friends in my circle are pretty relaxed about the kid thing, either because they have kids, or because they know that kids are just people and therefore part of our larger social group, so discussing them is okay.
The best targets are stuff that is data dependant for behavior and memory size for current gpus. Larger number sizes will help but maybe not as much as you think, since those work well for FPGA or asic devices. Data dependency helps because it can kill cache behavior and branch prediction which are key features for fast speed on fpga and gpu devices. Combined with memory size which limits the number of possible attempts on devices thats where the protection comes from.

N.B. sorry for typos, have a cat in the way
Athleticism is absolutely an inborn talent. It certainly can be developed, but just look at any sport where all of the participants started at the same age in life and all received roughly the same number of repetitions/practices- there are logarithmic differences in ability. If we all started playing basketball at age 7 and all went to the same number of practices, by 18 there are just massive, massive differences between different players.

Frankly, this is true of literally every field. Like, imagine we all started in programming at age 10 and all received the same level of instruction- by age 20 there are again just huge, huge differences between where people are at ability-wise. It's unfair and doesn't fit into a lot of meritocratic 'just work hard and you'll end up at the top!' narratives (which are especially popular in the US), but it's sadly true
Yep, please check out the requests at: https://www.muckrock.com/project/search-warrant-data-608/

It'd be a good idea to limit the set of record points to only those that you're interested in.
https://adventofcode.com should probably be on the list. You end up doing bits of several of the suggestions along the way.
Those are actuating nerves that are traditionally considered “touch”. We have separate hardware for sensing magnetic fields.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2018/10/20/448...
Wow, this is unbelievably specific.

We were facing the exact same issue this morning with our own .ml domain - one of our engineers was accessing it no problem from 1.1.1.1 but another couldn't see it with 8.8.8.8. After a couple hours of trying to figure it out we figured it was just some configuration we botched, somehow, with Google but _Google having an outage_ makes a lot more sense.
It really did have to explain itself though. It was frustrating trying to play without spoilers because it was basically impossible. You had to go read guides saying how to make a crafting table, how to make tools, etc.
I'm not using any value judgments of my own here; it's a logical problem I'm trying to focus on.

I'm using "unfair" to mean anything someone could call unfair, that is, charging someone as though they are a higher risk than they are, due to some factor.

The point is, it's illogical to say we can't* misprice risk based on ethics or social justice or whatever, when you assume we can misprice risk based on incomplete knowledge. It seems like special pleading.

*can't in the sense of it being a mortal threat to the industry in general
Very much appreciate the recommendation.

I'm reading (well, listening to) Simon Winder's Germania - the first of a trilogy covering the history of most of western Europe. It sounds like it may interleave nicely with this work.

Simon's style, augmented / exacerbated by the narrator, is delightfully droll -- I thoroughly enjoy it.
Not if you can undercut the existing ones on price.
I feel the same (mine are 10 and 7). but to the other posters whining about how they don't have time for hobbies, suck it the f* up.
I'm not a language zealot (most languages/frameworks come with pros and cons) and I use R and the tidyverse quite regularly, but "performant" is not a word I'd associate with the tidyverse. I'd be surprised if it wasn't slower than most alternatives (can't claim to have systematically benchmarked it, still....), even if it's often easier to use and usually "good enough."
> I'm sure if enough people want Dexter and are willing to pay for it, they'll get it, even without copyright law.

This seems like an overly naive way of thinking, see Prisoner's Dilemma as a starting point.
Rsuite has supported binary pkgs about a year before rstudio. You have not read docs to the end.
Rsuite has been used for enterprise. It works great. And it is open-source.
Moreover it brings proper definition of R project which rstudio still is missing.
Agreed. I want this to be an improvement but real productivity has little to do with how many screens you can view simultaneously.

Attention is a finite resource.
Honestly, it kind of makes sense. If you have the option to be anyone you want to be, you take advantage of that option. There's no reason it would (or should) apply only to jobs, dress, and outward interactions.

Let's take a non-gendered example of someone (we'll call them Kris) who loves creating art, but is also capable of being a computer programmer.

If Kris lives in a country where being an artist means being poor and mocked, Kris would be smarter to chose the path of a computer programmer.

However, if Kris lives in a place where an artist can live a good, and perhaps even a great life, and be encouraged while pursuing that path, why would they go into computer programming?

Coming back to the topic at hand, if Kris has the capability of expressing compassion and will not be punished for doing so, why wouldn't Kris do that? A more individualistic and gender-egalitarian country is less likely to punish such expressions of compassion.
Meh. Doing a throwaway project just for the challenge of it is a horrible waste of time. Do something useful, if you choose your project wisely you'll learn just as much about coding, while simultaneously making the world a better place and filling out your portfolio/resume.
I'm not entirely sure if they're wrong. A lot of science for hydrogen fuel cell has not really been studied. I'm curious if we put equal funding into fuel cells instead of battery, today's footing of fuel cell will be much more different. Some cool technology development is the nickel based catalyst (compared to Platinum) but the development is slow since the industrial application is small. Also, there are ways to use fossil fuels directly (with huge caveats) instead of the standard hydrogen gas fuel cells.
If that data ends up being their real product entrapping people like the TV show would be counterproductive, so the incentives are right. Hopefully the work in the article is representative of what they're actually doing.
For cars that exist in both three and five door versions the three door version is usually worse for tight spaces, because the doors are bigger and the front seats more forward relative to the back of the door. Three doors / four seats seem to be less common these days, though.
Edit: removed. (My post was too negative and was just me venting.)
I like the constraints they put. But realistically, if you want to mimick the way humans learn, you want to put in place some kind of transfer learning: You have a model that has already been trained to understand video frames, maybe has played a few video games before. Then, 60M frames of minetest can be used to understand things about the game.

But also, the machine learning algorithms we have nowadays are in many ways superhuman. Seeing how much can be learned with these constraints is interesting as well.
Please consider using archive.md. There are many of us who have no access to archive.is.
Pilot “methanation” plants are already producing synthetic methane from hydrogen and CO2:

https://www.uniper.energy/news/methanation-plant-in-falkenha...
> I've never worked with another developer that couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag.

I have. Not many, but during my time consulting, some of our more pathological clients would have one or two programmers who literally couldn't program.
Earnestly and seriously:

Ed Mastery: The Standard Unix Text Editor (IT Mastery) (Volume 13) by Michael W Lucas

https://www.librarything.com/work/book/158901150