skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the column of text shifted to the right and getting cut off for anyone else? Chrome and FF.
I was thinking about OnShape cad, Mathematica, and Matlab. Pretty major ones.
Afaik, nobody has debunked the Borra paper, so we already found them.

Discovery of peculiar periodic spectral modulations in a small fraction of solar type stars

https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03031
Yes exactly, thanks.
That's a horrible comparison. If I didn't need to have a job I would be volunteering helping the elderly, doing construction work, helping with animal rehabilitation, inventing things (I'm a mechanical engineer), etc. I can't contribute in any of these ways I would enjoy because they either don't enough or are risky.
5am local time. My family is Russian, so New Year's is our great big holiday when the whole family gets together and celebrates. If you have no idea why, there's a really interesting thread here (and the article on AO linked from it) that explains it pretty well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21877419
Looking good. A few questions about the toolchain:

What do you use PostCSS for?

How are the the scss files actually compiled?
I wonder how good images could be with modern DRAM. A 256MB DDR3 chip would theoretically have over 2 trillion pixels. Light sensitivity should be better too due to the smaller capacitors.
Would you really want to read it? It’s going to be boring...

- wash you hands often and don’t touch your face unless you just did

- stay out of midday sun, over 45 degree elevation

- no alcohol, simple carbs, or other addictive substances

- no prolonged seating; walk some distance a few times a day.

- modest stretch and exercise (like hipster yoga)

- 8 hours of sleep; observe sleep hygiene.

- prioritize reducing stress over “making a difference” and such

- prioritize fulfilling social interaction

- prefer a job that doesn’t torture you but gives a modest sense of accomplishment

- if you are a doctor follow checklists

- if you’re not a doctor follow checklists anyway

EDIT:

- plan vacations as far in advance as you can and generally sprinkle in your life something unconditional to look forward to

- try dog or cat sitting for your friends; I’ve found that a good cat is a permanent +4 boost to mood every day for $100 per month
When smartphones came out and were locked down those of us who objected were told that we should be quiet about it because we still have general purpose pcs. Now the BS comes for those of us running general purpose pcs and it’s ok because it was accepted for phones?
The semantics of a[i] is exactly that of *(a + i). Which is why i[bodies] is actually legal C code.
Meaningness by David Chapman, LessWrong.
> After an OS update, all of the sync functionality was automatically enabled and everything on the device was uploaded to Google’s services anyway.

Which carrier and phone manufacturer if you don't mind my ask? I've never had Google reset my sync settings but I've kept the same phone manufacturer (LG) for years. I've been an Android user since 2009 and I've never had my settings tampered with, the only exception was when Android added silent mode that made it so your alarms wouldn't go off, that sure pissed off a lot of people I'm sure.
China Is Building Enormous Self-Sustaining Cities All over the African Continent
That article was written before two key events that have probably taken a lot of the shine off. First Tesla's Model S Plaid edition was announced and seen racing around the Nurburgring. Second the official EPA range rating was released and it came in a third less than expected. Those reservation holders who's commitment so far is only a ~$3k refundable deposit are going to have second thoughts.

[0] https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/11/taycan-turbo-epa-estimat...

[1] https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-s-plaid-nurburgring-ne...
Take the Great British Intelligence Test
To put it more blunt: risking your rep for some additional amount per user isn't worth it, if your margin is already a non-trivial multiple of said amount.
just as it existed for centuries, millenia, without penicillin and without quinine. This isn’t an argument; a history of subsistence doesn’t mean we can’t think of ways to make it all better.
Compounded by the fact that advanced space communications would likely rely mostly on laser beams[1], whose efficiency and general design fits much better with that environment and its infrastructure. Unless pointing directly at your instrument (good luck, what are the odds?) and missed by the intended receiver, the beam will never reach you anyway.

[1] Particularly if your operation is covert, discrete, observational, non-disruptive: you'd want to avoid signaling your presence in all directions, while wasting 99.99% of that energy away from your intended receiver. It's just military efficiency, a photon-VPN so to speak, that you'd need to "physically MitM" to hack.
I find jq’s language a lot nicer than JMESpath and trend to use it whenever possible
You can’t draw wide ranging conclusions from that sort of UBI. They’re part of a nation that exists within another nation. They’re facing all sorts of pressures and incentives that would not be present for a US wide UBI.

The need and requirement for a UBI is real. Private sector is simply never going to find a job for everyone who needs to survive. We offer no other way for people to survive. This isn’t a balance sheet calculation. It’s society saying “hey, we can’t just let our own people, as an individual of our society, have only one means of survival. That just creates too many pressures which lead to their suffering and exploitation.”
How can a US Dollar based UBI solve the problems of automation when the Super Admins of the US Dollar are explicitly pursuing the opposite goal?

According to the Federal Reserve website, 2/3 of their main goals are:

1. Seeking to maximize employment

2. Maintaining stable prices

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/what-economic-goals-does...

Automation and ephemeralization minimize employment and prices, but the money system seeks the opposite. Until these contradictions are reconciled, how can a US Dollar based UBI not fail?
Model S and X sales were substantially higher then etron is now before the the Model 3 was introduced.
Dev skills that will boost your salary in 2020
part of the idea of UBI is that it would replace current or future (hypothetical) welfare benefits. at least in theory, it seems better for people on both sides of the equation. for the "producers", it would replace a hodge-podge of inefficient and inscrutable welfare programs with a single number that can be adjusted up/down and easily understood. for those on "the dole", it would be a much more respectful way of providing aid. instead of getting funny money that can only be spent on certain items at the grocery store and having to apply for a tax credit at the end of the year, they just get $x every month to spend as they see fit.

the complacency angle is worth considering, but when I see how much money we waste to (for example) manufacture at least one part of a spaceship in every single US state, I wonder if we wouldn't come out ahead by just paying most of the people for doing nothing and then manufacturing the parts where it actually makes sense.

the main thing I fear is what it would do to rent. I don't understand enough about economics to know how much of a problem this is, but naively it seems like UBI would just shift rents upward in a tight housing market.
Stayed up til 2am watching YouTube (stuff from the author of Ultralearning mostly) and then got woken up by my 7:30am weekday alarm which doesn’t care if it’s a holiday, and I forgot to turn off.
Relative in the sense that it’s inconsequential relative to capital gains taxes. The very rich don’t make incomes. Nexos for example earns $88k a year in income.
Those metal worker jobs were long ago lost to automation. At that level very few - if any - parts on a vehicle are made by a person, the biggest job is to load blanks and to unload parts into machinery.
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Culture rot will kill you quicker than density of colonisable planets.

The transport layer is the easy part. Content integrity is a much harder problem.

All of your probes and colony ships have to reproduce the source culture - or some viable subservient spin-off - with 100% accuracy.

This explicitly means 100% reproductive success of all features, especially the politics and economics, with no errors.

For a successful colony, stability and conformity have to be maintained for long periods - centuries at a minimum, perhaps even millions of years.

And of course this assumes the source culture is stable in the first place.

Otherwise you're just seeding the galaxy with potential competitors, and/or setting up some kind of galactic Battle Royale.

I'm bemused by the suggestion the first option is actually possible. The second seems more likely, but might not be considered a success in the sense of creating a stable galaxy-spanning civ capable of common strategic goals.
Billions = 99% of the population. Oh I see. Okay.
> found fancy

I was giving you the benefit

> without healthcare and without food

What? I've never heard him say this and seens like something he wouldn't say given his stance on wellbeing. Also, you can use UBI for food.

The only thing I've heard is people on welfare programs would be able to choose between continuing those or stopping them and switching to UBI. Nothing about healthcare and with these the people get to choose themselves.
How is that different than Apple iPhones polling iCloud backends for your email? Or visiting websites?
I normally try and sleep by 7pm. But last night I stayed up super late until 10pm and played video games to celebrate. Both vices I normally don’t make time for.

Happy New Year everyone!!!!
Not really in this case: I paid money for my smartphone. The manufacturer might not have paid anything for Android, but that's a problem of Google spending insane amounts of money outcompeting and destroying the entire mobile OS market, not a problem of me not wanting to pay.
Yeah, I think this is a commonly-dodged problem that is dodged precisely because the nature of UBI proponents selects for it. But it's a mistake to think one's personal motivators/use of free time/etc are true of everyone. You cannot extrapolate like that.

> Just as you can find Silicon Valley techies who think Soylent is the only sustenance a person will ever need, intellectuals tend to think everyone could be as content as they would be living life in their heads or inventing their own destiny. Most people need to be doing something to feel satisfied and a potential UBI system addresses this need just as inadequately as disability checks do now. Cue drug epidemics.

When I wrote this in 2017, the "intellectuals" I was thinking of was Sama specifically.

https://medium.com/s/free-money/after-universal-basic-income...
I am currently going through fast.ai's Deep Learning course and will totally recommend it because of its top-down approach.

Has anyone done non-DL courses on their website? For e.g., any thoughts on Rachel's Computational Linear Algebra?
Why it is trending at no 1?
I think I need to stop reading hacker news :(
I looked into this about 3 years ago. Architectural firms are in a unique position - they generally have SMB requirements for the majority of their needs, except data storage. I had ~24Tb of data, ~18Tb of which were Revit/AutoCAD files. Cloud solutions were just horrifically expensive or just couldn’t handle the volume of data. De-duplication is a must, as is regular scavenging of app generated backup files.

That said, StorSimple and Azure looks like it’s matured enough to look at now. The main potentially prohibitive factor being cost. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storsimple/

Edit; this has got me thinking about how awful model syncing it Revit is! A big part of the problem for me was that the only solution for syncing was local data storage. Remote working with Revit was a nightmare.
20% off. I’d say that’s a pretty decent guess in 5 years.
That's the general story of humanity. From the first settlements to the ever-away "final frontier" — somewhere between Moon and Mars as we speak. There is no doubt in the mind of any historian, psychologist or sociologist, IMHO, that we'll probably keep doing this for as long as we are "homo sapiens sapiens". That should be ~50K years total based on past mutations (iirc? anyhow much bigger than recorded history), so I figure we can take curiosity for granted as a civilization trait for next-gen politics. Like, lots of gens. ;-)
check out https://freecodecamp.org
The cheapest iPhone available in my region still costs almost as much as the average worker wage. The Android phones are available for 1/5th of the price.

Also iPhones are not localized to the local language at all, so this again provides significant barrier to less well off.
That's not relevant. The stance of UBI is centered mainly on automation with a side benefit of being able to afford risks and improving quality of life.
I guess my perspective is pretty different. I have some basic monitoring but most of the things I could easily automate don't rise anywhere near the top of the list of things I care about. Turning lights on and off is basically something I don't even think about.

It's cleaning, organizing, laundry, washing dishes, etc. that I'd really prefer not to do and--major appliances (and/or hiring someone) aside--there's no way to automate all that.
Looks like nice stuff but this is not yet something that can be used if one is not part of the closed beta.
For programming and tech topics:

Dan Luu's Blog
https://danluu.com/

Drew DeVault's Blog
https://drewdevault.com/

For a broader scope:

Derek Sivers' Blog https://sivers.org/blog

If you love books, Maria Popova's Blog
https://www.brainpickings.org/
No need for melodrama. People often sell a big house and buy a small house when they retire and then use the difference to live on, but reducing housing scarcity makes both costs go down. Which means the reduction in the difference (surplus) is less than the total reduction in the price of the housing, and is a net benefit to the country overall. Meanwhile housing costs have knock on effects for all other costs, so they go down too. Having lower costs is a major benefit for people on a fixed income.

Reducing housing costs helps the indigent elderly at least as much as it does the average person. Who it hurts is the affluent elderly who own a big mansion and would get whacked harder than usual by a reduction in its value, but I'm not sure why I'm supposed to have a lot of sympathy for rich people trying to profit from artificial scarcity.
The problem with secondhand iPhones is Apples relentless war on repairability - with Apple Stores not being widely available and Apple limiting supply of spare parts (and using DRM to lock them), those secondhand iPhones are very poor value proposition.

Especially when new Androids come with manufacturers warranty, local repair center and fraction of the cost.
Got tricked during a CS course with this. I bet a lot of the people in that class will remember the full rule. It then came back on the final.
Ask HN: How would you make workplaces more autistic-friendly?
Hi,
Since my son was recently diagnosed with autism (age 3.5) I have been reading a lot about the unemployment and underemployment problems of autistic people. I'm very interested to know, how would you make your workplace more autistic friendly (both in the hiring process and the day-to-day). I'm thinking about doing something in this domain. Thanks!
Syncing contacts and pictures without opt-in sounds very illegal under GDPR.
Wait but why is pretty neat... For example, [1] was quite nice.

[1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2018/04/picking-career.html
I look at UBI as a replacement for a part time minimum wage job, not for working. Meaning it ought to give you about 250 dollars a week. I also view it as a replacement for having minimum wage too - but no one will work for 2.00 and hour either.

UBI will free throws labor force, and make it easier for labor to be more mobile and move to where the jobs are - the other key about UBI is everyone gets it, no matter if wealthy or poor.
And I agree with all that.

What I don't like is presumption that an applicant who gives the first kind of answer, is a bad team player and if he doesn't put the blame on himself he is 'bitter' (which is bad).
The title of the paper and the link here might lead people to think this is about educating oneself in the quagmire of MOOCs and the like available to us all today. It's not. Killer explanation from the first part of the paper:

"This framework is pretty powerful, and it allows to reformulate a bunch of different problems in machine learning and optimization as similar games. More in general, with the regret framework we can analyze situations in which the data are not independent and identically distributed from a distribution, yet I would like to guarantee that the algorithm is “learning” something. For example, online learning can be used to analyze

• Click prediction problems;

• Routing on a network;

• Convergence to equilibrium of repeated games.

It can also be used to analyze stochastic algorithms, e.g., Stochastic Gradient Descent, but the adversarial nature of the analysis might give you suboptimal results. For example, it can be used to analyze momentum algorithms, but the adversarial nature of the losses essentially forces you to prove a convergence guarantee that treats the momentum term as a vanishing disturbance that does not help the algorithm in any way."

Looks pretty interesting, and I'll be coming back to it as a paper, but don't head in there looking for advice on how to score that Udemy course at a deep discount! :)
Thank you !

The scss files are compiled by webpack to normal css at build time using sass loader, I used vue-cli to automate the webpack configuration https://cli.vuejs.org/ process

Oh and the poss css file is just a leftover config file for a package
that i decided not to use ( Ant Design )
Fully Procedural Zztop Ford Eliminator
I think I came back home around 5-6 AM; rough.
That is beautiful.

Can't upvote though, as it did not remind me of anything. It's new to me. Wonder what it has to do with optics.

the terms of R remind me a bit of the collatz sequence, as 2x^2-1 gives the first branches from the root (times 3).
Thank you for your reply. It was very helpful. I will include your suggestions into my learning path.

I had difficulty implementing data structures in C, not in python. Python I was able to think in terms of classes and attributes. But I was finding it difficult to do the same in C since there is no concept of classes. I am still trying to learn pointers properly to have an understanding how to implement data structures and algorithms effectively.

I came across the book you have recommended and it is a very nice book. I would recommend that along with Designing Data Intensive Applications.

Thank you.
Quotes this article extensively but I thought the original summary post made some additional good points
https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2018/08/04/c...
I don't think you can treat that question like 'how are you'. Otherwise I agree with you.
That’s true, but Lend-Lease ended well before Stalin’s death.
Nest is governed by Google's catch-all privacy policy. So the data they upload to the cloud can be used across the entire Google ecosystem. If you're using Google Photos, they already have tremendous amount of data on you, so this isn't anything particularly new.

This will, however, enable a new ad-targeting method where they can ensure the ads delivered are specific to the individual using an otherwise shared device.

Additionally, this "feature" can be combined with the always listening capabilities of Google spyware to definitively link your audio profile to your facial profile. This will enable Google to build an index of voice fingerprints, with facial profiles that can be used in the future in some capacity... like being able to isolate your voice in a room, once a camera detects your face, or vice versa.

This all can be spun as an "improved product experience".

edit-

there's no need to send video or an image to Google everytime, if there's a unique identifier mapped to your facial data. Only that will need to be sent up to Google and the statement you have quoted would technically be correct.
I can understand that not everyone wants or has the time to keep explaining the same things to everyone (though I think there are solutions for that). Also, developers might have other priorities than polishing UX, especially if the software is a volunteer or hobby project. I wouldn't call those things "elitist".

However, what I absolutely believe is elitist is to intentionally design a confusing UX or value it as a "feature" because it will prevent certain groups of people from using the software. That was what the GP advocated for.
Really?

Looking the number of mainland Chinese people who acquired second passport or outright GTFO'd, I come to a different conclusion.

Statists (The Guardian) dream of a powerful State. The people are just means to an end.
Thank you ! I had a lot of fun making it and im glad that you fell that way :)
Take democracy for granted?

The United States isn't a democracy!
Of course, I'm all for expanding privacy (I've actually led several workshops to help people de-Googlify Androids and will continue to do so).

However the issue with HN these days is that these topics turn into brand cheerleading, where people come out of the woodwork to proselityze Apple while mercilessly downvoting any posts that talk about privacy issues on iOS platform.

That's not defending privacy - that's just defending another corporation and letting them get away with violations.
> Tesla as a company is healthy and making a profit.

Well they “finally” turned a surprise profit in its 15 year history. It’s a bit of a stretch to call them profitable given the insurmountable costs involved manufacturing a electric car at the scale of Tesla.
> Buy...a Jolla

I would absolutely love to do this, but I live in the US. Recently I visited Jolla's website and was excited to see that they offer an officially supported installation for Sony Xperia 10 and XA2 phones. I found several listings for those devices on eBay, got really excited, and almost pulled the trigger on one. I went back and read the fine print on the Jolla site and discovered that they won't sell the OS to you or allow you to download the free version if you live outside the EU, Switzerland, and Norway.

It's so frustrating that there is a total lockout in the US when it comes to smartphone OSes; I have a Lumia 830 sitting in a drawer I'd be fine with using but since Microsoft officially dropped support it has developed issues that prevent it from being a daily driver. Besides, Microsoft's track record on privacy is hardly better than Google's.

For now I can either carry a dumbphone and a separate smart device like the Gemini PDA running Linux, or just continue using my increasingly slow and glitchy iPhone 7 (I don't want face recognition or a notched display, so I refuse to upgrade to the X and beyond, and the 8 is still too expensive to justify such a minor upgrade).

I am eagerly awaiting the opportunity to buy a PinePhone (fuck Librem and their constant deception around their products), and if it works out as a daily driver I'm all in.