skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the tragedy of the commons. It's entirely reasonable that Designated Origin rules prescribe the ingredients and naming of products, e.g. for champagne. The problem is that varieties cross polinate through air and thus endanger--oh my gosh--the traditional wine bread. That much I can gather although the article doesn't say so. It's probably a little more complicated, sure.

The article only says that hybrids from the 19th century were inferior; suppose taste wise. Which is a matter of taste, but likely reflected in sales. The upside is resistance to fungi and such.
We're on the edge of a global environmental collapse, and most of our civilization's knowledge is being kept on the internet of all places.

Also, we were able to land men on the moon 50 years ago, and now that knowledge is basically gone, and the tapes lost, and people are starting to believe the Earth is flat and that the moon landing never even happened.

Meanwhile, we can still read tax records from ancient Sumeria because they were carved into clay.

Complex systems are always more fragile than simple ones. It seems to me like we've been standing on a house of cards for the last century.
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So I find sending emails with services like mailchimp, mailgun, etc. very non-personal. So I've been using Gmail api to send emails. Wondering if others do the same.
The assumption it must be a big corporation providing such services is the problem.

Of course it’s the American way to let the aristocracy dictate how the rules are interpreted, despite the whole free tough guy bravado thing.
Shouldn’t be too hard, current backend is here: https://github.com/pakastin/car-ws :D
I don’t know if I’ve “made it”, but two years ago I started a small consultancy which increased my per-hour billing to almost triple compared to when I was an employee doing the same thing. I use this extra cash flow to work 25-30 hour weeks.

Recently, I started to offer this setup “as a platform” to previous co-workers taking a 20% cut of their billing. If I get to five I can stop working all together.
Ribbonfarm? A bit more flowery
I liked "Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days" (2009) and have heard good thing about "Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future" (2014).
I thought “activist” investor would be more like how propublica made things work for all customers and reversed some of the intuit lobbying bills.

However this is just investors looking out for themselves “sell off the crap that doesn’t make money”
You can use the built-in IoC controller or Autofac or ServiceStack or whatever you want along with ASP.NET Core projects. I don't think it is architectural smell at all.

Also I find classifying people as Redux-proponents funny. It's not a camp, or at least not supposed to be one.
Well, that should be just temporary before our real mega engineering projects get started. Hard to not notice those, even just by the expected heat signatures.
ribbonfarm? A bit more flowery
https://www.freenas.org/freenas-certified-servers/
> "Heritability" includes non-genetic factors, and combined with genetic factors accounts for ~50% of variation in intelligence.

No, it doesn't. Heritability is intended and defined to include genetic factors only, unless you are referring to indirect genetic effects which are mediated through the environment but are still genetic in origin.

> For genetic factors alone, the consensus so far is that there is very weak correlation of genetic variation with intelligence, unless a not quite-yet-established polygenic score is constructed. To wit:

You are again being extremely misleading and selective in your quote-mining, and you omit all of the qualifiers that Plomin & Stumm include, eg "Recent genome-wide association studies have successfully identified inherited genome sequence differences" - 'identified genome sequence differences' does not imply that they are the only genes involved. Merely that some have been identified, and more will be. As they then go on to point out in the parts of the review you ignore, future GWASes will surely make much more progress in identifying SNPs, and approach the SNP heritability ceiling of ~30% given enough data.

> It stretches the imagination how one would go from these numbers to claiming that "The best estimate of intelligence heritability in adulthood at the peak, using measurement-error-corrected estimates, is 70-80%.

Er, because I'm not talking about SNP heritability estimates. I am talking about estimates from twin studies, adoption studies, and MZA studies, which estimate total genetic contributions. The lower-bound is 50%, you don't get anything lower from any twin studies, and this is deflated by the fact that many twin studies are looking at young kids and the Wilson Effect has not yet kicked in; this is then further deflated by the fact that they use noisy IQ measurements, which inflate the error variance component and hide the shared-environment/heritability components. Correct for those, and you get up to 70-80%. All of this is covered in the Plomin textbook cited there, starting pg171, where they cover things like how MZA designs deliver 72% heritability estimates and they explicitly mention that measurement error biases downwards ('Corrected for unreliability of measurement, heritability estimates would be higher...'). They are being highly conservative by using a lower bound of 50%, and they are wrong to, because as I already mentioned family-GCTA/GREML-KIN indicates that semi-rare variants alone get you up to 50% heritability, so we can be sure that 50% is a considerable underestimate (which is consistent with their expanded textbook discussion noting that the real heritability is much higher).
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Hi thanks for the feedback ! This is a personal project that i made to learn about css (sass) and vue. This is just something i made for fun and is not meant to replace apple's official website in any way. And i also wanted lyrics and youtube video integration, and genius api also has a really cool feature where you can select a part of a lyrics and it gives you really detailed description about that part, so i wanted a player with that feature built in. I dont think apple would implement something like that for legal reasons (?)
Maybe a biological weapon being unleashed from some genocidal nutcase's basement hobby laboratory?
> Relative to their wealth, Rich people, effectively, do not even pay income tax.

Can you explain this, as this doesn’t appear to be backed up by IRS stats on effective rates & total revenue.
Backblaze B2 is generic cloud storage, not the typical backup stuff they are known for.
Using decapped DRAM chip as photo sensor looks more promising:

https://hackaday.com/2014/04/05/taking-pictures-with-a-dram-...
I feel like because he's new and trying to shake things up that people are holding him to way higher of a standard than other candidates. Other candidates have been throwing things out there like wanting to provide healthcare to everyone (just one example) and as far as I've seen they've provided no plans for how they will make this happen. Yet for Yang everyone wants to see every detail of it. I also feel like this may be lead by organizations that don't like that he's shaking things up (apparently the DNC told him not to even mention the threat of automation because they don't want to scare people, as if putting our heads in the sand gets anything done).
Why are you doubtful? Are people born into wealth generally lazy?
>5/ A decentralized internet will emerge, led initially by decentralized infrastructure services like storage, bandwidth, compute, etc. The emergence of decentralized consumer applications will be slow to take hold and a killer decentralized consumer app will not emerge until the latter part of the decade.

The pendulum of history suggests this will occur (at some point), and I hope it happens sooner than later in many respects, but it is also seems like one in which we won't know the triggers/causes/sparks until after the fact, partially because it seems it will take complex combinations of causes?

Anyone seeing possible sparks which perhaps the rest of us aren't yet identifying?
I remember that one; that was absolutely criminal because they were informed there was a problem, and refused to do a recall because it would cost money. Instead, they quietly changed the ignition switch to fix the design defect, but without changing the part number or informing anyone.

And, as you pointed out, it was a systems interaction problem. Losing power steering at speed isn't great, but it's recoverable (maybe less so if you're weak and you're driving some big stupid SUV, rather than a small economy car), and losing power brakes is also bad but recoverable because you have enough vacuum in the system to do a full stop (but only 1 usually), but tie them together, at speed, and also (worst of all) lock the steering wheel, and you have a recipe for disaster. This is far, far, far worse than losing your power steering assist at parking-lot speeds.
But Lions don't appear to have any abstraction ability, or reflective thought. By that I mean you as a human can imagine yourself thinking about some hypothetical situation, as well as consider what kind of evidence would support a given hypothesis.

I think this might have actually happened (apocryphal?), but just imagine if you took humans from another country and put them in a zoo. They would surely figure it out, based on the evidence at hand.
A few rich electric super cars not paying the congestion charge is o.k., that helps to promote electric cars.

A 4ft bar/toll gate across the road. Anything under 4ft gets to pass under, anything over 4ft has to pay. Yes, commercial cars would have to pay. Tired of walking around the city and not being able to anything because of large SUVs and trucks.
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Even with no FTL, you can still do interstellar travel just fine if you make people live longer, which is being worked on for other reasons already.
Suicide is a crime against God, cherish your life
I find this perspective problematic. I understand it feels like a lack of freedom—indeed you are constrained from doing whatever you want.

As an example, imagine you are on your own, completely outside of society, out of contact with others. You’d need to build and maintain shelter. You’d need to forage or grow food. You’re not free to do whatever you want, until you have accumulated enough resources to not need to do the work to provide what you need for everyday survival.

I don’t think we’d call this slavery, yet it has the same shape as what you describe. Slavery implies coercion or violence limiting freedom, which certainly still exists in the world, but isn’t an apt description of what you describe.
> Why does anyone need to ask Tesla anything? What does anyone need to pay?

The comment is not about Tesla cars using non-Tesla chargers; it is about non-Tesla cars using Tesla chargers.

If other car makers want to use Tesla's network they would have to pay their share of the costs of maintaining and expanding the network.

At the moment Tesla's Superchargers are available only to Tesla cars even though many other cars use Type 2 and they now have CCS connectors. Tesla have several times said that they would consider opening up the system to other manufacturers cars if those manufacturers were willing to pay their share of the costs which most likely would be less than the cost of creating their own network. But, no other manufacturer has taken them up on it.

None of the charging networks you mention were set up by the car makers. Tesla's network is part of the package when you buy a Tesla, or at least it was, and is again, for the S and X. It is a selling point that the chargers just work. They have no user interface, you just plug in and it works. You connect your credit card to your Tesla account and away you go. No need for dozens of apps and RFID cards. Every other charger I have tried to use has been significantly more trouble and often simply would not work. Even those that are free in Tesco supermarket car parks (provided by a consortium that includes VW) need an app on your mobile to get more than 15 minutes of charging.
There are literally banks out there that are unusable without an Android/Apple smartphone. And while it's currently still possible to use a bank that isn't as insane, I expect this trend will only get worse. It'll no longer be a case of foregoing some smart conveniences, but about being able to access important parts of the economy.
Available on Audible now. Hard to find it in print.

Another series is Greg Bear’s Forge of God
Our worst long-term threat is our inability to coordinate our efforts in order to save ourselves. This test is not graded, it's pass-fail.
To clarify this slightly (I guess I have an urge to make a speech): it has really seemed to me, that, for the benefit of an organization (medium- and long-term), and the peacefulness & less pain for everyone involved: if anything is going to be repeated much, it seems worth making the process reliable and improving/automating it, at least a little bit each time it is performed (again, documenting, and indicating openness to peer feedback, on the path toward automating).

This, to me, seems like part of the Golden Rule of working together (treat others the way one would want to be treated), as are things like not leaving useful but hard-to-maintain messes behind for others without some clarification, or having important processes that only one person knows how to do, so when they leave it is a crisis (or no one really knows how to do it so it is a crisis every time).</speech>

Feedback welcome. :)
The curiosity aspect might be generational. After growing for enough generations, the critical mass of "curious" individuals - people who are persecuted, who don't fit into the prevailing culture, or who are just really bored - might be there for exploring outwards, even if it had already been done many time before.
The human race has existed a long time without UBI.
Water down intellectual property rights, strengthen labor rights, tax land appropriately and a lot of billionaires would just disappear of their own accord.
The issue with Redux is that a dispatch() and hence a state update causes a synchronous (hence blocking) update of the view.

Andrew Clark better explains the difference in this tweet: https://twitter.com/acdlite/status/1195453776217296896

> Redux architecture depends on the ability to block the main thread until rendering is complete. Once you make rendering non-blocking, your store is no longer synchronized with the UI. Leading to data races and inconsistencies.

Many view layers are moving towards non-blocking rendering as they need to account for things such as different priorities based on what the user needs: for instance a user typing needs larger priority than a banner showing.

Once it is non-blocking it's hard to keep a store and several UIs elements in sync. For instance your store might say isLoading:true but the UI might not show that since it's rendering/working another higher-priority element on the screen. And then you might have another view that depends on the isLoading:true which causes another thing to appear on the screen before the other element is shown... all this leads to inconsistencies and race conditions.

Essentially the problem is that we have lots of code that does (especially in thunks):

store.dispatch(FOO)
const state = store.getState()
// here we expect state to contain changes done by FOO
// but with non-blocking UI this is no longer the case
my resolution for this 2019 is stopping making off by one errors..
Since the OP noted that they were trying to accomplish this task on a c4.xlarge machine, the data is already "in the cloud" and so transfer should be blazingly fast.

Using the zipped CSV at [1] as a size estimate, I'd ballpark 300 million CSV rows as somewhere between 6.7-10.6 GB:

(300000000/500000) * 11.10 = 6.7 GB
(300000000/500000) * 17.68 = 10.6 GB

That could one minute to transfer. (Obviously if the rows contain a ton of data, these size estimates could be off, in an unbounded way.)

1 = http://eforexcel.com/wp/downloads-18-sample-csv-files-data-s...
Extremely expensive proprietary kit, obsolete (or requiring expensive upgrade) after a fairly short lifespan.

But of course the market for it doesn't care, and can pay for it.

I've thought about it similarly to you, but because of the labour cost of installation, it's an expensive job whatever the cost of the hardware/software, so there's not really a reason for installers to use HomeAssistant, OpenHAB, and the like. The difference will be thousands for hardware, on top of tens of thousands for the whole install job.
When did everyone go to sleep last night in local time?

I passed out around 9pm. I normally stay up a little later but ordered delivery and drank more than usual (recently at least, new years resolution now) so yea....
An "insightful, balanced, and deliberative" discussion is able to determine the truth about a matter more effectively than one imbalanced, that is not deliberative or insightful. So even if you have an opinion on a topic, it is a useful way to proceed to discuss it if you are wanting to gain some insight.

If you're not wanting to learn anything from the discussion, why even have it? It's not as if a flame thread on the internet is going to actually convince anyone of anything, or really accomplish much of anything.
The problem is comparing the situation in those places in Alaska to what we think it would like without those yearly checks. It seems like it might be worse? But hard to know.

There are studies in other places that are more positive, but they probably aren't generalizable.

A big difference with a program where eligibility is based on citizenship is you could take it with you anywhere in the nation and probably the world. People willing to move should benefit greatly from this but the long-term effects seem hard to predict.
Yeah but I think Yang knows that , and he uses UBI as a symbolic image of the fact that good jobs are going to become increasingly hard to find and that makes most people anxious. It's sort of how trump used "the wall" to appeal to the anxieties of people with insecure jobs. It's a good focus point though, that appeals to reasonable people more than "just tax the rich" (which is shortsighted anyway; what 's the plan when the rich are no more?). My current bet (as a non-american) is that if the democrats manage to select Yang, he will win, otherwise it's going to be a much worse trump 2nd term
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this is a good theory but you don't even have to look at it as, "each being has the will to destroy everyone". way more likely that it's a natural byproduct of existence that can't be adequately anticipated such that the species can do something about it. We're already on the edge of waiting for the bacteria that can't be killed, the climate disaster that destroys our food supply, etc. (you might say climate disaster is adequately anticipated, but while science is anticipating it, the whole of the species is unfortunately not).
Your face already exists in a plethora of databases anyway if you've existed the last 10+ years. I'm not saying you shouldn't be concerned but don't be mis-guided this is a recent development.

It's not. You as a human generate an immense amount of JSON data as you interact with the world until you die (and, possibly still after).

We're all just one big JSON object now :)

Cheers and happy new year, be tracked some more.
Thanks for sharing your learning!

This shows a good way to learn Vue, Sass, and how to integrate with YouTube and the Genius API for lyrics.
I think it's at a pretty good state right now. A lot of the things you'll need aren't exactly cheap (in my opinion) but you can definitely automate a lot nowadays. Check out hassio if you're interested in this sorta stuff!

https://www.home-assistant.io/hassio/
I guess, you can do both. Well unless you want to use the mass of the planet for a more efficint purpose, eq. habitat swarm.
Getting 1 video to a billion people is dead simple, getting a million videos to 1,000 people is damn hard. YouTube serves both ends of the spectrum.
As a personal anecdote, I would love volunteering with building homes, helping elderly, or helping animal conservation and rehabilitation efforts. I would also like to work on some inventions (I'm a mechanical engineer). However, volunteering doesn't pay anything and inventing something is really risky, so as a result I can't contribute in such ways to society and instead am working at a job I hate contributing to my deteriorating quality of life and mental health (i feel like a slave working towards having enough money to buy myself from my owner).
Start a JavaScript Project with Node.js and React in 2020
50000 years ago we were throwing chipped rocks at hairy elephants. Technology moves fast on galactic time scales. Expecting two alien species to have roughly the same tech would be like two randomly fired bullets to collide mid air.
$200 for an Amazon Renewed iPhone 7 which I just bought when my previous iPhone was stolen.

https://www.amazon.com/iPhone-7-Plus-Renewed/s?rh=n%3A169477...
Which is why Steve Forbes won the presidency in 2000 and Bloomberg or Steyer will take it this year and hold their inaugural ball at the Amazon campus in LIC. :)

As you say, money helps. But there limits to what money can do.
I think it's true in general. Point free style is just different from other programming styles it's not particularly unreadable.

Haskell definitely has issues, but I agree with the parent on his opinion on point free style.
Would be nice if it could be used to simulate preetible vm from gcp, is it possible?
the article refers to travel not just by the species itself but by machinery that is not limited by lifespan, which in theory would also be observable. We have probes that have left the solar system through this means. not to mention just the simple example of radio waves.
Collecting Free Cryptocurreny from recent years and cashing them out from their meteoric rise in value.
2020 – My Pledges
Godot Engine – A decade in retrospective and future
Any experience with ProtonVPN? I am looking to give it a try
>To your point, the GM issue was involved in 30 accidents in a couple years but no fatalities. The problem is obviously not a failure in a parking lot, but at speed.

I'm not familiar with the specifics of that case, but having a low system voltage is more likely at parking lot speeds because the alternator isn't turning very fast, whereas at speed the alternator should be generating enough power to run everything including EPS, but maybe they underspecced the alternator, so I can see it happening. Still, losing your power assist at speed is still dangerous of course, but it is recoverable, and it's nothing like having a critical system fail in an aircraft. Failures in cars are always safer than in aircraft, because you're already on the ground. This is why safe design is so important in aircraft: if something goes wrong in a car, it might result in a wreck of a few vehicles at worst (multiplied by the number of cars experiencing that failure), but many times tragedy is avoided because the driver just needs to steer away from traffic and avoid running into something too fast. In an aircraft, there's no such thing as a "fender bender"; crashes are usually fatal, and they usually carry dozens to hundreds of passengers.

>Recalls cost a lot of money. In the GM case it affected 1MM cars. I didn’t look up the cost of each fix, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it cost nine figures.

That seems high: you're assuming each car cost $1000 to fix there. That's a lot of money to fix one component; at that volume, the part probably cost well under $100 each, and as another poster noted, the dealer labor required was pretty small.
IIRC Fermi paradox does not expect FTL - a locust style colonization effort should be able to settle the whole milky way quite quickly (couple hundred thousand years) even with not very fas sub light travel.
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