skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've often considered going back to school for a MS in Robotics, but I wonder if it's possible to join an outfit like yours as a SW guy and "pick up" some of the prereq knowledge on the job? I'd probably stay more on the software side (state estimation, control theory, route planning, sensor fusion etc).

If you are open to talking more over the phone or email or something I'd definitely appreciate it as I have wanted to break in to this field for a very long time and having some guidance on the actual ins and outs of the industry would be a great help.

I know of WHOI and Scripps, who are the other big players in the scientific realm? I know Paul Allen did some exploratory stuff (not sure about r&d) and Ray Dalio with OceanX is doing something.
Wow. So just added that book to my cart. Any other good reads like this you recommend?
Industrial pollution is probably more common than most people realize. I've lived Denver, Pittsburgh and Tampa and you can always catch smells depending on what part of the city you're in. I just saw this article on Colorado Public Radio today. https://www.cpr.org/2020/01/06/why-denver-sometimes-smells-l...
The problem I’ve had is just how jarring the transitions are on refresh. I don’t need it to run continuously at 24/29/60/120 FPS, but I do want it to load the next page in like 25ms. So imagine it taking more power to update the display, but it still isn’t refreshing continuously so would hopefully still have power consumption advantage.

(Even a drawing application could maybe handle it if you could refresh subsections of the display)
>I can hardly think of anyone I know that can't attest to the experience of discussing something as a non-sequitur, only to receive ads about it shortly thereafter.

No way in hell that's true.
Things are bad enough, you don't need to make stuff up.
I'm not suggesting NNs should be considered intelligent because of their inspiration from biology. Just that they should be considered intelligent because of what they are currently capable of (though that is way less intelligent than humans or animals of course).

But it seems like there is a plausible path to increasing their "intelligence" by dumping more data and hardware at them.

Like GPT2 shows quite a surprising amount of structural complexity even though it's very dumb in other ways – it feels like if you could pump a million times more data into it you'd get something that seemed really quite intelligent.
The rate has been declining for years, but this year the decline is larger than expected. They're talking about that increase in the reduction of the rate.
Best Cars on the Planet
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Decommissioning coal plants & spinning up natural gas plants could hypothetically help with lung cancer too.
The economics of nuclear are good but not as good as you're implying.

It takes a long time and a lot of money to start earning on a nuclear plant. Given the risks involved it's not that easy to build one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbeJIwF1pVY

I don't think firing nuclear waste into space would be wise either. The risk of that blowing up on launch is high and the fall out from that would be a disaster.
Bypass paywall - https://outline.com/LnRbez
If that's the case why isn't the battery replaceable. I spent less money on way better audio quality headphones (Sennheiser HD25) over 20 years ago and they are still going strong. So far I replaced the cable once and the ear pads every few years. Though I would like to buy airpod pros for traveling I cannot bring myself to buy something that will last only 2 years. That is a disgusting example of inbuilt obsolescence and should actually be illegal to sell.
I replied to one of your other posts about how great I think React development is, but I want to also state my wholehearted agreement with this thread. For things you would use a SPA framework for, it’s really the types of thing that are apps that happen to be hosted through a web browser. They’re very distinct from web pages. Most user facing websites should be built with backend server processing and js/query. React is nice because you can progressively enhance particular components, so it works well as a complement to a backend language, but in that case the tooling overhead is pretty high for what you get. So in those cases I typically go the jQuery route as well.
I stopped using the visual format language. It was great for a while. The new constraints are much better with type checking:

NSLayoutConstraint.activate([
button.centerXAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.centerXAnchor),
button.centerYAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.centerYAnchor, constant: 0)
])
Ignoring the details of the physics and mechanics of how it would work of course :). My highest Physics grade was an NZ C+, so somewhere in the 55-60% range :)
I think a deciding factor would be your ability to get a scholarship for college. If you can do a 2/4 year degree without going into massive debt, then definitely do that.

If school == expensive no matter what, then maybe it's worth self teaching a little longer. Try to get one or two interviews (after at least a few months! probably won't happen overnight) and if it's really not working, then you can reevaluate.
The difference is that this absurd amount of data exists, with no useful distretention policy.

Remember that the govt seizes this info about you to prosecute you, but you don't get this info about them for all their suspected crimes.
Scott's book is about how bottom-up complex systems are destroyed and reconstructed as top-down centrally planned organized systems in order to become more "legible" for the destroyer (the state). The general theme is the state can't understand how certain traits of the system are actually adaptive because it views from the outside. These traits are seen as irrational, so the state destroys the system and rebuilds it in order to make it rational, and thus understandable and legible in order to optimize for extracting a resource of some sort. Legibility in this context is used almost pejoratively to say most beneficial elements have been destroyed to optimize for one parameter, often ineffectively in the long term. Scott Alexander has a pretty good review if you want a deeper dive into the book's examples of this process.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-lik...
Everyone, it's cue, not queue.
The State has not always been able to do that. The idea that a search can be executed merely for the purpose of collecting evidence is a relatively recent development. Records, papers, etc. used to be protected under the Fourth Amendment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_evidence_rule

In broad strokes: Originally, the Fourth Amendment only allowed for the seizure of stolen and counterfeit goods, the "fruits of a crime." This was slowly expanded to include the "instrumentalities" of a crime, i.e. the things used in the commission of a crime. The difference between the instrumentalities and mere evidence was always shaky, and eventually crumbled.
That's great - but really the dams need to be able to help handle peak grid capacity, and to do that they need to be able to generate more than they were originally designed for so that they can trade off against those other sources that weren't around when the dams were built
The graph is just a log decay like all chemical degradation curves.

https://skepticalscience.com/toward-improved-discussions-met...
Supercharging tomorrow: Australia first to test new lithium batteries
What's your point? The YoY decline in smoking rates since 1970s is not linear.

This stat is effectively meaningless without accounting for the rate of the US pop that develops lung cancer in the first place. If you want to measure treatment effectiveness, then the right measurement is something like '% of US population that develops lung cancer who are effectively treated/cured' and not 'overall cancer death rate'.

The fact this headline is so broad when it's really about lung cancer and not all cancers and doesn't account for any factors outside of 'treatment innovation' leads me to believe this was pushed by some healthcare trade group.
1200 baud yo!

(It was actually a really neat little thing, I wish I still had it)
California is neither an arm of the federal government nor akin to a country. It is in most ways a subservient and inferior government, owing resources to the federal government. That's part of the deal that California got when it joined the union. (in exchange, California gets stuff like a currency and a military)

California (the land and the people and the government and every other way you could view it) must pay. Internal use and abuse of funding shouldn't have anything to do with what is owed.

When you say that the change was "done plain and simple to own the libs on the coast", you presume that the previous situation was fair. It was not. Those "libs on the coast" were evading taxes, plain and simple.

That "6th biggest economy in the world" was doing so well partly because it avoided taxes. That was unjust enrichment at the expense of middle America.
You can use CSS for transition animations. Look for “CSS-Based Indicators” in the docs.
Pull up a elevation/topo map of Pittsburgh and you'll see why some people will smell something while others don't. It's very hilly and it would be easy for certain particulates/gasses to settle in some places but not others.
The palette cards they carry around remind me of white-balancing.
Global Wealth Report 2019 [pdf]
If you know this is true then you don't need to subpoena a year's worth of all his data.

Alexander Hamilton and James Madison also had "extreme" views
Why the name change? I was confused because I thought this was a competitor to Pika until I saw your comment.
Ah yes, the stone age phase change turbine. Well attested in cave paintings and stone chippings.

Solar cells in space are a great idea. Much more efficient than nuclear power when you're closer than the orbit of Venus. A lot less so when you're at the bottom of an atmosphere with dust and clouds.
Thanks so much for the information!

My 2018 copy of the 1040ES for estimated tax payments states.

"You don’t have to make the payment due January 15, 2020, if you file your 2019 tax return by January 31, 2020, and pay the entire balance due with your return."

So, if the window doesn't open until Jan 27, it looks like I'll be making the Jan 15 estimated payment. I'm surprised that window doesn't open until Jan 31.
Actually many people who want to be 'scientific' about it won't use these devices because they are not very accurate.
How many colors were you able to get with moving graphics? From the article the CRTC hacking needed to get the last 512 colors is too CPU intensive for anything but static images on an 8088.
My Sennheiser HD25s are over 20 years old and going strong.
A lot of features are still wildly different between browsers. SVG being one particular pain point for me. And Safari is the browser that I have the most issues with recently.
Don't forget to check out some 2 year programs at your local community college. They usually offer more flexible schedules, so you can work while you go to school, and tuition is generally lower. Had a friend that recently did this for a career change and landed a job at at Fortune 25 company.

Good luck!
If we killed some European general that was visiting some European country you would say that we had assassinated him.
Although it is scary to have things like location data turned over, the one I worry about is 23andme.
770s better for everyday use as they are closed back.
Also, nuclear power plants are very slow to start up/shut down (ramp rate), and need to be periodically offline for refueling, many technical issues require the reactor to shut down, and they need a huge staff a highly trained technicians and engineers.

The slow ramp rate, and lower reliability means the power they output is less economically attractive, and the other factors makes the price higher. Combined, they mean that nuclear plans sit around idle a decent amount of the time, so much so that some locations just flat-out subsidize them (like Illinois).

I used to work in power markets.
“Sorry I’m not answering any (more) questions.”
I'm impressed by your C# reimplementation [0]! (Yes, I can tell it is different). Not sure what the aspiration is, but I'd be surprised if you don't have an offer from Microsoft in the next few years (assuming they haven't already tried to buy you out). Unfortunately I can't find any mention of threads/parallelism on your website, which I'm sure are present in the language.

Ps. If you're still looking for worthy features, might I suggest f#'s units of measure [1]? They are enforced by the compiler and stripped at runtime, so they are fairly simple to implement.

[0] https://www.beeflang.org/docs/language-guide/datatypes/

[1] https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/units-of-measure/
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21876818
While no 503s were observed in the test, there were timeouts. I updated the article with corresponding graph.
The journalists who specialize in covering the tech industry would not necessarily be in their element when covering the defense industry, and vice versa. What you've got here is basically the "why are you working for an internet advertiser when you could be working on a cure of cancer" argument.
I know it's policy, but the original headline (which included "inventor of the laser printer") was more enlightening.
Actually people who want to be 'scientific' about it won't rely on these devices because they aren't very accurate.
They could claim you faked your alibi data. If you innocently were near a crime you could be convicted by circumstantial evidence.
This case is not specifically about Smollett. It's a about the perceived view that that prosecutor in the case was somehow compromised by abruptly dropping the charges. When she was asked why, she gave conflicting answers.
Gas isn't great, but it isn't terrible (especially in a world where gas plume burn-offs is a thing).

It's much better than coal, and can be migrated to incrementally (which is much easier than the huge up front investment in nuclear).
>Imagine what possibilities there would be if humanity finds a way to power all its current and future needs that produces no harmful side effects rather than trying to equate science fiction with reality.

So when do we turn off the giant nuclear reactor in the sky we don't understand and might evaporate the planet if something goes wrong?

There is no such thing as 'no harmful side effects'. We can put our head in the sand and pretend that the universe is a friendly place for life and go extinct in the next 100k years or so. Or we can acknowledge that there is no such thing as 'nature' and make the universe fit for us.
It’s different because tech companies have inserted themselves as intermediaries into aspects of our lives that used to be essentially private. Activities such as: reading, dating, talking to friends, exercising, driving, reading a map, cooking, checking the weather, listening to music, watching movies, viewing pornography, getting medical advice, breaking and forming habits, menstruating, learning, sleeping, and many others are now frequently monitored and analyzed “in order to provide and improve the service”. All of this is subject to subpoena.

Edit: A few more: reading a newspaper, turning on a light, making a grocery list, setting the thermostat, going for a walk in the park.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030626191...

In this paper the authors model renewables in Artic isolated settlements. It's only a model but looks promising.
Exactly this. I've seen cases where a prosecutor has gotten a John Doe warrant to send to cell companies that effectively asked for the IDs of all phones that were present the closest cell tower at the times of multiple robberies (eg "give me all phones that were present at ABC tower on Monday at 1pm, DEF tower on Tuesday at 4pm, AND GHI tower on Thursday at 10am). Which obviously only the robber is likely to show up on. To me, they're effectively searching my data even though I don't meet all the criteria because I was only near one tower one day. This is way different than what the court did to Smollet. They already had tons of dirt on him - and thus probable clause to dig deeper.

I'd be weary of them using this data to try to go after him for some obscure crime completely unrelated to the false report (e.g. pics of him walking his dog in a state park that forbids pets).
Nuclear is really far safer than solar panels? How is that?
Ask HN: Should I build a chat bot for journaling?
I was dreaming about an idea of a telegram chat bot, that journals everything I would write to it.
It’ll have a set of storage options, that kick in based on the message content.
Like adding a section to markdown doc in private github repo for daily journaling.
Or adding a row to google spreadsheet for tracking money, calories or whatever.
It’ll also have some scrapping background jobs to augment my input with bank transactions history, or whatever smart home integrations there are.
Would you want to have such a bot, or to contribute to the project?
Same from me and I lived their for 15 years. Even when traveling to other parts of Pittsburgh I never noticed anything out of the ordinary.
Just imagine 10 years after you've built your nice new nuclear plant and someone makes a breakthrough on some form of cheap reliable energy. The current development focus on alternative forms of energy makes nuclear high risk purely due to the payoff period.
Google's actually really good at truly destroying deleted things within something like 35 days.

If it's sitting on a backup tape in a vault somewhere, they delete all copies of the corresponding one-time personal decryption key instead.
Seattle Cracks Down on Vaccine Compliance After Measles Scare
More people need to read this book. It seems like a lot of people read 1984 in school but not so many read Brave New World! The two books are good companions for comparison with real world trends. Sometimes one seems more plausible than the other, and then it shifts back again.

Brave New World changed my entire outlook on consumerism and mass media. I recommend it to everyone!
Business/Finance center I mean is related to financial activities. such as listing, financing, investment.
No real product sold/purchased here, people only play number games. like HKEx

Transaction center is only for selling and buying. no number magic, but trades. like Canton Fair
On nice mild spring days I want this so much, to be able to code outdoors without glare.
Is there a more meaningful article that we can change to? One that includes the information that he died? (Edit: a more meaningful article appeared and we changed to it—see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22002822)

An interview from 2017: https://digitalprinting.blogs.xerox.com/2017/06/29/marking-4...

A talk from 1997: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZFaQiItckU

Another talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiLDiWh6iBY
> For something to be damaging there would have to be some damage somewhere.

You seem to think emotional trauma isn’t real. It is. And studies of its effects show that it is just as harmful to the brain as physical trauma.
In non-Oracle builds, yes, along with ZGC.

Oracle chooses to build with only ZGC enabled.
Attempts to make a system more 'legible' often ignore (or don't fully comprehend) why they exist in a certain way. Remaking the system without understanding these aspects leads to something that makes more sense 'on paper', but undermines the complexities and nuances of the original system.

Example (from the text):

- British implementation of a 4-tier caste in India, as their way of comprehending what was (allegedly) a much more complex social structure. It's now the default caste system in the nation.

- Turning forests into agriculture-like rows of trees creating a fatal monoculture.

- Spanish colonization of the Philippines. In an effort to make records/taxes easier, the Spanish created the "Alphabetical Catalogue of Surnames", restricting the number of assumed names. This countered Filipino culture, which had both assumed Christian names, and siblings having different last names.
An LSP implementation can be fairly useful although if you want to let backend services like sourcegraph code search support your language better. Not to mention other future tooling or doing development with a beefy datacenter machine to have fast compiles or work with large codebases.

I would suggest adding LSP support as a future todo.
While not as groundbreaking as the Xerox work I'd reccomend The Soul of the New Machine of you liked Dealers of Lightning.
Using AWS SQS to Trigger Lambda Aliases
Overfitting: A Guided Tour
It surprises me that emissions from the transportation industry seem to be increasing despite mainstreaming of EVs.

I understand EVs are not a prefect solution because they just pass the emissions to the power plants, but considering the documented improvements in our power infrastructure, I thought that would have at least a slight knock-on effect for transportation. I figure the rate should at least be decreasing, even if it's very slow.

Is it just too soon to see the impact of EVs? Is it related the rise in delivered goods? Is there just more travel within the US in general?
Chernobyl exploded and caught on fire and burned, leading radioactive smoke to spread hundreds of miles. Isn’t this similar to the scenario you propose? We’ve already seen what happens (42 immediate casualties, 1000s of cancer cases). But Europe is still a livable continent, it didn’t turn into the scene of a Fallout video game or whatever.

In comparison, the 2011 Tsunami in Japan killed 15,000, yet people are still allowed to live near the ocean...
Kroger has been experimenting with digital pricing in their shelf labels for over a year. Instead of eInk however, they were using LCDs, I think.

In addition to just price tags, they can then also show animation and ads at strategic locations.

It isn’t common yet, and I’ve only seen it at one of their test stores, but it’s pretty cool tech. But it is definitely not as set and forget as eInk.
> USPS has been storing images of all envelopes delivered for many years now.

You mean those emails I get that the USPS claims it doesn't have an image for?

Oh don't worry they always have images of the blanket spam everyone gets. But actual mail with bills or letters? It's more usual to get "A piece of mail that we do not have an image for is included in today's mail."
I was tasked with building a bespoke JavaScript framework for the web last year because that's just what the world needs right? :) Anyway, one of the requirements was that it be similar to building an iOS app so all the views, layouts, and styling needed to be done with code. This would have been really cool to have to jump start some of that work.

P.S. I know there are a bunch of frameworks out there that do the same thing I built. The company I built it for specifically wanted a custom one for themselves. It's decisions like that that led me to leave. Still, fun project and I learned a ton.
> does not inspire a lot of confidence in their fork

Just out of interest, what reasons do you have for this?

Much of the code seems... incomplete? I don't want to sound too harsh, but what scares me looking glancing at the changes, are the functions `set_ncp_disable` and `set_ncp_enabled`.

Surely it's good though that someone has started adding ChaCha20 and Poly1305 to OpenVPN?
Neither of these, but California gives option to use them as registration plates. Don't think I will ever use them, because they also had to add GPS and ability to phone home in addition to having to pay monthly for using it.
Keeping that dangerous waste safe for millions of years, how?
better to go to local college first than University?
The point is that Chernobyl could have turned Ukraine into an unlivable country. Badly although it was managed, it could have been even worse.
Scale. Nuclear puts a huge denominator in the 'deaths per kwh' ratio.
Energy Choices After Fukushima Impacted Human Health and the Environment