skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had a habit throughout my career of printing out small chunks of code (several pages) that were algorithmically difficult or contained significant bugs. I'd take them to the park or coffee shop and just study them, pencil check them, or just think deeply about them. For me, this is a super-power, compared to flipping around on our massive monitors.

The more recent grads I work with mock me for this. Things have indeed changed.
It's a fact, but needs context. Specifically, it ignores the fact that Ferrari is profitable ...
zines are interestingly their own subculture that sparked out of sci-fi fandom and punk culture, so anything more "polished" than those origins is going to seem corporate by comparison. This is a pretty good article that gives something to compare to (https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/88911/brief-history-zine...).
Bittorrent does support partial downloads that request only some files or byte ranges out of a torrent. Some of the torrents are just compressed zip's but for the others you could look at the code / documentation to see which files were relevant before downloading 10GB of data.

I think the abstract is sufficient for searching data; expecting some kind of smart database that can handle all the weird formats science uses is a bit much.
People have been saying this for years. However, none of the other players have built a compelling product with widespread appeal or adoption. The E-Tron? iPace? Taycan? All have been more or less dead on arrival from an adoption and sales standpoint.

Honda announced recently that they will be focusing on hybrid technology, not full electric. Toyota is backing their Hydrogen Fuel Cell technology. GM has the Bolt, a single full-electric offering. The Model 3 doesn't really have any meaningful competition at the moment IMO. Tesla has forced the industry to change and from where I'm standing no competing product has managed to holistically match the value proposition Tesla brings.
> like the cameras getting blinded when the sun is at a low angle.

That sounds like a pretty serious issue for a vision based system. I wonder how lidars do in that condition.

In Europe, I'd also be worried about ability to detect crossing cyclists (when they have right of way) and pedestrians in bad weather conditions, like in mist or when it's snowing heavily.

Perhaps front sideways pointing radars could help with that a bit?
Snapchat created Real Life Magazine (https://reallifemag.com) but other than that it doesn't have editorial control.
Can vouch for the non-triviality of collisions. We have around 500k inserts a second and wanted to have time sensitivity between them (so essentially basic in on a timestamp) and fit it into 64bit unsigned integer.

We managed to get a safe space of around 50M per second, so we could safely use shard_id to prevent collisions.
Isn't the solution to put smart meters that can track usage on a common meter and bill the condo owners for their share of the electrical bill?
Thank You, Shog9
> particularly for performance oriented jobs like fundraising, sales, etc.

I've always been a bit confused and frustrated by this job categorization. Someone good on CS can easily have a stronger effect on contract retention than the flashy sales folks - and all of our jobs are performance oriented, it's just a question of being fired vs. keeping our jobs instead of the magnitude of bonus.
What a shitshow
Most people who aren’t named Sam Altman will never access the best seed investments. I would’ve invested in Stripe in 2012 too but couldn’t even if I wanted to.

The idea that you can’t find the risk reward is untrue. I’d consider investing in biopharma to be equivalent in risk reward to early stage startup investing. The difference is that these companies go public early because that’s traditionally the only way they can raise.

And if you want to rev up the risk to make 10x-100x you can options trade in the public market as well.

I mean, Nancy Pelosi of all people will make $130K in Facebook call options expiring this week. http://clerk.house.gov/public_disc/ptr-pdfs/2018/20010631.pd...
It kind of depends what you're doing, but a lot of the time you are in a situation like "there's a bug when you do X", and when you find code like this you scroll through the options until you get to the one labeled as function X.

Inside of there you may run into stuff that was set up earlier in the function, but it's pretty easy to backtrack to the top of the switch statement to see what was done before then.

There's nothing quite like the joy of being asked to fix something and discovering that it's a big old top down project without excessive abstraction/compartmentalization. Just skim through the code in order till you get to the part that's misbehaving and start investigating. No need to jump around a dozen factory template engines or custom generic template wrappers to find the 3 lines of business logic that have an off-by-one error or something.
Even given that nuance you'll find ETFs of all types, generally with fees far less than what you pay for the equivalent mutual fund.

Bottom line, for me, is that the active management employed by a large portion of the mutual fund complex provides little additional returns, yet they get paid handsomely for delivering a sub-standard product.
Which is why the cybertruck announcement was so huge. The styling dominated the headline, but IMO the biggest news was the pricing. $40K for a full size medium duty crew cab pickup is cheaper than the equivalent gasoline truck.
> When uttered by a teacher, it can easily be taken to have an implied "therefore I'll make less of an effort teaching them, or to encourage their career".

What part of Reges' writing left you with this impression? He wrote the exact opposite:

> As a result, I am absolutely convinced that for many years there have been—and even today still are—many women who have not yet discovered the bright future they can have in the field of computer science. Half of the women in our undergraduate major are ‘interest changers,’ which means they weren’t intending to apply to the major when they started our first course. For men the figure is closer to 20 percent, so there is a big gender gap. In short, I have always been and continue to be a strong advocate of many aspects of the diversity agenda.
The city of Beppu and especially it's Kannawa district is pretty much this & has been this way from Ancient times:

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

It's really an almost surreal experience, with encrusted hot spring water pipes and steam everywhere in the district. Sometime you even need to be careful where you step to avoid to be scolded by steam coming up from the ground, likely due to overflow from the hot water boreholes flowing to the rainwater drainage system.

And it's not just the modern hot water boreholes they use to supply the hot spring baths & other users. One time we even saw a traffic code & couple sandbags placed on a random hillside next to the road, as there was steam escaping out of it. :D
You missed my point. I was contrasting Kubernetes with the alternative: Critics often highlight Kubernetes' complexity, forgetting/ignoring that replicating its functionality is also complex and often not composable or transferable to new projects/clusters. It's hard to design a good, flexible Puppet (or whatever) configuration that grows with a company, can be maintained across teams, handles redundancy, and all of those other things.

Not all environments need automatic scaling, but they need redundancy, and from a Kubernetes perspective those are two sides of the same coin. A classical setup that automatically allows a new node to start up to take over from a dysfunctional/dead one isn't trivial.

Much of Kubernetes' operational complexity also melts away if you choose a managed cloud such as Digital Ocean, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. I can speak from experience, as I've both set up Kubernetes from scratch on AWS (fun challenge, wouldn't want to do it often) and I am also administering several clusters on Google Cloud.

The latter requires almost no classical "system administration". Most of the concerns are "hoisted" up to the Kubernetes layer. If something is wrong, it's almost never related to a node or hardware; it's all pod orchestration and application configuration, with some occasional bits relating to DNS, load balancing, and persistent disks.

And if I start a new project I can just boot up a cluster (literally a single command) and have my operational platform ready to serve apps, much like the "one click deploy" promise of, say, Heroku or Zeit, except I have almost complete control of the platform.

In my opinion, Kubernetes beats everything else even on a single node.
Over 120 million medical imaging records from India lying exposed online
One problem is that physicists are not interested in lowering the bar to understanding advanced theories. Some say it's all fairly simple once you spend a decade learning some very advanced math. The art of teaching is in making the material more accessible, and at that I dont think much progress has been made.
This is a great find too
The free market considers the monetary tradeoffs in this.

Comparing it to a holistic societal value (quality of life, family time, other non-monetary factors) is a disservice, that I believe negates the (subjective) "effective and adaptable" value measurement of the free market.

Otherwise you're just distilling people's lives and communities down to a dollar value, which in many people's eyes is the dark/down side of capitalism and how we ended up here to begin with.
Why are they banned?
That's great, but paper's pollution footprint is far larger than mere carbon output. There's so much focus on climate change that people forget a bucket of mercury is carbon-neutral but still not great to pour in a lake.

Someone elsewhere in the discussion asks for a Kindle edition; that'd be a great way to keep unnecessary paper down.
In Indonesia they managed to create a “mud volcano”. And it has been running for years. At peak the daily flow has been 180.000m3 of mud per day.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidoarjo_mud_flow
Except for oil and oil filter, those things are "lifetime" on most cars built today. So the service life is >120k miles, 20 years, or needs to be replaced as part of a separate repair. Power steering units are all electric now; outside of trucks, I don't think GM products have drain plugs on their automatics; ignition systems are all solid state. Even oil change intervals are inching up past 10k miles. Modern ICEs are surprisingly light on maintenance.

Tires are the biggest maintenance costs for cars, by a pretty healthy margin. I'm sure all Teslas are hard on tires. The amount of torque those motors put out is crazy, and they have an undersized tire relative to the weight of the car. Primacy MXM4 aren't cheap either, at $300 each for the smallest size offered on a TM3.
I don't understand why nuclear waste disposal is so controversial. The amount of waste generated is relatively tiny. Choose a site without a permeable path to an aquifer, dump the waste, seal it off, and forget about it. What are the risks?

1. Some population thousands of years from now stumbles upon the waste and a small minority may die from exposure/contamination

2. Containment breach occurs due to degradation or earthquake or some other destructive event and some minimally radioactive waste leaks out of the containment site.

Are either of these serious concerns with respect to the benefit of nuclear power? If disposal occurs somewhere deep in the continental U.S., are there even any actors powerful enough to commandeer the waste for nefarious purposes? What am I missing?
> The problem is that those issues are exaggerated for Tesla and understated for other makes

Execution problems doesn't mean bad cars, it means not delivering on margins, deliveries, ect. No one is saying Telsa is not a good company. They are saying that its not worth more than GM and Ford combined. I remember when I was investing in weedstocks when Canopy (who made no money) passed in valuation one of the largest banks in Canada who had a net income of like $11 billion. This feels the same way to me. Telsa's market cap is close to $100 billion.

Tesla delivered ~1 million cars. It sells a very specialty product (luxury cars) to people who have the money and ability purchase and maintain such a car. Its a very niche product. GM on the other hand sold over 3 million cars in just China, and it has BETTER self driving tech than Telsa. Aside from that, there are a lot of people for whom a Telsa is just offlimits (such as people like myself who live in urban apartments), or people who don't have the money (such as most of the America and the world). Its not an $1k iPhone its a 40k luxury vehicle.
From Plant Pathology to Building Software, Meet Val, a Software Engineer at Lyft
I think you'd first need to prove that it's unnecessary.
Before I click:

$ echo 'obase=16; 1195725856' | bc | xxd -r -ps | od -cb
0000000 G E T
107 105 124 040
0000004
$

Looks like HTTP.
It looks visually nice but lacks some basic date picking concepts that are better seen in other implementations. Notably web frameworks.
An issue with this layout is that it is really bad at weeks in the month. (A common date concept) What if you want the second Friday of a month? (Assuming the user is not a date or math-savy person, obviously software should assist all users) Either you'll have to find the first friday and then scroll to the second or guess the second date based on time range of the second friday.
A month view solves this pretty well. A greatly executed date picker example is the Angular Material date picker; which in its lack of sheen, shows fantastic function. https://material.angular.io/components/datepicker/overview
The Start at function where you can pick Year then month then day is really slick however.
Women can be just as athletic as men, and can easily beat them in many sports. It just depends on the sport. If the sport requires upper-body strength, forget it: men will always have a huge advantage here. But if upper-body strength is no help, and lower-body strength and endurance are important, women can do better. Off the top of my head, I'd point to endurance running: women have longer legs proportionally, and more fat reserves, and don't have to waste a lot of energy carrying around a lot of chest/arm muscles and bigger upper-body bones. They can also do well in downhill skiing, bicycling, etc.

Also, over in Tennessee, the UT women's basketball team has been much, much more popular for decades now than the men's team ever was.
Anyone know anything about investing in podcasts? Like, suppose you find a fresh new one, where it has a lot of potential but just needs more practice/exposure/equipment. And you want to help them get there quicker by giving say $20,000 in hopes they hit it big and their show becomes very profitable down the road.

Perhaps investing in a twitch channel or youtuber is similar?

I just wonder if there's any help or guides to doing this or if it's ever been done.
The ones we know about is enough
Maybe, but I'm skeptical that you could make a significant return on a collection of smaller (let's say $100M) companies. Statistically, most of them are going to fail, so the return on each of the successful ones needs to be pretty high in order to come out on top, but I just don't see how that could be the case unless their starting valuations are incredibly low. I can't see that being nearly as profitable as a single $50B unicorn.
Doesn't have to be government but any one
Congratulations on your recovery!

Yeah, I was suggesting to GP that (1) better to prevent cancer than to treat it, and (2) better use fasting than fructose!

With that said,

Conclusion: STF during chemotherapy is well tolerated and appears to improve QOL and fatigue during chemotherapy. Larger studies should prove the effect of STF as an adjunct to chemotherapy.

There were no serious adverse effects.

Fasting started 36 h before and ended 24 h after chemotherapy (60 h-fasting period).

Source: The effects of short-term fasting on quality of life and tolerance to chemotherapy in patients with breast and ovarian cancer: a randomized cross-over pilot study.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5921787/

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See also:

Effects of short-term fasting on cancer treatment

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6530042/

Fasting and cancer: benefits and effects (Improving quality of life during chemotherapy)

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324169.php#improvi...
What are some ways to determine how big a market is currently and how big it will be?
The lower energy consumption is a fringe benefit. The main benefit they're pursuing is drastically reduced equipment size/cost:

“If you’re making a primary structure like a fuselage or wing, you need to build a pressure vessel, or autoclave, the size of a two- or three-story building, which itself requires time and money to pressurize,” says Brian Wardle, professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. “These things are massive pieces of infrastructure. Now we can make primary structure materials without autoclave pressure, so we can get rid of all that infrastructure.”
Are you taking metformin/etc as well?
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/world/senate-intelligence...
For anyone interested in learning more, Stan is an excellent alternative probabilistic programming language:

https://mc-stan.org

with thorough documentation:

https://mc-stan.org/users/documentation/
If you read Tesla's cold weather tips, they recommend turning off the automatic side folding mirrors during the winter. Which I don't see as a big deal at all...
Lee Smolin deals with this question in Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum. He relies on the same facts, makes many of the same points you do, and he comes to the exact opposite conclusion (assuming, of course, that I actually understand your position fully, and his as well). That's interesting to me because I think it might point to a philosophical disagreement between your views and his, especially in epistemology.
Nice one, good luck with your project!
Potentially really bad timing on this post.

I'm calling peak bubble in 2020, Softbank companies imploding all over the place... investors ratcheting up terms on later stage rounds, tons of IPOs at 40%+ below last valuation, and we're encouraging more people to invest.

Anybody doing angel investing should consider themselves a "patron of innovation", and assume zero returns.
> Depending if the other side is hostile, this might no longer be allowed

It seems like it would be license compatible.

> The law would prevent interoperability between all kinds of software, that's bad thing for all users,

Only between incompatibly licensed interfaces.

> First of all, creating a good API is not trivial, but it is nothing compared to developing the actual product.

It could be, depending on the implementation.

I don't know what your next few sentences are saying.

> I'm guessing you mean Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL

No. I mean their proprietary reimplementation of Rabbit, Cassandra, and MongoDB.
Absolutely.

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Discussion...

Let me know if that doesn't cover your use case.

BTW, if you're hitting a REST API, you might want to try using the Python tool (it's an embedded Jupyter interface that will default to just running the pure python code when the workflow is executed without a user configuring it), just because I prefer using requests library over using the Alteryx download/curl tool myself.
Seximal is objectively the best way to represent numbers
> removing a 'create file' clause does not cause that file to be removed on subsequent runs, as the tool has no concept of ownership

Terraform on the other hand does have a concept of ownership, diff-ing, and applying changes. It takes some work as you now need to track state, but I've been very happy with Terraform.
I can’t help but notice the $311,000 price. What if you are not covered by insurance?

If embryos are screened for CF in IVF..what happens in a natural pregnancy? Would it still be legal to terminate the pregnancy?

What about other countries? I understand life changing medications are expensive. But shouldn’t the govt just pick up the tab? Imagine we have universal health care...wouldn’t they just do it?
Except if it is constantly being produced they have no need to.
>SATAN against our hosts

oh, well...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-36_(missile)
What?! This almost reads like you're saying the market rewards behavior that doesn't really create a variety of competitive and useful products.

The thing to keep in mind with investment strategy is that the goal is to make money easily, or find the best way to make money easily. Not to make the best or most interesting products or anything, really. This advice is the best advice when you take that into account.
I'm very familiar with the TTS, VC, and other "audio-shaped" spaces, but I've never delved into NLP.

What problems can you solve with NLP? Sentiment analysis? Semantic analysis? Translation?

What cool problems are there?
Most quants are copying their friends algos any way. At least until that model doesn't work. Not too much stress there.
good idea for the timestamps too

> I guess this means 1213486160 is going on my list of magic numbers. Also, it means that 2008-06-14 23:29:20 UTC is, in a strange sense, "HTTP time". If you see either that number or that date (with possible adjustments for your local time zone) showing up in your life inexplicably, this might just be why.
Perhaps Indonesia will ask the US to extradite him for trial in Indonesia.
Why? As far as the user is concerned, the end result is the same. The app doesn't appear in the app drawer, and none of its entry points are exposed to the OS. The user who just bought a phone gets a fully functional phone right out of the box instead of having to wait for downloads. A factory reset to get back to the initial state is as simple as wiping all writable partitions.
Chevy and Hyundai already offer EVs with better range than the Model 3 SR+ at a lower cost.
That only works if the bug actually gets fixed. When you have normalized the idea that restarting the cluster fixes a problem — all of the sudden, you don’t have a problem anymore. So now your motivation to get the bug properly fixed has gone away.

Sometimes feeling a little pain helps get things done.
I’ve been rereading that book over the last couple of weeks and recently did some consulting in the ag space - so I’m really intrigued by what you’re writing! Hope to see it up here one day.
better than Gimp
Europe currently faces a bit of an chicken and egg problem with the EV market. European manufacturers don't produce meaningful EVs which results in no subsidies that would accelerate the market (or those subsidies are also available to hybrids in their lineup which won't be driven in EV mode). In turn they don't have any incentive to move forward with their EV lineup, as most people are loyal to their local manufacturers.
>> You may not have seen as far as Sandy Monro

I've seen further than that. I did read something a while back that sounded like they have a nicely integrated inverter/motor combo.
Rather than "stupid", I'd say individuals that aren't cut out to be programmers. But yes, I've known people who have sort of bumped along the bottom through a CS program and even sometimes gotten their degrees.

However well-intentioned this might seem, the results can be pretty awful. In some cases, the person was hired for their first job, flamed out completely, and had to find a job in an unrelated industry. It's a terrible thing to go through.

I tried several majors in college and had the good luck to wash out almost immediately in the early coursework. If I hadn't, I might have ended up in a career I hated, dragging down those around me. It's hard to love your work if you don't have the skills for it.