skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure you can, buy tetra-paks instead. Another thing one could do is to separate the packaging from the product in the store after the cashier. They ALL have the bins there, but almost nobody does that. Neither do I, because the packaging actually helps the product survive the short trip in my backpack unharmed :-)

Besides that, didn't you notice how the packaging got more and more flimsy in the last years? Take 500ml Yoghurt for example:
very thin white plastic, with recycled carton around it for stability, pre-perforated for easy ripping it off. Even the clear plastic lid on top for protection of the(thin) aluminium foil is missing, intentionally. Which I dislike, because of possible mess when transported in the backpack.
Same goes for single use plastic bottles. You can easily crunch them, and the thin wraparound label comes of.
ASML is also a Philips spun-off
I am not doing any of that. I am just using your own argument against you.
This is unlikely to occur because your average citizen doesn’t believe in paying the full costs of consuming fossil fuels. The only path to success is driving renewables and electric vehicles below the cost of fossil fuels.
Because this isn’t about work

It’s about whether they should be paid

There’s a subtle but important difference

These people can go be comedians on the corner all day, no one is stopping them from putting in that “work”

The legal system has chosen to define work as something to be traded for.

We basically took the Bible’s rules like trading some shekels and goats for a daughter and turned into modern law

You’re free to do whatever mechanical work you want with your body in that context of “work”

But a comedy club can’t afford to keep all these people as staff, so they don’t get to “work” within the legal, monitored, and “normalized” for appropriateness system of paid work financial capital holders approve of
>I believe you're wrong about loud short sellers in general not being able to destroy the prospects of a company that would succeed in their absence.

You believe I'm wrong, but can't name a public company that had its prospects destroyed by a short-seller? I take issue with that.

>I did follow the short campaign against Tesla closely from 2014-2018. And that project was vicious.

What leads you to believe that this is a "done-deal", and that Tesla has "won"? There are still many open questions about this company.

Did you know that the Wirecard fraud went on for a decade, and even the German financial regulators were going after journalists and short-sellers to protect the company? And it was a huge fraud. Now that it's out in the open, it's a very interesting read:

https://www.ft.com/content/745e34a1-0ca7-432c-b062-950c20e41...
What's the implication here? I only know one COBOL developer but they seem to be doing quite well for themselves, making over $400k a year for something like 15 hours of work a week.
US higher ed already is a public service. Only 25% of students are in private colleges/universities, and ~every professor who does research is funded mostly by government.

I believe that what's actually happening with US higher ed supply is that we stopped founding large research universities. Many of the great public schools were endowed using federal land[1] and eventually the government ran out of valuable agricultural land.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land-grant_university
Looks pretty slick, though custom metadata for just 7 sites seems pretty low for launch. Perhaps the default metadata capture is good enough for sites like Wikipedia, Amazon, etc, that aren't covered?
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I don't think that would necessarily result in a better wiki.

> Articles are cryptographically signed by authors.

This would significantly up the hurdle for doing edits and, given the meager popularity of PGP, not really pin down a person. But fair, I'd like to see that as a feature.

> Articles are not editable after publication. Edits result in new articles.

I don't see how this is different to a version history. For the most part, people just want the newest information; if a specific revision is needed, you can already direct-link to that.

> Articles have a unique and unchanging url.

Again doable via direct links. I see why you'd want to use that, but if I link (for example) my town, I want people to get the best info about my town and not that version I saw at that moment, unless I'm talking about edits specifically - in which case I'll link a revision. Of course, this requirement satisfies the crypto nerd in us, but it's really going against the usability here for hardly any gain whatsoever.

> Registered users can vote on articles.

Because that works so well for Reddit and all the other vote platforms. Or in science - see the replication crisis.

In all honesty, I think adding a popularity score into this is going to make things far worse. It'll just lead to repeating whatever happens to get votes, with everything else ignored. Why bother with the article of your town? No one cares about that, those two upvotes ...
Let's go start an edit war over the birthday of a person!

> Registered users can create collections of existing articles. And those collections can be tread as an article.

Fair, but that's nothing that wouldn't be doable as of now.

> Articles can be filtered on popularity, and on popularity among select groups of authors, and on popularity among select groups of up-voters.

That'd be actually interesting, but I don't think it be worth the drawback of votes. Also, people which were set to that group or people which self-identify as that group?
I am not sure what you are talking about but some of the best cigars in the world are not Cuban. Just look at CA top 25 list over the last 10 years. The H. Upmann (non Cuban) 175th Anniversary is an amazing stick. Cuban cigars have a unique flavor profile and can be amazing but they have not evolved at all. Also they have had some major quality issues. If I go into any store in London to by a box I am allowed to inspect each stick and build a box of good quality ones from a set of boxes. To be fair, the quality issues have gotten better in the last few years.
I don’t like this response.

It’s completely reasonable to assess the quality of informational content without assuming a duty to proofread and revise that content.

Especially when the issue that might be corrected isn’t a typo or malapropism but ‘this whole thing isn’t that great.’
Many people contract "could have" to be "could've" which when spoken can very easily turn to "could of"
Whatever you're position happens to be, you can't pretend like we're all in this innovating together for the betterment of humankind. China and the US have very different ideologies and are opposing forces in global geopolitics. There are a lot of people, both inside the US and outside, that would prefer to see the US continue to be the most innovative country, so Schmidt's perspective is relevant and informative, not just cheap nationalism.
The site doesn't load with the adblocker if you have rules that block "firebase-analytics.js".
I'm 500 miles or so North of the US/Canada border and the smoke dimmed out the sun a couple hours before sunset.
This is the next Theranos. Theranos got walgreen and safeway to sign partnerships with them too. US xpress doesn't have the capital to buy the number of truck Nkla is claiming. They don't have a working prototype. Nobody on their Management team seems to have the background to invent a cell that they are claiming.

Wish the SEC would do their job before the Milton guy hides all his money.
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How far should we go?
The science might not be ready yet, but it seems likely that progress in field will enable us to change our own species.

We can't predict the outcome, even in out wildest dreams or worst nightmare, we'll always be wrong.

Are we afraid of uncertainties? Of course we are, evolution taught us to be.

Not doing everything we can would be in total contradiction with the behavior of humankind since the dawn of ages.

I am both an optimist and an atheist, there is no God and nothing is sacred.
Would like to hear more of your thoughts on this, but in simpler terms.

If I'm understanding you correctly, you're claiming immigrants are here primarily only for the money, but don't want to culturally integrate ?
Is it awesome? The Chinese government has such power over the people and businesses innovating that there could be significant implications for Chinese citizens, neighboring countries, and the world. Where innovation happens first and how closely it's held affects so much. Your comment strikes me as dangerously optimistic.
Given how critically successful the Model 3 is, maybe more companies need to start building their cars in tents too.

(Or maybe... just maybe... the construction method of your factory walls doesn’t actually matter so much?)
> There is absolutely no training signal that tells an RNN to remember something beyond the BPTT horizon. So why would it?

Because they generalize. Char-RNN learn to balance parenthesis separated by a longer distance than the BPTT window because they've learned that counting parenthesis is useful for prediction based on parenthetical statements shorter than the BPTT window.
At least ffmpeg makes it easy to do the very easiest thing. I don't have to look up this one:

ffmpeg -i input.file output.file

Now, usually I want to do something more complicated, so I end up having to look it up, but it's hardly the ffmpeg folks' fault that audio and video encoding is such an ungodly mess of different containers and encodings; while it could be better, I think most of its complexity is inherent to the problems it's trying to solve. I do think there's an argument that it tries to do too much, and the complexity could be mitigated if it were split into several smaller tools and a wrapper for the most common commands, like apt.
Polski Fiat 126p ~600kg
Completely broken in Mobile safari don’t even try it.
Even if it could, it wouldn’t be useful because of diffraction.
The problem is that even if you assume these hydrogen station can be built for one route, that is still quite a huge investment that you need to make for each route as these hydrogen stations are very expensive. That means you have to find enough costumers on one specific route that all buy into your truck in a very short time-frame.

Its basically a very large complex system with solar, hydrogen production, huge hydrogen storage and pumps with sufficient scale to fuel 10-100s of trucks a day. Where will Nikola get the expertise to build such a complex system fuel station system? A company that has basically 0 engineering credibility, is gone set up station like that because that is something that doesn't exist? Hydrogen is difficult enough to deal with for rocket companies, but Nikola is just gone manage all that.

To finance such a station you need lots of threw-put, and to have access electricity to fuel 10-100s of trucks every day seem unlikely to me. While access energy might exist on the grid in general, seems to me that enough incredibly cheap electricity right where you need it to fuel 100s of trucks a day is highly unlikely in the near or mid term future at least.

If Nikola really want to claim this system is cheaper overall, I would really like to see their numbers on how they get there. Sadly I suspect Nikola has never calculated those numbers with realistic expectation.

Energy density in batteries is rapidly increasing, even with current technology large parts of the trucking market can be addressed already. Some part of the longer running routes might just be divided into multi-hop routes. So you are really addressing a shrinking market segment and one that is shrinking because batteries are improving.

I see more problems then solutions.
>The largest opportunity for short sellers is when there is that uncertainty, because then you have a company walking a tightrope and there are people willing to bet that they make it to the other side.

Provide an example of this happening.

Judging by many of these comments, I'm not sure some people here understand the mechanics of how selling shares short actually works. It does not, defacto, destroy any value in the company.
> This all matters to an employee why exactly?

Let's re-read the original question: "How is “fair market” valuation determined for non-public companies?"

The valuation is done using nothing but reading tea-leaves. If we somehow spin this to "This all matters to an employee why exactly", then why not evaluate every single company to be at least 1 billion dollars, this will surely benefit the employees.

> An objective measure that no one is selling or buying at is toilet paper. Thus the only measure that matters is the market.

On objective measure that no one is selling or buying is still an objecive measure. Tea leaves, smoke and mirrors is not really called a market, but "the forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence." aka speculation.

> If the fair value estimate is in line with the market (in case of IPO, sale, etc.) or higher than that

Oh look, we've come back to the original question: "How is “fair market” valuation determined for non-public companies?" So, how is it determined?

> Note that the FMV doesn't need to be equal to the market in this case, it can be higher. In all your examples that was the case so I don't see the problem.

When "Fair market value" is not determined to be and actual fair market value, then it's not "fair market value". It's a lie. Too bad you don't see a problem with that.
For what's its worth this was my passion and I'd leave the field if I could, for a number of reasons. Just realize though that if you leave theres a high chance of a pay cut.
There are a lot of cool improvements in 1.11, but I admit this is probably my favorite!

Timex is great but I'm looking forward to having one less dependency on basically every project. ^_^
Governments should adopt and invest in FOSS
Disrespectful Design – Users aren’t stupid or lazy
One of my favorite data science factoids is how "regression" (to return to a former state) came to mean "prediction of a continuous variable".

In the late 1800s, Sir Francis Galton noticed that extremely tall or short parents usually had children that were not as tall or short as themselves, i.e. the children's heights were regressing (returning) to the mean. He collected hundreds of data points, graphed them, and estimated a coefficient describing this relationship, thereby inventing "linear regression."

We call them "regression" models simply because the first linear regression model was created to demonstrate the concept of regression to the mean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean#His...
> Plebs

Workers.
Let's say I work for a drywaller. One day my boss has me working on a wall 20 feet up with no harness on a rickety old scaffold. This isn't normal, it's just the weird conditions on this one site.

I can refuse because I know if I get fired over it, there's always UBI? And UBI will also abate my fear that I'll be blacklisted from getting another drywall job? Or even a painting job. Or really any labor job ever again.

That's the kind of UBI that would be abused in exactly the way its opponents predict.
I'm no expert, but I predict it will be.
> US innovation is slowing compared to itself in the past somehow, that actually measures total results rather than government-funded inputs

Schmidt might say you’re missing the point: government funded science is a leading indicator of future results because the government is the largest body investing in and sharing the results of basic, foundational, non-product research in the weirdest variety of subjects. Turn that off and you turn off the fountain from which innovations can be productized.

https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/who-should-fund...

> [in 2017] the federal government funded less than half of all basic research in the country for the first time since World War II.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/trump-once-again-req...

> [2019:] For the third year in a row, President Donald Trump’s administration has unveiled a budget request to Congress that calls for deep spending cuts at many federal science agencies, including a 13% cut for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a 12% cut for the National Science Foundation (NSF)

Cutting funding for the NSF is and will continue to decelerate the pace of innovation because the basic research is no longer being done.
That’s what journalism is for.
> Unwanted notifications are not a vice like snacking or the like where obviously you get some endorphins every time you do it and therefore you can get addicted

Except they’re not unwanted, at least not completely.

Sometimes apps don’t let you decide what you’ll get sent, so that you get a mix of wanted and unwanted notifications. Other times one just can’t resist looking at them.

You can argue as to what brain chemistry causes this to resemble an addiction, but you can’t argue that they have an addictive, attention hogging effect for many.

> Just turn them off, dammit.

The ease by which this is reversible and the habit of checking apps is the problem with this solution.

> self-control issues

This is such an unrealistic expectation. This is always the go-to argument as well - pinning the blame on the user.

Thousands of engineers design these apps to be addictive. Most people aren’t going to win against that.

Furthermore, few other things in life are designed to do hog attention like these apps are. They can only be compared to slot machines which clearly have a strong effect on people.
My guess is sales people who’ve already established relationships pre WFH get all the sales and upstarts are unable to make inroads with new clients.
I celebrated the Billenium with my brother (two days before 9/11, actually). He's dead now, and we didn't have a lot of shared interests, so it'll always be a nice memory for me.
Pretty rich coming from a guy who's rule saw one of the most profitable companies in the US sit on 50bn cash instead of investing it into innovation.
Too bad they are not attacking Japanese whaling craft, of course, the Japs would just harpoon them anyway.
The commenting here is actually pretty dope. I really enjoy the small notes saying _why_ the code exists:

// because all low speed wind tunnel cases are overset and all high speed are
// fixed with a remesh, we only rotate in the presence of overset domains.

This is something that personally I strive to do but isn't always repeated in my team. It's important as 6 months later you struggle to remember the nuance that lead to your code being written.

Whoever this is seems to have experience with this, so I definitely wouldn't say this is an inexperienced dev.
It doesn't make sense today. But once the grid is mostly renewables, when the wind and sun are at their peak, power is going to be very cheap, and you can run your hydrolysis intermittently to match.

An apples to apples comparison to BEV is storing that power in stationary batteries and then charging vehicle batteries from those.

I don't know if hydrogen wins that match up, but I don't think it's clear that it doesn't.
It's obviously a complex situation, but I think the regulation of small business has more to do with it than the social diversity in the EU (which matters as well). By the time a company in the EU is big enough to go from national to expanding into the wider EU markets, it has capital to do so, and there is no shortage of local experts to help with that. But getting to that scale, or really to anything that requires more than a couple employees, is the big hurdle to overcome. I am not sure how to overcome that and respect employee rights, since a strong progressive tax on corporations that would subsidize some of the employment costs of smaller businesses would make the larger EU companies noncompetitive internationally. So in a real sense the failure of international labor laws is partially responsible for the difficulty of EU companies to innovate (or more precisely, to profit and grow based off their innovation).

Another point is that historically the US tech sector took off fast and takes off fast, so they are awash with cash based on being first movers, and they have a competitive advantage when it comes to attracting talent. I think that advantage has been perhaps completely destroyed in the last 4 years due to local political and social issues making life there unattractive. Sure many people will run for the money, but perhaps now not enough to create imbalance in the labor market. Also, companies today understand better how fast things scale in the US due to the single market/language/comparatively lax regulations, and they know to focus on that market much earlier in their growth cycle. This contributed to the success of Spotify, Zendesk, etc. So if I had to predict there will be a rising percentage of successes out of the EU in the next ten years compared to the last ten years. But it's always going to be hard to start.
It worked fine for in Mobile Safari (no ad blocker)
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Am I the only one that thinks this isn't completely unreasonable? Is it a hack? Definitely, but I don't see a much better way without more context of determining whether some number is likely to be a timestamp. Should it base it on a range of numbers determined at startup? Probably, but it's not fundamentally much different.
Woah this is pretty dark, but a very good read.

“I mourn for the people I know who are dying, which is all of them, but some much quicker than others.”

Looking at older people and animals around me, and instantly thinking “well, they probably don’t have much time left” is quite depressing.

There was a Sam Harris podcast episode where he and his guest argued about whether is it better to suffer through life, or not existing at all.
So, to me,the dominant effect here is less demand for air travel->fewer flights. Fewer flights means less carbon emitted. Any knock-on effects seem to pale in comparison because air travel is so carbon intensive.

If fewer flights is a "second order" effect here, I'd struggle to name anything that is a first order effect. I don't really think this is what the person I was responding to was talking about when they mentioned second order effects. But if it was then I question the usefulness of the terminology.
So your claim is that SolarCity was brought down by short-sellers, and not, in fact, that it was a terrible business? That's debatable. Borrowing short and lending on long-term leases was more likely the issue.
I've recorded a video if someone wants to relive it for whatever reason: https://twitter.com/input_sh/status/1305122125250990080
I don’t think options should exist, either. Hindenburg is just doing journalism.
Heartbleed was duplicated in Rust.

Very often breaches can be found to be in cloud permission configurations.

There are many business-rules-level vulnerabilities.

The following post will give some insight: https://www.nccgroup.com/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/blo...
Didn’t try that but browsing without ad blockers though is pretty impractical so I skipped out.
I'd be curious to know what hard evidence you have to back this claim up with, otherwise its just hearsay.
That’s not research. That’s just vertical integration development.
Sure, I’m not saying that you have to correct it. Just that the project doesn’t assume that they have correct answers for everything and expect some participation of “the community” at large.
thanks for checking it out! yeah the coverage for the metadata capture definitely needs to be improved. At this point, this just includes the top sites for my own use cases (and some early users).

I was hoping by sharing it I can get a better sense of what sites other people would like to have supported, and keep adding to it :)
I don’t understand. A book with a single review could place higher than a book with millions. How is that a popularity contest?
Did anyone get alerts so far on a Sunday morning? Suddenly one of my replicas is reporting suspiciously behind but not actually