skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's really interesting.

I read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_water

"With hard water, soap solutions form a white precipitate (soap scum) instead of producing lather, because the 2+ ions destroy the surfactant properties of the soap by forming a solid precipitate (the soap scum)."

I wonder if the vinegar helps clear this out.

SLS is a surfactant. I don't know how it all works together.
Many countries have cost sharing and co-insurance: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016885101...
That's a weird conspiracy theory, the FNB actually has valid complaints, although I disagree with them overall.

The way the green change has been implemented here in Norway has unfortunately often been extremely conservative (instead of progressive) - the well-off living centrally in the cities gets massive subsidies for purchasing their Teslas while the less fortunate needs to pay hefty tolls for their old gasoline cars.
I understand it’s not needed but is it wrong? I see machine learning as a general purpose black box function approximation tool. It could be a polynomial curve or something else entirely, as long as we have enough data we can approximate it using ML. So in one way I see it as a “lazy man’s easy way out” tool.
Those colour shifts happened with cheap comic books in Spain in the 70-80's,
done with a crazy colour pallete with just consistency for the characters, furniture and the sky.
Those were in the Spanish slapstick comedy media. If any Spaniard read this, for sure he knows the Bruguera school.
And, yes, Frenchies, we copycated you several times.
It's 14-18 across most of Europe. What's your point?
I like this descriptive first hand account of policy work in Utah. Now please explain how to replicate it.

SLC's strategy for homelessness is audacious and progressive. Leftists like me sat up and took note. Why can't we do the same in our own areas?!

Utah reminds me of the Nordic countries, specifically Finland. High homogeneity allows those societies to more easily find consensus, break out of dogmatic strategies that no longer work.

One data point about homogeneity (no cite, sorry) is a study of conservative support for raising taxes. Conservatives in more homogenous areas happily raise their own taxes, at about the same rate as majority liberal areas.

FWIW, Some of Utah's approach to social problems is my kind of conservativism. I grew up in the church. We did the food banks, adopting refugee families, missionary works (rites of passage). Not knowing any better, I thought this was the norm, and that I was a conservative. While I'm not a big fan of Mormonism (or religion in general), I love that society's commitment to mutual aide.

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Meta: I became interested in American Affairs when Ezra Klein interviewed Julius Krein.

https://www.vox.com/21528267/the-ezra-klein-show-trumpism-do...

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

I love that the next generation of thinkers are reexamining big ideas with fresh eyes, that they're ignoring the framing and battle lines drawn up by Boomers and Gen X'ers (like me).

In my own activism and political participation, I've observed that Millennials (aka Gen Y?) are more interested in getting things done. Much to the consternation to most of us blue hairs. But I love it.
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Assuming that we WILL expend more energy to capture the carbon, the path to make carbon capture viable is clear: A source of energy that does not add more carbon to the atmosphere.

And existing technologies such as nuclear fission already offers us abundance of energy to do this. The problem is one of scale (how widespread?), acceptability (where can we do this?), cost (who pays?) and time (how soon?).
IT’S A SCAM!
When the blog is on a $5/month DO droplet and it does its own TLS termination that was necessary.
On the other hand, if we keep subsidizing driving, people keep moving farther away from work, more people drive, and more money needs to be allocated to car-centric infrastructure. It's not a simple problem.
And if that weight and cost budget was just used for batteries, instead of an engine and drivetrain, you'd get a much better electric vehicle.
The Lockhorns?
Quilette is an interesting choice of publication, given that they don't mind promoting one particular kind of "scientific" literacy:

https://quillette.com/2018/05/12/biosocial-criminology-lombr...

https://quillette.com/2019/06/05/superior-the-return-of-race...
My wife was asking why there’s never anything positive reported about climate change. I didn’t have a good answer.

I mean I understand that it’s mostly all bad but you’d think any change would at least benefit a few people.
If you use GDP per capita, which is more appropriate when comparing wealth between states, you find that the list of rich vs. poor states is more mixed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
What's scientifically illiterate about this?
I'm curious what CamCard - Business Card Reader did to be blocked by the Indian government.
Off topic. There is a page `counter` at the very end of the page... Thinking if its susceptible to a DDOS, or any other crazy stuff.
There's no reason to expect the price of a two-platter hard drive to go down over time, and hard drive tech has not quite improved enough to allow for 2TB from a single platter without using shingled magnetic recording. Drives with at least 1TB per platter appear to have been on the market since just after the floods (2011/2012).
When have they claimed to develop a scalable world computer? I think that was always just a misunderstanding by people who didn't understand the concept.
Yes, you can record them secretly. That's according to the federal courts that hold that it is your first amendment right. Don't be surprised if they try ro charge you under the state's laws. You would then have to file a federal lawsuit claiming your rights are being violates. It all depends on exactly how stupid or corrupt the specific officer is.
The point is that nobody does manage their memory "precisely". Everyone makes mistakes and in C those mistakes are fatal.
This was not meant to mean synthetic fuels but that we will eventually have to undo the damages that we currently bring about.
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I find it difficult to find a source of highly technical news on new cryptos. Any suggestions?
See also:

Square Root of Minus Garfield - https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1
I think we'll move back to normal sooner than people think. There is too much vested interest in corporate real estate and loans. You can see this by who the furlough schemes are backing
The point of carbon capture isn’t to be energy neutral. The point is to be able to take clean energy (say nuclear energy in the United States) and capture carbon from dirty uses (say construction in India).

Carbon capture will have to work because there will be no way to address climate change otherwise. Countries like India and everyone on the continent of Africa will industrialize, they will build vast structures out of concrete and they’ll use cheaper gas power cars and whatever energy they can get their hands on. My home country of Bangladesh will add a 80-100 million people and it’s GDP will increase by a factor of 5 by 2050. The idea that Bangladesh will jeopardize a single percentage point of GDP growth to make that growth carbon neutral as it rushes to bring middle income standards of living to its people is utterly absurd. The country’s CO2 emissions per capita has increased by a factor of five since I was born and it can increase by another factor of 10 before getting to the level of an efficient developed country like France. To compensate for massive CO2 output in those countries, developed countries will have to go carbon negative and capture that CO2.

It’s so obvious I’m not sure how so many people overlook it.
Thank you uberman! I've interned in a startup in the past and I must say, your description is on the dot.

Why do you say to work at FAANG 'as long as you can hack it'? Have you preferred the working environment in Big Finance or Big Pharma? Are those jobs more stable?

Thanks again
On mobile, in Firefox, do a long press and it'll show you the full target URL. Hoover on any desktop browser.
Just for background: These actions are targeted against Chinese companies, in the continued battle by Indian government to fight against recent land grab near Himalayas by Chinese Army and long term economic war e.g., New Silk Road, Trade Deficit etc.
Even without physical interaction, you can do a whole lot with just an internet connection. A superintelligence could identify 0-day exploits and quickly spread across thousands of computers and thus render itself immune to your idea of just switching it off. What do we do then? Sure, we can shut down the internet, but where is that going to leave us and how much damage has been done before that happens?
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Looks like jn6118 figured it out[1]; the dot seems to indicate that the comment is that user's latest post.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25197967
A path already crossed by both IBM i and z OS, and the CLR.

So while it is great that Java eco-system is going down the same path, we should not forget those that went there first.
If you are to delete your last comment, the preceding comment will not reacquire its dot.
You'd think so and I really doubt it's as profitable as people suggest but even just looking at Amazon you can see many of the exact same products you'd find on AliExpress for far higher prices.
> London show 73 pedestrian and six cyclist fatalities in 2019

London has a 13 times the population of Oslo, so they are on the same order of magnitude in regards to pedestrian and cyclist deaths.
A few years back, we had a snowstorm that knocked out power for 7 days. Knocking out power for 7 days meant our electric well pump didn't work. Our electric well pump not working meant that we didn't have water. We were snowed in with about 6 feet of snow, so roads weren't passable, so I couldn't go and get water, or food, or charcoal to cook the food with.

My neighbor had supplies and was generous enough to share them with me. While we wouldn't obviously wouldn't have died without access to the rest of the world for 3 or four days, it would have been very uncomfortable to endure without any food or water, and that's relative to the discomfort we already had without heat, wherein we literally spent large swaths of the day under every blanket we had, huddled together for heat we also didn't have without electricity.

The next house I bought had a fireplace. We stock wood to be prepared for the unlikely catastrophe of having to endure prolonged absence of electricity.

We put fire-specific extinguishers in our kitchen, our garage, and our basement to protect against the unlikely catastrophe of fire.

We keep 10 gallons of water in the basement to protect against the unlikely catastrophe of losing electricity, and the usage of our well pump.

We keep first aid kits with bandages and neosporin in the bathrooms of our house to protect against knife cuts, or puncture wounds, or glass breaks that draw blood.

We keep a few days worth of canned goods to protect against food shortage.

We keep charcoal to protect against the inability to use our stove, and I have fire-making equipment (ferro rods, a high carbon knife, flints, emergency matches, birthday candles, charcloth) for use while camping or backpacking, but I always maintain an abundance -- just in case.

Many people do much of the above: Almost everyone has a fire extinguisher, or a first aid kit, some canned goods. The government recommends these things, in fact, and there's a run on things like these (and generators, and foodstuffs) before every natural emergency. Many people also maintain gardens for sustainability.

Whether or not those things make people "feel safe" is not even in the same category, but I'd argue that it makes many people feel safe to know that they have their own food and water and heat should the system demand it. You're arbitrarily drawing a line at guns and shaming people for wanting to protect against unlikely catastrophes it may defend against.
Nagle says yes, but he'd get rid of delayed ACK:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9050645
I tried to fine-tune Deoldify (a neural net that colorizes old photos) to colorize Garfield comics a while back. The results after a couple hours of tinkering were promising.

I still think it would be an interesting project to pursue. There are millions of black and white comics from centuries of newspapers that are only in black & white.

https://twitter.com/braddwyer/status/1135630638374096897?s=2...
This question assumes that Chrome is "better". But what does that mean? Faster? Generally no. Uses less memory? No. The core engine is easier to extend? Perhaps in the webkit days.

Chromium ships with the Raspberry Pi but its an optimized version so not a clean comparison.
All he proved was you don't need a neural network for MicroMouse. We've known that for years. Some problems do require it. In my job experience, facial recognition can't be easily done with traditional signals processing. Stereo vision can be, but the algorithms are slow, expensive, and very error prone when compared to deep learning models.
Pareidolia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
Some of those FP concepts, transposed into a class-based OOP context, like closures and algorithms over data structures, where already present in Smalltalk-80 actually.
In proper US customary units, that's 62 square mil.

The Chevy Volt only gets about 90 square mil on its generator, but its battery is more like 33 square mil-e.
Math is much more binary. I can describe a problem quite well, and describe it well enough that I could be said to understand it. But I really can't put many problems into math. I've seen others do it, and it seems like a wonder to me. I'm not a dumb guy either, but my english and math scores on my SAT were off by more than 130 points. Some people in this thread are claiming that it's foolish to think that some people don't have math brains. I'm not sure what to tell you -- you're simply wrong. Could I understand math better than I do? Almost certainly, but it's unlikely I could ever be an engineer.
As someone who isn't 'wired for math' (but still knows my fractions, so to speak) I can't imagine putting math up against literacy. Reading is so fundamental to both communication and learning. Why do you equate the two?
Some of the most scientifically illiterate people I've encountered are the people who say things like, "We listen to the science when it comes to COVID-19". Let us be perfectly real. When it comes to political decisions based on forecasts, you are not "listening to science".

Science can answer many questions. I can ask it, "How long do I need to fire the engines to achieve this particular orbit", or perhaps "How much material do I need in this region of the bridge to sustain the load of traffic going across it?"

But science is not the computer from Star Trek. I can't come to science and ask it, "How long should we quarantine to minimize health impact, and maximize economic recovery?" Ultimately, that question does not have a scientific answer. It can be informed by statistics -- to the best that we understand the numbers, and scientists can present models of what they think the future will look like... but results not guaranteed.

Some problems have clear cut answers, that science can contribute concrete solutions to. Other problems do not have clear cut answers -- but have a large population of supporters claiming that all "the science" agrees with them, and to disagree with them is to shun reason.

This is also scientific illiteracy.
There's a fantastic review of Garfield Kart Furious Racing on rockpapershotgun[0]

[0]https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/11/18/garfield-kart-fu...
The best time series prediction model is often “Use the previous day (or week’s) value”. The best classification model is often “pretend everything is the same.” The best regression model is often “assume it’s the mean”.

This should not be surprising: a core premise of data science (empiricism in general? All logic and human knowledge?) is that intuition is often wrong. Initial hypotheses/problem definitions are just intuition.
For California, travelling on a Zephyr line from Los Angeles to San Diego was a very pleasant experience.
Stop. Danger. Caution. Poison. Love. Hate. Trump. These things and more are communicated perfectly well without multiplying by a power of ten or knowing what that power of ten is called.

As a species we seem to be terrible at things like estimation, probability, and at risk assessment. That's often wrapped up in this innumeracy business, too.
I think it’s more that Apple has to follow the laws of the land and could get into some very hot water if they “encouraged” distracted driving by allowing it.

The big problem with letting the user decide to do something like this is that distracted driving doesn’t affect just you, but everyone around you. There’s a reason drunk driving is illegal: you’re a danger to others on the road. Hence why being a drunk passenger is fine; you’re not a danger to the other drivers on the road.

So, should Apple be restricting what the user can do with their device? Depends on who you ask. But when it comes to distracted driving, it’s pretty well agreed that it’s wrong.

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Now, if you still want to watch YouTube while driving, you actually can. Just load up the YouTube app on your phone and hit play. They don’t stop you. Apple just won’t let you put it on your car’s screen.
fun to mention that in the days that many commands provide a --json flag to stream output directly to a programming API.
Hope FBSD makes a comeback in mainstream computing. Used FreeBSD 4 for a mail server with sendmail until early 2000s with vinum RAID and afs distributed FS. Such an orderly, unconfused O/S.
I imagine they are referring to Rust.
My apologies. I didn't know that Skull Calipers Monthly was such a popular periodical on HN!
I agree with you, being a player is not the same skill set is being a host at all. That said I have a suspicion Ken has been preparing his resume, he’s been hosting gameshows, presenting at events, hosting podcasts and a slew of other events for the last few years.
To me they are pretty much interchangeable. I used to use Firefox primarily but maybe 20 years ago Chrome was slightly faster so I switched. Now I use both.
Leveraging AI for the benefit of societal and social progress
On page load Space opens the sidebar instead of scrolling the page.
I can’t speak to your state laws, but at the federal level, giving certain officials free food would be a felony, unless it was finger food provided at a “widely attended event.”
Probably just a relic from 90/00s?

Page counter was very prevalent during that era.
Is that a reflection of the fact that it's far worse to be illiterate than innumerate? Sure, an innumerate person will struggle in all kinds of everyday contexts and probably won't end up working as an engineer or mathematician. But if they can read and write fluently, and are skilled/talented in ways that don't require much math, they can still excel in a number of career types.

By contrast, if a person can't read or write, they're shut out of a huge fraction of careers, even if they're exceptionally good with numbers.
How do they exclude EU citizens from being tracked? More importantly (as an SF based company) how do they operate given the California Consumer Privacy Act?

Is this another case where startups plan to break the law until they’re big enough to influence it or they operate at a profit despite fines?
I believe there is still potential. Dominant TCP implementations bet on the single horse "TCP Congestion Control" which is a different breed for a different situation.
Instead of coal. Wouldn't plastics be a better storage material? -> Lego pyramid
Data is the new oil and India is just now fully recognizing how equivalent it is to an Iraq-style reserve; in this digital economy
Machine learning is a set of techniques developed to attack modeling problems that traditional algorithms couldn't solve. So if the algorithm was developed and used before computers it definitely isn't machine learning. Everything done in this article was known and used before computers existed hence not machine learning.

Doing automatically controlled systems was still possible before computers just that it required a bit more creative use of analog components.
> Regulations require keeping records

Who decided to be compliant at this stage of the company, you or whoever is in charge of business operations?

> I felt responsibility to make the product as solid and maintainable as possible

Was this responsibility conveyed to you or did you make this decision on your own?

I'm clearly making an assumption here, but this reads like a case where both sides had a misunderstanding about how engineering time is spend. They trusted you with some autonomy to get things off the ground and found out you are making business decisions on your own that don't fit into resource constrained startup operations. There is always a trade-off and corners can be cut, and my advice is to be upfront about the general approach about those and find out how much they are willing to invest in robustness and product quality at a certain stage.
yep. Looks like the 90s, is kind of cool. equally dangerous.
This was solid advice. I've been wanting to move into the CTI space and I haven't come across too many tips that break down writing an effective executive summary.
I'm seeing more and more dancing around what I think is a desire to have a computing system much closer to the UI of emacs/lisp machine.

It seems the desire is to use the power of natural language to interact with the machine with commands but to not be limited by textual output.

Emacs can render pictures and PDFs but it can't render HTML well or videos at all.

Another UI that comes real close to what I think a lot of power users want are modern chat clients like Slack, Telegram, Discord and Mastadon because commands can be entered and the output is a stream of richer items than text.
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Laws don't have motivations. People have motivations.
> Cynically, neural networks are easier as you don't really have to think about your model. Give some examples with some classes and you're done.

This way of thinking about it leads directly to things like statistical redlining.

It's also not specific to neural networks. I take a similar approach with logistic regression. Except that I like to replace the "and you're done" step with, "and you're ready to analyze the parameters to double check that the model is doing what you hope it is." Even when linear models need some help, and I need to do a little feature engineering first, I find that the feature transformations needed to get a good result are generally obvious enough if I actually understand what data I'm using. (Which, if you're doing this at work, is a precondition of getting started, anyway. IMNSHO, doing data science in the absence of domain expertise is professional malpractice.)

There is no, "and you're done" step, outside of Kaggle competitions or school homework. Because machine learning models in production need ongoing maintenance to ensure they're still doing what you think they're doing. See, for example, https://research.google/pubs/pub43146/
We probably don’t need to capture all of the CO2 though ?

We can combine carbon capture with other solutions for example reforestation ?

I actually wonder if a time might come where global cooling (too quickly) could become an issue. I know that sounds crazy today but suppose we get very good at reducing emissions and CO2, maybe things will require time to adapt too a cooler world.
Linus Torvalds would like to use an M1 Mac for Linux, but
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The 2nd amendment also doesn’t guarantee concealed carry handguns, nukes or RPGs.

You can have long guns, stored properly in NYC afaik.