skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The money was not as important as the workers, thinkers, raw materials.

Industrialization requires money ( capital ) + resources ( workers, thinkers, raw materials, etc ). Money, being half the equation, is quite important. But in actuality, money/capital in capitalism is the driver/catalyst for everything and hence you could say it is the most important thing.

Also the guy's idea that JPMorgan and the money from their relatively small ( though leading ) bank provided enough capital for the "Second" Industrial Revolution doesn't pass the smell test. Certainly European capital played an important role but it was mostly funded by capital generated via the opium trade. One only needs to look at the explosion of banks created in the 19th century due to the opium trade in the US and British territories.

Perversely enough, these same banks capitalized with chinese opium money would be the source of capital that started china's industrialization 50 years ago. China certainly had the resources ( workers, thinkers, raw material, etc ), but they didn't have the capital for industrialization.

Most people think it's the excess population/workers, raw materials, etc that drove industrialization but it's was actually excess capital. The elites wanted to their "money to work".
Job hour and insurance lack of fungibility also make it hard even if you were willing to accept lesser pay it would be harder to find an employer who accepts it. Self-employment doesn't lend itself to fixed smooth workweeks and leaves one uninsulated from all of the demands of running a business.
I remember seeing this Cooler Screens startup idea a while back and thinking "this is terrible, I hope it never catches on". The facial recognition marketing alone is like a dystopia.
Medical billing is simply insane.

A month or so after an emergency visit to the hospital, I started getting random bills in the mail ranging in $50-$100 amounts. I went back to the hospital and asked them what the total was so I could just pay them the full amount right there, which was only about $1000. They simply wouldn't tell me. They told me to wait for all the bills. As I paid them off, there was no indication of whether I had completed all the payments.

Guess I missed one, as I also ended up in collections a year later for $50. My credit score was harmed instead of theirs.
If you charitably assume useful features are implemented, instead of just ads, sure!
I've seen my fair share of dodgy Windows app developers, but this company doesn't appear to be one of them: https://www.oo-software.com/en/company

Seems legit?
I mean, sure, but that's not really what the commentor meant.

They stated "as you go with the decision making"; which really means "don't make financial decisions based on an assumption that your options are going to be worth what your recruiter says they will be".

> Make some educated guesses on outcomes

I have seen tons of people make "educated guesses", which are all extremely rose-y outlooks. "Even if the company only sells for $30M I'll still own 1%", which completely ignores most of the underlying reasons why your stock will be worth absoutely 0.

Of course if you do understand all of the underlying risk and outcomes, go ahead and make educated models, but the majority of the time people don't even know what they don't know.
I've been using THE (The Hessling Editor) steadily since 2012 for work and for personal projects. Its ability to incorporate Rexx makes it easy to customize the editor as well as facilitate use with other useful programs such as Freeplane, or launch and track Microsoft Office work.

Vim and Emacs are part of standard toolsets in a wider base of organizations, so if you've bounced around, they would be more useful. Also, THE doesn't handle unicode very well, so that presents a decreasing window for application as unicode becomes more wide spread.

Meanwhile, The Hessling Editor, continues to be downloaded from SourceForge and has active forums.
Berkeley Document Summarizer – learning-based, single-document summarization
You usually have to vest over years to get full value out of that “immediate equity” you are referring to. And in that time a stock can tank.

Still a risk. Albeit smaller.
That was a dumb pretext. Scott Ritter and others had debunked the weapons of mass destruction claim prior. Everyone knew George W. Bush was going to invade Iraq because Saddam had threatened to kill his father. He was going to finish the job daddy had failed to complete.
What a "drone" is not is e.g. ball lightning, which then again can count as a UFO.
Worse still is the "pixel art" that... rotates and scales pixels!! It was very common a few years ago. It's such a weird sort of retro kitsch that doesn't bother to try to understand the original medium. Like NES graphics were Minecraft but 2D.

I'm glad the idea is coming into the zeitgeist that true pixel-based video game art was drawn for the CRT medium, not for digital nearest-neighbor upscaling.
Natural language processing- trying to build something similar to InspiroBot but with obituaries.

Cooking- trying to make 25 recipes for each of the Eight Great Traditions of Chinese cuisine. Just finished Fujian, doing Cantonese now.

Biking- exploring different markets and bakeries in the city I live in.

GeoGuessr.
They have these in my local Walgreens and I hate them. I think the drink coolers were stocked for maybe a week after they were installed. Since then it’s been 50/50 if the product the screen is showing is actually behind the door. I don’t think the store employees are able to keep on top of stocking without being able to see what’s in the case.
Yea, I'm about 20 years rusty on the scales but I thought d-flat was the same as c#, not b-flat...
Shades of both Philip K Dick and Frank Herbert here. This is one of the best SF short stories I've read for a while.
Indeed I was thinking of a datalog engine. (!) I've had minimal experience with datalog, but you should be able to query it for how it got to its resulting fact, no? So if you find a fact that doesn't make sense, I thought you'd be able to query for the path it took to get that fact?

If you have a stack per entity, like MTG, how would you find a contradicting rule?
Exactly the same as a non-YC company
During Rolling Blackouts Last Summer, Calif Kept Exporting Power Out of State
> cameras > I'm guessing it's eye tracking for market research

It's possible the whole display is specifically for market research. Play with product placement and see what increases sales for the most profitable items.
>Actually, there was no reason whatsoever for the asset purchases of bonds that were placed to stabilize the market to be made in the form of Black Rock Products

Were the purchase exclusively in blackrock products?
One simple reason to not go into depth on the evidence is it would reveal the capabilities of radars and similar sensors.

Likewise, if they know one of these was say a drone test by a contractor from a grey/black program they're obviously not going to disclose that.

So there's a bunch of banal reasons security could apply here.
Not looking forward to goatse when I get a hankering for microwave pizza.
Yep. "Privacy first" and "data sharing" don't belong in the same sentence.
High Output Management was an interesting read. Grove took timeless computer architecture techniques and mapped it onto management.
Bitcoin came from an independent researcher. That's the polar opposite of a corporate research arm.

I'd guess that most innovation comes from startups and smaller companies that get acquired, or iterative product development that aligns with a company's primary focus (iPod, Office, Ford's electric pickup) and not from dedicated experimentation organisations.

Corporations are poorly setup to benefit from innovation anyway. The funding model doesn't encourage the right incentives, and true innovation becomes political. A classic example is Kodak's early invention of the digital camera, which was a threat to the companies cash cow.
China’s 5G Dominance in Africa Will Enable Monitoring of its Internet Traffic
Enharmonic in the context of 12-tone equal temperament!

slowly backs away
Doesn't have to do anything with the thread. So not sure how taxes are relevant here. Fact is, Elon doesn't have liquidity problems.
yeah and now that everything is cloud connected and controlled by a corporate office far removed from the actual stores. I cant wait until thee freezer isle of some national chain starts displaying goatsx on every door some holiday weekend and its hours before it fixed.
> Then there's the problem of figuring out if you've already enumerated a molecule. That problem has no known polynomial-time solution (graph isomorphism), although GDB's low node count mitigates the problem.

It's not just the low vertex count that makes this an easier problem than general GI. The state of the art GI algorithm for general graphs runs in quasipolynomial time 2^{O((log n)^c)}, with c=3 claimed. [0]

However, structural constraints implied by chemical plausibility should (probably[1]) usefully limit the class of graphs that need be considered to those of bounded treewidth. A polynomial time GI algorithm was recently published for graphs of bounded treewidth. [2]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_isomorphism_problem#Stat...

[1]: If nothing else, maximum degree restrictions imposed by chemical valence should impose a useful upper bound on treewidth. Although I (somewhat surprisingly) can't find a paper offhand stating such an explicit bound for treewidth in terms of maximum degree, I did find one stating an asymptotic bound of (1 - C * exp (-4.06√d)|V| for sufficiently large max degree d, and some constant C, which lends some plausibility to this line of thought: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.06858
Early civilization would have been brutal in terms of diseases compared to today.

There are plenty of diseases where humans are a part of the reproduction cycle - malaria is a good example. You don’t need groups of humans together.

Then add in human-animal transmission and you have endemic malaria, tuberculosis, parasites, disease causing bacteria. If you look at remote, isolated tribes today they have a very heavy burden of non-fatal (but quality of life decreasing) diseases.
You're correct and should not be downvoted:

> Land reclamation, usually known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill)
Geoff Hinton's Coursera course on neural networks in 2012. Today everyone knows about deep learning. Knowing about deep learning in 2012 was a superpower. And being able to take a course from a pioneer of the field, for free, was just incredible.
the office apps are each 500MB and different apps are needed: Excel, Word, Office, OneDrive, PowerPoint. Why is Edge 200MB?

It’s common for apps to be 250MB and grow and grow. I used Chase as my credit card and their app is 300MB.

For what it’s worth, 200 to 300MB per app seems entirely reasonable to me. I’m not sure why it would be smaller or different.

I was expecting you to point out a 5GB app. That’d be overboard. But 200MB? Sure, why not?

Not to say you’re wrong. It’s likely me, not you. It just… seems fine.
> From what I've read, the possibility is higher than some other random virus popping up at this moment in time.

I've read literally nothing credible that suggests that immune escape will ever be complete.

There are people who are "concerned" or "worried" about it or will argue that "we can't say"

But they're basically the same people who were arguing that the vacccines that we were producing that produced strong neutralizing titers might not work.

Or that vaccinated people might transmit the virus just as strongly as unvaccinated superspreaders, even though they have reduced symptoms and lower viral loads and we know that the household attack rate of fully asymptomatic disease is lower by nearly an order of magnitude.

The "well, we haven't proven it can't, so we have to assume the coronavirus could assemble and detonate a nuclear warhead in an American city" people have been solidly fucking wrong for the past 12 months.

They had a brief glimpse of correctness at the start of it all when people thought it would go away relatively quietly like SARS-1 + MERS. But those people were probably all the ones looking at the early ~20% case fatality rate and assuming that 20% of the coworkers were going to die.

And it isn't happening, and the messaging is horrible, and there's a cost to worrying about the literal worst case imaginable. It doesn't make you smart to consider literally all the possibilities, it gets in the way.
What I miss the most is a good NURBS modelling that is runs on Linux, preferrably also Open Source. That is, allowing to create mathematically exact shapes that are good enough for 3D printing or other manufacturing, while still allowing an intuitive and somewhat "organic" modelling experience.

Something like Rhinoceros 3D [1], or at least Moi 3D [2].

Unfortunately, all the Linux tools and open source ones seem to be focussing on mesh modelling.

[1] https://www.rhino3d.com/

[2] http://moi3d.com/
You are accusing the government of intentionally "stoking" paranoia for publishing their data.

No I'm not. I'm accusing the Military / Espionage / Industrial complex of stoking paranoia in order to get other parts of the government to give them more money.

Elsewhere in this same discussion, someone is promoting their theory that publishing it on a Friday is designed to intentionally get as little press coverage as possible.

There's absolutely no reason that both of those things can't be true simultaneously. See above about the "delicate balancing act" that the gomers have to carry out to keep getting more money, without actually providing anything of value.

Maybe it's just data gathered for security reasons and published in a somewhat sanitized format to satisfy public interest in the data while protecting national security.

Sure, and maybe there is a tiny teapot in orbit between Earth and Mars. *shrug*
Please don't bite unless you're a fish. I'm certainly not trying to reel you
in. Rather the reason I'm asking is that the expression you used is vague and
imprecise and I don't know what exactly you mean by it.

As you suspect, I can guess what you might mean, but if we start double-guessing
each other, we're just injecting noise in the conversation and a few comments
from now we end up completely confused about what each other is trying to say.
So much better to establish some common language before we waste time talking
past each other. Doesn't that make sense?

Keeping that in mind, I am still not happy I understand what you mean with the
following:

>> If you see in a data set that Danes are tall, and that Kenyans are fast, and
that Ashkenazi’s are smart, then it is a valid hypothesis that should not be
thrown out outright, that the reason that’s the case is due to actual
differences inherent to the population groups and not any other confounding
factors.

The reason for my continued uncertainty is that you do not say, in the above
example, what is the "bias" and how it is "correct". You've identified a
hypothesis that you can make about the data (rather than a hypothesis
derived from the data, i.e. some kind of model that explains the data). But a
hypothesis is not bias. A hypothesis can be correct or incorrect, and bias may
play a part in that, or not. But a hypothesis is a hypothesis and bias is bias.
So what is "bias", the way you mean it?

>> As for your second question: mostly progressives, leftists and liberals.

Ugh. I shouldn't have asked. I'm going to take a wild guess that you're from the
USA and that you have some kind of stake at the culture war you folks got
brewing over there. I'm not from over there and I want no part in that. So
forget I asked. And good luck getting all that sorted out between you.
There is an art installation in Las Vegas[0] which is basically a grocery store from an alternate, mildly dystopian, dimension. This would fit in perfectly there.

0: https://www.travelandleisure.com/culture-design/visual-arts/...
Aliens make the perfect scare? You think more people are afraid of aliens than terrorists?
> Nearly every tribe, nation, empire or a represntive of has blood on their hands in some wrong doing at some point in history.

I think there is a non-trivial amount of people who refuse to accept that.
Been using a mac + rider at work for years now, at a very large company. Still have to fire up windows occasionally for Framework/Legacy stuff for though. I sometimes try out ideas in C#/F# at home (linux). With Rider, it’s pretty much the same experience on all 3 OSes, it’s pretty nice.
Makedeb – Create Debian Archives from PKGBUILDs
This concept could actually be nice to present a pretty interface for products wrapped in plain, cheap packages (or no packages at all and served to customers in reusable containers).
During my senior year, my government teacher called people out for saying like every 5 words. For the entire year. He used to be a former lawyer.

This has got me into the habit of always listening as I speak and it has been extremely worthwhile.
Retro "video game" music, and many emulators and VGM players, have a similar (analogous) issue; using very high-quality (perfect) or very low-quality (exhibiting digital aliasing) square and sawtooth waves... and lots of them sometimes. In reality you had a very small number of fixed-function analog voices (= no digital aliasing) which were run through a cheap lowpass filter (= not perfect) on their way to the RF modulator.
I'm not (necessarily) accusing them of faking the observations. But I wouldn't put it past them to take something that has (mostly or totally) prosaic / boring explanations, and keep the "air of mystery" going just enough to where people never quite get the answers they are looking (hoping?) for, and are willing to keep funding their research as a side effect.
Having not read the book, the first question that comes to mind is whether John Gray is referring to a house cat or a stray cat in his writings. The house cat is an animal in a highly artificial environment where most of the daily struggles have been removed. Any comparisons to the human condition would be suspect. A stray cat would likely live a life of territorial battles, disease, injury, and hunger, and would be a much different creature than a house cat.
I upvoted this because it's an interesting take, but it doesn't feel like it's true. Chemists pick new molecules to experiment with primarily because they're similar to old ones that solve a particular problem (cure a disease, colour an emulsion, explode very fast...), not because they tried computational simulation of those molecules and couldn't overcome precision/chaos issues.
That list is a list of possible causes of UAP. UAPs are things that have not been categorised. None of those listed categories are categories UAPs have been put into. Instead, they are categories that UAPs could be put into in the process of becoming identified aerial phenomena.

We know every recorded flight path, sure, but it would hardly be surprising for some ordinary plane flights not to be recorded (e.g. of small planes with a malfunctioning transponder).

If a small plane without a functioning transponder was detected on radar, without visual
or flight path information, it would be a UAP, since it would be unidentified. If someone then sees the plane, or the pilot later says "that was me", it would cease to be a UAP and be put in the "normal plane" category. I.e. "normal plane" should be one of the possible causes of UAP.
I am sure it's not this way for everything but, for my own experience, I will answer with no. I would also doubt anyone in recent times who said they had a book or course like that.

I've found competition to be so intense that, for example, my university restricts access to course syllabi and class information of certain courses because so many people would go through it and try to get a head start on it, sometimes years in advance, so they could have a shot at an A. There are old course notes and syllabi from 2012 that float around the internet that people use now since it's mostly the same.

It's hard to picture a book that could give you an edge without anyone else knowing about it.
Solutions always breed more problems. The trick is to have a solution that, on balance, solves a more costly problem than it creates. These doors do not feel like they solve any customer problems (I have never needed an electronic UI to see through glass) and instead give birth to a huge maintenance burden that the retailer will not be willing to meet.
Maybe? Although Amazon recently started using Slack as its primary internal messaging platform. Seems that if Wickr was designed to replace Chime, Amazon wouldn't have rolled out Slack internally.
I gotta tell you every post is like a couple opinions and then these connections and assumptions that just don't make sense in any way.
>That is a lie! And a very nasty one at that.

Nope. TaupeRanger's overall observations seem spot on.
> They were easy enough to ignore

not the skilled ones [0], who though rare are, unlike the usenet days, now able to command their own private upvote brigade to amplify their powers significantly beyond the scope of whatever particular forum or network they call home. trolling has gone pro.

" The well-constructed troll is a post that induces lots of newbies and flamers to make themselves look even more clueless than they already do, while subtly conveying to the more savvy and experienced that it is in fact a deliberate troll. If you don't fall for the joke, you get to be in on it. "

[0] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/troll.html
What I mean by plastic-like is biodegradable materials that replace a purposely designed subset of these functions of things plastics are really good at:

Waterproof

Variable stiffness - Flexible / Rigid

Airtight

Lightweight

Capable of being colored

Injection Mold process capable

Variable opacity - Transparent / Opaque

I think cellulose/lignin/chitin based materials could replace many of these functions, there's some progress on that front but not nearly enough to chase down plastics.
My solution for the age slider was to just accept whatever age it gave me and then select birth year to match
Greetings citizen, this is RedFaceTwitBot 778 - my reinforcement ML model, combined with your latest interaction, matches your face expression with an uncontrollable anger toward Nestle® (score 97.8%) - would you like to join our "Capitalism is evil" page? First ten tweets are free and you can select from our collection of best anti-capitalist phrases (courtesy of Marxly, YC S2399).
It would still need on-device authorisation to opt into MDM though. I can't just give Apple your serial number and tell them to start pushing updates to your device, can I?
That's pretty much how any group chat works on any platform, it's just a simple click to mute it except for direct mentions.

Why do you need your profile instead of a menu? Why a QR icon? Why a search bar?

Those are very minor things on an app that functions extremely well.
Sure, many people self-medicate with alcohol, it's a GABA agonist and works for anxiety. But people don't live in a vacuum, there'll be reactions from family members and friends to their excessive consumption. It's not that people reason themselves into alcoholism, but a good number do recognize that they have a problem by the time the wife has had enough.

It's the same thing with intrusive thoughts - medication plus cognitive-behavioural therapy works best, that condition is something that you can reason yourself out of when you recognize the signs quickly enough.
Energy losses will be through the roof! To see what's actually behind half those doors, you have to open each one up instead of keeping the door closed and looking through it. Even when it's in "display the products" mode, are you really going to trust that it has the correct inventory configured when you're looking for your favorite beverage and can't find it? No, you're going to go down the aisle opening every single door to check for yourself.