skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the contrary, explanations like the one by the GP seem to attribute way more superhuman character to Musk than who he is: just another person, and one with a pretty peculiar personality at that. His traits could have brought him spectacular success, but could also make him prone to eccentric episodes like this, especially as the years go by. I don’t see anything petty minded in just analyzing the situation in this way.
Uber broke laws, duped police and built lobbying operation, leak reveals
I think you forgot googlemail.com as well ;)
HP Dev One, same thing

maybe they expect those dev compys to be used with external screens, and maybe they also need the Linux computer price points to be lower
An intercity train stops primarily at large towns and cities. Acela looks like the only frequent intercity train from NYC, though I may have missed one as there are several daily Amtrak trains.

The planned schedule for the new line in England will have the shortest train make only these stops, 3 times per hour:

London Euston 0 miles
London Old Oak Common 5 miles
Birmingham 125 miles after 52 minutes

And a longer one (also 3 times per hour) will make only these stops:

London Euston 0 miles
London Old Oak Common 5 miles
Birmingham 125 miles (1 of the 3 per hour)
Manchester Airport 205 miles

That is nothing like a regional/commuter train. The existing regional train to Birmingham stops at Watford, Milton Keynes, Wolverton, Rugby, Coventry, Canley, Tile Hill, Berkswell, Hampton-in-Arden and Birmingham — that is like the Philly/LIRR/MNR trains.
No, do what you want, stick with giving Tesla thousands of dollars a year instead of opting into the coop that runs the simple algorithm and gives you the money.
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Tldr: People in Mozambique started presenting with polio-like paralysis. However, on further examination by specialists, it was clear that their symptoms were not consistent with a diagnosis of polio.

Explanation in ROT13: Nsgre zhpu vairfgvtngvba, vg jnf qrgrezvarq gung gur rssrpgf jrer qhr gb puebavp plnavqr gbkvpvgl qhr gb gur cerfrapr bs plnabtravp tylpbfvqrf va fbzr pnffnin inevrgvrf, naq pnffnin ebbg vf hfrq nf n fgncyr sbbq bs ynfg erfbeg va nssrpgrq nernf bs Zbmnzovdhr. Nyfb, na vanqrdhngr vagnxr bs "fhyshe-pbagnvavat nzvab npvqf" (zrguvbavar?) erqhprq gurve novyvgl gb arhgenyvmr plnavqr. Fbyhgvba: rng n inevrq qvrg, naq jura rngvat pnffnin ebbg, qba'g rng gur fxva.
Yes, using NLP (DL) techniques makes more sense than to require every author to annotate their work.
> I really think that if I had had to learn programming with that course, I would never have learned it

This is one of the most common misconceptions in general with educational institutions and the general software engineering job market.

Programming is not Computer Science.

Computer science teaches you how computers work, concepts of how encryption works, concepts of security, concepts of memory management, and so forth. More recently computer programming has been added as a part of Computer Science degrees, but actually just a decade or so ago (when I was going through it), you could graduate with Computer Science degree without programming experience at all.

There is no doubt that learning computer science makes you a better programmer, but it is different and it is possible to be a good programmer without it.

Programming is one of the practical applications that benefit from strong computer science knowledge. Just like how taking a human anatomy course or a biology course doesn't train you to become a doctor. But it's pretty important knowledge needed for doctors to be good at their jobs (so much so that we don't let people practice medicine without it).
Not just G7, it's so common in many democratic nations. Wonder if anyone did a study of democracy and nepotism.
As a physicist i would be glad you explain me your reasoning a bit further, for instance how the droughts is independent from climate. You look very knowledgeable.
> That leads to the unsettling implication that information is being “teleported” faster than the speed of light

I thought that principles of physics do not actually allow information to transfer in this process?
API on the car, not on the service. A way for the owner of the car to control what the car is doing remotely.

If there are thousands of dollars on the line, third parties will bid against Tesla...
I'm not sure that space bubbles at the L1 point are "irreversible" - simply move them out of that point, or cease the active stabilisation and they will cease to function (and will be out of our way, as they would be a few times further away than the moon: (1) )

Other than that, I agree, it would be way to easy to rely on this kind of measure. I'd like it to be a measure to give time to "draw down our unsustainable industries". But I don't think that human nature works like that. It would be taken as a mandate to continue.

In fact we might have the opposite problem: too easily reversible. What if we become dependant on it being there, and then it fails, as stuff in space easily does? What happens "when the levee breaks" ?

1) https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/L1_the...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point#L1_point
Yes, I believe CS 106A would be more analogous to Harvard’s CS 50.

https://web.stanford.edu/class/archive/cs/cs106a/cs106a.1228...
No it doesn't.

It might be part of the solution, but the repeated talk about how we need some magical breakthrough before we can continue with electrification is just wrong.

The most important part, is to burn less fossil fuels, and we have lots of ways to do that, and we should do whichever is cheapest and easiest first.

Long duration storage comes after:

- put a price on carbon and other pollution

- efficiency/insulation

- electrify everything

- build more renewables

- vary existing tech to complement renewables (e.g. hydro, waste to energy)

- vary loads to absorb renewables when they are available

- build short term storage to shift energy (EVs and related battery tech)

- ship green ammonia/hydrogen around the world from places like chile.

And then there's a place for long term storage (which is a direct competitor to green hydrogren production and may never make sense compared with doing more of that)
"If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen" - Harry S. Truman

There is nothing wrong with my comment. I am of the opinion that you wasted dang's time, especially since recently we have all been praising him for his very hard work running this site, for which you seem entirely ungrateful for. Where did you get the idea that the world has to agree with your opinions?
"Born secret" and "born classified" are both terms which refer to a policy of information being classified from the moment of its inception, usually regardless of where it was created, and usually in reference to specific laws in the United States that are related to information that describes the operation of nuclear weapons.
It is surely true that I have a cognitive bias in the direction you say, and that many companies operate at lower levels of informatics infrastructure reliability than Azure.
At a brunch many years ago my wife made a Zucchini salad. On my first taste, I stopped eating it and warned all the guests. Everyone stopped, except one friend, who, unfortunately was somewhat OCD (but otherwise a wonderful person). Unfortunately, part of his condition is that he cannot waste anything, especially food. He insisted on eating the salad. I only found out (a) about cucurbitacins and (b) that my friend could not leave food uneaten after this incident. Had I known both things at the time, I would have taken the salad away.

My friend was quite ill for about a week, including some internal bleeding. Thankfully, he recovered fully.

Moral: don't let your guests do the polite thing if you realize something is not right!
Breaking the warp barrier: solitons in Einstein–Maxwell-plasma theory (2021)
Google's end goal is Answer Machine but we are decades away from that. Answer Machine would be something like God-like software which gives you the ultimate answer to your query and that answer would be 100% accurate, true and personalized/suited for you. Again blackbox solution but it will be so advance with the help of AI that it would be trustworthy by default/design. Hard to achieve but looking at the Moore's Law and the advance of AI it will eventually be achieved.
I call bs. This article claims that only 100 people ‘died’ from Chernobyl.

https://ourworldindata.org/what-was-the-death-toll-from-cher...

It pretty much totally discounts the insanely large number of thyroid cancer cases in children. Then comes up with a very optimistic scenario of survival rates based on western medical interventions. So maybe they didn’t die per say but had significantly reduced quality of life and mutations.

This is a classic example of taking one vanity metric and making absolute conclusions from it rather than taking a range of data points to paint a more accurate story.

I find Wikipedia shows a range of numbers that are far more likely to give a realistic picture

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_Chernobyl_dis...
why would you though? the amount of high-volume, tight margin budget laptops with Windows pre-installed is huge
Even the spiritual successor Cities Skylines is getting old at this point. There's a few other city-building games that almost nail it but the devs always add in something that makes it too micro-managey like production chains.
I work in the government. I know people who have worked at my office for years and don't yet have access to the classified systems required to do their jobs.
A new trade and liberal arts school: “College of St. Joseph the Worker”
Data leak reveals how European politicians helped Uber
It’s only more expensive due to extremely absurd regulation.
The benefits are pretty small compared to the cost of requiring HTTPS everywhere, which is allowing silicon valley to bully the entire internet into jumping through its hoops to get traffic.

The websites that aren't willing or able to do so are, in my experience, some of the more precious ones we have on the Internet. The websites that aren't trying to monetize their visitors are the ones that get Thanos:ed out of apparent existence. What gets lost isn't the spam or the malicious websites, they of course adapt. What gets lost is the unique views, the personal websites, like from some 80 year old who has meticulously published a catalogue of his astrolabe collection online over the last 30 years.
Thank goodness it's a lot of years that I do not have to deal with corporate IT support, but at the time (in various firms) they tended to be a lot similar to the procurement office (Bob the dinosaur) in Dilbert:

https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-07-29
My company thankfully allows engineers to be admins on their machine with the right amount of begging and persistence. But it still sucks.

And now my corp Win10 machine is so clogged up with firewalls, antivirals, ZScaler and CarbonBlack whatever the fuck that is that the machine regularly stalls and just sits there for seconds at a time. In the middle of typing. It's put a dragchute on my productivity but they're paying me so fuck it.
No. Moto G6 Play £130 new in 2018. Laptop unsurprisingly many times that.

To me a better phone is for the "experience". Faster laptop is getting stuff done.
The economicals of a running car are not difficult: how many $ are I spending to travel 100 km? Turns out that EV is currently the cheapest one. Also PHEV are not that efficient, at around 50 MPG. Compare that with more than 100-110 MPG equivalent for a Tesla or a Nissan Leaf. Or compare that with an efficient ICE like the Mazda 2, 35 MPG.

Guys from Toyota PR could talk about how expensive are the batteries or the cars themselves. But in terms of moving "giantic" batteries they seem pretty OK in terms of efficiency.
The one study you cited didn't support your original claim

> Unless we find a proper vaccine, today's children will live their whole life with this disease. Spending an extra week sick each year, accumulating organ damage and maybe dying at the age of 50 after their twentieth bout of covid.

> He says the extra risks are more likely among the elderly, the immunocompromised, and people with other medical conditions.
C'mon... It's not that hard. Link the text to the references section with the full citation, and include a link in the reference to look it up by the arxiv or by doi. If the link doesn't work, the citation should be enough to recover the text, assuming that the civilization hasn't collapsed.
There exist grant programs at most institutions designed to support such work and precisely for that reason. Sadly, writing grant applications are a job in-and-of-themselves. Consider the case of Justine Tunney, the creator of redbean. If anyone deserves a grant or three, it's her. But she's too busy making cool shit to a) research which grants are available, and b) satisfy their onerous application requirements.

Obviously the problem is that those in charge of giving away money are very passive, and in fact put up large barriers (the onerous application process) for anyone wanting the money. This, to me, is absurd. The admins of such a fund should themselves be active in one or more areas of interest, such that they themselves should be approaching people like Justine and telling her, "Here, please take my money."

I don't know much about grants, but like most things that are broken I suspect there are perverse incentives here. For example, someone is probably investing that grant money, and if they give it away the money leaves the market, and that will make the admins sad. (I don't know if that's the case, but that's the kind of thing I would expect to see.)

Oh, another surprisingly effective thing people are doing are subscriptions to people you like. You see this particularly on twitch, and sometimes on youtube. People can and will give money to the creators they like! It's kind of amazing to me. I suppose the analog for people like Justine is Patreon. It's fascinating though that people will happily subscribe to an entertaining personality, but will happily ignore someone who toils at making incredible things behind closed doors (but still use their tools). The obvious solution is that all open source projects should become a source of entertainment.
In HCI and SE there is very little incentive and it is way too much effort to disagree with prior research. Most work isn’t replicable. The fields value novelty.

Why would I spend countless hours replicating someone else’s human-subjects study when I could pursue something new?
Why can't well funded researchers just assign a post-doc to go through all the papers and analyze their sentiments?
Doesn't seem so difficult logistically or technically.
What makes you think a "simple algorithm" from a cash-strapped coop can compete with more sophisticated systems?

If better systems (eg Tesla's Autobidder) generate more revenue, then even after paying a percentage you still come out ahead.

Meanwhile an under-sophisticated algorithm will just end up being the "dumb money" in the marketplace.
Yes, it does, if you want to get to a 100% decarbonized grid with renewables most economically, and particularly if you want solar to be a substantial component of energy supply at high latitude. Yes, other things come first, but storage has to be in there. Synthesis of chemical fuels at lower latitude for use at high latitude is effectively long term storage, since once one has paid to cost of making those fuels, storing them is cheap and adds robustness.
This seems unbelievably overly simple and reckless.
Being version “10” for fifteen years is kinda stupid, though. It’s the same problem Linux had with being on version 2.6, seemingly forever.
The issue with Google is SEO optimized spam sites beat out real content. Until we get rid of web advertising, it'll continue to be this way.

Spam site operators have a huge incentive to get users to click on their links & provide them with ad-revenue

For Google, they could make things so much better by down-ranking sites that show ads
For those curious, the first article linked says it’s the Unification Church (Moonies).
And the species of ladybug released is .....? Can you identify and name it?

One problem is that it could happen, and if it goes trendy It will happen.

Even if this is a hoax, is encouraging a massive audience of children to do the same. For tiktokers there is not difference. After all, If is a ladybug is a fire class pokemon predator of pests. Right?

False.

Other is that could provide logistic support to people trying to spread it purposely.

Another is the message:

1) Environmental laws are something that we shouldn't obey, because we know better than adults... and ice cream, and sparkling unicorns

2) Releasing thousands of cute animals in nature is fine.

Even if you are clueless about the risks or can't even identify the animal that you are releasing among the 6000 species of ladybugs.

They may not be aware that some ladybug relatives are herbivorous and eat crops (Surprise!). And if you found a zillion of ladybugs in a local area ready to be packed and sent by mail to your cousin, they most probably will fall in this category.

They may not be aware that some alien ladybugs are in turn predators of native ladybugs

Some even may don't care at all as long as use this virtue signaling videos to win popularity and became the bee-queen in their group of friends
Unfortunately the "default" crypto payment acceptance providers people use are user hostile (Bitpay, Coinbase Commerce).

Other options (BTCPayServer) are available, but they need more work to integrate.
If you're going to store the heat, then you might as well reexpand the cooled compressed gas, recovering some of the energy of compression and cooling it further, and also store that "cold". You can then recover the stored energy by exploiting the hot/cold temperature difference between the two thermal stores. Doing this is functionally equivalent to adiabatic CAS, but doesn't require storage of any compressed gas.
I agree, Natural Language Processing is the right tool and field for this. What is the purpose of language, if you as an author must add an extra layer of metadata to it to convey meaning. Or maybe academic authors should just bute the billet and start using smileys to convey sentiment. These would be easy to work with.
Why would HR care whether an IT support staff was following the IT team's ticket process? HR is there to recruit, help hire, help fire, explain benefits packages and vacation policy, sometimes address workplace personnel conflicts, sometimes help teams budget salaries, and so on. IT's policies are made and enforced by IT management/leadership. I've never heard of any company where HR had any input whatsoever into an internal engineering or support team's processes.
From the linked article:

> On June 16th, Microsoft updated the policy for the Microsoft store to include the following restriction for all software sold: “to prohibit charging fees in the Store for open-source or other software that is generally available for free”

The obvious non-evil interpretation is that this policy is intended to stop scalpers who eg sell Mozilla Firefox on Windows Store.

See also this tweet: https://twitter.com/gisardo/status/1545473811226705922

> On June 16, we shared a policy aimed to protect customers from misleading listings,in effect from July 16. In listening to dev community,we got feedback it could be perceived differently than intended.We'll delay enforcement of that policy until we clarify the intent. Stay tuned.

Of course the GM posting this could be lying and the intent could be to specifically harm open-source, but... that doesn't seem likely given the evidence we have?

As evidence that Microsoft is doing "Extinguish", this is very thin.
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Just let people open a ticket from a station at the IT desk, or let IT open the ticket themselves for a certain class of items. Similar to an over-the-counter permit at a building department. Municipal governments figured that out decades ago ;).
We also have to address pollution from tires. Cars don't actually make sense as a mass transportation method.
But isn't the point that if you want to electrify more industry while eliminating thermal power generation then you will need massive energy storage to cover the gaps in real time energy supply from renewables..? If you rush and do what you are saying without finding an efficient way to store a surplus of energy then you will have blackouts come winter.
Believe me, I get it :)

Caveat 1: I'm not entirely sure you're wrong wrt Kuhn. But there's no way I would have gotten even 50 pages in w/out going incredibly slow and thinking deeply about it -- my general algorithm now with books such as these is to read enough that I have a 'mind-full' of stuff, and then think about how it connects to other things I care about. That (wrt Kuhn) has made the difference between thinking of paradigms as "big-picture stuff that changes every so often in a manner more complicated than we normally consider", to seeing the tendrils everywhere, all the time, in subtle and nuanced ways propagating through all culture. It took the concept of 'paradigm' from a soundbite I could recite when called upon to a plant that has sent tendrils into the foundations of my thought. Maybe I'm a simpleton and others don't need it, but I don't care anymore. A book is a very personal encounter.

The same applies to James, but something else besides: he's just so _beautiful_ of a writer! But it's a languorous kind of beauty that was utterly lost on me until I started reading him slowly. Reading a few pages at a time I've been struck, repeatedly, by his artistry. I would read him for pleasure, even without any insights. Can't tell you what a change that has been.

The tragedy in all this is that it puts the lie to the self-delusion that I could ever read all that is worthy to be read. C'est la vie. I'd rather actually get something out of the books than have the bedpost notches. I know there are hyper-prolific readers (e.g., Tyler Cowen) -- I wonder if they can get both kinds of value? Either way, I can't, so it doesn't much matter.
we have them yes, and at this moment, the richest country in Europe is rationing hot water and restarting coal power plants due a temporary disruption of supply of another fossil fuel.

Europe + North America is 10% of the world population, and we can barely carry our own burden.
This is drawing parallels to Futurama’s giant ice cubes in the ocean… if we don’t stop the problem of climate change at the root, i.e. mass overconsumption and waste, we’ll simply be facing the same challenge in another 50 years when greenhouse gas emissions rise to meet their new ceiling.
People lie on polls. A lot.

They probably just thought that answer was funny.
Moonies used to be a big deal at college campuses in California. When my husband and I went to Berkeley in the 1970s, the Moonies were everywhere. They did many questionable things before fading away.

My husband is 4 years older than me - so he was not as aware of their recruitment practices. He said he was invited to dinner by a very attractive young woman who kept flirting with him all through dinner. She then invited him to a weekend retreat. He said he became suspicious and did not go. It was a good thing he did not go. By the time I went to Berkeley - we all knew about the retreats.
BTC fees are basically fuck all these days, and you can just use LN.
I was the IT support tech who would input tickets for people instead of insisting they call/walk-in with a ticket. The result was management gaslighting my ticket numbers as artificially inflated and being highly critical of my work. Wound up on a PIP.

(Realistically, everyone outside the department knew me by name. They would call and ask for me any number of ways including outright lying. They'd tell me I was the sole source of any problems getting solved! "Everyone else in that department can't do a thing.")

Please just put tickets in before you reach out to IT and have the number ready. Print it off, even.