skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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You have constructed a hypothetical case where the answer would likely depend on facts and circumstances beyond what's written.

That such cases can exist doesn't mean it's not clear-cut here.

In the vast majority of cases, two engineers will agree on the question "is this data persisted or ephemeral" and the fact that the line is blurry doesn't mean we can't know when it's been crossed.
So where is this battery chemistry with even higher energy density? Or comes from a resource more abundant that water? The answer is none that we know of. These are self-evident reasons why we should spend significant resources pursuing this path.

Like I said, the arguments against that are just excuses. And no one is implying that this path comes at the exclusion of everything else either. That just seems like another excuse. We can easily fund everything else while also funding this idea too.

Existing policies are pretty much rigged in favor of li-ion batteries. People sometimes cite fuel cell tax credits, but ignore the part where the government is heavily subsidizing battery factories or paying for charging networks. It is not remotely a fair comparison.
Sadly, I have to concur. The US based ones are all more awful.

I can deal with nagging messages while using the site, as long as I'm shown the full price, and not bombarded with upsell emails afterwards (that I have unsubscribed from 3 times already).

Never going to use Expedia again.
Has any child ever gotten better at something they don't have to do? It seems the practical effect will be to simply place these children farther behind and never catching up.

SFUSD does not appear to be run by intelligent people, however. I don't say that as some Internet slur. I mean that as a descriptive term. Should you disagree, it is worth watching this 2 min video of a meeting from one of their committees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdekUXyAAzI
They are like the annoying lady in Stand and Deliver that suggested that math should not be taught to not hurt the self esteem of students.
I've never personally come across anyone using VR in their work, but I'm meeting non techies every week who are using ChatGPT in their work: legal admins, illustrators, translators electrical engineers etc.

VR has its place but I think these language models are way more broadly useful.
I found out that if you add about 60 decks and then hit shuffle it breaks physics, space, and time. I am using it to play solitaire now and it works well.
> why would you wait until April 15 to ask for your money back if your biggest concern is not giving them an interest free loan?

It's not always possible to file accurately that early.

A number of investment related tax documents don't come until March 15th at the earliest. Then you probably need to wait for your accountant to prepare everything, you review everything and finally you officially file it. For me personally this usually happens near the end of March. Realistically it can't be any earlier.

Also, if you're self employed chances are you're paying quarterly estimated taxes to avoid penalties. You're giving them money as early as a few months into the tax year. You also need to make sure you don't underpay or you can get penalties and you also owe interest. You either give the IRS an interest free loan by overpaying throughout the year or risk losing money.
Money changing hands without invoices is significantly sketchier and more difficult to accomplish.
Culture is real.

Americans tend to be optimistic and positively inclined towards entrepreneurship. This is often refected in business practices and regulations.
math is just the beginning of these backwards policies. public schools in california have been removing advanced classes in the name of “equity” for years. the racial enrollment in those classes did not reflect the racial enrollment of the school.

the result? parents moving kids to private school. at the school nearest me they kindergarten enrollment is dropping. they are likely going to only have a a single class in a couple years

california is making it very clear the public school system is not going to help your children succeed beyond a base level. it seems to have the completely opposite goals of when i was in public school in california
ChatGPT promises to have iPhone-level impact, but as of today (April 16, 2023), its impact has largely been to accelerate existing workflows. Its impact is more akin to Photoshop (still, a monumental impact), than the introduction of the smartphone.

This may very well change months and years from now, but as of now it’s too early to claim it has iPhone-level impact.
A big issue for Canada is that the government focused on resource extraction.
Two other recent literature reviews worth reading:

"Transformer Taxonomy" - https://kipp.ly/blog/transformer-taxonomy/

"Five years of progress in GPTs" - https://finbarrtimbers.substack.com/p/five-years-of-progress...
I heard (not verified) that every province of Canada trades more with USA than with any other province which I think is quite remarkable.
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Did anyone archive this draft? The Google Docs link now has a statement and says the form is closed.
Turns out math isn’t actually white supremacy. To the surprise of absolutely no one.
Off-topic, but what is it with this site ending lines in the middle of words? Like "c (newline) an" or "bu (newline) t".

This is really hard to read!
I also don't very frequently, but not just because it's not interesting most of the time. It's because as you learn enough of them, the same realization happens; most of what they do, aren't as important as you just building the thing quickly in your stack of choice. Truly new tech and categorically different tech is different, but a new JS framework or w/e doesn't really matter much at all.
I’m surprised California hasn’t outlawed this tactic as deceptive marketing or such? Any idea why companies can falsify data for the sole purpose of deceiving consumers to increase their revenue?
I was around to see the actual installation when it was present. The thing is, it didn't just exist on its own, but was part of, or maybe the initiator of, a trend to make post-it art. I still see it in office windows, sometimes in videos of distant foreign countries.

So if you wanted to make it known again...go get some Post-Its and have at it.
It's even worse than that because we didn't have a commerce-clause the way you do. Canada actually has trade tariffs between it's own provinces. It was only in 2017 that the provinces signed a free trade agreement with each other, and even then it was a very limited agreement with enforcement issues.
I like how the anime fansubbing community does it: Take random clips of anime, do various encodes under real world conditions, compare results.
> That didn't happen, concludes a study by a team of Stanford professors. "Large ethnoracial gaps in advanced math course-taking . . . did not change."

Is there anything that will get these people to realize that maybe they are working with a hypothesis that is fundamentally flawed?

It doesn't take a large amount of thinking to imagine what might have more predictive power in explaining what's going on here.
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The underlying philosophy embedded in your statement is part of the issue in America in recent years: people have become apathetic. A representative government isn't a one time and you're done deal. It requires lots of people to genuinely put time and effort into it.

Multiple times in the US'es history we've had even more greed, corruption, poverty, etc, but protests and social movements helped reset the needle. Things like normalizing 8 hour work shifts had to be fought for.

Currently both major parties get away with a lot of what they do because most of us don't participate and force both sides to answer questions and be accountable. Like, I think pushing for non-winner takes all voting at some levels would be good. But I don't goto local party events or involve myself, so I can't complain too much.
America has, along with Canada and Europe, rapidly moved toward social democracy:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-spending-oecd-long...

All of the empirical evidences indicates this slows economic development. Individuals being responsible for their own safety nets is more efficient, and creates better incentives, than large government bureaucracies socializing the cost of safety nets.
Why would you apply this weight-based tax to just the carry-on bags, and not checked luggage, or the passengers themselves?
My contrarian take is that algebra and calculus are pre requisites for for ap calc which is primarily used for elite college admission decisions.
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> the larger amount of immigrants

France has 10.3 percent of foreign-born population, the US has 13.6 percent. Even if we assume you didn't make up the "lower life expectancy" part, which by some comments seems like it is incorrect, the 3% difference in immigrants seems like a rounding error.
That answer has also been tried and doesn't work.

Let me ask this: what problem are you trying to solve?
If anyone from booking.com is reading this, if you're looking for faster conversion rates, just let users save their filters! As a nomad, I don't want to think about the number of cumulative days I've spent selecting "Private bathroom", "Air-conditioned", "8+ user rating", "Laptop workspace" etc over and over.
A community fork of a language named after a plant fungus (Rust)
To be totally fair, it's easier to write NY than NYNJ, but it's not easier to write Dallas than DFW. (You could just write D, I guess, but no one's going to understand that.)
I felt exactly the same. The term "suspected fraud" is so perfect PR speak in 2023. It is an excellent catch-all that makes it appear that the company is protecting is good customers from the Bad Ones. Banks do the same with KYC/AML. If your relationship is worth less than a million USD, who cares -- ban them / refuse them. If multi-millions, then the rules can be bent.
It’s not really about consumption. It is a stealth way for PG&E to get urban areas to subsidize rural areas. This is likely driven by vegetation management costs in rural areas.
Luddites were a real group, who really did lose their jobs to technical progress. So it seems fair.

Technical progress does really require adaption sometimes. We don't criticize luddites because we think they were wrong about change being a real thing.
I don’t see why that is relevant. Why is using it for NFTs worthy of a downvote?
I found a rock with a shell in it near Tipple Divide Peak in Montana. 1000 km inland and 2200 meters above sea level.

It's just amazing.
Is the word Elite needed?
It would be sad if Twitter left them. But we're still on schedule for that, in spite of all of the noises to the contrary. Paying Musk a couple of $ seems to me to be a rearguard action.
This is a logical and natural conclusion of what happens when we give up on the idea of meritocracy.
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Isn’t your friend a convicted felon and all around Elon Musk ultra-stan weirdo?
While I agree, the problem is in the data-driven decision-making.

There is simply no good way to get good data for this long term type of effect. It's either going to be user interviews, some arbitrary score like customer satisfaction, or maybe a really convoluted split test (long ago cohorts vs new ones... but let's try to remove criteria so it's not apples and oranges).

If a company culture only values data in its product decisions, this is always going to happen.

Good luck fighting an argument against someone who has a supporting data point, and a revenue increase!
Twain’s escape West is an entertaining memoir! He did a little bit of everything and accumulated some great (if a bit tall) tales. I remember it has the story of his first stand up comedy act, including a description of some people he paid to sit in the front row and laugh at everything. Getting scammed, getting lost, a gold prospector who worked with a cat, and a great story about a goat… “Roughing It” has it all.
Answer: Not close.

"However, it seems that practical applications remain significantly far off. Achieving superconductivity at mundane temperatures but extreme pressures is not significantly more accessible than achieving it at mundane pressures but extreme temperatures;"
How precisely were those artists trained in the first place? Did they get consent from the artist of every painting they ever studied?
The point is that they specialize in the theoretical side, not that they don't try to validate it. The difference is that their validation focuses on math rather than physical experimentation.

Eg there's no way to verify Hawking radiation in person (because well, good luck getting near a black hole to do so). But it's still supported by existing models of physics, thus it is science and not mere speculation.

Another recent example would be that the idea of time crystals was a theoretical physics result, backed by existing physics. That backing made it more than just speculation, leading to the investment of resources that eventually led to them actually being created.

Of course probably the most famous example of a theoretical physicst would be Einstein.

Lots of stuff typically goes through theoretical physicists before experimentalists determine how to test the idea. For example, all the particle accelerators, synchrotrons etc are initially designed by theoretical physicists via simulations etc to meet certain goals before putting in the billions of dollars it costs to actually translate those designs into something that can be built and used.
>Kids aren’t going to work on the farm or in a factory. They need the math!!!

As someone who fucking hated and still hates academical math: No, kids do not need math. Not in the sense as taught in schools, anyway. That is a straight waste of precious time.

What kids need is broader context and guidance for what math is, how it applies to the world around us, how we can use it, and why it's important. Fuck quadratic equations and counting slices of pie, none of that literal bullshit is useful as taught to kids today.
Irreligion rate isn't the reason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haredi_Judaism
The only thing those business practices and regulations reflect is that the 'entrepreneurs' get a lot of political and regulatory rights, and the people who work for them get very few.

That kind of arrangement works out very well for the former, but just because a king is doing well for himself doesn't mean that the serfs are 'positively culturally inclined towards autocracy.'

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A country's regulations and politics aren't an average of its culture. They are an average of the culture of the politically powerful. All that you've demonstrated is that 'entrepreneurs' are a politically powerful group in America [1]. That says nothing about the average culture.

[1] Way less powerful than incumbents, but for some strange reason, it's not sexy to point at Comcast and Kaiser and Exxon-Mobil and Wells Fargo as examples of brilliant entrepreneurship.
"... violations of the heebeas [sic] corpus -- whatever..."

Yikes.
For foreign companies that can pay them.
Funding is available for battery projects because the previous funding spent on research has created a market-viable product that can replace a significant part of our vehicle fleet in the next decade.

I didn’t say there was a chemistry with higher density than hydrogen. You’re the one saying people have forgotten hydrogen, or it is somehow generally not being supported.

I haven’t seen any evidence yet that investment in research into hydrogen is lacking compared to other projects.

You say the return on spending more is self-evident, so finding some actual evidence should be easy.

If we could spend $1T and have a high likelihood of a high density storage system that can run on clean grid energy, doesn’t waste large amounts of its input energy, can be viably deployed in all areas where vehicles need to be recharged, I would support that.
Yes. The fact that hydrogen fuel cells are technically a type of battery, meaning that there is no rationale for why it can't do that. Hence why "efficiencies" is just an excuse.

In fact, this entire argument is a made-up one to begin with. People are being willfully ignorant of the fact that both lithium and hydrogen are on the same column on the periodic table. That they should both behave very similarly to each other in all matters related to battery chemistry.
Ah maybe modern drives are better, I don't know - I think the JEDEC standard mandates one year at 30 degrees C.
Even before Minecraft, we used to play Starcraft in high school with those clone CDs and a network without any internet access at all.

And of course besides that, games with local multiplayer.
I would argue that this is a “microcomputer” level impact and is as big as a productivity increase as the advent of the PC.

I would consider the iPhone a lesser productivity impact than the PC.
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Simple GraphQL endpoints that can be used to pull data without authentication.
This and many other reasons besides is why authorities and the general public should not rely on commercial entities for stuff like this.
> You keep bringing it back to personal civil liberty because you don't have an answer to the question "So why is more government oversight of corporations bad?"

I just gave you a real example of where corporate oversight leads to giving the government access to your personal communications.

> I actually have no problem with such a subpoena being attempted (it is part of the regular process of investigating a crime), but I have a problem with a court rubber-stamping it.

Have you not been paying attention to what the government has been doing in the name of the War on Drugs, the War on Crime and the War on Terrorism?

> Fascism is a political movement emphasizing extreme nationalism

Have you not been paying attention to what’s been happening since 2016?

> A healthy democracy reigns in the excesses of an unfettered corporate sector

Exactly what power are you afraid that Google can have over you compared to the government?
> "Families with resources turn to fee-required online algebra 1 courses in eighth grade, outside the public school system, or enroll their kids in private schools,"

Isn't this obvious result? The Russian School of Mathematics could manage to teach 10-year old kids basic algebra. And there's AOPS, there's Think Academy, and slew of local tutoring schools who can teach kids relatively advanced maths. Let alone many private schools. If I have the means, why would I not send my kids to such schools and therefore fuck up the funding of the public schools? Not that I want to, but it furiates me that the school administrators really hurt the kids who need public education the most in the name of equity. It also saddens me that the constituents are okay with such administrators.
As the sibling notes, there is still a per-Kwh charge. The change is supposed to be revenue neutral and more closely matches PG&E's real costs (grid maintenance is 75%, generation is ~25%). This actually supports electrification by making it more feasible to switch to heat pumps vs gas heat.

The real problem with the proposal is that it perpetuates hidden subsidies for rural electric networks. The progressive fixed rates should be related to the cost to connect that particular household to the grid.
That still doesn't solve the issue of surnames being an imperfect signal of caste. Many surnames are shared between castes.

Plus there is no common naming system in India. In the same region within the same caste you can have

- Surnames based on ancestral village

- patronymic surname (Take name of father as your surname)

- "Normal" surnames

You have folks from my caste that follow each of these. How will you now find their caste from their Father's name in Delhi or Mumbai?

It is not easy to narrow down on the caste of the person unless it's a common surname like Iyer, Iyengar, Agarwal, etc. And India has a hell lot of surnames across multiple regions.

Even if I tried, I would fail to recognise the caste of a majority of my neighbours from my hometown.
Forget my coworkers who come from all over the country.

It would only work for families that have lived in the same village for multiple generations.
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For what purpose?
Polynesians.
It is an impressive sight to see the tidal bore crawling ip a river valley at a height of six feet. It looks like a 20th century biblical movie special effect.
What’s the fix?

It’s not the system. If you have parents that are involved in education and engage in the kind of child-rearing, that is conducive to education - it doesn’t matter the kind of system you’re operating under (keep in mind, our bar for success is very low - we want kids that graduate high-school to be functionally literate with basic arithmetic and basic general knowledge).

Put another way, if a child graduates and they are functionally illiterate, I don’t care how bad California’s public education is, the fault lays with the parents for letting their child be illiterate.
Auto-Agent-GPT a.k.a. AAGPT
AAGPT is another experimental open-source application showcasing the capabilities of large language models, such as GPT-3.5 and GPT-4.
You kid, but understanding the dynamics of various remote forms of communication is exactly what I mean.
Can’t believe they are giving talks on this like it’s innovative or something when admiring. I’d honestly be embarrassed saying that my design process was to make shit up and see what happens instead of investing in UX design/ research professionals can run generative studies to better understand their consumer base and sentiments towards booking trips online, like Airbnb heavily invested and can be seen as having a world class user experience next to booking.com

I digress…
Meanwhile, I experienced one of the most unique job interviews at an autonomous driving company just this last week.

It was 45 mins of math.

Questions ranging from simple algebra to probability theory to physics. And I was applying for an embedded systems position.

Boy was I glad that I was good at that kind of math.
This reminds me of the game I played on the family Compaq Presario back in the day. I think it shipped with the Logitech eyeball webcam. Volleyball or something — you'd hit the ball with your body, as intersected from the webcam capture. 8-year-old me thought it was the coolest thing.
I think this was a "journey is the reward" type of project.
So has AI. Seems pretty apt comparison though AI has pulled ahead recently.
They answer to voters? If so, nothing will unless the voters think otherwise.
This ignores the part where battery powered cars have existed for over a century and have "failed." But recent events have changed the needs of society, and now they have "succeeded."

People are now claiming that this can never happen again or that no innovation is possible in the future for another type of battery chemistry.
For very long term effects (e.g., the impact of painting every surface of your website in ads which will certainly drive users away), hold backs aren't enough because it's too hard to consistently identify users. If ads will drive me away over the course of a year, there's a five percent holdback, and I use multiple devices and cash maybe be consistently identified for a few days or weeks at a time, that means that 95% of the time I use the website I get the bad experience, and I eventually bounce. The holdback will show no effect.
It's what I reach for first. `wget` made for a better gif, though :)