skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the biggest issue is that ISS is not built to withstand the higher radiation you are exposed to in higher orbits / between planets. Also the thermal loads are different when you are in sun 24/7/365 rather than orbiting the earth and spending a significant portion of time in a shadow - though I don't know if that is better or worse.
I agree with most of their points, but their assertion that "writing files to disk is one of the slowest operations you can do" is laughably wrong. File IO is optimized to the extreme and cached on many layers from the IO library all the way down to the hardware.

I assume the writer is only familiar with synchronous disk IO which is ironic considering the mention of asynchronous programming.

File IO is one of the fastest operations if done right and some popular databases even use the OS cache instead of their own, MS SQL server is the only database I'm aware that doesn't.

I seriously question the authors knowledge of what it takes to "scale" if they think file IO is going to slow you down
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The thing is tho', that what we call "machine learning" nowadays, statisticians were already doing for years. 25-year-old "data scientists" think that before they came along all there was was Excel... And don't realize that now most of what they do can be done in Excel...
I'm not sure there is a productive conversation to be had. Even in the very unlikely case of the US changing their policy, there's nothing stopping anyone else. Even in the very unlikely event that hackers can agree to how the Internet in its implementation should protect basic humans rights, it will be hindered by business interests. At this point we more or less have wait until robustness rather than growth becomes a competitive advantage and with the shift to Asia this could be many centuries.
That actually seems quite reasonable. How else can the stock be valued?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12320482 and marked it off-topic.
Oh, great. AI is going to make us all into whores.
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I just installed the Anniversary update. It did not replace my default browser. It did however suggest making Edge my default with an option to do so. I cancelled this.

It also added Edge to my taskbar but did not replace either Firefox or Chrome. Are you sure it replaced it?

Seems like some misinformation here.
Preferred shareholders are first in line. The assets got sold, they got a fraction of their investment returned (if anything...) with nothing left for the common. I had this happen to me, as well. It's, by far, the most likely outcome, so don't be surprised you didn't win the startup lottery.
I upgraded 3x machines to 10.0.14393 and none of them changed my default browser or altered my taskbar icons. Although my browser was Chrome, not Firefox.

I did already have the Edge icon on my taskbar (pre-update) but the Chrome icon remained, as did it the default.
You can say the same about drug dealers and buglars, but it would make "less" sense.
Not at all -- there's a lot of commonality in the language designs.

Core language features: both have algebraic datatypes like ML ("case classes" in Scala, enums in Rust), and a 'match' statement that makes working with them easy. Both have pervasive destructuring that works with match arms, 'let' bindings, etc.

Data structures and mutation: both encourage a pragmatic version of immutability -- use values and provide functional interfaces primarily, but support mutation where needed. In Rust there are 'Cell' and 'RefCell' types, just like ML's cell-based interior mutability.

Library idioms: all three have the standard set of functional-style higher-order transformation functions ('map', 'filter', etc. -- Rust in particular has a very rich Iterator trait API), and it's idiomatic to use these.

FWIW, Rust's first/bootstrap compiler was written in OCaml and there's a lot of obvious influence.
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I doubt anything will happen to you as long as you keep things discreet.

When I was in Cuba, there were constantly people coming up to me wanting to sell cocaine/lobsters/girls/cigars. It was quite evident that you weren't going to get caught.

Some of them are quite desperate, and they're happy to do business. Interestingly, they told me they really wanted shirts. So basically be happy to swap a shirt for a box of cigars. Also branded clothes like sports jerseys seemed to be something they wanted to barter for.
It will speed Internet access for Cuban users (regular people, government, visitors, etc.). As local access gets liberalized (which seems inevitable), the international links will be contended -- Cuba isn't rich, and there isn't a huge amount of lit connectivity in place between Cuba and Miami yet.

Seems safe to assume that most Cuban users will be accessing US or EU websites. Caching in Cuba, especially for large media content, will make the same amount of international bandwidth cover more users. (The latency between Havana and Miami isn't much, true.)

At some point, assuming more liberalization, there will be more Cuban websites; if those sites use a cache like CloudFlare it will be faster for international visitors, including expat Cubans.

It's at worst a no-op for Cubans, but probably provides some benefit, increasing over time. If a private company is going to pay for it, I don't see what's wrong with it.

(There's already a Miami POP; I'm not sure what Cuban routing is like but I suspect they have a lot of non-US terminating transit for political reasons, which will probably change with time...)

As to why CloudFlare would want to do it: I'm sure there's a novelty/marketing aspect to it. It's also a feel-good thing for employees and the world -- the Cuban situation has been sad, even if you agree with the embargo policy, and doing something to improve the lives of Cubans is awesome. Plus, Cuba is (hopefully) going to rapidly rejoin the world economy, so it will make increasing commercial sense. But you'd have to ask eastdakota/jgrahamc why they want to do it.
> I'd be worried that this would be mean that the conversation would be fruitless. The constituencies just won't hold Congress accountable because they don't understand or they don't care.

In my opinion, this is the biggest issue. I'm more concerned that our democracy isn't functioning properly. Trust in the media is at an all-time low, conspiracy theories are flying left and right about everything, and now that some of them have been proven... the existing systems we have in place to change things... are not changing things. I don't get where we go from here.
NASA is lobbying for more funding again.

The ISS just isn't very useful. A list of the four most exciting experiments: 1) 3D printing in zero G, 2) Growing yeast in zero G, 3) Virtual reality to provide an overlay for looking at the ground, and 4) a small teleoperated robot.[1] Those are science fair projects with a big budget.

[1] http://theweek.com/articles/446134/4-coolest-science-experim...

Space was the place. NASA 1962-1973
Obligatory XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/927/
Isn't it interesting how JETPLOW is an anagram for JEWPLOT?
Bringing up events effectively prior to the founding of the standing US Army is not a particularly effective point.

If you thought Operation Desert Storm was quick, don't even think how fast the USAF could dismantle a smaller military when operating from their own home bases.
I wasn't sure what you were trying to saying there so I looked it up:

To further assure that he would not lapse into sleep, he would hold a steel ball bearing in each hand. On the floor, placed directly below his closed hand would be a metal saucer. If he should fall completely asleep, his hands would relax and each ball bearing would fall to the floor, striking the metal saucer, making a noise loud enough to wake Edison.

1. https://fireballimagery.com/2011/09/01/the-naps-of-thomas-ed...
Thank you for explaining!
Without a strong national defense, their chances of survival as free citizens are pretty low.

Where does this sentiment come from, the same as in the argument that the USA protects Europe? Do you really believe all countries would constantly try invade each other if they had less weapons? Citizens are not that eager to get killed on the battlefield, especially in developed notion with pretty good living standards at home. Maybe I am a bit idealistic but I just can not imagine the world falling apart if we had lesson weapons. I am not saying zero weapons, it is certainly not a bad idea to have some defense capabilities just in case, but being prepared to fight another world war seems over the top to me.
Definitely a good point, and a puzzling one as well. A follow up question to think about would be: what's the reason for those overhead/administrative cost/monopolies, etc? And more intriguingly, what if there were no "Made In China", would have everything's price gone up like in healthcare/education?
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I wonder if it rather has to do with clocks (discretizing the simulation steps). Probably in a real-time system it might be deterministic?
Neural networks are based on a very, very outdated (and incorrect) model of how a neuron works, so your question is roughly akin to asking "how many vacuum tubes are in my GPU?"

Mammalian brains are so densely packed that we don't really know what their internal architecture actually looks like--that's why estimates of the number of neurons keeps increasing over time [1]. Most of our models are based on some autopsies, and rely on things like fMRI or electroencephalography (not often you get to spell that word!) to work out which portions of the brain are involved in certain tasks. We have no hope of being able to build a connectivity graph between neurons at our current state of technology.

The short answer is that the cerebral cortex is usually identified as having 6 layers. These can't be correlated with layers in a neural network, however. I do seem to recall a spitball number of 30-ish in relation to the visual cortex, but I've been unable to find any references as to what that number would actually represent, let alone if it's been superseded.

[1] The current estimate is around 100 billion. If you want to know the number involved in, say, the visual cortex, that appears to be on the order of a few billion.
How do I tell what is using my internet connection?
I think next step for AI is turing test, where a "machine" recognize that it is talking to a human.
Incentivizing lawyers for taking big, risky, expensive cases that are in the public interest seems like a positive.
A while ago, I read about a company in Germany that manufactured homes that were delivered flat on trucks for assembly onsite.

Maybe it was this place: https://www.huf-haus.com/en.html

So, these homes lack character?

In the US, Sears used to sell homes in a similar fashion.

The problem with trying to do this in the US is the diversity of building codes across the country which limits the economy of scale significantly.
They are following Apples lead I'm afraid.
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Forgive the random comment here, but I just ran into an ancient comment of yours[0] mentioning you searching for a Leader LBO-514a Oscilloscope. Was your search ever successful? I just got my hands on the same model and have been searching for a manual without much luck.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10078026
The problem with LEO is the Earth's atmosphere, while tenuous, is enough to deorbit.

Farther orbits are just fine. SNAP-10A, a Soviet nuclear reactor, is in a 1,300-kilometer orbit which won't decay for 4,000 years (estimated).

"Stable" is also very relative. The Earth has been in a stable orbit for a few billion years, though it's not at a Lagrange point. A satellite in GEO has an effectively unlimited orbital life.
I would love to see the terms and conditions on that contract, I bet it will read like PORK all the way through.
One of the effects of the generational differences in how we obtain our information about the world also impacts how we view current events in the world. The internet offers a much less filtered version. Unfortunately that means it also requires a higher degree of critical thinking.
Everyone has piled on the learning bandwagon as the path to "intelligence" but honestly creativity is just as important, and it is hardly even being addressed. Even worse, while function approximation (i.e. learning) is a fairly well defined problem, creativity is nebulous and ill-defined.
To be honest myself and my co-founder work closer to 35-45 hours a week. We also do about 20 hours of technical work a week, and the rest covers the business overhead (accounting, client relations, business development, project management, etc).

Our goal in the long term is to bring us down to 20 hours a week overall, also, but that's probably several years away. Still, we both feel that as co-founders at a small business keeping it well under 50 hours feels like a win.
Rather than get into a "feelings and perception" contest... let's talk about the facts.

Citizens are allowed to vote. For the sake of this argument, lets leave out the actual process of voting. Citizens elect official.

Citizens are NOT consulted for major decisions post election of said official. Citizens can bluff and buster all they want. Elected official can do as they please.

Lobby groups have more access to decision making process than citizens, and way more pull as they control the purse strings to re-election and keeping elected official with a job.

Therefore, I posit that it is simply naive to think "citizens" could demand the US to retreat from Europe anymore than they could demand an invasion of Europe. The world simply doesn't work that way. I am not saying it can't... it is going to take a whole lot more than electing Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump or Hillary or some horrible clown to get the power into the hands of the Citizens.

The bigger question(s) are; has power EVER been truly in the hands of the masses/citizens? Why do people cling on to that as a good way forward? Leadership by committee in my experience has been horrible beyond reproach...
I didn't have an issue with the 10-day rollback after that period. My Win 10 install was working fine for 6 months, until the Start button disappeared.

No problem: I found lots of solutions online.
Problem: none worked, and the ultimate suggestion was to refresh or reset. Refresh didn't work, so I had to reset losing all of my installed apps and settings.

When given the choice, I just went back to Win 8.1. I am astounded that a 'version 10' of any software would have such a keystone issue, at least losing the ability to navigate my GUI without crazy right clicks and searches.

I run Mac and Linux too, so I am not a fanboy of any one particular OS. I call problems out on all of them equally. I just want them not to bother me while I am working ;) Or waste a day reinstalling apps and re-registering them, and setting them.

In 38 years of owning and running computers, two systems stand out as particularly robust - my 1978 Commodore PET with built-in cassette tape drive storage, and a FreeBSD box I was running for a long time until the hard drive failed due to operator error!
Have you seen this?

FedEx Bandwidth: https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
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> Now consider that in exchange for the 1.3% the US managed to snag the first place in the high-tech industry with a huge lead over the rest of the world

No, it didn't do that in exchange for "1.3%". Both the world and the US rates of military spending right now are much lower than most of the period over which that occurred, and the ratio of US to world average share of GDP spent on the military was higher through most of the period; e.g., in 1988 (which wasn't the peak for either) world military spending was 3.4% of GDP, US was 5.6%.)

> Look, I dislike people-killing as much as the next guy. But you can't ignore the economic realities

The US government could take the share of GDP it spends above the world average on military spending, and spend it directly on civilian technology and technical infrastructure and produce more benefits in terms of the tech industry then any side benefit it gets tangentially from military spending (plus, produce more direct benefits for domestic quality of life.)
> That actually seems quite reasonable. How else can the stock be valued?

I'm not saying it's unreasonable. Far from it. I'm trying to casually suggest a way for the startup proletariat grab the reins of their futures!
> By socializing healthcare, we destroy its efficiency and drive up prices. If everyone goes to the doctor because of a little cough because it's "free", that is precisely the irrational uncapitalistic decision making we do not need.

You say that like you are predicting the outcome of an experiment that hasn't been tried -- but socialized medicine has been tried in dozens of countries, and the price and efficiency outcomes you predicted have not happened in any of them!

In fact, people going to the doctor more often for things like a "little cough" is a good thing, because it increases the likelihood that serious conditions will be discovered early, in the course of treating less-serious conditions. The life expectancy of Japanese people, which is the highest in the world, has been largely credited to the fact that they visit doctors more frequently than most other people.
There hasn't been much good science out of it yet. I don't think the future will bring much either.

If science were our goal we could have done much more science with the same money.
New jobs created by AI: Oxford faculty member pontificating about values for AIs. Who says there isn't job creation.

My worry: AIs held only to the moral standards now expected of corporations. Optimize for shareholder value. We're close to this now with machine-learning assisted hedge funds.
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Thanks for your feedback.

This particular post was not designed to attract investors nor customers. It was simply some thoughts I had written late one night that I decided to post. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, your opinion notwithstanding.
All that does is empower capital and disempower labor (because other forms of capital remain). Why is that a good thing for us as laborers?

That copyright can allow labor to create capital is one of its more important aspects.
If you think HFT is going to push up the buy price, set your limit a penny lower and wait a second for the "slow" traders to handle it. (If that's how you think markets work.)
Maybe you should read "Flash Boys" then.
They can and do.
Orders start at one place, and by regulation then can get sent to many other markets. If you can go to those next markets a little faster, you can front run the order.
I thought that there was no defence against ICBMs, it turns out that we likely do now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-ballistic_missile

Regardless, I'm not sure why a US base is required in Europe for the sole reason of housing a defensive ABM.
Adverse selection! ;-)
This is cute. Go to Domo website: "Information is empowering."
Ally has 1% APR savings accounts, American Express has 0.90% APR savings accounts.

This or relevant CDs would be your best bet.

Move your emergency fund there, too, if you like.

These are probably the best "riskless" places to keep the funds. If you can stomach more risk, you can certainly do better.
This is a hypermedia-optional, not-quite-RPC, not-quite-REST style spec that actually corresponds rather well with the kinds of JSON-on-the-wire, HTTP-as-a-protocol APIs that people in the 2010s tend to cook up. Their FAQ backs this up by saying: "(...) JSON API is an attempt to formalize similar ad hoc client-server interfaces that use JSON as an interchange format."

Because this style of HTTP API is very common, this spec is more useful than it may seem. It's no secret that most "RESTful" APIs are not REST because hypermedia is an afterthought or missing completely. Specs like HAL and JSON-LD are intense in the sense that the problem domain requires careful ponderation, so most people don't go that route and never reach level 3 of the Richardson Model [1]. XML has fallen out of favor, JSON has schemas now (wow), RPC hasn't become fashionably mainstream again (although specs like gRPC, protobuf, Thrift have been trying). Code generators and WSDL-reimaginings like Swagger and RAML make it easy to spew JSON across the wire, so this spec forms a useful baseline, for sanity's sake.

[1] http://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.htm...
I believe your numbers are accurate but I also don't think that they tell the whole story. Is France's subsidy of Airbus military spending? Because America's subsidy of Boeing is. Is French scientific research spending military? Because America spends its research dollars via DARPA. And so on...
What's "exorbitant"?
Maybe you should read "Flash Boys: Not So Fast" then. It highlights a lot of errors in Flash Boys (which I have, in fact, read).

https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Insiders-Perspective-High-...
or its all hype and there's little substance left

like many movie trailers
> He didn't advocate digging holes and filling them back up as a normal thing

Keynes didn't advocate them at all. He did argue that something like that would be simultaneously be better than the nothing that some others advocated as a government response to a recession in the private sector, and worse than actually investing in (e.g.) useful infrastructure.

Saying that he advocated digging holes and filling them back up is like saying that a person who says that they'd rather have their arm ripped off than be decapitated is begging to be dismembered.
I'd love to see the futures-rs included in the results. Supposedly they ran the TechEmpower benchmarks as a way of testing its zero-overhead nature, and it blew away existing C++ and Go leaders; it'd be interesting (and great marketing for Rust) to see them officially submit it.
> Are you really suggesting that classified projects are on the same level as black ops?

They're different for sure but the required secrecy is essentially the same. Just because something is a secret doesn't mean it won't get accounted for. Granted the DoD accounting practices are horrific but where they exist it will get counted.
Why? It's a company, why should company fundamentals be protected?

What's going on in this world where your phone call is recorded, yet people sheepishly suggest "oh maybe a NDA is okay here, ya know".
Sounds like my experience with USB keyboard and mouse not working after a restart. They work in the BIOS, but as soon as the Windows loading screen appears, they stop working. I restored my PC to a restore point, they worked again. After another restart, they stopped working. I reset my PC, losing apps and settings. They worked again until another restart. I had set up remote access, so I was able to use my trusty MacBook to remote in and remove every "USB Root Hub" in Device Manager, then let Windows self-heal. That caused my mouse and keyboard to work again.

So basically I have to keep a secondary PC around in case my Windows 10 PC ever reboots, so I can have a mouse and keyboard. I saw lots of posts online about keyboard and mouse not working on boot in Windows 10, but unplugging/replugging seemed to work for those people. It did nothing for me. I saw advice to disable fast boot, but even after doing that, on restart they stopped working. It also seems pretty suspect that the keyboard and mouse work fine in my BIOS and only stop responding after the Windows 10 spinner appears.
3rd biggest: The US Navy's Army's Air Force...
No, it means 'winning a large amount of money' is not a game. The chess doesn't matter in this scenario.