skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a researcher in multiagent systems, I know this problem very well. Which is, I believe, exactly the point the article makes. But it goes on to say that this might be possible to overcome by embodiment and developmental psychology. Not new arguments for sure, but valid ones, and brought at the right time (a year ago) of a new AI hype.
Ember is an interesting framework still and one I would consider on new projects for a few reasons: the core maintainers, LTS releases, and RFC-based governance. I think the project has been pretty quiet in the last 18 months and I'd love to see an up-to-date comparison of features and performance with current alternatives. Are there any that have been written lately?
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> If anyone else attempted to patent an unpatented part they claim they invented it first and will be awarded the patent (because it is their patent). If anyone uses an unpatented part they just file for the patent and sue when they're awarded it.

Wouldn't the one-year rule apply in those cases, preventing the original inventor (or anyone else) from filing for a patent for something that has been public knowledge for more than a year?
I took that course. I didn't gain much from it. There is some interesting theory about how we learn.

The best (er.. only) trick I remember: rather than re-reading material, reflect on it for a few minutes after you've read it, trying to recall and organize it in your mind.
Sub Zero is a brand, it's not a deep freezer.
A country is not made of land; a country is made of its people;
Please don't.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13911239 and marked it off-topic.
100 hours is really optimistic for haskell
> I don't agree with the premise (that the dual mandate set by Congress of maximum employment and 2% inflation should be the overarching goal of the Fed)

What would you propose instead? Anytime they seemingly target something else, they're (rightly, in my opinion) chastised for overstepping their mandate. Are you instead arguing they should have a different mandate? (If not, I don't think we agree on the definition of mandate ;))
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>In literally the second sentence of his response: "We've seen worse companies last longer."

...And the danger is...?
The reason to recycle materials made of abundant elements (steel, aluminum, glass) is to conserve energy rather than ores. (Even the energy justification would be far less significant if world energy systems were mostly non-fossil.) Though city planners should do the arithmetic to double check that the collection system doesn't waste more resources than it saves.
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Quit... Have been through this. If it you cannot apply anything you learn in this company in your next jobs, it's a waste of your time.
> they don't evolve into making people do more work

They don't evolve into making people do less work, either! You really think programmers work fewer hours today than they did 40 years ago? They don't. They just build much more complex systems.

Languages evolve to meet people's needs. The question is, does the world need less buggy code code? I think the answer is yes.

Furthermore, you've made a huge assumption -- that proofs = more work. I expect that, eventually, our industry will become mature enough that the cost of bugs, vulnerabilities, etc. is properly priced and the current "move fast and break things" approach will fall by the wayside.

You can already see these methods being applied at scale in industries where "beat the other guy by a month" isn't important, but "don't crash the thing and kill 100 people" is.
> I would gladly pay $3000 for a washer if I could somehow tell that it will be better built

Perhaps you should check out commercial washers. The kind that you find in laundromats are designed to take a lot more punishment than the residential ones.
Hypergrowth is a lot like cancer. Either they take swift action to excise all the toxic elements or it is going to be a slow and steady decline.
Considering how many odd state issues I see these days (more often in Angular 1.x apps than anything else), don't underestimate the potential for problems there.
I happened to open this link with about 5 minutes left on the countdown, so I totally watched it tick down all the way to 0. Unfortunately no fireworks at the end, just the clock starting to show the time the patents had now been expired :)
This is well-meaning but not effective.

First, feedback like yours is rare and it doesn't give opportunity for follow-up, so there is no incentive to change.

Second, this comes off as tire-kicking to the company, just like the classic "I'd totally buy your product if you had Feature A/B/C" excuse to avoid having to say "not interested." If a business cold-calls heavily, and they receive this feedback often enough, the worst that will happen is that they work on developing a response to it, just like to any other objection.

Third, vendors know that you will consider them if they are the best option. They have been told no for more substantial reasons before and still gotten the account.
Moore's law applies to a very small fraction of tech enhancements.
My dad still runs equipment that was manufactured 30-50 years ago. It's all mechanical and its damn near indestructible. It's skidders and farm tractors, so its simple stuff, but yhe reliability is not to be beaten.
Maybe a pair of scissors near a head are not the best example of imperfect AI being applied in a great way.
When people don't have a purpose, they commit suicide. As America becomes increasingly godless, the facades that we put up on regular life come crashing down when in the raw reality of the battlefield.

Add to that the fact that our judges treat soldiers like trash, imprisoning them for killing the enemy.

It's no wonder that our soldiers commit suicide. People don't think anymore, too blind to see how they are destroying this country.
Don't buy equipment before you have demonstrated a real need for it.

This applies across basically all of life, and it's so frustrating to see people ignoring it, because what ends up happening is they use a string of 'gonnas' to justify buying stuff they don't need. Gonna get fit - buy $1500 worth of gym gear. Gonna learn electronics - buy oscilloscope, power supplies, tons of components. Gonna get your motorcycle license - buy brand new bike and stick it in the garage.

If you have a desktop computer, you're good to start. When you've done enough that your available CPU/GPU is limiting you on your own projects (not on something you pulled off github) then you can look at upgrading.

/rant
A friend put me on to this sub.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/
> American: Exclusively refers to jobs in corporate IT departments

I've frequently heard Americans with no particular reason for unusual degree of foriegn influence use it in what you claim is the British way; I've even heard some distinguish between the broader general sense of IT and internal IT.

> A sysadmin would be IT if working on the internal company systems, but would not be IT if working on production web infrastructure.

Outside of companies that view technology as the product rather than a tool to deliver it, yes, sysadmins working on production web architecture are often, in America considered part of IT and located in IT organizations, as are developers, testers, etc., working on the web (and other) apps.
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At the cheaper end of $3000, I've heard great things about Speed Queens. The linked review below is meh, but people who love them love them because they're apparently built like tanks.

http://laundry.reviewed.com/content/speed-queen-awne92sp113t...
I may be wrong, but I am guessing that database software could be the first class of software to really take advantage of this shift.
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You can obviously write a code generator for all the functions you need once you write an AI good enough: by eliminating extraneous features like generics, Go leaves you free to actually solve problems that matter.

(/s)

Edit: I won't speak about the obvious, but anyone going back in my post history and concluding "Haskell Evangelism Strikeforce with an axe to grind" with a smirk is probably mistaken. There are well-designed languages whose goals may not perfectly align with mine (hello C/Elm/Clojure) and then there are some whose confusing inconsistency of design is, well ... confusing.
It's a fork of the bitcoin block chain. Since there could be multiple competing chains any exchange or wallet needs to indicate which chain it is based on.
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Lazyness, generic programming, algebraic datatypes, inferred typing
I'd disagree. Most business logic is just transformation of data structures in disguise. Once you have a sufficiently rich set of data structures this becomes abundantly clear.
If you leave then they're no longer paying you, so you owe them nothing, right? :)
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Non-US cars lasted.

Volvo, Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Honda, Toyota, especially.

American mid-to-low market passenger cars, not so much.

(Pickup trucks somewhat moreso.)
There's a lot of back story behind this. The story as I see it is this - a bank which opposes bitcoin in its current form funded a company called Blockstream to kick the lead developer off the Bitcoin development team and take control of it. They want to change the protocol away from a decentralized blockchain which they can't control to a payment channel system which provides a potential financial services marketplace for banks.

Now they're following an agenda to deliberately prevent the blockchain from scaling in the way it was originally designed to. Why? To make the blockchain look ineffective - and now we have high fees and slow confirmations as a result. Bitcoin is badly affected by the congestion and so people are becoming desperate and clamouring for Blockstream's forthcoming off-blockchain scaling solution.

This would have worked out pretty well for them except that there has inevitably been opposition to these political games. A couple of other development teams have sprung up with forks which are more closely aligned to Satoshi Nakomoto's original scaling vision. These groups have been vociferously attacked by Blockstream and Blockstream has generated terribly misleading FUD about them in order to try to retain their control of the ecosystem.

Blockstream has failed. One of the alternate implementations "Bitcoin Unlimited" has all but won the war because the majority of miners are worried that the ecosystem is being damaged by Blockstream. Miners care about the value of their bitcoins and that's being eroded by the Blockstream-imposed congestion. The miners appear to be moving to Unlimited and it will most likely take over as the standard "Bitcoin" implementation at some point.

The whole "chain split" thing is mostly more FUD. A hard fork isn't a big deal if handled sensibly. The minority chain will quickly die off naturally because it'll be uneconomic to mine on it. This is just as it was designed to work by Satoshi Nakomoto.

No doubt people from the other side of this debate will see things differently but that's how it looks to me.
Right, the ground truth is the existing human labor - and yes, run sims at scale makes sense, but if you don't build and model using the real world you'll rapidly get a solution that only shows the sims errors in modeling the world. All the best robots I've seen run sims, but very narrowly and with a well defined problem to refine via a well designed model.

Offer stands to help you, but given the deadline for the next batch is days away, you would need to let me know as soon as possible via a comment, then I'd contact you via email.
Life was much better for children back in the 19th century, before adult education really took off!
There is a business here: prep appliances post-purchase to last decades: reinforce some parts, paint others, etc.
You'd be surprised the number of devs I know that have a hard time thinking in terms of memory-mapping... the other issue is upgrading structures to add/remove fields will become much more difficult that way.
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Well, there are crazy people everywhere (don't need to understand the language, just look at the pics)
http://www.zabex.de/site/waschmaschine.html

Regarding the opening link:
" I’ve bought and sold refrigerators and freezers from the 1950’s that still work perfectly fine."

This may be true but in many countries electricity costs will kill you if you run a freezer from the 50ies.
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1990s cars have a nice mixture of simplicity and modern engineering practices. Cars nowadays are more complicated due to safety/emissions/efficiency goals and buyer preference for electronic gadgets. I'm not sure we'll see as many 2010s cars on the road in the 2030s.
Good point - some rights can't be signed away by contracts and license agreements, no matter what those say. For example automobile manufacturers can't hand you a sales agreement that exempts them from (a whole list of) responsibilities, because governments recognize a public interest and pass laws insisting on safety standards, availability of parts for 20 years, etc, etc. Govts should now catch up with the modern world and recognize the public interest in computer infrastructure safety; by ensuring that IT can't license away its responsibility to take all reasonable measures to reduce risk (thus opening up liability as well.) At some point, using Rust - in many cases - even if it's more expensive, will be such a reasonable safety measure enforced by tort law or statute. Not quite yet, perhaps, because the language is young. But soon.

The EU is now taking Google and other corporations to task for their user agreements (licenses), to try to get them into compliance with consumer law there. It's a start, I suppose.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/17/europe_facebook_goo...
I have a Sunbeam Radiant Toaster from the 1960s that I inherited after my grandmother passed away.

It still makes toast like a champ.
> For example, the touch bar button activating not when someone wants the touch buttons to activate. Specifically the latest case, I had a friend joke about how he's changed the background color of his terminal so many time since moving to the latest MBP. That's just one example.

I would just like to say that that's BS.

You have to be very deliberate to change the Terminal window color: It takes a tap on a specific button to bring up the color picker, then you have to lift your finger to the slider and move it, or keep your finger held on the Touch Bar for a second then slide it around without lifting it to choose from a palette.

It's not something that can be done accidentally, as it takes multiple specific actions in a row.

If you still keep fumbling it "so many times" then you can always customize the Touch Bar and just remove the offending buttons.
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It's not so much fundamental advances as much as a maturing of tooling and educational resources. The result is a lot of compelling proof-of-concept implementations:

https://sel4.systems/

http://compcert.inria.fr/

https://cakeml.org/
Indeed.

I wasn't paying enough attention when soldering a plug onto a 7 cell 5800mAhr 40c battery once. I melted the tip of my iron, and pretty much vapourised the plug's contacts... (The battery seemed fine about it - I got 6 or 8 months out of it powering a bicycle before it started to show signs of imminently-firey puffiness...)
The problem is not regulation or electronics. Rather the problem is designs intended to fail shortly after the warranty period expires.
When you accuse people of being shills, you miss the point entirely. Why would it matter? If the shills are promoting bad ideas, people will respond with criticism, and the evil forces behind the shills will have wasted their money. This is definitely not the kind of site where opinions go unchallenged.

This also indicates a delusional, conspiratorial view of the world, to the extent that you believe people on this relatively niche site are being paid to post things. Has it occurred to you that people actually believe this things? That's all that is sufficient to explain this.
I justs recently replaced a built in GE Microwave's magnetron and diode for around $75 with parts off of Amazon (it was 5 years old). To replace the Microwave would have cost me around $800 and to call a repair person would have been about $250.

Thanks to youtube and about 30 minutes of work it is working like new again. These days I fix everything myself. Appliances, cars, electronics, furniture, etc. I also try to buy quality instead of disposable but that is getting harder every year.
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Planned obsolescence is what happened.

This is an educating documentary about the subject [1] and is worth watching.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdh7_PA8GZU
I feel like there's an important missing statement: the next meeting of the FOMC is on May 2 [1], so waiting to see if inflation or wages really pick up would not have been a big deal. Most people are arguing we need to raise rates now, but I don't see the argument versus six weeks from now.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomccalendars....
More importantly, the definition of the cosine is given by projecting a unit vector onto a given directed line, and then measuring the length of the projection.

The way to find a given cosine of a given angle between two arbitrary vectors is by taking the dot product of the two vectors and then normalizing by their lengths.

Using the cosine to define the dot product is precisely backwards.
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Actually, now that I'm on to Andy Grove's book, it's there too - training is not only a management task, the only other task according to Grove is motivation.
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How about if your health insurance provider forced you to go themselves, and were legally mandated to not tell your employer that they were doing so?
Here's a recent article and discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13862361
Shaq is one of maybe two people ever wbo could play badketball at a high level in his style. I would love to see him and wilt go head to head.
Older refrigerators tended to be power hogs (though not always).

From the 1970s through the 1990s, possibly 2000s, efficiency improved tremendously.

That said, some 1950s manual defrost were quite efficient, though you'd probably want to check door seals.
This is incorrect. Making good glass is not trivial, glass has been recycled since Roman times. Even today, "Savings for other materials are lower but still substantial: about 70% for plastics, 60% for steel, 40% for paper and 30% for glass."
> I am a bit disappointed to see this since it was a new browser from ground up

It's really not. The browser does have some new innovations... But it isn't something new from the ground up.

EdgeHTML is a fork of Trident. They dropped legacy code, and fixed a ton of things... But still a fork. In fact, EdgeHTML was available as an experimental feature in IE11.

Chakra is a fork of the JavaScript engine that was running in IE.

Edge is nowhere near a brand new browser. But it does look like they're on the way to get IE right under the new name. (Though security still needs some more work, apparently.)
The premise that government should dictate the interest rates and not let the market determine rates through price discovery is absurd. 100 of Phd's couldn't predict the housing bubble and the financial crisis of 08 and if you think we are safe from that again, good luck.

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I've never lived in SF or Europe, but as an American who's lived in the suburbs of DC and now NYC, it seems to me that Americans in general are less internationally conscious than Europeans. Most Europeans I know speak 3+ languages, have studied and lived abroad, and have traveled extensively. Americans in my experience tend to be more insular and less cultured. And it makes sense because Europe has so many different countries clustered together, traveling between them is cheap and easy, and they get 4+ weeks vacation.
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FWIW, the US Fed is the only major central bank in the world that is substantially privately owned. All of its federal reserve banks are owned and governed by private shareholders. The implicit interests of these stakeholders can be considered as the 3rd mandate, even though it is not encoded in legislation.
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I agree, but I'm finding it's hard to follow through with the extra hour in the morning, before the commute and everything. Maybe an audio book could still work.
For those of you don't know, Bob Nystrom is the developer of Wren (wren.io), and previous to it he developed Magpie (the language he's discussing), and Finch (http://finch.stuffwithstuff.com/). He's pretty impressive as far as language development goes.
Trick question. Australia has 8 capital cities.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_capital_c...

That aside, the article is rather bunk and claims to have authority. Memorization isnt learning.
Personally I'd like to see a large reduction in the emphasis on exams and repetitive homework. Today, at least to some degree, classes are designed to rank students against their classmates by who can memorize the most trivia. The primary objective of every class should be that the students know how to find info related to the subject. The final project in an algorithms course could be something like, "Using google and a programming language of your choice provide an implementation of $ALGORITHM." Where $ALGORITHM could be an algorithm that was not explicitly covered in the course material. This would show that the students have a broad enough understanding of the material that they can seek out solutions to types of problems they haven't seen before.
I would be curious to see what anyone with more than my armchair experience in graphics thinks of this.
Internally, Bitcoin is undergoing growing pains with regard to scaling and how to manage higher volumes of transactions. The community is fragmented between the competing ideas of how to best achieve higher transaction throughput in the future.

The two "leading" sides of the debate are engaged in a heavy propaganda war with each other and it seems that consensus is going to be tough to come by. These two factions seem to be essentially competing for "control" of the network. To make matters worse, the network has periods of huge transaction backlogs due to blocks being full.

Bitcoin Unlimited is the incarnation of one of the methods to scale the network. Supposedly, there is a large amount of mining power, which is fairly centralized in China, supporting this method.

I can't say much more than this with certainty, as there is a TON of propaganda to sift through. From what I can gather the argument boils down to the BU developers believe their method is an immediate fix to the current scaling problems. Core contends that BU has been spamming the network to create a false sense of urgency, and that the BU solution will allow miners too much control over "Bitcoin" (whatever fork it ends up being) in the future.

WRT to immediate impact, expect huge volatility in the price. Some of the trusted BTC analysts are calling for further, significant shedding of value due to the uncertainty in the future. Additionally, keep your coins in your own wallet. If you're using a web-wallet, there's no telling what you'll end up with if the fork happens unless they've made specific statements regarding their plans. Held in your own wallet, if a fork occurs, you'll hold both BTC (in the classic sense) and the BU-BTC.
And we're supposed to take the FBI's praise at face value? Give me a break.