skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything from Semiaccurate regarding Intel should be taken with a grain of salt the size of the moon.
The author is extremely hostile and every article is about problems or how bad something is or will be and it's usually wrong.
It's the unions.

On my way to work, I pass by a giant inflatable rat inflated by a gas motor that's hauled around by a truck. It's rather annoying when its tail gets loose and covers the sidewalk, as can happen on windy days when it's not tied down appropriately. It's probably 10 or 12 feet tall, at least, and the tail is maybe 12 feet long or longer. (3 feet is about one meter for those in metric land).

It's parked there because one of the buildings under construction here didn't use the right amount of union labor, so there's always a rat present. Walk around and you'll see this same rat in different places; they've got a number of them. They've also got some rather impressive pigs and fat cats.

This is the city that couldn't get rid of two operators per train on the L, even though technically they could more or less get by with zero (the trains mostly drive themselves on that line; the operator, to my understanding, just has to keep acknowledging that the train should proceed).

Why?

The unions protested and won, citing hitherto unknown safety reasons that should be plaguing cities like Madrid, Barcelona, London, Paris, Washington D.C., etc. due to their lack of two people. Doubly so for those lines (including the AirTrain to JFK in NYC) that do not have operators at all...
> not an argument that the US should pay less overall for drugs than poorer countries.

I never said that.

My point is simply that pointing at nominal GDP paints an inaccurate picture. The US is a complex and extremely heterogenous market, and using a single economic measure to justify nationwide pricing is a bit like taking the temperature average of the man whose head is in the oven and feet in the freezer.

It's feasible to imagine a world in which drug companies apply the same adjusted pricing to poorer segments of the US market as they do foreign customers. They don't in practice, allegedly, because of Medicaid regulations enforcing a lowest-in-country price [1]. Regardless of whether that particular explanation holds water, the idea of price discrimination within the highly unequal US market is reasonable.

[1] https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/r...
Of course it is a C issue, in the same sense that ALL logic errors are in the case you describe -- so either C issues do not exist or you did not manage to find the correct definition: for ex OOB access is caused by faulty program logic, and the consequences are dramatic in unsafe languages. That is an issue of the language, despite you being able to compute OOB indexes in any language. Same thing for double free; the language issue is that the result is catastrophic, not that you can write for ex faulty logic attempting a liberation too early, or an extra one. (Because in safe languages, the result is not as catastrophic as in unsafe languages).

That is the whole concept of safety.
> This is partially because credit card receipts only include the total, not the tax separated out. So really, anything under around 22% is a bad tip.

Can you explain the math? Why is this amount higher than 20% rather than lower than 20%?
>Are you proposing that companies should not be allowed to hire someone from the outside to fix severe culture issues?

Not exactly, just that they shouldn't be able to offer them generous golden parachutes.

Of course, I'm not so sure about the legality of this, but perhaps within corporate law a law could be made that companies aren't allowed to promise enormous sums of money to people when they fail to fix the problem, and the company is now in dire financial straits. When the company is having severe financial difficulty, the first dibs should go to anyone it owes money to, not someone they promised a big golden parachute to in case he couldn't turn it around.

>I gather that if it were up to you, you'd sentence Uber to death instead of giving them a shot at redemption.

Absolutely. The good people should have found new jobs by now; all accounts now show this company to be truly toxic, at many levels (not just "a couple people"). They should not be rewarded with a shot at redemption. Now, if they can find someone willing to take on this challenge of turning the company around, who is willing to assume a great deal of risk in doing so (at least risk not getting paid much for it), then that's fine. I just don't think they should be allowed to offer a golden parachute if that person fails. Then, such people can evaluate such offers based on the true risk of the situation, instead of knowing they'll be safely off with their golden parachute if they can't make it work.
Our house monoply varient involves a third die. The third die has n+2 sides where n is the number of players. If a one is rolled, everyone takes a bong hit. If the highest number is rolled everyone takes a sip of water. The rest of the numbers are handed out to each person. When the die comes up on their number it's their turn. This isn't as much of an advantage as you'd think it'd be. It's easy to run out of money early, and not go forever later.

Also:
-Auctions
-No free parking
-Immunity trading
-Three die rolls = jail
-Doubles = same player goes again as their turn isn't over
Been Adblocking content since last century.
I suggest doing lots of problems. Here are a few excellent resources that concentrate on teaching "problem solving" in math from the ground up:

+ Brilliant -- https://brilliant.org. Fun problem-oriented introductions to specific math areas. Their "explorations" are designed to help you think about problems in new ways. Brilliant also gives you a weekly problem set of beginning-intermediate-hard problems. You can even practice writing proofs by writing solutions to new problems.

+ The "Art of Problem Solving" books. Advanced high school, but has really great insights and lets you practice common math patterns you'll see later.

+ The "Book of Proof" book. Gentle introduction to proofs. An introduction to fundamental higher-level math.

+ Project Euler -- https://projecteuler.net/. For getting better at programming and math together.
Facebook are where my cuckoo "friends" hangout and post political and religious views. My observation is the more personal problems you have and the stronger your views, the more likely you will post on Facebook to get attention. It's a big turn-off.

I realize you can unfollow friends without unfriending them but my facebook stream is not worth visiting weekly anymore.
This is a great and worthwhile read. His exposure of positive and negative cycles and methods of interrupting the negative was eye opening. I've used his words on many an occasion to "wake up" the audience and break a negatively reinforced conversation.
I appreciate that, however I feel constraints give meaning to a task, you might argue that I can self impose them, I will argue that I wish those constraints to be imposed by society or by the conditions needed to advance science.
To do that, eventually as AI's come online, I will have to stop being human.
I'm not sure if you're joking (smiley lacked a clear target), but just in case you're not: Monopoly is somewhat famously almost never played by the actual as-written rules. Indeed, most people know the rules they learned as children and are shocked to discover they aren't playing by "the rules".
As a young developer, it really is intimidating. Hard to know where to even start these days, it's overwhelming.
[Spoiler] A rather technical and intricate story is generically spiced (masala) up with typical thrill-tropes to make it appealing to the masses: military attack on aliens (wise aliens only send video-conference units to the earth in Chiang's story), an international affairs angle, melodrama of General Shang, etc.

I was using it in a sense similar to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masala_film
Thank you! I apologize, I use HN formatting options so infrequently on here.
Yea, autonomous has no bearing on the market. If it becomes a thing Uber will just go autonomous.

In the meantime people won't switch because of branding. They will already have Uber on their phone and be comfortable with it. It will take a lot to get people to switch. Branding is a huge competitive advantage. Better colas than Coke have been developed for a hundred years and they still grew market share.

Uber will get market rates, whatever they are and will make tons of money because their business model is super efficient. It should only cost pennies to dispatch each ride, they get dollars in revenue from each ride, and are developing huge economies of scale cab dispatch companies have never had.

As soon as they stop investing so heavily on opening new markets and businesses their income statement is going to look a whole lot different.
He did specify "in the long run", which I think is probably true as the timescales get longer. I doubt anyone would argue that humanity would live lives relatively unchanged from the present say, 3000 years from now. So it's really just a matter of arguing about 'when' and not 'if'.

I'd also like to point out that although we didn't "become" the assembly line, employees certainly have become more replaceable in many of the jobs impacted by the assembly line. Depending on the job, some employees have become the metaphorical "cog in the machine", and can be replaced by other employees with minimal training, as compared to the artisan-based system that predated mass production.

I certainly see your point, however, and I truly hope that we can maintain our liberty and humanity as technology increases, instead of regressing into a kind of dystopian neo-feudalism.
What does a type being built-in do for you extra? In ES6 you can define a template string builder which you could name, for instance, ipv4, and then when you want an IPv4 address literal you say

ipv4`192.168.0.1`

and get your object. Are there other benefits besides a literal syntax? (Not to slag on Red. One advantage I can see is avoiding the call at runtime to the ipv4 function.)
Here's what Scabby The Rat looks like, for those who are unfamiliar: http://www.bigskyballoons.com/ratpack.html
We kind of do merge with our technology, though. People are fuzzy-bounded; we're part of our environment and it's part of us, especially in the mental domain. In the physical domain glasses, notebooks (offloaded brain memory), telephones (merged voice) are physically merged technologies. In the mental sphere I feel I can say that Wikipedia and the Internet are in some sense merged parts of my mind. They are part of my thought processes and they were an essential ingredient in forming my thought processes too. Take away all my writing and reading and I really would be a different entity, mentally.
> the upgrade time wasn't even significantly longer

I wonder if it works like FileVault, where there's a notion of a "partially converted" volume and blocks are slowly converted as a background-idle task after the update completes.
You said you want AI to provide wealth. But now you say you want to create value. It looks like you may need to compete after all.
Introduction to zk-SNARKs with examples
I hope this trend of Colour named programming languages continues. I would maybe choose Cyan, red sounds too professional :P
Yeah you're definitely thinking of the old pricing model, which turned off a lot of people. The new model is a flat per month fee of $8, and you can't spend more money to get more CPU.
> Kiiiinnnnda. People make bad decisions

You can't outlaw bad decisions - but it seems that some people will never get tired of trying...
I think Red is a language to watch. It has a lot of potential. But my understanding is that Linux support is still immature. Currently the focus is Windows. Is that a correct assessment?
Well they are called bugs and they exist in every software. It's not like they did it on purpose.
There's a "non-invasive" brain-computer interface on the market. It's a little less ambitious; targeted towards people who practice meditation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muse_(headband)
Elon Musk announces new company, wants faster brain so he can take serial entrepreneurship lifestyle to the max.

sky's the limit
Holding up a sign that says "Death to all X" is not definitive proof of hatred of X. If so, comedians/satirists are the most hateful group of people to have ever existed.
They are currently burning between 2-3B a year, that's not a lot of runway, especially with the Waymo lawsuit poised to set them back a decade.
Notifications menu on the very top(need to scoll up a bit for the hidden toggle switch to appear).

Super easy and smooth way to toggle Nightshift: I have the multi-touch gesture to open the Notifications menu with two-finger swipe from the right edge. Then I scroll up and turn on/off Night Shift.
For little kids (4-5): Catan Junior, My First Stone Age, Patchwork, Hoot Owl Hoot.
For slightly bigger kids: Quirkle, Takenoko, Tokaido, Sushi Go, Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne.

I generally find TableTop to be a well-curated source of games; games that look fun on the show have always gone over well for me.
What about the flip side of it - someone wants to put in a few waterless urinals someplace where they can't run water line, and the alternative is no urinals at all? You've literally outlawed a portion of the utility of the invention.
Yes, it's fun. I wrote a wrapper for playing Screeps with PureScript and a blog post about it here: http://blog.ndk.io/purescript-ffi.html.
JPL Coding Standards for C Programming [pdf]
I'm trying to dig up Magie's alternative rules, which were modeled after preferred Georgist policies. I never tried them myself, but I hear they made for a very long, overly balanced game with highly equitable outcomes. Too boring for a game, but much nicer for real life ;)

I have a link to them somewhere. I'll post it if I can find it.
I've had a casual curiosity on why these billionaires like Musk who seem to care about world wide problems such as AI aren't working to solve the imminent issues with global warming. I'm not talking about reducing fossil fuels, but perhaps coming up with solutions with their resources that addresses a world that isn't so habitable by life in the future. I don't know enough about global warming to know why this might be the case (hence why it's a casual curiosity). Or perhaps there are grand efforts and I just haven't heard about them yet.

Edit: I'm not condemning Elon Musk or downplaying his efforts. This was just an honest question I was hoping someone more knowledgeable than me might comment on.
Just a side not, I have to admit that I love the nested parens.
Dice Tower has a great Top 10 list (but from multiple perspectives, so there's almost 30 games on here) for childrens games, Tom Vasel in particular has a bunch of children and plays games with them all the time: http://www.dicetower.com/top-tens-results/young-childrens-ga...

My personal recommendations would be: Rhino Hero, Battle Sheep, Dr. Eureka, Coconuts, Can't Stop, Kamisado, King of Tokyo, Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne, Formula D, We Didn't Playtest This At All, Smash Up, Magic Labyrinth, Incan Gold, For Sale, Port Royal, and Escape!. I have fun with all of these as an adult, too.
If I remember correctly, there are needle-like implants with around a thousand contacts and it is quite a difficult task to get the signals out of the brain. Either you have the ADCs directly at the contacts, which means you can't get your density of contacts up, or you have the ADCs outside which will give you a nightmare of wiring. In either case the technology to actually have an interface read out individual neurons is still quite far off, as far as I know.

I'm not quite sure about all of this, so maybe someone with up to date information on the technology can help me out here?
Does 28 still count as young? I've been doing some form of web programming for 8 or 9 years now and it's almost impossible to keep up with JS/Node/NPM/100 different poor re-implementations of 'make'. Luckily there are big enterprises that provide job security without chasing every new framework.
wwww.everybodysfizzbuzz.com?
It doesn't really matter very much where you start. Pick something and dive in. Once you feel very comfortable with that, add another skill.

Personally, I'd suggest learning a programming language first: Python, Javascript, and Ruby are all good choices. Find a book you really like in one of those languages and read it cover to cover.

PS: https://eloquentjavascript.net is great, and free.
I think if that were the reason they would have done it 10 years ago, when Word 2007 introduced that feature.
he needs the money, but he doesn't want it. he's not playing the business game for the game's sake, he wants to advance civilization and the best way to do it is via billion dollar disruptive businesses, so that's what he's doing. i applaud him for keeping true to this after however many years of having access to that much assets.
The way my family always played growing up was that the player who landed on an unowned property could but it at face value, but if they didn't want to, it automatically went to auction. I honestly wasn't particularly fond of this, as if you were losing closer to the end of the game and landed on something unowned, as you often had to end up letting the player who was winning buy it for fairly cheap because you couldn't afford to spend the money on properties that wouldn't help you. I also noticed that most of the people who I played with outside my family did not play with this rule, adding to my frustration.

Another thing I remember us doing that nobody else seemed to was that if you bought/traded for a mortgaged property from another player, you had to pay 10% of the mortgage price to the bank if you didn't want to pay to unmortgage it immediately. I'm not sure if this is in the official rules, but as a young kid with no understanding of how real-world mortgages or interest worked, this seemed rather unusual and was somewhat frustrating as well.
This is the modern version of the original version of monopoly.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1931/anti-monopoly

EDIT: nm, I have been assuming that for some time now... TIL.
> So the product marketing strategy would be to place Product-X in places where it would likely be found by people pursuing that particular need or desire.

That's like... the exact definition of good advertising. And that's what we did.
Been there for a long while now. Think it was introduced in iOS 7 with he UI redesign.
Open source project uses Docker for serverless computing
I've been playing for over a year now and the ramp up really isn't bad at all- there are a ton of new players starting all the time, and the map continues to expand so new players aren't right up against old ones.

You can probably get a basic one room AI going in a weekend, and then continue to expand it over time. The great thing about this game is that if you "die" you still have all the progress you've made with your code, so restarting doesn't hurt too much.

With regards to the "ScreepsScript" idea- there definitely is a small amount of that but it's pretty minimal. There is also a huge community on the screeps slack network that makes it a lot easier to get into the game.
Take a look at some real-world systems using GridDB, the IoT database
Well true, but I expect the crane operator guys will say that this crane sounds all super-cool until one of them collapses and kills a dozen people, and then we'd all ask why they aren't subject to the same requirements as the bigger cranes.
Surely the acceptable rate depends on the system? A UI defect in something that could launch missiles, for instance, would be a disaster.

As for the design here - how about a big red banner with "by ticking here this document will be available to the public and can be found through search engines" or similar?
Logistics. Can the problem be solved with engineering and invention alone, or do they need to get governments and political movements involved in order to accomplish anything? Why would anyone with any real ability or drive want to bother with that shit?
That's disgusting and unsanitary: no water == no sink.
I fail to see how that's even close to a proper comparison.
I was hoping someone was bringing back corewar. The game was played in a language called Red Code. Pretty fun game for it's time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War
I've noticed a perceived decreased in IO latency, but haven't scientifically measured it.
I know a lot of you may like case insensitive languages, but it just feels weird for me. And there is the "nim" language which makes no distinction between CamelCase and snake_case.
Yeah, it sounds like nearly a nearly textbook definition of one of the problems capitalism (and a "free market" with low barriers to entry) are supposed to solve. You don't challenge someone's control of their company, you just challenge the company. "Good" employees and customers who object to their culture jump ship to yours; "bad" employees go down with the ship.

Of course, because of the innumerable real-world confounds to the model (not least of which is the artificial-or-otherwise high barrier to entry that most industries seek to ensconce themselves in), this doesn't happen anywhere else, but at least here with novel companies competing in their early stages, I don't see why anyone would bother "saving" a company that will be dragging against you every step of the way you can just invest in one of its competitors and let that dragging force drag your competition down, to your advantage.

If the "capitalism will save us" model can't succeed here of all places, I don't know why people still bother with it anymore.
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He's founded tesla and SolarCity with that objective in mind and almost went bankrupt in the process...
There is also Emotiv: www.emotiv.com
8.2

A Master Programmer passed a novice programmer one day.

The Master noted the novice's preoccupation with a hand-held computer game.

"Excuse me," he said, "may I examine it?"

The novice bolted to attention and handed the device to the Master. "I see that the device claims to have three levels of play: Easy, Medium, and Hard," said the Master. "Yet every such device has another level of play, where the device seeks not to conquer the human, nor to be conquered by the human."

"Pray, Great Master," implored the novice, "how does one find this mysterious setting?"

The Master dropped the device to the ground and crushed it with his heel. Suddenly the novice was enlightened.

If you want to compete with AI, don't make humans easier to hack.
True. But not every idea that is labeled as "too hard" is in fact useful (or even doable) idea.
I've never read that... I'll have to check it out.
And you can find hundreds of CEO's with the same characteristics.

I hate uber for breaking the laws and calling it disruption, but obviously media smells the blood and this attack gets s lot of attention and pageviews so they keep pouring the oil to fire.
The Disposessed, by Ursula K. Leguin.

Before I read it, I thought capitalism was the only way to organize people and resources on a broad scale. I couldn't imagine anything else working particularly well, and I thought anarchists were people who want to break things and cause chaos.

The Disposessed showed me how anarcho-syndicalism actually works, and gave me a framework for understanding its benefits and challenges and why it hasn't taken off broadly yet. My whole life is more or less oriented around those ideas now.
tesla is musk's response to global warming, at least kind of.
Yes, Team Red (as I like to call them), got some funding from a tech incubator, and Red's creator became Entrepreneur-in-Residence there for a time.