skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Trail of Tears and Sullivan's island leapt out at me the very first time I saw a map of the shadow path and I have for years thought that an honest painful day of atonement around the world would be healing and humbling and a good antidote to romanticized militarism. Only Germany has come close to real atonement. Most of the rest of the world is way overdue. So I thought it would be a valuable addition to a day that bonds a nation with many of the best activities for creating harmony - dancing, cheering, working and eating together rounded out with crying together and promising never again together. Many of my thoughts are in the proposal which is way long as the event is complicated. But I have run a camp at Burning Man I have been to the Virgin of Guadalupe Festivities, and past a critical point adding events and complexity really does create an unstoppable frenzy that is more and more likely to succeed and pretty soon you can't keep people away.
Some level of independence is possible. There may be contracts in place that guarantee the editorial board control over news content, and most newspaper journalists are unionized.
>It is exactly because you get a worse sentence for higher quantities that drug dealers have optimised to get the strongest per gram drug.

Yeah, that's why there is pressure to increase sentences for the fentanyl dealers. If you have tougher sentences for the more dangerous drugs, it makes people more likely to use the less dangerous ones.
The Art of Thinking Clearly
I'm really interested to know how server side API's internally handle overreaching problems and performance.

Client side developers in my current workplace always ask for huge nested objects. We're having a tough time regarding performance as responses are sometimes 6-7 levels of nested objects.

That means a ton of database queries. How does everybody else manage this?
Fair enough. Thanks for the note. I was confused.
Uh... Ctrl+F, "Steve"

> That list included Ms. Powell Jobs, who is the widow of Steven P. Jobs, a co-founder of Apple; she first expressed interest in the company at a meeting in January in Washington.
The governments of the countries built them.

Engineering solved the issues of building roads over varied terrain efficiently.

You should give back instead of just "feeling privileged".
AI is far away if at all. Many are trying to pass off image recognition and pattern matching used to identify pornographic images as AI and this just reflects their tenuous grasp of the problem at hand. Something like the human brain is well beyond this level of thinking.

Advancements if any will inevitably come from academia and those who have devoted decades studying the human brain. Not software engineers intoxicated by themselves.

Nothing in the current software ecosystem gives you the tools or language to conceptualize or even imagine let alone write code that can qualify to be used in the context of ai. Code only does what it is programmed to do. If else is a decision, that doesn't make it ai, multiple it by a million times and its still not ai.

This does not mean it cannot be dangerous. Autonomous weapons, anything thing to do with image recognition will find uses, but this is nothing like the what people imagine when we talk about AI. Engineers are supposed to be precise in their use of language but AI proponents are currently engaged neck deep in hype. Self driving cars will happen on extremely constrained roads, like trains. That will be the wake up call for the excitable ones to come back down to earth.
>"Slack down from circa 65% to 18%...."

That is not at all how to use Circa. Don't try to sound smart using words you don't understand.

>Circa is widely used in genealogy and historical writing when the dates of events are not accurately known. When used in date ranges, circa is applied before each approximate date, while dates without circa immediately preceding them are generally assumed to be known with certainty. Circa should only be used for dates that have occurred in the past
On the low end this is 14 bucks and seems to meet your needs

FYI that is an S1, a design that has amazingly been in production for over a decade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S1_MP3_player

Seeing those brings back some good memories for me... and they're still being sold! I don't think any other chaep consumer electronics has remained in production for this long. They take a single (replaceable) AAA battery and don't require any special software, just USB mass storage.
Was thinking about getting one for work, and gaming is a nice perk

What kind of specs/graphics/resolution do you get on that for games?
I use Phoenix with all my newer projects. The performance is stellar. I single-handedly was able to create what many startups out there have built with 100s of thousands of engineers[1] in a short period of time. This may be possible with Rails too, but then, I found a lot of things are much more convenient to get done in Phoenix than in Rails - For example, Contexts (nested models), Routes, etc.

When I started with Phoenix I was anxious that the experience was going to be just like when I first tried out Play/Scala, but no. To my surprise, my experience was fantastic. Truly, this framework allows you to focus on your business problems rather than fighting with configurations/conventions.

One of the best decisions the team has made is introducing the concept of contexts from DDD[2]. Initially, I was pretty confused, but now, I simply cannot imagine myself going back once that I've understood it. It's basically breaking down your business into smaller tiny modules, like I've done in [1]. The other thing I love about Phoenix is the concept of umbrella applications. I'm not sure if Rails has an equivalent, but I think this alone is worth exploring Phoenix for.

I don't even have micro-services in my architecture yet, but because of these patterns, I'll be able to break out and scale my application if I require to, in the future.

Phoenix has proven to me that it can not only scale performance-wise, but also architecture-wise. Last time I tried developing [1], it was in PHP and I had to hire 5 devs to get it done..6 months later and we still weren't done. However, in just a matter of weeks, I was able to finish a complete working prototype of this mammoth application, with UI and frontend. As for my production setup, I use Docker + AppEngine (using a custom VM) and it has served me really well. The performance is top notch and everything works so flawless.

As for the language itself, I really love Elixir. I simply cannot imagine going back. It really forces you to think differently about your code. Last time I tried to learn a functional language, it was Scala - also a beautiful language on top of the JVM. But, the problem is, it's so academic in the sense that even a good book on scala had 400+ pages. Some of them had 700+ pages. But Elixir isn't like that, you can pick up the language in a matter of weeks (YMMV, it took me 2) AND build a project in no time.

For Elixir, if you're coming from a Ruby background, you'll be able to pick it up fairly easy. However, you will find it challenging when you hit a situation where you would have used a traditional for loop, but in Elixir, you would be forced to re-architect your code. And that's a good thing.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14785209

[2] https://martinfowler.com/bliki/BoundedContext.html
Regarding security, it increases attack surface but besides that is there any critical issues?
- Asteroid strike

- Superbug pandemic

- Supervolcano eruption
Zuckerberg just wants to use ANI to better push ads at you. Any fear of AI will make it harder for him to do just that. This is all about mone and earning more of it.
Universal income is not a libertarian idea, it's socialist.

Block chains are a technology, nothing more, nothing less. Big banks are using them and they have nothing to do with libertarianism.

Direct democracy is orthogonal to libertarianism. Structure of government is independent of desired role of government. Calls for direct democracy have surged from liberals in the US after the second wrath of the electoral college.

The only thing that is libertarian is writing on property rights.
Thanks Walter! It looks like there might be a Empires port in D as well. I'm sure that was much easier than C.
As an Rails dev on OSX, do any tests (or various dev tasks) that spawn a browser work with the WSL? ie. the letter_opener gem will open a sent email in the browser, selenium will run tests in the browser, etc.
Always? No. Many health issues are actually incurable with current technology. For a simple example, many forms of hearing loss are incurable as far as we know. You can spend a lot of money on fancy hearing aids but it won't get you normal hearing again.

Old rich people can't spend money to cure all their ailments and be young again. Maybe someday, but not today. And it's not a gamble if there's no chance of success.
Yeah, also I realised that I didn't talk about encryption and TLS. I suppose I can say that it sets up a secure connection in the same way that HTTPS does ;-)
Nope. But i also own around $100k in Amazon stock, so perhaps I'm just super bias?

I live in Canada, i tried to buy a iRobot 960 [$849 + 13% HST = $959.37 CA on Amazon] and ship it to my sister, she is building a house, and getting married...i love my Roomba and thought it'd be a fun present. Sadly I cannot do this, and since Amazon is just a book store in Australia there is really no option for using Amazon here.

The 'competition', Harvey Norman, lists the same item at $1399 AU. For fun, the exchange rate is $1.01 AUD for $1 CAD, pretty damn close. Import taxes I assumed, but then I found a cheaper and lesser known electronics website in Australia sells it for $1049 [taxes included]. Pretty close!

The moral to this story: Amazon will continue to be successful and grow as long as traditional retail insists on ripping off it's customers. I look forward to them prioritizing growth over profits for years to come, the entire world remains!
Efficient database query for ancestors on an acyclic directed graph
The interesting thing here is that they are selling both their own products AND providing a platform for others to sell their products. Unless they compete with the products Amazon is making.
Except Google Maps at least lets you download an area for offline use. Not sure what Apple maps does.

I use this all the time on my Android phone because I don't have a data plan for it.
The question was about complete extinction. A population reduction by 90% is a horrible disaster, but it sets us back "just" a couple centuries, but it's hardly something that can eliminate humanity permanently; unlike quite a few other things.
This is one disgusting piece of "journalism". I don't even know where to start.

First of all, when people say "Facebook employee" they think of people who work on the facebook website/app. It is very likely that this person is not one of them. There's nothing wrong with that, but the problem is they are intentionally hiding this to make this sensational.

I forgot the technical term for this but I know this is some sort of dishonesty through omission.

Second, this person drives a Mercedes and is complaining about how she can't get an apartment because the rent is $2000. This is disgusting. There are tons of people in Silicon Valley and San Francisco who have it much much worse and they survive. If you don't make enough money to get a rent for $2000/month, you simply don't live that life, simple as that. I know a lot of people live in Oakland and other suburbs who live just fine with much lower rent.

Overall I am sick of mainstream media manipulating the crowd this way and people who think they can get a break by stepping on others like this.
Yeah it's a great device to web application compatibility with iOS without carrying 2 phone contracts if you prefer android.
Well OK... I don't know why you think those are hard (let alone cutting edge - PSRL isn't new), but it seems important for you to feel like you understand things other people aren't smart enough to, so there's probably not much more I can say.
Why do you have so much faith that autonomous superhuman AI will be such a Dalek-eqsue threat? If it's faith against faith, and you have no evidence to back up your side (while humanity adapting has millennia of evidence), there's no point in discussing it.

> Humans are pretty easy to manipulate...My fear is that with greater capabilities,...

Nobody is disagreeing with you. But this is hardly an observation of the apocalyptic proportions warned by AI risk proponents. If you're just suggesting governments regulate AI use, then you've changed your position from "stop the impending doom" to "limit the use of a dangerous tool." I have no doubt that when AI becomes good enough to be a dangerous tool, it will cause some major event and be regulated thereafter. You should start with that instead of "robots killing humans."

But if your argument is actually "stop the impending doom," then I disagree. Humans have figured out how to adapt in a world with nuclear weapons, which has shown far more risk to humanity than all but the most outlandish predictions of AI risk. You haven't presented one piece of evidence that says humans won't figure out how to adapt, or are incapable, unlikely, or unwilling to do so, whereafter humanity ceases to exist.
China is currently caught in a trap between speculative demand, demand by speculators who hope real estate asset prices will keep increasing, and real demand of actual use for these assets. It is difficult to see what the real demand for these sky scrapers are, even if they have no problem selling them off to speculators. Who knows how this will end, hopefully real demand will catch up but I'm guessing there will be a Japan-scale real estate crash eventually.

I was fortunate to stay at the hotel at the top of Guangzhou's IFC (the first and probably last time I get a room that is above the 90th floor). Looking down on Guangzhou's skyline, at least, it was very beautiful (especially when a lightning storm rolled in).
To me, it's having the humility to accept that someone may know less about tech than you, but still more about the problem at hand.
Function as Child Components in React Are an Anti-Pattern
I should have said domestic history. The proposal briefly mentions inviting the creation of monuments to international suffering. See more comments below.
I'd like to see 4 or 6 cores.
Paywalled. Oh, the irony.
You're using one right now as a forum, to communicate your thoughts.
Did you even read the article?

"That list included Ms. Powell Jobs, who is the widow of Steven P. Jobs, a co-founder of Apple"
As a former Redfinian, let me share my perspective.

The collective talent, intelligence, and drive for constant, data-backed improvements at Redfin is something to behold. It is both inspiring and intimidating. Replicating it would be quite a challenge.

Beyond that, Glenn Kelman is a great CEO and person. He's transparent, affable, and genuinely cares about the people at Redfin and beyond. His leadership is contagious and inspires those around him. The same holds true for other members of Redfin in leadership roles.

Finally, the complete and total commitment to using data to drive decisions is at the core of the Redfin offering and a big reason why I still believe Redfin is going to continue to be successful for years to come.
from https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about:

"Bash on Windows provides developers with a familiar Bash shell and Linux environment in which you can run most Linux command-line tools, directly on Windows, UNMODIFIED, without needing an entire Linux virtual machine!"

from https://cygwin.com/:

"Cygwin is not:

a way to run native Linux apps on Windows. You must rebuild your application from source if you want it to run on Windows."
C++ implementation for self driving car (school project)
https://github.com/swirlingsand/self-driving-car-nanodegree-...
No, but it ran all the Linux applications and shells and utilities. I was running Xemacs in X11 on Windows XP using cygwin years ago.

But to your point they were built for cygwin, not linux.
The game is well made, but imo the graphics are pretty bland. Find another designer. And why not have a tank 2 or 3 sizes bigger? Also, maybe robots were a better idea, they are new and exciting, they can shoot lasers, crush enemies, who knows. Tanks are a bit boring.

Edit:
And I think it's missing an easy enemy bot, something lower level, so even the newcomer can power up (not crates).

Addendum:

- No explosions when tank is destroyed?
- Movement is very linear, no acceleration or inertia.
- Ramming doesn't inflict any damage.
Why is it called Linux, though? There's no Linux there at all IIRC, in the sense that it's not using the Linux kernel.
You seem to forget why the luddites were luddities in the first place.

Yes, fabric was much cheaper, but in the meantime they were starving to death. The groups that make billions off this technology will lobby to keep more of their earnings so this vast wealth redistribution you want to happen, wont.
> All the Nordics have large problems with drug addiction.

Why is that?
"Cool URIs don't change." Link rot is the biggest threat to the World-Wide Web. In my view it's irresponsible to issue a URL without being confident I can keep it available at least as long as the document exists. I don't have that kind of confidence in the government of Libya or Tonga decades from now.

I'm also not a big fan of redirections that cross failure domains, just because they make the web slower and less reliable.
If they could figure out a way that doesn't take 5 hours to load music onto an Apple Watch, I'd consider one again (mainly so I can use Bluetooth headphones while running) over a shuffle (I understand the price difference).

Though ideally a sweat / water resistance Bluetooth iPod shuffle would be perfect.
Fully agree that not everything needs internet access, but you listed some useful ones.

I don't think this is actually a hardware company at all, to be honest. The actual hardware here is practically trivial, like an ESP8266 that bitbangs the legacy interface. Hopefully some tinkerer would design some PCBs once and just release them as CC, problem solved forever.

It's fairly straightforward to send a request to the adapter node and have it do a thing. Again, a hobbyist could probably come up with a reasonably coherent protocol in like an hour or two. There is some small value in a company that can make the act of pairing less painful for consumers, but tinkerers probably won't care.

The actual hard part is coming up with software that does useful things with those peripherals/API. He's selling an app, basically.
Where do you have the information that she drives a Mercedes?

I do agree that just saying she works for Facebook and not having any information is inflammatory. But you should agree that the cost of living in Silicon Valley / SF is high; period.

So are you saying they're trying to mess with Zucker? sure sounds like it.
You mean `deferral of gratification`. I couldn't help myself.
to the developer/creator： i know very little about game development but here is some quick feedback:
1. fix the controls. i'm not sure if i was getting lag, but the tank was moving all over the place and never in a straight line.
2. add sound
3. enhance the graphics. pay someone to make them look really good
what about it do you hate that you would spend $35-$50 and apparently an hour per every meal avoiding it? Eg if you were the op.

or just answer for yourself... what do you hate about it?
Would you consider your company still in the seed stage?

Also, are you having trouble getting introduced to investors in general, or just with specific domain knowledge in your industry? What have you tried so far?
Isn't the biggest question here along the lines of:

This is a little novelty device meant for neat freaks and gadgetphiles (no offense intended) who like the idea of a home robot doing a simple chore like keeping a floor clean.

Why would it need any kind of data collection at all, beyond - at most - a minimal set of local (not cloud connected) diagnostics to keep it running? Even that sounds suspect for a self-propelled vacuum cleaner.

In my opinion, which might seem quite opinionated, there are limits to the amount of data that needs to be collected to develop a successful product. Slapping some IoT features on products that don't need to have them just reeks of excessively clever over-engineering, or, possibly, an ulterior motive.
Sorry for the late reply. The use of the energy data were to help figure were the power in your power bill was going. For example my Boss's old refrigerator was drawing a lot more power then expected. And giving hints on how to save.

We uploaded data from the box to the cloud once per minute, so you could see your usage.
We could give an estimate on daily/monthly/yearly cost. Electric rates can be weird, so businesses we had logic that would try to calculate and alert you when you were reaching a specific dollar figure (or peak period.. some utilities surcharge based on peak usage)

In general we had dashboards and alerts. Restaurants could see if the lights were on after a certain hour (usually closing). A big early win was a place that had electric heaters in the front windows that were on 24/7. It was fun watching the solar panels generate, and see when the clouds go by.

The company moved into hvac control with temperature sensors and monitoring refrigerators and cooking temperatures. Now I think they're selling services to oven companies and such.

Its AC so there is some work to pull the data out (we had a custom board to deal with the 14 channels).

Current transformers are what makes it work. There are some open source solutions are starting to show up that don't require uploading to the cloud. There are "Kill a watt" for single plug monitoring, but they lack logging.

http://www.p3international.com/products/p4400.html
For any Americans who are now curious, what Land Rover Defenders look like is.. kind of like the Bollinger B1 :)
Incidentally, I'll be starting a PhD in a human genetics laboratory, but I don't have a lot of experience with this kind of literature.

This seems like a reasonably accessible (college-biology level) discussion of what evolution would look like in the human gene pool:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2933187/

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EDIT:

I suspect you'll need a university library to access this, but Dr. Pardis Sabeti is well known in this area and also an amazing person - she played a big role in the molecular biology work that underlay the US response to the Ebola crisis. She wrote a review that explains the tools we currently have to ascertain human evolution:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16778047
I mean, all warehouse work sucks. It's $12-15/hr work with literally zero educational requirements and no people skills required. Any warehouse job paying more than $10 is going to be fairly miserable.

Is Amazon evil? Maybe. But no more or less evil than most every other organization that runs a large warehouse.
A Prehistoric Killer, Buried in Muck
Musk says AI is the single biggest existential threat (unless I'm mistaken and someone else similarly famous said that, maybe Thiel?). From this it appears that you, along with the rest of society (as you mentioned by how much is spent on oversight), think he is wrong.

Nobody is arguing against funding AI. It's the fear-mongering we disagree with. It harms the field.
I haven't tried, but I think you can tell it to send feedback to the engineers.
They do, however there's one important distinction. Usually somewhere 6-8 months out from ship they fork the codebase from mainline with the discrete intention of not ever merging back.

After that point all sorts of game-specific optimizations go in that would/could break other types of games the engine could be used for.

Also, if you do ever have to rebase on mainline, it's a bastard to do :).
r/ScienceExplainers
Shouldn't the next question be obvious? - "What is a REPL?"