skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Socialism also happens naturally. I've met lots of hospitable people that willingly shared goods with me without anything in return but my presence. People also used to kill each over everything. Human beings are complex and do lots of things. The problems are only starting when a society emerges that is too large to selfgovern.

Looks like you put everything that resembles "big government" or "government intervention" under socialism. I wouldn't understand how else you could even remotely think that Keynesianism could be called socialism. Keynes considered himself a capitalist.

One remark. Discussions work much better if you actually tell your opinion and give one or two substantial arguments. Resorting to name dropping doesn't make for an interesting exchange of thoughts.
Germany Drafts Ethics Rules for Self-Driving Cars
Behind 'lagom', the Swedish word/lifestyle trend displacing 'hygge'
I worked for ThoughtWorks in Chicago for 6-ish six years (2000-2007). I started the Selenium project there in 2004. At the time, I was a Python and JavaScript developer living in a sea of Ruby, Java, and .Net fanatics.
Plenty of companies have dabbled in it through lax maintenance, insufficient training, or crew overwork. It may be hard to find ones doing it now, but much of that is because of the FAA's push for safety.

(And I don't know that it is actually hard to find ones doing it now. Certainly the airlines are almost ludicrously safe, but the context here is GA, where things can be much more lax.)
Uber can fix the rating-after-tip issue though - don't allow them to change it on more than a tiny number of rides. It should also be trivial to detect this tip-review-rating.
That's not true. Testflight is clunky but secure and gets the job done. You just enter in the email addresses of people you want to receive a test version, and those people need the Testflight app to use it. IIRC You can even control which users are distributed which version

Out of curiosity, have you personally used Testflight? Maybe it's changed since I last did
Nice, thanks. I'm sure I checked out WU previously and perhaps I just didn't like the ads. Looking again it is a good interface and $2 seems fine if the alternative is free + suspect tracking.

Yahoo Weather was actually my go-to originally but at some point they made an update that turned the thing in to like 80% ad/20% content. Plus their ads were always pretty invasive.
Yes, LaTeX is near-perfect for print, but pretty much useless for ebook formats.
I'll repeat my usual comment about what I found annoying in Go:

It seems like strings are basically the only data type of unlimited size that is supported as map keys (or at least that seemed to be the case a few years ago).

I think that only types for which equality is defined in the language could be used as keys. Those types where numbers, characters and all other "small" fixed-size types, structs all of those members had equality defined, arrays of a type with equality, and strings. The size of an array is part of the type, so in that list of types with equality the only source of unlimited sizedness are strings.

I guess that cover most cases where you want a type of unknown size as a key, but I found it pretty annoying. If you want to use, say, polynomials with integer coefficients as keys in a map, you'd have to either choose a fixed maximum size (degree, for example, or number of monomials) for the polynomials or convert back and forth between strings.

It's not the only language that forces you to convert things to strings and back for use as map keys (AWK and Lua come to mind), but I wish it didn't have that limitation.
When properly studied, it turns out that the most effective cough suppressant known to man is... chocolate. (It does also cause reflux, however, perhaps not coincidentally.)
The fusion Manhattan project? The problem with that is the Manhattan project scientists knew exactly what they wanted to do and how to do it. With fusion research there are already dozens of active research efforts, but we have absolutely no idea if any of them will work, or if we need a new approach nobody has thought of. In this situation throwing money at the problem simply isn't the solution.

Meanwhile new solar infrastructure projects are already cheaper than coal. This is a problem that technology is already solving for us.
> Although the expected value is still minuscule, it's an unquantifiable improvement (since we can't divide by zero).

This isn't how it works, because the expected value, in monetary terms, is negative once you factor in the cost of the tickets. Statistically, it is a quantifiable unimprovement.

That said, lots of activities have negative expected monetary value, like going to the movies, or going bowling. And it is theoretically possible that you will find an envelope in the bowling alley parking lot containing a million dollars, but let's not pretend that both bowling and playing the lottery are anything other than entertainment products at the end of the day.
Letter Home from Camp Wolfram
It's a cost reduction measure. Maintaining a physical machine and conducting drawings of balls takes a fair amount of labor.
If you really start taking the App Store terms of service and apply them to the letter to the Apps in the store quite a few very popular apps would vanish.
I do actually like the Apple one as well, but it lacks a radar.
So, have they not watched Die Hard? The point made in that movie is that when you steal this many millions, they will find you -- unless they think you are already dead (thus, the plot to blow the building and look like they all died in the process).

What were these fools thinking?
FWIW, I do find Interface to be subjectively noticeably more pleasant than Roboto in the comparison here.
Nobody believes that global warming will cause the literal extinction of the human race.

The scientific consensus is that sea levels will rise by a couple feet over the next 2 hundred years.

That's the science. Doesn't sound like doomsday to me.
I think the problem people have with the lottery isn't directed at the middle class person buying a lottery ticket here and there. It's more that the whole system is designed to encourage already vulnerable people to risk somewhat significant portions of their weekly take home on the extremely unlikely chance of winning, and then doing this week in and week out. $2/$3 for a Powerball, maybe a state lotto ticket, then a few scratch offs, and ATM fees to get the cash for all this, and poof you've spent $10-$20+, when you're living on less than $300 a week.

I'm not saying don't buy a lottery ticket here and there if you truly get some enjoyment out of it, but the lottery system as it is now seems to encourage borderline gambling addiction behaviors in people who are the least likely to be able to resist them.
> where proprietors no longer have to price the cost of service into the menu.

I know what you are referring to, but is this really the practice? Do you have evidence that supports this claim?

The corollary to tip-based salaries is that the employer is required to provide the difference up to the local minimum wage should the server's total tips be under the minimum wage, as per the Fair Labor Standards Act [1]. Given that this is a known cost, I would assume that to some degree the prices are set to accommodate such costs to at least a percentage of the required funds. I know based on anecdotal evidence that most restaurants are run pretty tightly, but your average chain that pays minimum wage surely must be aware of the potential for slow periods. For tourist areas with on/off seasons, I know the solution is to simply bring on and let go seasonal workers, but I would still assume that it's easier to factor in the potential cost for minimum wage than it is to get caught without available funds.

[1] - https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs15.pdf
my first thought as well
Researchers create magnetic RAM
Wonderful way to create wildlife refuges, though.
I'll take the simple answer here, that you're giving these folks too much credit wrt to knowing how "the system" works.
When kdbus was first proposed for merging, Linus basically said something like "dbus is way more inefficient than just kernel api limitations would require, fix that first before proposing a new kernel feature". So that seems to be what they're looking into now.

ref: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/23/657
I got fired for being a "Rails trouble maker" in late 2009.

Never saw your blog back then but if I did I would have applied.
> Or too much regulation or politics to allow.

Or, as a German, too much regulation/politics to Get Shit Done.

Just look what happened to Transrapid (maglev rail). All tech and IP went off to China, and we're stuck in 1980-and-earlier carriages for anything not an ICE or regio trains.
Was about to say the same. Scrivener is your friend here, and it's not even $130
I'm pretty sure I'm not the first one to turn it into an acronym: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEE :)
...aaaaand that's why it may be a good idea to disconnect in order to get any work done.
Thanks for taking the time to write all this.

I'm going to dig into this some more (I really dread it) but I'm guessing I need to save another $500k or so over the next twenty years. Not impossible but not painless either.

I'm glad I started college savings accounts for my kids when they were born. They should each have $75-100k in them by the time they need it. Not enough, but it's a start.
Deleted the app. Between the snooping on your location post-ride feature and the tipping component I'm out. Uber can pay a fair wage to their drivers and I'll choose their service on total cost or not, rather than putting pressure on me to make up the difference between what they should pay and what they do pay.
Exactly right. The one that came in conversation waiting for the eclipse was genetic editing of fetuses to eliminate inherited disease. Setting aside the whole 'designer babies' as a distraction imagine a company that give free genetic treatment for couples seeking to avoid passing on known bad genes. When you walk that forward and look at the cost associated with treating, diagnosing, and supporting people that later get the disease, you begin to see a huge economic 'win' by giving them free genetic help early.
The link is about TPUv1, but Google is already using TPUv2 (or maybe TPUv3, they don't talk too much about this things).
This was apparently at the High Flux Reactor in Petten, Netherlands.

https://articles.thmsr.nl/petten-has-started-world-s-first-t...
a) We can't

b) What secondary / tertiary / ... / n-th order effects would that have? I'm guessing you don't know.
> “We risk losing essential information,” she says. “The datasets need to reflect the real statistics in the world.”

I think it comes down to that. If we feed a machine a gross of images of women shooting, a gross of images of women feeding babies, a gross of images of men shooting and a gross of images of men feeding babies (just to pick two stereotypical activities at random — in my family men & women both shoot and take care of kids), then I suspect it'll generate worse results than if we feed it a set of images reflecting reality.

> Yatskar describes a future robot that when unsure of what someone is doing in the kitchen offers a man a beer and a woman help washing dishes. "A system that takes action that can be clearly attributed to gender bias cannot effectively function with people," he says.

I dunno, that sounds like it'd effectively work with people. The rule 'if unsure then if isMan then offer beer else offer help with dishes' sounds like a reasonable heuristic for someone learning social skills. Indeed, it sounds like something a kid would come up with.

This all goes back to the utility of stereotypes. Stereotypes are just patterns; if a human being or a learning machine identifies true patterns and uses them, then he, she or it will get better results then otherwise.
And an even larger part of the world, even a majority of the USA, Uber, nor public transport are viable. We dont all live in cities.
I had to double-check that this wasn't satire.
Yes.

Assuming Oracle has a very strong corporate environment as I expect it to, one could presume that many of their employees might be less inclined toward taking initiatives, ownership, and the likes while perhaps being better at taking directives.

All else equal, we cannot fit people into a mold; your interview process should help you answer these questions.

My two cents.
This is the real problem with fractional reserve systems. In theory they could be used to damp out the business cycle. In real democracies voters always want low taxes and high spending irrespective of the state of the economy.
The latest IPCC report does not account for Arctic methane release. There were too many variables and they decided to omit it and avoid being alarmist. This is discussed on page 28 of WG1 AR5 SPM (the final 2013 IPCC policy maker report).
The scientific consensus is that sea levels will rise by 1-2 meters over the course of 200 years.

Thats the science. And it doesn't sound like extinction to me.
Elsa Dorfman’s Polaroid photography
Is there an explanation somewhere of the technical details of how he did it?
Dear font authors:

Please screenshot renderings via multiple important renderer, important ex: Apple Safari on a Retina box (highlights weird over-bolding due to their hinting prefs), Chrome and Firefox on Windows (both use Freetype, but custom builds and don't quite match stock), and anything normal on a Linux that doesn't use a hacked up Freetype (ergo Ubuntu is out, so is RHEL/Centos and Fedora).

Also, in both white on black and black on white, because font rendering is non-linear in respect to the 2.2 gamma curve (fun fact: everybody still uses 1.8 gamma for font rendering).
Source repo: https://github.com/dyoo/whalesong

Latest non-Readme commit: 4 years ago. Not sure this is still relevant.
ARM Servers: Qualcomm Is Now a Contender
Many companies or brands have a reputation for quality built up by decades of producing a high quality product. Then the company hits hard times and the brand name or the whole company is bought by a PE firm. The firm tries to capture the purchase price and some profit by producing cheap, low quality goods under the "premium" brand name. Huge margins until people realize they have been duped. Not cool. See: Craftsman, Kodak, Polaroid, etc.
The first of those books was published less than 28 years ago and the author is continuing to actively build upon those ideas.

A world in which authors of creative works don't have the ability to have a monopoly on those works for limited terms is a world in which people who focus full-time on writing those creative works cannot pay their grocery bills.

It is also a world in which only banks, large corporations, and highly educated folks can get software written for their interests.
systemd is far more than an init system. I saw somewhere the description of the "basic building block of Linux".

IMO a well working together basic building block is great. The huge amount of pointless differences needed to be reduced ages ago.
We've built an entire society on the notion that you should aspire to buy a bunch of things you'll never be able to afford. See also: luxury car repossession rates
"Due to the inelastic architecture of our AWS system, we needed to have the systems scaled up to handle our peak traffic at 10PM when the daily puzzle is published."

WT... I had to reread this to make sure I didnt misunderstand... why not work on making the current arhictecture elastic?! #cloudPorn
>Why is "Cloud" bandwidth so damned expensive?

This is one of the easiest ways for cloud providers to make money. I very often see people doing lots of advanced calculations for compute and choosing providers based on that without really thinking about bandwidth usage.

Famous last words, "Oh, it's a web service so bandwidth shouldn't be a big deal."
Having more, owning less: how to fight throwaway culture
Well I guess what I said was more from the point of view of printing.

But they have included an 'html' option in the top menu which, if you click, takes you to the same document with standard webpage format.

I guess they could make that the default and then provide the current default as a 'printable html' option.
I don't think there's anyone out there that has played the lottery that isn't acutely aware of how poor the odds are. As some people above have mentioned, they're not buying a ticket to riches, they're buying daydreams and aspirations to let them forget about their financial situation.

They're not bringing up the lottery as their way to retirement as an actual financial plan. It's gallows humor.
This is a very interesting idea. I do like the strategy of separating connectivity along the boundary of phone and workstation, and with the phone face down / muted to create space for yourself.

As for having to connect your workstation now and then, I can't help but think we all ought to be running parallel, sandboxed VMs, and then importing resources like internet connectivity from the connected VM, but with limited scope. (Who would have thought that something like Plan 9 could have also implemented these kind of productivity hacks, along with all of its other superior approaches to things....)
Have we ever done something that requires global agreement?
Wasn't there a PHP compiler at Facebook called Hip-hop?
Totally understand the satisfaction of seeing people use your product. So how many users do you have?
Why would you expect that treatment to be free?
> (One thing nuclear does not cause)

However, two problems remain:

1) where to get the raw material? African mines are not exactly known for adhering to human or environmental rights, also African mines, by nature of being in Africa, don't create American jobs. Same is valid for the other major sources of nuclear fuel, all of which aren't the USA.

2) where to dump all the nuclear waste? I mean, people have debated to put in the most long-living and nasty stuff into special reactors to get it split up to less harmful stuff, but to my knowledge this has never been realized - and NIMBYs are highly afraid of a rad-waste dump near their houses, across the world. Also, no one has shown how to build something that can last over ten thousands of years while still protecting the rad waste.
"The $645 million is adjusted EBIT, while Uber's Q2 EBITDA loss was $534 million (down from $598 million in Q1). Uber's global ride-share business was margin positive last quarter, which is a flip from Q1."

The context around EBIT/EBITDA implies that they are discussing operating margin and not gross margin. Can you clarify what major expenses you believe would be excluded?
That's not correct. The proposal is a fixed amount per citizen, with the caveat that for those with debts the money must go towards paying off debts with priority.
I actually think this is fantastic precedent set on the part of Exxon, essentially we can conclude any study paid for, written and published by the oil industry will be dismissed as inaccurate and preposterous so long as the conclusion benefits shareholders of the oil industry or defends the reputation of the oil industry in anyway.
Really happy to finally see some movement with Thorium. It might not be the magic silver bullet that some people hype it up to be, but it needs to be explored.
If Venezuela was willing to let him travel there they could have issued him documentation to do so.
(regarding the merely second-degree murder charge)

It's still possible the driver was motivated by fear for his life - that the driver was trying to get away from protestors rather than trying to kill them. The video here even provides a little supporting evidence for that perspective - notice how ~4 seconds in, you see and hear a protestor standing to the left of where the car passes WHACKS THE REAR OF THE CAR WITH A BAT.
Agreed. That's the right answer probably.
The Caml Language
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Well when people threaten to kill the poster of the video of the incident based on conspiracy theories I would think I am okay in saying MH?
"...fluent in JavaScript as well as Klingon!"
Are their autonomous vehicles ever going to be as good as Tesla's?
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Imo, one really killer bit is the first piece they mentioned:

"Google provides an SDK that enables users to run a suite of services along with an admin interface, database and caching layer with a single command."

I really wish AWS had a decent local dev story, rather than relying on 10 separate half-baked OSS solutions
Although I would prefer to be very strongly critical of the corporate model of the distributed operating system, (and particularly I'd like to relate it to Marx's concept of alienation, commodity fetishism and the tighter control of the 'free market of ideas' which turns out to be a 'free market' dominated by monopoly of Google in particular as they freqently turn out to be), I'm not sure what else I would do with a computer.

Say I want to program on a laptop - I can't program without access to the relevant documentation, access to download the libraries I need, and I'm often completely lost trying to debug a problem without access to SO or finding what triggers a particular error. Is this beacuse I have become over-dependent on the Internet for help, or even because I never learned how to program sans Internet? Probably, and it's a shame.

I honestly have no idea what I'd do with a phone without an Internet connection, other than the obvious phone calls and text messages. Take notes? Add stuff to the calendar? I could do that with pen and paper anyway, and not have to give that up during takeoff.

Social networking is weird, I feel like I'm supposed to be chasing something, looking for it, and when I find it then I'll latch onto it. It's like me with computer games. But I have found myself becoming bored with Mastodon and Facebook doesn't keep me for more than five minutes. Other peoples' lives, or at least to the extent displayed on FB, just isn't that interesting to me.

Twitter is a different matter, I always want to track the discussions, create witty replies, etc. (partly due to my political stance), but I don't think I'm obsessive yet. And where does it leave me? Less time to pursue my hobbies that take time to tease out their enjoyment; language learning, getting round to learning music theory, hobby programming, reading Marx, etc.

I suppose that seeing that this is happening is a good start.
True, there's a population which overspends on lottery tickets. But those people would also be spending their money on other pleasures otherwise - the solution there is increased social care and responsibility for these people, rather than taking the lottery away from the many people who play it responsibly.

Also, that article may be very wrong - at least one other news article which would appear to reference the same study received an update to suggest the total is 2-3%, rather than the 9% originally stated, and I can't find the 9% referenced in the study itself, while the 2-3% does show up.
I participated in almost all of Debian discussions. I don't see how you can claim what you claim, at all. Care to explain? E.g. RHEL was throwing its weight around?

The process at Debian started years later than any other distribution. It involved various votes, at least a year of discussion, etc.

Then in 2017 someone ignores history and summarizes this into "RHEL was throwing its weight around"... ?!?
About 20 years ago I had a twice a week commute of about 3 hours. I worked my way through the bulk of Lillian Jackson Braun's "Cat Who ..." book as read by Mr. Guidall. Even when I was reading from the dead tree version I'd still hear it in his voice.

My favorite audio books, however, were of Roger Zelazny reading his own Amber books. He obviously wasn't a professional voice artist, but he really brought these non-standard fantasy novels to life with his, literally, authorial voice.

I only have them on actual cassette tapes, I suppose I should look around and see if they are available as digital files.