skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To the male engineer - preferably with her in earshot: "Hey, that's way out of line and spectacularly unprofessional. We don't do that here. Treat people with respect. You owe her an apology."
Unpopular ideas about social norms
Ha! Good luck with that. Scrapped cars are down to like $60/ton.

It seems reasonable that the scrap steel and used car markets would be correlated... If self-driving cars cause a drop in car ownership, it will be a good time to figure out a previously-uneconomical use of steel.
https://dlang.org/spec/unittest.html for D
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> The ship is equipped with defense in depth against barrages of supersonic missiles. Defense against large ships ramming them, not so much.

Its got defense against that, too. Though the first stage of that defense is detection by sensors ranging from the Mk I eyeball to fancy radar, etc.
Yes, there is an app, according to the article: "Every morning, as soon as he wakes up, Iñaki de la Parra, an endurance athlete from Mexico, uses a heart-rate monitor he straps to his chest and an app on his smartphone to measure the tiny variations in the intervals between his heartbeats."

I wouldn't know what the app is, whether anything that works with the Apple Watch exists, or even whether the Apple Watch has an API that would allow an app to measure it.
> Seems like they were biting off way more than they could chew.

They are building a patent portfolio that will be valuable over the next 20 years. No way will Apple enter a completely new market outside of consumer electronics.
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At least it's better than paying for immigrants that forced their way into your country as the Germans are doing now.
Wouldn't that be the Affero license?
Yup, I’ve been using the following setup for years:

1. My monitor sits on a cardboard box and an old inkjet printer.

2. My keyboard and mouse are on a nice, wooden plank on top of two stacks of cheap books.
I'm pretty sure the need for social interactions with other people is somewhat central to being human, and not a trait of culture. That's why humans are often called "social animals".

The suicide rate in japan being 3x European levels also seems to point at something being amiss, although that may indeed be an artefact of culture.
> Is Japan a magical land of far-advanced technology

Is the technology really that far advanced. I understand it was in the 80s maybe? None of the devices I have are made by Japanese companies. None of the software I use is developed in Japan primarily. My car is but that's about it, but I picked it because of reliability not because of high tech features.
It does, it's embedded as in "use it inside another program".
This ignores the issue that while Japan opens the red carpet for people to move and work in Japan, once you get past the welcoming mat you enter the vaunted Japanese Business Grind where you get to deal with incredibly long working hours, abuse and shitty pay. This is before you even start talking about black companies.

The reason why foreigners have trouble accepting Japanese culture is because work culture in Japan is so incredibly toxic except in rare circumstances that you don't bother adapting and you don't bother learning.
I would do nothing. Even if woman has shown signs that she is offended by this and I would feel need to help her to cope with stress, I'll do nothing. It is hard to talk with offended and to not offend her even more.

I generally try to avoid communicating with extremely sensitive people. It is pain to talk with them trying to guess if the next my comment would offend her or it wouldn't. It is just boring, you need to stop making fun from life, stop joking, stop thinking in unexpected ways and try to think in a ways the most people think, because it is the only safe way.

Situation becomes worse if such a sensitive person already feel offended.
All of Europe? Where GSM was invented?

This kind of bullshit only happens in the US where carriers are free to bullshit as they like due to absolutely lacking regulation.

In Europe we know better, we do better.

I'd rather say the burden of evidence is on the other side of the argument: prove to me why do you need to do testing as a carrier.
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> We know that this immigration-driven growth is not real growth.

Do you? Here's a list of US companies founded by immigrants:

Google, Apple (2nd gen), Intel, Tesla, ebay, Yahoo
A LEAF is really just an electric golf cart. No real value as a car.
You might find this article written by a dying advertising creative director interesting. I certainly did.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/overdue-lesson-perspective-li...

You're right though, my last paragraph is not really needed for the argument. It would be better to say that the workday should just be four hours for everyone and companies can pay for overtime as needed when crunch hits. That would apply to SpaceX the same as it would to an ad agency.

I worked in film and I found it sad how many people are working 12 hour days to help create garbage movies that are just a cash grab by studios. Those kinds of hours really take a toll. It's one thing to do those kinds of hours if you are making something you think is really great art (it's still rough) but it's another thing to be making those sacrifices to help create a totally disposable movie meant only to enrich a studio.
Um, i'm not sure. Python was designed with C compatibility as a main feature since the start, anyways.
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Are they transcoding video down to 480p?
They have computerized toilets, so compared to what I see in most of the United States, I'd have to say yes.
The Burlingame A&A is notorious for being the one of the cheapest -- if not the cheapest -- places to fill up between SF and SV. In this case, it's likely that the Chevron literally across the street just decided it's not worth playing that game, hoping instead to appeal to the crowd who wonders if the cheap competitor is actually up to par.

The fact that the Chevron gets any business at all seems to validate this strategy at first blush.
> Yet it transition to a functioning, diverse society today.

Do you think it is functioning because it is diverse or diverse because it is already functioning well? Or maybe the two are just correlated and there is something else causing those two things?
Did you miss the part right after what you quoted?

> the "far-advanced technology" part just doesn't extend to mass-market consumer electronics in the same way any more.

Japan has leading technology companies in many industries that consumers just don't care about.
I remember reading about Goodyear releasing a "spherical wheel" concept in early 2016: http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a19747/goodyear-eagle-3...
Any specific brand of an electric toothbrush you recommend?
I've seen it frequently, especially when road configuration makes one station more convenient to, e.g., a freeway on/off-ramp.
Created a throwaway for this. But Google has a reputation for shutting you down without resort to any recourse and I can attest to this personally. Hope I'm not off topic, but I had a successful Android App which was taken down from the Playstore because I used a single keyword that was copyright, but it was really essential for this app and I had provided context for using the keyword. It was a free app anyway and I was making no money from it (no ads either). Anyway, they removed my app from the store and I had no way to get it back up- all my ratings, downloads, reviews were lost. The point here is that they didn't give me a chance to defend myself- one strike, and you're out and never coming back again. Imagine enterprises using Google products with this sort of an attitude.
You really should not upload other people's complete works while under copyright.

Edit: Nice License

> Copyright (c) 2017 Zack Thoutt
> they've just papered over it with immigration

That's just easily disproven by looking up GDP per capita.

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...
Black companies? As in Black Market or Yakuza?
there is a 20+ year history of PDAs before the iPhone. For all intents and purposes my 1998 Windows CE Casio PDA looks and acts like a first gen iPhone. It's home screen has a grid of 3x4 icons of apps and general works very analogous to the iPhone. Apple did an amazing job of polishing the PDA but they made an incremental jump being at the right place at the right time with affordable cellular data and capacitive touch and an amazingly well designed ui

it sounds like they we're doing much more with their car efforts
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Yeah. Changed how I see things.
> Compared to Symbolics CL looks like a mess at least from reading the books.

Which books, may I know?

The Common Lisp Hyperspec is one of the best reference manuals for a programming language, ever. But it is not a tutorial nor a how-to guide!

Try "Pratical Common Lisp". Or "Land of Lisp" if you want to have lots of fun.

simple but refined, guaranteed to blow your mind...

https://youtu.be/HM1Zb3xmvMc
A history of branch prediction
Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a magical level of reliability.
I think you can have one, and it'll be the next education revolution.

Take information about a product/theory, reduce it to parts, then put it together in a more individualized tutorial.

The AI is not in the what parts bit.

It's in making parts that can fit seamlessly together.

A way, through a known standard, to automatically create fake animations and people and spoken words from easily edited text.

Such that you can seamlessly slip in info the user doesn't know about and remove the crap they do (and mistakes, video editing is hard). Borrow parts from other peoples open tuts seamlessly.

It's a candle store, so search and replace shoe with candle.
I had a reasonable idea of what was needed, and a roadmap for what order to tackle things in, when I was working on this (briefly) before. I didn't work on it for long and stopped working on this because I changed jobs and had less time for non-work projects, and personal circumstances got in the way too so, I switched to focusing on smaller projects. This was several years ago, before HAMMER2 and, I haven't actually followed developments since that closely (I haven't been looking at the code really) so, I expect some of my conclusions are no longer valid and I need to revisit this. I have been interested in taking this up again for a few months but, hadn't actually decided to start again until a few weeks ago when someone else I know expressed interest too.

What utilities you need and, what you do in userspace, depends on what the goal of the port is somewhat I think. Also, what goes in user-space depends on what you are porting to (FUSE or what OS). My goal was (and is again now) to have first class support on Linux, i.e. you should eventually be able to do everything you can on Dragonfly with HAMMER on Linux, with as good performance as possible. Initially, performance takes a back seat to feature support (unless it were to be so bad that it made features unusable) but, good performance is an important end goal of mine. I think for my goals, an in-kernel driver and user space utilities based on the Dragonfly ones but, with some substantial differences in code, make sense.

There is a FUSE port of HAMMER that lets you read, without history I think. I don't think this is maintained anymore but, it had very different goals to mine and, a port with different goals to my own, might want to pickup this/start a new FUSE port. In particular, if you don't care about supporting every feature, you want to get things that you do plan to support working more quickly, you don't care about performance in the long-run and/or, you want to target other platforms than Linux as well/instead, FUSE might make more sense. I think there are reasons to work on a FUSE port as well as a specific port to Linux (and other OSs), they have slightly different goals and trade-offs.

To be honest, I'm not sure exactly what you want to know here so, if I haven't addressed it, please do ask (but, it is possibly the case that what I know is too out of date to be interesting).

If you're interested in working on this together (there are a few people I know already who have expressed interest in working on this, all based in London so far), hearing more about progress in the near future or, if you are planning your own Linux port or port to another OS, I'd be interested to hear. Let me know if you'd like me to provide contact details for non-public messages (there's no email on my profile right now). I am not planning to make anything I do public until at least we have read support, with no history, working and at least somewhat tested but, I'm not set in stone about that particularly. I don't see any reason to use our port over the existing FUSE one until after then either.
Honestly, I'd rather hear evidence supporting the argument that any of these companies could be called "the future of automation".

Anything I say, will by its nature be anecdotal. But do you have anything to support the assertion that they're actually doing amazing things?
> So when you can't even buy one new, why would someone want a used one?

If people would want to buy them before considering availability of new ones, banning new one increases market clearing price of used ones by eliminating an obvious alternative.

Now, as the number on the road dwindles, you'll start to see reduced support infrastructure (gas stations, parts availability, etc.) which will make ownership less attractive, but that's likely to be a slow and lagging process. So, if there are still utility advantages to gas cars, I'd expect used ones to become more expensive initially with a ban on new ones, but drop sometime later.
> In the Eastern Block you had those two conditions checked and it didn't quite work out.

The workers did not control the assets, unelected totalitarian dictators did, despite endless propaganda to the contrary.

I'm not saying the idea works, but the Eastern Block was not a test of it.
"Burakku Kigyou" are (usually) white-collar 'sweatshop' type companies. Long hours, bad pay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_company_(Japanese_term)
I worked at Amazon for a while and the point to note is that the Fire phone, despite being a public failure, led to a lot of things at Amazon. For ex:
1. The computer vision and machine learning stuff behind the 8 cameras on the Fire phone has been repacked and reused at multiple places. There's also a object recognition service in AWS if I remember correctly.
2. The FireOS, which powered the Fire phone, is being used on all Kindles except the older e-ink Kindles.

While the hardware division was indeed shut down, Amazon did manage to salvage as much as they can.

The cloud service didn't take a life on its own - in the very early days there was just EC2 and S3, nothing else. It took a lot of focused investment, commitment and trust from the management to give the AWS experiment more time so that it could succeed and eventually it did.

Fire phone was one of Amazon's many experiments. It failed sure, but hey you miss 100% of the changes you don't take.
Here are a few things correlated with GDP. Note that we don't know the direction of causation, so either Japan's GDP is going sideways because corruption is on the rise–or they can expect corruption to rise because the economy is stagnating.

low levels of GDP and high levels of corruptions are correlated

poverty reduction and per capita income growth performances are correlated

economic freedom is correlated with income

Rule of law is correlated to GDP per person

There is only a partial correlation between democracy and economic growth but stronger correlation between democracy and level of GDP

As per capita income increases to around US$5,000 per annum, environmental quality falls, but then from around $8,000 per capita onwards, the environmental quality rises again

GDP and happiness is correlated

GDP per capita is correlated to percentage of population who donate to charity

GDP is correlated to individualism in a country

Wealthier countries tend to have less income inequality
Sure. Might be easier if I use specific companies and people.

If Snapchat ends up being wildly profitable, Evan Spiegel can't simply spend those profits, because they belong to Snapchat. If he wants to spend those profits, his choices are to either collect a dividend from the stock he owns, have Snapchat buy back his shares, or sell the right to participate in those future events on the open market.

Or with a super simplified analogy: Snapchat is a box with some cash and the operating business inside it. When Snapchat makes money, it means there's more cash in the box. If someone wants to buy the box, they pay shareholders for it, and if there's more cash in the box the buyer is going to pay more for the box. Paying a dividend is taking cash out of the box and handing it to shareholders. The value of the cash plus the rest of the box is the same whether the box gives money to the owners directly (through a dividend) or indirectly (by getting bought for more money). So really, dividends don't matter. If the company decides not to pay a dividend, it turns $X of stock + $Y of dividend into $X + $Y of stock.
Yes, the Filipino nurse situation was a debacle (and for the most part continues to be). However, the government has been routinely extending visas for those involved [0].

The reality of the situation is that it is very hard to live here if you are a foreigner with that kind of job. In the town where I live something like 22 of the 130 or so foreigners who live here are Filipino nurses. I've met some who have stayed for 4-5 years, but most cycle through pretty quickly -- not victims of immigration policy, but more victims of not being able to live and work in Japan without speaking Japanese. My wife used to work at the retirement home nearby and it is a hard job. It is completely unrealistic to bring in foreigners to do it unless they have extensive experience with the Japanese language and Japanese customs.

The same can also be said for other kinds of "cultural" visas. I've only ever met 1 person on a cultural visa and her stay was a disaster. I know some people on the city council and they decided never to do it again.

As for migrant workers... or even non-migrant workers who are willing to farm. I have no idea what the government intends to do, but it's getting desperate out my way. I live in Shizuoka prefecture and we're losing something like 10% of our population every year and nobody wants to farm. I've met a couple from England who got visas to farm here and they have done very well by renting land (which you can get virtually for free). But I agree that something needs to be done.

So, no, it's not nirvana by any stretch of the imagination. But I think the image that people have (fuelled by stories like the one that started this thread) is grossly misaligned with reality.

[0] http://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/02/03/17/japan-to-extend-st...
But your last sentence is only true among single-variable polynomials, isn't it? For example, f(x,y)=xy and g(x,y)=x^2 agree on infinitely many points.
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The Schwartz-Zippel lemma is a related, also based on roots https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/33113/is-there-an-eff...
One thing that makes racket shine is it's macro facilities. Syntax case is nice and all that, but Jesus Christ in a chicken basket I wish scheme would have standardised on syntax-parse.

Syntax case vs. syntax parse isn't and will never be close to a fair comparison. Not only is it more powerful, it also provides the users of your macros with proper error messages. It blows both unhygienic and other hygienic macro systems out of the water for anything more complex than very basic macros.
I was mostly arguing against the idea that Japan would be unable to embrace some diversity. But yes, in the long term, immigration is probably important to sustain a dynamic economy with new ideas.

I posted the list of US companies founded by immigrants elsewhere. It includes Google, Apple, Tesla, Intel and others.
Same problem here, but good shoes and off-the-shelf orthotic inserts have made a big difference.
Software development is still viewed as being a 'lesser' or 'menial' career in Japan by larger corporations. That's why you see so little software come out of Japan these days and also why so many Japanese websites are disasters of design.

Granted this has been slowly changing because of startups spinning up as well as foreign company HQs. Still, wages for developers in Japan are terribly low in most scenarios.
Lol. I'm not anti-immigration, don't be so defensive, and I'm also not talking about the US. Stop bringing up the US. This is a thread about Japan and I'm talking about New Zealand.

The New Zealand government really wants people to believe that we're experiencing 'economic growth'. But while they might be technically right, they're effectively wrong. Economic growth that is so much entirely from immigration that we're effectively in per-capita-GDP recession is not real, useful, good growth.
My parents just bought a new model (2016, one of the last ones) and it's surprisingly practical.
The big question in all this is "what the hell was the OOD doing before the collision"? Whoever had the deck had primary responsibility for knowing the situation around the ship. Here's a comment by someone who's been the OOD in those waters.[1] The other ship should have been seen tens of miles away on radar, and miles away visually.

A destroyer has more than enough maneuverability to avoid almost any collision. Here's a Burke-class making a hard 180 degree turn.[2] Those ships have 108,000 horsepower gas turbines, huge dual props, and large dual rudders. If the OOD calls for an emergency maneuver, a direction change happens fast. This isn't some underpowered, heavily loaded freighter.

Why isn't the Navy disclosing more about this? Are they hiding something? Eventually it's going to come out.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/richard.nikoley/posts/4734883396502...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vih4tGmqjs
Someone wrote (and then apparently deleted) an interesting comment pointing out this was originally written by Jeff Raskin in the 'Apple II Basic Programming Manual'.

The screenshots are from a later version called 'The Applesoft Tutorial', revised by Caryl Richardson. That version has no author credits.
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I never said that Preferred/Mujin/LeapMind would be the future of automation. I just said that in my uneducated opinion, having followed these companies for some time now, I feel like they may be better equipped to handle "new economy" automation--shift from hardware to software, shift from closed-off proprietary standards to open collaboration. Aka the anathema of Sony, Sharp, Fujitsu, KDDI, etc.
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$8k? How?

Our local electric utility ran a $10k discount on the new high end models recently and I thought that was a bargain.
Ask HN: How would you create different permissions for users?
Has any one implemented a permission matrix for users. Is there any available library that can do that.
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I don't really get why you wouldn't approach it as a dynamic programming question. The size of the table would only be about ~38 rows, according to the description, and ~38 columns. If you were given the probabilities of each sum (of which I'm sure is available) you could do it by hand, likely in an excel sheet.