skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're arguing "if the US political climate was totally different, the US may have been able to win." Of course if we posit a totally different reality we can have a different outcome.
The article agrees.

> A better argument is that some technologies may result in the game being more stable and reliable. Those two terms should be a prerequisite to fun [...]
Also to clarify, Stuxnet was the trojan (widely attributed to the CIA and Mossad) designed to introduce subtle errors into the uranium centrifuges that Iran was using to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons development.

It was really ingenious in a lot of ways: it targeted a specific industrial controller card. Even then, all it did was use the controller card to introduce a subtle voltage fluctuation in the power supply in 1/10 of the centrifuges that rapidly burned out the motors.

Basically, it introduced subtle errors into the system that the Iranians spent about a year trying to resolve. It also spread itself through some ingenious mechanisms to avoid air gaps -- in this case it is suspected they infiltrated a supplier for the centrifuges in China via spear phishing and got it on a USB drive from the supplier to cross the air gap (the way it embeds and hides itself in USB microcode is pretty cool).

The whole story reads like a spy novel; except it actually happened. It's one of my favorite examples of how a nation-state can use cyberterrorism to sabotage an enemy from the shadows -- and this action saved lives, because the alternative was an Israeli air strike on the compound. IMO this is a great example of ethical super-spy hacking.
Google 'belief' and 'idea' too.
Because they knew it upfront. The whole Diesel testing system was rigged to eliminate costly end machine testing as done in the US, which historically led to costly cheating on the roll by the US manifacturers. They paid experts passing those tests which were paid as much as a Formula 1 driver.
So the Europeans improved that to reproducible test cases, and much cheaper, only with the engine.

So when the problem with the overly large AdBlue tanks came up, the Europeans knew they can cheat that away, because legally they thought they can get away with it. The engine test passed legally, and there was no legal framework to protect actual sold cars from emitting too much NOx.
This is of course entirely the fault of the politicians, which were of course lobbied into that, and didn't ask much.
That's why VW insisted all the time that they acted legally in Europe. In the US of course not, because in the US the big three always had the advantage of special drivers to pass the emission tests.
So they still don't fear any legal woes in Europe.

So the strategy is to keep calm, and protect the rest of the industry, the politicians, the workers, change the ECU's, and either add bigger tanks or change AdBlue more often. It's insane to ask for 2 years AdBlue storage anyway. 6 months if enough.
And the good engines can pass the new EURO 6 limits, because their injection system is highly optimized. Those engines are miles better and more effective than a normal otto, which enables them to actually use the crap diesel oil. Problematic are only the overly large engines or the cheap ones.
Even simple things like default passwords being the first few numbers of the products serial number wouldn't be that bad.
But why use a blockchain instead of a SQL database? What concrete benefits does it provide and why do we want those benefits?

It's just a data structure, and it's a great one at that, but I really don't see how it fits here.
Why all the 0s? Required padding?
No. They don't. Animals live in the moment and understand causal relationships within time and space. They don't abstract their thoughts and form assemblies or sciences or write histories. Though they understand causal laws better than humans sometimes. Hence you can't teach an animal like you would a human. But you can train an animal. This works on habit, not on abstract thought. Both animals and humans can be trained. Both have habit. Humans live by codes and formulas and religions, all are related to thought,animals don't. Man, through abstract concepts lives in the future and the past, the animal only in the present. Man is led by error, animals don't err. Both animals and man are susceptible to illusion. This is how you trap an animal in the wild. You don't led him into capture by lies or falsehood.
Instagram down too. Wonder if whatsapp is also affected
My counter-example is me.

I was pretty ignorant about the US's long history of structural racism before Ferguson. But when that blew up, I was surprised. Clearly, there was something I didn't understand going on.

I started following a lot more African-American voices on Twitter (and do to this day). I ended up reading more about the history, both distant and recent. I dug into the economics of it. [1] But mainly, I listened to non-white reactions to current events.

My initial reaction was often denial. "It can't be that bad!" And that's easy to say when you have a small n. But as the n gets larger, I had to give that denial up. What I wanted to believe about America was contradicted by the facts.

I'm sure some people do bunker down in their denial rather than taking time to hear out the protesters. But I suspect those are the people who wouldn't have changed their minds regardless.

[1] E.g., https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/7/7/15929196/police-fine... or http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873 or https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-cas...
Is this the clinical or technically precise definition of what thinking is? Or is it your own definition?
I said converting the grid to battery-backed solar. Batteries are clean. Cobalt is a heavy metal but when mined sustainably and built with renewable energy the pollution from a producing a battery is very little.
My feed is not loading. Instagram is down as well. WhatsApp is working though.
Huh? That's rather the opposite of what I'm saying.
Yes, it is another kind of activity.

To ask "what animals are thinking" is exactly the same as to ask "what a self-driving car or a smartphone are thinking".
Whatever the thing or force is that is looking out of my eyes and just knowing, it is also looking out through the eyes of animals, to whatever extent possible. Of course this is non-falsifiable.
I have one company in India and another in US and I am the CEO of both. Same name and same directors (Indian citizens) but not a subsidiary .The India company is 4 years old and US company 1.5 years.For the US company we have US Bank account , Tax filing etc. I visit US in B1 frequently , what is the best option for me to pursue Green card. Is L1A a good option?
There were a few who actually didn't cheat, or pulled out of the market.
Opel is a prominent one as I remember.
Philosophy 101.
https://www.messenger.com/login/password/ yields:

"Facebook Will Be Back Soon
Facebook is down for required maintenance right now, but you should be able to get back on within a few minutes. In the meantime, read more about why you're seeing this message. Thanks for your patience as we improve the site."
"We'll make _it_so_ that didn't happen" sounds perfectly natural to me.

Or "change it so..."

We change [history/state of the world] to not include that event.
If OP interests you, then this may too: https://pijul.org/

IIRC, when I last looked at this, they were doing dual implementations in OCaml and Scala, but now it looks like it's being done in Rust.
I looked briefly into Hubspot but couldn't get warm (it felt buggy but again I spent just ten minutes there and disn't like it). Guess have to spend more time but the prices are also very high. And the separation of Hubspot CRM and Hubspot Sales + two price tags is confusing.
What about the team problem solving experiment ? I remember two monkeys improvising a distributed solution to pull ropes in the right order and time to get access to some food.
Well, yes, the statement "I'm not a witch" is of zero information value. It's ridiculous to conclude "That's exactly what a witch would say, therefore I believe more that you are a witch", but it's equally ridiculous to conclude "That's exactly what a non-witch would say, therefore I believe more that you aren't a witch." You should not have your beliefs changed at all by the fact that someone claims not to be a witch (unless you believe that witches are unwilling to lie, or something).

I'm trying to figure out if this response is similarly of zero information value - interesting, but should not convince me either that he's in the right or that he's in the wrong - or of nonzero information value, convincing me that he's in the right. I'm currently leaning towards the former.
Yeah, these outlets are the right-wing response to left-wing identity politics. I guess I'm less worried about that because it's so niche and ineffective. Liberal identity politics are mainstream in universities, corporations, media, fine arts, etc, and it damages careers and reputations and generally creates a hostile environment for the outgroup.
Since computers are built by people for people, it does seem like we're missing the most important and difficult science in favor of doing the science that's easy to do. It's easy to reason about how a system that I designed will perform. It's hard to answer the questions of how our technology choices affect other people. It would be great if science could help us design high quality systems with a limited budget, or establish a theory around whether designing any given system will improve someone's life. It would be pretty dang useful if we had some formal scientific results around what makes a game fun, or more generally what makes software pleasant to use and productive.
The problem with code...is that there is such a big overhead between thinking/designing a solution and actually implementing it in code - as in unneeded trouble with coding, syntax, compilation, errors....and so on, and so on - as such, coding and source code per se are widely perceived as Work Produced, not easily sharable for Free.

Code, globally, needs to be abstracted, to the point that it can be far more damn simple to Write something and Execute it without the troubles of having to know libraries, syntax, language intricacies, and so on and so forth. There is such an absurd obsession with Coding in its current state that it makes it even harder to Change how code is written, to make it easier per se, to Abstract it even more whilst retaining flexibility and power - the less symbols the better, the less actual letters in code the better, the more grouping of code the better, the more Actual reuse of it the better.

Take Java, for example. It is widely the most popular complete Abomination of the computer science world. It's just obscenely hideous - having to write so many letters and words and syntax only to fill a flawed theory and logic behind it, it's just -Inefficient-.

Abstracting the way Code is and is written will be an actual evolution of computer science as a whole - reuse of code, ease of writing, easier sharing, less headaches, better products, more Meaningful time spent on code. Making people 'love' the current way of writing it just to turn them into code monkeys one day is just horrible and exploitative.
Dancing can reverse the signs of aging in the brain
Bayesian logicism is the logic derived from Bayesian probability.

Magic numbers are an anti-pattern: which constants are what and why should be justified OR it should be shown that a non-expert-biased form converges regardless.
Hey look a leftist rag published a column calling for her to resign:

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/james-di-fiore/black-lives-matt...

Quite the apologia.
It occurs to me that author refutes one dogma (make functions as small as reasonably possible) only to propose another dogma (small functions are harmful). No thanks, I will continue improving my style such that it matches my abilities, and hopefully also the abilities of people reading my code.

Since I'm in the position to use Swift, I often define small functions WITHIN functions, in order to give the behavior of a code block a name. I'm also using LOTS of immediately executed closures (is that the correct term?) to reduce scope and profit from slightly easier control flow. And I don't see how this would be bad.

Meta: I thought we were over this dogma thing. I watched the TDD thing become popular, and then fall from grace - why do people still need to pretend they know better than me, the reader? Do they want to become gurus, or do they soothe their own feeling of "doing it wrong"?
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If a man is robbed of language by some misadventure, then is she robbed of thought?
> relative to abstract reasoning, like pattern recognition.

You mean like the patterns the puffer fish creates to attract mates?

https://youtu.be/yaPmYYWsixU
FYI: Audi is the technological part of VW who actually
develops and produces the engines. VW has not much
to do with engines.
Audi and Porsche also do own VW.
The majority of fraud is via counterfeit cards (which chip is effective against), not stolen cards. Most of the US credit card industry decided that they'd lose more by being the "difficult card" in your wallet than those transactions cost them. They're not just lazy or incompetent.
You are 100% correct about this. People have appeared on "People you may know" when I have absolutely zero connection to them other than I have chatted to the on What's App... I'm afraid I may have to stop using the service soon... was great until FB bought it.
The trick with some of these runtimes (I don't know if Clojure does this, just noting that the paradigm exists) is that the state of the runtime is not lost when going from development to production.

The entire state of the program, including the code and the globals in memory, is preserved, and simply spun up in a different environment. This tripped me up for some time with Smalltalk - I didn't understand this.

It's the same with many lisps - you can frequently get a REPL directly inside a running program, and query/change the objects (including code) that is running. This was used to great effect in fixing the Deep Space 1 probe while it was 100 million miles away from Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_1
like the constant factors usually omitted in complexity analysis
Watch the Swan Song play sessions or anything by Rollplay to see how really good DM's do it.
I think a lot will depend on the average speed attainable in a system of wholly autonomous vehicles, if you can commute an hour each way at 90mph that's a catchment area 2.6 times larger (than at 55mph).

That would have a huge effect.

90 mile circle around London covers the entire south east of the UK pretty much.

90 miles from Leeds covers Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham,bradford and Hull which is much of all the major cities outside of London in the midlands/north.
I suspect by the time there are enough self driving cars that it lowers drive time, other factors will kick in as well.

Automation to that degree would likely have wiped out many other non-driving jobs in the city, or made them such that doing the job remotely was possible.
Political will is not an engineering complication. It applies to any solution to global warming. Im comparing cutting co2 to other solutions, not as a problem in general.

My frustration comes from seeing cutting co2 as somehow harder than seeding chemicals into the atmosphere over the entire planet, or building a tube to the stratosphere, or lanching a sunshield into space. Those solutions are an insane level of difficulty above cutting co2.
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Digital Harmony: On the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art (1980)
Writing code has many analogs to writing prose. If you were writing a letter and you only used small sentences, it'd be irritating to read and probably difficult to follow.

Rather than dogmatically applying "no small functions" or "break functions down as much as possible" it's more useful to look at how the code communicates the idea (and achieves the goal).

If the function is calling 30 things before it does the 4 things that logically map to the function name, maybe consider refactoring out all or parts of the preceding 30 steps.
This crow really appears to be thinking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZerUbHmuY04&app=desktop
Facebok and Instagram down
Then you have to merge them on every read (after any modification).
My co-workers from the office are frequently recommended to me on FB. Since I don't have their number, it must be location based.
Yeah sounds like the Roland GK-3.

Expensive, finicky. But it did convert to MIDI for sound purposes. Enough so that Fender even sold a model with the Roland pickup built in.

Source: 20+ years with guitar and way too nerdy with MIDI and stuff over the years
If you want a copy with the lines going from bottom left to top right on all *-off icons, you can run https://pastebin.com/iy84YHyY in your dev tools console when visiting https://feathericons.com.
I've spent years wondering about this and living it and I've come to understand the problem in terms of scheduling theory...and when I did, it was both a moment of amazement at the clarity it brought and disappointment at the tautological obviousness that the scheduling problems of contractors were explained by scheduling theory. I'll skip a description of scheduling problems and the difficulties and tradeoffs of creating a schedular because these are well described in computer science literature. Not because I would not get something out of writing about them at length.

Because the scheduling problems of contractors are much worse. There's no central schedule. Contractors schedules must be built around client's schedules which they do not control. Contractors have multiple client schedules to work with. Contractors have a different scheduling weights than clients, like cash flow which prioritizes tasks closer to billing points and the expected lifetime values of clients and the cost of pushing each project to the back burner.

Even worse, when initial cost rather than lifetime economic benefit is a primary consideration of the client when selecting a contractor, the contractor must default to running as lean as possible. Without surplus staff, the contractor can only scale up by employing subcontractors. Subcontractors have exactly the same scheduling challenges and considerations.

To put it in a nutshell, a contracted project where low initial cost is a primary consideration is dependent on the schedules of the clients of the contractors subcontractors. And the initial low cost pressure runs all the way down to resource constrain those subcontractors.

The last thing I will add is that many projects start by the client and contractor sitting down and having no idea what the project actually is, how it will be done, or how long it will take. But the client wants a fixed price and a low one.

Good luck.
Too hard for me to work on a 12.5" screen. It's got great resolution, but my eyes can't use it.
I was responding to this statement:

"It is also absurd to be so certain about our potential impact on something as complex and chaotic as climate."

It is possible to be certain about impacts on climate. Increase CO2 in the atmosphere by a factor of a trillion. There will be runaway warming in the immediate term. This is known and well understood. I'm not claiming we are near this point but the suggestion that we can't know some effects because climate is hard is absurd.
Facebook is down, globally
Let's elaborate how this impacts life in different countries around the world.
Games are rather infrequently maintained. There may be a few early patches, but after a year or so, the game is left as-is.

As a great (yet personally disappointing) example, I give you Mass Effect: Andromeda. No more patches or content will be released for the single player game only 5 months after its launch.

Different needs for different domains.
Or if not speed, the comfort of the ride, which would allow for more time. I would spend more time in a self driving car if I could shower, dress, cook, nap, and do work.
Instagram too
I encourage you to spend more time thinking through your views relating to that last paragraph, as it comes across as pretty muddled to me.

Identity and gender are social constructs, sure. But social constructs like "black" and "gay" were created by dominant groups as means of control and exploitation. The left's desire to protect people in certain groups is about undoing that historical oppression. So it's not about "liking" or "agreeing with". It's about solving systemic problems.

As an example, I'm a straight, white dude. I'm also opposed to dominance as a way of running things. Historically, people who aren't straight white dudes have gotten the short end of the stick. So I support action to stop the deepening of that and to erase the historical effects. But I oppose similar action in favor of straight white dudes because that would reinforce the historical imbalance.

If you really struggle with sentences about, say, white men, then just replace words you don't like with things "group that benefits from structural oppression" and "group that is harmed by structural oppression". That may make it easier to see that it's not about you personally, but mainly about hundreds of years of history.

As a side note, I also didn't have many social skills. I was weird and awkward. But they are skills! You can learn them! Find a good therapist and spend a few years catching up.
Don't worry; it will be renamed in 2620: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/a6o404/futurama-smelloscope
Can someone recap (or link to) the whole story behind the fork ?
So do we think Facebook and Amazon are just figuring out every relation between things in the world and they'll work out how to monetize it later? Or, what exactly is the hypothesis here? I have seen them accused of some pretty impressive leaps of inference lately.
>I don't really understand comments saying that Dems need to focus less on minority issues to win back working-class whites

Its just about strategy, they can still fix the civil rights issues when they get to office. But they don't need to run on them, everyone interested in identity politics (sans the white nationalists) is already voting Dem. Campaigning on these issues doesn't win any new voters. They need to court all the centrists and right-wing people who aren't rich.

Make the election about putting more money in everyday people's pockets. Run on "no taxes on your first $30k of income". Severely cut taxes on everyone below $100k, and start adding new brackets at $1m and every $500k above that.
80% would be electrifying all road transport and making grid electricity renewable, and converting processes to electricity (primarily converting home heating). Road+heating+residential electricity is about 70% of co2 in the us and 50% of methane. The remainder is industrial use of electricity.

NB that this claim is in response to a proposed solution of building a gun to shoot a sun shield into space. The difficulty is relative. One is incredibly easy compared to the other.
I hang it under my table http://i.imgur.com/hNSuSyG.jpg and I could put it behind the leg and deeper under so it could be barely noticed; and the controllers are usually charging in another room (but in this photo they're hanging just behind).

HTC sells a "deluxe audio strap" for the Vive that is PSVR style, and I've made a mod very similar to this one: http://i.imgur.com/OkF6WSV.jpg (for a friend, I still use the stock straps but will probably make the mod for me too). I've followed these instructions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uDf6ayUQtk
I already commute an hour each way by public transportation. The only benefit a self-driving car could theoretically offer me is that I don't have to deal with other passengers.
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I guess you'd want to be able to include it in your distribution. FreeBSD for example includes svn (or svnlite or whatever) so you can fetch/update the source and do a buildkernel or buildworld without having to install any ports.