skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been doing this for nearly a decade, mid-six figure income. No employees, no customers to deal with, just content that I update on a weekly basis, with links to high-quality affiliates that I trust and actually recommend.

Anyone who can write a decent book on a subject that consumers care about can do this, but it does take time, probably a good 3 or 4 years before you start making decent income, would need to start it as a side project while working full-time, but I'm convinced any decent writer can do this.
You want a controled response curve. Something that gradually stiffens so the objects get slowed down as much as possible
People walk out of their flat, take the lift to the garage (avoiding eye contact), sit alone in their car, spend 30 minutes grumbling at the traffic and other drivers' behaviour, park on the company lot, walk out of the office 10 hours later, sit alone in their car, spend 40 minutes (dammit!) bitching about the traffic and other drivers' behaviour, stop at the supermarket, say hello-thanks-goodbye to the cashier, spend 10 minutes in their car, park into their garage, take the lift to their flat (avoiding eye contact), open and lock the door. Repeat on the next day.

You can replace the garage and the car by the fastest possible walk to the underground station, grumbling at slower people, and 30 minutes in the tube, avoiding any eye contact by looking at their smartphone/newspaper/book and avoiding any other interaction with headphone.

And on Friday afternoon or evening, they get out of the city as fast as possible, until Sunday evening.

That's "social beings enjoying spending time with other humans in cities". You don't even know 2 people in your own building, when you live in a city. You can lay on the side-walk having a cardiac arrest and people will walk by you, if not over you.
I get the idea of grabbing the things most important to you before you and leaving your stuff behind in favor of kids (I guess), but what I'm curious about is what caused them to cover the barracks in the first place.

I mean if you have got the time to cement over barracks for 1000 people surely you have time to pack up!
Another commentor explained how potholes form, but I'll add that Cleveland doesn't have a lot of money and tends to defer maintenance.

When I was living there, road signs saying "Steel Plate on Road" were a common sight. I remember the city fixed a water pipe and instead of re-paving the street, they just left several giant 4ft x 8ft steel plates with corresponding sign for over a year.
Perhaps your experience was different from mine. I went to a well known, buy non ivy league school, and grad school for myself and most, not all, of those around me was more about faking it until you made it into industry.

Plenty of junk science, including a thesis I decided not to publish, while my advisor wanted the extra points on his resume. Many PHD students are stuck because they got a hard stem degree (like physics) but realized that job pickings were a little slim without further academic development. Or they are foreigners and cannot stay in the U.S. without studying.

Passion does not always last forever. Especially when you got off-ivy league schools. Didnt you hear stories in school about graduate students who were simply stuck for a decade because of lack of interest from them and/or their advisor? Not totally farfetched.
Tesla's demon-haunted cars in Irma's path get a temporary battery-life boost
Thanks for the suggestion. Added!
Perhaps, but doesn't the fact that a piece of code has bugs imply that it wasn't actually written as cleverly as possible?
How is the hypercomputation mentioned in the report related to a Turing machine with oracle?
He did seem to indicate that was on an esoteric processor though so maybe it's not on an Intel/AMD chip.

I don't know much about CPU internals, but would it actually be possible to 'patch' that through updated microcode?

It's such a clever program, will be intrigued to see what else it can find!
>application of it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic#Early_applications
I didn't have time to apply better styling yet. Thanks for the suggestion!
I look for scientific papers a lot and have found that I'm getting a lot more sites like IFLS or Ars that are reporting on said paper. Or I'll get related studies, but not the one I'm looking for, when the related studies definitely don't contain a word I'm using.

This is even expanding into my code search. Like I'll type "do something os related python linux" and get commands for windows as the first few hits. Clearly I don't want windows.
That's only if you're trying to be competitive with Google et al as a business venture. If all you're going for is good enough, that's not indicative of your necessary costs. What's more, the FOSS movement has a long history of accepting these kinds of compromises.

I call this the "Retina watermark fallacy"—when you equate something not being the latest and greatest with being unacceptable. When Apple introduced the "Retina" Hi-DPI display for the iPhone 4, it was good. But what's more, it was supposed to show that everything else was junk. And yet, if you looked at Apple marketing materials from ~5 years prior, you could find breathless ad copy about their then-latest displays that were (necessarily) not Retina quality. That means either one of two things are true:

1. either Apple was selling unusable junk prior to the introduction of the Retina displays, and they managed to mistakenly convince themselves and everyone else that this stuff was acceptable when it actually wasn't, or

2. pre-Retina displays were good enough, and Hi-DPI displays are simply better

The truth is lies in 2.

So, the takeaway as I understood it from the original question would be whether or not the FOSS world could produce today a search engine on par with, let's say, 2002-era Google. (I remember 2002-era Google, and not only did it work, but it was good!)
> My soft skills are good enough on the job. I hardly get complaints about communication issues

This isn't about you, I don't know you, and you may well be the exception to this. But, given that; in my experience everyone I've ever met in person who claims that their social skills are not why their (not just coding) interview skills are lacking is wrong. Often they're wrong because they don't even realize it, because their peers know that communications skills are lacking and then don't even raise the issue to avoid the possibility of a (quite common) poor reception of the feedback. Don't assume the lack of criticism as an endorsement. If someone thinks you lack something technically but have strong communication, they'll tell you that. If someone thinks you lack communication skills, they'll do their best to avoid treading on the viper, because they don't know how you'll respond.

> But almost everything about soft skills on a job interview feels too orthogonal and dissimilar to my applied work soft skills. Interviews like that are more suited for sales jobs, I think.

I'm not even 100% sure what you mean by that, but I read it as "I don't really need the skills you think I do." Again, I'm not sure that's what you meant, but as a disinterested third party, if I read it that way, I'd be surprised if some interviewers don't.
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2212

tl;dr It's crap
And now for the coup de grace: you produce a link to sources containing a shining example of CQRS.

Truly, one look at this archetypal wonder, (which certainly every programmer worth his salt has already studied its types and patterns at length), and all doubters shall melt away. If there ever were a more killer app demonstrative of the state of the art, it should be the muse of comp-sci journals or even popular culture!

A toy Microsoft CQRS spike on github from a couple years back does not count, neither does a book reference. I want a canonical example of something real: deployed code to users, thriving and successful. I'll be a happy to learn something new.

My suspicion however is you're all talk - a super-consultant who sold some CQRS work and has an axe to grind because you have co-workers reading this thread, including some of the client's devs. You arrogantly bragged to them and then waded out to sea because you thought me an easy mark to prove your claims to expertise on the subject.

I am prepared to gracefully concede to my betters.
When was the last time you or anyone you know checked the solvency or the soundness of the financial practices of the bank your checking account it in?

I'm betting on "never". I haven't either.

This wasn't true before the FDIC. Banks tried to project an image of conservative solidarity. They don't bother with that anymore.
Obvious question: Are there programs with these instructions in the wild?
Right, but Jehovas Witnesses wouldn't be a concern here - they would reject both pluripotent stem-cell based approaches, and this one.
>You didn't specify that reason, so from the rest of your comment I took it to mean that Python (with numpy) was fast and good enough to write deep learning stuff. That doesn't seem to be the case for TensorFlow.

Tensorflow tensors are numpy arrays, or are transparently viewable as such.

>If you have an array of records (dtype objects), and one of the fields is a string, am I correct that each element needs to allocate memory to hold the longest possible value that can occur for that field? What if that is not known beforehand?

Yes, although you can also store numpy arrays of pyobjects, which are arrays of pointers. You'll be able to vectorize the code, but you won't get the same performance improvements as with a normal numpy array, because that same level of performance isn't possible with an array of pointers.

Note that for most machine learning applications, you'd preprocess your string into a vector of some kind.

>How do you deal with optional fields (e.g. int or null)? Do you need to add a separate boolean to indicate null?

Yes, but I'm not sure when you'd do that. That is, again in most machine learning applications you'd be representing things as one-hot arrays or as some kind of compressed high dimensional position vector, where 0 would represent a lack of presence of some thing.

>How do you deal with union types

dt = np.dtype((np.int32,{'real':(np.int16, 0),'imag':(np.int16, 2)})

is a 32 bit int that can also be accessed as a 16 bit complex number via .real and .imag.
I see this akin to adblockers that generates fake clicks. The sentiment here is if we can waste their time (and money) at scale, it's all for the better.

But with fake clicks, I often read on HN that it is the wrong way to respond. Can someone explain the difference?
Case Western Reserve University has a good engineering program.
Maybe they intentionally left a time capsule?
Zeno's paradox?
For the most part I assume that all of the cryptoasset mining opportunities quickly reach an equilibrium where the difficulty has scaled in direct response to the ratio of the exchange rate and the cost-per-PoW-unit. The cost of electricity in your region is one small wildcard that could be exploited when you scale up.

The complexity of operating and maintaining the mining equipment is low enough that anyone who's mildly interested can order it and flip the switch.

It's interesting and fun but rarely a money making opportunity. For the PoWs that are yet-to-move-to-ASICs, it's more interesting. When the exchange rate changes rapidly, it becomes a bit more interesting.
This might not be the answer you expected, but I would highly recommend looking into the resources that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has available in the Chicago area. The Mormons have locations known as Home Storage Centers[1] where members can buy non-perishable food items in large quantities at low prices so they and their families can be self-reliant. They are generally open to non-members using the facilities if they ask first, and for your cause I would be very surprised if they would not support you wholeheartedly. There is one less than an hour outside of Chicago[2].

If you need a member of the church or the bishopric (clergy) to vouch for you, please feel free to get in contact with me at sam (at) mangane.se.

Good luck!

[1] - https://providentliving.lds.org/self-reliance/home-storage-c...

[2] - https://providentliving.lds.org/self-reliance/food-storage/h... and search for Chicago to get "Naperville Illinois Welfare Home Storage Center"
Can you point to scripture that could be interpreted as standing against stem cell-based cures? Because opposing lethal injection is a pretty strict, literal interpretation of "thou shalt not kill".
I'll take a pop up ad over and inline any day at least I know it's not a part of the content and the close button is usually in the same place-ish.

In line ads always confuse the hell out of me especially now that they are getting so camouflaged into the content and content sites have the scroll to next piece of content functionality.
Is it so hard to not mess with the scrollbar? Just stop doing it, your site is unusable.
I mean literally extracting resources: mining, logging, fishing, oil extraction. As resources become more scarce, the market system causes the price to shoot up, incentivizing the completion of the process to extinction. In the case of cryptocurrencies, it's abstracted somewhat since we use electricity, but those energy resources must come from somewhere, and right now it's not renewables for the most part.

I get what you're saying, but the entire idea of bitcoin is literally an exponential ramp. Each new technology that improves speed (CPU->GPU->ASIC) will be a linear step up, but mining will get exponentially harder. There are network effects from the banking world, but I don't think they should grow even as (N^2 where everyone is connected to everyone else) as they probably use something between than and a spoke and hub model.
Tony Blair: We don't have to leave the EU to control immigration
Basecamp 3 for iOS: Hybrid Architecture
How's the menu interface in HP calcs, is it strictly better than non-menu ones, or is it more of a usability compromise to allow packing more features? In other words, are the non-menu ones better for the subset of features they have?
From Scott Aaronson's "Memrefuting" post (https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2212):

> all proposals along these lines simply “smuggle the exponentiality” somewhere that isn’t being explicitly considered, exactly like all proposals for perpetual-motion machines smuggle the entropy increase somewhere that isn’t being explicitly considered. The problem isn’t a practical one; it’s one of principle.
It is interesting to finally realize that a large part of the audience in this web site is really anti-science. News that in some way attack mainstream science are very much commented in a positive light, as if scientists were secretly trying to make their own work less available and obscure on purpose.
Writing ability is on the wane in general. In professional settings, IMO this is mostly due to the disappearance of secretaries and clerical staff, lousy education and more non-native speakers.

A long time ago as an intern, I had to re-typeset and format some reports published by a .gov since the 1910s for reprint and web publishing. You would see variations in style, but the reports started getting worse in the early 80s, and are almost incomprehensible today.
> On the other hand, hypercomputation has no physical basis

The author repeatedly makes the point that we don't know, for sure, that this is the case. And that "we haven't built it yet", sans additional explanation, is pretty shoddy evidence for the non-existence of something.

And that, if such a thing did exist, its existence may well be "very fundamental to the structure of the universe and should not be ignored".

I agree with both you and the author.

I don't think we'll ever build device capable of general-purpose "harnessable" hypercomputation. And I don't think any of the ideas described in this paper are in any meaningful sense physically realizable.

But I also allow the possibility that I am wrong, especially on the first count. And if I am wrong, even just on the first count, then some of the theory surveyed in this paper might turn out to be useful.
The shame for having more than others is shared by a large portion of society. Hiding a label is just one manifestation.
So which is it?

Do children at 20-30 increase or decrease life span?

Obviously people who live longer may have more children, especially the men. I am talking about the other way.
I have been told that a good paper is simple and concise but the best paper passes the "Norwegian Test" whereby we suppose that if you were handed only the abstract and plots in your paper you could understand the entire development presented within the paper.

The complexities reality contain do not necessitate the complexity of the details or developments as presented by a single paper.

I've always favored summary books assembled from smaller papers as opposed to large and extremely complicated papers.
I'd say we are 20 minutes away from, "If you think this hurricane is lit you should try this protein powder"

Followed by cleavage shots and duck-facing.
This is pretty cool. I tried a while back to make it a bit easier to solve these types of problems where you have a start state, end state, and possible transitions and restrictions, and want to determine the transitions needed to get from start to end using a CNF solver. Here's the Rubik's cube example [1]. Currently uses MiniSat on the backend. It's pretty domain specific as languages go, but for certain problems it works well.

[1] http://sabrlang.org/rubik/

[2] http://sabrlang.org/code/rubik/source.txt

[3] https://github.com/dbunker/SABR
> For the individual, work is at best an accommodation to the pressing need to provide for ourselves, and that can provide the wherewithal to pursue happiness. At the worst, it is a global system that requires the majority of adults worldwide to dedicate a large chunk of their waking hours to demanding bosses, harrowing commutes, stressful and dangerous work places, and often tedious, repetitive and unrelenting labor.

Well that's a cheerful perspective...

How about this for the "at best" scenario?

Work is how we give meaning to our lives. It is our way of contributing to each other's existence, and to challenge ourselves and thereby grow as human beings. Without work, with only leisure, our lives become superficial and less meaningful.

Now let's talk about the future of work.
heh, by the same guy who made that compiler that translates C into only mov instructions:
https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator
> "identical sized piles of money" is a strawman

No it's not. The entire premise of this article is that equal sized piles of money is not what people want - the presumption is that equality means equal wealth. He went through multiple specific examples using toys, cookies, grapes, and money, explicitly. When the title said "People Don't Actually Want Equality, They Want Fairness", the definition he's using there for "equality" is equal sized piles of money.
I've always wondered what it would look like to tie one of those roadside speed monitoring trailers (they have a sign telling you the speed limit, and your speed) which were in contact with a 'speed bump' filled with hydraulic fluid. The faster you go over the limit, the harder and taller the speed bump :-)

If you did this with a camera system you could avoid penalizing emergency vehicles.
> And they are not Chinese cooking...

Lol, there's a huge Chinese population here, and Chinese restaurants only have Chinese cooks... And it's mostly Chinese who go to them.
It's pretty interesting. I wonder if the wooden tablets have information on what the intention was.
Every friend, colleague and former manager that I talk to has either lead to an interview (so I still don't skip interviewing) which I don't pass, but most of the time they just give me the same basic reply of: "I don't know of any job openings but I'll keep an eye out". No matter what time of the year, no matter how they're doing.

I am at a loss for networking ideas.
Glad folks like my project!

As toomuchtodo posted below, https://www.reddit.com/live/zkadef2ttzql/ is also a really good source of live info.
Wasn't every 8-bit home computer marketed as such though?
Or let them die and spend our efforts helping main street instead of Wall Street. Of course that would require a shift of priorities away from saving those who caused the mess.
There's also The Great wall of Gorgan: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/irans-great-wall-is-now...

> It was so well-known that it allegedly factored into the plans of military legends such as Genghis Khan. Today, however, it’s been almost entirely forgotten—many locals living within a few miles of it don’t even know of its existence.
Dual Citizenship in the US isn't explicitly allowed, but it's not disallowed either and in practice isn't an issue. [1].

1- http://immigration.findlaw.com/citizenship/dual-citizenship....
You can't build 2002-era google today, it's 2017 and the web is a much more hostile place.

If there was any way the FOSS community could fund a reasonable search engine, I'd be happy to work at non-profit wages to make it happen. I don't see any way.
When Correlation Is Not Causation, but Something Much More Screwy
Give a big picture overview, categorize similar things, focus (omit unnecessary detail), mention similarities to known systems, don't assume highly specialized knowledge just to save a little space - the usual techniques to explain things!

Edit: If you look at a text, you can easily see whether or not the author can or wants to make themselves clear. Papers from after roughly 1980 just don't give that impression anymore. You also know the difference between good and bad software documentation when you see it, if that is closer to your area of expertise. I think your explanation is plausible, but wrong.
What are ways you gained traction for your content? I know there's no silver bullet and it takes time, but what are ways you approached getting people to visit your site when you started off?
In order to make this argument coherent, you'd need to oppose as well a whole lot of additional commercial regulation, such as the kind forbidding the sale of food unfit for human consumption, fake medicine, cars that explode in fender benders, &c. If the people through their government can elect to forbid the sale of products altogether, surely it's less a breach of liberty for them to elect instead to add a surcharge to account for the externalities of those goods.
I don't think that could work in th UK or Ireland... because bored kids would have too much fun cutting it open.
Replace India with the USA & Aadhar with SSN, and you'd see how ridiculous this article is. The only difference being Aadhar is biometrically backed, so an Eqifax like beach wouldn't do as much harm
This article is kind of meaningless since an artificial general intelligence hasn't been achieved yet. The usual story that probably got more public traction with the introduction of "The Terminator" movie always assumes a self-conscious entity that had mountaints of data on humans to analyze and quickly concluded we must go, either because we're warmongers and are constantly causing trouble and havoc (Skynet), or we're not evolved enough compared to that artificial and much more developed organism ("Avengers: Age of Ultron"), or a mix of both ("Transcendence").

An article saying "chill out people, robots won't ever take over because they haven't so far" is missing the point by kilometers. Our robots are dumber than an individual ant and have zero concept of self, life, death, needs, or their own place in the world.
My main concern is that if you have a publicly documented chip that explicitly concerns itself with timing it makes it very hard to shave off cycles in the future.

The Apple IIhad similar problems. Woz moved a lot of stuff to software to save chips but it causes compatibility issues in the future.