skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you see that as an indictment of the safety of manned space flight, or the safety of that vehicle? (you do understand that the modern Soyuz is quite safe, right? One can expect SpaceX's stuff to be safer.)
Well, Minsky's financial instability hypothesis is at least interesting. His argument is, basically, that there's a cycle wherein: during normal times, people want to beat the averages, so they engage in more speculative bets; as that ratchets up, and speculative positions become increasingly leveraged, a point comes where debt is financing interest on speculative leverage; once enough people get suspicious, further debt isn't extended, so the speculative positions default and drive cascading defaults (since there's "blood in the water"); the after-crash period comes with a renewed sense of caution, and people accept lower yields as the price of earlier speculative frenzy; over time, the caution comes to seem outmoded and people believe that normal times are here again; and so on.

I'm not sure how I feel about this, but it's at least a perspective.
I am solidly liberal and Left-leaning and most of my friends are extremely liberal and Left-Leaning, too (though, admittedly not extreme left). I don't know a single person who sees any communist state as a utopia or anything approaching utopia. Hell, I don't know anyone who likes communism as a concept any more than a they'd like a state of anarchist primitivism -- basically a quaint idea that might be nice if humans weren't actually human that's interesting to muse about from time to time. Honestly, I think it is a character made up of very few extreme examples that make a spectacle of themselves on social media trotted out by Right-wing pundits and people who don't actually like to think about reality too hard.
Simple network without non linear function (eg sigmoid) can’t learn XOR
> I use 32bit server images in VPS because the RAM usage is significantly lower. This is critical in VPS units with 512MB of RAM... I'm worried.

You could use Debian x32 instead. 32 bit pointers but amd64 instruction set: https://wiki.debian.org/X32Port
I am absolutely sick of it. And I left.

Broken bluetooth headphone pairing due to some idiotic "patches" Ubuntu "maintain" as part of their "mobile" efforts.

Untold wasted hours on custom desktop environments, X11 replacements, "mobile"- all abandoned or half-assed.

Broken upgrade from 16.04 to 16.10 that left my network inoperable.

Half-assed systemd integration - why do I have two competing networking services on my computer ????

Ubuntu is a ghetto. A "we-are-all-super-friendly-united-in-harmony-giant-human-family-everything-is-amazing" ghetto of too much advertising, too much PR, too much "community" this-and-that and not nearly enough engineering.

This is what happens when you have a billionaire benefactor, too much free time, and no fear of failure - lack of direction, lack of vision, lack of anything of quality, really.
I somewhat agree, but any connection between Communism and Socialism needs to similarly find its way to that trash heap. Communism's failing is its seemingly inescapable combination with totalitarianism and despotism, which was a significant problem with Nazism as well. It's not the principle that society is responsible for caring for and providing for it's citizens. For too long, we've resisted more socialist policies because those with a vested interest in the status quo were able to paint them as communist.

But Socialism has been successful enough in European countries at this point to be fully differentiated from Communism despite sharing that single principle. In The United States, in particular, there is still a legacy of the 'red scare' that's used to push back against socialist policies that would greatly improve this country and that needs to end too.
Even static binaries often have some dependencies, eg SSL root certificates. Plus adding metadata to elf is not that convenient.
Those irons are only a small portion of IBM revenue now due to cloud. But they haven't put the correct resource on cloud and software. It was working in the past even though its software is very difficult to use. But now it's the other way around.
> if a bank does this and gets convicted (which happens regularly) people WILL go to jail for doing this

thanks for pointing this out; I've heard the term "usury", but have never seen it linked with criminal charges. but a quick web search shows that you're right.

really interesting, and great point regarding the fraction of after-tax payments.

thanks!
You can still get 6502s, but the SID chip has not been manufactured for years. The SID has long been successfully emulated, but I don't know how practical that would be to include in a 6502 box.
Maybe DB/2 and Websphere liberty profile...

They tack the name 'Watson' on a lot of stuff, but some of that might be good.
thanks, this was interesting! That's better than I expected.
These types of constraint solving approaches have been done before. Despite claims otherwise, it is not actually practical. The number of models solved well in 100-200ms is basically zero. They seem to believe 10-20 seconds per function is reasonable, and it's not. They probably otherwise take < 1 second to compile (if not a small number of milliseconds).

It's already pretty well-known that you can get some significant gain from optimal instruction scheduling and selection (and other things).
The models are even super nice to work with. So it would be awesome if it could be used.
But unfortunately even this paper does not make it practical to do even for those who want it, as the class of users willing to spend days to compile things is very small.
Interesting - is the broader idea here that there is a virtual machine that spans multiple physical machines? Instead of virtual 'memory access', why not model this as a virtual 'software internet'?
The Everything Bubble Is Ready to Pop
These are all related to the core business though. If you can launch rockets, you can launch sats. If you can discount sat launches, you can launch a lot of sats.

If you can launch rockets capable of re-entry and reuse and need to finance building rockets to go to Mars, you can build rockets for cross-continental travel.

It's not like SpaceX is building a smartphone. They're building in their core competencies.
Well, I was asking what the actual result was. GP (who didn't respond to me) mentioned it was an experiment.
TheDong gave experimental results in a reply though.
The very fact that we are talking about student loans, inflation, destroying the dollar and income (wage-labour) means that we are talking about capitalism; though other actors within a capitalist economy by virtue of having more military or property power may influence a capitalist economy, it does not change the fact that it is a capitalist system nevertheless.

Nowhere did I claim that "free market" policies led up to this point, nor did I claim that government intervention didn't lead up to this point. However I did claim it was due to the capitalist mode of production and so far I haven't been refuted on that point.
The 10 Commandments of Poon
You find this mixed reaction in a lot of former communist countries, both capitalist and communist institutions have a vested interest in maintining a cartoon dichotomy.
Good move, will be good for the database for sure. I think of this article [0] every time someone says "why not just use <some hipster database written by 2 people over the course of a year>":

Rule 1: Developing a good DBMS requires 5-7 years and tens of millions of dollars.

That’s if things go extremely well.

Rule 2: You aren’t an exception to Rule 1.

0: http://www.dbms2.com/2013/03/18/dbms-development-marklogic-h...
Take a picture of a street in Cuba, look at the buildings, the vehicles if it's a nice one.

Every nice thing (or thing that looks like it was once nice) you see in the picture was produced by capital markets; and it looks like the 1940s because because the capital markets stopped functioning in the 1940s.
https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/friends.html is a non-exhaustive list of companies using Rust in production.

Many don't explicitly hire Rust devs, but hire devs in general, as they won't just be working on Rust projects, but also on others. That's not always the case, but it's common. For example, Amazon recently posted a job listing saying that "Rust knowledge is a plus," that's because a small bit of it is in Rust, but you need to be familiar with other tech too.
American medical system is not capitalist but mercantilist. It's illegal to offer services without explicit permission of the medical guild. It has the exact same effect all historical guild systems had: price gouging and reduced supply. Taxi licenses are another good example.

Capitalist medical system would mean the value of a particular medical certification would be set by the market, ie. everyone would be able to sell medical services. Historically free market has always resulted in a much better quality in addition to lower prices.
So this exploits the fact that floating point numbers have finite precision (and perhaps uneven spacing) to generate non-linear operations?

That's actually a really cool usage of the specification!
As someone who doesn't own a car, and rides a bike for everything, I get this argument on why I shouldn't be on the roads quite often. I just want to leave this article, here:

https://momentummag.com/free-rider-myth/

for those who believe that a gas tax is used to pay for roadways, and since cyclists do not pay a gas tax, they have no business riding the roads.

As the article points out, driving on roads is heavily subsidized. WE ALL pay for the privilege of driving a car on public roads.
Mayfield's paradox
The thing that bothers me is not so much that technical and implementation work goes straight to India and manufacturing goes to China, Mexico, etc.

The thing that bothers me is that there's so many goddamn "project management professionals" state-side. It's like now students are coming out of college and going straight into project management doing bullshit work. American industry is in a downward spiral, we're training our competitors. These "low-cost-centers" are going to eat our lunch at some point in the future. They will be lean, efficient, creative, business savvy, and ready for anything. In the United states we'll all just be a bunch of useless PM's and supply chain specialists who can barely do more than work a phone. It will be like taking candy from a baby. Of course the execs that forced all this will be retired and living filthy rich by then.
It has been a long time since I've taken the class.

But my understanding is that the absolute error builds up exponentially. We both might be still correct however: sqrt(N) sounds about the speed of the "number of bits of error".

So it depends on how you're counting error. If you're counting "bits of error", then sqrt(N) sounds right. If you're counting absolute error, then I'm pretty sure its exponential.
Containers are not just about shipping binaries. In fact, they don't really add too much in that category. Namespace isolation and resource limiting with cgroups are the real benefits.

And in most real world cases, you will still need at least libc and ca-certificates.
I don't want this to be the default answer when anyone asks about side projects, but https://www.indiehackers.com/ has some great interviews.
Are you looking at failures per mission or fatalities per person-trip? I thought the shuttle and Soyuz were very close on the fatalities per person-trip metric.
I am willing to believe that, but I don't have any way to calculate what the number should be, so I took a generous estimate. (Average US post-medical school debt is $18x,000 according to a quick search I did.)
There isn't a single communist country that wasn't a dictatorship. There are plenty of capitalist societies that aren't dictatorships.

I find these discussions always fly into the "no true scotsman" fallacy.
Wow. Monty made a cool billion from Sun. Why does he need external investors now? How can MariaDB possibly have blown through that epic fortune?
The communist Utopia requires trade with another entity in order to maintain its Utopia? Who manages the trade between the countries? Are the members of a society that claims to be Communist actually so if that society at large is part of a free-market? This sounds like not getting rid of exploitation, but rather sweeping it under the rug and outsourcing it to a free-market entity.
The problem is that you will fall behind if you cannot transform your research into real products. Just like the smart planet idea, this idea is very brilliant and it was proposed around a decade ago, however the business around is a failure because of execution failure. Nowadays we are seeing other companies working on smart planet while IBM is changing to cognitive. What can we expect from cognitive?

Some personal thought, execution is key for business success now.
We live in a time where war no longer needs constitutional approval or even traditional military force. We have the longest running war in US history. 26,000 bombs dropped last year.

You need to put that scientific method you are talking about to use. Are people really happier today than in 1950? Why is the suicide rate going up

The difficulty with your argument here is that tech has enormous potential to make life better, but it doesn't necessarily mean that it will. You may be interested in noting that this is a common idea: I've seen the popular science educators like Sagan, NDT, Nye all say this...
Never used mtgox, still get ico spam daily. It's useful, though. Anything I receive any notable amount of spam advertising is very likely to be some kind of scam.
There's no way in hell they're paying the American $120k if they're working in India.

And, all the money in the world can't buy good air quality.
Any reason there's no Win64 version?
Likely cost

Unless you're aiming for accuracy, it's a lot cheaper to simply put a cheap little SoC on board, cover it in epoxy and ship it
Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12166585

Re: Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12179222

Why we lost Uber as a user | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12201353

> naming / pronunciation diversion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12201672
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To Play, or Not to Play – New AutoPlay Policies for Safari 11 and Chrome 64
I lost an entire week of work last year to not knowing that React switched from automatically binding methods, because none of the documents mentioned that. Including the release notes of the version of React where they turned that off, IIRC.

It is easily the most rage-inducing programmer moment I ever had, mainly because it's so fucking stupid and the only reason it took me so long was because the actual tutorial and documentation was fucking lying to me.

Technically speaking they fixed it by now: they mention the bind-thingy under "Handling Events" in the documentation, which you randomly have to stumble upon:

constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = {isToggleOn: true};

// This binding is necessary to make `this` work in the callback
this.handleClick = this.handleClick.bind(this);
}

handleClick() {
this.setState(prevState => ({
isToggleOn: !prevState.isToggleOn
}));
}

However, the tutorial is still deceiving:

constructor() {
super();
this.state = {
squares: Array(9).fill(null),
};
}

handleClick(i) {
const squares = this.state.squares.slice();
squares[i] = 'X';
this.setState({squares: squares});
}

This is fine in this specific situation because the render method uses a closure:

onClick={() => this.handleClick(i)}

But this is a subtle nuance that can be an incredible pain to figure out. There is no mention of all the this-related pains in the tutorial anywhere.

[0] https://reactjs.org/tutorial/tutorial.html

[1] https://reactjs.org/docs/handling-events.html
Distributed algorithms in NoSQL databases
That you will always have at least single digit failures. Sometimes things have to go wrong before we can correct them. We got where we are today with airplanes not because the first million flights didn't have a single accident, but because we paid careful attention to every failure and did our best to keep it from ever happening again.

Take a look at this report on Boeing crash history: http://www.boeing.com/resources/boeingdotcom/company/about_b...
In particular, take a look at page 17 (slide 16) which shows the crash rate over time. We have gone from about 40 hull losses per million departures in the 50's to about 0.6 to 1 (depending on how you count) per million departures today.
Voting chatbot goes viral in Catalonia as spanish gov shuts down websites
Security Issues in Your Ruby on Rails Web Application
> My friends that are residents in podunk Illinois are making 65k/year. It goes very far there.

$65K/year is significantly more than the average amount that a first-year resident (intern) makes ($51K/year). Also, medicine is one field where it's often much more lucrative to work in small towns than large cities, so that's the place where the discrepancy would be expected to be the largest.

$51K/year is not a lot, though. That comes out to $980/week, and residents generally now work 80 hours/week (it used to be significantly longer - 100 or more). That comes out to $12.25/hour, which is actually less than minimum wage in many cities. And again, that's the average.

Whether or not residents are literally making less than minimum wage, though, is not really the point: the point is that residents aren't making the kind of money that would make a significant dent in their debt, so they don't really start paying off the principal on their loans until they're done with residency (and even fellowships), which is a long time for interest to compound.
You can't just make stuff up. The history of bitcoin is well documented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_bitcoin
>FYI the parent comment was not reasoned argument either. The notion of relation between education and IQ is questionable.

Questionable based on ethical considerations is not the same as non-rational.

It's a very logical thing to consider. A mechanism for example would be that people with higher IQ also tend to succeed in completing more higher education degrees. The inverse is also possible, and it's also a perfectly valid thing to suggest and study. In fact it's studied e.g. in this paper: http://www.pnas.org/content/109/2/425.full.pdf

>No it is not at all. Since it requires rigorous calculation and estimation of how much immigrants have come, what is their average IQ, how much drop we see in population and so many questions.

That's what's required to get a full result. It's not however required for merely putting forward the argument as a possible explanation, or for judging whether the argument is rational or not.

It seems that your concerns are more tied to a priori axioms and emotional resistance than actual methodological issues in the questions.
Have you tried to use DB2 or WebSphere? Do you feel painful when you install them?
Do you have specific examples of what makes "the experience is totally fucking repellent"? We can work on trying to fix them :)
The framework and language of champions

this.handleChange = this.handleChange.bind(this);
A Brief History of Modularity in JavaScript
So, communism is great, it's just didn't work that one time because of the US?
The echo chamber you're in is your understanding of 'decent jobs'. No, you don't need to go to university to have a decent job. There are tons of self-made people with no university education, working in the trades or by starting a small business.
To give some idea of the market - people are starting to count stock options as future income in order to qualify for home purchases. The median home price that sold recently in San Jose is close to a million dollars.

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/25/about-silicon-valleys-...

When I bought in 2001, every house on the peninsula (between San Francisco and San Jose) no matter what condition had at least a dozen offers and it's worse now.
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/04/13/sjm-shortage-0414/
I'm going to assume that keyboard is non-functional but I'd happy to be wrong about that.
45 million people died over 4 years in Mao's Great Leap Forward from starvation and execution. 10+ million people died in Stalin's gulags alone. Are you really trying to equate this with healthcare in America?
Check the story of a greedy comedian
https://www.neon-bindings.com/ is written by Dave Herman, you might find it interesting to play with :)
I completely agree with atarian.

I'm a bit of an oddity in that I took summer / nighttime college courses in 1995, when I was 10, then had a job programming right during the dot com bust. Everyone said that even if tech recovered it would probably all go to India so when I entered full-time university I went so far as to study structural engineering, something I didn't think would be easy to outsource.

When I transitioned back to software I was actually shocked at how big of a skill difference the median Indian and American / Canadian actually had. The top 1% between the two cultures is similar, but the median Indian, circa 2009 when I last interacted with them, was far behind.
What's this about? It's hard to tell from the title or first few sentences.
That was never how it worked in communist countries. Admission to medical schools and other advanced education was often based more on political reliability (Party membership), family connections, and outright bribes. Sure some people made it on merit, but communism never removed the element of luck from the system.
I was actually expecting something like a fully transistor re-creation of the CPU, graphics, sound, etc - stuff into a minicomputer cabinet of some sort. Something crazy like that.

But this is interesting too.
> What success do they gain from being a doctor in a country which prevents them from being rewarded for it?

Hmm, do you think most doctors in the U.S. are only in it for monetary rewards, and don't find any other part of the job rewarding? I don't think I want that doctor.
Same reason plenty of rich people take investment for their own companies?
Seems low, I'd put it at 8-10x. You're hard pressed to find a property for less than a million dollars.
Anecdotes and generalizations are both useful tools for discussion as long as you recognize them and it’s understood what they are. Otherwise conversation would be largely impossible.
Except not really because most State schools on the East coast will give you in-state tuition after you live in said State for one year. Take a year off after highschool, make some money, then get in-state at whichever school you chose.

Source: many of my friends graduated college a year behind me after doing exactly what I'm suggesting.
The article does not do his talk justice. It is definitely worth watching the whole thing: https://youtu.be/S5V7R_se1Xc
But it's also easier to sell a standard DB people already know vs a custom

(see (google) Bigtable vs (amazon) Postgres)
Like short selling?
Tolls achive more than just crudely approximating a car's impact to the road system. Tolls can influence traffic behavior and congestion; which I'd guess is the point of that LA article.

Also, I'm curious how those costs look when you have open road tolling, as recently implemented in Massachusetts. No toll takers, just cameras, computers, and a call center "somewhere".