skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, what your saying is that you're okay with it dropping bombs at all, as long as it's over there, but not on Europe, because Europe is special. (if not for this imagined hazard, would everything suddenly be okay?)

Meanwhile, political undertones aside, I think your idea is a little contrived, considering the realities of fuel capacity and range, nevermind time to travel, lack of stealth capabilities, and the fact that drones are piloted and engage weaponry mostly by a video feed (and using visual flight rules [0]) which would provide major clues that the GPS information has become unreliable.

tl;dr Drones aren't artificially intelligent solar-powered killbots, flying unsupervised missions. (yet)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_flight_rules
I don’t hire fat people. You shouldn’t either. They are immoral.
Compass, Altimeter, topographic maps, notes about the route that I've made. Even a watch can aid navigation if you can calculate your speed and see any terrain features.

If anything doesn't jive with what I expect or what I'm seeing I try to understand why.
> Starting with Turkish of all things.

Your specific situation aside, if I was localizing an app for the region, Turkish would be one of my first picks (after German maybe), based purely on number of native speakers.

I used to work on mobile games and Turkish was always among the first few locales to be released.
Lol, that's not 'hacking', it's taking advantage of people who absorb what they see without being critical.
I try to focus on what I like doing and who I like spending my time with. I have found that doing things with the aim of one day being a better or different person than I am just leads to distress. You’ll change anyway, but planning it out doesn’t work so well in my experience.
You won’t be fired per se. You just won’t perform well against your peers an will feel like shit because of that. After some time you’ll leave on your own accord to a team where demands aren’t quite as high. There are plenty of those around: it’s a huge company now, and demanding, high performance teams that do something that actually matters are a small minority.
Why don't planes just carry a good INS? In today's world, it shouldn't be that bad.
Deep Probabilistic Programming

Dustin Tran, Matthew D. Hoffman, Rif A. Saurous, Eugene Brevdo, Kevin Murphy, David M. Blei

https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.03757
That's a goal that could, quite literally, take multiple generations given how supreme court appointments work.

Very few movements have so much momentum that they can bide their time for 30 years.
Yes, Reuters themselves were conflicted on this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/reuters-f...

I’ll admit that it’s hard to prove. Soros surely didn’t fund it directly from his checking account.

I do think there’s good consensus that OCW was externally funded, and not genuinely organic.
I'm from Scandinavia and it's pretty much the same.
I'm trying to figure out how this would be decentralised. As far as I understand, merely hosting something on IPFS doesn't make it decentralised if there is only one node.

- Where is my file hosted when I receive it?

- Has your server pinned and seeding that file?

- Is there a distributed set of nodes that also host it?
Unfortunately browser technology sucks, WebRTC still requires a server to bootstrap the connections. It is incorrect to criticize this as not being P2P just because of existing limitations which immediately are removed if you were to run the exact same app in Electron or something. The best thing we can do is plead with browser vendors to improve this.
It is a requirement for code heavily using atomics as false shares and destroy performance.
I don't understand why people down-vote my comments whenever I emphasise the importance of luck in everything.

I worked bastard hard for almost 10 years with no social life and was making $0. I'd love to be able to say that it was all hard work and will power that eventually got me though but it just feels like a lie.

If I am to really succeed, I'll do it whilst being honest with myself.
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If you are not repeatedly looking for an out in your relationship or for other sides/partners, you are showing constancy of purpose, which does not have to be forever, either the constancy or the purpose.

Studying at school for ~ 22 years until I got my Ph.D. only occasionally second-guessing myself as everybody should do, showed constancy of purpose. Which I found way more fulfilling than, hypothetically, having done the same with inconstancy of purpose.
The stuff I work on uses Qt, which makes internationalisation a breeze.
I just started learning how to write tests for my APIs. Changed my life! Now when I need to make broad changes I can easily tell what needs to be fixed because my tests cover each end point with multiple success and failure cases. Love it.
This is the problem I see with decentralized projects.

The user experience here, is essentially the same as WeTransfer. The only difference is the underlying technologies.

Now, one would have to either blindly trust that the infrastructure is truly decentralized, or have the time and necessary skills to audit the code.

And then they'd have to trust that web server is actually hooking up to the code that was just audited!

What this means is, "decentralized" projects still require a level of trust, even on the behalf of people who understand what decentralization means.

Next is the problem of the "masses". They already are using WeTransfer, or Dropbox for that matter. Why should they switch to this? Because it's decentralized? Now you have to explain to them what that means and why that's beneficial to them, and if you're successful there, they still have to: trust the code (and they only can do that by understanding it) and trust that you're actually deploying that code on your live interface.

Thus, the decentralization community has got a marketing problem. Fortunately for Bitcoin they've got and continue to have massive amounts of free press, press which does not even actually highlight the decentralized aspect of Bitcoin, just the price action. There is no press movement to help catapult "decentralized infrastructure."

I'm just saying, decentralized projects currently only seem to appeal to people who are interested in decentralization. There needs to be a way to move pass this hurdle if there's going to be the much sought after "mass adoption."

The average person doesn't care how something works, they just care that it does work. And plenty solutions already work for them.

I just hope in the end, we aren't just tinkering for the sake of tinkering.
Having built and used internationalised and localized applications for many years (answered no when asked by Netscape at the time whether I18n domain names were important), my advice is:

I18n, not that important. I.e. likely your target audience is familiar with English.
L10n, more likely to be needed for the ability to use a service.

As a European user, I need at least: (1) Have weeks count as starting on Mondays.
(2) Have ISO-8601 / rfc3339 date and timestamps.
(3) Decimal point and
(4) 1000 number separators localized, time zone indicators,
(5) UTF-8 support.
"the medium is the message. The medium a piece of art chooses is significant. TV and movies will rot your brain regardless of whether it's The Big Bang Theory or Citizen Kane. Reading will improve your brain, regardless of whether you're reading Danielle Steel or Chaucer."

I have not heard that before.

The medium a piece of art chooses is significant, yes, (and in a lot of cases the creator chooses the wrong medium, eg. there are plenty of computer games out there that really want to be films, they dont make use of the strengths of the medium and even fight against it.)

The rest, I dont agree with.

Imo big bang, citizen kane, danielle Steel and chaucer are all somewhat equatable, because they are all fiction/entertainment. Personally I'd rate something educational or non-fiction over fiction in any medium
What I’m saying is that at no point in my rather lengthy stint at Google were my feelings even a passing consideration to anybody in my chain of command. A couple of peers cared, but even there the environment is much more impersonal than in other companies I’ve worked at. And that’s _good_ for things like code quality etc, because your design won’t gain approval if it sucks no matter how chummy you are with your peers or boss. Same with code reviews, you will regularly get mercilessly savaged with the most pedantic nitpicking you’ve ever seen, sometimes to the point where your blood would boil. And that’s how it’s supposed to be if you want excellent engineering. But it’s not the most hospitable atmosphere for you as a person.
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Along the same lines, I tend to recommend people that are interested in becoming a developer check out 'Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software', it does a great job of explaining how computers work from first principles in an engaging way.
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> Also art has no endgame, with enough science and technology we could create AI, the technological singularity, explore the galaxy, achieve literal immortality.

It sounds like in your scenario art is the endgame. What else will we do with our immortal selves once we've reached technological singularity?
Commuting by bike is also a much more communal experience.

Its easier to stop and help or talk to someone when you're not enclosed in a box. My best experiences are stopping to help people with punctures and once while waiting at a junction stopping for a chat with a friend that I had not see for a while.
This is an extremely naive way to look at i18n. Especially for UI’s, it’s much more difficult. Dynamically formatted strings, sentence direction, capitalization, etc. aren’t solved by what boils down to a key-value map.
I've heard rumblings about the biased moderation on here this takes the cake, it's a sad state of affairs in this place.

Your own submissions state your timeline and recollection of the past is incorrect. You use inflammatory language throughout your entire posts and yet...
Trump is not the first President to use Twitter. Barack Obama had at least three twitter accounts:

http://time.com/3882715/president-obama-now-has-his-own-twit...

Obama in fact tweeted about various controversial topics, producing outrage among generally conservative Republicans:

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/09/16/president-ob...
> When I saw the title here, I immediately thought of the 2007 book How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard.

I've started speaking about this book with my gf for about 2 or 3 years now, even though I haven't read it (and will not read it in the near future, as my to-read-next list is quite big and always growing). I find it's an excellent book, and much more so as it's recommended by a writer like Eco, a guy who I did actually read (even though that happened 20 years ago, so the details are fuzzy) and who forever influenced my view on books and how to read and interpret them.

I also heartily recommend Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket". I'm not from an English-speaking country so it wasn't required reading for me while in school, but I nevertheless found its no-ending thingie as the quintessence of modern literature. In fact, Eco has often talked about the Gordon Pym story, one of the characters of one of his novels is named exactly like that.
Isn't living test-driven by design?
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I take the N/W train into the city every day. You'd be crazy to talk to other people on the train. Everyone has the attitude that they don't want to be bothered and to just have a peaceful commute.
Obligatory plug for Cappuccino http://www.cappuccino-project.org the original Cocoa for Web.
I didn't understand the distributions part.
I think it's dishonest to claim that Python does not value backwards compatibility because of the Python 2->3 update. That's a single point of backwards-incompatibility in a project that has been going on for decades. (If you don't agree, please list all the backwards-incompatible changes that have been introduced in the years upon years since Python 3.0.)
Even if you have insurance you get a statement from your insurance provider detailing how much everything cost and how much of it insurance paid for.
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Except from an individual experience a train is one of the least efficient methods of travel.

Long waits at each stop, and tons of stops in between me and my destination, never reaching top speed for Long...

Meanwhile when it does stop I still need a car or bus to get to my destination. This is true in European cities as well, where the stop count gets absurd.
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On the Manim Github he has some suggestions: "For 9/10 math animation needs, you'd probably be better off using a more well-maintained tool, like matplotlib, mathematica or even going a non-programatic route with something like After Effects. I also happen to think the program "Grapher" built into osx is really great, and surprisingly versatile for many needs."
Data visualization is only a part of it. I'm talking about visualizing concepts.
Inventor's paradox
> As far as I understand, merely hosting something on IPFS doesn't make it decentralised if there is only one node.

Doesn't that apply to torrents, too? If 2 or more people don't own (and share) the exact same content, then of course it's not decentralized.
Or Laravel
I don’t have a mercenary like attitude. I am simply pointing out that capitalism is America’s number one value. We as a society can’t be surprised when it is used against us.
This makes sense if you're only concerned with size. Locality or eliminating false sharing may be more important in large ones
I don't have a good answer to the big-picture question, but one trick I've had a lot of success with over the years is building my own suite of life-logging tools.

I have my own system for food tracking, TODO list management, pomodoros, chore reminders, clothing and stuff management, contact tracking, a mini-Wiki, link management, and many others. They all connect to and cross-reference each other in helpful ways. If you are a good coder and have a simple web framework, it shouldn't take more than a couple of hours to build a new widget, and in principle the benefit will accrue for years.

My theory is that off-the-shelf life-logging and productivity tools don't work very well because people actually have very different lifestyles, work habits, and so on. So to actually boost productivity you need something very closely tailored to your own life.
If you email the mods hn@ycombinator.com , they sometimes change the title. It's better if you send an alternative, preferably the subtitle or the main sentence of the article.
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> TV and movies will rot your brain regardless of whether it's The Big Bang Theory or Citizen Kane.

I cannot agree with that at all. A great deal of cinema is heavy enough on information to be educational. Think about how much you can learn about history, literature, economics, or politics from watching Jean-Luc Godard’s output from 1962-1968. Even if the medium has flaws in the depth of its presentation, its compilation of citations to important literature that can then be followed up, can be invaluable.

And aren't plays reading? And do they really lose the goodness they have as "reading" when they move from the written page to a performance that just happens to be captured on film instead of before a live audience?
> I am always amazed at the level of acceptance for these types of injustice there is in the US. Even here, most discussion is about the economics of college degrees, and how to deal with it on an individual level.

You gotta give Americans a bit more credit than that. American attitudes are cultivated in a very different context. Yes, in a place like Germany, the government mostly pays for your school. The flip side is a lot more government control over peoples’ choices to make the system sustainable. We had an au pair from Germany. Very bright young woman, but a late bloomer academically. She was put into a non-college track in high school, and doesn’t have much in the way of other options in Germany (although, she had a white collar office job because those are attainable without college).

In the US, the government doesn’t pay, but also doesn’t restrict who can go to college, impose quotas on what degrees colleges can grant, etc. If people want to take on a bunch of debt, it’s their choice and they can deal with the consequences.
> As Woody Allen would say "I'd rather be lucky than good."

That line is generally attributed to pitcher Lefty Gomez. I've mostly heard it used in the context of sports, particularly pitching in baseball.
I complained about Freelancer.com probably 5 years ago. The site is evil. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5177951
https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/downloading-the-stand-alone...
I checked out Sam's Learn C++ in One Hour a Day from my local library and the librarian just frowned and said, "oh this looks miserable."
Recent reports of google docs arbitrarily removing people's access to their documents seem like pretty good marketing for decentralized solutions.
The signal came from Russia just weeks before their Zapad exercise, and was clearly intentional.

https://www.nrk.no/finnmark/stoy-fra-russland-slo-ut-gps-sig...

This time it was only blocking GPS signals. Previously this year Russia spoofed GPS signals over the black sea, sending false position data to ships in the area.

https://maritime-executive.com/editorials/mass-gps-spoofing-...
Note that the submission is not about IPFS itself (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System), but about Decentralized Cloud, which is a project that is built on top of IPSF.
> a constancy of purpose is key towards a successful and happy life.

Shouldn't your purpose have a meaning per se? You don't want to be Don Quixote.
I could, but that's not a terribly meaningful or productive question. Take anything you take to be a statement of moral significance (e.g., a moral judgement). If it's true, then it is a moral fact.

A better question might be about why the fact-value distinction is false, or something about the nature and basis of moral facts. In the former case, we find the distinction to originate in Hume and that his account of what constitutes a "fact" to be highly problematic, if not incoherent as he is elsewhere (e.g., Hume's fork). (Furthermore, we find that everything is pervaded by value. Science itself is conducted because, in the best case, it is done because truth is valued. Pragmatists, on the other hand, would be doing it because some form of utility is valued.) In the latter case, you might find the literature about moral realism interesting (e.g., Oderberg's introductory text "Moral Theory"). Ultimately, the ground for morality is teleological, and on that understanding, moral facts are not controversial.
Right? This isn't a customer service issue, this is a legal issue.
It was him plus the cast of two and a half men.
Agreed. I especially enjoyed the lectures which are, fortunately, also freely available: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
While it's easier said than done, find what makes you happy. Most people think this means "find a job you somewhat like / don't hate", but I'd apply it much more broadly. Find a mode of earning your living expenses that makes you happy (work remotely; manage an AirBnB; do consulting work), everything else will fall into place.
> I just hope in the end, we aren't just tinkering for the sake of tinkering.

I don't think we are. IPFS is one of the few projects that gives me hope that within 10 years the internet won't be completely carved-up and censored by the big tech companies and governments.
I'm amazed at how slow Quicksort appears in the sorting video.
Working on the next iteration of https://www.sketchdaily.io - a free educational sketching web app.

Also a mobile game for solving abbreviations (currently website is just a placeholder https://www.wtftag.com)
Maybe you can help me understand something because I hear this a lot. You manually debug and run your code through "the happy path and edge cases", if I'm understanding you correctly... so, does it really take that much longer to write an automated test that does the same thing?

What I'm saying is if we accept the company's viewpoint as truth -- I don't -- then you'd just be writing code and handing it over. No testing. No execution. No nothing. But if you have time to manually test the code, then it sounds like you have time to write automated tests.

Now, I'm with you, these tests aren't going to be beautiful or well-factored, but they'll be helpful to you, right? That way you don't have to manually test the code over and over again.

On the other side of the coin, I've taken on the practice of including time necessary for testing in my estimates (as an employee and contractor). If a manager doesn't want to accept that, then they can fire me, because that manager is fully incompetent -- no ifs ands or buts. As a professional, I need to operate with a test-driven approach. It's the only way to deliver complex systems with confidence.

Testing happens one way or another.
But for example, wetransfer only allow to upload 2GB files, my proposal unlimited and permanent. I believe people don't need to know it uses blockchain...
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Are there any good use cases of using a private ethereum blockchain inside large companies? (Like using it for supply-chain data etc.) Curious to learn some examples.
I find it hard to tell.
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Conspiracy theorizing. Did it have anything to do with Pizzagate? I was involved in Occupy SF, and while it was somewhat dumb and pointless, it also had very broad support in certain circles. Lots of people who weren't actually on the ground in the camps brought lots of water and food and supplies every day. Do you think all those people later submitted expense reports to Soros?
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[Just to address the other points you raise because I was in a rush last time]

> I have yet to see any convincing studies despite it being straightforward to test in small repeatable experiments.

If these experiments are so "straightforward", and your resistance to these ideas is well-founded, then where are all the experiments demonstrating that there is no such effect?

Alternatively if you believe publishing bias and/or feminist conspiracy are combining to quash all this budding anti-diversity research then why don't you run one yourself and show everyone how it's done?

If you're not up for doing the actual experiment I'm happy to pass your protocol around for some feedback, maybe I could find someone to run the experiment for you. Maybe I can even help with funding.
Maybe rhyming metre would never be recreated. In some cultures it wasnt. The phase space for what will entertain humans is seemingly almost infinitely detailed, there is no wrong or right way to do it. Eg. people can dance to banging rocks together just as effectively as to Mozart.

On the other hand, there is only one Pythagoras' theorem, and an infinitude of similar incorrect theorems. We postulate that intelligent aliens should discover Pythagoras' theorem but not Jazz or De Stijl.
This makes it pretty clear that the 419 scammers are onto the cryptocurrency thing. I wonder if the smart/big money is still riding this bubble.