skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When a business runs out of money, it's out of money, so sure, a bankrupt company can be unable to provide product or refunds. Customers are considered unsecured creditors, so will likely not get anything in the bankruptcy.

You can try to pierce the corporate veil and get money from shareholders and/or owners, but without gross negligence or outright fraud, that's going to be hard to do (with high legal expenses)
It doesn't. Both Kuwait and Oman try hard not to make waves so they can profit off both sides.

Incidentally, so does the UAE: a huge portion of local investment, especially in Dubai, is linked to Iran, and not just regular trade but sanctions busting, money laundering, etc.
There are electric buses that run emission free. They have the additional benefit of not needing extremely expensive new infrastructure for starting a new line. I think they would work much better in low density settings like American suburbia.
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Not that much worse than what you see on imagenet. Most large companies have internal datasets with >100 million images.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02357
If they've declared bankruptcy, the company doesn't get to decide what order to pay creditors in.
Here's the story from Wired in 1995:

https://www.wired.com/1995/12/the-millennium-clock/

I remember reading it and being inspired, even then. It's taken more than 20 years to bring it to life, which I suppose is appropriate. Why hurry?
Again, I don't think you're considering the scale of loss there since these numbers are so huge. Let's look at it another way. We could kill literally every single person in Syria/Yemen/Libya/Iraq/Afghanistan/Somalia and it still wouldn't even be remotely comparable to the scale of loss of WW2. You'd be a shade over half way there. And like you mentioned this is something that's been going on for many years. All that death in WW2 was compressed into 6 years - most of it within 3.

When we look at the minuscule fraction of the real loss of life in the Mideast it's completely and absolutely negligible compared to the sort of wars we've had in the past. And that's largely due to the fact that modern nations no longer fight. If nations like China and the US were capable of fighting each other without mutually assured destruction, we would have. And that is a conflict that almost certainly would have drawn in the entire rest of the world to one side or the other and the death toll there would dwarf WW2 and anything else - at least until WW4.

Instead we're approaching the centennial of WW2 meaning we have had generations live, and mostly die, without ever experiencing the sort of death and destruction that used to be regularly wrought in war. And for this, we can thank nuclear weapons.
You actually raise a good point, for China at least. I would argue that the EU is, generally, more progressive than the US when it comes to immigrants and trans folks.
I'm statistically fairly long for a westerner and I fit into Shinkansen seats better than in ICE seats.
A NYer here. I lived in Cal for a few months. In-n-Out, has been one of my favorite restaurants after just two visit. I mean it. The ingredients are fresh, and I could watch the workers make the burgers. ALL FRESH. Too bad, In-n-Out won't come to NY. It makes sense though.
In practice for the route I use most, Harpenden - Kings Cross London: Train 25min, Car 1hr -1.5hr depending on traffic. Regular local busses 2.5 hrs maybe but I've never done that and no one does. The train does 90 mph (max) and the express ones stop once. By car, many many stops.

I theory sure you could drive your porsche at 150mph down some superroad that doesn't exist.
A few craigslist competitors are using CV to detect drugs/weapons/animals.
I see. So how can I bypass my CDN and put box with my own content inside ISP ?
That's not really true, because dice luck is so important in Catan. You can have the best position in the world but if no one rolls your numbers there's nothing you can do to win.

Of course, this is still boring for a completely different reason.
25-30% is pretty pessimistic. Maybe on certain services, like a Redis box. On others, like your average web service, it probably won't move the needle much.

I'd ballpark around 5%. And that's for people who weren't overprovisioned in the first place, which is most people.
to try circling this back to relevancy: NZ is a fantastically business-friendly country where the shenanigans we (US) have to put up with just don't seem to occur (I had a business there for a while, so this isn't just their tourist propaganda talking).

also - I swear I heard a sheep on the launch video for electron.
Never claimed Logic had anything more than a tolerable UX - just that it got the job done! As someone approaching it not as a sound engineer (for which Pro Tools was/is the gold standard for a reason!) but as an amateur composer wanting to actually have a modicum of control over both notation and the sound of my demos, Logic straddled both worlds in a way that nothing else really did - certainly Pro Tools barely even touched notation.

Though maybe I was just too stubborn to re-input things in different software for each purpose. Needless to say, on the coding side, I was very excited when Node.js was first released!
This is why it's a very bad idea to buy a product that relies on the company's existence (and goodwill) to keep it working. Make sure it has a local fall-back mode so if the company goes out of business or just decides to stop supporting it, you can still use it.

I still refuse to "buy" digital movies from Amazon, Google, etc since my ability to use my purchased product relies on them continually supporting the service.

Plus it's usually cheaper to buy a used DVD and rip it myself, then I can play it on any device. (albeit with dubious legality)
I did this before when using ripgrep, and accidentally created a several hundred GB file. Now ripgrep checks if this is the case and handles it gracefully: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/pull/310
> From a political perspective, what's necessary until the safety drivers are no longer legally required? I believe there are a couple places that don't require them now, actually.

Essentially, the legislature of the state in question passes a law defining what's required for truly autonomous operation. That can be pretty much anything they want. The really interesting stuff starts happening when there's enough of these things driving around that we start getting accidents. How will insurance companies or the sponsor companies deal with that? What will happen in any lawsuits resulting from any accidents? I guess we'll have to wait and see.

It's a bit sad, but it's probably for the best that there's big companies with deep pockets and big legal departments behind this.
>writing a compile-to-go language.

Why not fix Go instead?
That depends on the price elasticity of yourself and of your consumers. In a society with extreme inequality it's not a bad presumption that consumers have high price elasticity and producers low price elasticity, at least for non-essential goods.
I agree with points 1-3, but I would be remiss not to mention, that with respect to point 4, diseases like sickle cell anemia, which is hideously painful and fatal as a double inheritance (25% homozygous offspring in a heterozygous pairing, ss), but a wonderful defense against malaria in heterozygous offspring (Ss, 50% of said pairing). The remaining 25% homozygous wild-type (SS) are healthy, except when encountering malaria.

https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/biology/sickle_cell.html

I would think that a mendelian genetic disease like sickle cell might well be on our hit list for all the trouble it causes. Of course, it could be argued that mosquito nets and drugs (i.e. technology) are a better, less costly defense, than these inborn genetic mutations.
We can go straight through them if we have to. Chicago to NYC is 800 miles, and at speeds the Nanjing to Jinan line hits daily that is about 4-5 hours.
Are you sure that the operating costs are lower? Buses share the infrastructure maintenance costs with all other road users, whereas train infrastructure is extremely expensive and the maintenance has to be paid for by the train companies alone.
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Discrete calculus is a thing [0], although it is not so much a reformutaltion of infinitesimal calculus as it is its own field that borrows heavily from calculus.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_difference
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Don't know why this is down voted so much.

I agree cryptocurrencies are mostly a fad, but AI, automation, electric (self-driving) cars, and good cheap batteries are definitely capable of driving productivity & growth. Lithium batteries are the IC of the 21st century. They've driven a lot of innovation already (smartphones, better laptops, tablets, smartwatches, EVs, consumer drones, etc), but there's a lot more to come in terms of mass market self-driving EVs, mass grid storage, electric aircraft (both robotic and not), etc.
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Tesla has a Level 2 system. People who actually use it see more than just the marketing material you've quoted.
In this scenario where your Government is doing this do you leave? Subvert? Comply? If your answer is comply, congratulations for your obedience.
Dark patterns don’t “make” people pirate.

Pirating is the act of saying, “I want something I don’t have the rights to have.” And then taking it. Period.

There’s no way to rationalize immoral unethical behavior by hiding behind “psychological studies” and “dark UI patterns”.
Extensive previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16208392
Ban Bitcoin, but leave the futures exchange and taxes. OK.
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it can be a failure without having been in any way spacex's fault. you can lead a horse to orbit but you can't make it drink - they were just the boost.

also, it can be a success while they allow people to believe it was a failure (there is a history of this, if you'd like to tune your tin-foil receiver to the proper channel)
which means that when we do the write in that for-loop, we’re guaranteed that the read which happens after in the while-loop must see the result of that write. So: we read an “a”, write an “a”, and when we get back to the while-loop we’re guaranteed that the next read will see that “a” we just wrote.

In other words, it's behaving like a FIFO that persists a history of everything that's been written to it, which also suggests that there are two pointers, one for the read position and another for the write position; all becomes clear when we realise that it's not reading and writing with the same file descriptor, but rather two file descriptors of one file, opened twice.

The tl;dr of why small sizes terminate and large sizes loop infinitely is this: when the size of data output is not enough to fill the write buffer, the read can reach the end of file (0 bytes read), and then it flushes the write buffer before terminating; but when the output size fills the write buffer, it gets flushed and ends up back in the input, causing the infinite loop.

The C stdio buffering layer doesn't guarantee that data written with a fwrite() will show up in a fread() from a different file handle that references the same file (and now that I think about it, that would seem to be quite difficult to guarantee.)
>Here is my question for HN readers: do you trust this article? Because it tries to fool us.

Genuine question, why should we trust you more than the article? How do we know you aren’t trying to fool us?
I'm not so sure that random comments on reddit are a good source of credible information. I suppose the same could be said about random comments on HN without credible sources.
Hmm? I feel like carjackings are more likely to happen than random crimes on transit...

I do suppose you might have to share space with poor people instead of ignoring them.
You can check out Globalresearch [0], they tend to have a different take on current affairs. It’s always interesting to read the “Other side’s” perspective (with a little heap of salt nearby)

[0] https://www.globalresearch.ca
> A lot of homeowners on the beach think they own the land up to the water but that's not always the case despite them trying to block access.

In California, it is literally never the case, by state law.
Sonic is still alive, except that now (a) they have fiber coverage in San Francisco https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14424753 and (b) it's cheaper ($50/mo)
I'm from the US and I have no idea what a Zinke is.
Dark streets mostly. Also the length of ladders that Fire engines have.
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I wrote a book on Akka with many years of experience with it and I have been using Elixir professionally for 7 months or so on greenfield/replatforming efforts and I have to say that the BEAM VM is really an incredible piece of technology that leaves Akka on the JVM in the dust in several aspects because the VM is actor-model native. I wish there was a statically typed language that ran on BEAM but Elixir and Erlang are great technologies to run in production if you can accept some of the associated risk of newer eco-systems in Elixir (but erlang has your back!).
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For example marketplace (where you can sell items on Facebook) will suggest a category for the item if you upload a photo.
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The AUD against USD dropped close to 50% in a couple of weeks in 2008. It sucked having all of my wealth in AUD at that time. Recently a similar thing happened with BTC, but at least it was after a rapid gain. Diversification is the key.

http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=AUD&to=USD&view=10Y
I can attest to two things -- the Interval is a great spot to grab a good drink (and the talks they put on are great, and attract a great crowd)... and I lost a ton of respect for the Long Now Foundation when they pivoted from the future of humanity to conspicuous consumption three feet above sea level.
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What was the carbon footprint of the turk machines the Python can replace?
Some do move to 'sheltered housing.' One of the issues is going gaga creeps up on you, thinking of my gran here. One moment you're doing fine, the next you're having to give up driving but at that point you're maybe beyond packing all your stuff, rehoming the cat, putting your house on the market, finding a new place etc.
Not on a risk-adjusted basis.
Kansas has a similar law on the books. These laws haven't exactly been struck down, but states can't seem to uphold them either. http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2017/feb/06/2-kansas-men-spared...
Then you better hope he has a long life and a good succession plan.
It's actually neither way. AI and ML have some intersection. There're machine learning methods which have little to do with AI, for example, logistic regression. There're AI methods which have nothing to do with ML, for example, logical inference.
How on earth will they contaminate my bodily fluids?
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Yes we do! We’ve been able to shake out a fair amount of platform bugs that the Beam VM had on GCP too! Thanks to the google team for taking them all seriously and fixing them. Some were particularly nasty :)
It is usually better to be the inventor of a new weapon than to sit back and let all your enemies do it instead.
> There is no customer facing service aspect, and very little quality difference between employees. What quality concerns there are can probably be traced back to an individual employee very easily; returns due to poor packaging or wrong item can easily be pinned on the culprit.

I disagree; a counter argument would be Costco. Almost all of Costco has very little service interaction with their union employees. They have warehouses, distribution, and procurement that has little consumer interaction. It is difficult to find people to point what is what in aisle numbers and the lines in checkout can be very long. As far as I know all of the people who work in these facilities are union and they pay living wages and benefits.

The nice service workers who handle out free samples are contractors, not union employees the last time I checked.
The problem, of course, is the misuse. Either by doctors who misprescribe (chronic pain relief is a common use case for opioids, and probably an exceptionally bad one), patients who misuse or abuse, and marketing companies like Purdue who push for profit.

The question, to me, is this: where do we balance benefits/freedoms from overall harm?

This is also the crux of many issues like alcohol abuse, gun rights, etc. Is it more harmful for the government to intervene than to not attempt to legislate away the source of the problem, at the cost of losing something valued by people in the society?
If you want to be pessimistic, sure.

The article lists the incentives: mobility without a car, independence, and reduced risk of a fatal accident. It's about being realistic with your own constraints. I fully don't expect to be driving indefinitely, if I want to (continue to) live somewhere without transit I need to plan accordingly or look for options before it's too late.
It's starting to work that way in Los Angeles too. It's a beautiful thing to behold, rail development in the city of cars.
Our leading killers are heavily correlated with diet, and we know what diets most effectively fight them:

https://nutritionfacts.org/introduction/

Lucky for us the healthiest diets also seem to have a strong positive effect on mood & depression. The healthiest diets also have a much lighter carbon footprint than the typical American diet.
> I wanted to do blood sugar tests after each meal and throughout the day to see how my food intake (or lack thereof, since I do IF) would impact my blood sugar...I realize I can just go to CVS and buy the tools to do it, but I do find all the options overwhelming and haven't had time to do the research.

I'll save you the work.

Do go to CVS, buy the cheap cvS branded meter, a single box of strips, a single box of lancets and one lancing device if it doesn't come with the cheap meter. This is probably all you'll ever need.

Then go buy an abbott Freestyle Libre meter from France, Italy or a UK mail order pharmacy. This will measure your glucose continuously for a couple of weeks via a disposable patch; you can collect the data with an android phone.

Transdermal glucose is different from circulatory glucose, so the point of the regular kit is to normalize the transdermal readings with the actual BG levels. Since you're not actually trying to keep yourself alive (as I am) you could skip this and simply look at the shape of the curve.

The other thing to do is log your sleep, excercise, diet (with something like MyFitnessPal that tracks your macros if you get the paid version) and stress levels. Then you can correlate glucose modulation with these exogenous factors.

You have to get your meter and consumables (patches) from the countries I listed (not, say, germany which requires a prescription). The device has been recently approved in the US but Abbott set it up so in the US the patches only last 10 days instead of two weeks and can only be read by a physician.
A computer still deals with a finite amount of bits (e.g. 32-bit floating point numbers) so its a discrete system that is large enough to approximate a continuous system.

It may not matter much in practice except for numerical precision issues, but it is useful to understand the foundations and occasionally throw away abstractions for performance/other requirements.
That’s impressive work. Still don’t think we have reached human level for all the categories of things we see in images. But you are correct that my comment about 1k categories is not true for many production systems.
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In case you didn't realize, the guy you're talking to is the CTO of what some may call a "large company."
No, they are like using that data to build self driving car algorithms. I would imagine that's why it's always asking you to detect roadsigns
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Wake up, daily ablutions, start emacs, code.
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It's the easiest language to learn from the list you described. C#/Go/Java are statically typed and compiled, which creates a barrier for learning. R is too complicated and showing it's age. Python is a sweet spot.

Data scientists aren't interested in learning industrial programming languages (C#, Java and maybe Go), they just want to do their job, and it doesn't require industrial language.
They recently changed the bus routes in my city (in Australia) and we are feeling the deleterious effects of such a change. My bus commute has become slightly better, but my partners has become very inconvienient, so now she drives to work.

If my city had good trains or trams we could have just chosen to live on a difficult-to-move tram line and forever removed ourselves from being 2 more cars on the road.
Or for even more fun, self-modifying shell scripts:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3398258/edit-shell-scrip... (curiously, the accepted answer is incorrect and downvoted highly)

...and Windows batch files:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/906586/changing-a-batch-...
It is funny to see this comment get "-4" already... What's so offensive? After all, Facebook has rocksdb in C++, percona in java, and a PHP->C++ compiler, so they clearly have both the belief and the skill in moving away from interpreted programming languages for performance-sensitive code.
> Automation

It seems like this is the opposite of growth - as more jobs are automated, fewer people will be able to buy the products that are created by the automation.
Well China's now the world's largest economy by PPP GDP [1] so it makes some kind of sense. I'm not sure how freely convertible the Yuan is though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
This brings back some nice memories. I was into the Toronto BBS scene pretty heavily back before public internet access became affordable and readily available.

As much as I love modern games, I have to admit I sort of miss some of the classics like TradeWars 2002 and L.O.R.D.
They also see money from the increased valuation of the stock they are still holding. This can be used to be borrowed against or sold.
First, what bitcoin tries to replace in the banking industry is not so clear cut. It could be payments, but also investment (value store), funding, and even credit. This very much depends on how successful and flexible the technology turns out to be. It is very early to say.

Second, the resources used by the banking industry to provide the services they do are not limited to the direct associated costs: we also have technology development, personnel costs (including energy used by the banking personnel to reach their workplace, the costs of turning on the lights in all the bank offices, and the fuel consumed by the bank managers to attend the party on the other side of the country without which the industry can not function, since, you know, you need some fun in order to sign the required contracts), the fuel consumed by the customers to reach the branch where, for the third time, they are going to evaluate their mortgage application, ... A long list.

In summary, yes, you are probably right that bitcoin is currently inefficient, and that currently it is not providing much value. But the sector is ripe for disruption, it is easy to disrupt, and any change in the current status quo will be an improvement, since the banking industry is so hugely inefficient for society as a whole.

At the core, the banking industry is just information processing, and that is the cake that technology is eating at the moment.