skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chinese is many times harder to learn than the other languages you mentioned for Native English speakers.

It takes about 4 times as long as French and Spanish to become proficient.

Given the amount of time kids spend on foreign languages in school, there's no way they're learning enough Mandarin to be useful.

I took Mandarin as an undergrad, and I can understand more Spanish despite having never studied it.
>People don't listen to him because of these kinds of outbursts

Check the title of the thread you're in, and how many comments it has. People absolutely listen to him when he has these outbursts. It's usually a solid indicator there's something worth getting outraged about.
I don't disagree, but they are working under a time crunch trying to fix something that is a flaw fundamental to modern chip design.

Hopefully the goal here is to get everything to a secure state, with time to iterate and improve once everyone can sit back and breathe. Hopefully.
Not only is Google "borrowing" content from others to show directly in the search results, more often than not it's completely wrong. Either because they have failed to parse the data correctly, or because it's from some shady web page (happens when googling stuff related to vaccines for instance).
>I'm in a leadership position and could MAYBE push to standardize on it however the current more likely scenario is TypeScript(I know, I know) due to my having already successfully pushed that out haha.

If you're currently on JavaScript that's definitely an improvement. You could push for F# + Fable in that case. The F# Ionide VSCode extension is written with Fable. It's like TypeScript, just better.

http://fable.io/
Possibly range? At that scale the max representable duration is about 16.5 years (assuming they're 64 bits, IIUC the standard mandates that as a minimum) which could be limiting - although that seems unlikely to be a concern in the framerate domain, but who knows what it might get used for when that might become an issue.
Time is money.

He is saving about 5 hours each round trip. If his time is worth $50/hour, then $8000 for car ownership gets him 32 trips. Add a few more to account for the cost of rail ticket prices.

He breaks even if he takes that trip about 3 times per month and never finds any other use for a car.
Right. It's _not_ just Al Jazeera. But that doesn't make Al Jazeera a canard in their justifications. Al Jazeera needn't have done anything contemporaneous with the embargo for it to be legitimately part of Arab countries' grievances. It's obvious that what immediately precipitated the embargo was the rise of crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, but what precipitates an event is rarely the only cause.

If we accept that Al Jazeera has promoted narratives that materially threaten the power structures of some Arab countries (see my previous news links), and which support factions in Libya and Syria opposed by Arab-backed factions, to the extent that Al Jazeera is a tool of the Qatar state those narratives implicate Qatar and its leadership.

The real question is to what extent is Al Jazeera a tool of Qatar foreign policy; specifically, to what extent has Qatar weaponized Al Jazeera? I don't know enough to have an informed opinion, but it seems clear to me that at the very least the answer is not simple.

(FWIW, none of this is to say that I think there's anything wrong, objectively, with most Al Jazeera reporting or even of Qatari foreign policy generally.)
But that doesn't mean it lost half it's value. If I printed an extra 100 trillion dollars and launched it into space that wouldn't affect the value of the dollar.

And the same thing was true during the bailout. 99% of that money was never spent so it didn't have any affect on the economy.
Have a glimpse at the kind of errors we will be facing with the machine-learning AI in the near future.

How do we debug them and how do we know there is an error to correct in the first place?
Why is the top comment on this about engineering culture?!

Linus is valuable precisely because he occasionally d-slaps people around, waking them up, even when what he says may be factually wrong, and reminding them the at the core the tech must be sane, f people and their feelings!

Yeah, it's good to have a 1 in 1000 brilliant people being aholes because it keeps the culture balanced. We need a dose of rascality, and Linus can afford to embody it and seems to like doing it, and he's also good at fixing the consequences of his rants by being reasonable afterwards.

(If we're mature enough to accept that this can only be accepted of 1 in 1000 people or something like that, and that obviously not all people are born equal, we can move on and enjoy life.)
During that time half the cars on the road were electric. It is truly sad to see how we have regressed. I wonder what will happen first? Extinction of the human race because of global warming? Or half the cars being electric? ...
Pragmatism aside, surrendering my license was a significant step in the grieving process for me. I was warned by a vision counselor that losing sight would be like losing a loved one. So far that has been my experience.
The only thing I feel is pure schadenfreude. AI still has very, very long ways to go.
The conspiracy theory crowd is always full of "facts" (ahem) that "people just don't want to hear". Because people "live in their bubble", obviously.
Ask HN: Are we in a bubble?
I remember back in 2012-2015 there was all this talk that the tech sector is in a bubble. Lots of speculation. Nasdaq at that time was 3000-5000

Now Nasdaq is sitting around 7400. Many people have already left the market last year thinking assets are over priced. But we are still going higher.

Chart: https://imgur.com/a/tNVwc

So... Are we in a real bubble? Is everyone adamant to that fact? Isn't this bubble getting huge, scary and could possibly wreck fortunes and companies?
I would be careful taking that stuff too seriously. It's ok as entertainment though.
Pretty much. The sidebar references Wikipedia's List of brightest stars [1]. That table has the distance from Earth to the Sun in lightyears. So maybe a parsing problem with 0.000015813. On the January 21st this was changed from 0.000&nbsp;015&nbsp;813, so it may have been parsing that wrong.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_brightest_stars#Main_t...
Tesla's AEB likely triggers earlier than many others. See this example http://youtu.be/FadR7ETT_1k . The vehicles ahead were moving, but after http://www.tesla.com/blog/upgrading-autopilot-seeing-world-r... was implemented in software 8.0, I believe the same was possible for already-stopped vehicles, too. We'll find out in the accident report, and perhaps directly from Tesla after they retrieve the vehicle's data.
The maximum distance between two ellipses is not the same as the maximum distance between all pairs of points on them right? Like just imagine measuring the maximum distance from a circular orbit to itself. One measure would give zero (zero separation between the orbits) and the other would give twice the radius (individual points can be 2R away from each other).

If I'm doing this correctly I think the max distance between two points would come out to max_x max_y ||x - y|| whereas the max distance to the orbit would come out to max_x min_y ||x - y||.
I for one, love the In-N-Out fries.

In fact, I can no longer eat fries from anywhere else (McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, The Habit, etc.), because I know that they use fake fries.

At In-N-Out, you know that you are eating a freshly sliced potato, that was deep-fried, and served to you.
> Strict labor laws at some point end up increasing inequality. Surprise!

Is there a correlation you mean, between inequality (e.g. Gini) and labor laws (unsure how to measure that on a scale)? To me it seems the countries with strong labor movement in the 20th century today have lower inequality.

Perhaps this is changing in the modern era - with the trend being that labor now protects the interests of the employed vs the interests of the unemployed (whereas through the 20th century it was the working people vs. the employers in a more classic Marxist setup)? That might well be the case, and I agree I see some of that. But if we don't look at the past 20 years but instead the past 120 - then I think you agree that equality today is higher where there are better workforce protection.
Wait, what about the whole sum... ohhhhh, right, clouds. Clouds. Always clouds.

No summer ever.

Clouds always.
> First is that your application is running in a distributed environment and will encounter data loss if it is not designed for it.

The data itself is on a self-replicating storage (and Postgres obtains the proper exclusive locks when using it), so I don't care if it runs on Kubernetes or a Raspberry Pi.
REST is not the Best for Micro-Services GRPC and Docker makes a compelling case
AI should bring growth to GDP, but it will also most likely bring about even further concentration of wealth and income. The long-term results could depend a lot on public policy.
I think you underestimate how adaptable humanity is, and how much desire it has to survive. If it turns out that there are huge negative effects a few generations down the line, I really doubt that humanity (which is naive on an individual level, but largely wise in aggregate, at least when it comes to survival of the species as a whole) won't correct course.
"Yuan" is to Renminbi as "dollar" is to USD.

Also interesting (to me) is that yuan, yen and won are all units based on the word for "round," in China, Japan and Korea(s) respectively. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_yen#Pronunciation_and...

Similar etymological relationships for "dollar," and "thaler" units: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaler
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That's because they don't have many good things to discover so they have to obfuscate it.
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My dad decided to drive home from Ouray to Farmington, NM one late April during a snowstorm. My mom didn’t talk to him for a week. We could barely see the front of the car as we tried to follow the snow plow most of the way. I was about 12 but I remember the drive vividly... my mom also didn’t want to sit in the front seat during the drive. Getting to Silverton, we all got out of the car to stretch a bit, it was an extremely satisfying experience to feel safe again.

I love Ouray. It’s extremely beautiful and so are the mountain passes all around it.
okay, but only for at least as a grave mistake as google's.

wait. when people die for no reason whatsoever, that counts, right?
You seem to be arguing for convenience, more than freedom per se.
Too late. Mandarin and Chinese in general requires a slightly different way of thinking that is better and way more easily absorbed when young.

10k ideograms is not that hard compared to say 7k words needed to have basic fluency in English. You would need about twice as much to be considered reasonably fluent. Grammar is relatively easy, proper pronunciation is much more critical than in English.
No, it's an ellipse with infinite radius.
I remember reading an article regarding this some time ago as well. It's mostly due to some new rule that when the public has been able to access private land for an amount of time unhindered the state can claim it their own. This has caused most to fence up in order to keep their land.

It's completely understandable, and this is mostly just Government trolling to land owners and causing inconvenient situations to the public wanting to access public grounds.
While this is true (that diplomatic immunity poses problems with some diplomats heavily abusing it, while there doesn't seem to be a good way to punish them for it), it at least is a phenomenon that can be seen as a cost to bear for a greater good: protecting representatives of other countries from becoming targets of a sort of "state-organized bullying" by the officials in power, which often makes it possible for these representatives to enter foreign states in the first place and which thus can be seen as a mutual agreement that fosters peaceful diplomatic exchange between countries.

For these weird PBA cards, I can't see any positive effect for society as a whole that could be brought up in their defense. This is clearly a form of institutionalized corruption, pressed into a handy credit-card format, and it is unworthy of a country like the United States.
> You can always run your Elixir VM using something like supervisord if you need another watchdog.

Sounds like heart: http://erlang.org/doc/man/heart.html
I still have some central vision, maybe 20 degrees field of view, so I can still see my laptop screen ok. I had to ditch my two 27” monitors because I’d get vertigo looking between them (usually hunting for the mouse pointer)

I crank up the text size so large my neighbors can read it, but not so big that it exceeds my visual field.

I use a screen reader to read docs. I’m super excited about the new AI powered narrators because listening to ANY of the older style readers for 30 seconds or more causes permanent rage conditions.

I tried Braille, but it’s like trying to be instantly productive using vim, in Chinese, while on the space shuttle during launch. I might return to it sometime because narrated code is horrible to listen to.
Another, maybe more significant statistic, China has equaled or surpassed US, in terms the size of retail market, as the first country ever did that in the past 100 years.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/01/11/the-c...

That is a more relevant data point of its buying power right now, and potential impact it would have on other economies, if China decides to use its market as a weapon.
If you really want to look for proofs, you can google it. I am an Arab and since the the mid 90s Qatar has been providing all Sunni islamic groups from MB, Hamas and Al Qaeda with all kinds of support (money, media, bribing western politicians, etc...)
So your entire solution to violent crime is "hit them back"?

What do I do if the criminal has a bigger stick?
The baby tackling bullying at school
Seems strange you could have a long time Wall St analyst - either they are so good they should get rich super quick and quit to live on the beach, or they are rarely correct and be lucky to keep their job.
From the link itself: "Much of the time the truth does indeed lie between two extreme points"

That's the problem with all these fallacies lists: things are a fallacy, except when they are not. So most often, they are just used as rhetoric weapons in verbal jousts.
The Irony: Automation May Generate 2 Lakh Jobs
Very good article. Though some of the downsides are also problems a distributed monolith could face, but overall I agree with the article. You have to consider the trade offs.
I'm seeing a zip code.
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06DAMASCUS5399_a.html
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Do you also get annoyed at people calling pound sterling pound?
i would've thought the most obvious, and most agree-able method is to simply ask the yes/no question- 'are you happy at this job?'.
Even then, only small subset of discrete maths often called numerical methods is needed. (Discretizaton, discrete linear and nonlinear algebra, stability.)
Going at a problem from fully discrete math point of view is often suicidal (results in unworkable algorithms) as integrals or difference equations are much more useful in practice than say discrete combinatorics. (Mostly used in cryptography.)

Graphs are sometimes useful in a narrow set of CS problems, as are similar structures. However, these are often not taught at discrete maths courses.
Not if you have simulator :)

https://github.com/microsoft/airsim
We went towards ICE vehicles because the power to weight ratio was so much better with gasoline.
Welcome to the world where we talk about the company giving their employees a proper salary and benefits, because every other company of it's kind is unlikely to do so. Let's hope more companies follow eventually.

I heard good things of In-N-Out and ill likely visit one one day when I'm ever back in the states.
The section about the guarantees of read/write doesn't seem entirely correct to me. For sure it's relevant to why the data is there, but the reason it doesn't terminate is just because read doesn't tell you there's an eof until you try to read again past the end. It would be entirely possible to construct a version of this loop that would terminate. Though it would be awkward.
I imagine that genetic engineering for intelligence has already happened on the downlow.
Has someone ever tried to submit images from Google captchas to Google Images?

An answer like "This is definitely a sign" from Google Images would be funny.
From programming on a Nokia feature phone to working for an MIT Startup
Trump’s solar tariffs shoot US clean energy in the foot
It's a bit disappointing, when caffe2 was released it was stated that mobile is a big focus, but things like this don't support mobile (even though some of this was demoed by FB on a phone).
Okay, will keep an eye on the 2018 YC graduates in hope to fund future block chain incumbents :-)
Minecraft: Education Edition introduces chemistry update
Fair enough, I misunderstood your original comment at first, now I got it. You make a valid point.
Part of the problem is that they cut them into shoestring. But another is that they only fry once -- if they did a second fry they'd be far better. I believe McDonalds and other chains pre-cook their fries before they arrive at the restaurant.
Trump is definitely an issue. His talk about abandoning NATO, ridiculing EU to drive his own argument for domestic issues, makes him pretty hard to be likable from EU establishments' perspectives.

On the least insignificant level, the message is pretty clear: US is destabilizing, and Trump might only be the beginning of it. With a isolationist and hostile US government, EU naturally would seek another anchor for safety, which is China, to counter balance it.
If you're interested, I regularly read what some of Putin's supporter I know post on Reddit (mostly coming from RT and Sputnik). This way, I keep up on that kind of propaganda without having to read all the Russian media agencies directly.

To anticipate your next point: is there propaganda in the West? Yes, absolutely. Is it the same level BS as Putin's propaganda? No way - in the West there are just so many more independent sources of information, that finding out most BS is easy enough if you try. In Russia, things are very tightly controlled by Putin and his system.
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According to half the linguists, both might be right, just a figure of speech, while the other half would help them find the right word.
If that is so, why are cartels a thing?
Surprised to see tinfoil hat theories on top of a HN thread. Not to say that there's not some truth in there but reducing the extremely complex geopolitical situation in the middle east to "they wanted to build a pipeline" is rather laughable.

I mean seriously:

>The actual goal was of course had nothing to do with democracy and Arab spring was total bullshit.

>Western news brainwashed the whole world with ISIS and YPG

>The western alliance tried hard to take down their presidents by organizing coups but it failed.

And the most amusing part of your comment:

>people just buy this stuff easily in the propaganda bubble they live in

WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!

This whole comment is one big huge [citation needed] tag.
I have a grandmother in San Francisco. It only works OK for her because she has a daughter with a car. Taking public transportation isn't something she could seriously consider.

I think a lot of people here are imagining themselves as "seniors" without really picturing what that is like. It isn't just like being a 30-year-old male, but with wrinkles and free time.

Going up those hills is something the young take for granted. The elderly have painful joints, weak muscles, bad eyesight, slow reactions, and poor balance. I just try to imagine my grandmother going up a hill, maybe with a walker... and I mostly can't.

Invulnerability to crime is something that young males often take for granted. My grandmother would be such easy pickings. She can't run and she can't fight. She could very quietly scream after the crime had happened, but only if she doesn't fall down and get knocked out cold.

Many have poor control of core body temperature. They are in danger if the weather changes.

Many are not strong enough to carry very much. Typically you bring stuff with you when you go places. The point is often to go shopping, and of course you'd want to bring a purse. This is not something that everyone can reliably do.
More information here: http://www.rootsofempathy.org/roots-of-empathy/
To me Tesla autopilot accidents are like airliner crashes: they lead to a safer system, one that in the future will avoid the same mistake again. Compare that to human-operated vehicles: we keep getting into the same accidents over and over. The fact that autopilot data gets sent back to the factory, is analyzed and results are fed back into the the production line is a game changer that will help Tesla keep ahead of the competition a while to come. Right now the rate and importance of autopilot system interations are an order of magnitude higher than other auto-safety evolution from the past.
> That's the problem with all these fallacies lists: things are a fallacy, except when they are not.

No, fallacies are always fallacy, but a fallacy is an error in logic that does not imply that the conclusion is wrong [0], only that the argument offered fails to establish the truth of the conclusion it seeks to justify.

[0] An argument for the negation of a conclusion based solely on a fallacy in an argument offered for that conclusion is the definition of the fallacy fallacy.
Having interacted with a lot of computers over the years (including Google's for the last several of my employment), the machines at Google come as close to thinking as I've ever encountered. Two or three times a day they come up with answers that I cannot begin to comprehend how they arrived at. Sometimes they are brilliant, sometimes they are dumb, and sometimes they are merely mad.

They give every coworker I've ever had a run for their money on catching my fuckups.