skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > a management experiment

This is a disingenuous quote -- the parent said 'so the whole of things is also a management experiment'.

You then go on to attack that decontextualised fragment by saying:

> Really? Billions and billions of Euros, hundreds of thousand of metric tons of concrete, hundreds of MW of power, thousands of gallons of fresh water-per-minute, tends of thousands of nuclear waste, to run a "management experiment"?? This has to be the most ludicrous, expensive and ill-designed case study in the history of mankind.

And I'd suggest:

metric tonnes

hundreds of MW

thousands of imperial measurements of water that are re-usable

tends <sic> of thousands of nuclear waste ... means what, precisely?

refer you again to the 'also' runs a management experiment

This clearly is not the most ludicrous, expensive, and ill-designed case study in the history of mankind, no matter how the coal industry wishes to describe it.
Indeed. I wonder wether civilisations after reaching certain step sort of goes into self-destruction mode.

Maybe deep down humans feel that they're at evolutionary dead end and decide to off themselves as a society? I could easily see why today's western society (and possibly others as well) may be far from optimal. Yet I'd prefer to try to fix it.

What is funniest, people advocating for "progress" etc frequently are those who have no children. Although old good "you're not grown up till you got kids" outlook is looked down nowadays, I can see why it'd make sense. If you don't have kids - you don't have skin in the long game. Nor experience what it's like to play in that mode. I wonder how the world would change if we'd only allow people with kids to vote and/or participate in politics.
If LOL'ing and making snarky comments about how you understand but it's still underwhelming makes you feel better, good for you.

But I have never seen a single person who truly "understand the technology perfectly well" say it's underwhelming.

Most of those who actually dug deep enough to "truly understand" do see the limitations, but because by that point they understand the potential, they see the limitations as problems to solve and opportunities to take.

It is those who only scraped the surface that say it's "uninteresting", "underwhelming", etc.

Ancient people thought they "understood the world perfectly well" and thought it was flat. Suit yourself.
> But there are a whole lot of situations where a sufficient set of useful algorithms for that given context are computable using models that we can reason much better about if you are willing to throw out the requirement to be able to run arbitrary computations.

This is not true, and precisely the point of my comment. There are no computational models of any wide utility -- no matter how limited -- that we can feasibly reason about in the general case. When I said "arbitrary" I meant arbitrary in whatever restricted model you give me. We can reason about many special cases, but we can (and do) do that for Turing complete languages, too.

> Make the limit low enough and it actually makes a difference. Of course this model can not compute arbitrary programs. But depending on your needs it may be able to compute sufficiently complex programs.

Again, this is not true. Knowing that your algorithm is bounded by some number, gives you no additional information usable in verifying it. There is still no faster way of answering questions than running the program on all inputs up to that number.

> that address reasoning by having no branching or loops or writable state.

If you have no loops (even bounded by a depth of 2) and no subroutines or no variables -- then verification is feasible, otherwise it is at least PSPACE-hard. Such languages may be useful for something, but obviously the vast majority of tasks cannot be done in them.

> The challenge is that accidentally expanding such a model in ways that accidentally adds back enough power to cause problems in reasoning about the programs is very easy.

This is provably impossible unless your don't mind your programs being as long as the worst-case time complexity that they solve. For almost any computational model (barring a couple of very special exceptions), the verification complexity is θ(|S|). As we know the minimum number of states for algorithms, the verification cost is known. The only thing you can do is make the languages so inexpressive that programs increase polynomially or exponentially in size, and so the verification complexity would decrease.

In general, the idea that a weaker computational model makes reasoning easy is a myth (obviously not one shared among researchers). The myth is probably because many practitioners know about the halting theorem but not about more significant computational complexity results, and mistakenly believe that it is that result which is the cause of the difficulty of verification.
maybe, maybe not. Who can tell?
This isn't a problem with diagnosis, though. It is more an issue of overworked doctors, not enough reliance on nurse practitioners for more "basic" diagnosis. Heck, even requiring a monthly 5 minute refill appointment is problematic in itself, considering this is a person with a chronic disorder wanting maintenance medications. Of course, newly diagnosed folks probably should have it the first few months to check in and talk about side effects... but there is no real reason this can't be done over the phone, through SMS, e-mail, or using something else fairly private and/or secure.

Fixing systematic problems will improve things. Besides, I don't have an issue with medical doctors prescribing such things if it is generally recognized as the commonly most effective treatment for a disorder. Give the doctors the time (through the systematic fixes), and there is time to discuss treatment options. Actually fix both physical and mental health care so folks can afford it while fixing systematic issues means folks can actually get coping mechanisms and other such training from a psycologist or psychiatrist as well, which might be especially attractive to folks that shy away from medicines or certain types of medicines.
amazing analysis, thanks for sharing it!

"What’s not so apparent is whether google search drives or follows the price. That chicken and egg question question will be addressed in my next deep learning post."

I was not aware that you can solve that with deep learning, waiting for your next post!.
More diagnostics data from desktop
What happens to the traffic you send to the app store?
>you're in real danger of being pilloried

OMG you're so brave. Standing up against means words from anonymous people...on the INTERNET!!!
Bitcoin doesn’t need an ssd to sync. Additionally, a bitcoin full node requires just 149gb — and it’s been around much longer than Ethereum! Ethereum is broken.
Kinsey Wilson (NPR/NYT) Named President of WordPress.com
I'd never really paid attention to this, but now that you mention it, the Dutch company I work for has 4 female developers, 3 of which are Indian.
> Congratulations! Few people have as much acumen at spotting bedbugs as you. Have you been hanging around with entomologists or a bedbug-sniffing dog?

No, I've just traveled SE Asia for months. You learn to inspect your mattress when arriving. If they've not yet reached the crevices in the mattress, you can at least pray that they're not everywhere else in the room.
I want a Powerpoint LLVM compilation target.
Fwiw: I think you're being down voted because the citations you mention have all become a part of the controversy rather than being external evidence. Each of the scientists you mentioned above have at times before this controversy shown a willingness to say things specifically to get limelight.

In culture war topics, the only real citations that can count are people above reproach, or people who are unknown but experts in their fields, which is a fine needle to thread. Also raw data, but few of us here would be qualified to understand the raw data.
What's morally dubious is you telling me what I can and can't do with my own computer and my own electricity that I pay for. I'm a grown adult and don't need people like you calling me stupid. I've had enough of this kind of moral proselytizing, thankyou very much.
Wow, sprint retrospective retrospective sounds nightmarish. I've never worked in a team nearly that dysfunctional, but I wonder if the blame is due to agile, or perhaps that team would end making any process or system into a horrorshow. It may even be that the agile process provides at least some bounds to the effects of the dysfunction, if it prevents such discussions occurring otherwise in the workday.
I think 5 years is too long especially for tech, and there are things that are and will stay different. Otherwise Germany would be almost exactly like the US now, which it isn't.
Mind to give a link for that UK extra tax? I wonder how it's worded :)
> Chips developed for computers and phones lasted an average of two to four years of normal use.

Err what?
How Far Have We Come? – Alan Cooper – Medium
AURA Band – Smart band with body composition and hydration level monitoring
Amp Promises: From Generators to Coroutines in PHP
Developer Economics survey Q4 2017: the winners are announced
Are developer salaries relatively low ???
HackSpace magazine 4: the wearables issue
You forget, he also explicitly referenced anti-Semitic conspiracy theories as well. That alone is grounds for being fired.
> Equality of Chance is more desirable than Equality of Outcome as it values the decisions of a neutral individual more than the later.

More desirable to whom? To the one with the worse outcome equality of outcome will always be more desirable than equality of chance. Plus, from a probabilistic point of view, wouldn't equal chances mean that for large numbers of trials (people) the outcome would also be equal?

> I would rather see some evidence that despite all the physical, hormonal and developmental differences in male and female humans, there is absolutely no statistically significant difference in the brain and/or mind.

You cannot even properly define what you mean by "brain and/or mind", which is why it's impossible to convince you that there actually is injustice if your opinion relies on that. But, for the moment suppose there is some convincing theory which explains naturally why less women are in STEM. Then why would we have to adjust our society to it, as it would benefit from less social tensions if there was equal outcome? Your point has to be much stronger to justify the inequality, as in everything would go downhill super fast if we had equal outcome. Otherwise there will always be social tensions and you have to learn to live with the "feminists".
Just an active loop antenna.
what is your point? that in the rest of the world racism wasn't a thing or that racism is actually classicism? both of these things aren't true
I hope the US dissolves into anarchism. I'd move here.
It's possible that your assessment is predicated on the idea that all advancement can be reduced to $-values, normalised over large time spans.

My feeling -- undeniably hard to substantiate -- is that this is a difficult position to defend or attack.
Pure CSS Slide-Down Animation
That will be going on somewhere I'm sure...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse
When I worked at gamedev, that's how we learned that making several people learn Lua is 10x cheaper and faster then reinventing "visual Lua" from the ground up.
Much of the research is done in non-commercial settings. Then companies pick the most promising stuff, patent it and run clinical trials. The real cost is the clinical trials, not the basic research. Read the wording, they often talk about the "cost of bringing a drug to market" which isn't so much the discovery phase as the "prove it" phase.

As an example of exploitation see the statin drugs used to lower cholesterol. These were originally isolated from an ancient Chinese herbal "red yeast rice" and found to be effective. So some company patented the molecule, did clinical trials, and profit! I chose this one because I have personal experience getting dramatic reduction in my cholesterol from taking red-yeast-rice. It's also a nice example of how the system is broken. We all could have benefited from trials proving that red-yeast-rice reduces cholesterol, but that's not what happened. The company would not have funded the trials if they couldn't patent the molecule.

IMHO if clinical trials were cheaper there would be no need for granting monopolies (via patents) to cover the costs. I also don't see why trials are so expensive. There are plenty of doctors treating plenty of patients that are willing to try things. All we really need is a set of rules to protect people from irresponsible trials, and formal study procedures to document results and determine efficacy. It doesn't seem too complicated right?
> A Chinese noblewoman had a lot more freedom than a English farmer.

You'll have to specify that better; for instance, is the farmer a landowner, or a serf? Both work in agriculture and can so rightly be termed a farmer.
Yeah, I don't think arbitrary code execution counts as the game itself being "Turing complete".
> To clarify, yes, some mined blockchains feel faster now simply because they are less busy.

Yes, and for now it's not proven in practice that Nano will also stay responsive when it hits the same scale/busyness.
I wish this article spent more time on substance and facts and less time on expounding their very obvious ideology.
What if my electricity comes from solar or nuclear power? Have you ever taken a commercial air flight? Please, no. Stop doing that already. Your carbon footprint is too high.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_aviati...
To some extent. By 1500 the Spanish were in the Americas, the European powers were forming colonies on the African coast, the Russians were dominating Siberia.

By 1900 European powers dominated almost everything, including China who were bulled into war by the British. If you were a subject of any of those colonial powers, you certainly were at a disadvantage to your foreign masters. This isn't even considering gender. Out of all of those empires, how many were led by women? There were exceptions here and there, but men dominated.

It's not US centric nor incorrect by any means to suggest that Caucasian males have had significant advantages in social relations for an extended period of time.

rate limited, but to reply:

Read Caucasian as white or European and don't get stuck on semantics. Germany only very recently favored this race (or another vague term, "Aryan") more than anyone else in history, so most people know what it means, the semantics are a digression and not an answer to what has happened historically.

Also, this isn't guilt tripping nor "hating" on my ancestors, it is pointing out obvious facts. Many of us are products of this domination and have connections to both sides.
On Linux, Vim, because its ubiquitous and powerful.

On Mac, BBEdit. Like the other BBEdit user in this thread, I've been using it for over 15 years, and muscle memory counts for a lot. I also really love its side drawer for managing dozens of open files (Sublime nominally has one but it's an afterthought and not very functional), and think its symbol navigator is very effective. I especially like the ability to have the same file open in multiple windows in order to view different parts of it at the same time. And nothing else I've used quite matches its incredibly rich multi-file search/replace dialog or its search results displays (with a full listing of all instances, organized by file, navigable by keyboard, opening to the line in question in an editable buffer right in the window).

And it has so many incredible text processing features. Just to name a few, a feature that will replace non-ASCII characters with their nearest ASCII equivalents; a feature to find and process (in any number of ways) duplicate lines in a file; the ability to reopen a file using a different encoding; a built in diffing tool that will work on both saved files and unsaved buffers; preserving unsaved buffers across restarts and system reboots; Markdown and HTML preview modes; a menu for scripts to run against your files/buffers; and the list goes on.

Oh, and it's stable. In 15+ years of use, it's never ever crashed on me. I can't think of any other GUI program I can say that of. I've thrown 4GB files at it on a machine with only 512MB of RAM, and it somehow not only opened and rendered them nearly instantly but scrolled through them (and executed searches and search/replace) like butter.
My quibble with "God-shaped hole" is not with the hole part, but with the God part. God is a very very recent idea, only having been around for the last few thousand years. Deity existed in many, many, many different forms before the monotheists took over. That could perhaps have been better explained.

But it doesn't take much to reach a conceptualization of God. I believe in a universe that's bigger than the physical aspects of it that we can see and experience. Given that even in our own universe, self-organization and sentience were able to evolve, there's no reason not to believe that sometime before our universe existed, a powerful being evolved to guide existence. When time frames literally stretch out to infinity, anything's possible.

Our universe could be just one in a countless procession of similar universes. The idea's even taken seriously by the scientific establishment. With this groundwork laid, over unimaginable numbers of universal iterations, there's more than enough room for God.
I don't think it's just Engineering and Maths that have a problem. There's this joke where someone says "A man and his son are in a car crash and they're taken to hospital. The doctor sees the child and goes 'Oh no! It's my son!'". Then they ask you "who is the doctor"?

The point is that you are supposed to struggle with the answer because you can't imagine the doctor to be the boy's mother. That there exists an assumption that people will find this difficult to answer suggests that there is some sort of expected cultural bias about doctors being male or female.

An anecodte, of course- literally.
Most men I know are pretty heavily in favour of equality. That might change if we treat equality as a war against men, instead of something we all work towards.

Adapting behavior is reasonable, but there's men also need to be able to have a voice, or you're going to get some major pushback. Hopefully we can keep this kind of war at a low simmer when trump is up for re-election.

More specifically, that means making sure that men do have a voice. I've seen a lot of silencing tactics deployed that are based on gender, or social class. It's all well and good to say "well that's how minorities always felt", but it doesn't actually make any part of this situation better.
That was my point, without patents they compete on price or quality. With patents there is no incentive for the sole provider of a product to improve it in either way.
You can't read other process's memory with Spectre. And your solution would only work for statically sized arrays. In that case though it seems like a reasonable thing to do. Not a full solution though.
> They also have very little genetic variation due to the way they have been bred.

Specifically, the mechanism is inbreeding. Each generation has less and less genetic diversity, until individuals are essentially clones.
That's absolutely true (it's my favorite Linux distro), but it doesn't help much if an application you require isn't available for that OS. If you are a gamer, you are probably going to run Windows. If you are an iOS developer, you will probably have a macOS machine. If a great web browser is all you need, then just about any OS is going to work well for you.

All of the big operating systems are very good these days and have been for quite a while.
Indeed, I was referring to the flippant dismissal of the above poster’s comment, and I addressed the flu-shot’s status as an exception.

Of course that won’t save you from the “I f’ing love science”-brigade down voting without rebuttal.
I worked on an autobahn like thingie. Server-side could tell clients to reconnect. Useful for draining servers, etc.

I haven't checked to see if autobahn has this functionality.

https://crossbar.io/autobahn/
Is this not a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16381978 ?
OKRs sound like a reasonable idea, but in my experience appear to be prohibitively difficult to implement successfully, imposing a considerable burden across the organization which isn't at all commensurate with the value they deliver.

I've seen them done in a few places, each time they tend to be delivered late and/or be constantly shifting, are constantly in conflict with important but unstated objectives, are often hard to measure and inevitably used to judge performance despite protestations to the contrary and so are subject to gaming, are bad for morale, and for all those downsides seem to have somewhat limited effects on output.

The primary benefits are aligning people, giving people clear goals to focus on, and giving people a justification for not doing unnecessary work. All of those things could be achieved at far lower implementation cost by ditching the key results and just establishing clear goals at the top and allowing them to semi-formally cascade with some kind of regular but very lightweight process.
Life is horrible enough as it is.
I love FastMail and this is just one of the several reasons I recently updated to a 2 year plan.

I hope you can implement some feature to download the amp-content or similar so it works like normal email. I do not like amp at all but I understand if you have the need to do something to support it, but as other have written please leave it off by default!
E-mail and IRC.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1782/
It's not something that would be done as the only thing that influences the final fonts size. As another comment pointed out, it could be combined with calc(). But also, within media queries, to achieve reasonable results in various widths while still responding in a subtle way to the actual viewport with of the client.
Actually that's what I like about the idea. Reading prices, considering value of the things I buy in relation to those prices, picking most worthy alternative is a job that is assigned to every consumer by free market. I find it bothersome and after two decades or so of being consumer it is boring for me. Just saying "pay this guy whatever" without the fear of being taken to the cleaners sounds very attractive to me.
> With a JS miner, you pay exactly as long as you keep the tab open, which is a pretty good proxy for how much the page is personally valuable to you.

I don’t think it is. People open links in new tabs for later, and “later” can be quite a while.