skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that makes it relatively easy to open the reactor is that the superconducting tapes can have joints without significant resistance, instead of being a continuous wrapping. They've tested the joints to make sure of this.

Here's a rendering showing how the reactor is put together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efOlmF3wjJE
Research of this importance is deserving of an ig-Nobel prize.
The ineffectiveness of the Norden is overstated, since that's the trendy thing to do right now.

Admittedly, the Norden did not live up to its hype. Almost nothing performs as well in real life as it does under perfect conditions- this is commonly seen when going from the "golden testers" in development that graduated from test pilot school to the "regular testers" during operational test. But once appropriate tactics were developed (this takes a while with all new technology) and they found a few bombardiers good enough to lead bombing formations, it was effective. Not at the level of pinpoint accuracy, but the performance improved quite a bit over the 1943 results. They never took the Norden off the B-17s because any time the Norden had bad results any previous technology would have been worse.

To the point of my prior comment, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren, the place that is working on the USN's railguns, is the same place where they were able to get Carl Norden's design into a production ready state where 90,000 of them could be made with the precision of a master Swiss watchmaker. Dahlgren isn't staffed by a bunch of software devs that call themselves "engineers" because they think it sounds better. They have real engineers working on solutions to their problems, and a history to back it up. While you can't assume they've looked at every possible idea, they have considered many novel ways to fix the main issues of railguns.
Yes, I was wondering the same thing. Some guesses: some people may not be comfortable with the somewhat un-conventional syntax / semantics (e.g. no operator precedence, just right to left or as they call it, left of right :) (I'm fine with it myself), or might think you can only get jobs using kdb+/q/k in big cities like New York / London, and may not want to move there. Possibly low market demand (compared to mainstream languages), although high comp, may be another reason. Also people may think you need finance knowledge too, and may not have it. Those are some guesses, that's all. Interested to hear if anyone else has some ideas on this.

Edit: Just saw beagle3's comment after posting mine. Some interesting points there. Still wonder about the non-tech factors though, as listed in above part of my comment.
This is great: simple and easy to understand. For everyone feigning confusion about modern professional behavioral norms, just memorize this list.
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Likening people to Thiel is ridiculous. He is personally facing the backlash from openly supporting Trump and being a speaker at his rallies. Nobody else in the valley did anything as absurd or unnecessary. And if he thinks he'll fair better in LA, I think he's sorely mistaken once people start recognizing him en masse. But to my point, this article seems to be generalizing an outlier to make its point. Everyone is being alienated everywhere because the country has a leader who is actively polarizing the populous by demonizing every side that he's not on as an enemy to his agenda, even going so far now as to suggest people who disagree should be labeled as traitors - which coming from the President, is technically a death threat as that is the punishment for treason. Peter Thiel seems to be actively trying to paint a more dystopian portrait of the situation to make himself out to be a victim when in reality people on both sides have been alienated by the dissolution of the "moderate" common ground where we all worked together in favor of a Monday Night Football-esque team based society (or crime drama - good v. bad). More generalizations like this that skew reality aren't going to help anything.
The problem is there is no common desktop permissions framework on Linux.

On macOS a lot of these privileges (being able to inject and monitor input) are behind accessibility APIs and require the users express permission & password.
This is more like an index of refraction of 100000, isn't it?
I was involved in one of the non-FB companies who pushed for this weirdo program.

If I were to guess the stats: I would guess FB got 99% of the traffic, even though wikipedia was the key thing of the marketing message, at least in the west.

The basic FB setup was to target key people in african and south-east asian operators and after a while of the usual kind of negotiation say: if you'll set us up with this zero-rating program in your company, we'll get you a cushy FB job + visa to the US.

It was an open joke in the business at the time. People in every part of the industry (including myself!) were scrambling to get an FB job offer. These were the kind of things we were discussing after drinks when meeting with mobile operator customers.

It got to the point where operators were restricting the people who were allowed to meet with FB.

I am not joking. I witnessed (on FB!) several people from these mobile operators who I had previously worked with later move to California for FB jobs.

Yes, I am aware that this is likely illegal under US law. No, I don't have proof.
Some people are missing the point.

> "In particular, machine minds that cannot explain themselves, or whose detailed operation is beyond the realm of human language, pose a problem for criminal law."

It doesn't says that the AI is NOT useful, but that it can't be used for the liability that it creates.

> "Dr Datta feeds the system under test a range of input data and examines its output for dodgy, potentially harmful or discriminatory results." ... " If the randomisation of sex produces no change in the number of women offered jobs by the AI, but randomising weightlifting ability increases it (because some women now appear to have “male”abilities to lift weights), then it is clear that weightlifting ability itself, not an applicant’s sex, is affecting the hiring process."

This is the most interesting part of the article. As it shows that it's possible to test the system for unlawful decisions without actually understanding how it thinks.
As opposed to a working theory of malfeasance and corruption which is what?
What you found for RO/SRO positions is pretty much spot on, and there are other "experience-in-lieu-of-degree" types of jobs that pay exceptionally well.

Regarding the naval experience aspect, the utilities that hire navy veterans look for certain qualifications obtained while in the navy (EWS for enlisted folks in lieu of a degree).
Isn't that just pointless marketing that doesn't do anything for us as readers though? A few paragraphs isn't enough to depict anything accurately about ten silent years before a 180 degree life change. Let's get excited about his next book when it's here.
OpenWhisk started entirely from IBM Research. It was open sourced in Feb 2016. Adobe came on board as part of the induction to Apache Incubator.
The AMA has actually been lobbying quite strongly to expand the number of residency spots. Doctors salaries are generally pushed from the top down by Medicare and not by general supply-and-demand principles. So these shortages don’t lead to salary bumps, they lead to inferior substitutions (expansion of mid-level practice privileges), which actually puts a downward pressure on salary while also providing worse care for the public.

The problem with residency slots is that they’re funded as part of the larger Medicare legislation, and no one wants to push for the bump in funding/taxes for Medicare needed to expand it.

The reason visits are seven minutes long is because part of a trend that started with the HMOs in the 80s. The hypothesis on the part of insurers was that docs have a general target income - that they don’t work at maximum capacity (in general - obviously wonky things happen at the extremes.) If you reduce per-service billing, docs would maintain constant output to hit their personal target income goal. And... that’s exactly what happened. Since then, insurers have continued to hit against per-service fees, and docs and facilities have continued to shrink the time they alot to each service in order to keep afloat. In fairness, docs don’t have an awful lot of flex on this - they have to meet overhead costs which are fixed regardless of how small their reimbursement gets, and even with pitifully short visits doc real earning power has gone down quite a lot in the last 30 years. Docs work about 3x as hard as they used to, for about one third of the real income.

It’s actually a bit scary: there’s not a lot of leeway left in this, and medical education is more expensive than its ever been. Docs carry the financial risk and massive increase in burnout, patients bear the risk of the reduction in time and quality of care, and everyone else is squeezing the juice out of the grapes. Something’s gonna give.
That's one explanation, but it seems unnecessary. Trump was on TV all the time. He was never not on TV, for the entire 1.5 years leading up to the election. Is there any candidate in history who would not have had better results than he did, given such a massive structural advantage? The question isn't why he won, but rather why his margin of victory was so small. (Possibly because he is an odious vainglorious born-on-third-base lump of shit? But when have we cared about that?)

TV people will protest that he had to be on TV, because he said such outrageous things. That speaks to the fact that Trump hacked TV, much as Russians are alleged to have hacked social media. It seems relevant that Trump's largely old voters get more news from TV while Clinton's largely young voters get more news from social media. Yet investigations concentrate on social media: perplexing!

In case it matters and in case someone couldn't tell, let me observe that I voted for someone else and indeed would never vote for Trump. That's no excuse for believing the obvious bullshit being peddled now.
> My guess is they would

No, your guess is absurd. Of course they wouldn't.

It's always been possible to quite reliably cause extreme pain with little long-term consequence. The pain remains real, and people remain motivated to avoid that pain.

This isn't even a thought experiment - you're just describing torture!

> killing painlessly doesn't let one off the hook, since it is still killing

If we're talking about human beings: obviously. No-one in their right mind would disagree with that. Most people treat non-human animals as categorically different.

> And if one thinks killing is ok, then some amount of pain should be ok too.

Non-sequitur.
It’s like a customer-acquisition cost shouldered by the company, and presumably an option available to all companies.

Zero-metering or other things being discussed privilege a fixed, arbitrary list of companies/websites, which is why they’re bad. Also, the extra cost is shouldered by either the ISP or the customer, which is like the company/website in question benefiting from a negative externality.
Was it ever a bad idea, or did it just go out of fashion? I'm not a PHP fan, but I miss the simplicity of low-end deployments on a LAMP stack by literally dragging files over FTP. It seems like something has been lost with the total embrace of more modern web frameworks.
Also Adobe I/O runtime https://www.adobe.io/apis/cloudplatform/runtime.html.
not sure if trolling or a honest question.
Having grown up in North America, I think I can say that the kind of higher trust society you're speaking to only exists at certain strata.

If you were born into a lower strata, upward movement will sometimes be viewed with suspicion. If you were born high, you'll not likely sink below your level.

In short, I think that's a privilege of the upper-middle classes and above.
In all fairness, WeWork does have plans where (for a daily fee) you can book at other locations. I honestly don't know how valuable that is. When I'm traveling on business, I have no trouble working out of my hotel or a cafe. I even rarely go into one of my company's offices unless I have some specific reason to do so. I'm not sure what would compel me to pay $50/day to sit in a shared collaborative space. I can buy a lot of coffees for that.

Co-working spaces also have capital requirements that a website doesn't. I don't disagree with your statement about network effects but dominating a market space is no guarantee that you can monetize that dominance.
Thought about this a lot in high school, I believe this attitude has basically made large portions of American society mentally handicapped. Peer pressure to pretend to not know an answer to dumb as question to not look uncool etc.
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This is often expressed as "interface inheritance" vs "implementation inheritance".
How about the iPhone? (No copy/paste, no apps, no 3G, etc)

Apple usually mail the core experience with v1, but all the ancillary roles have to wait till v3 or v4.
There is nothing wrong with Typescript definitions if that works for your use case. Json schema is more flexible:

- it can do checks at runtime (to validate untrusted input, for example)

- there are libraries for many other programming languages

- it can express constraints on values as well as on types (size of arrays, string regex matching, integer value ranges, ...)
The argument agianst using some hobby OS is that of security and trustability and maintainability. If you are personally comfortable doing it - good. Not everyone does, though.
Data for very specific narrow tasks like face recognition is published. How the capabilities are combined in a special sauce, not so much.

So yeah, going off what you said, all these people saying “don’t worry, nothing to worry about with AI” haven’t the slightest clue what AI is up to outside of whatever bubble they are in.
Most the terms you used to explain this go wwwaaayy over my head, but I understand there are many concepts missing in my mind. What is good reading for this?
Basically I'm working with industrial cameras and trying to compare the color of an item in an image for verification against stored item attributes (color, shape...)
That’s fascinating… because I remember Usenet as being a complete cesspool, useful if you wanted to get into arguments with the loudest people out there.

Not sure what “back in the day” is for you, but I remember e.g. comp.lang.lisp being terrible in the 90s. And we all made jokes about flamewars, because flamewars were reality.
Pure undiluted hype, nothing more.
This was incredibly handy when I was building a Slack bot that helped my colleagues figure out what microservice did what, since they often had puntastic names and there were enough that it was hard to keep track of (https://github.com/leemachin/wtf-is). It made it really easy to validate the structure of the metadata file and return errors that made at least some sense to the person trying to integrate it.

It's not particularly friendly to the maintainer compared to switching to a statically typed language, but it would have taken a fair bit more effort to wire that up without this.
Supermassive black holes grow faster than the galaxies that house them
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2865193/

This is a newer study which shows same cardio vascular risk, somewhat reduced cancer risk and overall similar overall mortality risk between light smokers (1-4 cigs a day) and heavy smokers.

Light smoking is something which is very hard to study since it’s often a transient behavior and people tend not to classify them selves as smokers if the smoke substantially less than one pack a day.

That said I don’t really see any possitive effects of light or intermittent smoking it might not be as bad as smoking 4 packs a day but it’s definitely outweighs any possible benefits of smoking such as stress relief.

Weed or wanking in the bathroom seems to be a better alternative to dealing with stress....
Isn't smoking cigarettes protective against Parkinson's?
How to Weaponize Our Tech Addiction
Err, more accurately what I mean is comparing the students of equivalent wealth in the US and China. eg: the cities in China compared to most of the urban/city in the US.

Of course, there's still the several hundred million of impoverished in China that have much worse education.
> The 4s runs whatever latest it can be updated to.

Which is a 1,5 years old OS which received no further updates. Check all WebKit CVE from August 2016 till now (all of 2017 at least). I did a quick search, and found 2 RCEs with exploit available: CVE-2017-2471, CVE-2017-7089.

> How can you be so sure lineageos has not been malwared by some Chinese/Russian/nsa folks?

How can you be sure iOS is not malwared by some Chinese/Russian/NSA folks?

At least in LineageOS you can publicly check all source code and commits.

> I can trust android and iOS

I actually advice against using Android; I suggest LineageOS for microG [1]. Not because of Chinese/Russian/NSA folks but because of Google folks. They spy on Android users. Not with microG though.

[1] https://lineage.microg.org/
It's great to see so many functions platform - in some ways it shows there's increasing interest, awareness, and adoption. The field is still quite young and there will be a lot of experimentation and exploration.

There's also a difference between deploying rapidly for local development (less is better) and actually running a functions platform at scale. AWS lambda reportedly handles over 2B lambdas a day (this was a year ago).

Not every platform needs that kind of scale, but it does put things in perspectives.
Silicon Valley’s Singularity University Has Some Serious Reality Problems
I would say Britons are 95% comfortable with government surveillance. But there is a growing backlash against private/corporate surveillance.

Of course, there is a grey-area with government surveillance when things like ANPR services are outsourced with completely opaque contracts.
- Scaling infrastructure up and down is hard to get right.

- Paying for idle servers can get costly if you have many of them.

- Idling servers are inefficient for cloud providers as well.
> The point stands that "inherent delays" in the ACH system are negligible, on the order of hours.

Which has been repeatedly called out as wrong with proof in this thread, but you won’t listen. Have an enjoyable life!
Same is true of many afflictions - stubbing your toe, mouth ulcers. Pain remains real even if you know it's for your own benefit and have the option of simply opting-out, see half of medicine.
Maybe I'm just part of that 1% who will reject this idea.

Is a 1% reduction in any crime really worth a totalitarian world where the state can hunt down people who disagree with them?
How functional languages became irreplaceable? Intetics Inc
I work on protein structure, albeit not from a computational standpoint, and it struck me as odd that none of the work from the Baker group (Univ Washington) e.g. Rosetta (https://www.rosettacommons.org/) was mentioned. Rosetta can be used to predict tertiary structure from amino acid sequence. Does anyone familiar with the field know how the methods used by software like ROSETTA differ from those presented in this paper?
Indeed, the original founders of Iron.io are at Oracle. They are up to some good stuff. See https://medium.com/fnproject/8-reasons-why-we-built-the-fn-p...
It's sad that things like this have to be explicitly spelled out
My understanding is that Debian uses debcargo to generate packages from cargo packages.
More and more I agree with the sentiment of "Let's change the world" being pure BS.

Why grow infinitely until you fail when you could just get really, really good at a few things for a long time (Oh that's right. VCs and their desire for unsatiable "growth").

I'd much rather work for a company that focuses on one or two core competencies than one that tries to everything ok.
I'd point out that supporting languages "out of the box" and having extensibility via docker images is more or less table stakes at this point.

A lot of the other things you listed are present in other FaaSes too in varying degrees.

No questioning that OpenWhisk was the first major opensource project in this space, though.
> Probably there are other professions in which one gets better service if one has an inside connection, but this situation really speaks ill of how medicine is practiced.

Having a doc in the family is a mixed blessing at best. You can get priority treatment, and the benefit of your family members full attention. On the flip side, all the docs I know that aren’t fools or morons don’t treat their own family for anything more serious than a scrape. You’re biased, you don’t want the guilt of an error, and you don’t want to be the bearer of bad news. I frequently ask my wife not to ask me about her mother’s health developments; I’d rather tell comforting lies than be a source of sour truth.

Being a VIP in a medical center due to your relatives gets you more ass kissing, not better care. People don’t want to step on toes, or give the impression that useful care is being withheld. And if your relative is a worse doc than the one you’re seeing? No one is going to overrule your family member to your face.
I don’t think that really makes sense. Most mathematics cannot actually be learned by programming. They’re just different things.

You can illustrate some mathematics (especially set theory and discrete math) with code, and you can implement some mathematical algorithms in code. But to learn mathematics you have to implement the algorithm, not just see it used with examples. In order to implement the algorithm you have to first understand it. To understand it, you have to first build up to it in theory.

If you attempt to learn math by programming it, your understanding of that math is going to be very “shallow”. Tools like SageMath and Mathematica are good for computation, but the goal of learning is generality, and that’s diminished if you learn through computation. Ideally you’d learn the mathematics first, then apply it - then you can choose to apply it by programming specific results, but that won’t be relevant to whether or not you’ve learned it.

I’d be curious to see the links you’re talking about, because I’ve never heard math people say they learned math by programming. I’ve heard of people implementing mathematical operations and algorithms in code, but that’s not the same thing.
Great question.

1. It's browser independent. You have to import security certificates for each browser, but this is a step which will eventually be automated (https://github.com/aniketpanjwani/chomper/issues/8).

2. In both Firefox and Chrome, you can enter Private Browsing/Incognito mode, where extensions are automatically disabled, so you'll be able to evade blocks. It doesn't matter if you're in incognito mode while Chomper is running - you'll still get blocked.

3. It's usually trivially easy to disable or uninstall browser extensions. Chomper is marginally more difficult to disable when you have root privileges. However, unlike browser extensions, you have the option of tying your hands so that it is entirely impossible to remove a block (https://github.com/aniketpanjwani/chomper#hardcore-mode).
Indeed we’re nowhere near building anything in space we can barely manage to 3d print a wrench in space.

We’re likely going to be manufacturing things on mars or Luna before we’re going to have decent micro gravity manufacturing capacity.

We haven’t even began exploring the challenges and opportunities of building things in micro gravity scaling it up to the biggest machines ever made isn’t going to happen any time soon.
Untreated engineers disease.