skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The German president can only be elected two times and he has limited power. The German chancellor also has limited power. Terms for chancellor are not limited, but he/she has to be elected every 4 years. Merkel barely made it this time, and it's almost certain she will not be re-elected next time and also very likely that she will not strife for candidacy next time.

Comparing China's system with Germany's makes a lot of sense, but you have to do it correctly. If Xi would be a chancellor with limited power in a parliament that consists of members of 6 different parties, then it would be less of a problem if he ran as a candidate in a third election.
Another example: anti-cancer drug Avastis has been found to be effective against blindness in old age (wet macular degeneration). The current drug for preventing wet macular degeneration is Lucentis, which costs 10 times more than Avastis.

Twelve NHS clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have recommended switching to the cheaper (and just as effective) Avastis drug. But Novartis and Bayer, who market the more expensive Lucentis, have threaten legal action over the use of the cheaper drug.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/nov/01/drug-giants-...
And it takes a lot of organizational dedication and work to support the language properly: training, documentation, packaging, regression testing (1), editor support, debugger support, libraries, and the list goes on. I doubt a single individual could do all that for more than a short while, so you need an organization that wants to do all that right for the sake of the language. Most companies won't really care that your language isn't in fedora upstream.

(1) Lots of popular languages get the community to do their regression testing for them, but if you are the sole user of your language, you need to do all the testing yourself somehow.
Or you could say that smarter people don't smoke.
Can you please elaborate on how someone who is currently IT Staff become a true software engineer ?
Apart from work experience alone, because that would be a chicken and egg problem.
That sounds like bad management. There are companies where you can work your 40 hours, unplug when you go home, and still get a good salary.

Companies with poor working conditions usually suffer from poor management, which causes burnout and high turnover. The problem is that poor management is so common that many people think burnout and high turnover are normal.
Reminds me of the "can't send mail more than 500 miles" bug. Fantastic read: http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
It is empty! At least add some dummy post for the major cities. A note with the link to Wikipedia and the photo of the more iconic building.

Similar projects added fake adds, or scrapped other sites to get some initial content. It's shady, but you can at least add a post with the link to the page in craigslist of the city.

Can you try to concentrate in one city? One user in each major city in the word is not useful for you. Five hundred users in one city is more useful.
You can be a professional developer that is on junior level.
Nice, you fixed it!
Brezhnev stayed for 18 years until his demise.
> she helped resolving them in ways that undeniably benefited Germany

A lot of smart people actually deny that.
It’s important not to excuse the business decisions behind that incompetence: someone knew about the problem and figured you’d buy it anyway because of marketing or everyone else cutting the same corners.
It's really disappointing to see that this article has been upvoted. No, not because I have theories to share, I'm not an armchair scientist on any side of the debate. But because these kinds of politically and socially charged (if one thinks anything on climate change isn't at this point - wow) articles were the primary reason I stopped visiting Slashdot.

With so much quality content flowing through this site, the last thing we need is more like this article being upvoted.
Zelle is for PERSONAL payments only. It's for sending money to friends and family and people you trust and know. It's free for both the sender and receiver BUT you won't get any protection. Once it's sent, it's sent.

Don't people read? It's on Zelle's website "send money in minutes to your friends and family". I also asked my bank about that and got told there's no protection unless somebody hacked into your account. Yet, if you sent the money, it's your responsibility.

Nonetheless, I do accept Zelle for payments and also pay for goods BUT I know the people I deal with and it's mostly below $100. You can check out this link below.
https://www.zellepay.com/support/im-unsure-about-using-zelle...

BTW: PayPal really sucks if you receive a lot of personal payments. I got my account frozen because PayPal got nosy and wanted to know more about 15 transactions. It took me a while to get my account unlimited. So, that's why I use Zelle for personal payments and use PayPal only for purchases. I would ditch PayPal but I don't have any option for now.
You could also say that smoking is more popular among poorer populations, the depressed, those whose parents smoked, etc.
When I did the calculations, the break-even point on AWS versus on-premises was about three servers - at that point it was cheaper to go with your own physical hardware.

The big reason for most people is CAPEX vs. OPEX - even if it doesn't make financial sense in a dollar amount, it does in an accounting sense. Investors don't like to see big CAPEX numbers but seem fine with large OPEX ones.
> Jevon's paradox occurs when an increase in efficiency results in so much additional use that per capita energy consumption increases.

They also describe that we are lighting things we didn't use to light, keeping the lights on longer ( not just households but decorative building lights, decorative bridge lights, etc), and other per capita increases.

The quote above states per capita increases clearly:

> "It's not just a question of turning on a light to read a book or to see something on your kitchen counter, you can do lots of stuff with LEDs that you really couldn't do very well with other kinds of artificial light sources," said Theis, a co-author of the study. "They are being incorporated into wearable lighting now, there is just no end to it."

The Sandia article also states clearly about per-capita increases, "No empirical evidence is found for a saturation in per-capita consumption of light"

> We have collected and self-consistently analyzed data for per-capita consumption of artificial light, per-capita gross domestic product, and ownership cost of light. The data span a wide range (three centuries, six continents, five lighting technologies, and five orders of magnitude), and are consistent with a linear variation of per-capita consumption of light with the ratio between per-capita gross domestic product and ownership cost of light. No empirical evidence is found for a saturation in per-capita consumption of light, even in contemporary developed nations.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16457998.
The status quo was a stable political system that is now changed for a dictatorship.
>I applied for EB-1.

Did you use an immigration lawyer for that?
Some of the strategies that demoscene authors use to shrink their executable size (think packing, self-modifying code, etc...) are also incredibly common in malware.
I'm using the same technique to get myself into "flow". When I'm unmotivated and out of flow, it becomes really hard to start working, whether it's a new task, or continuing where I left off.

Staring my personal backlog, my mind starts to imagine the possible solutions, alternatives, and after some time depending on the complexity of the task at hand, I start working autonomously, fully motivated. If I even take a half minute break from staring for HN/Reddit/Email before I begin working, I need to restart the cycle. Knowing the weaknesses of my mind really helps.
It's not like they didn't see Communist China attacking Communist Vietnam before..
Then show me the numbers.

I am pretty agnostic here, but if you want me to worry I need to see more than "enough certainty" and as many say "enough significance" without ever providing any actual hard numbers.

I am not a scientist but I know that if you can't actually show any concrete numbers then you have interpretation i.e. no consensus.

It's frustrating when you are trying to figure out what's up and down in this discussion.
Having called the result of Lisp standardization ANSI Common Lisp instead of just ANSI Lisp doesn't change the fact that the whole effort was all about standardizing Lisp.

Moreover, why not just say Scheme or Clojure when talking about Scheme or Clojure?

If ANSI C had been called ANSI Common C, would Java fans never cease to insist on calling Java a dialect of C?
This is my experience as well. I don't use the standing position of my desk much, but I'm glad I have the option. Sometimes it helps me to get started or to not get distracted.
> Data corruption mostly happens through logical errors anyway and nothing in S3 will protect you from that.

S3 supports object versioning, which very much will protect you from anything other than writing the wrong data for the entire history of an object.
You’re aware of automatic face recognition in Berlin‘s public places, the Diesel scandal, flight passenger data agreements and so on, aren’t you?

For your data point, I can assure you that eu govs are just lagging behind, they failed to keep pace. They will get there, trust me.
One of the co-founders of shader toy is a legend in the field and has the most relevant resources for procedural generation and distance field ray-marching: http://iquilezles.org/www/index.htm
Marissa Mayer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_Mayer

By all accounts she seemed to be a great product manager, but product management isn't organizational leadership.

Likewise there is Hugh Jones - https://www.sabre.com/insights/releases/hugh-jones-to-head-t...

Hugh Jones was known for tenacious leadership in large volume business operations, but experience in retail and product was limited or absent.
You are right with this analysis. The only thing to add is why Amazon still isn’t the only choice and why sometimes it is in fact better to not use it.

Your comment makes it sound like unless you know your growth pattern, can predict your spikes, don’t plan to pivot, and you know these things perfectly, you will lose. That’s not the case. The reason for that is that you have a quite significant cost difference between AWS and DIY. DIY is cheaper by a significant enough margin that you might be able to buy, say, double the capacity you need and still spend less. So if you made a mistake of up to 2x your growth and your spikes, you are still fine.

Even if you are a small operation, you still have the option to lease hardware. Then your response time to add new servers is usually hours, not days like if you were to go the full own-your-hardware route.

As an exercise, you can try to rent and benchmark a $300/month server from e.g. SoftLayer and then compare that against a $300/month EC2 instance. Chances are, you will be blown away by the performance difference.
Kids these days, amirite? https://mentalfloss.com/article/52209/15-historical-complain...
Actually when I think in Common Lisp compilers, I think about Allegro Common Lisp and LispWorks.

As for JavaScript, it is really hard to envision how it can beat the money spent by Mozilla, Apple, Google and Microsoft, including universities sponsored by them, in JavaScript JIT optimization research.
I can't tell whether the people in this thread claiming this will be the downfall of China are serious. Do you really believe that, or do you just want it to be true because you're afraid of China?
How dynamic is Lua compared to Python though?
His book on Black swan events is actually the basis for my project. Some claims he made regarding randomness rubbed me the wrong way, and inspired me to prove it wrong. Fat tails as the article put it, should be taken into account for expected values (for statistical models).
I never got really far explaining myself what a quantum computer is. From what I understand, this is what we can do with a quantum bit:

class Qbit
{
var $p;

function randomize($p)
{
$this->p=$p;
}

function observe()
{
if ( $this->p > random() ) $this->p=1;
else $this->p=0;
return $this->p;
}
}

The interesting things probably get possible when you have multiple qbits. Not just a normal array of qbits, but qbits that have some kind of interaction (entanglement?).

Would it be possible to simulate 'multiqbits' in a piece of code similarly small as the one above?
I took Classical Mechanics in college and laughed many times watching this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tVctB_VSU as Sussman was right on point about many things.
I think you’re right:
“In 1982, the Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman thought up the idea of a 'quantum computer', a computer that uses the effects of quantum mechanics to its advantage”

https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~nd/surprise_97/journal/vol4/spb3/
User friendliness and security are not the parts that are bad. "Piling them on" is the part that's bad. UX and security need to be considered from day one.
Well, having just listened to the entire tapes, WADS clearly weren't seeing anything either as they were relying on vectoring the f-15s with info from civilian pilots with visual identification of the unknown aircraft relayed through the civ ATC operators.

Presumably WADS has access to some of the most sophisticated radar equipment as isn't is part of NORAD?

The suggestion being no one was tracking this aircraft, not just a failure of civ primary radar.
A single Hetzner box is not really comparable to S3 in terms of durability and availability.
> I wonder whether we'll first use quantum computers to perform cryptanalysis against archived unencrypted traffic.

To break contemporary public-key crypto you need quantum computers orders of magnitude larger than anything built so far. To break something like Curve25519 you need 1600 or so logical qubits.
...which in turn would yield an incredible risk of deflation. Monetary and fiscal policy is not as easy as turning a dial on the economics machine. The consequences of deflation in the US would be very dire.
This only works in big or medium companies, fortunately being over-confident without actually delivering stuff gets caught pretty soon in small companies (because it directly and adversely influences the bottom-line). In other words, small-company bosses/owners don’t really care of how confident you are, they only care about actual work that makes the clients happy, so that the bills and the salaries can be paid at the end of the month. That’s one of the main reasons why I’ve worked only for small software shops in my career, I can’t stand the wannabe people who always brag about themselves without actually doing anything of value.
Contact.sh – An OSINT tool to find contacts in order to report security vul
That's assuming that heisenbugs are caused by concurrent programming alone. But a ton of heisenbugs happen in boring single-threaded programs.
My ranges have knobs but my oven is controlled by a seemingly simple set of 4 buttons and a 4 digit disply on a basic circuit board. Just at that vey low level of computerization, the cost to fix a problem goes from $10 to $300.
> There’s no guarantee for perfect prevention of injury,

That's the crux of the issue. Without such a guarantee, I will never train with barbells again. It boils down to a difference in priorities. You, and Rip, both seem to think soft tissue injury is an acceptable risk in the quest for strength gains. I do not.

Again, look at a table saw. People can use a table saw their entire lives without introducing a body part to a spinning blade. But you can't train with a barbell, with any amount of good form, with any kind of specialized program, with any kind of expertise at hand, and be 100% positive you will avoid injury.
But Brandon Busteed, executive director of Gallup's higher education division, which also conducts research related to graduates and careers, said these sorts of definitions can vary

For instance, Gallup has found that generally an employer believes that "critical thinking" is coming up with new, original thought. But in an academic sense, it can mean more picking apart ideas in depth, he said.

Given that their definition of "critical thinking" (which is incorrect,) differs from the academic one, employers are probably responding on a completely different wavelength. That throws this whole survey into question.
That's amazing. Grey hat hacking for social good. Sometimes you need to exploit the inefficiencies you're bothered by to illustrate their weakness, which hopefully makes society patch it up.
> As a result, you can "steelman" the sentiments behind many conservative arguments by summarizing them...

Which conservative arguments? It seems like you're just referring to a different brand of identity politics as "conservative".
Scientists Aim to Pull Peer Review Out of the 17th Century
It's a slippery slope.
The people of Venezuela voted to remove constitutional safeguards that saw populist Chavez stand as presidential candidate indefinitely.
Bolivia rejected a similar referendum but Morales has said he'll run again regardless - based on a court decision that throws the constitution out the window.
small sample size, no control, laughable time span -- why are we talking about this study?
But it's the least smart thing to do. They could at least put an option in the setting to maintain settings after brief power outages.

We had a power flicker last week in the middle of the night and suddenly our bedroom lights were on 100% and our Echo was loudly complaining that the internet was gone. At 3am.
They are Y-Combinator companies looking to hire.

From the FAQ (link at the bottom of the page):

Can I post a job ad?

[...]

The other kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments. They begin part-way down, then fall steadily, and only one should be on the front page at a time.
You still have elbows, a nose and a chin to switch the light on/off.

And how do you use a remote with greasy hands? You have to clean that afterwards.
https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec10.html

Here's a start.
Show HN: Fastr – Reload Optimizing Chrome Extension
> People's emotions toward acts is highly dependant on the reference system they live in.

Yes, but let's be careful not to conflate felt nobility with actual good. Sacrificing humans to false gods is pretty awful, no matter the sentiment behind the acts.
I tried both Python 2.7.14 and Python 3.6.4. pandas==0.22.0 and xlrd==1.1.0. https://transfer.sh/2T4fw/hourly_loads.csv.gz is what I get.

It looks like dates are stored not as dates but strings in the more recent spreadsheets.

edit: dateutil's parser.parse(x) & strftime("%Y-%m-%d") helps
Research about climate change may certainly be politically and socially charged, but we're not going to make progress in addressing it by burying articles that share recent findings. It's not the science that we need to debate -- at least not the general trends and forecasts -- but rather the political and social causes and implications of climate change.

Personally, I am always happy to see articles such as this posted here, because it at least means a community of smart, critical thinkers are aware of climate issues.
Also, you now have the usual software management failures. My Apple Watch 2 is about 7 months old. Every function on it works worse than when I bought it: e.g. Siri has gone from activating 80% of the time to about 30%.

No other industry gets away with such routine negligence of core job functions.
There are a few hopeful candidates for quantum-secure classical asymmetric key systems, but there are no strong proofs that they are secure against either classical or quantum systems. Without these proofs, and danger that any day someone can come up with a way to break any and all such classical encryption systems, its valuable to at least develop quantum key distribution systems.

In other words, the chances of being hacked are far greater than 1/2^256. They depend on how much secret progress you think organizations such as NSA have made in mathematics. They depend on how likely you think someone will actually develop a quantum resistant asymmetric encryption scheme before large scale quantum computers are built. Of course, there is also a non-zero chance of the quantum internet being hacked.

Yes, developing a quantum communication system will require massive infrastructure. However, its possible to use quantum communication links for regular classical communication i.e.\ once the quantum communication link is high bandwidth enough, you can just route all your classical communication through it. So, its not the worst possible thing to have these links up.
But, not those Dyson hand dryers.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/dyson-dryers-hurl-60...
Germany is trailing in shiny stupid tech like the ICO-of-the-day, but it is still on the forefront of boring tech like automation, machinery, industrial robotics and much more. Guess why China is buying so many "Mittelstand" companies in these fields?

Cars aren't everything.
I agree that information is crucial to achieve a 'win' for many goals. Given today's amount of information on the Internet as well as electronic money and access to most officials, barring some sort of inviolable built-in moral core, an AGI would be able to use any methods, overt and covert, direct and cunning, technical and social, to achieve its information goals. [1]

Since an AGI can copy itself and be available at a multitude of access points at once and those copies can often communicate via extremely fast channels, it is human organizations that would be at an information disadvantage.

[1] This also assumes that the AGI does not have the will nor the capability to change its own moral core. I think an AGI will possibly be capable of changing its own core, so a much more reliable safeguard is to make sure that it does not want to change it.
Right. My point was that, given that Apple have historically limited the optimisations available to webviews, it’s not obvious that WebGL would be exempt of similar limitations.
My experience is that they go down every 2-3 years, usually the problem is with the hard rive, occasionally with some other component. Under normal circumstances it takes them up to one hour to replace the hard drive, and then the array gets rebuilt for a few hours with the system being online. That means something like 2 hours downtime every 2-3 years, that's quite acceptable for my usage scenarios. In terms of money spent during that time, the difference is enormous.
I use them when I can, but motion sensors in public bathrooms don't have this issue. Well designed public bathrooms don't require you to touch anything in the room. A similar setup at home would be beneficial to households prone to biohazards, which most are in different seasons of life.
The last thing I want in this endeavor is creativity.

When I was deadlifting 300 and benching more than I ever did in high school, my life didn't meaningfully change, like at all. And it was expensive to hire that trainer. Cool, yeah, I'm stronger than the average joe. Who cares? I didn't even look all that much better than I do now. You need careful cutting to reduce your body fat percentage to change your appearance. But that's both a pain in the lifestyle and a potential inhibitor to strength gains.

All I want is to be able to trust a program that someone with more knowledge and ability than myself came up with. The last thing I ever want to do with my life is to devise alternative strength training programs for when I get injured.

I'd just rather not train than risk injury.
O API – an Alternative to REST APIs
Germany doesn't have term limits for the Chancellor either. It isn't a huge problem in practice since the role doesn't have quite that much power and shifting majorities in parliament tend to prevent constant re-election of the same person.