skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is only because on the insistence of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover than Pressurized water reactors (PWRs) constitute a majority of all western nuclear power plants. He rejected "crazy thermodynamic cycles that everyone else wants to build". So we got stuck with PWR inherent flaws. Check "The Rickover Effect: How One Man Made a Difference" (http://bit.ly/2FiJQ1u)
I am very interested in what happens when the effect of the 1-child policy makes itself felt as the population ages. That will be a big test I think.
Too little to late. I hate to get political, but this is more of a political issue than a technical one. The earth is already on track for another massive extinction due to climate change caused by warming global temperatures and human consumption. Instead of worrying about a few radioactive waste sites we have instead created a global and spectacularly hard to fix problem.

We put a man on the moon in less than a decade without any prior experience or technical know-how but we can’t figure out how to make safer nuclear reactors and install them? Bowl of shit.
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If he was fired over it, absolutely.
Garbage Collection improvements in PHP 7.3 boost performance up to 5x
It's a datatype, but it's an implementation detail - str::split_whitespace has to return something that implements the Iterator trait, so it return this. You as a programmer should never need to name it explicitly.

When "impl Trait" lands, it will be possible to hide details like this.
I can’t take this seriously. Their economic model seems dependent on extreme messages/people.
> The + operator is not the same as the SUM() function, so it's not surprising that they wouldn't work the same

No, it's very surprising that they are different. In mathematics and most programming languages, summation is defined in terms of the (+) operator.

> Nullability is required to represent empty values

I have no problem with (optional) nullability.

> I'm not sure what you mean by abstraction

There is no way to abstract queries over tables, joins, etc. Views allow me to re-use a particular concrete query, but I cannot parameterize a query.
It looks like the dam is breaking on lawsuits against Google.

Google will not settle, it will attract the worst kinds of lawyers, unless discovery for them is worse.
Being amazing or awesome is optional.

I spent a while doing the rounds of art fairs in London, and while some of the work is very good, some of it is banal.

One conceptual piece: a laser dot on a white wall. Another: a video of a house being floated down a river. Another: a collection of chrome door knobs.

I also saw the output of KPT FraxFlame (HN readers of a certain age will remember it) framed and being sold for four figures.

I asked the gallery owner if he knew what it was, and he said "Of course."

Galleries are essentially marketing machines for items and experiences that don't necessarily have intrinsic non-trivial aesthetic value of any kind.
60fps on Safari/iPhone 7 Plus
Yes, but please read the article I was responding to.
It looks like the animation speed is coupled with the framerate, the waves appear normal on my 60hz monitor but move way too fast on my 165hz one. Nice work otherwise though.
Most of the time it's not even reacting to something; simply taking the time and effort in mentoring a bright lady is another shield in the bulwark to this nonsense.

As a personal example, I have the deepest respect for one of my former (male, obviously) bosses who took a chance on me and fed me high-profile projects despite being a double/triple minority. (I hate the need to disclaim that last bit, but y'know, take it as illustrating the situation). Not a single interaction was awkward - there were group meetings aplenty, professional one-on-ones, silly one-on-ones where we were both cracking up at corporate shenanigans, water-cooler chats to triage the crazy amount of work we were getting, y'know, normal stuff. Good people exist, and there can be light moments too. Not all of this has to be The Most Srs.

He left a few years later due to natural company reorgs, but that extra limb out is something that's remembered quite dearly. Just standing by wouldn't have cut it.
Hysterical laughing...
What was it Travis K said about people making shitty life choices?
And also this one, which was flagged to death: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16500834
That's awesome. I'm hoping that in a few years those tasks can all be handled by AI/ML. For example, you can watch television, but it will automatically go dark when an ad shows up. Or even fancier, you go outside with your augmented reality glasses, and all ads (e.g. billboards) will be automatically replaced by e.g. pieces of art.
Well, if Facebook were able to change the news feed to focus more on friends and family and away from their $-cow companies and advertisers, then maybe Twitter can change.
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That's a good insight!

Ironically however, your comment has given me a feeling of fondness for KitKats–despite not having had one in at least 2 years. Sugar + Cute is pretty crazy.
Not true. SNP talk about it all the time. "The Vow" is highly contentious. What you believe was promised largely depends on what side of the nationalist divide you sit on.
Ask HN: Language with good group theory library?
I looking for a language with a library that will already have some group theory theorem inside. Like lagrange/sylow theroem. Nothing Extra
Mac OS versus FreeBSD: a comparative evaluation
Went to their site. I hate pricing pages that don't have prices.
Ditto for me. SFO2 has been extremely reliable. Every few months I'd get emails about planned router updates with the possibility of high packet loss for 10-15 mins but it never occurred.
The later works can be dull, and if they don't sell, their gallery drops them.

But its the initial works that draw them to the gallery in the first place is what needs to be amazing.

Artists need to sell to these galleries first before selling to the elite buyers.
What are the Indicators of Healthy Social Media?
Well apparently the company stands behind the decision of its manager.
https://www.gurn.io/ works but https://gurn.io/ still gives me an error.

> gurn.io uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for www.gurn.io Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN
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Google launched a simple browser-based sequencer for making music
Hayek is not a capitalist, he's a Social Darwinist who also believes - without a shred of evidence, given the shortness of the time spans under consideration - that free market capitalism gives groups an evolutionary advantage. That's a huge difference.
It seems like you have some stats I don't have access to. Care to share? I feel it implausible that given reduce is a functionality built into JavaScript, very useful, and that it's the worlds most common programming language saying the vast majority seems like a stretch.
While that thread mentions the HIP port at some point, it's really about the OpenCL port.
That didn't age well...

Anyone can come up with a correlation report. But if you really want to call yourself a scientist, you better really be careful about drawing political conclusions, especially when there's no way to actually "prove" your conclusion is true, unlike other fields of science where they're more objectively measure-able.

Here's a much better piece about how disgust sensitivity affects societal change https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
To me, the most interesting part is the following:

>What we know is we must commit to a rigorous and independently vetted set of metrics to measure the health of public conversation on Twitter.

>So we’re seeking help by opening up an RFP process to cast the widest net possible for great ideas and implementations.

RFP: https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/...
I have recently left tenure at a large telecoms company in the UK. They definitely had a practice of encouraging female hires. Even if they weren't the best fit for the role.

Don't get me wrong, I am not approaching this in a sexist way - on the contrary I have worked with excellent and poor colleagues of both sexes.

I think it diminishes the accomplishments of genuinely great minority/female employees to have this policy.

I would prefer identity to be neutralized somehow during the hiring process. The best person for the job, no matter your sex, colour, creed, disability.
This happens in many companies. The response rate is much higher if you refuse to specify the corresponding details in the application.
For any organization this size, assume that there is a fair amount of variance from one division to another.
When you put it that way it doesn't sound that bad.
Why stop at $5? Try setting quantity or price to -9e999999999. How will you spend your $∞ dollars?
DNA-based dating apps like Pheramor betray the open promise of the platform
Yep. I posted a link in that one too, so, fingers crossed, the people interested in discussing this will be able to find one another.
I really don't think north American nuclear waste costs can be estimated with any fixed ceiling to cost overruns, considering the expensive Fiascos that were WIPP and yucca mountain.
Do you seriously think that Google is going to stop hiring white men?

What is claimed sounds like a completely crass method. Whether you like Google or not they typically do things in a fairly data driven method even with their hiring.

It is also blatant discrimination that as others claim would be fairly easy to prove in court. This would be stupid.

For Google to be both crass and stupid seems unlikely.
This is true. I forgot about it. I added an issue on the
repository. Thanks!
People still read The Odyssey but I'll be lucky if anyone cares about any code I ever worked on in fifty years.
> In April of 2017, Google’s Technology Stafﬁng Management team was instructed by Alogna to immediately cancel all Level 3 (0-5 years experience) software engineering interviews with every single applicant who was not either female, Black, or Hispanic and to purge entirely any applications by non-diverse employees from the hiring pipeline.

If this were remotely true, we wouldn't see any white men hired in a junior level at the moment. Yet every year you see hundreds hired at that level.
This is a good point. There's a lot of negative press and truly appalling allegations swirling about Google, but it's near impossible to get an accurate idea of extent or even the truth of the situation from the outside.

Based on Reddit stories for a while, it seemed that even settin foot in the US was a near guarantee one would then be tasered, have their money taken by police officers, and then detained by agents from an unknown 3-letter agency and shipped to Guantanamo.

It's possible, though we have no way of knowing, that what's in this story is a case of a lone manager with an axe to grind. It's also possible that the attitude is pervasive.

It's likely best to withhold judgement and keep asking questions.
I'm not replying to the article but to neves's post.

>The rulers of the US are no less dictatorial, they are just more sophisticated in their understanding of social control.

Though I'm not very fond of the US's political system, I don't think so.
Developer marketing is hard, and you're probably doing it wrong
You can submit research proposals to Twitter about this commitment, and get funding for it. (I think they are after peer review research level proposals, rather than "ban $politician")

https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/...

* Your proposed health metrics, and methods for capturing, measuring, evaluating and reporting on such metrics

* Anticipated resource requirements and methodology

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It sounds like in the "free market healthcare" system hospitals are incentivized to get the patient to spend as much as possible. That's aside from other bad incentives of such a system such as hospitals not wanting to be transparent with their prices, insurance companies not wanting to take patients with pre-existing conditions, also wanting to cover as few conditions as possible, Big Pharma being incentivized to ask for as high drug prices as possible (while lobbying for a ban on generics and imports), and so on.
> the ideological lens is very, very foggy. It distorts our view of the world with easy-to-digest narratives and categories

Right. All of this talk about capitalism, communism, etc is intellectually nonsense.

The whole world is actually moving towards the Chinese model with highly interventionist monetary policy, the majority of GDP allocated by the government, etc. That is the case in every major country now.

No serious policy makers believe in free markets any more. They believe in democracy to the extent that they see it as a mechanism for social control, but that is it.

That might be shocking to some people but the other thing to take into account is that all of these smart people have come to this conclusion so maybe they are right and free markets and real democracy are just dumb ideas.
Our government feels that the "all men" in "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights" really just means US citizens.

The courts have held over and over that our constitution does not protect the rights of non-citizens. That's why we can legally execute a 'terrorist' in another country with a missile fired from a drone without even so much as them being charged with a crime. With all the false convictions of US Citizens that make it through our "due process," I wonder how many of those extrajudicial executions were based on incorrect information?

Rarely do they even want to respect the constitution for actual US citizens. The protections and rights granted are slowly being chipped away by the executive and legislative branches, and now even the judicial branch is becoming politicized.
There's a [dead] comment that asks "Why?"...

Obviously not every project needs a "why?", and this is a technically cool endeavour that stands on its own..

A few ideas I can think of for "Why?":

* Static analysis of a codebase looking for bad practices or errors
* Feeding the structured output into code-gen for another language, to start a porting project
* //STEP MISSING//, Profit?

Anything else?
I laughed out loud. I think all of us who were teens back than thought up this idea as something dark and sinister that only we thought up at the time.

Myself I would use this trick to prank friends. I never got in trouble in High School so I didn't need it to get out of trouble. Sending love letters to people with fake signatures and doodles was priceless for 15 to 17 year olds.
The title seems misleading to me. The AI isn't finding bugs by somehow examining the game's source code, it's trying random gameplay and exploiting any advantages that emerge. That it's finding previously unknown bugs seems to be almost entirely down to trying things that human players wouldn't think to do.
I can't speak for this situation, but I was involved in situations with corporate crime at high levels. People were very cognizant of what was in email and what was verbal.

When I considered whistleblowing -- what started as little spiraled out of control -- and looked over evidence, there was very little.

One attorney at the company was fired for putting the wrong thing in writing.
Hmm, I run a couple of servers there including a busy tor node and I do not have any problems.
Do they really get stuck on doing things "the right way",
or do they get stuck on making off-the-cuff remarks about doing things "the right way" for easy karma?
Fine art is a bit of a different world, I'd think, than mass market art is.
As much as my first reaction was also "why?" writing a complex parser is a good exercise, and of course having a suitable parser is a pre-requisite for all kinds of tooling, be it analysis tools, or writing an alternative implementation of the language itself.
It isn't cheating - as far as the program is concerned, each bug is another rule.

To understand the concept of cheating, and to discuss what is cheating, requires an entirely higher cognitive capability.
> we burn printed commercials without looking at them

I hope you say that figuratively. If not, why not recycle them instead?

> we don't "go shopping" without having a clear target […] we sometimes buy things on the spur of the moment

What I usually do is go shopping with clear targets for what I need that trip, but I also have in mind a few things that I like to get but are non-essential. After I get everything that I need, I quickly go through the store and zone in on the non-essentials to see if they are at a discount, and snatch them if they are.
From the tweet storm, emphasis mine:

> While working to fix it, we‘ve been accused of apathy, censorship, political bias, and optimizing for our business and share price instead of the concerns of society. This is not who we are, or who we ever want to be.

I don't understand why people don't admit that that their own political biases exist. Hell I know I have them. It's part of what makes us human.

Apparently we're not alone either: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608986/forget-killer-robo...
Sounds like another one of those "this is what happens when money (as opposed to patient wellbeing) becomes a driving factor in health care."

I remember I tried to find a PCP once and I showed up for my intake appointment and the young, rushed doctor said they wouldn't enroll me as an official member unless I had two intake visits. They were gaming the insurance system.
I doubt this single incident alone is the reason, but maybe the catalyst. Google and its unhealthy lust for diversity has been an increasingly frequent topic. Hell, someone got fired for posting an anti diversity rant last year. While his arguments were weak or flat out wrong, it's clear that Google is making a point to single out underrepresented minorities to the detriment of others who may actually be better candidates.
If ad blockers get popular for TV, I'm pretty sure producers will start heavily embedding advertising in the content, which will make it worse for everybody.
Except that’s not what we get right now. We have qualified women driven away from the profession because of all the unwanted attention and hurdles that come along wit being a minority at work.

In my profession (corporate law) we get a balanced gender distribution of applicants at the entry level. But that’s because of aggressive efforts to recruit women, as well as lawsuits, in the 1980s and 1990s, to counteract the long history of discrimination (the field as 95% men in the 1960s). If people back then hadn’t done that, we wouldn’t be getting the “best person” today. We’d be getting the subset of the best people who were willing to put up with a highly gender skewed environment.
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What is the purpose of this? Just static analysis?

If that is it, you'd probably be better off just using the PHP parser (https://github.com/nikic/PHP-Parser).

If you are writing analyzers for PHP, you must know it enough to right an analyzer in actual PHP. Why Go?

I can't see a lot of people using this.
Search for "update:" in the article. There are three and the most recent references a post from June of 2017. It appears the author has modified it for developments he considers important. It would be helpful if he indicated the revision date near the top of the article.
Correct, sloppy calculation.
This article makes it sound like medical costs in the US could be halved if everyone understood this problem, and did their own research on proposed procedures.
So, if one starts injecting large quantities of melanin into skin, renaming themselves to Hispanic-sounding name and undergoing "private parts" surgery, would that give them super high chance of being employed by Google? I bet in the next 5 years this will be becoming pretty popular in Silicon Valley :D Life truly is either a comedy when viewed from outside, or tragedy, when viewed from inside :DDD
If anything we should take it extremely seriously in as much as we're getting to a point where private companies undertake research projects on how the can alter the public discourse through algorithms.

I'm not saying that has to be bad. It could very well be good too. But it does open some fairly terrifying possibilities as well.
For context on what's happened at Twitter, see Jack's tweet storm https://twitter.com/jack/status/969234275420655616
> These obligations don't come with modern property rights. In fact, there is barely a concept of obligations that come with property or rights anymore.

In some places, these obligations do exist, at least in theory. The German Grundgesetz Article 14, for example, states: "(2) Property entails obligations. Its use shall also serve the public good." [0]

Which is often quoted but these days rarely actually enforced/acted upon, the opposite is becoming far more common (privatization of common goods/services or straight up bailing out private companies with public money) like recent pushes to privatize German Autobahn [1] or when the public is bailing out massive private companies, like it happened with the banking crisis of 2008 [2], nuclear waste deals [3] or most recently bailing out German car manufacturers for Dieselgate [4].

[0] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.h...

[1] http://www.dw.com/en/german-autobahns-backdoor-privatization...

[2] http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/subprime-bailou...

[3] http://www.dw.com/en/german-government-does-nuclear-waste-de...

[4] https://www.irishtimes.com/business/manufacturing/disbelief-...