skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough. Access to some amounts of computing may be initially available, but I still believe it would not last more than a few years.

It all boils down to supply chains and the economy, basically. Electronics capable of working with today's data storage media is incredibly complex, and manufacturing replacements will require large and insanely expensive fabs. Those fabs themselves are full of precise tools and exotic materials, every one of which requiring other specialized fabs, using tools requiring other fabs... The whole pipeline from dirt to CPU involves many thousands of people directly, and itself can only exist in an advanced civilization like ours - where lots of other people do everything from agriculture to catering to logistics to law and law enforcement. To build a CPU, you first need to build a civilization like ours. And to build a civilization like ours, you need cheap energy sources - it literally wouldn't be possible without them.

> GP claimed civilization would be unable to rise again, implying thousands of years of knowledge would disappear.

Our best bet to retain all that knowledge after total civilizational collapse is to form orders - not unlike medieval monks - whose sole purpose would be to make exact paper copies of that knowledge. Otherwise, after computers eventually die, a lot of that knowledge would disappear (because it wouldn't be used), and what would stay would get increasingly distorted over time.
As someone who has used Firefox as my default browser since it was called Phoenix, I can tell you that Quantum was a big step backward in terms of memory consumption and CPU utilization for Firefox.

On a Lenovo T450s sitting idle with 14 tabs across 4 windows, FF is now using 25-100% of the CPU and over 4GB of RAM. When I resume from Hibernation (on Windows) it can take up to 10 minutes for FF to settle down and for the system mouse to respond.

If that's an improvement from Chrome, then OMG you poor bastards who use Chrome as your daily.

FF seems to be fine on more powerful systems but on my lower spec'd laptops it's just a battery sucking lap warmer.
> self driving should be banned until these issues are resolved

_Ubers'_ self driving trials should be banned since they don't seem to exercise enough caution. That shouldn't hold the progress of competitors back.
This is only true for young urban middle class people.
> We need to stop complaining about how evil Facebook is, and start talking about personal responsibility

This is so true and so not gonna happen. Too often you see people lauding new regulations, new laws, new ways of telling someone else what to do because they are not smart enough to know for themselves.

I wish government and their constant rule-requesting constituency would repurpose their effort into education and promotion of alternatives.

> Personally, I don't smoke, and I don't use Facebook.

Sadly, there will be a time where you can't do things like those, even being aware of and accepting of the risks.
COBOL developers did just fine, you may not get to work in the new hot tech but there is a huge market for aging entrenched technologies. You average Java developer is late 30's to 40's and it's not uncommon to see whole teams of 40 something developers in a java shop. There is life outside the valley.
I know most here are focused on the dev side of things, but coming from the sysadmin side where I've had to deal with the technical debt of devs + the entire rest of the business IT technical debt, it is anything but good.

I've seen the insides of hundred of companies, and the number one cause of technical debt is lack of proper manpower to work ratios. Usually due to short term thinking of IT as a janitorial cost sink instead of as an investment.

any company that can break this mold is going to be light years ahead in the long run, because I have a secret to tell you all...

The infrastructure holding most businesses up is set to crumble at the slightest puff o wind, whether that wind be legal, like a lawsuit or an audit, or technical like an internal data breach...
For those curious about the progress of Pathfinder (WebRender's GPU-based font and vector graphics rasterizer), this month's Bay Area Rust meetup featured a talk and live demo from pcwalton: https://air.mozilla.org/rust-bay-area-meet-up-march-2018/
Nice to see that Mandarin and Japanese have simple number systems compared to English. It might be worthwhile to learn them and impress your friends while you're reading numbers from restaurant menu-cards :)
Python 2 is popular enough that someone will keep up support for decades to come. Just making sure it supports new OS releases, and fixing the occasional bug, will not be a significant overhead.
"Free speech means arguing against messages one disagrees with, or ignoring them, but not trying to suppress them."

Agreed, but "I won't provide a platform for this speech" is not "suppressing". If I put up a bulletin board in my front yard and encourage my neighbors to post things there, in general it's eminently reasonable for me to decide that certain things can't be posted - even if my bulletin board becomes the most popular one in town.

(But if it's made "the official town news source" and local government makes certain posting certain things illegal, that's an entirely different kettle of fish.)

Tangentially, there's a 4th option you don't mention for messages one disagrees with - censuring them. (As in "actively and visibly disapproving" - not "censoring"!) For some types of message, the most appropriate response is a firm, unmistakable "That isn't welcome here" / "That's a terrible thing to say" followed by no discussion whatsoever. (Eg: when arguing lends a platform / legitimacy, but ignoring implies acquiescence.)
It wouldn't be so bad (for us) if a union could force the company to use their arbitrators. But honestly, it would be better for everyone all around if the labor laws were stronger and meaningfully enforceable--in an actual civil court.

We deserve better, people. Richie McJobsCreator isn't going to just give away money for better working conditions at his company to a bunch of whiny nerds and unfashionable geezers. That could have otherwise gone straight into the owners' pockets, to... er... create more jobs!

If we can't get the 22-year old naïfs to join up with the 40+ greyhairs, they're also going to work 18 years and then receive discriminatory firings and have trouble with rehiring only halfway to their retirement age. Did you want to have kids and help pay for their tuition? How will you feel when you get fired for being too old, just as your kids are taking their entrance exams?

Wake up. Consider unions, or figure out how to pressure your politicians. Definitely think twice about working for a company that has no older employees. If you wait until you get your pink slip, and I have already been unemployable due to excessive experience for a decade or more, I won't be much help to you. I'll also feel obligated to say "told you so" every time you drop spare change in my cup.
Nope, the domain's whois doesn't use dns-admin. From the Baseline Requirements for domin control:

> 3.2.2.4.4 Constructed Email to Domain Contact

> i) sending an email to one or more addresses
created by using 'admin', 'administrator', 'webmaster', 'hostmaster', or 'postmaster' as the local part
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At Pinterest, we expanded the precision of our existing timestamp-based sequence column to accommodate reordering:

https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/how-we-built-rearr...
One thing that I haven't seen a whole lot of commenting on is how distracted the safety driver appears to be in the interior shots. He looks bored, and his attention seems to be directed everywhere but the roadway.

This raises some serious concerns about the extent to which "safety drivers" actually increase the safety of self-driving car tests. If that's how they normally behave when a car's in self-driving mode, then it seems to me more like they are creating a false sense of security that mostly just serves to make the public feel better about the risk of half-baked self-driving equipment being tested on the public roadways.
IBM typically does things “first” (social media product efforts at IBM predated Facebook, for example), and IBM research has routinely produced innovations decades earlier than their adoption. WebSphere was a platform as a service in 2004.

My personal opinion (having worked there 10 years with a lot of extremely talented people) is that the scale and types of customers IBM sells to distorts the engineering incentives. They don’t (because they can’t) build the simple MVP and iterate on it. Instead they have to bolt on “enterprise magic” like security integration, support for three different databases (db2, sqlserver, Oracle) from day one, and generally gold plate it. In addition deep pocket customers have massive pull and can distort product schedules because 90% of the revenue is concentrated in a few massive deals. That means “do what’s right for the user” becomes “id like this icon in cornflower Blue”.

The price of massive success is perverse engineering incentives up and down the stack. It’s hard to appreciate from the outside, it’s just what end state enterprise story looks like when your deals are $20M and up.
Still not distributed by default on Mac or Ubuntu long term release, unlike 2.
No way. It is absolutely different in practice because of Japanese counter words.

A counter word is a counting prefix (different from the abstract number word) plus different suffixes for a variety of things. This object is long and thin, so it has one suffix. This object is a drop of liquid, so it has another suffix. This is a small animal, so it gets another suffix. The counting words for use with these suffixes are different from abstract numbers.

Frankly, the system is bananas.

Abstract numbers in Japanese are very simple and logical, but the overall counting system of e.g. English is objectively simpler, and I don't think you can disregard counting when examining the number system.

In English, it would be equally correct to say "10 cows" or "a herd of cattle." Literally translating the first (without counting words) in Japanese would be incorrect.
I don't really find this convincing as far as original discussion goes.
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Another option (related to your #1) could be disagreement between the visual field cameras and the LIDAR. Which could result in a lower confidence of an object being a pedestrian.
So, if instead of issuing a second bswap instruction, you were to issue an instruction that could go to a different ALU port, you would get that one for (almost) free?
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Right, what I meant was not that order doesn't matter at all, but that order mostly doesn't matter for the meaning of individual words (except for some homonyms which can be disambiguated using syntactical information).

When you want to handle whole sentences, obviously order becomes much more relevant, but for that you'd feed the word vectors into an LSTM or similar to handle the order-dependence.
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No, this is surprising because the only research they measured is accessing SEC filings from the government’s website. Since this is the definition of public information, in an efficient market there should be no comparative advantage to having it because every manager should already be using it.
> Realizing that, for a LIDAR with a 400' range at 15hz moving at 40mph you get ~7 samples of a point before you're at it... For at least the first 3 frames that person is going to look like sensor noise. At 110 feet that person (which I'm calling a 2' wide target) is 1 degree of your sensor measurement.

Updating this with math not done at midnight:

Frame	Distance	Angular Size of Target	Pixel Size
0	400	0.286481285	7.162032123
1	396.0888889	0.289310143	7.232753564
2	388.2666667	0.295138837	7.378470932
3	376.5333333	0.304335969	7.608399215
4	360.8888889	0.317529122	7.93822806
5	341.3333333	0.3357213	8.393032503
6	317.8666667	0.360506726	9.012668144
7	290.4888889	0.394484519	9.862112983
8	259.2	0.442105838	11.05264595
9	224	0.511583054	12.78957636
10	184.8888889	0.619810252	15.4952563
11	141.8666667	0.807794769	20.19486922
12	94.93333333	1.207252619	30.18131548
13	44.08888889	2.600887175	65.02217938

This is based on the velodyne LIDAR specs I could find last night with some quick googling:
- 400' range
- .04 degree angular resolution
- 15hz max update rate

If you have more accurate real world experience with these sensors and can share more accurate performance characteristics I can update.

These calculations were done assuming a vehicle moving at 40 mph. The stopping distance at that speed is about 110ft. I computed the pixel size by assuming 1 measurement = 1 pixel giving me 9000 pixels per 360 degrees.
They automated signal discovery in what kind of data? I have heard their use of unconventional data sources is the source of their success, not automated signal discovery.
> IBM's products aren't as good as Amazon/Google

You can't compare the first to the other two. Amazon and Google don't make business products. Sure, they sell "cloud services", but these aren't business products, these are IT services.

Amazon and Google sell phones that somebody else makes. They write software that somebody else retrofits. They sell advertising. They sell inexpensive consumer goods, like a voice-activated interface to their search engines, or a stick to stream video to your TV. Outside of cloud computing, they maintain almost exclusively consumer-oriented services and applications.

IBM makes mainframes that sit in someone's bank and last decades. They make tools that you buy and install and run your entire business with. They are the one-stop shop for a business that needs technology and can't or won't make it themselves from scratch.

It's like comparing apples to quinoa. It's like comparing IKEA to a building contractor.
Or bored HN Mods.
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I like that it has a "fish-eye" camera in the front
> Not every organisation responds appropriately when developers push back...

In my experience, organizations generally do the right thing if all the developers push back. The problem is that you can always find developers that will push a hack or deploy an overwrought solution for a simple problem.
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Actually, you are right. This is the exact quote:

> I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address. I'd used email since about 1975, and it seems to me that 15 years of email is plenty for one lifetime.

My point was that he does not really care. I'm sure he still follows very closely some advancements, but he is not the kind of people I expect to be very informed about the new IDE, Javascript framework or web standard, for example. He is happy programming in a chalkboard.
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aio isn't available for py2. The benefit is that this is available for py2.
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Swerving is almost always the wrong thing to do from a safety perspective. This situation is identical to a deer in the road at night, a situation in which most traffic safety experts advise hitting the horn and brakes, but not swerving (note that human drivers hit over a million deer in the US every year, despite supposedly being alert and able to see better than cameras at night). You don't have time for a mirror check to see if there's a car next to you, the shoulder might not be safe, and swerving at speed is an excellent way to lose control of your vehicle entirely. There's also a bike perpendicular to the lane, so you would have to swerve way more than just enough to get around a person.
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Does that just mean that they do their own execution, or does it mean that their short-holding-time strategies are a major profit center?
The market isn't efficient. But more importantly, SEC filings are not the only data these firms use. It's just one source for which these researchers were able to capture access information.

Comparatively speaking, the SEC filings are just a blip next the rest of the data gathered by quantitative funds. Any conclusion that could be drawn from what's contained in this report would be hopelessly misleading.
I'm relatively indifferent towards the matter, social media is cancer, but compare and contrast narratives:

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/harper-reed-oba...
I wouldn't say features like [vector] are optional alternatives to (vector), if you can't write even the simplest function without using the [vector] syntax.
I would love to provide more studies. As I said in my original comment, the NRA has made it nearly impossible to fund gun violence studies.

Plus giving people guns who do not want them is bordering on unethical since if the study shows as is already implied it means that person may be hurt or killed.
We all know how it works in our industry. I do find it bitterly ironic that all our diversity efforts (which I otherwise fully support) rarely or never even touch on this issue. The one form of discrimination everyone will face unless they die or leave tech.

But, you know, labor costs.
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Is that measured in suicide attempts, or successful suicides? Because if it's successful suicides it might just be that the number of attempts is the same, but they have more effective methods of killing themselves, like pesticides:

https://80000hours.org/2018/03/leah-utyasheva-pesticide-suic...

(I know Sri Lanka isn't France, and we cannot assume anything about French pesticide laws. I'm just offering another possibility)
And do those who do the most research seek the highest fees?
Yes any suicide rate would be horrible.

A suicide rate 20% higher than another suicide rate is 20% more horrible, which is not horribly more horrible unless we've diluted the meaning of horrible which would mean the we don't think the suicide rate is too bad.
Even thinking about all the sci-fi plots that could link these events is so exciting. Reminds me of a lot of different stories, from Pern to Chrono Trigger.

Too bad that in our dull and rational reality it's just a coincidence.
YouTube isn't the only seller of megaphones, but they're the only one that matters. When they have an effective monopoly on audience, network effects will make it impossible for anyone else to compete.
The second line in the Reddit list has been cut short. The full item says:

* Drugs, including alcohol and tobacco, or any controlled substances (except advertisements placed in accordance with our advertising policy);

Meaning they are not against drugs and alcohol, if they can make a buck out of it.
It's generally not a problem with the workers, but a problem with calcified management organizations who are risk averse, short sighted, and myopic in focus. Management protects their rice bowl, everything else be damned.

Which is especially ironic that older workers are targetted.
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If it fits (latency/throughput-wise), yes, unless you clog something else (like the decoder or retirement) with that instruction.
Thats incorrect (in the article). The words are compound words, and they really should not be counted like they are here.

example:

chauntees = 34 = 30 and 4. Word for 30 is tees and word for 4 is char - combined to form chaun-tees.

chhuttees = 36 = 30 and 6. Word for 30 is tees and word for 6 is chey - combined to form chhut-tees.

So on for all the words from 20 till 99. The combination rules might not be obvious here in transcription, but they come naturally to a Hindi speaker. So in reality there are dedicated words for 1 thru 19, and then the rest are compounds formed from the words corresponding to each digit.
Yet another application of "Proper Planning/Preparation Prevents [Piss-]Poor Performance."
Slightly anecdotal, but I used to be a gang intelligence analyst for law enforcement. In the Commonwealth of Virginia, gangs are defined as having: 1) a shared identifiable name or shared identifying sign or symbol, 2) members who individually or collectively have engaged in the commission of[..] two or more predicate criminal acts, at least one of which is an act of violence, and 3) have committed criminal acts which are in furtherance of the gang. The predicate acts are defined separately as a bunch of things, some logical and some less so.

The Boy Scouts of America, for example, meet criteria 1, but don't meet criteria 2 or 3 (I hope), so are therefore not a gang.

Alternatively, a person who associates with a known criminal gang and commits a violent robbery in order to obtain food for their kids, would not have their actions treated as gang-related crime because the act was not made in furtherance of the gang, but rather in furtherance of their person. If the same act was committed as a gang initiation, than it could be considered as gang-related crime.

A traditional Frat does not meet the criteria, in my mind, because there is insufficient evidence that they are committing violent acts in furtherance of the organization rather than for their own personal gain. You would have to argue that assaulting women is specifically perpetuated as part of that particular Frat's culture (not just Frats in general), and that members knowingly commit sexual assault in order share in or improve upon that Frat's culture and it's success.

I would also argue that a sub-group of wrong-doers who are part of a larger group of non-wrong-doers does not inherently define a gang. A group of bad cops doing bad things isn't inherently a gang, nor does it make cops a gang. A better example would be the CRASH cops from Rampart who essentially created distinct group within the police department, with names and symbols, who committed a variety of violent and non-violent crime in furtherance of the group itself, not the individuals or the police in general.
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You're just expressing your own biases here. How would you prove that age based discrimination is economically irrational unless you let it happen? I tend to agree with you that IBM is hurting itself here. But I admit I could be wrong.
Can confirm, I'm in such a team now.
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cafard means bug in French. just in case
The difference is that those manufacturers can go to other stores to sell their products.

YouTube is the only store that customers go to, so it's the only place you can actually sell your product at.
I was surprised to see Danish so high on the list, but after a short while it's not too surprising. It's base-20 for the first 20, like English. Then it's backwards base-10 up to 99 with special names for the whole 10s, 42 is pronounced as "2 and 40". Above 99 it's base-10, 420 is "400 20". But if it's 428 it's "400 8 and 20", but 512 would be "500 12". It's not difficult, it's just a special rule for 1-20, backwards for 21-99, and then straight as you'd expect (including the irregular first 20). Okay, it is quite confusing for none native speakers. To our defense, we use a system more like the Norwegian and Swedish for formal documents including contracts and cheques, though the latter has been phased out in Denmark.

The "perfect" would obviously be a purely base-10 with suffix if it's 10's, 100's, ect.
Did you mean "underestimating"?
Nice. I will definitively have a look.
Reminds me of vault boy[1] from Fallout but with a sneaky hat on.

https://www.google.com/search?q=vault+boy&tbm=isch
Somebody recorded this stretch and posted it [1]. The police-released video looks much darker in comparison:

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XOVxSCG8u0