skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I second that. Genode isolation of concerns is absolutely beautiful.
I'm sure that there is a bit of "wine tasting" effect. Knowing that a brand-name author wrote a book probably makes it more seem better to many readers. But even outside of that, the reader isn't really missing out by not experiencing the best author. Many light reading experiences are fungible, even if there are some quality differences.

I read the "Robert Galbraith" books. I would have never read it if I hadn't known that J. K. Rowling wrote the book. But I wouldn't have felt like I was missing out, I would have just read some other detective novel instead and been equally as satisfied.
Holy crap, this is a breathtakingly dishonest answer. Regardless of the topic, you should be ashamed of yourself for being so comfortable with intellectual dishonesty.

The quote you cite explicitly talks about the _European_ industrial revolution. The _very next sentence_ says:

>. Nevertheless, slavery was indispensable to European development of the New World. It is inconceivable that European colonists could have settled and developed North and South America and the Caribbean without slave labor

Even more to the point, a couple sentences later:

> In the pre-Civil War United States, a stronger case can be made that slavery played a critical role in economic development. One crop, slave-grown cotton, provided over half of all US export earnings. By 1840, the South grew 60 percent of the world's cotton and provided some 70 percent of the cotton consumed by the British textile industry. Thus slavery paid for a substantial share of the capital, iron, and manufactured goods that laid the basis for American economic growth. In addition, precisely because the South specialized in cotton production, the North developed a variety of businesses that provided services for the slave South, including textile factories, a meat processing industry, insurance companies, shippers, and cotton brokers.

Given that we're talking precisely about "the economy of the early usa", this is the relevant perspective.

Again, shame on you
It's definitely not to late. You might consider web-development, because of shorter time frame to get employable skills. As soon as you can actually start working and making money your motivation will boost and of course working on actual projects (instead of theoretical examples) gives you a lot of opportunities to learn a lot and gain on-hand experience.
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Each new generation of tech requires a freedom/liberation myth to harness the energy of a new generation of humans, until the time comes to pull Tim Wu’s “master switch” and reboot onto a new substrate of emerging tech and youth.
Please stop saying “Europe has plenty of competition.”

I am in France and have exactly 1 ISP where I live. Not everyone in Europe is in a big city. And even in big cities, not every ISP is available at your house even though they advertise that they are in the area.
I'm also an architect switching to programming but I didn't finish the process yet. Apparently disconected both subjects have a large common ground: creating a machine from small building blocks.

What I've found particularly difficult is to let go the past because I like Architecture and invested a lot on it. By the other hand, Architecture as a job is terrible, and that was the trigger to adapt my career.
If this was on github.com it would be rendered but obviously they don't render them on gist.
Why is it so expensive? Most shots can be filmed in a strip mall.
I agree although it is interesting to consider that even very coherent light would probably not produce a diffraction effect visible to our eyes.
It's an absolutely fantastic cover for a fantastic album. To me, it does play a significant role, it gives you an image of the wheezing sad existence of Aqualung, and the raw style of the painting adds significantly to the impression it makes.
A static binary rewriter that does not use heuristics
How specifically are freer markets going to solve the problem? Free markets only work when there's competition. Seeing as nobody can replicate the essential physical infrastructure that ISPs/telecoms own, not even investors with billions upon billions of dollars (see: Google Fiber), I fail to see how your glib answer of "freer markets" is at all credible.
ART is just another Judy variant. And they being faster than a hash table is popular myth, but wrong. They are only faster than a very bad hash table. The linux page table implementation as hash e.g. would be much faster than the current radix tree plus cache. The Power CPU e.g uses a hash, not an ART for it's page table cache.

A Comparison of Adaptive Radix Trees and Hash Tables - Big Data Analytics
PDF https://bigdata.uni-saarland.de › ARCD15
From my observation (from knowing a few people there from my lab), DeepMind is still organised relatively similarly to university groups.

Professors moving over are made to lead research teams, and while there may be some overall organisation goals, researchers still care about their individual career advancement and prestige as measured by paper output. So individually, most people working there are incentivised towards doing what is best for their individual prestige in the research community for after leaving deepmind.
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It's not possible to track that.

The closest thing to it is things like ad blockers that have heuristics and long lists of patterns and things like that.
Looks nice indeed but it reminds a lot this tool: https://github.com/danger/danger-js
> If we had a freeR market or some competition that might be a better way to get what we want, but we don't.

So why aren’t we fighting for that? My problem with NN is not the idea, but the pro-government politics of those so loudly supporting it. I trust free markets far more than I trust governments. If Nancy Pelosi or Maxine Waters were in charge of American internet — I find that pretty horrifying.
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Thanks :)

Working on it.
Isn’t that exactly the point of internships?
I found his talk on youtube, remarkable:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL07WEc2TRI
Using a chainsaw without paying attention is how fingers are cut off, using that as an argument against making chainsaws easier to use doesn't make any kind of sense.
I think you're confusing shareware with freeware.
I was wondering if there are any benefits (security wise) in using snap firefox (snapcraft.io) instead of firejail. Can anyone comment on this?
I address that point in the notebook. Thanks to Fourier you could decompose any waveform, coherent or not, into a sum (integral really) of sine waves. So the lack of coherence should not make no difference to the argument.
I wasn’t counting Finland, but that was rude of me and I apologize. Finland is certainly part of Scandinavia!
A Crash Course in Modern Hardware and Specter/Meltdown [pdf]
I hope something like this could be bundled by the browsers thenselves.
Chrome DevTools for web development beginners
Absolutely this. Competition is the best regulation there is because it responds directly to the customer.
No, my understanding of the page is as follows.

If d (width of the window) is large. Small changes in the wavelength create large differences in phase.

So if you have say light in the range 400 to 401nm coming through the window. There are peaks and troughs in that range, but overall there is no effect.

Light sources are like that in general, they’re not 450.00001nm but some Gaussian distribution around a point. And within that Gaussian there are peaks and troughs but they cancel out.

That was my understanding anyway...
Jesus, you'd think the people on here making comments got online yesterday. If this "russian' signal actually made any difference in all the noise 4ch are the new gods and must be locked up in Gitmo before they take over the world. Stop believing everything you seen on MSNBC you morons! Hackers my ass..
You're right, but soap bubbles in the sun also appear colorful.

You only care about those that come at a specific angle and are reflected to an observer. For most angles it doesn't matter, remember that lakes polarize their reflection (as seen by an observer).
Low level waste (medical, scientific, etc) is such trivial matter that worrying about the water table is paranoid ignorant bunkum.

As for high level "waste" — it should be reprocessed and reused or burned as fuel in breeder reactors. Burying it underground is a criminal waste of productive resources.
The difference is that you cannot sell litographical copies of a Tesla with your autograph, as Ian Anderson is doing with that image now. The "copy" part of copyright exists precisely because these works are not simple manufactured goods, they can be easily copied.
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Thanks, great. Slight addition: visible light spectra is between 400-700nm; sure you can still see 390nm and 730nm, but the sensitivity is rapidly decreased there.
> The imagery has appeared on countless merch items since. It’s hard to estimate the economic value, but it was surely a lot more than £10k.

You get paid based on the cost of replacing your work with someone else's work, not on the value of your work product.

But even if you want to argue for paying people based on value produced, your ex didn't produce that value. It came from the band. People buy band merch because they like the band, not because they like the art.

The aqualung cover image would be basically worthless right now if the artist had kept it while some other image went on the cover of aqualung.
How does this differ from Google's Project Jacquard?
wow... what an amazing article. Few interesting bits...

- HP was offering so many products that it took a four-pound, nearly 600-page catalog to describe them all.

- In what has to be one of the most famous design briefs in electronics history, Bill Hewlett asked Osborne and Cochran to shrink the 9100. “I want it to be a tenth of the volume, ten times as fast and cost a tenth as much.”

- At the time it seemed like an impossible request, but Hewlett didn’t let the idea go. Cochran, who for a time lived across the street from Hewlett, would occasionally give him a ride to work.

- It soon became clear that the entire project was going to cost around a million dollars.

- Stanford Research Institute did market survey and their conclusion was clear: “we don’t recommend that you go ahead with this.”

- Hewlett, despite the SRI report, decided he wanted one and thought his engineers should have one as well.

- For the log and exponential functions they used pseudo division and multiplication algorithms from Briggs’ 1624 Arithmetica Logarithmica. For the transcendental functions they used Volder’s CORDIC algorithm, originally developed for B-58 navigation.

- It took them more than a little finessing to fit everything into the 5140 bits (or 0.6 K).

- First industrial design featuring angled the display, a textured case, rubber feet serve as battery compartment latches.

- The entire project took 14 months, half of HP’s typical design cycle.

- Hewlett said the name would be the HP-35, after the device’s 35 keys. HP’s computerized inventory system only recognized four-digit names

- HP typically priced their equipment at the cost of the material list × π (or in an especially competitive market, list × e)

- “We [had to worry about] sales per square foot on the first floor of Macy’s, vs. the second floor.”

- HP-35 “[was] something only fictional heroes like James Bond, Walter Mitty or Dick Tracy are supposed to own,” a device that Captain Kirk of Star Trek was supposed to own.

- climbers carried to the top of Everest to do altitude calculations; Apollo astronauts used it in space to calculate re-entry coordinates

- In all, 100,000 HP-35’s (or more than 10× their estimate) were sold in the first year—accounting for more than half of the company’s total profits

It's amazing the similarity between HP and Apple's success stories. And then the fact that Steve Jobs bought the property that summer and the site is now part of Apple’s new Pentagon-sized spaceship headquarters.

I think pretty much every thing you need to know why companies succeed and fail is in this story.
I have Linux Ubuntu 14 - if I write a javascript program, what do I need to install to be able to run it?

There's often a lot of schlepping about required to be able to get started in writing and running the simplest of programs, and it would be useful to see it documented for a range of languages.

Does such a resource exist? I've Googled it on Bing, and Bung it on Google, and my search-fu is failing me.
It's a platform feature, which means it can't comunicate anything off device by itself. If Google's launcher communicates usage off device (they say they don't), and you don't like it, just use another launcher.
Slides for “A Crash Course in Modern Hardware” and Specter/Meltdown
Ask HN: How to decouple compensation from hours as a team lead
I work as a remote software engineering contractor, and bill my clients by the hour. As the team lead, I define the overall architecture, assign and review work, and set standards for the projects.

I believe a lot of my contributions are not really captured by my hours. What are the main ways to de-couple my compensation from my hours?

Do I hire people and let them log hours on my behalf? The client trusts my personal work and I don't know if that would work. Is it necessary to let the client have a direct relationship with any engineers I might hire, and have the sit in team meetings?
Having read QED early on, my understanding is that while treating a windowpane or mirror as a front and back surface is a useful simplification in most cases, it is not for interference.

The "sum of the histories" explanation is that light interacts with all of the molecules at every depth, and once the depth becomes larger than the "wavelength," the interactions statistically can el each other out, and the probability of an interference pattern appearing beco,es infinitesimal.

I have also heard that while "sum of the histories" was useful for explaining QED to undergrads, it wasn't an effective way to calculate results and didn't yield any predictions that more math-heavy approaches coukdn't produce, so it was discarded.

For all I know it has been shown to be wrong for some observed phenomena.

Anyhow... Is that explanation the correct "sum of the histories" explanation? And if so, is ot considered useful to think of it in these terms for laypersons who don't want to dive into the math?
isn't their only major energy investment a bigger hydro dam?
Also on Youtube, you can easily toggle autoplay at any time, and in contrast to FB & Twitter there still _is_ a page for subscription videos in chronological order.

Yes, "bad" (who is to judge?) defaults might be slightly immoral, but they are at least giving users the option to not use them.
My recommendation for communicating better is "Nonviolent Communication" by Marshall Rosenberg.

The gist of it is: be careful to separate observations from judgments, whether by yourself or others. When in a difficult conversation, try to confirm what the other person is feeling. Say what you are feeling.
You don't really need a river to pump hydro up and down. As long as you have some kind of container for the water (usually a dam though not necessarily so,) you can pump any water. The cheapest to pump is probably sea water. I'm not really sure how cheap that would be compared to batteries, but it's still an option.
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> They have a contract with a deceased label that sold them rights they never acquired

Surely, if that can somehow be proven in court, those rights would become void and you should get your music back. I know this might not be practical (the court system is not cheap, in most countries), but it's not a principle set in stone that "people get screwed".
Listening to the Left Hand – Frank Herbert (1973)
Isn't that always the parroted "solution"?

The current free market situation has created monopolies in many areas. How would you propose that "freer markets" would solve this?

What we are seeing now is that people literally have to build their own non-profit mesh networks (as in NYC), just to get around the monopolies. If there was actual competition, that would have been necessary.
Norway and Sweden are the same.

In fact most people I know in Denmark don’t break the €55k (converted from DKK) salary, experience also has very little effect on your salary so you aren’t going to double or more your salary over the life time of your career.

You also forget to mention the tax rate you pay.
> Terse code often needs to be restructured when requirements change.

It depends if the code is terse because of the programmer’s approach, or just naturally terse because of the language.
The Bestec PSUs were often the weakest link - and a non-standard size (and wiring ISTR) so you couldn't replace them with just anything.
It’s on the very high end even for Norway for engineers.
Any proof this is happening now? Is there any proof that services aren’t actually getting better now? Or does the NN crowd feel like FUD is warranted?

I’m just waiting for all of the dystopian horror we’ve been promised, but still not seeing it. When are the ISPs going to start charging small websites to allow their traffic? When has legitimate traffic been throttled because of the content? Citations and examples needed — and post-NN examples are all that count.

Any proof at all that someone making the next Netflix is getting harmed? Because NN is already gone. So where is all of this horrible stuff happening. We were promised an internet catastrophe and it hasn’t happened yet. And before NN— what happened then? That was when the actual Netflix was getting started and somehow Netflix was able to be born without NN.

But prices seem to be going down.

Stop spreading FUD. It isn’t happening. Things are getting better in fact. Markets are more powerful than governments.
Some of these comments are "my first HP".

I bought an HP-28C in when I graduated from high school using my own money. It was $235 which was a lot of money for me. My parents thought I was crazy. I later upgraded to the 28S followed by the 48sx.

At college, I would enter and win the "Calculator Olympics". They would give you these super complicated algebraic expressions to evaluate. The TI people would lose track of all the parentheses and the older HPs would exceed the 4-level stack.

I was amused a couple years ago to discover many of my old programs are still preserved on the internet: https://www.hpcalc.org/authors/166
POLY was hugely popular at the time. I just wrote it to simplify my classwork.
>"the government is now more trustworthy than tech companies in protecting people's use of the internet."

Yes, it absolutely is! Just like other basic utilities, such as water, power and sewers. I wouldn't trust private companies with those services, either.
of course gyrowheel would be hectic :) but scooters are ... I don't know off. Something that has the stability of a seated scooter but feels like a chair without feeling like it. Easy.
https://www.smh.com.au/healthcare/final-donation-for-man-who...

> The 81-year-old's plasma contains a potent antibody used to create a remarkable treatment known as Anti-D that protects unborn babies from the potentially deadly Rhesus D Haemolytic Disease (HDN).

...

> But he has already surpassed the donor age limit and the Blood Service made decision to protect his health.

^ He has to stop soon for health reasons.

Here's a thought experiment, if we hypothetically have access to medicinal records, details etc. of all humans on the earth - would it mean we'd have a treatment for all diseases?
Things no one tells you before an Antarctic expedition (2015)
Nuclear waste that is long-lived is by definition not dangerous.

We absolutely should improve energy efficiency and invest in renewable energy. We should be installing solar panels, wind turbines, utility-scale solar, batteries and storage as fast as we can.

But we can simultaneously construct new nuclear power without slowing down renewable deployment. We need a diversity of energy sources; nuclear is the ideal source of base-load power which is necessary to ensure grid stability and sufficient dispatchable power. It's the only way we'll ever kick the habit of burning coal, oil and gas.
The colours of a soap bubble can be understood with a Michel-Levy chart and thin film interference of a birefringent medium.

https://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/fileadmin/arbeitsgruppen/zaw...

You can observe the same colours in thick plastics under crossed polarisers.
Hmmm. I can't get up-to-date operating cost figures for coal specifically, but US nuclear is barely cheaper to operate than fossil-powered steam generation in general these days: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/annual/html/epa_08_04.html (Coal is generally cheaper than the average.) The nasty catch here, of course, is that most of the fossil fuel costs are from fuel and most of the nuclear costs are operation and maintenance. Heavy load following decrease fuel costs but increases operation and maintenance costs - it's more complex to operate a nuclear plant that way, the added thermal stresses increase wear accelerate failures, and the total power generated is lower. That's why nuclear is usually treated as always-on baseload power; not because it's the only way it can be operated, but because it's the most economically viable one.
If they’re partnered with a university, you could make a big stink and drag the university through the mud. I’m sure some media outlets would love to write about this. Start with an op-Ed in the university newspaper.

If you put the pressure on right, the university will drop the coding bootcamp partnership as quickly as possible, with a nice letter about how “deeply troubled” they are. Then file suit against the bootcamp and collect your settlement money.

Now, that’s not to say I advocate this approach... but it seems to be the MO of “activists” everywhere nowadays and it clearly works.
The region I'm from publishes it's figures. The best engineers (or at least the ones making the most new science) are assistants at university. Their pay is published, and public (this is North West Europe)

Starts at 23k5 EUR, goes up to 40k EUR per year, if you keep it up for 20+ years (note: it is only this "high" if you're on a full time scholarship. The average, even though the universities hide this fact, is 20% or so lower, mostly because there's more than a few that "aren't full time". In reality not working full time as an assistant is a stupid piece of fiction: that simply does not happen, although it is true that you really do have much flexibility if you do well)

Engineers in public service make around 30% more in theory, but pay more taxes. In reality they make the same amount of money.

If you get promoted to professor, you start at 40k, tops out at 70k. You can make more, but not spectacularly more, by becoming a university administrator.

In Silicon valley, pay for someone who knows javascript starts at 95k USD (75k EUR, 5% more than a university administrator with 20+ years of experience), and tops out at 5x that. Needless to say, if you can be a university professor, you are very likely to be a great engineer, you should be able to quickly make it to 300k pay, but even if you don't, you're still making a lot more.

Good luck retaining these people. One of the leading AI researchers, Pieter Abbeel, is one of the people who seems to have made the choice not to be retained.

I also have lots of anecdotal evidence that seems to indicate this is in fact what is happening. The brain drain from Europe is once again at or exceeding what it was in 2000: people are getting whisked away before they even graduate, and it's once again getting ridiculous : people get whisked away even before the last year.
I'm thinking about purchasing one of these, glad to hear they're well liked.