skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That kind of emphasizes the point rather than disproves it, though. Nearly 40 years of physics to pull your examples from, and you pull something from last month, something not confirmed (there's been tons of 2.5-3 sigma results over the past 40 years, but there's a reason physicists have learned to wait for more sigma), and something that is unannounced and may be uninteresting.

I believe there are some other things in that time frame. I believe the discovery that the universe is accelerating in its rate of separation fits in that time frame, and that's pretty big. We don't know how to fit it in with anything, but it's big. And I'd still say confirming Higgs is big.

But... yeah... it is a pretty short list compared to preceding decades.
Malware shipped by laptop manufacturers on Windows laptops funds Windows being cheaper than Linux.
Meat. Once a week or so, two or three steaks. I forgot to mention eggs.

I should add that, in this very non-hypothetical diet, you eat a lot of veggies. Five or six giant salads a day. Eat a whole cucumber like a banana. Once your microbiome adjusts it will tear though that stuff surprisingly well. You'll be dropping the deuce five times a day. (And they won't stink. That's a side-effect.)

You have so much energy you can run up mountains and you're always giggling because you feel so good. As your cells start to clean out the molecular junk in your system you'll age in reverse for a while.
"Why is it socially correct to not automate?"

Because we (USA) have a terrible social safety net.

Wanna get philosophical; At what point do you regulate automation?

When most people are homeless, and jobless?

I guarantee doctors, and lawyers using their lobby groups (AMA, and ABA), are quietly working on the day their jobs will be affected.

Why not blue collar workers?

Hell we have the tech to ticket every automobile that runs a red light, or parks illegally. Why don't we just put up cameras everywhere. It would certainly be efficient?

Tech is ripe for automation. It will come, and it will be ugly. The Rockstars will always have jobs, but the rest of you will be looking at a section 8 housing list--that's been closed for 10 years.

RIP Jim Fox. (Died a few moths ago while homeless. He was involved with Word Star.)

I am all for an admendment that regulates automation/AI.
I wonder if narcissism and individualism are also linked to higher suicide rates.
> we're screwing up the already nocturnal animals too

Every night I look up at my exterior lights to admire the horde of geckos waiting patiently around each one for the onslaught of bugs to begin bumping into the lights.

I always wondered how different the gecko vs bug population would be without night lights. I've always felt bad for bugs.
Are there any main reasons for this?

I'd assume conservative and long-design time downstream users mean there isn't a volume market for new battery tech.
> the west invested in infrastructure in china.

Do you have any evidence that this is true? As far as I can tell, China invested in infrastructure in China. "West" just buys products. Your statement is equivalent to claiming that Apple invested in infrastructure in China when the reality is that Foxconn invested in infrastructure in China and Apple just buys the output.
I guess I'll just have to confess my ignorance :(
Designs for the basic jet engine date back to at least the 1920s, and basic operating principles date back much, much further. Jet aircraft were actually flying by the 1940s, and those engines were built using the relatively primitive metallurgical and manufacturing techniques of the day. So, as I said, _mechanically_ jet engines are relatively simple devices. Materials, manufacturing, control systems, fuel efficiency, noise abatement and all that may be a very different story.
That would be fine, but the issue is not that the form won't submit, but that the checkbox can't be checked.
Thanks for the edit!
Simple concept, yes.

But to say that it's simple to make a turbofan engine would be like saying it's simple to make your own crypto.

After all, it's just multiplying some prime numbers together.
“We have a plan to get every homeless family off the streets within five years. We’ve already moved hundreds of families back into society and into homes.”
Wow.
Since programming is a rapidly growing field and Python is the first language for many, I suspect that Python's scoping rules are in fact intuitive to most of its users. The ones who stumble are those with intuition built by some other language.
Case in point - US aviation being backwater until Rights patent expired while the rest of the world saw explosive innovation in aviation.

Patents were necessary only when public disclosure had value. In the world where the same things get developed almost simultaneously by different people at different places and anything can be quickly reverse engineered the public gets no value in return for granting monopoly through a patent.
> with all the Samsungs and Teslas catching fire, it rings true.

Are there really a lot of Samsungs catching fire though, in the grand scheme of things?
More than the teslas I think ;)
The printers would have been able to sell fresh material, and perhaps the payments to the authors were insignificant if the volume was high enough. Competitors would also have had to replicate the work of typesetting and printing, which would take a while.
I didn't know what Flutter was and from the title I assumed it was abandoned (how it was to write a flutter app).

So, I just got that excitement from having something cool to learn.
If reducing high blood pressure is important to you, don't trust a random dude on HN. Spend some time researching the concept of water fasting as well as dry fasting and you will find the literature that leads you to conclude it is a worthwhile effort for your best shot at curing many man made "diseases" such as high blood pressure, diabetes, Crohn's and all other IBS/Ds, among many many many others.

The information is readily accessible and available to be found if you do it with an open mind.

I don't have links or whatever to send you. This is not a new topic for me so I don't have a folder with bookmarks I keep around to include in my replies here or elsewhere. I have been around fasting (water, dry, and grape fasting) and herbal remedies for the last 20 years and have seen hundreds, probably thousands, of people cure diseases their top doctors once said were incurable. But again, don't believe me (and most don't, hence why I always get downvoted or flagged), believe yourself once you open up your mind to life changing information that's out there. When you realize your health is quite literally in your own hands, you free yourself to find the right information.
> Please don't destroy the back button... i had to click it 60 times to get back here...

After the third or fourth click, did it cross your mind to type in "news.ycombinator.com" instead? Or did you just want to see how deep the rabbit hole goes? :)
You are saying that you don't think UPS' automation efforts will reduce the effective workforce by 20% in the next decade? I would strongly disagree with your certainty, and believe if their per-package efforts don't decline by > 20%, they will consider their efforts a failure.

Also, it is possible the union sees no end-game in sight and is just trying to preserve jobs as long as possible. (The robots won't have a union, and if they did, this union would be unlikely to be a part of forming it.)

I think I agree that the UPS union's decision is possibly a poor one, but come on -- it's easy to see why they made it. Making self-interested, short-sighted decisions is literally what humans are best at.

(Plus, it's not like we can pretend to predict the future and better than they can!)
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The problem here is that in Aristotelian logic, which deals strictly in statements that are true or false and nothing in between, non-existent evidence is not evidence of non-existence. But this cute phrase, over-quoted and generally badly misunderstood, is not true because of the way the obvious, naive reasoning would lead you to believe... it is true because Aristotelian binary logic doesn't deal in anything like "evidence" at all. Non-existent evidence is not evidence of non-existence, because under this logic there is straight-up no such thing as evidence. There is only proof.

However, while this form of logic is a great thing to teach children for their first (and likely only) one, and while your fancier logics probably ought to have some sort of Correspondence Principle for this style of logic, this rigid style of logic is not terribly useful in the real world, where statements of rigid, solid, 100%-confidence mathematical truth are in short supply. In any probabilistic logic, non-existent evidence is evidence of non-existence. It is not proof. But it is evidence. It is true the human mind may have a tendency to overweight the evidence, but that's fixed by math.

So, while there is a sense in which the oft-trotted out phrase is true, in logics useful in the real world, it is simply false.

After all... what other evidence of non-existence do you expect to gather? If you do not believe in the invisible, intangible unicorn that lives in your garage that Sagan liked to talk about, what other actual evidence for that belief do you have other than a complete lack of evidence it exists? There is no way for you to disprove it under Aristotelian logic. (And this style of logic doesn't have a great story for statements it can neither prove nor disprove, which is another reason why mathematics moved past it a long, long time ago.)

If string theory is wrong, what other evidence for that can we gather other than the predictions of string theory being false? Remember, we can build physics models based on, say, Loop Quantum Gravity that excludes strings and may seem to predict the universe correctly, but that does not logically prove that there are not also strings in the universe. We exclude strings or other broken models only by consistently failing to collect evidence they are true.
If you let yourself get that specialized then you're always going to be one or two innovations away from a layoff. I kind of feel that anyone who inhabits a niche like that for a long time is going to be in danger of becoming a victim of their own comfort seeking. Our industry is not kind to those who don't continually challenge themselves and learn new things. As a counter example to your friend's situation, I'll be turning 58 this november, and I'm an SRE/devops engineer working on kubernetes-based infrastructure in google cloud. Five or six years ago I was a back end .NET guy, a few years before that I was doing ASP web apps. Before that C++ and COM/DCOM stuff, and before that Orbix/CORBA, and before that... you get the picture. The old saw is that nothing stays the same, so if you're not moving with the world you can be sure it's moving past you.
Why the hell would you sell it for $100 when your nearest competitor cost is at a $1000. You would sell it for $990 and keep lowering the price slowly as you are able to satisfy demand at each price point.
There is a way to know: self-experimentation. I do realize you mean knowledge as a society. But I'm happy there's at least a way to resist the generalized brainwashing. And maybe if more people tried by themselves, it would be more difficult to get away with the current bs.

A few advantages are that you find out what's good for you in particular, not every body works the same, that you don't get confused with partial results that get canceled and, my fav, that you learn what works in practice: it's useless to know that you can lose fat with a diet you are unable to follow.

You've probably realized that my experience is about losing weight and general wellness, but that's just the problem with nutrition for most people.
I think the issue is still all the background activity. My phone (moto x pure) lasts multiple days in airplane+battery saver mode. It was 30% charged after using it for GPS/maps and occasional music on a 4-day backpacking (hiking) trip.
> So I think quite a lot about the degree to which society and husbands really ought to compensate women more for their labor and personal sacrifices in raising kids and supporting male careers at the expense of their own.

Isn't that the whole idea behind alimony? Assuming the marriage ends prematurely (i.e. not "till death do us part") and speaking of the husband's responsibility in the matter.

As to society's responsibility in this matter, women have 100% the same rights as men in this day and age (well, other than the "right" to be conscripted) so at some point people just need to accept that choices they make in life will have certain drawbacks and/or advantages which may or may not affect their future in positive and/or negative ways. I'm also roughly the same age as you so I know there really weren't "manacles that keep women oppressed and poverty-stricken" in our lifetime and in fact the plight of women has arguably been the best it has ever been in all of human history. I'd even go as far as say it's The Golden Age of Womendom. Though, admittedly, things were a bit different pre-90's with regards to single mothers and, umm, "non-traditional" gender roles, probably more so if you didn't have the "luck" of growing up a major metropolitan area I'd imagine.

Please don't take what I'm saying as a personal attack but merely as an opposing viewpoint because I know these subjects get kind of touchy these days.
Assuming similar prices for the new train, that's quite a bit of revenue for six months, is that typical for a single route train?
Ask HN: What do you use for mocking APIs?
Since the split between backend and frontend teams is becoming the norm, a persistent problem that frontend devs have to face is to work with the API that doesn't yet exist. What do you use for solving this problem?
It's also a great card game: https://www.pagat.com/tarot/frtarot.html
I'm sorry, but I can't take such a study seriously when it's using data collected from East Germany pre fall of Communism, when it had one of if not the most intrusive surveillance societies in human history. There's simply too great a possibility that the fear of study participants would have altered their responses to avoid reprisal.

To a lesser extent, I'd cast a skeptical glance on this kind of data any society with collectivist pressures until presented with a very high standard of evidence that the participants were convincingly guaranteed their responses were untraceably dissociated from their regular lives.
Wasn't a previous Tesla fire caused by a bit of metal debris on the road puncturing the batteries, a la the Concorde crash?

That wouldn't be a crash per se, but neither is it spontaneous combustion. It's just the kind of not-too-unusual damage which should probably be better planned for.
That seems pretty close to how westerners use the term, unless I am missing something?

Context matters, I think is what we can all agree on. Unfortunately, in order to agree on the appropriate context, we have to see each other as peers and working for the same goal. (I think this is what's fucked with the current American political system -- it's less "you have your facts, I have mine" and more "you think this context/lens is what matters, I disagree and choose these base assumptions."

Naive realism wrote bigly.
Public Logistics Network suggested by Professor Michael Kay: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kay/pln/
"A public logistics network is proposed as an alternative to private logistics networks for the ground transport of parcels. Using the analogy between the packages transported in the network and the packets transmitted through the Internet, a package in a public logistics network could, for example, be sent from a retail store and then routed through a sequence of public distribution centers (DCs) located throughout the metropolitan area and then delivered to a customer’s home in a matter of hours, making a car trip to the store to get the package unnecessary. The DCs in the network, functioning like the routers in the Internet, could also be located at major highway interchanges for longer distance transport."

One aspect of it is powered platforms that move boxes around without human intervention: "Modular storage design: In order to be cost-effective, the loading/unloading, sortation, and storage activities at each DC in the public logistics network must be highly automated since each load might visit a dozen or more DCs while it’s in transit, likely traveling on a different truck between each DC. Since existing automation technologies do not provide the flexibility needed to allow any size load to move to any location at anytime, a new DC design has been developed that would allow packages of varying size to be automatically unloaded at a DC, sorted, stored, and then loaded onto an outbound truck. Such a design would result in diseconomies of scale because it is cheaper to ship a single package compared to a larger consolidated load. Integral to the design is use of arrays of small square modules with orthogonal pop-up powered wheels."
This. I have a post-office a 3 minute walk from my house, with long hours. The UPS drop-off is a pharmacy a 20-minute drive away that keep's bankers hours. If something ships to my house by UPS, I will get a paper notice that it's at the pharmacy and it appears there 2-4 business days later.

Why can't I just order it dropped at the post office for me?
Possibly; however, aren't the depression rates in Russia pretty high as well? I, being a very independent American, feel that high rates of individualism are a good thing and provide inner power to continue when situations become difficult.
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Nobody's going to do the scale of an F50 for free. Any sort of good deal is going to have an expiration date, or it won't cover expansion that will almost certainly be needed, potentially almost immediately if all of their needs aren't immediately apparent.

This is one of the other risks of moving to a cloud provider: You add a new dependency on a single company. If you don't have a multi-cloud strategy that allows you to force Google, Amazon, and Microsoft to fight for your business each time you expand, you're going to eventually end up paying top dollar.
To save allocations while file parsing drop # from C#
Unfortunately UPS can’t do anything about that - only USPS is allowed to deliver to post offices and mailboxes. They have a federally mandated monopoly on those.
I believe the criticism is directed towards the wedding industry that manipulates emotions to make the hard sell. The modern wedding is mostly a consumer product. Like all consumer products, it can certainly be very enjoyable if you like that sort of thing!

I also believe the criticism is directed towards people who concentrate their efforts on the wedding to the detriment of the actual marriage.
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I used Sikuli couple of years ago, that time, it was not able to work if computer is locked (I used image hooks). However I am satisfied enough with AutoIt that, I might not look at other tools in couple of next few years, it has helpful community at forums and stackoverflow.
That's a really good point. People work hard to try to justify to themselves why they're doing what they're doing, and that's exactly the kind of bs that meditation helps you reconsider and cut through.
> And Salesforce is well-known to be very charitable.

When I interviewed there, every single person who spoke to me talked about their 1-1-1 thing. Might be interview training though.
Disclosure: I work for Google Cloud (and I assume/hope someone at Google is competing for your business).

Some of those folks happily do updated things, but others (like people that rack servers) won’t have an obvious new role in a cloud focused world.

My (now) colleague at Nic Harteau gave a talk at our Leaders’ Circle event talking about precisely this in Spotify’s move to Cloud: how could he keep the infrastructure team as they moved to cloud? As it turned out, most of them happily adjusted what they were doing because the mission was the same: serve the product teams / groups that need infrastructure from them. Sure, now you don’t configure a physical firewall, but there are still firewalls in cloud. In a sense, they’re even more important!

I believe Nic said only one person from the group left. The engineer was focused on building their own SDN stack on-prem. That job, and other “things the provider completely handles” do go away. But that person likely would have been massively useful in helping guide how Spotify should use Google Cloud’s own SDN setup. There are lots of ways to architect how services interact in clouds, and a lot of it comes down to funny networking.

So I’d say more than you might think, but please don’t mislead them.
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Don't do this. Use a real hash function that guarantees a highly random distribution, make your hash tables power-of-two sized, and map from hash value to table index using (hash & (size-1)).

The fibonacci constant thing will help clean up the distribution of a bad hash function, but it does nothing for collision resistance if the underlying hash function is weak.

-Austin, author of Murmurhash and SMHasher
I totally understand the upside of writing one app for both platforms, but at the end of the day they are still two different platforms. It seems unlikely you’re going to make a high quality app unless you give each version the individualized attention they really need.

Maybe these dual platform frameworks are fine for something like a company internal app where it’s okay if you don’t get everything “just right”. But otherwise I’d rather just go pure native, even if it means alienating half my user base or spending 2x resources. It’s worth it in most cases IMO.

Granted I’ve only spent a couple weeks with React Native about a year ago, so maybe I just need to give it another go.
Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang’s book “Kicking Away the Ladder” describes how loose IP regulation has been at the center of the economic development of many countries. Sadly, once countries have developed to a certain level they tend to implement stronger IP to protect their position against other countries.

http://www.paecon.net/PAEtexts/Chang1.htm
I read somewhere that people who have sex regularly don't commit suicide. Not sure if it's actually true though. Would be interesting to see if this obvious intuition is true. Ofcourse it's a chicken and egg problem that depressed ppl don't want to have sex.
A trailer hitch, that was levered into the battery pack. Tesla mitigates that failure scenario (at least on the Model S) with a titanium shield across the entire battery pack, with a metal assembly near the front of the vehicle to break an object apart that exceeds the clearance of the undercarriage.