skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. The system was clearly not prepared for a real-world test. "Human jaywalks with bicycle" is not a one-in-a-million event.

I'm not sure if this is legally possible, but frankly I think the humans made the decision to let it on the streets should be personally charged as well.
Agree, not all times and places. But it's not like you can flip a switch and suddenly have all the technology you need when your quality of life is in imminent danger.
This ultimately comes down to the fact that each state in the US behaves like an individual country in many ways, especially when we talk about taxation. It doesn’t jive well with the current lay of the Internet, and it will be interesting to see the reaction here. In Australia a single GST was introduced (long ago, July 1 2000) and it’s a big simplification for online transactions. The catch: everyone would need to agree to a number.
Do you have evidence that things have changed?

I suspect that if you took random samples of young people from several generations and followed them throughout life, the rate of success and failure relative to their peers would be the same across generations.
> That would be recognized instantly as a problem.

Really? I didn't get drunk every day. I just drank a beer every day. I really don't think anybody would consider that a problem.
I developed an archive system for our spacecraft TM/TC using HDF5 with blosc-lz compression for speed reasons (and I plan to move to Zstd in the future). One of the main issue I have seen in the industry is the difficulty to upgrade the hardware so we have to design something working great on regular hard drives and with minimal RAM requirements.

While HDF5 is good when you manage the whole system, it is always tricky for sharing data with other people so we are also using SQLite. We lose the compression but it is very easy to share and people are more familiar with it.
Actually--I think you have it backwards.

1. Delusional tech who spends many years learning new flavor of the year the languages, and poof it's all over in a downturn. Savings ran out years ago, and 45 is considered old, and useless. I know too many homeless former Programmers. They still believe they will eventually make those big salaries again, but the offers just dry up.

2. Starving artists gets lucky. Most will know they got lucky, and spend the rest of their life frugally.

(The mega stars like Depp, and Cage are the ones spending irrationally. I believe they are the small percentage of SAG members that keeps the accountant babysitters earning their pay? The actors I know feel lucky if they keep their SAG card valid, with occasional work.)
thanks, I like the thinking in readme files concept
wait - does on the other end of the political spectrum mean like 'nazis'? Or were they identified as nazis by Patreon but Patreon was totally misunderstanding the nazi-like identifying traits?
Then what's the point? Might as well just drive a car the way we always have then, and avoid all this complicated crap.
and this is yet another example why we need protocols and not APIs.
You think Microsoft has bad support, try raising a ticket with Citrix. You will regret ever being born.
Did you ever actually "read the manual"?
The former. It is a language almost identical to Elm that compiles to a readable Elixir output. It has all of Elm's advantages - the type system, readable error outputs.
On top of that, you can use all of Elm's tools like editor plugins or elm-format so there is no 'reinvent the wheel' syndrome
Is it still moral if by your decision not only you but many other people die?
I wonder if the organ donor model might apply for data collection. People could sign up to be a data donor which would make their data available anonymously for AI or other medical research purposes.
Doubt that to be honest. In theory maybe, but in a real life scenario I don't think there are many people who let themself (and their loved ones) to be killed than to kill.
Even though I have a lot of respect for Ghandi, I am not sure if I could respect someone who would let his family murdered, out of a moral point.
“I challenge the idea that mathematics is an unqualified force for good.”
I would suppose, that’s not the essential functionality reuirement, rather an ad tracking one.
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Which people? Is it when they banned Lauren Southern for actively interfering in rescue operations in the Mediterranean (i.e., trying to get people killed)? Or is it when they banned a leftist/antifa group (IGD) for doxxing, as well as advocating for and publishing instructions for various acts of sabotage?
And if we eliminate our military altogether you think things would just stay the same?

If you don't want to be a part of it, good for you. But those freedoms didn't come cheap.
The original comment I replied to was about a software as a service company that was a “rent seeker” because it helped businesses manage thier tax liability.

At one small company I worked for, we paid SAAS companies for:

- expense reporting and reimbursement (Concur)

- managing payroll

- Managing retirement benefits

- source control hosting (Github)

- Infrastructure (Microsoft Azure)

- Salesforce (I don’t know what they do)

- Training and Compliance

- Chat (Slack)

- Email, Office software (Microsoft Office 365)

- vending services

Etc.

How are these companies any different than the company that helps businesses manage tax collection? They all saw a business opportunity and my company was glad to pay them so it could focus on its niche.
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Counterpoint: I had no idea the two were related and have perused both for many years.
The story I heard from my office-mate at the time, who was involved in the rebuild, was about the valves being used in Spitfires (though likely other things too); so it was only a question of finding a warehouse with the stock of Spitfire parts.

The Williams-Kilburn memory was faster than the alternative mercury delay lines (or gin delay lines proposed by Turing) but more subject to interference.

It's a shame what's become specifically of Manchester computing since I've known it, though there's still SpiNNaker.

(Manchester non-alumnus, wondering why alumni post in the plural.)
This _is_ a very valuable action logically let alone morally. In the next decades either we resolve to mitigate this "us or them" mentality on this earth, or pure physics and math will resolve to see the end of the civilization as we know it.

Google is a US company yes, but with so many engineers from all over the world and customers from every corner of the world, who is "them" for a Google employee really?

And before you say so, I know this is how things(power dynamics, etc.) work today. That is exactly why this kind of movement towards a change is good and needed.
Wow, didn't realize software patents are alive and well. Regardless of what the SCOTUS rules.
Non paywalled link:

http://znews24.com/disney-tests-pricing-power-at-theme-parks...
Nice work happening at Creative Tim! Congrats to Alex and company. I'm looking forward to collaborating on Codeply. Please check out my latest too : https://themesguide.github.io/top-hat/dist/
> You're going to host your own version of Google maps?

I've never worked on a service which involves the other things you mentioned, but I've worked on some map-based services, and we went with self-hosted OpenStreetMap instances for exactly this reason :)
We are hoping for that as well. Elm although making an amazing foundation might cause problems in future when introducing backwards incompatible changes for instance.
We are trying to keep the safe distance from Elm development not to be too tightly coupled, but still making use of the awesome stuff Elm's team is doing
How is that any different than our military mostly being used to keep us safe but occasionally being used to harm others?
While I know that some people do drink everyday and consider it normal, I don't and none of my friends do. We're all occasional drinkers and might drink on one or two nights, and often not at all for several weeks. I'd consider drinking every day to be excessive, and I personally wouldn't be able to cope with it; it would make me feel terrible because I don't have the tolerance for that quantity of alcohol.

If you look at the recommended weekly units for males and females, daily drinking will be at or comfortably exceed the limit by quite a margin. That's definitely going to be having some noticeable health impact.
Great, this will build confidence on FH for non-military hopefully. I've heard that FH will not only make larger research satellite possible but also more complicated ones. (Something about folding the wings limiting satellite capabilities for smaller launch vehicles that I read). I wonder if this also means more and cheaper cubesats making it to space.

Some people might be concerned with the morality of all this . But I still see this as overall progress of humanity in their space venture.
Yes I am aware of this. It is explained very well in the tutorial paper "Practical type inference for arbitrary-rank types" : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
Some legal changes are piloted and studied, like the various basic income studies. It doesn't make sense for all types of laws, though.
An open source cloud (agnostic) instance type and price information as a service
So, in a way, you're saying smyte shut down smyte. Then Twitter swept in and picked up the pieces. Kinda?

The problem, it seems, Twitter got the timing __all wrong.__
LLVM does do inlining (it's the most important optimisation you can implement, at least for native codegen), but the reference Go implementation (gc) does not use LLVM, the entire toolchain is custom.

On the one hand, that allows very fast compilation & codegen, on the other hand the optimisations are fairly limited. It also doesn't benefit from improvements done by other users, but doesn't saddle you with their issues[0].

There's also a Go implementation on top of GCC (gccgo), however while it generates high-quality code historically it wasn't really better than gc due to lacking escape analysis (so it did a ton more heap allocations than the reference) and having a lackluster GC.

[0] Rust has had its own LLVM fork for as long as the project has existed, for both fixing issues it hit which haven't yet been fixed upstream and implementing features it needs which have not been or can not be upstreamed
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Unless you're a very big player handling excessive amounts of users, the bandwidth involved doesn't need to cost an arm and a leg.

I can see why private individuals might prefer something free, but for organizations or other professional actors which are publishing high-quality video-productions, they already have a budget, and frankly the BW cost is probably going to be the smallest expense on their list.

And when they risk losing their platform and audience at a whim (as we've seen Google do repeatedly to certain types of organizations over at YouTube), I can't see why more people don't consider other options which leaves them in full control over their own content.
Why a god? Why not many?

Humans have been modifying organisms for thousands of years, through selective breeding and cultivation.

Does that not count as a form of intelligent design?

Is it detectable?

If not, who is to say it hasn’t been done with us?
There has been a massive resurgence in racial incitement on South African social media in the last few months. What do out-of-work PR manipulators do when the wish to seek vengeance?

Here are two examples of incitement:
https://twitter.com/edmorechauke/status/1010085732915011589
https://twitter.com/pluckynemes/status/989586280529977344

Here's an SA Indian journalist talking about a death threat she received on Twitter after a sudden upsurge in anti-Indian sentiment: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/ferial-haffajee/ferial-you-...

One of South Africa's cellphone networks has allowed free Twitter access, meaning that large numbers of poorly educated people, in a violent country with limited law enforcement capability, are open to violent incitement. Forget theoretical discussions about fake news and free speech, unless Twitter and FB develop a rapid response mechanism for neutering this kind of thing, it's just a matter of time before someone gets attacked or killed in real life.
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You're right, the number is irrelevant. But it shouldn't be, should it.

There is no set of politicians or party to turn to that the people could be confident are morally sound. The unfortunate nature of hunting power is the scum that it attracts.
I believe they just need to hang in there and don't do anything to sully their reputation. Most people still trust Amazon reviews, Yelp, tripadvisor, et cetera. But people are starting to realize just how manipulated those sites are and will start searching for reviews they can trust implicitly.

Wirecutter is better, but they're still affiliate revenue driven and of course their parent the NYT is advertising driven.
I haven't had to accept/reject any form of military contract so this is all theoretical - but my biggest issue wouldn't be assisting the military, it would be not having transparency into what my contributions were being used for.

If I could write software that actually helps our military without hurting others, I would be perfectly fine with that. My fear is that you would be given a black box problem that could be used however they see fit.

But, I also wouldn't join the military for the same reasons. I would be more than willing to assist and help, but do not want to be put in a position where I have to take, or contribute, to taking some one else's life. However, for every one person like me or you, there are plenty of people who sign up eagerly to do just that.
Just because you buy a company doesnt mean you buy the contracts. Shit was on Smyte to tell its userbase.
Count down to an article about five or six employees throwing a fit and protesting that military contracts offend their morality in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, liftoff.
I agree. We have this notion of creating corporations so that shareholders are not liable for anything. Maybe shareholders should be liable when they break laws and kill people.
> Imperfect, but not so bad.

It's pretty bad. More so because Google Slide has a PDF export, but despite every browser having a built-in PDF viewer they force the download.
> I'm working on an OSC based DAW built with Qt (https://ossia.io)

Ah, cool. I remember siting in on part of the 2017 LAC workshop for i-score (i-score was renamed to ossia score, right?). Once you remove the embedding criteria Qt itself becomes a much more feasible option.

I haven't used score, much, though I should likely play around with it given the amount of OSC work that I've done around zyn.
Holy cow that article is barely legible, the writing is so bad.
What if in the future your country needs the US military?
Do you mean "nazis" as "anyone I don't agree with, but I don't have an argument, so let's ad hominem them"?
For me, resilience is about having security. As someone who grew up with all of the “poverty, abuse, absent parents, alcoholism, serious illness or some other misfortune” traits, my ability to succeed was directly related to my ability to find a “gang” of others of similar circumstance and trusting them for shared security. It also helped to live in the 80s and 90s when it was easier to “fly under the radar” from external threats like police, government, hostile groups, etc.

The pain of early trauma never goes away. But, I would never be able to cope with that pain if I didn’t have the ability to reach out to people I trust for support.
Extending Magic Pocket with the first petabyte scale SMR drive deployment
Haskell does make a great semi-formal language with which to communicate functional programming ideas, even if you have no plans to ever use an implementation of it.
Mainstream languages are beginning to borrow more and more ideas from it (albeit often with significantly more verbose syntax). Much of the research literature in functional programming also uses Haskell syntax, so IMHO it is worth any developer learning.
Hopefully the NIH's All of Us project, an effort to "gather data from one million or more people living in the United States to accelerate research and improve health", will help in this regard.

https://allofus.nih.gov/
I wonder if the same engineers also refuse to work on the strategic partnership with the PRC?
It's an opinion column. Such things frequently cover multiple topics under different subheadings. It's not a "mishmash brain dump", it's just regular journalism, as has been practiced for decades.
How to automate the GDPR compliance?
GDPR is a tough method of data protection. How can any e-merchant automate the overall processing?
Can science-based video games help kids with autism?
And that makes what difference? those offices are just their to support the main business or for tax reasons.

Google wouldn't have all those people in Eire unless it was for tax and access to a cheap English speaking labour force.

And if google local offices started to diverge from the US norm they would quickly have there senior mangers replaced - for example if a local google office faced a recognition ballot from a union.
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I'm not usually much of an intelligent design advocate, but approaching it from the angle that we know enough right now to make definitive calls as to the merits of different genetic approaches is hubris _at best_.

Not to mention the sneaky embedded assumption that an engineering approach is even the best way to go.
This is a fair criticism and may be correct, but I have to continue doing what works. I haven't found a better way to suppress procrastination yet.
I've felt that Disneyland/world and other theme parks (e.g., Europa-park) were overpriced to begin with, but if they believe that other people are willing to put up with airline style pricing and other forms of price setting - well, power to them, I guess.
I wonder if twitter uses npm...
Why? Let's be honest, the main use for most of this new ai tech is going to be military.
The point is to improve the vehicle until it is at the highest level of autonomy.
It is not a "trick", it is one of the only possible ways to achieve Turing-completeness: code self-modification, conditional branches or extensive (exponential) computation (Zuse Z3).
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You can learn more about certain people with autism by talking to people who care for them than by talking to them, especially online. That's all there is to my statement.
Imho, the important thing is the degree to which a comment contributes or adds information to the discussion.

So something like linking an article about PPT overuse in the military w/ a quip is much better than just a quip at PPT's expense. (Given that some people might not be aware of the reported overuse of PowerPoint in the US military)
> Why not get a proper audit by Ernst & Young, Deloitte or PwC?

I think the reason is quite obvious, it's simply that traditional auditing firms don't have procedures in place for actually auditing crypto.

It should be obvious to anyone familiar with the situation that Tether is fully backed and that the FUD is manufactured.

https://medium.com/@Austerity_Sucks/bitfinexed-is-a-sensatio...
"Rescue operation" is a very dishonest label for doing taxi from Libya to Europe for economic migrants. Nowadays, Italy or Malta do the same as Lauren was last year.
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> it's just regular journalism,

I did not intend "brain dump" to be a negative criticism but to explain further what the _full_ text article is about. It's a mishmash of various unrelated topics and I was hoping my clarification would encourage readers to look at the rest of the article.

>Such things frequently cover multiple topics under different subheadings.

Yes, this is why I took the trouble to paste all 7 subtopics/subtitles -- so readers can quickly see that.

The article's prominent title is only 1/7th of the whole story and the gp's summary is incomplete and may unintentionally steer potential readers away from the other 6/7ths of the text. (E.g. the section about Jack Dorsey doubling the stock price and the section about "data science" being the new knowledge baseline -- has nothing to do with the section about corporate police enforcing laws against Chinese shell companies.)
Serious question, would you back-port the law to fully non-autonomous (subservient? dependent? allonomous?) vehicles?

For the counter, why do you think the false positive/negative rate on the attention-sensing system would be better than the false positive/negative rate on the eg emergency brakes?
Right. If I recall correctly a proof it was potentially Turing complete is relatively recent and obscure, so it's difficult to consider it a general purpose computer like the SSEM. Credit to Zuse, like the pre-war Polish cryptographers, anyhow.
There are only three countries that can lay any claim (UK USA and Germany and its pretty well accepted that Baby was the first stored program computer.
you can't go in to the space industry without knowing the government/military will be your primary customer unlike Google and Amazon who don't (have) to go there.
Unpopular opinion: co/contravariant representations represent exactly the point at which formal typesafety starts hurting instead of helping as an engineering practice.

In all circumstances where you find the need to worry about this stuff to get your real-world code to build, your project would have been better served by an environment that just let you do trick with runtime validation, or even an unsafe typecast. The resulting code is cleaner, simpler, easier to maintain and more straightforward to evolve than the "correct" madness that results from proper functional analysis.

I'll take my downvotes, thanks.
Perhaps the most well known product of Ferranti for a somewhat younger generation of computer enthusiasts is the infamous "ULA" chip in the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
> Citation needed :P

There are plenty of citations out there, but Craig wrote most of them.
>basically that no scientific truth can be an argument for or against any spiritual claim

Well that's not quite true. Religious people often make authoritative claims about life, the universe and everything based on their beliefs that can shown to be demonstrably wrong with science. While that may not make the unfalsifiable stuff sink, it certain doesn't speak well if your special, divine, or privileged spiritual knowledge results in nonsense and garbage when the rubber hits the road.
Hi Carol, thank you for the kind words and congrats on the latest themes. I really like what I see there with the "copy code" straight from the interface. We will start "cooking" something together soon. Talking on email!
Maybe we need a “War Dove GPL”?
And I would posit that laying on your back with open attention to the night sky in a place free from light pollution is orders of magnitude more moving than any long-exposure photograph. It’s not just the visuals, but the grander sense of being witness to the majesty of where we actually are on this planet.
Riiiight. For example, USA could abandon nuclear weapons, while letting others continue to develop them. That would work fine, both for them and their allies. If Hitler had them and the allies didn’t, that would have worked fine.
That's true of all companies and has been for years.
> But what can you do?

Spin up a peertube instance, apparently:)
To add to your comment, here are Russ Cox's comments on why the toolchain is custom and they didn't use LLVM:

- (2010) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1509700

- (2014) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8817990