skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no - I don't know who's been banned, but people are seeming sort of evasive about who has been banned and well, I was thinking who would be likely to be the opposite of Patreon on the political/opinion spectrum and that have had an upswing in social visibility in the last year or so and 'nazis' came to mind.

I certainly don't think all the people I don't agree with are Nazis, although I do think all of them are to some degree wrong.

If you would like I can expand on my definition of nazi but I think it is likely to be a pretty middle of the road European definition of nazi, in the end.
Go doesn't use LLVM, so that is kind of moot point.

In more sophisticated languages, you might get inlining done multiple times, as some inlining decisions are easier with code knowledge, while others are better when the optimizer only sees IR.
> I would wager that a majority of Americans (and a majority of citizens of democratic countries across the world) hold the belief expressed in the previous statement.

wow. words fail me. I used to see the US as the "big partner overseas". That was 20 years ago. Maybe I'm projecting my own views and development here, but IMHO the picture the US as friendly or even just benign faded over a decade or so, then got utterly destroyed by whatever the heck US politics is today.
Depends entirely on how you buy the company and structure ownership.

Twitter is large enough to plan these details. I think it's fair to assume they are at fault until shown otherwise.
Go actually doesn't have any other way to clear a map!
Structural row typing I hadn't heard about. Elm is on my to-learn list, so I'll look it up separately, but...

Coming from Haskell, what's the elevator pitch for it?
Probably PR spin/lobbying as the backup driver is just an excuse to beta test dangerous technology.
Not sure I get the point. The existence of a 1-argument function that takes type A to type B is semantically identical to a subtype/inheritance relationship. All the same problems pop up in basically the same ways. I genuinely thought that was what the article was talking about, but then my Haskell fu is very weak so maybe I've misunderstood the problem.
Yes. Also, the whole "not paying attention" thing is encouraged by the task. It's completely predictable and these semi-autonomous systems are worse than nothing.
Yes I worked for the company doing the .coop registry and ICANN had very strict rules about code escrow we had to follow.
I came across this book in the 1960s and remember working through the different algorithms. The only one I remember now is multiplication by 11. More generally, I was not reluctant to do mental arithmetic in school, especially for approximations and sanity checks.
Why would they, if people are willing to wait in them?

If a 1% price increase causes any more than 1% fewer people in the park, then it's a net loss.

Not to mention that many people go and don't really ride the "big rides" that much or ever.
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At some point someone has to take a stand against all the objectively evil/bad actions the U.S. military is taking every day abroad.

Maybe when enough people do it, the U.S. leaders will have a more reasonable approach to foreign policy/invading other countries.
This is in my area of the world The Maritimes in Canada. I think it's important to note (as of Sept 2017) of the thirteen, not seven, whales that died two were tangled in fishing gear but the other eleven were killed either by blunt force trauma or it was inconclusive.

Blunt force trauma is from a ship running into the whale. Operators of cruise ships, oil tankers, ore barges, shipping container ships and other large vessels wouldn't even know they hit anything. This area has a large amount of smaller fishing vessels, some medium but many large ships are heading to or from the Great Lakes region via the St. Lawrence river. South of Nova Scotia would see ship traffic heading to busy large ports on the US east coast. The Bay of Fundy is busy too with oil tankers, cruise ships, high speed ferry boat, various types of fishing vessels.

I can probably speak for most in my region when I say last summer (2017) it felt like 'suddenly whales!'. The occasional dead whale would wash ashore and often it was deemed natural causes but last year it seemed every other day there was news of a dead whale. And not just any whale but a Right whale.

There isn't any one solution it's not only fishermen or only tankers and cruise ships. Fishermen this year have heavy restrictions on rope size for traps and nets. And fishermen are now told to immediately stop fishing when a whale is near, and I mean immediately with only a few minutes notice. Cruise ships have been told to use idle speed in areas where whales have been reported, many cruise ships just cancel visits turn around and go somewhere else.

It's been bad for the local economy with fishermen not able to fish during their designated season of eight weeks, closures for whales doesn't extend the season. The loss of thousands of cruise ship passengers to small town ports also has a big impact for small business who make or break during a few months of the summer.

Here is a DFO report about the incidents PDF http://www.cwhc-rcsf.ca/right_whales.php
For Google, "Us" is the government that could in a pinch just grab the damned technology and leave them with next to no recourse, and "Them" is the governments who can't.

Hopefully, if you're choosing to work for a company, you understand that you're at least implicitly adopting those definitions, and that you may find the licensing requirements of your work hastily restructured in an emergency situation.
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That's not a very inflammatory language in the previous post
[If the theory is true ...]

> Yeah, but is an "inch" even a thing in dimension #18?

Yes. The idea is that locally the "distance" called "s" is

-s² = -c²t² + x² + y² + z² + w² + v² + ... + q²

where w, v, ..., q are the other coordinates, this are not the official names, I just made up some names because it's difficult to use subscripts.

This is only local, because if you move an inch in the "w" direction you will wrap many many many times, so the distance is more complicated (like the complicate calculation to transform latitude and longitude into the distance you must walk over the Earth surface).

So an inch in "w" is something clear, but moving an inch in "w" will not take you very far away, because the universe is wrapped and you will only make a gazillion of turns like in a carousel.

> And this smallness aspect wouldn't disprove what I originally theorized here anyways...these subatomic particle are fucking small as shit, aren't they?????? lol....sorry

The particles are punctual, the size is "0". The problem is that you can't keep them perfectly aligned in the hyperplane where w=0, v=0, ..., q=0. When you build a machine, you somewhat fix the position of the particles in x, y and z, but you have no control of the position in w, v, ..., q. So the machine is in the location 0<x<1, 0<y<1, 0<z<1, w=whatever, v=whatever, ..., q=whatever.

[In string theory, the size is not 0 because the particles are part of a tiny string that has a tiny but not 0 size. So wait a few decades/centuries until we are sure.]
Mel's code is highly efficient and information dense. It's as non-biological as it can get :)
Nice work. There is a tiny glitch on first load on windows with chrome. The content shakes in order to fit screen. It may be about hiding the default scroller.
The only great customer service I've experienced at Google is with Google fi. Which is exceptional. Everything else is "don't even bother"
Does it really? I would have thought it just means less people waiting in lines. And people waiting in lines aren't spending money.
> Given that society created the environment for these tech companies (and their employees) to acquire their skills and thrive, does not society have some moral/ethical lien on how those skills are applied?

No.
Education ideally is a gift from society to the individual, in the hope that it will be reciprocated, by work, but also by making informed decisions. And those can easily include refusing to work on a project (military or not) if the individual deems it harmful. Harmful to who? To the society that financed the education, to their family, or to "the world"? That's up to the individual to decide, too.
With a time limit? Like I’m going to spend 30 minutes keeping up with important news about my industry.
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Transposons are waaay more likely to break things than to evolve them in a positive direction
>Known as “air gap,”

Does anyone know what this is? My guess: This is a one way low to high side transfer device.
They probably don't want to break any code that relies on that sorted output. Don't know why they would've decided on that to begin with though.
The other employee has been fired, too?
Should a Beginner Android Developer Write App in Java or Kotlin?
For someone who is starting from scratch -- or starting over after being neck-deep in Xamarin and hybrid but wants to "do it right" now -- should a new Android developer use Java or Kotlin for app development?
Well, that seems like a grim world to live in.
then states need to step in and set "online" rates that trump the local rates. many states already do similar with Ad valorem taxes on automobiles. Taxes aren't your only problem, there local restrictions on items sales that one area considers hazardous or regulated that another doesn't even acknowledge.
> but at the end of the day that liberty is protected by the US military.

I think the citizens in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria etc. are quite happy that their liberty is protected. :-(
Doesn't this also apply to the majority of text-based internet content?
I thought your comment was specifically about co/contraviance in type parameters with subtyping, because industry has explored the idea of making this unsound (e.g. the Google Dart team). But yes, co/contravariance pops up everywhere and so an unsound type system (or no type system at all) is not the answer. We had best all understand it!
If you buy a company you do usually buy the contracts. Buying a company or the majority of the shares means you now own it, good and bad.

If you buy the assets of the company then usually you do not buy the contracts unless they are specified as sold.

In both cases if there are change-of-control clauses those could trigger with various penalties or rights becoming unlocked.
Aren't they required to use their phones to record diagnostic data? It's a small step from there to messing around on the phone.
It's an isolated cloud region(s) not connected to the internet and connected to a private government network. AWS built one of these for the CIA.
If these technologies, as you say, are not ready (I think you are right), what are they doing on public roadways?
At that point government would step in and nationalise that part of the company :-)

More seriously I can see cloud going the way of telecoms in that there would be a provider of last resort if a telco goes bust another operator takes over to provide service.
Or should I skip Java and Kotlin and go with Flutter/Dart?
There are a few reasons why it's probably not entirely Smyte's fault. Given that Smyte comms dropped off over the past month, as another commenter mentioned, there might not have been anyone around to warn the users.

And if you're thinking "well they could just personally reach out to their customers if they're fired because it's the right thing to do" -- if the last-minute nature of everything is any indication, current/former employees were probably ordered not to say anything.
I had the same thought. I'm a CR subscriber, I occasionally stumbled across Consumerist articles via google search, and I had no idea CR and Consumerist had a relationship.
Waymo seem to have gone to quite some effort to make the failure modes of their tech as benign as possible, preferring to stop the car and make the safety driver take control rather than risking it and hoping they'll step in. They may also have safety drivers that are simply a lot more engaged in actively monitoring what the car is doing even when it's not doing anything that requires them to intervene, based on the reporting I've seen lately.
I would say a minimum of 3 years.

I'd find it hard to believe you were senior if you had less than that.
You are persistently avoiding the question by deflecting focus to what I think. What I think is irrelevant.

This is the question I asked:

I am asking for specification of a scientific experiment that can be used to check with acceptable false positives and false negatives whether someone/something has a language that can work beyond the human species. From your tone of authority it should be a piece of cake for you.

> That seems about as plausible as the idea that penguins can secretly fly, or that tigers don't actually have fur.

Then it would be an easy peasy to prove it. Please indulge me.

> we know enough about gorillas to know that they don't have language

Citation needed. I am not disputing that. What I am interested in is specification/description of a scientific experiment that is capable of showing "foo does not have a language"
>Inner projections at Disney present that even after elevating costs at roughly double the speed of inflation over the previous 5 years, it may cost way more than it presently does with out driving away too many shoppers, an individual aware of the corporate’s parks operations mentioned.
Thanks! Feel free to reach out if you ever have any ideas or suggestions.
Cool, thanks, i thought i saw it in the image, will take care of it.
People waiting in lines did spend for admission, though.

Consider it this way: If all rides and all facilities have lines waiting for entrance, they are all at maximum productive capacity. The only way to expand revenue is to get more people in the door, or build more revenue-generating attractions (only the attractions that charge per use matter here).

Not 100% accurate, b/c I'm sure that not each and every little hot dog stand or tchotchke booth has a queue, but a good model.
semi-of-topic: I have never seen the appeal of the theme-parks, especially with exorbitant pricing…
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Nobody does it because it would clearly point out to everyone that the self-driving emperor has no clothes.
Why are we treating the jaywalking here with such a light touch? If the pedestrian had crossed at a crosswalk, we wouldn't be having this discussion at all.
No they do not have better things to do. Most developers should be required to spend time with support queries. They might get a better understanding of what they are building and a little more perspective.
I disagree. A share is worth a portion of the business. That is a defined unit. The share price is what people will pay for a share of the piece of company. Baked into the price is the underlying assets (real value) in addition to the fuzzy speculation piece.

The share prices can be analyzed by looking at the financial reports. True value can be assessed by looking at assets minus liability, debts, dividend payment, etc.

This value per share then is compared to the buying price. There is a lot of speculation built into the price now a days. An investor does not have to buy at this real value + speculation price, the investor can sit it out. People are willing to pay for a share of this company, a non-defined amount, it's the only way to continuously offer a share of the company for sale.
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After hearing ICE agents unironically saying how "they're just following orders", I'm really not surprised people can let themselves think like this.
anyone using this can illustrate , how they use this ?
I think a lot of people don’t go because of the lines and crowds.
IIRC, the FH's largest fairing is about the same as a Delta IV Heavy's. Maybe you're thinking of the BFR?

Folding is indeed an issue - it's part of why the James Webb telescope has been a) delayed and b) mega-expensive - but the FH doesn't solve it.
I honestly don't know why my comment is downvoted and flagged.

The OP comment that it's not ethical "if it makes enough people uncomfortable" is absurd.

You can tell that it's absurd because defining ethics by majority rule has many obvious problems. The most obvious problem is shown when a majority declares that minorities shouldn't have equal rights. This happens all the time, and outsiders would never point and say: "well giving minorities equal rights must not be ethical because it makes so many people uncomfortable"

So please, @dang, since you're in the mood to lecture me, can you explain why a short and uncomplicated counterexample to an absurd statement is flamebait?

Also, your link gives a 404.
> so an unsound type system (or no type system at all) is not the answer

And my unpopular opinion is precisely that. "Sound" typesystems enforced at the expense of the kind of cognitive load we see here will hurt rather than help the expression of real world problems in code.

Literally, casting a C function pointer through a void* is a better answer. I'm serious.
You can’t imprison a corporation.

Corporations cannot act, as they do not have hands. Only individuals can break the law.
>>yes, I know I said "solutions solutions" :P

When has SaaS stood for anything besides Software as a Service? Because software as a solution could describe almost any business model?
I wish they’d sell a non rider pass. I hate all the rides but I’d like to be able to walk around a bit and maybe grab dinner.
"A toxicology test carried out on Ms Herzberg after the accident returned positive results for methamphetamine and marijuana."

You know. So what?

I always think it's especially galling when, for example a cop shoots a black teenager, the police departments spinmeisters immediately start to smear the victim.

As if smoking marijuana is a character fault and makes the victim implicitly a crook with low morals.
It's amateur hour if your contracts do not already contain such clauses. For anything business critical that's the norm. Change of control clauses are super common and tend to trigger penalties, escrow arrangements, contract voidance and other niceties.
It's ironic on so many levels. The first level is, of course, the irony of refusing to do military work at a company that only exists because of defense contractors working on a military project (ARPANET).

More generally, the irony is that the U.S. military has made a far greater positive contribution to the world than Google. Under the Pax Americana, we have seen the greatest number of people rise out of abject poverty in human history. The stable, liberal world order that has been beneficial to so many people has been bankrolled by the U.S. and backed by the U.S. military.

This world where people in India and Pakistan are using Gchat Facebook to talk to each other instead of waging nuclear war against each other is not the result of Google or Facebook. It's not the result of humans evolving beyond their tendencies towards warfare. It's because the U.S. military has made entire classes of armed conflicts untenable.
Mitochondria are indeed thought to have arisen from incorporation of free-living organisms, but interestingly they mostly retain their own replicating DNA that is not incorporated into our genome [1].
1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_DNA
Where is that actually being done?
Well, to answer your question, no, the victim is not "the real offender." Some states (I don't know about AZ) recognize a "comparative negligence" standard where one party may be partially at fault but the other is majority at-fault and adjudicate civil judgments accordingly; others are all-or-nothing. This is a criminal case, so that doesn't enter into the equation, but I think it's a useful way of thinking about it. It may be that the pedestrian could have been more careful and not have been killed, but the operator of the vehicle failed to exercise a bare minimum level of care and is the more culpable party.
Then it's just as meaningless.

I mean, the claim is that we're so complex we must have been designed. But there are what seems like very serious design flaws in lots of organisms. Giraffes have a nerve that travel up and down their necks only to wind up a few inches from where it should be.

Our eyes have the nerves attached on the wrong side, giving us blind spots and a host of other problems.

And on and on. You can't hold life up as evidence of an intelligent designer and then when presented with evidence that we're a poor design, counter with "maybe it's smart and we don't know it".
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Jaywalking shouldn't carry a death sentence.

If the car can't handle a jaywalker, it can't handle a toddler running into the street. That's a problem that shouldn't be hand-waved away.
I think we're each alumnus of UoM, as a group we are alumni.
> How about the passengers that smell for lack of bathing, too much drink, or that smell like they are trying to cover up one of the other defects by covering themselves in potent airborne warfare agents? (E.G. those body sprays, perfumes, colognes, etc)

The thing is, you would not notice any of those with proper ventilation and spacing/seating that meant we didn't have to sit on each others.
Not the last, but near it. Also not the first, but near it. There's a huge difference between the two.

In my experience a sinking ship doesn't start floating, so don't stick around for that reason. It was also depressing to be there after all my friends had been laid off or quit. In reality I probably stayed there two years too long, and it was because of the people I worked with.
I am always torn in such approaches, in one way it means throwing away decades of code optimization.

On the other hand, in a world that devs only believe in stuff when others actually implement it in production, it is nice to see that their toolchain is self sufficient without the usual C or C++ dependency.

Many language designers opt for implementing their toolchains in C or C++ just for mere convinience, and it is ok so.

However it creates the wrong perception among those without compiler development knowledge, that C and C++ are the only way to implement a toolchain.
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One of the most jarring things about visiting Niagara Falls in Ontario was a big sign at the crosswalk warning that vehicles, rather than pedestrians, have the right of way. I don't see any good justification for making things this way except to basically give a free pass to anyone who kills a pedestrian.
Definitely, as long as they have the first opportunity to move into these jobs. I suppose the benefit of management is that it can apply outside of their line of work, but general manufacturing can too.

The key would be to ensure that anyone that is to lose their job in the future through it being automated by innovative tech be given the opportunity to retrain for a better job. This kind of enforcement means that the job market isn't swamped by mass redundancy, and a consistent time period of retraining for people to re-enter that job market.
IMHO, structural types are a better starting point. Nominal types can always be created by wrapping a structural type, but it is difficult to go the other way round. A language with row types can give a type to a query or have named function arguments. Extensible row types allow even more forms of composition, for example functions that require the presence of certain fields but will ignore others, very similar to subtyping.
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I'm sorry to hear about your friend but it's not quite the same situation if the driver had six seconds to react.
I'm hoping it means NASA can launch lots of deep-space probes.