skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion it is not Pax Americana.

It is Pax Atomica.

The world leaders will do anything to prevent nuclear warfare. This includes doing war with nations that have no nukes.
On Patreon you can choose any combination of either in any number of tiers. And it works. Both creators and consumers get the flexibility they want. It actually kind of functions like a market.

Now, I'm not saying Patreon is perfect. For example, the fact that it is The One Big Player in this arena is a problem, because "walled garden" style markets are lock-in issues waiting to happen. Still, this is one thing it definitely got right.

Why YT would not be technically capable of the same, given the budget available to them, is beyond me, so I can only explain this as a choice on their end.
Yes, starting with the governor, who was very interested in bringing "self-driving" cars to the state without all the pesky regulation and testing. (There are plenty of examples of excessive regulation, but if there's one place where there should be some, it's when 2-3 ton autonomous vehicles are traveling down the road.)
> So I immediately hit a block as I'm struggling to understand why I need the notion of a Functor to understand what in the end looks like just lazy mapping of a function over a stream.

You don't need to understand Functor to understand "map over stream", no. But it turns out that Functor (and to slightly lesser extent Contravariant and Profunctor) keep showing up everywhere. It's not just stream processing, they show up in writing parsers, data structures, DSLs, software transactional memory...

For example, "computation that produces either an error or a result" and "transforming the result IFF the operation was successful" is also captured by Functor. And so is "perform IO and then transform the result of that IO". And "apply this function to all elements in a datastructure".

So, once you 1) realise that all these cases can be generalised to functors and 2) write down what the lawful behaviour if Functor is (i.e. "the spec"), we can suddenly start writing generic code that works for any Functor. So when I make 'Source' a Functor, my users get all the generic code written for any Functor for free.

Similarly Monoid, Applicative, Monad, and all these other abstractions occur all over the place. And you get this positive feedback cycle. We have generic code that works for any type that's an instance, so if we make new types instances of them, we get all this generic code for free. But the more types are instances, the more incentive there is to write even more generic code using these abstractions. Which in turns encourages ever more instances, etc.

So you never need to "understand" the abstractions for any specific instance/operation. It's just that if you have a lot of use-cases described by the same abstraction, recognising that this abstraction captures all these cases lets you get a lot of code reuse. And not only that, but also a powerful toolkit that you can use for working with basically any other library/code you encounter supporting them.

In Haskell Monoid, Functor, Applicative, Monad, and co provide you a toolbox that you end up able to reuse again and again for tons of different libraries all supporting them. These abstractions didn't gain wide-adoption for the sake of "theoretical elegance" (though they are elegant), they gained wide adoption due to the sheer pragmatic benefit they provide when programming.

As an example, Applicative itself was only invented in 2004, I started learning Haskell in 2007 and by that time about 80-90% of libraries in the ecosystem had started using it. You don't get that kinda adoption if you don't have anything to show for it :)
So a language that transpiles to C similar to Nim I guess?

Could I use this on Windows and create small binary executables? Any examples of this?
My definition of racism is pretty standard among people who study it. I'm talking about a societal power system, like capitalism or communism. The US was undeniably racist to start out; black people were property, and only white men could vote. The level of white supremacy has declined some since then, but hasn't been eliminated. And it has been going back up in the last few years.

You could mean two things by "testing your definition of racism on non-white subjects": in the US or elsewhere. Either way, yes, of course I have. When going elsewhere it's necessary to speak of "the dominant racial group", and that can be helpful here too. So taking BET, we can ask questions like, "What effect are they having on non-dominant racial groups?" And, "Do their actions tend to increase or decrease the racial power imbalance?"

I'm not much of a TV person, so I'm not familiar with their shows. But I took a look: https://www.bet.com/shows.html

My first impression is that they are having positive effects on a non-dominant racial group, and are acting to decrease the racial power imbalance. Therefore, no, they are not racist.

Since you are anonymous person with a new account turning up to be a dick about the topic of racism, I presume your question was entirely insincere. But just in case, I hope you find the answer useful.
My employer knows two things about me:

A) I will not work on/for military/defense products/clients, unless there is some blatantly obvious noble characteristic about the project (I come from a background in video analytics).

B) I will not work on/for conservative products/clients.

Luckily I'm in a job and industry where both of these are pretty unlikely.

I've done the latter (B) once and I really, really regret my role in it to this day. It only took once, just once, but it just happened to be one of the of the worst offenders in the U.S. political landscape. Knowing that I basically optimized disinformation campaigns and built media platforms for some of these people eats at my soul, especially when I see the current state of the U.S. -- I helped some jackass convince a whole slew of people that electing a fraud was the Right (TM) choice. Now we have concentration camps for children (with no reunification process), our healthcare is even worse than it was somehow, we're in multiple trade wars, and we definitely don't give a single shit about the environment (look at today's news feed about the U.S. drilling policies). And I helped it happen.

Sorry for the rant. But engineers have a moral duty to be selective in who they're aiding. I was all too happy to watch pretty graphs go up, and up, and up. I was foolish. I just cared about the project and how challenging it was. Good on the engineers at Google for being principled.
That doesn't excuse YouTube or Alphabet.

And there are plenty of companies with proper support who will let you enact changes without having to create a PR storm or know someone high up in the company. See: Every company who hasn't had a PR storm yet continues to operate just fine.
The Trouble with Johnny
Clearly, it's Core Wars :-)
If you are watching a very complex display, why not present it in a format the driver will understand without training, such as a processed video image. Here [1], [2] are some (very optimistic) mock-ups. There was another one released in the last few days but I can't find the link. Showing anything like the raw data with rapidly changing risk annotation would get tiring very quickly, especially as it masks the view the human is actually able to understand, the raw view.

[1] https://futurism.com/self-driving-car-video/

[2] https://next.reality.news/news/augmented-reality-cars-compan...
Make hay while the sun shines is my most successful response to procrastination. Didn't mean to suggest otherwise.
This is the first time I've heard of the Sentinelese, but based on the Wikipedia articles[0], they have been observed using enough words, grammar, etc. for linguists to make hypotheses about how it is (or is not) related to and inter-intelligible with the languages of nearby ethnic groups.

If "the Sentinelese have been observed using sounds and patterns of sounds in ways that match what we have always known/referred to as language, therefore they have language" is not an acceptable statement, then it's hard to see how any statement on the subject can be made at all (including the statement "Koko has language").

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese_language, as well as the one you linked directly to
> Then I found most banks allow you to export to ofx. This has ids and it has the balance at the end of the statement.

Watch out with that. Unless you verify the output format yourself for a few months, don't trust the exported ofx files. I haven't seen one bug-free yet, but I've found: wrong values if memo contains numbers, bad date format (minutes used for month), missing IDs, duplicated IDs, IDs generated with every download, dates changing after processing, and some others.

I processed ofx files from a few banks and in the end reverted to CSVs. They're less broken...
> A startup's customers panicking? Not sure that's on twitter's radar.

Let's not forget that those customers are also likely candidates to advertise on Twitter
I'm not sure this is just a problem with dog's poor visual processing. Sample size N=1 and what not, but I had a dog that would see it's reflection in the mirror, and start growling, hackles would start raising, and as the reflected "dog" started doing the same thing would start a loop that further enraged my dog. Shouldn't a dog be able to also recognize their own sound and emotions?
True, but you don't have the same expenses. Hopefully less direct human labor hours, able to run 24x7 at times when human costs could be higher, way less real estate and more viable locations than a restaurant, as well as just lower utility bills.

Of course there are other expenses such as maintenance, deployment, development and upgrades. But those are the things this company is likely trying to optimize.
3D Printed Guns
I'm sure they don't, but from a business point of view, those people really don't matter.

Like I said, if they were to reduce the number of people in the park by say 50%, that means that everyone would have to pay double in admission to maintain the same income. A 3-day park ticket is already almost $400. Do you really think enough people would be willing to pay $800 for a 3-day ticket to offset the number that wouldn't be willing to pay that? And would that extra cost of admission reduce the amount those people spend on souvenirs, food, events/shows, etc...? And would a 50% reduction in guests really make it "feel" any less crowded? (the distribution of people in the park is far from "normal")

I'm going to side with Disney on this one. I assume the big mouse has done extensive studying in this area, and they are probably pretty close to matching what the market will handle.

Not to mention that they are trying other methods to reduce crowds and wait times. They now allow you to schedule your rides during 1-hour time slots to avoid waiting for up to 3 rides a day (our last trip we didn't wait more than 15 minutes for any ride because my wife was able to schedule them for the whole trip). And there are options for some customers to get a cast member to go with them all day and basically skip all lines for a few $1000 if you want.
I have used that image at the top of the article as motivation for years. When I think about it, I am reminded how precious my time is and I stop wasting it. And so the image has become very dear to me.
> SpaceX president Glynne Shotwell

As much as I like to think this is a typo, the W and L keys are on opposite sides of the keyboard... ️
Tim Duncan's another example: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nba-duncan-adviser/financ...
Other videos show the area was not "poorly lit". That's only because of the potato cam video made available by uber personnel.
I didn't need to do that (contact the authors) because as it turned out other people had already done so; basically they just got stonewalled, though. And as I recall one of them was actually a young PhD (or at least a PhD-wannabe), and the response they got back was essentially "If you value your future career in science then you shouldn't go around rocking the boat by asking questions like this!"

> Just consider that a lot of people independently analyzed the data for the publications, including idealistic students without agenda, who then all made the same mistake.

Yeah, you make it sound like peer-review and such actually works the way that it's usually claimed to work, which is often just not the case. I've seen enough peer-reviewed junk floating around out there over the years to know that.
Yeah. All tech workers could have similar benefits if they unionized en masse using a structure similar to that of actors.
What does the American military have to do with the economic development of, for instance, China? I'm not sure America should be credited for its adversaries' successful pushes to mitigate poverty.
But the problem of correct program construction does not go away. There is certainly a middle ground somewhere, beyond which proofs become too expensive for most users. For the sorts of systems I work on, the sweet spot is close to Haskell 98, for others it may well be Python (no types at all).
Even if one agrees that a "strong US military" is beneficial this doesn't neccissarily includes all forms of warfare.

For example I can argue that a strong military is important to defend the country (or maybe even the West or whatever) while a military made out of drones and robots mixed with AI, driven by a Space Force is too easily deployed in combat, since risk on own loss is low, while the opponent might see civilian casualties, causing more harm than good.
That'd be interesting to know. Could you try it and report back?
There's nearly a Nixon '74 level of public support for impeaching Trump
Nice theme. I like how it uses the big 3 FE frameworks.

Big shout out to Ngx-Admin as well.
https://github.com/akveo/ngx-admin
This is Matt Levine's newsletter Money Stuff which is published as an op-ed in Bloomberg.
100% agree. Whether we like it or not though, sometimes it does mean death--even with normal cars. That's why crosswalks are there in the first place.
Quite possibly a dictation error, but this just indicates that the copy at Fortune is pretty bad.
They did, in December, when they exempted "government entities" from their abuse policies. http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-has-immunity-in-...
The videos shot in the same location by another camera give another version of how well-lit those roads are:

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/03/police-chief-said-uber-...

Visibility looks considerably better than what the Uber video portrays.
A New View of Time – an exploration of the science and art of time
yep, I see that now, you are right. Probably it would be better to disable the default scroller for all the devices and then: on Mac/Ubuntu/iOS/Android we activate the system scroll (which looks better) and on Windows, we activate the perfectScrollbar library. We will do an update soon.
Seems to me these are orthogonal concerns, LLVM is in C++ but the question I answered was about using LLVM versus implementing a custom toolchain, not implementing a custom toolchain in C++ versus some other language.
It's a virtual machine running some intermediate representation.

From github:
"Gravity has been developed from scratch for the Creo project in order to offer an easy way to write portable code for the iOS and Android platforms. It is written in portable C code that can be compiled on any platform using a C99 compiler. The VM code is about 2K lines long, the multipass compiler code is about 3K lines and the shared code is about 2K lines long. The compiler and virtual machine combined add less than 200KB to the executable on a 64 bit system."
When a Mars Simulation Goes Wrong
That article is about securing Amazon's ES. It was (is?) a very special ES that only supported authentication based on an AWS API style auth.
"The limits of my language means the limits of my world."

Is what this subthread is about.

Perhaps you should read what the people you are replying to are commenting on. Then you’ll understand the context.
Flamethrower drone used to clear debris from power lines
How many of Google's engineers _come from_ there?
Smart City Technology Enablers
Another source for checking light pollution: http://darksitefinder.com/
> Why a god? Why not many?

The real answer is that "intelligent design" is a movement by evangelical and conservative Christianity to reframe Biblical literalism as a legitimate scientific framework.
I worked for a company who lost money on their government contracts or at the most broke even. The CEO said that no matter what happened, they'd keep the Government business side moving because large companies need the Government of their city/state/country to look favorably on them. So Google might not make any money on the contract, but it is a pretty great lobbying tool the next time say some radio spectrum comes up for sale by the government. Way back in 2007, Google was bidding $4.6 billion for 22MHz block in the 700MHz range. I can't imagine what 22MHz of bandwidth is going for these days.
Congrats! Are you the owner of that dashboard? Maybe we can join our forces :D
"Getting started" link from github readme points to 404.

Edit: so does "language documentation" link.
Boosting Mobile App Performance During the World Cup
Thanks, man! Appreciate.
Yep, the Civil War-era lyrics to the song "Soldier's Joy" make a reference to morphine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier%27s_Joy_(fiddle_tune)
It seems that compared to the mirror test, this sniff test lacks an action analogous to the "wiping the mark off the face" action or (from the paper) "use the mirror to direct examination of the mark" that tends to happen in the mirror test, which would allow for differentiation between sniffing out of increased interest/familiarity and self-recognition.
Well, for starters, Nintendo has a lot of money at the moment. It was reported in 2017 that they were sitting on 946 Billion Yen in cash reserves [1], which is about 8.5 Billion dollars.

Assuming that money is earning no interest and there is no inflation (just to make the calculation easier), they could lose over 250 million dollars a year for the next thirty years before they run out of money.

> they keep making systems based on gimmicks which limit the ability to make games on them or fulfill customer needs: cartridge format, second tv screen, motion controls,docking capability, etc.

The second and fifth best selling video game consoles of all time are the Wii and the DS, both of which are based on gimmicks (motion control and touch screen, respectively). The cartridge format is also more or less a necessity for a mobile console.

> they waste a lot of time on gimmicks as well. Labo is a big failure, but its just like the ecard reader, GBA connectivity, and even to an extent Amiibos.

If selling 39 million Amiibos [2] counts as kind of a waste, I'm not sure what would be considered a success. Nintendo does have their fair share of failures but any company does.

> their systems are underpowered and make it extremely hard to be a not-Nintendo developer on them. The Switch in particular has a horrid 3 party library of underpowered indie games you paid half as much for on other systems.

Doom 2016 is on the Switch, Skyrim is on the Switch, Dragonball Fighter Z is coming soon, Wolfenstein 2 is coming, Fornite is already there. The Switch has easily the best 3rd party lineup of any Nintendo console since the Gamecube. Not to mention the fact that the indie games you speak of are also insanely popular.

> They cannot embrace online

This one I agree with, although I don't think it's a problem. Nintendo doesn't need great online to be a successful company, unlike Microsoft or Sony.

> Their exclusives are very hit or miss. Wii Fit died, Brain age died, Starfox is dead, Nintendogs is dead, Metroid is virtually dead, Advance Wars died, etc. ARMS seems to have died too. They are coasting on the strength of three core properties: mario, zelda, and pokemon.

They are hit or miss, but they have far more hits than any other company. Splatoon is insanely popular. They just released a Star Fox game in 2016 for the Wii U so I'm not sure why you'd say it's dead. We also know that Metroid Prime 4 is in development and they literally just released two Metroid games for the 3DS in 2016 and 2017. ARMS sold over a million copies so I wouldn't declare it dead yet, although I don't think it did as well as Nintendo wanted it to.

> Its pretty worrisome. They also didn't do themselves any favors by sunsetting the DS line

They haven't sunset the 3DS line yet. They plan on supporting it at least through 2018 into 2019. They've been selling in a pretty consistent manner since 2016 - around 6 million units a year, I think.

[1] http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/11/nintendo_tops_toyo_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiibo#Collectibility_and_supp...
So they'll drop it on the driver?! The whole setup was an accidental waiting to happen. Uber executives should be held responsible or this will happen again and again.
> Twitter seem to have an institutional blindness towards the importance of APIs.

Which is especially weird for Twitter. Their official iOS client was a third-party API client they bought. Third-parties created @replies, #hashtags, etc. If anyone should recognize the important of third-parties using APIs, it should be Twitter... yet they've been probably the most abusive of the large APIs.
Not so surprising. Same as how elite forces usually have higher casualty rates in wars - because they always go to where things are worst. No guarding a quiet front for the 101st Airborne or the Golani Brigade, and no hunkering down in a foxhole with a machine gun for the platoon lieutenant.
Agreed, though I could see a principled protest against launching weapons (of mass destruction) into space, which would violate the Outer Space Treaty.
So there is/was an after 4pm Epcot pass you could buy for a discount which kind of suits this need. Makes sense especially for people coming into town on conference/work business.
Crimes against humanity.
So Smyte's customers had a valid contract (article mentions a 3 year contract with one customer who was cut off).

I find it hard to believe being acquired magically relieves you of your contractual obligations... could this be cause for litigation?
I doubt that will happen or if it does it will end poorly for them. DOD contracts are very diffuse and Lockheed Martin made only $36B in revenue and they are the top with expenses from "the game" like offices in every district they need for political support.

The fact that the hot areas have absurd cost of living and companies keep paying it instead of moving to cheaper locales and attempts to do so have failed is quite telling.
Because that is a bare minimum solution that only works via web. YouTube provides native clients for mobile, TVs, consoles, etc.

Also, because Google pays you to host your videos, if you are willing to allow advertising.
If we are in peaceful state, then it isn't. If we are in state of war, then it may be okay (it depends).

My turn: when war starts, is it okay to send someone else to die at war to protect your children? Or it better to let your children die, but save soldier lives instead?

http://justiceharvard.org/justicecourse/
I would not trust Wirecutter. In the specific categories I have a lot of knowledge, they seem to ignore some of the best products, emphasize things that aren't important, and ignore things that are important. On top of that, they've engaged in pay-to-play[0].

https://www.xdesk.com/wirecutter-standing-desk-review-pay-to...
Yeah you're right. And weirdly I did know that so I haven't a clue why I wrote that comment. I can only assume it was a multitasking fail. Thanks for the correction though :)
MtGox: Announcement of Commencement of Civil Rehabilitation Proceedings [pdf]
It depends. Was Smyte acquired, or was it merely an acquisition of their assets?