skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's talking about the software patching issue. If the emperor dies today, how do you update all software to understand the name of the new year?

The succession itself is pretty straightforward; people will see it on the news and memorize the new name immediately. Software is more difficult, though.

This is not really a new issue. Daylight savings time rules change, leap seconds are added and removed. Most software doesn't care because someone will notice and change the clock, or NTP notices that your clock is a second slow because you forgot the leap second and it moves it forward. But being a second or an hour off is a slightly different problem than not knowing what the current year is called, or how to add/subtract years.

Software that wants to be resilient to any of these changes simply uses a timebase that doesn't have leap seconds, daylight savings time, or the year changing... but users want to see "Heisei 30" and not something that is 37 seconds ahead of what their wall clock says the time is. Formatting the time is still an issue no matter what timebase you use.
> There is no stopping China in the information age.

Says who?

> Someone said "information wants to be free". That was 35 years ago.

China's great firewall will disagree with that statement

> China will catch up to the west whether it is by stealing, acquiring or of their own accord

Not if you safeguard your secrets, plus their own crashing economy will stop the catching up part
Leiter is a poster child for how Analytic philosophers bastardize and misinterpret the Continentals.
I'm happy to pay for productivity. I'm not happy to pay for inefficiency.
Rather, the toilet cleaner would be able to buy things previously unattainable, and the person who hired the cleaner would have less free cash to spend on other objectives, which would cause a slight drop in the price of those other objectives.

Raising the income of a toilet cleaner doesn't correspond to a general rise in prices. It might mean the development of self-cleaning toilets, which isn't a bad idea.
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It's amusing that the people who are most militantly Bayesian aren't Bayesian statisticians. It's almost as if there are advantages and drawbacks to the Bayesian perspective. By the way, frequentism vs. Bayesianism has very little to do with Thomas Bayes. All statisticians accept the validity of Bayes' Theorem. Moreover, the two approaches are not mutually exclusive. It's always interesting to investigate the frequentist properties of Bayesian estimators and the implicit priors of frequentist estimators.
Speaking of this kind of skepticism, 57 truckloads of concrete for one wind turbine seemed like an awful lot, so I did some rough math. Turns out 57 truckloads is probably right. Jesus. I assumed a pad-and-pedestal foundation where the pad is a cylinder 60'|18.3m dia. and 4'|1.2m thick, and the pedestal is also a cylinder but 20'|6m dia. and 4'|1.2m high. Total volume of both is about 465 yd³|355m³. Since the typical truck holds about 8 yd³|6m³, that's about 58 truckloads, which is surprisingly close to the 57 they stated.

Each wind farm has a substation too, which will use some quantity of concrete for equipment pads. And some wind farms built in remote areas have to have their own transmission infrastructure built -- towers, with their own foundations, and switching substations, with again more equipment foundations. You could say concrete is the foundation of our economy... chortle chortle... groan...

EDIT: added SI units for our rest-of-the-world pals
Aren't the cost of the trade and price of the trade two different things? Tighter spreads can only do so much to offset disadvantageous pricing, right?
It depends on how you mean "converge". It would certainly tend towards the full ruleset, learning more of them, or more accurate versions of them, the more examples it saw. It would not really terminate though, at least according to the learnability results from inductive inference.
> I assign probabilities of 10%, 50% and 40% to these scenarios

Well, the devil is in the details. Where did these numbers come from?
In a purely ethical world, the correct answer is to eat neither the chicken breast nor the human forearm if you value both lives equally and believe that neither organism should ever been slaughtered and eaten.
> But if you trained a TTS engine to have a computer amalgamation of all possible English accents I really doubt the result will be considered high quality by anybody.

For what it's worth, they do ask you to create a profile after your fifth sample, and that profile includes an "accent" section.
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> Since the algorithm has been invented it has been used as the default sorting algorithm in Python, Java, the Android Platform, and in versions of GNU.

I'm glad you mentioned how far the algorithm has spread to other languages since originating in Python. But, "versions of GNU" what?
> The US used to run rampant over other's intellectual property in the 1800's

That's a common myth. One person, samuel slater, memorized the designs of textile factory machinery as an apprentice to a pioneer in the British industry before migrating to the United States at the age of 21. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater US didn't steal anything using Samuel Slater.

I haven't heard of any other examples of US stealing intellectual properties in 1800. Plus, that's over 200 years ago. Would you like to bring up the something more recent?
If these $45k cars are fully automatic (a big if for sure), then $45k will be a bargain price and would probably capture at least half the new car market.
You would quantize the whole NMS, though that would still leave open tracking stocks and composites overseas and stuff.
There's a tax credit of $7500 that will begin to be phased out as soon as they sold 200 000 cars to US customers.

Phase out starts with the same tax credit still applying for the remainder of the current quarter and the next one (before being reduced in later ones) and that's exactly the reason why they would want to match reaching the threshold to the beginning of a new quarter. This way they have as much time as possible to ship as many cars as possible to their customers (that's OK then since numbers sold do not affect the phase out beside the threshold of 200 000 cars).
I remember testing Expandrive out a few years ago. Great to hear you're still going strong and expanding functionality to cloud storage services too.

Haven't revisited the program since we originally tested it and found a major problem for our application, but can Expandrive now handle symlinks over sshfs correctly or does it still silently mangle them into regular files?
In your example of reversing decreasing runs, you dropped a 9.
> When it was clear they would miss again, they put up a third production line in a canvas tent, which the NYT quoted as "never heard anything like this ever" using what Musk tweeted as "scrap we had in warehouses" to build the cars.

I'm a software guy. Can somebody explain to me how you can build a high-tech auto production line from "scrap"?
I guess we'll never know how flat Alaska or Hawaii are, though I'd guess not very flat at all. I'm most surprised how many states are considered flatter by this paper than Colorado!
And it's compared to the budget of all costs for the development, building, maintenance and running of a single and unique LHC. Whereas the costs for producing 2500 planes are spread to all of them. Nevertheless the total LHC budget is a cost of mere 15 of the said series of 2500 units. The cost per unit of the whole series is 600 millions per unit! It's quite obvious something is wrong in these investments.

But the real science (especially to observe the Earth, the climate and the effects of global warming) struggles for breadcrumbs or even for pure survival. Because ideology, not rational thinking.
Can spreadsheets not be documented in the same way that code can?
Musk just tweeted out: "7000 cars, 7 days"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1013519243030253570
> The rest of the world just laughs.

Unfortunately, the US keeps attempting to include adoption of it's IP policies in the various free trade style agreements proposed with other countries.

Not a good way to generate goodwill from the IT industry in the rest of the world. ;)
Scherier does go into some detail on what went on with Diablo 3 in Blood, Sweat and Pixels [0].

[0]: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062651235/blood-sweat-and-...
There's a few companies selling gps trackers for beehives.

https://findmyhive.com/
http://www.save-bees.com
https://www.thebeecorp.com/qgps.html
This looks very useful! We've been using Syncdocs [0] to sync multiple accounts concurrently to Google Drive.

Syncdocs does end-to-end encryption. Would it be possible to put in a PGP layer that automatically encrypts into your solution?

[0] https://syncdocs.com
So everyone's doing their own thing after the 'there was an attempt' at HTML5 spec definition??
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Kindly note that if you expect to put canned pineapple and honey on it, you don't need to go that far^
Yay! Thanks @vetelko.

Here is the onboarding guide:
https://www.romanzolotarev.com/openbsd.amsterdam.html
Browsers should support DjVu natively. It may help with wider adoption of the format.
Yes! Key dietary finding from UCSD's Rob Knight is that a diverse intake of plant fiber from beans, lentils, legumes, peas, etc. directly maps to diversity in gut microbiomes.

Its a naturally occurring feedback loop. And if you get sick of split peas every night, you can seek varied sources of polyphenolic rich foods in surprisingly varied places: pomegranate seeds, cocoa powder, etc. Stay healthy :)
I was thinking more the first Iron Man movie
I’ve never verified it, maybe because I’m scared it won’t be true.

But one of the few facts I remember to this day from 8th grade history, ages ago, is that no land is more than 20 feet above sea level in all of Florida.
It's interesting, that time synchronization in a rotating reference frame is path dependent ([0], for example).

[0] https://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ptti/1974papers/Vol%2006_26.pdf
"we must use something other than relativism to base our morals on"

So what is that exactly?
Yeah, the methodology they used generated a few somewhat surprising results. I suspect there are other reasonable ways of defining "flatness" that would yield markedly a markedly different ranking for some states.
I made a straightforward statement concerning my perception of what is 'cool', of course that statement says something about my concept of 'cool'! What you really wanted to do here was to criticize my concept of cool, but instead finding the stones to do that you left a very passive borderline tautological statement.

You wanted to criticize me, but chose to respond with a passive non-statement instead. That says a lot about your approach to communication! [Is this doing it right? I'm trying to speak your dialect.]
> no practical significance

Imagine how many people would have said something similar about quantum physics before the first A-bomb was developed.

Historically, the practical significance of major discoveries often came much later than the discovery itself. We do need the discoveries, especially those "of no practical significance" as long as they really improve our understanding of the physical world.
I stand corrected. Thanks for the update.
I guess obedience implies literally anything insofar as you can instruct it.
It's incredible that we still have to discuss this in 2018.
The way the tax credit works is that a car company's customers get $7500 US tax credit for the first 200k Tesla type electric cars. Then begins the phase out. First the $7500 tax credit remains for the rest of the quarter when the 200k US sales was hit and the following quarter (so between 3 and 6 months). Then the tax credit goes in half for 2 quarters and then 1/4 the original for another 2 quarters. Seems strange to have a variable length phase out on the full amount but maybe the people who wrote the bill couldn't envision a company selling so many cars in a quarter that when in the quarter the company passed the 200k marker would be something the company would focus on.

Tesla is near the 200k mark and has been holding back domestic sales so to hit it at the beginning of a quarter (i.e now).

Edit: Here is a link to the official explanation of the credit in glorious IRS legalese (https://www.irs.gov/irb/2009-48_IRB#NOT-2009-89).

Relevant quote from the IRS to this discussion:

"The new qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicle credit phases out for a manufacturer’s vehicles over the one-year period beginning with the second calendar quarter after the calendar quarter in which at least 200,000 qualifying vehicles manufactured by that manufacturer have been sold for use in the United States (determined on a cumulative basis for sales after December 31, 2009) (“phase-out period”). Qualifying vehicles manufactured by that manufacturer are eligible for 50 percent of the credit if acquired in the first two quarters of the phase-out period and 25 percent of the credit if acquired in the third or fourth quarter of the phase-out period."
They're not. They have the same lane keeping and autimatic cruise control as the average $45k car.
I don't think the US Government does this more than it is the culture generally. You'll find a difference the kids of wealthy parents find in terms of control in their lives vs. kids in poorer circumstances.
Tesla produce 7000 cars in seven days
Ain't FUSE a really wonderful thing?

Edit: "fuse" to uppercase.
Right. A buck. How does that translate to $2 B?
"The last few years I cleaned toilets for a living, but I decided that sucked, so this year I'm a project lead at Google."

I'll bet there are trash collectors that earn more than commercial pilots on second tier carriers.
Neat work! Also good demonstration of new C# 7.0 features.
Not spanking also has no benefits and many negative effects.
If you have wide lines containing a lot of content, increasing the line spacing (or, leading) can help somewhat in readability. Unfortunately, terminals and editors don't always make this easy. Certainly not as easy as changing their display width.

You burn some vertical room -- all the more apparent with today's widescreen trend. But when you're trying to keep the strain from driving you crazy when reading a bunch of adjacent wide lines, it can help.

Also, other visual differentiators. Remember the old, wide band-printer reports, done on paper that varied background color every 5 lines or similar?
> If you reallocate money without creating new currency, what you get isn't really inflation

You’re forgetting about velocity. A dollar in a middle class earner’s hands gets spent faster than a dollar in a billionaire’s. That faster spending stokes both growth and inflation.
Are there benchmarks available for this kind of algorithm? If you come up with a fast sorting algorithm how would you go about making a case it's faster than currently used ones on real world data?
>Yes. Unemployment is very low.
Actually it is not that low, especially out of the tech sector.

Real unemployment and under-employment are high because of the way unemployment is now measured. The definition of being unemployed has changed since the GFC to manipulate the statistics.

Some tricks to manipulate the numbers are:

- If you have been unemployed for more than 6 months you are no longer classified as unemployed.

- Work for one hour a month, say mow your neighbor's lawn or give someone a paid ride in your car and you are no longer unemployed.

- Give up an stop looking for work, and you're no longer unemployed.
Is it just me or is Clojure(script) becoming more and more syntax-heavy with each passing year?
That seems like a vast generalization across the board.
That argument falls apart when you consider indentation. Python code gets ugly fast when you’re just a few levels in.
The word “tax” doesn’t even appear on the page when I search for it.

Are you on a different page?
Well, my parents gave me lots of freedom but I acted out like an angsty fuck anyway. Seriously, I had what you guys are talking about here: from the age of 3, I had a large area to explore filled with cobras, scorpions, and animals. Play with my friends (who I had to find in the neighbourhood - hard enough since houses were half a km away from each other) was self-directed.

Then we moved to the city at 11, and I was still allowed autonomy, and most of my activities were self-directed so long as my scores were good in school.

Well, my life has given me evidence that you get no guarantees no matter how much autonomy or independence you get. Sometimes it's just sheer luck.
It's exactly how "science is supposed to work" when the experiments don't confirm the expectations of some theoretical physicists:

"killing off theories is simply how science is supposed to work" "“This is what we do all the time, put forward a working hypothesis and test it,” said Enrico Barausse of the Astrophysics Institute of Paris, who has worked on MOND-like theories. “99.9 percent of the time you rule out the hypothesis; the remaining 0.1 percent of the time you win the Nobel Prize.”"

(from https://www.quantamagazine.org/troubled-times-for-alternativ... )

Of course everybody hopes to be in the team who "predicted" some discovery, and the "most obvious" predictions have always be more expected. But the nature simply is, and doesn't have to be "kind" to this or that theoretical physicist.
Why do data scientists have such a high salary? Everyone seems to be one at the moment.
I'm not saying they don't do it - everyone knows they do. I'm saying for many, many cases there's no reason for them to do it for every page and every site.
I don’t think there is any service for that, but I think somebody from community can help.
60 lines is not so many:)
The headline was inaccurate (now fixed) — the Mozilla Voice project is about speech recognition aka STT not TTS.

It would be kinda interesting to have a TTS system learn from a neighboring STT system so that it gradually adopts your accent, though. I'm not sure if that would be more usable but it would be an interesting experience.
Could you explain your distinction in plain English? Virtually nobody on this planet is entitled to read your source without shelling out a nontrivial amount of money, you haven't given a "shallow dive", so I have no interest in a deep one.

I can accept that you make a distinction, but to me the beginning and end of individualism is respect for individual autonomy, and I suspect that a lot of English literates would agree.
Why does this require a special compiler switch? Can't the IDE just auto-step until it gets back to your own file of code?
While not as heavy with respect to the physics, this guide goes into all the detail you could want when it comes to making great pizza at home:

http://www.varasanos.com/PizzaRecipe.htm
I can see any of them form a coalition as long as it doesn't involve the US ( because of Trump), could be better in 2 years though, when trust comes back.

PS. For the ones downvoting, at least say why and where you live.

PS2. Belgium (EU) and work for a Canadian company
The paper did not have hft as its primary use case, but you cannot contain reporters tendency to cherry pick eye catching aspects.
>>Not if you safeguard your secrets, plus their own crashing economy will stop the catching up part

Long term you can't. China will offer $10 million, $100 million or even a Billion to the person that knows /has access to everything. Add blackmail to really entice him /her. China really needs this tech, as per the article they're spending more on importing chips than oil. Add potential actions, ala ZTE, and it becomes a matter of their NAT SEC. Nothing is spared...
My wife switched (she was already a touch typist) and it was only a few days of diminished productivity for her. I think I might have been the bad case :-)
Good support for PTP in network switches is rare. If the users don't want to spend a lot of money on new switches with PTP support, they can synchronize clocks in the network with a protocol which doesn't require special support in switches.
Teenagers rebel because they are biologically motivated to experiment, and they get more conservative as they age, no parenting required.
I grew up with much the same freedom: in small town Iowa, the school bus was for kids 20 miles away. My street would join the larger neighborhood's kids for the 5 mile walk to and from everyday, rain, thunderstorms, winter snow storm or not. If snow was really bad, dads with snowmobiles would ferry the kids, pulling trains of sleds. Rain was okay, no matter how hard.

After school, the "bike gangs" of kids would be roaming free, stop in for dinner, and then back out till dark. Everyone had this freedom.

As the kids became teens, this being the late 70's, a tax law created incentive for publishing and insurance corporations to move to Iowa. Their families brought major city / coastal teen attitudes, including appetites for a drug culture that Iowa was not sophisticated enough to manage. That Iowa Innocence seems to have been lost. Now it is just another generica in the US corporate sameland, with the original Iowa Natives unable to understand what happened to their culture.
If you think about it, this is a Mechanical Turk approach, just done for free with volunteers not with the financial impetus of MTurk. That's why they've given particular attention to the second pass over the data.

If you want to read more about it, the GitHub repo and in particular the issues cover a lot of the obvious questions like this. They're here: https://github.com/mozilla/voice-web/issues
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It's not about stopping China. It is, or at least should be, about establishing norms with which we can all work together globally.
Couldn't they just ship cars overseas? Or wait until the end of June to ship them?
I've always felt that the obsession that the Chinese government has with Taiwan has a lot to do with the CCP still being butthurt over the escape of the Nationalists after the Chinese Civil War. They essentially never achieved complete victory over the Kuomintang. I wonder if the CCP were no longer governing China whether there would be such a focus on re-annexing Taiwan.
If you're going to accuse someone of manipulating unemployment indices, please specify which index you mean, e.g. U3, U4, U5, or U6.

Looking at different indices at different times is obviously going to skew the results, but that's the fault of the person doing the looking, not the BLS, Obama, or the Deep State.
So when musk just tweeted 7000 cars in 7 days, you’re saying you have information proving he’s committing some form of fraud? Could you elaborate? This is going to be a huge story and it looks like you’ll be the one to break it, which is pretty exciting.
I'm not sure what you mean. Clojure(Script) hasn't added any new syntax to the core language in a long, long time.
Tesla is not the only brand that creates electric cars.

This is all about Elon making clames he could not make true.

The danger for Tesla is that people don't want to wait for broken promises anymore and will choose another brand.

Edit: for example the Jaguar I-PACE might be very competitive.
> watch commercial TV, play video games, look at nonsense on Facebook. It wouldn't be pretty

Because that's all most people can do after 8-10 hours (+ commute) of soul-draining work, and then some household chores. Let's not assume that this is the default of human leisure just because it's all people have energy for after hard day of work.