skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That link discusses bringing mass to Mars to increase its gravity.

This conversation is about bringing gas to Mars to thicken its atmosphere.

They’re very different ideas, and the second one is a lot more interesting than the first.
ReviewMeta has a great Chrome plugin that shows the "real" score (after removing all even slightly suspicious reviews) right in the toolbar
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reviewmetacom-revi...
I didn't say it was surprising or noteworthy. Brendan Eich is one of literally billions of people who are ill-suited to be CEO of Mozilla.
> sometimes we see it running faster than ahead-of-time native compilation, due to the effects of things like inline caching and profiling.

which is what java touts as being able to do. Unfortunately, i think this sort of speedup is really dependent on the application (and the developer using common idioms that is recognized by the JIT).
Algorithms take you far. Optimized code takes you the rest of the way. If you’re after performance you’ll do both, of course. I’ve found that the only subfield of which I know in which mathematicians still write their own C or C++ is concise/efficient data structures and algorithms.
> human workers benefits in the long term from the elimination of tedious work.

Given how many humans currently work at tedious jobs, the conclusion to come to is that they prefer that over no income at all. So simply eliminating that job isn't doing them any favors unless there's some solution for how they will still be able to pay their bills.
Not necessarily. We can just construct the absolute shortest (total distance) route from one city to the next. Sounds like a good weekend project.
No server to manage is the least important part of it all. It should describe the abstraction that's actually being offered: IaaS is servers, PaaS is a single app, FaaS is individual function, SaaS is just software.

Any of those other than IaaS itself can be "serverless".
> Driving on the open road requires real intelligence. Not the pretend intelligence that modern AI gives, but real understanding of situations and terrain.

People used to say this about every single thing that computers can do better than people.

In my college town, some pedestrians got ran over by a driver who later pled insanity due to "caffeine-induced psychosis". I think you're seriously overrating the predictability of human failure modes.
CSS exclusions with Queen Bey
I doubt that sponsored reviews would solve it - if they wanted to be shady they would astroturf it anyway. Marketing departments with multimillion dollar budgets still engage in that. As for regulating reviews what could possibly work for that? Real ID would be unduly oppressive in chilling effects in addition to opening up barratry and harassment of reviewers. Even if fake reviews fall under false advertising laws good luck enforcing it.
I suppose you're talking about sulong? https://github.com/graalvm/sulong

Pretty cool that it can run faster than AOT compiled C, any benchmarks or posts with more details on this?
Why hasn't node replaced PHP yet?
> It is a shame, because there is a real issue in the US with movie theaters that are mostly empty due to Netflix and other "At Home" offerings

Theaters are just about as busy as they have ever been and are at revenue highs. It's nothing like what happened to CD sales after digital took over.
> Stockton will give 100 residents $500 a month for 18 months, no strings attached.

This does not seem like enough people to really learn anything about the effectiveness of UBI, but who knows - maybe they'll learn something and some folks will be better off at the end of the experiment.
> If you're wrong you can deoptimise and fix-up to the same base-line performance.

but how do you know it's wrong (if the iteration order of a .keys() call isnt the same)?
> No server to manage is the least important part of it all.

OK, well it's the most important part for me. I don't want to manage patching a box.
>> Drivers need breaks, commutes, limited time of driving per day.

> Those regulations protect the people living next to heavy routes, not the drivers.

They're talking about amount of time in a driver's day spent driving, not what part of the day they drive. And those regs definitely are to protect the drivers, as well as all other involved parties and stakeholders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hours_of_service
I understand your point but the software didn’t exclusively cause the death.

The software was known to be unreliable. In that way it did contribute to the person’s death. But so did the driver tasked with correcting the vehicle (who was watching Hulu), the technicians who disabled emergency brakes, and the company culture/management that thought this was safe in the first place.

On a side note, my iPhone X knows when I’m looking at the camera to use FaceID. If I look away, am asleep, or otherwise occupied, it won’t open the phone. I’m not sure why Uber doesn’t use similar technology, in conjunction with steering wheel sensors to identify hands on the wheel, to force operators to stay alert. This seems particularly important if the software is unreliable.
> you'd need to show that the object is never passed to for..in or Object.keys or similar, and unless you solve the halting problem, you can't do that.

This is pretty blatantly incorrect. Just because a problem is undecidable in general doesn't mean that there aren't specific cases where it can be solved. Optimizing compilers deal with undecidable problems all over the place, generally by either being conservative and lumping together proved-impossible with unable-to-be-proved invariants, or doing speculative optimizations with an unoptimized fallback. Just proving the type of a variable in Javascript is undecidable in the general case
Iridium was "resurrected" from their bankruptcy over 17 years ago, in 2001. Their resurrection has nothing to do with the Falcon 9, and they were planning on launching The NEXT constellation before Falcon 9 was even on the scene. If not F9, they had plans to use the Ukrainian Dnepr. The Falcon 9 ended up letting them do it for cheaper, but that still doesn't mean Musk or SpaceX were necessary (or worthy of thanks) for it to happen.
suggest you google 'second best', which has a particular meaning in economics.
A lot of STEM PhD's are transitioning into data science in industry. It seems you have a lot of CS background as well, so "data engineer" might also be a role you should look into.

Also, you say you have no experience working with a team. So no collaborations? No co-authors (surely you must have some students working for you)? I see from another comment that you had to go through the tenure process. I'm sure you had some deadlines to meet there and some important requirements to meet.

As far as tips, I have found this article helpful:
https://blog.insightdatascience.com/preparing-for-the-transi...
And, of course, you resort to picking out Spotify as if in a vacuum. But it's not in a vacuum! Alex Jones was de-platformed on from a communication medium with 2 billion monthly users! A platform that, in 2013, 50% of Americans check every day, with 80% using it as their only social media presence! Facebook is literally the most public forum that has ever existed in the history of mankind! And this is just yet another miniature step--always justified--towards "preserving" democratic ideals by thoroughly undermining them through overreach.

And once again, you seem to quote from totems that you've never read and don't actually understand.

To wit, Karl Popper's Open Society and Its Enemies:

"Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.—

In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols.

We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. "We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal."
If only there was some mechanism for moving freight along a pre-defined route without the need for constant steering. Perhaps some sort of rails....
The split adjusted 52-week high for HMNY (parent company) is $9,714.37 and it closed today at $.80... That is impressive!
I believe that's just common sense.
My experience of growing up and joining tech startups in the UK in the 90s was fight against a prevailing culture of mediocrity, tall poppy syndrome, and snobbery; as though the practice of running a business and thereby making a real difference was a grubby low to which the high minded should not stoop. I was able to find like-minded people - usually those that’d travelled the world, and a high proportion of internationals - but we felt like a resented minority. This was often in stark contrast to the established expectation of academic excellence, where the UK has a long continuing history.

It’s one of the reasons I left.
It doesn't happen.

Plenty of people turn from Christianity to paganism, it's actually a popular way for edgy Christian kids to rebel, particularly in the American south where there's a particular stigma against "devil stuff." I know a few such people, and I've never heard of anyone having to do any rituals to "renounce" their faith, nor have I ever heard of the "peace sign as broken cross" being used as a symbol in any ritual.

But then, as you doubt sources from Wiccans, so I don't know what else to tell you. These religions aren't hiding anything, there's an entire section of pagan and neopagan books at any bookstore, you can do research online, or probably find some pagans near you and talk to them. They'll tell you the same thing I'm telling you.

In fact, I'll help you out... start here: http://witchvox.com/
Sentiment over time by category?
The Amazon hate really seems cranked up to 11. Is there a free way to track company sentiment over time and by a category (like github developer)?

I'd post the repo but I think it gets filtered. just replace the with the expletive

https://github.com/dmehrotra/fk-off-aws

I'm asking as an investor and wondering if there are tipping points which can influence stock price trends and company valuation.
Note that under both proposed systems, the icon of Firefox-the-browser would remain the same. The "Gitlab-like" vulpine logo would be that of Mozilla, whose logo is the "://" thing right now.
That would surely be the second option? Treating all permutations the same means changing the object representation to keep ICs monomorphic across orderings.

Unless you forbid any impure operations you can't just deoptimise and re-execute code to then store the ordering. (I'm sure this isn't what you meant, and I'm probably being silly!)
> Still, they seem to be doing better at avoiding fascist leadership than the soi disant land of the free.

Are they really?
https://newrepublic.com/article/144954/return-fascism-german...

If you've been paying any attention, you'll noticed that Merkel has completely caved to anti-immigrant fears among Germans and backpedaled almost entirely.
Our data is in our DNA. A population of a few thousand would pretty much guarantee a 100% backup.
Iridium "got new funding" in 2001 when it was bought by PE firms and restructured to generate piles of cash from selling satellite communications to the government, long before your claim of 2017. It had nothing to do with the Falcon 9 other than coincidence. Trying to claim otherwise is misleading.
Great point. Out of curiosity, what happened in the accident that the driver was comfortable inviting you into his car? In many environments/scenarios that would seem risky, particularly after a traumatic event like a car accident.
UberEats brought a kind of a consistent experience to what-ever-i-want-food-delivery. I researched this stuff heavily for a food delivery startup maybe 4 years ago, met with drivers from different options (back then there weren't many, Postmates wasn't popular in TX at all) and it seemed like Eat24 and GrubHub were the big ones where I was (in terms of options, etc). Personally I can't believe Favor didn't absolutely bomb but I digress and great work guys.

The experience was absolutely awful back then. That's why I wanted to get into it. You'd have restaurants on FOO that didn't even know they were on FOO, so you'd make an order then FOO would literally call in and place the order acting like a customer doing a regular pickup (possibly screwing it up). Then FOO would find a delivery person in that area, like around college towns they'd call the local delivery food couriers and pay them to go pick it up. They'd make deals with groups and have to switch them out constantly. If one courier closed at 9 but your ordering at 11 who knows who would be delivering the food if you got it at all. I don't know how many times my food vanished into the night and I just never heard anything.

The experience absolutely sucked. And a transaction that can already be rife with issues (restaurant forgetting an item, etc) now had even more possibility of giving the customer a bad experience.

Now it's not all perfect now and there's definitely issues and always will be but UberEats actually seems to have forced some sort of standardization upon the entire process and the competitors have really had to just GET BETTER in general because of it. I can see my driver, see their GPS, the menu tells me if something is out of stock, the restaurant controls their menu, the restaurant knows it's UberEats, etc.

From the restaurant perspective they get to tap into UberEats population, use their drivers which is a streamlined process, UberEats has it's own software to see analytics, the popularity of their dishes, etc.

I could've been the Food Delivery King but I decided to work on a SAAS! C'est la vie. Kidding. I'd probably just be bankrupt now. "What if Uber, Yelp and Facebook get into this?" was never a thought that crossed my mind..
But there doesn't appear to be anything special about the 'mode of thinking', anymore. It was an extremely important innovation thousands of years ago. From my understanding it's basically habitual questioning of assumptions. Great—but do I really need to read thousands of pages of his dialogues (as a modern reader!) to get that? I've already spent my life living that way (often to my own detriment), no doubt in part because of Plato's lasting influence—but that still sums up to me as: read out of respect or curiosity about history, not because you should expect to uncover some magical idea contained therein which will change your whole viewpoint on life and reality.
Yeah; in the novels they just work by magic (even in-universe, more or less). There is a ramscoop in The Prefect, though; it suffers from the practical issues mentioned in the article and is not considered useful.
>The point of wikileaks is that they verify the authenticity of things they publish, and the veracity of past leaks gives credibility to future ones.

How, exactly, does one verify the authenticity of illegally obtained, classified information?

Other than to just publish it and see how angry the government gets, I mean.
> dig a deep hole and build a bunker in it

But isn't that what colonizing Mars is, anyway? Mars has no biodiversity to speak of and won't be a host to ours without significant evolution or resources, so what's the plan there?

Earth isn't just a convenient place to live. It's the only planet we can live on. Until we get warp drive or are much farther along in making a profit colonizing the solar system, not to mention in building better governments, it's just far too early to discuss colonizing Mars. Dreams are great but let's not get blinded by the hopes here. Let's plan a visit, and plan another visit 50 years after that.
>the bailouts to which you refer were not free money, they were loans with low interest rates that have been paid back.

Any loan at an interest rate lower than the rate of return that can be earned by investing that money is essentially free money.
Taking your "Sad Amazon Intern" handle at face value, do NOT use the experience of peers at Amazon as a benchmark for success in life, career, or anything else. It is a very intense place with a very particular definition of "success". Shop around for other companies to work for, big and small. You may just find that you can make a larger impact, get more visibility, and feel more rewarded working for someone else.
In 2005 (pre bankruptcy) each GM car had $1525 worth of health care costs and $675 worth of pension cost built into the price.

So $2200 was being spent on benefits for a population that had 1 worker for every 2.5 retirees.

In California, School Districts are increasing pension contributions from 8 percent of their payroll in 2013 to 19 percent in 2020. This is already creating havoc as teachers unions are threatening to strike unless they get pay increases because districts were saving money to prepare themselves for the 2020 budget math!

https://calmatters.org/articles/california-teacher-pension-d...
What about jruby or oracle's java+ruby thing?
I find that it's usually pretty clear from the bizarre language, excess enthusiasm, and lack of detail which reviews are fake or paid for, without need to refer to any 3rd-party websites. For many products with fewer than 100 ratings, it's clear that all or almost all of the ratings are fake. This often happens when there are several versions of essentially the same product, presumably all from the same factory in China. It's usually best to stick to the one or two variants with the most reviews.
I'd venture further and claim that it's in Amazon's long-term interest to drive down the perceived brand value of third-party suppliers through its distribution channel.

Costs are lowered and the value of Amazon's brand is relatively increased. Similar to stocking own-brand product in a supermarket. This weakens the negotiating position of big name brands.
A list of lightweight [versions of] websites without all the bloat
You can always pay a human to do what a computer can't, until it can.

Some truck stop fuel islands have a lane where a human will come out and check/fill your tires. You pay for the service, and it's not much.

Most humans, or the occupations, are cheap, as you can see when you think about all those humans paid to stand on street corners and wave signs. Cheaper than paying to plant the sign on property, and a cheap enough workaround when you can't plant the sign at any price.
> aircraft can go taxiway to taxiway fully automated.

Source?
Hold on, TS can typecheck your code just by using your jsdoc annotations?! That's a game changer for me!
The trucking industry is many many times larger than the rail freight industry in America.
I would have said that too based on our RT-AC68U right up until I read this post and thought "time to update that router" and when I did so, for the first time in many updates I was presented with a license agreement allowing ASUS to send basically every bit of data to a 3rd party (Trend Micro) for features I didn't ask for. I should have captured it but the data they described was basically every bit of data you can imagine not wanting to share with a 3rd party. I had to agree to get into the router management portal and at least they had a way to withdraw that agreement (which also turns off those features).

I can't believe ASUS even considered this idea in this era of privacy concerns but I'm definitely going to research that before I buy another router.
The difference in speed has a lot more to do with memory layout. Javascript will never be as fast for this reason.

You could make a JIT language as fast as C so long as it supported value types properly. Most programs in the "slow" languages spend most of their time chasing pointers around.
Just Fisher Men: King James Bible the Preserved and Living Word of God
How much are you taking? Melatonin actually is better in small dosages, at least for sleep. I get the 5mg tablets and then nibble on them. I don't take it every night, but one of those tablets will last me like 4 or 5 nights. High dosages (like 2+mg) are supposed to have nootropic effects that don't make you tired. I know I've never fallen asleep with a 5mg dose.
Also, light really kills the effectiveness too. If you need to watch TV or be on your computer then turn all your other lights off and turn the brightness way down.
Promise, in this case, is a nicer version of the word debt. The government that made the promise is just an abstraction or buffer for the people making the promises, the people voting for them, and the people benefiting from those decisions. Note how current stakeholders (me and you) had no say on a decision that they would be (potentially) responsible for.

Thomas Jefferson's view of deficit finance was that one generation has no right to impose its debts on the next. He would have refused deficit spending that would not be completely paid back within 19 years (roughly, a generation).

I don't think many people listened to him on that. Here we are.

I think we do have the right to ask this question. We should have the option of denying that the previous generation ever had the right to impose this upon us.

At the very least, we should learn from this, recognize these types of short-sighted promises for what they are, and reject them when we see them. This is one big way we can be better than our forefathers.
Yes but that good looking .220 hitter is not going to stick around much with that batting average.
Why haven’t electric cars replaced gasoline?
GE is looking to sell digital business that was key part of Immelt’s strategy
The only thing that made less sense than Uber focusing on trucks (Uber Freight, AV Trucks) is Uber Elevate (flying cars). The days of Uber testing crazy, new ideas is over.

The downside is that some of them actually worked. I can't see Dara ever green lighting Eats, which is now a great business. Note that Dara & Expedia completely missed the AirBnB phenomenon and had to play catch up many years later.
"Real Output" is misleading as capital inputs/investing can greatly change it. Multifactor productivity vs Compensation is pretty equal.

http://i.imgur.com/5mOQARo.png
And I've had issues trying to leave less than perfect reviews - seems like only after I spend time typing up the review (and sometimes uploading photos) does Amazon come back and say, sorry can't publish this.

Seems like a dark pattern to encourage only positive reviews.

http://www.netinstructions.com/amazon-dark-patterns/
This also called giving someone the 'benefit of the doubt.' It's clearly necessary for a fair reading. The extreme form advocated by the author, while potentially problematic, was more just a signal to me of bias. And that's problematic for me, because what I want is someone to talk about Plato who knows it well but can be objective about it.