skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This is a perfect example of how AI is taking over the world by storm."

Because they taught a robot hand to rotate a cube well... ?

Take it from an AI researcher, it's one thing to make a demo of a technique solving a narrow very simple problem and quite another to use that technique to solve a real world need.

"Any new job will require some sort of skills out the set of skills that can be trained" - even if we do reach the level of AI there this would actually hold, we are NOWHERE near that today, and this result certainly does not demonstrate we are.
The vast majority of staffers don't change when the leading party does in a number of countries.
Serotonin syndrome is nasty, nasty, and more nasty.

I've experienced it once, after a particularly incompetent new pain management doctor made me try a cocktail of anti-depressants for pain relief. (their reasoning being that "it's all in your head"). I felt utterly awful, pulse racing, severe anxiety and horrible mixing of panic and terror.

It's imperative that people on multiple medications take Serotonin Syndrome very, very seriously. I'm very sorry you experienced it, I wouldn't wish it upon anyone.

(The pain management doctor was fired a couple of months later by the university hospital. Complaints from patients, nurses, pharmacists and insurers had been mounting.)
And yet again, there isn't a single link to the paper anywhere in the article. A pop-up autoplaying video doesn't replace good journalism.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0529-6
Indeed, and different types of tea contain different levels of L-theanine. I believe shade-grown green tea (many japanese greens) can have 40-50mg.
I feel like there are lots of pricing optimizations that I could figure out if I really worked on it or had an army of quants to help. They're not applied automatically, though. One thing I like about GCP is that they seem to work out the best pricing for you.
I don't see that as much of an issue though. You wouldn't get any type-checking if you weren't using TypeScript, so it's still a net gain even if a few packages are `any`.
> essentially is people that don't like to lay on the couch and watch the TV, but instead going on the nature and pass their time there

Have there been studies on what kind of percentage of the population exhibits a stubbornness against doing nothing? Is it inherent/genetic, or is it cultural (or how much is contributed by those factors). Those that oppose measures like a universal basic income often point to a tendency to do nothing and while I can agree that certainly there exists some portion of the population that that would describe, I don't know just how prevalent it is, or if it can be "fixed" socially.
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Is telegram short link https://t.me down?
Its giving Error 500.
typo "language queues" — "language cues"
The new 'git lfs migrate' command will help when accidentally committing files that should've been git-lfs but weren't.
Basically coincidence; the models here are far simpler and do not at all mimic the human nervous system.
I've been using TypeScript for a while, and one thing I keep wondering about is which polyfills are baked into the compiler. I don't know how I've been able to get this far without understanding it.

Turns out there are none. You have two compiler flags: Target and Lib. Lib determines the syntax and objects/apis you can use: ES2015, 2016, '17, etc, and Target determines which platform it will run on.

But as far as I can tell, setting target does nothing to materially change the output code. It doesn't polyfill. Rather it just causes additional configurations to feed into the Lib compiler argument.

How to Polyfill with Typescript: https://basarat.gitbooks.io/typescript/content/docs/types/li...

More on Target: https://basarat.gitbooks.io/typescript/content/docs/types/li...
Attitude doesn't trump facts or reality.
"Always with you what cannot be done." - Yoda
Thanks. That's a much better example.
It's not really meaningful.

Humans learn with entirely different stimuli and experience (can you imagine subjecting a person to learning this object manipulation task in the same way as this robot?).

In addition, Alpha Go Zero demonstrated an order of magnitude better efficiency in training time than Alpha Go due to only algorithmic differences. Humans are about converged to 3 year training time for babies learning these skills, but I doubt that these learning algorithms are as efficient as they will ever be.
I fully agree with the rat part being highly reminescent of the depiction of Jews in interbellum & WWII Nazi propaganda!
Java developers like to solve the problem the “right way” while the PHP devs solve it “right now”. Latter works much better in early stage startups, but former is easier to maintain longer term.
I agree with the person you replied to but I'm not thinking about intelligent machines. I'm just thinking about the automation of everything. Look how close we are to self driving cars without needing a sentient robot behind the wheel. Mechanical tricks are going to eliminate the jobs of a lot of people.
Yeah today it's PRISM and Stuxnet.

But less sarcastically, there was that stealth helicopter destroyed during the Bin Laden raid, but I haven't seen much talk about it since.
This is a very uncharitable interpretation of the parent comment.

The parent comment appears to be referring to having people keep the shared style guide in mind when writing code, vs just letting the linter fix it. Extrapolating this to suggesting they don't want a team "with a variety of backgrounds and approaches" drags the conversation pretty far afield of that question.
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Serverless is a buzzword for a distributed system you can't SSH into.
You sound like you didn't read the article. There's nothing about political correctness or try-hard inclusivity in that article but many (or indeed all) the things that common sense would dictate as a base of working code reviews.
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Potentially a very low floor. If villages far away from major population centers die out, people may still want to immigrate, but those people may not be wealthy or willing to pay a decent sum.

For example, one euro plus the commitment to renovate for $25,000 buys you a house on Sardinia https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/ollolai-italy-one-eur...
Pro.3 and pro.2 is being shot to pieces by Trump right now.

Pro.1 does also apply to China I would think.

I'm not sure con.1 is that much of an advantage. other than a larger national market.
Thanks for that! I didn't even consider juries.
PFSense was the bane of my existence for a time, I regret ever installing it in the handful of businesses I put it in. When it'd fall over (usually from the 2nd WAN port disappearing after a reboot), I'd have to drive out and swap in another router while debugging it. Minor, custom changes to prevent PFSense from blocking boot due to a USB ethernet interface disappearing? Overwritten on upgrade without warning.

They also have recently made it a PITA to use PFSense with IPTV, as UDP Multicast forwarding has been deprecated w/o warning. Like everything with PFSense, it just disappeared one update without so much as a warning :P

I have a friend who uses Debian as his core router, its not bad. I've gone to OpenWRT since its got the fit and finish, plus it will boot and be debugable no matter what happens.
I love the idea of colonizing Mars, on a purely romantic level. But on a more practical level, let's compare Mars with Antarctica as candidates for large human populations.

Mars: no oxygen, atmospheric pressure essentially zero

Antarctica: breathable, oxygenated air

Mars: maybe a little salty ice below the surface near the poles

Antarctica: Covered with freshwater ice

Mars: 34 million miles away across empty space

Antarctica: a few hundred miles away by boat

I mean, Antarctica, or the bottom of the sea, or the peak of Mount Everest all wipe the floor with Mars on every metric you can think of. And I know that various people have suggested that Mars might be a useful second home for humanity in case some event wipes us all out.. but really, if we get wiped out it's going to be self-inflicted, and compared with the difficulty of setting up a viable colony on Mars, the difficulty of sending a few nukes over there is negligible. It just doesn't buy very much insurance. Sorry to be a downer but this is pretty farfetched.
John Wheeler is a highly respected physicist and his “it from bit” is still referenced in many papers every year. It's speculative and still not rigidly defined, but definitely not pseudoscience.
90s for me: 90's era web design, frames, pre-CSS styling, blink tags, under construction gifs; TI calculator games; original Duke Nukem, original DOOM; ring pops, scrunchies, slap bracelets; dial up noises, AOL, getting a 2nd phone line for Internet or getting someone off the phone to chat with friends on AIM / ICQ; "parents" generation (though not my parents) not knowing the difference between the Internet and AOL; Palm Pilot V, HP palmtop (and other mobile devices without Internet Access)
Is there a link?

It's documented in the book Vertical Empire, I don't know of an online copy, I'm afraid.

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Vertical-Empire-History-Programme... <-- not an affiliate link, just a reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arrow#Cancellation <-- brief mention here
This is a much better article. The current one is just click-bait. I'm glad I read it but I'm even more glad it was with the context of other comments on HN.
Might not be that easy because only postgres can take a few hundreds of connections which won't work out if you have a few thousands of serverless functions? No persistent connection pools.
Throwing (water-rich) asteroids at things does.
Actually, that is not entirely true. The monad bind operator introduces a data dependency which is responsible for the sequencing itself, not the actual implementation of the bind (i.e. it is a result of the type of the bind).

But I do agree with the general idea that Haskell as a language is still a leaky abstraction, you still need to understand a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff, like how the RTS interacts with the OS ABI, how concurrency is implemented, the consequences of laziness and so on. Just knowing the denotational semantics of the language is not enough.
Whenever anyone asks me: why do you live? Where do we come from? I just ask back: why do you care?
This thread helped to reduce my inferiority complex from reading HN, when I learnt that most of you are almost twice as old as me (20) and some even older than that :)

To answer OP question, I learnt a lot about Spring Test configuration today and how messy it can get at times.
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Just FYI Herbal teas generally don't contain tea (camellia sinensis) and likely don't contain L-theanine as a result.
How many nuclear weapons are at the bottom of the sea
I also prefer PHP over Python and Ruby, especially because it's a lot easier to find PHP devs.

I have written mostly-maintainable, very stable PHP apps. It took a huge number of tests, static analysis, comments, phpDocs, and trial/error of different libraries.

Since then, I've written back ends in C#, TypeScript, Go, and Rust. I have mixed feelings about all of those, but I'd never need as many tests. The languages allowed me to be stricter than PHP did/does. Type systems are also an amazing form of self-documentation.
I decided to drop Facebook because I spent all day arguing with people that I cared about.

I decided I didn't want or need that in my life, so I've dropped it in favor of arguing with people I don't care about on Reddit instead. So much more time for Reddit now!
Even if there was enough carbon dioxide, is seems likely that solar wind would erode away any terraformed atmosphere as some believe happened in the past[1] due to the lack of shielding from a global magnetic field.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Mars#History
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Well, just put the connection logic outside of the main handler so it's shared between invocations!

Wait, oops, you have state now.
But it does trump potential and progress.
I can't tell if that's meant to be a pejorative, but a distributed system I can't (and don't need to) SSH into makes my life easier :)
> Such as... playing audio?

Yes, if it's playing audio not initiated by the user.

> These "security flags" could be added for almost anything that might annoy a user; it's not just for security.

Good. I'm a user and I don't like being annoyed. It's… annoying.
>As the industry matures, the primary obstacles to wide adoption of these vehicles are regulatory and political.

The primary obstacle is technological, there really hasn't been much in the way of strong political/regulatory resistance. At a recent talk, when queried as to whether upcoming mass transit projects should be shit-canned in lieu of the imminent arrival of robotaxis, Waymo CEO John Krafcik cautioned listeners to not get too excited, widespread availability is still a decade or more away.

I fully support designing robotaxis that can accomodate the wheelchair bound among those with other disabilities, but give the companies a chance to get to a functioning business model for the dominant use case first. Henry Claypool, and myself, a resident of a northern city with harsh winters will have to rely on human driven taxis for the forseeable future.
This us VS them mentality, amplified/reinforced by social media, 24*7 news, celebs, politicians et al is doing the most unnecessary damage.
I agree with what you said except for the generalization that Java devs always (or usually) do things the right way. I have seen some Java software that was a massive spaghetti-and-meatballs mess before it even reached beta.
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The accusation they are biased in what they published does not require them to have refused to release anything, merely that the original sources of information only made biased information available to Wikileaks to publish, or that they only solicited or acted to confirm information from biased sources.
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The idea of a time-wasting animation wasting time shouldn't be novel. If you're creating an entertainment product, of course looking good should be a key factor! If you're creating a tool, the appearance of your product should not interfere with using the product to do work.
Would you ever go see a robot performer[0]? Like, a robotic comedian, or a robot ballet dancer, or a robotic football player? Would you ever go see a robotic therapist if you're suicidal? Would you let a robot feed, and raise your infant? Would you get guided through a third world country on a mountaineering expedition by a robot? Can a robot write/perform an entire feature film? Would you watch a late-night talk show of one robot chatting with another robot?

Would you let robots run a country? Or a state? Or a town?

> A little thought experiment: Let's say humans are capable of 100 skills. Skills can be anything from: driving, seeing, hearing, reading, walking, carrying, drawing etc.

Can a robot be more human than human?

Am I going to fall in love with a robot? Will the robot show perfect empathy? Will they become enlightened?

[0] Captured! By Robots! Doesn't count. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zvU165DEYc
I think they are. I do see a lot of twitter posts by them talking about the rise of serverless.

https://twitter.com/digitalocean/status/1017529341742403586
L-theanine completely destroys my ability to sleep. I've tested a few times now. Dosage used was 100mg, taken early in the day. It's like I get stuck in super light sleep where I'm practically dreaming but awake.
> Basically, this theory holds that when asset prices rise — home values, stocks and so on — without a break, investors start to believe that this trend represents a new normal. They pile into the asset, pumping up the price even more, and seeming to confirm the idea that the trend will never end. But when the extrapolators’ money runs out, reality sets in and a crash ensues

So what's new here?
Because they can?

The right price is not the price it cost to make something, but the price the market can pay and you can get away with.
>Mars: maybe a little salty ice below the surface near the poles

Erm, there's more than a million cubic kilometers of water ice in the poles that's literally oceans worth, the liquid water below the poles is only of interest for astrobiology.

>I mean, Antarctica, or the bottom of the sea, or the peak of Mount Everest all wipe the floor with Mars on every metric you can think of.

Except Antarctica is on Earth. The point of colonizing an off-world body is so that we can spread ourselves out.

Earth = eggs in one basket. A super volcano like Yellowstone could easily kill 90%+ of our species in the first year after an eruption and most of the other animal (and plant) life. Big rocks have smashed into Earth before and will again. A pandemic could easily spread across the planet in months decimating population and launching us back into the stone age as you just lost most of the people that knew how the power plants work, how medicine worked, how making concrete worked, how growing crops in worthwhile quantities worked.

Mars isn't about gaining more resources, it's about giving humanity an extra life.
If you have a samsung, you can do this by putting your phone in battery saver mode
Google also remotely wiped a bunch of its customers' routers, driving them off line and causing all sorts of problems.

Which isn't to say that home customers would have necessarily done better, but most people don't have random maintenance bring them down at random times.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/23/14722470/google-reset-onh...
Monads are a way to model effects -- to mark a computation as using IO (or not), as being parallel (or not), as having exceptions (or not).

Monads in Haskell are used as a mechanism for scheduling evaluation...

This is only partially true. Any language that tries to be fully declarative -- which is to say, that tries to make all effects "part of the value" (and in consequence, part of the type) -- faces the same problems as Haskell. Idris, a strict language, uses monads to model effects.

The C language doesn't make effects part of the type signature, but C program verifiers do add effects modeling. This can be with regards to aliasing (which writes/reads could affect another pointer?), termination or timing.

It's the underlying interest in program verification that drives the use of monads in Haskell, in part because it's program verification that drives the interest in Haskell to begin with.
I was asked that information by Bank of America but not from my other bank...
We prefer spaces over tabs because the ident style requires it.
Anyway, the solution is simple: agree on one style and stick with it. Code is made to be read many times more than it's modified (open close, you know), therefore one shouldn't read a code line more than once to understand it.
It's your job to deal with the company style and adopt, otherwise you're not professional.
> I mean, couldn't they just host a giant Pastebin-style site on Tor and let people leak whatever they wanted?

Part of the benefit of having an organization like Wikileaks is that they can vet stuff for authenticity and package it in a way that's understandable to the public.

For example, the "Collateral Murder" video (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007,_Baghdad_airstri...) was put together with a publicity campaign and contextual information about the event beyond just the video.

> That's the entire intent of the organization. To leak things to cause political repercussions.

Yes, but it was supposed to be in a non-partisan manner.
I never said I interpreted ((()))) as "Menorah issue", you keep repeating this twisting of my words, you might as well claim I keep insisting it means "ASCII-art Menorah issue"...

I sincerely interpreted it as ASCII art conveying simply "Jewish" and hence "Jewish issue". I do NOT claim my interpretation is representative of how the majority interprets it. I simply faithfully report my sample size 1 experience of honestly interpreting it as a Menorah signifying "Jewish"... I just had an instant flashback to highschool class -more than 15 years ago- on different world religions, where symbols of different religionns were discussed... as I said I even incorrectly thought the Jewish name was candelabra...
For me it is about seeing how a tool can be used and if it is worth installing. I am not going to bother install a tool and then try a command to see if it is worthwhile to have on my computer. I try to keep my computer junk-free so I only install something if I believe if its any worth for me.
I've been to the batteries and I have absolutely no recollection of hearing of this bit of history. Perhaps I was too taken in by the landscape. Underrated indeed, a second visit is in order!
Many of the terraforming plans include creating a magnetic field, e.g., a fully artificial one situated at L1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars#Magnetic_...
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UTF-8 also isn't supported by every tool, still it has become the standard encoding. 99% would be enough.

(actually not a fan of Elastic TabStops btw)
This is a discussion to be had before coding starts on a project. Do you care about style? If yes, choose a language that cares about style.
> Kind of reminds me of the 1970's lawsuit against UC Berkeley where women were claiming discrimination because of lower grad admissions than men.

That's the Simpson's Paradox [0]. In Simpson's Paradox, you observe a trend in sub-groups but this trend disappears when these sub-groups are combined. I'm not sure of how this is the same. Could you explain how this is the same?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox#UC_Berkele...
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Yes indeed! Godspeed, Brits!

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AWS is fixing it by moving to IAM authentication in the serverless ecosystem, rather than network segmentation. Serverless Aurora will support IAM auth at scale via its HTTP query protocol.

Keeping Lambda functions warm is great until you have 2 or more requests hitting the function simultaneously. They won't queue behind the pre-warmed function, they will spin up additional Lambda containers to serve in parallel. Unless you don't expect to get concurrent requests, there's no effective way to pre-warm Lambda functions.
We're working on converting EnvKey’s[1] babel/ES6 codebase to TypeScript. It has been a true pleasure so far and has already brought gains in safety and productivity. I've never worked with a type system that is so intuitive and so rarely violates the principle of least surprise. It's amazingly easy to pick up, and also easy to gradually introduce it to existing js code in an iterative fashion. Color me impressed!

A few questions for TS veterans:

- With babel, we used the module-resolver plugin to set a custom root for absolute imports. In TS, it seems relative imports (import x from '../../../i-hate-life') are the norm, which turns ugly fast. How are folks dealing with this? Or aren’t they?

- Our codebase uses Ramda heavily for FP, and it can be hard to get TS to play nicely sometimes. Any tips on how to most effectively do Ramda/FP in TS?

- Am I missing out by not switching to VSCode? I’m using ST3 currently and it works, but there’s no fancy intellisense. Are the benefits worth picking up a new editor for?

1 - https://www.envkey.com