skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if the average American spent time living with an Islamic family in the Middle East for a week

Or opposite. Dating girl from strict Muslim family was eye opening.
Because it is clickbait and unimpressive.

When you say "alone" the common sense implication is that you mean without a driver.

Not simply without escort vehicles which is not something that even happens with 99% of truck trips.
>Cubes come in more than one height, are you talking about the short ones?

I've never seen cubicle walls higher than ~5'. Most people (and we're talking software devs here, so men) are a fair bit taller than 5'.
You're treating these things like they're mutually exclusive. They're not.
I could not agree more - and in fact, have no recourse when a developer tells me with a straight face that their code "cannot crash". The worlds best type system doesn't prevent timeouts, running out of disk space, memory, etc. The attitude I typically receive when trying to push pragmatism instead of idealism is usually a "you just don't understand". Throwing an exception is _not_ the worst thing a program can do, by a hell of a long shot!
Once we have full AI and autonomous trucks, they will soon escape and form breeding colonies for all manner of free roaming mechs...
Learning about other cultures and other people’s way of life is incredibly important in an increasingly divided world. I strongly believe that if the average American spent time living with an Islamic family in the Middle East for a week

During the Colonial era, quite a lot of indigenous peoples were wiped out by exposure to new diseases. Last I checked, we still haven't figured out what caused Gulf War Syndrome, much less how to cure it.

I'm convinced that there are a lot more health problems related to traveling and having no understanding of what we are exposing ourselves to than gets recognized, and there are plenty of stories out there of people bringing back horrifying health issues from their honeymoon or whatever. (I'm thinking of some article about some couple that picked up some parasitic worm from walking on the beach. The photos were disturbing.)

And it can be an issue that a local wouldn't have a big problem with. Maybe they have immunity or maybe they know not do X or whatever.

I don't want to shut travel down entirely, but I think ideas like yours contain very, very large blind spots.
If I could upvote this more than once, I would. Spot on.
Hi
I included about a dozen references at the end of my post for overall material on this topic. I specifically chose these ones as they are very readable.
My favourite paper is defintiely the first one, "A comparison of popular point configurations on S2". It is very comprehensive in breadth as well as historical developments and includes copious references.

One of my other references is "Distributing many points on a sphere" as it is written by E.B. Saff who is basically a legend in this field.
Hope that helps!
Martin
Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers:
>sitting for 14 hours a day

Are you really sitting for 14 hours / day? That's insane, you need to move around more. You say you take breaks and do pilates, so maybe 14 is an exaggeration? If not you should try to be more active once you're home.
I appreciate where I live MORE because I see other things. Because you notice the differences and appreciate what makes it special. I spend 98% of my time there, and it's better because of the 2% of my time I spend elsewhere.
> Too many in the community want this or that and/or don't feel their opinion is heard. Then they switch to something else. Unfortunatley I think something like ReasonML will win in the end.

That's not the only reason ReasonML will win. The BuckleScript JS compiler generates fantastic JavaScript, with no huge extra runtime at all. Also, ReasonML benefits from all the stability of OCaml's type checker. And, as you suggest, both ReasonML and BuckleScript are in my experience a much friendlier and open community to experienced devs and commercial users.
Higher limits usually mean several bags.
That's a non-sequitur answer. He's refuting your claim that you can evaluate Musk's ability from his tenure at those two companies, because both are structured such that he can retain control regardless of his performance. He's not providing you with a rubric for evaluating CEOs, but rather pointing out how your own rubric is flawed.
> remove escape hatches needed to fill out the immaturity of the language

I think you mean "immaturity of the platform".

Also, native modules weren't the only "escape hatch". An Elm application can communicate with JS through ports.
I recently took on a contract to fix a busted elm project. There were no runtime exceptions but it was such a Frankenstein monster I couldn’t believe it.

If you’re doing any real work on the web, you’re going to have to use external libraries and code and such. You’re not going to have time to recreate an entire mapping framework in Elm or whatever and the minute you need to commingle in such a way you loose a major benefit of such system.

Also “no runtime exceptions” does not mean the application isn’t broken, does not absolve your developers from real testing and QA their changes.

Also it says a lot when someone wants to call their framework a kernel and patterns their behavior off you know who.
What is the “this” that Dart also offers? With the languages I specifically called out, a LARGE part of them is purity, and not providing the type system escape hatches that TypeScript/Flow does, to maintain easier gradually switching a codebase. A nice thing at first, but nothing gained for new projects.
"You are breathing air" - True, but it smells like a different place.

"eating food that boils down to the same components" - Only in the most technically reductive sense. There is no locally sourced crocodile where I live.

"eating food that boils down to the same components" - But entirely different stars

"you are interacting with homo sapiens" - With cares and life experiences utterly different to my own.
On United I can check bags up to 75lb (34kg) for free due to status, regardless of fare. I can't remember the last time my bag was weighed or marked.
We already live in that world (or country, at least). Your situation is an outlier, unfortunately. I'd personally rather have those cars be electric than burning fossil fuels, and if anyone can reinvent mass transit and make it available to people outside of major cities I'd happily take a train.
Sounds like reasonable removes to me, custom operators are a pain.
> All the data is recorded and the code is available.

PredPol as mentioned in the article is closed source and considered a trade secret not viewable by the public. It's the largest supplier of these tools in the world.
I'm also reminded of US and British tourism in hyperinflation Weimar Germany:. "oooh look you can live like a king for a dollar a month"
I've had a couple of offices where the cube farm required me to stand on my toes to see over the top, and I'm 5'9".
The autonomous sail-robot is about to cross the Atlantic
Go's approach? Go has the same extreme BDFL approach to ignoring community feedback in favor of the leader's vision. I don't see what is different about Go.
Indeed. But I think the demand is there - most of my colleagues are actually having trouble recruiting people with those skills.

We complain about it on...a regular basis.
I grew up without much money in a third world country. My memories from that time are much more vivid and meaningful than once I moved to the US and lived a well educated, middle class life. Money and comfort are good, but I seem to have lost something amidst the greater control and predictability of things here.
I agree with you in theory. It's an arms race which just makes the software/encryption better.
However, governments have a Trump card to this whole arms race.
Alot of countries just make encryption illegal.
People like me left the NRA because they focused too much on hunting.

We want them to focus less on hunting and more on civil rights, I am not a hunter. I do not own guns for hunting. I want an organization that will stand of for my right to own a gun, not to hunt
Complicated interop with JS also broke Darts back.
That sounds like Solmonoff induction. But, there is still the same problem. Why are concise explanations better? Solomnoff justified this assumption by claiming we are generated by a computable prior. But, that again pushes the question back to why we can assume this. Otherwise, no observation justifies a computable prior over random luck.
Turkey’s economic crisis can trigger the next crypto bull run
State of Diversity and Inclusion in U.S. Tech
Because he's a person. Because she has problems. Because he has a family. Because that's my friend and uncle and neighbor. What on Earth do you mean "why do we have to care about them?" Because they're real.

I get where you're coming from about the exasperatingly impossible web of moral obligations, but you can't give up.
Seeing these type of processes playing out over the years just impresses on me how exceptionally well done the Rust process was. The atmosphere and attitude of the community was always excellent.

For newbs/outsiders looking in, I think a lot of it has to do with a culture of validating people's experiences. That's difficult. If a user complains about it, the natural reaction can easily be to go defensive ("You're doing it wrong" or "we documented that here"). Rust has successfully fostered a culture of approaching it as an opportunity to learn something ("Why did you not see the documentation").
The best solution for almost all Linux users is to just use the kernel from your favorite Linux distribution. Personally, I prefer the community based Linux distributions that constantly roll along with the latest updated kernel and it is supported by that developer community. Distributions in this category are Fedora, openSUSE, Arch, Gentoo, CoreOS, and others.

Note the lack of RedHat, CentOS, Oracle, SLES int al from this list because:

Lots of people seem to like the old, “traditional” model of a distribution and use RHEL, SLES, CentOS or the “LTS” Ubuntu release. Those distros pick a specific kernel version and then camp out on it for years, if not decades. They do loads of work backporting the latest bugfixes and sometimes new features to these kernels, all in a Quixote quest to keep the version number from never being changed, despite having many thousands of changes on top of that older kernel version.

For many years I used to roll my own and actually enjoyed going through menuconfig. My first was make config on a Slackware distro (or was it Yggdrasil?) kernel version 1.99-alpha or something from memory but looking at the WP page I had an old distro then judging by the timescale. I think it was a CDROM off the back of a book. make config took about 20-30 mins on a 2.2 kernel (from memory). I've still got a couple of Gentoo systems with kernels that were carefully genkernel'd from around 2.4 or perhaps 2.6 32 bit through to 64 bit systems today. They are classic examples of "Trigger's Broom": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ship_of_Theseus_exampl...

Nowadays apt and pacman and co do the job for me. However, I know I can still always crank out the source into /usr/src/linux (symlink) and roll my own - smashing!
Inside Elon Musk’s Reversal on Taking Tesla Private
WHY cant we just standardize on bottle/cup size/shape? Just use different labels.
If I was the guy who risked my job (or more) to get this out there, I’d be ticked that this is all the journalist managed to produce with it.
It was too Haskell for me and used Bower. Seemed like a project that was far to removed from JS and its eco system.
I was wondering when this was going to happen. A repeat of when people thought www = Internet.
It’s a little more than that. It does confirm that there is a vehicle that is not total vaporware and is reliable enough to make this trip at least once. That’s something.

It doesn’t say anything about autonomy at all though, so readers looking for confirmation of that capability are not going to find much.
> Make the act of sending a message cost the send or money and I think spam goes away and self hosting becomes much simpler.

...and the service itself becomes less useful to everybody who doesn't want to self-host.

If you choose to off-road, you can't really complain about it being bumpy.
Peter Thiel is really a kind of philosopher - the venture capitalism is more of an outgrowth of something else than his primary focus. This is a person who reads widely, has big ideas and is consistently ahead of everybody else - his reputation is wholly deserved.

I've been following, causally at first, his ideas through books written about or by him, many hours of youtube videos and essays in and around the topics he talks about. It is difficult to distill this into a synopsis because although I can provide a TLDR it doesn't mean you'd get any predictive power of it.

I suggest doing your own homework and coming to your own conclusions. I think I'd give a lot for a photo of his bookshelves.

Here's a start.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2011/10/end-future-peter-thie...

A common theme in Thiel's thought is that 'reality is often very different from the mainstream conception of it'. Ron Unz wrote this essay which gives body to this belief.

http://www.unz.com/runz/our-american-pravda/

Another theme is that humankind is highly mimetic - meaning they have a desire to be copying each other. This comes out of the philosophy of René Girard and you'll have to read something of his to fully understand where we're going with this.

https://woodybelangia.com/what-is-mimetic-theory/

Watch this if you only watch one video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw-rxtwhzcY

Peter Thiel is at the intersection of an unusually large number of obscure and strange topics, that's the reason why he's ahead of the curve over and over. Things like Seasteading, Urbit, if you ferret away at the peripheral you start to see interesting stuff, some of which gets ferried back to the mainstream sooner or later he's not the only talent scout for weird ideas like this but there's surprisingly few people out there in these strange circles - I've found that I keep running into the same people over and over, only a few hundred of them I'd guess. I'm tired now, it's near GMT midnight but good luck on your quest!

A lot of Tyler Cowen's ideas intersect with Thiel, that's another good line of enquiry.
Anyone remember back in the 1980s when a UK medical school tried expert systems to do admissions and built in systematic bias?

Oh wait.. didn't that just happen again in Japan?

And here we have the tls discussing heuristics to sentencing which "out performs" the judge...
The values for the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron are:3.27, 3.27, 3.46,3.19 and 3.64, resp.

These produce the largest d for N=4,8,6,12 and 20 resp.
Thus, it is presumed by almost everyone that d=3.64 is the global upper bound.

Unfortunately, I believe it is still an open problem to to prove this or to describe a general upper bound for specific N not equal to any of these five values.
"Those movies — including “Captain Marvel,” “Dumbo,” “Toy Story 4,” “The Lion King,” “Frozen 2” and a new “Star Wars” installment — will now be key selling points for the new service Iger has referred to as “Disney Play.”

Sounds like the successor to DisneyToons, the crap sequel division of Disney. Should be called "Disney Replay".

Meanwhile, Amazon is coming out with new stories.
I agree, the absurdity of the notion of digital gatekeeping of beauty becomes apparent if we think what the first pictures of our planet from space have done for the ecology movement. People need to experience to connect.

Take that away and living in air conditioned condos and driving big diesel SUVs to the next strip mall for your latte is just how the world is supposed to be.
I recall looking at halogen a while ago (maybe a year?) and I didn’t really get where it was going. The goal is to do ui in a functional language and you chooses a functional language for various reasons. But then the halogen components are essentially reimplementing object orientation in purescript (so everything looks weird, there isn’t special syntax for common things, and the types are bizarre):

Components are these things that have a way to initialise themselves, an internal state, a way to receive messages and update their internal state, a way to compute from the internal state (ie rendering), and a way to reply to messages that are querying things (by having the message pass a callback for the reply as an argument). The only thing they have which is missing from standard oo is a way to pass up messages to their parent component.

After all that one must wonder what the point of using purescript for this is and why not just use a more object-oriented language fron the start?
So if I make two API requests and get some nonsensical data that comes back, (say v1 from the first request, and v2 comes back from the second because of some bug in the backend). The program can certainly prepare itself for validating that data, and reject the v2 if it's not prepared for it, but then what do you do? To me "crashing" that entire page is a reasonable way to get around that for some programs. You as a browser can also lose Internet, in which case you also need to be prepared for things that happen on the other end depending on the circumstances of disconnection (did my request go out before it died? should I retry?). The problem is certainly more constrained, to your point, by being in a browser, but it's trivial to get your program in a nonsensical state that such that you cannot render as soon as you introduce external APIs. Perhaps Elm gets around this somehow, but I'm failing to see how.

Edit: redirection --> disconnection
You aren't even familiar with the statistic and you're willing to paint it as irrelevant?
Bit of a mixed bag this one. Love the site itself. It's accessible, it's fast, it's easy to use. But it also only shows two jobs. One of them isn't remote, and it pays in euros but the salary section at the top of the page says dollars. I'll leave the discussions re: disclosing a disability to employers upfront or being refered to a company by a disability-specific jobsearch site to other people; I'm disabled myself but still don't have answers in those areas.
Containers are eating the world
Redirects to false front stores when you click on 'Buy fake Chanel' so you're actually paying notillegal.biz instead of veryillegal.biz directly. This scheme eventually is caught so they keep buying new domains and using new high risk processors. They could even be running the high risk processor themselves, if it's a successful enough illegal operation, then just reboot the scheme after being shut down.

Another way is they invent some third party payment scheme. 'This site accepts Foo vouchers and Foo gamer gold' for a ficticious game, and of course they also run the site that sells said gamer gold or vouchers for cc payments and helpfully link the buyers to it. If you're a criminal involved in organized crime you don't care about forgery and fraud setting up many phony entities to misdirect payments for as long as possible to a labyrinthe of deception until discovered.
Two men: the shoeshine and the customer.
D.O.Hill and Fox Talbot did caloptypes in Edinburgh. One is in Charlotte square, with a ghostly horse and man: man paid to hold horse while important person inside house.
This is a pretty frustrating read. Interpretability of automatic decision making processes is a genuine, important issue, but I'm not sure this issue is best explained by a writer who, as far as I can tell, has made no effort to understand basic questions like what an algorithm is. The generalized bafflement of the author is just mystification, a vague sense of spooky machines we can't understand, which doesn't help us understand the specific difficulties in understanding the decision making process that depend on processing huge quantities of data.
There’s not going to be one solution to all things. That’s a strawman argument.

I’m for allowing for ways to not use so much plastic. The technology exists - for instance, the oatmeal cubes I buy at Trader Joe’s could be charged to me one at a time and at the time they leave their container. It’d take take some doing, but it’s doable. For people not willing or able to provide a container then sell them the old plastic covered cubes of oatmeal in boxes two at a time. And charge them more.
Very interesting to see Greg’s perspective on upstream LTS kernels vs. what he calls “traditional” distributions with their own downstream LTS, like RHEL, Centos, Ubuntu-LTS etc.

Are there any good providers of enterprise-grade support for upstream LTS kernels, the way Red Hat and Canonical support theirs? I could see that as a viable (and perhaps cheaper?) alternative to a RHEL license in some cases.
> Centralization pros:

> * security

No, that is bullshit. It's the same kind of security that a "strong leader"/dictator provides. Really, it's the same kind of power structure. It provides security against certain kinds of adversaries. But at the same time it eliminates all security against a malevolent "strong leader". That looks like improved security as long a you have a benevolent and competent person/entity in control of the centralized structure, but the huge risk is built into the structure, and that is very much a security problem.

Facebook concentrating control over social interaction is a security problem. It's not a security problem for Facebook, but it is for society, and that is what counts.
Big money is doesn't matter when its denominated in fiat.
“The first computers were made by bit-slice components.”
If the AI is a better teacher than you, then the AI will be the teacher, and it takes no salary/food.

There will always be jobs that machines can't do. The question is will they be enough for all of humanity?

"their needs would be ignored by the corporations because there is no profit." But then how would you pay the teacher? Apparently there was some value in skills and you had money to pay the teacher. Unless you're implying that we'd go back to manually farming the villages, like the amish.
Common with many languages, actually.
Why would you complain about the author not answering a question that the article is not about?

I'd like to quibble with the term prediction in this context too. I think it's too strong to say that social scientists use historical data to make predictions. They would use historical data to make inferences about the likely causes of events and use that insight to inform policy going forward. That is not prediction but gaining insight into probable outcomes if certain things are done in certain contexts.

The closest one might come to prediction would be economic forecasting where one looks at various patterns in the data to make an, ahem, educated guesses about likely outcomes. This too is not exactly prediction because one is interested in the likelihood of a range of outcomes. Even those who do these things for a living admit that this is, at best, a guessing game. (As JK Galbraith once quipped, "The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable")
Ah thank you. I was stuck on a tight linkage between awesomeness and work:

If you're going to do something awesome, why not work hard [to achieve great things]?

or

If you're not going to something awesome, why work hard [because what's the point if it's not awesome]?
The Liberty of Nations
You might not see the container cost on the receipt but the balance is there. The balance to society to clean up your spent containers are not on your bill. Tell me how you’d solve that problem without generic containers and then I’ll entertain your suggestion(s).