skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go away, they are only postponed to someone else's advantage. Therefore, they made war with Philip and Antiochus in Greece, in order not to have to fight them in Italy... They never went by that saying which you constantly hear from the wiseacres of our day, that time heals all things. They trusted rather their own character and prudence — knowing perfectly well that time contains the seeds of all things, good as well as bad."

~ Machiavelli

YMMV
Julia's multiple dispatch setup makes it very easy to generate fast generic algorithms. You can convert your mathematical paper on XYZ (adaptive stochastic differential equation integrators) into a generic algorithm, and it will automatically work with complex numbers, arbitrary precision arithmetic, automatic differentiation, numbers with uncertainties, arrays on the GPU (i.e. no-copy and no-allocation GPU usage, almost like it was written for it!), array on the TPU, arrays distributed across a cluster, etc. Then to make it really fast what you need to do is not just improve the computation, but also the mathematics. Fortunately, making \ turn into a method optimized for triangular matrices is as simple as making the type Triangular, or making it use BLAS's banded matrix algorithms just requires making a BandedMatrix. Suddenly, if your algorithm is generic to types, you get a fully adaptive algorithm with specialized linear algebra on the GPU plus ..., and all you did was transfer your code from your paper to Julia. That's insanely powerful, and when you understand how it works it's a thing of beauty.

I write about it this in a lot more depth at my blog: http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/category/programming/juli... that page gets you to everything on Julia. One recent article which highlights Julia as a tool for code generation and how its type system leads to absurd feature composibility is http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/why-numba-and-cython-are-.... For me, Julia has opened up a whole research area of computing without arrays of floating point numbers but actually thinking about type encodings for feature composibility in order to perform complicated numerical mathematics efficiently without having to write much code.
Isn’t it already true that autonomous driving has saved lives?

I’m not sure what you’re waiting for.
Here's a fundamental problem with psychology reproducibility even in principle: experiments often depend on the subject not knowing about the experiment; therefore, the more well-known an experiment, the harder it is to perform.

For example, it would be difficult to perform a large Stanford Prison Experiment without any of the participants knowing about the Stanford Prison Experiment (which knowledge would taint the results). And if you select for ignorant participants, your sample is no longer random.
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Ah, an advocate for murdering the political opponents of the state.

(Not trolling, that's literally what happened)
You are absolutely correct. That would almost certainly reduce deaths, and I would support taxing myself more for more money to go towards safer public transportation to reduce traffic fatalities.

I will, at the same time, support self-driving car research.
There's a difference between aspiring to something versus pretending to already have it -- one quality is much more admirable than the other.
> a mysteriously noisy galaxy 3 billion miles away

Some close galaxy, that!
>For the cost of a studio apartment in Manhattan one could rent a free standing house in Los Angeles and with year round beautiful weather.

Shhh. This is why Silverlake is full of New Yorkers now. If anyone asks, its terrible here.
How to overcome a depression with Dharma?
How does yarn pnp compare to nix? (node2nix)

I've been thinking about unifying our current ivy+yarn+bower setup, but haven't yet gotten much past thinking about it...
DST!? I still deal with DST(haven't heard SS&C mentioned) in the medical insurance industry every day. Nothing but bad things to say about them.
I don't remember the exact wording, but I've heard and read that alpacas are fairly nice, while llamas will wait to knife you when your back is turned.

I have a friend down under (to the right of Oz) who has the former and has some knowledge of the latter. I seem to recall her confirming this, when I mentioned it.
Self-delivering bicycles my man, too light to kill people in impacts, slow when autonomous.
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Facebook has been getting increasingly slugish for me for several years now. I wonder if it’s got anything to do.
No kidding! I recently visited Pittsburgh and remarked to my passenger that I'd have zero (expletive deleted) chance of getting anywhere on time without a nav. More than once, I missed turnoffs and entire roads when navigating the hills outside of downtown.
Sure, but you could still create a two way walkie talkie that couldn't be eavesdropped on and would allow faster than light communication this way, theoretically.
Can we get rid of Yarn instead?
rail and bus infrastructure is never going to be feasible in the small town in Texas where I grew up, 1.5 hrs from Ft. Worth. Not to mention all the even smaller towns in that county and the counties around it.

How is one supposed to move 3 horses across the state using rail and buses?

What about my parents driving to surrounding lakes to kayak? Just cary that on a train that for some reason actually goes to these lakes in the middle of nowhere?

What about hauling larger personal watercraft? Just don't do that? Store it at the body of water you've chosen to exclusively use your boat/jetski on?

Rely on Amazon to handle the logistics of shipping hay for your livestock?

Maybe these are all just cultural things that need to disappear and be replaced by magical super-efficient factory farms or not replaced at all. But there are other ways of life than just living in an apartment and commuting to an office.
Of course and it's fun! :)

I also often find myself going through all the steps in one of these articles then when I'm all ready to reap the results of success I move on to something else.
That misses all the homeless people who are living in their vans
But then you have no choice but to get everywhere by car. It's an awful life for some people.
> The fake it til you make it crowd had the fantasy that you just hook up some cameras to a machine learning system, train it, and you have self driving.

There are about 7 billion instances of those learning systems though.

Will this be replicated with machines in the next 10 years? I have no clue.

Is this doable at all? Sure.
The 4-Hour Workweek - made me quit my job and start a business. Since then I've been able to travel internationally for the first time in my life while working as much as I want.
If you care about traffic safety and take steps to be a safer driver (minimize distractions, pay attention, don't drive while under the influence of drugs, including alcohol) then you are almost certainly not a significant part of the problem. The problem is other drivers, whom you have no control over, and who can ruin your life at any moment with sheer carelessness and with few consequences.
They don’t need to match in every category, they just need to match in one category and then detect when they’re in that situation.

It will be a gradual transition as they learn how to handle more and more situations.
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> electromagnetic radiation basically has every characteristic you're looking for in a communications medium

Communication by electromagnetic radiation suffers from the fact that the radiation diffuses indiscriminately in all directions. Consider two models of "communication" -- in model 1, messages are sent by lighting a lantern and waiting for the other party to see it, and in model 2, messages are sent by propelling a less wave-like rock into the other party.

Model 1 is faster. But in model 2, my messages don't get broadcast to the entire world as I send them, all the energy I put into sending the message goes into delivering it (whereas most of the energy given off by the lantern is wasted), and if I start throwing rocks at my friend, that will not in general interfere with the rocks thrown between you and your friend.
I think any of us as executives would have trouble making this decision. The Chinese government's human rights record remains undeniably reprehensible, but staying out of China means cutting your company off from ~20% of the world.
I don't know if I buy the justification for supporting multiple syntaxes. It's a slippery slope towards appeasing a million people's particular syntactic pet peeves, and it's not worth the effort of supporting them all.

With the exception of s-expressions (too many parentheses) and mandatory/significant whitespace, most people don't seem to care too much about syntax, IME. Semantics are much more important.
I'm not sure where you get "despite the recommended base image being debian". From the best practices docker docs:

> Whenever possible, use current official repositories as the basis for your images. We recommend the Alpine image as it is tightly controlled and small in size (currently under 5 MB), while still being a full Linux distribution. [1]

[1] https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/dockerfile_be...
I can only think about this and be fearful due to the staggering number of Docker tutorials that happily whisk away the details as a sales pitch for streamlining the development process. Similar to the Node ecosystem, there's bound to be lots of junk out there that will never be updated.
Except when they do go down it can be a catastrophic business interrupting event. Which is why the cloud model of assume everything is going to break and all your hardware is disposable works much better (IMO).
Direct replications are done in science 100% of the time something becomes fact. Eg, see my other post here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17981869

Btw, I dont consider either psychology nor medical research to be a science at this point. I just call them "research", which seems neutral enough to me.
I'm going to take a stab at phrasing the question in terms of a simple yes or no answer. Do you believe it is possible that there exists a physical phenomena that, if described to you right now, would clearly be a "flight of fancy", however would in fact turn out to be real? Note I'm not asking you to state what that phenomena is or to "imagine" anything at all. Just that it can be ruled out that anything is really left to be discovered. Just as though it were the year 1500 and someone described radio waves to you. Because if you say no, that seems awfully confident that science has basically discovered every significant aspect of physical reality, it's just the small details left. The same attutide would have existed hundreds of years ago.
Not true. Many of these neighborhoods are extremely walkable. I used to live in one called West Hollywood
When I lived there I thought it was too damn hot at least half of the year, and I was in Santa Monica. It was a bloodbath for cyclists and pedestrians, too.
Hongkong as well! My god that was some unreal efficiency in subway systems. NYC is a poor mans system in comparison.
Sarcasm? I just see trees.
Voting for taxes on tech companies should do the trick?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17942252
my rule of thumb is: Anything over 5 years is n to infinity +/- 1 year.
Sure, I am a suburbanite and I understand the appeal of that. But I felt like it was a bad mix in that you still had city-like problems, but nevertheless had to drive everywhere in awful traffic. Maybe it'd be different if I were living there rather than visiting.
> That's not a feature I have any intention of using

Fair enough, but it is a security feature I can use to harden my system against attackers. Several Linux-distros support this OOB these days.

But if you're not interested, no pressure. Everything works fine without it.

> Purely anecdotally/ranting, my only real experience with EFI was trying to boot from a USB stick on someone's machine (to try and recover some of their data, if I recall). I couldn't figure out how to even get a menu or anything, so I gave up.

EFI is different for sure. I can't say I blame you for not wanting to read up all about it[1] when you had other stuff to do.

That said, EFI is conceptually and practically much simpler than traditional BIOS boot. It doesn't rely on magic bytes being written in specific sectors, it doesn't put a limitation on boot devices or types.

(Overly) simplified: It just says that if your medium of choice contains a file a \efi\bootx64.efi on a FAT-partition, your machine will be able to boot that thing with no further action required on anyone's part.

As such creating a bootable medium involves 1. having the right FS-type, 2. copying the files.

I haven't looked into OpenFirmware so I can't really compare, but compared to traditional BIOS I find EFI conceptually much simpler, much more manageable and to top it off much more secure.

I'm happy.

[1] https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-...
~ 100TB an hour of data.

I’m guessing it doesn’t compress well. Do they write that to disk or filter it in memory and only pass on a subset?
Need? No, I don't need it. I have an iPhone X, which I paid $1,200 for. It replaced a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, which I think I paid $700 for.

My X gives me better integration between my MBP, iPad, and AirPods. Siri is actually somewhat usable now, though it has room for improvements. I use it quite a bit while driving to "read" and respond to text messages, and I almost always have my AirPods in while driving. I drive a Jeep, without doors, and I've noticed some hearing damage that I attribute to the wind noise at highway speeds. My AirPods mean I can listen to podcasts or music without cranking the volume so high that people can hear it in their houses next to the road.

It's neat that my iPhone has so much processing power, but I rarely use it. The camera is good enough that I don't feel I have to carry my dedicated camera with me on a daily basis anymore, but when I do, I occasionally transfer my photos from it to my phone to post something on Instagram or upload through Lightroom to a shared gallery. I do all of my photo post-processing in Lightroom on my iPad, and usually have it with me.

At the end of the day, though, it's purely a luxury item. I like having good tools, and I make enough money to buy some. The difference in satisfaction for me between using my old S7 Edge and the iPhone X is enough to justify the cost to me.
In Pittsburgh, it's the topography that thwarts you. In Boston it's the other drivers.
It does raise a question of cross-team communication. If one team proposes a change in their dialect, can another team review it in a different dialect?

At that point, developing semantic diff capabilities seems to become vastly more important. At the same time, syntax abstraction might already give you the tools to start from as well.
Any EM waves created to be highly directional at earth-scale distances quickly lose that directionality at galactic-scale distances. Doesn't have to be spherical, but it will quickly spread out over distances much greater than typical solar system sizes.
Why is this even being profiled? It's not particularly innovative, it hasn't flown, there's no price, and the tech is untested.
San Diego is as good or better in certain ways but its also a much smaller city.

San Diego has also struck me as a bit more of a monoculture than LA. (although this may be my ignorance) Different parts of LA feel very different.
There's no evidence of that assertion.
We're talking about commute and long-distance travel. In most scenarios, you don't carry that much luggage. You don't carry your horses and kayaks when you go to work or travel overseas.
> With sincerity, there is vulnerability, and while many consider that to be weakness, I count it a strength.

I, too, count vulnerability a strength. There's an essay I keep meaning to write about it, but the short of it is that each of us has needs (and 'rough edges'), that can't be filled by self-sufficiency, but by connection. And vulnerability is what makes connection possible.
It's a huge, inelastic compute resource. The term "huge" can't be overstated here - however "big" you think that is, you probably aren't thinking big enough. That's the whole sell. If you ever need to scale horizontally, then your mainframe is too "small". It's not unusual to assign 2048 cores for a scheduled job on a mainframe.
> The lure of a market of a billion people is an illusion.

It's not an illusion. Go ask the hollywood studios. Go ask Apple. Go ask GM. Do you really believe those well paid business folks in hollywood, apple, GM, etc are banking on illusions?

> So by doing business in China Google is undermining its own values

Google never had any values. The only people who believe that are the naive who fell for their marketing campaign. Google is a company out to make money for its shareholders. They are fundamentally no different from exxon or disney.

> This is the country that starved millions of its own citizens (the Great Leap Forward), annexed Tibet (and now pretends Tibet never existed) and killed thousands of its own citizens in peaceful pro-democracy protests (Tiannemen Square), the last only ~30 years ago. How quickly we forget. And now Xi Jinping (aka "Winnie the Pooh") has abolished term limits and seems set to install himself as dictator for life in the model of Vladimir Putin.

What does this have to do with business? Why is it that whenever china is mentioned, the top comments invariably have political agenda behind it? Why don't you mention that china lifted 800 million people out of poverty? Does that not fit your agenda?

Regardless, the one thing I agree with you is china is not going to "surrender their industries to foreign competitors." Just like we wouldn't surrender our industry to china. That is common sense. What is happening is that china is giving portions of their market to foreign companies in exchange for what they want.

An example of this obviously tech transfer. Or china setting aside X number of hollywood movies to show in their huge movie market. Of course hollywood is going to give something for a portion of china's movie market share.

The idea that china's market is an illusion is verifiably false. Listen in on tim cook's quarterly conference call sometime.

Or take a look at box office numbers. US companies are making serious money in china.

https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2140381/china-w...

>I can't hope for much more than enough people take such a stance to wake up the leadership of these companies but I'm not holding my breath.

Wake up? Do you really think you know anything that the CEOs of apple, google, etc doesn't know? What hubris.
Most signals would presumably also be highly targeted. The narrower the beam you are sending, the less energy is required to send the information. Unless aliens cheap out on antennas or prefer to waste lots of energy on broadcasting in all directions, we are very unlikely to be in the path of their communication beams.
Why in the world would you want to do that? As this example shows, the competition is good for the ecosystem.
Note that the 3000 daily deaths is worldwide, not just the US. The daily US total is about 100. I do agree that any improvement on those numbers with AI should be applauded.
Absolutely, I highly recommend trying the various sizes in person either at an Apple Store or at another retailer. The hands-on test was what sold me on the Apple Pen.
We know one way in which it would be superior - very low interaction rates which ordinary matter which would mean much longer propagation ranges.

And their difficultly is a bonus in itself - if you want to hide your communications as much as possible.

Cost is not always the only metric to optimize. Even today, people try to use quantum entanglement to create communication channels where snooping is detectable.
"I don't think it's a comparable flight of fancy to ask about whether there's a way you could detect unaccounted-for energy within some region that isn't one of the usual suspects."

I gave you one interpretation of what I mean by flight of fancy already, which doesn't match what you seem to be reading it as.

The problem with the question about where stuff could be hiding is that, as I said, I'm as up-to-date as you can expect to be on this stuff for a layman, and I'm not aware of any "unaccounted for" energy that might be useful for communication. It is not known whether "dark energy" is simply a violation of conservation or if it is perhaps coming from somewhere else, but it doesn't seem useful for communication either way, and I'm not aware of any other places where energy is not accounted for.

Indeed, note all the modern articles are discussing how we are in precisely the opposite situation, and that's the problem for physicists today, that we do seem to have all the energy accounted for and there's nowhere else for physics to be hiding, which is a massive problem because we know we're not done yet.

At the moment, hypotheses about such things would be based on zero evidence. Again, I'm pretty comfortable calling that "flight of fancy". Maybe someday one of them will be correct. But the vast, vast majority of "flights of fancy" are not. Like that stupid "first they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win" quote that everybody reads as if it's some sort of inevitability. In reality, what happens is that "they laugh at you, end of story" is the dominant case. There is no path of causality where simply because they're laughing at you you're inevitably on the path to winning. The ability to imagine in an incredibly hand-waving way that maybe something exists is not the slightest bit of evidence that it does.
While I don't disagree, this isn't something they do on a daily basis like you, so they're going in with blinders on.

Unfortunately, mapping documentation is absolutely abysmal. 90% of what's available online is either eight years out of date, riddled with TODO:'s, or a mish-mash of incompatible versions.

As someone who doesn't do this for a living, but has to build 70,000 maps on a weekly basis, I know it's a nightmare. Especially when you're going in for the first time.

I think they did a pretty good job considering they have to be jacks of all trades.
You mean people without a car? Because the freedom of having a car and being able to go literally anywhere relatively quickly is pretty great. I've lived in both LA and NYC for a number of years. In both places you can easily live 10 minutes from where you work, or an hour away. Where you live/work is up to you.
Perhaps we just found out?
California is doing great in this regard[0]. In my opinion we're lucky to have Jerry Brown at the helm. If you have nice, boring elections, then you can get nice, boring people in leadership positions.

[0]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/jerry-browns-legacy-a-6-1-billi...
Yes but you were in Santa Monica one of the most touristed places in California. South bay sounds more your speed.

Hot by your standards maybe and also has been hotter in recent years but generally speaking most people find Southern California to have the best climate in the US and also in the world.
Common tangential theory: Any advanced civilization compresses their data so its signals will become indistinguishable from noise
Of course there are going to be wide swaths of the United States where passenger rail and bus service isn't going to make much of a dent for local transportation.

Regional transportation is an entirely different question. Is there a rail line running through the small town in Texas where you grew up? I bet there is, and I bet there is the remnants of a passenger station too. What would it mean to your small town if people could easily commute by rail to the bigger city 45 minutes away? I bet people would be more interested in living in that small town.