skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or Western companies. For instance, whenever a country in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) defies the EU, the affiliated pro-federalist media outlets immediately start to claim how these countries are large beneficiaries of EU funds (read: ungrateful). The funny thing is that the economies of these countries are heavily colonized by Western companies and conglomerates that often siphon EU funds back into Western hands. Furthermore, the legal systems in those countries are still reeling from Soviet control and need a serious overhaul. Western companies gladly exploit loopholes and make corrupt deals with post-communist elites to, for example, get at funds or avoid paying enormous amounts of taxes.

Certainly, CEE countries have improved a great deal since '89, but the West really doesn't appreciate how traumatic WWII was for these countries, how disruptive the Nazis and the Soviets were, how half a century of Soviet domination scarred them, and how much work needs to be done to undo the damage. It's little wonder Western elites worry when these countries try to address these issues. They (the Western elites) are the beneficiaries of these exploitative practices that gladly employ in what Piketty calls "foreign-owned countries".
Those were written by William Safire, who's to speech writing what Mozart was to composing music. Previous HN discussion of what's been called the greatest speech never given here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14064103
Did they they delve too greedily and too deep?
Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre

I can't listen to it now without thinking about Mr Tourette [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mr+tourette
It measures activity and lets you set goals. I used to have days where I didn’t really do anything except lay on the couch or sit at the computer. Now I don’t.

https://www.apple.com/watch/close-your-rings/
Ok then, where's the next frontier? I can't see myself happy while continuing to work in an increasingly oligopolized, regulated industry. I'm young enough that I can switch to another career if it's worth the personal satisfaction and some monetary reward.
No Sex Please, We’re Apple: iPhone Giant Seeks TV Success on Its Own Terms
I don't mean everyone of course, just a majority. It's a "pull up your bootstraps and become a principal engineer or you don't deserve anything, so just move to rural Montana" atmosphere. There absolutely is another side, but there's a serious epidemic of "I got mine, so screw you" here.
It's easy to roll back capital costs if you make a mistake. That is far harder to do with people.
Big biz generally want a global marketplace given winner take all dynamics of digital companies.

Still, hopefully countries will learn the same lesson as they tend to begrudgingly do: free markets mean prosperity.

Also hope that we don't give foreign aid to countries with a censored internet. Probably a good (though diminishing as China buys good will... Until they realize the terms of the bargains they've struck aren't so great long term)
CEO’s Job Is a Full-Time Fundraiser – And How We Could Change That
> In fact, the demolition of the social system in the south is precisely preventing it from really leaving the crisis.

Isn't it arguable though that the politicians are choosing to cut social welfare instead of choosing to cut cronyism and political favors? In which case it's actually the left-wing which is abusing the economic crisis, using those in poverty as pawns in a bigger game?

> I want higher taxes if it comes, for example, with free university, like in Germany.

Is that really fair? Those in poverty are less likely to be qualified to go to university, so you are essentially subsidizing the wealthy with policies like that.
Wow hold on! The first is so widely taught I am surprised! Has there been accidents because people/software not knowing about such failing point? This is so dangerous. I titled “math that eventually fails to teach students the real math”.

I’m not sure how many math and engineering professors are aware of #1. Do PhDs learn this stuff?
> And even before landing on the moon there were many flights prior to that.

And SpaceX can (and does!) use the knowledge from all those missions, including the various rovers and other Mars missions.

That's partially a reason why SpaceX can work at all. They have access to all the knowledge that NASA and ESA spent billions and billions of dollars on, and the flexibility of being private and not bound to usual molasses-slow government processes as well as changing administrations with changing desires.

SpaceX as a result has both a higher rate of development and higher focus, as they can keep R&D/construction/ops concentrated and not spread around the whole US for "political" (aka senator money coffers) reasons. NASA always has to take politics into account, SpaceX can freely allocate funds wherever they believe is best for progress.
Karax is very promising to me. The Nim forum was re-built with it recently: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum However, it has no totally no documentation, and seems super alpha.
That’s a great trick. I’m saving it in my toolbox. Thanks
I’ve just moved from the UK to Germany. This was primarily enabled by Google translate and online courses like Duolingo, and by websites making the necessary tasks known and understandable.

The Euro is icing on the cake, not the… I guess the metaphor would imply “the main course”?
Python's older than Java, and only getting more popular.
What's the idiom... Like being nudged towards eating fish in a barrel.

I'm fascinated by the choice of soundtrack on this video.
Personally, it was always hard for me to figure out how much of the utility of 3D touch could just be achieved with long pressing. With the time that it takes to press down your finger, you're basically long pressing anyway
Natural Color System
In this context, deep space is anything not in earth orbit. JPL, for instance, runs the Deep Space Network, which is used to communicate with the Mars rovers, spacecraft orbiting Jupiter, etc. as opposed to the NASA TDRS network which is used to communicate with earth-orbiting satellites.

There are various, competing technical definitions of “deep space” — the ITU defines it as more than 2 million kilometers from earth — but the Deep Space Network, and similar networks operated by other countries, are typically used to communicate with interplanetary spacecraft, and are effective basically anywhere higher than geosynchronous orbit (26,000 miles/42,000 km).
Having long term health problems is highly correlated with not being able to work, though, and losing insurance coverage. This is one of the things that surprises many people who think they're well covered with insurance, and then become ill, and it's one of the most insane things about our system of bundling work and health insurance.
> Basically, if you're not actively working in tech or servicing tech companies, it doesn't make any sense to remain in the Valley.

From a game theory perspective, certainly not. The danger is: what happens when all the tech employees suddenly don't have any Uber drivers, any paramedics, any supermarket vendors, hell any cleaning personnel any more? When their homes get raided by criminals because cops cannot afford living in SV any more? When their kids have nowhere to go to school?

That's the thing why the Free Market does not work for basic human necessities. If the Free Market would do its job Walmart and Amazon employees wouldn't be forced to top their "wages" up with food stamps and other social benefits.
Career is not the most important thing to worry about in your 20s.

- Travel a lot, to all continents.

- Start systematic, long-term investment portfolio.

- Reduce romantic entanglement with attractive, psychotic girls (s/girl/boy/ as needed).
Indeed, but you must be careful not to be hostile to HR. You need to work out what they need to hear. So for instance, I was open to HR about some issues I was having but I was very careful to limit my information in a non-obvious way and I couched my explanations in a positive manner, and worked out what they needed to hear.

Ironically I wasn’t actually being dishonest (I just can’t do that) but I was very careful in what I said, and I was very careful not to be overly negative. And I did this when I had no other choice... it’s not something I would have done if I could have avoided it!
I recognize Common Lisp in your expectations :] http://lisp-lang.org/ multiparadigm, efficient, super tools (debugger, repl),…

https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl
In my experience, doctors have widely-varying, fact-free opinions that are often wrong on wearables' personal quant and consumer medical devices' precision & accuracy. Heck, some are even wrong on home-medical equipment. The reasons are medical school drills into them two things 1) only doctors and specialists can be "right" 2) everything else is wrong. This creates an opinion based on narcissism and elitism, rather than data.

Take a FitBit Charge HR 2. The one I have is consistently within 2-5% of hospital & doctor office pulse readings. That doesn't mean it's perfect in all circumstances, but that it's observations haven't been discredited with evidence and there's little/no counterexamples to show that a device I wear is somehow "inaccurate."

Another doctor claimed home blood pressure cuffs, products strictly-regulated by the FDA, are "widely inaccurate." This also seems binary-thinking FUD and wrong, because, anecdotally, I checked repeatedly and have an accurate consumer blood-pressure meter.

This is what happens when a profession encourages people to invest their egos in a preordained outcome.
The Milgram experiment has been thoroughly discredited.
how about 3 internets:

* censored
* "uncensored" but monitored by the DC-alphabet soup & Co
* the dark web
When measured in absolute terms (e.g. % of population that lacks access to sufficient food, electricity, education, running water, etc.) poverty has indeed been decreasing. For instance, I read an Economist article a while back that explained how during the 1960s and 70s a double digit percentage of the US population didn't have plumbing and similar figures for electricity. Today it's in the single digits, near zero.
You can trivially redirect all clients to node 1 whether or not there is a partition, and voila, you have a CAP system under that definition. If clients can be partitioned from servers then we're back in the original scenario in which switching is not allowed: just partition each client from all but one server (but a different server for each client).

Maybe there is a way to modify the CAP theorem so that it says something non-trivial (e.g. a theorem about the limit of how many node failures a Paxos-like algorithm can handle, but even this is probably trivial, namely half), but the CAP theorem as stated by the originators is trivial, and the proof is a dressed up version of what I stated above. I don't think the authors would disagree with this at all, since they explicitly state:

"The basic idea of the proof is to assume that all messages between G1 and G2 are lost. If a write occurs in G1 and later a read occurs in G2, then the read operation cannot return the results of the earlier write operation."

Isn't it interesting that such a paper has 1600 citations and has reshaped the database industry?
I feel like they're learning from the mistakes of their forbears and getting out before the getting's truly bad...
Congrats Japan! The images look a bit like "2001: a Space Odyssey"
I don't have to change anything in my editor all to use braces, I can just use them.

No extra work is less work than even a little.
The free market handles these factors just fine. If Uber can't find any drivers in the bay area they'll up their prices and pay drivers more. If municipalities can't find people to provide government services, they'll increase wages. That's why BART janitors pull six figures.
Have you seen Firefox containers?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
Earlier post (95 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18046190
Taking away choices, privacy, and freedom is not a theoretical problem. Most users would not consent to it if they fully understood it.
Last Minute Dreamforce Tips
Sometimes the problem is that it takes 10 years for the thing to finally start generating real money, but by this point everyone involved has moved on and you have customers that you don't want to let down, but really the thing is Rails 3 and the $100k of profit per year it is bringing in aren't really worth the headache of upgrading everything.

I think in the next 5 years someone is going to invent an entire stack for long-lived apps. Where every level is as simple as possible and the only updates that are issued are security updates. We need computers to be able to run 30 year old software without having to stress, and the only way I can think of doing that is to minimize feature development and complexity.
That article states over and over that they use EMG.
You really should try Julia, before making claims about its complexity.

The numeric type systems are simple, and designed for convenience, not to satisfy mathematical theory. In the case of FloatX, It's basically Any <: Number <: AbstractReal <: AbstractFloat <: FloatX

For complex datatypes, like vectors, matrices, dicts, etc, you have templatable datatypes, but that is no more complex than C++, and actually far cleaner in implementation.

For the most part, you do not NEED to make a Matrix{Quaternion}. And that's fine. However, if you do, the standard library will do the right thing, as if you had made a Matrix{Int32} or a Matrix{8BitGaloisField}. And if you choose to use Matrix{Float32}, the type system interacts with the compiler, and in the standard library it picks up the fortran BLAS library so you get faster-than-c performance.

On the other hand, you might be deploying a really large matrix on a supercomputing cluster, and it might be useful to re-index the matrix as a datatype that fits in the L1 cache of your Knights Landing chips. In which case, you have the option of redeploying as an AbstractMatrix{Float64}, implementing index catching functions, and dropping it in to you code (probably about 100 lines of code total, if even) without having to rewrite every single matrix operation everywhere.
I disagree. Safari way outperforms Chrome on MacOS while using considerably less battery.

I know, it's behind on some features/standards though.
Delaware is regarded as business friendly, investors like it (more so than eg:North Dakota). Investors means C-Corp.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101955_Bennu

For those interested, this is the asteroid.
Take a look at ungoogled chromium

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
I think you underestimate the power of "not my problem" thinking.

I agree future historians will judge our governments and our megacorps, the current keepers of humanity's resources, very harshly. However, many of those at the ships' helms are insulated from their own externalities, the consequences of their decisions. And most of the shares are held by others who are similarly insulated, or abstracted away through 401ks and mutual funds.

The core of the problem is that our entire system of resource allocation is based on who can make the most money with them and construct the tallest walls around them, not who uses them to better the most lives.

For every million lives destroyed by climate change, there is a million more that doesn't care about anything beyond their family, their friends, and their iPhone. A warming planet will make much of Siberia arable, for example.

I think the answer to your questions begins with another question: what would make a CEO not use lobbying to resist taxing externalities of his company? What about a board of directors? A shareholder? An "average voter?"

When we can answer those questions, we can begin to make progress.
Zoom and Skype killer, web-based video calls/meetings app
I meant the discussion in the intro courses; Griffiths just plonks down the Schrodinger equation on page one and you just have to eat it.

In contrast a textbook about thermodynamics will be all steam engines at the start, or maybe talk about a thermometer. Solid, sensible things and no talk about Gibbs free energy or any of the deep theory that exists.

You could start a QM book talking about the double slit experiment, but would have to write a lot of "one interpretation" and "some views say this". Or you could just brazenly pretend there is no controversy and make every reader that knows of it very suspicious indeed.
By and large if a paper is published from a Chinese University, you ignore it.

Sounds like we should do that with the students as well.
Most knowledge work involves managing many layers of abstraction simultaneously in your head and also working in a collaborative environment, but only programmers seem to try to make it out like they deserve some award for doing their job in this regard.

We get it, being interrupted sometimes can be a nuisance when it causes you to lose your train of thought. If you find dealing with other human beings during the course of your day to be such a detriment to your productivity, perhaps you shouldn't work in a collaborative field.
I'm surprised I haven't heard hype about this until I opened hacker news and learned about the historical feat after the fact. I guess even with all the globalization and such we in the West don't learn about space endeavors unless it's NASA or the ESA.
Ya, first thing I did was to inspect. The page’s layout is so simple. Their <div>’s use look so rich.
I presume the writers are not in the US. $1000 goes a long way in India or the Philippines.
> Companies who do not spend their money according to stockholder wishes get sued, correct? For misuse of funds?

No, they get sued for malfeasance: taking investments and failing to return a profit.

It doesn't matter what stockholders want, the purpose of buying stocks is to make a return, and if a company fails to prioritize profit above all else, then they have broken the implicit or explicit contract with their shareholders: investment now in return for dividends later.
I also used to do exactly this. Except with Safari as my untrusted 3rd. Eventually, I just got tired of the trouble and found that having a complete, searchable web history was actually so much a useful feature for me. So I stopped pretending and sold out to Google completely.
Seeya
I am only talking about marketshare.
> prices in a given country with VAT will just appear x% higher across the board, and then the real question is more of disposable income.

In other words, "if you can't make at least a 20% profit on the value you add, you're not allowed to make a profit at all". This stifles innovation at the margin.
“I doubt BFR even exists outside of graphics renditions.”

They already have sections of BFS built. They showed a photo of that Japanese guy who bought a trip around the moon standing in one. Gwynne Shotwell (the sensible one, not Musk) is talking about doing test hops late next year. They’ve been test-firing the engine for a long time. So: what the hell are you talking about?
> They want you to think of it like a window into your online life, a window that is the same no matter where you are or what device you use.

And that's a terrible loss for human civilization. They are going to destroy the open, decentralized Web to build a walled garden for Google to cater to some hypothetical "average user". It's truly absurd.
The Latest Bitcoin Bug Was So Bad, Developers Kept Its Full Details a Secret
This is really cool and educational! How difficult is encoding relative to decoding?
Dependent types are static. GP was trying to say that this book is about more than just normal static typing (of the kind that TypeScript adds to JavaScript).

There is no problem compiling dependent (or static) types to JaveScript, as the type checks are done at compile time, and don’t require any support from the JavaScript runtime.
A community which won't fight to preserve itself and filter out garbage is doomed.

A Prime Directive only can be taken seriously when existential threats are minor.
From the sea-floor anomalies, we are pretty certain that the field is mostly a dipole (magnet like) during last 160 million years. The actual magnetic field direction at any one place at a specific time will vary from the ideal dipole field by up to around 30 degrees, but over thousands of years the average field direction is that of a dipole(mostly). So, to get a good idea of the true direction of the magnetic field at a given place on a continent in the past, one would want a decent number of measurements of different ages (but not enough time to pass so that tectonic motions are significant, say less than a few million years). The more measurements the more certain one is on the accuracy of the direction and a lot of Fischer statistics are used in this determination to understand how certain one knows the true direction.

The further back we go the more unreliable and less certain we are that this is a reliable mechanism. The rocks get changed by chemical reactions or heat. The solid inner core grows, so the solid core size will change the dynamics of the field greatly. The whole mantle seems to have moved very quickly all at once durning some times, but so this was so long ago there are few rocks that have been studied that this strange possibility is still highly debated.

If someone tells you about the magnetic field of the Earth at 2 billion years, they are just stating a speculative theory. The last 160 million years, we have a pretty good idea.

If you want to learn in depth about this science, I recommend you check out a text book by Butler (1992) https://www.geo.arizona.edu/Paleomag/

which is good intro textbook or Tauxe (2018)
https://earthref.org/MagIC/books/Tauxe/Essentials/
Which is more up-to-date and more in-depth.

Or even chat online if you like. email is in my profile.
I feel like there's some implied assumption here that this change lets Google do something evil that they couldn't do before, but I don't really see what.

If you're logged into Google properties (independent of browser), Google can already track you across most of the internet, via their Ads and Analytics embedded in a rather large percentage of web sites. If you don't want Google to track you on non-Google web sites, then you really need to use separate browser profiles (or separate browsers). Have one profile for Google properties and a separate one for other things.

Ironically, Chrome has really good multi-profile support. It's easy to have different Chrome windows running different profiles, each of which has all its own settings, storage, login state, etc. Give each one a different theme to make it easy to tell which profile you're using.

Firefox has a concept of profiles but AFAICT you can only run one profile at a time. :(
> The free market handles these factors just fine.

Then do tell me why companies like Amazon and Walmart get away with, essentially, state subsidies for their employees and why in many parts of the US teachers complain about being massively underfunded, to the point of Oklahoma switching to 4-day school days so teachers can work on the side to earn money?!
Is it possible to run Chrome in a sandbox on Linux? I no longer trust Google enough to run with regular permissions. I'm only using Chrome for testing web apps anyway, and haven't been using it for web surfing for almost three years now.
> To 99% of people, these features are useful and helpful, with the downsides being mostly philosophical or theoretical.

There is something there that makes it comparable to the early nature conservation movements. Fast forward a couple generations and nearly 99% of the population is pretty convinced on climate change and that we've messed up quite severely - but not enough to stop messing up.