skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NASA tried "faster, better, cheaper". It didn't work out so well.

Mars Climate Orbiter, Mars Polar Lander were two missions executed under the FBC regime. They failed, arguably due to underfunding that elevated risks. It's hard to say, because the statics are sparse.

I'm personally ok with paying taxes to fund missions at the level of, say, New Horizons (~$700 million over 15 years) or Cassini (>$3B).
I totally agree that adopting Christianity as an axiom makes no sense. However, "existence has some greater purpose or meaning" is a not-entirely-unreasonable axiom for someone to adopt, and I think someone could get from there to Christianity as a conclusion.
I don't understand what you mean by weighting by comment?

The corpus of HN comments is public and available to anyone who wants to do a sentiment analysis on them. I've not seen any compelling-enough examples of sentiment analysis to want to do it.
Gordon McComb, Father of Hobby Robotics, Has Passed Away
I’d be surprised if https://www.lemkesoft.de/en/products/graphicconverter/ can’t convert them
It depends on why you are seeking an alternative service.

Since you mentioned privacy, Proton Mail is, in theory, good for those with privacy concerns. Why in theory? Well, can't really trust anyone these days, can we?

I mean, trusting a convicted perp or an unknown entity? Well, the unknown might be clean still, so it's better than nothing.

But in the end, for privacy, the best is definitely self hosting.
I think you meant "painlessly".
I wondered what Adam Smith thought about your statement that the ideal labor force is slavery. So I looked it up.

( Book I chapter 8 of the wealth of nations seemed to have some information that might be pertinent: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations; Direct link: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_I/...) .

At one point he discusses the wages in North America, and how high wages seem to correlate to rapid economic and demographic growth. That does seem to mean he doesn't quite agree with you on what is more efficient.

In other places, Adam Smith seems to think slavery is rather inefficient. One argument he presents is: who do you trust more with the upkeep of a person?
* a master who may have many priorities;
* or the person themselves, where their upkeep is by necessity their own highest priority?

Skim it for yourself and see what you can find!
Yeah, but you know what? That's was their choice
>even if you set a passphrase it will only encrypt passwords and none of the other data such as your browsing history.

This[1] seems to imply otherwise.

[1]:https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/165139#passphrase
It's not like space flights are new, their price never dropped. We'd need an energy revolution for that to happen, very unlikely...
This article is about a year old. Here is a later article about the patient's death a few months after treatment.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/05/scientists-c...
Quine – The Limits of Knowledge (1973) [audio]
Resources are not infinite. Better to have a careful allocation through serious consideration of cost than to let the chips fall where they may.
So, two questions:

1. What parts of AI/ML have to be nondeterministic?

Once the model is trained then it should be completely deterministic. There are some training techniques that randomize the order or grouping of data, but they are primarily used because random is almost as good as finding the optimal ordering/grouping and finding the optimal ordering/grouping is hard. Sometimes randomness is used to augment the data to give you more examples to for against (because the model is too complex to train/fit with the data you have it you want to be robust to certain variations in input.
If you're talking outputs then you should get the same outputs from a model given the same inputs. There are some really bad models out there that are way over fitted (relevant xkcd - https://m.xkcd.com/2048/ see "house of cards") and some people working on ML have a terrible grasp of statical techniques (just try models until they find one that fits), but even these models are deterministic.

What is so bad about nondeterminism anyway?
Ethernet used nondeterminism to handle collision resolution. There best prime finding algorithms are nondeterministic. There is nothing wrong with appropriate nondeterminism.
iPhone XS - works anywhere on the keyboard but I think apple may change that because the XR doesn’t have force touch.

I hope not though.
It definitely happens, and there are a lot of really bad children's books whose primary purpose is to fit into merchandising empires out there.

But the ratio of quality work to crap is much higher in children's books than in other media. Especially if you stick to children's books that aren't attached to toys or other media. Compare, for example, anything Disney, where the books are often just a long series of nonsequiturs with barely any narrative structure, let alone emotional depth, to anything by Philip Stead.
Doctors, maybe but I doubt about this when it comes to big pharmaceutical corps.
Greece uses high-tech drones to fight tax evasion in holiday hot spots
For acute emergencies, like a heart attack or car accident, US hospitals are obligated to treat your immediate needs if you enter the lobby.

You just clutch your chest and say, "Help, I think I'm having a heart attack!"

Sadly, cancer doesn't qualify. Either you pony up $50,000 - $200,000 in the hospital lobby, or they call a security guard and escort you out of the building. Then you go home and die.
I wish I could turn back the time and slap me in the face for majoring in Computer Science.

I should have gone something completely different; like arts, photography, even gardening.

What have I accomplished for majoring CS and ending up unemployed for 3+ years now and became a "jack of all trades, master of none"?

I guess that's the thanking part of getting things done and deliver before deadlines...who knows? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also, if I had to choose between studying for a degree and go for a vocational program, I would choose the latter.

Technology for me is not worth it anymore; only as your hobby, because of the pace you choose to follow, not the stressful "catch me if you can" type of learning process.

If you want to succeed in your life in pretty much anything and everything is by becoming the best of the best at one thing, not on a stack of technologies much like how web development is pushing us to go for.

If I knew I would end up like this, I would have stayed faithful to C++ since 2003 when I first started using it and master it.
Have you considered Flutter?

Supported by VSCode and IntelliJ community edition. Hot reload is the cat's PJs.
Do you have enough capital to become a registrar?
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The issue is severance during company bankruptcy.

Nobody ever expects companies to be 'generous' that's not a thing - the issues are in contracts like anything else.
From 8 to 20 hours watchstanding, you're basically not watchstanding. It went like this:

Hour 1: Fine

Hour 2: Walk around a bit, then fine

Hour 3-5: Jesus, I never should have joined the Navy

Hour 6: I want to pull out my 9mm and use it on myself

Hours past 6: I am functionally useless

Some jobs that aren't knowledge-jobs are hard on your mind, too. The reason security/watchstanding is so hard is that you have to be alert at all times while doing, effectively, jack squat. It isn't a much different level of alertness than I am in while programming, now that I think about it carefully.
> didn't seem any more complicated than Grade/Maven etc all based Android Studio builds

Can you say anything nicer about it than that? I've used Make, ant, and cmake, I've built and packaged multiplatform GUI apps using Eclipse RCP, I've built modern web apps using npm and babel, and building Android apps was the single worst experience out of all of them. Comparing a toolchain to Android sounds more like a takedown than a defense.
I have used IntelliJ IDEA since the early 2000's and used it for Android development since Android first came out.

It used to be an amazing experience, and when the news came out that Google was going to switch to IDEA for their official tools instead of going with that Eclipse I was thrilled. Finally everybody was going to able to know just how fast and efficient Android development can be.

How wrong I was. When Android Studio came out, it was incredible slow. Even today, after years of improvement to the developer experience it still isn't as efficient as plain IDEA was before Google created Android Studio.

I actually lay most of the blame on Gradle, which became mandatory around the same time. I never thought that someone would create a buid tool I dislike more than Maven, but it seems they succeeded.
The Attorney General may not understand it well, but the people advising him may. The metadata collection is an "always on" type of surveillance, and under such conditions all it takes is one slip up in OPSEC to be caught out.

Some of these politicians may look like clowns at times, but don't underestimate the level of intelligence (and agendas) of those working for them behind the scenes.
No one is stopping you from reading the NYT or twitter.

But let them compete without the distortion of (ab)using quite so much Personally Identifying Information, and see if you'd still be happy to!
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She might be mentally ill and a shitty person...

Also, sometimes you can have empathy, but can't personally handle someone. You have to do what's best for yourself, also.
Never thought about that. Very cool! Thank you!
Yes. I don't mean to be critical of those decisions. But assisted suicide is often pitched to the public as a compassionate treatment to terminal illness. Being narrowly circumscribed is supposed to minimize the potential for abuse and coercion. So when I say those stories add complexity, I mean to say they create fodder for those opposing assisted suicide.
I have nothing but sympathy for you. You no doubt wrote this knowing some, perhaps most people would not understand your decisions and chastise you for them. They don't understand, maybe never will.

At the same time, I implore you not to give up. For people with mental illnesses like you describe, access to reliable Healthcare is everything. A good doctor who monitors their medications is everything. If I were to describe the situation in engineering terms, I'd say that every single support such a person receives is load bearing. Which is why it can be just so difficult, when only one failing can lead to collapse.

I hope you are able to help her, provide her with something. If nothing else, try to put a roof over her head. Being homeless makes all of those other problems of access worse.

It does suck. I hope you try again. If you need someone to chat with feel free to reach out to me. My email is mayreply at my name dot com.
SOS – Securing Open Skies
It revolves around semantics and straw men? It sounds like someone took an Internet argument and published it as a book.
About 1/3 of Australia are immigrants.

So no. Most of us aren't criminals or descended from criminals.
I was just reading some reviews and overviews of the book and walked away with the same impression.

The most interesting definition (partly just IMO, but also because it's the one whose derivative of 'being talked about' is also large right now), which is also an important concept in certain Eastern philosophies for instance, has to do with a cognitive mode perhaps best characterized by 'openness'—but since that term is fraught, let me try something from scratch.

There is something in our brains that works in a very sphincter-like way—similar to the pupil, for example. Rather than letting in more or less light, however, it determines how much you will be affected by present percepts. If it is closed, you can see all sorts of horrendous or magnificent stuff and have little to no reaction; if wide open, you may genuinely weep while hearing a beautiful song or something. (I don't want make strong claims on this next point, but I think it's useful to say something on the matter: what determines the openness here has a number of factors, but how safe you feel at the moment [e.g. anxiety can block it] and how 'internally pre-occupied' you are, are probably two big ones.)

The empathetic 'cognitive mode' I was describing earlier is essentially just being in the 'open' state. It allows you to be affected by someone else's present suffering in a very direct/immediate way, without contemplation—which is why the author's alternative of 'rational compassion' is so controversial: the claim of modern proponents of the sort of empathy I've been describing stresses the importance of this direct connection and immediacy, claiming that being in this cognitive mode is the only way to genuinely act in the interest of another person—whereas when you approach altruism purely rationally, other motivations will typically be involved.

But, the picture I got is that the book doesn't actually talk about that sort of empathy at all.
> Static typing imposes limitations (kind of like government),

where to begin
Who's to say they aren't going to backdoor Chrome to pop a shell on your box next time you search Google? Who's to say Mozilla won't do the same?
What makes you think they aren't aware of that? They were clearly expressing their own wishes...
I understand you're trying to be PC and all, but for the benefit of other readers, the grandparent poster was referring to the fact that lots of embedded development is done in Japan, but the software programmers are paid and respected less than "real engineers." That's just the well-documented culture there.
In a world where interactions are often interpreted through intersectional theory, pedantic definitions are more important than ever.
I never liked algorithmic DJs.

They don't really expand my horizons and play the same crap over and over.

My favorite is chirpradio dot org. Real DJs who are real music buffs.
I'm not taking a position on this or trying to argue. I'm truly somewhat confused by it all. I'm not sure I agree with this, as I find it, honestly, rather frightening in practice, but it seems like painkiller administration is a kind of euthanasia loophole, even in places where euthanasia is not legal:

Passive euthanasia is the withholding of treatments necessary for the continuance of life. Whether the administration of increasingly necessary, albeit toxic doses of opioid analgesia is regarded as active or passive euthanasia is a matter of moral interpretation, but in order to pacify doctors’ consciences, it is usually regarded as a passive measure. Many people, therefore, regard it as an acceptable facet of good professional practice.

https://jramc.bmj.com/content/147/3/367
Woo! My book is in this new bundle. Go get it!
There is no brexit supporting government in the UK. Look at the actual negotiations, and you can see that the plan is to have brexit in name only.
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No, that was surely a typo
Andreessen Horowitz purchases 6% of stable coin developers MakerDAO
I wonder how many companies ever lay off 25% of staff and then actually come back to succeed?

I can't really think of any examples off hand.
> As an aside: it was interesting when the stock cratered last year to the point where the market cap of the company was lower than its annual revenue -- all the revenue in the world doesn't make up for negative margins.

Yup, revenue doesn’t really mean anything; Walmart’s market cap is less than their 2017 revenue.
This isn't how it works at all.

Technical laws are advised by people from technical backgrounds. And in the case of laws like this it is coming directly from technical experts at ASIO/ASIS.

Likewise it is irrelevant whether the Attorney General knows the technical definition of metadata since he isn't personally writing the law.
Yup, basically the movie plot of Awakenings. Also, a family member of mine, whom was not catatonic, tried it for post-stroke fatigue/pain/neuropathy/brain fog to get away from gabapentin&pregabalin.
it's like they are trying to prove they aren't autistic or something.
It doesn't have eyes. Or, perhaps more significantly, a way to track the edge and corner cubelets from the initial "solved" position to the current configuration. Face angle isn't enough, you need the path that was taken to get there.
They could have simply put a note on the logout page. "You are now logged out. If this is a shared computer, don't forget to log out of your browser profile and any other sites too."

Their excuse sounds like parallel construction, as I refuse to believe one of the top IT companies in the world can't see why this solution is so bass ackwards.

They know exactly what they're doing, and it's the reason I went from a huge fan of Google products and early-adopter/beta-tester of everything possible, to scrubbing their existence from my and my family's life.
based on everything i've experienced and heard about Zoho i'd say this incident is a symptom of issues rather than a cause
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> There is no rule of law in China.

This is the one sentence that everyone on HN must remember when we get into debates about who is better/worse/trump/xi/etc.

In China, you have no rights. There is no recourse. There are no promises made by the state to protect you. This is because of China’s situation where it needs a strong central state to maintain control of the distant provinces and keep from fragmenting, but that is another debate in and of itself.

The US has screwed up horribly many times, for sure, and is not perfect. But here and in many other countries you are innocent until proven guilty and have the ability to take the state to court to fight a decision you disagree with or feel is unfair.
Could you elaborate on how you came to be programming in C/C++ for 7 or 8 years before encountering a spreadsheet? That seems an unusual path even back in the 90s.
Office 2019 Commercial for Windows and Mac frequently asked questions
I'm currently logged into Gmail. When I click the little upper-right icon in Chrome I see a button saying "Sign in to Chrome", implying I'm not currently signed in. "About Google Chrome" tells me I'm on version 69.0.3497.100 (on OSX). So I don't appear to be experiencing this issue. What am I missing?
Oh no, my opinion is being voted down. Must be the algorithm!
What standards of Chrome are harming competitors? We have a lot of major progress in web standards because of Chrome going first and getting it done. Even Firefox has built novel new rendering with a brand new language.

Meanwhile Safari and Edge continue to lag behind with basic features. Either way extinguish only works if there's no ready competition, which is not the case here for the majority of users.
Is there any good reason why they wouldn’t do this? All the traffic is going over networks under control of their government. If some lone wolf spies on a few people or owns their phones, it doesn’t really matter to the developers.
Well aren't we just a paragon of bad ethics.
In the parent comment link to the technical manual it mentions 25 resident keys can be stored.

It is now starting to make sense to me why. As jiveturkey pointed out, it allows usernames to be stored. And, as you're pointing out, it's useful for RSA or maybe other crypto. Thanks.
That was a large Bezos Foundation investment wasn't it?
Had no idea Google was doing that. Not surprising of course, but despicable. And of course they make it a chore to delete the records. Thanks for pointing it out.
it was no linked to the protocol and they wanted to keep it under wraps for a good reason.
What are your thoughts and such on the site? It's taken me a while to build the software.. I'm hoping people will find it useful.
At least among my colleagues (process engineering) the language is basically an afterthought. Your slide rule analogy is right on.

For a lot of the people I work with code is just a way of representing mathematics. So you end up with "Fortran written in every language"

Here is a snippet of code (this is written in C but I guarantee most of my colleagues would write this the same regardless of it it were fortran, python, Matlab what ever).

for (i=m1;i < m2; i++)
{ //f(p)^2 = (u^T)(Q^T)(D^2)Qu and F(dF/dp) = (u^T)(Q^T)(D^2)Q(du/dp)
g =h;
h = (v[i+1]-v[i])/(x[i+1]-x[i]);
g = h - g - r1[i-1]*r[i-1]-r2[i-2]*r[i-2];
...
}

Here's some SQL

SELECT t2.Line,
t2.Slope,
t1.X,
t1.Y,
t1.Y - (t2.Slope * t1.X) as Intercept /* B = Y -Mx */
So when you say primitive components, are you talking about directly manipulating the components in a logic block (https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/user_guides/ug3...), or do you just mean the abstractions above that like "blockram", "LUT6", "shift register"?
Because you can do a lot more with an FPGA's logic blocks than indicated by those higher level abstractions.
Sounds like you're ready for a Rubik's Revenge (4x4x4)!
But if those (timing) models are incorporated into current proprietary synthesis systems, can't they be reverse engineered with relative ease, anyway?
I prefer native apps over web apps, but for most things I vastly prefer a website to both of those. I shouldn't have to install an app for every single thing I want to use, especially if I only use the thing once a week or so.
This is 100% true in an absolute sense. You either choose life or death.

However, it misses a huge amount of nuance. Some of the nuanced questions include:
what qualifies as alive?
- brain dead?
- blood pressure only being maintained with medications?
- requiring permanent ventilator to breath?
- 'locked in' syndrome where you have literally no way of communicating with the world?
- combinations of the above?
what quality of life would you accept?
does how you die matter?

It's not as easy as deciding to just 'choose death'. Sure, most everyone would choose to live in a healthy body without pain, but that really isn't a realistic choice for most patients who are making that choice at that point in their lives.

Either way, whatever you choose, you should document what you prefer to make things easier on your loved ones.
False. Incognito windows. You can also disable the login state sync as many have pointed out.
Email sent. I'd love to be mistaken on this. As re-iterated in the email, the email + address used in subsequent C&Ds were to a personal address only used in NC.
Where Uniqueness Lies (2013)
This is how it works in several countries in Europe, Nordics and Germany I think.

Each grocery store has to have bottle recycler that scans and accepts only the correct bottles and cans. Cans get crushed and bottles, including plastic ones, get washed and recycled. You get 5-15cents store credit per bottle which you then can buy things with or cash out. Most households recycle their bottles while going to the grocery store.

As a student, this was great when you hosted parties and next morning you would take the empties to the store and get like 15-40euros worth of credit.
But that logged in to Chrome does nothing unless you additionally consent to Sync, so why do you care?