skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you closer into the sales numbers (look at electrek's article about the last quarter [0]), they appear to be reducing mid-priced sedan sales at most of the other leading companies, especially the generally excellent euro manus (bmw, audi, etc). also see [1]

0: https://electrek.co/2018/08/01/tesla-claims-model-3-outsold-...
1: https://electrek.co/2018/05/02/tesla-model-3-best-selling-mi...
Why is this a language instead of a library on top of an existing language?

Here's what it would look like as a JavaScript (Node.js or browser) library:

let g = getDocument("https://www.google.com/", true);

g.input('input[name="q"]', "ferret");
g.click('input[name="btnK"]');

g.waitNavigation();

let result = g.elements('.g').map(({
title: result.element('h3 > a'),
description: result.element('.st'),
url: result.element('cite')
}));

return result.filter(i => i.title !== null);
How Much Should I Spend on a Domain?
It's not a full monopsony, there's often choice. And increasing minimum wage increases their monopsony power because it favors big companies that can afford it (here, Amazon).
“The bottom for Bitcoin is near”
> This is exactly what everyone wanted Amazon to do

You really need to get out of your bubble.

A lot of us who understand economics genuinely think minimum wages hurt the poor, and think this can bring a lot of unemployment.
Medicaid is often limited in its scope and there have been times when I'm on it, it wouldn't cover diagnostic testing for more serious disorders. Also, there was the knowledge that trying to take advantage of medicaid requires experience and time and education, none of which is often afforded to the poor.
"Nand to Tetris" is quite instructive.
We don't know the full extent of the hack yet. As the thread says! It might be not so bad, or it might be awful.
We had a "close" flyby (0.82 lightyears) about 70,000 years ago!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholz%27s_Star
It's not the engineers doing that.

A software developer is an engineer the same way a janitor is a sanitation engineer.
It sounds like you agree that forcing people to read and agree to individual portions of the ToS is not a downside of GDPR, since we should all be doing that anyway.
This is simply 100% false. What do you think the 500,000 employees of Amazon are doing if not working in a warehouse? They're not programming.
There was also the fact that the IBM people working on the original PC had already established familiarity with Intel's architecture through their work on an earlier IBM product, the Datamaster (http://www.oldcomputers.net/ibm5322.html), which used the 8-bit Intel 8085.

David J. Bradley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bradley_(engineer)) worked on both the Datamaster and the PC projects, and explained the reasoning behind the choice of the 8088 for the latter in an article in the September 1990 issue of Byte (https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1990-09/1990_09_BYT...):

There were a number of reasons why we chose the Intel 8088 as the IBM PC's central processor.

1. The 64K-byte address limit had to be overcome. This requirement meant that we had to use a 16-bit microprocessor.

2. The processor and its peripherals had to be available immediately. There was no time for new LSI chip development, and manufacturing lead times meant that quantities had to be available right away.

3. We couldn't afford a long learning period; we had to use technology we were familiar with. And we needed a rich set of support chips -- we wanted a system with a DMA controller, an interrupt controller, timers, and parallel ports.

4. There had to be both an operating system and applications software available for the processor.

Points 1 and 3 both reference lessons learned from the Datamaster project -- #1 is about the desire for the PC to overcome a limitation the Datamaster's 8-bit CPU had imposed on it, and #3 refers to the fact that the 8086 and 8088 were close cousins of the 8085, so the IBMers wouldn't have to learn a whole new architecture from scratch.

It's not hard to imagine the decision coming down to Bradley (or someone else on the Entry Systems Division team) calling someone they knew at Intel and saying "we need a 16-bit processor as similar to the 8085 as possible that you can deliver in volume tomorrow. Whatcha got?"
I agree that these are real negative effects of GDPR. However, the concrete design of these pop-ups is mostly not GDPR-compliant: for example, users not agreeing to being tracked must not be disadvantaged, and having to click through a cumbersome array of options is certainly a disadvantage. At least for European web sites, the authorities will hopefully take action after a while, and then these bad practices will stop.

In addition, this is a bit like fire safety regulations. Sure, they are very annoying. All of us probably have experienced the empty battery beep of a smoke sensor in the middle of the night, and many have experienced a false alarm. That's the price you pay for lowering a significant risk.

Wait a few years, and you will see significantly lower risks of your data being collected and distributed without your consent.

I'd like to add that the GDPR is truly disruptive, and it will probably take a few 'product iterations' to get it perfectly right. That alone would be a reason to wait a bit and learn from experiences before rolling such regulations out everywhere. (I'm saying this as an EU citizen)
What better intergalactic colony ship than a whole star system accelerated to a significant fraction of c.
https://flow.org/en/docs/types/utilities/

Most of that can't be achieved out of the box with TypeScript. TypeScript was designed as a language that would bridge the quality of life gap between es5 and more modern languages, Flow was designed exclusively as a type system for annotating standards compliant JS.
It is also a library for the Go language.
Yes, as a Spanish speaker (from Spain) if I didn't know that it is called "Día de Muertos" in Mexico it would sound strange to me.
While today, 16GB of ram and 1TB of storage will soon not be enough for a modest computer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law

Although I'm sure hardware companies will find a way to promote deep learning techniques into home computers, which will obviously require more and more transistors.
Arguably pensions, too. Although I don't know of pensions that invest in startups, it wouldn't surprise me to find out there are some given the market these days.

I would also argue that corporate investing arms tick this box. It's "other people's money" twice removed.

In fact, the degree to which you're betting other people's money is probably the rubric here. Angels are investing their money (usually -- crowd funding has made this murkier). VC's are betting an LP's money, and if they fail to return value they will have a hard time raising another fund and will eventually "die". (VCs are the real zombies in the startup ecosystem!) Other entities are further away from the money and the consequences they will feel if the investment doesn't pay off.

I'd also look at motivation. This is another area where governments and corporate investing often fail. Governments are usually motivated in ways that aren't aligned with the startup world, and invest money in ways that seem irrational (at least to a startup) as a result. Corporate investing arms are often treating their investments as an extension of corporate development as well as a way to get an option on ideas that either formally spin out of the company or that people leave the company to start. All of these are subject to distortions that pull them away from focusing solely on chance of success.
You can't apply pavlovian psychology to corporations. Only unless it involves stock tickers and executive bonuses.
In the past ten years Boston's traffic has literally gotten twice as bad. Governor Baker thinks the MBTA's budget woes are because it serves too many places (and it poorly serves various areas of the city and the metro area). You tell me how well this squares up with your claim.
> Blinded cryptographic operations are the territory you're talking about

No I am not. It is simple really - when you vote you get some kind of a receipt with a vote ID on it. And on the screen it tells you an easy-to-remember number (for example 0-9). When you want to verify your vote you go online and check that the verification digit matches.

You still can't prove to anyone else how you voted (unless you take a photo, but that is true already and is a reason taking photos is banned).
It's mainly driven by investigation I'm guessing, with the FBI in tow too.
My account can't be used to sway elections, Facebook can be used to sway elections. I have no Facebook clout upon which a hacker could build anything of value.
This seems like a really complex way to solve a simple problem. Have an intern spend a day creating Visio diagrams of each room capturing model numbers. Trying to do this from a network perspective just seems like an easy way to miss half the systems or whatever percentage isn't powered on or connected.
The amount of attention on that Twitter thread makes me think how much people really care about the issue.

Maybe I'm wrong, hoping it gets light later on.
Don't they outsource most of their work to other companies?
Content blockers can't do that.
What game were you playing?
I would praise them if they simply made the change before being shown to know about large % of their staff being forced to take subsidies to be able to live in national press. I don't tend to praise minimum standards of ethical and moral behavior.
I am not advocating a system that allows you to prove to others how you voted. That would be stupid.

But it is pretty easy to have a system that lets you verify to yourself that your vote was recorded correctly.
John Hammond: I don't think you're giving us our due credit. Our scientists have done things which nobody's ever done before...

Ian Malcolm: Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should.
You can imagine being skeptical of that and feeling targeted if someone came up with a bill named after you though, right?
I have given you a definition and a number that +- 20% satisfies all of the US demographic data that I have my disposal, if you're looking for an essay complete with citations you're going to have to line up behind the paying customers.

You started this thread in bad faith ('and no dancing around') and went to worse from there.
Yeah, that's my understanding as well. But what I wonder is what would have happened if someone at the top had brought the C++ and .NET teams in and made some Jobsian declaration like "this isn't negotiable, the company is switching to .NET. All of your jobs depend on finding a way to make it work." Were those performance problems really insoluble, if all the engineering ability of the company were brought to bear on them? I get the impression that a lot of the C++ old hands were never pleased with .NET to begin with, and were all too happy to chuck it.
First off, I want my amazing AI and renewable/sustainable energy generation via microgrids and all manner of eco-friendly technologies. However, the economics and individual freedom aspects are pushing those forward; there largely orthogonal to the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming issue.

The greatest source of energy beyond anything humanity could possibly hope to attain in the immediate future is reducing its output[1]. Man can cause localized disruptions and pollution but cannot yet alter the entire planet - that is sheer arrogance.

Volatility increases during periods of change. It is therefore no surprise that strange weather is being experienced where few or no living people can recall these occurrences.

It was hotter during the Roman empire than it is now, yet people survived and thrived. If I were you, I'd be digging deeper and preparing for colder weather instead of listening to politically-motivated, fund-seeking charlatans proclaiming we're all going to fry.

[1] https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2018/09/27/the-chill-of-sola...
There's been similar moves in the past. Most famous of which is Ford's $5 / day. http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2014/01/03/blogs/post-per...

Ford's quote from the time is relevant today:
“The owner, the employees, and the buying public are all one and the same, and unless an industry can so manage itself as to keep wages high and prices low it destroys itself, for otherwise it limits the number of its customers. One’s own employees ought to be one’s own best customers.”
Manhattan's population doubles every weekday morning. Most cities do not have either a 50% or > 1 million commuter population. Is there even any other city like that?
I think it was at least something to consider, whether tesla would ramp up manufacturing and sales enough to become profitable. All signs were looking good, but if they failed to make them in volume they could have failed. It was stunning to me how many financial analysts just looked at the company and said something along the lines of "they just lost 2 billion dollars in q1, x billion in q2, they will be bankrupt by q3 or q4". But they were spending on improving their infrastructure, they were ramping up. I just expected more in depth analysis than that - I guess they just don't see companies selling expensive products with such a slow painful ramp up in production much; they should just feel embarrassed.
Unlike with upswings, down swings come with margin calls which can cause downward spirals. The market can certainly get irrational on the upswing as well but the feedback mechanisms are more muted and slower.
For most of history, people dumped human waste into the street. Appeals to an idyllic past are suspect to me.
Yeah, but only for the next four years so they better hurry it up.
I imagine as Kubernetes becomes more popular there will be a lot more of these abominations present... similar thing has happened in popular programming languages—as they are more widely adopted, early adopters who were more focused on quality and correctness are fewer, and new devs who do 'all the wrong things' are much more prevalent.

It's more of an issue with your organization's (or in some cases, personal) process if you allow abysmal code to get checked into your codebase :) Even Ansible has easy to integrate linting and testing tools.
Interesting aspect!

The biggest problem in this would probably be how to recognize if "content" changed. A site can change the full design, navigation, footer and header and everything and still have the exact same "content". For a human being this will be simple enough to understand, but a tool might have its problems with that.
Plug-in hybrids appear to be pretty much a failure in the marketplace[1], I don't think that releasing more models is going to help. BTW boosting performance with a hybrid has been done for a long time now.

1: https://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/
> A star is expected to pass through the Oort Cloud every 100,000 years or so.[4] An approach as close or closer than 52,000 AU is expected to occur about every 9 million years.[2] In about 1.4 million years, Gliese 710 will pass somewhere between 8,800 and 13,700 AU from the Sun.

Just wow.
The press lumps Integrity's headcount as "Amazon". It is to Amazon's benefit that this falsehood goes unnoticed.
> The western liberal capitalist elites, which control the media, are struggling to contain these populists.

> Of course, I will never claim that this makes me an expert, but an interesting observation that I have made is that educated people in dictatorships seem not to believe anything from their country's media.

Just one example of these two points is Thomas Frank, whose type of message you will rarely see anywhere in the mainstream (or even elsewhere (whether intentional or not): "You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks."), and therefore will likely have no influence on "informed" people in the US.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/01/thomas-frank-obama-c...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xPCMhwyHy0

But as you say, the message is getting to some people, and when people hear these types of messages and if they realize it isn't covered in the mainstream, and is "discouraged" on social media, and start putting two and two together, it can become a very potent political tool that can be leveraged by populists.
What problem exactly? I'm definitely not going to try to solve the "intrinsic differences in interests" problem.

That "women's work" tends to get paid less then "men's work"? Well I'm not sure how true that actually is, but I'd recommend using unions. I'm presuming that part of the reason why "women's work" tends to pay less is because women, on average, are less comfortable negotiating. Using collective bargaining is the obvious way to fix that.
Would love to build one, but with shipping and customs fees it’s going to be almost $400 sent to Europe. Maybe someone will come up with one I can 3D print?
As someone outside the .net world, is there a wasm version? Can I run a .net language in a web browser and have access to the DOM, or render the UI for a .net app as DOM objects on a web page? That would be super useful.
Sure but that's because pretty much only because of the terrible field of view. Not because you're looking through a diffraction grating.
back to "mari/o", i was wondering why is it that a human brain can learn to play mario without having to die a billion times? Why is it that humans don't need a large training dataset? Is there a way to design a neural network in such a way where there is very little training to get a pretty good model?﻿
> yaml as a Turing complete programming language.

If someone is authoring Ansible playbooks this way, this is definitely not a best practice. Code should go into modules, plugins, filters, etc. Playbooks should be YAML, with extremely minimal use of any coding constructs.
Have you not seen the explosion of consumer debt over the past decades? Buying power is now tied to how much a bank is willing to lend you, not how much you have in your savings accounts. Synchrony, who Amazon partners with to offer their store card, will give basically anybody with a pulse a $500 credit line and ramp them up to thousands fairly quickly as long as they don't default.

I don't even want to get into the real debt traps targeted at the least fortunate among us like payday/title loans, buy-here-pay-here car dealerships, etc.
A site that lists the remote jobs from all the most popular remote job websites
That still doesn't tell me why the website asks for a $4/month fee.
Next year (March 2019) they will show the model Y, the smaller SUV based on the model 3 platform, but I doubt they'll start making them. The next year after that is the roadster. It's their secret plan that has been out on the web for years.
Few more missed include (Device CLR's were in C, Desktop/Server in C++):

(1) CLR for Sony/Ericsson phone OS and (2) Variant running on linux (in 2001/2002).

I worked on the Compact Framework team back in the day so there's a few more things to point out related to the internal politics of Microsoft at the time.

The devices strategy was a mess even back then due to Alchin/Valentine/Ballmers love of Windows desktop 'everywhere'. Windows and Office dominated the company so things like .Net were always going to be secondary to that.

The origins of the CLR can be found in the purchase of Colusa in 1996 which had the Omni VM for running C++ in a sandbox. The original C# language was called cool and came from that project.
They are among Toyota and GM. Not that popular=quality.
Yes, the WASM version is here: https://blazor.net/
It's an early preview
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. As far as I can tell from the examples, there is nothing that this language brings to the table that couldn't be implemented instead as an API on top of an existing language.
That will likely require a lot of rework on the parts if you want it to look good. Especially the switches. And it still won't be cheap.
I was doing OS coding in those days - and writing both drivers and apps on top of Windows. People forget what was happening back then.

Hardware had removed the 640K memory limit - but Windows stuck with it for years afterward. Not for any technical reason, but because they dominated the market, and neither needed to change nor wanted to change - no matter how hard that made things for developers.

I worked with Microsoft guys, and they were very blunt about not wanting to change their working OS code if they didn't need to - so Bill held back the entire industry for years.
China also has a circuit breaker against movements of 10% (they can't grow/shrink more than 10% a day). China also doesn't really allow for shorting of shares so I'm not sure what you are trying to show here?
I've been spending a lot of time lately digging into "outdated" 80's era approaches to AI. Some people think I'm wasting my time and ask "why aren't you doing Deep Learning?" This is the reason why:

"You can think about deep learning as it currently is today as the equivalent in the brain to our sensory cortices: our visual cortex or auditory cortex. But, of course, true intelligence is a lot more than just that, you have to recombine it into higher-level thinking and symbolic reasoning, a lot of the things classical AI tried to deal with in the 80s. One way you can think about our research program is [that it's investigating] 'Can we build out from our perception, using deep-learning systems and learning from first principles? Can we build out all the way to high-level thinking and symbolic thinking?'. In order to do that we need to crack problems like learning concepts, things that humans find effortless but our current learning systems can't do."

I basically completely agree with Demis on this. A lot of the stuff that was being done in the 80's wasn't "wrong" so much as it was ahead of its time. And just like advances in data, algorithms, and compute power helped propel Neural Networks (which are actually a really old idea) to another level, I suspect some other "old" approaches will also experience a similar resurgence due to that same confluence of factors.
I don't think anyone limited it to angels. And governments do investing all the time, they just don't always call it that. Solyndra and 38 Studios are two notable failures, for instance.
This thread seems to have developed learned helplessness. This reflects very badly of our confidence in the legal system. Equifax and tobacco industry needs to be punished to feel the brunt of their crimes. But we seem to have accepted the fate.
Burger King are giving away a free Xbox Game Pass to customers
I would not argue that, no. I could relate my own personal experiences over the last 15 years, but they wouldn't generalize and might not even be coherent themselves (because I am human and therefore haven't remained immutable).
I agree completely. Besides the 2.5 year stint at one large company, I’ve only worked for small companies. But, I won’t work for a company that isn’t providing a competitive salary that will dangle bonuses or stock options. The only things I take into account are salary, 401K match/stock (public companies) with a short vesting period, vacation time, and health benefits.
> Homes can go to zero. Homes can go to below zero, which is why there are land banks all across the Rust Belt with thousands of properties they have trouble giving away.

Could you give some reference(s) on this? I'd love to see a bank that was trying to give away property, and to find out why they couldn't (and to see if I could find a way where the property would have positive value to me).