skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if that's a helpful observation, though. The floor for the "lowest" percentile in America is outright destitution.

Homelessness means no shelter from the elements or people that want to hurt you, possessions beyond what you can carry and defend, no health care, and being treated like a second class citizen.
Rational expectations models are a huge part of modern macro though.

Even when models in economics don't assume rational behaviour, they tend to lean pretty heavily on assumptions of optimising behaviour - which, for me, isn't much more convincing.
This page doesn't load here (totally blank). Other blog posts of Dropbox work fine.
russia doesn't need to steal tech secrets. they have a lot of tech, especially in aviation. what they lack is in mass producing due to various things that can't be fixed overnight.
I prefer the correct definition of a GC:

> [1]: Garbage collection is simulating a computer with an infinite amount of memory.

Chen even provides the "memory reclamation" definition in his post, but points out that it is incomplete. The article could be made much shorter (although the full read is still very interesting): as Rust has no free() call, Rust simulates infinite memory and is hence garbage collected.

[1]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20100809-00/?p=...
The author explicitly defines his notion of static garbage collection in opposition to what it's like programming in C:

> This also opens up two more things about why I don’t feel that “Rust is too hard and so you should use a GC’d language when you can afford it.” First of all, Rust’s strong, static checking of memory provides me a similar peace of mind to a runtime GC. To make an analogy to types and tests, when I program in a language like C, I have to think a lot about the details of memory management, because I don’t really have anything at all checking my work. Its memory management is completely unchecked, similar to (compile time) types in a Ruby program. But with automatic memory management, I don’t have to worry about this, as the memory management system has my back. I won’t get a use after free, I won’t get dangling pointers.
Testing pixel formats on the RaspberryPi – Bootlin's blog
I think this will happen. Brings to mind Google's secret project The Selfish Ledger, especially how it can be used for "Behavioural Sequencing"... [0]

As tech gets better it'll become easier to analyse the masses and make good predictions - how much can the masses put up with? How much further can we push them before the boiling point is reached?

[0] https://youtu.be/QDVVo14A_fo?t=439
I think part of it is the variability between school systems with in the same state. Las Cruces schools maybe below average for NM schools.

Off Topic: I went to Las Cruces a few years ago when my alma mater played New Mexico State. The scenery was breathtaking.
I've heard the argument that this situation is unique to japan due to their aging population and low birthrate.

They don't have cheap teenagers to exploit at minimum wages which is why automation is even financially worth it. The amount they are spending ($887 million) can hire 60,000 years of labor at $15,000/yr.
In the US, the biggest plurality employment sector by a long shot is long-haul transportation.

It's going to be an interesting next 25-or-so years as self-driving vehicle technology moves to Level 4 or 5 readiness and the people with a significant vested interest in long-term investment in driving down transportation cost displace a major chunk of America's workforce.
We keep them. Twin Oaks first built a clinic space connected to the residence which is designed to handle mobility and other age related issues. Then we built a hospice. In the 20 years i have lived at Twin Oaks, only a few people over 65 have left the community to live elsewhere, the significant majority have stayed with us until they died.
The "job" as a foundation of modern life is the result of the industrialized revolution and, while it served its purposed, is something we need to abandon as quickly as possible. Corporations don't have a monopoly on economic value creation. We should be, as a government and society, encouraging independent tradesmen/women, entrepreneurship, and artisanry. If we can manage that, job loss due to automation is no longer an issue.
It is not a problem, it is a blessing, it means countries will not have to keep sustaining the pyramid scheme of population growth and will not need massive immigration which only cause problems in the long run. This is how Japan can keep its culture and healthy society while not increasing its population, actually reducing it which is also good for the environment.
Orbit Fab plans “gas stations” for satellite servicing
The current government of Taiwan does not claim sovereignty over the mainland. They still call themselves "Republic of China" though. Indeed most countries do not recognize Taiwan to placate the mainland regime which adheres to the "One China" policy of threatening war over official separation by Taiwan.

Sometimes you wonder how things can stay broken for so long.
I meant from MS.
Also see https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2017/02/15/rider-eap-17-nu...
Isn't this just a tv screen? VR is a virtual environment, AR is displaying objects on the real world. Mixed would be a closer definition. Guess heres no real definition until it becomes more main stream. Microsoft sold its glasses named Mixed reality, but it was just VR.
As an individual, the only chance you'd have to invest in a hot startup is to be an angel investor, or else close family or really good friends with the founders or VCs. Even accredited investors with 10s of millions got turned away from hot startups like Spotify and Snapchat (back when it was the big kahuna).

And let's be clear: you can still invest in a startup as a non-accredited investor. There is no prohibition on that, or else startups couldn't give equity to employees, contractors, or others (see, e.g., pre-IPO Facebook and Google, and the many famous stories of dotcom millionaires from their respective IPOs).
It's not at all clear that software engineering is safe.

Sure there will probably always be a few programmers, but as tools (and soon I expect AI) gets better those programmers can do more and more of the work. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find the number of software engineers decreasing in the not too distant future.

The only reason it hasn't already is that we've managed to grow the number of things software developers are doing at the same rate as the increase in number of software developers * the increase in efficiency per software developer. And in some parts of software development (e.g. games) it has.
I got over all caps SQL keywords a very long time ago.
If anything, I think it hurts readability while taking (me) longer to write.
From what I've heard their isolation has made their tech largely incompatible with external workflows. Similar to how mainframes are technically computers but the software is alien to most people. They don't even use the same names for common things.
Theres already a lot of automation at car factories and places which heavily rely on machinery to produce goods. I remember seeing that the only people needed is people to repair the machinery if it broke down and the whole manufacturing process being automated with self-driving carts moving around the materials. Note this was a Toyota factory, so it could be skewed.
Hell, you could go to Mars with that cash! After all, a rocket ship is basically just a tube with fuel strapped to one end and people strapped to the other.
> strong law enforcement is not a requirement for managing crime rates.

There are strains of American culture that have long been violent and confrontational. These strains are perpetuated by "polite" society that has used violence and segregation to keep them at bay. IOW, we're an altogether violent society.

Addressing these dynamics is difficult to say the least, but it's why we can't simply import strategies from abroad. So, for example, we can't simply take guns away from the cops without also refactoring our criminal and mental health systems to comprehensively deescalate things. Our inability to holistically change (independent from ideology) is why drug decriminalization and lessened property crime punishment have created such spectacular social failures.

That said, to be fair East and Southeast Asian countries tend to have very strict and swift criminal punishments, particularly for drugs and violence. Even in Japan--https://www.tofugu.com/japan/drug-laws-in-japan/ In some key ways Asia practices more violence and segregation than the U.S.

I think it's mostly Western Europeans and South Americans that are all-around softies.
Between there and here are several violent revolutions where millions died. It would be nice to find a safer way.
Burning people who could have just stuck with http and avoided the fuss will teach them a different lesson.
Heh. You got me. I thought this was gonna go in a different direction based on your initial post.

I agree completely :).

Unfortunately, I think the solution is likely as cyclical as the problem.
This college dropout wants to help you browse the Web in disguise
>There is no reason given to why they take per-student expense out of the picture

What do you think would happen to the regression if per-student expense was both an independent and a dependent variable?
Fun fact, Arista switches are very lightly modified minimal Fedora installs with some fancy hardware. The entire userspace (literally all of it) is written in well done python and the magic is all in their asics. I got to RE their entire firmware as part of R&D at one of my previous employers.
Limousine company operator arrested for homicide after deadly crash
This is something like Milton Friedman's 'pool player analogy'. It doesn't matter if a pool player isn't calculating all the angles and frictions when he pots a ball, because it's as if he was. So as long as your model has predictive power, unrealistic assumptions don't matter.

The unfortunate part is that most models in economics have lousy predictive power.
> If anything it ought to be more problematic that Texas fails so badly at educating hispanic students when a fifth of them live in Texas.

Texas doesn't do badly at educating Hispanic students -- it does a superior job at that. It has low overall performance because Hispanic students have terrible performance, and Texas, even though its Hispanic students are better than average, has a very large number of them.

This kind of thing is generally known as Simpson's Paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
Down.

(I agree with gizmo, but I predict a 2-day drop. Then, it's a good time to buy IMO).
Europe is also large, and there is much better public transportation. If the US really wanted to replace cars, the US could replace cars. The problem is we equate cars with 'freedom', so we are doomed to live forever in the past until that changes (or we destroy ourselves)
Converse sneakers or slippers?
Show HN: A place to vent your frustrations where you might get solutions
Ah.

Did you have android or other mobile device images in the image copy?
Globally this may be true, but it's just false for the US. Wages haven't increased since the 1970s, and now even metrics like life expectancy are falling.
I would be interested in the numbers, but based on my experience of homelessness in California, most homelessness is due to severe mental health issues, not poverty. I'm unsure of any data suggesting these kinds of mental health issues are increasing, but I'd be interested in the data.

Also, having seen the situation in third world countries, I have a real issue calling American homelessness destitution, but I understand the arguments from social cohesion.
I think you misread my comment. It was not about need but about incentives. Specifically that changing inflation doesn't change incentives. And removing growth from an economy is far more expensive way to prevent climate change than something like a carbon tax.

If you are arguing the easiest fix to climate change is to convince everyone to stop being interested in increasing their material wealth. That seems like a hell of an uphill battle. Orders of magnitude harder than passing a really high carbon tax.

P.S. getting rich is usually not the terminal goal, but a means to financial security for the middle class, and status for the upper class.
It's good you're doing fine, but some of us noticed Windows tracking us and pushing ads on us, NSA spying and backdoors, Amazon deleting books and spying on conversations, Google tracking our location even when we opt out etc.
I went from logic puzzles to Prolog and the CLPFD lib was a great help to achieve results even as novice.
I do find it hilarious that as people we generally hate going to work, but at the same time we also fear losing our jobs.

Jobs/careers are a relatively new idea as far as I know, I think we can figure out something to do without them.
Just because its been terrible before? The industrial revolution was a time of starvation and death for the families of the displaced.

The issue isn't how to keep people busy. That's not a very worthy goal. In the '50s we dreamed of a society where robots took the yoke from our shoulders and let us live better lives. Now that it's happening, all we can talk about is how to get people back to work!
China did not control the island before the refugees from China took it over. Japan controlled the island. However, after the war Japan did hand control over the island to China however China never did get to control it after the war or before.
Great article! How did you manage to visualize those maps?
That's not a fair interpretation. Let's actually break it down...

- Current CEO of GM

- Former Lockheed-associated Director was VP in charge of Information Systems. Assuming that's deliverable product and not internal IT (which she also ran), not exactly making the planes

- The former CEO of a drug manufacturer

- The former CEO of Harvard Management Company (the endowment)

- Retired Chairman of Joint Chiefs

- Retired CEO of a big oil company

- The Chairman of HP

- Former CFO of Wal-Mart

- Former CEO of Cummins (MOST adjacent business to GM vis engine mfg)

- Former Dean of Ivey Business School, The University of Western Ontario

- The CEO of eBay

So, sure, we can reach and say that some of the individuals have tangential industry experience or we can say that they are on the board because they have high degrees of personal/economic success, presumably large rolodexes, and various levels of experience at the top of large organizations.

I'm not taking a position on James Murdoch at all here, just pointing out that board members are not often subject matter experts of what a company produces so much as generally successful and influential people with various levels of business and leadership experience.
Thameswater in the UK still hasn’t rotated their certificates.
Unreliable? It's a lot harder, and a lot slower, but if you learn the ropes & train your body you will get faster/stronger/whatever.
I think that just kicks the ball further down the court, as it's yet another thing to track. It think it's better to just explain that (for the most part), high virtual memory usage isn't a problem. But as someone pointed out above, FreeBSD does have a facility for it, which is interesting.
> He ascribes things to malice that could be easily attributed (and rightfully should be) to incompetence or out of touch with the customer.

So you're ascibing spying, tacking, inserting ads etc. all to "incompetence". Interesting. I'd definitely say it's malice. It's not "out of touch with the customer", it's making money at the expense of the customer.
Chapter 4 of "The Art of Prolog" ("The Computation Model of Logic
Programs") is about that very topic. It doesn't go into gory details on how to optimize an interpreter for fast execution, but it does go into enough detail that I was able to create a Prologish interpreter in ~30 lines of Haskell many years ago. Apparently "The Art of Prolog" is a free download now (there is a PDF link on the left side of the page).
Guns have limited range, and are easily rendered largely ineffective (e.g. armored vehicles). Robots and other advanced weapons make direct combat entirely one sided. Surveillance apparatus allows identifying combatants attempting a guerilla warfare approach. AI could allow identifying an assassin attempting to draw a weapon and killing them before they could get a shot off. Etc.

Against the current US military I dare say that overwhelming numbers would win, against a theoretical future military that is less clear. Moreover the current US military would probably revolt if used to overtly oppress the population, but a more robotized one with humans only required at high levels might not.
Nothing special. Just cobbler to generate the iso and kubespray to install the cluster.

Between company policy on social media and internal weirdness I can't really write a GitHub or Medium contribution to HN that anyone would want to consume anyway.

However I do plan to document what I've learned in a generic sort of "If you use Digital Ocean, this is how to do X, Y, Z" way.
They are distrusted i. Nightly
Don't they run on commodity Broadcom ASICs?
That idea of Intel spinning off and developing it's own TSMC sounds great! What other factors have prohibited from someone else developing a more viable TSMC competitor in the US?
But they would have the means to buy the robots as OP has posted?
The guy who Tversky and Kahneman really hated, Gerd Gigerenzer had a very good answer to a lot of their work. He pointed out that:

A critic of the work of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, Gigerenzer argues that heuristics should not lead us to conceive of human thinking as riddled with irrational cognitive biases, but rather to conceive rationality as an adaptive tool that is not identical to the rules of formal logic or the probability calculus. He and his collaborators have theoretically and experimentally shown that many so-called cognitive fallacies are better understood as adaptive responses to a world of uncertainty—such as the conjunction fallacy, the base rate fallacy, and overconfidence.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_Gigerenzer

His books are well worth a read.

Nassim Taleb also has a similar criticism in that he says that Kahneman and Tversky essentially said that humans don't act according to theoretical rules but instead have their own heuristics that have been derived from dealing with an uncertain world throughout history:

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/883689826335281153?lang=e...
Japan has always embraced automation, is a staple in robotics and overall could prove to be a good model to have instead of the constant fear mongering about automation in the west. It’s not like this sort of change hasn’t happend before; it’s just that now we have the internet which amplifies our fears (and there’s also lots more of us on the planet).
Actually, the distinction between a cult and a commune is quite well established. Cults have these characteristics:
1) It has a living charismatic leader
2) You give them all your money
3) You are kept away from your old friends and family
4) You can’t leave when you might like
Communes (at least the FEC communes) do none of these things. For more insight into this see https://funologist.org/2015/06/19/you-are-a-cult-right/
Do you honestly believe this isn't going to be a problem?
"we're running out of big clear cut things to rebel against"

Or we're getting much better at the PR processes that muddy up any public discussion of problems and you lack the history education to know how rare actual clear cut historical political problems were.

Do you really think it is more likely that everyone else is virtue signaling than that you have a status quo bias from living in a culture that pushes that message (and I'm guessing you are quite successful as well?).

When has the majority been right about any complex issue anyway? What a bunch of reactionary anti-intellectual nonsense.
Unfortunately, I merely found the article. :)
The most critical thing is avoiding unnecessary work — that usually means estimating algorithmic complexity and trying to reduce it where possible (e.g. by sorting + binary search, caching, using basic data structures like a priority queue, etc.). I'm meaning to make a long blog post about my approach to algorithms, but meanwhile you can check out my recent slide deck on the matter:

https://speakerdeck.com/mourner/fast-by-default-everyday-alg...
halfish? the other half being akka.
I'm familiar with Chainlink, it's really good!

I think my description might failed to capture how interesting I find TCRs and cryptoeconomics in general but I obviously disagree with you here.

Are you familiar with Town Crier? It offers a solution to the trusted data source problem you mention: http://www.town-crier.org/what-is-tc.html
I'd love to know what you mean by caring about the magic names and what DigiCert can do there?

My worst case hypothetical is clients in retail pinned to Symantec root, upgrade url is https (pinned) and hostname matches your consumer facing website.
8 technologies to help address its cybersecurity challenges
I'd like people to tell me what bothers them during their workday so that I can find solutions.
Even though my comment was kind of negative, I love Las Cruses. The scenery and weather are the two things I miss the most.

It's certainly possible the rest of the state has better schools, but I never heard anything about them while I lived there.
Good point, thank you! I'll interlink those.
Could you please be more specific? So far I haven't seen a proposal that solves price inflation and reliable money source is very unclear as well - it'd be great if you could clarify.
'the next logical step in its increasing embrace of Linux ...'

My thoughts?

"Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" is still Microsoft's Mantra.
I think I have some old comment here where I tried to find anyone else who found that book to be completely unconvincing and really bad at justifying the conclusions.

People acted like I was insane.
New FAA Rules for Drones Go into Effect
YC Video – Startup Technology – Technical Founder Advice
Hydra: Nix-based continuous build system
That's sort of right, basically it's the first real production runs, when you think everything is ready & will work, but you haven't actually made a real product yet.

At the start of risk production, by definition there have been no customer designs put through the fab. Actually this is not quite true, Sun explained. Before the start of risk production the company has already run a number of shuttles with test chips from customers, so foundry and clients are already starting to wring out the more critical structures in the first customer designs. But these test shuttles are not full chips either.

-- https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/practical-chip-design/...

So, it's a point in the process where the foundry is taking a chance, and the customer is also taking a chance.

I've also heard it applied to a customer design, e.g. the customer starts to volume ramp production before they finish fully testing the design.
Problem solving is a pretty important skill; very few whiteboard interviews address the day-to-day issues you'll see in a large production environment. Task organization is an extremely close second.

Get yourself a (public) cloud account of some sort (AWS, Azure, Google, etc.) and work on having some functional infrastructure (containers, DNS, applications, content delivery) along with the requisite monitoring and security.

Anything you do from that point should live atop that infrastructure, with the same expectations that a prospective employer might have when working on a production team (DevOps, pure dev, pure ops, whatever).
It's easy to see how lots of programmers could be replaced, just look at Zapier. Now imagine where something like that is going to be in a decade.
it seems really dumb to me that they are destroying a cultural landmark just for Olympics that no one will remember or care about a few years after the fact