skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is quite a quagmire so to speak for Silicon Valley. For SA they have adopted policies that are basically designed to diversify the country away from oil so they are more willing than other countries to invest in very innovative "pie in the sky" type ideas. SA's population doesn't have the innovation skill that other countries have so SA just invests in the foreign talent. The new ideas are often developed in the Silicon Valley area. For SA, they are willing to invest in these wild ideas because for them...the money effectively just gushed out of the ground. That's why SA is often a big investor in very cutting-edge, high-risk investment funds like softbank's vision fund.

For Silicon Valley, this is quite a major situation because entrepreneurs here effectively live or die based on if they can get funding. Even if the idea is amazing and has potential, the founder will just abandon the idea if investment doesn't materialize. SA is a godsend to any entrepreneur who has an idea that is viewed as high risk based on traditional VC investors. If SA pulls out of being so proactive with their investments then it will be a huge wake up call to many early stage startups for sure.
Thank you for pointing that out, and sharing a link to the relevant documentation.

Is the main difference between static typing and Julia (from a user point of view) that type declaration/checking is only optional in Julia?

Or put in another way, what does Julia lose compared to a statically typed language?
Yep, exactly.

And with my first problem, I can use the Next buttom and Ctrl+F (features others on this thread mentioned).

Infinite load is not the right answer everywhere (anywhere?)

Eg: What if StackOverflow adopted it?
Can we not do this on Hacker News? It's like the one place I can go to and not be bombarded with politics.
> Because the Apple Stores do not offer electronic circuit diagnosis services.

Interesting, can you please give a link on the Apple site which says that.

> It's not fair to expect Apple's store staff to accurately diagnose faults

Apple says the people working in the genius bar are experts, I would assume an expert would be able to diagnose faults.
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So in other words, tens of thousands of Silicon Valley tech employees at companies that took investment or could be bought out by a company that took investment from a fund that took investment from anything related to Saudi money stand to lose a trenemdous amount because the Saudis murdered someone? Yeah, sounds like those employees should definitely pay the price for something they had nothing to do with.
Prevailing thought in this context is that a single person cannot reasonably manage more than 10 people, and a good number is 6 or 7.

I agree with that, I have no idea how I'd keep the interests and issues and projects and goals and whatnot of 15 people in my head, let alone 30.
If you’re paying for GHE you don’t have any trouble. That’s delivered as an appliance you host.
Honestly ubeam makes me kind of mad, it makes it much harder for other non-PhD/"outsiders" who are working in hard tech fields but who are legit to convince others.
Seems like they're on their way back up:

> We are currently in the later stages of a restore operation, with the aim of serving fully consistent data within the next 2 hours."
No steering wheel...that is an interesting idea, I don't think pressure would be a problem, but sensitivity might be.
But what does that have to do with refrigerators? You seemed to be saying it's bad that only Apple can make iPhones?

For the record, Apple has never sued anyone for jailbreaking. They did argue it should be illegal under copyright grounds, and lost that argument. If that's a dealbreaker for you, so be it.
> Just keep opening and closing the lid it will show up again soon

It's an iMac not a MacBook.
There's also a fantastic video where Jay Leno asks Christian Koenigsegg himself about this transmission and the 7 speed racing transmission

https://youtu.be/4jhB9Yx0hyY
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I always thought it is silly that we pay for both private repos on github and host our own enterprise github on premise, turns out whoever have set this up knew what they were doing.
Certainly the CEOs, celebrities, and media outlets that feted MBS earlier this year knew how awful KSA is, but I don't think the same could be said of the general public pre-Khashoggi. A key point Ben Hunt likes to make is that it's not what everybody knows that matters -- it's what everybody knows that everyone else knows that changes behavior.

Still, it's very possible (especially with Trump & Kushner running the show) that this will just be a speedbump in business-as-usual for Saudi Arabia and their American business partners. We'll see -- in your worst case I don't think it will necessarily be a smooth process for MBS to be replaced.
It’s just a variant referencing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failover
> but there's nothing preventing a political regime claiming mass coercion or hacking and forking the history

How would a regime "fork the history" of the Bitcoin blockchain?

This isn't to solve voting in compromised countries, since you after all need to trust the government to give out votes and provide voting candidates, it's about making voting in governments with an already working democracy better. Like the western countries.

> Everything else is just a web app

Yes. The key point is you only need trust to seed the votes the rest can be done in a trustless and verifiable manner. My comment wasn't very clear.

> All in all, you need to do a lot more research into the history of online voting proposals before you can seriously propose publishing votes on the blockchain.

I'm not saying we should do this now. There are as you say many serious problems we would need to solve.

I was only proposing it as a possible use case with several substantial benefits.
Yes, that is basically what will happen. For those tech companies, it is live or die at this point. Assuming SA doesn't reverse course, it will mean for many companies they simply won't get more funding. It will be either start making money or seek out other forms of funding like maybe an IPO or something. Other VC firms will get flooded with companies to invest in and of course they will just go with whatever companies they feel are most worthwhile but going forward less companies will get the funding they need.
Good point. But... this particular objection has a flaw (which may be copied by the BBH).

The Bayesian machinery tells you how to update your beliefs given evidence. It doesn't tell you what shape those beliefs should be in the first place.

My theory is that we carry around a deck of personas or sterotypes. We hear of a new person, and some behaviour of theirs. We then predict which persona was likely to generate that behaviour. Conditional on the distribution over personas we answer the questions about that person's predicted behaviour.

In the `Linda` example the theory above suggests we take the background information about all their political commitments at college, which from the description would seem to give strong evidence about their persona.

The common and wrong answer to the question stems from predicting, based on the persona, that the person would continue with their political commitments.

The 'shape being wrong' issue here is that maybe personas are not the right way to structure the problem. But Bayes's theorem doesn't tell you that. That's a whole load of extra machinery that people have additionally developed and should deploy when using Bayes's theorem.

Back to the word problem. An issue is that the options:

- A

- A&B

Both include A. In a world where A always happens the only non-trivial way to read the question is that the first option must implicitly mean (A&!B).

If A is assumed to be true, the question then becomes is B more likely to be true or not true. The background information given is a reasonable explanation for the common answer of people selecting (A&B).
They probably moved their storage backends to Windows 10
For anyone that may want a deeper look into Category Theory from the perspective of a programmer I highly recommend - https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...

He also covers it all in few youtube series - https://www.youtube.com/user/DrBartosz/playlists
I mean, it probably was a lot easier too, with less complicated plumbing, fire code regulations, wiring, etc.
And speaking more broadly, I don't subscribe to the "higher valuations and asset prices == better" ideology, so the headline didn't read in a negative way to me. :-)
They ship you a bag of acorns and a coupon for a chainsaw redeemable in 20 years.
Cool but not the system I'm thinking of:

A complete real time tweaking of per wheel outputs based on live slip/velocity/momentum for perfect AWD.
How Magento Deals with Different Level of Your Inventory Management Tasks?
thank you for sharing this - where do you recommend learning more about the goal setting in general?
This could be very interesting. It wasn't explained so well on the home page but I liked it
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Anyone can post an answer.
There are several sites I wish would roll back a few iterations. Flickr, Chowhound, Slashdot..
It will mean ALL companies will be valued at less because there will be less money being thrown at these companies. Saudi money is all over silicon valley and early stage tech companies.
That's cool!

Are there other versions of this idea around? Maybe older, more stable and trustworthy solutions?
SEATTLE – The Washington Supreme Court has upheld a $502,000 penalty for Public Records Act violations by the state Department of Labor and Industries, in a ruling which affirms that judges can calculate such fines based on each page of a withheld record.

Another example in WA, the kind of thing that scares public sector employees.

I have direct personal experience with this, and direct knowledge of others receiving payout from government (in WA) for similar violations (almost had to start another suit this month).

Your narrow interpretation is splitting hairs. The danger is real to the government workers executing these requests

Edit: two more easy to find examples

https://www.aclu.org/news/judge-fines-tacoma-police-departme...

www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/mar/24/justices-uphold-502000-public-records-fine-against/?amp-content=amp
Have not opened the original links and papers, but valacyclovir only works on some of the human herpes viruses. There's something like 6 or 8, and for example the drugs that do exist that tream HHV 5 aka CMV effectively are highly toxic, and are/were only mostly used during the AIDS epidemic because it destroys various vital organs in immunocompromised patients, so the tradeoff is worth it.
> let’s be honest, at the end of the day the manager is an agent of the company

Employment, like any other business transaction, should not be a zero sum game.

Sure, both sides are in it to gain. But your manager's job is to make the most of your time and help you be as productive as you can. That should align with your goals - the more productive you are, the more valuable you are to the company.
I don't understand your post. Why should they be isolated from the effects of what happens in the real world? It's unfortunate for them, of course, but in every situation ever things that happen have knock on effects that you can't control.
Whether Bayesian or Frequentist, surely you can agree the result of different tests are unlikely to have 100% concordance.
Charging for reviews doesn't solve anything. The company paying you for the review will then just reimburse you for the cost of the fake review as well. But you'd get rid of almost all honest reviewers
Yes, the causal web of our actions is obscure, yet we are gifted with reason to overcome this.
> If you're seriously considering using this I recommend going to a psychiatrist. This program is so pointless, I even needed a mouse pointer to help me out find a point.

the author makes it sound as if this is an elaborate joke of some sort,
but if that's the case, someone else has been laughing for almost two decades: https://github.com/cosmos72/twin/

greetings, eMBee.
You need lots of antennae to get high directivity with phased arrays.

A millimeter wave (very small lambda) wafer scale (giant chip = super expensive) phased array integrated onto a chip achieves a half power beamwidth of around 6 degrees.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7747488

For good millimeter wave RF you usually need either III-Vs or SOI. Those wafers are expensive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_(windowing_system)
It's pretty easy to do it in 3D. Doing anything on a 2D projection is hard, because the space is so distorted. When you can easily measure distances, this is a lot easier.

It's a little weird that their results are inside the sphere. I don't fully understand the equation, but it looks to me like it's using angles/rotations from a to the centre, so I would expect it to remain on the surface. Maybe the problem is just numerical error?

Of course, if they're projecting the solution back to the surface anyways, the simplest way would be to find the centre of the triangle in xyz space, ignoring the sphere, then projecting the result back to the surface. As long as the triangle isn't larger than half the circumference, the shortest distance through the sphere would correspond to the shortest distance on the surface.

To be honest, I'm more surprised they projected to a plane in the first place. If he was doing it all from scratch, it would probably be simpler to do the triangulation in 3D.
The problem with using just one is that geosynchronous orbital periods are one sidereal [1] day, not one solar day. So depending on the time of the year, the satellite would be in position in the wrong half of the day. On the other hand a satellite in Tundra orbit spends not half but more than half of its time in the designated area. Maybe a good compromise orbit could be found.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_time
Yup. uBeam is probably the longest joke in SV, and given this article, we're still not getting near the punchline. Apparently they want to license this nonsense now...
>interstate frequently blocked

By whom? Traffic is just an argument for mass transit

>roads not really good

That’s an argument for more government not less. They’re fine where I live.

>speed limit low

It’s reasonable in cities and towns

>construction expensive and slow

Also high quality

You already have a beurocracy in “your” health care system. It’s just a private one and not a public one. The difference is cost involved in administrative overhead deciding who gets care and for what.

A nation needs a good health care system and a good road system to afford productive workers.

Both systems when implemented poorly cause human death and disability.
Can it really be called "paying the price" or "taking a loss" if tech employees are losing ephemeral wealth which was dependent for its existence on the continued good behavior of a feudal autocrat halfway around the world? Just because a company reaches a certain valuation thanks to an infusion of dumb Saudi money doesn't entitle it or its employees to that valuation in perpetuity. Perhaps that valuation is the mistake, now in the process of being corrected.
Yeah, I survived 33 years in Russia and have no idea what russian cars are, lol.

I know all of that stories about FIAT. There's even anecdotes in Russia about the fact that they can't even copy Fiat without making a bucket with screw-nuts instead of a car.

Name of the factory where Lada is being produced: VAZ, locals call this car TAZ ("pelvis").
Hack is great, it's been my default since I found it a couple years ago.
Sadly a similar thing happened to Polaroid. They had some excellent chemists and from what I heard from former employees it that they where able to create almost anything.
Yes, but unlike Theranos, it was known from day one that the product is bullshit, as the physics part doesn't add up.
> Our licenses, of course, also stipulated the things you mentioned, but hackers will be hackers, so we had to deal with some interesting circumstances from time to time.

Could you share two of your favourite stories related to this?
This was already a couple of years ago, so I forgot some of the details.

It made a lot of sense in this case to not have a parent pointer in the tree nodes, for the reason that that would bump the size of a node just over 32 bytes (left, right, parent and data pointers, and a balance count). This would cause libc's allocator to allocate 64 bytes per node instead.

I also seem to remember that the performance of this implementation was pretty much on par with a conventional recursive implementation. The only differences were that use of stack space was a lot less (i.e., constant) and that the machine code generated by Clang was a tiny bit smaller. I suspect that's because the optimizer didn't have to deal with recursive code.
Just to add something that I found interesting when my logic professor said it at the time: while that “bank teller and not feminist” interpretation is strictly incorrect in a theoretical world, IRL it’s useful for humans to just assume pieces of information. Most people are not particularly feminist, so it’s probably safe to assume someone - especially a bank teller, maybe - isn’t feminist if it’s not mentioned.

Rather than a fallacy of some kind, people may actually be so good at correct inferences that they are bad at leaving that intuition out of their reasoning process when thinking about a weird, outlying theoretical world.
I have a lot of attention, focus or hyperfocus issues. Plus poor social life for many years and also mild-depression.

The only way through has been the hard one - string discipline, pushing myself into building good long term friendship, traveling, having hobbies (learning drums now).

It is very easy for people like us to lose focus and jump to the next nice idea. I have lost so much time this way.

Sorry the timeline in my post was incorrect, had just woken up :P
> but it doesn't erase the fact that people have gone from 0 to B by creating companies from nothing and making a large impact of society.

That doesn't invalidate anything I said and it doesn't support what you were saying very well at all.

Hitmen, heroin dealers and elephant poachers provide value to some people as well, but to say we should encourage those things simply because they provided 'value' is sociopathic.
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There isn't a clear line, and there probably cannot be one.

First of all, more than just 'degree of separation' matters. You also need to know what fraction comes from bad sources. If it is 3 fronts stacked, you are still essentially dealing with the bad source.

I see 2 options:

1) Flip it. At what standard do I eliminate e.g. 20% of all funding. Or more generally, plot repugnancy against the percentage of funding sources lost, and pick an optimum

2) Make news matter. It might not feel objective to drop a deal for 3 degrees of separation when you read a story. After all, there is probably other stuff that has 3 degrees of separation. However, by reacting to that news you:

* Outsource information gathering to Journalists, who are specialized and do it for many more people than you
* Increasing the impact of journalism. By making investors care about what is written about them.

The second point matters, because fear of bad PR is essentially the only capitalist force that pushes companies towards moral behavior.
Thanks for pointing these two out. It is strange that the spelling error persists, some cache issue. Will fix them. Thanks a lot :)
>Fujifilm isn't even competing there - they have gone for a larger sensor out of the gate.

95% of Fujifilm's money is from smaller sensors. The niche "medium format" stuff aside, most of their cameras are APS-C.
AFAIK the Mercedes SLS Electric Drive did that in 2013
https://media.daimler.com/marsMediaSite/en/instance/ko.xhtml...
Yes, every time I have complained about something bought on Ebay it has been resolved in my favour.
It doesn't have to be small in itself, just small in comparison to what Kodak did in the past, which is it.
I've used CSSGRID for this http://www.ncarg.ucar.edu/ngmath/cssgrid/contents.html

It's solid and easy to bind from anything with an FFI.
Searching for it on Youtube brings up videos of a pretty ugly interface. With 80s style text windows.

I like OPs version because it just puts a one pixel border around the window and except everything is black.
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>This is Japanese culture, they would not let such an important company die.

So like what those pesky Japanese did when they gave 1 trillion to the financial sector? Or 1 trillion to Detroit car companies? Or tons of subsidies in agriculture and across all kinds of sectors? Oh, wait...
I’ve seen this go both ways, and I find it really interesting. I’m, personally, solidly in the “passion” camp. I’ve got a few friends though where “building the business” is the passion for them, and what the particular business is doesn’t matter all that much. Seeing the business grow and knowing that they’ve got staff that they’re providing a good life for... that seems to be enough for them, even if they’re not particularly passionate about the specific businesses.
I don't mean "invented" in the sense of conscious design process with foresight or intentions. I just mean the way the blind evolutionary process creates any "design".
Where's the pushback against Russian funding?
If you ever watch a house being built, there's a huge pile of waste lumber from cut off ends. Carpenters don't look through the pile looking for an end to reuse, they just pull a fresh board and cut off what they need. With some careful design, and pre-cut pieces, one can nearly eliminate this wastage and cut costs substantially. It's not just the boards, it's the millwork, plumbing, carpet, etc.
Funny thing. I met a beautiful woman from Melbourne, Australia there while watching seals. We spent the whole day together, she had tickets to the aquarium so we went and then I got her a clam chowder bread bowl for the first time. We Uber'd to Golden Gate Park and walked over the Haight and bar hopped. I got her a Moscow Mule (she never had one and now that's her new favorite drink) and we got real cozy. Her old friend from Australia who she is staying with met me and said we look good together and our meeting story is very romantic. She gave me a goodnight kiss after one more drink in Union Square at a swanky bar called Rye. I got on the last BART back to my friend's house with a heavy heart...I really wanted to spend the night with her but it was better if we didn't. She wanted to see me again and I wanted to see her again.

We hung out for a few hours today too. We met up in Chinatown around the Financial District in the Mission area where we laid out in the park and held hands while talking about life and work. She was cold so wore my alpaca sweater. After we ate some amazing Mexican food and then got to go up one of the tallest buildings in the city where one of her friends had an office. We had coffee up there and talked about the Bay Area while looking around at all the buildings in every direction! After that we got a tour of Golden Gate Bridge and the hills around it around sunset. We took some more pictures together. I got the three of us some burgers and I had to say goodbye one more time.

Tomorrow we are going to hang out ALL DAY and then go to Alcatraz the day after and then rent a car to camp together at Yosemite.

What. The. Fuck. She is gorgeous, a social worker. I notice a lot of people looking at us, girls especially. Guys checking her out and trying to talk to her, a female bartender at an Irish pub giving me props.

I got a lot more stories too but I'm a little stoned right now off some California weed and going to go to bed. Gotta catch the BART tomorrow from Pleasant Hill to meet her again. :)

I love this city.
I work in tech, and threads like these make me eager for a crash.
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