skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Purely anecdotal, but as someone in the space I'd attribute those improvements largely to better manufacturing technology rather than better management. Servos, feedback control, reliability testing, etc. have improved a lot since the 90s. But American management still tends to be rather Taylorist.

With electronic components being more popular you're seeing quality issues crop back up from T1/T2 suppliers because the focus is on technology instead of process. But the AOI/ICT I've seen in the automotive space are fairly crude compared to the number of potential failures you can have with electronic components. Playing whack-a-mole doesn't work. You need people close to the process who care enough to notice when something is not quite right, and are empowered to do something about it.

Kaizen is to manufacturing what Agile/Scrum is to software development. As soon as management hears "improved efficiency" they tend to focus on the dollar signs rather than the message about people and process.
Not sure what's expected here. I mean, this is hardly the format for 20 page dissertations on lived history. I'm guessing these downvotes are coming from folks that are missing context because they're in their 20's and don't actually know anything about Reaganomics, what was proposed vs what the actual observed outcomes were, etc.
TFA is about wealth and power, not human evolution
> "About a decade ago, he and some of his colleagues faced a diagnostic puzzle. Some of their patients were sicker than they ought to be, but there was no clear connection to a cause."

Odd as this might sound, disease is often a symptom. The root problem being a compromised immune system. The human immune system is robust. It's had many centuries and many generations to perfect its craft.

But modern life (with its associated chemicals and other factors that are historically abnormal) is bad - and getting worse? - for the immune system. No other species, that I'm aware of, is so willing to put itself in harm's way. Perhaps humans have out smarted evolution to the point of ending the species' reign?

Years ago there was a TV advert, something about "it's not nice to fool Mother Nature." Seems like that tongue in cheek tag line isn't so funny after all.
Shameless plug: I wrote a blog post a while ago using your premise to argue why decentralized technologies wouldn't be useful to society: https://www.notion.so/Yet-Another-Rant-About-Blockchains-ece...
Oh, it's not text; I render a PNG too. I just use the glyphs from the typeface for the pieces, and draw the board in code.
your citation doesn't seem to back up your claim
And other articles state that it is only smartwatches with a listening device. This is why you don't trust a single article from a sensationalist website and rely on exact phrasing within it.
Bang on. Right chord.

I think this article is a great advise to people running startups. The review is akin to raising outside money.
You are part of the vocal, online minority that doesn't look at Mint and cringe because it looks so amateur and dated.

Sure, and clearly you are part of the other vocal, minority, that complains bitterly about this. The majority is silent. The majority doesn't care about Linux or Windows but keeps their Windows install because that is the ultimate easy (maybe MacOs people care). Someone in majority could probably be trained/persuaded to agree with either perspective if someone took the time to point it out one or another of these to them and if they had any incentive to look.

Linux is usable. Linux isn't pretty by graphic designer's view of pretty. That lack of prettiness probably doesn't have that much to do with desktop Linux not being adopted widely. At least in the sense that the only way that kind adoption is going to happen is if a wider percentage of people have some actual material incentive to adopt.
With that mindset, you have no business using AWS.
> The tactic, though effective, has unfortunately become annoyingly common.

'Annoyingly common' is obvious. I would be interested in opinions from people in the industry if it is effective.

I know for a fact I can't bare to work my way through these style pieces; I'm also aware that there are publications that almost exclusively use it, so I'm guessing there is a large enough group of people who want to be told a story, rather than want to learn something. Is it a majority?

I notice a similar style issue in TV documentaries. Too often modern ones are about the presenter, with the majority of screen time showing the presenter, sometimes interacting with the actual subject but often enough just talking about themselves or unrelated subjects. Given that I think there is general consensus about what some of the great documentaries are, it seems that they are not even attempting to be good documentaries and are instead just attempting to make light entertainment.
I'm sorry but I don't think the 80s are really something that can be explained to someone that didn't live through them, which I assume you didn't, otherwise you wouldn't be asking for clarification on Reaganomics.
i cant stand it. they should have a 'translate' button that removes all the crap for the readers who have no interest in that
Your second example is disingenuous. Mm to inch is going to be a weird conversion because they are between different unit systems. Feet to miles is unacceptable considering they're both imperial units.
Not just support. Error handling.

People expect Google to work, as Google trained people to expect its things to just work. Like Google.com, Gmail, Android.

And GCP is complex, it will break down. And then people just get frustrated. Yes, it works from the CLI, but fuck that. I know AWS is slow and expensive, but at least it does the basics. GCP was unable to launch VMs - for fuck's sake - on the UI just a few days ago with mysterious resource not available errors. (Anecdotal first hand experience, I've spent at least 1-1 hour trying to get an instance in a EU zone, to no avail. Even waited half a day between.)
Congratulations Johnny! I enjoyed speaking with you earlier this year, and think the adjustment to “find a study buddy” is a great move. I’m excited to see you moving this forward.
NeurIPS
You're missing the point if you don't see the problem of an infinitely repeating measurement. That doesn't translate to a tangible action. You can't cut 1/3 of a meter, and there's no subunit to roll down to that can express the right number. It's not like Imperial system exists for uneducated people - it exists for trades people. Metric is the "simple" system, because it ties back to 10, a number we're all used to. I like the metric system for its scalability, but as somebody who works in a math-y area of computing, I have nothing but distaste for base10.
Imperial units are good for describing small items in 'feets' length, and for cooking measures.

I don't think miles have an advantage over kilometers.

In Canada, people have trouble understanding the various measures if '10ml' of this, or '10mg' of that.

They do understand 'a teaspoon' or a 'large spoon'.

I think we need some kind of colloquial measure for food.
"registered in the Republic of Ireland"
Does the mailing-list PR model show you at a glance which PRs have been merged?
OP probably means big corps can't hire GCP experts, whereas you can find "AWS experts", because there is a cert and folks with that on their CVs.
Is that Mint screenshot the Mate or Cinnamon DE? Last time I used Mint was about 3 years ago and it looked nice than that. I'm not an expert on Linux DEs, but that looks like what I remember of Gnome.

But anyway, agree with your points in general. I'll probably end up installing ElementaryOS in a VM. I do VR development full-time so I will need Windows as my main computer, but I definitely like having a Linux system around for everything else I do.
Thanks Aaron! I enjoyed speaking with you as well. Nice seeing you in the comments!
We should remember that CO2 is an essential fertilizer for plants and phytoplankton, all of which thrive when there is much more CO2 in the atmosphere. Their photosynthesis processes evolved in and are ideal for an environment with CO2 concentrations at least 5-10x the current levels.

At or below 150 ppm of CO2 in the air, all land-based plants would go extinct.
While there is a lot that seems to fit with applying complexity theory to economics, I am always uneasy that the area just doesn't seem to yield any overriding direction for people to follow.

Powerful and followable ideas at the level individual decision maker, applied many times over can make big changes in systems. But what story can be told to capture the actions needed at an decision level?

BTW: you might find this paper interesting.

http://necsi.edu/research/economics/econuniversal
> It seems you and the author have something in common: refusing to believe the man at the center when he says that it wasn't the author's fault. Which he says repeatedly.

It’s weird you don’t think the author understands this, given the only reason you know any of that is because the author themselves told you. If he didn’t think it was important, he wouldn’t have included it.
ravenstine 8 hours ago [-]

> "I'd seriously like to know how many of today's journalists were at one point creative writing majors, as it seems like every year we get more articles with this kind of narrative fluff."

I don't want to get off topic, but I wanted to respond to this. For many years I've been saying that the problem with the media is most journalists are actually "failed" English Lit majors. That is, without an adequate career path via Eng Lit many turn to journaliam.

The problem is fiction and journalism are polar opposites. Is it any wonder mainstream media is so unreliable? And untrusted?
Some context: after recently saying that the NIPS conference wouldn't change its name [0], it seems they have decided otherwise and changed the name to NeurIPS.

[0] https://nips.cc/Conferences/2018/News
That doesn't really hurt the argument at all - you're just arguing about factors now, and if you're really going to go there, 12 wins due to having more factors. The mathematical correction you'll have to do to measure 1/5th will be displaced by all the correction you don't have to do for other cases.
Sure, but because he dropped out of school it would be a huge stretch to say Bill Gates is an "academic". It's not a stretch to say he's an "intellectual" though, probably?

I guess to GP, you have to be an academic to be part of the "intellectual class." In any case, the comment's point would be way clearer if the poster had expressed it without so much snark.
We do live in an interglacial [1] period, which is a slightly warmer, shorter time in the midst of an ice age.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interglacial
I loved the 80s so much more than the 70s, so I'm not sure where you are coming from.

EDIT: I did remove an insult from an earlier draft of an earlier comment that you were probably a kid (as most people here are) that didn't remember the 80s. Since you are apparently not, my question still stands. (I don't have a pin-up of Margaret Thatcher any more, though...)
Ask HN: What are your favorite travel hacks?
Ah yes, Bill Gates, the working class hero.
All I want is an OS with a lightning fast UI and ‘08 thumb drive sized footprint, idc about privacy. Gimme ultra lightning fast Casino-electronic-craps-game-level fast UI and shouldn’t weigh too much like I said

Who cares about privacy? If they’re based in the US/EMEIA you can sue the pants off anyone that disrespects your privacy and win in court
IIRC, libgen.io has a collection dedicated to specifications, a la sci-hub. I recall seeing a lot of IEEE stuff there.
The more I try to understand plotting documentations the more I end up going to SO for even minute detour from the conventional usecase. This is the same situation with pandas. I wonder how I would ever work with these without an internet connection.
At least 42 dead in cathedral attack in Central African Republic
To clarify: GSM is essentially first cellular protocol that does meaningful user authentication, on the other hand there is no way for user to explicitly authenticate the network. In usual operating mode the session is implicitly bidirectionally authenticated by the fact that both UE and network has to be able to derive same Kc, but nothing prevents the network from just ignoring the authentication response from UE and continuing in plaintext mode.
I don't want to be around when we discover the planet can't actually take more than we can throw at it. We are unable to deal with minor pokes of the planet (storms, fires, earthquakes). Imagine what's gonna happen when it really pokes at us. We're probably gonna get wiped out. This planet is more fragile than people think and our power to control it is miniscule.
While buckets are great for pushing your static content too, I would probably put a CDN in front of it, which is pretty easy to do with CloudFront.

Not only is it’s faster it’ll likely be cheaper, due to reads from S3 being more expensive than content read from a CDN. (AFAIK)

Edit: that said I use to use S3 for hosting a few toy sites, that were inside jokes between my friends. For sites like that maybe glitch.com or github pages might work better ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
For mass, distance, area, and volume metric has an obvious advantage because for all of those we regularly deal with such a range of values that we want subunits, and basing those subunits on powers of 10 fits in much better with our number system and makes computation and conversion easier.

This lets one make a pretty good argument that metric has advantages sufficient to justify having to buy new rulers and scales.

For temperature, what is the justification for switching from F to C? We don't usually subdivide temperature units, so really all C does different from F is change the size of the degree and what physical process the scale is calibrated to.

One can argue that the physical processes chosen for C calibration are more convenient than those for F. C was 0 == water freezing, 100 == water boiling. F was 0 == temperature of a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride, 100 == body temperature of a healthy man.

But that could have been fixed without changing the scale at all. Just redefine F so that 32 == freezing of water, 212 == boiling of water. That would fix the one problem F had without requiring anyone to get a new thermometer.
Agreed. UBL said he wanted to destroy the USA. He never said how. The fact that more and more money is spent as a reaction to fear; the divisiveness; the hyperbole; etc.

Seems to me we're doing ourselves in. It just took a nudge to get that self-destruction rolling.
I hit that figure quite a bit back in my stimulant abuse days.

But your blog post specifically refers to chronic sleep loss.
That is a well-written and interesting article. We have very different belief systems. My apologies for not having the motivation to try make a rebuttal.

Maybe you will consider _not_ downvoting my comment because it will fade out and no one will even be able to see it. That means my ideas will be dismissed without consideration by new people to the thread.

I am not downvoting your comment.
Have they provided an API for the meat eating robots?
The act does not require the US to use metric in any capacity. It is optional. If it did kids would not be taught using the imperial system.
It's not actually.

Someone wanting to abduct a specific child is, contrary to popular belief, multiple orders of magnitude more common than someone wanting to abduct an arbitrary child.
Correct - I've admittedly had a few beers.

Which might be obvious due to me debating the merits of the number 12 on the internet.
The United States economic empire is the most dominant global empire that has existed. Whole cultures are vanishing into the maw. Western civilization isn't dead.
Oh come on. Google and Apple also reinvest money into improving their offerings.
> If you want a no frills experience that just works, give Lubuntu a try.

I can't speak for the UI but Aptitude vomits broken dependencies every time you have to upgrade your distro. It made me absolutely despise package management (I'm a Windows guy) until I switched to Arch and realized a package manager that is a pleasure to work with is not an inherent oxymoron. Obviously UI is another story but at least this one works.
Jokes on them, I just used a magnifying glass to distort their site!

Seriously though, what the hell?
Next you'll be promoting "a better way to count" by Conlang Critic Jan Misali - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qID2B4MK7Y0
In what way has Mate become the main Linux shell? It’s not the DE of choice for the most popular distributions so it likely doesn’t have a lot of exposure among Linux environments.
It's BBC, they don't know there's a difference.
David Hockney's $90.3m painting obliterates record for work by a living artist
But 1/2 isn't a whole number either.

Base-10 absolutism rears its head again. The objection to 1/3 is that it has a non-terminating decimal expansion. This is not a problem if you're using base-anything-with-3-as-a-factor.
Lerna – A tool for managing JavaScript projects with multiple packages
Divisibility by 12 could have benefits when working with small numbers, but on the other hand multiplying by 12 doesnt sound like operation you can do easily from top of your head...
Why would you ever expect more than a well executed fast food style burger from, well, a burger. That’s literally what burger means as far as I’m concerned.
Replacing one supergiant with a small cartel of giants doesn't make a major difference in the balance of power.

What's needed is actual decentralization, where consensus occurs without a trusted third party.
Google Cloud Executive Who Sought Pentagon Contract Steps Down
Congrats Pachyderm team.
There are several types of onions. Some are sweeter and can be eaten raw, reds are ofter smaller and closer to the wild type and not so accurate for that, but some people would prefer its more complex taste and are better adapted to survive in cold areas. The same variety can taste also different if cultured in winter or summer and if you use vinager or not.
I agree that people generally should realize that their broad viewpoints on subjects that they are not familiar with are in a different category from those that they are very familiar with or those that are about specific situations. I disagree that the issue is just that these systems are too complex to understand on any level or that we can avoid having worldviews that encompass these subjects.

I mean we can just acknowledge that we have different worldviews rather than everyone having to agree that things are too complex to understand. I agree they are complex but that doesn't mean I can avoid having views on them.
Who want to invest in China, contact me.
I can cut 1/3 of a meter just as accurately as you can cut 1/3 of a yard.

Not being a whole number does not make it harder to find where it is.
A tile in a mosaic is one small part of a bigger picture. “If you lose one tile, not a big deal,” he said. In this metaphor, a tile equals an individual weapon.

So like microservices, but for killing people.
Why the hate for UML diagrams. They are quite useful.
Most APs are certified for use from 400' above-ground-level on departure and on a complex departure procedure or in weather, that's not an uncommon engagement level.

There's a fair number of people who think that pilots are relying on "George/Otto" too much and should do more hand flying, but I'd imagine if you peered into 100 airliners on departure, that 95 or more of them are on autopilot somewhere below 5000' AGL.
2000 definition: someone who blows things up for political reasons.

2018 definition: someone who makes angry posts on social media.

I'm exaggerating a bit, but it's headed in that direction. If you want to see something truly worrying, look up the handful of idiots trying to promote the notion of "stochastic terrorism". The gist is that non-illegal statements which somehow get interpreted by lone nuts as incitement to violence should be categorized as a form of terrorism. Basically, they're hoping to criminalize angry rhetoric that stops well short of calls to violence. The good news is that they've been flogging this idea for a long time (pre-2016) and it still isn't really gaining ground.
Diane was already a billionaire prior to the acquisition. She also donated all of the Bebop money to charity anyway[1]. And she’s retaining her Google board seat.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/diane-green-donates-150m-to-...
Presumably, you'd also adopt a base 12 number system, so that decimal 12 becomes 10, and decimal 36 becomes 30, etc.
Exactly. This past Halloween our neighborhood bulletin board lit up with people freaking out about young children trick-or-treating unsupervised. Someone even cited registered sex offender statistics.

Trying to explain to them that it was more likely that a child would be kidnapped by a friend or family member - or to die in an auto or airplane accident - was seemingly impossible.
#2 can be done with statute; the ban on other arrangements is statutory. For #1, some reforms could be done by way of legislation (e.g., changes to the safe harbor legislation for electoral votes), or coordinated state action (like the current national popular vote effort, which leaves the EC formally in place but relies on states coordinating assignment of electors).
>yet crime still does occur

Of course it does. 0% crime rate is impossible. The point is that Singapore is measurably far safer than most other places in the world.

>And by lifestyle choices I mean being gay, smoking weed, or being Malay.

There’s plenty of reasons to criticise Singapore, but you don’t seem to be familiar with them. If you want to have a lifestyle where you smoke weed, then Singapore is certainly not the right place to live. But being gay or Malay is not a threat to your freedom, life, career or residency.

Also, if you’re looking for cheap living, then Singapore’s a terrible place to start. It’s very expensive to live there, but I don’t see how that has anything to do with their laws or how they enforce them.
Best book/paper you read in 2018?
What's the best book or paper you read in the last year, and why? 'Best' in terms of value it gave you personally - what's something you learnt from it, or something you used from it, or was it inspiring, what possibilities did it show you; what question(s) did it answer for you, where did it lead etc. Thank you.

I guess it could as well be a lecture, talk, video etc, I don't want to rule something out just because of the format.
You're bent on the whole number thing. Why?

Whole numbers don't make things easier to measure or cut or reason about. I can measure in thirds or fifths of a meter or a foot or an inch or any unit you want with a compass and a straight edge.

You're arguing that the mark on the tape measure is possible for imperial and impossible for metric, when thirds are involved. Not true.
The planet has been around a while and taken a lot, certainly more than we can throw at it. Now, wether we can survive is another issue. But the planet will be just fine, especially by the standards of geological time.
Terminus – A terminal for a more modern age
Capitalism is literally the private ownership of the means of production, aka simple freedom. We in the US have never lived with anything but crony capitalism. Capitalism is the only process so far that creates wealth for everyone. If people are unhappy with our current form of capitalism they can look directly to the Marxist policies our government has tilted towards the last century that are supported by both the 'right' and the 'left'.
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You seem to base #3 on false numbers. AWS is the first huge player and they have a huge advantage due to it. Companies like Microsoft/Oracle/IBM have huge enterprise presence so it does skew numbers on the cloud. Competency should be measured on fine grain. As a GCP customer for 2 years and having evaluated all major providers i can say this without doubt that #3 is not the real standing by no measure.