skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't a child though, in a sense. This is a designed good. So yes, they should be responsible for any condition they knowingly design into another person.

If you believe in the possibility of trait selection in this manner to an advanced level, it is vital that this happens. A tyrannical father may demand his children may be atheists, and prevent them from going to church now. A tyrannical father in the future may have the ability to edit the God gene (assuming one exists for the sake of argument) right out before birth, never allowing the chance of it.

And this is the best case, in which the effort to design doesn't saddle the child with a host of other conditions.
Herd Behavior
This graph precisely illustrates my point. Let's conservatively posit that a workable fusion reactor is worth $2 trillion; the world spends many multiples of this on energy each year. The cost of acquiring fusion, according to its advocates, is equal to the integral of any one of the curves on this graph, which looks to be on the order of ~$100b. This is well within the range of investment attainable by private sources, just look at pharma. In other words, if fusion advocates are to be believed, the market is failing to the tune of few trillion dollars, roughly the GDP of the United Kingdom, and has been for decades. Now, markets are not necessarily efficient, but is this a believable scenario? I claim no.
Because it's fun?
And nobody had 300hp thirty years ago except the sports cars...

My first car, 45 years ago!, was a '66 Chevrolet Impala with a standard, small block, run of the mill, 283cu in. (4.6L) engine. The motor was blown so I bought a used one for $75 and swapped it out myself. Took about 6 weeks because I had never done it before.

The 283 was rated between 200 and 345hp. It was my daily driver for school (hardly a sports car) until markvdb's "oil despots" tripled the price of gas. I sold the Impala and bought a Volvo 144S with a 1.8L 4 cyl. engine.

Neither car (or engine) was ever able to get better than 25+ mpg and the Volvo made you very aware of how much power you had available.
I'm not convinced that this incident argues in favor of Go's "a little copying is better than a little dependency", which I continue to strongly disagree with. Rather, it indicates that you shouldn't blindly upgrade. Dependency pinning exists for a reason, and copying code introduces more problems than it solves.
I think there was also concern about the hydrazine-fuelled landing rockets contaminating the site and instruments.

Listening for quakes is not an activity which will be impacted by the surface being gunked up.
> For some time now, I’ve been thinking that it’d be funny to add a Lisp-style condition system to Go by abusing panic, defer & recover. I think that it’d be possible (since Lisp’s conditions are really just built atop THROW & CATCH).

How would you resume execution at the panic point?

A conditions system requires that you don't unwind, afaik Go's panic do in fact unwind.
More than 60% off Linux Foundation certification
Respectfully, it troubles me a bit to see the burden of responsibility being shifted to "the academic community." On my docket for the day is completing a referee report for a 500-page academic book manuscript. It's my second time reading this ms and making pages of comments on it, and the publisher is paying me $80 for my time. That works out to pay of about $2/hour.

As I get further into academia I am amazed at the amount of work we do that is uncompensated yet required of us by the antiquated system of prestige that you mentioned in your parent comment. Perhaps it isn't so much that academics are stubbornly committed to an outmoded system, it's that we literally have no time or energy to do anything beyond the bare minimum of meeting that system's constraints.

Given that the public for-profit publishers are reporting profit margins that put tech companies to shame, I don't really buy the argument that it's the academic community who are holding things back. The perverse incentive here is clearly concentrated on the publisher side, not ours.

I really appreciate that you are taking the time to respond to comments in this thread though, thank you for posting.
The concept of code sharing—which is a good thing, this incident notwithstanding—goes all the way back to CPAN and Perl 5.
It does not. I have Firefox Focus Content Blocker enabled in iOS Safari, and other Content Blocker apps for Mac Safari.
If you're writing a command line utility that tries to load a config file and falls back on defaults if it's not found, you may try to load it and just ignore any error, only caring that it either returns a path if found or null if you should use default values.
Isaac Asimov, Visions for the Future (1992)[video]
Sure! They're either people I know personally and trust (and hopefully people will trust me to do this transitively) or they are people who are already authors of popular libraries and have shown they are experienced in maintaining OSS projects and trustworthy (since they're already pushing code to people's machines).

Trust is definitely an issue here, and trust is something you build, so I hope we'll be able to build enough trust to let people not think twice about adding their projects.
Absolutely not. Microwave transformers are much too dangerous.

The flyback transformers from a TV (or neon sign) are fairly low power because they don't need all that much. The goal is high voltage for both. A microwave transformer is meant to pump a thousand of Watts into your high specific heat food and will very easily kill you. They should not be used for any sort of hobby work.
The audacity of that.
Founders don't typically get preferred shares. If employees are wiped out in an acquisition, the founders likely are too.

Of course, the acquiring company can always opt to pay large signing/retention bonuses to founders if the acquirer believes they're valuable.
Amazon has a mechanical turking service for labelling data already - no need to actually put people on your payroll for doing this.
ECC Memory Vulnerable to Rowhammer Attack
I don’t see a PDF?
> Also, though I understand there is disagreement about this, I think countries keep secrets for a reason and I consider it naive utopianism to expect everything to be brought into the open.

The article obliquely addresses this concern:

> Ronald Reagan’s executive secretary for the National Security Council, Rodney McDaniel, estimated that 90 percent of what was classified didn’t need to be. The head of the 9/11 commission put the number at 75 percent.

> This created a huge amount of tension between so-called “real secrets” — things that really should never be made public, like military positions and the designs of mass-destruction weapons — and things that are merely extremely embarrassing to people in power and should come out. The bombing of civilian targets in Iraq was one example. The mistreatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay was another.

While I'm sure that advocates of naively utopian absolute transparency do exist, a much stronger position is that perfectly legitimate reasons of security have been abused to protect bad actors in power. It's a lot easier to argue against leakers and for the necessity of classified information when the system for designating state secrets doesn't conspicuously lack integrity. Rather than "no secrets ever", the argument posits the necessity of leakers in an environment where the majority of secret info should not be secret.
A fantasy
"No one...should put this many hours into work...this is not good. People should not work this hard. They should not do this. This is very painful... [Interviewer: Painful in what sense?] ...It hurts my brain and my heart."

Not gonna lie, that kinda took me aback.
What you describe is achieved by using git diff, and then git commit -p.

I use that everyday. Whatever you imagined we command line people use, it is just not accurate, IMO.
Scoping dependencies to their author by default would help (not eliminate) this problem.

For example, if this had been @dominictarr/event-stream the entire time, and he chose a new maintainer, that would then by definition change the name of the package to @right9ctrl/event-stream, requiring all users to intentionally change their dependency.

Yes, it's painful. But it prevents getting caught out by a malicious patch release.

That said, the whole github/npm relationship is broken to begin with. No simple mechanism exists that I'm aware of to verify that a tag as pushed to GitHub is exactly the same as what is published to npm. And due to various prepublish hooks, it can be very difficult to actually prove this. One solution would be GitHub support for building & publishing packages, with a Travis-like build log, so users can be assured that the package as it sits on npm actually was built from expected source.

@right9ctrl could have just avoided committing this entirely, and just published a malicious patch release. If he had done that for a few days then published another that removes the injection, it might have gone unnoticed for months.
You are incorrect you are who you can prove who you are.

I can prove any of a number of identities scattered around the internet most of which are in fact my real name.
Pretending that this is trust less is just not real.

Example I know from a wide variety of sources that certain projects are trustworthy even if I can only verify a pseudonym that itself is trustworthy and infer that authors other projects are trustworthy.

Accounts emails and domains are all useful tools even if not perfect.

People don't normally put years into developing trust in order to distribute malware. It's normally a low effort affair.

Not giving maintainership to random people who send you an email or selling projects to skeevy companies seems like a good way to avoid 80% of issues kind of like washing your hands can prevent a lot of colds.
Climate Change Already Reshaping U.S., Says National Climate Assessment
> 7-X design was computed in the late 80s?

Source for that?

Looking at the German Wikipedia entry, the HELIAS method was invented in the late 80s. I don't see anything about the 7-X design actually having been computed back then. In fact, even the 2002 experiment Wendelstein 7-AS wasn't fully optimised.

Also, Tokamaks were invented in the 1950s. JET started operating in 1983. ITER was proposed in 1987. Given even just a little bit of path-dependency, there really wasn't any realistic overlap.
And the better news is that if you don’t actually care about these silly new features you can get amazingly great TVs for next to nothing. I saw a 46 inch 4K LED smart TV at Costco for around $300. It didn’t have HDR (the current trendy hotness in the top of the line TVs), so I guess it’s considered substandard, but holy crap that’s a great deal.
But how does Captcha know that your answers are correct? There's likely already a predictive model that knows (within some confidence intervals) which ones are the 'correct' answers - someone had to label that data to begin with! Chicken, meet egg.
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Opensource Cross Browser syncing App on Android.
Object detection with 3 lines of code (R) using Tiny YOLO
I'm 27 years old and I haven't prioritized my career as much as I could have. For example I've joined teams that allow me to work remotely from countries of interest instead of searching for ones that had the best environment for growth as a software developer.

I'm not unhappy at all with the choices I've made so far, but my goals in life are changing and it's making me wonder what it takes to be accepted into companies like Jane Street.

Skill wise I think I'd have to start as a junior developer, which I don't mind, but perhaps having 4-5 years of working experience would disqualify me for those entry level roles?
I don't have a video, and I can't find the original picture, but here's a very low resolution version: https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000340843432/c1f1...
I guess I always considered muscle cars to fall in the same basket as sports cars, and the postwar Impalas to be muscle cars. Maybe that's wrong.
How will blockchain technology affect higher education in the future?
NASA InSight Mars Landing live coverage [video]
They just reinvented Monroe's Motivated Sequence.
well, within the first 10 employees you are coming in just before or just after series A. You can just assume what the stack looks like.
If confinement is easier in a large machine, why are not very large machines being built?

Money and politics. You might want to take a look at the original logo of the ITER project: https://www.iter.org/img/resize-900-90/www/content/com/Lists...

The Soviet Union collapsed, and the US pulled out of the project in 2000, rejoining only in 2006. This necessitated a down-sizing of the original design.
Dont forget about the advances in superconductor tech happened over last few decades. Especially with High tesla superconductors possible due to new materials like REBCO tapes have been a great enabler. so much so that the ITER is design locked to use the older tech and cannot easily upgrade to the latest materials. Prof dennis whyte of MIT ARC project actually had a slide explaining the impact of max magnet strength on the containment design and overall cost of the project.

My key takeaway from this is that market/capitalism are really good at finding the optimal solution to an engineering problem using the currently available tech, however, its not so much for cases where you need the enabler tech also to be invented. IMHO this is where govt needs to step up and bring all the necessary pieces in the realm of possibility. after this private business can pick it up and optimize.

on a different note, its really amazing that they can maintain superconductors at -100 F just a few inches from a plasma at 100M F.
You mentioned HardCaml in your other post, but I don't see any hardware positions on the website. Are you guys really doing hardware too?
Just because it doesn’t increase the cost of the base model doesn’t mean it doesn’t increase the price, just that you don’t have the option of not paying for it.
adioso.com (no longer maintained as far as I can tell, but still online) does a really great job of this, UX-wise. It lets you create searches like "departing anywhere between February 10 and March 20 for about 2 weeks", and allows you to filter destinations by continent/region, which gives you a ton of flexibility. They then allow you to choose a destination (showing what I assume is the lowest price found per destination), and then let you sort the actual flights by cheapest, fastest, and "best" (a combination of price, duration, and number of stops).

I think the computational cost is a far bigger problem for these kinds of services than the UX.
From my understanding, no, e. coli is inside the plant.
The uBeam Handshake
if err != nil {
return nil, errors.Wrap(err, "bad stuff during foo")
}

looks pretty handy, I just want to tell the compiler to infer that everywhere by default, because writing it over and over is not only a waste of time but actively makes all code harder to read.
My work has made the aggressive stance no HIPAA data on AWS due to the legal and billing issues, not a technical one. Technically it a good solution, and we might use it down the road. We already use AWS/S3 for firmware device updates.
Office 365 is huge.

Microsoft Office is a virus and Windows is just the vector.
The original comment was 3.6l is >2 times more cylinder volume than useful in >95% of scenarios. Towing a large american camper would be one of those 5% of scenarios. Many people have large campers, but far far more do not.
The best solution is a module system that obeys the principle of least authority. An event-stream library shouldn't be able to find your cryptocurrency wallet, or communicate back to its author either.
At the very least, a few years of regularly contributing to Node projects on GitHub. The account he handed it over to has essentially zero history: https://github.com/right9ctrl. The one repo they have is just a copy of https://github.com/barrysteyn/node-scrypt.

I'm not against handing over projects, but some vetting has to be done.
Thanks for the links, nice to see the work on Bolt.

And Coda looks incredible if that can be done
I just tuned in. It sounds like EDL is about 15 minutes away from now?
I'm a big fan of NASA running space programs for the good of the American people and I'm pretty cynical about the relentless Barnum & Bailey marketing from Musk. Teslerati is essentially an oligarch fan site.
Lisbon after the Earthquake
Give me Algebraic Data Types or give me death.
Makes no difference if they were signed or not. He handed over the NPM package, not the GitHub repo. NPM doesn't show commit history or authors and has no connection to GitHub; you can easily have a GitHub repo for your NPM package with benign code in the GH repo and completely different, malicious code in the package.
Seems like a nice and interesting company to work for! Except I honestly wonder ... how do you explain to your friends and family what kind of work you do, and how it makes the world a better place? (besides "making the market more efficient")

The answer to this should be placed more prominently on the website, imho.
>you know only how much %% of a company is offered to you at the moment, not the future exit value.

But this "future exit value" is the same unknown for co-founders, angel investors, VCs, etc. Employees share the same unknown as everyone else as to what the eventual IPO or corporate acquisition valuation could be.

E.g. if an angel investor buys 5% of the company, he only knows his % ownership at that moment and not the eventual IPO price in 7 years. The angel also doesn't know what his eventual dilution will be. It really doesn't matter.

The angels and VCs ultimately cares about shares_times_price and that it has grown multiples of their investment. They already know they will get diluted because every owner gets diluted in the normal course of events. Selling equity to help it become a more valuable company means getting diluted.

E.g. When Accel Partners invested $12 million for 15% equity of Facebook in 2005, their investment got diluted when Microsoft later invested $240 million to buy 1.6% equity in 2007. That's how it mathematically works and it's normal. Dilution is a downstream math calculation side-effect of selling equity. The Accel partners didn't complain that they got screwed and owned less than 15% because the Microsoft investment diluted them. Also, neither Accel nor Microsoft knew what the eventual IPO price would be in 2012.

>how much %% of a company is offered to you at the moment

To be more precise, employees are typically offered a number of shares or options to buy shares instead of an explicit % of ownership. The % of ownership is a derived calculation at a point in time that's based on the number of shares. From that moment on, it's the price of the shares that ultimately matters and not the dilution because everybody's % of ownership will decrease as a normal event in growing companies that raise additional funding. Presumably, the startup hired employees that can contribute value so everybody's share price goes up which more than offsets the dilutive effects of accepting extra investment money.
Continuous Integration with Python: An Introduction
Go's error handling is exactly the equivalent of only having checked exceptions. I've gone the other way, personally, the last few years: I prefer languages that only have unchecked exceptions.
The more I read about major security vulnerabilities that should not have passed inspection, the more I believe someone put it intentionally or was told to.
And even if you understand what's going from the OP, you're unable to get full context as Github hides the majority of comments in the issue. I've clicked "Load more..." 5 times and still over 100 comments are hidden. Incredibly annoying.
Yes. Cash at hand is very valuable. It cushions you against certain types of business risk and also gives you the ability to pounce on opportunities that may come up (e.g. acquiring another company).

In some companies there are also budgetary reasons. For example, a department may blow their capex budget on something early in the year. If you have a payment model that supports regular payments, the customer can still buy your product, as opposed to having to make room in next year's budget (which is not only not guaranteed, but also delays the purchase).

But the biggest reason is ROI. Let's say there is a software that will save your department $1000 per month. You can either buy this software for a $24,000 one-time payment, or for $500 per month. If you do the former, it would take you two years to start realizing the ROI. If you do the latter, you start realizing it immediately. And of course, if you don't like the software, you can always cancel your subscription, which means you're also protected against the risk of, say, buying something that never gets adopted by the users (or project failures, etc.).
Maybe the right answer here is to cook (or otherwise sterilize) our food before we eat it, or else accept that not doing so is risky? The prevalence of contagions in uncooked/undercooked meat is already well-known; uncooked/undercooked lettuce apparently warrants similar treatment.

Sure, if it's easy and cheap to test and sterilize irrigation water, then let's do so. I strongly doubt that's the case, though, and requiring farms to do so is one of those regulations that would be a small dent in a large corporate farm's checkbook and a gaping hole in that of a small independent farm.
Not my decision, but totally within my rights to criticize.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo
No problem with someone forking it based on the license... who needs original authors?
I did something similar using the apache ftp client, as long as the resources are identified by a path it's very convenient and extremely easy, just implement a FileSystemFactory with apache mina and off you go.
They display the same pictures to multiple people and have some kind of agreement algorithm.
I think a willingness to take on the risk is assumed by the author. Once you've made that choice, then how do you evaluate one startup vs another. (as an employee)
I said "that they want you to buy".

The ones that they want you to buy are listed at https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/. Go there and look at the phones that they list.

Can you find the cheaper phone? Yes. Its specs don't compare to the https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/phones/galaxy-s/galaxy-s8-... for the same price.

As for iPhones lasting longer, it certainly used to be true. I went out of my way to buy Apple products for close to 20 years, in large part because of the reliability that they gave. However reliability of Apple devices seems like it has gone downhill in the last few years. Look at https://ifixit.org/blog/10229/macbook-pro-keyboard/ for example.

My anecdotal experience fits. In the last 5 years I personally bought 3 new phones. One died 3 days out of warranty, one is the phone I described above, and the other is still being used by my son. My wife switched after her phone had reliability problems, and my step-son's switch came after his phone just died.
> That's not really what the term "compliance car" means in general use.

The term "compliance car" in general use refers to cars produced to be in compliance with a regulation. More specifically the cars you sited were produced to be in compliance with CARB standards.

The Volt/Bolt are compliance cars for CAFE, which unlike CARB specifies that fleet is a reference to cars for sale in the United States.

As I said in my original post, GM is probably hedging it's bets by developing the technologies that will scale up to it's entire fleet but has no desire to do so.

When the Bolt launched, GM said they were going all electric and would be launching 18 EV models by 2023. So far we haven't heard anything about new models and the Bolt is speculated to be losing GM up to $9000 per car. Maybe those 18 models were just re-badges of the Bolt for different markets?