skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Chaos is just a word, created by humans to provide a human expression to another and for me it describes a system that is too complicated at the current moment in time to unravel into a deterministic system.

For what it's worth, chaos is defined to mean something specific in physics: a system that is deterministic, but where a small change in today will grow in to a very big change in tomorrow, to the point where any error in your knowledge will eventually grow in to being completely wrong. To reiterate, chaotic systems are all deterministic.

If you're not talking about the world but are instead talking about your experience of the world then chaos means whatever it means in that field of study, I guess. But if you want to understand the universe then physicists are the people you'll want to listen to, so you should know what chaos means.
Actually, in the case of "cd .." shells will often try to fake how symlink resolution actually happens. You can see this if you "cd" into a symlink, you shell's $PWD and built-in pwd command will tell you that you're inside the symlink but not the actual directory you got thrown into. This results in "cd .." actually doing what you describe -- even though it's a complete fantasy invented by your shell. Try it out.
> The multiverse and the many worlds have nothing to do with each other.

Some examples

"The theory is also referred to as MWI, the relative state formulation, ... multiverse theory or just many-worlds. [...] MWI is one of many multiverse hypotheses in physics and philosophy."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation

For those who don't know, the Everett mentioned in the following is the person who came up with the Many Worlds view.

"The Multiverse Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics", by Raphael Boussoa and Leonard Susskind
Abstract: We argue that the many-worlds of quantum mechanics and the many
worlds of the multiverse are the same thing, and that the multiverse is necessary to
give exact operational meaning to probabilistic predictions from quantum mechanics.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1105.3796.pdf

"Identity and probability in Everett's multiverse", by P Tappenden.
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Volume 51, Issue 1, 1 March 2000, Pages 99–114
https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/51.1.99

"The Structure of the Multiverse", by David Deutsch
1. Introduction
The idea that quantum theory is a true description of physical reality led Everett
(1957) and many subsequent investigators (e.g. DeWitt and Graham 1973, Deutsch
1985, 1997) to explain quantum-mechanical phenomena in terms of the simultaneous
existence of parallel universes or histories.
https://xxx.lanl.gov/pdf/quant-ph/0104033
Latest estimate is 'in 2 release cycles' (iirc), or 12 weeks.
Seamlessly integrating multi-armed bandits and A/B testing at Optimizely
"I did write some code in Java once, but the code was in C and Lisp (I simply happened to be in Java at the time ;-)" - heh
I found foobar good for this reason... it's still time restricted but it's on your schedule not anyone else's. You get to choose when to start the next puzzle upon completing the current one - that said, the higher difficulty ones are on the order of weeks and those difficulty of puzzle can interfere with your work by filling your head.
I mean, in C and other low-level languages unlike python, it's generally assumed you have a basic understanding of the machine model and the consequences of arithmetic in limited types.

If most people make mistakes, they should self-select to languages which have properties that protect them from their ignorance. for example, I mostly program in Python using longs so I don't have to worry about overflow.
I have met and worked with Uighurs. I personally did what was probably the largest collection on their language a couple years ago in my work at the LDC. The attempts to slander them are just that.

I’ll leave the other issue aside as I don’t know anything about it.
Increasing language surface area will generally increase the complexity of all api surfaces written in the language. This has obvious costs.

It’s true genetics will shrink some specific APIs, where they are a good fit.

But they will also be used opportunistically by developers excited to push their boundaries.

Of course you can say “just don’t do that” which works if you have a tightly controlled codebase. But most code is not that, and will be handed off to novices over and over for fixes.

So, it’s a question of whether you cater to the advanced developer who can capably handle a vast toolset, or do you commit as a community to more rudimentary tools, in order to reap the rewards of systemic simplicity.

There is no right answer.

I believe in the future all languages will fork into a simpler novice subset for general use and an expansive language for infrastructure. These will both be valid in the same parser, but the subset will be quarantined at the package management level.

Go, EZ-Go, C, EZ-C, etc

I am writing all of my code in EZ-JS
What differentiates this from Trusted Advisor, past having to inherently trust your company as well as AWS?
gardens for everyone i say
Yes! Currently I'm in love with Elementary OS as my distro (I was a Mac user so the fancy UI is exactly what I wanted)
John Bogle pens op-ed warning index funds becoming too big
The next generation of printing money: A 3D printed silicone version of this: https://www.simplipleasure.com/products/tenga-flip-hole-mast...
Seems surprising to me that the supreme court is so involved in this issue. In the United States, the supreme court tries its hardest to avoid answering a question if it can, and certainly tries to avoid anything that looks like it's writing a new law.

Can someone who is more knowledgeable comment on this?
I find your last paragraph an attempt at dismissing what I wrote? The interpretation I gave is based on how physicists interpret chaos.
> The multiverse and the many worlds have nothing to do with each other.

> (paraphrasing) The terms "multiverse" and "many worlds" are used interchangeably by many.

You two aren't really disagreeing. The parent commenter was just highlighting that there are two totally separate concepts that are associated in public vernacular with a single word.
"As for all the folks claiming they'll leave Go if it gets generics"

Baffled at this claim I searched and found one person who really seemed to be saying "if Go changes dramatically...".

This recurring notion that Go fans are anti-generic is not rooted in reality. Instead they simply didn't buy the "either it's there or the language is useless -- generics or bust!" argument that pops up in every Go discussion. It's a fine, if imperfect, language without generics. It's a better language with them.
I turned this on for an ALB I have in us-east-1, and the performance for Global Accelerator is noticeably worse than using regular commercial Internet transit. Using the 8 standard endpoints from worldping, Amazon Global Accelerator has 44% slower latency on average, with the South Carolina endpoint being 172% slower and the New York endpoint being 96% slower. Four of the other worldping endpoints are neck and neck, neither faster nor slower.
The hype around the release of Windows 95 was really something. It was broadcast TV news segment worthy, back when the 6pm news was the news. Even new iPhone models get less hype than that. It’s hard to see Microsoft returning to those days. Windows is now just a platform for them to push enterprise software.
Looks like AzureStack competitor? I’ve never seen someone adopt AzureStack either though.
Old website looked like made by well meaning technical people who do not have all the time in world to make website with all the latest fads in web design.

New one looks like some shady marketing crap put together with off-the-shelf components like bootstrap libs. But it does 'empowers everyone'. May be they can add 'No programer left behind' and we all be happy.
This is very topical. If i had a dollar every time someone used Black Mirror as an argument against technology...
>Effective birth control

What if at the end, we end up realizing that all there is to life is a struggle in order to propagate our own DNA, and that really this struggle may not be worth it? Humanity as a whole could decide that this is all there is, and then that ultimately there really is no point other than what you make it. What if humanity bucked it's genetic programming, recognizing it for what it really is. And recognizing that what we are really up against, is the laws of physics themselves. That we've been dealt a raw deal, meaning that we must work in some way to sustain our own being, and that only the laws of the universe stop us from being truly free. That in the end, birthing children really isn't a blessing, but a curse. And that truly the best gift you can give your unborn children is the gift of non-existence.
Just yesterday I was watching a video about a triathlon bike which uses a frame setup that's illegal in normal bike racing. The question was, was it a faster bike? The conclusion was that the bike was quite heavy and not very stiff, so not really a great bike for normal bike racing. However, as a time trial bike where drafting is not allowed (the normal situation in triathlons), this bike could shave off 40 seconds over 40km. Which is a pretty huge amount, the presenter said with a grin.

He said it with a grin because it is a huge amount in the context of a competitive time trial -- like the difference between first place and 10th or 20th place perhaps. But as a percentage difference it's roughly a 1.4% increase in speed (assuming you can maintain 50 km/h). It's practically nothing in real terms.

In competitive cycling, though, the margins are super small. You might win the Tour de France by 2 minutes, which seems like a pretty big lead, until you realise that's 2 minutes in 80 or 90 hours of cycling. This is why Team Sky's approach of "marginal gains" is so successful -- the difference between first and second place is something like 0.04% performance.

We've got this idea that we need to optimise performance (in terms of SEO, etc, etc), but I've never seen anybody quantify the margin of "victory" required. How much better do you need to get to push you over the edge? Because that's what's going to dictate what strategy you need to pursue.
Smalltalk has had this type of thing for years...

https://gtoolkit.com/
This is my experience being diagnosed with ADHD at 29 as well. Things seemed fine from the outside. Well paying, stable work. However, I had an incredibly difficult ability to do anything that needed intrinsic motivation, and my self-image began suffering as a result. I was constantly finding motivation from external factors and/or fear of rejection/failure and/or adrenaline to accomplish anything.

The first time I took a central nervous system stimulant (Modafinil as a nootropic) I could suddenly book my dentist appointments, and book a doctor's appointment to talk about mental health, and book holidays I'd been putting off. And read several chapters of a book in one sitting. And make my bed and remember to brush my teeth. And check in with friends I hadn't heard from in a while. Normal life stuff. Is this what neurotypical people can do!? I wish my frontal lobes had more activation and bloodflow by themselves.

My GP didn't understand how I could think I had a problem since I could maintain a 9-5. My family compared me to my less "obedient" ADHD older brother and never had me tested. I am pretty sure my mother has it but is in denial.

Dr. Russell Barkley has some great videos explaining how ADHD is an intention disorder, and how knowing and doing are separate parts of the brain.

Thanks for sharing! There's a lot of misinformation about ADHD out there. I'm glad that there are treatments that help right away (unlike most psychiatric conditions).
I suspect the rather poor diagnosis situation is going to naturally produce a lot of skepticism. Anyone is going to start questioning things if they see kids with a diagnosis who seem basically normal. And, unfortunately, that does seem to be happening quite often.
> But if you want to understand the universe then physicists are the people you'll want to listen to...

Bold claim. I would like to ask physicists what chicken tastes like? Or why the mountains are beautiful? Or where the other 73% of our existence is?
Chaos isn't interpreted in physics, it's defined in physics, and it happens to be deterministic by definition. Many chaotic systems have already been "unraveled in to deterministic systems," including the double pendulum and weather models.
That’s the best case scenario. Add in smoking, drinking, high blood pressure and obesity, all of which are common, and it’s as low as 62, from a starting age of 51.
I think "turning adults into children" is just a reference to using drugs to reduce their inhibitions and/or ability to resist. Not much different from getting someone drunk.
China leapfrogs US in supercomputer deployments
> been through some serious shit in their lifetime

That's for sure. Somebody actually hoping Falun Gong can be the cure for their cancer.

It's not actually a problem about economic policies and cultural revolution, I think the main problem was the government has failed to develop the infrastructure needed to educate and help those people. No, government was just let those people wander around by themselves without give them enough help, no wonder why they found such way to "help" themselves.

> Their childhood and formative years would have consisted of Mao's self-genocidal economic policies and then the cultural revolution, then a complete repudiation of those communist ideals in the subsequent opening to the west.

I don't think this is a thing, because I don't believe many people in China was that obsessed with communism to begin with. Lots of bad thing actually happened during cultural revolution and the great leap, enough for most of people to have realized.

There is a misconception many (if not most) westerners have, that is China and Chinese people are communist. WRONG. In reality, most Chinese people are just normal people who lives under the communist ruling, and that's all.

CCP of course always trying to push their ideology to the public (by education and censorship etc), but isn't that's an indication of "Not everyone believes communism in China"?
Notion took over every other product for our team in a couple weeks - really incredible
I take "The multiverse and the many worlds have nothing to do with each other" to mean there does not exist any notion of multiverse that has to do with many-worlds.
The first two are about human experiences and the last you will hear first by listening to physicists (because anyone who practices physics is by definition a physicist, I'm including astrophysicists of course). It might sound like a bold statement, but really what I said was kind of tautological.
> "Had we picked it up early, they could have operated and put him on immunotherapy."

Your story could be helpful to others. According to the doctors:

1) What is the years survived estimate of this vs doing nothing in your fathers situation (age, stage, etc)?

2) What are the side effects (and in general the quality of life) after/during this treatment vs doing nothing?

Also, these should both be some sort of histograms or at least ranges.
https://imgur.com/a/HPJgSoq

Speaking of tracking, is there a site that tracks and draws a graph of the position of a stories on the front page, their score and number of comments?
"I got six maybe sheep in my truck."
If I had ten cents every time a tech bro uses Heinlein to promote fascism.
I'm from there, if you want to work in Kentucky as a non-remote tech worker your options are... limited, to say the least
My philosophy is everything is deterministic and how I wrote the above illustrates that with my expression of the word chaos. I don't understand your point?
I have learned not to value local control. This is because I value incumbent residents and future residents equally, but local control only can give the former group of people a voice. In this way, I do absolutely find it anti-democratic.

I would definitely prefer issues like marijuana and sanctuary to be settled on the national level if that were possible. Same goes for zoning. I don't see the paradox you seem to see; when these things are forced to be solved on the local level, I'll support my position. That doesn't stop me from thinking that sometimes the local level is part of the problem.
You are right. Previously it was hackers, now it seems for growth hackers.
Maybe someone figured out they would get half the response the first time and the rest the second time.
This doesn't make sense to me. I like the independence that transit brings -- I can go anywhere in my city and not be lugging a huge and expensive personal asset around. I can drink and take transit, I can be tired and take transit, I can take transit in a snowstorm and be assured my chances of experiencing a snow-related mishap are lower. I feel safer in a train or on a bus than on the road, especially in the first snowstorm of the year. I'm a small woman, and I don't really have problems on transit. I feel safer on the train than in an Uber. A guy recently made a pass at me on transit late at night but we ended up chatting and he told me his cornbread dressing recipe. Very useful before Thanksgiving, though I didn't end up making it.

I don't want to feel the government cares for me -- I want to know that my tax dollars go to something useful instead of something stupid. Highways don't make me feel like I have "minimal outside help". A bicycle sure does :) Walking does more so!
This is pure speculation, but is it possible that we're less strict nowadays in child-rearing behavior (none of that children are meant to be seen, not heard nonsense.) So perhaps the children don't develop the same degree of control over their behavior because their parents aren't forcing them to behave themselves to the same degree?

I remember when I was a kid, we had to learn to be quiet when my dad was home. Making too much noise would inevitably lead to escalating admonitions from my father to be quiet.
>If you worship money and things – if they are where you tap real meaning in life – then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. It's the truth.

The only reason he has to assert it like that is because it isn't true. He has a lack of imagination if he's not able to imagine someone who doesn't worship anything. I imagine he'd just move the goalposts though, and say "oh well they worship their lack of worship, which is a form of eating them alive." It's disingenuous at best, but probably just ignorance, so that he can sound profound without really giving a convincing argument.
20秒で歯磨き終了。全自動歯ブラシが登場
I'll break this down another way.

I'm going to pick a random suburb that happens to be near me. They are about a 33% even split of old suburbs (1940-1960s), middle suburbs (1970s-1990s) and new suburbs (2000s+), with maybe 15% of that new suburb land still totally empty. There are a few duplexes and apartment buildings in there, but nothing dense. No buildings higher than 3 stories, it's like 95% low density stuff.

Their budget for 2017 includes $7,143,000 towards "Major Streets and Local Streets". That's costs for basically every road except the freeways (those are maintained by the state). This suburbs spends that, every year, on roads alone.

"OH MY GOD THATS SO EXPENSIVE" says StrongTowns, "OBVIOUSLY SUBURBS ARE DOOMED!"

There are 75,000 people living in this suburb. That 7 million dollars, divided per person (per capita) per month, comes out to $8/month per person. (That's number is artificially high, because it includes none of the businesses or retail that also pay taxes -- it assumes just the residents alone shoulder all the burden).

Even ignoring all business revenue, for less than the cost of a Netflix subscription per person, this suburbs maintains every single street in the entire suburb.

An average house in this Midwestern Michigan suburb, costs about $150-200k. A single family home pays a couple hundred dollars per month in property taxes. It costs just $8 of those couple hundred dollars per month, to maintain every single street in the suburb.

Is it possible the municipality mis-counted something? Sure! Is it possible they aren't fully accounting for every possible road cost? Perhaps! Let's pretend they mis-counted by something extreme, let's assume they are a full 50% under-estimating on literally every street in the sububrb.

That doomsday scenario means a citizen might have to pay $16/month for roads, instead of $8. Oh no, what a terrible world that would be

I'm not pretending every suburb is identical. I'm sure there are suburbs that spend more than $8/per person per month on roads. Some suburbs are more sprawled out than others. But generally speaking, there is no great infrastructure apocalypse coming down upon us. It's just not happening, unless some major disaster wipes everything out all at once (like a hurricane, or a tornado, or a screwup like Flint's Water crisis).

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The Growth Ponzi scheme makes a great headline for StrongTowns. But for most people, it's completely fanfaction. It is not grounded in any reality whatsoever, for the vast majority of people who are reading it.
DJI Osmo Pocket: smallest 3-axis stabilized handheld camera
Interesting.

"In the totalitarian-dystopian genre, the prototypical narrative content elements — e.g., setting, character, plot, and story morals — are relatively clear and consistent; thus, they are “filled in” according to widely shared genre conventions."

Writers can thus write in such worlds without extensive world-building. It's like grinding out police procedurals or zombie novels. Not every writer can build worlds like Charles Stross. It's also easier for readers. Reading Ian Banks is hard work.

More generally, we have a decided lack of novels describing a better future. We have no shared conceptual model of what a better future should look like. We did once, up to 1970 or so. To a considerable extent, futurism is still stuck in the 1960s. What passes for futurism today is a minor tweak on the present.

("Futures: 1) Utopia 2) Dystopia 3) the future in which your cell phone takes slightly better pictures.")
"Basically, Facebook being non-compliant thinking "We're US based and we keep those documents in the US and don't give UK folk access, there is nothing you can do." And they've responded."

Again, they did not compel facebook.

What facebook did or not do is irrelevant since they didn't order facebook to do anything.

That would, again, have been perfectly legal.
Gordon Ramsay likes to say something similar. The costs should be:

- 33% food

- 33% all other expenses

- 33% gross profit
You know the patterns you use to peer more or less all IoT devices that have a screen? Or smart watches, etc.

Alternatively you could use a code printed on the device, and drive a secret from that.

The important thing is that you have to use a non-network side channel first. In this case I assume they’re doing something like an electron app and so their “app” has to communicate of http of some kind, so it already should have app level privileges.

If nothing else: if your set up app can install a root certificate then your setup app can do something better than installing a root cert.
I'm disappointed that the Rust community is moving from open IRC to proprietary Discord. Sure, people think IRC is archaic, but for them, the Discourse-based forum is plenty modern, isn't it? The fact that Discord is proprietary means that people aren't free to use any alternative client they want. This is especially problematic for people who aren't well served by the official client, e.g. blind people.
"The Taj is so wasteful, so decadent and in the end so cruel that it is painful to be there for very long. This is an extravagance that speaks of the blood of the people." VS Naipaul
New dimensions for brain mapping