skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"People lament the light speed barrier, because it seems to preclude vast space empires of Sci-fi."

Assume you are the Emperor of a vast interstellar empire. You order your best general to go and attack a star system 10 light years away. Your opponent possibly does the same. 20 years after you give the order, you are told that your general lost the battle (or won the battle). How would you verify that? It's not just that you have to wait another 20 years to verify it, it's that events will pile up in excess of what you can verify. The best way to understand the outcome of this battle is to read what Kyle Kingsbury has written about distributed databases:

https://aphyr.com/tags/jepsen

Because, for all practical purposes, the Universe is a distributed database with a serious network partition. It is not Eventually Consistent, but rather, it is Infinitely Inconsistent. The writes exceed the reads, and will continue to do so infinitely into the future.

How do you build an interstellar empire around that reality?

As an experiment, it might be fun to create a game that is deliberately inconsistent. That would appeal to a very small niche, because most people crave a consistent narrative experience. But a game designed around a database that is deliberately inconsistent would help people think correctly about the difficulty of building empires in space, or engaging in any other common sci-fi tropes.
It becomes more clear to me in the context of api versioning. You rev the action, not the data. REST versioning makes it look like like you're versioning the data. Sure you can explain it away, but it smells not right.
It's blurry to me what it mean for including a libc++ header though? This is not "your source code" but LLVM inline code. How is it different from including a header from LLVM itself?
> Doesn't this already happen with wood? How fast do wood homes deteriorate?

Very fast, that's one of the reasons we cover wood homes with protective layers of non-wood materials, including plastics.
Why do you think so? Yandex has 2% search market share in South Korea, that's not big but Baidu has less than 5% there, so it's comparable.
Stared at this for a while also. Yes this is wrong.
Using GraphQL somehow lead me to not worrying about all that low level REST stuff anymore.

I define my schema, sprinkle some directives and push it to AppSync.
Well plastic does not really contribute to climate change at the moment. Bacteria breaking down the plastic would release CO2 and thus contribute to climate change.

These discussions on the internet so rarely bring any true insight to most topics, but the few nuggets that are rarely found sure make looking for it pretty addictive.
Dr. Laurence Miller: "His fee as an expert witness in cases that require travel is $10,000 per day of testimony"

I don't know how Mr Miller gets to be an expert witness but it seems to me that Law Enforcement pays him quite well to be in the business of being a witness...
This is the top Google result for "sharp knife = less crying":

https://www.amazon.com/Sharper-Your-Knife-Less-You/dp/014311...
"In regular use" is an understatement. Virtually all manuscripts published on Arxiv.org, which comprises a large portion of all contemporary physics research output, is typeset in Latex.
> No one is going to use Chrome only features that don’t work on iPhones.

Mostly facetious, but who except Americans cares about iOS anymore? Total iPhone market share is down to ~15% of smart phones worldwide. Android has the big lead now and doesn't look like it will relinquish it soon. Chrome only feature, works on ~85% of smart phones today? "Ship it," says the bottom line.
>The real issue here is whether or not this same logic will apply to the average citizen.

The big difference is that the average citizen has the ability/expectation to flee dangerous situations. For example, if I saw a crazy guy with a knife, I call the police but otherwise make sure I stay far away. In situations where the average citizen doesn’t have that expectation (for example in their own home) US law also generally gives them the benefit of the doubt regarding deadly force against a home invader. Now as a society , if we had police who avoided dangerous situations at all cost, it would not be very helpful. We as a society need people who are willing to intervene in dangerous situations, and so as a society we have in the past given them the benefit of the doubt regarding how they deal with what they perceive as immediate dangers to their lives.
It is easy to do in your favorite scripting language. But is unlikely to be as short. Comprehensibility is in the eye of the beholder.

Here is a Perl solution for comparison.

use strict;
use warnings;

my $limit = shift @ARGV;

my %count;
for my $line (<>) {
while ($line =~ /(\w+)/g) {
$count{lc $1}++;
}
}

@words = sort {$count{$b} <=> $count{$a} or $a cmp $b} keys %count;
$limit = @words if @words < $limit;
print "$_\t$count{$_}\n" for @words[0..($limit-1)];
This is the standard of Trickle-Down Economics. The goal is to concentrate money at the top and permit a small portion to trickle down.
I’m thinking about the content creators, they have a warm spot in my heart, but it’s not my job to figure out their business model for them. They sent me their web page, and I get to choose how it’s presented - otherwise, I have no control over my own computer. So I choose to enjoy it without ads - ads which often track you, install malware, or act in bad faith in other ways.

If that ruins their business model, they need to figure out how to collect payment before sending me the web page. Don’t freely send OTA TV signals into my house then get offended when I decide to skip the ads. Same thing.

I think a lot of sites have already figured this out. They sell t-shirts. Mugs. Premium podcast episodes, and Patreon sponsorships. The Web is working around this as we speak. But the Googles of the world will make it sound like we’re “stealing web pages”. This will be “the new piracy”. All to defend a business model that relies on my equipment assaulting me with your malicious ads on your behalf. No thank you.
The clam shells make shoplifting difficult, and you need to get the barcode onto the can at a minimum, at which point what difference does the rest of the label make?
One thing to keep in mind is that after the crisis, a lot of banks scaled back (or were forced to scale back). Lots of banks exited the investment banking market, leaving the incumbants between them. Clients probably didn't have that much of a choice.
The NAACP is an advocacy group, not a tech company. Don't you think it's ethical for Facebook to change here?
And even with all those firearms available to US citizens, only about 40 police officers are shot dead every year in the US. Being in law enforcement isn't as dangerous as the police unions would like you to think.
Personally I think GraphQL's existence, while seemingly blatantly obvious in retrospect, is was what REST should have been. It lets "generic" applications to discover the API and its associated operations. Essentially its also simply a re-do of what Swagger (and a few others) attempted to do, but never really made REST work (imho).

Here's a good analogy:

Graphql is docker, REST is LXC.
I know you're being sarcastic, but as someone who lived in NYC and California there is not even a comparison on how better is NYC when it comes to the amount of options you get to flexibly spend your money and smartly extend your paycheck. All this while still living in one of the boroughs.

I lived for a year in Manhattan with a $50K salary. I wasn't living like a king at all and definitely not saving money, but still managed to have a lifestyle that I would consider comfortable and healthy. This was 2015.

Now, compare that to San Francisco. $50K it's basically one level above homelessness.
I don't know how you get less than 7 bits here? Assuming 8 colors it would mean 3 bits per pixel, 5 pixels per character, for a total of 15 bits per character. So it is about half as efficient as ASCII with more limited character set.
So this has become a problem in optimal control, and we have to boundary conditions (input/output data)?

Specifically, find a control function (so the weights of the activation function) which maps the system to your desired output?

Then there are also much better ways to solve two point boundary problems rather than just shooting forward. [0] Is a good place to start, (although its old).

[0] Numerical Methods for Two-Point Boundary-Value Problems. Herbert Keller.
> I just wonder how our ancestors did it. Not only did they survive without plastic bottles, but they even survived the last 99.99% of biological history without plumbing!

At very low density, applying a very significant fraction of their energy to basic survival needs that we take for granted.
When do you need to get a list like that where they couldn’t be collectively addressed by some other resource identifier? If we treat our “REST APIs” as generic database interfaces instead of equipping them with more semantics, of course we hit that wall.
I guess I might ask what this stance is founded on? The JVM is just a binary that runs byte code. It's stable and runs well pretty much everywhere. If you insist the JVM has cooties, you could use Docker and abstract it away, it might be an ideal way to use it anyways depending on your work.

The JVM /= Oracle JVM by the way. There is OpenJDK

EDIT: Also I think recent Java releases have gotten into making self contained binaries (which just means they package the JVM...it's in there, it might jump out and bite you!). But, as long as you are careful what you are shipping, packing up a JVM has always been an option
ha, just saw your story over on ars.

FWIW, I think you're a little credulous there; as I mentioned in my other comment[1], I can't find anything stating that Chrome starting beating Edge at the test (their videos actually claim the opposite) or anybody from Chrome boasting about it (articles from the time like yours[2] also say the opposite).

> On the other hand, pretty easy how such a div might trigger a less efficient path

I mean, sure, you can always fall off the fast path, but given how common transparent divs over video are, the battery benchmark should have come with even more caveats. Edge is the most battery efficient browser†!

† for playing fullscreen video††

†† Battery test not valid if the page doesn't use the exact layout youtube used in December 2017. Also not valid if testing vimeo, or twitch, or any porn site, or...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18701430

[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/edge-still-boasts-be...
The tools with which people construct narratives change. Exploration of space should bring with it new concepts such as for example might arise when an interstellar colony ship culture meets the culture of the earlier arrivals. Old concepts such as leaving for the New World will be relevant again.

These are opportunities for intelligent life to create new meanings to its existence. Sci-Fi was not born out of a vacuum.
Does anyone know why Google, Amazon, and Apple have all announced large incentive programs recently? Is there something about it being the end of the fiscal year? Or are there other possible reasons?
Since you are one of the few people who support a re-entry of Google into China, can I ask a question? There is no doubt that a cultural gap exists between Chinese and Americans, and their perceptions of the current Chinese government. Should a foreign company like Google adopt the culture of the country they're entering, or maintain the culture of where they're headquartered?

From what I've read, the main opposition is only coming from Americans... oddly enough.
What do you mean by payment provider?
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I totally agree with your point.

At some point, my threshold for irritation to run a Linux desktop dropped low enough that I was willing to make the jump. My threshold for irritation for Mac also went up.

I was only willing to do so if I could install a stock standard distro and get to work without having deal with a bunch of configuration hassle. That's pretty much true for Ubuntu. However, there are a couple of issues that one may need to address that I didn't mind so much, but I readily admit, I'm not an average user.

I switched when Unity was still a thing and was surprised to learn that it was pretty good with only a little refinement needed. I was pretty disappointed when Canonical dropped Unity settled on Gnome and here we are two years later at precisely the same place, with the aforementioned refinements still needed.

Like you, I was hopeful that Canonical would produce a generally usable Linux desktop, but that still remains to be seen.
Bottle deposits can have negative effects, though; anecdotally, where I used to live, some people would rip up existing trash bags or recycling dumpsters and pore through the contents to get bottles to recycle. Which technically increases recycling but can result in the ruin of public and private property.
A bunch of black people were successfully targeted by foreign intelligence agencies seeking to tap their racial angst to undermine the US, and now are trying to blame other people for that happening.

Because examining why they were ready to believe such narratives, or why the black community in particular was targeted, would raise uncomfortable questions for the NAACP.
In what context are you trying to avoid the JVM?
Which languages threw everything out and started again?
But we repented and served our penance by banning plastic straws.
Isn't this also what the Julia team is trying to do?
https://julialang.org/blog/2018/12/ml-language-compiler
difference is, NYC has all the talented MBAs, engineers and other smart people who will work 60+ hours a week already. that kind of culture just isn't present in many other cities
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One of my favorite science blogs had a short write-up on this five years ago, it's a fun read:

http://www.maryanningsrevenge.com/2013/12/awesome-dead-shit-...
How did you get the domain name? Care to share the story?
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You could even say it's separate but equal.
You mean, interacting with people in 'safe' real life helps with anxiety about interacting with people? Shocker!
I think the main lesson from Google was make sure the mainstream media agrees with your point prior to protesting it. If the media does not agree, they will ask for your head(s) and threaten to boycott your employer until it is delivered on a silver platter.

The number of people protesting is inconsequential as platters can be built to accommodate a near infinite number of heads.
Some users break HN's voting system. Often they either don't understand or disagree with what you are saying, and that in their value system means they should downvote.

It's not a very good system, IMHO.
looks very similar to a project I worked on last year: https://github.com/improbable-eng/Dragoman/tree/e8a78c421335...
I'd assume it's a lot easier to hire 7,000 tech employees in NYC than Boulder and they already have a big presence there.
Well, this seems certainly straight forward from an information theory angle of view:

- Each pixel represents one bit.

- Hence, we should try to increase information entropy.

That's all there is to it? Certainly not, since we are creating something for human consumption. There are a couple of other factors:

- The way the eye processes patterns: lateral inhibition [1]

- The way the eye processes colours: photopic vision [2]

- The way the brain interprets patterns

- The way the brain can actually interpret ingoing information.

I don't have an answer to all of these. But is pretty certain that maximizing entropy of a binary pattern is not equivalent to optimiziung reading speed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_inhibition

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photopic_vision
I look at the desire to learn and absorb as no different than suffocation, thirst, hunger, and lust. They are pace-making signals from deep in our bodies and minds to keep us moving and living.

How can we be happy realizing we can never breathe, drink, eat, love, or learn it all...? By admitting that such an infantile goal is foolish and clumsy. Those are useful motivating urges, but they are not goals.
Deer poacher sentenced to watch Bambi in prison
Is it actually capable of talking PCIe over that edge connector?
A note that Tim Cook is in favor in doing business in China:

"Your choice is, do you participate or do you stand on the sideline and yell at how things should be," Mr. Cook said. "My own view very strongly is you show up and you participate, you get in the arena, because nothing ever changes from the sideline." [1]

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-tim-cook-no-point-yellin...
If I'm understanding you correctly, you seem to imply that miners will invent wholly new energy technologies because they want to be first to market with a no-brainer solution for cheap, and essentially passively-profitable, green AND long-term-sustainable energy.

Don't you think that the need for that already exists not just in the bitcoin world, but for anyone, anywhere who needs electricity? That if they could develop such a product it would already be many times the value of all crypto markets combined? Not to mention they'd probably decrease in value with cheaper energy.

Your optimism is something to admire but I think energy seems to be an industry that is not lacking in smart people already driven by the rush to be first to market with a comparative advantage. Maybe I'm wrong, if so, I'd like to know it!
It's the replacement for mini-PCI-express and it's used in almost every laptop these days.
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Feels like aggressive advertising. Not the best way to promote your work. Let it stand for itself, if others see value in it, they will cite it.
No and I did see someone on his twitter showing it coming out backward for them.

https://twitter.com/wamdamdam/status/1074683527680151554
Can someone tell me what I need to add to Firefox so that this:

\( \mathbf{h}_{n+1} = F(\mathbf{h}_{n}) \

is displayed as the author obviously intended?
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Might be more accurate to say that SOAP is LXC and GraphQL is docker.
I'd suspect more like this: https://jet.com/product/Boxed-Water-Is-Better-Purified-Water...
Engineer accuses Google of sabotaging Microsoft Edge browser
Open the freezer door and stick your head in with your eyes open. Immediate relief.
Yep. The State officials can run roughshod over you whenever they like.

We just need a nation wide system where politicians can make these Foxconn type deals, but the deals would be null and void until voters actually signaled approval in some kind of referendum.
Thank you for explaining this!

I right-clicked the apps and clicked "Get Info", found no signature info, and assumed there are no sigs. Double-clicking shows a scary warning about the app being downloaded from the Internet, with no signature information. Do you have any idea why Apple decided not to show signatures?
I have a copy of the issue, so when I went to see one of his Christmas Tree Lectures a few years ago I took it with me to get signed after the talk.

Instead of just signing it, he opened to his article and corrected a typo in the Potrzebie article--I think it amounted to two numbers being transposed somewhere around the millionths place (My copy is packed away from a recent move so it's not too convenient to verify).

What was funny was he had a poem he used to remember the order of the numbers after the decimal. He couldn't quite remember it, so he ssh'd into his home machine (or University, dunno), fired up Emacs, and opened a file containing the poem. Then he corrected the typo.

And that's how Donald Knuth "signed" my copy.
I'd agree that this means firearms in the UK are much harder to come by for criminals and that this results in a higher risk to officers in the US. However, this risk also applies to all citizens (and non-citizens) in the US as well. In fact since people are far less likely to use a weapon against an officer as opposed to a non-officer, the risk of mere existence as a non-officer in the US is greater. That being said, other 1st world nations with gun-carrying police (almost all of them) have much lower rates of officers discharging their firearms.

Also, with 100+ million guns in the US, violent crime overall is down substantially over the last several decades. We're at 40 year lows in violent crime.
This includes violence against officers. More interestingly, violence of police against citizens is at 40 years highs. All while gun sales have soared over the same period.
REST sucks because there're many ways to do something.
Consider RPC, if you want to do something, you make an endpoint /doSomething, that's all, no need to mess around with combination of [http methods][noun(s)]([business method])
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Companies like them want employees who think for themselves and work hard to change the world... But only within implicitly-defined areas.
Data locality is a big reason. Sure, it's O(N) writes, but those writes are neatly lined up in such a way that the likelihood of a cache miss is low. As opposed to a linked list, where just traversing to the middle may entail multiple round trips to main memory.
Don't fall victim to all-or-nothing thinking. I actually did it for almost 8 months straight, and then stopped when I went on vacation. The nice thing is, unlike some forms of data, if you skip a week or three, it won't hurt you. You just hop on the scale and you know where you're at, you can start again any day.

But even if you only do it for a few weeks, you'll learn valuable lessons about your good and bad habits. You might not ever have to do it again. Or you might prefer to keep doing it. YMMV.
There is a new trend of carnivore diets and I've noticed a lot of testimonials on youtube, where people swear they can eat as much meat as they want and still lose weight. Also some supposedly cured inflammations and other issues, probably because eating only meat is an extreme elimination diet.
the worst thing about REST is that nobody agrees on what it is...

otherwise it's pretty fine, you just need to find a good server-side framework with proper tooling (springfox for java, nest.js for node) so that you don't need to write documentation (and test-console) yourself

graphql is great if all what you want to do is to publish some data but once you need more updates or predictable performance, it's not so easy anymore, and this is not just my opinion
I've used https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax in the past

Edit: if you're asking why you don't see the author's page as intended, you might have JS disabled
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Come from Hong Kong as well. Please do not help a totalitarian state.
It's exactly that necessary precision which makes me skeptical. It's a different regime than we've been able to test, so far.

Anyway, I'm not saying it's impossible it'll work out that way, just that I think it's unlikely, and the less interesting possibility. I definitely think the attempts to make it work are worthwhile.
The article itself missed some of the meat within the senate report. Just over being used to influence black voters is confusing for why they would boycott them over it when essentially any black focused media could be targeted - even lacking any lies, including of omission could be effective.

Doing nothing about voter suppression efforts however - yeah I can see why they would be mad about that given the history of stuff like 'going to vote when you have an unpaid parking ticket can result in being arrested and having your children taken away from you' manipulations.
An empire could be a culture.

There would need to be a vast reward function to motivate agents to seek consistency. Juxtapose SETI.