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Feeding LSD to dolphins, what could possibly go wrong?
Steamboat Willie is of virtually no commercial value now - honestly very little that Disney made prior to 1938 has commercial value or had it 1998.
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You're spot on, Steamboat Willie is of virtually no commercial value now - honestly very little that Disney made prior to 1938 has commercial value or had it 1998.
Altria board approves $13B investment in e-cigarette company Juul
Yes and someone else’s moral belief led to miscegenation (interracial marriage) being illegal into the late 60s, Jim Crow laws, laws against homosexuality, and the War on Drugs.

Let’s not forget if those preaching “morality” had their way they would also ban birth control.

You’ll have to excuse me if I don’t pay too much credence to the “moral majority”.
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Either you make them separate operators (in which case there's no guarantee they do the same thing - see for example Python, where they commonly differ)

Geez. That's obnoxious. Why do we programmers do this to ourselves?

or you are overallocating in the common case.

I see. I was thinking along the lines of being able to use complex numbers with arithmetic operators, not along the lines of doing high performance crunching of floats.
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The problem isn’t tech, it’s sales and marketing. The OEMs advertise a low starting price. Once you’re in the door a salesman who can’t tie his shoelaces tells you that heated seats are only available on the super-luxury XSEL++ model which costs 1.5-2x as much. Then you have to negotiate with some other guy over pricing. Then some guy who the dealership hired away from the mafia tries to sell you the most expensive financing imaginable. Then he tries to sell you underbody liner and some other junk. Three hours later you have a car.

It would be nice if almost everything was included and if I didn’t have to haggle like some I’m at a flea market.
This is the kind of thing that Rust can do so well -- export high performance, safe and trustworthy functionality to any language that can bind with native code.

C/C++ does everything but the safe and trustworthy part.
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VB's evaluation order, in which the left side of an assignment is evaluated before the right side, seems like a terrible idea. In most languages including C and C++, it's specified that the RHS is evaluated first. Since, of course, the RHS might have a side effect on the location of the LHS.

Is there some advantage to LHS-first that I can't think of?
They probably copy and pasted decade+ old code floating around that was written before Php wised up about security.
Well my notion wasn't so much to go back in time and freeze it but to plot an alternative future (now present) when it was possible. Now it's not.

And you can't speak for the billion: my material circumstances have improved dramatcally over my lifetime, but I'd give every last bit of that, and more, to see future generations be permitted to live on a world that was not dying.
Virtualbox and VMWare Workstation are a different type of hypervisor than Hyper-V. The former are Type 2, the latter is a Type 1.

For that reason, no, it's non-trivial to do that. Instead Microsoft recently did what Apple did with their Hypervisor Platform API: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/api/
The tag line is on the site says:

> A free lightweight 8-bit voxel art editor and interactive path tracing renderer.

Is the sentence in some way more clear with the modifier '8-bit'? What's being clarified?
“This is one of the reasons why building on top of the old API wasn’t an option. There was very little separation of concern in the original API and MongoDB specifics could be found even at the controller level. As a result the task of adding another database type in the existing API was too risky.“

This bit sounds like a cautionary tale about the importance of a layer and well structured API. There’s no reason why details about your data store should leak into an API Controller.
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Check out the `--mirror` flag.
Tesla Model S catches fire in California parking lot and reignites hours later
That’s called losing money.

Amazon has to make those investments to continue the rocket ship growth that justifies the share price.

Once the growth stops, boom.
> It raises TypeError on an unsupported type or a number that is too large.

Why does it raise an error on "a number that is too large"? The JSON spec does not put any limit on the size of numbers. Practically speaking, integers that don't fit in 53 bits won't be preserved when decoded by JavaScript and some other libraries, and integers that don't fit in 64 bits will likely not be preserved by most libraries, but as far as the JSON spec is concerned you can have integers of any size (or floating-point numbers of any precision).
What’s WeWork’s “product” again? Exposed brick and free beer? Seems like the only roadblock to successful emulation here is money and property — both of which CBRE has. You can hire someone for the interior design. They already split off a new brand with a fun, easy name.
In adults, there's also the excessive indulgence in caffeinated drinks like coffee, and energy drinks which masks sleep deprivation.
Whoops! I've been here long enough I should've known better. Thanks minimaxr
That comment, however, is a comment on hacker news.

Not the official docs of a programming language. In one of those, a bit of snark is really quite normal and of no real impact.
These two things need not be mutually exclusive.

There’s always competition between divisions at large companies.

Also these guys might not have gotten the memo yet, or they did get the memo and there was friction about someone using CBRE property to “compete” with a business unit that wasn’t public knowledge yet.
Is tap water of higher quality?
I can easily get them but I can't as easily get permission to put up solar panels on my landlord's roof.
I don't understand how focusing on virtue and equality of outcome is not more service for the benefit of all. Critical thinking would probably be a tool whose use could be orthogonal those two just like feelings.
> The carbon and ecological cost of producing massive amounts of single-use petrochemical products is a whole other issue.

You should take a calm look into the carbon and ecological cost of producing and reusing the reusable equivalents of those single-use products.

Besides... If you have any idea on how to make it possible that people not dig every gram of fossil fuels available and use it for something (that something being a piece of plastic buried somewhere being way better than carbon dioxide at the atmosphere), please say so, because natural gas based plastics aren't a world-ending problem, but the coal mining endgame is.
If anyone can be so uplifted then the selection criterion, which claims to be on brains, should just be a lottery. And more significantly, currently would be astoundingly unjust in that it chooses so heavily from the most advantaged branch of society.
Given that Elon Musk and Tesla are tied to each other at the hip, he cannot possibly admit the following:

America's obsession with the car is a mistake that will need to be corrected in this century.

I am not saying "ban all the cars". Cars are extremely useful tools. But America has been running on the implicit idea that everyone must own a car, and that all transport must be handled in a personally owned vehicle. This is both unsustainable ecologically, economically, and infrastructurally (I know that's not a word).

Creating a "mass transit" system to drag personal cars around at 155mph to "solve" congestion is just a laughable half step that's clearly worse than doing nothing at all.
That people are looking for “8-bit.” For instance, someone might google “8 bit editor.”
Oh which neither were recent. And their usage was just bizarre to begin with.
"Support" is on a continuum (non-Boolean), and not every user has a recent version installed.
> I don't think there is anything essential about complex numbers when it comes to formulating the laws of QM. Everything can be done without complex numbers by using matrices.

I'm well aware of this (as this is my profession). My other comment, which you already replied to, agrees that there exist representations of QM that do not feature complex numbers. That's besides the point I was making.
They’re covering their asses only legally speaking.
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Can you give an example of superior tooling or tooling that isn’t good in PostgreSQL compared to MySQL. Serious question. I’m curious cos I mostly use PostgreSQL.
oh i don't doubt that it can fit. but i can't imagine it being popular.

japan has small apartments out of necessity. not because they like living in small spaces.

add that working or living under artificial light is not exactly healthy. this idea strikes me as something for an emergency shelter, backup workspace, but not for normal operation/living.
>Barring lawyers from referring to their legal backgrounds would violate their First Amendment rights

Only if it were the State who was barring them. If their credentialing body said - please don't reference your credentials in public, it wouldn't be any different than anyone else who's asked to keep things private.

Unless you're suggesting that there's a first amendment violation when your company asks you to keep mum about projects you're working on.
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I didn't think negative rates hit "consumer" accounts yet? Just Government issued bonds and "institutional" instruments. But my data is about ~18 months old.
That system is open to adjustment through legislation, which means corporations and their lawyers will bribe politicians to benefit themselves and rapaciously loot the commons, just as they have in almost every other facet of society.
There is no country on earth that gives people all the healthcare they might want with no limits and that is not what we should be aiming for. There are many that give people enough healthcare and that is what we should be aiming for.
Life expectancy is a weird stat by which to measure healthcare outcomes. For starters, it responds rather strongly to demographics. E.g. having more males reduces life expectancy holding all else equal. There are many things like this.

Age-adjusted all-cause death rate is the better stat for measuring life-saving outcomes.

Child mortality is certainly a useful stat for its purpose, though.
It's a bit disturbing to me that they seem to be using AWS for confidential editorial work.

> Due to editorial requirements, we needed to run the database cluster and OpsManager on our own infrastructure in AWS rather than using Mongo’s managed database offering.
Wouldn't traffic poles serve as better publicly-owned antenna mount points? They are powered and have better line of sight to everything (broader range). I wonder why manholes are considered better.
You can adjust the canvas size. There's a place where you can enter the voxel x voxel dimensions you want to work in.

Edit: in a recent update it added support for 1024 x 1024 scenes.
As dusk turns to night for progressive activism in the courts, law schools need to pivot away from judicially oriented activism to make room for a new kind of engagement with the public. What is lacking in public discussions about law school is attention to what it means for legal elites to serve the democratic conversation about how the people rules itself. Rather than burnishing the credentials of law and its royal judicial stewards, we should insist on the centrality of the people in a democratic legal order. If elite students are forced into a dilemma about how to preserve their sense of justice even as they embrace extraordinary privilege, it is, first and foremost, because society allows law schools to endlessly reproduce elite ascendancy. But the institutions themselves can force some change from within, in part by explaining to the people how the law rules them.

Activism in the courts, where so much of the outcome depends on judges, who are neither elected nor accountable to the people, undermines democracy, the legitimacy of the rulings so made, and the causes thus supported.
There are also existing terms which are much more fitting, e.g. provider and consumer.
A critical mass of individuals in most people's lives, and a critical mass of activities and group pages are on FB, to the point wherein most won't give it up for that reason alone; "I'd miss out on old friends or not be able to contact them, also, my kid's school and local playhouse are on there" - is a common refrain.

In those terms - there is no substitute for FB.

As far as your view of how people view relationships - the reason I don't buy it, is because of the simple fact: most people are not quitting FB. Keeping their account costs little, and enables those 'weak' relationships. So they will stay. And FB has the critical mass.

There is no substitute, at least in 2018. Really the only choice is turning it off which I think will happen, gradually.
Totally valid point and I agree. There's a lot of nostalgia around retro/vintage but the truth is technology has improved in so many ways over the years. But again nostalgia is more a sentimental thing and seeing a Spotify interface in grainy pixels really hits me in the feels.
The thing is, whatever the hell it is that human brains actually do in the background to produce our 'understanding' of the world and our ability to synthesize new ways to manipulate it, we're also very good at back-fitting explanations based on symbolic reasoning. So it looks like machines need symbolic reasoning to replicate human abilities, whereas I'd bet a dollar that actually, we're doing something quite different (and messy and Bayesian and statistical) in the background and then, using the same process, coming up with a story to explain our outcome semantically. It's not insight so much as parallel construction.
How common is that though? Your example doesn’t necessarily make the parent comment wrong.
Interesting. I took it to mean there wouldn't be much more ZFS development within the illumos community.
Yes. If you give an average class of 15 year olds high school textbooks and past exam papers and tell them you’ll give them lots of money if they get a good grade they won’t do it. Given expert instruction, dedicated time to learn and every support plenty fail.

If being able to learn independently from a textbook was normal boot camps would not exist.
Denmark is quite different than US. In terms of size, culture and corruption issues [1].

This works in Denmark because of Denmark, but it's still a system that has obvious weakness.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
I just try to read a lot, absorb all kinds of ideas from all sorts of places - articles on HN, books, Youtube videos, Wikipedia articles, conversations with strangers at coffee shops, whatever... and then think about stuff and let the ideas pop out whenever / wherever they do. Some of the ideas I have might be good startup ideas, or not. Who's to say? I find a few from time to time that seem appealing enough to at least write down, or email to myself for future reference.

shrug
Which is why the fact that our system for electing officials over represents them is stalling progress in this country. Also their way of life ineffecient and a drag on the rest on their state and nationwide.
Robespierre the Incorruptible, Robespierre the Daemonic (2014)
I've been following this issue for over 30 years. I spent almost ten of those years working for a large NGO. And it's my considered opinion that there will be no substantially effective solutions.

The US argues that China no longer deserves its "developing economy" exemption, and refuses to act. Or at least, that's the excuse. And indeed, it's an arguable point.

But whatever, the point is that reducing carbon emissions is just a dream. And even if that were possible, it's not unlikely that we're already in a positive-feedback regime.
I had hoped this article would touch more on how lawyers pervert democracy and law, creating entire industries out of greed; i.e. Prenda
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Very few oral problems are emergent. GP's abscess would have been visible on examination for months, and certainly was uncomfortable before it was extremely painful. In many cases the first treatment is a course of antibiotics, which any USA ER could administer perfectly well.
There's a parallel between something being logical and it "feeling right" without a necessary connection at the "implementation level" between the two, just like there may be a parallel between an artificial NN recognizer recognizing something unambiguously and not caught awkwardly with multiple weak or conflicting activations, and a logical system using rules to determine a contradiction, without ever needing to embed the second in the first, however deep - it's just that illogical inputs didn't get good training because they either don't happen or have no meaningful training data.

I, personally, just know I don't use logical rules very often at all. Usually I apply them retroactively as a post-hoc justification, or narrative, to explain a sense of discomfort or internal conflict or dissonance, but I have no way of knowing if my rationale is true other than how it makes me feel - I'm simply relying on the same mechanism, with an extra set of pattern recognition learned specifically to identify fallacies and incorrect logical constructs. If I didn't have that extra training, my explanations could be illogical and I'd be none the wiser.

I think humans are very bad at logical reasoning and very inefficient at it. Only a small % of the population ever does it and they usually do it incorrectly with biases, constructively to justify an already held conclusion. They're great at pattern recognition though. I don't think logical reasoning is anywhere on the critical path to human level AGI at a deep level. It could very well be a parallel system though to help train recognition if we don't figure out better ways of doing that.
I think it's more fair to say that a RPi probably isn't powerful enough to run the emulators that are completely accurate, because some of them do exist.
This point of view seems to have a lot to do with programming as craft, and very little to do with programming as engineering.

Nothing wrong with that, but most developers are more concerned with the latter. Writing your own (compression routines|HTML parser|stepper motor driver|user interface controls|game engine) that's fast, cleanly designed, and bug-free is an act of craftsmanship. But if it takes a week and working around the quirks of one off the shelf takes an hour, and the resulting program meets the same requirements either way, it's the wrong engineering choice.
dupe:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18716821
There are two different meanings of 'central' in play here, 'center' as in a town square, and 'center' as in the centralized component of a system.

It does not imply that there is a central repository when using 'central' to mean 'a unique, difficult to replicate, or otherwise somehow special component in a system' as in 'centralization'.

Central in the case of 'Maven Central' means something closer to 'default' or 'town square' or such.

Saying that 'maven central' implies maven isn't decentralized would be the same as saying "Most go projects are on github, so go can't be hosted in a decentralized way because github is 'golang central'".
> As I said to a sibling response, this is not a substitute for Mongo's aggregation pipeline

Huh? The aggregation framework is a solution to a mongo-only problem. Most other databases are performant, but Mongo suffers wildly from coarse locking and slow performance putting things into and retrieving things from the javascript VM.

> For example, can it unwind an array field, match those subrecords where one field (like a "key") matches a value and another field (like a "value") exceeds an overall value, and then apply this condition to filter the overall rows in the table?

This sounds suspiciously like a SQL view.

Edit: But if you actually need an array in a cell, Postgres has an array type that's also a first-class citizen with plenty of tooling around it.
I understand, and am sympathetic to the point you're making, but I'm afraid it's absurd.

If you're advocating for a change in the law, or justifying rights for someone based on existing practice for other groups, etc, you will reference the law. And why should your statement not benefit from the credibility that comes with actually having studied the law? A comment by Ken White (who writes Popehat) should have significantly higher credibility than one by me (who has never attended law school).

Also, in the US there is, as others have pointed out, a first amendment right to state almost anything truthful (and much beyond).
The argument specified in the docs is "a language needs only one conditional flow construct" (in a language, of course, that has half a dozen conditional flow constructs ...)

The more palatable argument that people who try to cover for ... seems to be that when people nest if expressions, it becomes a mess. I'm glad these people exist.

The real reason is found here: http://dtrace.org/blogs/wesolows/2014/12/29/golang-is-trash/

(or if you prefer, in the compiler's source itself. It doesn't take a compiler expert to realize it's not very clean code. Even violates the go style, and the C one before that was just horrendous)

The TLDR is that Go's compiler is a "fisher-price my first compiler" and really shows that the authors simply barely knew how to get a compiler working in the first place. That they were not ready to go into a rational discussion on programming language and type theory ... is not something anyone should be surprised about.

That they avoid the arguments by dismissing the people making them in such a condescending way is ... well, there's not really anything good to say about that.
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I don't think they mean the two in the same way. AlphaZero is "general purpose artificial intelligence" because if you formulate a problem in the right way and then throw a server cluster at it for a few weeks, it often comes back with pretty good performance at solving that problem. It's probably our current best crack at creating AGI, but it's a long way from a machine that can take a very high level goal and figure out the rest for itself, which is what we usually mean by "AGI" - not just a machine that answers multiple questions, but a thing analogous to a human mind which can analyse new things, infer properties and mechanics, generalise those to new contexts, and apply that knowledge to achieve new outcomes.
It's not a direct replication of the original chip though. It's an emulation of the functional results, written to work well on an FPGA, and run in parallel.
You may get good emulators but not many will be console accurate on all fronts
We've got one of these that roam around our corporate campus: https://www.knightscope.com/knightscope-k5/

Visitors like to walk up and take selfies with it, but no one messes with the thing because it's uploading 360 HD footage to some control center somewhere.

Some drunk guy tackled the one that roams the company that makes thems parking lot. He was promptly arrested based on all the excellent, well lit HD footage of his whole run up and contact with the robot.
More the point Postgres has an actual array data type (and has for a while). You don't need to shove everything into a JSON/JSONB blob unless you absolutely cannot have any sort of schema.