skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Privately hired inspectors is a terrible idea. That leads it to only the rich being able to afford to buy good inspectors leading to only the rich getting safe housing.

Your whole comment can be condensed down to "I think poor people should have to live in dangerously built housing and die but it'll be their own fault for being poor."

There needs to be much more regulation with much higher penalties for failures, and a dismantlement of the incentives of corruption.
Here is my personal opinion on the reason why it was thought to be a reasonable amount of settling: that they were looking at simply the individual millenium towers' effect on the overall area -- but with the addition of the transbay terminal next door - the major excavation which occured with that - then the new load of the salesforce tower and the transbay terminal (which also had been closed due to cracking and settling issues and needs to be jacked up -- I think that whole lot of struct/civ engineers are at fault of being short-sighted about the surrounding load impact on the greater financial district and the standards which were previously thought to be adequate.

So - you have the millenium tower, which was completed prior to any of these ancillary loads were put on the area - but is effectively being squeezed out and squished, and even the most micro-shifts in the foundations of Millenium Tower will be amplified by its mass+height -- but as it was already into a settled-ish position, its now getting worse after its' settling is further distressed due to even a millimeter shift in the lateral load due to compression from and settling of the new towers/terminal....
You're picking one metric out of many, that is too simple to represent the entire system. The gestalt is positive. Stagnant wage growth is only a piece of the picture: with so many people employed it's still a net increase in the national payroll. Stagnant wages are a problem, it mean a lot of the benefits of the bull economy are probably not being distributed very equitably, but that by itself does not represent the trend.
You lost me at "extension".

I'm probably not the target audience for this, but I'm not going to install an extension for something like this. I feel installing the framework/language/servers/etc on my machine is part of the learning process and I prefer coding locally. Not to mention the privacy/security issues with extensions in general.

If it helps others get into programming, then so be it. Best of luck to you.
Moral of the story being that if people hate you, and you go on to prove that you're actually better that them... there will come some psychopath who will use their jealousy to make them kill you.
SpaceX would almost certainly do so if Russia would let them. They launched PAZ, which was a Spanish spy satellite and have launched several cargoes for governments like Qatar and Thailand.

Edit: just to expand on this a bit, SpaceX is and always has been a US federal government contractor. If you have a problem with that as a potential hire you probably do not take that job. But if the US government doesn't have a problem with a launch, SpaceX is also a money-making enterprise and I would bet they'd take whatever launches people would pay them for.
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It's NOT a huge problem in Germany again false information.
Blocks are essentially just anonymous functions.
Who uses dragonfly bsd in any kind of non-experimental setup?
How much do you expect the 57% of Americans who have less than $1000 in savings[0] to sacrifice? My point is that most people simply aren’t in a position to do what you suggest.
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[0]: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/budget-...
Same here. I could just watch it on a loop. Some channels used to even show it like that during Christmas.

Now that we have kids they are too young for the humor and don't find it as funny. We tried Home Alone but it just doesn't feel right. So I think we settled on Elf as a compromise.
The people who are taught how to use it are not the problem. The problem is that they need to be taught.

Personal anecdote:

The first 3D software I used was Cinema 4D. I couldn't be bothered to watch a tutorial, but in a good 10 minutes of clicking around, I could already do more than half of the most common operations.
I tried using Blender several times before and after that, but after the same amount of time, I couldn't do literally anything. Not even move the cube!
After switching to Linux, I finally forced myself to watch a few Blender tutorials. I can now do things better and more efficiently than I ever could in C4D. But the moment I switch to another tool (Unreal/Krita/Inkscape...), I see just how non-standard Blender is. There's always the Blender way and the everything-else way.

2.8 is a huge step in the right direction. Maybe one day multi-select will make sense and then there will be no more reasons not to use Blender.
I don't have to cite anything. It was claimed there where a lot but not actually demonstrated. Why should I prove a negative?
Former soldier (national guard) here, and yes, yes they do. You know how aids it is to be a civilian software engineer and have to work with IE11 to complete assignments. The good thing is that 95% of the time I could convince their software to give me a certificate without completing the course on stuff like OPSEC (yes, I am aware I shouldn't share my password with others). Guhhh.
Lying to Congress (or any part of the federal government) on a matter within it's area of responsibility (which for Congress is universal) is a crime whether or not it's under oath. (Fraud against the United States, whether or not it's also perjury.) Congress and anyone with competent counsel appearing before Congress realize that, even if lay audiences sometimes don't.

So, while neither is simply a sideshow, it's the sworn testimony that involves a theatrical display for the uninformed.
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According to bisby at the head of this thread, one of the reasons that SpaceX did not recover the booster is that the rocket had to enter an inclined orbit. Maybe it did launch in the direction for an inclined orbit and used a little extra fuel, like a polar orbit does, due to the fact that you don't have all the speed of the spinning earth adding to your orbital velocity. I didn't know that the spinning Earth speed was a significant factor on payload to orbit of rockets.
Can you name some of his current clients that have interest in making solar sound bad?
I very strongly think that rust went the right route here:

error[E0277]: cannot add a float to an integer
--> src/main.rs:2:6
|
2 | 1+1.0;
| ^ no implementation for `{integer} + {float}`

Casts are historically such a massive source of bugs and unstability that the correct casting rule for every numerical computation is always: "Make the programmer explicitly choose."
Facebook in 50 years : People wanted World of Warcraft but got Star Wars Galaxies instead.
I think they mean it's around things I depend on via import which aren't yet ported to 3.x
Why learn something new? To increase your knowledge. If that's not reason enough then nothing else is.
Tough spot for Zuck: he can't really do anything about this.

Governments can be very sensitive if someone undermines their control of "free press". Most people in the US don't understand this, but in much of the third world papers (not to mention TV) just print what the government wants them to print, or they find themselves under some kind of scrutiny (taxes, criminal, etc).

If anything, even with censorship, in those countries FB would be a far less controllable medium, because it's harder to fuck up an international megacorp in the same fashion and not cause a massive blowback.

But ultimately, FB has to comply with the local laws, which can be arbitrary. There's no way out of this simple fact. So whatever mechanism one uses to "stop the spread of authoritarianism" can't be provided by a corporation, and it has to be resilient, distributed, and by definition, illegal in those countries.

And still FB can't touch this, because it'll then be responsible not only for breaking the laws in the countries where it operates, but also for the lives of activists, if something goes wrong.
Sounds more like true and null? Or does it not definitively disprove things?
"those who burn books will eventually burn humans"
That doesn't sound like "form follows function" to me.
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I'm not so sure about the block thing. I mean I like having first class function-like objects, but you've got blocks and procs and both of these are different from bound and unbound methods. I would prefer that there was a single function type, personally. I wonder if I'm missing something, though. Is there an advantage to distinction between blocks and procs that ruby makes?
One nice feature of blocks is that `return` will return from the enclosing function, rather than the block, so you can write:

def find(x, l)
l.each do |y|
return y if y == x
end
end

Where in Lisp you'd use (return-from find x) and in other languages you might pass in a continuation or use a special return value protocol. It's a nice solution for higher order functions that are supposed to feel more language-level.

Also, you can pass functions as arguments like in other languages; lambdas behave like you would expect them to.
Regarding magnitude of these types of events, NOAA does amazing work collecting data on tsunami events with impressive energy simulations. As some point I had seen several videos from the Chile event in 2010 that showed the shockwaves traveling around the earth multiple times, but I can't seem to find those videos now.

Here's a link to one of the videos with an energy plot from the Chile event - https://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/chile20100227/20100227Chile.mov

And the specific Chile event page - https://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/chile20100227/weblink.html

If you browse around the site, there is a lot of information for many of the largest earthquake/tsunami events in recent times.
Thats one part of moving away from apple i'm happy about, not having to deal with constant feature removal on both hardware and software.
The failed experiment that is 4chan was founded on this idea and its plainly clear that anonymity in a large community leads people to just spout the craziness constantly and loudly because well researched and thoughtful comments are simply lost in the sea of crap and there are literally no downsides to constantly lying. You can thoroughly debunk a persons claims and they'll resort to insults or usually will stop responding and then proceed to post the same garbage within a day or even an hour.

A minimum of pseudo anonymity that holds people accountable for what they say is an important part of enforcing a healthy community of people making good faith arguments.
Its not fair to generalize,it was largely local cops that wanted craigslist shut,most of it was out of fed jurisdiction.

The FBI has gone as far as letting go an accused pedophile to avoid disclosing a 0 day exploit.

Sacha should have involved local cops,local prosecutors have a lot more to lose by not pursuing this. Part of me thinks maybe they just reduce it all to numbers and stats without considering how terrible and shocking crimes are. IMO I'd prefer if this sort of crime had a higher priority than terrorism and most "national security" investigations.
I'm still convinced that I want something for a social network, but I don't know what that is..
My scientist brother tells me the same and I am inclined to believe you and him. I realize the pencil helps you guys -- he annotates a lot and regularly uses the pencil instead of his fingers. I kind of implied programmers only in my comment which wasn't accurate. Sorry about that.
I am sorry I cannot accept this cynical position

"I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What's in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more"

-- Alan Perlis
Ion engines still need propellant, you might be thinking of the so far unproven EM drive.
Millennium Tower will be a multi-decade lawyer-fest. At least four or five parties will be suing each other: The designers, the builders, the city, the apartment owners, insurance companies and probably the neighboring building owners. What a mess.
> Fishes don't experience the world at all like humans do

That's too extreme a statement. Fish and humans share many analogous structures, therefore we must share many perceptual experiences as well. "At all" is too broad.

Humans are a refined superposition of parts from our biological ancestors, some of which were fish.
Agreed. I made a bad assumption, sorry.
These are usually known as Zebra puzzles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_Puzzle

There's a very famous one apocryphally attributed to Einstein:

https://udel.edu/~os/riddle.html

Searching for the term "zebra puzzle" will net many results e.g.: https://www.brainzilla.com/logic/zebra/

They can be solved by hand, as you've noted, with vanilla Prolog using the technique in the article, or with constraint logic programming for which Prolog has a very powerful library (vanilla Prolog is just doing an exhaustive search.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_logic_programming

http://www.swi-prolog.org/man/clpfd.html

Another approach is to translate them into an exact cover problem and feed them into a solver like DLX.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exact_cover

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/exact-cover-problem-algorithm-...

This class of problem is NP-complete so don't feel bad if larger problems are too hard to solve - no one knows how to solve them efficiently!
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It does, but I suspect that the typical use case is people who leave their laptops plugged in 99% of the time.
Those are excellent points, but keep in mind that a lot of people define christmas movie as something that both adults and children can watch together. So that makes die hard a hard sell for a lot of families.

For me, any movie set in or around christmas qualifies as a christmas movie and my favorite christmas movies are "die hard", "home alone 1 and 2" and "scrooged". They all represent the redeeming christmas spirit in their own unique way.
And a youtube link to some more forecast models from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center's youtube channel

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd18vQxXt2zNmVDB2NQxV...
Am I the only one with a thought for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X when reading the title?
Pretty much what I came here to ask. I remember learning a bit of prolog about 20 years ago at University, but even then my impression from the instructor was that it was not used much outside of some limited academic settings. I seem to recall from that same instructor that most use cases for prolog had been subsumed by Lisp.
Yes. I'd love to know more about real world use cases.

Edit: Found some relevant threads and links:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9248107
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_eYTctGZw8
I am a huge fan of "Dr. Berg" on Youtube he helped me a lot with doing Keto/OMAD correct and reducing inflammation. He also has an interesting Video on depression.

The 6 Causes of Depression:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV5OlaPZ6C4

Also fascinating is a lot of interesting medical knowledge he gathers by reading patent applications.
> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

People say this, but it seems pointlessly dismissive to me. I'll entertain any claim, regardless of evidence. Extraordinary claims are often the most worthy of entertaining.

My brain has no problem keeping track of speculation, provisional theories, and seeming facts. I don't have any trouble storing both "seems plausible" and "has evidence" notions side by side and juggling them accordingly.

That aside, my general assumption about evolution is that, since there's no requirement for adaptations to "make sense" and they have access to all of reality, including everything science has yet to deconstruct, that animals almost certainly rely on adaptations far beyond scientific understanding. So a claim to that effect isn't that extraordinary anyway.
It's a great movie but none of my friends agree with me about it which makes me sad.

Metahumor is underappreciated
Chinese AI mistook bus ad for human and publicly shamed the CEO for jaywalking
That's an ungenerous interpretation of the question. Consider this variation: Why learn Prolog instead of spending the finite commodity of time to learn something that may be equally engaging on an intellectual level but also more practical?

To me, that variation is implicit within such a question.

Edit: I'm reasoning from the HN comment guidelines [0]: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

This guideline is in fact a restatement of one of the fundamental principles of reasoned discourse, the principle of charity [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
Totally understandable, if this could be implemented as a website I would do it but is just not possible; maybe someday the guys at repl.it will implemente this themselves (so it wouldn't need to exist as an extension)
You couldn't stall a project by holding it to a higher standard than the building codes supposedly being violated (if the Reddit OP is to be believed).
Repl.it cofounder here.

>I see one potential problem: external dependencies. Does it allow to install external packages?

Yes. Repl.it allows external dependencies in some of the languages we support using our Universal Package Manager: https://repl.it/site/blog/packager (more language support coming soon)

>And how about graphical output/interaction, such as in Jupyter notebooks?

Any image output you generate we show you in the IDE so it can feel interactive. Docs here: https://repl.it/site/docs/repls/python-plots

We have some experimental features that allow graphical output in the terminal. More on this soon.
I’m in the UK and it’s been an ongoing debate amongst my friends for many years. (Yes it is)
I retract what i said - this is a remarkable release. The UI is execptionally readable now.

They even replaced most of the icons with text- some profssional UI designer was at work here.
Repl.it cofounder here. Pretty soon we'll open up our IDE for external plugins. I talked about it here with a demo near the end of what extensions could like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhECubL0R3U
I go up a rope or down a rope to trim/take down a tree, sometimes to do some construction work. Industrial alpinism.
I think Scrimba has the best execution of this concept.
You can also try ExaGear. (I've never used it.)

https://eltechs.com/product/exagear-desktop/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15018992
This extension only ask permission for youtube.com and repl.it so any "potential malicious damage" is limited to those 2 sites. The code of the extension itself is pretty readable, you can open the Chrome developer console and check out yourself what it does.

About the tiling manager: I tried dozens of configurations and it doesn't come close to this, specially due the lack of mouse-wheel zooming feature.
But why should I learn it over the zillion other things that I'm trying to learn?
Especially since I have only so much time for non-practical skills.
Did you also eat less sugar/carbs? Because I think sugar is the main culprit.
Did I miss it or where is this agencies arrest / conviction record showing justification for all this spending?
Ask HN: What AI/DL courses would you recommend me?
I'd describe myself as someone who has beginner/intermediate skills in the field.
I started exploring AI field at the beginning of the last year. Then I took a year off, exploring other fields trying to figure out what am I interested in. Now I can confidently say that AI/DL is a path I want to pursue in the future.

- I have some basic experience across the DL field in general (GANs, convolutional nets, word2vec, LSTMs, math/reasoning behind these topics)

- I have experience building simpler neural nets (mostly conv nets + GANs) from the scratch using NumPy

- I was frequently working with Tensorflow but I can imagine that the library changed a lot since the past year

- I feel that my probabilistic/statistics skills could be better

- I feel that I have very little experience building AI in the real world

- I feel like I need to learn how to be able to apply the latest scientific papers

What I need now is to (1) refresh my old knowledge, (2) take more challenging courses/classes with more "real world" approach and (3) start reading (and applying) scientific papers.

Do you have any recommendations regarding me coming back to this field and getting deeper into it?
The fact that your father is able to navigate complexity doesn't really disprove my point. Some percentage of people will be excluded / unable to participate if things are decentralized. Whether that segment is sufficiently large, or whether people care about them having access, is left to each person's opinion.

Centralization has significant advantages. People love one location for what they need because it simplifies things. That enables more folks to participate due to lower friction. Whether the downsides outweigh the positives is left to the reader.

My broader point is the centralized/de-centralized discussion should be framed in terms of tradeoffs. One is not necessarily superior to the other; it depends on how each person weights the relative benefits and downsides.

It's important to acknowledge that the general internet public, so far, seems to prefer the advantages of centralization. That may be because the disadvantages are hidden, or it may be a legitimate preference.
You have a valid point. I think most people can agree that all day long is too much. But is there no acceptable amount of screen time? I think the repetition in this kind of game very much does help kids memorize numbers, shapes, letters, colors, counting, etc. so we do allow our kids to have some screen time, but we follow some rules.

The hardest parts are to transition away from the tablet. We always supervise and use a countdown and replacement with another favorable activity (5 minutes and we're going to put the ipad away and play with trains.. 3 minutes.. 1 minute.. time to play with trains) and then following through even if they get upset. We also only allow like 15-20 minutes at a time (the longer they play, the harder it is to pull them away, such is addiction) and only a few times per week (if that). We also are not afraid to say no to tablet time and redirect to another activity.

I think kids can learn a lot from technology but it requires parenting to minimize harm.