skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting application to theoretical mathematics: Terence Tao thinks it may be possible to use a "water computer" to prove blow-up of the Navier Stokes equations.

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/finite-time-blowup...
George Soros is a billionaire and very prolific political activist. Just mentioning his name does not make a dog whistle, since he legitimately does have a lot of influence. Of course, I do think that people acting as though he controls the world is a dog whistle, but we shouldn't act like he never has a finger in the pie.
I think the argument is that these activities are done in a specifically disingenuous way that achieves primarily marketing and sales goals rather than R&D goals.
Even though I had a very good understanding of the anatomy of the eye and largely how vision works, my internal concept of vision was still kind of like what is described in the title.

Then I realized your retinas are more like a specialized tongue covered with lightbuds, and my sense of vision changed dramatically. I suddenly had a sense of blindness, that I could see only as far as the tips of the rods and cones in my eye, and everything beyond that was just lining up the photons so they made sense when they arrived.
The lane assist in my VW can get a little troublesome in areas of road construction where lane markers have been painted over and such. At times the car picks up the wrong lane area and encourages me to stay there instead of the real lane. It’s more of an annoyance than anything but it’s still a distraction when at highway speeds
I think you might like TempleOS.
They're also one or two of the most highly regarded Apple commentators. And they provide examples of how apple execs missed stuff in the past. And apple clearly did miss stuff this last quarter: their guidance was uncharacteristically way off.

Stratechery isn't some random site, but you're comparing it to a guy on twitter.

A precise estimate isn't necessary. His claim was that they would shrink measureably in the first S year after a redesign.
Well, they also get harrassed and get their credit destroyed. Hardly “effectively” socialized.
Ah yes, but this way you get to write compression algorithms and do performance optimization. The journey is more important than the destination.

Edit: Also (in Lichess' case) you're not trading CPU usage for disk space, you're trading CPU usage for disk space and network traffic, which you're probably paying much more for.
It's just GPLv3 software though. In contract, SSH is currently reporting OpenSSH_7.9p1, and that is fairly up to date.

I do think that if Apple can't ship a current version (for whatever reason), they probably shouldn't have it pre-installed at all, much like the BSD's don't come with bash by default either. Maybe they could ship with ksh/pdksh/mksh or something instead.
They have lower profit margins than most tech companies like apple.
Could have been titled "The disappearing Middle class" but hey who wants to talk about late stage capitalism.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/2/16868838/el...
The parent’s scenario was predicated on using the same hashing algorithm for the mining/proof of work as the dominant coin. So you can avoid that by using a different hashing algorithm.

Monero plans to do that indefinitely, by constantly changing to a new hashing algorithm that doesn’t have dedicated ASIC chips for it.
It's strange to me to imagine that there would be one language that was the best choice for OS implementation and day to day user interaction/automation. I'm curious what language do you think would be good for both use cases?
It's possible. Although I always feel a bit strange about seeing studies like this talking about "racial" differences in physical characteristics. Why is it even useful in the first place? I've always heard that there is more variation within a "race" than between "races," so how can we really need specific treatments or diagnostics for specific "races?"
I'm confused, do you have low income and a fairly large amount of assets? I can see this if you retired early or something, and in this case the comparison with your income really isn't particularly interesting.
California has extensive support for online college. I'm not personally familiar with their math programs, but they have some handy search functions.

California Virtual Campus:

https://cvc.edu

Related:

http://www.assist.org/web-assist/welcome.html
Well pImpl itself could be a premature optimization.
Roadmap to become an awesome open source contributor in 2019
> VR is where computation becomes human. No keyboards, no monitors, no mice or joysticks, but instead hands, gaze, movement, and voice.

The VR optimists underestimate how deeply human it is to manipulate a tool with your hands. It's not a coincidence that the only intelligent mammal is also the only one with opposable thumbs. If voice was actually vastly preferable to the output of a keyboard, it wouldn't be the case that texting is more popular than calls (and that voicemail has more or less gone the way of the betamax).

> The simple act of a talented group viewing and marking a large flat surface can change the world. Today, this is not possible without co-location.

Are you being sarcastic? I do this every day in Google docs.
There are a lot of factors that go into layoff calculations, and often it isn't performance. In fact it can perversely be the opposite. Finished your project early? You're not doing anything now so you're expendable, bye! Or maybe you got into one too many heated arguments with your boss because you knew you were right and he was wrong.
IIRC ActivityPub has little to none mechanism to dissolve disputes, nor abuse & spam control. It's merely a sync protocol.
Yes it does: people were positing that high unemployment was due to structural frictions not macroeconomic problems. Then the macroeconomic problems got better, no effort was made to solve the structural frictions, and employers got less choosy.
responding to a few points raised in the article:

children sleeping with parents is not monitoring them, but it is related to attachment theory (i think that is the term) where children who are very close to the parents in the beginning are actually more independent when they are older.

in other words parents and children sleeping together is enabling free range parenting.

babies sleeping alone in a room instead are more likely to develop anxieties that later make them much more dependent on parental support.

watching TV together with the children is not needed to enhance the learning, but to protect the children from violence and many other things that passes as childrens TV nowadays. (tom and jerry is almost harmless in that regard. i am looking at power rangers and many others that i consider just unacceptable for kids to watch. heck even lion king shocked me when i saw it the first time. the cruelty displayed in that story is not something i want to subject my kids to. i'd rather let them run unsupervised into the forest, where they may stumble and get hurt, but won't be traumatized by an unrealistic and cruel story)
The press release says they will offer to license the technology to "all" auto makers.
Why does ice expand?
I still don't understand how a gnu binary could taint their OS. They can provide the source on opensource.apple.com. Case closed.
And I agree with those two sentences - never was arguing that we pay less (compared to other models) in our public markets. But you are not strengthening a counter-point to the conclusion I presented from the book regarding zero price control in conjunction with for-profit insurances which jacks up overall costs through coverage disputes, excess admin work etc, lack of price transparency pre-treatment etc. What is your personal hypothesis for why US healthcare is such a poor value for the price?
> Can you explain what Java offers with regard to reflection that JS doesn't?

One thing comes to mind, how to twinkle stuff inside closures?
What happens when someone who learns to "drive" with a system like this ends up in a rental car that doesn't have it? I've personally watched friends almost side swipe cars after becoming too dependent on "blind spot detection" telling them when it's safe to change lanes.
It's on the mouseover of profiles as well :/

I also dislike this gamification of subscriptions
If this was the case in the US than birth control, Plan B, and abortifacient drugs would never have been invented here.
A use-case I've long wanted it for is better "--help" messages. If you want to tell the user how to invoke the program again, argv[0] is the right thing:

Given:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
printf("Usage: %s [OPTIONS]\n", argv[0]);
return 0;
}

Running it as `./dir/demo --help` gives:

Usage: ./dir/demo [OPTIONS]

Put it somewhere in $PATH, and run it as `demo --help`, and it will give:

Usage: demo [OPTIONS]

Perfect!

But with a Bash script, argv[0] is erased, it sets $0 is set to script path passed to `bash` as an argument.

Given:

#!/bin/bash
echo "Usage: $0 [OPTIONS]"

Running it as `./dir/demo --help` gives:

Usage: ./dir/demo [OPTIONS]

So good, so far, since the kernel ran "/bin/bash ./dir/demo --help". But once we get $PATH involved, $0 stops being useful, since the path passed to Bash is the resolved file path; if you put it in /usr/bin, and run it as `demo --help`, it will give:

Usage: /usr/bin/demo [OPTIONS]

Because the call to execvpe() looks at $PATH, resolves "demo" to "/usr/bin/demo", then passes "/usr/bin/demo" to the execve() syscall, and the kernel runs "/bin/bash /usr/bin/demo --help".

In POSIX shell, $0 is a little useful for looking up the source file, but isn't so useful for knowing how the user invoked you. In Bash, if you need the source file, you're better served by ${BASH_SOURCE[0]}, rendering $0 relatively useless. And neither has a way to know how the user invoked you... until now.

It's a small problem, but one that there was no solution for.
Writing Mathematics in Pencil, and Why Analogue Is Not Dead (2017)
This. Honestly Ops is a different mindset that devs, the tldr version is devs don't really know / care about running things in production. I don't blame them it's just different set of skills.
With all of the naysayers on here about VR I have to wonder how many of you have used the Oculus Rift or the HTC Vive for an extended period of time?

Even in it’s current state it’s pretty damn impressive. If it never moves beyond a platform for video gaming it is still a multi billion dollar industry.
Multiple primes per minute is more dense than I expected.
There are interesting cases, where doctors prescribe stuff they get no valuable information from.

I had this in US. Shoulder pain, that was diagnosed via an XRay... But the doctor decided he wanted an MRI. That's no unusual, but unnecessary in my case. Got charged extra $500 for the pleasure. Thankfully I was on an HDHP, so the HSA savings got hit.
Maybe those ads are written so you don't feel comfortable negociating your salary because you don't "cover" the requirements.
that actually sounds fun. jam the others control signals.
The choice of python as your shell would surely be as arbitrary as bash?

There is a long history of alternative shells csh, tcsh, zsh, fish, etc. All with various level of abstraction and various amounts of "programming language type constructs" (for lack of a better term).

At the end of the day, long arguments have been had over which is the better shell. It's all just personal preference. Hence it can be set in /etc/passwd per user.

You prefer python? chsh is there to change it.
Do you have links to those estimates or a book recommendation?

I wonder if legalizing euthanasia would help significantly. Also, perhaps more awareness for geriatric strategies that promote comfort over cures. Many elderly people spend a ton trying to fix problems that can't really be fixed and should probably just have the discomfort treated.

Also, I wonder how we stack up against the rest of the world if we ignore expenses for people over the age of 70 or so.
The same thing that happens when someone learns to "drive" with an automatic transmission and then ends up in a rental car with a manual transmission: They sheepishly admit they can't drive the vehicle, and ask for one with more automation.
You should hang out with ugly people, not with supermodels
Yep. In 2009 I was temping at a large textbook publisher until they laid off the entire copyediting department. curiosly, not so many cuts in upper management.
> NATs break end to end. This might be acceptable in a HTTP(s) only world though.

I was always curious about this argument -- do you mean that NAT elimination will allow any two arbitrary devices to communicate with each other?

I would think that even in IPv6 world, the firewalls would still be a necessity. Most ISP would continue shipping routers with stateful firewall enabled by default (to prevent internet exploits), so any peer-to-peer software would still have to deal with UPnP/STUN/TURN. Sure, the STUN protocol will be simplified a bit because it would not need to worry about IP changing, but it would still be way more complex than just a simple connect() call.

Note that the situation maybe better in some cases -- like for India or for cell phone networks -- but there would still be enough people behind the firewall to make arbitrary incoming connections unreliable.

Related: the privacy extensions seem to be a pretty bad idea. I have no idea how would I set up a firewall to say "allow incoming traffic to my main laptop, port 22222" if it's IP address always changes. Ideas like "disable privacy extensions" and "filter by MAC" have their own significant downsides.
Ok but why focusing on the insurance systems that are still sub-par compared to Italy, UK and Spain where the single payer system yields even better results for less money?
I assume you can install newer versions of Bash on macOS though?

(But it certainly suggests to me that macOS isn't actually the easiest out-of-the-box solution if your workflow includes anything more than web browsing.)
> Do you also write all your functions to pass large inputs by value until a profiler says you can pass a const reference?

No, but neither do I pass types that fit in a native integer by const reference because copies should be avoided at all costs. There is always a tradeoff.

> Some implementation details are so well understood that you really don't need a profiler to do what is probably the right thing by default.

Avoiding any and all indirection at all costs is not one of these.

The pImpl pattern, much like virtual methods, function pointers, etc., are each tools. Indirection is a trade-off that is either worth the expense in cache misses or is not. The cost is not so cut and dried as others in the thread have assumed.
I presume for people that have jobs, the premiums are withheld. So only the minority never pays up.

That's hardly unusual. I come from a similar system.
Indeed, what is the purpose of the pharma industry if not making money for the shareholders?
The smartphone app that can tell you’re depressed before you know it yourself
My reaction when reading this: WOW. This is awesome
How many people have to die on the altar of the car industry's greed, before technologists finally admit that they were wrong?

Faster horses would have been better for civilization than cars.
He co-founded Vox, so bias in that direction isn't terribly surprising.
Seems completely unnecessary though, just wrap that in the taxes and be done with it.
I'm one of those who moved back to my small rural hometown after going to a private top-20 school 6 hours away. It was a culture shock returning, and even the worldview of my roommate, who's been a good friend since birth, is so unnatural and foreign to me. He doesn't want new experiences and is just content to work and sit around in the hopes that he might do something when he retires. He wants to get married, but also won't put himself out there to meet people outside of church.

That said, my closest friends here all also went away and came back (one works at his sister's law firm; the other two are both fairly well off with freelancing, inherited a home, etc), and the difference in their view from those who stayed is truly fascinating. I wish more people from this town would leave and see what the world has to offer, realize it's so different. I truly want to get out again, and it's taking its toll on me mentally for sure.
Their view seems to be that that based on the things the president has said and done[0] the public will ultimately lay the blame / credit for the shutdown at his feet and that will hurt him politically.

From a strategic view a shutdown is bad for the economy and nothing hurts a president's chance of re-election like a down economy.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkL3fheL2MY
Graph Neural Networks: A Review of Methods and Applications
I feel ya. I'm 26 and currently a teacher; I thought it'd be great having summers off to travel and such, but I'm really realizing it's not what I want. And the longer I stay teaching, the more I worry that I'll never get out. It puts a damper on things, thinking you'll be in a career you don't like for the rest of your life simply because you choose it too young.
To me, the biggest revelation out of this news was actually finding out both BitBucket and GitLab already offers unlimited free private repos. I am now highly incentivised to move away from self-hosted git server in order to store my micro project repos which are heading to 3 digits.
It's getting harder to buy a car without crazy stuff.

I just want a car.

I got one that wants to take over steering, disturbing me as I drive. I disabled that. It also wants to slam on the brakes whenever it gets confused. That misfeature must be disabled every time I start the car. Then there is the built-in cellular data and GPS and the microphone and at least 3 cameras. Yes, they are tracking me, and if they don't do worse already then it's just an involuntary software update away.

Some day this will be hacked, and millions will die. That will be a memorable day.
People always say they want to leave, but I'm curious in the actual stats of what percentage actually leave.
A more syntactically friendly Haskell-like language
More precisely, if you only select indexed columns you can read only from the index rather than read from index then read the rest of columns from table. Usually the indices are entirely in memory as well, so it's buttery smooth, whereas a read from the table will probably require a disk read.
You're getting downvotes but I don't see any links to examples of real-world Toyota autonomous driving.

Honestly I kind of feel like Toyota's still stuck in the 90s. They were ahead of the game but all they seem to have done since then is endlessly fine-tune and finesse the same vehicles.
Microsoft just gave me $84/yr. Thanks, Microsoft. Almost as much as I'm paying them for Office and 1TB of SkyDrive in fact.
This has been debunked over and over again. It's just not true.
A big part of it is the zen. I love Linux and it powers my entire career as a server OS but it is anything but zen and I would never use it as a desktop OS.
Texting being more common than calls is a pretty bad example.
Texting is more popular because it allows asynchronous communication. Calls require both participants to be connected at the same time, which is a big hassle.
I just use set -e at the top of the script
The problem is that GPL3 has more restrictions than just "publish the code". That's why projects such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc. also won't include GPL3 code, as including GPL3 code would restrict what you can and can't do with the entire system.

I assume that Apple's reasoning is similar.
Sure you can install newer version of bash via homebrew then update PATH in your shell profile.
I agree that storage is a problem if you get most of your energy from solar, but in most places we're still in the mode of "on a sunny day we just burn a less coal or natural gas".

In the long run it may become a bigger problem. Pumped hydroelectric storage should work great in places where the geography is amenable, and regular battery technology is getting better.
My point wasn't about python, just an example of how a shell around python, made only for python function calls, would be a useless abstraction.
What is representative of the US market, is the cost of marketing in US.
Came to say this.

No one can predict with certainty which startups will fail and which won’t. If someone did there would be just one VC firm that grossly outperformed everyone else. The truth is you get the smartest people out there, make the most careful bets you can, and you still lose or break even 9 out of 10 times.

Anyone who is joining an early stage startup primarily to get rich has got their eye on the wrong prize. Join because you like the early stage craziness. Join because you care about the mission. Join to learn. If you want to get rich, work at Fang for 10 years. That’s a lot more certain.
And thus the tech industry piled abstraction upon abstraction, decade after decade, until finally all software collapsed into a singularity and destroyed the earth. Which, frankly, came as somewhat of a relief to all the people forced to use it.
Another salient point is that when an entity buys all the shares of a company they pay a premium over the current share price indicating that the company is perceived by the market to be more valuable with a single shareholder than with widely dispersed shares.

A cryptocurrency with a single sharehodler is a non sequitor and essentially worthless.
>There is a very lengthy process of getting drugs through the FDA which makes investment's return-on-investment difficult to justify without raising already available drug prices.

The lengthy process is there for a reason, it's not some hamper on profits just to hamper profits. Do we believe that the FDA is full of short sellers? Poor Pfizer, they won't get more money than they've spent! The logic here is sinister. ROI on drugs shouldn't be every dollar spent gets you a dollar ten and a drug, it should be you have a drug. The basic research that informs R&D spending has a ROI of zero by business metrics.

It is sad to think that the trajectory of medical advancement is dictated not by what we can achieve as scientists, but what is profitable for businessmen. When Jonas Salk was asked who owns the patent to the polio vaccine he developed, he replied, "Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" In 1988 there were an estimated 350,000 cases of poliomyelitis worldwide, in 2018 there were 29 (1). The global initiative to eradicate the disease would not have been possible had the vaccination been for-profit.

(1) https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/poliomye...
Out of curiosity, how are these degrees perceived by French employers? Also does entrance into these universities require a BAC?
They still have to get out ahead by six blocks, however.

This drops to zero every time they start over, so it doesn't change the basic calculus.
It's not quite the same thing, but I've been enjoying using eshell (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eshell.h...). It has the usual shell interaction, except you can also interleave it with arbitrary elisp. It's not quite the OS, but it allows interaction with any parts of Emacs, which is at least OS-like (and can itself interact with the OS in various ways).
Because if they’re available, it’s then possible for web developers to use the old “go download Chrome to use this site” cop out and then stop supporting mobile Safari. After a while, so many sites will fail to work properly in Safari that the only choice I’ll have if I want a smooth browsing experience is to give in and use Chrome. It’ll be like the 90’s with IE except this time the monopoly browser is “good” so the monopoly is somehow OK.

You see this happening with sites and web apps not intended for mobile use already. Once WebKit is no longer the only option on iOS, Chrome will take over entirely.