skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now it seems we are no longer capable of such projects

Not quite, we changed our priorities considerably. The US shifted its government expenditures to welfare, entitlements and standing-military spending. The US has dramatically expanded its social safety net over the last four or five decades. You can see that by checking the federal budget by decade and how its allocation has changed. Properly few voters want to go back to 1955, they'd rather we continue paying for free healthcare for the bottom 1/4, at a cost of ~$650 billion per year. If you give those people a choice between national high-speed rail and their health coverage, they'll choose health coverage every time. The mistake in the case of the US, is in not having built eg high-speed rail when it could have done it, before welfare and entitlement spending demands got so massive.

In short, the US system, the social contract, has fundamentally, permanently changed. There's no scenario where it will or ever can do infrastructure like it did 60 or 80 years ago, because the government allocations can never be like they were. It's comparing two entirely different systems of spending demand & allocation, along with entirely different social expectations.

China is currently undergoing exactly the same transformation as it seeks to build out a social safety net. As that proceeds, they'll no longer be fiscally capable of the infrastructure spending they've been undertaking the prior ~20 years. Social welfare spending demands will rise perpetually, particularly given the rate at which their society is aging. Right now the average pension in China is about $200 per year, and their pension system is already financially tipping over. That won't stand, China will be forced to allocate dramatically greater spending to social welfare over time. China is about to start running twin deficits, on their fiscal budget (already bad) and their trade. I don't see a scenario going forward where they can both meet the social demands of an aging population that wants a far greater social safety net and the free-wheeling infrastructure spending behavior of their past. They'll be forced to choose, as every other developed nation has.
This is a bastion comment for biased communities: We're allowed to be biased, but the people who call us out on this aren't allow to have a bias to compensate for our existence.

This is no different from religious bigots who claim it violates their "religious freedom" to remove their "right" to discriminate.
Tools cannot have ethics since tools do not define ethics, society does and ethics aren’t universal or static.

We are barely capable of defining and arguing ethics as a society claiming that a microwave would be able to make ethical decisions is laughable.

P.S.
A bomb is no more ethically problematic than a bottle coke.
I'm not sure China can be described as "quasi-capitalist". There's very close cooperation between industry and government in a way that's antithetical to capitalism. Sure, at the lower levels it functions as a market economy, but the corporations themselves are heavily influenced if not controlled by the state.
We already have AI that can make the decision or not to step on a kid passing the street in self driving cars.

The ethical/conscious part is a matter of degree, not necessarily of quality.
Off topic, but I’m curious what you think the best container solution is?

As an aside, I’ve never been able to get anyone to explain to me why k8 and not something like mesosphere’s DCOS, other than “google”.

Anything you can share there?
It would kill any business with a long supply chain, the only manufacturers left would be the ones where ore arrives at one end of the factory and finished goods come out of the other end.
> Not true. Banks aren't minting their own money, and your money is insured.

Totally true (aka fractional reserve banking) and is one of the main reasons (a portion of) your deposits are insured.
I was revisiting that book again last night briefly and was having a chuckle at some of the example code in Java (I assume it's Java?) before some of the more modern features came into the language and thinking "yep, using iterator and .next() to do your loops sure is legacy code alright!". It smelt like Java 1.4

Good times.
Usually on the order of ~$100,000 / Unit (10x10x10cm).

Rocket Labs posted their pricing publicly in 2015:
https://www.rocketlabusa.com/news/updates/space-is-open-for-...
It would be cheaper for everyone because of tax simplifications. Current system is already unfair to a lot of group of people, including small businesses. And large company also have money transfers so I am not sure to understand the example unless we go into the specifics a little bit more
Isn't sed's "one thing" a superset of grep's?
If you're looking for good books, I can vouch for 'A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming' which has very through coverage and end of chapter exercises. For PowerShell, I'm currently reading the the free PowerShell Notes for Professionals ( https://books.goalkicker.com/PowerShellBook/ ) and it's a great resource as well.
`npm install` is what you the developer would run when you first clone a project; it should install exactly what's in the package-lock.json file. Unfortunately, it sometimes doesn't do that.
Pet peeve -- the article says music "significantly impairs" creativity. But I believe the paper only found evidence that there is a "significant chance that music impairs creativity." I'm not a stats expert, but I feel like these are different things?

Either this is an incredibly widespread mistake in science journalism, or it's not a mistake and I'm an idiot?
I've seen social networks use noreferrer on their links, but they're still a browser feature nonetheless. Referrers are also always sent for image tags and remote resources.
I don't get the point of this in a client script. What does it do that can't be done server side with the http headers? Maybe it can be useful inside SPAs but this sort of info should be immutable and read only which is next to impossible on front facing apps.
They would have the right to do so. And other country might have the right to place a 150% tariff on this country goods. Or place those on the tax haven list. Other countries cannot stop them from applying a zero tax. But those same countries that provide all the markets, infrastructure, schools, manufacturing and support all the population to make it work can also choose not to trade with those.
You mean QML? It's weird to see all of the C++ API reduced to a chapter. I've used Qt for years and QWidgets from C++ is all I've used.
Thanks for mentioning that! I remember reading that it was being discussed, but not that it had already been implemented.

It's not much, but still better than nothing.
It's expected that high-level executives of large organizations deal with planning and strategy rather than low-level technical details. They're not following language features or implementations.

However in that case, this whitepaper (and many others) are damning in how little they actually state and why so many technical decisions go wrong.
you just did exactly what I was talking about.
The Ad industry turned Google and Facebook into ad companies, they didn't start with any intention of becoming ad companies. The Ad industry just shifted where it points it's dollars; those dollars weren't taken out of the ad industry.

Google and Facebook wouldn't exist without the ad industry but the ad industry would exist just fine without them. That's how you know if you're sucked into it or not.

Think about it this way, corporations, governments, non-profits etc... all use the ad industry. They hire people who have studied social manipulation to create "content" with the singular purpose of inducing you to take an action you would not have otherwise taken. They have to put that content in front of people somehow, so they go where the people are and then get in front of them there.

If it so happens that a company can attract a lot of people, then that company becomes a target of all the groups who want to get their manipulators in front of those people. Once there is a big enough demand ($$) for that, then the company starts to build processes and systems to make that easy - like adwords. If that's the easiest way to make money, then the company will optimize around that process, and all other things fall to the wayside.

So the causal path is actually perfectly sound reasoning. Market demand in the form of the ad industry, turned the technology companies into ad companies. Pretty simple really.

There are tons of tech companies that don't do this because it's not the right business model, Twilio is one of the best examples. So they never turn into ad companies.
He died at 54.
Even in those cases, you can learn empathy and perspective. Introspection, understanding what you were feeling and why you acted/reacted the way you did is opportunity for growth.
A lot of times, you can trace it back to a root insecurity, jealousy, or fear.
If you yourself were an RPG hero and you're trying to save the world and that's your job then perhaps assertiveness at work is exactly the right book for you?
Dang. That’s what I’m doing too and I’m somewhat happy with it. But it does bother me that it only works with PDFs, and there’s no easy way to decouple the annotations from the content, so I was hoping that Polar might be significantly better.
(South) Korea and Japan are completely different from China. Like they aren't as brutal and they are not dictatorships.

You could maybe try to make a comparison with North Korea and some Arabic countries.
I clicked the link through feedly but it said my source was direct
Using it.

I try to learn a new platform every once in a while. The best way to learn is to do. So I pick a project from my list and try it out. That's how I learned I didn't like Meteor and Angular when they came out and were hyper hyped but I enjoy Go very much but only for certain things. Or how I learned I disliked PHP or loved working with Python, or that MongoDB is ok for some things and less so for others (or that Postgres is bliss). I used them for something and I find what is the problem those "tools" are best at solving and where they don't fit. Then some of them I keep using over and over again, and some I file under been-there-tried-that. What I really really try to do, is get peer-biased. Many times the internet hypes something for 5 minutes and dumps it later. Or ignores something for 5 years only to rediscover it and rave about it.
Rich Hickey's "Value of Values"[0] is what finally sold me on the benefits of pure functional programming and immutable data structures. (It remains horrifying to continue working with MySQL in my day job, knowing that every UPDATE is potentially a destructive action with no history and no undo.)

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6BsiVyC1kM
Right, his Fibonacci class is completely immutable, i.e. it's purely functional.

He's confusing different usages of the word "state" - exhortations to avoid state are almost always about mutable state, but he doesn't appear to recognize that distinction.
“Idea 737 : Electricity which can be transferred from place to place through air rather than wires.”

Incredible idea. This would revolutionize our world and get rid of ugly power lines. Just need to find some engineers ready to change the world by building a prototype. I will give the right EE/react.js developer 10% to be part of this amazing opportunity and build their portfolio.
No we don’t, the “AI” didn’t made any decisions it only follows its programming.

It also doesn’t know what a kid is nor does it makes any decisions based on the info even if it did. It is tasked with avoiding collisions it does not make ethical decisions any more than my microwave makes an ethical decision of not to burn my food when I use a fixed program to defrost chicken.
I agree with the part that says Agile (and Scrum in particular) is drinking the koolaid. Managers who don't themselves write any code, but micromanage their workers with their version of Scrum, are the worst.
Imagine the energy and money spent on bickering and wars and ultimately useless junk were not.
I’m not sure if I’m misunderstanding the purpose of session-types, but it seem that this a lot like finagle but for rust?

Session type is basically just a finagle service, etc...

Or are they more like go channels?
Then why not just be honest about it? You can't simultaneously be for equality and favoring one gender. It doesn't matter how good you are at twisting words, in reality you just can't.
> I do have to say that all of my shots are indeed ‘Photoshopped’. I always work on my images to make them look good on print and social media. I change contrast, vibrance, saturation, make color adjustments, etc., so you can call them ‘fake’ in that regard. But I don’t change the moment.

I guess it isn't totally clear what "fake" means. But it doesn't seem wrong to say that processing your pictures in photoshop makes them fake.
So what is the solution to drown out ambient noise for example a noisy work place?
Did you read the article? The author says he used Photoshop on all of them..
Could you elaborate on meaning of these?
Read "How Huawei tried to sell itself to Motorola for $7.5bn" which was published by FT four days ago. The deal was advised by JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley. It fell through at the final stage due to leadership change at Motorola. I don't see how your unsubstantiated statement could possibly be reconciled with FT reporting. You should retract your statement unless you have better evidence than FT.
I agree that Kubernetes is not the best technology out there, but I'm not 100% on which I would call the best. Did you have a winner in mind (it sounded like it)? If so why that one?

Also it may not really matter as you said Kubernetes is the most popular and is only getting more so at this point and the network affect is so strong in tech like this that the "technically best" most likely will become a moot point.
>Tools cannot have ethics since tools do not define ethics, society does and ethics aren’t universal or static.

Which is still beside the point.

As I already wrote, an advanced AI is a tool that can precisely define ethics for itself or adopt ones.

Plus, as I also already wrote, even if a tool has no ethics, it can be ethically problematic (to society), so that is something we should discuss too.

>We are barely capable of defining and arguing ethics as a society claiming that a microwave would be able to make ethical decisions is laughable.

Which is again irrelevant, as an AI is not a microwave -- and future AI even less so. We are capable of seeing/discussing even things that are not immediately in front of us...
One reason is the decentralized nature of the country. No one can centrally decide a nationwide infrastructure project. It needs approval from all the involved states, counties, cities and property owners.

This was to some extent true in the mid 20th century too, but much of those projects were built on empty land, and since then we've also built many layers of regulations and hired armies of regulators, all focused of finding ways and reasons to say NO to change.
Brain Fox: "I recommend that people read the Orchid source code."

Oho. Link?
Pitch Rescue: Investor Presentation Pitfalls to Avoid
Brown noise?
Not what you’re asking for but related.

I’ve always found programming interesting. It’s possibly one of neatest ways to figure things out with computation. But early on I got the impression the profession was abusive - maybe inherently. I got fired from my first programming job for prioritizing finishing high school over a programming job. I dabbled after that and every project related to computers had this “natural” way of feeling like something I have to do “now” - even if it meant not sleeping. Then I saw the cs majors I knew in college doing the same. I heard about the industry being the same way. Not only that, most programming work was downright boring to the point of tedious. CRUD apps, basically everywhere. Nothing ever very original. Maybe it’s different now, but it sure doesn’t look like it’s progressed very far over the years.
Brutal Honesty as a Service
Then what’s your solution? What would you do in their place if you were a female founder looking for funding? It already favors one gender when 97.8% of the funding goes to one gender. This is an equalizing measure.
Evasion is a bug in the tax code. Avoidance is a feature. Laws are written to create the possibility of avoidance - e.g. we add a 20% tax on cigarettes. We create a 20% tax credit on solar panels. We don't tax interest gains off of savings accounts.

For what it's worth it's pointless to complain about tax law complexity. Complexity increases with the amount of money you're trying to drag out of the economy. The more money you want the greater the temptation to create loopholes because they end up being worth more. Imagine a country where the tax rate is 100%. If you pass a law that taxes building cars at 90% you've effectively created an industry. Compare that with how much you'll be loved if the tax rate is 10% and you lower the tax on making cars to 9%. Still good but you'll only garner like not love.

Honestly this is why the details of tax law - how fair it is for example - only marginally interest me. The overall rate - and for that you might as well include borrowing, so it's easier to just ask - what percentage of GDP does the government spend are a lot more interesting to me.
In theory the content provider has already been paid so the main cost would be a simple database import IMHO.

Though if I were the company who just lost such a juicy contract I'd tell them to go pound sand when they asked for a database dump.
So what? His death was the saddest thing that could happen to a brilliant man. I only dream what would have been if he lived same age as Bertrand Russell (97). Both are incredible minds.
"I try to invest in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them.

Because sooner or later, one will." --Warren Buffett
OK, so you wouldn't be scared if we gave guns to everybody in your city except you.

There are mere guns, they are not problematic in themselves, it's how people use them.

No reason to think giving everybody in your city a gun would be any different in its outcome to you (and the city's wellbeing) than giving everybody a banana...

/s
Totally agree. But the regret stays. I think it should stay because it’s too easy to just brush it off and say “let’s move on”.
Have you tried git-annex? I found it to be a simpler, more git-like solution to the large binaries problem than LFS, which seemed like a centralised system that would be painful to set up.
Regardless of the test, the title is misleading.
Python is the batteries included scripting language. The two concepts are not mutually exclusive.
That code is not at all readable, even knowing Haskell.

Even the recursive python version with memoization is a bit difficult to read, but least it has the recurrence relation in it.

vals = {}

def fib(n):
if n < 2:
return n
if n in vals.keys():
return vals[n]
val = fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)
vals[n] = val
return val
Amazon takes the customer support very far - with one exception - bogus products on marketplace seems like a big miss.

But what I paid for and got on aws support is so far out of whack there is NO way they made money on my account for that whole year. And the person was actually competant which was a shock. So many "technical support" folks seem like idiots.

Comcast for example, I'd purchased my modem, they started charging a rental fee - I had to call these bozos every month to reverse the charge - a total waste of time. I cancelled finally - I just couldn't take it, and each one lied to me or didn't have a clue. Things like condescendingly saying - you have to pay for the modem.
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I've been working within my network for a while but am now working on gaining new leads. The flow of work, at least initially, would be patchy and inconsistent.

Is this something you already do for others? Do you have a portfolio I could take a look at? Please get in touch.

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Kinda off topic, but wow, that comment section. It’s easy to forget what Internet comment sections are like when you only read them on HN.
> Does this go for all parasites, or only certain parasites?

The previous statement is not based on real science. "Cell detoxification" is a void term used often to justify selling you all kind of miraculous snake oils.
npm now automatically reports known vulnerable packages, right?
Disclaimer: not a meteorologist.

> But what kind of data do I need to run my own weather forecast on my computer?

I believe it's a combination of plain old measurements (wind direction + speed, temperature, humidity, etc etc), RADAR, and a lot of historic precedence. I don't know how much of that is open-sourced, but I think it'd be easier to hook onto the api of your national weather broadcasting websites and ask them what your weather will be for the next 12 hours.
>When I can write: awk -F "," '{for (x = 1 ; x <= NF ; x++) {if ($x ~ /[0-9]+/) {a[x] = a[x] + $x}}} END { for (p in a) {printf "%d = %d\n",p,a[p]}}'

To be fair, what the matrix libraries do is provide readability and clarity.

Show a programmer unfamiliar with awk your statement and they're going to be spending quite a while parsing it.

Show a programmer unfamiliar with numpy/pandas some matrix multiplication and they may understand it intuitively for the most part without even having to look up references.

edit: I'm actually an awk noob myself but after rereading your code for a second, it makes quite a bit of sense. "For all rows in the column, take all digits 0-9 and sum them". So perhaps not much is gained by the library
The Martian's Daughter. A Memoir

not definitive but an interesting read from his daughter, quite an accomplished person in her own right.
It seems like what this study is really showing, which everyone should already understand, is that your brain cannot process two different information streams at the same time with any measure of success. The farther away your audio stream is from information and the closer it is to steady state (say, unvarying trance beats or, even better, brown noise) the less the impact will be. It's like comparing one person talking to you vs two people talking to you simultaneously. This has been studied before already to death.

But the OP article's premise of tying language center and word selection to "creativity" is weird and sounds like just bad science.
They risk life and limb for the betterment of the community, I think they deserve 6 figures more than a techworker at facebook if you wanted to get moral about it.
Fear of the other has been one of the most powerful agents in terms of getting people to do things that they really should not (genocide, for one example).

There is no flip side to that where fear of something else would counteract that. Many of those things that are influenced by a powerful emotion such as fear are like that, they only work one way or at best are very asymmetrical when you try to imagine the opposite.

So it definitely explains something. Just look to history for some pretty good examples of the end results.
Does the ACLU care about this kind of stuff?
Is there are a way to get the good parts without the bad parts?
Project Maven, procurement, lollapalooza results and nuclear/AGI safety
Yeah, they're fake in the sense that "they're not what came out of the camera", but not in the sense that "this scene never happened".
Raw images are different. Their processing is sort of arbitrary. Your camera gives you raw data about what it "sees" and you need to "anchor" such data to the real world.
> It is well documented that, after Von Neumann learned of his terminal pancreatic cancer...

Bone cancer, actually.