skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that is very pedantic. Of course science != physical reality.

However, in general discussion no one is going to say

> "potentially flawed but workable approximation of natural 'rules' that allow us to to manipulate natural phenomenon in a manner that results in food on our table, planes in your sky, and cures for our sicknesses"

No, it's much more reasonable to say

> science that puts food on our table, planes in our sky, and cures for our sicknesses
> A more aerodynamic estate, basically.

These used to be popular in Australia, we called 'em "station wagons". They've all but disappeared now, though, replaced by crossover SUV / soft-roaders.
They can get more money in the short term by pushing you harder, and there's zero cost to them to go yell at you. If they could get a bigger bonus by ignoring outages, they'd do that, but instead, they can get a bigger bonus by pushing you to reduce outages without any additional resources.
Still no, an analog computer is an electronic computer which uses varying voltages and currents to calculate results. It's not the same as a manual computer.
Wouldn't it really be second world poor?
Can I send a top-up using this service to India?
Here the ones with AWD (as opposed to 4WD) are generally referred to as "soft-roaders".
Cool! Definitely very helpful. I still get tons of robo calls on the landline.
Yes, the "correct procedure" would be for the pilots to recognize the MCAS problem (whether they know about the existence of MCAS or not) as a runaway stab trim problem, and treat it as such. One of the steps for the runaway stab trim emergency checklist (which I believe is a memory item for 737 pilots) is to set the stab trim switches to cutoff. At that point, they can manually (with the wheels in the cockpit) return the stabilizer to a better trim position, then recover control of the aircraft.

I'm not a real-world airliner pilot (I just play with them in simulators), so I can't comment on whether it's reasonable to expect pilots to recognize the situation and react accordingly in this new failure mode. Without knowledge of the existence of the MCAS system and how it can fail, with uncommanded nose-down, it's unclear that pilots would think there were any factors they recognize that would cause a runaway trim situation and think, "oh, I need to run the runaway trim checklist." I think that's the crux of the argument "any 737 pilot should have been competent to save the plane because they should have recognized runaway stab trim" versus "the set of conditions that caused this problem involved systems that pilots weren't trained on, so it's not reasonable for them to recognize what was happening and realize they can fall back on different training that they did have."

Anyway... comment I was replying to seemed to imply the existence of the stab trim cutout switches implied that the MCAS system was made known to pilots, which is why I pointed out those switches had been there forever.
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"Without that, it is possible for people who are not personally accomplished, who pontificate in recycled stock phrases, who polarize situations and who are insatiable braggarts coveting media coverage, to acquire power and influence."

This is almost perfectly personified in the form of Bill Nye the Science Guy post-2000 or thereabouts. I also feel this applies to practically all figures in the "pop science" scene to a lesser degree. Few meet the standard of being an "insatiable braggart" but most are attention hungry and willing to abandon their stated principles in pursuit of furthering their influence.
Most of my samples were given that way, but for the IVF fresh cycles, they needed it to be... fresher.
Good read. It is tragic that he was killed in the name of anti-immigrant sentiment, when he seems to be a perfect example of an immigrant success story.
The product link in the article leads to an ironic 404 message: "Even AI can't find this page!"

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-sy...
I have a (slightly) more optimistic view of seeing everyone on their phones all the time. When you're on your computer at home, you withdraw into it, too. It's your cave. Phones give people a way to get into their caves anywhere they want. It's like everyone's out in their PJs, trying to have private time in a public place.

Obviously, it's a very bad thing when someone decides not to leave her mental cave while strolling through traffic (worse still if she's behind the wheel). I just think it's a more humanistic view than the zombie angle.
Imagine if you invest some money into what becomes a 9 billion dollar valuation company. That valuation is before they've really gone to mass market with their product.

If their product had worked, after a few years the return on investment could have been substantial. It would have been significant loss pulling money out before release to mass market.

George Shultz is 98 years old. It's not like you can take your money to the grave. I would like to imagine he was doing all this for his family. I would also like to imagine that if you have a 9 billion dollar valuation company, and you bring together the right talent, Holmes could have somehow pulled off at least some value added breakthrough.

The real issue was when they started to lie and put people's safety at risk. But theranos had significant social proof. Whatever fraud or risks could have been brushed off as non systemic
"It's just defunctionalization, combined with "add another layer of indirection" to implement dynamic dispatch and something like existential types."

But isn't this a pretty good working definition of "Object Oriented Programming"?
Thanks for reminding us, all of us, that the people affected by hate crimes are people with stories, just like us, not numbers. Same ambitious, similar hobbies, beloved, and gone too soon.
Yes, daily metro ridership
Hope it'll ship with better support that the first Jetson. The one they marketed with all that AI/Machine Vision stuff and then shipped without a camera driver.

This is just following Google's Edge TPU, which probably competes with a Raspberry Pi + Movidius stick. The market there is getting interesting.
kaiser permanente (doctor) has not only google analytics but doubleclick links on their online health services. Even the pages to communicate with your doctor or view test results. kp.org

I complained about this (and blocked everything), but at one point they required I accept an onerous terms of service to continue to use the site. So I requested they delete my account. Well, apparently they cannot delete an account, only inactivate it. They didn't do that and I still

California DMV has not only google analytics, but will log you into google when you use their site. dmv.ca.gov

It is hard to mindfully resist.
If it were me, I'd go with a pager. Probably too old school for what you're looking for but it's purely passive, from what I remember.
> one of those pads that they put down that absorbs liquids to keep it sanitary

I believe the colloquial term is "pee pad."
not all people start a side project to make their resume look better.
Why not like a cheap ($40) BLU phone and just not use the "smart" features?

https://www.amazon.com/BLU-Advance-Unlocked-Smartphone-Black...
Interesting, I see it from exactly the opposite perspective. By paying up front I’m putting forth trust and an expectation that the restaurant will do right by me or make it right through a refund at the end if I’m dissatisfied. I can’t say I’ve ever been in a position where I’ve been so dissatisfied with a meal that I’d use the fact that I haven’t yet paid to assert control over the situation. The friction reduction gained by being able to depart without worrying about the overhead of paying at the end is a win 99 times where paying at the end is a win maybe one time. I guess it depends what you consider to be an essential part of the ritual.
My inner Northcote Parkinson sort of triggers on 'best practices'. Best tends to imply that all the other ways to skin the cat are 'bad.' Which is likely objectively untrue.

Idiomatic is more neutral and means basically just do it the way everyone else tends to. The real advantage to that is you generally avoid pitfalls and annoying other coders.
What a horrible waste of a wonderful person. We should all do what we can to make sure society completely rejects the out-moded and dangerous ideology that caused this.
This is the single dumbest thing I've ever read on Hacker News.
Just change your plan to have no data (hint the cheapest pay and go) turn off mobile data and wifi and voila a dumb phone works with my old sony.
I don't think you can work and spend time together at the same time. Can you text and drive? :)
yes.
because I mostly use it for reading and music.
I do not mind the size, I carry it outside of pant pockets.

And it fits into my coat, or back pack (if in summer).
I think it depends on the foreign language; some are more useful than others. I probably wouldn't use Latin all that much, whereas having a basic understanding of Spanish does come in handy (at least here in the US).

I'm by no means fluent in Spanish (even after taking two years of it in high school), but if at least some of it stuck then I'd say that's better than nothing. Not saying there ain't better ways of getting that education, but it's a start.

I've since found that I rather enjoy a lot of Spanish-language media (especially television and music); I'm - again - nowhere near sufficiently fluent to understand everything, but I know enough to be able to appreciate it instead of writing it off as gibberish.
إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ‎

Born in Kuwait a few years before the Invasion to a Palestinian family. They probably escaped to NZ either due to the war or due to Kuwait's wrath against Palestinians after the war [0]. And met with this end in his new homeland.

So unfortunate.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_exodus_from_Kuwait...
s/hate crimes/terrorism/
It's insane how many really, really, good people we lose to tragedies like this... 9/11 took away one of the founders of Akamai(the CDN company). Even the recent 737 crash took away some really accomplished people from humanity. It's a constant reminder of the fragility of life and how easily one can lose a loved one or oneself these days.
The solution is to use a whitelist for phonecalls.
You set the default TTL in your OS to +=1.
I've only ever been to the north and what I found is that leavened bread is not a thing there.

As for apples: they're mostly okay but nothing special comparing to the varieties found around the Baltic sea.

Case in point: you can't expect to just walk into any store and find apples suitable for apple pie. Also apple juice exists in one variety and is fairly hard to find.
They can mean very similar things so that the question could be:

How to learn idioms when you have no one to teach you?
Of course it counts, but not as _with her_ just around, which is different imho.
Asimov's way of writing was very typewriter-centric, so maybe it's not surprising that he in particular would fail to imagine word processor-like technology:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#Characteristics
Holmes only fault was that her "reality distortion field" wasn't strong enough. There are 100s of theranoses in sv/SF that won't see the light of day, thus escaping the kind of scrutiny theranos had.

All this soul searching is bankrupt at it's core. She was just playing the role that SV sells to any entrepreneur it encounters. "Move fast, break things, if the world doesn't match your expectation then change the world." It's bullshit all the way down. Enjoy your iPhones, Ubers, taskrabbits, doordashes and Amazon's that are all predicated on exploiting legal loopholes and turning a profit until they get big enough that politicians overlook or change laws to accommodate them for a piece of the pie.
I was hoping this would be a blog post on using Twillio to block robo callers.
Still nowhere near as important as a medical device with false promises.
That is hardly the state of the art: they are basically sacrificing all abstractions that are rightly so required in the name of speed. This is no different than using vanilla DPDK with no congestion and flow control and being able to process 20 mil packets per core (better than the numbers in the paper). Getting 75Gbps per core using RDMA is hardly hard or new.

You can't use this abstraction for anything ... really unless you are on a completely lossless fabric that has enough capacity to avoid congestion.

Yes, Google/MS/FB are going towards such fabrics but the hard part is not building the RPC abstraction suggested in this paper---the hard part is getting to that fabric.

Just to put things into perspective, if you had a quantum computer you could do all sort of crazy stuff with it. You could "parallelize loops! and be super fast" is what this paper is suggesting (I specifically chose parallelizing loops cause there is nothing new in it).
OpenTable is misunderstanding where the balance of power lies here. I’m not their customer, I’m the restaurants’ customer, despite the fact that OpenTable has maybe found a way to reduce a little bit of the friction in the situation. This is purely a play to lock people in under the convenient guise of protecting user data.
Someone made a GUI designer for tkinter Thank you
https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/buy/jetson-nano-devkit

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/jetson-nano-ai-computing/
I had problems using pyplot over ssh because it can assume there's a display and fail when it couldn't find one.
Maybe this has changed. I use the OO interface. For example https://matplotlib.org/gallery/api/agg_oo_sgskip.html
Thanks I'll definitely look into that, but I think I might be on my way out of the city. I love it but I'll have to come back when I'd have the money to enjoy it.
Calling to almost all US numbers is cheap. You don't have to pay more to call mobile numbers, for example.

Additionally, people in the US have a generally high ability to pay and often have means to pay for things over the phone.

So, you don't have to pay much to try to scam people, and if you do, you're likely to get paid.

Probably the proliferation of small telephone companies helps avoid tracking and getting booted off the network.
This is really promising work. However, it doesn't support free() at all; without free(), it seems less useful. It's not clear to me what supporting free() would involve; I'd love to hear comments.
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I also recommend separating repetitive parts of plot generating code into template files, such as with mako or jinja2, and then programmatically generate sequences of plots by first piping the data into the jinja2 template, and then using insert commands to insert it into a bigger tex document.

I found this helpful when writing a paper where the appendix needed over 35 different tables of regression results, all with the same format but populated with data from different subpopulations, which would need to be regenerated (including updated captions, etc.) any time data cleaning or methodology was changed.
Those don't mean the same thing at all.
Probably "Jane the Virgin"?
This is why I switched to vscode a few months ago. The Golang support in Sublime is nowhere near the same level as it is in vscode.
It's essentially simple. What I have breadboarded and working right now is based on a Raspberry Pi (although I won't be using the Pi in the end, as it's too bulky -- I'll be using the functional equivalent on a board I'm designing). I'm using a 4G module to provide the cell functionality (you communicate with it much like with a modem) and a 4" LCD touch panel for the display. It is running Linux as the OS, with some custom code for things like the phone dialer, etc. It also has the other usual features like WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.

It's really nothing more than a small Linux computer with a cell phone module attached. That was one of my design goals -- I wanted a real OS rather than something like Android. The only thing that I'm not entirely happy with at the moment is power draw, but I can greatly reduce that with a bit more work.
Not just in rural areas.
> Don't judge a book by it's cover

Why not? Covers are chosen to appeal the type of audience that is more likely to enjoy that type of book. It's actually very easy to judge a book by its cover and in some way you're supposed to.

People are not much different: while of course it's possible to misjudge people based on how they appear, the look they choose, deliberately and consistently, certainly tells something about them.
That's a terrifying concept to think that they are grinding down value because they are slow to react.
I ordered a Coral USB accelerated (Edge TPU on a USB) to tinker with for the novelty and it just arrived this afternoon. I will say one giant gap between these two is Google's Edge TPU based products only support TensorFlow Lite.
The 2015s don't have the "a single speck of dust gets in the keyboard and disables a key" problem. All later models do. I don't think upgradeability factors into it much.
...Namely, an interpreter for lisp written in lisp. William Byrd learned about it from Daniel P. Friedman (The Little Lisper, The Little Schemer, ....)
From NVIDIA GTC 2019: Jetson Nano for Robotics
Thanks for writing and posting this.
The thing about conversion from analog to binary is that it's a one-time-cost only. With analog computation, you pay for every single computation/conversion step with increased noise, even if each operation theoretically provides more precision than the binary equivalent. There's just no equivalent to the noise-resiliency of binary compute.
And (agreeing with you here), if MCAS was only moving the trim 2.5 degrees at a time, it might not look like runaway trim, because it was running away slowly.
I passed high school Spanish through the third year at a top-50 California public school. Later when visiting Argentina people found my speech near-incomprehensible, and I could barely get the gist of a typical newspaper story. That was a couple decades later and it's not nothing, but it was nowhere near worth the time it took.

If you're genuinely motivated to learn a language you can do a much better job (and I did, with French as an adult; yes, the Spanish long ago did accelerate that a bit).
Because it's just bad advice. They can hit your LLC with a lawsuit as well, they can make it so your LLC way of making money dies because they have you tied in court, and you might not even be considered as discreet entity (and thus protected) from the LLC (depending on jurisdiction). Not to mention the associated costs and extra effort (and all that for what? Preparation for any future personal lawsuit?)
I've used a Nokia 208.1 for 5 years, it's not very big, it has not features worth mentioning, it lasts for ages (usually at least 1 weak depending on usage)... The interface is not horrible to use and doesn't get in the way - which is all I really care about with this kinda phone (cheaper dumb phones will really piss you off getting in the way).

RE privacy, phones aren't private, not even dumb phones, use a dumb phone for privacy in terms of doing less on it (i.e internet), cell networks voice calls are wide open of course. My main reason is lack of distraction though.

RE network compat: I've taken this phone to China, Thailand, Laos, Mexico, France, Germany - it always worked - Never been to US though.
Ok, I love that logo. It's straight '90s Outdoor Education.
Or every single one of them is motivated enough to lie about it.
Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture for a discussion of this topic.
I do think GDPR regulation is absolutely bat shit crazy.

Edit: even though I'm sure they have the best of intentions.
I blog a little under my actual name, but I'd rather not tie that to this identity lest it make me less willing to express my stupidest and least popular opinions here, which I feel need to be exposed to criticism so I can better judge their merit. There's a reason my handle is what it is.
I don't know about you, but I'm jonesing for one of these so I can experience that "Gordon Gekko on the beach" feel (sorry for the '80s reference, but if you haven't seen Wall Street, you totally should): https://www.zipy.co.il/p/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%A7%D7%A...
You say "revolving" as if users have been forced to move from one to the other, but all three are current and legitimate choices, no?
That's why I believe in science, but I don't believe in people.

People will and have corrupted every institution ever created.
that's a dangerous strawman.

opentable is not profitable and have no market to exist for what they say they offer: reservation convenience, which increases trafic, for a cost to the business.

so they offer it for free or much cheaper, amass a lot of data and sell it on the side. effectively bypassing their inexistent above-mentioned business proposal.
I agree. However, most people are not philosophers, and are going to essentially pick a dogma. I think it's better that is the scientific method.
I've been using the new 8110 for nearly a year and it's exactly what I was looking for. Battery lasts for about a week, no ridiculous restrictions on texts or contact name length, and it can even create a wifi hotspot. It's the perfect balance of smart and dumb, IMO.
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By "evidence of common ancestors", I'm referring to (shared) morphology, not the fossil record.
"Science" has real problems. We can't even discuss controversial viewpoints, such as case-specific dangers with vaccines (yes, they are real, and the CDC covered up data) and climate skepticism (does lowering CO2 really do anything meaningful, vs. the fact that we're coming out of an ice age from 10K+ years ago).

But it's impossible to have an evidence-backed rational conversation about these topics with scientists, let alone the general public.
"Arrival"
Clearly, you haven't even bothered to read up about Kotlin.

(a == 1).ifTrue {
// ...
}.else {
// ...
}

is standard Kotlin with its DSL syntax.

`ifTrue` and `else` are extension methods added to the `Boolean` type.

You know that there have been new developments in PLT since Smalltalk, right?
There are things you have to do for work, such as showcases. You can make them fun, or you can not. Yes, it dos not compare to a comedy routine or watching Airplane. That isn't really the point.
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> Everything started with being handed a specification. From there, you had to write a solution in pseudo code, which was a separate language from the one we were learning (TrueBasic I believe). Once your pseudo code was handed in and approved, you could begin programming; however, you had to document up-front all the variables you were going to be using and document their purposes. In addition, you had to explain in plain english what each subroutine did and what variables it would access and state whether it would simply read or read and write them (and then explain why).

I think that's good to start with, for a start it's mostly just the CS equivalent of "showing your work". It's also important to they develop the ability to break a problem down and to beginners doing this at the same time they're fighting the compiler can be overwhelming. I agree exploration and creativity are important, but they could make room for that as well, more so when they're more comfortable with everything else.

As an approach it's quite similar to literate programming, which still has it's champions.

> Sadly, this was 1998, and I suspect software development hadn't operated like that for a good 15-20 years (or if this was a weird practice localized to Motorola in the 70s)

I think we're about the same age, but when I entered the industry (05-ish) UML (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language) and gantt charts wer in decline as agile became the hot new thing.
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