skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first Real Programmers used decimal, and programmed on the plugboards and portable function tables of the ENIAC. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC .

The next Real Programmers programmed in octal, and sometime made mistakes balancing their checkbook by doing octal instead of decimal mathematics. See https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/hopper.htm .

You'll notice that Hopper and the ENIAC programmers are women. Programming at this time was seen as a woman's job.

Then it became seen as a career for men. The early women programmers were overlooked; the ENIAC programmers weren't named in the early photos, and believed to be models - 'Refrigerator Ladies'. See http://mentalfloss.com/article/53160/meet-refrigerator-ladie... .

As computers became more powerful, hex became the de facto. Much of the 'heroic literature of the olden days' comes from this era, so we view history through a decidedly - to quote the link text - "macho" lens.

While it's certainly an enjoyable story, if we repeat it without the context, we continue to obscure the work of the first Real Programmers, and we propagate the false implication that "Real Programming" is intertwined with concepts of masculinity.
Ah, it seems you're right. I've never considered buying 15-inch laptop and I think this is where I got this misconception from.
Wasm doesn't really have "arrays", so I don't think wasm checking them would really make sense. I guess you could argue that this is a distinction without a difference. You still won't get memory unsafety, which in my mind, is the higher order bit. YMMV of course.
Exotic particles containing five quarks discovered at the Large Hadron Collider
As a kid, when my parents would drive us on long journeys the front of the car would be caked with dead insects and that doesn't happen anymore on long drives. Something drastic is happening.
Buildkite looks interesting and their free plan [1] is pretty generous:

> Unlimited agents

> Unlimited builds

> Unlimited artifacts

The self-hosted workers reminds me of GitLab CI runners.

[1]: https://buildkite.com/pricing
My university basically did a viva to get around this. They know they can't prevent you from copying the code, but they _can_ make sure you understand it well enough to walk through it and be able to explain why you did things, and ultimately that's more important.

They also biased _heavily_ in favour of exams (practicals are essentially something you had to do, but are ungraded), where there is no (reasonable) opportunity for plagiarism.
Microsoft Got 99 Domains Used to Phish Someone – Decipher
Gatsby collects personal usage data by default
If you want case insensitivity at all, the filesystem is the wrong layer at which to implement it. If instead you implemented it at much higher level in userspace then it would avoid a lot of complexity in the kernel and also result in a more useful feature for users.

I primarily use a Mac, and I don't think I've ever taken advantage of the case insensitivity. The only time I open files is by choosing them graphically or by tab-completing their names in my terminal or my editor.

The fact that case insensitivity is implemented at the filesystem layer rather than higher up means that my shell is still case sensitive, so I can't type "m<tab>" to autocomplete "Makefile" -- I have to type "M<tab>" instead.

Things like Spotlight or my IDE, on the other hand, implement their own case-insensitive filename search that works fine regardless of whether the underlying filesystem is case-insensitive or not.
I came here also to say "why dear god whyyyy". Case insensitive compares differ by language. I don't want the filesystem to have to know this, and potentially see "file not found" if a user has a language different from me. (The kernel is multi-user anyway, so ... two processes on the same machine can rightfully disagree on what "lowercase" means.)
A four year degree is now seen as the educational floor by most employers. Heck, even police departments and many certifications are requiring you have a four year degree (any degree will do). I think this trend is wrong headed, but at the same time how do we change organizations to train on the job. It is just a simple, and lazy, filter.
You should check out what we're working on at qalocate.bamsaas.com/whitepapers/. Even an improvement on W3W is still going to be rather limited and only address part of the problem. We're trying to provide solutions for the entire space.
Fair enough. It's an engineering problem though right? I read 'inaccessible' as "it would cost too much to get to it" rather than "it's physically impossible to get to it."
> There's no fixed-width/non-allocating way to return a grapheme (unless one can return a slice into the original data, which cannot happen here)

I take it's not possible to return a pointer into the data because normalization is being performed?
The question on its own is useless given the audience - yes. However if you combine that question with the - e.g. - primary field a person works in it gets interesting.

Say a person said they're mostly writing finance software and Go isn't a language they'd prefer to use for their next project.
Those two data points on their own also don't tell much - but if multiple people answer with that combination the Go team knows that they aren't covering the needs of the finance sector appropriately.
With that knowledge they can e.g. request more information from those people and start working to fix those issues.
As far as I can see neither Federal fair housing rules nor any state fair housing rules would cover wealth. Federal covers race, color, religion, national origin, sex, family status, and disability. Many states add more categories to those protected classes.

13 states (California, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, and Wisconsin) and DC consider "source of income" a basis for a protected class, and so you probably couldn't target ads in those states based on that, but I don't see anything that would cover wealth level rather than wealth source.

(Neat site with a nice way to look up which state protects what [1])

Since you can have a wealth requirement for renting (e.g., you can require that the person be able to afford the rent), there wouldn't be much point in prohibiting targeting based on that.

[1] http://lawatlas.org/datasets/state-fair-housing-protections-...
you definitely bring up some novel points that aren't covered by existing BIM softwares, to my knowledge

What exactly are those, might I ask?
This is only the docs site. It's native as in usable and accessible without JS.
The point is to very roughly quantify that selection bias, no? Obviously, if Go neglects certain areas or doesn't fit well enough, people who consider those areas important don't use Go and are not represented in the survey.
Also, you are quite welcome!
My grandfather used cane toads for pregnancy tests in Australia. https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/dr-karl-need-t...
Astrophotography and visual astronomy don't necessarily go together.

A used DSLR with a short focal length lens can take nice wide angle short exposures with just a tripod. That'll run you about $150. You can build a barn door tracker from hardware store parts that'll allow you to lengthen your exposures.

You can get a nice telescope for visual use brand new for under $500. Lots of places sell Dobsonians that are pretty much ready to go out of the box. If you want to go for a more traditional mount + OTA (optical tube assembly), that gets more expensive. Used equipment is nice because amateurs tend to take care of their optics and after the initial depreciation, optics tend to hold their value. Check the Cloudy Nights classifieds section. (Actually, just check Cloudy Nights in general, lots of friendly, knowledgeable people there.)

I put together my visual setup (127mm SkyWatcher Mak-Cass, heavy duty photo tripod, and a Stellarvue M-2 mount) for around $700 excluding the cost of eyepieces. The sky is the limit on eyepieces, but most EPs between $40 and $100 work just fine. I shopped used and watched for sales. What many people don't realize (including myself when I was starting out) is that you want to invest as much, or more than the cost of the OTA into your mounting solution if you want to get any enjoyment out of the hobby. Even if you're just doing visual work. Skimp on your foundation, and the whole setup will wobble all over the place, making it hard to see anything, and that's not fun or relaxing.

It's putting visual and photography together that gets expensive. When you want to take long exposures at high magnification, you want a really solid equatorial mount with high-resolution encoders. Those start at $1000 on the low end. You'll probably want a better CCD to image with (a few hundred bucks). Then you can get into tracking scopes (even the expensive mounts accumulate error after a while). It's not really the main scope that's expensive, it's all the stuff you need to support it.

Anyway, actually looking at your question, as long as you stay away from the low end stuff, Celestron and SkyWatcher both make fine OTAs. My recommendation is do not get an all-in-one package, especially under $400 unless it's a Dobsonian. The mount will be garbage. You can take short exposures with a DSLR + just about any OTA and EQ mount that will support the weight. (You won't probably won't get a flat field though). I'm pretty sure people also image with Celestron C8s or C10s which are relatively inexpensive.

A lot of this is armchair observations, as I've managed to convince myself to stay solely on the visual side of amateur astronomy because it's easier and cheaper. There are enough amateurs with $20k rigs that you can enjoy their nice images of all the popular DSOs without putting in the blood, sweat, and tears.
> Has this been put into practice in any AI to date?

Meta-learning is an active subfield of research in machine learning. Gödel machines may overlap with program synthesis as well which is another subfield.

> Does TensorFlow count as a Gödel Machine?

No. TF is itself is static and not self-improving. Most standard machine learning models are also not typically self-improving, though you can implement meta-learning with TF.

A big challenge with meta-learning is scale. It's relatively easy to solve multi-armed bandit problems but complex tasks are still challenging.
> Not having USB3 is annoying

You could get an expresscard to USB3 card?
Because you don't read docs on a phone.
A factoid is something that looks like a fact but isn't, like a humanoid is something that looks like a human but isn't.
Chinese Developers Protest Overwork on GitHub
And the precursor to the African clawed frogs test was the Rabbit test[0] where a rabbit would be injected with human urine. Unfortunately for the rabbits, the test required killing them to examine their ovaries.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_test
> Why on earth would a company that actually makes a difference join a glorified media company that has DRM rules written by the exact companies that would benefit?

You've omitted that the latter organisation is also extremely influential. Which is presumably why Wikimedia deemed it worth joining.

> why is Wikimedia joining W3C a good thing?

Because Wikimedia's influence will probably be good for the open web.
The die-off started in the 70s when climate change was < 0.5C. OTOH, the story of globalization introducing pests/pathogens to naive populations is an extremely common one, and there's no reason to doubt it here.
Yeah: this aspect--where the circles were essentially backwards--made the feature essentially useless. I post stuff about Android, and I post stuff about iOS, and I post stuff about abstract programming languages. Great! So I make three circles, and then... wait, users don't add themselves to my circles, they just follow my entire account and then I have to add people to the right circles somehow? ?!?
I feel like chromatography for hCG would predate all these things.
If you haven't yet, you should read The Case Against Education. Though be forewarned: if you work in most of the education-industrial complex, the book may make you want to quit. https://jakeseliger.com/2018/03/12/the-case-against-educatio...
An Open Email about Diversity
Understanding the glibc Heap Implementation
Amtrak isn't profitable anywhere--it runs an operating profit in the northeast corridor, but that doesn't account for the fact that the federal government pays for capital expenditures. So even the NEC is subsidized--which is unjustifiable considering that NEC riders are primarily quite well off, often business travelers.

As to the rest of Amtrak--what is the purpose of connecting rural areas to transit just for the sake of it? Amtrak serves an infinitesimally small fraction of trips in these places, at subsidies an order of magnitude higher than for road travel. What is the logic of spending such disproportionate resources on that tiny handful of people?
"I was a mechanical engineer at an automobile company before moving to software. The two are actually quite similar"

Me too :-)

Yes, things happen when you get something in production but at some time you reach a fairly stable state and things are predictable and easy to measure and quantify. With medical procedures you often encounter surprises.

I agree there is something to learned but it would be terribly arrogant to say "We have figured it out for cars and therefore we have figured out medical care and software development"
I too was excited about the idea of circles for managing viability. It seemed really simple and intuitive for a problem most social media platforms botch.
yes. why is an individual's value tied to what he contributes in a close to post scarcity world?
The Dactyl is definitely neat. It's designed for a different use case tho; you wouldn't take a Dactyl with you when you're out and about, while the Atreus is specifically designed for travel.

I'm working on a similar programmatic definition of the Atreus here: https://icosahedron.website/@technomancy/101809590723531930

It's still a work-in-progress, but being able to tweak the input parameters and recompile to get the board regenerated is really handy! The circuit board already uses programmatic alignment for placing the switches and diodes: https://github.com/technomancy/atreus/blob/master/atreus.rkt
The NVIDIA problems hit laptops from many manufacturers. I remember buying an HP TX 1000 with a faulty NVIDIA chip to try and reseat the GPU via heat (it didn't work but it was a cheap experiment)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ1i78kmb0M
I use these two words the other way around.
Do you have any evidence for those statements?
I find it fascinating that it's called a "sport coat" because people used to wear it with a tie for sporting activities (definitely golf, maybe hunting, etc). These days it looks really formal, but back then it was (apparently) the equivalent of today's running shorts and yoga pants.
Lockheed’s D-21 Tagboard Supersonic Spy Drone
Isn't this somewhat like what the JVM does with runtime optimizations?
the article headline makes this sound worse than it apparently is. it does no favor to people that insist nuclear power is safer.
MineCraft eliminates the craze mentioned with the new update
> As any remaining illusion of a college meritocracy swirls down the drain, there remains one school where students are still admitted based on unadulterated academic aptitude: Caltech.

[Citation needed]
I have always felt that "markets are conversations" is why social media became what it is now. Markets are still conversations, we are having them out in the open. I also honestly believe that the ideas in cluetrain were taken to heart and perverted into the landscape we see now. I think that they are still relevant but need to be considered for a new generation of people.
Yes I actually did some more research and it seems that even in the case of Chernobyl this is not a concern in the long run. In that Plutonium is not a concern in general which has a half-life of up to 300,000 years. And most other elements decay after a few decades. So in the case of nuclear meltdowns the concerns are limited to the century in which they happen mostly.

https://www.greenfacts.org/en/chernobyl/l-3/3-chernobyl-envi...

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/r...

I still think the issue exists with other contaminants but with at least nuclear energy it seems the long term effects of its use in terms of disasters and even spent fuel are very limited.
Why would they do that? That would make them less convenient.
It's custom built upon the framework for a specific reason: to display components info, which is consumed by devs on laptop/desktop. Still accessible on phone, but that's not the target. Thanks
One of the strangest parts of this whole scandal was that these families felt they had to cheat to get their children in in the first place.

A high schooler that built a digital business, a brand with 1.4 million followers and corporate sponsors is impressive, and I’d think there are many schools who would be really interested in her for their marketing or business programs. That’d make a heck of a college essay. Does she really also need to pretend to be on the crew team?
Good article that raises some very good questions. I had a few specific takeaways out of it.

>“Everyone does as much as they can,” Ashwinikumar Kudari, a senior gastrointestinal surgeon, says toward the end of a busy day at the Bangalore hospital. He’s just removed two malignant tumors the size of golf balls from a middle-aged woman’s intestines—the seventh surgery he’s performed or supervised since morning. A compact man with a trim mustache and a wry smile, Kudari is soon on the move again, checking in briefly on a gallstone removal next door before dashing up a spiral staircase to another operating theater. There, he takes over from a colleague who’s struggling to locate a particularly tricky fistula. “Our margins are low on one surgery, but because we do so many in a day, we can make enough,” he remarks after the elusive fistula—the longest he’s ever seen—is found, running from the man’s anus to above his groin. By working at this pace, the average Narayana surgeon performs as many as six times more procedures annually than an American counterpart.

I'm wondering how overworked doctors are in these conditions, or how long a senior doctor lasts in a hospital like this. It might be a good place to gain experience, but how feasible it is to work there for 10 years?

>It’s all a far cry from the high-touch treatment Westerners expect, but Shetty is adamant that none of the practices compromise safety. Sterilizing and reusing clamps and tubing is permitted under the standards of the Joint Commission, a U.S.-based body that vets and accredits hospitals worldwide, including Narayana’s cardiac hub. Involving properly instructed family members in the simplest care tasks isn’t unheard of in Europe and North America, and some studies suggest it may improve patients’ prospects. (Unlike busy nurses, relatives have just one person to focus on.)

I growing up in the soviet block I remember family members taking care of relatives in the hospital, and I never really questioned this at that time. Now looking at the western medical system, it seems like nurses are doing work that there not supposed to be doing and there aren't enough of them all the time.

> Yet even for bypasses—Narayana’s bread-and-butter procedure, with greater economies of scale than any other—Shetty needs to cut costs further, because Modicare will reimburse only about $1,300 for each surgery. For other treatments, the difference between current price tags and Modicare payment schedules is much wider. “They are paying less than what it costs,” Shetty says.

It seems that politicians have established a system that covers everyone. Not always effective, that underpays a lot, but it's there, now as society gradually accepts that the system is their and it is fair, it may be possible to expand in in the next 5-10 years either with the amount of coverage it provides or with the amount of money it pays per procedure.
"Have you ever received a call from a robot?

10 times per day?

You will. And the company that will bring it to you is AT&T."

It's sad how well that fits into their line of old commercials from the 1990's. And yes, I was inspired by this post from yesterday [0].

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19504544
Who micturated upon your toasted maize flakes?
Like, this game will eat months of your time. You don't have to babysit it or anything, but it just keeps going forever.
Same in Finland and Sweden.

Aluminium cans are recycled too, and most glass bottles.

As a side note, where I live all waste is sorted (mixed, plastic, metal, cardboard, paper, clear glass, colored glass, biowaste, batteries, lamps...).

All this might seem like a a waste of money but it is actually beneficial: the municipality creates biogas from biowaste and runs the city buses with it. They produced so much gas that they sold it to neighbouring municipalities at least a few years back.
Yeah, even longer lived things that decay via alpha particles are dangerous when ingested... high energy atomic nuclei hitting DNA makes for bad juju.
I think you could swing some academic or national lab position if you put some time into it.

Is there anything even tangentially related to your dayjob that you could mine for ideas? Or maybe take some time to come up with some research direction?

A places like Oak Ridge could have something interesting available.
Fukushima wasn't a military breeder producing Pu-239.

Its release was mostly I and Cs isotopes with half-lifes in days. And Cs-137 with 30-ish year half-life which we have to thank for this discussion.
Never got to touch the Cray, but did some Fortran work on a Perkin-Elmer minicomputer the Aviation department had.

Looking back, in the space of 3 years I got to work on quite a few completely different OSes (VSPC, VM/CMS, MS-DOS, VMS, Unix, whatever the Perkin-Elmer was) and languages (Pascal, 370 assembler, PL/I, Fortran, Lisp, Ada, C)

I wonder if kids nowadays get that kind of broad experience.
So would you care to extend your argument against unions to why US rail freight is so unsuccessful?
OP said> "...It's thought by some that ..."

openasocket says>"How on Earth does someone discover that? What possible series of events or hypotheses would lead someone to perform such an experiment?

Whoa! No one said that anyone "discovered that", or that "such an experiment" was performed. The article merely said that someone speculated that possibility. To further speculate on hearsay of mere speculation is not wise.
True. Mostly has to do with focal ratio. Big f-ratio scopes are better for planetary observations, where small f-ratio scopes are better for wide-angle views. Generally, Cassegrains fall into the first camp and Newtonians into the second. Refractors are somewhere in the middle.

Regardless, more aperture is always better. :)
You're in the minority, or are a very young Gen Xer.
Education has value. Degrees are merely a conveyance of an education. The educational institution is an indicator of the educational rigor. None of these are perfect indicators.

If you're interviewing candidates and you have a candidate graduating from Stanford, one from MIT and one from Middle-of-Nowhere State - which candidates are you going to prefer? We can argue whether such preferential judgement is justified. Living near the East Coast I can tell you I've met my share of MIT grads who are idiots and Middle-of-Nowhere State grads who've been really good. Yet the perception persists. Why? Because of the handful of truly outstanding, even legendary, graduates the elite schools have had that Middle-of-Nowhere State hasn't. Those handful of exceptional graduates skew people's perception of reality for a really long time.

Who knows? Maybe this scandal will change people's perception of these elite schools but I doubt it.
Only tailoring, according to Webster's dictionary. Perhaps you're thinking of "satirical" ?