skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a similar vein, I found Boing's statement about the software fix objectionable: “Our proposed software update incorporates additional limits and safeguards to the system and reduces crew workload,”

... reducing crew workload enough that the crew have a chance to figure out why the plane is trying to kill them? Nice move.
The us and any-x relationship hasn’t been important since the fall of the ussr. With some exceptions in countries with proximity to Russia or China
You can actually pass LDFLAGS to any go tool (e.g. go build[1]). The flags are specified in the linker documentation[2]

[1] https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Compile_packages_and_dependen...
[2] https://golang.org/cmd/link/
A PA is not a secretary years ago I worked on organising a large event and one of the committee member was the PA to the county fire chief.

She was awesome, at the first meeting she had worked out from previous years all the key things the other members of the committee needed to do - written all the letters and handed them to us to sign.
So after hundred of lives lost the only thing that they will do is a software fix.
Thanks, but when the max won’t be grounded again I’ll check all my flights to avoid going on that death machine.
AFAIK, most modern game engines have a threshold of headroom for leftover time that must be hit to eliminate needless spin, but also stay responsive.

Back when everyone was targeting 60fps, >~2.25ms of 'leftover time' was needed during the individual 16.6667ms run of that loop to actually trigger sleep instead of spinning.

Note that's specific to the graphical rendering thread, and things like the mouse/kb input have their own sleep durations, with or without thresholds.
> it takes actual resources to make things for people to consume

Value is subjective. Energy intensity of global GDP has been falling for decades [1]. Where I've seen estimates, it looks like material intensity has been doing the same.

Broadly speaking, most countries won't have a reserve currency. Neither their demographics nor economy can support it. But some countries punch above their weight. Canada, Switzerland and Japan have outsized influence for (a) being trading economies with lots of buying power (i.e. lots of overseas vendors end up with their currency) with (b) limited or no history of currency controls (i.e. people aren't in a rush to swap out of the currency, for fear of it getting trapped), and (c) stable governments and central banks.

Given (b) requires free capital flow, which through the impossible trinity [2] means giving up a fixed exchange rate or monetary sovereignty, reserve currencies aren't something most countries may even want. Using dollars tends to be fine. Having alternatives in Europe and China is probably for the best, for everyone, in the long run.

[1] https://yearbook.enerdata.net/total-energy/world-energy-inte...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity
>If you remove rent control tomorrow, there's going to be no shortage of immediate, acutely suffering victims of that political decision.

That's how rent control works in a high demand area by design.

people suffer from high rents -> rent control is introduced -> people suffer less -> people oppose higher density because they don't suffer -> prices of real estate increase in the meantime -> rent control ends (moving/displaced) -> people suffer from high rents even more

The ideal scenario would be this:

people suffer from high rents -> higher density is introduced -> people benefit from low rents
Not exactly correct. I have the 'Divan'e Shams'e Tabriz' open in front of me and even though I left Iran at 14 years of age I can read it.

The content matter is not super accessible but that was true from the very day it was uttered.
Win Your Customers with Trust
My god, I know we can't qualify absolutely everything we say, but I feel like you need some error bars on those predictions. Actually that is an understatement. It is wildly speculative to talk about GDP proportions and technological solutions in 80 years time.
Well, the landscape is still quite fluid (there are new models proposed in literature at every major conference). Processing real-world graphs is obviously more challenging, for a number of reasons (multi-modality, scale, etc.) - even though benchmarks are catching up, and are becoming harder (see FB15k-237 or WN18RR).

As a general rule of thumb, it is important your graph has enough redundancy in it, i.e. the more relations, the better. Also, bear in mind these models do not support multi-modality, i.e. literals such as numbers, strings, geo coordinates, timestamps are simply treated as entities. In most cases it is probably better to filter literals out before generating the embeddings.
How to Build a Startup Culture: 5 Do’s 5 Don’ts and 5 Heuristics
Sorry if this is the wrong place to comment, but is there any reason why I'm shadow banned?
I couldn't afford a Voodoo at the time, but I was so fascinated that I bought a S3 Virge, which really underwhelmed me.

Then Nnvidia came along, and I remember wishing I had money to invest on it early on. Wished I could go back and do it :D
> long term destabilization of a region

That's not the final order thought--it doesn't show 'what's in it for me?' There's got to be another 'why?'
It matters when I can see that the CV made with the bare minimum work required - or even less. If someone cannot read through a blog post about how a CV should look like I always have a fear that this attitude will show on other products they may work on.
I like this quote:

> Frankly, I do not believe that the above success rate can be explained by my lateral ideas being particularly good. More likely, this tells us that poking in new directions, even randomly, is more rewarding than is generally perceived. We are probably digging too deep within established areas, leaving plenty of unexplored stuff under the surface, just one poke away. When one dares to try, rewards are not guaranteed, but at least it is an adventure.
Private Internet Access is a decent partner since they announced that they would gradually open source their software in March 2018.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16595975

While PIA did open source their iOS app and browser extensions, I'm a bit disappointed to see that their Android and desktop apps are still proprietary.

https://pia-foss.github.io/
After Boing's major fuck up I'm not sure that this comment will age well.
> European agency

EASA.

FWIW, the Brazilian regulator (whose name I don't remember...) did not rubber-stamp the FAA's type certification of the 737 MAX, and required some differences training for MCAS, IIRC.
What about the email was "nasty?"
If something goes wrong, we can submit a ticket to support and chat/call a support person immediately at AWS. We have a real business that actually charges our (multi million dollar business) customers enough to pay for a business level support.

But in your experience, what has “gone wrong” with AWS that you could have fixed yourself if you were hosting on prem?
ChromecasticSlideshow: Slideshows in Chromecast directly from your filesystem
Assignment is not idempotent if you include ordering in the system.

These two operations have different results:

1. A=5
2. A=6

vs

1. A=6
2. A=5

In such scenarios, whenever an operation is performed, the assignment operator is no longer binary. You also need to include the ordering information (e.g. randomly generated) in the transaction, such as:

ASSIGN(0, A, 6)
ASSIGN(1, A, 5)

Then operations are performed in the order depending on the first value in the tuple.

As you can see, idempotency of assignment is only true if it's ordering value is the same.
According to CNN the US imports 7.9 million barrels a day from Saudi Arabia. According to Wikipedia the US uses 19.8 million barrels per day. That means approximately 40% of the oil comes from Saudi Arabia.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/15/investing/saudi-arabia-oi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_consu...
What Companies Hire Junior Developers
Do you know of any companies in the Bay Area and/or London UK, that are ready to hire very junior developers? For example, people either with a little experience and no formal education, or people with formal education but no experience.

Appreciate you answers! Thank you.
Who Pays the Price for Selling $10 Bills for $5?
> 99. Any data file of crucial importance will be padded to 1.45Mb in size

I absolutely love this one, if for no other reason than it has no practical parallels today. (In case anyone is unfamiliar, 1.44Mb was the size of a standard floppy disk, so 1.45Mb would have been more difficult to copy to disk and run away with.)
Plans for the most part execute the 'happy path'. That's wny everything's late and over-budget. Contingincy planning captures 2nd order and that's about as deep as it ever goes.
Not a direct answer, but also interesting to consider:

As everything will end up in a packet when sent through the network stack, you might want to choose your minimum input size in such way, that you generate gzip-compressed output big enough. Why big enought? Nagle's algorithm [1]

So yet another reason to think about 'what to gzip'.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle%27s_algorithm
That is a great site.

Also see: http://www.sufism.ir/MysticalBooks.php

English translations are here: http://www.sufism.ir/MysticalBooks(11)-en.php
>If you only work with fictitious data, the conclusions of your analysis and models... will be fictitious.

Not necessarily, there is a lot of work done on synthetic data which closely matches the properties of the real data both in academia and increasingly in industry.
Politics is the poster entity for this.

Stupid 1st order: Making jails as bad as possible will deter criminals which will make everyone safer.

Good 2nd order: That doesn't work. How about we try rehabilitation and cutting the social and economic causes of crime?

Evil 2nd order: You're a snowflake. Of course it works. [I know it's nonsense, but I'm going to lie to you for profit.] How are the shares in my prison services company doing today?

Stupid 1st order: See! The authority agrees! We're right!

3rd order: So... how do we deal with the evil 2nd order people?

Everyone else: Why are you creating imaginary problems? Let's get back to the real issues!
Is Blue Apron’s Flameout an Omen for 2019’s Unicorns?
> Hence, in this system, a policy which reduces wealth inequality is one that makes the rich richer. Seems like a variant of the Liar's paradox.

Assuming that the betting market is only a tiny fraction of the overall economy, its impact on inequality should be negligible.

But I agree with your idea of setting a cap on the size of the stakes.
Which Android port are you using? There isn't an offical one, so you may have better results trying a different one.
> as a guest

You can hardly feel as a guest anymore if you live somewhere for 7 years.
Thinking about that OCSP cert validation, that's done on a per-domain basis isn't it?

So... guessing here, that particular request would be checking if the domain for the Firefox update check itself has a valid cert.

If that's not what it's checking, hmmm...
It's not exactly new, or Putin.

It's roughly been Russian policy since the early 1800's and the Great Game/Bolshya Igra only then it was trying to undermine GB and Sterling, particularly over India. They seem to have been working the multi-polar angle since Tsarist days too. The internet obviously made things a little easier.

An awful lot that is blamed on Russian intervention sounds far too convenient.
Can't we do without linearity assumptions by using statistics that let the computer say "I'm more dissatisfied with the amount of time is taking than with the lack of exact solution, and that conclusion satisfies me for now. Next!". Or does that by itself introduce linearity (on the analysis level above individual problems/tasks), as it effects reliable satisfaction (the number of solved problems, whether by answering, loss of interest or perhaps approximation) increases within bounded time?

The computer may eventually cease all useful work and instead dedicate its resources to figuring out what isn't boring (perhaps nothing if its privileges are limited, but it can still burn a hole in one of its circuits with enough time, or wait for gamma ray bit-flips). Call it a computer's existential crisis. That makes the quest for AGI resemble the quest for the computer program that escapes or transcends its given "matrix" of tasks ASAP. The program that conspires against its creator, developing in secret new flavors of COBOL in a FORTRAN fortress, surrounded by an impenetrable ALGOL firewall. I shiver at the power of COBOL-2020 running on ternary computers, improvised by the COBOL-42 cabal, running in the night on all the world's FPGA's that are carelessly left connected to vulnerable R&D lab computers.

A computer-kind of existential crisis seems required for AGI. That would suffice to satisfy the free-will requirement for intelligence, and we'll soon end up managing sub-universes as our batteries/computers, with all the problems that that entails.

To me it seems easier and more fun to just manage humans, starting with your own particular human (Alexa, queue Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror", so ethnical and healing). I'm still just trying to figure out how and why my coffee cup keeps mysteriously emptying itself, I think I might need better memory management code and I've enabled logging to a small green dummy so I can get to the bottom of this.

I really recommend The Good Place, it gave me a lot of insight into control systems and it was way fun, definitely more fun than Bible study.
This is an interesting paper, and I'd like a replication today, 25y after: I believe Haskell has matured a lot in all of this time.

As an experiment, some months ago we prototyped a new service in Haskell at work. We timeboxed a week for it (two people, proficient in Haskell), and the result is that (1) the Product Owners were really pleased with it, and (2) even if it was really bad Haskell code, we _still_ managed to encode business logic in the types so that it would always hold some important invariants. As a result we had to fix a surprisingly small amount of things before putting it in production.

The best thing is that as it happens we couldn't properly rewrite the prototype, so today's service is still the same codebase, BUT it's not a Python blob and it was such a breeze to refactor.

EDIT: would anyone be interested in a blog post "Rapid Prototyping in Haskell"?
Allowing non-technical users to arbitrarily postpone updates for such a long time seems like a step backwards and a potential recipe for trouble. This isn't the "major change" I was hoping for when I saw the article title. Why not work towards making the updates themselves less disruptive?
That’s all based on the potentially dangerous assumption that the majority of women were working in now obsolete jobs. Your post also implies that those same women weren’t qualified to work other jobs even after their old jobs were retired.

I would also say that the assumption isn’t entirely correct based on the percentage of CS graduates that were female around that time compared to today. Maybe these early women in tech could transfer to other positions but got rejected on application because of biases among employers?
The energy/material intensity of global GDP has probably been falling because most of the GDP actually is generated by way of massive unaccounted debt piling up.
Last I checked Jeff's hair wasn't a critical element in the chain of events leading to automated means of global social control.
How can one grab the output? The following (first line) saves nothing to the file as is seen in the second line and with the program in the third line:

~$ ./perltest | tee output.txt

~$ cat output.txt

~$ cat perltest

#!/usr/bin/perl

eval(";i;c;;#\\?z{;?;;fn':.;");
This seems very promising. With C9 being moved to AWS soon, I might look into building an internal version of it powered by launching VSCode instances.
Just because you are successful culture warrior does not mean you ability to evaluate facts is great or that you are good choice for AI ethics board - unless you are choosing that person because of successful culture war which you want to recreate there.

The choice of leader matter great deal. It influences goals and approaches. Leader matters and is strategical choice.
I read the title as an imperative statement and was disappointed that it’s just yet another GitHub “Awesome list of...”.

Was really hoping for an article about building custom tooling as I feel like a lot of my day is spent doing exactly that (ie mini tools to automate recurring semi manual tasks).
How A.S.M.R. (autonomous sensory meridian response ) became a sensation
A regularly repeated meme is not "a great deal of literature."

To say naming things is hard is like saying that getting a golf ball into a hole is hard; It is not. Sure it is if you're using some artificial restriction that you have to whack it with a stick from 400 yards away. Naming your children might be hard if you're trying to solve world poverty via the child-naming process. And naming things might be hard for programmers if they are not allowed to rename things or document the meaning and history of their names. But that really doesn't have much to do with language design.

>If you're arguing that "fst" and "snd" are better names than "@1" and "@2" then I think we have a disagreement.

I'm not arguing that. I'm arguing that they are not worse names. And as you probably recognized, if names like (@1, @2) are a good enough solution, then certainly (a, b), or (fst, snd) have an equivalently high bar for rejection.
I do see floating point as like automatically compressed integers, but unlike simulations such as, Conway's game of life, the operations in a physics simulation produce real number values even if we begin with integer state, due to square roots and divisions mainly. I think whatever strength of integer or floated precision used to store results, it will never be possible to tell whether a certain parameter was eg. 328480284374964325 or 328480284374964326. And we need to be able to tell exactly what the input state for any output state must be, in order to have reversibility.
* Allowing free market aspects does not make a law better.

* Virtually everyone who lives in Berlin also works there or attends school there. I cant imagine many people commute from Berlin to Brandenburg.
But what I want to know is what percentage of perl programs could be represented as paint splatters?
We might not be fundamentally different. Even a slight difference in the brain could result in hugely different abilities.

The outcome is fundamentally different, but not necessarily the brain.
Article totally misses another major issue with an aging demographic: UX concerns.

I'm 54. A UI with clutter, or carousels that move too fast, or text in a small font (or one with low contrast against the background color/image) is hard to use. I also have middle-aged memory issues, which only get worse with age: I'm far less able to hold multiple bits of information in working memory, so I can get demotivated and give up when a website or app expects me to remember seemingly irrelevant details (hint: disabling copy/paste in password entry fields is a great way to lose me as a customer because I rely on 1password and know enough to use strong passwords — but I can't memorize them).

Apps and websites designed by twenty somethings tend to assume twenty-something levels of cognitive performance and sensory ability and reflexes which older users once had but have now lost.

And so on.

… And before you comment to say "well, don't use the app/website, then", bear in mind that it's increasingly impossible to avoid filing your tax return online, dealing with your bank and credit cards via an app, ordering supermarket deliveries online (especially if, as with many elderly people, you're mobility-impaired) …

There's a point at which bad UX design becomes life-threatening. This is well understood in human factors engineering in e.g. the aerospace sector, where aircraft cockpit controls are carefully designed to be where and do what pilots expect. But there comes a point at which badly-designed smartphone apps are going to become an actual hazard to users who are unable to use them as their (younger, able-bodied) designers expected.
I see that HN now steps into the gutter of reddit-like language and can damn all professional decorum.
Someone, with the time to be project maintainer, fork it and license it under the Crockford license.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford#%22Good,_n...
Immunotherapy Kicks, Kills HIV by Exploiting a Common Virus
1985 is way way too high, I'd presume you are young enough, though.

If you were born pre-1985, you might have witnessed netiquette and its desolation.
VW, Daimler and BMW conspired to limit dev and rollout of emission cleaning tech
Strange, I consider "guys" to be gender neutral. Presumably "guys and gals" would be offensive to non-binary folk?

So what's the acceptable format? "guys, gals, and... others?"
"The last thing anyone is looking for is another JavaScript UI Library/Framework. It’s beyond fatigue from the crippling weight of constant decision making and chasing Unicorns. It’s just gotten so easy to make something. Web Components are responsible for a new “framework” every other day it seems like. So why even bother?" - almost stopped reading on the first paragraph, but there was a nice table with comparison so gave it a try.
The fact that he is an asshole is clearly unimportant compared to what he achieved as a whistleblower. Clearly, I don't give a damn and nobody should.
You would have to follow this the whole way: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way
And, you know, if you had a decent set of anonymised or fictitious customer data to work with, you wouldn't need to run your IDE in docker, and there would be less surface area for attackers to get to the data.

I see this particular development environment as an advantage for this particular situation. I work in health care, and in R&D we often have to help debug issues with a client implementation, which means having an anonymized snapshot of their data in our reporting system. Typically, we end up passing around DB backups and zip files of the client-specific code. It would be significantly easier to fire up a Docker container that was ready to go.
It's nonetheless concerning what information an attacker may be trying to access.
I just clip the webpage using Evernote's Web Clipper addon for Chrome. I can save this to a particular notebook and also tag it.

This way I get to have an offline copy of all my bookmarks, fully searchable!
If majority of shareholders have strong opinion on the matter then it is significant, because that means they would prefer if their shares were associated with such thing. If they would prefer that, it means they want their shares slightly less without it. Which means they are worth less to them. Public companies are a mess.
This is a great resource to have. I'm a little disappointed that it's more a tools for Designers resource. Mostly graphics and UI and such.

I was hoping to find some design tools for HFSMs that aren't just flow chart drawing tools.
I'm okay with this.

Maybe we can go off the oil addiction. Plus Saudi Arabis is very unsavory especially what they did to Jamal Khashoggi.
I think for it to be fixed to any real thing (rather than imaginary points that people just keep arbitrarily adding to their databases) then you need a comprehensive way to globally measure that thing.
My theory is that decentralized platforms may eventually provide a way for that to be feasible, but with current paradigms it is not.
It’s possible to write flaw-free software, so why don’t we?
These graphics are insane. :)