skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ipso factum all "natural" variables are related to bounded random walk which produces clusters (Markovian process), or otherwise have complex chaotic (e.g. fractal) mechanics, which also produces clusters.
This follows from physics.

Maximum entropy as well as zero entropy is a very rare state to observe.
Pages Like 'State of the Haskell Ecosystem' for Other Languages?
Flatpack, snap, aappimage, docker, static linking, etc. are solving other problem: how to bypass package manager and ship outdated and buggy libraries to user, because it will save some money for developer at expense of user.

Whole GNU foundation was created to bash with this "solution", then Linux kernel + GNU runtime was used to create Linux distributions, which are free from binary-only distribution problem, but developers are creative.

Why not just ship partially compiled binary or IR code, or obfuscated source with open-source adaptation layer? It will make adaptation problem much easier for end user at any distribution or/and architecture.
A lot of people want to trash Musk and Tesla, but I look at it this way:

- Sure the CEO might be too active on twitter and at times say or do things typically considered inappropriate CEO behavior.

- Musk often makes bold claims and sometimes misses his projected dates.

However:

- Musk also is often right.

- He delivered amazing things with the model s. The Audi e-tron looks quite nice and I think competition is nice, but it still doesn't match the 2012 model s specs.

- He wanted the model 3 entry price to be $35k. Lots of peopple doubted he could do it, and many projected it wouldn't be available until 2020 or later. It looks like the base model 3 I can order is about $39k and
with tax credit brings you downt to $35k and change.

- He promised autonomous driving 2 years from 2016, and honestly many people thought he was nuts. And his prediction was overly optimistic here, but there have been a steady stream of amazing incremental improvements to auto-pilot. On freeways, the tesla can now determine when to change lanes and does it. It can follow navigation within freeways, and it can warn you if a stoplight or stopsign is approaching. They demoed true autonomy, and I believe it's actually getting quite close. Given 1 or 2 more years of incremental improvements, your tesla would be capable of driving you most places I would think. He didn't make his 2 year prediction, but his team at tesla is still doing amazing innovation in this space.

- Part of what makes a great innovator is being able to fail sometimes. Musk will continue to make bold claims, sometimes he will fail to fulfill it, but many times he will deliver.

What he's doing is nothing short of amazing. He's doing things people keep saying can't be done.
Re-usable rockets that land? Electric cars? Cars that drive themselves? I'm willing to tolerate a little shenanigans in exchange for this kind of innovation.
Make Your Own GeoIP API
As someone who's worked remote with "timezone issues" before they're not for the company to solve.

If you live in Europe but work for a US company that requires you to work US times, it's simple, you work US times. This is how I've worked before and it's worked out perfectly. In fact, I'm a bit of a night owl so I much preferred it.
If you understand the trade-offs and want to get involved, by all means. I'd be careful about thinking you understand trade-offs though. I'm sure you're not an idiot, but I'm more sure that you can't possibly understand the inner workings of a mega corp with 10,000 employees whose full time job involves running the company. If you did, you could create a 1 man startup and put them out of business.

Re: world hunger - this is a localization problem. Anyone claiming corn from Kansas should feed starving Ethiopians needs to spend time in the food industry.

I can't speak to shareholder value - I'm not a big believer that should ever be the motivation. If you're a passive investor, be passive. I put my passive money into funds because I need to keep up with the market, end of story. I put my active money into small companies I can manage and run.
"fuck it, its the end end of world, I am going to <x>"

I think that underestimates the cognitive realization lot of people will confront.

You’re taking the belief system that people retain, and introducing space aliens, and then making the leap to an automatic assumption of “apocalypse, thus rapture, thus cut loose and play Russian roulette because we’re all gonna die, so who cares.”

But these videos certainly don’t portend apocalypse. If official channels announced a message confirming alien life forms, and space craft from other planets and star systems, that does not read as The End Of The World. Tomorrow’s headline saying “ALIENS” with a frame of this video as the leading image wouldn’t cause panic.

Would it cause a stir? Yeah, but it’s simply not threatening.

So the the world view wouldn’t shift the way you claim. It would more likely upset the idea of souls, afterlife, eternal consequences, good and evil, heavan and hell, resurrections, fate and lots more in the western religions, but those effect would probably be pretty temporary. Those sorts of realizations grip kids in high school and college all the time, and yeah, during those phases people often cut loose, but soon relocate the genuine practical consequences that form the rational basis of pious restraint. Things like catching unpleasant diseases, destroying trust and reputation among peers, and so on.

So, the idea that restricting factual information protects the sheltered pedestrian psyche, at least when it comes to space aliens, is the stuff of TV shows and low budget movies. It’s fine for a plot device, but space aliens threaten behavioral norms about as much as the idea of sentient, talking sea slugs. No matter how pained a cry the sea slugs let slip, if they taste good, people wouldn’t hesitate to batter dip and deep fry them, and only stop to mull the existential dread over indigestion.

Sometimes keeping the sheltered unaware of The Truth does protect their sanity, but not within the context of space aliens. Space aliens are existential weak sauce. If they weren’t, we wouldn’t gobble up most sci-fi as comedy. We’d find it irreverent and disrespectful, and almost nobody takes such a stance. Invariably, people pay extra money for an entire cable TV channel devoted to it.
Researchers develop off-the-shelf replacement for blood vessels
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- Willing to relocate: No permanently but open to regular travel
- Technologies: Product, Program, Project Management, resource planning planning, remote and local team building and management, roadmapping, heavy focus on UX.
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- Email: michael@michaelflux.com

Summary: Product person - these days primarily in PM positions, background consists of over a decade of hands on UX and front-end dev work. Prefer to work with smaller teams and by extension love the startup hustle. Tend to be very hands on and work very closely with all teams within the company.
Probably simplifies everything legally.
Remote, Oregon.
5 dollars a day for an 8 hour day, vs 2.34 a day for a 9 hour day - a better than 100% increase.

Consider that 5 dollars for an 8 hour day in 1914 dollars works out to almost 16 dollars an hour in 2019 dollars.
Yeah it's the user's perception that is the key.

I work with a product where the end user is ... shockingly luddite. I suppose everyone feels that way but these end users are very very easily intimidated even with little changes.

Accordingly it doesn't matter how much I think something is simple, it matters what they do and what they're intimidated by. I could make the best super cool web app ever, but if they don't use it / effectively it doesn't matter and becomes a headache for everyone.
Honestly, this is a good reason to consider a job change. You can learn new/other tech on your own, sure... but not nearly as efficiently as you can in-situ.

Besides, the tech itself is rarely the limiting factor.
You can also write your software in TeX, that will never change either.
How about an new kind of hardware-enhanced IDE that stooge slaps the programmer if he even thinks about doing something like making a test that depends on stacktrace line numbers (just saw this...uyyy)

What if I just <whack>...okay, maybe I'll try something else.
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Having the source code will not help you when the APIs change - see SDL1 to SDL2, Gtk1 to Gtk2 to Gkt3 -soon- to Gkt4, Qt1 to Qt2 to Qt3 to Qt4 to Qt5, etc and all the desktop environments and tons of applications wasting their time "upgrading" from lib version N to incompatible lib version N+1 because the lib's developers do not care about their users (both in the end user and library user sense) and broke backwards compatibility), just so that these applications will do the exact same thing, just now with a different API.

No, backwards compatibility isn't something you solve with open source, open source is perfectly capable of breaking it in all the fabulous ways possible as has been already demonstrated many times.

Backwards compatibility is something you solve by actually caring about it when you are designing your version N+1 library (and preferably, even when designing your version 1 library's API to allow for it).
Simplification and Automation in Java: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
That may have been true at one time, but not anymore. In the 2007-2012 range, mac laptops were the best. After that, hardware stagnated until around 2015 then took a nose dive with the next design.

Likewise, the days of the legendary OSX (sorry, MacOS) stability are long-gone. The team has been slowly gutted over the years to work on iOS since it makes them more money. The security issues from a couple years ago show a design team ignoring reasonably security standards and not implementing any kind of testing or QA.

I only have one mac system left and that's simply for testing Safari. Modern Linux is much more stable in my experience.
> I want all the WYSIWYG of Word or PowerPoint or Inkscape just right there feeling 100% natural and native.

There's a thing for everyone, but that dystopian stuff you are describing here I cannot fathom even in my worst nightmares. The text file is a very powerful abstraction for programming and I hope it will never day.
Correct URL: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HwzXRctobAt6fJLq8feh4iDMah...
Why Do You Need to Unit Test If You Have a QA Team?
Google Releases New Java Logging Framework
Goddamn the web is such a mess.
And that was for me the main reason i stopped using macOS, as every new version of the operating system made software i had paid money for stop working - to the point that nothing works now.
I'd say Safari, particularly the versions of it in iOS with the different WebViews, is the new IE.
I've been using Guix in production since 2014 at a research institute to support reproducible bioinformatics workflows. It has come a long way since then.

Guix takes reproducibility and "bootstrappability" very seriously. Its design as an extension to Guile Scheme enabled the development of software built around Guix, such as a workflow language, alternative user interfaces (e.g. an Emacs interface or a web interface), etc.

The `guix system` family of commands is awesome because it can build reproducible containers, disk images, virtual machines, or bare-metal systems all from the same specifications.

What's still missing, in my opinion, is a tool to manage systems that have been generated with Guix, e.g. to check on their state, build new configurations and swap them out for old ones, etc. Some work has been done towards this goal, but there's still some way to go there.

Other than that I'm very happy with it and use Guix systems and Guix as a package manager on all my machines.
You're really not playing the part of an investor on Kickstarter or IndieGogo.

An investor stands the chance to make a profit if a venture is successful.

That does not describe the model of this kickstarter or any other one I've seen.

If a kickstarter says "pledge at this tier and get x in return" that's a supplier-->consumer relationship.
You mean like Apple and the iPhone? Or the light-bulb before Edison made them commercially successful?

"Imitating" something in a way that is commercially successful to the point where the technology gains widespread adoption when before it had only niche adoption is innovation in itself.

Tesla is building the early smartphones. Someone else is going to build the iPhone and yet someone else will build the hordes of HTCs and the Samsungs running Android.
Your argument about exclusivity is broken when you realize they are literally allowing people to buy games via Humble Bundle.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/03/20/epic-is-bringing-its...

So while it's not 100% the same, it's progression far faster than Steam did when Valve pissed the gaming community off by forcing HL2 players to install Steam.
In addition to your point, I think another big factor is the rise of early access games. Before Kickstarter got big in 2012/2013, there wasn't an easy way to do crowd funding or early access (now supported on Steam, Xbox, Epics game store, etc). The only real option was rolling your own solution like games like Minecraft or Spy Party did.
I just wanted to add Thimbleweed Park to your list of KickStarter gaming success stories.
Studying law isn't practicing law.

Yes, all professionals should be reading and continuing their education. I read tons of technical publications. But I rarely commit code.

But working full-stress cases outside of your actual work? Sounds like a good way to burn out.
> How is forcing me to join a particular union pro-market?

A contract stipulating joining a union for a job is no more anti-market than a contract specifying work hours or clothing requirements or how much vacation you get. If that's how the business has decided to run, the free market perspective is that they should be allowed to. It's market forces that can compel a company to agree to such a setup, after all.

However, a regulation saying that this type of contractual obligations is illegal is very obviously an intrusion on the market. Not that I think all intrusions are bad, but I don't see a compelling reason to support this one, given that corporations already tend to have the advantage over workers and this reduces workers' collective leverage.

Agreed that it's hard to vote narrowly on this topic. But no different from any other political subject, really.
It's really not?
and by CoL you're gonna get screwed in one of these "good jobs" in superstar cities
AI generates ultra-realistic fashion models from head to toe
Ask HN: Simple Software Project Templates
I help organize a small, remote-first software engineering co-op in Canada and am looking for a simple Software Project Template to use internally. Goal is to help our co-op members document projects they have built/contributed to + outline projects they would like to tackle in the future (driving the BD team). Any recommendations for a standard template we can use here are welcome!
California may be arguing that, but that doesn't make them right. As far as I know, there's never been a court that ruled that FBA inventory counts as nexus, and there's strong arguments against that (not being able to know in advance where inventory is, not having control over it, commingling). California was just bullying smaller sellers who didn't want to get into a legal battle.
If anyone's interested in the financial side of things, as the companies involved are UK entities all their accounts are available for free through the excellent UK Gov site.

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08815227/filing-h...

and

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08703814/filing-h...

seem to be the relevant ones.
The Hyundai Kona Electric and Kia e-Niro are great EVs, and would be really strong competitors to the Model 3, but Hyundai/Kia can't hardly manufacture any of them because they can't secure a decent supply of battery packs. Whereas Tesla has the gigafactory.
A Conversation with Kernel Developers from Intel, Red Hat and SUSE
> They just clicked through the pop-up, presumably without reading it.

That's what you train users to do when you show them intrusive popups that aren't actually important.
Likewise. However, it’s worth remembering that the average user of a website that’s called “Hacker News” is almost certainly more tech-savvy than the average user of any app we create.

My solution is, just as the article suggests:

> Okay, so your service is immensely easier to navigate since you ran it past a battery of theoretical users. Now cut half of it out.

Perhaps that applies no matter how big the app gets, perhaps a simple UX that hides the power tools until they’re called for is the one true way. On the other hand, virtually every time I’ve faced a user saying “$App should perform $Task”, it already does. Sometimes the app doesn’t have a particular feature, but the virtual assistant of the OS does.

What’s the best way of helping those users discover those features?
Truly the next programming language would be spoken English. Something like "Jarvis, give me the optimal schedule for a speaking tour of 27 North American cities and I don't want to pass through the same airport twice. Also, outline each stop in invisible red lines and I need it sent to my iPhone in Outlook format by yesterday."

Anything less and you may as well be using JCL on punched cards. $END
Abtract:

Climate change represents an existential, global threat to humanity, yet its delocalized nature complicates climate action. Here, the authors propose retrofitting air conditioning units as integrated, scalable, and renewable-powered devices capable of decentralized CO2 conversion and energy democratization.
> Appealing to people's self-interest doesn't seem like a great argument.

I think it depends on the person, and how they themselves have been affected. Likely the author is trying to reach people who have personally felt the downsides of global interconnectedness.

I thought this was an interesting take, because by most metrics the Internet is unquestionably a success. Goods are cheaper, information is more widely available, long-distance communication is easier and can be more secure, commerce is easier, and so on. But ever since the mid-2000s I've begun to feel the tightening of the noose in terms of freedom. I used to think it was a brief phenomenon, pushback from a stodgy establishment that didn't understand the future. I'm beginning to think that it may be a feature of the technology, especially with the continued centralization of the Internet.
Investigating WebSocket/HAProxy Reconnecting and Timeouts
Only this time the project is infinitely and forever funded.
You are making a number of unrealistic assumptions: I'm paid hourly, that my boss has approved me to work overtime, and that I would actually be working instead of the time used to prepare a meal.

Working hourly is a reasonable thing, though in my case I'm not. The other two are completely unrealistic. Working my job for that extra hour or two just leads to burnout.

When I'm at home preparing a meal my family is there, sometimes helping (watching your 5 year old cut something for the first time with a knife is a scary moment you don't want to miss), sometimes singing in the next room. Either way I make far more than $100/h when I make a meal for my family even though the only money exchanged is what I pay for groceries.
I’d rather be able to run something that’s security flawed than not run it at all. Those security issues in libraries are probably not such a big deal anyway, because you can run Unreal Tournament 1 multiplayer now and not immediately get hacked, I’m sure. Maybe I just got very lucky.
The people paying ~20% interest are slaves. For some, they have no choice and I sympathize with those.

I pay off my bill every month. I pay no interest, no fees, and get free stuff for it. You should do the same.
I really enjoyed DNF. Probably not worth the wait, and deeply flawed, but it had its moments and was certainly Duke through-and-through.
Genuinely curious, I thought the purpose of LVT was to split the current valuation into land and improvements and move most of it to the land. It is not intended to increase taxes on land that is already being used effectively. I think the bigger issue with LVT is figuring out what the right values are for taxing land vs improvements. As a first pass, I would aim to keep taxes the same just split it more like 80 (land) and 20 (improvements). This at least forces undeveloped property to be turned into a money making project very quickly.
In what sense is there a game to play? All I ever see is people flying around looking at stuff when I see videos.
So an immediate increase in the efficiency and significantly improved longevity over time... doesn't this basically multiply the panels effectiveness as time goes on? That's incredible this gain could come from caffeine
Found via MIT Technology Review article:

https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613460/a-futuristic-plan-...
The rest of us don't want to pay a monthly subscription to every single website we use, so ads it is.
As far as the user is concerned it is "Linux", when people say they use "Linux" they do not just mean the kernel, they mean the entire OS.

On Windows these libraries have APIs that remain backwards compatible (new methods can be exposed, but existing stuff remains there). Unless the equivalent Linux libraries also decide to provide backwards compatibility, they'll just make Linux look broken (even if it isn't the kernel's fault).

(and no, this isn't something you solve by being pedantic about what is userspace and what is kernelspace and who controls what, as that information doesn't solve the actual problem - you solve it by cultivating a culture that actually cares about backwards compatibility)
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Not all jobs are listed yet - should be by EOD.
I disagree. Now it's opinion vs opinion. I could play a few missions, did a bit of bounty hunting, a bit of mining. I've played "finished" AAA games which had less.

There's much to do, but the game is in a far better state than a year ago. Everything else is subjective and it's hard to have a discussion if all you provide is two (and a half) words.
> What are the advantages of writing code in Fortran? Why not just allow the ports to C++ to happen?

A physicist or engineer, already being familiar with Matlab or Python, can pretty much pick up Fortran in about 2 days to 1 week, get to be productive, and the compiler will generally generate fast code. Try to teach C++ to a domain specialist, who doesn't have too much extra time to study programming language syntax and quirks, because their main motivation is working in their domain?

If the scientific code was in C++, some scientists would probably never become fluent enough, and the workflow would probably deviate towards a division where scientists prototype their ideas in Matlab or Python, and separate technical programmer personnel implement it in the production code. The turnaround time from ideas to seeing results would be days instead of hours.