skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>My opinion about supporting Make Media changed after the RealSexyCyborg incident in the winter of 2017:

Thanks, the damage was and is pretty bad- and long-lasting. But, "be like water" and all that. I'm slowly pivoting to hardware development. Studying welding and CNC operations now also.

But- as far as business dealings with Make my one direct experience, in an area I'm qualified to talk about is that their China strategy was simply awful. Just textbook how to fail in China. They chose a Chinese partner that did not understand Maker culture, was incentivized to not support it (even curtail it), and let them run the Make brand into the ground during a time when billions of RMB was going into Maker initiatives:

https://theasiadialogue.com/2016/05/26/makerspaces-for-the-p...

Not just government grants, but parents willing to pay generously for after-school hands-on activities that cultivate creativity. Lego absolutely nailed it, they were and are the model for Make to follow:
https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2188280/bric...

I told Make all this last year. Even with all the shit they pulled- I want Chinese kids to have something better than factory jobs making shanzhai shit. I will talk to Make or anyone else if it means more creativity here. I am a true believer- I would make a lot more doing literally anything else if I wasn't.
I offered to get Make legal representation, connect them with the investors that were asking for an introduction- just at least hear them out. Nope. Patronizing and dismissive. They were convinced their current Chinese partner had "lots of guanxi" and had it all figured out. It was a huge, huge missed opportunity for absolutely no reason at the absolute height of demand. Now, of course, the Maker market has cooled off: http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1003171/made-in-china-the-boom... and things would be much harder.

Make seems to make very bad business decisions, driven by enforcing an in-house ideology and social hierarchy that really has no relation to the Hacker ethic at the heart of the Maker movement.
Lol, compare modern music with trash we had in 80s, 90s. Even nowadays' pop trash sounds significantly better than old hits made on synthesizers. Everything evolves, as I said. Maybe you just forgot low-quality movies of previous years, but they did exist, tones of them.

We only want to remember good things.
The Apple Pro Display XDR Is Underrated. [video]
I do not know of the web page to which you are referring, but perhaps its purpose was not to demonstrate just how complex a system can become, but rather how little is required to create an unpredictable system? People often refer to Stephen Wolfram's rule 30 as a demonstration of chaotic behavior for this very reason: It is interesting because of the simplicity of the rules, but it is certainly more predictable than, say, an infinite array of random binary values.
These constants should appear in most arbitrary-base-integer-to-string functions. I wouldn't say that this proves anything.
Not mentioned in the article - but I’ve read in the book and heard directly that the Aushwitz prisoner number tattoo was directly matched to a punchcard.

My mother helped interview Jewish survivors so that their stories were recorded and archived.
Renewables are great, but not deployed nearly quick enough:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

Not an expert, but right now I only believe in solar geo-engineering. And, of course, never buying a waterfront property, since at this point we'll almost certainly go above 2*C.

PS. It's fascinating to see Miami real estate prices completely ignoring the incoming doom:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MIXRNSA
Because investors are paid for taking risk, that decision has to happen at the point of investment. Or, the entrepreneurs would have to be willing to massively sacrifice their upside for their vision.

The exit clause is "don't take VC money if you want to run an ongoing business". Otherwise, the buoyancy of a somewhat profitable business is sunk by the history of leverage, debt, and expectation.
I think I did (or maybe just parts of it), but I don't really remember because it came out back in 2001. I do recall reading a lot of discussion about the whole situation back then, and that IBM's response to it seemed rather weak. I haven't really kept up with the matter since then, though.
Do people regularly argue: ‘science tells us that there are machines that can make cats alive and dead at the same time.’ It's not an argument I've ever heard.
Working on AI, search, IT security, etc. is currently lucrative, but a lot of people do it because they are interested in it.

That's pretty far from the heroics of going over or under an actively melting open reactor core, but also far from doing it for the money.
To be honest I think most of the really awesome makers don't usually show up at Maker Faire. 95% of the exhibits are of the "Look ma I put a servo inside a puppet" variety. Very few of, say, the Hackaday-front-page caliber. There are some, but not enough to make it feel mindblowingly awesome.
Having read the original book, it made a reasonable (perhaps even convincing) case that IBM knew, or should have known what their tabulators would be used for - it also made a reasonably convincing case that IBM America had little control over its German subsidiary after 1936-7. The only thing IBM could have done was to declined to sell to the German government, which would have resulted in a prompt nationalization.
> I would've thought that some level of liquid savings would (on average) come before locking up money in a 401k

This is correct. But most personal finance wisdom advises keeping no more than 6 months - 1 year of expenses in liquid savings. After that, funding your 401k to get the maximum company match, then your IRA and Roth IRA, and maxing out 401k, is preferred. If there's still money left over after that, it goes into post-tax investments.
Selling books for half does not sound lik "decent" markup lol.
There's been a lot of C-Suite cat fighting at B&N - mostly between minority owner Leonard Riggio and various revolving CEOs he's brought in and then fired. See e.g.

http://fortune.com/2018/08/29/former-ceo-parneros-sues-barne...

Honestly I'm amazed Riggio got as much as he did for the sale. I suppose there's a fair amount of value in the property portfolio, but the book business as a whole is in a very rocky place.
>MAKE: magazine had 125,000 paid subscribers and the company had racked up over one million YouTube subscribers."

Yeah but they are averaging 10k views a video- which is what you would expect from a channel of about 100k subscribers, and they've never really had the views that are typical of 1m subs, so probably something is up there.
Retrained from scratch? Why couldn't you just fine-tune the base model with Trumps tweets?
I suspect the grandparent was hinting that if we went ahead and generated 10x more electrical energy than now, we'd use it to just stop using fossil fuels entirely, rather than keep using fossil fuels and then pulling that CO2 back out of the atmosphere.
My understanding is that Python break backwards compatibility (or forward compatibility) comparatively more often than bash. The problem with OS interpreters is entirely linked to stability and portability indeed regarding bash, many suggest to avoid bashism as much as possible and be posix compliant.
I signed up for a market research company's mailing list, and I get about 2 offers a week, $100 AUD cash usually. I've said no so far because I'm fussy, but if I needed the cash these would be excellent. They are often out of work hours too.

Other than that, sell your stuff on Gumtree/eBay/Craigslist. Do some good sales pitch to maximize what you get.

Can you do handy work? Always demand for that. Depends on licenses, insurance etc. I guess though.

Can you take a lodger?
I imagine if you did you would be swiftly (hah) kicked out of the App Store
Not sure why it's getting downvoted.

The Olkiluoto 3 plant in Finland was planned to open in 2011. It's still not running, massive cost overrun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant

Flamanville in France was planned to open in 2012. Still not running, massive cost overrun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...

Hinkley C in UK only could start construction because it got promised massive overpriced payment for electricity by the government. Speculation is this largely happens to cross-subsidize UKs nuclear weapons program.

This is all in countries that are politically relatively pro nuclear, this isn't because environmentalists are blocking the efforts.
I've never been to any of the events in US, but I really liked going to Mini Makerfaires in Europe. I understand these were all licensed under the Makerfaire brand. I hope they will continue in the future, even if under a different name.
Python3 will still be available
Google is a more of C++/LLVM, Java/Kotlin, Python shop, than Go one.

You will even notice that it is seldom supported when they announce new server products SDKs.
It’s Friday afternoon, you are exhausted after a busy week, the business is pushing for a fix before you leave and you have committed to be home by 6pm so your spouse can go out.
Sorry if I misunderstand your point, but the point about chaotic systems are AFAIK this:

1 there are always measurement errors(nothing is perfect)

2 a chaotic system is predictable but the problem is that is super sensitive to the initial state so the error of the final state will be exponential larger but probably not infinite.
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To be clear: China bans foreign companies all the time, but doesn’t like it when other countries do the same?

Seriously, as long as they ban, block, filter, and require Chinese ownership of foreign companies I don’t see why they should expect or receive different from other countries.
When i saw the picture i compared that with Piaggio P180 Avanti and the Honda Jet 420, with the P180 because the fuselage looks similar in size, the Honda Jet because it claims to be efficient for a very light jet. By rule of thumb only, and they can utilize 3000ft/1kM easily. Anyways, all guesswork until further data comes in :)

Edit: Oh, i forgot: PRICE?
Having played this game, is everything an update should be except the art it's super generic. After a while I just can't really get into the ships because they lack that used and abused Star wars feeling that ev Nova ships had.
Were you ever able to take over planets
It interesting that Hawaii's land ownership rules were intended to protect small owners but have in effect made it so that only the rich can afford to wade through all the bullshit to actually acquire new property.
>The real assholes are IMO the Vice people, and Patreon:

There's a whole untold story- but Make contacted Vice, which was what caused all the subsequent events.
The use of “ancestral land” gives the misleading impression that the claimants are Hawaiian natives, but in fact they are descendents of a Portuguese immigrant who bought the land in the 1880s. The analogy to colonialism — the taking of indigenous property by invaders - is farcical if not outright appropriation.
Does it do away with the flaws of explorer or is it just a new UI?

For example: if I delete a huge local folder it cannot take longer than rd /q /s. Currently explorer will just grind to a halt if you remove more than 100k files - and you don’t even need node to end up in that situation.
That is not what their employees talk about at CppCon, LLVM conferences, ISO C++ meetings, Java Language Summit (yes they come around in spite of Android).

Go is mostly a Docker/Kubernetes thing.
I don't know why you're being downvoted, because you are correct. It's an explicit goal of RISC-V to support complex operations by using a mixture of macro-op fusion and extensions, rather than trying to encode everything in the base architecture.

Source for macro-op fusion claim: Celio, Christopher, et al. "The Renewed Case for the Reduced Instruction Set Computer: Avoiding ISA Bloat with Macro-Op Fusion for RISC-V." arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.02318 (2016).

Source for extension claim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V#ISA_base_and_extensions (Note "B" extension for bit ops)
This is norm in europe with most online stores (especially smaller ones) that have physical store.

It makes sese to me since i dont have to pay for shipping.
This is untrue. It's relatively easy to fine-tune a GPT model to a new domain.
These are some of the best counterarguments I've heard yet. Would you be interested in discussing this at more length over email or DM? I'm sorry I have done and said things you think are wrong. I am genuinely trying to do my best to do what is right.
Most Arduinos are just fancy ATmega breakout boards, and ATmegas are used in some production electronics. You can most certainly prototype consumer electronics with Arduinos and then design production hardware after you've proven the concept.

The Arduino IDE is also compatible with various other microcontrollers, including the STM32 family which are extremely widely used in production electronics. Typically their production code isn't written with the Arduino tools but you can most certainly prototype with it.
Nonces Are Noticed: AEAD Revisited
Hydro is mostly built out. Scalable storage isn't proven. How does renewable replace base load?
I have experienced great difficulties with literal spaghetti code written in delphi which one can only follow through debugging, but I have also seen large codebases written in kotlin and python where almost everything is in layers and it is obvious where to add a new feature and how to find one that doesn't work. And I was very afraid that the project would end up an entangled mess, but luckily, it had the right mixture of individual services (for scaling), monoliths and messaging mediums to not become a mess.
Proving that a Russian cryptographic standard is too structured
What about human trafficking? Do you know why that policy was written long before the current administration?

Also, “cages” is just a word used to evoke an emotional rather than a rational response. “Why do we send our children to prisons every day? They can’t even leave of their own free will!”

If you want to point out poor conditions, then do it.
Big bump to this! After talking to OpenAI and MIRI I have seen that I had misunderstood some of OpenAI's message. I am updating my beliefs accordingly, but taking my time in doing so.
Yet another state of python packaging that:

- skip the explanation on the py command on windows, the version suffixes on unix, -m and why you need to install pip on linux but not on the other OSes.

- doen't address the various sys path issues of pip and poetry. Because at some point you need to install peotry.

- ignore the existence of the excellent and simple setup.cfg.

- ignore the consequences of using poetry on IDE setup, tox or CI.

Python packaging is not hard anymore. But the information you get out there is incomplete and assume some kind of basic sysadmin experience.
Singapore abolishes school exam rankings (2018)
Razee: Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes Applications
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Don’t bother with latex for your cv. That’s literally the dumbest thing you can do.

You might want to customise your cv for the company you’re applying for and in that case having a plain and simple word/writer document is unbeatable.

Things that should not be missing:

- a skill matrix with your own self evaluation of competencies. Basically a table with one row and three columns for basic, intermediate and expert. This is where you would put your skills and try and communicate what you feel strong on and what you have just played with.

- past experiences —— if none, a list of personal projects and/or things relevant to the job.
> All of the most successful tech companies are platforms

During a gold rush - sell shovels.
Fallacious
But because you learn physics and maths on paper, you learn the equations this way. And once you've spent 10 years practicing physics with Greek letters, it's really annoying to be forced out of it when you program.
ICBC does this on the full keyboard, but they randomize everytime you switch from symbols <-> normal keyboard. Makes for a frustrating UX.
Is it necessary to point out every single case in a discussion/article about a specific case? We all know the current state of the world, IMHO this requirement just makes the discussion harder.
Maker Faire was a really cool event, I also exhibited there once. The barrier to show something used to be actually quite low and it was easy to get in touch with people dealing with similar topics.

On the other hand I never understood why that had so much focus on kids stuff. Of course it's easy to get attention from kids as long as things move, blink etc. But this stuff isn't really sophisticated, neither are the associated workshops - of which there are plenty.

If you think about it, it makes no sense because kids don't have money and complex projects require actually a lot of planning and deep understanding of the topics involved.

I think they should have focussed on more advanced projects. In fact a lot of projects both at Maker Faire but also in the Maker scene in general are quite unfinished. This can be nice when it comes to art but technical projects are most interesting when they reach MVP / release status.
I'm less interested in the GPL violation aspect, and mot excited to get an insight into what it was like to work on that team, 20 years ago. Minutiae like how to burn a build to CD https://twitter.com/0xGradius/status/1137123492329951232?s=1... feels like a window into the past.
It USED to be the place to experiment. Now it’s the place to try to make money before the landlords get you.
Bad News from Cloudera and MapR: Is 2019 the Year of Demise for Big Data
Subtly, bay area costs are preferred to prices paid by VC backed companies. I built a bootstrapped logistics company in SFBA, and it was brutal. Frankly, we only succeeded/survived because of a single giant deal that involved software and not logistics, i.e. 95+% margin.
As the anoother comment said, go around with/in javascript.
> If an American company was making and selling trains to Germany during the war specifically tailored for transporting people in large quantities knowing what they were using it for, then I imagine most people would see multiple issues with that.

The trains were just pretty much standard cattle and freight cars, AFAIK, just like the IBM equipment was standard tabulating fair. And I doubt pretty seriously that any real direct corporate communication was going on between Dehomag and the folks back at IBM HQ during the war; maybe indirectly though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_trains
I use FastMail like this. They support both catch-all (comapny@domain.com) and user-specific forwards (company@user.domain.com -> user+company@domain.com) for domains with multiple users.
Nitrite as Embedded NoSQL Database for Java
your use of the word chaotic is from the jargon science. This is not what is meant by chaotic in general conversaton.
Neural networks are NOT hard to understand.

Tools like LIME[1] have been around for a few years, and work really well for inspecting and understanding the decisions made by NNs.

It's true that complex decisions are hard to explain, but LIME does a better job than (say) anyway of trying to explain a SVN+Human coded feature.

LIME has been out since 2016. It and similar techniques are widely used in production systems.

It's time this "NNs are hard to understand" idea died.

[1] https://github.com/marcotcr/lime
In the touch-enabled world of devices Metro was envisioned for, yes, mouse settings should no longer be relevant. Meanwhile, in the real world, Windows phone died, just one colleague I know uses Windows on a tablet, yet Microsoft is still attempting to replace the control panel with an optimized-for-touch-only app.

This is Apple- or Gnome-level pretentiousness: "that use case doesn't fit our brand, let's act like it's not there".
You can say that about any land, in any time in history. Humans kept moving and killing each others for 1000 of years. There is not a single place that haven't been taken from somebody else at some point in the last 10k y.

Not to mention immigration, assimilation, raping and slavery that ensure the bloodline of pretty much evrybody was mixed up at some point.
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> I tend to specialise in the sort of software infrastructure-y problems that are usually solved through code.

So basically a coder?
the google exec who started android and then led it until it was installed on 2b devices. and he received only a couple of millions for that while whatsup and instagram founders are billionaires many times over.

is the issue that he received millions instead of billions? if that's it, I'm behind her.
>Tools have to have other moral significance. If they didn't, no one would ever make a value judgment or propose a law regarding a tool.

I object to this kind of reasoning.

Does a rock have moral significance?

Isn't it illegal to hit someone with a rock and kill them? So by giving thought to that possibility, I have shown that a rock does have moral significance?

Tools simply enhance a users ability to affect the world around them. And fundamentally something that only enhances cannot be be morally bad because it can simply not be used.
Really? Everyone uses WhatApp over here (Germany).
You sound like a solid parent and a patient person. IMO it’s a meaningful achievement that your kids want to maintain a close relationship with you.
This is even more epic than Berlusconi has made for Italy.

Here we are on another league by itself. Why don't they kick him out of his chair? I cannot believe a US President can't be decostutitionalized by the Senate.
I'll follow up on this when I have time, but I should say that, while I do stand by everything I said in my post, my tone is harsher than I would like for reasons unrelated to you (I'm in a bad mood).
Well, people do argue having a cold day means "gobal warming" isn't real... So I wouldn't be surprised to find one person stuck so far up his own anti-science bu..prejudice to do so. Especially on the Internet.
“In the UK, I would not be able to take on a client seeking to purchase a property or business in excess of a rational review of their wealth or earning history.”

comedy gold
But since this discussion is about chaos dynamics it's relevant.
> Python packaging is not hard anymore

Would you tell us which is "the right way to do it" nowadays? Possibly, in a maintainable, kind-of-officially supported way that doesn't change or disappear in a few months?

Please note: I use Python professionally since 2005, I've been involved a lot in Python packaging for production apps (including giving some talks on the bad state of Python packaging at Europython around 2010) and I had followed closely the then-failed distutils2 effort. And I still don't know what's the "right and easy way to do it".
I think that's pretty well established that free means free with ads.
1. my iPad air stopped after just two years of babied operation. - My Windows phone stopped getting software updates 6 months after I bought it, brand new. My Android tablet stopped charging after one and a half year.

2. macbook pro’s wifi card stopped. - I've had WiFi cards that never shipped drivers for the latest Windows OS, after just a year.

3. key failure - Valid, and pretty inexcusable by Apple

4. bluetooth never worked with speakers. - Bluetooth (below v4) never worked correctly between different brands, always had issues no matter what combo I used.

5. audio software breaking... well Windows are insanely great on backwards compability for apps, I'll give you that.

My point is that there will be issues wherever you go. I have a Macbook that is working after 10 years. I had a Toshiba that broke after just one year (soundcard). My family members have had two Dells that broke before reaching 2 years.

The only ones that have data points on this I assume are insurance companies.
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