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>But I can write well. I make good settings and stories, my spelling and grammar are ok, I make addicting game systems, and my systems and stories blend really well. THAT is the product I sell.

If that's true and he's good at those things, then why doesn't the product sell well enough to hire people to make the next game not look like a game design student's homework assignment?
I think standard car manufacturers and insurances would be in awe if their car safety improved at that rate.
Any person who goes to Mars in the next 30 years is going there to die. Full stop. The technology doesn't exist to keep them alive on the journey, and the technology to bring them home is decades farther out still.

OTOH, going to the Moon and back is relatively easy, and that's where everybody will be focusing their energy when this Mars mania finally runs its course.
Especially since China is the number one scientific country in terms of number of published papers and e.g are the leaders in nuclear fission and AI.
Huh? I wasn't making an appeal to anyone, so your point is moot.

Context is important. Why bother decompiling a game if you have the source already? Of course I meant decompiling games for which there is no source code available on any machine. Nintendo has the source for SM64.

What a ridiculous load of pedantry.
See this recent thread for some insight: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20776655
Quantum Radar Could Completely Change Warfare
1. This was a civil lawsuit, not a criminal trial.

2. "Why Was Johnson & Johnson the Only Opioid Maker on Trial in Oklahoma?"

Other states are suing a range of drug makers, distributors and retailers. Here are three reasons Johnson & Johnson was the only company on trial in Oklahoma.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/health/opioids-johnson-an...
No, because you get the use of the roads as part of paying your taxes. These are special licenses, providing resources for private research for free with the costs being borne by the public.
Are the Math olympiads similar to competitive coding?
Yes, I was excited to meet some of them! It is certainly possible to use Sentry with firmware, but I'd venture to say that Memfault is an easier integration and a better experience.
Exactly why would anyone care that there are "California Port wines"? That's a good thing. The Portuguese make "ports" out of all sorts of grape varietals, and California has excellent grapes.
Hmm... this is contrary to my experience (US). For every single thing that was a surgery (including tooth extractions) in the past decade, I got a shitload of opioid painkillers just by default. At least 30 pills for each intervention.

I believe I was lucky because after the first surgery I had, the doctor gave me the prescription, but off the record told me that he's doing that only because of hospital protocol and I should not take the pills. He told me to my face to not fill the prescription. Because of that (which was my first run-in with pain management) I never touched opioids. In my experience, the worst offenders have been the dentists. Now I do believe there are legitimate uses for this type of medication but honestly prescribing me 20-30 vicodins for a tooth extraction is a bit overkill.
They did get off easy. This is about 3% of J&J's annual profit. I guarantee you they are ordering hookers, blow, and cases of Dom Pérignon in the J&J boardroom after this.
What costs?
It would only help if the virtual console release is emulated.
"Liberator"
All great achievements, but none of these is in the same ballpark of difficulty as creating a general artificial intelligence (which is pretty much what self driving cars need to achieve true level 5 autonomy).
I've personally dined with three vegetarians at the meals where they went to try the Impossible Burger for the first time.

It's dangerous to make blanket statements about what all vegetarians think. For example, on the question of why someone has chosen to be a vegetarian, I've heard a long list of different reasons, including: animal welfare, environment, their own health/longevity/energy, not liking the taste of meat, not enjoying the idea of eating an animal's flesh (even if it were ethical), their religion encourages it, and/or it's their default because they were brought up that way and have never tasted meat.
You guys _might_ have spent too much time with compilers, leading to a case of being a tad bit overly literal.
We've just about hired everybody we need for the time being, but we're open to meeting folks who would bring a lot to the team. Send me a note! francois - at - memfault
I'm not sure if I agree with the writer's statement here, and I'm not sure the right outcome is for Waymo to share data, but I don't think your analogy works.

Your individual phone calls are made as part of your general participation as an individual in society. One of the largest companies in the world, which does its best to avoid paying taxes, is using public roads as a fundamental part of the infrastructure for a project to generate data.

Maybe a better analogy is people who grow large amounts of marijuana in national parks? Yes, it's true that the growers are part of the public, and that the public owns the land, but...

I wouldn't have a problem with stuff like this if corporations were taxed at reasonable rates, and didn't participate so wholeheartedly in efforts to corrupt our democracy. Google donates to many truly vile, despicable politicians in order to shirk accountability, hamper regulation, and accomplish just this sort of de-facto subsidy and others like it.
Bah, newfangled DIGITAL watch!? Kids these days... What's wrong with winding up your watch every now and then? And he even admits when it breaks he just throws it away and buys a new one! In MY day, watches were built to last for generations! Why did they have to fix what wasn't broke with all these electronics!

(looking forward to the day when I'm the one clinging to my old-fashioned Apple Watch, complaining about the kids with their wrist live-tattoos or eyeball implants or god knows what is coming)
I used to love the abstract symbolic manipulation of pure math, but have not worked with it in many years and find it unintuitive now. I have a harder time trusting the abstractions. I wonder how to get my old sense back - it never, ever came from practice problems for example in the past. I miss proofs
Great, make the "gifted" kids even more likely to be bored and disengage.
A lot of negative reactions here. There's gifted and there's gifted. Should Hunter College Elementary School which requires off the chart scores being eliminated? No. Do somewhere between 10 and 20% of students need to be pulled out into separate programs? Also no.

The cutoff for district G&T programs in NYC is currently 90 percentile. For reference 90th percentile on the SAT in a nationally representative sample is 1290 / 1600.

Sorry, but I don't think at that point we are looking at special needs that come with extreme precociousness.
Wait, what? There are ads in the OS? That's insane.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20800115, which was posted earlier.
As the original author of pdoc, thanks for not using pdoc3, which---even separate from the Nazi imagery---is something that I consider to be an unethical fork. You might instead consider using the original pdoc, which is now maintained by mitmproxy[1]. Although, it does seem like activity on the project has waned.

[1] - https://github.com/mitmproxy/pdoc
One thing that is interesting, is that people of Asian origin are increasingly being lumped in with white people. Whenever, you hear about lack of minorities in a certain field, people of Asian origins are inevitably excluded from the analysis by being put in the category of "whites and Asians".

Right now people of Asian origin, are by and large liberal and support Democrats over Republicans. But if Democrats, keep pursuing policies that disadvantage their children, do not be surprised, if in the near future, you see Republicans making large in-roads with people of Asian origin.
Segregation Caused Your Traffic Jam
AMD just announced a major license of their GPU tech to Samsung. Nvidia, Qualcomm, and other vendors have complete designs with their own GPUs. Vivante and Imagination would surely be glad to license their tech to smaller players.
Corporations are made of people that pay income tax and property tax
In all fairness to the GitHub account, the Python logo itself could be perceived as the same logo made out of two snakes.

But troll culture masquerading as innocent plausible-deniability really is ruining the internet because it's hard not to assume the worst (we see the same symbols being used on purpose to illicit a reaction and that person did respond with "Made you look. :grin:").
I wonder if they spread out to more areas - where there's more variety of driving conditions - if they could start rating difficulty well enough to estimate when they would be able to operate in each one.

So maybe they could start working in 2 years in sprawled suburbs in hot areas where you don't have many cyclists or pedestrians? Or is that Phoenix already and it's still too hard?
Will leave these here, just one small step to help you regain your privacy:

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* https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/about-mastercard/what-we-do/...
Seriously, you do not need massive amount of money to build search engine. The V0 version of Google was literally a single cheap desktop running whole thing end to end. Average webpage size even today is just 2MB. You can just start with crawling 1B pages which you can comfortably store and index on 8TB HDD (you don't need SSD at this stage). You should make your algorithm work for single user on this 1B page crawl. Don't worry about freshness or speed, just focus on relevance. If things works beautifully, find a VC and show them the goods. If things works out, you might probably end up with $100K seed money. Then you go out and buy dozen good desktops, increase crawl size to may be 15B pages and support few dozen simultaneous users. Now you can go out to big guns, send them a link to your search engine and get next level of funding. At that point you hire real employees and now your job is scaling up to thousands of invite-only users and squeezing out the long tail of performance in terms of relevance. Constantly measure your customer satisfaction and complaints, use gmail-like invite your friends model to incrementally get high-value users who are willing to try out something new. At this point, if your search algo is really much better, you should be able to plot exponential DAU/MAU growth and get funding rounds in $100M range to really scale up.
It's probably too hard to answer the general question about "how to gain math intuition". Mathematics is just too vast.

However, you have written

> I think when I took physics it really brought out these flaws and lack of intuition

which suggests you have some good practical experience with physics problem solving which has precipitated a certain feeling that you need to learn more about some kind of math. I would advise that you try to exploit this. In the same breath I want to recognize (as someone who did their BS and MS in physics) that physicists are not always so careful or explicit in how they are doing their mathematics. So learning means eventually going beyond physics sources and into a much wider world of mathematical thought. The particular things that mathematicians care about may or may not be relevant to the problem you are trying to solve in physics, and a good part of developing that intuition is to figure out which particular caveats that a mathematician expounds upon (more often than not, some esoterica about the space(s) that they are working in or the class of isomorphisms under which their results are invariant) matter physically. As you develop and intuition about these things a bonus is that you will be able to skim through mathematics resources much faster.
Passengers, who are property of the government, I guess?
> This is about 3% of J&J's annual profit

What % of profits made by J&J in Oklahoma? Presumably the risk is that other states could decide that this could be a good way to get income too?
There's a flaw in parent's comment in that the employees are themselves tax-paying citizens, but to answer your question anyway: land use, congestion, pollution, wear and tear, etc.
How would it work with different email programs?
The U.S. and Greece: Far Too Much in Common
Remix (YC 15) is looking for an engineering manager to better public transit
Seems like a pretty weak threat--"if you don't do what I want I'm going to stop taking your free services!" Okay great.
I was just dealing with this today. QEMU was too slow on my MacBook Air though.

Do you have a link to a comprehensive guide on doing this by chance? I was thinking tomorrow I’d just launch an arm instance in AWS and figure it out but I have a dual Xeon workstation at work (windows) that I might try as well.
The market value is a pretty reasonable way to determine the potential.
You say good until you have a very real pain disorder and getting the medication that makes life bearable and not want to kill yourself becomes a part time job.
I'm talking about the economics and moat that Tesla has itself, with which the fact that the panels are a commodity matter a great deal. This makes Tesla a servicing/financing company, and why do they have a systematic advantage at that over competition? That doesn't seem like a high margin business that is going to justify Tesla's lofty valuation (especially when their solar installations have gone down close to ~90% since the acquisition of SolarCity, and their competitors now have greater market share than they do).
1) Yes, about 4-6 times faster than byte-by-byte loop "in the long run", but not for short strings.

2) Mostly not. gcc and clans don't vectorize "search loops" i.e. loops that terminate early based on some condition. These loops are tricky to vectorize at least partly because of the reading-beyond-the-end issue mentioned in the accepted answer. icc does vectorize some search loops, not sure if it would do a good job on this one. I'm not sure about MSVC, but it's usually way behind on everything optimization related so I think we can assume not.

3. Yes definitely. glibc has such implementations for popular platforms like x86, so this code isn't actually being used on your PC say.
Level 5 driving doesn't require AGI at all.

It's an extremely narrow set of problems that have to be solved incredibly well. It mostly just comes down to creating an accurate 3d representation of the world from a bunch of sensors. You also have to correctly segment and label each object in that 3d representation. If you did those two things extremely well, the actual driving logic can be hardcoded.

The problem is that each of these systems has problems so they all have to improve and compensate for each other.
Yep, it only makes sense economically (and physically) if it is big enough to carry a few dozen shipping containers.
10500 rides, 70% are rated 5 stars (perfect). 10% increase from last year.
Anytime there's a pattern in language design I don't know the name for I turn to my monoid-loving coworker next to me and ask what the horribly complicated term for it is in Haskell.

For now how about "Chop" Programming? "Choose Half" Oriented Programming. Or "Super" programming for "Subtract Unwanted Programming Elements Rigorously".
I used to link to the EPA but I learned this week that they might be a captured agency(1). They used to have a website section devoted to methane, it’s sources, and it’s contribution but it’s either been taken down or I simply can’t find it.

However, Bill Gates writes in his blog that Agriculture contributes towards 24% of the world’s climate change and that “Cattle are a huge source of methane; in fact, if they were a country, they would be the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases!”(2). His blog post that I link to below is admittedly a secondary source but I think he does a pretty good job at showing the big picture.

Sources:

(1)https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

(2)https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/My-plan-for-fighting-clima...

If you go on to find a good (hopefully primary) source, please reply with it here!
This is energy industry FUD

In Australia the complete opposite happens. Extremely hot days cause coal and gas plants to fail https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/31/what-h...

Whereas renewables have been causing power prices to occasionally fall to $0. https://reneweconomy.com.au/electricity-prices-across-the-gr...
Ask HN: Alternatives to Atlassian Confluence?
My team currently uses Confluence (an Atlassian product) for requirements, designs, procedures, and for various other engineering and product-related documents. However, I find it slow and difficult to navigate.

Has anyone found a better alternative?
Concerning the number of vowels a language has: https://wals.info/chapter/2 does indeed class 7-14 as a lot. But it's very hard to count vowels in any kind of neutral way.

Concerning Esperanto, it only has two diphthongs - aw and ew. Aj, ej, oj and uj are actually just sequences of a vowel and consonant. For an comparison, consider is English "ye-" as in "yes" is a consonant and a vowel, but the same sound (ie-) in Spanish or Finnish is a diphthong.

What constitutes a diphthong vs a sequence is specific to an analysis of a given language. In Esperanto, we can see that "diversa sono" and "diversaj sonoj" differ just by the addition of a -j sound and we always teach that it's an affix. It isn't the deletion of the /a, o/ and its replacement by a diphthong /ai, oi/ which would destroy the simplicity of Esperanto and confuse anyone whose native language wasn't English.

Additionally, the only hole is -ij, which is missing for good phonotactic reasons - the sounds aren't distinct enough - which is extremely common and shared by a missing ji- so it can't fairly tempt us to analyse it as a diphthong.

This is in contrast to a language like English. /-j/ cannot be added after just any vowel. Moreover, whenever it occurs, it's part of the same root/morpheme as the previous vowel sound. So there's no advantage to analysing them separately (altho some people try to cut back on the number of English vowels, perhaps to only six, by counting the ones you note as ah/a, ey/e, iy/i, ow/o, uw/u, ʌ/(ʌr), oy, ay, aw - but this is normally rejected as being too weird).

English speakers often seem to teach Eo /aj, oj, uj, ej/ as diphthongs simply because of the phonetic properties of English.
Did you know the girl from 'Great Hack's mother was an Enron employee that left before the fall?
Waymo has a far better safety records than NASA, and it self driving cars. NASA is allowed to kill people. Waymo isn't.
The Internet is allowed to be full of malware. Waymo isn't.
The quotes in the Wired article are all kind of the opposite though. For example:

"Today, 99.9 percent of humanity cannot beat the best commercial software at blitz chess. Within the decade, it's likely the machine on your desk will know how to play chess better than any human has played the game since its invention in AD 600."

I suppose that really just makes your point though. Even in 1995 we were only really trying to delay the inevitable. If playing chess is ultimately a mechanical process and baking bread is ultimately a mechanical process, then ultimately we should be make able to make a machine that does it better than we can.
They wrote it in assembly, nuts!
Yes, renewable energy like wind and solar are intermittent, so we will need to invest (a lot) more into energy storage. So far storage has been expensive and need to drop a lot, so it can reach mainstream [1].

[1] https://www.pv-magazine.com/2019/08/12/new-us-study-finds-re...
Revealing the Dark Secrets of Bert
Where do Chick-fil-A customers go on Sundays? A D-FW company has the answer
They have Soyuz capsules that do exactly that
I’m amazed to read that the mayor has the power to enact something like this. Where I live we have school boards who have nothing to do with city government. I thought all of America was that way. Why would people expect that they mayor knows anything about education?
I agree on the flavor but I think part of it is that it's a lot of hassle and just doesn't look as appealing as breast meat. There's a higher chance of biting into gristle/something hard, the meat can be "slimy", and I find that at chains that do "fried chicken", at least, they do a generally poorer job of breading the meat. It's not crunchy and battered like a "chicken tender". Thighs are a different matter since you can pick/scrape off the bone with a knife and fork, but they're also larger so the batter to chicken ratio is sub-optimal.

Wings are tolerated because they're small and predictable, but I've been seeing the rise of "boneless wings" too. People generally don't have a problem with the thighs and legs of the chicken if it's served differently or just as "chicken" in another product. But on the bone it's messy.
Or to send a brave crew to an asteroid to deflect it from a calamitous earthbound trajectory?
Whoa cool. Where can I learn more about this setup?
No offense, but in the situation described by the comment you’re replying to, suck it up and eat a free meal or don’t.
> Clean energy advocates point to batteries as a solution to renewables’ intermittent nature

Not just batteries, but an efficient grid that uses all the resources in an optimal manner. This was always the goal in creating microgrids, to be able to not rely on the main grid unless required, and when required the main grid would be able to perhaps use another microgrid's resources.
Objective-C became popular because it was the Mac language.
Surely the solution couldn't be lifting up impoverished students instead of pulling those who succeed down?

As an Asian, this pisses me off. If you work hard and get high test scores, you should be rewarded.
If it's too small for C++, it's also too small for C. Arduino is 8 bits, and it's C++ from here to the horizon.

On ARM it is no contest, at any size.

Funny little $.10 PICcy things may not have a C++ compiler available. Then, the C compiler is better than asm, if you can fit. Otherwise, no excuse.
outright destroying a company would inflict a lot of collateral damage. some rich people would see a fraction of their portfolio go to zero, which would certainly sting, but many more middle-class workers would lose their only job.

the IP part may have some value though. it would be interesting to see what would happen if every successful judgment resulted in all relevant patents going to the public domain. play funny business with a certain pharmaceutical and it becomes a generic ahead of schedule.

I suspect "make an example out of 'em" style punishments are just not very effective. if every few years a big company gets a back-breaking fine, it would make for some good news stories, but it would also be pretty easy to design a portfolio resilient against these outcomes.

if I could wave a magic wand and set up the system exactly how I wanted, I would implement pretty much the opposite. moderate fines (maybe 1.5-2x the illicit gains) with a very high rate of conviction. raise the salary of prosecutors and investigators until you get people who can make it happen. I believe this would not only be more effective, but much more fair.