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Pick this apart why don't we. (edit: that came across rude, sorry)

> If you think folks [...] should be in JAIL

Who is 'folks' here - the entirety of the FAA and boeing? Or more likely just the very few at the top who messed up; those in the FAA who didn't do their job (maybe, maybe not) or those at boeing that took advantage of self-certification to cut corners?

Top boeing executives probably earn millions a year, basically they are paid to make the right decisions. That's key. Seems they didn't.

FAA probably less. Now you mention it, it seems likely FAA's share of the blame is the lesser, maybe.

> which has an incredible safety rate among ALL modes of transit

True, and still does, but we now have a case of 2 planeloads of people dead, and a very major US manufacturer that's... well, I don't know but having 5,000 orders frozen for an unknown time can't be good. If that could have been avoided then it should have.

Those responsible, should there be a penalty? If so, in your view, if not jail then what? There are plenty of people in US jails far more trivial things. Can this be right?
I'm honestly not sure, I'd say getting off Google is the "better" choice with that kind of arbitrary risk of a ban.
The issue is that this is bypassing one of the things some companies use your credit card as - collateral.

For example, if you rent something, the credit card is used as a guarantee that you will return the item. If you don't, they can charge the card for the full price.

If you use virtual cards, they can't do that.
The problem is expecting suppliers to do QA and judge whether something is fit for your purpose. Regardless of whatever indemnity the supplier provides it will always be your name on the product, and you should be solely responsible for ensuring the product meets your requirements.

I do consider it evidence of organizational incompetence to state that you're staking your organization's reputation on some other organization that you don't own.
Anti-Semitism is poison and not allowed here.
Isn't it rather the other way around, that regression methods informed the development of NNs?

I suppose the finding isn't novel. The contribution here might still be a didactic approach, demystifying NNs by simplifying a fundamental notion in known terms. For example exposing implicitly (that is, leaving the insight to be a success for the learning) that "OTOH you have to design features yourself [for the polyreg, because ...]". Although, since "Feature Engineering" is a buzzword for NN development, I still don't understand the difference. Indeed, the paper implies there is none except for the approach and terminology.

Essentially, they uphold that the traditional terminology should not be discarded in favour of the new, but rather understood in context. The part of understanding is left to the reader, of course.

Relatedly, in a linear algevra course, Terry Tao's one pixel camera was attributed with the success of the following ML resurgence, while we were otherwise talking about convolutions, fourier syntheses, wavelets and the like. It's no secret that linear algebra is a corner stone of ... just a corner stone, and that abstract algebra, topology and the like lies very near; At least this lecturer made it a main concern of the course to get that accross, which figured in nicely with a logics course on universal algebra that I took in parallel, while others taught rather monotonously towards taylor series and fourier transformations. At any rate, pretty much all professional researchers in the field stress that the mathematical basis need to be understood.

PS: The paper is written with an undergrad, what ever that means; No offence, I really don't know the slang, much less how much study vs research this implies. The publishing coauthor slash blog host shows some resentment against new fangled fancyfull terminology in the blog's About section, which might explain the scope of the paper, as well as the intended extent as far as I outlined my impressions above.

Your criticism is not quite correct, insofar the blog post notes the conclusions of the paper explicitly, which seems to be explaining common pitfalls, by use of statistical terms.

PPS: Many obervers lament that the results of NNs are intractable, nigh impossible to verify. This is a strong contrast to mathematical rigor. Hoping for the traditional methodology to get up to speed is in principle justified. I'm sure that your remark about design by hand being intractable holds as well, I'm just not sure to which extent. Showing that it can be done reasonably for some is a start, and chronicaling that endeavor is par for the course, however perhaps not yet enough, I guess, as another comment asks for benchmarks.
Math really opens you up to new ideas and changes your way of thinking, but you're right it's a serious life long investment, not just a little tool you can pick up on the side.
Not familiar with WP, but can't you export your blog posts as HTML/CSS or as markdown at the very least, and deploy it to Github Pages or Netlify? THis way, you won't have to manage anything, except making sure domain names renew on time
As with most things, it's the input that's the problem. Just getting most people to scan what they take in and out and how much is used is problematic, not to mention entering what leftovers are and printing labels or something for them.
Are they less likely to live in households where there are guns?

Men are what, 10x more successful in suicide attempts? It's quite the discrepancy.
I'm so glad it isn't my job to fight fraud. I worked at a place that would blacklist entire countries from signing up for their service, as a disproportionate number if fraudulent sign ups came from those countries. Every now and then I'd be contacted by an apparently regular customer who just wanted to try the service, and there was nothing I could do to help them, even when I really wanted to. I hated every part of feeling dealing with that stupid fraud system.
I think because there was never anything really written about the shift in meaning.

Stoicism as practiced in antiquity shares a lot with mindfulness and Buddhism. It's about acceptance of the now. And what you can and cannot control. It's not that you aren't allowed to feel, just that you aren't allowed to have your emotion rule your reason.

Bob died. That is sad. You can grieve. But Bob is dead. Nothing is going to change that. Killing yourself so you don't have to live in a world without Bob is not rational. Yelling at someone for asking your a question is not rational. Even if you are sad. You can't control your sadness. But you can control your actions. And your actions should be dictated by reason. Setting up a will that details what happens when you die, that is a rational response to Bob's death. Even if it's informed by sadness. Because his death could have made you realize that you don't have a plan.

But over time, that has been warped into a complete rejection of emotion.

So when we say someone is stoic, that's what we mean, that they're displaying no emotion.

And that's the notion they're arguing against.
>>practically impossible for modern citizens to overthrow a corrupt government.

However, given a sufficient percentage of the population which is interested in doing this, it would be very difficult even for the US military to completely conquer.
Tracking Removal of Illegal Signal Boosters on Amazon
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what brand/model is your 48GB laptop? I'm shopping for something that can take lots of ram.
21st Century books are for 21st Century audiences. They can explain, for example, a cultural / sociopolitical / religious context that the original author took for granted.
So, a v1 Apple product? All jokes aside, to me, Apple tends to release beautiful products from the beginning that often lack the killer functionality that drives mass adoption, but has a reasonably good track record of catching up on that in subsequent releases.
I quit the site for about a month, came back because it really is a great idea generator.
Warhammer 40'000 ... lots of time and money
> I'm not some huckster with a spam website.

Ironically, you could make the case that Google itself fits this description.
This advice sounds just as great today as it did in Vancouver, 15 years ago.

In the meantime, inflation-adjusted housing prices more than doubled. Pretty much everyone and everyone would have been better off not following your advice.

And today, in 2019 there is still no clear transition path out of the current horrorshow that is the property market. Prices are not coming down, nobody sees any mechanism by which they might come down, and too many people have too much invested in land for the government to ever encourage prices to come down.

When you rent, you are seriously gambling that property prices will not keep rising. When you own, you are seriously gambling that property prices will not fall.

The thing is, there are enormous political and economic pressures to create policies that prevent property prices from falling. As a renter, you are placing a bet against these incredibly powerful forces. It doesn't even matter if you're right - the markets may remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Edit: Obviously there are complications to this. Buying and selling a house is stressful, time-intensive, and expensive. If you're only going to be in an area for 5 years, it's not as smart an idea as buying one with the intent to stay for 45 years. Obviously, it's possible that a generational shift in demographics will result in a property crash... But it's just as likely that increased immigration will offset that shift. Obviously, your city's financial situation, and likely future changes to property taxes will have an effect... The list goes on.
It's quite the opposite. Wrapping existing C code in Rust FFI can make it safer.

Rust side can add missing type information to C interfaces. Things that are "RTFM" for C, such as thread safety of the types involved and which function arguments are borrowed/owned, can be expressed on the Rust side even for C code, and automatically enforced when it's used via FFI. This adds a layer of safety to existing C code.
Fair enough. The state of healthcare in that area for that demographic in general is to blame (not to mention specific neglect in this case.) But I think the fact that the first, front-line refusal was based on Aadhaar is relevant...
If Roger Zelazny weren’t literally dead, he’d literally be rolling over in his grave for your use of the word literally.
> Baseline JIT compilation is fast, but modern web applications like Google Docs or Gmail execute so much JavaScript code that we could spend quite some time in the Baseline compiler, compiling thousands of functions.

Good read. The above mentioned web apps are my biggest pain point at the moment with Firefox. I still use Gmail in Firefox, but it's much slower than running it on chromium. I just accept that, since Google makes all of that.

However, with Google Docs I actually switch over to a chromium browser, even the new Edge beta, because it is simply too slow in Firefox.

It looks like they've taken notice of that and are tackling it head on. Excellent work!
We thought the sci-fi style evil AI would become the overlord making nonsensical decisions that can't be appealed.

But really, humans are happy to do it to each other.

It makes sense I guess as those sci-fi AIs are often to some extent or another trying to save us from, other humans, or at least that was their origin.
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The relief for that would be for the customer to talk to everyone and tell them how bad the vendor is, and go to another vendor who offers the same service.

In this case, Google is effectively a monopoly/2Big2Fail in advertising. So that remedy is not available or is impractical.

So the issue is not necessarily the behaviors (while reprehensible) but the size of the company.
It is kind of hard to just “change” one’s principal passive income source. It’s not like taking another job if you don’t like the current one. Such things can take years.
"Needed to". "Should".

This sounds like you want to have, as Francis Schaeffer put it, "a mysticism with nobody there". You want the assurance of some guiding hand (God or god-like) controlling what happens, but without any guiding hand actually there.

That is, without someone there to have a purpose or intent, there is no "needed to" or "should", there is only what did happen. This sounds like an attempt to have the emotional comfort of someone there, without actually believing that someone is actually there.
Why do you regret Django/Python and wish you started with Rails?
If you're talking about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20830097, that's not what jsty said. Please don't use quotation marks to make it look like you're quoting someone when you're not.

It may have been a bit of a stock comment, but I see no evidence that it wasn't in good faith.
Isn't that what happened during the revolution? A critical mass of people decided it was necessary and eventually succeeded? Then during the civil war some other people tried and failed (luckily). And of course there have been smaller failed uprisings and rebellions in the past as well. Not really sure what your point is, we will never reach a time when everyone agrees, life is messy.
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Definitely pure math. I spent a ton of time in college studying linear algebra and abstract algebra, and I remember very little of it. The issue with the advanced classes is that the time investment is enormous (1 class took more time than 4 others combined), and they're not worth doing halfway. I think if I'd stuck to computer science, I would have graduated a stronger programmer, and if I'd taken more sociology/art classes, I would have had more fun.

A lot of people talk about beauty in math, but the beauty part of it never clicked for me the way it did for art. I think there's a sterility about proofs and numbers. If you don't love pure math, you will grow to hate it.
How did you conclude that this slump and ongoing slowdown is related to demonetization? As per recent RBI report, cash circulation very much increased [1].

> There is a very high potential for India given it's sizeable work force but Modi is a blithering idiot although I must give credit to his accomplishments which have far exceeded my expectations

It would very much help if you explain your points instead of getting started with name-calling.

1. https://wap.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/cur...
>The Apple Card has been raked through the coals over this support document because it is not recommended for use near leather (the most common material used in wallets) or denim (one of the most common outerwear materials). Nor is it recommended to be touching any other credit cards. Nor is it recommended to be in a pocket or bag containing loose change, keys, or any other kind of potentially-abrasive items.

This is some Happy Fun Ball-level absurdity (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmqeZl8OI2M).
I'm working on software that generates your plumbing code automatically from graphql queries. Similar to Hasura if you're familiar with it.
> If you want to serve members only, you can build your private club

Isn't Google Ads kind of that already? You need to get approval to create your campaigns, and you have to provide all of your information in order to post ads?
Decentralised group chat communication seems like it would work very well as the future model of social networking. Content online could spread organically instead of the surveillance panopticon telling us exactly what we want to hear.
Here's some background on what "Cloudhopper" is:

https://twitter.com/bhaggs/status/1090016722415845376
Amusing read
> things that seem perfectly obvious and are in fact true,

The problem is there are lot of things that seem perfectly obvious and are, in fact, false. It's not easy to tell them apart.
Federal Court Declares New Orleans Debtor’s Prison Unconstitutional
Unfortunately both your scenarios are perfectly legal. Credit cards are not a protected class.
How long does the French baguette last in France? Do you get them fresh daily and finish them off? Or is it just the baguette we get here dry out so quickly?
Thank you! One more question: What kind of hardware would I require to connect my server to the plain old telephone system? In my country, we don't have VOIP gateways for consumer use.
I've been working on a webbased (WebRTC) softphone with Asterisk PBX support. Just opensourced it(WIP): https://github.com/garage11/ca11
I'm taking a middle path, making changes at my own pace on things that lessen my interactions with Google, Facebook, etc. I'm enjoying Protonmail, for example.
Netflix’s new show Diagnosis exposes failures in the U.S. healthcare system
Has nothing to do with the payment platform you chose is my best guess. Has to do with what you were paying to send ad traffic to, and possible misrepresentation of facts on that page. Were you testing landing pages for concepts where you didn't include terms of use, privacy policies or misrepresented the state of your product?

That would be my best guess.
Ask HN: Do senior engineers have a mental model before coding?
I failed an onsite interview for a senior position because I didn’t have a mental model of the subtask before coding each function during a 90 minute pair programming test. I only used javascript in a text editor. I ran node in console after small changes and additions to print, test, debug.

The feedback was you can’t do this when compiling time is long and development will be slow. I’ve heard of developers that don’t use debuggers because they have a mental model in their head.

Do most senior software engineers take time to build a mental model before coding and testing?

I prefer to create a draft quickly to build a mental model. Is my way of logging to console frequently and coding before building a mental model a junior habit that I should work on?

Am I unlikely to pass a FAANG interview like this?

Edit: It wasn’t a LeetCode problem. I had to implement an API where each call would change the state of the application on certain conditions. I heard the problem and clarified it on the whiteboard. I coded each function while talking and ask for clarifications.
FWIW Facebook will also ban you without telling you which ad policy you violated. Most infuriating they can pull access to accounts or your ability to turn off ads while they're still running and connected to a credit card. To me, that seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html all the way to the end? and please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.
Another study on the genetics of same-sex sexual behavior, with a lot of caveats
I went to Panera once. I didn't get the appeal. I could just buy a loaf of bread and heat up some soup at home.
Well, nothing says great marketing gimmick quite like showing that a hair loss drug can turn babies into werewolfs.
or ctrl+alt+backspace unless you disabled it
Alcoholism.
Isn't this what GCC's `__builtin_constant_p()` does?
This is a good list. I dumped my house right away - it was such a time suck
I don't consider watching television a time waster. I'm either working out while I'm watching TV or spending some down time with my wife. Yeah we have "date nights" at least twice a month, but we often don't want to go out or even talk about what we jokingly call our "feelings and emotions", sometimes we just want to be.
> A good start to this conversation can be: What does Atlassian (or your company) do to prevent burnout throughout their company?

I agree completely with this, since this is a health AND socio-cultural problem. Trying to solve the problems without the necessary cultural resources in any organization will just put a heavier weight on the worker, and it will eventually crack him. Without true commitment this is a Catch-22.
Mmh, I get ads about adwords almost weekly.
That's what I thought too, because "good" is an adjective and adjectives describe nouns. On the other hand "well" is an adverb and fits perfectly well.
One thing I haven't seen discussed much is the change from the original marketing materials which described the user's name as being engraved on the card, rather than printed.

Ultimately I think complaints about the physical card are sort of silly. To be honest, I'm a little surprised Apple included one at all, since the point is to drive businesses in the US to supporting contact-less payments. Of course once they decided to include a physical card, it wasn't going to be a basic plastic card.
> Also, Health Care is NEVER free since you pay for it one way or another

That's kind of nit-picky. Government services that aren't paid for by user fees at the time of service but rather out of some kind of general tax whose rate you pay doesn't depend on whether you use the service or not are often referred to as "free" in normal conversation.

For example, most people would consider GPS a free service provided by the government, but obviously there are costs to provide it. Those costs are paid out of general US tax revenue.

When people talk of "free" healthcare, they almost always mean free in that sense.
> That's nice, but lets be clear here: Standard.JS is not building […] [a] seriously valuable project that saves companies thousands of dollars.

This is quite debatable and hard to measure, given the problem that Standard solves. As an anecdote, I just started a new TypeScript-based project a few days ago and I’ve spent the past few days mostly dealing with configuration. That’s perfectly fine to me for a personal project where I’d like to decide every aspect of the configuration, but let’s say this was for a fast-moving startup, it’s probably a smarter idea, for most projects, to simply adopt Standard et al. and call it a day. Practically speaking, if you consider a software engineer’s salary and other important factors, I don’t think it’s fair, or accurate, to claim that Standard doesn’t save companies thousands of dollars; it almost certainly does
Of course they can do it. I just dont think is a clever move for them to do it.

Firefox is having a hard time to compete with Chrome, and they took too long pursuing other goals, and just remembering one key feature they took a lot of time to implement, was making Firefox a the multi-process browser as Chrome.

I mean, you would be ditching all this effort, rewriting it in Rust, spending key resources only to have some parity with the same browser you already had in C++, spending years, and loosing more market share, as Chrome can spend this time in optimization and features.

For the record, i think Rust is what will save Mozilla, but it must reinvent itself. Do the best they can with the firefox codebase they have, and use Rust for new projects.

Like, creating Cloud, backend system software, and reinvent itself like Ubuntu is doing right now.

They have to be very strategic and pragmatic right now. Two big moonshots, Firefox OS and Rust, and only one of them has paid out their time and resources.

If they want to bet in more moonshots, great, but they must do it in "blue ocean" places, being more innovative on where they should use Rust, were Rust can shine.

I just think that from a strategic (and even technical) point of view, they are just spending precious resources, while at the same time eroding even more their browser market share.
Yeah... I mostly just went off feel. Since most of the time people working are "neutral", and the "neutral" looks pretty serious / not super happy, it just made a bad vibe for the team for everyone to be looking mopey. So I switched it to be a bit happier.

The half-empty view is that it's "fake happiness" but the half-full view is that it better conveys your intent to your team, that you are (hopefully) happy to be hanging out and getting work done with them. A wall of smiles also makes people feel more welcome and included than a wall of meh.

Still room to play with this though.
Kubernetes.
Looks like it's gone now but there was a Tweet from Jack's account that said, "Unsuspend my shit @plugwalkjoe @percocet @99 u bald skeleton head tramp"