skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible that a huge marketing advantage kept people interested long enough to come to appreciate the benefits of the langauge's basic nature.
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IMO Ansible is not a good tool for configuration management compared to tools like Puppet and Chef. There's no node graph which mininises how much you can do in parallel and proper chaining of dependencies, and using YAML to describe largely imperative tasks is downright horrible (looking at you with_items). I think it works fine for orchestration, but anything more and it gets uncomfortable.
It's not a backdoor. Read the post, decide for yourself how you feel about it, but don't go off the headline.
Wall Street Falls in Love Again with Companies Loaded Up on Debt
> So conservatively there are over 3 billion smartphones.

> so that means that less than 2 billion Windows installations are in existence.

In what world is 3 billion out of 5 billion >= 90%? I repeat "Half sure, 90% no."
This is the first open source utility I've made outside of work that I've released. It's a simple enough tool, but I think it came out fairly well. Code review and constructive criticism is always appreciated!
I don't think it isn't clear.

Reading "drone pilot" along with "sniper" instantly gave me the idea that the article was talking about military personnel and not hobbyists, long before I clicked.
Didn't the Russians use a lot of steel in their Space Age era rockets? It always seemed to me like we went too high tech too quickly and the Soviets were practical to a fault, and the truth should be something in between.
New high-end PCs indeed use high DPI displays, but color LCD monitors are now used in cars, dishwashers and microwaves. These are not high-DPI, and they often lack CPU and GPU power to handle high DPI.

Here's a library I've made for an embedded Linux device: https://github.com/Const-me/nanovg At 5" 800x480, subpixel AA improved text a lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCEexG9xjw
Only in the sense that Paul Graham talks about successful startups "doing everything right and winning the lottery." There is a certain amount of luck in anything, but being a statistical outlier for income isn't the same as "winning the lottery," which is basically random chance.

And the reason it matters is because earned income encourages people to develop useful skills that the world desires (so as to presumably make the world a better place). Telling people they can actually make bank at X if they keep applying themselves is telling people "You don't have to be a pie-in-the-sky idealist to make the world a better place. You can do things the world actually values, be really good at them and get paid excellent money, so: win/win!"

The Nobel Prize and even MacArthur grant are intended to reward people after the fact for making the world a better place. Part of the point is to empower them to keep doing what they believe in and not give up and go do something else for pay that would be less beneficial to the world at large.

It may help encourage some folks to keep at the thing they believe in despite the low pay, but it's not a plan you can take to your accountant for how you will make your retirement work: "I'll just be amazingly good and then get a random windfall. It's Fine!"

I'm a freelance writer. Like a lot of writers, I work for peanuts.

I don't expect to be the next JK Rowling, but I can learn from her (she rewrote the first chapter of the first book like twenty times) and I've applied myself and gotten better. My pay has been gradually going up.

Because of how publishing works, JK Rowling's financial success is somewhere between salary of a million annually and random grant out of the blue. Plenty of people think writers must be nuts because most writing pays so poorly. (I have been repeatedly told to "get a real job" if I don't like being poor.)

But there's still a difference between that and your "win the lottery" framing for this discussion. It's really not the same thing.
This feature was pushed out way before it was ready, all so Tesla can recognize some deferred FSD revenue in Q3, which ends on Monday.
No, it can't both be true.

In economics, if a consumer always pays as much as they are able to, IE, it is a constant willingness to pay, then this is called perfectly elastic demand.

The situation of taxes being passed in to consumers, would only happen if consumer demand is perfectly inelastic.

It is literally the opposite situation. Demand can't both be perfectly elastic and also perfectly inelastic at the same time. They are opposites!
I too would pay even just for more storage, and an ability to manage E2E encrypted emails through them. @keybase.io / .com(?) emails would be awesome, especially if it could cross-contact a protonmail email (anyone able to send emails to protonmail accounts outside of protonmail, encrypted and decrypt the responses yet? never looked into this).
This isn't a site you should rely on to truly understand a language, but I have successfully used it to learn enough syntax to follow along with Ruby code in a book I was reading.

I imagine if I needed to learn enough Go or Kotlin, or some other language that's not totally a different paradigm to C/Java(script)/etc, to get a superficial understanding (enough to following along a blog post or some simple snippet of code) it would be sufficient and convenient.
The Wright Brothers Paperback – May 3, 2016
by David McCullough
Great writing e.g Mr McCullough's description of the interior of the Wright home is wonderful and hearing it on audio its as if you are standing in their home
Does one’s knowledge of how to ride a bike have anything to do with such graph structures? Or is intelligence unrelated to such skills? It seems that the intelligence involved in having a basic conversation would engage a lot of such skills, even just social tact.
It seems to be a textbook form of discrimination.
this is an advertisement thinly wrapped in some vague advice
It's also great self-marketing.
> n=10

Yes interesting idea for a study but only 10 participants, presumably all around the same age.

Too bad this is what passes off as scholarship in Human-Computer Interaction nowadays. I remember seeing a paper from CHI (the top conference in the field, where OP was also published) lamenting the field's far lower standard of scholarship compared to psychology — the poster child of replication crisis!
$2 million per year is very low for people at that level if you think about the potential profits that advanced AI can bring and compare the real world utility to that of, for example, a celebrity or professional sports player.

They are at least talking about AGI. If those people get anywhere close to AGI, they should start charging ten or hundred times more, because having that kind of technology could be worth hundreds of billions or more. So even though there is no indication they are close to it, if there is even a remote possibility of getting there, the salaries are questionable in the context of those potential astronomical profits.
Awesome. This one goes in my collection of programming games. Thank you. I hope it gains traction.
The government doesn't pay for the cost of unleaded gasoline/work safety standards/food safety/building codes - why should this case be different?
Exactly. The goal of chemotherapy is more or less to poison enough of the bad before too much of the good.
> Imo Elon is starting to get into contention for greatest engineer of all time.

I don't know man, did he design it himself?
Looking at the issues is interesting: https://github.com/keybase/client/search?l=Go&p=1&q=xlm&type... and https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues?utf8=%E2%9C... - apparently running a crypto airdrop is still a way to get user numbers up...
I personally disagree. The differences between the language specific is high enough that a fully general VM is impossible without also incurring all the downsides of a language specific VM. Python and Java each have a distinct standard library. The end result will be that you have to install 'supervm-java-std' and 'supervm-python-std' instead of openjdk and cpython. JVMs tend to be very memory heavy in exchange for higher performance for java code, whereas the python interpreter is slow but more memory efficient because it relies on C code to accelerate CPU and memory intensive applications.
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I could write a provider to do so in a couple hours if one doesn't already exist.

But frankly, if you're using those boxes you've already decided that your time is worth less than your money and spending time on automation is probably lower ROI than moving to something, anything, with an API.

Anything that isn't IBM, anyway.
I think Aaronson addresses your objections in Q12, including claiming that there are some who didn't think even this would be possible (see also Q14).

If you built a programmable room for creating a large variety of material and lighting setups under computer control, that might be comparable?
Being deliberate is not required: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact
High-Tech Sensors May Be the Key to Autonomous Cars
Personally I think deep learning is the new faith and only a true heretic will be able to make breakthroughs towards AGI.
It's always cheaper to design a feature into a product than to add it later.
I think users want safety. And that means Borrow Checkers. It's 2018, no need to have languages that are inherently unsafe.
Productive is an overstatement.

PS:I use Golang everyday.
Tempering is the correct terminology. Annealing is a slow and controlled heating, gradually reducing the heat over time.

from Wikipedia:

"Tempering [...] is done by heating the metal to some temperature below the critical point for a certain period of time, then allowing it to cool in still air."

Here's a good description https://www.metalsupermarkets.com/difference-annealing-tempe...
So his effective salary is double that.
I didn't benchmark it and can't give a speed comparison, but I had success solving a pretty big optimization problem with GLOP, which I beleive uses or-tools.
This is huge, but in a way perhaps not obvious. I am trying to define a thing called a programmable company - it's where all the actions a company can make are scripted / scriptable - and weirdly it's what the law assumes exists right now - that a company has a controlling mind.

I am trying to say that automation and governance belong hand in hand.
Steel can tolerate a lot more deflection before it bends, and much more stress before it cracks. And while I would never expect a space craft mechanic to employ this technique, any bike mechanic will happily offer to bend steel back into shape for you, but bent aluminum or carbon fiber is scrap. Bending it back will fracture it, if it hasn't already.

When Canondale hit the big time, they had one model year where they made the dropouts out of solid aluminum and in the next model year the derailleur hanger was bolted on. It's the easiest part to bend and there's no repairing it. Bad enough for road bikes, spectacularly dumb for mountain bikes.
As the test case I feel it is rather unlikely. One typically goes after the sure offender.
Joachim Messing, 73, who charted the DNA of viruses and plants, dies
This is true. It is also the worst part about it.
Med School Without Cadavers?
Your post would benefit from this information.
Rust may have a learning curve, but debugging memory errors has an even steeper one.
When you target against protected classes, yes.

Facebook has a history of facilitating this type of thing and crying ignorance later. A local landlord was caught using Facebook to target apartment listings to people who weren’t black, Hispanic, Jewish, or gay.
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Geostationary orbit is further away than the most distant part of the Earth. If you have a way to transmit power efficiently over that distance, it’s still going to be cheaper to put the panels on the ground in Nevada, the Sahara, Saudi Arabia, the Gobi, and Australia, and transmit the power from there. (Microwave towers, LEO satellite relays, superconducting wire, whatever).

It’s likely to be really hard to make it efficient to transmit the power, because either it will be microwaves or it will be lasers; lasers can be blocked by clouds, microwaves need an huge antenna at each end (the numbers I’ve seen say that the one on the ground has to be big enough that people will ask why you’re not just using building a PV solar array on the ground instead of the antenna). If the antenna isn’t big enough, transmission losses from beamed power is proportional to distance squared, whereas resistance loss in wires is only proportional to distance (P = I²R, R = distance * some_design_specific_number Ω/m).

And that’s without the geopolitical implications of anyone worrying if the enormous directed microwave/laser source could be weaponised. Just saying “trust us” isn’t going to be good enough.
Sorry macOS users, but Apple has gone too far for some of us devs
>There has been no comparable advance in space flight technology in the last 58 years.

Because there was no incentive. Space was something governments did and after the USA won the space race, interest waned.
SpaceX proved there is a commercial market. Now we are witnessing the start of a commercial space boom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_spaceflight_co...
Look at the number of launchers in development.
Competition = innovation.
And once space mining has been proven as a concept, then the real boom will begin. I'm optimistic and expect all of this to happen in the next 20 years.

>What is this new propulsion technology that you anticipate?

Ion drives?, scramjets?, something that hasn't been discovered yet?, ... I honestly don't know but I doubt we will still be stuck with chemical rockets a 100 years from now.
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Plackett–Burman Design
Or just hire people who has different moral values. Is it so difficult to find? I personally don't have the problem pushing the kill button.
It's not, though. When I buy a page in Cosmo or something, I'm doing that with the intent and result that mostly women will see it. If targeted ads were illegal, it's hard to see how any publication with non-representative demographics could sell ads at all.
> anyone able to send emails to protonmail accounts outside of protonmail, encrypted and decrypt the responses yet? never looked into this

Yes. It's dead simple. Get your protonmail keys here [0], and on the contacts page, click the cog next to the user's email address to import public keys.

[0] https://mail.protonmail.com/keys
While I dislike golang its runtime and compiler are nice. Also lot of its simplicity aspects are nice.

if vlang can implement what it is trying to implement then probably it will be a nice contender to golang in all aspects. But that looks too good to be true.

The other language is rust, but the higher learning curve make it a bit harder for adoption in non systems where go/java like performance is enough.
29% of Americans are considered 'lower class'
Threadreaderapp is like taking PREP for AIDS. You still have a root issue.
I'm talking about grade school.
As far as I know, Olney's lesions have only ever been shown at heroic dosages in mice.

It's also worth noting that DXM is being studied in research as an antidepressant. I'm aware of at least one company working on it in combination with wellbutrin: https://axsome.com/axs-pipeline/about-axs-05/

DXM has a pronounced antidepressant effect that lasts for days after a recreational dose. Users refer to it as an afterglow instead of a hangover. This effect is fairly well known but not currently commercialized. It's also a similar drug to ketamine, which is also being used as an antidepressant in medical settings now.

From my own anecdotal experience, I'd probably have killed myself in my early 20s without DXM to give some relief. Sometimes I'll still grab a bottle of it if I'm in a particularly dark place. It's sometimes a pleasant experience, sometimes an unpleasant one, but it always lifts depression for a few days.

From what I've been able to understand over the years from the literature, nobody's died on DXM alone without taking extreme doses (anything over 500mg is crazy IMO). Some people have died from taking products that contained other active ingredients. CCCs were common before people realized the antihistamine overdose is harmful. Tylenol is common in those products too and could be used by someone uninformed, though that's also true for most painkillers. Even in extreme cases of daily high dosages (which doesn't make sense because of tolerance, but people are crazy), organs don't seem to be harmed.

Obviously chugging cough syrup has a questionable reputation at best, but we'll be seeing more people become aware of it in the next few years as drugs get mixed with DXM and patented as anti-depressants.

There's also at least one company on Amazon selling 500mg+ bottles that look like they're "4 hour energy"-sized, with DXM as the only active ingredient, complete with headshop-aesthetic packaging: https://www.amazon.com/Cough-Suppressant-RoboCough-2-Pack/dp...
Questionable for sure, but definitely less sketchy than the extractions and powders of years ago. I feel like I've seen less about DXM as cannabis has become more legal and as more odd chemicals, both legal and illegal, have become easier to order online.

edit: just to be clear, I haven't tried that product on amazon, I was just amazed to see that it exists and has such positive reviews.
You may be interested in MobaXterm. Don't let the name fool you; it's a good SSH client for Windows. I spent 20 years or so hassling with PuTTY, and just discovered this a few months ago. More people should know about it. I still need pagent for git, and the like, but at least Moba solves the set-the-terminal-options-once-for-all-SSH-sessions problem.
There will be countermeasures as well. Whether a bird is fake or real, breaking into a house can still be detected.

I imagine we'll also see small robots that scurry into your garage when you open the door and whose one job will be to open the door later for thieves. That is probably already possible. So we'll need intelligent security cameras in garages too.

Drones that crash through a window and set the place on fire - I don't know what we'll do about that one. But anticipating and solving such problems would make an interesting startup.
I really admire this respectful and level-headed comment. I think your product is neat, keep it up!
Has anyone ever played Robot Odyssey? It was one of most beloved games as a child. It's somewhat of a precursor to this project.
The op was talking about being Rob Pike. Just responding that it wasn't just being Rob because Ken was on it, too.

Also, Rob mostly doesn't work on Go anymore. Russ Cox now leads it and has for some time.
I recall quite a while back, when titanium started first showing up outside of aerospace, that someone had created a titanium-titanium composite by layering plate titanium with titanium cloth and welding it together somehow. Was supposed to be stronger. Wonder if there's a steel equivalent possible.

I think the military was looking at a similar material to replace depleted uranium with something non-radioactive (depleted uranium still experiences alpha particle decay, which is fine if you don't aspirate or ingest it, but a shell can pulverize on impact with a target. Also it's still a heavy metal even if you don't take rads from it).
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It's a matter of perspective. For people who believe a strong military is important to protect their own country and in a geopolitical world where military capability is everything that matters, what else is there? If a conflict breaks out, nobody's going to stop just because some military operators could be traumatized. At most you get to choose which military personnel are affected, but overall there's no "good" outcome for anybody involved on a psychological/emotional level.
This bit my brother once, on a trip to visit our grandparents. Grandpa would eat a half grapefruit every morning, believing that the acidity would alkalize one's system in response and lead (along with frequent alternative chelation treatments) to better health. We didn't drink the chelation shakes, but we did eat the grapefruits, since they were there and prepared.

Over the two-week visit, my brother got harder and harder to be around - he'd always been surly, and he struggled with grandpa's wife, but we'd never experienced the level of emotional turmoil he went through on that trip. He self-harmed, sliced his arms up deeply. I stitched him up with the sewing kit that the resort had mercifully left in the room for us, and we kept the wounds dressed with neosporin until they healed.

The next stop on the trip was a visit to grandpa's wife's sister, a professor of neuroscience. She just happened to mention the interaction between antipsychotics and grapefruit, and it was like a light went on in my brother's mind. He stopped eating grapefruit and returned to his usual mental state within a few days.
Any problems along the way with updates, performance issues or anything?

I’m interested in a new XPS 15 but prefer Mac OS.
Yes. If you are, for example, placing rental or property ads that filter by race, age, or gender that is the official description of it.
Yes but you don't control if a man or an old person can buy the magazine or not.
Targeted ads for some things, like jobs or housing, are considered discrimination. Ads for most products can be targeted.
Except the Go scheduler is actually pretty complex and really good at what it does...
Interesting although I’d love to see a discussion on the energy efficiencies as these catalyst aren’t free. CC (carbon carbon) and CH (carbon hydrogen) bonds are higher energy than CO (carbon oxygen) bonds. Hence why oxidizing (burning) carbon releases energy. You can’t reverse that reaction without an energy source.

So maybe this process or a similar process could be driven from a sustainable non combustion source.

The entire global economy is powered by burning stuff and first we need to figure out how to change that (the advances in wind and solar give me hope) then we need to generate enough excess power that we can start converting CO bonds back into CC or CH bonds.
Shame about the loot boxes.

https://i.imgur.com/NvQIJaG.png
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You hire people through ads in Cosmo? I doubt that.
I'm not a chess master myself, my knowledge of this topic is from what I've read of Kasparov. The guy is all about patterns. He even advises to play using a physical board as much as possible, to improve _visual_ recognition of patterns. Thing is, you might not even recognize this as "pattern recognition" per se. Call it "intuition", call it "experience", or whatever you like, but combinatorially I'm pretty sure you're not searching the entire tree of possible positions several moves ahead - that's literally impossible to do for a human to do in the finite time allotted to a game. You're relying on patterns to constrain the search, much like a modern neural algorithm would constrain its search using a cost function. That's what's meant by "pattern recognition" here, not rigid recognition of fixed positions. That is also combinatorially impossible for a human to precisely memorize.
Regardless of your funding source (there are many excellent scientists in industry), review is generally done on a volunteer basis.
I’m not convinced it isn’t simply a matter of scale, both in terms of the processing power and data.
The Purpose of the Simulation
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