skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A member of a minor nobility family, regardless of their financial situation, belongs to a distinct social class

Not one which would ever have been able to rise very high under the ancien régime. Minor, impoverished nobility from Corsica (then a backwater in France) were not in line for the throne. As a Corsican, he was barely even considered French (and spoke the language poorly when he was young). The fact that someone from such a lowly social station would be able to rise to be the head of state was astonishing. It would have been completely impossible, of course, without the Revolution, and for someone without great ability.

Napoleon wasn't a peasant, but he wasn't anywhere near the ruling social class - which is what the GP implied when they said they weren't interested in "white folk with life-and-death power over millions, because of an accident of birth." Although, in one sense, I could grant that Napoleon did come to power due to accident of birth - the accident of being born shortly before the Revolution, and perfectly the right age to rise through the ranks of the military during the Revolution, and then take power just as the Directorate was becoming unpopular. If he had been born 10 years earlier or later, that would have been impossible. But nevertheless, without also being possibly the greatest general in history and extremely charismatic, he wouldn't have come to power.
The impression I got from the article is that they are bringing all (safety-critical?) control-system software up to 21st-century standards of redundancy.

It was not clear to me whether it would be possible, in theory, to fix MCAS alone, and if so, who decided that it was necessary to go beyond that - Boeing? The FAA? Other countries' regulators? The airlines? None of these entities want another round of "you didn't fix it right", though their perception of risk and tolerance of it may vary.

AFAIK from this article, none of the earlier generations of 737s will be so modified, even though their systems are presumably very similar, in all non-MCAS aspects, to what the MAX first flew with. That's quite arguably a rational choice, once you recognize that there is a cost - benefit tradeoff even in air-travel safety.

This is a sort of technical debt situation. Ironically, if Boeing had not tried so hard to game the regulations, MAXes could be flying today with less fault-tolerance than they will have when they return.
While making sure the engine isn't cloud based or phones home.
We kind of have this with social media. I have a good friend who passed away and I occasionally go look at his Instagram to relive the good times. Guess I should probably archive it in case they delete it.
Exactly! On our OpenShift production cluster we ran into ndots problems with DNS and slow DNS resolution overall. This blog post was very helpful in understanding the issue and ways to fix it, https://pracucci.com/kubernetes-dns-resolution-ndots-options...
Why do you think this is the fault of cryptocurrency?
There's also currently a push by many countries to have carbon monitoring satellites above their countries.

For example: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meet-the-satellit...
>> When the government takes an extra $1 from someone at the mean income and then provides them with $1 in health coverage, it shows up as $1 in government spending, but that's not redistributive. If the program didn't exist they could have taken the $1 and used it to buy $1 in health insurance, which is what happens in the US.

This is ignoring that a private insurer will take a profit so not all that dollar is returned in the form of care/insurance.
Yes, what surprises me the most is Republicans seeing public education as "welfare" or some "cost" as opposed to an investment for the betterment of the company's economy.

Quite weird.
Interesting about the 1000 ft tall ice shards. The article mentions a possible orbiter mission to Pluto. Is it even possible? The spacecraft would have to either massively decelerate at the end of the mission, meaning take a huge amount of fuel with itself, or would have to travel much slower, with the mission possibly taking decades to arrive.

In 2017 some astrophysicists met to discuss a possible orbiter mission:

https://www.space.com/36697-pluto-orbiter-mission-after-new-...

They've also discussed a Charon lander, but seem to be now preferring an orbiter with a complex dual-object orbit.

In 2017 they decided to firm up the plan so they can make a formal proposal at a 2020 meeting where NASA decides what it wants to do over the next decade. So we likely will hear a lot about how this would work next year.
Joins for pd.DataFrame.merge() and SQL are explained in exactly the same way, it doesn't matter which order you learn them in. I learned them first in pandas and found the syntax to be more intuitive there.
Happy to make it an AMA about Google.
Those layers are why you need to measure the sound speed profile -- speed of sound as a function of depth. The variation in sound speed in the water column affects not only the travel time of acoustic energy -- but also the path -- (snell's law).
Even beginning to discuss race realism almost anywhere will get you banned, including from this forum. Especially if you think there are substantial IQ differences.
this is interesting data... im not a scientist, but what causes the methane from the garbage dumps? rotting organics or just everything in general? is there not a better way to dispose of specific types of trash creating these gases?

Obviously not a small problem to solve. I think if the gov started identifying and fining these emitters, they would invest more into these types of solutions.
If you tackle the problem from an efficiency angle it makes sense. Just like how people advocate for keeping things DRY why should every developer worry about deployment pipelines, logging/monitoring/alerting systems, etc. It makes sense to have a dedicated team to worry about those issue so others don't.
Ransomware doesn't really work without it. In fact, they specifically call out WannaCry which demands ransom in BTC.
Many non profits adopt sections of road and clean it up once a year, receiving provincial funds as a small fund raiser where I live. Bags of garbage each time so littering is still a thing unfortunately.
> For instance the Fukushima disaster, without an evacuation...

But that is a pretty irrelevant comparison since there was an evacuation. Unless you are suggesting we stop evacuating people in case of nuclear disasters?
> While a very expressive and extendable language like Python seems well suited to researching the desired abstractions when designing neural nets and ML paradigms, it seems to me that a production phase would benefit from translating it to a 'sleek' language like Go — which forces you to think closer to the machine, and opens boulevards to safe performance.
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> I wonder what people fluent in Go and other languages, experienced with ML, think of this. (it's a minor concern overall, but the future of Go in ML is of interest to me)

I gave this talk: https://speakerdeck.com/chewxy/data-science-in-go, I wrote this cheatsheet: https://www.cheatography.com/chewxy/cheat-sheets/data-scienc...

I wrote Gorgonia (https://gorgonia.org). I wrote a variant of AlphaGo in Go (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk87zsxpF1A).

So, to answer your question, yes you are ABSOLUTELY correct in that intuition. I speak several languages - in the data world: R, Python, Julia; In the logic world: Haskell and Prolog (Datalog); In the software engineering world: C, Go, Rust. Go sits right in the middle of all this. From my point of view, it's the right balance and is Thanos' preferred language too.

On that note, Gorgonia has seemingly recently took off thanks to the heroic efforts of the community - this year there were talks not by me on deep learning in Go using Gorgonia and that kinda made me quite happy.
I don't think so.
I live in South America and here both the Roman Catholic church AND extended families are big. No big individualism.

I think Heinrich really miss the mark here. There must be other factors in operation.
They've been driving prices to rock-bottom for so long, it's pretty ironic that they get sued for trying to raise prices. Such is life.
Yeah and it's a thousand times easier to quickly replace those because their key components are not the most dangerous substances on the planet!
I think they said the old glass recordings were radio serials, not movies.
I think your point would be much better communicated if you provided citations for your claims. As it stands now, your comment comes across as condescending.
Isn't hijacking a DB as a "distributed" message queue a pretty well trodden path? Enterprises have been doing this for decades.
It's a common ignorance pattern: hipsters reject complex and mature effective tools that require a learning investment (in this case a RDBMS and its fancy configuration options and SQL capabilities) because they don't know what they can do, and embrace inadequate familiar and/or shallow tools (in this case, misused fashionable and "schemaless" NoSQL databases) because they are confident that they can fill the gaps (in this case application code in familiar programming languages, to the extreme of "reinventing the wheel" with completely custom frameworks).
Android studio feels like a skyscraper put together with glue and duct tape
The big difference is that historically you could run pretty much all analysis on a single computer (if not in Excel - I’ve seen and built many actuarial models in Excel myself) but consumer internet scale data (both in terms of the number of rows and the number of features available) is too big to model without distributed computing and more programming work on the part of the analyst.

Moreover it’s an iterative process where you start with hypotheses on what features will be useful then build a model and might need to pull more data. For example you could build a recommendation engine just using the set of products purchased by customers but then might explore adding user agent features like devices or might add data about the products like category or price information.

An analyst (“data scientist”) who can pull and interact with that data is much more effective than one who needs to wait for someone else to pull the data for them (most actuaries I know are weak programmers outside of R and wouldn’t know where to begin using distributed computing or getting a TensorFlow gridsearch running on a cluster of cloud GPUs :)
Charts: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/
This is exactly what happens when you abstract away anything, in this case, infrastructure. Most of the time people focus on the value-added by the abstraction. This time somebody had to face the additional burden that was introduced by it, making it harder to track down the bug.
I see your point. and even if I am a victim myself like you and many others, I cant just blame them and feel happy about it. I blame it on a the system. and...governments.

but see? this is political talk again. and I have no time for that. accept the things as they are and try to build tools to make the world a better place. and for me that means, actively do something myself.
Regulatory capture are why costs are high.

There’s publicly available government record of wheeling and dealing, leveraging public fear of accidents, and the US not being invested in nuclear weapons development, to regulate us in a direction of favoring weapons development, and abandoning subsidy of nuclear energy development.

As usual, the cost scenario is entirely artificial, existing only in deference to decades old political decisions.

Deference to allowing those decisions to continue to rule is a public apathy problem. The political class isn’t going to shift on such things without public pressure at scale.
A kilogram of Zinc costs about $2.50[1] and is enough for an adult man for three months. There is no zinc crunch in the foreseeable future. Plus if it really became a problem you could recycle the zinc out of old batteries.

[1] https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/zinc-price
Elixir + Phoenix + Postgres + Heroku
There is some movement around small modular reactors. I hope they could be done in a fast and safe way.

Even just heating cities could provide a huge saving in emissions. The reactor design simplifies and the whole facility simplifies even more massively if you forgo power generation. You can operate with low pressures and temperatures.
I've begun to realize that the games I play for fun reflect the complexity of the work that I do. sigh
Paywall.

I don’t see the argument. Walmart and others are sucking while Bezos is executing.

Unless Bezos crosses the line with onerous contracts not allowing manufacturers to sell with other online retailers he should be ok. Wise for Bezos to put antitrust friendly language in all contracts.
You don't have a single famous one because Go developers tend to hate frameworks and ORM's. If you are interested, I have wrote about some alternatives before here - https://hackernoon.com/the-myth-about-golang-frameworks-and-...
I was curious whether it ever torques the other direction in individuals, and came across a claimed link between inverted torque and stuttering: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5537737/
I don't necessarily approve of the pitchforks coming out at the sight of a MAGA hat, but it's either delusional or just intellectually dishonest to deny the racial component to Trump's rhetoric.
This is included in what you write, but it should be noted for emphasis that Bill 101 prevents Anglophone immigrants from receiving (public) education in English. That is, a family that moves from Ontario to Québec can receive English-language education for their children, but not one that moves from the UK to Québec (even after naturalization as citizens).

To the extent legally permissible (Québec has a special exemption from a portion of the constitution's minority-language education section), the province takes a model of education where English-education should only be provided to the existing minority, and immigration must bolster the Francophone majority.
> Professors also increasingly assign homeworks online rather than make students do it on paper.

I saw this begin to get popular towards the end of my undergraduate studies. I fought against it tooth-and-nail, because all of a sudden students are required to pay a third-party in order to turn in their homework. Why in the fuck do I have to pay a publisher to submit homework to my professor?
Are you giving your opinion as a legitimate “subject expert” or should we take it as a “non-expert” opinion?
Fannie Mae Accidentally Spills the Beans on the Impending Housing Market Crash
You'll have dumped it into a strict database, giving yourself a false sense of order and organization. But later when you need to query that amorphous data, you might be able to use OPENJSON or something else, but a NoSQL solution will have been built to handle this type of query specifically with utilities like key exists and better handling for keys missing or only sometimes being present.
"Travelling much slower" isn't really an option either. By the time a craft encounters Pluto, the problem is that it's going too slow. It then has to match the (higher) orbital speed, and Pluto's gravity is not helping much.
> Maybe that's true in Germany. I don't think corporations are as powerful there as in the US.

But that's precisely the issue. The anti-nuclear lobby in the US isn't just hippies, it's the oil and coal industries. The hippies are just the face they put on the TV because "coal industry opposes nuclear" sounds like an advertisement for nuclear.
That looks really cool!

A while ago I tried to write some wordcloud code, but couldn't quite figure out how to do the layout. Does anyone know where one might find a good writeup of the algorithm that tends to be used for this?
Yes absolutely. It’s destructive to curiosity too imo. If you do go and search for something outside the algorithmic expectation it can break things hard (oh, you looked at a thing about shoes? Let me give you nothing but that). Which makes me hesitant about search terms on some platforms.

Potentially this can be fixable in the long term, but I think humans will almost always(?) be superior curators. Mostly because they’re approaching it from “this is what I like” and not “this is what I know you’re going to like.”
If anyone's interested here's an actual company selling a real Zinc-air product:

https://eosenergystorage.com/about-eos/

Two largest downsides of this technology are:

1. Round-trip efficiency of 75%.

2. Low power density.

Cost and cycle life are great though - should be great for grid storage.
> ...He's obviously siding with racists instead of siding with the marginalized minorities.

Hopefully you aren't being too serious. I could easily imagine someone saying that who was taking B's side in the dispute. No one should be banned from a conference and slandered as a hateful, violence-inclined etc. person for trying his best to de-escalate a conflict, no matter how misguided and perhaps even outrageous.
https://outline.com/2fHaL8
There's an online version of MtG with pretty reasonably prices cards iirc, and you can get lots free.

Interface is amazingly complicated though, since it has to model all of MtG.
You are crushing this thread with sensibility. Thanks.
> "just asking questions!"

I recently learned that some people call these comments and posts "JAQing off"; such a term isn't going to change anyone's mind, but at least there's something to sadly smirk about when I see the same bad-faith questions posted for the umpteenth time.
Getting Started with Machine Learning on MCUs with TensorFlow
For example, "urban" water use in California accounts for 8-11%. I believe "urban" is both residential and industrial use combined. However, most of the pressure seems to be in reducing residential use--the goal during the last drought was to reduce residential use by 25%...which would account for at most 2% of the water consumed. Approaches included things like not giving you water at a restaurant unless you asked for it.

Of course all water use (like pollution) is driven by consumer demand, but the point is a lot of effort seems to be spent on silly things that have little impact when there are much easier targets.

Caveat: the water situation is a lot more complex than I laid it out here.

https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/
The argument is they're tying usage of FBA to selling on their marketplace, which unfairly boosts FBA usage even if more expensive or worse service than competitors such as FedEx or UPS.

In particular, if you use FBA you aren't held responsible by Amazon for late deliveries but if you use other services you are. Also, their data shows only 15% of Amazon deliveries are actually meeting the 2-day timeline.
Yeah sorry. I used the cli front end to my database from a container and had it dump the results to a file that I then massaged with python
Huh, that's not where I'd have assumed those lines were.

* Yes, everyone agrees

* Almost everyone agrees on this one

* Not everyone agrees, but the public consensus seems like they'd probably be banned.

I guess we just live in different filter bubbles.
Random past blaster from 1985

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_(character)

wherein some artificial news anchor rendered like a showroom dummy does... hrrm can't remember anymore...things...
Is anyone surprised by this? I certainly am not. It really is inevitable.

When the whole CoC was shoehorned in the Linux Kernel, many people warned that this was going to happen. We were just hand waved with "No such thing would happen" because the people behind the CoC were not racist, etc, despite when the previous events like the whole opal mess indicated otherwise.

The really ironic thing here is that America(and Silicon Valley) was built on historical events like this. A whole lot of geniuses and skilled people were driven to America by similar groupthink lynchings happening in Europe and Asia up until and including WW2. They built America into a powerhouse. If this continues to happen then Silicon Valley is going to get a painful history lesson they could have easily avoided.
One thing I fully believe led to Go's adoption is its feature-rich standard library. SSL connections, JSON parsing, HTTP and the like are all things that would be a major impediment if it was up to the developer to find some generally well accepted 3rd party module on Github and hope it stays maintained and stable.
Carl Sandburg said that.
Just part of the panopticon, they are forcing you to make it super easy for governments to monitor you. Tracking email addresses and correlating amongst shared names makes for more false negatives, tie it to a phone number and you're doing their work for them.
In this case it sounds like something that could be subsidized by the government if it provides a net benefit to the general populace (by reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere).
Listen to Grace Hopper. Count the feet (nanoseconds) data has to travel at speed of light so the Admiral respects the laws of physics.
There are a lot of much more dangerous substances on the planet, and many of them are likely used in the manufacturing process of photovoltaics.
It hasn't been clearly communicated how radical (unlike other languages) a change this is. Although well intentioned, this is going to waste a lot of hours for a lot of Go developers.

If there is any package out there that is already at a version higher than v2, they have to do some intrusive change. Moreover, since "internal" references to packages must also use the absolute path of each package, this even requires module developers to make changes all throughout the source code.

May be this was always a problem, but I find the blog text could use more detailed explanation. This is like the magic time of "Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 MST 2006" for Go timestamp parsing. Yes, it is a very neat trick, but you have to tell the users that you are explicitly doing something different from the norm.

> Starting with v2, the major version must appear at the end of the module path

Here v2 refers to the version of the module, not Go.
> Stab a Book, the Book Won't Die

True, but they tend to not survive toddlers.
Deep dive in to the backstory behind the quote:

http://www.taxhelp.com/lincoln.html
Alternatively, maybe a month ago you could have not been cheating.
Despicable racist company. Investors need to pullout now before the fascism spreads.
Very impressive! Well done!
You really need at least one expansion (and make it Intrigue) before too long to keep the game interesting. IIRC the base game originally had the first 2 or 3 expansions but broke them out to cut the costs down (and for the expansion revenue later.) IMHO get them all up to and including Hinterlands at the least if you get into it.

RIP isotropic
Again not my idea. It was suggested to me in response to the very problem you’re having. I’m just so happy to have it as an idea that I didn’t want to keep it to myself. Here’s the link. https://hashrocket.com/blog/posts/materialized-view-strategi...
@ mods I 100% understand why this is flagged and it is already being a mess but it has 100+ upvotes in <1 hour. If possible I think this issue is important enough to some such as myself in the community that this post should be allowed on the front page.
A website that quotes Breitbart is a signal that they are not serious about providing accurate scientific information.
It is not my experience: I work remotely and my company is treating me very well as it's hard to find people with my skill level in their region of the world.
I think the situation is described with reasonable accuracy.