skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was the case when there were only three major national networks as well.

That said, google is in a different business. Their ranking should be fair (aside for their paid rankings). In this case they should not be favoring themselves over others, that’s to say they should not artificially bury competitors in the fair ranking.
This doesn't seem very hard to believe. Flying is a miserable experience.
Sometimes. And sometimes the core engine may be in C++ but the game logic is in C# (Unity).

There are plenty of games whose performance demands are not so high, that a GC language can work fine. There are also many examples of realtime 3d games, that used garbage collection, and were extremely successful (minecraft, subnautica). These were high quality games, though both do suffer from performance downsides, related at least indirectly to using GC languages.
I use this approach a lot too, but I’ve found that some people consider it condescending so know your audience I guess.
My conclusion is that until you have hardware and software to classify objects as well a human you don't even consider testing on public roads. I can't understand the optimism that with such bad hardware and software but with tons of training it will magically get better then a human, Also we need some tests before we let anyone put his self driving car on the streets, should I be able to hack my car and npm install self driving and then test on your street ?
LLC (and LP)’s are great, when there is any outside capital including debt:

all the profits go to you

Yours and other people’s money that you used to pay for things becomes a tax deductions for you

the worst thing that will happen is that the world’s most prestigious reporters will report that you “lost” a billion dollars and nobody will be the wiser that your personal balance sheet contains free and clear money and assets
macOS Catalina 10.15.2 Beta (19C32e)
Women don't like this.
> Do clients hire consultants to build software without knowing at least something about what software needs to be built?

Absolutely - that's what I do in the database realm. One common request is, "How should I re-architect this system to fix the problems we're having today?" Another common one is, "How should we be storing this data to retrieve it more quickly?"

This type of work tends to be very senior, very architectural. Another way to think about it is by billable rate - at my rate, clients don't want to pay me to do the work. They just want to bring me in for short periods to tell them what work needs to be done, and how, and they have their existing teams (or contractors) execute the plan. It's not usually cost-effective to hire me to do it (although, for the right teams and projects, I cut deals.)
Only the trolls are judging. I'm just now select people of the time to study, and admire art about them. I quit obsessing over the rich and powerful.

All this angst over what I choose to admire and study is curious. A powerful emotion was triggered by my decision, I can see that. It says more about the trolls than about me, for sure.
Wait, what? The link you shared didn’t sound like Facebook is even trying to get into China. And the one reference to them building something with the Chinese govt is a link to a login paywall.
Kierkegaard and When You're the Only One at the Party Contemplating Existence
That was a fantastic read and very useful. Thanks for posting it
It actually is. Super easy to clean the grid; many grids are extremely clean already.
Catapults accelerate aircraft to the point of generating enough lift for powered flight. They allow you to take off from a short runway like a carrier but don't get you to altitude. You can get a sense of how much power is being used to reach cruising altitude by listening to the engines on take-off. They don't fully throttle back until you reach a high enough altitude to permit level flight.
Bad assumptions.

Patents are made more general by patent lawyers

They do this because the market tries to circumvent ever paying patent licenses or anybody else’s IP

This is more pronounced in software due to the short time span of relevancy coupled with the narrow outcome of the protocol ratification process (ie there is no market if you deviate from protocols like tcp/ip)

People want to be compensated for their ideas in exchange for publicly disclosing them
Section 230 wasn't intended to apply to spaces where content was completely unfiltered. It was meant to give services like AOL, Prodigy or CompuServe the ability to to moderate content without inherently becoming liable for everything that was posted to their services. Ron Wyden is still in congress and has talked about this purpose, as a response to Stratton Oakmont v. Prodigy.

Forcing sites to have a completely laissez-faire approach to user generated content seems to avoid liability for that user content seems like something that would destroy the internet. Like why would YC take on that risk to help us maintain a space free of spam or threats of violence?
Hey mikepurvis, some of us on the Collective.Energy community are Toronto based. We would love to learn more about the idea if you're comfortable sharing there!
To tack onto this point, I actually had a couple of issues where subtle memory management bugs led to slightly incorrect (not terribly incorrect) results when I was working on a graphics paper. The worst part about that was it wasn't immediately obvious that there even was an error, until much later when we realized that the results we were getting weren't consistent with what we expected.

Something glaring would be if we were getting values that were zeroed out or something like that, but when the only difference is that a slope is -1.4 instead of -1.6 or something like that, you don't immediately realize something's up.

Once we realized there was a bug, it took a long time to track down, and after that I was so frustrated I started writing a new library from scratch in Rust for our research and it worked out pretty well.

Anecdotal evidence for sure but it was really nice not having to triple check for memory race issues.
Maybe. Tesla vehicles might get the ground station (phased array antenna roughly the size of a pizza box) built into the vehicle, but you'll pay a premium to turn it on (like XM radio). The margins are likely higher selling data access to StarLink than what Tesla is paying per vehicle for LTE data from AT&T.
> interactions with native libraries are really slow because of that

Can you explain a bit? What is the connection between concurrency implementation (which I am assuming you are talking about multiplexing multiple coroutines over the same OS thread) and say slowness in cgo? Having to save the stack? I don't get it.
Today I learned that 2,400,000,000 = nobody. Must be HN math.

Also, ageist much?
Very cool and interesting.
I'm sure you could apply to tech as well.
I.e. Micro services vs Monolithic services.

Thank you for clearing that up.
No, of course not, but it allows the opportunity for that same plane to be powered by no-carbon sources in the future. With a gas-engine-powered plane, there's no chance of that.
You can have your doubts but I'm off to the patent office tomorrow.
Whitewashing Napoleon, another power-hungry European absolute dictator who killed thousands, is disingenuous. He took the thrones of those he deposed. Not a hero.
I'm a little confused as to what this does. Is this just Euclidean distance, or is it meant to be used for longitude/latitude? The article doesn't make it clear.
How does Rust compare to Nim? It seems Nim is as fast as C, static binaries, and ergonomic UX. Whereas Rust looks like C++ mixed with bath salts.
My bet is that if you're making synfuels, it makes more sense to take the efficiency hit and go for long chain hydrocarbons instead. Even if LNG is the technically superior fuel, planes last a long time and compatibility with existing equipment is worth a lot.
lol

Social security has reduced poverty in every age group.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security-keeps-22-milli...

Also if you want to go even further, you should redistribute from 40-60 to 0-25 and 65+ to enable people to properly raise children and the like.
Eh, that happens in London too. Kings' Cross station comes to mind. The way to make progress is to slowly drive into the pedestrians.

So it goes.
Unlike becoming billionaires though, most of us will actually be old someday.
I would assume, like in the USA, the person who hit the "summon" button would be liable for anything the car did.
Maybe better and more time consuming optimizations? 2 mio LOC vs. 26 mio LOC probably doesn't help either. Maybe there is some bottleneck somehwere in the software or hardware?
my parents got a free education (with a living allowance), mortgage tax relief on their mortgage payments, a pension based on their final salary, and a state pension that is growing about twice as fast as unemployment benefits.

The free education stopped as the last boomer quit university. The mortgage relief stopped as the last boomer paid off their mortgage. The pension was roughly equal to unemployment benefits until the first boomers retired. It's not coincidence.
This is how it's specified for anyone interested: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3838130/298073
Could we use Hydrogen that is generated sing clean electricity or is too dangerous?
>> At least with governments you get a representative

> ...if you live in a republic.

The Parliament of the United Kingdom doesn't actually exist? That explains a lot about Brexit.
So true! Another reason against dogmas, especially concerning code coverage.
I actually complimented the painting.

Its revealing how much backlash my personal choice of art and whom to admire, has triggered.
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First good answer.
I know Elon is all about vertical integration and using Starlink seems like it would be pretty low hanging fruit to wean them off a land-based cell provider and recover some costs - even if those costs are flowing into SpaceX coffers instead of ATT it could be a massive benefit to the Elon family of companies.
How to increase revenue from your customers with predictive analytics
Journalists and their readers rarely have the ability to break down these economic principles...and if the marketers themselves don't care, why should anyone (except the stockholders, who make less money from the company).
I'm on board on the Facebook hate train, but I still have one.

Why? Because the martial arts gyms I visit only communicate there. And because the card gaming communities (I used to play Netrunner) always used Facebook to coordinate. All seminars, tournaments and other events require Facebook.

I don't really care about talking to friends, and I haven't even added friends on Facebook. But Facebook being the gatekeeper to my hobbies, which I really don't want to miss, means I will continue having an account there. You're right that there's no alternative for me.
"Coming to Terms with the 8086" :-)

https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/section2_10_8.html#SEC...
> Workers do not have control over the fund choices they have in their 401k.

The easiest way to fix this particular problem would be to make the contribution limit for retirement accounts a combined limit for both IRAs and 401k accounts, and to mandate that in-service rollovers be available free of charge.
For the guy who said his family business is worthless. Why not create a new business in sons name and sell all assets to the new company including the name. Put the first in bankrupcy?
There's a lot wrong with Catholicism, but it doesn't oppose evolution (in fact, several recent popes have declared that evolution is proven fact) and it doesn't teach young-earth creationism, though it seems many Catholics are confused on this matter about what their own church teaches.
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> blowing this out of proportion

The best way/time to express disappointment is to do it right away and in full force. If AMD were on IMDB, they would get 1/10 for handling this. I have all rights to behave emotionally instead of rationally anyway.

Used TRs sell for peanuts, the same for mobos (no demand for used stuff; look at what actually sells instead of what is listed for months), it would be going from $1.5k to $400, writing off like $1.1k in the process. And there will be plenty on eBay soon, putting even higher downward pressure (both AM4 3900x and 3950x now beat all TR1/2s up to 16 core, sometimes even 24c). The missing low-core parts is another thing that wasn't well thought out in all this, I agree.

As for Intel, they were always upfront about the need to change mobos with almost every new generation (the last few were exceptions); I also never had so many issues with any Intel pro board that I had with ASUS Zenith Extreme, their "flagship" TR mobo that can't even run 2x Titan RTX properly...
For some time, I've been thinking of making a ceph cluster out of ODROID-HC1 or 2 (https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc2-home-cloud-two).
I call Rust a hybrid of Haskell and C++, it has most of the powerful type features you come to rely on with the MLs but the additional low level control and default imperative behavior of C/C++.

I came from Haskell to Rust and it really is a joy to program in.
I think "we the people", as a society can and do decide what should and shouldnt be allowed as long as we can make a case, and the result can be a myriad of things.
That's it. Symbols, notation, have power. Most programmers don't understand this because they have never been exposed to the idea. It is only natural that people reject it violently when proposed.
Google around a bit, and notice who's in power in the world. It was a political comment, not a racist one. Because, of course, 'white' is not a race (except to racists?)
This is really interesting, I think this is how the general population views social justice and other activist issues actually. It seems to be a similarly structured setup where we implement a byzantine list of things that people of privilege are supposed to keep track up, starting out as a list of good intentions that then spirals out of control. Afterwards nobody is real with anyone anymore and we are simply left with a system where most social interaction feels like a robotic scripted attempt to follow the rules of privilege.
>Some people like the idea of robotic, semi-scripted conversations according to a well-defined set of rules.

Thinking about the words you use in daily conversation with diverse peers doesn't have to be "robotic". You're just being exposed to how other people in less privileged positions have to think and act, and that's uncomfortable.

>You can't create perfect rules for human conversation.

Is anyone here claiming that their goal is perfection?

>Everyone needs to build those interpersonal and conversational skills

And there's nothing wrong with receiving help and guidance while you're on that journey.
> The culture that achieves near-perfect performance every flight is a different culture to the one that got planes off the ground back in the day.

But those lessons were learned. We know how to do it now. Just like...

> Today in 2019 mankind ... does not know how to drive safely

Yes we do, and by and large we do it correctly. It's easy to think nobody knows how to drive if you spend 5 minutes on r/idiotsincars, but that's selection bias. For every moron getting into an avoidable accident each day there are millions of drivers who left home and returned completely safely.

You can make the argument that people sometimes engage in too-risky behaviors while driving, that I'd agree with, but people know how. Just like people know how to develop safety systems that don't compromise safety, even when they choose to not, as I believe happened here.

> Making mistakes and learning from them quickly is just too effective; that is how all the high safety systems we enjoy today started out.

But again, we know how to do this already. And again, my issue isn't even that someone got hurt while we perfected the tech, all of our safe transit systems today are built on top of a pile of bodies, because that's how we learned- my issue is the person hurt was not an engineer, was not even a test subject. Uber jumped the gun. They have autonomous vehicles out in the wild, with human moderators who are not paying attention. That is unacceptable.

There was a whole chain of errors here:

* Ugly hacks in safety control software
* Lack of alerts passed to the moderator of the vehicle
* The moderator not paying attention

All of these are varying levels and kinds of negligence. And someone got hurt, not because the technology isn't perfect, but because Uber isn't taking it seriously. The way you hear them talk these are like a month away from being a thing, and have been for years. It's the type of talk you expect from a Move Fast Break Things company, and that kind of attitude has NO BUSINESS in the realm of safety, full stop.
> What happened is, he promised a certain pension to his employees.

No, he promised to pay a certain amount into an established scheme. Then he did so. He's upheld his side of every agreement he's been party to.

> Then, he put his money in a pension scheme that actually wasn't charging enough.

Enough for what?

> Now, years later, once some sane accounting rules are put in place, it turns out that there isn't enough money to live up to the promises that were made.

What promises? Why do you think they can't be met?

> It sucks that a decision like this would make a business go bankrupt

There is no business involved here any more. It's just an individual person who once employed people.

> but that's what happens when you make financial commitments that you can't afford to pay

He didn't make any such commitments. They were conjured out of the air by a legal change that rewrote the terms of his pension contributions retroactively.
I don't agree with OPs entire point and certainly wouldn't use such extreme language, but I also don't think you can dispute that point while only looking at spending like you did in your response.
Rust has a lot of correctness features that are useful, and some not related to memory safety, for example 3 that come to mind:

options and results instead of null pointer or using bit flags to indicate invalid states (a recent sudo exploit would not have happened in a language with option types)

everything is an expression so you do not have to create uninitialized variables and then set them later inside a switch or if statement.

much less (no?) undefined behavior

for someone working in a particular C++ niche who has developed strategies to avoid all of these problems already, then switching to Rust certainly may not be worth the cost involved in learning something new, but if you were to start from scratch and pick one of the two languages, there might be good reasons to pick Rust for the same task.
The term? No.

Companies rushing to adopt technology or migrate to platforms without understanding the full scope of the consequences? Happens every day and is happening across the hall from me right now.
Right. And you aren't going to write anything anyone wants to read for decades.
I love this approach because it starts from the position that the code writer knows what they are doing, instead of assuming they don't.
I assume this idea behind this is to expedite the login and checkout process? If so, I don't see how it would actually be faster or easier. It's simple and easy for me to just grab the password from my password manager. I absolutely do not want to have to log in or check my email to log into a site unless it has something to do with 2FA - and even then I prefer an authenticator app.
The Carnot efficiency (and joules/“unit pollution”) go up dramatically at scale (one of the reasons the 737 MAX was designed for such huge engines). So yes, a vehicle powered by a coal plant could pollute a lot less than a vehicle burning melted dinosaurs at the point of use.

In addition some of the other pollution (NOx, particulate etc) could be more manageable when coming out of a large smokestack in a desert vs in the cramped spaces of a city (car) or upper atmosphere (plane).

I’m definitely not defending coal! Just saying the calculus is complex and multi factor.
What if the phone erroneously detected an action? AKA a pocket summon. Is the phone manufacturer liable in that case?
Agree - would love to see the build
Does "more fonts" mean "any font installed on my system"? Or does it mean "a bigger hardcoded list of fonts"? If the latter, will that list include Computer Modern?
you'd be surprised how productive hanging around some bars near office parks during happy hour can be. Lots of conversations can be eavesdropped, find the right one, and then strike up a conversation and get a card in someone's hand.
True, if you're selling ERP systems.

If you're selling ERP consulting where you go in and help clients figure out what they actually need, client #2 would be a better prospect because client #1 doesn't need your services. :)
Here's an example of them working together rather effortlessly:

using Unitful, IntervalArithmetic
const m = u"m"
const k = 2π/10m

f(x) = cos(k * x)/(k^2 - 1/x^2)

julia> f((10.0 ± 0.1)m)
[2.5924, 2.60024] m^2

If I try to put in a dimensionally incorrect argument to f, I get an error:

julia> f((10 ± 0.01)u"s")
ERROR: MethodError: no method matching cos(::Quantity{Interval{Float64},𝐓*𝐋^-1,Unitful.FreeUnits{(m^-1, s),𝐓*𝐋^-1,nothing}})
Closest candidates are:
cos(::Float16) at math.jl:1085
cos(::Complex{Float16}) at math.jl:1086
cos(::Missing) at math.jl:1138
...

This isn't the most friendly error message in the world, but that can certainly be worked on and with a bit of patience it's pretty clear that it's saying that the problem was that it tried to compute the cosine of a unitful quantity which is nonsense.

_____________________________________

Unfortunately I had to use unitful intervals (i.e. (10.0 ± 0.1)m) instead of intervals of uniful quantities (i.e. 10.0m ± 0.1m) because IntervalArithmetic.jl demands that it takes real quantities, but Unitful quantities are subtypes of Number instead of Real.
Don’t reproduce.
It's possible, but even liquid hydrogen is not very dense and requires a lot of insulation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-155
Those of us who got into programming BECAUSE of the famous ‘characters’ of open source and their ranty comments find it quite repellent to have codes of conduct and women in the position of cultural politeness enforcers. Even using an emoji/joke might be wrong? Really? The idea that women are uniquely invested in this sort of stuff only damages my perception as a female programmer. Who’s going to want to joke around with me or review my code if I’m the fun police?
Someone is in charge of the office "just following orders" and not questioning authority. That office should be accountable.

Thanks to OP who spotted this.
#3 used to be called "professionalism"

A comic take on professionalism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRzxJZrm3iU

https://arresteddevelopment.fandom.com/wiki/Wayne_Jarvis
what if the summoned car gets hit by another car (in such a way the it is not the tesla's fault)?

what if somebody throws themselves into the tesla?
Oh yes, that's a Clojure atom. Been there, done that. https://www.braveclojure.com/zombie-metaphysics/

(BTW, in practice, Clojure atoms were initially thought of as the simple case of refs, where you have a full STM behind you. In practice, atoms end up being "good enough" in nearly all cases....)
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