skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Web pages can catch cancer and you've just found a sufferer. It may be coincidence that "obesity" is the first broken entry. I clicked on the obesity entry and ... "Nutella gives you cancer. ..." Yes - you are right it is broken, technically as well as contentwise.

The Roast potatoes link (you say tommmmmmmmmatoe, I say potarrrrto or something) works and so do some of the others.

Broccoli can be pretty dangerous if not handled correctly.
Mainstream and disreputable.
It’s not just braking. Porsche says:

> An uncontrolled vehicle would quickly understeer in this situation. In other words, the driver initiates the turn, but the vehicle slides in a straight line without slowing down. The control software in the e-SUV immediately puts an end to understeering. In a left-hand turn, it would brake the rear left wheel and accelerate the right one until a neutral driving situation was restored.

Braking the left rear wheel won’t do much if there isn’t enough traction to correct the understeer.

Even if you imagine the car has a magic gyroscope that can arbitrarily control yaw, if you try to make an 0.2g turn when none of your tires have 0.2g of traction, it’s not happening. You won’t oversteer, and you won’t understeer. You will, however, steer less than you wanted, and you’ll go off the road.
GM to lay off 800 workers at Detroit plant
I'm not even sure how accurately some small businesses can be valued. A local cupcake lady or artist might run a business that makes decent money, but all the income and value is derived from their unique style. Remove them and the business is almost worthless.

If a tax on capital is instituted are there mechanisms to value such cases?
How I Switched To Plan 9
Ah that's a well written and thoughtful response to my comment. Thank you for that! However I can’t say I agree with the trigger premise though, even if suggestion perceived as personal. Psychological problem suggestions, gentle nudges if you will, are inherently beneficial even if those generate a defensive response. Defensive response is a response! That response is a deliberate thought in itself, an analysis. In modern, developed societies, it seems that the only appropriate time to suggest therapy is when the following sentence includes a suicide hotline phone number, how crazy is that? Therapy or any psychological self-care should be normal, and not in any way different from a regular, scheduled visit to the dentist.
> the CO2 predictions have been on point

CO2 atmospheric levels are way below what was predicted because huge amounts of CO2 was absorbed by the oceans. This has wrecked havoc on the oceans, but the point is that the predictions of atmospheric levels were absolutely wrong because they did not account for the ocean absorption effect.
> they had no clue that China would become such a powerful force in terms of CO2 emissions?

Why would the models care? In fact world GDP growth has been right on trend since the 60's. It's true that it's concentrated in areas we didn't expect, but that's always true. China did much better than expected, the Americas were right on curve, Europe a little worse and eastern europe in particular fell off a cliff. So what?

Those models surely predicted aggregate carbon output pretty well. Are you saying they didn't?
I guess this is a tangent. First of all my point really doesn't hinge on the infinity; it can be finite (but really big) but regardless, whenever you apply minmax you must first crop your decision space to a probability threshold, or else you'll make nonsensical decisions based on what gives the best outcome if the sun should happen to explode.

But secondly, I think (although I'd happily concede if convinced otherwise) that the space of possible scenarios really is infinite, even if the observable universe is not. The space I'm talking about is not the actual state space of the universe, which in some interpretations of physics might be finite or even unitary. It spans the space of hypothetical universes that are all consistent with your information with nonzero probability, which I think is probably infinite, but again, if it's not infinite that's a technicality. If you include the states that have with zero probability (because why not? GGP was advocating that the probability is irrelevant to minmax decisions) then the space is definitely infinite, because even physically impossible states of nature will impact our decision making.
I remember my dad ranting in our 88 oldsmobile about how stupid all of those 4WD SUVs were, running around so fast in the snow. He would always say that 4WD could help you accelerate, but not help you brake. But whenever he bought tires, he would always get all-seasons. He found out the hard way (by rear ending an SUV) that a lot of those 4WD vehicles that drive so confidently in the snow are doing so not because they rely on their 4WD, but because they can rely on their tires.

Tires matter. A lot. For the past 25 years, snow tires have gotten continuously better. I recently tried out a set of hakkapeliittas, and the difference in driving confidence was dramatic. I could actually count on my car to reasonably stop in a way that I've never felt before, even with chains.
Correctness of numerical codes is a huge and under-appreciated concern in climate models. There have been some attempts to apply software correctness techniques to climate models. For example, https://people.engr.ncsu.edu/jwb/papers/altuntas-correctness...

Much more work in this direction is needed.
Stock market predictions are sometimes correct also.
Add `_nomap` to your SSID to stop Google from tracking it (2011)
> a specific edge case in the AoA cross-check logic

What the article you linked to describes doesn't look quite like that to me. It looks like a design that does not use the "median of three values" method that the article says is used for "most" sensors (but not AoA). I agree, however, with your correction that it was not a direct AoA sensor failure such as occurred in the 737 Max incidents.

> It's undoubtedly a serious design flaw, but it's not even remotely in the same ballpark as the Max's flagrant disregard for all process and well known design standards.

It's not the same as MCAS in the sense that it's not an ad hoc addition to deal with an issue that arose in a redesign of an old airplane, true.

However, it is a case of (a) a flaw in an automated system causing the plane to automatically take an action that is unexpected and dangerous, instead of the automated system detecting the error; and (b) an automated system overriding the input of the human pilot in a case where the human pilot can plainly see that the automated system is doing something wrong.

Also, it illustrates a more general design philosophy with Airbus that has led to other incidents, which is to hide important information about what the automated system is doing from the pilots and limit their ability to interfere with its operation. The pilots have no direct readout of the AoA sensor values that the automated system is using, or indeed of most of its other inputs. It was also not clear to the pilots exactly what mode the automated system was in (they thought it was in Direct Law when it wasn't), and there was not a simple "stop the automation" button they could press to put the plane into a known manual mode with known behavior.

While I would agree that this is not the same specific failure mode as MCAS was with Boeing, I'm not sure it's not "remotely in the same ballpark" as far as long term implications are concerned.
You'll also see people touting gluten-free diets to help the symptoms of "Chronic Lyme Disease" and the theory that "Chronic Lyme Disease" causes "Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity" (google it for mind-numbing websites).
Go:

value := getValue()

Java:

int value = getValue()
I used to earn over 100 usd per photo sale on 500px. Since they started licensing through Getty I get pennies. Litterally. Just a few days ago one of my photos got licensed where I received less than 1 usd in fees. I went to check on Getty's website and saw the cheapest you could license it from there was 50 usd. Talk about greed and getting screwed. I'm removing all my photos from 500px within a month.
Fortunately, yes
I too heard back then about how scientists were nearly unanimous in their consensus.

I wonder how old these people are swearing that we are wrong and hallucinating. Most of them were undoubtedly born long after these events.
I did Haskell for a while in nvim with basically no features (there are several, I just didn't set them up). I simply had ghcid running in one tab, nvim in the other, and did what the compiler told me to do.

So that didn't matter to me because the compiler is great and ghcid is very fast and sufficient.
> so what does this say about predictions that AGI is right around the corner?

Literally nothing
Indeed, however it doesn't change much the logical conclusion drawn by many: the risk is not adequately managed, not sufficiently "under control", there are configurations leading to a disaster (dangerous material escaping, especially on a large scale). Even if such disasters are relatively rare (given the reactor.year activity), they periodically happen and many think that any new one may be even more catastrophic. Add to this that many, in the public, now know that not a single insurer or re-insurer accepts to cover nuclear risk.

As for the impact on health we will only be able to assess it when the last dangerous waste dispersed by the Fukushima disaster will be innocuous, the last induced-cancer known...
Too much of anything is unhealthy. Too much exercise can hurt or kill you, but most people don't exercise that much because it stops feeling good.

It's not that healthy behaviors can't be pleasurable, but they are rarely pleasurable in the way that kills you.
China is the largest green energy producer in the world, doubling the output of the U.S.
Once AI is good enough to take photos better than a human, I think AI will be good enough to make entire categories of jobs obsolete. Photographers will at least have a fun hobby to enjoy while collecting their basic income.
Thanks for the shout. Just wait to see what else is coming from us in the coming months...
>Similar to the linked story here

Not at all.

>the US currently has a President with no political experience

Which is a) known to all and b) considered by supporters to be a virtue, as is often the case for those in public life in many countries.

>who has also hired family members for prominent roles in the government.

Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner are Senior Advisors to the President, which are by definition positions whose main/only qualifications are "the President trusts them". Like her father, these two aren't paid a salary.[1]

Every US president since Washington, and every human leader since Ugg became chief caveman of the Grugg tribe, has had advisors that he trusts as much as (and, usually, more than) those with official titles below him. A common term for such for presidents is the Kitchen Cabinet.[2] Sometimes the Kitchen Cabinet gets titles to formalize their access to the advisee. In the US that's Senior Advisor to the President; in the UK it's Special Adviser to the Prime Minister;[3] in many countries it's Minister without Portfolio.

[1] https://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/30/trump-white-house-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_Cabinet

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_adviser_(UK)

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_without_Portfolio
Cancer doesn't play a significant role in evolution because most people get cancer long after reproducing. In a way, cancer means that you succeeded at living long enough.
>Well, I think that is definitely and unambiguously false. The universe is not infinite, nor infinitely divisible, as far as we know...

This seems wrong. We don't know whether the universe is infinitely divisible.

See this for a nice discussion: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/33273/is-spaceti...
> If being green meant being more efficient and cost reduction it would be a no brainer.

The studies indicate that it's a lot cheaper to avert climate change than to deal with the consequences. So, economically speaking, it is a no-brainer.

> Politics isn’t how we will get out of this, imho. Science and engineering is the key.

We mostly have the technological means now to deal with the issue, but politics are the impediment. We can't convince people to do things we know are the sane way forward.

Technological improvements will help if they come through, but it's madness to bank the future of our civilisation on future breakthroughs that may or may not happen.
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Buy the product, get the crack. Since you paid, you can't be accused of a pirate, and you won't suffer from DRM.

This is actually quite a popular thing to do among users of certain niche software in the manufacturing and logistics industries, where DRM failure means far more than not being able to play a game.
The posters here are misusing malfeasance terribly.

Other examples are federal grant programs - they are required to publicize them and lots of folks / nonprofits spend lots of time applying but reality is most will renew to existing partners etc
I think education is ripe for innovation. I want to build a marketplace for ideas and learning. Combined into one
platform with incentives to work for each other.

Wrote some more thoughts on it here:

https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge/blob/master/look...
> Correct, but you can go a long way in writing testable code without requiring mock implementations.

For some languages (e.g. C++), if you are using classes, it can actually be fairly challenging to do unit tests without mocks. And almost every solution to this problem out there is to use interfaces/dependency injection/inversion.
Can you provide some source to this truth you're asserting?
Got it. I don't have an issue with OOP, just the ways I've seen it abused, mostly by intermediate programmers that are too clever for their own good.
American culture isn't 'mass-market' though, mass-market clothes exist everywhere and so does exploitative governance, consumption, etc. The fact that some of that clothing makes it over to remote regions doesn't mean they're suddenly going to be permeated with 'American culture', they aren't cavemen discovering fire. It's just an item of clothing, albeit one that somehow found its way into their particular place of residence. Turkish bazaars are chock-full of these, maybe her dad went to one in a big city and brought this to her to wear. Does that mean she's somehow aware of capitalism, mass production, or American culture?
The bias I'm suggesting is an appeal to authority, and you'll have to be more clear on how I'm displaying that, since I am neither suggesting I am an expert, nor am I showing off my long history of "being right" about other things.
Photographers do. But a lot of the time companies don’t want to spend thousands of dollars (and perhaps a fair bit of time) to get custom photographs shot. They may and do but that’s not always what you want.
We should take this full circle and build a mainframe that one programs by tweeting at it.
Please stop spreading this lie. Copyright "infringement" is a breaking of a contract. This is the black and white law.

Copyright infringment is absolutely not theft. That is just evil propaganda spread by a cartel of super rich and powerful media moguls and corps.

And the abuse of this lie affects the poorest and lowest in society most.
Unfortunately, clients and contractors alike for the most part still seem to insist on continuing the fallacy that is hourly payment.

While it may appear to be the obvious and "safe" thing to do because it seems measurable - and because "everybody" does it - it's measuring the wrong thing entirely.

Neither the client nor the contractor are actually interested in time wasted but that's essentially what you get if you bill by the time that went into creating some sort of output.

With time-based billing the contractor has the perverse incentive to spend more time, rather than becoming better and more efficient at what she does (which in turn would benefit the client as well because becoming better means being able to deliver higher quality work in less time).

The client on the other hand has an equally perverse incentive to reduce the hours that go into achieving a result, rather than putting emphasis on the agreed upon outcome.

Therefore I suggest to stop obsessing about time or trying to verify timesheets and rather focus on the outcome:

What's the desired outcome?

What's that outcome worth to the client? What value does that outcome create?

Can the contractor put a price tag on that outcome at which there's both a net benefit to the client and profit for the contractor?

Admittedly, that's much easier said than done, which is why many contractors and client still fall back to the "safe" default of billing by the hour. In that case, both parties involved usually rely on experience, trust and business ethics. You can't build a sustainable business by fleecing or cheating your clients and you can't build a successful client-supplier relationship on distrust either.

Still, in order to become better at measuring outcomes rather than time wasted we need to start thinking in terms of outcomes in the first place.
> You should be writing pure functions which are easily testable, and using integration code to wrap the pure and testable parts.

This often ends up with interfaces...
Maybe evolution's doing just fine and we're just overestimating it's speed relative to the speed of environmental change.

Also evolution can make some very crude selections - https://www.quora.com/Why-do-women-have-periods-What-is-the-...
According to that link, Protonmail would observe and respond to a warrant from local government the same way Google does.
It's nice to think of him retired, relaxing on an island, hanging out with John McAfee and Mavis Beacon.
Amazon doesn’t have to offer ARM based CPU instances to customers to benefit. If it just runs it own offerings on ARM like the servers that run load balancers, SNS, SQS, etc where they control the software they can save a lot of money.
here's my suggestion: If anyone in a meeting is calling in, kill the conference room and everyone get on zoom. We are a mostly distributed company, so it makes obvious sense for us, but even early one when only some folks were not present, we switched to everyone being on zoom or no one being on zoom and it make everything better.
> Standard conservative responses

Standard, according to?

In case you're wondering what my point is, consider the possibility that from a human psychology perspective, comments like this may be harmful to your cause, despite being popular among like minded people.
Null terminated strings always seemed to me like a terrible idea, but on the other hand, 255-character maximums aren't really reasonable.

What we need are strings prefixed with a length of the length of the string and then the length as a variable length integer.
This blog post is highly misleading and poorly-informed. The author of it does not seem to know that climate scientists do test their models against reality, leading him/her to waste a lot of words explaining how cargo cult science is bad, and how overfitting is being done, etc. These points are valid in the abstract, but don't represent how real climate science works.

Amazingly, the author at one point says:

"In proper science, the different theories are bloodily competing with each other."

as a contrast to climate science, where supposedly these models are just peacefully cooperating to raise more funds. Anyone who has been in the middle of a conference where people with competing models are comparing results (to each other and to observations) knows how off-base this is.
RISC-V chips will handily beat ARM on performance per watt, given similar specs and fabrication technology. The margin is not insanely large but it's definitely substantial in existing benchmarks.
Jails, yes; k8, no.

But I do have to say, the more Canonical and Redhat attempt to "innovate", the more I appreciate FreeBSD.
Amazon Antitrust Probe Expands to Cloud Business
That's DJB. DBJs is a Javascript database thing. There is possible ambiguity here.
The Economist did not ever strike me as a right wing publication that wants to lower taxes and roll back regulations.
So, you dismiss this work based on your speculation on what the authors could in principle have done wrong?

There would actually be substance to your comment if you could point us to the models the authors didn't consider.
Please don't pollute the web with .NET on the client side too. Do we _really_ need this?
That's not "prediction". Prediction is when you say something will happen and then it does, at least somewhat reliably. Better yet, if you have some skin in the game, such as your scientific reputation. I.e. if you say there won't be any polar bears by 2020, their population better not quadruple to thwart your prognostications.

https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-that-the-polar-bear-popula...

It's very easy to find a model that predicts this retrospectively. It's also completely worthless. Predicting the future is much harder.

That's my main beef with climate science: not only do they do this kind of hand picking retroactively and claim they're able to "predict", they also sometimes go back and _tweak the input data_ to fit the models better, or make it up entirely where coverage is inadequate. This is not how science is done in any other field. This also doesn't feel like it's being treated as an existential threat would be treated, in terms of scientific rigor. I understand it's a very complex problem, sure, but that doesn't give you a license to take arbitrary liberties with scientific method or ground truth data.
And yet other 50-year-old climate models in-correctly predicted global cooling.
> Adding interfaces whose only purpose is unit tests is not keeping the code simpler. Using a test library that automatically generates mocks for unit testing is what keeps the code simpler.

I've yet to find a library for C++ that generates mocks without requiring interfaces, but I'll admit I'm not an expert on it. Can you recommend any?

As an example, Google Mock/Test will require interfaces in a C++ code base.

Of course, we may be disagreeing on what is meant by the term "interface".
I too had the fortunate experience of picking up his Assembly book around the same age and it was indeed a magical experience. I got into real time computer graphics programming (the demoscene) thereafter thanks mostly to the Assembly.
Out of curiosity, I just have to ask for clarification: do you consider this a standard (normal, average) conservative response? If so, upon what is this belief based?
Sounds kinda hacky from a company who moves mountains at the W3C to change established standards that don't suit their goals.
What exactly is CFS?