skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible, so I should qualify it as our current understanding of physics implies computationalism.

So, if a macro phenomena, i.e. the human mind, is uncomputable, then it is not emergent from the low computable physical substrate.
In short, deliberate regulatory obstructionism. Telling people you'll protect them from nuclear meltdown is a great way to get votes. Estimates for the cost of nuclear energy without the past four decades of anti-nuke activism are as low as 10% of current costs.

https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/10/12/2169
Right, but there is a massive difference between saying that some people can be misled and categorizing an entire political party as a bunch of fools.

(As an aside, it is entirely fair to question your future tax rates under a politician promising to deliver massive social programs, even if they don't claim they'll raise taxes for the non-rich. Money has to come from somewhere and there's no guarantee that taxing "the rich" is going to be enough.

Also, saying "They also don't appear to realise taxes pay for running the country" is a strikingly dim-view to have of people.)

As another person said, the real interests are not always monetary. Someone may be willing to pay more in healthcare if the government is less involved in their life, even if they are poorer than most people. This is just one example.
The article says the felon coders who were hired are in the test engineering department, due to restrictions clients have when it comes to data access by people with criminal records.

And those with criminal records are allowed to practice law. Quite a few inspirational stories of this actually: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shon_Hopwood
It's possible for the mind to solve more halting problems than any finite computer, yet still not be as powerful as a complete halting oracle. Thus, the fact we haven't solved every problem does not count as evidence against the mind being a halting oracle.
Would it make a difference for Minecraft? I haven't played in a while but I remember fiddling with JVM settings to try to get smoother performance.
they are clueless about what a real gift would be like

What would a real gift be like?
I'd also disregard a pot bust.

This Aguirre guy in the article was at least an accessory to a shooting--even though they charged him with much more than that... not the kind of person I want near confidential information.
Yup. Clothing has been a famously high-margin business since long before the internet, though. Like > 70% margins being normal for department stores, IIRC.

Which does not imply the rest is profit, of course (since all the competing stores do the same). More like that they threw half of it out at the end of the season.
> "In the coming months a law will be passed in parliament that will outlaw this type of activity. Companies like Amazon will no longer be able to throw away products that can still be used," Poirson said.

I think op is talking about businesses being able to do what they want with their products.
Wearable technology market continues to grow rapidly
So, these aren't really "worn" correct? At first, I assumed the inventory was thrift and my jaw dropped when I saw the prices. They should consider rebranding...
I've always thought it should be illegal or heavily disincentivized to create such throw away products, but have never figured out a good way to actually measure this. No company is going to admit to creating junk.
Remove the stitched brand then?
>I don't think you disprove the hypothesis, though. I think you are talking about equally, if not more, important thing - ergonomics

Types are an intrinsic part of ergonomics.

>I'd rather see something else being an ambassador of static types.

I'd be happy to see another language be an "ambassador of static types" provided the tip of the iceberg of 'visible things built in it' doesn't compromise of say, one spam filter and a file converter.

I'm getting pretty tired of hearing about how awesome and productive haskell's type system is for 15 whole years and seeing a whole lot of evidence that it's waaaaaay too unproductive to build anything of use in it.

Rust is a fine ambassador of static types (and has some great usage examples), but rust and python address extremely different non-overlapping markets and rust isn't shy about the fact it makes it fucking hard to compile things in.
It’s kinda the title feature of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.
Many items in the <$30 price range will cost a lot of money to ship it back, let alone the time and effort to process at both ends. Its more efficient just to give away or even throw away yourself, but returning gives you a credit so that is what most people do.
I've never solved a problem while completely unconscious. I've occasionally had insights while dreaming, and there is some intuitive aspect to thought that is difficult or impossible to explicitly articulate. But, every instance of problem solving I engage in is connected with conscious thought.
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While bugs in game programming are quite obscene, and the task of making a game quite arduous, all this tweet did was demonstrate how really bad code design will bite you in the ass if you're making games.
Crows have learnt how to make a meal of cane toads (2018)
Agree. I really try to just not buy new stuff nowadays.

Food packaging and things like building materials are the most difficult.

There are certain things that I think make sense to buy new or 'lightly used' - if you're going to run a vehicle (bicycle, motorcycle, car, whatever) into the ground then you're getting full use of it; and cars, at least until they're almost completely useless and melted for scrap, have a decent ecosystem for second hand parts.

In some sense I think manufacturing has become too 'good' relative to human labour. We're throwing things away because it "costs more" to repair them.

But it doesn't really cost more - it just costs more in monetary terms because waste (both in manufacturing and disposal) is externalized.
I find the discount is little and the drawback is high
The Democratic People’s Public of North Korea comes to mind.
Don't know where you're located. But In EU, the employer only own the code you type at your work (or during your work time if remote) It's in the contract.

He can only bother you if you code for money outside your work. It can be seen as a second job. Again check your contract.
Just a point to consider: how long would it take you to recreate this work? My guess, not nearly as long as it took the first time. 90+% of the time in coding, is figuring out the problem space in greater detail. Much of the rest is figuring out the best architecture to fit that problem space. Very little is typing and getting the syntax right.

If you have to abandon what you've done, leave, and recreate a new version, would not take you two years. Two months? Less? Not saying this is what you should do, just that you consider what it would entail, if you handed the company your side project and then left to go re-create it from scratch, with all the lessons learned from the first time.
I'd not label that as "certainly", quite a few lawyers disagree about 1f not being applicable for basic, ano-/pseudonymized analytics.
Agree - I've used the Balmer decade as my own slam time to time ...
Rohit Prasad (Head of Amazon Alexa) on the AI Podcast
Nothing cheap about it. More like an expensive way to make all kinds of middle-people feel good and collect a check.

Did you see how many organizations are behind the effort? It probably took millions of dollars to go from zero to hiring ex-con coders.
They can be quite worn. The pricing is scaled relative to how comparatively worn an item is.
There are things that you can't contract away.

An obvious example in the U.S. is that even if you have a contract saying you have to work for someone for no pay, forever, with no possibility of getting out the contract, it would be unenforceable because we, as a nation, have decided that slavery should not be legal.

It turns out, many of these un-contractable issues involve the employer/employee relationship... another example: even if you sign a contract saying your employer doesn't have to pay you overtime, that provision would be thrown out if you challenged it, and would probably get the employer in trouble with various agencies, including the IRS.

I am a lawyer, but I don't have experience in this field, and this is not legal advice (you have to hire me for that), but this issue seems like one that a court (depending on the state, no doubt) would find that it doesn't matter what the contract says, an employer can't own everything an employee does.

To emphasize: this is NOT legal advice, don't rely on it, and you really should seek counsel if you are encountering this issue in real life.
Something that you actually use and that stays around for a while.
At a minimum, something that someone will actually use or appreciate.

Stocking filler plastic tat is not that. It's completely useless and either gets stashed in a store room or binned immediately.

I had thought this would just be intuitively obvious to anyone - buying stuff that's lower quality than you could personally use is just burning money.

I'd prefer that if someone can't afford or doesn't want to spend enough to get something useful they just don't at all. Spend the money on yourself or on charity.
> How would, "What happens after prisoners become accountants / lawyers / bankers..." sound?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/business/are-felons-fit-t...
> you can run multiple processes on a single core system just fine — even if one of those processes hangs.

Yes, I can. Node.js doesn't do that.
And adding battery haha. This is how you know wind and solar are scaring them.

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”
That’s true but widespread economic opinion is that the austerity policies have resulted in lower growth. Cuts started before 2010 and the effects are visible now. The IMF was critical of the policy as early as 2013 but the conservative government pushed on for idealogical reasons. There’s little reason to continue self harm.
You don’t need javascript to build a website. You don’t need a doctor to solve every health problem. And you don’t need a lawyer to resolve every conflict between people.

Eg. Where would the internet be if only programmers built websites?
"Personal data which have undergone pseudonymisation, which could be attributed to a natural person by the use of additional information should be considered to be information on an identifiable natural person."

GA pseudoanonymizes visitor data, but the does not exempt site operators from adhering to the consent mechanisms of the GDPR.
In the 80's, stores like TJ Maxx would have branded items for very cheap, but the branding was cut off. Like Levi's jeans with the pocket tag and little brown rectangle cut off. I suppose that was for the same reason.
> With a decent test suite and a bunch of well crafted asserts, it ends up being much quicker. Indeed, for the really subtle broken stuff, pretty much only a decent test suite can catch it.

I think you don't understand the point. Unless you propose that my test suite tests the libraries I am using, testing does not find code affected by API breakage. And even if you do test your used libraries in your client code, think again about how much effort it cost you to do what a machine can do just better.

> Probably just better tested than yours.

First of all, I doubt it. Second, you just sound rather arrogant.

I hope you are aware that a) testing by necessity will always be incomplete and b) type systems by necessity will always be restricted.

The developer who just discards one of these tools sounds like a woodworker who discards a chainsaw because he loves his splitting axe so much.
I lost the link to the forum post, where it was described how bad Minecraft data structures were designed.
Voters don't need your respect. They don't have to justify their votes to you. Many people who you might think are 'voting against their best interest' have a different view of the trade offs than you and actually are voting in their best interests. Or they are voting in their long term best interests in spite of it being against their short term best interests. Or they are voting their principles regardless of the impact on their bottom line.

Most voters are uninformed about most issues. It's effectively impossible to be informed about every issue. There are simply too many issues. Calling out GOP voters on ACA specifically just shows your partisanship.

> and that is not a misrepresentation of the ACA and its opponents' stated positions

If I was feeling generous, which I am not, I would say this is accurate but incredibly imprecise. In the context of this thread, it's simply flame bait.
I don't think there is an EU wide standard about what is possible and what isn't in this regard.
programming quality and program quality are two very separate things. a great game can have terrible programming. and an awful game can have exceptional programming.
This is rather beside the point, but this is the population divided by the land area, which accounts for things like the large spike at about 22 degrees East (Reykjavik, and not much else.)
Yes, if any presuppositions are allowable, then you can end up with any conclusion you want. The unity of individual consciousness appears to be a more fundamental concept than any physical theories, since all physical theories are evaluated through said consciousness. Thus, any physical theory, such as forking consciousnesses, that make the unity of consciousness absurd, and thus undermines its evaluative capability, undermines the physical theory itself. Like Darwin's doubt of how we can trust the thoughts of a mind evolved from monkeys.
Just gift people books.
I buy pants at Costco. Their $20 Kirkland brand pants last for years. JC Penny used to have a factory outlet here where I could buy XXLT polos for $6. I bought several years worth before they shut down.

My wife has an embroidery machine, so I get custom shirts. I have a yellow, red, and blue set of polos with Star Trek insignias, a Smith Chart, radio circuits, etc.
I never said anything about other programs. I never said that other single-threaded programs don't suffer from the same problems. That's is sort of the point. Node.js is single-threaded and, as a result, had all the same problems a single-threaded programs has. And no amount of hand-waving can change that fact.
I'm impressed they went with the word battery. I would keep any hint of 'unclear' as far away as I could too.
> There is no world in which the second set of trips emits less than the first, given equivalent vehicles. It's simply not possible.

Firstly, you completely neglect to consider ride sharing, where multiple people are heading in roughly the same direction and so a portion of the trip reduces from 2 legs to 1, ie. the simplest case from your examples would be A->C->B->D(wait)->B->C->A. The more people that use the service, the more likely this is to happen, and the more emissions are reduced. It's the exact same aggregation argument supporting the use of transit.

Secondly, you're only focusing on specific local effects rather than systemic effects. The number of cars on the road would be dramatically lower [1], so we're manufacturing, maintaining, licensing and insuring fewer cars, all of which counts towards reducing emissions.

Then the marginal reduction in convenience means some people would change their behaviour, ie. travel less and/or plan their travel better so they get more done in a single trip.

Frankly, it seems clear that there is no world in which people owning their cars would be superior or even equivalent to a fleet of self-driving cars when it comes to environmental impact, traffic or efficiency.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21783531
I did different/lesser dumb stuff when I was 17. If my friends were into "street life" instead of cars, computer games, and D&D, I can see a scenario where I'd be along for the ride in one of their/our exploits.

Peer pressure and "going along without thinking through the consequences" in a group of your friends at that age is a real thing and I don't think is strongly predictive of adult trustworthiness. (I generally tend towards the "law and order" side of things.)
People have thought there are spirits guiding every process that occurs in the universe, thus it doesn't seem odd to think little invisible gnomes make my computer work.
he never said the game was bad
Just because it's there in the contract doesn't mean it's legal.

I'm not sure which European country you are referring to, but as a German I'd look at you funny if you had the audacity to put something like that in an employment contract (but honestly, I very strongly doubt any employer would do so in the first place).
They say that at least some of them are really worn, and there is a tag inside each garment explaining how to return it after you're done with it. How many are actually worn, I have no idea.

I'm seeing more and more stores these days selling brand new things as refurbished just as a form of price differentiation. Unless you really believe that Kitchen Aid has hundreds of returned stand mixers in every single color.
It's odd how he goes out of his way to make the Go team's decisions seem strange just because they're different. What's going on there?

I'm happy that the Go team doesn't want to expose tuning knobs. I've seen a lot of people fiddle with JVM settings without doing the controlled experiments needed to see if it actually helps on a particular machine and I've done that myself. It ends up as cargo-cult programming, like people sharing magic JVM settings on the wiki to allegedly make IntelliJ faster. (It worked for one person!)
There is a tragic connection between capitalism and materialism.

Celebrate the former; be wary of the latter.
"I also made some mistakes in how I went about evangelizing it."

What does this mean, did you use company time and resources in doing so?
I acknowledged that disclaimer in my first post and in some of my subsequent posts. I really think you're arguing in bad faith here.
I've just installed it - it seems to work pretty well - it already handled fast user switching better than the other thing I tried.

Given it's monthly, I assume the "cloud" stuff is run on your infra. Would you consider a one-time buy option, that uses e.g. iCloud/.. whatever the windows equivalent is.. to Sync?

But generally seems to work well. I have some wifi lag (a known issue, and I haven't got around to running ethernet yet) so it has a very slight delay, but I wouldn't blame the tool until I've tried it wired.
>The Beatles: Firstly, you don't know what I know from my youth. Please argue the point, not your presumption of my personality.

You wrote: "if you came of musical age in the early nineties it's spelt Nirvana", so one is entirely justified to argue based on that.

>Every generation reinvents stuff, and adds new inventions of its own.

Well, that's the "everything is always the same, just with different flavors" argument.

I don't buy it. In history (of science, art, inventions, etc.) we can see that are long periods of stagnation, bursts of higher creativity, eras of repetition, eras of exponential growth, etc.
Because of the electoral college, voices are not wiped out and discounted entirely in this country.

I do not want the equivalent of a yellow vests movement happening here.

Gerrymandering is a huge issue, and it makes it so that moderates don’t have to exist because of safe districts.

The fundamental disagreement about priorities between the parties somehow turned into disagreement about facts in the past decade.
It's enough to add rel="noreferrer" to links, noopener is implied.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/links.html#link-type-...
The CIA does spy domestically on Americans. It’s hard to trust people who make such stupid mistakes as to say they don’t.
Ask HN: Modern Hard SciFi
Are there any contemporary hard sci-fi authors comparable to Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clarke and others of their era?
I have recently been reading Stephen Baxter and Kim Stanley Robinson and would like to find other comparable authors.
The problem I have with modern sci-fi is that it is blurred with Tolkien-style fantasy and it's often difficult to know where a particular book fits on the spectrum.
Palantir Secures New $111M U.S. Army Deal
Yearly reminder dynamo != dymanodb
Judging how defensive programming worked out for PHP, I consider it an antipattern.
Do you visit family when you are sitting on the toilet?
Here's a video of someone discussing programming PERL by voice. I think I found it on HN in a different post months ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz3JeYfBTcY
In some EU countries that resignation letter wouldn't be legally accepted, given the required notice period.

On the other hand, it is usually not legal for the employer to have any right over what employees do on their free time, provided no resources from the company (phone, laptop,...) have been used.
Modern technology is mainly the result of chemistry and materials sciences. Key events are the discovery of nitrocellulose in the 1840s and the introduction of the Bessemer process of steelmaking in the 1850s.

Nitrocellulose starts the development of guncotton, high explosives, celluloid, photographic film, and all sorts of modern plastics. Cheap steel enables engines, steel hulled ships, ICE vehicles, chemical plants, oil refineries, electrical machinery, etc.

Further progress in chemical engineering results in fuels, pesticides, fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, solid state devices, integrated circuits, lasers, etc.
1. Don't commit to anything until you know what you are doing.
2. Gather information
- your contract
- what your states law on Non-compete is
- Was it your time, your equipment, your services used for development?
- What are the open source licenses
3. Decide what you want. Do you want to start a business?
4. Understand your employers position and what they want.
5. Get a free consultation from a GOOD lawyer. Ask around and find out who is the best. Then see them
Honestly I don’t think Good Strategy Bad Strategy would be all that helpful for personal goals. It’s focus is very much on large teams / organizations tackling hard problems.

For personal goals, I’d take a look at Atomic Habits by James Clear. It’s a pretty good rundown of personal behavior and behavior change, with a lot of easy, hands-on guidance on how to set and achieve personal goals.
The company isn't known as Patagucci for nothing.
Billions of dollars of programming time can be spent on self driving cars, not so for your NPCs.

When large amounts of programming time is spent on game ai it does end up "self driving" at an adequate level, see Google's sc2
bot, Google's older arcade game bot's, and openai's dota bot. It's just not worth it investing that amount of time into most games.
+ Avoid vagueness of 'type' as attribute.
With clothes and shoes though, I won’t even consider buying if there are no free returns. The sizing is too different from brand to brand.
Judgement of one's long term personal interests is dictated by whose projection of the future you believe. To many, the future trend seems obvious and it seems inconceivable that people would vote against your estimation of what the future will be. A little humility and open-mindedness would go a long way towards bridging the gap.
It happens to be Cassandra, but that did make me think about the way Amazon brands the Postgres compatible Aurora as "Aurora PostgreSQL".

That's pretty lousy of them to take advantage of the name. I imagine the uptake would be lower if it weren't in the name, and they had to settle for just saying "Postgres Compatible" in the description.

I also imagine AWS would come after me if I launched "XYZ Fargate" or similar.
It is illegal in every US jurisdiction I’m aware of for a paralegal to give legal advice.

Attorneys have a legally enforced monopoly on legal advice because, well, they write the laws.