skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anarchist here, used to identify as a communist. I'd argue that both of your "capitalism" definitions can be pointed to as potential causes of the 737 fiasco, but that the latter ("free economic exchange through markets") seems more in line with what GP was wanting to, err, correct; I read GP as wanting more regulation for airplanes, which is antithetical to free exchange. I feel like the market itself will correct for these problems on a long enough time scale -- if people value the lives of their families enough they'll stop buying tickets for flights on planes made by this clearly inept entity, and if they don't value the lives of their families that much then that's another tradeoff they're free to make. (Yes, some people are too poor to exercise choice between options of varying cost, but that's a problem with poverty rather than choice -- regulating single engine Cessnas out of existence won't mean that radically impoverished people have access to better planes, it will just take away their freedom to bet their lives on flying in the first place.)
TIL that in English Betelgeuse is pronounced like Beetlejuice. In Russian for example it's more like Be-tel-geyser (like British geyser).
Thunderhill sighting!
That would be a lot of fun to see one AI vehicle competing in a field of drivers.
It depends on who you ask; however the thinking is often:

* They can indicate poor parsing (ie can't read xml with regex) and failure to use programmatic methods (e.g parsing command output rather than making syscalls)

* regexes are very easy to write incorrectly without being obviously wrong

* regexes are often overkill for a direct match

* regexes invite people to make it more complex rather than restructure surrounding code

* regexs are comparatively more expensive than alternative code

* to work on the codebase you are now required to understand regex in general and this particular implementations quirks as well

I often use regexes, and I often choose not to use regexes.
The best teacher I never had (2016)
AMD rumored to launch Ryzen 9 4900H
>It's a fair point.

Pun.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_buoy (linked from the Null Island article):

> Moored buoys are connected with the ocean bottom using either chains, nylon, or buoyant polypropylene.
U.S. has world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households
They did most of that back in 2015.[1] This is version 2.

It's interesting what's happening as the control theory people get into machine learning. The controls people don't typically run a neural net as a controller. They use the trained net as a tool for building a controller with known continuity properties. The trouble with pure neural net controllers is that they sometimes do something totally bogus for some data point within the normal input space. That's not OK in control systems.

This has all the math of machine learning plus the math of control theory and I don't understand it, although I sometimes look at the papers.

[1] https://news.stanford.edu/2015/10/20/marty-autonomous-delore...
> Americans intentionally don't utilize a large number of paid vacation days each year. Work guilt may play a role

It may, but America has relatively weak protections for paid or even merely job-protected medical, family, or other leaves and fairly weak unemployment; accruing vacation balances as a partial substitute is a common strategy; while it may not fully substitute for any of those, it a minimum provides an amount obligated to be cashed out at termination that can buffer the impacts of not having the other protections.

> More than half of U.S. workers ― 54 percent — reported feeling guilty about taking vacation time either sometimes, often or always

But is this “work guilt” or guilt about the impact on personal/family security?
Throughout all of the jobs I've ever had, I've always taken less time off at jobs I liked more. It was the jobs I hated where I always ran out of vacation time, even when they had good PTO packages.

A lack of vacation can make a job shitty. But a shitty job with some vacation doesn't make it a pleasant job.
> I don't know if many people ...

Every service doesn't need to appeal to every person, or to destroy FB.

Would it be successful with 1,000 users? 10,000? 100,000?

Certainly there's some small fraction of the world that would find this useful.
Bear in mind, it’s Ben about a decade since I last used Smalltalk, but at the time there was a web framework called Seaside based completely on using stored closures instead of normal Ajax.

Digging into the code, I found that the VM just gives a code block access to all top level objects by default, but that isn’t a requirement. You can instantiate your own “global” and run the block within that. Back then I believe it was being used because old closures needed to see old top level class objects that might have been changed in the meanwhile. So you can use this to sandbox functions.

I would imagine it isn’t perfect, but it could be made so.
I've heard him in voice tracks on some chillout music and it always makes me want to listen to more of him.

Is there a good place to find his talks to download?
Super interesting, didn't know they physically built that.
The purple Windows logo is a wallpaper candidate even without Windows!
I was half expecting a Toyota Sprinter Trueno and Eurobeat. Pop references aside, though, what is this useful for? I thought cars were designed to not skid normally due to ABS?
I discovered ‘tsp’ last year and it worked great.
Usually the answer to this is "we pray to god it doesn't fail".
Much respect to you sir! It’s refreshing to see that your wallpaper wasn’t just created out of thin air by some photoshop guru. Loved seeing your process!
> your "capitalism" definitions can be pointed to as potential causes of the 737 fiasco

For capitalism to work as intended, there has to be "perfect information", i.e., no lying and everyone knows what they're paying for. This is obviously a practical impossibility: companies and people lie, and most consumers buy things without fully researching or knowing what it is that they're getting.

One purpose of regulation is to improve the situation. If the FAA certifies a plane as safe, then consumers can rely on that certification and don't need to do their own safety research. They still don't have "perfect information", but it's a lot better than without it.

Good regulation is not "antithetical" to capitalism, it is often necessary for it.
Good point on the ecosystem. That definitely makes Scala more viable. I know I never would have tried it without that. Although I think that applies more to runtimes and (some) libraries than what I think the real drivers of cost are, like hiring and a community of practice (e.g., forums, mailing lists, and the likelihood of having the SO answer you need in your first few Google hits). And I think there's still a tax there; if you're doing a lot of Java interop you'll still have to know Java and the quirks of dealing with it from Scala.

Of course, there could be special-purpose stuff that's very nice not to have to rewrite. PDF generation comes to mind, as it's an enormous pain in the ass, and there are some good Java libraries for it. But it's often not much more work to encapsulate something like that as a service or a CLI tool.

Not to say people shouldn't do it, of course. But I'm not sure what Scala's niche should be as it shrinks. I originally saw it as a better Java, but I think Kotlin did a better job of is winning there. I get the impression that Clojure is doing better at "functional language on the JVM". Which is already a niche inside the FP niche. And given how much other languages have been learning from functional approaches, I don't know whether that niche is growing. I look forward to seeing if they find one.
Except that those photons haven’t aged a single day, right?
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You're looking to test the difference in proportions. I entered 0.93 / 1000 / 0.91 / 650 into this online calculator [1] and got a p-value of 0.14 which means that the difference is not statistically significant. Technically you would want to do some correction for multiple comparisons since your actual question is "are Americans more happy than workers in every other country?" not "are Americans more happy than Netherlanders specifically?" but it's a moot point since the difference already isn't significant.

A more important question is probably how the sampling was conducted. How did they guarantee a representative sample in each country? How did they account for the gig economy, small businesses, part-time employees, and employees paid under the table? So many ways a survey like this could be wrong.

[1] https://www.socscistatistics.com/tests/ztest/default2.aspx
This could be a pay-to-ride-for-thrill startup idea. What a ride!
Timescale matters here. If Boeing becomes an example of an organization which suffered greatly, competitors will become more cognizant of the need to make internal incentives match external ones.
I set each of my machines and VMs to a different (dark) background color so I know what machine I’m in.
When you have an immovable object (can’t fire an employee due to law) up against an unstoppable force (economic pressure to cut jobs) you get actions that try to bend either of the above constraints.

In the end something had to break — either the company or the people or both.

No one forced these people to either work at the company or to commit suicide.

Yes their pensions were linked to their jobs but is quitting and losing your retirement better than death?

Or maybe they wanted to be martyrs and knew this would lead to a punishment for the executives.
So is the general idea that by removing the automated controls, which normally limit drift so human drivers don't lose control, they're able to gather data at the extremes of car handling?

I'm curious how this would be applied in the real world. It almost seemed to suggest that a self-driving car would operate with those stability controls turned off, allowing it operate evasive maneuvers that would be impossible in a human-driven car.
Is it legally accurate that they are being convicted for the suicides of the workers implying they were the cause or are they being convicted of some other violation which may have lead to worker suicides.

The first sounds insane. The second sounds reasonable.

Can't read the article because of the paywall.
> Americans intentionally don't utilize a large number of paid vacation days each year. Work guilt may play a role

That is a plausible but pessimistic view of the situation. The more optimistic reading is that american workers derive personal pleasure and fulfillment from the work itself. If you are happier working in a fulfilling job than sitting idly on a beach, then it would make sense you wouldn't use all of your vacation days.

Work guilt probably does play a role, as does corporate policies that subtly punish vacation, but I would also bet that some percentage of workers actually enjoy what they do.
I know HN is normally above such low brow things, but since these were made by the original creator, I think it's okay...

Logic Gates with "Yellow Water": https://gfycat.com/radiantimportantfieldmouse

Logic Gates with Slurm: https://i.imgur.com/UJyNd9T.gifv
I propose we start by taking the author's money (all of it, +debt), and converting his lifestyle to be 100% "green", as a proof of concept. No car, no Hawaii vacations, no meat, no fruit in the dead of winter, no computers or cell phones either, of course. Let's see how quickly this will "pay for itself".
Cool tech, yet every single one of those images look extremely unnatural.

I think people get used to seeing CGI so much they simply get used to it. Take the faces in frozen, they are intentionally stylized but in a way that looks utterly freakish. It’s not even that the animators messed up. Somehow rather than people seeing something deep in the uncanny valley most people simply don’t have a problem with this kind of distortion.
IIRC in Visual Basic these are arrays with lower bound bigger than upper bound.
Someone should try to use a raytracer and other software to recreate the image to see how it compares with a purely digital version.
IDK why this myth of him being a pen name persists.

As you pointed out, he publicly denied those claims.

He also put his postal address onto the luajit homepage. And it adds up with his history at the University of Karlsruhe. You can find pointers that he was actually there in 1994, from old websites that survived the decades. His Karlsruhe e-mail address is even still being credited in linux's net/ipv4/tcp.c. The best proof I found that he's an individual is him being credited as supervisor of an academic Dipl. Inf. thesis that's still available on the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20000919224408/http://andy.rz.un...

I doubt that joking goes so far that you are mentioning a pen name on a thesis front page. In addition to the front page containing his name, the thesis also contains screenshots of websites the wayback machine hasn't caught in time that contain his name.
>ELEPHANT SEAL DIVE

>2400 METERS DEEP

That one caught me off guard. I'm used to seeing stories (or "tales") of e.g. Sperm Whales accomplishing incredible dives like that. An elephant seal doesn't really seem to be tuned to that kind of performance dives.
> In any given field, 50-80% of the top experts in that field are on Twitter

spit take
> For capitalism to work as intended, there has to be "perfect information",

If you assume that capitalism is intended to work not in the way sought by the people who drove the move to capitalism but instead according to idealized economic theories much younger than capitalism, sure.
Until someone spills a bit of oil on the pavement and it drifts straight into a nearby wall because oily pavement is "out of domain" for its deep learning systems.
Isn't it relating to fraud because they lied about the transactions, as in the US is perfectly fine if third parties conduct trade with blacklisted entities, but the third parties have to suffer the consequences of those trades (such as they themselves getting blacklisted).
I agree. I would think replaceAll would behave like the following:

/*
Usage:

> 'abcdefabc'.replaceAll('abc')
'def'

> 'abcdefabc'.replaceAll('abc', '+')
'+def+'

> 'abcdefabc'.replaceAll(/abc/, '+')
'+def+'

> 'abcdefabc'.replaceAll(/abc/g, '+')
'+def+'
*/

String.prototype.replaceAll = function (re_or_str, sub) {
return this.split(re_or_str).join(sub||'')
}

On a side note, is it just me or does the linked polyfill for String.prototype.replaceAll [1] seem wildly complex???

[1] https://github.com/es-shims/String.prototype.replaceAll/blob...
Good job. That 'location pings' animation looks chilling. Very appropriate.
I don't see how this is worse than most other things that hit the home page. It's interesting, is an in-depth article, is tech-related, and is something most people recognize. And the fact that it's not just cgi is interesting, regardless of whether you think it should be or not.
I agree. Over the top and probably result of over allocating budget due to its prominence. I wouldn't be surprised if the budget was $2 million.

The animated version is pretty neat to look at only because you know it's not VFX. The effect itself is nothing to write home about.

LG did something similar too, but to be honest, it appears they basically re-drew it digitally anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsbtxBA55oQ
My guess would be along similar lines a sort of always on, low bandwidth, side channel. So activation and a bootstrap for the next generation of weird protocols apple would love to cook up. I don’t know at all how airdrop works, but you could see it brokered through the apple network. Or like you mentioned a find my iPhone(and lock) that works globally without needing the phone to register to wifi/cell network. Or this p2p networking they’ve been talking about, that whole thing is a lot easier with a guaranteed signal to broker the nodes.
> I trust honest people

How can we know any given person is honest? We can only see their public reputations, not the things they do behind closed doors. The more power they have, the harder it becomes to remain honest. Any system that depends on the honesty of the humans involved is doomed to corruption from day one.
>They use the trained net as a tool for building a controller with known continuity properties.

This sentence and comment is a revelation to me so thanks!

I was very into control theory from 2001-2006 before jumping into Bayes nets and eventually ML. Having not really returned to CT since, it's always been a question in my mind how to use ML for SCADA & PLCs without running into the problems that you describe. As with most problems like this, it seems obvious now that it's described as such - though not actually obvious to those like me outside of it!
yeah, I was thinking of Cython getting used. Anly particular reason it would not work for this kind of use case?
Scala is nowhere near the first 20.
Each language can define NULL differently. However, because eventually it gets compiled to machine code, it does indeed need to be represented by some value. Most languages represent that value as 0, but not always.

It's better to think about NULL as a value plus a type. The value "False" may be 0 with a boolean type, just as NULL may be 0 with a pointer type.
Radeon Open Compute 3.0
If you notice in the video there are no nearby hard walls, it's a giant open parking lot and the course is set up by soft pieces like plastic traffic cones. I'm sure a course could be made with appropriate margins for safety. Even so, in the ride world there are accidents but that doesn't stop people from riding.
> The whole org is on board with this change. It's definitely not happening in a silo.

Given the seemingly strong chorus of voices responding with cautionary tales about why you might want to rethink this plan, and the number of engineers in your organization, it seems more likely that you have some dissenting voices who have either been too scared to speak up or have already been shot down.
I was just at NeurIPS (gave a spotlight talk in the session on online learning). TBH, NeurIPS gas grown too big for it's own good; this year there were 14,000 attendees. It's so big that they had to restrict access to some of the poster sessions due to overcrowding. It's become very difficult for junior researchers to find and talk to senior people, due to the sheer size of it all; honestly, it feels like an overcrowded science fair crossed with an industry expo. I much prefer AISTATS, which I attended this year in Okinawa, Japan. Much smaller, more accessible, and with more focus on disseminating scientific ideas, as it should be.
You’re telling me that not one Stanford engineering student could come up with a mock Flux Capacitor?!!
FYI, if you want a few hours notice before (the very unlikely event of) a Betelgeuse supernova, there’s a mailing list you can join: https://snews.bnl.gov/alert.html
There is no good reason to expect the ¨last 5%¨ of demand will be more economically met by the next generation of nuclear plants - than by the generation of renewable tech which will be developed by the time it is already supplying the other 95% ;)
You speak as if the company's executives were compelled by some force to make their workers lives miserable. They also were not forced to remain in their positions and could have chosen to resign (thus saving the company their compensation) rather than engage in immoral actions. That they chose to do so to maintain their own positions and compensation seems worthy of punishment.
"Their idea of agile was to release stuff once every 3 months in a 2 week window."

Can someone explain why this is actually bad?

(EDIT: I'm being serious, so please don't just down vote it without explaining. For airline industry with legacy systems, I don't necessarily think it's bad, but maybe I'm missing something.)
I guess if you can afford a DeLorean you can afford to keep replacing the tires you burn up by drifting on pavement. I'd rather have my car programmed for long tire life and high mpg please.
That's what I thought, and why I posted it.
>> Cyclists in the Tour de France used to smoke to increase blood flow

You quite often see people in e.g. Zurich (and I suspect in other European cities as well - smoking seems to be much more socially acceptable there) smoking while riding a bicycle. I was kind of baffled by that the first time I saw it, but when you think about it, it's not too weird.

In the US you ride a bicycle to get some exercise in, to stay healthy. I don't think I've ever seen anyone smoking while on a bicycle here. In Europe they ride bicycles to get around, so smoking a cig while riding a bike doesn't seem like anything out of the ordinary to them.
I found the 1.2 million bounces per week from typos even more amazing.
> Hordes of newly minted and newly wealthy tech bros, flush with Silicon Valley VC cash, ruined what once had been an all-are-welcome cool, gray city of love, where the funky landlady Anna

This article nicely represents the narccisistic hubris of the ivory tower leftist viewpoint, and in-group social behavior at large. Tech Bros are the nerds that were (and still are, despite shallow appropriations of nerd culture in the mainstream) cast off from "normal" society. This has been the norm in the U.S. for decades. It's not cool to be smart and have geeky interests.

Now tech is hot and the in-group is having trouble competing with people for whom this wasn't just a job or a class, or even a hobby, it was an escape. So they go after their characters to justify quotas and the now deliberate social stigma they were previously oblivious to enforcing. Tech Bros is a dirty class stereotype which totally ignores the passion and skill of the people who are revolutionizing society, for better or worse. And at the end of the day it's just the weird nerd kids being bullied as always.

There's an obscure blog by a guy who talks about the three or so stages of popular subcultures, and how one of the three groups eventualy ruin everything, linked in the comments below which is related.
Intended by whom?

I claimed that regulation is antithetical to free exchange -- if you restrict me from trading something then I am not free to trade it, and if you don't restrict me then the thing is unregulated. I consider this statement a tautology. I don't know what you mean by "good regulation" and "capitalism", but I'll stand by my original phrasing.
> I dunno the New Left's participation in anti-nuclear politics will hopefully be remembered as a horrible and irresponsible mistake.

I suspect that the minority of leftists that criticize nuclear energy will be remembered far less than those on the right that say global warming is a hoax.
For anyone that hasn't seen it, _Cities Without Suburbs_ is a book that lays out the case that fragmentation and infighting are a major hindrance on American metro areas.

San Francisco is bounded on all sides from expanding, so it's partially at the mercy of its suburbs when it comes to things like housing. Has there ever been a movement to consolidate the Bay Area like how Nashville consolidated 14(?) counties with the city itself?