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Literally the first Greenwald article I came across in a Google search was propaganda: https://theintercept.com/2019/12/16/evo-morales-interview-gl.... Greenwald heaps praise on Evo Morales, calling his ouster from the Presidency a “coup.” The story of Morales’ ouster is as follows:

1) In his first term, Morales pushes through a new constitution, which among other things dissolves the Bolivian Supreme Court. In its place, it creates a high court comprising judges elected from a slate of candidates appointed by the legislature controlled by his party. This constitution has a two term limit.

2) Morales runs for a third term, after getting the high court to rule that his first term didn’t count since it started before the new constitution.

3) In his third term, he solicits a public referendum asking whether the term limit should be waived to allow him to run for a fourth term. In a vote that had very good turn out, the people vote “no.”

4) Morales ignores the referendum. Instead, he goes back to the high court, which rules that the term limits violate Morales’ “human rights.” The court allows him to run for a fourth term.

5) Morales wins the election, but the Organization of American States releases a report finding “overwhelming evidence of vote rigging.” Massive protests start in response to the report.

6) Morales slowly loses the support of key institutions, including the police. Many members of his own party resigned. A major labor union called for him to resign.

7) The account is disputed at this point. Morales supporters contend that the military then withdrew its support and encouraged him to resign. Morales opponents say that he ordered the military to crack down on protestors, and they refused. Even taking Morales’ supporters at face value, at most what happened is that the military encouraged him to resign after he lost the support of key institutions and many members of his own party.

8) Claiming that he was deposed in a coup, Morales flees to Mexico.

9) Subsequently, Morales’ party basically told him not to come back.

Aside from hunting at the term limits, Greenwald mentions none of the real story.
The especially bad part is focus on exclusives.
OK, that's what should happen for an overvoltage. The control systems tripped offline to protect themselves, all signals went to red, and all trains stopped.

Electric railways have multiple different power systems - traction power, signaling power, and utility power, at least. The possibility of a short between systems means a conservative shutdown-on-overvoltage circuit breaker setup is appropriate.
Amnesia was a great inclusion but I was surprised to not see Portal 2. Also Fortnite but not PUBG?
I bet a big part of it in Japan is the sheer number of trains running drags down that average. If you count the Yamanote, with peak frequency of trains every 2 or 3 minutes, you’re gonna get a lot of stuff on time.

Think about how rare power outages are nowadays. When infrastructure becomes important enough it becomes run pretty smoothly.
How ripped are we talking here?
What's wrong with not wearing a bra? But a robe or something easy?
As best as I can tell the update was never released in physical form, only as an eBook. Pretty cheap too: $20 for the entire series.

But I prefer physical books so I'm hoping it will be released.

Also it's more than just old tech: the tech actually changes in between each book so there is no consistency at all.

The new version puts all the tech at the same level.

Oh and some scenes from the unreleased movie were added.
I would argue that defending against Bias is the editors job, they are not there to catch typos!
Well it might use category theory and be buzzword compliant but the code you’ve written wouldn’t pass code review at my work. This code converts numeric data to a string and back to numeric data.
I hope the effort to distill bra-fitting into an algorithm won't be thrown out. Perhaps they could be donated to FreeSewing.org ?

Full disclosure: I am the FreeSewing maintainer
There are a couple of good comments, so I won't repeat what they said.

Find something you are actually passionate about. It doesn't have to be a big thing. You shouldn't care if it is a cool thing, or what other people think of it.

When I'm interviewing, I love when people showcase stuff they enjoyed building, rather than something bigger they made following a tutorial.

Here is an example of a really small project I enjoyed working on - https://muffinman.io/vertigo/
It was so fun, and I learned some canvas/svg stuff I never touched before. Even now when I look at it, it brings a smile to my face.

Another thing I think you should do is to document the whole process and write one or series of blog posts. It will help you understand the whole thing better, and help people in similar situation.

Good luck and please share with HN whatever you end up making!
Is there a better term for "hipster stack"? Rails and Django were most certainly considered hipster when they first came out.
Seconded. I mean what's the advantage of several confusing small binaries than lets say one single fat binaries with some switches? It's not like we are running out of disk space storing the binary file or too fat to load it into memory.
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> Journos think they have everything all figured out before they even investigate.

A perfect case study is the "Rape on Campus" by Rolling Stone's Sabrina Erdely. Rather than a rape happening on campus and then a journalist investigating or writing about it, Erdely imagined that there was rape on campus and then sought out the evidence. In other words, agenda came first and then the cherrypicking of sources and in some cases outrighting lying about and making up quotes and sources. Also, she ignored sources, facts and evidence that would counter her agenda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rape_on_Campus

Agenda usurping facts and truth is just one of the many problems facing journalism today. But this was a problem since the very beginning of journalism. For most of the 1800s and much of the early 1900s, newspapers and journalism was maligned. So much so that the news industry was in danger of collapsing in the first half of the 1900s. It was ww2, when the government back the news industry to spread news and war propaganda and the clever PR of the pulitzer prize that saved the news industry. If you want to appreciate how newspapers were viewed in the early 1900s, I recommend TS Eliot's (arguably the greatest english language poet of the 20th century) excellent "The Boston Evening Transcipt". A short compact poem with wonderful overt and covert zingers.
And there is merit to not spending the majority of incoming donations immediately. The church is very conservative and follows the same advice it gives of living within your means and saving for a rainy day.

Yes, the church invests excess funds, and it does so to secure it's ability to continue its current outlay long term. There were times in the church's history where it was in need of money, and it does not want to ever go through that again.

Other charitable organizations also invest excess funds for similar reasons. The church additionally believes in a breakdown of society before Christ comes at the end of the world, so doesn't it make sense for that same organization to diversify their assets?

Personality, I wish the church was more open with how donations are used, and honestly I think churches should be required to be transparent in how funds are used, just like other classes of tax exempt organizations. However, that doesn't mean that slamming an organization over mere speculation makes sense. There may be a story there, there may not, but we won't know without more information.
Yes I thought power surge happens in milliseconds to a second range, may be few seconds at worst, first time I ever read a double digit seconds power surge.

Luckily the system shutter itself down as intended.
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I hope everyone had a great 2019 and an even better 2020.
Things the author wrote:

"It’s not your fault, Amazon doesn’t exactly advertise that if you make too many notes, the system informs the author they’re pulling the book."

"Proofreaders are awesome! Amazon has just found a way to punish authors with them."

"That’s the problem! It weaponized people’s desire to help by having a computer go “oh, this must mean the book is Bad.” It’s not your fault!"

Now there are also tweets that are more on the "exasperated" side, but the author pretty clearly doesn't blame the users so much as the system itself.
Can anyone explain to me like I am 10?

There is an algorithm for man suit?
Were talking about $5k of hardware to meet your needs 20 times over with the new threadrippers.

Is your aws bill really under $500 a month?
Britain runs 20% of Europe's rail journeys. It has the least accidents and deaths of passengers and staff. It is considered the most improved rail network year on year since 1997. It has some of the lowest fares if you book far in advance (and count the cost of subsidisation for foreign fares).
> Is there a better term for "hipster stack"?

Javascript eco system.
300 unemployed engineers, or you're just moving the hiring problem to the smaller companies with their engineers suddenly gone.
Do you have Adblock extensions? For another data point, I’m using iOS/safari through a Pi-hole and see the article fine. I wonder if it’s triggered by certain extensions.
Yep, emergence cannot be ignored
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Could matching algorithms be expressed as a graph of tensorflow primitive ops and run on Google's TPU?
Yeah, that was before they we’re cool and other devs probably hadn’t heard of them yet...
Rail equipment is all ancient and highly redundant for both uptime and safety.

Yet the actual system reliability and safety doesn't seem great. Signal outages happen nearly every day in the UK, and delay tens of thousands of passengers. Safety failures in signalling systems kill on average a few people per year.

How about a modern system, built with JavaScript-de-jure, running over 4G and WiFi, consumer GPS, "Download train-control from the app store", running on tablets or the train drivers BYOD phone, etc. How would it work out for safety/reliability?

I suspect counterintuitively it would work out much better. Simple cheap portable devices means a bunch of spares can be around always. "Phone battery dead? No worries, there's a tablet I can control the train from too". No WiFi? It also works with 4G or Bluetooth. Server down? It has a Peer connection backup. Hackers broke in? The system has safety logic built in to every device, and uses a consensus system so a few rogue systems can't crash trains. Power supply broken? We have 24 hours of battery, longer if I turn the brightness down.
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Ecuador are happy to extradite criminals to the US. They felt Snowden would not get a fair trial.
Cynical me: The UK railway system has plenty of practice of delays and cancellations, it seems they have learned to at least provide some detail in "lay" form.

Practical me: Having that information allows better decisions to be made. Rather than simply wasting my evening at a station other arrangements can be made, possibly having a meal in a local bar/restaurant rather than shivering on a station.
I bought a HP stream with 128GB internal storage for 199 € and it's serving me well because of weight (1 kg) and purpose (writing, connect to remote servers via ssh). Being a Celeron you can't do fancy things but it's ok. You can extend the storage capacity with microSD cards.
>Fortnite doesn't do anything particularly new; but it does a lot of existing things well, and combines some that haven't been combined well in the past.

The best part is all the fruit of those learning and experience are now part of the Unreal Engine.
Just out of curiosity, why would it concern you? I live in a semi-rural tourism-heavy town and get a fair few drones in the vicinity of my house due to a major tourist site nearby, and it never really bothers me unless they fly low enough for the sound to get annoying.
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Analyzing iOS applications is not the most trivial process, as said applications are distributed (via the iOS App Store) in an encrypted format.

I've not done much with mobile but have RE'd a bunch on the PC, and there an application which attempts to obfuscate its code in any way (e.g. classic case being a packed EXE) already warrants suspicion. At least there I always have the ability to open a file in a hex editor or even debugger for further inspection. IMHO this locked-down nature of platforms that makes it difficult for you to analyse the behaviour of the device which you ostensibly own is a huge obstacle to freedom and privacy in general. Ditto for all the other stuff like IoT which often communicates without your knowledge (and the traffic is encrypted, again ostensibly for protection on the Internet --- which it does do --- but with no way to inspect it locally).

It's true that not everyone has the skills to inspect, and that's a classic excuse for locking it down; but by making it harder to even get started and restricting that to "approved" people, there's even fewer motivated to try. The nature of Apple's platform is already disturbingly close to the situation in Stallman's classic story over 20 years ago: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
Can I hazard a guess you are doing so in the South East? Try the trains the rest (most) of us experience.

Northern Rail, Transpennine, West Coast, ScotRail, East Coast (there already) etc that have or are about to be given to "operator of last resort", i.e. renationalised -- under a Tory government --for having failed badly.
"I need training!" says that you need to figure out how to make me good at this role. It shifts responsibility onto the organization; if I suck at the job, it's someone else's fault. A great engineer figures out what to do no matter how dysfunctional the organization.

It's not that it makes you a bad engineer if you can't thrive in an imperfect organization. All organizations are varying levels of imperfect. Great engineers figure out how to be great anyway.
> I have friends who barely get to see their children, stuck at the office 12 hours a day so their family can have a good life. I don’t want that.

WTF? How do people put up with such conditions?!

Unionize, push labor laws through for a real and effective 8 hour (or 6 hour!) day, get equal and paid parental leave for both parents, etc.

Otherwise you are at the whim of your employer .. or in this case, your client's lawyers.

And, switch to nationalized (or federalized) single payer health care. Among other things, it would make it easier to hire recently graduated students or those with chronic illness without taking on the insurance burden.
I'm sure the Sonic movie used focus groups as well. The difference is they all seemingly signed off on it and it wasn't until the first trailer dropped and the people's reaction was so negative that they decided to redo it.
Excellent work! And Merry Christmas, I'll take a look at this tomorrow.
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> How about a modern system, built with JavaScript-de-jure

No thank you.
Walt Disney's ambition for the original Fantasia movie was that it would remain in cinemas with new segments replacing old ones over time.
Oh my sweet summer silicon valley child! We should disrupt every safety equipment and process everywhere!
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How many decades did it take to electrify Europe's busiest line, the West Coast Main Line? Did it become modern? No. It used last generation signalling such that when we had 125mph HST they were limited to 80 and 100, when we bought back BR's APT as 150mph Pendolino they were limited to 1980s HST speeds as the tracks were electrified and upgraded to 125mph. In 2010.

The "negotiations" between train operators wanting better rolling stock, railtrack (government), station upgrades and the inconvenient length of franchises made the whole process suitable for a Laurel and Hardy or Buster Keaton movie.

Little wonder they're most improved, they gave themselves so much scope...
I think you're discounting the possibility that this can be (at least partially) automated. Specifically things like changing sponsor logos or animation models. I can envision tools that allow a sign in a store front to change from "Coke" to "Pepsi" automatically, or even replace that Audi car the hero is driving to a Mercedes.

Of course, not everything could be automated but I think a good portion of it could be. The original VFX team would just have to insert "markers" into the workflow which could then be replaced and re-rendered. Almost like changing build flags and recompiling a program.
import { train } from 'lodash';
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/12/23/drones-mystery-colorad...
I go to meet specific people, get specific questions answered, plan how to get specific things done over the next n months or whatever. Pull them into a room for a few hours for brain dumps. Very valuable compared to email/chat etc
I empathize with the 2nd category in particular, there are many attempts at creating an interpretive structure for art that doesn't hit the mark so someone not getting it is half or more caused by the presenting artist.

Criticism of the industry is self evidently fair.
While Fortnite might not do anything new as a business, as a game, on the technical side, it does offer new stuff. Fortnite supports large worlds with lots of players in fast-paced multiplayer. To make matters even more complicated, the players can build large structures in real time. The game also features a large amount of interactable objects with no loading screens. You could say that games like Minecraft do that, but those are graphically much simpler.
I commuted in the South East (particularly South East London which means SouthEastern trains) and it was a miracle if I was only delayed by 1 minute on a 12-20 minute journey. Coming to down the Charlton line into London Bridge almost always involved a 5-10 minute delay at (the crossover junction just outside the station that I forget the name of).
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In Creative mode it's also a platform for a wide variety of user-created games, not just pvp shooters.
> very few companies have done that really well - i.e. gone from 15K -> 100K and maintained dynamism. Probably few if any.

A footnote: Amazon is approaching a 1,000,000 employees.
Cool stuff. What's hindering you from making money at this point?

I just started a job implementing asset pricing algorithms for energy contracts similar to what you did, even though a bit more involved (using stochastic dynamic programming and quite complex models for coming up with price paths).

Being completely new to trading I naturally wondered what the catch is, i.e. why I couldn't employ the same techniques for making private profits. Shoot me a mail if you'd like to discuss ideas ;)
The idea of rolling retests is absolutely insane and the failure mode for it (flashing lights + horn blaring) is also stupid and puts unreasonable amount of pressure on the driver to avoid that, with predictable results.

This could've been implemented safely, by simply limiting the speed of the vehicle to a lower speed when possible (ie don't suddenly cut power to the vehicle at high speed on the highway, but if you're already driving slowly, limiting the speed to 20% below that would most likely be safe enough) so there's less pressure on the driver to immediately deal with it at the expense of actual safety.

I feel bad for that driver convicted of manslaughter. He was essentially framed by the state by being forced to drive a defective & unsafe vehicle.
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I’ve don’t read or watch Fox News regularly so I don’t know. The NYT may be one of the better papers, but I don’t find it crosses the threshold of being worth reading.

I don’t really trust the news. I’ll read the Chicago Tribune or Bloomberg to get a general sense of what’s going on, and then try to research specific topics based on primary sources. I really like National Review. Unlike the NYT, NR is explicit about its viewpoint. So even though, for example, I support keeping the ACA, I can read an NR article on healthcare policy because the authors “show their work” in terms of how they perceive the facts to fit into their (generally conservative) take on the issue. That at least gives me a basis for researching things further. But with the NYT, I feel like I’m just constantly being manipulated, and because the NYT is so terrible about citing sources and data, I don’t even really have a starting point for further research.
Really interesting article! This is a great example of scientific strategy and thought being used in an applied setting. I also like the effort to make the different choices interpretable.

Loss functions are an often overlooked area of machine learning and tend to be taken for granted.

Too many times I have seen others (and been guilty of the same) just arbitrarily choose torch.nn.NLLLoss/TensorFlow equivalent or some other loss function that’s the flavour of the day for the task.
Uber, unlike WeWork, is offering something the market really need. I see a viable path for them moving forward.
It doesn't really matter. Amazon is happy, the customer is happy, sales are coming in, and when the book finally does not make any sense whatsoever, the original version can be uploaded.
Merry Christmas HN! Let us come together for the day, regardless of our intellectual stances and tribal identities.

Let the Linux nerds break bread with the Mac hipsters. May the Haskell devs write bindings for JS libraries. And the VC dreamers shake the hands of the determined bootstrappers.

Peace amongst nerds, for a single day.

Merry Christmas.
Please note that sputnik is a Russian propaganda outlet 100% financed by the state and known to peddle disinformation. Sometimes they mix good content in to seem serious/relevant, bit even then it often has a spin. In short: you should take everything on sputnik with a massive chunk of salt and I'd recommend to always look for alternative articles.
This is my humble opinion, but all doctor talk of "inversion of the relationship between patients and physicians" is complete quackery. We will see medicine change for the better over the next 10 years, but it will be a long road. First step is competition in medical education.
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no, but believing one own English to be universal and above scrutiny most definitely is
Interesting, so it's quite similar to SAP. Do you need deep business knowledge, or are software skills (Python, JS I guess?) sufficient?
Classic r/CryptoCurrency/

If you don't like it, FUD..

I guess you trust Facebook to never change the TOS and toggles.