skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't generalize from such a sample please. BSV is a cryptocurrency forked from Bitcoin by supporters of a businessman called Craig Wright[1] who is widely considered as a fraud, even within crypto.

Just like with any nascent, hyped-up field, you will have people who are in it purely for the money. The fact that cryptocurrency makes it trivial to operate and participate in Ponzis exacerbates the issue, but if you went to a random ML/AI conference a few years ago you'd also have been pitched dozens of Ponzis (in the form of nonsensical startups) by opportunists who understand nothing about the technology.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Steven_Wright
But it would only decrease traffic and pollution for the duration of the spend. Once it's over, those benefits stop and there is nothing left beyond the lingering effects of the intervention.

It's actually worse than that, because you've essentially taken out an unsecured loan of £100bn and spent it on something which neither increases ongoing tax revenue or asset value, so you now have to cut other spending to pay it off. Which is why governments and businesses separate capital expenditure (building things) from current expenditure (doing things) very carefully.
1 million lines of code. I hate to break it to you, it should be happening, whether you are Boeing or not, but especially if you are Boeing.

How can that even be "reviewed" in any way but superficially in a time frame less than 5 years?
This is a seminal article. I remember reading it in Law School, and while it was not quite 'enjoyable', it's certainly very readable.
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that reminds me, I must clean my phone.
That really depends on your personality. There's a lot of things where objective value is hard to determine, and depends purely on your subjective feelings. Two people with narcissistic and schizoid personalities could have completely different experiences with fame: one could feel inspired and happy by the recognition, while the other would get anxious and depressed.

In the end, learn who you are and what's comfortable for you, before listening to anyone else's advice.
I'm thinking about doing research in areas like ML, AI, Mathematics. However, I like your idea about writing software rather than publishing papers, the impact would be visible clearly!

Let me know if you have any other suggestions.
Qt is cross-platform, very stable, and has sane Python bindings. No other reasonable choice (imo).
Have you had a look at Datalog? It's a carefully selected subset of prolog that corresponds to primitive recursive functions.

So: plenty of computational expressivity, but solidly removed from Turing completeness.

Adding types for relational algebra to Haskell is a bit of a slog. Not because it's impossible, but just because the natural way to express those data types is not what comes natural in Haskell.
>there's welders that can weld garden gates, then there's welders that can work on underwater pipes

Like any other blue collar skill welders are primarily compensated for the skill/experience required to do their job and the amount of inconvenience, discomfort and/or danger that comes from the setting in which their job takes place

Welding fancy alloys for pressure vessels takes more skill and is therefore compensated better. Welding together railings is much easier with much looser quality control so it's not compensated as well because more people can do it.

Doing either of those things in a heated and air conditioned shop is going to pay a complete pittance compared to doing them in the mud in the middle of nowhere, underwater, in a confined space or an otherwise physically demanding and/or dangerous environment.
If they're going all in on a radical new design, and especially if it might only be for cargo, why not get rid of the pilots?
This misunderstands the relational model -- it doesn't mean "my app's data model". Ie., it's not that there's fields and rows.

It's that the data is represented with sets, and there's an algebra over those that provides (strong) guarantees and principled way of composing operations.

Yes, you use objects as mere key-value pairs and provide a bizarre semantics for the relational algebra over sets of these objects -- but! -- this isn't object orientation.

Eg., in OO objects compose -- in the relational algebra rows dont "compose", eg., even having person.address.street breaks the semantics of 'SELECT'

The interpretation of p.a.s has to be as a subset on a product of relations (ie., tables P and A filtered on a join of p.id to a.id, etc...)

This is one of the key impedance mismatches in OO<->Relations -- composition =/= join. Hence awkward and and ugly workarounds in all ORMs.
Omg, how can this guy not notice that he became an useless director as in 'bullshit jobs'?
Here you see the inception of the stupid things you see in big companies: like determining useless 'objectives' sentences coming from nowhere.

Look at this for example:
"Migrate core functionality pieces (including authentication, user data, shopping cart) to a micro services architecture that’s running independently of our main application"

To me it looks like the kind of stupid generic tehnical decisions that are imposed on teams. We have all lived that: some useless director that has no idea of the real technical stack or constraints of the system wants to feel useful and define a 'bullshit' strategy, so what it does is imposing the last trendy thing he heard at a conference without really knowing what it means.
It was commentary on the fact a tweet about someone (probably) uneducated in that area of tech suggesting someone else should use it and being told no had reached front page.
I'm in NH and I'm pissed my Costco can't carry liquor. Otherwise they're great.
Maybe the ultimate move would be to create a Tor alternative that goes beyond slapping on some privacy on the pig that has become the Internet.
Maybe this could be one answer :

"A new media platform from Wikipedia founder @jimmy_wales
. The news is broken, but we're going to fix it."

https://wikitribune.com
Maybe, getting into development got easier?

I mean, while these graphical tools certainly help, you have to learn them. I learned things like Photoshop, Sketch, Ableton Live, Final Cut Pro, Eclipse, etc. pp. and I can tell that it's a huge time investment to get up and running.

Maybe coding is that much easier, that people invest their time into this instead of a UI builder?

Maybe people got burned by Flash and now want to invest into somthing that lasts longer?
Controlling hydrogen flow in fuel cell powered vehicles
The day I learn Costco treats its employees the way Amazon does, I will find an alternatives just like I did with Amazon.
You mean they're run by Christians? Is that now considered a moral failing?
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I'm using Firefox for years, after Chrome started to ask me for a login (at around version 40). Never looked back. One day I woke up to a chart showing browser market share of FF at around 4%, which surprised me - as I thought many people would understand the implications and directions.

Maybe I'm too optimistic.

Update: Loved chrome, used it for years, I also love most Chrome engineering and all the innovation they added to the field - it's just good to have alternatives.
The non-schematic map is quite out of date given that the Borders Line to Galashiels and Tweedbank opened five years ago.

edit: oh, it says 2013
Perhaps this will help

https://medium.com/@matthewmain/how-to-import-a-3d-blender-o...

or this:

https://vincentgarreau.com/particles.js/
Perhaps, but people overestimate the progress in AI also.

Remember Google's demo of AI reserving a spot at a barber shop? Yeah... that never happened, even though it was supposed to be any day now.
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Freedom and privacy, good. Wokeness, not good. I wish they would have stuck to freedom and privacy. Now I can not wholeheartedly support them any longer.

(Referring, for example, to their recent manifesto telling students they should only work for SJW approved companies).
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You should really read the thread again and note how singularly incapable the blockchain salesguys were of explaining any tangible benefits from adoption. When proponents can’t support it, it’s not the target’s job to do their homework - and it’s pretty obvious that Wales understands it better than they do.
Better resources:

- Landing page https://inversepath.com/usbarmory.html

- Wiki https://github.com/f-secure-foundry/usbarmory/wiki

- MkII introduction on there https://github.com/f-secure-foundry/usbarmory/wiki/Mk-II-Int...
I think the idea that π contains all possible decimal strings in its expansion [which is highly probable but not proven AIUI] provides a little push back.

If I present the idea "circle", then hypothetically all (!!) you need is a decoder (substring location within π, and video processor) and you've got every illegal image ever made compiled into a handy video stream.

So logically (and I'm fully aware law isn't logic [and probably shouldn't be?]) there seems like you would need something else other than just possession of a number to make that possession illegal. (I'm not arguing that's the current law in any country, fwiw).

tl;dr -- at some point it is just a concatenation of bits.
Let me quote from the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Constellation:

> One of the reasons for the elegant appearance of the aircraft was the fuselage shape, a continuously variable profile with no two bulkheads the same shape. This construction was expensive and was replaced by mostly tube-shaped modern airliners. The tube is more resistant to pressurization changes and cheaper to build.

With blended wing bodies, you would again need a continuously variable profile for the whole fuselage (rather than only the wing, as in modern "tube-and-wing" planes). To build a larger or smaller variant, you would have to redesign the whole fuselage, rather than just adding/removing a few tube segments. So, even with updated tools, there will still be a lot of challenges...
Why would that be better than current solutions, which at best users don't really notice when they work, and at worse dislike because they make many things less convenient?

> Making private browsing more private was a success, which is to say less data was collected and users didn't notice the difference.

> The same trackers, though, help users log into sites and pay for goods, and blocking them would break the internet for lots of users.
Thanks a lot for the write-up! Once I got a tad more time at hand, I'll tinker around a bit. :)
I thought so too. Then I viewed their other tweets :eek:
Depends on scale. For 100k chips, a fab wins. For 100 chips, I suspect the printer wins. For 10 iterations 10 chips each, a fab cannot compete.
For most intercontinental flights I've been on, at least half the flight the windows are closed to block the sun so people can sleep or watch the screens. They could design a viewing area at the edge and fill the interior (where passengers sit) with natural light from light tubes. Combine that with a few more cameras so you can view the exterior from different angles, and I don't think anyone would complain.
I think being “woke” is only “not good” if you subscribe to the Fox News Cult.

Thinking carefully about the ethics of the company you work for, especially those in-demand employees who largely have a choice like software engineers, is definitely important. This is not a partisan issue.

Sure, you may not get your chance to own the libs, but that stuff is a bit childish, isn’t it? What does the phrase SJW actually mean to you? If you don’t believe that “social justice” is good, what do you find appealing about the alternative of “social injustice?”
That's very frustrating when arguing against blockchain/cryptocurrencies on the internet (and even in places like HN). For every blockchain enthusiast that has a good understanding of the technology and interesting arguments you have a dozen of people who have barely any understanding of how it works and what it can really do and will spew all sorts nonsense, sometimes even self-contradicting themselves in the process. I suppose that some of them argue in bad faith because they're invested in the technology and want to get rich.

This particular issue of the privacy of the blockchain is one of the best examples, I very commonly see discussions in CC circles where it's both argued that blockchain respects its user's privacy and at the same time that we shouldn't be worried about bad actors abusing an anonymous, unregulated system to fuel corruption or highly illegal stuff because "everything is public on the blockchain, it's completely transparent". I guess that's why many of them have this obsession about quantum resistance, there's clearly a state superposition at play in there somewhere.

An other favorite of mine is "what do you mean cryptocurrency is unpractical? I use it to pay everyday using <centrally operated credit card service provided by a centrally operated cryptocurrency exchange using an off-chain ledger that may or may not eventually be settled in bulk on the blockchain>". Sounds like Visa with extra steps to me.
Pick 2, you can't have all 3.

The 2nd bullet point hides loads of complexity once you attempt to define what "well" means. Is it you asserting that you were able to do your work your preferred way, even when that doesn't align with the organisation interests? Or is it you simply following orders to the satisfaction of your boss because you feel that external validation is important?

The 3rd bullet point hides complexity as well. Because that depends entirely on the lifestyle you are trying to attain / support.

For instance, a sense of agency and freedom are important to you, as well as having a large impact. Well, you won't find that in a strictly operational role, so you will have to move up the ladder. But then you may find that you will have to compromise on 1 since you can't keep everyone happy.

Maybe you are fine with an operational job. Nothing to difficult. And encouragement and support from management / co-workers, as well as deriving purpose from what you do is enough to satisfy 1 and 2. But then you find that your paycheck is enough to get by, but not enough to support more then 1 child. Even though you really want a large family.

Hence, why you can't have all three of those to a T.

Also, there's only "happiness in life" and even that concept is vague and hard to define, because ultimately is based on a set of complex trade-offs and cost opportunity calculations you make throughout all aspects of life. Your professional life is an innate part of that.
Here is the code in a notebook: https://github.com/Python-Meetup-Rotterdam/meetup1/blob/mast...

Gave a little presentation on my findings on using different approaches
Are you:

- suggesting that Amazon is passing over better qualified minorities in favor of less qualified white men?

- bemoaning that Amazon is passing over less qualified minorities in favor of better qualified white men?

I mean, I already know the answer, as does everyone else who is paying any attention to the shift in the narrative, but I just want you to remind everyone else that meritocracy is fascism and people should be judged - accepted into universities, hired, and promoted, not by the content of their character, but by the color of their skin.
Kind of yes, but this is a different part of Boeing. If I were one of the astronauts who'll fly Starliner, eventually, I'd not be nearly as polite as the formal communications suggest. I'd probably be reading code, sitting next to an engineer, and asking them to explain to me what the code does.

The thruster map error should have been detected in simulation. If it wasn't, the simulator is also faulty.

I'll assume the thruster map was only slightly wrong and that whatever simulator runs they did with it were very subtly off.

Still... What a mess...
This bugs the shit out of me, too, but it is in some sense correct.

Cryptocurrency enjoys a much, much higher mindshare among humans than cryptography. I guess because it's money. And also because it's been this weird but actual bubble, not to mention countless ponzi schemes and debased ICOs and Floyd Mayweather in a private jet and whatever.

I've resigned myself to saying all the syllables and typing all the characters of "cryptography" when I discuss it because I don't think you and I are going to win this one.
Disclaimer: I in no way make any claims of success.

1. Find a reasonable tracking and logging system. I've trended strongly to paper/pen systems, heavy on index cards (POIC / Zettlekasten inspired), Bullet Journal, and 43 folders / tickler-file based.

2. Be gentle with yourself. Project focus is much like meditation. Allow your mind to still and focus on the task at hand. If it wanders, guide it gently back. Know when you've had enough.

3. Know when you've had enough. There's only so much focus you have, attempting to prove more is all but certainly counterproductive.

4. The role of play and diversion, even in adulthood, suggests something primal about these. It may be freedom for the mind to wander without consequence.

5. Reassess goals. Change or discard the ones which no longer suit a purpose.

6. One trick for maintaining the apearance of productivity is to have a list of goals far longer than your ability to meet them. Creative procrastination (slacking on task A by tending to task B) may give outsiders the illusion you are infinitely productive. You will see things differently.

(The outsiders' view is the correct one.)

7. If you possibly can, seek a supportive environment. This means a space, tools, resources, and most of all, people, which and who support and facilitate your goals. I say "seek" because odds are strong you won't find this, or at least not in any single or rapid manner, but consider "a better productivity environment" a goal in itself. Working early or late, regular hours or irregular, clean or messy, seems to matter less than having agency over your working conditions.

Saps to productivity -- environmental, resources, or, most of all, people -- are the biggest impediments to progress.

8. You are your own worst enemy.

Be gentle with yourself.

9. Start now, or soon. It's never the right time, it's never the right place, you never have the right books or information. Start with what you have, do the best you can.

10. I honour virtually all of this advice in the breach. What we do wrong is in thinking there's a single method. There are many paths.

Have some method. Note what you want to accomplish, how you attempt to do so, what succeeds, and what does not. Don't forget to ask yourself if what you think needs doing actually does or not.
The problem with the 737-MAX was not that it used a computer. It was that the 737 series is generally not designed to be fly-by-wire and it was rammed in there to keep previous flight characteristics and just generally downplay the design ramifications of putting a much more massive engine below the wings that tilts the center of gravity considerably and changes flight characteristics.

Airbus is doing fine with fly-by-wire. They do so because they start with it at the design stage and don't haphazardly change major aerodynamic characteristics without going back to the drawing board and thinking through all the ramifications.

There is much more to say what went wrong and it's fairly well documented in public sources and little of it was because computers (though there is something to be said about the code quality culture at Boeing, but that's a different topic).
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Yes.

And that's why short-selling is so important.
All this talk about openness and freedom, and Mozilla's builds still ship with the proprietary Pocket extension by default. I really hope they don't have to rely on the revenue from Pocket at some point.

Not only that, but it also connects to Google's SafeBrowsing servers. Is that required by their search engine contract with Google? Shouldn't be turned on by default.
So, I guess we should start calling it the Starliner MAX...
It combines two of my favourite things. Privacy, and making taxonomies.

The general structure seems quite sensible, at first glance.
This is a really wonderful piece, written with a clear voice, style, and appreciation for history. Pieces like this make me glad to read HN, if only for a straightforward way of finding pieces like it somewhat regularly.
But the override hasn't been removed.
Why is (1025, 1025, 1025) so much faster than (1024, 1024, 1024)?
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Because average devs don't care about anything but the CPU spike on their servers.
Chrome definitely has a relatively simple override, Firefox's is a tad bit more annoying.
The problem is listing it as a primary principle when there are more pressing concerns. I don't care about people's politics, so long as they don't push it to the forefront. Unfortunately this is what seems to happen a lot these days. "Fighting hate" should not be a primary concern for Mozilla right now.
Nested for loops, right? Did you know that going in different order can be much faster as it affects memory access patterns?

That's cool and fun to know, and some people may enjoy writing optimisations like that (and we def need those people) but so many people just want to crunch numbers and make graphs. They should just call the vectorized library functions and get on with their research.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman
After the recent release of Pandas 1.0, I was curious to see if/when Conda would upgrade my SciPy to 1.0. Turns out I'm already on 1.4.1 :)
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I'd presume the donation goes toward the Ornithology department specifically, which probably isn't the best-funded in the university. It's not like they expect you to send in hundreds, just a buck here and there to encourage them to keep working on the database.
> Is it not already primarily upper-class people vacationing far abroad?

I don’t think of someone who makes $400k+ a year working as a software developer as necessarily upper class. In my view, upper class means someone who is financially independent and can afford to not work for money for a year or longer without a change of lifestyle.
> If I can reduce my entire desktop environment into a single config file and have it reliably reconstruct itself, it would be magical.

I might be missing something, but it sounds like that's what home-manager[1] was designed to do. Certainly works pretty well for me.

[1]: https://github.com/rycee/home-manager
Interestingly though, main (sole?) purpose of MCAS was to reduce the cost of (re-)training human pilots, so the logic has kind of come full circle.
A coincidence to see something posted on the Apple II. I had serial number 71, and I wrote the shitty little free Chess program that for a while Apple distributed on their Apple II demo tape.

I was thinking last night how far Apple specifically, and technology in general have progressed since the late 1970s because I was reading docs and articles about my Apple Watch and experimenting with everything that I could do just on my Apple Watch: it runs a surprising large number of cool iOS apps (Night Sky being one of my favorites), can directly access the App Store, can locally store and play audio books, podcasts, music, etc.

The Apple II was amazing and I really loved it, even though I stretched my use too wide for the hardware (I developed a commercial Go playing program in UCSD Pascal, and had FORTRAN on it also).

It makes me happy to see people still hacking with old Apple IIs.