skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You said it was a dynamic typing issue, not a duck typing one, when in fact the two are inseparable in the example you gave. That is absolutely an example of duck typing, you’re calling the same method on three different types with no subtyping relationship with a single invocation.
Regulations are needed to lead lives with dignity. That was basically what the whole discussion was about.
That's true but why would you?

Vancouver is an awesome/beautiful place to live.

They don't even have the building restrictions that san fran does. They're building like crazy in that city and the price per square foot just keeps going up because it's in high demand.

The rents are high for good reason imho.
They are. Many unsupportag tags. Thanks outlook.
Does It Spark Joy?
Introducing Gretchen: Making Fetch Happen in TypeScript
“Almost all survey respondents indicated that the pilot's cancellation forced them to place on hold or abandon certain life plans," reads the report.”
The latest episode of the "Decoder Ring" podcast is about the rise and fall of indie booksellers + Barnes and Noble in NYC through the lens of "The Shop Around the Corner" and "You've Got Mail".

In the movies, the (thinly veiled) B&N is the big bad and it examines just why that is and sort of why people were so against it for what now seems like stupid reasons:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decoder-ring/
It's trustless in that you don't need to trust the system. It's not risk free; however, in practice the risk has proven to be negligible. The platform is matching buyers and sellers. There isn't a middleman in the transactions, so there isn't any passing of risk. The risk of freezing your account is only a problem if trading crypto is not permited by your bank, otherwise you can just explain/prove what you're doing. Even if it's not permited, you can be smart about how you trade to minimize risk exposure. Again, it's not risk-free, but you're aware of the risks and the platform doesn't require trust (definition of trustless).
It's been about 40 years for the Alaska permanent fund dividends and it's popular AFAIK.
I'd use 3 years to unapologetically recover from the daily grind that is working daily, and figure out what I really wanted to do. It would make for a great opportunity to figure out and build skills for what I want to do in the next phase of my life.

A 3 year gap (call it a sabbatical and get all kinds of kudos for being so brave) isn't that hard to overcome, if you have the required skills.
Pardon my ignorance, but if you rebase while on master, are you not changing the master branch history for everyone? Isn't the point of the golden rule to not be re-writing the history of public branches?
Right, and then the discrimination is AI-washed - security personnel can say they're just following people flagged as "high risk" around the store, not discriminating, even though the "AI" mostly used skin color to add the high risk flag in the first place.

Discrimination: SOLVED!
This is really fun!

Not sure if bug or missing feature, but the decade tabs at the bottom of the screen are unlabeled so I have to click around a bit to find the decade I want.

Firefox 74.0b7 on macOS 10.15.3.
>They designed and built a custom welding machine _and_ a custom X-Ray machine for building tank domes in four weeks?

Can any engineer speak to whether this is actually progress, or even necessary? It seems like every time something goes wrong, Elon "invents" a way to do it better.

I'm old enough to remember rescue subs, battery swaps, brain implants that will cure autism, factories spitting out factories, solar shingles, truck carriers, one-hour body shop service, tunnels at a fraction of the cost, the ability to identify squeaks in your car with your phone, robots assembling cars so fast they need a strobe light to be seen...
We like to call it "A 9, a 4, and a 7". You pay depending on what order you want those numbers to be in.
Cmd up and down navigates between prompts, so you don’t even have to scroll
The desktop app is GPL and it's all backed by a Sqlite db so it's possible to reverse engineer.
>They designed and built a custom welding machine _and_ a custom x-ray machine for building tank domes in four weeks?

That's feasible due to the requirements being narrow and specific, and also well understood by a team close to the team building those machines.

Contrast that with expensive & slow-to-build machines available on the general market, where the requirements are broad, under-specified, and always shifting.
I agree, Anki on iOS is significantly underpriced relative to the value it provides ;)
No road is 100% pedestrian free. When cars break down on the road the occupants tend to become involuntary pedestrians. Wild animals also exist.
Same. I like trying out new things, so I have a feel for what they're good for. I tried setting up Kubernetes for my home services and pretty quickly got to "nope!" As the article says, it surely makes sense at Google's scale. But it has a large cognitive and operational burden. Too large, I'd say, for most one-team projects.
Sure and my home server had an uptime for a year and a half until the local power company had a few brownouts one summer.

Downtime doesn't happen until it does.
> They don't try to make a community, movement or some statement to help other men left out but cry in misery.

This is 100% false. However, most (almost all?) communities that men try to create for themselves are called sexist and their membership is subjected to social abuse for just being a part of it.

> They needed a baby sitter instead of a partner. They also wasted a lot of time on useless things and less on improving their lives i.e, hygiene, eating habits, schedule etc.

This is just unnecessary and comes off as hateful. I've dated numerous women who were no better. My fiancee is an absolute blessing in that regard.

> Every time someone talks about issues surrounding women, instead of letting them, men come in swamp telling them how miserable their lives are.

There are female-centric communities, moderated for exactly the purpose of facilitating discussion by women, for women. If you don't want to hear men's opinions, don't go to forums where men are part of the membership.

> Edit: I am only describing what I heard from them above.

You straight-up said, "it is true." In what way can you pretend to only be describing what you heard from others when you proclaim it to be true yourself?
My understanding is that 1. Sooner or later you end up having to check all the types in your tests which means 2. You end up having the same number of lines of code in each, one where the type is declared in the model, which realistically is easier to document and to keep your data consistent, and the other where the only time you verify it is in the tests, or worse both tests and runtime, in which case by definition it's more lines of code. If lines of code is a proxy for bugs, and you build on something that doesn't have type safety, wouldn't that just increase your bugs across two very important immutable dimensions of computing? Stripe has a type checking team now...
The momentum of civilisation is meandering and spread. The few humans burning their own path are straightforward and fateful, there seems to be more change happening once there's a single individual behind it, but perhaps only because more change in every direction seems less than the pure firethrodden path of the single individual.
There’s a lot of configuration to understand with k8s and even GKE. Badly configured probes, resource budgets, pod disruption budgets, node affinities etc. can have disastrous effects. I’m pushing my teams more towards serverless since it takes out nearly all ops/scaling/rollout complexities. Right now we’re seeing our serverless apps on GCF, GAE and cloud run outperform our GKE apps easily in scaling, reliability, and simplicity (configuration and time spent getting it deployed in a satisfactory manner)
And suddenly you have a MUCH higher degree of vendor lock-in than on k8s.
As self reported by many truly rich folks, money is not a motivating factor in their daily lives. If they want a good burger, they'll get one and not care if it's $1 or $1,000.

Such an attitude would certainly apply to their reasons for working.
This is why you need to be interviewing for things like "customer focus" as well as the technical side of things.

I've rejected candidates who have been great on their technical skills . . . who I would never want to be making ANY decisions about customers, or the technical direction of the company.
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The timeline for that process is millennia, so if we come up with a continual process for replenishment that works on shorter timeframes, it's maintainable.

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-mission-reveals-spee...

> MAVEN measurements indicate that the solar wind strips away gas at a rate of about 100 grams (equivalent to roughly 1/4 pound) every second. "Like the theft of a few coins from a cash register every day, the loss becomes significant over time," said Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator at the University of Colorado, Boulder. "We've seen that the atmospheric erosion increases significantly during solar storms, so we think the loss rate was much higher billions of years ago when the sun was young and more active.”
Going through the comments, I didn't find any explanation other than "facebook monitors your clipboard."
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Hah! I often encourage teams to start by shooting for five eights. Once they have that nailed, we can start talking about nines.
Handling Null Values in Postgres
That looks really interesting, I'll definitely give this a try. How did you decide on the reading materials to use? There's obviously so much to choose from, I'm wondering what criteria you might use.
So most people 'kept working' but 25% quit, I think that kind of validates that a lot of people will quit, which is the concern. 25% is a lot. It'd be interesting to see numbers from those who were not employed, i.e. how many gained employment.

The bits about 'having to drop future plans' isn't fair. Of course, people will have to adjust after losing a major source of income.
A JavaScript & TypeScript package with collections like JavaScript’s native Maps and Sets, but using value equality (deep-equal) instead of reference equality.
> If anything, this will bring the routine harassment that individuals in authority inflict on people and elevate it to a centrally controlled, legal practice.

For those organizations that can afford what I am sure is an exorbitant subscription fee, maybe.
Some do, most are very basic outside of Quebec, and even then, I can't remember the last time a tenant sued an operator because they illegally increased the rent in Quebec (the new tenant would need the old tenants lease, plus proof that the increase wasn't justified).
Gov' of ontario has rent control.
>shares it with whoever asks

Legally speaking they're supposed to get your authorization, but yeah it's an honor system.

>but makes it super difficult for you to get it or rectify any wrong data.

Is it? I thought all you had to do was write them a letter?
I disagree on the housing point. With basic income, people who can’t afford housing in expensive areas would move to towns with cheap housing/land but less lucrative/efficient work. There’s no housing shortage in rural areas.
A link to the episode which won't try to redirect you to an itmss URL:

https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2020/03/youve-got-ma...
Saves me a ton of time in medical school vs trying to brute force the facts in. Plus it keeps things I learned over a year ago fresh so it has been very helpful for preparing for USMLE Step 1. Medicine might be an ideal case for this kind of learning though.
> If the source is responsible for the correlation, what other explanation do we need? Why isn't it enough that the source is responsible for the correlation?

Ah, okay -- that's a very good question (I skipped over a bunch of context on what problem we are discussing in my first responsd).

The problem is that all quantum mechanical measurements appear to be random. We might know (through our understanding of quantum mechanics) that measuring a particle in a particular state will give us spin-up 75% of the time, and spin-down 25% of the time -- but we cannot predict what any single measurement will give us. As far as we can tell, each measurement is as close to a real-life RNG as we can find.

This apparent randomness (and thus inability to predict individual experiments -- only being able to predict the statistical distribution of many experimental trials) has unnerved scientists for several decades, and thus many "deeper theories" have surfaced to try to explain where this randomness is coming from. Hidden-variable theories are one such class of theory, and are based around the idea that there is just some additional fundamental quantum numbers associated with quantum states which we don't know about -- these are the most natural-feeling theories because these kinds of extensions are a common theme in the history of physics. A local hidden-variable theory would be the most ideal because it would allow for the unification of relativity and quantum mechanics -- but alas, it is not to be.

> why not simply suppose the values of iA and iB are such that the correlation is possible

Punting the problem to the state doesn't help -- the state variables are decided ahead-of-time when the particle states are first created. Having your algorithm just use a value in the state still counts as an algorithm.

I really recommend trying to come up with a toy algorithm to solve this problem, to get an idea of where the hidden complexity arises.

The key problem (as you may discover yourself) is that you can't tell what angle the other particle will be measured with, and thus you don't know what statistical weight to apply to the state you have internally.

> Wouldn't global variables actually be non-local communication, instead of local?

Yes, "global variables" would be non-local. Hence why you can't use them (Bell's inequalities only prove the non-existence of local hidden-variable theories of QM).
Konsole has that since forever.
I'm not in that area, but I struggle to find an analogue of a large pressurized tank on Earth where mass is the dominant cost factor.

You might have equally big tanks on Earth, under equal pressures, but it will be more cost-effective to just increase the material used on the shell of the tank to solve your problems. Whereas in space, every kg that can theoretically be removed from the launch vehicle is worth investing in, even if it raises the cost of engineering and materials.

So yes it seems reasonable to me that these are groundbreaking challenges.
but that list is >8hrs of back to back chores (according to his estimates) for a non-work day without any of the ones your parent post mentions. I don't think that's realistic.
I definitely agree, and I think this mindset develops in many technically inclined people only after you spend a significant amount of time living in the real world.

I imagine many of us from a young age find an interest in math and science because the logic makes sense. We build on first principles and everything has an objective truth. Perhaps in our early lives we experience things that don't "make sense" in this way, so we throw ourselves into a world of logic that we can more easily understand. Great for academic success, and after all, when we're young we're probably in a world where academic success is lauded (school or college). We are quite literally rewarded with good grades and honor societies for thinking in this way, so it reinforces the idea that this way of thinking is "right". Or at least, this was the case for me throughout high school and college. I remember thinking at the time, "All of these people around me partying, having fun, getting into trouble, living illogically -- they're doing things wrong."

But then at a certain point we leave these structured environments and are on our own. And we continue to run into experiences where we try, again and again, to apply algorithms to life, and they almost always fail. It seems like we can come to one of two conclusions: Either the algorithm is still incomplete and the parameters need tweaking, or we realize that there is no algorithm, or at least no knowable algorithm. We're just too complex, too irrational by nature, to be described by some knowable set of rules.

Every time our "life algorithm" fails it hurts, because it feels like we failed. So we do whatever we possibly can to avoid failure in the future, and yet those failures keep coming and hurt more and more each time.

Until, hopefully, we arrive at that second conclusion which comes with both relief and regret. Relief because instead of trying to describe life with an algorithm, we can actually start living it. And regret because we no longer have the freedom to make those same sorts of mistakes that help us build character when we're young, because they probably have real consequences now. Plus it's really damn hard to give up the way we've been living since childhood. Things like practicing mindfulness and meditation help a lot.

Anyway...that's my two cents.
It’s more than that. People hate learning concepts that should be abstracted away from then.

As an example, why can’t ConfigMap and Secret just be plain files that get written to a well known location (like /etc)?

Why should the application need to do anything special to run in kubernetes? If they are just files, then why do they have a new name? (And, unless they’re in /etc, why aren’t they placed in a standards-compliant location?)

If they meet all my criteria, then just call them configuration files. If they don’t, then they are a usability problem for kubernetes.
This isn’t true. Numerous countries have public healthcare systems that service the public successfully, like Singapore.

Sure, you can pay to access the private system, which is a nominal amount compared to what we pay in the US.

The US ranks among the worst of the first world nations in terms of access to and quality of healthcare[0]. Just look at our hospital borne MRSA infection rates.

The idea that the US delivers consistent, quality care across the nation is laughably false.

0: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/among-11-count...
Also known as consulting, conferences, trainings, certifications and books.
That'll teach me to pay more attention to the details rather than going "Welp, there goes my start-up idea".

Yes, that doesn't look great - I assumed when I saw it was underwater that it was effectively looking up at the people on the surface and detecting people in distress from that angle. On closer inspection that doesn't seem to be the case.
Intel CSME bug is worse than previously thought
For me, no formal metric can capture what I get out of buying books at an independent book shop. I feel like I'm trading with an old currency, only the books I own and buy are a reflection of my own character, or even soul.

When I lend or trade a book with a friend, it's a transaction using those same fragments of our souls and we grow slightly closer. We now have a shared experience in those books and each understand each other's view of the world a little better.

Reading might be a largely solitary experience, but the passing of a book from one pair of hands to another achieves a communication far beyond reading a review or even a personal recommendation. Somehow the mass of the book itself carries with it a greater weight to the recommendation.
So then your website is down, the monitoring alerts you and you fix it. Or, worst case, your monitoring doesn't alert you and you fix it on monday when you notice. You've been down the whole weekend. For most startups: so what, your dog-walker-as-a-service marketplace didn't work for 48 hours, that doesn't really matter.

You've had a working system very quickly and saved plenty of money that you were able to invest into more features or runway though.
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There is some segment of the population that would pity your perspective as the disillusionment of an abused spouse. I don't. I get it.
Try sending a wire to your friend on the other side of the globe, then try sending BTC. Also, digital gold.
Fair, depth perception from 2D isn’t there yet through ML, but mixed with radar can it be effective enough.

The reason I assumed it works is that lidar on the article above seems more like a redundancy. Because their camera system have the short range covered and radar has the long range covered. Lidar seems to augment over it.

Though the order of disengagement is a great stat, that definitely shows how much better waymo is compared to Tesla
The argument for UBI in place of those other things is that it's extremely simple. Legislatively, bureaucratically, etc. Just give people more money to offset all of these systems that are too expensive. Simpler also means cheaper to implement.

It does avoid dealing with the root problems in some sense, but it's certainly elegant.
Why should we pursue biomimicry to that extent? My go to example is to compare aircraft to birds, so I could rephrase your question as why are the engine/fixed wings necessary? Is it solely because material engineering hasn't advanced yet to enable airplanes to flap their wings to stay airborne like birds?

Human eyes and brains are completely different from solid state electronics with different constraints and advantages.
they say kube is greek for 'pilot' but it also means 'dice'

are you feeling lucky punk?
Yes. Everytime someone says the price will just go up to match it's like some imaginary world where the one thing you can't apply supply/demand is the welfare of people. Housing is not fixed and healthcare is a function of prevention which is best served by proactive measures instead of reactive which are generally more expensive. We can actually save money by not being so inefficient with the capital in the first place.
If they are more focused on playing with toys or polishing their resumes for their next job, then I'd want them to leave. Their goal should be understanding what users need and building it as simply and effectively as possible.
It seems Americans often believe that, but virtually nobody in Western Europe would even think of going to the US for healthcare. I would assume the same for Canadians.

I have no idea if that's actually true, but the widespread opinion is that the ~free (it depends a lot between countries, it's usually simply affordable, rather than free) healthcare here is much better than what a normal person can afford in the US.
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The Alaska thing is different. It's a) not enough money to be considered b) a reasonable response to the direct revenues from an Oil windfall.

Now, it might be a good example of how a nation should distribute revenues from natural resources, i.e. right into the hands of the people. But it's not a UBI substitute.
"One of us...one of us..."
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You are right, this is under-discussed. Look at what happened to higher education with all the "free" money. We don't want slumlords just raising prices to capture this money. It could be that if you if you are in a program like this that the rent have to be regulated based on size and location. In my opinion, UBI can never really work, but there is no reason we can't reduce/eliminate taxes on the poor to increase their standard of living.
It’s still unpaid, because they aren’t getting paid.

They are compensated, yes. But the roof they live under (that they are responsible for) and the food they consume (which they went out and bought and cooked) is very difficult to quantify. How do you decide if the home they live in and the food they eat is adequate compensation? A woman looking after two kids every day is doing the same amount of work in a one bedroom apartment than she is in a mansion (possibly more, in fact). A woman that loses her home because her husband gets fired from his job now has no compensation through no fault of her own.