skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What that article calls "dynamically typed" is commonly referred to as "untyped" in PL research.

The program '1 + "2"' is a perfectly valid python program with well defined behavior (it signals a TypeError). This demonstrates that you can in fact add integers to strings in python. Of course whether or not you can add integers to strings is completely orthogonal to whether or not a language is typed. Both typed and untyped languages may overload the addition operator.
I still think the parent has a strong point though. Stats and CS are correlated skill sets. Almost all CS people learn a good bit of statistics as part of their education process, and I suspect that most statisticians are passable programmers. The fact that we have a term for the combination of both skills suggests that being great in both is not unique, it just makes you a great data scientist.

The crux behind the idea of being better than average at two things makes you individually extraordinary is that the two skills are not correlated. An above average singer is probably an above average player of one or more instruments, but I'm sure there aren't many who are also great ice cream makers.
Please explain how to design an aircraft that can maneuver at 30G without stalling the wing or compressor. I'm sure Lockheed Martin would pay a fortune if you can teach them that trick.

The reality is that aircraft have to fly in air, which imposes severe physical limits regardless of whether there is a human pilot on board.
Flight Attendants say: NO!
It would be more efficient to use drones but precommit to shooting a soldier back in the US whenever a drone gets shot down.
Ehh, once you get to a certain point you wind up poking things under /sys and /proc that are a little different per-architecture, or building snippets of C code that make syscalls which behave differently per-architecture. Not to mention that ARM distros are usually a little different, either lagging behind or a little ahead of what exists for x86 - although it's better than it used to be, especially with ARM64.
A couple:

1. Einstein was funded by himself.

2. The Wright Bros were funded by themselves. They were motivated by the idea of getting rich selling airplanes. The government funded alternative, the Langley, flopped (literally) into the Potomac.

3. Whittle's jet engine was funded (in part) by a little old lady. Government refused to fund it.

4. The Reich refused to fund jet engines until Heinkel demonstrated a flying prototype. It was financed by Heinkel.

5. The transistor was invented by Bell Labs funded from AT&T's profits.

6. The first transatlantic cable was funded by wealthy investors looking to make money off of it.

7. Several explorers were funded by newspapers in exchange for exclusive story rights.
and a team told their manager they needed to redo all the unit tests in order to stay relevant
Provide a source for that? As someone who actually lives in New Zealand that's the exact opposite of what they have said about the outbreaks genetics... iirc it looks like it might have come from the UK or Australia.
> You'd be better off from a cost perspective running a swarm of hundreds of drone strapped with explosives, only one of them needs to get lucky to disable a multi-million dollar plane and the drones themselves can be pretty cheap.

Why do you think fighters carry a bunch of “drones strapped with explosives” (air-to-air missiles) for air-to-air combat?

The thing is, when you optimize those, they tend to be comparatively short range and have no loiter time, so it's nice to have something to carry them into an engagement area and, if you need to patrol or escort, it's nice for it to also be something with some loiter time.
What are the frameworks used in scientific endeavours? Given that scaling is not an issue, something like Rails for science seems like it could potentially return many $(B/M)illions of dollars for humanity.
China is heavily investing in RISC-V. I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that their challenger will use a RISC-V ISA.
If you were positing the same about Kevin Kelly, I would agree. But Jaron has actually made things.
Is there a corollary to Betteridge's Law, asserting that titles with a subjunctive verb from the set {may,might,could} also evaluate to false?

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...)
Dunno. You can look at their pricing tiers for yourself: https://asana.com/pricing. Also, it's not obvious that the Premium tier and above, despite saying it's "per person/per month", it's 5 person minimum. Gah
Dogfights are a mostly extinct scenario.
Just a word of warning: Anonymity while writing honestly is harder than people typically think. You may need to develop some best practices to help people actually be anonymous while writing "anonymously."

People are generally pretty oblivious to the many things they say and do that can point to their real identity.
Yes I am surprised too

We do need a return to the regulatory environment where IPOs are non-news due to their frequency and prevalance
>… Web apps…

I for one am not eager to download a 3D rendering engine when accessing a website. For a good number of reasons.
>Now my question has changed to: is $5 a month really a deal breaker for folks to get unlimited?

I want to speed forward 5 years and see how well this ages.
It reminds me of all the other comments about "of course Facebook will never require an account to use your VR headset"...
I don’t think that’s quite true. In a post Cold War world, the assumption is that it’s pointless to engage NATO forces in air-to-air combat due to the level of capability.

That calculus is different where combatants are more closely matched (e.g. India and Pakistan), or it may change as opponents improve their capabilities.
None of the above.

I find it ironic that SAFe now offers 13 different Agile certs. I don’t know which methodology is the best one. All I can say is that Agile/Scrum/Kanban appears to be just as broken as Waterfall.

SAFe Certs
https://www.scaledagile.com/certifications/about-safe-certif...
This is a Brilliant comment

I was wondering who was going to hit the nail on the head

LIQUIDITY

-> looking for a return, ANY RETURN

That's why all large tech stocks are booming

that's why Tesla has 1,000 P/E

Anywhere that all this Feb Printing Press Money can park itself, that might be safe and/or give return

IT WILL RUSH TO

Anyone who can IPO, should IPO
Although it might be artistic or even pretty, I didn't figure it out and I leave feeling overwhelmed and very confused.
I admittedly have only used Docker very little, but how exactly does someone manage to build images once every 108 seconds continuously for 6 hours? That sounds extreme.
Another thing trusts and convertibles can be used for are getting around transfer restrictions placed on the securities or owner

You can always swap out the trustee on a trust, giving full control without transferring title of the security

A lot of fun things you can do in the financial engineering space

edit: I’ve seen them done on employee shares/stock options, or on LLC membership interests, but in this case I could imagine being able to change ownership without reporting insider sales (likely not 100% compliant from the regulatory perspective but its likely never been challenged in court especially if nobody knows the trustee changed lol), or just easier asset management for inheritance purposes
> You may very well be 1 in 100, though. And that's still pretty incredible

Is it though? There are 7 billion people on the planet, 1/100 is means you're 1 of 70,000,000 people in that group.

It's odd. Being 1/100 in your day to day life means people probably think you're quite smart, but on a global scale it's quite depressing.
Developers are fleeing the Unreal Engine
So a link to rational wiki, a massively biased website with a far left agenda... As your response to somebody bringing up Scott’s reasoning on things.

Weak sauce. That’s added nothing to the discussion of Scott Adam’s talents, hubris, ego, or cold logic skills.
That's a good idea, in the beginning I had no idea how hosting works so I just went with HostPapa, but now I am considering switching.
> Why should we, as a country, want low paying jobs that only support people with subsidies from others?

Because the alternative for the people taking those jobs is often no paying jobs where you need to subsidize the entirety of the needs of such people instead of just subsidizing what wasn't covered by the low paying job.

Making low paying jobs illegal doesn't magically result in the creation of well paying jobs.
> Where I live students don't have any choice in which high school to go to.

People choose schools by moving house.
I was reacting to the part of your post I quoted.

The thing is that it has little to do about rigor -- or if I may sin again, it is equivalent to say that software developers lack rigor: sure, some of them do (as some scientists do), but even among the most significant and severe bugs of the history of software, it is seldom the case that we can tell "right, definitely the guy who wrote that lacked rigor and seriousness".

Of course this is not a blank forgiveness for every bad scientist out there. Of course we should aim at getting better. But we should make the difference between the ideal science process and the science as performed by a human, prone to errors, misunderstandings and mistakes, and realize that these things will always happen, however many times we call for "more rigor because bugs have consequences".
The hypothesis about self-driving cars doesn't hold water. Anyone doing practical assessment of the idea (as opposed to table talk) knows there won't be any, at least until all the infrastructure and human-driven cars are reorganized to inter-operate with automatic ones. “If the mountain won't come to Muhammad…” — unfortunately, it is possible that people will have to adapt to robots instead of the other way round if everyone decides that it really is the future. It might be that the author believes the general idea of “car sharing” to be correct, and struggles to find the reason why the company loses money. The problem is that the whole thing is a lie.

Their business model is not self-driving taxis. As with other “platforms”, it's just blatant cutting down on “irrelevant” expenses wile keeping the good bits to themselves under the pretense that they are just “operating the computer” that allows someone else to do “everything”. Uber might have a lot of money to smokescreen it, and keep the image of a middle-class citizen “sharing” the car for a certain price, but in other places competition between taxi companies rapidly “optimizing” and “professionalizing” the market makes it clear that humanity has pompously reinvented the hackney coach. Even worse, the unregulated hackney coach, when poorest peasants ride their carriages to a big city and work endless shifts trying to catch some passenger first to be able to feed themselves for a day, or some rickshaws fight and badmouth each other only to get the tiniest number of coins. A typical driver for a “digital” taxicab is a sleep-deprived immigrant (private person or an employee of an official subcontractor, there's little difference) wielding a number of burner phones running client apps from different companies (BTW, location spoofing solutions market is booming) who is useless without a navigation (hooray for modern bio-robots), but jumps every red light to shave minutes off. The real sharing happens between drivers — they share shifts, devices, accounts, and cars. However, the only important thing is that the big company gets the commission from each and every ride, so it's all good. They seem to make enough money to spend some on remediation when accidents happen, all while keeping their stance on being just a system operator that gratuitously helps clients. None of this is specifically modern. Immigrants working as cab drivers predate computers, and tricks that allow stretching of taxi car shifts are just as old.

Well, you can argue that there are ratings. (John Doe rated this driver 1/5: We both died in a car crash. Would not recommend.) Well, anyone in any kind of “digital marketplace” business can tell you that the whole point of stars, likes, and the like is to make users believe that there is a complex system that protects them in the background, and that their input matters. The fact is, the owner and only the owner of the system decides whether any of that is used, and to what extent. Say, how are upvotes and downvotes on Youtube videos used? They are just a game, something for users to fidget and feel satisfaction from.
Seneca Village was not the only neighborhood on the land that is now Central Park.
Indeed. If the AHMC was wholly American owned, there is nothing that could really be done. But forcing ByteDance to divest is already achieving the goal.

As for preventing the American subsidiary to be owned by the current owners, Congress has the power to personally sanction foreign individuals.

Alternatively, Congress would have the power to nationalize (in exchange for a fair market price) the American subsidiary of TikTok and then sell it, legally.
It's not just you. Lanier is mostly famous for being famous: he is an inveterate social climber which is why he has so many juicy Epstein anecdotes[0]. In my experience (I used to live in Berkeley and have been to his house and otherwise in his presence a couple of times via mutual friends) he rarely knows what he's talking about. Saw him stiff two grad students on a split check as well, back when he was at SGI; couldn't believe it, and that's always how I'll remember him.

He's totally right about social media of course. Sadly. It would be a simpler world if all men of bad character were also wrong, but he's right as rain on this one.

[0]https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-tran...
Well, there were more than one sailor on the expedition -- and there's no reason why one sailor couldn't bring back multiple strains. In some cases, a dominant strain drives out the others, but not in all microbes.
I'm not sure how it works in the US Congress, but that usually is done by vote after deliberation. Nothing different than what OP is proposing.
> A democratic society should be held to a higher standard than an authoritarian one.

I'm not sure why this would override prudence.

> If there's credible evidence to suggest TikTok is doing something nefarious, we can have a discussion, but until then it should not be banned.

Why wouldn't a nation mitigate risk? Countries compete and work together, but there is a pattern to US and Chinese sanctioned actions. Ignoring the history in the interest of a manufactured principle is foolish.

A lot of your examples (ie "you don't") do happen all the time all over the world and have throughout history. Shockingly enough, these acts are effective motivators and solutions to underlying problems, in many circumstances. Pretending that they are useless or counterproductive is probably accurate, for some circumstances as well. Not sure why that matters, other than to muddy the conversation.
Because we're talking here about a file that one might possess within one's personal effects and papers--a file, on a PC, with no desire whatsoever to share it with anyone--the comparison to waving a knife around while screaming threats, or forcing a malicious file into a server, seems more than a little thin. Where is the motive? Where is the criminal frame of mind?

Remember, piping /dev/zero to a compression routine for a few seconds, out of curiosity or testing a shell script or whatever, could create a file that might throw a wrench into poorly-built works.
Yeah, imho, make something that generates static pages and then you have any host of options with (nearly) infinite scale -- s3/cloudfront, etc. And it's still pretty simple.
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Congrats on launching this, I'm sure a lot of work has gone into it.

> This product is for designers mostly and one of my goals was to impress.

To me this doesn't make sense. Wouldn't designers not be capable of designing their own? If you have a set of prefab design assets for sale then I would assume that your target audience would be non-designers, and, if that was the case that format in which you present your product would be catered to that audience, not?
Before the web?
>I don't think a clean division into two categories "document" and "application" will work.

Do you also believe that there can be no clean division into "data" and "code"?

If a program I wrote is interacting with an API, is it not completely unambiguous for me to ask the maintainer of the API to give me some way to directly read all of the persistent data behind the API?
You can always ask for a refund of the zero dollar purchase price. :/
this is super true

we also sell to both single users and to companies

single users will write things like

I will destroy your business

you have no idea how many followers I have

etc etc

A single user with 10,000 followers on Twitter thinks they should be treated like they are GM or GE or Ford
Yea, but a missile can be lighter, move faster, and carry more explosives if it doesn’t have to fly itself into a loitering position and instead gets hauled around by a big reusable multi-missile sensor platform.
> It surprises me that 5 of 200 that do so well actually enlist.

Can't be that surprising that intelligent people value the experience of being in the military?
Well, all I can say is “good luck”, you have expressed limited understanding of how software licensing and related contract law works in Europe or the USA.

For example there is no first sale doctrine in software as you never bought the software, you an acquired a license. “redistribution of software” is forbidden called “software piracy” and usually against any commercial software license agreement. Free software and copyleft were created as an alternative to this.

People can do what they want with the HW, and jailbreak the SW (which runs afoul of the iOS EULA and the DMCA in the USA but this isn’t enforced heavily by Apple).... but Apple has no legal obligation to make it easy for 3rd party OSes to run on the HW, or 3rd party app stores.

There has been a 3rd party App Store on iPhone for 12+ years (Cydia) but the Jailbreak dance made it hard to gain mainstream attention.
You could even host some Iranian Revolutionary Guard members on site at the drone facility to do the deed.
Bah, even the STEPS project (from Alan Kay) was a total failure from reproducibility POV and that was a software research project :-(
Private college tuition is as heavily affected by the flood of federal college funding as public colleges. Textbooks are just another way for colleges to ride on the federal gravy train.

Housing prices have no where near the same price growth, and last time they did it was also due to heavy federal subsidies.

Lastly, Childcare, Food and Beverages? You are grasping at straws there.
Epic legal battle aside, this is also somewhat interesting, given Unity's recently-announced IPO.
Wow, this reads to me as a version of "You are not a designer, you do not understand artistic goals". Could you clarify if I properly understood your response?
My mistake. After reading your response, I tried to go back and find where I had originally heard that the AMA contributed to a bottleneck at the med school level. While it is true that the AMA (one side of the LCME partnership) has a role direct role in accreditation of medical schools (which does restrict the number of medical students, albeit not at the level of stipulating a number of seats), it does seem like residencies are the more important bottleneck.
However, a meaningful fraction of those residencies are filled by people (including Americans) who did medical school overseas. I read this as suggesting that there are still not enough seats in American med schools, but that foreign institutions have stepped up to provide that training.
The tobacco companies were quite successful, yes. That's why disclosure of competing interests is mandatory these days, it mitigates somewhat the phenomenon of "one dollar, one vote".
> We do not have to accept that people who have violated our basic ideas about humanity should be allowed to do science.

Science is permissionless. The ethical restrictions of the research are good enough to monitor and remain vigilant about.

The idea of whitelisting transactions is misguided.
Sure, but it's economies of scale. You only have to do the hard stuff once at the source, instead of having every node do it individually.

Also if stuff goes wrong in the node model, the customer will blame you even if it's mostly their fault. So it's also important for brand benefits.
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> Also, drones are far slower than a missile and even far slower than the airplane they're trying to target.

There's no reason either of these needs to be true. A missile with an active control channel is a drone, and another class of military drones is regular manned aircraft converted for remote and/or autonomous operation, like the QF-16. A purpose built air-to-air combat drone could have a wide range of potential performance envelopes, but would almost certainly both have speed and maneuvering advantages over any manned aircraft it was expected to target (quite possibly a lot less range, though.)
The formats might be kinda funky for your TV. You might want to run `youtube-dl -f18` against a YouTube playlist
I believe because that's the direction that the shadow moves in a (Northern Hemisphere) sundial.

People would have been used to the idea that 'time' moves in that direction. Mechanical hands would have been designed to move that way to mimic the sun'd shadows that people were used to.
CDC drops 14-day self-quarantine recommendation for travelers
That is true, however this is not technically seizure but instead the prevention of business with American companies. ByteDance would maintain full ownership of all their assets.

Jurisprudence is that Congress can indeed do this, as it has been done and defended many times. As for the executive, that's much dicier.
The problem is that sticky issues are so rarely aligned on party lines.
Like science vs pseudo science. Where are that line? The scientific method? Because as we’ve seen in recent years, our poor incentive structure for scientific advancement has given rise to bullshit study’s that grab headlines, but are flawed in major ways.

Like everything in life, complex issues that have many facets are difficult to shoehorn into a right/left box. Sites like rational wiki excel at warping issues to make them simple binary choices. Life is hard, thinking is harder, you can’t outsource your judgments of the world and expect to have a clear picture of reality.
Morally not possible.
> why would you want to make a tool you can or would have to reason with?

Some might ask the same question in the context of human children.
I am grateful that exceptionally capable people exist in the world. I find them incredibly motivating because their successes keep elevating the lower bound of collective human potential and set a known standard for what’s possible. I find that ignoring the bar for success (at whatever level one strives for) sets you up psychologically to justify mediocre efforts, when in fact most humans have incredible potential. I find that envy is a separate issue that can be managed by thinking carefully about choosing the right role models.