skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's one thing to copy. It's another to send your own sous-chefs to work in another chef's kitchen, steal their yet to be released receipes, their research, their actual ingredients even!

Another thing is that Japan is friendly towards us and our values. China seeks to bully and topple every nation that does not bow to it. Not to mention the ongoing genocide and the rise of the superior Han mentality.

There are plenty of countries like India that could do it, but China tops the list not only for stealing from US, but also from every other western country including my own: Canada. See Nortel and how Huawei was created off of stolen tech and research from Nortel and thereby bankrupting Nortel. For the latest trickery, see CanSino covid vaccine.

China and collaboration with China or chinese scientists at this point cannot be trusted at all.
"His" father? Nooope, try again. Or, don't? You don't seem to fit the culture.
> None of that has any relevance to whether a pint is more convenient than a litre.

But one pint versus one litre doesn't have relevance to anything, does it?

It seems you've heard the suggestion to adopt a sensible, integrated, and (much more) widely used measurement system -- and are choosing to argue against specific numbers / quantities of things.

Originally you said 'a litre [of beer] is too big as you'll end up with a flat beer'.

Metric doesn't mean you must sell, buy, or drink beer in round numbers.
If you think my comment doesn't contribute to the discussion, please tell me why.
Moving further afield, Senegal is closer to Canada than it is to Somalia. I had to look that one up on a map when I first heard it.
Yeah, it's not necessarily something I'd do again knowing what I know today. Thank you for the links. :)
> demand you defend your thoughts against their stupid uninformed disagreements.

And I shall use this pulpit to demand, in a mixture of derision and righteous anger, that you defend your comme... ah never mind.

This may not be a new thought, but it's eloquently put. Thank you.
Men’s Rain Jackets to Keep You Dry and Stylish Under Any Circumstance
The best rain jackets for men are a must. Everyone needs a good raincoat or two because they are the most painful things to carry, and they are also useful as umbrellas. You carry an umbrella when it rains, and it might keep you dry. If it's not raining, you are dry but wearing a useless umbrella. It's a recipe for frustration, and we're all worth more than buying a single-use street umbrella.
Compare to https://masterwiki.how

> MasterClass is an exclusive online education platform that costs $180 annually to learn (relatively ordinary skills) from A-list celebrities. masterWiki is the direct adaptation of MasterClass' video courses translated into wikiHow-style how-to guides, made available at no cost to you.
Yes, and this highlights something that bugs me about many tech articles - using acronyms without ever defining them.
A 10 minute walk is more realistic to compare the two. Jumping to a 15 minute drive makes it very apparent you are an American.
New vistas of mathematics open up when what was once ugly comes to be appreciated, usually two or more generations after its first exploration.

The history shows up in terminology: "irrational" numbers were once anathema, but had to be accepted (although the feelings about the word might have arisen in the other direction). "Negative" numbers came a lot later, and only after zero, which was disliked. "Imaginary" is another. After the bad numbers had to be accepted, we needed a name for the good ones: thus, "natural". Transcendentals got a free pass because of pi, so got a nice name.

Infinities are still causing trouble. Like irrationals, they are named for what they are not.
Scientist predicted U.S. protests/riots, says civil unrest may last 10-15 years
I agree things that can be immutable should be, but so much functionality requires mutability. State has to change, or the internet will be a very boring place. If I am shopping, I need to be able to buy something... Facebook users need to be able to post their updates, upload photos,etc.

Am I missing something, or do all of these use cases preclude immutability?
To be fair to microsoft, they really seem to hav gotten their act together in the aftermath of that event. Admittedly they seem to be slipping back into some bad habits recently. But they seem to be a good deal better behaves than Apple and other big tech companies for now. And I suspect a lot of that is to do with the lawsuit. IMO the world would be a better place if anti-trust laws were enforced stronger than they currently are.
Let’s say you have one virtual pilot for 10 planes. They won’t all be landing at the same time. So that pilot could guide each one down successively during inclement weather.

I bet that would be way more fun than the bunches of sitting around that I imagine is currently part of the job.
Solution: Hire 10,000 people to vet the feedback and funnel it into the org. Those people vet 6-7 feedback per hour, or 18-21 if you keep the operation running 24/7.

But that would cut into the Profit from the Money Printing Machine.

Saying "We're doing business on a scale that's too big for us to be (profitably) accountable" isn't an acceptable answer.
Agreed. That's #1 on my list right now.
Could new accounts not have an approved Post and instead, all new accounts must get manually approved ? Or is that not feasible due to the volume you have ? I would make sure that first few posts by a new account is now automatically approved/shown to anyone.
He's wrong and using not the best data for such an assertion.

Data science jobs are not slowing down, though they're not really increasing either.

In comparison since 2016 software engineering jobs revolving around building up systems for data scientists have increased 6 fold, maybe even more since I last looked.
The investment angle is definitely one way of selling it. As a native resident, I have been around just long enough to fully grasp the boom-bust cycle and what it means in a broader sense. The city is in wildfire season, and will again rise from the ashes. Just give it a few years to start recovery in earnest. For now the streets are emptier, and a little less safe.

Our last boom, for all the downsides of gentrification and transience that it wrought, added another layer of cosmopolitan influences which has helped defuse old local tensions. While the local leadership isn't doing everything right(as we'd expect), they aren't actively moving in the wrong direction either - they are working reasonably quickly to address and attempt solutions for each crisis as it comes up, and indeed, the crises of 2020 have been hugely transformative for the city already, leading to a whole new set of traffic and transit policies, reforms in law enforcement policy, and more. It won't be long before the officials have to start choosing between making cuts to essentials and throwing out old pork constituents, and they have a riled up, locked down population watching every move.

The only thing I'm truly concerned about is the state and national situations falling into the kinds of scenarios Robert Evans depicts in "It Could Happen Here".
Not necessarily. There is a nice, file-based Smalltalk dialect called SOM (Simple Object Machine) by the people from Denmark who also developed JS V8. There are implementations based on C/C++, JVM and Truffle, see http://som-st.github.io/ for more information. I currently implement yet another version based on LuaJIT, see https://github.com/rochus-keller/som/#a-som-to-lua-transpile.... You can use your favorite editor etc. and don't depend on all-including virtual image like e.g. Smalltalk-80. In contrast to e.g. GNU Smalltalk (which is also file-based) SOM is completely independent of the Bluebook interpreter and doesn't inherit its disadvantages. I had a close look at both and also implemented a Smalltalk-80 VM (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk). When it comes to performance optimization it's much easier with SOM than with a Bluebook based machine.
The old Chevy Volt? You're causing me pain. They only discontinued it last year! Mine doesn't feel "old"

For these kinds of compact utility tractors pure electric makes total sense. But you're right for longer running bigger farm tractors and combine harvesters, etc. you'd probably want a hybrid system.
So Feynman diagrams describe rotations?
This doesn’t ring true at all. The 5+ years of support you get for an iPhone model dwarfs the direct competitors.

If an android manufacturer guaranteed 5 years support and stock android available on the same day as google releases it then it be willing to give android another try.

Not even google themselves guarantee that. Some manufacturers are charging the same price as an iPhone with sometime less than 2 years with of OS upgrades.
Is this the correct link?
> The safety guarantees that Rust provides are neither unique nor complete

That sounds like "LEDs shouldn't be used for traffic lights because they don't melt snow", while ignoring all the benefits. Just add a heater where it is required.

Rust does add benefits. Are these worth the extra effort? It seems that some people think it's worth it.
I mean, "Yes, this" isn't as bad as starting with, "I mean".
Sending pulses that are detectable for even just a couple light years requires surprisingly high power (unless it's a very tight beam, which would be rather pointless for this purpose). That would be a huge challenge with fitting it on an interstellar probe. Our best bet would probably a geothermal setup powering a radio beacon, located on Mercury or Mars; or maybe on a moon that is heated by high tidal forces.

We could also try engineering something similar to natural nuclear reactors [1], powering up a radio beacon once water rises high enough every couple of years. That might run for a million years or so.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...
I came across a reference to such a language in the January 1986 issue of "Computer Language" (I have the magazine right in front of me as I type) and the idea has remained firmly lodged in my brain ever since. Some examples:

(!i = 0 , 2 .. 15
r = foobar(i)
!r = 0)

This sets `i` to be the even values less than 15 and will repeat until the result of `foobar()` is not 0. The expressions on either end are optional.

?char = 'x' : result = 'y'

A simple if statement. This can be extended:

(?m
= copy : sub(1)
= find : sub(2)
= quit : sub(3)
?)

Unfortunately, the article is only two pages, and it doesn't cover everything and I've been unable to find anything else about the language, but it was a very cool idea.
CurbFlow raises $8mm; launches virtual product using CV and ML
We're led by the former founder of Chariot and building a new category in logistics. Hiring aggressively: https://curbflow.com/careers
I'm happy you find the links useful :)

There is definitly a lot of cognitive dissonance amongst people such as the author of White Fragility. The best solution for them is figures such as Chris Hedges, Richard Wolff, Cornell West, and Bernie Sanders. I think ultimately the issue with this lies upon the media - the views of the left are constantly misrepresented, and leftists such as Chris Hedges are outright banned from the media - he was fired from the NYT for opposing the Iraq War. Ultimately what you have to do is to build local organizations, vote very heavily in local primaries to get people such as AOC elected, start unions. It's a very difficult fight. You'll notice too that people such as DiAngelo in the mainstream media will generally attack leftists on aesthetics and ignore their points, like what happened with Sanders.

Additionally, people politically have tried to label themselves as leftists (including the Nazis - they called themselves National Socialists as they were signing deals with Krupp to make unions illegal and preparing to execute members of the Socialist and Communist parties). When those people have hegemony, it's a difficult fight.

Ultimately I think the basic distinction between leftists and people that pretend to be leftists is always economic. If you get the platform, the best attack vector is to focus on how useless their ideology is to fix economic issues, and how these economic issues are the engine of racism. If you manage to get them to admit that their economic policies do nothing to help the poor and the common man, it becomes very easy to call them out as not a leftist. But getting that platform is exceedingly difficult, even when you're a professor in economics at MIT, a Pullitzer prize winning journalist, the most popular politician in the US (see : Bernie Blackout), or an acclaimed doctor in Philosophy and influential critic of Obama (such as Cornell West - if he was a Republican he'd get twenty times more airtime).
Why venture capital firms with “tons of money” can’t write little checks
These are referred to as "generic trademarks" if you're interested in learning more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark. Generic trademarks are studied in economics and have legal implications.
No sure a soggy burrito the size of a baby is ever great fast food.
I've done a lot of landscape photography with natural light—daytime and nighttime—for the past twenty years. Daylight would look nothing like these.

It's easy to underestimate how sophisticated our intuitive subconscious perception of illumination is. We've evolved over millenia to have a really keen sense of different kinds of light and we can tell when things are different even if we aren't sure why.
If we get the Rust backend for gcc finalized and merged first, it would be much easier to get Rust code into the kernel:

> https://github.com/philberty/gccrs/
You can easily do periodically transmissions for infinitely long with a finite power source, as long as you transmit less often than 1/t. I imagine the tricky bit would be making a power source with no parasitic losses. Maybe a high-temperature super conducting loop.
TL;DR: Doctors don't hate computers. They hate medical software, because it's done badly. It gets in their way with pointless (to the doctors) bureaucratic trivia that the doctors shouldn't have to care about.
Kids who go to med school tend to be the ones who excel in math, chemistry, and similar ”logical thinking” subjects. They usually do reasonably well with computers.

In my experience, the contrast is stark to another high-paid professional group: lawyers.
> It's also not limited to Rust, it's about providing support for multiple other languages that could be beneficial in those locations

But what are these benefits that other languages bring on the table? From the article it appears that proponents of the new toolchain mention memory-safety as the primary concern:

> They focused on security concerns, citing work showing that around two-thirds of the kernel vulnerabilities that were assigned CVEs in both Android and Ubuntu stem from memory-safety issues. Rust, in principle, can completely avoid this error class via safer APIs enabled by its type system and borrow checker.

So the natural follow-up question to that concern, it seems to me, would be whether there's something in the existing C/GCC toolchain (or around it) that can resolve the raised concerns without adopting a whole new toolchain (Rust/LLVM) and without having to extend the existing interface with language-specific suffixes like "kmalloc_for_rust".
> Does an investment on PR trumps technical merit?

If PR == popularity, yes.

Otherwise we would all be writing our stuff in Haskell, Lisp, Elm, F# and similar, and Algol-derived languages would be a footnote at this point.
Our contact form does not pipe into a ticketing system (it goes into support@[our domain, available via our profile link], which is just a G Suite email account that you can use to contact us directly).

I'd very much appreciate hearing your thoughts about attacks and understanding what an effective solution would be. Thanks also for your note about Stackpath -- we aren't a CDN, but Gatekeeper could help reduce bandwidth usage by denying requests.
the update is already available for one-click install via MacUpdater: https://ibb.co/ftwPtv7
It's been tried. It didn't work.
Is there any one-platform-to-rule-them-all solution, that will support 70K users across hundreds of sites, that doesn't look and work like a clunky piece of junk?

Maybe the one-solution model isn't the best option.
But you're the one that first mentioned MKL. You made yourself suspicious.
ha ha that's exactly how i play it to my friends.
It boils down to:

- optimise the amount of data you send (see graphql/this persons agent idea)

- optimise where you send it to/from

The latter has a hard limit of c, which we’ll always try to move towards. Distributed computation helps, but trades off speed/consistency. The question then becomes whether you can have an inconsistent model for those few seconds.
Covid-19 is revealing the flaws of Silicon Valley culture
> so I keep the doors and windows shut

Got armored glass? If no, then two drones will do the trick.

> I don’t have a great car, but I’m pretty sure it can outrun an off the shelf quadcopter.

Not if you stop at stop lights.

More realistically, the thing that gets VIPs assassinated is a predictable schedule. Assassination drones up the ante quite a bit, because one can park a drone in the bushes by your favorite coffee shop in the off chance that you’ve decided to get a latte today, while it’s much harder to successfully hide men with guns in a similar position.

> but as a targeted means of killing I can’t imagine it being better than a mortar or RPG.

I think you’re probably right that an RPG shot at your vehicle is worse for your survival odds, but I think you’re missing the element of risk. The problem with assassinating someone with an RPG is that you’ve got to get within shooting-back range. The chances of you getting shot before or after starting an assassination attempt is pretty high, which means that a successful defensive strategy is to create a wide cordon around the VIP to make attempts too risky. With a drone you don’t have to be anywhere close to the target, which allows for you to make an attempt on a hypothetical VIP with no personal risk whatsoever. If they spot your drone and shoot it down, you’re only out a cheap drone and some explosives, which is much better than getting shot at personally.

Again, for a soft target this is silly, men with guns are used to hurt and terrorize soft targets the world over; they’re cheap and reliable. But as a means to harass hardened targets, drones create new possibilities.
But Apple Pay isn’t IAP.
This is an extremely long article and admittedly I started skimming halfway through, but this statement:

>But we think of this as a system for us and it’s not,” he said. “It is for the patients.”

Is wrong. It's a misnomer to call them medical record systems. They are primarily billing systems. Sure, improving patient care or reducing paper records are nice. But the #1 thing is to document the care to allow them to bill insurance or the government.
A mass of insecure side-loads damages platform security.

99.9% of users have no clue how their phone works, they won’t know how their iPhone got hacked, and they will blame Apple.

It will reduce a big differentiator between iPhone and Android costing sales.

For developers bad publicity from these events will make their customers more gun shy about buying and installing apps.
My point is that, during quarantine and isolation, a bunch of that external stuff disappeared.
> You can easily do periodically transmissions for infinitely long with a finite power source, as long as you transmit less often than 1/t.

What does the 1/t part mean? As far as I can understand it means if your power source lasts 10 years, you need to transmit not more than every 1/10 = 0.1 years. Which doesn't make sense. More generally, periodic transmissions forever will emit infinite power so how could a finite power source power that?
> And how would you compute the cross product of <"foo", "bar", "baz"> and <"apple", "orange", "banana"> exactly?

Cross product isn't a well-defined operation. The wedge product[0] would be <a,b,c>~<x,y,z>=<<ay-bx,az-cx,bz-cy>>, assuming I didn't get the signs wrong again. That would require scalar multiplication and subtraction of strings, though, neither of which are generally well-defined.

If you substitute in string multiplication (ie concatentation) and addition of negatives (alternation and reversal, the latter of which is only vaguely justified by anticommutativity of multiplication), you get:

<< /fooorange|elpparab/ ,
/foobanana|elppazab/ ,
/barbanana|egnarozab/ >>

which frankly sounds to me like a pretty good argument that vectors of strings make no sense and shouldn't be supported, but maybe someone working on parsing algebras could come up a more useful interpretation.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge_product

Edit: FWIW, wedge product of NaN makes perfect sense: <NaN,NaN,NaN> ~ <NaN,NaN,NaN> = <<NaN,NaN,NaN>>.
This may need fewer code changes (if the code in question is correct and the interfaces can possible be implemented in a safe way, that is) but it still requires developers to write proofs in a dependent type theory. I’ve only looked at ATS briefly, but I’m familiar with a lot of the other languages in the space (Idris, Fstar, etc.). Are ATS’s proof tactics drastically more productive/brief than those (F* in particular, which has great aliasing reasoning)? If not I think you’re radically overestimating the approachability of this route compared to Rust.
Facebook grants researchers access to study 2020 election
Currently not making any money. It's a bit of a chicken egg-problem.. Ad networks that offer the type of ads suitable for a search engine want user data, unless you have a significant number of users, in which case they're willing to make a deal.

That's why I decided to build an in-house ad network which is in the making. Hopefully others can use it too, eventually.

The idea is simple.. I know Ecosia has above 1m in monthly profits (DDG significantly more, probably), so in the case where we manage to reach those numbers, we want to purchase river interceptors from the Ocean Cleanup Project. One river interceptor from the OCP costs about $700k. It's estimated that there is a need for 1000 river interceptors to stop 80% of plastic from entering the ocean. Even if we can eventually purchase 12 interceptors a year, that's a big change. I explain this at https://okeano.com/about but probably should add more information and sources!
Yep. EMRs are for billing first, clinical utility second.

Committees composed of doctors know nothing about software design, so their advice to developers is not very useful.

IMHO you need developers, who are also doctors or other providers actually doing the clinical work, to make decent medical software.
I've heard that "Remains of the day" is Jeff Bezos' favorite book of all time. Some reference here: [0].

[0]: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-jeff-bezos-was-ecstati...
Part of the problem: medical software isn't designed to facilitate efficient patient care. It's designed to facilitate billing.
I'm an MD, and most medical software is objectively terrible. I've worked in private hospitals, campus student health clinics, jails, juvenile detentions, VAs, group homes, state hospitals (in the US) - and in clinics and hospitals in New Zealand.

I have never used an electronic medical record that I would willingly inflict on another person.

The reasons vary, and almost all of them have at least a couple of things that they do very well. But the bottom line is that this exactly the kind of "enterprise software" that is sold to people who will never have to actually use it. They are overwhelmingly sold as ways to increase reimbursement for services provided, as a part of the arms race of insurance companies refusing payment, and hospitals billing more and more.

Even in public sector settings that aren't billing, the only viable options available are built with this problem in mind.