skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats what I'm saying. They didn't take over despite all the expert predictions that they would overtake the United States by the mid 1990s. Chinese population is aging far more rapidly than the US due to the one child policy, their economic system is largely dependent on exports to countries where it is increasingly politically unviable to continue such trade. They are far more overleveraged than the united states is or ever was. Additionally they have to import the vast majority of their oil so in an economic crisis they would have to have to retain access to usd for oil which is a precursor to many system critical end products.

https://www.populationpyramid.net/china/
Here is a neat visualization of their demographic situation. There are worse demographics but the point is that they have run out of labor for an export led economy and the internal base for a consumption led economy. Same thing is true for Germany which means they will have to find another production model which means major political instability.
Like Madoff? The subprime lending/NINJA loans? In my opinion both of those things would have been harder if everyone was doing more due diligence. Moral hazard took away some of the incentive to do that.
Personally, as a new employee, the idea of trading all the benefits of remote for some in person mentorship is absurd.
I am actually interested in the Non-Labeled part which no one on the Internet have even guessed what they are. Image Signal Processors ( ISP ), Video Decoder and Encoder, there should be a FPGA somewhere, Secure Enclave, NAND Controller, PCI-Express Controller / USB3 / Thunderbolt etc.

Mostly because all the other part are already well known.
"A program worth using is worth buying"

- hacker/cracker culture
I saw your prior comment when I responded to it the first time. Repeating yourself more forcefully doesn't explain your thought process.

You think journalists have been lying about corruption and minimized consequences for so long that people are unsurprised by corruption AND that in turn caused corruption? Also who is talking about "the capability of the government to do any good"?
It kind of is. The first self-learning algorithm I was taught adjusted a single variable in order to aproximate a linear function. Now, being continuous and unbounded, it is mathematically impossible to memoize such a function, however you can memoize the function calls as they happen. The results would be indistinguishable.

However real machine learning tries to approximate functions in n-dimensions and that is really, really, really hard to do. Currently no one really has a lookup table. There are some inputs where the error level is acceptably low, and others where the model just isn't optimized enough and the errors are ridiculous. The only question that remains to be answered, is whether any of these high-dimensional functions can actually be found by machine learning, or if we are just stuck with these endless approximations. Also I suppose you could ask if any such functions actually exist; maybe certain phenomena are just pure chaos.
> Is it right to expect an Engineer to do the managers' work too?

Who said anything about a manager's work? There's lots of things that can be called "boring" but are still expectations that fall on an engineer, not on a manager.
Considering that the effective salary of 1 person/mo would be around ~15k, I think spending $200 to make people more efficient is absolutely worth it
I've had a few psych's, some monumental in helping me discover I have ADHD and happen to be slightly on the autism scale. As someone who's struggled with an odd family history, I'm glad therapy has helped you enjoy life and see a more optimistic future!

I've recently been looking for a psych that's slightly more career performance oriented. Or how should I put this, willing to meld psychology (talk therapy) with a layer of strategy / risk reward applied as well. I've always been bad at gauging a fit in this way.
I'm not sure I understand how native Americans are unrelated to the topic at hand. They still exist, and there are still thousand year old villages in the US and Mexico.
> Probably has already

It's a variation on the transporter problem from Star Trek - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHBAdShgYI
On a different note. For anyone interested, NetBSD is available for the Dreamcast
https://www.netbsd.org/ports/dreamcast/faq.html
I make an effort to indent on most keywords, using a Python-like structure to indent related lines to the same level, one more than the keyword operating on them all, with the heuristic that if I can comment one or more lines to debug, I have a readable query.

I tend to classify SQL statements into two kinds, those that when wrapped in a calling function fit in one screen, and those other longer ones that I'm inclined to write in an imperative language.

Edit: For the author of the repository, the list of reserved words gets longer and more complex when you support different implementations of SQL, and regex may be insufficient once you consider such parsing questions as whether the keyword is within quotation marks or part of a user-defined name.

https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/coding-standards/list-of...

https://github.com/AzisK/readsql/blob/master/readsql/regexes...
It’s fairly simple to make these right? Simply put in a flight path and let the plane go on auto pilot?
It seems about the same to me. When I was growing up, my grandparents were getting scammed with foreign lotteries and commerative coins. Then later, they were MLM 'sales consultants' for ephedra, until that was banned. Now my cousins are MLM 'sales consultants' for whatever crap.

If anything, it's easier to see how many people are hooked in, because social media makes it easier to see when your tenuous contacts are engaged in MLM.
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Possibly related: There’s a method widely used in Japanese industry, called „pointing and calling“: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling

Obviously humans make less mistakes when they audibly point out circumstances under which they make a decision or perform an action.
For a different perspective.

Humility is also useful when alone. I think X is true but let me double check can easily save your life irrespective of a belief in god or the presence of other people. Using a checklist before flying for example is an important recognition of your imperfection. Measure twice cut once is again the same idea.
Dog on a leash! Maybe waiting outside? :P

https://barrie360.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/sophie-1-1....
I firmly believe that better voting systems are the highest ROI changes we can make to government. Unfortunately the people the current system over-favors are the ones who need to do it. It’s a microcosm of the whole problem of politics :(
These complaints are so hilariously meaningless and counterproductive I wonder what exactly compels these companies to lodge them. There are very high chances that those academics who use SciHub and LibGen would find some or the other way to access the websites anyway despite the "ban" (if the publishers win the case).

All these publishers are achieving by these antics is just gathering more animosity from scholars; there's just no other benefit they can hope to get by having India's ISPs block those websites when all one needs to do is change to a mirror domain or fire up a VPN to bypass it.
This is good and represents the dilemma faced by engineers - should I make shit up or preserve the integrity we have. I agree with most of your argument, but have to say that what you say mostly applies to shitty designers. There are good designers too who consistently do good work
Hotter take: YouTube Premium is really good
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This has been a thing for over a year now. https://www.reddit.com/user/subsimgpt2metaGPT2/?sort=top
The Brooklyn Bridge is utilitarian, but also constructed with an eye to aesthetics and beauty. Contrast it with your typical highway overpass.

The same thing applies to the aqueducts, by the way. Sure, they were engineering projects, but they were constructed with an eye towards elegance and beauty.

Want to see a purely utilitarian aqueduct? Look up the Acqua Felice, built to restore Rome's water supply in the 16th century after a thousand years of interruption. Sure, it did the job, but it's much uglier than the old Roman aqueduct right next to it.

Now, modern buildings aren't just ugly because they focus entirely on function (like the Acqua Felice) -- they're intentionally and deliberately ugly and inhuman. Modern architecture is awful.

https://www.romeartlover.it/Furba14.jpg
N64 wouldn’t have been considered “constrained” when it was new though. To be honest it’s not really constrained even now, not compared to the sort of hardware you were discussing earlier. And it’s rather disingenuous how you keep rocking back and forth between current generation consoles and 20+ year old tech as if it’s all current hardware. It makes it rather hard to reply to your points when you then when the goal posts constantly get shifted.

PS5 would easily run Linux considering the PS3 had a few Linux distros ported to it (back when Sony endorsed running Linux on their hardware via the “Other OS” option, which they later removed). Linux is pretty lightweight by modern hardware standards anyways. It’s just not suitable for every domain (but what OS is?)

On then topic of consoles running Linux, pretty sure I have a CD-R somewhere with Linux for the Dreamcast. That was the era when consoles really started to converge on a modern-looking software development approach.
The table there introduced me to the notion of stinky whales:

https://phys.org/news/2016-10-stinky-whale-whiff-wafts-whali...
Tbh, now that I'm in my late twenties I honestly think I better understand now - how to really focus, challenge myself and how I really learn things. If I had the time or money I would re-do my degree in a heartbeat. Math is something I was never really that strong with and there are personal projects I've had where I just don't quite have the mathematical depth to push through. I also sucked at asking for help back in college (goodness I was an idiot).
Indeed, I was unaware. Thanks, I think, for the pointer!
Thanks for the reference. Here it is:

“We show, however, that deep networks learned by the standard gradient descent algorithm are in fact mathematically approximately equivalent to kernel machines, a learning method that simply memorizes the data and uses it directly for prediction via a similarity function (the kernel)“

https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00152
> The problem is there is no better.

Ouch: “America is #1” is such an insidious belief system.

Have you really opened your eyes to how some countries have much, much better governing systems? Many Scandinavian countries have a higher population than most US states, yet somehow they seem to function better in so many dimensions.

I am from New Zealand and the worst interaction I have had with a government department for many many years was a breeze to deal with: competent phone help talking to a real person, emailing directly with staff, issue resolved. I am very confident the problematic process will be fixed properly within the next few years, because my experience is that every system in NZ I have ever had to deal with eventually gets fixed. For example tax returns are a breeze, and get easier each year. New Zealand has a higher population than 50% of the US states, and we are in the boondocks of the world transportation wise, yet somehow we manage to get our shit together.

Of course NZ has problems of overruns, collusion, defalcation, bribery, and corruption. Yet somehow they seem to be becoming less common... it seems to me our government keeps improving on multiple dimensions. The biggest disappointments I have had with my government have been due to pressures from the US (five eyes, copyright “reform”, trade interference, political interference, war on drugs, propaganda). I regularly read a story about the US where a structural problem just never gets resolved, or even worse, it is decaying year by year.

I have travelled the world, and you can cherry-pick areas where the US is resoundingly better than NZ (or the Scandinavian country of your choice)... I am talking about an overall measurement of functioning governance and society.
Sure, but it's not an issue with the project, it's a message to the developer(s). While it is a NOOP, it is not something which should appear in the ("technical") stats.
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About things foreign 2000 years ago (the Roman empire seems to be more relatable) : Greek considered the past in view in front of them and the future coming from behind (we usually view it the other way). Also colors were perceived differently (this one is hearsay for me): like violett or so referred to shiny.
Interesting points. I suppose damage vs range can be a big thing if your melee units can’t even approach the ranged units to deliver the damage. But are there no formal analysis methods that can be applied to this problem?
I dont think real autopilots will do much more than maintain a fixed heading without pilot input.
2020: A SPAC Odyssey
It's already almost mandatory for new builds in the UK.
Thinking about User Auth modelling in Go
I am not a big fan of SaaA products, and $500/mo seems like a lot for the utility you are getting, but I just wanted to say I love your site design.

I was going to ask how you built it--but there was a post 2 days ago with the details! https://francescodilorenzo.com/blog-setup

Thanks for making your corner of the web a nicer place
Cory Doctorow (CCC): What the cyberoptimists got wrong – and what to do about it
Practice writing good clean code and even do some practice refactoring exercises. That is great.

Do not, absolutely do not do un-needed refactoring in the context of a bug fix (or feature request). I would fail a code review that did this and I would dismiss a job candidate that told me the actively look for opportunities to do refactoring like this. If your bug fix results in a new bug there is no telling what you did or why.

If you want to do a refactoring, propose it as a sprint unrelated to a bug fix. That way your bugs get fixes that are just fixes, your new features are just features and your refactoring is just cleanup. All properly prioritized. Get any of them wrong and you can understand what was the justification and how to potentially fix things or back them out.

Repeatedly muddle them all together and I would fire you.
correction: McChicken is now $1.29, not $1.37
Indeed, though that must have cost them twice as much to do the migration with the two systems being live in parallel. Some choose to avoid the extra cost.
Where can I read more about this?

In California at least, there is a prohibition on picking carcass of birds and animals even if it’s on your own property. They have to be surrendered to sanitation Dept if in an urban area or fish and game outside city limits.

This is mostly to discourage trade in animals and birds captured for medicinal purposes or for selling to taxidermists looking for specimens. Even roadkill is prohibited.
Throughout my career, people have told me I don’t earn enough, that I can get paid more.

Ok, but I’m still wealthier in my 30s than most people are when they retire — my biggest regret in life to date is not having a family, not the even bigger pile of money I could’ve earned if I’d gone to Silicon Valley or invested £10k into BTC in May 2010.
>houses in Austria have more than doubled in prices

Inflation measures the general price level in the economy (in the form of a basket of goods), not the prices of individual commodities. The inflation in Austria has been at a steady 1-3%[1] over the last decade, roughly in line with inflation targets. Housing prices have risen, like in many other regions, due to a lack of supply of housing in the market, not changes in the money supply.

These vague rants about governmental power are exactly what makes it to read any of these Mises articles with a straight face, it is nothing else but libertarian ideology.

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/375291/inflation-rate-in...
Issue: I need to say thank you.

That’s funny.
They use their own special snowflake jargon because they are Mac people. Best to not waste brain cycles on it.
I’m pretty sure a lot of folks from HN will help you fund such research and prototyping if needed, me included :)
I'm sure the rest of the statement is true but there are fast time-control variants of chess that are very tactile over the board. Bullet chess is a minute of total time per side so moves are blitzed out at lightning speed.
There was an immigration case a few months ago which involved a person born in Northern Ireland attempting to use an immigration scheme for her husband which was only available to EU Nationals.

Because the British State conferred British Citizenship onto this person upon merely being born in Northern Ireland, despite this person identifying solely as Irish, they were unable to avail of this scheme.

The UK Home Office told this person to renounce their citizenship if they wished to available of this scheme.
(This was all basically nullified by the EU Settlement Scheme coming up to Brexit, but it'll probably rear it's head again)

TL;DR Dual National wanted to avail of an EU Scheme, which was unable to be used by a British Citizen. One solution was to renounce British Citizenship.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/explainer...
Just curious: does that happen to have anything to do with lisps' -p for predicate suffix?
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Have you looked at git-annex on an anacron-job?

https://joeyh.name/code/git-annex/

It lets you use git to back up large files. However, it's built for a git-sized number of files and not built for, say, your entire home directory.
If you mean fetching/updating foreign-key-related documents by "multi documents queries", I wouldn't do it in RDBMS too. There's no special magic inside RDBMS made those queries much better than fetching related docs manually, but there are always some dark corner cases which will bring your database to full stop in most unfortunate times.
> Everybody realizes that the more sensors you put on cars, the richer the fusion of data you get.

Well, not everyone...

I hear we're getting a cross-country drive in 2019 using just cameras
thnx for the tip.
Regarding the two towers : if you look at the E-ship 1 [0] you'll see 4 towers - 2 in the front, 2 in the rear. There are no towers in the middle, probably because that area is intended for cargo.

I presume there is also a minimum distance they need to be separated - if you look at some of the illustrations of the Magnus effect [1], you'll see a turbulent region downwind of the tower. Another tower in this turbulent region won't work as intended.

This is pure speculation on my part, but perhaps most ships simply aren't wide enough to have two towers side by side (the E-ship 1 being an exception). That, and wanting to use most of the ship for cargo, explains why most ships only have 2 towers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Ship_1#/media/File:Bateau_en...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_effect
SaaS (you will happily pay for)
It might be worth getting in touch with the Internet Archive or Archive Team (http://archiveteam.org) and they will point you in the right direction.
I've been involved in rewrite-from-scratch projects that worked, because the scope of the system being rewritten was relatively small. So, I've concluded "rewrite from scratch" projects get a bad rap because they tend to also be very big, nebulously scoped projects, almost by definition. But it's totally unrelated to the fact that they're rewriting a codebase, and everything to do with the size and scope of the project to rewrite a codebase.

Either way, though, we're lead to similar conclusions as the article, regarding refactoring. If a codebase/system is too large to rewrite in a single project, you have to break the work into incremental steps. Theoretically the only difference between "refactor" and "rewrite" is the scope of the affected code.
Do you mean David Burns? I am familiar with his podcast which is very similar to what you described. If not, do you have a link to John Burns podcast? I did a quick Google search but didn't find anything.
My parents did of their home movies, holidays etc I then transferred them to a NAS.

It's not that terrifying, time consuming granted. But it's a simple process of grabbing an TV tuner card off eBay, connect the VCR via aerial coax and then encode the stream.

Most DVR applications have the option to encode, so it's normally a few clicks of a button.
aww that's so cute. If only gratitude could pay the bills, I would forgo all health benefits, and salary and focus all efforts on FOSS
This is ingenious (and thermostats are notoriously simple) but I'm surprised it was easier than just running a neutral wire for an Ecobee.
Yes, they could do that, which is why income taxes also destroy value. They’re just not as bad as directly incentivizing people to stop working altogether.
Euugenics is just as ridiculous as the idea that a single disease could actually kill everyone. In both cases, sure it is actually theoretically possible, but really it was just a contrast=100% illumination of the idea not literal.

Did you think that I was seriously suggesting a disease could do that literally? Have you never encountered an idea that needed to be amplified to show it's essence?

The real life form of the process, of which eugenics is the ridiculous hyperbolic contrast=100% version, is simple pressure, discrimination, disadvantage, death by 1000 cuts, attrition etc.

Things which stick out tend to get eroded smooth. Simple as that. Not freaking literal eugenics.
That's really cool! Reminds me of calca.
> I expect my property to still be mine and protected by the police.

Non-US citizens can and do own property in the US. Property tax is separate from the US tax on citizenship talked about here.
For at least some of the Oxford trials they used a "widely available meningitis vaccine."
The time that it takes
It's been a while but IIRC it was a cut down version of DirectX 5 ported from desktop Windows.
Point taken. It has reminded me of a somewhat infamous phrasebook where, IIRC, the author simply applied a translation dictionary to phrases in his native tongue, without regard to these subtleties, or even of differences in grammar.
> Twitter is where members of the media are given special status

Like politicos aren't?

The problem we've allowed to happen with Twitter and et. al is the assumption that individuals in politics may be allowed to operate a "public" persona that then is used to change sentiment in the population using language and strong imagery...as has been done by "those who try to control" for thousands of years.

Gov has no business being on privatized social media, but perhaps they could build their own...
A large issue with this is the fact that certain armies of different strengths can only exists in certain time-frames, so even if you could perfectly calibrate for "this army combo is as strong as every other", the fact that one unlocks parts of these at different times makes this approach totally unrealistic. Since the unlocking of army combos is extremely rooted in economy, map layout/resources, power spikes of opponents ect.
Maybe you’re right, I’m generally wondering if there is a wealth transfer, but so far it seems much more complicated than any simple analysis or example I’ve seen.

The example you chose is a particularly bad one though because rents are down a lot this year in high cost of living areas.

Also, just in general there’s no reason housing should be a “supply constrained resource” by definition like you seem to be taking as a basic fact. Take a look at Tokyo for example.