skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
isn't it 1) obvious for the CCP what this amount of overfishing will do?

It's not in their territory, they likely don't give a rat's ass. Ecosystem damage in the western hemisphere might actually be a good aspect for some of those who might crack down on this.

I suspect we're all well aware that vessels and crews of any nation pulling this in China's territorial waters would not be treated kindly.
One of the key things that is important when investigating customer complaints in healthcare is that of reproducibility. Any software that we release to a site needs to either be archived so we can investigate on the same bits that went out the door or needs to be reproducible bit-for-bit when rebuilt.

Being able to freeze a Linux software image and know there is nothing that is constantly trying to update it at the merest appearance of an Internet connection is important so we can do any investigation required of us.
The book arrived today!
But yeah I might skim the Tour of C++ - thanks for the *ptr!
Soooooo by opening up the store the scammers would disappear. Makes sense to me.
I've always been a bit of an A.I. skeptic/grinch, but there are things to very much like here.

Firstly, is an idea that we've deeper learned ML quite a lot, and we need more representations / abstract thinking again to make more fundamental progress. Nice, I like the sound of that.

Secondly,

> ... So Christian Szegedy and Sarah Loos have the system where you take sort of a regular theorem prover and you give it a problem. And then you have a neural net decide out of the million axioms I have, which 100 are most relevant to this problem. ...

I also thought combining machine learning with theorem provers would be an excellent avenue for further research: we have abstract reasoning that doesn't "go wrong" as it does in many end applications ("expert systems don't work"), but is also still extremely "rich", and not trivially automated because it's intractable without intuition/heuristics.

Glad to hear the big leagers are also interested.
> Also, both MS and Apple nowadays make it pretty easy to keep rolling backups to an attached a USB HD.

Re Apple: this is true only for desktops or laptops. If you want to back up your iPhone you need a Mac to work with a local storage solution. And you cannot configure the Mac to use the HD to store the phone backups directly: the folder the Mac uses cannot be a symlink nor can it be configured. You have to sync all of your phone's data to the Mac, then sync the mac with time machine, which means your Mac needs to be large enough to store all of its data, plus the iPhone's.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive-strand_RNA_virus#Reco...
I was never questioning who would win a shooting war, I was questioning how the Argentinians would feel about it.

But if China did decide to project power, the question is not "would the US and its allies win a shooting war", the question is "will the US push back at all?"
> I blame Gary Vaynerchuk, the born wealthy marketing hustler

I’m not one to defend GV, but I don’t think I would call being born in Soviet Belarus in 1975 and coming to the US in 1978 at the age of 3 as being “born wealthy”.

Maybe their family had some connections. Maybe his family turned those connections into a healthy (upper?) middle class life ($3m of sales at a discount liquor store in NJ is not “wealthy”).

Anyway, regardless of how one views GV, seeing what his family did and what he did ($3m to $60m annual sales in 5 years) is impressive.

Let’s give credit where credit is due.
> Lithium is a conflict resource. its scarce, its hard to mine,

3 lies in 11 words.
So far no such attack on Bitcoin's fungibility has materialized; it's plausible that the outcome would be that Bitcoin would become useless to everyone subject to US jurisdiction or treaty agreements. So it seems unlikely to happen without a major war, because that plausible outcome would result in enormous capital losses for many people who are influential in the US. Another plausible result is countries withdrawing from treaty agreements with the US, even if they don't care that much about Bitcoin as such.
What is a supply chain attack?
Hahahahaha, my biggest surprised moving to Silicon Valley right down the street from Google was how even in their local neighborhood, Comcast still had a monopoly on internet access. My apartment offered the choice between Comcast or no internet. Even today, FTTH in the Bay Area is not commonly available and indeed we can’t get it in our neighborhood, only FTTN with no guaranteed speeds. UVerse won’t even install at our address, so we’re stuck with Comcast still. Sonic is over ATT’s last mile and they won’t install at our address.
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> Like many millennials I was encouraged to view any of my interests or talents as a possible career.

Fortunately for me, tax deductions are one of my favorite interests and talents.

Almost every kind of consumptive spending can be filed as a business expense, when every kind of your hobby is also rationalized as a potential business.

All the endorphins and dopamine of spending on things I like go to me, and none of the money goes to the government!

Eventually you have to shift hobbies or stop deducting if you arent making a profit, after like half a decade. Not hard.
Wholeheartedly agree.
I've been trying to come up with a simple metric to measure the composability of a language's ecosystem, and so far the simplest that I've come up with is to find the largest 25 libraries and try to run all their "hello world's" in the same file.

Open to suggestions on a better metric.
Find me a single electronic device on the planet that isn't made with some Chinese parts. AFAIK all passive electronics components are made in China.
> Isn't it pretty unlikely for them to try to use force to back up fishing boats secretly popping into Argentina's waters?

Yeah, probably. That's why I said if. It's an interesting scenario to think through, even if it's unlikely.
Both link to user hostile libraries like Facebook sdk.

Both platforms push users toward app vendors that really don't care about their privacy.
> Apple didn't promise to make sure the app store was completely secure. A promise which they realistically can't keep at their scale no matter how hard they try.

They don’t. This is made up.
I don't disagree, but the idea that you can't use the same methodology to determine a 51% attack price for Bitcoin is just wrong.

Indeed, back-of-the-napkin calculation with an order randomly picked from NiceHash[1] for Bitcoin mining and the same methodology gives:

Cost (PH/HR): 0.0002625 BTC

Bitcoin Network Hashrate (PH/HR): 9M

51% attack for one hour: 4.6M PH => 4.6M * 0.0002625 ~= 1200 BTC

So a one-hour long 51% on the bitcoin network would cost $43,200,000 at $36K per BTC, as per a NiceHash rate I randomly selected.

[1] https://www.nicehash.com/my/marketplace/SHA256
The thing, in my opinion, is to avoid spreading yourself too thin.

I started using C/C++ more than 20 years ago and even if I feel really comfortable with the language (except the latest revisions) I am still learning and improving.

I don't think I could achieve the same level of mastery on half a dozen languages.
Very few people replace their car battery. Like very few people replace their car engine. It happens, preferably under warranty, but it's not really something you consider when you buy a car.

If the battery degradation makes the car unfit to your needs, it's a bit weird because it would mean you were on the limit, but anyway it's more economic to sell the car as it is and buy another car. Someone will enjoy the old battery.
Now add trading commissions :-)
Viruses mutate can Scientists predict mutations and vaccinate against those?
Same here. Being in the UK means getting an F150 is pretty unlikely as I'd be worried about it fitting on some of our roads, but it is far more appealing than the cybertruck even for me as a soft, liberal tech worker.
Why diesel?
That is a good point. The EU and the US likely would condemn it on humanitarian grounds, but Argentina may not have enough trade with them to care.
Oddly enough, I think semantic HTML might be more important for React developers than anyone else. React developers are very vulnerable to creating copious amount of abstract components due to the freedom composability gives you. Over time, it’s possible different people literally speak different languages (even in the same codebase) because of how they see the structure of tags.

Thinking in Semantic HTML might help normalize the variances.
How are expressions not based on lambda calculus in most “ordinary” languages? Yeah, they may side effect but at the same time lambda calculus itself is untyped, so is Haskell all that much closer to it over C++?
This single video could replace a whole month of boring biology lessons in high school… amazing really
I can’t send a lot of money around with any of my bank apps. It has relatively low limits.
I tend to think this is only true for activities where the enjoyment/experiential part of the activity is separated from the "meta business game" of the activity to a large enough degree. While this may be true for a lot of hobbies, I don't think it's always the case. If you love to play a sport, the meta game of being a pro athlete is very close to the part that a player loves, which is playing the actual sport. The sport itself is the main focus, everything else like coaching and contracts is window dressing compared to actual playing skills. If you love to cook elaborate dishes for your family from various world cuisines, you should probably consider the meta game before you try to become a chef or open your own diner or restaurant. Do you like thinking about ingredient prices versus dish prices? Marginal efficiency of how a dish is cooked and constructed? Seating layouts and service rotations? How to design, implement, maintain, and update a profitable menu, etc.

If all you have is passion, and you're not able or willing to closely examine the step-by-step process for how your passion translates to cash, and how that cash makes its way to your bank account, then of course you won't enjoy a hobby as a career or business venture. You need to actually enjoy the business aspects directly if you want to be happy with a hobby-turned-career.
The answer seems to be that it is a misnomer or at least bad choice of name. They talk about (lithium) ionic superconductors at each occurence of the term superconductor which makes me think that they actually mean materials that only let lithium ions through but not others (because this is how their device actually works).

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001191641... (Open Access)
http://archive.is/4NIhv
For chains that have a broad adoption of validating nodes often called full nodes (check validity of produced blocks but not mining), a 51% attack is not enough because the bad blocks would not widely propagate. The bad blocks would be ignored.

This is why a reasonable size of the state, to allow many many to have affordable nodes which validate and check the rules, is so important. These are not the so-called miners, yet they are critical for the integrity of these distributed systems for preventing nation-state attacks.
Based on what data?

NYC is not being buffeted by a major trend that wouldn't also affect every other business district in the US.
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I just recently started learning 6502 asm and I've started building a small collection of katas: https://gist.github.com/cellularmitosis/6f8e835efd856710f301...
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Fortunately for me, tax deductions are one of my favorite interests and talents.
I think the point here is on instructionism vs. constructionism - learning by experience (constructing things) seem to work better and in particular for long term assimilation than learning from instructors telling you. I think Epstein was putting it in Range as something along the lines of "you need to struggle to really learn". Constructionism can take many forms, from hands on projects and workshops, to frequent internships and apprenticeships.
When I publish my book, I will also publish the source. Knowledge is universal. Praise all the authors who release their sources.
> The article's premise does not make sense.

It does if you are Epic, or Jeff Bezos.
If you are only doing a few, might as well take the boats and use them. There are so many I was thinking you'd need to sink a couple hundred. In which case saving the fishermen is prohibitively expensive.
> For example, a person thought he was getting a legitimate Bitcoin wallet app, but turns out it was a fake and he lost his life savings [1].

There's a lot more wrong in this scenario than just the app store. If someone is going to be so amazingly careless with half a million dollars...
They need to be penalized. For every high profile incident like this, there are many more that never reach public scrutiny. The leadership needs to be made accountable.
It took much longer for titanium to be used in common industry despite being far more readily available than graphene is today.
> and of course electric trucks that have obscene amounts of torque means never "getting stuck" behind a slow truck ever again

If you've ever read old car advertisements, they would say the exact same thing about old supercars that would lose a drag race against a Toyota Corolla.

In reality speed and torque is an arms race among most road users. For a short while whoever has the nicest car has the ability to rapidly outrun anyone else, but that advantage diminishes as the technology gets cheaper and more common. In 20 years a modern Tesla will not be considered fast at all.
Destroyers require a whole crew. Why not get a handful of WW2 era planes with machine guns to patrol the coast? Would be cheap and should be enough firepower to scare off fishing boats.
Individual nations can't do much on their own. Groups of nations can wage economic warfare.
You used an antiquated nearly obsolete definition. The current - also informal - use is derived from the fraud one but only in the clever nature involved, and isnt about fraud. Its closer to the sports meaning of perseverance.
The CCP is not going to publicly get behind illegal fishing operations. Perhaps they tolerate it behind closed doors, but taking a stance that violating another countries sovereign waters is OK would be politically insane.
That was my thought as well, when driving in city like environments, its always the cyclists on the right I need to be careful about, traffic I have to cross on the left is clearly visible, the cyclists on the right hide in a blind spot.
just create an alias for `git turnover`
It should not matter whether it is artificial or intelligence or neither, as long as it get the jobs done.
Next decade? Try next year. The F150 Lightning will absolutely dominate the fleet truck space if it comes anywhere close to delivering the promised specs.
I think I read about their ‘data driven’ decision on the colour of links.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/05/why-googl...

The problem with this sort of decision making is it ignores context and is liable to optimise one metric under study at the expense of other more important things (like user trust and retention). It also tends to bias towards easily measured small changes measured in isolation so it encourages blind decisions made without context or coordination.

For example a certain colour might mislead users into clicking more by making a link look like the purple default visited link colour. It makes clicks go up but may not increase user satisfaction.
If you bought a product from Walmart that was not only unsafe, but actively trying to scam you - people would sue Walmart.

The claim that 'every app is reviewed for security' should be a giant liability problem.

The store model is a huge winfall of profits precisely because they don't have to do any of this.

Realistically, if we use brick-and-mortar as a reference ... it might very well be that if you want to do something 'commercial' on a platform, literally using Apple's payment infrastructure, there's probably going to actually have to be more rigorous insight. This will cost Apple a lot, and probably cost sellers a lot as well, I can see it costing $X dollars for the review process then $Y for every upgrade, possibly Z days delay in payments and possibly esceleating % whitheld given market size, until AAA+ confidence rating.

All of the ugly things we see in regular finance exist basically for this reason (i.e. VISA chargebacks, bank freezes, paypal holds) etc. etc..

A lot of profits are raised by ignoring these realities.

Same goes for Amazon.
The reason I say “plague” is that effort and discussion (not just public discussion) focus on the map, not the territory itself.

Just look at us politics today: the discussions around “infrastructure” and “defense” are hobbled by the descriptions of those words rather than addressing the structural issues themselves.
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Which is why I said: "for large financial arrangements"

Large transactions need extra special care. You need a trusted device with a trusted OS and a trusted browser, preferably with `EASE` turned on in HTTPS Everywhere so plaintext secrets can't leak out of your machine. You also need to vet the HTTPS Everywhere extension and ensure it came from the official addons site. You would also harden the OS. Using Linux is preferable over Windows 10 since Windows is targeted heavily by malware gangs.
It does not take ten years to learn things. It might take 10 years to be good at something. I recently took up lawn bowls. I learned it in about 30 mins. It's quite simple. I'm not any good at it.

I used the Learn C++ in 24 Hours book as an undergraduate. It was excellent. It was the book the university recommended, and it was probably the only book I bought as an undergraduate engineer that was actually indispensable. I actually used it, page by page, and during that course I produced a really cool 'moon lander' game in 3D. Was I an accomplished programmer? Absolutely not. Had I learned the basics? Yeh. Good enough for an undergrad electrical engineer.

It feels like you are railing against one premise (a programming language can be learned in 24 Hours) only to propose another similarly bonkers premise (a programming language can't be learned in less than 10 years). What's the point?
Probably not, but governments need to start weaning themselves from China’s teat. It won’t be easy and it will take a while, but it can be done.
Valencia, Spain is another example. I was confused in the beginning but after a day or so it felt comfortable. They have ~4 lanes in the roundabouts.

Edit: 7 lanes in this particular one: https://goo.gl/maps/HpFvtHeFTC5om81NA :o
> Unless you're doing SEO, everything semantic is just a distraction

Accessibility and SEO are (usually) desirable system effects that rely on meaningful semantic code-inputs to the system.

But that doesn't mean that only software system effects matter, and everything else is a distraction.

Consider that when you're programming your various identifiers -- the names of variables, functions, classes, types that you choose -- are largely without any semantics to your system. To the computer, they're simply keys. And yet we sometimes say that one of two the hard/important problems in computer science (besides cache invalidation) is naming things. Why?

Because the actual system isn't just the software & machine. The system includes the developers groking and shaping the software. And names and their relationship with domain concepts matter to people and help them manage their work.

I've found that the first benefit to semantic markup -- not necessarily the most important, but the first -- is helping me better conceptualize the domain and my code. It functions as an orientation anchor when I'm working with components that look different between their source and rendered as part of a sprawling document in the browser. And it helps me get reoriented faster when I've been away from it for days/weeks/months.

The heart of "semantic" anything is the idea that code is for people too. Maybe not all people, but definitely at least anyone who's writing it.
Whew glad to find others saying the same thing. Optimizing car usage in cities is just such a painful misallocation of research effort to read about.

Only saving grace is bike roundabouts really are nice. And if we had bike lines grade separated from pedestrians everywhere[1], it could be quite fast even to the point where roundabouts are necessary because the alternative of constantly burning energy on deceleration is so annoying.

[1]: A dangerous and macho-sounding idea I nonetheless will involuntary think about every red light.
On some people, Alan Kay's territorial claims to others' ideas leave a bad impression. Nobody begrudges him (with Dan Ingalls) Smalltalk, which represents a serious material improvement over Lisp syntax. But it looks like sour grapes to complain about C++, a language designed by a grad student of Kristen Nygaard that found success in industrial applications.

Practical reasons for that success—independent programs that run at native-machine speed, using native-machine data representations, and intimately compatible with an existing, successful industrial language—were chosen with careful deliberation, leaving certain Lisp strengths—particularly, function literals—aside, for later. It seemed like the right approach, at the time, and turned out to be.

Java could have been the practical Smalltalk, but its designers elected instead to ape superficial details of C++, for no defensible reasons, to Java's detriment.

The good ideas in Smalltalk have not had much effect on the world. All of Smalltalk's weaknesses were inherited directly from Lisp, leaving it with no better prospects than Lisp has had, or has, for identically the same reasons. But it turns out the "object orientation", like any other exclusive organizational principle, is an inadequate basis for a language meant for broad use. So, C++ supports OO and other styles, and even Java has begun to branch out.

Subsequent development of C++ has drawn mainly upon ML, fleshing out support for other organizational styles that Smalltalk and Lisp never attempted. And, it got lambdas, after all.
I agree with you 100% that "side projects as an antidote for burning out on your primary job" is a dangerous place to be, and I've been there several times in my career with deleterious effects. I agree with your recommendation to take that as a warning flag and instead change your job, that is the right call in that situation.

On the other hand, I do find a lot of enjoyment in fields that, today, are dominated by "winner takes all" dynamics and extremely low probabilities of (financial) success (e.g. most creative fields). I don't mind diversifying my time between a primary job that, while not burnout-land, is also a bit boring and reliable, and a secondary that, while incredibly unlikely to "strike gold", is rejuvenating of my creative energies. I do have to be careful that it does not drift into the maladaption that you note though.
http://archive.is/l4kF4
You can find the same curve for most per unit costs when manufacturing scales. No one is doubting decreasing average costs, but similarly no one considers that a breakthrough. A breakthrough is something like an 10x energy/weight ratio, which really does require new chemistry rather than economies of scale or marginal improvements in weight savings that come from more efficient cooling or lighter housing systems.

So the solid state batteries that are being developed now would be an example of a true breakthrough. Cheaper batteries in response to a surge in market demand are not.