skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something in my server's configuration eats more and more memory, until the OOM killer decides that killing the MySQL database looks like a dandy way to reclaim memory.
It can be both of those things.
Won't happen. Hearing about this, some Developers get really pissed that they can't spy on users, they blow a hype how they'd completely go out of business, there won't be any great products anymore on the market and all that sort of stuff.

One relatively famous example is from some years ago when someone had proposed to spoof device IDs in Cyanogenmod and Swype had a spaz.
It is not at all certain that other animals do not develop consciousness. John C. Lilly's work with dolphins for instance points to a different conclusion.

There are also other animals (parrots, elephants, various apes) that are widely believed to possess self-awareness if not near-human levels of consciousness.
yea i think that would be the only option if you don't have a degree. unless you are an Olympic medalist( for example( who can get O visa.
Wow, fascinating views Going to plan for my backpack trips at there now..！
> No you shouldn't, you should asses each patient individually

Assessment means making observations; making observations means observing; observing means actually opening your eyes to the facts as they are. You'd be killing your patients if you ignored the fact that greens commit suicide more often on average.
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You're confusing 'biological reality' with naturalism. I am not advocating naturalism, nor am I claiming that one or the other is moral. I am claiming that amorality is reality, and our 'morality' is whatever the fashionable social norms of the day consist of.

For example:

> We're keeping the "weak" a live, prolonging life, disturbing the natural order of things. In our society, we consider it pretty immoral to leave someone to die of a curable disease, and we work to cure more. Clearly we're more interested in keeping those around alive and happy than having them die so the next generation will become "stronger". That's very contrary to evolution's preference for everyone just being disposable fodder to make better and better organisms.

Keeping their own alive, even the weaker members, is something many social animals do. The 'naturalism' position might be that we should engage in some kind of eugenics. The biological reality is that evolution doesn't care how strong individual members of the herd are. There's nothing "anti-evolution" about protecting the weak.

> Rights of the disenfranchised has nothing to do with it? It's related the same way diseases are - the disenfranchised should be mistreated and thrown out according to evolution. We seem to continually decide otherwise.

This is, again, nothing to do with 'biological reality' but with the straw-man of naturalism. And it couldn't be any other way. Everything we do is 'according to evolution', ergo the disenfranchised being accorded rights is 'according to evolution,' not somehow contra to it. We are animals, not gods.

> Surely there's a difference between someone undergoing a painful medical treatment that they believe will help them in the long run vs someone being tortured for another's enjoyment?

Maybe, but we have moved the goalposts from 'suffering is evil' to 'suffering for another's enjoyment is evil.' And yet there are people who allow themselves to be subjected to physical pain gladly for the enjoyment of others, and in older times, even tortured and killed.
For someone who has been through visa abuse, exploitation, threats of deportation, and so on, getting a green card is like opening a book to day 1 of your life. You get your humanity back.

If you have a great run in the US on a visa, great. But it's not like that for everyone.
Yep, should be the top comment. You can save yourself from having to know anything more about this incident by reading that and going back to whatever more interesting thing you were doing before.
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> Lists are a first-class object in Tcl

Was that the case in 1994, or are you writing about the current state of Tcl?
You're the one making the claim, you should be the one to support it with a link.
> It certainly challenges theories of consciousness that point to specific parts of the brain as responsible for the phenomenon. Same for theories of consciousness that point outside the brain or ones that look at consciousness as something pre-existing. It leads weight to those theories that claim consciousness and the self are emergent phenomena (meta abstractions) and do not really "exist" below a certain level of complexity/abstraction.

If all the parts are present and connected (albeit stressed), how does that mean that they are not responsible for a particular phenomenon, or mean that consciousness is not emergent?

I don't understand your reasoning.
Jesus! Another package manager, I don't even want to look at that website before I can think of a single reason of why would anyone want to have a package manager for Bash, once I think of a legitimate use case I will go to that website to see what is their offer. But seriously, do we need a package manager for everything [1]? Some time ago I was thinking to create a package manager for package managers, then realized that it was already proposed [2] and that it has no purpose so I desisted on the idea.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_package_manag...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8387137
What's expensive about the runtime is the redundant type/method-dispatch not the opcode dispatch. The runtime is constantly checking types and looking up methods in hash tables.

Gains can be made by "inter-bytecode" optimization in the same vein as inter-procedural optimization.

If you can prove more assumptions about types between the execution of sequential opcodes, you can remove more type checks and reduce the amount of code that must be run and make it faster.

E.g.:

01: x = a + b
02: y = x + c

If we have already computed that a and b are Python ints, then we can assume that x is a Python int. To execute line 2, we just then need to compute the type of c, thus saving time.

The larger the sequence of opcodes you are optimizing over, the better gains you can make.

Right now I think Pyston uses a traditional inline-cache method. This only works for repeated executions. The code must eagerly fill the inline cache of each opcode to get the speed I'm talking about.

Another reason Python's runtime is slow is because there is no such thing as undefined behavior and programming errors are always checked against. E.g. The sqrt() function always checks if its argument is >= 0, even though it's programming error to use it incorrectly and should never happen. This can't be fixed by a compiler project, it's a problem at the language level.

Being LLVM based, I think Pyston has its greatest potential for success as an ahead-of-time mypy compiler (with type information statically available). IMO leave the JITing to PyPy.
The notion that animal suffering is real, and that food animals should at the very least be killed humanely out of respect for their pain, is more than a thousand years old at the very least.

I feel that there's nothing inherently wicked about eating meat, but it seems obvious that we should make an effort to avoid inflicting undue suffering in the process.
Isn't it not yet ready for production?
I would be surprised if there aren't obstacles to importing drugs that require a prescription.
Samsung Gear VR owners will get to view lots of the Rio Olympics
Are you implying that people like Larry Wall, Yukihiro Matsumoto and Guido van Rossum, all of who have advanced degrees in computer science are not (good?) engineers?
This is great. Just watched the first in the clocking making series and loved it. Now I feel like being his apprentice. Thanks for posting.
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http://www.cluthadc.govt.nz/your-council/public-notices/news...

Official statement linked in the cnbc article.
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Yes, but at that point they've lost plausible deniability; they can no longer claim that they asked for permission because some obscure feature required it. People are much less likely to agree to "trade my filesystem for a game" than they are to agree to "play a game that uses the filesystem to save games".
He's saying run 32 individual processes, not 32 threads within one process. Python's global interpreter lock will knobble you if you're using threads.
All the problems you're describing are solved with a powerful JIT. And the core team do seem to be opposed to doing the work needed for that.
He provided his experiences, you can't discount those. Your experiences may be more pleasant, but that doesn't mean he is wrong.

I can say that I know others who have been through similar experiences.
That's a sort of faith that doing nice things will eventually pay for itself. Isn't that a bit naive?
> Armed with a small amount of data about information over a population on average gives you absolutely no information about any specific case

That's akin to saying that being armed with all of medical science's knowledge about appendicitis gives one absolutely no information about any specific case. There's a valuable point buried deeply there (every case is different), but the statement itself is just plain wrong. A physician or surgeon must have reasons to treat a specific instance of appendicitis differently than the statistically expected range of instances; a person would have reasons to treat a random green or blue person differently than the statistically expected range of persons.

> the green-skinned child gets special treatment to bring them up to scratch, where the blue-skinned child gets written off as "she's achieving less well because blue-skinned children do".

Economically speaking, investing resources in bringing green children up to scratch has a higher rate of return than doing the same for blue children. That really does mean that spending resources on the latter is wasting them on average (although certainly not in specific cases, where it really is a good investment). So, do you impoverish the world by wasting resources or do you enrich it by prudently investing them?
I willing to bet the vast majority of those people don't know that there are options besides those sold in stores and advertised on TV.
Facebook is more like a phonebook of people you know (either wellish or by blood). Next generations of users aren't going to use it to broadcast unfiltered things simply because their parents and grandparents are on it. But that doesn't mean they won't use it. It's not 0 sum. You'd use it to notify your grandma you're graduating for example, or any non risque communication. I know, doesn't stop idiots on there, but for the most part, Snapchat and Instagram are better vehicles for expression and social validation.
Here he begins by saying that TCL, in effect, does have Lisp syntax (which "hackers" like) but that the regular non-hacker users will balk at it.

This part of his proclamation anticipates and softens the ironic impact of subsequently promoting a Scheme, further mitigated by in the same breath promising the availability of a parallel notation that will provide the blub syntax for non-hackers.

(Of course, he was right about a dual syntax approach being viable: today we have virtual machine environments with multiple languages. As a Lisp hacker, Stallman knew about the existing history of such practice, like CGOL for Common Lisp and whatnot.)
I don't think any do. pg seems to have abandoned this a long time ago, but it still hobbles along. The uptime seems to be better than it was awhile ago though. Cloudflare supposedly takes a lot of the pressure off it.
Based on the reactions of: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/05/19/w...

I think the vast majority of people are actually in the opposite situation. Animals have been humanized by cartoons. So when birds start pushing each other from nests, when Eagles start feeding cats to their eaglets, when Kangaroos attempt to mate on dead corpses...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jan/14/photos-griev...

People don't really believe it. Animals are vicious.
Original press release: https://corporate.kpn.com/press/press-releases/the-netherlan...

LoRa is an industry standard, backed by the LoRa alliance: https://www.lora-alliance.org/What-Is-LoRa/Technology
> When I asked if he knows about any such case happening, the answer was no. Then what is the purpose of bothering the user about an attack vector if the attack is merely theoretical?

I'm not OK with the philosophy of "let's not fix any security holes until we find someone actively exploiting them".
> Why the heck wouldn't you be
> justified in preferring to
> hire people who are, on
> average, more intelligent
> and less violent?

Because that knowledge tells you absolutely nothing about any given individual.
> Eh, that use of a bitfield is asking for it. What could you possibly gain from using a single bitfield in the entire struct?

A (buried way down) comment explains this:

> if you can even replace two int variables with one bitfield, you may shrink your datastructure enough to have it fit within a CPU cache line. The memory access that can then be avoided can be enough to make a noticeable difference.

https://lwn.net/Articles/479402/
Work experience can replace the requirement for a degree (I think).

Have you lived in the US before? It is not as great as it seems from the outside. (My dream once was to get a greencard, but I came to the US through a student visa and after some years I can say that that dream surely has gone away)
IoT is a corporate pipe dream. Just about the only thing that could use a internet connection is my fridge, and then only after every damn thing in it has a NFC tag to go with their bar code.

Meaning that it could keep a constant watch on its content etc, and allow me to check what is there (and not starting to develop its own lifeforms) when i am out shopping groceries.

For all the rest i need to be physically present to load and unload them with something anyways, so unless they come laden with enough sensors that i can bring up a full diagnostics on a whim (and actually do more than order a whole new machine, thank you very much) I'll pass on IoT.
I know where meat comes from too and eat it but if I had to shoot a cow and cut it up to get beef I'd probably pass and have cheese fries instead. Too much hassle.
> You can go ahead and spout off arguments about us being biological primal carnivores but that isn't very persuasive considering that the defining aspect of intellect has always been a higher sense of understanding of good and evil,

OK. Sounds great. Tell me more about this 'higher understanding of good and evil.' What is good? What is evil? Why? Where do they come from?

We don't have any 'higher understanding of good and evil', we simply have language and (most likely) a higher capacity for abstract thought which allow us to argue about our social instincts, which are not objective truths.

There's a reason why, for all of human history, 'morality' has differed wildly among cultures. The only real constant is some level of in-group altruism, because that is a biological necessity for social animals. The rest is all gravy. Some humans thought human sacrifice was good, and a moral obligation. Others, torture. Others, slavery. Others, rape. Others, pacifism.

There is no rationale, there is no higher truth, there is no higher power, that you could appeal to to convince the most enlightened and rational Aztec that human sacrifice was evil. That's because it doesn't exist.

That's why your whole moral argument is entirely unpersuasive to people who eat meat. You're like an Aztec come to tell us that we need to be committing human sacrifice; it's all nonsense without the cultural context and socialization and inoculation. You, based on a moral belief you did not come to through reason, are trying to convince people secure in their own moral beliefs that they are commiting evil. A simple check-in with their conscience confirms that you are wrong.

So you need something other than a moral argument.
Why do you use BigQuery when Github code search is free?
Right, but there's only one here. Is it just an attempt to future proof in case they add a second?
> My experience with Tcl is mainly that if I have to extend or modify a script, some care must be taken to design the thing for that upfront.

That matches my experience with assembly language.

Even in C, I can just begin coding and a good design emerges from prototype code. Months later I understand everything, and have a good time maintaining it.
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The writer is a typical british born indophobic racist. More people are killed in pakistan (his beloved land of pure) every year in sectarian and religious violence than in India. Blacks were treated far worse in USA up until 1965 and even today considering how many of them are disproportionately jailed.

The authors hate towards india is misguided, and not supported by any statistical evidence of increase in "intolerance".
Idea: I wonder if it would be profitable to have a mode for Pyston/PyPy/ZiPy/Whatever that disables threads, or perhaps an annotation that stops other threads from being scheduled inside certain loops.

This would allow so many checks to be hoisted out of the loop like LuaJIT does, that otherwise can't be hoisted because in theory some thread could re-assign os.path in the middle of it. If this could provide a 2-5x speedup, in most scenarios it would outweigh the performance benefit of parallelism, as well as being easier than paralellizing.
Depends on the guard you get. I'm a Canadian citizen living in the US and I even get "welcome home" sometimes!
Read the comment from SolaceQuantum: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12026274
> What makes you think that Sam Harris & Richard Dawkins aren't possessed?

I cannot disprove the possibility, but I also can't see any plausible evidence for it, so by Occam's razor it seems unlikely.

I agree that it does make a good Just So Story, if one is seeking ways to explain the observable world in terms of Catholic theology.
Funny they talk about keeping their customers protected, when turncoat's products are MITM attacking privacy invaders.

Now they're owned by the same company that own verisign how long before they offer a system that uses their own root certs to undermine the very security of the Internet for (authoritarian) governments?
You should do it! I don't think it will take 6 months if you are only working part time. The house I built was 1600 sq ft, 3 bedroom and I was working 60 hours a week while I built it. I found working all weekend on the house re-charged me for the job during the week.

A tiny house should not cost hundreds of thousands - wood is just not that pricey at Home Depot. You should start pricing it out and give it a shot. It is a tremendous feeling of accomplishment to live in a house you built yourself.
You were there during the civil war. i backpacked around in 2008 and i spent 10 weeks learning Spanish learning Antigua.
Your unstated assumption is deeply troubling.
Nature is inhuman, not in the sense that it is cruel but that it is devoid of human characteristics. Nature is neither tender nor callous, those are human traits. Nature is not unethical or ethical, ethics is for humans.

It is interesting to ponder what the nature of other animals is; discover what possibilities we have in common with them. That doesn't change that humans are capable of self examination and choosing between cruelty and tenderness, empathy and callousness.
Is that the "thanks for all the help in WWII" program that I hear Australians refer to? Many Australians I've met have mentioned that it's really easy for them to come and work in the US because of "this program", but I've never been able to figure out the official name of "this program." TIA!
> I'm sorry, but what the fuck are you taking about?

You can't comment like this here, regardless of how strongly you feel about a subject. We've warned you about this repeatedly before. Please don't do it again.
It's not in the base system yet. I would be fine with using it in production, however.
consumer routers are usually anything but secure in the iot sense. This because while they block unsolicited inbound traffic, they will allow any outbound traffic. And if you have upnp enabled on it, and most come with it on by default, all bets are off.

Damn it, Samsung managed to produce and sell a voice controlled TV that sends everything the microphones pick up back to the mothership unencrypted.
His Experience is entirely a prejudiced monologue. If you read it, its all about what he thinks that the other guy is thinking. Thats not an experience thats racism.
We've banned this account for serial trolling. Please stop making accounts to break the HN guidelines with.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12024411 and marked it off-topic.
Also, Kaitangata is far south in New Zealand. The climate there is nowhere close to compare with SF.
There is a difference in semantics. Someone else might actually want os.path to change between call. The only problem is that the behavior of the idiomatic version is hard (almost impossible) to optimize, even though the more optimizable semantics are actually what most users want.

The language was designed with expressiveness in mind, and it often comes at the expense of speed. Lua and Nim seem to strike a much better balance, and even JavaScript if you avoid the performance killers like "with".
Just remember, technically a green card is not a residency visa...INS can actually bar you from re-entry, although in practice this is unlikely. INS has the jurisdiction to also confiscate green cards. As a non-citizen, you have little recourse.

I recommend getting citizenship if you want to establish a meaningful foundation in the US...INS cannot decline re-entry of a US Passport
what a creative imagination for a spin
...hm, I know that CSS 3D transitions in particluar run extremely well on an iPhone 6, heck even a 5 should manage them well. The hardware is def good enough and these transitions are also hardware accelerated on an iPhone.

Not sure on the classList and dataset APIs and if there weren't any other option to implement the required functionality.
(2014)

Any updates on this since then?
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Sigh, I hope more comes of it. This is the first time I've ever heard of it.
kogir and dang are the only two I'm aware of, there may be more but I doubt there are many more. I think their general policy regarding feature requests is to ignore them and hope they go away.
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A small nit: LEA does the calculation but doesn't read or write from that address. In times of old, this instruction used the memory addressing port to do the calculation, but these days it's just a normal arithmetic instruction with slight difference that it doesn't set the flags based on the result. Instead, the ideal would be for the bytecode to reduce to a single MOV. In addition to loading and storing, MOV itself supports several forms of indexed and indirect address calculation which execute on dedicated ports without adding latency.
I agree there, and lacking any concrete data, it's better to not pass off opinion or speculation as fact.

For quite a lot of the sectarian violence, I blame the government and the political parties for having policies that favour some castes over others, and for being soft on sectarian violence. Moreover we, in the middle class, who lead lives far away from politics, are largely isolated from these shenanigans.
Check your Accessibility settings. Allowing any app such access turns off the pre-boot password prompt, and you need to manually turn it back on again.