skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
JS is single-threaded which makes an enormous difference to actually squeezing performance out of your JIT.

Just building a JIT for a language generally isn't the hard part. Building a JIT that is substantially faster than a bytecode-compiled implementation of the language is what's hard, and how hard that is depends intimately on the semantics of the source language. When I say intimately, I mean every single detail of the language's semantics matter.
Maybe in the short term, but in the long term, if automatic driving works, it works. There's just too much money to be saved by implementing it for people to not work on it.
How much value is added during 9-12th grade? A k-8 program with a little bit of life skills and shop would be better than what I did in 12 years. Especially if you consider that people were working sub-minimum wage jobs for a few years after getting through 8th grade in those days, which were effectively apprenticeships.
Not at all, some might call that a 'hobby'.
This is a good question. There are many reasons for a city to be responsible to its homeless citizens. e.g.

1. Many homeless people actually have a job in the city.

2. Many homeless people need access to services that are only available in cities. e.g. drug rehab. Having the methadone clinic close to where you live (even if you live in a tent under the freeway) significantly increases the odds that you will go there. If you live in a rural area and have to travel 40 miles every day to get your methadone, you'll not have a good chance of recovery.
What happens if they move to a different state?
He said 'password requirements' not 'passwords.' I'm assuming he meant the nonsense wherein "you must have a number, lower and upppercase letter, symbol, and a demon-summoning pentagram in your password."

https://xkcd.com/936/
I'm rethinking my interpretation on this.
LOL. Only on HN would such a reason for one world language be made.
Monkeypatching for debugging, mocking, etc.

Most of those are rare, but feasible. Monkeypatching a global as a side effect even rarer, but I think I've done it at some point.
Not the death of optimism, just the winning of the NASA bureaucracy in keeping the organization size by pushing the "cheaper" space shuttle.

With the benefit of hindsight, flying into space with the X-15's successors would have happened if there was not a need to beat the Soviets quickly with rockets.

Also throwing away the Saturn rockets after around 20 launches was just silly.
Several acquaintances of mine living in first world countries resort to going back to their 3rd world countries of origin when serious dental work is needed. So much that it has become a trend and a very common piece of advice.

If this is not a sign of the health care system failing, I do not know what is.
Well IDK what else you'd call it. The claims were:

1. This particular jet stream phenomena is "unprecedented".

2. This phenomena represents some kind of "climate emergency".

The response was basically a survey of several experts pointing out that:

1. It is not, in fact, unprecedented and likely something similar happens several times a year whether the multiple airflows line up exactly or not.

2. There are multiple jetstreams, the ones around the tropics lining up to push air from one part of the subtropics to another is perfectly normal, and this is neither an emergency, or climate related, or anything besides the changing of the seasons.

I would also add, in my non-expert opinion, that the original article making these claims did a very poor job of trying to explain why this is an "emergency". Or even why it was related to climate change at all. Nebulous claims presented in an attention grabbing manner are not something to take very seriously, especially on the Internet.
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Building the Open Source Amazon Echo-Jasper
What is a bash package? A shell script?

The thing is at least about two years old (first posted here 650 days ago) and has no doc and merely about a dozen packages listed. There seems to be nothing to show here.
The "Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope", or FAST, is the size of 30 football fields...

This thing will look adorable when the Square Kilometre Array comes on line in 2020 and starts pumping many Petabits of data per second.

https://www.skatelescope.org/signal-processing/

Oh look! They're hiring...

https://www.skatelescope.org/people-contacts/vacancies/
Well, except for GPs, oncologists, gastroenterologists... hell, all doctors... nurses, lawyers, chemical engineers, civil engineers, structural engineers... hell, all engineers... architects, accountants, actuaries, physicists, biologists, epidemiologists... hell, all scientists...
Then it would also be pretty cheap for the lender to insure against borrower's death or to bear the low (amortised) cost.

There is no reason a guarantor couldn't be responsible only for wilful failure to pay but not for after death.

I'm not saying these things apply in the agreement under discussion or under the relevant laws but just that different structures are possible.
A recent study came out showing birds are more intelligent than expected possibly because of neuron density. [1] I find it easier to believe, without evidence of course, that the brain became more compact rather than losing processing power.

A neuroscientist on brain size and intelligence: https://neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/ask-neuroscientist-do...

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/113/26/7255.full
The regulations only look like they're in favor of the doctors to those completely unfamiliar with the field. But who keeps the money from that $8000/night hospital stay? It certainly isn't the internal medicine doc making $200k/year (admittedly a great salary, but not at all out of line with the requirements of the job). I'm an advocate for less regulation in the healthcare industry, but it's not as simple as just throwing away all barriers and allowing the free market to solve everything.

Nurse practitioners and physician assistants are new entrants in the healthcare marketplace, and they are absolutely a "disruptive force" in the healthcare market, in the original Clayton Christensen-sense of the term. In fact, these professions were even called out as such in The Innovator's Dilemma. So your argument that new entrants to the market will somehow magically make prices lower doesn't hold much water (and for those who think that these entities should be freed from the regulations which require them to be supervised by a physician...that's like advocating for a large bridge to be designed and signed off by a civil engineer 2 years out of undergrad).

As for Certificate of Need laws, which limit the amount of hospitals and sophisticated equipment that can exist in any given area...certainly most doctors I know don't love these laws. It's the hospital associations (made up of many, many people other than doctors) which continually fight to keep them on the books.
The most obvious root cause of increased homelessness in Seattle is an increase in overall population and a larger economy . Without discounting any of the historical work the author has done, they need to establish a clearer causal relationship to the present.

Because the surrounding areas have essentially no services for the homeless and their police forces are far more hostile, Seattle acts as a regional magnet, even before other cities "dump" their homeless.

Expanding social services for the homeless within King County is likely to cause even more homeless to live there. Viewing the success or failure of a city's social services by the total number of homeless punishes cities with social services and incentivizes cities that are openly hostile.

Any non-regional solution to homelessness in Seattle is going to fail, because the more the center invests, the more the periphery offloads all the expenses onto it, over a broader and broader area. Decentralization of services for the homeless is far more sensible than trying to build a "master plan" that ignores the immediate root cause.

Most of the homeless population in Seattle is from elsewhere, and most of the newly homeless in the region go to Seattle. Linking the crisis to HUD cuts in the 1980s is no doubt a correct systemic explanation, but does not tell us why the homeless population in Seattle is growing so rapidly.

It's a bit like a history Ottoman Empire's failure to modernize in an article about the declining percentage of college graduates among arab males living in Europe from 2006-2016. Of course it can still be a contributing factor, but it completely ignores the millions of refugees that arrived in the last year.
Microsoft seems to have used a phased-in strategy: first it was all optional, then it should be there by default but ALSO with a mandatory option to disable to get the Windows logo (and probably goes with big OEM deals) then IIRC with Windows 10 MS dropped the mandatory removable part (but it is still ok to have it) on x86, and on non-x86 this is probably already mandatory to NOT be able to remove it. I guess in a few years they will render it mandatory to NOT be able to remove it also on x86, for new computers to be eligible to Windows compat logo/OEM deals.

Given implementations are huge and full of bugs, the stated intent is also complete bullshit: it is actually far more dangerous to have a platform with that kind of "security" measures, because once a hole is found malware can hide in there more efficiently and be extremely difficult to remove.
Maybe he didn't want it comming up when HR departments do background checks.. But another possibility is that the real person that corresponds to the leaked messages isnt such a perfect shill, but he can't complain as this PR imposter never claimed to be him.
I'm sure Vice Media is one of the groups that's going to get hard by this so I'm not surprised.

What if there was a way to connect media consumers to the content they wanted. If there was a way to subscribe to a certain news publisher and you had software that aggregated it. Then when you wanted to look at news you had one place where you could look at all the news you wanted. Wouldn't that be great? You could even have personalization depending on how often you read certain articles if you wanted a cherry on top.
Microsoft is in an impossible position here. Signed kernels are the only way to prevent rootkits. If they don't move in this direction people will complain about insecurity. If they do we get complaints about locking down the platform.
Could you email me? I've beat the drum a few times on us supporting unikernel workloads, it'd be nice to have an existing case to suss out what's hard and what's easy.

Work email in my profile.
I think increasingly, polls are proving fallible. I'm not sure people are willing to admit, even pseudonymously, what they really think and vote in the sanctity of the voting booth, for fear that they will be ostracized for not doing what they're supposed to do.
The NSA can ID him. It's not just the NSA he'd want to be anonymous from. "Famous" NSA Hacker guy - target for every wannabe braggart script-kiddie etc. He might be comfortable with the NSA knowing who he is and that he's talking the intercept but not comfortable with his local shopkeeper, his kid's grade-school teacher, priest knowing the same.
Except, with a hurricane, we all know why that's an emergency: high winds, large amounts of rain, and potential for massive destruction and loss of life. I have yet to see a claim as to why the jetstream near the tropics moving in a slightly unusual way qualifies as an "emergency". It's not like there's some wall around the equator to suddenly got broken down and all the weather is going to go crazy now. It just doesn't make sense, and they didn't say anything to make it credible.
> However, when you throw away your OEM windows, you’re essentially throwing away money.

Can you actually get these *nix laptops for cheaper than their Windows equivalents? I personally consider Windows these days to be just one more piece of bloatware to remove, but I never got the impression that it added much to the bottom line cost.
Straight baking soda is actually the least abrasive option on the lists. Here's a link:
http://www.sheltondentistry.com/patient-information/toothpas...

If one is concerned about rubbing their teeth away, baking soda and salt will rapidly dissolve in the saliva.
This meshes perfectly with the general view of endurance athletes that performance is largely mental. If fatigue was strictly limited by lactic acid buildup then your state of mind wouldn't make such a dramatic impact.
We've banned this account, obviously.

Please stop using troll accounts to break the HN guidelines with.
I believe the parent means "make sure you are in the US for no more than 30 days in a year" not "leave the US for at least 30 days".
Pandas is certainly excellent -- be aware of it's NA type promotion behavior before you start designing data analysis programs, however. I learned this the hard way:

http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/gotchas.html#nan...
Why Electronic Voting is a BAD Idea - Computerphile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI
"It has been described as an English martial art by those whom partake in this absurd sport and no one else."

Fixed that for Wikipedia.
This is likely true and does not indicate fraud. The majority of precincts overwhelmingly favor one candidate, as do many states.
Rising equality in US mortality.

Is nice to see some progress.
Akiami state of the internet report Q1 2016 [pdf]
I've personally volunteered for the anthropologist and linguist interviewed in the article sporadically since the 1990s, doing things like OCR'ing early Himalayan journals, setting up and maintaining websites (Digital Himalaya Project, World Oral Literature Project). Eventually I met him for a beer in Cambridge in 2009, shortly before he moved to Yale... great character! I believe he has since moved on to Canada.

That said, as a westerner who has picked up fluent Mandarin (and dabbled in dozes of languages) and who lives nearly full time in China, now raising my own child, I can see the efficacy and likelihood of evolving toward a reduced set of tongues or even a single-tongue. My grandparents spoke English, Croatian, German, and to a lesser extent probably some Russian, Yiddish and Scot. Other than English, only one surviving grandparent (90+) still speaks one of those languages. Similarly on my wife's side, her family have learned and forgotten Arabic and Vietnamese.

If indeed over hundreds of years the world does converge toward a single tongue, I would be surprised if Mandarin Chinese is not a serious candidate: offering simple grammar, huge and well dispersed population, with a pluralistic and pragmatic approach to culinary and other cultural acquisitions from integrated populations. The biggest issue is the number of characters, however a common international subset is perhaps emerging, largely through shared manufacturing supply chains, software interfaces, public signage and media.
Reproduction is not for species survival. "Species" is simply an arbitrary label we've assigned as part of the system we use to categorize living things, and doesn't even really match reality very well.

Reproduction is for gene survival. We are simply throw away machines our genes have developed in order to propagate themselves.
And here I was, clicking on the link thinking it would be about how working in tech support is unbearable.

That would have been a much more interesting story, I think.
> That the captive rat was somehow causing distress to the free rat and the free rat was solely motivated to reduce that distress without any concern for the other rat.

Isn't that what empathy is, though? Distress caused by the perception of another creature's distress?
I think it's a question of usage.

I went for a hike off the beaten track in Quebec City and asked for directions and a 22yo 'kid' confessed to me he hadn't spoken English since he left school.

Further north, everyone in Riviere du loup understood my butchery of their language and replied in English - except at the farmers' market, where local producers don't get many Anglo customers (except the winemaker who offered tours of her vineyard)
That would make a great deal more sense.
Ignorance is the deadliest and the most primitive weapon.
A solution? The good ol' government regulation. If companies 'cannot' achieve acceptable standards of customer support service, those standards should be imposed on them. This game where ordinary customers are so often the victims must be put to an end.
The law hasn't caught up with technology. Just don't mention those things at passport control.
> I wonder why the interviewee is so confident that the world will always be a place of conflict.

It always has been.

> I can think of no rational, or no necessary, reason why multiple conflicting powers should exist based on the lines on a map.

You mean other than the fact that it's always been that way? These are just tribes on a larger scale, humans are tribal, we fight, it's in our nature.
There are a few ways to have good angular resolution with a weird PSF. Even with just optics, you could build an instrument with a PSF that has a narrow central peak with a big ring around it. This would be great for separately resolving nearby objects but bad for resolving a single object against a background of many nearby objects.

For aperture synthesis, particularly strange things happen. If you take a quick (no rotational synthesis) exposure with a huge 3-antenna array, for example, you only get 3 choose 2 = 6 degrees of spatial freedom, but you get very fine angular resolution. In practice, you do "map making", in which you try to extract specifically the parameters you care about, but if you try to make an actual picture, you certainly can't fill in your whole field of view with tiny pixels, since you can't get past the small number of degrees of freedom.

My personal favorite example of aperture synthesis is the images of Saggitarius A*. You can get incredible detail, but the "images" are made under certain assumptions and don't represent actual individual pixels with reasonable PSFs.
Yes, large cities can provide services at scale, but two things again factor in:

1. The original commentor above has a good point, who pays? A lot of times, a regional issue ends up costing a single municipality the bulk of the costs (Seattle w/ the east side communities; Santa Cruz as the county seat)

2. Services for locals first. I hope she has left, but here in SC, we had one young lady from Santa Barbara that was arrested over 15 times (i think 30 to date all told) for assorted drug and theft issues. She was still getting services from local homeless services. She arrived here, hopped on the Santa Cruz heroin/meth downward spiral and made a nuisance of herself. Honestly, I'm surprised she's survived this long, but as a community that she was new to, what obligation do we actually have to offer her a seat at the services table versus the grizzled vet or other local who's been here for years?

Re: (2), municipalities should have an obligation to say "no". Unfortunately, I don't know about other areas, but locally, there is a cottage industry (hundreds of individuals employed, upwards of mid 8-figure overall budgets) around "homelessness".

I am jaded, but locally when I hear "we want to cure homelessness", I know it's bullshit because the number of jobs that would be lost would be in the hundreds if not thousands.

I also know, locally, those "in charge" preach "best practices" without any real evidence beyond arguing and name calling when you ask about results.
QBasic was what I started on. Built my original hacking tools and 4GL prototype in it. The semi-memory safety, simple syntax, and rapid compilation let me iteratw stuff out quickly.
They'll have to come up with a better writing system, either settling on pinyin on wade-giles, or something else. Really, ideographs are awful, an alphabet or even a syllabarry would be workable, but needing thousands of characters to read a newspaper is unforgivable.
Didn't there used to be a huge amount of plane hijackings in the 60s? That doesn't seem good for the reliability

If you look at AWS and the like, or services that tout "5 9s", you could make similar arguments. But reliability is itself a feature of a system.

If airplane crashes were more frequent, less people would rely on it (if you think it's hysterical now...).

Public Transit and package delivery are other things where reliability is super important. Not just public perception, but in a real way.

If you have to change trains twice, you can't have both be late right?

Also, death isn't just "subtract the man-hours from this person's society"....
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When my disabled mother was covered by Indiana Medicaid (which provided abysmal coverage), before the ACA took effect, I would import most of her drugs from Canada (except those that the DEA would not look fondly upon, those had to come from the local CVS).

It saved me thousands of dollars per month.
That's OK, people don't read newspapers anymore and pinyin is a viable and highly consistent Romanization system already used by 1.4 billion. Wade Giles is a historical footnote. A little known fact is that the darling of the 20th century communist party's modern Chinese literary world, Lu Xun, advocated for the abolition of characters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Xun Perhaps long texts will be read in a Romanized form (Pinyin) and characters will be reserved for use in concise international symbologies, much like Japan's ongoing use of kanji?
One somewhat extreme yet effective solution to this is to get into situations where no one knows anyone and where there is some shared hardship involved.

We did this by moving to another country where there was limited potential to really integrate into the local community (Thailand).

Because expats existed in their own little community and everyone walked off the plane knowing no one all the new comers are extremely open to forming new friendships. At to this that moving to another country is a challenging experience which you are going through together and there is a very high potential for making a whole new group of friends.

The only similar equivalent I can imagine would be something like joining the military. Everyone shows up knowing no one then they all undergo a series of challenging experiences together. It is not surprising that some military people seem to form lifelong bonds with their peers.

Meanwhile if you stay wherever you usually live, an environment relatively lacking in hardship where everyone else has at least a semblance of an existing social network, making a whole new social network is extremely tough.
Getting involved in politics is hard, but necessary, if we want change.
If you're seriously asking, you're misunderstanding the purpose of this law and of the legal system in general.

This rule is there to avoid foreigner to renew indefinitely their tourist visa while they're actually working for good. It's not there to prevent anyone checking emails.

On a wider scale, laws are defined to give a real world shape to the general principles. If you understand the principles, you can usually avoid being scared by the laws. If you deeply agree with the right of ownership, you shouldn't need a lawyer to know what to do with the fallen leaves of your neighbors tree that are in your garden.