skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome. That's why I hope the System code is fairly fast, because compilation won't matter if it is still super slow. If y'all do a version on the JVM you get fast, but also a bloated dependency and then you're not much different than anything else with a JVM backend (Scala, Clojure, Groovy, Perl6, PicoLisp...etc). I really am excited by Red btw. Hopefully performance can be a thing at some point before 1.0. The Perl6 people released their 6.0c (basically 1.0) where the language is mostly frozen, and are now spending 90% of development time on optimizations (honestly I pulled that number out of my butt, but the ratio is in that favor) because it is so slow for most things currently. I'm not sure if that was smart as now people are thinking"I waited 15 years for this?". Overall another great language I'd happily throw away Python for, but it has some work to do before I can really use it. I hope Red doesn't fall into the same trap.
What's stopping a malevolent AI from controlling humans who are connected via neural lace?
While this is charming, this seems more like a reflection on how being from a place is different from living in a place. I have the same long meals with friends and family here, despite the commenters​ saying the "Silicon Valley" style meal is also the standard in NYC.

It feels like he is really pointing out that the mechanics of interaction are very different when no one present is rooted in the region, and you don't have shared history.
The main bottle neck in data analysis is not running the code but thinking about your data, visualizing it in different ways, and looking for interesting corner cases your model is not good at predicting.

In that sense it is much faster to do these analyses in Python or R than in C++.
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Well, as a back-seat commenter I agree with you but they probably had a good reason to not do it. Most likely something to do with development complexity. There's a ton of smart people working on Visual Studio, I'm willing to trust their judgment on this :)
I could easily live with 1/2 C's speed with Red's power. That is reasonable.
I suspect the third function is the one for running the monad. It's different for each one, so it's not part of the type class, but you do need it to use a given monad. (Except IO, though even it has unsafePerformIO)
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There is a tag for the release, called swift-3.1-RELEASE:

https://github.com/apple/swift/tree/swift-3.1-RELEASE

It's not showing up on GitHub's UI nor search for me at present, which may be why it seems like it's missing.

You can download a .tgz from GitHub but bear in mind that you have to do the same for each of the nested repositories as well. If you're building it for yourself, it's easier to download the swift-3.1-RELEASE content, and then run 'utils/update-checkout --clone --skip-history --tag swift-3.1-RELEASE' to procure the rest of the repositories.

There are a number of bugs to work on Swift packages for RHEL/CentOS:

https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-100

https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-108

https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-116

The issues are primarily around those operating systems having too old a version of Clang in their default repositories to be able to bootstrap the newer builds, and the fact that they don't have the blocks runtime available, both of which are used by the Swift runtime.
Enough that it is not considered a viable approach for general purpose BCIs in adult subjects. You can get away with injecting one to study or affect a small localized region, but that's about it [source: chat with a Lieber lab collaborator].

Unless of course you get Cultured and put it in place at the embryonic stage, so the brain grows into it.
It's hard to resist to a tech when everyone around you is uing it. It's not impossible, but it is hard.

My mum was super anti Facebook when it first came out. Now she has one.

I'm not saying you will have an iBrain, but myself for instance, hope that I will not have one. Maybe though, I won't really have a choice in a world where nearly everyone has an iBrain. Kinda like that show where everyone has smart contact lenses and only some people go against the movement and remove them.
I think your interpretation is very much your own - I'm not seeing anything that suggests that the author considers such a lifestyle to be positive or a symbol of true happiness.
A flying car would be nearly magical for someone from 1880.

But a smartphone to someone from 1950? It would seem pretty fancy, but not impossible to imagine. The guy from 1950 already knows the basic tech behind it - it has a screen, it uses wireless data, and is powered by computers.
Also very nice. If I added a C dependency like GSL as a DDL, Red could compile a binary using it?
You should read Edison's biography. You'd understand Musk much more.
Well, they can't really even do that... ignoring that SMBs should be buying storage as appliances instead of building it (it's massively cheaper TCO wise and in such a case the SSD choice is up to emc or netapp or whoever anyway) and assuming theyre in the rabbit hole of building out storage themselves, then youll typically be buying servers from dell or hp or whoever and you bet they've done this testing for you and you will have zero choice of the SSDs that come in your big 36 sff 2Us..

If you're in the position to be buying raw drives like this, then you're doing things above the SMB level and wouldn't be burned by this sort of thing...

At least... I hope..
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Oh, it's barely visible and for some reason it's in the same bucket as C# and Java. That's so lame.
I think you're really underselling things like 3G data plans which are now worldwide. That didn't exist 10 years ago.

Even just the widespread use of SMS has helped medical teams assess and treat diseases in remote areas.

When people complain about some lack of technological advancements, it sounds to me like they're just not aware of what we have accomplished. And I am not surprised that Thiel is in this category. He has a JD, not a PhD
Wrong paradigm: Imagine your brain has the entire contents of Google. The speed of all machines connected to the network. And the creativity of all other linked minds.
Switzerland has been using the 5CHF coin for a long while now, and as an end user, my only issue with it is its size and weight, originating from the fact that the coins ranging from .50 to 5CHF are defined to linearly scale in weight.
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The big difference that you are overlooking is that double free leads to memory corruption, with undefined behavior of program execution.

It can crash right away, in a few seconds, minutes, hours later, or never and just keep generating corrupt data.

Having a reference that the GC doesn't collect doesn't lead to memory corruption, just more being used than it should be.
But then he is called a conservative.
How do you prevent a malevolent AI from controlling armies of neurally-linked humans?
Also look at additive manufacturing - we can make things that were literally impossible to fabricate five years ago with a 200k sintering setup. 4d printing is pretty cool to!

In your examples consider a modern turbofan blade, a single crystal of titanium grown in a xenon atmosphere and then heated white hot before being blown up like a balloon so as to allow refrigeration during operation! Another mind blowing sector is the change in medical scanning, ct, pet, mri - all new since 1970
My parent poster asked how to do things legally on the side while being a student. You don't get sued right away.

Furthermore, it's better to control risk by getting the proper insurance for your business and NOT relying on "limited" liability of a GmbH (although I heard you have to do pretty dumb shit to really be held liable personally in a GmbH).

So I'm really wondering what you did that you almost ended up in jail. This is certainly not the case for 99.9% of all people who just want to file taxes on their Adsense income once per year or code HTML for a bit of money.
There's a lot of recent psychology research that suggests you're very wrong and that your body and physical experience is fundamental to our existence as beings.
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> So what's your answer to people who get physically ill when consuming alcohol

My answer is it's a rarity, and a distraction that you included it.

> Sounds like you have a chip on your shoulder about people who don't participate in American drinking culture and binge drinking.

Does it? Strange given I neither binge drink (which isn't the same as a drink after work anyway, and so I reiterate that you have a chip) nor am I American.

I couldn't care less if people don't want to participate, I'm not going to suggest they be forced - unlike your suggestion that people be forced not to.

When your team visits this hypothetical restaurant, will you ban anyone from ordering steaks, because because a baby can't chew it...
In 1817, we sat in chairs like we do new, drink out of glasses like we did now, talked with close friends and relatives over coffee or tea, enjoyed music and books, etc etc.

Of course things will change, but many things stay largely the same. Not only will most things stay the same, but the things that are unpredictable.

Where do I see humanity in 200 years? It's totally unfathomable to me (although I'd bet on drinking glasses and chairs still being recognizable as similar to what our ancestors used).

I don't see why despite it being unfathomable to people 200 years ago, the future 200 years from now is not only fathomable, but predictable and even inevitable to you. That's some pretty extreme arrogance.
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Also worth reading: the self-outing post from the contributor: https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-outing

The individuals that campaigned against Garfield probably had good intentions, protecting their community from what they thought were sexist beliefs. But someone having a lifestyle doesn't inherently mean that person pushes their rules on others who do not follow the lifestyle. Nor is their any indication that the contributor let this lifestyle affect Drupal.
They have since been published at the above link:

https://swift.org/builds/swift-3.1-release/ubuntu1610/swift-...

https://swift.org/builds/swift-3.1-release/ubuntu1604/swift-...

https://swift.org/builds/swift-3.1-release/ubuntu1404/swift-...
It'll be interesting to watch this play out after the recent US ban on flying with laptops on UAE airlines. It looks like that ban might plausibly have been a politically motivated play to help make US airlines more competitive; putting down roots in the Emirates could have unwanted side-effects for Amazon...
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That's great, thank you very much for making this
Agreed, but those languages aren't trying to be a "Full-Stack" language. With great power...blah blah you get the point ;)
I had my first dispute very recently. I paid a 15$ fee for a $9 service. I now have to run small background checks on my US customers because apparently it is usually only them who dispuse before asking questions. This is how I went from 'I don't care who you are' to 'if you are from the US I need your real name'

So please don't make it sound so easy. It's a pain for the other side.
interesting points

in this podcast http://www.talkhouse.com/comedian-tim-heidecker-talks-with-a... Adam Curtis argues that we no longer subscribe to grand visions and as a result we're floundering as our internet-induced bubbles send us into every more fragmented echo-chambers

We're never going to achieve anything great again...it's the beginning of the heat-death of human progress! I think that the recent idolatry of the individual has weakened our ability to act en-mass. Previous generations were more cohesive.

WRT skepticism of modification of the natural world - it's so stupid. There is no "natural state" of things. Everything is modifying everything else. We probably even got the ideas to modify ourselves and our environment as early humans from other animals (ants & termites - cities, beavers - dams etc).
How would one best use such URNs in a REST API?

An endpoint such as /products/:product-id:

Would be something like?

/products/some-company:products:abcdef012-3456...

Seems a little clunky
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If you pointed out similar examples about C in the 80's, I would provide a similar reply, after all any serious programmer targeting the home market would use professional tools like Assembly.

One needs to start somewhere, but apparently to impress HN one needs to hide in some cave and present a done product after some years hiding, as the fashion driven industry has lost most visionaries.
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SENS was right, and they're not getting credit for being right, when everyone else was wrong. Let's hope their other predictions come true as well!
But there are female weight lifters. You mean they probably only started later in life, and they would be as strong as men if they started at 6? Not sure if weight lifting is even recommended for kids, what is the average starting age?

Also, I googled and a lot of the best female weight lifters look Chinese. I have a suspicion that they might be recruited by the Chinese system at early age and pushed for the glory of China, at the expense of their health. So cultural norms wouldn't be the issue here.
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Life wasn't that different in 1917, 1817 or even year 17. I started writing a reply but realized Nassim Taleb does a better job at explaining this than I could. Here's an excerpt from The Future will no be cool http://www.salon.com/2012/12/01/nassim_nicholas_taleb_the_fu...

I am not saying that new technologies will not emerge — something new will rule its day, for a while. What is currently fragile will be replaced by something else, of course. But this “something else” is unpredictable. In all likelihood, the technologies you have in your mind are not the ones that will make it, no matter your perception of their fitness and applicability — with all due respect to your imagination.

[...]

Tonight I will be meeting friends in a restaurant (tavernas have existed for at least 25 centuries). I will be walking there wearing shoes hardly different from those worn 5,300 years ago by the mummified man discovered in a glacier in the Austrian Alps. At the restaurant, I will be using silverware, a Mesopotamian technology, which qualifies as a “killer application” given what it allows me to do to the leg of lamb, such as tear it apart while sparing my fingers from burns. I will be drinking wine, a liquid that has been in use for at least six millennia. The wine will be poured into glasses, an innovation claimed by my Lebanese compatriots to come from their Phoenician ancestors, and if you disagree about the source, we can say that glass objects have been sold by them as trinkets for at least twenty-nine hundred years. After the main course, I will have a somewhat younger technology, artisanal cheese, paying higher prices for those that have not changed in their preparation for several centuries.
Jack Dorsey, expert mathematician. Because he's done a great job with Twitter's numbers, clearly.
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What makes it seem sexual in nature?

Surely inviting a female employee, alone, is the unusual aspect that would make it appear suspect?
I agree. Even if you conquer conventional biological aging via nanobots in your bloodstream or whatever, you'd still be vulnerable to random space elevator accidents, particle beam malfunction, etc.
What is the financial cost to being attractive?
I always felt Samsung staying with Qualcomm in the US had some arm twisting involved as some of Samsung processors were simply put better or at least equal. So why wouldn't a Samsung use it's own chips.
Not necessarily. Just because that one thread of AI hype won't work out, doesn't mean the whole company won't work out.
everlasting struggle between keeping the headline close to the original and under 80 characters, while adding meta header tags.
Maybe because if hacking a brain, is as easy as hacking a toaster or a heart transplant, we're fucked - pretty much.
> He's got enough money to spitball an idea

Does he? He seems to be highly leveraged personally and within his companies.
From what I gather (and I'm no expert) the value of Wayland is that it is a model that matches what we are actually doing with our systems now.

X is a giant system that we abuse a tiny portion of to use in a way no one planned for it to get used - X was designed when the assumption was that you'd be a thin client on the end of a mainframe, which clearly doesn't map well to modern usage.

X, for example, allows any window to look at the contents of other windows. Useful for you screenshot program, security flaw for most applications.

Backwards compatibility has obvious benefits, but at the same time, there comes a point at which you are dragging around so much cruft no one is really using any more it's better to throw it away. The author seems to think X isn't beyond that line (or, as the article paints it - anything he uses is), but from what I've seen, Wayland seems like a smart idea.

Also, there is a compatability layer which means that most things should just work (except, as hinted at above, things like screenshot applications, which is an intentional break as that should require more privilages).
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The ancient Japanese also had one word for shades of green and blue.
That peak employment graph is a fascinating distillation of 21st-century populism in a nutshell: employment in the UK for UK-born residents is at 75%, while overall is up at ~82%. I'm usually pretty allergic to Daily Mail-type scapegoating, but that's a...surprisingly interesting metric.
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I have been the victim of this tactic, and yes it is terrible. But it's also completely understandable. It's an extremely easy way for a company with deep pockets to bury a smaller company.

When you understand why someone does something - you can hate that they're doing it, but you also accept it in a weird way, because they're simply using the rules of the game.

And while you hope you would do better if you ever got to be in that situation the truth is probably, that most of the people getting suid in these situations would do the exact same things if the roles were reversed.
If we stopped saying things that might "offend" someone somewhere there would be silence. What's interesting is, the more we try to silence certain voices, the louder their message gets. Does demonization (?) work? Does it back fire ? Take IS for instance. The stronger and more extreme the resistance (?) the stronger it gets.

I'm certainly not defending hate, etc. Just wondering - out loud - if the old countermeasure rules still apply.
It does. It supports mingw on windows as well as cross-compiling from linux using cargo (rust's package manager and build tool). Installing mingw-w64 from my distribution's package manager and telling cargo where to find its linker and assembler was all I needed to cross compile stand alone windows binaries of some command line tools I wrote.
Yes, but what if you are unable to explore the whole state
space due to its unboundedness? Then the only way I know is
by deducing properties thru temporal reasoning.
> or a feeling that you are forced to socialise with your boss

Would you feel you'd be fired? Because sometimes getting to know someone is an appropriate pathway to success.

Scenarios like this are more common at start-ups, aren't they? If you just want to drone through work, with no social connections, the average american mega-corp might be more appropriate.
Forget AI, for me this is evoking visions of government-mind-control creepiness.
Seven habits of highly effective people.
In there I quit learn a lot about how to manage my time, prioritize my to do list
So many tin foil hats. Just don't give them your real details when signing up and sending the sample?

I did mine because it was a cheap way to get my DNA in a file. You can then run it against https://promethease.com/ or http://dna.land or whatever other tool you like.
To to my understanding they can not legally sell information about me as I have local laws protecting me from that. Sure I doubt they really care but this seems to be a us thing to me
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Bad enough when the whole thing slips around to the side... in pieces, that'd really suck.
> ... common knowledge that facebook does not delete a single thing ever they just disable it for user access.

That is correct, I remember there even was a presentation video from one of FBs engineers describing exactly that, also that they intended to burn that data to long time storage archival discs (probably already are). I have no time to look for that video but if someone knows what it was called please link to it, it should be somewhere on the youtubes.
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At least we don't call our MPs "lawmakers", that term is so bizarre to me.
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I have all kinds of books like that, for teaching / perusing, but now am going to sandwich them with hardcore math books out of paranoia
Now that you're all hyped up about using node, it's time to convince your boss
Plenty of anti-vaxers on the right, and the left makes plenty of fun of the ones on the left. Not really the same as climate deniers.
Even if you don't use the language specifically, the ideas it provides on creating queries applies to pretty much every database I've used, with the one exception being Redis.

It also doesn't hurt it's the most popular language at the moment and judging by the amount of applications using it, won't be disappearing anytime soon (especially not in just ten years).
In a shop in Italy if you are a member you can take at the entrance a scanner with you and then just pay in the automatic checkouts. Periodically (there is a statistical model behind I guess) you can be asked to be checked if the stuff you scanned are the same you have. So if you do mistakes, you will be checked more often. It seems to work pretty well, even with the old ladies.
But it won't, unless Musk somehow figures out how to "write" information to your brain, and right now we can't even fully figure out how the information is stored, much less how to write it back - the way this will most likely work is that you will search something on google by thinking about it, and it will "appear" in your vision by stimulating your visual nerve. You still have to read it and remember it, you won't magically know Kung-Fu Matrix-style by thinking about it.
The problem with protesting-based government is that the loudest and most violent are prioritized over the interests of people who aren't loud or violent. Case in point: farmers hijacking and spilling Spanish wine on the road get 'heard' while the normal consumer who wants lower priced wine doesn't get heard. So a loud violent consortium of 500 French winemakers achieve legislative priority over millions of people who are harmed by protectionism but aren't harmed enough to walk out of their jobs to burn tires. Bolsheviks were a tiny minority in pre-Soviet Russia but since they had violence and "protest" on their side, they got to own Russia for 70 years. Nazis were a tiny minority as well and through their 'protest,' they took control of Germany.

I don't trust protest as a means for political change. There's a dangerous concept when 1000 people throwing rocks can make decisions for 80 million who aren't out in the streets. That isn't democracy, that's a lynch mob.