skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AMD uses GlobalFoundries.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobalFoundries )
The firm manufactures integrated circuits in high volume mostly for semiconductor companies such as AMD, Broadcom, Qualcomm, and STMicroelectronics. It has five 200 mm wafer fabrication plants in Singapore, one 300 mm fabrication plant in each of Germany and Singapore, and three fabrication plants in the United States: one 200 mm fabrication plant in Vermont (where it is the largest private employer) and two 300 mm fabrication plants in New York.

Fab 8, located in Luther Forest Technology Campus, Saratoga County, New York, United States is a new 300 mm fab. This fabrication plant was constructed by GF as a green field fab for advanced technologies. It is capable of manufacturing 14 nm node technology. The plant's construction began in July 2009 and the company started mass production in 2012.[5][10] It has a maximum manufacturing capacity of 60,000 of 300 mm wafers/month, or the equivalent of over 135,000 of 200 mm wafers/month. In September 2016, GlobalFoundries announced it would make a multibillion-dollar investment to refit Fab 8 to produce 7 nm FinFET parts starting in the second half of 2018.[11] The process is planned to initially use deep ultraviolet lithography, and eventually transition to extreme ultraviolet lithography.[12]
Technology: 28 nm and 14 nm. 7 nm planned.

Fab 9,[13] located in the village of Essex Junction, Vermont, United States, near Vermont's largest city of Burlington, became part of GlobalFoundries operations with the acquisition of IBM Microelectronics. The fab manufactures technologies down to the 90 nm node and is the largest private employer within the state of Vermont. The site also hosts a captive mask shop, with development efforts down to the 7 nanometer node.

They are building a fab in China, but not for AMD stuff.

( http://www.anandtech.com/show/11117/globalfoundries-to-expan... )

GlobalFoundries operates 10 fabs worldwide with four of them processing 300 mm wafers. The company’s most advanced fab is the Fab 8 located in Luther Forest Technology Campus (Saratoga County, New York) where the chipmaker produces flagship processors for AMD and some other leading developers of chips. To keep the Fab 8 up-to-date, GlobalFoundries spends billions of dollars on development of new manufacturing technologies and production equipment. Back in September, the company already announced plans to invest several billion in new tools to produce ICs (integrated circuits) using its 7 nm fabrication process and this week GlobalFoundries said it would invest in the expansion of the Fab 8’s manufacturing capacity.

Also, re: the Intel-using sites in the Top500 (the vast majority are using Intel or AMD processors, see https://www.top500.org/statistics/list/ ) those are largely made in the USA too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_si...
Canada can be a super BRAIN powerhouse, its success in funding deep learning/reinforcement learning through its dark days, showing some really interesting perspectives of how its research system works, and it seems pretty solid and robust and have a different focus on long term goal. And I would predict, as Trump administration continues to use immigration as scapegoats to push for its agenda and its political vision turns inwards into infighting, US cannot be that techie/entrepreneur wonderland it once persuades the world it is.

However, there is no chance Canada can be a global power on all scales, as what US is now. They don't have big enough of population, not that important as a market, much of its land is not inhabitable or farmable, and it surely cannot catch up with US as regards to the military power.

Mind you that Canada have its own conservative power, it is just a different cycle, and it surely gets a lot of inspiration from Trump's takeover. So, let's be a little realistic and don't let your emotion triumphs over your rationale.
I believe that falls under "spend money to make money", not to mention precedent. It was more money at the time - I can't imagine they have a particularly stable workforce and background checks for a revolving door workforce will get expensive, not to mention it means they have less potential drivers to make money from.
The initial plan (Carried out between 1945 and 1947) was starving Germany - economically, and literally.

Once communism became the big boogieman, the US did a 180 on its occupation policy, and instead started dumping money and American goods into Germany via the Marshall plan.
This is my experience throughout gradeschool as well.

The explanation is quite evident: the immigration policies put in place promote such that only the best come in.
you can memory-map files in chunks and keep references to the mapped buffers or evict them once a certain limit is reached.

note that mapped buffers are not necessarily backed by RAM, they act more like swap space, except it goes straight to the original file instead of a swap partition. the downside is that anything reading from the buffer can unpredictably incur IO overhead if there's memory pressure and the OS decides to not back them with memory. java doesn't have an api to check residency of buffers. a possible workaround is to first queue them up on a separate thread and forcing them in before using. if they're already there it should have low latency. if they aren't then only the victim thread eats the IO penalty.
True. Making any exponential curve look like a hockey stick is mostly a matter of picking the scale. I could probably create a chart showing how the population of the earth went vertical during the reign of the Caesars. Of course, a logarithmic plot solves that issue.
PISA results are a good indicator how well a particular educating system prepares students for PISA tests.

Looking at the charts in [1], Canadian performance seems to be slightly declining (esp. Maths).

[1]http://www.compareyourcountry.org/pisa/country/CAN?lg=en
That video doesn't match the sequence of events in the report (Which makes sense, it was published a few weeks ago). According to the report the remarks from UAL1 come as the airplane is overflying the taxiway.
thanks for the suggestion
If you can't get a positive reply, I suggest http://emails2rss.appspot.com/
Another example, the libertarian Cato Institute (Koch brother is a co-founder) releases copycat IPCC reports to try to confuse people about climate change, Big Tobacco-style, and pass off their political talking-points as "science."
> Within three years of arriving, the Pisa tests show the children of new migrants have scores as high as the rest of their schoolmates.

> It makes Canada one of the few countries where migrant children achieve at a level similar to their non-migrant counterparts.

The high performance of migrant children probably comes from their motivated and educated parents due to Canada's immigration policy:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/opinion/canada-immigratio...
I had the exact same impression, yet somehow they nail it in OECD comparative tests.
What technological innovations have the cable companies led in the past 20 years to avoid becoming commodities?
Ask HN: Best practice to send emails to clients?
I'm using zoho mail as my business email, but it banned my accounts after sending some emails to my client. Any better way to send the email to subscribers?
I a am a pilot. At night, after a long flight to a place you don't live at, you are desperately looking to orient yourself. They looked at the charts, saw 2 runways, and found them. It can be extremely disoritening, especially at a place like sfo where there are two parallel sets of runways.

What we need is better computer guidance. The tech is available, our legislature is not. Look at the incredible "taking out freedoms" pushback against adsb to see what I'm talking about.
96 साल में पहली बार होगा ऐसा,12 अगस्त को नहीं होगी रात, क्या सचमुच नहीं होगी रात
Npm being split means more metadata, not necessarily more code. You admit to not reading your code or inspecting your dep, and you assert that you have no problems - based on what?

Your deps.txt is barely different than a lock file here.

Reading the code from dependencies is not really hard anywhere here.
> Look at any mature C project and see the layers and layers of macros and hacks to make things portable.

So.. it's portable, then?
In python you can't really statically define a reference count

a = {}
b = {}
l = []
for _ in range(100):
if input('thingy'):
l.append(a)
else:
l.append(b)

In that snippet it's impossible to know how many references there are to a or b.

In Rust, lifetime management is set up so that your code can statically determine when something no longer can be referred to (hence "free GC").

For example:

def f():
a = 3
g(a)
# a is no longer used from this point
return 5

you can clearly define when things are no longer usable, hence free-able. Python in this context will also free at the end of the function, but it's because it will be decrementing the reference counter and it gets to 0. But Rust won't need to have the reference counter since it knows it can free the object at any point after g.

(This isn't a great example for a lot of reasons, Rust allows you to go much further than this)

This ends up being somewhat similar to writing code in more statically typed languages/languages with dependent types. You might have to rework your code so that the machine can properly identify when it can free memory.
It seems to me like every second country is an education superpower now and feels quite special about it. What do we get if we combine this information with that most students don't feel they've learned in school the skills they needed after school, and also combine it with many scientists believing that science is not about generating knowledge anymore but about producing an endless, unchecked stream of papers?

If considered a market, I'd say these three things combined make it a likely bubble and an oportunity to start looking for what will come after.
French immersion is also criticized for segregating the academically-minded families who put their students through it from the general population.

The best parts of it can, and should be replicated across the general student population, without creating a taxpayer-funded charter school system.
Yeah, I'd like to see these stats broken down to immigrants. I'd guess that the immigrants are actually leading the way.

My guess is that Canada is careful about selecting those allowed to migrate for education which helps a lot here.
Ah, right, that could also be a limitation.

Although I'm pretty sure Magnum Photos has a large quantity of images, but perhaps not all in a consistent style.
Nobody uses them because they're broken and slow.
All of these articles only ever focus on commercial bee populations. I'm a lot more interested in what's happening to wild bees.
I'm not sure about "don't roll your own parachute" as it should be common sense, but well, in 1912 a parachute inventor died while testing his creation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Reichelt
by density metric then Switzerland would be an economic powerhouse... absolute size matters and on that case Japan and China are much more powerhouses than Canada and Switzerland
This manages to combine a tedious nitpick with a personal attack.

Personal attacks are not allowed on HN, so please don't post like this again, and maybe lay off the tedious nitpicks as well.
Superpower only in the sense that Canada could become an influential, outward-facing country like Norway, Switzerland or Singapore with their high qualities of life and host to the headquarters of non-governmental organizations. I would also add that with climate change and global unrest throughout the world, Canada is well positioned geographically. With regard to being a place for the world's most ambitious in entertainment, sports or business, it's unclear if Canada will challenge any major country in our lifetimes.
I think you misunderstand the original comment. It isn't criticising the PDF format. It is crticising the format of the PDF
If the only thing we care about is an IQ arms race between countries then the end result will be brains in jars instead of superhumans. There is no free lunch.
Very true. I don't think the Republicans are solely to blame though. I live in the SF Bay Area, definitely a very blue part of the country. Despite pretty steep taxes, our public transportation and public schools aren't much to look at. Better than other parts of the country, probably, but it ain't Canada. Even when there's a political will, there doesn't seem to be much know-how in how to actually provision public infrastructure and services in an efficient way.
No, we don't inquire as to the nature of their crime(s). Aside from it opening a wasp nest's of legal issues, I personally believe that everyone deserves a second chance. (and certainly don't believe that I should stand in judgement of anyone). Ultimately, like an job board or HR resource, there's stuff an employer and prospective employee will have to hash out. My mission was/is to create an efficient marketplace that allows employers (especially large ones) to consider hiring this population at scale. Many have suggested some kind of vetting process, which I know would help the top 10% appliers, but I think they'd probably find success anyway. I'm not sure that it's fair to require someone who's already done their time to have to pass another test, just to get a job to feed his/her family. No easy answers here.
The author downloaded 1000 tracks from each class, so they are evenly distributed.
This subthread was not about educational excellence, the message you replied to was a response to "I think Canada is well poised to be the next big super power, replacing the USA".
Wait Canada is "too small" now? You have deserted islands bigger than my country. I bet you could fit the entire UK in a place with 0 inhabitants - without breaking it to smaller chunks! That's a ridiculously hefty country... it's infinite in any practical sense.
Through sweat and blood. Don't expect crypto libraries to be secure the first few years after their release. That's why people favor the mature, battle-tested libraries.
kinda related, how easy for a foreigners to play in the local volleyball team in Japan? I'm considering to move in Tokyo for a year or more, and would love to find some vball buddies
Good question. Actually it's both, because both are toxic for discussion quality. But we evaluate them a bit differently because attacking a fellow community member destroys the community in other ways as well.
And as someone new to both HN and the tech culture in general, I'm stunned by both the intelligence of the comments offered and the soul behind them. Doing this work has definitely done my heart good.
You sell it to firms who would like to compete on price while showing clients that they do so due to their use of cutting-edge technology
Giving everyone the same opportunity is not an ideology, it's common sense (or it was before political correctness). Giving all people the same opportunity is nothing to do with ideologies. An ideology, as an example, pretends that all outcomes must be the same.

For example, the overwhelming majority of veterinary "science" students in the western world are female [1]. Would you care to explain how this result represents an ideology?

What is an ideology is that Australia sexually discriminates against boys in "science" policy despite knowing this fact on vets. This would seem (to the educated individual) that it would be illogical to sexually discriminate against boys when the majority of students in veterinary "science" are female. That's because an ideology drove that illogical decision making.

Equal opportunity makes sense, not equal outcome. It's not an ideology. The ideology is a group like feminism who have pushed hard to discriminate against boys in science. Perform a Google search for "STEM" and "girls" to see thousands of articles in case you have any doubt about the power of fallacy of ideologies. You are welcome to see if there are any articles that encourage boys in science, you won't find them.

It surprises me that so many people misunderstand why equality of outcome is both a fallacy and a construct of ideologies.

[1] http://career-advice.careerone.com.au/career-development/pro...
The topic is education in Canada, not equality of outcome vs. equality of opportunity. Off-topic tangents can be fine when they're concrete, but generic tangents inevitably head off in a worse direction, and generic ideological tangents are the worst.

More on this point at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14912821 if anyone's interested.
Modern society does not have any metaphysical meaning associated with it and everything is heavily specialized and distributed using self-interest. This at the end seems to be a recipe for eventual failure. Why? One reason is that self-interests start aligning with each other forming monopolies and conglomerates which is essentially corruption manifest. The modern civilization needs an overarching metaphysics which then ties to a sense of morality of each individual serving the entire society rather than just themselves. That's the only hope we have for a future. Otherwise the aligned self-interest will destroy civilization.

If you carry this out you see its implications everywhere in the system. The food production does not serve any goals of society, instead food production is focused on optimizing for costs and yield. What this leads to is intensive farming which then leads to depletion and fragility which leads to disease. In terms of actually producing the food to eat, i.e, processed food, again self-interest produces highly addictive foods that increase profit, the cost of that is paid by the other side of the bargain.

When that self-interest of corporations aligns with academia or even the self-interest of academia itself, it then starts focusing on profit and educating students for the needs of corporations. Which then feeds into this sort of cycle of people who serve corporations, and corporations who serve themselves. And society pays the price.
Relying on a macro processor to patch and bandage your program at compile time depending on a collection of symbolic features isn't really representative of portability of a language and your code. To me, that is brute forcing portability, and is a web of conditional inclusions/exclusions that needs to be maintained and added to per-architecture and per-OS.

Something that is, in some sense, truly portable is one that has a single specification that runs on all platforms the base implementation supports. Virtual machines and certain styles of language standard are often able to accomplish portability for a vast number of applications.
Curious about the other language. What other language that doesn't add another layer between the code and system instructions were you thinking about?
Better yet element.addEventListener("click", self.handleClick.bind(this))
Actually it's the opposite. When I drop off outside of the surge zone and go back to that zone to make a pickup inside, that helps quell the surge in that hot spot. I've never noticed surging in the neighborhoods I just left when I go back online. If I stayed online in the neighborhoods, I would likely get dispatched around the drop off point, prolonging the surge at the bar.
Crick, a time-tracker dashboard, goes open-source
But please don't make a bad subthread even worse by resorting to incivility.
There's no charter of incorporation for bitcoin. To a large extent it is what everyone agrees it is. I think people recognize that BCH is as genuine a "coin" as BTC whereas BCM wouldn't be.
I don't mind at all, and I'm very familiar w/The Last Mile, and consider it good company to be in.
Update: Rename column not yet supported :( This is sad. Checked the code base and it seems ok.
But that's the problematic part. You're now completely dependent on a single person for funding, and if they demand you add something to your software (or they'll end funding), you're fucked.

Do tou really want to give this power to a single person?
"You don't know JS" series dedicated the whole book to "this" mystery : https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/this%...
Read this, 3 times maybe, and you will become the master of this.
It seems much more likely to me that we're somewhere in the middle of an S-curve, before the limiting factors have kicked in. In terms of processing power, it's already happened to performance per thread, and it doesn't seem unreasonable to assume that there's a plateau to total throughput as well.

Even then, we're undoubtedly going to see some really amazing stuff come out of machine learning in the decades to come, just maybe not the beginning of Ragnarok.
> meditate

Any clinically proven benefit of meditation though? Don't throw it together with sleep and exercising...
>If you read page 24, he said it's not unusual for people to be paid $100M. Do you expect him to remember all the people and amounts paid?

That's a lie. Do you really think Google would be paying someone $100M or something close to that and the CEO wouldn't hear of it?
Long story short: This wasn't the original plan. The original plan, which was in effect for a while, was a variant of the "Morgenthau plan" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgenthau_Plan#JCS_1067 ). It took two years for them to realize that not only would they be starving Germans (intention), but also the rest of Europe (unintended), and more or less block any economic growth in Europe (+risk Europe falling under the sway of the Soviet Union). So, they reversed their plans and the rest is history (that history includes the Marshall plan).
I'm not saying it would work well, I'm saying it would be justified.

And I wouldn't call what happened here 'civil' - at best, the civility was one-sided: they get to raid his home, hold him captive, and force him to answer, but he doesn't get to do anything.
> “If someone had a putative diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, they might be on an Alzheimer’s drug like Aricept or Namenda,” said James Hendrix,

Aricept is an expensive drug and does about nothing. I dont even know why patients with AD are taking it.

http://www.alzforum.org/therapeutics/donepezil

> The effect size of donepezil's benefits is small and the drug does not modify the underlying pathophysiology of the disease
There was a lot of punishment as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labor_of_Germans_after_...
Thanks for your support. This space seems to resonate w/the VC community, all things being equal. Ultimately, it falls upon me and my team to execute and make it a business that's worthy of investment. Good intentions will not drive their involvement, nor should it. The rubber meets the road if we can provide a viable, sustainable HR solution. If we can't/don't, then we don't deserve investment nor to remain in business. But my VC dealings thus far have been very positive, starting with YC
https://medium.com/leaf-software/5-tips-for-actually-shippin...
One of South Africa's top banks launches investment robo-advisor
ok, I will. Thx
There should be demo instance or at least screenshots what to expect before signing in.
As I understand it, "the Singularity" refers to the point in time where AGI becomes better at improving itself than the humans that created it. Then the existing exponential growth gets replaced by another exponential, but with stronger feedback.

It's the difference between a differential equation like x' = x and x' = 10x . In either case you can say "meh, if you normalize on today's value, the increase in 10 years is just a constant multiple", but the transition from one phase to the other will still be noticable, even though things won't "go vertical".
I'm sure you encounter "high assurance code" like this every day -- your operating system, the secure protocol used to post your comment, the controls for your Anti-Lock Breaking System in your car.

How much of those were formally proven?
The hackers behind WannaCry attack finally cashed out about $140,000 in Bitcoin