skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About 4 months to realize I should build https://oppslist.com/subscribe

Maybe about 1-2 weeks actual development time.
To date, humanity has been the only species with a demonstrated ability to reliably lift portions of the Earth ecosystem out of the planetary gravity well.

It is therefore essential to creating self-sustaining spores filled with Earth-life.

Humanity must survive if Earth-life is to survive.

As such, humanity also gets to pick the species (or subspecies) that get included in the spores. Autotrophic algae will likely get a guaranteed berth on the ship, whereas elephants are going to have to breed themselves down smaller and smarter if they want off this rock.
Is there any practical reason to use "is" to compare two ints (other than demonstrating integer interning)? Should doing so produce a warning?
Of The cuff; a whole slew of reasons.

Entry into an orchestra isn't something that is cost prohibitive for an economic class of individuals.

Applicants to orchestras likely enjoy a certain level of affluence given how demanding the required practice is for performers. Musical performers enjoy slightly less systematic discrimination throughout their careers and technkal musical ability is something that is largely self-taught meaning that the applicants to orchestras are more likely to share similar levels of abilities at the stage of auditioning for an orchestra whereas college applicants are more likely to express difference at the time of application due to systematic discrimination throughout their educational trajectory.

Playing in an orchestra doesn't share the same grave weight of attending college in careerist society where college is increasingly necessary. The demand is higher for college, and the supply can reflect that.

Orchestras arnt a part of a massive industry tied to sports, science, defense, state subsidies etc...
But L2 requires the drivers active attention as they have to have their hands on the wheel every 60 seconds (or something like that). As long as Tesla doesn't remove that constraint then there shouldn't be any worries.

I don't see how you can get to L5 without L2 and the learning that is going on in these cars today.
>It is possible, with some proper insight and approaches, to sort general datastructures in linear time on modern computing hardware. The speed limit of sort is O(n) with some extra constant cost (often accrued by allocation).

There is a well-known proof from information theory that the problem of sorting n distinct items has a worst-case time complexity of Ω(n log n) fixed-bitwidth operations: (1) Since each of the n items is distinct, the average number of bits needed to encode each item is Ω(log n). (2) In the worst case, in order to correctly sort the items, each bit of each item needs to be read. (3) Therefore, sorting the list requires reading Ω(n log n) bits.

So, I'm not sure how to understand the claim that their algorithm operates in "linear time". Are they saying O(n) operations where each operation operates on O(log n) bits?

[Edit: See below response from kraghen: The time is linear in the total size of the data, not in the number of items. I'll leave this comment up in case anyone has the same misunderstanding that I had.]
This is just nostalgia talking. Most of 80's and 90's kid programming was trash, too.
No, he is using the word incorrectly. They are not bone-dry.
Not only 'learning Docker' is a pretty solid reason, it's not even that bad an idea. I have spun up containers for simpler stuff, like when I couldn't install a certain library because Anaconda messed up the install of a dependency which depended on native code.
> In the unarmed scenario, you need two trained police officers. Two people, well-trained and with good teamwork, can usually restrain even a huge, out-of-control person.

This simply is not true. There are plenty of videos out there showing one out of control person fighting off more than two cops. I used to work in a busy hospital ER on a military base, and the military police would frequently bring in drunks they arrested. On a regular basis, it would take four military police plus me and maybe another medic (if they were available) to properly restrain people. Some would fight so fiercely that they were at great risk of harming themselves, and controlling this was often the biggest part of the problem. You can't just sit on them, you have to subdue them properly. If someone is threatening your life you can choose to use deadly force in self-defense, but if not then you have to restrain them, and this takes a lot of work. Put two 'well trained' cops against one determined drunk or druggie, and you get three injured people. This is not a trivial problem.
I block it by default, so that wouldn't work. I would love to make web pages that I myself could read/see if they were made by someone else.
High-dimensional quantum encryption performed in real-world
Go from employee to being a consultant. You can probably double that if you are good (possible to make 400-500k in a good year when you get a few good deals in a row). But there are limits to a one man company obviously so going beyond that is probably only possible by becoming a C level manager at a big company or CEO (so start your own company?) where millions in bonuses and stock compensations are normally part of compensation.
> and constantly sabotaging "solidarity" policies like refugee resettlement out of pure racism and egoism.

No. This is mainly payback to Germany for how we treated all other countries, especially Italy and Greece, during the financial crisis. The refugee influx is the way for everyone else to "stick the finger to Germany", as Varoufakis once said...

Germany did not show any solidarity at all with the worst-off countries, only with their banks (where, again, German banks are shareholders in, or have significant amounts of money loaned to/invested in these banks) and the arms industry. In fact, the French and German arms industries actually extorted that they be paid, or else Greece would get no cash (source: https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Griechische-Milliarden-fuer...).

> Like us idiots in UK, they'll soon find out that life outside is not that great.

You Brits are not idiots, only your government is a spineless bunch of idiots. Fix that and I believe UK will be welcomed back into the EU - although I have to admit I'm glad there won't ever be a "British exception" any more, your politicians have held the EU back for far too long.
If you're referring to this one[1], most people were saying that it's pretty much impossible for an average developer to make 100-300k Euros per year. London seemed to be where it might be possible in certain industries. But England is a lot more than a few hundred kilometers away. (1300 or 1500 km depending on whether you're flying or driving)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15088840
If I remember The Box properly, West Coast unions faired better than East Coast unions. The East Coast unions fought container shipping tooth and nail, and when the Newark port and other East Coast ports were built they lost alot of clout and many more union jobs than necessary. Simultaneously, the leadership of the West Coast unions saw the writing on the wall and were able to achieve a less disruptive shift and downsizing. And this happened despite the fact that the West Coast unions had, historically, a more contentious relationship with business owners.
Like the U.S. Government did [0] years ago?

[0]: https://s3.amazonaws.com/sitesusa/wp-content/uploads/sites/1...
Often people in these industries use terms like 'the front lines' because it is their job to deal with severely trauma effected people, and that is taxing in just about every way possible. It's tough, tough work.

What this poster's wife does is to help children who are having trouble with normal socialization. My interpretation is that she views kids with behavioral problems that have been given access to a phone before the age of 6 as too far gone. To be honest, anyone's time is limited and if the view of this Dr is that dealing with these children will take more time and not produce great results, it probably makes sense to focus on other patients, as there are always and will always be more patients demanding of more time than there are doctors x hours in the day.
Keeping video feed going during the landing is way, way, way, way, way, way down the priority list. The video gets recorded, so they don't need this for analysis. It's purely a promotional thing, which is fun, but saving five seconds of the stream (even if it's an important five seconds) is only worth so much effort.
>That said, we have preliminary data that hints its safer and nothing similar to hint it's less safe.

Safer than? Human driving? No, we don't.
That's a well-documented concern in aviation. Hard to imagine it will be less prevalent in a population that doesn't even need to get re-certified now and then. General skills deterioration is probably not the issue that having to take over very quickly is, but it is one.
...no longer sees children 6 and under whose parents give them an electronic device.

All the schools in my area have the same policy. Forget those kids!
I work several subjects in parallel (three books currently). I go through each chapter twice. Once to understand the material then moving on to another book.

When I come back to the former book I go through the chapter again creating Anki cards for anything notable. The sheer amount of material I notice I had completely forgotten on the second reading is astounding.

I go through the Anki cards daily, in the morning I cover the material created from two of my books. In the evening I go through the third book (which I deem more valuable in a deep sense/abstract).

I have yet to have solid a strategy on chunk-building (as the course pushes you to do), however I can still see some bigger units emerge with time.
JAX-RS 2.1 released
I think geeks forgot how weirded out their parents were by their culture. People thought Dungeons and Dragons was satanic, for example. There were complaints about comic books and video games virtually every generation they existed.

One of the most annoying things is how quickly each generation forgets the past or looks at it uncritically.
> hardware wallet

What's this?
"War is apt" because that's precisely what a child will think when you take their screen away.

"This means war!"

Younger: <hissy fit ensues>

Older: <being intentionally annoying until they get the screen back>

Older than that: <being sneaky>
The easy part is relatively easy, but it's hard to conceive how the hard part will be solved.

Just driving around New York City for a while makes me think that generalized autonomous driving, as a problem, is essentially "solving" strong AI. Consider the case of approaching a complex intersection during rush hour. There's a traffic cop in the intersection waving his hands around. You reach the intersection, the light is green, you want to proceed straight, but cars are blocking the way because they're backed up into the intersection on the cross street. The cop points directly at you, making eye contact, blows a whistle, and shouts at you, pointing and yelling "right right right". You're uncertain whether he means you should try to weave around the blocking cars, but he blows the whistle again and it becomes clear he is telling you you cannot go straight, and you must divert and make a right turn right at the intersection. He gestures again, indicating that he wants you to turn into the nearest lane on the cross street, then points to the car behind you and indicates that it should also turn, but into the center lane. You nod, and he looks away to another car.

This happened. So a self-driving car would presumably have to understand and interpret shouted commands, realize that they are the one being shouted at by someone with the right authority, recognize gestures, somehow be able to engage in the equivalent of recognized eye contact, be able to make an OK gesture, and have some sort of theory-of-mind about the traffic cop as well as the drivers of other cars.

Not easy.
Ok so maybe I was thinking those things were more PT or something.

But still "I don't wanna help your kid because you bought them a phone", needs some expansion, IMO. There are valid reasons to deny care to patients that will not comply with medical advice but I just wanted to know what about a phone makes things so bad that a child is worth ignoring until they get rid of it.
Micropython does a much better job, using pointer alignment guarantees to pack in small integers:

https://micropython.org/

Apparently it is too hard to move python proper over to that method because of backwards compatibility issues with C extensions.
Do you mean to say your algorithm are stronger? If so, please let me try. How to use it?
cmake uses absolute paths almost everywhere.

This is a big problem if you want reproducible builds with varying build directory.

https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/reproducible-build...
In the 90s we watched crap literally engineered to sell toys.

http://www.retrodomination.com/master-of-your-universe-the-s...
Universals
> PS: He also just got probation, but that's the rich, white, clean record advantage in action.

That's probably the reason he wasn't shot dead by the police.
Not condoning the decision: however, as a former journalist/editor, I think the effort was to highlight the contrast between the popularity of their work, and its humble origins. It's a somewhat common approach in the journalistic community and was probably intended to make the Oakleys more relate-able.

That clearly misfired with some readers, so I think that means it wasn't an effective use of detail. Still, I don't think the author was actively trying to be a dick about it.
You make an important point. This is something I see a lot of people gloss over in these discussions.

It's a question that both sides of the discussion claim answers to, and both sound reasonable. The only real answer is data.

As you've said, killing 100% of the time in the 1% scenarios may very well be better than humans driving all the time. Better, as defined by less human life lost / injuries.

Though, one minor addition to that - is human perception. Even if numerically I've got a better chance to survive, not be injured, etc - in a 99% perfect auto-car, I'm not sure I'd buy it. Knowing that if I hear that buzzer I'm very likely to die is.. a bit unsettling.

Personally I'm just hoping for more advanced cruise control with radar identifying 2+ cars ahead of me knowing about upcoming stops/etc. It's a nice middle ground for me, until we get the Lvl5 thing.
The paper was more than likely embargoed until the talk they gave about it was over. They're introducing some new things that they probably didn't want to release details on before they publicly made a statement.
> I see 2-3 accidents daily caused by your "alert" drivers rear ending cars.

Remind me not to drive in your neighborhood. (This appears to be hyperbole.)
"We are the universe experiencing itself"
I've seen more of these pop up here in Seattle, but I think biking downtown and biking kids around at night is dangerous.

Seattle is still a car culture.
There is weird regulatory capture in these markets. Taxi cabs are universally bad. Black cars are better but have always been expensive and harder to use b/c of pre-booking.

Hotels/Motels offer dubious over-priced quality. They hide behind no-refund policies and maintain in general poor standards.

So I support airBnb, uber, and lyft b/c I'm tired of being ripped off.
Free Speech (with caps) is not the same as being able to say whatever you want wherever you want with social and cultural impunity.

The free speech clause of the 1st amendment means that the government won't enact laws that punish someone for saying rude, hateful, bigoted, or inflammatory things. This does not preclude a person's family, school, workplace, business, or any other group they're a part of from punishing or excluding them for breaking rules about behavior that is appropriate to the group.

The difference is that those are rules, not laws. You can go to jail for breaking laws. You won't go to jail for breaking rules, but there can certainly be other consequences. People have to choose whether it is worth following the rules to be a part of the group that made them. One can always quit and find a new group. Sadly, the same cannot usually be said for one's government.
I have yet to find any good reason for this fork, but I wish the forkers all the best. If they can actually make something better, I'm sure we'll switch. Until then I see no reason to not support Node.
OK, so I'm pretty old. I remember, as a child, assuming that misadventures would be largely forgotten by adulthood. I did many crazy things, but there's no record, except for whatever people remember. OK, maybe a few FBI files buried somewhere in Washington ;)

But now? There's a record of everything. Starting before birth, in many cases. First words from smart toys. Social media. Game sites. Sales portals. Files saved by peers.

And of course, that plus the exacerbation of psychosocial craziness.
Given the number of people advocating on HN that software shouldn't be patentable, I'm surprised at how many people now consider it vitally important to be able to use software patents against Facebook. If you do not believe in using software patents, this patent clause should not affect you in any negative way.
How long should a giant C++ code base take to compile?
There will still be an open source version called Font Awesome 5 Free. See https://fontawesome.com/#pro for more details.
When I had the revelation I was thinking about the whole npm, bower, gulp, webpack toolchain.

Comparing C++ to Node or Python doesn't help me. If I could write Python that run in the browser I wouldn't be commenting here.
But also a timer, which ironically, often turns out to be a phone.
Thank you, i couldn't remember where I had heard this before.
Same lesson as KSRobinson's Mars series. Same lesson as the United States secession and rebellion against Great Britain.

You make the government local, or the local government that eventually forms will rebel. Then it will beat you, because it can react to the local situation more quickly.

You might be able to control the Moon from Earth, but Mars will definitely be self-governing. It's all about the latency.
CNBC article from last year: https://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/14/employee-stock-purchase-plan...

Notably, Fidelity alone administers ESPP for 678,000 employees. Fidelity found that only 1/3 of employees with access to ESPP actually use it.
Discrimination runs in linear time not in the number of items but in the total size of the data. If you have n items each of size k it takes O(kn). Conventional sorting often assumes that you can compare keys of size k in constant time and therefore gets O(n lg n) but a more honest analysis would yield O(kn log n) for (say) merge sort.
The nations with the most poverty are middle-income nations.
I also prefer the female British accents but that's exactly what excites me and is so awesome about this. These aren't just samples that are being stitched together anymore. This "learning" that is being done can be applied later to any of the voices in Apple's catalog. Once they get the data of the synthesis out there, they'll more than likely update all the languages and intonations to match. I would imagine that the biggest hurdle with this is that different languages and accents have different nuances. As with most things, they're just starting with English and then will move everything over to all the other options, including the British accents. I don't think we're too far off from a future where you'll be able to pick the age, gender, and voice of your assistant in the same way that characters selection is done in most modern video games.
Micro ICOs

Micro Goals: $1000-$50000.
I got Internet access in 1990 when I was 12 years old. Completely unfettered, unmonitored, unlimited in any way. And I wouldn't trade it for anything. Certainly many, if not most, kids would end up obsessing over social status and gossip and similar things. That has nothing to do with technology and absolutely everything to do with how they deal with their life in general. They're encouraged to avoid taking an intellectual approach to life, to never question or doubt their emotional impulses (indeed taught that those impulses are more trustworthy and 'pure' than conclusions reached intellectually). They're the kids that have always been popular, the bullies and the kids that get DUIs before out of high school. You can't protect them from themselves through any means if you're not willing to address their way of living.

And for the kids that aren't destined to live an adolescence of bickering and strife, they will flourish with access to the whole of human knowledge and ability to interact with online communities as an equal, without anyone knowing their age unless they choose to reveal it.
They give you a link to the study which is as high-res as you want it to be.

https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=14/37.8263/...
The `generic` in the title applies to `kernel` rather than `GPU`. However, since LLVM does have an AMDGPU backend I suspect it's possible to do the same for AMD GPUs as well using the same technique and without changing the frontend code (assuming the AMD driver accepts whatever comes out of the AMDGPU backend). However, I can hardly blame folks for focusing on NVIDIA devices. For better or worse, they're dominating the GPGPU space right now. Just as an example, all the cloud providers have NVIDIA GPUs on offer, but the same is not true for AMD GPUs (though IIRC, Google is planning to offer them in the next generation).
JavaScript is objectively, demonstrably a badly-designed, error-generating language for which countless libraries, generators, and higher-level languages and frameworks such as Elm and TypeScript have been created to compensate for its shortcomings - and it most especially does not belong on the server side.

It is the poster child for the "If the only tool you have is a hammer..." maxim.

Its appeal derives almost completely from its presence in probably every major browser, where it was placed for DOM manipulation and was stressed way past its design envelope over time, leading to the increasingly dystopian web development landscape we progressively inhabit.

If it is ultimately victorious, it will be in spite of its design, not because of it. Those of us who are old enough to remember will cringe at the pain we endured over the years because of the widely used Intel 808x architecture as it evolved (small/medium/large/huge memory models, and segment registers, anyone?), not because it had the greatest merit, but because of its market penetration.

History repeats itself.
Using an Azure Lease Blob as a Distributed Mutex
"I think the main problem is tech has made everything _else_ easier, but parenting harder, and parents just aren't prepared to fight the battles / put in the work. A parent who is staring at Instagram when they're at the park shouldn't be surprised that their kids wants screens, too."

As a technologist who is in their early career, I love this sentiment. Too often do I see people blaming younger generations for an addiction to screens. The reality exists that parenting with the intention for balance will be what ultimate keeps children away from screens not blaming the industry as a whole.
Oh. This chip is a fail, security-wise.