skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, countries may have national identity cards with chips and perhaps biometrics that make them hard to forge, but a) I believe there's opposition in the US to identity cards b) do they help establish identity remotely, e.g., online?
Cockroach in context of resiliency towards Nuclear impact is a great name for this DB. But it doesn't sound serious.
Only 8x8GB since I'm working on CPU limited simulation tasks. One of the CPUs and 4 of the DIMMs is on a daughter board in the Z640, which makes the whole thing even more impressive. It's a fairly compact machine. Storage is just a single SSD and single HDD. Graphics is a low end Quadro just to get the 4x mini-DisplayPort. The HP Z8xx series would probably be a better choice if a person is going to go crazy on the rest of the hardware. But that's just conjecture on my part based on the fact that my current processors are running near TDP (but aren't being throttled down based on the monitoring I have done.)
A Guide to Single Branch Development in Git
Long time sufferer. Read his work decades ago. Couldn't get the full effect of his methods but agree with it completely. Intensity, recurrence and duration are all lower but can't get rid of it altogether.
The history of real-time strategy games
Python 2.7.14 released
You got that last sentence right: I’m not aware of any apps which can take advantage of even half this many cores. Intel is deficient in terms of memory bandwidth, so most things begin to flatten out at 8 physical cores or so, and take a nosedive when you attempt to use all of them.

While you are right that there are very few apps able to take advantage of quad GPUs, for anyone who does serious number crunching it’s not a problem at all to use all of them using popular deep learning frameworks. They aren’t just for deep learning, you can do a lot more with them. And e.g. PyTorch will automatically parallelize certain things across multiple GPUs for you, with near linear speed up.
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> Also sad is that recent republication of classic book titles and too much publication of new niche works is done print-on-demand, with poor quality paper, poor printing, and very flimsy binding. If I’m going to spend $100 for a new book, I want something that was printed on a real press, with real binding.

Producer prices for printing have long been increasing much quicker than general inflation for a long time, so either lower quality or higher prices for the end product is a natural consequence.
>On the contrary, mining does create value, by creating a demand for computing power therefore financing the development of more advanced lithography

This is like saying hurricanes create value because they create demand for construction
I was first introduced to Cat Stevens through "Harold and Maude" and I fell in love! "Don't Be Shy" never fails to comfort me.
The topic is Apple because the interviewer is a journalist who was writing a book about the iPhone. Plenty of other resources online show him praising work he likes (Bret Victor, for example) and systems that he thinks are in the right direction. It just wasn't in the bounds of the interview topic.

As for the "not turning all readers into writers," well, what can we say? One would hope that all readers are literate enough to write. Now, we don't expect all literate people to be professional writers, but this is not in line with what Kay is arguing anyway. He's saying that being literate in computing should mean being able to wield computing in order to aid human thinking -- for everyone. He's calling out our current systems, saying that their availability and use, though ubiquitous, do not constitute such literacy.
May or may not work for you, but once understood and accepted, it will help you. If you're a sufferer and skeptical, go to a library and read it in an afternoon, then buy it if it suits you.
The big problem is switch from SSN to what? Just another number that serves the same purpose?

SSN is fine, what we need is the right for our credit to always be frozen and anyone who grants credit outside of our approval is liable for the loss. We also just need to bite the bullet and make chip and pin mandatory everywhere.

We don't need to make identity theft impossible just reasonably hard. Other nations seem to have it figured out.
The self-reported data averaged over the life of the company, sure.
We had something similar at my last company, though teams were split up. 7-8 people to a room, open ceilings, open, large doorway, but with walls all the way up to the ceiling. There was one very large with room with an open floor plan and people would refuse to move into it, even though it meant they would get brand-new standing desks.

The company moved to a massive warehouse so they could give everyone more breathing space. It was basically a massive (30,000+ sq ft) open office. I thought it'd be much louder but the 40 ft high ceilings helped with that.

Personally, the pod/small team room situation was much better, especially as the main desktop support/IT guy. In the open office, my back was to a main aisle / circulation path and everyone could see how 'available' I was.

We had about 15-20 (out of 120) leave in the months prior to the move but I'm sure for a variety of reasons. I would take it with any grain of salt when seeing people start leaving when a company moves to a new building. Could be the new commute could just be the shake-up, though seemingly small, gives them a chance to assess where they are and what they want and look at new opportunities.
They could use a computer with a pinyin input method and see a list of characters that have that pronunciation. In this case they could enter "tì" or "ti4" and get a list something like

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/t%C3%AC#Romanization

but probably with a nicer interface. (They do have to be able to recognize the written character when they see it. Here the character Moser was trying to produce is one of the forms under item 5.) Also, there are statistical techniques to show the most probable characters in context following particular other characters, not just the most frequent characters overall.

For example, if Moser had just typed 喷 on a computer and then was looking for a character pronounced "tì", software could suggest 嚏 as the most likely possibility in that situation.

But it would probably be a fairly terrible situation when not using a computer.
I expect it will conjure an unpleasant instinctive response for a long time.
This is really awesome, I absolutely love it.

I've been trying to read dual text books in Polish and I did have the problem of Polish sentences being about 500 times longer than English. Personally, I solved it parsing the text for paragraphs and realining everything with shorter sentences.

Your solution definitely works better.

In case you're looking for feedback, I wouldn't use color as it both looks highlighted, and wouldn't allow highlighting. How about a 1px black outline to differenciate?
Indeed it helped. Thanks.
No worries man, m just sayin
As a functional programmer, these rules sound like a joke to me. I'll only partially agree with the last one.
Why not RedoxOS (promising project in Rust)? Besides that RedoxOS is not strictly a unikernel (be may well be used as one), I see a lot of the same focus points in those two projects.

And can I assume the kernel will be written in C?
Yep - as happened with microphones. 'Enable microphone to call your friends - and to let us listen in background for ultrasound advertisement ids form nearby televisions'.
Sure, if you spent a million dollars buying CPUs and destroying them, that would create value. In practice, there are always ways to spend a million dollars to create more value (e.g. buying CPUs and using them to do useful computation!), so nobody does that.

If you have something more useful to do with the wind-generated electricity, the same thing would apply. But thanks to the limitations of the grid and the intermittency of renewable energy, that may not be the case. In that case, mining cryptocurrency may be the highest value thing you can do with it.
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You can activate German ID cards to work as RFID smartcards for online identification. Practically, there aren't all that many places to do it, and not many people do so. You also need a smartcard reader, but those were available reasonably cheap (no idea if a smartphone with NFC can do it or not)

(You also can have a certificate on it, but they missed an opportunity and didn't make it default, you have to ask for and pay extra for that. Would have been a chance to widely roll out certificates of the standard necessary to legally replace signatures, instead of other crap that has been proposed as a replacement sigh)
Well, good job navigating the choppy waters. Presumably if you were mistaken people would've asked you to stop by now.

I'm a fellow Lisp hacker, so maybe you could throw an email into your profile and we can keep in touch or swap projects.
sociopaths don't innovate.

this is common sense to most people. if you don't get it, you probably are a sociopath yourself.
I used JRockIT for some stuff. We found it to beat HotSpot (at the time) in some of our use cases. Eventually they got brought in house and HotSpot gained those speed improvements. One of the things that was really useful with it was Mission Control, which didn't exist to the same degree with the HotSpot VM.
> I appreciate the distinction that folks are making as far as what constitutes a carcinogen.

You do yourself a disservice by so stridently and repeatedly claiming "Nicotine is a carcinogen." There are plenty of compounds we're exposed to through tobacco use that are uncontroversially carcinogenic that you could point to instead (if you feel the need to name them explicitly), as well as a lot of other nastiness like formaldehyde as you point out above. Dwelling and defending this weaker position makes it easier for uncharitable readers to dismiss you.
District0x is paying salaries like that and many others.

The point the parent was making is that the money IS SITTING there. And bonds are not M0.... you are proving his point.

Anyone holding USD in a deposit account or loaned it out is speculating that the value of USD will remain almost the same (willing to lose 2% to inflation).

Of course someone holding a currency expects value to hold or go up. Unfortunately value of USD and other fiat goes down at exponential rate and by end of century will be practically worthless.

Imagine paper bills in year 2100. No?

Then you can imagine USA will digitize it's currency on some Blockchain of their own(this is a no brainer).

Now imagine THE Fed changing interest rates (aka Coin Emission Rate) as they please.

Pretty soon people will diversify their currency holdings away from a single country/government that can change emission (interest) rate at will and has onerous reporting and surveillance requirements.

Logical conclusion is a supra/trans-national global currency something Bitcoin or Monero.

"Granpa, was it true that when you were young you used to get paid in tree cotton papers?"
You know the old saying (insert your favorite stronger word) about "if you meet a (not-nice person), then you met a (not-nice person); if you run into (not-nice people) all day long, you might be the (not-nice person)"?

This is how I feel about people who tell me how stupendously low the pass rates of their interviews are.
> J9 must be combined with OpenJDK to be able to run apps.

No IBM has its own full JDK that you can download, but the rest of it other than the JVM is not being open sourced at this time. That's my understanding at least.
A bit more than $20, but YouTube TV does this today.
This is an "apart from that, Mrs Lincoln" - there is no analogy, because you're leaving out the destruction caused by hurricanes, which is their overwhelmingly most important result.
All they need is an ssn you can change if it gets stolen. To change it all that's needed is to go into a government office and do a biometric scan in person. That would be so ridiculously easy.

Of course the government will never let a good crisis go to waste. Instead, we will all get chips under our skin that can't be removed that will be passively scanned by the authorities everywhere we go.
And then when you see how "uncanny valley" Qt apps still look due to its emulated widgets, you'd wonder when are we gonna get a proper cross platform UI solution...
Is There a Cryptocurrency Bubble? Just Ask Doge
Bikey McBikeface. And it would be painted blue.
I don't actually know what current games are like. I played some sim transport games back 15 to 20 years ago, and they were pretty bad. I don't play any games really, but I'd make time for a good traffic sim. I have played a few games, here and there, that included traffic but they weren't very good. Like Need For Speed and GTA? Those aren't very realistic.

I should probably try something current that runs on Linux. Got any suggestions?
One framework that helps me a lot with these discussions is to treat a lot of rules and advice as directional rather than absolute. For instance, if you have an intern who gets stuck and spends a whole week trying to figure out something that a teammate would be able to work out with him in 30 minutes, you might say, "ask for advice when you get stuck". But if you have a different intern who bothers you all the time instead of trying to figure out anything on their own, you might say, "try and figure things out for yourself". These are contradictory pieces of advice, but they're meant for different people so they're not truly contradictory.

Pike's rules are very good directionally for a certain clever and diligent type of programmer who knows their CS fundamentals but sometimes overthinks what they're doing. If you are Rob Pike and you work places like Bell Labs or Google, you are going to be surrounded by more of these people and your advice is going to be directionally aimed at them. If you work with people who are sloppy or have poor CS fundamentals, you're going to want to give them different advice than Rob Pike gives his coworkers.

(In your example, people don't usually get as militantly stupid as Bar unless Foo is somehow antagonizing them or being too argumentative with his advice, which is a completely different aspect of giving advice. Either that, or Bar is a particular combination of "smart enough to rationalize their original position" and "stubborn enough not to give up their original position".)
Why is it so hard to swat a fly?
>There's no net-value created by doing the 'mining part' - in fact, it's a value-destroying activity

You don't understand where cryptocurrencies derive their value from if you're saying this. Mining is what give cryptocurrencies their legitimacy, it proves that a digital file is scarce (important for information used to account for wealth/scarcity) and second it proves that the payment hasn't been double spent.

The traditional financial / political system, these processes are obfuscated or inefficient because you need lawyers, judgers, armed guards, vaults, auditors etc etc to preform the same task: to ensure that FedWire isn't inflating the supply, rolling back a payment.
So how does one protect against this if freezing is useless because all that information was leaked anyway?
This melody is unique (on London Underground) to the Jubilee line.

Although the Northern line trains have an almost identical body design, they use a more modern IGBT traction system which, although presumably more efficient, has a little less character!
Thank you for the heads up, this is exactly why I read comments before the article.
Depends what type of risk you're trying to reduce. Trying to reduce the risk of prices dropping? Not very useful. Trying to reduce the risk of them turning out to be scams? If you diversify enough you might end up with one which isn't.
The flaw in your logic is that you fail to realize i have access to 143 million bank accounts and can transfer any number of ways I want to. You also overestimate the competence of smaller banks.

Neglecting all of that you do realize that International wire transfers do exist right?
Now what was wrong with that?

I totally subscribe to the view that advanced experimental programming constructs are neither a guaranteed way, nor the only one, to write correct code. Doesn't a language which helps you to get code done (and makes it easy to iterate on it, and has the right psychology to let you move on instead of trying yet another way to get at the old problem) help you write correct code, as well?
Some names generate negative brand equity, which I feel is the case here. It would be simple to verify with an a/b test.

I know it sounds like I'm being an ass, but this comes from my desire to see them succeed.
There is Spyder or Jupyter for them.
I'm thinking specifically about states like Arizona, though I'm not sure of the current situation there being >1000 miles away. I know they had attempts to add a $100/month fee for connecting solar systems to the grid, plus assorted other licensing and regulatory requirements.

Mining equipment can also be older models no longer cost effective to mine with when you're paying for utility power.
https://www.wired.com/2014/09/mit-students-face-aggressive-s...
> "One of the fundamentals of markets is that value needs to go to work."

Indeed. And since there is little real (read: economically useful) work that Bitcoin can actually do, speculators pile them into other types of coin that are, at best, an additional level of indirection between Bitcoin and real value.

Hm, creating complicated financial derivatives to hide the underlying non-viability of the core product. Now why does that sound familiar.
What does "gender identity or expression" even mean?

Why not, I dunno, express oneself as a human being as opposed by their gender?

Assuming equality is the end play of course and not some war of the genders...
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Isaac Newton's prediction that the world would not end before 2060 (2015)
We created an app that transforms your mobile device into a programmable robot.

Meet Pixel - your own interactive robot! Pixel starts off without any intelligence or emotion, so it's up to you to program some personality and life into it. Using Scratch, fun interactions can be programmed such as changing Pixel's emotion and speech.

Pixel aims to teach the basics of robotics and programming in a fun and interactive way. Any feedback is greatly appreciated!
A friendly reminder that working 70 hr/week for a SWE job is never worth it
FYI the latest Equifax press release (where it was announced 2 executives were being dismissed) had a small bulletpoint towards the end which said that pins would be randomly generated.

Don't know if that change is live, however.
My first HDD was 5mb and it would shake the desk from inside the XT computer too :)
Freezing doesn't protect the information, but it does protect your credit account from being added to. Once frozen, you are almost in a 2FA scenario where creditors are required to request any new accounts or credit hits, and the credit agency is required to then obtain your approval using the private information only you (should) know.
The title is ironic, given Alan Kay is the one who said "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
The Pirate Bay Website Runs a Cryptocurrency Miner (Updated)
There still needs to be some kind of repositories though and someone will need cash to operate those. We could also use a discovery method to find the repositories and a common payment protocol. Then there's reviews and trust to consider.

I agree that internet for distribution is the way to go but I wouldn't put a capital-s on solved just yet.
>They build what they think is a good idea, and not what the customer actually needs.

That is what good PMs are for (ignoring many customers don't know what they want or change their mind).

Have you guys ever thought about how it feels to have a software dev just dropped in your lap with his boss telling you to put him to work?
There's some mythology here, perhaps another J9 greybeard can answer. The story I've heard so far goes as follows...

There was some constant for 8K that was mistyped incorrectly, something like instead of:

#define 8K 8192

They mistyped and wrote:

#define 8K 8096

This caused all sorts of bugs and was known internally as the 8K bug. When time came to write the Java VM, they wanted to name it as "post 8k bug" they named it K9, but K9 sounds like a dog (woof) so they decremented the K to land on J9.

At least that's what I've heard...

shrugs
Agreed -- the article avoids every elephant in the room.
> As a group they have slowly been cutting out all the value-adds and buckling down on only one thing: distribution.

What they really offer is filtering; being published in a particular journal is a signal of quality and impact of the work. The production and even distribution pieces are incidental to the value, but filtering is difficult to monetize in a normal market because it has high fixed and zero marginal cost. (The same is largely true of production, and as noted distribution is near zero marginal cost as well.)

Note that this doesn't mean there is no value add: you can have value without marginal cost, such that utility would be lost to customers if you stopped paying the fixed costs. OTOH, if the value produced by the fixed costs has no cost to scale and no practical barrier to people reproducing it once you've produced it, you can't monetize the value produced.
Great, that would work. My contact info is on my profile. Please save it as well.
So how should I protect myself other than monitoring my credit using creditkarma? What do people do who have millions of dollars, theres nothing else other than just pray?
Bunch of aligning trends reducing energy usage in recent times, will be interesting to see if it keeps up. (more virtualization means less machines, strong push towards efficiency in both computing and cooling, especially among the big DC operators, trend towards Cloud computing means more computation happens in those high-efficiency DCs instead of smaller, inefficient setups)

The only big examples of "high-latency" computing I can think of have been these volunteer distributed projects (BOINC, SETI), but maybe there's a commercial angle for that as well?
This. Hip flexors are key especially if you sit a lot. Also doing the cobra stretch multiple times a day has helped a lot.
Copyright is not about morality. Nobody has a fundamental human right to prevent others from copying their work. Intellectual property is a legal fiction that we maintain as a means to encourage creative activities.

Copyright is basically a subsidy to content creators. Just like any other government subsidy, it should be adjusted periodically to balance its benefits against any drawbacks.

There is no question of morality here, only a question of effectiveness -- is a subsidy really needed, and if so, how much?
Subd. Curious to know as well. Would love to just get on as a support engineer at either AWS or Google.
It's a preposterous metric. Dividing the cost of the car by the range of the car!?

Also, are they talking about the price the buyer pays, or the total price, including government subsidies?
Couldn't they verify the authenticity of the drivers license by contacting the department of motor vehicles?

One shouldn't verify documents unless you're a member of the organization that issued them.
What'ya simulating?
Thanks!

Previously, when making materials for my own use, I used to put the paste the texts into spreadsheets, with one sentence per line/cell. It works well.

This layout is only used for printed books (at the moment). Without the color it looks more elegant, it's true. I'll try the outline.
You can completely agree with crypto-currencies having value and also believe "There's no net-value created by doing the 'mining part'". The reason is that whatever you gained in BitCoin value you lost in the ability to sell your electricity.