skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> technical superiority

And yet the US and China are both equally stealing knowledge from us Europeans. Both just want to fuck you over and steal your secrets, and do it all the time.

> Subsidies

And yet, the US DoD pumps trillions into the US defense and tech industry, in similar amounts to the chinese subsidies.

From the European perspective, both the US and China are states that use espionage and subsidies in similar amounts to prevent fair competition, because their technology is inferior.
Then the original owner should send an email to hn@ycombinator.com to get it back.
I'm moving into my 50s and have never had any issues yet with ageism, but I work in the mid-west.

A lot of guys and gals my age aren't helping themselves by letting their skills go stale and to continually skill up with skills relevant to the current environment.

One thing I've seen with peers my age is that they will get laid off due to their skills being out of date or maybe just stuck in a loop of doing the same things day in and day out.

IMO, if you are afraid of aging out or ageism start working a development plan every single remaining year of your life to remain relevant. Also, view your work as a career, not job. IMO, you can lose a job, but not a career.
At a guess because it would be admitting defeat.

At least they could drop the '+' idiocy from the search engine.
I think they use it internally.
That’s what makes this so tricky. Halloween and NYE are the two biggest days of the year for uber.

Every driver will automatically make 133% their standard take because they are Gauranteed to get strong surge fares all night. So this is like paying extra to make the sun come up in the morning- that shit was going to happen anyway.
Many people, my wife included, use it regularly. Does it seem like a ghost town to you? Well, we just aren't sharing with you.
> We need to know why people open plain email more than those fancy designed ones, rather than just having those numbers

This is interesting. Would you have questioned the numbers if they showed the inverse (ie designed emails have higher click rates)?

> a well-designed email could increase the efficiency of email reading as you may already familiar with some email and their layouts

I don't think this is true at all. IMO test emails are /much/ more easy to read, because I can use a consistent font and layout for /all/ my emails instead of reading through every designers view.

> emails which heavily polluted with contents that have nothing to do with me

Yes text or designed emails don't change any of the contents and spam still is spam. Marking as spam and removing is probably the best option :)
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Good news is that by sending such short and plain emails, you're already getting optimal results.

I agree strongly that there are many better things to be doing than fussing with emails, which is why I'm advocating for _not_ wasting time on design.
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Very true. However, software engineers care about what's under the hood. And the longer your company is operational you are bound to encounter engineering turnover. Attracting promising talent could get very difficult (and extremely costly) if your software stack and/or code base is antiquated.
Because no one everyone received 100s of death threats or was doxed on Twitter? Harassment is ver real and hard to miss in the platform.
Sure. Research in game playing AI doesn't end with Go, or any other game. We may see more research in modern board games, now that we're slowly running out of the classics.

I think you're underestimating the amount of work and determination it took to get to where we are today, though (I mean your comment about "inertia"). Classic board games have the advantage of a long history and of being well understood (the uncertainty about optimal strategies in Go notwithstanding). Additionally, for at least some of them like chess, there are rich databases of entire games that can be used outright, without the AI player having to generate-and-test them in the process of training or playing.

The same is not true for modern games. On the one hand, modern board games like Agricola (or, dunno, Settlers or Carcassonne etc) don't have such an extensive and multi-national following as the classics so it's much harder to find a lot of data to train on (which is obviously important for machine-learning AI players). I had that problem when considering an M:tG AI trained with machine learning: I would have liked to find play-by-play data on professional games but there just isn't any (or where there is it's not enough, or it's not in any standardised format).

Finally, classic board games have cultural significance that modern board games dont' quite match, despite the huge popularity of CCGs like M:tG or Pokemon, or Eurogame hits like Settlers. Go, chess and backgammon in particular have tremendous historical significance in their respective areas of the world- chess in Eastern Europe, backgammon in the Middle East, Go in SE Asia. People go to special academies to learn them, master players are widely recognised etc. You don't get that level of interest with modern board games- so there's less research interest for them, also.

People in game playing AI have been trying for a very long time to crack some games like Go and, recently, poker (not quite cracked yet). They didn't sit around twiddling their thumbs all those years, neither did they choose classical board games over modern ones just because they didn't have the imagination to think of the latter. In AI research, as in all research, you have to make progress before you can make more progress.
As I understand it you write an interpreter in Rust then you generate a JIT compiler from that interpreter.
This is focused on marketing mail, but (anecdotally) for internal notifications I've found people are much more responsive to lightly styled emails.

We've got a mountain of automated plain text emails written by the less literature elements within IT and all look the same. Often it takes even an expert a few moments to distinguish them. But with a little formatting the key details leap out and you can tell that this one is distinct from that one. Of course, it is just one more thing to sign off (as the article raises) but it's a one time task you can do in ten minutes and yields results for months or years
"a very un-intuitive interpretation of the question" is often part of the game on QI.

As for the researchers, yes, QI has little to do with the knowledge of the host. The researchers actually got to present their own (extremely low budget) show for a while - it was quite quirky and fun, but you should take QI and their other show more as a bunch of geeks talking about fun stuff and frequently getting caught up in juggling technicalities and stuff they don't necessarily know all that much about.

It's entertainment, after all, not documentaries.
Gotcha. For the record, "kek" is a term that has been appropriated by trolls, but is not in and of itself a troll term. In the future, you should think twice about banning someone on that merit. The links you gave are better evidence, though, thanks!
I am absolutely convinced that the god of Terry A. Davis. does not approve of JIT compilation.
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I agree this would be better, but backward compatibility constraint makes it impossible. WebAssembly is an attempt to add a nicer VM in addition to JS VM.
Why does the Cargo.toml[1] file in the source repo for HolyJit have the word "brainfuck"[2] in it?

Does that have some significance to Rust or Mozilla? Or is this a case of copy pasta?

[1]: https://github.com/nbp/holyjit/blob/master/Cargo.toml

[2]: Permanent link to line: https://github.com/nbp/holyjit/blob/1f20eb41de2dae14179815c7...
Yes, once you convince everyone to drop the thing we have that works and implement the thing we don't have that doesn't work. In short: you complain as though it were an easy change to make.
Same reason everyone not Facebook hasn't yet given up and declared defeat? This isn't Highlander: there can be more than one. Google+ has plenty of active communities of people who choose not to use Facebook. Nothing wrong with that.
> Weinstein was far more powerful and thus dangerous to his potential denouncers.

Really. Interesting. So you claim that e.g. The New York Times was weaker than a studio head?

Sexual deprevity in Hollywood has never been a "secret", but it doesn't help if your "stars" -- which are then promoted to soft politics propaganda work -- are shown to be individuals that tolerate anything for fame and riches. And equally, it doesn't help advancing various social engineering projects if the heads of studios that push JUNK to your children are shown to be sexual predators.

The actual question of interest here is what is being covered up that throwing Weinstein under the bus got the green light.
Great to see someone is doing this in 2017. I was writing my own bootloader in 2003 with together with a little command interpreter in pure assembler. It taught mena lot about computers, it changed my thinking about what software really is. I think for instructional purposes, getting back to this basic level is a great thing.
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I'd like to create a flip book with audio, found Turn.js which is open source and awesome. However development seems to be frozen 5 years ago. I'd like to avoid commercial or freemium services so it would be great if there's another option here (ideally open source).
> One last item remains (and possibly the most controversial): not using a language other than C++ to describe how to a package a C++ project

Totally agree on this point. Why learn all the quirks of the CMake language just to express the structure of my program?
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Weight is a good reason - though I now play music on my fitness tracker/smartwatch (Gear Fit 2).
I agree, China will eventually split the global airplane market into a three way race with Boeing and Airbus. I don't think anything can stop that. No doubt Boeing and Airbus know that. As soon as it's possible, use case by use case, China's airlines will switch their purchases to mostly domestic produced airplanes (they won't have a choice for the most part, government edict will dictate that).
I guess the mods know about it already now and have removed the offending comments. The profile page could also do with some scrubbing however.
Me too.

I wonder why they don't mention it.
I haven't looked closely at the architecture, but isn't JIT compilation pretty much how Holy C works?
Don't base a significant career move based on other peoples perception of the companies involved.

Choose the company that will offer you the best long term prospects and variety.
I wouldn't count “burning the computer under impossible conditions” as “working against”. It's just the principle of explosion at work, and pretty much any optimizing compiler that takes advantage of undefined behavior uses it.
> requires me to look at its display to do anything

Don't phones tend to have an inline control on the headphones that you can operate by feel? Certainly mine does.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

The HolyJit repo has a brainfuck jit example in the repository: https://github.com/nbp/holyjit/blob/master/examples/brainfuc...
So don't bite more than you can chew?
Nobody was saying that before AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol. So this feels like moving the goalposts.
... and the snippets are used for the interpreter, which gives you more confidence that interpreted and JITed code behave the same (if I understood it correctly).
Because it has an example that JITs Brainfuck: https://github.com/nbp/holyjit/blob/master/examples/brainfuc...

(They actually don’t even need that line, as Cargo already infers this via convention)
But it sounds like "holy shit" LOL. You know what else is funny? Farts!
Why is it up to men? Why not just people?

Oh right, because women are fragile and incapable of agency, I keep forgetting that's what's progressive nowadays.
They still know which IP address is loading it. And I do often see cookies on CDNs in uBlock Matrix.
I think the parent would agree that alcohol increases the likelihood of "good people doing bad things"; but alcohol won't make a good person do a terrible thing, like rape.
When a platform regularly allows individuals to receive thousands of personalized death threats, notifications and all, it’s fair for me to be "concerned about abuse" even though it doesn’t affect me.

That’s not a fake news or partisan politics problem, it’s a human empathy problem.
Because the first example that uses holyjit is an implementation [1] of the brainfuck [0] language.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

[1]: https://github.com/nbp/holyjit/blob/master/examples/brainfuc...
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Isn't organic food more costly to make?

> I do recognize that it's not enough and we all need to basically go back pre-industrial lifestyles to really make enough of a change to matter.

Bah. Charge a dollar per kg of carbon released and the problem will almost solve itself. It's much more a problem of political will than it is a problem of technical capability.
> People just don't like it when their curated bubble is pierce

Personally, I don't consider a Jewish person being spammed with images telling them to get in an oven "curated bubble piercing". Same with lynching threats against black people and rape threats against women.

All of these things happen on Twitter daily. And very often, when these posts are reported, Twitter comes back and says "we found no problem". You might not experience this kind of abuse, that does not mean it does not exist.
I just wish they made this in a desktop, or in a standalone board I could build a machine around.
There's a brainfuck [1] interpreter example in the examples/ directory, which I assume is the reason for this allegedly temporary name.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
Could the difference in open rate possibly be attributed to the email no longer being picked up by spam filters / not going to googles "promotions" tag like mentioned in the article?
This is a reference to examples/brainfuck.rs in the repository, which seems to implement a JIT interpreter for Brainfuck, a very basic esoteric programming language.
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This article seems very misleading, at least for California.

If you look at aggregate water usage for California agriculture uses 4X "urban" and "urban" includes industrial, golf courses, parks, etc.

So even if lawns are using more area they are much less water intensive than agriculture.

http://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/
Call me cynic, but it wouldn't surprise me if the NSA intercepted those in their hardware interception program[1] and install spyware on them whenever they are delivered to an address outside the US.

[1] https://www.extremetech.com/computing/173721-the-nsa-regular...
Yes, but that assumes men and women are drinking the same drinks. That's not always the case.
nginx at my house.

nginx on a $5/mo virtual private server (vultr, linode, digitalocean)

nginx is incredible at serving static content. Also a CDN is often overkill for the majority of websites. If you have never setup a web server before, its worth taking a couple hours (or as much time as you need) to learn. It's a very empowering experience!

for comments I'm building a service called Remarkbox (https://www.remarkbox.com) - its live on about 15 sites right now and growing.
Smells like Graal/Truffle
So, how long have you both worked at Google?
> Many people, my wife included, use it regularly.

That's all I needed to hear. Google+ is the most legit social networking site now.
> And yet the US and China are both equally stealing knowledge from us Europeans

Demonstrate that equality with data if you would. That the US is stealing as much intellectual property from Europe, as China is (or has been, say over the last ~10-15 years).

Using one very weak example, derived from tens of billions in annual government DoD spending (in a sector - defense - that is similarly government-private across all other nations as well), is not an off-set to trillions of dollars in China's GDP deriving from state owned or state controlled entities. US military spending on actual hardware / tech, is a small fraction of US military spending. The extreme majority of the DoD's spending is on human soldiers and not on R&D or hardware (salaries, housing, offices, benefits, veterans spending etc).

You're comparing trillions of dollars in China, to something closer to $100-$200 billion in the US (which also has an economy 60% larger). You're off by a comparison factor of at least 30 fold.

> because their technology is inferior

That's a hilarious premise given how far behind Europe's technology industry is in every regard to the US. Europe is increasingly falling behind China's rising technology industry. But hey, let's talk about how exciting SAP is! Over the last 40 years, the US has led Europe on: semiconductor technology, personal computing, mainframe tech, datacenter tech, computer graphics tech including GPU, cloud services, software, Internet, mobile, artificial intelligence, vehicle automation, storage tech, ecommerce, and even biotech and gene tech (including most things related to the human genome, stem cells, immunotherapy and crispr). Europe by contrast has led in very few segments - despite having over twice as many people as the US.
For what it's worth, the name is obviously a pun and a small wink to the Graal VM [1]. Not sure there's any intention to reference TempleOS's HolyC.

[1] https://github.com/graalvm/
Basically, instead of manually writing assembly fragments, they want to reuse annotated interpreter code, thus ensuring both correctness and safety for JIT-generated code, while reducing the redundancy. The rustc compiler is used to generate assembly fragments for the JIT, directly out of the interpreter code. It seems like a worthwhile endeavor.
Does disabling the IME have implications for performance or energy consumption?
If you create your own CA it's not trusted by your browser. Intermediate chains have nothing to do with it because at the end of the chain is no trust.
Controlling resources is the most effective way to wield and display power over others. It doesn't matter how many resources exist. As long as society is based on authoritarian hierarchy, there will always be haves and have-nots.
You guys are doing amazing work! Found Nim through a mention on HN recently and having a ton of fun learning and playing with it!
At my last job we used it internally (part of the G Suite, I believe) for employee profile pages, especially since we used Hangouts and Gmail a lot to communicate.
I'd rather a micropayment system with browser plugin that decrements your account on sites you agree to pay per page view. I don't mind paying $0.02 to read a decent article but I really don't want a bunch of CPU load DOS'ing my machine or malware screwing with it or my privacy.
Big budget, popular sports teams typically pay for themselves through ticket sales.
Maybe I’m misinterpreting that part of the original article, then. (I read it as implying that everything is hated, but UTF-8 and TCP are the least-hated – meaning someone quoting UTF-8 from that list of good things and implying it would only be put there by a non-Python programmer would be calling attention to some unpleasant part of Python’s UTF-8 handling. Phew! That reading does agree with the rest of the article with regards to TCP and with the fact that UTF-8 is a wonderful encoding, though.)
Well you know, as Louis C.K. once said, you don't have to be smart to laugh at farts, but you have to be stupid not to.
Your observation about the reply-to is an important flag.

I almost always instantly delete any email where I see the From: or Reply-To: has noreply@ or the email starts off with

"Please do not reply to this email it is sent from an account which is not monitored"

Unfortunately one of the big transgressors of this are banks and other major service-provider organisations where we have ongoing contract relationships.

My attitude is, if these people do not understand the fundamental purpose of email then, I don't want to deal with it.

In the snail-mail physical postal world - in most jurisdictions - there is a requirement that businesses identify themselves and provide a return or correspondence address.

Just because it's email doesn't obviate this requirement, and pointing to a web-site Contact-Us page is rarely very helpful since that loses context in so many ways.
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The premise of matching modules and package one-to-one is I think incorrect. The way I see it, a package is just a library with a description of its dependencies, and possibly an already compiled binary. It could contains multiple modules. Plus, you probably need to link with a specific package version, and the module proposal doesn't have any way to specify a module version. So you can't just extract package dependencies from module usage.
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Your explanation is much better than what I can read in the blog post.
This is not how I got past basic Mandarin but I’m fairly confident it would work.

Get the paid version of Pleco, the best Chinese dictionary app. Turn on spaced repetition in flash cards and download the HSK 1-6 flash cards. Learn the HSK 1 cards _with sound_ so you get started on pinyin. Buy the Chinese Breeze graded reader books, leve 1. Listen to the audio version on the cds a few times then try and read the books. Repeat by HSK level until you run out of Chinese Breeze graded readers, move on to other graded readers, move on to using italki.com for conversation and native texts loaded into pleco’s reader functionality for reading.

Duolingo has Hebrew for what that’s worth.

Good luck.
Hate to be a downer but I don't get the pun at all.
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That's a non-sequitur, I guess you mean if every sender sends one message per listener. I don't think it's a broad cast if it targets sole recipients per message.

Quite literally, I think, it could be modeled as a vector space in linear algebra. Each signal is in frequency space, which can be found from the fourier transform integrating the temporal space over different bandwidth channels per sender. You get N² only if the message size is proportional to N, if you will.

a Fourier transform of channel
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No. In this case there is no undefined behaviour, the way this is handled is defined, but to the parent it seems inconsistent.

Undesired behaviour can not be really leveraged for optimisation, and in any case, high(er) level languages should not have UB in their design.
He/she is right though, just wait when WebAssembly gets more mature.

I bet all those plugins will be back.
Hey, I did say I was relatively young :) I wouldn't have minded starting on Commodore 64 or Apple ][ or anything, but I missed by a decade or two. Oh well.
Graal is an archaic spelling of grail.
It's fine - you actually saw it, which is cool :) some of my other past replies have gone completely unnoticed

I see. I get the impression this is collaborative podcasting with multiple people that have multiple microphones. (I can't figure out why else you'd need multichannel A+V transport.) FWIW, it does sound like Skype is probably your best bet for the time being (unfortunately). It's simple, it works for everyone, etc.
Thanks to WebAssembly there are already porting attempts for quite a few runtimes, just let it mature a bit more and we will get the revenge of plugins.
The opening rate is irrelevant. The users can’t predict if it’s a HTML or plain text email before opening. It’s just accidentally higher on the plain text side.