skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His views sound a little more extreme (and seem to ascribe malicious intent to what I would label as systemic biases), but I think there's a lot of truth in the principles behind what he says. It's accepted today to dismiss anything that hasn't been scientifically proven, which ironically does a disservice to science. I think if you asked most true experts in the field doing cutting edge research, they'd be the first to admit that they don't know if fasting could cure some cases of Crohn's.
I feel like Crystal has been alpha for 4 years.
A phillips hue bridge w/ 3 color ambiant lights + a google home.
"Why you use XMLHttpRequest instead of Fetch API"

I've been going back and forth on this one.

The faster one is dependent upon the browser.

https://github.com/arendjr/fetch-vs-xhr-perf
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i've read that you can't 'pre-book' seats for theaters that have reserved seating a la fandango. you have to wait until you get to the theater to choose your seats. if they can fix this, i'll subscribe right away.
Great to see progress, and exciting news on the possibility of swapping the GC. Thank you to all maintainers and contributors, here's to a big multi-threaded 2018! :)
The boom will come when the monopolies are broken up and the excess profits filter through the rest of the economy.
(As an aside, please don't use indentation for quoting. I like your points, but they're hard to read:

"But the question remains: what happens when (like in most cases) you don’t have a funnel plot?

"I don’t have a good positive answer. I do have several good negative answers.

"Decrease your confidence about most things if you’re not sure that you’ve investigated every piece of evidence.

"Do not trust websites which are obviously biased (eg Free Republic, Daily Kos, Dr. Oz) when they tell you they’re going to give you “the state of the evidence” on a certain issue, even if the evidence seems very stately indeed. This goes double for any site that contains a list of “myths and facts about X”, quadruple for any site that uses phrases like “ingroup member uses actual FACTS to DEMOLISH the outgroup’s lies about Y”, and octuple for RationalWiki.

"Most important, even if someone gives you what seems like overwhelming evidence in favor of a certain point of view, don’t trust it until you’ve done a simple Google search to see if the opposite side has equally overwhelming evidence."
Its actually a little worser now. It basically boils down to - Can we turn this door in a feel-good pachinko machine?
If you invest 3 $ in a door card pack with a heigh chance of thief-skills- future doors will fly open for you...
Apple has really been eroding their geek cred with their latest OS releases. It's going to take some time to build that goodwill again, and so far they've acted like nothing is wrong.
or you can just use a C++ repl like Cling ?
Can we have a conversation about how it can be that Apple, which used to proudly advertise on "It Just Works", is sitting on billions of dollars in cash AND YET, at the same time, iOS and MacOS experience some major regressions with every new release?

I mean, Google has overtaken Apple in UI and UX user satisfaction and usability. Steve Jobs would be rolling around in his grave.

Ever since the "skeumorphism" debate, Apple seems to have become a follower. I don't want knee-jerk downvotes but an actual discussion about why Apple isn't spending at least a billion dollars on a best-of-class program on establishing itself as the leader in

Stability
Usability
User Satisfaction
Testing & Regressions

It's clearly abandoned the Mac store, for instance, and twice even forgot to renew its certificate, making apps crash on startup. Crazy!
Most theaters I frequent typically have someone taking tickets, but they don't seem to usually care if you have outside food. I remember when I was younger we very brazenly brought in fast food to a local AMC, not trying to hide it, and nobody said a thing. But then that might depend on the employees. Seasonal hires seem like bigger sticklers for the rules in general, as evidenced by them not giving me rewards points while using my moviepass card, as opposed to someone in September literally charging me full price on Tuesday (instead of regular half price for people on the rewards program) so I got more points since moviepass covered the cost, so considering all that the enforcement may depend on time of year.
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How about this: stop hiring new conductors and allow the ones currently working to continue as long as their union rules require.
I really like initiatives like Crystal and Nim, in that they appeal to users of popular languages like Ruby and Python yet are much faster.

But I fear that the problem they solve isn't big enough. For desktop/mobile apps, they need a UI framework so I suppose they're targeted at web or network/system programming mostly. However, "Faster Ruby" or "Faster Python" is, in practice, solved by faster hardware as well. At the same time, for web apps to truly scale you need more than just a constant factor increase in speed - you need to handle parallelism better. This is what Go and Erlang/Elixir do with green threads, or Rust with its borrow checker.

This is why I've been surprised that a well thought out and polished initiative like Crystal doesn't do anything in this area, and makes me fear that its popularity might not last. Nim was all over HN a few years ago and now not seen that much anymore - Crystal is obviously different from Nim but they tackle many of the same problems in similar enough ways.

I fear/hope that, because of this, languages like Pony[0] will stick around longer - it seems to combine the best ideas from Crystal, Erlang and Rust in an ergonomic way.

[0] https://playground.ponylang.org/
More details about one way to implement this, covering how to deal with nonexistent users: https://download.libsodium.org/doc/password_hashing/#server-...
Literally the second example shows a failing case for Clang 5 where GCC is able to statically compute it at compile time.
You have to be the actual copyright holder to do it.

But in all seriousness, the whole Twitter thing is embarrassing. People waste their lives arguing and creating bots, entertaining trolls etc. Quit your Twitter bullshit America, it's embarrassing as Trump is.
1% of income earners, not 1% of wealthy individuals. That's a very important distinction
> one can still come out on top with a profit margin

Agreed, but that's rarely extreme wealth. The GP seems to point towards a more feudal situation which, at least on this side of the pond, doesn't seem to exist. And while land may be a primary inheritance mechanism, most significant gains are realized only after sale.
I’ve been having this problem myself on my year-old top end MacBook Pro, it gives me flashbacks to Mac OS 9, which was the last time I had my computer regularly just lock up entirely. Not great.
I think Amazon (or Google) needs to solve the problem of skill discovery. I would love to be able to ask Alexa, "What do you know about X" and it could respond with a list of skills or categories of skills so I could at least know where to look.

Even better if I could connect Alexa to a Fire Stick and have it visually display results of a skill search to help me navigate and drill down.
Harvey Weinstein, several actors, tech people, politicians, etc who were serial harassers/assaulters were all outspoken on "women's rights" and feminist causes. It's very easy to think your own identical behavior is different from others and demonize people in turn. There are countless examples of this.
I’d call it... aspirational. It’s not there yet, but it’s almost always an interesting discussion. Typically for pop-sci it oversells the matter, but it feels more enthusiastic than deluded or dumb.

Just my gut though, as a dilettante.
Your brain could be considered a general intelligence, and it only uses a couple of watts. Energy consumption isn't the issue. However, I agree. AI is a bit overhyped right now, and AGI is still pretty far away imo.
> System updates have been seriously optimized in the last few Android releases. They used to take like 5 minutes.

On the Pixel phones Google uses two system partitions. One is the one you're currently running and the other one gets the update applied to it in the background without you having to stop using your phone. When you reboot it just has to flip which system partition it boots from and maybe do some first boot actions. If the phone starts up successfully it'll then apply the update to the original partition to keep them in sync.
> The industry of addiction treatment is haphazardly regulated, poorly understood and expanding at a rapid clip, bringing in $35 billion a year.

Why not focus on the root company and family actually getting rich off selling the damned opioids (Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers, respectively)?

I don't understand how this company and family haven't been sued into the ground yet.
Demand is ultimately limited by human attention. There is only so much time someone can spend buying goods and services, especially if they intend to actually do something with them. And the demand for each individual product is far below that. There are some products virtually everyone will buy, but usually only once in a certain timeframe. Then there are specialized things like combines or milling machines where demand only goes up if some other industry expands.

If you improve your factory equipment to produce double the items per employee-hour at a lower unit cost, you likely won't see the demand double in proportion. Most likely you'll just eat into the market share of a competitor. Maybe some new customers will newly be able to afford the product, but once it has "taken for granted" status, even that is impossible.

And we are not increasing the number of these "taken for granted products" very quickly. As far as physical products are concerned, I can only think of the smart phone as a recent example; actually that decreased the number of those products, by obsoleting cameras and dumb phones for most people. Among internet services, advertising is the dominant money-maker, and that's a zero-sum game for eyeballs which only employs a relatively small number of people.

As more and more products and services are provided by machines, fewer and fewer people become necessary to keep things running in the background. Sure, some of the replaced people can try to come up with new things to offer, but most of them won't succeed, and the vast majority will eventually be unable to cost-effectively provide value to other humans at all.

At that point, we'll find out whether it's cheaper to feed them or shoot them.
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Not me, fwiw. Though this is mainly because carb-loaded sweets aren't exactly health food. I bring in my own nuts/etc to eat.

Honestly, even if they had what I wanted, I'd still be dismayed to pay their price for it. It's such an extreme price hike that it feels like I'm being taken advantage of. Especially on top of the $20-30 that I'm paying simply to see a movie with a bunch of people talking and being annoying. The whole thing makes me quite price sensitive, I guess.

Another thing is that I don't often care about eating tons of things. A small bag of nuts is plenty for me. I don't need the massive American sized popcorn. If they offered human sized portions of things I'd be more tempted - but then again, it's all sweets anyway.
You should watch the talk that's mentioned in the article. They demo a constexpr json parser and a constexpr regex engine.
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I think it’s APFS that’s the cause of my biggest frustration, but I’ve not seen anyone else complain about. I normally run with about 50gb free space. After three to four days, I’m normally down to about 3gb and nothing will get it to show back up, other than a reboot.

I’ve even run a test which supports this - downloaded 35gb of files, deleted them and emptied the trash. Same thing... space is missing till I reboot.
Why are customers helped by driving OTAs out of business?
In before all the posts lamenting "AAAFM" and its various impacts on the tech community without explaining that it refers to Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Facebook and Microsoft.
Agree, it's always subjective; I didn't mean to imply that art is in any form deterministic. The items I criticized are things a general audience groans about movies both indie and blockbusters. I can think of a few recent examples that were good and bad. For instance, the plot in "Valerian" was fairly well done because there was a tension between the two main characters that we wanted to see resolved, despite the plot jumping around a bit from scene to scene. The plot in "Atomic Blonde" also jumped around, but there was no cohesion overall and the sex and violence scenes that followed were a yawn-inducing attempt to keep the viewer interested. I shut it off without finishing it and I haven't wondered how the movie ended. I love spy movies, and was hoping for another well-baked plot like "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit".

To your last point, none of those movies I watched in a theater, I waited until they were released to my online video service and I could watch from the comfort of my couch.

Thinking a bit more, I had low hopes for "Valerian" and "Jack Ryan", and high hopes for "Atomic Blonde", even though those turned out to be the opposite in reality. To my original point, I think that what killed the theater experience for me. I'm afraid to go spend $15 on a movie that _might_ suck. I'd rather spend half that and be able to leave if it's terrible.
It goes even further than that - some theaters will bag check. If you have a purse / bag, they make you open it and they'll shine a flashlight in, etc. No pat-downs, thankfully lol.
Definitely. ADMX for example, is searching for axions, under the assumption that WIMPs or sterile-heavy neutrinos are he wrong bet. Having said that, SUSY is still very popular, albeit unsupported by evidence. Critically for proponents of supersymmetric theories, they have also not been ruled out, and nothing else has been ruled definitely in.
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> Legacy protocols such as FTP and IMAP don't have that luxury, though. There's no way to run a password stretching function on the client.

IMAP uses SASL, which can do client-side stretching by using SCRAM-SHA-1. I don't know how common they are, but there must be some servers and clients that support it.

Downside is that upgrading the mechanism becomes hard, and it's difficult to integrate it with an existing user database with hashed passwords.
How about this question:

What is consciousness?

What is existence?

They seem to be duals of each other.

I have found that, if you are careful to state the subject and object of a sentence, then it's really hard to pose any question that doesn't have a trivial and obvious answer.

TRY IT!

So could many of these things just be an artifact of language?
Even if this research would be used to develop an alternative fusion bomb ignition system, wouldn't it be better as it would avoid using a fission reaction that has a high probability of leaving heavy radioactive material?
Until you make release
This particular problem might not be Apple's fault. WebGL in Chrome doesn't seem to work on my Linux desktop either, just crashes. And Chrome always has issues with hardware acceleration, on some machines it just adds 1-2 second freeze before every page load, on others it has some weird flickering.
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I can guess - as the corporation grew its culture changed. I bet management are so focussed on their big bets (Apple TV, movie streaming, iWatch, iPad) and enhancing their cash cow (iPhone) that they are totally not focussed on the 'mature and slow growth' areas of the business (Mac).

This will undoubtedly bite them in the ass - it already did with the 2013 Mac Pro, the mediocre MBP with TouchBar and on the poor relative quality of the latest MacOS.
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Yep. When reading the actual papers from the LHC, LIGO, etc groups the p-value/significance aspect seems nearly irrelevant though.

My impression is usually they have some set of possible theories that predict the exact result observed, then go on to do more experiments to distinguish between the predictions of those.

Really they should just drop the significance testing because it adds nothing and they don't seem any better at interpreting those tests than other fields. If I am wrong about all this and that aspect actually is crucial, then physics is in trouble...
>contemporaries drank alcohol, smoked marijuana, traveled extensively, spent rather than saved, and otherwise wasted their gifts

The point most people are bringing up in this thread is that the children of the upperclass do that all the time and still inherit enough wealth and property to earn more than you.
Because 'generate a table by having make run a simple program' is something people have done for decades with C, C++ and other languages, whereas constexpr is a new feature that's only just appeared in the C++ language spec and apparently silently degrades to "not actually at compile time".
I don't remember the source code being available. What was available was the BIOS (that you had to customize for your hardware), the boot loader to get stuff running, the CBIOS that did the disk reads and a cool program that let you patch your floppy drive parameters into your system.

I worked on a number of systems and getting the BIOS to work with new hardware was an amazing feeling. One of my last CP/M systems was the Zorba, it's claim to fame was the ability for it to emulate lots of different floppy formats. So you could move data from one format of a floppy to another. It was a huge win since the only other way to move data was via a serial connection.

The Zorba people would exchange formats as we figured out new ones.

The other cool thing "back in the day" was replacements for the Command Line Processor part of CP/M to allow some new commands to happen. Like Busybox but 40 years ago.

Now get off my lawn...
There's a nice overview here: https://svi.nl/TwoChannelHistogram

I don't know any professional photographers who use 2D histograms for editing, or whether you can actually plot them in Lightroom or Photoshop. However for scientific image processing it seems to be more useful.

OpenCV also has a tutorial: https://docs.opencv.org/3.3.1/dd/d0d/tutorial_py_2d_histogra...

But which of the 'coming chapters' it's referencing I have no idea.
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It was off by about 15k, apparently.

https://www.recode.net/2017/7/24/16022210/alphabet-google-em...
constexpr means you CAN use the function in a constant expression

inline means you CAN define a function in multiple translation units without violating ODR

no guarantees in the other direction
Hey, can I ask which smart switches are you using? I have been searching for a smart switch that:

1) Can have up to 3 individual switches in a single outlet.
2) Can work with just a single hot wire (no neutral).
3) Can be queried about it's status (on/off) back to the gateway.

There are a bunch of Chinese ones that meet 1 and 2. But I haven't found 3 so far.
I meant move.

Google has offices in almost every countries but they are administrative offices with almost no employees. If you're a tech worker, you can only be in one of the very few tech locations.
I’m not sure that’s even close to equivalent in execution-time debugging, and doesn’t work well with large, existing code bases with crafted build steps. These are transparent, non-issues in Common Lisp.
I won’t downvote you, but this are just a bunch of random assertions. I’ve upgraded to High Sierra, no problems. Done all the ios updates, no problems.

Apple was constantly dealing with quality issues while Jobs was alive. Remember AntennaGate? Apple has more products and customers than ever now, meaning more anecdotal complaints than ever.

And no one uses the Mac App store, so no problems.
If theaters launched their own service, it would be one service per theater. If you lived in an area with more than one chain, you'd either subscribe to both or only go to one theater chain. Or, more likely, eventually grow dissatisfied with the service and cancel.

MoviePass is definitely making things easier for the consumer. One subscription, any theater at any time.
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The thread is about a developer's issues with being tested during interviews, so I would say the potential employee is entitled if balking about being asked about their abilities to the extent that the employer is the one signing the cheque, and a basis for the employer being able to add value in exchange for salary is still being established.

Knowing a little more than non-technical employers doesn't place an inexperienced developer in a position of expertise, only knowing a little more than the guy testing them.

If you are referring to non technical folks not being skilled at hiring for technical positions, I agree to the point that this is a common challenge where non tech people are put in charge of digital transformation, among other things.

Even highly competent and technical teams can struggle with testing incoming hires we.

An interesting idea is contemplating if tech people will be able to learn and transform business skills easier than non techs business folks might be able to learn tech. If this was attractive to tech folks, the hiring tests would include more business problem oriented questions than fizzing and buzzing. It's still a little surprising how few developers can do this in any country, so it might remain an inconvenient test and filter for a while yet.
At first I was going to say that it's similar to asm.js - that it enabled an optimization but also could fall back to just running the code. However in trying to find references to back up my answer, I found a different explanation of constexpr which changed my own understanding.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38879475/why-cant-conste...

Quoting Ben Voigt: "What constexpr does is provide guarantees on what data-flow analysis a compliant compiler is required to do to detect1 compile-time-computable expressions, and also allow the programmer to express that intent so that they get a diagnostic if they accidentally do something that cannot be precomputed."
Great point! My understanding is that proof of work is the only proven way to resist Sybil attacks in a fully distributed manner to-date.

When someone invents a better mechanism they will certainly have a huge economic advantage if you can join and support the miner network without consuming so many real resources.

Decentralized Sybil resistance at this point requires a hard cost to limit spam. In a fully decentralized system, this seems like a natural law that this must be true. I have ideas on how to solve Sybil without resource exhaustion, but they are just at the initial prototype phase.

If the critique is that Bitcoin specifically isn’t worth the “cost” of all the electricity, it’s a moral question which is easily solved by better pricing electricity. If the critique is Bitcoin is wasteful, then point to a more efficient algorithm or it’s tilting at windmills.

There are algorithms which aren’t as resource intensive but the market judged the trade-offs in centralization to not be worth the benefits. We’ve know how to store a centralized ledger for a long time, so it’s totally reasonable that steps towards centralization for efficiency sake are a non-starter.