skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, I said "approximately" The cost of a nursery GC in SBCL is O(n+m) where n is the number of live objects in the nursery and m is the number of GC roots. If this code is all you are running then n will be 1, so it's just scanning the roots, which only happens when you have allocated enough integers to fill the nursery, so gets amortized across thousands of loop iterations.
On a more personal note, I grew up using messenger protocols, icq, aim and yim. Now, I'd use a multi-protocol client, which is a little like federation, but now that doing this is inconvenient? SMS has almost entirely taken over the role of instant messaging in my life.

It's interesting, because I always felt that a SMS was way more 'urgent' than an instant message over AIM, but... most of the adults in my social circle, even those I knew from back when we all used AIM, no longer are on any instant messenger services. They have sms (often, but not always through imessage) and they have email. Then they are on their various social networks, but everyone I know checks email more often than their social network accounts.
It's about the payload. It is also accelerating. It would be flattened to a crisp.
Can you point me at information about these subdermal transducers you're looking at installing in your head? That sounds insane, but I kind of want some.
Leah M Goodman is the journalist who wrote the Newsweek article about Dorian Nakamoto.

It is also a pen name used by the Breitman as a joke.
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Thanks for linking that discussion. I'm surprised that you didn't get acknowledgment of the UX issues there, and I'm pretty sure there are people who would like to see the UX situation improve. It just takes work... this release represents a large step forward in UX. I think they'd welcome your input in making 3.0 better! I made a couple small docs fixes the other day.
It feels like some of this is a few months out of date. A massive city wide rezoning plan was just enacted that will increase heights and density in many of the ‘urban villages’. This will concentrate people and add more power to efforts to accelerate transit spending.
ST3 is currently funded for sequential development but could be done in parallel with more money.
Income tax was struck down.

I’m an optimist (who stands to be very well rewarded by the new train line) and I’m hoping the rezoning and accelerated influx leads to a big income boost that can be forced by the voters to prioritize transit.

Sure, I’m all for Musk coming in and digging us out.
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Gut reactions to psychopaths tend to be the opposite: they are charming, and charismatic. Theres's a very good chance that you will like them, from the first impression. That's one of the traits/signs of a psychopath. That's why you shouldn't trust your gut, at least not in this case.

And the experiences of the victims in the article reinforce this point, at least in the first encounters: a courtly gentleman, he was very respectful.
[snip: never mind... I read the last sentence completely backwards.]
Actually this problem was tackled in NEWP during the 60's.

Section 8, UNSAFE mode

http://public.support.unisys.com/aseries/docs/clearpath-mcp-...
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"Beijing used to have a lot of Uyghurs before the 2008 Olympics, but they were mostly all driven out and not allowed to return after the event."
Any source on that? You can still easily see Uyghurs' barbecue stalls and restaurants in many cities including Beijing. Though security check on stations has strengthen since 2009 riot.
You need to be an EU citizen.
Microsoft no longer supports inline assembly on the 64bit compilers, only intrisics.

I also imagine that it isn't allowed when using Bitcode deployment on iDevices.
Anything like this should be assumed to be launching bulk payloads or hardened payloads. For machines 10's of g's is not that big a deal. It's challenging, but quite doable. For lots of kinds of bulk cargo, it's not a big deal.
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This disease is extremely common among programming language developers and enthusiasts. A rust developer or a rust enthusiast just cannot fathom using a generic tool and instead everything has to be rewritten in rust. This applies to pretty much everything that a programmer might use but is especially bad with package managers.
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Wow, he's like Michael Keaton's character in Pacific Heights, but worse.
Its a bit more complicated than that.

If you are both leasing from the landlord you have equal rights and actually only the landlord can evict.

If you are the master leaseholder and your roommate is subleasing then you have many of the obligations of a landlord.. which means you actually have a lot of regulations to comply with that will probably trip you up if your lessee is both malicious and litigous. Especially if the sublease was established without a contract.

Usually you can get away with it bcause the kinds of people who just stop paying rent are deadbeats and won't challenge.
That's the general feeling of the population as well -- as explained by my Chinese friends.

They're okay with the surveillance if it's going to prevent terrorist attacks or even more localised crime.

And most of the citizens couldn't even be bothered about losing access to non-Chinese Internet websites. The Chinese ones are good enough or sometimes even better, tailored to their tastes.
Or interest rates went down. If you scroll further down their data includes MDs and DDS people. Those people are definitely not in financial trouble.
It's not out of stock everywhere with 4 week waiting times to ship ;)
I have personally lived long term both in the US and China (I am French)

And I would choose China to raise my kids over the US any days. Yes there are repression in China, it would be a lie to deny it, yes I have been around a girl who smoked weed, she was 28-30 years old and she literally had to hide behind a car because it's completely forbidden, highly punished and another citizen can report you.

But China has many advantages, public services are awesome. Unlike France and the US, the government is corrupt but they don't vote any law against Chinese themselves. It's a country which still have some kind of moral traditions and values so far.

And last but not least I prefer government's surveillance than people's surveillance. It's far more easier to free think in China than it is in the US and France. The latter countries are closer to the sesame credit than the latter.
Interesting, and written at the same time as the book "Private Truth, Public Lies" by Timur Kuran. I found the book to be highly useful in understanding how preference falsification shapes "absurd" societies. Looks like this article analyzes the mechanisms that lead to "public lies" in more detail.

Without having read the article I'd like to point out that societies can be organized along many different and mutually exclusive beliefs. Neither of the beliefs is wrong in the absolute, but a society depends on its members to accept one belief for people to work together as a group. The development of pluralism is a rather new form of organization that is alien to most cultures.

It is a triumph of humanism to have reached this point. We're in constant negotiation over which beliefs are acceptable, and which ones would destroy our society. It is a good thing that the field is wide, but it must be understood that the field of public discourse will have off-sides. If the enemies of humanism find themselves shunned this is in accordance with my beliefs of how a society should be organized.
I agree with you that this is a worthwhile comparison to make, but would also point out that you could compare Web Components to any JS framework. When Web Components reach maturity (i.e. when support is baked into browsers and you don't have to fall back on using libraries like Polymer), they'll hopefully signal the end of JS frameworks as we know them, as it'll be easy to mix and match components from multiple sources. Until that time comes, I welcome JS frameworks like Stimulus that can (supposedly) be easily retrofitted onto existing websites, even if I'd prefer to see more activity around Web Components.
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There are needs beyond sound quality and price. I replaced stand-mounted KEFs with a Google Home because my baby seemed like she was going to climb the speakers.
No, that must be Hong Kong. Taiwan is an island and not connected to the mainland.
Tip of the day: wait for 10.5.1 which fixes a regression!
https://about.gitlab.com/2018/02/22/gitlab-10-5-released/#ba...
This is a clever and simple way to dredge up some great posts.

I wonder if you could ensure fewer false negatives (i.e. find even more great stuff) by doing the opposite: attempting to filter out every post whose link is to a page that came into existence within a month of the post's submission date.

This would likely require scraping the source links (unless you can get that from the https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/hacker-news dataset or somesuch), but it might be worth it anyway. It'd literally be "Hacker News, minus anything that looks like News."
C and C++ do not have a cross-platform, uniform package manager and build system used by most projects. It’s more of a “not invented” than a “not invented here” situation.
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I didn't qualify for any grants, though my parents didn't have disposable income to help. I just got loans. My friend was in a similar situation. Fortunately for me, I got a nice gig as a developer; I lost touch with her and don't really know what happened, though I suspect she's going to be saddled with debt which will wipe out any gains a degree has gotten her for years to come.

The nearest state school to me currently estimates the total cost of attending, per year, to be roughly $30k (counting books, living expenses, etc.). That adds up to $120,000 in loans for a 4 year degree, less any grants or other forms of aid, which may or may not actually help you get a job.

For many people, a two year technical degree to work towards a career as an air traffic controller, EE tech, computer / network programmer, electrician, plumber, mechanic, welder, floor manager, med tech, paralegal, HVAC tech, landscaping, construction, dental hygenist, hospitality, florist, crop specialist, registered nurse, and so on, all making close to or over the national average income, makes quite a bit of sense.
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Presumably they ("the Swiss") enabled, through privacy focused banking, the politicians to safely funnel away (big) money.
Well In a perfect world, a lot of these users will revolt and at least buy more AMD EPIC, which is very price competitive. But Intel is going to do what they do best, give you lots of discount in upcoming chips order to keep you happy. And in Business it is really hard to say no to that.

Then there are other segments including Gamers and Casual users, who really believe in Intel's brand and could careless about what Intel did.

Basically we dont see any damages being done to Intel. And when their PR spin how good their 10nm is and Intel being the underdog with Qualcomm in Modem race, everyone would have forgotten about Meltdown and Spectre.
> Lately, academics seem to be shifting their value proposition to the instillation of this undetectable unmeasurable X-factor. We can't see it, we can't prove that it exists, but it's there, and its value is absolutely incalculable. How convenient for the sales pitch is this.

The cost of college forces some people to also argument for better revenue opportunities and better fit for future jobs, because otherwise burning through ungodly amounts of money just to be a better rounded person would be a hard sell.

In countries where university are cheaper nobody bats an eye at someone going through the cycles just for the sake of it, purely to learn interesting things.
Hurray!

I love Nix and I have been looking forward to this new makeover of the UI with the 'nix' command. It seems like the original command line usages developed incrementally over time, making them quirky and inconsistent, and so it is really welcome to have them redone based on long experience. (Thanks, Nix hackers!)

Seeing this released as Nix 2.0 is a really lovely surprise for me this morning :).
Then again, if you feel that you need to be able to downvote people in order to "participate", maybe it's good that you don't have a downvote button yet ;-)
Correct me if I misunderstood you, but essentially you are saying that the achievement of this paper is a step up in the hierarchy of the concepts of learning. This step has been made before in theory. Now, it seems not very surprising to me that a computer is able to build a model of the behavior of an abstract agent in gridworld and I just would just like to know why this has not been done before. In hindsight I regret my first comment as it should have been rather this question. Or maybe in general: As I'm not an expert and not smart, what could I learn from this paper?

> I have a theory that moving in the problem hierarchy of the world is the key to what we call intelligence. Smarter people can jump up and down the hierarchy without major issues, and less gifted people often get stuck at some level and can't see beyond the hill. They may not even recognize that there is a hill. And if they recognize the hill they can be uninterested in looking past is as it would require to much work.

This is very interesting because I've heard this argument before and I honestly don't understand how this hierarchy is not arbitrary. I would claim you find this hierarchy only after a problem is solved.

Edit: To me this argument seems like a sophisticated way of telling someone that he/she is stupid.
I’d characterize the situation differently; Rust handles a lot of things that Modern C++, and not even the Core Guidelines, try to handle. Iteration invalidation is huge. Concurrency and parallelism issues are huge.

I very much welcome these things, as I’m about safe software, not “only Rust”, but I don’t think the “most” claim holds water.
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Came here to post exactly this. What the hell? Post suddenly makes a right turn into Lunatic Alley.
But more seriously, I remembered the complaint tablet to Ea-nasir[1], which was on HN a few months ago[2]. Written in 1750 BCE.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15669759
And then you look at Ethereum which is a $90B valuation and also wonder if it can have competitors. Tezos is a full fledged Eth competitor with its own USPs.
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What’s striking is that net worth of MBAs is as low $30k - I am a programmer living in Eastern European country and my net worth is around $170k And I thought Americans are supposed to be richer
My GCal bday annoyance: my calendar marks 100+ birthdays on the one single day (many other birthday reminders are correct). Wonder where the data got funked along the line or if a default Birthdate got set somewhere
Yeah, modern methods are easier on people. They just rig election results and prosecute opposition candidates nowadays. Common folk can do whatever as long, as they don't protest too loud.
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But by that logic it should be ok to monitor everything anyone does because if you do not, a person might be able do to something illegally under the cover of privacy.
Travel expenses can’t be more than a thousand bucks per term at the very extreme. For me flying across country cost a couple hundred bucks round trip twice a year. The median new college grad today makes about $50k right out of school, and more after a few years of experience.

What college did your friend go to where she was promised financial aid and then not offered what she expected? What kind of degree did she get (or drop out of) and what is she doing now? How many years of debt are we talking about? Are you sure the bulk of it is due to travel expenses? That seems prima facie implausible.

I know plenty of people with outrageous amounts of college debt (in the six figures), and have never heard of someone going deep into debt for travel expenses. (For comparison room & board + tuition is typically $50k+ per year, which is like 30–100 times larger than I would expect travel expenses to be.)
>> Over the last few decades, innate priors have gone out of fashion, and today Deep Learning research prizes closely-supervised end-to-end learning (supported by big-data and big-compute) as the dominant paradigm.

I don't get why deep learning researchers are so hung up on learning everything from scratch. The tendency for ever more compute and data is just unsustainable. For problems like natural language, where distinct evens may be infinite, you can keep throwing data at the problem and you'll never make a dent to it. There are problems that grow at a pace that cannot be matched by any computer, no matter how powerful.

What's more, as a civilisation we have nothing if not knowledge about the world. We have been accumulating it for thousands of years. It's what makes the difference between an intelligent human and an educated intelligent human. And it's a big difference. So, if we have all this background knowledge, why not use it, and make our lives easier?
What the article is forgetting is the severity of the conflict with its potent mix of race, religion and by-gone nationality.

To me the parallels to the Uyghurs in Xinjiang are the conflicts involving the Rohingyas in Myanmar, the "deep south" in Thailand, and maybe the "pirates" around Malaysia and Philippines.

These conflicts are all being handled with far heavier hand than what China is doing in Xinjiang.
C++ iterators might look like pointers they aren't necessarily pointers implementation-wise.
I don't mean to knock the effort they've put in here, but this looks like all of the hand-rolled "frameworks" I saw my friends in the agency / consulting space made when they said angular 1 was "too heavy"... right down to the 'data-controller' attribute binding that everyone seemed to independently come up with.

Is there anything actually novel here? These types of things always seemed to run into composition issues (controllers inside of controllers) in terms of communication and what not. The net result was invariably far less appealing than, say, angular 1 or vue or non-SPA React.
Switzerland does not 'embrace' digital currencies per se. We (or rather: our politicians and ecosystem shovel-sellers) are looking desperately for a new focus area after having lost most of the historical wealth management appeal and since some of the early crypto companies settled here they kind of ran with it.

The robust political system and wealthy quite egalitarian society is a nice environment to run your company in but is also the reason that the next step of the cryptocurrency revolution will not happen here.

Cryptocurrencies are still 100% hype & speculation; a solution in search of a problem. Unless it delivers some real-world applicability i'm not very happy about the reputational risk we expose our country too as i'm strictly in the camp of that it will all come crashing down in a big bang soon.
I didn't like that they correlated by age, savings and career but not by duration in career.

If I worked retail until 30, and than went back to school to to become a dentist (and the survey was taken a year after graduation) that skews the data.
Did they simply take averages across all people in each bracket? I can think of very few reasons to have debt while having cash / investments surpassing the debt (exceptions aside such as retirement funds that can’t be accessed). Would have been better to split the groups in percentiles
There's still a massive sample bias problem. Financially responsible, employed MDs & JDs frequently pay off their student loans by ~4-5 years into their practice. That means that a MD/DDS/JD using a loan refinancing platform is probably just starting their career (likely, given the ages in this report) or has no clue how to manage their money (also likely, given the sample bias Animats pointed out).

This age bias doesn't necessarily extend to other professions, as someone with a bachelors or associates in a non-STEM, non-professional field might be paying off (and refinancing) their loans for decades.

The data here is interesting, but because of these biases, you have to take it with a grain of salt; it probably doesn't reflect the financial picture of the population at large.
Well at least you know that it's by Andreas.
A good example are event handlers on GUI widgets.
I don't understand why there is a need for linked lists. I'm reading about fast insert in the middle, but there are other ways to insert data quickly. Maybe it's a need on hardware with specific memory management?

There are so many drawbacks to linked lists: cache incoherence, the use of pointers, no fast random access...

The single fact that rust makes it hard to implement a linked list should show that this data structure is a bad idea. Even when the C++ author is saying it, that should be enough, no?
Typical US administration. First they mandate everybody who wants to visit to have a machine readable passport. And more than 10 years later they still don't have appropriate readers.

(There are incompetent and slow administrations in many countries, I don't deny that. But few have the power to dictate changes with worldwide impact.)
The net worth of MBAs who use a student loan refinancing platform is $30K. This is not reflective of the general net worth of MBAs, as once you start to build assets and no longer have student debt to service, you would drop out of their sample.
I think you're giving our politicians/finance system too much credit. Besides, after the US debacle regulators did a 180 on the topic.

If (and that's a big if) cryptocurrency ecosystems get large enough to attract significant institutional money / wealth management you can be sure that all participants will be held accountable in terms of KYC / AML / Regularization etc.

If any of the startups here think differently they will be in for a rude awakening.
No:

> I don't want to remove the showing of birthdays. I want to remove the showing of individual peoples' birthdays.
I came across the idea of launches from Ecuador while reading about spaeflight. IIRC, I assumed 3,000m launch (assumed a suitable site near Quito exists), and calculated a disappointing, less-than 10% increase in payload, assuming a BFR as the launch vehicle. However, for a kinetic energy launcher, or small rocket like the new record-settinf Japanese SS-520, that improvement would be a lot larger (and more importantly, the logistics a lot easier!).

The thing is, with rocket size increasing, payload increases cubically while air resistance is squared. So for the really big rockets, altitude is not as big of a factor as being near the equator.

If I am not wrong, propulsive landing on drone ships uses another roughly 10% fuel (depends on launch trajectory, etc).

As fossil fuels are non-renewable, and Hydrogen expensive, I am very sure (and even hope to be correct) that in the future we will see launches from high-altitude equatorial regions, using booster-capture technologies and perhaps even terestial-power-assisted launches. Those things may reduce the fuel-cost of escape velocity by 30+%, and when we're sending enough stuff into orbit that this is too advantageous to ignore, we will do it.

But for now, the best way to go is to get really good at building bigger rockets.