skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> for combinations like `caddr' and `caaddr'

Right...because `caddr' and `caaddr' are good because??? And when is the last time you consciously used any of those primitives?
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Or maybe save a lot more lives than 10,000 over time by doing things that keeps the species aspirational, helping avoid protracted regression and short-term thinking.

For another example, building out space infrastructure.

The notion that the other things we do, with creating and building, often don't pay off in a radically superior way than directly saving a life, is ridiculous.

How many lives could we have directly saved instead of doing the space race? How about: instead of a space race, the US and USSR focus more on regressive behavior, war, and nuke the shit out of eachother, killing hundreds of millions of people.

How many lives will the transistor have saved, improved, or made possible over a century: should that investment have gone into saving 10,000 or 100,000 lives back then instead?

Your setup is a false choice.
Okay. What was the cost of this already implemented regulation?
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The tone is dismissive, duh.

Let's try another version, some Mexican shit. Trump comes to mind? Yup! You got it.
It's some legacy thing called cufón (http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/) that literally overlays images on top of text as a polyfill for lack of font-face support in CSS.
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I'm not the other poster, and this isn't my theory - but for people like Adorno or Hegel the go-to explanation for this phenomenon is basically that reasoning in our society is ends-rational. We're very good at considering ideas insofar as they relate to a goal - for instance, the geometry of transistors in relation to their performance. That's because we're a culture of employees - and in such a culture, you don't need to think about goals, just about means.

This kind of thought process is pretty toxic to critical thinking and examination of ideas, since the most central elements (our goals) are almost entirely unexamined - and we don't really include their examination in our education, since we're only interested in preparing children to be good 'problem solvers', or in other words, employees.
I wrote an article on how Kenhub has helped me with Anatomy during med school
Foreigner visiting Germany here: I ALWAYS try to keep to speed limit, sometimes 10% slower. You have well hidden radars and you can't use radar-finding apps (forbidden by law). Last time I was driving not strictly I had two photos in 15 minutes. If this makes you upset, drop the radars, I will happily drive 10% faster.
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> Why would a GPU manufacturer prefer that an end user use their GPU for games rather than cryptocurrency mining?

Because one is a fad the other is their major customers (though the market for ML is growing and nVidia is investing there as well)
I can recommend the book '365 days of self discipline'

https://www.amazon.com/365-Days-Self-Discipline-Life-Alterin...

Self discipline is something you need to work on every day.
Yes, that's certainly "low hanging fruit" in compacting in that if you have a list of "objects" that e.g. contain just a pointer and a length of auxiliary data, so that you have an indirection, compacting gets really easy since you only need to update a single location, and for things like strings that auxiliary data is likely to make up most of the memory use.
Let me know...
Nvidia doesn't make the hardware. They make designs. Other companies (for example, Asus) make the actual GPUs
If you know beforehand what kind of document you are dealing with, you can refine the word vectors for your given task, or even train them from scratch if you have enough data. In general, though, you'll end up with a mixture of meanings. The vector for "Apple" would be somewhere between fruits and companies, while the vector for "Amazon" would be somewhere between rivers and companies.

An interesting paper looked at how these associations changed over time [1]. It was also featured recently on The Morning Paper [2], in case you prefer a summary with added context.

Although those ambiguities make things a bit more difficult, you can usually leave the job of disentangling them to a later stage in the language-modeling process, which will have more context it can use to disambiguate which word sense was used.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00607

[2] https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/02/22/dynamic-word-embeddings-...
What do you guys think?
> And it is is fact possible to design a system where the expected costs will always outweigh the expected benefits,

This is the key point, and also why the author's analysis is much too broad: as stated, the argument applies to all
social structures in general.

For example, under the author's analysis, PoW itself should not be able to exist, because if $10 of economic value is generated by the blockchain, then at least $10 of energy needs to be burned in order to keep the blockchain secure. This is wrong; it ignores the high real-world cost of dispersed attackers to acquire the (dispersed) surpluses from an attack.

Yet we see that in practice social structures exist and produce net surpluses greater than their maintenance cost (in fact, these two facts are equivalent, since a social structure that did not provide an energetic surplus would not survive in dynamic equilibrium).

The ability to punish rule-breakers as a large multiple of the magnitude of their attempted rule-breaking is what allows social structures (including markets) to gain the necessary leverage; otherwise there can be no surplus derived from creating structure, because to get $1 of social surplus, you need to burn $1 of surplus.

Therefore, the real question is whether dPoS creates structures with higher leverage to punish cheaters than PoW.
1) Heavy sales job.

2) Please don't be sexist. My mum taught me to program, for example. None of my male grandparents were any more clued up about computer tech than their spouses.

Edit: original title was something like "Even your grandma can now exchange cryptos."
I attended a program that had a program that was built around Team Based Learning (TBL) and projects. The program was very well designed around ensuring that you kept up with the course, and put the topics into practice in realistic situations (projects) as both an individual and then as a team.

This is incredibly effective because it reinforces your individual learning with the knowledge of your peers and provides a feedback loop to the professor who would tailor lessons based on what the class was having difficulties with.

TBL is not an easy program to run though, and requires a lot more forethought and time from the professor that is running it for it to be effective. There are some courses where it is a huge improvement over traditional teaching methods and some where I would argue it isn't.
agree with you absolutely. In broad field like CS, one can't keep interest so long unless there are some practical usefulness.
Perhaps I am not parsing. I'm reading this as "We should work to increase our wages in order to increase the wages of those who are paid less well"

I think that in a real way, people who create and maintain automation infrastructure are playing a role a lot like the role of management in the economy, except we manage machines that do the job of the worker rather than managing workers. Capital can pay for management to figure out how to pay the old professions to get a job done, or capital can pay us to automate that job away.
The search and advertising teams know that. The voice folk... Not that much, from my experience with their APIs over the past year.

This is actually quite a significant problem across the board, since Brazilian Portuguese keeps drifting apart in both formal and informal vocabulary and grammar. They pretty much walked all over the language accords of the past couple of decades (both academic and governmental), and some of the more strait-laced linguists in the Continent wanted to classify it as a creole (partly to annoy their counterparts in Brazil).
> I don't even know what a Google TPU is, so you're unlikely to have to deal with my comments on that thread.

Damn there goes our shot to hear what serious crypto people are really saying about Google TPUs.

:P
It has been a long time since chickens had bones; they are grown so fast these days that they barely have any mineralisation of their cartilage.
I would also point out the circular logic:

- distributed payment systems are valuable to society (true for our discussion)

- POW is the only way to implement them (his overarching conclusion, that may or not be true)

=> Therefore, POW is not wasted, but a legitimate cost of such systems.
I've noticed that "lifting weight" seems to be the most popular physical activity on HN. I wonder if this is an American bias.

I can see the appeal and the convenience but I personally dislike gyms. Loud music, A/C, TVs everywhere, little social interaction etc... and lifting weight is very artificial.

I much prefer practicing sport outside and/or with other people. There are a lot of fun sports, such as boxing, climbing, hiking, swimming, running, martial arts, dancing, skiing... I see a lot of people who want to start exercising going straight to a gym because they are unaware of other options.
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Really easy to configure it to only listen when you start it by holding the home button in.
It's even worse that some of them compensate when you're a tourist, nodding for yes and shaking their heads for no. But you can't know whether they're doing that.
One other thing to keep in mind is that cost also includes the liquidity cost of staking coins. You are literally printing more lottery tickets for every additional amount of coin you stake. And liquidity cost is a real cost as you could have instead invested that money into a money making bushiness. So marginal cost can also approach marginal revenue in terms due to liquidity costs as well (grinding attacks aren't necessary).
No jugement here, but I curious to understand your situation: if you didn't want to deal with the complexity of the implementation, why didn't you just import a linked list from the standard library ? Did you just want to implement a linked list for learning, but still put the minimum effort in the process ?
The counter argument for this is that far too many blog posts stretch an idea, opinion or observation into far too many words, when a single tweet could suffice to state them. I think this post is an excellent example of this.
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At the current usage level, bitcoin uses as much power as about 280'000 homes (US, 340 Megawatts total, [1]).

You can put an awful lot of lawyers, police, legal and state apparatus in 280'000 homes.

It is sufficient to house all state and full-time employees of the state of Illinois [0] entirely, which unlike bitcoin can do more than transfer wealth.

Illinois has a population of 12'800'000 people [2], bitcoin.info "claims" 23 Million wallet users, however that is a poor number since it only seems to count the number of wallet addresses ever used, the number of unique addresses used is closer to 500'000 and the number of daily users is 200'000 at the current date, which with some rough statistics yields a more realistic 3-8 million users.

In conclusion: Employing humans to do the entire state things allows to service 1.5 to 4 times as many people as bitcoin is currently doing and it also includes a much much broader range of services than bitcoin.

[0]: http://www.governing.com/gov-data/public-workforce-salaries/...
[1]: https://www.thebalance.com/how-much-power-does-the-bitcoin-n...
[2]: https://suburbanstats.org/population/how-many-people-live-in...
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I do actually find the project fairly neat, and I'm not saying it shouldn't be done. Just wanted to start a discussion about a different aspect of this and see people's arguments because opportunity cost definitely exists, and the allocation of our limited resources is a difficult and interesting problem.

Also, I would contest that some of those charities are arguably long-term thinking as well.
AirTrunk is hyperscaling the APAC data center market
A minor point, but accepting a pardon carries a confession of guilt.
Philippine Bill to Impose Penalties for Crimes Involving Cryptocurrencies
That's IMO a necessary feature if you buy into the entire concept of voice interfaces. When I have my phone in my hands (so that I can turn the screen on), I have much better interfaces available than voice.
Largest Homebuilders in Northern Ireland Is Now Accepting Bitcoin Payment
> Because when enough of us care, we can change the sandbox itself.

no need to wait, you can change the sandbox right now, you can create your own startup and give equal ownership to everyone.
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And at least two of us frequent HN it seems!

I'm also an ex-eclipse user who have been a paying IntelliJ user before settling with Netbeans.

Can confirm that we don't bite.
Yes, but the question is in part why use an implied decimal point instead of an implied binary point. You can do fixed binary point just by treating everything past a given bit as the fraction - it's simpler.

The main reason would be differences in expected precision/rounding behavior depending on how many bits you use past the binary/decimal point. E.g. if you use 4 bits past the point, you can represent 1/10's in decimal but 1/16's in binary. But while the binary representation offers more precision, it allows you to represent different values. If you e.g. want to represent 0.2, a single decimal represented in 4 bits will allow you to do that, but with 4 bits past a binary decimal point means you'll need to round down to 0.1875 (3/16) or up to 0.25 (4/16).
> I haven't thought through the details, but I suspect it's possible to adjust the semantics of rust in a way that allows multiple mutable references without sacrificing memory safety.

Please do think about the details deeply, because if you find a way to do this, you'll probably bring a revolution to Rust.

I'm kind of skeptical of course, but I'd be really happy to be wrong.
It was a video stream with only the flag and the sky visible. You have to admit, the actual achievement is quite impressive.

Despite their ... Dubious intent.
There is often a large discrepancy between what something costs to produce, and what a consumer is willing to pay.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16444916 wherein I links to more details about the history of /usr/bin/true being an empty file.
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I was being descriptive, not prescriptive. Please obey the speed limits.
That's the style used throughout the whole Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. My guess is that style is used because it originates from and serves the academic community, where references are the norm.

I agree it'd be cool to see the other version of this too.
I don't know.

I attended a regular computer science program and I am glad I did. The goal of university is not to prepare you as best as possible for working life, but to teach academic thinking.

Class projects usually have a specific purpose, like teaching computer vision, operating systems or building compilers.

You'll spend the rest of your life working. There is no need to rush into it, in my opinion.

Then again, I didn't study in the US, so I didn't have the tuition problem.
Tesla's new ‘Workplace Charging’ to supply free charging stations to businesses
Don’t worry, in about six to twelve months Google will release at least one product to competes with their own. With a little luck it’s better. Of course they’ll just scrap it about six to eight months after that, but it’ll be fun while it lasts!
I have recently started organising little snippets of learning I gather during work using dnote (https://dnote.io/). For instance, I have organised multiple 'books' around topics such as regex, Apache Spark configurations and others. The best part is that it works right off the terminal. But as a downside, it is not the best way to take extensive notes; only 1-2 liners.
Despite the delays, the shape of the estimated production curve is pretty encouraging.
Drew Houston shows HN his new project, Dropbox (2007)
Sorry for the dumb question, but which of the 3 approaches is pg_basebackup?

My understanding was/is that with pg_basebackup the new replica would only need to replay state changes since the last checkpoint, not "the entire state from the primary node—from the beginning of time". What am I missing?
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It's been that way for as long as I can remember, certainly since before I started driving myself in '87.
> shouldn't Rust feel some urgency to provide something like simple-to-use common data structures without pain

You can already find most useful data structures in the standard library, including a doubly linked list. (Which probably doesn't even count as a useful one).
How important they are to people on the Internet remains to be seen. Until now, privacy and decentralization have not been successful selling points for any technology looking for wide acceptance (diaspora, mastodon, ...)
I'm a big fan of the Financial Times, but if you're not as in to the finance/business stuff then it may not be worth it for you.

I do think that more people should pay for news (the turning point for me was Brexit).
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The answer is that you've learned to learn.

You got some breath of knowledge, not everything is relevant but it helps putting things in perspective. This is crucial.

But the most important thing is that you've learned how to quickly adapt and pick up new things. This is what is valuable and in combination with a broad understanding is very much worth the education. It is okay if the understanding is shallow or even obsolete, point is you have the tools to recognize what you need to learn and you've learned how to quickly brush up on the relevant parts necessary to solve the problem at hand.

What kind of answer did you expect? My BSc amounted to me being very proficient in framework X? That would have been a waste of time and that is also what often is the alternative to an education.

People who self-learn are often very good at a specific tasks but have vast areas which for all intents and purposes is magic.

Maybe lack of education is why everything has to be made in javascript today?
Sometimes I think about starting a tech co-op where every member has an equal stake, and we just build SaaS services and mobile apps or games until something works. I've been doing that by myself, so it would be nice to diversify and get a stake in a number of other projects. Similar to an angel investor who invests in a lot of startups, but we'd be investing time and effort instead of money.

I'm thinking we could have a group of 10 people working on 10+ different projects, and we would each own 10% of the parent company. Then we could try a bunch of different ideas and focus on the ones that work. I would want to build passive "lifestyle businesses" that make 4-5 figures per month, and we wouldn't need to aim for an exit. We could just take a salary and retire, or keep making apps and games because it's a lot of fun.

It would be awesome to share a lot of boilerplate code, so it's super fast to get started on a new idea. We'd also have a single kubernetes cluster on AWS that runs all of the backend services, maybe with something like Deis Workflow. And who knows, maybe we turn that into a business as well, and provide hosting to other companies.

Sorry for the tangent, but that could be one way to solve the imbalance.

Here's another discussion about tech coops: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7634152

EDIT: I decided to put together an application form to see if anyone is interested: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1dnm-SZxbcKuQ7PUU9ArRnlD1LiK...

There will be a lot of challenges, but I think it could work. Just need to find the right people.
Nissan claim to have sold over 250,000 Leafs so far, and the new model has range similar to the Model 3.

The race is definitely on, which is great news for those of us who just want the best electric car :)

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/nissan/leaf/first-drive...
What a bizarre article. While the whole "Learning Styles" stuff is largely debunked by scientific research, we do know that different things motivate different people.

I would argue that motivation is the single most important aspect of learning - if you're not motivated to learn something, you're not going to do it. I tried to learn programming skills on and off all through my teenage years and early 20s, but it always petered out because I never had anything I really wanted to do in specific with them. I lacked the motivation to just learn the theory without having a project to work on.

When I finally found a project that excited me and could be broken down into manageable pieces to learn, I made infinitely more progress.

Recently I've been going back and learning actual computer science concepts. I've got enough programming knowledge that the computer science things actually interests me now, and I have the motivation to spend time on theory and exercise that I can't immediately apply to a project.

But I never would have gotten to that point without project based learning to begin with, because I never would have been able to stick with it. I wouldn't have cared enough.

Jimmy might be motivated enough by learning the theory that it works for him. But it doesn't work for everyone, and trying to act like there's any one single right way to educate people, when people are so massively different in so many different ways, seems to be fairly arrogant.
You know man this why blind wine tasting started.
What’s the charging network like?
No, it doesn't. If anything, with the use of padding schemes, IVs and MACs, most encryption schemes make the data grow a little.
Why does this project need battery storage? The power demand for air-conditioning during the day follows the supply of solar. Is it to cater for hot but cloudy days?
The same as the Tesla's charging network, since they are compatible...
This "article" reads like an ad.
Nope, Bitcoin is much worse than that.
The graph seems related to the graph of venture funding over the same period:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_VC_funding.png

Which is not surprising considering that salaries are the number one thing venture funding is spent on.
Shaking one's head for "no" is far from universal - it means "yes" in parts of India as well.
there are people that do this, and also send spaceships for mars, and then there are people that create some useless clock
Are you sure leafs can use superchargers? That doesn’t seem correct at all.

I’m not sure what other charging network i would refer to.
You can get very hot and humid days when it's overcast.
I should be clear that nobody’s obligated to do so! Sell your software using whatever model you want. But I think it’s fair to complain when companies don’t offer basic models like “sell me new versions of your product in exchange for money”.
I would be very interested to learn how you manage changefeeds, e.g. distributing updates to client apps. I used RethinkDB for this, as every other solution seemed like lots of extra work.
100% agree, it's unacceptable that it requires so many privileges when they're positioning it as a key UI for the whole Android experience.

I think the dev community will start looking at hard forks as the new 'true' path rather than Nexus/Pixel if they continue down this path. It's already prevented me from buying the new pixel, what's the point of having the latest vanilla Android if it's going to spy on you anyway

The best way to let them know is to open the Google app, open the menu and choose 'Send Feedback'