skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly.

We own two electric cars: A Tesla P90D and a Chevy Bolt. The Bolt is an American Car, if that matters to you (it does for me) and has an EPA range of 238. (Consumer Reports got 250 in their tests).

We also have a car with an ICE -- a Chevy Volt. It gets 55 miles on all-electric, and has a gas engine too. Handy for when I have to do the occasional long drive and don't want to worry about superchargers, etc.

The Bolt isn't as glamorous as the Tesla S, but it's certainly nicer than the LEAF golf-cart.
Hacker News is an exceptionally civilized forum. But even then: this is not a discussion about JavaScript or religion, this is a discussion about discussions about JavaScript or Religion. So one level of abstraction away, which probably helps avoiding the flame war.
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My Life as a Woman with Color Blindness
This is really surprising to me. Compared to other high paying paths (medicine, law, MBA, finance), STEM degrees offer a much shorter completion time, lower debt, and higher starting salary. This holds even for engineering jobs, completely outside tech companies.

I do concede that the software industry can improve on attrition rates and career stability.

But on a simple time value of money front, I'm yet to come across a field of study in the American education system that pays more with lower debt than a STEM degree does.
So that's why those LEAF people are always driving 55 in the HOV lane!
It shells out to the C compiler (hard-coded as "cc") for every function? Oof. That's a pretty limited FFI.

Or maybe I wasn't clear. If Scheme tries to pass a double/bignum/whatever to the C function that expects the float, where is the error caught?
"lift the per country cap on each visa category, which is a remnant of the pre-1965 overtly racist national origin system"

I understand that pre-1965 it was used in a racist way, but isn't a per country cap a good way maintain a diverse group of immigrants today? I'd keep that, and add a gender cap, forcing a relatively equal distribution. I'd also greatly increase skilled immigration overall.
Or even something far less extraordinary like billionaires betting they can fly their jet from point A to point B in controlled airspace without transponders in complete radio silence without getting caught.

The whole disappearing from radar thing in this story is the only reason anyone suspects something extraordinary or military.

Everything else about it says it's somewhat benign. The observed speeds are fairly common, they describe something behaving like a normal jet, and it's traveling in airspace the military has no reason to mess with and every reason to avoid for safety reasons.

I know of a number of psychopaths who would do this kind of thing if they had the means.
lol, I was once in the hospital because I hit my head. I had a panic attack at university, hyperventilated and passed out.

They asked me what happend and wrote down "was drunk" so everyone I met at the hospital was like "uhuu was drunk at the uni... one of those guys..."
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30fps on my old xperia z3. Very impressed. I'm slowly starting to feel like web 3D on mobile is a thing and not just a happy accident when it works.
The claim that STEM degrees are not competitive with other degree paths in terms of professional success is obviously wrong.

Skimming the linked paper, it seems to be exclusively discussing PhD programs. Not sure how relevant that is.
Understanding Intel's Ivy Bridge Random Number Generator (2012)
It's not the Department of Labor, it's the Department of Homeland Security.

https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/acceptable-documents/list-...
Politics are interesting. Perhaps politicking wouldn't be necessary if we could determine with accuracy the results of policies before implementing them. For example, maybe this could be done by complex computer simulation in the future. Furthermore, policy might be synthesized by the same processes if it can be simulated.

Which then raises another interesting point: would democracy be less efficient and necessary if we could determine optimal policy for society before implementing it? Would we just vote on the desires of society rather than policies to get us there?
What I find most incredible is that consumer-grade computer hardware has gotten so fast this kind of thing can be done in a web browser.
Sorry, I don't think you know anything about the history of the relationship between computer programming and philosophy. Kurt Gödel was an analytic philosopher. John McCarthy's work stems directly from analytic philosophy, and goes all the way back to Descartes' ideas.
The Pessimist’s Guide to 2018
sadly it’s the truth
> What do you mean randoms without regard to skills or means?

Perhaps mc32 means the diversity visa program?

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrat...
Two mental shifts highly successful people make
* Lightbot : Code Hour app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lightbot.l...

* games list: https://medium.mybridge.co/12-free-resources-learn-to-code-w...

* side bar of this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programmingforkids/

* also this Q&A site: https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes
not sure where your confidence comes from, though i hope you are correct. i don't see it yet though.

in the US healthcare market the payment model will have to change before Indian healthcare market prices have an impact.

in other words, US legislation that takes money away from the current system of providers would need to be passed. (i mean, why doesn't the US medicare/medicaid system take advantage of the lower costs you're describing by flying US patients to hospitals in other countries for major, expensive procedures and other treatments? they could save a lot of money, but US law does not currently allow payment to providers all over the world.)

US hospitals, doctors, pharma, etc have created a closed system wherein they are the only service and product providers. i think they like that aspect of the current system. they've built themselves a moat and globalization cannot enter.
And yet lots of Tesla owners drive long distances.
Anything under 10fps on a modern machine is almost certainly not benefitting from GPU acceleration.
Peacetime? The US is still in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Air Force bombed Russian military contractors in Syria last week.
"Eat your vegetables" is never the answer. In climate change, because of the coordination problems, "Eat your vegetables" is so emphatically not the answer that it shouldn't even be discussed as anything except a desperate, ineffective stopgap.

People will keep eating candy. They will never eat their vegetables, unless they taste like candy. It's pointless to imagine worlds in which they eat their vegetables and everything is great because, although it's possible to write a plan to get from here to there, those worlds are strictly fantasy. The plan can not be followed. I could also write a plan for the sun to rise in the west—and it would also fail, for largely the same reason.

If you want to solve the problem, make a better, cheaper vegetable that tastes like candy.
You've been reading the book by Thomas Sowell. Though I don't understand why you bring up a reference that's about 300 years old. None of the people in the southern States have any ties to that place
Do you really need a headphone jack?
So your position is that personal consumption does not result in additional resource usage?
We'll know alright... it will just be too late.
Who becomes a cog in the surveillance capitalistic machinery?

Me, it turns out. Is it because I am unhappy and insecurity? Yeah maybe I suppose. It's not that I'm seeking revenge or domination. More that I just don't have enough fucks to give left over to care about anyone else. Staying alive takes full concentration.
The pilot of the Southwest flight 4712 was convinced it was a plane (and “a large one”). At no point he mentioned considering it to be something else. On top of that he reported following the thing “for some 100 miles”.

Also, not many currently declassified stealth aircraft fit the description of being large and white.

I don’t know if knowing this was a large plane flying faster than cruise jets is more concerning than not.
If you ask the same question, you'll get the same answer. Yes, why not?
> Quest for Glory

I still prefer it's original name "Hero's Quest". Is a much more fitting title. The protagonist had not so much an interest in "glory" but was training to become a hero in order to save the town. I'm probably biased and sentimental.

(They had to change it due to a trademark claim. I think I still have the infringing floppies around somewhere.)
I always click on the HN comments first, whenever an article title has even a hint of clickbait to it, and I am nearly always well rewarded for it.
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Few white people are calling for genocide. And referring to anything less than that as Nazism is just a sleight of hand meant to disparage.
It’s funny how people are criticizing USCIS here (not that it is not to be blamed for lacking) and not their fellow Indian men for running such consultancies in the first place and exploiting talent backhome and luring them here in hopes for green cards before they realize it’s close to impossible and by that time these consulatancies middle-men would have already milked them enough. Creating awareness among Indian backhome is first step in discouraging consultancies abusing them. US has always been an open market for anyone to come here, take advantage of it and make ones dreams come true. US educated Indians stuck in green card queue is not entirely because of USCIS ineptness but also Indian “consultants” clogging up the queue. It feels there should have been a separate visa category for these “consultants” altogether.
This reminds me of the phenomena where individuals with mild-moderate acquired hearing loss often don't realize they're somewhat impaired, until they take a hearing test. The brain is very adept at piecing together incomplete/inaccurate information and contextual clues into a cohesive message.
I've been very pleased with the integration of Fastmail (calendar/notes/contacts/mail) with iOS & OSX

along with DDG I find myself very well taken care of, and I can always type in Google if I need to (2 times a day?).
My fear of future is way above this.

Apple and other mobile OS all incorporated so called Mobile Device Management features into their cores. With one or a few payloads pushed to your device, it could do fairly lot from install an app remotely to wipe it out (like find-my-iPhone).

I wonder what would be the case if China gov't asks. It could just be a small step forward in the whole Salami tactics.

EDIT:

Of course, for now, it requires enrollment of the device to a legitimate MDM server, but what will happen tomorrow?

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Mi...
Aren't there other bundlers out there which are much faster, much smaller, and already have had tree shaking for quite a little while? Why are you stating that Webpack is necessary I must be one of the people who doesn't understand the problem space.
dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16420004
This is a tiny fraction of new visas, but significantly opens up the possibility for genuine diversity immigration
funny thing that, I went to the their membership page for the first time today because I wanted to know how to express my individual support. I'm not an owner, and I will likely get a membership ... because it's an advocacy I care about.
Well, I didn't actually get an answer the first time. As to why not, because when I think about the role of government, maximizing tax revenue seems like it would be pretty low on the list of priorities.
Names of things like 'neural networks', 'artificial intelligence' or even 'quantum computing' gift journalists very sexy, broad brushes with which to draw conclusions that exaggerate the abilities and belie the often mundane realities of the things they describe.
It might have had some impact if he dropped the last paragraph, but that just gave it away as a dick measuring contest and not legitimate criticism. Stop pretending you are a genius because I am!
I'm all for atmospheric effects when the only other explanation is aliens but this thing was flying at a height and speed and appearance totally consistent with modern aircraft with multiple observations. By far the most likely explanation is US military.
Ask HN: Wealth creation as a result of reading HN
Curious any stories of wealth that was created as a result of engaging on HN or information/comments posted. I am sure there will be plenty who got into cryptocurrency because of HN (though the general sentiment I've seen on HN is pretty critical).

Any stores of buying a particular public stock that ended up being huge winners? Business opportunities as a result of reading or commenting?
Yes, perhaps that's true but it doesn't mean that Apple is completely in the clear on this issue. A much more detailed account of iCloud security can be found on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16449326
When flown in the radar shadow of another plane, yes. They’ve done that before.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

Genocide is a characteristic of one major fascist regime. It is not a characteristic of all of them.
This is really cool! One important distinction to be made is that Glassesoff claims to cure presbyopia (the thing that makes you wear reading glasses) while Aaron probably had myopia (nearsightedness).

Also, I'm not certain that looking at Gabor patches can translate to fixing myopia.
I keep reading news stories about how we are in a new Cold War/the threat of nuclear confrontation is as high as any point during the cold war ....
I work at a think tank. I don't think any of the models used by any policy experts are at a level where such simulation is possible. We can't predict the weather more than about a week out, and that's just a physical system--policies depend on quirky humans with lots of weird incentives and preferences that are difficult to predict. Modeling can let you make educated guesses at best.

Of course, plenty of partisans have an interest in producing models that spit out results that just so happen to show what they already believed (e.g., Tobacco Institute), and politicians will cite those results with the same regularity as more rigorous work. Without expertise in the matter, it can be hard to find any given model's weak points; and they all have weak points.

As for voting for desired outcomes rather than desired policies: I'm pretty sure this is what most people are doing already. Lots of political pressure all around have your cake and eat it too. Sadly, I've never seen any policy that could solve a problem like that--too many trade-offs in real life.
Yes, did you click on the "Our Science" link?

Also, it was covered by NYTimes, which talks about the research as well https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/upshot/training-your-brai...
Does this work for near sighted ness?
Because nerds have lower social status, and sadly due to insane competition for popularity, it's quite hard to become good at math/science without being labeled a nerd.

What that means is fewer kids go to STEM schools and become scientists/engineers. This is a pipeline problem caused by culture, it's a very hard problem to fix.

For engineers already here, it's actually a good situation, because scarcity drives up wages; for major tech firms, it just means more hiring will be done in their international offices; for startups, it just means a different tradeoff, and having international connection to hire from other countries will become a competitive advantage.
I didn't mean webpack specifically, rather that module bundlers themselves are a worthwhile pursuit.
Even keeping things classical, linking radio telescopes in "very-long-baseline interferometry" requires a bit more than just the normal internet (it requires synchronized clocks). But as you suggested, all this is doable classically.

However, all you get with linking telescopes classically is a "virtual" telescope with a better resolution (the angular resolution is roughly proportional to 1/radius of telescope opening, and if your linked telescopes are on different continents you get "virtual" radius as big as that of Earth).

This scaling of the resolution of 1/radius is what gives you the "diffraction limit". However, if we have sensors that are entangled with each other, we can surpass that limit. Googling "quantum entanglement diffraction limit" would give in-depth information.
Your examples amuse me because CSS & HTML are essentially DSLs :) I have to agree with the parent, well designed abstractions and functions in my opinion go 99% of the way towards providing the same benefits as a DSL without the additional complexity.
A useful Corollary being that identity politics, in another words convincing people to identify with increasingly smaller and more specific groups, and getting them to fight amongst themselves, in other words trying to increase their identities to include some more things, is the perfect way to keep people from thinking clearly about real issues. A useful way to keep the population on the back foot in a democracy keep them fighting about emotive issues rather than thinking clearly about substantial one, and divide the market into small sections to make it easier to direct messaging to appeal for votes.
There’s no reason to believe that it was stealthy, based only on the failure of civilian ATC to track it.
True...but everyones retirement in the US is structured so there is infinite growth.
Wasn't "Script X" Apple's failed attempt at this back in the early 90's? People found creating custom for every problem was unmaintainable. Each developer was encouraged to customize their own personal language, and work with syntax translators to work with group written code. Nightmare.
In Buffett's defence

>to assign a large portion of our debt to any individual business would generally be fallacious

could fit with the dictionary definition of

>containing or involving a fallacy; illogical; erroneous

Ie. it would be illogical to say this debt belongs to this business when it is a liability of Berkshire as a whole. But yeah a little clunky perhaps.

Also re discussion of individual businesses he explains:

>For many years, this letter has described the activities of Berkshire’s many other businesses. That discussion has become both repetitious and partially duplicative of information regularly included in the 10-K that follows the letter. Consequently, this year I will give you a simple summary of our dozens of non-insurance businesses. Additional details can be found on pages K-5 – K-22 and pages K-40 – K-50.

For pages K-whathaveyou you need to go to Berkshires site and download the full annual report.

Re IBM, Buffett is a Carnegie follower and would be reluctant to say he sold because Ginni Rometty wasn't getting anywhere.
(Fundamental Technique #1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influen...)
Invisible to radar is a better standard than a B-2, while hard to track from civilian ATC radar isn’t really stealth at all.
This is pretty awful, I am rather ashamed to see it on the front page of HN.
I'm honestly not sure if that's an attempt at sarcasm or whether you're really serious.

Isn't it just rendering two triangles with a fragment (pixel) shader executing purely on the GPU. I mean, why would that be any slower in a web browser than anywhere else? (Unless the shader compiler is pretty bad?)

Are pure WebGL fragment shader demos really significantly slower in a web browser? If so, why?
> "I know several people who have done exactly that, and it worked out quite well for them!"

I've seen it done several times. It tends to work better in the short run than the long run compared to alternative approaches.
There's absolutely no evidence that formal methods approaches are effective in practice. These ideas have been around for decades, and they've only been found to be effective in a few niche areas such as compilers.
Same here, 3 to 5 fps on Chrome and a consistent 60 fps on firefox 58. There's definitely something wrong with Chrome for linux. Try the Stripe docs page https://stripe.com/docs/api#error_handling , same issue. Buttery smooth scrolling on firefox but unusable on Chrome.
Uncertainty principle? It's not about quantum. (3Blue1Brown)
Yeah, but we haven’t been measuring temperatures for that long.
So the people who tracked down random anti-Trump protesters and their families and bombarded them with thousands of death threats were only pretending to be Neo-Nazis?

That makes it all okay, then.
sigh

Enough will of the people? Don't tell me a simple majority of the popular vote, which in the end means nothing selecting a president, means you can ignore the will of the people that put Trump in power.
If you think it's inappropriate for HN, flag it. Submit something better. Upvote submissions you think are good. Help make HN the site you want it to be.
Second Preimage Resistance is important with most cryptocurrencies based off bitcoin because they are often calculated as a hash of a hash, which is what second preimage resistance is all about preventing predicting.

In this case, the `curl` function is not being used as a hash function, but a different type of mapping. Unfortunately, that mapping is supposed to be psuedo-random and now it is known that it is not.
This thing disappeared from radar. So if it was a secret military aircraft the it appears to have the ability to hide and unhide its radar signature. Also, if you listen to the FAA telephone calls you'll hear the air traffic controller mention that the object was heading south bound, at a fast clip, and then did an abrupt maneuver and took off north bound. Now, you could say the object just did an Immelmann, but I'm not aware of anything that can perform an Immelmann that fast in an object that large.
This dynamic is significant in the culture wars of today.

As part of some work in architecture for some public sector projects, I read "The Nazi Census" which was a description of the technologies and techniques of the 1938 german census which was a basis for the NSDAPs brutal bureaucracy. (https://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Census-Identification-Control-Po...)

One of the interesting parts was adding "unused," fields to the Hollerith punch cards for "future use," much like we use extensibility fields in data models today. The book says many of the people recruited to administer it were promoted from the ranks of the disaffected, often far above their level to ensure their loyalty. It was a technique used by the NSDAP, Stalin, and Mao, where they put country "peasant" types in administrative roles over towns and cities to exploit rural resentment of city dwellers.

As a result, you can "steelman" the sentiments behind many conservative arguments by summarizing them as questioning the wisdom of handing reins of unimaginably powerful institutions and technologies to people who identify as victims with an implied entitlement to revenge, and who are not bound by the ethical frameworks of the deposed - the ones assumed when those techs and institutions were built. It at least provides a logic beyond evil and hatred.

Regardless of whether it's accurate in the context, it's a heuristic for reasoning about the motives and quality of an argument.
> all my software comes from the MS Store.

Can you give me some examples? I only know of the netflix app which is even remotely useful.

The most important app for many people is the browser, and afaik firefox/chrome are not available on the store. Makes the OS a complete non-starter IMO.
60 FPS + negligible CPU on Chrome OS with Haswell though, interesting.