skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never heard of the Oric before. Very interesting, thanks.
... of memory passed in by the user! So it's up to the caller to make sure memory contains unclassified information.
GAANDU(Google,Amaazon,AirBnB,Netflix,Dropbox,Uber). Found this in this thread on teamblind.The acronyms get out of hand pretty quick.
That's true, I suppose as long as there's indication that the mode is enabled, a warning or something (haven't tested it myself yet).

If the desktop launcher was modified to include that flag, then you would never know while browsing right? Maybe I'm just paranoid...
What is the benefit vs satellite imagery?
I feel like you've missed my point.

There are a limited number of good opportunities to invest in, so it's not like investors get to unilaterally set the terms of these deals. They have to compete with each other, at least on the most attractive deals. A savvy founder turns down money on bad terms.
You don’t. But you lose the money. Risking $10 to make $10 is much different that risking $10 to make $0.10.

You are more willing to invest at 1:1 odds than you are 100:1. Especially since the odds actually don’t reflect the actual risk of the investment itself. 100:1 on a sure thing is better than 1:1 on something that is very high risk. However, no investment is a sure thing. There is a non-zero level of risk in any investment, so if the payoff doesn’t match the risk, you simply will put the money under your mattress.
To fix a problem, you need to frame the problem correctly. And at least in the political sphere, money or talent is not even up for discussion. Even after the effects you mention.
I agree that subscription fatigue is a problem and most will opt out but I feel you are projecting too much malice onto the developers in your last sentence.

Why does asking for the subscription automatically entail they are hoping people will stop using the product but stay subscribed or are charging far more than they think the service is worth?

I think it is too jaded an outlook to see it all as a zero sum fight. The service might just be worth a subscription and the developers want to continue providing it and not be able to with a different business model.
I think you can get by with adding timestamp support to a single feature flag. So the code has IS_PREMIUM everywhere but when you add a new use of it you also manually record the time. Since you know the expiration time of their license you can always determine what features are unlocked based on that.

Then you just develop the app as any other demo-with-upsell app. Users even continue to get bug fixes and other updates after they let the license lapse.

In cases where features are removed, combined, refactored, you'll have to be judicious about what timestamp you apply to the refactor. I would resolve in the customer's favor personally.

Edit: Thinking on this more you might also want a rule like feature flags are only implemented at the view layer. That way your biz logic never gets tripped up on flag checks as features cross paths under the sheets. So its does require a fair amount of code discipline to pull this off
Yes, but all of them require a complete model of all possible influences and hidden factors. It's still only as good as the model, which in the OP is just "HN and SO".
I started disabling Javascript by default a few weeks ago using uMatrix, and I find it puzzling why people would use this? I currently use Font Awesome on my own site, and one task on my backlog is switching out to plain svg files to save on bandwidth (and not require a webfont download). I also have two layout elements that require Javascript I want to try to get rid of as well.

I think we should see more of a movement to get away from Javascript for displaying basic content.
Because facebook tracks you, even if you do not have a facebook account.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/11/17225482/facebook-shadow-...
I'm a big Swift fan as well, but the performance part simply isn't true. Swift was supposed to be potentially faster than Obj-C because of types, but in practice I have never seen that.

Since it is missing mutable arrays and strings, your code often ends up copying a lot of memory around if you're not extremely careful, and you quickly get accidentally quadratic complexity.

A lot of APIs are just wrappers around ObjC APIs, with lots of memory management calls required for bridging. You really need to be careful what calls you put in a tight loop.

And that's before you even start with the good stuff. Protocols with associated types are so slow that they are unusable for anything performance sensitive. Theoretically the compiler should be able to optimize it incredibly well since it's all statically typed, but in practice the compiler seems to never be smart enough. Call stacks get very deep very quickly (protocol witnesses, closures, ...).

In my experience the easiest way to make Swift code fast is to rewrite hotspots in ObjC.
> a few people I have known a long time who turned out to be lifelong best friends

I help moderate a local subreddit dedicated to local meetups, and I see this a lot - people are looking for best friends, and I think this is a mistake for two reasons:

1. You don't need all the people you regularly socialize with to be best friends. It's okay to have people you see often with whom you're not super-intimately connected. Not everyone has to be a platonic spouse. You ought to have a range of good friends, acquaintances, buddies, regulars-you-only-see-at-this-one-bar, etc. Seeking deep relations exclusively is a mistake, partially because...

2. ... you can't really farm out "find me a best friend" to an algorithm. As you mention, your best friends might be people who you appear to have nothing in common with, so you already know this.

People say that dating is a numbers game, but it's easier to filter out potential dates than it is potential best friends. (For one, most people can easily eliminate ~50% of the populate from the pool.) There are obvious dealbreakers, but really it's just a matter of meeting people and seeing how your personalities mesh, how your conversations go, and how you both feel after awhile.
Granger causality is basically just a time-shifted correlation. It doesn't prove causation any more than a correlation test (although it's directional in a way regular correlations aren't).
But they are allowing all clients to get new binaries (with bug fixes and new features) while limiting them to features within a rolling 12 month window from time of purchase. Apple doesn’t have the ability to gate features that way.
Alternatives to Google Products
A very similar project is nearing completion for the arch rival (in the UK anyway) ZX Spectrum.

https://www.specnext.com/

Uses FPGA to ensure backwards hardware compatibility, while providing extra clock speed and new video modes.
The company I was working for before had no link whatsoever with Japan. But you're right that the wording there is unambiguously referring to the sponsoring company's salary.

I applied a bit more than one year ago, I wonder if they changed that section then.
I Now Pronounce You Legally Null and Void
So a teacher’s 401k is money they don’t really need? Because that’s an investment too you know.
Command line tool for mode analytics queries
>You need to unwind. You need to enjoy culture, watch some TV, have relationships.

In my experience, these things merely distract from underlying pain, including the underlying pain of human mortality. When you free yourself of this pain, weird and unexpected things happen.
Same, I need the space for those beautiful iStat menus
Flexibility of mission and sensor.
> Oh my god I get a headache just thinking about all the feature flags they'll have to maintain

Why not use a plugin model? Feature flags can be hacked.
Nice one!!!
Pretty fast and lightweight, nice and clean design and on top of it entertaining.

Two things missing (IMHO), add a password when creating a league so that only friends/colleagues with it can join an existing league and also give an option for an edit or deletion of a player inside a league.

A couple of question if I may, why 72 points and how are teams ranked?
very cool. I didn't know about that. thanks.
I wonder if modern Dutch speakers can understand any of this?

https://youtu.be/lfg3jHV1TzE?t=246
https://youtu.be/9bfgEgFKccw?t=3
Fatal Familial Insomnia.

It's a prior disease.
This is an incredibly anti-savings policy, given that we have central banks ensuring positive inflation (except in Japan) and capital gains are calculated in nominal, not real terms.

In other words, if you just hold some money for a few years and it doesn't lose value (interest rate equals inflation), you _already_ owe tax on it. That's just broken.

If we did capital gains in inflation-adjusted dollars, the situation would be somewhat different.
Even WSJ journalists don't ask the right questions. They should have asked the AT&T spokesman: "how come AT&T can not protect us where every telecom provider in Europe can?"

USA: 5 billion spam calls/year, EU: close to zero.
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Here's another one: https://feathericons.com
It therefore fails the criteria to be Patentable..

If he informs the Patent Office, the Patent should be voided.
Thought the folks here would benefit from the tool discussed in the article (www.focusmate.com).

You can either optimize your output through the behavioral psych principles it hinges on or you can force yourself to show up for something you have been avoiding via personal accountability.

I tried it and it works well when your partner shows up, but I still find it is difficult to want to pre-plan unavoidable work time on it.

I would be curious to know about the experience others have had.
I'm not the most confident person, but i reluctantly became a volunteer at a sporting association and have met a ton of people through it.

In my experience, people are nicer to you than you think, especially if your interests are aligned.
Slaacd: userland IPv6 interface autoconfiguration in OpenBSD [pdf]
That grey and fine font on a white background is pretty hostile to the older sets of eyes that might like this article.

I know this comes up a bit too often on HN but it's pretty, um, glaring, in this case.
I define “crap ware” as crippled software where a company is trying to get you to spend more money.

I just got a brand new iPhone running iOS 11 - as opposed to the prior phone that I had that was upgraded to iOS 11. I didn’t realize that all of Apple’s iWork and iLife apps were installed by default. They are full featured apps so I wouldn’t consider them “crapware”. I did delete them though.
"Do women in other countries just not play as much soccer as US women?"

Basically, yes. Women don't generally play that many sports in most countries.

Even in W. Europe, surprisingly not a lot of football.

There are some exceptions here and there: skiing in Austria and XCountry skiing in Scandinavia ...

The issue with US soccer is mostly the anomaly of the fact there are other, way bigger sports like US football, basketball etc. that people focus on.

Even in hockey - Sweden, Czech, Russia - with great men's teams ... their women's team are not good and it's all Canada vs. USA in that sport for women.

That said ... it's still weird that the US cannot field a competent team. I mean there are 300 million Americans, a lot of central/south American types, tons of cash, a deep field for most sports. It is a little odd.
> but I find it really hard to trust the judgment of a person who berates others on Twitter

Feuds between intellectuals have been a staple for decades.

You are letting personality problems obscure insights.
I've been using Milo Yip's implementation of Grisu2, which references another paper: https://github.com/miloyip/dtoa-benchmark
> If there's no increase in stock price

Then the value of the company (and the expected dividend stream) presumably fell, in real terms, because inflation is typically nonnegative.
I usually recall my dreams, fever or not. There is a marked difference between them.
Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction (2016) [video]
And $3500 per month is not what a lot (most?) people here would consider a successful financial model even given some consulting etc. on top of that. It depends on where you live of course but bringing in $50K per year (with no benefits) or so in donations is not something a lot of professionals--especially those qualified to work for major software companies--would consider a sustainable income stream.
IMO Swift is a language written by a compiler guy to solve compiler problems. the syntax is dense because it forces you to make a lot of decisions that could otherwise go unmade in objc.

If a variable is read-only, you're forced to think about that by deciding between let/var. contrast this with objc, where all vars are writable unless you do the extra work of adding the const keyword. objc makes us do more work to get the faster (and safer) behavior.

Similar with Optionals, you're now forced to decide right away if a parameter can ever be nil, whereas with objc you didn't need to declare nullability. Again, it makes the safest and fastest choice easier to make, and allowing nullability is actually more work.

Generally Swift forces you to pass as much information to the compiler as possible at compile time, and it does it with a delightfully readable syntax. This theme repeats itself throughout the language. more information at compile time is always going to result in safer and more predictable behavior.

full disclosure: i'm an iOS dev working in objc and swift. i love both languages, and i think swift is the obvious path forward.
I grew up with the ZX Spectrum, initially starting out with the ZX80 and 81 which I soldered together myself with the help of my equally clueless father.

One of the most enduring and engaging aspects of the old micros is the inherent limitation of the hardware. You're constantly battling with extreme optimisation and utilising often quite hacky hardware tricks to do things that would otherwise be impossible to achieve while mastering the arcane arts of assembler. I think above all that's the beauty of them and why people are still supporting these projects.

I'm very sad about missing out on the Spectrum Next which is nearly due to ship their completed cased model after a successful release of only the board. Complete with keyboard and design from the recently late original designer of those same machines I had in the 80s, Rick Dickinson.
> advertise a technical SVG standard that icon designers can comply with

> Then, the JS library would simply implement the ability to change colors assuming the icon follows the SVG standard

No need for JS for styling: just use CSS custom variables. The only thing that needs to be standardized are the two variable names.

Just define an icon like this:

icons.svg

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<symbol id="calculator" viewBox="0 0 48 48">
<path class="icon-primary" style="fill: var(--icon-primary-color, black)" d="..."></path>
<path class="icon-accent" style="fill: var(--icon-accent-color, gray)" d="..."></path>
</symbol>
</svg>

Then use it like this:

<style>
.icon {
--icon-primary-color: DarkBlue;
--icon-accent-color: DeepSkyBlue;
}
</style>
<svg class="icon"><use xlink:href="icons.svg#calculator"></use></svg>

See a demo here:
https://glitch.com/edit/#!/piquant-ladybug?path=index.html:1...
This is a problem for all assets, not just primary residences.

> I think we need to stop providing incentives for housing prices to go up.

While true, the main such incentive historically is inflation: housing prices have been growing at about the rate of inflation in the long run, averaged over the US.
I don't think there are languages similar to C in term of simplicity, close to the metal and speed.

C++ is good enough for me, but it's so slow to compile, and I don't use its most advanced features.

I wish there was a language between C and C++, without the complex semantics you can find in rust and other exotic syntax.

I don't necessarily love C or C++ in term of feature, but the syntax is just what i need. Why can't language designers write a language that is closer to C, with fancy features that don't change the language so much?
*AdNauseam
To understand 2001 a Space Odyssey, you HAVE to interpret it through the Odyssey
Something that decreases the willingness of sellers to sell will increase the price. That is basic supply and demand.

If a retired couple downsizes from a three bedroom house to a one bedroom apartment because their kids have grown up, that frees up housing for someone else to use. Prop 13 discourages them from doing that because the property taxes on a one bedroom apartment at a 2018 assessment can easily be many times higher than the property taxes on a three bedroom house at a 1970 assessment+2%/year.
What measure are you using for "much more common"? According to the OECD data, the US is 7th for percent of population 16-64 with a post-secondary degree, and Luxembourg is the only western European country ahead of the US (the others are Canada, Russia, Israel, Japan, and South Korea).

If you limit it to 25-34 year olds with at least a 4 year degree, the US falls to be in the middle of the pack compared to western Europe- behind Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, and the UK, but ahead of Norway, France, Spain, and Germany.
The problem is laziness. “Call your Congressperson” is hard. Waxing lyrical about political distinction is easy. Imagining technical solutions to political problems is easier.
If it were actually as simple as that, don't you think this would have occurred to the greatest philosophical minds of our generation, and don't you think therefore that P-zombies would not be discussed? I'm all for bagging on philosophy as navel-gazing and generally unproductive, but you've taken it a step too far.
Marching for Terrorism in London? No Problem
Page was unreadable on a desktop computer. To read the actual content, I had to disable Javascript, and disable CSS rendering (Firefox: View->Page Style->No Style). Otherwise, any interaction with that page resulted in the Beach Ball Of Death, as my computer struggled to keep up.

Perhaps it's my own fault though, for not using an 8-way 64-bit core machine with 64G RAM to view a site for a hypothetical machine from the late 80s.

EDIT: It also looks like the main home page is attempting to load every font from webfonts.fonts.com. At the very least, it references 271 external fonts. It also takes 1.8M of HTML to render some 4K of text.
> this guy

girl, actually.
1. The higher the capital gains tax rate, the less money will be invested.

Wouldn't that also be true if they don't have alternatives to invest? What are those alternatives?

2. Higher rates make for less efficient economics, because people will hold on to poorly performing investments longer.

Why does it matter to the government/citizens if some investments are held onto for too long? What hit would the gov take?

3. A big chunk of capital gains are actually inflation.

So?
> I love it. It's so absurd and nihilistic it's funny, which kind of jives with nature's whole style.

I couldn’t agree more and wouldn’t it be so indicitave of the scientific trend that ensmallens man?

From the center of the universe, the sun orbiting our land to the Big Bang and inflation theory where there is no center.

From gods chosen creation to common ancestors shared with apes.

Now even our dreams to be punctured?

Brilliant to think about!
That's a factor, but it doesn't explain the phenomenon that human-imperceptable transformations of an image can dramatically shift a NN's outputs.
The Unintended Consequences of Quantitative Easing
Thanks for sharing this. This is awesome. It reminds me of something that Minsky said in the 70s: "Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer"
Film alone doesn't determine performance - the whole instrument must be considered. The OBC trades "resolution" for area coverage rate. The digital electro-optical imagery from the U-2 is produced using an instrument (SYERS-2) with a different optical design. Intelligence Imagery (IMINT) is rated on the NIIRS scale and the OBC imagery is most-likely unclassified now due to it being at the mid-range of the NIIRS scale.

You make a good point about the scanning. Any wet film product these days must generally be scanned to allow for further production in our "soft-copy" world.
Yashin
> but not having firm evidence to back up your claim doesn't make you wrong.

Talebs point is the public is being mislead by taking an incredibly unlikely scenario and treating it as likely and common.

Mary's rebuttal was that it's not an impossible scenario.
At GitLab we just bump the minor version every month. And when there is a breaking change we bump the major version. The advantage is that semver is well understood and we can communicate breaking changes. The disadvantage is that you need to look up what version was released when.
That was quite beautiful. Thanks for sharing it.
As long as you make a decent app, there will always be new people that want it.

And the larger your userbase, the more word of mouth advertisement you get. So it might not be the best idea to keep your userbase small by requiring them to pay again and again.
Ha, great point! The whole idea is a bit silly and probably wouldn't be practical, but even if was, that would almost definitely make it a no-go for cave exploration.
I like the idea of everyone using Esperanto as their second language. But there is a problem with incentives. Even the argument of political neutrality has its problems: someone has to be the first to seriously support the language, but at that moment the language would stop being perceived as neutral. (For example, if tomorrow EU would decide to use Esperanto as a neutral common language, and if the plan would actually work well, then people outside EU would see it as the language of EU, not as a neutral one.)

Also, sometimes people don't want to cooperate, but rather to out-compete their neighbors. Learning English or Chinese is more difficult than learning an artificial language -- but if you have already paid the costs of learning them, you have an advantage over your neighbors who got worse education. Making international communication too simple would take away the relative advantage of those who have already invested in the current one.
It's quite misleading to call GPU's SIMD lanes "cores" and then compare the core count to actual CPU cores (that have SIMD as well).

In fact it's often mentioned that the reason GPUs are fast is that they have "a lot of dumb cores". It's true, but that's somewhat unrelated to the SIMD width.

One of the big reason why you can get away with dumb cores is that since you have so many independent threads (actual threads with independent PC), you can go with super-wide SMT (up to say 64 instead of 2 for intel HT).

This way you keep a deep pipeline full cheaply (by issuing from each thread in turn), while a CPU has to scramble and spend power/area to do so (branch pred., OoO, ...). Well, I guess the huge register files are not quite cheap but still.

The barrel processor style is to me a way more defining characteristic of GPU vs CPU design than the SIMD capabilities.

Then of course, wide SIMD on top of that is good for flops.
Maybe you would like the BetterC mode in the D programming language... if you mean you like C for it's syntax too. A lot of modern systems prog. languages seem to adopt a more modern syntax, i.e. types after the names rather than before, no semi-colons, etc.

D stays true to C in this regard and offers a lot of fancy features. And the BetterC mode sounds suited to your requirements in that the language features doesn't over complicate things.