skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah. You can screw with the BEAM’s reduction-scheduling even in pure Erlang code: just write a really long function body consisting only of arithmetic expressions (picture an unrolled string hash function.) Since it contains no CALL or RET ops, the scheduler will never hit a yield point, even after going far “into the red” with the current process’s reduction budget.

You just never see this in real Erlang code, because who would code that way? If you want to be idiomatic, use recursion. If you want to be fast, use a NIF. Why ever use an unrolled loop body?

But it can happen, and therefore, the BEAM does not guarantee preemption, even in Erlang. Reduction scheduling isn’t a “kind of” preemptive scheduling. It’s its own thing.
Good point. I'm willing to bet it was spear phishing. Really, really effective, and I don't believe there is a solution besides education and vigilance.
people line up to buy $400 nikes. A $1400 phone every 2 years doesn't sound so unreasonable.
And Google gets to make money off the backs of people stuck in an ever darkening dystopian society.

Win.win.

Monsters.
Seriously, my wife and I bought a pile of Apple stock in 2004.

I wonder if we were time travelers in that old timeline.
Initially, I didn’t know the reason is automatic vectorization. I’ve found the reason and wrote the readme after that comment: https://github.com/Const-me/MemoryAccessCosts/commits/master
Definitely - getting rich off these things means you have to go against convention. People have to call you "crazy" or "wild."
Native code or not shouldn't matter that much for a JIT. I've heard Cliff Click say in a talk that if he were to write another VM, it'd probably be in something like Java. The memory management of fairly arbitrary graphs like you get in a compiler really benefit from garbage collection, and it's nice to run the compiler sort of through itself to get dynamic profiling for optimization.
You can read more about it in a story from 1998 that was posted here two days ago (probably part of the reason that so many ITT know the story ;))

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17652502
This is pretty weird. I don't care how much flights and lodging costs, not because I can afford to do whatever I want, but because I simply don't take travel vacations very often. I can spend somewhat outlandishly on travel and not ruin my annual budget. On the other hand, there are things I do routinely that I have to be price sensitive about; for instance: I am price sensitive about parking fees. For that matter, despite its status as "wealth level 2", I am more price sensitive about restaurant meals than about travel.
What I would like to know is, if there was an emergency situation and the grid was going to be down for an extended period of time (I'm thinking 3+ weeks, months, years) would there be a way of altering the system so that the home could have electricity, at least during daylight hours?
The statement is true, Actor systems can handle uncertainty in ways that Turing Machines can not.
Level 0 is missing here. They want to know if they can afford rent AND food this month. They might be able to squeak by if nothing goes wrong. But something always does. Whether the 12 year old car needs an expensive repair or someone gets sick and misses work or even a parking ticket can leave them struggling to get by.

Also missing is level 4: I don't have to work to be at level 3 levels of comfort.

There's a tiny fraction who own significant wealth that are in a special level 5 or higher. "I don't care what anything costs."
One more thing that comes to mind: So they're comparing people who drink 14 units/week (one beer a day) versus people who drink more than one beer a day. Are the differences in the effects observed really dominated by the presence of people in that second group who drink a second beer and then stop their drinking for the day, or by the presence in that group of really excessive drinkers.
Here's another interesting breakdown based on net-worth:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2s9u0s/what_do_i...
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Oops. I don't think the study showed that at all. You have jumped to a conclusion. Maybe it's valid, maybe not.
Certainly feels like someone found a reason to kick a right-leaning admin off Wikipedia. Just because someone has an agenda and seek out negative information about people, doesn't mean said information is wrong.
You must not have driven many cars
It's worth noting that this is the first U.S. company to hit $1 trillion, not in the world. Also, it's still intraday, so Apple has not technically reached that point yet.
> I understand the basics behind WASM. What does WebAssembly VM in Go mean?

A VM is a virtual machine, in this case capable of running wasm outside of your wasm-enabled browser.

You could also have learnt this by following the link you are commenting on and RTFM.
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> Once you've experienced this kind of MMO it is hard to get the same highs from other games.

I really, truly, am trying to understand, so please bear with my slowness. I can see how it is really rewarding to find not-bad people in an environment that incentivizes really bad people. I don't see how that makes up for getting into such an environment in the first place, and certainly not why one would follow up the experience by seeking out similar environments.

People suck on average, so you want to give them every opportunity and incentive to demonstrate, so that you can find the "good" people? Note the selection bias - you're finding those people that are both NOT asshats but also interested in an environment that encourages asshats. Perhaps that's more rewarding than my habit of simply not having close friends at all, but it also seems far more punishing. Bland people can be exhausting, but evil people....they bring despair. To be in an environment that cranks up the frequency and demonstration of people getting joy from the misery of others...that sounds like a choice to endure needless pain and suffering.

[Pause for the irony of submitting that last sentence as part of an online discussion thread]

I just don't get it. Doubtless just a difference in personal tastes - perhaps someone being a jerk around me bothers me just a tiny bit more, and someone being nice around me thrills me just a tiny bit less - but emotionally I'm failing to wrap understanding around your stance.
At first glance, this looks like an ordinary interpreter loop [1] using a large switch statement. I didn't think this was all that fast in Go, compared to C. And yet the JIT version isn't hugely faster and can be slower. Are there performance tricks I'm missing?

[1] https://github.com/perlin-network/life/blob/master/exec/vm.g...
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In this case, there are official boundaries and they actually matter quite a bit for local politics. "East Cut" is a local neighborhood association which rebranded itself so it could expand its territory.
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No, they will concentrate their hyper-moralising and virtue signalling on the US.

China, et al, will get a pass.
Soon Amazon will be in this list.
Waymo's advantages include LIDAR and extremely detailed maps, IIRC. If I had to guess, those maps probably help them distinguish between roadside objects that happen to be static right now and ones that are really not going anywhere.
The tax deal Apple made with Ireland between 1991 and 2015 allowed them to avoid tax on almost all profits across the EU, booking the profits in Ireland rather than the country of sale and paying less than 1% corporation tax (0.005% in 2014). Given that most of their tech stack comes from publicly funded research, the system is clearly broken.
But you can't safely guide the plug into the wall socket without looking at it. With European plugs[1], that's fine. The grounded version doesn't have that protection, but the female side has walls on the side and a protruding ground plug, so it's also safe to guide with your fingers: by the time the plug is sufficiently in to become live with power, the gap is smaller than the width of a toddler's finger.

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Production Erlang systems tend to take advantage of hibernating many of their “millions of processes”, though, since it’s a rare architecture where those million processes are all hot. If you look at the memory usage of such systems, it’s a lot less than that figure would imply, mainly because of process hibernation.
"I think, as noted in the article, that it seems Google sometimes uses names from advertisements as if they are canonical."

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"Currently the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising... We expect that commercial search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers..." - Sergey Brin and Larry Page, 1998

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
But now you're punishing those who aren't mining crypto.
The maps made by the city have legal impact. They control everything from funding to allocation of community resources. For example, in my city each neighborhood has an official community association that is acts as a liaison to the city.

Improvement projects are also designated by neighborhood, long term planning and resource allocation is on a per-neighborhood basis.
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I'm not as familiar with the VOC as maybe I should be, but the British East India Company actually was the government of India from 1757 to 1858, when the British state took over. Until 1858, the territory of the EIC was administered by a Board of Directors who were responsible to shareholders, not to Parliament.
> but an investment in XEM or XRP (Nem or Ripple or Stellar Lumens)

None of those is an investment in something with inherent worth. Hence, I'd not call them an investment, but pure speculation.
Can anyone brief what NonZero even is.. or rather, it's application? From the sounds of it, it's literally just a u8 (or w/e) that can't be zero.. but what use case does that have?
This is awesome! Is there a plan to support all the major embedding algorithms?
> But I bet this won't happen because GNU fears that sort of things considering they won't split up the GCC compiler.

That's unfounded, there are plenty of GNU projects that have an API.
“No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.”
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but what is strange is that they let you avoid it (you can close the "popup" window and keep on doing whatever you were going to do in the first place)
> this is the first U.S. company to hit $1 trillion

What's the other one?
There are also class and ethnic biases - wine drinkers are disproportionately college-educated and caucasian.
There is other tech involved as well, such as seccomp to disable certain syscalls (e.g. networking).
Thanks for being careful to say "free at the point of delivery" - that was always one of the core principles of the UK NHS and everyone knows its not "free" - we all pay for it in our taxes - which I'm personally quite happy about.
On the other hand. I think Google creates way more value for the world, they are just not as good as Apple at capturing that value.

Android, Maps, Docs, Gmail, Navigation, Analytics are all (mostly) free.
Great idea. From the screenshot the UI looks very sterile.

Would be great if the actual video content would get more screen estate to focus on the team and not on the UI controls.

Also, why is your app not advertised on the website? I think the app should be the main entry point to your tool and not a web dashboard.
i love the simplicity of the site! would you consider open sourcing or selling a license so we can do a replica of it for our community?

haha edit - i didn't scroll down. you guys rock! - https://github.com/MadeInA2/madeina2
It's not as straightforward. I mean, I wish it would be...

POs or customers don't decide wether code is correct or behavior is correct. The more adequate word would be that they design wether it's useful or not, wether it's good enough or nor or wether it's on spec. Behaviour and program correctness are Comp. Sci. disciplines and coder/engineer responsibilities.
Inverter generators like the popular Hondas are not good for surges. If you run them at a steady draw they'll give you nice, clean power. If you your demand fluctuates significantly they will stall or cut out and the voltage during or after the stall may be dirty.

You have to read the specs carefully to make sure they are a good match for your use.
The article is about level of wealth, so in a sense a level 0 means "does not qualify as wealthy". I think the scale is fine on the lower end but agree it could go "higher". Although your example of level 4 takes into account some sort of ROI, which is not present in any other level.
>It's scary when a company with chronic implementation issues decides to take on a hard problem that is way outside its core competency.

Not quite... The chip was designed by Jim Keller, who was a key player in designing the highly successful AMD Zen architecture and Apple's A4 and A5 SoCs (pretty much a legend).

Jim is known in the industry as having an unquenchable thirst for really hard problems. Solves them, leave the company to recharge and goes on to the next company/project.
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Cheer up buddy, you were this incompetent at one time too, but now look at you, a full grown narcissistic asshole senior developer. You have come a long way and these kids will too!
GDP is more like a country's Turnover than Net Profit
Forfeiting beer and whiskey? No thanks. Total digression, but does anyone here know of any drugs that cause neurogenesis? I speculate shrooms and acid might, but maybe I'm just delusional..
What? No, Apple is the first in the world.
After two versions where performance has been unchanged I once again see a little bit of performance improvement with this version in my pet photo camera raw decoding benchmark. 1.28 is ~1% faster than 1.27 and nightly seems to be ~1% faster than 1.28 again. Don't know if there have been LLVM updates or if work on the rust compiler itself has helped. In total, since version 1.17 I'm measuring almost a 25% improvement in CPU intensive code. I need to make a more comprehensive benchmark easy to run by everyone (many different kinds of files, fully automatic running, etc).
We can still complain about their walled-garden approach to software distribution, particularly the extortionist 30% fee and handicapping of non-native apps. Or their kowtowing to the Chinese censors.
It's been a while since I studied this, and I know that some Copenhagenist try to wiggle their way out of this, but if you consider the probability waves in the Copenhagen interpretation to be "real" and "measurement" to cause their collapse, book-keeping information by the universe would seem to have to travel at faster than the speed of light, IIRC.

On the other hand, it's certainly been proven that this cannot be used to transmit information that you might like to at faster than the speed of light. So causality is preserved in any case.
Are you saying that people can't be controversial in "not a good way"? I hope not.

Whether this applies to Galloway is a matter of popular opinion. Look at Assange. First he was hailed as a hero in the West; now he's looked at as a Russian agent.
The earliest point at which AAPL reached $14 (roughly $3.57 in post-split shares) was Nov. 1999. If they'd purchased 36 (500/14) shares, they would now have 1008 shares, worth roughly $200K.

So, absolute best case and assuming they held until the all-time high, roughly a 400x return. There would be another ~$30K in dividends, assuming no dividend reinvestment.
Or 57% of an American standard drink.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_drink
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There are a number of routes one can take to get from LA to NY. Elon is stalling because he knows that "Autopilot" isn't capable of making the trip.
It would be easy to do, but the savings in transaction fees would not be enough to be worth the increased energy cost, even for the people who use Bitcoin, which most of them probably don't.
Has anyone here been using Pentax cameras and how do they compare to Canon and Nikon professional/hobbyist/tourist offering?
The worth of a share is what someone will pay you for it.
The NonZero type reminds me of something else I'd like to see in Rust; ranged integers. By which I mean integers that can only represent a specified range of numbers.

This is not so much for optimization but for type safety (i.e. avoiding bugs).
Verified accounts are pretty new, I suspect we'll see Slack verified soon.
I apologize, as I was indeed not talking specifically about phones, but computing devices in general. I can see how that can be confusing since the original article is about phones.

In regards to phones:

Just because we don't have a good alternative doesn't make Apple a good one. It is a fact that we don't know what they do with your private data. You can't say that their system is the best if you don't actually know what it does. All you can do is guess.
>As I’ve continued to grow older, I’ve now come to realize it wasn’t the travel, eating out, or the things I could buy that helped me to be less stressed, it was the lack of burden of worrying about how I would pay for X, Y, or Z.

Excellent post, and I love this observation. Security is the main thing people need to have a chance at happiness.
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I think the analogy holds, unless your bank account reflects your payroll for the year (no costs).
The jobs globalization devalues least are those that require physical presence - such as construction.
This will be very controversial, especially in HN, but market cap doesn't mean shit.

Apple has roughly $50B in revenue and $120B in equity.
Most of it's products could be replaced in less than 5 years by a competitor. Market cap is a measure of public trust among other things but not actual worth or value to society.
The problem I have when discussing "wealth" is that it's almost always done in comparison to others at this time. For example, I'm "rich" or "poor" compared to the richest and poorest people around me today.

If we compared it with other people internationally, or even historically, we're filthy rich at almost any level of the ladder.
Note: benchmarks are comparing to other wasm interpreters (in Go and Rust), not browser implementations.
Due to an upstream LLVM bug, we had to remove some information about aliasing; that bug was fixed and this was re-enabled in this release. That may be what you’re seeing.
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Exploiting 3rd world labor and selling overpriced crap to the rich of the world. How old fashioned.
Will it also shave off fifty-odd KB from executable size?
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They're not free. They just don't cost money. Arguably they're very expensive.
Or, the net present value of the US economy plus assets, which is probably pushing a quadrillion dollars.
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Elon said the exact same thing in the Q4 2017 earnings call. And then said they would still do the demo in the next 3-6 months. It's been 6 months and this "easily doable" demo has still not been done. Tesla has shown zero evidence of their self driving program making any meaningful progress.

http://www.autonews.com/article/20180208/MOBILITY/180209770/...
I agree with your general sentiment overall.

I do not agree that neural networks are a "black box" with "no ability to inspect and verify". Even putting aside the many methods to understand what a neural network is doing without running it, at core, neural networks are well tested instruments. That's how they learn-- by testing themselves.

Obviously it's possible for a neural network to have odd behavior in circumstances not accounted for but that was always going to be possible at the level of complexity we're talking about here.

We're talking about cutting edge technology here -- and I agree with your general sentiment. I just don't agree with pinning the blame on "... based on neural networks". The same factors would apply to any codebase of this complexity.
Some claim the HAL/IBM connection was intentional (though Stanley denies it).
selling luxury consumer goods that at best are "nice to have" - you need to look deeper than "oil = bad" if you truly want to assess the impact of a company. It just seems you're more concerned with 1984 than with brave new world
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Yeah, that was a real howler. I really hope he was somehow misquoted, because the comparison literally does the opposite of put something in perspective.
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It has already been demonstrated non-self-driving cars.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33650491
PetroChina was the first for a brief period back in 2007.

Apple is the first trillion-dollar company in the United States, though.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2007/nov/06/china
Trust me, if you've followed the Scottish Independence debate at all, there really are people who should know better that do actually think this way. They really do think Hadrian's Wall is the Scottish border.
10,000! is quite a large number, to be fair.

Kidding aside, I agree: I'm also quite dubious of this article's claim on the East India company being worth as much as was computed.
Same for me, other than tidbits I got from my parents occasionally. Like many of the important things I learned in life, I had to teach myself.