skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tinc is really cool. I like that you can give it a partial mesh and it will figure out how to create a full mesh from it. A few years ago I was talking to the author, Guus, about using WireGuard as the underlying backhaul in Tinc while preserving the neat Tinc meshing magic. I've since gotten super busy getting the core WireGuard stuff completed, but at some point I'd really like to circle back to Guus and make something like that happen.
Ever notice the similarity between Bitcoin and VR blogs and comments? Always, "it's early days," even after years of waiting for something useful.
Ya I guess it was something of a strawman. But it's pretty close to the truth since it's very hard to get good guidance outside academia or places like google with lots of phds around.
Based on the interactions I've had with 40+ companies while looking for a job, I think following the process is often more of an issue than having a process.

The amount of times I've been ghosted after the phone screening paired with the time wasted trying to schedule follow-up interviews is makes for a super frustrating experience. Honestly, getting employers to follow-through on hiring is something that the employer should be doing themselves. It makes me think it's some kind of subliminal "initiation" process to prove I'm worthy enough to join their clique.
I don't know if Intel have done this, but you can design AVX-512 to run on AVX ALUs at half the IPC. You could feasabley design a CPU which has full AVX-512 units powered down and runs instructions at half speed until the full ALUs are powered up.

One you have a CPU of that design, you can eliminate that AVX-512 sidechannel by not sending the signal to power up the full AVX-512 ALUs until a AVX-512 instruction is fully executed.
Mobile version in 2018 should be a priority. I'm reading HN on mobile and even though I like your idea I may forget what's all about by the time I switch to desktop later today.
Except data caps still won't prevent the actual problem, I already explained above why. Even if you pretend it's a psychological deterrent - it's not really a solution to the technical issue. And ISPs will try to avoid admitting the obvious, that caps are a convenient tool to rip everyone off.

If they are worried about congestion, they have only two things they can do: 1. build their network up. 2. start reducing bandwidth of each connection, if they are too many of them.
I'm sorry for your loss.

If you did not see "Big Fish" when it came out in 2003, I highly recommend it as it is one of the best movies that I have seen that explores the relationship between a father and son.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rziFIdDjfHo

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt000319061/

EDIT: On second thought. This movie might be a bit too heavy/close to home for you or others who have lost their father to watch, but the recommendation still stands for others.
> She asked why and the answer was, well, you’re just supposed to know this osmotically.

Well. I think you're supposed to be sharp enough to figure it out on your own. It's not exactly subtle.
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A less than favorable review of Chuck Yeager's performance and attitude handling the NF-104 air/spacecraft: http://www.kalimera.org/nf104/stories/stories_11.html. And politics as usual http://www.kalimera.org/nf104/stories/stories_13.html.
You say React but then complain about Redux. I get it I'm not a fan of Redux either, so why not direct your criticism to Redux instead of React? Also I would like to add that Redux is not needed to build a React app.
One problem is the the sheer number of countries that use English, and the lack (in any of those countries) of a standards organization for the language (take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_regulators)
Touching article I can relate to. I lost my mother to leukemia two and a half years ago and I still am reminded of her everyday. This kind of grief is one that will never leave me. Every memory of her has the potential to bring tears to my eyes, but there are memories that give me a smile and there are many that inspire me to be better person.

My son just turned one year old a month ago. He is going through his cutest phase yet. He wants to play, walk, talk and say hi to everyone. I think often of what she would say to him, what she would cook for him, or the advice she would give me on raising him. So many things to wonder but then I see my son smile. He has my mom's smile and he loves to smile and laugh.

Life can be funny like that. Besides the teachings and memories I have of my mom, I am lucky enough to be also reminded of her smile every day through my son.
That is very thoughtful and helpful advice, much appreciated! Thank you :)
It took me 2 weeks to “switch” to Dvorak in 2008.

Your brain will unlearn the touch position of QWERTY, and looking down at a QWERTY, keyboard when you type will throw you off big time at first.

Eventually you’ll get used to looking at a QWERTY keyboard and typing Dvorak, which is interesting (my mind maps different letters between the layouts).

You can relearn QWERTY fairly easily once you’re confident in Dvorak, and you’ll be able to type in both, but I don’t ever find the need to type in QWERTY. When helping a coworker out on their computer I’d just switch their settings and switch back if I was going to be working there for awhile. Additionally you can get a WASD / CODE keyboard which has a hardware Dvorak dip switch, which is in Dvorak outputting to a system expecting QWERTY.
Try training a classifier that can detect a person holding weapon aiming to kill someone vs a person not. Make it a 99.9999% accuracy classfier under different weather conditions. Now make one for night vision images. Even seemingly straighforward classification problems can be hard. Not to mention the vast array of other problems out there.
It may be a matter of trust and practice.

To overcome "intransparency" one may become an expert or trust expert(s) asserting that they did sufficient analysis of the thing in question (here an algorithm) and are confident.

In addition, with time, one sees that the thing does an apparently adequate job and doesn't produce so much patent problems. Such things are at first "feared" and rarely used, then gradually gain adoption/traction (benefiting from positive feedback).

No one can fully understand the whole technical and organisational context of jetliners, but most of us use them because apparently competent and objective experts continuously check all this, and because problems appear to be rare.

This approach may/will fail in catastrophic ways for various causes, either psy (one loses too much autonomy, and incentive) or systemic (the composition of various things may produce an inadequate system).
It's really impressive that Jeff accomplished so much despite going to UMN for undergrad.
... it sure seems that way.
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It seems like the main problem is that the compiler doesn’t know the specific target it will run on. We actually do have our smart-enough compilers. They just come in the form of microcode that we can’t audit or even opt out of because the true instruction set of the machine is a trade secret and we’ve been locked out anyway by code signing.
10,000 prototype apps/mockups sprung up (a good thing) after mastodon.design popped up. Some of them are bound to launch with this feature.
Yeah this is a fair point, didn't mean to suggest that easy security wins that dont't inconvenience the user or add cost in some other way aren't worth making.
A more important question is why can't the richest government in the world afford to hire competent qualified developers?

We've never had any similar problem building fighter jets, tanks, aircraft carriers, ICBMs, Railguns & Weaponized Lasers, Nuclear Warheads... But computer technology is outside our reach?

Forget the predictable excuses about how AI developers only work in the private sector because there's more money in it. That's bullshit because we all know the things I listed cost billions of dollars every year.

Something else is going on.
Professor Vipin Kumar for the lazy: https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kumar001/.
Non-American here -- what is wrong with UMN? I visited once, and it seemed like a decent university.
Didn’t VR have the same hype train surrounding it that led to Facebook dropping a cool billion on it to acquire Oculus? To date what do we really have to show in VR?

How is Oculus/Palmer any less guilty than Magic Leap? Give it 5 more years and I think we’ll call both initiatives a failure when compared against their promises.
No love for Clojure? I know many people that swear by it.
You're welcome. It was previously submitted by @starpilot and @laurex a few days prior, and it did not receive the attention that it deserved. Third time was the charm.
They spent about 150% the cost of the telescope in moving 9,000 people from the area around the telescope. Then they plan a city nearby for hundreds of thousands of people.

That can't be a decision of scientists involved in FAST. Only a bureaucrat would do something that stupid.
I'm sure it's fine, but it's not Harvard or Stanford or MIT - it has a 45% acceptance rate similar to my school (~45-51%). AFAIK it's not even considered a public Ivy like UMich or UW or UNC.
Very nice! Tells me to add "<meta name="referrer" content="no-referrer">" which I didn't think of, because I don't link to external resources.
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Honest question, what is so hard about writing Chinese to create carss? I find at least typing in pinyin on windows and android isn't so bad, or did you mean specifically in the context of vim?
nothing is wrong with UMN - OP is making a joke based on the common refrain that Google only hires Stanford/Harvard kids.
I don't think your assessment of the VR industry is particularly sharp.
Is it really fair to say western cultures don't like offal? I mean, there's chitlins, tripe, scrapple, head cheese, natural sausage casing, beef shin, pig's trotters, aspic jelly, oxtail, black puddings, the list goes on.
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Interesting. I think you are discounting your talent for skimming in any language though :)
I would caution current and future CEOs about misunderstanding this article. Quoting Jim Collins:

Interviewer: The CEOs who took their companies from good to great were largely anonymous. Is that an accident?

Jim Collins: There is a direct relationship between the absence of celebrity and the presence of good-to-great results. Why? First, when you have a celebrity, the company turns into “the one genius with 1,000 helpers.” It creates a sense that the whole thing is really about the CEO. At a deeper level, we found that for leaders to make something great, their ambition has to be for the greatness of the work and the company, rather than for themselves. That doesn’t mean that they don’t have an ego. It means that at each decision point—at each of the critical junctures when Choice A would favor their ego and Choice B would favor the company and the work—time and again the good-to-great leaders pick Choice B. Celebrity CEOs, at those same decision points, are more likely to favor self and ego over company and work.

Source:
https://www.jimcollins.com/article_topics/articles/good-to-g...
As someone who has to deal with Spring stack traces and React/Redux stack traces on a daily basis ... I'll take React/Redux 100% of the time.

There is a lot to complain about both but I think the Java boilerplate mess is at least one order of magnitude worse.

Just one man's opinion, anecdotal evidence, YMMV, etc.
"running Anki on Raspberry Pi"

It's a bit hard to help without knowing:

- what OS you're using

- what exactly you mean by "I cannot get Anki working", i.e. the standard stuff in a bug report: what did you do, what did you expect to happen, and what actually happened

- what peripherals you're trying to use (e.g. some people using treadmills control their PI using an Xbox controller; perhaps your problem is related to getting that working?
It is shared in the sense that he can't make payroll without the bonus.
Ok, it's not literally "only" but most. /r/rust is a great example of healthy community. They only delete obvious troll/personal attack comments. You can go there right now and post a post similar to what you deleted on /r/elm and I bet it won't be deleted or locked.

> I understand that you're trolling me, but just for the record - of course we don't do that.

I'm not trolling. I'll bet $100 that you've at least deleted 3 threads about native code and locked at least 5. Latest example: https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/elm-0-19-released-what-has-...

Moderator quote:

> Finally, a moderation note: I’m going to lock this thread since discussions on this topic have the unfortunate tendency to spiral out of control and we have already debated this past the point of productive return. If you have things you need to upgrade, we’re of course happy to help… let’s just do them in separate threads. :slight_smile:

Please don't suggest users of locked Reddit threads that they're welcome on Discourse. Just say the truth - you don't want any discussions about this anymore. There's no harm in being honest.
You managed to articulate most of my thoughts in a much more constructive and encouraging fashion than I could. That’s inspiring, thank you!
umn is #30 according to us news. not top 10 but still very good.
It can certainly be tricky. That said, if you've never used it, I highly recommend trying out adaptive max pooling.
Thank you kindly! Yes hopefully can build a mobile app soon! The current design did not lend itself easily to mobile screens.
> But this thread is talking about going even further and exposing new CPU features to programmers, and not just compilers.

You could argue they already do, __builtin_prefetch and it's associated assembly instructions offer a way to manipulate the cache, but at the same time they seem to hedge their bets and pretend the cache isn't there. On the other end we've got programmers that know it's there and jump through hoops to try and keep things in contiguous memory, tricking the CPU into doing the correct thing.

That is truly an elephant in the room situation, everyone knows there is a magic black box there but do their best to ignore it because there is no other option.

> Wasn't this supposed to be the lesson of Itanium and VLIW?

It was the lesson, but that doesn't mean it was the correct one. In an alternate universe where there was no x86_64 we might have learned the opposite lesson.
Why can't we have IPSec + IKEv2 everywhere as originally intended as part of IPv6. No "VPN" necessary.
It would be far easier to make existing English spelling more phonetic using the existing alphabet.

Such efforts wud hav the benefit of beeng immeedeeatly obveeus to existeeng speekurs
Wha? I don't think so. An npm-like framework could work for Java. The difference between classloading and node.js 'require' module loader is not super relevant.

Frankly - the reason that Maven and Gradle are more sophisticated is because many Java projects are massive compared to most JS projects, the amount of complexity, various kinds of packaging, testing etc. necessitates some inherent complexity in modules. Java modules tend to be a lot bigger as well.

Again I think it's a cultural issue.
One day they will come up with an advanced keyboard layout that keep hjkl movement keys, and I'll give it a try.

I wonder how much of a day of typing can be generalized to a keymap that is good for words and prose input, even code input, and how much is meta things like navigation, and editor commands or window manager commands, etc... I also wonder how much varies from person to person. I feel like I do a fairly small amount of prose or code input but a lot of window navigation, scrolling, thinking...

Honestly, though, keeping qwerty and switching to a ErgoDox has made me extremely happy and uninterested in trying another keyboard layout. I have the qwerty layout mostly as it is on all my other devices (Chromebook, laptop, workstation), but I have a bunch of little tweaks for my work environment including customization for work like modifiers for tiling window manager and different layers for coding characters and special functions (mouse paste and browser back).

I have a friend that had it set up so that in insert mode in vi it was Dvorak and in command mode it was qwerty so hjkl worked. Based on people I've seen switching between Dvorak and qwerty, that seems awfully painful.
Are you seriously implying that someone is a nazi just because they have the number 88 in their name? I have the number 87 in my name, what does that tell you about me?

You're a perfect example of what they're complaining about. They've said nothing even remotely offensive, just that they don't agree with shared block lists, and you've already decided that they're wrong and a nazi. I've seen people get added to shared block lists on twitter just because they commented on a thread saying that they both political parties in the US should work together instead of being so devisive, so it's not like only trolls and abusive people get added to those lists.

I hope you enjoy your self-imposed bubble, where everyone you disagree with is a nazi.
I've probably seen more furballs in ~2 years of Mastodon than I did in years of furry Twtter.
Many Democrats who voted against him and disagreed with his policies still respected him as a person. I count myself among them. It's sad that people let their political tribalism get so intense that they're happy that their opponent is dead.
No I read it in 2015.

Ok I think I got what you meant - yes, there are some people who see the headlines and ONLY the headlines. That’s something that applies to laymen- despair in the experts and scientists themselves ? That’s unheard of. And this isn’t the only article or source.

I’m not sure what you mean by “calling this stuff out.”

We are going to see the barrier reef die in our life time. Even the weakest carbon targets have been ignored and world consensus has failed.

And this is before Most of the developing world has come online, so human consumption is not even close to its peak.

We are already seeing displacement, and fish stocks world wide are plummeting.

Look no one believed 2008 was coming, because the economy is a complex system which looked to be fine.

The environment is the same. Eventually there’s going to be a failure cascade. The depth and natural complexity of it is being hollowed out, or overwhelmed.
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Things human value (exploration, science) aren’t necessarily things other species would value. We tend to destroy the planet in our pursuits, so I’m not as confident as you are in our own species’ intellectual superiority.

Many species have better memories than humans, including most monkey/ape species. We have exceptional dexterity while dolphins don’t, so is it a fair fight to judge intelligence by putting a telescope into orbit? Do dolphins have as high a rate of depression in their species as humans? Do they have as many wars as us? Again, are we really that much more intelligent than these other species? Measuring intelligence is hard because we don’t have a rigorous definition.
That makes snooping much more difficult.
Fully agree. NPM is a complete three ring circus compared to pip and a requirements.txt file.
Better make sure they don't broadcast anything towards the sun...
Such a thing doesn’t exist and it doesn’t need to, because humans have much lower accuracy than that. You don’t need to run faster than the bear, you need to run faster than the other guy, and that’s not hard to do if you pick the right task.
Maybe they were born in 1988?

Maybe they play the piano (88 keys)?

Maybe they're a ham radio operator ("love and kisses")?

Maybe they're a big Kill Bill fan (Crazy 88s)?

Maybe they think it's a lucky number (Chinese culture)?

There's a million possibilities[1] besides this baseless ad hominem attack in which you're implying they're a neo-nazi. This moral panic over white supremacists supposedly hiding under every bed is really tiring.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_(number)
My undergrad "project"'s report had to be of some minimum page count (about 300, I recall). I remember filling the report with the W3C specification of HTTP, Wikipedia articles and what not in order to convince the professor that I had done some "work" in order to build the project (It was based on using a interactive genetic algorithm for generating CSS files for webpages).

Also, I had to be submit 3 identical hard-bind copies of that bullshit report.
I expected (2012) after the article's title. This type of hype about Node and JS is long gone I'm afraid.
That's just precisely what the article says. The first version of Spectre is the problem.
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In the U.S., one's undergraduate institution does not correlate to success as much as it does in certain countries like France or Japan, where universities are a pipeline for elite selection and grooming.

Also, not all intelligent American kids can or want to go to elite schools, even if they are academically qualified. In the U.S., you often hear stories of kids turning down really good schools for ones they felt were a better "fit" (financially, culturally, etc.). And unlike the rest of the world, elite colleges in the U.S. are often private and expensive. Despite need-blind admissions, not everyone can afford them without going into heavy debt. (many middle-class parents make just enough money for their kid to not qualify for substantial financial aid).

So kids go to schools they can afford.

One of my college professors (who attended Princeton and MIT) once told me that in his observation, the top 5 percentile students in (good) state schools aren't that different from the kids who went to Princeton or MIT. I didn't believe him at the time, but having worked with different folks over the years, my experience inclines me to believe that there's some truth in that observation.

Owing to its population and economy, the U.S. has a large enough talent pool that the top percentile students at large, well-funded state schools (of which UMN is an example) are plenty smart. If you were to meet the really smart top-5-percentile kids from such state colleges (I have), you'd have no doubt that many of them could have attended MIT or CMU.

To be sure, good colleges can give you a headstart in life -- but it's what you do with that advantage that counts.

--

Examples of smart computer folk who went to decent, but non-elite schools for undergrad:

Doug Crockford (Javascript), SFSU

JJ Allaire (ColdFusion, Rstudio, etc.), Macalester College

Ward Cunningham (Wikis), Purdue

Rich Hickey (Clojure), SUNY Empire State (though he did go to Berklee College of Music)

John Carmack (Doom, Quake), U. Missouri Kansas City

Sergey Brin (Google), U. Maryland College Park (before Stanford)

Larry Page (Google), U. Michigan (before Stanford)

Dave Cutler (VMS, Windows NT), Olivet College

Bram Cohen (BitTorrent), U at Buffalo

Ryan Dahl (Node.js), UCSD, then U Rochester

Larry Wall (Perl), Seattle Pacific U (before Berkeley)

Alan Kay (Smalltalk, windowing GUIs), U Colorado, then U Utah.

Brendan Eich (Javascript, Mozilla), Santa Clara U (before UIUC)
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If you think that Bitcoin's value is $0 long term, why not go short and make reams of money? After 10 years the market has shown that owning 100 btc has preserved more purchasing power than owning 100 USD, What's your call for the next 10 years?
I would hope that most HNers don't get their political views from Family Guy, so I don't see what that's evidence of.