skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can certainly use a GPU package for Julia with macros for generating ptx code. That's not what the OP did though. He merely optimized for using SIMD, which provides Julia a distinct advantage over other languages with strong metaprogramming, such as C++. But if you care enough about performance that you focus on the performance benefits of SIMD over ordinary execution, you probably should be using the GPU instead. By using CUDA (not C++) as the language, one can get far faster performance right out of the box.

Thus, a much fairer comparison, if we care so much about performance that non-SIMD execution is a non-starter, would be CUDA vs. Julia targeting the GPU.

Note that I absolutely love Julia because I find it far easier to write than a language like C++, but idiomatic Julia code still has low overhead, unlike, say, Python, which introduces orders of magnitude of overhead compared to low level languages, and you have to move away from simple idiomatic code to achieve reasonable performance. However, I find it unreasonable to focus on SIMD performance - the performance gain over non-vectorized code isn't that big, and if you do want to eek out that much extra performance, you should focus on using the GPU.
Yep, a really good tool to get people off of cigarettes will inevitably lure some people to try it who weren't smoking cigarettes to start with.

> and start being addicted to nicotine as well?

Then they'll be addicted to nicotine. And?

You're dropping that like it's some sort of trump card, but the reality this is about harm reduction, and trying to find a policy that will lead to optimal outcomes. If you can get X smokers to switch to vaping while Y non-smokers also start vaping, is that good? Depends on the harm of smoking, the harm of vaping, and the size of X relative to Y. Just yelling that Y is non-zero number without all the other information we need is just pointless noise.

If "...and then they'll be addicted!" was a compelling argument, we'd be banning Starbucks.
Actually having read your comment I agree with you and have changed my mind about using phone. Voting should be paper based.

The thing that I think would be great about using your phone to vote is that more people would participate in the U.S., where voting is optional. Would make no difference here in Australia where voting is mandatory.
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Oh, smart move! Never thought of using that strategy to get advantaged school funding.
Since when is it ok for a company to hold a political rally?

There are at least two separate angles, legal and moral.

I'm certainly not aware of all the laws, but I think 'jayd16' in the sibling is right that it's been definitely legal under federal law for a company to express support for a particular party or candidate at least since the Citizen's United decision. California state law may override this with regard to a "rally" with it's "hostile workplace" laws, but I don't think there is clear precedent. This seems like reasonable overview article on the legal situation: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2016/10...

Morally, I personally view it mostly from the angle of "free association". For me, if a group of people who run a company want to express their support for a candidate, they should be allowed to do so even if not all the employees agree. If the group's goal is primarily monetary, I'd expect that they'd avoid alienating employees because of their political beliefs, but I don't think it should be forbidden for them to have other priorities, even if it causes certain employees to feel unwelcome. This isn't great, but it's better (in my mind) than the alternative of forcing the larger group to silence themselves.

I was asking you what your thoughts were on it, because currently the usual pairing is "conservative" and "pro-Citizen's United". You seem to be pro-conservative (or at least concerned about the treatment of conservative employees) but against allowing corporations to express political preference. Thus I was wondering where the lines are for you.
It's about distrust of a particular technology in a particular country, that has been thoroughly validated through experience.

Is it possible to make electronic voting work safely and securely in principle? Yeah.

Would I trust anyone in US to do it today, considering various interest groups, political limitations etc? No.
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It is. Don't extrapolate your experience to a broader set.
"China competes and delivers inexpensive and high-quality products" --Jack Ma
Several states have voting from home using mail, with paper ballots.
> "... aggression and brutality always win out in humanity. We are all just passive & submissive subordinates, Apple is our one true master and dark lord"

Have we reached peak melodrama on HN?
This is great stuff and chance to see Google’s famous TGIFs. Also rare chance to hear Larry Page’s changed voice. It’s beyond shocking however that leaders of search engine business so openly preaching their political views. Given this is at the highest level, one cannot have confidence that things would remain bias free. I would have expected these leaders to make sure they keep their political views to themselves just to be fair to conservative employees who are ironically minority at Google.
I'm not super well informed about this but if I remember it's because FB would have had to play nice with the community, make RFCs or whatever it is they use, discuss with the community and then the biggest hurdle: vote.

by making hhvm, it allowed them to move at break-neck speeds with absolutely no reason to ask for permission.

The social aspect of it probably turned them off at a corporate level, if that makes sense. Where as throwing more hackers at the problem was totally in their wheel house. IMO.
Voting must not only be fair, but also able to be seen to be fair. Without a BSc.
Wow, they are still using Dory. That is the question collecting software that Taliver Heath wrote. It was a pretty brilliant idea, people submit questions and other people vote the questions up (or down) and top ranked questions get selected automatically.

Its interesting to think about Brietbart putting this out there as some 'evil' thing, given what their all hands meeting would have looked like if the election had gone the other way. But from a tech perspective its always destabilizing to endorse a political ideology just like it is destabilizing to endorse a religious ideology in what is a collective for economic output.

That said, the previous tech position of 'hands off' (very limited engagement except for very specific technical issues like ITAR restrictions on strong crypto) did not do tech any favors when it came to legislation. I'm not sure what the answer is here other than "its complicated."
> Can you claim you're politically neutral if you are not willing to listen to people who deny climate change?

If you're literally not willing to listen to any arguments for/against a hypothesis at all, then sure, you're likely more invested in the political aspect than the science itself. But if you're just arguing in favor of what the majority of the established literature suggests, then no, because being pro-science is orthogonal to politics, and arguing in favor of research doesn't make one political. Just because one particular subset of science gets latched onto by politicians, doesn't make it an inherently political subject any more than people who argue that the moon landing is fake make video/image editing an inherently conspiratorial subject. I also wouldn't be accusing others of flawed logic when making an argument that relies on guilt-by-association.
Stipulations in a contract which are illegal (federal or state law) are unenforceable everywhere in the United States.
Yes, and it doesn't have a big enough advantage for it to be picked up. Usually developer productivity and memory use (node doesn't cause memory leaks but it doesn't prevent them either) is more of a limiting factor than the execution model.

Node has found plenty of use outside of what it was originally built for (the canonical examples are web servers). As far as I can tell, it's used more widely and critically as a tool for packaging client-side scripts or for client-side applications (vscode, electron, Slack).

Examples of places where it seems like node would be an obvious choice, but it's not: blogs (WordPress still reigns), Mozilla's Add-ons (runs on Django [1]), Slack (very heavy user of JS on the front end, but backend is coded in PHP [1]), Zapier [2] (Python backend, though custom integrations are often written in JavaScript)

1: https://github.com/mozilla/addons-server

2: https://slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously-cf7a60065329?...

3: https://zapier.com/engineering/automating-billions-of-tasks/
To be fair, paper ballots also have their problems, Kennedy likely won the election because of ballot stuffing. However, I think it weird that we oppose electronic voting because of security concerns but similarly aligned groups oppose voter ID. If we cared about election integrity, we’d have a 100% photo ID requirement with facial recognition along with using election ink on a finger, along with tamperproor paper ballots. But I don’t think these groups actually care about election integrity — they simply seek to delegitimize election results for candidates and parties they don’t like. If their guy won, there wouldn’t be any challenge. Donna Curling (and her husband,) the lead plaintiff, has given over $48,000 to Democrat candidates, including contributing the maximum to David Scott — a congressman who, despite running unopposed in 2016, spent almost $1,000,000 in campaign funds on fancy DC restaurants and other nonsense — especially ridiculous since he ran unopposed. He literally just had to sit in a chair doing nothing and he would have won his election. But he managed to spend more money than many candidates in contested races. He may not have broken the law, but any reasonable person might have reason to believe that there is even more nonsense inside his tent.

And yes, this is relevant because Scott, throughout his career has engaged in highly questionable and potentially illegal campaign activities. Scott is also a member of the highly corrupt Congressional Black Caucus who has featured a veritable rogue’s gallery of unethical at best, illegal at worst members: Corrine Brown (federal prison for fraud,) Chaka Farrah (convicted of 23 charges of racketeering and fraud,) Eddie Bernice Johnson ethics violations,) Maxine Waters (multiple ethics violations due to involvement with OneBank,) Alcee Hastings (impeached as a judge,) Sheila Jackson-Lee (Medicare fraud,) Charlie Rangel (tax evasion,) Gwen Moore (ethical violations.)

David Scott also made the list of 25 most corrupt congressmen.

And the lead plaintiff is a major fundraiser for Scott.

If this Curling person actually cared about election integrity and ethics, then why would she significantly support one of the most corrupt congressmen in office?

David Scott, incidentally opposes voter ID laws and yet one of his biggest supporters is worried about election machine hacking? While I am not a fan of electronic voting, this entire case seems designed to deligitimize the election. People like to cite that voter fraud isn’t a real problem, yet election machine hacking also hasn’t been a proven problem either. So if voter ID is unnecessary because “fraud doesn’t happen,” then hacking an election machine seems even more unlikely — there hasn’t been a single proven case that a voting machine has been hacked but there has been multiple occasions of voter fraud. If we were trying to prevent election irregularities, then a paper ballot along with strict voter ID seems completely reasonable; but the Donna Curlings of the country don’t care about that. They care only that their guy wins.
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Google was around when W was elected and re-elected and nothing of the sort happened at their all hands then. It’s absolutely different because the particular candidate that won is uniquely odious in his approach and policy proposals that has/could negatively impact the lives of many Googlers.
If I wanted to have a job that required perfect recall, I would have become a doctor. Maybe I should have if that is what this industry is going to require.
Yes, believe that was the bad part from JMV implementation!
>> she blabbed and it may be the end of her career

This is a terrible overstatement. It's not even the first time she has fought against an ump, and not even the worst she has said. End of career lol.
Still better than your snark. But blockchain could probably work.
As a commenter noted, stones can hurt people too. But, that's not what people think of first when they hear the word stone. On the other hand, if you know the word slave, you know that the first meaning brings up some sad history. It's surprising that in the context of a programming language discussion, a programming language where exact syntax and meaning matters, that this change wouldn't be accepted more easily.
I think we're likely to cap out on a quality of life front before it becomes genuinely affordable. Bodies still break down over time, even if we're able to prolong lives a little through modern medicine.
Hi! Oisín here from Inscribe.

That is a great point and one we are actively considering.

Contacting the relevant agency is not always possible, and in the cases where it is possible response times can be incredibly slow and usually requires the express permission from the customer to contact each agency.

We are solving this problem by validating the customer's documents immediately, thus enabling faster turnaround times, and the technology we have developed to do this can detect fraud that is undetectable to the human eye.
Shouldn't that be 6x5=30? Unless you count everyone's relationship with themselves.... [this also aligns with the 5+4+3+2+1 version, it's just n*(n-1)/2 ]
Twice it was mentioned that the cause of WWII was boredom. Is this actually a real theory?
Science is not a public endeavor. Science is conducted by trained professionals. Besides the training, there exist filters (self selection, academic tests, etc) which ensure the scientific community has a higher than average connection with "the truth".

The public at large has never been particularly well connected to truth. One difference now is that, in the past, the public at least respected and trusted scientists, academics, etc. Nowadays they're scorned.
I spent about 10 years on and off on the road and didn't have any phone at all for most of it. There are non-smartphone ways to do those things.

Edit: if you calculate the total time wasted by smartphones in general with the total time saved by checking in to flights on a smartphone, the phone is wasting a lot of time (not to mention the detrimental cognitive effects).
I think the big companies got the edge processing memo, however Apple certainly has a good lead. It will be interesting to see how it plays out.
https://ballotpedia.org/Absentee_ballot_vote_fraud
That's actually what Intel is trying to push instead of feature size.
What is needed is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_sy...
My experience has been that standing in a circle puffing on e-cigarettes is every bit as social if not more. Most cigarette smokers want to quit and they often get inspired by vapers standing around them.
Nice post, I would add a couple of points re. Welsh. The first is that it was not really dead 50 years ago. It got as low as 15% of the population in the 50s/60s, and was undoubtedly headed for obscurity and ‘death’, until the revival, as you mentioned. But it was still alive (q.v. Dafydd Iwan’s [0] most famous song, “Yma o Hyd”). Now welsh is spoken by around 18% of adults and 25% of children, and is increasingly seen as an important part of modern Wales.

The other important thing to realize is that Welsh was ‘formalized’ in 1620 when the Bible was translated into it[1]. This had the double effect of unifying the distinct regional dialects into ‘high Welsh’ (a distinction which exists to this day!) but also, crucially, providing a standard text which people could use to learn to read and write. It meant that Welsh was able to flourish into a full legal language, and not just used as a ‘home’ language.

This gave it a backbone which was not present in other ‘regional’ languages (such as its nearest relation, Cornish), which in turn have all but died out.

With respect to the original post, I note that the Bible was only translated into Occitan in the modern era [2], which would support the evidence of it still being a language only used at home, and not in formal situations.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dafydd_Iwan

[1] https://cy.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beibl

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_translations_into_the_...
IIRC gmail was also the first popular mail reader to use tags rather that folders to classify emails.
Maybe so, but should be able to borrow their ballot tabulating machines if that's the issue.
the motivation behind this is bullshit
> It's not public

Why not?
By "Update the wiki" I do also mean "sure just do the work yourself." We're saying the same thing.

That said, fighting against things you claim to have no preference over you're also partaking in the same control/power trip shenanigans. That's when things really go off the rails.
Could not do worse than we do now.
Meanwhile in Malaysia a 29 year old father to be has been sentenced to hang. https://www.change.org/p/jabatan-peguam-negara-free-muhammad...
> My personal suspicion is that people are just jealous of how much success Google and Facebook have had.

Ah, yes, a classic: "All criticism of success and power stems from envy."

Impervious to pushback (since that would only prove you'd pushed the hot button of painful truth) and always plausible-sounding, this is truly a brilliant weapon for snuffing out legitimate complaints and healthy conversation.

> Unless we want to start paying for google searches

I, and many others, would jump at the chance to pay for an internet without advertising and dark advertising tactics. I happily pay $10/month for youtube red, just to avoid the ad videos, and that's cheap at the price.
Voter ID disenfranchises the poor, otherwise I don't think anyone would have an issue with voter id requirements.
It doesn't cost me anything, the new terms are perfectly clear and sufficient, and hopefully the new language causes less duress for other people.

This discussion always seems to go bad, but changes like this are innocuous to the language and a bonus for people. Totally fine!
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certainly trying really hard to correlate
The people who initially developed HPHP (the PHP-to-C++ transpiler) were not the same people who initially developed HHVM (the VM/JIT). I was one of the people who started the HHVM project, and we recognized early on that we must base our work on HPHP to have any hope of eventually replacing HPHP on Facebook's production systems. Indeed, had we chosen otherwise, our project would certainly have failed. It took us three years to initially ship HHVM, and HPHP's ancillary ecosystem dramatically diverged from PHP during that time. Furthermore, the people who initially developed Hack were yet another team, and they based their work on HHVM for much the same reason as HHVM was based on HPHP.

In an ideal world of perfect cooperation, perhaps all these projects would have been enhancements to PHP, but a chain of independent rational decisions produced very different results.
Doctors are inclined to minimize antibiotic prescriptions because of good medical practice,
Oh yes, I would never claim those differences in the board room would be the _reason_ for non-consolidation etc. That would indeed be cargo-cult. I merely meant that evidently such boardroom arrangements don't destroy an economy.

Additionally, I would intuit that it improves the employee's condition and because employees are strongly motivated to keep the company they depend on strong, their motivations align with investors to that degree while they may have additional insights. So I'm theorizing their presence will at worst do no harm.

As you imply, the American rapid rise to economic supremacy and current slow down is undoubtedly complex. I would add that initially part of it was the annihilation of productive capacity outside the US after WWII and part of it was the Keynesian stimulation that WWII forced the US to do during the war.

I just meant to say to the grandparent post that observationally Elizabeth Warren's proposal was not a threat national commerce.
Firefox Focus developer here. Recent improvements in Geckoview (the componentized version of Gecko) mean that it will be much easier to integrate into your own browser projects. We have a whole suite of Android components being developed just for building browser-like software.

The work to make GeckoView offer a full set of functionality in Focus should also help other apps.
It has one seat in the House, carrying the title of Resident Commissioner (as opposed to Delegate, which is how most other territorial members are titled).

As I understand it (very limited), the position's voting rights/opportunities are severely constrained and, in most or all significant matters, non-existent.

[Addendum: Depending upon committee memberships, arguably, being able to vote in/on committee matters -- particularly, to move legislation out of committee -- may be a significant power in particular circumstances. As well perhaps, again in particular circumstances, the ability to introduce legislation. Occasionally, the latter exerts significant political influence regardless of the success or failure to pass of said legislation.]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_members_of_the_United_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenniffer_Gonz%C3%A1lez

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegate_(United_States_Congre...

are representatives of their territory in the House of Representatives, but who do not have a right to vote on proposed legislation in the full House but are nevertheless able to participate in certain other House functions. Non-voting members may vote in a House committee of which they are a member and introduce legislation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegate_(United_States_Congre...

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Separately, note also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegate_(United_States_Congre...

Similar to delegates are resident commissioners, who represented the large areas acquired during the Spanish–American War, and for much of the 20th century were considered colonies, not territories and unlike the previously acquired areas which would become the contiguous U.S. or Alaska and Hawaii, did not have residents with the rights of, or to U.S. citizenship.[13] Unlike incorporated territories, they have the right to secede from the Union, and in the case of the Philippines, they have.
Imho it’s creepier to have a president-elect threaten to ban your employees from entering the country or threatens to lock up his opponent ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This bizarre external obsession with the internal cultures of basically just 2 tech companies is really weirding me out too. Reminds me of the campus reform folks handwringing about Ivy League admissions...perhaps there’s a pattern.
No, it's hubris by arrogant fools.
Uber's customers wanted the 'U' back. More than better service, low prices, and cab availability. So they gave it to them.

https://twitter.com/coffeeandjunk/status/1040097766331084800
That simply won't happen.

1. US isn't the only country which publishes in English. The entire Western hemisphere does. Not to mention India, already the most populous English-speaking country in the world, and has barely scratched the surface when it comes to English literacy.

2. Science needs interaction to thrive. Publishing textbooks in Mandarin is a very different ballgame than cutting edge research papers. I don't see that changing and China has invested massively in English education already.

Tldr: English will remain the defacto global Lingua Franca of science.