skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that was 1979. I bought that when it first came out because Martin Gardner did a whole article on it in Scientific American. If I recall correctly he also posed the question of which letter combinations would not work in a three-way sculpture like that?

But I can think of at least one older precedent, a woodcarving puzzle: can you carve an object that perfectly fits a round opening, a square opening, and a triangle opening? And the answer is just the 3-way orthogonal intersection of those shapes. That is from the 1920s or 1930s.
me too, I'd take it in an instant
Might be Danny Boyle's signature.

Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire, and even 28 Days Later have related sequences.
Thank you. My gut feeling told me something similar and you're completely right: I am the one who benefits.

Well then I must first go in advance.
If you are morally ambiguous enough to become a snitch.
I thought a diamond would survive if you flat burned down. Gold looses a few percent of valu the first time it happens.
I have been experiencing the same. A few factors I can think of.

Exposure -- As kids, we aren't exposed to consequences of accidents, blood, etc. So because we have 'seen' less of it, we believe it cannot happen to us.

Responsibilities -- I believe the 'responsibility' factor kicks in as we age. When we are kids, we are for ourselves so we end up taking more risks. As we get older, get married, have kids, watch our parents getting older, we start caring more for security as life seems to be important because of our dependents.

We are adults for majority part of our lifetime so as we grow older we only become habituated to remain careful about our life.
Big office deals take a long time to start, and have inertia once they're going. I can easily see someone starting a moderately speculative office expansion project and then getting distracted with fundraising, only to have everything fall apart at the same time, many months later.

Said another way: given the number of liabilities at a company that has taken hundreds of millions in funding and is flying low over the ground, a lease is probably not you biggest concern.
It's blogspam, pure and simple.
I don't know if this is what the OP was referring to but to quote the wikipedia article:

> Evidence of harm from less than two drinks per day or 10 drinks per week is not clear

It seems there is strong evidence that "heavy" drinking is bad, the evidence that you shouldn't drink at all is much less clear.
Ask HN: Where to look for fringe brain science?
Asking the community? Where would you look for fringe brain science text? Specifically, my intuition tells me that some thoughts begin outside of the brain, and "appear there". Call it intuition, or universe waves, etc. In the spirit of Ray Dalio, I am looking to concretely disprove my theory. Where would you start?
Mental health patients drown in Florence flood after cops fail to free them
BTW: it's Framework7 (https://framework7.io) I'm using.
You can. see my comment above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18024485
Where in the world did you get that from? I never said anything of the sort.

I literally take issue with it, as in I don't think it is right. I said nothing about the implications and I certainly don't think someone should be jailed for poor recruiting practices.
What Alibaba’s investments say about its future plans
Can you share the code? Are you using the `--release` flag to build/run it?
Yup. The young are the one class in america where discrimination is not just allowed but expanding. Businesses like car and hotel rental have discriminated against them for ages. But now big retail chains are beginning to discriminate as well as social pushes are made to violate the 18-21 year old rights to purchase firearms and the like.

It's pretty crazy. They are legal adults. They vote. They serve on juries. These are the people that fight america's wars and actually risk their lives but at home large companies are discriminating against them in an rapidly expanding sphere of things.
Goaccess is amazing and, in a world where seemingly every technology touts itself as "lightweight" (whether they really are or not), truly is very light weight.
Kudos to Linus Torvalds for recognizing he has a behavior problem and taking active steps to be a better leader and a better person. It's tremendously difficult to acknowledge shortcomings and failures in such a public way - especially when he could fall back on his accomplishments, authority, and fan base for support, and not do anything about it or even admit he has a problem.
Try this instead then (originally published on SF Chronicle):

https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Mysterious-great-wh...
I'm wrapping up my first year as a manager and I have to say this is really one of the most context dependent things I have to worry about. I can definitely see a QA manager being fierce about it. I have yet to work at an organization that actually valued the QA function, at least enough to give it resources necessary to do its job properly.
I guess eventually they could train it with a database of "known objects" so it knows how large they are? There must be a finite amount of things that people want to measure, right?

And even if there are novel items, Siri could ask "please put a coin/drink bottle/shoe in the picture".
Solar Power Unit for Low Power Devices
Yeah, it's the classic AI box experiment (Hey, maybe Eliezer Yudkowsky used to win this by getting you to dance with him, who knows). I didn't find the ending boring given the very grave consequences and the chilling way it played out.
Of course! No one ever argued that having $5M investable assets was a poor position to be in. That family absolutely has wide variety of choices they can make, all of them pretty damn good.

The question is Puerto Rico's motivation/justification/choice to offer Act 22 tax advantages to bring the majority of that $192K of spending onto the island or not.
Interesting perspective; where, in US companies, do public companies list their investments such as these? Are they in the annual reports, quarterly, not at all?
The intentions are not the issue. The problem is demonstrated in your comment - the poster has presented an anecdote and you have interpreted it as trend.

You can’t just say women are like X and men are like Y unless you actually have reasonable evidence to back it up. Prefixing it with the word it’s an anecdote is just a get out clause that makes it seem ok. In the end the effect is negative on both men and women, even if it’s a positive trait.

You probably aren’t noticing actual trends, you’re just reaffirming thoughts you already have by picking specifics traits out. It’s perfectly natural and normal behaviour, but it’s still not right and we should avoid it where possible.
I've had a similar experience. So much hype about each new place I've joined only to find the same levels of corporate political crap. What kills me is the lack of care about the quality of the product. "Good enough" is never actually good enough for me and when you are the only one (or at least in an extreme minority) in the entire company that cares about that, it's incredibly demotivating.

I've recently joined a very early stage startup at a pretty high level. I'm in charge of an entire class of product (mobile native apps) and it's been the best experience of my career so far. It's stressful and tough but I'm 100% in charge so I can care as deeply as I want and it's up to me to make it work. Very rewarding vs the typical Corporate slag.
Actually ... force is proportional to the cross section of the muscle.

You can probably produce more power approximated by the volume of the muscle though.
I'd be interested in seeing a code comparison of equivalent Rust and Zig code with regards to tagged unions, to demonstrate your claim. I could help you with the Zig code if you provide the Rust code.

Also to answer your questions:

> As far as I can tell there's no type inference?

You can see an example of type inference here: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Hello-World

> does Zig allow messing with types at runtime?

Yes. https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Generic-Data-Struc...

Edit: my mistake, I misread or didn't see the "at runtime" part. It only allows messing with types at compile-time.
It's foolish for anyone to take responsibility for any software written under the current prevailing industry practices.

It would be funny if real engineers were able to get away with making crumbling messes that can't hold their own weight because their middle managers don't believe in concepts like stress and strain like ours don't believe in refactoring or abstractions.
My box has 24 cores. By default I deploy on 22.
Actually it fails at 10 cores, but it gets 3/4 of the way through the dataset. At 22 it dies about 1/4 of the way, at 5 cores it makes it all the way through.

Error is in a string tokenizer, which I wrote as a recursive call. Usually it's fine but I made a code change which absolutely killed it. Also I'm writing in Julia, which does not TCO, the back end stuff I do is in elixir, which does.
The problem is that these "immutable characteristics" are very hard to assess subjectively by humans.

Say you divide a group of candidates into evenly split groups based on something. Gender, age, race - your pick. You'd end up with an uneven split even if your entire pool has the same qualification level and you let someone hire from it "by merit". And I don't mean it'll be random, there will be a clear distribution given enough samples.

How else do you suggest we solve this issue besides affirmative action?
When you can trivially crawl the input space like ipv4 addresses, you'd have to expire a fresh per-day salt as well.

But to my eyes, expiring salts isn't much different than deleting ip addresses after one day. Just more machinery. People have to trust that you're doing either, so why bother beyond being able to use the word "hashing" in marketing language?
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Burn the furniture outside. Its losing you business.

Fire the marketing team. (Seen this happened at colleges before)

Hire someone within from the floor as upper management that is the furniture expert. Give them actual power to ruffle feathers.

Hire outside a few middle managers from successful companies and pay them well.

CEO talks about how everyone needs to love what we make and do, furniture.

Company has managers work the floor for two weeks on a rotating schedule for the first 6 months. Each manager does two different jobs for a week each. Pepsi does this every year. Friend of mine was in upper management and he drove a truck and delivered products a week a year.

Restructure after 9 months and get rid of people who don't buy in who more then likely will leave on their own.
We also had to turn off noalias for &mut T for a while, due to bugs, and that was fixed fairly recently, and we turned it back on. I think that was post LLVM 6, but I can't quite remember.
Well, that's a great question. It's also basically equivalent to the one that I asked. My point would be that I don't have an answer to that question, and given your response, I bet you don't either. Which leaves either of us at a loss when we try to create a safe and reliable autonomous vehicle.

It's certainly not an unanswerable question. It's just quite hard to verify that they answer you have is a sufficiently correct one.
I think this person is very well-practiced at giving talks and communicating in general.

Her enthusiastic quirky style reminds me of Clifford Stoll's (https://www.ted.com/talks/clifford_stoll_on_everything)-- very warm, humorous, and humble.
Isn't the whole point of BTC and crypto in general is that it's NOT regulated?
This presentation has some nice illustrations: http://www.filpizlo.com/slides/pizlo-dls2017-vmil2017-jscvm-... (under “JSC Object Model”).
It doesn't even offer close to the features Google Analytics offers and costs $12/month. The same such a service as Netflix costs.
The idea is nice but looking at the actual product here: https://simpleanalytics.io/simpleanalytics.io

It disappoints in every way, you can't even check yesterdays stats.
What? BlackBerry is realtime? Why?
According to https://support.google.com/families/answer/7103338#signup_fe... the verification mechanism is to use a credit card, which is one of the methods listed as "reasonably calculated" under point H.4 of this FAQ https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/com...
Pretty cool!!
> What do you think?

Apart from the unfortunate non-open-source answer, this sounds great!

I get others' concerns about wanting unique pageviews, but that metric is always a bit of a sketchy either-or for extremely privacy-conscious people. It's both an incredibly valuable metric, and also one that's difficult to square with complete privacy (basically it's always going to be pseudonymous at best).
A high performance microservice framework in golang
For mobile readers you might get a faster and cleaner view of the same article on SF Chronicle:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Mysterious-great-wh...
If people want to block you, they should. I also respect the Do Not Track setting. If it is on, I just don't register the visit. I have considered the free version, but I only want to do this when I have enough customers. A/B testing is not simple anymore, so probably not doing that.
White noise certainly isn't the only indicator that one can't see well.
It's rare that positive news gets reported. It happens, but it's not exciting, generally. "Infant mortality rate in decline for 50th straight year" is great news, but it's not "news".

Instead, we get breathless headlines about shark attacks, which hardly ever happen. Our brains latch on to the wrong things most of the time. The news sucks because our brains suck. They're just giving us what we want.
When I read this I thought, what is n? You mean pi, right?

Yes, 18.3 inch wheel is what I got. Here in the UK, the "wheel" size includes the tire as well, I think.

I guess if the rim is 17 inch diameter then 18.3 is only a tire width of 0.65, which isn't very fat.
Seriously, why post if you have no clue whatsoever.
> The problem is that most in government simply are not systems thinkers.

I don't think the main problem is that "people in the government are stupid". Real life and societies are much more complex than a jet engine. There are thousands of value goals, too many to be able to put numerical targets on each one.

What is the optimal ratio of potholes to unsolved murders?

And when you forget to include any of the value goals in your model, then you get a paperclip AI scenario with terrible effects somewhere else.
- It shows you jumped around too much, and there is just way too much irrelevant information

Agreed, some of those could be dropped. But some of those are internships or short contracts, I don't see a reason to remove all of those necessarily

- Blog/Hobbies

It's on his personal website, I don't see anything wrong with it. It shows that he's passionate about tech, he wouldn't just be some random work monkey if he got hired. Most of his posts are about tinkering with things. Looks like a standard blog to me. I saw your blog, and it definitely reads way more like a journal than his, which is good because it conveys your personality and that you have opinions (confidence)

- "• Entrepreneurship: Buying, refurbishing and reselling a class set of iBooks in 2005; iPod repair at ", " Took online training courses in big data processing with ElasticSearch and Tensorfow machine learning. ",...etc → it shows you think a bit too highly of yourself, ego might be an issue

I'd say this falls more into the 'irrelevant' category. His website or resume doesn't give me the impression of ego, if anything it gives the opposite impression: that he's a little shy, maybe desperate, and maybe thinks too little of himself

--------

There are really two key issues I see standing out by looking at his profile:

1. Non-comittal, he's moved to a lot of different places. While his portfolio shows that he's intellectually curious, it also shows that he isn't taking career as seriously as he should. All of those internships and none of them progressed into a job? That's a red flag for sure. Maybe this is what you're sensing. Get rid of this. Showing that you've travelled a lot and only worked short periods does not send out a good signal

Also this coupled with the hobbyist impression on the website might be even more of a red flag. You have intrinsic interest in a lot of tech but you're professional side doesn't reflect that. Do you hate business? it kind of implies that you aren't very business-oriented. If so, maybe think about grad school and going into academia, just my 2c

2. He might be a little too introverted and shy, and should probably take more initiative to network and meet people. Jobs are a seller's market, companies get tons of spammed applications that barely get read. Networking helps a lot
> But the purpose of such a code is not to threaten anybody; indeed, it is the opposite. It is a statement that we all have the right to be who we are and participate in the community as equals without having to contend with bullying, abuse, and worse.

The creator of the CoC does regularly threaten and bully people though (Opal, Matz...). The double standard is one of the issues I have with putting a CoC in place. When the slightest mistake is punished for some people, while others are free to spew vitriol, it seems like we have a real problem.

I'm sad this got adopted into the kernel and is now likely to be pushed elsewhere.
I'm considering the same, but I recall reading something someone said while I was in uni - "Why would anyone want to be a consultant when you are mainly brought in for the 'gone to shit' situations?"

Any thoughts on this? Is there any difference?
Does Apple not believe in unit tests or something? This and the password login bug from a few months ago make me pretty concerned.
Puerto Rico, a territory that has nationalized every major aspect of its economy and was running massive deficits as part of vote-buying schemes, as an exemplar for 'disaster capitalism' is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen.

It's up there with Venezuela and Nicaragua as a self-inflicted victim of the South/Central American 'pink wave' that has caused so much economic devastation in the last decade.
Maybe also because things like DPDK (or similar) made it possible for Linix to play at that scale?
A blood test for autism? Not so fast, experts say
Doubtful. Historically, spice trade has played a major role in nation-building. Still does.

One example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_trade
I disagree. If he’s a solo developer he doesn’t need to worry about free or cheap people. He needs to find people who value what he has built at a higher level and tailor it to them. The pricing looks great to me.
They have a lot more experience driving, but humans do not only use their driving experiences as priors.
According to the "Update to LLVM 7" ticket for Rust (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/50543), many of the points of interest are in LLD, especially in WASM support:

LLD has implemented --gc-sections for wasm
LLD has implemented DWARF debugging information sections for wasm
LLD has natively implemented concatenation of custom sections for wasm
LLD has gained the ability to place the stack first in a wasm module's memory layout, reducing the corruption that happens on a stack overflow
LLD option to not merge data segments
Some SIMD generic float intrinsics have been fixed
LLD optimizing further the size of release binaries
LLD supports @-file syntax

Other things which mention LLVM 7 in the Rust bug tracker:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/52457 "use funnel shift intrinsic to implement rotates"

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/52323 "emscripten already supports the wasm backend in LLVM7, so we should move the current emscripten-llvm from version 4.0 to that, so that we can remove all the workarounds lying around for LLVM < 5.0 (LLVM 5 is the new minimum supported version)."

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/49740 "Use separate memcpy source/dest alignments in LLVM 7"

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/51872 "Simplify u128->f32 casts thanks to LLVM r334777"

edit to add: rustc stable 1.29.0 already uses LLVM 7, and nightly is already using LLVM 8; rustc frequently switches to the new LLVM release when it is branched, it doesn't wait until it is released:

$ rustc +stable --version --verbose
rustc 1.29.0 (aa3ca1994 2018-09-11)
binary: rustc
commit-hash: aa3ca1994904f2e056679fce1f185db8c7ed2703
commit-date: 2018-09-11
host: x86_64-apple-darwin
release: 1.29.0
LLVM version: 7.0
$ rustc +nightly --version --verbose
rustc 1.30.0-nightly (79fcc58b2 2018-09-18)
binary: rustc
commit-hash: 79fcc58b24d85743d025fd880fca55748662ed3e
commit-date: 2018-09-18
host: x86_64-apple-darwin
release: 1.30.0-nightly
LLVM version: 8.0
Hold on, what on Earth do they mean by a "quantum message"?
Here is a video that Wired released a few days ago that discusses the details of the tow hook and the little bar:
https://youtu.be/cZhrqKrljig
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Thank you.

I should add I have had support of more people than I can name :-)
I disagree, Go ignores errors by default. No sane C dev would accept that as an "upgrade".
I think the point here is the availability of unlimited screen space. Everywhere you look can be a monitor. Combined with the potential increase in productivity, and the use of VR offices for remote work, I can see a business market developing for this. I don't think we're ready to say monitors will go away. But I think all the pieces are there for VR headsets to be adopted by some companies once the resolution gets good enough.
Please remember this is a Show HN, very early stage.
I always find it interesting/dismaying how quickly people think the economy can react to changes in policy. For a single family, a change in economic status, such as a new job, pay rise, etc. takes at least many months or years to have a meaningful effect on debt and financial health of that family. A giant economy would take much longer, a few years at minimum, so see the true effects. It’s like steering a giant ship in the water; you can’t make changes and expect it to immediately have an effect. Any benefits we see right now are either a result of the previous administration’s policies, or in the case of the stock market, pricing of future expected gains already made in the market.
I agree! currently I run windows as my main OS precisely due to inferior battery life on Linux. I only use Alacritty in minimal Linux VMs when they are not running headless(as pseudo containers, I will be migrating fully to Linux + Docker soon). I normally only work with the VMs while plugged-in and because Alacritty is not available for windows yet, have not used it much on battery therefore I am not in a position to say anything about the battery impact. One thing I have noticed is that it is noticeably slower to start on the same VM as compared to XTerm but the VIM experience was better in Alacritty.
Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol
I’ve reported a few browser bugs myself, none have been fixed (even years later). I’ll still do it, though, because it may help someone else out someday.
1. Lua is simple.

There is only one container type: the table. There is only one number type. (Since 5.3 Lua internally uses 2: ints and doubles, but that’s an implementation detail.) etc.

2. Lua is easy to integrate.

3. It’s easy to set up a sandboxed environment with Lua.

4. Lua is surprisingly fast, especially considering it is interpreted and dynamic.
That looks to me like an NP complete problem.
Started using Bear and haven't looked back. Obviously it doesn't have feature parity, but it's good enough for me.
The best trolls are the ones where you legitimately can’t tell if they truly believe the shit they say. This one is more “cartoon villain”. It’s a characature—what many people believe an evil, mustache-twirling rich person might say. Pretty transparent, but good effort.