skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IDLE is the priority of a process that runs only when the system is otherwise idle. It shouldn't be preempted by zeroing memory.
The slow start menu is awful. I want to press start then type what I want to open but it is so slow you have to wait nearly 2s to type or it will lose the first few characters. Add to that the search result quality is dire.
Why don't they just avoid the cache pollution issues with non-polluting writes? _mm_stream_si128 comes to mind.
Krugman calls it "The Great Shortfall", the massive drop in projections of potential GDP (at a fixed point in the future) depending on when the estimate was made, before or after the financial crisis (ie now).

The basic point is that both Europe and the US have "[...] returned to sort-of full employment at a much lower level of real GDP than informed people projected we’d reach before the crisis struck." [1]

There are certainly economic implications (eg, should fiscal and monetary policy be tight or loose now), and political implications (is the economy doing really well currently, or not).

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/30/opinion/the-economic-futu...

EDIT to add: And the bit about the "facts" and "revered leaders" probably alludes to this:

Potential GDP is what a country could produce using all its resources (including machines = capital and employees = labour, multiplied with productivity). Why is there a drop? Maybe productivity dropped, maybe capital dropped, maybe employment dropped. The chart wants to imply that employment dropped. However, the chart goes on to imply, the unemployment rate has gone back to pre-crisis levels. Why is that? Because many unemployed people are not counted, and this is convenient for the current administration. That's what I take the chart and OP to be alleging.
so I guess Apple didn't want to acquire the entire company and all its ~1,900 employees?
> the growing Rust prescription of indexed arrays

I think there might be a disconnect here between people who talk about Rust and people who use Rust, because the use cases that are amenable to indexing into arrays are few and far between. I have never encountered such an approach in any Rust project that I have contributed to; tracking indexes is far, far less common than e.g. something like the Rc smart pointer. It does get talked about a lot though, for some reason.
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It doesn't translate to wasm text format,
but to wasm binary format.

Oh, ok. That is interesting too. But I would have liked to build a tool where I type Walt on the left and see the resulting WASMtext on the right. So this seems to not be a solution for that.
I've heard it said, with Linux, you pay with your time, with Apple, with your money, and with Windows, you pay with your dignity.
>no idea whether that's win10, spotify or thinkpad software, but hitting a media key produces a NON DISMISSIBLE big overlay for spotify that just hangs there for a good 10 seconds and blocks the stuff I want to click.

Is Spotify, go to settings, display options and deselect "Show desktop overlay when using media keys". For some time I had to do that after every Spotify update, but seems to stick now
The military chooses which rockets it wants built for the next decade
it was already broken, but i dont think this will fix it either
I would extend to to "statistics based knowledge" in general. If you don't understand the mechanism it's not real knowledge.

For example: You have a drug that 100% helps in a certain context (of what the problem is and the person's genetics plus maybe even epigenetics, and maybe even things like what they eat and what environment they are exposed to).

However, clinical trial studies don't go very deep in separating different kinds of people. We just don't know enough, we don't know how to even measure most thing, and when we do it's extremely costly. And since we don't understand the mechanism - if we did we didn't have to go through the trials - they are needed because even we have _a_ mechanism we are not sure what else the drug does in the body, or about follow-up and higher order effects - we would not know what to look for anyway. Plus, without full understanding of the mechanism it's hard to combine the new "knowledge" with other knowledge. The experiment you gained the data from is very specific and results are hard to generalize.

So the result is the drug will be a complete failure, because we are unable to tell which people would benefit.

That's always the problem: When you don't have a very good understanding of the mechanism and all the consequences you have to be lucky that the population you study is more or less the correct one. You don't even know when you got the wrong one. If the drug - but same in any other field that uses statistics - fails for 95% of people you may still have a hit for a sub-population (it's not as easy as "it's the other 5%" of course).

There are people working specifically on looking closer at some "failed drugs". They have been able to find a few "miracle drugs" that way. They only help certain people (they use genetic testing) but when they do they do great. But they failed their initial clinical trials big time.

Over the years I have gotten much more skeptical of all statistics based "knowledge". Reading those studies always leaves a strange taste in my mouth. Something doesn't feel right. It does not taste like knowledge. I see the relevance given that it often is the only way to make practical progress of course.
How close is that not close? 70k, 80k let you live like a king in Hsinchu or Tainan
>Apple would be easily 3-5x that expensive for no good enough added value

Well that's straight up not true, in fact IBM has over 100,000 Macs in the field and they estimate it's saving them $535 per machine over four years.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3131906/apple-mac/ibm-...
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We are actually out there planting trees like it’s going out of fashion
> The proposed "dormant index" solution is likely to generate a lot of these as well.

What is a dormant index? I've not seen anything like this proposed, or heard the terminology before.
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How much is 'that much'? The effect is probably small but what is more important it is not about a moved centre of (a Gaussian) distribution - but rather about a higher threshold usually used for women to pass.

This is of course very much dependant on the distribution shapes and I am too lazy to make a thorough analysis - but:

Let's assume that on average females were 10% more efficient programmers - but with the effort to find one female programmer you can find 10 male programmers. How much more effort do you need to find a 10% better programmer - twice as much as for the average one? Even if it was 8 times harder - then still it would make more sense to look for only men than for only women. Of course the optimal way would be to be unbiased and look for any gender.
React-behavioral: a library aligned with how humans think
The Sylius e-commerce software is switching to the API Platform framework
There is a difference between individual behavior and the law.

Imagine a world where no person drinks alcohol. I wonder if it would be more peaceful.

I suspect yes. Even though outlawing alcohol is not a solution that would lead to this world.
What about

Rust has a static "garbage collector"

It reflects Klabnick's thesis here, whereas the current "I don't find writing Rust to be significantly harder..." title is probably more controversial.
So is ASML a monopoly? I was curious some time ago, and couldn't find any other lithography machine manufacturer that could really compete. I had previously assumed Intel made their own stuff, but nope, ASML there as well.
No one is proposing central planning here. Just normal methods of nudging the market out of destructive behaviours.
> His biography demonstrates its subject’s greatness but manages to make him lovable, too

So, nothing about the racist, imperialist side? Yet another hagiography?
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sure, if your goal is to denigrate the project. but if you go by definition of waste - it doesn't apply to bitcoin at all.
I quite believe that phenomena is true for industry but I would be surprised if it still applied to electricity consumption in consumer devices. The cost of power there is pretty low in real terms (low enough that few consumers will factor the cost of running a device into account for general* computing devices or other household goods) but the collective savings from energy efficient hardware at a national scale is massive. So I couldn't see people buying a second mobile phone or laptop just because it's more energy efficient).

The question of datacentres is another matter though. But they only respond to demand from people like ourselves who lease computing time from them / place our own hardware in their racks.

* I'm not counting mining (bitcoin et al), home servers, media centres, etc. where it's more likely running costs will be factored into the buying decision. However these are uncommon compared to other hardware like laptops, desktop PCs, games consoles, mobile phones, TVs, fridges, kettles, etc.
Mint broke all over the place on all the machines I've ever installed it on. Couldn't get graphics, sound, or networking running smoothly. Complete disaster with my built-in Bluetooth and my BT mice & keyboards. And doesn't behave like Win7 when it comes to actual programs. .deb is not .exe, .bat files didn't work, programs needed to come from a central app store or else be "compiled". Drive names were completely whacked as well. My optical drive wasn't D:\ and I had no idea how to find a DVD through that version of VLC, my main HDD wasn't C:\; and my USB floppy drive (yes, I still have one) didn't plug in as A:\.

No version of Linux "behaves like Windows 7". At best, it's like Linux wearing a bedsheet-ghost costume labelled "Windows 7" and screaming BOO! at you every time you do anything from a DOS/Windows background.
Have Balloons and Ice Broken the Standard Model?
if they keep it up we won't need this coal because the atmosphere will be fire :'D rofl - some people really take it to the next level, i mean one of either, it's a dirty but legit business. both is pushing it hahaha. wonderful world!
You do realize that all the epitech staff, including sadirac himself moved to found ecole 42 years ago ?
Looks like someone didn't do their job correctly. Carrying on a destructive action (DELETE) without first checking whether that folder contains any files (except maybe desktop.ini)...
they have been responsible for a lot of things tbh ;D you didnt have history lesson?
That's not as easy as one might think.

Machine learning generally doesn't have any prior opinions about things and will learn any possible correlation in the data.

It could for example discover that certain words or sentence structures used in the resume are more likely associated with bad candidates. Later you find out that <protected class> has a huge amount of people that use these certain words/structures while most other people don't.

And now the AI discriminates against them.

ML will pick up on any possible signal including noise.
The increased cost makes it more impactful for the companies, even if they don't care about the enviroment. So they actually might pay the engineers to do something about it.
The cynic in me expects to click this and find an article about trees.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifk6iuLQk28
What? Just use wasm2wat [1] and you’ll get the text format.

[1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt
I know completely computer illiterate people who use Ubuntu. Your opinion says a lot about you.
The point being, that for developers focused on managed languages, C++ takes the role of the unsafe layer.

Meaning Java/C++, .NET + (C++/CLI | C++/WinRT), Node.js + C++, Swift / Objective-C++.

So with C++ improving its safety history, usually with ideas taken from Rust, Rust ergonomics and tooling need to have a better story than C++'s to replace it on the above stacks.
Counterexample:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_blackout_of_1977...
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I think the math was done inversely.

1:42 -> 3:16: 90% slowdown?
Don't do this, please.

Submit your URL normally, then post a comment. It's in the site's rules.

And yours is a particularly clickbaity style.

But the question itself is good.
He is not saying that Lua is worse. Tcl was doing event based programming decades before Node and lua make it trendy.
Just press Windows+Q, and start typing. Much faster.
Elon has tweeted that "this is incorrect".
It should. Sometimes I choose to do the same thing if the line of cars gets too long behind me and I don't want to waste their time. Waiting when a human would have turned left should count as a disengagement.
He not only mentioned syntax but design too. Clearly JavaScript's lack of int (for example, to mention a design decision of JS) is one of the reasons of its poor performance, not to mention its weak typing approach.
> selling both the ease of runtime-checked structures and how strong the static checking is feels a bit too much like trying to have it both ways. Sure, both are true, but then strong static checking doesn't really mean the same thing

I don't quite understand this sentiment. If you try hard enough, you can verify anything at compile-time (modulo the halting problem, etc.). If you want, you can also use a language that verifies nothing at compile-time and does all verification at runtime. Where we choose to draw the line between static and dynamic verification depends on our requirements. The existence of dynamically-verified entities does not obviate the usefulness of statically-verified ones; Rust statically guarantees memory safety and data-race safety, and using e.g. Rc or indices into an array doesn't change any of that. If you're simply looking for a systems language with even stronger static guarantees than Rust, then look at ATS.
Carbon dioxide? Isn't the whole point of photosynthesis to turn CO₂ into glucose?
Microsoft MakeCode: From C++ to TypeScript and Blockly (and Back)
Does the individual matter if 100 companies are responsible for 71% of CO2?
They are still not many choices out there: either Apple with high-priced defective keyboards and no desktop solutions or Linux which is still a gamble especially on laptop. In some regards, the situation is worse than a decade ago.

On Microsoft side, as soon as they announced Windows 10 would be rolling release OS (i.e. a perpetual beta one) I knew I was done with it on bare metal.
> Why is TLS 1.0 and 1.1 still enabled by default in Mozilla?

Because PCI DSS still didn't obsolete TLS 1.1, probably.

https://blog.pcisecuritystandards.org/are-you-ready-for-30-j...
In that regard I actually prefer bosses who write on a phone. It stops them sending ridiculously long emails.
To be fair, he did also wear jeans. Nobody will take you seriously hanging out in only turtle necks!
That is indeed the right question to ask.

Maybe it's less about trust and more about permission. With token based securities I could trade with whomever I choose whenever I want.

Interesting to see how it turns out in the end.
In a capitalist economy, why would anyone maintain a forest?

Because you own the forest and want it to keep producing income?

That said, a non-capitalist model would probably work better, since implementing the full capitalist solution (by allowing people to sue polluters, who harm them and their property) is politically infeasible.
Crypto Is More Centralized Than North Korea, Says Economist Roubini
Is there a language you would recommend as the next step for someone who has learned NetLogo? One with better syntax and performance? Maybe a Julia library?
"In the history of our species, we’ve never been more socially isolated and alone than we are today."

Anecdata: I have (sometimes crippling) social anxiety - the Internet (and later mobile phones) have made it possible for me to connect with people, become unisolated, and much less alone than the 20 years I suffered before they appeared.
This is when I miss the days of big iron. The Burroughs B5500, 6500 and 6700 all had massive light displays of registers. The idle process loaded the registers with a bit pattern that showed the Burroughs logo, a circle with a B in it. You could watch the panel and see how busy the system was by how often you could see the logo flash in the lights.
"Microsoft is advising anyone affected by the bug to contact support."

Yeah right, I'm sure that will be fruitful.
Are Intel CPUs made in China?
I did know about this, but it looks very interesting! Will defo check it out, thanks!
And why would I ever want to do that? Sounds pointless when I don't have to.
I don't get it. They have nothing to do because they finish the work so fast that they are idling most of the time? But then the second joke doesn't make any sense at all.
Scott Adams has something he calls the “The Adams Law of Slow-Moving Disasters”; i.e. if we can see a problem coming from far ahead, we’ve always been able to fix it in time to avoid it.

* http://blog.dilbert.com/2013/04/15/fact-checking-adams-law-o...
Might be, they provide a undelete tool to recover the files
Is Windows still a big business for MS? Maybe they don't care any more, having Azure.
From an earlier Ars article:

"Compounding this issue is that Microsoft's rollout of version 1809 was already unusual. For reasons unknown, Microsoft didn't release this update to the Release Preview ring, so the most realistic installation scenario—someone going from version 1803 to 1809—didn't receive much testing anyway. And all this is against the longer-term concern that Microsoft laid off many dedicated testers without really replacing the testing that those testers were doing."

And from this article:

"In response the company has promised to update the Feedback Hub tool so that the severity of bugs can be indicated. Many people reported this data loss bug, but none of the reports received many upvotes, with Microsoft accordingly disregarding those bugs. If the bugs had been marked as causing data loss—the highest severity possible—then they may have received the additional attention that they deserved. Microsoft hasn't, however, explained why this update didn't receive any kind of "release preview" distribution or testing. There are no guarantees that this would have caught the bug, but it would have meant that an extra round of people would have installed the update onto their systems, and who knows, one of their bug reports might have gotten lucky."
You've got until January 2020, which is when Windows 7 goes end of life, and at that point updates will probably stop.

If you can get your hands on Windows Thin PC (Cut down Windows 7) you can eek out the support until November 2021.
> With a growing population, deforestation has become necessary to meet agricultural and accommodation needs of humans. As sad as it sounds, people need food and shelter.

One of the main reasons deforestation is happening is because arable that was once fertile has become less and less productive, due to modern agricultural techniques (plowing, monoculture, fungicides, pesticides, synthetic fertilizers) and extreme weather causing erosion. It's really a vicious cycle - the more humanity (ab)uses Earth's resources, the poorer the yield, the more extreme the weather, leading to growing resource use. By some estimates, a third of arable land has already been lost in the last 40 years [1].

But deforestation is not necessary to increasing food production. On the contrary, as the article explains, it is a major stumbling block to bringing C02 emissions under control, and stopping the vicious cycle of

The answer to food production is more responsible agricultural practices, that cultivate soil quality and mixed cultures in order to increase yields. At the same time, humanity can definitely cut back on its food waste [2].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/02/arable-l...
[2] https://ec.europa.eu/food/safety/food_waste_en
We were being asked to look at a design where we literally didn't have anything in the middle of the chip in order to reduce local power (specifically due to current limitations of the bumps)!
no matter MS is good enough or not, this is a good thing
Correct.

Computers are very bad at actually discriminating against people, they will pick up a possible bias in a statistical dataset (ie, <protected class> uses certain sentence structure and is statistically less likely to get or keep the job).

Sometimes computers also pick up on statistical truths that we don't like, ie, you assign a ML to classify how likely someone is to pay back their loan and it picks up on poor people and bad neighborhoods, disproportionately affecting people of color or low income households. In theory there is nothing wrong with the data, after all, these are the people who are least likely to pay back a loan, but our moral framework usually classifies this as bad and discriminatory.

Machine Learning (AI) doesn't have moral frameworks and doesn't know what the truth is. The answers it can give us may not be answers we like or want or should have.

on a side note; human bias is usually not that different since the brain can be simplified as a bayesian filter; there are predictions on the present based on past experience, reevaluation of past experience based on current experience and prediction of future experience based on past and current experience. It's a simplification but usually most human bias is based on one of these, either explicitly social (bad experience with certain classes of people) or implicitly (tribalism).
In the case of BadBIOS there was no retraction. The person who claimed to have found it kept on insisting he did, but he never posted the malware. He just kept on making unverifiable claims and posting meaningless spectrograms and ignoring calls to just show us the code he says he has.
I now noticed that if you click from here (i.e. with the refer of news.ycombinator.com), it won't load.

No idea why though.
When someone recommended DeepL to me I almost didn't take it seriously expecting mediocre translations that aren't bad, but hardly usable without heavy editing. However after trying it I'm very impressed with its results and in those cases where you have a better translation in mind the interface offers an easy way to suggest and replace expressions. It's impressive.
I guess my point is that maybe they wanted the “unnecessary attention”
I have to concur with this. I tried the Impossible polaroid film a few years ago and it's not very good compared to the original polaroid film and the Instax film.
I use the Instax mini now and it's a great little instant camera.
This is so cool and has me wondering what I'm doing with my life! More relevantly, I have this Leica M6 but I don't want to take it apart :x
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This is surprisingly often true with companies too.
That is the only end game I would consider to be a full implementation of machine translation on par with human capabilities.

In cases where there is no direct equivalent or even an appropriate localization we usually resort to giving a long form explanation. If the machines can do that, they've won.

I can't see the current techniques getting us that far. It's going to require some new, creative thinking to really push the envelope.
There is glucose in the compound, as per the article.
Thanks for your suggestion.
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Yes and no. Policymakers too rarely do anything to show they care about distributional impacts, but you could certainly arrange things so as to fix this.

Why not impose a tax that doubles the cost of energy, and use all of the proceeds to fund universal basic income? That would both help poorer people and reduce energy usage.
Pristine rainforest produces very little income compared to cleared land that can be used for agriculture.