skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess Microsoft is are showing the right signs of being one of the "good" guys. If the signs get stronger, bigger and more of it for the next 15 to 20 years, they can officially be a good guy.

Can we look into the history and observed companies with similar behavioral trend? For example, many German companies worked with Nazi party, helping them and facilitating the war. This is evil. Today, those companies are now considered as not evil any longer (exception might be VW and their dieselgate saga). Perhaps Microsoft could follow a similar trend.
> An ECS-esque design for one component of the system does not preclude using pointers elsewhere.

I know how ECS work, but GP was advocating Rust's way i.e. not using pointers at all.
Dyalog appears to be free http://www.dyalog.com/download-zone.htm
I conduct so much business via my phone email, and have an assistant doing most computer tasks. Wonder what would need to change to get me off a computer fulltime
> While there has been widespread effort to develop self-healing materials that could mimic this ability of biological organisms, the researchers say, these have all required an active outside input to function. Heating, UV light, mechanical stress, or chemical treatment were needed to activate the process. By contrast, these materials need nothing but ambient light, and they incorporate mass from carbon in the atmosphere, which is ubiquitous.

Mechanical stress, I wonder if such materials would serve well as coating atop an office floor to reduce the indoor co2. Every step that gets taken would activate the process. Probably won't make as much of a difference as a decent AC unit though.
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1. Kinda, but not quite. ddof=1 will give an unbiased estimate of the variance. It turns out that an unbiased estimate of the standard deviation isn't possible without making assumptions about the probability distribution.

2. If you have a finite population and know all the values, ddof=0 will give you an unbiased estimate of the variance. "These are the heights of every person in my class, what is the variance?"

If you have an infinite population and a finite sample and want to estimate the variance of the infinite population, then ddof=1 is correct.

Then there's also the possibility of correcting for the finite size of the population but that's even less important than correcting for the size of the sample.
I reckon we'll look back at crypto as the 3D printing and VR hype of yesteryears

Potentially useful technologies but about a decade away from mass adoption
Skyscrapers are mostly empty space inside. The Great Pyramid of Giza weighs about 6 million tons, so we’d be producing about 7000 of them annually. Maybe we could just plop them all in the ocean? ;)
10 years sgo, maybe.
This makes sense given his origin story had a bunch to do with his burning curiosity in dispatch systems coordinating across every level and permutation of org charts.

I doubt he expected ever bike cops talking to a street sweeper to both be carrying a laptop to make the dispatching work. So, between square and twitter, it seems less hipster and more like using his products to their apex intended purpose and the among the best way to find holes.

I can picture him thinking about their internal systems: "if a system like this can work for hurricanes and 911, it can probably handle kanye ranting or quitting twitter without me being chained to a laptop."
For those who are making a big deal out of this here, please disregard any factories that use machines.

Just because the machines were there first doesn’t make it different, they could have hired workers in place of the machines.
Same, in the US (Louisiana and then California).
Wherever the object is deallocted, it can’t be done safely via the language or languages runtime because those indices are completely opaque. I’m not saying this is a bad thing, it definitely has a use case, but just that it isn’t really showing off a viable alternative to GC, it is very weird to be states as such. All manual memory management schemes work as you describe, they aren’t classes as automatic because the language runtime (or standard libs) can’t provide it for free.
The interesting case of the Ecuadorean dwarfs and longevity
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Well, actually the job of the SEC is to oppress the rich.
I'd expect your example to return a syntax error as those aren't single or double quotes. Try:

["1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10"].map(parseInt);
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Landing in Kai Tak was immense fun (probably not if flying scares you shitless).

If the plane would have been a little slower you could have checked out what's on TV in the living rooms of the high rises during touch-down.

Crazy dangerous is a bit of an exaggeration[1]. That said: Due to the layout (the runway running directly into the harbour) and it's location in the middle of the city it was a challenging airport for pilots to operate.

Additional specific training was required for pilots to take off and land in Kai Tak.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Tak_Airport#Incidents_and_...

EDIT : Clarification
thank you! i understand now.
As long as everyone makes different stupid mistakes that blow up at different times, sure.

If some measurable fraction all go at once? That's suddenly a problem for the rest of us.
We can do better than percentile latencies
As a joke, someone should release yoyocoin.
Typically commas and semicolons don't have to be matched with open-commas and open-semicolons and you won't see several of them together like ';;;;'. There is a lot less ambiguity over what is ending than something like this example (worst case) from TFA:

> (lambda _ (for-each make-file-writable (find-files "." ".*")))))))

',' and ';' are far more convenient too, the sit right next to m and l, parenthesis require finger stretching and the shift key.
I'd pay for it, if it was embedded in car paint.
Not generally. The entire point being made is that whether one feature is deemed to be more valuable than another feature depends not just on the data fed into the system but also on the training method used.

Specifically, the gp is pointing out that typical approaches will not pay attention to a feature that doesn't have many data points associated with it. In other words, if it hasn't seen very much of something then it won't "form an opinion" about it and thus the other features will be the ones determining the output value.

Additionally, the gp also points out that if you were to accidentally do something (say, feed in non-tech resumes) that exposed your model to an otherwise missing feature (say, predominantly female hobbies or women's colleges or whatever) in a negative light, then you will have (inadvertently) directly trained your model to treat those features as negatives.

Of course, another (hacky) hypothetical (noted elsewhere in this thread) would be to use "resume + hire/pass" as your data set. In that case, your model would simply try to emulate your current hiring practices. If your current practices exhibit a notable bias towards a given feature, then your model presumably will too.
The point of the article is that people behave in a civil manner in a disaster and the behavior during 9/11 seemingly supports this.

> Cause trouble and a mob sets on you.

Do you have anything to support this statement?

The original article contains links to the studies it is citing. If anyone has a serious criticism they can start here.

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0002716205285589

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.453...

http://dspace.udel.edu/bitstream/handle/19716/590/PP205.pdf?...

https://europepmc.org/abstract/med/27438961
>>We're not seeing ICOs to build factories or farms or do real stuff.

Decentralized prediction markets, CPU-renting markets and ad networks aren't doing real stuff?

Blockchain-based tokens provide little advantage for representing claims to real assets like factories and farms. Where they're most useful is as currencies in decentralized autonomous organizations, since they are programmable and thus can be used in smart-contract enforced compensation/incentive mechanisms.

In contrast, any token representing a legal claim to a real physical asset would certainly not be a utility token. It would be a traditional security, and thus would find much less of an advantage in being on a blockchain, since it can't take advantage of smart-contract based enforcement, given its dependence on the traditional legal system.

That might change in the future if large liquid securities markets appear on the blockchain, but right now the low-hanging fruit is utility tokens for use in decentralized applications.
Edit: Two downvotes but no comments? Pretty lame downvoters today...

With regard to Twitter, what is being done to staunch the bleeding of users? I stopped using it in favor of Mastodon, which is starting to eat into my Reddit usage as of late. The ability to chat with interesting people who can hold a high caliber conversation reminds me of certain subreddits & IRC to a degree.
Care to elaborate? You think this is intentional?
You make no sense. Why does it have to be in a day? Why not in a week? Why not in an hour? $13B evaporated = $13B evaporated. Furthermore, in the crypto markets mentioned (BTC, ETH, XRP) there is definitely a trading volume of $10-20 billion weekly. The market is a lot deeper than you think.
I would be interested to hear more about your coding setup on mobile!

What language(s), do you use an online IDE, etc?
I bet he has a couple of assistants who use a computer for him.
The most interesting thing about being in China is seeing how 99% of merchants power their business with a Wechat/Alipay QR code printed on a piece of paper. Not sure how Square missed that.
I'm just saying if it was easy to address it'd have been addressed, but it isn't, so that's why the situation is what it is.
While Guix eventually runs a builder script, the script is 1) a Guile script and 2) not directly provided by the user but the result of compilation.

Guix does not stitch shell scripts together. Builds in Guix are split into build phases, which are Guile procedures. Build system abstractions are collections of these procedures. A packager can inject additional build phases or delete existing build phases from these build systems on a package by package basis.

The `trivial-build-system` is used for packages where none of the existing build systems are applicable, not even with build phases removed or added. This works but is not used very often as it is often more convenient to start with something like the `gnu-build-system` and to replace phases by providing new procedures; this is done to benefit from build phases that the `gnu-build-system` provides, such as those that unpack the sources, patch shebangs, or validate the binaries.
"Let's just agree to disagree" and then nothing ever gets done. It's practically the national motto.
> Einstein because he proposed time wasn't absolute...

Einstein’s iconoclastic idea was his questioning of Newton’s occult force. That was Einstein’s starting point. He could not accept that an occult notion acting instantaneously at a distance can exist in nature. He set out to fix this situation by trying to explain gravity without the Newtonian force. Did he succeed in this?

Also when we look back, we see that Einstein was chosen as a product to be marketed as genius to unite the post-war Europe. A German Jew whose theories proved by the observations of a British team etc.
Your sentiments are close to my heart. The amount of "inspiration" peddled on youtube, linkedin, and other sites is nauseating.
>What? More people across the entire world have more access to those things

I won't argue for the entire world, but I have some numbers for the US - all adjusted for inflation:

- Housing: real-estate prices have increased 4x since the 40-s. The median age of purchasers jumped up by more than a decade.[1]

- Healthcare: per-person spending has increased 9x since the 60's[2]

- Education: the higher education cost has increased by at least a factor of 3x[3]; that article doesn't take into account mandatory fees and living expenses. Or that's 2x if you account for increase in salaries[4]. Should I even talk about jobs available to people without college degrees? You could support a family with a high school diploma back in the day.

- Transportation: public transportation has been in decline in the US. It is by far less available to people today. Read this article for a bigger picture[5]. In particular, the section titled "Death of interurbans and streetcars".

Car prices have remained somewhat stable[6], but that doesn't help people who can't afford one. They are really screwed in a society where car ownership is pretty much expected and public transportation is nonexistent, especially in the suburban areas and small towns.

- Income security: it's hard to characterize that with a single number, but long story short - we are worse off now than in the 70's[7][8]

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To sum it all up: in the past 5 decades, housing, healthcare, education have increased in cost several times, public transportation died, income stability is down the drain.

To answer your question:

>What?

That. The comparison is not to middle ages here.

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[1]https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/23/how-much-housing-prices-have...

[2]https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/23/heres-how-much-the-average-a...

[3]https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/29/how-much-college-tuition-has...

[4]https://college-education.procon.org/view.resource.php?resou...

[5]https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/08/how-america-k...

[6]https://wgntv.com/2016/04/25/the-average-car-now-costs-25449...

[7]See page 7 of: https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/32896/...

[8]https://www.epi.org/publication/bp213/
Surfacing it from the POV of retailer's reality. Uniqlo's net profits(2) at ~ 20% are higher than what is mentioned below for American Retailers (2)

From: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08/12/the-pay-is-too...

In 1960, the country’s biggest employer, General Motors, was also its most profitable company and one of its best-paying. It had high profit margins and real pricing power, even as it was paying its workers union wages. And it was not alone: firms like Ford, Standard Oil, and Bethlehem Steel employed huge numbers of well-paid workers while earning big profits. Today, the country’s biggest employers are retailers and fast-food chains, almost all of which have built their businesses on low pay—they’ve striven to keep wages down and unions out—and low prices.

This complicates things, in part because of the nature of these businesses. They make plenty of money, but most have slim profit margins: Walmart and Target earn between three and four cents on the dollar;

(2) https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/12/business/corpor...
That 30-page company document you opened on your phone, was it written on a phone?

"Producing" is a lot more than writing 15 line emails.
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Nice but why is this not on a .page domain?
That's what I thought of too! Saw this very fascinating but all too brief mention of the move in this old documentary: https://youtu.be/DVntiGI7QzU?t=2235
People have run billion dollar tech startups without computers for centuries? Tell me more, please.
I don't think so.

Tsukiji is basically in Ginza (or very close), which is some of the most expensive reasl estate in the world.

A parking high-rise, maybe?
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It’s an email to the Valhalla-spec-experts mailing list. It’s not unreasonable to expect that they know the terminology.
Agree. Picture or it didn’t happen.

Why are we even debating this crap without a single shred of physical evidence?
Surely you can't be reading all that code on such a small screen? I assume you must be hooking it up to an HDMI monitor as well?

(But if so, I'm with you. I was using a Samsung DeX with my S8 recently while my laptop was broken, and it's incredible how much it can do. I had my Focusrite 2i2 USB audio connecting my S8 to my studio monitors, and even that worked.)
> To me Darwin the more impressive in this regard because his idea wasn't just seriously batty (no one had seen evolution at work when he proposed it, despite living in it's midst)

I think the idea of evolution was in the air. Lamarck and Wallace wrote about similar things. I don’t know if Darwin knew about them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y
What form of comms is better on a computer than it is on a smartphone? I can't think of anything.
Yeah, Churchill may have been controversial at times, but he was absolutely the best possible person to lead Britain at that moment at that time. It just boggles my mind that people try to flatten people of history and cast them in a very specific shadow, out of context of the world, events, and viewpoints of the moment.
I use Google Docs on my phone all the time. It works really well.
Meanwhile not participating in normal life and shutting off from the rest of the world is not fun way either. I'll take living at 80% any day over pretending to be a unicorn and shutting off from the world.

It's sort of like some people pretending being blind or death is their "culture" and thus has to be cherished. No, it's not. It's a deficiency and learning to work around it is damn nice.

Source: I'd probably be on the spectrum if I was a kid nowadays and have eye sight issues.
It's never referenced in the article, but if you're interested in this stuff most of it falls under the category of "Media Ecology".
QR codes have been available for a while. Square helped do payments through credit cards. At that time payment via QR codes was cumbersome, and not adopted. But I think it depends more on the consumers and local economy. US was anyway using credit cards a lot. Asia preferred cash, for smaller transactions.
For me (and many others) anything that involves writing more than a few words of text. YMMV.
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I've got DeX too, and I agree, it's very nice. Linux on Galaxy will probably take this even further.
I agree. Although Freakonomics feels like an exploration of the weird and unexpected, while Gladwell feels like he is handpicking studies to push the bigger narrative of a book.
Sure, but you're putting a workaround in – there really shouldn't be any need for that no-op arrow function. But you do actually need it in order to drop all but the first arguments.

This is simple, straightforward, and wrong:

["1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10"].map(parseInt)

This doesn't work because map() stuffs a counter into the second argument of parseInt(), which is expecting a radix for its second argument. So the iterations of the map go like this:

parseInt("1", 0)
parseInt("2", 1)
parseInt("3", 2)

…and so on, which obviously gives garbage results. JavaScript is littered with these kinds of weird edge cases. Even your example with the workaround isn't 100% reliable, it's browser-dependent – when you have leading zeros in your strings, some browsers will interpret them as octal, and some won't.
From Australia's Reserve Bank:

https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2018/pdf/rdp2018-10....
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> "Producing" is a lot more than writing 15 line emails.

Depends of your job really, there's a lot of people for which writing emails & replying to people is the main part of their job.

I don't suggest to do 3D modeling or writing a 100 pages document on a phone but there's a lot of middle ground between the two.
> if I can't trust education to help me figure out what's true and what's crackpot nonsense, then what?

You sound young.

When I was born was no TV, no IVF, no RU-286, no drones hunting down foreign soldiers, no trolling on social media, no Cambridge Analytica, no Facebook to take my privacy, no camera on every street corner, no face recognition, nuclear power was going to be too cheap to metre, no climate change theory and as a consequence no education telling me how to deal with any of those things. Yet when I look around most people have a similar ethical compass to me on those things. Obviously we didn't acquire it by trusting education.
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This is what I’ve been wondering all along.
Yes, the idea is that you only create them temporarily.

Mutability is also possible to some extent with these "smart" pointers. It gets a bit trickier and less ergonomic, though. See https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=fbf1c24397e7020c95774bf0906...

Another option would be to store something like "Rc<RefCell<Container>>" instead of "&'a mut Container", in which case you will be able to achieve something that behaves like multiple mutable references (with all the concurrency issues of them).
Sorry if this triggered somthing in you, but I really meant "shitty MP3s".

I don't have got anything against MP3s in general, but back when I was buying MP3s (Amazon or Downloads when you are buying a record) sometimes I got 256kbps MP3s or even worse. I think one time I even got a 192kbps MP3. And that's my problem.

When I am buying music digitally I would like to have a very very good (or even perfect) digital copy of the music - not something that saves download bandwith and space on the hard drive(for me these days are over).

I am fine with 320kpbs MP3s - but if I pay for it I prefer FLAC.
Most work can now be done on an iPad Pro without much compromise (highlighting stuff is still annoying, but oh well). With a little creativity, even decent amount of coding can be done.

Note that with the iPad, Apple is doing everything they can to hamstring the ability to code or replace the Mac.

Now expand your field of vision to Surface and Pixel Slate, and now you have two fully featured computing devices that act like a tablet, but readily convert to full on productivity machines complete with nice keyboards and pointing devices. Both support external monitors (why on earth can I not use airplay like this?!).

This hasn’t caught on yet, but for the average office user, and event many developers, these tablets with external keyboards provide more than enough computing power to get all of their work done.

For now I’m staying with my iPad, but Google has really made that choice a lot more difficult with the Pixel Slate. Had I been less bought into the Apple ecosystem, I’d be ordering it immediately.

EDIT: Forgot to mention eGPUs - if I could run a Thunderbolt3 eGPU on either Surface or Pixel Slate, probably would have switched by now.