skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not arbitrarily wide, agreed. But it's also true that you can go a lot wider than a typical raid array without much difficulty.

I guess something to keep in mind is that you need bigger chunks to read efficiently, and smaller stripes to write efficiently. But in archival storage you don't care about write speed so the balance changes a lot.
>So although some may think that things like music studios are not a necessity, they are in this case.

No one said it was unnecessary; the GP questioned why it needed to be "state of the art".
Wow, missed that part when I read it. Pretty incredible that using open source data you can outperform the state-of-the-art machine translators of a few years ago.
Good news, but who knows how long it’ll last.
SpatialOS GDK for Unity launch: build multiplayer games faster
Clearly the universe wants me to learn Prolog, as HN seems to be putting it on the front page almost every day. Challenge accepted.
It's just a unification of some government functions. The functionality is the same.

parliament == electoral_college + congress

Specifically for Germany and the USA:

Bundestag == electoral_college + house_of_representatives

Bundesrat == senate

So you effectively do have a congress and an electoral college. In your system, they are merged and thus have the same members.

There are six typical roles:

1. lower legislative body

2. upper legislative body

3. electoral college

4. supreme court

5. head of state

6. executive

You have the 1==3 and 5==6 mergers. The USA has only the 5==6 merger. The UK has the 1==3 merger and prior to 2009 had the 2==4 merger.
Ok, I'll admit mistakes on my original post. The regedit method clearly isn't seen as a suitable fix for the broad population, and 'basic' telemetry isn't the same as 'no' telemetry.

Some other points:

> I want no private or personal data to be sent

I would say that none is sent on basic, but the definition of 'private or personal' is overloaded enough that we might disagree.

> Calling me "conspiratorial-minded' is simply wrong

Sorry, I didn't call you that, just a hypothetical broader population. Probably bad wording on my part either way.

> There is no official information on what data is gathered under the Basic setting.

There is. Lots more info here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/configure-w...

The best way to see what's gathered would be to sign up for an MSA, enable basic telemetry, and then go to the privacy account page and view it yourself.

> The Dutch DPA already determined Microsoft to be in violation of the GDPR a year ago

Not sure what to make of this since most US companies targeted compliance for May 2018, nor does that article mention the GDPR.

> Those are not official Microsoft instructions or documented settings.

Point taken, you're right :)
An init system written entirely in Guile LISP is interesting to think about

https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/
That hilbert() function is nuts
> The SEC should only get involved when someone defrauds another party through misrepresentation.

So basically ICOs, then.
> Only thing that matters is waffer price, yield, transistor count and TDP.

Wouldn't 5 nm allow shorter wire traces, which would reduce another limiting factor in computational speed?
Depends on how they're taught, but to be honest, at a certain point in algorithms class, the subject matter also became tedious and abstract beyond recognition.
1986 Art of Prolog..

Can someone say which (who?) are the "Prolog for the 21st century" and the "Lisp of the 21st century" ?!
It doesn't appear that the quantity of laws on the books or the nanny state are preventing seed stage companies from leaving our stable mature market. There must be something else keeping them here in droves. hmm?
This is a subtle point but worth stating -- AI does not mirror or copy human reasoning.

AI is designed to get the same results as a human. How it gets to those results is often very, very different. I'm having trouble finding it, but there was an article a while back trying to do focus tracking between humans and computers for image recognition. What they found was that even when computers were relatively consistent with humans in results, they often focused on different parts of the image and relied on different correlations.

That doesn't mean that Amazon isn't biased. I mean, let's be honest, it probably is; there's no way a company this large is going to be able to perfectly filter or train every employee and on average tech bias trends against women. BUT, the point is that even if Amazon were to completely eliminate bias from every single hiring decision it used in its training data, an AI still might introduce a racial or gendered bias on its own if the data were skewed or had an unseen correlation that researchers didn't intend.
No they haven't. They've said from the beginning that if it looks like a security, smells like a security, walks like a security and talks like a security, then it's a security.

It's people trying to play the, "Well, it's different cause it's on a computer!" game that are muddying the waters.
The SEC doesn't create law. Courts do. It can claim anything it wants, but until its argument is tested by a court, it's not law.

There continue to be strong legal arguments for utility tokens not being securities:

https://www.coinbase.com/legal/securities-law-framework.pdf

This attitude of deferring to regulatory agencies, which have their own set of institutional biases, on the question of the applicability of securities laws to smart-contract executed issuances of digital tokens that confer zero legal title to a common enterprise, is dangerous to liberty and innovation.
Micro-economics. I suppose the point is if you aren't applying expertise in psychology then it's not "behavioral"; however, big data is essentially the push to model your behavior to greater level of precision (nano-economics?). I don't see how signal:noise ratio fits in at all.
The problem with your viewpoint is that its only looking at transit in isolation. Transit is just one piece of creating a safe, livable cities. The city/state/province/country needs to and should invest in crime prevention, poverty alleviation, job creation etc at the same time to create great cities.
This is the message they sent:

"Specifically, it would be appropriate to remove the non-iOS device images."

I am redesigning things, but this is irritating.
The vast majority of people making evolutionary psychology arguments in Hacker News threads or newspaper op-eds or such are also doing the later so the bad associations are understandable, even if they're not really the fault of evolutionary psychology the academic field.
Each process has its own virtual address space. That’s half the fun of virtual addressing.

(and unfortunately, at least according to the L4 people, almost half the cost of a context switch - fixing the TLB)
I prefer Erving Goffman.
Yeah, I like how after 2014 they decided to push ads into their paid OS. And how they forced "upgrades" to windows10 for millions of people who didn't want it.

They are truly a company that cares about openness and giving back control of the device the the people who fucking paid for it.

No wait, they aren't. They are still just a bunch of assholes like always.
But it make logical sense to conclude that biological gender differences confer specific advantages to one gender or the other in different tasks or situations. More generally, when there is a salient difference between two things, those two things will often behave differently in a given situation.

It just makes sense to conclude that men are better at certain things and women are better at certain things.
Why are you assuming I have no idea of the data available? Because I question the default narrative?

I do find it interesting and noteworthy that gender disparities have grown in STEM while shrinking in other fields. But I believe my explanation accounts for that - that STEM has become more prestigious, which draws men, which forces out women.

The "well known psychological attitude" is begging the question, which seems par for the course on responses here. Is this psychological attitude biological, or social? And if it's biological, how do we explain significant changes in professional proportions that have happened over a mere one or two generations? It seems like a very poor explanation for what you're asserting, contradicting your own stated facts.

If it's social, however, we're back to my explanation - as the prestige of formerly female-dominated careers rises, they become more attractive to men, to the point where men dominate them. It's a much simpler explanation, with no contradictions.
>Fairly sure if you could remove the fingerprint sensor entirely you would.

I personally would absolutely not unless face-id style things became MUCH more powerful.

The only reason I have face-unlock enabled on my android device is for the occasions where the phone is face-up on the table, in it's dock on my desk, or when I lived in a colder climate and I would sometimes be wearing gloves.

I don't want to have to look directly at my screen in most cases, I don't want to have to wait any time at all while I bring the phone toward my eyes to have it unlock, I don't want to have to "focus" on it before it lets me in.

When I use a fingerprint scanner on a mobile device, it is normally unlocked a fraction of a second after it's out of my pocket, and I'm probably not going to buy a phone if it removes a fingerprint scanner as it's just so perfect for me right now.

Now on a PC or tablet, face-id is the way to go! Microsoft's "Hello" system works amazingly well on my surface book, and that is a device where I don't want a fingerprint scanner, because there isn't a single spot on the device that I normally "touch" to wake it. I LOVE how if I wake the device by any means, it unlocks pretty much instantly if I'm looking at the screen, and in the vast majority of cases the screen is pointed right at me. It also works in the dark because it uses similar IR tech as face-id does (I believe).

If you ask me, Apple needs to get face-id on the macbooks and get rid of the horrible fingerprint scanner on there which is never convenient to me.

Don't confuse "security" with "convenience". If I were going for most secure, I wouldn't be using a fingerprint scanner OR face-id, i'd stick solely with "something I know" to get into the device. But I'm personally willing to trade some of that security for convenience, and for me at least, it doesn't get any more convenient than a fingerprint scanner on the back of the device (as far as I know! If someone designs something better, i'd love to see it! But the current iterations of face-id are far from it for me).
With all due respect to the other answers in other threads, it sounds to me that there is a toxic company culture if employees feel they need a “private” slack channel where they can post work appropriate messages without reprisal. I understand that a single dev can’t always fix the underlying problem and sometimes needs to focus on mitigating a symptom. But should the question really be “what can we do to fix the company culture”?
I'd like to eliminate federally backed student loans and replace that spending with federally backed student grants for the best students under a certain household income. That wouldn't make tuition rise in the same way, and it would still help poorer people go to college. AND they wouldn't have to pay back loans.
The WSL stuff has me seriously considering a Windows laptop next, which I would have told you was pants-on-head crazy a couple years ago.
Translation: I'm proud of what i created. It's holding up well.
If the state loosens the reins on rent control, watch out!

Right now, single family homes are exempt from rent control. An owner can raise the rent as they see fit (within reason). If SFHs come under rent control I think you'll see a lot of people just not renting their homes or condos out at all.

This happened in Toronto last year. Similar to SF, units built after 1991 were exempt from rent increase limits. Now it's all units.

So if you owned a condo in Toronto and it was worth $600K, it's probably worth a lot less if you're currently renting it out because that tenant has just locked in their rent for the foreseeable future.
Well the solution is simple: use longer exposures, of course, that has the unpleasant side effect of annihilating your throughput on extremely expensive machines...
I'd put it on a par with SICP. A very enjoyable reading.
This is a parody. From the original Dropbox announcement on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Unfortunately, similar parodies are posted as a reaction to many Dropbox-related posts, so gets a bit repetitive.
This is kind of the point of this whole post :) reserving lots of virtual memory causes posts like this, where people complain about how much memory you are "using".
Booking a cheap taxi is much easier now in London with cabhit
It's probably in reference to a HN comment on Dropbox's original announcement post that said the product was a glorified version of Rsync. To be fair to that commenter, he congratualted the company in it's IPO post.
The reason is the thread you are currently in :) it is common for people to complain you are "using the memory".
TSMC's gross margin is something like 50% iirc so it's not even that bad
That's even more confusing! :)
There are certainly people who can learn that way, but it's not effective for most people. Most people have a limit to the amount of abstraction they can operate under before they need a tangible connection. Once that connection is made, most people can continue on to higher levels of abstraction.
note the 1st edition is also up there https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-prolog

and both in open access~
Lol, most of the republicans in the administration don't believe that international law even exists.
I still pirate music... When it's not available in a streaming service, and not available legally for a fair price!

I think the best way to address piracy is with strong copyright reform. Specifically, once content is sold for mass consumption, it needs to make its way into streaming services. Things like artificial scarcity need to be phased out.
exfat is using FUSE I think in common distros anyway. So it is userland.
"Just" using AWS isn't going to solve any of the problems this article describes.
Real Bodies exhibition accused of including executed chinese political prisoners
Hmm,

Aside from the technical aspects, it seems like constructing good error messages involves understanding human ideas of the meaning of programming constructs.

A big thing is people think of a program as a set meaningful statement with errors involving additions or subtractions from this. But a naive c parser can't give a "missing semicolon" error. All it can do is give "unexpected token X" or some such, because it goes through the code token by token it reaches a token that make sense - that "unexpected token" may be what comes right after the missing semicolon or it might be even further down.

All this is an indication how different the human understanding of a unit of meaning is from just a language spec.
Announcing LoopBack 4 GA Is Now Ready for Production Use
Yikes, that dust storm with a pedestrian walking across the road at 2:00 is eerily reminiscent of the Uber killing incident.

Glad to see that Waymo’s tech is up to snuff and can actually handle the things it purports it can, lest there have been another death splattered across the news.
> You have to take the use case of the smart-contract / app and see what is the incentive to pollute input data. Then you can use mechanism design to motivates users to input high quality data and have trustless curated list of the best data sources.

You have literally just described a very shit version of Chainlink.

Let me elaborate. Chainlink will make any API feed availible to trigger a smart contract. The problem is not trusting the API, its trusting the data returned from the API/Data source has not been tampered with before it triggers a smart contract.
James Murdoch in line to replace Musk as Tesla chairman
Yup. Someone telling us that programming was something for us - not just being exposed to media and advertising and social pressures that continually suggest (and did even more so in the 80's and 90's) that computing was for socially inept males.
It doesn't matter net if some people switch from fossil fuels to renewables, and then somebody else starts using the cheaper fossil fuels for some marginal economic activity that's now feasible with lower fuel costs.
Why though? Why get rid of screen space that could be used for something?

If you really hate that space being used, there are several apps out there that "disable" it by pushing the whole screen to treat that space as if it were bezel.

Doesn't that give everyone the best of both worlds? I prefer the notch in that it gives me more space at the top around it for things like notifications or status icons, and if you hate the look you can black it out and have it look like it's just a big bezel.
The problem is that when this happens, users are going to blame the browser, not the site, because it "used to work fine". Especially when switching browsers is easy.

I ran into this issue while trying to visit Paypal on my Pixelbook (on dev channel). There was no "simple" workaround (ie. click to ignore the warning) so I just used a different device.
Their core technology?

They haven't opensourced windows, MS Office, Skype, Visual Studio or Active Directory/Exchange.

So no, they haven't opensourced any of their core tech.
Not sure about psychology, but the comparative method is also used in linguistics to reconstruct dead languages.
I'm glad that Amazon sells DRM-free MP3s (although I imagine they only did it to remain competitive with iTunes). They don't do it with their eBooks, however. Any time I buy an ebook through them, the first thing I do is download it to my PC and strip the DRM via Calibre so that I have a DRM-free version should Amazon ever decide to yank the original again.
A Look at Linux Application Scaling Up to 128 Threads
Multiple staging urls for each branch under {branch-name}.staging.example.com
This actually seems to be a duplicate, though it got a lot more traction than the previous post I know of:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18178889
The correctness I'd argue is worth it.

My company has been shipping a service in rust for >1 year and its really nice knowing when the tests pass, and the app gets deployed it'll do exactly what it needs to in perpetuity. Once tests pass locally pushing to master doesn't require a second thought, if it ever does it means local tests should be updated.

While there is a non-trivial spinup learning to work in the language, and unlearning bad habits from other languages can be frustrating (especially coming from C). The performance, without losing correctness is wonderful.
Just after World War II, the Communists took over China from the previous government. The previous government ran to the island of Taiwan, which had been part of China. If I understand correctly, you now have two different governments, one on the mainland and one on Taiwan, both of which claim to be the government of China, and both of which claim to rule all of China, and both of which claim that there is only one China.

Other nations play pretend to various degrees, trying to placate (mainland) China without too much swallowing their own pride in not being China's lapdogs. But they're effectively two separate countries.

So: The tariffs being applied to China do not apply to Taiwan. However, Trump seems to be throwing tariffs at several targets lately; he may or may not have applied some to Taiwan.
Do you know about SpiderOak? Encrypted backup is their business model.
23 new Master Sommeliers stripped of titles after cheating discovered
The funny thing is that a DSL looks aesthetically pleasing but is more often than not a nightmare to work with.

Lisp itself is a DSL, it's completely unconstrained by common syntactical conventions (whitespace, block scopes, etc.) and the worst anyone can take away from that setup is that it requires typing ')' too much. Yet there are so many tools invented entirely to manipulate Lisp code so you don't need to rewrite editor plugins and what-not to get fresh syntax highlighting and completion for your brand new language.

Because it's also a programming language, it already supports functions and other constructs for abstraction and code reuse, should you need them for larger scripts with lots of boilerplate.

But tend to reject it and the already done work because of the aesthetics, and then we're going into the GitHub repos for things like Helm, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc. because the custom YAML/JSON-esque templating setup misses vital features and we're having to re-learn the same stuff over and over again.
Templates for requirements?
Hi anyone uses successful different types of templates with external clients to gather different types of feature requirements or always the same template besides the user story format? Please share...
I wish Russian spies were caught stealing tech secrets instead of killing and cyberwar-ing - i mean it would be kind of an indicator that my old country looks forward instead of into the past.
Nope, like for like 5400 HDD
I misunderstood what it was that you didn't see the value of.

The original point was entirely to avoid scaring newbies who can't tell virtual from physical, while still being liberal with your virtual usage.

Haskell with GHC has a great solution: just allocate 1TB up front. A newbie does not need improved tooling, a reworked memory system or any education to realize that this can't possibly be RAM.
All the more reason to move from Oracle's Java to openJDK and also stay the fuck away from .NET.
Insofar as it involves "somebody using something in a manner not explicitly permitted by the owner, but in a way that also does not prevent the owner from also using it," I've always thought the unauthorized use of copyrighted material was closer to trespassing than to stealing.
Like trespassing, the legal definition of piracy (in the context of intellectual property) covers a wide range of activities, from the benign to the outrageous.
Of course, at those prices there will be fewer SOCs. That means, on average, that each SOC will get more design wins, and therefore have higher volume...
The SEC does not have the authority to bring criminal cases; only civil. They can refer to the DoJ for criminal prosecution.
MICROSOFTES EVNT DOMVS
Not really, like I said, java isn't really suitable for systems level work, or a good choice for FFI to C/C++. There are also a lot of disadvantages to using Java. Java lacks some of the compile time safety features of Rust. It has high level features like Sum types that Java does not have. The owners of Java have also sued reimplementors as well, which I think should give anyone pause about using it to do business with.
Ask HN: Senior Devs – how much time per week do you spend programming?
How many hours per week do you reckon you spend programming - whether its a side project, or learning a new library/framework?

Trying to get a pulse on how much Senior engineers spend (1) working on side projects, and (2) learning new technical skills.
Japan's rail system was made profitable by transferring all of its debt to the Japanese taxpayers.

> By 1987, JNR's debt was over ¥27 trillion ($280 billion at 2009 exchange rates) and the company was spending ¥147 for every ¥100 earned. By an act of the Diet of Japan, on April 1, 1987 JNR was privatized and divided into seven railway companies, six passenger and one freight, collectively called the Japan Railways Group or JR Group. Long-term liabilities of JNR were taken over by the JNR Settlement Corporation. That corporation was subsequently disbanded on October 22, 1998, and its remaining debts were transferred to the national budget's general accounting. By this time the debt has risen to ¥30 trillion ($310 billion in 2009 dollars).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_National_Railways#His...
Why does four out of ten sound better than two out of five?