skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok well I guess that's even dumber than I thought. I hope apple takes that $2 per device savings in optical audio parts laughing to the bank.
These days optical audio is dying when it comes to home theater systems, primarily due to its lack of codec support. You can't passthrough DTS-HD over optical, you can over HDMI.
> crushed or severed fingers [...] isn't stuff you need to call an ambulance for.

What?
Err, so, this paywalled article is about how a Republican governor who ran on a platform of cutting welfare in the state of Indiana brought in some "algorithms", some "computers" of some sort, that ended up giving a lot of money to private companies, slashing welfare, and making people more poor?

And the premise here is that this was unintended?

I think I found the problem: credulous writers.
Good point—anyone using Chrome is good. I was thinking of people who are using Safari or Edge, which aren't available on other platforms.
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if you make a (square) "balloon" a bunch of km large you can use concrete and vacuum. :D
I think they already repented multiple times to ever had licensed x86 designs to other companies.

Without AMD we would all be using some variation of Itanium.
Let me just stress the first point, because that's exactly where Rust and C++ differ: C++ templates really are untyped. There is no way to check whether a template definition is correct. A C++ compiler has to first expand the templates ("complete monomorphisation") and then perform type checking. Any errors you get will be in terms of the template instantiations, not your original code.

Unlike C++, Rust has a type system for the full language. In particular, traits are type checked once and you get errors in terms of the code you wrote yourself. There are other compilers that use complete monomorphisation, such as the MLton compiler for Standard ML, where you don't hear horror stories about terrifying error messages because your code was checked before being specialized.

I want to stress that this is a terrible design decision in terms of usability, because it is incredibly attractive from an implementation perspective. Parametric types are a delicate issue in an imperative language and always end up rejecting some perfectly fine programs. Monomorphisation both eliminates this issue and potentially leads to more efficient code, but your type errors will suffer.

I could say more about this - there are more trade-offs involved - but actually working with template heave C++ code is a better argument than anything I could say.

...That said, the examples in the blog post actually don't use any complicated machinery, and the quality of the compiler errors just comes down to very good engineering on the part of the Rust development team. :)
I wonder what the behavior would be, and all the loopholes, and how that would be if say one year you were a billionaire, the next not.... I'm guessing if you couldn't just buy stuff and take it with you to the next year everyone would just be buying experiences or something?
I think it's quite interesting as few years ago consultancies weren't valued that high and investors wouldn't think that investing into a consultancy is a good idea. With Redha and now Heptio acquisitions it seems like times are changing :) I guess it's really important for those large corporates to acquire engineering talent in bulk and it's probably really healthy for their internal culture to get some fresh ideas.
Anyway, I really liked Heptio strategy of building and supporting some open source tooling to help with your k8s cluster, let's hope their team will continue the tradition! :)
Probability.
One difference is flow control. When you call a function, all the arguments are evaluated before being passed into the function. If you want to delay evaluation, you have to wrap the argument values in a function. When you call a macro, the text forms get passed with no evaluation.
Say Clojure forgot to ship with the boolean "or". "or" should evaluate its arguments one at a time (to allow for short circuiting) and return the first non-false value. You could do this with functions, but you have the source-level overhead of manually wrapping everything, and performance overhead of defining and passing an anonymous function for each argument. With a macro, at compile time you just translate the "or" macro into a simpler form that uses "if". This is how Clojure actually implements "or":

(defmacro or
"Evaluates exprs one at a time, from left to right. If a form
returns a logical true value, or returns that value and doesn't
evaluate any of the other expressions, otherwise it returns the
value of the last expression. (or) returns nil."
{:added "1.0"}
([] nil)
([x] x)
([x & next]
`(let [or# ~x]
(if or# or# (or ~@next)))))

Also check this http://lists.warhead.org.uk/pipermail/iwe/2005-July/000130.h...
As a broader principle: sure, Do The Little Things, if only to create an environment that shows people that climate change is considered important by many people.

That's not what this advice was, though; the advice was specifically to use less soap when doing the dishes.
Or put another way: if voter ID were considered a serious issue, then the obvious first issue to solve would be establishing a new national ID system.

This would solve other problems - for example the use of insecure social security numbers as de facto national ID, and passwords, which you give to everybody yet can be used to steal your identity simply by knowing. Like, this is actually a big problem in the US that affects numerous people, and would save the economy million of dollars minimum, probably more, by solving in a secure way.

Then, with reasonable confidence that national ID had the uptake rate necessary to pull it's lack of below the level of impact which would effect elections, you could make voter ID mandatory.

Weirdly, no one ever seems to start with the - far more problematic - "hey national ID is kind of a big problem..." when they propose voter ID though. They also don't start with any data about in-person voter fraud (except if you count all the people who get caught trying to commit it to "prove" it's totally easy to do everytime this comes up).
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This is the first version of the trading terminal which basically allows you to make buy/sell limit orders from Binance, Bittrex and Bitfinex. This is probably just 1% of what the entire terminal will become.

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This is somewhat a reason that although a lot of educated Chinese people might not totally agree with the policy of the government , they understand the reason behind the strict media control. However their different altitude from average westerners are misinterpreted as: 1.They are brainwashed by government propaganda, or 2.They don't understand the value of free speech , or 3.They are too nationalistic (That's partially true. Eastern Asian are generally more nationalistic than other nationals except average Americans).

There are other countries adopt similar policies which also lead to success: Singapore, Rwanda. Unfortunately few people want to debate the dark side of free speech because of political correctness. Nowadays there are already some brave voices debating about intelligence vs ethnicity. Hopefully the debate can extend to other topic such as different nations/cultures/populations have different levels of rationality and immune to fake news quite differently.
Plus I don't really see why a crazy-spec SSD is really key here. It's not going to be the bottleneck for most use cases in a Mac Mini that has an integrated graphics card (at $2.5k...) A regular SSD would do.
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@faceplanted, exactly that. Thanks for the clarification.
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Don't judge, maybe the next version of the mac mini will be waterproof!
I'm torn. In my heart, I absolutely did not want Amazon here due to how it would obliterate any shred of culture we have left, decimate anyone who didn't work in tech, and paralyze the city's traffic completely.

On the other hand, as a developer and a home owner, it would have been amazing for my pocket book.
With any luck, they'll use IBM POWER again!

(Please don't be ARM, please don't be ARM)
It isn't so much coming up with the specific operations, but the realization that TMs can emulate every other machine, i.e. the Church-Turing thesis. This seems to be beyond the capability of TMs as it ventures into the domain of the halting problem.
Is that really an issue with Intel's integrated GPUs? Honestly asking.

I'm considering a Mac Mini, but there's no way I'm going back to low PPI displays and the lack of affordable 5K / 27" options concerns me (in my opinion 4K/UHD at 27" is a borderline unusable combination with its effective resolution of 1080p - feel free to convince me otherwise).

If those few 5K options can't be driven smoothly by an Intel GPU, it's settled and I'm waiting for an iMac update instead. Ideally I'd like a multi monitor setup though.
Anyone who owns a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar will definitely be saying "yay it hasn't gotten worse!" about these.
Something something freedom. Humans should be free to destroy the planet without meddling from them pesky guvments dagnabbit!
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I question that this was "designed to fight poverty". It looks much more like it was designed to give money to powerful corporations with the claim that it will fight poverty tacked on to make it politically palatable.
That's fairly poor locating there - either they were using a paper map or using a radiodetection line locator and the operator wasn't very good or the line/tracer wire was electrically continuous with another nearby structure and it was throwing off the signal.
> Commuting in NYC sucks and you should expect it to get worse.

The secret is to move to Jersey and take the NY Waterway ferry. $272/month, including bus transit on both sides if you need it. While your boat may occasionally be 5 minutes late (like every other mass transit option), they almost never shut down.

I can't speak to the East River Ferry.
you can use a driver's license as official ID in the UK too.
ambulance "sharing"!
Back when the first CPUs with HT came into the market I got a developer workstation with them.

After trying out WebSphere developer tools (RAD) with HT enabled and disabled for several days, I eventually came to the conclusion that with them disabled everything just felt faster.

Also it is not clear if the security issues caused by HT, which affect other vendors as well, could ever be properly sorted out.
Alternative approaches to fusion need to be explored, like focus fusion, polywell, ICF, etc. ITER and the like are great for physics and for the engineering challenges it presents that will likely be applicable elsewhere, but the complexity means it probably won't be viable as a generator for decades to come.
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ScyllaDB achieves Cassandra feature parity, adds HTAP, cloud, Kubernetes support
Gorsuch didn't tip the balance of the court, nor was his confirmation within spitting distance of the midterms. The stakes for both parties were much higher in the Kavanaugh battle.
> The article is describing medical professionals in a clinical environment making medical judgement calls.

The article describes medical professionals making medical judgment calls, and getting censured or fired for it.
I personally use Xbox and Roku along with Plex running on a windows desktop computer which is powerful enough to do transcoding.

All of the video files reside on a local windows machine and a cheap storage VPS on the cloud(located in NL). Both of the machines run plex server and auto transcode all content to an MP4 container ( HEVC for 4k content ). I force plex on the xbox to direct play all content and it usually works pretty well.
Don't forget the best effect of all: even more insane housing prices!

Seriously, Amazon, kindly fuck off somewhere.
I doubt it -- the number of users who use a Mac Mini as an entertainment center is probably so small Apple barely thinks about them. More likely is that HDMI has superseded the optical audio port for most users, so they save money by removing a port few use these days.
To make a nation-wide accuracy map, you'd need to compile property data from every county (or equivalent) in the nation. Assuming every county publishes it publicly (I'm sure some don't), it would still be a ton of work...

The real catch is this, though: if you actually pulled it off, you would have just built a nearly flawless reverse geocoder, and you wouldn't need to use an external API at all. You could just look locations up in your huge property data set.
That's one thing I've noticed in my environment: the number of vegetarians has exploded, there actually are several vegans now, and there is nobody loudly proclaiming how much they love meat and how they could never give that up. Likewise, nobody is claiming about activist vegans - which is probably due to the also relevant factor that none of the vegans and almost none of the vegetarians are activist. They're just setting an example, are willing to discuss it if you bring it up, and that's it.
All of my experiences with Mac have been like this.

Got a MBP for college, 2009. Still running as my mom's laptop in 2018. Meanwhile my dad's 2 year old dell has endless problems, it's incredibly cheap, despite having better internal hardware. It's slower, needed tons of configuration out of the box, and Windows 10 is just awful. My dad's laptop constantly has issues. My mom? Never once. It just works.

I will gladly pay for a product that is like that. I don't care what an SSD costs on Amazon. I don't want to spend time looking up components and motherboards and bargain hunting. I don't care about gaming and therefore the GPU. People on here look at numbers and costs but they never consider the customer experience.

It's far more damning of Apple to have the bad keyboard on the new MBPs than have some overpriced hardware. Ask 99% of people on the street if they even know what an i7 is.
100: At Least It Wasn't Oracle, AWS, HQ2, Kubernetes, Neomonolith, and More
This is interesting to me, because I'm an avid reader in real life and usually lucid dream (though I don't train myself to). Most dreams to a degree feel like fiction to me and they're enjoyable in the same way reading a good book is, except better, since they're about me. I have never linked this to my reading before.
You mean like distributing contraception in places like Africa? There's been a huge push for it in recent years and until your comment I don't think I've ever heard it described as "un-PC".
"It's not like the hate for Apple, Microsoft or Google"

This is not about love or hate, it's about how much value they provide and at what cost.

Yes, they spend a lot of money convincing execs that they need Oracle, but they actually do have a good product. And don't discount all the other things like support etc.. In many applications, the cost of a DB is simply not hugely material.

So I don't like them, don't care for them, Ellison is one of the bigger douche bags around. But I'd still buy their product if it made sense to.
That is why you talk about your minimum acceptable level, not your expected salary. It won't prevent upwards negotiation, as they are still competing with other offers. Whereas if you don't communicate a minimum, you could go through a lengthy interview process, only to get a lowball offer that you never had a chance of taking. Waste of time for everyone involved.
The caches aren’t “partitioned” between logical cores. You have two cores generating memory requests, and the combined working set could be larger than the caches, but there is no partitioning going on, in the sense of allocating cache lines to one thread or the other.
CPU support for trapping on a failed LL/SC would suffice.
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It starts at $800, and you can instantly save $600 even for this top-of-the-line model by installing RAM yourself (it's user-upgradable again).

The model & price reviewed here is the "let's not stop people from throwing money at us" option.
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>Ranked Choice voting would generally be a good move in that direction.

There's a wide array of voting options that can be implemented with their own pros and cons.

I really enjoyed this resource:
http://www.cgpgrey.com/politics-in-the-animal-kingdom/
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Oracle or Microsoft could be worse
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It reminds me a bit of the quest to find 'God's Number' for the minimum number of moves such that you can always solve a Rubik's Cube. In that, the upper and lower bounds were pushed closer and closer by proofs until finally they met- meaning the number 20 was exactly the answer. (Well, the lower bound was 20 for years, and the upper bound was pushed down over time).

> Within a day or two, he had come up with a new upper bound on the length of the shortest superpermutation for n symbols: n! + (n – 1)! + (n – 2)! + (n – 3)! + n – 3

> The anonymous 4chan poster’s lower bound, meanwhile, was tantalizingly close to the new upper bound: It works out to n! + (n – 1)! + (n – 2)! + n – 3

IE: The upper bound has been lowered to

n! + (n – 1)! + (n – 2)! + (n – 3)! + n – 3

The lower bound has been raised to

n! + (n – 1)! + (n – 2)! + n – 3

If the mathematicians can get either number closer by (n-3)!, then they have it.
rr supports multithreaded applications, but only uses a single core. So parallel applications slow down.
Your last point is not quite correct. Closed source software could be doing anything but in order for you to verify what the software is doing you only need it to be open source - not free. Software can be non free but still open source.
Banks can be shut down to prevent bank runs, but only temporarily. You can't just close the bank down or heavily restrict withdrawals forever without significant negative consequences. Fighting climate change is not a short term proposition.

Even if you are totally correct, it's irrelevant unless (A) you can maintain democratic support for such collective actions, or (B) you get rid of democracy.

In the US at least, even the democrats don't propose climate regulation strong enough to have a measurable impact on the climate over ten years. People will absolutely resist the moment energy prices go up notably, which will be necessary to measurably affect climate.

The problem isn't that collective action needs to be taken, it's that sufficient collective action won't sufficiently be supported by voters. That's why Democrats aren't proposing it, and that's the actual hurdle that needs to be overcome.
"This was not racially motivated, this was to ensure only legitamite voters come to the polls" said Alvin Jaegar.

It's really frustrating to watch this continued, unabated effort to seize and keep power at all costs by the Republicans.

By targeting rural voters they end up with hugely disproportionate numbers in the senate, the house, and the electoral college.

By shuttering polling places they impact the poor and minorities.

Through incarceration, and disenfranchisement, and voter roll purging they remove the voices of millions throughout this nation who would most likely vote for Democrats.

And through the passage of voter ID laws, and voter address laws they continue their efforts to diminish the authority of this "democracy".

It's time for this shit to stop. Our citizens deserve to have their voices heard no matter what the color of their skin, or what's in their bank accounts.

We should abolish the electoral college, and redraw senate districts to be one hundred equal population centers that're redrawn every twenty years based on the census.

No more should we let someone who lives in Rhode Island or Wisconsin have forty or sixty times the representation in the Senate by virtue of where they lived in deference to our founding fathers who lived in a time when black people were 3/5ths that of white people, women couldn't vote, and who generally owned literal human slaves.

No more should 80,000 voters in three states over ride the will of 3,000,000 in all 50 by virtue of the electoral college which was designed to prevent the election of the dangerous demagogue we see on our TVs and hear about in the news every day.

No more should the people of Washington D.C. be without meaningful representation in our halls of congress.

How many more wars in Iraq, how much more unnecessary suffering in Puerto Rico, how many more people shot in school shootings while we refuse to do anything the majority of Americans support, how many more people incarcerated because they couldn't afford bail or were caught on nonviolent drug offenses will we endure before we've had enough?

Today, I implore you to get out and vote. To become politically motivated. And to call your representatives from time to time. To talk to your friends. And to feel empathy for those so callously tossed aside by those who wield power in this great nation.

We're better than this.
I certainly don't share my parents' political views. Do you?

Are you arguing that climate change denial is a genetic trait?
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What's absolutely amazing to me is that one of the biggest complaints about unions you see is how pay is tied to seniority; the worker who's there the longest gets the most pay, not the one who "deserves" the most pay.

And here people are arguing the exact same thing!!! One extra year of time working means higher pay!

That's exactly what a lot of union pay scales are structured like, but that's evil unions; this is somehow just right???
Google Fit is a good example of this.
It was a simple app that worked extremely well in showing how many steps you took today. But they had to do a major redesign and emphasize newly invented, meaningless stats like 'Heart Points'.
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On the other hand, we do already have evidence that there are individuals who get a job at Tesla with the sole goal of getting them to unionize and no motivations actually wanting/needing the job.
> Sorry, where does he say this

He didn't state that. That's my interpertation of his well written and very reasonable (at face value) statement. His central messages are "the doctors know best, and we shouldn't listen to patients as they are work-shy and/or drug addicts", and "I won't talk about the whistleblower, Anna Watson, except to say that she's a trouble-maker, whom we had to fire, and is being investigated for malpractice".

I'm not a medical professional, but I don't agree that machines can always diagnose pain. If a patient says he's in pain, then the doctor should take his word for it. It becomes more complicated if the patient is potentially addicted to pain medication, but fundamentally the word of the patient needs to be central in medicine.
Social mobility requires a lot of work and money and time.

How would you get a mortgage on a house, or save for your kids' education if any wealth you accrue risks getting re-allocated?

(Guess it depends on your value of X)
The AI renaissance is simply expensive hardware and PR thrown at an old idea
It also means you get nothing for your hard work and anyone can claim your work as their own. They won't be successful if they also don't understand it, but it still muddies the waters. If you try to come forward to put your name on it, you'll find resistance and be forced to prove who you are, but that's going to require records from 4chan and maybe your ISP, which may no longer exist. I've forgotten if 4chan post hashes (to identify a unique, anonymous user) can be reasonably brute-forced to find a collision.
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