skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, almost every case of trying to replace arrays with bitsets resulted in worse performance.

Indexing arrays is definitely faster. Bitsets also do array indexing but have to target particular bits too.

If I want to index 1309402 bit, I have to calculate where it is in memory, for an array representing a bit, it's super quick.

Rarely have I encountered that memory occupied by an array is a bottleneck.
If you're referring to Algo, you're correct, but it's intended to only setup a server, not a client. Having an Ubuntu VM or VPS available to host a VPN is a reasonable assumption to make.
Luxury watchmaker Hublot is celebrating the tenth anniversary of Bitcoin
Crypto giveaway
Epson SureColor SC T3270
Epson SureColor SC T-3270 is engineered to produce precise and colourful prints consistently for every project. Using Epson's all-pigment UltraChrome XD ink and PrecisionCore printhead technology, the user can be sure of conveying his ideas in the most detailed way possible.
Despite your disclaimer, it does sound personal: can't really be read in any other way.

But talking about FUD, the article compares immediate deaths of nuclear accidents versus long term effects of coal pollution.
Someone's always playing programming language games
Who cares they're always changing programming language names
We just want to dance here, someone stole the stage
They call us irresponsible, write us off the page
Not so sure. One developer understands his whole code base and environment quite well. So let's say an error occurs during build it's likely he will be able to check out the logs, navigate to that area of code and troubleshoot.

In a larger team the flow of info is DevOps/Developer spot error in CI/CD, find out which commit/Developer broke the build. Email/slack/ walk over to let them know and sit down for a friendly troubleshooting session.

Resolve the problem. Follow necessary processes to commit change. CI/CD hosted agent is busy building other projects because not enough budget for multiple hosted agents and all CI/CD is handled in the cloud. Time to go home!

Obviously that was a bit facetious but you get the picture.
Ask HN: Are you really interested in office environment or company culture?
Hi all!

Based on the Stackoverflow's survey (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#job-priorities) I see that 13.6% of developers say that "The office environment or company culture" is the priority for them. But on the other side I don't see much job postings which mention something about these things.

So, Is it really important for you? What is the most important for you 1) office environment OR 2) company culture?
Is it a good alternative if it is much more expensive?
How do you think Ruby's worse?
Surprisingly related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILoo
How Did Insect Metamorphosis Evolve? (2012)
Author here. If you are interested I talked about type theory at euroclojure'16.
The video is there:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5YTCY7wm0Nw

... And it's not really clojure-specific except if you want to try LaTTe:

https://github.com/latte-central/LaTTe
Perl 6 would have been great had it been released 10 years ago. I'm surprised that people continue to put their time into it, I don't think it's going to see much adoption now
That tutorial is fast, but it's a pretty bad tutorial that will teach you terrible habits and a very incomplete understanding of Prolog. Unfortunately there are no good free ones.

Many people seem to like https://www.metalevel.at/prolog (featured here several times). Although I don't think it's very good from a didactic point of view, many disagree, and at least the author really knows what they are talking about.

I have a PDF of the fifth edition of "Programming in Prolog" by Clocksin and Mellish lying around here. I could swear it was available for free as open access for a while, though a very quick web search doesn't confirm this.
PyTorch version of Google AI's BERT and its pre-trained models
I guess SDR receiver dongle would do a better job.
"That is such a blue thing to say" <- as is often heard in my work environment.
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b) whether having that market share is self-reinforcing in a way that prevents competitors from entering.

The argument is that large market share cause user capture. It is relative trivial to bring online an alterative youtube, but video creators can't switch unless the audience also switch and the audience can't switch unless the creators also switch. A subpar job by youtube won't automatically mean that competitor can disrupt, and a lot of users, content creator, advertisers, basically every type of users has been cited as disliking youtube but being locked in with no realistic alternative.

a) it's easy for users to switch

For google search, online stores that use google for advertisement and getting new customers can't easily switch as that would result in abandon 90% of new customer. They can't just buy their hot dog elsewhere. Online stores have to deal with google, unless their customer base is located elsewhere.
> It is NOT a red herring ~ it is a real problem for reductionist physicalism.

No, it's not.

> However, because it cannot explain qualia, it tries to ignore, dismiss, and belittle, the enormity of the problems presented by qualia for its attempts at trying to explain.

Qualia has no objective existence, and as such isn't even in the domain of things science concerns itself with; an observer can (if possessed of qualia) observe their own, but cannot observe, test, or be materially affected by its existence in others.

> There are literally no models at all that demonstrate, solidly and irrevocably, how particular configurations of brain matter directly translate into consciousness

There's literally no objectively verifiable evidence of consciousness or any features it might have, so there is literally nothing to model, and, even if one somehow came up with a model, no way to validate it. Qualia, insofar as it can be said to exist, is simply irrelevant to any empirical model of the universe.

Does qualia matter? Metaphysically, perhaps, but materially, no.
More importantly, Apple might.
What are the odds that everyone in your interview is dumb/inexperienced/busy/asshole [and not you]?

The commenter wasn't saying that everyone they talked to was in that category. But rather that one person they talked to who basically tanked the whole interview for them. You know, the one who reported back everyone about what an uninspired dolt you are because you didn't answer that "Tell us about your dreams" question with quite the level of gushing enthusiasm they were expecting.

So what are the odds that you'll run into at least one person in that category, in a random tech interview these days?

When we take into account how toxic and culturally dysfunctional the tech industry in general has become in recent years -- I'm speaking specifically of it is huge vanity problem (from which this "we only hire the best" nonsense stems); combined with its insatiable addiction to bullshit and the cargo-culting of bad practices (and its worship of dumb and/or useless interview questions specifically) --

actually, fairly high.
> ... is the way it is is that that way is ...

Not at all on topic, but this is the first time I've seen double repetition like that in the wild. Makes me wonder about examples of non-contrived buffalo sentences.
"The least danger" is poorly qualified here. The article certainly does no justice with straightforward, apples to apples comparison.
Agreed. This was a deal breaker for me. It would be really great if it somehow implemented a standard protocol (like https://langserver.org/) in order to integrate with existing completion plugins.
If you're interested... A tutorial about this topic... It's clojurescript in the browser but I think the algorithmic explanations do not require any lisp knowledge...

(Edit missing link)

https://github.com/fredokun/talk-clojureD-2018/blob/master/R...
In general, Amazon doesn't aqui-hire as much as some other tech gians. They acquire things instead of spending CapEx (Whole Foods), to vertically integrate (Annapurna Labs), or things with very good customer bases, and brands (Twitch, Zappos).

Heptio had none of these.

EKS seems like more of an "OK, fine, if you really want K8s, you can have K8s" move to me.
"I increasingly see the degree to which phenomena are interconnected and the knock-on implications regarding complexity and unanticipated consequences"

Sounds like textbook wisdom to me; a body of knowledge and experience you already have such that new information does not exist in isolation but is related to what you already know, allowing you to take knowledge and experience from past situations and phenomena and apply it to the new.
PERFECT MONENY GAME SCRIPT 2018
Right, sorry. I was comparing it to the shadow-socks project GP was referring to. (And the userspace WireGuard implementation uses TUN/TAP. In fact one of the rootless containers subprojects I've worked on is using TAP to allow for unprivileged network bridge emulation for rootless containers.)
At some extreme point (like Starbucks for example) you can just declare it fraud and calculate an appropriate amount of tax they should pay and make them pay. Finance is the only legal area I know where we apply everything by the letter of the law and not the spirit of it, that concept did apply for torrent sites for example, if you only base it on technicality, they are legal.
Have you opened a ticket about that? This is more due to the split implementation than to the format itself. Room for improvement.
At the large scale of the atmosphere and in the lower layers, the relative weight of gases doesn't matter (otherwise Oxygen and Nitrogen would seperate out and there wouldn't be a mix of other gases in it either).

The makeup down here is largely controller by convection and turbulences, only farther up the relative weight starts to matter.
I think the main things are that "overpopulation" is often used as a racist dogwhistle and that it allows many people to avoid confronting their own environmental impact
Taking into account reinvested dividends, it's given an annualised return of 3.5% in the past 20 years. Source:

https://dqydj.com/nikkei-return-calculator-dividend-reinvest...
Wow, so now not accepting taxes on revenue as something sound makes you « ultra liberal » ?

how fast things evolve...
I'm worried about these treatments for people with autoimmune diseases. One, they might be on immunosuppressants, two, immune activation can then kill you through the autoimmune disease.

I have ulcerative colitis and am on immunosuppressants. So I'm more likely to get cancer and can't get that treatment.
Sorry for feeling happy for Ivan.
San Francisco Approves Business Tax to Fund Homeless Services
Welcome to business.
> there's STILL absolutely no known way for AI to even begin to address the matter of the qualia

Who, other than metaphysically, cares? I can't observe, test, know or be in any way materially affected by whether or not you experience qualia, it certainly makes no material difference whatsoever if an AI actually experiences qualia.

Discussing qualia has about as much relevance to anything as discussing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
> The only thing they’ve managed to do is to increase the cost of the public sector

The cost of the public sector has increased because of the large wave of privatizations, it's called the cost of capital.
> DCGs (Definite Clause Grammar), which have the expressive power of regular expressions.

DCGs have a lot more expressive power than regular expressions. They are at least context-sensitive (i.e., stronger than context-free grammars as well). But off the top of my head I don't see why they wouldn't be able to capture recursively enumerable languages (i.e., the languages of completely unrestricted grammars) as well.

> Think of it as a logic search engine.

Think of it as a logic search engine embedded in a general-purpose programming language, because that's what it is.
I still remember when their scientists used a scanning tunneling microscope to write the letters IBM in xenon atoms, five atoms tall.

That is what is known as “a marketing stunt”. Same as having Watson play Jeopardy.
I've never understood that argument. Can't they just sink more money into the stock market?
i have no idea, while i never got on with the whole bidet thing i do think that heated seats should be a basic human right! when you first get there youll likely find them a bit weird but by the time you leave you have begun to actively hate the idea of an unheated seat
TU Delft Open Source Software Guidelines for Researchers
The premise is good but I'm uncertain whether any kind of automated tool can really deliver. I've tried other tools of the same vein in the past and the "suggestions" I get back were always not very actionable and dubious. I get that this project is still early but there's no real path that I can see for it to improve the algorithms enough to actually become useful.
Facial recognition system risks 'chilling effect' on freedoms, rights groups say
Wow thanks for the great response. It's really interesting to read about (computer) network fundamentals rethought for neural systems.

> specialized pseudo-neurons that implement longer delays than that on cores that we set aside for the purpose (and which, because they only handle delays, are much easier to make scale)

I'm curious to hear more about that, as I don't recall hearing that previously. I'm a dev on the Virtual Brain, another simulator starting to be used in HBP (CDP8), for which we derive tract length info from human diffusion imaging and use it to introduce time delays. These can be up to 256 ms. On the other hand, we're usually running a few hundred neural masses (or some specialized datasets go up to 515k nodes). Are those numbers feasible with your delay-neurons?
Try to get out more :) there are tons of things out there which make you wonder all sorts of stuff :D
They want it on better terms, and have access to companies not on stock markets including all those pets.coms
I do like that post because it summarizes how I feel about Oracle rather succinctly. For your typical FAANG company, the money is the means to the end. But for Oracle, the money is the end to the means.
Can antimatter fall upwards?
Thank you so much for this software!
Fair enough. I read "policy" as encompassing both proposals and implementation.

Otherwise, I agree with you. Barring killing people who live now, any attempt now at reducing population will start having meaningful impact decades from now (kids use less energy than adults). We need solutions that deliver impact on much shorter timeframes.
I think you're going to find the 80% SPY Put option doesn't have liquidity for 700 million$ of options.
+1 for intellij, I'm usually not into extensions, but this one seems worthy
Supply and Demand. More demand is better terms for stock sellers, i.e. companies. And their investing would probably completely skew the market. So it's hard. Investing directly might put them at risk of some kind of oversight as well.

And they already have a lot tied up in those kinds of investments anyhow. They own a lot of real estate around the world as well.

It's hard to find places to park that amount of money esp. if there are political considerations. Nobody is worried about taking money from the Norwegians ...
Maybe I'm missing it but these examples need a legend. You're assuming I know what all the different shades of pink mean, etc.
If we have intel reserved instances like m5.xlarge can we move to amd instances m5a.xlarge ?
Quite an awesome usecase would be to use this for perimeter security, like securing your house and cars. In my locality camera's are in a legal grey zone: the police applauds them for use in case of crime, but because of privacy laws you're not supposed to film other peoples houses and whereabouts. This would enable you to track movements without camera's. Software would make it easy to only give you signals when somebody or something moves on your property at night. All I would need is some machine learning to learn about rabbits, cats and foxes. Or you could have cameras that only turn on in case of movement on your property, hence triggering (I would hope) the legitimate interest provision in the GDPR.
Wow, that guys is really good at hustling. Truth is very few people are technically well-grounded enough to audit the differences between two database solutions. And the solution(s) being closed source make it even harder. For the same reasons there exist literally no independent comparisons to different database solutions. So the choice will be highly fashionable, eg. based on how good you will look, rather then the qualities in the materials and handcraft.
> If you eat 'well' but sit at a desk all day, calories in != calories out and you'll probably gain weight.

How can this be true? Energy cannot be created - it has to come from somewhere.
I don't get it 1 - "Scouts BSA" still has 'Boy' in the BSA initials

I don't get it 2 - 2018 USA still has separate "scouts" organizations for boys and girls?!
Wow, it took me reading this comment to realize this. I even read a piece on HN explaining this exactly is the easiest thing to make money on the internet. Write one article that ranks good in google and links to a bunch of items you get your percentage of.
Journey before destination.
Elven?
I acknowledge that my thought experiment was very simplistic and ignores many factors but my point was that I can't really imagine how we'd end up worse off negotiating as a whole union instead of competing with each other internally and trying to undercut your partners at any occasion. I mean, that's the whole principle behind unions (as in syndicate of workers for instance), as a whole you have more bargaining power, as individuals you're as weak as your weakest link (whoever is willing to concede the biggest tax breaks, cut down on environmental regulations etc...).

I mean the EU, the free market, the euro, all that doesn't have "hundreds of years of cultural norms and customs" behind it. Why couldn't we go further? The only thing that we've had consistently over hundreds (or even thousand) of years in Europe is warfare and royal inbreeding. If we could avoid having to invade Ireland or having our finance ministers wed each-other in order to settle this tax dispute I think it would be grand.
Thanks for the feedback. The company does not force me to certify, they just give me the opportunity to expand my knowledge. I've asked you all just what you think about Java certification, but actually I can get certified in all sorts of developer-related areas, and learn something new and get the certification paid by them.
And once it is in orbit, how do you propose stationkeeping against exospheric drag? Preferably a solution that will remain reliable for 10^n (n>>3) years.
Girl Scouts sue Boy Scouts over planned name change
I love that these guys are validating the idea that you don't need "enterprise" hardware to run an enterprise.

You can even see in their photos that they are using consumer power supplies, albeit higher quality ones. They also have a lot of data comparing consumer to enterprise drives. The enterprise drives do not impress, especially considering the very high price premium.
U+0000 is a unicode character, which is encoded as 0x00 in UTF-8
I admit it was a lazy snark, but 'crispinb understood it correctly. Nuclear war is easy to start, because one nation can unilaterally decide it. The world has also been through Cold War, when a nuclear exchange seemed like a strong attractor that we barely managed to break free of. The stories of that era are about how effort and luck helped us not nuke ourselves.

But my point here can be extended to non-nuclear wars, population-elimination strategies (genocide) and extreme population control (sterilization, one-child-max-or-else). They're all adversarial, and this is something that comes easy to humans. Whereas implementing policies to help deal with climate require coordination at scale, which is something we particularly suck at.
Toilet Day was recognized by UN in 2013 and is celebrated on November 19th. I guess this report was issued in preparation.

UN still doesn’t recognize International Men’s Day, which is on Nov 19 too and celebrated since 2003 [1]. It’s a bit of a humiliation that they put Toilet Day instead.

[1] http://internationalmensday.com
I saw these pictures in the museum in Chamonix, too. This glacier is just in a long term retreat that got a bit faster thanks to sunny and warm weather. In 1820 it was a little too big and almost destroyed the town...
Nice! I saw the initial versions of it, it took years to finish dev.
I like this idea the more I think about it, and I think it compares very well to methods being discussed elsewhere in this thread such as STAR (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18397839)

I just thought of a way to possibly make it more intuitive. Use ranked voting, with the addition of a “nobody below this line” item that you can add to your ranking anywhere you like. Then at the runoff stage, you use approval voting, with “nobody below here” determining which candidates you approve.

That gives you a nice easy-to-understand runoff, and is maybe even more understandable than normal ranked voting because you get to explicitly separate out the candidates you really can’t stomach. I suspect some people don’t like ranked voting because you’re expected to stack-rank lots of candidates you dislike.
If he's into correlations point him at http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations - Nicholas Cage films cause drownings, Cheese leads to bedsheet entanglement, and norway oil causes traffic accidents.
Alan Kay – Is it too late to invent a healthy future?
> Isn't that what the previous answer was trying to say?

Truth be told, the list if features is not very compelling. I mean, JSON support is not a reason to pick a commercial dbms over a FLOSS one.
This thing targets people who started using Photoshop back in the day when it still wasn't a subscription service for basic and mildly advanced image editing tasks, and who thus grew accustomed to the Photoshop UI. I personally know several such people, some are trying to switch to alternatives (like myself, I'm switching to Affinity Photo), but the others still use the same (sometimes pirated) Photoshop CS3 or CS4 version they have used since forever, because it's more than enough for their needs, and the usual reason why they stick to it is that they know how to get stuff done with the familiar UI.

Imitating this basic UI with nearly 100% accuracy is a stroke of genius. Not even Affinity Photo, which is clearly taking lots of ideas from the Photoshop UI as well, comes close to this level of familiarity. Photopea truly feels as if it was Photoshop from 10 years ago, which is exactly the Photoshop that lots of people not working in the graphics industry, where an Adobe subscription is mandatory, love.
Exactly, there is no magic - all the ice is just snowfall compressed over time, by its own weight and melting/refreeze cycles.

This autumn has been really great for outdoors but disastrous to glaciers - extremely warm till end of october, no precipitation at all for more than a month.
Whats the minimal change in the rules that will bring a striking based martial art to the top?
You're right, of course. I misremembered.

The trouble is that your program can become non-terminating in all but the regular case IIRC. Man it's been 10 years since I've done Prolog, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
When you say "Western", which countries are you referring to? I ask because in Finland at least, bidet showers are very common, although so are floor drains in toilets. Nevertheless, I'm not aware of any widespread issues with leaks or mis-spraying.