skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's not much that intrinsically makes an aarch chip lower-power or more energy-efficient than an x86 or x64 one – energy use will be more about the design goals of the microarchitecture than anything else.

There's a paper from a few years ago the looked into this in some detail – ftp://doc.nit.ac.ir/cee/computer/alinejhad.saeedeh/old/95-96-1/MS/Advanced%20Architecture/project/paper/6-ISA%20Wars%20Understanding%20the%20Relevance%20of%20ISA%20being%20RISC%20or%20CISC.pdf – there's no immediate reason to think the conclusions should have changed.
I just watched the Kurosawa one the other night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doaQC-S8de8

When I just read Spielberg's quote,

>The grain is always moving, it’s swimming, which means that even in a still life, let’s say a flower on a table, that flower is alive even if it’s not moving.

it made me think immediately of what was said about Kurosawa, except that Kurosawa used weather/environment instead.
3.0.0.0 is the network address, and cannot be assigned to a host. 3.255.255.255 is the broadcast address, and cannot be assigned to a host.
That's why democracy is legal so that government can push their views through licensed media and people will vote accordingly.
I think the Chinese are harder working and seemingly smarter if your trust their PISA scores. I don't think there is any measurable trait of the quality of human capital in which Chinese workers do worse than Americans.
Email in my profile :)
The foundational work he did was definitely impressive. But the fact that it fell to one guy also spoke to how low the stakes were at the time.
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Are you really suggesting that at the current rate earth will only remain habitable for 50-60 more years? Even the most dire predictions, that I have seen, don't have a timeline like that. Unless we have a full out nuclear war or a giant meteor hits, I don't see how that could be the case. Habitable being that humans can no longer live on it at all.
One of the talking points of Rust is fearless concurrency.

Concurrency in Rust is not difficult (neither complex nor error-prone), but you have some high-level primitives that you must know how to choose and use.
Who said grandma doesn't like anal sex?
Respectfully dissenting on the hate comment, but otherwise very good points. +1
500 feet in 18 seconds isn't that fast (around 20mph), especially if the decline was eased into. It would be visible on the altimeter, but "seat of the pants" wouldn't tell you much.
Its dead now but there was http://lush.sourceforge.net/
You are confusing 'freedom' and 'power'.

On the most popular analysis, to be free is to be deprived of a personal power which one has, e.g. for some force to interfere and stop you from exercising your capacity for speech.

We cannot have been unfree to use facebook before the invention of facebook because we never had that power, and because it is not a personal power, but an instrumental power outside of our person.
thats more a "how did you get access to my car" issue though, and not neccessarily a curl issue.

If you are in a position where you can execute something on an appliance, all bets are off
>The airplane is what enabled delivery of both nuclear bombs, as well as atrocities against the population in Vietnam and Syria.

And if used long enough, will allow for rapid regional/global transmission of an epidemic/pandemic. The World of Warcraft 'Corrupted Blood incident' is actually a virtual example of this that shows just how quickly something highly contagious could spread in the real world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident .

But at the same time it allows things like getting medical diagnostic agents that have a usable life of a day or less to get where they need to be, donor organs to be moved quickly to recipients, etc.
I'm a progressive, but there is no peace without being ready for war. I just hope we don't find out too late, and China has much better smart weaponry
I'm not familiar with DC, but SF is just as bad if not worse. My original goal was to point out that commuting from NJ isn't a reasonable commute, in my opinion.
Show HN: Personalized quiz about how many hours you spend in meetings etc.
It seems odd that Windows 10 even has Home and Pro SKUs. I can’t imagine the headaches that must cause programmers at Microsoft, as well as the confusion it sows among potential buyers. Microsoft should consider something like raising the price of the Home SKU by 20% while including all the Pro features.
That's the thing. Any idea done in software on top of existing ones sucks infinitely less, than any incompatible idea backed by hardware.
> So it sounds like Zulip's approach is separate, isolated "organizations", like slack, just hosted on the same server.

Correct. But Zulip does allow to import settings, profile picture etc from an existing account during signup if the email remains the same.
...looking incredibly productive rather than being.

Complexity always come back and get you. All this frameworks focus on throwing out code in weeks and make stuff impossible to maintain in few years - that's the tradeoff.

It's no surprise FAANG and especially Amazon focus so much on simplifying their infra and write stuff from scratch so often.
For its size, Israel has a huge hitech infrastructure. David ben Gurion, the father of Israel, while himself a lawyer was a huge believer in the importance of technology.

Intel employs 11,000 in Israel including a 22 nm fab being upgraded to 10 nm. Intel has two design centers in Israel.

Apple has a major engineering presence there with much of the chip design done in Israel (the Face ID tech is from an Apple purchased startup in Israel called PrimeSense). The VP of computer chip design is an Israeli Arab trained as an engineering in Israel.
Those are government agencies you voted for. American citizens want leaders who bomb countries. Go vote a non-interventionist or isolationist if you want someone else.

Face the truth. If you want no killing, Your enemy isn’t Google, it’s your neighbour.
I took a brief look at Zig.

The top slogan for Rust is "fearless concurrency", which ties back into the memory model, mutability and sharing references. This helps you prevent (at compile-time) data races and other interesting bugs.

I didn't see any support for that in Zig at all.
I have a Filco Majestouch and there's literally zero flex. It's the only modern keyboard I've ever touched that feels this stable. I really like it. Tenkeyless with Cherry Browns.
Anxiety can be an asset for a programming career.

A program has way more failure modes than modes where it is working properly.

I noticed years ago, that being attuned to danger (anxiety) helps me guard against many potential problems in software that others often miss.

But you have to be careful with this approach, it can be like playing with fire. It is very effective, but also can drain you if you over-rely on it.
> I disagree. ES6 made JS much more palatable but it's still behind most modern languages in terms of number of features and in velocity of new features getting introduced. Javascript has actually been extremely slow to get new features compared to other languages.

JS has been adding features at a tremendous rate. Several major features land every year. Adding something like async generators is a huge change that affects large parts of the language.

If the Go, Ruby, or Python guys want to add a feature, they just code up a proposal and add it if the maintainers like it. JS has 4 major implementations and a dozen or so other reasonably popular implementations. Adding a feature in a way that works with all of them (without breaking 25 years worth of applications) is hard.

Reason, Elm, and Purescript are not good comparisons. The features they add (especially the type system) aren't likely to ever be JS features (if they are even possible in the language).
Easily repairable Thunderbolt ports is great news. My 2013 MacBook Air's is busted now and that means no external display output, and a knock to resale value or hope of donating this machine to a friend when done with it (I wouldn't want to give them a computer broken in this way).
Worth considering these two points.

Inteligence is not one dimensional as is evolution => https://backchannel.com/the-myth-of-a-superhuman-ai-59282b68...

Silicon based intelligent machines might not energy efficient =>
https://aeon.co/essays/intelligent-machines-might-want-to-be...
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It's actually a step up: the 2016-2018 MacBook Pro series scores 1/10.
The shortage of IPv4 addresses is "self-inflicted". If the internet didn't follow this stupid libertarian approach of selling and buying addresses, we could have addresses for everybody.
We have about 40 years of software development on x86. I'm not even sure we could reuse any of that when moving to a new architecture.
I'm curious what you see as a better mechanism for exchanging services.
Most autopilots are certified for operation over 400' AGL and that's a typical engagement level. If I'm feeling lazy or the weather or departure procedure is challenging, I'm more likely to be on AP than not.

By all means, the pilot/crew needs to be monitoring things and always ready to hand-fly the airplane without automation, but proper use of automation is safety-enhancing. When the automation fails, go down in level of automation and hand-fly if needed. Good presentation on the topic from an American Airlines training session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN41LvuSz10
Lobste.rs has now more than 10k members
I agree with you. This is the most profound way to interpret these kinds of sentences, and it exemplifies a consequence of how English allows you to omit the "that" in dependent clauses.
> That's kind of a twee, brooklyn-artisinal-pickle example

I'd actually argue that the quality of street / park trees is the best way to judge how competently a city has been run over time. When a city has lots of healthy older trees, that means not a single administration has dropped the ball in over 200 years or whatever. If look around NYC there are thousands of mature American elm trees everywhere, but not in any of the surrounding suburbs. Why? Because NYC parks department actually takes care of the trees when they're sick and removes them if they can't be saved, whereas all of the surrounding tri-state towns just let them infect the surrounding trees and then die.

Now maybe the fact that Robert Moses's favorite tree was the sycamore should have been a hint to everyone that some of his other policies may have been suspect, but that's a different issue.
Technology is a natural extension of humans, so of course, it doesn't solve our problems it's part of our problems and our solutions.
I knee-jerk want to say this guy is bad for censorship, surveillance and so on, but I think he is sort of like Roger Goodell, commissioner of the NFL, he is there to take the unpopular choices so owners can get wealthier without responsibilty.
he's right tho. It facilitates humanity's problems by giving those in the power to abuse with impunity, steroids.

An entire generation of Chinese kids grew up thinking the Tianmen Square was a god damn festival singing "Wo Ai Beijing Tianmen"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IVg_mpzIQ
The Adventure of Detective Moustachio
Emphasis mine:

> We don't know a perfected totalitarian power structure, because it would require the control of the whole planet. But we know enough about the the still preliminary experiments of total organization to realize that the very well possible perfection of this apparatus would get rid of human agency in the sense as we know it. To act would turn out to be superfluous for people living together, when all people have become an example of their species, when all doing has become an acceleration of the movement mechanism of history or nature following a set pattern, and all deeds have become the execution of death sentences which history and nature have given anyway.

-- Hannah Arendt

To me that's basically what the driving force of totalitarianism is in a nutshell, people who can't stand themselves and want to get rid of (the agency and the ability to judge of) free humans, and ultimately themselves, consciously or not.

Insofar a person is cut off from themselves and depends solely on external validation, colossal projects that are "objectively impressive" are just perfect. Working hours, money earned, daily active users, anything of that kind of metric is great because it never asks you who you are. The more metrics, the better. That it never ends and never quite satisfies is actually a desired quality where the main goal to not achieve something, but to run away from oneself.

> The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

-- Hannah Arendt

If you want to get somewhere with others that isn't far off, a nice walk with calm conversations where everybody gets to speak might be a good way to do it. But if you don't care or can barely see where you're going because it's mostly drowned out by fear and insecurity, driving in circles endlessly in loud race cars, while communicating mostly with equally driven drivers over the radio, is so much better.
Lack of determinism is absolutely a property of GCs, by definition. You’re never 100% sure when a resource is going to get deallocated/finalized with absolute certainty. This is a dealbreaker for kernel type applications. For instance think of a network socket wrapped in a structure, you can’t rely on a finalizer invocation to close your file descriptor, you don’t know when if ever it will happen so you have to wrap it with your own brand of ref counting.

I’m not criticizing pause times, but rather that you can’t rely on code inspection to identify the point of resource deallocation, which is pretty much the flagship feature of a GC :)
Ask HN: Open Source Doctor
Allow me to expand on the weird question: I want build a series of open source diagnostic models that can then be put together into a larger ecosystem.

A similar example would be Comma.ai. Comma.ai has innovated in a very regulated space by crowdsourcing data through sharing apps with enthusiastic users and using the driving data to build useful self driving models and technology.

What if someone did this, but for your own crowdsourced biometric data?

I've long wanted a preventative health system, and an open source implementation like comma.ai would be ideal i think?
I recently had to swap out the screen in my mother’s much abused 2015 12” MacBook. That machine was a nightmare to work on with many components attached to the bottom cover and flimsy ribbons connecting top to bottom making basic access challenging.

It’s nice to see this machine have a more sane design.
It's insane that we must respond to these allegations in 2018. See the ADL's writeup of this [1] which does a effective, factual takedown of this argument.

Arguing this isn't for HN. Attempting to call out a state using misleading labels isn't a sign of intellectual honesty. Its a state level version of an ad hominem, and demonstrates that the accuser has lost an argument badly.

Whether or not you like/dislike Israel is not the point under discussion. Whether or not you believe things you've heard about them from others doesn't matter.

What matters is that this little state, under constant and tremendous threat over its 70+ years of existence from terrorists, their fellow travelers, NGOs, and states alike, can still launch a cost effective privately funded moon mission.

[1] https://www.adl.org/resources/fact-sheets/response-to-common...
The global AI race is imperiling research, and no algorithm can fix it
Archiver 3.0 – A cross-platform, multi-format archive utility and Go library
Wait, does the Air actually have more ports than the MacBook? What's going on? I thought the MacBook replaced the air, an the MacBook pro is a merger of the MacBook and MacBook pro?

Have the MacBook and MacBook air "switched"?
Google, After Employee Protest, Overhauls Sexual Misconduct Policy
'You don't get to pick and choose which laws should be enforced. But you can choose which countries to do business in, of course.'

That's - if you'll excuse me - a very amoral and commercial way of looking at things: you don't belong to any society, and don't wish to exercise any control in any society, and the only way in which you can or should exercise your rights is in where you do business.

It is precisely the rationale of democracy that you DO 'get to pick and choose which laws should be enforced' (to some extent).
Does any of this actually matter if you've got decent connections? Does any of it matter if you don't have any connections?

I mean just looking at your linkedin, you've changed jobs every 8 months to one year, relocated multiple times, done a bootcamp, etc. That's what you should say to people who are looking for a job. None of this seems that useful to those really struggling. Look at this thread from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18401578

What can he take from this post? Doesn't seem to me that he can take anything at all. This fluffy blogspam constantly pollutes the page, but maybe I'm just a cynical asshole, what is it that people actually take away from this kind of thing?
This casts new light to the the whole "Stop complaining about the past - you weren't alive then, so it doesn't affect you" argument, doesn't it?
This is a very obvious troll against trans rights and should be completely disregarded. I'm absolutely amazed at the credulousness of the media on this, in even choosing to spend time on reporting it as news. It belongs in a denouncement in an opinion piece, if anywhere.
It doesn't matter which JavaScript Framework you choose
That's not where they went.
>>a semi hands on software architect can make between around $125K - $150K. A consultant can make from $140K to $200K.

Do years of experience matter to make that kind of money?
I like that they show who invited who.
Wonder how many members hacker news has?
I'm a great admirer of Julia, but I doubt it would appeal to those seeking a "true" lisp/scheme. Even if it's has a sane macro system, and much of the same power. You can indeed see s-expressions (search for "s-expression") :

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/metaprogramming/inde...

This nice talk mentions a bit on how Julia is (not) a lisp (if I recall correctly):

"Julia: to Lisp or not to Lisp?":
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dK3zRXhrFZY

This might also be of interest:
https://tpapp.github.io/post/common-lisp-to-julia/

As well as (maybe) clasp:
https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp
Also, and speaking as a jaded developer, it’s strategically a bad idea to give your team a 2x bump in available memory especially if it’s maxing out the memory on your servers. If that’s 16GB per slot then 12GB DRAM sticks let you slowly increase memory a bit longer.

Once you hit the ceiling a whole bunch of disciplines have to change overnight. Better to give them a 25-50% bump and start the story about horizontal scalability before you’re entirely out of other options.
Read the comments. The back-and-forth between Dan Abramov and Benny Powers is very enlightening (at least for someone like me who doesn't follow Web standards and library internals closely).

I used to be skeptical about Web Components' ability to impose common standards [0], but I've recently become fascinated with Polymer (LitElement [1] and lit-html [2], specifically). There's even a Redux mixin for LitElement components. Were it not for React Native, I would be giving Polymer much more serious consideration for my go-to technology.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15058651

[1] https://github.com/Polymer/lit-element

[2] https://github.com/Polymer/lit-html
A famous one in Chinese is The Lion-Eating Poet in a Stone Den, which has all characters sounding out as "shi": http://www.fa-kuan.muc.de/SHISHI.RXML

This is somewhat cheating since not all the "shi" are in the same tone.

In general, homophonic sentences are easier to write in Chinese because (1) it's a monophonic language, so the set of possible syllables is small and (2) Chinese grammar is flexible, and words can be liberally rearranged in a sentence and still read fine.
Think a 10/10 would be a computer with every part (including RAM, SSD, CPU) user-replaceable with no specialized equipment.
I think perhaps you were looking for the word “experienced“ (experimented is a ‘false cognate’ in Spanish and similar languages)
> First, there are many cases in science

In my experience, artificial intelligence research is based on fear, paranoia, and science fiction rather than a search for truth. It seems the so-called "researchers" are really just kicking up dust to lure venture capital to support some play time.

Where are the hypotheses? Where are the problems? What math will be brought to bear? What materials science? What philosophy? What business practices? What psychological questions?

In general, what parts of academia will be engaged? And what research has already been done?

If artificial intelligence is related to science, then what solutions to scientific questions can artificial intelligence reveal? And which questions?

No one is saying artificial intelligence illuminates every scientific question equally.

Philosophers have been playing fast and loose with definitions for problems, using the so-called "problem of consciousness" or "problem of free will" to put the idea in the mind of the listener that a problem exists, is well-defined, and accepted as a problem of academic philosophy.

Is artificial intelligence related to the philosophical problem of consciousness? If so, perhaps someone can start with explaining what the philosophers are talking about.

https://www.ted.com/talks/john_searle_our_shared_condition_c...

Is artificial intelligence related to translation? If so, what passes for "translation science" in academia? Is there even such a thing, or has translation research been turned into a ghetto of linguistics and computer science?

Is artificial intelligence related to the soul? If so, why are we asking academic researchers for their opinions, shouldn't we be asking ministers and priests and witch doctors?
I'm actually using base 58 to encode numbers for the gopher URL shortner with the Ripple alphabet. It works as advertised, and is great for an old protocol like this.

gopher://fld.gp/1/gopher/shorten
(shortened URL example: gopher://fld.gp/1j/r or http://fld.gp/1j/r )
I mean, I did vote for someone who doesn't want to do those things.

That person lost.
Technology absolutely solves humanity's problems. There's pretty much no problem that given a large thoughtful effort, technology has not solved. The problem is that humanity is bad at choosing where to invest in technology. Our society has been set up so that orders of magnitude of more money is spent on advertising technology than clean energy, sanitation, sustainability, and ethical food production. Technology is not the problem.

People act like somehow the technology has a mind and it wants us to be free or some bs. Silicon Valley isn't special. It's part of the same system to maximize short-term profit and the whimsical wants of billionaires. Technology would absolutely solve humanity's problems. That is if we put our money where our mouth's are.
I’ve come to understand that the most fashionable form of status seeking is loudly espousing the belief that other people can’t possibly enjoy things, so they must be status seeking.
Reminds me of Crockford's https://www.crockford.com/wrmg/base32.html