skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on patterns in the past 2000 years of Chinese history, I suspect they're more likely to undergo a violent revolution before they have a chance to remake the world through eugenics or genetic engineering.
Wait, Google is seriously just taking people's word for this stuff? What happened to the Semantic Web and getting information from official websites? They've essentially created OpenStreetMap, but with less transparency.
I don’t see how it is comparable to preexisting conditions. Two people using one payment system does not prevent two other people from using some other payment system.

We already have limited options with different features regarding fraud/chargebacks, like paying for something with cash versus with a credit card. Clearly both cash and credit cards can exist together.
people should actually consider the sinosphere than just china alone and include hk taiwan sg and the koreas already in it

the biggest player not in the sinosphere yet is japan and china is already working on that

japan weakness is apparent and honhai takeover of sharp and attempt at toshiba memory unit should be seen in this light

my guess is once the gdp tables flip within a decade japan too will see the writing on the wall and it will not be a controversial choice for the japanese either
"After Philco was purchased by Ford Motor Company, the Model 212 was introduced in 1962[19] and released in 1963. It had 65,535 words of 48-bit memory. Initially made with 6-microsecond core memory, it had better performance than the IBM 7094 transistor computer. It was later upgraded in 1964 to 2-microsecond core memory, which gave the machine floating-point performance greater than the IBM 7030 Stretch computer. A Model 213 was announced in 1964 but never built. By that time competition from IBM had made the Philco computer operations no longer profitable for Ford, and the division was closed down.[20][21]

The Model 212 could carry out a floating-point multiplication in 22 microseconds. Each word contained two 24-bit instructions with 16 bits of address information and eight bits for the opcode. There were 225 different valid opcodes in the Model 212; invalid opcodes were detected and halted the machine. The CPU had an accumulator register of 48 bits, three general-purpose registers of 24 bits, and 32 index registers of 15 bits. Main memory size ranged from 4K words to 64K words. Only the first model had a magnetic drum memory; later editions used tape drives.

The Model 212 weighed about 6,500 pounds (3.3 short tons; 2.9 t)."

--Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philco_computers)

So, for multiplication at least, the 212 was capable of 0.045 MFLOPS and 15.4 FLOPS/kg.. FLOPS/kg seems like a fun stat that we should probably calculate more often. The Earth's global computing capacity at the end of 2015 was estimated to be up 1.5e21 FLOPS[1], so the entire planet, elephants, mountains and all, produces just 0.00025 FLOPS/kg.. It seems like it might be a little while before the Earth has a higher computing power to weight ratio than this mainframe did, but probably not too much longer. It is just a piddly 16 doublings after all.

[1]https://aiimpacts.org/global-computing-capacity/
> why don’t publishers pay

> No reviewers are ever paid either

> reviewers are never paid

> Nobody in the review or author role gets paid

It's all through this thread, and every thread on this topic.
I hold hope, but not certainty!
Well, it's hard to compete in the already established markets.
But you have to, one way or another, usually by providing better value.
Be it lower price, faster delivery or higher quality products.
Otherwise, if there is no initiative for people to use your services, are you really necessary?
Obligatory http://plaintextoffenders.com/ They collected 5000 domains already.
I got into churning airline miles then manufactured spending (generating spend on credit card to earn miles) and now have over 10 million miles. I also heard one of the biggest groups of manufactured spend are developers within Google.

I belong to a private slack with over 80 folks doing this as a hobby so we can do first class/business class international travel and hotel stays for free.

If anyone is into it as as well and would like to join a private Slack and contribute, hit me up. A big majority of the group are engineers.

NOTE: this group is for advanced folks only who have been doing this for a while. Think "r/churning level 2"
Kiran is 100% correct in describing the scientific ethical consensus. These things are far more closely related than you believe.
We have FreeBSD running with radeon driver and will have a ~linux4.20 amdgpu driver up by the time blackbird ships. Most the performance work is usable, our goal is to have a usable daily driver around Q1 https://github.com/POWER9BSD/freebsd
Is there any way for getting an alert every time any program wants to access any IP/domain and let me decide if I let it pass or block it.
American black guy here. Capitalism (capital-intensive but scaleable production) and the industrial revoltion ended slavery (inextricably linked). Within 70 years of Eli Whitney's cotton gin, slavery was abolished in the USA. Similar to how digitization at first benefited the Recording Industry because they used it internally and could rake in outsized profits from the reduced cost of music production, the cotton gin overly enriched plantation owners because they could just use slaves to operate the machines. Today, music playable whenever and wherever is prolific and the Recording Industries stranglehold has been broken thanks to digitization. Likewise, the cotton gin with interchangeable parts that could be produced in scale by factories only layed more seeds (metaphorically) to end slavery as it made it possible to produce agricultural goods at scale with a fraction of human (and animal labor). And that boom in cotton and cotton consumption drew the attention of European and American cotton consumers nowhere near plantations to how backwards the slave-system was. Slave labor was no longer in any way justifiable from a labor costs standpoint. The model of sharecropping became viable. All these factors helped end slavery. Also you can thank capitalism for helping end feudalism, where serfs and peasants were resigned to a fate of providing labor in the production of agricultural goods. In fact, the vast majority before the emergence of capitalism were enganged in providing labor for agriculture; it was not fun. Capitalism birthed the Industrial revolution. Communism did not birth the industrial revolution. Communism birthed famines. By 1920s when the first real Communist experiment called the Soviet Union began, global production of goods and services had already multiplied out of capitalist cornucopias. The Communists (Russia and China) got up in running mostly by sourcing parts and copying of manufacturing processes from capitalist countries. And US slavery had ended already. The Communists reintroduced compulsary labor. Automation in a marketplace has now driven down the costs of production so greatly that only a small fraction of capital is needed to startup a company (Silicon Vallye and the digital revolution). Capitalism 2.0 (low capital requirements) is working towards 'freeing' people of semi-coercive hourly-wage work. Are there bumps, like when plantation owners were intitually enriched. Yes, but it will get better.
In what ethical framework is experimenting on humans the first step?

(The answer is none.)
The system Stallman approves of in this article is not decentralized.
The problem with this approach is that it might be easier to build a monolith, maintaining it and the ops side of it is far more complex.
Thanks for the tip - they do have the network numbers for the a6 and a8 on there.

I wish they had colored bars showing the amount of network coverage for each 2g 3g 4g etc like BHphoto has for the phones - it would be easier than trying to remember the megaherts and two digit numbers I need for tmobile and my friend needs for att and I need to consider with a move that may require verizon.

Noticed they have a site search at the top, so if they have details about every phone I can just skip google which is bringing me lots of info about the phone in Europe, go straight here and search within.

thanks
ELO rating with A/B per airport where some friends got some information per location.
One wonders whether those geniuses were actually childless, or if they perhaps sired some unacknowledged children?
How does the average IQ compare in India vs China?

China has been running a eugenics program for 30 years, starting with the One Child Policy to discourage rural peasants from having children, to encouraging urbanisation and university education to allow assortative mating for the highly intelligent. Now, they have relaxed the One Child Policy so those who can pay can have more children, further allowing the intellectual elite to expand.

All of these things are thoroughly politically incorrect, but they seem to be working...
Heck, why not just go to the store and buy some eggs?
be a good parent
These are all complaints about the reviewers never being paid by the publisher, which is a completely different and completely valid point.

The complaints are all about the publisher. Have you ever seen a complaint that's simply about having to do peer review itself without being paid?
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"you didn't mention Scala"

my hypothesis (and it is only that) is that trying to unite FP and OO, as Scala tries to do, leads to unnecessary complexity in learning and usage. Also see 'tooling'.

That said, many impressive + widely deployed systems have been built with Scala, which is more than other typed FP languages can claim.
I used to think like you until I heard my mother talk about the data her gardeners' association collected on her and which they now had to explicitly ask for due to the GDPR. The gardens are owned by the association and leased to association members, while house, trees and other objects are property of the member. So the association has an interest to ensure that there's insurance in case e.g. of a fire, and my mother agreed. However, she did not want to reveal private details such as the value the house was insured for, and refused, which GDPR requires to be possible for all data that is not absolutely required. Many other gardeners reacted the same way. In the end the association settled for looking at proof that an insurance contract exists without recording additional details.

Note that no online advertising platforms were involved, the data subjects were not exactly technically literate (most are retirees) and GDPR helped them greatly to protect their privacy.

The nice thing about GDPR is that all non-essential data collection needs to be opt-in, so if someone doesn't understand the implications of a choice presented to them, they can simply refuse to agree without negative consequences. How many people accidentally opt-in to being tracked for advertising when they have to individually allow each advertiser to do so?
Anything that even resembles taking care of other people is not popular in the US. There's no "preventative" care for people in here, either. We foster and think that a percentage of the children taken from their parents didn't need to happen if the parents were able to get help before it got bad enough for the children to be removed. But, oh wow, when I tell people my thoughts on that they look at me like I'm about to steal their wallet!
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As others have noted here, this is why we use Nix
https://nixos.org/
The US didnt pioneer this, humans from the first colonisers pioneered this, loot by subversion.
I would love to see something more like SML, with OCaml compile times, and a Go-like standard library. If that could be accomplished, I think we would see statically typed functional programming go mainstream.
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You’re saying that you can see how an expert would think that there is something in the Nuremberg Code that prohibits the experiment we are talking about here, but you know better than the experts?
> If price weren’t a constraint, I immediately would have chosen a cellular IoT board like the Particle Electron or Boron ($50). Connectivity to the cloud provides several advantages:

I think we should question whether tech as a whole is moving in the right direction when the first question for building a time-controlled, battery-operated chicken door opener is "how do I connect it to the internet?"

(Sorry for the sarcasm, otherwise, it's a really cool project though)
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OCaml belongs with C++ and Rust for compile times...
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ryan air weekend flight search ... pretty handy

https://github.com/cloudsquall/flightsearch
My assumption is the OP was talking about "food and boarding expenses" in the context of your hotel and food when you reach your destination - e.g. how much is saving on your airfare worth it vs optimising your hotel price.
There are many problems cryptocurrencies solve. You can make a list just by noting where actual turnover in the real-world crypto economies goes in practice:

* How do I receive payment for illegal goods I am selling without going through traditional regulated entities that want to attach my real-world identity to the payment in their records?

* How do I provide gambling services to customers in jurisdictions that prohibit this?

* How do I profit from people willing to put their money into transparent pyramid schemes or straight-up scams, without risk of recourse from traditional police / legal systems?

* How do I launder money?

* How do I skim from the shadow economy i.e. in entities engaged in all of the above activities, without committing an obvious crime myself?

Legal oversight can be an unwanted transaction overhead that introduces risk, and laws restrict freedom.

Ask instead what problems decentralised currency is supposed to solve that are legal and moral to solve and cannot be solved more cheaply through traditional systems involving a regulated third party subject to the rule of law.
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>In practice, I don’t know of anyone offering 0.3% card processing fees

Obviously. They need to pay 0.2%-0.3% to the issuer (ie. the bank that gives you your card), but VISA/MasterCard and the processor want their cut as well.

> Can you point me to any cheaper solutions?

At least in Germany there are quite some cheap POS solutions:

0.69% for Visa/MasterCard:

https://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=ht...

0.98% for Visa/MasterCard:

https://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=ht...
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The point is that an architect who doesn't 'code' (read: doesn't know how the practical implementation is done) doesn't know what he is designing. It's too abstract.

A structural architect is called the same, but is not really comparable. Apples and oranges. At the least because the Burj Khalifa is still built under the same physics model as they used 100 years ago.
This is fantastic! The surgery to implant the type of intracortical device used in this study would probably be too dangerous for my friend with advanced muscular dystrophy to undergo - has anyone read about similar results with external EEG? She's a nontechnical PC/tablet user, but I could take a week or two to work with getting a device to work for her.
I've got 99 problems but Linux ain't one
> UNOs are notoriously power-hungry... Maybe with some advanced deep-sleep-cycle, but I'd love to know more about this.

The naive Arduino code has two basic functions setup() and loop(). Putting your main code in loop results in a busy wait that spins up 100% of the CPU all the time. It's also running all the peripherals all the time.

You want to use "avr/sleep.h" and "avr/power.h" to put the processor to sleep with peripherals off (except the one which will wake up the processor). See http://www.gammon.com.au/power for a nice tutorial. Opening these headers and their source in the avr-gcc libraries and comparing to the documentation on the processor is a good exercise in getting right down to the metal of how the processor manages power.

You also want to get rid of the ancient 7805 regulator; many clones use a better LDO voltage regulator to alleviate the problems with high standby current.
This experiment has "embarrassingly parallel" data, ie there is little to no benefit to sharing data between computations. It's not surprising that multiprocess does well on this, but this is not common in most real world applications. Imagine a simple chat server, where every request needs to read and write shared state. Even when the application doesn't seem to have shared state, any in-memory caching requires it.
This is an inaccurate understanding of CRISPR, which is not yet at the point where zero off-target effects can be expected. That is an important aspect of this discussion.
What about possible dependencies which are also missing or required in those healthy people? That is, if you remove CCR5, are there other components which should be removed/replaced/inserted to enable the anti-HIV functionality? I would venture to guess that nobody really knows... yet.
I don't think you want to know who send your money. In fact, you don't even care. All you want to know is what the money is for. Online as well as in a supermarket, you are rarely even asked for an ID (age-restricted goods aside).
I would be interested but I am in the UK, not the US
China got broken in the Opium Wars and all the colonialism that followed it. That's something that hadn't happened before. China has learned that it must be more like the European colonial powers in order to protect itself from them.
> You are contradicting yourself here.

No I am not. I was just saying that the only thing I've hadn't have work out of the box was some dodgy PCI card from China. It is literally the only thing in the last ten years that wasn't a video card that didn't work out of the box for me.

> Besides, linux hardware support is incredible nowadays, and most of the time if you have problems with linux, you would have them with windows as well (aka, oem drivers for crappy nonstandard custom hardware).

I've been using *nix now for about 20 years. I still have the same problems with plugging in things like headsets that I had 10 years ago. The headset I am using is a £30 headset that you can buy in almost any supermarket and that is just an example of the problems that you will face on a daily basis.

I have a bog standard Dell Latitude laptop (refurb business model). Everything is intel. Yet I still have problems with Power management on popular distros like Ubuntu and Fedora. Everything works fine in Windows Vista and Above. I get screen tearing on my desktop machine because X is utter crap. Also any application can completely kill X, I had it happen the other day.

I am sure I could fix some of these issues. But I just don't care enough anymore.

> Also, RedHat cares about desktop, and canonical cared a lot. Nowadays RedHat is involved in a proper hybrid graphics support, gnome desktop etc. In some areas linux is lagging behind, for example accessability is still not the best, though gnome people are very concerned about it (that was one of the major reason for using a full gnome shell for login).

Redhat used to sell the distro as a desktop Linux that you could buy in a store like PC world, so did Suse and quite a lot of other distros (Mandrake, Lindows, Corel). Very few people bought them, they didn't make any money and they vanished in about 2004/2005ish IIRC. The vast majority of income that Redhat makes is support contacts.

As for the gnome team, they threw away years of work when they moved to Gnome 3. That must be 10,000s of man hours. That is nuts. I don't trust a team that throws away years worth of code, user testing and bug reports. I know it been forked into Mate, but that is besides the point.
I think Stack Overflow has reached a point where most of its regular power users would be happier if there were no more new questions. Then they could dedicate their time to putting the correct tags on things, closing and deleting the remaining backlog until there's nothing left. :-)

I have over 10k points there, so this is said (mostly) in jest. There is a lot of crap being pumped into SO all the time. This kind of defensive closing of an interesting but off-topicy question is the only real tool people have over there. If they had let this question go unclosed, it could encourage other less-interesting open-ended questions and before you know it we'd be seeing "best kind of Pizza topping for programmers?" questions.
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What are youre thoughts on golang from my shallow investigations they seem to have a fairly good model readily available built into the language
Ooh I missed that whilst looking with my early morning coffee.

Pedestrian deaths per billion miles that people drive seems an odd choice of measure.
Since you are a python developer, you can learn an adjacent programming language that will make you a master in web development field. 'Java' and 'Ruby on Rails' are good to go with.
Ask HN: Why are Attribute-based Architectural Styles (ABAS) not used widely?
Attribute-based Architectural Styles (ABAS, http://wiki.c2.com/?AttributeBasedArchitecturalStyles) were created by the Software Engineering Institute of the Carnegie Mellon University in 1999. The purpose of ABASs is to describe the quality attributes of architecture styles and related trade-offs. Another purpose is to deliver questions to evaluate a certain architecture.

That sounds very useful to me and is essential part of the Architecture Trade-off Analysis Method (ATAM). However it looks like the idea of ABAS never really took off.

Think for example how useful an ABAS for the much discussed microservice architecture would be. It would be an systematic extract of all the blog posts discussing this topic. So why are ABASs not used more? There seems to be no at least somewhat update catalogue of ABASs.
Did you try Lwt/Async? I'm a ocaml novice and i'm curious how far one can get with them.
But that's the point: the reviewers are paid, but by the tax payer, not by the publisher. The publisher profits, while the tax payer has to pay 3 times to finally get what they paid for. The publisher is getting a free ride here.
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If you were a novice painter/cook/carpenter/sculptor/singer/accountant/mechanic what would you include in a portfolio? Now, the portfolio exists to demonstrate a skill you posess.

You'd look for established people and their works from your domain and copy them to study their methods, their style. Figure out and differentiate the core from the frills. Tweak, mix, combine, jam and fuse what you've learnt.

Then you'd merge your favorite styles together to create your own, novel work. Repeat enough times and you have a solid portfolio.

Unfortunately, the programming world is crippled with 'get rich quick' apps/websites/products.

Most newbie programmers believe that unless they have a novel idea, they cannot and should not build an app or a website. That attitude sucks the life and joy out of learning anything including programming.

I strongly urge you to copy, steal and be inspired by as many apps and websites as you can before going for novelty.

What you will learn in the process far outweighs any commercial success that you can hope for.

Good luck.
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