skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to the other answers, "closer to the machine" isn't necessarily true either.

The obvious implementation of a register file for an interpreter is using an array of registers, something like:

uintptr_t registers[N];

You can then access the i-th register as registers[i], like the machine does. Except that these registers live in memory, not in CPU registers, so you aren't really that close after all! And the compiler cannot in general map these array entries to CPU registers because they are accessed indirectly, by index. Also, you typically have a different number of virtual registers from the actual CPU.

So the advantages of register machines do not come from this theoretical closeness to the machine. They can still be better, though, because you eliminate a lot of bytecode for shuffling data around. I think the canonical source for the possible speedups is "Virtual Machine Showdown: Stack vs. Registers": http://www.usenix.org/events/vee05/full_papers/p153-yunhe.pd...

This paper also gives a very nice copy propagation algorithm that eliminates much of the need for a real register allocator, if you start from stack-based input code.
iOS has menus.

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
Google’s Gender Gaps – Worse Than Advertised
It is quite interesting that everyone is so alert about privacy now and hates Facebook and Google and just ten years ago people willingly published their address and phone number in a phone book for everyone to see. Also in Germany the cities sell every citizens' personal data and nobody cares. It is quite hipocritical.
But the thing is: acting rational in every situation requires a lot of mental effort, knowledge, intelligence. Not everyone is capable of this, in fact it is quite rare (because probably you need IQ > 130).

Now, the workaround for people who fail to act rationally on their own was to give them a set of heuristics that they could follow to achieve the same effect without too much thinking, a.k.a. religion.

Of course some religions advocate totally irrational things, like human sacrifices or jihad, but some evolved to the point that following their teachings is a net gain for the society.
It’s hereditary in my family.
I totally disagree. It's plenty to demonstrate and build most of the technology. It will take much more money to bring it to market, but that's primarily regulations and validation of umpteen edge cases/fatigue life, and proving that you've done so to the FAA.

Source/disclaimer: Aerospace engineer that builds rocket engines for a startup.

As for the market... As a simple person, I probably won't ever pay that for any flight. Businesses may think it is worth it.

As for comments to the effect, "physics hasn't changed since the concorde failed," no, but materials and manufacturing really have. Turbine engines have evolved a lot since then. That companies like Boeing do not build such aircraft doesn't tell you anything, any more than studying the success of Apple in embedded systems tells you whether or not there is a market for them. Perhaps a poor example since embedded systems are not a disruption, but my point is that entrenched incumbents may not pivot simply because they are doing well where they are, and all the more so in a more heavily regulated market.

In short, I think it will be interesting to see how it turns out. For any aerospace startup, the hardest part is raising enough money to stay afloat and focus on their work. $100M starts to build enough momentum that they have a real shot. The question now is what they do with that shot.
If a JIT compiler can do register allocation, then it can also do this "reallocation", which is the same thing: mapping symbolic (virtual register) names to CPU registers.
You don't even need to go that far for cheap insulin. I'm a type 1 diabetic in Seattle, and I've gone to Canada a few times for ~$25-$30/vial USD of Humalog (Novolog is also available) insulin. It's over the counter there, and I've never had an issue with US customs bringing up to a year supply back home.
Mapping Out Ethereum's Developer Ecosystem
Half the goal of note taking is not writing down anything that will implicate you in a future legal battle.
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Fullstack Go + bits of vanilla JavaScript or JQuery (for the awesome plugins) in go html templates.
> There's no touchpad

Yet... with many of the Apple technorati asking for one and saying it's a necessary next step.

> in iOS every action is accounted for and proper permission is enforced

Yes, so this is the Mac with a more restrictive security model as referenced in the first comment. Apple is moving the macOS towards this with the Sandbox and how app extensions are structured.
>As for why home ownership is a good thing, from a societal level, it's pretty well established that home ownership correlates to all sorts of good stuff like wealth development, better schools, lower crime, etc.

I'm going to go out on a limb with no data here, but I'm fairly certain you would find the same correlations among people with equivalent wealth of any kind to that of homeowners.

Home ownership as a path to wealth building at the societal level is fundamentally in conflict with the (more important imo) goal of affordable housing. This is especially apparent in a democracy... where homeowners tend to wield an enormous (and disproportionate) amount of political power (i.e. see NIMBY).

So I would disagree that home ownership is desirable at societal level. Democratic society is better off when the default path to wealth building for the masses involves investing in productive goods (i.e. goods that create economic value.. such as the computer), rather than a good which both is necessary for everyone to live a decent life (though doesn't necessarily need to be owned) and only increases in value when there's a shortage of it for others.
Not to hijack the thread, but I would be also interested to hear what stack people use when dealing with requirements that historically have lent themselves to using CMS's like Drupal.
You have to protect your data from both remote and local attacks.
Don't think white rice is necessarily high fibre. I think a better option to make the point is that by this metric we should all eat celery? :)
It's really disappointing when people keep thinking of important life decisions as purely economical ones. No, I didn't buy a house because it's an "investment". I bought a house because I wanted the freedom to modify the place I live, adapt it to my family needs. You know, feel at home !

When I rent, I'm simply not allowed to do the amount of modifications I want to a place, and it just doesn't have the same feeling.

Thinking every single act of life in terms of economy is being blind, and blaming people for doing non economically rational decisions bemuse me. Because for me, the endgame is not hoarding money, it's spending it to live the life I want. And just because one value economic rationality very much doesn't mean we all have too. Which is why there are still some very silly people donating to charities (the fools !).

Kudos to politicians to sometimes have policies which make it easier to live a nice life, even if "the market" hates it.

So no, the 30 year mortgage is not a "toxic product", it's a good way to allow a lot of people to go in a life path that is very appealing to a vast amount of humans.
I have found a similar approach extremely effective for productivity. I have to admit, however, that when I worked at places like Microsoft and QSC I enjoyed lunches with my colleagues immensely because they were all so damn smart and interesting.

However...

> Another hallmark of the matpakke is the addition of small, bread-sized squares of mellomleggspapir – between-layer paper – between each slice of bread; these can be peeled off as you eat your way through the layers.

Could one of you Vikings give me a better explanation of this practice?
Kerosene is a lot less special than a domain expert who can save your company $100k/hr or whatever.
Reinforcement Learning – The different challenges, methods and frontiers
Cooking spinach for an hour is something that I suppose might happen if you're making a puréed soup with spinach, and you don't think to put the spinach in at only the last minute.
I always wonder if these kinds of changes in taste - especially bitter can at least in some instances be tied to soil depletion and the corresponding nutritional decline of crops.

I hope it's "just" breeding that took most of the bitterness out of brussels sprouts, grapefruit and the likes (I personally also do enjoy a stronger bitter taste now and then).

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-an...
> I recently picked up a DAP and IEMs for ~$300 total (for running) and it's 90% of the quality of my reference rig.

Which ones did you choose?
I'm a Dr who has just quit my specialist job for the 2nd time to pursue a startup.

You'd think I'd do something medical - I've been in the field 10 years, I should have been able to find a problem IT can address?

To be honest the thought of doing a health IT startup just fills me with dread.
Well, nothing to stop doing this.
I use go templating to assemble Vue components. Luckily Go templates can switch from using {{ }} to any other delimiter. I use [[ ]]. It works well.

And that means I strip all "{{", "}}", "[[" and "]]" from any user input.
I find it weird that 1 thru 16 are basically all good, then 17 (corn) is dumped all over (18 seems to be something of a joke).
These aren't songs I normally listen to, but I did this quiz just now and even with laptop speakers I picked 3x uncompressed, 2x 320kbps MP3, and 1x 128kbps MP3.

128 is usually pretty easy to pick out, once you know what to listen for. There's no soundstage. They just sound flat.

The tricky part is distinguishing between 320 and uncompressed. 320 is pretty darn good. Even when I can hear the difference, if it's not a song I'm familiar with, I can't tell which one is better. It's just different.
I think this is an interesting article, though not from a CS point of view. Basically my take away can be boiled down to the brilliantly put “Most of us, most of the time, are following instructions delivered to us by computers rather than the other way around.”.

I work with digitisation and automation in a Danish muniplacity, and I’m actually one of the authors “hidden” hands on architects. Because I’m a techie in a non-tech world, and, because a large part of Enterprise Architecture is the business end, I see the impact daily on the non-tech savvy world. Digitisation has absolutely changed the way organisations work, and not always in the way we intended. There is a reason why AI/ML is so hyped now, and it’s because we’ve trained our organisations to utilise Business Intelligence in every aspect of their daily lives. It’s more than that though, if you give people a system, they’ll use it, and not always in a manner that makes sense. From managers trying to make informed decisions to employees simply trying to do their best.

An excellent example of the dangers popped up last summer. We were reviewing a process scheduled for Robotic Process Automation, to see how suitable it would be and to sum up our benefit realisation prospects. Only it turned out that the process wasn’t really sound at all. In short we had a team of employees who spent a lot of time distributing tasks in Outlook. They even had a colouring system in place, one colour per employee, to make it easy to spot your individual tasks once distributed. Except they had more employees than there are standard colours, and because they didn’t know how to make more colours some people had to share. They wanted it automated, and we could have done that.

Only, the entire thing was just silly. It was even more silly than I’ve just outlined. Because after they had colour distributed the tasks, each employee would archive their individual tasks in our ESDH system (electronic journaling). During this proces, everyone would fill out a standard ESDH form, where you also need to select a responsible employee. So basically they were distributing tasks twice.

No one had questioned this for almost a decade, and these are intelligent workers mind you, to then it was just how the systems worked. We swooped in, looked at it for about 15 minutes and then forwarded them to a LEAN consultant who saved their department from around 600 yearly hours of needless bureaucracy.

And that’s just one story.
Great list
It's been tried, back in the 50s and 60s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Nuclear_Propulsion

Never went anywhere then but I'd be interested to see whether modern tech could make it feasible.
You can also change vuejs delimiters.

var app = new Vue({ delimiters: ['${', '}'], ... });
There are 11 fatality per billion miles driven, and that includes bikes and such, car do even better.

So no "over a billion" isn't plenty.

Are they safer? Possibly. Statistics show they are safer? That's bollocks. There's not enough data to say yet.
Bruce Schneier has written an essay on a few key points why privacy is essential: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/11/how_surveilla...

"If there is no privacy, there will be pressure to change. Some people will recognize that their morality isn't necessarily the morality of everyone­ -- and that that's okay. But others will start demanding legislative change, or using less legal and more violent means, to force others to match their idea of morality.

It's easy to imagine the more conservative (in the small-c sense, not in the sense of the named political party) among us getting enough power to make illegal what they would otherwise be forced to witness. In this way, privacy helps protect the rights of the minority from the tyranny of the majority."
Storage: Postgresql

Backend: Go (no framework, just the standard library)

Frontend: Vue

Working great so far. A little longer to get things up than using Rails/Django, but the extra speed and control is really nice.

Using Go's templating engine to assemble Vue components into HTML <script> tags works well.
If anyone is looking for a low cost, open source, high quality Headphone amp + DAC combo which rivals gear costing 16 times as much, take a look at NwAvGuys stuff.

Headphone amp:
http://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2011/08/o2-details.html#resource...

DAC:
http://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2012/04/odac-released.html
Predatory publishing
Consensus Mechanism Facilitates Participation – Storage Relevant Proofs
every time i do a search i find services that require registration or even payment, and rarely ever anything that supports making up an email address on the spot the way mailinator does.
I'd venture you'd be wrong. I'd not venture to guess how deep one could venture.
Maybe a bit orthogonal to your point, but I feel that oftentimes "usable" trumps "pretty".
Yes, I don't buy most of what the essay said, but that was bang on, generally. I disagree heavily with the last sentence, but the bit about how we've generally shifted from models->actuality is very, very true. It's acutely obvious when you look for knowledge that isn't in the consensual standard places online, or really try to use Google as a search engine as opposed to a handy-dandy bookmark replacement thing.
Isn't the focus on the 30-year fixed rate mortgage at least a little bit narrow in analyzing what happened during last decade's financial crisis? There were all kinds of negative amortization and adjustable interest loans being pushed, and I recall reading that high-leverage mortgages, not sub-prime, were where the defaults were greatest.

My idea is that local governments should play a role in regulating mortgages because defaults, foreclosures, and abandoned property have serious consequences for neighborhoods and municipalities. Counties should have and exercise a right to refuse to register liens attributable to pathological lending likely to cause local economic hardship.
The cynicism and negative attitude towards managers in the "Developer Hegemony" book is at dramatic odds with the many positive comments here - so much so that Insuspext the books main thrust (managers are complicit in holding "delivering" developers to impossible timescales and enforcing hierarchy needs on devs top down) is even more correct
I love those... Except when those stations start working badly and it's impossible to disable them (a month going where I live in London)
The follow-up article goes into detail about some of the differences: https://codea.io/blog/detailing-the-ios-menu/
Here's an interesting stack: https://github.com/ornicar/lila

It's the server/client for https://lichess.org/ which is a powerful online chess server. Scalla with Akka actors is used to provide realtime multiplayer chess (bullet chess games, where each player only has a minute or two to play an entire game, are very popular there). The client-side is written in TypeScript, and rather than use React for the vdom, they're using a vdom called snabbdom. https://github.com/snabbdom/snabbdom
Asimov's 2019 predictions: fiction or fact?
Ranking vegetables by how "healthy" they are is ridiculous.

I'm not sure I agree completely since there probably is content in those vegetables which should be in like 99% of diets out there anyway. Viewed like that, seems reasonable to me to rank corn lower than aspergus, no? And if you're the 1% with an extremely specific diet you already know better than to trust random internet sources anyway.

That being said: the list still is pretty ridiculous in other ways. Like, why is vitamin X more important than vitamin Y etc, how do you balance that out, do all your measurements still count if you kept that aspergus out of the fridge for a week, etc. But the worst part: if you've ever read any proper scientific text, stuff like is loaded with minerals without specifying any quantity whatsoever, not even in respect to other items in the list, nor mentioning a source, should send you away screaming instantly (increases your energy levels is also a good candidate, makes me feel like I'm in an FPS). I get that some people don't care or even know how to interpret numbers so if you target that audience you obviously shouldn't litter the text with numbers but if you want to be taken somewhat seriously and for the sake of education at least give us something allowing further research. And if you don't care about being taken seriously then at least have the guts to mention that whatever you claim is just your personal interpretation and not really based on evidence.
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Things that require a central authority, such as notaries, certificate authorities, central banks, government, insurance, etc.

Blockchains could give more trust on one hand (corrupt authorities are all over the world), and optimization on the other (less people and processes involved).

A quick overview of applications is here: https://www.blockchaintechnologies.com/applications/

The question is indeed if it's disruptive enough to replace the current way of working.
Asimov predicted that children would no longer need teachers, other than to "inspire curiosity", learning everything they needed to know from computers at home.
about the emergent properties of systems made up of independnt entities in a rigid form and how this is a type of computing that differs from what we usually think of as computing

A way of viewing it is inversion of control between emergent behavior and programmed behavior. When the number of interactions between discrete units of programmed behavior exceeds a certain threshold the programmed logic responds to the emergent interactions instead of dictating it. The system as a whole starts obeying its own logic instead of one programmed into it.

I suppose you need to see such systems more like ecologies to be studied with techniques not far off from those used to study natural ecologies.
That paragraph makes it sound exotic but I believe it is simply the equivalent of parchment paper we have between slices of presliced cheese.
React, TypeScript, Latest ES6+/Webpack build system
.net core on server
VS Code
Dell Patents the Weirdest Laptop You Have Ever Seen
Not being able to afford a home has everything to do with stagnant wages and asset inflation. That's a policy choice our society has made. Exotic mortgages and corrupt underwriting was just trying to paper over that.
This article is so wrong its dangerous. Green leafy foods like spinach and lettuce are the best source of nutrients, highly sugary carbohydrate vegetable like white potatoes and beets should be consumed less. Ranking vegetables is a pointless excessive, eating a wide range of nutrient rich foods is a good idea
Politicians and corporate leaders told us democracy is not worth it’s salt, and we believed them.
Are you referring to the credit card hackers or those who didn’t make much effort to secure customer details?
Snark aside, both deserve consequences.
"Browsers automatically translate text". I was not aware of non-Chrome major browsers having this feature, what have I missed ? Are they in fact targeting Chrome first ?
What fiber did you get?
We had a small cluster in the basement, with a server for all the backups, a firewall etc. initially for our software development and later mainly for email.

I just decommissioned it all (still have a few network hard drives for local backup of laptops etc). The power it was drawing was about 300-400 watt. That is 7.2-9.6 kWh/day and 2600-3500 kWh/year. (At about $0.1/kWh.)

That is about equivalent of powering a Tesla Model 3 (160 Wh/km) 16000-22000 km, which is about what I drive per year.

Our garage has a south east facing roof which with solar panels could deliver about 3000 kWh/year. That installation isn’t terribly efficent due to scale, and would cost me about $15000 to install.

Instead we decided to move the email to a Swiss email provider (Migadu) that cost about $4/month. We may install solar panels later amyway, but moving the servers into the cloud cost $48/year and gave us enough equivalent electricity to drive the whole year.
A shower is nice but unnecessary; a flannel is sufficient.
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Universe has antimatter partner on the other side of Big Bang, say physicists
Really grateful for the work you put into this. Thanks.
Angular with Typescript

Scala with Play

Postgres

Google K8S Engine

GoCD
Or into nature :-(
> First, Dyson doesn't explain what he means by analog computing, other than a basic "operates on real numbers and continuous functions."

I think he means that neural networks are not binary, but use analog communication between the neurons. We simulate that digitally, but maybe a system that uses analog by nature is better for artificial neural networks.

No idea if this is actually the case, or if this is what he meant ;).
Whichever stack you choose, make sure it outputs semantic HTML, has good accessibility, and progressively enhances the user experience. Avoid creating any unnecessary JavaScript dependencies.
Not to nitpick but I think it matters by how much the risk increases if you're trying to compare it to a potential benefit.

I'd also say that the risk doesn't begin at zero. E.g., businesses, employers, schools, other orgs, family, partners, friends, colleagues, etc already have a lot of our personal data, and however small the risk is, it's real and worth consideration.

We actually consider these risk/benefit scenarios all the time in everyday life. E.g.,

- We might surrender too much information when presented with the chance to win something in a draw; or give up some non-relevant personal information in a signup form just because the field is mandatory

- Amazon, Apple, etc keep our credit card numbers; Monzo, TransferWise, etc our bank account numbers—but we're happy with that because of the convenience (or because there's no other way to do business with them)

- You might have personal documentation saved on iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc because you want easy access to it; similarly with passwords and services like 1Password