skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> CPU designers could create a design where an xor instruction was faster than a sub instruction. However that would mean that sub would take at least two clock cycles, since instruction lengths are integer cycle counts. Unless this modification let them at least double the clock speed it would be a net loss. It’s better to make xor take just as long as sub. You can’t make an xor instruction take, say, 0.6 cycles. But feel free to try.

Earlier, the article says that the process can perform four instructions per cycle. Just to confirm, this isn't normally referred to as taking "0.25 cycles per instruction", right?
SBB in Switzerland is also profitable
I think New York needs to:

1. Cut costs. Lay off workers where possible. Cut wages and salaries across the board.

2. Increase taxes. There just isn't enough money. I've seen a lot of people jump the turnstile.

I think we can't emulate Japan's model in the US. Japan is very homogeneous from what I can tell. We are decidedly not. Any attempt to strict enforcement will lead to hiring people who are attracted to such jobs and think it is their duty to rid society of "scum".
A Product Ideation Method: Zoom-in-Zoom-Out (ZIZO)
When famed game designer Peter Molyneux came back out of hiding to launch his mobile games with a company called 22cans he also used the "social experiment" label to justify a pay-to-win clicker game and a "crowdfunded" god game with in-app purchases (that were later removed).

The answer is: "social experiment" apps and games are just cash grabs with a veneer of clever marketing to them. The Million Dollar Homepage was probably the first one this blatant though.

The outcome of the "experiment" is known in advance: people will pay unreasonable amounts of money for objectively worthless things if you can convince enough of them that it's cool. If it were an actual experiment, there would be some analysis published after the fact and the money would either be reimbursed or donated.

Social experiments aren't experiments and they're mostly anti-social if anything. In video content it's code for (staged) "prank" (or harassment). In cases like this it's code for "grifting".
If you read the article you will see that the results and conclusion might be in line with what you expect. Academic papers don't necessarily follow Poe's Law in their titles ;)
Hmm, don't think I'm giving a random site (that breaches EU online business laws: must have an irl address for service) my CC info.

If you spend 1¢ on posting ":smiley:" every day, won't that cost him about 20¢ transaction costs? Eventual DoS by CC transaction costs??

Love the spirit of it on an intellectual level though.
Renewables can't save the planet from a mathematical point of view. For example, to satisfy the current energy demands of Germany with wind energy alone, one would need more area of land to build turbines, than Germany actually has (and as the article states, there is still the problem of storage for renewable energy). I didn't do the math, but I'm pretty sure that many other developed countries simply burn more energy, that they have space available to host renewables. To attain some kind of equilibrium, they would need to import renewable energy from other countries, or to degrowth their energy consumption (and therefore there economy).
EIEIO is also an error code typedef in GNU libc:

https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Error-Cod...

“Computer bought the farm.”
It's using Stripe for payment, so this site never sees your CC info.
Neato. I'll just refer to beggars and scammers as "social experimenters" from now on then.
Inouï in French is a well-understood word that means "unheard-of" or unbelievable. No French person would mistake it for "ennui."
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I am sorry about that! I wouldn't have known it would do that, I do not use my mobile to browse the Internet because it does freeze more often than not, and when it does not, it is slow. :/

It should work from your PC though.
With the difference that much of what "happens" on patreon is not actually hosted there, and thus doesn't fall under that clause if I understand this correctly.
NYC needs these--plus, it would be a great test. Public restrooms or even stores/restaurants that will allow you to use their restrooms are rare indeed. Would be a great test of the design too. If your toilet can make it there, it can make it anywhere!
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Generations of Computers
They don't require you to wash out your cans before recycling? That itself will take more than the couple of seconds per can.

Yes, it's habit/culture. Lots of silly things are done just because it's the habit to do them. It doesn't mean they're good ideas.
I thought CF had a reputation of being insecure though?
Quantifying Law Enforcement’s “Going Dark” Problem
Yes, but the costs are still the same. Even stripe has a 2.9% + 30¢ cost per transaction.
Project Management Digest, February 2019
Better stock up on mice to get through all the FPS games you have to play during a normal workday.
That's cool, but I think that most people here agree that mice are a pretty terrible method of interfacing with a computer.

I think mice are excellent, and I think their longevity has proven that people like them, understand well how to use them, and that they are very useful for many computer tasks.

Touchscreens and digitizer tablets and trackballs and all sorts of alternate input methods have existed for thirty years or more, yet they have never broke into the mainstream on desktop computers for anything but niche applications.

The ergonomics and precision of a touchscreen on a desktop or laptop computer are generally abysmal. I can easily move my mouse one pixel at a time when doing graphics work and such with a mouse. Stuff like this is impossible with a touchscreen and big clumsy fingers.

Creative devices should have a fixed controller like a keyboard, joystick, etc.

Or maybe a mouse...
What makes this not a social experiment?
Bmc on the nih website nowadays basically hosting nih-founded research papers. Not just papers published from nih
I am trying to wrap my head around this.

This was supposedly coming from the following website
http://www.worldwhiskiesawards.com/winner/whisky/2018

But have search low and high to find the Lidl Whiskey Queen Margot, but i have been unable to find it in any awards.

From a quick google search various website spread the same news, but none actually link to a reputable source for this.

As far as i can find Lidl won the chain supermarket last year whiskey award while Aldi have just earned a Gold Medal at the 2018 Scotch Whisky Masters awards.

The two winners are the Highland Black 8-year-old Blended Scotch and their Glen Marnoch Islay Single Malt.

Can someone please enlighten me if i am wrong ...

Edit: Just found this link
https://www.forbes.com/sites/felipeschrieberg/2019/02/28/fak...
That explain that the so called websites are really as expected ... not to be trusted.
Clang accepts it, but GCC does not. I suspect there's a bug here.
BitChat: https://bitchat.bitdb.network
that's a pretty interesting idea. I did something similar a while back to grab expired image hosting websites that still had a ton of images linked to them.

expired domains are a continual source of fun.
> It turns out that many teams don’t want to invest the time and money needed to set up automated fuzzing infrastructure, and using fuzzing tools in an ad-hoc way on your own computer isn’t nearly as effective as continuously fuzzing your code on multiple dedicated CPUs.
Why African elephants appear wrinkled
> Every time you use a mouse, you have to re-orient your self to the state of the mouse (its current location and its use within a given application). That is why we spend so much time optimizing applications for use with a fixed controller (a keyboard).

No. This is wrong. The mouse is faster. Apple did that research, too -- and the mouse won every time:

https://asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html

Recognizing and pointing is always faster than remembering command sequences you have to press/type in. It imposes less of a cognitive burden too, which means you can focus more on the task you're doing and less on the interface itself.

Apple absolutely made the right call with a mouse-centric UI in 1984 and they made the right call with touch in 2007. That's why they're Apple -- you don't become the most successful and influential tech company in the world by making stupid choices.
might be a hoax. it's the same article word by word everywhere and no proof on the contest website.
This is simply a detailed argument to consider opportunity costs. One concerning thing, to me, is that it mostly centers around money. There are so many "pivots" and re-orgs to become the next 10x grower that kills morale. If it's VC-backed I would stay far, far away.

Anyways here are my takeaways.

Pros: Had a bit more freedom to push my solutions and learn quickly. For example, at one point when we needed scaling I was able to be a decision maker on which technology to use (landed on Spark). Faster-pace, and there is a sense of ownership of the product.

Cons: The product itself can change if an investor freaks out. Founders often feel entitled to your time and effort in a very unhealthy way. Possible long hours and high stress.

The author has a great point about expectation value. What is the probability of punching that lottery ticket times an employee's payoff? This should be the calculation. If it is higher than your sweet job at Google, go for it, if that's what matters to you.

Being able to "only" work 40 hours a week and make 350k sounds like the lottery ticket to me. I hate to be so preachy about it but working 7 days a week, 60+ hours a week, giving up family, friends, social life and hobbies, for years on end, to be millionaire instead of a super comfortable hundred-thousandaire sounds a bit over-the-top.
That actually interests me, do you have a Github?

Background is that I am building a flexible frontend solution for databases with Bulma, and would like to configure it via YAML/JSON, but of course a drag-n-drop solution would make some things much easier.
This seems interesting but it feel like it will break lots of things... though websockets is what is my head...

If you have a websocket and that gets "frozen" (aka closed). Then the user gets back to that page ... I feel like re-building the connection is tricky/complex/not possible without application changes.
The machine has no reference for its terms, "salt" does not refer.

To a machine "salt" is just a distributional pattern within a large body of text, it isnt salt.

Ie., what computer scientists call "semantics" is again metaphorical BS, as much as calling an if-statement a "decision maker".

Denotation is the most fundamental part of what a natural language is (ie., it is about the world, and caused by the world in a fundamental way). Machines processing terms without their denotations are not using language, they are shuffling it aorund.
...and also by still having a keyboard with a fixed and standardized layout, which Jobs' argumentation conveniently ignores. I'd like to see how much of a success the Macintosh would have been with just a mouse ;)
Thanks for this tip, would never read it anywhere else and gave a small boost in productivity.
Last Week,Bitcoin Is Still the King to Ruin the Crypto Market?
I hope that I will not forget to try it when I will be in Germany.
MMT Is Already Helping
Indian nukes are unsafe lol. US satellites couldn't even detect when India conducted nuclear bomb test in Pokhran.
Freedom of speech is a general concept. It's not limited to only government censorship.
Another model could be to run an air compressor from the turbine. Compression will give you a heater, and then releasing the compressed air will give you cooling.

Thinking about it some more, you should also be able to get kinetic energy out (or electricity) and water, by running a turbine on the compressed air and collecting moisture from the cooled air.

Essentially one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump_and_refrigeration_cy... - they're not technically as efficient as a phase change, but if it's simpler and there are fewer moving parts, it might be a win.
It's not banned by law, but, especially after what happened to Charlie Hebdo (and it wasn't the first or the last incident like that, however probably most drastic), I'd say people are afraid to publicly say negative things about Islam, because the threat to their lives is very real. So, while we might have freedom of speech written into the laws and the state per se is not taking it away from us, it's also not protecting it enough from extremists who are against it.
Not really. This kind of low-key theft and coercion are hard to catch in the act. You can criminalize loitering and begging itself, but that's problematic, plus rife for discriminatory abuse. Finally, even if you do catch them, the low amounts in question usually mean they'll spend a few hours at a police station, and then they'll go back.
One scenario that might become more common is a C++ front and backend using web assembly at the frontend.
Hi everyone. I just built this over a few days because viewing test emails in gmail is slow and also because I'm afraid the recipients might get test emails (in my case suppliers of the company I work for).

I didn't want to use an external service such as mailtrap because I can't have confidential information stored outside of our control. So over a couple of days mostly I developed this SMTP server and web interface to be able to test emails fuly locally.

I know the front end code is bloated and ugly but honestly I don't really have the time to do any refactoring at this point !

Feedback is appreciated. Would you use this ?

Edited to add : Github repo is here : https://github.com/jfoucher/Mailocal
I'm not sure how common the practice is, but I've been told (by a trusted source) that if a med study doesn't get the desired results they just get a new set of mice and try again.

That is, results can vary based on the mice used for reasons not understood (but gut bacteria perhaps).
so dreamweaver all over again?
When I was (much) younger I was employee #1 at a startup and was basically the technical founder. The (solo) founder was non-technical, just very wealthy. Never got any options or stock, and I got relatively poor remuneration and left after a year. That was an interesting period...
Limiting Your Digital Footprints in a Surveillance State
There is some parallelism within in each CPU core so it can do four additions each cycle. But those don't happen after each other, they happen simultaniously. From an eagle eye's view it can look like 0.25 cycles per instruction, so on a higher abstraction level that's a valid view on it. But in reality they start and end at the same time each takes one cycle.
Czeta! :)

https://cezeta.com
Rust magic: https://github.com/Amanieu/intrusive-rs
OK I am stupid, that was the problem. Thank you so much.
Cord Cutting Hits Another Record
I would love to know your views.
Yes it is sort of odd that the status quo is to offer a sliding amount of equity (due to dilution).

I'm not immediately sure why a fixed amount of shares, whose value simply increases over time, is not the status quo. The only trouble I can see with this is that shares are non-divisible, so you have to give out at least 1 share, even if it is priced at $10,000.
Thanks for the recommendation. As for the year it doesn't shock me in certain aspects. The camera data in the early 2000's is something I didn't consider though.

I notice many people don't know or think that corporations use customer cards for more than a discount. I worked for one of the largest retailers in the U.S. and learned how far the "Plus" card data really goes. All of that data is sold as very in detailed profiles of customers to brokers who sell the data to other corporations and institutions.

I worked for them for 10 years and watched it evolve from data harvesting through rewards cards to utilizing the checkout as an avenue of further data collection through facial recognition cameras and even heat sensors throughout the store building heat maps of customer flow.

I am not sure exactly about the heat map data being sold or not, however, I am sure some broker could find a market for it but I do know the checkout camera data was sold.

The company started utilizing the card system in the 90's and its checkout camera with heat mapping in the early 2010's. Personally, I never used a customer card with my name or address just to maintain some privacy level.
Farm Aid for the Big House
Because mice aren't humans.
There is supposed to be a cure for the “Evil Eye”
valve is different (not sure if for better or worse) in that it's privately held.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19270786 European non-profit is not the same as American non-profit.

So i made a new item for liberapay, since I thought it was worth it.

Also, I would much rather see Liberapay on the frontpage of HN than Facebook "fan subscriptions"...

We have enough multinationals that try to claim 30% on top of someone else's work.
I really don't think so, or at least not when you're a "power user". I used T9 when I was a teenager glued to his phone, and was definitely way faster to type than I am now with a touchscreen and autocompletion.

I was also faster than my friends that did not use T9 but wrote in "txt spk"
> you can only call one person at a time.

what? In the times where 15 people have phone dailies/dailys?
The Intel manuals sometimes use that as a shorthand, but no, it’s usually not. The difference is between throughout and latency. You can process four independent instructions per cycle in parallel (if none depend on the results of the others), but the results of a given instruction will take at least one cycle to be available for the next instruction that uses it as an input. (It takes 9 months to make a baby even though you can make more than one at a time.)
Probably. If you really care, read up on how electromagnetic waves actually affect tissue, and compute the dose rate yourself. It's moderately complicated, but doable in your spare time.

Otherwise, just remember that the the scarier the "news" report is, the more clicks it gets. The more clicks it gets, the more advertising can be shown. The more ads are shown, the more money someone makes. Thus, it's in their financial interest to scare you as much as possible. Can you really trust some random stranger to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth when their paycheck depends on writing the scariest thing they can think of? And what's scarier than invisible radiation beamed from radiation towers by huge multi-national radiation companies to radiate the brains of your children? More scary = more money.
Everglades in crisis: can this wetland avert an environmental tragedy?
Had a vague that something like that might be in play. I obviously have some reading up to do.
My assumption was, that our branch would, until quite recently, have been rapid breeders too. And the pigs' one as well.
Thanks to your comment, I discovered Ling's website, it is a work of art! I love it!

[0]https://www.lingscars.com/
[1]https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/li...
We built a Ms word version control system with webav to s3 for our saas product. We couldnt find a better solution for check in / check out. Is there something better?
I've also been digging around and eventually found that "Winners will be announced on 28 March 2019" on their site so I'm guessing the winner hasn't officially been announced yet.
The report appears rigorous, but it notes in several places that the data is not acquired in a rigorous way as it was not intended to be used to make such assessments.

As to controls:

>"the relative safety of water-only fasting is necessarily descriptive in nature as we did not identify a comparison group(s)"

It's a good paper.

I was left wondering why people attended the facility. A 9 day water only fast, with limited activity, sounds pretty extreme for a 70+ yo.
US may have enough resources to pay compensation “above zero” if it will be crazy enough to use nukes against Mexico. So it is the question of risk of applying of nukes and stated premium amount whether US should pay anything or not (btw insurance should be paid to safe places such as union of nations who will be able to give this money to victims)

The idea is to make a law against poor unpredicted countries with nukes (such as Pakistan or North Korea) so that they don’t use nukes as argument in the politics to make profits as it could end up badly.
Rebuilding My Personal Infrastructure with Alpine Linux and Docker
It is bad form to criticize posters on HN for not reading the article they’re criticizing. Oddly, it seems to be less accepted than not reading the article one’s criticizing.
>EU online business laws: must have an irl address for service

I think that's only in the German speaking part, not the whole EU.
>That's because you're not travelling with a valid ticket. Try driving off from the petrol station without paying, or boarding a plane without showing a boarding pass.

that's not even remotely close. I don't know exactly how it is in France but in Italy (and I suspect it's similar) I may have a monthly ticket clearly stating the validity FROM-TO, having my name on it and yet still if i don't time stamp it at the start of month i'm treated like a thief because bureaucracy says ALL tickets must be timestamped. WHY? how could i cheat with a named monthly subscription ticked?
Ticket controllers not having to fear for their job don't even try to think and treat passengers with respect.

Now that we have a private Operator the situation is a little bit better but still until we have laws that dictate nobody must do any effort to maintain the job it's not gonna be pretty.

Now You may ask Why I don't simply time stamp it at the start of the month. Maybe i'm late and I miss my train But most of the time and in many stations the stamping machines do not work. courtesy of the same guaranteed monopoly Company.
I don’t want to sign up just to see example meals.
Austria does have a blasphemy law. https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokument.wxe?ResultFunctionToken=a...

Specifically, it covers disparagement and mockery of religions and traditions if it is likely to cause justified anger. That leaves a lot open to interpretation (when is anger justified?) but it seems clearly aimed at blasphemy.
1. Drug use was not a crime few decades bug. Smoking is not a crime today. It tried before. It doesn't work.
2. Public healthcare is working well if you are not interested in result. It tried before. It doesn't work.
3. Nobody will pay ever penny to care about zero cost homes. It tried before. It doesn't work.
Try APL
With statically typed languages, you can do guaranteed safe, automated refactors. I’ll do those mercilessly without tests. I would be very wary of refactoring dynamically typed language.
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'World's Best Scotch Whisky' according to the article.

A lot of these Lidl/Aldi awards don't stand up to scrutiny.
That is why I propose to pay insurance so that resources will be outside
One the gateway drugs to mathematics. Thanks for the reminder!
Are we really going to pretend that financial institutions are “private” enterprises? I recall the taxpayer being forced to bail them out for their incompetence. They are effectively government institutions and should be regulated as such.
I think the "raise [..] of our baseline of acceptable human suffering" will at some point escalate very quickly. It is exposing, concerning the refugees in Germany, how fast compassion shifted to outrage. Way before the climate change hits western Europe with full force, we will experience an
age of barbarism.
Does this have some kind of YAML/JSON serialization format so the result could be exported?
per-byte pricing opens the pathway to posting images too!
The Little Book of Stoicism