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GOG lays off “around a dozen,” reportedly due to financial trouble
I don't think so; many western countries already have declining populations, but the birth rates in poor countries are still high. The world population will therefore keep growing until those countries have, idk, peace, stability, basic wealth, retirement options.
I forget who said this initially, but the world is on fire. If I were to sit unmoved in my apartment the world would eventually push it way under the door and into my life.

I’ve actually been looking for the source for sometime so I could read it.
Propaganda is a harsh word. Self-promotion maybe better.

The article is to commemorate the "launch of the new $1 billion MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing" and credit has been given to the creators and outside groups that MIT worked with.
Not non-religious, but other religions - the fact that only -+28% are christians might give some humbleness to those feeling righteous and above all in religious aspects (ie us vs those poor lost pagans mindset).

Since muslims believe in basically the same god it gives you 54% (jews are rather insignificant portion of population). It still means 3.5 billions currently (and historically over 100 billion) are breaking 10 core amendments and should burn in hell eternally (grossly oversimplified obviously).

You can't just bring rationality, common sense or critical thinking into most current religions, they fall apart like house of cards.

I wish there would be some new major religion that would only preach a single thing - be a nice, good person to yourself and every sentient living creature out there. Nothing more required.
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I'd like to contest the use of the term "actual" pilot for the the more deliberate pilot.

For some reason, we as humans seem to like thinking of our conscious / deliberate pilot as ourselves, and the subconscious / autopilot as some form of "Other" somehow cohabiting our bodies.

(I'd expect this viewpoint to be especially true for the academic / programmer crowd here on Hacker News, who stereotypically tend to be more skilled in logical / deliberate forms of thought, and comparatively lacking in the intuitive / automatic, such as social skills).

However, the subconscious is as much YOU as the part of which you are more aware, and, in fact, probably has a GREATER effect on your action. In conclusion, the autopilot is as deserving of the term "actual" pilot, as the deliberate pilot is.
> Build Once, Run Anywhere.

Build once, run where the runtime in available.
Evil Corporation > sindustry (sin+industry)

Small Business > slenderprise (slender/enterprise), businessmany (businessman + many), revenuemerous (revenue/numerous)

Boring Movie > screenplazy (screenplay/lazy)

Stupid Idea > retardicle (retard/article)

These are so good!
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Honest question for core devs: why do you need my phone number and address to accept any code and pull requests?
The history-repeating argument, when applied to astronomy: "so far, the Earth has revolved around the Sun".

Just to show that the history-repeating argument can be made ad absurdum both ways.

We have ample empirical evidence that drunk driving poses a significant risk of killing someone, hence there should be a non-trival level of expectation of this outcome.

We have absolutely zero empirical evidence as to what actions may trigger a nuclear holocaust, and we're currently not seeing any of the popularly accepted causes for the 5 mass extinctions of the past.
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Kind of like Java
It really wasn't all that great during the first couple years. And it still has a few annoying caveats today. The advertised flexibility (port sharing etc) most probably wasn't the only reason for http.sys back in the day :)

EDIT: that is not to say that it is as horrible to use as epoll (at least in multithreaded programs), but my favorite has to be kqueue.
Those who would consider doing this deserve a special place in hell right next to devs who don't respect user privacy and the crooks in the advertising industry who turn a blind eye to the fact they're distributing malware. By installing an adblocker I've made a conscious decision to not have your BS running inside my browser. Forcing it on me will at the very least result in me disabling JavaScript on all your pages.
Does that include saleable organs?
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https://gist.github.com/satori99/2cb06938bfe8532ecc00e609065...

Keep in mind it's PoC code, I stopped when it worked the first time :P
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https://gist.github.com/satori99/2cb06938bfe8532ecc00e609065...
These have been around for decades. They're still not very good.

GPT2, though. That really is good. And it's so simple. They just trained a big neural net to predict the next word given some text. It's like autocomplete. 8 million web pages in the training set. You give it a sentence to get it started, and you get some good paragraphs.[1]

Somebody should train that on Stack Overflow and use it for tech support.

[1] https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/
Percentages would be more illustrative than absolute values, I feel. It looks like the visualisation partially accounts for relative proportion, with the width of the branches, but it's not a linear scale.
So, ship using fuel and packaging derived from trees or a form of carbon only to plant a tree to suck up said carbon? Does that sound right to you?
Can't it just be solved with a equation ? If you know how fast time runs relative to yours !?
Which part don't you get? stuff means resources that needs to be mined, purified, transported, processed into some form, assembled into final product. All this employs tons of people but also causes tons of pollution.

> Ultimately burning coal for power generation and using oil for transport are the main culprits.

And all the stuff mentioned requires both. Huge transport ships produce more pollution than all cars of the world combined. But many like to buy 0.99$ gadgets from China, shipping included, right?
I would not say JavaScript is anything like Basic - Python might be a better analogy now.
Not in Europe. Lobster has always been an upper-class food, since the 16th - 17th century.

Good article here: https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/xy7vzw/lobsters-deli...
Hey, looks awesome! Only.."REIONIZE ELECTRONS" really doesn't sound New Agey at all. I don't think a new age person has ever said "electron"..I read a lot of New Age stuff a long time ago, and my mother was a full-blown New Ager. David Spangler, it seemed to me, had the most full-blown New Age rhetoric going on; I think he created that millennial-vibe writing. Aquarian..manifestation..cosmic consciousness etc. Can't find his stuff online now, I've got some of his early pamphlets floating around somewhere I think. Never read them, but they're just classic. :-) I can't imitate the jargon now, it's been too long. (25 years or so)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Spangler

Based solely on stuff from that Spangler page, mostly his book titles, how about "REIMAGINE THE WORLD", "MANIFEST INCARNATION", "CO-CREATE MIRACLE OF REBIRTH", "RECRAFT SACRED HOME" or something. You can't go wrong :-) But yeah, very cool, I never read much Chopra.. <<"Quantum" means a reflowering of the psychic>> as I read on your Generator, I think, is awesome.

(None of the other New Agey-type stuff I can think of features quite such classic New Age ranting as Spangler, e.g.

writers: Wayne Dyer, Louise Hay, Jean Houston

channelled: Sanaya Roman, Elixir/Eileen Caddy, Emmanuel, Lazaris

pre-New Age: Annie Besant, Rudolf Steiner, Alice Bailey, Swedenborg, Jung)
If you are able to put yourself in the shoes of the people to whom you are explaining something, the rest will follow. Consider what they already know and how you can bring them to your point by starting with something familiar and known.

If you have that point covered, the rest is "thinking clearly" and "expressing oneself clearly". These require practice as much as placing yourself in the shoes of the audience.
> Our tolerance is typically within 1-12 frames (and a bunch of other requirements around shot changes, etc.)

Tell me more!
The law won't touch rich people where they care, their money.
Why are there still tax havens? Why do corporations still make special tax exemption deals? Why are tax loopholes not as aggressively fought as drug smuggling?

And even the case you linked to, very wealthy people are much less likely to be charged with these kinds of crime as well.
Whatever this author has done to the input field has really screwed it up on my phone. I type "Kae" and it just ends up as "KaekaeKae", any attempts to hit backspace just duplicate the input text again and again.
"I think irrationality plays an important role in thinking about our own existence and it rationalizing everything down to its core isn't necessarily helpful."

It's not irrational to posit that you are more than merely a 'bag of particles'.

Just because scientific materialism, taken to it's extreme, might want to describe us as such, does not mean it is true.

Scientific materialism is only one metaphysical perspective, based on assumptions - such as the universe is ordered and can be described with a set of rules. There is no full evidence of this, it's just an assumption. Given that some of the material universe seems to 'mostly' adhere to a set of equations, and because it's objective ... we like scientific materialism a lot, but we also have to remember it's not the only way to look at things.

Consciousness itself, or rather, life, the perspective of 'the observer' could be the reality that matters. The expression of life itself is the interesting thing that only seems 'miraculous' from the perspective of materialism because it's literally denied by it -> that materialism can't seem to describe life is not so much a realization of science, rather it's an assumption that we started with: the universe is just a pile of particles, ergo, we are a pile of particles. The later does not follow the former as a logical conclusion, rather, the assumption that 'everything is just particles' basically implies the later.

It may very well be more rational to accept that life / consciousness is 'real' - and it seems to transcend our materialist conclusions because materialism as a metaphysical perspective just doesn't fully work, i.e. there's a hole in it.

Consider that we ultimately developed logic / reasoning / scientific materialism mostly to enable our lives and expression i.e. it's just a Tool, not a Truth.
CockroachDB is made up of several layers to implement SQL and transactions on top of a distributed key-value store: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/architecture/overv...

TiDB has a similar architecture: https://www.pingcap.com/docs/architecture/
> Our statistics that it didn't happen yet is not a proof that an "accident" (oh, sorry, it was an error!) can't very easily happen any moment now.

Observing a pond exclusively frequented by white swans in the past is not proof that black swans don't exist, but from that fact alone you cannot derive any reasonable expectation of seeing a black swan upon a random visit to the same pond.
In addition to what others have said - one way to gain knowledge of oneself is to try to understand your feelings and emotions in certain situations.
You can practice this by writing a diary where you list your emotions throughout the day.

Sth along: "I felt ______ when _____ happened." or "I felt_____ in ______ situation".

This can give you a better understanding on what makes you happy/sad/angry - from there you can analyze WHY.
We are not machines and emotions play a big part in our lives. This does not mean we have to be governed by emotions, but it's healthy to acknowledge them.
Mass adoption in what way?
Depends on the use-case you can look at performance of say ClickHouse vs alternatives which separate storage layer. The performance difference is fairly significant.
To simplify: to be entitled to something and to pay for it are some very different things. I'd argue that somebody who claims wealthy people paying for stuff is the same as entitlement is the person who is actually destructive.

As for the other German laws: I can't think of anything good that has come from them. Socialism has a way to sneak up on countries. That's all there is to it.
The first lectures here https://theoreticalminimum.com/courses/general-relativity/20... are mostly an introduction to tensor calculus.
Yeah I don’t get hating on Intolerable Cruelty. The only Coen brothers film I truly disliked was Ladykillers. I didn’t really care for Burn After Reading either, but I feel like I probably just need to give it another chance.

My favorite segment of Buster Scrugs was The Gal Who Got Rattled, followed by Near Algodones. I found Meal Ticket too long and too dark. Didn’t care for The Mortal Remains all that much either.

Poor gal, she shouldn’t ought to have done it. Oh my.
Great, we can control for layout of code, heap, stack and other effects which mess with a performance measurement. However, why do those things have a (statistically significant?) impact in the first place? I guess that hints that with some engineering you could in principle get a speed boost by specifying the layout. "Worst case", you sample randomly and then pick the fastest arrangement, where it is statistically significant.

It could be that the problem arises when trying to measure very small speed increases (small relative differences => noise matters more). But in that case the fact that such a small speed increase is wiped out by random layout effects surely means that time would be better invested in finding a more performant layout?
I want this from Python Click. I remember I asked him on Twitter long back don't know it's ported to Click.

https://github.com/mitsuhiko/dialoguer

https://twitter.com/rajasimon/status/902894641770618880
I hear this logic quite often, usually coming from some types of smart people. I don't agree - mankind future requires tons of smart hard working people to solve problems like these. To move mankind to reach other planets and eventually stars. If all smart people will decide to not have any kids, its a net loss for mankind down the line.

No poor illiterate guy in 3rd world country will think like that. They will have 10 kids, and their kids will have 10 kids unless eventually lifted from poverty. They are not going to fix these issues by themselves.

If you are afraid of long term commitment and dedicating big part of your life to raising a good balanced human being(s), that's another story. But if you are smart, well-off, you would do MUCH better for our future to raise next generation of environment-conscious citizens of this world.
Politics, economics, and religion have been playing this game for centuries. Advertising and PR are relatively recent newcomers, but operating in the same space. If you want to know how it's done, look at how the experts do it.

In outline you create the simplest possible narratives with a strong emotional kick - preferably one that induces anxiety in the receiver, and/or blames an outgroup for all the bad things that are happening.

Then you can sell yourself as the solution to the anxiety and fear.

The narrative itself can be nonsense. It needs a certain superficial narrative coherence, but that's all.
> Both are in English, so I don't see why they can't just transcribe what's being said.

Try writing subtitles yourself, and you'll probably see why. There's a limited space and time budget - people need to be able to read the thing without spending too much time focusing on it.

Sometimes, if it's a quick back and forth, you even have to leave out some of the dialogue. Now what do you cut?

And this is just for subtitles in the same language. Imagine also facing translation issues - where you not only are trying to roughly hit the same meaning and connotations, but also need to stay relatively close to the acting, e.g. you can't translate a strong exclamation word into something too soft. And there's also the issue of difference between spoken and written language, e.g. the viewers may accept someone saying "fuck that", but seeing it written down "- Fuck that" feels awkward.

It is truly a work of art.

And that's probably also why people are doing it in their spare time, perhaps after having seen a bad job from the official movie.

I imagine doing it will also get you really close to understanding how the movie is built up.
(415 and 650 area codes)

Much of 650's population is in Santa Clara County (Mtn. View, Palo Alto, parts of Sunnyvale)
I don’t think she’s criticising the movie, but rather the short story on which that segment is based.
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Such a click-bate article.
What sort of a lazy half ass article is this? Proclaiming halfway through a piece about the source material that you didn’t read the source material because you consider that action “undergrad-lit-class-y” not in anyway leveling with your readers or being refreshingly honest which I expect the author assumes. It’s just downright lazy and would in an actual undergrad lit class just get you flunked out right.

I stopped reading at that point. If you are going to write some selfindulgent price about what’s you assume the source material might have been, have the common decency to post that up front so people can avoid wasting their time on your prose.
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So, we are officially campaigning for Javascript as the default language for everything now? :-(
CA has been under single-party control since then. What's the barrier since then?
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The HN moderators will respond to you if you email them, it might be worth emailing them and asking them what happened. They can take a while.

Their email address is in the contact link at the bottom of the site.

Unfortunately HN does have a misogynistic contingent, however some readers also believe general news is against guidelines (it's not). In this case it's clearly been flagged against the norm as you can see that most other guardian articles don't get flagged:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=theguardian.com

I think HN also has an anti-flame filter, it might have been caught up in that too.
If they didn't have race quotes to fill, they wouldn't have to ask for race in the first place.
RE protein. We need far less than we're led to believe. Unless you're an elite athlete then you probably don't need to worry.

I'm no elite athlete but I've been vegan 3 years. In those 3 years I've completed 2 Ironmans with no meat/eggs/dairy, no protein supplementation and no issues whatsoever.
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> How exactly was the world made a safer place by Joseph Stalin having a nuclear bomb?

Consider that General McArthur was advocating nuclear strikes into China in order to change the course of the Korean War. Would that have been vetoed at Presidential level if only the USA had nukes?

And what would the USSR have done in 1962 in response to US nuclear Jupiter missiles being deployed in Turkey and Italy? Instead of countering with missiles on Cuba they'd probably have been provoked to attack.
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I've got x220 as well - not my daily driver. More like a toy.
Please tell me someone that works at Plex is reading this thread. I know it might seem a bit distant for Americans but this HUGE!
Is the response time the query time !? I think over one second would be considered unacceptable in most deployments.
Children. Vastly complex. Gain sentience and consciousness over time.

No need for a soul.

Initial set of the network (DNA, Hox genes, and a million others) and the environment "is all" that is needed for that fire to light up in there.

Not always, unfortunately. Severe developmental disorders sometimes prevent the forming of that consciousness.
Fracking though was heavily subsidized by Wall Street using other peoples money. It never was, nor will be profitable and it's a dead end technology.
This logic presuppose, that the military status quo is the best it can be and can't be improved. It would be wrong at any point in the past, why is it correct right now?
It is a very sensitive area for conservationists and historians. Pretty well guarantee that if they started to dig a hole to build a new road they would find something of interest that would delay the build and make the cost sky rocket.
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Yes, and it’s a very cool way to show that, but they turned it into a game where you want to get the spelling right.
> why do those things have a (statistically significant?) impact in the first place?

In a word, caches. Not just the instruction / data cache, but also page faults and micro-architectural features like micro-op caches, instruction TLB entries, loop stream buffers, cache-line alignment, and aliasing in the branch predictor tables (which can also be thought of as caches).
Don’t waste your time on this article (sibling comments are correct in their criticism). Instead read the Slate piece that it links to:

https://slate.com/culture/2018/11/ballad-buster-scruggs-coen...
I interpret ego as the mechanism that enables competition for surviving and mating. It’s what makes you feel more deserving of the limited resource, such as food or a mate, than someone else, and would seem to be a trait that’s beneficial for passing down genes.
Same here. I use T480 and T420 in parallel and in comparison to the newer model the T420 feels virtually bombproof.
I was hoping it would say at some point that right-wingers have a small pee pee or something.
We are working towards that.
There are two ABIs (sets of syscalls, such as read a file or opening a socket) that we believe would help to bring universality between platforms:
* CloudABI
* PWSIX

We wrote more about it here: https://medium.com/wasmer/webassembly-cloudabi-b573047fd0a9
But if you have to choose between '\*' and 'x', then 'x' might well be the best choice, no? :-)
> what the median student actually learns seems to mostly be a set of low order correlations. They know what words to use, which words tend to go together, which combinations tend to have positive associations, and so on.

This really resonates with my experience, especially with people I work with.

I hope in the future people are trained to tell these sorts of generated texts from real texts. I think including some test for this would greatly improve our hiring procedure
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> I don’t understand how aurora achieves the speed it does with a log based approach. Can someone please clarify?

Aurora splits out 'database' nodes (the server instances you provision and pay for) from 'storage' nodes (a 'multi-tenant scale-out storage service' that automatically performs massively-parallel disk I/O in the background). Instead of MySQL writing various data to tablespaces, redo log, double-write buffer, and binary log, Aurora sends only the redo-log over the network to the storage service (in parallel to 6 nodes/3 AZs for durability).

No need for extra tablespace, double-write buffer, binary-log writes, or extra storage-layer mirroring, since durability is guaranteed as soon as a quorum of storage nodes receives the redo-log. The reduced write amplification results in 7.7x fewer network IOs per transaction at the 'database' layer for Aurora (vs standard MySQL running on EBS networked storage, in the benchmark described in the paper), and 46x fewer disk IOs at the 'storage' layer [1].

[1] https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/p1041-verbitski.p...