skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, the interaction of languages helps us appreciate the world. And that's a useful quote from Wendell Johnson. It reminds me of Wittgenstein's words, "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world".
If their interaction was going to be similar to any other interaction with polynesians from Byron's excursion, it would have involved trading goods for food.
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Aye, it’s PMULL, and it’s available as part of the ARM Crypto Extensions.

This patch shows that using it can result in a large performance improvement:
https://github.com/randombit/botan/issues/842
Moreover, different ARM chips have different performance characteristics as well. Apple's implementation, for instance, seems to be easily twice as fast on most problems at the same clock speed as its leading competitors.
No, but it's just tied together from all the open code that IBM, Google, Microsoft and Amazon make available to drive their APIs.
What if landlords charging market-rent rate compromises your community? What you're saying only makes sense if you don't live in a capitalist society.
> There are two schools of thought:
1) Security has to be enforced by code

2) Your employees are reasonable, and won't try to maliciously bypass security controls

Huh? These aren't competing ideas. They're orthogonal, and should be covered by separate, complementary forms of security assurance.
Wouldn't hurt to put chess in the title.
Weed accounts for a huge portion of incercerations in the states. Also, many of these "hard drugs" like LSD or MDMA have legitimate medical uses. The motivation here was never to protect the public, and if you want to see what that actually looks like check out countries like Netherlands or Germany.
Ask HN: What's your conference room tech setup?
We've been looking into options for setting up our new conference room (~12x12' with table for 8), and have been finding it hard - the conference room technology scene looks like it's stuck in the 90s with old school products at super high prices.

Wanted to know what similar startups have opted for for video calls -- we mostly use Zoom and Hangouts and so a simple log in process (iPad?), good camera and good mic for a not-unreasonable price is what we're looking for.

Appreciate any and all experiences!
STATISTICIANS actually do fine, generally. The problem is that no statisticians were involved in the analysis and write-up of almost all research that isn't statistics papers.

The statistics just don't mean what most scientists think/write they mean. They're using em wrong. As the OP explains some manners of, in fairly technical language.
There's also advertising overlays even when the show isn't on break, which I find especially terrible.
Fair enough... tbh, if Git for Windows, registered `.sh` and `.bash` file extensions to execute via that version of Bash, I'd be content with that... as it is, I have re/used a little bash even in windows at work (everyone has git for windows) and have certain things installed via script+chocolatey. Second pass/configuration, etc, calls a bash script in windows... The first part I also have a bash script for mac, and the second script is shared.

That said, JS/Node is often my goto... I also do a fair amount of `npm i -g UTIL` mainly out of convenience between platforms. There isn't a really universal scripting system I can completely rely on where at least one of the three aren't oddities.

I do use bash pretty much everywhere, and that's what I use ... it's just when I'm writing a script for reuse, I'm more inclined to use NodeJS.
hah. no. unless you have proper build/release/test/deploy state-of-the-art tooling the monorepo approach is a disaster. google and other bigco have it? do you?

there is a reason we modularize and version things in software.

in the context in which you pull in external libraries you don’t control, using a monorepo is madness.
Tesla would have had 0 fatalities in total if the Autopilot disengaged just before hitting the barrier.
Literally the only significant attraction is not having the wire. Ever since wireless headphones started to actually work reliably, I've used them exclusively (big over-the-ear ones for music, airpods for things like calls or online meetings).

For me it was all about the fucking tangle. I don't care much about having the cable on while I am using them. But having to do that stupid devil-horns-figure-eight winding technique to avoid the cable getting tangled into a knot, every single time I want to put the headphones into my pocket, which I do several times a day... ugh.

For me, going back to wired headphones would be like going back to getting on the train by going up to a vending machine, putting coins into it, pushing buttons, waiting for it to emit a paper ticket, and then getting on the train.

It's only a difference of a few seconds, usually, but it something I do over and over and over and over, so that's why it's worth it to me.

(I dropped significant money on a new iphone as soon as it finally got train-pass functionality here in Japan, too.)
LOLOLOL, the electric busses here in Seattle definitely do not have a torque limiter set to prevent throwing people back in the bus. There are many times I've boarded one and gotten thrown back on the walkway (its less of an issue on ICE busses, but still a problem).
> We have a strict "no devices in bedrooms" for our kids (who are currently nine).

Have you considered maybe going "old school" with the devices? Like, get them an old home computer (Apple, C64, TRS-80, etc), with all the trimmings, and let them play with that?

Or get one of the "newer" retro computing platforms (which you may have to assemble yourself) - such as this one:

https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/december2015_West...

...and let them learn with that?

Even an Arduino or RasPi could work; basically, give them a platform where if they want to do anything - they have to learn to do it themselves.

Maybe that's just my nostalgia and naivete being channelled. I grew up in the 1980s with a home computer plugged into my TV in my bedroom (and later got a modem and phone). There was something special about it; I wish today's kids could experience the fun and sense of discovery that made it that way.
I am actually underwhelmed by this demo... Not because it doesn't look great—it does—but because this is about par for the course for a next-gen GPU demo. They always look fantastic for definite reasons, not strictly hardware improvement.

Remember nvidia's 'Dawn' demo from 2003? https://youtu.be/4D2meIv08rQ?t=48

They put together super high quality demos like that for every new generation of card they released. The games that followed never looked quite as good since there are far more demands put on one's computational resources to generate a playable game world vs. a single scene that needs to look great.

What would be potentially very interesting is to see the difference in work put into producing this with raytracing vs. traditional techniques. Being able to displace the unholy nightmare hodgepodge that comprises contemporary real-time rendering algorithms is the most exciting thing about raytracing. At least that's potentially the case; not clear to me how much improvement has been made possible by the RTX.

EDIT: and, making me think this new one is part of a lineage of sorts, here's a later Dawn demo from 2012 (I think): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI1_quVr_3w

EDIT2: rewatching, other aspects of this demo (i.e. not rendering specifically) are beyond 'par for the course', imo. But it's just generally higher production values, indicating more time/money/attention was put into producing the short itself, independent of the hardware backing it.
Because a ship full of people dying of scurvy can't be 'in need'?
TEXDR.AFT is the document Knuth wrote in May 1977 for TEX[1], before a single line of code was written. This was the first thing he typed up into a computer, after about two months of thinking about the problem.

About a month later it was refined to TEX.ONE (both since republished in Digital Typography, along with some of Knuth's diary entries from the time).

This is the specification that his two students, Plass and Liang, tried to implement from, while he was in China. Then he came back and decided to implement it himself, which he did over the next year; the SAIL program now known as TeX78. His Pascal (WEB) rewrite was started in 1980 and finished in 1982.

So the person you're replying to is correct that TeX had its sophisticated features (as in those present in TEXDR.AFT) in its design, right from the start. Of course the current TeX82 is indeed a rewrite with thousands of changes, but much of the core features of TeX were present in the initial design.

Of course one could explain this "counterexample" with the observation that Knuth is not exactly a typical programmer, as he prefers to code on paper (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10172924) and spent two months writing a detailed spec, and at least one month getting feedback, before any code was written. Perhaps his initial (hand-written) design was indeed simpler.

[1]: Aside: TEX was his original name for it, before the name conflict with Honeywell's TEX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Executive_Programming_Lan... forced/inspired him to come up with the Greek letters idea and rename to Tau-Epsilon-Chi properly typeset with the E going below the baseline, in turn represented in ASCII as TeX.)
And does it fit in 64K?
I guess one problem is, if you rely on other people for money, they might believe you incorrect information and discount your opinion because you're not published in WSJ et al.
AT&T and Comcast test 'verified' phone calls to fight spam
The key is usually indirected, which means a pointer, which is usually bigger than the hash code.

(And of course you could use parallel arrays if you're super concerned about cache lines, though the tradeoffs would very much depend on whether hash misses or hits are the expected mode.)
Square is hiring crypto engineers and designers to work full-time on open source
I don't see what specification has to do with this. I mean, a 32 bit 2's complement integer is also a technically optional part of the C standard, and indeed there is hardware that doesn't support multiplications on them with a single instruction.

What's happening here isn't related to word size, really. It's that multiplication, as an operation, is lossy. It produces 2 words worth of output, not one. Traditionally, most RISC architectures have just skipped the complexity and returned the product modulo the word space. But x86 didn't, it put the product into two registers (specific registers: DX and AX, and their subsequent extensions).

Most of the time this just a quirk of the instruction set and an annoyance to compiler writers. But sometimes (and this trick has been exploited on x86 for decades for applications like hashing) it turns out to be really, really useful.
Your examples are great, thanks for adding them!
you can buy freeze dried wasabi powder at whole foods for $10 that is real. just mix a bit with water. it’s good.
I don't use these things. I run servers. It does nothing but break stuff, and it keeps butting in like that annoying acquaintance at parties. It's very difficult to make go away short of uninstalling every last vestige of it.
If you really wanted it you could download the videos for the channels and host them locally.

Even then I wouldn't trust most channels; a channel could sell out and have elsa&spidey 'porn' on it tomorrow. As a parent I carefully curate YouTube and won't let the kids watch it on their own.

Netflix "kids" channel is quite good IMO, some of the content - like Story Bots - I really quite like. Could do with more shows with people in though, most of it's animation.
Who are “they”? I’ve never heard this and it seems incorrect.
The Difference Between URLs, URIs, and Urns
In high-end Japanese restaurants, you can often get real wasabi (it'll be listed at the bottom of the menu). My experience with it has been that it's usually coarser, more watery, and less pungent than the "standard" wasabi. I do not prefer it; whatever combination of horseradish and mustard restaurants default to is, I think, the better product.

If I was eating wasabi on its own and trying to, I don't know, appreciate varietals of it, I'd think differently. But for the most part I eat the little blobs of wasabi as a palate cleanser and never explicitly add it to my dishes, which I assume the cook already seasoned the way they wanted me to eat it.
Who is John Gall?

(I'm sorry, I had to!)
This, coupled with things like nvidia's AI creating images from doodles, and you can see the beginnings of a holodeck. Only 400 years to go.
The thing you need to realize about startups is that everyone else is figuring it out too. If you feel left out or like you're being replaced, it's not on purpose.

Unlike a big company where there's a very strict hierarchy and structure, and all you have to do to rise up in the ranks is put in the time, in a startup it's a free-for-all.

That means you have the power to change your situation. As more engineers join and take on pieces of work you've been involved in, you can start to scale yourself. Be a leader, start new initiatives, think about the bigger picture instead of just your job, and inspire others to see your vision.

You don't need a fancy exec title to be a leader. You don't need permission. You just need to start behaving like one.
Disagree. I've "disabled" it in policy countless times, and been bitten in the ass by it re-enabling itself countless times. The only thing that works is deleting it entirely. After the umpteenth troubleshooting session, only to find out "oh, it's that thing again? That thing we keep trying to make go away?" I'm not going to spend one more minute trying to figure out how I could keep from hurting its feelings.
New TechStars startup trying to always record your audio, creepy?
I attended year round "local food" potlucks in Indiana. People had local food available year around. During the winter it kept in cool storage (like onions), or had been frozen, dehydrated, canned, or grown in a greenhouse.

If year-round local plant-food was more of a priority for people, more could be produced.

Besides, where are the local animals getting their food during the winter? The options are basically the same: either they have local food that's been preserved or their food is getting shipped in too, making a rather inefficient way to deliver calories to humans.
"Although Smalltalk-80 is not meant to be used by children, application programs can be written that will allow them to be creative and, at the same time, learn about programming."

Is the Smalltalk- System for Children?, Byte, 6(8), August 1981. 3. Adele Goldberg , Steven T. Abell , David Leibs

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08
Even OO languages can be message passing. Ruby method calls are syntactic sugar over the send method of Kernel, which basically is the interpreter itself. Examples at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3337285/what-does-send-d...

And Smalltalk explicitly calls "message" what is sent to the destination object https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42498438/whats-so-specia...
> When was the last time you heard a seminar speaker claim there was ‘no difference’ between two groups because the difference was ‘statistically non-significant’?

I'm an Economics PhD (And former professor) and if someone were to say those lines at an academic conference there is a high likelihood that they would be literally laughed at.

Maybe it is because of my background in a quantitative field where we place a huge emphasis on statistical rigor, but t-tests were pretty much dismissed by anyone serious 20+ years ago. Seems like the issue stems to those disciplines without a stats/math background to just point to t-stats. My wife reads medical literature for her work and I gag pretty close to every time she asks me to look at the results.
I agree with the fundamental problem you say.

But I don't think it's just like a statistician shortage. It's that most researchers are rushing to get as many papers as possible published (which, yeah, is arguaby an 'economic' _incentive_ to do statistics sloppily; but mostly I mean they don't feel they have _time_ to do it right), and most universities are trying to cut internally funded research budgets (meaning no money to pay all these extra statisticians, even if they were trained).

It's a "market" problem with how the work of science is actually materially rewarded and sustained. Papers, papers, papers. (Which for that matter -- a good properly trained statistician ought to have the same academic status as the researchers, but you don't get tenure by helping someone else analyze their research...)
Would be cool to read about your experience and insights on a comparison across various features, cost, accuracy, quality.
Cruise control is useful to me because it means I won’t accidentally speed. But having to hold the wheel means I need to pay attention. If the car is driving itself human nature means you might not pay attention. Also if the car does something weird you have to decide in a split second if it is because of a hazard you haven’t seen but the car has, or because the software went wrong.
I just create aliases wrk-projname that cd to the deeper directory. I've been following the pattern with ~/src/repo/user|group/repo (or project/repo for vsts).
I’ve lived in Vietnam for nine years. Good Buddhists will forgo meat for at least two days every month so there are loads of vegetarian restaurants around. If you don’t mind cooking at home it’s even easier.
Definitely an interesting idea, though somehow feels creepier to me.
That's a cool story. Don't know if you'll read this but hit me up, it's cool to meet new expat techies in Austria. My e-mail is in my profile. If you're ever around Graz you're invited to a coffee.
Legal mumbo-jumob guaranteeing customers for utilities companies. It was obviously livable as I was there for 5 months altogether without issue.
> I read quite a few years ago that Apple at one point abandoned a particular 68K->PowerPC JIT because an optimized interpreter was faster at running real-world applications for cache-related reasons (keep in mind that this was the early 90s, when mainstream L1 caches were 4/8/16KB and L2 cache was off-chip).

The big problem was that Apple was lousy at specifying how much cache they needed. IBM told Apple that it needed a LOT more cache on the 603 unless everything was running native. Apple ignored the advice.

The result was that the 603 and 604 were performance dogs because so much was still running in emulation.

So, IBM went back and bumped the cache for the 603e, and performance went up dramatically. This then led to the unfortunate situation wherein the "low-power" chip from IBM (the 603e) tended to be far more performant than the "high-performance" chip (the 604) from Motorola.
If you scroll down the page you can play a whole bunch of examples and do your own comparison.

Some of the voices are remarkably lifelike.

The most lifelike ones are IBM Watson (which I found a bit surprising to be honest), Google Wavenet and Azure Neural. The latter two seems to be based on some sort of AI technology to make the voices sounds more natural.

Amazon Polly does not yet seem to have AI powered voices but presumably they are working on it.

Text to speec has come a long way since the days of SAM that's for sure.
Actual title is “Here’s how you’ll access Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service”. Why was it changed?
A Pilot who hitched a ride in cockpit saved doomed Lion Air Boeing 737 Max day before it crashed. As the Lion Air crew fought to control their diving Boeing 737 Max 8, they got help from an unexpected source: an off-duty pilot who happened to be riding in the cockpit.

That extra pilot, who was seated in the cockpit jumpseat, correctly diagnosed the problem and told the crew how to disable a malfunctioning flight-control system and save the plane, two people familiar with Indonesia’s investigation told Bloomberg.

Why wasn't this information passed on to all Lion Air pilots?
The OP spends some time on a point that the threshold is fairly arbitrary, and the problem is misinterpreting what it actually _means_ for validity and other conclusions.

I suspect just changing the threshold (especially as a new universal threshold, rather than related to the nature of the experiment) wouldn't even strike the authors as an improvement.

> Third, like the 0.05 threshold from which it came, the default 95% used to compute intervals is itself an arbitrary convention. It is based on the false idea that there is a 95% chance that the computed interval itself contains the true value, coupled with the vague feeling that this is a basis for a confident decision.
In the US, at least, there is a significantly differently model of validity of written and oral agreements.
That's not what HTC were going for with the Pro, it's geared towards commercial use. Hobbyists are still buying it (naturally) but what we're really waiting for is whatever Valve are up to.
no I'm just saying that average is not good enough.

imagine lung cancer for example, if we take average then it's 6% risk taking smookers and not smookes, but if I decided not to smoke then it's 0.2%. so in this case I can do better for lowering the chances then when I would accept some other solution that would let us all have it at 5% witch might seem ok but not for me.
Confronting My Fears in the Hope of Retiring Early
Maybe not plausible, but why not give the pilot a single switch to disable all automation so they can fly the plane without interference.
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Right below the word "results" is a table which correlates asmuths to "wavelengths" which I believe is a measure of how out-of-phase the arms of the interferometer were.

Yes, it's simpler to just assume that reality as you see it is full of facts that can be made sense of directly, but that's what prompted Planck's university adviser to claim that there was essentially nothing new to discover in physics. If you allow things to be "just true" without taking into account the things that make them true, you'll never take the kind of creative step that we see in Copernicus, Einstein, or Planck (despite his adviser's recommendations).

Scientific advancement happens when somebody faces a set of immutable facts and decides which one needs to become mutable in order for the rest to become more useful. If facts are flattened down to primitives, there is no underlying structure to aid in that decision.

And if course there is such a thing as "a fact of". '2 + 2 = 4' is a fact of arithmetic, 'things fall towards massive other things' is a fact of gravity, and 'Harry Potter is a Wizard' is a fact of that particular universe.

The dangerous notion that I'm trying to dispel is that there is any other sort--a raw fact that is portable across contexts.

You yourself seem like a pretty smart cookie, so I don't worry about you, but generally speaking I find that people who prefer to deal in absolutes are susceptible to manipulation by relativists such as myself. If I can manufacture a fact and insert it into your universe, you're kind of stuck with it because you treat them as out-of-scope for reconsideration.

If we allow science and authority to become synonymous--which the author of this article would have us do, we commit a similarly permanent act--one which shuts the door on advancement of the sort I've described to above.

I'm not trying to convince you that you are wrong. I'm trying to show you that your faith in the persistent and portable utility of facts is unjustified and represents both a creativity damper and an unnecessary attack surface--attack surface that would be exploited by maintainers of the status quo.

Or I would try to convince you of that, if I could get us past the unjustified part.
You could probably argue that Star Wars franchise was/is a toy/merch advert along the lines of He-Man or TMNT.