skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couple things off the top of my head from experience:

* Running out of food is lame

* Carrying way more food than you really needed is lame

* Forgetting means to light a stove is really lame

* Little critters will chew through whatever to get to your food, so keep it outside your tent (hang it high off a tree)

* (Mountaineering) Exposed skin will be scorched by sun reflected off the snow

* Separate your "keep me dry" layer from your "keep me warm" layer, don't go cheap

* You need to drink more water than you think you do

* Unless you have guaranteed means/opportunity to dry yourself/clothing, avoid getting wet (avoid cotton, jeans)

* Everyone should know the route, if there's a fork or ambiguity in the trail, everyone needs to be together

* Have a backup means of filtering/purifying water

* Always tell someone where you're going and when they should expect you back

* Check the weather and recent trip reports
> Who makes 400mm _per year_?

People who own > $8b, so a few 100, plus some more whose businesses are doing really well.
Do you know of any fast Thompson NFA simulation implementation? I don't think I've seen one outside of a JIT.

Is there a fast glushkov implementation that isn't bit parallel? I've never been able to figure out how to use bit parallel approaches with large Unicode classes. Just using a single Unicode aware \w puts it into the weeds pretty quickly. That's where the lazy DFA shines, because it doesn't need to build the full DFA for \w (which is quite large, even after the standard DFA compression tricks).
I like to use Makefiles for parallel encoding.

OPUSFLAGS = --vbr --bitrate 16
all: $(patsubst %.wav,%.opus,$(wildcard *.wav))
.PHONY: all
%.opus: %.wav
opusenc $(OPUSFLAGS) $< $@

Make -j4 or whatever. There are a few other ways to do this (e.g. xargs).
What they are "meant" to do is increase engagement metrics. If the recommender is smart enough, the content diverse enough, and the userbase big enough, the recommender will learn how to exert psychological influence over the user as a means to increase engagement metrics.

None of this is exactly deliberate, it's just that the recommender will figure out that if you can get someone angry about something, or entranced by some conspiracy, they're going to be very engaged.

The problem is, going to a social media site with a specific intention, it's an attentional battle. They are going to show you the most entrancing thing they can come up with above the fold. For example, on youtube.com, you can choose to some degree what sections are shown, but the unconfigurable recommender is always at the top and cannot be moved. "Saved for later" is always a couple of screenfuls down no matter what you do.

This is hostile technology. YouTube is not made to be a tool for you to use. It's made so that you're a tool for it to use. It pokes and prods at you with its recommendations to serve its own interests. It does not care at all about yours as long as it doesn't piss you off so much that you stop going there.
Really silly to state how much electricity "languages" use without specifying implementations. You can specify for unstandardized languages, but languages don't have performance characteristics in the typical sense, implementations do, and this can very greatly between implementation.
To anyone who’s wondering he is one of the co—discoverers of the transistor effect, for which he won a Nobel prize however he became an advocate for Eugenics towards the end of his life, not necessarily a purely racial superiority stance although there was enough of that too, he basically had a lot of weird ideas including restricting the reproduction of people who don’t meet the intelligence requirements.

That said how much different is it than taking money from China or Saudi Arabia?
Juniors you filter for potential. If you wanted a low risk, higher skilled person you'd take a senior. Juniors are more of a gamble and I think most of thr ageism in the industry comes from the fact that seniors are clear where they land, but with juniors you can hire a girl who can contribute $100k/month of work at a salary of $10k/month.

Most interviewing techniques filter the top and bottom of the talent pool. Large organizations are fine with this. It's less risk, more control, and if they wanted a genius, they'd just acquire.

So you don't want to follow thr FAANG style of recruiting. The best ones that do well with that filter have already been snapped up anyway.

One of my favorite tricks is just to ask them to build something. Minesweeper or a roguelike, even if they're a web dev. The idea is not to have them finish it in 4 hours but see their approach.

Do they write specs? Do they write tests? How much do they design for? You probably don't want to hire someone who designs for a week when the target is 2 hours.

What's the balance between planning and development? Usually the bad ones have none of either. It also tests how they deal with huge problems, something that happens all the time in this field.

Test for whatever you're hiring for. If you don't optimize much don't test too much there. If it's a front end job, get them to do some animations. The best ones have some prior experience before the job, see if they'll surprise you.
maybe they included compilation? it would make sense as that's a real world use of cpu/memory/energy.
UNICODE_STRING too - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/ff564879
Forklifts pretty much solved this. Just put the weight in the back.
This is probably true, but it would be incredibly cool to see a research project that demonstrates this.
Maybe you can switch it out :) https://webassembly.org/
Funny, maybe I'm a stereotypical HN user here, but I liked Metro UI. I liked it more than Material design nonsense and skeuomorphic Apple crap. Windows Phones' UI was simple, to the point, and evoked the feelings of being half-way to Star Trek interfaces. Maybe it resonated with me because of that.

Apps were part of what killed Windows Phone, but I also think they released their OS with too little built-in features. My brother used to own a phone with early Windows version; it lacked a lot of small conveniences and tweakables that were available on contemporary Android phones. I vaguely recall sharing media with other devices was a problem; not unlike how it's with iPhones.
Imperative programming with eager evaluation and easy distribution, all thanks to Keras becoming the new high-level API for TensorFlow.
It is a lot easier to upgrade an OS on a Unix box with proper partitions separating things you want to persist across installs from the OS. Makes backups and backup restores easier as well. It’s also best to have swap space be a partition. Though these days probably doesn’t matter.

A modern Windows install has something like 4 partitions these days for the c drive. Ones labeled restore, c, and I have yet to care to figure out the other two. On boot though you see just c.
Firefox used bangs originally.
Sure thing! Who's your lawyer? When does she anticipate that you need to switch? As a founder, I always lean towards solving the problem today vs. problems 5 years down the road. Also all major law firms have trained staff on hand to serve startup clients with Captable.io.

Regarding Carta onboarding, there's an involved process and associated fees. You can check out the few dozen help articles they have on the subject matter here: https://support.carta.com/category/415-onboarding---private-.... I recommend reaching out to their team to discuss further.

I can share more war stories we run into - ping me at ray at ltse dot com.
You'll pass through the ship's orbit again and again.

If you pushed in a direction exactly perpendicular to the orbit, you'll reach the ship again. If you pushed somewhat into or against the orbit direction, you will get in front or behind the ship.
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There's the nightmare fuel.
I ran Alpha servers back then along side a bevy of DG/UX Aviion and Clariion servers. The DECs always out-performed the DG/UX boxes.
I enjoyed the Intellivison II with the voice synthesis module. I have fond memories of playing B-17 bomber and burgertime.
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One purposeful use for quantum computers is running simulations, as it can be expected that results from a quantum simulation (read: real quantum computer running a controlled simulation of a particular process) will work identically when applied to that process everywhere else.

For example, there is great hope that we'll eventually have quantum simulators that predict chemical and drug reactions and performance without needing to use the actual drug or chemical on an actual guinea pig. These simulations are on real quantum computers, using real quantum behaviours.

This works barring the discovery of another competing set of quantum rules, but nobody is currently expecting that to happen.

Also the article describes the very real quantum computer these simulations run on.

TL;DR: A quantum simulation is not the same thing as a quantum computer emulator. You'll hear a lot about quantum simulations, but they are nearly always in regards to real quantum computing.
i dont think these robots are actually going to be used in this industry. seems like a demo.
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I have had to send a fax from my iPhone before using efax. There is a reason the company still exists in 2019....
Tourist Taking Photos Dies in Fall at Grand Canyon
Valve getting into the AR industry? Neat.
They should include Julia in the results.
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Guess that depends on what you mean by "helping".

What you describe is specifically related to emergency braking. None of these systems claim to prevent collisions at high speeds through emergency braking. But they will significantly reduce the impact. No, I haven't tested that personally, and I don't plan to, so no actual "experience" there.

However, there are other aspects of EyeSight I do have experience with at highway speeds.

- Collision alert. It's an extra set of eyes to keep an eye out for trouble. When I'm checking over my shoulder before a lane change, I can take a little more time and look more carefully, knowing that it is watching the road ahead. It has alerted me for things like a car slowing suddenly or squeezing in front of me.

- Adaptive cruise. This helps by reducing load on me while driving and maintaining a safe following distance. So I can focus less on the car ahead and pay more attention all around.

Tip for users of EyeSight and other systems:
Always remember that like every other system out there it's not perfect and has limitations. Don't get complacent. After 5+ years of driving with it, I'll still keep my foot ready to brake, even in situations I'm confident it can handle. Occasionally I'll give in to the urge to brake only to find that it has started braking by the time my foot hits the pedal. But I'd rather react too soon than wait too long.
I use an Osprey Farpoint 40 for international travel. Packing cubes are absolutely essential for fitting in all my clothing, and there's no denying that I have to sacrifice plenty of things that I would otherwise be able to fit in a suitcase. But at the same time, I'm blind, so I always have a white cane in my right hand. Once I'm dragging a suitcase, I have no hands left and everything becomes difficult (to potentially unsafe levels). I'll never travel with a suitcase again if I can avoid it.
Just use it as another ballpark reference of what trade-offs are being made when going with one language or another. Not really any different than any other language benchmark/shootout comparison.

Unless you have very large numbers of [users|servers|whatever] to amortize the cost of going one way vs another over, it's probably not worth even considering trying to change anything on your end. More likely, your personal or team productivity is the much more important metric to optimize for anyways. If you're doing things at FAANG scale, it's an entirely different story.
So you're cool with Google, a company whose primary business is tracking people, seeing all your DNS, but not your ISP, whose primary business is delivering network access, notwithstanding their bumbling efforts to branch out.

Now, Google does claim they don't track DNS requests. But consider why that is? Once upon a time they didn't scan Gmail content either, but that was before GMail dominated the webmail space.

What do you think is going to happen once DNS becomes centralized? If it's taken too far we won't be able to go back. And it can easily go too far. Chrome and Firefox are ubiquitous enough that if they succeed in removing local resolvers from the loop it will mean that the entire ecosystem will have transformed to accommodate them. Software stacks, configuration policies, etc will have all evolved to disfavor niche use cases and favor Google, Cloudflare, etc.

ISPs can already see the IP address we're all connecting to, and the correlation between domains and IPv4 addresses is more than strong enough to provide the necessary information for commercial profiling. IPv6 will virtually make it 1:1. (So Encrypted SNI likewise provides little benefit.)

The shift to TLS accounts for 90% of the potential capacity for avoiding ISP snooping, short of VPNs or TOR. That last 10% comes with a huge price tag.
> rather than guess as what else could be wrong if unverified theoretical assumptions might be correct.

You mean, I should not have explored the ramifications of what my suspicions might mean to so people might think it's worth actually looking into? What's wrong with that?

I can't help but feel that you feel compelled to defend your original position that I believe was based on a misinterpreting my point and intention.

I saw what I believed might be a problem. I noted it. I noted why. I noted what it might mean to the analysis because if my suspicion as to the reason was correct, it might not be isolated and other items might need a closer look. I did so in a way where I was sure not to claim something as factual when I wasn't certain. What part of that do you think is an inaccurate assessment of what I did or was unwarranted?

Edit: Changed misconstruing to misinterpreting, as that's what I was trying to express, and misconstruing might be interpreted as a purposeful action, which is not what I was trying to express.
It made me think about the hosts of the Today show discussing the Internet in 1994.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlJku_CSyNg
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They usually only announce things that are being released in a week, or at most in a month or two. They've been breaking that rule a lot recently though. The whole services keynote was very strange for that reason.
And, yet, there are some places where PHP is used (under explicit conditions and exceptions).
> The filesystem of almost any user-facing system ends up full of detritus lacking clear ownership.

Because files don't always have a clear ownership. I have a folder full of photos and I don't want any particular application to "own" them. That a file corresponds to a concrete app that owns it is a lie, that's being pushed hard by mobile OSes.
I never tried the AirPods so I can't comment on their quality, though I'm all for wired ones so it won't happen anytime soon.
Quality aside, psychology can explain a things or two on why people absolutely love what they spend money on.

https://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/05/19/fanboyism-and-brand-...
The infringement of speech is only prevented for the federal government. The internet doesn't count. The internet is not beholden to physical barriers and there is more than enough room to start your own website. You have a right to speech, you don't have a right to a privately owned platform that isn't yours..

Furthermore, deplatforming has always been a thing. It basically happened to the dixie chicks after they spoke out against the Iraq war and GWB in England way back in the early 2000's. I don't think they have ever been on fox or a sinclair broadcasting station ever again.

No one is saying proclaiming trumps innocence is hate speech, that is an absurd claim, where are you getting that nonsense?
But it certainly looks like they didn't include compilation time for all of the compiled-to-machine-code languages. C has the reference value of '1'.
Not necessarily. Sometimes compilers give better programs than a programmer can with optimization and stuff.
My guess is they looked at what they had, and thought about their hard-learned lessons from the Maps release.
I would like to see that benchmarked.
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missiles work with radar signature or heat signature, not the visible spectrum. and yes, there are countermeasures available to 'blind' an IR sensor (like those used on short range A/A missiles)
> Are there super capacitors with expected lifetimes measured in centuries / millennia?

No, certainly not. Supercapacitors self-discharge significantly faster than batteries do. Capacitance is proportional to the surface area of the electrodes and inversely proportional to the distance between them. Resistance is the opposite, so roughly speaking higher capacitance means higher self-discharge.

The current go-to for long lasting batteries is lithium thionyl chloried, used in remote areas, embedded electronics and things like portable defibrillators. Those are some of the most energy-dense batteries available (though not rechargeable) and can hold most of their charge for over a half century.

The Oxford Electric Bell[1] was linked in the comments under the post, and it has been ringing since 1840. It's not known what kind of battery it has, but its some kind of dry pile. Dry piles generate voltage via corrosion of metal (eg zinc) and have extremely high resistances between plates since there is no liquid electrolyte. As long as they are kept relatively dry they have incredibly long lifespans, although their power output is miniscule- orders of magnitude smaller than even this motor.

It might make more sense to tap into an extremely long-lived source of power, such as geothermal. Over millennia tectonic shift is only a problem across a fault. As long as you can set up a thermal gradient (eg by pushing a stainless steel wire deep into a hole), you can run a Peltier (Seebeck) generator. Some semiconductors have meaningfully limited lifespans and eventually fail under normal use, but many are effectively inert and last as near to forever as we can figure. I'm pretty sure most thermoelectric junctions are the latter, with exceptions for radiation. They have a standard MTBF of just under 23 years with frequent thermal cycling, which is the most damaging thing you can do. It wouldn't be hard to imagine it lasting millennia in a sufficiently stable environment.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Electric_Bell
> MetaOCaml has been successfully used for the most optimal stream fusion, specializing numeric and dynamic programming algorithms, building FFT kernels, compilers for an image processing and database query DSLs, OCaml server pages, generating families of specialized basic linear algebra and Gaussian Elimination routines, and high-performance stencil computations.

http://okmij.org/ftp/ML/MetaOCaml.html
What about the energy fixing bugs in JS that Typscript found at compile time?
For sure, aesthetics are also a form of communication, it's just that it has less impact in the usability of something.
And here I was thinking they were laying off the administrators because they are an impediment to progress in tech
>Not sure what to make of this research. It's not like I can switch out JS in favor of these other languages

Nope but for iot devices or anything in a scenario with scarce energy resources or difficulty to remove heat it's an interesting datapoint. Although I think the results conform mostly with intuition. I doubt anybody would voluntarily compile a lot of haskell on their space satellite
> A communication-only device that can take photos and browse the web is very useful, but I think it will lose market to a proper computer every time.

It might not. Every phone company has strong incentives to optimize their offering to the lowest common denominator. Majority of people are not tech-savvy, and they have no context for what computers are capable of and how those capabilities could be applied to their lives, so they simply choose from what's being offered by hardware and software companies. People who care about this stuff are a minority, and there's not much money in catering to them.

If computers could be bicycles for the mind, the modern trend is making people sit on their ass instead, and consume what's delivered to them.
Sounds like a typical LPC encoder at a low bitrate, like maybe 5 kbps.
That's fine; I prefer the latter. Maybe I'm wrong. But if I am, it's not because I don't understand how macros are actually implemented in the real world, as everyone in this massive thread seems to assume.

I regret my initial comment, which was written in haste. Had I known the sheer volume of people that would jump out the woodwork to demonstrate their superior technical knowledge while avoiding the argument I was actually making, I'd have been a lot more careful about what I was trying to communicate (or more likely not have bothered, which would have saved us all a lot of time).

That is where the "smug lisp weenie" trope comes from, and it's real. I don't know what it is specifically about lisp that brings it out; I can't imagine having this discussion about C#, TCL or SQL.
If you really want to cheat, you can open your dev console and just type clipClick(<any number>) to instantly make that many paper clips, up to the amount of wire you have.
thus the nickname of the plane. the 'lawn dart'
If I'd hazard a guess before reading the article, it's because of the transpilation phase to regular Javascript. That doesn't come for free.
That's why some allow you "max 3 articles" or so. That can be circumvented with incognito mode.

But at some level it's a donation. Spotify is a donation. Sublime Text is a donation. All of us can spare $5/month for something of value. It's just a kind of forced donation.
It's not like Tetris has gotten any easier to approximate in the last 17 years.
Please don't troll here or take threads further into flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Carefully constructing a household network topology and being disciplined with separate physical machines appears to be a strong mitigation.

But will your colleagues who play competitive online games be willing to buy a separate machine used only for remote employment, and be willing (and able) to construct such a network topology correctly?

Most household routers don't even support VLANs.
Still doesn't make sense. Build one time, run many times.
Just go and do it instead of performing bullshit A/B tests and copying whatever lowest-common-denominator solution your competitors invented.

Regular users don't have context for technology, they scoop up whatever companies offer on the market. If everyone gravitates towards the same crappy solutions, most users won't complain, because they can't or don't want to imagine how things could be made better.