skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember doing real work on CPUs such as a Z-80 at 4MHz. How our standards and expectations have changed...
The price of a portable ultrasound has little to do with the electronics as far as I understand it. Production of the probe's ceramic transducer is expensive.
What's with these comments that Amazon couldn't win in China because they didn't play well by Chinese rules? The article paints a pretty compelling picture that the issue is that Amazon couldn't compete well with local companies. If they were that bad at competing, they wouldn't need conflict with the government to fail, failure would be a natural effect of being unable to keep up with local competition.
"kowtow" -- nice word choice!

"In traditional China this ritual was performed by commoners making requests to the local magistrate, by the emperor to the shrine of Confucius, or by foreign representatives appearing before the emperor to establish trade relations."
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kowtow
There will still be a huge unemployed cohort "moving through the snake" (the diagram in the article is not as clear as the usual "Christmas tree" diagram" that shows a snapshot in time) world wide which can be deployed to equilibrate the labor imbalance. And that doesn't inherently have to lead to racism. For example the US bracero program in the 40s and 50s didn't exacerbate these issues in through the 1970s, nor did the gastarbeiter program in West Germany though the 80s.

Automation and longer extent of healthy life will also mitigate many of these issues.

Japan may be the demographic future but need not be the cultural one. An economic system not based on an age-based pyramid scheme and a move away from zero-sum scarcity mindsets will make addressing these issues much simpler.
With "hurt feelings", probably.
Expiry dates also aren't always as accurate as you might imagine. You'd think that a card that expires April 2019 wouldn't work in May, yet sometimes (but not always) they will for a month or two, or longer.
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Another example why hiding state can be a good thing. Consider following code:

void* ptr = malloc( 32 );

No OOP is involved here, yet the malloc function operates on a critically important piece of mutable global state. The state is quite complex due to numerous reasons: performance, fragmentation, multithreading & deadlocks, alignment… Just look at ptmalloc (linux) or jemalloc (BSD). I think it’s undocumented on Windows but I’m sure it’s at least as complex, search for “low fragmentation heap” which is the default one since Vista.

I don’t think hiding that state in layers of abstractions is counterproductive, I think it was good, due to the following reasons.

1. In 99% cases makes it easier to write code. Heap state is very complex in practice, and just like file IO, it spawns across user mode state of your process and OS kernel state. Hiding the state all together allows programmers to reason in terms of very simple APIs, it’s just 2 functions malloc/free with very clear purpose each.

2. Hiding that state makes bugs in your code less likely to corrupt it. If you instead have something like void* malloc( size_t bytesCount, struct HeapState *processHeap ) it becomes easier to accidentally corrupt that state.

3. Hiding that state decouples consuming code from implementation. On Linux, that state is hidden deep inside libc library. You can replace the complete implementation of that state, or even eliminate it if you want so, the consuming code will run fine as long as malloc/free API stays stable. Quite often, code that uses explicit state becomes dependent on the particular implementation of that state. Much less likely to happen when the state is hidden behind some API, OOP or not doesn’t matter.
Sure, but the amount of power you need to generate per area needs to be multiple orders of magnitude better than wind for this to be a viable option. At least you can build wind farms in the sea.
I have been looking for something similar and settled on using notion.so

I dont like how self host is not an option but its very clean, supports markdown, has an awesome interface as a personal wiki, and the free tier has plenty of space.
"I don't understand how supporting families means devaluing women. What exactly do you mean by "devalue"? If motherhood is the stated goal of a woman, and she achieves it, how/why is she "devalued"? If it brings her meaning and fulfillment, isn't that something to be celebrated and respected?"

I believe the query here is to devalue women in order to support the idea of a nuclear family. Traditional nuclear families (as mother stays home to raise the children) have never been the norm. I'm Chinese and where I am from the is the grandparents that raise the children while both parents work! From what I understand stay-at-home-motherhood has only ever been possible within a single generation in "western" society.

I believe the devaluation comment is associated with the fact our society is capitalist, and one has to purchase basic living and education with money. Income and quality of life have a correlated effect which peters out well above median wage, and many fields that offer the flexibility required for motherhood are less high paying, which often means if one wishes to become a mother they may need to take a less well paying job and thus have a lower quality of life.

Of course, this also means a SAHM who does not bring income is culturally not valued because their work does not directly bring in income (even though attempting to outsource this work would be often equivalent to the salary of a single laborer!). I would argue this is not a problem specifically on the shoulders of women but the shoulders of society as a whole not putting in the framework to support parenting- this would include generous parental leave, flexible work hours, opportunity to WFH, lower medical expenses for children, etc.
What Brexit Means for Africa's Tech Giants
Makes you think about the enormous cost of the United State's defense operations if they have come to the conclusion that it is sensible to routinely fly employees for a commute. Extravagant things like this are obviously only a miniscule fraction of the cost, but still.
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Wasn't the design decision (and implementation) involved in place log before Apple had anything to do with it?
Out of the circa 8760 hours of the year, what fraction is like today? (Moreover, even today, parts of e.g. Hyde Park that are away from the main walkways will not be like Benidorm central beach in the high season.)

Why overfit on rare edge cases?
Yes, but why does the LAW require me to have a parking place? Parking space is not free for anyone: the owner (landlord) has to pay to have it, plow snow. Then there is the opportunity cost: that land could be used for something else.

I'm fine with landlords offering parking as a perk of rent - but the next landlord can offer an apartment to those who don't need/want a parking spot at a discount (how much discount is an open question). The law doesn't all the market to decide.
what I'm trying to say is that it takes a hell lot more than a team of 20,30 to create something successful these days.
it takes a lot more than a piece of silicon that executes code to create something successful.
only advantage they have is that they have the support of nationalism ...
ARM was massively successful in the mobile space before they considered desktop and server and people start knowing them.
'Empty Spain': government urged to act as towns fade from map
It's mostly open. There are some annual dues you have to pay, which range from very low for academia, to 5 figures/year for commerical manufacturers. https://sparc.org/faq/
Besides, I've fixed / expanded / rearranged my own electrical wiring more than once (which is legal here without a license, if you do it on own property for non-commercial purposes) and I didn't use any of my electronics knowledge. You just need to know what the wire colors mean, employ some basic safety procedures, and don't do stupid things with wire size and currents.
Parking minimums in residential areas are one of the few times I think they can make sense.

Suppose there is enough on-street parking for other non-residential uses. You don't want these spaces being constantly used by car owners who are living in apartment complexes that aren't meant for them. As a local government, you have to play the game of not letting them park using parking restrictions while potentially also managing by-laws that allow residents to get parking permits that let them bypass some restrictions.

This doesn't really apply in high-density urban areas, but I could see it being tricky to manage in growing areas.

(Although, I guess from a non car-owner's point of view you wouldn't care about whether other drivers are being inconvenienced by a lack of parking, because the knock-on effects wouldn't affect you.)
I don’t think it’s that crazy. Has worked exceedingly well for 75 years. Can’t say that about too many systems.
That's right, pensions are all pyramid schemes. Even when you factor in "stealing" back the money from anyone who dies early. We need a more standard X% towards retirement for people who are working and anything else is a needs based system. If you are retired and poor you get $X each month. If you have lots of money, you get nothing.
Why downvoted? I don't mind being wrong but would like to know where and why.
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>Brown, my last name, is the fourth most popular surname in the US. It was given to my ancestors by white slave owners who decided that they weren't worthy of being called anything other than the colour of their skin.

This isn't accurate (or at least probably isn't). Brown is a common surname in England and also in other countries in the local language (e.g. Braun in Germany). Her ancestors were probably owned by someone with the surname Brown and that's where they got the name from.
The key difference between the AJIT and Shakti seems to be the fabrication partner. AJIT is fabricated locally. Shakti was built at an Intel Fab using its 22nm process. They serve different purposes.
Though in economic theory cost should approach marginal cost
http://fastsmt.ethz.ch/
When Lab Experiments Carry Theological Implications
Ask HN: Keeping a co-founder aligned with our interests
We have a potential co-founder who can possibly bring in investors based on a solid track record of doing so with other businesses. Instead of being rewarded with a finder's fee, she wants to be rewarded with a share of our company. She plans on putting effort into helping us grow. Our first thought was allowing her to exchange the usual finder's fee for discounted shares. With the shares being priced according to the deal with the first investor. However that aligns her interests with the investor. They both want the maximum number of shares for the lowest price possible. How can we create an agreement that rewards her for finding investors while keeping her aligned with our interests to get a high initial valuation from potential investors?
The three biggest challenges for me have been:

- Marketing

- Finding a shop which produces at acceptable quality

- Finding the balance between order volume and cost

If you're not fussy about physical characteristics (eg, rounded corners) then I'd prototype at the local office max - pretty affordable and fast.

If you email me I can maybe give some more details! Maybe I should start a business doing print shop consulting...
You can use Plug instead of Phoenix if you like, but why do you object to Phoenix? It's quite customizable.

Generate a new Phoenix app. Open up the endpoint file. Don't want routing? Comment it out. Don't want logging? Comment it out. Keep what you want, discard the rest.
I agree with the thrust of your comment, I think I just didn’t frame it properly. The comment I was responding to seemed (to me) to suggest that we go back to the 1950s when a woman didn’t have a right as a matter of law or de facto to have a career and aspirations of her own. I read the comment as suggesting that women’s empowerment was a proximate cause to the degradation of the family. I think electing to be a parent is not “devaluing” (as I myself, as a father, have done so) but that removing the option and making the decision for all women is devaluing. Not sure I track the comment re: swipe against traditional families? If I suggested that then I was inarticulate or misinterpreted.

Edit: also to the gp comment, which suggests that women are ‘naturally’ better at parenting. Fuck all that, I’m a kickass dad, I’ll go toe to toe any day with any mother.
I hate the way I've at least seen people use that word in the US. They almost exclusively use it in reference to China, and it's just awkward. Not racist, but just weirdly racial the way they use it and the tone is gross. Hard to put into words.

Apparently this is a controversial revelation to some of you:

https://blog.hiddenharmonies.org/2010/12/23/my-pet-peeve-rac...
Are podcasts killing music or just wasting our time?
It targets gameboys?
There are actually a few open source SPARC implementations, including the first two Niagra revisions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC#Open_source_implementati...
Alan suggested "server-oriented programming" in Quora:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-Alan-Kays-definition-of-Object...
Sony launches a taxi-hailing app to rival Uber in Tokyo
Anyone can be a struggling artist. It takes no skill or ambition whatsoever. It's merely a poor economic choice and deserves no pity.
Not reading this now, but will totally reading it when I want to learn about macros. All the stuff that Alexis is doing is always mind-expanding and well-explained!
Happily work, cook, sleep, and have had partners over.
Again, there seems to be an 'uncanny valley' of sizes where the feeling of inconvenience is overriden by simplicity.
If we are lucky a good solution to this problem could be significant increase in life expectancy and development of artificial womb that will allow people to have children later in life when they finally want to have children.

But if the technological solution doesn't come soon enough the world will have to go through a much harder transition, trying to develop new culture that would combine aspects of secular societies that allow development of science and commerce, with a reasonable desire of growth.
Mathus didn't quite predict that, he was smarter than that.

The fact that exponential growth of population was a rare and short-lived phenomenon in world history (he had numbers from new england or quebec, and knew they were highly unusual) led him to conclude that there must be other forces. The equilibrium population is set by the balance of such forces.

And not just in humans, obviously. Any animal could reproduce exponentially, but the world is not 100-km-deep in rabbits just yet. And this observation was an important ingredient for Darwin.
> Getters/setters are technically message-passing methods, but they undermine the design goal because they more or less directly expose internal state to the public world.

No, they don't, because “more or less” is not actually directly. Particularly, naive getters and setters can be (and often are) replaced with more complex behavior with no impact to consuming code because they are simply message handlers, and they abstract away the underlying state.
This is exactly it. The question is not "which will take over the world". Both can contribute useful features in various situations, and this is why I like languages that let me use what is best in each situation.
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How an obscure German group cornered global trade in endangered parrots (2018)
How is it odd? a prison cell on 5th avenue is still a prison cell.

I have 1 bedroom, 1 office and a living room, I don't keep trash in the flat we have a storage unit, in fact unless we convert the 2nd bedroom/office to a closet we actually rotate clothes in and out of the storage unit because there isn't enough wardrobe space for 2 people for all seasons.

Tiny apartments are a health hazard they damage both your physical and mental health, they aren't any more environmentally conscious than properly sized apartments and this whole minimalism fad is complete horeshit litterarly sold too and by useful idiots.

A 6m^2 apartment is below what is legally can be called a room in the UK, In fact it's the size of a US prison cell (5.8m^2), 20m is blow the legal limit for a home which iirc is 37m2 but in the UK this only covers recent builds and conversion so you might still find 30m flats somewhere however depending on the council they are can be illegal to rent out.

For perspective this is what 6 square meters look like https://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/6x9-jail-...

So yes while I was a bit hyperbolic I don't understand how someone can live in a literal prison cell yet alone calling it more comfortable than living in a small hotel room.
But no I don't to question my conscience regarding what I need or don't need, what I want is an apartment in an area I like, close to what I need and want to have, for a price I'm willing to pay. Besides that I would opt out to get the largest apartment I can, 2 baths is a must because I live with a partner, having an extra room for work and or guests is also nice especially since it allows us both to work from home on the same day and gives us some room from each other if things get too heated and I don't have to be in her face or one of us has to go out.
> but has been failing for at least 5000 years.

I encourage you to take some time and study the Christian church during the Middle Ages. Much of what we consider 'modern' learning, teaching, and method came about because there were monks an nuns who were very serious about their work.

Likewise, I encourage you to study Islam since its inception; there also clerics (I don't know the proper terms) sought to increase understanding in literature an science some 500 years before the church in Europe.

Also take some time to look into various religious orders (Hindu, Buddhism, and others) throughout Asia that, in very similar fashion, worked to preserve and expand knowledge within their orders and in their surrounding communities.

If anything, religion has been a driving force towards foundational methods of understanding, knowledge acquisition, and preservation.
> I don't get why companies... kowtow to China in the hopes of getting access to the Chinese market.

One whiff of the billions in potential revenue and the marketeers go into a rutting frenzy. It's only when they're doing the inevitable follow-up walk of shame that they realize what they've done.
No guarantee that your card issuer will decline a transaction on an expired card. Plus, that may not actually cancel the subscription and you could continue building a debt. Just cancel the sub.
As a person have actually used TaoBao, JD, and Amazon.cn, I can tell Amazon.cn was far behind them on both execution and product variety. I only have a vague impression of China's rules imposed on business, if they did, for sure Amazon was screwed so badly it didn't move a single inch over the past few years. Literally done nothing at all to compete. I'm not surprised they gave up.
> >> They redistribute wealth from young people right now to old people right now, but they are sold to young people as though they are investing into their future.

> I want to say that's fiction in the US but it's worse than fiction. The social security system pays out about what a person puts in over their lifetime.

Does that payout account for inflation? Why are we forced to give up a percentage of our wealth to let the government manage for us if it's a 1:1 distribution?
The fact that the patch has to be placed around the waist seems to indicate that the shirt/pants transition is important to the algorithm (makes sense considering that training data full of normally dressed people is almost certainly going to have a lot of pictures of people that are dressed in a shirt that contrasts their pants). I wonder how if denim + denim, a coverall or a dress makes person detection harder.
Who is downvoting this?

>Peak UX usability was native UIs in the 1990s and early 2000s

So much this. Give me Win2K and Office2K style applications - multiple tiled or overlapping windows, modeless views, regular menus and toolbars, context sensitive right click menus, etc. over this single pane with a hamburger button and search box crap any day of the week.
> Summit demands an extraordinary amount of personal information about each student and plans to track them through college and beyond,

Exactly what I would expect from Facebook: schooling means optimizing kids for maximum engagement.

> In one class covering Paleolithic history, Summit included a link to an article in The Daily Mail,

Wait, what? So we're replacing textbooks with random tabloid articles? I'm sure it saves lots of money to use the ad-supported web as "learning material."

I'll believe this works when Chan and Zuckerberg enroll their kids in one of these schools.
Yes, I definitely agree. Genes are only 1 aspect of what can be passed on.

But the question here is: Will the value of "men and women should fulfill the same roles in society" survive or die out?
> On one hand it's great that women have all these new rights. . .

Do you mind if I ask how old you are? The rights of women to freely choose careers, and to make their own reproductive decisions, are at least several decades old.

> Western society is trying to make boys out of girls, and girls out of boys. . .

Can you provide examples of this? Not to preempt your arguments, but this is an oft-repeated conservative platitude that is mostly code for, "I wish women would stay out of the workforce and bear children."
Using wake word acoustics to filter background speech improves speech recognizer
I guess it's hard to make a decent one. You can get scanners from about $600 up from china. Apparently you need an array of transducers which cost a bit.

I'm not sure why the Africans need a $2000+ butterfly scanner rather than this kind of thing https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Veterinary-ultrasound-machin... ?

I presume the Chinese one isn't as good. The images do look a bit blurry.
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U.S. Ends Waivers for Countries to Import Iranian Oil
This triggered interest in the FR research community, and then died as algorithms were tweaked to defeat the attack. Now, this is used as a filter to identify FR systems not keeping up.
>The point in time is a data point (on the time axis, if you will)

You need some way to place in on that axis, though. Commonly we use Day, Month, and Year to do so. But we could also define a date as the seventh Wednesday in 2019. Or as an integer relative to Jan 1 1970.
"if you encourage immigration"

Bringing low IQ population into high societies will only end in tears.
It brings home what a high bar modern chip fabrication tech is.

How many countries in the world have the resources and ability to manufacture a relatively modern CPU without outside assistance?
I also agree with much of this. To the extent that there is a “devaluation” of full-time parenting it’s in the context of a capitalistic society. Again though, to the original response, I don’t find parenting to be low value myself, just the idea that as a society we should mandate that all people of one gender must be stay at home parents. I think that idea from a few generations ago reflects a sexist bias.
About the magic of good error messages (parent comment is good too): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17859210
neither?
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Sure, the language without built in namespace, standardized imports, any stdlib but 4 ways to declare an untyped variable is a pleasure to use.

I wish I could remove JS from the browsers and watch all the fanboys trying to pretend they still like it now that it doesn't have an accidental monopoly on the most popular platform in the world.