skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is all rather disingenuous (the bit on anti-vector campaigners, which is probably the point of the entire blog post).

> Do they seriously believe that Intel and AMD and ARM have all screwed up by supporting vectorization?

The benefit of vectorization of course depends on the total workload. In a web/application server where e.g. 5% of resources is spent on encryption and 95% on other things like networking it could very well be that enabling vectorization and thus having lower clock speeds results in decreased performance.

> You might run into an anti-vectors campaigner who wants to take this freedom away

I really don't see much campaigning in the slides, that merely say:

> We do not give a machine code implementation using SSE etc

> – We (and others) have found that using these extensions causes overall performance of cryptographic systems to slow down

> – Just looking at run times of algorithms on their own is not a good measure of overall performance in the wild

> – Would caution NIST against putting too much emphasis on
academic measures of performance of algorithms for this reason

I don't see any indication they're against the option of vectorization, but merely warn that systems performance is going to be what matters, and not just the algorithm.
it did boom!

edit: rewrote the whole paragraph to be more clear and remove unnecessary negative connotation against mainstream indie which I do not share

thanks to early experiment success and profitability indie games managed to get a lot of visibility and the genre exploded. whole business revolve now around making indies meet buyers (kickstarter, indiegogo, steam greenlight); as a compromise they lost some of the original experimental nature and gained in term of polishing and content quality.

I'd say the sector transformed; it lost some innovation, gained some marketability. there's less explorative projects now and they are harder to find, but you can still find them; currently itch.io seems to be a trove of these kind of content, but the lack of curation makes hard to find anything among the pile of crap (no offence intended, it's just Sturgeon's law)
I'm not sure I'd go with a Nokia after https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/hmd-admits-the-nokia...
I feel like the hardest part of learning to do nothing is getting over an initial period where your body and mind is trying to remember how to fill an hour of idle time without Instagram or Twitter or Facebook. I think after long periods of relying on these services to fill pockets of time that are otherwise hard to capitalize on, we unlearn how to simply sit and be bored. Like any form of rehabilitation, it takes time, and after a couple weeks it’s easy to see that life is so, so easy without the obsession of always consuming something. And what a better way to come up with interesting ideas, too. I’d take an hour of staring at a wall over an hour of Hacker News any day, if I was trying specifically to drum up ideas for something to hack on.
I'm not sure I get your references (marble rock, David-shaped).
Schrauben Preisinger is an amazing store.

It's properly old-fashioned in appearance. A small, dark customer area, bounded by a counter staffed by grumpy men of oddly indeterminate age. Backed by rows and rows of ancient-looking wooden shelving, containing literal tons of different bolts (or any kind of threaded fastener).

I once went there because I needed a particular bolt for a 1972 Land Rover engine. Certainly not metric, but I had no idea what kind of thread and precise size it was. The clerk glanced at it, turned briskly, walked to a particular shelf, and picked up the bolt I would need. No looking, no measuring, no scratching of heads, no hesitation. He just eyeballed the bolt size and thread right there. He was correct, too.

I'd love an excuse to go there again, but I sold the Land Rover :-D

Edit: just remembered:

- a shop that sells combs. Yes. Combs.

- a shop that makes bespoke suspenders

- a shop that specialises in sausages from a particular region in Germany (which is far enough from Munich to feel entirely random)
The other fatalities and subsequent orphans, of which there are vastly more, don't get ratings and don't offend a bevy of long standing sponsors.
Lego Reaches 100% Renewable
The longer I work as a developer the more I appreciate simple, reliable tools. I don’t want it to be possible for people to have different syntaxes. I want there to be one syntax enforced by the tool. That consistency is a lot more valuable in production code, diffs etc than letting people choose tabs vs spaces.

Since I started using prettier with JS I hate switching to a language that doesn’t have it.
I also find that NPS such a very poor statistic.
131 points and only 2 comments at the time of writing.

I imagine most are thinking, “cool, now let me see how I can use this”, but few are actually doing anything comparable at the moment.

If you were in any doubt that FB might know something your startup doesn’t, here you go :)
Add a plugin to your IDE, to display embedded graphics from comments.
Something good coming out of anger...that's new.
Safety is a critical factor in the rulebook. The FIA want teams to be able to gain a competitive advantage through engineering, but they also want to maintain sensible corner speeds. A lot of technologies are banned in F1 simply because they work too well at making the cars faster, or they deliver speed improvements at the expense of stability.
Perhaps, but the automatic ligature substitution doesn't know that, and indeed in Times "Kauflete" is rendered with a ligature. Probably because native English speakers aren't used to accent or ligature rules.

Anyway, I too agree with the author; if you want ≥ to appear on your screen, it should be in the source text as the UTF-8 bytes for U+2265 and the tooling should understand it. Programming is too fragile to allow misunderstandings between the bytes that are interpreted by the machine and the glyphs that the programmer understands to be inserted.

Going much further back, there are the C trigraphs '??!' etc, for those whose character sets don't contain '|'. I've not seen editors attempt to automatically show those as the substitute characters either.

(Oh, and if you want to be unpopular, try entering unicode characters in your language variable identifiers or git commit messages and see how much tooling you can break...)
It had an upfront cost (where all the competing card games are F2P) and a cost to play as well as to acquire cards, which put a lot of people off. It is also a more complex game than say Hearthstone, but I think the success of MOBAs proves that complexity is not an inherent barrier to popularity.
> WYSIWYG

WYSIWG is what you get, but not what you want. Anyone who has done serious work in Word, or some other WYSIWG editor has got to the point where the document becomes FUBAR, and you have to copy the plain text, and start again with a new document.

That is not acceptable for a programming environment. Copy an paste is the enemy of correctness.
"Would you to recommend $employee (as $role) to a friend or colleague?"
Heh, this is amazing. I've thought of remastering and re-releasing some of the old Mystery Studio titles (http://mysterystudio.com). Unfortunately it would need more art work than programming work, and art is not my thing :(
They're getting a lot of flak (and instance mutes) from Mastodon instances at the minute.

Librem/puri.sm have gimped their Mastodon fork to entirely disable reporting (both handling incoming reports and sending abuse reports to other instances). Understandably, a lot of the fediverse and especially instance admins are unhappy about this.

It wouldn't surprise me if this just turned into yet another walled-garden or echo-chamber, though the question is for whom.
Flight Control, Doodle Jump, (early) Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, Tap Tap Revenge, Cut the Rope, Fieldrunners. I really miss the good old days of iPhone gaming.
Emirp Primes
the one thing truth is no evidence about UFO at least HD quality in 4K era
All are SD quality.
Announcing the budget-friendly, Linux-based Dell Precision mobile workstations
This is a perfect example of how everything in life is always a trade off. Do you want a healthier heart to live a few extra years or do you want to sit on your couch and browse HN while enjoying your BigMac? Pick one because only a fool would believe they could have both.
That's only because the browser is the lowest common denominator for rendering. We could all be using emacs if the rest of the planet was comfortable with lisp and orgmode.
"Drug company offered 'bribes' to doctors to boost sales": I don't see how that headline constitutes news to anyone with even just a passing familiarity with how this market works.
poor chef
> The German rule seems entirely pointless and counterproductive.

The rule provides visual hints for how to pronounce words. I think that is way more useful than slightly increasing the readability by joining glyphs without context.
"Would you to recommend $employee (as $role) to a friend or colleague?"

I just got back my "feedback". None of the answers addressed the question per se, felt useless.
I know this won't satisfy anyone, but I've followed this subject for years with varying degrees of interest / belief.

Someone close to me is former military whose position required a top secret clearance. The work that they did involved analyzing various forms of SIGINT.

After years of me prying, this person admitted to me:

1. Within the Navy (and presumably other armed forces) the UFO stuff is an open secret.

2. The 'official line' used internally is that the craft are extraterrestrial (or at least origin unknown), and ...

3. They're official labelled drones, i.e., there is no reason to believe that they're "manned"

In other words, it's fairly well known within the military (at least where people are likely to encounter them) and the official position is somewhere along the lines of "they're here but not here".

Personally I've never seen anything I'd label a UFO. But the prevailing narrative -- uptick in UFO sightings following the Manhattan Project, interest in our weapons / energy capabilities -- I'm 100% comfortable with.

If it is a military psy-op, it's one playing out on a massive scale over a vast timeframe. That in and of itself is mind boggling.
South Korea is opening hiking trails in the DMZ
Good, time to switch leave that evil OS
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You can opt out of loading the library code for views/mailers/etc. Not sure if there's a way to skip the routing layer though. I'm sure you're aware of that already but just in case, you can skip loading the entire framework.
Microsoft Hacked Crypto Users Without 2FA Lost Money
I generally agree with you on the Tesla marketing issues, but it's not entirely as black and white: The driver reported issues at that very location multiple times, and complained about AP not working reliably. The driver definitely was aware of flaws and issues with AP, worse yet, was aware of issues with AP at the location of the crash. Tesla's marketing may have contributed and may generally give a false sense of functionality/security, but Huang already knew it wasn't true. Yet still, at the location he knew AP had problems, he failed to pay attention to the road.
I'm pretty much doing that very thing. I'm quadriplegic, so every single action I want to take in the world has to be mediated through a third party. That said party is anything from another person to one of the digital assistants.

As another poster mentioned I think, I control pretty much everything in my house including but not limited to unlocking doors, windows, climate control, the lights, posting to Twitter and on and on and on with a cobbled together solution of many different components from different companies.

It's done with a combination of all three of the digital assistants, various scripts and the very wonderful Home Assistant[^1] mostly gluing it altogether. It is by no means a single complete solution, but when I'm controlling the house using just my voice and somebody sees me doing it they react as though I'm some sort of dark wizard.

I love having an automated house and I think Home Assistant is probably one of the best solutions for making all of the different IoT devices communicate at the moment, I think the further down this road we go the more a single solution will probably evolve.

I would have to say though that the home automation stuff that enables me to call for help in an emergency is the most important thing that it does, I can flash the lights different colours when I need help depending on the level of assistance I need. Or if my Fitbit notices that my heart rate has gone below 40 BPM for more than 10 seconds I get a notification, as it is almost indicative of an attack of Autonomic Dysreflexia. I can honestly say that this home automation system has actually saved my life without an ounce of hyperbole.

[^1]: https://Home-assistant.io/
> object did not emit hot jet exhaust

Is jet exhaust distinguishable from hot plasma ball in IR?
The alternative is a market based housing market such as another city state has: Hong Kong.

I think everyone in Hong Kong would happily live with their parents for 5 years if it means they can buy their own flat afterwards.
I spend most of my "doing nothing" time to imagine/predict things.
Or analyzing & answering random questions from my own (asked at that moment or before)
It seems to be one of the good habits I have.
Meetup is unfortunately not very popular here (i'm not in the US)
Concerning Faust-to-SOUL support, it is still reserved for people not afraid of installing and compiling Faust from github: https://github.com/grame-cncm/faust

Then a faust2soul script can be used to directly compile Faust DSP to SOUL source code:
https://github.com/grame-cncm/faust/tree/master-dev/architec...

To be tested, the generated SOUL code can then simply be copy/pasted in the SOUL playground.
If you want to reply to a comment, please click the "reply" button below that comment, rather than starting a new comment thread. @<username> doesn't do anything here.
If the system is even a few percent better than humans

I don't think this can be true for a 90 or 95% solution. I think too many people would think the system can drive for them, because they're not Tesla enthusiasts and they're not reading all the caveats about what the aids can and can't do, and they'll gradually start to rely on autopilot until the day it lets them down, possibly with a very negative outcome.
If they're real, and if they have their claimed technology level, why do they only reveal themselves in such a bizarre way?

They only have a tiny poorly manned outpost?
This makes me think of qubits?
What is the largest bi-truncatable prime?
Ask HN: How do you determine leadership qualities in an interview?
Usually, in behavioural questions, a candidate is asked about a time that x happened and how they reacted in order, or when they led a project in order to quantify leadership qualities.

Unless the candidate is really unprepared, most people would have read about these sort of questions and come up with some template answers. Now, it's up to the interviewer to ask further questions to get a better understanding but I'm wondering if people approach this in a different way.

As a side note, leadership qualities in my mind have nothing to do with seniority.
Rolling distributions simply do not provide the stability for serious production environments.
To LV2 also would be awesome if possible!
I love how personal this feels. This is written by a person for people, not an organization for consumers.

Also, if any of the RacketCon organizers are reading, can you please try to get better video this year? There's no way I can attend the conference but I do watch the videos. Last year the quality seemed like a noticeable step down.

But, thank you for doing what you do! Racket is one of those languages that I wish I had more reason to use on a day-to-day basis.
Or lying in an effort to distract the current occupant of the White House, who might be a greater threat to the nation than extraterrestrials ;-)
Python+sphinx allows to get that (and a lot more).
Was Chinese Singer Zhou Xuan (Chow Hsuan) the First Asian Pop Star?
Without context, this statement means nothing new should ever be done. It's a terrible axiom. Even within the context of this question, if we used this reasoning for the next 500 years we would surely never solve it.
If I understand you correctly, over the course of 15 years of upgrades on Linux you ended up with almost a hundred scripts to make your DE on Fedora "tolerable", but then you bought a mac and everything has been perfect from the beginning even in between updates with zero regressions in usability for you personally?

If so, good for you, but that doesn't make a non "one size fits all" approach "bullshit".
You can't see sophons.
That's insane - push it down to make it go?
I think it would change a lot of people's belief systems in a major way.

E.g. how would the major organised religions cope with the revelation (pun intended) that there was life that originated off of Earth/outside of the garden of eden?

For a lot of people who take religion seriously, I feel like this could be a major upset. It might not affect "day to day life" in terms of the lights staying on and there being food on the shelves, but there could be a significant personal impact on a lot of people which may lead to a lot of things like depression/substance-abuse/suicides/general-"fuck it, its the end end of world, I am going to <x>"-sentiment/etc that will have knock-on effects (e.g. not turning up for work, abandoning family/responsibilities, running away to live as a hermit in the woods, gun hoarding etc)
Humans fall unconscious under high G-forces.

That's a little misleading. Acceleration hasn't any effects on human body. You can't sense gravity: free fall is the same as ingravity. What you can feel is forces being transmitted by matter contact.

If you can create a field that transmits a force similar to gravity uniformly, there would be no pressure.
Free Licenses are revocable by the Copyright holder
>I’d rather we focus on making things we’re good at, rather than taking random stuff, slapping “Made in America” on it, and hoping someone is willing to pay a premium for that text.

Why not make everything you can make? Would there be a problem is the US manufactured CPUs and phones as opposed to sending them to be made in China/Korea/Taiwan/etc?

To outsource externalities (e.g. environmental costs)? Or to stifle any labor demands (by moving your production to wherever you like any time they are raised somewhere)?
Serverless E-Commerce
> Humans killing humans is very different thing than machines killing humans even if the fatality rates are 10X lower.

So it is better for 10 humans to die at the hands of other humans, than one machine caused death? In what moral framework is that true?
mostly custom icon pack and the inclusion of nvidia drivers by default. Seems to work out of the box with laptops with nvidia cards
Tax dialysis: How Vanguard avoids paying realised gains tax on their mutual fund
Cities from Different Angles
What percentage of new housing in China would fall in the 'ghost-city' category now?

People tend to forget there are 1,6 Billion Chinese. 10 cities failing in the last 10 years would be a low percentage.
>> No ideological purity survives the myriad of real world circumstances

Just wanted to praise the way you've been able to summarise something I find so true.
Slightly related: Human Resource Machine of these guys was the best mobile game I've played so far.

The game idea is just fantastic and I think this game is a great example of how to teach stuff (here assembly) through video games.
> The problem is that ligature substitution is “dumb” in the sense that it only considers whether certain characters appear in a certain order. It’s not aware of the semantic context.

At least in Sublime Text this is not true. We tokenize the text according to the rules in the syntax definition and then pass characters to be shaped, but respecting token boundaries.

In fact, we’ve fielded a number of bug reports about ligatures not working, and it is almost always that the syntax definition was tokenizing the = and the > as separate tokens.

We also made the decision to only pass runs of symbols to the text shaping engine, as opposed to runs of alphanumeric characters. This prevents ligatures like fl that are usually not useful in a monospace layout such as a text editor. There are also options to control the OpenType features for ligature fine tuning.
>apparently wine also helps them

Just imaging what Buckfast would do!
Yes, that would be an option if my work allowed any services like that(and yes, it's slightly odd that dropbox/google drive are not allowed, but Steam cloud sync is).
Why not https://ericlippert.com/2019/01/31/fixing-random-part-1/ ?
I specifically said that it should be done on high volume, maintained roads, such as highways and ring roads. It doesn't have to happen overnight, but it could happen gradually. It would serve other purposes too, like guidance for snow plows. It's a 80/20 solution - cover 80% of the travel for 20% of the cost. Solving the problem on highways and high volume roads without cyclists are significantly easier, and would still give a tremendous benefit.

Regarding laying the cables in existing roads. We're already pretty good at "shooting" cables under existing roads with pneumatic solutions, and I'm confident that we could do so for rural roads at a modest price. But that's a different talk.

If we want to develop an "AI" for this, it's not going to be ready in 10 year, nor 20 - we do not have the processing power, or understanding of the domain to do it at this point, and we're moving rather slowly. Some of the more practical problems such as secure communication are 100% solved, and reliable car, pedestrian, cycle detecting are problems that are, fairly well understood at this point, and we certainly can make solutions that rival even alert and good drivers.

Things like this move slowly - it's not going to be retrofitted, but agreeing on a standard and new vehicles can implement in gradually.
Goal-based language (similar to Makefile's), driven by AI, with automatic error handling of any kind.
Modern F1 drivers are now navigating complex multi-level menu systems on their steering wheels with one hand while turning with the other, so I would argue that this talent is still present and visible in a modern race. Not to take away the incredible talent of earlier drivers, however; it’s remarkable what they had to do back then.
Estonian ministers' gesture raises fears of support for white supremacy
System76 would have never happened, Dell and HP were already pushing Linux before OSX dropped. In the year 2000:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/dell-linuxs-new-best-friend-50...
None of them do....hahahaha
That video is super interesting and very fun to watch.

Thanks for sharing
It's a reference to Michelangelo's David and this:

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to reveal it.