skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Do you have any evidences of that?

If you have a circuit that implements an algorithm, it can beat a program that implements the algorithm for a machine that lacks such a circuit. This is clear.

>Because from my naive understanding, simple processors are easier to optimize

I've already reasonably explained why that's not the case, but I want to note that these machines aren't necessarily simpler. The Lisp machine processors are far simpler than anything Intel, ARM, or MIPS have been putting out, and yet did more, just not as fast due to major hardware production advancements.

>Do you have an example of specialized hardware that beats the contemporary highly optimized CPUs like ARM?

I don't have an example in speed, no, but I can tell you that there are simpler processors that avoid entire classes of programming errors these machines are still vulnerable to. If you're only going to judge a machine by speed, I wonder if you own a car and, if so, if it has air bags, seat belts, and other such things.

>Why would you like to have bounds checking or list manipulation in hardware? It's a waste of transistors.

Having a large amount of a processor dedicated to fast memory to store groups of instructions for things such as bounds checking and list manipulation isn't?

x := array[1]

This could likely be determined at compilation.

for x in 0..n: sum := sum + array[x]

It's my understanding there were implementations of hardware, or at least descriptions thereof, explaining how such a bound could easily be cached and compared in tandem with other operations, for each new iteration, which would be equivalent to checking when the loop should terminate.

>And why lists? Why not trees, hashtables, ephemerons?

Why not? It's not unreasonable to expect the machine to have canonical and supported representations for commonly used forms of data and operations on such.
> People are currently starting to gravitate more towards small group chats on WhatsApp and similar and away from places like Twitter and Facebook. I wonder why? Could it be it's because they don't want what you want 24/7?

Are they and does this have anything to do with exposure to conflicting opinions? Proper studies would be needed to determine this conclusively. After all, this is how it used to be, before Facebook and Twitter appeared and became widely popular not that long ago.

> And the system you're advocating for, the current one, is obviously way more susceptible to being gamed.

I'm not advocating for any system, this is just how life is: you undoubtedly encounter opinions which are not aligned with your own. You will also be wrong a lot of the time. That's nothing to be afraid of. You certainly don't need to build a sheltered city to hide from this.

> The system I want isn't susceptible to that in the slightest (but if I want to go look at things that I might not agree with, I'm still able to - that's my whole point: User in control, not some timely mob).

Except this doesn't really work in the general case. It's both intuitively familiar and well researched that it is really hard to change someone's mind and opinions are very inert.

Furthermore, I don't really see why it would be useful to expend significant energy to shelter yourself from opposing opinions. Simply to avoid emotional discomfort? If you're not in the mood for it in a certain moment, simply not reading online forums and going for a walk or picking up a book seems like a better option.
Aether’s private version is (attempts to) better able to handle detailed, multi-branch conversations (like Reddit, with n-level comment trees) than Teams, which looks similar to Facebook with only one level, though I have to admit I haven’t used Teams myself.
Yeah, all this looking each other in the eye and such seem very much like a boomer/MBA thing.
I went and failed school programs several times as an adult, in a country where those programs are free. The last 2 programs I went to were 1 year programs. I already have programming skills yet they did not give me the "degree" because they might have perceived a lack of motivation. Those programs were web oriented and I'm more focused on industrial programming.

I tend to dislike higher education as a general rule because it's more a process of fitting in and obeying a teacher, instead of focusing on the subject matter. I don't care that much actually because I know I'm already skilled at programming. I might not be an excellent programmer, but I can do a lot of what's required.

While education is important, I have put a lot of personal time to learn more and more programming skills after the year I failed one, 8 year ago. Yet the job market is constantly focused on "the degree", while everybody knows that self-teaching is more important in programming. I don't get hired and it's always a matter of trusting a new guy who doesn't have professional experience and can only talk about his skills.

Personally I don't have a lot of faith into the market and the market doesn't have faith in me. So yes, I have plenty of reasons to say that people going into higher education are lucky, privileged or just obedient people who are not yet capable of learning new things, or did not have to waste so much resources to learn things they could do at home.

In the end, you will either have large companies with normative, schooled people, or start ups, who will always struggle to start products because they have no resources.

I'd say that higher education can be bad because normalization slow downs innovation, so in the end, degrees become privileges. People who are taught skills but don't use them to improve society and constantly encourage obedience are a brake on society. In an age of inequality, degrees are seen as rent seeking. People get degrees for comfort. Other people won't seek degrees because they don't want to obey to a system they see as lame and evil.
Can you give some directions(links) on good microservice architectures and the right reasons to deploy those?
Besides, we’re already using render farms where each machine has 20+ cores and 256GB RAM. A future render farm might as well be built from machines with specs similar to the new Mac PRo.
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Completely agree - having solid courses that teach relevant theory/skills is extremely valuable. We simply need to make the means by which we take such courses more efficient and therefore lower cost.

The bigger issue here is that employers have gravitated far too much towards the college degree as a signal device for a quality employee which effectively shuts out alternate forms of education. Employers need to be willing to hire people who are smart but don't have a college degree. If someone self-studied all the subjects on their own and it is clear they are on the same level as a college grad then they should not be excluded from the hiring process.

It is almost like we need some sort of "SAT" for various subjects. That way if someone is really smart then they can just take this SAT in whatever subject to evaluate their knowledge. We sort of have this already for certificates but it seems like employers don't place much value on them compared to a college degree. There are exceptions but they are mostly outliers IMO.
Perhaps you are right, but we have to create systems for the needs of today's society as well, and in today's society you need to be eligible for a certain benefit in order to get it. Therefore, we need a person's identity (with all the personal information that are required for such eligibility to be checked) when that person is authenticating online and applying for that benefit.
I nearly posted this yesterday, and decided to today. Losing one's period doesn't mean the diet was unhealthy. Seriously.

There are lots of reasons a person can not have a period. Sure, you can be malnourished, but I'm guessing the more likely contributor was not having enough body fat. IF a woman's body fat is too low, she stops having periods. It happens in a broad cross section of people. A person with an eating disorder will do it as will a woman that works out a lot and eats healthily. Coincidentally, weighing too much can do it as well.

I'm guessing a nutrient deficiency can do it, but I'm unsure on that one. It can be a hormonal imbalance too!

And there are a bunch of other reasons as well. It isn't even necessarily harmful - after all, people quit having periods when they are on birth control with no ill effects.
I have a feeling that an easily overlooked moral of the story is that the brothers kept going because of the loving memory of what the other brother is doing
You could try setting it up to use fewer than 8 different processes?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/performance-settings
I mean that I consider cryptocurrency scene to be net social negative (a nasty breed of fraud, gambling and MLM) and cryptocurrencies themselves a technology that's an environmental disaster and which should have never left the research stage. As for Uber, their only innovation so far was showing the sheer scale at which you can make an inherently unsustainable business built on anticompetitive subsidizing and illegal behaviour without people noticing.
I suspect that this is a side effect from American litigation culture.

In most countries successfully suing a company leads to compensation that is relative to the damages and harm done, you don't get a jackpot.
Real functions keys are excellent for debugging -- single step, step into, etc.

Modifier-based shortcuts are not as good because it usually takes two hands, and maybe I want a hand free to use the mouse to scan values, operate the UI I’m testing, etc.

Also, IDEs have a ton of functions so all the simple modifier combinations are already in use. A complex two-hand combination is good for something you frequently use once while typing (e.g. “show autocomplete”). Debugging, on the other hand, is something you do relatively infrequently (hopefully!) but when you’re in that mode, it’s great to have dedicated single keys, closely clustered together.

Physical keys are much easier to use than touchscreen buttons, especially when not looking at the keyboard.
That "Girdle" pronunciation is like nails on a chalkboard! The umlaut is an oo (or ue) sound. There is no "r" anywhere! As both a philosophy student and German speaker, whenever my professors pronounced it like that I shuddered in my seat.

I'm sure actual native German speakers could probably chime in, but I couldn't help but try to stop the spread of FUD around pronouncing poor ol' Gödel's name. :)
> While we’re talking about metaphors: this reminds me of the distinction between craft and art. Where one is the creation or something elegant and functional (craft, lisp), the other treats more important the ideas being put into practice (art, fortran).

> I think the article’s artificially limiting its point to mathematics - there are plenty of other disciplines where we can find well-tread useful metaphors, etc.

I feel as though you have it backwards. Would you care to explain your rationale for fortran as art compared to lisp as craft?
I have exactly opposite experience. On the phone call I lower my head, close my eyes and focus on the sound of what's being said. While on video call when I don't understand someone when I see the person that expects to be understood it has a bit of "deer in the headlights" effect for me. My mind closes and I have no chance of understanding.
Yeah I wouldn't expect a kid to know "sod's law" -- that whenever it's a nice day and you start washing the car, it'll start raining soon after...
Another thing to keep in mind, though 32 bit is less and less common over time, malloc would probably fail on a 32 bit process that is out of address space.
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Microsoft reveals first details on “Project Scarlett” game console for 2020
Blockchains have very little to do with "secure identity", and in fact more frequently serve to damage the security of the individual. If everything is recorded in a central ledger, how long do you think it takes for oppression to emerge?
Is this the one that contains that easter egg where you can play a full other game within the game?
Assuming you were an FTE, if you burned out in less than 5 years and have already held multiple positions here're some things to consider:

- Travel as soon as possible. The world will speak to you in ways a computer never can.

- If you don't go back to work right away, you may be looked at as less reliable to HR department and hiring managers later.

- If you do choose not to go back to work right away, you need to consider the opportunity cost of not getting involved with someone else's start-up right away.

- If you and your girlfriend want to move to a city, be sure she has an opportunity there to save the relationship in the case your your entrepreneurial interests don't pan out.

All of the options you suggested will likely lead to to future burn out if you don't move to a larger company. Find a job you kinda like and stay put for awhile go gain experience and relationships, and place a rock in your resume. Then you can pursue your dreams if you're able to save more or dramatically reduce cost of living relative to a city.
Zero knowledge proof
U.S. Ambassador Says Israel Has Right to Annex Parts of West Bank
We hunted use cases for identity like the Predator. Pivoting into secure messaging, Bitcoin, and finally a marketplace. But could not find a way to make it work.

The entire existing global payments system would not function without verified identity.

Healthcare would not function without verified identity (both for payment but also for tracking treatments and outcomes).

Existing marketplaces often require verified identity (as it helps combat fraud).

Vehicle license plates depend on verified identity (and are part of a system to enforce that).

Border control requires verified identities.

There are so many places in our current society where verified identity is essential, and already a solved problem (yes the solutions aren't perfect, but they are in place). Bitcoin failed IMO precisely because it actively avoids tackling identity, which has been a central part of finance for as long as it has existed. It might be hard to usurp the place states have claimed for themselves in verifying the identify of their citizens, or to make money from it, but it is absolutely central to how any society functions.

Identity is not dead just because some purveyors of online authentication think it would be easier not to deal with it. In fact I think identity not provided by states but claimed by the individual is a very interesting unsolved problem.
Yes, the 90s, when Apple were absolutely crushed in price/performance by PCs, and almost went bankrupt as a result.
> an external SSD drive would be as fast as any normal internal SSD drive.

Only if the external expansion bus is as fast as PCIE3.
This is one of those scenarios where it could be amazing if the whole ecosystem were mature from top to bottom, but the incentives aren't really in place to have it happen naturally.

As an example: I'd love to be able to allow (and then revoke) Amazon's knowledge of my name and street address, but in the absence of GDPR-style regulation with real teeth (or the ecosystem being so mature as for Amazon to request delivery of a black box to identity XYZ and have some other company request permission and fulfill it) there is no incentive for them not to store anything I give them for eternity upon gaining access once.
Apple will sue companies trying to make money on hackintosh. They did that in the past. And enthusiasts were running hackintosh for a long time and it seems that Apple is OK with that.
Which would need even more tests, because now there a set of types that will work (e.g. numbers, arrays of numbers), with code to make them work and tests on that; and other types do not work, and tests on that.
Is this really true these days? I've heard this same statement made repeatedly over the last 4-5ish years, but each time I've tried to find one of these lists and experiment with a hackintosh the experience has been FAR from straightforward.

It usually comes down to some NIC, Bluetooth, or audio device not working nearly as well as is claimed by whoever put together one of these lists, and then of course the updates to macOS will break something after having finally configured the machine correctly after several weekends of painful forum searching.
> "they didn't seem to join the dots" is what it will be made to look like.

IMO, there would have been engineers and even some of the management chain who knew these risks, but for whatever reason, would have been pressured to make this go away. It seems like a conspiracist thing to say, but I've seen this in software engineering for years. There are heaps of perfectly legitimate pressures which will result in reduced quality and cutting of corners.. just in my work, lives are not at risk.
Well if you want to pay just to support them, you can subscribe/buy.

And then not sign into the browser that you use to browse the internet.
It would only be malice if Boeing were trying to kill passengers - which seems unlikely.

But not knowing this would be an issue in a context like this is the definition of corporate incompetence. And that doesn't make things any better for Boeing.

This is literally mission critical design. You don't walk away from the wreckage shrugging and saying "Who knew?"

It doesn't matter if this was an engineering failure, a management failure, or an accounting failure. What matters is that it was a failure that killed people, and Boeing cannot be trusted to make safe air liners until the failure mode is discovered and eliminated.
And Firefox add-ons return promises instead of taking callbacks like Chrome.
Just buy a ThinkPad T480, add 32GB yourself, install Linux and you have the perfect development machine. Unless you work with iOS apps specifically , in which cause you can use a build server
Modern yes, as far as style goes. Without a search engine the scope is somewhat limited.
> and own 1/2 of mobile

That's in the US only. The Rest of the World value is much lower.
this is jail, not prison.
Huh, so it is already usable (tho maybe not be production ready)

Good to know.
> "Also people want to be themselves - and want others to be themselves..."

No, but nice try. Maybe in some circumstances, maybe even several, but this isn't THE concern online. Anonymity is not always bad.

Anyhow my main issue with what you've said is how you've glossed over how you think the author is wrong. What are some reasons attributes are a poor substitution for identity as described?
Because most companies don’t want remote...
> Note that the interval arithmetics or unum or posit or whatever are crude but useful approximations to the proper error analysis.

"crude but useful approximations" is such a strange view. The purpose of machine-controlled error arithmetics is to give the programmer a powerful language construct that enables evaluation of a function or algorithm for arbitrarily small margin of error, using automatically revised accuracy in the intermediate steps. Error analysis is a math subject that gives us better algorithms. One needs both for hitting that desired margin of error with certainty within as short time as possible.
Several things irk me about this article

First, the proposed educational experiences sound like more silly adventures for kids with money (or debt) to burn. You could learn more about life and yourself by working at McDonald's for a year.

Second, it fucking annoys the shit out of me that when articles like this talk about "the liberal arts" they really mean humanities. I have yet to meet someone who espouses the merits of a liberal arts education who realizes that it technically includes math and the natural sciences. How many English majors takes statistics? How many History majors take discrete math or more than the most basic math requirements needed to graduate? Bet it is less than 1%.

I am all for a liberal arts education as long as it has equal helpings of math and the natural sciences along w/ English, philosophy, etc.

Have you really "learned to think" from your humanities education if you have no understanding of calculus, probability, statistics, or physics? If you have never learned how to design and conduct an experiment?

A "good" university education is simple and not sexy. High quality courses taught by passionate teachers. Nothing else. No student unions, no sports teams, no academic or emotional counseling, no beautiful buildings, no study abroad or fucking trips to Alaska. Which basically describes university studies in central Europe and Israel.

Not very sexy so no NYT articles about it.

I actually attended a pricey "liberal arts" college where I majored in computer science. I am currently in the OMSCS program at Georgia Tech and the quality of education I am receiving through it is much better at less than a tenth of the cost. We have better discussions on Slack than I did sitting in seminars w/ a bunch of rich kids 20 years ago. No picturesque campus to stroll through though :)
The last article I read on Brexit in the NYT started by claiming the British economy was shrinking, and went downhill from there. As far as I can tell Americans are receiving a completely garbled view of anything EU or Brexit related.

Also although I'm not Russian, see practically anything related to Russia, Russian Twitter bots, etc.

right now I'd be inclined to say that the average bay area Facebook employee's desires align very little with that of the federal executive branch of the USA, so this point doesn't work for me

I think you missed my point, because I did say in my post "if Clinton had won, the alignment between government and the Hollywood/big tech/etc nexus would be complete". But she didn't win, so you're right, to some small extent they're different. That said, the executive is so huge in America that even a guy like Trump is very limited in how much he can steer it.

I was also very careful to say that the things I'm comparing are not on the same scale, so, your last paragraphs are merely making points I already concede. I am not claiming the USA and China are the same, I clearly stated they aren't, but it's important to reflect on the similarities. After all the Chinese regime is not primarily enforced by the actual executive branch, but rather by regime loyalists in positions of power in so-called private industry as well. It's not people who directly report to Xi Jinping censoring WeChat. It's WeChat employees themselves who try to guess what might be ideologically compatible, or what might be "best for Chinese harmony".

A far-reaching ideology that has the explicit support of the power structures creating communication services, art, culture, news and sometimes government, and which considers censorship ("deplatforming" in western NewSpeak) to be an important and legitimate tool for preventing the spread of rumours ("hate") is definitely something to sit up and take notice of.

Finally, I'd remark that modern feminism has nothing to do with promoting equality for men and women. Quite the opposite.
I suppose this is slightly off-topic, but what security does a VPN actually offer when connecting to a https site? Surely browsers should show a NOT SECURE warning if connecting to a https site while on an unsecured wifi was actually insecure?