skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://v8.dev/blog/ignition-interpreter

"V8 team has built a new JavaScript interpreter, called Ignition, which can replace V8’s baseline compiler, executing code with less memory overhead and paving the way for a simpler script execution pipeline."

https://v8.dev/blog/preparser

"Lazy parsing speeds up startup and reduces memory overhead of applications that ship more code than they need."

https://v8.dev/blog/embedded-builtins

"V8 built-in functions (builtins) consume memory in every instance of V8. The builtin count, average size, and the number of V8 instances per Chrome browser tab have been growing significantly. This blog post describes how we reduced the median V8 heap size per website by 19% over the past year."

https://v8.dev/blog/improved-code-caching

"V8 uses code caching to cache the generated code for frequently-used scripts. Starting with Chrome 66, we are caching more code by generating the cache after top-level execution. This leads to a 20-40% reduction in parse and compilation time during the initial load."

Etc, etc.
Jio has INR349($5 USD) plan which gives 84 days of unlimited calling with 1.5GB data per data. For 399, less than $USD8 you get 2GB per day. Airtel also has a similar plan. This is fueling the data revolution
this site has been useful for me to stop checking HN regularly. It keeps track of all Top-X threads per day. So I can check it on the weekend or whenever and see if I missed anything important. http://hckrnews.com
I think it's a myth that a person can choose whether or not they're a hard worker. It's most likely a matter of neurochemistry far beyond conscious control.
That is if you define $40/mo "up to 5 Mbps" as decent.
> ultimately the responsibility of the government

Why do so many people always default to "the government will fix it" instead of expecting people to take responsibility for themselves?

Everyone has the same 168 hours each week. Even with 12 hour days, 8 hours of sleep, 3 hours for meals, 7 days a week, that still leaves 21 hours to do things to change your circumstances. You only need to keep that up long enough to get into better circumstances that buy you more time.

I worked a few years under similar circumstances. It's totally doable, but you have to plan and have to budget your time.
> I mean the people who would have to pay the taxes to subsidize Amazon, so the city and state at large, yes.

Interesting that you characterize the entire state as "locals" given that some parts of New York can take several hours to get to by car from the city.
Working a lot, especially on one thing, makes us stupid, I think.

Although I was emotionally immature until ~25 years old, I actually believe that I was more intelligent and knowledgeable in my youth. Because I didn't have to work for a living, I could spend more time meddling in various subjects and activities. I never got particularly good at anything except programming and native plant identification, but I had more opinions on subjects with the absorbed knowledge to back up my thoughts.

These days, I have little time for anything else besides programming for a Fortune 100 company and searching for other means of supplementary income. I feel like my intelligence has been reduced to the next lowest standard deviation; the most I seem to be able to understand about anything that society deems important is at the periphery of the big picture. Good luck getting me to remember all the names of the political crooks I used to know like the back of my hand.

Worse yet, I'm not as good at my career, either. I think I was a better programmer when I was working for peanuts but doing equally complicated things.

I'm not saying that I'm brilliant, by any stretch of the imagination, but I think that people, brilliant or not, can "lose their touch" both because people simply change and because focusing on one thing for too long cuts loose the neural pathways that we took for granted when we could afford to make connections between all sorts of ideas at a time in our lives when the stakes were low. If this isn't a form of actual brain damage, it certainly seems like it to me.

And I'm not burned out, as far as I'm aware. I just suck more than I used to, and I do think that's the result of becoming a "subject idiot".
> I also cannot think of a single good thing that happened only because of Mozilla's support.

Some examples I can think of:

- asm.js, which led to WebAssembly: http://asmjs.org/

- Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/

- One half of Opus: https://www.opus-codec.org/

- Firefox Send: https://send.firefox.com/

- MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
Video: What Is an AWS Outpost Rack?
32-bit binaries have a different ABI. I think you could put 32-bit code in a 64-bit process and have it use the 32-bit API, but then you still need a set of libraries that work with the 32-bit ABI. Ubuntu is just discontinuing packaging their own copies of the 32-bit ABI compatible libraries. Projects like Wine will just need to distribute that on their own.
If you'd have finished reading the article:

Few people make the cover of Sports Illustrated after a run of mediocre luck. They appear after things have been going well, and if the good luck fails to hold then it seems like the SI jinx. More likely it is “regression to the mean”, or in simple terms, a return to business as usual.
Hack still has a lot of features that is missing from PHP7. Proper data structures (vector, map, set, etc...) including immutable ones, generics, variance, async/awaitable, etc... there is still a heck of a lot for PHP to catch up on.
I'm pretty sure no one moves large amounts of molten iron today. With ancient technology it would have been impractical even if they wanted to, maybe impossible.
> "Shows" can be easily cached on CDNs much closer to each consumer. "Live" can't.

Um, no? You could argue that it isn't technically caching, and the system doing it isn't technically a CDN, but there's no reason why a broadcast can't be streamed to, say, 1000 SDN nodes, which each spool the stream in memory and serve it to 1000+ different recievers. A SDN node (server) is different infrastructure than a television station, so there might be issues with capital outlay, but I highly doubt it's more expensive once sunk costs are tallied.
Yes, add an environment like BeakerX [1] (essentially, Jupyter notebooks) and it's quite amazingly good to figure out your approach even if you intend to write Java.

[1] http://beakerx.com/
well, they did name it 'autopilot'
Black Like Me, 50 Years Later
Germany used to be the junk producer of 19th century.
Ask HN: How do you control your free food intake at work?
With all the free food and snacks in the offices these days, how are all software engineers not 300lbs+ ?!

If at any point during the day I have down time-- I head to the kitchen and grab a snack. I do this countless times every day.

It has come to the point that I have to fast on Monday-Wednesday-Friday in order to not get fat. I work out 5/6 times a week and my physique is OK, but it would have been a hella lot better if I stayed away from the damned kitchen.

What's your technique?
Is the mortality rate for Chemists higher than average?

Tasting unknown chemicals can't always end so well can it?
Obligatory every time someone makes the same comment: https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/
I recall the CEO of Motorola in the early 2000s deriding Samsung as Same-sung because they just copied other people's ideas. But Motorola steadily lost marketshare and now exists in name only (except for the government business).
Well if that is a common accident for camels and if there's good relevant statistics about that then sure. You could calculate that for the population of straw bearing camels.
> This is incredibly misleading. Apple has been mostly criticized for allowing apps to collect excessive user data--for example, apps could access contacts at first without permission. It has been slowly shutting down these methods, as the realization has sunk in the the more open environment of Macs and PCs is just not appropriate for mobile phones. For example, apps in iOS 13 cannot access bluetooth or Wifi information by default, since it was being used to infer location.

Yep, the tech world has a short memory :) I distinctly remember Apple caught red-handed slurping GPS data from their users.

> The tracking ID was Apple throwing a bone to ad industry and app makers, when it shut down far more precise ways of tracking users.

Unless I'm mistaken, it's still much more precise than any form of web tracking.
Or maybe, outside some share of pathologic cases, they can. But we pacify ourselves with thought that we are victims of circumstances out of our control.
> Armed civilians don't mean civilians stand a chance against the police or military. They're outnumbered, outfunded, out-trained, out-equipped and whatever the out- equivalent of the state having sheerly more options, is.

You're missing the point of an armed population and its ability to fight tyranny.

First of all, the military has almost nothing to do with any of this. Tyrannical regimes have to maintain order at a hyper local level, which means either by police or police-like forces.

Secondly, it has almost nothing to do with going "gun to gun" and shooting out a winner. Level of violent escalation and public support for the regime is the name of the game. When a population is disarmed a government can make political dissidents just disappear in the middle of the night without a sound. When there's even a possibility of an armed population it means if they want to take out opposition they're rolling up with armored vehicles, swat teams, choppers, the works. This sort of event gets noticed! It requires an explanation. It means live coverage, newspapers, choppers, etc.

How many bloody shootouts can a regime survive while retaining public support? How many Wacos could the US have had and still maintain social order?
Hold on now.. Neither the article nor the article it links to have any details on what it means by matching performance. No benchmarks are given or even mentioned, only many words written about how it has a 3ghz clock speed and how 3ghz is an "international mainstream standard".. Given the nontechnical nature of the publication, I would not be surprised if the clock speed was the only thing they were measuring by.
I use wine so that I don't have to spin up a VM for just one application. VMs also involve a lot of overhead.
It seems a little silly to boot an entire OS and have that entire infrastructure just so I can use a Notepad++ plugin I wrote 5 years ago.
I've never seen this in a Firefox install and I've seen many installs. At least in the last several years and further back I either don't remember or it's useless to mention now.
Tax money doesn't come from the government, any more than a politicians power comes from the government. It comes from the people. It ought to serve the people, not the recipients.
sigh I think the modern web was a mistake from hacks of the 90s to share documents. Can we plz get a fresh restart from scratch?
I have loved this concept ever since I discovered Michael Reynolds Earthship. I wonder if their exterior is glass or polycarbonate?
t around 10 am on August 28, Mayor Ray Nagin declared a mandatory evacuation of the city, after Hurricane Katrina was updated to a Category 5, the strongest possible hurricane. By the time the hurricane hit, at around 7 AM on August 29, later studies revealed that around 90% of the New Orleans population left. That’s around one million people within 21 hours..
If you enjoyed this article, I can recommend the author's book "Fifty Inventions That Shaped The Modern Economy" (mentioned at the end of the article). The inventions are not what you might think and it was a pretty enlightening read, at least for me.
Deepfake tech could make a big difference in film editing. Film 15 takes and it doesn't matter if none of them is exactly what the director wants because they could make the perfect take out of the others. The top actors will end up with "natural takes only" clauses in their contracts.

It has pretty big implications for film awards as well. Can an actor get an award if their performance was altered? What does good directing mean if they don't have to get the actors to perform as well as it ends up on the screen?
Why should I work to pay taxes if I don't benefit from it?
Do you think pilots sleep while the passenger jet you're riding in is on 'autopilot'?
@gus_massa
It just a sequential algorithm that generates a random number which is then assigned to a card. The process prohibits users from reverse engineering any pattern therefore eliminating cheating through card forecasting.
Technology enabled service companies have the potential to be one of the next big waves in software. I spent last summer trying to figure out what I wanted to do for my next startup and it was amazing to me how many businesses run on paper, excel spreadsheets and email. Trucking, recruiting, cleaning, building security, building maintenance, whatever.

The beauty of a tech enabled service company is that you can build it without raising outside funding. You use the earnings from the services to fund product development.

The other great thing is that the market is already proven. You just build a competitive advantage through software that allows you to work more efficiently or provide a better customer experience.

I ended up starting a technology enabled staffing agency for the tech industry.
> Not an advantage if you ask me - exactly because data.frame is built in, people have been building their own versions (tibble, data.table) instead of improving it. That's how R ended up with 3 different structures that are similar but have inconsistent apis and behaviour.

I've been fortunate to only work on projects that use built-in data frames, never encountered tibble or data.table in the wild.

> there is no one go-to library for ML in R (like sklearn in Python) and each package has it's own strange interface and implementation.

I still disagree here - one example being the unified interface for generalized linear models. Also, the vast majority of classifiers (RF, SVM, etc.) have similar or identical interfaces. Also, the unified `predict` interface as well. Granted, `sklearn` does have a consistent API as well.

That said, some of this is just a personal preference for the vaguely functional interface in R. The object-orientedness in Python feels a little forced for some tasks in `sklearn`.
You keep repeating that "Apple was caught red-handed" but what exactly are you referring to? What are your sources on that?
But the species did very much interbreed
DJI's RoboMaster S1 Drone Tank For Kids Fires Lasers and Pellets
No it doesn't - the patent can be read by anyone, and if someone in China wants to duplicate your invention they can. This just stops other people who paid the taxes that funded the work from getting it without paying more for a long time.
If you are thinking Lisp is not typed, that is not true. I am caught with type errors all the time.
Buboard may be assuming that performance is greatly influenced by skill and that skill is learned rather than innate, leaving a 'string of failure' in the learning process. Probabilistically, this is roughly that skill-based success is a coin with highly biased initial weight for failure, and learning changes the coin's bias. I do not care to speculate on how success actually works; I'm quite sure it's more complicated than I can fit in a comment.
If your government is willing to spend trillions on adventures in syria and other countries, and they have no real impact on the life of an average american, they they will scrape together a few billion to save their collective asses.
One thing missing form the design is to go back and check the status of the wallets. If most are just put in some lost & found boxes waiting for the owner to come and claim, then a low reporting rate cannot be considered a measure of honesty.
Indeed, there are various ways to handle "staging" of aircraft, including parachuting batteries, electric towplanes, assisted groundlaunch, piggyback, etc. These may have niche uses, particularly for cargo flights, but I suspect that will only happen if 1) jet air travel pays for its full climate cost and 2) we stop making any progress in battery technology.

It'd be fun to try, though.
I pretty much agree with this. From different hobbies, skill seems to determine two things: How much advantage or luck you need to utilize your skill, and the multiplier you get from your initial edge.

This can be scary at a small scale like a foosball table. Some of the league players I play with have an amazing ability to catch and control the ball on their 3 or 5. If the ball moves somewhere into the area of their 3, they'll have it - and this enables them to utilize their shooting technique. And if they miss a shot, they'll usually be able to re-catch the ball if the keeper can't keep it, so they get more chances to score. A less skilled player either doesn't catch the ball in the first place, or loses it after the first shot.

And edges like that are even worse in games with a snowballing effect, like dominion. Getting the right 4/3 or 5/2 split on your first 2 hands is hard luck. However, choosing the right 2 cards to initially get with that is skill and will massively impact the course of the game.

You do need opportunities, and you can't always make your own opportunities. However, you can work on your ability to utilize opportunities.
""The researchers found a way to work around that and after the public disclosure and weaponizing of the vulnerability at the Wild West Hackin' Fest that year, Google contacted the researchers to state that no "fix" had been made because "making this change would cause major functionality drawbacks for legitimate API events with regards to Calendar." A case of user experience taking priority over security in other words.""

At least disable links in Calendar notifications, Google!
I see the use of “autopilot” name bring brought up a lot. Thinking about what an autopilot in an airplane does, labeling Tesla’s system autopilot is actually pretty apt.

It’s unfortunate that there’s a disconnect between what autopilot means colloquially vs what it actually does on a plane.
as far as i can tell, jq doesn't do flattening .
It can also be error prone. Analysising arbitrary lisp code to see which functions could conceivably ever be called isn't as trivial as it might first seems.
Most common form of incompetent leadership
The difference is the jet often has 2 pilots, so they can take turn to nap.
It's better compared to the effort made in a war, to fight nazis, etc.
There wasn't much talk of cost - cutting once your country might be obliterated. And unlike nazis, asteroids don;t negotiate
Also the World Service 50 episode podcast of those inventions - all freely available. I always thought it a bit odd they renamed it from "50 things" to "50 inventions" for the US book release.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04b1g3c/episodes/downloads
So private individuals lending money to each other on a case by case basis? Nobody views that as welfare.
I was reading the article with stunned disbelief at the BBC's lack of fundamental feasibility verification. And then I was unpleasantly surprised that I had to scroll down so far here on HN to see someone call out the bullshit.

From the exaggerated numbers for aviation fuel cost to the ridiculously low cost of electricity all the quoted numbers are obvious lies.

Not to mention that a back-of-the envelope calculation shows that the aircraft would never be able to take off due to the weight of batteries required for a 650 mile range.

You would be absolutely right in staking your engineering reputation on calling bullshit and I would happily join you.
I've had a lot of unstable behaviour on Firefox, ironically, from the stable branch. Moving to the beta channel a couple of years ago solved most of my issues. And I've absolutely loved the Quantum upgrades so far, even though some seemed a bit iffy at first[0, 1].

[0] the roadmap to get GPU support on WebRender for example -- but I guess in time we'll see how that turns out.

[1] one which I had a few issues was the multiprocess approach. That brought me some trouble at first but in the end got ironed out just fine.
What have they got against us?
Nothing to do with the alt-right boogeyman. Not every person right of AOC is alt-right.
I take it you are not familiar with the Arab Spring protests?
Layman understanding ahead, see scott aaronson's NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality[0] if you want more rigorous arguments.

BQP gets you collapsing measurements.

The Schrödinger equation (NP-hard) gives you all probabilities at once, solving it is equivalent to performing non-collapsing measurements.

[0] https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/npcomplete.pdf
https://github.com/pfdietz/ansi-test

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You also need health, genuine opportunity and limited other drains on your energy - don't have anyone sick that needs you, and don't have any children. If you've already lost your health, or have someone relying on you as a carer, or are living somewhere without real opportunity (or perhaps very vulnerable to something that'll get you fired or deeper in inescapable debt - one car maintenance issue, one missed bus, one day off sick), well...

Also, you need the ability to plan and budget your time. These are real skills, and if you don't have them, nobody's going to teach you, so you're also out of luck there.
From Tesla's Autopilot page, during the first 5 seconds of their video demo[1]:

> The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/autopilot
Don't forget Let's Encrypt!
Can confirm that the T470 has been rock solid under Linux (I got one from work; running Slackware 14.2 with a -current kernel). Even OpenBSD ran reasonably well (had to switch off it because my work required me to use things like Google Hangouts that required Linux, but I might switch back pretty soon and try using an X-forwarded Linux VM).
> > R is far superior in its the quality of the packages, their documentation, their ability to behave predictably on a given data type.

> I not only disagree but I think that the exact opposite is true for each one of these points. But if things are working well in our shop, I'm not going to try to convince you otherwise.

I partially agree with you here. I'm extremely careful about what non-standard packages I use in R. Code quality varies wildly outside of these, likewise for documentation. But outside of neural networks, I've never found a package in Python that I felt better about in terms of code quality or documentation than its equivalent in R.
"First-time owners in their 20s or early 30s, accustomed to instant gratification and one-day Prime delivery, often expect immediate cures for animal ailments, she said."
Unfair to call the concern about your pet's health and wishing for their faster recovery akin to instant gratification from online shopping IMO.
Great but they should avoid burning wood in highly populated area. Because it is generating a lot of small particules, worse than a car.