skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw articles years ago suggesting water would be the root cause of future wars. Water is currently a serious issue globally.

In the US, the waters of the Colorado River are over promised to several Southwestern states. California is very dependent on imported water.

Small towns have trouble getting adequately competent people for their needs. Critical professional positions can take ages to fill because they pay less and qualified people often don't want to live in the middle of nowhere.

Some bright spots:

There are underutilized technologies and techniques available today that can solve or mitigate a lot of these issues. But widespread adoption is a challenge.

In California, Fresno County is quietly a shining example of good water management in some respects. It is being largely overlooked, but has a history of actually increasing ground water levels at times while most of the rest of the world is seeing them steadily drop.

The internet, remote work and new technology offer hope of better solutions for small towns in the US, if only by making them more appealing to the types of professionals whose skills are so desperately needed in some places.
Every company considering a deal with Trump should consider that America has walked away from shitty deals before. Sometimes it just takes a little while.
It isn't, but the problem I see is this: With so much power there should be a requirement of proof. No problem for parked cars, just take a picture. And for cyclists going through a red light? An always-on camera? Without proof I do see an increased potential for irate "enforcers" to take it out on someone. I tend to think that those who are going to volunteer are going to be a self-selecting subset of the population who take "law & order" more seriously and react more strongly to violations.
I don't know what they call it normally, but I noticed a magic symbol attribute in the LLVM d compiler that invoked a jit at runtime (-dynamic* something like that)

Edit: I checked and they're not ifuncs
I would love to see the stats for this claim.
I prefer Pickman's Ghastly Tripel, though Shoggoth's Old Peculiar isn't bad on a coldish day..
Doomed: There's No Way Out of the Debt Crisis for Italy
The other reason I can think of is archival/history, we shouldn't disregard everything we've made in the past just because it doesn't run on latest hardware; they're still a good part of our history that we should learn from.

I just wish Apple would include a free downloadable 32-bit image of macOS Mojave or a specific version that we can always run on top of Apple's Hypervisor framework that'll be maintained forever for use of these 32-bit software in the event we don't find a proper 64-bit version and we don't "violate their EULA" if we buy a new Mac that didn't come with Mojave.
that's an interesting thought, ST:TNG without woo.

Without Whoopi and the Counselor and their magic episodes it'd cut the library down like 20 or 30 percent I bet.

Personally I think the ST woo started way before TNG -- but I do think that it was presented and turned into viable story the best in TNG. That said, pseudoscience/magic/woo was around and plentiful around the world during the production of the original ST too, maybe that content was also prompted by the popularity.

Speaking of space-magic, if anyone reading is into space+scifi/fantasy and you enjoy Star Trek, check out UFO and Space:1999, or really any Gerry Anderson. Lots of similar topics, and its fun to determine which series did which subplot first.
You guys could argue this all day and both be right. Depending on what type of system you're working on, you are either very likely to pull in a multithreaded dependency or you are not. Systems programming is different from game programming is different from web client programming is different from kernel development. In most of my career, I would have never accidentally pulled in a multithreaded dependency, but I could see how that could be easy to do in some cases.
>FB's coin will be at the mercy of the Fed and ECB

Only if the currency flows out of traditional Fiat and into Libra don't substantially affect currency prices or the effect is more or less universal.

For instance, if the euro loses 10% value in a given period of time while 3 other equally weighted currencies are relatively stable, libra would lose ~2.5% value in that time. Given the low risk this seems like an obvious hedge if you are heavy in euro, and momentum could easily snowball.
For me, the sweet spot lies in acknowledging that both market failure and regulatory overreach are harmful. Unregulated markets lead to a Hobbesian world dominated by a succession of monopolies, just like markets controlled through central planning.

Markets with true competition can only be sustained through continuing struggle, because companies hate competition and constantly innovate new ways to capture the regulators.

The best we can do is regulators who retain their humility and exercise a light touch.
Always silly to force employees to use your own software. It was better or even close the employees would use it. Instead they should promote using the best so they know how to improve their own. I understand banning free slack if it’s a security concern but saying they recommend not using the grid is just a poor practice.
If the hardware, the operating systems, and the software ecosystem around these products kept on supporting 32-bit the products never had any critical incetive to transition.

Perhpas now they will have that, or other pieces of software will come and fill the void.

I'm still pretty bummed about what this will mean for WINE though, it will mean a lot more work for those devs – or a serious reduction in the amount of software that will work with it.
I don't think this is right. An autodiff package will likely report +inf for the derivative of cuberoot at 0.

The problem is really that there are a lot of ways the function can have infinite slope. The sqrt function also has infinite slope at 0.

Dividing by zero isn't where the NaN comes from.
Police are supposed to be citizens on patrol. How about having the existing police follow this short list, while we are being innovative;

>To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment.

>To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfil their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour, and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.

>To recognise always that to secure and maintain the respect and approval of the public means also the securing of the willing co-operation of the public in the task of securing observance of laws.

>To recognise always that the extent to which the co-operation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives.

>To seek and preserve public favour, not by pandering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws, by ready offering of individual service and friendship to all members of the public without regard to their wealth or social standing, by ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humour, and by ready offering of individual sacrifice in protecting and preserving life.

>To use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public co-operation to an extent necessary to secure observance of law or to restore order, and to use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective.

>To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

>To recognise always the need for strict adherence to police-executive functions, and to refrain from even seeming to usurp the powers of the judiciary, of avenging individuals or the State, and of authoritatively judging guilt and punishing the guilty.

>To recognise always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them.
This works in Chrome, but not Safari (macOS 10.14.5).
Suggesting that Equifax can mitigate a PII breach is negligently incorrect.
The GitHub link has been posted a few times, but it never got traction:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20248950 (4 points, 8 hours ago, 0 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20250990
(6 points, 1 minute after your post, 0 comments)

EDIT: The second link now has (35 points, 8 comments, still 1 minute after your post)
Everything I’ve read so far points at C. Gross negligence on the part of the UW nuclear safety officer, then attempted cover up of what happened. The points made in this article support that theory, so no further reading necessary unless you care.
Good luck explaining your commits to that munitions grade crypto used by terror cells in the mideast region as "Free Speech".

Hope that works out for you. :-(

(I'd wager there'll be a few more Snowden types asking for asylum outside the US before this is all over.)
I'm not sure about the NSA but I know that plenty of employers of that kind would frown upon having their personnel (or ex personnel) identified like that without their consent.
>> I don't think it's generating a table, just calling generate-crc32-table.

> Well, yeah. What do you suppose a function called generate-crc32-table could plausibly do?

...

> That's 14 LOC, and 8 of those are declarations.

It's considerable boilerplate, so much that I think you must really be in love with LISP to be able to deny that it is forbiddingly more work.

It's 202 characters in C vs 573 characters in LISP if we remove the initial whitespace from your LISP version. I'm not saying we should do APL, just that C is efficient at what it does best, and that's a good thing.

> For an example that you cherry-picked to be a perfect match for the kind of task that C was designed to do.

I didn't cherry pick at all, just got the first good looking code from github that implemented deflate, as in my comment before ("compression or imaging...").

All I'm aiming to do is to disprove the statement that LISP is universally the best programming language for anything and everything. I'm not the one being bold.

> Is that what you want to see, a cleaner syntax for type declarations?

Of course, that's what I wanna see. Haven't seen it yet.

> Because that's trivial, a few DEFTYPEs and a two-line macro.

Show me and tell me all the reasons why that's not worse than just writing it in C.

> That's right. And why is it that you don't see that in C? Because adding that to C is hard. Really really hard.

Absolutely. It's just not possible. You make tradeoffs when you write C code just as in any other language. And personally I like making the tradeoffs that come with C. That allows me to write self-contained, modular code, and to avoid a lot of boilerplate and duplication.

> You want to know what is ridiculous? A language that after 47 years still doesn't have a linked list as part of its standard library because the language design makes it impossible.

It's not that it's impossible to add one to the standard library. But there is enough crap already in the standard library. There are various ways to do such a thing as a linked list, each with different tradeoffs. And using off-the-shelf data structures just doesn't align very well with a typical C programmer's mindset. Often it's a good idea to just quickly code up your own so that you can integrate it better with the rest of your project. But have a look at Linux'es intrinsically linked list.h (or rbtree.h) for example, or at glib's extrinsically linked list if you want to depend on that and don't care about performance.

If you don't like that, you might just want to achieve different things than me. That's fine with me. Pick your own poison.
Again, this is not about you.

This is about you in as much as increasing the standard of living of you and your family’s medical, education, living, etc.

The alien billionaire empathy narrative myth is being used against you.
It's in the alt text of all photos.

It won't be long before all the Instagram bots are commenting 'nice person!' instead of just a thumbs up emoji.
Game Theoretic Foundations for Probability and Statistics
Over time they'll be able to show that. It's going to take them several more years before the memory of their previous architecture (i.e. the 5-10 years, depending on who you ask, prior to Ryzen) truly fades and they are seen as a serious long-term alternative to Intel by risk averse buyers.
I will! This is a good tip.
As a minority I'm conflicted. Many urban areas have tensions between minorities and police, thousands of people face police harassment every year over minor infractions.

On the other hand, as services like Nextdoor illustrate, many neighbors have an inherent fear and discrimination against their minority neighbors, and can show the same type of overreacting behavior as the police.. I guess I'd rather have enforcement from individuals without license to kill.
I've always thought Gene Wolfe and David Lynch are similar in tone, so to speak, although obviously they work in different mediums and have different interests. Their similarity, IMO, is in the way they obscure the basic narrative behind a veil of misdirections and symbolism, while using plain language and everyday locations that they twist just so, to create a kind of surrealism. This surrealism is painstakingly constructed from pieces of modern culture (Lynch) or SF classics (Wolfe), mixed with autobiographical pieces.
I personally enjoy reading Wolfe and viewing Lynch for the first time the same way I enjoy looking at a Dali or Magritte painting, just having my brain tickled with the wealth of strange details that were obviously well thought and put together with a purpose, although this purpose alludes me on first viewing/reading and might perhaps continue to allude me in the future.

Caveat: this is just a very general feeling I have. I haven't read all of Wolfe's books, nor have I seen all of Lynch's movies (although I have read/watched most of their oeuvre). I'm also not from the US, and English is not my first language, so I might be missing a lot of nuances.
The enterprise version they note is secure enough but still discouraged because it’s less about security and more about perception. Why would customers want to use the Microsoft equivalent if even their employees don’t.
AMD also doesn't have a heard of salespeople, pay list with AMD, haggle with Intel. Smaller shops that didn't have the time of day with Intel sales, they will go AMD. All of the small clouds with go AMD.

There is no oxygen down at 8k for Intel, they will have to move to chiplets to get the yields up, to drop the prices that far. AMDs costs for these parts is probably double what the consumer versions are, so we are probably looking at 7k+ of profit per chip.

They are forcing Intel to move to chiplets or be really really wounded. Clearly AMD is not participating in a duopoly game, which would be the expected anticompetative behavior.

If I were AMD I would give away the mobos. This is going cause a lot of Intel parts to be EOLd early.
You can't just abstract away the distributed part of it. As far as I can see, it can't be easily distributed with existing data parallel frameworks (Spark,Flink,Beam,Dataflow). My other issue is that you are modifying the base (Mnist) code - and you will need to rewrite it again when you want to do (distributed) training. My final issue is that hyperparameters are spread throughout the code. Yes, this is better than having an external YAML file (more notebook friendly), but it is inferior to centralizing them in a single object/dict in the code. See my comments below for details.
Is there some research you can point out that establishes cases where a lower IQ has been advantageous?
I've been diagnosed at a young age and didn't speak until I was 5. I still have symptoms but have been able to improve myself enough for people to just think something is off about me. Managed to graduate college with a 4.0 GPA. Near the end I thought about doing grad school but knew I would need accomodations because I am very slow at reading and writing. I seen a psychologist to get a more recent diagnosis and instead he diagnosed me with Learning Disability.

I took the woodcock-johnson iv tests of cognitive abilities with him and that test showed my writing speed was equivalent to that of an 8 year old. But in the section related to visual-spatial ability he said I had a perfect score, he said he never seen someone get that good of a score before on those sections. I qualified for accomodations but ultimately decided to just enter the workforce instead of continuing to go to school.

I think it's possible you could have enough symptoms to qualify as being on the spectrum but honestly I don't think a diagnosis would really make any difference in your life. It sounds like you are already aware of your weaknesses and strengths. If you need accomodations for something related to your weaknesses you might be able to get a diagnosis that could help you get them.

Some people think a diagnosis might help them better understand themselves and why they are different but I just think of ASD as a term to describe how I am different rather than it being something that causes/explains why I am different.
Sorry, I genuinely wasn't trying to offend you, though I can see why it came off that way. I just meant to convey I'm not on some mission to convince people of anything. If it's helpful or makes people feel good to believe in free will, that's good enough for me. Even if I were 100% sure of there was no robust free will, I wouldn't be interested in changing people's minds.
Until CEOs are personally liable for >100% of compensation amount in cases of gross negligence, corporate malfeasance will continue to be rampant.
why is ARM doing business with Huawei? they don't manufacture their SOCs or do they?
Yes, your comment makes this clear. My bad then. Apologies for the misunderstanding.
The headline is misleading.

"We propose deprecating most of volatile. [...] The proposed deprecation preserves the useful parts of volatile, and removes the dubious / already broken ones."

This is an important distinction to make because people sometimes overreact to misuses of volatile by effectively claiming that it's useless or has no meaning.
mscdex, I think was the ‘driver’ for the CD-ROM drive?
So you believe there always is some infinitesimal point in time during which a Trump tweet is factually true?
That skill set is helpful, but you can go a long way with profiling tools to find what's your bottleneck is spending the most time on, and try to do less of that. And, in general, trying to work with the least amount of abstraction amd making sure the abstractions you use match the underlying reality as much as possible. Almost always, you can't add a layer to get performance, just like you can't usually add a layer to get code quality, and you can't usually add a layer to get security.

Obviously, abstractions are useful, but it can be very hard to dig out of wrong abstractions, when they've influenced the design of the whole project.
The instruction set as a moat is almost over with the continual rise of Wasm. This is really AMDs last push into the datacenter and with it a huge infusion of cash.
WordStar 1 fits in about the size of this page with a few comments and that gargantuan 7k favicon.
No. People do not only help people similar to themselves. I'm just talking about probabilities.
I’d love this. We have people parking in the fire lanes of stores, anywhere they feel in a parking lot (make up your own spot, the lines are just suggestions), parking on sidewalks and in front yards. Even parking in the streets when parking is not allowed, backing up traffic.

It’s just chaos. Local police are underfunded so they are understaffed and are too busy to enforce code or parking violations. And nobody pays their parking tickets anymore anyway. You have to rack up 20+ before they will put a boot on your car.
Unify look and feel with VS Code then have VS Code support Windows Terminal sessions as tabs.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/integrated-termina...
\s It just has to last long enough for executives to cash in their bonuses.
Except Apple already took the same approach with PowerPC applications.
> Capital flight is already a thing.

Sure, but if this succeeds they will have order of magnitudes more capital to do it with than is already a thing.

> large scale speculation on the economies of random small foreign countries isn't a "low risk" investment

They are the ones who get to define the term "low risk", as part of a basket of many such economies it deserves the term as well.

> the Libra Association has literally no incentive to move the backing of assets away from bonds denominated in currencies its user base wish to convert to.

Of course it does, and not just in terms of exerting political pressure (which is an incentive which is literally the purpose of this conversation) but in terms of maintaining a safe basket of goods with as high interest rates as possible.
Fascinating! Did not know that this was possible before watching this video, and also did not know that a physical Ton of carbon -- has an economic/monetary value ($), and that this amount varies by Country due to markets, tax incentives, etc.
3.35GHz is max boost frequency, they don't list the base clock speed. Last gen was 2.7-3.2 for the high-end chip.
Testing Prestige and Dominance-Based Social Hierarchies Outside of a Lab
It's a very important point - we can influence and hold responsible police through democratic procedures, for example measure racial bias and implement de-biasing measures, but there is no accountability for the mob. Which is why we have the police in the first place.
Already holds up: "The claimed principle was simple: export of munitions—guns, bombs, planes, and software—was (and remains) restricted; but the export of books is protected by the First Amendment. The question was never tested in court with respect to PGP. In cases addressing other encryption software, however, two federal appeals courts have established the rule that cryptographic software source code is speech protected by the First Amendment (the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the Bernstein case and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in the Junger case). " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
so, what happened with kOS since 2014?
In 2 to 3 cycles it won't be in their control. We are riding the buggies right now while ICE cars are blasting right past us.
Yes, and when the main character hears it for the first time he mentions it's a very significant number before being cut off by someone who thinks they know better.

:P
Sort of. MSCDEX were CD-ROM API extensions for MS-DOS. You had a low-level driver that talked to your optical drive, and MSCDEX talked to that.
30 Minutes of Aerobic Exercise Supercharges Semantic Memory
Games. Seriously. You have a lot of old (even new) games that depend on 32-bit binaries/libraries. And that’s why the recent “clash” between Canonical’s Ubuntu and Valve’s Steam[1].

[1] https://twitter.com/Plagman2/status/1142262103106973698
That's pretty much it. Its really annoying to have to dual boot Windows so that I can play a game like Civ IV. It's sad that a number of somewhat recent games, as well as games that I want to fire up for nostalgia purposes (e.g. Starcraft) don't work anymore.