skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
neat that this project coming from a bunch of ppl at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab

Also, with the amount of different variations on use of it coming out these days, feel like GAN is like hackable technology of the year
I'd really like to see Flash reborn on WASM. WASM is a standard, so there will be no problems known to software produced and distributed by a private business (Macromedia/Adobe), problems like closed format, resources access control etc.
At that age I was terrified of being an astronaut after watching Apollo 13 with Tom Hanks. I laid up at night scared until my father told me that the astronaut selection process wasn't a random national lottery and I had nothing to worry about.

And at 8, my sister said she wanted to be a rabbit when she grew up. We found the class assignment to prove it when going through our old stuff in the attic.
I took it as humans are incredibly complex things with properties ranging along curves. What happens when one of these properties gets pushed out far beyond the previous maximum of its curve? What happens when people can stay hyperfocused for 12 hours straight? Their IQ's jump 100 points on average? Will they look upon normal people like we look upon cattle (historically, slavery is the normal state of mankind)? When people can turn on and off their modes, will they pick their favorite mode and never turn it off?

Yes, it is certainly useful to differentiate between normal ranged human properties, and those so far exceeding the norms we have zero evidence on what to expect.
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There are plenty of people using Patreon that are neither small nor demonetized, as it's more reliable than YouTube ad money and can get people more involved/loyal if you provide some perks for supporting on there.
Enclave defeating technology will improve over time as well. Things like scanners and lasers and emi detectors get better and better just as technologies for hiding from them do.
Firmly believing that we got there without the use of GMOs when it's not the case at all. And this thought is sadly very common.

Maybe anti-GMOs movements that might lead to believe that they are not used yet and that it's still completely up to debate ? I don't really know.
Paperboy draws a bunch of black sprites along the left side of the screen to cover up the glitches. Depending on the game this can be acceptable, but you only have a budget of 8 sprites per scanline and 64 total sprites, and this technique can eat up a lot of that budget.

Edit: as sibling comment noted, Paperboy does have custom logic on the cartridge, a 74HC161 4-bit counter. I think this is just used to switch between CHR banks.
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How would that be different from railroads? Aren't those already dedicated to moving products and large amounts of people? And wouldn't they be much easier for machines to navigate?
I have been saying this for years. Even if self driving cars handle 99% of situations correctly, they don’t become feasible until they can do that last 1%, which is 100x more difficult then previous 99. The reality is, if the car drives itself, people will be doing other things in the car and will be unable to respond to emergencies.
Transmeta JIT'd x86 into VLIW.

That was right before the Power Wall became an obstacle and CPUs were already burning up. Transmeta in a sense invented low power computing but then Intel said thank you very much; we'll take it from here. It wasn't that they didn't deliver. It's just that they were competing against Intel in the x86 space. A lot of the Transmeta team moved to nVidia and work on Denver but that's different and they got an architecture license from ARM to do that.
Drawing Gradient Lines on Top of Google Maps with SkiaSharp
E.g. for Hall of Fame weekend in Cooperstown (a fairly tiny town), the Baseball Hall of Fame sets up house shares with residents for MLB personnel.
A dozen professionals being able to review the notes of my doctor visit is vastly different from a video of it being public on the internet.
Strangely people do not care about Apple doing the same thing.

Even on HN posts talking about how Apple sells privacy as a product are upvoted and reach > 1000 upvotes.
Yeah, too bad we feed most of our cattle with south american soy though...
Yes, but how about the remote developers?
She. Herself. It's written by a woman. See the name of the author of the article, the picture, the fact that she refers to herself as a mother and a ton of other clues.

As to why she's turning her son into a cyborg, that's pretty well explained in the article, though one might disagree with the fact that she's doing this at all.
According to a comment in this thread: "They also know when you hit the back button to come back to the search results", so I guess they can determine roughly how long you spent on a page?
> In 1980, the richest cohort of middle-aged American men could expect to live until about 83 and the poorest to 76. By 2010, the richest American males had gained six years in life expectancy, living to 89 on average, while life expectancy for the poorest men hadn’t improved. [1]

Regarding cost of living, the question is whether minimum wages have gone down , and the answer is yes, because cost of living has increased, they have. It's isn't just mountain view CA.

It's common knowledge that mcdonaldds cannot provide a fully nutritious diet. Take a look at Super Size Me, the book or movie. It's pretty amazing.

[1] https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/1/9/16860994/lif...
dragonwriter was obviously being ironic. Meaning he thinks those ARE "math intensive fields". Which they really aren't.
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I read these advice columns like "You should stop using hand saws because we now have electric saws which are better in every way that I care about." Great! You use them then. I'll keep using crufty old hand saws wherever I want, you use and proselytize your electric saws and we can get on with our lives. I have my own networks and threat models and my own evaluation functions for these. Hand saws are pretty good.
Just don't let any true believers near it or they'll tear you a new one.

I've published plenty of Go code with a panic() here or there to handle fatal issues, and there's never a shortage of ignorant fools dropping in to lecture me.

If I'm not supposed to use it, why is it even in there? To tempt me? That would fit with the glorification of pain and boredom, I guess.
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At the same time it acknowledges that the product existed in the first place shaming them for that as well.
The scariest word a law could ever have is "Fair".

I truly believe that if Americans understood how the visa process worked, they would be appalled, even if they are hard nationalists. It's simply not rule of law, its crazy expensive and its just plain dumb. It would be easier to propose a special tax to foreigners that goes directly into the pockets of americans and remove all the restrictions altogether.

Foreigners would gladly accept a 10% surtax for alleviating the ridiculousness of immigration law.

Add: foreigners already pay surtaxes, but get no credit for them.
It's like every other get rich quick scheme: as soon as you've heard of it chances are it's too late.
The consensus is that non-ionizing radiation does not cause health problems at the power levels used in cell towers.
By seeing how long after you clicked on a search result you get back to the results page.
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Ah, didn't know that about the MMC3!

Regarding SMB1, I'm quite sure it uses the sprite 0 thing to keep the status bar stationary while the level scrolls smoothly beneath it by setting the scroll register only after when the status bar is done drawing. See more thorough description here: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/1898/how-...
I would assume one's age has a lot to do with this. As a younger person, the history of things is just not very high up on the list of things interested in. Especially if the community is perceived as "small town", where all the kids can't wait to leave. However, as one gets older, the history of something becomes much more appreciable. People then realize the "small town" is where they'd rather raise kids, and the cycle repeats.
Seems to me that this is a logistical issue the event planners should fix. Are there any other towns nearby that would make a better overnight spot now that the event has grown larger?
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> The hpkg is mounted and the filesystem is exposed to the user who launches the application through it.
> With AppImage, no expectation exists that the mounted fs is a real fs because the user never interacts with it.

When is the last time you browsed through /usr or C:\Program Files\ in a file manager?

The same is true in Haiku. It's there for the power users; normal users should not need to go into it and poke around. The user should interact with it via the Deskbar, desktop symlinks, etc. Not by browsing /system/.

> The hpkgs get mounted, then I launch the application, then I close the application. Now I remove the thumbdrive. What happens?

The filesystem the thumbdrive contained gets unmounted, and in the process all child vnodes and file descriptors are closed, and so the packages on the thumbdrive are consequently unmounted also.

> With an AppImage in this scenario, what happens is exactly what you'd expect: nothing. The AppImage fs was mounted at launch, and unmounted at close, and never seen by the user.

HPKGs would be mounted for as long as possible so that the applications contained could be, say, launched to handle a file. But as I noted above, this should indeed work just fine on Haiku with nearly the same paradigm as AppImages do.
The article comes across as a bit confused. As far as I can see, these are all examples of plain concurrency-unsafe code rather than anything to do with the optimizer.

Sure, the optimizer is usually great at exposing buggy code that relies on undefined behavior, but there's nothing concurrency-specific to that.

As such I think the article would have been better had it been framed from the point of view that it feels like it wants to take, but doesn't: a guide for beginners of things you rely on in non-concurrent code that you can't in concurrent code.

There's more to that topic than what the optimizer does.
"I could just FTP this to the server nginx folder"

Yep pretty much this. Yes there are some services like netlify that makes it a bit more easier but then you have less control and no fun. I would setup nginx to serve the static files, use letsencrypt to install SSL cert. and done.
Some companies do have ethical standards, but the question is where those standards live with respect to decision-making. If projects can get started before they get any attention from the standards, their momentum can keep them alive (particularly in public companies where shareholders pressure you not to leave money on the table).
It's sadly often the cases for public contract here... Very much often, the contractor has no interest or incentive in doing a "quick and proper" job. Company that deal with public contract get really good at dragging the duration of a project, and its cost, way up.
They know that the state will want to continue the project and will continue funneling money until its finish in any case.

And when a project has some incentive (often financial penalty when deadline are not respected), company will give unrealistic deadlines to win the contract and then just run the penalty has normal cost of the projects.
I know some project that had years of delay and were still profitable for the private company.

Obviously it's not always the case, but having work for both a state owned company contracting private contractor and for a private contractor seeking public contract, it has certainly made me not optimistic about any projects funded by public money.
Always a good idea isn't it? Someone somewhere was certainly applauded for this brilliant business case and decision making. Everybody pointing out the flaws not so much I would assume...
Is the do_something_quickly example actually buggy?

while (!need_to_stop) /* BUGGY!!! */
do_something_quickly();

Can the optimiser really unroll the loop and only check the need_to_stop variable once!?

if (!need_to_stop)
for (;;) {
do_something_quickly();
do_something_quickly();
do_something_quickly();
do_something_quickly();
....

Is this the same for C++ or is does the new memory model prevent it?
They would rather be/have been rock stars than be astronauts.

They would rather have "walked on the moon" than played a sold out MSG.

Surely none of the youtube kids of today could resist the selfie opportunities of a moonwalk.
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The Java chips were for, well, they were for Java. If ARM had designed Jazelle to be more general, it would have been useful for Javascript and Python and .... But they designed it for Java bytecode. The licensing was too expensive and so it didn't catch on and Jazelle got dropped from ARMv8.
Amazing read, goes to show that fighting fire is not just about pointing a hose to the fire. There's a lot of strategic decision that has to be made. When you have multiple fire, which one do you point the hose at, where you position yourself, in what order do you fight them? You can't just look at the fire, but everything around it. Timing matters, I suppose SRE's can relate. But I believe developers can also learn from this by doing a lot of introspection.
I had the same issue where I was always compelled to speak up if I felt like there was something important to be said... It really made me look like an a-hole.

I asked a good friend of mine who was a successful CEO that people really listened to what his secret was...

He said he stays quiet until people ask him for his opinion, then he makes sure what he says is succinct and on point as much as possible. That blew me away. Since I have been practicing that method I have noticed amazing results. It's really something that I continually need to work on, and it doesn't work with family and friends (of course) but try it out...

Also, fight the urge to put emojis in company emails, people will lose respect for you ... :\

... Crap, still working on that one.
"yes, this is way forward." - I don't think so
These are called railways and every civilized country already has them.
I see the sense in curated lists of remote developers, if that's what you're asking?

- Some companies are 100% remote

- Companies in unfavourable locations may want to expand the talent pool they can hire from

- Timezone coverage (on-call, support, etc)

- etc
>It also removes an offset that reduced the number of visas for individuals from China.

i foresee a chinese tesla within a decade that costs a fraction of the price
> Not far on the list of deplorables is the rise of the "tech stack" lists

These drive me nuts. I wish there was a way to incorporate trusted users flagging sites like this. I'm sure there's technical issues with it, but ideally it would let you "hide results from this site" to both keep them from popping up _and_ serve as a flag against the site.
I love my city, and often have people tell me that they feel like I'm a tour guide when I'm showing new people around the city. One of my favorites is that the people got tired of the city flooding, so they just moved the river. Sure, cause, that's what one does.
Can you elaborate on how getting your content promoted and outreached?
There are campaigns for things like nursing [1]

“Through these campaigns [...] to challenge the
stereotypical image of nursing as a female career so the
increase of 9% among male applicants (19% among 18 year
olds) is particularly excellent news.

Also for things like teaching [2].

And for things like professional-level ballet schools recruit 50% male and 50% female, despite many more female applicants, due to the practical needs of teaching partnering.

[1] https://www.england.nhs.uk/2019/02/young-male-nursing-applic...
[2] https://www.tes.com/news/so-you-want-get-more-men-primary-te...
rumors != fact
>I imagine that living in a place with such high population density causes behavior that seems rude and pushy to us in America.

Not at all. The population density in Japan is extremely high too, and they don't behave this way at all. This is entirely cultural: some cultures don't respect rules very well, other cultures do. Jumping line in Japan is considered extremely rude.
It's not sufficient for these systems to just be "better" than humans in terms of accidents/mile/vehicle, they have to be FAR BETTER than humans.

Today, when accidents occur, blame and liability goes to the responsible parties. We're talking about millions of accidents and millions of drivers.

If you suddenly have a car that drives, the blame and liability for all accidents then gets focused like a giant magnifying glass onto ONE (or a few) companies which have made the self-driving car.

I don't know how many accidents/mile/vehicle is the "magic number" but I expect it is going to have to be far far far lower than what it is now. Otherwise, these self-driving car vendors won't be able to survive the legal onslaught.
This reminds me a lot of Mode X which, although a funky 320x240 mode with square pixels built in to standard VGA, only became popular after Michael Abrash popularized it in Dr Dobbs. And then there was the utterly gorgeous mode Q - 256x256 with 256 colors. No muls or shifts - high byte is Y and low byte is X.
Why should kids become astronauts! It is low paid and is one of the most riskiest job with long term health issues. Kids these days are practical.
By one definition, the rationale seems reasonably straight forward. We imagine some Platonic ideal human, or perhaps some range. It seems reasonable to say that moving toward that is becoming "more human", away is becoming "less human".

This doesn't directly imply that interventions that make someone "less human" should be avoided.
IGTV, TikTok, Snap are other platforms for this
My understanding/experience is that Julia has optional typing. Meaning it's dynamically typed, but supports type annotation that often improves performance and can be used to enforce types (I think).

A lot of Julia code looks statically typed, but if you want to code "pure" dynamically (e.g., for prototyping or just because it's more convenient or better for whatever reason) in style you can. Type annotation is seen as increasing information for the compiler to use, and to increase clarity in specification, but not a necessity.

This is different from other dynamic languages I'm familiar with where type specification and annotation isn't built in to the same extent, and different from static languages that require type specification all the time.

To me, Julia's approach feels the best of the languages I've used. I've grown to like statically typed languages more over time, but there are some situations where it can create huge headaches (e.g., where the type structures of a library, etc. are poorly organized or unclear).
Unfortunately the WHO is overly cautious and not very scientific when it comes to classifying things as "possibly carcinogenic to humans."
You mean you have to use your foot to operate the gas pedal?! Man Tesla is really going downhill
Damn hard call to make, cudos to the people, personnel that went upt as well as command crew on the ground, conducting that kind of ops.
Same here in Berlin, although it's mostly illegal there are many AirBnB flats because there are no controls. Having drunken students making party all the time isn't very fun.
Very cynical indeed, but his overall conclusion seems to be positive: https://twitter.com/analogist_net/status/1151396253692907522
This says way more about the US, and NASA than the kids today.

The US doesn't have a shuttle fleet. We beg the Russians for a ride to space if we need one.

I grew up watching the shuttle flights, I'm 41, I watched every one I could when I was a kid, including Challenger and Columbia.

I was in the 2nd grade during the Challenger disaster, we watched the launch live in the classroom. It still upsets me to think about it. And after that disaster, we rebuilt ourselves, we did better, and we pressed on.

My children will never have an emotional attachment to space travel like that because the US does not have an effective space program.

So, of course, the kids don't want to be astronauts. They want to be whatever we the adults, model for them. And, collectively, we've been some shitty role models lately.
You can report these to Google: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?pli=1

Edit: better link: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93713?hl=en
Which should lead to more demand for professors I assume, but since academia is tenure tracked and therefore isn't very elastic, then it leads to I guess bigger class sizes and more administrative bloat driving up program costs, which in turn drives up loan borrowing?

Just guesses. I'm very curious as to the feedback loops created on the overall system.
All these things are literally on the AI horizon.
> we require hosts to disclose all security cameras and other recording devices in their listings, and we prohibit any security cameras and other recording devices that are in or that observe the interior of certain private spaces (such as bedrooms and bathrooms), regardless of whether they’ve been disclosed.
Why is your HOA/condo board allowing this? That should be spelled out in the terms of your ownership agreements. Most should disallow short-term rentals.
That doesn't address his point, which is that a programmable pump isn't something you could sell because of the liability involved.
State of the art (2019) face detection with RetinaFace and MXNet
Oh they have a few ways actually.

- "Clickstream" data from Chrome. Sorry I don't have the source in hand, but I remember that Rand Fishkin was talking about it some time ago.

- Statistical analysis on the SERP (eg. if you search for something, click a link, go back and pick another result, that is a bounce)

- This is just speculation, but I'd say their ad network can be a source too
sure, but I don't think the whole highway is obligated to slow down for a stopped car on the right shouler, only the lane next to the shoulder (and I would argue that this lane suddenly slowing all the way down to 20mph would create a worse hazard). theoretically the child could make it all the way to to left before being struck. I'm not saying this is likely, just that there is no speed where you can guarantee that you won't hit a pedestrian that is behaving erratically. the best you can do is make it very unlikely in most cases.
Is it just me, or is the Argo CEO interviewed for every single article that's pessimistic about self-driving cars?
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Personally, I never hit back because I open each link in a new tab. "Oops, sorry to mess with your metrics"
I'd guess that heatsink and a case with heatpipes would be sufficient for most, though perhaps not all, uses and silent, which for me is pretty important on a Raspberry Pi
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And work twice as many hours a week.
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If anything this paper is unfair to the native compiler; they compare V8 and SpiderMonkey from April 2019 to a clang release from March 2017, and they turn off autovectorization. That being said, most of the slowdowns they identify seem to be deficiencies in the WASM engines rather than fundamental problems with WASM itself.
> I don't stay in airbnbs - the system breaks the social contract.

I didn't know I was party to this contract, and I couldn't tell you what the terms are.

I travel a lot for work and I stay almost exclusively in AirBnb because I like having my money and a nice home-like experience.

I still don't understand how society would benefit from AirBnb not existing and us being where we started with the hotel cabal.