skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The amount of compute and/or data motion that can be achieved with a single instruction. This is really about amortizing the cost of decode and allowing the pipeline to be kept full by producing a lot of work from a single instruction.

I'm basing this on my knowledge from CS classes in the late 90s but isn't the point of RISC for the decode to be very simple because the instructions are very simple?

Much of the optimization of x86 has been in the Decode where a CISC can be transformed in to multiple and often parallel instructions. And parallelism where we've seen our gains and benefited the most in the last ~10-15 years of CPU design.

Does that mean in order for RISC to be performant some degree of parallelism will have to be done by the compiler? Isn't that what ultimately killed Itanium which was a VLIW processor?
That’s not the language’s fault, nor is it a reason to downscale what makes it great.
Politicians don't line their pockets by making government smaller.
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Deadliest CSS mistakes made by new and experienced developers
I don't agree with the proposition that vector instructions (SIMD) are inherently non-RISC. RISC is about whether the "I" is a reduced instruction set, not whether or not "D" is multiple.
The same applies for my own fork of SingleFile, called SingleFileZ. I can publish any update of SingleFile in 1 hour. For SingleFileZ, which requires less permissions, I have to wait 7 days for exactly the same update. That's very demotivating.
That still feels sleazy and racketish. I can understand doing that when you take on a new customer, but charging you thousands of dollars just to change the exact same loan to one with a different rate? [1]

Reminds me of the time I bought a package at a pawn shop, but didn't want one of the items in it. They said that to get a discount, I'd have to buy the whole thing as is then pawn back the unwanted item. So far, so good, but then I had to give my ID and attest that I didn't steal that one item ... even though they knew it never came from me to begin with!

[1] The way you said it, thousands sound like the typical case and $500 is a special deal.
i think you hit it on the nail, its the "experienced" bit that is the problem, if you look at a lot of the postings at leat here in the UK they will say things like "Min 3 years in a similar role"

the problem is no one wants to train anyone, at all, nor are they willing to take a chance even if its a slight one. people dont hire staff for the long term these days so they put minimal effort into vetting of applicants and you can bet that no matter how good you are if you have no former relevant experience theres an extremely high chance your CV will be binned instantly
A thought you could add to your article. In the medieval period in Europe, advertising outside your shop was strictly forbidden because it was considered an assault on your senses. I totally agree with this sentiment.
Regarding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_Global_Inequality:

"Let's look at Germany. Lynn and Vanhanen cited four studies that found that West German IQ scores ranged from 99 to 107, whereas East German IQs were as low as 90 back in 1967, and later studies pegged their scores at 97 to 99 points. Taking the extremes, these data imply a gap as big as 17 IQ points between West and East Germans. How to account for the rise East Germany in less than a generation of 7 to 9 points? After all, East and West Germans are not all that genetically different. Lynn's data now show an average German IQ of 102 points. Similarly Lynn and Vanhanen report that average Greek IQs were 88 in 1961 rising to 95 in 1979. An increase of 7 IQ points in 18 years, as Unz points out, "is an absurdity from the genetic perspective." " (https://reason.com/2012/08/07/nations-smart-rich-wealth-crea...)

"Another item that ought to prompt the thoughtful reader to question the very large discrepancy in intelligence that the authors assert to exist between various human sub-populations is the extraordinarily low average IQs assigned to many African nations. For example, the authors claim that the mean IQ in Equitorial Guinea is only 59, well shy of the threshold score of 70 below which the testee is classified as mentally retarded. Anyone who has spent significant time with an American or a European whose IQ is that low (as I did for a year while assisting in a special education program) can attest that such an individual is not capable of independently managing his own life, and will require constant caretaking to get on in the world." (https://mises.org/library/does-iq-determine-wealth-nations)
Yep, made a ticket about it :)
Man eater of sunderban is more of myth than reality.
Im interested to know the scale of a "water grid". Is there any idea how much water we'd need to move to satisfy all our demands with desalinated water? Also, what sort of energy is needed to raise all water up from sea-level?
I got it to work - in fact, here is my image:

https://github.com/insightfulsystems/ubuntu-gerbil

Chicken is plenty fast enough, though.
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The counterpart of "Contracts" in C++ is "Traits" not "generics".
https://mycrackedgamedownload.blogspot.com/2019/04/gta-5-apk...
This seems to be one of Harari’s arguments in Sapiens. In many ways, hunter-gatherers lived better lives, ate more varied foods, suffered fewer health problems, and left a much less lasting mark on their environment. But now that we’ve gotten to a point where much of the population lives in relative comfort, we can see that there was a long-term payoff from investing in agriculture.
Exactly. I absolutely detest the fact that my carrier can remotely activate my phone's baseband processor to conduct surveillance. Without a hardware kill switch there's basically no way to prevent this other than, perhaps, using a faraday bag.
Taxes move money, they don't destroy it. They make some people richer and some poorer. A carbon tax and dividend scheme (advocated by economists) gives poor people a significant amount of money. The Green New Deal (advocated by left wing democrats) gives poor people a significant amount of money.
Or do I need a HumorFactory?
Why were you taking a polygraph? Just curious.
Yes, you cannot easily side-load your own code onto the Switch. It's definitely a locked-down platform.
It's unfortunate that the author doesn't appear to understand the value of a strict Content-Security-Policy.
I just went ahead and placed my order anyways. :)
Online learning company with a founder good at growth hacking attention on Twitter, as well as one of the more outspoken advocates for Income Share Agreements in media.
Good point, lol. Unfortunately for me I need convert to stones to get a feel for weight
A tiny language called Z (2013)
The compiler for the B language, by Arthur Withney
http://kparc.com/b/
Should we thank genocidal regimes for "curbing population growth"?
There seems to be an over saturation of inexperienced/low-skilled applicants. A lot of people are trying to break into the field right now, which puts pressure on the entry level job market.

It's possible to get in, but you need to be above-average in both technical and personal skills. Luckily, in my experience, the average level of both for the lowest level job seekers are not that high of a barrier to overcome.

>encouraging people to go into the field on the pretense of a "hot job market" seems disingenuous.

Take anyone who doles out this advice with a grain of salt. They likely stand to benefit in some way.

>I don't want to spend years of my life and who knows how much money learning a new skillset only to discover I've joined an ocean of low-skilled coders who won't have any serious job prospects for 5+ more years.

Be honest with your self about why you want to switch careers. If it's just for a quick salary bump, there's probably smarter ways to do so. If you really are interested in the field, then start self-teaching and go from there. Spending money on boot-camps or a second undergrad degree is a poor investment right now imo.

I believe that if you have a) decent real-life work experience in any industry, b) the ability to self teach well, c) patience, and d) realistic expectations (e.g. not 100k off the bat in a big-n), there's still a good chance you can break into the field.
Those papers have nothing to do with IQ.
> The name and origin of the lost Baltic ship have not yet been identified. [...] Dr. Pacheco-Ruiz and his team are deliberately keeping its exact location secret, to deter scavengers and treasure hunters.

Is that really possible in this day and age? I feel like there has to be some corner of the internet where some internet sleuths have figured it out.

EDIT: Skimming various Swedish articles, which mention “north of Gotland”, between Sweden and Estonia, and on international waters, so probably somewhere east of Gotska Sandön.
> but GDPR requires opt-in rather than opt out, there should be a clear choice,

My understanding as well. And the way it has been presented to me is that clear choice means easy to understand (and notice).
That’s ok. You don’t need to buy it.

The smartphone market is filled with phones subsidized by information harvesting money and where the economies of scale side with entities in a race to the bottom.

I’m personally happy to pay a premium for a product with different priorities.
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> From the comments here it appears its a specific class of school. From their site it just looks like a regular online learning company.

It is not a class of school, it is indeed a company. A scam/cult masquerading as a startup. It's hyped, it's batshit insane. A thread from yesterday https://twitter.com/KeziyahL/status/1155154616281178114 but of course there is more. To me, it was obvious there is something wrong because PaulG often raved about it and nothing good comes out of that. You can't growth hack education. Humans don't work like that. I started a (very small, very unprofitable) school in a far away country and also happen to have a teacher's degree and oh boy.

As for scam, just look at their website.

> "Pay $0 tuition until you land a high-paying job
Lambda covers your tuition costs until you're making at least $50,000 a year. "

How is $50 000 a high paying job? According to the SSA, the average wage in 2017 was $48,251.57. Also, the 17% is calculated from before tax but paid after tax. So if you earn 50K, take home 40K then Lambda doesn't take 6800, no they will take 8500.

> "You can choose to pay $20k upfront for Lambda tuition ... You'll never pay more than $30k ..."

Wait, you are charging 50% interest? Possibly over two years?
Unreal 4 is far from perfect but considering the size of the project I would say its pretty impressive.
Although I think Bethesda was wrong to do what they did, and they're rightfully being taken to task for it, your response is raising my eyebrow.

You seem to care so much about DRM that you'll demand a refund and use a DRM-free service instead, and yet you own a Switch which is itself a closed platform heavily laden with DRM?
That's because it's very likely using the software renderer:

https://twitter.com/fabynou/status/1155042578544263168?s=20

As the copyright holder, Bethesda could have shipped one of the vastly improved open source versions such as the ones used for iOS, so it's puzzling why they're (apparently) using the software renderer.
I'm not convinced voting on a blockchain is a good idea, but here are some thoughts:

> Researchers have spent decades to figure out a perfect solution but came short.

That doesn't mean improvements can't be made. Researchers have spent decades to figure out peer-to-peer money as well, before Bitcoin was invented. But there are many other examples.

> How will identification work?

Presumably in a similar way voting already works. Tokens are given out after IDs have been checked.

> What is the proof-of-work scheme?

You can easily piggy-back on any existing cryptocurrency if you want.

> How can you be sure that every vote ends up in the ledger? Transactions usually get lost and sometimes takes few tries to reach to miner.

You can easily verify that your vote ended up in the ledger. You can verify in seconds that a transaction has propagated in the network as well. Transactions very seldom get lost, unless you're specifically thinking of Bitcoin which suffer from transaction backlogs from time to time.

> Most important property is that not a single vote should be traced back to its caster.

This is the hard technical problem. There are anonymous cryptocurrencies like Monero or ZCash (although there shielded transactions are opt-in) which obscures where transactions come from. Therefore it should be possible to create a system where a single vote cannot be traced back to its caster while you can still count the total number of votes and that a vote is only cast once (this is exactly the properties Monero and ZCash have).
> AWS/GC/Azure trounce colos because AWS/GC/Azure come with tooling that simply does not exist in the colos.

Yes, out of the box tooling is part of the "centralized" platform. In a decentralized world you stack some adhoc open-source tools and web dashboards atop your hand-rolled infrastructure. This is more work than a centralized solution that provides the metal and everything else you could possibly need (and everything you will never need) as a single centralized package.

> PXE boot without manual tweaks is still basically non-existent in the colo space. I could continue with these examples but it should be enough.

Those examples support my position.

> That's the reason why AWS/GC/Azure win, not because they are centralized.

They could not do this without being centralized, that's precisely the point.
So are they hiring you to transition them to a real database?
I read it as, The growth of Mexico City may have accelerated and exacerbated the problem but certainly "unintended consequences" from the projects were not planned for. It is not a blame game as much as asking how could Engineering not have thought of such future catastrophes and planned accordingly. He provides the answer himself; it is because the failures were slow and creeping and hence the Politicians/Bean counters ignored them in pursuit of short term "development".
https://puri.sm/faq/supported-networks/

They already have a list of LTE bands that will work depending on if you buy the Europe or US variant. That list is only for the Gemalto PLS8-US and PLS8-E. There is another Broadmobi BM818 module as well.

For the US, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile support the 2, 4, 5, and 17 LTE bands that work with the PLS8-US.

All of Europe should be supported on the PLS8-E.

The BM818 mention doesn't specify which version. On the FCC's website, there is a manual that lists bands 2, 4, 5, and 17 so at least it will work in the US.

When buying any sort of unlocked phone, you usually have to check all of the bands with your carrier just in case. When you buying a phone from a carrier, they have already done all of the work for you in terms of checking compatibility.
AI flags anything that could be suspicious, human moderator reviews the exact circumstances of anything flagged.
Google is one of the largest tech companies on the planet, if anyone can solve "impossible" problems its them.
But not if they are lacking internal impetus to change anything.
I took a polygraph twice for an NSA internship (TS/CSI Clearance). It's an interesting process.

In the first phase, you go over your security forms (SF-86 and related) in detail with your polygraph examiner. They ask a lot of detailed questions, sometimes including things you aren't legally required to disclose (drug use and foreign travel outside the listed time limits).

In the second phase, they hook you up to the polygraph and ask two series of very specific questions, one called "lifestyle" and one called "national security." Lifestyle questions include questions about drug use, possible crimes, etc., and national security questions include questions about foreign contacts, involvement in terrorism, etc. They're very specific, like "Are you withholding any information about your involvement with illegal drugs in the past ten years?"

About half the time (based on my discussions with other prospective interns), the examiner becomes convinced you're lying about one of these questions and really drills into you. Most of the polygraph examiners are past FBI or CIA interrogators, so they know how to make you very uncomfortable.

I was explicitly told that I failed my first polygraph (the examiner was convinced I used more drugs than I let on), but some of the other interns were drilled about crazier things, like contacts with foreign governments or involvement with terrorist groups.

If you're particularly desirable to the managers who're looking to hire you, they'll keep inviting you to take more polygraphs, and you'll eventually pass.

I ended up turning down the NSA internship for better opportunities after realizing that NSA folks are not the most fun people in the world to hang out with.
The unnao case. Please spread
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I think the thing to understand about behemoths like Microsoft is that if the "others" are collecting data then your career will benefit if you hep Microsoft do what the "others" are doing.
Right, and both work until the conviction is overturned, the media makes a big deal out of it, and the Justice System is called into question yet again. Or it's not overturned, and someone makes a documentary followed by a dozen podcasts and online petitions. Which again calls into question how just the Justice System is, and how impartial a jury of your peers really is.

The Generation Why podcast will occasionally raise the point that if you try the same case more than once, you often get different results. Which really raises questions. Why didn't the judge allow certain information into the trial the first time, but another judge did the second time? How was the prosecution able to withhold information from the defense? Why on Earth did the jury find the defendant guilty despite no evidence tying them to the crime? Or in some cases, the opposite is true. How did the jury find the defendant innocent with that much evidence against them?
WV resident here. (Northern Panhandle)

Anyone interesting some history of coal country, a great book is "Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area" By Harry M. Caudill. Published 1962.

https://www.amazon.com/Night-Comes-Cumberlands-Biography-Dep...

https://archive.org/stream/nightcomestocumb1963caud/nightcom...

While the focus of the book is eastern Kentucky, a lot of the content applies to WV and coal country in general.

"At the time it was written, Night Comes to the Cumberlands framed an urgent appeal to the American Conscience. Today it details Appalachia's difficult past, and at the same time, presents an accurate historical backdrop for a contemporary understanding of the Appalachian region."
Nothing about this approach seems easier to reason about nor maintain over the long term. Transactional integrity, migrating data structures, and modifying business logic/control flow are key building blocks required for many production applications, certainly line of business ones.

I'm reminded of the golden hammer fascination with event sourcing, and I continue to see event sourcing applied inappropriately. Is it useful for some specialized applications? Yes, and it's a great tool there! But should it be the default tool you reach for to solve most problems over a relational DB and your most trusted, high level, stable programming language with a mature library ecosystem?

No to that question, and no to this.
This is a great achievement.
The fact that the West is supporting Saudi Arabia pretty much destroys any kind of credibility in the Middle East right away. I still remember how 15 of the 9/11 attackers came from Saudi Arabia but somehow major efforts were undertaken to pin it on Iraq.

At a minimum we should keep Saudi Arabia at a distance and stop selling weapons to them. I know there are a we billion dollars profit in that but I think the long term cost of this hypocrisy is enormous.
Landowners are so deeply invested in their properties that they support the local politicians who create supply-restrictive policies to further inflate asset prices.

Or it's all a giant conspiracy that is closed to non-elite citizens. I actually have no idea how one would become the official who rewrites zoning laws anyway.
This is how I read the article as well. Which makes the title a misnomer in one sense but correct in another, which I think was the intent. Technology is great and no doubt makes our lives better, but it isn't a cure all.

I frequently say that we've solved (almost) all first and second degree problems (problems which are cause->effect our cause->effect->effect). A big problem that were facing today is we have high order problems and we're treating them like first degree (the call is always clear "it's easy, you just..."). We've clearly advanced to a stage, at least in the first world, were we have extremely complex issues that are interconnected with many others. Luckily we're also at a stage (in all worlds) where we can recognize this, but we need to act on it. I often see complex issues (name literally any popular topic discussed in political climate: climate, guns, civil rights, reputations, etc) addressed as simple to solve issues. While all of them are solvable, over simplifying actually distracts from the problem. And I think the author of this article would agree with me, they often make things worse in the long run. With these great advancements we've made we not only should, but have a duty, to think better about the future and complexity of the issues at hand.

A good engineer can solve a problem. A great engineer recognizes the usefulness of a thousand page reference manual on orings and uses that reference.
I’m not sure I’d call Space Shuttle Style appropriate for 99% of code, but it does make it easy to read and harder to mess up down the road.
I wonder if he wanted to make money, it would make sense for him to try to move to US? Not sure though how easy it would be to get a US licence for a Canadian doctor.
UBI utopia: everyone is free to live life to the fullest, pursue their creative passion and have fulfilling friendships in a stress-free environment.

UBI dystopia: everyone is crammed in a tiny standardized living unit, barely long enough to lie down in, the cities are all slums. Everyone feels useless and disconnected. People spend their time playing videogames, using VR porn and doing copious amounts of chemical drugs.
Henge Docks' Founder went from designing roof racks to Apple accessories
>The T490 drops support for removable batteries.

That's seriously disappointing :(
On a different note, this everyone-jumping into the gig-economy of driving/riding for these services seem to be scary for their personal growth. Assume, I'm a bike-driver for Uber Eats (Today @ 2019), What would be I'm if i continue doing this after 5 years? It's the same Uber Eats driver. But if in a corporate set up, At least I can become something like a junior Accountant to Account or there's a career growth.

This growth seems completely invisible in this gig economy and during my conversation with a lot of recently joined Uber Drivers (in Bangalore, India) pretty much many are frustrated and trying to get into a different business that offers growth and stability.

Will this gig-economy destabilize global economy? I don't know. But I don't think a full-time Uber Eats driver is getting any benefit in long term.
I wonder if he wanted to make money, it would make sense for him to try to move to the US? Not sure though how easy it would be to get a US license for a Canadian doctor.