skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Java reversed that route around Java 5 when they added a crapton of language features (generics, annotations, autoboxing, enumerations, varargs, foreach) that considerably increased its complexity and made Java to not be just a very simple OOP language. Before that Java had very minimal changes in the language itself and all enhancements were on the library side.

All the forces around (and especially outside but still influencing it) Go seem to push it alongside the same path. So far the Go designers are resisting bloating the language, but i wonder for how long that will be the case. There is this mindset that a language can never be good enough and stick with its existing features but instead it must always get new features - which ends on an inevitable bloat. This sort of need for featuritis is like locusts moving from one project to another.
Have fewer children.
Experiments in Computational Metaphysics: Gödel’s Proof of God’s Existence [pdf]
How to structure a multi-file C program
Doesn't work either. In some districts, one candidate got more votes than actual ballots because some were 'accidentally scanned more than once.' In those situations, since the counts are off, the original vote stands.

So, just make sure you throw out all your extra ballots and you're fine.

Edit: 2016 US General
Yes almost all policy making / war efforts are created from realpolitical or resource oriented goals.

It's the old orders of power and the conglomeration of
corporate entities that actually create the shooting script for various events including the creation of a border wall.

The identity politics or the thin veneer of hollywoodesque narratives above most especially foreign policy is just exactly that, fantasy, while it's the military-industrial complex that in reality drafts the plans together with PR companies.

Look for example at military historian Gwynne Dyers's talk here from 2010 both foreshadowing the refugee crisis, Syrian War and the border wall all from climate extrapolation without the identity-smokescreen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc_4Z1oiXhY

The whole border issue is extremely muddy though as it's not classically right-wing to protect the working classes from wage dumping by not letting millions of people in but has become a left-wing issue because class consciousness and economic policy has mostly been replaced with superficial identity based issues because they are allowed by the status quo. This is because they don't interfere with the increase in inequality and fall in real-wages happening in plane sight while pop-leftwingers are busy screaming about identity based issues (not that those aren't important).

From a resource perspective one could argue that the ever more transnationally oriented elite couldn't give two f's about protecting the sovereignty of yesterdays empires and nation states - but i think the US is still seen as a very valuable asset because a somewhat stable country with a large middle class is still important in a global system of resource extraction and exploitation - and also as a buffer around the US military which in essence is just a mercenary army created to protect US corporate assets and interests.

All in all, the border will be created no matter who is president because the plan has been laid out in military circles for decades , because climate change has never actually been tabu in the corporate intelligentsia as we also see in the Exxon papers from 50 years ago. It's all part of a plan to squeeze as much value out of the global capitalist ponzi scheme and protect US assets just up until everything turns into chaos.
Exxon has known this together with most other elite wealth management entities - that is why the next step is border walls with machine guns and watchtowers, then a short balkanisation with feudal rule and mercenary armies protecting the elite before everything collapses and the private jets are pointed towards a new Antarctica or new Zealand bunkers.

If this sounds conspiratorial look no further than to Jeff Bezos statement this week that his space travel efforts are very much because he knows we are headed for total collapse of earth ecosystems. Thiel, Bezos, Musk, the Rothhcild family, Saudi Aramco or whoever are all very much aware of the coming collapse and fragmentation - this is why they all invest heavily in "let's get of earth or into the ground" tech.
It reads like no one had any sense of how well they would do on the test. So people guessed they'd be slightly above average which is a good prior for a group of Ivy league students. This lead to the lowest being "overconfident" and the best being "under confident". Designing good studies is hard.
That's a bad idea and Windows is still experimental.
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say: If people didn't have to do work that gets paid, then they wouldn't do the work that society needs/wants them to do. To the degree that markets work, money incentivizes people to do work that society feels is important.

A farmer might still plant, but decide to plant flowers instead of food. Or maybe they would plant exotic fruits instead of staple foods.

A programmer might still program, but they might decide to play with algorithm problems instead of developing medical software.
Not that I know of. Stores like IKEA have signs mentioning that transactions over 300 euros must be done by card and don't mention anything else...
Looks like it's time to switch to decentralized git repositories
So the soda tax is working?
That's pretty neat. Are you aware of the weakness though?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreeBallot#Broken_Encryption
Agreed, honestly out of all the different potential blockchain uses this particular solution has always struck me as having the most potential.
People have mentioned public housing, but it's probably more like renting out an apartment that has rent control (where there's a limit on how much the rent is allowed to increase each year). "Public housing" in the US has a connotation of being blocks of apartments/flats that are all managed by a government entity, where rent controlled units may be almost anywhere.

Could also be like Section 8 housing where I believe the landlord gets part of the rent from the government and part from the tenant (disclaimer: never lived in any of these, I could be wrong on details)
Maybe "urge" is too harsh of a word. I find the history of technology fascinating and when my boys encountered old tech they were interested by it. We spent some time playing C64 games and it was good fun (in moderation). The rotary phone and seeing if they can figure it out was funny, vinyl is having a renaissance anyway and audio tapes were just cool when they were a thing.
I think the title needs an edit: "lighting" should be "lightning".
New Hope for One Ugandan Community
The Bayesian Prisoners' Dilemma by Bryan Caplan
Perhaps I'm wrong, but it sounds like your main argument is that current blockchain does presently do these things with the goal of voting in mind, not that it can't do these things.

One benefit of blockchain is allowing extreme accountability, which seems to be a greater and greater requirement of democracy with large populations.
Agreed. I've been keeping a 3:30am-9:30pm schedule for a couple years now and I don't see it working if I had to share a bed, or even a house with a partner. I suppose people have to make certain adjustments if the relationship is worth to them, and most people end up doing so.
Some varieties of Gen IV can use the nuclear waste from previous generations as fuel.
Which just defers the problem. What's underground will eventually be returned to the surface by [insert geological event here]. What will a landfill be in 10,000 years time?
> It isn't even a solution in search of a problem it's a problem in search of a place to explode.

I won't knock blockchain completely, because I don't believe I'm smart enough to, and it likely has many useful applications, but I feel like half the time I hear about blockchain, this quote is applicable.
> How will identification work?

That's the whole problem, and always unsolved (because it's hard). You need to be able to ensure that votes are made by real people, that votes aren't duplicated, and that votes are included in a count. Some of this is easy, some of this is near impossible. None of this is solved by a blockchain, which is at its core simply a remarkably inefficient, if decentralized, timestamping system. When a "blockchain" is presented as a solution, ask why the trustworthiness of timestamping was holding back a particular technology before now.
Slightly off topic, but why isn't a one dollar bank note worth more than one dollar in a bank today?

I have a very basic understanding of how bank works, so please correct me. If banks can only lend based on the reserve, it seems bank note should have more value to the banks.
I can't wait for the news to spin how saving the planet isn't fiscally responsible.
Machine Learning at Spotify (With Gustav Soderstrom) [video]
Excessive self-promotion aside, I think high level documents like this are more important than people give them credit for.

Computer science is:
1) Daunting to beginners
2) Changing constantly

It is absolutely a field where people suffer from "I don't know what I don't know". 100-ft overviews of best practices and new buzz-words are refreshing, in my opinion.

The criticisms I have of this document are all preference. I do not want to watch the podcasts or youtube videos, especially if I just want a high level overview of something. A ctrl-f of 'andreaskayy' returns 12 results. This guy's self promotions is everywhere, which is fine for some people, but it makes me think I'm getting 1 man's opinion on everything, and not an unbiased explanation of different technologies/methods.
Not sure if this article is serious or a joke. 22k/h is quite small and most large enterprises handle this volume easily. Very very small scale. I personally, built a system that routinely would send between 10-20 million daily and doing about 3k/s. I know of systems that send 10x that ie. 100M/day.
> the ads are making thousands of requests downloading hundreds of mbs of who knows what quite often simply crashing the tabs

Where are you going for that to happen? Not only does a tab crashing is extremely rare for me, even on my low 8 GB of RAM which I got 8 years ago. It seems a bit crazy that it happens quite often for you.
Hylang is definitely interesting. I experimented with it an TensorFlow and eventually everything worked OK.

As someone else here mentioned, Python is where most of the deep learning action is. In the end, I settled in using Python for deep learning and use a thin REST service to use my models from Common Lisp or Haskell.

Another approach I used was to convert saved Keras models to something I could import into Racket.

But back to the topic: Hylang is a very cool project and does let you mix Lisp and Python.
> To my climate-skeptic friends: Given that the government is going to regulate carbon, this is the way to do it with least damage.

First, that starts off with a false premise. You don't know that the government is going to regulate carbon.

Second, ignoring the "climate change is a myth" crowd, there are those that believe that we are, at this point, past the point of helping and that we might as well just get on with it and adapt to whatever changes await. That attempts at regulation will just destroy the economy, and thus their place in it, and that ruining the economy and thus untold (b|m)illions of lives that way is not worth the unknown outcome of attempting to save the current state of climate.

This isn't even a "not my problem" situation. I've heard this from folks leaving in a coastal region that already suffers some amount of regular nuisance flooding. It's not as if rising tides will skip over them.

Failing to understand that viewpoint is going to result in two sides yelling past each other. One side thinks we must do everything in our power to preserve nature's status-quo, the other is firmly of the mind that it is an impossibility and to try would be wasted effort with much risk and unclear gain.

Your first task is convincing them of the horrors that await for them.
I'm not familiar with the problems OP is referring to, but from my reading, most issues, in both security and methodology, have revolved around implementation.
I built

Knodium ( Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOPuWi-dbQg ; Technical video: https://media.ccc.de/v/c116_lisp_-_2013-08-25_11:15_-_buildi... (sound comes in after the first couple of minutes))

and

Registers.app ( https://registers.app )

in Chicken ( http://call-cc.org/ )

...and would recommend it.

The community in #chicken on freenode is really quite something. They're happy to help with all sorts of problems, even basic ones and get stuck in over and above expectations when problems get tough and technical.
Is this sarcasm or something else? It's not clear.
Will just go in a different direction. Gordon Moore himself alludes to advanced packaging / 3D configurations in his original 1965 paper:

"It may prove economical to build large systems out of smaller functions, which are separately packaged and interconnected."
The idea that a meaningful tax will be either passed or accomplish anything without being gamed through regulatory capture and corruption is a neoliberal delusion. We need to change the entire economic and political system that is the engine of this insanity.

Only movement based politics is up to the task.
That's fine. Now the first-party and ad peddlers have to work with and trust each other instead of using my machine, my ignorance and my disinterest in their dealings as an intermediary.
Why isn't Russia blocked, then..?
I don't think memory bandwidth is the limiting factor for a modern CPU. If instruction fetching was not only consuming most bandwidth but also dominated it, then there would be little benefit to SIMD if you could just do multiple instructions instead as the bandwidth is taken up anyways (notably in multicore systems).

That plus to my knowledge, there is no single core performance difference at same clock between a 4-core and 12-core CPU in AMD CPUs, which would be the case if instruction fetching is maxing out memory bandwidth.
> I know of systems that send 10x that ie. 100M/day

Is that a spam system?
They weren't too far apart for their times, it took forever for techniques to spread back then, the big issue is the level of accuracy they could get in lens grinding. When you start stacking optical elements and defects in the primary element get compounded by all the elements after it so you need very good lenses to build a usable telescope.
> Let's not confuse events of 18th century and the modern history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tat...
sums it up 100%
Learning and T-Norms Theory
I'd assume that for long time he's an expert in much more than linguistics. Even his colleagues from computer world still assume he's only a linguist, but a man can learn.
This is only done after all data has been collected an analysed (from multiple clinical trials!) and when a company is looking for market authorization. So clearly if anyone wants to alter their data, they would do this prior to submitting their study dossier to the FDA. This has happened time and time again....

It is therefore crucial to make sure data cannot be altered AS SOON AS IT IS COLLECTED. At this point, one would not yet know how to alter the data and if that would steer results in the 'right' direction (researchers are blinded for instance).

So I definitely see value in creating a cryptographic hash of a data point, and immediately registering it in some immutable database (which could be blockchain, or a different solution I suppose)
Is Mill happening? Has there been silicon yet? I have been reading about it for so long, but have not seen any peer reviewed work on it, silicon or soft cores.

I would like to see more exotic architectures out there, but I think I speak for many when I say that I am starting to question if the Mill architecture is going to land in a major way.
Dataspii tl; dr: Firefox extensions are more secure than Chrome
I think the use case that blockchain potentially provides is an electronic version of a paper ledger.

With a database, you require a persistent connection to the database to have integrity. With a blockchain solution, you can build meshes of local connectivity that sync up.

I'm not a specialist in the area, and I don't think that blockchain is an end-all, be-all. But it does potentially add value.
The main reason is probably that 1080p30 is 1580 MBits and USB2 is only 480 MBits, so it has to do decompression.
That's not actually possible in the sense that declaring a day a holiday doesn't actually prevent employers from giving people shifts. If anything, restaurants and stores actually retain more staff during holidays. The only people a holiday would affect would be people working high end jobs that probably wouldn't have issues voting anyways.

Vote by mail and extended voting hours are much more effective solutions for people who otherwise couldn't find the time to vote.
Basically a highly-inefficient method of converting energy. I've looked at the article and the pictures, and what I see is basically slapping a solar cell with a gold mirror backing right near a hot ribbon of graphite - eg we're trying to use highly inefficient incandescence to generate light.

Want to know what works better? Just the simple mix of gold into the p-n junction matrix and finger lines. Takes a silicon solar cell up to about 35% efficiency when properly doped into the junction material.

This technology? Well, given incandescence isn't going to break ~30% efficiency (excepting in the IR-glass-sandwiched tungsten filament) you're literally just wasting energy. Best we've seen in general incan is ~12% efficiency, so enjoy your 30-ish percent of that (4%).

You're better off with other technologies. This is neat, but you're looking at pretty much over-simulating the conditions of a solar cell welding line, which means that solar cell is going to likely bust over time under the heat stress. I foresee tons of problems with this tech, from the incan ribbon breaking to the cell harvesting energy breaking from the heat/cool cycling.
Well, my "net share" in that sense is zero.

'Cos if we don't do it we're dead. Infinite opportunity cost.

I've posted about this before, but thinking in terms of pictures of the queen's face here is really rather daft.
That would not surprise me at all.

I've experienced several third party charging cables that somehow stop working so reliably immediately after an iOS update.

Apple definitely wants as much of the pie as they can get.
No, e-commerce transactional and marketing.
"Maintaining people's quality of life" is already a denial of reality. And "China or India will continue on their current path" as long as our air conditioning, computers, and other objects will be built over there.
Assuming that this is a Cuba, Iran or Syria problem is misleading, even though it renders most of things that I've made in my free time useless.

Having free access to open source code is important. As a developer I'd try to self-host more and try decentralized solutions instead of relying on corporate entites to protect my interests.
Agreed about this not being an exploit, but this is definitely malicious code.
The average car gets what, 12K miles a year? That's about 8 hours a night on average. You could easily get by without a 60A socket, and even if you do have a fast charging socket you're not going to be pulling 50A all night.
Understanding the Python Traceback
As well as early voting, and vote by mail.
THERMOphotovoltaics are limited by Carnot's efficiency. This does not apply to basic pure-photon non-thermal photovoltaics.
You could count the results yourself to double check the outcome with a blockchain-based solution
Trusting a dictatorship to stick to any ideal instead of just using it as a pretext for power is very unwise.

Religious dictatorships didn't lead to peace or even actual embrace of the principles, communist dictatorships didn't help the working class, and green dictatorships won't help the environment.
I've got an immediate idea reference from the movie Interstellar, which shows a drone that supposed to be flying non stop around the globe for X number of years until it had its navigation system hacked by people and then landed.
Mazzucato is brilliant and well worth reading but I'm clear why share buy-backs are any different than dividends from the point of view of balancing shareholder rewards vs reinvestment. The difference is in taxability but that is a separate question.
I would argue that the uses do justify the risks in many cases. Plastic isn’t just one thing, there are myriad polymers and applications for them. I’m not aware of any studies that would place all polymers anywhere near the levels of toxicity of the asbestos family, which has roughly one practical application.
For anyone eager to read something now, Designing Data-Intensive Applications [1] is an excellent and completed book that covers nearly all of the same material with significant depth.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications...
The proposal has a very short statement about implementation. If you think about this very carfully, you realize that part of the compilation speed of go allows you to compile a single package into code without having to leak out all of you abstractions.

If you have contracts/generics then you need to have un-compiled code as part of your exports. Which is a huge break from the current approach.
They're just dipping a toe in the water with a $10k limit. It will necessarily drop as time goes on. Getting the ceiling in place is the hard part. Ratcheting down the cap is easy.
Are you suggesting a way to verify your vote was counted correctly is needed? Wouldn't that provide the ability for folks to sell their vote by being able to show someone else?
Also, if you rely on a third party to do identification for you, you simply don't need a blockchain.

Blockchain is heavily constrained by the vital requirement of not trusting any third party whatsoever. If you relax this, you can build much simpler systems that are equally secure regarding non-repudiation and other properties but doesn't need proof of work.
To quote Rob Pike:

>The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt.

If Google, with its intensive algorithmic interviews, can't manage to hire people capable of understanding something like:

func max(T: Comparable)(a, b T) {
if a < b {
return b
} else {
return a }
}
}

And why we'd prefer that over having to rewrite the function for int8, int16, int32, int64, uint8, uint16..., then what hope is there for anybody else?
> Individual liberties cannot be realized without sanctions and foreign policy.

[Citation needed]. It is not as if sanctions have a stellar record when it comes to promoting individual liberties. Rather the opposite - they entrench the powers that be and give them an opponent that are not themselves that they can blame the hardship of the people on.