skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be an interesting language, are you proposing an efficient coding style for that matter when it comes to complex project?

How is this different than C, Python, Ruby, Swift and Kotlin?
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The architecture doesn't change but the way it works often changes dramatically with scale.
Huh. I didn't know the Rocky Mountain states were overwhelmingly white, either.
I agree.

But we aren't just surrendering our rights to fear and alarmism.

We are surrendering our rights to authoritarians (and they are bi-partisan, by the way).
The realistic way?

I think something like this: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/harvard-geoengineering-par...

So, some kind of geoengineering
No, but really, why? I am not putting it down. I just don’t understand what is happening exactly, and the why might help.
This isn't really incompatible with GP's point. It's really hard to be a global telecom spy network when you're nobody wants to buy your equipment because it's overpriced and low-quality...

In fact, that would give the beneficiary government a lot of incentive to advance your interests with something like a state-sponsored IP theft program and massive subsidies
The media reporting about helicopter parents might be way out of proportion:

https://www.salon.com/test/2015/09/04/debunking_the_myth_of_...
It would roughly take 10 years to make why difference.
This was the most interesting and realistically prescient part of the novel for me. Coastal elites have "editors" to curate their feed, while the rest of the population are awash with conspiracy theories, cults and extreme libertarianism. The story took the 2016 election shenanigans to its logical conclusion. Definitely worth a read.
The thing is that they ARE bad folks in much the same way that the Cigarette companies were and are bad folks. We needed people that are better folks than you or I that are capable and willing to suffer personal hardship to make the world a slightly less shitty place.
I think you don't understand the goals Hal has, and lays out pretty explicitly in the paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.08555.pdf):

1. Be able to replace very complex template dispatch mechanisms with simple JIT ones.

Your suggestion is not possible, because you can't compile it once (maybe you can compile it a ton of times though!)

That is, unless someone has implemented a very very ridiculous set of dynamic detection and dispatch mechanisms, and your compiler supports changing microarchitecture/etc optimization
per function or you split it out/ifdef it and compile the same file 5000 ways.

Even then, you will likely miss something the JIT will not, and you will be unable to support new architectures/microarchitectures without recompiling.

2. Be able to JIT things without changes to application source code.

3, Be able to easily integrate things like CUDA into the JIT model.

(FWIW: Hal is a very long time and well respected LLVM contributor, so he generally wouldn't suggest something trivially stupid :P)
This seems factually wrong. I haven't checked the data, but Netflix has been streaming for like a decade, and while they've increased the price from time to time it's hardly been annually.

I think what I've paid has gone from $8 to $13 in 10 years?
> In terms of human history, he's right. 6th-century BCE was not very long ago at all: that's less than a mere 3000 years. Humans have been around for over 2 million years.

3000 years is certainly long enough to take something out of "fad" status. I would challenge you to find another diet that follows specific rules that has been around for longer.

> Also, he's right about the skeletal record: archaeology shows that humans lost about 1 foot of height when they switched to agriculture.

Again - making broad, sweeping evolutionary correlations does not an argument make. You have absolutely no idea what specific shifts in eating, living or working habits resulted in skeletal changes. These are the same weak arguments proponents of the Paleo and Atkins diets make. Could you make a case for dietary changes effecting our evolution at the time? sure. Could you point to vegetarianism as the cause? Good luck with that.

> Yes, much of India is vegetarian, but Indians tend to be pretty short, but then when they emigrate to western nations and adopt more western diets, their kids end up dwarfing them.

Yet again with the generalizations. If we humor this for a moment, there is a much stronger argument for the correlation[3][4][5][6] of poverty levels[1] and height[2] than there is for levels of vegetarianism. In fact, there is data to show the opposite[7][8]. Poor diet in general results in impaired growth, not vegetarianism. I'm not even sure what you could argue would be missing in a vegetarian diet that would effect bone growth as most point to calcium in milk and vegetarians can drink milk...

1. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-the-population-l...

2. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/average-height-of-men

3. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

4. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-children-height-po...

5. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-17880-3

6. https://adc.bmj.com/content/archdischild/76/5/463.full.pdf

7. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1855500

8. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9023462
I've seen claims that Disney movies (including Pixar and Marvel) are only going to be on Disney+.

What I've not seen is if that means that they will no longer show up on the Disney-owned cable channels like Disney XD and FXX, or it just means that they won't show up on non-Disney streaming services.

I don't have kids, so it is not imperative that I stay current with Pixar and Disney animation, so I've just been waiting until they show up on cable. They are currently up to their 2016 releases (same for their Marvel and Star Wars movies).
I'm not following this logic.

You're claiming that the only reason anyone would kill is if they feel a credible threat to their own life, but this simply isn't true. People kill for all sorts of other reasons. Lynch mobs were primarily driven by these other reasons, not primarily by reasons that boil down to self-defense.
> a given CO2 level determines a rate of global heating

This IS the greenhouse effect. Increased levels of greenhouse gasses result in a warmer planet over time as Earth reflects less solar energy back into space. This warming leads to many known runaway feedback loops: increased wildfires that release more CO2 and destroy natural carbon sinks, reduced albedo from ice melt, increased moisture in the atmosphere, warmer oceans leading to less carbon sequestration by phytoplankton, methane release from ice melts.

There are more. Please read some recent literature to understand this better than anyone can summarize on HN. I recommend The Uninhabitable Earth
I'd say MJ has a pretty good case for not guilty by reason of insanity.

And I don't mean that as a jab. I really think he was so messed up by his abusive upbringing and subsequent life that he may not have been fully accountable.

"Affluenza" on steroids.
I recently bought a turntable and some records. Maybe its the tactile feel of the record or maybe it's the lack of a skip button, but it really does feel better listening to physical media.

I predict we will see the backlash against digital media become mainstream soon.
Verizon demands $880 from rural library for just 0.44GB of roaming data
Emails are optional on reddit.
Electric motor design claims remarkable improvements
If you make things up, anything is possible. How about this possibility, which is actually supported by real, known facts?

Huawei began with simple equipment they could manufacture cheaply, made money, and have invested in R&D to move up the value chain. Recognizing that Huawei is an important Chinese tech company, the Trump administration is holding it hostage in the trade negotiations. Americans are now being bombarded with piece after piece of vague innuendo about the company, insinuating (without any evidence, of course) that it's secretly a state-owned spying operation.

That's another possibility.
Quote from the Readme:

> Why not?
I came here for this. I'm not a native English speaker, but I do not speak Chinese, so between the two I would certainly prefer English. In any case I totally agree that this push for a non American based OS is the fault of the current administration, and it might well be this push for non American based OSs will be regarded as one of the worst outcomes of current policies.
Writing out umm instead of thinking it and saying u when you mean "you" aren't the artifacts of different nationalities and the way they communicate. They are the artifacts of lower quality English language communities like facebook.

The post is jarring because it says nothing of substance and it says it badly. Prompting people to communicate better is worth doing.
They address this in the README.

https://github.com/pcgrosen/bashfs#why
It seems to use image recognition of buildings and other features. When I tried it a few days ago, it shows sparkly dots on surrounding things and even shows an image overlay of a building and suggests you line it up with surrounding buildings.
Don't see much difference than something like

$ cat <(my_favorite_script)
> "Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco," which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of a High Misdemeanor, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars." <

Good luck telling that to the Hells Angels. Their patches read "Frisco."
What do u make of james joyce? Shakespeare? Chaucer? Or...to the lighthouse? Written English?
Chrome Remote Desktop Is Down
I know a lot more people that have lost crypto because they lost their keys than people who lost it on Coinbase.
So a Korean, who probably knows more about the topic of Korean culture than the average American HN reader, gives their view and somehow these other readers think they know better and downvote him/her?

Typical HN attitude really ... people on this board seem to have this "know it all / know it better than you" attitude even when they clearly don't.

As someone who is not a Westerner or American, this place always makes me feel that it is just a self validating echo chamber being so sure of your views even when it isn't matched to reality.
The tensegrity sphere is definitely an interesting idea for sure. I like the ideas that fuller presented overall because it really shows the essence of innovation - you must first see the vision in your head for it to become a reality. Then you determine if it is realistic to build and so on but it is all the same - you must see the vision.
It actually does not allow you to walk and use it at the same time. It is meant for stopping, getting your bearings, and then putting your phone down and continuing on your way.

It definitely would be useful in unfamiliar, dense urban environments where maybe the streets are a bit too close together to easily distinguish on an overview map.
Sorry to hear that, but gotta ask: Do you think a camera would’ve prevented the abuse? Or maybe would it have happened somewhere out of view of a camera?
We will enter an era where you make a bundle subscription to all these services (Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, etc.) And then your monthly payment gets distributed by the streaming services based on the ratio of watching content from each one of them. This is technically doable now, so seems like the best subscriber/subscription-provider option possible.
Huh. I had a phone screen scheduled for next week. The recruiter emailed me to say they had some updates to share. I guess this is it...
Maybe, but this event happened in my company. It is not from the media.
>Countries are not defined exclusively by biological descent

This has become "true" in just the last ~50 years, and only marginally so.

>...nor is it even practically true, since negative natural growth with positive population growth had been observed in countries.

Only with substantial immigration is this the case, which brings with it a whole host of other potential problems.
> Huawei has grown because it has been able to offer similar or better networking equipment as competitors for lower prices.

You mean flat out copy Cisco and then undercut them in developing markets? In the early 2000s i remember seeing a Huawei manual that was a legit photo copy of a Cisco IOS manual with just the names blocked out.
Some media and banking websites I visit too. I think devs are simply not bothering to test their sites with FF.
Since Blockbuster went bankrupt charging €1 and €1.50 it should be pretty obvious that's not a fair price either. Blockbuster was losing $1 billion a year charging those prices.
That would be so good. Also one of the few places I could see blockchain actually being useful.
Oh wow, how would we know that some corporate lobbyists or worse some government agency is not monitoring HN right now and propagating their agenda here in comment section.
How can we detect that and how can we trust anyone else ?
I take issue with "lower quality". Who is wise enough to judge? I say English is exactly how i write it. Or speak it. English is not stagnant. The epitome of high quality in your head now. Will be as quaint as chaucer in time to come.
> Also the stamp has to be registered to have legal value, which makes it tough to change.

This is not actually true. Some stamps need to be registered (for example the stamp for corporation), but personal stamps for most applications don't need to be registered -- even for bank accounts. I have several and I'm always forgetting which one I used for my different bank accounts :-P.

One of the strange things about Japanese stamps is that if you let someone have your stamp, then it is considered that you have given them permission to do whatever they want with that stamp. The very fact that they have the stamp means that they are authorised. I got very angry at my previous employer (the government, no less) when my contract was over. They demanded that I give them my stamp I had used for stamping my time card. It happened to be the one I used for my bank account too (because I was clueless at the time!) It took me a couple of months to work around that. If you are ever working in Japan, treat your hanko (stamps) exactly the same way you would treat your encryption keys: use a different one for each application if possible.
> everything to do with proper nutrition, vegetarian or not

Exactly. It's like the unending articles that point to negligent "vegan" parents as the cause of child deaths/underdevelopment when they fed them super extreme, restrictive diets that just happen to be able to fit into the rules of veganism. You can get poor nutrition and technically follow the rules of many diets, but that isn't necessarily a reflection on the diets themselves, but on poor nutrition awareness.
Ahhh interesting, nice catch. I guess it's occasionally used.
In my experience the stack traces from Elixir (or even Erlang) are pretty useful. Sure there isn't a full stack trace back to a main function however that really isn't different than a framework with any level of indirection. Given the choice between a C#/Java stacks trace 40 lines deep and a BEAM stacktrace of only 6 lines I'll take the latter. Even better you get both the value of the last received message and the state of the process in the stack trace makes reproducing an issue simple.

Based on what you're saying given the lack of inspectability it sounds like you haven't tried out some of the introspection capabilities of BEAM. Maybe you have, but I've seen little that compares to the Observer module that comes included in a language. Realtime introspection of processes and the ability to see the message queue for any process makes inspecting the whole system very interactive and powerful.

There's a point that message passing lowers max performance, but given the rise of multicore processors it's pretty powerful platform. Future hardware likely could weaken memory coherency between cores which could be taken advantage of by BEAM. Overall it takes a different mindset to work well with Erlang philosophy IMHO.
It won’t, it’s going to be another nuclear winter in Silicon Valley.
> Attorney General William Barr said in a speech last month that encrypted messaging services allow "criminals to operate with impunity." The cost of encryption is “ultimately measured in a mounting number of victims — men, women and children who are the victims of crimes, crimes that could have been prevented if law enforcement had been given lawful access to encrypted evidence,"

This disgraceful, emotionally manipulative statement is an obvious lie. Police/FBI/etc have have access to far more information about criminals than any point in history. The average person (criminals included) leaves behind an incredible amount of "digital exhaust". They should be able to build a complete pattern-of-life easily with 3rd party data (e.g. ad tracking), various side channels, and the massive amount of metadata[1] recorded every time criminals used their phone.

Of course, using all of that data to find a criminal requires actual detective work specific to each case. Encryption (especially on a phone examined after a crime) isn't preventing law enforcement from investigating crimes; it is, however, harder to automate. This anti-encryption argument is really about automated mass surveillance, not finding specific criminals.

[1] "We kill people based on metadata" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdQiz0Vavmc
There are parts of San Diego near the border, where the only network a phone receives is from a Mexican carrier, while being inside U.S. territory. Racking up roaming fees from auto-updates and background app execution is a common occurrence
Ah but it's not amplification, it's maximalization. Anonymous ubiquitous propaganda!
To me it shouldn't be a question of whether you trust your employees - obviously it makes for a better working relationship if you do, but I think there's a more fundamental issue here, which is "I don't trust my system"

If you fully trust the system you're building (and that trust is well-placed, meaning you can _prove_ the lack of significant exploits/vulnerabilities) then you should have no issue allowing others to try and poke holes in it

The usual caveat is that untrusted employees with sufficient access could potentially wreak havoc, but I would argue that if you really trust your system, and define the boundaries of your system well enough (i.e. to also encapsulate the issuance and management of all permissions relating to the system), then you can effectively limit the ability of malicious actors to break things or otherwise amass control
Where's the proof that this so-called fallacy is indeed a fallacy? After reading the wiki description it seem to me that while the core idea is true, this theory is overreaching in trying to explain away for example the impact of immigration on the job market.

You're ignoring a very important detail - the quality of jobs. Only if people lower their standards enough will there be as many jobs as people that want to work. A significant number of those jobs will be (nearly) worthless, causing other social issues.

Disguising a lack of jobs as "not enough entrepreneurs" or "too much regulation" is simply a malicious semantic trick.
Hahaha that's a funny one but (at the risk of just adding a new comment that'll get just as downvoted) I've seen the movie so I know which one is real.
And right now, we're still turning up the gas more and more.
I'm very torn with this. Empress trees are invasive.
> Westerners generally only get this due to Malabsorption

Exactly. It's not really a "protein deficiency" as much as it is a "nutritional deficiency". You can easily get enough protein even if you just eat vegetables (for example) as long as you get enough calories.
If you log into gmail via Edge, Google will pop-up a div [1] and email you an ad [2] to push you onto Chrome. Prioritization is not an excuse when they're actively writing code inside gmail to push users off of non-Chrome browsers.

1: https://twitter.com/ridiculous_fish/status/10810743891336806...

2: https://twitter.com/ridiculous_fish/status/10810743910169108...
They "flat-out copied" an implementation of strcmp. Not exactly Earth-shattering. Not as serious as copying, say, the entire Java API.

Any evidence they copied Cisco hardware? Did they copy anything substantial?
Of course. It's always going to be much more costly than not emitting it in the first place, and that isn't profitable.
Ryugyong Hotel: The Story of North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom'
I dunno what the world needs. But i think its interesting that she thinks criticism is a 1 way street. She can criticise monsanto. Thats it?
Why would they cannibalize their TV network for some online play by significantly making their Disney channels worse? I can’t see any strategy in doing that...especially after they spent so much time resisting the idea (aka economics) of internet streaming.
It's not cryptic, just completely OT in a tech forum. He means the price of a bullet.
I don’t know why (maybe it’s the shape or something...) but this thing elicits a strong desire within me to run it over with my pickup. Then incinerate the remaining pieces with a boring company flame thrower.
Why You’re Probably Not Getting Married Anytime Soon
Some towns in LA mounted those on their traffic lights around the edge of town. Yep.
It isn’t just detective work, it is personnel with the skills to identify and pursue likely evidence.

Digital forensics is way outside typical leo training and believe it or not you can make a lot more money in the private sector with IT training.

Local, state and federal case loads get backlogged behind, leaving the highest priority cases to get staffed.
I think HN like ALdaily has a curated "you can't bottle it" quality. They might add another, or pass it on and ... It would change.

Don't change.
A response to this: https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/non-peer-reviewed-ma...
There are 2.3 million Americans in prison.
The best part is the general tolerance of the guy and the good humour it was taken in.

No outrage from the public or overreaction from the law over some harmless old guy making a symbolic gesture. The frontier sounded like my kind of people.
Is there any way this can be useful for something? Or is it just a fun experiment with FUSE?
Is NPS truly 'the growth marketer’s secret weapon'?
> Blockbuster was losing $1 billion a year charging those prices.

Blockbuster was also running bricks-and-mortar stores, and buying physical DVDs, and replacing them when they broke/wore out/weren't returned. A digital "rental", on the other hand, has basically zero marginal cost.
Why not? :-D
We've come so far as a society, it's amazing.
But yes. Doing things like not starting sentences with "because". Not writing down the ums n ers. Seem to go well with old folks.
Nothing in your post is technically wrong, but if you give ideas and semantics equal weight (or heaven forbid, give semantics greater weight) you're going to miss out on a lot of valuable human diversity and potentially the true meaning of someone's speech or writing.
If done well, how would something like that ever be possible to detect? Unfortunately, well-resourced malicious actors can stack the decks :( I now question every time I saw fairly vehement defense of Monsanto in comments sections and wonder if that defense was at least inspired by paid internet commenters and posters, even if it wasn’t directly them. Who really controls the narrative?