skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This discussion got me thinking that it might be possible that storage devices might expose a datum that lets the kernel know if there were any writes since it last saw the storage device. Something like total number of writes to the device, last modified time, or something. I'm just wondering out loud. It really seems safest to reboot the computer to destroy whatever cache one might have.
Encyclopedia's are interesting.

They had to pick and choose what to go into depth on, but when they wanted to go into depth, they would hire the best writers in the field to explain everything really well. Issac Asimov penned more than one encyclopedia article, as did other science fiction authors.

I honestly learned most of my fundamental science knowledge from old 1950s and 1960s science fact books. Asimov in particular has multiple books that explain science really well, down to the level of nuclear fusion and fission, biochemistry, and a lot of other subjects, and I had a few other books in the same vein that were all really old, and really good.

I remember one book that was biographies of famous scientists, it went into depth about Marie Curry and her contributions to science. Reading that ~age 10 certainly impacted my views on gender equality and helped me believe that potential is not limited by gender.

Wikipedia, for all the great things about it, won't really do that. There isn't a Wikipedia page I can point literally anyone[2] at and say "read this and you'll understand the fundamentals of radiation and atomic physics".

I am sure such resources are out there on the web, but the odds of stumbling upon those resources at random is less than the odds of coming across a good science book at random in a thrift store.

That said there are some awesome YT science channels who have worked to fill this gap in quite well, but video sources are different than written sources, with each having their strength. (I read that short 10 or so page biography of Marie Curry probably a half dozen times, not going to do that with a YT video!)

[2] Where anyone is defined as "age 10 and up, with no mathematical background, who wants to be entertained while they read."
Making Game Programming Less Terrible, Jonathan Blow, Reboot Develop 2017
Disagree.Your argument is like why buy Financial Times when all the info is out there for free. Wikipedia,while a brilliant invention on its own, is not, and probably never will be a substitute for Encyclopedia type of sources, including Encarta. Subjects like politics, history, nutrition and medicine are very sensitive ones and there's tons of resources out there that tend to either massage the data,or bend the reality all together,which renders them absolutely unreliable.
Nvidia Clocks World’s Fastest Bert Training Time
the safe network is making good progress lately.you might be waiting another year or two though
This gave me immediate nostalgia for the NES game "Color a Dinosaur" -- thanks for the little trip down memory lane!
This makes me think about when I used to go to the MacWorld convention in San Francisco as a kid in the early 90's. My mom would take me out of school every year to go (just for the expo hall, we didn't have enough money to actually go to the conference).

I was just overwhelmed by all the different software on offer, and would load up my bag with free samples and spec sheets for software I had no legitimate need for as a 10 year old, but I ate it all up. I would ride the BART home after, just pouring over my loot and being so excited to try the demos at home.

I went a few times after the internet took off, and it just wasn't the same. Who needs demos from an expo hall, when you can just download everything? There was nothing new to see at the hall, everything could be seen from your home just by visiting a url.

I love the world with the internet, but there certainly has been something lost.
nah, the XML people are just keeping quiet because no one likes hearing 'I told you so'
Did you self-authorize yourself for hyperlinking your site?

I cannot see an exception for founders in the "Hyperlinking to our Content" of "Terms":

https://alphacap.ai/terms
Prefix search in dropdown boxes is one of those small UX features that every self-respecting desktop UI kit has had since the antiquity, long before the term "UX" was even a thing. It is also something that's missing in almost all naive web-based custom dropdown components.

However, its discoverability is almost nonexistent, and it's rather awkward to use because you don't see what you're actually typing. How fast should I type before the builtin timeout erases the buffer? How do I know if I made a typo? Does backspace work? And so on. Blind typing and trying to second-guess the logic behind the feature is not very fun.
a) Investment banks don't believe that number is completely accurate

b) China has used a lot of reserves propping up offshore RMB.

c) It's a lot more complicated than that.

d) 1.2 trillion in dollar debt has to be rolled over just this year

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-06/china-...
do you believe africa was some peaceful wakanda-like utopia before europeans arrived? arabs got there first anyway.
If you document via design logs and decision logs, then you don't need to document every line of code because its already done in the design log. If something unforeseen arises, then you have a discussion, make note on the outcome in a decision log and move on. That is, the documentation logs proposed decisions and outcome decisions, which should contain enough context that you can read them in isolation. Then you don't need to worry about documenting as you're coding or documenting the code.

If you diverge too far from the original design, you should probably have a rationale as to why, that gets reviewed by others: another design log and decision log.

These documents don't need to be long either, just a couple of sentences for each of context, what you propose, impact on other teams or systems, decision made may be enough for smaller things (so a paragraph or two) and for larger changes, you probably need the detail for everyone to really understand what, why and its impact. The alternative is to do these things blind.

> when they let go of documentation, they don't do the design doc as well, and all that remains of the system is thousands of incoherent stories and huge amount of code.

Absolutely agreed.
> provides me with 625 minutes of work, interspersed with 275 minutes of breaks (provided my workday is 15 hours)

Who the hell works 15 hour workday?
Call it "just function approximation" if you want, but calling it just matrix multiplication removes the only important part, that the matrix's value are found through tiny adjustments made to generalize the empirical distribution of a dataset, and end up approximating it's function
Why is a link to peer reviewed material getting downvoted ?

Not liking the study is one thing but downvoting a link to material without stating a reason is willful ignorance.
Seems like Google Earth is a better match for your interests than Google Maps. I don't know if it's still actively maintained, though... you don't hear much about Google Earth anymore. Not new and shiny and disruptive enough, I guess.
Encarta 97 is the first Microsoft product I ever bought. But I hassled my father to pay for the whole 99$.
Earliest mention and use of Macromedia Flash in my case.
try the following

`date 1>&2 | sleep 1 | date 1>&2 | sleep 1 | date 1>&2`

you'll actually see the three date commands output immediately so the three julia processes would actually launch in parallel if they were in a pipe
I think if you start at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation you'll find everything you need. It's not all in a single linear article, but that's mostly a strength of the Wikipedia style.
A huge portion of Wikipedia data is from the CIA's World Fact Book, which is public information. I wonder if combining that with a 3D rendering of the globe could be a viable product...
This is an excellent point and something I'd like to see discussed more broadly. Gzipping and minimizing assets pales in comparison to simply not sending a bulk of the content to begin with. It would be great if browsers could set a header value when requesting a page, and if supported, the server could respond with content that's already in what would otherwise be the so-called reader format.
The thing about Encarta to me is that it felt so much more interactive than what we have today.

Nowadays we read a Wikipedia article or watch a Youtube video on a topic but never interact with the content. It's all very passive. I was a child during the heyday of Encarta and I remember I had it and a few other specialized encyclopedias (one about animals, one about sea life, one about dinosaurs!!) and they were all interactive. I miss this about computers. Not all things have to be a game or passive which is what I see nowadays when a child has a screen in front of their face.
I still remember using one of the earliest Encarta versions and seeing a tiny postage stamp sized video animate and play some half broken wav file for the first time. I remember it hitting me like a baseball bat: we can do VIDEOS on computers now! This will change everything! TV is going to die because there are no ads on computers!
At least in my area Spectrum/TWC service has 400 mbps down and 20 mbps up. Still not great but far better than the old days.
Development of high quality async support in Rust is happening right now, so remember to wear a hard hat. ;-) I like to watch https://areweasyncyet.rs/ and https://this-week-in-rust.org/ to see where things are.
"Alan, friend of Archer, defender of all Gorgonites, Keeper of Encarta..."

I remember when I first popped an Encarta 1995 CD into a computer and watched an incredibly terrible clip of something (I believe it was the Hindenburg blowing up). My mind was blown.
When I was a kid, my grandmother brought home a cardboard box with a 4-5 mis-matched volumes of encyclopedias in it. Always a bookworm, I could read an article about any subject in them and be content for hours.

You can imagine my joy when, omewhere around 1991 or 1992, we got a new computer in the library at school. It was a dedicated station for the encyclopedia, and it was even set up in the same location as the printed ones were.

My faded memory recalls it being Compton's Encyclopedia. It ran on an 286 IBM PS/2 (the all-in-one unit), and it had a mouse, external CD-ROM, and a laser printer. The rumor was that it cost $10,000. It wasn't fast, it probably took closed to a minute to search for, and then retrieve an article.
I worked with Sched.com this week based on your feedback and that link is now https. Thanks.
By 'radically' I mean the fastest possible - short of writing a single blob in C integrating an http server.

Since I want to keep it modular, the db part with sqlite is already optimal. Now I need the app on par : statically typed, compiled.
> We’ve all owned flash memory cards that have stopped working for no apparent reason.

MicroSD cards and SSD drives use exactly the same technology (NAND flash memory), so it’s a mystery to me that microSD cards are unreliable, but SSD drives are extremely reliable. Genuine SanDisk cards have failed on me for no apparent reason, but I’ve never had a problem with SSD drives with much greater usage.
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Faster than what? A tiny chip will be slower than a large chip.
My raspberry pi 3 cannot do that even with all driver blobs installed plus a cooler. That internet lie has to stop, many people buy these devices just to be amazed at how bad they are for what they intended them to be in their household.
They definitely have many applications, but multimedia is not one of them.
Not really. You still have to handle the tablet, and it's just more of a hassle to interact with (a piece of paper is a lot less fragile). A stylus will just get lost within the first day (we use laptops that in theory have a stylus, but I've never actually seen one... just an empty hole in the side of the laptop).
I'm not against fluoridation, but it does seem weird that we're so certain about these things...until we're not.

Shouldn't we stop doing one-size-fits-all medication and actually expand access to toothpaste & dentists?
I would also add that I miss Microsoft Cinemania (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Cinemania), which was to IMDB what Encarta was to Wikipedia.

The sad bit is that in some ways Cinemania in 1997 was superior to IMDB as it is today. IMDB is more comprehensive, but Cinemania was better designed and more fun to just browse through.
That's what the article is pushing for:

"Consider whether static rendering or server rendering can get you 90% of the way there. It's perfectly okay to mostly ship HTML with minimal JS to get an experience interactive."

In other words, just serve some HTML so your users can read your content.

On the other hand, your newspaper writers still need to get paid and unless you're a subscriber, that means ads and cruft on your page for ads.
> disturbing predictions on how all these personal data warehouses could be used to digitally enslave us

When I read about trends like the one discussed in this thread, I feel that those who exclude based on technology preferences are more "enslaved" than I could ever be by giving Google my data. Their social behavior is directly controlled by the whims of a large corporation. I understand that it's a product issue but I have a hard time imagining that Apple will do anything to make the whole ecosystem better without benefiting themselves first. Only reason to help Android fit in better is to compete with Facebook, and Messenger probably isn't a big enough competitor right now to trigger a response. So until competition becomes an issue, Apple will continue promoting social exclusion to the detriment of society and likely the mental health of teens, who are already experiencing more depression than prior generations. How is that better than data collection?
I certainly agree on the benefits of curation.

Using google was awesome before SEO.

I never really used Encarta deeply - I bought my Misumi CD-ROM reader in like 1994, without a bundle.
But how else will your compiler tell you that you mistyped 55? /s
If this turns out to be true, I hope they'll take a closer look at the relationship between Fluorine and Iodine. My guess is the fluorine has effects that mimic iodine deficiency and perhaps increasing iodine can counter the negative effects of the fluorine. Women also need more Iodine than men, though I'm not sure if that's true at age 4 but it might explain the sex difference as well.
Does Kubernetes really need to be as complicated as it is?
> Because in case of congestion (let's say everybody gets allotted 50 KB/s) you can't even watch video.

You can watch video at 500 kbps perfectly fine.

> Dozens of users trying to watch video at 50 KB/s aren't even watching video; they're just launching a DDoS attack.

So, you are saying the problem is with people who can't watch video, but do watch video anyway, despite the impossibility? Or are you saying that people who can't watch video, and therefore don't watch video, are congesting the network by not watching video? I can't really figure out what your claim even is.

> I'd be very happy to throttle them to 1 KB/s so I don't have to wait 10 seconds to receive a picture through Whatsapp.

OK, I understand that you would like to get preferential treatment. That's fine, but does not particularly convince me.

> You're arguing against the laws of physics here,

Which law of physics exactly?

> and you're arguing that stupid users should be able to screw everybody else. No thanks.

How is getting the same amount of resources as everybody else for paying the same price as everybody else "screwing everybody else"?

Really, it seems to me like you are simply repeating a completely unjustified claim over and over in different wording ... you might want to consider that repeating a claim does not make it more convincing, especially if you don't address objections.
Please don’t post misinformation. Exponential growth (population or otherwise) is a tired economic trope. The frontier days are over, please update your views to modern times like the past 70 years or so where growth is much more limited than the frontier days and is fairly linear—probably due to the fact that the economy (especially the USA) is a mature system and you can’t so easily apply unnuanced econ101 generalizations (from the previous century) about the lump of labour fallacy to today’s system.

You incorrectly imply that tech jobs will expand organically in a frontier-like or exponential fashion as happened in the past. That doesn’t actually happen in the tech sector. Tech companies seek to exclude alternative hire options from other STEM fields (engineering, science, etc.) because those alternatives would not be as cost efficient. Instead the tech jobs grow linearly (like most mature industries and systems) and only by the annual cap on visas being granted.

How you can tell that there is no absolute shortage of tech labor is that the number tech jobs never grows beyond the visa cap. If there were a shortage, companies would find more creative ways to exceed the cap limits like the above mentioned alternatives or creating training factories to increase the supply to meet organic needs/demand.

So while this mature system is not necessarily a fixed lump of labour, the mature constraints that apply seem to limit any organic growth to the current regime we find ourselves in. That is to say that companies constrain the tech labour system to their very skewed preferences instead of organic growth, and as a result the economic pie is growing less and less, and there is more and more competition over slice distribution. Incumbents are absolutely in direct competition with foreign labour and there is less overall growth to share equitably. Again, not a fixed lump of labour, but increasingly competitive to the point of very limited growth from within.
He was asking about the implications for yields. Do you route around bad dies/cores, and what are the implication for programming and performance?

For everyone else: normally a wafer is divded into dies, each of which (loosely) are a chip. Yield is a percentage of good parts and it's very unlikely that an entire wafer is good. Gene Amdahl estimated that 99.99% yield is needed for successful wafer scale integration:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer-scale_integration
I wonder what kind of C++ you've been writing.

Memory safety is much less of an issue than it used to be. When you use spans over raw arrays (or vectors etc.) - you can have bounds checking; if you use std::array - you won't make invalid accesses. As for memory management - that's essentially a solved problem, you just use smart pointers, and generally not allocate yourself.

It's true that you _can_ shoot yourself in the foot with C++; but it's becoming increasingly more difficult to do so unintentionally.
If you're willing to exclude D because it "lacks momentum", Go because you'd "like to avoid it", and Rust because it's "too unfamiliar", then you're really out of options. I don't think there exist any other performant, popular, compiled languages that are similar to Javascript; all of them fail one of your criteria or another:

- Haskell: very fast but probably more "unfamiliar" to you than Rust

- Common Lisp: fast, very stable, easier than Haskell (semantics similar to Python/Javascript) but definitely not mainstream

- FORTH: very fast but memory-unsafe and semantically+syntactically almost polar opposite of most popular languages
If you allow anyone to send you files over the air without authenticating you or them, there is no way to prevent the files from being modified in transit.
When I see a headline like this my instinct is to jump to "overfitting".

In a study like this they use P=0.05 as their cut off for significance. One in 20 such studies would be expected to give meaningless results. But they had the choice of cohort (all kids or boys and girls separately), so 1 in 10. They measured urine concentrations of fluorine at three time points during pregnancy, which makes for 7 different potential combinations of input variables, for a total of 14 different potential analyses, where 1 in 20 is expected to be significant. Of course, they didn't preregister, so who knows whether their analysis changed on the fly..
While the theoretical innovations have mostly been incremental, there has been a lot of progress in the development of "light" deep learning frameworks - so the tasks that previously required massive GPUs can now run on your phone. And this trend will continue.
Thanks for the suggestion. Not really looking to add another subscription to the budget at the moment though.
But what is the "main text" and who has the definitive copy?

At first glance, most people would think of chapter text and headings but even that can vary from edition to edition and printing to printing and country to country and translation to translation. How are typos/corrections handled and who has the right to make them?

Then we need the schema/structure for the content. And that schema has to preserve whitespace because while it's not important most of the time, other times it's vital like in poetry. Obviously, we need to be careful of character encodings too.

But most artists and writers consider their "work" to not just be the final product itself but the things that go around it like cover art, dedications, etc.

At first glance, this is an "easy" problem but gets ugly quickly. It's also fascinating though.

* I spent a few years at the Library of Congress working on their digital preservation project so lived and breathed these questions. When we worked with records (as in the musical kind), the album and cover art was just as important as the actual music most of the time.
Basically it can be summed up to "don't optimize until you've identified the critical paths"
Also things like the globe or the timeline mentioned in the article would be great to add to wikipedia. Being able to quickly pull up a timeline of battles mentioned on wikipedia that took place or involved a certain country could be neat. Similar things on the globe could illustrate a lot of things.
i don't particularly speak any romance language, but that being said, i still more or less had a vague understanding of what was being said. granted, there was a period of my life where I studied several different world languages, back when I was obsessed with linguistics, and even though I don't speak really any of them with any fluency, it would seem that through osmosis i at least gained an appreciation of some fundamental etymological patterns across those languages
Most of the items on that guy's "todo" list wouldn't even qualify as "work" for me. For me meaningful work can only be accomplished in uninterrupted chunks of 2 hours or longer. There's so much mental context, and it's so complicated, it takes a lot of time to rebuild it. I do gnarly low level C/C++ and assembly (for Intel, ARM and MIPS). "Write a blog post", "clean up one note". If I used One Note or wrote blog posts, those would just be background tasks while stuff compiles or tests/benchmarks run.
Interesting you get downvoted for stating we should question everything to include authority.

Thought science was all about questioning and reconfirming truth as more knowledge is obtained
The power numbers are a bit confusing. It is stated that the sub is powered by two 380MW nuclear reactors. It almost doesn't make sense that a submarine can output as much power as a large power station. Though, the reactors power appears to be thermal and not electrical.

At 746 watts to a horsepower 760MW is pretty much 1,000,000 horsepower. But the stated shaft horsepower (shp) driving the props is given at 80,000 shp which is a 1/10th the output of each reactor. Granted there are losses and the rest of the ship needs power but not 90%.