skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which part relevant to this article has changed? Python/Ruby still don't have a condition system. They don't have macros. Python added optional declarations recently but the compiler doesn't use them for optimization (or anything else). Generic functions are available as an add-on library, but aren't terribly well integrated. They both have separate debuggers which don't use their own language for debugging.

Python/Ruby do have dynamic redefinition and higher-order functions and a couple other nifty features, but most of the features I see on this page are still unique to Lisp.
The owner of a specific library might or might not.

They could potentially have ... friends ... who would have an interest in seeing a case brought, though.

(And since Bollea, barratry seems acceptable.)
Synchronicity.

I personally came to the same conclusions a week or two ago. Amazon keeps trying to charge me more for less service provided.
Also 11 days ago, with comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20743575
tl;dr: Mozilla has finally put in the effort to multithread their javascript interpreter yet they misattribute the speedup to their language of choice.
Twitter and Google are on completely different planes when it comes to what data and access they have to protect.
Cop Diary
I mean, WebRender and spidermonkey are two separate things.
almost, but not quite, entirely black

hotblack desiato would be proud
And? If you want your company to avoid becoming a headline, you need the best security you can afford.
Muphry's Law in action?
I know i can implement an up-tree or a doubly-linked-list safely just fine. I do not need to have a straightjacket put on me that prevents me from doing that.

If you wish to use it, do. If you want to force your employees to do it, feel free. Telling everyone else how to live their lives and do their jobs is a dick move.
JSC's async-await is constructed on the generator's mechanism so that high performance generator is critical for all the web code using async functions. Not sure how SpiderMonkey is doing.
>I’ve been building apps for Windows for over a decade and this isn’t exactly a problem there.

You 300% completely miss my point. Apps ARE the problem. Especially in the "for Windows" context. Now I need to install 30 different apps to access 20 different sites, and another 40 different apps on my other device that's in a different app eco system.

...versus standardized http and browsers. The entire app eco system in their specific walled incompatible gardens is top to bottom is toxic.

And that's not me pulling a stallman. Every fuckin website and company on every device wants me to install their own app. It's tedious AF at best
That's not what the parent was asking. They were asking if WASM has an FFI interface for runtimes that want to not execute the WASM code entirely sandboxed from the host, but rather want to allow you to dlload(2) code into the OS process hosting the WASM interpreter and call it through WASM ops.

Presumably, https://github.com/CraneStation/wasmtime would benefit from such an FFI API being specified.
You are free to not buy any product or use any service that uses code not written in the language of your choice.
Come on now, Uncle Joe may like little girls but he was very clear on that - he isn't going nuts
> “Western Civilisation” naturally must include Donald Trump, Karl Marx, and Andrea Dworkin.

Marx And Dworkin, at least (and I think the case could be made for Trump, too) were dissenters against what they saw as dominant in their society, so even if we accept that their society must be identical to the whole scope of “Western Civilization”, the fact that they don't, along with Trump, have a single cohesive viewpoint doesn't in any way contradict the idea of Western Civilization as a coherent concept. (In fact, I don't think any of the three would disagree with the idea that patriarchy is deeply embedded in Western Civilization; Dworkin clearly saw that as a problem, Marx & Engels in passing discusses it as an effect of capitalism in the Communist Manifesto, and it seems to be one of the points on which Trump, even if a dissenter in other areas, is quite enamored with about his social milieu.)
Thank you so much! I've already gotten started installing Asterisk and playing around. This has been most helpful!
Its not the software.
Its the outsourcing stupid.
There are a few problems with your conclusions which perfectly highlight why the pyramids are such a mystery.

> I thought the "air holes" were supposed to be a way to fill the cavities with sand, after it was all sealed. Grave robbers would have had to shovel it all out before they could get anywhere.

None of the pyramids on the Giza plateau were graves. It is a myth that any bodies were found in those pyramids.

> I like the notion that they had wooden pieces shaped like the chord of a circle, four pairs strapped on four sides of a block, and then the whole block could be rolled. (Apparently there are pictures of the things on tomb walls, misinterpreted as boats.) That only gets them to the base of the pyramid.

There are roughly 2,500,000 blocks in the Great Pyramid with the quarries being hundreds of miles away. That means to build it in 20 years you would have to cut, move, and place a block every 4 minutes day and night without stopping. So very unlikely they rolled the blocks around.

> Of course, the methods used could have changed radically even over the period of building a single pyramid. Doing something the hard way for a few years ought to motivate some cleverness. But other pyramids had been built, so methods were probably pretty mature.

The most impressive pyramids (by far) on the Giza plateau are also the oldest. The pyramids got worse as they developed more of them, not better.
Of course that's the nod nod wink wink official policy - how could it be otherwise, and with any other president you would be wise to attach some weight to presidential tweets. But here's the only test you have to make: would you take real-life, consequential action based solely on a Trump tweet or would you look for verification elsewhere first? Because if it's the latter, it doesn't really matter if Trump's account gets hacked.
I'd be interested in hearing about other setups. I use GoDaddy's SmartLine today - could you speak to how openphone.co is different?
I agree with all you said and I wish more people would think like that.

You might be interested by my analysis on how to cure ageing.
https://github.com/LifeIsStrange/An-algorithm-for-curing-age...

>AGI gets a lot of press
Does it?
Yes AGI in sci-fi (e.g matrix) is not new.
But the medias and even the AI journals do almost 0 press about AGI.
Narrow (specialized) AI is now mainstream, especially the deep learning paradigm.

But clearly solving an NLP task is not building an AGI.. At best it's solving a constituent of an AGI.
But many constituents of an AGI does not have an NLP task, which means mostly nobody work on it.
An AGI, to be implemented need a big, sound, cognitive architecture.
AGI gets a lot of press
So, can you name at least one AGI architecture?
Nobody knows nor talk about them. To name the two most promising:
Cyc and opencog.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
Well currently the website is down... But it is enlightening to read such an architecture.
or just play along with Red Dwarf https://youtu.be/SqI41N4WGPM

that out of the way, even the pictures of this BMW don't look real. It would be something I would want to see in full sun as well as in the shade. i can see all sorts of non automotive uses for it. probably would be played out too much
You're talking about it.

Mission accomplished.
> genes are probably not that important

Genes encode for proteins, which seem pretty crucial to biological functions of the cell.
I gave my nephew an OLPC with Sugar on it. Must have been 10 years ago. He could not figure it out, seemed useless to him.
F-Droid is one alternative to the Play Store.
Sod – An Embedded Computer Vision C Library
No way they are waiving $550. But I’ll try with the Platinum Schwab I just got in order to cash out 200K points. They’ve never waived my gold card when I’ve tried and I’ve had that card over a decade.

I’m done with AmEx after this because I just don’t use the points anymore.

I find the Chase Sapphire to be my most attractive card. I’m canceling that one too though. 2% cash back is where’re it’s at for me from now on.

I got the Apple Card solely for Apple purchases and gas pumps and sketchy web sites. I don’t use gas pumps or sketchy web sites all that often but I’m convinced I’ve been skimmed twice on pumps and it will be nice to have a new number at the tap of a button in the Wallet app.

I actually don’t find the Apple Card very attractive, and don’t like how heavy it is. BTW, you don’t get a physical card by default. I think Apple clearly wants to steer folks to Apple Pay so I have no idea why they put all this effort into the physical card.
> these disparities are due to being in the right place at the right time rather than racial superiority

The problem is that many of the supposed adaptive phenotypes were conjecture or based on poor science. Such sloppy characterizations, when combined with the seeming authoritative weight of genetics, is fodder for racism.

It's like the stereotype in the U.S. that blacks are genetically better at singing and sports. It's a "compliment" that actually serves to justify racism--the implied corollary is that to be good at those things is to be maladaptive at intellectual endeavors. There's no real scientific evidence to back it up. What "evidence" exists is far better explained by environmental factors (i.e. racism), but superficially it all seems intuitive because the entire society is constructed upon that narrative. (Actually, traits like athleticism positively correlate with intelligence, but that's irrelevant because the stereotype was flawed from inception.)

The only way to suppress such racist tendencies in humanity (to characterize and group people en masse and to rationalize post hoc our behaviors) is to be highly skeptical about proposed substantive genetic differences, particularly those which seemingly justify existing cultural or social differences. When they do exist they almost never (if at all) operate in the way we originally believed. Even recent scientific history (as in past couple of decades) is littered with hypotheses and evidence of this sort that turned out to be faulty.
What is the meaning of ESR? Because that sounds like life support to the layman.
I really wish it were to be used on the road, even if there were rules regarding driving at night. It should be possible to give up a reasonable amount of absorption for the addition of a protective coating.
It's not "open source" with the most common definitions of open source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition

It's not clear how much and who you have to pay if you use an aggregate of projects. It's not clear what happens if you are using a fork or a patched version. It's not clear what happens if you are using only a tiny part of a project.
Data charges?
"What is this? Some kind of intergalactic hyper-hearse?"
Analyzing Customer Feedback for Product Fit Prediction
That's interesting, because last year I called up Visa to tell them I was going to Europe, and they told me they don't need to be notified of that anymore, and my card would work fine.

Perhaps different CC providers have different policies, or maybe this is some Apple thing?
25th Dec, 2015
That's true. One is the President's principle mechanism of speaking with the American public and firing top officials.
This is cool, reminds me of the teaching work Chris Hedges does. I would be interested in volunteering mentor/teaching opportunities for teaching prisoners tech around the Bay Area.
All the predictions for the end of Mankind; AI, global warming, asteroids, etc. Wait till they weaponize this. ie Twelve Monkeys. Pick a racial trait of your enemy, find its genetic expression and splice in whatever you want there in its stead. Perhaps just cut the chromosome there and leave the ends dangling. What are the odds this is being worked on already? Our science fiction overtakes us!
Yeah. On Twitter you can potentially impersonate the President and cause weeks/months of political chaos by calling someone the N-word or something similar.
Please, and in all honesty and with zero trolling intentions, but please, could someone explain to me why the #NIXXXX hashtag is not banned?
To be honest, that's the only thing I care to understand.
I would really appreciate if you can educate me.
Thank you.
They're nicer than _any_ keyswitches sold today? That seems hard to believe, are you excluding so-called mechanical switches? There's a wide variety of those out there today, and even just sticking to Cherry MX and knockoffs, they're _quite_ pleasant and there's a variety of feels, sounds, travel distances, etc. available. It's really quite a nice time to be a typist.
Sacklers agree to give up Purdue Pharma, want to continue to sell Oxy overseas
What is the personal data being unnecessarily collected here? Reference pictures for facial recognition? Cause attendance would be collected regardless...
Colour trademarks are common, but they only apply in narrow areas. E.g. Cadbury chocolate has a trademark purple, but all that means is someone like Nestlé can't package their chocolate in a similar purple colour. Cadbury's purple can be freely used for any unrelated purpose though.
I thought we use a passport or drivers license for identification?
The HMS Terror Sank in the 1840s. See What It Looks Like Now
Well if you have time to waste (or to invest)
I've made an analysis of how to cure ageing.

I have some unanswered questions about what is feasible in DNA editing, maybe your knowledge could enlighten me?
https://github.com/LifeIsStrange/An-algorithm-for-curing-age...

I would like an answer for e.g:
https://github.com/LifeIsStrange/An-algorithm-for-curing-age...
This might be an unpopular opinion. But, I found this pretty funny.
1. Spaced repetition is for the end of the knowledge acquisition process. It crystallizes what you already understand pretty well. Sugar is for the very beginning: making kids aware that some subjects are interesting enough to learn.

2. Spaced repetition is boring, especially for kids.
Humans Dominated Earth Earlier Than Previously Thought
You get back a little bit of choice if you pickle some of the produce.
Okay, but what is the support-guide-approved way to even carry the thing? The listed no-nos seem to exclude literally every place on my person that I carry any items.
I had a friend who recently suffered a heat stroke and had a ruptured vein in his brain.

When I heard the doctors closed off the leak without opening his head I was amazed.
I put mine in a leather wallet and it seems to work.
> Everybody was informed and OK.... Except

It's not clear (and honestly, not likely) that that was true either, but if it was:

> I'd have fine the parents a minor fine, too

This is child abuse, and should be prosecuted accordingly, including jail time.
Maybe this will bring some attention to the horrible security that mobile providers have, and how they can be easily made to reassign your active number to someone else.
Guns primary purpose in a civilian setting isn't destruction it's intimidation.
Assumes the exit is on the periphery and you're not stuck on a loop (a free standing wall in the interior).
Ask HN: What are problems that enterprising college students could solve?
Hi HN, I'm looking for your help to brainstorm problems that need solutions. I'm in a program where we create teams and find challenges that the world or community around us is facing; however, many of us struggle to find realistic or 'not too broad' problems due to a lack of real-world experience. Based on your personal or anecdotal experience, what types of problems would you like to see a solution developed to? Are there places or websites to source ideas from? Thank you.
We should create a "privacy hall of shame" (I was tempted to call it the "privacy offender registry") and list the names of all the employees who work on these features, along with an easy-to-read blurb which explains how the feature could be misused. Bonus points for linking to their social profile. If you cannot find the actual person, go up the org chart and list the person closest on the hierarchy.

Not that it is going to matter, any more than you can dissuade members of a cult by telling them they should forego their membership. It just seems to bring the cult closer together.
War sells clicks. Pretty soon we'll need a new term to denote "armed conflict with extreme violence, destruction, and mortality between military forces."

I recommend "police action"
What if every accident shares one common hole among all the holes that aligned, and had that hole been eliminate then none of the accidents would have occurred?
How Quip Builds In-Product Debugging Tools
On the other hand, discord server's do exist for that kind of communication; there are discord servers I am in that contain thousands of members and are about robotics, and often will have meaningful technical discussion about programming, design, etc.
A Simulated Enigma Machine
This is called "Doxing"[1] and it's a form of harassment and a violation of privacy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing
Hmm... when I had transactions rejected, I would get a notification on my phone, would see the transaction in the Wallet app, confirm that it was legit, and repeat. Never had to talk with customer service in the first place.

Is that not what's happening with your card?
> The issue I happen to be working on right now is: the operating system returns an incorrect value, for a particular function call, in many cases.

Yes! Great example. So the right way is to fix the bug.

The bug is not in your source code and fixing a bug in someone else's source code that you rely on is not cost effective because, in the words of Bob Dylan, "everything is broken."
Family List
A simple CLI for creating your front-end project
It was a good idea, but probably too ambitious. I like better the idea of installing hardened kiosks in public areas - way easier to build and maintain with commodity parts. Portability is nice but it's honestly not critical.
There's little evidence that he's some kind of financial genius and a lot to suggest the opposite.

What we do know is that he inherited a very large sum of money, has a very long public record of losses and bankruptcies, and overinflating his claimed net worth.

This is what happened the time he started a publicly traded corporation, one subject to actual public accounting requirements:

Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts lost money every single year that Trump ran it as a public company. Net losses of $13 million in 1995 ballooned to $134 million by 1999, and $191 million in 2004. ... In total, from 1995 through 2004, the company booked total losses of $647 million ... Trump had complete control — both as the chairman and as the owner of a special class of stock that carried many more votes than those he sold to the public. He even gave the company his initials, DJT, as its stock ticker symbol.

Its debts mounted, the stock collapsed — and in the end, the creditors had had enough. The courts stepped in, the company had to go through a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization... By April 2004, someone who had invested a notional $100 in the IPO was left with about $10.

Over the same period, investors in competitor Harrah’s Entertainment more than doubled their money. Investors in luxury hotel, casino and resort companies like Starwood and MGM earned returns of more than 400%. Even the plain old stock market index more than doubled.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/donald-trump-was-a-stock-m...
The article itself mentions that modern understanding is that the quarry was only 200-300 metres from the great pyramid
No, I mean robinhood-style stock trading(Currently only some US stocks AFAIK): https://blog.revolut.com/trading-revolut/

They launched it recently for EU, US and AU IIRC.
A lawyer's job is to win the case.

A forensic engineer's job is to prevent the next accident.

Cases are won on clear, persuasive argument. A simple, single-cause narrative works.

Accidents are avoided by removing or mitigating contributing factors, based on significance and costs.

Put another way: truth and science are not rhetorical activities. Politics and business are.
I wonder if there's any potential for liability because it may be harder to see the car under some conditions.
Very frequently. Off the cuff, I'd estimate that 99% of not tech-savy users utilize the same password for everything, maybe with subtle variations according whatever service's requirements for a password.

Probably among tech savy people, the perecentage is lower, but still higher than it should be.

I myself, having been in IT for over 20 years, am guilty of this for non sensitive accounts. For significant accounts, they're randomly generated to the longest and highest degree a service allows. My gmail password, for instance is a 40 character random spread along their allowed characters. I cannot remember it.
Thank you for surfacing this language.

In the more general case, I was under the impression that informed consent was sufficient to authorize a data controller to collect/process private information and so the ruling didn't make sense to me. I'm using "informed consent" here as a short hand for all the applicable GDPR requirements on consent (reasonable language, etc).

It isn't clear to me from this language in Recital 43 though how a data controller with an "imbalance" relative to the data subject could easily get clarity on any particular use case. It also seems strange that in this case there was deemed an imbalance between the schools and the parents (I'm assuming here that parents are indeed authorized to give consent in their role as parent/guardian). If parents are in an imbalanced situation regarding school attendance, then pretty much all government relationships are imbalanced.

If the school/parent relationship is considered imbalanced and the imbalance language isn't specific to a government data controller, then it would appear that every data controller (government entity or not) is in danger of having their relationship deemed "imbalanced" and the data collection subject to analysis by the data authority at any time.

It seems like this ruling destroys the clarity of "consent" and replaces it with "(consent AND balanced relationship) OR (imbalanced relationship AND legally adequate reason AND prior approval from regulator AND consent)"
This is a color _trademark_.
I think it was just Asimov being Asimov, during the sexual revolution when sex wasn't considered an overly bad thing.
From Gulag Archipelago

At the conclusion of the conference, a tribute to Comrade Stalin was called for.
Of course, everyone stood up (just as everyone had leaped to his feet during the
conference at every mention of his name). The hall echoed with applause, rising
to an ovation. For three, four, five minutes it continued. Who would dare to be
the first to stop? After all, NKVD men were watching who would quit first. The
applause went on for six, seven, eight minutes. The director of a local paper
factory, after eleven minutes sat down. The applause stopped.

That, however, was how they discovered who the independent people were. And that
was how they went about eliminating them. That night the factory director was
arrested, sentenced to 10 years. The interrogator remined him:

"Don't ever be the first to stop applauding"

I wonder if we could train AI to detect the first to stop applauding.
Just a thought.

It is not intelligent AI, but the ability to review absolutely second by
second history recorded by the FAANGs and the worldwide intelligence services
that will fuel the next dictator.
> Various impossibility theorems say otherwise

No, they say that the naïve "right thing" is actually not possible, and the right thing is something else, that is possible, but may be unknown.
I too would like to give up a toxic shtbag of liability.
More like you want a recession. We see you regressives anti-trumpers.