skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plain OCaml is still a better and more powerful language. F# is like a poor relative to it. The only good thing of it is .NET integration. It lacks so many features of OCaml.
The Gold-Bug also plays a critical role in the Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman. The audiobook series kept my kids (and myself) entertained for a good amount of family trips last year.

https://thesecretdmsfilesoffairdaymorrow.blogspot.com/2017/0...
I've never hit my head in a cycling wreck, but just a week ago, this past Monday, I tripped over my dog that darted in front of me, fell and hit my head on the hardwood floors in our living room. No concussion, but did require 3 or 4 stiches over an eye. Even in a fall like that, had I been wearing a bike helmet, it wouldnt have offered any protection.

Like I said, as an adult, I believe in helmets and religiously wear them while riding since I was about 20 (now 38).

Likewise, I said I was incredibly lucky. When I got hit by the car, by all rights, I should have slammed my head on the ground, but didn't. Not a dent or scratch on my helmet. After getting hit, I saw ground, sky then ground again before impact and my bike landed on the opposite side of the Street's sidewalk. Trashed about a $3500 carbon race bike and faced close to $40k in medical bills between ambulance and ER treatment (this was in the US in 2008). I never saw a bill, though because I wasn't at fault as the guy that hit me ran a stop sign and his insurance immediately accepted fault.

The most frequent pieces of gear I've trashed during accidents: gloves and shorts. Neither hold up well to sliding across dirt roads or asphalt.
That first one sounds like someone that should have been red flagged--I wouldn't call that a failure of the system. The police were there, he had put the gun down and then picked it up again.

Yeah, family members said he wouldn't hurt anyone. It's very common for family members to side with abusers over victims.

The second, however, is the sort of problem that plague red flag laws.
Yes, the post mentions this:

Drexler is more concerned about potential misuse by human actors – either illegal use by criminals and enemy militaries, or antisocial use to create things like an infinitely-addictive super-Facebook. ... Paul Christiano ... worries that AI services will be naturally better at satisfying objective criteria than at “making the world better” in some vague sense. Tasks like “maximize clicks to this site” or “maximize profits from this corporation” are objective criteria; tasks like “provide real value to users of this site instead of just clickbait” or “have this corporation act in a socially responsible way” are vague. That means AI may asymmetrically empower some of the worst tendencies in our society without giving a corresponding power increase to normal people just trying to live enjoyable lives.

The arenas of finance, business, journalism, and politics already exist, so we should watch for AIs trained to "win" those games.
All OS and Apps log messages to local Syslog. Local syslog forwards all messages to central facility with GrayLog2 on it, where all search/visualisation/analysis happens.

This works flawlessly for years and relatively easy to set up. Couldn't recommend it more
Which Tesla is twice the weight of an equivalent ICE car?

The Model S (2019) appears to look roughly the same and appears to be roughly the same size as the Audi A7 (2019), and is just a bit heavier (Tesla curb weight 4883 lbs, Audi 4332 lbs).

https://www.cars.com/research/compare/?acodes=USC90TSC024F0,...
That's not entirely true; slow (< 30 km/h) cyclists using the bike as utility to get somewhere almost never wear a helmet here. Spandex wearing speed cyclists almost always do though.
> I also disagree that a private gesture ever works as well as a public one

What I meant with that is that diamonds are a bad public gesture, because no one other than your immediate partner will ever be able to evaluate the authenticity of the diamond. If you're going down the diamond route, you might as well do a private gesture because diamonds already can't be easily publicly verified. If you're concerned about being public, then skip the ring entirely and pay for your partner to go on an expensive trip, or donate money to get something named after them. These are gestures that a fraudster would be unable to easily replicate.

> Seems to me that the global human cost is lower if you have middle-men involved.

If your concern is that you don't want the money wasted, then at least donate it to a charity, or give it to a local business. Some of them would even be willing to officially recognize or publicly name something after your partner, which again would be good public signaling because it would be hard to fake.

The investment signaling theory of diamonds is that we've all decided that in order to efficiently signal, we're going to give money to someone we have no relationship with, who isn't providing a useful or unique service, who has a long history of unethical practices (even if they've cleaned up a bit recently), and who employs the majority of their workforce and conducts the majority of their investments outside of our communities.

If society was actually thinking about engagement from a purely rational signaling point-of-view, it wouldn't pick diamonds as the way to signal. But somehow the diamond industry convinced society as a whole that they were an essential part of the process. What I would contend is that I don't think there was anything rational about that advertising campaign; it preyed on people's emotions, their vanity, and their misconceptions about how the market worked. It's a prime example of an industry making a social system less efficient and more harmful than it otherwise would be in its natural state.

My point is that regardless of whether you think of a diamond as an investment, or as an inherently meaningful item, or as game-theory signaling device -- it's really bad at being all of those things. No matter what direction you come at it from, diamonds are a kind of crappy scam.
Curious if you’ve tested this. I thought the keyboard was slowing down my speed, so I did a lot of wpm testing and was surprised that I was slightly faster. I still feel slower after the tests and have verified it a couple of times. I’m not sure how to account for this phenomenon other than possibly the lower travel feeling like less intense effort.
Argentina asks IMF to restructure debt payments
I changed it to say mass killing.
my bank prints out paper checks but they seem to xfer the money through another company. money leaves my bank account, but the checks, when delivered, have a completely different routing and account number. doesn't matter to me, but I had a paper check payment I needed to return and the local branch couldn't help me at all - the floor guy there couldn't even understand my situation. there was an 800 number on the check to call and I explained and they cancelled that check.
Moore's Law is indeed dying.

But consider this...

The valuations of Intel, Nvidia, AMD and other chip makers are tied to Moore's Law, right? What's the point of buying a new GPU card, if your old one is good enough to play games? Their stock price depends on the continued belief that they can continue to produce something with some combination of better, faster and cheaper than what's currently available, and thereby have increasing sales. If Moore's Law comes to an end, their stock prices should crash, because then computing is a "boring" utility service, and doesn't warrant the massive R&D or stock valuations we have now.

Ditto for the companies that depend on the chip makers: Apple, Samsung, Google, LG, Dell, etc. (yes, some of these make chips themselves) What's the point of buying a new PC that isn't faster than the old one? Or a new phone? They'd also be relegated to a maintenance mode as well, and their stock prices should also fall considerably, because future growth isn't there.

And then there's all the companies that depend on those above. Game companies, etc.

So now we're talking about billions and billions of dollars of investment. And are these shareholders of Intel and everyone going to be content with seeing valuations fall?

No, I tell you they won't. If the current management of Intel can't promise new growth via new technology, they will be replaced by people who do promise it. If they can deliver on that promise is another story...

So companies will be researching new a better computing substrates. And so the tech will move on. And get better, faster, denser, and more cost effective.
> Now they're giving away the IP in hopes that someone will actually start making chips from it to drive demand for Redhat.

And probably it'll be RISC-V at the end of the day anyway, and it'll sell Redhat just fine. ;- )
This article largely seems to miss the difference between an ISA (the instruction set) and a CPU.
Knocked myself out back in the 90s on a road bike not wearing a helmet. Stitches in head. Concussion for a month.

Knocked myself out 2 years ago on a mountain bike wearing a MIPS helmet. No stitches in head. No concussion.

Last year wife went over the bars at whistler and took it on the face with the best carbon fiber full face downhill helmet money can buy. Pressure on her face was so much she had lines of blood under her eyes just from the pressure. Big scratches on the face-guard. But she was totally fine, not knocked out, walked it off and laughed about it later.

Completely unscientific data above, but when it comes to my budget distribution these days, it goes into helmet, then pads (D3O for downhill and cross country), then bike, camelbak and rest of gear.

Helmets are awesome.

For reference:
https://www.d3o.com/
Various manufacturers use this stuff - Fox, Raceface, but my personal favorite are these TLDs. They're great for long sweaty rides and gnarly stuff. https://shop.troyleedesigns.com/raid-knee-guard?color=7

This is the helmet she was using: https://shop.troyleedesigns.com/19f-tld-d3-midnight-chrome-c...

I'll also add that I'm not a fan of Bell's Super 3R helmet with the removable face. It's MIPS these days, but I don't feel the chin guard provides enough space in case you actually take a face hit. The more DH specific helmets have more clearance. I guess now that I've seen one work and save someone, I'm a little more picky. Thisis the Super 3R I'm referring to: https://www.bellhelmets.com/bike/p/super-3r-mips-mountain-bi...

For cross country rides that have some more challenging DH, I use this helmet which breathes way more than the TLD I linked to above and has more clearance than the Super 3R: https://www.foxracing.com/proframe-helmet-matte-%5Bblk%5D-m/...

I'm sure there are tons of cyclists, XC and downhill folks on HN and we all have our opinions and experience. Would love to hear from others. YMMV considerably from mine. Stay safe!!
ISTR reading somewhere they're used in the I/O hardware (OSA etc)?
i like how it reads like a telegram. i wonder if that’s a quirk of translation.

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Thanks for the suggestion. I've been using Cherry MX Brown with red O-rings at home and it's definitely less painful than some other mechanical keyboards I have, but it's not quite there yet. I think perhaps the positioning of my wrists is too low, I am going to try a wrist pad to increase their height and report back. Any other suggestions?
2015 MBP was the last best laptop.

I've been suffering with a 2018 MBP as well, and I'm done. The Touchbar and the arrow keys are killing me.

I'm giving them one more chance to fix their mistake with the 2019 MBP which should be announced in the next few weeks, otherwise I'm, going to a Vaio.
I downloaded Unshaky to help this out:

https://github.com/aahung/Unshaky

You can set custom timings per key, which is useful for particularly difficult keys.
We use Splunk with lots of redundancy (ie. multiple forwarders, indexers and search heads per site).

I'd probably use Graylog or some ELK stack variation though if our client would let us, since Splunk is $$$.
From what I've read, the latest POWER9 servers from IBM are very competitive (on performance, not necessarily price). Newer chips that run PPC ISA support ppc64el (little-endian mode) so that porting software is significantly easier. gcc has a mature backend for this instruction set so it's a simple recompile in many cases on Linux.

PPC machines are also required if for some reason you're still running AIX, IIRC.
All caps for emphasis are against the HN guidelines.

What about the one incident in 2004 when they had to be taken to the High Court, on behalf of hundreds or thousands, to provide the legally required wheelchair transfers? Or the one incident where the disabled lad was left behind a day? Or the many one incidents disabled users have reported of being dropped from Ryanair flights because the airline couldn't be arsed to spend the time? Or the many single incidents of wheelchair users reporting that despite the UK and Irish court rulings Ryanair weren't allowing access to the wheelchair at the destination airports?

I've never heard of the incident you mention btw, but the thousands of reports are plenty to give me a view of Ryanair were I ever to end up disabled.
So, one problem here is that the police could look for co-travelers. I.e., two or more people being shown to take the exact same route.

Spies would look for this to see if they are being tailed. If they can see a pattern of people who are co-travelers on their same path, then that’s a pretty bright signal.

It would be more work for the police to look for these kinds of signals in the location data, but not companies like Google.
My only real complaint with graylog is it seems between V2 and V3 all the modules/packs (or whatever they call them) broke and you the useful ones are broken now.

Maybe it's better now since I tried but it was a real negative when trying to import some of them to find out later they were incompatible.
Joe Rogan Experience #1342 – John Carmack
Interesting. Weed is supposed to be neuroprotective as well for concussions.
Aussie Dog Sharing Service proves kindness is still alive and well
https://github.com/antonblanchard/microwatt

Written initially by a Distinguished Engineer at IBM and sponsored by IBM, this was released when the announcement was made at the OpenPOWER Summit.
Information Systems is NOT an engineering degree.

The problem for most schools is an engineering degree is a specific, formally defined degree. It seems that ABET has recently updated their Software Engineering criteria, but for decades a software engineering degree required extensive curriculum in physical science.
The timeline doesn't necessarily mean that DARPA needs the tunnel data
by August 30. The timeline might mean that an MIT person is at DARPA,
and understands that it will be convenient to collect the tunnel data
during Orange Tour planning:
http://tech.mit.edu/V123/N36/36orange.36n.html
I wish I knew this before I lost my machine for 4 days last year. My replacement has mostly held up too—just a few blasts of compressed air here and there.
> Candidly, I would say that college does not even provide the base skill-set.

This is true. The things of value (from an industry POV) that you actually learn at university are:

1) You learn to learn. You learn to pick up an entirely new area of knowledge (albeit sometimes based on prior learning) in six months to the point where you're proficient enough to pass an exam in it.

2) You learn to work to sometimes-unreasonable deadlines with minimal supervision (at least, if you graduate you've probably learned this).

3) You learn to stick with something for 3+ years even when it stops being fun.

4) You meet a bunch of people who form the start of your professional network.

Anything else you pick up is a bonus, and your first 3-6 months on the job are where you actually learn what you need for that job.
Because 80+% of users are on the latest os version and the inverse is true of Android.
Skimming through the doc, it looks like a modification of FAT32 with some (noticeably more complex) extensions, and not anything resembling what you might envision a "FAT64" to be; a FAT is still a linked list of 32-bit entries, there can still be two of them, and directory entries are still 32 bytes each (although defined in a rather complex way.) There's a separate allocation bitmap, which seems redundant and a waste of space (and code) given that the FAT itself already contains the information in previous versions.

I've written a FAT12/16/32 driver for an embedded system before; and oddly enough, the documentation I had at the time was far easier to understand than this one. I didn't expect exFAT to be this complex, or perhaps the doc is just excessively verbose --- for example, the whole first paragraph of the 4th section is saying nothing more than "there may be 1 or 2 FATs, one after the other, and NumberOfFats is the field that says how many there are" except it takes 5 sentences to do so.

That said, this spec is written in a style that's easier to understand than a lot of the other "open specifications" docs that MS has released, but I suspect that's because this one was once an actual NDA'd implementer's document rather than the others which I've heard may have been released purely for legal reasons related to the antitrust than anything else.

Now if only they'll do this for NTFS...
> too much practical experience can lead to a lack of fundamental understanding

That's too little theoretical background, not too much practical experience. If you take someone with a good grasp of the basics, you will never remove that grasp by giving them more practical experience.
It showed a score of 1 (no upvotes) when I clicked to read the article. Then after approximately 2-3 minutes of reading, I clicked back and upvoted without refreshing, so I don't know how many votes it had when I actually voted.
It is 2019 and even game programmers still avoid STL for performance reasons.

And optimization is taken to another level from that on embedded systems.

I hate to remind you again, but it is 2019 and C is still very relevant on embedded systems. And Javascript, not so much. Snicker
I am not sure why you have such assertion, all the people speaking Cantonese dialect whether from China (including Hong Kong and Guangdong Province), or from Malaysia, Singapore or Indonesia can communicate and understand each other. There isn't any significant difference. [1]

If you really want to talk about varieties of Chinese then its quite a complex topic.

"Classifications of Chinese varieties in the late 19th century and early 20th century were based on impressionistic criteria. They often followed river systems, which were historically the main routes of migration and communication in southern China. The first scientific classifications, based primarily on the evolution of Middle Chinese voiced initials, were produced by Wang Li in 1936 and Li Fang-Kuei in 1937, with minor modifications by other linguists since. The conventionally accepted set of seven dialect groups first appeared in the second edition of Yuan Jiahua's dialectology handbook (1961):

1. Mandarin

2. Wu

3. Gan

4. Xiang

5. Min

6. Hakka

7. Yue

The Language Atlas of China (1987) follows a classification of Li Rong, distinguishing three further groups:

8. Jin

9. Huizhou

10. Pinghua

Some varieties remain unclassified, including the Danzhou dialect of northwestern Hainan, Waxiang, spoken in a small strip of land in western Hunan, and Shaozhou Tuhua, spoken in the border regions of Guangdong, Hunan, and Guangxi.
"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varieties_of_Chinese
What about “use a VPN?”
barefoot with a brush hand saw

Oh man that made me cringe. I’ve spent a lot of time on Texas Hill Country land (Kerville etc) and between rattlesnakes and chiggers you are one brave soul.
That gif made my stomach sink. I've taken spills like that, but not in traffic. Super glad you walked away with only some hand fractures. Be safe, friend.
Dogshare began as a way to provide our family dog, Duke, with additional walks by teaming up with another dog-owning neighbour. The neighbour and I would take it in turn to walk both dogs, morning and evening. A few weeks into this new arrangement the neighbour and I couldn’t stop grinning to each other at the simplicity of simply ‘lending a hand’ having such a profound impact on the dogs, but also our busy working lives.
Soccer is a good example. You are rarely concussed from heading a soccer ball, but there is some evidence that players may suffer brain damage from from repeatedly heading the ball.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180424112923.h...
Or in this case, rolled back to a previous non-infected version.
That's because for decades any type of "engineering" degree required the curriculum to include extensive physical science - thermodynamics, statics, advanced physics, etc. Pretty much a waste of time for an entirely virtual field.
Four wheels bad, but three sehr gut. Germans climb aboard cargo bikes
No comments though, and very few up votes.

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Good article! I learned Vim earlier this year by using the plan outlined [here](https://medium.com/actualize-network/how-to-learn-vim-a-four...). It focuses on learning things "the Vim way", and is the reason I succeeded when trying to learn this time (I've tried before and failed).
You can make all those mistakes with a traditional RDBMS. Iterating over objects to delete them one at a time with database round trips is also a common mistake people make with ORMs(along with many other things that could have been done in one statement).
One of the things I was really at pains to emphasize in my previous comment was that I think there are elements of information processing that are outrageously abstract, that would be familiar and accessible to AI but non-obvious to us. The transferability and generality that emerges would be nothing remotely so crude as the ImageGAN -> predator detection example that's being used to dismiss my point.

An AI service that's only intended to solve one well defined problem may have pieces in its anatomy that are functionally equivalent to those in a different AI service solving a different kind of problem. You don't need to assume it's escaped the confines of it's well-defined domain, or that domains aren't well defined, for this to be true.
Yah, there are embedded power processors scattered all over IBM's hardware lines. The z tape controller a couple years ago was just a rack mount POWER server. OTOH, so is x86, the z's HMC, PE's etc are just x86 laptops/servers.

But thats like calling an x86 server an ARM because there are ARM's in the disk controllers, and on the motherboard acting as BMC's/etc.
Relevant from earlier today: US regulators have stepped in to potentially block an undersea cable between the US and HK. It's a joint project between Google, FB and Dr Peng which is the 4th largest telco in China.

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-officials-may-undersea-ca...
Teams is worse in that it appears to actually be Electron instead of the semi-native (I don't think it's pure Win32, judging by the UI latency and appearance) Skype for Business.