skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linux clusters in cars using Power CPUs
Thanks, does indeed.
re Disappointment, the somewhat portable #pragma GCC ivdep in theory would help in a lot of cases.

In this specific case, the compiler should be able to assume that a previous write cannot affect the next read from the size field, but it seems that neither GCC nor clang take advantage of it.
I wonder if the path to room-temperature superconductors involves finding ways of containing hydrides at very high pressures, rather than finding materials that superconduct and ambiant temperatures and pressures.
A nation of laws, when the laws are followed and applied to everyone you have a fair and reasonable situation.

The US was created as a Constitutional Republic with the constitution binding the govt. The govt has used its powers to erode that binding and in doing so created the federal reserve which has been the problem causing most of the financial issues.

When you have a group of people who can create currency replacing money ( a store of value ) then you have a group of people who are unstoppable.

I will leave you with this...

William Pitt made this statement: "Let the American people go into their debt-funding schemes and banking systems, and from that hour their boasted independence will be a mere phantom." He realized the maxim that Rothschilds laid down as fundamental: "Let us control the money of a country and we care not who makes its laws."
U.S. Air Force Spaceplane Breaks Record with 719 Straight Days in Orbit
Thanks for catching that. I had to change my username recently :) The theme is in GitHub here: https://github.com/thelehhman/plainwhite-jekyll
how, without whole program compilation?

edit: specifically for std vector, the implementer could somehow hardcode the knowledge that size can never alias with the buffer, but that would be ad hoc and won't extend to user defined containers, which seems suboptimal.
Ah that makes sense, thanks for writing this out
Depending on your philosophy, that may be a feature to you. I tend to like this effect, because it forces the programmer to avoid building deeply nested structures, which is too easy to do when you abuse modules/namespaces.
He was hilarious as always: he said Facebook wanted him to start presenting himself as an Ex-Facebook Tech Lead and not only an Ex-Google Tech Lead, and the fact that he couldn't because he worked there represented a conflict of interest that benefited Google over Facebook, and so they fired him making it now possible to claim that he is also an ex-Facebook Tech Lead.
Tuesday: Giving as a Way of Sharing
I'll be uh... honest, I didn't realise anyone still used Dart.

Not meant to be a dig - just forgot it existed.

As to the topic - a single question mark seems to make more sense.
And is that desirable? Why do we want users to know less about how their computer works? Is it really a problem to know that you have a user directory with a bunch of other directories inside that hold certain classes of information by default?

When I open a command prompt (yes, I'm not the average user), I'm in my home directory, and if I create any files or folders, they'll be there by default. To access those files/folders, I used to go through the root of the filesystem (Users -> <username>), but I eventually just made a link in the file explorer to my home directory. Why doesn't that link at least exist by default? I've used enough GUI tools that default to that directory (i.e. WinSCP IIRC) that getting to it should be easy.

I think the reason that "most Windows users don't have a clue" is because Microsoft wants it that way for some reason. People were able to figure out DOS, yet these days giving them a link to their home directory is "too complicated"?
>They voted for the merger based on Musk's claim that SolarCity had a good financial position and that they were releasing a revolutionary solar shingle product. Both of those were wrong.

Well, if the arguments at the time were good enough to convince them, sucks to be them. What are they gonna do?

Unless they were given tampered numbers or false factual information, Musk could oversell SolarCity prospects six ways from Sunday and they can't do anything about it.
Can you cite one table of data from the book?

It's the implication my conclusion was foolish; but if you intended no insult, that's good enough for me.
It should be up to the content creator to decide if they want their content to be accessible to deaf people?
> Data centers are basically bunkers and there is a tremendous amount of replication occurring.

All encrypted at rest. Lose those keys and the data is gone...
Oh, I wouldn't even mind if they served me ads.

But what they're saying is: We won't let you read our stuff unless we can track you (and see exactly what you read how long from where using which device, etc.)
got it, thanks a lot.
>If someone could figure out a way to write regular software that easily parallelized to hundreds of cores, CPU's could also get the same leaps in performance that GPU's have been enjoying. It's a software problem more than it is a hardware problem.

Amdahl's law [1] , and while we have demonstrate parallelised code can speed things up, generally speaking Software performance still have lots of low hanging fruit without even going deep into parallel and concurrency world, it is just a matter of cost whether it is worthwhile to improve or fix it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
Why wouldn't they be able to operate without it? I see no reason why that couldn't function without paying their dues.
The Right Answer? 8,186,699,633,530,061 (An Abacus Makes It Look Almost Easy)
How I set up VSCode for productivity? [Checklist]
> I’m a big fan of Joe...but I also remember PHP before it had namespaces.

To be picky: module and namespace are different concepts.

C++ has namespace and (soon) will have namespaces AND modules.

Namespaces can be seen in C++ as a pure hardcoded prefix for your functions and are a perfectly valid concept with Joe's idea of a "giant KV store for functions".
Like when an individual drives to a store to get groceries?
“Global persistence” is a lie. The second copyright law or malware become involved, practice separates from theory. Look at the hackage rollback, for instance. (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/Facebook-Password-Hacker... <- downloads what used to be a Hackage package to your computer. Now, its a text file with the word "Gone")
" An ad is like a mudpie, nobody wants it."

Except the people who pay for them. Google isnt some tech unicorn which might make money one day, it's one of the biggest companies in the world, it's one of the biggest companies in the world because it sells a valuable service.

"1000 trillion worth of value is bought at 2 trillion"

Who decides that? Someone is more than welcome to come along and pay 3 trillion.
And looking at it from the other side am I being exploited for paying 1000 trillion for 2 trillion worth of goods? Why don't I go to the producer directly? What's a reasonable price? Am I being exploited when I buy an iphone? It's twice the price as an android phone for the same amount of material?

The fact is that the west at least is immensely wealthier than the 1800s and most of us don't build anything anymore. The most practical job I've had is serving drinks, which isnt exactly making things, and the chances are, you don't make anything either.

"No actual production is the dominant part of the real economy"

"You should not be using GDP or any monetary value at all to measure anything real. Behind it is the assumption that money is same as social or environmental value"

If you want to talk about the real economy, I'm going to (legitimately) talk about GDP. If you want to talk about some softer measure then fine let me know what that is, and I will bet now Luxembourg does better than the average.
That wasn't the best phrasing on my part. Quoting the abstract[1]:

We use a controlled experiment to explore whether there are gender differences in selecting into competitive environments across two distinct societies: the Maasaiin Tanzania and the Khasi in India. One unique aspect of these societies is that the Maasai represent a textbook example of a patriarchal society, whereas the Khasi are matrilineal. Similar to the extant evidence drawn from experiments executed in Western cultures, Maasai men opt to compete at roughly twice the rate as Maasai women. Interestingly, this result is reversed among the Khasi, where women choose the competitive environment more often than Khasi men, and even choose to compete weakly more often than Maasai men.

[1] https://rady.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/gneezy/pub/docs/gend...
Why would Taiwan not have high tech factories? It has similar or higher level of development than - as a non-random example - France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
What's the point? Why does Mozilla exist? If Google is good enough mozilla.org should redirect to google.com/chrome.

If Google is not going enough, Mozilla shouldn't use Google for analytics on the add-ons page when there are plenty of other options and an opportunity to do something valuable by building a site-private analytics product as part of their core mission of protecting the web.
One pedo ring to rule them all, and in the darkness, blackmail them.
Free WAF for Nginx with API and Personal Cabinet
This kind of guilt-by-association witch hunt disgusts me. Buzzfeed is a disgrace.
Well, many people spend thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars or euros to make their kitchen look nice (even if they don't use it very much).

Quality is of course always also subjective and dependent on needs. For instance, this cheap and nice microwave that I have is also very light. That's good because no material is wasted in manufacture, and it is easier to transport and install, but it means that if I slam the door, the unit will actually move on the kitchen desk. I'd like it to stay put.
Hey, check out this code snippets manager: https://snipper.app

I use it on daily basis for storing my code snippets.
Ok, so it is about using taxes to push people you don’t like out?

What makes a particular property owner into a ‘squatter’?
"It should be the way it is because that's the way it is."

Thank you for illustrating the bankruptcy of the regressive position.
Consider that if you control a large codebase, the need for "decentralisation" (as in Zooko's triangle) is not there. You can just rename things.

When integrating across maintenance boundaries, renaming isn't possible but a simple prefix is almost as good as a namespace.
It's not any good for users who don't have the choice to opt out.
Most of those you can right click on and select uninstall now. It takes longer, but it feels safer to me because I have to take a second for each to think if I want it or not.
Based on discussion with my cousin who lives in L.A. (I do not), it's a bit deceptive - public transit is great for few popular (touristy) spots; but it doesn't have a comprehensive enough grid to be that useful for locals living in distributed / random locations, going to places of work :|

I live in Toronto where the subway is extremely limited in terms number of lines/paths, but at least they go to mostly the right places. Public transit is definitely a second-class-citizen, but subways going downtown are full, every day. The go-train also does a semi-passable job of enabling longer commutes... but we still have a LONG way to go. Unfortunately, each successive mayor has a completely different vision,and fights with the province to overturn the previous plan. At this point, had we picked any one option twenty years ago, even if sub-optimal, we would've had something. Ottawa seemed to do a better job with their LRT even though they had to make it through more layers of government (municipal, provincial, and national), but it's just been a lot quieter job. In Toronto, it's each mayor's main campaigning platform so it has to be a sensational proposal of "change" :-/
Neuroscientists working on new way to make up for vision loss
The converse question to "where should I put" is "where could I find". Namespaces and objects make it easier to find related functionality so you don't have to reinvent it. Without good techniques for locating relevant useful functions, you're just writing write-only code. And the technique of "if I was going to write this, where would I put it" doesn't even work when I'm trying to find my keys, let alone among all the developers of the world.
The ESA is developing an air-breathing electric thruster which sounds what you described:

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Engineering_Technolo...
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Part 2: Selecting the right weight initialization for your deep neural network
[I already commented this in this post]

Here is my minimalist css microframework : https://concrete.style
I just don't have any interest in running any software that uses mozilla's JavaScript runtime. It has a lot going for it but I just find Mozilla based browsers misbehave and perform poorly on all my hardware, in ways that upset and frustrate me.
It's a non-null assertion operator which would throw an error if `e1 == null`.
From years of experience dealing with "slow Windows machine" complaints for family, I can tell you that in 2019 the builtin Windows antivirus is much better (performance + security wise) than any of the free services. Uninstalling Avira (and especially crap like CCleaner) will probably improve performance on its own.
This is actually hilarious. Huge bummer he got fired, but I did subscribe to his channel.
At the point where the article talks about ""the open source
Key-Value database of all functions"", you can't rename things.
World-first firing of air-breathing electric thruster (2018)
The problem is that we see parking as a negative externality because everyone ends up competing for street parking. As you pointed out, it's not a problem in Japan. I believe that is because there is pretty much no street parking in Japan. I love that!

I think the Crux of the problem is that most US cities are built with super low density, targeting cars. The result is that it's super hard to put public transit in that is actually useful.
The timing is interesting. He recently posted a video about women in tech.
>My Google account isn't connected to my personally identifiable information in any way.

Which personally identifiable information?

The time of day you use your devices?
Which languages you use?
Which websites you visit?
The type of medical conditions you search for?

Information being PII or non PII isn't binary. It's relative shades of how shannon entropic it is. You need about 33 bits to identify someone, you likely have leaked 33 bits of entropy.

EFF's Panopticlick help show this: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
> You are conflating lo-fi art with cheap and/or bad lo-fi art. "Cheap lo-fi art that looks good" is not a thing, because the talent that can make something lo-fi also look good and, more importantly, provide good art direction for an extensive project is not cheap.

And I would say you are conflating art with design/art direction. :)

> We are not talking a screen full of pixels or two. These games would require thousands upon thousands of art tiles, that all aim for a distinguishable, consistent and unique in overall style.

I mean, one of the examples given was ADOM: https://i.imgur.com/d0RpSnY.png

There's a lot of ways of solving this particular problem.
So did I. But more casual users would be completely content with Edge, Netflix and Facebook apps. And they'd get longer battery life too in exchange.
It seems like that is part of the plan, e.g.:

The nodes being provisioned are all local nodes, running in the same node container. Obviously we’d like to provision nodes running on other computers, or provision from a managed cloud service (like unison.cloud, coming soon) and/or a P2P mesh of nodes.

(From: http://unisonweb.org/2016-10-12/search.html)

And further down on the original linked page there's some more info on something it's using for the distributed system description that I don't believe would be possible in Haskell:

This dynamic transfer / deployment of arbitrary computations is possible because definitions in Unison are identified by a cryptographic hash of their content, including the hashes of all dependencies (the hash is also "nameless" as it isn't affected by naming of variables). ...

I've been watching the project a bit here and there and it has a number if interesting aspects to it For another example, check out the 'semantic editor': http://unisonweb.org/2016-03-16/semantic-vs-text.html
The Khasi people of north-eastern India often get cited as an example:

https://rady.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/gneezy/pub/docs/gend...

See the comment by obviuosly for some caveats.
What area of IT? There's tons of resources as Audits are regulatory framework based.

IT:
COBIT is a good start

Security:
ISO 27001 (popular in EU)
GDPR (EU)
PCI (Credit Card)
HIPAA (Health Sector)
SOX/GLBA (Public Companies)
...

List goes on
>I don’t know what is the point here in comparing to a regular watch.

The author is questioning the utility of doing all that bullshit from something strapped to his wrist.

>Clearly Apple Watch is meant more for that.

You don't say?
I wonder how much of this is a cultural issue, with Tesla being more aligned with the tech world where it's more acceptable to "move fast and break things" and fix them later. Anecdotally I know some people who have a similar culture fear of the way SpaceX appears to operate
How about tax-paying non-citizen residents, tourists etc?
“Global key-value store of functions with their metadata” sounds a lot like Hoogle to me. As for getting rid of modules and replacing them with namespaces... I’m not sure I see what is gained. You still have function names plus an additional identifier.
I look at it as a huge pile of obfuscated code. So yes, it's all there...
> self-hosting would be more work for a lesser product".

The same argument applies to the whole of Firefox. It's more work and it's a lesser product. If Firefox can be a better product, than Mozilla Analytics could be too.

At this point it's clear that Mozilla is a business (with well paid management and staff) like Google that is using Privacy as a promo like Google used Don't Be Evil.
Mozilla might be better in practice today, but it's not on a principled foundation. It looks like a Google Lite - Firefox vs Chrome, Rust vs Go, etc.
Bolsonaro set to reject G7 Amazon aid package
Poor people buying lottery tickets live in the daydream where they have won the lottery and are spending their millions.
>If you look at the /usr/bin directory of a Linux system there aren't any namespaces. There's 1,000+ binaries thrown into 1 folder, each with a distinct name and things work nicely.

That's the last example of a nice design I would bring, and the worst possibly argument in favor of no modules/namespacing.

A flat /usr/bin/... with 1000+ binaries in UNIX is a bad solution we ended up with because back in the day where UNIX was created there were just a few dozens of binaries, so it was "good enough".
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I think populism took hold of United states politics at some point in the last 30-40 years and since then we've been looking inwards ever since and stopped looking outwards and expanding our presence.

Such a shame.
There isn't a lot of essential technology beyond energy, agriculture and mining. The biggest driving factor is actually making a society that rewards technological progress. Give that society half a millenia and it will invent computers again.

If you wanted to let a society recover from technological collapse then you would merely need a list of possible inventions ordered by the date of their invention. 3D CAD models with micrometer tolerances are not useful to such a society anyway.
The problem is partly "political" in the sense of negotiating industry power (rather than state, community, or interpersonal power), and complaining is part of political communication and deliberation. Consensus is not instant or free.
There's no way to know a priori what the "best option" is, in any situation. Arguably it's whatever works. And that's something everyone should have the right to determine. With consultation, as they see fit. But otherwise, it's not for anyone else to say.
Efficient market theory in no way claims that all companies must always act rationally.

And even more so, you can attempt to make a rational decision, and still be wrong.

It’s also often said about the market, that it can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
Oh, I've just now seen your reply. No idea, sorry. I have my own websites to put landing pages on but I've seen linktree and similar services being used on Instagram primarily (since they only allow one link per profile).
I was just trying to point out that Nvidia seems to be a bit more positive about the idea than "it might make sense".
Do Ungoogled Chrome next:
https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

And if it's relevant Tor Browser
Source on this? I think that only applies to retail licenses.
AutoOut – Automated Outlier Detection
A chrome fork w/o Google
"Google Chromium, sans integration with Google"
https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

The caveat with this software is that it doesn't really have good automatic update support so there's a high user spend on managing security.
Weird Chrome Bug that I'm facing
There is quite a difference between talking to yourself out loud and constant mental chattering.

Psychologist also encourage mindfulness/meditation to calm your mind, which is more what I'm trying to get at.
Holy cow. Jeffrey Epstein funded George Church, which is also on the front page right now: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/jeffrey-ep...

These tentacles are all over the place.
>>"Corín Tellado was a Spanish author who wrote over 5,000 books in her 81-year lifespan. That’s over sixty books a year, assuming she came out of the womb fully literate. She claimed she could write a book in two days, and I’m inclined to believe her."

Crazy. I was going to mention that her time would have been better spent writing 1 good book rather than 5000 that (I assume because I have never heard of her name before) were mediocre. Quality over Quantity.

Then I thought, perhaps writing brought her joy regardless of how well received the final book is, so she spent her time well by making herself happy doing what she loved. Be happy in your work.

Then I though, jesus 60 books a year, that sounds like she was manically driven to write almost non-stop for her entire life, which is awful. Work will set you free.
Ask HN: Do you regret not starting to use some tool earlier?
Have you ever postponed trying or learning some tool/technology only for it to later become essential in your workflow (or just something you regret not doing earlier)? What was the tool and your reason for not trying it?
A lot of this information came out last week on Xeni's Twitter account: https://twitter.com/xeni

She's been doing an amazing job digging into Epstein's relationships with the science and tech community (some of it first hand).

For example: https://twitter.com/xeni/status/1165266579560521728
On this side, it seems to be largely related to Epstein's weird narcissistic eugenic breeding program, where he looked (or looks, if he is alive) to notably increase the proportion of the world population descended from himself.
Distilling Bert Models with SpaCy
sound like texas is doing it wrong tbh
No one before you was talking about "illegal contracts". You misread what you replied to. Contracts don't prevent things. Contracts determine (sometimes indefinite, but not infinite) prices for actions.

If you trust Google to always uphold its contract, than by the same logic you should trust the government to never abuse your encryption keys.
But we don't, because insider access is (eventually) outsider access. Bits don't have color.
Palantir forced out of job fair after outcry over ICE contracts