skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they are just serving/streaming static data from a single server, wouldn't an entirely different architecture make more sense? For example, why even use a CPU? They have the financial resources to build their own hardware, e.g. encryption ASICs, and they can do interesting things like bundle the pipeline for multiple viewers watching the same movie at the same timepoint.
Stripe is at a size where they can easily afford all the flexibility they need without a middleman company.
There's additional piece to this that you are missing: while the classical simulation is _hard_ (i.e. increasingly hard for larger and larger number of qubits or circuit depths), it _can_ be computed with enough computational power for small number of qubits <=50 and depths<=20. (To get the classical simulation to 50 qubits was an achievement in itself and required a huge amount of compute power provided by google, without which they'd probably be only able to compute it for 30-40 qubits.) And where the classical computer can compute the result, the quantum computer does get the same answer with some probability (not a particularly high probability in absolute sense, but much higher than you would expect than if the quantum computer didn't work.)
I don't know if they've made something more updated, but I usually get the Feather M0 nrf52. The Bluetooth connectivity is super cool for controlling things, and as long as you don't enable encryption, it is relatively low latency.
I much prefer the other option that Apple added to iOS 13: https://www.cnet.com/how-to/this-new-ios-13-feature-stops-st...
The main reason is probably DRM.
As I noted, Congress was empowered with the sole authority to handle international relations: the states (e.g., Virginia) couldn't enter into an international agreement. That's not true of the European countries vis-a-vis the EU.
Just wanted to say that your microcosm code was a huge inspiration/invaluable reference when I was learning go and developing my own forum like thing. Thanks!
Now that you said "Rust" I'm sure all their phones are beeping with alerts and they'll come in and comment.

Old USENET folks will remember having to say "Trkey" and "Kbo" to avoid certain people finding the thread. I think on Hacker News, we will need to say "R*st"
Don't need to.
racism is a major problem and a how to fight racism in hiring as well as society is a real question.

Asian minorities also suffer from racism but it doesn't necessarily work the same way or have the same stereotypes attached
They're pretty good at simulating molecules and molecular interactions. I think chemical engineering is probably the killer app for quantum computers.
Installing the NeoGeo Pocket Color LCD Replacement Kit from AliExpress
You no longer need to use a return keyword for single expressions:

func add(_ x:Int, _ y:Int) -> Int { x + y }

let z = add(2,2)

Might not seem big, but it's nice to removed unneeded boilerplate.
Any numbers on task creation/switching for protothreads? GCD tasks are extremely lightweight:
> Tasks in GCD are lightweight to create and queue; Apple states that 15 instructions are required to queue up a work

Linear code execution can be done using a serial queue.
>my stack is, maybe, a little boring.

>Dedicated AMD 32 core RAID 10 servers from Hetzner running LXD for customer containers — seven containers per server on the cheapest plan. Each dedicated server has their filesystem encrypted with LUKS — including /boot

>All servers run a slightly modified version of Ubuntu, resolve DNS queries using one of my 8 DNSCrypt servers, are managed using on-premise Canonical Landscape and connect to a Hashicorp Vault instance for credentials and whatnot.

>Backups are handled by another big Hetzner server — sitting at 60 TB of storage right now

... I'd love to see what you consider exciting!

Just a side note, do you all have revenue? This seems very overbuilt for a private beta product.
> For the record, I think this is a terrible idea.

It really depends on who you are asking. Some people just hate those loud cracks and pops, and would love to have something that filters them out naturally.
A simple "pubmed near infrared brain" web search will yield enough results to dispel your concerns somewhat. Overdosing is of course not desirable, so yes, don't use a 10W laser for several minutes. There are plenty of therapeutic options which make it hard to overdose.

Since you mentioned wage slaving - I chose coding performance as an example, but I could also have mentioned improved guitar playing skills. Or being a better listener. On average, I don't code that much more now, maybe 6h per day (as a freelancer, there's also lots of other things to do).
That's literally what "stackless" implies though. I don't know if it's so much of a catch as it is a difference between stackful and stackless routines.
You're not missing anything, sufficiently bright natural sunlight would have the same effect.
I can't remember if Nog was addressed directly, but in the recent DS9 documentary Ronald D. Moore (one of the show's writers who later went on the make the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica) commented that there were several minor characters that the writers really liked and, therefore, kept thinking of new stories for them. That actors like Eisenberg portrayed the characters and imbued their roles, especially at first, with such personality definitely resulted in the writers bringing them back and giving them interesting arcs.

The most blatant example of this was Jeffery Combs and his portrayal of Weyoun, a character who died at the end of the episode where he was introduced. They then invented the backstory of his race being all clones just so they could bring him back.
> it did not appear to spur the recipients on to seek work more
> But when compared to a control group who were not receiving the basic income, the test subjects given the money, were not significantly more likely to have got back into employment.

I don't think the UBI was meant as a way to make people not want to look for better ways but to allow one to do it without the pressure of the basic expenses and bills piling up, that's how I see it. In the context of poverty and intelligence it would appear as this approach might not produce the intended results and I think that would be more related to how we're evolutionary wired to be lazy, there are advantages to that when it comes energy expenditure etc [0]

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00283...
I was speaking at the level of novel technologies, not new implementations of existing technologies. New designs of nuclear weapons have a better opportunity to spend the time engineering safeguards against senseless failures, or at least we'd hope.

Note that I also wasn't speaking on the deliberate outcomes of mutually assured destruction, or the perhaps-even-worse outcome of some actor using a small number of nuclear weapons and getting away with it.
10 million?! That’s pitiful even compared to Australia’s GDP peers. Why so little?
Sorry, somehow I missed that in the abstract.
While not quite on topic, let me second that Firebird is a fine and under-appreciated RDBMS. Though it can obviously be used to run on your own server, it really shines when it's deployed in the field. It's used for desktop software I help maintain, running at several hundreds of small businesses. The install is super lightweight, requires very little configuration and practically zero maintenance. Firebird strikes a nice balance when it comes to features. What's great is that it can be used with or without a server process. That way you can start using it like SQLite and scale up to a more PostgreSQL-like setup, or go the other way, with no effort. Many years later, we're still very satisfied with our choice at the time.
I actually wonder why they haven't already. Even Jack Dorsey has a near infrared bulb at this desk, it was mentioned in an article about his daily routine.
>monorepo, which means tightly-coupled code-sharing between all the different components.

It's funny how one persons dream is another person's nightmare.

Tightly coupled software is horrifying to me. Modularization all the way; define contracts then build away.
Less staff means higher wait times, long wait times lead to frustrated and angry patients. People with mental health issues might be less able to manage a longer and more stressful visit. Exhausted providers might me less effective managing upset patients. And so on.

This article calls out people with mental health or drug addiciton specifically.

"As doctors and nurses administer care, they risk physical assaults from drug-addicted or emotionally disturbed persons"
aaaah the ZX81 semigraphics <3
Looks like you got your wish
You misunderstand how the system works. Doctors don't have that much influence over how billing works. It's actually also more inconvenience for them the way it's fragmented now. They don't decide the amount country spends on mental health care, or economic rules which influence the social safety net. It's still a high risk job they're doing. The mental health care issues impact them too - see doctor suicide rates.

So you may want to direct that lack of sympathy towards people who created the system as it exists now instead of those working in it.
KISS at its max.

Always good to underbuild then adopt complications as needed.
It's using the wxWidgets library for the heavy lifting, so should be fast and have native feel on multiple platforms.

Very cool, going to try this out for some of our internal toolkits. Easier than reading the help files for newbies, still has CLI for automating.
Bad Investing Habits You Need to Break
Let’s circle back to the core issue here: are you or anyone else really claiming that the policies ICE is pursuing under Acting Director Matthew Albence, which so many people object to, are against the wishes of Acting United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan or President Donald Trump? Or even that those two haven’t had a direct role is causing them to be pursued?
Joel Zimmerman, aka Deadmau5. You might see a macbook sitting on stage once in a while, but saying that he uses it to do his production would be no more accurate than saying he uses his watch to control the lights (he actually uses racks of nvidia GPUs)
How about a compromise - not a score for each policy but for "each" individual, or tranche of similarly concerned individuals. I go through a list of privacy options (maybe just once) and the point at which my "okay" becomes "not okay" determines my score. Then each policy simply passes or fails based on my score. And if you want more detail, the list of failure items for a given policy can be bulleted.
I'm like 99% sure Google said "what's the most contrived workload that technically counts as quantum supremacy" and went from there...

That being said, we certainly live in interesting times.
Facebook has its sins but is this really one of them? Facebook supports small, controlled, geographically focused groups.
Ultimately, you're not going to completely keep out all the people banned all the time. Duty to treat exists for a reason: in an emergency, it's better for society if people get emergency treatment and sometimes the other bits (e.g. money) don't work out.

However, most people who consume emergency services, don't do so unconscious. Hospitals, EMS, etc. want to get paid, so you're going to be asked for an ID sooner than later.

Some people might not want to give ID, or just not have it on them. I don't know what hospitals do in this case currently, but it doesn't seem like a huge stretch to just make those people give fingerprints to continue treatment.

This[1] claims that 4 finger IDs from fingerprints are 99.9% accurate, which isn't perfect, but it's pretty good.

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1. https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2004/07/nist-study-sho...
Good question. The terms seem to be used interchangeably.

But Wikipedia classifies Scuds as "Tactical" in this case, because of their short range.
There's a tweet from some prominent agriculture researcher pointing out that the fabled Food Computer is in fact a rehash of agricultural techniques used circa 2000. Forgot her name but the remark struck me.

There should be a periodic reminder for tech-minded people to reread Ecclesiastes 1:9 every once in a while.
The worrying state of Mediterranean fish stocks (2017)
To be honest, I'm just not used to living in a place with ethnic division along geographic boundaries. It may exist, but I've not personally seen it so yea, it's hard to imagine. Not saying it doesn't exist, but you asked the question to me personally.
Therefore the win here is that they have verified that a 50 qubit quantum computer "works" (success rate > 10^-3 > 0.) No classical computer could verify a 100 qubit quantum computer in the same way (but you could verify various 50 qubit subsections of the 100 qubit quantum computer). Alternatively, if they had two such 50 qubit devices (and presumably they will soon) they can verify the second one with the first much quicker than they can verify the first with a classical computer, so in that sense the quantum computer beats a classical computer at some task.
1. PostgreSQL. Fast, reliable, (relatively) small (for some reason mysql got a lot bigger). Had a few historic problems with replication but I think that's been resolved. I dealt a lot with large scale large data sets and I wouldn't recommend mysql for that at all, except if they were very simple and relations were either not used or used minimally.
There are better database systems than either, but I can't think of a less reliable one than MySQL.
If you use PHP though, mysql is easier.

(I'm going to assume the rest of the questions are SQL related and not SQLite, which is a particular binary format)

2. why? SQL + json would make some sense, sometimes. I haven't needed it - I just do SQL. Others have better answers.

3. There are tools to do some XML to and from SQL. YMMV. I always rolled my own.

4. it's always possible. Is it worth it?
I used CSV with embedded json for a long time with archival storage because it was reversably parseable and could scale time-based databases somewhat reasonably. There are smarter ways to do this too ...
"If Grandma had balls, she'd be Grandpa."
In a noisy open plan office, with one of those noise reducing helmets, SADS lamp, earplugs, white noise, popping adderall, barista delivering espressos to feeding tube, etc.
What's the pitch to use this over Facebook or Reddit for hosting a forum?
The ASIC is really only relevant for quantum annealers like D-Wave, not for a QC like this. Even if a classical ASIC could close the gap, it would only be delaying the inevitable.

Error is very high, their probability of success drops very fast, see the paper.
good project but not really what OP wants.
Yes. the boehm collector is the root of the problem for Unity's runtime. It's just the verbatim code from that repository in fact. But in other languages, such as C with standard libraries, you can still do common things like comparing stings and calling printf() without inadvertently triggering a dreaded GC sweep. Not so in Unity's C#.

And allocating memory is fine during runtime when you are in control of the allocation and the cleanup, whereas in Unity, the sweeps are fully out of your control, expensive, and will just sometimes happen in the middle of the action
How would that work? Is there an implementation on a simulator to see how it would work?
Yes, that's an occupational hazard when you're waiting on a lock. Someone else might do something. In fact, someone else had better do something, or you won't get your lock.

IMHO, if your system is designed such that a GUI or other low-priority thread is contending for the same resources as a realtime I/O thread, in a situation where the lock might be held for so long that the I/O thread starves, then you have made a really elementary mistake... one so fundamental that it doesn't deserve an abstract-sounding term like "priority inversion." I still feel like there's something I'm missing here.

I mean, I understand that the GUI thread in question might be heavily pre-empted by medium-priority threads, but eventually the GUI thread is going to be given enough time to finish whatever it was doing with my lock, and life will go on. Is this behavior somehow unexpected or counterintuitive?

If kernels are designed such that lower-priority threads never get a time slice until higher-priority threads block on something or explicitly sleep or yield, well, that seems like a really foolish call on the part of the kernel designer. You literally might as well have a cooperative-multitasking OS at that point.
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There's probably a correlation between being happy with no close friends and being misanthropic in general.
Here's a link to the memoir he wrote about his father:

https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062890566/think-black/
Alas, I didn't measure it with a meter (since I don't have any), but according to the spec it draws 14W with a panel size of ~70 square centimeters. There's diffraction and everything, but since I put it directly on the skin, it's fair to assume that the theoretical absorption is 200mW/centimeter. BUT, power loss is huge (cheap infrared LEDs are below 50% efficiency), I don't think that, all in all, more than 30% of the input energy are preserved. So that would be 60mW/centimeter.
Ah brilliant, that's definitely useful. Thank you for the pointer
The fed has said that they use monetary policy to help “labor adjust to market forces.” This is what inflation does. It weakens the buying power of wage earners. Do it slowly enough and they won’t notice it happening. Our ancestors who fought in the labor movement for significant concessions from the capitalist class must be rolling in their grave at the state of the proletariat today. Promoting globalization while not also requiring counties we trade with have equivalent labor laws is just insane, yet people seem to love the idea of globalization and inflation. All I can do is shake my head.
> Here's an easy solution guys - make friends with more women

I'm male. And I'm going to say that most of the women I know would prefer you didn't offer this advice. Women frequently do a ton of emotional labor for men and receive little back. There's already quite a bit of imbalance. Many men rely on the women in their life for support rather than the men.

Most women I know do enjoy their male friends but still wish the men in their lives had more male friends.
I think a great many more people would be affected if those freight railroads didn't get to go first.
Pro-audio is not all pro-music.

Low-latency real-time audio streaming, for example, is a very common need, and the developers need to consider the same problems mentioned in the article.
I don't use Swift, what's the point of the underscores in the method declaration?
I'm curious if you will retain this preference as you get older and physical frailty starts to appear in your life, or you lose your source of income.
I believe the insinuation per the CEO was that even if they where equally qualified that the overwhelming representation of white candidates would cancel out their chance. He is not a bad man, he is a caring and very compassionate man, who believed he was doing good for a fellow human. It was as eye opening to him, when we talked about it and he came to the realization that he was guilty of the same discrimination that he had endured. It's so subtle that it can easily slip by.

My take away was that it really, butt hurts you bad when it happens to you and we as white people rarely experience said butt hurt. It puts things into perspective and I am thankful for that perspective.

Point being, I don't think it was fair and I am not justifying his actions, but it helps me relate to the feeling that black Americans feel. A little empathy goes a long way and the perspective taught me empathy without pandering.
Ultimate Fate of the Universe
A great idea. Some ideas for features:

- Keep a timeline of privacy policy changes, being able to compare scores between 2 versions.

- Subscribe to notifications for changes in score.

- Browser extension that shows you the score on the site.
Seeing this here just clued me in to why I love this channel so much.

There has always been a "cultural" association that inteliect has to be complete. That to be educated is to be well spoken. The fact that there is the inherit counter point between knowledge and delivery makes it entrancing.
I’d love to see a godbolt example of this optimisation, I’ve never heard of a compiler doing this sort of thing.
Love Oster and her works. She’s great for summarizing what is actually out there.

Not exactly evidence based, but “Be Prepared” is a whimsical and helpful parenting aid for the first year that I enjoyed.

The American Association of Pediatrics and the CDC both have parenting sites which I have used over the years, but I’m honestly not sure how evidence based they are.
Aren't nuclear warheads supposed to only detonate when triggered the right way?
Millennials love old men telling them what they want.
Something weird happened in middle class culture when it became uncouth for married persons to go out without the spouse to see friends. Being a single parent is rough, but there's no reason to avoid socializing if you have a spouse -- unless you are shy and hiding behind your spouse, or are content to lean on your spouse and kids for your whole social life (which is a huge risk of long-term downside potential)
Why I don't love Light Rail Transit
It becomes cheating when it's an unfair advantage that isn't available to other people. The fact that it was cheating based on race makes it problematic. The fact that black applications likely faced other unfair difficulties makes it less problematic.

I guess it boils down to whether you think life should be like golf, where (terrible term in this context, apologies for the usage here) you carry a handicap to level the playing field.
Commodity server gear is really cheap, and is more or less "fast enough". The wins from serving say, >1Tbps from a 1U box with an ASIC or FPGA is negated by the downsides of having such a large failure domain, and the cost of development for what would be a pretty low volume part.

We talk about this stuff every once in a while, but it doesn't really make sense to do right now. (Disclaimer: I work at Netflix)
Which compilers exhibit this behaviour?
Without them, you’d need to name the parameters.

let z = add(x:2, y:2)
https://imgur.com/upload is the fastest to make it accessible but it doesn't allow selective whitelisting.
This is basically a promotion since I'm the organizer. I'm hosting a developer's conference called Handmade Seattle this November, where lots of cool and personal coding projects will be showcased. You could show up with no expectations of making connections, but, you never know.
Are those changes in 12.1? If not, what would be a time frame?
Many of IB's limitations and bugs have been removed over the years. I think it was around FB2.5 that it really became a better product than IB ever was. A cool thing, though, is that it's very backward compatible. If you have applications that expect IB6, they will happily connect to any version of FB, even using the old client lib. The pace of development has ramped up since FB3, which was focused on rearchitecting the core. That's mostly a good thing. Still, I fear a little that it will also affect reliability.

Not sure exactly what kind of situation got you in trouble, but I haven't had any issues (ab)using the database myself. Disk space is still not reclaimed. It does, however, get used when the amount of data grows again, of course. Effectively the database is always the largest size it ever needed to be, but no larger. Most of the time, that shouldn't be any issue. If you expect huge spikes, there are other ways around it.