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Whoa, you work in HPC? Wow.

I understood that the TaihuLight etc. were based on SW26010 cpus and as these use scratchpad rather than automatic cache hierarchies I assumed they were a bugger to program therefore were less efficient (it's not that simple but you know what I mean).

But I checked on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500#TOP_500 which gave, for this machine, Rpeak (theoretical peak) of 125 PFlops[0] and Rmax ("the highest score measured using the LINPACK benchmarks suite") as 93 PFlops. Which really wasn't at all bad compared to the US machines, so I wondered where that left my assumptions. But you now mention they're hard to use.

I'd assumed that if linpack was written and tested, you just used it and got the peformance. Apparently not?

(I don't work with supercomputers, just in case you hadn't noticed)
Someone wil inevitably end up fucking the AI and proceed to base far-reaching conclusions about consciousness on that.

As Adam knew Eve, wil we all "know" AI?
In another module, there's the boilerplate of importing Source and Dest.
The cases where Mathematica solves integration by spitting out all kinds of exotic functions (Bessel functions, all kind of weird elliptic integral functions and so on). They don't have these kind of integrals in their training data.
In this post he just linked The Guardian article that described lack of solid empirical evidence.

Also note that it is a difference between an empirical claim and a moral claim. While empirical claim that some action almost always leads to negative outcome to others could be used as an argument for that action being immoral, it is still perfectly valid to attack the supporting empirical claim, while not attacking the moral claim.
> Patagonia for example sell a filter bag to launder their fleeces in that supposedly catches some of the microplastic effluent.

What's the next step? What happens to the filter bag, the fibers therein?
Yes. It does. And it means you will use WP in a head-less setup.

The main problem is not using a large part of your WP codebase (so much for lean and mean) and that some features in WP dont work as expected.

Now you may want to keep WP up to date and the cost for this may be bigger then a head-less SaaS CMS.
The founders are very busy devising wage theft schemes. How can they possibly spend time on security or apologies?
> Also, this is just dead wrong:

>> Avoid placing equations in the middle of sentences. Mathematics is not the same as English, and we shouldn’t pretend it is.

Yes, I am a mathematician and this advice goes against established practice and everything I've been taught.

Maybe correct for some fields though? I don't know. Needs a big disclaimer in any case.
This doesn't really satisfy the "quick".
>Why does it matter how many have died in car accidents?

Perspective.

How many people do you know. How many people do you know who died in car accidents. For most people that number is zero or one, maybe two. The average person gets in a car accident like once every 17yr (forget where I heard that) and fatal accidents are a tiny, tiny subset of that. They really are rare compared to how many people are in the US and how much driving those people do.

Murders are far, far more rare than car accidents, practically nonexistent for people who don't make their living in the drug trade.

The point is that they are statistically very rare events overall so increasing the risk of a big problem in the long term (by throwing away our restrictions on what government can and can't do to "find criminals") in order so solve a really tiny one doesn't seem wise.
In response to #2: Thomas Cook had its own airline with its own fleet of aircraft. Surely some of the fund could be used to keep that fleet and its pilots employed and operational to bring the people back? No need to charter anything then.
it gets slower because your inboxes get bigger

I am pretty much an inbox-zero person. None of my inboxes have more then 5 messages in them.

Or do you mean folders in general, like "sent" and "trash" etc?
> Types are good but having 10 types of string doesn't make sense.

It really does make sense. Types like string, int, float, etc. are poorly defined for most things they represent. There's no context and are just one step away from being dynamic, like values in a dynamic language.

By enforcing a contextual contract (perhaps with additional constructors that constrain the value) you leverage the type-system to do the hard work of checking for stupid mistakes. On large code-bases this reduction in cognitive complexity makes a whole class of bugs go away.

So, 100s of types of string could make sense, it really does depend how many types of thing you have which are distinct and can be represented as a string.

But once they're defined, they're not strings any more, they have an internal state which is a string, yes, but their type is not a string.
I wouldn't anyway because I know precisely why there are separate bathrooms for men and women: because men usually pee on the seat. In the case I would have to pee in women's toilet, I would sit down (because what you actually do is eventually respect, not your herd signalling, or empty words).

On the other hand, how many different toilets should there be in your world? Should non transgender women be allowed in women's toilets? That has been an actual question and an actual problem to solve in the world of infinitely exploded communities of precious snowflakes (in the very same order of absurdity, should veiled white women allowed in "coloured women only" meetings? what about transgender black women?).

As food for thought, if you believe that, as a white cis male, I'm a born oppressor, I've also been actually harassed, publicly humiliated, attacked and beaten for being "a fag" (you know, long blond hair), because homophobes don't really care about who you actually are, and also beaten for defending women harassed on the street (because machos/sexists are also generally violent).

In the global competition for victimhood, nobody can win. Who knows what humiliations RMS was subjected to for being ugly, fat, an asocial geek, etc. Maybe he used the power he has in some sets and circumstances in despicable ways. But so do the students at Evergreen, because that's just what human beings do. Being an aggressor or a victim is mostly circumstantial for most people.
To take it even further I'd suggest moving abroad for at least a year. It doesn't have to be far in terms of distance, but ideally it's reasonably far in terms of culture. For me personally this is what really broadened my horizons, much more so than traveling here or there for a few weeks. Moving sucks, and certainly moving abroad can be real hard work, but it's definitely a learning experience like few others I feel.
People within their group or even people of the majority pop in near homogenous countries still have all kinds of insecurities. If those people grew up in other societies outside their group they may or may not have different insecurities, but we can’t know.

Interestingly the USSR used to be known for limb lengthening surgery, although I heard it was very much in a Soviet tradition.
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> He's not saying he believes Minsky had sex with the girl; he's granting that it's possible, absent any contrary evidence, for the purposes of argument

Nothing about what I said is even remotely related to whether or not Minsky actually had sex with her. You don't need to be condescending and pretend to tell me what a hypothetical argument. I know what a hypothetical argument is.

What I am claiming is that RMS said that (given Minsky did have sex with her), if she presented herself as willing, then Minsky did not commit sexual assault. I have been clear about this from the very first comment (please take a second to go back and re-read it). Whether he actually had sex with her is irrelevant. My claim is about what RMS said about assault.

Do you deny that RMS said this?
Unless you have a domain with GoDaddy, of course...
> I think they should include Apple Care for their professional equipment. This won't put any any more money in Apple's pocket but I could see it being another differentiator and a good bit of PR, especially to all of those price arguments.

Do Apple hardware failures happen often?

In ~20 years of assembling PCs with consumer grade parts I've only had 2 legit non-keyboard/mouse hardware failures (3 if you count lightning destroying a power supply before I knew about surge protectors). For context, I've had 0 hardware failures in the last 10 years. I keep my computers on 24/7 too.
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Similar to the changing the seat or steering wheel position, except easier to dial it back.
And we still need to assign at least one /32 to every mobile device.
That's my daily phrase lol.

You cannot imagine how much I hate myself for dealing with technology...
You can also do it if you do have kids.

Way too often we think about kids as limiting factor. We try to tell them what they should do, while all we need to do is to show them.
According to [1] it appears that AMD rates CPU TDP for maximum load (overestimating), while Intel rates them for load without turbo boost (underestimating), so AMD's 65W is really impressive.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u4ew6IT4Vo
Good for him - where can I read up on that?
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Strange, on Amazon from the 3rd world kindle books are a lot cheaper for me.

The ease of finding and buying them has upped my reading significantly.
Very nice. Get your hands dirty man and enjoy the process!
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No vuejs did not surpass reactjs.

In fact reactjs found an even simpler programming model and is leading with this new approach ... it is called hooks.

Vuejs is copying the same concept and in fact wanted to dump it’s old way to fully embrace react hooks style programming but that angered the vuejs community.
Hah I thought that initially, but TypeScript interfaces are simpler (and usually co-sited) compared to their OO cousins. I find them a pleasure to use.
Stallman's notes about pedophilia have nothing to do with Minsky and Giuffre.
Exactly, in video games NPCs do panic when bad thing happens. However it's coded
. And what they feel could also be coded according to the purpose of the simulation.
agreed, but it's a hard thing for many to do. I've been fortunate that I've had family in other parts of the world so I've been able to 'live like a local' in some places, even just for a few weeks at a time. By that I mean living with people who are carrying on regular lives - going to work, doing laundry, etc, and living in an average house/apartment (or.. sometimes above average). In essence, just the opposite of a package tour/hotel/sightseeing holiday trip. I know it's still not quite 'living' there - I'm not commuting to a job or going to school or whatnot over there, but it's different than living in a hotel just seeing tourist attractions.
When I am at rest, looking around myself, taking in sensations, observing others runaround me, and aware of myself and my place in the world, I consider myself consciously aware. I don't see what any of that experience has to do with language.

Furthermore, I don't see any reason why that state of conscious awareness would need to have been significantly different in my pre-human ancestors. Would a Homo Erectus have had a significantly different sense of experience? An Australopithecus? Our common ancestor with other apes? If so, why?

It seems to me the parts of the brain active in that state correspond closely to those in other mammals. Yes when I'm solving maths problems, writing a HN post, playing a board game or solving a crossword puzzle I'm using higher brain functions that other mammals don't have. Sure. But what has that got to do with conscious awareness? I have that when I'm doing things very much along the same lines as activities of other mammals. Running a race, climbing a tree, walking through woodland, stalking prey, experiencing love, or loss or panic. I don't see why I would expect their experience of those things to be much different from mine.

There's no 'animal mode' state of awareness that we have when doing 'animal' things that's a vestige of our pre-conscious past. Conscious awareness isn't something that only kicks in when actively engaging higher brain functions. So surely that is evidence it's a foundational part of our mental heritage, not a modern addition?

It seems to me that arguing that a higher mammal's experience must be dramatically different from mine when doing common activities, to the point that it's impossible for us to even imagine what that experience is like, is the extraordinary claim.
This is what it's like arguing with many anti-drugs person. Whatever you say, they'll counter it with anything to push their 'prohibitive' agenda.

It's not even that there's no room for compromise, there's no space even to discuss it, to try and understand their rationale. It's like being a kid again in a classroom with the teacher shouting at you that you can't do that and no they won't explain why.
Bought it, read it, liked it. Most of it is applicable to any programming language. I remember there being very little code examples in the book.
Adga does mixfix pretty well. A variable in scope can indicate the places for arguments with underscores (e.g. _+_ or _=<_>_). The tradeoff for being able to use pretty much any symbol in identifiers along with mixfix is that you have use whitespace (3 + 5, not 3+5). Though I agree it doesn't scale.
I use sylpheed; so far it loads like a bullet with 3 IMAP email accounts.
They get brought in alongside the functions. Especially given Haskell (sadly) defaults to unqualified import.
There are 168 hours in a week, and there appear to only be two moderators. So there are probably large windows of time during which various forbidden topics can make their way to the front page.

Having said that, I find HN to be enjoyable because there aren't many political or religious discussions here. Presumably there are many subreddits for topics like these (I say presumably because I spend almost no time on reddit).
This. I'm in my 30s, and have two kids. On my 3rd trip of the year as I write this and my wife and are planning trips 4 and 5 before the year is up. First trip of next year is in the works as well.

Is it easy? Absolutely not. It's difficult and at times frustrating, but absolutely worth it.
IPV6 and give a /64 to each device. That's fine, however you're still with a routing table of upto 2^64 entries. Currently BGP routing table is upto 2^24 entries, but it's really less than 1 million entries.

BGP is not the answer to multi path devices for many many reasons. Tackling it at higher levels (OSI 4-8) is the solution.
A recent update on OCaml multicore:

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/multicore-prerequisite-patches-a...
>> Why would anyone keep creating cool new frameworks?

That’s a weird question because the answer is so obvious. There’s massive innovation in front end development because billlions of users are using ever more sophisticated applications created by millions of programmers backed by virtually infinite money. Of course people keep looking for and finding better ways to do things. Do you think that process has come to an end?

You must be trolling.
The same place you linked to.
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Internal storage is a huge thing. I have external storage attached to my 27" iMac, but it is not completely reliable (disks get ejected occasionally) and completely beats the purpose of an elegant desktop machine. So I really would like a machine with several drive spaces, especially if I can access them. I could have lived reasonably by upgrading the internal storage of my iMac, if there was any way for me to access it.

Graphics cards is another thing, but also the plain ability to clean fans when they start to clog up. The limitations of the iMac are amplified by Apple making the interior inaccessible.

Finally, while the screen of the iMac is great, I would like to have a larger screen.

So there are plenty of reasons still to have a bit more than the iMac can deliver.
So QUIC provides Mosh-like semi-arbitrary data transfers?
This would be great for stuff like an IRC bouncer, because while Mosh exhibits excellent resilience, it prevents efficient rich-client functionality like instant auto-complete (Mosh triggers a prediction delay in that case) and window-switching.
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> Nature's not cheap (£198 a year), and it comes weekly which may be faster than most people can read it, but as a means of communicating the absolute cutting edge of all sciences I commend it.

You're saying that a bit under £4 a week isn't cheap? As a child my parents bought National Geographic monthly, which wasn't cheap where we lived, but it was well worth it. It threw me face fisrt into a lot of scientific knowledge and amazing photography which I wouldn't have accessed through any other means. I wouldn't call £4 a week expensive.
> I can understand why this is considered a nice-to-have.

Well typing is one good reason, maps usually are not statically typed with key:value pairs. That's more of a class / struct thing. And then the verbosity increases quite a bit.
Sorry, not sure if your parent was edited to remove keynamed parameters from the second example or if I've responded to the wrong comment.

I'd definitely agree with you that the not having named arguments is worse than your method chained example.

To me named parameters seem to be on a par with the chained OO api.
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See my other reply in this post why I thing he is wrong about universal grammer. I don't have any problem conceiting that humans are the only species with advanced language skills ;)
I believe the creepiness at MIT was not "asking undergraduates out" - it was threatening to kill himself if the undergraduate did not accept.

If true, that is deeply disturbing behavior.
Language is a poor way to comprehend the cosmos. It is very limiting. Words are not enough to explain what happens when rain drops fall on my skin or the wet smell of sand intoxicates me or wind ruffles my hair...

I have seen cows chewing cud and they seem more in touch with the cosmos than 99.99 percent humans.
Oh sorry! I missed that bit.
_shrug_ I have no skin in the game, so to speak, but I can almost imagine a scenario where it might be simpler to accept that consciousness is a physical property of matter than to accept that consciousness doesn’t exist.
Use Mozilla's rr. Record the offender, then debug offline.
Agreed. Lots of praise, no explanation.
For me it's a useful signal, it means they value my time equally as theirs.
I'm happy to do the take-home test after the onsite one when they only testing that I really know what I said I know but I'm at the finish line.
A lot of companies require it right after the phone screening(usually with an HR person who knows nothing). I burned myself that way before. After finishing the take home test on the on site interview after 5 minutes it was clear they were looking for an ops person advertised as DevOps.
Yes there are reasonable levels of discomfort, but at a decent work place, those cannot be set to high before HR should take actions.

And by my understanding, he certainly was way more direct than asking someone out for a date. Have you seen the "pleasure cards"?

I can testify of him harassing people privately over public discussions on mailing lists.
It's a solved problem on newer cars.

What I want next is an automatic sunscreen that slides down based on sensing the angle of the sunlight. I think there is also technology to dynamically darken glass that could be used. I hereby grant a free perpetual license to auto manufacturers to use this idea. :)
Just took a look at the screenshots, looks nice.
So you sleep 1 hour only? :/

Here's your facts:

01:30 (wakes up)
16:30 (works for 15 hours until kids get home)
00:30 (spends 8 hours with kids and wife)

Am I missing something here?
Is there an e-mail app out there that integrates nicely with Google Calendar and looks nice as well?
I use Thunderbird with 10 imap-accounts. Takes about 3s to start, with one mail account being checked on initialization.

I've pondered a move to mutt, but it's a bit of a pain to configure to "get it right" to fit my workflow and nitpicks.
Even if you have kids you can still do it. Tons of people travels with their kids (including demanding travels).
I don't use porn any more (and haven't for years), and try to keep masturbation to a minimum. It just takes willpower, despite what many say.
>Fundamentally, it cannot work well because the whole premise of GraphQL is to allow clients to request as many different permutations of the data as they want.

What kind of client are we talking about here? If you run a web app then all your queries will be predefined in the code which means that the only variables are just that, variables. If you are talking about other apps consuming your GraphQL API then yes, they can request whatever permutation they want. But realistically, what client that consumes your API would keep changing the shape of their request all the time? And if they do then just revoke their access. Abusive clients is not a problem exclusive to GraphQL.
Let's say somewhere between 27 and 35
It's quite possible to go carbon-negative, assuming you're well off. A family of 4 being carbon-negative is going to do more for climate change than a carbon-positive family of 2.
Hah, I'm amazed my comment got flagged. The article is literally about _the German Catholic Church_ and we're talking about _the Polish Catholic Church_, which are both formal organisations. I know Americans have more "churches" than people but in Europe local church communities are normally organised in larger, formal structures.

In the case of the German and Polish Catholic Churches, they're even under direct control of the Vatican, i.e. the Catholic Church proper.

Yes, your local community may be good and if it's an independent church like most religious groups in the US are, it may be completely removed from any greater politics but Catholic churches are very much part of the Catholic Church proper (i.e. if a priest steps out of line, they risk being removed -- which btw is exactly what happened when a Catholic priest in Germany in the 1990s openly preached views that the Church considered too progressive).

A small religious community may hold okay views and be nice and dandy, but organised religion (and especially the Catholic Church) is rotten to the core. And I say that as a baptised & confirmed Catholic in Germany.
I love how this immediately stumbles upon difficulties: this is a different 'chair' than I was thinking of and the first definition just invokes a recursion into the definition of 'conscious'. I'm not sure whether that was the purpose of the comment, but it brilliantly succeeded.
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Do you think OEM EVs will have better software than an SV EV?
Or worse, spirals into endless “yes it is” “no it isn’t” without ever discussing what ‘it’ is.
Thank you very much for the correction!
The '#privateVar' syntax means that classes are no longer simply syntax sugar, unfortunately.
"we had a small team of just 24 exceptional people that I firmly believe was among the strongest of its kind in the world"

I am absolutely sure that this is something A LOT of companies say and think about their current setup. Impossible to verify, just something that sounds great and makes the 24-people group feel special.
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