skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to diminish the achievement here, which is considerable, but I feel like a lot of these WebAssembly-based projects miss the forest for the trees.

JavaScript isn't really that big of a problem or a performance killer. The DOM is. I don't know what the answer is (rendering to a canvas tag is awful for accessibility) but I'm hoping that in time we see the improvement that is to the DOM as WebAssembly is to JS.
Is it needed and / or ethical in this case? Alzheimers patients don't spontaneously recover, seems immoral to deny them treatment via a placebo when there is no possibility of improvement from their current state. I'm not a scientist or anything, just curious what normal procedure is here
The problem of the countries in eastern Europe is primarily political corruption, rooted from the old soviet system and slowing dying off.

But, this is being resolved by:
People moving to other countries resulting in a decrease in government tax revenue, giving less incentive to extort money through corruption and forces efficiency on government services (out of necessity), and in the end, it makes it a competitive market again.

People like my parents who left will never go back. But for people like me, if the conditions in those countries improve and become attractive again (and they seem to be improving), I have no problem with going back.
This is the key. If you did this every 3-6 months where you bounced than it could be a problem, but overall doing it once in awhile is not a big deal. And you can easily address it in a cover letter if you felt necessary, or even in the position description. I'd leave it alone unless/until asked personally.

You can also leave it off it you really felt it was a problem, or do some A/B testing with it and different employers. I personally think people get way too worked up over their resume usually, the exception being when you only have a couple of positions to list then anything "different" can stand out so then it is totally worth giving it a little more thought.
Renewed conflict in Northern Ireland, breaking the Good Friday agreement, leading to open war between the EU and the UK, with Scotland seceding during the chaos and joining the EU.

Or, renewed conflict in Northern Ireland and huge tensions between the EU and UK leads to the Queen taking control since the UK obviously doesn't know how to govern itself any more. Honestly, this seems like the best outcome; they'd be better off with royal rule than what they've chosen.
Yep, it's still possible but increasingly unlikely at this point. The U.K. government have made an ultimatum today that the E.U. either accepts their "new" deal, or they leave with none. This deal isn't acceptable to the E.U. so there is an impasse.
I think if it even happens (several people I know still don't believe it will), it will in the long term lead to the dissolution of the Union. The position of Scotland is pretty clear here, and I can't see that the status quo will remain in Northern Ireland either. Personally as a British citizen I would not be disappointed to see a united Ireland in my lifetime - Brexit was a good chance to read up on all the history, and I do not believe NI should be ruled from London.

I don't think there will be quite as much chaos and doom as some people predict, but the ports situation will definitely be bad (if you listen to the transport professionals, hauling companies etc. who actually do cross between the UK and mainland Europe regularly). Certain medicines will be in very short supply. There's an endless list of things from mildly inconvenient to downright terrible (if you depend on one of the medicines to live, for example).

The economy is already tipping into recession. Leaving the UK's biggest trade union will make this worse. If the Tories somehow cling to power, expect more cuts. Maybe the NHS will be privatised to save money. The poor and disabled will be shat on even more than they already are.

The wealthy will as always find a way to do just fine. Tax evasion will continue and probably grow (exemption from new EU tax directives and policies).

More companies than have already left will move to the mainland.

More EU citizens will go back home (whether forcibly due to the draconian rules or out of choice). Priti Patel will smile sweetly as the talent exodus decimates entire sectors.

People will try and get on with their lives, but for many it will definitely get harder.

I hate Brexit.
I think there are a couple reasons for this.

First, historically, Apple Watch development was difficult and very constrained. The framework had a lot of limitations and, on early watch models, third party apps were very slow compared to native apps (which themselves were not very speedy).[1]

This is changing now as the hardware gets better and Apple is opening up more powerful and easier APIs to third-party developers, but it will take a while for third party apps to catch up. And the situation is still not as good as it is on iOS.

The other reason is that there's a small number of app concepts that even make sense on the watch. The watch is very good at a few things: quick, glanceable interactions (like notifications) and fitness tracking. Apple suggests that apps should "support fast interactions and focus on the content that users care about most", and that "interactions with the Apple Watch are measured in seconds." [2]

A great deal of apps simply don't fit this category at all. Many existing iOS apps expose some basic watch functionality, but many won't, because it just doesn't make sense. Consider how willing you would be to hold your wrist up in front of you for 30+ seconds.

[1] https://marco.org/2018/02/26/watchkit-baby-apps
[2] https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
Unfortunately very few Linux people even see a point in actually using their GPU. As long as it can composite terminal emulators, they think everything is great. I've seen such reasoning in discussions about sway, where people are encouraged to throw out their $500+ GPU in favor of the on-die Intel GPU...
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The population is already stabilizing at 11 billion. Paul Ehrlich was wrong: richer countries undergo a demographic transition.
This has interesting ramifications in areas which do have the ability to support power supply, but haven't implemented our style of loans tied to collateral (Edit: Or rather haven't implemented automated billing, pre or post paid, tied to an identity.).

I saw this in play in Mozambique. Few people had bank accounts, even fewer had mailing addresses, but many still had power.

Once a month or so you went down to the market and bought a little scratch off ticket worth X amount of power, I assume with the same one time use keys used on gift cards. When a house wanted hooked up to the grid they'd be supplied with a power meter which had a keypad. Type the numbers from your scratch off into the box, and it'd update it's counter with how much electric you had left.

A lot of things worked on this scratch off system, and it's one of the things I really liked. It enabled the power company to trust in their hardware instead of having to place trust in an individual. So the individual didn't have to provide any collateral. There was no credit check to get a new phone plan, because you either bought a scratch off that month or you didn't. No one came around to check your power meter unless there was something wrong with it, and they company didn't much care what it was supplying power to. I watched my neighbor build a new house and transfer his live box (quite dangerously) from his old to the new. The power company trusted the hardware, not a person or house it was tied to, so it didn't matter and there was never any record of what he was powering with it in the first place.
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It would require a lot of agreed-upon things to continue as agreed rather than end upon the overarching agreement (i.e. membership of the Union) coming to an end. This is largely what Brexit-positive people seem to think would happen in the case of a no-deal, i.e. "nothing much would change" because to rock the boat would be too much.
"Identity politics is when someone's identity characteristics (gender, race, etc) are used to assign to them to a characteristic based group instead of an ideological one. Eg, "Irish Engineers Club" instead of "Socialist-Republic Engineers Club" (to use an entirely fictional example)."

I could see legitimate uses for this, though. For example, there are definitely medical, legal, and ethical concerns regarding identifying as a trans person. Such resources such as how to advocate for yourself to recieve appropriate medical treatment for gender dysphoria, what laws to pay attention to, what politicians and policy proposals are involved, where to purchase products, what to say to police, etc. are all very specific to being a trans person.

I could totally imagine a trans-specific resource pool and community to discuss shared knowledge. A group as defined by identity affected by political changes. That might collectively advocate politically based on their identity. Eg. Medicare for all is great, but will medicare for all cover gender affirmation?

Similar groups form for couples dealing with infertility and the legal, emotional, political issues with alternative ways of creating a family. Adoption is a massive process. IVF often isn't covered by insurance, or if it is, it's coverage is extremely limited. Surrogacy is also rife with problems legally. They, too, can form political movements based on their similar experiences.
Part-time - not really, but if you're available for a full-time 12 to 16 months internship (and have the legal right to work in Canada) please get in touch.
Sounds like you are Seeking work not a freelancer. Also I would recommend you to provide some more details and a way to contact you.
Even if you were correct, negotiating treaties takes time and the British politicians have already demonstrated major lack of skills in this area.

EU tried for 30 years to come to agreement with Brits. they dragged their feet and caused lots of friction even when they had great offers. Why would things be better this time?
I think a leaderboard feature would be awesome an a way to share the score with friends
YouTube demonetizing videos where LGBTQ keywords are said
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The examples you gave were all extreme cases of gross negligence.

You're feigning ignorance and acting as if they are highly trained people dealing with incredible complexity and unmitigatable danger. Its as simple as it sounds. They pointed loaded guns at other people and/or themselves. Its really easy not to do it 100% of the time. Everyone knows its not ok whether they use guns on a regular basis or not.

Everyone should be able to recognize the unusual amount of irresponsibility they showed. You pretending they were above average because they had gun related jobs doesn't make it so.

The No True Scotsman fallacy doesn't apply. Its a form of unfair gatekeeping. That's not the case here. These people were ignoring everything about gun safety so its perfectly fair to say they don't fall into the category of people that are responsible.

Your lack of trust that anyone can be responsible with a gun is a separate issue. You should be able to recognize by the actions that led to the shootings that these people are not experts.
My god, you are right!

(example in typescript playground: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/#code/C4TwDgpgBAIglgJwgY...)
I really hope this takes off and is practical. Every time I have to touch the mess that is front-end JS development, I want to torch the building and go live in a cave far away from any computers.

Dynamic by default languages are a mistake. Languages where anyone can monkeypatch anything are a mistake. Languages that are so flakey and squishy that the best tooling in the world can't tell you reliably whether a symbol is or is not defined somewhere in scope, and jumping to definition relies on grep, are a mistake.

I don't know if Blazor is the right answer - in particular the server-side version of it, using SignalR to send events and diffs back and forth gives me some chills and flashbacks to ASP.NET WebForms UpdatePanels... - but something better for WebAssembly will come soon, and we can finally be free of the sub-mediocre monopoly that JS has enjoyed.
that’s yucky. you’re messing up your cap table (the equity is just going to yourself) to avoid patriating money to avoid paying taxes. for the paltry sum of $50k. just give the company a personal loan.

it’s way too early to start financial engineering.
Interestingly Y2K is not over. In Norway for example the national insurance number has year as a two digit string. A small number of people every year find themselves in a position where the state considers them as eligible to for instance re-attend kindergarten... At some point in the 21st century duplicate numbers may start being issued.

There will be long tail of repercussions to using two digit years for most of the rest of the century.
Keep in mind that the premise of the thread (the picture of the name tag on the door) is actually a setup. Someone graffitis on Stallman’s door, and that mob justice character assassination spews forth from it.
I mean Prince wrote a song about Y2K in the 80s.
Yeah, that's a good idea. I added him on LinkedIn.
ISPC can actually produce C++ that is full of intrinsics.

Also you can try it out already in godbolt.org - ISPC had been around for a number of years now and works very well.
So are they ready to trash the Good Friday agreement and go back to The Troubles? Because that's the alternative.
If you "rather pointedly refuse" to use words according to their dictionary definitions, then you're going to have a hard time having productive conversations.

Wealth means money or equivalent value (goods, conveniences, etc).

Marginal utility means marginal utility.

They're both tremendously useful concepts, but trying to confuse the two means nobody will understand what you're talking about.
>Brexit reminds me of Y2K. Lots of talk, lots of worry, but nothing really happened.

What an ominous analogy. I hope for the sake of those who live there nothing happens - but the y2k bug was more than “lots of talk and worry”. People identified the problem and worked diligently to get it fixed before shit hit the fan - just because nothing happened doesn’t mean nothing was done. I don’t think you should take a laid back attitude and assume someone else will do all the work.

On a related note, I worry this is how climate change will be treated if addressed. Some clueless peoples will simple hand wave the problem away and ignore the years of energy change and research that had to be done because “nothing bad happened”
Do you mean to compare scores after a specific number of levels?
Good fuels are hard to find.

The problems with petroleum (and natural gas) are twofold. One is the carbon emissions, but the other is the fact that supplies will eventually run out, and have to be substituted by something. And as we try to pursue every last fraction of petroleum, the environmental costs will rise -- increasingly hard-to-access, high-risk, or heavy-treatment options. Think deep water, Deepwater Horizons, and tar sands and fracking.

Hydrocarbons are great fuels, and for some applications, especially powered flight, there's virtually no other viable alternative. Keep in mind that the aeroplane and automobile both appeared at virtually the same moment -- the principle requirements for each were high power-to-weight engines and energy-dense fuels. Sorting out the mechanical and aeronautical problems were relatively straightforward.

(Lightweight sturctural aluminium also helped markedly, and also became available largely through the same related set of technological processes providing Otto-cycle engines and petrol-based fuels.)
Our weather patterns here include heavy rain storms. What I don't happen to catch gets flushed away into the drain in the street, which leads to a nearby creek (stormwater is kept separate from sewage here).

And of course, all the other parts of the road that don't happen to run up to a yard are not really groomed, so all that debris is flushed into the waterways.
It's the Catholic-Protestant history. Not Brits living in NI.

The Northern Irish 6 counties did not want to unify with Ireland when Ireland was born in 1919. Those 6 were the protestant majority counties, who wished to stay with the UK.

Changing demographics and birth rates over the following century, increasing secularisation in the Republic, and increasing numbers who simply don't care about religion makes that far less of the issue.
Sorry, I didn't realize. First time doing this. I'll try to find out who the other poster is, and coordinate next time...
Reminds me of SilverLight.
What I fear is the UK government (and the press that support it) continuing its policy of doing very little and blaming everything on the EU. For example:

1. UK leaves without a deal, leaving an open EU border between Ireland and NI.
2. UK refuses to do anything to enforce this border or stop the movement of goods and people across it.
3. Ireland / the EU needs to protect its borders so they put up fences and vehicle checkpoints. Perhaps even with help from other EU countries' security forces.
4. UK right wing press runs stories full of angry language about the 'invasion'

I fear we'll see this process repeated every time there's a shortage of anything - it will all be the EU's fault, and entering into any transitional agreements with the EU (if they are gracious enough to grant us any) will be 'surrender' or 'capitulation'.

This is a worst case scenario, but I fear we are heading for serious civil unrest and violence
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Personal freedoms are awful in the EU, but it's in exchange for increased safety and economic stability. Obviously an amazing tradeoff.
WhatsApp being used to orchestrate ethnic cleansing in Mynanmar [0], or inciting lynchings in India [1] would be two recent examples of tools that remove barriers to communication having unexpected and tragic side effects.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xbbqg/facebook-hired-an-...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/20/whatsapp-...
Welcome to colonism. Have a look at africa, the borders there are a bit more arbitary.

But in ireland it is not only about the english living in north ireland, but more about the irish living there.
It was more about catholic vs. protestant.

Not so easy to dissolve, but I hope the last blood happened long ago enougj for both sides to forget and move on, even if england messes up the deal amd the border becomes an issue again.
A couple years ago I wanted to send a little over $3K to my brother. He needed it within 24 hours to deposit for a house rental. The only way I could find to get it there that fast was to physically go to the bank and fill out a paper form for a wire transfer, with a $30 fee. I looked at some of those payment startups and their transaction limits were too low.
I scrolled back and forth and even checked the linked github site but... any live demos? There should be a "Live demo" button right at the top.
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I don't disagree with this, of course. Some startups do create some valuable services for people. But society would be better off if those services were owned by the people using them and the surplus value was going to more people rather than a few investors.
Except Libra's entire scam was

a. It was backed by the fiat put in

b. They would collect all interest on the fiat for themselves, users did not see any kind of interest for holding the balance
As a canadian who as moved to Europe here are some of my points that have nothing to do with money but a bit.

1) More indians in toronto more food and less likely to fee lonely
2) Make more in EU but costs other than housing are more
3) Easier to start a company in Canada
4) Easier to fit in culturally in Canada
5) Too many immigrants to Toronto make competition killer
6) Need a car
I'm not sure I would classify this a epic failure. This feature was enabled, and used fairly widely. It didn't live up to it's potential, and the biggest issue may be the weight / thickness requirements that it put onto Apple products. Apple traded that weight / thickness for more batter on the current phone, which is well worth it.

I miss 3D touch with the newest IOS builds. All that said, the discoverability aspect is huge here. It either needed to be built into everything, or nothing. Lukewarm adoption here was a major issue, because it meant that users had to experiment to discover what was actually possible.
I wouldn't have started a publication on Medium yesterday, still wouldn't today, and won't tomorrow. Say "no" to closed/walled-garden ecosystems, for the love of FSM.

Other option? Self-host using Apache Roller or something. It's not like there aren't 12,000 F/OSS blog/CMS/wiki/etc. systems out there one could use for this sort of thing.
Still scanning: 40th anniversary of the barcode
what is 'the divide' in this sense? tiktok is about on par with tumblr for active users