skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt opioids are 90% of the problem. Every day I read about a senior citizen who is living in their car, has some retirement money, and usually not a drug problem but they lost their housing because it's too expensive.

This is the situation in Seattle. There are tons of people with drug addictions, but there are also clearly lots of people economically pushed onto the street.

So we still need more cheaper housing.
Highlights from “The Checklist Manifesto” by Atul Gawande
As difficult as it is for me to understand, some people enjoy working the same way other people would enjoy not having to work.
Be careful that some of those files explicitly include others. For example my (default) ~/.profile includes ~/.bashrc, my ~/.bash_profile includes ~/.profile, /etc/profile includes /etc/bash.bashrc...

So your capture here doesn't show only the files that bash itself decided to load. You also won't see the fallback files (e.g. bash will open .profile if .bash_profile doesn't exist).
> Hence, they do what anyone would do in that situation, and commit crime to survive.

I will believe this when a person is stealing food, or even selling drugs. I will not believe this when a person is involved in violent acts, rape, murder, etc. which nobody "needs" to do to survive.

> Not only does this ruin the person's life

Arguably already ruined before they went to jail, in terms of their trajectory. Very, very few of these people are on the cusp of turning their lives around; it seems much more likely that they're just on the verge of getting caught, time and time again, until it finally happens.

> it also costs the public in both lost productivity

I don't believe this. It's rare that someone in this situation would have been productive at all, their entire lives, if the standard of "productive" is "pays more into the tax system than they take out". Even if they never went to jail, there's no reason to assume they'd be helping society somehow with their presence. And what of the many other unemployed non-criminals who could be being productive in whatever role you're imagining for our criminal sort? If we're worried about lost productivity, surely they come first.

> Many modern countries short circuit this cycle by educating and rehabilitating imprisoned individuals so by the time they leave their cells they are ready to join the economy as an effective worker.

This is such an academic view of the issue. Ex-cons seldom get any kind of good job - they're relegated to taking jobs that are stuck hiring them because they literally cannot find anyone else at their price point.

> Think of it this way, if your child was struggling to get passing grades in school, what would be more effective? Locking them in their room with a book, or hiring a tutor?

What an utterly vapid comparison. Struggling to get good grades is not even remotely the same thing as committing crimes; and it's not like most of these criminal sorts haven't had 18 years of second chances and resources being thrown at them.

You can't reach some folks. You can stop them from reaching you.
No you can't, because Vulkan forbids the kernel execution model. So that's a huge gotcha that a lot of beginners fall into. Only the shader execution model is usable in Vulkan.

Both Vulkan Shader Language and OpenCL get you SPIR-V code, but they are not drop in replacements for each other.

In practice, you have to use CUDA or OpenCL. CUDA, because everyone uses it. OpenCL because it runs everywhere and you can easily translate all the opensource CUDA into OpenCL without as many gotchas as trying to get to Vulkan Shading Language.
I agree with the sentiment and also feel like working too hard is a bad idea (in large part for the reasons you’ve outlined), but also agree that it’s not clear if this was the cause without more information.
Metal and Mantle were both proprietary frameworks that were in development at the same time.

AMD announced the existence of Mantle at their Developer Summit in November 2013. Apple announced Metal at WWDC the following June and shipped it that fall.

By the time AMD donated their Mantle code to Khronos to serve as the basis for Vulkan, Apple had already shipped Metal.
Ask HN: Favorite Oral History Transcripts from the Computer History Museum?
I've spent many hours now reading through some of these extraordinary interviews with computer industry luminaries. I especially love the ones about the very early days, when everyone knew each other and there was a huge amount of excitement.

But there are several hundred of them, and many of them are of people who I haven't heard of before. Does anyone have suggestions for ones that are particularly good?

So far, my favorites have been: Marvin Minsky, Charles Simonyi, Danny Hillis, John McCarthy, David Cutler, Cleve Moler, Don Knuth, and Edward Feigenbaum.
TempleOS may be understandable, but trying to actually make and do anything with it's a completely different story.
The Launching of Mozilla Firefox – A Case Study in Community-Led Marketing [pdf]
First OpenCL needs to make it to use C++, Fortran, Julia, .NET, Java as easy as CUDA.
I can go to my Google photos, type a query for a: car, bike, chair.

It will produce many images that do contain the object in question. It is amazing how well it works.

But then it will also produce photos that have nothing even similar to what I or anyone else would consider "a chair", "a bike" etc.

If the question is now: does Google AI understand what a chair is?

The answer is: obviously it does not. It does something completely different than "understanding" what a chair is. That method does work well, but it is not the "chair" we all know about.
Thanks for sharing. I’m sorry for your loss.
It's marketing focused

You might have opted in by joining the service but those are worthless emails no one gives two shit about.
skat/skatt is common to danish/norwegian/swedish, and in all countries it means both taxes and treasure. In danish/norwegian it also means loved one, but swedes would miss that point.

The danes have chosen to name their tax authority not "skat authority" or something like that, just "skat" which evokes the friendly/funny pun.
Maybe he worked that hard, because he enjoyed working above all else? Maybe he died doing exactly what he loved?
The problem with open API access is preventing Cambridge Analytica like abuse.
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X, 3970X, 3960X Launch Dates Confirmed
You could say the same for improperly porting commit messages when switching version control systems.
> "Another advantage from moving to Iceland is the climate and location of the country. Servers produce a lot of heat and Reykjavík (Iceland’s capital, where most data centers are located) is on average 40.41°F (4.67°C), meaning it’s a great location to cool down the servers. For each watt used to run servers, storage and network equipment, proportionally very little is used for cooling, lighting and other overhead. "

Am I the one not understanding heat transfer ? Because if companies follow suit and this is done at scale, good luck with the rising temperatures, Iceland.
My pet-peeve is technical documentation that is not versioned with the code. I think you're confusing garbage-in / garbage-out or interface rendering with auto-"generated" documentation.

Just like you can write bad code, you can write bad docs, not update them etc.

The point of code generated documentation is not to render the interfaces but rather to keep code and docs in sync in the same place. It's more likely you'll se an out of sync / undocumented piece during a code review, in context, etc. then to assume it was updated somewhere else.
What is the expected timeline for desalination technology? Even with continued investment all efforts have seemed to plateau at some point when costs and feasibility reaches a critical point.
Hurd dealt with the sales force while Catz focused on the financial side of it. Larry runs engineering.
He was writing his entries at “Roughly Drafted” for years and he was a well known but not well respected blogger I think back as early as the 200x’s.
Which was proprietary to AMD and was donated to Khronos, because otherwise they wouldn't have anything to stand on, and would come up with another Long Peaks.
Again, Apple invested huge amounts of money and effort into OpenCL with the previous generation of the Mac Pro and got very little adoption. Suggesting Apple is ignoring OpenCL is simply not true. They made a significant effort to make it work and it just didn't pan out.

That Apple hasn't invested in Vulkan is a fair criticism, but Vulkan hasn't exactly been grabbing market share either.
“Performance Matters” by Emery Berger [video]
Few old people looking back with perspective say that they worked to little...
Why not? If modelling was her thing, a Playboy appearance is a major accomplishment.
I can't imagine ever choosing RoR for a safety critical system.
How Figma's Multiplayer Technology Works
I used buck at Facebook quite a bit, and it's my favorite build system. I assume most of the stuff I liked about buck translates to bazel:

* Build rules were extremely simple to write

* Sandboxing meant we could safely share a global cache of build artifacts, massively reducing build times

* It runs a persistent server process that caches dependency and file change state, so incremental builds are fast

* Buck had a lot of android-specific magic to make APK generation fast as well, not sure if that's in bazel.

A lot of the stuff that's nice about these build systems only really becomes an issue on large codebases (thousands of engineers, tens of millions of LOC).

The main weakness of buck (not sure about bazel) was handling 3rd party code; either you'd checkin prebuilts or port the build to buck.
I thought of that but 30 seconds is too long for an early warning system, the waves travel pretty fast.
"1 hour of my life I won't get back".

I wish. You know when this kind of bug happens to you it blows away half a day at least.
Apparently everyone keeps forgetting Sony.
More than half, didn't they sell for $3M or something absurd?
I've tried i3 a few times, and find it way overcomplicated in daily use compared to wmii.
The importance of Antarctic krill in biogeochemical cycles
This sounds intriguing for sure. But it seems like it would be hard to ever know how likely premorteming is to kill a good idea as compared with a bad one. And conditioned on some version of a plan being shipped after a premortem session, it's hard to guess - after how many cycles of premortem and corresponding plan revision should the net effect be most likely positive?
They weren't co-CEOs apparently[1]. They just had different areas of authority within the company.

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2014/09/18/oracle-ceo-larry-ellison-ste...
And NVN, LibGCNM.
What! That's communism. People should be able to have a decent life, working one job full time? Next you'll say a single accident shouldn't be able to destroy your life because of the cost of the medical care.
Yeah, the slides are normal and reasonable. You think it's extreme ideology to say that people often treat men different than women?
Thanks for the feedback! Agreed! That's definitely on my backlog to add to the site.
> But I blame the work for the death because he only took sick leave a few months back, then suddenly died. That to me says he worked right up until he couldn't anymore.

There are plenty of diseases where you die within a few months of diagnoses. For all we know he got his diagnosis and immediately took his leave.

While I agree with your overall sentiment that it's not worth it, you are making so many assumptions as you know nothing about his personal life. Not everyone has a good family life, and it's a dangerous assumption to blame work for it - the causality can often be the other way round (crappy family relations, spouse unwilling to change, etc so find fulfillment in things outside of home).

We just don't know. And it's none of our business.
Seriously. I'd count my lucky stars if I squished that one in under 4.
I find this really inspiring! I've got a similar hobby project (that I've been neglecting recently...) but with some different design choices. I don't want to hijack the thread but I thought it might be interesting to compare and contrast.

Instead of targeting x86 it uses Prof. Wirth's RISC CPU for Project Oberon. This is a really simple chip, there is a model function for it written in Oberon that is less than a page of code. It's also very well documented, and emulators exist in Java, C, Python, and Javascript, and there is a VHDL (or is it Verilog?) description which people have used to make FPGA-based workstations.

For the basis notation I'm using a dialect of Joy, an extremely simple and elegant purely functional, stack-based, concatinative language. It's like a combination of the best parts of Forth and Lisp. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_(programming_language)

(I'm pretty sure there's no simpler useful language than Joy.)

To bridge Joy to the CPU I took the high road: a compiler written in Prolog. It would be possible to use Forth lore to bootstrap from the metal up, but I was gobsmacked by
David Warren's "Logic Programming and Compiler Writing" (
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17674859 ) and have spent the last year "moulting" from Python to Prolog programmer.

Anyhow, the compiler so far is concise but the model it implements for Joy on the CPU is still very crude. Between life, work, and learning more Prolog I haven't had much time to improve it.

The thing is, Prolog is a very simple language, the compiler is very simple and small, and Joy is also very very simple and small (especially if it's implemented in Prolog), and the underlying CPU is very simple and small. The tricky bit would be to, say, implement a Prolog interpreter in Joy. But if you do that you've closed the loop for self-hosting: Prolog-in-Joy, running on Joy-on-the-metal, implementing a compiler for Joy to the metal, bootstrapped through Prolog on the host.

(It would be simple to convert the Joy compiler in Prolog to a Joy compiler in Joy using the Prolog interpreter in Joy and partial evaluation. FWIW.)

For the OS I'm going to build a simple clone of OberonOS but using Joy rather than Oberon language. I made a model of this OS in Python and Tkinter to guide the reimplementation in Joy. This will also serve as a stress test for Joy: can you implement a whole (albeit simple) "OS" in a purely functional, stack-based, concatinative language? Maybe it sucks?

To sum up, a simple text-based UI/OS inspired by and loosely imitating OberonOS, targeting a simple but capable 32-bit RISC chip, with Joy as the shell and glue language and Prolog as the under-the-hood powerhouse systems language. And the whole thing should fit in under a hundred pages of code.
> My over the topness is on purpose. The tone of the commit message resonates with exactly the same tone as my post (to me).

No, you see. The author of the commit was being humorous. You're just being an asshole.

> by a person who added a media player, a gold cup holder, on top of their foundations, walls, & plumbing?

C would be worthless if it wasn't for the programs that were built on it. To argue that the passion of the C developers is worth more than the passion of a media-player developer makes zero sense.

> A true craftsman would build a replacement without the perceived flaws.

Great thing the author never claimed to be "a true craftsman."

> I’ll give them props when they release their general purpose language

Ah, the "you can't criticize art unless you're an artist" argument.
I never understood this philosophy. What makes Git more eternal than any other technology? Why is putting all of your data in one monolithic tool a good solution?

You might change your issue tracking solution. You might change your host solution. You might change your review platform. You might also change your VCS solution. Nothing is eternal.
A lot of machine learning (e.g. NCE) requires fast PRNG also, often running on GPUs that don't have crypto primitives like many CPUs do.
Only that I had no clue there was a community or comments for a long time. Imgur was the reddit community image bucket and nothing more, until I learned people use it as a lilliputian version of reddit
> Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand?

I mean, I was so thoroughly trained to take standardized tests that I really didn't understand what I was reading. Through speed-skimming, selective underlining and recognizing the most probable answers, I was able to speed through reading tests without doing any normal reading.

Oh, you're talking about machines?
I don't recommend you to join chats in competitive online games.
Please take into account current support for subgrid [1].

My first time redoing quite complex checkout table with mobile support was a nightmare. I only realised I needed something more halfway along the process. Found out it was subgrid I was looking for and they figuring out there was no current browser support.

But using a oneliner like `grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(30rem, 1fr));`
too almost fully create a grid system is pretty amazing and something you can use right now.

1. https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-subgrid
Seems like if it's that physically taxing they might make slightly more hourly to have the same pay overall. Yes, costs of delivery would go up.
It's marketing to me. It's fine if you communicate it via your website or app when I log in. But do not send me email, SMS or push notifications about these things if I don't want it, those should be reserved for "action required" things.
> so we kind of need to trust the hosting provider

Let me get it straight. The author is waxing about Five Eyes, country-level attacks, fiber optic taps, etc but bushes off the most direct attack as "we kind of need to trust the hosting provider?" Now that's the one weird set of priorities.
I agree, having an API or some such would be nice; I don't usually carry around a phone indoors when I have massive screens available to me, and also put my phone in airplane mode while sleeping.
But if I access data through the API how does Cambridge Analytica influence me?
I'd say a really simple game like Pong or Snake would already be enough. Only two(or four) possible inputs, simple graphics.

The difficulty could also be decreased, but in the end the challenge would be to grasp how the game works, not to beat highscores.
Did SuperMicro make the board?

Suppose for the moment that they did. Surely you're not going to stake your reputation on an unconfirmed rumor from Bloomberg for which no single shred of hard evidence (or evidence at all, frankly) was ever offered, because that would just be silly. So what's your point?
Hm I don't know - I'm pretty bad at games and will try hard at Pong at still lose, my coordination is poor. Maybe you need to be more specific, that the AI can learn the game mechanics without training?
I wish I could open a sample project to see what a cool RPG storyline or whatever could look like.
> ..which have nothing to do with the Open Web,

Which, in turn, has nothing to do with the origin article. Read it again, it is only about how search engines are defined inside add-ons.
Not very well. Months ago I came across a couple of references to egregious security problems and outright horrid development practices, of which I've forgotten 95% of the content and only have the left over sense of "nope, don't ever want to rely on that ever".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14752446
How a Geek Dad Is Helping His Daughter Manage Her Diabetes
It has been alleged that Hurd hired her in large part for prurient purposes.

She posed for Playboy; Hurd was involved in her hiring for "events" and then immediately commences an irregular relationship with her, including her being paid for work at places where there is no HP event but Hurd happens to be.

It makes it look a lot more deliberate, than if, say, she had a career as an event presenter and then some time after hiring a sexual relationship commenced.
That's not an especially helpful answer.
It is literally impossible to not emit carbon in the modern world.

I don't fly, but I still donate and pay for for carbon capture and offset, because it's unavoidable. The laptop I'm typing on to you right now would not be carbon neutral otherwise, for example.

Reduction is better where practicable, but let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
>you do realize that the body feels satiated not by calories but by quantity?

Not really. It's common sense that your body can tell the difference between a pound of boiled cabbage and a pound of steak. You're satiated when you have all the nutrients you need - calories, yes, but also fats and other essentials. If the food you eat is deficient in some nutrients, you might eat more of it to compensate.

Anecdotally, if I make a vegetarian chili, and forget to fortify it with some form of fat, I can eat two whole plates of it and feel bloated but unsatisfied.
> We can and must design the next round of insurance reforms with patients as a priority. With low deductibles that actually facilitate the consumption of care, our health care system can directly benefit the well-being of low- and middle-income people—not just the holders of for-profit hospital stock.

No, we need to get rid of private insurance with Medicare for All. The amount of money, corruption, and lobbying insurance companies engage in is staggering, especially given that their whole profit model is designed around limiting or denying access to healthcare. Denying access to treatment for the disabled, the chronically ill, and others, often unto their deaths or bankruptcy.

In a more civilized country, corporations that have behaved like US insurance companies have would have been done away with along time ago.
Why are the events in Barcelona getting ZERO coverage in the US media? Trump is an idiot and all, but why aren't Barcelona, Hong Kong, and the Farmers shutting down Holland even making the news here?
oops, edit, Actually, I used this one: https://github.com/philpem/yahoo-group-archiver

Yup. I've used this one successfully with messages, message attachments, files, and photos. It works.

That said, on yahoo's side, lots of message attachments the message meta-data claim exists don't actually exist anymore because yahoo has lost or deleted them. Same with some of the photos. But all the messages and all the files are always there.
I think people do look back and wish that they lived their lives to their full potential and took more risks.
Are you sure? I read that as being incredibly demeaning to men.
Could you share what standard do you mean? MISRA, 26262? Is there others? Sharing with the company :)
I mean, the issue would be in the structure of the cross validation approach. Say, set training = 29, test = 1, build models etc: how well did you do on the one? Rinse, wash hands, repeat 30x. This is your cross validation error rate.

Its not that difficult.
Well imgur is going to die really quick
Oracle Co-CEO Mark Hurd Dies at 62
On which platform exactly?

It’s also important to note that Vulkan at this point is as fragmented as OpenGL as far as extension support coverage goes.
A Million People Are Jailed at China's Gulags. Here's What Goes on Inside
> I don't want

Who cares.

Hope you enjoy this tone - your was the same.
Correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_beer
Would you happen to have a source for that story? My workplace has really swallowed the AI Kool-Aid lately, so I would like to have some cautionary counterexamples to demonstrate potential pitfalls of the technology.

It's got a lot of interesting applications for our field which I am excited about, but there seems to be a tendency among non-experts to consider it a magic bullet that can solve any sort of problem. In particular, I am concerned about applications where conventional approaches have already converged on an optimal solution that's used operationally, but somebody wants to throw AI at it because they thought it might be cool without first understanding the implications.
I see, why it didn't show up on submission.
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