skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prove it. Start with California’s attempt to build high speed rail. That’s a case where we explicitly didn’t “choose not to.” We went all in and spent money that could have gone to poor children, the homeless and healthcare and gave it to business men who said what you say, “we can afford this and should.” Boondoggles hurt the poor and needy and redistribute money to well paid consultants, lawyers and developers. And the environmental impact of “green” rail projects is actually worse than not taking them on in the first place.
Note that the chip with the higher specific frequency in this test, and the higher max frequency across the product line (Skylake+), gets a higher IPC here, so this kind of tradeoff isn't the obvious cause of the results here.
It's not mentioned because the paper isn't actually about Lisp with Algol Syntax. It's about how to add syntax-case to a language with Algol Syntax.
I think you want to argue with people on the internet. Not playing.
The game can be remarkably wholesome if your actions are. It's not too difficult to take it in either direction depending on what you do.
Indeed, HTML = World Wide Web

If your "web"site can execute arbitrary code, and/or violates HTML guidelines (required for web crawlers or accessibility software to work, or for browsers to tweak the layout) and/or requires JavaScript / Flash / Java to run properly, then it might be part of the Internet, but it's certainly not part of the World Wide Web!
> why should it be sufficient? Just because it interacts with matter...

Because causal closure is a feature of our physical theories that have immense explanatory and predictive power. This is good reason to think that anything that interacts with the physical is also physical or supervenes on the physical.
>But it will probably not help against the cannon, because the Chinese probably have some china controlled certificate installed.

The whole point of the cannon is that you can leverage the bandwidth of other countries. The CCP already controls the telecoms in China. They don't need to hijack Chinese computers for DDoS attacks when they can directly DDoS from their ISP's backbone.
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This is one of the many reasons why I love science fiction. Many of my favorite novels center around consciousness and the related technology to assist/enable/enhance it. Reading these in my younger years, many of these novels have shaped my life, especially my career.

I may be confusing my authors, but some of the more recent novels I've read (from about 10 years or so ago, it's been a while), I think from Alastair Reynolds, have a wide range of ideas. Some center around the same kind of thing that Elon Musk talks about with Neuralink. Others take a wildly different path... putting an extant brain in a box or cabinet on wheels.

On this topic I used to be a huge fan of the concept of uploading. But then I formed the opinion that, if all we're doing is copying state, then the new instance is not the old inshttp://www.rudyrucker.com/wares/tance. It's just another instance with its own state from that point forward. I think it's also a Reynolds book where a person creates a copy of their consciousness and puts it into a very physically small spacecraft in order to travel a maximum speed to a very distance place (I forget the intended task). But upon return the two instances and ended up becoming antagonists due to their different experiences in the meantime.

Likewise, I want to say it was a Rucker book, a person is copied, and the copy is not them, just a new instance.

That kind of soured me on uploading. However, at the same time, it seems to me that can be akin to giving birth to the next generation. A gift of sorts. Maybe we ourselves can not directly enjoy the benefits, but possibly we can gift that possibility to our descendants.

I am particularly fond of old cyberpunk takes on this topic. Gibson and his wild cyberspace characters... the Oracle and Papa Legba, the self-aware pimpmobile, and the end of the one book where entities jumped out of all the fax machines around the world... good times.

Also Asimov and his robot-focused series.

I digress
So that was the goal then?
The Wikipedia article on "Seattle Freeze" suggests there might be something to Washington's introversion.

> While some residents dispute the existence of the Seattle Freeze, a 2008 peer-reviewed study published in Perspectives on Psychological Science found that among all 50 states, Washington residents ranked 48th in the personality trait extraversion. In 2014 a similar report by the Seattle CityClub ranked the population 48th out of 50 similarly-sized cities in activities such as "talking with neighbors frequently".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Freeze
Actually with the WebAssembly System Interface you can interface WebAssembly with any platform, it doesn't need to be a javascript vm. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/03/standardizing-wasi-a-webas...
I worry more about the war against the URL than js progression. a simple way to send state to people is incredible.
It really depends on who you ask. There are people who routinely leave their bodies and go about and "obtain information", as you put it. Heck, there were Learning Annex classes on it. YMMV.
The important bit is at the beginning: "ask for RAMQ coverage". The reason their whole is not irresponsible is that Quebec is paying for their healthcare.

The number of entrepreneurships and startups that don't happen in the US because of lack of affordable employment-independent healthcare is uncountably high. Your choices are: roll the dice or marry someone with a "regular" job.
FWIW, I believe your stance is the one that requires justification. After all, you seem to be positing (although it’s hard to tell, since you’re not committing to anything specific) that the default assumption about a phenomena we observe which takes place in a universe which otherwise follows the laws of physics, is that the phenomena is somehow not explainable using the laws of physics.
How Huawei lost the heart of the Chinese public
Yes.

It’s not hard to find anecdotes about dying restaurants in NYC - the turnover is incredibly high. Nor is it surprising that some restaurants relied more heavily on large quantities of cheap staff than others did.

I have little sympathy for the restaurant though. “I’d love to pay my employees 1000$/hr, but our margins are down from 12-15% to 8-10% because we are now paying 15 instead of 8” is more or less direct quote from the article. That’s not “going out of business”, that’s “we are more profitable than the average hospital, ... those servers are making too much”.
In elementary algebra students can do this for the most part:

Evaluate x^2 + 2x + 4 for x = 3.

Quite a few will struggle with:

Evaluate x^2 + 2x + 4 for x = –3

Almost all will struggle with:

Evaluate -x^2 - 2x + 4 for x = -3

I don't think they'd handle replacing x with z+2.

In elementary algebra they hate fractions. Many struggle with 4 – (–5). I like the approach in the article because of how it relates to factoring and difference of squares. This reinforces those concepts and shouldn't be too great of a leap at this stage. Also, there is a nice geometry behind the (b/2 + z)(b/2 - z) idea. The approach is nice precisely because it isn't a memorization approach. It's an approach that says, "Hey, let's analyze what factoring trinomials is all about and what the relationship between b, c, r, and s are.". It says, we know that r and s have to have the property that r+s is b and rs is c. We know this because of our analysis of multiplying binomials and our experience with factoring trinomials. We are using patterns and pattern recognition and from this we are constructing solutions to an equation that we can't solve by isolating the x like we did with linear equations. This to me, is true mathematics and it's nice to show students this exploration. To show how mathematicians think and approach problems. It's not a black box. It builds upon previous ideas and uses them to solve problems we weren't able to before.

Note that I'll be using this method in elementary algebra from now on but will not be using it to prove the quadratic formula. Indeed I will not even tell them what the quadratic formula is. I will save that for the next class.
Javascript-as-bytecode is a metaphor, not a technical description. Javascript is not actually bytecode in the same way that a .java file is not java bytecode.
That book is incredible, and still relevant to this topic! One big thing in the book is that humans don't understand the complexity of forest ecosystems and it shows when we try to change or recreate them. If we expect that we can just put a highway through a forest and not cause damage because the highway is relatively small (in surface area) we are fools.
Why should employers pay for that? It's the employee's choice where they live, not the company's. If the company bought some company housing and had employees live there, then your idea would make sense. But why should someone who chooses to live 2 hours away get paid more than someone who lives 5 minutes away?

However, I think there are some good arguments to be made about where the employers choose to locate their offices.
There's truth to that, but affordable rural high speed internet is possible. Paul Bunyan Communications in northern Minnesota, for example, runs affordable fiber optic service deep into the country. My friend lives 25 miles from any town, and they happily ran fiber out to his house. The main difference between Paul Bunyan Communications and other rural providers who claim that such a thing is "impossible" seems to be that Paul Bunyan is a Co-operative: https://paulbunyan.net/cooperative/our-history/
The web needs to start moving towards a strong same-origin policy for all embedded content-- require sites to proxy requests if they want third party content.

The first step could be sending CORS preflight, then requiring it, then just not allowing cross origin to different domains (but allow sub-/sibling- domains).
The article doesn't mention his name, nor does it link to any articles on the original incident. Is this related to the ruling?
If your grandmothers had taught you the elder language of the Sun, you would see the words, rituals, and invocations of javac as mere shadows of the sigils of the true magic.
Kind of unrelated and very high level thoughts, but I wish postgres had a scripting model a bit like redis. Where functions are cached under their sha1 hash and can be executed by specifying that hash. cached functions would then be evicted after not being run for a certain time.
From the application side I'd just always try executing the hash of the function and create it on the fly when that errors (because doesn't exist on the db side yet).
a model similar to this one would completely convert me to defining most of my app logic in plsql functions.
But you aren't forced into it. Nobody is forcing people to live in expensive places like San Francisco. There are plenty of places in the USA where you can rent a nice house or apartment for very cheap. It might not be the most exciting or opportunity-filled area to live, though.
Also remember that many "other" browsers are also based on Chrome or just customized Chrome versions. Think Opera, Brave, Vivaldi etc.
> Living in a rural area is a decision, that's fine for people to make, but I'm not sure we all need to be subsidizing it.

Sure... I can see your point that it “is a decision” for folks that choose to move to a rural area, but I don’t believe that’s the case for the other 99% of folks living there.
And whereabouts is that? When was your mortgage started? How much would it cost me if I was to buy a house like yours there right now for only 5% down, for example?
Building RESTful APIs in Golang
Eric the Unready
I don't see the relevance of solipsism here. I'm taking essentially the opposite position: I am not conscious.

You seem to think I am conscious. How can you tell the difference?
I would. And fair enough, I think the web closed around me and I didn't even realize it. But we are all doing ok so far, so I supose wasm won't be that bad either.
China not wanting to mess with the amazing economic success is one of the strongest things pushing back against any military aggression by them.

Tons of CPP members are getting rich off the economy which includes a lot of trade and foreign debt.

There’s plenty of correlation here.
The static checkers I found that can check those annotations are very slow.

Also, it's not well-integrated into the type system. Sure, you can get by with them, but it's certainly not ideal. It also requires someone to do work to set it up, instead of it just being the default.
"They" as if it was the military doing it. It's probably bored fishermen.

Edit: user "Apes" responded with: "Why is China giving their fishermen access to military grade lasers with helicopter tracking gear? I guess I'm just not familiar enough with fishing to understand how these military lasers would help catch fish."

My response to his comment is: The part where they are "military grade lasers with helicopter tracking gear" is lucubration. You can blind any aircraft pilot using a 10€ laser from aliexpress. There have been lots of incidents of people blinding aeroplane pilots using those.
HN stopped releasing source ages ago. There's a community-maintained fork, but the site we're currently using is opaque.
There is also an unending quest to explain foobar. Hard to explain something that's not defined. We can still talk about what meaning we put into this term. My favorite analogy is the flow of electrons in a processor chip is its consciousness and the algorithm it's performing is its cognition. Using this analogy, consciousness is the process that updates our world, i.e. the process that makes a photon move forward, while cognition is the logical interpretation of these updates.
Thames Water is a joke, and a bad one at that. When I first moved to London they didn’t send me a bill until the end of the year, for the full year. Then they sent another – same exact amount, same address, different reference number. I called them to say the bill was already paid and they confirmed over the phone that they could see the payment for the other bill, but they couldn’t trash the new one for some reason and to avoid any extra charges I had to pay it and then ask for a refund. I remarked how dumb that was, but acquiesced and paid the thing only to then ask for a refund. They said it’d be processed within a couple of weeks, but of course it never was, so I called again. And again. And again. About six months later I just gave up, and accepted that Thames Water will forever owe me some £500 or so, and I’ll never get them back.

I’m so glad I don’t live in the UK anymore.
Why does it matter whether ATT made the claim?
Can you cite examples of when it went from 3 to 4?
So basically browser vendors need to add all Chinese hosting sites to their safebrowsing blacklist?
Totally agreed -- and I don't think WASM will change any of that.

The good parts of the web in terms of debugging is the separation of concerns -- having separate interfaces for CSS, HTML, network requests, and the DOM, and having each of those interfaces be relatively inspectable.

I am a little worried about frameworks that target WASM spitting everything onto a Canvas, bypassing HTML and CSS (coughQt*cought). That would be a substantial loss for the Open web. But I don't lose any sleep over the idea of replacing Javascript.
It's easy to downvote, but seriously, any trip down this line of thought can easily converge on topics which overlap many religions.
The problem right now is that the originating server sets an http response header. Given the MITM can modify that header.. it indicates things need to be done automagically in the browser. But that will break A LOT.
I went looking into this, and it appears that I was confused. Google was a big contributor to Firefox in the early naughties, which is the period I was thinking of. Chrome didn't come out until a good while later.
I'm not sure. It seems like they are totally different metrics and visitors who came from another page on your site might be an interesting metric to cookie users.

What if you completely separated them, and tracked and displayed both for cookie users? Users who disable cookies would then have historical data in the same unit.

Or a warning would probably work fine.
“Conduct” in this case could mean performing but most likely means directing.
I've been a Prime customer since the program started, a customer of Amazon before that, and probably order from them on average twice a week (including groceries). I would say when it comes to products from Amazon (not Whole Foods), 1 out of every 4 purchases of mine have been defective, expired, a return, or etc.

Examples include a 4 pack of Eneloops containing 3, a Magic Mouse with a scratch under it and the instruction booklet in a different font and language from what it's supposed to be, a glass candy jar with multiple cracks in it, a cell phone case with some sort of mold growing inside, expired food and drinks when ordering from Fresh, ordering two matching office chairs and getting two different models, etc.

It's gotten to the point where buying from Amazon feels like buying from a garage sale or dollar store. They make returns fairly easy, but I've found myself choosing other online and physical vendors that charge a bit more but who I can trust to have more reliable products.

I haven't had any product issues from Amazon Whole Foods delivery yet; one of the drivers told me they deliver from the store to a centralized warehouse before it gets delivered to me, so I'm hoping at some point groceries don't turn into how Amazon works in general, and I'll end up getting discount, bad food that they routed from a central location.
>Living in a rural area is a decision, that's fine for people to make, but I'm not sure we all need to be subsidizing it.

You can stop subsidizing our internet, and we'll stop supplying you with cheap food. Deal?
Quantum Physics Creates the Largest Cosmic Structures of All
Not sure how much that would help... they could just have their own domain be a cname to the target.

Your defense idea might stop layer 7 attacks, but not lower level ones.
I find it quite remarkable how deeply ingrained the notion is that limiting the agency of government limits "the people".

Government isn't the only way people can get things done, and I think we should be resentful (and suspicious) of the argument that to fund and accomplish large tasks, we need to hold a gun to the heads of the people. Are we really so incapable of cooperation that we need tax men, followed by armed police, to ensure that businesses serve the customers who pay them? Just like Sears & Roebuck and Wells Fargo worked to bring good things from the cities to rural America, this situation could be resolved by private enterprise. I believe we would be farther along without government attempts to regulate the industry that have impeded its progress.
And this is why if blocking the "web"site JavaScript breaks the "web"site itself, then it never was a website to start with!

(Trackers using these kinds of tactics was only a matter of time between trackers and blockers...)
>Wasm code can only be loaded from JS, it can only be invoked from JS, and it's only way to affecting the world outside the VM is to call functions in JS that are going to do something to a user-visible DOM.

Incorrect. WASM was designed from the beginning to be run both on and off the web[0], and native clients already exist[1].

[0]https://webassembly.org/docs/non-web/

[1]https://github.com/mbasso/awesome-wasm#non-web-embeddings
With all due respect - from a systems perspective, that's not a solution; it's a wish for a pony, no less so than complaining "where are China's values"? Solutions are required because people are selfish and shortsighted - merely pointing this out accomplishes little.

It's like saying that police aren't a solution to murder - what we really need is to stop killing each other.
I've found Elementary to be much snappier and use less system resources than Ubuntu. Their native apps are written in Vala, which seem pretty good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vala_(programming_language)
TIL, thanks!

(For others: Gargron is Mastodon's creator.)
While it is true that the US is very sprawling, it is absolutely ridiculous that in 2019 internet giants haven't provided basic internet access to rural areas.

I am really not a big fan of the democratic party at large but a plan like this to take power away from the large internet monopoloies is going to be one of the only ways to make sure that internet infrastructure is kept up to date and that fast internet is available to everyone in the US.

Infrastructure like the internet pipes shouldn't be privately owned, simply because they value profit over maintaining and upgrading the infrastructure.

Maybe we can compromise with a system I have heard of ( in the nordic countries I believe) Where the local municipalities own the wires but you buy the service from a number of internet companies who rent the lines and provide service. This would increase competition and allow for private companies to not have to worry about the cost of upgrading the infrastructure.
Array.prototype.map() in JavaScript ES6
Given the lack of explanatory power physical theories have so far provided for consciousness, I think it is fair on that alone to be agnostic about the claim consciousness is purely explained by physical attributes.
Could you illuminate those of us who are not in the know?
Probably worth thinking through why this isn't done already: firstly it's a lot of work, and secondly the cross-network accountability is very short on choices. After a certain point you have to decide whether you want to cut off a majority of the internet or put up with it.

It also requires de-anonymisation (so you can identify who the bad actor actually is!) - you wouldn't be allowed a Tor exit node on this network, for example.
I’m wondering if there are actual bugs in their code or if AT&T is just saying that to make them spend time looking for something that isn’t there.
Cheers! I hadn't heard of them.
That is quite a big "per se" there. My point is there is a huge distinction between concentration camps and death camps. The Nazis progressed from one to the other, but that is not a guarantee (this is where that US reference might come into play). There is a large difference between "let's segregate these people" to "let's kill all of them" and we shouldn't blur the lines between either the Nazi's decision to make that leap or China's decision to as of yet not.

I wouldn't have felt the need to make my comment if the original comment was modified with "early Holocaust" rather equating it to the entire thing which inherently includes and is often more synonymous with the death camps.

Also what China is doing is not in the magnitude of the Nazis.

I am not saying any of this to defend China. I just want these things clear because this is the type of rhetoric that is often used by Holocaust deniers.
What’s wrong with stored procedures?
I literally just noticed Chrome did this after reading this post. lol