skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because they are called languages doesn't make them at all similar to spoken languages. I get the etymology but it's really not the same at all.
To be honest the discomfort from the cold when cycling is not a big deal. Wear appropriate clothing and take off a layer if you get hot.

I've spent multiple summers in Texas cycling and I'd say that was much worse, though still manageable.

If you have frequent winter precipitation that is more of a safety issue. Studded bike tires work well from what I've heard from someone who lives in Minnesota.
It's not the brain space that's paying for the advertising, it's your (or, well, people's) buying of the advertised products. So in addition to the costs of brain space, there are still also actual financial costs to it that are borne by the city's citizens.
Recently, on my first software job (freelance) I messed this up. I had very little opportunity for contact with the client and they were slow and unreliable with providing feedback. I could tell we would go over schedule if I didn’t produce a lot more work with each feedback cycle and I desperately wanted to do a good job so I let myself get weighed down with imagining things that they might think I was stupid for not including in each version.

I am still unsure of how I should have approached this, but I know I messed up because at the end it was just way too much effort to fix bugs and add features, but I didn’t have the time to refactor. If anyone has advice, I would be grateful.
How can machine consciousness cannot be different from human consciousness? How can we say that when we cannot even define consciousness.
USA: Issues convoluted tax code so that the only way to do it right is use software. Doesn’t validate results.

Everyone else: Just have the government handle tax filing

USA: loses 3 million to scammer

Everyone else: ...

USA: the only other way is auto-banning using AI
Yup. That’s setting up the parameters in an obvious way to strawman an opponents argument.
Thanks for your help and useful feedback! Waiting for your feedback about DueFocus app :)
I didn't read it. But for some of us, silly inane comments that don't add to the conversation can detract from it.

If that's what you are looking for, may I suggest reddit? On there, an article is posted and you'll have 10,000s of silly one liners with no information or further understanding. Most never having even read the FA. I personally love the fact that /. doesn't allow this. It means those of us who want to discuss topics can actually do so without drowning in a sea of silliness.
You pay tax on it eventually, like you said with the lower tax rate when your income will be presumably lower.

But in the mean time, which can be a very long time, you're free to invest those deferred tax dollars. That can add up to a significant amount, over a large number of years.

It's not something to trivially dismiss.
I don’t know if whoever flagged the typos in my eBook thought they were helping
I'm thinking BGP, DNS, IP subnets allocations and all the low level stuff. Also SSL authorities etc.

I'm sure there's a lot of stuff you'd need to roll, I bet it would make for an interesting article :D
I don't believe this is true anymore.

Samsung has been updating S and Note series mark 9 & 10 to A10, which I assume is 80% of the US market?
Hah, you had it great! My first PC was a 286, which IIRC either had no HDD, OR. 20MB HDD (might be mixing it with our next PC, which was a 386).

I'm pushing 40, and still shake my head in wonder sometimes about just how much is possible at such small scale and cost.

But this is now turning into "when I were a lad..." :)
Ouch. Being an senior engineer at a FAANG would give you 800k in RSUs over 4 years (initial grant + refreshers), a staff engineer position 1.5M... considering almost 8 years of work, that's probably at least 1.5-3M in RSUs (without considering stock appreciation, which can easily be quite significant).
That's the thing, you can't make a falsifiable hypothesis here, because "bilingual advantage" is subjective, bordering on defining the purpose of life to become objective.
Programming languages are similar enough that people can easily pick up other languages. Not so with natural languages, which required more effort.
> As of this writing, Cap’n Proto has not undergone a security review

This is outdated, I should remove it. Cap'n Proto has been reviewed by multiple security experts, though not in a strictly formal setting. I trust it enough to rely on it for security in my own projects, but yeah, I am cautious about making promises to others...

> Something like that has to be rigorously tested or proven to be free of buffer overflows.

I've done a bunch of fuzz testing with AFL and by hand. I've also employed static analysis via template metaprogramming to catch some bugs. See:

https://capnproto.org/news/2015-03-02-security-advisory-and-...

(That was... almost five years ago.)

> The "zero overhead" claim goes away as soon as you send variable length items. Then there has to be some marshaling.

Space for messages is allocated in large blocks. The contents of the message are allocated sequentially in that space and constructed in-place. So once built, the message is already composed of a small number of contiguous memory segments (usually, one segment), which can then be written out easily. Or, if you're mmaping a file, you can have the blocks point directly into the memory-mapped space and avoid copying at all -- hence, zero-copy.

So no, there is no marshaling.
Related Topic:

You have to Paid Tax for Winning Lottery in US? Assuming that is how the Refund is taking place because of prior tax paid.

What other countries have similar law? I was always under the impression Lotto is free from Income tax, at least that is the case in UK and AUS.

The tax system in US, judging from reading online media, especially with filing tax, credit, etc are so complex and felt so foreign to many abroad, where really dont have to do much.
Larry Summers wrote about this last month at Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/yes-our-tax-system-n...
Most users of Emacs Lisp, and similar languages talk of just "Lisp". Implementations tend of have Lisp in their name. Books, too. If the language/implementation does not have Lisp in their name, it usually signals that this language is not (or no longer) backwards compatible and a new derived dialect: Logo, ML, Scheme, Dylan, ...

There are basically almost no languages with single implementations. C has many. Python has many. Ruby has several, Scheme has dozens, Logo has probably a hundred, Clojure has several, ...

We have a clear view of what C means: the language even has standards. C then has a lot of derived languages: Objective C, C++, and a bunch of others. Still I would think that there are many implementations/languages which are very near to C, but don't implement the full ISO C standard or can differ from it in various ways (-> Dialects).

Similar for Lisp. There are basically two standards for Lisp: ANSI Common Lisp (with >30 implementations - full or subsets) and ISO Lisp (called ISLisp). There are also a few (often) historical variants of Lisp: Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp / Visual Lisp, Standard Lisp, Interlisp, LeLisp, ZetaLisp, ... These languages have a core, which is more or less compatible to / derived from Lisp I.

See for example the Lisp dialects mentioned in 'History of Lisp': http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/
These are the historic core of Lisp.

There is a tendency to speak of a wider 'Family of Lisp' - but if you look closely, then languages like JavaScript/ECMAScript tend to be a part of that 'Family' - which makes it more or less meaningless. I tend to avoid that, because it does not set the expectations for practical usage right: JavaScript is practically not compatible, though it shares some features with Lisp: functions, anonymous functions, symbols, garbage collection, data syntax, evaluation, interactive use, ...

Similar: Scheme is now its own language family with its own standards: RNRS Scheme, IEEE Scheme, ... and many more or less conforming implementations.
> small updates
> Just look at Windows Update for fuck sake.

Yup, those updates that change the operating system that is run on billion of devices in extremely varying hardware and configurations. Very simple.
A beautiful study with interesting implications for the evolution of the different CRISPR systems. Congrats to the team. I'm curious how this study, published in Nature, is different than this study:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-019-0612-5

Published in Nature Microbiology. Maybe just the institution?
That's exactly what happens. When you compile Groovy with GraalVM it will generate a fallback image that still requires a full JVM.
There was a recent post about in-flight entertainment/information systems on the front page (clickbaited with "widewine" in the title), which showed a (presumably somewhat recently designed) JSON object containing flight data information.

I think the date was "00YYMMDD" or something like that, time zone offsets were represented as a float-respresented-as-string, but to indicate a negative offset they added 80000 or so...

So if that's what happens to systems designed today, imagine how legacy cruft from decades ago must look. I would not be surprised if the answer to "Hollerith cards? Wrong column numbers in the COBOL program? Decimal point / comma confusion?" was "all of the above, and then some".
I mean, there is a mix here, some genuine notes about how high bounties can cause coordinated breaches to farm income but also notes about how bounties shouldn't replace pen testing (I agree, but have both and don't, as a pen tester, just argue that more money should go to pen testing, it's way too self-serving) and a weird comment that having a low bounty and then overpaying for a return of privileged data if the compromise could expose that data is a bad idea because it encourages bad actors - if the bounty is 3k and the data is worth 30 mil then yea, bad actors will emerge because you're criminally underpaying for exploits.

Honestly, a lot of the reasons I'm seeing for lowering the payout of bounties seems to revolve around "It's too expensive"
Life is the sci-fi "grey-goo" with an energy budget.
Source for the $4-$8 revenue per dollar estimate?
Don't forget that there's a difference between average return, and marginal revenue. More funding should be given if the marginal revenue is larger than the funding. The average revenue takes no part in this decision.
Escaping the Inequality-Data Dark Ages
In Lausanne, we have "le pub vous faites de-penser" stickers on many billboards. Translation: Advertising makes you de-think (a pun on "spend")
This test assumes a very specific type of AI, that is, one that is equal to humans but has been kept in the dark about parts of humanity. This assumption then must include its inability to teach itself new things, i.e. learn about those parts of humanity that were hidden from it, which then makes me skeptical of its abilities. Honestly I find this state of AI highly unlikely, but not impossible. More than that, even if you could create this type of AI and it is successful in this test, it still leaves room for doubt. It's interesting to consider that it would raise our Bayesian priors, but it proves nothing. I do think we should be striving to solve this issue but I'm skeptical we can without understanding consciousness in general.
I guess he could have spend the money in training and would be better off.
> Concealment and deception is also associated with cap, evident in its use in nineteenth-century English slang, where it conveyed deceit. To “set one’s cap” meant to “deceive, beguile, or cheat.” This connotation, if not denotation, of cap also occurs in the slang usages of bonnet. In the form of nineteenth-century British street slang known as cant, a bonnet meant a “gambling cheat or decoy,” as well as being simply a stand-in for “cheating” itself. It was also associated with treasure or money through being used to mean “bankrupt,” because a bankrupt person was made to wear a green bonnet.

Weird that they don't make a reference to today's "no cap" (truthfully, no deception)
Protobuffers are shitty asn.1
Here's a fascinating video in which Walt Disney showcases how his multiplane camera worked: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YdHTlUGN1zw

Truly incredible.
Not to brag but I got a 4.77MHz 8086 XT PC for my 8th birthday :) It had a whopping 256KB of RAM, a monochrome display (later upgraded to a 4 color CGA that blew my mind), and two (yes, TWO) Floppy drives.
Things I Learned from Google’s New ML-Powered Recorder App
I've found Benny Lewis's book 'Fluent in 3 months' helpful. My main takeaway was that practice directed to the intended skill is most effective. With language learning it's usually speaking, hence this should be prioritized in your learning. Likewise, speaking with people is an effective motivation because it motivates learning as much as performance. I'm a native English speaker, have studied French for a few years and now studying at a French-language university.
> you would be able to cover half a mortgage

Not in the Bay Area.

Looking at an excel for a million-dollar+ home is truly frightening. So many zeroes!
Sorry, but it's not the "wealthy" who are robbing us blind. There are tax cheats across all socio-economic levels.

For example a full 50 percent of people who took the "first time home buyers tax credit" did so fraudulently:

See: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114008...

"In a recent audit, George's office highlighted nearly $500 million in homebuyer tax credits claimed by people who don't appear to qualify."

and

https://media.npr.org/assets/news/2009/10/22/tigta.pdf

People in prison who didn't even own houses were applying for and getting the credit:

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128053...

https://www.eitc.irs.gov/tax-preparer-toolkit/frequently-ask...

IRS has data that 26 percent are, to put it nicely, claimed "in error". No wealthy people are doing this. It's impossible.
While arbitrary, that restriction would be fine if it were part of the language definition, and enforced by the Protobuf compiler.

(I say "arbitrary" because "has_" is just the nomenclature the C++ bindings happen to use. The syntactic peculiarities of other host languages may dictate a different prefix. Which then forces the question of whether to amend the list of "prohibited" field names, and potentially break existing code.)

Regardless, the restriction you propose is not currently (to my knowledge) part of the language, so you can get into the situation where you've been developing with Protobufs in Python for years, and then decide to add some C++ code, and everything breaks because now you have naming clashes which force you to rename the field and go through and edit all the existing use sites of said field.
There are lots and lots of legitimate refunds of this quantity. IRS doesn't have enough resources to look too hard at each one of them, as the wait time for refunds would then be unacceptable.
We'll change to that above and point to the previous link. Thanks!
I think people underestimate how often they encounter type errors.

Anytime you try to call a property on an object that's undefined, or try to call a function that doesn't exist - those are type errors. And they're the most common JS errors we encounter.

Rollbar aggregated the 10 most common JS errors, and virtually all of them are type errors:
https://medium.com/@Iren.Korkishko/10-most-common-javascript...
I don't understand the downvotes; I thought the exact same thing.
If I remember correctly, the Vanish series (R and XC) have the least padding, something like 14mm front and rear. It's still more padded than I'd like, coming from some of the Merrells, but I liked the weight and fit enough to switch. I run in the Vanish XCs.

I've never seen them in a store to try on though, so you'll have to order them from Altra's site and send back the ones you don't like. I find they run a little small.
Thanks for the book recommendation I'll check it out!

With the speaking aspect, obviously now you are surrounded by French speakers, but what were some of the avenues you used for speaking when you were first learning the language?
It’s also plausible that we are diagnosing more and more people with weaker and weaker symptoms with the same disease, so in aggregate, the effect will seem weaker.
>I have my doubts that you'll find an increase in url shorteners internally

ahem go links ahem

https://medium.com/@golinks/the-full-history-of-go-links-and...
I don't know about any research on the matter, but I can say 2 things that worked very well for me:

1) take an intensive course first

2) then live in a country where the main language was the one I learned

Granted, point 2 isn't easy, but nothing can beat it.
The most important point is to use the language on a regular basis. If you don't, you'll forget it quickly.

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The JVM is primarily used for backend server processes that run 24/7. Instant startup time is irrelevant in that context and so it was never a design objective. The HotSpot VM is specifically designed and optimized for long running server processes https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/whitepaper-135217.ht...
> Of course, if your business is selling operating systems, development tools, databases and other infrastructure stuff, then, yup, open source has eaten your business.

I agree with what you said. With the caveat that some lucky few companies do seem to do well in this space too. Recently learned JetBrains (makers of IntelliJ) had $270M revenue/year and $100M net income in 2018.
Earlier part of the story: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/daughter-father-charged...

Submitted article was http://www.idahoreporter.com/2019/florida-man-got-3-4-millio... ("Man got $3.4M in tax refunds from IRS after claiming to win lottery he never won"). Changed via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21873501.
Does it? Because lots of shitty cliche jokes regularly get upvoted and built upon even further, whereas others that are actually good get flag-killed within a short timespan. I’ve been looking for an explanation for this wild discrepancy but I’ve come to believe it’s just luck, and depends on people’s collective moods that day.

Would make for an interesting deep-dive to be sure.
“ he took many of the phone numbers of high-profile Twitter users — including politicians and officials — to a WhatsApp group in an effort to warn users directly”

What on earth does this actually mean? And why does he still have a verified Twitter account or an account at all when he exploited it for 2 months without informing them?
Amazon is insanely effective at cutting costs and passing those savings on to you, the user. But sometimes that means they'll crowdsource typo-finding and you'll miss out on a good book because someone without a high enough reading comprehension level flagged it as "has quality issues".

People are willing to lower their expectations infinitely as long as it means lower prices. So the solution is: consumers need to reevaluate what they're willing to accept/spend, the rest will follow.
wow, 900MHZ CPU and 32MB was my first PC I bought more than 20 years ago for more than 1000$
> They made up an entire unscientific claim to disprove.

Search for "bilingual smarter". Here are a handful of articles that suggest that many, many people have already put forth (or at least entertained the possibility of) these claims over the years:

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Does being bilingual make you smarter? | British Council

Research Finds That Bilingual People Are Smarter, More Creative And Empathetic | Lifehack

Are Bilingual People Smarter Than People Who Speak One Language? | JSTOR Daily

Why Bilinguals Are Smarter | Association for Psychological Science

How Being Bilingual Makes You Smarter | Grammarly

Why Bilingual Kids Are Smarter | Bilingual Kidspot

Are Bilinguals Really Smarter? | Psychology Today

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Could you provide any sources that suggest that the authors initiated this discourse?
> They were spending €100mil a year on maintaining the current infrastructure.
As I understood they were made to pay that as the infrastructure was being used of another bank
And more bugs where a change in one area broke something that seemed unrelated. Note that the initial bug report may not know that - it may take specifically asking the question after fixing the bug.
Australian biobank repatriates hundreds of ‘legacy’ Indigenous blood samples
It's both. Minimalism should be applied to all layers from the big picture (features) to the implementation details.

> focus on building a few key features extremely well.

This. You nailed it.
Tunnel to be dug under South London
Oh wow, I'd never heard of Cloud Run before. Just popped some numbers in that I think are correct and it did come within the free tier range.

See GCP calculator: https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/#id=36a5f437-98...
Kudos for making one of the most impressive pieces of software ever. The level of optimization you achieved is truly rare these days.
Isn't that literally the claim the article posted here is making?
I'm curious about this too. Dart has an interesting runtime since it supports both quick JIT compilation and AOT to machine code.
Good on them. In Los Angeles, the tonier the neighborhood the fewer the billboards. The savagery of monster electronic signage and visual barrage increases substantially as one goes into the less affluent locations.
The question is: if you compile Java to native code, what's the purpose of using Java instead of Go or Rust or C++?
If you're going to be an edgelord and call Jeff Dean an "idiot", have the guts not to do it on a throwaway account.
hummm.... I partly agree with you now. I don't agree that "bilingual advantage" is necessarily subjective per se.

But if you were to say "the conclusions are only valid insofar as the chosen metrics to measure are representative of an underlying bilingual advantage" - then I would totally agree.

I guess my view is that this latter question is very subtle, and something for a domain expert to gauge. I'm not in a position to gauge it, and this is the point where I do to some degree have to trust the peer-review process, as flawed as it may be!
Anyone have any recommendations for a managed Compute/Postgres stack that’s less than 100/month? I was trying Heroku but frustrated by the single port per container and lack of static ips.
Quite simply, advertising is visual pollution; whether it be on large billboards, on bus stops or freestanding in the middle of the sidewalk.

It's visual pollution and it has ruined our towns and cities. I'm excited to read this article and see that people are taking a stand.
In addition to nicotine, cigarette smoke (tobacco) contains MAOIs. MAOIs were commonly prescribed as antidepressants and antipsychotics back in the 50s and 60s, but fell out of favor for various reasons, despite showing far greater efficacy than SSRIs.

(one of these reasons was dietary: MAOIs have bad interactions with the amino acid "Tyramine", found in aged foods. However, Tyramine content in food has dropped dramatically since the 70s, and this is no longer a significant concern)
Former Uber CEO Kalanick to Resign from Company’s Board
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21872216
Wouldn't the JIT:ed code be optimized for the specific CPU, whereas the AOT perhaps can not make use of certain instructions? Also, when making a comparison off the different models one must keep in mind that the software that processes the code have different characteristics.
Weird headline: Why would it matter that the night train is slow? You start at 8 pm - 10 pm and arrive at 7 am - 9 am, of course the average speed is low. So what?

The alternative would be paying a hotel, getting up at 4 am, getting to the airport, taking a 1 - 2 hour flight and arriving to the city a bit later than with the night train. But it was a fast flight...
More reasons https://twitter.com/k8em0/status/1078798252151992320 Almost any amount of money allocated to bug bounties would be more efficiently spent developing in-house talent.