skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes the examples you have all have multiple processing elements but they are vector processors. I was talking about simple and cheap scalar processors.

GPUs rely on symmetry to simplify the hardware design. Multiple (like 64) processing elements share the same instruction decoder. They have to access adjacent registers. So they become vector processors.

CPUs devote a huge chip area to caches and instruction pipelines. GPUs took out much of that area and complexity and replaced it with raw floating point computing power. For certain applications this has proven to be a good trade off.

What I described was a similar trade off...replacing a few heavily pipelined processors with massive amounts of cache memory with smaller cheaper cores. I wonder if it might prove to be the optimal micro-architecture for certain applications and given certain languages and certain data patterns.
This kind of thing is why I feel like there's an untapped market in some kind of facilitated speed dating that does some kind of basic prescreening on mutual preferences (age range, want/don't want kids, general interests, etc) and sets up events when there's a sufficient 'pool' of people whose Venn diagrams all reasonably intersect.
I don't think I subvocalise, I read way faster than I can speak. There's certainly ideas flowing through my mind as I read, but not sounds. It feels like a mixture between words, thoughts and emotions, not a stream of (silently) spoken words.

I bought a book on speed reading because I was dissatisfied with my "slow" reading, only to discover that according to their tests I was way up there in both speed and comprehension :-D

I was shocked to learn from that book that many people subvocalise - it felt so foreign (and utterly cumbersome) to me. I hadn't even considered people did that.

Most of the book was about not subvocalising - which I don't think I do anyway, so I never read it to the end.

Indeed if I read to my kids I'm often simultaneously reading one sentence aloud, and reading 1...2 sentences ahead for myself so I get the voices right. So in effect I'm reading the entire text twice while speaking it once.
Take an example you scaled down and 1000x1000px image to 100x100px and then scaled it up back to 1000x1000px. In the process you lost a lot of info on the image.

PS solves that by using Smart Objects, Krita by Transform Masks, GIMP? Nope
Great thanks! Will definitely take a look.
The answer However, is not surprising.

You add another power source the user doesn’t know about.
speed reading?

for me, reading a book is a treat. Something I rearly manage to make time for, and when I do, I'd rather enjoy every paragraph.

You don't chew a great food as fast as you do with simple one, right?
You’re still bragging.
Speaking as a Canadian (and utterly uninterested in cannabis) - this is closest to accurate.
Many jurisdictions are openly hostile
Most parts of the country limited access, supply and transportation.

It's hard to make a legal business work when most are still against it functioning.

That said, it ain't dead yet.
Sure, if you want to be pedantic, but the context was limited memory use, and ref counting does not increase the memory used for unreferenced objects (except in cycles) unlike most other garbage collection algorithms.
The problem is that most cash money market or savings accounts are only insured to $250K each. If I move money out to them to await my big moment, I have to open several accounts.

Back in 2007 I had funds in NetBank which happened to be the first bank to fail during the crisis. My money was bailed out 100% by the FDIC. But it was a tense time and a lesson I won't ever forget.

Today, banks can fail and the laws have now changed such that savings accounts may be used to "bail in" this time. So beware--cash is not safe, actual hard cash is not safe (can get stolen, safe deposit boxes are not allowed to hold any cash), gold and silver must be in hand, but are not safe for the same reasons as cash. No investments are safe, not even money market funds--those nearly broke the dollar peg in 2009/10.

So what should we do? Bitcoin? Give me a freaking break, lol!

We went to FL in 2009 and I remember vividly how many condos were on sale for unbelievable prices. The thing was, you could not get financing and I had no idea how long any recovery would take if it ever came at all. I expected another leg down, not a recovery. The only reason we had a recovery is because Bush fired up the printing presses and Obama kept them going. Then gas prices went totally insane which is how they bailed out all the banks--on our fucking backs! And NOBODY went to prison! Oh, and the worst part was all the "Peak Oil" propaganda all over the Internet which had to be a psyop because they had to justify the high oil prices which were in no way justifiable at all.

So after long consideration, I think this time we really should just shoot the bastards.
This feels like the future to me. Today's smartphone platforms have given a canonical ID to the user, and often their location. Location tracking is starting to become a really hot issue for the general public. I think its a gateway drug to digital security. The model of a dedicated secure device that uses external communications accomplishes a lot technically, but also 'fits' comfortably in the habits of millions of people. Such a device could fit right in with phone, wallet, and keys, and it could be an ideal tool for storing your on-the-go crypto. People trust things they can touch and can audit.

The first team that can ship a universal, secure hardware wallet that 'just works' for $50-$150 could sell 5 million units in a year. In 7 years there could be billions of them, selling for $10+ a unit; a consumable like a traditional wallet.

I would keep one on my person at nearly all times, and have it replicate state to another at home, and a third in some vault service (like a connected safety deposit box). They devices would establish a physical pairing by creating an irreversible key-pair on the hardware itself. The replication could be a sequential log (like mysql binlog or git), and the integrity of that log could be additionally verified by bringing the devices within close proximity. All that is to say, there needs to be a secure, peer-based way to mitigate inevitable loss, damage or theft of the physical device- without centralizing the data or losing state. It would do well to be dummy-proof and make fun sounds when performing the above pairing and verifying operations. Megacorps shouldn't get to be in charge of syncing everything for us.

Let's take back the autonomy that has been stolen from us during these awkward teenage years of a digitally-driven society, and this time let's keep it in our own hands.
It's very useful for non-monogamous people: you meet someone, have a good interaction, sex, etc. and write a good reference for them.

The problem though is that there's an incentive to game the system.
Also, putting the "X out of 10" scale aside, some people are just drawn to certain looks more than others. Tall, short, certain facial structures, different body types, beards/no beards on men, etc.
> "Did you read the blog you linked?"

Did you? Try reading the "My First Dev Job" and "Life as a Junior Software Developer" sections. She didn't become a writer until later.
Yeah, my point is that software engineering may end up becoming just exactly the things you have listed without the writing code parts... and that is probably going to annoy a lot of software engineers, not to mention the fact that other types of people who would never write code could be better at communication, design etc
> Yeah, my point is that software engineering may end up becoming just exactly the things you have listed without the writing code parts

I really doubt that. Who'd do all the code writing? AI?
In this case, I'm getting 23.5 points on the dollar, marriott points are worth around .8-1 cent each - meaning with the combo, I'm getting 23.5% back in points. The return on the marriott card is 6 points of that 23.5.
a version 1 only works with b version >= 1 and <=17 is pretty basic stuff. If someone isn't doing it than submit an issue and run your own repo that does
I used to have the vedantic viewpoint. But now I think it has no power, it's just a convenient explanation. On the other hand evolutionary methods and reinforcement learning proved they can lead to intelligent behaviour. They can both explain and produce human like actions, and are much more parsimonious. They don't require a cosmic consciousness as the source of individual consciousness, instead they require environment, agent and self replication, which are concrete things that remain within the laws of physics. AI has proven how perception, attention, memory, imagination and reward based learning could be implemented in neural nets.
I think you mean adverse selection, not moral hazard.

Also, I would note that I know some very attractive women who do not put profile pictures on dating sites because they don't want to attract too much attention because of how they look. So this could mitigate the adverse selection problem.

When I first heard that some women did this, I started messaging women who had no pictures (or pictures that did not show what they looked like). Not long after, I met my wife, who would have been mobbed with messages had she put up a photo that showed what she actually looks like. I was the first and only person she dated online.
> I read the Bible out of curiosity and ended up joining a church, so that's pretty consequential.

Is there a bigger story here? I'm not the type that would find reading the Bible appealing but I can say without a shadow of doubt that if I would, it would not awaken any latent desires for religion.
Indeed, for me "modern" has become an overused buzzword with a negative connotation --- well-deserved too, I think. What's really sad is that this is an article about low-level stuff, and not some more "typical" topic like web applications; I'd be far less surprised, though no less annoyed, if it was the latter.
As far as I can tell the current job market disagrees with you.

It seems like there's two markets for software engineers at the moment: The market for fresh bootcamp & collage grads, which is swamped with job seekers. And the market for mid/senior engineers, which is desperate for talent. If you're a senior engineer its very easy to find well paid work at the moment. But thats really not the experience of most fresh grads. I've spoken to plenty of junior software engineers who send out dozens of resumes for each call back for an interview.[1]

If you could be a decent software engineer with a few years of work, companies would happily hire collage grads. But despite being desperate for talent, most companies don't want to hire average junior developers for any price. The top 15% or so of each graduating class finds work easily enough, but most software companies consistently say no to anyone in the bottom 85% or so of each class.

And thats pretty good evidence that most people can't become decent at programming with only 3-4 years of study. Even amongst the top 15% or so of each graduating class I bet most people started programming long before their freshman year. I know I did.

(And to be clear, I'm not saying that companies filter based on marks in collage classes. As an industry we interview people and assess them as fairly as we can. I'm saying most people are demonstrably not very good at programming after "only" spending 3-4 years studying CS in collage.)

[1] Source: As part of my current role I've chatted with, and technically assessed around 100-200 fresh grads in the last year. Our hiring bar is calibrated off the companies we work with, and we say no to the vast majority of fresh grads from bootcamps and universities.
Exactly, and marriott points are quite flexible too - I would rather do Hyatt if I'm being honest, but Hyatt doest have enough hotels to work for me.
Pretty sure newer Samsung TVs run Tizen.

Edit: Yep, Samsung TVs released sometime after 2015 ship with Tizen[1]

[1] https://developer.samsung.com/tv/develop/specifications/tv-m...
Beyond slowing down, a real challenge for many of us in this age of distraction is to keep one's attention focused on a single text for extended periods of time.

I know I struggle with this myself despite being a life-long reader from the pre-Internet days who used to have no trouble staying focused through a full book.
Pretty good I might say looking at all the comments here. The rare album I download is rarely on Musicbrainz though, while Discogs[0] always had it.

I'm sure it has something to do with the music genre these albums fall in (hardstyle), but as I said Discogs did have them all and I've heard the same from people with different tastes in music.

So I like to use TagScanner[1] to tag my albums. It searches both MusicBrainz and Discogs and apparently others as well.

P.S. I checked a single artist to see if Musicbrainz has caught up with Discogs yet a few months ago and the only things listed were a 5 year old album and some singles I believe. I just checked again and in the last 3 months some users added everything else.[2]

[0]: https://discogs.com
[1]: https://xdlab.ru/en
[2]: https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5347c7dc-a8bd-4a05-8ae1-a17fb...
I'll just settle for any car without a screen in the dash.

Oh wait, they made that illegal starting MY2015 (in the US, at least).

OK, how about just without a touchscreen, then?
My company is still basically doing paper expense reports.
At a few more orders of magnitude of memory use, sure.

Tradeoffs everywhere, which make sense or not depending on your requirements.

But Python's ref counting isn't a significant factor in its memory use.
I Made My Own Image Sensor (and Digital Camera)[video]
Thank you. The one top of chain was referring to was https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/weexperimenton...
And I really have to think that the more companies add these misfeatures, the more effort is going to put into alternate ROMs/firmware for more consumer electronics.
One thing to keep in mind is the cost of healthcare dramatically outpaces inflation, too. It's not ridiculous to think that healthcare premiums alone could eat up most of the principal. And this is assuming that taxes stay low & good health.
I miss the Old Alaska, from before the Virgin merger, it was warmer and more friendly.
Most engineers at GAFAM (or whatever the trendy acronym is) are doing CRUD work.
Not yet mentioned: Come As You Are (Emily Nagoski). Sexuality book written for women that should be read by all.
What’s your end goal? My care provider has all of that information online, but I don’t really care about test results if they come back favorable (no action needed on my part). I keep vitals in Apple Health mostly out of nerdy curiosity, not necessarily for any epidemiological purpose.
This was really seeded for me when trying to teach people taking computer science courses who were trying to do practical things like integrate C libraries into their higher level projects, but didn't really understand how things were working under the hood and getting themselves into a mess.

If they understood a little more about how their program was built and run ... from the bottom up, as it were :) ... they would have had less pain.

Of course, it just shows as usual the hardest problem in computer science is indeed, naming!

Edit: BTW you're right, "Code" by Petzold should be required reading http://www.charlespetzold.com/code/index.html
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

--Albert Einstein
tldr; google wants to reap the rewards, but externalize the costs.
Hieros Gamos
Nice try, but her "first job" as a "junior engineer" lasted for only a few months, and then she became a technical writer and stayed in that role since.

Check out the dates in the blog. She just started her bootcamp in fall 2017. By spring 2018, she was already a technical writer.
I'll second the recommendation of The Count of Monte Cristo.

There's a user on HN who learned French just so he could read it in the original, and I can see why.

If you read it, make sure to read the unabridged edition, and not any of the many abridged editions, which are often targeted at children and are a travesty to the mature themes in the original.

I can personally recommend David Clarke's reading of it on Librivox,[1] who does an excellent job.

[1] - https://librivox.org/the-count-of-monte-cristo-version-3-by-...
> The condition is, though, that I need to be able to quickly run the program to validate just all of it to work.

That's a condition for all TDD.

> I know there's testing frameworks, although it seems more of an eclectic mess than Java

If you look at the test suites for popular libraries like numpy, django, airflow it's mostly `pytest`, `unittest` (part of the standard library), and `nose`.

> where testing and mocking is just a little harder to do...

Mocking is actually pretty easy to do in python using pytest.monkeypatch or unittest.mock. Compared to mocking in a strongly typed language like C++ (and I assume Java) if an object you're mocking implements a particular interface, you would only have to mock out the parts that get exercied by the codepath in the tests you care about.
I never told them to fix it, they can file a bug report which would help, if Krita seg faults then there is dialog which does that for you, :)
What are your impressions of "Active Portfolio Management" ? I am asking because have a lot about passive investing and why it works.
This is awesome, please make it succeed if possible.

Dating sites are simply horrible at actually creating awesome interaction, and one of the first reason is the fact that obviously looks are pretty much irrelevant for that, yet most seem centered on photos.

The site is empty for me other than the top bar though, so can't give any more advice for it.

IMHO the most important thing though is to match people that want the same thing out of dating.

I.e. if someone wants to have a one night stand and the other wants a long monogamous relationship they should not even see each other's profile, yet pretty much all dating sites don't even let you state your goals!
> Those companies became very profitable because technology made them so. It wasn't some accident that is here today and gone tomorrow. Technology is at the core of companies like Google, Netflix, Amazon, Facebook. Without the technology, which is implemented by SWEs, none of these would exist.

Yes but don't assume that people in india, africa, or eastern europe are too dumb to do the same work. Nor do the outposts of the companies you mentioned pay the same US levels in those countries. There must be another component of this.
I think you're laboring under a misconception here and as a consequence we're kind of talking past each other. The post author is quoting Dan Luu, who brought up "doctors and lawyers" but that's not really the topic of the blog post; the post author himself started out at fairly low pay (Take a look at the "making more money" link, he started his career out at $65k pay and I have rather good reason to know that the FAANGs were paying much more than that). So, the subject is not "high-paying serious tech jobs", just run-of-the-mill programmers.
The full article claims that it's impossible to reduce saccades by reading multiple lines simultaneously.

I know that claim is false because I have experienced reading an entire book by perceiving two to four lines simultaneously.

I've only had that happen once, on incredibly easy double-spaced material, but humans are capable of it.

Note that I am a natural speed reader and aphantasiac - those may be contributing factors (I've noticed the most talented visualizers I know are all slow readers, and discussion leads me too believe it's partly because they can't help stopping to visualize, while I cannot stop to visualize).
Microsoft FlexGo – Introducing pay-as-you-go computing [2006]
Three come to mind rather than one. Deciding at 13 I had to learn how to make video games. Having the guts to ask out my future wife at 19. Deciding in my 20s I would no longer allow myself to be tormented by bullies/events of the past. I’m 36 now. I’m happy I made these decisions, huge impact.
This just drops you from your group messages.
There are virtually no devices that actually support it, at least as of about a year ago.
They might want the features but be unaware of the price they're paying. That spyware is a revenue stream that pays the manufacturer dividends as long as the TV is used. All the major brands claim TVs are discounted due to these marketing-included features. They don't actually reveal the discount nor their profit. And most modern TVs have antipatterns that try to bypass consumer choice or punish the consumer for opting out.

I'm not disagreeing with you as much as saying the "smart features" moniker papers over things the consumer might use to make an informed choice but those things are definitely in small print or essentially mandatory EULAs. Consumers may want the features but given the choice they might not choose to pay that price.
> Yes but don't assume that people in india, africa, or eastern europe are too dumb to do the same work.

Where did I ever assume that?!

> Nor do the outposts of the companies you mentioned pay the same US levels in those countries. There must be another component of this.

How about "they pay what they have to"?

In India, if they pay $60k/yr, plenty of talented candidates would work for them. In the US, if they paid that much, nobody would apply.

Simple.
Not really.

Tip-of-the-tongue definitely is a part of symbolic knowledge/cognition.

That said, what I am speaking of is much more complex. The example I gave for Japanese, while most educated native speakers would have known the pronunciation, the meaning was not obvious. As a non-native speaker, the translation was something like "with the devotion of a Buddhist monk", but that doesn't really convey the intensity of the phrase. Even today, when I try to translate it into English, my explanation does not do the phrase justice. When I try to explain it to not-so- linguistically-gifted Japanese people, I can provide a gist fairly easily (just as in English), but the weight of the phrase is tough to convey.

In English, I might equate this to when someone uses just the right Latin or Greek term. The literal translation is fine, but the depth of the meaning is almost impossible to describe while being almost palpable to those in the know.
I'd be interested in how many direct offspring she likely has
If you limit the model to source code diagnostics, you have a good point.

But statically typed languages also use the types for other things: optimization, generic code instantiation, symbol resolution, and even certain kinds of metaprogramming. Optional type checking is a nice way to reduce certain kinds of errors and tighten up some underspecified designs, but it falls very much short of actual static type checking.

That being said, most of the unique things static typing provides aren't needed for typical CRUD apps and glue logic, so type annotated python isn't a bad choice.
This is actually a great argument in support of OP's conclusion. Once starting a software-based business achieves a sufficiently high cost to entry (at some point most of the profitable problems to solve will be out of reach of a handful of programmers), I would expect pay rates to plummet.
You may like Alastair Reynolds, he does hard scifi infused with elements of horror and space opera. He doesn't tear down his characters' minds to the degree Peter Watts does.
I occasionally use my Samsung tv as a second screen. I can't be sure but I may have had my banking information on screen. Does this mean they are keeping screenshots of that too? Isn't that unlawful?