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> I don't think x86 compatibility mattered.

It did. At that time Linux and open source were not the clear winners in the server space they are now and people were not used (or able) to recompile their code.

Windows took a long time to support Itanium and companies wouldn't buy it because they had nothing to run on those machines. They got x86 machines instead and amd64 when it became available.
SLM Lab: New RL Research Benchmark and Software Framework
Current academic NLP would have been considered quite out-of-the-current-box 10 years ago. Most academic progress is driven by young graduate students who think similarly to you.
> It's also a big disincentive to work.

Being homeless is also a big disincentive to work.

Despite the occasional feel-good story you may see in the news about a homeless person (almost invariably a physically and mentally healthy young man) finding work and getting off the street, in reality it's almost impossible to go from rough-sleeping to holding down employment long enough to establish a home.

You smell, your clothes are dirty, everything is riddled with bedbugs, you're probably not properly nourished, you're exhausted, you're probably in physical pain, and most of your time is used up with things like walking to the next soup kitchen for your next meal.

The stability of being properly housed is, for most people, a necessary precursor for holding down work.
You can't look at items in isolation.

Finland doesn't have an open immigration policy. In fact it's citizen oppose immigration because they wish to preserve what is Finish. Finland is not more progressive in this regard.

Now we can start to understand how Finland could end homelessness. With a free immigration policy this would be more difficult both culturally and in terms of costs.

How does Finland get it's wealth? Through clean energy progressive solar or windpower? No through oil. Adding to the global carbon output daily.

When we peel the layers we realize we are comparing apples to oranges.
It should use EU, not Europe. The article only makes claimes about the only country that has a decline in the EU. There are quite a few European countries that are not in the EU.
Unicode and Punycode were originally designed for letting computers handle the wide variety of human writing systems, common ones like Chinese and Arabic, as well as rarer ones. Much more recently, the emoji characters were added to that same Unicode system, so any encoding system these days that's international-friendly also ends up supporting emoji as well.

So Punycode wasn't specifically designed to work with emoji, it just happens to work with emoji because emoji are part of Unicode.
Yeah, some people even started giving it a name [0]: Schmidhuber's (local) optimum. It is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but the idea is that as long as Schmidhuber says he did it before, we are probably in the same basin of attraction as we were in the nineties.

The open question is whether AGI is the same as Schmidhuber's optimum, or even lies within Schmidhuber's basin.

[0] Cambridge style debate on the topic at Neurips 2019.
As a fellow sysadmin, I would advise to learn vi properly then switch to Vim because the former is pretty much everywhere, and for example you could mess the file with cursor keys in Insert mode instead of using hjkl in it.
Valid question. My answer would be: because even though AMD made things quite interesting during 2019, I don't foresee them being able to go much further than what they did now.

Example: PCIe 4.0 has insane bandwidth allowances. I don't see any SSDs ever going beyond PCIe 4.0 bandwidth. Other iterative improvements like a few dozen MHz more in CPUs, or a few dozen more cores on the GPU, or a few more hundred MHz in RAM... they are usable without their potential being wasted in the new chipsets -- although I am not an expert, it does seem that way after several reads of the their parameters.

And even if next-gen stuff with bigger improvements is coming, I don't feel we can go much higher before these things hit big diminishing returns in noticeable performance in all but very specialised programs. Currently I am using a workstation with 10-core 4.0GHz CPU / 64GB 2666MHz DDR4 ECC / NVMe SSD at ~2.8 GB/s. I seriously cannot make any programming software even utilise that SSD to full capacity -- only Postgres manages to saturate it to 50% of its potential when doing `pg_restore`.

Granted I haven't run any deep learning stuff and I don't intend to. I am focusing on everyday and professional-but-not-strongly-specialised software. And there, I feel, stopping at motherboards with PCIe 4.0 and their appropriate AMD CPUs and uber-fast SSDs and the fastest RAM you can find today... will be more than enough for like 5 years.

All IMO of course.
Generics being reified in the CLR are entirely biased to C# (and vice versa), which is exactly why they impeded scala.net. They were simply designed for each other.

Extensions methods are great, tracking down the methods that you are calling is super easy in an IDE. The ability to abstract over generic type parameters as well as class subtype is very useful.

Default interface implementations have no connection to extension methods, they solve different problems.

Explicit method implementations are great at avoiding name collisions as well as accidental ones. The coercions needed are not hard casts, though C# could do be improved with a soft cast operator.
Exactly. The usual way to deal with this would be to move the `where(:x => "y").where(:y => "z")` logic to a scope on the Model and test the scope in a unit test by checking if it returns the records as intended.
Patterns to make your microservice fault-tolerant
How does it modify it? Are you talking about the timeline on top of the page?
> There are absolutely no square circles and there are absolutely no round squares.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squircle

Absolute truth exists relative to axioms. Given x, y. Even the law of identity is not metaphysically necessary; Deleuze argues that difference and repetition are prior to identity.

> Absolute truth must exist. If there was no such thing as absolutely truth then it is absolutely true that there is no absolute truth. In other words, a logical contradiction.

This argument still assumes absolute truth! It is made in the framework in which truths can be absolute as opposed to relative, but what I'm saying is that this dichotomy is invalid. The more accurate statement against absolute truth is not "it is absolutely true that there is no absolute truth" but rather "absolute truth is nonsense because absolute and relative truth are not different except within a defined set of axioms".

It's like having an absolute position in space. A position in space is only ever absolute given a frame of reference, because that's what defines it. Assuming an axiom is what defines an absolute truth. To ask someone what their position is without a defined frame of reference is nonsense.
It can solve it in a literal way that doesn't actually meaningfully change the societal problems of Homelessness. If, for example, we thought it vital that everyone own a car and drive everywhere, and that people walking to work was a problem to be solved, you could give me a car and I'd no longer be "carless". That doesn't mean I will use it, or stop walking to work, or otherwise change the reasons I didn't have a car before.

That's not to say that literally giving people houses isn't a good idea, and won't solve some chunk of the issues of homelessness. But, for instance, if I was sleeping in my broken down car on the street near my work, and you gave me a free house on the other side of town, I'm not "homeless" now, but it now introduces new problems of how I get to work across town.

Giving someone something they lack in life is a lot like giving someone a organ transplant. Hypothetically, we could "cure" a lot of liver diseases by giving everyone a "new" liver, but we have to get that liver from somewhere, and the recipient has to be able to integrate it into their life without it being rejected, and they have to not keep doing the things that led to them having the problem in the first place or else it all repeats in a few years.
That is not correct. The Finnish military budget is 3.2 billion Euros ($3.6B). On top of that, Finland has a universal male conscription, costs of which are not included. (I.e. the opportunity cost of being in the army)

Source: https://www.defmin.fi/files/4804/Puolustusministerion_hallin...
> I'm sure that thousands, if not millions of people thought about connected speakers. Sonos build an enclosure and a PCB, specified the protocols to be used, designed the software that goes with it, etc... patenting the technical innovations they spend money on developing along the way. That's what Sonos brought to the table, not the idea of connected speakers.

That's not what Sonos patented, though. Take a look at their "method and apparatus for adjusting volume levels in a multi-zone system." [1] There's nothing about hardware, protocols, algorithms, etc. It's basically a patent on a UI that lets you make a group of players on a network, and if you change the volume for one player the rest of them also change.

[1] https://patentswarm.com/patents/US8588949B2
Yes and no. Some things, like _protected_, are explicitly not included because they encourage a style of programming - inheritance - that is not in line with the goals of F#. But that's really the only one. All recent "IL innovations" have either already been built into F# or are set for F# 5 (such as Default Interface Members).
How is it "Performance-oriented"? Is there a special language construct that is exclusively for performance?
Software ain't cheap.
Don't forget that more than a few of us are sporting Powerbeats Pros, basically AirPods with ear hooks. I personally haven't visually surveyed how common they are, but I can't be the only one that bought a pair. I'm guessing they don't come close to AirPods on sales because you kinda have to know the Powerbeats exist. Whereas I think you'd have to live deep in that cave to not know about AirPods.

(And if AirPods of any kind don't work for your ears, give the Powerbeats a test drive. For me, AirPods are great until I start actively moving around, or put a helmet on.)
Alright then, let's do a quick thought experiment:

We've seen AWS go down. The result: multiple major websites go offline or are broken to an unusable degree. Many people simply can't get work done. Everybody notices. Major news outlets put out stories.

Let's say Azure goes down. Lots of MS products would probably go dark, but aside from that? Not much. So yeah, I don't buy it.
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> "If we had a military budget that was more inline with simply keeping our own country safe, we would have a ton more money to take care of the people who really need it."

Resulting in a new wave of rearmament and arms races across the entire planet as everybody scrambles to build up their military in the resulting power vacuum. If you want to see another wave of all-out wars in your lifetime, well, that's how you get it.

The United States has been amply repaid for its military budget (despite it being put to stupid use by certain Presidents) in terms of global political and economic stability, which is good for business.
A little bit, yeah: it's like a bit like single-pass radix sort, i.e., where the "digit" in the radix sort is selected to be large enough that one digit encompasses the whole key. Another difference is bucket management strategy is different: using a fixed set of buckets with chaining rather than counting ahead of time the buckets you'll need and laying them out linearly.

Note that locality of reference is so important that even though "single pass" radix sort does the least work, the ideal radix turns out to be 6-10 bits usually, even if that means e.g., 5-10x more instructions executed for 64-bit keys: because sparsely writing into buckets spread across memory is just really slow.
I had this fleeting thought as well but, the list of affected airports are all very benign. There's nothing of note in Wayne County, OH.
Of course, some states have more to offer than others, and choices like these are often subjective (also, it looks like they preferred less-known and less-overrun locations), but I think pointing out that there is also some beautiful scenery in the less touristic states also has some merit...
Battle of Alesia
Can't argue with the Texas choice of McKittrick Ridge, but the hike up via McKittrick Canyon instead of Dog Canyon is even more beautiful if you can handle the brutal climb.

It's at least a couple of hours driving from the Texas trailheads to the New Mexico trailhead, so it's worth considering both directions depending on your fitness and what direction you're coming from.
Ironic story, coming from Buzzfeed.
Neater async failure handling in TypeScript
Plex does have that feature. Jellyfin devs have it high on their list, but it hasn't been built out yet.
I still don't believe in fractional reserve banking.
> Just recently I discovered DoH was activated by default now and bypassing my /etc/hosts block list without any warning

It reads your /etc/hosts before going to DoH I believe.
1. USA cuts military budget

2. Russia invades Finland. USA does nothing.

3. Homelessness in Finland peaks
Very interesting. Thank you for this!
No, the closure of mental institutions occurred during the Reagan administration because he cut funding for treating mental illness from his budget.

In CA, when he was governor, Reagan ordered the closure of many facilities.
Can't say
Could signify an end to INTC's most recent 7 MDS sins.
I don't use package-lock.json
> A Better (D)VCS

Well there are a couple git based reimplementations. I look forward to GOT (http://gameoftrees.org/) functional but still work in progress
I get what you're saying. I just think it's hyperbolic to downvote someone making that kind of speculation. It seems as if you're reading a lot into that one sentence. I didn't see anything about a "global conspiracy"; he's just asking if the economics around HIV drugs are discouraging research into an HIV vaccine which, even if it's not correct, isn't totally outrageous or unrelated to the thread. Ebola, in contrast to HIV, doesn't have the same economic pressure that could dissuade drug companies from developing a vaccine. As far as I'm aware, there's no expensive drug that suppresses Ebola symptoms.

A better thing for people to do would have been to just reply with the kind of information that you provided.
Huawei’s Linux Distribution OpenEuler Is Available Now
It's super annoying that AMD's 3000 desktop line is 7nm zen2, while their 3000 laptop line is 12nm zen+.

It's confusing and dishonest. Multiple times I've jumped at almost getting a Ryzen 3000 laptop only to remember that it's not really Ryzen 3000.
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If I'm looking for money to help the poor I'm not going to start by raiding pensions. That would be self destructive.
Interesting, thanks for the explanation!
You just regurgitated the link to TFA (or more accurately, The Fine Twitter Thread).
Reagan was president in the early 1980s. The closure of most mental health facilities preceded the Bush recession.
love the name. good luck
Not that I'm going to build this, but in regards to your time-tracking software[0]:

Is this something you'd want to integrate with Org-Mode or similar note-taking formats for logging? Or do you keep your time-tracking separate from your notes and TODO lists?

[0]: https://github.com/NateEag/track-time
Public domain by default?! Shouldn't they AI count as just another tool? Someone ran the AI program. Someone took a look at its output and said "ah this looks sweet, let's apply for this one". These people are the tool users and should be classified as the inventors.
The Language of the Hands (2007)
Chilling that "population" is listed as a target but I can't help imagining a scenario where all of the primary and secondary targets -- military, government, industrial, agricultural -- are taken out with strikes that limited the amount of collateral damage and maximized the number of survivors: how many of those people will wish they had not survived the attack?
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Akira is not as iconoclastic in its philosophy as it was in its technical and artistic attributes at the time. It was also heavily influenced by and can be seen as a modern-day retelling/rewarning of the hiroshima/nagasaki incidents.

NGE can be philosophically heavy at times but is too diluted by its action sequences and fan service moments.

The first GITS movie is a philosophical tour de force and a piece of art that transcends time. A masterpiece.
Clicking random links is exactly what HN is all about ;)
This closely matches what happened to processor naming. It used to be that any two (CISC) CPUs with the same frequency were about on par with one-another, so we just called processors by their frequency. As soon as processors started adding things like SSE, though, that went out the window, since now “one cycle” could do arbitrary amounts of work, and also consume arbitrary amounts of electricity. So now we instead group processors by their manufacturer and model, and compare processors by “generation”, which ends up being a loose count of each time each vendor has done a large redesign that enabled efficiency increases beyond “just” a process-node shrink.

So: is there any analogous new convention for naming process nodes, now that you can’t just refer to them by their size? If there’s a dropdown select box on some form internal to e.g. Apple, where an engineer specifies what process-node of what fab they’d like to use to print a new chip—and said list has had some thought put into making it intuitively unambiguous—then what would the items in that list look like?
ZOTAC has been selling AMD based Mini PCs for a while, I don't see why they shouldn't make one based on this new CPU:

https://www.zotac.com/us/product/mini_pcs/all?processor=AMD
Does an Android device that is almost immediately abandoned without software or security updates take up less space in the landfill?
I think it's good for people who have only hiked one region and might do some image searches and see something they like in another part of the country. But I agree, picking one hike for Texas is pretty silly since if you're in Houston in east Texas you won't want to drive ten hours to their pick in the far western corner.
Crappy name and branding. Not a fan.
In our current environment, that would be a different thing. People have a right to privacy with respect to images of our naked bodies. We don't have a right to privacy with respect to pubic knowledge of horrible things we've done.

However, there is a tension here, and it might be resolved in the long run by doing away with any privacy whatsoever, at least for regular people.
StaticCompiler.jl: Compiles Julia code to a standalone library (experimental)
For what it’s worth I personally think that a nuke being blown off would definitely be tech-related news.
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Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2020?
What services and technologies do you use when you'd like to quickly build a web app which may never be more than a prototype, but may also turn into something real? A big aspect of what I'm wondering is about automatically setting something up for keeping local/production environments in sync, quickly deploying to production, and not having to mess with a bunch of server configuration things, user accounts, security, etc.
It didn't work. Based on my personal observation, do believe that the climate has changed. It has become warmer and seasons are shifting, rains unpredictable and winter season becoming very narrow.
Except the airplane was riddled with holes indicative of air defense guns shooting the airplane down.
I don't, because I don't know how to calculate it. Like I said, we need a heuristic but I don't know how to go about it. But it's an important qualifier when we're trying to isolate this problem to just the economics of solving homelessness.
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb538-Cold-War-Nuclear...

As usual, nyt adds nothing but paywalled political babble, here is the relevant link.
Right, but there's a huge distinction between having no car by choice, and having no car (particularly outside of metro areas), but really wanting one, because you can't afford it / have no licence / whatever.

That's his point. I've been hitchhiking before and slept outside loads. It's not meaningful to call that 'homelessness'. Is a nomad homeless?

Someone who simply falls behind on the rent and bounces around friends' sofas is in a very different situation to someone who has serious mental and/or physical health issues and starts to completely fall apart as a person.
I own Samsung Galaxy buds, rather than Airpods but the logic is the same (the audio quality is worse though).

You don't lose them because they live in a charging case and they go straight from ear to charging case. You never put them down anywhere else.

The difference with using them is bigger than you would imagine. There's no untangling of cable, no threading down clothes, no restriction on where you put your phone (assuming it's vaguely nearby). I can, for instance, put them in one handed while never taking my eyes off the road.
Free, deregulated markets work well when the market participants have high information about what's in the market. If you're interested in buying, say, books, there's not much need to regulate what's in the books - customers have a pretty good idea, they can page through the book at the bookstore, and they can read what reviewers say.

Customers don't have any idea about which airline is safer. Airlines rarely have an idea of which airline is safer - shortcuts taken in manufacturing might lead to problems 20 years down the line when no human who was involved in the engineering or purchasing work is still at either company.
I recently, with work, did a tour around Eindhoven (the Netherlands) together with Homeless people. I learned that one never has to be homeless in that city, there are many locations to get food, shelter and help. The homeless people on the streets have such severe ADHD that sleeping halls stress them out, or they have other mental issues, can't deal with authority, have a severe lack of trust or fear for the healthcare system, etc. It is impossible for a healthy mind to stay homeless (unless by choice).
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You'd do well to read "How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World", maybe then you'd understand why trying to persuade the masses is pointless.
The main different condition makes all the difference...

That would describe more than two thirds of the homeless.
SQL the language isn't perfect but it is extremely powerful and useful.

I'm not advocating for the OP on his extreme take, but yours is equally extreme in the other direction. Both are at odds with any semblance of an ideal approach.
Laravel, php and https://forge.laravel.com.

You can get basically the same functionality with Docker in other languages as well. But setting up Docker is a bit more complicated as it requires you to configure it properly and doesn't really secure your vps so you still have to have basic linux skills to configure ssh to disallow password logins.

A good thing can also be to setup a firewall or fail2ban if you intend to keep password login available for some reason.

I think you'll never really can avoid setting up stuff, even if you use AWS, Azure or GCP it will still require configuration even if a lot can come out of the box.
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Then you just kill the humans in the better place and take their stuff.
Yes, but I think that the attack worked precisely because it was shared with few people (possibly just one).
Yes, it’s not a binary situation. But Finland also directly took over several private/NGO shelters and converted them to apartment blocks. In the US, this would be considered verboten in most major cities because of the challenge it poses to everyone involved in real estate speculation and development.