skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My university compiler course focused on the theory of grammars and token parsing - when it came to developing a compiler for the practical demonstration part of the course the code generation aspect seemed really poorly documented. In the end I used LLVM. Code generation is still the part about compilers I understand the least.
In my experience I never hear the 'D'.
It's like it's dropped and you are left with "Pa Thai". Maybe it's because the letters sound the same and the flow of speak takes it away.
<cough> Who's Next (Tom Lehrer)

First we got the bomb and that was good,
'Cause we love peace and motherhood.
Then Russia got the bomb, but that's O.K.,
'Cause the balance of power's maintained that way!
Who's next?

France got the bomb, but don't you grieve,
'Cause they're on our side (I believe).
China got the bomb, but have no fears;
They can't wipe us out for at least five years!
Who's next?

Then Indonesia claimed that they
Were gonna get one any day.
South Africa wants two, that's right:
One for the black and one for the white!
Who's next?

Egypt's gonna get one, too,
Just to use on you know who.
So Israel's getting tense,
Wants one in self defense.
"The Lord's our shepherd, " says the psalm,
But just in case, we better get a bomb!
Who's next?

Luxembourg is next to go
And, who knows, maybe Monaco.
We'll try to stay serene and calm
When Alabama gets the bomb!
Who's next, who's next, who's next?
Who's next?
> This is simply false. Given methane emissions, we don't actually know that it's better at all, let alone half as bad.

And we don’t know if it’s “bad” either.
> It’s a college class in which students are supposed to learn something new

Unless the central thrust of the course is supposed to be the mechanics of a particular dated editor, the restriction described seems to be a distraction from rather than an aid to what the students are supposed to be learning.

It doesn't make any more sense than a social science course where the deliverables for most assignments are essays mandating WordPerfect for DOS. Sure, you'll learn something you might not otherwise, but it's a distraction from what you came to the course to learn.
This is why the low and high bid are automatically thrown out, and then the remaining bidders are investigated for ability to actually deliver. For real world contracts change orders are where the real money is - that is places where your specification is wrong for some reason not known in advance and you will need to pay for the fix. The low bidders are experts in figuring out how meet the letter of the specs while building something that doesn't make sense (By spec the toilet drains pipes won't connect to the toilet, we can fix that for only $$$). A more reasonable contractor will see that and make the obvious fixes while for no extra charge, but not the low bidder - this makes the low bidder more expensive.
Intelligent DNS based load balancing at Dropbox
It's undercutting and killing what makes over 50% of our carbon free energy: our 100 GWe nuclear fleet. Gas is not an ok end point. Nuclear is. Killing an ok endpoint to make small gains while approaching a not-ok endpoint is unwise.
The thing is, everyone _could_ get a pony, if we decided that doing so was a priority. Ponies cost about $1000.

If it mattered enough, the US government could ABSOLUTELY afford $330 billion to get everyone a pony.

It's not that tremendous things aren't possible, it's that we aren't doing them.
It's a little strange. Since most people will just hike straight out and back, it's barely a mile-long hike. However, there are some beautiful trails nearby to the East off the end of W Lake Michigan Rd, and of course the Bay View trail system just to the West. If you get creative you can link them all up, and that might be a worthy contender for best hike in Michigan.
> 2002 wurde der Vertrag („Atomkonsens“) durch Novellierung des Atomgesetzes rechtlich abgesichert.[100] In der Folge wurden am 14. November 2003 das Kernkraftwerk Stade (640 MW)[101] und am 11. Mai 2005 das Kernkraftwerk Obrigheim (340 MW)[102] endgültig abgeschaltet. Für alle anderen Atomkraftwerke wurden Reststrommengen vereinbart, nach deren Erzeugung die Kraftwerke abgeschaltet werden sollten. Feste Abschalttermine wurden nicht vereinbart, die Strommengen waren so bemessen, dass ein Betrieb der letzten Kraftwerke etwa bis in die Jahre 2015–2020 möglich gewesen wäre.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomausstieg#2000:_Deutschland

The phase-out was decided in 2002, with precise amounts of energy allowed to be generated until shutoff. That was not a hand-wavy "we'll do it sometime in the future" thing. The "grace period" was then extended by Merkel's government in 2010 under heavy pressure from energy providers. Only to be reversed in 2011. I and you are pro-nuclear, but the decision was made by the German public: 77% were against the 15 year extensions in 2010 (https://www.zeit.de/2010/30/Atomausstieg). After Fukushima 79% were for a phase-out until 2022 or earlier. (https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/190403/umfrag...)

That's democracy if we like it or not.
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I am not entirely convinced myself (I doubt there was a conspiracy so much as shared incentives) but the documentary is quite compelling, I recommend it.
While many states do explore what is called 'nuclear hedging' where they remain non-nuclear but conduct research and development to shorten the potential time of their nuclear breakout (a contemporary example being Iran), South Africa is definitely not a part of this club as their rhetoric and supporting actions simply do not align with this strategy.
Nice article. But playing and learning, thinking and debating about causal loops is Better imho. So I created a loopy clone:
https://nocomplexity.com/causalloopdiagram/
> All I can think is "beef begins to smell after a couple of weeks"

I really don't think that many people would make that connection.
It's a balancing act, the vaccine might have killed her too. Experimental drugs sometimes do that. Presumably she could understand the risks better than any layman.
The Fukushima accident had more to do with the culture in Japan than the industry globally[1]. The government and the regulator were basically in bed with TEPCO.

1. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2017/...
Looking at the coordinates of the runways in the FAA database, they are all perfectly east/west within about 2 feet of deviation N/S. This would round to zero if the calculations were done as lat/long as single precision numbers.
Sandboxing prevents code from getting out of a sandbox.

It doesn't prevent outside code (i.e. your cheat software) getting in.

As long as you control the computer running the sandbox, you can have it do whatever you want.
Arctic Slope Regional Corp Board of Directors - https://www.asrc.com/leadership/

ASRC Federal Subsidiary Leadership -
https://www.asrcfederal.com/about
The fact that I think people are doing something for a given reason does not imply that reason is the only reason that thing is done, that other reasons to do that thing are invalid, or that other things done for the same reason are invalid.

Dollars didn't even come up in my post. I think you read what you were expecting to read rather than what I wrote.
In the marketing world, regional tourism is a dog. Municipalities and politicians dump money into billboards and magazine ads for basically no results, if they even bothered to measure anything half the time.
Note that the Environmental Defense Fund is planning to launch MethaneSAT in 2022 to monitor methane emissions. Data will be open. https://www.edf.org/climate/space-technology-can-cut-climate...
It may also be considered culturally insensitive

Is C# culturally insensitive to deaf programmers?
> 1. Chernobyl: After the disaster in 1986 the anti-nuclear movement gained massive traction. The radioactive cloud spread all the way to West Germany and warnings had to be issued (mushrooms, venison, crops, ...). It was a real turning point, since everyone was made aware of the concerns.

That is true. And also, still today, when in our forests a boar gets killed by a hunter it has to be brought to the administration to meter the radioactivity (due to Cesium 137). A lot of boar gets discarded instead of being eaten because it exceeds the threshold (600 Bq/kg). I don't know what they are doing with it though.
The first F-22 they delivered to japan had serious trouble when it crossed the international date line

Sounds like nobody was hurt & they didn't lose any planes, but there was some period of time where the onboard computers were not good

https://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/f22-squadron-shot-down-...

Yet another reason to exercise low-level math functions with a wide range of inputs -- maybe not on every run, but at least in pre-release integration tests

There are only 4 billion floats

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/theres-only-fou...
But the climate activists strongly oppose nuclear every chance they get.
What's really galling is not the apologetics for spreading genocide and hate, but the venue in which the editorial was published. Teenagers are having their reality distorted by Facebook.
> and is not part of the original headline...

These days, how can we even know?
Nice idea!

I assume you've noticed the injected js and other fun things people are sharing?
Also, many older production machines don't have tmux, so nesting a screen session happens. This is starting to not be a thing, but it was a thing for the trailing 10 years.
You make the common mistake of assuming one can scientifically prove a given nuclear plant is safe like one can prove that the square root of 2 is irrational or that carbon emissions cause warming. That is not the case and it boggles my mind how many people think it is.

If you know so sure what causes these accidents, then you can predict what plant(s) will have them next. Can you? Can anyone? Saying after the fact: it can easily be explained why that happened... that isn't science.
Agree, though the investigators also pointed to the lack of a clear display of the airspeed inconsistencies even though the computers had identified them. This sounds more like a UX problem rather than a bug, but still the software issue in the edge case.
Never thought that could be one of the additional benefits for the get paid to write program. Very happy to hear that it worked out so much for you!
Are you aware of the extraordinary good deal on huge kintex (K420T) nic-like dev boards on aliexpress?

There are boards with 4 sfp+, ones with 2 sfp+ and 2 QSFP+, and even one with 4 QSFP28 (and UltraScale+ XCVU9P)...

https://www.aliexpress.com/store/group/FPGA-DEV/620372_25030...

they sound like great targets for your work...
If we're fantasizing about eliminating some mode of transport, my vote is for cars. Most of my initial parent comment's concerns would go away if there weren't any cars, and pedestrians would be safer on crosswalks too.

In reality, though, we all have to get along. And those concerns are addressed by cyclists not riding at breakneck speed and going blindly around corners. I don't see either of those behaviors very often in my area.
Happy 4 Year Anniversary to Hacker Noon
One can hope. Still, that's at least four years out still, and I have my doubts he'll launch on time.
There are at least three other meanings of the word "beef."

Four, now that it's a programming language.
>How does GP know that everything is actually being provided unmodified, without any backdoors?

They don't need to. That is precisely the point. The entire software stack is open source and reproducible (except a few KBs of Intel ME). As a press release, the linked post is brief. If you wish to read more on the technical aspects, here are all the constituent projects:

https://coreboot.org/

https://github.com/osresearch/heads/

https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner

https://github.com/nitrokey

A good talk if you prefer video: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8314-bootstraping_a_slightly_mor...
I meant that short term gains tax applies post-vesting. I'll try to make that clearer. Of course, you're right in that selling immediately incurs no additional tax, as you'd be paying short term gains tax on essentially $0.
According to this [1] it's probably tidally locked, which means that despite being in the goldilocks zone, the environment is likely problematic for life.

[1] https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-found-a-tatooine-like-plan...
Good on you for attempting to solve this problem.

This part of your comment is absolutely key and worth repeating:
"My readers told me time and time again that they wanted to be connected to someone who would pay for the idea. That is the real challenge"
I write notes to solidify the idea in memory. Placing the idea in a real space helps me relate the ideas spatially. If I can remember one thing on a page, I can usually remember the rest of the page.
How is switch to emoji input -> press search box -> start typing apple -> press apple symbol and so on “just the same” as app<CR>?
Analysis of Bitcoin's Lightning Network
If we want to be safer, then we need to blend sensors.

We do this as humans. We use our ears for sound and inertial detection.

Lidar, Radar, colour and near infrared optical all have a place in autonomous driving.

I dont think we are really anywhere near optical working reliably as a single source. I am immediately suspicious of anyone who suggests otherwise, because they either believe to much in the state of AI, or haven't thought enough about life critical systems to be let near anything autonomous. Worse still, they may be out to make a quick buck.

The thing that lidar has is speed and accuracy. 100hz update rates, and 1/100th second latency is not unthinkable. With optical systems you're lucky to get 25hz with sub 100ms latency. Thats just for depth estimation using semantics, you still need to feed it into your driving model.

Lidar works way better at night, it works a tonne better with unknown objects. However, like optical its shit in rain/snow. Hence why decent resolution radar will be needed as well.
Never thought I'd see natural gas shills on HN.
This is must read only for GC theory enthusiasts. Java GC is advanced and better performing but that is adjusted by Java program's heavy garbage generation. So overall gain by advanced GC is little if any in Java.
You can a) take them out whenever you want, nobody's "expecting" you to keep them in all the time, and b) press a hardware button which toggles noise cancellation instantly, if someone wants to talk to you.

It's a great feature.
Why would they turn the map upside down? North is still north, even if you're below the equator.
Here in Sweden I have never encountered a single legit IDN domain.
Not all of Big Pharma is in on AIDS treatment. Are there any such restrictions to "eliminate billions of dollars of sales" of a competitor?
s/o to Pad Thai Kitchen on Belmont. I hope they're still kicking.
I took it as "beef" as in "complaint."

Like he had complaints about other languages, and instead of moaning about them on the internet, he went out and made his own language.
Do you think that this is somehow unique to Japan? How close do you think regulators and operators are in the US? Is there any industry that even remotely seems like it has a healthy relationship with its oversight bodies?
My 2021 prediction: And the Chinese already got the specs and should start selling $5 units in a year.
Right, but if you sell immediately on vesting those gains will be ~0, so there's no major tax downside to selling immediately and e.g. buying an index fund instead to diversify.
Rhodium prices soar on 'demand-driven story'
It's not just the computational cost of real-time visual inference, there are some fundamental hurdles to be overcome we've attained truly human level computer vision.

It's hard to imagine a pure vision system ever really matching the performance of a fused sensor system.

Why infer when you can measure?
Something similar but less intrusive happened to me. 10 years ago I was in the early stages of building a price comparison website, still hosted at home. It scraped product prices of several hundreds of online stores. One day I got a letter from the police asking me to come to the police station. I called them asking what this was about, but they said they couldn't tell me on the phone. I said fine, but I won't bother to make the trip if this is not something serious. They then told me I was suspected of fraud.

So I made an appointment and talked to the investigator. He told me someone placed an order at a web shop, then hacked the iDeal transaction, the electronic payment system in the Netherlands. My home IP address showed up in the logging. I asked him what the IP address was and I confirmed it was indeed my IP address. For the investigator, this was a sure sign I was the hacker, because who on earth knows his IP address by heart unless you're a hacker? Yeah, I know, not a very smart move.

I told him why my IP address had shown up: the scraper had visited the store to update prices. And I told him if I was able to hack iDeal transactions I wouldn't have bothered to make a transaction for a few hundred Euro's. In the end it turned out someone had just placed an order, had it delivered, but didn't pay the invoice afterwards.

After a couple of months I received a letter stating I was no longer a suspect, and that seemed the end of end. But not quite: whenever I buy some form of insurance, one of the questions is if I have ever been suspected of fraud. Answer yes and there's a good chance the insurer will refuse. Answer no, and I'm actually committing fraud and the insurance may not be valid. It's also inconvenient as the same question comes up during screening (I'm a security officer now).

Lesson learned: my home router now routes all traffic through Mullvad. Just in case.
"Literally IDK"
snicker I got a kick out of that response.
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Sorry this isn't about the language, but I just wanted to tell you that I was born in '97 and during my childhood my mother used to play Bookworm with me every day to teach me reading and spelling.

She also may or may not have had a serious addiction to Bejeweled.

I had forgotten about that for so long, thanks for the childhood memories.
>we need to cut emissions by 15% annually

Such a Great Leap Forward isn't going to happen and even if it did it wouldn't reduce the rest of the world's emissions.

Geoengineering is likely the only way to cool the earth globally.
But this is exactly the point. Catastrophes like Fukushima are practically always a combination of individual deficiencies in design, process, and operator errors. Designs can be improved, processes adapted, and people trained better, but that will not prevent accidents from happening. This is mostly because human imagination is limited and humans are fallible, and what‘s not covered by the previous two is lack of knowledge & understanding.

Said in other words, if you wait long enough, a catastrophe is inevitable. And history, both old and recent, has told us that the time you‘ll have to wait is much shorter that you‘d think.

I work in aerospace operations and every freakin‘ day things go different than planned and anomalies happen. In „my“ „industry“, we try to prepare for off-nominal situations and that buffers the effects, but you can only do so much and you end up in contingencies very often. You can also easily see when a new player enters the stage as they very quickly (should) learn that you‘ll have to react and adapt your plans very often and tone down any promises …

Long story short, whatever means you put up to prevent catastrophic events, they will never be enough. Then the question of cost arises, which is undoubtedly extremely high for nuclear events, especially in such a densely populated and small country like Germany, and you’ll quickly realise that you probably do not want to take that risk even if probability is very low.

And finally, we have yet to find a working way to handle our nuclear waste for the next 10k-100k years. (I am aware of the options but obviously we are not there yet and it‘s unclear if we ever reach the state of „acceptable solution“ instead of pushing the issue to generations to come.)
> And this is why nuclear power is fundamentally unsafe: the operators have conclusively proven that they just cannot be trusted. Repeatedly.

So let's just keep reliably killing people with coal around the year like we do now...?

The fact is that nuclear power kills the least amount of people per unit of energy produced, with all accidents taken into account. If that's "unsafe" then you cannot consider any electricity production method safe.
> Failed costly experiments.

The battle for finding cancer cures had so many dead ends but it's the worthiness of the cause that keeps you going. The promise of single power plants able to produce an almost endless supply of cheap, clean(ish?) energy still tickles the imagination more than vast swaths of land covered by PV panels or wind turbines.

> Nuclear is simply not cost effective in a democratic society.

Democracy is about picking your aim, not making the target more cost effective. And the more complex the topic, the less qualified regular people are at even guessing if something is cost effective or not. Also absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Just because we failed to make the tech cost effective until now doesn't mean it cannot be and never will be.

You suggest anything that we've failed at for a few decades (even if some attempts are half-hearted) should just be halted because that's proof it cannot be done. Some of our greatest achievements came from people who wouldn't give up. Some are yet to come. Or we can just stop it all because democracy and cost effectiveness.

This is exactly why the move away from nuclear is politically motivated. Not because it's a foregone conclusion that it cannot be solved but rather because a politician will find it easier to convince "the democracy" that spending tens of billions on a stealth democracy dispatcher is more cost effective than spending the same on trying to improve nuclear to the point of eliminating the key downsides.
I found a similar platform to what to are describing once in the past, the main issue was that 100% of the ideas I found were wildly outside the scope of apps I was interested in making. Maybe if I could categorically exclude IOT, iPhone ideas, blockchain, full video games, etc..
And the Pebble couldn't reliably tell me the weather outside, for a whole week.
As far as I know, hjkl was first introduced in games and later used in vim because we don't have to move our hands far away from the keys.

Feel free to correct me If I'm wrong.
Yeah I notice that they are not showing a sample pointcloud.
> I could picture this being used to tack on several more charges...

For sure. There are lots of reason to keep this in the realm of "mischievous fantasy".
I’m nearsighted and feel offended by “see sharp”! /s
They got Idaho wrong. Hell's Canyon is cool and all, and has some really unique geological attributes, but it doesn't hold a candle to the Sawtooths.
> starting to cause near zero-carbon nuclear plants to close early

No, it’s shitty politics around nuclear that are causing them to close early. Nuclear costs are so high because each plant is a bespoke monster tied up in regulatory tape, NIMBYism, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear_movement_in_Calif...

These nut jobs will ensure nuclear plants keep getting closed under any excuse, regardless of energy prices.
Link without paywall: http://archive.is/qDalg
You _do_ realize that if you say something with a chart instead of with text it does not become more valid, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand#Criticism

If you like your charts and economic formalisms, and believe in "market prices", perhaps you should take the time to read the Candide-like "Production of commodities by means of commodities" by Piero Sraffa.