skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But we have no control over these C extensions. And there's a huge corpus of existing C extensions that need to keep working. 500 million lines of C and C++, in fact, even for just the publicly available code.

And by the way - there isn't really any proper interface at all! There's just basically the whole internals of the C Ruby implementation exposed to C extension authors. There's no abstraction with handles and things like that.

There was an effort at one point to get C extension authors to use the FFI instead, and a JNI-style API to permit a moving garbage collector was proposed, but these approaches weren't successful in gaining any momentum.

All in all... that's why we don't just do it the JavaScriptCore way. We have different constraints to yours.
Title misleading. Should be “Feds seize Alan Turing’s stolen doctorate, knighthood medal after being offered to CU Boulder”.

I had no idea they were stolen in the first place
A lot of times spliting the groups make sense resource-wise.
Wow. $37,775 is an insanely low valuation - I wonder who came up with that.

If the Feds are reading this thread and are looking for a buyer, please send me a message ;)
Theoretically I think it could actually extend the life of books, assuming a clean fresh edge is less likely to propagate tears than a rough battered edge which might have stress-concentrating nicks. Then again, pages tearing doesn't really seem like a particularly common failure mode for books.
I don't think the FreeBSD team has the resources to maintain multiple editions for personal and server use, nor do I think it really fits their ethos. Unless you are trying to immerse yourself in it, I would avoid FreeBSD on your personal computer and use it for what it is, one of the best designed server operating systems in the world.
It's a comment on a forum, not a PhD thesis.

There are other ways to attend gatherings of people now. You and I are attending one of them right this minute: a forum on the internet.

For my purposes, talking with people on HN is generally superior to most meatspace options.

I have a compromised immune system. No one is going to cough on me on HN.

I'm a woman. This is an overwhelmingly male space. No one here can physically assault me the way they could in meatspace.

I can talk to people all over the world who have taken an intense and serious interest in a variety of subjects, so I can get rich discussion on a variety of topics. This won't happen in most meatspace environments.

In meatspace, it ends up being a great deal more important for people to have a long list of thibgs in common. Smokers tend to congregate together because strict non smokers don't even like being around them. Sexual orientation ends up being a thornier issue, especially in a small community where you are trying to choose a future mate from a small dating pool.

Religion presumably spread because it worked well for that time, or at least was the least worst solution. We have other options now for connecting with people. Those options are incredibly important to how the world works currently and people have flocked to them.

It's how you can argue the point with me at all.
I agree with you that s-expr is a more powerful syntax (more extensible with less rules), but the social aspect of the syntax is just as important since programming languages target humans, which are just not rational beings. Over the decades many languages "won" against the Lisp family, including a much less mature Python, partially for aesthetic reasons. Even Math could have used a full prefix syntax and have less rules (no need to deal with operator precedence) but people still kept the infix syntax. And Julia, as a math and science focused language, having a syntax that better emulates the tool it covers is objectively a positive point.

And secondly, Lisp programmers are also human, and more power means more responsibility. When you have a language to create any language, people are tempted to do it, but a language is also a social construct, not just technical (a language only has value if many people talk it, which means documentation, community, support...), and making it so easy to make your own that you end up ignoring that aspect is the Lisp Curse. Modern languages actually see value in limiting the power, by either removing it completely (like Go), or hiding it/making deviations explicit (like Julia's surface syntax and macro identifier '@' which alerts the user that he is deviating from the "first class" language that everyone is supposed to know).
You can buy it by the barrel. Good chance they did use real shot at some point.
Major interest spike: nerd-trigger, category "hard problems whose solution exceeds what I have to work with".

Will investigate. Thanks a lot!
This isn't a library, it's a sort-of-a-modification of C, it seems.

Well, for a non-C language with high-level abstractions that lets me use C code relatively seamlessly - I'm content with C++. Many complain about its complexity, but you can actually avoid a lot of that complexity in _your_ code using facilities with complex implementation but relatively easy use.
FreeBSD was the first Unix I ever worked on professionally.

I agree, it's amazing, and I love admining it.

The only reason reddit wasn't on BSD was because of lack of package support and then when we moved to AWS, lack of BSD support in AWS. Although that's since been fixed, thanks in large part to CPercival, creator of TarSnap, yay!

The way it is set up just makes so much more sense to me, and tweaking the kernel is just so much easier.

Also the focus on stability over supporting the latest technologies is a big plus for business servers.
Couldn’t Hogan have funded his lawsuit with whatever the final Gawker offer was Thiel rejected?
I'm hardly the official judge of these things, but I would say it depends on how novel of an approach AlphaFold is to the problem. If it's a more efficient tool for doing the same things as before, I would put it towards the #1 end of the spectrum, unless it has also improved our basic understanding of folding or approaches to exploring the solution space of folded proteins, which would shift it towards #2.

Personally I don't know enough about AlphaFold or the problems of protein folding to be remotely confident in my judgment on it
Uhm... I don't follow.

Sounds like a lot of yada yada yada... corporations are evil... yada yada... Google is evil... yada yada... Mozilla is evil... yada yada... ChromeOS... And on and on.

And it seems that when corporations take BSD and build their own distro that's cool - somehow, because BSD is "developed by open source enthusiasts", but when the same happens with Linux it is somehow hijacked.

Similarly when corporations contribute to BSD that somehow leads to different results compared to contributing to Linux.

Perhaps the author hasn't heard of Debian?

And then the pointless detour into Mozilla's Firefox. Perhaps BSD has a magic browser that's not Firefox (or Chrome, though I am not at all a fan of Chrome)?

For the record I have used both BSD (FreeBSD specifically) and Linux (many distributions over the years, currently I like Fedora). Both have their advantages and disadvantages.

I do agree with some of the Author's points, actually, but that article is just sensationalist and loses a lot of weight because of that.
Philly Restaurants Revolt over Unauthorized Food Delivery “Partnerships”
Well, the simple answer is that it is a cultural work. It is literature, not a documentation.
Where are you from? Really curious. You seem like a relatable person, although I've not accomplished nearly as much as you at age of 16(now I'm 23). But I became a NEET at a similar age and then bounced from place to place, working shitty ass jobs while failing to do anything to accomplish my goals. I think I too, have tired from being forced to give up one dream/goal after another due to both uncontrollable life circumstances and my own weaknesses. I'm also in a similar situation regarding family and lack of real friends to rely on. I probably can't help that much significantly, but I can offer you an ear and acknowledgement that you are not alone in your suffering. You can temporarily contact me at @siedes on Telegram or orangatelier@disroot.org if you don't have a phone number for the former.
But Turing didn't have a knighthood.
The talk by Ryan Dahl that introduced Deno to the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3BM9TB-8yA
Not only that, but also: "He died by poisoning in 1954."

No account of the motive of his poisoning, or his prosecution. When activists protest against erasure, this is what they're talking about.
Epic Tells Customers It Will Stop Google Cloud Integrations
Gulneetchadha Speaks on LinkedIn
Caplan is definitely not the only economist who holds this view. Most place the signaling/human capital split around 50/50: https://www.econlib.org/archives/2011/11/kauffman_econ_b.htm...
So, I adore the idea of FreeBSD. Anyone had much luck running it as a mostly exclusive VM on top of a more standard desktop OS as the hypervisor? Hyper-V, Xhyve, etc.
Good article, resonated with me.

I think the problem is people care both too much about other people’s opinions and also are too forceful pushing their opinions at other people.

I think it was the stoic philosopher Epictetus who said people love themselves more than other people but value other people’s opinions about themselves more than they value their own opinions about themselves. Don’t worry so much about what other people think and say.
You're probably talking about Oliver Flaskämper, right? We're renting an office in his coworking space!
> I guess I was wondering where math fit in this picture for AI research.

Well you can't do #1 or #2 without having a level of maths proficiency that most college grads do not have.

FWIW, I don't understand the difference between #1 and #2 above. Most academic/industrial research is incremental (i.e. #1), and a tiiiiny % will have any impact in the way something like XGBoost would (the example he gave in another comment). That doesn't mean that the non-impactful research isn't 'basic'. You could alternatively just call #2 "groundbreaking research" and #1 "non groundbreaking research, but you need mathematics knowledge for both imo.
> IQ is one of the best understood and well studied metrics in human behavior

Not the OP and I don't have any studies at hand, but what I think he/she meant to say was that IQ tests only validate the worldview of said "proctors", which in our case happen to be proctors belonging to a technological society. We don't know if said IQ tests would hold any value in a hunter-gatherer society or in a society based on different things compared to the things that are seen as "smart" by our said technological society (my instinct is that they won't, and as such I agree with OP that IQ tests only serve to validate a certain state of things).

Later edit: Come to think of it the request itself of "show me the studies" represents a point of view specific to a certain "world" (that technological society I mentioned), your request would be null in a society "built" on different epistemic stuff (for example in Roman times one might have asked "show me if this is true based on how that crow flies" [1] etc)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augury
Disassembling Link’s Awakening
Some backup software gets the modification time of the file, does the copy, then checks the modification time again. If it changed then it recopies the file. If it exceeds some number of attempts it gives up and reports an error for the file.
lol ur a retard
I made the diagram to help me remember the concepts and how they relate to each other, and as my title suggests, it also illustrates the cognitive load imposed by having to remember the pieces I have to add/change whenever I make changes to the state machinery, not so much how state change flows through the various pieces.

I appreciate the effort to reduce the verbosity, but so far I've been served well with react context and useState. I can only hope that my failure to understand the necessity for all the various named concepts comes down to insufficient critical mass of the complexity of my webapp.
This caused me to look it up. I was way off! https://io9.gizmodo.com/theres-a-scientific-reason-why-a-pin...

This makes me a bit skeptical that the type of salt matters much. Perhaps it's simply easier to get the dosage right with Kosher salt?
I personally found this article to be very interesting. I don't know much about AI, but I was fascinated by the discussion of peer to peer educational system. I believe that they will become more prevalent as student loan payments cause debt to so much of our population in order to get an education .
Tried. They refused to reverse it since Uber actually delivered both orders. Apparently there's no dispute code they can put through to MasterCard for this (or at least they're not willing to find one).

I pointed out that by that logic if a vendor I'd done business with in the past like Amazon were, at this point, to simply charge me for and ship me a thousand books of their own volition as long as they actually delivered them they're telling me there's no recourse. They stand by it.
‘In 1900, 30 percent of all deaths in the United States occurred in children less than 5 years of age compared to just 1.4 percent in 1999 [...] Infant mortality dropped from approximately 100 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1915 (the first year for which data to calculate an infant mortality rate were available) to 29.2 deaths per 1,000 births in 1950 and 7.1 per 1,000 in 1999”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK220806/
Considering the general lack of attention to detail, I would take everything in the article with a grain of salt. Unless you have some particular stake in this and have real on the ground details, it's probably best to not make such comments as "pretty nutty". These are people's lives you're idly commenting on.
You can use a manager that stores an encrypted database locally and prints it out for backup.

Is this generally considered to be not viable?
Tried. Since they actually delivered both orders it's not a "double charge" and according to my bank MasterCard's dispute process has no code to allow them to charge this back.
Yeah I don't think it would be easy. I'm not in a data science role, but I do hire for software engineers. And if someone came to me with "Hey I'm trying to be a software engineer. I finished this boot camp 4 months ago, and since then have built these really cool projects. Could I work for you as an intern for the next 6 months to break into the field?" I'd totally say yes.
Let it flow: how flowing water can appear to be completely frozen
I have a decent understanding of the approach and would vote for #1. I’d say almost all applications of ML in physical sciences are #1. In contrast applying methods of statistical physics to understand how deep learning (as in DNN+SDG) works at all is a good example of #2.
This isn't a biography of Turing doing that. It doesn't seem particularly relevant for an article about some documents.
Yep, this is why I talk about the virtuous feedback loop between these two modes. Empirical methods feed theory which feeds empirical methods ad infinitum.

In the field of ML, a concrete example might be the tool Xgboost (#1) and the original work that led to and developed Gradient Boosting itself (#2), of which Xgboost is an implementation, and probably one that has helped refine the underlying theory as well.

ML has lots of examples where the researcher(s) for #2 were also doing #1. A famous paper in NLP comes to mind as an excellent example of this overlap (PDF: https://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b92b02053/print/good-turing-smo...)
Worse, it's my free time that I value far more than my work time.
Two things: you don't send Smiths into war, you need them at home forging weapons so they probably survived longer. And there are many types of Smith - blacksmiths, silversmiths, goldsmiths, etc...
Jack Balkin makes a compelling case that in this age of Surveillance Capitalism, the tradeoffs between free speech and privacy are complex.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3253939

If you have the time, the first audio of his 2018 lecture is a treat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4daIk8PCPIc&feature=emb_logo
No, the point was that they were detective stories about robot bugs. People who don't understand why people like "sitting in front of screens all day" should read that book to get a sense of how exactly looking at a core dump could be fun.
iOS image crop tool can “snap”
I never go out of my way to look for their articles, but their shtick is mildly amusing and they seem like an institution. As long as they are at least a bit different from the rest of the tech press, something would be lost if they went away.
With all potential advantages of semantic technologies, I'm wondering about whether their adoption is slowed down by performance issues of inference engines (reasoners) on very large (> 100B of nodes) datasets (e.g., AWS has decided to exclude semantic inference functionality from their Neptune graph database, citing performance issues - though relevant product leads have expressed interest in including inference, based on use cases etc.). Are there any recent achievements (preferably, open source) on the front of dramatically speeding up relevant engines?
IU introduces Big Red 200 supercomputer
You are correct about the unusual rounding to the nearest 10 cents.

But Benford's law extends to less significant digits, just decreasingly so. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law#Generalization... That's why the link says "leading digits", not "most significant digit".
Watch the talk linked above. He goes into a lot of the reasons. Security is definitely a big one. Other things seem to be addressing problems that originated from poorly informed decisions early in development that the node.js community has had to deal with ever since (require() based module resolution, npm, etc...).
What would it take for a valid program to depend on this behavior?

How weird would it look? How likely is it to arise in practice?

I'm a believer in standards in general, but there's a time and place to move beyond them too.
“She was actually surprised how common an occurrence a miscarriage is”

Answer: very†. But it often isn’t talked about.

And, I strongly agree, not talking about it is very Bad indeed.

Ironically, I think developed nations’ success in all but eliminating premature deaths from once-ubiquitous infectious diseases has left recent generations without the highly-practised coping skills, social support systems, and painfully resigned stoicism that helped get our great-great-grandparents through the horrible inevitable process of burying half their kids before the poor little bleeders could even make it to adulthood.

We’re all now such strangers to death we’re shit-scared by even the thought of talking about it, never mind directly facing up to it ourselves.

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† Even assuming the hosting part works perfectly, the whole DNA splicing and replication process is always an absolute crapshoot‡.

‡ And, to be fair, if it weren’t for all those accidental copy errors none of us would be here now to argue the issue, for life on Earth would never have advanced beyond the single cell. So yay for an imperfect process, but—bloody hell—is it one harsh SOB.
Curious what kind of phone do you have? Its not very common for Materialistic to crash on me. It does happen but not that often.
Undoubtedly, some of what this article describes, routinely takes place on twitter. However, I find that something else takes place on twitter much more, or at least as frequently. It goes something like this:

1) Something somewhere happens.

2) A person who may be famous or well know for some accomplishments, perhaps even super impressive accomplishments in a particular field of business or creative endevours, decides to comment on 1) on Twitter

3) Note that this person usually has no particular expertise or knowledge in the area of 1) despite having overall success and fame and lots of followers

4) It turns out that because of 3) their opinion expressed in 250 characters often ( not always ) is either somewhat silly, potentially offensive to some, outright dumb/misinformed or simply lacks sufficient nuance.

5) because of 4) lots of "mooks" and "knights" come out of the woodwork and attack this famous person, along with all kinds of legitimate critics

6) said person feels under attack and/or cancelled and bemoans the state of Twitter, the world and the internet

Now, it may be unfortunate that Twitter mobs attack these people simply for their opinions. But if you opine on something you have no expertise in to a very large audience in public, then I think you should grow thicker skin and prepare to also weather some criticism just on the off chance you actually say something dumb.

It's as if only these people, with their declarations of their opinions have the right to say something controversial, but nobody else has any right to respond to that controversial thought with any criticism or disagreement.
I'm not sure the ricoh 5A22 has large enough immediates for it, but there is a easy way to avoid a jump over a small amount of dead memory (example in x86):

430B 3D -- -- -- -- cmp eax dead32 # only affects flags
4310 xx dowhatever

See, eg: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/revisit.ht... , where it's used to skip over a mandatory header field.
Untrue. It works better than most people give it credit for.

I run quite a lot of stuff on OpenBSD and it works for the most part fine. Sure if you are running Netflix or something at mega scale it probably won't be any good, but it works quite well for a lot of hosting scenarios.

I can make a pretty decent desktop OS as well.
You should not be taking aspirin for headaches and such. It has worse side-effects than alternatives (thinning the blood, hard on stomach lining, children should not take it, can cause Reye's syndrome, etc).
A lute? My sources tell me that "Nguyen" means "origin". Who to believe?
I am a Smalltalk enthusiast who worked with Cincom ST, Dolphin ST (when it was still a thing), Squeak, Amber, and Pharo. I would be happy to use Pharo. It is so beautiful. It is full-featured. It would be a joy to work with... but I can’t, because I see the pixels.

Pharo’s rendering layer is complicated, to say the least. I made a few approaches in attempting to figure out how it works and perhaps starting adapting it to hidpi screens... but it is a really complicated endeavor. I am not demanding anything from Pharo developers, I am just saying it is a pity I can’t use this beautiful, innovative Smalltalk system. Pixelated UI among the smooth lines of other apps make it unusable for me, and I am not smart enough to fix it.
May I offer you two suggestions? There are other interesting religions that don’t care about sexual orientation so no need to give up on having a spiritual community. Also, you can find local groups on meetup.com for tech, blockchain, art, etc. to augment family ties that you get (for instance) by always calling at least one family member each day.

Really, nothing is as important as being with friends and family.
Here it is:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/653028/981408
> e.g. it will automatically reshuffle your structs to get rid of excess padding

This is just more complexity as well. It introduces surprising behavior that can burn you when creating interfaces or serializing and forces the developer to know that the compiler will be doing such magic.
This tale reminded me of the Totenberg Stradivarius (also known as the Ames Stradivarius), stolen in the early 80s in Cambridge Mass. and recovered after the thief, a former conservatory student, died decades later and his wife (unaware of the provenance) tried to have it appraised (https://stringsmagazine.com/a-new-chapter-begins-in-the-tumu...). The thief kept it hidden at first, but in the 1990s and 2000s was apparently performing with it in public.