skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That you can program GPUs in a C/C++-like language does not entail that C/C++ is a natural form of expression for that architecture.

It's not a matter of what is/isn't a "natural form of expression." The point of C/C++ is to be high-level enough for humans to build their own abstractions over hardware. (sounds like an OS, right?) The success of the design of C/C++ is in that the creators had no knowledge of modern GPUs, yet GPUs can efficiently execute them with a little care from developers. We use other abstractions (e.g. SciPy on Tensorflow) because they are more appropriate to solve our problems, but they are built on C.

>Lisp machines and tagged hardware architectures do make such a distinction though, and so more naturally fit. With such distinctions, you could even have a hardware GC.

And why would that not be backwards-compatible with legacy C?

Particularly, I am rejecting the idea that C is somehow stunting hardware development - I see no evidence of this fact. I am also skeptical about the claim (although I will not reject it outright) that there is a language substantially better fit compared to C for low-level programming (e.g. embedded, kernel).
Sadly, it is experiential, both personal and observed in environment. Business people of today are great at monologues. Of course, management experience is different, and would hide the fact of hitting the wall as success.
I used org-mode for note-taking in its default configuration for about 10 years before I started customizing it. I found it quite useful. I suspect its utility without customization may vary from use-case to use-case, or perhaps from person to person.

Lately I just use a big Markdown file. That's been pretty nice, but I haven't been at it long enough to be able to endorse it strongly.
Took several minutes even for the frontend to load for me. Then yeah, the backend eventually returned an error. I guess we'll never know what lyrics don't exist. :)
Why I still use Medium (2019)
So... skimming this post and its successors, I didn't see any actual examples of generated vector code, especially not examples that GCC can't do although they are supposedly "easy". And no benchmarks. Did I miss anything or did this project really die before it got to vectorization (or anything more interesting than constant folding)?
I bet they’d do it for $375M!
Absolutely.

https://www.zentao.pm/share/treeswingpm-97.html captures the reality very, very well.
Same here. I don't love that they aren't going to support Mercurial anymore. But deleting all our existing projects without providing a path for us to migrate or archive? I can't trust them anymore.
The charts in the article literally show the enterprise version scales well where the "Pro" version doesn't. I'd suggest that this is largely because 64 threads is the point at which you should be moving from "Pro" to "Enterprise" Windows. Frankly, I don't think this is unreasonable, you can go to several computer vendors websites and what they consider high end can be as few as 6 cores.
I managed to confuse it though. I think the meter's thrown off kilter too by this one.

Topic: Defenestration
Genre: Pop
Lyric Mood: Happy

Verse 1

Lock him up or defenestration the key away

Those shackles are holding me

Defenestration away the keys to my heart

Defenestration away the keys to my heart

Pre-Chorus

I can feel you run up inside, did I defenestration your heart
right over the edge?

I erase all of my faults, I think of only you

Chorus

Defenestration my check on your ground

Baby, walk on me

Defenestration your hands up if you get what you come for

Defenestration your hands up if you the number one guy

Verse 2

Defenestration a glitter umbrella in the ring

Flick a fly and a shake a hand

Who am I to defenestration that away?

Should be able to stand your ground

Pre-Chorus

Defenestration it up and show you I still got some

I see you, I roll another one

Chorus

Defenestration my check on your ground

Baby, walk on me

Defenestration your hands up if you get what you come for

Defenestration your hands up if you the number one guy

Bridge

Defenestration us a line and pull the plug

Bring your silence loud and hold it down

Chorus

Defenestration my check on your ground

Baby, walk on me

Defenestration your hands up if you get what you come for

Defenestration your hands up if you the number one guy
Are you an immigrant to Sweden? If not, this is your impression of how it is, not how it might actually be.
Zoning proponents are like anti-vaxxers and climate changer deniers.

Pure hyperbole. Unless you literally believe that there should be no proscriptions against me building, for example, a major trash incineration facility on a plot of land in the middle of your quiet residential neighborhood -- just because I "own" it -- then congratulations, you're a zoning advocate.

Everyone acknowledges the need for some form of zoning (or zoning-equivalent) legislation. It's just how cities work.
I can't seem to find a reliable source for this quote though. Anyone know of one?
Then the viewpoints you are forcing becomes whether the border is 'disputed' which is not much better and it makes your map a mess.
A number of years ago I had all of my repos on bitbucket, but recently I’ve pulled everything as their peering can impact large git pulls and were unreliable. The transition with the account changeover was enough to make me jump ship to github completely.
What is the challenge setting up CORS on CloudFront?
Trust and the Competition Delusion
F. D. C. Willard
The only part that matters is the penetration test bit. And it's out of your control as a rank-and-file engineer.

Those who don't accept this are like doctors who don't accept that washing their hands is the important part, not the care and emotional sensitivity that goes into treating a patient.
> we find a replica that is as up to date as the user's saved LSN

The article doesn't explain how they know the current LSN of each replica?
Facebook serves many important roles especially with the groups feature. I know many reddit/tech headasses will jerk off to the fact they abhor facebook but facebook is integral to many local communities helping facilitate an online flea market of sorts and almost being the most important network for students (used textbooks, study groups, entrepreneurship etc.)

dont like it but its much more useful than the local news website
If you build such a capability on purpose you don’t have to hope you’ll be able to adapt a nebulous “positive externality” of some other system.
I'm still not sure why we don't regulate companies like facebook like we did the rail industry. Force facebook and other social media companies to develop an open API and standard and guarantee interoparibility, akin to other federalized networks that already exist.

This takes the biggest anti-competitive aspect of facebook out, the network and walled garden effect they have due to their sheer size.

It will mean that companies like Signal have much greater chance to compete with whatsapp, it will reward whoever provides the best service to their users, and it is relatively light and uncomplicated regulation.
Submit that to them then?
If you enjoy solving small business problems with SaaS and would consider living in San Antonio, TX -- email me bret@porthcawlholdings.com. We're a holding company that operates / starts new B2B SaaS solving SMB problems. Always in need of folks who can get stuff done.

P.S. We believe it's a marathon, not a sprint. Salaries are market rate, benefits excellent (on par with large tech, i.e. 6% $1/$1 401k match, etc.).

P.P.S. While message is directly to OP, also open to anyone else reading. More background in my profile bio here.
I think you may have it backwards. Domino's was well known for their 30-minute guarantee when Snow Crash was written in 1992. Indeed, Domino's was in the midst of a lawsuit regarding it while the book was being written; it resulted in a $78 million verdict against Domino's. [0]

I give Stephenson credit for taking that guarantee to its logical extreme. And while I love the book, it's funny how basically none of the predictions in it came true. No computers that project images on eyeballs, no 'poon guns, no losers walking around scanning retinas with backpack-mounted lasers, and book features working payphone booths!

0. https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/22/business/domino-s-ends-fa...
Not necessarily. One datapoint: Amazon pays fulfilment workers $15/hour in the US, but €11/hour (~$12) in Germany
> get everyone to reach a consensus about the real world that we all live in.

I think that’s the point. This is impossible. The only way the entire world agrees on every single boundary is, barring world peace another way, a single world government.

That’s simply not the world we live in or do business in.

Also, this isn’t, shall we say, dressing up the pig. It’s two, potentially legitimate, competing claims to the same piece of ground. There is, in many cases, not a single “this is the valid claim.” And perhaps the fact we’re fighting over how the lines are drawn is an indication things are better than they used to be? (Because those competitors aren’t all at war over those lines and we aren’t drawing them all as war zones.)
Thanks for links. The commenters on privacytools sites were insightful but sounds like they missed the key piece of information:

https://wire.com/en/blog/wire_business_update/

> In connection with the financing, our holding company moved from Luxembourg to the U.S., as we believe this will be helpful in future fundraising necessary to support our strong growth. Notwithstanding the foregoing, our current and future customers are licensed and serviced from Wire Switzerland, our software development team remains in Berlin, Germany, and our hosting is European-based. Our enterprise customers can deploy their own instance of Wire in their own data center.

If data, technology and control is subsidiary then Wire, as technology, data and its user still fall under Swiss law.

Holding company =!= all of its business is based in that country.

That said, I appreciate the murky approach to communicating this fact.
That's a pretty cold way of looking at it. I've certainly never worked anywhere where the death of a coworker would be as inconsequential as you make it sound.
Playing childish tricks like this on your coworkers is not likely to get you any respect from your coworkers. It may even get you fired if you mess with the wrong coworker and they take it to HR. (Try explaining to the folks at HR how this is not "installing malware on a company machine".)

Also: I don't think that anyone who trusts this web site enough to run a random shell script from it on someone's machine should be the one teaching their coworkers about security.
3 comments in support of what I said and -1 total votes, this website is broken.

Anyways whatever Sweden's PR people are getting paid, it's not enough.
Right — any batch professing program can be thought of as a pure function of its inputs, but internally it is likely to be constructed as a series of smaller programs. The constants of a lower-level program are the mutable and cached state of the higher level program, frozen for the duration of execution. And the subprograms may themselves instantiate and operate over locally-scoped mutable state.

It’s a good model, and I think gets a lot of things right. But there are definitely nuances.
Zuckerberg’s Early Diary Plays a Starring Role in New Facebook Opus
An open source analogue (no inputs though, purely random): https://billionsongs.azurewebsites.net/

Write-up with links to source: https://habr.com/post/453232/
I stopped in 8th grade.
China is a large scale command economy[1] with a market driven middle tier. Far as I can tell this is the organization that works well. The neoliberal/fresh water economic pipe dream doesn't. The problem with the latter is it lack top level coherence and degenerates into looting[2].

[1] State supported heavy industry, export sector, and large public works projects.

[2] Russia after shock treatment is economically worse off than under communism. Roll that over.
Pine64 February update: PinePhone, PineTab, Pinebook, new products and delays
This thread once again proving that no one defines their acronyms on first use. The twitter thread reads like gibberish. What is bZx, who is dydx, what is a WBTC, what does "half~ half" mean, what is uniswap? is this $350k? or is it 350K cryptocoin equivalents?

Oh and btw, the title says -$350k, but the thread says ~$350k. But what's 700 thousand dollars between friends.
I'll admit, I just don't think the way we've been regulating social media has been bad. I think perceiving it as a source of news or truth instead of just a place where people talk to each other is weird. I understand that people don't like what some social media sites have become, but outside of removing content that isn't protected by the first amendment, I really don't see why we would want to create regulations surrounding it.
Imagine if google didn't do this... How much outrage would there be when google made a decision over where to draw the border?

I can't think of any circumstance where i want a multinational corporation to be making decisions about where disputed borders are drawn.
You are complaining about iTunes prices, that's unrelated to Apple TV+.

Apple TV+ costs a flat fee for unlimited access to (for now very limited) collection of original content. Surely they plan to launch more shows.
If you're a relic then I'm one too.

The trends I blame are 1) computing power has become so crazy cheap these days that nobody cares about overengineering or even doing engineering at all, 2) lower quality of software developers; back in the day, it took deep interest (since software wasn't as lucrative a job) and considerable skill (since computers were very limited) to enter the software industry and succeed, and 3) fetishization of the latest software development fads. These trends are too large to successfully be bucked but, hey, there are worse places to be than being paid well to watch other people flush their own money down the drain.
I think the name “cached value” is a red herring, as far as the mindset being described is considered. “Derived value” might be closer to the mark; the values are pure functions of other things, and to change the derived value you must change the things it depends on. There need not be any mention of storing that derived value in a cache and somehow invalidating it.
By "you” I think he means most swedes. I don’t know anything about the Stockholm rent market, are rents cost accessible to the average person or is a top-teir-income zone?
I don't think that's true. The private renters also have to abide to the regulated market prices, so you cannot buy your way to a rental apartment. Not unless the renter is breaking the law, that is.

I admit that I pulled the 20 years stats out of a hat. I quickly looked for some stats, and this page suggests around 10 years average for the private market, and 13 years for the communal: https://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/sa-lange-maste-du-koa...
What to Expect from Blockchain Industry in 2020: A Researchers’ Take
In this poster's classification, "basic" Forth (the data manipulation part without parsing words) to me seems to be "procedure" + "cell (state)", i.e., "Imperative programming". This classification is along general semantic lines, not "what syntax do you use to access values". In concatenative languages you use a stack implicitly while in C you use variable names and nested expressions, but this more of a "syntactic" issue than what the poster is concerned with, namely things like "does the language have native closures" which Forth, like C, does not.

Parsing words add a huge amount of metaprogramming power, but this classification doesn't deal with any kind of metaprogramming. That's not a dimension that is included here, and even if it were, it would be debatable if it's that different in Forth from Lisp macros, once you look past syntactic concerns as above. But I could very well be wrong here, I'm not an expert on this part.
Impact is spread over time and multiple vectors. So now you have three problems in addition to getting working code the door - prioritising proposed features based on estimates of value, finding accurate metrics for assessing value after release, and mapping value changes over time.

The nice thing about feature-driven-development is that it avoids the hard work of having to understand what you're actually doing.

You can make the hamster wheel spin really fast and persuade yourself you're really going places.

Until the wheel falls off.
Intel's 10th-gen processors haven't been announced, but they are for sale
I have enough MRR to cover about 50% of living costs. But I had once put enough of a financial buffer and I thought I could just work full-time on my projects for a few months and make it grow fast enough, so I can fully live off of them. It didn't work out as I planned, the growth wasn't fast enough. Some things just take time. Branding takes time. SEO takes time.

So now I work as a freelancer 3-4 days a week and I work on my own projects the other 1-2 days (and sometimes in the evenings).

I have 2 students who handle 95% of customer support and research and data entry, so I can focus on developing features.

My freelance projects give me financial stability and also a daily routine, plus I often get to learn new stuff and also just some time distance from my own project, so sometimes that gives you a clearer perspective. If I'm constantly working on my project, I lose focus and sometimes build unnecessary features.
You want to be able to say you use $COOL_TECHNOLOGY, so you use it to move a pizza two feet and do all the actual work the traditional way. It's like AI or blockchain, but for pizza.
It varies by employer. I get 24 days that I pick plus 9 or 10 that the company picks each year. Plus an additional 4-week block (that I pick, but has to be contiguous) every five years.
Once we are done talking about country borders, let's talk about flags.

Red Hat/Fedora "no flags" policy: https://lwn.net/Articles/333623/

Resignation of an important Debian kernel maintainer because a flag of Taiwan is included in a Debian package: https://lwn.net/Articles/86925/ https://lwn.net/Articles/86923/
Trurl would have been proud.

https://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jbuhler/cyberiad.html
JavaScript for Absolute Beginners
Have you considered that perhaps it's not the ad itself but that it just takes a 15-30 seconds of a delay to maybe realize that you're about to waste your time / ease your boredom that maybe keeps you from playing?
Is there a different porting requirement for time64 as compared to the changeover to a 64 bit `long long time_t` in the BSD's? (ref: https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon_2013_time_t/ )
Real men write their own rss readers.
I think both the meter and the soundness/grammatical-correctness would benefit from replacing the Noun defenestration with the verb defenestrate
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5405903
It's worth remembering that Vision Fund's apparent thesis wasn't just to have a many-losers-compensated-by-a-big-winner portfolio like most VC funds, but that they would pick winners by sheer scale of their checks. That should imply a smaller shares of outright failures (if Uber, Wework et al can even be called that, which I'm not sure)
Unfortunately to test said thesis they HAD to raise that much money (maybe half was enough, but then again, if they could raise 100Bn, why not?) and HAD to burn it like they did.
Apparently the result is that scale alone can't bring the kind of outsized returns VCs rely on, even if they do end up creating juggernauts. But to learn that, someone had to try.
I'm personally I the camp of, why the hell can I not know how much stuff costs up front, why can I not tell them no I dont an unnecessary x-ray, and why am I not told cost owed by me until after the procedure only to find out it's just an absurd amount of money

Private insurance blows cause we're all basically required to have it but it's worse than a tax because we barely ever know how much we owe.
Wouldn't it make more sense for the VCs to make 375 bets of $1M each rather than 1 bet of $375M?

Just the other day we heard about the troubles of 23andMe that had $786M in venture funding. Are there any examples of startups that got >$300M in early funding that went on to become a huge success?
If “burning a hole in my pocket” psychology is a struggle for you, a better banking overview screen will not set you free, but YNAB will:

https://www.youneedabudget.com/

(Not affiliated, just a happy customer that finally broke decades of bad financial habits due to this app and its attendant personal finance philosophy.)
You may want to submit a bug report: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting

This will more likely result in the package being removed rather than fixed, but at least someone else won't get false hope.
Parasite paints a nightmarish picture of Korean inequality.America is even worse
How would you write the law such that employees couldn’t take the leave then come back and abuse their employment knowing they were protected from being fired for ‘valid reasons’?
It's really peculiar. It's the nature of venture capital that your moonshots will pay off the dozens of trash companies you invested in, but what happens if some presidential candidate decides his media organisation is going to write an article about every single one of your investment failures? Is this a matter of a media eco-system that doesn't understand a business mdoel sticking an oar in where it doesn't belong?
For beginners. Looking forwards to the javascript for experts so I can get into some of the deep jedi tricks.
This is one of my first submissions, so I wasn't quite sure how to go about it. I edited the title to make it less vague than the actual one, though the "new products" part was covered in greater detail there: https://www.pine64.org/2020/02/03/fosdem-2020-and-hardware-a...

As I write this on my cellphone, which is a slow and tedious experience, it's quite obvious that these devices are currently geared more towards passive consumption than production. I'm quite excited for the PinePhone, as a result!

The other products as well, though I have enough things cooking for now that I'll wait for a production PineTab, instead of trying to help with its bring-up.

I'm also eyeing the pinebook. How hard would it be to makean ortholinear keyboard for it?
You realize that American healthcare has wait times as well, right? My family has had to wait months to see specialists as well. I'm honestly just tired of people acting like American healthcare somehow doesn't have wait times.

And not to mention if you're saddled with a particularly bad employer, they won't give you the time off to see the doctor in the first place.
Otoh, those who “tell” are closer to the business/client, and thus should issue better requirements. I honestly can’t see what’s wrong with doing what you’re told to. You cannot play a jack of all trades and program the damn thing perfectly at the same time. (And if you can, you should not waste your time bringing profits to that Corporate, Inc anyway.)
Percolation Threshold
That's not true. Testing is reinforcement of that competence and that good design, it does not replace it. Relying on penetration tests to secure your systems has an implicit dependency on the completeness of those tests--and putting armor over the bullet holes isn't how you keep a plane in the air.
They have good platform too.
How far does $15/hour go in some parts of the US vs €11/hour in some parts of Germany?