skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That shift already seems to be happening. If you follow /r/homelab, plenty of people are building large homelabs using nothing but NUCs they paid $250 each. It's not uncommon to see racks with 4-8 of them networked together (you usually only see 1-2 Minis). There are also some AMD-based machines coming out that are that size, so there will be even more options available.
That's actually a decent answer, thanks. But they're an economic-only organization.

The EU didn't bomb Libya, France and Britain did.
Oracle maintains it's own version of ZFS, which has been separate from OpenZFS since Oracle bought Sun. There us no "Oracle code" in OpenZFS, though some of the patents on techniques are owned by Oracle.

If Oracle wanted to ship ZFS on Linux, they would presumably port over their own version and never involve the OpenZFS team. However, Oracle created btrfs, and seem content to stick with it.
text version: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/arts-letters/blackboard
> Learning languages is big investment, and having dozens of languages around is not productive, human languages are consolidating over a few, English is by far the business language of the world

> Why does language design continue to be a subjective topic? its not like computers need cultures !

Learning languages are a big investment, that is indeed true. But the comparison with English is flawed - human languages are very ambiguous by nature and often the meaning is inferred based on the context we use words. This is often apparent when one wants to write something unambiguous in English: for example, a document that is legally binding - because you want to make things as precise as possible. Most legal documents hence define terms and then use them with meticulous detail. Indeed writing these down is such a complex task that we have an entire profession dedicated to them - lawyers. So put in another way what the lawyer is doing is defining abstractions for that document and then using them to write the binding terms and conditions in the document.

How is this related to programming languages? Well, a similar argument would be we should all use assembly for programming since that is what the CPUs use anyway. You are not wrong, but that would mean so much wasted effort by programmers to define basic abstractions for every program they will ever write. Programming languages are nothing but abstractions for the problem you are solving. And problems programmers solve vary wildly - a OS or driver developer worries about vastly different problems than a data scientists and their languages show that. This is why computer do not need "cultures", but programmers do. A kernel level programmer worries about manual memory management, and handles raw pointers on their own. A data scientist just cares about manipulating tables and training models. How the memory is managed is an extra detail that is not relevant to the problem domain and languages like Python provide an abstraction for that (a garbage collector).

This is why it is always good to experiment with languages. Probably 1 in a 100 language will become mainstream, but what these experiments give us are a medium to see what abstractions work successfully to represent programs in different domains. This is how object-oriented programming or garbage collectors are mainstream today. As far as Nim goes, I think it is a language that allows you to ship compiled native binaries without manual memory management with lots of Python like language features. So the intended audience is for people who want to ship binaries but want to use expressive features like iterators, etc like Python provides.
Right? I'm happy someone else persevered and invented the PCIe bus. People like me would have use smoke signals to this day. :)))
>It would be interesting to run the numbers to see how many jobs in a country could even be done remotely.

Around 34%

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/much-us-staying-home-how-man...
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Finally! Big companies need to realize they must understand what what they are doing with technology to get any value of out it.

They've long resisted that, of course, but I'm pretty sure half the popular of deep learning was it leveled the playing field, making engineers as ignorant of the inner-workings of their creations as the middle managers.

May the middle-manager-fication of work, and acceptance of ignorance that goes with, fail.

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Then again, I do prefer it when many of those old moronic companies flounder, so maybe this is a bad thing that they're wising up.
Alice is a customer of ABank
Bob is a customer of BBank.

Alice asks ABank for a $100 loan at 10% interest to buy some fidgets from Bob
Bob asks BBank a $100 at 10% interest to buy some doodads from Alice

ABank creates a $100 credit line for Alice, and creates an asset of $110 future revenue payments.
BBank creates a $100 credit line for Bob, and creates an asset of $110 future revenue payments.

Bob and Alice make their deals each paying with their respective debit cards.

ABank and BBank settle their transactions with a net 0 transfer.

Alice and Bob both repay $100 to their outstanding loan.

Both ABank and BBank now own $10 in future revenue from Alice and Bob respectively.
You can argue that 'technically' ABank and BBank didn't 'create' the money, they merely created the legally backed first row claim to that money that will be created.
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I’d argue that they also took on additional legal responsibility when they started censoring search results, whether it’s hard censorship like removing firearm-related products from shopping results or soft censorship like de-ranking right-biased news sources. If you take the entire internet and selectively filter it down, you have the power to craft any narrative as surely as if you were writing the opinion pieces from scratch yourself. It’s hard to call that anything except “editorial power”.
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I've not read Diaspora (and do not intend to, as it trips several of my phobias), but from what I understand about it, it makes most contemporary spacefareing sci-fi look like depictions of 2001 that featured bodycon jumpsuits and flying cars. Its vision seems very far away and yet far more realistic (aside from the baking of most of meatspace humanity with a gamma ray burst just after full digitization becomes available, which reads with the same kind of authorial vindictiveness as I see in the OP article).
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18844948
There is excess death due to influenza every year. The number of dead due to covid-19 is not some kind of crazy anomaly that's going to stick out in the statistics.

In no-good zombie-apocalypse Sweden, the total deaths/capita for 2020 is probably going to be above the 5-year average, but below the 10-year average and below the death rate of 2012.

Here's how the excess mortality of 2020 compares to the last 40 years of mortality in Germany, Sweden, France, and Belgium: https://medium.com/@FrankfurtZack/unprecedented-overall-mort...

If you didn't know about it, you wouldn't think anything special at all happened in 2020, just by looking at the statistics.
That is essentially the game the author played, and then used those faces as the training data for the render - this article doesn't seem to mention it though. You're right with Craig.
I know HN generally dislikes discussion about comment voting, but this comment should not have been downvoted. There’s a big difference between a statement saying they “unconstitutionally voted” and one saying they “voted in an unconstitutional measure”
I agree. And the book does off into crazy land about the 1/2 through to the end of the book.

BUT I think the first part is actually a pretty good approachable explanation of the Federal Reserve and how our money works.
Even Google's engineers don't understand its privacy controls
I was thinking of the final example in https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/iter/trait.Iterator.htm... , glad we have it in both places!

I don’t personally really agree with what you’ve said, but that’s fine. Different people perceive things differently.
Labeling data more effectively for supervised learning
Each country of the EU has some dark corners, but I am still trusting them more than I would trust the USA, China or Russia.
I guess it depends on where you're doing the interviewing. I've had surprisingly unintelligent people get to me in the interviewing stages. It amazes me how many developers, experienced even, who can't write a simple recursive function. And we're not even looking at, "can you come up with a recursive function as a solution to this problem?" we're looking at "write a recursive function to calculate the factorial" as the question.
This is called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevance_feedback
Covid-19 Has Changed Your Users
Drizly raises a $50M Series C amid profitability and 350% growth
Your front page has a typo: "titme".

Since hacker news was down yesterday I couldn't reply here, so I tried to send you an email, but that failed to deliver, as there are no MX records for monitory.io...
Yeah world languages like Chinese, Russian, Arabic have a chance of building their own thriving developer communities, but for a language like Italian, or even German, forget it. It's too small to be up to a language with 10 times as many speakers. Writing in the local language would put you at a disadvantage far more than you are at a disadvantage by being second speaker of a language.
Somewhat puzzling post? I read it and appreciated it (but holy crap does it need a TL;DR... (basically, "benchmark carefully")) but had little idea what it has to do with `sled`, which turns out to be an embedded database written in Rust. Perhaps update the title? I was looking forward to some performance guidance for "sled" on "Rust (.rs)" and didn't really find any...
> Do you guys think there is in theory, the best programming language

On the one hand, many languages seem to be adopting features from one another. Perhaps they will converge towards a single language?

However, I believe whatever they are converge to will never be the right language for all purposes.

> [Julia’s] scoping rules are a mess

If there ever is a single “language to rule them all”, it’ll have to get all the basics (like scoping) right. It always amazes me how many languages have such fundamental flaws.
How to write unmaintainable code? Easy : write a project based on the latest "saveur du jour" JS framework.
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Why does your "need" for pixel perfect styling trump your users' need for accessible interfaces?
There's another paper by Richard W that I happened to read yesterday which seems to contradict this article and is not refuted or addressed in it, basically that a combination of accouting practices and "client money rules" distinguish bank loans from "random IOUs", basically anyone can issue an IOU but anyone other than a bank has to draw down their accounting assets when they disburse it, and undisbursed IOUs are not spendable.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105752191...
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Noting that "accessore" is not an Italian word was on the tip of my tongue (or, rather, fingers), when I realized that not even "accessor" is an English word.

Terms used in programming languages are probably much more awkward in an English mother tongue's ears than in those of a foreigner.

I wonder if "by default" had any meaning in English before it was adopted in the IT context.
Sure but did you change your payroll address? What was the address on your payroll?
I wouldn't. I would offer it to selectively to narrow segments of the population who have extremely high exposure to other people (for example, a huge number of NYC mass transit drivers came down with COVID19). That's where the risk-balance benefit swings.
That’s still enabling a filter, so I don’t exactly understand your argument of not enabling too many filter lists.

Is there some particular reason not to enable the Adguard list over the uBlock one?
Vigilante group activity on the rise, worrying law enforcement and watchdog
> the Navy has never had a nuclear accident.

The Navy has never admitted to a nuclear accident (other than radioactive coolant spills and the like, which it has admitted and which are nuclear accidents), but the US government has in other contexts kept nuclear accidents secret for decades after they happened, notionally for security reasons, so why wouldn't they do that with one occurring in the fleet?
Also if you didn't lose a job, you might not want to change right now if you're in a stable position, even if it's not your dream job.
The new XPS 13 has a good matte display that's not too matte and not too glossy for me, you might want to check it out.
Why not 20%? Or 7.34%?

Of course you have no clue if an increase of 20% is too much or too little. Maybe even 7.34% is too much.

Since you have no clue and no proof of any kind, perhaps it would be wise to not support a 10% increase, or not be against any other increase or even a cut?
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Valve, probably, based on his job history.
I'm not sure market forces would allow for that. Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc, have reasons to push their own languages. There are also some drivers for independent groups to push theirs. What would force the consolidation? If you compare to the death of RISC, the driver was the hugely lower cost of x86-64 combined with Linux finally maturing. Is there something similar here?
But then, think about what's implied by those being the big reasons to learn the language. They implicitly relegate esperanto to the status of a toy language, comparable to the Lox programming language from Crafting Interpreters. You don't learn it because you actually want to speak esperanto (or program in Lox); you learn it as a simple model you can use to learn the techniques you'll use to accomplish some other goal, such as learning how to learn languages.

It's definitely different if you really like the ideal of a language that doesn't belong to any one group of people. But I'm guessing that, nowadays, that's a compelling motivating factor for fewer people than, "I really like Star Trek," is. Klingon's rich cultural history may be a constructed patchwork, but at least it exists.
The key question or claim is not whether banks create money but whether the way in which they are able to do it is unique.

"creating money" is ambiguous to be nearly meaningless, "creating money in a way that noone else is able to" is a lot less ambiguous
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Or even just pass by reference if you don't need to take the box:

fn greet(&self, other: &dyn Player);
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That boggles my mind.
> I dread every time I see Chinese in a codebase (simply because they are a large enough market to split the dev community)

They aren't going to split it, the rest of us will adapt. English was arbitrary, so was French and Latin and Greek before it. Probably in the form of some Romaji-like equivalent (ideograms are too high a bar) but we will start to adopt it. The largest economy dictates the lingua franca because they produce the most output.
> there's two wrong concepts here - you don't know how the virus will affect you medically. May be you will only suffer minor symptoms, or may be you will almost die with fluids in your lungs.

We do know the probabilities of those things, and for healthy non-elderly people the latter outcome is very unlikely.

I'm curious why you decided to bring up the fact that we can't predict, with certainty, in advance which will happen. We can't do that for any disease, many of which are as bad or much worse than Covid-19.
Every Cadillac currently + the new GM EVs come with Supercruise.
I clearly remember the upgrade to Yosemite, and how it crippled Spotlight for anyone who (1) didn't have a SSD (2) did an OS upgrade, not a clean reinstall. Ask around the Apple forums, you'll only get a lot of Apple apologists and fanboys telling you to turn it off and on again, not a peep (and certainly no fix) from Apple.

Or a better example of the general sentiment that I think OP is going for, Apple stopped updating it's OpenGL implementation, and invented their own API. Definitely a user-hostile choice, but they defend it by saying that Metal is better than OpenGL. But now Vulkan exists, but Apple will never defend it's use of Metal over Vulkan, because reasons.
Being mostly disconnected from the fruits of your labor while being incentivized to turn your resume into buzzword bingo causes bad technology choices that hurt the organization, what a surprise.
Nikki Glaser talks about this on Joe Rogan, which is not safe for work -

Nikki Glaser Details Her Porn Habits - https://youtu.be/ey60IhkJF3E?t=484 (NSFW)
I made an account on a lark and it's actually nice.

Their image related grouping works way better for the things I'm interested in (art/illustrations) than other sites.
That and he makes these tweets about threats and insults from "people using Pytorch" and the TensorFlow/Keras vs Pytorch "debate" without taking a screenshot or actually showing any kind of proof.

He seems pretty oblivious to the fact that simply not mentioning them would make the problem go away as no one beside him seems to actually care.
https://archive.vn/n2SpG
"Like Big Data, I think we'll see a few companies execute well and actually get some value, while most will just jump to the next shiny thing in a year or two."

Here's another aspect - in many places nobody listens to the actual people doing the work. In my last job I was hired to lead a Data Science team and to help the company get value of Stats/ML/AI/DL/Buzzword. And I (and my team) were promptly overridden on every decision of what projects an expectations were realistic and what were not. I left, as did everybody else that reported to me, and we were replaced by people who would make really good BS slides that showed what upper management wanted to see. A year after that the whole initiative was cancelled.

Back in 2000 I was in a similar position with a small company jumping on the internet as their next business model. Lots of nonsense and one horrible web based business later, the company failed.

It's the same story over and over again. Some winners, lot of losers, many by self-inflicted wounds.
This is a special case of the observation that no discretization of a continuous space is "correct". They are inherently subjective, and some may be more useful for any given purpose than others.
The only thing that does is prevent you from getting anything useful out of your history. It does not prevent the topic at hand.
Apple mistakenly approved a widely-used malware to run on Macs
Annotated ML Research Papers
Okay, if they're known, describe them to me.

* What portion of the population will have reduced lung capacity post-COVID? How long will it last?

* What about other long-term effects, such as chronic fatigue? What puts me at risk? What causes it? How long does it last?

* What about other organ damage?

Please give me some semblance of an idea of what portion of the population will have long-term disability due to COVID?
Communications can be jammed.

Counter drones like anti-missile missiles need to be bigger than one would think and require much more energy, because they need to be much faster and more maneuverable than the drones they are hitting. That means bigger motors, higher discharge batteries, and a stronger airframe.

I'm fairly certain they would be more expensive than the attackers drones, and you would need around two orders of magnitude more of them than the attacker.
> MDN vs. a random resource on the net...

No, it's an presumed expert deep diving on a subject vs MDN reference material. MDN is extremely inadequate for explaining anything that isn't mere reference, like how things are practically used in the wild or their practical impact.

A good example of this would be https://css-tricks.com/ vs MDN. MDN doesn't even try to be the resource that css-tricks is.

Anyways, why not respond to the author's actual content? What tutsplus.com's CMS is doing to their content is irrelevant.
“Accessor” is an English word. Sure, it originates in computing, but that doesn't make it any less part of the language.
Well, for big ideas that are not accidental you need to compare between really unique langauges.

E.g. C vs Lisp vs Smalltalk vs APL vs ML/Haskell vs COBOL vs FORTH vs PROLOG
what, not banned, just not trending up....

anyways, don't repost as this one got traction (time of posting is a factor also re: google doc one) and the comment discussion is all here, don't need another version of same thing
I think what the author would take issue with is this notion of “has to.” His point is that non-bank corporations can empirically create money (ie people will treat the IOUs as money), even if they may not be legally permitted to do so.
it can get stuck and not do anything no matter how long you leave it.
What kind of "entities"? Beings?
I disagree with the notion that space is better used if it exhibits greater density of population.

I don't believe it is very easy to drive in Siena, Italy. I also don't believe it is very easy to live under a highway interchange. To each space its own.
"High uniqueness hold seven when histories are truncated to just 100 top sites." This is similar to the app finger printing they do with mobile phones, identify you by the unique assortment of apps on your device.

Should the top concern be about identification or deep collection of browsing history?
But what if all scientists feel pressured to do the same, in an effort to win relevance?

.... what if .... entire nations feel pressured to do the same, not wait for trials, just proclaim victory on a hunch... like Russia?
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I've seen similar patterns with clients and companies I've worked at as well. My experience was less that ML wasn't useful, it's just that no organization I worked with could really break down the silos in order for it to work. Especially in ML, the entire process from data collection to the final product and feedback loop needs to be integrated. This is _really_ difficult for most companies.

Many data scientists I knew were either sitting on their hands waiting for data or working on problems that the downstream teams had no intention of implementing (even if they were improvements). I still really believe that ML (be it fancy deep learning or just evidence driven rules-based models) will effectively be table stakes for most industries in the upcoming decade. However, it'll take more leadership than just hiring a bunch of smart folks out of a PhD program.
In Siena, you walk.
Was using DeepL for Portuguese when I got this unusual translation
Yep. It's the only distro that works by default on my 2009 Macbook Pro.
I bet it's also not necessary to drive in Siena, Italy
I think you're adding an assumption that isn't justified, that this god would have had to start at what we call t=0, i.e. big bang.

Part of timless physics is that there is no privileged moment in time.

The laws of physics allow god to start at any point in the configuration space of the universe and evolve toward any direction.

This isn't prevented by chaos theory. Chaos theory happens regardless of where you start your t=0. The laws of physics are 100% symmetric (CPT symmetry).

This does not mean we will necessarily recurr either. The laws of physics are symmetric, but due to the Past Hypothesis (prior condition of the universe was very low entropy), we experience an emmergent direction in time, and if the universe is infinite and unbounded it seems like it wont recurr.