skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been replaced by GraalVM JavaScript which has Node.js built in. Performance is supposedly on par or better than the V8 version of Node.js. There's also support for ECMAScript modules directly from Java (without Node.js).

GraalVM offers interop between JavaScript, Python, Ruby, R, C/C++ and of course Java and other JVM languages.

I think GraalVM has the potential to make the JVM something of a universal platform. I guess that was the goal with Nashorn as well, but now it seems much closer to fruition.
I don’t know the context of Virginia Woolf’s comment, but in the case of fiction, I don’t think that a book about war is necessarily more important than one about facial hair grooming. Even in non-fiction, is a shallow and sensationalistic book about war necessarily ‘important’?
Sure, sure. But the point here is that there are JVM languages that have shown that these things can be done well on the JVM.
Maybe not the most environment-friendly solution, but plastic waste can be depolymerized into crude oil. No idea about the economics though.
Agreed, Some people are more generous by nature, some are not. For those who are not, one of the main reasons is that they are scared that giving away money now will put them at a disadvantaged position later. Putting donations in the terms of current spending helps alleviate some anxiety.
I see a ton of people making what I'd consider a pretty false assumption that the probability of any scientific american reader is pro trump is zero.

The link below is a pretty awesome, counter intuitive use case of Bayes Therom that I saw which made me question statements like this. What the actual makeup of Scientific American's reader base is is probably lower than 50% but it isn't 0% either. That's a lot of wriggler room for me to be technically assertion that yeah, they probably didn't lose half of their reader base. But is it possible they lost 1/3, 1/5, 1/10? Those all affect the bottom line of a company like this in much different ways. I'd assume that the leaders made an educated decision, and weighed their pros/cons.

Also, just because you voted for Trump doesn't mean you'd unsubscribe to SA just because they endorsed the other candidate. What I'd like to read is some analysis that SA did on their readership base to determine how many people they'd lose based on this decision and then the results of their experiment. I mean what better way for a scientific journal to make a decision like this than to also follow their hypothesis up with some analysis.

I have nothing meaningful to contribute to whether or not they should/shouldn't have endorsed Biden, so I'll just say, it is not a zero consequence decision.

https://paulvanderlaken.com/2020/01/21/bayes-theorem-probabi...
I believe you can also use glass in concrete and asphalt (although we just talked about how nasty asphalt is). I think I heard brown glass can use mixed color feedstock, but other uses for commingled glass should also help with the logistics of recycling it. Especially since multiple consumers should decrease shipping distances.
I got a free Apple TV subscription for an iPad purchase, and I looked through it on my iPad.

I could only find a handful of things to watch, in total. I was shocked it was released with such a small amount of content.
Cool S
people say that but much of the time AMD has excluded themselves from consideration for other reasons. 5000 series, 7000/200 series, and 480/Vega series all saw major cryptomining booms that raised prices far beyond those of the equivalent NVIDIA cards, so for much of the time they were simply not priced competitively. Like, for almost a year you would have to pay $1000+ for a Vega that barely matched a 1080 while you could get a 1080 Ti for $800 or so.

Also, there's been constant driver problems literally since the ATI days, just recently drivers basically crippled Navi for the entire duration of the product generation, drivers crippled Vega previously, Fiji was a driver mess, Hawaii and Tahiti were not problem free either (the famous "company A vs B vs C" article [0] notes that "company B's drivers are bad and are on a downtrend" and that was during the heyday of GCN, in 2014, those were the "stable drivers" that everyone rhapsodizes about in comparison to the mess that is Navi/Vega). Terascale was a fucking mess too.

AMD products often have weaker feature sets. It took them years to catch up with G-Sync (offering low-quality products with poor quality control for years until NVIDIA cleaned things up with GSync Compatible certification). NVENC is far better than AMD's equivalent (Navi's H264 encoder is still broken entirely as far as I know, it provides less than realtime encoding speed and extremely poor quality), so if you want to stream with AMD you have to use your CPU and crush your framerate, or purchase a much more expensive CPU. AMD has no answer for DLSS, and is just implementing their first generation RTX support with the next generation.

This is what I refer to as the "NVIDIA mind control field" theory. That consumers are just so wowed by the NVIDIA brand that they can't help themselves. The reality is AMD simply has not been that compelling an offering for that much of the time. There has been a lot of poor execution over the years from the Radeon team and prices have often not been as good as people remember them to be.

And a few good products don't change that either. Like, it took something like 8 years of AMD slacking off (Raja mentioned in a presentation that around 2012 thatAMD management thought "discrete GPUs were going away" [1] and pulled the plug on R&D - certainly a very attractive idea given their budgetary problems at the time) for NVIDIA to reach their current level of dominance. AMD has never led the market for 8 years at a time. Maybe a year tops, usually NVIDIA has responded pretty quickly with price cuts and new products. NVIDIA has never let off the pedal the way AMD did (and yes money was the reason but that doesn't matter to consumers, they're buying products not giving to charity).

[0] http://richg42.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-truth-on-opengl-driv...

[1] https://youtu.be/590h3XIUfHg?t=1956
With each new release, more and more parts of Android are reliant on proprietary Google APIs. It is known.

If you remove everything Google from Android 19, you'll be surprised how little it can do.
I'm saying neither of us has anything.

But that you are making a mistake in thinking you do have something.
> The Plastic recycling process as a whole is an incredibly succesful cost externalization for the petro-chemical and packaging industries.

At the risk of sounding like an industry shill: why is it being characterized as an cost externalization by the petrochemical/packaging industries, rather than the consumers? I agree that any pollution generated during extraction and manufacture can be attributed as an externalize of the packaging/petrochemical industry, but why should they be on the hook after it leaves their hands? Consumers are using the said products, reaping the benefits (either in cheaper products or greater convenience), and pay for their disposal via tax dollars or fees. I guess you could argue that companies should be responsible for the entire lifecycle, but then it becomes a slippery slope. Is the automotive industry externalizing the cost of roads? Is the food industry externalizing the cost of sewer systems? Are electronics manufacturers externalizing the cost of electricity?
In a "free" society, what basis does society have to say how much stuff you owe based on your income each year? Or that you have to keep your sidewalk clear of snow each winter? Or that you can't just leave your car wherever you want?

What about amassing as much stuff as possible selling controlled substances and brokering crime?

If you want society completely out of your business, you're going to have a hard time.
I was in New Mexico.
Some "smart" tvs have AirPlay built in. (Samsung has some models).
Ours did but we didn't know it initially.
Somewhere with lower taxes. Somewhere with fewer homeless. Somewhere with a less ideologically-driven state government.

Somewhere that lets fires burn now and then, to keep them from turning into monsters when they do happen. Somewhere that has a power company that is able to maintain infrastructure, rather than having that infrastructure causing fires. And somewhere that allows a new power plant to be build every once in a while, so that they don't keep having rolling blackouts year after year.

To the degree that the fires are a product of global warming/climate change, and that's also causing worse tornadoes and worse hurricanes, to that degree there's kind of nowhere to really go. I mean, you can dodge the effects to some degree, but not really.

But to the degree that the fires are a result of bad decisions, going somewhere that competently makes such decisions does in fact make sense.
> Instead, they're just like "well it has GDDR6X THE X IS FOR XTREME" which is totally meaningless.

That's referring to memory and not cores; is that a realistic example? I'm not very aware of Nvidia marketing that does what you said specifically - the example feels maybe a little exaggerated? I will totally grant that there is marketing speak, and understanding the marketing speak for all tech hardware can be pretty frustrating at times.

> if they're like "3% more performance on the 3090 vs. the RTX Titan" then I can just ignore it and not even bother reading the reviews.

Nvidia does publish some perf ratios, benchmarks, and peak perf numbers with each GPU, including for specific applications like Blender. Your comment makes it sound like you haven't seen any of those?

Anyway, I think that would be a bad idea to ignore the reviews and benchmarks of Blender and your favorite games, even if you saw the headline you want. There is no single perf improvement number. There never has been, but it's even more true now with the distinction between ray tracing cores and CUDA cores. It's very likely that your Blender perf ratio will be different than your Battlefield perf ratio.
It pisses me off to no end that I was forced to learn autodesk in school, only to graduate and realizing nobody uses it in the real world. So why did my school pay to teach software nobody uses? Might as well used FreeCAD to teach the concepts.

How is this relevant? Yes, your school should teach you the software that will be useful to you outside academia.

If anything, this idea seems counter to Stallman's has hard line stance.
Why is paying for a watch that collects your data weird to you? Your phone also collects your data and I bet you paid for it too.

Also, the watch collecting your data is kind of the whole point.
> So the thing is... tax dollars go more to dropping bombs on civilians in the Middle East and to ICE and the NSA because that's what people overwhelmingly want.

Support for the War in Iraq was 39% in 2004, 30% in 2006, 34% in 2007, etc. Despite massive PR campaigns on the part of politicians and the natural tendency to ("support the troops"), our various military adventures are actually not very popular among average Americans.

But they are very very popular among rich members of the military-industrial complex, and those people have enough money to win elections and buy politicians, so here we are.

> Do we have a net excess of Feeneys in the world, or Kochs?

Kochs, absolutely, unequivocally. There is no billionaire on Earth who could fix all of the damage caused to the environment by the Koch brothers, any more than a sufficiently well-intentioned German Chancellor could undo the damage Hitler caused.

This is one of the fundamental asymmetries of life: it is easier to destroy than build, easier to harm than heal. With a cheap kitchen knife and a fraction of a Newton of force, you can sever someone's head. Can you as easily put it back?

This is, I think, the core reason why inequality is dangerous. Because when you concentrate power in fewer people, the variance of the resulting outcomes increases. And if you increase that variance, the bad outcomes get worse more than the good outcomes get better.

Say what you will about hunter-gatherer societies, but they never dropped a nuclear bomb, caused a Holocaust, or filled the atmosphere with lead fumes. We obviously shouldn't dial inequality back to pre-industrial levels, but the existence of billionaires is essentially playing global-scale random wildcards in the game of life.
As I have said before the solution is compostable plastic. It solves the problem with the smallest net change in behavior of the affected parties.

As we have regrettably seen with the coronavirus changing the behavior of large populations is incredibly difficult even if there are dire repercussions for failure to change.

The cost of compostable plastic is slightly higher than the usual plastic, so the governments will have to enforce its use, but it will be a small price to pay for removing the externalities of dealing with actual plastic waste.
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Apple still has the radio station functionality (AI generated playlists on demand, from a seed song you pick) and they also have curated playlists that change on a routine basis as well. I far prefer Apples interface, and they are slowly fixing the major issues with the Music app - it's not nearly as awful as when it first launched and still way better than Spotify's UI for all reasons already outlined.
If the roofing example didn't illustrate the point, let me try again.

Donate $100 to a literacy campaign, then volunteer for 30 minutes each week at a beneficiary elementary school to have a struggling reader read to you from one of the books your money purchased. You don't have to buy the book. You don't have to decide which books are purchased. You don't have to decide which student gets to read the books. But you can be involved enough to know that books were purchased and the students are benefiting. And your extra effort makes the $100 so much more fulfilling.
The same could be said about people who want to take other's money away. People are spend-thrifts enough as it is, a wealth tax just dis-incentivizes being fiscally responsible.
>why would a rational person assume there is a relationship between software forks

Because many open source foundations bless commercial offerings. Having the open source foundation come out and say the commercial package is rubbish is the exception, not the norm.
> its own PDF engine, built from scratch

Just be careful, many larger teams have taken on that PDF spec, and it has not ended well for them: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?form_type=Basic&res...

and it seems to be one of the main actors in what are termed "polyglot" files: https://truepolyglot.hackade.org/ (of which my favorite is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18344778 0x15 is a laser-projectable PDF that's also a ZIP containing, among other things, another PDF that is also a Git repo of its own source code. )
wait... a $2,000 bike that only shows does bike workouts is fine, but a $150 device to stream entertainment and now fitness is too much? You can always just attach a HDMI cable to your phone or tablet (via converter) if you really want to.
Hang on. You made out that you don't believe the US has done forced sterilisations. But then respond that it's something you learned about in high school?

eg you've literally learned this stuff has happened in the US before, but you can't believe there are people around doing it now?
Sealed classes also mean you don't have to play visibility tricks with your API to prevent an abstract class or interface from being inherited and can safely publish everything as part of your API without worry.
Or maybe the developer only knows mobile engineering? Not everything has to be seen from an uncharitable angle.
It is certainly doable, but it will take time. Any country can probably get some kind of small scale steel mill up in a few months (or a long afternoon if the scale is small enough). But getting producing high quality steel at industrial scale with economy would probably take longer than a decade.
Ah yes, those pesky Microsoft-Apple™ cloud guidelines.
> Famous scientists?

Yes, absolutely. And if a certain General Hospital in San Francisco were not named after the tackiest of billionaires then maybe it could honor, I dunno, Hugh Toland?

Instead of dedicating most of its "about us" page to shining a youngish oligarch's already controversial reputation?

https://zuckerbergsanfranciscogeneral.org/about-us/our-histo...
The limits for the estate tax in the US are pretty high. It's over $20 million if you are married. That means those who are hard working and frugal will most likely never pay an estate tax. Hard work and frugality will allow you to slowly accumulate several million dollars over your life.

At the wealth levels at which the estate tax applies, a fair amount of luck has to factor in. Having been in the right place at the right time. That has little to do with morality because many other people had the same behaviors but never got lucky. The estate tax is more a tax on luck than it is on hard work and frugality.
For some reason the entire article reminds me of the artwork descriptions in Rimworld. For example:

https://imgur.com/gallery/byYi9
agree, naming something after yourself is tacky. but having that much clout that someone names something after you is baller.
I’m curious, why is the EKG feature that tempting? I don’t really see what I’d do with it besides doing a reading once in a while
I think Apple ran out of ideas guys.
> You just disagree with the things the Kochs choose to fund.

Sure, and I'm also not a fan of Jeffrey Dahmer's taste in fine dining, but I don't think it is reasonable to chalk that up to a mere difference of appetite.

> Were the government funding the causes these billionaires fund the causes would still be controversial.

Were the government funding those causes we could stop funding them because they are horrible and people hate them.
iTunes Match gives you access to all of your music on all of your devices, even songs that you've imported from other sources such as CDs. If you have an Apple Music membership, you get all of the benefits of iTunes Match, plus access to the entire Apple Music catalog. May 21, 2020

Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204146
I'm curious about the new iPad Air they announced, with an A14. This thing is more powerful than the iPad Pro 11-inch now, priced a little lower. I wonder what the advantage is of the current Pro over this one?

For that matter, this new entry level has the same A12 as the 11-inch Pro as well, so seems like the Pro, which is in the mid of its cycle is already outdated? Or is there more to the Pro?
I don't get it, the Rockefeller family has an estimated net worth of $11bn today. That's for 174 members of this family or around $63m per family. While not a small amount, it's not outrageous either; especially that it's an old family, so they haven't really accumulated lots of wealth. You'd think compound interest would have made them own much more than that.

On the other hand, Bezos, a single person, has control of a $1.58T company and you are totally okay with it?
> Since BLM is an org with such “expertise” in what white people think, you would think they would cynically propose a soft spoken figurehead who says inspirational things. Instead, we get adversarial confrontation on the “fact” that all white people are racist and only white and white adjacent people can be racist. This is idiotic marketing strategy. You’d think they would avoid antagonizing their customer if they were serious about positive change.

Wow. You really are a racist. Or at least an authoritarian on some level.

You want people of color to convince you - a task of which is not theirs to fulfill - that they should have basic social rights in the US. You then refuse to be convinced because they aren't 'being nice' about it?

How on earth is fighting for social and civil rights a task of political suppression? BLM represents a bloc that has been disincentivised from voting from the founding of America until 2020.

Something screams authoritarian, and it certainly isn't protesting.
Something like:

expr ::= <all the other expressions>
| '(' [ expr { ',' expr } ] ')'
| '{' { expr } '}'
| expr '=>' expr
| identifer '(' expr { ',' expr } ')'
| literal

Tried adding it to the javascript grammar I play with and the parser generator (Coco/R) didn't complain about conflicts -- though it doesn't have tuples so YMMV.

--edit--

Played with it a bit more and added tuples (as a replacement for '(' expr ')' grouping expression (exactly like the now-edited example above) and it still seems happy. If I were to add this to the grammar for real I'd have to monkey around with it some more to ensure there was an actual '(' ... ')' expression before the => but seems easily doable by transforming the grammar a bit.
The only place I actually encountered this was at a defense contractor where if you did not have clearance, and they didn't happen to have uncleared work ready to staff, then if they wanted to hire you, they'd have to have you do nothing for 6 months while your clearance went through. All other companies I've worked at (including FAANGs) have always had 3-10X more unstaffed work than they could possibly do with their current staff and always had something for new people to onboard into. We'd be constantly giving leadership the bad news: "We'd love to do projects A-G, but only have enough people to do A, B and maybe C."
They've also done a 180 on veganism and animal activism.
Interesting - makes sense, thanks for the context.

I'd suspect part of the reason Nvidia went their own way is because their way is better? Is that the case - or is it more about just keeping things proprietary? Probably both?

If I had to guess, some mixture of ability to improve things faster with tighter integration at the expense of an open standard (pretty much what has generally happened across the industry in most domains).

Though this often leads to faster iteration and better products (at least in the short term, probably not long term).
I’ve often thought of the idea of a “town programmer” that could solve problems for businesses/people in the town. It feels like the biggest problem with that is people don’t know what a generalist programmer can do. I think just setting up Shopify instances and inventory/online ordering systems would be a good use case.
People with money don't put it all under a mattress. It's active in the economy, creating jobs.
I've noticed that this sort of naming-rights philanthropy correlates with certain cultures, too. I know when I'm driving along 11 mile and see a bunch of buildings with people's names on them, the good deli is just a few blocks further. ;)

I concur, it's not a bad thing. I actually think it helps motivate others to do likewise -- generosity in the shadows doesn't help set a cultural expectation or contribute to a pattern. Generosity in foot-high letters is hard to ignore, and it's still generosity. And tacky though it may seem, I think it's actually wonderful and I'd like to find ways to encourage it more broadly.

The downside (because there's always a downside) is that names _encode_ identity, and if your name isn't like all the names you see on all the buildings in this part of town, you might start to feel like you don't belong here. There are a lot of subtle things that can encourage or neutralize that perception, but having names emblazoned all over the place is sort of an enabling factor. So along with encouraging philanthropy, I think we should be looking at ways to make sure it doesn't get turned exclusionary.
Perfect. I hope you put the VCR back. My parents' cassette player did well with one gear missing until I figured it out how to put it back completely.