skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a speedrunning expert but I think that there are usually subcategories for "glitchless" runs, where you can only use the intended game mechanics. So your suggestion has already been approved by the speedrunning community.
The Amish didn't start evaluating new technologies in the stone age. If you look at technologies invented after the hammer, of course you'll have a hammer. But you won't necessarily have a smart phone or an Echo.
>For example, listening or watching to a TV show in your target language with subtitles in the target language can be counter productive if you barely understand the sounds, let alone the meanings and grammar. Also, subtitles are not 1 to 1 to the audio.

This apparently is how language acquisition works. I do speak five languages, and not in a "polyglot blog post" way. I've tried to learn Spanish, German, Hebrew, and Russian.

The difference lies in the exposition part. The very process I used to learn English was to watch movies with barely intelligible dialogue, and subtitles that weren't 1:1. This was to "train my ear". I have also read a lot of books and content on the internet, and made sure to do it out loud. The muscles involved in English are different and it hurt at first. This was to learn idioms and acquire vocabulary.

I haven't bothered to learn grammar in any of the languages I speak but inferred the rules from consuming content. Granted, sometimes you explicit a rule, but the bulk of the time was consumption.

I discovered Stephen Krashen's work a few years ago. It is centered around "comprehensible input" for language acquisition as opposed to "learning", and stresses the fact taht input (listening, reading) was more important than output(speaking, writing) for language acquisition. It matches my experience and the experience of people I know who actually do speak multiple languages.

I've also made attempts at a bunch of other languages. Although I understand things here and there, the "input" is insufficient.

One interesting fact: I learned English out of necessity. I was interested in a field and read practically all that had been written about it in French. My only option was to learn English to access many more books.
Sadly the latter is often how C++ is taught even though it is not at all how modern C++ is used…
My much younger brother is currently enrolled at a a major university in comp sci. His coursework is primarily in Java but with certain classes in C and other languages.
SiS also had 3D graphics chips. Tseng Labs was probably one of the earliest victims of the 3D GPUs wars, having developed but never completed the ET6300.

PowerVR still exists and is seems successful in the mobile market (having provided Apple's GPUs until A10).
Such tunnel-minded posters.

The GP clearly meant the US is ethical RELATIVE to other countries currently "innovating" i.e. China.

Even as stoutly anti-American as my country and people are, I still fervently hope it's the USA and NOT China who prevail in future techno/political battles.
WWII advanced nuclear research, computing, electronics, and aerospace by decades within a few years.

Was that a good thing? Was it a bad thing? Is there a definitive ethical answer to this question?

There probably is - but not for this culture.
I think it could be within the budget, especially considering how much is currently spent by employers, which could be turned into a tax and funneled into "California health care". The bigger issues would be negotiating with medical providers, the hospital systems and multiple levels of US medical bureaucracy. Even then, for example medicare/medicaid, look how much fraud if often found around over paying / unnecessary procedures etc. In my opinion, because of how much traction and jobs exist at multiple levels of pharma to insurance to medicine in the US, I almost think it's an intractable problem, but I wish it wasn't.
We live in a society. Although in some countries this very fact is heavily contested.

Too much freedom can be a bad thing. Especially when the government is chronically underfunded to take over the responsibilities.
Having been homeless in my life, I agree with you and I submit anyone who disagrees with you has lived a charmed life.
That’s an extremely specific reading of the claim “fix C” that excludes almost everything but Rust.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24459676
It is it's own category. https://www.speedrun.com/smb3 has the following:

100%: "Beat the game, entering and completing every stage and Hammer Bros. fight"
Any %, warpless: "Beat the game as quickly as possible without using any wrong warps or warp whistles. Warp whistles may be collected but not used."
Any %, no wrong warp: "Beat the game as quickly as possible without using any wrong warps."
Any %: “Time starts on pressing Start on the title screen.
Time ends when Mario is visible in the princess' chamber. If the game crashes, the run is invalid."

The run shows is an Any% run.
If you knit them yourself from cotton grew in your background, you should be safe.
US software engineer salaries are high since they develop software the entire world uses. If you prevent companies from recruiting talent from the entire world then companies like Google or Facebook that has 70% immigrants on their payroll will have to move their big offices abroad likely reducing American salaries.
> However, I think that trying to place market restrictions on two parties making an agreement is not the right way to go about it.

There are restrictions placed around how much you can charge in interest for taking a loan. Imagine if someone were to place a 1000% loan because they knew the people taking them were desperate enough for their next meal that they would take that that.

These laws exist for a reason. That they inconvenience you (or anyone else) is irrelevant.

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edit: well, not irrelevant... it's the entire point.
> There is for example no way a swedish mapping company could have competed with google maps

Not Swedish, but Danish founders, working in Australia. Google purchased the company and made it google maps
What's the career path of a Walmart greeter?
Raspberry Pi 4 uses ARMv8 according to Wikipedia: the ARM Cortex-A72.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#Processor
This would require storing type information in a symbol, would it not? Either via mangling or some other method.
Sometimes I mess up when I’m in the wrong headspace but usually only for misinformation, aggressive hostility, personal insults. As I said I mess up sometimes and I try not to downvote too often.
Thanks for this, looks interesting
Not that I have such images to try on so I'm just guessing:

3200 megapixels is around 200x bigger than a typical today's photo, so around 200x slower. It'd also still fit in e.g. 10GB of RAM.

Since applying a filter takes way less than a second on a standard photo (well, depends on what kind of filter you mean, let's say an approximated gaussian blur), single threaded, it'd be around a minute on a huge one, and with e.g. 8 or 16 threads, much faster.
"Innovation."
This article appears to have very little substance. The author and his co-founder hired an engineer. They don't explain how they found this engineer. They don't explain how they evaluated their hire. They don't explain anything about their overall philosophy on how an engineering team should function. It's just that the founder and co-founder couldn't do all the work they needed to do in order to execute on their plan, so they hired someone to help with the burden. I don't understand why this deserves a blog post, much less a blog post that reaches the front page of Hacker News.
Ahh the unending saga of people too lazy to read some GPG man pages and proposing unfitting replacements.

Long live GPG!
You bring this up often and I ask you to modify your wording about every time I see it. Android will not require these extensions, no hardware ships with it yet. Android says they will support it.
I doubt the person you are responding to believes that low skill workers deserve to live in poverty. I don't think that's a particulalry charitable interpretation
Pi 3 and the V1.2 revision of the Pi 2 were ARMv8 too (Cortex-A53).

edit: also re smartphones, Android SoCs started to move to v8 CPU cores 5 years ago, in the Nexus 5X/Pixel 1 generation.
As an outsider: What is so much better about Infiniband compared to Ethernet?
I think the arguments for Europe being less innovative or risk taking is because these companies seem to start first in the US and then come to Europe, not the other way round.
As several others have noted, commercial real estate interests -- landlords, building management and services companies, but most especially banks and finance companies with a toe in the $2.5 trillion office market, a sizeable fraction of the toal $14--17 trillion+ commercial property market (https://www.reit.com/data-research/research/nareit-research/...), and all the interrelated securities backed by or tied to it --- have a profound interest here. Leasing volume fell by over 50% per some reports, which is of course huge.

You'll find articles largely in the business and financial press, e.g.,

"Coronavirus set to usher in big changes at U.S. offices"
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-of...

"Pandemic exposes ‘severe stress’ in commercial property financing"
https://www.ft.com/content/e4b2302b-76c5-494a-8560-e6d24de93...

"Suburban Philly offices feel the brunt of COVID-19’s economic toll"
https://www.inquirer.com/business/suburban-office-distressed...

"COVID-19 and real estate: How the coronavirus is impacting the AEC industry"
https://www.bdcnetwork.com/covid-19-and-real-estate-how-coro...

"United States
Office Outlook –
Q2 2020" https://www.us.jll.com/en/trends-and-insights/research/offic...

Contrast the outlook as of October 2019: "base fundamentals indicate that the US CRE market remains on a strong footing."

Deloitte: "2020 commercial real estate outlook"
https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/financial-...

That's not to say that sandwich shops and individual workers and managers don't have concerrns, but their voices are far more relatable and telegenic than faceless megabanks. Even genuine and spontaneous statements can be repeated and amplified by other interests.
> Hm, harbour, ships? And in general dust from the tires and brakes of cars and trucks?

hmmm that probably makes more sense, yea
> No. Trains must make every station. A low occupancy pod will only diverge from the high speed lane when it has reached a destination or pickup point.

So you'll have to build twin tunnels through stations (and since they'll require an ADA-compliant evacuation walkway, they'll have to be almost full-size subway tunnels even if you're using smaller personal pods), which will be a fiddle to use TBMs for. You'll have to have a system for diverting or not, and that's going to require maintenance and break down sometimes. And what does the actual mechanics of pods stopping for people to get out look like at busy stations? You'd need giant shunting yards to route pods to free "platforms" (like a garage forecourt only much bigger), and you'd have to build them underground in the places that are most expensive to do tunnelling and remove spoil from, and they'd have a complex layout that would have to be built in a labour-intensive way - all the lighting and ventilation and fire-suppression systems would have to be fitted into that layout (underground stations are already the most expensive parts of building subway projects). Or you'd have pods backing up onto the main line. Or you'd have to batch them together in a, uh, train.

> I don't think anyone disputes that. But this happens because there is no comparable point to point transit system and the existing road network is inefficient.

Tunnels are still only going to go from some places to some other places. Roads are already planned carefully. But there's only so much capacity you can get out of individual vehicles.

> The point of building tunnels is remove those conflict areas and provide direct point to point routes with very high throughput.

It's not going to be high throughput though. Every transportation system has a high throughput when you're just looking at maximum capacity along a plain line going at speed - it's all the fiddly interfaces where the throughput goes down. It'll be the same for a tunnel system (if it's ever built).
Hi! Thanks for your feedback. The booking system will be integrated into the direct messaging system. Users will be able to request formal financial advice by clicking a button while chatting with an adviser. You are right on monetisation!

If you have any more questions, please let me know.
> China has 21 times the population of France, so building 12x as many nuclear power plants isn't much.

They're not 12 nuclear power plants, they're reactors.

China is adding 35-40x the new nuclear power generation vs France over 20 years. It doesn't make much sense to only sample 4-5 years for such a ratio given how long it takes to build nuclear. If we only sample out to 2024-2025, France may be at zero on that scale given the endless delays in their construction. Not to mention, if we pick up the sampling after France is done their present construction, China's advantage jumps to infinite, since France won't be building anything.

You're also moving goalposts repeatedly in these comments.

First you said nobody can build nuclear today. I point out that, in fact, China and India are building nuclear just fine.

Then you say that what China is building doesn't compare to what France is doing. Then I point out that, in fact, China's 12 new reactors are considerable in output, so much so that they're equal to 1/5 of France's entire nuclear base. The output of those 12 reactors is far larger than anything France is building currently, many times over.

Then you move the goalpost again, to a matter of ratios, which I didn't dispute in the first place because it had nothing to do with what you originally claimed.

Your ratio premise requires that China stop building new nuclear power, when their plans are the opposite, they're going to keep building, whereas France is not. For China it's an ongoing process of adding.
V has a bit of a poor track record with its claims.
Nice! 'scribed.
Didn't they invent Bigtable?
Performance of developers within the same team and between companies differs hugely. Someone with some years of experience may be considered senior, and list some technologies in their resume that they've actually worked with, but their level of mastery may not be what you hope for. The differences you get by probing this or not during interviews will add up across a team, and be a real competitive advantage or disadvantage for your organization. And that goes for culture (hiring assholes, or even something more benign, like hiring people that are inarticulate) as much as it goes for technical skills.

And I don't think people typically lie on a resume. I do think there's a category of people that makes things look nicer than they are. I do think there's another category of people that just have a different perception of "mastery" than I do.
Linux was developed by finnish guy and the www protocol was developed by a brit.
As a pirate, the more you can share information, the better off society is. Without patents you would have a much faster innovation cycle. The inventor could make some money by being first to market but couldn't milk it for 20 years. They would have to go back and innovate again. At the same time, other people would be innovating on what they released.

I think the makers would still make without patents. I know that I do.
Maybe there is life with radically different physics from ours. And maybe they built some novelty galaxy constellations and our physicists will puzzle over those.

"We've had to update our model of how galaxies form to include engineering as the most parsimonious explanation for SLAC 79813 and its satellites 79828 and 79829. Light from SLAC 79833 indicates only class O stars whereas both satellites seem to contain only class M stars. Very pretty! But no natural process except precise engineering on a cosmic scale could lead to such homogeneity.

If our models are correct, tidal forces will stretch the two satellite galaxies into orthogonal tidal loops over the next billion years. It takes a species with significantly longer life-span than ours to appreciate the fireworks. But you can watch our simulation."

Such unlikely discoveries might very well start with a photo of the sky.
You don't understand how being exploitable would change your opinion on laws that try and prevent exploitation?

shocker...
Ah thanks, that explains it. So it's partly NPR's fault for using a title tag different from the headline. I guess I was also confused because I think I had also seen the duplicate submission that used the headline, not the title tag, so I though this one was changed.

But that bookmarklet is also at fault, since at the minimum submissions are required to strip out the site's name if it occurs in the title, so leaving in the ": NPR" bit is a bug in this automated approach. So some amount of human post-processing will always be needed. And while submissions are expected to keep the original title, there is also a rule that egregious clickbait like the question in the title tag should be removed (which has now been done!).
> A reminder that Google's revenues come almost completely from ad technology that they bought (from Doubleclick, IIRC).

Google gets more ad revenue from Search than they do from all other ads put together. So if we follow the money they are still a search company.
> You cannot even use a global variable safely!

Sorry? I’m unsure what you mean here, because there are plenty of ways to use globals in ways I would call “safe”: no undefined behavior, correct output, …
As a layperson thus I can predict that this study won't replicate. (liar paradox)
Oh dear god, found the person who has never been homeless.

Do you REALLY believe that laws that, say... limit how much interest you can charge on a loan CREATE vulnerability and marginalization?

Seriously?
Most, but not all. They are excellent tools but not perfect by any means.
The anthropic principle is one thing, but Boltzmann brains is so close to solipsism that it's worthless for scientific inquiry.
While some philosophy background should be mandatory for physicists, I don't see why they should waste so much of their time on Boltzmann brains ?
I’m pretty sympathetic to this. Anybody, me included, could definitely lock up. Who hasn’t had a day where their brain refuses to work.

But the thing about interviews is that you always want to heavily bias towards false negatives. A single bad hire is just astronomically costly. I think it’s fair to say that many smaller companies have literally been bankrupted by one incompetent person. When it comes to engineering positions, this is especially true.

I’d rather nuke 20 good candidates having a bad day, then risk letting one bad engineer through the door. That’s why I’m skeptical that the interview process can even be “fixed”.

Fundamentally it’s a mis-alignment of incentives. Employers have very strong to rule out candidates at even the slightest hint of incompetence. But for the interviewee, being judged so quickly, harshly and unfairly on a such a personal level makes them feel vulnerable and hurt.
Full guide about coffee grounds in the garden 2020
Agreed. In addition to making the world worse by having more cars on the road, we can also make it even worse by establishing a dystopian surveillance scheme.
Do people realise that Antifa simply means Anti-Fascist? Its origin is Antifaschistische Aktion during the Weimar Republic, though the current movement is ideologically a bit different.
Still, it seems that "antifa" has been politically co-opted in the US and is not being used in the right context at all.
How is Antifa objectively a threat to life and property?
> A big part of the Chinese education strategy has been to send lots of students to US universities to get advanced degrees and take that knowledge back to build China.

>> And to ensure that manufacturing moved to China!

Of course they did. But, to be fair:

1) Those students were not educated for free. They paid big money for it, and the universities were happy to grab the money fast

2) Some of this people were forced to go after their student visa expired. They could not work in US without a permit and were forced to exit. How to blame them for using their degree or creating a company in their own country later?

They shouldn't be seen as neither serfs nor slaves; technically they don't owe anything to US.
I remember reading an article by The Economist staring this too – US is (or at least, was) far more willing to take risks when it came to venture capital and investment, compared to Europe.
Yes. I proposed a method without mangling, but I suppose there isn't any reason why C couldn't use mangled names.

It also isn't a requirement that C++ use mangled names. Other ways of carrying the type information are possible. I like the idea of a reference to DWARF debug info, which C++ is already using to support stack unwinding for exceptions.
That does not mean it would have succeeded without the Google acquisition
it's not set in stone, and that's part of the beauty of it. Who are you to say whether or not another person may take such a job at a wage they find agreeable?
Some Uighurs in Xinjiang committed multiple terrorist attacks in China. For a ten years period, China suffered around three terrorist attacks a year.

The US even found thousands of Uighurs fighting for ISIS.

By your logic, that justifies the de-radicalization centers.
I like your points and agree on your conclusion.

Further, I would like to add a few ideas:

- innovation in Europe can only scale if we achieve a higher degree of unity in Europe, including one common language, one common jurisdiction and law framework. Localization is just too expensive in Europe and hinders scaling.

- a certain degree of protectionism is good. I am a big fan of how China made it. They have a really fantastic digital landscape that is superior in so many areas compared to Europe (if you exclude the data privacy issue)

- reliance on the old economy is bad and this is a political decision.

- too many people are too scared of new technologies and want things "how they used to be". This is bad and is typical for many Europeans, especially here in Germany. Cultural change must happen but you cannot force it.
There is no "Europe", though. France and Germany speak different languages and have different legal systems. Spain is different again. And Poland. And Greece. And Ireland. And Italy.

Put it this way: if products depend on viral growth, then European countries are socially distanced from each other as a result of these barriers.
The reason these restrictions exist is to address the inherent power differential between the contractor and the contractee.

There are other easier ways to address that differential. Namely: unionization. In many European countries, there are no minimum wage laws. There is no government agency equivalent of OSHA. Instead, they have unions, where workers themselves band together and collectively bargain to ensure they're adequately compensated and given a safe working environment.

Instead, we in the United States, have chosen to make the government our union. Then we're shocked and surprised when it does a bad job, or when its blanket policies have disproportionate impact on certain industries.
You can imagine just these sorts of arguments being raised when things like the 40 hour work week was going into effect.

And yet, here we are, years later, with the 40 hour work week and companies somehow successfully surviving.
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Neoliberals are pro-market, and markets are inherently anti-science.

If they weren't anti-science they wouldn't spend so much time running campaigns to discredit objective scientific research that harms their financial interests - from the effects of tobacco to lead in petrol to opioids to big oil to climate change.

The historical record on this is absolutely crystal clear and unambiguous.