skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VLIW suffers from lack-of-abstraction.

ie. you can make some great hardware and software which perform really efficiently today. If you later try to make a v2 of that system, and want to reuse the same software, then sorry - you're outa luck!

Also, while compilers today are very complex, they are still far from what's necessary to really make good use of a VLIW machine.

If someone manages to solve the above two things, then VLIW will 100% wipe the floor with current architectures. Being able to throw out all logic trying to get parallelism out of a serial instruction stream would have massive power and area improvements for the same computation throughput.
yet we dont have a ballpark number that says how much is human made and how much is natural. It doesent exist even in the IPCC report. You are welcome to prove me wrong.
> If you say Java is optimized for developer happiness, or worse, Haskell, I'll pass on this cheap trolling attempt.

Haskell with stack is a pretty happy place for professional software development in my experience.
Im was referring to narcism, autism, ADHD and the rest of what is classified by DSM 5 which similar institutions as the church use to classify people as sick.

DSM 1 also classified non hetero behavior as sick.
The Manslaughter of 200k
have found using the jest preset pretty good, a little awkward getting my code injected in some cases though
I think it's interesting that someone has to insist on something that doesn't exist to prove their point...
US cases of depression have tripled during the Covid-19 pandemic
My guess is that there were two aspects to the economics. First, Motorola's price included a big profit margin, since the price rapidly dropped when the 6502 provided competition. Second, if HP already had paid for a metal-gate fab, it was probably cheaper to use it than build a new fab.
I guess I think if the Netherlands are at risk of being cut off by the UK, France and Germany, then the situation in the world is much more dire than it should be. Interdependence is the nature of the European project.
Neural Networks Without Matrix Math
Deep Agriculture (Michael Pollan)
Thank you. Very insightful.
Problem is even though it looks familiar it feels anything but. I spent a considerable amount of time making my work Linux environment feel (I don't care mucht about the looks) like my Mac at home, Things like keyboard shortcuts, terminal application, spotlight, expose window movement, etc. Because I just don't want to keep adjusting my workflow between two different systems. But it's really hard to get it done completely or find a common middleground that works effectively on both systems.
> Be as it may, the fact that GD is so casual about pwned accounts being an everyday occurrence should suggest people that it’s better to stay away from their lumbering carcass of a service.

My assumption is that the vast majority of GD accounts almost certainly are people that have their first domain, are nontechnical, and have a credit card linked. The same would not apply for, say, Gandi, based on their advertising and upsells.
I did not say the library controls anything, Nvidia controls the library : its features, its roadmap, its bugs corrections, development efforts (people) etc. All these choices are made by Nvidia. It is not just another tool , it is the tool that is closest to hardware evolution.

Nvidia buying ARM is not a good news for me. The same way I don't like them making software, I also don't like them selling CPUs or seafood. They are good at GPUs and that's OK.

The drivers are usually running in the kernel space and do not involve much of interaction with users. Firmware, on the other side, is hardware-close software and can be gradually replaced by specific hardware continuous improvements without the user/software or the OS noticing.
This. Personally, I think something that involves looking behind the curtain on websites would be pretty gratifying to most teenagers. It's a bit of a revelation to see how the webpages they interact with all the time work.

Maybe scripting something to make a headless browser to do useful tasks, or crawling pages.
yes, I am trying to build a json parser :-)
The book described, "Unprepared: America in the Time of Coronavirus", tells the events in a unique way as a timeline of quotes. Seems like a valuable piece of history to review. (I have no affiliation.)
Imo data without structure is meaningless. This tool tries to understand what structure the data represents and provides several visualizations for the data.

But yeah, the blog post didn't really cover that, which does not mean the extension cannot do it.
I don’t think there’s any practical level of plant-having that would result in there being less CO2 in the house than in the atmosphere.

IIRC, there’s some point in running an indoor grow-ops where you start needing to worry about spraying CO2-enriched air on the plants; but that’s just to accelerate growth, like a fertilizer. Or, sometimes, it’s because OPSEC requires you to not vent your smelly waste air — and because no human or animal lives in the grow-op house to convert O2 to CO2, the air becomes gradually CO2-poor. But that wouldn’t happen if even one human lived there; humans convert metabolize a lot faster than plants do.
I think Rust will continue to gain more traction, but it has a looooong way to go to catch up to C++. Regardless, if someday all the jobs are in Rust, you can simply learn Rust and you’ll be good to go. Knowledge of the fundamentals is 10x more valuable than knowledge of some particular flavor-of-the-month language.
1. How do we know what parts of the library are usable on CUDA devices, and which are only usable in host-side code?

2. How compatible is this with libstdc++ and/or libcu++, when used independently?

I'm somewhat suspicious of the presumption of us using NVIDIA's version of the standard library for our host-side work.

Finally, I'm not sure that, for device-side work, libc++ is a better base to start off of than, say, EASTL (which I used for my tuple class:
https://github.com/eyalroz/cuda-kat/blob/master/src/kat/tupl...
).

...

partial self-answer to (1.): https://nvidia.github.io/libcudacxx/api.html apparently only a small bit of the library is actually implemented.
You can buy or make a SAD/Sun Lamp.
The salary might be lower, but there are SO many things that can be automated, I really don't think we're in danger of running out of economically interesting things for CS grads to do.

If anything, I think it's going to become more like basic literacy, required to do many economically useful things.
I was never able to get VLC to communicate with my Chromecast but gnomecast worked, so ymmv.
> When I joined the Financial Times as Technical Director for FT.com, I inherited a team of around 50 engineers. One of the first things I did was meet each of them for a one-to-one. I was initially resistant, but it was extremely valuable, I’m glad I did it, and I would definitely do it again in a future role.

I recently joined a startup, and I am glad I did not meet everyone (except learned a lot of faces in video meetings) because of COVID-19. More precisely, the second wave has been officially recognized by the government last week. Remote working is the status quo, and it will remain that way. Not my preference, normally, but it'll remain this way for the time being. Perhaps an interesting article in 2021.
You are welcome to open an issue in the extension repo and I can try to help you!
Arlo Guthrie would be proud.
Their stock has done mighty fine. Before anyone says if its down now check how much its gone through YTD. I still feel like their stocks highly undervalued considering where their competitors stock is at.
When you say that your ISP won’t let you download a VPN, what does that mean?
Earthquakes are not a significant risk to most single family homes on the US west coast. Yes, there is more than zero risk, but its nothing like areas prone to tornados, hurricanes, floods, or wildfires which can and fairly regularly do destroy entire neighborhoods.
I’d say any of those things at CPAC much less Fed Soc. Last Fed Soc meeting I was at before COVID, we had a vigorous debate over Bostock. The room was split 50/50. Likewise, there are enough libertarians to get a good amount of support for constraining the operational gamut of police or eliminating qualified immunity. More than a third of Republicans support making abortions always or mostly legal, and among Fed Soc, which leans a tidge libertarian, it’s probably half. Meanwhile, I wouldn’t address any of the nuances of those issues at an ABA meeting, much less in a partisan liberal organization.
> I'm curious, what did Rust developers think was wrong with exceptions?

To be fair, Rust effectively does have exceptions, in the form of panics. They unwind the stack, can have different types (although &str/String are the most common/supported), can be caught and rethrown if not configured to abort the entire process instead.

They are used for exceptional, fatalish errors (including admittedly less exceptional bugs from unconsidered edge cases), and not regular "normal" / "expected" day-to-day error handling.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/panic/fn.catch_unwind.html

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/panic/fn.resume_unwind.html

> I'm pretty happy with them in other languages, as they allow me to focus more on the "normal" path in my code.

This is the boon and curse of exceptions.

Consistently writing exception-safe code when you're focused more on the normal path can actually be quite hard, as evidenced by all the code I've debugged written by coworkers who've failed to do so. Reviewing said code to attempt to enforce exception safety is similarly hard. Rust's `?`s, by contrast, make early-outs relatively easy to spot and reason about via their syntax.

Aside from leaked memory, double frees, and other bugs and crashes caused by invalid object states from failing to consider the case where execution is interrupted mid-operation by an exception, there's also all the undefined behavior from exceptions unwinding across C ABI boundaries for callbacks and other purpouses. This is suprisingly common in gamedev.

The larger and more widely used the codebase, the more frequent and normal the "abnormal" path becomes, and the more serious the consequences of ignoring it. Nobody cares if a quick utility script or command line tool occasionally crashes if you can just rerun it, or have it quickly patched, and don't suffer data loss. Focusing on the normal path is probably the right choice there!

But at the other extreme, if you're about to release a game, a crash affecting 1% of players is still pissing off thousands of people, and not all handhelds have internet connectivity for post-release patching. This results in weeks-long QA processes to try and catch all the nasty stuff, because delaying the release and throwing a wrench into a million dollar marketing plan might be less expensive than shipping shit broken by something as mundane as an unexpected exception. Focusing on all the edge cases is often the right choice there.

And when focusing on all the edge cases, explicit return based error handling tends to be much easier to read and reason about than exception based code, IME - even in Rust where a lot of heavy lifting might be hidden behind the occasional stray "?" - letting me get back to focusing on the "normal" path of my next task quicker - and with more confidence that I considered the appropriate edge cases of the previous task exhaustively and successfully.
I'm sorry, but that just doesn't jive with my friend's real lived experience.

They grew up being told that they were broken and endured life long pain from that upbringing. My friend was literally disowned by her parents who still refuse to talk to her.

They (my friends) aren't Catholic. They are good people who didn't deserve to be put through that experience just because of one religion's sense of morality.
the iCE40 chip used is supported by icestorm/yosys/nextpnr stack.

But I do not know if the Xilinx reversing effort supports the Xilinx chip. That project is in a much earlier state of development.

And I do have to wonder if an ecp5 (supported by trellis project) wouldn't have been able to do the job.
1. printf-style debugging is what we use on NVIDIA hardware too.

2. OpenCL 2.x allows for C++(ish) source code. Not sure how good the AMD support is though.
I once got a tour of ILM through a coworker -- this is a very real concern even with blowing up miniatures.

So you always make three: the one you plan to blow up, the backup, and the one you hope will go into the archives to show people later.
Is it also possible that the virus deceased the vulnerable in March / April and thus peaked then?
I've used Linux so much, I initially read the title as "Window (singular) Server Vulnerability...", leading me to wonder what was wrong with Xorg this time...
I really dig the slim and professional form factor, a lot of "portable" open-source hardware projects look like a bunch of PCBs stapled together, with wires and connectors hanging out everywhere.
How does Django validate passwords?
Wow, that is an incredible story. One day, when / if I have a big enough house I'll build my own octopus aquarium :)
Illegal Radio Operators Transmitting Regularly (1982)
A 5-4 conservative majority Supreme Court keeps striking down abortion restrictions, much less rolling anything back. A 6-3 wouldn’t flip it, though you might get some more enforcement of the viability limit. Only Alito and Thomas would actually vote to flip it if it came to that.
ELF: https://lists.debian.org/lsb-spec/1999/12/msg00017.html
Nevermind, I thought it was talking about penny stocks. Should have read more carefully.
this library
"It would be premature to draw any conclusion about the origins of the virus from this paper. But what is not premature is that social media giants deciding for us what is true and what is false may turn out to be as big a threat as the virus. It is unfair to dismiss ideas that one doesn't want to hear as “conspiracy theories” as many people are doing."
I think this satisfies your desire for a "ballpark number"

https://ourworldindata.org/contributed-most-global-co2

Come on. You're just putting your head in the sand and pretending the sand is the real world.
You should also check the channels that your neighbors are running their wifi on and pick a unused channel.
https://airflow.app/ is worth mentioning - paid software (sadly Windows/macOS only) but works with everything you throw at it, transcodes unsupported codecs seamlessly and has great UI with remote control via an app.
Just to add some context: the code works since 1.36 for 2015 edition code when NLL was deemed fully compatible to backport it to older code[1][2], released on July of 2019[3], and since 1.31[4] with the stable introduction of the 2018 edition back in December of 2018[5].

[1]: https://godbolt.org/z/er3zT6

[2]: https://godbolt.org/z/zKPao4

[3]: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/07/04/Rust-1.36.0.html#nll-f...

[4]: https://godbolt.org/z/WKczbv

[5]: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/12/06/Rust-1.31-and-rust-201...
I haven't taken die photos of the Nanoprocessor myself (yet), but it's pretty easy with a chip like that. Since it has a metal lid, it can be opened up in about 5 seconds with a chisel; no boiling acids required. The inconvenient part is that you need a metallurgical microscope to get a good view. A metallurgical microscope shines the light down through the lens so you get a clear image under high magnification. You can see interesting stuff with a regular microscope or an inspection scope, but the details are obscured.

To make a detailed die photo, I take about 50-100 closeup image and then stitch them together using the Hugin panorama program. This usually takes a couple of hours.
It strikes me as somewhat disingenuous to not mention why this article was "cancelled" in the first place.
The smaller number could be a stronger indicator that many more are getting away with it.
I agree. We're at 412 ppm outside and there is a long way to go before indoor levels are an environmental issue rather than an HVAC one.
I'm talking about the 2019 primaries. Watch the link instead of being reactionary and commenting from your gut.
>The U.S. government is the most noble customer in history, whether you support the person in the White House or not.

That is a non argument for how nobel the US government is. This seems to be a disingenuous way of pretending that the current administration doesn't have serious problems by suggesting it is just down to a matter of people's minor preferences. Even before the current administration it would be a tough argument to call our government the most nobel.
I expected fire extinguishers (adiabatic expansion), dry ice, liquid nitrogen and the like to turn up, but this is limited to things one can do with stuff most people have available at home.

For practical methods, for beer bottles that one isn’t allowed to open, I would experiment with placing the bottles upside down, as that would increase the area of beer in contact with the inside of a bottle, and that, I think, should increase cooling (I guess by just a tiny amount)

If so, spinning the bottles would probably speed up cooling even more (it further increases that area, but also will generate some heat)
This is nice, I've been using catt mapped to the media keys via the native window manager shortcuts, but this seems easier to set up.
I wonder if GoDaddy is unwittingly helping others exploit when someone is searching for domains.

E.g., if there's ML in their suggestions, and they look at cohorts, when I search for D after A, B, C, they'll start to suggest D to others looking for A, B, C.

Then all I have to do is watch A, B or C for changes, and when I see D, I know it's become someone is interested.
What We Know About Life in Outer Space
+100 on this. A social environment that encourages this is a huge motivator. A good FIRST Robotics team is one way that you might get this (not all teams will have great student experiences, but they’re probably your best bet for this type of environment.)
Wow, that's amazing. Come to think of it, many people were simply born at home and not registered with the state in the 1900's, but they would get baptised, so the Church should hold the record of that.

I think the Soviet Union's laws against the Church might've player a role in the loss of records.
> I've always been amazed by this ability to track your ancestors hundreds of years back. Were the records that good back then?

"... between 1640 and 1700, the literacy rate for men in Massachusetts and Connecticut was somewhere between 89 percent and 95 percent, quite probably the highest concentration of literate males to be found anywhere in the world at that time. The literacy rate for women in those colonies is estimated to have run as high as 62 percent in the years 1681-1697.

"... Since the male literacy rate in seventeenth-century England did not exceed 40 percent, we may assume, first of all, that the migrants to New England came from more literate areas of England or from more literate segments of the population, or both. In other words, they came here as readers and were certain to believe that reading was as important in the New World as it was in the Old. Second, from 1650 onwards almost all New England towns passed laws requiring the maintenance of a "reading and writing" school, the large communities being required to maintain a grammar school as well."

-- Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
If i want to download a VPN I have to download a "free" one on the app store to browse to the proper vpn site. They seem to be intercepting the SSL in some way

Mozilla vpn works (it's new) but the websites for proton, Nord etc. don't work. The actual service works fine
If you're used to X, and can make Y look and function like X, this is useful. It can also be fun, which by itself is useful. Important project? Subjective.

I tend to make a lot of apps Solarized. E-mail (Mutt/Postbox), Sublime/Vim, iTerm, even HN, for example are all Solarized (dark to be precise). That's also different than the original UI.

Also, for some machines there's no macOS (very high end, and embedded like this one). Hackintosh has its drawbacks, and doesn't exist for ARM.

Regarding Windows, there have been UIs for *NIX which looked like a version of Windows since ever since I started using Linux (RedHat 5.2 somewhere end of 90s).
> Most investors know it's a party, but when will it end?

The thing with bubbles and crashes is that they never come to an end when most investors think they are in it. They only end when most people don’t think they are in one
You can still control chromecasts from Chrome on linux.
H.W. and W Bush? What are the odds?
Finally it all makes sense. I was wondering about it and it also explains how the 'brain teaser question' like how many google engineers do you need to change a lightbulb or were there different questions, anyway, came about.
keep a journal in plain text
The VLC client is "barebones" - even simple functionality like adjusting the volume is missing. If the network connection drops, the chromecast stops playing (regular chromecast would continue). There is no support for subtitles, alternate audio/video tracks, audio effects, video playback speed, or pretty much anything else.

Seeking is supported tho, as are audio-only files.
Effective ML (and F#)
There was a patch released last Tuesday, wasn’t it?

Not so fun though for those who still are on Server 2008 though. (Yes, that is still a thing unfortunately.)
not by much. software salaries in the uk are not that great. 75k is top top bracket for uk.
Dynamic linking overhead was not that significant in the late 1980s on 25MHz 68030 and 68040 systems. Only in an overwhelmingly large system will that fraction of a fraction of a percent matter significantly.
Nice! But from the title I thought it'd done something like Hells Gate in Moab

https://www.google.com/search?q=moab+utah+hells+gate&oq=moab...
There are a lot of studies that demonstrate taking daily Vitamin D supplements reduces the likelihood of lung infections.

Moreover, the first double blind clinical trial on Vitamin D and COVID-19 was published [0] which had astonishing results:

N=76

Percentage admitted to ICU: 50% -> 2%

Deaths: 8% -> 0%

I suggest you read the paper for the full picture, or to watch the analysis of Dr John Cambell [1] There’s more and more studies like this that demonstrate that Vitamin D helps prevent bad outcomes. In other words: people who are Vitamin D deficient are much more likely to develop severe complications after contracting COVID-19. 42% of Americans are Vitamin D deficient. For African Americans that percentage is 82%, because darker skin makes Vitamin D more slowly.

In Europe we are going through a 2nd wave of infections, yet the death-rate is much lower than the first wave. This could be explained by the lower Vitamin D deficiency in most people thanks to the summer.

For what it’s worth, I am taking 25mcg/day of Vitamin D supplement. They are dirt cheap (5Eur for 300 days). Dr John Cambell is taking 50mcg and an email from Dr Fauci revealed that he is taking 150mcg/day [1].

So even if you get exposure to sunlight, I would suggest looking into taking a supplement. Why the main media/government channels don’t talk about this more is baffling and potentially criminal. Maybe because there’s no money to be made from Vitamin D because there are no patents?

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007602...

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=V8Ks9fUh2k8
Why?

The question of America's apparent desire for official censorship is orthogonal to the question of monopoly. And even if it wasn't, people would be a lot more likely to get their preferred brand of censorship from whichever 1/7th Facebook they chose to use.
I'm a fluent English speaker, and I'm also having a hard time figuring out your point. And it seems ambiguous what exactly you're calling "flaming crap".