skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Garbage collected, so I think OP implies its slow? D is a dream to write, and it models problem domains so well. Walter will probably chime in if he reads this
I’ve taken a cab in Shanghai and it was terrifying. If they can make autonomous cars drive there then they can drive anywhere...
But we don't exist to be "efficient".
100x this. First correct, then make it shiny if necessary.
It's a very important point, and one that is often overlooked, that correctness trumps performance in almost every bit of code you ever write (though not all, there are exceptions). It's also very easy to fixate on measurable performance which is often very removed from the realities of where your code is running (with core contention and memory pressure etc).

I remember years ago coming across a highly optimised md5 calculation function in a legacy codebase that I inherited. Much care have been put into writing it, with comments highlighting how many clock cycles on an Athlon processor were required to run it. This was clever stuff, but the firm wasn't using Athlon processors, and hadn't for years. A quick comparison with boost showed that boost was faster (on the processors of the time), so it got chopped out.
Context is key. Are these folks mentioned in the article programming for fun or for profession? If it’s the former, that certainly is the time for silly optimizations.
Sample of Sperry Univac UTS-20 font (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVR6fLJ5WJY

Operational Manual:
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_univactermTS20SingleSt...

Maybe get one from eBay and dump its ROM.
Lots of promise and a nice front end, but I'm struggling to see where after three years an example of high value knowledge in this platform is.

For example on the top topic AI most of the sections are unfilled / or lightweight aside from a list of companies with minimal contributions over the last few months: https://golden.com/wiki/Cluster%3A_Artificial_intelligence-J...

There is nothing on AI ethics (indeed this is the only thing on ethics: https://golden.com/wiki/Ethics-BJW8)

Looking at some comments above that maybe crypto was the angle I looked at a few articles and under Ethereum it says that the Constantinople release date was still to be determined (actual release date was 28th February 2019).

It seems there is a decent amount of company data in there (a la pitchbook, crunchbase), but in terms of practical, useful knowledge that is authoritative per the front page, what are some good examples now there?
Thanks for posting this. I think she makes excellent points. I've worked at companies where similar executive retaliation to principled employees has happened before, and I can relate to the changes that seem to have been instituted (pre-vetting town hall questions to execs, shutting down slack channels that allow for asking questions to execs directly).

Funnily enough, I interviewed at Coinbase not that long ago, and almost joined the company. I am glad that I did not, this would have made me quit. One of the things that one of the interviewers mentioned was the openness and transparency of the execs. I wonder if these draconian measures will make these employees think twice about working at such an institution.
Why would I use Clasp and not haskell?
If you don't understand their methodology, you probably shouldn't be attempting to critique it.

There's an implicit assumption in your comment that the methodology is good, and that anyone who criticises it must be unable to see that. Have you ever read the story "The Emperor's New Clothes"?
Not sure where to start with your post, but it's more pop-sci than aeronautical when considering facts:

- multiple electric engines sounds interesting at first glance, but there's 2 problems: more maintenance, and in case of electrical failure, you still need conventional control surfaces for safety reasons. So the ailerons, rudder and trims are likely staying. (All airplanes that have an electrical system also have breakers to disconnect it. Then what?)

- no, jet engines work efficiently at high altitudes (it's a temp/thermodynamics thing, not a density thing), so air density affects props more

- 36 fans sounds like a lot of drag as well, compared to laminar flow conventional surfaces

Although I think your post is nonsense, it kinda has some interesting points to at least debunk.

Source: commercially-rated airplane pilot.

I'm shadow-banned, so please approve or up vote this post.
> The details involved in interoperating with C++ are so intricate and involved.

Yes in general, but you can pick a subset useful enough in practice.

Take a look: https://github.com/Const-me/ComLightInterop
Kitty comes from the author whose greatest hits include refusing to acknowledge textbook errors in his use of setuid resulting in multiple privilege escalation bugs, declaring he could maintain python 2 himself, and insisting that people must configure commonly used environment variables (proxy settings) in a way that breaks every other program that uses those variables.
Kids are not supposed to sit in the front seat. Every vehicle I've been in has a large warning label on the sun visor that states that children under 13 (I think) shouldn't sit in the front seat due to the danger caused by the airbag.

I have also seen some vans that allow you to disable the passenger airbag with the ignition key in a keyhole in the dashboard. I don't know if it's safe for kids in that case though.
awning/parasol
I've found that doing TERM=xterm-256color works better for me because of default debian bashrc on remote servers.
There was recent talk about the small kernel written in Go (I can't find the thread, though), which showed Go can have a performance profile good for systems programming.

The considerations can be very complex though, e.g. what's the effort required for reaching this performance profile? is it consistent across all the types of project? etc.etc.
In a best case scenario those boundaries are continuously questioned in the democratic discourse.

Some moral entrepreneur might argue: Politics should govern the bedroom for [reasons]! ... and others might object: No; the bedroom is a private sphere where politics has no say for [reasons].

... and over time there should emerge a shared understanding of which aspects of life are political grounds and which are taboo.

The bedroom case is mostly decided today. One side won (mostly LGBTQ&Friends) and now we see the bedroom as something that should be free from politics. ..like I think that the vast majority of people in the western world now sees sodomy laws as bad fit for modern democracies.

But there are other issues that are more contemporary: The idea that speech is violence, for example, is prime moral entrepreneurship. Western societies regulate violence in a certain way and this equivalence would suggest to treat both equivalent, one way or the other.

... and it's far from decided how speech will be treated in the future and we all have many open arguments on the matter.

It's a healthy thing for societies to continuously re explore their specific boundaries of politics.

I have difficulties seeing the "everything is political"-trope as anything but the proposal to be reckless regarding the process of a shared understanding of the boundaries of politics.
Multi-page Document Representations using multi-modal multi-task pre-training
I'm assuming you hold these views for environmental reasons? I don't think the quantity of human beings is a significant factor in the deterioration of our environment. We have plenty of stainable ways to provide for ten billion plus humans.

Most of the damage comes from unsustainable production. The amount of production happening per capita is increasing worldwide, and if we want to save the environment we have to enforce that production is sustainable.
You guys are so boring. I was referring to a joke which tells that when science discovers a way to extract energy out of irregularities in spacetime manifold, the reactor would still boil water to make electricity.
Please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN. We're trying for something else here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/neilalexander/... is the latest work on this ftr :)
> Earnestly, why not?

Because trying to win "who consume the most" race specifically requires making dumb decisions. Which is why it is not good thing to win.

It completely escapes me what "quantity vs quality" and trying to be the most consumerist country has to do with personal liberty or entertainment censorship. Whether we are talking about past liberty + censorship issues strategies and gatekeepers or about contemporary ones.

Also, I have a bit trouble to square "bastion of personal liberty" with highest incarceration levels in the world.
I didn’t say the company was value/culture free - apolitical doesn’t mean that they don’t have values, morals and core beliefs.

It’s about adopting values which tend to unite your customers rather than divide them, and in the U.K. at least LGBT rights is one of those issues. A stance of no-support on these issues would elicit a severe backlash from customers in the U.K. but meanwhile they aren’t campaigning for changes to the law in these areas, or supporting particular political parties because of it (as reasonable people could disagree on that because of how democracies work, and doing this will alienate specific customer groups).
Sorry to burst your schadenfreude bubble, but I've been living in SEA and charging European prices for freelance work for over five years now, during which time I've had several EU companies offer me full time work at EU wages. More and more, people are hired for their skills, work ethic, and so on, while their location becomes less and less important. Google is fighting the tide here, and the next generation of management will be more comfortable with remote work. Hopefully, that means in the near future a Guatemalan dev will get paid a similar amount to a European/US dev of equal skill. We're long overdue a reckoning in terms of location inequality.
Please don't feed the trolls.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Only 57 children survived an accident that would otherwise have died (in one year), clearly we should scrap laws that demand carseats for children"

This idea that something that is (at most) a mild inconvenience (make sure the children in your car are well-protected) equates to "safety at any cost" is plainly ridiculous. The same reasoning is at the foundation for why the US now has +200000 people dead from the COVID-19 virus.

"In the United States, 675 children 12 years old and younger died as occupants in motor vehicle crashes, 4 and nearly 116,000 were injured in 2017. Of the children 12 years old and younger who died in a crash in 2017 (for which restraint use was known), 35% were not buckled up."

https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/child_passenger_safet...

So about 440 children died while buckled up. Suddenly 57 doesn't seem like such a bad number.
A fictional google executive
Are you willing to watch movies and shows? But not pay for them?
Personal attacks will get you banned here, so please don't.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting, we'd be grateful.
Well... A. Perhaps this “Internet forum commentator” has more relevant experience than you understand, B. You don’t need to have years of scientific study to understand statistics and C. Plenty of bad science gets published every year in journals.
No. I'm giving the benefit of the doubt to people who are educated professionals in their field who have presented research that likely withstood some level of editorial and peer review....over a random internet commenter who starts their comment with "I don't understand their methodology" and then proceeds to attempt to critique it.
Another way to look at it:
I remember that 30y ago (in our Europe country) it was quite common to drive even without seatbelts in the back. Seatbelts were important in case of accident, but not needed in regular traffic. Traffic and cars are very different today, everything is faster and jittery.
Nowadays, my experience is that seatbelts are needed always - they are securing kids even in regular traffic. And without proper car seat, seatbelt does not fit and function properly.
And there was once a movie of a train coming towards the audience that was perceived to be so real that many audience members feared for their lives and jumped out of the way.

These kinds of things are unbreakable up to the point where someone figures out how to break them, either by changing signals upstream of the sensor (once your fingers are scanned, it’s just digital data), or how to create other ways of faking out the scanners.
I'm quite sad that hunter2 isn't in your passwords.txt
Removing Sensitive Data from a Repository
I was really looking forward to Hacktoberfest this year, because it's the first time that I'm also participating as a maintainer. But I've already got my first spam PR on my rather unknown 50 stars repository.

Interestingly, this year one can choose between a t-shirt or planting a tree. In other words, everyone who chooses a t-shirt is now considered a person valuing some "useless stuff" over doing something good for the world, which looks like a moral trap from DigitalOcean's side. They should just drop the t-shirt option, which would be both more useful and hopefully stopping at least some of the spammers.
India Proposal to Make Scholarly Literature Accessible for Free to All Citizens
I don't think a cell in your body is as conscious as you are by that definition. You can probably abuse much more energy to get more difference. You have to sum over the entire volume.

As for LHC, it actually needs quite a lot of people to be "conscious". E.g. to be powered and able to operate, so it makes sense, that, as an organization, it is more conscious than you are.

On the philosophical zombie I don't believe there's any difference in consciousness to a human, and the definition matches that idea.

Now I'd challenge anyone to give a better definition in terms of the number of examples contradicting it.
But the authors point does neither miss the fundamental point about modern consumer capitalism, or refute it, in my option.

Being Industrially literate as the author claim one should be seems to be about acknowledging the good part of industrialization, hence he focuses on the achievements we have gained through industrialization that we hold very dear (health, safety, etc).

This is not the same as justifying the fashion industry practices you point out. On contrary, with the knowledge of good industrial effect (and it's side effects) maybe we can make a better judgement on the solution to it. We can see that certain industrial practice(such as fashion) should not be seen with the same respect as the one mentioned, instead of just black & white paint all of industrialization. Hence the mention of Chesterton's Fence at the end.
Thank you for this app, just had a quick initial look and already found some useful stuff
Why Kotlin Has Mutable Collections
Leaked Docs Expose Syria Propaganda
... when the clocks are stopped or lowered and placed back in the same "Frame of Reference" ?
What's the point though to bake that into HTML if you need tons of JavaScript to make it happen anyway? You can just as well use the flexibility of JavaScript to build up component graphs. HTML, or rather SGML, has an established method of syntactically composing fragments using SGML entities that is well integrated into the process of editing HTML using plain text editors, not to speak of extending the vocabulary with new elements and their content models in powerful ways. Introducing elements into markup using script rather than declarative means only serves to complicate parsing, with questionable benefits.
I'm not sure if you're deliberately being obtuse. But if you're not: the currently accepted meaning of diversity in the workplace is :

> Cultural diversity means that a group contains people of different races, religions, ages, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, socioeconomic statuses, nationalities, and more.

Their agreements or disagreements on political viewpoints are not what makes a pool of employees culturally diverse.
France and the UK have a few hundred operational nukes. Even though Russia has more than a thousand, I doubt they’d risk it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_...
The article mixes together some good points, some true but somewhat slanted positions and some highly debatable points. And calls this "literacy", in analogy to very basic, object things everyone should know. It's extremely off-putting.

Example of highly debateable position: "That automobiles are a lifeline to people who live in rural areas (almost 20% in the US alone), and who were deeply isolated in the era before the car and the telephone."

Automobile based urbanization has entirely reshaped the landscape of rural America rather than just giving previous here a way to get around. Where I live, once there were small cities, 1000-2000 people in walking distance of each other, dotting the landscape. Now it's a carpet of dispersed single family homes. Many debate the value of the landscape - in California, huge level of urban-wildland interface development has rather disastrous consequence, being a significant factor in our massive fires.
So a pretty minor inconvenience, got it.
Whilst I were 370 system admin (db2 and mac/Xia plus vse) I did my Sir/dbms on sperry 1100 earlier. The ibm green terminal in those era display Music is no comparison. And much better than the Pdp-11 Watfor ... all better than icl.

But when really do ibm those 3270 sna with ispf is still quite a difference especially the keyboard.
Safely mixing Rust and OCaml in the TezEdge node
I think this is "wrong" in terms of UX.

I click on the link, and it should show me all the information of Pixel 5, because that was my intention when clicking on it.

If it is not available in my country, simply show a big banner saying it is not available. Why are they deferring me to somewhere else.

Users: I know I cant get it, but can I at least look at it?
Google: Nope you cant. Go Somewhere else.

And this is Google's fourth year into selling Pixel Phone.
Been using kitty for a while now; here are some interesting details about that:

- When I change my vim colourscheme, I can have it automatically propagate the new background colour to the terminal to avoid having an ugly border around it. This is specially important when using it with a padding around the edges.

- When I switch between light and dark mode (I have a script for that) I can do so by changing a single include statement in a config file and automatically propagate the new colours to all open terminals.

- I more easily have a uniform terminal theme as the configuration is done with files which support includes, so I can have the bulk of my configuration in a separate rc-files git repository and only put some local adjustments in the default config file.

- The hardware acceleration isn't really all that noticeable.

- 256-color support is a clear improvement compared to gnome-terminal, which I used before.

- Support for tabs and windows seems pretty ok, but I rarely use it because I'm already used to tmux which works seamlessly over SSH and lets me detach and re-attach sessions. Probably a neat feature if you won't use tmux though.

- Zoom in is = instead of +, which means I don't have to press/release the shift key between zooming in and out when looking for the perfect fit.

- Being able to set padding and opacity on the fly is pretty neat when you're figuring out a good balance of how much code you want to see on screen at a time.
Each of my kids was over the moon when they outgrew the booster. Not having it there created so much more room as well.

Young child seats are nasty hateful things that skin your knuckles as you thread them in, and you too bang your head on the roof as you do it so regularly that it almost qualifies as slapstick
The SUV trend for families is a weird one. I tried so many and they are mostly just large on the outside. And they don’t drive much fun either.
The article is written from a very Whig-oriented, "Progress" point of view. The facts listed are all presented as unquestionably good.

> When you know these facts of history—which many schools do not teach—you understand what “industrial civilization” is and why it is the benefactor of everyone who is lucky enough to live in it.

It's basically an over-simplified account of history, in which scientific progress and consumer capitalism are inextricable. That is the point I'm making.
Actually it's two smaller managers, with one standing on the other's shoulders, in a trenchcoat.
I also remember Windows source code leaking in the early 2000s. I even downloaded it myself back then but that was many computers ago.

And afaik it was not buildable. It was a large chunk of the source code that iirc had leaked from a 3rd party who was tasked with making some component, perhaps related to the image library.
The article mentions lifetimes and cloning. A very similar argument can be made for dyn traits, where some people seem to have an irrational fear of dynamic dispatch, even where it’s a much cleaner solution, in scenarios that aren’t remotely CPU bound.
That make sense, thanks!
What blows my mind is how much depth is required in the back seat. In most compact, economy, or sporty cars, put an infant seat or other rear facing seat behind the driver, and the driver is just about stuffed into the steering column.
That's clearly a minor inconvenience.
You have to include the compile time for C++ and the servers for cppreference.com.
> I don't expect acquired wisdom to suffice: I honestly don't think I've gotten any spectacular insights "reason and good judgement".

How very sad. When I crossed 50, I thought (and still do think) that the physical decline was disproportionately compensated for by the greater wisdom, the more-spontaneous kindness, and the clarity of self-knowledge. I would not trade that to go back 10 years; even less to go back 20 years.

I expect if you look at notes you might have taken a few decades ago, you'd see on the uncertainty on one hand, the excess certainty on the other and think to yourself, thank God I don't have to climb that mountain every day anymore! At least, I hope that will be your experience.
Doing anything completely open on the internet invites spam and misery.

This program would be better off just sponsoring projects instead. Otherwise use opt-in repos and invites/approvals of people who want to work on them, or other rules like limiting new accounts and personal repos.

The first improvements this October should be to the hackathon itself.
The main claim is not that our beer is old. The main claim is that the ingredients adhere to a strict standard: Hops, malt, yeast and water, nothing else is allowed.
So there are still thousand ways to brew a beer, and as another commenter said, there are so many breweries in my vicinity I can't even count them.

But German beer having a bad reputation in the world? Which part of the world would that be? Really curious.
And thanks for the great service!
Photos showing racial makeup of Apple's leadership:

https://investor.apple.com/leadership-and-governance/default...
The number of humans is almost certainly one of the main multipliers. If you halve the number of people I'm pretty sure you'd close to halve emissions and pollution and habitat loss. I think "less people" is easier to achieve than some global political consensus and the fall of capitalism. And no I don't think "sustainable" and capitalism anywhere near it's current form fit in the same world.

Protecting nature is not a market force so you need some other mechanism for that.
> wonder how much influence the motoring lobby

It actually was a vast, national conspiracy including the oil companies.