skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think Java was chosen because it had ways to do manual GC. I think the developers were comfortable with Java, so they wanted to find a way to fit it into something “fast”.
"suppression" of a story based on a faked pdf? Isn't that just the journalistic editing we've been asking for all these years?
I used to have a dream computing setup back when I was in college:

A beefy desktop computer - high performance/$ CPU and GPU with several terabytes of storage so I could not worry about how much stuff I download and have several OSes installed without having to shortchange some on storage.

A netbook - one of those 10"-screen dinky little things that had just enough compute to run some basic desktop stuff. I would use this as a remote terminal to the desktop so I could still use the desktop's power from my couch.

As wifi speeds have increased, netbooks have all but disappeared and laptops mostly suck, I'm seriously considering this again, but instead of a netbook I'd jerry-rig a Raspberry Pi into a "laptop".
Don't you think that the definition of racism from a organisation that profits of fighting racism is a little bit biased?
What you say might be the case - that some people are trying to take a word with certain connotations and change it's definition. If they had read more, they would see the self-parody that creates.

> 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'
I have a Thinkpad X1 Carbon (gen 7) and it’s the best laptop I’ve ever owned (after several generations of various windows laptops and macbook models)

Fantastic keyboard, fantastic support from various BSDs and Linuxes, great build quality, good screen, has some USB-A and USB-C ports, doesn’t look silly.

Can not recommend this model enough.

The only downside is probably all the weird stuff Lenovo has done in the past - but those have all been on Windows. If you’re going to remove windows, I’m guessing it won’t matter that much.
I think really the use case is to run in a VM to handle old code and keep security up to date. I wouldn't want to run it on bare hardware for that reason (3)
I believe they mean screens in the sense of technical interviews to assess candidates' technical ability.
And I think it should be the other way around.

Yes, that means I want to coerce people to provide service. On the other hand, if they don't want it, they can always stop providing that service entirely.
Isn't this architecture dependent?

It is hard to imagine the same performance on a Pentium Pro.

What is the right processor-independent measure for latencies like this? Number of clock-ticks? That seems flawed, too.
Then fuck off to 4chan
What would be a natural grid layout?
Yes, that's my entire point. They are working with a different definition then most people.
I would apply this to any company offering a service or product to the general public.
>and this will counterpart the world splitting the internet into nationally divided fragments.

Perhaps, but how is this related to this story? Both epik and paypal are located in the US. If anything this points towards the internet being divided across partisan lines.
It's a great book, but that excerpt reflects a pretty shallow read of 1984.

It doesn't account for this specific example, the use of outrage as an instrument of social control.
Mediapart says ‘no’ to US unilateralism
Citation for what?

On average your looking at ~90B in net profits from farming, the subsidies however are much harder to track down. Ethanol subsides for example are often excluded as are insurance, tariffs etc.
Neuropilin 1 is associated with cells in veins and arteries. This study was probably a focus due to the fact that COVID-19 tends to cause vascular issues.

Engineering for that would be unwise in a viral treatment due to the fact you can't control dosage enough to keep it from killing the patient by turning their arteries to jello.
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Look, I understand the frustration but they're not going to set this price. This thing is way bigger than this company and even the entire pharmaceutical industry. This is a global crisis.

Many governments have proven that they will put the public's need over these companies need. They've broken patents and pressured companies before and they will obviously do it again.

There are more governments in the world than the American one.

For now speed is of the essence and this it's wonderful news they've set another step.
The idea that it is a culture 'war' comes out of a right-wing framing.

A (small) group of Conservative Party MPs in the UK have presented it as such and indicated that it's useful to their cause that there is a perceived enemy to unite behind, whether or not they agree with any particular policies.

e.g. https://inews.co.uk/opinion/tories-culture-war-win-back-popu...

similarly referenced from an international perspective on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_war#Artificiality_or_a...
Both Gates and Buffett have seemed to be following a quote from Buffett in the mid-80s. Warren aims to leave "enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing."
Transverse myelitis was also observed in some people infected by sars-cov-2, one case alone is not enough to lead to any meaningful conclusion.
I'm not saying don't give it to them as well, just do the vulnerable people first.

At least then we stand a chance of getting the economy back on its feet.
Except it was faked and not hacked or illegally obtained.
Look, if you get a reputation for entering businesses and shitting on the floor, you'll find yourself banned from all of them eventually.

The same is true for online businesses.
If I understand you correctly it sounds like your looking for something like deck.gl? (https://deck.gl/examples/geojson-layer-polygons/)
I'm in the trial. Here's the participant information sheet, in case anyone's curious:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WB5QPmECchlThnem9wcX0PDaKQW...
Sure, but I was referring about the state and design of the language in general, and its viability for new projects.
What's the current recommended platform for running Windows 95/98 programs? Virtualbox sound/graphics doesn't work quite right on some old programs.
I don’t think you understand how the biology of vaccines work.
"ties to the government?" Even if that were more than vague and nebulous, it's still not "actually the government." Private companies terminating accounts of their own volition is not censorship.
> I suggest that we should give merek the for profit monopoly, but allow for non profit manufacturing. If another organization wants to make the vaccine but not derive profit from the process, let them.

Not-for-profit manufacturing would have to be done by the government itself, wouldn't it? Otherwise, what other entity would and could actually pay to set that up?
Except that HFT firms don't call themselves HFT any more, they re-branded to ultra-low latency trading.

And FPGAs are the norm now, not the exception.

Sure, Java still has its place, but implying that it is anywhere in the hot loop of a contemporary ULL system is wrong at best and disingenuous at worst.

I mean just read the abstracts from this years STAC conference. https://www.stacresearch.com/spring2020
Very unlikely IMHO.

There is still caching, just not caching of the same resource used by different domains.

Most people most times visit a small set of domains. All for which the resource still is cached from the previous visit.

Combine it with the small likely hood to get a hit on cross domain caching the change in traffic is likely negligible.
I can't recommend the book Amusing Ourselves to Death enough, especially in our current hyper-stupid times.
Exactly! Facists hate the tools of freedom.
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> Compilation time realistically is not a big problem. ... sqlite's 6MB in under a second

SQLite is notably pure C, which compiles orders of magnitude faster than C++, or at least certain types of C++.

I've worked on a project - not particularly large - where using precompiled headers reduced compilation time from something like an hour and a half to more like 15 minutes. Admittedly that's a very old crusty laptop, but that's without building the libraries, which are compiled separately! Even on much faster modern machines, building the dependencies is at least an hour, maybe more.

I wonder if our opinions are so strongly at odds because we're simply working in totally different situations to start with. As I hope I've illustrated, compilation time definitely IS an issue for us, but obviously it's not for the projects you're working on - which must surely be C-based or at least C-like C++ code. I would wager more people are in my situation, but to some extent that's irrelevant. The advice to other devs has to be: if you're happy to restrict yourself to small C or C-like libraries then single file libraries are fine, but if you want to take advantage of the full C++ ecosystem be aware that there package managers (again, I'm mainly thinking vcpkg) you can use with only a little initial effort. I think it's dangerous for beginners to see articles like the one linked to here in case it makes them think that using C++ has to be like that.

> > Again this is specific to header-only libraries, but to avoid code bloat you'll need to turn on link-time optimisation

> This is nonsense. ... The vast majority of the time you decide what compilation unit to put the definitions into and that's it.

I said that this paricular objection obly applies to header-only libraries, and that qualification is even in the bit you quoted. I never claimed that there are no single-file libraries that allow separate compilation.

But I do dispute that the "vast majority" allow or require separate compilation (either as a separately supplied .c/.cpp file, or by #defining something before one of the uses of the header). That is the exact opposite of my experience. As an experiment I looked at all the libraries listed under "argv" in the linked article, and 9 of them were header only with no option for separate compilation (Argh!, Clara, CLI11, cmdline, flags, kgflags, linkom, optionparser, ProgramOptions.hxx) while only 1 (parg) allowed separate compilation.
"political divide" from the first sentence.
While that is a pain, I get it. Extending bus services is a band aid on a systemic problem. People don’t want to take the bus unless they have to because buses take forever compared to cars. Buses take forever because they have to stop so often. They have to stop so often because 99% of the US is totally spread out with very low density. And that is the fundamental problem. You can’t just tweak the buses or trains or walk more in a city that has built $100 billion of infrastructure around driving cars. Walkability and public transit just aren’t viable alternatives in a country built around the suburb and the highway.
Something, but probably not as much as you think:

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw71/EDUG-M/html/edus...

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw71/EDUG-M/html/edus...
Ah... I was assuming he was watching both. The problem is sometimes all the TV channels agree! You have to look for (usually written) news that is willing to criticize the state, corporations, and the war machine to get that angle.
I learned Common Lisp in high school and took a course called "Discrete Math and Functional Programming"[0] my freshman year of college (the prof wrote the textbook). To me it felt like a math course (covering predicate logic, sets, graphs, and eventually the lambda calculus. It was also the first time I had to write proofs outside of geometry class), but all of the teaching was paired with examples in ML. For example, half the homework one day would be writing proofs about powersets, and the other half would be writing ML functions to create and manipulate powersets.

It was a really neat idea, and it felt like ML got out of the way and just let me program without having painful syntax or semantics. That said, my biggest ML programs would be five functions spanning ~30 lines loaded into an smlnj interpreter. I never got to deal with functors and modules and who knows what else, and am sorry that I don't know how to "program in the large" in ML. I'm now a professional Clojure dev and would love to see how ML does things.

I own a copy of ML for the Working Programmer (which I see @eatonphil is panning below) and the ML compiler book by Appel, neither of which I've read. Maybe I'll make the time one of these months…it'd be nice to have a Motivating Project though.

0: https://cs.wheaton.edu/~tvandrun/dmfp/
I think he is just comparing it to another way in which the internet is balkanizing.
I didn't get the impression they were saying this is a problem specific to single file libraries but rather it was a problem specifically with the libraries suggested in the linked repository.
I’m not white, and the presence of the things we call white privilege and racism is blindingly obvious to anyone who grew up like me.

However, I have also routinely seen cult-like, and racist behavior in diversity training, and frankly in anti-racist activism.

I’m glad you didn’t experience these. I also think that the work can be done in a nuanced way that avoids the pitfalls.

Unfortunately I think this is becoming less and less common as a drive to scale delivery of these kinds of trainings causes the quality to drop.
> Yes, when the courts stop favoring women...

Um, no. You already can hire whomever you want and for whatever reason you want. You just can't be blatantly sexist. Perhaps you need to step back and reassess your viewpoint because it reeks of scare mongering.
In politics people are to be either pampered or destroyed. And you never want to endure present pain to avoid future conflict. You will fight anyways and only be weaker. Best to walk away from it all.

We should embrace it when people talk. Because people who talk are nothing. Right away you know they won't do anything because it's the people who are quiet, who you don't even know exist let alone don't see and hear are the ones that get you and are anything real. It doesn't belong to you, and people do this because they are desperate and will eventualy destroy themselves on their own. Behavior institutions, really sick people on a slow motion suicide, that's what you are dealing with and will ultimately run into.

On a side note:

Just my opinion, take it for what it's worth, isn't the absolute worst thing you can do for your health during the time of covid is to hit a crack pipe with an underage Ukranian prostitute? During the Charlamagne tha God interview, my former Vice President wasn't just parroting something he heard and had no understanding. He had full knowledge of what crack cocaine does to people. I guess it was anxiety or trying to probe the conversation because this was out there. But doesn't that make it even worse? Seeing how he has military intelligence capability and also sent a lot of people to prison decades ago while rewarding his own with hundreds of millions for the same thing.

How can you control a covid pandemic when you cannot even control a family addiction, one of the easier ones too. Just bad habits and lifestyle more than anything. I know. Not below the belt either. At the top it's cut throat and he did it to other people.
>Early on, one person got symptoms consistent with typical vaccine side effects, but it was determined that the person had a previously undiagnosed, unrelated disease. Second, there was the highly publicized case where a patient suffered temporary spinal inflammation and recovered shortly. It is unclear if this event is related to the vaccine, ...

This seems rather worrying as these Phase 1 and Phase 2 trials are pretty small, no? What are the odds these patients got this from the vaccine vs whatever else they had going on?

I just can't shake the fact that this particular vaccine seems to have some safety issues. We'll see in Phase 3 if this shakes out, but I would like to understand why governments feel safe about these developments.
Funny to think that as well as tech companies trying to give out credit cards, a few financial companies (Capital One) are now seeing themselves and identifying as tech companies.

Although based on the article, it doesn't seem like the latter is really related to the former.
So you agree that this definition is biased and we shouldn't use it?
There has been a slight uptick in weekly deaths, roughly on par with what was observed in the last week of September. Given the trend of the line and the delayed reporting from most states, it’s more accurate to say that deaths have flattened:

https://covid-19.direct/US?tab=daily
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When I did media training years ago they told us that the media isn't there to inform. It's there to sell imprints.

And that journalists have knowledge that is a mile wide and an inch deep. Their job is to file copy to strict deadlines.
Even beyond being unique, disabilities are usually designated with cliffs rather than a gradient. People with an ambulatory disability are lumped in as "can walk with cane", "can walk with walker", or "cannot walk, must use wheelchair" ignoring the fact that some people exist on boundaries, or might oscillate between two depending on what they're doing or how they're feeling.

It seems like it would be nice to have a better classification system for the challenges a particular terrain poses. While having videos to see what the trail looks like is definitely a step up, it seems like a pain in the ass to have to watch someone walk it (and it would ruin a bit of the wonder for me, personally). I wonder if it's possible to condense the terrain down to a series of "potentially problematic features". I'm not an expert in accessibility, so I don't know what exactly one would flag, but things that come to mind would be rough terrain (inaccessible by typical wheelchair, accessible by ruggedized wheelchair), rough terrain (inaccessible by any wheelchair), non-smooth terrain (debris on trail could trip someone, accessible by any wheelchair), gradient in excess of X%, whether the trail is shared with bicyclists, etc.

I do worry about the data the operator would have access to, though. And even if we assume the operator is above reproach, I would worry that hackers would get access to the data. It's not something that I would want to host personally, just because of the risk of causing harm if the data were to be stolen.
> That's one of the major recognized selling points of Go.

It's exactly just that, marketing fluff and hype made up by the golang team that is not backed up by actual evidence. Look up several other comments in this thread that mention exactly that. I'm not the only one challenging their false claim.

There were never any specific language features that make golang good for large projects. Quick compilation was touted at the beginning, but that went out the window when the golang compiler was rewritten in go. For large projects, it's in the same ballpark as Java and C#, and in my experiences, even slower especially for incremental compilation due to the bottleneck of the linker. Secondly, its features work against scaling for large programs and teams (no generics, verbose and error-prone error handling, interfaces are poorly thought out and optimized for minority use cases at the cost of usability and correctness, etc.)
I had the impression, that the center is exactly the problem because it's always looking away.

Hook-theory, etc.
>Private companies terminating accounts of their own volition is not censorship.

Are you conflating 1st amendment protections with "censorship"? Definition of censorship:

>The use of state or group power to control freedom of expression or press, such as passing laws to prevent media from being published or propagated.

(emphasis mine)
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> I'd gladly give this company a couple of billion if it means they can get us back to normal.

The government did this. They are the ones who put the restrictions in place. They are the ones who choose not to remove them.

The government pulled a fast one on most people: They broke our leg, they handed us a crutch, and we thank them.

Don't pretend the vaccine is our savior. The government has the power to end the restrictions at any time but they choose not to.
Olimex is Bulgarian company, are you sure it ships from Turkey?
The bullet cluster is an n of one and the dark matter estimates come from redshifting/lensing, which could have come from other sources in such an unusual scenario.

Some of the other crazy observations like ultradiffuse galaxies are, on recalculation, not as extreme as initially guessed, and predicated on an indirect empirical estimate of mass (number of globular clusters) with no mechanistic confirmation.
Intel's Iris Xe Max GPU Barely Beats Nvidia's GeForce MX330 in Latest Benchmark
> Why would being racist make someone an unworthy sinner? Racism is just treating others differently based on their race. It’s not weird or evil. In fact, it’s perfectly normal and even understandable. Humans have probably always separated themselves into groups. Even chimpanzees do it. I think that’s what the trainings try to get at.

Chimpanzees murder. Just because primates have been doing something for millions of years doesn't make it acceptable. We have the capability to rise above our instincts and make rational decisions about who we want to be.

Treating others differently based on their race is fundamentally unethical. You're not an irredeemably broken person just because you've done something unethical in the past, but saying "well everyone does it" or "it's just natural" is just refusing personal responsibility.

Maybe some people honestly can't accept the idea that they have done something wrong, and would cling to a belief that deep down they knew was wrong if they didn't have such an "out" to preserve their view of themselves. They'ed rather double down on racism than admit they've knowingly treated people incorrectly.

For most people though, acknowledging a problem is the first step to solving it. Everyone alive today has spent the vast majority if not the entirety of their lives in a world where the idea of racial superiority has been thoroughly discredited. The emphasis on certain features like skin color over others like hair color in segregating people is an entirely learned behavior. For racism to endure to the degree it does today, enormous numbers of people must have actively chosen to learn this behavior and refused to change. It hardly seems unreasonable to conclude that for many, telling them that something is normal and natural robs them of their imperative to change.
"I'd gladly give this company a couple of billion if it means they can get us back to normal."

Sounds like the media panic is working.
I see this a lot in an attempt to smear a candidate or public figure: “Here are some abhorrent Tweets from their followers”. Of course, it’s an enumeration fallacy—there’s no way of knowing whether those Tweets accurately represent the candidate’s followers or not. That said, journalists are happy to find real life followers of candidates/etc with abhorrent views, but I suppose Twitter makes it easier to create the desired spin.
But what if you also put you static content (e.g. blog-post) onto the CDN and as such your site is still operating to >50% of it's features when your sever is down. (Just missing comments, new posts, announcements etc. but not the main content).
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> they were testing knowledge irrelevant to the thing ostensibly being tested

That's a good argument but it's not the argument that I was responding to:

> the grammar-school system was ostensibly universal and open to all, the entrance exams with questions predicated on a familiarity with middle-class culture naturally disadvantaged working-class students.