skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you arguing that only a $700B/yr organization can train people to do the simple tasks that a soldier learns to do?

Not only train the soldier: but also to check on their progress, ensure they are following the proper military culture, growing into their role, and promoting those who are worthy.

The entire life of a soldier is well defined thanks to the work of the generals and leaders of the military. Group organization and cohesion is no accident: its a purposefully built goal. And yes, money has a lot to do with it.

Propaganda and recruitment is a big one: there are literally soldiers going out into the country, and individually recruiting kids out of high school to become a soldier. This increases the talent pool, and effectively lowers the wages you need to offer soldiers (supply and demand after all).

No one is going out there recruiting people into nursing fields.

> So now we're in agreement. The sky is not falling, and Tulsa may have a local logistical challenge. Nothing to see here.

And a record death rate. Are you trying to imply that COVID19 deaths aren't happening or something?

Deaths skyrocket with caseload. Yes, there are treatments that help prevent death, but only if the nurses / doctors have enough time to do their job. If they become overwhelmed, then their ability to process life-saving treatment is mitigated.
Since we are not communist the fast that it took a long time to make does not give it value.
It added another tool to manage on top of an internal wiki and a few collaborative document editing. Wiki was basically markdown and it had its own version control mechanisms built in.
If anything, an Objective-C machine: they apparently have a special branch predictor for objc_msgSend()!

But they learned the lesson from SOAR (Smalltalk On A RISC) and did not follow the example of LISP machines, Smalltalk machines, Java machines, Rekursiv, etc. and build specialized hardware and instructions. The benefits of the specialization are much, much less than expected, and the costs of being custom very high.

Instead, they gave the machine large caches and tweaked a few general purpose features so they work particularly well for their preferred workloads.

I wonder if they made trap on overflow after arithmetic fast.
Yes, that is my assertion – it’s impossible to verify that you have considered and correctly interpreted all relevant law, although it should be rare for professionals to make a mistake, especially after extended research. I’m curious as to what makes you think this problem can be solved trivially? Formal verification is hard enough for algorithms over the integers.
Wow it's amazing to see true art and deep complexity turn up places you would have never expected it; like discovering the depths of Conway's Game of Life, fractal art, origami... Where you spot something, go "huh, that's neat", then proceed to discover that there is a world of enthusiasts, technical jargon, wikis, competitions, etc. all hiding in plain sight.
Please read my comment again. I was talking about Upper Caste, well to do middle class.

Also this is not about supporting any political party. This is a problem embedded in our social culture. Income equality is a menace that hurts all those who are not well-off, irrespective of their caste or religion.
If interested to dig in further I recommend Antonio Damasio's work. I think his is the main contribution to this new way of thinking about the mind's connection to the body.
I think he’s alluding to thaw idea where Christians call a Christianity a relationship with God (and not a religion).

In my opinion though, the relationship nature of Christianity holds up well both in the Old Testament and New Testament.
We finally migrated to Youtrack and everybody is happy.
Mathematical Modelling of Football (Soccer)
In order to provide examples of "race-baiting propaganda" as I called it, we would have to first agree on what constitutes race-baiting and propaganda. I assume we can agree that propaganda is material designed to sway an opinion, yet labels itself implicitly or explicitly as something other than "opinion".

As for race-baiting, my definition is anything that brings race into the conversation when it is materially irrelevant, or when it is introduced solely as a means of depicting one race (or a representative member thereof) in a positive or negative fashion, to the exclusion of further context, nuance, or counter samples.

The 1619 Project itself is a prime example.

I am on mobile and have difficulty linking, but you can search on NYT's website for the word "racist", filtering out anything other than world/U.S. news, within the last month, and you will see a bevy of articles written to highlight how "good" or "bad" somebody is for even hinting at race being a factor in something (such as a descriptor) - not going to go into the hypocrisy there, but it's hard to miss if you apply the same standards NYT uses to depict someone as "racist" to their own staff.

A simple recent example, for the person in a cousin comment asking me to expound, is in the recent news article about Honestie Hodges, a young girl whose handcuffing by police caused "outrage" according to NYT, and who recently died apparently of COVID-19 related causes. In that article you can read through and see several points where race was introduced, not as a relevant point, but as a way to introduce further division between two races in an article where those facts are immaterial.

It is through their omissions and irrelevant insertions, through their implications and labels, that NYT is race-baiting; the propaganda part comes from using the reach of the organization to spread such content as pure unbiased fact, when in truth it is manipulative.
Review this fashion-tech startup idea
I'm working on this AI-powered jewelry brand in which the jewelries are designed by AI & manufactured by humans.

I'm kinda double minded when it comes to the execution of this idea.

The 1st way I'm thinking of is putting 5 different styles of jewelry in a box & selling it as a subscription box which will come every month with new & improved designs.

The 2nd way is to let user generate different jewelries by clicking on a button which will make our AI program run in the background producing results & showing it to the users on the screen which they can then order.

Would really appreciate it if you could give your feedback on the idea & suggest which way of execution would be better.

Thank you!
Metal for IntelliJ Platform
.NET was slower than the JVM before .NET Core but nowadays it's faster.
well, you choose the node infrastructure by whatever network latency you need to have guaranteed - obviously public clouds have their limits there.
$145 million dollars is pocket change to Big Tech. It must just be that they don't think it would be profitable enough to compete when they can buy. If they ever stopped being able to buy, I'm sure they'd get to work real quick.

I could also see Apple in-housing their chip fab at some point sooner, just for the sake of continued vertical integration. It doesn't hurt that they have the deepest pockets too. The interesting question is whether or not they'd ever take orders from third parties.
Because it is part of the game, hate it or love it. English players and fan where pissed, but Maradona got away with it, so respect. All of them would have done the same if they knew they could get away with it. Especially in such a big game.

Plus, it's just a game, nobody died. And it's fun to watch how a very small player beat a giant keeper through creativity and boldness.
Yes, anyone can become their own domain registrar if need be.

As for credit card processing services, generally Visa and Mastercard are enforcing policies of the banks that actually provide the credit; they simply take the heat because they're paid to. But on that note, both the CEOs of Visa and Mastercard are...Republican donors...almost exclusively...and so would, if anything, favor right-leaning websites such as OAN.
"Relational" databases are much cheaper comparing to MongoDB atlas.I mean $50k per month cheaper. Also AWS documentdb doesnt natively support 128 bit decimal ...

The performance boost was at least 10x and even more with complex LINQ queries all thanks to entity framework. At that job, we did a lot of risk analysis, bucketing bonds and creating a composites. Entity framework core and it's LINQ to SQL was a key in performance boost. Not to mention entity framework provides multiple layers cache which we used as our risk analysis algorithms were basically custom version of bin-packing ...
In fairness to gcc, it's more than just a C compiler.
GOG already does this for old games. But there’s a much bigger retro gaming following than there is a market sector for folk who just prefer older applications.
Nice, but tools are only one thing to miss about development at Google (or any other of the FAANGs).

I found the more meaningful thing is the ecosystem of smart engineers, and the ability to find others who face similar problems, exchange ideas and solutions. It's a skill of its own to find these people and learn their "language", but once you do, it's a huge multiplier that is hard to find elsewhere.
If any company thinks they can just get a consultant that fixes these things they are just not going to make it.
Bosses and programmers need to be fired and senior developers put in place.
There are no free lunches.

Interesting to note the comment section there vs here.
Religion fundamentally gives you a set of rules that you must follow to achieve acceptance, or the ultimate goal of a particular "religion", usually getting to their definition of "heaven", after life on earth.

The law of Moses in the Old Testament for the Jews was such that if you broke one law, you broke all, essentially making it impossible for anyone to achieve salvation by following the law or by working for it.

The Gentiles (non Jews) who do not have God’s written law, show that they know his law when they instinctively obey it, even without having heard it

Enter New Testament: Jesus Christ of Nazareth, comes not to abolish the law, but to fulfil it, such that every man (being) receives the FREE gift of salvation, and eternal life.

Now this life bears good fruit in all that believe.
>A few GC parameter tweaks brought our latency below 20ms and the application no longer drops calls.

Tick to trade latency for a modern software HFT stack needs to be under 10 _microseconds_, which is over three orders of magnitude more stringent.
I enjoyed debugging mongo db C# driver, sending patches for performance boost and better LINQ to query feature. Debugging expression trees in C# peaked my interest and now I am a third year PhD student in compilers.
The trial balloons currently being floated by Intel forgo the pursuit of cutting edge process nodes in favor of third party fabs. Intel's existing foundries will serve older nodes while external foundries will build the high margin devices.

They've been carefully dropping hints of this since July. Through the first week of November the headlines were "Intel to decide soon" whether to outsource, with a decision supposedly appearing sometime in January. This looks like the sort of precision expectation setting one would expect of an experienced zombie corp CEO like Swan.

So don't bet on Intel making any great comeback in fab tech; they've decided they can be 'relevant' without it.
There are legitimate issues with Patterson's work that do cast doubt on her results. Things like speaking for Koko or "correcting" for her when it seemed like Koko was signing something nonsensical.

For example, Koko had an apparent fascination with nipples. In front of cameras, Patterson would always say Koko actually meant something else because nipple rhymes with whatever word she's trying to say but in private, according to other caretakers who worked with Koko, Patterson often showed her nipples to Koko almost like a greeting and made other female workers do the same to their discomfort. She would also ask Koko leading questions to get desired responses for cameras which doesn't demonstrate intelligence.

Patterson apparently also spoiled Koko, feeding her things that weren't good for her nutritionally, but went to great lengths to keep Koko to herself, going so far as to keep her separated from the male they brought in to keep Koko company.

So while I would be excited at the prospect of intelligent animals, I think Koko is unfortunately not a good example.
What service are you using? Some browser plugin I assume?
> [...] the Apple ARM platform won't be suitable for my job any time soon, if ever.

> Docker is not yet available - but even when it would become available, emulating virtualised x86 code is explicitly not going to be supported.

Is there any reason why Apple couldn’t add support for emulated virtualized x86 code in a future ARM CPU? The M1 doesn’t support it, but might the “M2” or “M3” support it?

I ask because I’m in the same situation as you, where not being able to run x86 Docker containers would make me not buy an ARM MacBook Pro.
Thank you I appreciate the comment back and with facts and figures and back to your original point it is totally not possible to bring the things that American progressives want without lifting taxes - there are not just enough of the 'rockstars' you mention above to pay for those services even if they paid huge percentages of tax which wouldn't be ideal for the regressiveness of doing so.

It's only going to be done with all tax payers increasing their contribution (or maybe all but the lowest).
depending on the speed of the hardware. With the new phones last few years speed is really not the problem. And you can do a lot of the web. Just not push notification.

Edit: by push notification I mean phone level push notification. When an web page is in the background it stops. And an app can have services running. Yeah and the netflix thing for content protection yeah you need an app.
Thank you for the correction and the wonderful story. I am too young to have done anything other than DOS programming on 16-bit x86, so I can only imagine how frustrating trying to get a multiprocessing UNIX system running with a limited number of a 64KB pages would be.
I reboot my (primary) PC daily because my company's security policy requires a daily reboot.

My personal/gaming PC only gets rebooted when Windows mandates a reboot.
Just checked out the promo video on the webpage. It looks really well made. Congratulations to the team behind it.

This space is witnessing a lot of innovation and disruption and time is also ripe to do so.

Hoping to see AR/VR bring next wave of disruptions.
Refreshing article! For people with less time check out https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg which tracks open source implementations of Google internal tools (also linked in the article)

Also I have been looking to move away from Makefiles and bash scripts and Bazel does come up more often. What are your experiences working it and how does it compare to Blaze?
The best part about using a garbage collected language for high performance software is it's exactly the same as a non-garbage-collected language.
Let’s Encrypt Annual Report [pdf]
It seems a little ironic that the 1679 bit message sent skywards in 1974 contained a graphic and dimension of the telescope but will no longer exist if and when the message is received.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message
True, although I do think that in the Old Testament, this relationship was based on works, and on what you did to fulfil and not break the law. In the New Testament, this relationship is based on Grace, the free gift of God.
The systems are very complex, but what I see is a few active sites and a bunch of random stuff that happens to hold them in the right spots to control them a bit.

When reasoning from first principals about immune response, it occured to me that just a few simple processes might be all that is required to explore novel active structures in an organism.

Based partly on my understanding of a study of bacteria that evolved the ability to metabolise a new nutrient, a mutation prior to use is required. The ability to detect a molecule might evolve based on immune responses that use random sequences as "test" active sites that are checked for a specific type of deformation.

If this random sequence deforms immediately, it is discarded because this sequence either deforms automatically or deforms in the presence of something common to "host".

If the test remains negative it is released from the host training environment. If the test pattern deforms some time later, it has detected a "foreign" molecule, and has the potential for use as part of a protein that manipulates this molecule.

Recovering the sequence that detects this new foreign molecule becomes the first step in a hereditary immunity. It also stores this useful sequence for possible use in other "testing" systems. These might bring 3 or 4 of these random test systems together to perform another test.

Simple systems that explore a complex space can come up with seemingly elegant solutions.

The most obvious answer to any of your questions is that, if it worked a different way, that's what the video would show... or there would be no video at all.
Thanks for pointing out all theses flaws of the article. This article is merely opinions over opinions with very few facts, without source. It does look like it wants to sound like a fact-based article, but it's not as you've correctly pointed out
The entire premise is a bit shaky and I am not convinced planned re-locations will result in a net positive for the environment. It's quite possible for a human to live in the wilderness alongside the aforementioned wolves (I saw a pack in the distance as late as yesterday). As you say, this sub-thread isn't about that, though. :)

For what it's worth, large parts of the remote and sparsely populated areas are being slowly de-populated anyway. Things like coal mines and other obsolete resource extraction sites are shutting down, and most people move on over time. And then there's morons like me and my family, who moved out because we want to. There's more people like that, but it's not really enough to worry about.

Long story short: If someone is staying behind when businesses, stores and schools close, and the ageing infrastructure crumbles, well, then you're not going to convince that person to move anyway.
"So, it's a bit counterintuitive, but globally switching to a plant-based diet would actually dramatically reduce the total amount of plants that we are raising, and therefore would dramatically reduce overall suffering of plants (if they suffer)"

Only if you believe you are more efficient at digesting grass and other plants than animals.
Nope. Watch the CppCon video mentioned in one of the top level comments. It's all about not allocating. C or C++ is not the real difference.
In my experience, most java developers even in this field (or "embedded" that has similar requirements) tend to resist when someone proposes to use "c-like java", too used to their fancy libraries and APIs.
I thought the actual approach taken these days is to disable GC for any JVM based trading systems and use arena based architectures or similar for application where you need super low latency, like a LOB mirror or execution engine, no?
Does the budget metaphor work better for you if you consider your chronic condition to be alimony?
If you can't enjoy a life without a deeper meaning, maybe you just don't value life enough ...
Your time is worth as much as you value it.
> only three of these people filed complaints during their time at Coinbase.

"Only"? I'm from EU, and three complaints seem already like a lot for any standard company. Maybe it is different in the US?
Yes open-source is a way to trying things in new ways. M1 indeed is an special hardware but to shine in the future open-source guys or everyon,
It is forced labour (to a very light degree, but still).

It is additionally resource-theft, when recaptcha-protected sites are used for business purposes. You are stealing valuable business time (possibly very valuable business time, if the person in question is a high-paid role like a CEO or surgeon) to power your pet "spot the crosswalk" project.
On what grounds WOULD YOU SUE I WONDER??

You’ve proven the purpose to YouTube taking the video down here: to avoid being sued because misinformation CAUSES DAMAGE.

You would “assume” the people you work with are “intelligent” enough to know better?

Man. You have a disgust for an imaginary enemy that’s very hypocritical and oxymoronic.

It so easy for people to invent an enemy nowadays. Youtube just behaved exactly how you described you would in this metaphor, but instead of taking the closet rational explanation, you have to invent an enemy that aligns to this emotionally driven agenda.

We’re all on the same team. You’re just refusing to settle down and see that.

It’s like the whole damn world is so starving for conflict to the point of whipping up imaginary tales to stoke it out... why???

If zombie novels change the infection from biological to psychological and the thing those zombies starve for isn’t flesh but relentless hatred, that novel about people eating their own families becomes a true prophecy.
It is very rude of you to completely neglect the reasonable discussion surrounding that cherry-picked quote and present it in this way that implies they are "racist" -- this is exactly the sort of behavior that needs to stop.
OAN spread falsehoods, not information. If they choose to spread falsehoods, they're free to do so on their own website, but they don't have free reign to do so on someone else's website.

(If they want to prove that their claims are correct in the fact of everyone else saying they are wrong, the burden is on them to prove their claims, which they didn't even bother to do. They just claimed that something is a cure for COVID without evidence, and provided an affiliate link to a website where you could buy the supposed cure. That's not reporting, that's advertising.)
C++ is a fantastic language but it somehow attracts people with big ego.

The smartest people I know would always try to simplify things, but many C++ developers (especially in financial industry) have this preference for complexity I can't explain. And C++ is the worst language to get clever with.
Ouch. We ban accounts that post like this, for what will be obvious reasons if you read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Can you please do that and use HN as intended?
Realising that you are a product of accident or chance is not depressing or a dark and empty way of life.

It's quite incredible.

You are born out of stardust, your life in its beginning is indeed free of any deeper meaning and true purpose. You are a brain fighting for survival, against the monstrous odds.

What you now choose to do with that shell is up to you. You can train that brain, you can choose habits that are good or bad, and you can decide how to apply the bag of random accident that is you and your life to deliver on a purpose.

You may have certain privileges over others to help you on your way - richer family, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, etc. can all make certain doors open or shut for you - but your meaningless life, born with no purpose, is yours to shape as you see fit.

You don't need God to find purpose. In fact, defining your life as being in service to a deity narrows your potential. You might be happy with that, and I won't try and convince you otherwise.

But your stance that not grabbing life for what it is and needing to believe in God to give yourself a sense of meaning and purpose - that's the dark and depressing version of the story for many of us.