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>> This not only ensures correct 32 bit integer semantics (like wrapping around), but also helps the engines to use actual integer instructions in the generated machine code.

But there is only one type of number in javascript. Everything is just a double(BigInt aside). You get a 32-bit integer because the bitwise operator casts the result to one. c has the exact same semantics as any other js number.

Yeah there are tricks to convince the engine you are using an integral type but those unless you are doing a lot of benchmarks they aren't really useful. Any compilation tier can choose to use any intermediate representation it wants.
Wolfram has been banging this drum and self-promoting for approximately ever (see also his similarly badly-in-need-of-an-editor book "A New Kind Of Science", which generated plenty of commentary see http://shell.cas.usf.edu/~wclark/ANKOS_reviews.html).

He's is own worst enemy in many ways, as he undermines some actually interesting work with an outsider complex, a pathological need to self-aggrandize and a tendency to claim others work as his own.
I also feel this effort is completely pointless. Java for instance has 52 reserved words. 52!!! the complexity of programming does not lie in the meaning of just 52 english words. That's actually the easiest part. As you get better you eventually will pick a production-ready language such as JavaScript or Kotlin, only to realise that you now have to learn the meaning of the words...
If one of the attempts did not work, it doesn't mean that none of them will.
I think there has to be a way around this, at least for the small stuff. You ought to be able to catch flecks of paint and the like with a Whipple shield backed by a plate of steel. Or maybe the same kind of aerogel setup they use for collecting comet tails.
A retweet is visible to the public. A magazine shared to a single person doesn't have the same effect. The practical difference between publishing and private sharing with friends was about the greater reach of publishing. Social media means everyone has the same reach as a publisher, with some of the same responsibilities.
Turning that question around: do you have any evidence that it's not effective? Do you have evidence of another argumentation style that's more effective?

I'm hard pressed to design a good, reproducible experiment on the question one way or the other.
it is still not wealth. A certain amount of wealth is even needed to do what you are talking about. You need sufficient housing, food, health, and free time to learn to program. All of which would scale with inflation
Well, except that these serious adverse effects are often so rare to not have any way of reaching statistical significance. Especially when you consider that you're looking for associations between medication and any indication. Just by random chance you'd get a many associations between serious diseases and any medication.

The very rare and very serious side effects are tracked closely, and it's likely that for a vast number of medications, even though the very rare side effects are written on the packaging, there actually is no causal connection with the medication whatsoever.
Sounds like he read "Death's End" by Liu Cixin and got inspired.
As someone quite involved in the Ethereum ecosystem - I totally agree. I also believe the Ethereum network will switch entirely to Proof of Stake this year.
The suggestion that defamation should be generally legal is somewhat outside the norm, as far as I know.

If I start a campaign, billboards and all, saying that my doctor is a pedophile once convicted of rape in Australia who has been also implicated in organ trafficking (when she's actually very wonderful) then I should be held liable for the damage to her career and reputation, at a minimum.
Full reusability makes sense and limits space junk - though the counter to that is they are launching more satellites into space - so probably negate each other to a certain point.

I guess my concern would be who actually has regulatory authority over space and how can they ensure all actors play fairly. I would have to imagine this is a situation that is similar to the tragedy of the commons type scenario.

To be clear - I really don't fall into one side of the camp or the other but I can see how a lot of the waste management side of things can fall by the wayside given our track record on waste cleanup (mines, municipal solid waste, nuclear)
A very interesting podcast, perhaps I will even transcribe it with https://audext.com/ and share it with my students.
I think you're omission of what Todd Austin really answered in the article, on this question, is close to insincere.

> Todd Austin: It’s about 10 percent slower on average. We could reduce those overheads if we had more time to optimize the system. You know, we’re just a couple of grad students and some faculty. If a company like Intel, AMD, or ARM built this, I would expect that you’d get the overheads down to a few percent.

Edit: Take into account current performance hits for e.g. Spectre, Meltdown patches.
broad-based consumption taxes are the best theoretical response, but politically no one is going to impose them at the levels needed to discourage consumption, and they almost always get perverted in their application with carve-outs and exemptions. Plus where does that money go? At best it's an inefficient recycling paradigm when what we really need is an at-source reduction in consumption in the first place.
Not necessarily for or against the work, but it's not just him working on this project solo like some mad scientist. There are a couple of other members on his team with academic publication histories as well.
Has anyone found anything glaringly wrong with his proposals so far? It's all way over my head, but if he honestly believes in his quest and there is nothing overwhelmingly wrong with his assertions, is there much harm in letting him keep going down the path he's on? I could be wrong, but he doesn't seem to be a huckster selling cold fusion-like methodology to get rich. It definitely seems like he could probably express more humility in his statements, but I think people exploring seemingly crazy ideas shouldn't be shouted down or denigrated into giving up that exploration. The world would be a much lamer place and humanity wouldn't be as far as we are now technologically without people exploring out of the box ideas.
I think people are possibly reading a bit more into this than necessary. Stripped of context "supplier A delivers ~33% of contracted quantity of thing, other suppliers deliver 100% or more of contracted quantity of thing, supplier A's contract not renewed" is not even a vaguely surprising narrative, even if 'thing' is entirely generic.
I think you think that you're disagreeing with me, but you're not. English borrows heavily from Romance languages ... and it is also of germanic origin and has a lot of germanic origin words.
Yes, some items are directly good advice for the time and ours. Not all will - like my pork and shellfish example. Those are fine now - same with being more promiscuous if you leverage the technology of the time. Doesn't matter what god thinks.

And regarding adaptation you're playing a game of "what if" that's not terribly helpful, like my example of it going airborne. Then it doesn't matter what happens. Yeast could mutate and literally turn us into brain munching zombies, but I don't know why that matters.
I am puzzled too as to what possible Mozilla library would be used in a lightning port driver (I'm assuming).

Does Mozilla have some sort GLib / Apache utils ?
> but instead that the government is granted immunity for some subset of actions.

It's actually the opposite. You can only sue the government when they explicitly give you permission.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity_in_the_Unit...
This, it's overpriced imho. I'm sure it was a lot cheaper at launch.
You're not going to get a lot of support here, unless you change your vote to Rust.
Also, my understanding is that if you can prove that your creation of something was independent of someone else’s creation of the same thing, it isn’t a copyright violation?
The music is similar in spirit and sound to Space Ponch, who are also Japanese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8maoqr4E5k
That's not what I'm asking about. They specifically said trading desks at banks, Citadel is a market maker.

But what's really you're just parroting baseless conspiracy -- Citadel is a legitimate business which provides a great service to Robin Hood users. Payment for order flow is very good for the retail investor, reducing commissions and improving prices, the recent episode of Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast with Doug Cifu went explained exactly how this works, it's a classic example of incentives aligning. Also by design no market maker gets access to all Robinhood transactions.
ABI Laboratory – Tracking ABI Breakage for Linux Kernel, Windows, Java, Android
> what people have been calling “Wolfram models”, ..."

It does make one wonder if "people" means "my employees, on pain of firing"
Thanks, this comment reminded me to brush my teeth.

More seriously, I think that people have a tendency to mix up broad, high-level symptoms of ADHD with the more specific ways that those symptoms manifest for them.

For some (not all) people with ADHD, acting on their motivations is very difficult; so the technique they come up with to help is to either drastically increase their motivation (moving up deadlines and hyper-stressing about tasks, or rewarding themselves, or whatever), or to try and decrease the barriers of entry to the task (automating parts of it, getting help from another person, etc...)

So it sounds like this author falls somewhat into that category, and one of the specific reasons they've found for them personally that's a barrier to reading is guilt over the idea that they aren't finishing books. And what they've done is given themselves permission not to finish books, which allows them to read more overall. Which, great. Genuinely glad that works, and it might work for other people too.

But lots of people who fall into that category of struggling with executive dysfunction are not going to have the same barriers over reading. For many of them, turning reading into a chore will actually be counterproductive. Having a document that you forget to review every week might increase guilt. "Read to find one improvement" might not even line up with why they're motivated to read books in the first place.

And that's obviously ignoring that ADHD also covers people who struggle with inattentiveness and other problems that could also be a barrier to reading more -- but the point is, just because a solution works for one person with ADHD, it might not be applicable even to other people who are struggling with the same problem, because the general issue "I can't act on my motivations" is still going to manifest differently and have different solutions depending on what the individual's barriers are to a specific task.
You conveniently skipped the crux of my argument: instruction styles vary so widely that focusing on note-taking tools in a lecture environment is pointless. It’s like asking “which utensil is the best” without establishing the food you’re eating.

The premise is ridiculous and clearly driven by a desire to make high-minded statements about analog versus digital methods. I’ve read several of these studies for grad school, and you don’t have to get much further than the abstracts to see how badly academics want to prove this point.

Throughout my academic career I’ve seen professors point to these awful studies to justify their class policies. My comment was clearly not just discussing these studies in a vacuum, so I’m not sure why you’re treating it like a peer review.
We have nearly 200 full-time employees including many, many instructors (not to mention contractors). This is just not true.
Anyone recommend a good book specifically on distributed databases (not more general distributed systems stuff like e.g. klepmann's DDIA)?
I got .03 btc from the early days sign up. It's almost $2k now. Thanks Brian!
"it doesn't make sense to target a specific industry"

Normally, we wouldn't want to target one line of business over another because we want the market to figure out where the most value creation is, but it's not always the case.

In this case it makes sense to target people who are literally wasting electricity for supporting a Ponzi scheme. Even if BTC or Crypto is eventually a useful medium of exchange, there's still no reason at all to waste energy in it's proliferation.

Electricity transportation, and to some extent production - is partly socialized in most countries.

The market is not 'all knowing', it's full of asymmetries, we regulate all sorts of things for that reason.
I've thought that something like the spamassassin model would be sufficient - calculate a 0.0 - 1.0 range of likelihood to block, and set cutoffs on the 0 end to auto approve, and toward the 1 end to auto block, and moderate the middle.

Was good for spam for a long time.
+1, without examples it's theoretical none-sense.
It's similar in spirit and sound to Space Ponch, who are also Japanese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8maoqr4E5k

(But doesn't seem to be related.)
Once the US and EU if/have succeeded in building their own semi conductor supply lines, Taiwan will just be disposed off like some old used condom.

Taiwan's silicon shield and western semi conductor independence are contradicting objectives, sacrificing Taiwan for a bigger piece of the Chinese market is more then worth it from a realist/Mercantilism perspective.
This is a well known problem. The noise is due to mu-law compression. The 16 bit audio samples are compressed to 8, 9, or 10 bits before feeding to the neutral net. The reason is because predicting a categorical distribution of 2^16 values requires too many parameters. The noise was also in samples from the famous Wavenet from Deepmind (they used 8 bit mu law).

There are two ways to avoid this: 1. predict 8 high (coarse) bits, 8 low (fine) bits separately as in the original waveRNN paper.
2. use a mixture of logistic distributions as the predictive output as in the recent Lyra vocoder from Google.
In a lightning port driver ? Is there some sort of crypto-primitives sort of thing going on in lightning spec ?
You can't compare vaccines to the overall universe of drugs like that. The main difference is that drugs that are intended to be taken over the long term can develop long term side effects. Vaccines are taken once or a few times, and then they're done. The parent is correct that complications arising from vaccines years after they're taken just isn't something that should be expected to happen.
Tbh this is more of a failure of Argentinian government institutions to protect their country against it.
It's a weird one isn't it - 1/40,000 but they only gave 150,000 doses out. This seems like the error bars on this would be huge - we've seen in the UK very few of these events with millions vaccinated which is pretty strange. Is there something different about Denmark and Britain at this time of year?

I've had the AZ vaccine 1st dose 3 weeks ago now and I keep getting very concerned by the ever changing picture; is it 1 in a million or 1 in 40000, or did these people have conditions that made this situation more likely... will we see an increase in the rate as we get more data too over the coming weeks a lot like we did with COVID.

All very unclear right now. I wish the case reports of all the people with blood clots were made available so everyone could review if they match the groups who have had the problems.
I hope so. The examples sounds so much better than Espeak.

Edit: Oh, I see this project uses Espeak. Interesting.
Thanks! Added.

I want to write software to let the community build these lists. Doing things like this is good practice for figuring out how the software can work.
this implies some sort of perfect price for energy which (regardless of the fossil fuels v. renewable angle) is a myth.
Or even, "Most recent commit" information. I've run across plenty of interesting looking projects, last commit 7 years ago, README.md references Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as the preferred platform...

Could I make that work? Probably, if I cared enough. Do I want to? Not unless I can't find something newer and similar enough.
The Pyramid and the Garden (2016)
Holding a belief that no matter what happens, I will be able to deal with it helped me. Losing track of where I was, stumbling over my words, going bright red in the face has all happened to me and everytime....I have survived and done just fine. Messing up isnt that bad and makes us human. Being okay with this made me more confident at speaking in front of groups.
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Sex is something hardwired into people. Basting in this example? Not so much.

Like just replace the word basting with the word sex in your example.

"The government tried outright banning sex"--sounds pretty ludicrous! Has any government even tried such a thing in all of history?

Personally, I welcome the prospect of my tax dollars being used to help people rather than kill and maim them. The amount each individual has to contribute for such a thing is likely incredibly low as well.
I met a pair of Japanese startups that operate out of New York while I was working out of some WeWorks there.

When I say Japanese startups: their market was Japan, their employees were all Japanese and they kept Japanese business hours.

I never got a good reason why they were in NY.
How Adam Draper and Garry Tan struck crypto gold
Show HN: gRPC and Kafka based microservices using Node.js
Thanks, I'm thinking particularly about the hay anti-vaxxers are making about J&J right now, for some reason the whole situation bothers me.
PG is rich. Thanks for Hackers and Painters, written long ago, when he was thoughtful and championed the artistry required to write code well. Then Startup School, because he was a good dude, who truly wanted to help others. But since then, it’s all been about money. Such a pity to see folks with promise get their heads turned by, and then devote their lives to making, money. Wealth changes what people believe, and how they feel. Ask a rich man what’s wrong with the world, and you’re sure to hear about how, if only the poor folk would get their shit together, everybody could be as happy as him.
I was thinking of trying to make a coin/token that would fight global warming to help counter that stuff. Basically if you buy it the money goes into a fund some of which goes to carbon capture / anti warming causes, some is retained for buying back coins for liquidity. Anyone think that's a good idea?
The person I was replying to implied that if we don't do things the way he thinks it should be done, we might end sick or dead. And to say STFU and except my wisdom as pure gold is also ill mannered and unkind.
"The food is terrible, and the portions much too small".
It might be silly that it wasn't until watching this anime (and the whole premise for WHY space junk removal was/is so dangerous as shown by the show) that I fully "understood" the problem with space junk. It was good show on it's own as well but it really made the "space junk" click for me.
What's a runtime? What's JavaScript? I'm being facetious because "of course I can google that", but then I could google Deno too.

Let's talk about how people use HN in practice on titles they don't understand. They open the thread and piece together context from the top few comments. And that's fine, it works.
It is just a cash-grabbing,CV-padding project, it adds nothing of value and it paints part of the latin-american tech community like clueless idiots. Do you want to use a "latino language"(whatever the hell that means), use Elixir.At least it is a nice effort for the Erlang VM with real-world uses.
There are sites like hackthissite.org that allow you to attack them, if you're tired of the local stuff.

As for the shift to infosec, I think you can make it. It would probably be good to get some certs like CISSP or GSEC.

Maybe a good strategy would be to apply for intermediate roles. Then if they have concerns about lack of prior experience you could offer to come in as a junior with the expectation that you would be promoted to intermediate after 6 months if you are performing well.
I absolutely never lied about outcomes. The author of the story conflated multiple numbers (one graduation -> placement, one enrollment -> placement) and pointed out that they’re different. He was looking at different points in the funnel, as our audited outcomes reports show.
Making Books from Websites
Hey HN Community,

Does anyone know of a service or SAAS product that allows a website to be turned into a print ready PDF? This would be super helpful to catalog a website's current state or produce copies of a site that can be read like a real book.

Lot of folks don't have access to the internet or can't read the text on a screen, so it would be neat if you could send a copy of a website as a book to someone.

Does this exist?
That's a very good explanation, thanks. However I'd argue that just because you can express something in a language, doesn't mean it's the optimal way to express it. Any turing complete language can express sum types, but there's something to be said about having explicit features within the language for sum types.

The SQL vs NoSQL debate reminds me of the static types vs dynamic types debate. Static type systems offer a more robust mental model and verification, but at the cost of rigidity and forcing the programmer to think in the type system's mental model. Dynamic types are therefore appealing because they can adapt to the programmer's mental model, even if that model is seriously flawed. One change in philosophy that has helped static type system is the realization that you can design static type systems that while not conceptually pure, get closer to the dynamic mental models. These systems, such as TypeScript or Go, make static types easier to swallow.

I wonder if the same could be said for SQL/relational systems. If you could design a relational system that's a touch more ergonomic, that doesn't require learning a mental model that feels a little foreign, maybe the NoSQL options will be a lot less appealing.
I don't think people appreciate the fact that government agencies have the cheat codes to the server of life.

While some will try to do everything the legal way, the the wily people who believe they are getting away on some kind of technicality sometimes find themselves charged with a different crime, or maybe just unlucky after a pre-dawn police raid or traffic stop goes south.
> So you lied when you said ‘no one is asking for this’.

I have literally never written "no one is asking for this" until now.

> You do realize that isn’t completely secure.

Source?

> Their case is proceeding as they planned and oral arguments are to be heard soon.

So what?

> Have you considered writing for an authoritarian politburo?

Have you considered trying to have a conversation without making a personal attack?

> So you expect users to choose between thousands of stores?

There would not be thousands of stores. Already on Android, there is a handful of stores and most stick to the Google Play Store. There aren't even thousands of stores on PC.

> They don’t have all the apps and they aren’t scam free.

But they don't need to have all of the apps. If anything, that previous line of conversation is talking about third party stores that would differentiate on greater security/privacy than the App Store, which would necessitate them having fewer apps.

> Also they are tiny experiments used by enthusiasts and are completely unrepresentative of what will happen when several billion dollar corporations and VC backed plays open stores.

Which is unlikely to happen, based on previous points already made, which you have repeatedly refused engaged in, opting instead to debase yourself and your position with personal attacks instead of substantiative points.
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