jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes :)

By a hair of 1ms on the sprint data set (76ms vs 77ms), but by 2x on the long distance marathon data set, compared to the next runner up, who also used a switching hybrid to enter two types of "runner" in terms of algorithm, but with a single switch point instead of a curve so the sprint algorithm wasn't always used when it should have been, and a slower long distance algorithm that used a more theoretically optimal algorithm but with pointer chasing and more cache misses on real hardware.

This was also in JavaScript, on a literal V8 input data string instead of a Node.js buffer, and the thing that really helped was taking time upfront to first recode the string to a buffer. Sounds crazy and slow and unintuitive, but byte operations on a buffer are way faster than charCodeAt() function calls on a string and this more than made up for the upfront recoding. This came the closest to the "null cipher" imaginary competitor I had, close enough within a few percent, of all the prototypes I tried, so I submitted...
The contact-us is a box to speak into that would make you feel better that you did something when you hit 'send'. If you think you will achieve anything significant with it, think again. Imagine that _you_ are TI and you receive a couple of messages there. You will think (probably even anticipate) this is clearly the public's reaction to a decision that you thought through, which is not a typo or day-to-day error. So you will thank them for their concern and will carry on with your business!

A better remedy would be to publicly shame them about what they just did. TI will still carry on with their business but others will just know better than to engage with TI in the future!
how about vampire v4: http://www.apollo-core.com/v4.html
I think the dog-like robot - Spot is commercial. SpaceX are using one to asses things on their launch pad. But I guess it's truly a difficult problem and they aren't rushing it to market before is good and save enough. Which if they have the funding I think is a good approach.
> > A few months ago people laughed at the suggestion. It was "dangerous" to "deceive" people about Vit D and Covid.

> Who? Doctors or people on the internet?

Last automn, I asked a medical doctor about Vitamin D and CoVid19 and he told me that he gets a lot of emails about news in medicine, and that he deletes everything that mentions Vitamin D, because some claims about Vitamin D were refuted in the '90s. I was suprised to say the least.
Fair enough, but in most people's minds, it suggests that the correctness of an implementation doesn't depend on which optimizations are applied, and in this sense, TCO isn't an optimization.

TCO isn't merely an optimisation in the same sense of local/global value numbering/common sub-expression elimination , dead-code elimination, loop-invariant expression hoisting, etc.
In practice that would mean a lot more head/tail accidents, I've seen that happen plenty of times in traffic jams from over-eager drivers, sudden stops (either people trying to go too fast or not paying attention), etc.
Yup, and they had their own little shitty corner of the Internet until social media showed up and let them out. Time to send the trolls back to the caves.
I'd consider getting fired a much more serious form of ostracism than deplatforming. Getting banned from Twitter doesn't affect your ability to pay rent.

I personally put the blame for his firing more on the blatantly distorted and sometimes even outright counterfactual coverage of his message. The number of mainstream and well respected outlets that falsely claimed he wrote that women are biologically less capable engineers, rather than that they lower predilection to enter the field , was disturbing. After his memo Google announced that they wouldn't set quotas for groups beyond the demographic's representation in the field. The people I know at Google felt that the reaction was overblown.
The key takeaways:

* MPD coordinating with US Park Police, US Capitol Police, US Secret Service (all uniformed)

* Additional logistical support from unarmed DC National Guard (presumably these are not boots on the ground but just planning, equipment, etc?)

* In the past, unidentified (e.g. not uniformed) armed personnel caused confusion (and is not desirable)

Anyway, I agree this wasn't the right call. But I don't have enough inside information to know if Capitol Police assured her that with the various (above) coordination and help from surrounding areas (from your earlier link)[0], that everything would be "under control." Was she being naive, misinformed or have ill-intent? A good explanation would go a long way here.

> [0] a mutual-aid agreement with several local police departments from nearby jurisdictions, and had requested backup from the Maryland, New Jersey, and Virginia state police.
Are you genetically tested to be identical twins? Sometimes fraternal twins look so similar they think they are identical, but they aren't.
It'd be a good idea to read through these threads from a day or two ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25662215

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25669864

Apparently WhatsApp is so integrated into several countries' cultures, you cannot live without it. Like literally - some examples I remember are food deliveries (during lockdowns) are only available through WhatsApp, as are scheduling hospital visits, anything involving schooling, I think I remember lawyers sharing documents, and so on.
Surely we can make an exception when a President leads an insurrection against his own country…
[-1] Bonus, related: https://www.pnas.org/content/117/14/7561

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25357315

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13755673

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16582136

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18224227

[5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[6]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25679354

[7]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25692617

[8]: I'm not alone! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25501216
Yes and I'm sure when all the standards for allowing people on the wrong side of public opinion are removed, that will never end up flipping around on the people who pushed for their removal.
I really like your explanation of diagonalizable matrices! I've always seen explanations of how to determine if a matrix is diagonalizable, but hadn't run across the idea that they are just scaled diagonal matrices for a different basis.
If it's lossless, then it'll handle noise the same as the raw wav file. Am I missing something?
Sturgill Simpson and Chris Knight.
I googled this guy, and both the author of that book and this guy seem to have gone to MIT. So unless it's a huge coincidence, I'd say the answer is yes.
This is encouraging to hear - I appreciate that you took time to answer.

The sad part of this is that there are no founders. At least, none that are left. The company was stated ~35 years ago by a pair of brothers, and they sold about 10 years ago. We were left to our own devices until about a year ago since we were incredibly profitable. I'm not sure what changed, but someone decided to "bring us into the fold".
It's still a huge step up from the all-too-common "use the same password everywhere" technique.
I'd be very interested to see the results of their ongoing research. And I'd like to know how the debiasing process compares to e.g. CBT.
> I know Firefox, Opera, etc makes 99% of their income from these ad filled start-pages and by selling your privacy. But why do they get away with it?

You can just not use them if you dislike them.
I didn't understand the absolute gif. They said use it for logos that need to appear at the top of the page, but then you see it scroll right off the screen with the rest of it.

Are they saying, it's absolute in reference to the yellow box it's a child of, and it's only scrolling up because the yellow box is?
You could easily create multiple identities, but they would not be worth much. By somehow encoding all the relationships of trust that a person has had throughout their lives, it would become possible for another person in the same, or connected, trust networks to verify the identity and the trust placed in it.

New identities would simply have no trust, and would be quite worthless without years of normal life behind them.
Because no one will work for free on the development side and no one will pay for search on the consumer side?
We could but then we need software to take advantage of it, which means FPGA are like GPU in the early days without Direct X or OpenGL drivers sitting on top. Someone ( Microsoft ) will have to create a something that work across on both Xilinx and Altera.

Although I dont see that happening soon. Mostly because no one has the interest in doing so. What most likely will happen is that Apple are so far ahead in this game they started to take notice and work on something.

On Server it is very different though. Tiles and Chiplet will finally means FPGA can have their own node and optimisation while sitting next to CPU without all the complexity of trying to get them into the same silicon. Although the cost of specific software optimisation for specific task will likely means they only goes to HyperScaler.
Is it? I remember reading the word from sources that predate C&H by a lot (early 20th c.).

Doing my homework, a quick search shows uses as far back as 17th c. (which I din't quite expect!)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/transmogrify
They should keep it instead of trying to avoid offending people. People take things too seriously. When else are you going to have fun saying, I'm working on the CoQ have an awkward stare, and then laugh about it?

We already have CoC for Vim, and I see no problem with that.
I was eyeing up a satnav for my motorcycle, one option it had was to create a windy, indirect, touristy route instead of the fastest / most efficient one. It was an interesting one.

But in the end I couldn't justify paying €400 for something that my phone could do. I know, motorcycle satnavs are hardened, deal with direct sunlight better, work offline and are much more energy efficient, but still. I feel like at that time (this was only a few years ago) those systems should be a lot better already, like offloading work to your phone (becoming more of an external screen), etc.
Thank you. Your population links are fascinating.

Going [1]->[2]->[3] shows that the real boom after all is the cohort born around 1960.
this is how honest politicians are treated
It was even before The Facebook became a public website. Zuckerberg smashed some curl + PHP + UI to fetch and display pics of campus girls and "users" could rate their hotness.
> Fujifilm has managed to continue in the digital photography sector, although they were rather more broadly based to begin with

Well, they really became broader based in large part when they saw film was going to decline and branched into areas where they could apply their film expertise outside of photography. See e.g. http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2012/01/how-fujifi...

They do sell cameras today. (Nice ones; I own one.) But it's a relatively niche business.

(And even so they struggled. Film sales absolutely fell off a cliff.)
To play the devil's advocate, maybe they deserve to die out. If they would have innovated and conquered first, their language could have lived and ours could be the one on its deathbed. Survival of the fittest, if you will.
Thanks, I will check them out. I'm out of the loop when it comes to older games since for me game development is only a recent hobby. I'm developing Big Data stuff mostly with Java and Scala, but I have been playing with data-oriented stuff in Clojure, hence my interest.
Things only have value because we agree they do. The US Dollar is backed by the full faith and trust in the government. "Faith and trust" is as much a digital tulip.
That really doesn't make them look any better. If a single intern's password mishap can breach a security company's systems on this level, they've lost the fight long before this incident.
Bonds are not dollars. Bonds have a positive return. Dollars, by design, have a negative return.
Here's a derivative Youtube video (CGP grey). It visualizes how different proposed methods work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHbLRjF0vo
There is. It's called HOCON and I'm surprised it's not mentioned yet:

https://github.com/lightbend/config/blob/master/HOCON.md

HOCON is the "human optimised config object notation" and is a superset of JSON. All valid JSON is valid HOCON but then it goes and adds lots of other features specifically designed for writing usable config files.
Yes, I am aware, but it's not nearly as flexible and quick. It doesn't allow me to in the meantime move my cursor around, switch buffers, undo, open/close a fold, etc. It takes complete control of your workflow to temporarily put you in some special 'search/replace mode' in a very non-Vimlike manner. My plugin has a simple operation (if cursor is on a match, replace, regardless jump to next match) that gets repeated with ., combined with nN and u and you have complete control while also rapidly doing search/replace.

And you would still need some nice mappings to substitute the word/selection underneath the cursor with :%s///gc.
Rubber deteriorates over time, leather dries out, synthetic materials delaminate and break down, fabrics go brittle and break easily if handled.

This whole sneakerhead thing is insane. Shoes are meant to be worn, not stored away like some ridiculous baseball card.

It is yet another sign that consumerism and by extension capitalism is a delusion and an unsustainable bubble.
Yes, exactly, it's because of Structural Typing that you have to implement Phantom Types in that hacky way rather than Structural Typing being the "trick".
Headlines like these always read like "Man stops kicking puppy" to me.
This is interesting, but the author focuses mainly on the hormonal benefits of different rest protocols. These benefits are completely negligible when bodybuilders are pumping themselves full of exogenous steroids/hormones. I'm interested to see if a study like this could be performed on hormonally controlled test subjects
Sorry, the use case I had in mind was contact discovery. Existing cryptographic protocols for private contact discovery do not scale to Signal’s numbers.
Too Many Acronyms (TMA)

Continuous Integration (CI)
Continuous Delivery or Deployment (CD)
Domain-Specific Language (DSL)
Structured Query Language (SQL)
YAML Ain't Markup Language (YAML)
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX)
Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD)
Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC)
Central processing unit (CPU)
Operating System (OS)
Quick EMUlator (QEMU)
Total Addressable Market (TAM)
Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)
Computer Science (CS)
User Interface (UI)
PR? workflow (Pull Request, Purchase Request, Public Relations, Puerto Rico)
GitHub Actions (GHA)
GitLab? or Graphics Library (GL)
Facebook Apple Amazon Netflix Google (FAANG)

The only acronym I care about is B:

alias b='code build'
Not a valid C comment.
I understand the point he’s trying to make, but that doesn’t make the point not stupid.

(I read 80% of the article. It’s pretty well written. Still don’t recommend, waste of time...)
I'm now building a back office/admin part of a site. The part where designers are rarely seen. And boy, does Tailwind help.
What have the been accused of? Breaking a few city laws?

The execs haven't committed rape or murder. They aren't infringing on people rights by sending the government our emails, texts or phone conversations; as far as I know.

As far as businesses, and the objectives of any given one, go they're alright in my book.

Patents, however, I am against.
The daily variance of USDBTC is around 2.3% - over a multi-week crowdfunding campaign the volatility of Bitcoin could easily cost you vastly more than payment processing fees and is unpredictable.
I do not like hype languages or framework. remember node.js?
Today is golang or rust. Leaving for the hype will never make you happy. There will always some language, library or framework that is 'super' impressive. Also, there will be always some internet 'dude' that knows better than you.

hype languages:

- ruby

- scala

- rust

- js(node.js, ember, angular, react, triple react

- golang

- hack

- d language

- static languages, not java, or #net, or c but something on top of jvm

- reactive programming

- self healing prototype dynamic language (aka: trust)*

*imaginary language, style :)
There's a section in the tweetNaCl paper that discusses some limited formal verification.

For some interesting commentary on the difficulty in formally verifying c code (with crypto examples) see:
https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/09/07/provers.html

and the followup

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/09/11/moveprovers.html
> I also support 90% of the drug laws out there. The argument that heroin and meth should be legal is asinine.

Why exactly?

> often leads to more crime as addicts will steal or even kill for their next fix.

You realize the drug laws you support create this behavior, right?
I think the title is a bit misleading. The article only talks about payment processing fees. The situation for crowdfunding is even worse. Crowdfunding platforms like kickstarter take an additional 5% fee...

But of course, there is a way around some of the fees charged by paypal or stripe. You can open your own merchant account and handle card payments yourself; then you might get lower per-transaction fees. But then you need to do a lot of bureaucratic nonsense that will probably end up costing you more...
Interesting to note that the first Die Hard movie is 1988. Just watched it the other day, and it doesn't feel stale at all. Lethal Weapon is 1987, and I bet a lot of kids would recognize "I'm getting too old for this shit."
Is this kind of like Orbital Sciences using the surplus rocket engines?
MOre interesting question: Why aren't we using SSH-style authentication for everything? And although they can be used with SSH, I do not mean certificates.
In addition to the note by jasonlotito on 'saved' items in HN, why not save bookmarks in your browser, in social bookmarking services like http://delicious.com, or on services like http://instapaper.com? Probably a better solution than leaving comments all over the place :)
If your degree in CS is too easy and feels useless study something difficult.

If money up front is not an issue you want a university degree. Even if considered as nothing more than a meaningless credential, university degrees pay off over time. More now than ever.

But it needn't be a mere piece of paper. If your classes are teaching you things you already know take different classes.

When you've studied physics up to field theory, biology through physiology and genetics, know how to build an amplifier from a tableful of chips, understand enough statistics to meaningfully criticize a published article in sociology or epidemiology, know how to use Photoshop to duplicate your favorite fancy website from scratch, understand music theory, have a grasp of linguistics and know some basic accounting come back and ask us what to do next. :)
Or people trying to prove a point, check the front page :P
300+ screenshots: http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/857/857126/imgs_1.html

Visible drivers; car damage (open doors, crunched and torn fenders); breathtaking scenery; visible light from cars (on road, on dust clouds); driver's seat views (dash, steering wheel, rear view mirror, etc.).
It seems like a fault that wouldn't hurt the entire system, but it may cause a dilemma similar to Facebooks design flaw, where disowned groups could be taken under control - http://mashable.com/2009/11/10/facebook-groups-hacked/. As with every such flaw, it's likely to start attracking spammers, and should be dealt with in some way (Facebook seems to have disabled reclaiming ownership of groups without admins?)
Just because something is written in a contract (which you may have signed in preference to starving or losing your house) doesn't mean it can be enforced.

Imagine if a company wrote in the fine print that if you cost them money they can kill you. Do you think they would be allowed to because you signed the contract?
No, I mean they would continue to live on the territory they lived for centuries (somehow without apparently being ethnically cleansed by Georgians all that damn time). And without Russian involvement it would have long since went into participatory politics.

And it's not just a speculation, there was a perfect A/B test. Ajaria, another autonomous region of Georgia, long since had independence ambitions too. However that conflict fizzed out without notable violence.

The difference from Ossetia? It does not border Russia and there weren't substantial troops stationed at the time of USSR dissolution.
Internships maybe? And people don't really expect too much from your first job applications. You don't really need to do big projects to stand out of the crowd. When I graduated, my CV was mostly some of my bigger personal projects and 2 internships and I easily got a job a known company in my country.
its a sensational headline ... the reality is someone applied a wrong tool and got bad results.
Don't forget that France surrendered.
World War 1 Ended when Russian troops stormed what was left of the Reichstag in 1945.
This is the most enlightening thing I've read thsi year, thank you!
Sorry to disagree, but:

#It's not a war

Yes, yes it is. Has been since the 70's. Anyone who tells you that currency markets aren't a function of State Power doesn't know what CB's do[1][2]. [The public side to this story is that the IMF wasn't informed prior to the move - work out why].

#Losses

Heavily leveraged FOREX companies (aka day babies) were taken to the cleaners, and some banks / funds who had positions lost out. Look at the # of positions that were closed out for the real story.

#Russia

It's interesting to note who holds what in Swiss Banks, and in CHF. Just a thought[3][4]

#HappyCamperFunTimes

Rumor has it that HFTs are going to be heavily ganked very soon, to the tune of 60% through-flow. You didn't hear that here.

[1]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2773265/Billionaire-who-b...
[2]http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html?letter=S
[3]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/08/wikileaks-us-ru...
[4]http://itar-tass.com/en/economy/769344
To quote the memorable Ted Dziuba[0]:

"Here's a concrete example: suppose you have millions of web pages that you want to download and save to disk for later processing. How do you do it? The cool-kids answer is to write a distributed crawler in Clojure and run it on EC2, handing out jobs with a message queue like SQS or ZeroMQ.

The Taco Bell answer? xargs and wget. In the rare case that you saturate the network connection, add some split and rsync. A "distributed crawler" is really only like 10 lines of shell script."

[0] since his blog is gone: http://readwrite.com/2011/01/22/data-mining-and-taco-bell-pr...
No extensions on Chrome :)
Scarcity will end when both these Star Trek ideas come true:

1) Every trinket can be produced en masse with a precious mingling of magic, unicorns and nanotechnology

2) Consumerism ends. One could argue there are enough resources and means of production on the world for everyone. It's just that the "haves" want more and more, and then throw it away and want even more.

Otherwise -- A Star Trek replicator would just speed up the treadmill of consumerism. You can have any toy you want instantly. In our current society, this would probably mean that fashions change every three minutes, and the rich part of the population will use so much energy that the have-nots will still be deprived of even basic living conditions.
And debated under the assumption that Lucas wasn't just full of crap but happened to be an alright director at the time.