skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand it, it eliminates some optimization possibilities and adds overhead.

I do not have time to check the Python code to see how it is actually implemented (hence my question) but based on my knowledge it would imply at least a CAS operation to check and take the lock, writing the register values into memory (cache) and applying a memory barrier.

You can not keep the values in the registries (elimination of optimization possibilities) and you add considerable overhead by needing memory barriers and CAS operations.

I am not claiming that Python does it like this, I am just assuming that it should do it like this to obtain the guaranties of GIL.
Code level: Unit tests, peer-reviews.

Integration: Automated UI testing.

Functional: Humans, lots of them.

Startups usually have very small teams. Take advantage of tools that do stuff for you. Also, having other members of the team take part in testing is a means to get to know the team better and learn something new.
AI Helps Find Cancer Cells
Even with a big lead you would be hard-pressed to have a mechanical requiring a bike change and still win. Yes you can switch bikes but you will be trailing the peloton by then (where the support cars are.) Early or mid-race you could catch up to the peloton and possibly make it back up front with a lot of effort but probably not within the last 20km or more.
Well, its politically impossible now, but people opposed to it are dying every day.

Same sex marriage, marijuana decriminalization/legalization, etc all took time. This'll take time as well. I just wish people didn't have to suffer and die because of their fellow citizens' shortsightedness.

"Progress occurs one funeral at a time."
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HvLmJGM_T3M

Try listening at night maybe?
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Sendmail used to run on something like 90% of the global Internet. And mail in the 1990s pretty much did work, pretty reliably. Would you have banked your site's security on the quality of Sendmail 8.6.12's code?
A Brief History of Mead
Thank you for sharing. This explains why he was so welcomed. By "Adult in the Room" I mean being the person to instill perspective and a longer time horizon in executives.
Great questions. Let's start from the beginning.

1) Lackii's goal is to give startups the benefit of full or part-time employers without the cost. Thus, while Lackiis are employed by LACKII, the "boss" for all intents and purposes is the startup that has given the LACKII assignments.

2) Multiple requests: We address this in a couple of ways -1) when negotiating the contract with the co-working space, co-working spaces must contract a minimum of two LACKIIs, 2) some work may be rerouted to a remote Lackii, so that the Lackiis at the co-working space have their hands free to do things that require them to be on-site.

3) One of the Lackii's stationed at each site is a manager in charge of supervision and quality control.

4) Our focus is primarily on work that you would have a personal assistant or entry-level worker do, e.g. data entry, simple design work, basic research. We ensure that each Lackii is able to carry out these tasks when they are hired on our end. Startups also rate the Lackiis that complete tasks for them, and can request the same Lackii in the future.
The Past, Present and Future of Mead
The Blood Fairy and final speech are the funniest things I've read today. Possibly also for a few days before that too.
>It's much easier to get specific protections passed, especially ones that benefit one or more corporations, than it is to make sure "no one gets elected whose vote can be bought and believes in things different from me!" //

It's a very good thing when people get elected who have different beliefs to me as I'm not always right.

Also, a politician who sides with me because of a "bribe" is not a good thing IMO; it rather suggests that I'm on the side that can't win through fair play, or indeed that I'm on the side that favours those corrupt enough to pervert democracy in their favour because of their wealth.

I don't think there's any evidence to show that a copyright term less than life will damage artists, nor reduce impetus to create works. Indeed works entering the public domain appear to stimulate creative work.

I don't agree with your "too rich to legislate against the preference of" arguments for Disney. Indeed their wealth suggests strongly that the balance between public protected monopoly and free use of works has been lost.
Hook it up to a speech synthesizer, to make Deep Scat!

I played around with looping different speech synthesizers back into different speech recognizers, kind of like audio or video feedback, but with chaotic noise injected like quirks of the synthesizer, the voice, speech speed and pitch, and the audio environment around the microphone (you could talk over it to interfere with the words it was speaking and lay down new words in the loop), working against the lawful pattern matching and error correction behavior of the speech recognizer, and the HMM language model it was trained with.

It was a lot like beat poetry, in that it tended to rhyme and have the same number of syllables and use plausible sounding sequences of words that didn't actually make any sense, like Sarah Palin.

You can start it out with a sensible sentence, and it will play the telephone game, distorting it again and again. If you slow down the speech rate, words will split into more words or syllables, and if you speed it up, words will collapse into fewer words or syllables, or you can tune the speech rate to maintain the same number of syllables. Its analogous to zooming the video camera in and out with video feedback.

It would wander aimlessly randomly around poetic landscapes, sometimes falling into strange attractors in the speech recognizer's hidden markov model and repeating itself with little or no variation.

At any time you can join in with your own voice and add words during the pause at the end of the loop, or talk over its voice, much the way you can hold things in front of the camera during video feedback to mix them in.

Different speech recognizers are better at recognizing different vocabularies, and therefore like to babble about different topics, depending on which data they were trained on, which we could guess by attepmting to psychoanalyze their incoherent babbling.

IBM's ViaVoice was apparently trained on a lot of newspaper articles about the Watergate hearings, as it was quite paranoid, but business like, as if it were dictating a memo, and would start chanting and fixating on phrases like "congressional investigation," and "burglary and wiretapping," and "convicted of conspiracy".

Microsoft's speech recognizer had obviously been trained on newspaper articles about the Clinton Lewinsky scandal, since it was quite obsessed with repeatedly chanting about blow jobs (just like the news of the time), and whenever you mentioned Clinton this or Clinton that, it would rapidly converge on Clinton Lewinsky, Clinton presidency, Clinton impeachment, etc.

What I'd love to have would be a speech recognizer that returns a pitch envelope and timing that you could apply back on the synthesized words, then it could sing to you!
The article is a bit low on actual details why the release happened and what events lead to it.

"Why not" doesn't adequately describe how ESR released the in-development code to the community without the rest of the devteam knowing about it. This lead directly to new members joining the devteam and the 3.6.0 release.
That factual piece only makes one real argument, which is that reducing income flows to the healthcare sector would be politically untenable.

That argument applies equally to based solutions to the problem which are not proceeding because of regulatory capture.

Something has to give.
There's also the phenomenon whereby cutting corners is more desirable if you feel that it is prevalent. Cheaters beget cheaters, and you've got a feedback loop.
Later in the video it shows electromagnets that don't really generate heat the same way the motors do.
Possibly. The API would likely be the venue to handle this. What do you have in mind?
An Introduction to Mead, the Drink of the Gods
Well, I know what I'm doing tonight. Cheers! This is great.
1,000 world leaders say the obvious: the drug “war” has been a disaster
Agree completely. Not only do they need to be shut down, but people should go to jail.

It's strange to see the SEC go after them. It's kind of like putting gangsters away for Tax Evasion. If that's the only thing you can pin on them, I guess you have to go with it, but much better to nail them for the real crimes.
The healthcare industry is quite inefficient at allocating money to things that are needed and have a decent chance of working.

For example, in the field of oncology there's very little money put into cheap accurate early screening. And an almost obsessive pour of money into trying to understand mid-to-late stage cancers. Even James Watson has criticized this.

It's a sad situation, because we now know early pre-clinical tumours leave a trace of circulating DNA in blood. And it seems like a darn important and doable inference problem to distinguish cancer from control patients.
This is why context matters. Nobody in the Laravel community is going to associate "spark" with anything other than this project, and hardly anyone outside the Laravel community will associate "spark" with this project.

This is exactly the same thing that happens with https://www.drupal.org/project/spark.

Words mean different things to different people depending on context. Getting annoyed at that is really just a waste of time and energy.
What's with all the spiel, personalities, politics, scenery, etc. Just show us the IR images!
That seems like a really high wage for unskilled manual labor in 1989.

Of course I was 5 at the time and don't really know. Anyone have a good sense about this?
The problem with DF for young Minecraft players is that Minecraft is intensely social, and DF is for the most part very solitary.
Yeah this is quite common in most high level forms of motorsport I think. There is often a pre-race inspection for all entries and then the top 3 finishers are gone over with a fine tooth comb.
I think at this point the UCI do always inspect the winner's bike after each stage. Here's a scenario where a rider could avoid most scrutiny and get away with it....

Say a rider doesn't finish in the top 5 for any early stages but stays near the top of the pack time-wise. Meanwhile they are conserving energy e.g. through use of a motor during mountain stages. Then at the end, stop using the motor and have fresh legs because you haven't been working as hard as everyone else, and experience a miraculous rise in the standings in the last couple stages and clinch the GC win?

Although if you take the '15 TDF as an example, I think it was Froome was right up top of the standings for a huge chunk of the race. So no doubt his bike was inspected many time. Generally that's how it plays out, there's rarely a dark horse that shows up right at the end.
Identifying the Safest Intersection Designs for Cyclists
Docker Nut: the development environment, containerized
this is an important article for everyone to read.
> But music is emotional and about feelings. The feel of music is most important to us. And I think that a human songwriter is therefore essential, one that cares and puts effort into the work. It connects us, and that is what is important, not the sounds.

Children can play music very emotionally (or rather, in a way that adults associate with emotional) without having any experience of or real comprehension of the emotions. Imitation and training is sufficient to be convincing. A program doesn't need to experience emotion, only know that certain characteristics of the sound are associated with certain emotions.
They're stolen all the time. Flatbed pickup, in and out, nobody even blinks. They just think it's being repossessed.
What are you taking about? Contrary to your statement, the larger screen iPhones do have the latest features and largest storage capacities.

Even if that were not true - it is irrelevant since most people chose based on size rather than spec comparison.
Is this satire? I can't believe this is real.

I don't see how a mentally sound person could say this unironically.
How does taking away that feature so that the low end iPhone 'matches' the high end ones provide any value whatsoever to anyone?
Just wanted to say that I found this so funny when I read it a few months ago (if I remember correctly). You perfectly captured the characters and I could see them saying those exact words.

I'm curious what it takes to break into the world of writing for existing TV shows. Can you sell scripts written on spec for shows like this?
> The only way (to my knowledge) to overcome this isto attach a debugger to the app and manually strip the ssl or view the packets prior to being sent.

And that is the very intention.

Both as a user and a software engineer I find this perfectly natural. The app developer could have implemented this himself or just used public-key encryption on top of his HTTPS enabled but not certificate-pinned application.
I never could get into NetHack. Even today I find the game off-putting and I love rogues. I can't decide way.
I think its a combination of the interface, targeting system, and spoiler knowledge required.

ADOM was my first love around 1995 I believe. It recently has had a revival but it's still showing its age particularly in the interface. I don't expect Rogue interfaces to be easy but I do expect them to be semi efficient since you are using a keyboard.

Really the only classic rogue games today that have decent interfaces (control input) that I like are Brogue and DCSS.
Django models objects JSON serialization
Look up, I think you'll see @awinter-py's joke passing over your head :D
This is fascinating.

Is there more of these types of blogs?

I always wonder how much companies / startups are spending for their infrastructure.
Exactly. My impression is that a large percentage of top performing athletes are "enhanced" in some form or another.
What is the relevance of VK's net worth to Telegram's decision?
I feel the same way, but I think that that feeling might be wrong.

A difference between 1997 and today is that today Apple's barely coherent product line is incredibly successful and consistently making profit and selling on a scale which is totally unlike twenty years ago.
Precise in terms of what? I have no idea why parent brought up implemented in C. It usually is a person who thinks only C is low-level, fast, portable, or whatever enough to handle the task at hand due to shortcoming in other language being discussed. Compiler done in C implies Go wasn't good enough.

Compiler entirely in Go and very fast cancels that whole line of thinking. Far as precision, the original source could've been ported from COBOL and that wouldn't matter. The point would remain it's now in Go and gets the job done.
Single Payer would be great if you can trust the uh, payer. But our government is delightfully corrupt, so I'm sure a lot of people with more rare medical conditions would end up with worse treatment than they can get now.
You can't have it both ways people - when a company strikes it rich people complain that the regular employees didn't get a big enough piece o the pie. When companies do poorly, people complain that the employees totally got screwed because their equity is worth nothing now.

You either can get paid in pure salary and have a lower ceiling (because you're paying for less risk) and then be left out when the company does well. Or you can get some stock with a higher ceiling/lower floor and be screwed if the company goes down the drain. Either way you're not forced to take equity... developers are in demand.

This is before even considering about trying to align interests of the employee with the company..
Yeah, that's the FLIR part, but homologation could help with the "batteries in the seat stays" thing and other structural modifications. To be sure, homologation doesn't necessarily prohibit modification, and these frames typically have custom dimensions to suit the rider, so maybe x-rays could also be thrown into the mix.
What I don't understand is, how is neodymium undetectable? Wouldn't they notice the unusually strong magnetic force?
> For example, in the field of oncology there's very little money put into cheap accurate early screening. And an almost obsessive pour of money into trying to understand mid-to-late stage cancers. Even James Watson has criticized this.

I'm in no way an expert, but isn't part of that related to increasing evidence that early detection of a tumor isn't necessarily a benefit? I recall reading many tumors stop or grow so slowly that treating them has more of a downside than an upside. This is one of the reasons why early breast cancer screenings aren't a benefit.
I think Venmo is more at fault here than the government.

The government prohibits asset transfers between a certain public list of organizations. This list happens to include an organization called "ISIS". Implementing that prohibition is Venmo's problem.

Venmo then wrote a program to just scan all transactions against the list and auto-block all matches, as the least-effort path to compliance.

It's not Venmo's money, so they don't care. Most people whose legitimate transfers get blocked in this filter don't have a media platform to complain about it, so they aren't worried about negative publicity.

Finally, in terms of risk analysis, false positives are much cheaper than false negatives. If they allow a legally prohibited transfer through, then they're going to face a firestorm from the government. Expensive.

But if they block many legitimate transfers, they only annoy a few users and at most have to issue a few refunds. Cheap.

Actually having a human involved in the decision would cost them more, and expose them to more risk.

So, simple dumb keyword filters control our private finances now.
two things struck me as a little odd.

One, the private costs are off the chart with regard to our peers, but the government spending is just "more than average". but more than average is presented as being just as bad as the outlier we are in the first case.

Two, medicare is responsible for the most expensive health years of a person's life. The time when our bodies just start to fall apart and require a lot of specialized care. Medicare's cost controls seem really good when their youngest clients are 65. Comparing their costs to a private company, who insures working adults, seems like a shallow analysis.
Would you say DF could be a graduation up from KSP, or am I just barking up the wrong tree thinking they're related more than they are (never played MC, DF or KSP)?
You'll still be affected by the mysterious force if you're in Gehennom, but a cursed potion of gain level will work.
While converting from our current patchwork system of government healthcare (a system that's been fragmented in large part due to insurance industry lobbying) will have a high initial cost, it will ultimately be more efficient. As it stands, the insurance companies add enormous overhead (office buildings, sales, advertising, etc), without actually providing any care.
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For another detailed breakdown of web app cost, see the thread for Cushion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10875879
Some of us prefer the smaller size but would otherwise like the same features.

I would certainly agree that 3D touch is the one feature I could definitely do without. I never use it on my 6S.
I'm someone who fervently studied classical drawing, painting, and sculpture, against the advice of my friends and professors (they told me to stop studying so hard and to start an art career). The problem with over-practice is that you can get caught in mindless habit. It ruined art for me.

It's become very difficult for me to draw pictures that are interesting (if wrong) because I've trained so hard to draw them accurately. It's all by rote.

I've tried to fix it, to rewind. Now when I draw it's with my weak hand, and that has gotten me drawing interesting (if wrong) pictures again.

Another technique I've tried is using cheap materials. I usually get more interesting results from my 3 year olds acrylics than using professional oil paints.

That said, the love of art never came back. That's why, to the extreme confusion of my friends and family, I'm in tech now.
Thanks, I miscategorized my own feelings of validation as schadenfreude and was feeling bad about it. Now I don't have to.
Uncovering? They pissed off (justly) somebody very important, probably in the military, and they used WSJ to orchestrate this.
The Pyston team at Dropbox has a presentation where they say the "real world" performance metrics aren't as good for PyPy as the benchmarks would suggest, allegedly slower than cpython on many metrics.

http://www.slideshare.net/KevinModzelewski/pyston-talk-11101...

It's an argument I haven't heard anywhere else (and one I'm not in a position to substantiate) but presumably Dropbox, who use Python at scale, have as valid perspective on this issue as anyone.
Came here to post this.

The other advantage of cache over explicit control of the on-chip SRAM is that it allows code to be inherently forwards and backwards compatible, rather than tying the code to a specific machine with a specific amount of on-chip memory. And I imagine the nightmare would only increase if you had to factor multitasking into an explicit scheme.

The primary benefit of explicit on-chip memory is not, AFAIK, that you can manually manage it significantly better than a cache, but that it takes up significantly less die space and has lower access latency. You really see this idea shine in tiny cheap microcontrollers that have no external memory.
Building an IBM Watson Powered AI Chatbot
Very.. if a VM or JIT compiler is added to the mix, and optional type hints. There are many potential Python optimizations that can't be done that are suddenly possible if something can provide real time code monitoring/optimization.
The level of arrogance with these guys is quite something.

Considering they're spending $211,000+ per year on hosting, and paying at least twice as much as they need to, it would be incredibly irresponsible not to spend the time to learn how to do devops and get these costs under control.

Since they're located in Canada, the amount of money they save could probably pay for a full-time in-house devops engineer.

This reminds me of EverPix, a photo storage company that went bankrupt because they couldn't pay their Amazon storage bill, yet considering that 99.99% of their photos were basically in 'cold storage', could have probably traded the majority of their $35,000/month S3 bill for a $8,000/one-off BackBlaze Storage Pod + colo fees.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-d...

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/storage-pod-4-5-tweaking-a-pr...
Cut up all the bikes. Or use the more reasonable suggestion in the sibling to my comment and just dismantle them enough to do a good inspection.
Even if cached, most self-hosted WP can't handle HN visitor volume :-)
According to this slide their "real world" tests of PyPy didn't live up to the benchmarks, and in fact showed "no clear improvement" compare with cpython

http://www.slideshare.net/KevinModzelewski/pyston-talk-11101...
All I see are the FBI planes taking my portrait :( I can't tell what's real and what's dystopian any more.
I was going to say the exact same thing!

"Our environmental destruction is fine. But yours? That is just too much!"
Google Play Music adds podcasts with machine learning recommendations
That is exactly the reason if you are looking for performance you should use slot.