skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! I skimmed a few of their articles and it seemed more qualitative review than quantitative outcomes... but helpful to see some of the work that's been done. And maybe I missed the quantitative ones.
Xmonad is a bit historically related to StumpWM, actually; a number of early users had been using StumpWM for the greater programmability over Ratpoison, but weren't all that keen on Common Lisp, so when dons decided to write a WM in Haskell... I was one of them, and even ported over some of the more popular extensions like search engine plugins (which were themselves originally modeled on 'surfraw', a package of shell scripts written mostly by a fellow named Julian Assange; everything is connected).
Modern race bikes are already deadweighted to make it to the minimum weight, so it's not a question of making the bike heavier.
From 1.5 to 1.6 @brianhatfield saw pauses in a 8GB heap & 150M allocs/min go from 40ms to ~3ms [0].

[0]: https://twitter.com/brianhatfield/status/692778741567721473
The thing about Nethack is that it isn't so much a game as an elaborate joke. You don't win by being good, you win by memorizing all of the tricks. And it's only fun if you play on #nethack on irc.freenode.net, because then you can kibbitz with other players, they can watch your game, you can fall into addiction together, laugh about ridiculous situations involving cockatrices, etc. It gets boring after you win a couple of times, there isn't really much difference between the classes.

I thought DCSS was boring, 15 runes is way too much of a slog and that's with an easy class. If it wasn't so grindy I would like it a lot more, the skills are fun.

ADOM is similarly just way too long and you can't reasonably beat it without spoilers.

Brogue is perfection. You should try playing in the weekly random seed contests on the forum.
I've got one of FLIR's cheaper thermal imagers and every time the issue of rain or snow comes up when discussing the limitations of self-driving cars I wonder why we hadn't already paired thermal sensors with machine learning.

The thermal sensor might not tell you much in isolation - you can see what's warm in contrast to the surrounding environment, but moving objects give away a lot of information. A person moves a certain way and has a certain heat signature, as does a cat, another car, a person on a bicycle.

I recall an interview with a (relatively) young James Cameron after he'd made the movie Aliens. He said that they spent a lot of time simplifying the Alien outfit, making it easy for performers wearing the costumes to move more freely, to help make their movement appear more alien or insect-like and less like a human struggling to stride in an outfit. To paraphrase him, the mind only needs a few pixels of movement information to understand what it's looking at. The loss of detail in the outfit was trivial compared to triggering the part of the human mind that associates certain movements with caution.

An array of fairly humble low-ish resolution thermal sensors around the car paired with AI could be done with a cost in parts not much higher than USD 1k.
Variolation was still risky with a ~1% risk of death and a significant chance of starting a new outbreak. So, the vaccine was still a rediculusly huge step forward.
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Got it - so really, it's not "earlier", full stop, it's "identify bad tumors vs. okay tumors early".

Thanks for the clarification.
There's another large effect that is left out of this story. As solar gets cheaper, and as we get more of it, it reduces the marginal pressure on fossil fuel production. That, in turn, makes fossil fuels cheaper and forces solar to get cheaper still to compete.
This paper finds that surge pricing does put more drivers on the road: http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/chris.nosko/research/effects...
Agreed. Most tech investors are not savvy enough to make informed decisions when it comes to high-tech ventures. A lot of investors rely on other investors' opinions as a barometer for quality/value because they don't understand what they're doing.

When you have too many empty suits at the top making all the decisions, then you get into a situation of the blind leading the blind. It is shocking that it can happen at such a scale.

It's frustrating for intelligent, motivated founders who do the hard work to watch vaporware competitors getting billion dollar valuations and taking all the market share right in front of them.

Too many investors don't have a clue about what real innovation/value looks like because they've never actually seen it - Most of them probably got into their position through a combination of hard hustling and luck instead of through hard work and critical thinking.

Unfortunately, hustling doesn't advance science or human knowledge.
Or, you know, just X-Ray them. Aren't most competition-level bikes using carbon fibre frames these days? For metal frames, ultrasound would work just as well.
Great post. I wish more companies would be equally transparent about their infrastructure details.
I think the lack of cost optimization is underrated though.

The problem is as you scale the lack of optimization scales with it. Ultimately a late optimization and migration affect more users, complexity etc..

I can't wait for the next post to hear about the details of the choices that have been made.
> You know who built Google? People who weren't working in Yahoo or AltaVista.

It was not people trying random shit either. It was a pair of PhD students, who were already experts in how information is indexed in libraries, and who understood how citations work in academia, who applied this knowledge to the novel domain of crawling the WWW.

If you look at the biographies of really creative people, you will see a pattern emerging. Practically all the grand masters of the Reinassense specialized in a single art, but dabbled with 2 or 3 more (i.e. Michel Angelo's magna opus is the Sistine Chappel, but he was a master sculptor and a moderately competent architect). Many fiction writers do start their careers as journaists. Great hackers have a tendency to pick up hobbies that have little or nothing to do with computers.

Maybe the problem with the 10-thousand hours is not that it kills creativity, but that people gets obsessed about a single topic and do not try their hand at enough different things for their creativity to flourish.
Why Linux in particular?
I'd like to thoroughly debunk this myth with a more illustrative reference[1].

Over its entire lifecycle, utility-scale photovoltaic power creates 48g of CO2-equivalent emissions per kWh.
Natural gas emits 10x this; coal 17x.

Furthermore: the majority of PV emissions are dictated by manufacturing processes, which will probably get cleaner and more efficient over time.
The emissions of coal and gas are dictated by chemistry, and will never change.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_greenhouse-gas_emis...
Its getting more press because the other leagues are suppressing it. It is not hard too believe that there is an immense amount of PED use in NFL (way too much money on the line) and probably the NBA and Soccer.
Probably re-targeting pixels
For those wondering how they can justify these costs, a newer buzzword marketing trend is 'side-project marketing' or 'tool marketing'. Make a useful side project or tool that vaguely relates to your business which drives a lot of traffic, and some of that traffic/goodwill will spillover to your site.
From the article:

"“There has been some complaints about how we ‘broke’ the game when the Elbereth nerfing was found out," he says. "But I consider the old E behaviour to be the broken one -- it was just too strong and exploitable. Some people have even said they will not update to the newest version, which is of course their prerogative"

Notable victories: http://nethack.wikia.com/wiki/Notable_ascensions

One of the players ascended 18 consecutive times (playing on a server too, so it was all logged)
Is your sarcasm meant to imply that Silicon Valley's purported anti-woman culture is overstated?
In my experience the Tegra K1 is rather limited as a deep learning platform. A Tegra X1 would easily fit in this platform, and is about twice as powerful (at about twice the cost, admittedly). In fact, for a slow-moving ground robot such as this I would consider a laptop with one of the mobile Nvidia GPUs, such as the GT960M. This would be more expensive of course (just the laptop would probably be more than $1k) but it'd be far easier to work with.
I'd chose Azure before Google Cloud if I look for AWS alternative. I see more fruitful imagination in Microsoft than in Google! I am highly disappointed by Google - they've missed so many opportunities when it comes to Cloud Computing! They started the negative trend with the ridiculous and pricey AppEngine! And now they continue to lag severely behind Amazon!

Also, if people mostly cared about "the fastest", you'd see only Akamai in the past, but, no, people wanted freedom! I was stuck with Akamai and their $600/hr professional services for too long to know this first-hand! And "the fastest" is when the service is not heavily utilized like the rest and it has very limited functionality. Plus, other vendors constantly improve as well. The fastest service today is not the fastest of the tomorrow, but the one that starts with a minuscule subset of the baseline and what the others is doomed!
Sufficiently advanced satisfaction at vindication of your worldmodel due to misfortune is indistinguishable from schafenfreude.
CLFSWM is neat as well and certainly has its own unique features, but afaik it is not based on StumpWM
It can if you dump it as static HTML and serve that instead ;)
Slots are still mutable, so they don't help with most of those concerns.

(also: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/8/16/the-python-i-would-like-to...)
Point taken. But when a startup brags about how they're burning $200K+ a year on something they probably don't need to, then follows it up with "we don't want to learn how to be more efficient", a tiny part of me dies.

DevOps isn't easy, but its not that hard.
It's logistically very difficult. All ProTour riders will have at least one spare bike. The teams will also have at least 20 spare wheelsets available. For a typical one-day like the Paris-Roubaix, that means at least 400 bikes and a thousand spare wheels. These bikes and wheels all need to be checked and maintained before every day of racing.

Cycle races often start and finish in small towns, so the teams may have to stay in hotels some distance from the course. It would be impractical to find a suitable building for parc ferme at most races and it would be costly to erect temporary facilities.

The professional racing calendar is extremely busy, so a team mechanic may be travelling continuously from late January to early December. There simply isn't the time available for a parc ferme.

I think the current strategy is perfectly satisfactory. Riders are immediately intercepted after the finish line. The race leaders and some randomly selected riders will have their equipment inspected, in the same way that they are tested for doping.
It will obviously pay for itself in terms of energy... in the limiting case, you could just hop in a Tesla and win the race.
Enjoy Wrestling, at least they admit it now.

Though, not quite sure whether doping (mechanical or otherwise) counts as fake. It's just that the de facto regulations they abide by are different than the de jure regulations.
And yet, the D-pad exists.
Variolation was still risky with a significant risk of contracting the disease and thus death or even starting a new outbreak. So, the vaccine was still a rediculusly huge step forward.
Does it check for things like a full certificate chain?
I may be wrong but doesn't this solution also require an Android device?
Nah, the market is such so much smaller than for phones (and even cars).
Well, I agree that Reddit's voting system encourages groupthink, but I'd rather that unpopular opinions were silenced by other commenters rather than all opinions being silenced.

Do you think that comments belong anywhere on the web (on aggregator sites, for example)?
Elon's Musk résumé all on one page
If the people making the regulations were interested in efficiency, everyone would be racing in a fully covered recumbent bike.

(They don't, because the regulations don't allow it.)
Internet hugs...
Some tar sands are below 1 once you include refining and transportation.
> Suppose solar panels were priced such that, after accounting for installation costs and subsidies and everything else, solar was much cheaper than grid power and paid off quickly. Then pretty much everyone would want one, and the manufacturer would have a huge backorder. So the manufacturers wouldn't do that; instead, they'd price the panels a little higher, sell everything they could produce but not have the backorder, and invest the extra money into expanding their production capacity.

That's what finance is for. I assume if this were actually the case, wouldn't the manufacturers _take_ the backorders and separately raise money for expanding their production capacity? I don't buy it.
Time to back up my Flickr account (again).
Not at all. One is empirical where you hone the accuracy of your world model while being able to prove it to others if necessary. It can even benefit their own development and actions, but doesn't have to. An emotionless individual can also possess this trait. Even early robots in A.I. that self-adjusted had a form of this.

Whereas, schafenfreude is an emotional response tied to others success or failures. Two different things with one being clearly superior unless one is pursuing emotional highs and lows.
I found this much better at explaining what went down before the 3.6 release: https://tung.github.io/DynaHack/2016/02/18/stepping-down-fro...
Because Bay Trail devices only came with a 32-bit UEFI making it impossible* to boot Linux. (*annoyingly obtuse to get it to work).
Sure. People do that all the time. It's easiest if you play on a public server. For two reasons:

- people on #nethack on freenode can give you advice
- you are less tempted to cheat
I genuinely laughed out loud when Allison announced the general council, who has a religious objection to email, would be working from home in Iceland.
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Electricity transmission is constrained by line loss, which is proportionate to amperage. To minimize it, voltage is raised to as much as over a million volts, keeping amperage down. This makes for very serious cross-country transmission lines, and electric companies still lose a quarter of the generated power to it. In my opinion, the two great strengths of solar are cleaner power and localizing power generating with its use.
I've won Spelunky only a handful of times. (I suggest playing with the fan made patches for the gamemaker version.)

But, I've seen sub ten minutes run on Youtube using only the original items, and no hearts lost.
Unmoderated commenting doesn't belong anywhere that relies on advertising as a business model.

At the very least, have a human editor filter out comments, based on editorial guidelines.
Just take the bike out of the race entirely. Declare a year in advance that the bike will be XYZ model Q so people can train on them, and the race maintains custody of all race bikes, spares, etc.

It's already a money-competition to see who can buy the best super-bike. Yes, you have to have a minimum weight, but that just means that you can take a superbike and spend the extra weight applying aerodynamic fairings whereas someone else has to spend that weight on their frame or whatever.

Just take the bike out of the picture entirely. You ride this bike. Or one of these three models. Or whatever.
It was an Australian thing, although it's (sadly) gone now.
I really dislike projects that assume you know the definition of an acronym and never (1) expand it nor (2) explain it. BGP is super important to the GoBGP project. It deserves at least a mention somewhere in the first 4 sentences introducing the project. Gahh!
Yeah, it does present a maintenance problem. I think a third party service is a good validator. Also look at pingdom.
Once you are past the castle, it's easy to ascend. Mostly boredom stopping you there.
I wonder why the company isn't named? Does the US even care about all the money being sent to my long lost relative in Nigeria or only when a big company loses money?
Why would you write a blurb for a window manager, without screenshots? That's literally all it does!
Telegram really doesn't seem like they're trying to be a secure chat client at all at this point. It seems like the focus is more on making a follow-up runet social network now that Durov no longer has control over VK.

It echoes VK in a lot of ways (pirated media abounds!), but channels are some weird cross between Twitter and 4chan as opposed to being a blatant Facebook clone. Direct messaging is still there but it doesn't seem like the network is focused on that at all anymore.
Good summary. Especially the healthy people being hard to measure. Never heard anyone put it that way before. Now that I think of it, it's usually easier to tie data points to specific illnesses than to a lack of them. I have a feeling I'll be wondering about this in the future.

Quick guess is that healthy relies on emergent behavior of locally interacting cells. Lots and lots and lots of complex behavior with few observable inputs and outputs into the body. The inputs might not have a direct correlation to healthiness. We'd have to have a model of all those processes before we'd see evidence of healthiness in the data points.
I found the tourist actually relatively easy. (Especially once you get started.) Archaeologist is supposed to be harder (but I've done that, too).

But that might be because I focussed on the supposedly harder classes after doing Valkyrie and Wizard.
> If there's one complaint I have against Math education it's that all my educators actively encouraged eliding the units even for problems based on physics. I'm not sure if this was just to try to trip students up on tests, but it was absolutely horrible from an educational perspective. ALWAYS keep the goddamn units so you can at least minimally sanity check your result!

For what it's worth, as a mathematics teacher, I do my best to encourage my students always to keep their units (though I do bow to tradition by not requiring it). This started in helping to guide them through setting up differential equations [0], but, when I saw what a good tool it was for organising thought, I exported it to my other classes as well.

(It's just occurred to me to compare dimensional analysis with Haskell's if-it-compiles-it-works property: it doesn't guarantee correctness, but at least it ensures only interesting errors. I try to give a lot of partial credit when grading, but these days I am ruthless if a proposed differential equation involves adding, say, a distance and a time!)

[0] To the extent that I am pretty confident that, if any of my students reads this, then he or she will know who I am.
Something that is unclear to me here, can I origin pull from anywhere? or is this purely for compute engine now?

Regarding free SSL are we talking SNI here or is this free non SNI HTTPS hosting?
Honest question: Have you actually used GCE for any length of time?

Having used both AWS and GCE, and I vastly prefer GCE. It is simply easier to use and offers better price/performance.
My original point was about _predictability_ of performance and accidental complexity, that M:N threads with synchronous APIs introduce. But either way, they use way more memory, than necessary and also have to implicitly and explicitly synchronize every little thing, so performance on any meaningful load is going to be very meaningfully worse, than that of event loops.

Still, I want to reiterate, that event loops in modern languages are more about managing complexity, than performance.
Gosh, this was well written. It's a super engrossing fluff piece, much like its subject matter.
Which example? They're both widely known as brutalist examples here in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geisel_Library

http://chicagobrutalism.com/

I dunno, I guess it's "I know it when I see it", and we each know different things when we see them, heh.
There are some really `evil' nearly instant wins by luck manipulation. But I guess that falls under `running in debugger', even if they don't manipulate anything with it.
1 in 5 US households gave up wired internet in favor of just mobile internet
You wouldn't look at the finishers on a stage. Those guys are the sprinters and prima donnas, they shine in the very last little bit of the race.

Cycling is a team sport, and the other riders on the team are tasked with taking the sprinter to the sprint by riding in the wind for them.
"[H]ad much rather" is a bit archaic, but perfectly cromulent: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22had+much+rather%22 .
Does anybody know what sort of bots they are looking for?
I think it may have something to do with this? http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2016/04/17/unprotected/

Apple git has a security vulnerability. In the new OSX the user cannot modify /usr/bin by default so even if they have installed a secure version of git the insecure one is executable at /usr/bin
"Just add AI" is this decades "Just add Social Networking".
Last time I priced out AWS, Azure and GCE, Azure was by far the most expensive - by a long shot - at least for our usage.

I think Microsoft is looking to capture their F500 base that are highly Windows/AD-centric.
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> The real big breakthrough would be somme big improvement on storage. I'm not convinced this will happen quickly (at least not in anyway similar to the declining cost of PV panels). The consumer electronics industry has been paying $$$ for decades for better batteries/battery r&d and has seen pretty poor gains.

Actually, it's not too bad, just slower. Batteries improve around 8% per year, if I remember right.

That's less than semiconductor based stuff improved when Moore's law held, but pretty impressive compared to lots of other technologies.
Bikes are regularly inspected to check for mechanical doping and to ensure compliance with the regulations. The rules governing racing bicycles are remarkably complex and strict. Riders have been disqualified from races just for having their saddle at the wrong angle.

Testers now have access to video endoscope equipment to inspect the inside of frame tubes and some kind of magnetometer device. Commissaires have the right to completely dismantle suspect bikes. Road racing bikes use carbon fibre for nearly all structural components, so ultrasound or x-ray would be perfectly viable.
Yes. Also keep in mind that stage races are very much a team effort. The winner can derive great benefit from teammates having motors while he himself stays "clean".
If you look carefully at the available assays from these three companies, they cover mostly the clinical chemistry arena.

Theranos was claiming to be able to perform complex immunoassays on their devices. Microfluidic immunoassays are very tough to get right, given the extremely small size of the patient sample and the even smaller concentrations of analyte in the patient's bloodstream.
Not deadweighted in the amounts a battery with enough energy has to weigh.
It's actually not that uncommon. The scam can be as simple as: "please wire money to XXX" sent to the right underling from his boss on a weekend. All data mined from LinkedIn. Personally aware of multiple $10-20MM scams. The recovery here seems high. I've heard much worse.
The price point is impressive. So is "Same-day shipping". It's not one of those "wait for the next batch" Kickstarter-like operations. They even offer financing.
The last time I bought a new bicycle, I had to try a lot of them before I found one I really enjoyed. I'd imagine world-class cyclists are even pickier than I am.