skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that it can be sharded just by splitting your databases on to separate storage mediums. Dismiss SQLite at your own peril.
Humans always starved, always died of infections, always were mass-murdered. Why is that even an acceptable reason?
All the XX century was about changing things that were considered constant. Have we given up?

History should lead us somewhere. Is this already lost on us?
I'd left React in development mode during these tests. See this PR https://github.com/footballradar/VueReactPerf/pull/3 for some results with the issues fixed.

We'll re-run the tests in the morning (uk) and post the updates.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150208082806/http://hosted.ap....

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8948525
Yes, but if the current young generation of americans is poorer than the preceding generations (a conclusion I think is inescapable at this point), then it is worthwhile considering why.

The world is certainly richer than it was in the 80s. We are vastly more efficient at producing all sorts of goods. So, then, why is the current generation of Americans unable to afford what was available to the middle class previously?

I believe that the answers to this crucial question are obscure and are unlikely to be found in conventional economic and political analysis.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=cryengine&l=1
Why not retreat back towards subsistence farming then? I can't believe I see these things on HN!
I find it interesting that TechCrunch publishes (albeit through the "contributor network") a piece that derides tracking and declares "Privacy [a]s a fundamental human right" on the same day it runs another piece saying that one of the only US federal laws protecting privacy (the VPPA) is "anachronistic" and "illogical and unclear." I'm not all the way on the "fundamental human right" side, but I do think consumers should have more control over their privacy and laws the VPPA help--especially when an easy way to get around the VPPA is to get consent!

Here's the link to the other article. http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/24/a-vhs-era-privacy-law-in-th...
Add to that that most self employed people tend to have certain types of investment income (that could or could not be taxed at a different rate depending on the country you live in), and that complicates things even further.
Little Languages (1995)
Can you comment on how close the Linux version is? I've periodically checked your website since you commented about the Linux version being in private beta, almost two years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7932916
The wealth is somewhere. I know quite a few millennial friends who will be rich when their parents die, and quite a few who will have nothing.
Property rights are laws of man not laws of nature. The law of nature is that the strong take from the weak. To the extent property rights and other enacted laws create a permanent underclass of people who feel they were born into a raw deal then mismatched generational expectations will be the least of our problems. Expect serious turbulence in the decades to come. As Milton Friedman wisely said "the Earth belongs to the living".
Is there significant overlap between these "privacy-conscious" people you speak of and 8 of your closest tech geek friends who frequent Slashdot? Because if yes, then MS has nothing to worry about.
That was my concern at first, but I don't think it's an issue if it doesn't store the entire text.
Houses today are much bigger. This is one of those things that people often forget when comparing current economic markers or generations to the past. Our standard of living is simply much higher today. The average house had approximately 500 sqft per person in 1973 but had increased by roughly 65% by 2010.

Sources:

- https://www.census.gov/const/C25Ann/sftotalmedavgsqft.pdf

- http://www.statista.com/statistics/183648/average-size-of-ho...
Then you (inevitably, Murphy's ...) lose your car keys. Now you have two problems. :p
"For the Ordinance" would be against the repeal - wouldn't it? So if you wanted to say "Yes, I want to repeal" and saw a positive answer it would be very easy to support not repealing the ordinance by saying you were "for it". Or is it to approve a new ordinance to repeal the existing ordinance?

I can see people being very confused by this.
Instead of paying a mortgage, they pay student loans.

I think it's that simple.
Also curious about this. I'm considering a switch from Android back to iOS, and a cursory googling couldn't find whether Pebble's iOS integration will let me archive gmail messages directly from the watch notification.
> Only 17.3% of the voters turned out. Hardly the will of the people

The will of the people willing to go out and vote. If you choose not to vote, that's on you.
Wasn't that like over 5 years ago under a different CEO?
I've come to a conclusion that Cook's reign at Apple will probably mirror Ballmer's reign at Microsoft. Both are biz guys who inherited companies from technology visionaries with massive revenue streams and yet they both lacked vision and tech expertise to create successful new products. Ballmer tried it numerous times and Cook has tried it with Watch, Music and so on. Neither of them have succeeded. Apple's now become a "me too" company as they keep on releasing products that other companies have released already. Apparently, Apple is now working on their Amazon Echo and Google Home clone. They'll be third to market once it's out.

In 2014, when Apple bought an urban fashion brand that sells overpriced headphones, Google bought Deepmind for 1/6 of the price. That said it all about where both companies were headed. Steve Jobs is famous for quoting Gretzky's line about "skating where the puck is headed and not where it is" and it seems that Google's skating where the puck is going while Apple's skating backwards.

Apple's headed for a decade of stagnation... just like Microsoft was under Ballmer. My only question is: how long before Apple gets its own Nadella and who will be their savior? I don't see anyone in their executive ranks who's as good as Nadella.
Got it, thanks! See my other comment explaining how programs and propositions about programs are the same thing (and are artificially separated by the designer of the language).
Sure but of course most people who live with their parent do so because they can't afford to do otherwise regardless of the clever few who aim to save even more money.
I'm confused -- are you asking when an unsubstantiated claim is not FUD?
How do you know it's true? Many, many people routinely prepare coffee for themselves that is hotter than McDonald's provided. ballooney strongly suggests that he is one of those people. That would make the assertion false.

I've spilled boiling water on myself occasionally. Given the freedom of movement you generally have in your kitchen that you don't have while buckled in to a car, I hope it doesn't surprise you that I wash it off in less than three seconds. It's hot!

I've also touched hot cookie sheets and the like, which obviously go well above 212 fahrenheit. That's common; what's not common is maintaining the contact for longer than your flinch reflex takes to kick in.
I am curious if it is possible to make it working in Jupyter Notebook.

(For me it works from RStudio - it launches a website. From Jupyter it does not work for me.)
> Screw their offspring?

I agree that inheritance shouldn't be a natural right. I don't really expect to receive anything from my parents.

However, things like rampant anti-development attitudes are an untenable example of screwing their offspring. The older generation already owns houses, so they love opposing any new development without regard for the fact that it's making home ownership impossible for all but the wealthiest or luckiest of my generation.
If everyone is saving money prices will climb up and most of them will end up with nothing.

What should be done is that market should be encouraged to provide enough housing that young people can afford when they need it. Same way Ford did with cars.
Paper author here. The blocking % referenced, and discussed in more detail in the paper, is the % of times a feature is used when someone visits the page, but ISNT used when you visit the page with AdBlock Plus and Ghostery installed.

In other words, its how often these popular blocking extensions prevent the JS APIs from firing.

Its not blocking SVG, its blocking (mostly fingerprinting) JS libraries from running SVG JS methods
I live in the Midwest, and I am likely to inherit my first home. Housing is cheap relative to the coasts, but pay is lower, and student loans aren't based on my wages.
I have a physician relative who told me how bad he felt about elderly people who die alone and afraid, and whose children are somewhat disinterested when they pass.

But then he pointed out that these same parents kick their kids out of the house at 18 without much compassion.

I guess parents do have the right to do what they like with their wealth and to force their kids out to fend for themselves, but they need to accept the consequences.
I think there is more family dysfunction than other cultures. This is purely speculative, and based on my own experience. I could NOT live with my family. It would be non-stop fighting and absolute dysfunction.
> You did not mention WaPo and NYT in liberal publications and if you do not consider them liberal, then your politics are pretty hard core Leftist

Hard core leftists almost universally think the NYT is conservative, bought and paid for by corporations and the establishment. Hillary Clinton supporters think the Times is out to get her (they broke the email server story, for example). Of course, conservative ideologues love to demonize the Times.

If you're looking for an apolitical news source, it's a good indicator when ideologues on all sides think the publication is biased against them. So I disagree about the NYT, regardless of the oft-repeated common wisdom about them.

Honestly, I'm not sure what to make of the Post; it was shrill and sensationalist for awhile after Bezos took over, but now has calmed down. Certainly their editorial page has been anti-Trump recently, but many on the right share that perspective.
What's not to like about Brave? I enjoyed it a lot.
Hello pathsjs,

well first of all, one thing is that I make efforts towards a goal, another thing is to reach it. In your analysis I don't reach the goal of simplicity, but I can ensure you I really try hard.

Now more to the point, I still think Redis is a simple system:

> one thing that Redis does not have is a coherent API.

Unfortunately coherence is pretty orthogonal to simplicity, or sometimes there is even a tension between the two. For instance instead of making an exception in one API I can try to redesign everything in more general terms so that everything fits: more coherence and less simplicity. In general complex systems can be very coherent.

Similarly the PHP standard library is extremely incoherent but is simple, you read the man page and you understand what something does in a second.

> Whenever I use Redis, I absolutely need the command cheatsheet [snip]

This actually means that Redis is very simple, in complex systems to check the command fingerprint in the manual page does not help, since it is tricky to understand how the different moving parts interact.

However it is true that in theory Redis could have more organized set of commands, like macro-type commands with sub operations: "LIST PUSH ..." "LIST POP ..." and so forth. Many of this things were never fixed because I believe that is more aesthetic than a substantial difference, and the price to pay to give coherence later is breaking the backward compatibility.

> why LPUSH accepts multiple parameters but LPUSHX does not?

Since nobody uses LPUSHX almost and is a kinda abandoned command, but this is something that we can fix since does not break backward compatibility.

> Why there is even hyperloglog in a database?

Because Redis is a data structures server and HLLs are data structures.

> Where did the need for RPUSHLPOP come from?

It is documented and has nothing to do with simplicity / coherence.

> Why the options for SCRIPT DEBUG are YES, SYNC and NO?

They have different fork behavior, as explained in the doc.

I think Redis is a system that is easy to pickup overall, but that's not the point of my blog post. However our radically different point of view on what simplicity is is the interesting part IMHO. I bet you could easily design a system that is complex for me because of, for instance, attempt to provide something very coherent, because breaking coherency for a few well-picked exceptions to the rule is a great way to avoid over-generalization.
> I believe that the answers to this crucial question are obscure and are unlikely to be found in conventional economic and political analysis.

It's pretty straightforward actually. The change you're looking for starts in the 80s: http://eighty-thousand-hours-wp-production.s3.amazonaws.com/...
I'm doing this.

I initiated a port of my primary number a few weeks ago.

I'm not sure if what I'm building is exactly parallel to Google Voice but I believe it's similar. I'm in Canada so I can't get Google Voice. I rarely use my phone's voice or sms functionality so right now I'm just forwarding transcribed voicemails (with mp3 link) to email, and sms's to email as well (replying to an sms with an email that goes to sms is sort of fun). I'm also in the process of building out a simple app to handle this.

While testing, I've noticed the best part is now I'm not tempted to answer a call that most likely doesn't matter. I simply get a notification with an email. And I won't be paying for my voice or text plan which was about half the cost of my previous plan.

If anyone wants to use this you can email me at shawnp at gmail dot com.
The US was the only major industrial nation not to be completely devastated in WWI and WWII. They/we benefitted from this enormously throughout the 20th century. It was only a matter of time before things normalized.
I had somehow missed that gem in past viewings. I only focused on the "Bill Gates as BB" aspect.

For the curious, it starts at 28:36.
OnionTip[1] allows you to send BTC to relay operators that publish their bitcoin address as part of their contact details.

[1]: https://oniontip.com/
IMO what the article talks about is the business model, not the culture, they are two separate things - not entirely separate, but mostly. Business model is Apple shipping devices and Google providing ad-supported services over the Internet. Culture is how in one company you can't push changes to the central repository without a code review which might take a couple of days, while in another you can work whichever way you please but if things break you're expected to fix them on Sunday at 3 AM.

Like the business model, culture is certainly influenced by the people at the top, though I think it's defined by a somewhat larger number of early employees, and it's harder to change once established, compared to the business model. Both affect performance in the market, but it's not as straightforward to analyze, even in hindsight, how exactly culture affects market performance relatively to the business model where in hindsight it's perfectly clear.
It's been a long time since uni and my first company but at that time (90s) it was definitely not normal in my circles to live with your parents. You were considered rather 'sad' if you did. But that's only perception/peer pressure; there are reasons to live with your parents (financial is one). However another thing is that I know almost no one who could live with their parents; that is not about liking or not liking, but more about that you seriously want your own space when you get to a certain age and my parents would be driving me bonkers and vice versa.
I thought living with your parents in other countries was more of an aspect of a collectivist culture, versus a hyper-individualistic culture here in the US. I'm not arguing for or against either, my point being that it is simply countercultural and is probably not due to a culture shift but rather other external factors. Any culture experts care to comment?
I never said it was a good thing and I agree we should take steps to oppose rentiers. I'm just pointing out that the norm of easy homeownership is actually quite recent and unusual.
I wish people didn't need hand-holding to tell them where to look for answers, but then lmgtfy.com became a prominent linking tool.
Web Scraping with Python – Scraping Digital Comics Information from Comixology
I came to say the same thing. I thought it was my browser and tried it a few times.
I also left out Perl, which may be losing mindshare, but is definitely not dead, Ruby, C#, and so on.

I chose these languages because they occurred to me as being relatively old and relatively common, but I won't argue that there aren't any other languages that could be on the list.
Plenty I'd like to, but I don't see any for which I have clear copyrights to share.
For a while my student loans were more than my mortgage.
Food safety is often about issues that by definition are not going to be labeled. The consumer, for instance, isn't going to know if the producer used adulterated ingredients irregardless of what is labeled, and sometimes irregardless of whether it is deadly or not. Likewise, it may not be obvious if something was stored at an improper temperature (or otherwise mishandled) and is also likewise unsafe to eat.

These type of food safety issues aren't one where choice is an option, these are issues of malice or neglect.

The right of privacy is individual, sure, and can be waived for purposes. Some might not mind. I'm personally okay with that side. But I also think it's pretty easy to come up with examples of private data being misused due to malice and/or neglect. (Particularly the later... it sure seems like companies have a poor track record in keeping data secure.)
Sure but my point is that technology that empowers a small group of powerful people to reduce their suffering may end up increasing suffering overall.
By "geomapping" I assume you mean paging geo?

Easiest way is to have a two-level BVH, where the lower level just has overall AABBs of every object in the scene which contains a "geometryInstance", each of which then contain another object-space BVH of the triangles (or other primitives).

This is trivial to do, but you take a pretty big penalty for not being able to look down to the primitive (microtriangle, microcurve) level for the lower level BVH, so the quality of it isn't as good. So for stuff with hair on skin, you've pretty much got two objects overlapping which sucks for traversal performance. There is a way around this, but it involves storing a pointer to each primitive in the BVH which is expensive and mixed transforms / motion blur get complicated with this.

The more complex way of doing it would just be to use the single level BVH and partially build it - given the lengths Disney are going to in order to sort and batch the rays, it sounds like they can constrain stuff such as all rays they send in a batch are going in a similar direction anyway, so you can cull a lot of stuff.

These days in VFX we're pretty much just fitting stuff into memory anyway - there's no other option. PRMan does support geometry paging in theory, although Arnold doesn't and VRay only partially does (with VRay meshes), but performance absolutely sucks doing it, so buying more RAM is just the easiest/cheapest solution all round.

Disney are only really doing deferring / reordering to such an extent because of their love of PTex which sucks with random access IO, so...
That's what, it is not why.
Phage therapy
More efficient? By what measurement? Certainly not the consumer's time nor the taxpayers' money!

Billion dollar light rail trains that roll empty are not a terribly efficient use of money. Buses are more flexible, but waiting for a bus then having to walk from the bus stop home is apparently an unsatisfactory use of time to many passengers.

A system that connects a passenger with the nearest available driver and doesn't take too much for their part in the transaction would seem to be efficient in time and money for both the passenger and driver. In addition, it provides a source of employment for people who are looking for work and meet the criteria.

Not saying that Uber, Lyft, and other "ride sharing" services are all on the side of the angels, but their success points to a need which they are meeting.
Just a note on this (I'm the lead author on the paper author), the blocking rate has to do with the reduction in JS usage when you install popular blocking extensions.

So its not that extensions block SVG directly, its that AdBlock Plus and Ghostery block a bunch of libraries, and those libraries use the SVG methods to finger print (and do other stuff)
Then please forgive my ignorance. I was not aware that they are so big. Even more though I'm surprised about their name. Reading it really feels weird to me.
The following quote from another response to your comment is instructive:

> Liebeck’s case was far from an isolated event. McDonald’s had received more than 700 previous reports of injury from its coffee, including reports of third-degree burns, and had paid settlements in some cases.

And as for the temperature of instant coffee, feel free to use a thermometer and verify it for yourself. It will not be 95C. The temperature is reduced from pouring it into a room temperature cup and also from stirring a room temperature substance into it. And that's still a worst-case scenario; McDonald's coffee, which is not instant, should be less hot than that, not more.

When I make coffee at home, I can immediately take a sip of it within a few seconds of pouring it into a mug, without burning my mouth. If I accidentally poured such a mug all over myself I would likely not sustain extensive third degree burns. Coffee at Starbucks is served at a similar temperature -- it is certainly not kept super-heated at a level that will scald you if touched.

The thing I don't understand is, why are you so anti-safety? Why do you have such an averse reaction to solving a very basic safety problem? Products that you buy should not be pointlessly and unnecessarily unsafe in unexpected ways.
>> In America it's looked down upon.

Is there an ethnic variation to this, or does this apply to all groups?
Your argument is just people making excuses. If our food quality went down or the quality of our air went down due to pollution, would you still be quoting "oh well it used to be so much worse in the 40's so don't complain" ???

This is a BAD sign. It is indicative of an economy that is not working for most Americans. Making excuses and disregarding these proxies for American quality of life does no one favors except for the 1%.
This is huge and completely changes what people will take away from this post. A super easy oversight, though.

Good to know react isn't as bad as how it's painted here! (I'll see myself out).
A Sikh?
Even more,

Young Americans are living with their parents instead of saving money rather than living with their parents to save money.

What happens when they have children? Where will their adult children live? In their parents tiny 2 room apartments?

Basically, the full effects of the declining net income of adult Americans is being masked by people living off the accumulated wealth of their parents (both consuming their houses and getting hand-outs). Which implies that there's cliff that the American lifestyle will fall off at some point and then things will be ugly even in comparison to now.
No, I just believe calling Reuters unbiased is not true. They do have a lot of anti-Israel headlines to the point its become a joke.
Are you sure that that is correct?

Do you believe in the Ricardian argument for free trade? If so, why did we not become richer as other countries became better trading partners?
Cheapest Casio watch on Amazon.com is $8. With a wall adaptor it looks like the Charge HR charger is $8 too.
Title needs to be updated: "... for the first time since 1880"