skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what my second point was alluding to - I should have been more clear:

Since the premise is that the demand for Wal-Mart's products has fallen due to worker unproductivity, their bet is that there will be a new demand curve altogether by increasing their productivity, one that is shifted to the "right" of the original one. The price of labor is counteracted by the new demand for it.
Oh god, this is like programming on your TI-83 in math class for a whole new generation. :D
>You don't seem to realize that allowing labor to move from critical/essential work to nonessential work is a good thing. That's how the system is supposed to work. What would you call sommeliers, chefs who create Michelin-rated restaurants, movie stars/writers/producers, surfing instructors, etc if not nonessential?

I call them "creative professionals who do what they do by choice".

The majority of non essential work is not "movie stars and Michelin chefs", it's either automatable burger flipping or bureucratic busy-work created to overcome the lack of a system for distributing social wealth outside of "roll around for it".

To put it in another way, we could maintain our current production and give free massages and pedicures to everyone with far fewer jobs than we have now.
> Performance is not a magical inherent property of a language

well it is. however most performance characteristics of a language are well understood.
mostly python/ruby is slower than a lot of other languages.

> practical performance has much more to do with architecture

well sort of not every case does well with these kinds of languages.

however in most cases it's just fine to use them.

my company changed one product from python to scala. everything was slower in python, however in 90% of our use case that didn't even matter. however we were thread and calculation (i.e. shuffling/changing large lists/maps in memory) where python was just slow. I guess we could've written a library for these kind of transformations in C. however another problem was also PDF generation, which was really really slow in python (for bigger pdf's, slower one's we just fine).
we are happy to use scala, but I didn't found python bad or weak. you are pretty fast and the tooling is just amazing.
also the ORM's in python are superior to everything i've seen on the JVM world. (Django ORM and SQLAlchemy) I guess they are even the best ORM's out there.
if I would be developing more towards a cloud architecture I would probably use python again. you could just do more if you have room for a "infinite" amount of servers

still python is a really great and well designed language. I would everybody encourage to look into it.
You seem to be saying a whole lot without backing up your argument. If anything, your view is meaningless.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_ants
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I always wondered why they didn't use drones to warn drivers about upcoming construction. If people had miles to merge into one lane instead of hitting a wall, I suspect people may not have to come to a stop to merge, and thus everyone can keep on moving.
As someone who lists Befunge on their resume, either they get it or they don't

(I followed up an interview with a link to a brainfuck interpreter I did in Haskell https://github.com/serprex/bfhs I got a 2nd interview, but no offer)
We already pay the cost of them paying less because we have to subsidize those employees via. government benefits.

It is exactly as valid to claim WalMart is saving taxpayers money by creating jobs and paying people who we'd have to fully support otherwise.
I know who she is that's why I expected better.
Interesting. I've read almost none of the books on the first list, and everything but TAOCP on the second.
> If I'm genetically predisposed to not want to eat my vegetables, does that mean I shouldn't be encouraged to eat my vegetables?

You're conflating two arguments. First, in the western diet, we objectively eat too little vegetables. It's been proven that eating more vegetables helps your overall well being.

You're begging the question here by equating eating more vegetables in a Western diet to having more diversity. The former has been proven to be good, the latter has not yet been proven to have any effectiveness.

And as another commenter has brought up, should be we forced to do things that are "good" for us?

I know that at Google, you're forced to interview one underrepresented minority candidate for each position you're trying to fill. (Underrepresented meaning black, hispanic, or female) That sounds less like encouragement and more like coercion.
So much nonsense and buzzword crap are strung together in that piece that I frankly have no clue what this would even amount to. I don't expect much coming of this.
Who is paying for all this bad science? Do they even have a choice in what they are funding?

We have so many "industries" now whose function is to exploit the taxpayer. We wouldn't have all this bad science or bad risk taking if there weren't a huge patsy willing to pay for it all without regard to actual results.
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And your surrounding culture. In some places, you'd be out the door before the word had fully left your mouth. In others, nobody would blink...
Wow. Drones free for the taking!
So knowledge like: Did the passenger have kids on board? Was the passenger nobility? Was the passenger travelling first class? Where was the passenger located on the ship after boarding? And how do these factors influence survivability?

And reality like: The actual sinking of the Titanic?

If your model concludes that nobility, traveling first class, close to the exits, without family, has a higher chance of surviving, then this is fancy nonsense or a false belief?

You make a really strange case for your view.
> In the end, my implementation was nowhere near nginx.

How could it be?
Thank you! That looks quite impressive actually.

To all you naysayers: we'll see who gets the last laugh 10 years from now..
But many people do compare Walmart to Costco by comparing the relatively lower wages that Walmart pays compared to Costco (or Trader Joe's) [1]

I'm simply demonstrating that Costco could hire more employees among the segment of people with little education and help to lower unemployment. Many people batter Walmart for not increasing wages for employees, but just as important is that Costco could hire many more employees and help to reduce unemployment.

In my view, I think the writers should point out Walmart as an example of hiring 3 times more people per dollar of revenue than Costco (I don't know the figure for Trader Joe's) and thus, compared to Costco, doing much more to reduce unemployment. But you never read an article asking Costco to hire more people, only criticizing Walmart for not paying enough.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/the-trad...
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Walmart and Costco have different business models, so it's a little unfair to compare them. (From the same article [1].) A better comparison may be Walmart vs. Target or Walmart vs. Zellers.

Also, I would be very curious to see where the bulk of Walmart's SKUs are. I would expect a lot of them come from their large array of clothing. (every different size/color has its own SKU)

"Wal-Mart's customers expect a very broad array of goods, because they're a department store, not a specialty retailer; lots of people rely on Wal-Mart for their regular weekly shopping. The retailer has tried to cut the number of SKUs it carries, but ended up having to put them back, because it cost them in complaints, and sales."

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2013-08-27/why-walma...
Ok cool. So glad to hear that me the consumer would get all this free of charge.
Ah nice. I know of Fabien (copy) from his v86 work which is a very complete x86/PC peripheral emulator written in JS.

https://github.com/copy/v86
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I work in the field (another particle accelerator) and I'll tell you outright that a non-commercial license is a no-no for research institutes.

We MUST be able to license the project for commercial parties to produce them, lest we have to support the project for its entire life-cycle, which can be decades. Also, a non-commercial license restrict sharing between labs, or even use for some entities that work as government contractors.
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I'm American, and I'm more offended by the way we treat workers than I am by someone calling us out on it.

It's not an insult. It might not reflect the views of the entire country, but it is an accurate depiction of our labor policies.

We are the only developed nation in the world without paid maternity/paternity leave. No universal healthcare. No protection from arbitrary termination. And a terribly low minimum wage that hasn't kept up with inflation.
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As a matter of interest, what makes nginx so fast?
I once heard a useful paradigm about the three levels of perspective:

1) Blind optimism

2) Blind pessimism

3) Integrates both.

I was first exposed to it through this (disclaimer: religiously) themed speech: https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/bruce-c-hafen_love-is-not-bli...

I love this quote he the speaker uses:

Some stupid people started the idea that because women obviously back up their own people through everything, therefore women are blind and do not see anything. They can hardly have known any women. The same women who are ready to defend their men through thick and thin . . . are almost morbidly lucid about the thinness of [their] excuses or the thickness of [their] head[s]. . . . Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind. [G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy(Garden City, N.Y.: Image Books, 1959), pp. 69–71.]
Google is amazing! However, to be fair, it'd be pretty hard to provide such amazing and accurate results without knowing a lot about you. Granted, I do wish they'd let you control more about what they know about you.

I'm reminded of the (not surprisingly) defunct Google Desktop and how it would build an index of your file system and let you search it "fuzzily" like you can with Google Search.
Do you have a reputable source for that?
This is the optimist's view; in fact, I've never considered this in the 10+ years I've shopped at Sam's Club/Costco.

They just briefly skim over the receipt -- until they hit a more expensive purchase, so your view would make sense (the opposite is not possible for shoplifting).
Thank you for adding KiCad! I was really excited when I saw that SnapEDA added support. Doing manual parts is always tedious in any tool, and KiCad is lacking automated generators for some of these - previously, I had been using an online PHP(?) tool to generate large pin count parts. The SnapEDA license is also OSHW compatible, so it makes it a no-brainer.

I also first tried KiCad when I no longer had access to an Altium license for personal projects, and it's been pretty smooth sailing. I imagine the choice would be even more obvious for users coming from any of the other, worse tools. One other advantage is that I don't need to run a Windows VM for it. I even did a PCB design on a Novena, which I suppose made it second-generation OSHW.
How is this not an Onion article?
That's interesting. What kind of computer science research is done with control/experimental groups of users? I haven't paid any attention to academic computer science in, well, decades, but I kind of assumed it was all "we got this algorithm to do this thing," like math, with not much of a human element.
Damn, I like your thinking...

You know what, since we're on HN, let's just apply to the next round of YC. They'd be crazy not to fund the first BFaaS in human history!

I already have a logo in mind. A cloud surrounding a brain, and inside the brain is "the finger".
> Fox still has all the assets for Undertale. All he has to do is port the battle system to Unity or something and then drop in the old assets.

Porting the whole thing over is a lot of work, speaking as someone who has actually worked on trying to port a game away from Game Maker.

> The problem is, Fox is an unexperienced developer and doesn't know how to do that. He likely wants a one-click "convert my gamemaker game to nintendo" solution not an actual porting effort which would require rewriting parts of the game in a new language/engine.

No, he just doesn't want to waste his time on reimplementing the entire game just to run on one more platform.
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That's true the problem here is the negotiation process. If you have a technical manager they can use the technical hat to argue the estimate down. And the manager hat is the motivation to do so. I kinda prefer the planning poker where all members are encouraged to have equal say and there is no power imbalance
So explain Sam's Club (Walmart's version of Costco). They have the exact same business model as Costco, but pay their employees Walmart wages.
We did look at Log Parser, and osquery, before starting to build Crab, but neither of them have an exec() command to run programs on query results - such as deleting them, unzipping them, or moving them. And Log Parser doesn't support joins either, which are useful to compare the contents of one directory or file with another.
As powerful and fast[0] grep is, it's probably because Regular Expeesssions aren't exactly user friendly

[0]: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-Aug...
I'd try find a repo you like and fixing bugs via pull requests. You can then see how you work together, how available they are, their coding and code review style. Then at some point offer to do a greenfield project together.
But Costco is a bit radical. I recall several times in the past decade+ reading on Forbes or Bloomberg about their 'less-than favorable'(according to Wall Street) employee compensation practices. This is a big reason why I shop there, my money is my vote.

*I have tried tipping the guys in the garage for tire services & have yet to get anyone to accept, they tell me they are paid well enough and it's against policy, etc... they say that even out at the smoking area, away from the cameras, too.
Psychology as a science has far fewer reliable results than it claimed it did. It's not that the winds have changed. It's that the field was broken.

Realizing this is a good thing. It's going to set back careers and reduce funding, though.

Next, economics?

"Science is prediction, not explanation." - Fred Hoyle
You should consider a MSc in Computer Science if you are lacking the skills to do what you want to do. This 'might' be the case if you are looking to do cool machine learning stuff and you are having trouble getting the positions at the big tech companies that you want to get into. That being said, I have seen exceptions.

You should not consider a MS in CS if 1) you want a cool looking resume, 2) you want to delay making decisions about what you want to do in life, 3) you think MS will make you a better tech founder, 4) you think you will get paid more / raise through the ranks faster with a MS.
Right, ultimately it will be enforced by the CLR type system, much the way most types are in .NET, but practically it will be enforced by the compiler.

You can already see this in the "ref parameters" feature in C# today: they can be parameters to methods but cannot be stored in fields. This implies that they can only exist on the stack.

Similarly, when we add support for ref-locals and ref-returns in C# 7 that will still disallow ref fields, so ref variables will still only be allowed on the stack.
Good point. With Sanic you gotta .go_fast()
> You guys are so fixed on that standard library thing that I am getting scared.

It's hardly the only thing wrong with PHP, it's just one particular example.

> Nevertheless, for me it never was a problem - neither at a time when I used to stick with FAR commander's internal editor, nor - especially - with PHPStorm nowadays

How can it be especially not a problem? That would imply it was a problem and is now less of one.

In any case, yes, you can maybe learn to deal with it, but it saves time to simply work with a language which doesn't have these problems.

> Ok, undeed PHP can be called inconsistent, if one would have a fancy to. And this opinion could be even defended with numerous examples... which examples, for some reason, do not work neither for learners who prefer PHP over "more consistent languages", nor professional developers, who just get their job done.

Can you actually defend why these examples “don't work”? Learners and professionals alike have to deal with PHP's quirks.
I prefer one partition; with separate / and /home one can get full and you waste time shuffling stuff around.
Funny enough, it seems JavaScript will get TCO before Java. JavaScript, for f*ck's sake! This will provide even more argumentative power to the people who claim JavaScript is 'Scheme in C clothes'.
maybe you should.

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When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is. But don't be gratuitously negative.

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hardly "gratuitously negative". Just simple honest opinion of someone wanting to charge $1000 a month for something that anyone with an interest in already has lining their software shelves on site. Which a ton of free alternatives liter the internet. And is also now illegal.
AI in games like civ isn't some unsolved problem. It's just limited by what your computer can do in reasonable amount of time to not get in the way of other things the game does.

Civ games in general are kind of a solvable problem, because there's little randomness there. So if they really wanted they would make AI so good it would be impossible to win. Whole challenge is to make AI bad enough to be enjoyable. So it's not very interesting from AI science point of view.
I disagree;

What do you disagree with? The factual claim?

It's not relevant that some	manage to discuss sexuality	respectfully and productively. Most can't, as of October 2016.

Claims of scientific misconduct (in a general sense) ought to be taken seriously by scientists. There is nothing else to say.

What alternative do you suggest? Somebody said mean things on Twitter, hence psychologists like Fiske should continue as before?
Would say an MSc soon after graduation is mostly useful to specialise in a particular domain of the industry instead?
Does a MSc really assure better programming skill? @greg7mdp

I thought, people who wanted to be a teacher or researcher considers MSc.
Also, in many cases in the physical sciences, the data sets (both from experiments and simulations) may simply be too big for long term storage, let alone sharing. CERN is pushing the envelope at around 1 TB new shared data per day, but projects run by groups as small as five people can easily generate tens of terabytes in a day. E.g. with turbulence simulations or tomographic PIV or even just multiple high-speed cameras.
Then you can pitch it to VC's, as you'll be the only entrant in this burgeoning new space, with first mover advantage! The world will be your mussel!
I'd argue this is the future of all economies and those that are best at scaling it will reap the greatest benefits.
The main use cases are actually way more mundane, but also much more impactful. Consider some of the most common string manipulation code you see: grab a substring, compare it to some stuff, branch based on results.

Since strings are immutable and non-sharing, all substring calls will create copies of the substring. With Span<T>, you could instead simply request a span of the string and, with unification in the underlying typing, you can perform all of your string manipulation with no allocations or copying.
Everybody learns differently, but I would suggest starting with the how, not the what. Compare: How do I sort a list? With: What is exactly happening when I sort a list? Application before theory.

Start with a tutorial/pre-made script for one of the Kaggle Knowledge competitions. Move on to a real Kaggle competition and team up with someone who is in the same position on the learning curve as you. Use something like Skype or a Github repo to learn new tricks from one another.
"Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers" http://www.pnas.org/content/101/46/16385.full

By the way, the paper is a lot of words and math to explain that homogeneous groups can fall into local minima, whereas diverse groups can find better minima. I don't necessarily claim it disproves what you say, but it is at least a paper on the subject.
Based on what's not on the board, I'd guess network and/or local storage.
Sam's Club has lower profit margins than Costco [1] and roughly 50% more SKUs [2]. Both of which would push labor productivity lower.

[1] "Walmart figures include Sam's Club, which despite having more stores, is much less profitable than Costco."

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2013-08-27/why-walma...

[2] See the graph

https://www.kriq.com/ContentIndex/ArticleDetails.aspx?key=Bl...
I like your last paragraph. It sounds smart. A really smart lobster in a slowly heating pot might end up saying the same thing, but in his case, he would be wrong.

Personally, I think we're being slowly boiled.
Sorry, but pure politics aren't a good fit for HN, so in addition to the user flags already on the post we've added a moderation downweight.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I run a productivity app called Complice (https://complice.co/), which is currently making me about $3k/mo. If you want to learn tons more about the process of getting to profitable, you can read my profile on IndieHackers from back in August: https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/complice
Do you have thoughts on why you picked mobx over redux or other flux libs? What problem is mobx well suited for solving?
> > You Americans are so brutal to each other.

> So first off that's kind of offensive.

Perhaps, but it's also true, at least when restricted to relative comparisons within the field of employment.
I love the name!! :D

The hard dependency on uvloop looks weird. It's just a pluggable loop for asyncio, anyone can switch to it in two lines of code, no reason to depend on something that's a native extension.

Also why not just improve aiohttp's performance…
Then the provider of the subscription must be able to vouch for it or that data should not be used. The provider should also be .... sensitive to the need for that data to be used well, for any conclusion drawn from it to be reproducible.
Same lol.
Authoritarian regimes in most cases maintain power over their population by controlling media 100%, they don't actually put shackles on their people, only on the few ones who see through it.

If you are able to break their narrative then the dictatorship has no other way than using massive force to maintain control, in which case everybody will know from now on that they are being enslaved and this will have an effect in the future. (citizens will be less cooperative in a non offending way)
A lot of the blog post was explaining what's happened in psychology in the past 10 years (and you're right - it turns out a lot of results aren't reliable), but I think "the winds have changed" is specifically getting at well-known people like Fiske who're clinging on to the past. The winds have changed in the sense that calling her out even a few years ago would have been unusual, possibly risky for a career. Now the author can come close to accusing her of being unscientific and have a lot of people agree with him.

(I got all that from the article. I'm probably wrong)
Data Skeptic is great! Alternates between <10 min shorts on a specific concept as well as longer interview shows.

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