skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does "not even close" mean in this context? I find it a bit interesting that the most obvious conclusion from the benchmarks in the story, and the linked one - is that uvloop and go are high-performance and consistent low-latency, high performance python is on par with nodejs - but in general the real jump up is towards go and c++(?).

It's great to see an order of magnitude leap on the python side - but on the face of it I'm not sure the leap really is enough to enable a different class of services in python? Perhaps I'm being too pessimistic - I know I'd be happy to be able to "ignore" node, and only consider eg: Python for most things and go for some things. Just to limit my tech stack.

But where does nginx with lua fit - is it another order of magnitude above go for dynamic content?
Does the intent matter? Even if it was just a career-long run of incompetence, "getting out of science" would seem a reasonable starting point.
"You can't retrain because the Government is entirely unwilling to look after your family while you do,"

So the answer is to just shrug our shoulders and make it easier and easier for more people to get themselves into the situation because the government or the taxpayers will bail them out?

Why is this the job of the government? If this is the case, I, the taxpayer, should have a lot more control over the people that decide they need me to pay for their kids while they retrain. The government should have complete control over the family and money decisions (IE: no drugs, alcohol, or expensive gadgets) while on the dole.

The people that do the right thing and make better personal choices always seem to get punished these days. I don't have a problem using some of my tax dollars to help the needy (I donate money every year to the poor), but when there are egregious abuses of the system, we should have some say in how our money is spent.
What are the 'commuter confidential' tricks around bridges? I know some bridges are tolled...
"sunlight all of their data and code in a repository"

Good idea where possible, but "all their data" will be problematic in many social science studies, and also in medicine, because of privacy laws.
The problem is that a lot of studies don't suffer from this problem, and their data/code isn't open either. What we're looking at is a default-closed mindset, which needs to be inverted ASAP if these people want us to trust them in any significant capacity.
My point is the article is wrong. It's not more of a threat...based on actual facts.
Is there support for managing multiple IPNS addresses with a single node yet?
I wouldn't want it personally, I can't focus with people talking in the same room and this extends to the music I listen to when doing tasks that require focus (coding, drawing, reading, etc), I need it to be instrumental because otherwise it just throws me off. First discovered this trying to read in a break room at one of my first jobs and realized that I was processing the conversations around me even when I didn't want to (made only worse by the fact that both English and Spanish conversations were going on that I could understand.)

So we can go ahead and get a lector, but I'll be tuning them out with headphones or working from home.
The employers of projectionists were already trying to phase them out by employing one per N cinemas. The projectionist would have to drive around starting shows at different cinemas, and there would be no one around to fix a problem when it came up. Source: a local newspaper article a few decades ago.
How to build a beautiful chatbot when all you have is text
It's the memory size here that's likely important, 8 GTX 1080s have a third of the total global memory size as 8 K80s. And the aggregate memory bandwidth is way more important than flops, since almost certainly this workload isn't bound by arithmetic throughput.
The US put anti-ballistic missiles in Poland, not nuclear weapons. Or am I missing something?
No, it is not. It's sad that a movement that simply says that Black Lives Matter could be so effectively maligned by the news as a violent movement. And not "just" black lives, but black lives in particular because of systemic inequities.

http://blacklivesmatter.com/guiding-principles/
They're not completely gone. Here in Utah the Winder Dairy company still does milk and other dairy product delivery to the home. Maybe it's not exactly the same with a little door and whatnot but there's still a person delivering milk (among other things.)
> It it will break BC, then don't use it?

So the choice is between insane behaviour, or breaking the code.

> Instead you started nitpicking on the solution. That's dishonest. And it makes the discussion endless.

Because the problem is unsolvable. You cannot get PHP to behave sanely unless you redo everything it does. If you fix one thing, dozens of other will fall apart.

>Every single major PHP framework is routinely doing it.

Right, I wasn't aware of this. How do you write libraries for PHP than, you choose between using what's in stdlib as it is and being used within a framework where exceptions are thrown? Support both? Ignore the problem? Or every library makes its own choice how stdlib should behave? Do the frameworks convert strerr and errno into something usable?
While there is plenty of racism to find in the early days of the AFL (including from Gompers who e.g. described the Japanese as "evil" in the same issue of the American Federationist that your quote is from), that quote is out of context. It is from the September 1905 issue of American Federationist, where the full paragraph says:

> [Gompers] declared he was always ready to assert his patriotism on behalf of the colored man, saying " 'Tis true that some white men have been angered at the introduction of black strike breakers. I have stood as a champion of the colored man and have sacrificed self and much of the movement that the colored man should get a chance. But the Caucasians are not going to let their standard of living be destroyed by negroes, Chinamen, Japs or any others.

The statement fell in a discussion of black workers being pulled in as strike breakers in Chicago (the issue is returned to in a later section in the same article, warning that continued strike breaking would trigger race hate), not in the context of any discussion of minimum wage.

Curiously it is almost always quoted the way you do, with the "..." which do not appear in the original source (nor is any text cut from the quote at that point), and out of context, and is generally used to prop up modern attacks on the minimum wage.

Finding examples of racist then is easy - many unions still did not admit non-white members, and Gompers himself e.g. argued strongly for continued strict restriction on Asian immigration to the US and used racist language to do it.

But that quote is a curious choice both to use as a demonstration of Gompers or AFL racism given the context, and to quote in dicussions about minimum wage given that it's not what the quote is about.
The most interesting part of those reports is that they were not based on fabricated or false evidence. Most intelligence agencies in the world said it was very likely that Iraq had some WMDs. This brings up many questions about what methods they used for estimating the likelihood, and what should have been the minimum level of certainty to trigger a military response.

For answers to the first question, I suggest you read Tetlock's masterwork on prediction, "Superforecasting". I am still unsure what the answer is to the second question.
What is GAYFAM?
Maybe it's not what you're looking for, but I've found McMaster-Carr's website to be highly functional in its UI/UX:

http://www.mcmaster.com
The first two are still around. I know someone whose wife has a travel agency: it's a specialty business now. And I have an aerial photo of my house that was sold by a door to door salesman. I also get sales people going door to door in my neighborhood selling anything from trash pickup to carpet cleaning.

Appliance repair businesses are still around, they just focus on high-end appliances now.
Funny Infographic: What Does SV Think of Peter Thiel? Theranos? Etc.
Milkmen still deliver milk in the US, just not in all areas.
Some of those jobs look more fun than any jobs I could get now.
Blaming agile for this seems odd. I've worked on agile teams where all of those were set as requirements.
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So there are three possible outcomes of a fact-check: "true", "false", and "don't know". Surely all three outcomes have merit. E.g. "don't know" could lead to a request for further proof.
I've seen rats bigger than your cat!
Also, cats aren't always in the mood.
Exactly. I think we really should be comparing software development creating processes instead of creating objects.

Look at something like a consultancy that develops safety procedures for organizations or a company that handles building logistics operations.

Software doesn't have the same physical constraints that bridge building does. Anytime you have fewer constraints, you have more possible solutions which take more time to sort through.
Have you seen what passes for "online abuse" right now? The fact that Fisk earnestly uses the phrase "methodological terrorism" suggests that she is not to be trusted with negative connotations.

Everyone agrees "abuse" (connotation: wife beating) is bad, so people like Fisk just redefine "abuse" to mean "being blunt online", and people who aren't inoculated against semantic overloading techniques fall for it.
Shadow Warrior 2 developers say DRM is a waste of time
Not to mention much easier to remove with some strategic campaign donations.
Sorry, but as someone who has used Kratom many times I will tell you that I get more high off a morning espresso than off of Kratom. It's far less of a serious drug than alcohol or marijuana, I can say that much.
faster still: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
That's a bit of a false equivalence. There is an actual group of people paid by government in Russia, sitting at a table saying "what should be broadcast on the 8pm news that would undermine the dutch elections".

There is – conspiracy theories notwithstanding – no such group in the west. Sure, there's propaganda, but they can't write the article themselves. They have to work journalists using the same methods as corporate PR instead of faxing over the article they'd like to see.

Are most journalists supporters of the status quo? Yes, of course – because they're a product of that status quo, i. e. society. If you grow up in a western country nowadays, and you get some perspective and your mother didn't drink too much while pregnant, you can't escape the conclusion that despite all flaws, the current system is pretty much the best we've had.

journalists don't ask "the big questions" in every article because we've achieved a level of stability and safety where "asking the big questions" is a losing proposition: Just like I would not agree to have 10% of my genome scrambled, I don't take anyone serious who wants major changes in "the system": the system is sufficiently optimized to make entropy more of a risk than a chance, and even if we may be caught in a local maximum, I'd rather try a bit of hill climbing than subjecting my life to a risky exploration of state space.
I wouldn't count on it. OCP designs seem to be targeted at companies that buy servers and switches by the truckload.
FBI confirmed, after death of Demianiuk that the single evidence against USA citizen was probably faked by KGB[1]. Despite that, USA deported Demianiuk twice: to Israel, where Supreme Court If Israel declared him innocent, then to Germany, where he died before end of court.

[1]: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4056137,00.html
I would say that when it comes to payment solutions, 85% is about dealing with regulations and laws in your country/local area. The tech part is 15%. Stripe is easy to use but I am sure they spent tons of time/money dealing with red tape and regulations and rightly so.
Show HN: Procedural thunder and lightning in JavaScript
“God is great, beer is good and people are crazy” – Bill Currington
Over the years I have seen about a thousand comments, blog posts, articles, etc that deny that human activity is causing the climate to get warmer.

But I don't think I have ever seen even one from the same crowd that denies that human activity is causing the oceans to become more acidic. I guess they know it's true, but don't want to admit it.
I do have my copy at hand. While they do try to get across the concept that not all patterns are suitable for all cases they do a remarkably poor job of it. The "applicability" section of most described patterns is a simple bullet list of 3 or 4 very vaguely worded sentences. This is, as evidence has proven, wholly insufficient. There should have been much more effort into trying to educate readers on the applicability, and non-applicability!, of each pattern, explaining the constraints that made the pattern necessary or desirable, laying out examples of other ways to achieve the same functionality, and also explaining the costs and extra complexity of relying on a specific pattern.
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Anonymize the data then, if plausible. We ought not to trust studies that are inherently irreproducible.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_des...

I suppose until 2015 it would have worked the same way fact-checking anything else classified usually does: badly.
I'm suggesting to you that you're getting hung up on the wrong details. The point is that the US intentionally broke a ceasefire, killing soldiers that were fighting against ISIS. You seem to be only interested if Russians were involved in the deaths. Surely it's the breaking of the ceasefire by attacking anti-ISIS forces that's the main story.

For what it's worth, I'm not aware of any Russians who died in that attack.
To where?

I have to confess, when GH did something offensive I did cancel my paid account there but I still use it, so I guess I didn't care that strongly about it after all...
Well, think hard about what you'd like to do every working day of your life for the next 10-20 years at least. You should consider a MSc in CS if the answer to this question is learning to be a better programmer and coding.
Some years ago I had a Bank of America credit card. My new card never arrived in the mail, and I discovered 3,000 in charges. When I reported it, Bank of America insisted that they had mailed me the card and that I was responsible for its use. I appealed, and they still insisted that I pay the bill. I don't know their logic - was it just some employees trying to increase profit - like Wells Fargo today? And what choice did I have? Hire a lawyer for $400/hour? Lose hours of work time fighting them? Allow my credit to be wrecked? So I paid them and got a different credit card. (They even fined me and charged me interest for the months I was contesting the charges.)

In the end, they hold an unfair power over those who they can extort. I wish we had much better consumer laws - to actually protect us.
It seems that the masses are implementing a kind of online tribunal for politicians.

This makes me wonder, would it be possible for a group of fact-checkers to successfully sue politicians based on their statements?
They have competition. Dollar tree, one of walmarts biggest competitors in many areas has a similarly high percentage of their workforce on food stamps.
It's practically impossible to anonymize data without throwing away the information contained in it, doubly so if you don't know at the time what questions critics will want to see answered on that data.
So how does that work? The government/rich people/"capital" conditioned people to consume services whether they need them or not, in order to create these jobs? If so can you give some examples of this? Or is it that government/industry created regulations and practices that created these jobs (I could think of law as being like this, but not many people work in law, less than 1% of non-farm employment in fact)?

My take is that we use the labor that was being used in farms for new productive purposes including health, education (as consumption, not investment) and entertainment. It's undeniable that life expectancy is increasing so we are getting something out of this increased efficiency.
It doesn't make it authoritative or a trust symbol. They're just saying the type of article, such as an editorial or fact check. I don't automatically trust fact checks as being the truth.
It's 2016 - and still do. We live in a region with an operating milkman.

The price per pint is roughly 2x what it'd cost in a store, but the milk is fresh, organic, delivered to our door - and very importantly for us - generates very little waste. The empty glass bottles go back with the milkfloat, so we use far less plastic cartons.
Is there any Google News guy here? May I ask why WikiLeaks in not trending in Google News? They have been publishing Podesta emails for weeks, but neither WikiLeaks / Podesta / DNC / HRC is in "Top stories".
So? Why would you trust someone just because they say they're fact checking?
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I used to have a starter but not now. Never tried a fridge rise, but it does sound like the consistent conditions would make for a consistent rise. I'll have to try that!
It depends on what your goals are. If you'd like to become an ML Engineer or Data Scientist, Tensorflow should be last thing you learn. First, develop a solid foundation in linear algebra and statistics. Then, familiarize yourself with a nice ML toolkit like Scikit-Learn and The Elements of Statistical Learning (which is free online). The rest is a distraction.

In addition to the linear algebra and statistics MOOCS mentioned, I'll also add:

* No bullshit guide to Linear Algebra: https://gumroad.com/l/noBSLA

* Statistical Models: Theory and Practice: https://www.amazon.com/Statistical-Models-Practice-David-Fre...
Dumb question: with lots of NVLink/OpenCAPI bandwidth for GPUs/FPGAs, what's all the PCIe bandwidth for? I count something like 150 GB/sec of it in that system diagram. Terabit ethernet?
i didn't pass any judgement in using the word "pawns" or say that other news sources weren't. i've actually been a supporter of wikileaks for years. the post i was responding to however highly suggested that somehow the russians weren't involved which is silly bs promoted by trump. i also do feel that a source like wikileaks can be dangerous in the situation were currently in where one side of a political race has a bunch of its stuff leaked but the other side has none.
Funny, can Nobel Price sue Obama to take the medal back?
When Subaru Came Out
Look at the coloring around the rides near bridges. People take the subway down to the closest point and then take a cab home. The hybrid trip is both pocketbook friendly and probably faster.
I agree 100%. That said, have you used Orcad? When I use it, it also "feels like a bunch of similar tools were crowbarred into a box and called an application". From what I heard, the reason for that is that different tools where actually bought up and bundled together.

EDA tools are terrible across the board; I wonder why that is the case.
It certainly has a basis in reality. The story needs to be consistent with what we know, at least in the realm that it claims to give sense to. Science is not about getting the absolute truth, it is about getting information and a story consistent with what we know to be true, often with caveats about where the story applies.

And, of course, you can deny ontology all you like, but everyone operates with one in their mind. It is impossible to do interact with reality and to use equations without some internal assumption of an ontology, however vague and unexamined it might be. It is just that the "shut up and calculate" crowd does not want to discuss it, much like how "very religious" people often do not want to talk about their religion. They are simply not interested in examining stuff that may challenge their world views. But it doesn't mean they don't have an underlying belief.

It is similar to, paraphrasing Bell, how solipists buy life insurance.

The real point of science is to question our assumptions and obtain a better understanding, often contradicting what we thought was true. In order to do that, one has to look at what one believes is true. This is what the investigation of different ontologies is doing. But, as I said, many are not interested in pursuing that line of thinking and that's fine.

But it is not fine to say it should not be pursued at all or to imply it is less important or noble. Different aspects of understanding should be pursued by those who find those aspects enjoyable to pursue.
For anyone curious, the thunder audio is created on-the-fly here: https://github.com/wybiral/storm/blob/master/js/index.js#L22

Basically it creates a "boom" from brownian noise and then decays out the higher frequencies.
I would hope that such software is used for car alarms in order to get the false positive rate from 99.99% to perhaps 80%.

Drones are also loud, which has a cost for every false positive.
I used it as a recreational drug... and surprise! I'm a perfectly functioning member of society.
On mobile the pricing tables seem to be missing tge TH cells so I don't know what any of the numbers mean
Even that will break existing code, which is the reason it hasn't happened in the first place.
“Vector Space Mathematics”? I think “linear algebra” is a more well-known term.
You are falling for a classic argumentative attack. Everyone agrees "abuse" (e.g. beating your wife) is bad, so Fisk just redefines "abuse" to mean "earnest, blunt, non-sugar-coated feedback" but you keep on using the connotations of the real definition.
If it cuts down on crazy conspiracy theories and fear mongering, that would be good.

Political maneuvering and pivots are one thing, but dredging up UFO type conspiracy theories is really dangerous.
> and just ignore US overdose epidemics

Actually, that would be fine. The US doesn't need the world to pay attention to its opioid overdose problems. The world has enough problems to focus on, like millions of people still dying from malaria, or a billion people without access to clean running water or electricity. The US has plenty of tax revenue - ~$6.6 trillion annually, larger than Japan's entire economy - to deal with the problem completely on its own.
There is not an open source version as yet, but you can spin up these instances on an hourly basis on AWS https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01M0ZY2OV?qid=1475606... and on IBM Softlayer.
I am very careful with picking mentors and I generally just trust them to do their job. :-) It might not scale well long term, but that's the problem I don't need to solve right now. Right now if some lead tries to go directly to mentor, mentor always 1. Reports it to me; 2. Tells this lead to pay through mkdev.me.

It's simply much more convenient to mentor through mkdev.me than to do it on ones own.
> The US may have a lot of unsavory parts, but rule of law and presumption of innocence are not one of them. Perhaps the progressives can stop trying to undermine them in the name of unguided censorship (e.g. trying to censor "bro banter" by painting it as sexual assault)

This is my point exactly. Yet somehow I've gotten 4 downvotes for stating so. To be fair, I was prepared to be downvoted for that comment. Anything remotely pro-trump here is downvoted to hell.
That's assuming it's actually even possible to use all that bare metal. I worked for a company that tried to optimize its code by buying multiple servers with 64 core processors - one for each customer - when the critical process couldn't use more than one core.

They were mostly kept afloat by using their patent portfolio as a weapon.