skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12704822 and marked it off-topic.

Please don't take any more HN threads into tangents of drama. I know it's annoying to be accused of something you don't feel you did, but this subthread is the kind of noise we all need to avoid here.
So grab an fixed-size pool allocator. Malloc is very generic, and faster alternatives aren't limited to stack allocators.

EDIT: Or do what the article does, eliminate allocations that were straight up unnecessary (because they were unused, or over-eager deep copies)
Guns, empires and Indians: Imperial politics triggered an indigenous arms race
Generally, but not always, a title which includes 'Officer' means that the individual can contractually bind the company to contracts. That's what it means to be an officer of a company in a legal sense. The ability to contractually bind the company is usually the distinction between 'Executive VP' and other 'VP' titles as well.

That does not mean that a Head of Engineering isn't an officer of the company, but not being one would be a reason to choose one title over the other. 'Job title as a form of compensation' is another reason.
No. The Internet never claimed to be a bastion of immutable objective truth, unlike Ethereum. Ethereum has always marketed itself as a complete working solution, which it is obviously not. It's also poorly designed even though we know better, whereas at least the early internet was more or less as well designed as we knew how to do at the time.
One thing that would be nice, would be for docker on windows (linux containers) and docker for windows containers to get along better, so that I can easily launch either with the same tooling... doing so is really unclear, I've also been on the insider channel, so may have borked my configuration... upgraded from Windows 7 to 10, and haven't done a clean install of 10.

Previously, I'd just used cifs/samba shares to run in a linux vm, and ssh from windows with a gui editor, which had worked well enough. Had wanted to play with Linux Subsystem for Windows and the Docker with Windows Containers, and now neither seem to want to work right with anything else, so caveat emptor.

I do hope that in the long run, the LSW shims get to a point that docker for windows containers can also support linux containers, which will be close to the grael for me.
Such a cheat sheet sounds like the perfect thing for an Open Source project with a (hopefully) active community to curate.
> GPU's use SIMT

I know very little of GPU architectures, but I tought that the last few generations of GPUs were straightforward SIMDs (i.e. all lanes are run in lockstep and divergence is handled at an higher level)
I can confirm it is an approach taken by different companies out there.

I used to work for this company where every single Friday we would go out for lunch and get tipsy (wine with the food, some digestive liquor shots just at the end, then maybe a mixed drink or a beer at another bar) because we were the only team not allowed to go home early on Friday... for no reason. Mind you, we were some kind of internal IT team and there would be no one to request anything from us, so we never had urgent stuff to do.

Back in the office we would enable the "fire extinguisher mode" which meant "only move if there's a fire" and watch silly videos in Youtube, have some coffee with Baileys because why not...
I keep learning this lesson over and over again: never call police unless you want them to silence someone or use force. Cause if you do anyways you're gonna learn the hard way that's what they can do if they want and there is little recourse.
I guess the point is that the Internet was not nominally valued at $1B in the early days (depending on how you define that).
From what I have read, she spent like a decade "building" this company before making any effort to release a product. She dropped out of Stanford and has been hailed as a genius while failing to launch and when she did finally launch, this is the result.

Meanwhile, she has apparently been backed for a very, very long time by such luminaries as Henry Kissinger and former US senator and presidential candidate Sam Nunn: https://www.theranos.com/leadership/counselors

So, some pretty girl had former serious VIPs on the world stage patting her on the head and saying "You go, girl!" while she had no product. And we wonder why it became such a huge mess. She was like 19 or 20 when she dreamed this up. I don't know how long she has had their backing, but that is heady stuff for almost anyone, of any age. If she had it in her early twenties, good luck reigning in her insane ego and getting her to see reality.

Her reality is that she can get the backing of people like that. Many people are very "la la la, not listening -- don't confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up." If they can get social proof that they are awesome, it gets far, far worse. And being backed by people like that is very strong social proof.

So, in my opinion, they had an obligation to also put the brakes on and demand real proof while patting her on the head and fueling the growth of her enormous ego. Is it any wonder she has such an enormous ego given those experiences?
There is also the kestrel with an Forth operating system.
http://kestrelcomputer.github.io/kestrel/
> But yet you don't really hear doctors saying "how can a judge hear a case about a medical issue!"

This actually is something that comes up reasonably often. In fact, when I was in law school, an entire week of Torts was spent on precisely this issue. It's not unique to technology, but the frequency in which it comes up, as well as the total number of people directly (by that, I mean their day to day life could materially change overnight) is much higher.

You aren't wrong about technologists and politics, though. I hadn't really thought about amicus briefs as a solution, thanks for pointing it out.
Slightly OT, but 'Sprint' written by Jake Knapp is a pretty cool book on working on all kinds of projects, UI/UX projects included.
>front running algorithms
Citation needed (and not the terrible Lewis book). He wasn't being front run.

What you're describing is just called trading. Someone says they wanna buy a million shares of something, you guess demand is going up. Just because they use special hardware and react fast doesn't make them any different.
This is always a great resource: https://hackdesign.org/

* edit: meant this one
Hate breads only more hate my friend. FARC doesn't have the majority, no, but they're not small either. They are a very large and established group, impossible to defeat, because they are part of Colombia, just as you are. You have to agree on the way to live together, and say "yes" to something eventually. That is, without resorting to brutal dick waving that is war once again.
Isn't that the whole point of hiring engineers? To keep your service running? It's not going to maintain itself.
Reducing the time of shipping is a pretty common goal of many companies. It's not about need, it's about a clear improvement.
I find it curious how the same political forces can be on the offensive against online trolling and 4chan culture and at the same time defend offline trolling and harrasment as freedom of spewch. Regardless of my own opinion on the matter, it's just illogical.
>> easier and cheaper blood tests,

Cheaper isn't enough to drive enough demand against the competition, because of insurance.

So they got pushed towards easier, i.e. no pain finger prick, which was their downfall.
You can't put the genie back into the bottle. It has already escaped. In our days, surveillance is being performed by all governments and many private companies. For US to be the only country that doesn't do it, it would be uncompetitive. We have to accept the new reality - ever since digital cameras became popular (year 2000) and ever since cell phones became packed with sensors and always on connectivity (and continuous auto-updates), hard drives cheap and large, face recognition software efficient - there has been no way to stop surveillance. It is an emergent situation based on a confluence of technologies.

We need AI to protect privacy, capable of detecting information leaks and unintended exposures right in the browser and OS, similar to an antivirus that is always scanning the data flowing in the system. We need to have software educating people about consequences and making it really easy to remain private. It won't solve the problem fully, it's impossible to do that today.
Yes it is comparable to Node. Most benchmarks show PHP with blocking calls against async Node calls. PHP has the tools to do async no problem. I use ReactPHP all the time to do this stuff; it works great for fast scraping.

See an older counter-point with the much slower PHP 5.5:

https://philsturgeon.uk/php/2013/11/12/benchmarking-codswall...
Don't Make Me Think - Steve Krug

Information Dashboard Design - Stephen Few
"The non-designer's design book : design and typographic principles for the visual novice" - very easy to follow.
I like the fact that the article tries to be objective by recognizing that Uribe's government was of great value to the country, but that because of his overwhelming popularity as president he became entitled, arrogant and egocentric, and he has now become a spoke in the wheel for progress and peace in the country.

In addition to being corrupted by power, he has also surrounded himself with yes men who have led a Trump-like lie campaigns around the country (recognized by them) that led people to vote for No in the peace process, and is now demanding impossible concessions from the government and the guerrilla to try and stall the peace process until he or his party members are reelected into power (next presidential elections are less than a year and a half away), while leaving the country at huge risk of going back to guerrilla warfare, terrorism and political violence.
If I had google behind me, I could also leverage ridiculous technology. Both are larger than I am (and twitter is), so this is not surprising.
The problem is when it _isn't_ a spoof.

Source: I got run over a couple times in the Treasury market.
Kind of. Routers have very limited speed control, so this is still somewhat problematic. Also, small diameter bits tend to have shorter cutting lengths and cannot cut as deep. They are also fragile. Finally, costs do not scale well with small bits because they last much less due to poorer heat dissipation and early failure.
Doing operation transform (OP) on ODF in WebODF uses JS code that can run in the client in peer to peer mode or on the server.
Donald Trump has actually made Islamophobic statements. Disparaging people as racist or sexist or Islamophobic without evidence is a horrific act. But there's plenty of evidence here.

PC culture is a problem, and it's awful, but it's not the problem in this case.

As for the police being allowed to protest, I agree that I can't think of anything especially wrong with that.
Drone near misses put HUNDREDS of plane passengers at risk
Let's start with this:

How would you describe the difference between PHP and assembly? Why is one better than the other in certain cases?
DOT bans all Samsung Galaxy Note7 phones from airplanes
Transmeta? Linus worked for that company a few years.
>But what if they're a hugely over-confident asshole?

Then they have absolutely no business working on a team effort.

They never should have been hired in the first place.
"Understanding Comics" by Scott McCloud! Simply the single most important book to understand sequentional word/picture combinations. And yes, it's a comic!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Comics
I think the argument centers around the idea that hatespeech should be banned, or something.

I don't care: I know where I stand. Free speech is a good thing, even with sites like 4chan, and if you don't wish people to speak freely within a website or location, make the rules for what they can say known ahead of time, and enforce them fairly.
US bans all Samsung Galaxy Note 7s from flights
Show HN: Have some fun with Bitly (a bitly command line tool)
Don't make me think is awesome and I believe you can get a free PDF version of it online. (Possibly an older edition, but it is just a great book.)
Universal Principles of Design - William Lidwell

It's not explicitly computer UI design, but the book is essentially an alphabetical list of design concepts with illustrations/examples, and they're very applicable to computers. Amazon has "look inside" if you want to see what it's about.
RBS says it has resolved debit card computer glitch
Communism is destroyed in practice by people not wanting to stand in line for a ration of toilet paper, and wanting to have an identity, rather then all being the same (and the connected elite "samer")
Drones begin delivering blood in Rwanda
"The forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest"
> 1BR apartment in New Orleans is ~$1300.

Sure, but my point was that if you view SF as integral for some reason, you can find 1BR apartment rentals for ~$1300 (and 2 bedroom for $1400) an hour North of SF. If you're willing to go slightly over 2 hours from SF (which if you've considering flying in occasionally isn't bad at all), you can find 2 BR apartments for <$1000 in Ukiah.

It's not a beach in a tropical climate, but it sure is cheaper, and you could actually swing commuting in once or twice a week without too much strain (depending on whether you do it during rush hour). Too rural for you? Sacramento, the state capital, has apartments available for not much more (and a similar non-rush hour commute).

There's a trade-off going on here, and I'm wondering at what point it makes more sense to fly in from outside the country compared to just commuting a few hours occasionally.
It would be absurd, for example, for a VC to demand 100% of a company's equity

It's a school, not a business. The idea that there's supposed to be any equity is novel, to put it mildly.

Your analogy would make more sense if it described a hypothetical VC who puts in 100% of the money in exchange for no equity at all, because the company is holding a gun to his head.
Why Today’s Privacy-Invading Online Ecosystem May Not Last
And even whey they were not over yet there was no fork for each request. A pool of workers was forked beforehand, and each worker could handle requests one by one without restarting (only PHP environment is cleared, OS level process is not restarted).
Matt Tucker wrote a little blog [0] about being CTO. He went from co-founder to public company CTO over 15 years...

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/five-flavors-being-cto-matt-t...
This reminds me when you had to buy crypto accelerator cards for your webservers (does anyone remember Soekris?)...

The market stalled after Intel started adding support for crypto operations on-die.

This looks like Intel is protecting his server chip business shooting at nVidia before they start selling Titan-X with other server chip (what chip - I don't know; but I bet there's a business plan on a spreadsheet somewhere).

I guess training neural nets will a GPUs / custom chips task for some time; but as soon as you have developed the classifier / predictor you have to run it on whatever hardware you have and that means you might need less parallel computing power and it doesn't make (financial) sense buying GPUs for that.
This is a great design concept to know the name of! Thanks!
And a few years back they outsourced all their back office work to India, and some journalists are now openly saying that their chickens are coming home to roost. They have been fined multiple times now for similar problems...
Bitcoin also had a fork due to a bug in 2013. It wasn't perfect in its early years either, and yet it's a useful platform/technology now.
>The need to "not die" is a result of a deliberate policy choice...

Your earlier statement. Now you're saying that policy (the one you describe as a construction designed to be burdensome earlier) is one you feel I've implied? I've done no such thing. You're the one claiming that the current system is burdensome, don't try to wriggle out of that.

Your tangent meanwhile did not directly address something I said, it addressed an extension of what I said pertaining to vehicles, and expanded it to a society-wide issue. So again... tangent.
Svbtle Promise
More space efficient.
I have high hopes for the next major release; it's shaping up to be a significant improvement across the board.
It's definitely an uphill battle. Also, it remains to be seen if Trumpism requires Trump himself to remain viable or not (I'm skeptical, but I was skeptical of essentially everything about his candidacy's viability, so what do I know?). If it turns out that Trumpism was more about him than his actual ideas, then McMullin will be less impactful. He's really a fairly generic Utah Republican, so if Trumpism fades, his success will just be pointed to as evidence that the GOP still works. Gary Johnson taking a state would be more impactful, as he'd have operated outside of the two major parties for multiple election cycles (I do not find this likely at all).
VCs aren't spending my money. Universities are, because they're subsidized by taxes. If they want to make money which says in private hands, they can do it with their own money, not taxpayer funds. Universities were never meant to be profit-generating entities, but institutions of learning. The people in universities should be happy to have a cushy, tenured academic job; people who have a serious "desire to make money" (beyond that of a professor's salary, which is both good and very stable) don't belong at universities at all, they should be working in the private sector.
This is all spot-on, I believe. This situation in which we all broadcast our thoughts and movements is not in line with the way our species evolved.
I only had to rad the first three words "One Friday afternoon". I learned early that I was doing everyone a favour if no updates went out on Friday afternoon.
Every child should be so lucky to have this experience as well. Empathy goes a long way.
Of course. Momentary blank where I forgot that people get patents while in the employ of companies.
Here's a list of all design books that I give to new hires:

Branded Interactions: Creating the Digital Experience - (https://www.amazon.com/Branded-Interactions-Creating-Digital...)

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Display-Quantitative-Informati...

Universal Principles of Design - https://www.amazon.com/Universal-Principles-Design-Revised-U...

The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945-1976 - https://www.amazon.com/Interface-Transformation-Corporate-19...

Multiple Signatures: On Designers, Authors, Readers and Users - https://www.amazon.com/Multiple-Signatures-Designers-Authors...

Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation - https://www.amazon.com/Change-Design-Transforms-Organization...

Thoughts on Design - https://www.amazon.com/Thoughts-Design-Paul-Rand/dp/08118754...

Notes on the Synthesis of Form - https://www.amazon.com/Notes-Synthesis-Form-Harvard-Paperbac...

..and a list of ones I'm considering adding:

Unflattening - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674744438/ref=oh_aui_deta...

Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/038534936X/ref=oh_aui_deta...

The Design Method - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321928849/ref=oh_aui_deta...

Product Design for the Web: Principles of Designing and Releasing Web Products- https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321929039/ref=oh_aui_deta...
Oh! That's super interesting, so I know there is no point in trying to improve the alignment too much. I'll try anyway if I can make the whole operation a linear scan but if there is no big penalty, to add padding among weights looks like a bad idea.
Steppers are definitely strong enough. The NEMA 42s on my machine are geared down 10:1 and work very well moving a 100ish pound gantry.

The issue with gravity is not really motor strength so much as it is rigidity. There is no z axis rigidity in the setup because it only has a chain. So it can't exert pressure against the material from the axis.

The lack of rigidity is the real problem. As mentioned in other parts of this thread, .01" accuracy is not going to give you great tolerance for pieces where that error can be cumulatively compounded.
Oh no, absolutely. There is no doubt this happens in the majority of cases, so when two things don't pair up when you look at them you don't accuse people of lying. Of course this does land you in an incredibly tricky situation when you do find out there is a habit of systematic lying.

Thankfully that situation is resolved now, though it lasted for too long, and miraculously didn't fall off the cliff it teetered on.
So far I can only find one trollish lawsuit from WARF (against Apple) so it's not clear how bad they are.
Although it is an editorial, the bias is astonishing. The whole nation has cast a vote - but instead of respectine people's opinion, NYT portrays them as manipulated, misguided children.
No, but "squaring bucky fuller quote" just now showed the problem.
Upvote just for the title
Companies fail and egos get inflated all the time. I'm not sure what substantiates her being an attractive woman as the salient point, especially when the attractiveness advantage (and resulting gigantic egos) exists for both sexes.
LOL, good in what theory? Communism is an unworkable mess that demands the use of violence to subjugate the individual to the whims of the majority.
My Beautiful Bubble (2012)
How Schrödinger’s Cat Became Such a Violent Fable
Wheaton's Law violator here. Don't be a dick.
You're probably right. But ideally, why should someone like Kissinger, who isn't a science guy would be strong social proof in this context, instead of the scientific community, or scientific advisors with expertise in diagnostics ?
I don't disagree that attractive women can sometimes be disproportionately encouraged simply because of their looks but is there a reason to believe this to be the case with Holmes other than the fact that she is attractive and successful?
You're absolutely correct.

The word "new" is entirely out of place.
His new proposals do not include any significantly more punitive measures for the guerrillas, but rather seek more impunity by changing the transitional justice from an international tribunal overseeing a truth process, to a local secret tribunal with complete impunity for paramilitary leaders, business leaders and politicians who helped finance the both parties and took part in the drug trafficking that helped finance the war.
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