skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your entire response is belied by the fact that alcohol is legal-- in fact, celebrated-- in western societies. It's even a religious sacrament (communion wine, seder wine).

Nutt found that alcohol _the most harmful drug_ -- even more harmful than meth, crack and heroin-- far more harmful than ecstasy, marijuana, magic musrooms, LSD, etc.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/drugs_caus...
I think a Bugera may have been a mistake.
Thanks for this. Clearly the original post describes good work, but I can't help feeling the JS community is slacking off when it comes to performance.

Just eyeballing the cited numbers, they take 3939ms to handle a 1.18MB input on "a somewhat powerful desktop machine". Assuming that that means a chip running at 2GHz, we're talking about over 6300 cycles per byte!

That's quite frankly ridiculous. An improvement by at least one order of magnitude should be possible. Where's the ambition?

(Yes, there's always a trade-off with these things. But I feel someone has to point this out when the OP is explicitly about getting kudos for performance work.)
Thanks! I'll give that a try!
YC does write letter of recommendations for visas once they get to know you (ie once they've funded you). I'm sure individual partners do this as well for founders they know personally and are outside YC, I doubt VC firms do that without knowing you personally.
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I did get used to being always vigilant. The beautiful homes surrounded by high walls and electric fencing. I've been playing the lotto recently so that I can quit my job and make it to Cape Town by March to compete in the Cape Argus.
We are talking in general, why assume it's IT workers?
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"All of this leads to my final big point: “drug problems” are really “society problems.”"

Drugs are both a symptom of other problems and a cause of new problems.

Presciption opiates are an example where the drugs were clearly a huge cause, not just some symptom of a social problem.
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Candidly: it seems weird to me that anyone would prioritize something like DMVPN over escaping the IPSEC ecosystem as soon as possible. IPSEC --- including Cisco's IPSEC products --- is terrifying.
Everyone I know on 9/80s loves them.

I think it's partly that a lot of 8-hour-day jobs bleed towards 9 hours, but (explicit) 9 hour days are less likely to bleed up to 10. But even at stated hours, it's got a lot of advantages. Free weekdays are incredibly useful, and the ability to schedule around 3 day weekends (or 4 day weekends on holidays) is a huge hit with people who want to take any kind of short trips.
Nope these things are all cheap. Land prices dominate. I agree the state is part of the problem: the goverbankment.
It's possible your surprise is regional. Rackspace has had success with that branding (though it's ironic to discuss that in this article).
Or do the right thing and tell them to go f* themselves because it's a huge invasion of privacy and none of their business. It's unfortunate most people won't have this option.

I've been trying to give the Trump administration a chance, but this is getting more ridiculous and more embarrassing every day.
> If you know someone working on a startup who we should encourage to apply for the Summer 2017 batch, recommend them here.

What the heck? This post reads like YC can't find enough founders (in quality + quantity) already.

If so, is it due to the changing landscape of startups themselves or the shift in focus from startups to left leaning political ideology?
Results for R remind me that R is not a search friendly name
Yes agreed 100%, housing has been financialised. Or more specifically land has.
WebKit did start with KHTML as a base, but it was Apple (and later Google) who brought it to prominence. When it was only KHTML it was a bit player.

As for market share, that's percent of devices sold. By web browsing it's about 25%, and that doesn't include the possibly outsized influence it has due to being so much more common at the top of the market.
https://github.com/John-Nagle/pasv/tree/master/src/CPC4
Made a fractal by accident O_O
https://demos.samgentle.com/automata-by-example/?10=100&11=9...
https://demos.samgentle.com/automata-by-example/?10=152
fun fact: if you inspect the properties of images hosted on facebook, you can see an html attribute for tags that Facebook has determined are in the photo (like "two people smiling," "pool", "outdoor party", "dog", etc).

As far as I know this isn't used for any user-facing features (yet), but it's there.
They may not do it for the best reasons, but they do have a better implementation than Telegram and, the most important, Watsapp is private by default.

Telling people to move from Watsapp to Telegram nowadays is bad advice. for any point of view.
I didn't say people liked it, I said they were used to it. It's the status-quo so it doesn't get questioned the way it would if it was a completely new concept.
I wonder if it's an artifact of the resting sitting position when driving a vehicle.

A dataset of where the resting head position is for people from locales which drive on different sides of the road, and of people with differing hand-dominance would be interesting.
When I was 14 in 1986 writing Atari ST stuff I had something come to me in a dream.

The ST had a notoriously slow text output system. The display was a bitmap and there was no hardware acceleration. Somebody called Darek Mihocka came out with 'Quick ST' which made the text display quicker than stock. As a newbie I wanted to beat this, so I learned 68000 assembly and did the usual optimisation - unrolling loops, precomputing bitmaps etc. I got faster than Quick ST but then he had an update which nearly doubled my speed.

I did everything I could to work out what he'd done, including looking at the Motorola reference manuals, nothing came up. I was going crazy. Bear in mind these were the days when there was no middleware, it was you versus the hardware, and if they did it better it's because their code was better.

So I went to bed one night and the 'move.p' opcode came to mind. I woke up and read about it - turns out this opcode took a 16 bit number and split it into 2 8bit codes and placed them 2 bytes apart. This matched the ST interleaved bitmap perfectly - I doubled my speed and beat Darek.

So, yeah, a dream did actually improve my code. I do miss those days where decent code beat driver, middleware and other issues.
This is useful for screen readers.
No. And even if it were possible they wouldn't allow it. Their servers are designed to forbid anything different from what they already do. Forget about that.
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> There is no evidence that dark matter even exists other than...

Most of our theories about the universe are based on evidence from secondary, tertiary, etc effects. It's often the best we can do.

I don't think you'd find anyone who would object to the idea that "our theory is incomplete" ("all models are wrong", etc), so it seems like your main objection seems to be that we've given a name to a family of theories that attempt to explain the phenomenon we've grouped under "dark matter".

> I think it's far more likely that our theory is incomplete rather than some whole new class of invisible matter/energy being conjured into existence just to counter-balance our 1) wrong equations and/or 2) wrong observations

It's rather human to make an estimate of likelihood based on how long ago something was conjectured to exist :) Moreover "wrong equations" and/or "wrong observations" are part of the very theories attempting to explain our current state of knowledge.

> So many non-scientists think dark matter is proven. It isn't. It's nothing but pure conjecture.

Actually, usually the issue with these discussions are with scientifically literate folks who read a Scientific American article on dark matter in 1998 and have engaged with that as a strawman ever since. Somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but it is odd to me how many people are convinced they're bringing light to the darkness with these kinds of comments.
There are features of some regular expressions for which the only known solution is backtracking. If you want those features then you "require backtracking".
>And let's take a look at AlphaGo, how would you do that with SVMs or decision trees?

This is a poor example. There are Go programs that work very well and use exclusively MCTS without any neural networks.
I've known a few people working 4/10 schedules (four days, ten hours), but I think managers are often skeptical that an employee is still fully efficient 10 hours in. I know more people working 9/80 (nine hour days, alternating 4 and 5 day weeks), which is less exhausting and still allows for free days and convenient 3 day weekends.
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No, but not everything needs to be memory safe. That's what the kernel is there for. You can typically just restart the program.

The classic program safety vs programmer time tradeoff.
Indeed, the "harm" from most illegal drugs tends not to come from the drug itself, but from the circumstances surrounding its illegality. The crime, the self-neglect, the diseases from filthy needles/etc all stem from the fact that you can't partake in polite society. Compare the homeless wino to the homeless heroin user and contrast the affluent scotch drinkers and tokers (in countries and states where it's legal). The illegality of it makes a world of difference.
Maybe because it is difficult to rotate one's head for 180°...
That's not Github's primary use for the software they host.

The idea that they'd want to save a few thousand bucks by stealing someone's proprietary code to run Github.com itself is simply silly - it'd risk their reportedly multi-billion dollar valuation.
So VSCode is great in many ways, and the article might be interesting. But I would never call it fast. It's still really really slow. Just see this comparision:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDRBxtEUOFE
Sorry for the terse reply. I only have time for a short reply.

There are two ways of thinking about a problem. And they both are important:

1) Why wouldn't this work?
2) How can we make it work?

When you get funding, it's mostly about 1 and not so much about 2.

I am not sure that Instagram would have survived receiving funding.

https://backchannel.com/why-instagram-worked-45dbfeaa37c8#.1...

Another aspect of it that I don't really want to go into right now... when an outsider looks at your company, they don't really understand what's going on. But they do have a bunch of rules of thumb that they like. They may or may not apply to your company. But in their minds, you're a bad company if you do not adhere to them.

VCs admit to thinking this way. They call it "pattern matching."
The technologies upon which this is based have been part of FreeBSD long before Docker was even conceived. This appears to be a new management tool for existing functionality, along with a praxis for use.
Sure, but it's a lot easier to just not use 'em.
I don't think there's anything new in this article. They're actually talking about the difference between Class A and Class AB amplifiers, most old valve amps being of Class A design and the trend with solid state amps being towards Class AB. Depressing that this made phys.org.
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Is there any realistic expectation that there be a news story for every airstrike?

I'm not saying we're always the "good guys", but every airstrike looks bad without any context. We never get all of the intelligence that goes into ordering an airstrike, so how are we supposed to make the same judgements about collateral damage, effect, etc.? How many other airstrikes happen flawlessly?

Aside from hindsight being 20/20, it is naive to assume that the public is capable of reviewing complex, difficult decisions about military action based on anecdotal information in a 1-page news article.
Not sure what that has to do with anything. The parent is a very vocal Rust proponent and made a ridiculous comment which has been called out by myself and several others. It hasn't anything to do with any "small group of people" talking smack about C programmers. Although that's unfortunate, too.
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It's inaccurate to say that nearly every culture is against "drugs" -- nicotine and caffeine are both relatively powerful drugs, and are widely accepted by most cultures on Earth, freely sold in vending machines and at corner shops.

Moreover, most cultures accept the use of (generally poorly understood) mind-altering psychiatric medications.

The question is why cultures accept some drugs but not others.
Sure...if all the ilities weren't accounted for in the original design.

Virtually nobody is able to account for everything in the original design. Convincing yourself that you got it right is easy. Actually getting it right is HARD. It is possible. For example zookeeper seems to have. But your odds of success are very, very low.

See https://aphyr.com/tags/jepsen for many, many examples of competent people who thought they had it right, being proven wrong. Over and over again.
Imagine you are trying to keep a city functioning well. You've never met most of the people. Then some parts of the city start falling apart, and you notice a lot of people using drugs, fighting, and not working.

The correlation would be obvious to anyone. You don't need a grand conspiracy to imagine why a leader might try to stop drug use.

That doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. But it can be easily explained without ulterior motives.
> I find it difficult to consider healthcare a true market

I can see why -- I've had the same terrible experience with billing shrapnel -- and I almost put a clause in my comment knowing this kind of response was almost inevitable.

What I did put in instead was that a lot of our details are different kinds of clothing on the fundamental incentives.

I strongly suspect that if you started a system from scratch around the central assumption that medicine should be handled as a market for medical products/services and the financing behind it should be private & for-profit, my guess is that you'd get very much the same thing.

The skill investment required for some interventions would lead to several consequences: required specialization to be effective, and a proliferation of specializations. Since the skill investments are costly, those costs are passed on in the form of high service rates. Few people know in advance which interventions they'll need, which makes planning for financing care risky, so an insurance market would develop. Insurers would have the same basic incentives to sell to those who are least likely to need their services, avoid those who are likely to need them completely, and independently negotiate their own payout deals with providers, which of course, varies by insurer, so few patients are going to be really sure how much anything costs even if they do understand how all the specialists interact in a given intervention.

And at that point, you have the recipe for the billing shrapnel problem everyone hates.
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Also more recently: https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/pull/262
I experienced something very similar with rxjs (and before that just Rx in .Net). I've studied Rx for a couple years, and I was developing event-sourcing ideas since before it became a big thing back around 2000, and I've done my fair share of head scratching in these areas. (I arrived at the event-sourcing stuff via a very abstract, conceptual route largely investigating physics/information theory...) It has since morphed into its present-day incarnation in ibGib (github.com/ibgib/ibgib and www.ibgib.com).

I don't know how real-world it is, since I'm still pretty much the only one who is using it, but you may enjoy checking it out for a slightly different view on ES.

It doesn't strictly fit the definition of CQRS at the moment. This is because I see CQRS as an implementation detail orthogonal to ES, but which dovetails nicely as they both work well with distributed systems. ES has immutable events (monotonically increasing), and CQRS implies a distributed system and allows for more effecient retrieval, leveraging ES's immutability.

But ibGib does provide what I see as an augmentation, or maybe an evolution, to ES. It has shifted over the years away from ontological "events" and now is more biological in approach. All of the data is in terms of ibGib, which is a flat database structure comprising `ib`, `data`, `rel8ns` and a `gib` which is a hash of the other three fields. The ES "event" analog specifically about what is replayed to hydrate domain aggregates can be seen in a specific `rel8n` called `dna`. This contains the code necessary to "rebuild" that ibGib immutable frame. This came largely from my dislike of the foundation of the entire river of the source of truth being necessary. With the DNA structure, it actually keeps a dependency graph, which ends up being a projection of the "entire" source of truth. This allows for nodes to "replicate" ("reproduce" would be a better term) as projections of entire graphs. These kinds of deep aspects are really neat!

But anyway, I digress. The server side is written in Elixir, which runs on top of Erlang's vm (the BEAM(!)). And you can visually interact with the structure, as the web app runs on d3. I have some demos on YouTube on the website if you just want to look at it, though I don't go into the DNA/ES aspect of it.

Anyway, I had to say something, since ES is a topic near and dear and so closely related to ibGib's current architecture. My design decisions could very well help you & others understand ES more deeply. Plus I've been enjoying getting to a point where ibGib is actually usable (and useful).

NOTE: I'm somewhat arbitrarily responding to you in this thread, as I used to play halo with an AceOfHearts.
Hey. I'm the one who wrote that part of the ToS.

We've gotten a few questions about this wording, and we'll revise it to clear up confusion. Thanks for the feedback.

We have absolutely no intention of taking any of the code people store with us or using it for our own purposes. As we said, this is solely to allow us to host your content without violating your rights.
I was thinking that IETF IRONbis over WireGuard could be a good solution to the DMVPN use case. But someone would have to care enough to start coding.
Wow, this is a quick hack around not giving space to metadata about the driver preference and trying to communicate it out of band, and they are passing it off as something to be emulated.
So there's no such thing as a C++ expert? That statement is dangerously close to a No True Scotsman: IME even people who seem to fit any reasonable definition of expert (committee members, compiler developers) still make memory-safety mistakes.
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Normally anything billionaires advocate in changing society is horrible, but in this case I have to agree heartily. Working only 3 long days a week would work out great for me. That would give me 4 full days off, plus as a programmer there's a significant amount of "spinup time" as you put it; this just isn't the kind of work you can work on in short bursts.

However, I think the 6-hour day plan has some real merit too. I think it just depends on the job. For an engineering or programming job, I think the 11-hour day makes a lot of sense. But for some job like nursing (as in the article), or customer-service jobs where you're running around the whole shift, I think the 6-hour day (5 days a week) makes a lot of sense so workers don't get too worn out.
I'm sure there are good use cases for Fleet, but running Kubernetes (or anything else) with just one master is asking for trouble.
There was one great point in this article: setting society-wide hour counts is probably a bad plan.

11 hour days sound delightful for a lot of jobs - lots of productive time at work, with enough time off to relax and travel. They also sound hellish for some work (11 hours of manual labor is wretched) and impractical for some (11 hours waiting tables misses prime hours).

So I think that conditional is important, but it sounds like a great thing to offer where possible. I can certainly see taking it as an occasional or even permanent schedule.
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Not speaking for the parent comment, but maybe the two aren't so inseparable after all. I would rather not immediately dismiss this project, since there are multiple contributors to it and it seems cruel to bash their hard work just because of Yarvin's presence. However, it seems like there definitely is a similarity between the product of the man and his ideology- especially the same inscrutable, esoteric, unconventional nature.
Yes, sure. I was unclear but meant in "our" field (IT).
the same thing could have been said about the discovery of Neptune [1]: "there's no evidence a planet is there, it's pure speculation. The changes in Uranus' orbit must be the result of mathematical error and not another planet."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune
It is a useful paradigm if you get it right. It is also easy to make a mess. But that's true of anything Turing complete.

See Erlang for life lessons on how to get it right.
> what mathematicians call functions, programmers call pure functions

Even that's not precise. What mathematicians call computable functions, programmers call total, pure functions, and even then only as an approximation.
So, basically what they're saying is that 360 content creators aren't making content that utilizes the full space well. People don't want to see a story unfold in 360 degrees, especially if they're sitting.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but we recently created a 360 video of a "Goat Yoga" session. Everyone involved in the yoga was in a circle around the camera with all the goats in the middle. The people watching the video are encouraged to stand at the beginning of the video or follow along with the yoga instruction. There's no narrative and yet we have analytics that show multiple people have viewed the video several times because they are the center of the action and it doesn't matter where they look, they still get a similar, but somehow custom, experience.