skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that the financial performance and massive inertia of these organizations are becoming such financial liabilities that our economies will be held back by organizational / cultural and technical debt at the same time in these organizations. I've been observing the trend for the past decade where the top tech companies are accelerating in output while most of the large institutions are falling further and further behind. Intel can keep pushing all the way to the theoretical limits of silicon for transistor size, but the economic costs including just sheer interest on fab facilities alone of getting there would bankrupt the company or hurt its credit rating.

To put it into a more concrete analogy, Google is putting out autonomous cars when tons of companies are celebrating releasing the Model T or are still currently developing it with massive delays and cost overruns. Meanwhile, much of the appetite for government spending is dwindling for various reasons and this will cause a lot of strife that hurts already-slow moving organizations. Furthermore, brand recognition by the current generation of entrepreneurs for old hat technology companies is looking absolutely horrific. The next Fortune 500 CEOs 30 years from now are likely in their 30s or 40s now and they're well aware of the lack of compelling vision by so-called "technology" companies that are really just technology re-sellers and are thus unsuitable partners for increasingly tech-reliant businesses (the few that don't have such plans may be so clueless they won't matter).
OK. I apologize for the tone of my comment; most of the time when somebody says what you said, they aren't looking to learn. And that's why people often respond with "educate yourself": because, in 2017, asking to be taught is often a rhetorical and political trap used against activists and marginalized people (how fucked is that?). It is a request for emotional investment that is used intentionally and maliciously by the white-supremacist types to do what I can only describe as gish-galloping at scale. Ask questions, get people who actually care about stuff to give a shit and to expend effort and emotional energy...and then burn it, "I was trolling you the whole time", that sort of thing. As you noted, these people don't have much to live for and wasting their time is okay if they waste other people's time. That's a victory to them.

The common response is "well, do it anyway," but the solution isn't for marginalized communities to be saints. It's for people like you and me to educate ourselves and work on this shit. Ordinarily I'm not a fan of AlterNet-type stuff, but this one encapsulates what I'm trying to say here: http://www.salon.com/2015/04/14/black_people_are_not_here_to...

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A good place to start with regards to why social media matters with regards to marginalized groups (and it's really the obvious one) would be something like Black Twitter; it's a strong, pretty well-defined cultural group that discusses, at a wide and large scale, topics related to being black in America. It's a hugely influential cultural phenomenon and in a lot of ways it serves as a baseline political organization tool for those communities. The idea of telling marginalized people that they should refrain from participating in what is effectively the common social discourse among young people in 2017 because of their literal enemies who troll and harass specifically to make people not participate is...it presses some big red buttons in my head, because (also as a white dude) our space for "common social discourse" is pretty much anywhere we sit down, and that's not the case for others.

The Wikipedia page is surprisingly detailed and I think it's a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Twitter
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What is the data source for the graphs ?
Skype also has to deal with routing some of the calls trough their servers. Audio is probably crippled to save bw.
I was informed by a long time user (Grumpy Mike) of the Arduino forums when I first started posting there that one should -always- explain the first usage of an acronym or similar construct before using it elsewhere in the rest of a comment.

It makes sense from the perspective of the fact that not all users may understand what the acronym means at first, and doing this is a great courtesy (also, it removes ambiguity in instances where you may be using an acronym similar or same as that for another domain - perhaps the domain of the forum or medium you are communicating on).
That doesn't work. The submitter of an HN story doesn't own the story; stories are community property. Submitting doesn't entitle you to choose for the whole site what is or isn't interesting about a story. If you want to do that, you write a comment, like everybody else.

This is one of the oldest meta-arguments on the site. Once or twice a month, perhaps, we get a story that isn't particularly well served by the guidelines, and people have to click one more time than they might have, or read a few more sentences than they might have. But pretty much every day, and probably more frequently than that, we see problems stemming from the guideline being broken.

Almost everybody reading these comments knows what this story is about now. It's a shame a pointless meta-complaint is bolted to the top of the thread, instead of something actually about the post itself.
Removal performance of large directories is very bad. Reading large directories can result in lots of seeks. Directories are not suited to this at scale, and symlink directories definitely aren't portable.
The simple solution: Don't live near work.

A 20-30 min. bart ride from East Bay to SF is not only reasonable but decreases your rent by half. The people in the article don't have a solid grip on reality.
Similarly, they are waffling about cryptocurrency because their confidence is shaken by arbitrary things not related to the development and utility in the space.
Yeah, good point (plus it's not fantastic for this project anyway). I'm going to think hard on this, I quite like YAML...
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> I think compiling a large codebase from scratch would be quite slow, and slower than templated C++

It very much depends on which features of Scala you use. If you restrict yourself to the features available in Kotlin or other "better Java" languages, Scala compiler isn't much slower. Where Scala compiler gets really slow are implicits - so if you try to write Scala as if it were Haskell then you are probably in trouble.
I believe FaceTime is still point-to-point.

I've heard good things about WeChat and it's support for low-bandwitdth networks but haven't worked up the courage to try it out.
An interesting thing I heard from my dentist and my optometrist is that dentists and optometrists often diagnose (or successfully refer for) a fairly wide variety of conditions that manifest as symptoms visible in the gums and eyes. A lot of stuff that can go wrong in the body can apparently mess up your gums or eyes in a way that an expert can notice.

Also, people who have excellent vision can still benefit from optometrist exams because they can catch early stages of eye problems, and even other kinds of medical problems.
>So your advice for Twitter is to throw up their hands and close down their business?

When did I start giving twitter advice? Nothing I've said in any of my responses in this thread was a suggestion of how twitter should operate their business. I hope they can get rid of all of the objectionable content and that everyone can be happy. I just don't think it's possible, and that the benefits of using twitter don't outweigh the abuse some people take, so it's not worth using.
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> let the persons in need organize and spread the knowledge

That's lobbying. In todays world, lobbying is a dispicable act, at least if you are into science or if you like stuff that has been proven by scientific measures. In today's world, lobbying VETOes science.
If your life depends on having a 1440p screen at 144Hz you are not your typical gamer and you are doing it for no reason other than because you can.

Get a grip man. GPUs are not struggling. People are just demanding a lot from them because reasons.
I drew a connection to her getting out of owning the van, and the word "f-hole", which can also be short for "fuck hole". The van for a long time was a place of comfort, but over time it turned into prison made of memories. Her father lived in an f-hole, she's taking steps to avoid that. I took it as a reminder to not get stuck in a rut just because it's comfortable or familiar.
I'm curious to see how long it will take for the world to experience any meaningful kind of pushback against automation or AI. Today, I feel like all I see are a dwindling number of people saying they'd "rather deal with a real person", and a growing number of people who come close to fetishizing automation.

Maybe once Uber decides to flip the switch on all of the drivers who are now dependent on them for some if not all of their income, we'll see people in the streets vandalizing and otherwise circumventing empty self driving vehicles.
No. Just Uber saying that the pattern of lowered fares means lowered payouts is something drivers are used to.
You're kidding right? The right says a lot of stupid things...ok TONS of stupid things, but "left leaning media" isn't one of them. These media outlets may not be state blessed, but we have the media on our side, and we have our Jackals for sure. 99% of the media is leaning hard to the left on everything.

The Milo incident is a fine example. While was repugnant and deserved it, that was an absolute media witch hunt, and he was targeted and destroyed by the jackals of the left.

Bill Maher was the arguable catalyst of it, and he said the exact same thing Milo did, and WORSE things in support of pedophilia and we didn't call him out for it. No media blitz, not cancelled events/shows/etc. Nope, Maher is a hero!

All that does is show the "values" we exited Milo with were not true because we don't apply those values to our own people.
An extra axis yet much easier to digest. That's good data viz.
Google hangouts in Chrome uses Native Client. Which no other browser vendor has any interest in supporting. Webassembly is the path forward for such code as it is supported/planned support in Firefox, Edge, Chrome and Safari. They have had 18 months of notice that the end of plugins was coming.
You don't reply to emails
>Guys/gals... If there's any unusual pain in your chest cavity at all, just drop whatever it is you're doing and get it checked out. It might not even seem that bad at the time... it didn't to me and it didn't to Jason Scott... just do it.

Yeah, but where do you draw the line? I guess that will sound silly, but I'm always afraid that people think of me as a hypochondriac if I ran to the doctor for every little pain, most of them probably being some sprained muscle or indigestion.
In Canada annual checkups by your GP are free. If needed, blood tests, x-rays, CT, MRI, whatever, free.
This is what I think most people miss when they criticize automation. It's not that an android-looking robot will come and stand in your spot and do your job, it's that automation makes one person more effective, and able to do the job of multiple people.
In her case it's not for a specific title, so she was excited to learn about the Switch and is waiting for it. For whatever reason I don't see many kids around here playing on 3DS, so peers aren't a factor. (Most gaming with friends happens on PC/Mac Minecraft; I run a private server for them.)
Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2
It's in the first paragraph. I would like to publicly renounce a belief system that once seemed useful and true to me; I’ve outgrown the romantic escapism of this mode of travel. She recently published a book of photographs http://aperture.org/shop/highway-kind about "the idea of the American dream juxtaposed against the reality".
Rare-earth minerals aren't actually rare. The name comes from the relatively low concentrations in which you find them naturally. But we won't run out; they're just more expensive to refine as we tap lower concentration sources. Even poor sources are going to yeild minerals at a cost that's a few orders of magnitude less than a what you'd get on the moon.
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> 2. Intentional use of poorer quality codecs (by your ISP and/or VoIP software to reduce aggregate bandwidth use). Ironically this can be inverted, there are codecs that sound much better than PSTN calls (but use more bandwidth).

I mean, people use G.729 for example because, yes, it is more efficient than G.711. But ultimately, if you want to communicate with the PSTN those are your only two choices and it's easier to just say "G.729 for everything" instead of wasting processing time on the server re-encoding everything that goes off the network.

You want better codecs? Bitch at the phone companies who have drug their feet on implementing G.722 while more and more IP phones and mobile devices continue to add support for wideband audio.
Central Business District (aka "downtown")
Ahhh. I would call that a s-hole. The slang version of f-hole is something else entirely to me :)
> including "automatically block accounts under X days old that @ me"

How can a new user (who isn't a harasser) engage with the Twitter service if they get auto-blocked when they try to engage with anyone on the platform?
Movie titles according to Hacker News:

Man finds wife's head in box.
Therapist of boy who sees ghosts is a ghost.
Man who killed hero's father is actually his father.

I get that you want more information, but sometimes getting the information makes reading something less pleasurable. The author here doesn't disclose the detail you're talking about until a third of the way through. Disclosing it in the title fundamentally changes it, and not in a good way.
Please, go on. I've been fascinated with Connection Machines ever since I saw one at a university auction. Which also had plenty of SGI gear and Next slabs as well.
Also, have a look at irc://irc.freenode.org/#hn
It would have been better to host an industry survey first and then plot results based on it.
Who said anything about human form factor? I said non-forklift, I meant things like: last mile delivery of furniture and appliances, packing and moving, etc. where most of the lifting is manual. These are situations where things are more unstructured than a warehouse. The kind of problems for which Boston Dynamics seems to be building robots.
There are plenty that are unmetered. I've had unlimited for over a decade. Speed is an issue if you don't have fibre.
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Do you know a substantail number of Indians speak atleast 3 languages. 1st is their regional language where they were born, another is Hindi and the third is English. And it's not considered out of the ordinary at all..
CBD is the Central Business District. Basically the city center, which is also where all the businesses are.
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Why are thousands of people watching a Denver man's grass grow?
I guess I'd have the same reservations about moving to NZ for a job that I would about moving to Small Town, USA for a job. It's very risky career-wise. If things go bad at that job, where else are you going to go? Are there enough jobs locally that would allow you to do, say 20 interviews and actually find a similar job? Or are you looking at another international relocation?
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It looks like the default link color in most (all? spec?) browsers, and is too bright (not to be confused with light) for my taste.

I'm finding it more straining than even the HN orange.
ROTFL. This is translation not from Sanskrit, but from Traditional Chinese. Dude, you really need to learn some languages. Try Russian. Latvian has many words taken from Russian in 19th century.
Yeah. It was due to a bunch of factors.

* Sitting a lot (Standing desk didn't help, regular breaks and walks did.)

* Diet (Carbohydrate heavy)

* Alcohol consumption

* Lack of intense exercise.

Of all of those, diet and alcohol consumption were the most important. No one really understands how these metabolic processes actually work, it seems.
Sorry but globalization not only benefitted the US but everyone. Even places like Haiti and fidji have benefitted from globalization, including most notably east Asia with the foremost exemplars of Japan and China. Remember India when she was part of the non aligned axis and how "well" she was doing? That's right, globalization has helped more people around the world than anything else but people try to pretend only the US benefitted from this policy. However, the US did underwrite most of the costs of making this happen.
For all it's warts, in my opinion Linux (and *BSD's) are some of the greatest software engineering efforts of our time. I think we'll be lucky to ever see a FOSS kernel reach the same level of ubiquity in our lifetime as Linux.
You can probably fit the runtime in a 10th of the size of JQuery.

You'll need most of a runtime anyway, since it provides much more than GC.
How do you know that? The changes have not yet taken effect.
I do not know what this story is about.