skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did read the article and it lists multiple inefficiencies. And I didn't claim that the article was about halting factory beef farming, so I'm not sure where you got that from. There is one line in there about Americans meeting their protein and fat intake requirements if cows were solely fed on grass.

Great rant on humans eating grass, but what does that have to do with anything? No one is saying you need to eat grass. The article is about the direct human consumption of grain vs. production of grain, feeding and growing cows, slaughtering them, shipping them, then consuming them.
Middle-Earth: Shadow of War goes wild with the brilliant Nemesis system
My original comment said that courts could interpret law... I'm not sure what you're getting at. Yes, including intention. US courts do it all the time. It's called the Constitution.
Good PMs are good writers
Not only are contracts written in natural language, they are about events in the natural world. The blockchain cannot know whether you delivered 100 bushels of corn to the counterparty, what the quality of the corn was, whether you were responsible for the damage to your car or somebody else, whether the house you built is up to code, or any of the thousands of other conditions that are the subjects of everyday contracts.
This comes down to a tragedy of the commons thing. No data needed. Cars are using a commons (the roads and the air) and causing a tragedy.
To add and subtract, I'd suggest a soroban, the Japanese 4 and 1 bead per row abacus in hand-held size. Those were in wide use until a few decades ago, and can be operated quickly. They're still available on Amazon and Alibaba. Get one where the beads are cone-shaped, not round; those are easier to manipulate. Don't bother with a "reset button"; you can do that with one finger in a second, rattling down the columns.

It's not a very useful skill, but it's not hard to learn. I wouldn't inflict it on kids.

The 5 and 2 bead form is more of a school thing.

I probably still have one, packed away with the slide rule. My HP-11C is on my desk.
That's not necessarily true. I'd wager that most cases where pow(x, 2) is used as a way to square x, the "2" is actually a constant. That's trivially statically optimizable at compile time.
It is no different for .NET Native.
Or a causal connection ;)
The GPL is just incidental to Linux at this point. Linux is a collaboration between dozens of giant corporations many of which actually hate the GPL. The success of the Linux Foundation is in convincing all those companies that the viral nature of the GPL has been neutralized and it is safe to use it in their proprietary products. There is no idealism remaining but Linux is still an amazing achievement that benefits us all.
Surprised no one has mentioned the HIP Pressure Cooking website or book, both fantastic. Their buyers guide is a must if you're new to the cult:

https://www.hippressurecooking.com/pressure-cooker-buying-gu...
Is this any different from hyperthreading on Intel processors?
Embassies are not the land of the foreign country. Embassies are considered sacrosanct from uninvited local LEOs, because if you violate their embassy, you've created a precedent where anyone can violate yours.
I wonder if that's the only one they want, or if they are also going to try to get other relics such the Knife of Exact Zero, the Fleece-Crested Scepter of Que-Teep, or the Orb of Ti-Teleest?
For what it's worth, I'm not sure I've seen much I could objectively call sexism either. Some, but not a lot. Certainly not enough to use words like "systemic."

One explanation for this is that it isn't happening. Another is that it isn't happening in my "spaces" (networks/companies/etc.). But another is that it is, but in ways that I don't see. I don't know how much all my coworkers are paid, and if someone is receiving unwanted advances it would likely be happening where I can't see it. There are other explanations too, maybe I'm used to some sexist behaviors and wouldn't notice if they happened right in front of me. A lot of the tech culture humor I'm aware of, and have participated in, revolves around programmers being men. It took some time and some serious reflection before I realized this was the case, and that it was a problem.

So sure, no one in my office runs around "grabbing women by the ...," or joking with me about it, but that doesn't mean sexism isn't happening. And I respect and trust my female peers enough to take them seriously when they tell me it is.

All that said, there's one piece of data I simply can't square with "sexism isn't a serious problem in tech." Every company I've worked for, every conference or meetup I've attended, most of the blogs I follow and books I've read - vastly more men than women. To the point that it's almost absurd. Here's what gets me about that - I love what I do! Tech is a great field to be working in for a ton of reasons! Objective reasons! On top of that so much of tech lends itself naturally to inclusiveness. What the fk is going on that I can work for years on teams of 90% men?! This doesn't prove sexism in tech, but it's evidence that something is up, right? And the accounts I've heard of women being treated poorly in tech give credence sexism as one possible and reasonable explanation.

Heck, I don't even think I'm arguing with you. Your posts sound reasonable, I get the sense you care, and I'm certainly less familiar with European tech culture than American. BUT it is worth your time to dig into the, "if I don't see it isn't happening" thing because that can be a trap; one I've fallen into myself.
Yep, and this one: "Great stuff man, I wonder how many apps would suffer from problems when trying to access directly Amazon s3, also how many app updates would get pushed just to update plist"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10151755
(disclaimer I have vested interests etc)

I like to present it from the "business process" angle but after you get through the side effects of "protocolizing" things like cash and composable financial instruments, the new things we can do are currently under the umbrella of contract law. One simple example is 2-of-3 multisig for escrows.
Not condescending at all. Incredulous.

That's because the solution is straightforward, the people who built it are smart, had years to do it.

If I can build the basic scalable submission and comment system in one 8 hour day I am sure they can fix it in less than that.

Then you need to iterate of course and get the bugs out. But come on. I am incredulous that HN is buckling under a load of 20 stories with on average 100 comments each. Seriously?
It depends on place to place but sometimes space is limited. I know some places need "off-site" backups that are within walking distance (not really too off site). For companies in NYC or populated areas space is a factor.

Also if a machine was half as power consuming, twice as powerful, but you could only fit one in your entire datacenter, I don't think many would go for it.

Having many systems is a failure tolerance assurance. Being able to increse your power efficiency, processing ability, AND capacity all by switching to a single system that's priced competativly/cheaper to the market standard? That's a wining combo.
Laws are funny, they have a certain duality to them. They can be strict, but also fluid.
If we are talking attitudes, then what's really needed is to care about code you write. I don't think you want terribly many hard and fast rules, but a considered approach to everything. Cleverness is great when appropriate. Things shouldn't be used just because you want to use them, things get used because they enhance the engineering. I think the greatest danger is probably having too many rigid ideas about coding.
I haven't had sex in 28 years.
Nah, they are pragmatic rulers who use religion and war (and religious war) as an extension of politics. Their legitimacy is entirely based on being the custodians of Mecca, so they make sure Mecca remains at the forefront of people's minds. The Wahabi royals are not unlike certain politicians who brand themselves "defenders of traditional family values" and then whip up hysteria about "war on Christmas": they manufacture conflict to strengthen their own legitimacy. Without conflict they become irrelevant, so they'll make sure conflicts never end.

It's such an old game, but it's incredible how well it still works all over the world.
Not only is it baffling to me also, its annoying as well. I came from the UK where I would order a week's shopping and get it delivered Saturday morning. I never had to visit the store and placing an order took maybe 20 minutes.

Now I live in downtown Toronto and I have to walk to the store (no car here) a carry groceries home, which means at best I can purchase a few day's worth of food at a time.

I would so gladly pay a reasonable amount for delivery, and I don't mean these bespoke pick-everything-and-deliver-within-an-hour services - I just want to be able to choose a time, pay maybe $5-$10 and have a week's worth of food delivered. Is that so hard Loblaws?
I would recommend intentionally mismatching your sleep shifts if you have a newborn in the house so you can both get excellent uninterrupted sleep. Worked great for my wife and I. WRT the main topic, the only impact was fun time was no longer immediately before or after sleep.

Something I find fascinating about the pr0n genre is heavily fictionalized fun time is almost any time other than right before or after sleep. But from what I gather of gossip about non-fictional fun time, most "settled down" couples stick exclusively to immediately before or after sleep, which is kinda weird. I can assure you all the parts work fine if you meet up at lunch time or pretty much whatever you're physically together, you don't need permission from a wall clock to have a good time.
Yep, we made our own. I haven't heard of PMML before - quite cool! What we've made is a bit more readable for what we're using it for though, IMO. Looks like this:

{
"intercept": 1.0,

"features": {
"feature_1": {
"coefficient": 1.0,
"range": [0.1, 10.0],
"mean_feature_score": 1.0,
"imputation_value": 1.0
},
{
....
}
}
}
DARN! That's too bad! That would have been really cool. I know that there are a few in-hardware JVM systems that are used in cellphones that could be made use of. That would be cool.
Seems like a keynote that was thrown together last minute. Full of awkwardness and lacking any substance.
Definitely not the only one. I think it depends on what stage your kids are at. Are they old enough to have their own hobbies? Our first arrived recently, I've resigned myself to the fact that working toward any sort of mastery again will elude me until he finds his own obsessions. So about 6 years or so if my childhood is any indicator. But I think having a relationship cuts into that as well. There are times when he's sleeping and we're both trying to work on projects and my wife wants to talk or "needs a hug" or something. At times it's frustrating, then I try and remember what things were like before they came along. Obviously this would all be different if I had means or money and was single at the same time...
A dark forest implies that lots of species advance without destroying themselves. One interpretation of the Great Filter basically states that self-destruction to be an inevitable feature of sufficiently advanced life.

So yes... for the forest to be populated requires the filter to be altered or discarded.
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Ages ago I was working with codes, writing error detection and correction, and also writing programs to find the probability of undetected error for a given code. I wanted to read the literature for myself and write my own code in order to understand what was going on.

I was inspired to find some of the very smart people whose methods and books I used, assuming they were men, were in fact women. Jesse MacWilliams worked at Bell Labs and developed the MacWilliams identity (which made my life easier for computing the properties of a cyclic code.) Vera Pless is another that worked in coding theory and authored some classic texts.

These are some of the women whose works I relied on and who were inspirational during a formative period in my career, where I was trying to level-up and gain deeper insights.
> firing some token dude who's only been there a month

I assume this is in reference to Amit Singhal. I don't think "some token dude" is a good characterization of the Senior Vice President of Engineering, and while that was a good sign it's very much not all Uber is doing.

I work at Uber, and many of us are quite fired up about holding the company to account. While there are definitely things we can critique, it does seem that the situation being taken seriously and we're all hoping (and, with reservations, expecting) that there will be real change.
I'm not sure what other definition there is...
"It's a huge community, there're bound to be lots of camps and lots of people trying to crack the same nut different ways. What's wrong with competition? I personally think it's a fantastic community, and find others lacking by comparison."

Why created the c community a paper for to create a "c" version? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_POSIX_library)

One reason was to establish a good standard for all people that you can run your code everywhere without effort.

Our history showed many times is better to create a standard instead of many non-standards because that creates unnecessary complexity on our world. Look at the pipeline concept of unix. More and more companies steal this concept to build real time web applications without having so much state (that is concept is pretty old). Our ancestors created all of the wonderful things like tree, pipes, functional and etc. We are just sometimes too stupid to reuse it.
1. Averages don't work that way. 2. Congratulations, you might not be as representative sample of the population as you thought!

This is one reason why advocate visualizing the whole distribution into a some kind of graph whenever possible.

I have institutional access, and unfortunately, the paper does not describe this distribution. Fortunately, GSS data is publicly available: http://www.gss.norc.org/

edit. Outside the year 2012, when the questionnaire logic was slightly different, the mode of the distribution of 6 available categories ranging from "not at all" to "more than 3 times a week", has been almost always been "not at all". (With second peak around "2 or 3 times a week".)
Last status that I heard on the lawsuit is that it was dismissed so there is no ongoing lawsuit to settle unless there have been any changes recently.
Polymer 2.0 Release Candidate
Exploring Tree Shaking in Webpack
Show HN: A Shared Hard Drive Backup Process with PowerShell Email Notification
A sovereign wealth fund already faces this problem as 3.5 billion is peanuts (aka under 1%) to them. Now if they could get a 10x return in one year that would be something, but a tiny odds for a 10x return in a decade is not worth the significant risks involved in such a terrible investment.
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>> - Extremely weak type system

> Compared to what? It's a dynamic language.

But it's worse than just being a dynamic language. The biggest problem is the implicit type conversions. If it would at least throw runtime errors when there is a type mismatch, instead of silently converting to another type, it would help a lot.
I'd say I'm in this situation. I can have any material thing I want/need and plenty to occupy me in my free time. My wife is still studying (and I'm paying for it) and is pursuing a career that I'm happy with but generally doesn't make much money.

She offers me quite a lot though. She's the only person I'm always happy to be around, I can trust her with any problems I have, we can make life plans together, she shows me things I'd otherwise not have seen as well as other ways to look at things I have seen, she thinks in a very different way to me so can come up with solutions I wouldn't have. The biggest thing is that she's someone I'm sharing my life with. Just like going to a movie, eating or playing a game is better with people around you, so is life.

This is what someone has to offer to someone who has "everything".

I'll add that we're both in our 20s and many of our friends seem to be similarly happy with their partners.
Not enlightening, but also safe and soundly supported by evidence. The unsupported theories popping up in the comments section here would make any clickbait science journalism site happy.
Or just sell the emails to unsavory people.

They were sent to you, you have a right to sell them (so long as you're in a one-party-consent state when it comes to recording). You're up to snuff law-wise.

Definetly a shady thing to do.
I've set up a business that pays me £1 every time this question comes up on HN. it's made me a absolute fortune!
Each time Google looks into POWER, it seems to be when it's time to renegotiate with Intel. This is a tried and true tactic for better Intel pricing at this point. I was even talking about it (and got somewhat of a corroboration) a few days ago[1].

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13786170
(ML engineer from Dropbox here)

For deep learning oriented projects, we train on EC2 GPU instances, generally p2.xlarge instances these days to get the Nvidia K80 GPUs. We can spin up many of these in parallel if we are doing model architecture searches or hyperparameter exploration.

We have an in-house data turking setup where we can efficiently roll new UIs to get ground-truth data for given problems, generally in the thousands to tens of thousands of real data. We also use data augmentation where possible, synthetically generating millions of example data points, combining it with the real turked data for fine tuning. Note that we never look at or train with real user data, unless explicitly donated, so data efficiency is important to us.

We've standardized on TensorFlow these days, doing inference on CPUs currently on Dropbox's compute infrastructure. We have a jail setup based off of LXC and Provost that allows us to safely execute these trained models in a contained way, responding to user requests as they come in. We use standard distributed systems plumbing for RPCs, queues, etc. to respond to user requests and route them to trained models. We version our trained models, and have an in-house experiments framework that we use to deploy new models and test them against subsets of user traffic to see how they are doing as we ramp up a new model.

Most of our day-to-day work is in Python, with occasional use of C++; other parts of Dropbox sometimes use Go and Rust, though we haven't had need for that on the ML team. Note that Dropbox is one of the largest users of Python in the world (Guido van Rossum actually works here).

BTW, the Machine Learning team at Dropbox is hiring. Come join us! Details: https://www.dropbox.com/jobs/listing/533100
Sex crime in Sweden is reported at higher rates than the rest of the world. This is believed to be caused by the fact that it's easy to provide evidence that will lead to conviction and trials are dealt with swiftly.

The reason I bring this up is because if Women know it's normal and accepted to point out their oppressors and that justice will be had, then they will be more likely to report them and the world becomes a better place.

I fight for equality, my fight is no less valid than yours just because I have a penis, but I told you about the refugees already- I don't want women to be in tech if they're not integrated. We _all_ deserve to be integrated.
Raygun increases throughput by 2,000 percent (over Node.js) with .NET Core
OCCT C++ class library for sophisticated domain-specific CAD/CAM/CAE application
>not going to be good at developing their own ordering/delivery service

How hard is this? Online ordering and grocery delivery is an existing thing and was before Instacart.

>It's similar to why self-checkout still doesn't work well at many stores

Self-checkout is a pain in the butt for things like produce. When you do a large grocery shopping, it is much easier and more efficient to have a clerk quickly scan everything (and there's usually a bagger too).

There are some experiments with shoppers self-scanning as they shop. Maybe something like that can still eventually work and you deal with produce somehow. (And figure out ways to minimize losses.)
Show HN: Folio Fx – Easy to implement effects for your portfolio site
http://foliofx.com

Let me preface this by saying I am a still relatively new to coding. I attended a 3 month coding bootcamp and made this little site for my friends and I. This website is mainly targeted for people who are new to coding as well or just looking around.

During bootcamp, one of the things they push is having a nice portfolio site. You want to be able to show what you got and display it in a nice fashion.

After I graduated (in December) and took some time off, I went back to my poorly made portfolio and looked for ways to make it look nicer. I had a hard time finding simple to use effects to implement without getting lost in a bunch of text.

So I decided to create my own site that showcases the effect so you know what you get from it. I showed it to my friends and they liked it, so I decided to show you guys as well!

I know the site is probably coded poorly so... if you would like, you can make pull requests on the github and fix things up!

https://github.com/iSyn/folio-fx

I would love to hear some more feedback on what I can do to make this site better.

Thank you!
World's Greatest Healthcare Plan of 2017
That's quite spin-doctory. You may as well say that food is centralised because you have to be in the central location of whatever food it is you're consuming, regardless of the fact that literally billions of different people prepare food every day, in every inhabited place on earth.
It's awesome, but I can't really see any application beside content filtering and supericial content classification.
Really good advice.

I especially resonate with the whole SEO traffic for building websites. I had a niche website a few years ago that made around $40 a month passively without touching it for a year.

It can be a good source of income and not a ton of work involved if you're able to outsource the content generation.