skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely part of the problem is that these sorts of stories only exist on fake news/ult-right sites, so that's the only information point that Google has?
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I'm sorry I re-read GP and I'm still unclear what you're talking about. For as long as I've been using Apple it has always been because of the superior experience. Its with regret I have to say I am let down by (in particular) their software quality recently. I've gotten to the point where I'm fairly certain my next phone won't be an iPhone. I can't ... understand your line of reasoning .. that as an Apple user that means I should have some loyalty to them if what they're selling me doesn't fulfil my needs. I'm really interested in knowing where you're coming from but your snarky tone is making that difficult.
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Svchost.exe is a bonkers bit of design that goes against the simple, basic separation of concerns that OS-level processes provide by running multiple "services" as DLLs loaded into one process. This makes it extremely hard to pinpoint which service is faulty.

Apparently the magic runes are

sc config wuauserv type= own
I'm not sure what to make of your comment. It it some new clothes of middle ground fallacy? Should I give equal consideration to every opinion, no matter how outlandish? Do I have to read from Moon hoax people just because I watched a SpaceX launch or flatearthers since I clicked on NatGeo piece last week?
Have you ever used BeOS or Haiku?
90% of the speed in Haiku is placebo, because it exactly has zero "effects".

Of course it is also a very cleanly designed system and it takes advantage of the parallelism today's processors give us.
If you work for a little while is Haiku, you will find everything else intolerable and slow.
I'm pleasantly surprised how Facebook openly admits that this project is a complete failure. I hear almost daily whitewashed NLP results from other companies.
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I think one of the reasons why C became popular in industry and Lisp didn't, is because Lisp is harder to translate into efficient machine code. C was closer to how the hardware works. In the earlier days, specialized hardware was built to run Lisp code: Lisp Machines. When computers were sufficiently fast enough, the specialized hardware was no longer necessary.

The software industry could have been vastly different, if Lisp took off instead of C, which I think had more to do with business, culture, & politics than the technology itself.
In addition to the other comments, some digital displays can only run at a fixed rate, and any input faster or slower than that rate gets juddery. I had an old DLP projector once (sadly, stolen) that had to be run at exactly 61.67Hz to match the color wheel speed.
The XB1 has only 768 GCN cores (12 compute units of 64 cores, versus 18 for the PS4), but both CPU and GPU cores are clocked slightly higher than the PS4 (1.75GHz v 1.6 for the CPU, 853MHz v 800 for the GPU).

The PS4P increases everything except the CPU cores count: CPU clock to 2.1GHz, compute units to 36 (hence 2304 cores) and GCN frequency to 911MHz.
Do you drink much? Anecdotally my friends seem way thinner shape once they cut out beer, maybe even alcohol entirely.
We've long thought of weight loss in simple "calories in, calories out" terms...Today, researchers view this rule as overly simplistic. They now think of human energy balance as "a dynamic and adaptable system,"
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As a person that have lost over 40kg's in the past I'd say this is a very true point.

I converted from an obese man to a gym body person.

The process was long and took a lot of discipline. After years keeping it I'd say the thing I've learned from it is that your diet is around 70% of the effort you have to put in.

A lot of people think that lets say bodybuilders are just a product of drugs "oh ye if I take steroids I'll become like him" ... No. Thats definitely not true. While I don't condone the use of any enhancement, I have to admit that being a bodybuilder is a lot more tougher than you think and it requires a lot more discipline on your schedule than you'd think. So yes cut down food and yes exercise a bit... dont just stay inactive, even walking helps ( You'll find out later that the more active you remain by walking etc the easier its going to be when you are older ).
So you have an economic incentive not to make it too usable?

(This isn't an entirely serious complaint, but usability does tend to be an issue in Free software, and as you say consumers have no interest in paying for anything)
HN community should add an internet rule:

xx) If it's online, it will get nuked.
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Is that really inherently different, or just a more complex manifestation of the same basic principles?

I.e. Atoms repel each other because of their magnetic fields, and depending on their polarity and spin in the aggregate they can produce bigger and more complex magnetic fields, such as the ones analyzed by magnetohydrodynamics.
The death of Magnitsky, has nothing to do with ideology, rather he exposed the kind of thievery and corruption that all ideological positions refute.
If it's so useful for "truly" understanding it, why do I have to show so many CS educated juniors how to use recursion? Have to point out to them to use it instead of doing crazy nested loops or other stupid solutions to a problem simply solved using recursion?

Given that I obviously don't "truly" understand it, having never done a CS degree.

I'd posit that most CS students don't truly understand recursion, they just vaguely know the theoretical basis behind a practical skill they have no experience in.
Because prepending that doesn't solve the problem Google wants to solve: once Google figures out that you typed in a question, they want to give you the answer to your question. Not tell you what other people think the answer is. (I agree that it is broken in a lot of cases now, but prepending that is a very bad workaround).
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Given the fact that climate change is the big deal, how much energy did it take to actually build such a house versus the energy needed by a regular brick & mortar & human workers house ?
That's exactly what page rank was about to begin with.

However...

1. Various 'credible' news sources also link to dodgy sites and articles, either when criticising it, posting a story said sites first ran or simply because they've fallen for 'fake news'.

2. A lot of trust signals are easily gamed, like .edu links going for a fortune on SEO forums.

3. At some point, quantity will probably win out over quality.
The key is how much exercise. Jog a mile and that's around 100 kcal. Now, go to a corner store and look at every single snack on the shelves.

Can you find one that is less than 100 kcal?

How many can you find that are over 500 kcal? That's 5 miles. In my corner store I can find lots of snacks that are up in the 800 kcal range (it's a meal!!!). 8 miles. Of jogging.

One of the things that drives me crazy is that if you go on the internet and find calorie calculators for exercise, they are often wrong by a fairly high margin. You'll see sites that tell you that you'll burn 1200 kcal from an hour of cycling. Well... if you are riding 45 kph, then yeah...

It's pretty easy to lose weight from exercise if you do it regularly and don't increase your diet. If you burn 500 kcal a day (jogging 5 miles or 8 km -- every day!), then you'll burn a pound a week. But that muffin you eat as a reward? Or that power bar you enjoy on your 20 km cycle route. Yeah... Sorry, you're back to zero.

And that's the problem. It takes real effort to burn a pound a week and it takes absolutely no effort to eat a pound a week. So you definitely should exercise, but you must watch your diet at the same time. Some people are good because they don't increase their diet at the same time as the exercise. But most people need to pay attention.
Yes. It is a highly polticized term in American poltics.
Perhaps we need a meta tag for "citations" in news articles. That would give the bots a way to determine how "factual" a news piece is (vs an editorial), but would probably just end up getting gamed like every other meta tag.

And then there's the problem that CNN would be "fake news" because you can't exactly provide a citation for "anonymous high ranking intelligence community officials." But then... maybe that's a good thing.
False premise - a phone call should never be allowed to interrupt a real conversation.
Actually google has become ( for me, at least) lately some kind of proxy to stackoverflow and wikipedia, since both this two services have atrocious own search solutions and I have to rely on google to get interpret my keywords the right way.
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I used this book for my course at the University of Virginia last semester, https://uvacs2102.github.io/.

The book is terrific, and wonderful that it is available under a CC license. Most students found it accessible. We covered about Chapters 1-8 (and some things not in the book). (This is only the first part of the book, so a much slower pace than the MIT course. Some of this is to have more time for additional background and to go in depth in things, but also that our courses are scheduled with about 2/3 the amount of time per class as an MIT course is.
In most compilers today, the front-end generates an AST, from which an(other) intermediate representation (IR, named Thorin in AnyDSL[1]) is generated. On that IR, the "middle-end" already optimizes a lot and the back-end finally generates whatever output formats the compiler targets (for AnyDSL: LLVM, CUDA/NVVM, OpenCL).

> * In AnyDSL, the front end takes the code and compiles it into, well, the same language, only with decreasing levels of abstraction from the hardware.

The AnyDSL language (Impala) compiler works exactly like my compiler description above. However, the levels of abstraction you refer to here, are all written in the same "top level" language (a "host" language in DSL literature terms) and are basically just libraries on top of each other. The @ on the iterate call partially evaluates the call (aggressive inlining and specialization) at compile time on the Thorin IR. This feature allows the compiler to remove the layers of abstraction again and bake the code together, like you say.

> But yes, it still feels fundamentally like a compiler. Only a compiler where you can't just link in existing C-based libraries, because then it wouldn't be able to do its magic. So you therefore need to reinvent all the wheels?

Yes, it is a compiler - but you don't need to write one for your DSL (unless you really need other syntax). You're correct with regard to external libraries: If you need to remove the abstraction overhead (e.g. function calls) of your external library for performance reasons you'd need to re-implement that in AnyDSL. However, that holds true for any DSL framework and compiler, unless you compile everything to (C) binaries and do partial evaluation at link time. But at that point you've already lost a lot of information that a compiler can usefully exploit to generate better code: more abstract types, higher-order functions, scheduling info, alias info, etc..

[1] See the paper: http://compilers.cs.uni-saarland.de/papers/lkh15_cgo.pdf
Thanks, sticking with BinaryLane then...
I think this is one of those cases where the inverse Hanlon's Razor applies:

"Avoid attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice"
Yeah, not sure what the revenue stream is. Why do they care?
Anyway,tor is always two clicks away and is fine here, so whatever!
Surely you don't mean never.
Features

- convert to IEC/SI standard data storage units

- show the address in bytes

- show address as LBA:OFFSET

- convert CHS to LBA and vice versa

- show binary, decimal and hex representation of a number

- custom sector size, max heads/cylinder and max sectors/track

- minimal dependencies

Demo: https://asciinema.org/a/96309
Time is not exactly a friend. After 30 parent might have the opposite problem...
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What: Node server asking 100 clients to update once per second via websocket on a localhost loop.

Context: Server maintaining state for remote clients, clients issuing operations to alter state (some kind of remote game loop).

Mechanics:

1. Server broadcasts update
2. Every client (100 clients) queries state on server via emit api
3. Server handles api requests and answers clients with api response (dummy data)
4. Client processes state, generates a state update operation, and emits update to the server (dummy operation)
5. Server aggregates operation to state (dummy operation)

Why so slow ? I was kind of expecting the connections to be handled in a parallel fashion, but it seems they're in fact processed sequentially by node. Could that be properly parallelized somehow ?
It's interesting how we have traded off some aspects of display quality in favour of overall unit size and practicality.
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The problem of being distracted when coding was greatly reduced for me when we moved to Git from more ancient version control tools. With faster/easier committing and history browsing, I can now make smaller and more logically divided commits, and thus need to keep less context in my head at every single moment.
Not to mention 40!

I must say that the bends in the graph is very noticeable.
Interesting point about right-aligning numeric data. I've been making data tables for a living for a decade, and never actually considered the reasoning behind it.
I work from 8 to 17 every day. I only take one 5-minute break in the entire day.

The trick is the ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting. You will save 30-60 minutes every day by not eating lunch, and your energy levels will remain stable all day long. You will also be healthier and perhaps save money (I save $2,500/year by not buying lunch).
The complication is that long term weight loss is functionally a behavioral challenge, and getting human beings to make long term behavioral change is not easy. Sure, maintain calorie balance or deficit and you'll be fine, but it's exceedingly rare that someone will track calories for their entire life. So we're left with either retraining their ability to intuit what they should be eating on a daily basis, and/or eating the types of foods that tend to make this job easier. That's where you start to end up with all the varied advice—it's an attempt to overcome behavior. If everyone had a perfect willpower, obesity would be an easy solve.
I'm embarrassed to say I hadn't heard of him before now. Reading his Bio he does seem like something of a heavyweight!

I have some sympathy for our friend's point of view here, even if it is orthogonal to what I was saying. Particularly more recent developments but I have no time for this kind of snarky, pugnacious sniping.

I would suggest that Apple's real strength (or should I say Steve Jobs') was "Product Development" which yes includes a large component of marketing and I really don't see that as a bad thing. It's not like what was being marketed was a substandard product? People paid a premium and got a premium device.

That you don't get the same quality any more is no reason to decry the brand itself as only being good at marketing. Their devices are even today physically manufactured to the highest standards, but historically they have developed superbly engineered products. Yes this cannot be credited to Jobs, but he did identify and harness the talent.

This topic isn't black and white and perhaps there are many shortcomings to Apple, and to Jobs, but this kind of single-line snark does nobody any justice, in particular the commenter himself.
Why would you ignore relativistic effects?

Try entering the numbers here:
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Hacking reality. Magic. Genius.

No wonder why they are $100B company.
>But if you can force yourself to run a marathon every other day, you'd very likely also be able to stick to a healthy diet.

And you'd also have huge damage to your bones, feet and possibly heart.
Nice paper from 2008 here exploring how to make specific patterns : http://graphics.csie.ncku.edu.tw/SAI/
It's the idea you need a caloric deficit of 3,500 kcal in order to lose 1lb of fat that they're describing as 'overly simplistic', based on this study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4035446/

At the end of the day, weight loss is still calories in, calories out -- as frustrating as that can be.
Definitely one of my favourite films due to its multilayered approach. I also like the idea of these 20's gangsters growing old

I remember reading a theory that the main storyline in doesnt actually happen, and it is just an opium induced haze of de niro's character
Um, I think there's a difference between "hey we keep running out of coffee... we need a better coffee system" and "I think we have an abusive work environment."
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I think the first artistically ambitious TV show I remember coming out of the US was 'Twin Peaks'.

I've watched GBH a few times since it aired and I think it still holds up. Certainly give it a go if you get the chance. The original UK TV version of 'Edge of Darkness' is also still very, very watchable. Some remarkable scenes and performances.
It's already done everywhere in Europe. Here is a typical example. http://www.scotframe.co.uk/MainlandUK/Val-U-Therm/Val-U-Ther....

No-one is willing to pay architects/engineers to design houses like airliners which have all the cables and pipes routed in CAD before hand, the margins in the industry are too low to take the time to do this. Sometimes if there is a tricky area where I am concerned that the parts won't fit I will do a reference design to be sure that I have enough space, but contractors almost never build it the way we have drawn it anyway because we haven't specified the systems which they prefer because of the kickbacks from existing relationships with their suppliers. There is nothing more annoying than doing a load of work for free which you know is pointless.

I have worked on everything from individual houses to airports and even with large buildings the contractor's engineers often completely redesign the systems that have been designed by the client's engineers.

Edit: another example. http://www.dan-wood.co.uk
> I've always wondered whether they can hand-code their own MapReduce syntax over Google's actual Web index

Indexes, and yes, in a few ways. Some even have nice frontends. You actually have access to one of those.
In AnyDSL, Impala is a host language for shallow-embedded DSLs. No parser generators/grammar required/needed as that is not the point.

From the last paragraph of the overview section: "The DSL developer just reuses Impala's infrastructure (lexer, parser, semantic analysis, and code generator). He does not need to develop his own front-end."

We should probably emphasise that and restructure the introduction text.
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This really does seem like a big problem. What are some sites that do site search well? Is there currently a good way to implement something even half as good as Google locally without a major lift?
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Main module ./index.js:

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console.log( myModule.count() ); // 1

module.constructor.invalidateByExports(myModule);

console.log( myModule.count() ); // 0
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>We have very little control over our basal metabolic rate, but it's our biggest energy hog. "It's generally accepted that for most people, the basal metabolic rate accounts for 60 to 80 percent of total energy expenditure," Kravitz said.

This is hardly a new discovery. The article tries to present the well known fact that weight is mostly related to calories in vs calories out as something that could actually useful in some way but then fails to come up with any helpful advice.

Sure, exercise is not all that for weight loss, but what else is there? You have to exercise anyway for health so it isn't like exercise is a variable in anyone's lives. If exercise doesn't make me skinny then why should I care?

After working out all summer I have a significantly more muscle and a significantly less body fat. For all I know I might actually be heavier at the end of the summer. I don't really know because I don't pay any real attention to my weight. I think it is an overrated metric.
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Once you can compile a julia app- front end, back and probabilistic prog/ML to web assembly and have it run in browser and mobile, it will skyrocket in popularity.
That was a byproduct of economically useful work though. If you can think of economically useful work that this project could generate, on an ongoing basis while it's in progress, that's greater than it's ongoing costs that would be great.
Technology is an "elite profession", if you want to look at it that way. It's the nouveau riche to finance and law's old money.

You're not wrong that many in tech don't worry about status or power or politics, whatever you choose to call the great messy interplay of self-interested humans nominally assembled toward a common goal. Those who don't are vulnerable to exploitation by those who do, and frequently find themselves hosed in extremely consequential ways as a result. Is that healthy?
Really? Yet it seems that the "standard" CS101 interview is still pretty much the same. Unless you're talking strictly about credentialing for a specific language or framework which I would agree would be stupid. Also, as with other professions we can frequently update the credential to ensure it stays relevant. The IEEE has already created a software body of knowledge. There are fundamentals every software engineer should know that aren't the latest JavaScript framework.
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Multiple origins?
So the unpleasantness and stress he deals with as part of a good-faith and unpaid effort to provide something of value to the wider community is perfectly fine because a decade ago his current employer caused problems for other open source developers? He's getting bad karma because of something other people did?

I'm struggling to comprehend the thinking that makes such sentiments seem remotely reasonable or rational.
Strange. Would imagine that's something that could be obtained from the wikidata api or a similar resource. Is it usually to high or low? I regularly use those info boxes for quick calories information.
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I'll just take the bit with the highest inaccuracy density:

IOS is a completely closed box whereas AOSP is completely open. You can argue for or against security by obscurity v/s security in open software, but at the very least it needs a mention in any fair comparison.

This gets addressed by people working in security on every single HN thread, including this one. Assessments of the security of iOS are not dependent on its 'openness'. There is also nobody seriously arguing 'security by obscurity' vs 'open software'. That's not what 'security by obscurity' means nor does the security of iOS depend on 'obscurity'. None of this needs a mention in a 'fair comparison' because it's simply wrong.
The argument is weak. Basically : just choose the status you're happy with and you'll be king. Except that you don't choose your status, you earn it. Except that society won't reward your own personal little status. Etc.