skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My facebook feed has officially jumped the shark as of the last 6-12 months. I blame the 2016 election and Facebook IPO. At this point almost every single article in my feed is an advertisement (some overt, some not). The few posts that are actually from my friends are politically charged links they share. It seems that 80% of people do not share content on Facebook, but the 20% of people who do, share it multiple times per day. Even though I have ~1500 friends on Facebook (all personally known over the past 10 years), I see posts from the same ~25 people, most of whom I hardly ever interact with, every single day.

The only time I browse my FB newsfeed is on my phone when I've run out of any other interesting content online. I never browse it on my desktop. I do use FB messenger quite frequently.

I like Instagram and Snapchat because they are what Facebook used to be: real content created by and shared by your friends. Not links to bullshit articles. Not advertisements. Just content that your friends created for you to watch.
It's a shame you got heavily downvoted, because in England the newspapers really are this fucking awful.

The guardian, telegraph, independent, and times are sort of exceptions. The FT is a definite exception.

Two UK newspapers were highlighted by the EU for providing such inaccurate coverage of migration they were likely leading to hate crime.

Just one example: Here's what Statins do, according to the front page of one newspaper. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6GuXQhWUAAN5F5.jpg

It's an incoherent mess of terrible science reporting blasted across the front page.

PROOF STATINS SAVE MILLIONS

STATINS IN NEW HEALTH ALERT

STATINS REALLY DO SAVE YOUR LIFE

HEALTH CHIEF SLAMS STATINS

HIGH DOSE OF STATINS CAN BEAT DEMENTIA

DOCTORS BAN ON STATINS

TAKE STATINS TO SAVE YOUR LIFE

NEW STATINS BOMBSHELL

OFFICIAL: STATINS ARE SAFE

STATINS: NEW SAFETY CHECKS

PROOF STATINS BEAT DEMENTIA

HOW STATINS CAN CAUSE DIABETES

STATINS FIGHT CANCER

STATINS SLASH RISK OF STROKE BY 30%

STATINS INCREASE RISK OF DIABETES

STATINS ADD A MERE 3 DAYS TO LIFE

STATINS DOUBLE RISK OF DIABETES

STATINS AGE YOU FASTER

NEW STATINS SAFETY ALERT

STATINS LINKED TO 227 DEATHS

PROOF AT LAST STATINS ARE SAFE
"Compiler as a Service"

I think that says enough about this project unfortunately. Why would I want to compile aanything, specifically JavaScript, "in the cloud"?!

Also, "Tail recursion optimisation as a service"?
I came here to leave this comment and found you. Thanks.

This is not a benchmark on any regard. I thought we were past the stage of optimizing to specific microbenchmarks and then showcasing those.

If you're not going to show me real performance, at least show me Octane https://chromium.github.io/octane/ or something similar.

Finbonacci is utterly meaningless. Here, my language does Fibonacci(45) in 0.001 seconds, it compiles any output to the python code `print 1134903170`.
I'd see more applications on the evaluation than on the training side but even in training there might be a few situations where it could pay off, you'd still be stuck with a huge communications issue to solve.
Oh please, no. Please don't "improve" work life balance by making work more "fun" a la Google. I don't want to have "fun" at work, I want to have plenty of time off work to be with my family.
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gcc already optimises away loops like for (i = 0; i < n; i++) s += i;

It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to detect and optimise away code that computes linearly recurrent sequences.
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The internet is a medium of communication like air and should not be subject to advertiser brand management. Advertising really shouldnt even be the primary method of financing; it should all be paid for with some sort of tax.
Indeed, I've taken a 100% electric bus (route 507) and it was very good. No rumbling, polluting diesel engine.
How are they going to decide the portion of the money that goes to each writer?

If it's based on portion of page views, we're back to encouraging clickbait--but now we're paying for it!

I'd pay the $5/month if they could convince me they've solved this problem. But to me it sounds like they'll have some "staff curation"--which other commenters have pointed out is questionable--and otherwise just be hoping the non-advertiser revenue magically changes things.

I'm not convinced this will work.
While it's not my day-to-day job, I've been an occasional contributor to llvm and clang for almost a decade (though most of my more significant contributions have been in the form of behind-the-scenes conversations with folks who are more regular contributors).
People don't want to do requirement engineering for their FOSS project, of course - that's the boring part.

To actually provide value the requirement world should offer a higher abstraction level - say, map requirements on "business objects" that are already implemented and configurable, and build software out of those. Workflow descriptions, relations between entities should result in actual code.

Otherwise, you know why doing agile sounds attractive to many developers.

Otherwise
That comparison doesn't make sense. He states $6k gross salary, which means you need to start with $6k, not $8k, before adding on the employer contribution/payroll tax.
In my opinion, the Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin, focusing on divisive social issues and not on actually helping the country. What I would truly like is voter reform allowing for more than a two-party system. I feel that the current system leads naturally to corruption and favoring corporate needs.
> As yearly production escalates, even small increases to the "conversion efficiency"/"production cost" can yield high total returns on the investment.

It won't matter. Investment is hardly ever looked at in terms of total returns but only in terms of annual ROI as a percentage of the original outlay.
A Quick Look at Support Vector Machines
Cyclow: a new reactive front end framework for JavaScript
Interesting idea. Is YouTube any less of public good then a library?
So, it's just caching the return values of the method calls? I thought applying dynamic programming to fibonacci numbers was algo 101?

And what is -O7 level? Or, better, O7 lvl? :) Dynamic version of 45th fibonacci number (see http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/program-for-nth-fibonacci-numbe...) has the following runtime:

ᐅ gcc -O2 fib.c -o fib && time ./fib
1134903170
./fib 0.00s user 0.00s system 49% cpu 0.005 total
Turning the recursive formulation of the Fibonacci function into an iterative loop is not easy for a compiler (unless you just program that specific pattern into it).

However, this "benchmark" is totally dominated by function call overhead, and it's quite conceivable that you can engineer your compiler to optimise for that case at the expense of others. You could do it quickly enough by unrolling the recursion a few times. This can cause the code to balloon in size in the general case, but not for this simple case.

It's also not particularly impressive to optimise a Javascript program that does not exhibit any complex behaviour. Again, you can just write a compiler that detects whether the Javascript program is straightforward, and if so, turns it into C or whatnot. Without being able to see what the compiler is doing, there is no way to know.

Also, "Compiler as a Service" may be a good idea for some cases (like farming an aggressively optimising but very slow compiler off to the cloud), but as the default case? No way.
A compiler is software that IMHO really should not be SAAS. I don't want to pay monthly for everything in my life. Honestly, I want to pay a monthly fee for as little as possible. The worst part of it all is what happens if you go out of business and I've build an entire product with "NectarJS"? Can't I even compile the code then?

NodeJS already is fast, and if one really needs something faster maybe use something else than javascript?
How is it that IoT devices are compromised? I'd figure that most would be sitting in an environment where there are no incoming connections allowed without some amount of user action. Which means either the network is already compromised, or something more complex is going on?
Are you sure the numbers for the UK include national insurance contributions? Between employee contributions (which are basically an income tax with a weird regressive structure) and employer contributions (similar to US payroll tax) i would expect that figure to be higher.

Nb income based taxes are only the start anyway property tax aka Council tax is quite a burden on lower income households in the UK.
>For video, people don't download it and take it with them

If this is so, why would Netflix have JUST added the download feature last quarter? Obviously there's some demand for storage-based playback.
Yeah, it's hardly a benchmark. The information what kind of CPU they are using is also missing (why no -march=native?).

Despite how unbelievable it looks, I would love to see contents of the final binary to see what is really happening there. gcc code looks quite alright in this case: https://godbolt.org/g/R6iBup
One-third of Americans say they’d have trouble coming up with an emergency $2,00
> Visiting a foreign country is regarded as an essential rite of passage in many parts of the world. Being surrounded by people who speak a different language, use a different currency and have a different culture provides a very valuable life experience. Your understanding of "normal" can shift very quickly when you get to experience being a foreigner.

True but America is a wide enough place that you can have most of that without leaving the continental USA.

Growing up in Podunk, USA makes people from Big City, USA feel like foreigners (and vice versa). I'm not saying don't go outside the USA (quite the contrary!) but there's quite a bit you can do and see here without a passport.

> I can't help but think that passport ownership is one of the fundamental cultural divides in the US. It's difficult to understand the value of travelling abroad if you've never experienced it and don't know many people who have.

Very true and I don't know anyone that's traveled extensively that doesn't comment on it being a positive experience in hindsight (aside from business travelers complaining about going back to the same places they don't particular like month after month).
Inflation adjustment doesn't take into account costs that are prevalent in an era but totally absent in another: like internet access, cellphone bills, and such.

I'm glad you've agreed with me that life has done nothing but get better. We're all winners, whereas by modern standards our parents were all losers.

As for the other things you bring up, basically none of the facts fit your story.

Homeownership has ranged from 64% to 69% since the 60's, but houses are twice as big.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home-ownership_in_the_United_S...

http://www.realtor.org/RMODaily.nsf/pages/News2007032701?Ope...

Apparently there's no difficulty owning a home.

College enrollments (as a % of new graduates) has done nothing but climb.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/2010/ted_20100428.png

Note how: "after adjusting for inflation, today’s average hourly wage

That's because we get more non-wage benefits and fewer dollars per hour. Real compensation per hour has done nothing but rise.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/COMPRNFB

Why not google these facts before making nonsensical arguments?
I have always felt that was the case on FB and have been very keen to include the reporter/author, in the post, in addition to the URL and the full copy (partly because some maybe behind "censorship walls") I even try a "special" cross posting to (reddit url of a story post, to get people to see the conversation in the comments.
Vault7 upside for the electronics industry
If you look at that space, the OrangePi Zero and others all run Linux, not *BSD. Nintendo & Sony have both chosen to go and build on BSD for their high end consoles so they can have tight control and give nothing back, but the NES Classic runs Linux as porting BSD doesn't make sense.
Apple imagines turning an iPhone or iPad into a touchscreen MacBook
gcc removes recursion in that case: https://godbolt.org/g/R6iBup
Electric TX5 black cabs start rolling off the production line
I've been using mostly javascript (node + browser-side) professionally and I really enjoy Rust.

Learning it was a really cool experience because it made me discover a lot of low-level things I wasn't aware of, and ah the same time it was much easier to grasp than C for instance, where you have the same memory issues but they aren't caught at compile-time with a nice compiler error.
This is the current version of that chart: https://www.nrel.gov/pv/assets/images/efficiency-chart.png

This cell is the blue dot "Kaneka".

Multijunction cells are very expensive to make. The reason the multijunction cells in that chart all have concentrators is that without them, the cost is ridiculously too much to even consider.

This particular cell is noteworthy because it is cheap enough that you can eschew the added cost and complexity of the concentrator and just use more cells and potentially still be cheaper.
Not a connoisseur by any means but a drinker of expressos.

Where I can I drink Nespresso, meaning I have machines at home, at work, in summer homes usually, etc. Many hotels also have a Nespresso machine in the room nowadays.

In rental homes, and esp. when you go skiing and the apartments you find yourself in are very small, there sometimes isn't any Nespresso machine. There I usually buy the likes of these:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0052OOLZY

and while it's nowhere near "good", it's "good enough" to get one started in the morning.

So, what's the market for Sudden? Apparently it's only available via subscription, so the casual user isn't included. Are you claiming to be better than Nespresso? That would be interesting -- hard to believe at first, but exciting if true.
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Using Pseudo-URIs with Microservices
I say it depends on from which perspective. If the number of changes going into one of the BDS OS is much less than the Linux's, it is possible there are fewer security vulnerabilities. But if you look at this from the other spectrum, it could mean fewer people are looking at it. Seriously, I don't think there is any fair comparison. Even if you compare the number of CVE, is there an absolute correlation between number of commits and number of security patches released? Perhaps, perhaps not. But many of the tools we are familiar with (e.g. OpenSSH itself being the classic one) did come from OpenBSD after forking from the original implementation, and perhaps is quite strong from the code quality. I never study the code, but from what I hear people generally praise the code quality as well as the attention to the overall architecture of OpenSSH. Someone from OS security should chime in.

[1]: https://www.openssh.com/security.html
Is that still true if you take African Americans out of the equation, I am genuinely curious?
drewm1980 is not totally incorrect, though. I don't believe that people began using batch gradient descent because they knew a priori that it had decent properties. I would venture to guess that, initially, people were constrained my memory and computational tractability and only observed after-the-fact that SGD actually worked and in fact, often worked nicer than non-stochastic descent.

I'm not sure really at what point SGD was linked to stochastic approximation, and theoretical explanation of convergence behavior was really pinned down. It feels recent (see work by Leon Bottou, in particular), but I'm certainly no expert in this area.

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Hang on. The LGBT stuff was about "restricted mode", not ads. Parents use this mode to reduce the risk of their children watching minecraft videos full of swearing. YT users flag content, and YT uses those flags as part of the filter mechanism. Flags, obviously, can be used by people who think LGBT content is not suitable for children.
Context is difficult but maybe if you can't establish an easy context, you don't run ads from major buyers.

Another option is separating classes of customers into major buyers like AT&T and everyone else -- AT&T's ads only go onto curated and high reputation channels.

AT&T and other advertisers frankly seem to have not understood the risk of a site which plays their ads on videos that anyone in the world can upload. Or, they have tolerated or controlled the risk up until now and ads + terrorist videos have become a big enough news story that Google has been made into the fall guy.
Maybe they've never heard of the Community vs. Enterprise licensing schemes before.

Also, I find it amusing that they think compilation is an attractive feature to people on RasPis and smartphones, when those devices can already just directly run JS. If this worked (which I'm still not convinced of), it would really only be of use to high-performance server writers.

edit: also, iirc, Haskell can reduce out a fibonacci sequence if you pass it a constant
Why do they want less immigration though? Is it because they believe that all the jobs were given away to other countries, even though US manufacturing and coal output are at or near historic highs?

Similarly do they want Obamacare repealed because it's a "disaster" and they've been promised better cheaper insurance by someone who doesn't actually have any kind of plan to deliver on that promise?

Is there only a debate about gay marriage at all because it's been turned into "an attack on traditional marriage"?

Are the liberals intentionally ruining the economy because they've joined the global warming religion that is basically an excuse for communism?

Some of this is ignorance and being conned, but some of it is stupidity as well. It's probably not wise to ignore that reality.
I use Chrome because it doesn't look and feel like a dated browser with substandard performance. It is up to Mozilla to modernize and improve their browser in order for me to care about them and not the other way around.
Yup every great Empire has it's 'Terrorists'.
These are not brains, they are not even models of brains even if they use the word 'neuron'.
To put things in perspective, the current theoretical maximum efficiency for solar panels is about 34% [1]. There are a couple assumptions that are made to derive this number so there are ways to exceed this maximum efficiency. Though the assumptions made in the equations are fairly application to most solar panels product (not the ones made in labs).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockley%E2%80%93Queisser_limi...
> a limited set of carefully curated stories, chosen by experts among topics we care about

That's a good definition of a magazine and of a newspaper.
It's not just Onedrive, it's the entire Office 365, e.g., https://office.live.com/start/Word.aspx crashes Chrome (renders it unresponsive, closing the tab then takes forever).

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Hi everyone, founder of Assenty here. I'd love your feedback on the product, it's been in development for a little over a year, but that's not to say its feature complete :) It would be great to get your thoughts and initial reactions. Would you try it an event? And why not? Thanks!
Thank you for a reply and best wishes to your project!
Doesn't have to.
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By "total" returns I didn't mean "lifetime" returns, but returns on the whole production to which the new technology can be applied (be it yearly, monthly, or whatever). My point is that, if we're building (or upgrading) bigger and bigger production plants, even a small improvement to the process can bring in big annual ROI.
yeah, why not when its president shows very clearly he doesn't give a damn on environment at all even before he elected.
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The only thing that can be concluded with absolute certanity, is that they want $30k.
I suspect you're thinking about OpenBSD, upon which none of the other BSDs are based.
Yes, this is a real problem. I can easily tell if my GPU is having striding issues by looking at the power consumption of the machine. If I manage to get > 40% utilization I consider that pretty good. GPUs are useful but far from perfect for this application and the quickest way to sink performance is to 'starve the beast' by having sub-optimal memory access patterns.
Cheap lenses won't work for solar panels on a car, boat, or other vehicle.
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Maybe he's so very tired from working 16 hours a day and only taking one weekend a decade off? :)

Personally I'd skip the motivational videos and get some sleep as I feel that produces better returns.
So, they weren't barbarians because some of them farmed? Seems to be a rather low bar.
Feels like a premature April 1st launch
About as ironic as the Romans taking Visigoth refugees kicked out of the Black Sea area by the Huns... and that the Visigoths ended up sacking Rome within a few generations.

http://www.ancient.eu/visigoth/
Multiple walls in some cases - although around here it was to keep the people from the North out of the South - but I'm in the bit that was described as the "uttermost confines of the earth and of freedom"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgacus

There is supposed to be the remains of one of Agricola's camps on the hill behind our house.
Which of the 52 states is that? Its probably closer to the CA i.e. it has to be related to the employers work not everying.
> but the news programs during the day is just facts as far as I can tell

Selective reporting and the style and tone of presentation matter.
>you have $5k remaining each month for when you decide to quit your job and start your own company, giving you autonomy that is the #1 factor for happiness and an all around healthy life.
What Point of Sale systems have you seen running BSD? In the US, all the major retailers are either on SLES through IBM/Toshiba, or your Walmart and are on your own homerolled Linux box as a POS.

Outside of that, its all Windows for the smaller chains, Truno and similar will not talk to them, so they get to deal with NCR who sells them a meh system based on whatever the last supported version of Windows is. Even smaller and you get into PCAmerica (Windows) or Clover (Android/Linux).

On the embedded front ($X to $XX) BSD supports fewer platforms than Windows for IoT, you can't even boot it on your average ARM board or MIPS router. Only in high end consoles ($XXX) has Sony & Nintendo chosen to use BSD, which requires a substantial amount of work, but there is significant perceived value by making locked down "consoles" that can only run their signed software.
Dbcrawler for taking small joined table dumps from mysql
I'm still salty about Chrome, "chrome" is a technical term in browser development. It literally means the widgety parts of the GUI that sits on the top, the part that's not the webpage being rendered.
First heard about these guys on the Cooking Issues podcast a while back. Cool to see them with YC!
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True. And it's a beautiful language. I'm not necessarily knocking the other languages either. It's just that it seems that the fragmentation is becoming an issue, when all that development effort doesn't seem to necessarily be generating more value. I'm sure it's possible by all of this experimentation someone will stumble upon the next Javascript, or the next C. So there may be a benefit in the long run. Or maybe not.
My production-ready PHP-to-JS compiler pragmatically optimises for highest efficiency in real-world synthetic benchmark scenarios by only being capable of compiling the factorial function.