skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't kid yourself, - its because monetary reward is already implied.
I find the difference between r/golang and r/node quite marked.
According to the table, there are an increasing number of constructs that prevent optimization. The oldest versions of node seem to have no constructs that prevent optimization. Can that be right?
> native Americans didn't invent quantum mechanics

Maya's totally knew about quantum, how else could they have had novelty theory and predicted the 2012 timewave zero collapse? It's not like they had access to the I-Ching[0] to be able to model it like Terrence McKenna did.

... on that note, a bit more serious; this is as good an opportunity to randomly ask as any; can anyone explain to me (as far as pseudo-science goes, going along with all of the assumptions) what the basic reasoning is in Timewave Zero, how they got from the King Wen sequence (which is a certain permutation of the 64 I-Ching hexagrams, but afaik they just use it as a particular 64-element permutation compared to the original order, without taking into further account the symbology of the invididual hexagrams), and turned it into that fractal line graph they call the Timewave? There is an article on deoxy.org that appears to go into technical detail but when I read it and tried to reproduce, it doesn't really say how that step is done. OTOH apparently there's software (screenshots) that plot this graph, so there must be some kind of deterministic algorithm, but I haven't been able to find any docs about it.

[0] ... OR DID THEY??
Screenshot of an anonymous post on 4chan, so approximately zero credibility.
Intel ME is well known however: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Tech...
Lustig is a paid shill of the meat and dairy industries. In reality, it's the animal products most strongly linked to disease, not sugar.

See many, many studies about this on http://nutritionfacts.org
Well in the screen capped communication the source talks about "the news that Trump was spied on" as motivation for the disclosure... that's enough for me to click the back button.
To complete your rebuttal to the statement "not by a greenhouse effect, but by the raw power output", it's important to compare the magnitude of the greenhouse effect. It would be easy to draw the wrong conclusion, and think that mankind cannot impact the temperature of the planet because it already gets so much energy from the sun that our actions don't matter. This is incorrect.

As you say, the sun provides approximately 172,000 terawatts to the Earth, due to a solar irradiance of 1360 W/m^2 over the planet's cross sectional area of 1.27x10^11 m^2. While this is the correct value for the amount of energy received at the upper atmosphere, only some of it is actually absorbed by the Earth. Currently, approximately 30% of this energy is reflected back to space.

Anthropogenic radiative forcing was estimated by the IPCC in 2011 [1] to contribute approximately 2.29 W/m^2. This is the difference in solar energy absorption caused by human activities (such as releasing CO2). Multiplied by the area of the Earth, this is 290 terawatts of energy, which is many times greater than world energy consumption.

Also note that this figure is rapidly increasing - compare to 1.25 in 1980 and 0.57 in 1950 in that report, or 1.6 in the 2007 report [2].

[1]: http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg1/WG1AR5_SPM_..., see page 12
[2]: http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-spm..., see page 4
Sure, this is what we all suspect, but I don't consider this particular account to add one iota of evidence.
Wrong, it's exactly the opposite: sugar keeps fat from being metabolized, hence it's incorrectly scapegoated for weight gain.
> If you suffer and have the means, you'll pay what the market demands for relief.

Actually you'll [be forced to] pay above that price, because the market is distorted by non-free-market forces. The moment drug companies arrange to intervene by having the law altered to their favor, blaming them for inflated prices becomes entirely reasonable.
But what sort of parameters are adjusted?

This is HN. A link to an example would be appreciated.

Edit:
To clarify, I work with audio codecs too, and can't really
think of parameters (other than the compression level?)
that would make much sense to adjust on the fly.

If "AI" is used for more than just a buzzword here, then
I imagine the answer must be quite interesting.
Friction is not as linear as high school physics teaches:

https://www.wired.com/2014/09/friction-isnt-always-think/
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A hundred years ago you could reach the frontier in theoretical physics without a decade of intensive study. That's no longer true.
We've know about this for years though. Libreboot, Coreboot and even Google have begged Intel and AMD to provide chips without backdoors installed and they have refused. Google has asked for their Chromebook's and obviously offered quite a bit of money to do it, but yet they have declined.

But two problems mean this will never get fixed:
1. People still think the "I've got nothing to hide" argument is valid and therefore don't care (yet)
2. There are no alternatives out there. ARM might have a shot at taking over this market but unfortunately the companies building ARM chips are also hiding code in their chips.
There is some deep work for the executive / entrepreneur which is to figure out what to build or where the market is going.
What is the administrative cost per employee?

In most business you will have a point where the cost per employee align with the output per employee and you try to peg production there. Also getting too many employees can lead to second and third order effects that have to be managed, like transportation of employees and parking.
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Hi HN,

I need your advice. I have a client that wants to use an e-commerce platform. How do you choose an e-commerce platform? What are the risks of a bad choice?

I could use Ruby or Python. What platforms do you recommend? Is there one that uses Flask (Python)?

Also, I'm in the "API team", do we really need to use an e-commerce platform just to create the API?

Thanks!
I think that's entering an area of ad ethics. Yet, its an ethical violation that companies like Google make today. If I search for "Wealthfront", I get an ad for Wealthfront, Betterment, and TDAmeritrade, in that order, before an organic result for Wealthfront. If Wealthfront didn't pay up, even though it is _obvious_ what I am looking for, the result I am looking would be buried. That's a protection racket.

Rank-based advertising, like in search results, is fundamentally unethical. To do it ethically would require perfect comprehension of what the searcher is seeking, so that you can prioritize organic, helpful results. Google never prioritizes organic results.
The price they quote you may be their cash price, which will often be higher than your copay. You can also check which free PBMs they accept and see what those prices are.
For where I'm at currently you don't need that much. This is it at the moment https://github.com/k0nserv/rusttracer/blob/master/src/math.r.... I learned about rust macros, operator overloading, traits, derive, tests, the difference between copy and clone in the process. It was a good first step in rust for sure. It's also one of those things that lends them self to TDD very nicely and that cuts down the need to debug anything.
It's both. Eat whole plant foods, I.e. a vegan unprocessed diet, and you'll be fine. Just like your ancestors did and were.
Could someone please test out this program? I need some outside input
It's insane. I need a drug that costs about $8k every two months in the US. However, I'm living in Canada right now, where it costs $4k. My US insurance company just decided they will no longer cover the drug in Canada, so instead of paying the $4k CAD, they're now going to pay $8k USD and I'll go pick up the drug across the border. Seems like a lose-lose.
These are great - there was a time when I didn't know "tenets" from "tenants"!
Not to be pedantic but I know there was a lot of choice for DOS but I was referring to Windows programming specifically which is what I started out on. I was under the impression that C was the main way to do this but I didn't even have access to the internet then, so I suppose I should say that it seemed to be the main way to do Windows programming in my local area and in my local computer bookshop!
A game engine is not a school bus.
I really want to believe, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and I think it's lacking in this respect.
Given that students are almost always graded on how well they do on assignments/exams rather than how long they studied, your strong-man competition analogy doesn't make much sense.
I agree about school. I see people constantly trying to use pattern matching and memorization to pass tests; always doing extra credit; putting too much effort into minor things; and exacerbating all of these problems by taking too many units in an effort to get out early. I don't know how they're not already burnt out.

Meanwhile I never specifically study for a test. I've just studied regularly every day, thought about these things regularly, let my subconscious do some heavy lifting, and built associations in my brain that help me derive equations or fill in gaps if needed. For my effort, I've got a ~3.9 GPA and all kinds of free time for dating, exercise, hobbies, and teaching myself useful skills in my field that university isn't teaching me.

I think the core problem for most people is that they are attached to the wrong outcome. Their goal is the high GPA. My goal is grokking material and making myself useful; high GPA is almost a given (and frankly redundant) after that, and the only difference between my 3.9 and a 4.0 is the tolerance for BS and busywork... and about a gazillion extra hours of work.

It is, of course, understandable, because people think High GPA -> Good Grad School -> $$$$. But I suspect, and your story confirms, that "Reasonably High GPA" + "An Actualized Human Being Who Is Not a Robot"[0] -> Good Grad School -> Richer Life + $$$$.

[0] - Not trying to denigrate those who take the other path, but I see them miss out on a lot of life and ultimately not be as developed and awesome as they could be. I'm saying these things not just about random strangers, but also about people I know and love. They've optimized primarily for passing tests.
Somewhat an opposite here: experienced C++ engineer interested in taking React Native projects/jobs... :)
I really like that it has a user-mode incarnation that looks in ~/.immortal. One of the things I really enjoy about Master Control Processes is having a well-declared place where one can expect to find a manifest of processes.
The problem is that the author listed specific reasons, which opened him up to specific challenges.

He should have just said: "curl is an established project. New languages are not being seriously considered for curl."

If you want to close down a conversation, it's counterproductive to make new dubious claims like "C is not the primary reason for our past vulnerabilities".

Note that closing down a conversation isn't bad. Sometimes they are annoying or distracting. I love rust but here was my comment when someone wanted to rewrite postgres in rust:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13354768
>> he started a PhD only to quit after a few weeks to pursue his business endeavors

Having PhD or working on it is not a prerequisite for being a scientist.
Musk is not in academics, but he is a CTO of a SpaceX, so he is in charge of scientific and technological issues within an aerospace company. He does more applied science than vast majority of scientists that I can think of.

Edit: Typo
The dark side of the "protestant work ethic".
Mice aren't people. Sugar affects them way differently than us. That's how the whole sugar phobia started and the myth is still being repeated, day after day. Sad.
freely available, if you agree to a non-government terms of service which:

1.) gives them right to force you to remove links to the content (section 6.b)

2.) gives them the right to advertise while showing you the law (section 8)

3.) does not require the provider to have accurate text, or be free from malware (section 11)

4.) requires indemnification (section 18)

5.) requires that the jurisdiction be New York (section 22)

6.) terms can change at any time, for any reason, without notice (section 26)

7.) cannot be used for commercial purposes (section 2.1)

8.) nor make a copy (section 2.1)

It doesn't cost any money to access it online, but the limitations on actually using are very real.

Want to provide a link to it via a blog to educate your local neighborhood? Want to know that the official law is free from errors? Want to use the law, but hold the provider accountable if the information is grossly incorrect? Want to sue the provider in Georgia since that's the official law? Want to know that the terms of service stay consistent from day to day? Want to use the law to help your business succeed? Want to provide a copy of the law to others so that they can educate themselves?

All of those items are restricted in some way by these terms of service, which are required before access to the law is allowed.
Yes, that's relevant. Automation will hurt the capital transfer from developed into developing countries. It is already doing so.
Why can't regular folks seem to get in on an IPO? (Admittedly, I don't understand how all the stock stuff works. It just seems like only big investment firms are the ones that are able to do initial investments.)
The second stage is about a quarter of the total cost of the rocket, so the best case, if reusing the first stage cost nothing, is a 75% cost savings.

I don't think refurbishment is going to cost all that much. They fired their "max damage" core eight times without any refurbishment and it did alright. The upcoming Block 5 version of the rocket is supposed to incorporate lots of changes to help with reusability.

Lessons from the Shuttle are commonly brought up, but may not apply very much. Aside from being very different craft (with the Shuttle running on much thinner margins), a huge difference is that SpaceX is able to rapidly and strongly iterate as they learn. The Shuttle that first launched in 1981 was not all that different from the one that last launched in 2011. The design was not entirely set in stone when it started flying, but it was pretty close. That's what happens when your vehicles cost multiple billions of dollars each. SpaceX is continuing to build new rockets and that makes it a lot easier to make changes to react to experiences with older designs.

I doubt the ships are all that expensive in the grand scheme of things. I'm sure the cost is more than what you or I could afford, but I don't think it's a particularly large fraction of the booster's multi-dozen-million-dollar cost.

In any case, it will be great to see how it works out, rather than just talking about how it might work out!
IANAL but it's my understanding that, for low court cases, it's not that a judge is forced to abide by the case law precedents so much as that they're overwhelmingly likely to, so in practice the annotations are probably essential reading for anticipating how a case will play out. And the unannotated law are probably akin to a formal tech spec - not very useful to anyone except the primary implementor, and especially not to laypeople trying to learn the law or self defend.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precedent#United_States_legal_...
[Disclaimer: I used to work at Dropbox.]

TL;DR: The only actual news here is the new line of credit. The folks involved in securing that line of credit only noted that it was secured since the previous line of credit had expired.

There's no real tie to any IPO news here, and the quotes about an IPO come from "potential advisers" and seem to be entirely unrelated to the line of credit news.

> While the company hasn't set specific timing, potential advisers believe it will be ready to go public by the end of this year. Dropbox and its lenders declined to comment.
Did anybody advertise in 12000 magazines?
Well that fact then leads back to the "why".
Dropbox are utter clowns and I've personally seen them delete data on two separate accounts.
Possibly. If demand keeps up. But in 18 years, will parents who are still paying off their own college loans be willing to sign their children's terms of indenture?
From section 11 of the draft:
"To protect users' privacy, Recursive Resolvers are strongly encouraged to conceal part of the IP address of the user by truncating IPv4 addresses to 24 bits. 56 bits are recommended for IPv6, based on [RFC6177]. ISPs should have more detailed knowledge of their own networks. That is, they might know that all 24-bit prefixes in a /20 are in the same area. In those cases, for optimal cache utilization and improved privacy, the ISP's Recursive Resolver SHOULD truncate IP addresses in this /20 to just 20 bits, instead of 24 as recommended above. Users who wish their full IP address to be hidden need to configure their client software, if possible, to include an ECS option specifying the wildcard address (i.e. SOURCE PREFIX-LENGTH of 0). As described in previous sections, this option will be forwarded across all the Recursive Resolvers supporting ECS, which MUST NOT modify it to include the network address of the client".

So it's suggested that DNS providers and ISPs use only a portion of the IP address but they aren't forced to do so (and how could they be forced anyway?). Then it says that users that don't want to send their IP address should configure their software accordingly, but again only "if possible" so again no guarantee that it would be possible.
Now a question: I don't see why a DNS packet would contain the client's IP address and a (I admit too quick) look at the draft didn't provided any information. Could you please elaborate on the supposed advantages of this practice?
> we put high tariffs on Chinese steel to counter heavy Chinese government subsidization of that industry

That's not a good comparison, because we're talking about reimportation - ie, drugs that are produced in the US and exported to another country before being reimported. In general, nobody's interested in reimporting steel produced in the US and exported to China.

> Because the healthcare system is publicly funded, the government has enormous market power that it can use to drive drug prices below efficient levels

First, Canadian healthcare is run at the provincial level, not at the federal level. So while each province/territory is a monopsony, they're each fairly small.

Secondly, pharmaceuticals are typically not covered in Canada; patients pay for most drugs out of pocket, and their generic prices are actually not much lower than they are in the US[0]

> Allowing re-importation of those drugs into the U.S. in effect allows the Canadian government to set drug prices in the U.S.

With free trade, another country is still free to subsidize the goods that it imports from the US, but with the knowledge that they'll be subsidizing whatever portion of Americans choose to reimport those drugs at the subsidized prices.

In reality, that reimportation won't need to happen, because it'll just apply backpressure on the initial sale prices in both markets from the manufacturer.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3107113/
California publishes Medi-Cal rates [1]. Unfortunately, not all codes are explained, e.g., 99282 (according to the NY Times article, E.R. "examination and treatment of a patient with a finger fracture") and 99283 ("a narcotic painkiller was also prescribed") are both described as just "EMERGENCY DEPT VISIT".

California also has a website comparing costs and quality for treatments across hospitals and regions [2].

[1] https://files.medi-cal.ca.gov/pubsdoco/Rates/rates_range_dis...

[2] http://www.cahealthcarecompare.org/cost_detail.jsp?region=16...
Exactly. Once that court case winds its way to the CJEU we will have a clear answer on that question.
Beef spikes insulin more than table sugar.
Trust me, when you write code for your personal project which may be a weekend project or an overnight quick hack, you write code to get something done. All you care about is — “Does my code work?”. You hardly care about the quality of the code.

Not in my experience. When I learn a new language by implementing a project in it, I do not consider the job done unless I have written idiomatic code in the new language and really understood every piece of code I took from Stackoverflow.

Not saying that contributing to open source projects for learning a new language isn't a good idea. Free code review in exchange for your contribution to the project is a win-win.
See, I see it rather that, no one is to be trusted - whether they happen to know something or not. Like I said elsewhere, it's the Prisoner's Dilemma writ large. My automatic assumption is that all other prisoners are out for their own good, and therefore I want to limit their access to that which they can use to disadvantage or harm me.
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The sentence before the table is mistaking. We are updating it. It should be read in the other direction: if the cell contains "yes", the code pattern is optimizable.

Thanks a lot for your remark!
Once you already have all the money you need it turns out not to matter as much anymore. Not surprising at all.
I tried to cut my cable, but the best I could do was cutting back to local channels with 10x Internet speeds.

Comcast has you by the balls
For any sizable project in the public, I think switching languages is never the right choice. That is at best confusing for people, and at worst kills the project. The right way to replace a library or application is to build something better. If it matters, possibly with the same, or a close enough API.

This is the only thing I've seen work in the past.
Absolutely! And in most likelihood, such a system will never be put in place, so you can sleep soundly.

Amazon could run very well without Bezos, at this point, solely through workers. Bezos at this point serves nothing but effectively leeching the wealth produced by employees. But appropriation of the means of production is not the subject.

Bezos being successful is not the issue. However, he is effectively an annuitant, and produces very little of value. This brings up the question of why does he deserve that money now? As he's been building the company, yes, eventually (and even then, his only contribution is capital. The rest of his work can be done by anyone else). Nowadays? I'm doubtful.

Secondly, this fortune would much better serve society as a whole than be passed through generations, effectively creating a lineage of oligarchs. If I have to choose between bettering the living conditions of millions or letting Bezos keep his net worth... I'm not going to cry for him.

The most important question is of course, how much should be taxed, and what amount of wealth is too much? Everyone will have different answers. But there are other solutions to taxation. Capping salaries and profits from shares to a factor of the lowest salary in the company, etc.

If one of those companies is successful, that you have managers upon managers doing most of the work for you, yes, you would be a leech.

Good luck on that house, however. I know from first hand experience that it is a tough thing to do. Make sure everything's done properly.
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