skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If everybody thinks recycling is a waste of time and they should instead just lobby for carbon tax, then barely anybody will be more conscious about their waste production and how to prevent more needless waste from being produced, which is just as much of an actual issue (if not even more) as farm subsidies or carbon production.

A huge percentage of it is a waste of time. It is a small positive for paper and aluminum. If this doesn't make people feel like they are doing their part, this adds up to a tiny benefit. However, it probably does make people feel like they are doing more then they actually are. The net effect could easily be negative. For many other things, recycling has no effect or a small negative effect on carbon. This does not add up to a bigger actual impact. It is only negative.

> if everybody thinks recycling is a waste of time and they should instead just lobby for carbon tax, then barely anybody will be more conscious about their waste production and how to prevent more needless waste from being produced, which is just as much of an actual issue (if not even more) as farm subsidies or carbon production.

I am saying this would be a good thing. People are way too conscious about their recycling when it has almost zero impact. Doing literally almost anything else, has a bigger impact in most cases.

> how to prevent more needless waste from being produced, which is just as much of an actual issue (if not even more) as farm subsidies or carbon production.

I don't know how you decide is needless waste but a carbon tax will cause everyone decide what they need vs don't need. Regardless, there is no chance that needless waste is as much of an issue as farm subsidies or global warming.
Match Group - which is what they group their dating sites in for financial reporting - is one of 5 distinct groups they have investments in.

HomeAdvisor, which this purchase would presumably fall under, is another major group that includes HomeAdvisor as well as a bunch of other brands. They've made two other purchases for this group so far this year: HomeStars (Canada) and MyBuilder (UK). As well MyHammer (Germany) in October last year.
How about by the fact that it the marketing plan worked, the hype was there, and the tickets sold out?
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i have seen many such accusations in the past but i have never seen any solid proof (screenshot of an email from Yelp or a recorded voice call demanding money). Sure voice recording might be illegal without consent but not all states have that law.
Corporate IT seems to disagree. Certainly they are sophisticated enough to know the risks, and they enable and use AMT widely.

Personally, I hesitate more than most because of the technical reasons you cite, but even turning on a computer is a risk. Probably this isn't the greatest risk to a business' IT.
WinPlay3 was released by Fraunhofer themselves in September 1995.
"and is literally designed from the ground up to promote businesses that pay them to be higher on the index."

This is false. Source: I worked there, on search. You cannot pay to rank higher in search.
I just recently completed a build myself. It was pre-Ryzen so AMD wasn't an option at the time. I went with the Intel i7-7700 (quad core) at 3.6 GHz.

I was surprised by two big things: high-performance devices are extremely affordable nowadays and processors have gotten a lot better despite minimal changes in clock speed.

I went on PC Part Picker and built my 'budget' device and my 'fantasy' device. It turned out they were just about the same. I couldn't really spend more than $1500 for anything better without jumping to server-grade parts.

Yesterday I played Halo Wars 2, listened to Spotify, kept Word, Excel, Edge, Chrome, & WEKA open, and was running an embarrassingly inefficient data mining program in Python via WSL, while running a Jenkins build server in an Ubuntu Server VM, and running TeamCity in a Windows Server VM.

Even on the Intel chip, which is presumably less good at multitasking than Ryzen, I just can't throw enough at it to experience anything resembling slowdown. 8 logical cores still seems to be plenty for most users, but I could see with even more VMs that one might need more. As an aside, it is incredibly nice to be able to run VMs without even thinking about their resource consumption - it's like having my own little cloud.

I wonder if maybe Intel's marketing for their chips could use improvement. On paper, my MacBook Pro with 16Gb RAM and 3GHz i7 shouldn't be that much worse than my desktop with 32Gb RAM (most of which is unused) and 3.6GHz i7. The difference in practice is night and day. I'm losing faith in the concept of a laptop as a developer's primary device (especially with SSH & Remote Desktop being so good these days).
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This whole conversation is frustrating because it is boiling down to a stupid semantic debate. The author is claiming that people don't get paid to explore data, they get paid to find things. IMHO, this statement doesn't even make sense. When I explore data, I almost always find something. This something might not be useful to an "end user," but it is almost always useful and necessary.

Sometimes, the only thing I find by doing exploration is that a particular dataset is absolute garbage and shouldn't be used for any purpose. The only way I find stuff like that out is if I explore the dataset.
Thanks for all your work Leaf. I use and recommend Lapis.
It does not! At least it did not 8 years ago when I worked there. Obviously a lot can change, but they realized the one competitive advantage they had that kept others out of the market was the huge catalog of user reviews.

While other things may be fudged for profitability, there was a clear line between content and advertising we didn't cross.

There are quite a few TA people on HN. Maybe one will chime in?
Honestly, no. If I were in the same position today, I would do so. I have submitted patches to Homebrew, for example.

In my defense, the Homebrew project is much more upfront about user contributions, and I think that's a big part of why they get them. It's literally right on their homepage:

> It's all git and ruby underneath, so hack away with the knowledge that you can easily revert your modifications and merge upstream updates.

> brew edit wget # opens in $EDITOR!

This does two things: (1) it demystifies the package format and makes it sound like something that's easy to get into, and (2) the presentation in general seems much more welcoming and positions the project as one which is open to contributions.

In contrast, I've messed around with packaging on Debian, and my experience there was that there were much higher upfront costs to contributing, precisely because there was so much more tooling around the system. As an example of what I mean, try taking an existing Debian package (like, say, PHP), and rebuild it with different compile-time flags. It's a lot of work to figure out how to do that!

I'm not in a position to say whether the ports system and MacPorts are anything like that, but I do have to wonder if (as representatives of a more traditional era of packaging) whether they suffer from some of the same burdens.
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> Our brains are Turing complete. Anything that is computable/ understandable, can be understood by humans.

Our brains are fallible, and so only approximately equivalent to Turing machines; and even ignoring that can only compute every computable thing given both infinite error-free storage capacity (which they don't have internally or externally) and sufficient time to execute the necessary steps of the computation.

Realistically, there are computable functions which no human brain will be ever be capable of computing.

Whether being able to compute a thing is sufficient, necessary, or tangential to understanding it is also a question.
Am waiting for Naples to ship before assembling my workstation. Hope it shows up soon.
Check nsl.com and https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok for playing around with examples. Ofcourse if you want all facilities, you'll need kx. You can play with 32 bit version.
> Might be a good idea to put a one-liner explanation somewhere very visible.

Apparently the customer was happy to pay 0.5B without that advice. AL sold a company, not a product, and they closed the deal.
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This is assuming data and the way we all receive it is continually treated the same as content delivery over a single pipe. Hint hint.. it's not and a bigger hint is look at what ALL the major ISP's are doing with their spare change at the moment.

The internet is migrating to the edge and ISP's are going to go away.
>> "inherently slower"

What's "inherent" in moonscript that makes it slower?
I'm curious about that too. They must have gotten close or raised all of it, as they actually attempted to have the event.
Another scam-coin designed to take money from 14 year olds. What is this doing on the frontpage of HN?
Yeah. I had a colleague who used Photoshop a lot. She got management to spring for 30MB of RAM for her machine. I thought that was the most outrageous thing I'd ever heard.
Do their customers want high-assurance? As I posted elsewhere, corporate IT is sophisticated enough to know the risks, and they chose to enable AMT widely. Does the level of demand make it profitable enough to justify doing? Personally I would pay a good amount for high-assurance systems - or even subsystems, as in this case - but my budget isn't unlimited. More than a small cost would be hard to sell to management, which as we all know often budgets little attention to security, much less money.

OTOH, there is a good argument that vendors know the risks much better than their customers can, and that they have a responsibility to protect their customers from dangerous options. But even that depends on the cost; everything can be made safer for greater expense. I wonder if this qualifies.
> "esoteric" carries some quite strong negative connotations

What? It didn't strike me that way. (And for what's it's worth, I'm a native English speaker; I was a communication major, an English minor, and a technical writer; since college I have continued to dabble in writing and linguistics for over 15 years; and as you can see I even know how to use a semicolon. :)

Had they said "eccentric," maybe I would have agreed. Esoteric, to me, has more the connotation of a secret society of sages.

Anyway, the article itself uses "esoteric."

By they way, I'm so glad that they declickbaited the headline. Thank you, editor!
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Look at synthetic benchmarks of your chip and the MBP. It's night and day difference. I won't use a laptop to develop on either. It's too slow. (And the ergonomics are terrible anyways so a monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc are all necessary anyways)
Not really. It's true that insurance companies charge more to certain people because they are statistically more likely to, for example, be in a car accident than another person or because a home in a particular location is more at risk to wildfires.

But that's where the similarities end.

Insurance companies have a much more and higher quality data than these companies do. More important, the ways the insurance companies price their product is public and subject to competition. If an insurance company realizes that a specific segment of the market is less risky than previously thought they can make a lot of money by dropping the price and underwriting policies for that group.

These courtroom applications use secret algorithms, and frankly, have little incentive to improve them.
The real killer here is salt on the concrete in winter. It slowly leaches through the top level of the concrete and starts eating away at the steel. Very effective, totally invisible. Also lots of balconies at risk because of this.
The remote debugging feature can get to that.

See: https://chromedevtools.github.io/debugger-protocol-viewer/to...

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Yeah, most low load power consumption measured from the mains socket is hogwash - my current PSU regularly pull 50W or more during standby.

The alternative measure is to put a clamp meter on the EPS12V line, but this is unlikely to be accurate either.
> This kind of breathless "Oh we CAN'T understand!" editorializing gets clicks because machine learning is so strange to most people, but it's terrible.

There's also a fringe benefit here. If "we can't understand" what it's doing, then that assumption can appear to weaken the "auditability" argument for deploying FLOSS in life-critical AI systems. (I.e., freedom 1 from the GPL.)

I'll bet the argument will be put forward with more frequency over the next few years, especially as self-driving cars become more prominent. Perhaps "appear to weaken" is too strong an assertion. But I can imagine a consumer safety advocate arguing for code to be auditable by outside parties just like Signal can be, and a PR spokesperson deflecting that AI is "beyond our understanding" and therefore not subject to the same standard.
The problem is with some specific features like select.epoll. gevent doesn't support that and will break such code. This includes socketio libraries - we use third party tools like pusher.com and all of them break with python 3.
E.g. https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/issues/1494

Gevent explicitly says :

"Given that epoll is more sophisticated than select or poll (e.g., support for edge triggered and level triggered events), I don't know if we can emulate that close enough with the capabilities that libev exposes (we'd need to pass the stdlib tests when monkey-patched), and I don't know what the performance characteristics would be (and if the subtle differences would break apps) "

I don't see a path forward for gevent with these issues in place.
you also made moonscript and mustache.php. I imagine next you might rewrite nintendo from scratch in lua, and singlehandedly control the entire games industry.
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Any ideas on how to print landscape with no margin ?
funderr.com is already taken, but funder.io is available. I call dibs - that should be a thing btw, e.g. your honor, yes he actually built the app and ran the product BUT I called dibs, on Twitter and on HN, look at the timestamp.
"slower" : I see Lapis is ahead of most frameworks, except platform or micro frameworks coded in C++, C or java. I think people should notice instead it's one of the fastest frameworks?
Ask HN: What's in your pre-nup?
I noticed not a lot of people have a prenup. Did you get a prenup? If so, what was in it? And who first suggested getting it? You or your fiancée?
Bought my Q6600 quad core processor 10 years ago. 10 years on, Intel still refuses to make 8 core processors mainstream to PC. Lucky enough, I don't have to listen to Intel's stories on why 8 cores are not useful for PC, I can pay AMD $300 and get Ryzen.

Just bought Intel Optane memory this morning, installed it in my AMD Ryzen DEV machine and it works perfectly without any issue. Interestingly, according to Intel, this is not suppose to happen - you are expected to use both of their latest processor/chipset to run Optane memory!

Now you tell can me who is preventing people from accessing the best techs at reasonable prices.
If you can demonstrate standing and pay a lawyer a ton of money, then yes, you could argue that.
It also means the machine runs quieter.
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It's ridiculous how well the 2013 MBP does.

Of course, the last four years have had much less focus on core performance, or even on putting more cores into pro-sumer machines. Apple in particular is all about thinness, battery life, and passive cooling.

That's not a complaint. For most people, including me, those are good trade-offs.
32 cores / 64 threads?
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Short variable names as "doing it wrong" depends on context. There are good reasons in math and in programming to use short names. See for example:

Descriptive Variable Names: A Code Smell. http://degoes.net/articles/insufficiently-polymorphic
The funny thing about this whole shit show is that could have been me.

Before transitioning to tech in SF, I had a career in the entertainment industry down in LA. My buddy pitched me with marketing jargon just like this for a Coachella style festival, and I got sucked in.

We spent on and off a year working on it and actually made decent progress. The biggest band we had on board was Pearl Jam.

Eventually it became obvious we were in over our heads and that my buddy had no idea what he was doing.
Couldn't you say the same thing about homeopathy?
The criticism is SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity are so tied together financially they'll all go down if one does. As an outsider I don't really care how Musk arranges his financial house. However, if I had a financial stake in SpaceX I'd be pretty upset to see my money getting invested in another company for Elon Musk's benefit.
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If you have anything else remotely this funny could you please share it, I am having convulsions
I much prefer the Pepsi Parsec as a unit of measurement.
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He appears to be trying to build a fairly silent machine as well, so the liquid cooling will help.

Does he need that much power, though? I certainly wouldn't, but for what he is doing I can see it. He's running 12 containers in VirtualBox. Avoiding VirtualBox would help a lot, but depending on what he's doing, he may not be able to (and on Mac, I think you have no choice -- he may not realise that he'll get tons better performance without it). On top of that he's doing Closure (presumably with power hungry development toys) and lots of video conferencing. I often pair program remotely with video conferencing and it can eat half of your CPU(s). Mumble and Tmux is a much better way to go, but again setting up and getting used to the tooling is not trivial.

$2K and building your own machine vs doing some pretty serious work trying to lighten the development environment -- I can see an argument for it, even if it's not the way I would choose to go.
Isn't it the same in many other languages? For a Ruby project, you usually have to use a dozen gems to get started. For a javascript project, it's at least two dozens of npm packages
Are these "influencers" paid for what they're doing? Is there a paper trail?

Or were they as swept up in the hype as everyone else, blithely talking it up for that reason?

If the former, what culpability do they have in any potential lawsuit?
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4913, for instance?
> it's clearly marked as an unfinished draft.

Hey, I know some people with astronomy degrees that'll take a high six figure salary from a BS marketing agency to be their on staff astrophysicist. 4 hours of real work a month, tops.
It is very nice to have JDBC driver :)
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Step 2: ???

Step 3: Profit!
As someone who's been near server space, seriously fuck Intel. Blocking ECC memory from consumer CPUs is monopolistic bullshit, my next PC will be AMD even if it's a bit slower. At least AMD doesn't switch socket every 6 months and cripple my hardware on purpose
By 'optical flow calculations' do you mean a linear extrapolation of the projected 'image-space' position of the ball?

If so, that seems like it would be insufficient since a thrown object doesn't move linearly, let alone its projection.

If not, then I'm curious what you're describing, and how it's much simpler than integrating an ODE?