skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google: Nice internet ya got there. It'd be terrible if something were to happen to it like, say, ads everywhere. But if you just give me a few dollars I'll protect ya from 'em.

Edit:

>How it works
You load your pass with $5. Each time you visit a page without ads, a per-page fee is deducted from your pass to pay the creators of the website, after a small portion is kept by Google to cover the cost of running the service. The price per page is set by the creator of the site. You will be informed in advance if a site creator changes their price per page. Contributor is easy to update: change settings and add sites or remove them from your pass at any time.

I love the sound of this, I just do not like the idea that it is Google doing it. It feels ... dirty somehow. A third party doing this I have no problem with.
Ah, thank you!

So rather than try to rebut this myself, I'll let someone qualified do it:

http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/wp-content/uploads/20...

And also:

https://thinkprogress.org/bjorn-lomborgs-new-paper-appears-t...
Here's a dataset on Kaggle that can be used in this process https://www.kaggle.com/biomimic/periodic-table-of-elements-m...
maybe the blood banks need money to run their operations more than they need blood...
I'm not denying your points. It just seems like you're torturing the facts so that Buffett is an exemplar vs looking at things more objectively.

> most-conspicuous richest men in the world

You mean the guy who still lives in a $600k house in Omaha [1] and briefly owned a $5.5M vacation house in California?

The guy who donates ~$2.8B [2] in Berkshire stock to charity annually? Who has said he does not plan to pass down an inordinate amount of wealth to his children?

These are facts. And they don't jive with a narrative of "He's doing all these things just to make more money."

A valid point becomes lesser when you have to perform gymnastics to make it fit to the person you've chosen. There's plenty of people who are better fits for your narrative: Larry Ellison, the Koch brothers, the Waltons, the Mars's, Soros, etc.

[1] http://www.today.com/slideshow/homes-warren-buffett-48385413

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2016/07/14/warren-...
If the application isn't security sensitive why not a faster non-cryptographic hash like farmhash?
>(not nonsense by CBT-obsessed wankers who lie with statistics

I'm not sure if you realise that you're posting "hateful bollocks" as Dan puts it, but for the benefit of the other posters here I'll address your not-quite-so-bollocks points.

The main criticisms of the PACE trial were the measures of recovery, but recovery wasn't even measured in the main trial -- it was a secondary paper, and even the authors admitted that there are various measures of recovery.

There have been quite a lot of trials into CBT and GET in CFS, and overall there is a small-to-moderate effectiveness for the treatments. Long term followup from the PACE trial is consistent with the other trials...patients undergoing CBT and/or GET improve more quickly than patients getting "standard" treatment.

If you actually look at the research from people involved in the PACE trial, you'll see they have in fact done a lot of biological research (and have stated many times that the HPA axis and immune system are almost certainly involved). It is unfortunate that they chose to give the dubious theories about illness beliefs and deconditioning as the basis for the PACE trial. However just because the trial had a bogus theory behind the treatments doesn't mean they don't actually work. Also, having biological abnormalities doesn't rule out CFS being psychosomatic (as all psychosomatic illnesses will by definition have physical symptoms). In fact, given that CFS has been shown to be triggered by stress in the majority of cases, and given the abnormalities found in the stress system that mirror the effects of chronic stress, a psychosomatic explanation seems quite plausible.
In the sense that OOP is often used in very stupid ways (dunno about C++ but in other languages, have a look at PHPUnit it is the best example of misunderstood OOP) I can understand C programmers. Golang is also very simple for a reason
The Neutrality Delusion
HN is emphatically NOT a physics course imho. It's a social space, not a forum for content from authority.

Maybe the thing we need is a mechanism to "dose" on sharing of political thought every so often, without allowed it to overwhelm: A day of the week or a megathread, where we can then engage with our community in political convo of substance...
BLAKE2 is faster and has features you might find useful in that sort of scenario. And doesn't forfeit security, should you decide to use this in a an unexpectedly security-sensitive application.
Specialization actually starts by the equivalent of the 12th and 13th grades of high school, fwiw.
Is this different from inflation at all?
Putting aside the ookiness factor, the science here seems pretty tenuous. "Self-reported improvements that scientists have been unable to replicate in clinical trials" are what's behind every questionable medical practice from homepathy to crystal healing.

Especially given the time and money involved in having to get regular transfusions, I'd think the practitioners would be better off using the time to spend an extra hour in the gym.
Please note, this is just my 2 cents.

Political discourse ruins online communities for people looking for technical and not political discussions. It's ruined Reddit as a technical forum; I have to filter several subreddits from r/all because I'm trying to avoid Trump news, and r/technology fought long and hard to keep political posts from dominating their subreddit, which it now does.

More here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/23y1j4/meta_doe...

Basically, I want there to exist a safe space for computer engineers that I may disagree with politically to talk solely about solutions and products that solve technical problems, and not get sidetracked with whether or not I agree that Donald Trump having Patriot Act powers is terrible. I don't need yet another circlejerk in my life, I want the news.
> The same definition can be used for office politics.

> Manipulation only enters into it when people use dishonest means to pull the surpluses over to themselves, and the burdens over to people who shouldn't carry them.

... which is pretty much the exact meaning of the term "office politics". You don't talk about "office politics" when people get rewarded appropriately for their contribution to the company. You only talk about it in the context of e.g. sucking up to managers, backstabbing cow-orkers, taking credit for something you didn't do, etc.

As for the government-type politics, "the subject of distributing the burdens and surpluses of society" is as good a definition as "the subject of distributing land and wealth of a society" is a good definition of war. It's technically true, yet totally misses the important and problematic aspects of it.

Definitions are a way to draw a broad-stroked border in thingspace, so that you know the general area in which the meaning of a word lies. Nothing more.
Well, yes, that is often true. Many founders do have a family safety net that allows them to take on risks. I don't disagree with that. And I don't think we have the right set of gov't policies in place to incentivize and allow a broader set of potential founders to take such entrepreneurial risks.

But, to be quite honest, I also don't think this sets Silicon Valley apart from corporate America. In the broader world of corporate America, people from higher socioeconomic status have a greater chance of getting ahead because of a whole set of advantages granted to them - better education, connections, etc...And, as a result of getting ahead, obviously they are better compensated than their peers born into lower socioeconomic classes.
SHAKE is Keccack with parameters that are comparable to SHA-2's, and so performs better.
Hardly surprising considering the other proposals! Bitcoin Unlimited is a joke.
> In reality, our 5-volt CMOS system will consider anything above 1.67 volts to be a 1, and anything below 1.67 to be 0.

Worth noting that the region from 1.67 V to 3.33 V is undefined and systems in practice will not behave nicely for signals in this range. A CMOS logic 1 needs to be above 2/3 Vdd to be reliably recognized.
"His start-up, Ambrosia, is charging about $8,000 a pop for blood transfusions"

And a quick google search says that people donating to a blood bank get $20 to $60 a pint, and the blood banks sell for $200-$600 a pint.

I wonder if blood banks will figure out the model here and sell direct.
$8000 for young blood transfusion
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still no tables. How hard is it?
Total garbage. The ideologues just...need...to...stop. Your "settled science" and all the rest of it? Guess what? It's all up for debate because debate is healthy. Why can't these academics ever get out of their own ego rut and realize that they are what is wrong? Just because someone is smart does not make them smart at everything. I saw this with Chomsky--he really has destroyed his cachet by taking on issues he had no business even bringing up. Bitching about Trump endlessly just makes them look like sore losers.

The concern trolling, the backhanded smug attitudes, maybe police your own houses first--I'm looking at you higher education. You've become something so unrecognizable and just so incredibly rotten.
In which use cases is the asymptotic cycles per byte relevant compared to the small case performance?

I mostly use hashes as part of signing/verifying small messages, say an 80 byte JWT, a Blockchain transaction, a certificate, an TLS/SSH packet, etc. Besides hashing large files (which I rarely do), I don't see where I would reach asymptotic performance, or even use tree-hashing.

SHA3's block size is 200 bytes, KangarooTwelve's is, if I'm not mistaken, 8192? I'm more worried about not even filling the first block :)
I'm wondering how Microsoft is responding to this. Do they expect their current Excel dominance to continue despite competitors constantly catching up to feature parity and even extra goodies, like this one?
I'm pretty sure its actually a documentary
It's a documentary.
One of the major problems I have with C++ is that for any non-primitive data type, there are way too many choices of mutually incompatible classes that people have developed. Even strings. There are things out there that use char[], std::string, CString, APString (#*&!), ...
> I'm not sure I'd blame Facebook's problems on it's users.

I am blaming Facebook. The parasites I was thinking of are the people and impulses that pervert the successful formula to push some agenda (e.g. push for some "engagement" metric, push people to use this or that app, unscrupulous monetization, etc).
The harsh reality is the US govt doesn't want a strong NATO. If France and Germany decided tomorrow to spend similarly to the US on defense there would be a collective gum swallowing moment in DC on both wings. It would mean that the EU isn't so toothless and that inevitably in some future that the US would have to go toe to toe with them in a military conflict. Regardless of outcome of such a conflict, it would mean more spending in the US to ensure against not only China and Russia (nominally) in a fashion far more unsustainable than it is today. The last time Europe was a legitimate region in terms of military power was the last world war. And we know that wasn't a pretty sight for all.
Actually 30%, see https://coin.dance/blocks

And 40% for Bitcoin Unlimited (Emergent Consensus)
Man, what happened to sense of humor in Hacker News? Has it been deprecated in the current version?
If you really want a fun time read about bipolar encoding & bipolar violations in T1s/E1s, which were once a source of much consternation to me - in a former life.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_violation
No he's not and to express that opinion here makes you look like a major douche concern troll.
> Grocery stores also have waste from the packaging that food comes in.

Err...so do you, yes?
> The C++ language is an improved version of the older C language (it’s a superset of C),

The first statement is arguable and the parenthetical statement is false. C99/C11 have language features that C++ hasn't adopted, which makes it somewhat obnoxious to support C++ from C codebases that use them. One example is the "static" keyword used in array parameters.
I already had the PDF, but wanted a nice small book with the same form factor as ANSI Common Lisp. I guess I was making a lot of money at the time, and this is before I had completely come around to e-books.
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My question is, is 10k good enough? Wouldn't it be better to check against more? 50k?
Yes, I am doing it as a side project and I am looking to retire in a few years and live off that...
The key idea behind index investing is paying low fees.

Non index funds perform the same as index funds (and research indicates you can differentiate the ones that outperform a priori with any method). But those funds have higher fees.
AI Weekly: Siri, Please Meet Alexa and Google Assistant
1. The author is saying, the outcome of an election dominate our lives in a negative way more than our positive contributions via technology. In fact, technology can and does in some cases increase the chances that people have a bad day (eg. tyrants crushing dissent via tracking).

2. If we are serious about improving the world, we can't ignore these significant downsides/risks in the world that occur along the political/power dimension.

3. You can do this a positive way. I like how Elon's tech has a (not so) subtle political/power dimension. For example, he does not believe that power should be concentrated in the few hand that figure out AI first, but rather diffused into the many (via OpenAI). Stallman did some impactful political hacking in the (corporate) software world via GPL.

4. I think chatting about this can be helpful if only to remind us of what some of our elders have contributed in the past. Maybe we can alter the power dimensions to hack our way into a more free, humane and well-off future.
This looks more like a fantasy stock league, especially with leaderboard.

Also it is good to point out leaderboard means nothing, it is totally pointless.

This is like playing poker with infinite fantasy stack.

If you are good investor you will never be on this leaderboard :)
I'm more at the level of Goldstein for Mechanics, and learning about the Lagrangian. Of course, there's still much to learn from Feynman.
I do remember that idea being discussed. I can't remember why we didn't go ahead with it at the time.
Maybe the quality of the political discussion is so crappy because we don't talk about it?

My experience is that one has to express their emotional relationship to problems and be aware of it before they can actually insightfully engage with problems; if people don't, they just introduce their emotional biases into their problem solving and pretend they're not.
Instead of giving the entire dataset to the model (which in this case already identifies a performance limit visually), give a partial set and then see if these algorithms can predict the remaining known values. That should be the real test of whether prediction works.

Here's what I found last time I did it: https://github.com/brendangregg/PerfModels/blob/master/scale...

ie, I'm splitting the dataset into "model input" and "extra measurements". USL was not really working.
My favorite fact about Turin is that despite being the son of a son of the Second Born, and a cursed one at that, for the fire of his spirit and the injustice of his mortal fate alone was he awarded the command of all the host of the West in the prophesied Last Battle.
“If you’re arguing, you’re losing.”. That is a quick way to stop any discussion. The reason I am not using C++ is because C already does everything I need:

- Easier to write code generators for: I use libclang to read in annotations that will generate new code according to where the annotations are being used. If I have to take care of every edge case and new features added to the latest C++ standard it would make the code generator more complex.

- Using plain old data structures: My code generator generates new code to be able to work with the plain old data structures which data can be interleaved or non-interleaved using data-oriented design. Classes will not add that much value.

- C compilers are easier to write: I integrated the tiny C compiler inside my program to be able to compile C code on demand. The C code can then use the code I've already written.

- No name mangling by default: I dynamically load a lot of plugins and do not want to bother with binary incompatibilities all the time (if compiled by different compilers like the tiny C compiler for ex.).

- I mostly use libraries written in C

- Low-level access

If I need concepts or meta-programming etc.
I can already use Nim or write my own code generator,
else I would rather choose something different than C++.

To be more on-topic. Confirmation bias. On The Internet you can find confirmation of something being true about almost every topic. Whatever people believe is the truth, it will not change the reality. Which programming languages are better is a very difficult thing to measure because there are many factors to consider. Being used to a certain programming language can be a good reason not to change.

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

Update: added some explanations, and more on-topic
At the very least I think this is deceptive because the source (If you keep clicking on links) for the 40 percent savings is the original blog post, and there's no other information saying things have been rolled out fully, yet the Verge is seems to imply that here.

I am somewhat convinced that something resembling RL was used based on your argument in the other thread, but I think even you would agree that calling it "a variant of alphago" is a pretty big stretch.
Yeah — it's a little confusing, but the multiples are how much slower they are than the fastest. Bigger is worse.
I find this point to be very insightful, thank you. Hits the nail on the head of what I think is happening as well.

I think this has changed politics in fundamental ways that the public is not yet ready to understand.
Don't feel bad, there are literally only 1 dozen sites that it works on, and so you probably don't care about it right now anyway.
I believe that you're accurate; Gary cares a _lot_ about presentation, I vaguely remember seeing him tweet about the kerning here or something.
But the solution was never those Paris accords. There was no solution in that, just more dead ends for regular Americans. How is that helpful? Nothing gets fixed, but vulnerable populations become more vulnerable?
Yeah, you'd think that they would do it at least in a condescending way given their partisan position on the question.

Unless... they didn't actually think that much about the topic. I dunno. I didn't watch the video so I don't know if it's in there.
There's so much wrong with this picture. It's also an alarming trend where organisations are singling out employees for blame (also thinking VW). Were they entirely to blame? Did management put them under pressure to deliver quickly? Were they correctly trained?

Also, this kind of pokes massive holes in their DR processes!
I think you might be conflating MTU and frame size - IPv4 MTU (L3) can be up to 64kB, whereas jumbo frames (L2) can be up to the stated 9kB.
> opening the floodgates on politics will have the cost of reducing the utility of HN

I'm not apolitical, far from it, but that doesn't mean I want all the spaces I use to be politicized. And when HN does veer into politics, it almost always lowers the level of both insight and courtesy several notches from discussions of other topics.

I'm relieved to see politics stay tangential, because I think the alternative is not HN gaining insight on politics but losing it on everything else.
Having read the article and the comments above yours, and being generally aware that there's some truncation thing related to SHA-256 and SHA-512 somewhere, it still took me until your comment to catch onto that.
I'm not a big fan of the huge complexity of C++ (and much prefer C in general, although for some things C++ is more convenient) but I don't really think it's fair to dismiss a language based on a small snippet. You can basically mock any language that way:

- In C "getchar" returns... an int.

- Pointers and array are kinda the same thing, but not exactly. The rules for when an array decays into a pointer are sometimes unintuitive and surprising.

- Same thing for the implicit integer types promotions.

- `char *s = "foo"` is not at all the same thing as `char s[] = "foo"`. Arguably the former should be considered erroneous, but compiles just fine in C. G++ gives a warning for the same code however.

- There's also the ridiculous "gets" function that's so poorly designed it could be part of PHP. This one finally got officially deprecated though.

Of course many of these issues are also part of C++ since it's mostly a superset of C but in general it's stricter and more strongly typed.
There's a good list of UK brokers here, most of which have Vanguard funds. http://monevator.com/compare-uk-cheapest-online-brokers/ Personally, I use Charles Stanley Direct and I don't have any complaints about them.

Make sure to stick it in an ISA account if possible to keep it tax free.
YC company Upverter pivots to multiplatform concierge play
Do people who travel to other countries REALLY have the gall to post something threatening to the country they are traveling too?
> we'll simply just write 'show me a line graph'

How about we just 'say' it ? At one hackathon, I had the idea of making an Alexa skill that would translate simple voice commands like 'graph column A' into matplotlib functions and then show the graphs. Teammates weren't too excited about spreadsheets though.
70% of Americans never did a single minute's research on the issue or what is was, how it operates, or anything else. Pollsters just throw out general ideas and everyone agrees that it's a "good." Also, the adults in my community can't even handle dropping their kids off in the school parking lot, much less understanding complex scientific issues that require management of multiple outcomes, all of which have serious trade-offs.
Tax evader bounty hunters sounds like the plot of a movie I'd watch.
What's the notable exception?
Satire typically has a comedic element to it.
Aren't char[] strings and CStrings the same?
Does this actually apply to US citizens at all? All the reporting I've read suggests this is solely visa applicants, which of course will never include US citizens.
Anybody having issues trying to login using Twitter? It says "Creating Profile" and does nothing.
I'm a child of the 90s so I hope you'll accept my apology for looking at this problem through a rather narrow lens :)

Trying to widen it by reading Caro's Power Broker and Jacobs's Life and Death of American Cities.
If bitcoin is a ponzi scheme then every publicly traded asset is a ponzi scheme.
No, that's what the banks want, the users wants something else.
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