skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, core count is meaningless. What matters in most desktop cases is price per performance , especially price per performance in your specific use (what's your percentage of single thread vs multi thread work, mostly). In a server scenario often performance per watt will be king.

If Ryzen can deliver a similar Cinebench score to a CPU hundreds and hundreds dollars more expensive then they have a something. Whether they do that by occult magic or squeezing more cores/threads in, doesn't matter to the end user.
That would be VERY USEFUL. Speaking as a tech founder who had to learn and appreciate sales after launch.
You could read the report.

Basically UK spends less overall, 9.9% of GDP vs SWIZ's 11.1%. While UK ranks higher than SWIZ on the report's definitions of Care Process, Access, Efficiency and Equity. SWIZ ranks higher on Health Care Outcomes.
I don't understand the mentality behind "people are still using _____?" comments. What are you trying to communicate here?
Conversely, the young have always been plundered for the old. The old have always held the political reins. This is the bit that millenials are missing. The Xers before them were plundered and misunderstood by the old. The boomers before them were plundered and misunderstood by the old. It's not new, and the millenials aren't experiencing something that hasn't happened before. As a very simple, short example: when have post-boomers in Australia ever experience conscription? We've been involved in a few wars, but the last conscription was of the boomers, in the Vietnam war.

Yes, housing affordability is terrible in this country at the moment. But if you could choose between being a young boomer (with no foreknowledge) and being a young millenial, you'd be insane to choose the former. Especially if you're a woman or a minority. My mother was born in mid-1946 (a literal post-war boomer) and was a teacher in the 1970s, and was legally paid 2/3rds of what male teachers earned, simple because of her extra X chromosome. This is the kind of thing that never gets mentioned when millenials are bitching about how much worse they have it now; they never mention all the advances that have happened in the interim. However boomers have been through that. They know what it was like before. And that's why they grumble about millenials. Is it fair? Probably not, but neither is the millenial picture of boomers.

(disclosure: Xer myself)
Oh wow 10/10 great find.... Get a girl homie
What is the basis for the assumption that the subscription is high-ish in comparison?

In an ideal market, you would expect the discounted subscription to match the upfront payment, which would mean that the "high value" is simply the price that they have to pay to get those future subscription payments (or that they could sell those future subscription payments for on some sort of "customer subcriptions market" if there were one). Once they've bought them, they also have the risk of rising interest rates wiping out the value of that investment.

(And also, this doesn't really apply all that well in this case anyway, because your typical software license subscription is not a perpetuity, the span of time that people will want to pay for using the software as it is now is rather limited, and they can pretty much stop paying at any point, while you'd supposedly have spent the loan from your bank on your programmers, and your bank will still want to get their interest payments.)
if you are worried about any of the sensors on your phone always being on, remember that Apple and Google need their relative OSes to make battery charges last as long as possible. So always on stuff is problematic. For a good user experience Bluetooth and wifi usually need to be on, but GPS, camera and microphone usually don't.
I think all of your examples fit perfectly haha :)
> Housing again follows supply and demand. It doesn't matter the size or luxury of a house, if there's nobody willing to buy it, prices will drop.

But it doesn't necessarily follow it in a straightforward manner in any particular location.

If you knock over a building of 5 crappy old apartments in a dense area to build a bigger building with 10 new, bigger, luxury units, it's easy to imagine scenarios where the net effect is more supply but also an even larger increase in demand:

- If the new units are condos, it's unlikely those displaced renters are going to be served by the new building.

- If the units are much more luxurious they could attract wealthy commuters to move into town, who otherwise may have been outside of the demand sector for the units because of lack of AC, or in-unit washer/dryers, or whatever. (I'll admit to being this sort of housing consumer.)

- Alternately, they could attract absentee tenants who would rather just leave the place vacant and just use it as a second home. Or AirBNB it most of the time. Or (if condos) use it as a assumed-relatively-safe asset or investment.

Things are complicated. And in places like SF, LA, and NYC, people do have enough money and are willing to buy right now. So the question is how do we best help the ones with less money short of "just build enough new luxury condos until all the rich people in the world are satisfied"?

Apparently in NYC the last few years we've just about built all the 50+M condos that the market can bear - that's a long way from helping the people who could only afford 100k.
Why the fuck do all you kids ask the same question. Search for other posts asking the same thing
Interesting thought regarding the r&d spending in the US versus the rest of the world and hence subsidizing global health care. I did look at some numbers in a more recent publication [1](page 21) where the latest r&d numbers for both healthcare and biotech are listed. Germany‘s spending seems to be on average a little less than 1/3 of the US which would make them equal on a per capita level. The UK seems to be a little below those levels. Do you have any data to support your claim?

[1] https://www.iriweb.org/sites/default/files/2016GlobalR%26DFu...
There's some more detail in the online summary on their own website: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/interactives/2017/july/mirro...

On cost (which is under the Access category), Swiss seem to self-report having at least somewhat more problems even with the health insurance. For example: 22% of Swiss self-report having had a "cost-related access problem to health care in the past year" (UK 7%, US 33%), and 21% of Swiss report skipping dental care or check up in the past year because of cost (UK 11%, US 32%). Also, 46% of Swiss report having paid more than US$1000 for out-of-pocket medical expenses in the past year, which was the highest of any country in the study (UK 4%, US 36%).
> Do you think banks are going to turn down the profit of a black mortgage if it is profitable?

I'm sure you've heard of redlining, and yes it does still happen: https://archives.hud.gov/news/2015/pr15-064b.cfm

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/11/business/dealbook/evans-b...

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-and-consum...

Those are just a few examples that happen to be linked on Wikipedia.

> Do you think this lady on the mountain is just going to turn down money because the renter is Asian?

Yes, because that's what she said. I do my best to take people at their word unless there's a good reason not to.

> I'm just saying it's not the norm.

We could argue about what "norm" means, but at the very least, it's common. It's not just isolated incidents of crazy people doing crazy things.

I'm sorry but I didn't really follow the rest of your comment. As far as I can tell there's no culture clash or unwritten rules at issue in this story.
Sales Bootcamp has a great one. Don't let the fact that it's free scare you away...it's really good. I know the founders and they're top-notch. http://courses.salesbootcamp.com/p/sdr
US App Store only at this stage it seems. Pity, I'd like to try this.

edit: I'm wrong. it's in other stores as well, but not in the Australian app store, which is the one that I tried.
Fortunately they seem to be all dog ticks around here, not the Lyme-disease carrying deer ticks:

http://www.tickencounter.org/tick_identification/dog_tick

However, that information only helps some people feel comforted when they find a tick on their person or in their home.
Ethics and Computer Science Education
The key thing that this hits on is that it is bad engineering to replace a simple system with a vastly more complex system for the same task.

The correct approach, which the author points out, is to leave the simple system in place and then layer the more complex system with its additional features on top in a way that when it fails it does not break the base level system.

On the same topic, it might be good to keep POTS around, just in case we ever want to make an analog phone call again.
Can you expand a little more? I'm really curious what else he got wrong.
so there is a meeting with buzzwords and more but unless they are changing who is running the cities and counties this is just a cash and headline grab without any hope of real results.

the push needs to be find candidates for office who believe the problem is a real as you do and then work to see them obtain office. you are going to get past the liberal establishment which has maintained this status quo for years if not decades by getting in the NYTimes. You need to get into city hall. you are going to go up against a wall of feel good phrases and heaps of guilt for all the issues you will cause; likely environmental; and its best to show how letting more people in a smaller area is better than having them commute.

what is the coverage of this event in California? Does anyone actually know about it or is it smothered in back pages?
https://github.com/apex/up/issues/4
I'm also really puzzled by the omission of Japan. It has the highest life expectancy in the world, I would expect a comparison of health systems in the developed world to include it.
Is there anything those outside the US can do?
9 attached, 2 crawling. I don't stumble on many deer ticks, even though my dog and I put in some 30 miles a week running through the local singletrack parks!
If you can only save $2.5k a year, and you're spending that instead on breakfast rather than other things, then you clearly don't have the will to save even if you earned a lot more.

Are you aware that 'being poor' existed before the modern era? And that it's normal for young adults to have a below average wage? And that while the percentage of people renting has increased a little recently, it's not that much higher than 70 years ago?
How is always-on useful for Bluetooth? In fact, it's a huge vulnerability if that's the case. On Android I simply turn it on to connect to something and off to disconnect.
Twitter link to article to bypass paywall: https://twitter.com/infosblockchain/status/88594050066600345...
Super excited to experiment around with this.
Another wish of mine, is the reporting of the installation conditions on every individual installation.

It's a long time past, but I can't forget my experience in small businesses, where I had to disbelieve any reports about performance problems, until I had full access, or even on site immediacy to get a idea of the circumstances.

I'm fed up with Microsoft getting the advantage of being the only one who collects metrics aggressively or at all.

The open source community should be the first to get the data out of customers from the production systems

How can we do this?

I'm just feeling a personal sense of futility from my experiences optimising code as well as installations to sometimes minimal effect, bounded by the hardware budget. I certainly learned a valuable part of my skills in that way, but I have ever since felt sceptical how much of the development effort would be better allocated, if true installation performance instruments were reporting the whole user base.

(one assumes a R user will be well equipped, but I expect it to be a broad spectrum of hardware, from students in India to multinational developers working with the latest generation.

Its often true that the most impoverished users gain the most from optimised software and the ethics of this result are impeccable. I'm simply asking for the concerted collection of instruments metrics to support optimisation efforts in open source software. Putting the authors, creators and hackers first, is something that I wish was done as part of the process of promoting FOSS and the provision of quality insights into how their work is used, I think should be the basic foundation of our responsibility and gratitude for their work. Not to mention the improvements in our work which will result. Surely this is not impossible to solve. I have often thought about a package manager taking snapshot performance characteristics and reporting to the developers by way of a public page update. But I've not even seen the idea anywhere else, and don't understand what gives...
The site states:

"The Bestseller Rank was chosen as the popularity scale. The Bestseller Rank loosely indicates how many copies of the book were bought recently on Amazon. This turns out to be well correlated with quality."

Why should popularity automatically equate to quality? Here are a couple of examples where this is not true. For instance if I search by "algorithm and data structure."

I see "Data Structure and Algorithmic Thinking with Python: Data Structure and Algorithmic Puzzles "by by Narasimha Karumanchi ranked above "Data Structures and Algorithms in Python" by Michael T. Goodrich. The book by Narasimha Karumanchi is absolutely terrible, it's filled with typos, plagiarisms, poor English and code that simply doesn't work.

So why is it ranked higher? Probably because the Michael T. Goodrich book is an expensive(but quality)text book while the Narasimha Karumanchi book is just plain cheap. Even look at the user reviews on Amazon for Karumanchi book, its an abomination.

Also there are a number Packt Publishing titles on here. Looking at these rankings you might believe that one of their books is 3rd most popular or 4th most popular so they must be of decent quality.

However Packt Publishing are generally not very good quality publications, they are often not spell-checked, have grammatical errors and often do little more than paraphrase existing documentation. They just crank out titles with little regard for quality - 'make 'em cheap and lots of them.'

If I search by "Intermediate" books. I see a Packt Publishing title ranked above the "Powerful Python: The Most Impactful Patterns, Features, and Development Strategies Modern Python Provides"by Aaron Maxwell which is an excellent book.

Why is it not as popular? Possibly because the author also sold the book DRM-free on their own website?
It removes an entire department and source of variable from a 'company' that doesn't need it.

Ultimately you aren't going to deny someone coverage based on cost*, they're going to end up in an ER and 'written off' which will then be billed in to everyone else's costs. Worse, the outcome for the individual is often less good and frequently means they will be, overall, more of a burden on society than if they had received proper treatment in an early stage.

Instead, the 'cost' of billing that is 'outsourced' to the government's tax collectors, which are going to be the /very/ last thing removed if ever.
We are rolling out on-prem where the customer runs the package registry on their own infrastructure. The set up process takes a bit of customization depending on your environment. If you have Docker containers it's easier. If you email me I can get you rolling: aneesh at quiltdata dot io.
In my line of work I am very rarerly actully looking at a running executable with an interactive degger.

More often I am navigating through source code comparing it to logs, stack traces and other evidence that I can grab of what went wrong in production.

The source-level is important, because although I said "debugging" in my comment, what that very often comes to is first figuring out the intent of some other engineers from the thing they wrote -- and what they wrote is the source code, not the program state.
They already are such companies, and have deep experience at automating all aspects of customer service.
And they say millenials are entitled...

> We are living in the richest and most technologically advanced civilization ever to have existed.

That's always true at any given moment in time. 100 years ago, someone was living in the most technologically advanced civilization but they still had to budget. We're not in star trek the next generation yet.
From what is explained so far, this process doesn't kill mosquitoes. It just makes sure that some of the females (that reproduce 5 times in a life of 2 weeks as an adult) get fertilized with unproductive eggs. http://www.denguevirusnet.com/life-cycle-of-aedes-aegypti.ht... The eggs of aedes aegypti can be spread anywhere and the fertile hatch whenever their area gets wet in the next year or so.

Does anyone know what % population reduction impact this process results in? They'd have males likely die after 2 weeks and that just wipes the reproductive chances of the females in that period. Google is treating for 20 weeks in dry weather, which is not exactly the peak reproductive season of this mosquito.
I'd personally suggest the Molding mobility routine to you as something to do every day. Works wonders for the back.

Here, have a look https://phrakture.github.io/molding-mobility.html
I have had thoughts about how we attach meaning to symbols in computers (our designed computational systems), and how a physical system like a landslide, or accretion disk or something could accidentally assume forms and computation-like behaviours which we could attach symbolic meaning to, yet mostly do not /can not as we are not watching.

With such a vision there is strong ambiguity in the world over what is potentially symbolically meaningful to someone, the meanings things can carry, and the stories their symbols can follow. I think that essential ambiguity of interpretation, of the apparent orders and symbols in the world, makes nonsense of the popular idea that we may ourselves be certain sophisticated symbolic constructs in an advanced simulation.

Sorry for this but I am in the middle of doing something else and have only skimmed this paper but it looks tantalisingly relevant...
France ranks higher in some studies. I did a lot of personal research after "Sicko" the movie was released.
That's an oversimplification. I want a 10k sqft house for $3 but that option isn't on the table. I think the GPs point is that the desirable/optimal options may not be available
US Army Cyber Command Ad Has “Hidden” URL of Test to Become Mid-Grade Officer
No. The constitutions define the limitations of government, not the other way around. It is those limitations that people give governments to act on their behalf within those limitations. Again. It is amazing that this has to be explained to an American.

Guns are not 'legal'. The government doesn't have the power to take them away from you. Free speech isn't 'legal'. The government doesn't have the power to take it away from you. These amendments which you have brought up are about defining the limitations of government. QED.
1) This doesn't solve the problem. In many places properties are already built to the maximum capacity allowed by zoning laws.

2) In California, any significant changes to property taxes will likely require a majority vote via a ballot initiative.
Why would the elite worry about that, life is good in a monopoly, no need to upset the balance.
Or, you know, pay out of the general budget, which is what will actually happen and everything will be fine.

Governments aren’t like households. They get to print their own money, so budgeting freak outs that apply to one don’t really apply to the other.
Border patrol says it's barred from searching travellers' cloud data on phones
Goreleaser – Deliver Go binaries as fast and easily as possible
Open google maps. See that Uber icon? Swap it out for Waymo. Done. Google could even afford to hire drivers as actual employees and properly schedule them if they wanted to.
Hmm, ieee.org still has Flash ads

[Edit]

Sorry maybe not a flash ad. Upon further inspection it was an iframe whose contents were blocked by my ad blocker, presenting me with that grey box in chrome. I'm not going to disable it to check what it actually is.
I've been teaching classes on machine learning for engineers (shameless self promotion: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/technical-introduction-to-ai-ma...)

One of the coolest parts of teaching these classes is how awesome the people are that show up. The engineers that want to learn new things mid career are exactly the kind of people I want to work with and hang out with. I think there's a real opportunity for more classes like this.
There are some important differences from git: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14772036
That doesn't seem well-reasoned
Sure, first lets get rid of prop 13. Good luck with that!
Not when you have to actually make money haha. Can't really execute without money, that's the entire point of startups, starve out the little guy with your free offerings until you can sell the team and hype.
So, what's your point?
You've just explained why people want bitcoin.
Is there a cutoff for length of that stretch? (minimum)

Or minimum revenue before they took outside capital?
In Canada the narrative is that increased population is "needed" to support social services, but inconvenient facts like certain classes of immigrants, who happen to be one of the largest demographics, pay no taxes when they arrive is not considered relevant to the discussion.

Managing future budgets is claimed to be the motivation for the immigration increase, but does not stand up to scrutiny, and the government is not open to questions on the subject as it would constitute hate speech.
Xyclone Makes His Mark on Billboard
Wouldn't it be great if inflation aligned with price increases then.
I'm sorry about that, I was not trying to editorialize the headline at all, I changed the first part to "YC" because the original headline was too long:

"This influential Silicon Valley firm is compiling a blacklist of venture capitalists accused of harassing women"

It appears the WaPo changed the headline:
"This influential Silicon Valley firm is spearheading a blacklist of venture capitalists accused of harassing women"

NewsDiff still has the original:
http://newsdiffs.org/article-history/https%3A/www.washington...

It would definitely be good for the mods to change the title to reflect the new WaPo headline.
Indeed. That's what bitcoin is. The store of wealth.
It is important to note that this is the launch retail price.

AMD's design is cheap and high yield so they can cut prices a long way.
There exists cache friendly applications that see zero to minimal change with more bandwidth or more channels.

There also exists cache unfriendly applications that see large changes with more bandwidth or more channels.

Games generally are cache friendly, many easy benchmarks are cache friendly. But generally more aggressive use of a machine (which is presumably why you buy a top spec CPU) is generally less cache friendly. Also people notice worst case performance much more than average or best case. Audio skipping, user interface lag, etc.

You can see this effect in action when you compare single thread performance to multithead performance using every CPU. L1 caches are generally note shared, so if it's less than N times faster for N CPUs you are seeing software overhead (the cost of synchronization) or cache misses (in L1, L2, or L3) or of course main memory bottlenecks.

I've seen plenty of cases on older servers where running on all CPUs of single socket was FASTER than all CPUs of two sockets, but that's much less common these days because each socket has it's own memory system.

I can assure you that the entire server market and high end desktop market isn't running 2 to 8 time the memory bandwidth just for fun. The bandwidth is expensive and justified.
In my life, I have never even heard of anyone making a purchasing decision based on Energy Star.