skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nancy Pelosi is a mainstream center-left Democrat who just happens to be a woman (!) from San Francisco (!) in a position of power, which gets some people in a tizzy. Most of the outrage about whatever it is she’s saying or doing this week is manufactured by a propaganda machine.

The Koch Brothers, by contrast, have a self-serving radical fringe ideology and no public accountability whatsoever, but because they are billionaires who have organized with other billionaires, can spend huge amounts of money in a subversive campaign to make their fringe ideas seem respectable.

Have you ever heard Limbaugh’s show? My grandfather once was a reasonable, competent, practical mainstream Republican (worked in the White House during the Nixon and Ford administrations), but 20 years of listening to Limbaugh and later Fox News turned him into a ranting conspiracy theorist.
Why do you need a think tank to think for you? Have you not read about the importance of distraction-free, analog, time with yourself and others?

Trust shouldn't enter into the equation, bro. That's fallacious.

'development' is code for domination by a miniscule portion of the global population who use that monopoly of state and economic power to extricate the maximum of value with the least cost (de facto parasitism) while also using that monopoly to guide behavior so as to maintain said relation.
Think tanks are organizations funded and founded on a believe, whatever that might be. Their goal is to support the believe with "research." I am one that thinks that it's possible to put just about any believe in positive light. Given this then think tanks are propaganda machines. It comes down to this. If I believe in the think tank's vision then the research papers are research. If I don't then they are research with a spin. Which is the same as propaganda.

Bottom line, think tanks are propaganda machines. It just depends on what your believes are.
Good Map implemented on top of Vec: https://github.com/bluss/ordermap
There is another open source alternative called Mobile Instant Pages (MIP) https://www.mipengine.org/
Problem is avoiding having to do Vec<Option<T>>
It wasn't too bad for us. We provide gold level healthcare for our employees (~20 FTEs). Companies like Zenefits (yes yes I know) and others have made it a lot simpler to get started.
Honestly, I wouldn't respond to anyone who compares political systems with software development paradigms. Realistically, it's just really hard to compare the two directly, and anyone who says otherwise is trying to sell you something.
Nanomachines that drill into cancer cells killing them in just 60 seconds
A Primer to Jonathan Blow's Programming Language, Jai
I'm curious at to when that example would ever be suitable; memory sizes should be grouped in 3s as well.

The only one I can think of is phone numbers, e.g. Australia is a 4-3-3 grouping for mobiles. But a space has been the standard delimiter there anyway.
Call centres? They have an advantage over foreign call centres operators (more fluent in the language), some companies might pay for it.

Also, this idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15136091
It is not "pessimistic". It is my actual experience both as an end consumer and a (potential) WISP admin. And please don't mention "works fine" and "has data caps" in the same sentence...
> 7) Ban players for PEDs.

Interesting that Americans do not care about PED use in their sports. Oh, they'll feign horror when a cyclist or an Olympic athlete tests positive but have no problem with the unnatural size and strength gains in the NFL or that drug testing in the major sports like baseball and football is a joke or that PED use has long-term bad health effects (including suicide). But concussions! That's not safe! Not sure why, just an observation.
Nah, the paper explicitly states that their system is not recurrent nor convolutional:

> To the best of our knowledge, however, the Transformer is the first transduction model relying
entirely on self-attention to compute representations of its input and output without using RNNs or
convolution.
>>Single-payer is ideologically anathema to libertarians

For Libertarians (LP), maybe. There are plenty of libertarians who see initiatives like single-payer and UBI as the only way to reduce graft and overspending of the federal government, knowing that pure elimination is impossible.
No. The reason? In the nano second to 1 microsecond range your CPU already automatically parallelises your code by using out of order execution. Unless you're wastefully busy waiting, the latency of issuing a new job to a second thread is in the 10s of microseconds. You can't just issue new job without first knowing how much time the job is going to take and whether it's even worth it to parallelise it. Profiling every line of code at runtime will introduce even more overhead. It's far simpler to just let the developer annotate the parts of the codebase that should run in parallel.

Example: r=a/b + c*d can in theory be parallelised but you'd have to pay 10 microseconds in overhead which is likely more than 5000 times slower than just running it on a single core.

TL;DR automatically parallelising a program is trivial, making a parallelised program run faster than a non parallelised program is not
One does not rebut a Gish Gallop.
> People have a short memory, but at the time getting single to double digits of requests per second on a beefy server was entirely typical.

Umm, what? It was not a challenge to get to double digits of requests per second on a beefy server in 2008, at least not in any popular language (including PHP and Ruby). It was (and still is) easy to scale requests of "blocking IO" languages by spawning additional threads at the server level.
Nintendo ordered to pay $10M in Wii patent lawsuit
Best comment in the thread. What other outcome do people expect?

This guy is just trying to sell a book.
I don't have any citation beyond "Graydon told me one time". It was like, very very long ago, possibly before @T even existed.
You'd rather have "6-20mbps with terrible quality" instead of 100mbs from Comcast? Am I missing something?
Neural networks are function approximators. So if you 1) know an algorithm that is really computationally complex but not highly random and 2) have a lot of inputs and outputs of that algorithm, you can usually train a neural network to approximate a closed-form formula of the algorithm. It boils down to a bunch of matrix-multiplies and some standard non-linear functions in between.
> Why even talk about thousands of kilometres when you can speak in tens of megametres?

Probably because when you're speaking about them colloquially, you don't say "kilometres" you say "kays". That probably varies by locale too, I'm in en_AU. How is it over your way?

I do like the nerdiness in the idea of saying "two megs" instead of "two thousand kays", but it's never going to happen.
The majority of infected computers form WannaCry was windows 7, its a common misconception that windows xp was the most hit. But never the less I don't see how this scanner could of prevented that unless he added EnternalBlue etc to the scanner once smb was found to be open.
That reminds me of the racks of 18GB Seagate drives Terraserver used for their maps storage. It was a nice double entendre of terra earth and tera 10^12
I find it interesting that there was no mention of insurance coverage for this new drug or the other high priced drugs such as Harvoni. If it takes months of arguing with the insurance companies to provide the drug what has happened to the spread of these diseases (leukemia or hepatitis c in the case of Harvoni) during this period?

Worse, are we developing drugs that are only available to the wealthiest people? As a former government employee, I am always suspect of claims such as:

>the Switzerland-based company defended the cost by announcing a relatively new approach to pricing: If the drug doesn’t work after the first month, patients pay nothing.

Who determines whether the drug is working? Is there a minimal level of "working" that must be met in order to "pay nothing?" These are the questions that will cause the insurance companies to take even longer to approve payment of Kymriah.

Plus I loved the if it isn't working the patient doesn't pay? When the insurance companies refuse to cover this drug, a patient will only get it by "paying." Then it will be, good luck getting your money back if it is not working and again, will the measuring stick for the determination of working be always moving.

Plus, as an aside, I see Harvoni commercials quite often on TV and in magazines. Maybe if we in the US did not allow big Pharma to advertise just like many other countries then a single dose of Harvoni would not cost "$87,000 and rising."
Insane state of today's advertising part 3
Everything from support, to sales, to web development, admin, security, etc.

I'd list all the telecommuting job sites, but there seems to be a thousand of them now.

The US median income is about $37,000 per year ($17-$18 per hour). To get beyond ~$13 to ~$17 per hour doing lower skill telecommuting work, you have to have a resume with something meaningful on it.

If you're from Appalachia, it's not difficult to teach yourself any number of skills (from database admin to javascript), go to a local small college to pad your resume with that, get a certification or two if applicable, and then get a job working remote at an entry level tech job that pays considerably better than anything local (few of those jobs exist locally there). A person can go work at a local AT&T or similar store doing sales in an Appalachian town, get some sales experience, and then go apply for a remote sales job making more than they'll get locally. Particularly right now is an ideal time, the US labor market is getting very tight.

I grew up in Appalachia and entirely self-taught my way out of it in the mid 1990s. It was a helluva lot more difficult to do back then. And that process is trivial compared to working in a coal mine, and it's a lot less soul destroying than toiling away for a decade earning $10-$15 at a local Walmart.
I'm thinking of finnish-style saunas, which operate at 60 to 100 °C [1] (with 100°C being a frequent option). You usually stay in them 10-15 min at a time, but I guess if you keep hydrated you could stay a lot longer.

Finnish saunas are kept very dry. Sufficiently dry air makes very hot temperatures bearable because evaporation cooling from sweat gets more effective the dryer the surrounding air is. Water on the other hand makes sweating useless, which is why you can't tolerate water temperatures above body temperature (depending on how much of you is submerged).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_sauna#Types_of_sauna
"Air temperatures averaged around 75–100 °C (167–212 °F) but sometimes exceeded 110 °C (230 °F) in a traditional Finnish sauna." [0]

Apparently so! TIL.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauna
Do you have links? All I'm turning up with search terms like "NCR18650BF tesla teardown" are people using that as the closest point of comparison or speculating.
The real reasons for both have probably more to do with flash writes being slow and increasing the chances of running low on space. Probably more chances for the CPU to go into thermal throttling, too. Not everyone has the latest hardware.

Parallel downloads increase contention at all levels: CPU, Flash, FS, local network, ISP, server. Serial downloads make the store a better citizen.
Numbers at play: dynamic toys make the invisible visible
Or any taxi. My trip back from the airport last week had 440k on a Prius.
It's not like I'm in any position to do what you're suggesting. It's a bit late to revamp the entire web "security model" by this point.
I'm always surprised that en_CA and fr_CA are so different. We use spaces as separator and comma for the decimal. Also we use the 24h format while the ROC uses 12h. We do use 12h colloquially though. Dates are officially y-M-d but most people use d/M/y.

It's funny how in Canada we have some specific remnants of the imperial system. Most people under 50 have no idea what a Fahrenheit is (myself included), except for pool water and oven temperature. Go figure.
> So they saved a bunch of money by putting a ton of miles on before age related problems started showing up. In other news the sky is blue.

Even if that's true the comparison to the maintenance and fuel coats of other similarly driven luxury vehicles is still valid.
With relatively rested players lining up against each other on every down the situation is much different from players chasing each other on the field like they do in AFL.

WRs for example have a somewhat similar situation to AFL players since they are mostly being chased by the defense and they don't get nearly as many contact injuries as RBs for example. Not to mention they are protected by (frequently controversial) pass interference rules.

From what I gather, introduction of the helmets back in the day reduced injury rates.
Server side JS is older than that. It existed over 20 years ago. Does anyone remember Netscape Livewire?

It was basically "ASP-style" server-side javascript that ran on Netscape's "Enterprise" web server. It was a little unstable, but pretty advanced for the time (had DB connectivity, etc.)
Not in the general sense that people use. Everything is a "science" just like everything is a "philosophy".

In general day to day usage, science = natural/empirical science.
I have family who regularly drive old bombs. (Do they call them that elsewhere?) They apparently spend half their life at the mechanic. (Slight exaggeration.) Yeah, I'm not doing that.
Researchers find an enzyme that harvests light to make hydrocarbons
Here in Austin we have a local chain serving grass-fed beef hamburger that's cheaper than McDonald's by $1.19. The 'combo meal' is $0.50 cheaper at McDonald's, however P. Terry's also makes their fries and everything else from scratch, without any robots. I think they try to take good care of their employees as well.

http://pterrys.com/menu/
Automatically Generating Commit Messages from Diffs Using NMT
This is trivially true, but only because you can keep stretching the definition of language.

For example suppose a geometer explains something to another geometer just by drawing diagrams with no verbal or textual annotation. You can plausibly claim that "geometry diagrams" are a language, but now you are defining language so broadly that the term is almost useless.
Perhaps it was a bit of a stretch in service of snark.
I agree.

But, I was mostly suggesting that the social pressure that would result from the Ivy schools dropping for cause would snowball. The effects may be the most obvious at the lowest age groups, even more than now. I think that wave of decisions to not play or allow play, would march right up the recruiting pipeline.

I am in the Southeast and my county has no Middle school football, already. The only feeders for HS ball in my area is private leagues.
It was definitely an UberEats order--I asked them. And it's happened more than once so I'm guessing Uber doesn't have any strict policy about putting the food in a closed/sanitary container for transporting.
If it's a matter of opinion that they're not as bad as bee or wasp stings, then it sounds like they're still pretty bad.
Interesting, although the study looked at the results of a face to face meeting, and your experience is all about getting to a face to face meeting.
How much did that cost? and how far are you from wherever it had to be run?
That's somewhat misleading. The Bolt is not competing against the Model S, but the Model 3, which is going to be produced in vastly larger numbers.

Let me add I am disappointed Bolt sales are so low. I want to see EV's entirely replace ICE's, and that will happen faster if there are more different popular brands and models for buyers to choose from.
Pypacker – The fastest and simplest packet manipulation lib for Python
Note: 1000-year when you fix the location, not over the whole U.S.

From what I could find a typhoon is expected to hit this particular area every 10 years or so, so that would place this typhoon somewhere in the top 1% most severe. Over the whole U.S. typhoons happen slightly more than once a year, so an event as extraordinary as Harvey is likely to happen 1 or 2 times each century.
In the age of the internet, shooting the messenger is not an effective way to suppress the message.
I was an intern there. Really enjoyed my time. I didn't put in absurd hours; I just got my work done. Spending time around smart people working on hard problems all day helped me develop.
Boy, "Do no evil" has really gone out the window hasn't it?
Honestly, the fact that you think snopes is unbiased is pretty shocking to me, and gives me little hope that Facebook would ever be able to properly determine what is "fake news".
What if one side is more reality based than the other? Which certainly has to be the case, both sides would not have exactly equal representation of reality based facts.

So your graph is not very helpful unless you want to pretend the Washington Post and New York times are just leftist versions of Breitbart.

Honestly do not see the point or value in what you have done.
About $36,000 and I am about seven miles from where they installed some new equipment in a large box on a pad. I don't actually know what is in the box. I think it might be called a DSLAM?
I'm typing to you from a rural WISP; 5GHz, 12/1 MBps asymmetric service. My link involves about 3 wireless hops in my ISP before I get to wired infrastructure. It's not terrible and is definitely good enough for streaming video and playing games. I do wish I had wired service though.

The biggest problem is the latency. I'm about 40ms from the edge of my ISP before I get to the rest of the Internet (compare 5ms for wired urban Internet.) Also, as you allude to, with a smaller ISP it can often be the CEO's nephew in charge of stuff and professionalism suffers.

My older service was 900 MHz 1/0.25 MBps service. That was pretty awful, just too slow to do anything modern with it. The nice thing about 900 MHz is you don't need a clear line of sight.
It could be solved overnight with a partnership. If the model 3 starts to really eat into mid-price automaker's share they will be clamoring to lock down an exclusive service agreement.
Postgres Explain Visualizer (pev)
Here's a "real" manufacturer datasheet. The spec the battery life in cycles. Op may be correct, I don't know battery chemistry, but I've never seen batteries spec'ed the way the op describes in any "real" datasheets I've read.

http://www.omnitron.cz/download/datasheet/NCR-18650PF.pdf
I run Lexar high endurance in my dashcam had issues with other cards but with the Lexar cards. Its different technology(MLC) so it doesn't have the capacity as other cards but gains in durability. If i remember it stores 2 bits per cell instead of 3.
Components are much more likely to fail from being used consistently than due to the sheer passage of time. I would take a car that has been kept untouched in a garage over many years before I would take its equivalent model year that had been driven 300,000 miles.
Both Google and 'Eric and Wendy Schmidt' are listed as $1 million+ funders.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170821001334/https://www.newam...
I believe that most type theorists will say that's not a type, since it is trivially unsound. Otherwise a Python program is typed, so far as the programmer sorta halfway thinks about types ("I can iterate over this") at some point.
Having swung right in recent years, I'm now dealing with this very problem. It takes a ton of effort to get the full picture on a given story. The more controversial it is, the more google's search results will be dominated by rags like Vox, Slate, and HuffPo.
Tradeoff between weight, battery life, and battery lifetime.

I'm glad phone manufacturers heavily optimize for the first 2 and not the latter.
The Model S is a luxury car. A much better comparison to your Pilot will be the Model 3, though of course it will be a good while before we have the long-term data for it.
Also, there is a centralized facility somewhere with people chopping up the fish. It improves efficiency as you need less staff, but it's not exactly automated.
> I haven't seen much code that uses the bad aspects of JS

> The language may encourage it, but given that none of the JS libs I've used mutate anything I give them

> If I need to make changes while keeping state instead of reloading (which I haven't really seen a need for)

Speaking as an enterprise JS dev the kind of apps you are working on sound nothing like the kind of apps I work on.

I work with a lot of poorly written JS code, a lot of mutable state, and pages with lots of complex state setup.

In fact the state setup is typically so bad developers rely upon unit tests and only check the UI on feature complete.
I guess it's less confusing than using "mm" for "megameters". "I drove my car 266mm" doesn't sound like much of an accomplishment.
My whole point is that defining FP as "programming with functions" or "programming with immutable data" or whatever is incomplete without the idea of being able to do algebra to derive programs.

Now, you can kinda do algebra with LISP and ML but they do not lend themselves to the algebraic approach with quite the ease of (Backus') FP or (Von Thun's) Joy. Backus introduced the terminology and the "higher-order" functions in that paper. I don't think people were talking about "functional programming" prior to that. To me, with my admittedly limited understanding and knowledge, it feels a little "revisionist" to go back and retro-actively anoint LISP as the origin of FP.

(LISP and ML have their own greatness, they don't need to steal John Backus' glory.)

If FP style becomes popular but everyone omits the algebra then it's not going to fulfill its potential.
> To parallel an old saying: "big, fast, reliable - pick two."

Small, surely?

Edit: I'm dumb. Big storage. Duhhh!
These may not be perfectly unbiased sources, but these say otherwise:

https://www.cbpp.org/blog/the-myth-that-the-estate-tax-threa...

https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/ten-facts-you-shou...
Toshiba says their upcoming 3D QLC NAND will be good for about 1k P/E cycles. But like most recent P/E ratings, that's almost certainly given under the assumption that you're using LDPC error correction or something equally robust, so you can't compare directly to the ratings for older SLC NAND.
Secure means encrypted. Most people, leave alone journalists, don't know how to set up PGP and then use it properly.

It's there right in the article as well; the reference to secure messaging vs secure email.
What makes you so certain we live in a world of objective reality?
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15142853
>I do like the nerdiness in the idea of saying "two megs" instead of "two thousand kays"

But they are not the same!!oneoneone. Unless you are in the dog food prefixes camp. Are you?
> That makes sense even if you never experienced how horrible writing JavaScript code is

Please don't do this sort of thing; all it will do is cause people to dig their heels in and fuel the idea that FP is too "dogmatic" or such.

I know you're joking, but I hear this refrain far too often while reading "persuasive" FP articles. This sort of jest just comes off as smug when it's not clear that you're "in the trenches" with JS (or other non-FP coders).
It's not pro-scalping as much as it's pro-market, at least from what I've read in this thread.
Found the old guy
Where is the tacocopter when we need it?
That's why when you share Arxiv links you should never ever share direct links to the pdf.

E.g. If someone shared v1 before the author retracted, by visiting that link (even today) you would know nothing about what happened.
I was being absurd here on purpose, as I was responding to a statement that implied this is what should be done. And it seems to have been edited since. I guess I should have quoted it.

But looks like people thought I was serious.
Stop using yacc. Seriously. There are much better tools out there.