skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The part where the author tries to tie Brexit and the election of Donald Trump to the user-hostile web is bonkers.

I also thought it was pretty weak of the author to shoehorn these things in his essay. All politicians/parties use "big data" for their campaigns, don't you think the democrats were doing the same thing? And since he's from France, he conveniently forgot to mention the Macron campaign last spring.

This topic is too important to point fingers like that.

I agree with everything else in the post though.
> rather the container room for the ship

Didn't they discover ship graves outside the pyramid?
And if they scrap oil subsidies too, the market can figure it all out. But looks like most direct and indirect O&G subsidies will remain.
Please mention the 'many problems' in some technical capacity, otherwise you're just spamming.
I always wonder, when I see this kind of character, what happens each evening when they go back home and sit in their sofa, what goes through their mind?
https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Neural-Science-Fifth-Kande...

This is a good text, at an upper-div/grad level, of fundamental neuroscience with all sources cited.

That particular connection is straightforward to do in humans. A Golgi stain to the rector muscles/ON and dissection in cadavers would be sufficient to trace the reflex to the SC and then another Golgi stain to that area to get back to the optic nerve. I'm unfamiliar with the toxicity of Golgi stains, but it may be able to be done alive.

Also, the visual systems to the brain-stem are remarkably conserved through evolution. I would not be surprised to see this connection in lampreys. That any significant percent of humans lack it would be a hell of paper.

Blind individuals usually have these reflexes too (like Stevie Wonder): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight
The feature I'd be looking for in this is to be able to recursively scrape for contact information (email, phone number, etc.)... that doesn't seem possible with this?
Stupid Question (I work for Google):

Why not move to QPX Enterprise, which continues to be supported? https://www.itasoftware.com/
Although I agree with your sentiment, having the government step in on behalf of the internet with more regulations seems like a step backwards.
I mean, that's why I'm participating in the discussion. :-)

Ultimately, I'm basing my viewpoint from this PDF: the "Is parallel programming Hard" free online book.

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/perfb...

> Line 1 defines an atomic variable, line 5
atomically increments it, and line 10 reads it out. Because
this is atomic, it keeps perfect count. However, it is
slower: on a Intel Core Duo laptop, it is about six times
slower than non-atomic increment when a single thread
is incrementing, and more than ten times slower if two
threads are incrementing.

The PDF changes over time. But this line can be found on page 42 at the moment.

--------

So according to the tests done by the author here, atomic operations are CERTAINLY slower, even in single-threaded cases.

I can't say I understand why they're slower, but something is definitely going on.
It's multi-faceted. It shows your ability to think quick and how you solve multiple problems. If you stop in the middle of the list and try over and over to come up with an answer, how will you react to a real problem? Or do you just give up when it gets hard?

It's testing more than just rote memorization. You also have to explain any commands you write down, what they do.
How would you rate the downstream impact of delivery failures in this project?

Respect and kindness are great virtues when you're shipping widgets. If your product failing means that end-users are going to physically suffer and/or die, I don't think they're going to care one bit about those virtues or respond in kind though.

I'm not saying you can't run a big project without kindness and respect, but I'm saying that's way down the list of importance vs not harming your users. Whatever it takes to get that chief goal accomplished needs to be done. Linus' approach has clearly been working for decades now...and it especially is in this instance.
Curious if this would impact the yet-to-be-produced Tesla Model 3s or if it would only discourage future automakers from manufacturing EVs?
The freakishly strong base
As a developer, I find this an useful API to validate links of my CMS generated websites within my CI system. This way, using sync requests to my sites, I can easily await the results and fail the jenkins job or promote the deployment.

By the way, here the output on news.ycombinator.com: https://brokenlink.io/api/check?url=https://news.ycombinator...
I mean it's kind of the point of tax reform. You eliminate deductions that only wealthier people benefit from and lower the rate over all. You'll see a lot of deductions go away that are good on their own but in aggregate with all the other deductions give us such a massively complex system.
This was my main reason for leaving Facebook, almost every post in my feed seemed to be a video or an image with text in, why not just type the words instead of wasting all that bandwidth?

Generally the value of the content was extremely poor and very click bait-y. My analogy I use is I see using Facebook like eating junk food when I could be spending that time consuming more meaningful content.

I've probably been off Facebook now for a year and I don't miss it one bit.
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When I meditate, I just focus on the act of breathing, and actually try to keep my mind from wandering. This flexes the be-in-the-now (awareness) muscle such that I have improved attention afterwards. I like this because then I become so much more attentive to the many little triggers of emotions I don’t want to experience. I also might be more creative, but not sure yet.
I would not call content ranking semi-successful just because it isn't actively being gamed now - there was a time before Google served ads.
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It seems like there's a hard limit on how well this approach can work, defined by the extent to which the distribution of words in texts uniquely identifies their meaning without reference to any external semantics.

With monolingual corpora and no semantic grounding, all you can say is that certain words (or letters, morphemes, or whatever) covary in certain ways that are similar to the ways in which other words covary in the other language. It's super interesting that this is enough to identify some translation pairs across languages.
Often surprisingly hard. The other country is a big factor - Ireland is easier than Iran, the Netherlands is easier than North Korea.
Ask HN: Would you send a self-driving car to pick up your kid?
I'm curious to know people's thoughts on this. Given a fully legal self-driving car, would you be comfortable sending it to drop off and pick up your kids from school/soccer practice/etc?

What security or safety features would you want to see on the car in order to feel okay with this?
Wasteful as in we can do better. Did you see the link in my comment? One of the authors of that paper is actually a Turing award winner.

Ultimately we've reached a point where there are more efficient alternatives to having hundreds of people computing billions of hashes to reach consensus. To put this in perspective imagine a group of people sorting by randomly permuting and checking if it works, while stubbornly refusing to adopt near linear algorithms.
Exploring the early WWW of 20 years ago, I recall a cautionary sentiment to the effect of "This is all free today, but eventually, they'll charge for everything." It's funny how that came true in a way we never predicted: Everything is still "free," and yet everything is also monetized. Rather than a paywall in front of every website, a hidden "spywall" extracts payment in other forms.

They ended up charging for everything after all, only through an indirect and vastly more complex, opaque, and far-reaching system.
Advertising tax, privacy law, monopoly breakups.
I bought a Prius Prime earlier this year anticipating that such a move was possible.

This would be a real shame, though, because it does help level the playing field a bit given how much our country invests in oil.
> Also any lock implementations also use a cas or equivalent internally

But if you have a data-structure with say, 20 ints... you have two approaches.

1. Use a mutex (which may be CAS-based under the hood) at the beginning and end: 1 lock and 1 unlock. The 20-ints are then accessed with non-atomic operations.

2. Use atomic operations on those 20-ints. But in this case, you pay the "atomics cost" each time.

In many cases, #1 may be faster than #2.

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Sorry for the 2nd response, but this is a different idea than what I was talking in my 1st response.
Ask HN: How to force customers to be more efficient
Hi all,

I work with a customer's engineer (subject matter expert) that is responsible for reviewing some outputs from my tools. Specifically a video. Specifically dozens of videos a day.

I sync all the videos to dropbox. He views the videos manually through the dropbox web video player. This is painfully slow and lacks fine grain control.

It would be much more efficient if he synced the folder, but i can't seem to convince him that the minor overhead of keeping the folder in sync would drastically out weight the hourly annoyance he gets from viewing through the web interface.

Any feedback on how to actually convince him to make this change?

Thanks
Yes, definitely for HTTPS in general -- we have detailed instructions for each of 6 different platforms/browsers (e.g., Android, Chrome, Firefox, Windows/Mac desktop). However, the certificate pinning is actually really tough to get around for apps in Android and iOS these days, so those your mileage may vary there
There you have it folks: what the bernie bros were saying the whole time.
>In this case, "avoid passive voice" is a pretty good delta, statistically speaking. Most writers use passive voice too much.

Exactly. Passive voice is the easier default for most writers and unfortunately, it lacks punch.

Example of a classic passive voice sentence: "Mistakes were made."

Writers love hiding behind passive constructions like that. But the reader wants to know _who_ made the mistake. If possible, write the agent into the sentence: "Nixon made mistakes." or "Kissinger made mistakes."

There was a writing style book that compared 10-K annual financial reports from companies that got hit by accounting scandals (Enron, Worldcom) vs clean companies (Berkshire Hathaway & Warren Buffet). There was a significantly more passive voice sentences in the dishonest companies. In contrast, Warren Buffet writes in a lively active-voice style ("I invested in this. I lost money on that.")

(I wonder if there's a hedge fund that uses text analysis software to scan 10-K filings to quantify which company is overusing passive-voice as a parameter to their models.)
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I cannot remember the last time I saw a video in my facebook feed (in the feed, not directly linked). Maybe your facebook friends were just particularly annoying.
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Maybe not today but within a few years. Once they have demonstrably proven to be safer than humans I would do it.
It sounds ridiculous now, but consider that when it was first put up, the Eiffel Tower was meant to be a temporary structure for the World Fair in 1889, with the term giving Eiffel the rights to commercial exploitation of the tower for 20 years, after which it was meant to be taken down. The terms required the tower to be build to be easy to dismantle.

Even though it was decided not to take it down in 1909 when the rights reverted to the city, it was not a given it would remain up permanently.
Something I was doing recently required an API with sports scores and I found out how astronomically expensive sports API's are, so I gave this a shot on an ESPN page with game statistics (http://www.espn.com/nba/game?gameId=400974869) and the results were basically the amount of info you'd get from a facebook link preview
Hard to say and compare in what regard exactly? Price wise, much cheaper. Data wise, it depends. Mainly on in what kind of data you are interested in. Will probably return better results on text-heavy pages, but the data is probably often less "deep". So really depends on the use case. If you have a question to your use case, you can simply write to api@link.fish .
Fun fact: Cleopatra and Mark Antony etc. lived closer in time to the invention of mobile phones than to the construction of the Great Pyramids. Egyptian history is deep.

Funner fact: the Great Pyramids were built closer in time to the invention of mobile phones than to the construction of Göbekli Tepe. Human history is way deep.

Funnest fact: if we don't fuck it up, we're still only at the dawn of history, not at the end of it.
The states and cities that are coming forward with ridiculous EV mandates should be the ones covering the subsidies, not the entire nation.
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In my experience, once you get up to the 100s of threads potentially touching global structures, locks impeded scalability significantly. Even if each of those threads is modifying the global data. The key is to design your algorithms around the kind of structures that are amenable to lock free algorithms. (The experience I'm referring to: http://www.scott-a-s.com/files/pldi2017_lf_elastic_schedulin...)
Sadly, most of the deductions that disproportionately benefit wealthy people aren't going anywhere (mortgage interest, IRA/401k/tax-free savings, FSA/HSA, etc.) since they appear to benefit everyone and foster the american dream of home ownership.
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How about CO2 taxes on fossil fuels then?
> You eliminate deductions that only wealthier people benefit

The Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt aren't particularly upper class cars. Neither is the Model 3.
If we just eliminated subsidies in the oil & gas world, I can promise you the economy will move towards renewable extremely fast.

Make it a phase out of two - four years..., it would boost sales of EV's and our entire transportation network much more quick than EV tax credits would, AND, it would be a fair market for once!

It would spur innovation, create many jobs, we would lead the world once again in regards towards moving to a 100% renewable economy, etc... so many things.
The fat, old pigs/politicians of the O&G industry need to be shown the door... It's 2017... we can do this now.

Not to mention the extra long term taxpayer savings on currently increasing medical costs...
At a first look it's much cheaper than Diffbot :)
You're holding two currencies, one loses about 2.5% of its value a year, the other gains about 1500% (some huge factor) of its value in that same period.

Which one do you purchase the coffee with? The one that's losing value as you hold it, or the one that's going gangbusters?
For those who are worried about the length of SQLite support, SQLite is being used in the Airbus A350

https://twitter.com/copiousfreetime/status/67583454330408140...

This means that it has long term support for the life of the airframe which for passenger airliners can easily by 50+ years (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737 which is still flying after 50 years).
This is not some exploitable loophole abused by the ultra wealthy.
Yes right now not. However an endpoint for exactly that is actually planned. So you can simply write to api@link.fish and we can inform you when it is ready.
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I think what you describe most people lump into the "lightweight" characterization.
how would you do it with create-react-app ? the ecosystem around CRA is incredible (e.g. https://codesandbox.io/) and it makes a lot of sense to build on top of that.
The passive voice issue is secondary to the other issues of the sentence:

1) Ambiguous antecedent - to what does "which" refer - special hardware? Lower energy consumption?

2) Exploiting is not a noun. "The exploitation of special hardware..."

Perhaps:
A well-known technique to lower energy consumption is the exploitation of special hardware. ...
I'm glad I haven't spent any time on it.

"Docker is fantastic! You can run anything you want, easily. Except, uh, don't try to run a database or anything like that. Oh and here are a dozen different flow charts and tables explaining how to handle networking. And uh make sure you still do all of the same VM provisioning for security since containers don't give you any. Simple!"
A million people cut the cord in the last 3 months, cable companies are worried
You didn't just talk about the debate. You stated as a fact that many vaccines have improper testing or substances. If you state something as a fact, you should be prepared to back it up.
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~ rolls eyes ~ if you seriously believe the market magically deals with externalized costs
Profanity, like any other piece of language, is a tool.

It exists and is perpetuated in a culture's lex lingua precisely because it is an effective tool.

Expletives like this cut right through rational and emotional filters to trigger exactly the kind of response Linus was looking for -- after three weeks of arguing, the guy finally realized his mistake.
Heads up that I'm getting a "Too many requests for the month, sign up for an account at https://www.prerender.cloud/" when trying to go to any of those links.
If we want to leave it all to the markets, we need to consider the externalities too, e.g. through a carbon tax.
* Mortgage Interest is dropping from 1-million to 500k.

* State / Local tax disproportionately benefits richer states (which tend to have higher income taxes). That's also going away.

The real issue IMO is that the standard deduction is going up, and the top tax rate is going down. The overall effect seems to be a tax-increase for me and a tax-decrease to those who are richer than me.

They probably should close the backdoor Roth loophole, and a few other corporate loopholes (Irish Double Sandwich or whatever its called).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
O&G companies are able to write off the cost of doing business just like other businesses. They are not "subsidies".

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drillinginfo/2016/02/22/debunki...
Some of the Model 3s, it is per manufacturer and begins to phase out after 200,000 vehicles.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/28/tesla-is-running-out-of-fede...

So people at the front of the line would be eligible for the full amount.

The ongoing drop in battery costs is likely a bigger factor than the rebate though.
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Pen-testers have been hammering hard on SQLite for years. Attacks against SQLite are not as easy as you imagine.

Pen-testers do still occasionally find minor problems. See https://www.sqlite.org/src/info/04925dee41a21ffc for the latest example. But generally speaking, it is safe to open an SQLite database received from an untrusted source. If you are extra paranoid, activate the "PRAGMA cell_size_check=ON" feature and/or run "PRAGMA integrity_check" to verify the database before use.
> $300M/year in revenue, or enough to afford 1000 $300K/year engineers [or actually more like 1000 $200K/year engineers once you figure in overhead].

I think you're massively underestimating overhead. Each person who works on a product should make a max of 15-25% of what they bring in. If you have a repair shop and you charge $100/h, you should be paying your techs $15-25.
I agree. It is ridiculous. But it's also ridiculous for someone to polute the air in a public space (it's different if they are off somewhere I can easily avoid by walking a different way). And yes, I also do not like the smell, but it's both. I also have minor breathing problems that I don't want aggravated.
It seems that peoples through the ages have respected the pyramids enough to leave them mostly intact and undisturbed, giving us the unique heritage that we have today. I can't help but contrast this with the British explorers who just started blowing through it with explosives and pulling stuff out wholesale.
So if a large platform like facebook changes, simply stop supporting facebook? Wouldn't that kind of make your library very limited?