skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could see either local caching or (assuming the storage backend provides access to file metadata like date/time stamps that are internally consistent) I can think of several ways to have any instance of the application consolidate those small index files into larger ones such that you'd mostly need to load the consolidated file plus any individual entries modified since its timestamp. If those consolidated files were appropriately named you could even have multiple instances creating them at the same time without causing collisions. Cleanup could be a little trickier, but could likely be done with very little risk as long as a little bit of storage bloat wasn't a big concern.

Interesting thought experiment, thanks for mentioning your real-world experiences with it.
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10 Honest Thoughts on VCs
1. Think of investors on the bell curve. Most of them are in the middle, 25% at the bottom, and 25% at the top. You only want the top 5%. Hint: look at returns.

2. Investors look at the same decks and do the same number crunching. The ones that consistently choose the right companies have something that the other VCs do not.

3. The VCs that are good understand companies in a way that is beyond metrics. They are intuitive. You don’t want a VC that is obsessing over numbers. You want a VC that sees beyond and trusts themselves enough to take risk.

4. There are great partners at VC firms, but, ultimately, they have to serve that VC firm. Make sure the culture of that VC firm is a good one. That culture will impact that partner and that partner will impact you.

5. VCs don’t like to admit that they are primarily money people. The fancy offices, coffee, etc. is all about putting in small money and later getting out big money. Don’t kid yourself into thinking it is more than that.

6. VCs will say anything to get into your company if it is hot. They can be like a high school kid trying to get laid. If they think they can get you, then they’ll say whatever they need to say. They just want to get laid...sorry paid.

7. Being a VC is not glamorous. Most of them are unfortunately not happy. It is competitive. They compare themselves a lot. Look at the life they live. Do you want that kind of life?

8. Most VCs are not terribly insightful (see #1) and all VCs will make poor judgement calls. The best ones own up to it. The lousy ones deny their mistakes.

9. VC's control the company. Even the very smart people that have “hacked” the SV system still serve investors. You have to keep them happy. If you have to keep them happy, then you are not in control.

10. The best VCs are conflicted about VC. They know how it can crush a founder or company. This bothers them, but they deny it and keep rolling forward.
As a person who deeply enjoys developing with python, I'd have to reluctantly say R's tidyverse is a delight to use and often faster than pandas in my experience.
Amazing demos. My favorite: Dan Ingalls's demos live programming in Smalltalk-76 (1:01:12).
So Rust it is then, eh? Could work through the kernel module by module to rewrite it in rust, but it'd be a multi-year process (like Firefox's rewrite has been).
This hints at the ideological chicken and egg problem here - wealth centralization breeds power centralization which breeds state corruption. The corruption of power through centralized wealth is presented as defenders of such wealth as an indicator of the states inability to impartially control such corruption.

The trick is the corruption already happened. The money was already too centralized, and has already done damage to the integrity of public institutions. That however is not a reason to abandon such institutions in favor of the monied interests that brought about the corruption, it is a reason to more seriously pursue means to purge the corruption and restore democracy. When that centralization of wealth causes that corruption, that means you need to address that vector in your ideology and policy goals as a citizen.

Ignoring it is just a long term means to eventually collapse the society as a self sustaining growth of both inequality and corruption consumes all prosperity and growth.
Grinnell field notebook method [pdf]
Here's a potential use-after-free, listed in my query:

https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/14014

Of course it's using unsafe code and doing other crazy stuff--a lot of these issues are related to shared, mutable, tree structures. But that's precisely my point. When you're implementing something as sophisticated as Servo and trying to keep things performant and multi-threaded, concurrency is hardly fearless. Servo does this and they have bugs.

Indeed, being "fearless" is precisely how you end up with these bugs, in Rust or any other language. If you're fearless you're more apt to move from a big lock to a fine-grained locking mechanism. That's error prone, including in Rust.

It's like that dude in Florida whose Tesla flew under the tractor trailer. He was fearless in the same way inexperienced engineers using Rust will be when they hear "fearless concurrency". They'll push the envelope when they have no need to, because that's what inexperienced engineers do who haven't been burned, especially when they think their tools make them fire-proof.
Yep, that's an example of what a social media based propaganda campaign looks like in the US.

Thankfully, though, there are very important differences to what it looks like in China. Correct the Record has only the resources of one political party, not the entire government, and it exists in opposition to a bunch of equally well funded forces from the other party. You're free to call CTR out on their bullshit, whereas calling the CCP out on its bullshit can easily lead to prison camp or death.

In the US there are meme wars, but in China there are none -- just a boot stamping on the face of a Pepe forever.
There’s a nonzero probability Satoshi burned it. They could’ve burned everything they mined and just buy small amounts during the ramp and they’d still be a multi multi millionaire now, while maintaining heir anonymity, and helping secure the stability of their creation.

Not saying that’s what happened, just that logic hardly precludes it.
I like the idea. The role of the teacher would be to coach students (like giving them advice, monitoring progress). What was missing from the MOOC formula was real person, in the flesh accountability for learning.
Loopback next is actually looking quite good, if you're in to typescript.
I appreciated the point that VCs think about education differently than the masses.

Reminds me of the AirBnB guys pitching their original idea of people renting out their couch for strangers to sleep on and getting thrown out by virtually all of them. “Who would EVER want that??”
I have never tried it, but I am interested in the Grinnell field notebook methodology:

https://pages.wustl.edu/files/pages/imce/mnh/grinnell-journa...
> but companies like Duolingo or Clever seem to prove a few of the author's arguments wrong.

Except we have no idea whether these companies are actual businesses or not (i.e. have profits). Anectodal - Clever has just as much funding and number of employees as another EdTech business I know about that also interacts with "millions of students" but is barely pushing beyond a few million dollars in revenue. This isn't enough to sustain a business with 100+ employees in the bay area.
Video of the live demos from the event: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15710264
I switched a few weeks ago, and this week I've switched to Nightly. I haven't used FF in around 5 years, and it's much, much nicer now. Containers are great, the customizability is awesome too: I wanted the bookmarks toolbar to only show up on the new tab page, and it took a single CSS rule to make that happen. Not to mention I feel it's more privacy-friendly.
Art is supposed to inspire our inner eye for beauty. Seeing the 450 million dollar price tag, i feel an unusual amount of anger, disgust, revulsion at the ostentatiousness, excesses and brazen corruption of the rich and of the fine art world. I feel more disgust at this than i would at the usual gaudy, blingy excesses (like gold-plated cars and mansions) of the tasteless wealthy. I suppose good art can also seek to inspire these feelings, even if the price tag has only cheapened the actual artwork in my eye. I wonder how the millions of the poor, nameless, talented artists around the world feel about this.

A portrait of Jesus Christ of questionable origin and authenticity being sold by a Russian fertilizer magnate for 450 million usd. Says quite a bit about the times we live in, Doesn't it?

edit: Sorry for my salty tirade; Just sharing a viewpoint.
Doesn't NumPy use SIMD instructions? There's no mention of that in the article.
unlike high school? lol. you are right, being on someone schedule for idk 12 hours a day (classes + hw) is one of the most humane experiences. in my model at least you get to pick your own path and each student might get a pretty unique experience if they choose to.

what's inhuman about this btw?
I don't see how the value of a Da Vinci painting is a triumph of marketing. If marketing was ruling, I'd expect a contemporary piece of junk to be higher valued.

As it is, I think you have something of undeniable, a classical part of European and world civilization, given a monetary value that seems a bit absurd.

And seems more easily explainable in the way that commodity bubble can be explained - combine investors wanting something guaranteed to be worth something and investors following trends into bubble territory. All exacerbated by the general trend to print money when the financial system is under threat (so money goes into stuff that seem "of certain value").
I am not aware of any ways in which wireless RF spectrum is required for humans to survive.

The rest of your post is non-sequiturs that I'm not going to bother engaging.
That’s a lot to ask of Stanford University.
I call BS on the comments that say doing what you suggest is giving up...
To me, "Liking" something implies expressing your opinion publicly, probably via Facebook. When I receive a job application, the first thing I do is check to see what the person has publicly posted. That's not surveillance. Before the general population starts to worry about surveillance, they need to think about the public image they are portraying online.
I can't hire someone who posts stupid shit publicly. It could damage my business if my clients look them up.
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The painting doesn't have to move.

Sadly, this appears to be true. Tons of art just sits in secure warehouses like gold bars, never seen by anyone. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-freeports-oper... (I've never heard of Rybolovlev before, but his name comes up in this article as well.)
One thing that took me a long time to `get` was the concept of voltage is a bit miss-leading if you look up the definition even in the video of (http://afrotechmods.com/tutorials/2016/10/03/basic-electrici...).

Everyone wants to talk about the penitential energy and what-not. Though that is mostly pointless unless you grasp the first fundamental concept of voltage. Voltage is just simply the effort exerted by electromagnetic field on neighboring electrons.

As soon as you grasp that all definition of voltage relate to the real world of doing `work` eg... heating, moving then the concept of voltage of amps is a lot easier to understand.
I stopped reading when I reached "USAian". What a stupid term.
Hah, interesting. Brake pad is a mild insult in Russian, used in the same way slowpoke is used in English online these days.

I've always wondered which languages use brake pad (or any part of the braking mechanism) in the same way.
I can’t believe people really care that much about seeing ads for pet food after Googling for the vet that they would let something like this run constantly in the background. Absolutely unfathomable to me.
One has to agree with your sentiment. In addition, I have spelling checked on many sites wherein I do not have javascript active - this is a part of the Mozilla functionality.
The DaVinci brand has been promoted for centuries.
> This says a lot about our hero worship tendencies.

Does it? Or does it say more about its value as being incredibly rare, and one of only a few Leonardi paintings.

You understanding the value of scarcity right?
Pascal was developed at a time when you couldn't count on both upper case and lower case being available. I learned it on a Control Data Cyber (6-bit character set) using Teletypes.
After six long centuries dormant they also were influenced by their Arab neighbors. Their philosophy would all be from around the same time, until 1054 they were a part of Christian philosophy.
64-bit only?
>>Of course not! They are benefiting from whatever the difference is between $450.3M and what they expect to sell it for in the future, discounted to present value.

You're writing about him, so he's benefiting. He knows and everyone in his social circle know that he has a painting of DaVinci. His children's friends etc etc. After securing our daily bread and then some, we do things for bragging, pleasure..

Not knowing the buyer, it may also be a way to move cash outa his corrupt country (Russia, China, Saudi Arabia...). 'Whatever happens, I have 2 apartments in NYC, one in Miami and a DaVinci painting i can sell'
Of course not. Most people would not. I wouldn't spend that much no matter how much I had.
"1:1 tutoring is the gold standard for educational outcomes."

Is it? I'd be interested to see some data to support or refute this. I'd always assumed that students benefit somewhat from other students being around (due to observing how others learn, being pushed to be better etc.), so perhaps the ideal ratio would be in the 1:2 to 1:4 range.

If people have really figured out that 1:1 is better than 1:2, 1:3 and 1:4, I'd love to see that data.
Because academic-style and bootcamp-style education is largely a bullshit.
As opposed to apprenticeship which happens in real business conditions.
And if you put your life savings into a hedge fund and it blows up ?

See http://hf-implode.com/index.html#lists for a partial list.

Even the famous Marc Mezvinsky's notoriously "well supported" Eaglevale Partners fund has shutdown up after losing 48% of investors funds.
I also noticed ALE was very slow with JavaScript so changed it to run on save only.

However Neovim’s plug-in architecture is a big improvement. I’m running Deoplete (which provides intellisense like functionality) on the same machine, and it is basically instant. There are GIFs at the bottom of the repo:

https://github.com/Shougo/deoplete.nvim
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Thank you. I will surely upload more stuff in future but it won't be on any sort of regular schedule.
If jury duty is anything to go on, they'd pay minimum wage regardless of the suspect's income.
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I dont think they are correlated. It is not difficult to imagine a totalitarian society where criticism against the establishment is not tolerated; many auch have existed and many such exist today.

The characteristic that marks non-thar-ness is a strong desire to deescalate. Willing enough to retaliate, but unwilling to retaliate in greater proportion. Overretaliation leads to a toxic society, but a society that punishes offenders only enough to disincentivize uncooperative behaviors builds a cooperative society which has citizens not living in fear of dumb mistakes.
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Of course they would build six story buildings if we allowed them to. But why would we stop them at six stories?
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The simple truth is, we have no idea. Of course we don't. Data points so far: One. Statistics on that kind of basis tend to be rather meaningless.

One thing we do know to be extremely unlikely: That we - exactly we, us, here at this specific point in time - should somehow have arrived at a point where we can confidently secondguess the universe in all its glorious details. We can't, and we don't really even have the foggiest idea what kind of life is possible, or how it comes about in the first place.

All the Drake equations in the world can't hide the fact that we know nothing. Every single galaxy may be bursting with life, or we may the only specimens anywhere in the dark, cold void.

My personal guess - which is no better or no worse than anyone else's - is that life or its functional equivalents is more or less everywhere, but that intelligent critters like ourselves are exceedingly rare.
There's a positive framing of the idea of mining (or collecting) information about yourself and selling it to your boss: it can help get you raises and promotions.

After all, when you ask for a raise you're in a wonderful negotiating position when your value is clearly quantified. When you mine/collect the information yourself, you get to choose how and when you present it. Thus you are selling the information to your boss and reaping the rewards yourself.
> And all for what? So you can turn the lights on after you go through multiple steps to unlock your phone?

The fact that they're IoT devices is kind of irrelevant, as is their function. The underlying question is: to what extent should manufacturers be made responsible for the damage their products cause?

If you make an electric heater that routinely combusts during normal operation, your customers and the state have some recourse against you – not that it would happen, because there are generally standards in that industry. But if you make a device that quietly becomes part of a botnet, you really aren't going to suffer; even the reputational issues are generally minimal.
It is a misconception that RT means "lowest possible latency".

It actually means "latency with a known upper bound". The point of it is to be able to give engineering guarantees - the actuators on the rocket engine vanes will move within N milliseconds of the input voltage from the gyroscope module changing; the robot arm motor will be de-energised within N milliseconds of the laser perimeter sensor activating.

Bounding the worst case can often mean making trade-offs in the best case, and that doesn't make sense in HPC because the hard upper bound just isn't necessary in this environment.
What about VW though? They got around regulation.
You don't. Tax man cares not how you bought it, only that tax is fully paid when sold.
I'd add Texas Instruments, with their graphing calculators. They have an extremely low tech product whose prevalence actually detracts from kids learning to make effective use of computation. But they've established a monopoly position by understanding what real problems they're actually solving: 1) Moderating development to within a pace that teachers and the curriculum / testing industry can keep up with. 2) Keeping cheating under control.

Disclosure: I have two kids in high school, both of whom need graphing calculators for their schoolwork. Both would prefer to use Python/Jupyter.
That would let them cook up libel charges.
> this sort of regulation will simply select for large companies who are experts at paperwork and soft bribes.

Which are exactly the kind of companies who can do good engineering, so why wouldn't they do that instead?
I've been programming for 50 years. While I'm 71, I'm still a good programmer. Your age is not a technical handicap.

The issue is the perception of potential employers and co-workers. I have been repeatedly advised by folks in the field that age prejudice is wide-spread and substantial and that I should hide my age when seeking admission to YC, etc.

You might turn your age to your advantage. The education attainment of folks your age is maybe 4 years out of date. A high quality crash education in a rapidly evolving speciality might give you an attractive advantage over other folks your age. But, I suspect that self-taught is not going to do it for you.
i would include self-apprenticeship as well since people can learn many things easily on their own now (via internet)... unfortunately taking a bad class can rapidly kill a person's interest, especially if they have already invested considerable time into the subject matter
If by long-term you mean at least fifty years, then maybe.
It's rather annoying how we're so loose with these terms, of Islam, Persian, and Arab. Most of the important people of the Islamic Golden Age were Persian/Iranian [1].

>"Culturally, politically, and most remarkable of all even religiously, the Iranian contribution to this new Islamic civilization is of immense importance. The work of Iranians can be seen in every field of cultural endeavor, including Arabic poetry, to which poets of Iranian origin composing their poems in Arabic made a very significant contribution."

> Science, medicine, philosophy and technogy in the newly Islamized Iranian society was influenced by and based on the scientific model of the major pre-Islamic Iranian universities in the Sassanian Empire. During this period hundreds of scholars and scientists vastly contributed to technology, science and medicine, later influencing the rise of European science during the Renaissance.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age
it's 20 million lines of code.
I think the main interesting thing here is that one can build bulk circuits .... many, 100s of, embedded layers deep as you build a 3D object .... the next step is obviously an integrated pick&place that embeds components in something as it's printed ... and of course the step after is something with enough precision to lay down say 2u FETs ...
When I was in grade school, 20+ years ago, TI calculators were legitimately an impressive high-tech product. (and in some classes or for some quizes, you weren't _allowed_ to use them). They... haven't changed too too much since then. Somehow TI got from there to here, maintaining market success the whole time, but completely changing in how they fit in the environment somehow. Odd.
Yes, interesting, thank you. I've never heard bromskloss used that way in Swedish, but then, I'm Danish, and don't really know this neighbouring language from the inside.
Of course, but the point is that you shouldn't really need to spend weeks updating your code just to upgrade to a newer version of the compiler.
I wonder whether Python itself will improve faster when the development team no longer needs to maintain 2 versions or whether the burden on them will just reduce somewhat.
Source for those interested: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/lib/refcount.c

I'm kind of surprised that the authors went with compare-and-exchange for their ref count, rather than get-and-increment. Even if the counter does overflow, it's usually detectable, and reversible. This is true even in the face of concurrent updates. The benefit is that there is only one atomic operation in the fast path.
You could triage. Zorro bus support can probably wait until someone has a specific itch to scratch.
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