skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People file lawsuits when companies have filed for IPO because generally that leads to companies being in a "quiet period" in which they cannot effectively respond publicly, which increases the likelihood of settlement, etc. It is also extremely common for competitors to seed the press with negative story lines, taking advantage of the legally mandated quiet period to remove the filing company's ability to counter these stories.
It's not. They have a lot of oil which allows them to give back to their citizens.
Is "arterial stiffness" the same as atherosclerosis?
I think many people greatly underestimate the degree to which the body is an adaptive system and, specifically, the degree to which a sedentary lifestyle interacts poorly with this aspect of our bodies.

The thing that brought this into full relief for me was the story of Brian Jones, a member of the Starting Strength community. He fell off of a roof and shattered both legs. Doctor told him he would never walk again, etc., etc. But he did. And then he start lifting weights. Of course, his body adapted to the increasing load he was placing on it.

Specifically, his body responded by growing muscle and making his bones more dense. His bones got so dense that the metal pins which were inserted into his leg bones after his accident started getting pushed out into the surrounding flesh and he had to have surgery to remove them (links to his story below).

I would bet good money that the majority of bone breaks (excluding things like car crashes and obvious stupidity), even in children, are a result of our largely sedentary lifestyles interacting with our body's evolved tendency to not engage in metabolically expensive activity like growing muscle and denser bone unless it receives signals indicating that they are actually demanded by our environment.

Brian Jones' story:

Video form: https://startingstrength.com/resources/forum/articles-and-pl...

Written form: https://startingstrength.com/article/barbell_training_as_reh...
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_fl...
I don't think it's an insurmountable challenge.

Tacotron 2 was trained on 24 hours of single-speaker transcribed audio, which is comparable to the freely-available LJ Speech Dataset. We know that it's feasible to train using unaligned transcribed speech, which broadens the opportunities to reuse an existing corpus. (Aside: does anyone know the legal status of training a DL model on copyrighted content?) Tacotron 2 was trained on a 32 GPU cluster, which is large but not absurdly so; we are seeing drastic performance increases in low-precision compute, which should hopefully start to trickle down as Volta reaches the market.

Expertise is a bigger challenge at this stage, although that is progressively changing. A huge number of developers are taking a serious interest in deep learning, so hopefully we'll start to see more active contributors to DL FOSS projects. The teams at DeepMind and Baidu Research are clearly highly skilled but relatively small, which suggests that their efforts could be replicated by a small but determined team of FOSS developers.
If you read any of the stuff from Fokelore.org you'd realize how mistaken you were.
The simple answer is not to construct a market, but just have the government set a reasonable price.

Another option would require localities to use a bidding system for ambulance providers rather than doing it themselves or contracting a gold plated service.

Maybe mandate the ambulance charge the same rate to insurers as they do non-insured people. A huge part of the "list price" for these services are just an attempt to set the negociation with insurers high.

Also, comparing Uber to an ambulance is silly. They aren't comparible services. Ambulences aren't a hospital taxi. They provide some level of first aid and stabilization.

If you don't think you are going to get or potentially die, you should be taking an uber/taxi/friend ride to the ER.
How high are the doses you’re taking?
OK so it's not just me! I mainly noticed an increase in sleep quality, which I believe is why I feel more even-keeled.
If you can't survive after 20 years without any competition, perhaps you don't deserve the copyright in the first place.
Difficulty of learning a new language for a native English speaker
Go to Urban Putt.
Easy solutions and shortcuts seems to be the norm when it comes to advice. But as usual with these things, the grown-up advice aught to be kept in mind; remember to try all the low-hanging, boring, solutions first, like diet and exersize, before you go on experimenting with stuff like high doses of this or that substance. If willpower is the problem, tackle that instead. (There are plenty of books on the subject.)
My "anecdotal" label was not about "my friends," but because I was not willing to provide a very, very, very long list of analysts consistently making incredibly poor estimations of Apple shipping volumes. It's a concrete enough history that I know I'm not alone in having seen it every year, but I don't want to spend the hours providing links to prove it.

Apple does not release shipment or sales numbers mid-quarter, and analysts have repeatedly demonstrated that they consistently misunderstand mid-quarter indicators of shipping/sales volume.

I'm granting the benefit of the doubt there. It's also possible that there's widespread market manipulation or deliberately-false headlines for clickbait, but I'll assume they're just consistently wrong.
I was talking about this with some co-workers the other day. This article focuses on salary, but consider that sometimes what you want may be extra vacation time or personal days. They may be more acceptable to some managers.
Do we have a performance estimate? I can eat 20 or 30%, but I can't eat 90%.
“Do /l to get the L”
A lot of music was removed. They added really bad limits, like a limit on how many hours you could listen every month. They forced you to create Facebook accounts to register, which means I had to create tons of Facebook accounts to overcome the hours/month limit. And some other things I don't remember.
That's not entirely true. There are no CCS DC fast chargers (the type the bolt uses) in much of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and North/South Dakota. You might be able to drive from Seattle to NYC but you'd have to drive pretty far out of your way to do it.

Super chargers are available in all of those states, making any cross country driving in that area significantly faster and easier.
Phoronix strikes again! I admire Michael's consistency and dedication and their benchmarks have certainly gotten better over the years as PTS has matured, but everything on Phoronix still needs to be taken with a generous helping of salt. New readers generally learn this after a few months; it applies not only to their benchmarks, but also their "news".

The most obvious issue with this benchmark is that Phoronix is testing the latest rcs, with all of their changes, against the last stable version [EDIT: I misread or this changed overnight, see below] that doesn't have PTI integrated, instead of just isolating the PTI patchset. The right way to do this would be to use the same kernel version and either cherry-pick the specific patches or trust that the `nopti` boot parameter sufficiently disables the feature. That alone makes the test worthless.

There is no way this causes a universal 30% perf deduction, especially not for workloads that are IO-bound (i.e., most real-world workloads). This is a significant hit for Intel, but it's not going to reduce global compute capacity by 30% overnight.

EDIT: Looking at the Phoronix page, the benchmark actually appears to use 4.15-rc5 as "pre" and 4.15-some-unspecified-git-pull-from-Dec-31-that-isn't-called-rc6 as "post". I thought I had read 4.14.8 there last night, but may not have. Regardless, the point stands -- these are different versions of the kernel and the tests do not reflect the impact of the PTI patchset.
For desktop users there should not be any noticeable performance degradation. But they are also likely the ones in the most danger, since they execute random code in their web browsers.
This is the first post on HN that make me want to have downvote powers!
> you are baselining your opinions on less reputable U.S. universities (and there are quite a few of them around. The U.S. has over 3000 colleges.)

It was an average state college. Not sure the "less reputable" sounds right but I guess you can put it that way. And that's mostly what the article at hand is talking about anyway.

> you absolutely cannot be admitted without the right grades.

Is the Kentucky State going to call a school in Bangladesh to verify the transcript? Wealthy people who can afford to send kids to school in US with full tuition can probably find a way to "buy" a good transcript from a local school. Maybe you meant that SAT is a requirement, then yes, it thing might have changed and it is more challenging.
I've not watched the video but it's possible Tesla autopilot was engaged at those moments. I'm not sure if that changes the legalities though.
Intention to sell has to be registered with the SEC 6 months in advanced right?
Moxie's point was that GPG doesn't hamper mass collection at NSA because nobody uses it! GPG is definitely more secure than Signal. Signal has probably encrypted more messages than GPG, despite being around for only a fraction of the time.
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I was an extra in a movie once. I was a starry-eyed young adult who had just taken an acting class.

It was not glamorous or fun at all. I was hired for two days and I no-showed and went to my day job on the second day.
19" visionmaster pro 450 here (.25 dot pitch!)

Lasted me a good 8+ years until I replaced it with a Dell 2407WFP.. which, to be fair, is ALSO still going strong today.
Everything in evolution is coincidental though, right? It's all about simple survivability of traits. If one of the traits introduces an imbalance (at a micro/macro level), it'll eventually sort itself out.
When I was growing up in the 80s in the US, I would

- walk and bike around the block by myself when I was 7

- walk to the stores 1.5 miles away when I was 9, sometimes with my 3 yr older brother

- explore the irrigation ditches behind my house when I was 10

- skate down to the mall when I was 13

My parents warned me that the guy across the street with a VW van was 'weird' and might molest me, but didn't try to restrict me much.

I also played my share of Sega games and learned to program on an Amiga and C64, so I was even a bit of a homebody compared to many kids. I can only imagine how dull my childhood would have been if I was barely allowed to leave the house. It amazes me how little people trust their children and society these days.
Makes me think of how the San Francisco Bay Area could have been an even greater city than New York, the next capital of the world, if not for it's failure to expand and modernize the public transportation system and, obviously, the housing crisis.
Wait, really? That's kind of messed up.
this year

Sure.
Although the title sounds kinda clickbait-y, Benjamin Hardy puts some real effort into his blog posts and backs them with many great quotes. It's rare to find success-related lists that don't come off as cliche rehashes of the same old advice.
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> they really haven't learned the (very simple) lifecycle

Building is a simple concept: dependency DAG + inputs -> artifacts. The "->" here can involve arbitrary intermediate artifacts and steps.

Maven ignores this fundamental concept of building. Rather than treat interim dependencies as part of the DAG, there's a hard-coded recipe of lifecycle steps.

This is why I personally cringe at maven - it has nothing to do with the fact that it's declarative (virtually every build system is largely declarative). It has everything to do with hard-coding one particular set of build steps into a supposedly general build tool.
I hope somebody on Twitter has informed Apple about this.
Evolution is one of the hardest things to actually fully integrate into a mental model. There are so many subtleties that just do not interact well with our tendency to ascribe motivation to stuff.
> So, every time either pages are touched/accessed this check needs to be triggered, which causes it to be much slower.

Not to be mean, but that's not what is being changed.

You're right on the bug - userlevel code can now read any memory regardless of privilege level. However the fix isn't to manually check the privileges on each access - that would be extremely slow and wouldn't actually fix the problem.

The fix is to unmap the kernel entirely when userspace code is running. Because the kernel will no longer be in the page-table, the userspace code can no longer read it. The side-effect of this is that the page-table now needs to be switched every-time you enter the kernel, which also flushes the TLB and means that there will be a lot more TLB misses when executing code, which slows things down a lot.

So, to be clear, it is not accessing pages that is being slowed down, it is the switch from the kernelspace to the userspace.
"An (X) emerges" does not preclude others having already emerged.

The article even mentions others.
This comment further down thread mentions it's 20% in Postgres. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16061926
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I worked for HP during the HP/E split. Number one tip: don't work at HP (if you want to actually get the raise).
"Are there some extra responsibilities I can take on to advance my career here?" - That seems a good way to get a lot of extra work with no benefits and a loose date where management will 'revise' whether you are fulfilling it or whether the raise date needs to be bumped further out (the latter usually occurs).

I found the 4 tips on what not to do well written and useful for people earlier in their career. I didn't get a lot from this article for when you find pushback against raises (very common) especially when we're in an industry that fully rewards job hopping and has a wholly broken promotion/retention eco-system.
'Alien megastructure' star is actually just some dust, major study claims
Having seen how much more sociable the Spanish are compared to the English

I can atest that there are many Spanish introverts. In a very open society you must make an extra effort to fit, but that doesn't change such a traits. My father used to push me very hard to go out and meet people. Annoying at the time, but I'm happy he did.
It was just an example. One could have ((link rel stylesheet href "http://host/path/foo")) still.
maybe if they weren't so vulnerable to climate change. My money is on Portland. Good climate projects, tons of natural resources, strong urban growth boundry restricting sprawl. If the state ever figures it's shit out Portland would boom.
The government will spend every penny of it on equipment and salaries, while Google will keep it tied up in a bank account for who knows how long before paying a massive premium to buy a bunch of blockchain startups just to keep Apple from acquiring them.
Step 1. Be valuable

Step 2. Ask for your value

Step 3. Walk if you don't get it
That feels like a consolation prize. And it does not seem like good currency when you change jobs (especially for companies that demand current salary information).
I agree, they never are the fastest, but they know how to make a perfectly balanced in all factors, enjoyable driver's car. Source: I race cars and have driven a Miata on the track.
> My parents wouldn't let me go _anywhere_ by myself until I was at least 17

The sad thing is, your story seems to be the rule and not the exception these days. I fear for a future run by people who grew up being constantly sheltered and hidden away from the world around them, while being "raised" by Facebook/Google/etc.

I hope these parents are prepared to keep taking care of their "kids" well into their 30s, because no kid who was kept locked up until age 18 is going to be anywhere near prepared to venture out on their own before then.
Also I think it's an absurd argument that just because someone pirated your content that they would necessarily buy it. A lot of content is pirated specifically because they think it's not worth buying.
> > In a document, the US Government Accountability office specifically singled out the rise of Chinese companies with state ties as worthy of more scrutiny

i suppose you could say this about almost anywhere, to varying degree, but especially in a place like china: isn't that basically every company? (re: 'state ties')
I'd argue that being 3% worse at hunting than one's competitors can definitely become a reproductive failure.
All their tests are CPU-bound, not IO-bound, namely -- archiving, rendering, encoding video. Performance degradation happens with transactional, IO-bound tasks (think noSQL databases, ad serving, trading)
My honor, mind, and optimism are surviving the sex parties of the poly and BDSM scene just fine, thank you very much.

Thank you for that. I dated a poly woman at one point. Not all parties are the same. From my experience, there is a definite rationality and morality associated with the poly scene which is based on consent. I'm not saying that pleasure is bad. Nihilistic pleasure without regard to anything else is pessimistic and simply doesn't lead to good things in the long run. Even Orthodox Jewish teaching recognizes certain kinds of sexual pleasure as a mitzvah. (In fact, sex has been shown by researchers to encourage neurogenesis. One grows more brain when one has good sex.)
Old math dept joke:

Q: How do you apply to work for the NSA

A: Call your mother and ask for an application form
What I learnt by shipping for 100 days straight
Sorry, but no. It's a serious problem for lower class individuals and families in many cities across the US. Housing assistance programs are often a non-starter, public/affordable housing waitlists are years-long, and rents in the inner city are not meaningfully lower than in other parts of the city. Which means an absurdly high percentage of your income goes to rent, leaving little else for other basics like food and medical coverage.

And if you don't have stable housing, you probably don't have a stable income, and you/your kids probably don't have a stable school life.
Forgive me my ignorance, but I fail to see how this is such a big deal. Even 50% performance hit/cost increase would be... bearable, computations are rather cheap today. ML and other intensive calculations aren't done on CPU anyway. It's not like technical progress of our civilization is slowed down by 30% or something...

On the other hand, shrinking Intel's market share due to bad PR and thus adding some competition into the industry could actually foster that progress.
As measured .. how?
I understand liking your country. I'm an American, too. I like my country, a lot. But, I think that the phrase "we are the best in the world" gets thrown around a lot as a meaningless platitude. It gets used more as a "my team is the Yankees"-style of statement. e.g. expressing your preference/allegiance, rather than meaning what it actually says, which is that the US is the 'best' in the world.

To be the 'best' at something, you need to define how you're measuring that. Healthiest? Happiest? Longest life span? Because when you look at actual metrics for these types of things, across multiple countries, the US does not rate at the top.

Have you seen this clip of Jeff Daniels in "The Newsroom"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTjMqda19wk ("America is not the greatest country in the world anymore")
True. I forgot about that.

Trump seems to think it will lead to the ACA falling apart. He might be right but only as part of the entire current insurance system falling apart around it. I really don't know what the intention was, there. As simple as fulfilling a campaign promise no matter the cost?
Cocky Road, obviously.
I'm surprised you can get so much additional range. My Tesla typically gets the EPA rated range in good weather at 65-70MPH. A 25% increase in range would require driving significantly slower than the speed of traffic. Is the Bolt's range really so understated?

LA to NYC is a pretty unusual trip. The Bolt is still a difficult sell for more typical long car trips, though. I've done a dozen thousand-mile legs in my Model S without a problem, but they'd be really tough in a Bolt. The chargers do exist for the routes I've taken, but they're not very conveniently located and often are single units, leaving you vulnerable to being blocked, broken, or in use.

I think the Supercharger network is adequate for road trips, but it's the bare minimum to make it reasonable.
As far as I know, you're right: "Jobs never did a lick of engineering in his life. He had me snowed," Alcorn later recalled. "It took years before I figured out that he was getting Woz to 'come in the back door' and do all the work while he got the credit."

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/127537/Steve_Jobs_Atari_...
I just want to share an observation about articles like this. It's that I never hear the same thing later from my doctor. Either doctors stick with their old methods -- what they were taught in medical school -- or the online information is a little premature. (One study finds one possible connection, but further studies don't turn it into an actionable prescription regiment.)
I just read yesterday that the CEO sold all his stock except for what he's required to hold by corporate bylaws, a short while ago.
Man, you should see the errata for some ARM-based SOCs. It's amazing that they work at all.

Vendor, in conversation: "We're pretty sure we can make the next version do cache coherency correctly."

Me (paraphrased): "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out."

Management chain chooses them anyway, I spend the next year chasing down cache-related bugs. Fun.