skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>they'll totally forget that allocation is expensive no matter what the platform or runtime.

Well, it's easier to do in a managed language. When you literally don't have to agonize or obsess over every allocation because you aren't responsible for cleaning it up (unmanaged held resources withstanding), you tend not to do so.

P.S.: You're always free to drop down into C or C++ if you want to get some speed, but of course you need to clean up after yourself there. A friend of mine wrote a good guide on doing so, if anyone cares https://github.com/TheBlackCentipede/PlatformInvocationIndep...
We geeks do indeed need to be armed with apt analogies for Net Neutrality and its absence.

My current favorite is: toll booths that charge you different amounts depending on your destination. Or, highways with different speed limits depending on your destination.
Best expressed by the philosophy of Butters:

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/southpark/images/b/b3/A_...
I think both "as" and using "transmute" for non-exceptional circumstances are mistakes in Rust.

There should instead be a bunch of type-specific cast operators that can check things like alignment and that what you intended to be a zero-extending integer cast is not in fact truncating to a smaller integer type, and so on.

It's not too late to deprecate "as" and discourage using "transmute" in favor of those.
That is why the "AFAIK" was there :)

Few years ago I read some paper from Ericsson that described non-moving generational GC explicitly designed for Erlang's data model which could even be implemented in terms of malloc()/free(), I'm not sure that it was relevant to how it is implemented in current BEAM.
Yeah, it's a bit dense. Sorry about that.
There have been many, many studies discrediting the folk remedies proferred in this thread.
The big difference is that you can point your own custom domain at Medium, and if you want to leave, you can move your posts to your own site and maintain the canonical url structure.
so where do you usually hangout online for your musical interest?
This makes me want to go test me upload on my gigabit down connection...
I know nothing about autism.

One of my parenting strategies for stopping undesired behavior was to "reboot their brain". Versus scolding, punishment, etc. That usually means something physical. When timeouts stopped working on my minions, I escalated to pushups, then sit ups, then jumping jacks, peeking at wind sprints (running back and forth).

It's very hard for a child to continue being naughty when they're pumping iron.
Read my reply below. The prescriptions are standard the pore unclogging/extractions and peels are the real differentiator. Oh yeah and the Diet restrictions.
I do not know why you're being downvoted. I feel your comment added to the discussion of the article

I also learned recently that sebum production -- and inflammation -- are both complex mechanisms. As with most regulatory systems I wouldn't be surprised if they were linked in some way. But obviously I don't want to claim this in some hand-wavy way. Can you share any reading material you found when exploring the topic?

I have recently started Spironolactone for various PCOS symptoms, including acne vulgaris, so it's of interest to me
Really agree with that last part about framing it as a better spreadsheet first.

What's the language you're working on? care to share a link?
Well, I'll be dead before it gets too bad. But yes, the next few centuries will be challenging. China, Russia and Canada will do well, I suspect. Maybe even the Sahara. But not most of the US and Europe.
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...and the “nothing” is claiming all of Phantastica.
Chocolate is the culprit for me as well. Sometimes sugar too, but, not as frequently or as much as chocolate (but the acne seems subtly different from the chocolate one).

Out of curiosity, does chocolate have any other effects on you besides the acne? Like easier bleeding/blood thinning? Or other inflammation besides acne? It has more than one effect on me and I surely can't be the only one observing it.
> this is true for everyone not just cyclists

Exercise increases the amount of lung exposure to particulate matter per unit time. Biking is also a slower mode of transit which increases risks, further cars have built in air filters which further reduce risks.

So it's really not equivalent. On the upside, bike paths need not be next to traffic and in those cases may reduce exposure.
Perhaps I should have said "that no one uses directly".

I tried out Mastodon but didn't become a regular user. So I'm just curious, are you claiming a million monthly active users or a million accounts created since inception?

A million a month is roughly what serverfault.com gets. If you have 1MAU/month, that's a nice achievement, though it's still 1/130th the market share of twitter.

I hope Mastodon keeps growing to level out the playing field. That's why I suggested a way to make it easier for other sw engineers to support it.
Inflammation is a symptom of most auto-immune diseases. Usually the inflammation is caused by your own auto-immune system attacking your healthy cells.

Some examples Uveitis (eye inflammation), Crohn's (bowels), Reumatoid Artritis (Joints). Usually these diseases come in pairs, so some people are just more susceptible to whatever causes these diseases. Right now there is no cure but in the last decades huge progress has been made in suppressing these diseases using biologics, but they have the side effect of suppressing your immune system which may be dangerous.
It's a useful reminder that incredibly smart people with amazing technical literacy don't necessarily have the same scientific literacy.
I also believed this for a long time but recently I stumbled upon this https://www.malwarebytes.com/remediationmap/

Obviously this is an anti malware company PR (but please look at the MS Consumer (defender) failed detection rate). This made me research again the AV landscape and then I found this https://fatsecurity.com/tools/test-results-calculator?compan... A website that seems to aggregate a lot of AV independent tests in an easy to use UI.

MS Defender is not really good now. Even free AV are better and have lesser performance impact than Defender (but obviously come with ads, less privacy, etc.).

(I submitted recently the map to start a discussion about it but did not seem to interest anyone)
The title os the blog is to ambitious.
In critical systems like traffic light and elevators the key is to have a simple system so you don't need to test the crap out of it. Using something like a finite state machine.

Part of making fewer mistakes is going for simplicity over complexity.
> . How many people in the world have the IQ to write a program of say 100 lines that does something useful?

Have the IQ necessary? Probably 90-95%.

Have the training? Significantly lower. The training required consists of both being taught a language/medium to express thought it, and being taught a structured cause and event method of thinking.

There's this incredibly pervasive view in a lot of areas that programming requires some amazing IQ. It requires about the same level of IQ as reading & writing. But just like reading and writing, it requires training, and from a younger age the easier. If someone wants to approach it later in life, then having already learned or being familiar with transferable skills and thinking helps immensely.
Favorite quote:

"But what Jeff (Goldblum) doesn't know and what Michael does know is that a Macworld crowd is not a tough crowd at all. They're basically teenage girls at a One Direction concert."
If you're going to overtly retro/exotico-stylize then why not go the whole hog with kæl? :)
I do it to mark where I'm at in the post if I need to switch to something else temporarily. Makes it easier to continue from where I left of.
What is the power & effect size?
This very little evidence that diet affects acne. I'm glad you found a solution, but food probably had little to do with it. Especially "greasy" food, which is one of the items they list on their website.

They also say that antibiotic solutions are a "myth", which is patently false.
By "general space" I meant "rethinking programming to a certain extent".

Our particular version is at http://ellenandpaulsnewstartup.com. A good way to think about it is "build instagram in an afternoon", though our internal guiding light is lowering accidental complexity for backend apps.

Our goal is to make it easier for existing programmers to code (which will have the deliberate side-effect of enabling non-programmers and programmer-adjacent roles to code too).
Imagine that you could aggregate all the anecdotes shared on the internet. It would be fascinating to compare the statistical conclusions you could draw against accepted science.
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The national roadmap is absolutely massive amount of R&D going into self driving cars for example or solar batteries
> Herein lie a group of incredibly smart individuals

Citation needed.
I burn easy too, but it still helped. I know people that can eat what ever they want, and it won't affect their skin. And some people that avoid certain foods because it makes them break out.
I vaguely remember reading that Tardar Sauce is a retcon of the cat's real name.
The idea of "hey, this strange thing worked for me, and I don't wholly understand all parts of the system but it seems to have some results" is pretty much the core of what "hacking" is, right?
Agree. A better food analogy would be like some all-you-can-eat 'consignment-style' buffet where a venue provides booths for vendors and charges customers an entry fee. Then at some point the venue realizes that customers are really liking one or two vendors, consuming a lot of their food, so the venue decides to also start charging those vendors people consume the most food from.
zstd is in snappy's domain, as a low overhead way of reducing bandwidth usage. You've got devs writing some service that talks in JSON or protobuf, just rub a little zstd on it, and bingo, your bandwidth is reduced.
I think this happens often around here on anything non-tech related. Surprise, being smart doesn't mean you know everything ;-)
Also anything science related.
The paper also only observes two groups: "the Kitavan Islanders of Papua New Guinea and the Aché hunter-gatherers of Paraguay."

That's not anywhere close to all non-Western populations!
Those are both confusing analogies to me. Don't toll booths already charge you different amounts depending on your destination? We don't have "toll booths" here in Canada that I'm aware of, but on the express toll routes such as the 407 through Toronto, you're charged based on the distance you travel. Is it not the same in the US? I seem to recall that on the Ohio Turnpike you end up paying more if you're going from Toledo to Cleveland than you would if you got off at Sandusky, because you go through more booths.

Seems to me a more apt analogy would be that they lower the speed limit across the board, and then charge drivers more to get the original speed limit back.
It's not just melting and thermal expansion. There's also loss of mass at the poles, which increases sea level elsewhere.

Edit: sense
The OP comment strikes me as having a rather jingoistic/nationalistic tone, so I sort of doubt its sincerity regarding question of efficacy of Ayurvedic practices.

Any culture that has been developing food habits via trial and error for centuries has some that are beneficial, some that are harmful, and others that are neither harmful nor beneficial.
Sugar and carbs.

Read Weston A. Price's, 'Nutrition and Physical Degeneration'
Agreed that if you have the control (and potentially the time depending on the algorithm), type specific compression is the way to go. Having said that, zstd beats Snappy handily for text ^_^

On enwik8 (100MB of Wikipedia XML encoded articles, mostly just text), zstd gets you to ~36MB, Snappy gets you to ~58MB, while gzip will get you to 36MB. If you turn up the compression dials on zstd, you can get down to 27MB - though instead of 2 seconds to compress it takes 52 seconds on my laptop. Decompression takes ~0.3 seconds for the low or high compression rate.
I think it's more that, when people sit down and debunk the arguments against high tax rates, the people who believe in supply side economics don't read them. Which in some cases is because they'd rather watch old cowboy movies. In others, it's because they simply don't care. It's an extreme case - but consider what happened to the last accademic economist who tried to use economic arguments against the external imposition of supply side. He was called Yanis Varofakis. They ignored him, the press called him a nut, then they just went ahead with the austerity package.
If you want climate change to be taken seriously don't use extreme language. Otherwise it's too easy to be called alarmist and nothing will happen.
I don't think it's true, but in every company that is growing it's existing product lines YoY without burning them to the ground, it will asymptotically approach this.

Do I believe it? No. There are large numbers of people working on completely new, crazy ideas, and just like the startup community, 97% of them will fail utterly. The number of new machine learning oriented things has grown exponentially. But how much innovation do you need in order to prove you're company is innovating? Justin the last 2 years:

Google Photos, clearly innovative, bringing ConvNet's to everyone to reduce the pain of photo management.

Tensorflow, now the dominant platform for ML

Kubernetes, now the dominant platform for container management, and from experience of systems invented internally

SmartReply system (first launched on Inbox, now ending up in many Google products)

Tango, eventually rolled into ARCore

Neural Machine Translation launched on Google Translate

Loads of Google Maps stuff, mostly invisible to people, except for the keen eye (https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat/)

GCam in Pixel2. A ton of research and innovation is behind the low light and portrait segmentation in this

Waymo

Cloud TPUs

AutoML

WaveNet/Tacotron2

Instant Apps

Spanner

Those are just the small list of public ones. Yegge worked on internal dev infrastructure, I work on Gmail. Both are maintaining important needs. Someone has to do it. I'd say Google has the opposite problem than what Yegge posed, and that's not enough focus on excellence in maintaining what people are already using.

The thing is, if you want to work on disruptive stuff, with maximum risk taking, and no politics, you go found a small startup and get seed capital. And even then, a huge number of startups are merely clones of existing businesses. "Uber for X", "Slack for Y", "Blockchain for Z".

Innovation, disruption, and copying are a continuum, and all too often rants take an extremist position and try categorize things in one of the other.
I find the opposite to be true. I think it's terrible that really smart people will often times blindly trust a certain sect of society on health issues, even when there's evidence that says they shouldn't.

And then publicly shame others for finding ways to heal themselves.
It gets worse, actually. People often, accidentally, click on the pen icon after highlight some text and end up highlighting that text permanently for all readers. And you, as the writer of the post, have no ability to remove that highlighting.
The problem I have with your statement is that you are attributing something to somebody about which you know nothing, based on almost no information.

A less asshole-y phrasing would be "I wonder if he had reduced his ambitions somewhat, it might have had more chance to succeed".
Please respect the fact that some of us actually read comments and reply to them thoughtfully. Throwing around trite accusations of “strawman” arguments doesn't help anything.

The comment I replied to was claiming that it was the git workflows (I assume for submitting, but am open to correction) that make this cumbersome. I was pointing out that in an enormous repository (and I did mention my current employer as an example too -- and we use Git, not Google's internal tooling), just getting to the point of having the latest version of some far-flung file that you usually never touch open in your editor is cumbersome enough to make this feature a win, regardless of whether the workflows for submitting the change disappear altogether.
Yes, but there's a point where the rate hits a critical level that dumps it in a runaway feedback loop. Have we hit that rate already? We don't know enough to say, but it's fairly likely that we'll hit it within the 21st century.
When I was a teenager, I saw a dermatologist for my Psoriasis. I somehow wound up with a prescription for tetracycline for my acne. Not only did it not work, but I was constantly sick for a full year after I stopped the medication.

There is no moral to this story.
That's already changing very rapidly. "World coal production fell by 6.2%, or 231 million tonnes of oil equivalent (mtoe) in 2016"

What changed is both solar and wind cost less than coal. So, coal is being fazed out about as fast as alternatives come online. Give it another 10 years and the landscape will look very different.
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Check it out, this is happening. They are doing many crowdsourced analysis, the most prominent being a 30-day carnivore diet protocol: eat meat, drink water.
No need to apologize, I agree with the assessment.

In the clear light of day, that comment was just me vomiting words onto the forum in the vain attempt to justify the effort I put into grokking that comment. :/
If you haven't read Peter F Hamilton's Commonwealth saga, you might appreciate it. Memory editing plus effective immortality is an interesting concept.
I think you missed the link to the discussion in your comment.

Would taking 10x the RDA of Vitamin D daily have any side effects? (overdose?)
These are important issues but I still doubt civilization will get destroyed. Let's warn of likely scenarios. These are bad enough. No need for exaggeration that then can easily be refuted.
I think the parent meant they charge you different prices for going the same distance on the toll road, if e.g. one driver's final destination was the movie theater, and the other driver's was the post office next door.

>Seems to me a more apt analogy would be that they lower the speed limit across the board, and then charge drivers more to get the original speed limit back.

That would be a jerk move, but not a violation of road/net neutrality since it applies equally to all.

(I generally don't like how people call every bad ISP practice a violation of net neutrality; not everything bad is a violation.)
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> unmodified

You have to patch the source though...
It doesn’t of course, but it seems reasonable to hope that people (particularly “smart” people) would try and support arguments/suggestions with data.
Further maturity is to accept the best people will work on what they want to, not what us commoners want them to.
Animations or fiction of obscene content are not illegal in the US and Japan. They are illegal in the UK (a man was sentenced for Simpsons's porn) and many other countries.

Now with added realism, these lines could become blurry and we could see some of these issues brought up again.
Govt mandated Internet identity system that you invoke when you want to ensure the veracity of what you filmed and posted. If not invoked then it's labeled fake and just created for fun or shits n giggles. It holds zero weight and all on the Internet know/understand this system like the back of their hand.

Again I am thinking of two use cases re: this solution... revenge porn and celebrity & political figure fake videos.
There are several kinds of acne. The kind that you get when you hit puberty is not related to diet. Adult acne in most cases is however.

The thing is food does not directly cause acne. The logic is pretty simple actually. Acne causing bacteria grow in blocked pores and greasy food and dairy makes me super oily . More sebum more blocked pores aaand more acne.
> That assumes a really high level of technology literacy from the people the fake is being used to deceive.

Counterpoint: "photoshopped" is a dictionary word.
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> What on earth gave you the impression that big companies innovate?

AT&T, General Electric, IBM, Xerox etc. The personal computer was invented by individuals and small companies, but the transistor was not, and probably could not have been. The loss of the idea that big companies need to innovate, may be one of the worst pieces of news in today's world for the survival of our species.
Here is a challenge for everyone who claims to have found a connection between reduced acne and $X, where $X is whatever: sugar, carbs, exercise, sun light, nose picking, masturbation, sex, chocolate, stress, soda, tv, dairy, razor blades, vitamin d, coffee, pasta...

Take a picture of your face in good light conditions as it looks today and send it to me. Then you spend one month doing the EXACT OPPOSITE of your wonder method. That is, if your claim is that dairy causes your face to break, you indulge in massive amounts of dairy products. If it's shaving, you start shaving every day. You keep this regimen for one month's time.

Then you send me a new picture of your face in equally good lighting. If in that picture, your acne has gotten significantly worse I will pay you $2000, no questions asked. I'm sorry that I'm poor so $2000 is all I can afford to wager, but perhaps we can make it into some kind of crowdfunding, where everyone chips in a little to produce some new research?

I'm totally serious about this "challenge."
>There are many references to it in Ayurveda - the Indian/Hindu medical sciences. Ayurveda believes in using food as medicine to non only prevent a large majority of human diseases, but also to cure several of them — all with almost zero side effects.

Homeopathy also has zero side effects (apart from having zero effects). There is no medical wisdom in any of the old texts (from any culture) that are relevant in 2018. The vast majority is pseudo-scientific nonsense that should be rejected.

>Turmeric is just one such extremely powerful & healthy food item that Western science seems to be playing catch up on. Many others like black pepper, honey, asafoetida (hing), coconut oil, copper utensils, cloves, cardamom, mustard seeds, neem (gold), milk, clarified butter (ghee).

All of those are known to the entire world, both their exaggerated benefits and their limitations. Sorry to burst your bubble.

>But the other aspect is that we are slowly losing all that because Indians try to mimic the West in almost everything they do &

You are severely confused. Do you take coconut oil when you get cancer? Or do you take Turmeric? If you get liver disease do you use copper vessels? Nobody cares where the idea originated. When it comes to their health, people will go where there are results.

> nowadays do not trust our own sciences like Ayurveda etc, even at the risk of debilitating side effects.

That doesn't explain the success of pseudo-scientific products marketed under the "Patanjali" brand.

Also, there is no such thing as "Western science". Its a global science and people from around the world are contributing to it. Go into any research lab in the "west". You'll find a large portion of people there belonging to chinese and south asian heritage apart from the local ethnic majority.