skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ryzen looks really, really good. I'm planning on upgrading to Team Red over Intel as soon as DDR4 prices come down a bit. Intel's only advantage seems to be AVX512 (and that comes with a clockspeed penalty), and a truly unified L3 cache (good for databases).

But Ryzen's "split" L3 cache seems to be great for process-level parallelism (think compile times), and seems to scale to more cores for a cheaper price. They have an Achilles heel though: 128-bit wide SIMD means much slower AVX2 code, and no support for AVX512.

But for most general purpose code, Ryzen looks downright amazing. Even their slower AVX2 issues is mitigated by having way more cores than their competition. AMD sort of brute-forces a solution.

AMD's GPGPU solution looks inferior to NVidia, but for my purposes, I basically just need a working compiler. I don't plan on doing any deep learning stuff (so CuDNN is not an advantage in my case), but I'd like to play with high-performance SIMD / SIMT coding. So AMD's ROCm initiative looks pretty nice. The main benefit of ROCm is AMD's attempts to mainline it. They're not YET successful at integrating ROCm into the Linux mainline, but their repeated patch-attempts gives strong promise for the future of Linux / AMD compatibility.

The effort has borne real fruit too: Linux accepted a number of AMD drivers for 4.15 mainline.

NVidia's CUDA is definitely more mainstream though. I can get AWS instances with HUGE NVidia P100s to perform heavy-duty compute. There's absolutely no comparable AMD card in any of the major cloud providers (AWS / Google / Azure). I may end up upgrading to NVidia as a GPGPU solution for CUDA instead.

OpenCL unfortunately, doesn't seem like a good solution unless I buy a Xeon Phi (which is way more expensive than consumer stuff). AMD's ROCm / HCC or CUDA are the only things that I'm optimistic for in the near future.
repo: https://github.com/mrcoles/dateknight

My goal was to not have to dig around for the unique documentation for whatever language/library I was using the moment to format a datetime string.

By unifying the codes across different languages, I was able to make a universal translator that could convert between any of the ones I had supported (and provide a structured autocomplete search too).

It’s not perfect, but hopefully makes some other folks’ lives easier!

I also made a convenience library on top of cheeriojs that supports all of their traversing methods via pseudo-classes in the query string: https://github.com/mrcoles/pseudo-cheerio
Honestly, once you become that rich and powerful, I can imagine it's pretty difficult to not live inside a bubble. They probably don't understand how serious some problems are because they're not normal users. Also, it's probably hard to not let it go to your head and think that you always know what's best for the common rabble.
> Now they'll own the entire stack and have a great integration story for enterprises. Even though containers have been around 3+ year's in the form of docker, corporations still don't have a scooby on how to integrate their existing deployment and development workflows.

I second this. If its a legacy stack, enterprises struggle to fully containerize their apps and commit to deploying with a container orchestration layer like OpenShift or Kubernetes. IMHO, we need more enterprises to get over this barrier, than view it as a passion project by over eager devops' teams...
Stork – Storage Orchestration Runtime for Kubernetes
How familiar are you with distributism? It certainly does not advocate for communes! Distributism is merely an (admittedly aspirational) economic system where the ownership of productive property is widespread.

A few of its guiding principles may answer your concerns:

* Subsidiarity teaches that things should be handled at the lowest or least centralized level that is competent to handle them. That doesn't mean that small organizations should be expected to bite off more than they could handle. It may very well be that a giant, multinational corporation is the lowest-sized organization that can handle operating something like an airline, and that is not inconsistent with distributist principles.

* Distributism, as an economic system, is not at all incompatible with things like a strong social safety net. However, it is worth pointing out that if the ownership of productive property were to become more widespread, the need for such a safety net would be decreased.
To be fair, the F1 teams pay to win by paying for some stunning engineering. The way the F1 rules are set up means that F1 is basically an engineering contest first and a racing series second. It's part of the reason that it is so great to watch.

.. and I say this as a McLaren fan (which, for those that don't follow F1, is a traditionally top F1 team that has had an absolutely woeful couple of years).
You mean differentiate on the driving skill and not who has the most cubic money?

Besides, it’s not the first race series to do that. Not much of an auto racing fan myself (MotoGP, please), but IROC comes to mind (Cameros for everyone!). Motorcycle Super Sport comes close, you can choose different manufacturers, but the bike has to be pretty close to stock. I’m sure bigger race fans can come up with other examples.
Honest question. I'm unsure what the danger is in letting these companies acquire data on us. We get a lot of benefit from using their products for free. Why should I care about giving my data to them as a cost of admission?
Have a source?
Hume's idea is that you can only ever directly experience events co-occuring in time, but "causation" is not something you can actually ever see itself.
Isn't battery where innovation is most needed?
Sure, but Word is cheap enough. Writer has to be better than Word to win because price really isn't an issue.
Yep, Python is my language for work and teaching, especially for data projects. Doesn't mean I don't envy the interactivity and visualization potential working in JS.
How do we find good recruiters? I've worked with a few recruiters but never left with a good impression.
I wonder if they have any defenses against people spamming their telemetry.
It is due to crypto miners. Once crypto coins goes down the market will be flooded with used graphic cards. Hence sales will decrease.
Facebook certainly has been more diligent about stomping out fake accounts than most other services, with Twitter being social media's problem child.

A telling anecdote: A security researcher friend of mine found a somewhat small botnet of twitter accounts (~7000). Reported it to twitter, a few months passed and he noticed twitter hadn't done anything. So he turned it over to a journalist who eventually poked someone at twitter and... poof all 7000+ accounts were gone 6 hours later.
Perhaps I didn't phrase my question correctly. I wasn't advocating abandoning middle and rural America; my concern is that we shouldn't be pouring money (in the form of tax incentives and debt that hides the true cost of rural living) into sustaining rural America as it is now. I am certainly all for investing in retraining programs; hell perhaps even having a rural specific health insurance system.

But increasing tariffs to protect coal miners? Killing solar and renewables for the sake of those communities? That is not a tradeoff I want to make.

You do make a good point about why liberal democracies seem to be in crisis though. I'm kind of embarrassed to say that I too was influenced very strongly by libertarian beliefs (specifically Rand's system of less Government) in most of my youth and only recently have started understanding how poisonous and selfish that can be when taken to its extremes.
29 here. Thanks, PB.
If you want to check out the deep end, here's some writing which captures some of the _vibe_ of the community building this sociotechnical space
https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical...
It means the driver is never part of a conductive path between the car and the ground.
A service ISPs should offer as standard is regularly randomising your outbound IP from their pool for all but a whitelist you specify. So you can have a static IP for say you work firewall, but are harder to track otherwise
No, he didn't redefine meaning of "democracy". It's literally the original meaning of the word - governance* by people or citizens. (*Better word than "government".) Although today we understand citizenship in a broader sense than ancient Greeks.

And you can easily measure it, you just ask honest questions what people want, and compare it to what the government gives them. Having referendums doesn't completely imply democracy, although it is quite close in free societies like Switzerland.

I think this is sometimes confusing, because people who are really pro-democratic (in the above sense), like Chomsky or me, hold two moral stances at once, and those stances can be contradictory. Kinda like "doublethink" but well-intentioned.

The first stance is the prodemocratic stance, that the society should decide things in democratic manner. The second stance is a personal moral view. So for example, I can be personally for more taxation (2nd stance), but I have to accept the will of the democratic majority, which is for less taxation (1st stance). The reason why these are not really in contradiction is because they operate on different levels.

What people (and that includes, I think, you) find confusing about this, is the fact that sometimes we have to defend democratic will of the majority even if it contradicts our own personal moral stance (in other words, we can hope to convince others to eventually accept our position in majority, but we cannot force our minority opinion on them). For people, who think their moral stance trumps everybody else's, this is irrational nonsense.

So in this interpretation, presumably Chomsky has his own opinion about taxes, but it may differ from the democratic view of the majority of voters, which may well result in tax competition and such.
The solution is to either abandon or severely limit software patents.
Could you give an example of "some basic things are so fundamentally convoluted"?

Also note that almost all C code is legal C++, so when you "just write idiomatic C", you're still writing C++. (Perhaps not idiomatic C++...)
What kills people is inadequate security measures, not depth diving vs. static apnea in a pool.

There have been very few (I think only one) deaths during freediving competitions, where protocols are used to guarantee the security of the athletes. Remember that you don't die of a black out, you die of drowning because you inhale water during a black out. As said in another comment, the black out is a protective mechanism when you run low on oxygen, but the breathing reflex is triggered by high CO2. Freedivers train both to sustain low oxygen (by doing long breath holds) and high CO2 (by doing repeats of shorter ones).

Monitoring a static apnea is pretty simple if you just pay close attention: when a black out happens, the diver will usually release a lot of air for instance, and pulling them out of water before they drown is what you do. Then you slap them to wake them up :)

In open water competitions, these days divers are tethered to the dive line, announce their target depth and can't go past it. They also announce an expected dive time which is used to plan the start of the safety divers. These safety divers escort the athlete on the end of the dive up (sometimes, as deep as from 30m), staying close enough to grab them if needed, but never touching them (that would disqualify as assistance). There is also a counter weight in place to bring up everything quickly in case something goes wrong deep. Issues are usually happening close to the surface (let's say in the last 10-15m); deep blackouts are very rare and usually a consequence of other problems like being disoriented if you get a ruptured eardrum.

Recreative freediving is a wonderful activity with very little risk if you just use a buddy system and don't push the limits beyond what both of you can do. It's good for you body and your mind!
What is more interesting and much less monetized is buy-outs, I would pay a premium monthly for an opt-out of Twitters tracking of my account for instance. I know many people who say the same thing about Facebook, if these places switched to a simple Netflix model and allowed us to pay our way out of their tracking services I would pay the same amount advertisers pay for my info to keep it out of their hands.

I think the reason why they don't offer this is because it would probably come off as sounding 'randsom-y' or something.
Not just porn. My account with ~150 followers was, out of the blue and within a week, followed by a dozen different "startups". Every single one of them follows tens of thousands of people in the hopes of getting followed back. It's pathetic.
Regarding watching out for the bullseye rash (ie. "EM rash"):

I didn't even notice mine (though it was 4" in diameter) until after I was diagnosed with Lyme disease (via blood tests), because the rash was on my back -- a place I don't regularly look or check. I also had no idea I was bitten by a tick, or even had any ticks on my body. My biggest mistake was probably just not wearing insect repellent while going in to the woods in an area that had a high incidence of Lyme disease.

Regarding antibiotic treatment -- my own treatment wasn't painful, but more annoying than anything because the antibiotics made my skin very light-sensitive, so I had to mostly stay indoors with the blinds drawn. It's the period before the treatment that was miserable, as I had all sorts of painful symptoms.
> The only practical way to do that is to take a credit card and run a test transaction against it.

Doesn't really work everywhere in the world.
> The minimum wage in US is a slave wage.

Talking about $15/hour as a "slave wage" is honestly insulting to people who, you know, lived under actual chattel slavery.

You may not like that threshold, but lumping the two together undermines your own point. This sort of racial insensitivity is one of the biggest reasons that leftist movements have such difficulty gaining traction with minority voters, and black voters in particular.
Why call it a tax? Do you have a fundamental objection to commercial software?
Launch HN: ClearBrain (YC W18) – predictive models for app conversions and churn
Hi I’m Bilal, cofounder of ClearBrain (https://clearbrain.com). ClearBrain helps you automatically build predictive models for which of your users are most likely to convert or churn in your app. Think AmazonML for marketing analysts.

Our founding team comes from Optimizely & Google where we built similar predictive tools for our marketing teams. At each company, we kept building the same components of a predictive pipeline - javascript snippets to collect data, ETL jobs to transform that data, and cron jobs to run a regression. We were spending hours a week maintaining these pipelines, but the time-consuming part wasn’t the algorithms (as they’re open sourced) it was the transformations.

So with ClearBrain we decided to automate the data transformation steps. We built our system in Spark ML (scala), Data Pipeline, and Go. Instead of instrumenting yet another Javascript snippet, we use existing data in Segment (YC S11) and Heap (YC W13) through standard integrations. And because every Segment/Heap dataset has the same schema, our system can process it with the same transformations into a machine-readable feature matrix. When a customer selects a user action tracked in Segment/Heap to predict, our transformed matrix is run through a logistic regression via Spark ML, and outputs a probabilistic score for each user to perform that action based on users who performed it in the past.

This distills the predictive modeling process to a simple UI to identify high-probability users in minutes. We’ve built the tool with marketers in mind, to help them identify which users may convert or churn, and export those users to marketing tools like Facebook Ads, Hubspot, etc. We’ve also found good reception from startups that have marketing objectives but lack the resources to deploy ML-driven campaigns themselves.

We look forward to feedback from the HN community! :)

Bilal
I liked lua when I used it. It didn't seem to get much love at the time, though I think it's more popular. It's got a few neat things and it's good for embedding. And I think maybe D doesn't get the appreciation it deserves but there's a bunch of reasons for that.
such a wonderful community of folks there. i log on once every several days and sus leave pleased. also, it’s a nomadic group, and i’ve been pleased to meet a few other community members in person.

i recommend SSB to my friends as the place to find me if all hell breaks loose
Theoretically, if there was a short to ground, a voltage potential could develop between the two legs if the driver took a step away from the car. By hopping and landing with feet together, both legs will always be at the same potential so no current should run through the legs even if the immediate area around the car is energized.
We have to distinguish between capitalism and functioning markets. The capitalists do great in the US health system, but the market doesn't function.
Watch Minority Report, then replace "psychics" with "data-mining"
They were rapidly running out of money, and running a competitive fab requires billions of investment every year. They could no longer sustain their fab operations, so they spun them off and sold them to ATIC (which is part of the Abu Dhabi investment fund, which is a project by Abu Dhabi meant to turn their oil revenues into something sustainably profitable for when the oil runs out).

In order to make the fab seem like something someone would want to buy, AMD tied their futures into it by entering into a wafer supply agreement where they will buy certain amounts of GloFo:s production whether they need it or not.

This agreement was a millstone around AMD's neck during the worst years. It means that AMD absolutely wants to sell at least a certain amount of silicon, even at negative margin if necessary.
Total debt at 1.4 billion dollars looks huge. So while revenues look great I wonder if their cash flow has improved as well?
Only partly...it has lots of suffixes and prefixes for pretty much everything too. They says it's nearly impossible for a foreigner to learn (of course not true).
For another side of the story, a friend has stage 4 breast cancer which metastasized to her spine, requiring back surgery and very expensive ongoing treatment.

She was on a high-deductible, high-copay Bronze plan last year, and Kaiser waived all the deductibles and copays for about eight months of treatment, up through the beginning of this year when she could get on a plan more suitable for her needs.

I'm not saying you're wrong, of course. I know little about the organization's history. But I was favorably impressed with how they've treated her, both medically and financially.
Can you tell us more about the trouble you ran into with Metamask?
Or you can request a block OTC trade with any of the major exchanges and they'll bite your arm off for your business. Zero slippage.
The Curious Case of the Missing US 101 Exits
Like all reasoning, philosophys logic (which is the base of math) ultimatly rest upon a foundation of axioms. These axioms are usually laid out and discussed in great lengths.
Fore example:
1. "To draw a straight line from any point to any point."
2. "To produce [extend] a finite straight line continuously in a straight line."
3. "To describe a circle with any centre and distance [radius]."
4. "That all right angles are equal to one another."
5. "That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines make the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which are the angles less than the two right angles."

These are the euclidean axioms, on which a whole field of math by a navelchain of proofs draws its certainty.
One is of course free to doubt and question these axioms. This is science, so what does not kill it makes it stronger.

If one is a real philosopher, the same accurate reasoning and sound arguing is expected of you, no matter what subject one approaches. Linguistics and Law, Aesthetics and Mathematics, the Meaning of Life and the Meaningless of Life, all have to live beneath this sharp sword.

So if you can proof that one of this axioms is not fact, then all that you stated is right.If you can not proof these axioms wrong, the may be right, but have to live in the shadow of doubt for all eternity.

Thus not one of the arts, thus none of the applied sciences, thus - the first science.
Do you feel the same way about pork or beef?
*cough Zope
>"Google and Facebook's hidden trackers across the Internet,..."

Are these "hidden trackers" mentioned in the article just the normal beacons or are they referring to something new?

Are these relevant if a person is not logged into neither FB or Google or if someone has uBlock Origin/Privacy Badger installed?
How would you phrase it that communicates "without consent" without that sounding like a potentially bad thing?
I switched to FastMail about 6 months ago, and I like it. I actually like FastMail’s webapp more than Gmail’s. There aren’t any features from Gmail that I miss, and FastMail offers a very easy option to migrate your emails from Gmail.
Guess we'll have to get rid of those guys then:

* https://twitter.com/ReactJS

* https://twitter.com/postgresql

* https://twitter.com/officialcatfact
"It looks unpleasant or ghoulish to look at the cost savings as well as the cost increases and it's not a good thing that smoking kills people," Viscusi said in an interview. "But if you're going to follow this health-cost train all the way, you have to take into account all the effects, not just the ones you like in terms of getting your bill passed."

I can't see anything ghoulish about it at all. Seems to me if you only count the direct negative costs (treating the lung cancers, lost productivity) and ignore any of the cost savings (no long term end-of-life care because you died from the lung cancer) that's just a failure of actuarial science and lack of a proper systematic analysis of the costs and benefits.

What makes accounting for the cost of treating a certain number of additional lung cancer cases any less "ghoulish" than accounting for the savings of not treating a certain number of alzheimers cases?

No one is saying the singular goal is to reduce cost, reductio ad absurdum, but if you're claiming smokers are a burden to society because you did the math wrong and it fits your world belief and sense of moral justice, that's no longer science, it's politics. We can do both well, but shouldn't pretend one thing is the other.
Well more and more it feels like devs, not just web devs, but all devs, envision their users and drooling idiots...
Interesting: https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap
Be careful with this. There is a class of issues the medica system is more or less useless with (musculo-skeletal pain, digestive issues, fatigue, the uncommon source allergy symptoms you described)

Then there is stuff they handle extremely well: broken bones, bacteria, and a variety of easily treatable ailments.

I have a few health issues I know I basically can get no medical help on. And then, on the other hand, I had MRSA, and went to the doctor ASAP to get that cured.