skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is Amdahl's law. You can only parallelize so much. While the brain is certainly extremely parallelized, neural nets do not employ the same algorithms as the brain, and so, unless we find algorithms that are more amenable to parallelization, Amdahl's law is going to get us.
Recently I switched to Brave on mobile, and I am planning to switching to Brave on mine laptop.

I want privacy-first browser. Period.

I also was backing Mozilla foundation (small sums) for 5+ years in hopes they will focus on browsers. They did not. They are cutting deals with ad serving companies, they are spending resources on mobile os, they are spending resources on VR browser and I don't know what else.

Good luck to them, but I want fast and reliable privacy-first browser and they are not that right now. Brave is.
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I would not call ARM a RISC. What is RISC in your opinion? Lack of memory addressing except load and store? Not true for ARMv8.1. Lack of microops? ARM1 (from 1985) has microops.
but in the crucial area of consumer electronics, ie cell phones and computers, the us seems to be far behind asian manufacturing (china & taiwan). Perhaps because of cost, I doubt much is made in the us. A quick search reminded me that the us is still a manufacturing powerhouse, depending on metric probably number 2, but I couldn't find much about specifics on where things are manufactured. It's a complicated world with intel designing cpus, at least to a large part in the us, but making them to some extent in other places.
Not sure that approach would even help. Brackets aren’t the hard part of taxes. Usually it’s the “what is income” part.
The "long knock" problem can be resolved in multiple ways. A dot can be a single knock, and a dash can be two knocks very close together, for example.
Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture. It is our Gilgamesh epic.
You're extrapolating from one incident to "anytime something happens."
I believe he's talking about the SOS cleaning scrub commercial from 1994.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVooUKtV3nQ

For those that don't want to click, it's a commercial for a brand of dish cleaner named S.O.S. There are dirty pots and pans that clang out the S O S message in Morse code, with subtitles spelling out the letters as they come out. A screen appears at the end asking "are your dirty pots trying to tell you something?"
With regards to your point about expensive financing, this moves Zillow from tech company to REIT; a dangerous shift in a rising interest rate environment depending on how long they end up having to hold inventory for.

We are very far along in the current economic cycle, and a downturn is inevitable. It would be unwise to be sitting on a large real estate portfolio you can’t quickly unload when that occurs.

Will be interesting to see if this Hail Mary pays off.
There are a lot of programs that already govern our lives every day. From airplanes to medical devices that can output lethal doses of radiation.

We already have established standards for writing and testing safety critical software, like DO-178B. If you want to go even further you use more advanced programming languages that allow you to prove the required properties via its type system.

And just in case all of this fails or a case of PEBKAC, you buy insurance.
That description reminded me of aphantasia (famous post about it: https://www.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-...). Or, Kubrick may have just had a real grasp of the limits of human working memory, especially given the complexity of many of his films.
I guess the difference is that for Mozilla the product is Firefox, whereas for Google the product is you. Or rather; your data.
My general feeling about all the 'Uber-for-X'/food-delivery-startups that launched circa 2015 and mostly fizzled out is that the bottom line was (a) Unit Economics is an unrelenting problem, as Sam Altman describes here and (b) 'Total Addressable Market' is a bit of a vanity number.

(Of course there are other challenges faced by startups that interact with customers in the physical world, like regulation, protectionism and so forth.)
I'm intentionally refraining from recommending anything specific because that gets comments in these threads downvoted and killed. There are plenty of good Firefox forks.
Generally speaking, your un-reviewed change isn't a "fix", but something to stop the bleeding. It might move traffic out of a problematic area, or disable an experiment that's leading to unusual metrics.

In other words, its a rollback, not a fix-forward. (and I'll note that where I work, these changes still need to be reviewed soon after they're submitted). I agree that all fixes should be reviewed before submission.
Fun fact, english spelling kind of made sense before a bunch of scholars wanted to put the Latin back into the language, and now spelling is divorced from writing. As an example, why don't these words rhyme?

* Enough

* Through

* Though

Perhaps we should've gone through with one of these reforms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_spelling_refo...
Facebook offers targeting. They don't sell "data points".
"longform" chars, like 臺 are typically used in formal writing, like official government docs [marriage lics, passports, etc]. There are also the counterfeit resistant "banker's" number chars used in official docs too [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerals]
My suspicion is that this problem you describe is one core reason why "a raymarcher in a single shader" has become such a popular demo platform. Nobody writes unit tests inside shaders, it just.. doesn't make much sense. The environment sort of forces you to stop thinking like an engineer and start thinking like a coder.
What do you think are the most relevant data points that you believe can be pulled from that API?
Mozilla is a non-profit organisation.
Haha, this reminds me of red-lang's approach to get funded via ICO https://ico.red-lang.org/
> a huge bloc wants people to be outraged every April 15 when they do their taxes.

Seems like a bad strategy. Most people celebrate their return.
Or Zillow simply has a lot of data and can scale it up.
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This is absolutely the wrong thing to do. When mitigating issues on call anything that goes live bypassing canary has to receive much more scrutiny, not less. It is best not to do such things, but if you have to do them, review the change extra hard.
I second this and will add a recommendation for Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha, which is legally and freely available here http://integrateddaniel.info/book/ It really has the flavor of "meditation for hackers," whereas The Mind Illuminated's flavor seems more "meditation for engineers."
The real question is who will be holding the bag after midterm elections.
I propose to roll Ethereum price back to 2015 for just a day, as a lot of people I know missed it and didn't manage to buy.
Good find. My favorite lightweight frameworks are PureCSS and Spectre. Writing code for countries with poor connectivity is challenging, good to see more options.
Yup. I don't know what MIDI software is, and wish I was able to qualify myself out sooner. No need for me to be poking around wondering what this thing is.

Speak to current (or, if you don't have them yet, prospective) users. In real life. That way you can construct a landing page that speaks to them.
You could also just post-date a check (and notify the bank).

When it comes specifically to changing the positions of parties, I can't think of a scenario where smart contracts help. Especially because they can't check anything, like "was the work done?".

I can think of many uses of escrow, but those don't need smart contracts...
Cool danke. I'll give it a go then, the only thing I hit of those is youtube. I've been migrating all my stuff off gmail to fastmail so I'm pretty good to go in that regard. Energy impact in activity monitor is ok...ish but in the end I normally look to the actual battery percentage.

If its in spitting distance of safari it'll be ok, i'm a pretty hard user of tabs though so would be nice to get back to tree style tabs. But sounds like it might be worth a go.

I'll give safari and firefox a comparison with the same tabs opened in a window and see how long it takes to get to some battery %. Chrome last time I checked with a comparison with the same kind of usage was over an hour less battery life.

But this is obviously impacted by what websites one goes to etc... so really impacted by my own usage really.
What's physically demanding about a teaching job?
Germany, at least in some places.
I wouldn't be surprised if they were actually using some techniques from NLP. In particular, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd run sentence parsers over their entire Books collection and then manipulate the parse trees to find sentences in books that look like good answers because their sentence structure is similar.
All businesses can be framed as “old economy” but cheaper. Lyft is just “taxis” done better. An algorithmic hedge fund is just old-style investing automated.
That's right. Some have tried describing intelligence as a general problem-solving skills, but this is clearly false. Humans are terrible at finding even approximate solutions to NP-hard problems, which are certainly general and very common. It seems like intelligence is an ability to solve many problems that humans and animals face, but no one has characterized it more precisely, AFIK.
I couldn't find a good answer to my query, "why did Russia invade Ukraine?" But I will keep looking.
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That leaves out the other side: who agreed to the deal and dishonestly pretended magic free money would pay for it? The unions didn’t force the state to make tax cuts below fiscally prudent levels.
Nice timing. I just found this website the other day and love it. I've just recently been getting into data visualization and have fallen in love with d3.js. Another good resources is http://alignedleft.com/work/d3-book/. Maybe a bit introductory for some of the smartypants on HN but I've been away from front end dev for a while and so find blasting through the chapters pretty helpful. Hilarious tone, also. Combined with d3indepth.com's examples and the API docs I've been able to get a good grasp of d3.js.
Is there an insurance company offering to insure against crypto losses? Considering the rampant amounts of both fraud and general incompetence, I assume the premiums are/would be astronomical.
Indeed. You learn e.g. Haskell and find that Java painfully lacks in the types department. You learn Perl and find that Ruby is unexpectedly rigid in the types department :)
There could be several, but the one I know of is MDAI, which is basically like MDMA without the amphetamine ("dopamine-releasing") part.
I finally uninstalled Chrome from all my setups today. I have chromium for occasional testing left, but it is Quantum on desktop and Fennec on phone now.

Best things I've loved since I switched:

- Cookie AutoDelete, keeps a whitelist of domains and deletes the rest, which works nicely with:

- Multi-Account Containers: Create multiple cookiejars

- Decentraleyes: Caches JS files from CDN servers for faster loads.
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Mozilla is constrained by its non-profit structure, its open source licensing, and its high organizational transparency. While Mozilla's interests can be analyzed in terms of $$$ (or "power", or ...), such analysis is reductive and lossy. It's not meaningless, but it offers limited insight.
Subtle differences that make it less useful. It is very close but it is the little things.
Tried and gone back to Chrome. The thing is chrome is Rock solid and can not remember the last time even a tab crashed.
I switched back to Firefox a while ago (because I pledged to switch to whichever was the first browser to implement arrow-functions!) - but I doubled down on sticking with it after running Little Snitch for a while. Google is very aggressive on how ofter it pings its servers looking for updates: they're really keen to ensure my software isn't more than 30 minutes out of date, for some reason.
It's not hypocrisy to have a threshold of losses before intervening.
This reminds me of those insisting that drones are not drones, but quad-copters (what about those with 6 propellers?)

Language is defined by it's usage.

Taken to extreme, I've seen serious linguists argue that if a lot of different background non-native speakers make the same mistake when speaking English, maybe they are right and the native speakers are wrong.
Discussed a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16825539.
Using a linter goes a long way for this. Maybe make linking part of the check in process.
Well, technically for cryptocurrency it's those users who are mining that get to determine which is the "real" chain and therefore whose currency is worth something and whose is worthless. They get to pick a fork.
Nobody asked for that opinion here, and it's not relevant to the conversation.
And moreover, I send my gnarliest PRs to the most vicious reviewer on the team, just because 3 months from now finding out what’s wrong is exponentially more difficult. I want to get it right the first time around, and I want other folks to be able to make changes anywhere in the codebase, even in the gnarly parts.
> The rest of the listings are from MLS systems and they pull housing data from county systems. For that, I'd assume there is a data broker and Zillow isn't integrating with thousands of counties.

That's not the case, MLS is a giant mess and the reason why Zillow was/is amazing is that it aggregated and normalized lots of different unconnected systems. They still have gaps and it's common for an individual MLS to play hard ball and not give out their data, but it's still a large competitive advantage.
Pirated every year
"The only real question about BeOS is whether or not it is doomed."

As a former BeOS user, this still stings me a bit.
You don't see a difference between banks that undo transactions constantly, and a system that might undo one or two a year?
This period was largely enabled by near zero interest rates. Venture capital firms like Thrive Capital in New York specialized in giving start ups with upside down unit economics (see Oscar) capital to subsidize the consumer journey. As this era comes to an end we should see a rise in inflation as an after effect of the suppression of consumer prices by many venture backed services.
And by "SSD" you mean the storage on the phone.
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R Studio Notebooks are pretty good too; I like that, by default, there is an interactive console connected to the same kernel in addition to the notebook. This allows me to use the console to interactively probe my data, or try out something, and then record a more finished product in the notebook itself. I think this can be done in Juypter (http://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/No...), but, not out of the box.
I think this hasn't been update since 2017, and most of it is from 2016.

I pretty much only use javascript for d3, and I put it down for a while. Recently I decided to do something with d3 v5.0[1], and got confused about the state of ES6 modules. Has anyone gotten rollup to work with d3? Is it possible to just use ES6 modules natively in the browser if you don't care about older browsers?

My other issue was with async/await. It seems like when I used async await on a locally hosted csv file, it could take between 1 and 2 seconds to load. For my colleague sometimes minutes. When I switched to d3 v4.0 and the old callback approach, it loaded instantly, even for my colleague. What gives?

[1] https://github.com/d3/d3/blob/master/CHANGES.md
But spoken Chinese is quite different from written Chinese, which allows for more economy. Often a single character will be used in writing where a two-character word would be used in speech. And people's names usually can't be determined by the pronunciation; they are defined by the actual characters. If Chinese moved to a strictly phonetic writing system, a lot of culture would have to adapt: conventions around signage, poetry, proverbs, names (this is a big one!) of people and organizations, formal writing, wordplay, etc.
I learned Morse code (only listening and transcribing, not producing) at the German Army. It was an interesting, but also stressful experience, since we weren‘t practicing on natural language, but meaningless gibberish.

Alas, I have lost the ability. Everything is gone.
With all due respect, your process is likely short sighted. In the long term, you would probably benefit from code reviews. I find code review very effective even in very small teams.
Seems like he's trying to make a point just for the sake of it. For a start yeah as a German I don't understand the example headline he's giving there even though I started learning English some 20 years ago. So what does that tell us? Apparently English is even harder than Chinese.. Or maybe that you'll eventually stumble upon an unknown word every now and then and can quickly look it up.

Reading a Chinese newspaper knowing 2000 characters is absolutely possible. You can either just rely on good old guessing from context since, you know, the headline is usually followed by an article, or you just look that word up. It's really not like you will stumble at ever other character since like that guy even admits 95% are already covered by the 2000 you know. Imagine reading the sports section for the first time. You might find a dozen characters or words you don't know, but after a week or two you'll eventually know enough Chinese terms regarding soccer. Same for any specific topic in any foreign language. As for the character combos, first of all while learning it's not like you memorize each character separately, you're usually given some examples of such combinations using characters you already learned, phrases to go along with it etc. For many combinations its even pretty easy to guess what they mean.
See my other comment to a sibling expressing a similar sentiment. Rollbacks and drains may require submissions to change configurations, but aren't bypassing canary, they're specifically reverting to known good systems.
More details: Mozilla is a non-profit, the Mozilla Foundation, which owns a for-profit, the Mozilla Corporation.

This is necessary because the non-profit isn't allowed to do certain things, but a for-profit can, and the non-profit is allowed to own a for-profit.
It sounds almost like you're assuming that, just because there's an EIP, it's already set in stone and will definitely happen. It seems to me like there's a majority of opposition to this. And is it really that surprising on its own that someone involved with the parity project would write an EIP like this?
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This very much depends on the way you build a container.

If you take e.g. Alpine Linux as a base image, then build almost everything as a single step in a shell script, removing useless intermediate files, you get a pretty small image. If you take e.g. a normal Debian image and build it so that every step adds a layer, you end up with a large image.
I use them a lot in SOMA and it's generally been great. I actually like Spin the best because they're the least popular and their scooters are the least worn. I have maintenance issues with maybe 20-30% of the bird/lime scooters already, so I'm wondering what it'll look like in a year.

Also I try not to look too long or go too far out of my way for a scooter. Occasionally I can't find a scooter listed on the map and it ends up negating any time savings of using a scooter.
Not an anecdote, just a reasonable assumption in the face of a lack of actual data. With your full fare tickets, you say that there have been "periods" where you missed a lot of flights. How many overall? One in a hundred? One in ten flights you've ever booked? I suspect that if you add them all up, you'll find that your experience is not that far from mine. We tend to recall aberrations better than the routine outcome.

Eliminating the fraud exemption for airlines wouldn't necessarily mean removing seats; as I pointed out, the seats could be filled with discounted standbys.

Lots of other businesses sell seats without overbooking, I hardly think it's an unsolvable problem. Airlines got a fraud exemption because they could, not because it was the only solution to the problem.
Viewing pdfs was a big difference some time ago. Nowadays Firefox seems to have catched up.

While I switched back to Firefox as well, I still miss Chrome's print dialog. It looks much simpler, yet does everything I need with a lot less clicks.
> But if you do this, they criticize and condescend, telling you you're like a child not eating all his food and that when you grow up you'll find everything they say is correct.

I am sure this depends a lot from center to center and the one I went to (Sweden, beautiful location) was not like that at all.
Saving time and money vs. Gatwick express service
>even English pronunciation is not that bad

As a nonnative speaker, it sometimes feels like you just have to know the words individually in order to pronounce them correctly: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ruize-rijmen/De_Chaos.
By requiring reviews for merging into master in GitHub and postulating that unless something is in master it does not exist in the product.
Any idea where to learn it? Just in case.
There are lots of reasons writing a query one way might be faster than another. Running in parallel might be one reason. If you had say 20 separate cases, and you compared that to 20 separate queries one after another, they'd be waiting to run till the previous one ran, and so there's no overlap when run separately. I bet 20 parallel separate queries would have been much faster. Depending on your index, how much of the whole table did the query scan to create the update set - if it had to scan most of it for each query, that could explain why a single query was better.

I agree with others that usually it's best to write queries that are simple to understand and let the optimizer pick a good query. Under higher load and with higher data, the indexes matter more of course (and amount of ram).

I can't say the above case is more likely to be better or not, it depends on the database schema.
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I have never seen a linguist argue that. Usually the deference to native speakers is absolute, for good reason.

Unless you want to talk about an „international English“ or so.
Is auto in C++ the same as auto in D?
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If you want to rise to an 'empereor has no clothes' caliber piece, it would help to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the fields you're criticizing, and not arrogantly cite bad science essays, and not ignore the actual state of the art techniques in that domain.

You need to present the best arguments from the side you want to critique and then prssent a case why you think they are wrong. Calling people names and avoiding difficult challenges to your thesis is not the way to do it.
“Recently there has been an explosion in AI and machine learning, and that’s a discipline where you don’t have to have a first principles model — you learn the model,” said Maheshri. “The technology in both disciplines is at the point where it’s time to combine them and see what happens.”

I disagree. If you don’t have a good model for basic sciences you should go and look for one. You can’t get to the moon by fitting models from moving objects.
The teacher in my center even encouraged meditating while walking when I asked. I saw other students doing the same and no one made anything out of it. Same in Japan, where I also sat. Sounds like an unfortunate interpretation at the particular center you where at.