skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is my feedback on extremely poor performance of this single reactive component. I hope developer of this component never makes a single webpage. If a single component is that slow and unresponsive, as you see on my video, the webpage (or even worse MOBILE APP) would probably require 16 core Ryzen to render smoothly and scroll up and down on it.

I play on this laptop Civ V (minimal requirements [1]) on this laptop, but can't a single web-widget? This is tragic quality.

Constructive or not, looks like author didnt test it on every browser on a lower-performance hardware like 10year old CPU, eg. maybe i3. If I use this widget in my development and we give a product with this widget to customer who runs IE11 or EDGE on i3 from 2012, it will be my problem to fix it. I will complain to the developer, we all waste time and resources.

If developer of a thing wants to show us something they're proud of. Test it, benchmark it, show it. Never let us, users benchmark and test your stuff, you will get blacklisted for that poor quality and performance software quickly.

[1] https://support.2k.com/hc/en-us/articles/201332873-Civilizat...
While I'm sure your opinion would be interesting, the comment you left here is very much not so. Instead of saying "I don't like this" and leave it at that, HN expects you to be able to write down your arguments and opinions so others can understand them.

What you done here is lazy. Some further explanation about your view would probably be interesting. Otherwise, please don't comment at al.
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I believe they got immunity in return for testimony.
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Great post. It is like mining going to ASICs. We have hit limits and you now have to do your own silicon.

A perfect example is the Google new speech synthesis. Doing 16k samples a second through a NN is not going to be possible without your own silicon.

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/03/introducing-Clo...

Listen to the samples. Then think the joules required to do it this way versus the old way and trying to create a price competitive product with the improved results.
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I disagree. Typing isn't the bottleneck, so the amount of additional time taken is small.
Nothing could be better suited to the Boomer condition than buying real estate, so for the class of people who would rather die than think which is the ideal for most americans, cliches about buying always being better than renting ARE true if you're propagandizing legacy boomers about how wise they were to follow the herd a long time ago and BTW here is some delicious clickbait advertisements etc. For everyone else, yeah, not so much.

Schillers graph and assumption miss the point that we're in a long term multi decade credit crisis where the $ of GDP per $ of (new or existing) debt is collapsing. That leads to collapsing interest rates because you can't squeeze blood from a stone, low rates of investment return, hyper focus on risk control and limitation outside VC type gambling, etc. And housing prices are based on a constant $X/month being available to dump into mortgage (or rent) payments, so collapsing interest rates from normal levels when a gen-Xer was a kid to insane low levels now mean insane high real estate prices. House purchasers do not rationally evaluate the worth of a house like Graham and Dodd securities analysis from the 30s... Its a simpler calculation, I make the 95th percentile of income or whatever, I can afford $X/mo the COMMISSIONED real estate agent found me a great home which is also at the 95th percentile of luxury and quality and neighbors which costs $(X1.1)/mo (see comment about being commissioned salespeople, LOL) and at insane present interest rates $(X1.1)/mo magically turns into some insane and detached from reality purchase price. You're always buying the biggest loan you can afford, to live in the same house you'd live in regardless of current interest rate. And if you individually are a cash buyer or some other situation, it doesn't matter the market is swamped with loan buyers who control the price of the market regardless of your different personal situation.

We have too much debt for the size of economy we have, and the aging of generational shifts result in new leading and declining markets, leading to crazy weirdness. That's the current bubble economy in one line.

The main financial puzzle of life in the 10s, 20s, and beyond, is how to profitably short, or at least not get stuck in the carnage, of the post Boomer era in ... everything. Having a giant dollar value illiquid asset stuck like a millstone around your neck is probably not the best strategy for the future even if it was the best strategy for the past, that's all the article is really saying. Leverage is always only numerically illustrated by rising prices; post boomer the prices will fall.
Not covered here: it does not really export your social graph. Just a list of names. No way to easily import that into contacts etc. This is making quitting Facebook time-consuming, but I'm getting there.

Similarly with birthdays, although it's quite easy to work around that via their calendar link.
Docker makes a lot of things easy, but the tradeoff is hidden complexity, with default configuration that may not be the best choice for what the user needs.

Let's look at networking as an example. Docker makes basic networking setup very easy with the default docker0 bridge setup. However, this is really a "solve 90% of cases" default that can really damage the 10% of cases that it is ill-suited for. Developers unfamiliar with Linux networking are unlikely to even realize it's a bottleneck. Concrete examples of where it becomes a bottleneck depend on use case, but some can be (a) unnecessary ARP table overflows when scaling to thousands of containers, (b) heavy TCP connections between containers (think appContainer<->redisContainer). The reason for the bottleneck seems to be an overreliance on iptables and ebtables for filtering container-to-container communication.

The default container-container communication is so bad that I actually switched to a shared socket (mounted in a named volume) for communication with redis instead of using the default docker networking. I didn't do any formal benchmarking, but the socket communication was significantly faster than TCP communication for high throughput reads from redis (50mb+).

Since Docker uses netns + veth under the hood, I really wish it were possible to create a netns and launch a Docker container into it with something like --net-ns MYNETNS, like you can launch it into a cgroup with --cgroup-parent. Unfortunately it's not possible without some ugly hacks AFAIK.

Of course, you can mitigate any issues like this, but it requires networking knowledge and awareness of tradeoffs you are committing to by going "off the reservation" in terms of Docker setup.
US Cycling tests at the amateur and masters level.

It’s not expensive once the infrastructure exists, the marginal cost is pretty small.
> Web 2.0 companies are so far ahead that web 3.0 is going to have to come up with something completely different to be commercially interesting

Web 1.0 (e.g. e-mail, http, et cetera) was more de-centralised than any token-based company I see today.
I get to live closely with a bunch of cool people and not isolated in some house in a suburb. I think renting has a nice social benefit.

Plus, the mobility aspect to just pick up and leave gives me a ton of reassurance.

There is also the bonus that someone else has to fix the appliances and do maintanance than me.
Another interesting trivia about the x86 registers: while most programmers think of their order as being EAX, EBX, ECX, EDX, ESI, EDI, ESP, EBP, when you look at how the registers are numbered in the instruction set, you see that their true order is different: EAX, ECX, EDX, EBX, ESP, EBP, ESI, EDI.
If you look at income mobility in the US, statistically it’s not the land of opportunity for anyone who comes from a poor household. (https://hbr.org/2014/02/what-we-know-about-income-mobility-d...)

Example:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/05/25/the-s...
> I'm not sure where this idea came from that tall people can stop people from reclining their seat

Physics. If my legs are there, your seat can't be.
> As someone who's currently looking to purchase a first home in Boise after living here for the last 9 years, all I can say is "meep". There's nothing like the crazy stupid money that Californians are brining in to the housing market to make we wish articles like this would stop shining the spotlight on Boise. The housing market has been nuts this season and I can't help but think that it's all the Californians coming in and buying houses off of the market in cash.

This has been happening in Boise for a long time. "Keep California out of Idaho" has been a meme since at least the late 90s, and probably earlier.
The title of the Post starter isn't technically right either so that's hardly a reason to downvote as that's not really the purpose of the articles.

Understanding bitcoin isn't about understanding the technology any more than understanding economics is about how you technically print money.

Analogies are very important and the analogy I use isn't that wrong and not without substance, in fact, I provide that.

I am not the only one who think of it like that https://www.wired.com/2015/01/how-bitcoins-blockchain-could-...

It wasn't the creator of TCP/IP that created Google, Facebook or any of the other big companies out there and it most likely won't be that either with Bitcoin.
Your wealth manager might be good, but you have no idea what your return will be from stocks or bonds.

The only more-or-less guarantee you can have is about half of the official rate of inflation, and you don’t get there with stocks and very rarely with bonds.
The biggest rollout of these turbines is in the UK, which is in the middle of commissioning and building new nuclear. Also, the latest turbine installations are being built without subsidy. And, the capacity factor has gone way up.
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At 20, I had maybe 2% of the skills and knowledge that I’d need to be a successful entrepreneur. In my mid 30s, I maybe have 30%. I’d say it takes more luck the younger you are, and the 40s-50s is when talent and experience can make a huge difference in success... since you actually might have those two attributes by then!
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Switzerland here. My creditcard bill access code is still delivered by SMS...
BTW for those who are trying to get into this today, Ceph is one of the best (IMO the best, but my opinion isn't worth much in this arena) up and comers. It sits at the intersection of object-based storage (as opposed to "traditional" block storage), distributed systems, and robust forward-looking API support and open source.

http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/architecture/

https://github.com/ceph/ceph

https://ceph.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/weil-rados-pdsw0... (RADOS paper AKA a review of how to store lots of data in clusters)

https://ceph.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/weil-crush-sc06.... (CRUSH methodology paper, critical to why Ceph is better than previous approaches)
Sure but good luck getting a country to install it in this current political climate. The US is even worse of when it comes to getting Nuclear back in vouge.
There is nothing for the buyer to see. They are buying a service or capability and what silicon that runs on is here or there to them.

A simple example is the Google New Speech synthesis service. It is done using NN on their TPUs but nobody needs to know any of that.

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/03/introducing-Clo...

What the buyer knows is the cost and the quality of the service.

Now Google had to do their own silicon to offer this as otherwise the cost would have been astronomical. The compute to do 16k samples a second with a NN are astronomical.

If I could not see it myself I would say what Google did was not possible.

Just hope they share the details in a paper. If we can get to 16k cycles through a NN at a reasonable cost that opens up a lot of interesting applications.
It did a bit better than a coffee or two. He sold 86 copies on the first day for $430 revenue (about $379 US after Gumroad's cut). Not bad for an app that everyone here claims they could make in an hour - but didn't.

https://twitter.com/AndreyAzimov/status/988319772545662977
Facebook--the most insidious and intrusive data harvester in history--at least lets its users ostensibly rename their profile and delete their account. Why does HN give less of a fuck about its users than Facebook does?
An important omission is the data that Facebook collected on you using browser fingerprinting.

Since a fingerprint is like a hash, it is theoretically impossible for Facebook to determine if the data really belongs to you, or to someone else who happened to have the same browser fingerprint.

This means that if Facebook is legally obliged to offer a complete user data download, then the practice of fingerprinting is illegal.
That's easy (much easier than to get to Mars): Download your dump from http://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia/ and extract it with https://github.com/dignifiedquire/zim

Now you have a fully static Wikipedia copy, running wherever you want it to :)
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that wasn't the case with the segwit rollout on bitcoin. despite the feature being merged and released, miners were able to hold up adoption for months
It’s not about building up capacity alone: you want to take power off the grid at negative energy price times.
In a different realm, there are people that find even ol' JSON annoyingly strict, and we prefer to just grab JSON5 instead (https://github.com/json5/json5) at least for system-local configs.

..there was a wise saying about how you gotta "stop worrying and love the bomb" ;)
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I think the writer is overgeneralizing his particular use case. Surely, the situation he represents doesn't need any AI/ML, but it is the result of a simple use case, with little variables and with an easy workflow.

Does the same pattern apply also in more complex scenarios?
Why not simply download the CSV of your bank statements on a monthly basis and process it however you wish? Just need a monthly habit for this to be working.
They don't have a choice under GDPR.
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BA short-haul's base fares are hand-luggage only and assigned seat only; I believe they're going to expand this to some of their ex-Gatwick long-haul flights (in competition with Norwegian).
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could you explain how it factors in this case? because I don't think that it does.

there may be some 'selection bias', by only including start ups that went on to hire at least one employee, but I am OK with their operational definitions in this case.

the story makes sense, and it jives with my observations when doing my masters in computer science. In tech in particular, most of my classmates were not entrepreneurial at all. Even if they were, the class curriculum was so hard that nobody had time to work on side projects. the undergrads, not only didnt have the technical skills, but they also didnt have any business sense either.

One of them lamented they hate business people who sell products but dont understand it through and through. I told them I would rather have a business guy who can sell any product, than an engineer who can make a great product but not sell it. they still didnt get it.
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This is an incredible way of putting it. I'm not sure if I like what it implies, though, but I'll definitely be mulling it over. It's not a perfect analogy to securities shorting, because no one is going to lend you a house to immediately sell, so effectively all us renters would actually be naked short-sellers!

Maybe there is a business model in lending out houses so people can short the housing market? Again, not sure how that would work since houses aren't fungible in the same way that securities are.
I wouldn't call wind turbines exactly clean energy, between the need to have thermic power plant on stand-by to pick up the slack, since wind is highly irregular, the metric cube of concrete poured in the ground in the middle of nowhere to built them, the kilometers of copper to link them back to the network and the batteries to keep the excess electricity. And it's even worse when you see a field of turbines where half of them are not turning.
What kind of cost per kwh is Brazil seeing? When the US finally got consistently below ~$0.10 in the late 1990s, it began to ramp.

https://i.imgur.com/ehK8jQS.png
The term you are looking for is “colorism”
This is not at all surprising and been surprised we do NOT see Amazon trying to play in the SDC space like Google is doing.

SDC - Self Driving Cars

Really SDC is much more of a software thing and surprising we have not seen other big tech playing in the SDC space. Some rumors on Apple but not shown anything.
>Google can't make good message app - it's against their business model. You can't make targeted ads when you can't read user messages.

I think that last argument doesn't float for me.

Facebook chat is very popular and has remained the same since launch, I assume. I don't actually have it myself but I see people use it all the time.

And I do know that you're able to setup Facebook chat in 3rd party clients with OTR/omemo support. But that's besides the point because it's only done by a very small minority.

My point is that Facebook is a major player in targeted ads and their chat system is also unencrypted and resembles what google has tried to develop.

So I think google's issue is not with the ads but something else. I agree that they've taken a few too many stabs at trying to develop a chat system. But I can't see how they're failing because of their ad business.
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What do your people use? Facebook chat, Telegram...?
I don't understand what point you were trying to make by linking to a wiki article of a single incident that happened over two decades ago?
rent would probably make sense. my utilities change each month, so "recurring" as an event makes sense, but not the amount.
Can you please try it again? the issue was not related with the component itself https://zzarcon.github.io/react-circle

let me know if you still experience that issue
Is there any extension that can incorporate a responsive and attractive popup?
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Abstract:
"We study how technological shocks to the cost of starting new businesses have led the venture capital model to adapt in fundamental ways over the prior decade. We both document and provide a framework to understand the
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adaptation and related entry by new financial intermediaries has led to a disproportionate rise in innovations where information on future prospects
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I also suspect I'll be a lot less salty about not having any time to sit down and program myself any more because I have to deal with all the business parts.
Do you mind clarifying what you mean?
I know that feel :)

It's just as bad in any discussion of graphics techniques, operating system features, and again in security approaches/features. Migrating to devops and security spaces has been like a conceptual "Groundhog Day".

I'm starting to think our industry is actually not so innovative and fast moving as we all like to say it is. It may be that software is merely a new engineering field and new fields begin with a wave of invention followed by reflections of reiteration as boundaries are found and concepts get refined.
I fixed the issue, was unrelated with the component itself, can you please have a look again and verify that it works fine? https://zzarcon.github.io/react-circle/
Perhaps the conversation you are looking for is the one about what’s known as “intersectionality”
I can't decide if that's horrifying or brilliant. Leaning towards both.
The future of mankind lies with nuclear power. I'm distressed by it not receiving as much attention as windmills.
> a country that was founded on on the principles of freedom

The USA, my country, was not founded on the principles of freedom. It was founded on the principles of white supremacy.

Its quite easy to come to this conclusion if we simply look at the US Constitution, which has a clause stating that the Black slaves brought to this country for a single purpose, that of chattel slavery, were to be counted as 3/5ths of a person in order to determine the makeup of congress. That is directly against any "principles of freedom" I can come up with.
To what extent will GDPR require them to include the information they have to serve and target you ads? Does anyone even know yet?
> In theory, anybody with a phone number can receive an SMS

Basic landlines are still a thing, and cannot, even in theory, recieve SMS.
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If its NYC it is indeed illegal and without a doubt unethical. You are only allowed to pass rent-controlled apartments to family members and those family members must liver there two years prior to transitioning the lease to them.
I fully agree with you.

Altough I really like requests, this is a violation of one of the PEP 20 heuristics:

Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/

An exception would be an elegant way to handle the problem and would be able to retain the incomplete data to be handeled. It's exactly what they are for. The exception could be the default to prevent surprises, possible deactivated with a flag.
I've been working on learning x86 ASM, and this was a fun challenge. Cool stuff.
If you hadn’t stopped right there, you might have seen the sarcasm in the rest of the post!
Thanks for your feedback!

Yes, we definitely have to improve the homepage, but we wanted to launch quickly to see if people were interested by the idea.

Thanks again!
15M would be listenable with a state of the art audio codec like Opus, but not transparent.

15Mb for 63.5 minutes would translate to 32 Kbit/s. Which is pretty low, but I'm going to compress it with Opus and listen to it. Apparently there have been some improvements on low bitrate speech coding which would make it good for saving podcasts or text to speech files.

I used to save some space on my PocketPC by re-compressing podcasts to wma acelp.net in the previous century.
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completely agree re your argument that the point of cryptocurrencies is to SPEND it. all the hodling isn't making cryptocurrency adoption easy. but also def a lot of work needed for solving scalability issues and making cryptocurrency spending more end-user friendly.