skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This suggests to me the need of another Asilomar Conference whereby scientists can get atop regulation ahead of the game[1]. From the book The Gene, "Asilomar was different: here, scientists were alerting themselves to the perils of their own technology and seeking to regulate and constrain their own work. Historically, scientists had rarely sought to become self-regulators. As Alan Waterman, the head of the National Science Foundation, wrote in 1962, “Science, in its pure form, is not interested in where discoveries may lead. . . . Its disciples are interested only in discovering the truth.” But with recombinant DNA, Berg argued, scientists could no longer afford to focus merely on “discovering the truth.” The truth was complex and inconvenient, and it required sophisticated assessment. Extraordinary technologies demand extraordinary caution, and political forces could hardly be trusted to assess the perils or the promise of gene cloning (nor, for that matter, had political forces been particularly wise about handling genetic technologies in the past—as the students had pointedly reminded Berg at Erice)." [2]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asilomar_Conference_on_Recombi...
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gene:_An_Intimate_History (page 231)
An interesting side effect here is that the house water heater has its own temperature control. For years people have been turning down the temperature setting on their water heaters to save energy, as a result the typical house water heater might be set to 60C (130F) and the washing machine was doing the best it could.
While I talk hugely about language gone by, I have actually no idea what "rather" means. Take "rather obvious" as "I can't be the only one who'd consider this for a bit".

> For all we know

No, absolutely not. Rhymes are very important to old folk lore. And to language acquisition in general. And, in a metaphoric sense, to pattern matching over all.

Of course it is possible that the word was obscured from the get go lest it would appear derived. But I don't think it's onomatopoetic, if that's what you mean (I guess you didn't, though). Thinking about that, it's likely though that the word had to be pronounced by children, requiring easier phonemes, so perhaps no th. That gives a lot of leeway to speculate about an original root. Anther thought is that "swarz" (black) should be considered, because mines are inherently dirty, and as a kind of derogative. I agree though, expecting a single root would be too easy. A rhyme compressed into one word would easily obscure the term.

A very sad thought related to small people working in mines is child labor.
Well... I mean the first version (IsPrefixOfStringInTable_1) uses the lengths from the string array to improve performance versus the baseline: http://trent.me/is-prefix-of-string-in-table/#IsPrefixOfStri...

The super-simple baseline referred to in the intro was whipped up as a trivial example of the simplest approach you could take for the problem.

Trie was never in contention as I didn't want to rely on any algorithms that involved pointer chasing. There's this comment at the top of StringTable.h:

The design is optimized for relatively short strings (less than or equal to
16 chars), and relatively few of them (less than or equal to 16). These
restrictive size constraints facilitate aggressive SIMD optimizations when
searching for the strings within the table, with the goal to minimize the
maximum possible latency incurred by the lookup mechanism. The trade-off
is usability and flexibility -- two things which can be better served by
prefix trees if the pointer-chasing behavior of said data structures can
be tolerated.

https://github.com/tpn/tracer/blob/v0.1.12/StringTable2/Stri...

I'm not sure if Boyer-Moore is well suited to the specific use case I wanted to address. It is geared toward looking for occurrences of a pattern in a stream of text bytes, which isn't really what I'm doing at all. I have an input string of known length. I have up to 16 strings in a table, and I want to quickly check if any of those strings "start with or are equal to" my input string, with special emphasis on negative matching being on the fast path, and preserving the location of the match in the table (so it can be cast to an enum, for example).

So, this article was specifically about the SIMD-oriented STRING_TABLE structure, not necessarily about the history of string processing. Another article potentially comparing this approach to tries, Boyer-Moor or Aho-Corasick would make sense in the context of larger prefix table data sets (and a larger text corpus being searched, e.g. wikipedia dumps).
"Certain essential oils are proven immune boosters. We sleep better thanks to essential oils, and as you no doubt know, sleep is an integral component to good health. We soothe minor cuts and scrapes with essential oils. After switching to as many all natural, essential oil based products as possible, we’re quite sure that our exposure to potentially harmful (and immune damaging?) chemicals has been reduced.

The best thing about making alternative household products yourself with essential oils is that you at least know exactly what’s in them. If you look at the ingredient list for even a bottle of simple shampoo, there might be dozens of ingredients with names that you could hardly pronounce—whereas with DIY products, there might be five ingredients, all of which you know are safe for your body, your children, your pets, etc."

Yeah, what a bunch of bullshit.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa064725
Did they hire somebody from Microsoft to name this?
As I wrote in the reply to the sibling post, chain-signing the transactions is basic, just a few lines of code using a crypto library like NaCl. We did that for an invoicing API, it was one of the easiest parts, literally less than 10 lines.
>We live in an enlightened era. Our mental toolboxes are full to bursting with evidence-based reasoning, with precedent, with doubt, and with logic. We hold many truths to be self evident. We stand on the shoulders of intellectual giants and we think this plain of shoulders is ground level.

>If you want to think medieval, chuck your entire toolbox out the window and start from scratch. You need to un-learn rationality, un-learn concepts you've been steeped in since childhood.

This is one thing I've thought about before and that made quite an impression on me. We are physically identical to humans in the 14th century, or any period of history for that matter. Same brains, same "intelligence". But we would never dream of doing most things that were commonplace in the 14th century, we would never tolerate living in the way they did. Some things we know are elementary and almost childish in their simplicity, but took millenia. They looked at the world in a way that seems entirely silly to us. Aristotle was probably more intelligent than anybody in this thread, however he believed the most ridiculous things, same for, oh I don't know, Julius Caesar or St Thomas Aquinus.

We all are in a very real sense standing on the shoulders of billions, and their slow and tortuous progress.
> The idea that lawyers are part of a conspiracy to make _money_ by running more people through the criminal justice system is completely senseless.

That's strange of you to say. Haven't lawyers conspired to do just that before?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal

> To start, criminal justice is easily in the running for least highly remunerated category of law.

Is it not well understood that people who are less highly remunerated are more prone to seeking out illegal sources of additional funds? This is the justification for extremely high ministerial salaries in Singapore - to avoid such corruption.
Lambda to SKI: a different view on the old translation
Funny, I felt very similar when this happened :) https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/993142700374462464
A Purely Functional Typed Approach to Trainable Models
Email encryption flaw gives hackers full access to your secret messages
I mean a shitload of copper wire would kill mold and probably bacteria, but also stains laundry green.

However a 'bio-ceramic' that is supposed to go in your body hopefully isn't coppery or otherwise biocidal

If it's generating peroxide in situ, it won't kill anything until long after it eats up your clothes and nothing can renewably generate that much peroxide or else it would be used for energy, not advertised on infomercials
HSBC Says Trade Deal Shows Blockchain Viable for Trade Finance
Yes, I'm in threads critical of Twitter linking to Mastodon. Critics of Twitter need to vote with their feet. My "spam" is on-topic in these threads.
Can planet Earth feed 10B people?
So here's something interesting to note. The "buy this paper" price for this article is almost reasonable in and of itself. $22.00. In fact, for somebody who works in the field or even a tangentially connected field, they could probably justify spending the $22.00 for it.

But... hilariously, a one year subscription to the journal, is only $59.00 (for individuals, online only).

https://www.nature.com/neuro/subscribe

Something seems a bit out of whack when the price of one article is about 1/3rd of the price of the journal for an entire yet.

I'm almost tempted to subscribe. The problem with this model though, is that it doesn't scale. Even at "only" $59.00, how many journals can one afford to subscribe to before the aggregate cost breaks the bank? sigh
Because she says a lot of other stuff that isn't science based about essential oils.
True. Any organization in which the incentives for an executive to increase or maintain their own power within the organization trumps the incentives for them to work for the benefit of the organization as a whole.
I believe that hg would be a better choice for 80% of the projects. But then i still voted for git, because that's what everybody else is using.
Landfill sites amount to a very small portion of overall land usage of human industry. Beyond making sure reusable and affordably recyclable stuff is not being wasted, the wider environment is not improved or significantly relieved by expensive efforts to reduce landfill.

The immediate environmental action priorities should surely be:

- Taking waste out of habitat
( collection and filtration )
- Reducing waste going into habitat
( biodegradable material use,
design re-usability and reliability,
affordable recycling )
- Study and assist heavily disrupted natural systems.

We don't have to be able to reprocess all of the waste collected since there is relative space to simply store it while we work on the technology and clean energy supply to make it reusable.

I believe advanced landfill as a long term waste curing and storage ability should be considered a big part of urgent clean industry and not characterised as a major problem in itself.
hit the `?` when you're on bitbucket.
> They're going to try to unify lots of different benefits under a single, high-value subscription

This makes me sad, as it's my primary gripe with Amazon Prime. The only Prime service I actually use is free 2-day shipping. But they keep lumping more and more stuff in there -- video streaming, movies, photos, music, etc -- and the price keeps going up. Sooner or later it's not going to be worth the free 2-day shipping and I'm going to have to go back to paying for shipping and waiting around for stuff to arrive.

I'd be very sad if Google decided to emulate this :(
Exactly what I meant. Yes, you can bleach all your clothes, but not your whole house.

Then, if you already have stomach flu, then I don't see how bleaching your clothes might help here. Take a medicine.

Finally, reading about stomach flu (I'm not a doctor), it doesn't look like a serious problem:
> Most people with the stomach flu require no formal treatment. The key to a rapid and safe recovery at home (home remedy) is proper hydration.

If it gets more serious then take a pill or/and go to a doctor.
I have come to the realization that, if you are a CEO, you'll have to be an asshole to some people. Maybe not all people all the time, but just enough that you'll accumulate bad 'quotes' over time.

You are, after all, supposed to steer a company. Not all people will be aboard, you don't have all the time in the world to reason with them, even if you would like to.
Had to nitpick on the monospaced font line. Proportional type preserves the shape of words which is a huge part of readability. I don't think I'd take a resume that looks like it was written in a code editor as a positive signal.

https://www.quora.com/Typography-Monospaced-fonts-what-are-t...
These are great points. I specialize in the period a bit after the 14th century (the early modern era, roughly Columbus to the Industrial Revolution) and often say something similar to my class.

I add these as points #3 and #4:

- Diseases that we would consider to be debilitating were so common that it was completely normal for a person to suffer from, say, smallpox, dysentery and a gangrenous limb in a 10 year period. All in a world with no painkillers whatsoever (oddly enough, opiates were almost never used in a clinically effective manner in surgery prior to the late 17th century). The sheer level of physical pain that people dealt with on a daily basis is staggering and would have taken a psychological toll.

- It was also completely normal for someone to have dealt with the loss of multiple siblings and children in infancy. You commonly see families that had 10+ children, of which only two or three survived into adulthood. So not only warriors but virtually everyone would have had something similar to what we'd today call PTSD. (Incidentally, this is also my theory as to why putti and the baby Jesus motif are so popular in medieval and Renaissance art - what today seems like a tacky baby painting was, in that period, deeply resonant with virtually everyone's personal experience of the loss of a beloved family member in infancy).
I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter whether the eneergy is stored in rotating body, or one moving in a straight line. Kinetic energy of rotation is 0.5 * I * w^2, or for that extreme case of "concrete ring" - 0.5 * m * r^2 * w^2, which is exactly equal to 0.5 * m * v^2, or kinetic energy as calculated for body moving in straight line.
"the moment they decided to name themselves"

this isn't really a choice these days. the modern mind doesn't have time or attention for something as unwieldy as "involuntarily celibate". even comintern seems a bit long. we live in a world dominated by memes

the only other likely moniker this group could have ended up with today is "involuntarily fucking celibate"
What if everyone in the world lived on the same street?
You pay reg and taxes when you buy (or lease) the car. He just didn't want to run plates on the car. Many people I know go as long as possible without plates.
Nah, it wasnt about raw speed, Doom doesnt even run all that well on next, its slower than 386DX40 on emulator trying to approximate NeXTcube Turbo speed.
Ok, I'll grant that jousting seems like an almost guaranteed concussion.

But I always assumed that the percentage of people with access to jousting practice would be so small, that there wouldn't be enough of them to really define the mindset of the age.
Kids get all sorts off of weird diseases that are hard to diagnose. The game of guess the critter whilst sleep deprived is awful. Bed bugs? Hand foot and mouth? Fleas? Skin sore? Chicken pox? You reach the stage where you are contemplating binning all soft furnishings. A tested way of washing things isn’t a silly idea.
Dropbox is a nightmare of icons. And they also "politicize" the icons by putting the Paper icon first. I'm sure their A/B testing is showing that everyone loves paper and uses more than any other feature. I've clicked on dozens of times in error and never found a use for it since I rarely interact with dropbox through the website.

It's gone now, but remember the rainbow icon? That's how you got to recent file changes (not notifications). Even worse they removed that icon and the functionality entirely (seeing recent file changes across your entire dropbox in one place). I used it daily when I would accidentally move a dropbox folder or fat finger something else I needed to quickly revert.
So if there's no economic value attached to something, you consider it unimportant by definition? Wow.
By all accounts (and I have no personal knowledge here) Steve could be a jerk, or at least very demanding. Steve was definitely successful.

Being a jerk != being successful!

Having a great product eye and good design sense are excellent traits to emulate.
Having "strong opinions, loosely held" is another great trait to emulate.
Being honest and direct when something isn't good is also a great trait to emulate.
Demanding people do their best is another great trait to emulate.

Being a jerk (at least under certain circumstances) is orthogonal and unrelated.

Unfortunately far too many people mistake correlation for causation and think being a demanding jerk is the key to success. First: you are no Steve Jobs. Second: that isn't what made him successful.

(Being direct and brutally honest can also come off as being a jerk. We have lots of pressure to be positive / supportive and avoid social conflict. It is always easier to say "that's great" or "nice job" than give actual constructive feedback, especially when the recipients are likely to be defensive about it. It is critical for startups to avoid this and be brutally honest with themselves about the product!)
Thanks! Going through Comcast / AT&T isn't the only path to the internet, plenty of other companies sell the backhaul services that we need--Hurricane Electric, Zayo, Cogent, CenturyLink, etc..

Monitoring traffic and throttling it are both network-level interventions that we won't implement or support in a way that can be abused like that. We don't want to expose our operators to the liability of even collecting this type of info.
thanks for sharing! out of curiosity, how do people typically trench today? which companies do you consider on the leading edge in terms of trenching price and technology?
This website reminded of littlebigdetails[0] when it comes to analysing user interfaces. The difference is that the latter points out what's good about them.

[0] http://littlebigdetails.com/
Richard Rhodes had a particular axe to grind. I would suggest looking at Atcheson and primary sources before Rhodes. You are also mixing titles - Making of the Atomic Bomb, Dark Sun and Arsenals of Folly.

Making of the Atomic Bomb is amazing... but also bone chilling when you realize that scientists were basically advocating a dictatorship of technocrats.
They do (or did) exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrobus
Searching for an internship in cybersecurity.
What's the issue with "pointer-chasing"? That it might be inefficient in practice (despite preferable runtime complexity?) due to making poor use of CPU caches?
> Why do you believe that no evidence could ever convince them?

Looking back at the history of physics, can you give me an example of an established physics theory that was discarded by experimental evidence? The worst that can happen is that disproven theory will be rebranded as “classic” and will continue to exist and taught as if it were never disproved.

> Imagine if a prediction market were in place about the outcome of various expiraments. Whose models do you think would be used by the traders who do the best in such a market?

Good question. So if I understand correctly, various experiments are conducted on the same subject and physicists look at the outcomes and choose the experiments that makes the best prediction. Or the experiment that matches the model best.

This is a very idealized view of physics. Most experiments in academic physics are academic experiments. The experiment is set up to give one result and one result only and all the successive experimenters do is to try to lower the experimental error.
One of the things that made Steve Steve is that he recognized and actively sought out influential products to be associated with.
Worse on mobile where you can't hover.
we really need change in the isp business (yeah, captain obvious here)
I will cite fanf2 from the previous thread:

> The irony of this bug is that immediately above %G is %F (short for %Y-%m-%d) which is they wanted...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17058036
Encryption flaws claimed, but researchers' findings questioned
At the point where we are talking about a distributed log with cryptographic hashes, it is hard not to introduce the buzzword "blockchain" back in, as that is the original design.

Having global consensus (PoW) is a different matter, but that doesn't mean what you are saying isn't a blockchain.

There is a good conversation me and @geofft had the other day, would love your thoughts on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17000401
I'm not sure what you mean. You mean they don't have a choice in the design? Because there were plenty of alternatives (MySpace). Facebook just provided a better experience.
Cells are just fat micelles, and soap does a pretty good job at breaking them up. This might be considered 'mechanical', but people irreversibly lyse bacteria all the time with SDS, a very simple soap.

Not effective against mold spores, bacteria endospores, worm eggs, higher life forms, really tough bacteria, but soap does kill most bacteria you find in poop
Under the headline "viewer comments". (although I'd personally not published such a comment)
Tensor2Tensor Webinar= May 21, Ryan Sepassi, Sr Research Eng. At Google Brain
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Depression Tied to Faster Brain Aging and Poor Memory in Seniors
> Where I differ is with your (admittedly contrived) example. I've interviewed dozens (hundreds?) of people over the years, and I can't say I've seen any correlation between passion and professionalism/competence/longevity.

Makes sense. I think I was trying to say we come up with seemingly arbitrary reasons to hire & reject people. Before getting into software, I had expected the opposite. As far as I can tell, hiring would be more effective if we asked candidates to roll a d20 to make a charisma check w/ a difficulty modified by how we're feeling that day.
Nice! I've seen something similar called public changelogs with https://headwayapp.co/ Take that as confirmation there is a market.

Try to avoid processing of end-user's email addresses, e.g. ask websites to send you a hash of the email address or such, or immediately hash it after receiving. With GDPR and privacy in general having a database full of email addresses is just unnecessary data collection.
6 takeaways from Kubecon Europe 2018
Isn’t that Ive’s job?
Very soon! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17064664
Related to germs, how often do people clean their keyboards/mice/electronic surfaces in their office. How come tech companies don't have such a service? Would people be interested in it?
Why does the bottom of the page say "All fights retarded" ?

wtf?? Totally unnecessary.
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Your local construction or electrical contractors are usually best suited for this work, using something like a ditch witch or trencher. This isn’t cutting edge work, just a trade.
Houston, Boston, and San Diego are all good spots.

That said, it's a moribound industry. Don't do healthcare if you can avoid it--you'll get paid better as a developer nearly anywhere else, and it won't be a third as frustrating.
We use fixed wireless for our last mile (60GHz and 5.8GHz in SF). We haven't been reliant on Local Exchanges. We'd typically be selling to residential end users (single family homes and/or MDUs).
Thank you for this. Getting lost in ego is a common trap for smart people in powerful positions.

One can be brutally honest in a nonpersonal way, with non-sarcastic humor, with lightness and friendliness.

Including appreciation for already existing effort, adding reasoning, logic, and vision in the communication go a long way.

Edit: added appreciation :)