skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't even know the plt existed... Fascinating. I'm curious if other JITd runtimes (like the jvm) offer the same optimizations
I think it's worth suspending judgement and opinions about what you think a programming language should be and evaluate it on its own terms. The preceding is a terse form of the code, you can write it more verbosely. But just like regex, terse forms can be very useful once you understand them.
Same, via my Apple TV. Sometimes I enjoy just sitting and watching it in silence!
Oh, you are.

In which case, I'll fill in what you conveniently left out:-

* Tommy Robinson was arrested for contempt of court

* Tommy Robinson is still under a suspended sentence for a previous conviction of contempt of court

* The publication ban is because the judge is concerned that by continuing to report on the trial Tommy Robinson was apparently 'reporting' on (quotes mine), there's a risk of prejudicing it

* Tommy Robinson is not a reporter or a journalist - if he was, he'd be aware of the reasons why courts are not best pleased about someone filming the people coming and going

In short - man does thing, is convicted of doing a thing, is given a suspended sentence and told not to do the thing again, and is somehow surprised that the legal system takes a dim view of it. A more cynical person may say that Robinson has his own reasons for doing what he's doing that are particular to the people involved in the trial, but I'll leave that as an exercise for people to figure out with a Google search.
There's really two big issues with 'quant' mindsets. The first one is a 'if I can't measure it, it doesn't exist' logic. Where people will mistake metrics that are easily accessible with metrics that are meaningful. People who like to take quantified approaches tend to drift towards methods that allow for easy quantification regardless if they're appropriate or not.

The second one is, as the saying goes, that 'life is not lived in the aggregate'. Quantified approaches give us general, macro ideas but may easily be less appropriate than subjective or individual experiences if you only care about specific cases (like your own well-being) to begin with. It's not always appropriate to trade case-specific knowledge for general knowledge if all you care about is one case.

Related to this is a loss of resolution. Aggregation ignores internal dynamics. The national GDP or corporate performance might mask huge internal divergence which again can result in instability, which then causes second order effects. Those dynamics only really show up in qualitative models, not data.
I think I largely agree with his reflection(s): easily obtainable metrics to track physical fitness / health often do more harm than good.

But I can't help but think that partial quantification of the self could still be extremely useful, it's just that virtually all diet/fitness applications are focused on calorie counting and weight-loss. They should be focused on increasing bodily awareness. How long does it take for food to pass through? How often do you poop? What are those poops like? When you eat X, how do you feel an hour later, two hours later, three hours later?

If you begin tracking _these_ kinds of metrics, then you could become aware of how different foods, sleep patterns, etc, affect your mood, and subjective energy levels.

This kind of self knowledge -- whose discovery could be aided by some good UX, is fantastic. The only kinds of health applications that seem to take this moderately serious are period tracking apps.
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I'm not sure. Is utilizing the feature that no guard is watching that expensive bracelet in the store illegal?
> The worst thing about these "contempt of cop" style arrests is, despite the charges being dropped, once you're in the system's pipeline, if you mess up about any of the restrictions, paperwork, court appearances, etc, you become a criminal.

I've always wondered about describing it as "contempt of cop." Isn't that the same as arguing that it should be a crime? If you go to court and flip off the judge, you could get a fine or even prison time because it undermines the criminal justice system.

Something like "police brutality" is one thing--getting arrested isn't a reason for the police to beat someone up--but I think "contempt of cop" is something in the wrong direction.

Ideally, it would be better if most people and most cops did not start every conversation being afraid of each other and expecting to fight. Then it would be easier to de-escalate the situation. And just for the record, yes, I've been on the wrong side of an angry cop. If you actively work to calm things down, you'll find that things go much better. It's funny that showing a little respect goes a long way. Apparently it really stands out these days for being rare.
This has potential to not just answer the question "who's using?" but "does x affect usage?" which is potentially much more useful, because it not only localizes treatment but also informs it.
Right, I'm not being very precise; you don't necessarily want the whole kernel (because then you have to model inputs for all the interactions with all the kernel subsystems), but rather to isolate the one component under test.
> The CBP checkpoints are good at one thing: catching American motorists with dime bags of pot

Like Willie Nelson.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-best-little-checkp...
Failure to trim wild growth is a very common cause of massive wildfires.[0]

In California, there's an incentive problem because the utilities try to charge the costs to the consumers. They have reduced economic incentive to maintain safe zones around their equipment.

[0] http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-utility-wildfires-2017...
> > do tend to lean left

> Citation needed.

I think that this is probably a dangerous game to get into; calling for citations is, I think, only likely to be helpful when there is a mutually recognised authority to cite (and, besides, when the claim to be resolved is a factual one—'biased' is not a characterisation that can be proven or disproven without some really careful definitions, on which two disputing parties are likely to disagree). Here's the first hit in a search for "Snopes biased". I've intentionally mangled the first component of the URL to avoid linking to whatever kind of site this is.

http://d@ilyc@ller.com/2016/06/17/fact-checking-snopes-websi...

I don't know Daily Caller, but the title alone makes me fairly confident that it's a biased source; but there it is, a citation to back up the claim that Snopes is biased.
‘Call them lies’? Why we sometimes don’t use the L-word when Trump is wrong
When the Tubbs Fire happened north of the SF Bay last year, it cut off the few Internet links to the Eureka area in Northern California. ATM machines were down as a result, as were the phone lines. If you were stuck somewhere without gas, and without cash, you were really out of luck.

This kind of thing can happen at any moment and yet how many people are really prepared?
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> functionality

A link to a static page "we don't collect user data" is now "functionality"?
Ya, it requires significant background. The trouble is, if I just say exactly what it is about, people will automatically assume things about stuff they haven't checked themselves, but have been strongly conditioned to believe.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/25/john-podesta-talks...
Why don't you come out and say what you really mean? djajshgsjja is attempting to justify a handicap against the successful subgroups. But what amount of handicap should there be? In what measure should the handicap apply? How can you apply any sort of handicap without a massive bureaucratic intervention, with swaths of each organisation dedicated to applying handicaps? Ah, but the bureaucratic intervention is the linchpin. We arrive at the diversity and equity offices in Universities across North America. We arrive at the Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion by Law Society of Ontario that requires every law firm of 10 or greater to complete an annual report about how they are advancing the goals of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are parts of an ideology based on absolutely no science or literature, and ignores the deadly catastrophes of the 20th century whose millions of dead were preceded by cutting off the successful subgroups at the knees.
This is one of those things that sounds better than it really is.

The timing used here in this post is ns per call, which somewhat obfuscates what's going on. A better metric would be clock cycles of overhead, because the differences here are only around 2-3 clock cycles. In other words, the potential savings is going to be drowned out by jitter caused by things like the processor deciding to service interrupts, or your hyperthread partner doing work. If the relevant code is so hot that the cost is showing up in profiles, then very likely, the fact that a function call is going through the PLT versus being directly called is not going to be the thing that makes the most difference: it's the fact that you're making the function call in the first place.
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I agree with your general premise. I disagree with your application of that premise here. In this case the comment is providing a warning that the situation is more dangerous than it appears.

Someone reading that comment would be more likely to act conservatively, resulting in fewer deaths.
Very hard to do that today with Electronic logs and most companies going to Systems that track based on what the truck is doing not what the driver reports.

This is one of the reasons there is a shortage alot of those drivers that used to "cheat the books" (which is a whole other thing) stopped making as much money, and can not pull the same number of loads anymore
Really wish this article wasnt full of crypto psychobabble because the cooperative business structure has real teeth, both as an alternative fundraising/equity structure for tech companies and for regular, everyday businesses across the US. Establishing clear ownership structures among workers in a way that allows them to have a voice in company operations and share in the profits is the most democratic mode of capitalism and clearly fairer than the oligarchic form of capitalism we’re living in now. I wish more startups considered this path.
I wonder how a German person would describe it. Probably not like that, I'll bet.
https://craphound.com/scroogled.html
In which century ?

Mid to late Twentieth Century. I was told it was the sort of thing you didn't even use for talking about human pregnancy. It was typically used to talk about animals, hence why it was so shocking.
I often work from coffeshops or other places in order to maintain some level of social interaction, as little as it may be. I suppose when I do go into the office for a meeting, we all sort of speak the same language and have similar personality types so there are no issues socially; I don't have to put up a super social extroverted front to talk physics (I'm a scientist). I don't live with my SO but we video chat frequently, which also helps.
This seems very much like the way most Americans view laws, and "complying" with them. This is not the way the European Union law is written, nor how they view compliance.

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink will not work as well as he hopes here, making this far from the best startup response. It's also possible that he's doing a good enough job on privacy that nobody will raise a GDPR complaint against the site, but that doesn't mean this response should be emulated.
I still have no idea what this is about
It's these types of issues I believe a massive coalition could be built around.

Without attempting to ignite a flame war here, I'll just say it would not surprise me at all if this fellow was a Trump supporter nor would it surprise me if he were not.

What I have noticed over my 34 voting years is an extremely well coordinated effort by every major media source to distract the electorate from these types of issues.

For example, a quick search on Bing/news finds hits on the referenced Slate article and an article on Reason which illustrates my point. But the only other references I get hits for are local news sources.
Not sure why any sane person would want them (and why taxpayers would allow Sacramento to purchase those for their own fleet), but the same people who bought Juiceros or stand in line for the latest iPhone would snap these up.
I think there is a large swath of Americans (presumable in other countries people feel the way) who are moderate and would welcome a news rating system. I'm talking about Bernie bros who broke for Trump, or Repubs who broke for Hillary, for example. I'm sure there are volumes of regular people who would like to know that what they are reading is based on fact, rather then interpretation.

Just today, we had someone from the NYT RT a picture of illegal immigrants during the Obama admin and pinned it on Trump --when people called it out, he re-framed the issue. Of course with Musk it's about misrepresenting statistics and making mountain out of mole hills from minor production issues.
Then there is the whole aspect of using a small unverified studies to call for one type of action or another in favor of one group or another. News have become something akin to a rumour mill and echo chamber than an organ which diffuses unframed news.
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Not at all (>6 years). But this is heavily dependent on your personality. You can lead rich social life but be complete recluse at work, 100% focusing on what you do. Or you can work remotely from some exotic place, bumping at new interesting people whenever you walk out of your apartment for trivial stuff like buying food or stretching yourself.

Whenever I feel lonely I can throw a party with a mix of people of various backgrounds as well.
From your essay:

> rescuing drowning victims is how good swimmers drown

This, absolutely. People are heavy; drowning people can and will drag you with them due to the instinctual response. Even a child can be quite dangerous to rescue if you're untrained. Call the lifeguards if you see someone drowning, especially if you've never taken any form of lifeguard training.
The idea of selling information you choose directly to advertisers, intentionally, is much healthier than Facebook / Google etc spending tons of time inferring shit about you.
It does have a lot of overhead in copying, though. Erlang has lower throughput than Ruby in a lot of cases.

It's somewhat mitigated by the reference counted global heap for passing large messages by reference but multi-threaded reference counting is extremely hard to do fast and AFAIK Erlang doesn't really try and do anything too complex.
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I was not comparing slavery to lack of data privacy. The point I was trying to make was that, in the greater scheme of things, there is no requirement for philosophical or moral motivation to change laws - only a critical mass of people who want the change.

In this context, the slavery example wasn't a good one as it is so charged with exactly that. Perhaps drug prohibition laws are a better example in general and Alcohol prohibition in the US in particular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un...

With this in mind there is no need for moral justification that one side of a two sided exchange retains exclusivity to information (and given the way personal data is used and abused, I think that there is such justification) , only sufficient public opinion that this is how things should be.
I founded a company with 3 friends. We'd all worked at the same company previously. Two of us took on more leadership roles in the new venture, two more focused on engineering. Between the four of us, 10 years later, two of the original founders don't really get on anymore, but the rest of us remain friends.

From my point of view, the friendships helped us to overcome difficult situations where we disagreed strongly. I found it helpful to be able to trust the others to speak honestly, to advocate strongly, and to work towards our common good. Also, if you're going to be spending all day every day working with someone, liking them helps a lot :-)

I suspect there's no good way out when breaking up a partnership as intense as a startup. No matter what the reasons, it's hard on all parties. Making sure the legals are clear up front can only help, of course.

I would say "do it": the benefits outweigh the possible costs.
Have you seen https://datacoup.com/ ? They've been around for awhile, and I used them for awhile, until I decided the $1 or w/e I was getting per month wasn't really worth it to me, given that I had no idea where my data was going.
> In both German and French, douche means shower.

In German, I have seen the word "Dusche" used for shower. Rarely, have I seen "Douche" been used.
I think it is very important to let everyone know what a drowning person looks like so that when they see one, they can scream for help from a professional.

And yes, I am a trained life guard, though it was a long time ago.
That domain is blocked ostensibly for malware. Can you sum up the top results maybe?
When I see a site imploring me to disable my adblocker I think - nope, too late, you ad people screwed up this thing forever, look for a new business model. This one is dead. Or at least, it's dead for me. I am ok with having reasonable number of ads. I am not ok with blowing up site 10x and making my laptop max out CPU and my mobile devices get stuck trying to render all that garbage.
Data privacy laws generally don't give blanket opt-out options, and this proposal doesn't seem to include an opt-out. (Think about it: eg criminals obviously can't opt out of police databases).

The full text of the proposal is here: https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/17-0039%20%...

> A. Giving California consumers the right to know what categories of personal information a business has collected about them and their children.

> B. Giving California consumers the right to know whether a business has sold this personal information, or disclosed it for a business purpose, and to whom.

> C. Requiring a business to disclose to a California consumer if it sells any of the consumer's personal information and allowing a consumer to tell the business to stop selling the consumer's personal information.

> D. Preventing a business from denying, changing, or charging more for a service if a California consumer requests information about the business's collection or sale of the consumer's personal information, or refuses to allow the business to sell the consumer's personal information.

> E. Requiring businesses to safeguard California consumers' personal information and holding them accountable if such information is compromised as a result ofa security breach arising from the business's failure to take reasonable steps to protect the security of consumers' sensitive information.

I don't think the sky is going to fall if this gets passed.
Phrase this as a positive rather than pejorative statement, and it seems far less compelling.

"Offering treatment on demand everywhere is massively cheaper than trying to find out who is addicted to opiates."

1. Why can't you do both?

2. Treatment on demand can be marketed and tailored based on information about users.

3. I'm not sure it's a safe bet that opiate addiction is in every community. Seems like a false assumption. To my knowledge there are geographic differences, economic differences, and medical access differences between cohorts that use and those that don't.

The danger of disparaging an idea before it reaches maturity is that criticism may actually be incorrect, and discourage/dissuade positive developments. You can get the same criticism across without being counterproductive.
Or use something other than proof-of-work.
Title is highly editorializing
What do you think would be a more appropriate response for someone in his position?
Grief, I need a proof-reader.
I've got a wife but no kids, and have been working entirely remote for 9 months. The 3 biggest changes I've noticed:

- I have to remind myself to slow down when talking to people. I think this is a result of having to think/talk through issues on my own during the day. Pairing with team members has helped this a bit.

- I had to make a real effort to see my friends more often, loneliness set in heavily despite having a spouse. Picking up a social hobby, rock climbing in my case, has also helped.

- If living in an area without a strong software community, exchanging ideas and "talking shop" goes away. Learning and professional growth is now done entirely remote as well. Try and stay in an area with regular meetups or some sort of interaction with other engineers if you growing as a technical contributor is important to you.

I do get back to the office 3 times a year, but it's definitely changed my normal social patterns. I still strongly prefer full time remote to having to commute even once or twice a week, but I now use that commute time for socializing and hobbies instead. Good trade off for the added bit of loneliness in my opinion, although I'm not sure my answer would be the same if I didn't have my spouse to keep me company.

* I also moved from Chicago to a town of 15k in Upstate NY
This reminds me of the iPhone7 launch where the slogan ("This is 7") which was translated to "This is penis" in Cantonese.

https://qz.com/777628/the-slogan-for-apples-aapl-new-iphone-...
Not seeing any modal. Is it regional (I'm in the EU)?.
It is basically pronounced the same, or at least close enough for a German acquaintance to have the described misunderstanding with her doctor. I was trying to keep things succinct and not have to go on some long tangent about the different spellings in different languages.

But you are correct. It is actually spelled different in German than in French or English.
Sure there is, just be nice to the cop and identify yourself. The last part is where the guy in the story went wrong, incidentally. It's pretty clear he was deliberately protesting this, though. If you don't know for sure, and you don't want to be arrested, you can just assume that you probably are required to identify yourself [1].

As long as you're not in big trouble (some sort of felony, drugs or DUI), you'll generally get in less trouble for treating them nicely. Most of them have a bias that anyone who hates cops is up to no good and their experience will bear that out more often than not. It will get noted down that they were suspicious of factors X, Y and Z due to their training and experience.

That said, if you're part of some big crime, assert your right to remain silent by saying exactly that every time they question you until you have a lawyer. But really, if you're not into drugs or gangs or politics, that's pretty unlikely for a normal person.

And the checkpoints in the article? Just identify yourself and don't drink at all (call Lyft if you need one) and you'll be fine. Oh, and watch your speed when driving on the reservations. They make a lot of money on fines.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiibel_v._Sixth_Judicial_Distr...
The first time is always a special case. This reminds me of "the million dollar homepage". It worked once. It will never work again.
> capgras delusion

So, that's what it is called? Thank you.
I could also see either the existing chain of ascii glyphs becoming more legible with some wisely-chosen syntax highlighting, or an editing environment where the ascii glyphs are used to produce something distinctive, and that might change how developers relate to the symbols.