skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you make an important point. The media got into a frenzy over Facebook and Cambridge Analytica and we continue to get reports on it, yet I haven't seen many follow ups on Equifax. This is despite that having your SSN, DOB, Address and Drivers License stolen has higher consequences for you than a political campaign having your Facebook data. Priorities are misaligned.
> But I don't see dependency parsing as a task in that suite of benchmarks

That site is dedicated for dependency parsing task, scorecard represents results of various teams/models.
coincidentally, the site for GRPC is similar in design, with a small text sidebar with anchor links:

https://grpc.io/docs/guides/
Do you consume the API as well?

I'm currently writing the GraphQL API to replace our REST API. It is a lot of work, but when I have to put on my "front-end" hat it will be much easier to work with. I think the biggest payoff is for consumers.
They were reasonably well-written but usually extremely poorly reasoned and frequently grounded in convenient inventions (whether about the subject subject matter or the supposed positions of his opponents) rather than facts.
> an equilibrium will be reached

Unless it keeps changing and never settles.
I don't buy this. Medical cost has risen faster in recent years. Older aged boomers surely spend more in medical needs than millennials.
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I was up there once. Flying back, I recognized Mt St Helens. That was an amazing feeling, and an amazing view.
"Against medical advice Danny wishes to try to manage his diabetes with insulin. However, Danny cannot legally access diabetes medication without a prescription from his physician."

The option of changing one's physician never came up.

The question of so-called "pharmaceutical freedom" isn't so strawman as that.

"I say, typically or in general people are gonna be experts about their own interest."

If someone has 6 months to live, do you think they have the time to be an expert in cancer treatments, and an expert about the many ways to fleece dying people hoping for a hail-mary treatment option? I don't.

"The first way is just that people suffer and die waiting for access to a drug that could potentially benefit them and that they judge could potentially benefit them because they can’t qualify to participate in the approval process."

This is unbalanced logic. People could also suffer and die from taking an unapproved drug which causes more harm than good. People could have their life savings sucked dry for treatments which are worse than doing nothing.

The things is, we know the FDA has had problems. AIDS activists pushed changes to make it easier for HIV drugs to come on the market. But there needs to be evidence, and a balancing of the factors.

Like most articles on this topic, the focus is on the FDA. But the FDA isn't the only organization which regulates drugs.

If fewer regulations lead to better drug development, why isn't these treatments appearing in other countries with more lax standards?
I have an older XPS 13, one that came with Windows 8, and putting Ubuntu on it absolutely saved its life. The touchpad driver on Windows was _terrible_ and sleep/hibernate didn't work consistently. I pretty much abandoned it, until one day I decided to try out Ubuntu 16 on it. Suddenly the touchpad was astoundingly accurate and felt on par with my MacBook Pro. I truly love that laptop now.

I thought about upgrading it to 18, but I think I'll just ride it out. It's perfect as-is.
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I can recommend elementary os for people that would like a polished Linux distro
His previous message in this thread was less polite:

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1603.2/01890.html
I had a modular laravel app where each laravel module was a git submodule.
Eventually we put all of those submodules into the same git repository, so we then had had n+1 root commits for our n module laravel project.

It worked well until someone ran an accidental `git merge` of one of the submodules into the main project which sewed a bunch of confusion. After that point the practice was banned where I worked. Nice to know that git added a flag to prevent that, though at this point git have also added a subtree command which I think removes the need for our hack.
There's not any merit in the accusation. The government did subsidize Boeing's SST program, but the technology developed for that wasn't usable for the subsonic jets. (For example, Boeing airliners use 3000 psi hydraulics, while the SST used 4500 psi to save weight. Such required a totally redesigned hydraulic system. 4500 psi is very dangerous, spray from a pinhole leak will cut right through you.)
Yes, the utilization for these supercomputers sits upwards of 99%. There's a lot of research into supercomputer queueing that helps maintain this high throughput. Larger jobs usually take days to weeks to run.

There are separate debug queues for smaller development and test jobs that prioritize latency over throughput, and this is a main source of inefficiency (but, as someone who develops on supercomputers, trust me, it's necessary to make them usable).

As for the efficiency of the codes--there are a lot of barnacle-encrusted Fortran codes in astrophysics, chemistry, and elsewhere. Some of them probably contain plenty of inefficiency, but the cost of re-writing them is high. Oftentimes either the people writing the codes aren't interested in maintaining good software quality (because they're focused on the science) or the incentives aren't aligned to re-write code that's already established, but from the 80s (re-writing old code is generally not how one gets a Ph.D.). But they do very important things, like simulate nuclear fusion or the interaction of chemicals in the atmosphere that create weather patterns and storms, so it's very important to run them.
I'm not claustrophobic, so I can't explain exactly, but I think the evidence of altitude actually counteracts this effect, rather than compounding it as you suggest. In general, we wouldn't expect psychological maladies to present in reasonable ways.
A lot of what you're saying makes sense, thank you! From now on I will strive to separate politics from my rational mind. To that end, I will do everything I can to encourage those with the most deeply immoral and heinous opinions to speak up, and speak loudly -- as long as they do so in a civil, rational, and well-reasoned manner, of course. I hear Miss Manners is working on the most sober and logically consistent defense of incestuous cannibalism that you've ever heard.
How did it go for the trash ? recycling rules ? balcony usage ? Did you check/pass the kanranban ?

Genuinely, resident building are so different from hotels I wonder how smooth it is for the residents to have random oversea people passing by even only 180 days a year, even if they are polite, well educated and well intended.
Commenters: if you won't resist the temptation to rehash stale political controversy out of respect for a human person, then please resist because it's dreadfully tedious and obviously against the guidelines.

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> "mothers who have their children kidnapped and held
> incommunicado from them at the American border are criminals
> - and both mother and child deserve that fate"

I doubt his main point of contention is whether or not the mothers are criminals.

Not that I'm very enthusiastic about his main point. There are ways to communicate scorn that don't involve death wishes.
In Reykjavik they’ve imposed limits on how long you can let on AirBnB before you need to be licensed and for shared apartment complexes you need permission of your neighbors to run an AirBnB. The downside is that with high demand still from tourists and seemingly poor enforcement it’s still an issue. Anecdotally as a resident of downtown Reykjavik I know that a bunch of places around my house that did the AirBnB thing have stopped and returned to longer lets. Presumably because hotel capacity is reaching more of an equilibrium. Which could be a concern as there is a lot of development still not completed. On the positive side that could open a lot of spare housing capacity for local residents but at an obvious cost as the current housing bubble bursts.
That's a good way of putting it.

The various market baskets that make up the various inflation measures contain goods that will matter to some people more than others. And some of the big ticket items will disproportionately affect certain groups.

Want to live in a high-cost urban area and don't already own a home? Of course, rising housing prices will affect you more than someone who already owns in one of those areas or lives somewhere else.

Are pre-college? Education costs more relatively than it used to?

But, yeah, I don't think inflation measures ever claimed to be equably applicable to everyone, especially those measures that excluded some of the major costs precisely because they affect different groups.
I had to wait for a long time for the offer to show up. Post issues here! https://github.com/cjb/serverless-webrtc/issues
What people's disgust? 0.00001% of their userbase? This is completely useless, why don't we move on?
Now you see here lies the problem. No one knew that who was using appfabric. We just got crapped on with this blog post and got told to move on and take our self hosted stuff to azure which at the time was a ball ache:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/appfabric/2015/04/02/micros...

The result of this is, to use the words I used at the time “well fuck you then” after we were told that this was the veritable jesus’s sandals of a product and the future of service oriented architecture at MSFT.

Now there’s a 180 on that post since, which we never checked up on because how would we know when we buggered off to memcache and foot the bill for the whole WCF and WWF rewrite debacle after 3.5. Then grumpily headed towards AWS and it was comfortable there. And now it’s open source and stuff (which judging by lesser parts of the ecosystem like SCVMM stuff on Linux) is probably going to be an abandoned wreck.

As always the marketing and roadmappery is crazy, disparate and impossible to track. We have no idea what direction MSFT is heading in, who is calling the shots and what’s going to happen next.

Which is the point. The maturity curve for MSFT software is a narrow window between two and five years. We can’t afford to rewrite our platform on that cycle.

And thus everyone leaves for greener pastures full of snakes, elephants, penguins and Bezos.

Fair point on MSR however.
Out of curiosity what is a semi-documented immigrant?
it seems they've written their own socket code, at least from the video. It's not like BSD was handed down from on high, it certainly could do with an update to make it easier.
I think it's mostly about the workforce supply flexibility. Agency workers are paid more than the regular staff at the same position and there is the agency fee on top of the hourly rate.

We were also called "candidate" as if we are permanent job candidates. That was actually true for some people who actually persued jobs in the hospitality industry and when someone gets a permanent job the employer pays the agency a fee.
Compare this to Facebook effectively selling a Chinese firm the entire social graph. Not any firm, a firm the US Government indicated should be regarded with caution.

That social graph will pay dividends decades after these missiles are decommissioned.

Conversely, if DoD contracts are sufficient, why aren't Facebook contracts? China doesn't care about contracts in either case. If you think a Chinese firm is going to honor a contract with an American company, you need to look up the Organization Department.
It seems to me that this article (and many others, and the underlying statistics they report on) are lumping together a lot of different things under the same label, that aren't all that similar. I am a contract programmer, but my typical contract is 6-9 months in duration, and I get paid well. Is that part of the "gig economy"? It's not much like driving for Uber, I think, but it is neither part-time nor permanent employment, so it would often get lumped in there. Some truck-drivers work on a per-gig basis, but even though they are driving things for money it doesn't work all that much like Uber, in terms of pay or how you get treated or what your leverage in the market. I think the term "gig economy" is too broad to say anything meaningful about.
As a life long Max fan boy who grew up on Apple IIs and Mac SE 30s - I agree
(Hi I'm Mikkel - also from the Service Fabric team)

We are working through this. There are some hard dependencies on internal build systems we need to untangle, but it is coming along.
> One of the things that human brains do when somebody reduces their caloric intake is that they down-regulate that person's motivation to do stuff.

No, that's a last resort resulting from extreme caloric deficits over prolonged periods. In fact, fasting actually increases perceived energy levels over the first several weeks. Which makes perfect sense: if your body thinks you're having trouble finding food, it's adaptive to be alert and ready so you don't miss any eating possibilities.

Over prolonged periods of caloric deficit, your body down regulates hormones which lowers various metabolic functions so you use less energy in various ways (lower body temp, reduction in NEAT), but this happens over the course of months, and even this energy output reduction is easily staved off by deficit cycling, mild exercise and/or maintaining only a mild deficit rather than a steep one.

> Then I make a comment about diets being extremely ineffective long-term interventions. You disagree, but the literature on this topic is extensive. In fact, the fact that people cannot follow diets is just about the only reliable finding that nutrition research has produced.

That's not really what I said:

1. I said summarizing this research as "diets are ineffective" is the wrong conclusion. Diets are very effective when they're not presented as temporary interventions, which is how people often view them.

2. The research doesn't show that people can't follow diets, but that they won't for "reasons", among which are addiction to certain foods, emotional eating, and just general ignorance about nutrition. This is partly an educational failing, and partly because they simply have no compelling reason to care more than the immediate pleasure they get from indulging.

> Height has a heritability of about .8. No sane person, anywhere, believes that a person has any control over their height. It is entirely your genetics and, absent severe malnutrition [...]

Well you just said it there: nutritional choices by you or your parents have a considerable influence on your height. I also think you're overstating it by saying only severe malnutrition can impact your ultimate height.

> All of those things go into non-shared environment and many of them are not in your control. But you better believe they influence your ability to take personal responsibility.

"Influence" does not entail "determine". You know what else would have a negative influence on a person's sense of control of their life? Telling them most of their body composition, nutritional failings and overall health is out of their control. This too has been extensively studied.

In fact, better well being through better nutrition and exercise is consistently shown to be one of the best changes a person can make in their life, giving them back a sense of control so they can tackle their other problems. Pushing your narrative isn't doing anyone any favours.
Unlike a generation ago, there are now plenty of options for smart investment without a ton of knowledge.

If you don't want to learn a ton or spend a lot of effort, the easiest thing to do is open an account at Wealthfront or Betterment and drop in everything except your emergency fund. (An hour or two of effort.)

The next level of complexity would be to open an account somewhere like Schwab and put your money (minus emergency fund) in a Vanguard target retirement index fund for your estimated year of retirement. (Less than a day of effort.)

The next level of complexity would be to open an IRA, contribute to it annually (to get the tax benefits), and invest that in Vanguard target funds.
Shareholder lawsuit attacks Musk's pay, seeks to overhaul Tesla board
> I also agree that the budget comparison is apples and oranges, so I'm not quite sure why you brought it up.

It's annoying that MSR's numbers aren't broken out from the R&D total. All we can do is speculate what portion of that goes to MSR et al, really.

But it's not surprising. There are all sorts of incentives for not breaking out those numbers. Still, the numbers are helpful. $14B is a lot of money. Even a small slice of that makes MSR one of the most prominent funders of CS research.

> Personally, I think if Microsoft spent anywhere close to a billion dollars on pure academic research... Microsoft grants would be pursued just as hard as NSF grants, because they would be such a major funding source.

I disagree with your perspective throughout this paragraph.

Funding grants for university faculty is NOT the only valid model for funding pure research. Therefore, we could very easily expect MSR to contribute a significant fraction of total US CS research funding without decreasing the competitiveness of the grant landscape for professors at universities.

To me, the distinction between "basic research" and "everything else" seems more important than the particular funding model used. So the criticism that Google has a bad track record with long-running research agendas is highly relevant, whereas 'how much money goes to academics in universities' is far less relevant.

> Additionally, if Microsoft were plunking such a large amount of money into academic research, I assume they would at the very least publish that figure in a PR piece to cash in on some public good will.

But of course, they already do that: "$14 Billion!"
> why call it 'inflation'

Sibling comment also asks this question, so I'll just respond here: inflation measures the purchasing power of some nominal currency, but that measurement is always relative to a basket of goods.

CPI is a basket of 'typical' consumer goods that an average person might buy. But if you're not the average consumer, then in what sense is CPI relevant to you, rather than to a macroeconomist?

I agree that there's a risk of confusion, but I think the confusion is inherent in what we're trying to measure (I have some dollars, how much stuff [that I care about] can I buy with them?), and not mainly a function of terminological confusion.

You could imagine a service like Mint that has all your spending data and calculating your own 'personal CPI', privacy considerations notwithstanding.
The standard arguments for GraphQL all apply here. It:

- Lets you send only the information asked for. For example, you may be sending 50 fields when the client is only interested in 2.

- Lets you evolve the API more safely

- Enables better tooling for people who need to explore your API, like GraphiQL
> You are saying that just because I'm eating fewer calories, I'm going to have less motivation? That makes no sense.

It makes tons of sense in an evolutionary environment where your body is trying to keep you from starving. Less motivation means you save calories for things which are absolutely necessary.
Not necessarily. Another commenter on this subthread found that the weight savings equate to 1-3% of total take off weight (fuselage, engines, fuel, people, cargo). There is a safety benefit to having windows (inspecting in-flight damage to aircraft). Is 1% weight savings enough to remove a safety feature? I don’t know the answer, but it certainly isn’t a clear-cut win.
Perhaps people can benefit from something in their capacity as a consumer while it being a downside in their capacity as an employee, and then on net as a person either benefit from or experience a detriment from the change, depending on which of the two was larger?

Like, suppose someone is selling some good and they get paid on commission, as like, some proportion of the purchase cost. If the price of goods of that sort go down (maybe one of the materials needed to manufacture it became more abundant?), then they would receive less income, but also not have to pay as much for different similar goods, and whether they are overall better or worse off would depend on the details.
> It seems you may be doing that right now.

Yes. Just like you are. It's called commenting ( aka providing your opinion ).

> You're calling Krauthammer a war criminal, which is patently false.

It's not patently false. It's a matter of opinion. Lying and advocating for an illegal war which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in my opinion is a war crime. And stop acting like "war crime" is some universal objective term that we can all agree to. It isn't. War crime is just opinion. Was hiroshima or nagasaki a war crime? Some say yes, other say no. So your assertion that it is "patently false" is patently false.

> He may be wrong-headed, but since he never actually acted in the war, never served as an agent of the government

He was a propagandist for the government supporting an illegal war. It's naive to believe he didn't serve as an agent of the government. Maybe the washingtonpost you know is different from the one I know.

If you could provide any legal justification for the invasion of iraq, then maybe I would reconsider my opinion. But you can't because there isn't. So you'll stick to your opinion and I'll stick to mine.
The first example is simple. The only extra work is to find common parent class.

And yes, the next example does need backtracking. I agree that it does need extra work in some cases. Most of the time though it's a very straightforward process.
They've always frowned on it. We had a regular procedure called "heads down!" in which all children or occasionally just three of us would duck down so as not to be visible in the car from the window of the motel office. When my brothers and I travel together now we still do it (mostly) as a joke.

Having stayed in a motel a lot over the last month, I'm pretty confident most parents could get 4-5 kids into most hotel rooms without management being the wiser.
Mainstream media article

https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.smh.com.au/national/nsw/...
The roles of consumer, employee and employer are relative with respect to industry. The same person could occupy all three roles in different parts of their life (e.g small business owner who outsources, does GrubHub deliveries when business is slow, and uses Uber when they go out drinking. I'm not saying labor vs capital isn't also a useful perspective, but to say it's the only one ignores the complexity of reality.
I mean, just google anytime he talks about security or licensing. And, frankly, people more expert on, say, C, than Torvalds, are dime a dozen. Okay, a large heap of dimes, but still. They just tend to swear less, and in the OP you can see them defering to him to deescalate the situation.
Be careful with ketamine though, it's really hard on your internals: gallbladder, liver, bladder and kidneys.
I have seen pipelines that do this. You can use `eww`
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eww.html
and something like pandoc for on the fly html -> org mode conversion. Will look for a link