skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Avoiding Exceptions in .NET isn't some micro-optimization that makes a tiny difference in runtime speed...

Exceptions are pricey pricey things that take time and create some minorly interesting VM/GC behaviour that can impact your application. If at all possible they should be avoided in executed code.

> But it rarely matters how much work you put into something to make it faster. What matters is what you can avoid to do at all.

Using Result<> types to handle error cases is a very good example of doing just that: avoid the big hit of exceptions and poor exception handling in cacadingg situations with sensible return types that let you avoid a buttload of delicate work.
> The fact that this incident makes to the top of the “news” is testament

Volkwagen is one of the world's largest companies. That's why it's headline news.

A billionaire drug company's ex-CEO was arrested last year [1]. Nobody outside the Arizona, pharmaceutical or opioid crisis circles noticed. Nobody outside those circles needs to notice.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/US/drug-companys-billionaire-ceo-arre...
I doubt this is true, source?

Doesn't sound logical.

Humans are very resilient, they adapt to misery quickly. People often kill themselves when things get better, when life is so bad you just get on with it.

They know the war can't go on forever, so there's hope.

Sounds like work for the guards, why would they waste their time organising it. It'd be lazier to confine people to barracks.

Why waste slave labour when there's a war going on.

I'm not saying people don't suicide in concentration camps, one did the other day on Manus island, but this is not the story you're telling.
This is because you are a man. Women act differently.
Pretense not intended, thanks for clarifying. :) Rather than algorithmic novelty, the point is more that ivector has an API and implementation that is memory safe (memory safety seemed to be an emphasis of the blog post).

As for those next steps, I'm under the vague impression that they aren't as popular these days because larger cpu caches have greatly reduced the cost of moving contiguous data in most real-world scenarios. So that more often than not the cache coherency benefits of simple contiguous data outweigh the avoidance of shifting some of that (contiguous) data.[1]

[1] simple microbenchmark of contiguous vs non-contiguous containers near the end of the article: https://www.codeproject.com/articles/1087021/stable-iterator...
I wonder if the reason for this is mainly due to how much leeway you have as long as you use your technology for the benefit of the ruling party. Isn't it much easier to work on things like harvesting personal information if you don't have GDPR breathing down your neck? Hell the government might even help your tech startup with basically unlimited cash as long as you help them with your tech.
That's the online equivalent of what I do in store. Every brand has slightly different sizing so I often have to try on edgy brand of short until I find one or two that have sleeves and shoulders that fit. Many brands also use different collar styles. Then I look at different patterns and colors. The end result is that I might try on 5 or 6 things and walk out with one or none.
> close to 14,000 seed and angel-stage rounds in 2017

worldwide. :) That's "basically non-existent".

Maybe you can flip it around like this: the number of people worth at least $30 million worldwide is 226,450.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_high-net-worth_individua...
I'd say it constitutes as fair use, as it's a modified version, and not just a copy of the original page.
Those types of strategies, tricks, don't work in practice. A foundational principle in security and cryptography is to assume an attacker possesses the entire design of your system except for the secret keys. So, just assume that an attacker knows your funny business every 7 characters. All they would do is strip it out.

All they would need to do is download your trial program, decompile it, and look at the decryption code. That takes seasoned people minutes to do.
>In academia, that is like the difference between a really fancy porsche, and a really cheap volkswagen (two very different things, both owned by the same company).

I think you want to say Skoda or Seat. Both owned by VW and the cheap cars.
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I am sure Deutsch Bank will appreciate such "improvements".

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/short-selling-a...
How it even theoretically can be as common place as "convicted felon going to jail" ?
Laughable! What's a "Good" ICO?

FTA: "Loosely speaking, then, ICOs that seek to fund the construction of decentralized open protocols should still work under the SEC’s rules."

Also "ICOs that are just fundraising schemes for companies will be treated like securities.."

I'm looking at this distinction with both eyebrows raised. I'm highly skeptical that an ICO will be treated differently under different use cases. This would only lead to confusion. Further down, in the article, the author brings up a third category - Ripple. What's to prevent a fourth and a fifth category? The law when it comes down is going to be uniformly applicable to ALL ICOs not just "Good" and "Bad" ones.
Incorrect. Most U.S. states have a lottery and the few that don't generally don't because they have local casinos to "protect".

Also, any regulations in place have nothing to do with restricting how much customers can spend.
Yeah, he mentions that: "There are in fact airports on Antarctica, but they are not classed as medium or large, and do not have scheduled services according to this dataset."

The list of airports in Antarctica is surprising long, but most of them are ice or snow and probably need to be remade each year. Some are hard to impossible to see on google maps, but many are quite visible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_in_Antarctica
Oh, I agree. I'd use results rather than exceptions even if they were slower (and in some implementations they are), because they make the code so much easier to understand and maintain and that's more important the overwhelming majority of the time. But for what it's worth, correctly implemented they can also be faster. And I find that's generally the case: a clear, simple implementation that expresses the essence of the problem will be faster than any number of carefully-tuned edge cases.
With ISPs becoming content companies, and with Net Neutrality dead they can charge companies like Netflix higher data rates....

Seems like Netflix needs to buy an ISP.
Meanwhile ZTE goes bust if it can't buy American chips. I dont see any Chinese tech that is unique.
This is my view (except I don't pirate the content). In my eyes, content creators know that these services exist, and how many people use them. So if they make a decision to cut out a large portion of the market, then I guess it's not important for them to be enjoyed by everyone.

I don't want to manage and pay for dozens of services. I use iTunes/Spotify, Netflix/Prime, and Steam/GoG. Any new service is going to need to displace one of those. This probably means being 10x better at 1/10th of the price.
yes and yes.
My knee-jerk reaction is always to reject shop-assistant help, but recently I've had a couple of experience where the assistant instead offered advice about what I was looking at ("there are more of that style on such-and-such aisle", "this model has 2 hdmi inputs, if you need more I can recommend something", that kind of thing) which has made the assistant seem much more approachable and given them an air of knowledgeability that makes me feel they actually can help too.
The human immune system can deal with a huge range of things just fine. So, the metabolic weight from antibiotic resistance is inherently useful for Humans.

Antibiotic resistant bacteria do kill people, but most often as secondary infections due to a compromised immune system. Further, even if the primary infection has near total resistance suppressing secondary infections is still extremely useful.
Yeah that is actually extremely slow unless the time goes into calculating buffer contents and in that case it isn't really a benchmark of an FB implementation but something else.
This was a year ago so things may have changed, but a senior exec at one of the nations largest health systems told me they were looking to change their end of life care program and looked at dozens of AIs that predicted when patients would die. None of them came close to just asking doctors which patients they thought would die within 12-18 months

The point of the project was to make end of life easier for patients and families. Many patients get transferred between multiple facilities in their last few months, and few end up passing in a place and manner they'd like. This project aimed to ask patients and their families how they'd like to spend their last few months.

Initially the health system resisted this bc they wanted to keep patients in the hospital to make money off them, but then they realized these patients were in the hospital so long they weren't profitable. Then the plan was adopted quickly
My wife has an embroidery machine. The very expensive embroidery software runs on Windows XP. I have a VM dedicated for this software with no intention to update. Obsolescence for software shall not be acceptable. Bits do not rot.
Court Orders Open Source Security, Inc. And Bradley Spengler to Pay $259,900.50
The Count of Monte Cristo.
Also bought a pair of Redwings for everyday wear almost two years ago, but I went with Iron Rangers since they're easy to pass off as (really, really nice) women's granny boots (that can take a beating). They look great with skater skirts and knee high socks/leg warmers! Which is the core of my usual uniform. I adore them.

Except mine DEFINITELY look a little aged on account of all the daily romps in the woods I do, lots of mud and wet grass. Most other shoes would've been long destroyed by now, though (looking at you, Doc Martens "fashion" boots).
And if you want to make a domain name that makes use of that suffix in a crude way, you won't be allowed to:

> Domains considered profane will not be considered on any level, and the application will be dissolved with the applicant being notified, and future requests for the same domain name will be ignored. '.ck' domains are monitored on the web, on a regular basis for profanity on the Internet if it is found to be doing so, or if the site is deemed inappropriate, the domain will be terminated without notification or refund.

If they were that worried about the crude name possibilities, I wonder why they didn't go with ".com.ck" like some other gTLDs did?
Personally I agree with the WHO and think that gaming addiction is a much larger problem than we currently think it is.

There are a lot of aspects to it but I think the biggest one is just that video games are ridiculously stimulating compared to other activities. I have similar issues with TV shows now that binge watching entire seasons or shows at a time is easy, and with browsing certain parts of the internet like Reddit and HN.

Going from having your brain being heavily stimulated to being less stimulated or not stimulated at all is hard. It doesn't feel good. That's why it's hard to not "just watch one more episode" or "just play one more game" even though I know it's not going to be just one more.

The desire to avoid understimulation bleeds over into many aspects of your life. It's hard to writing the next part of your CRUD app when you could be scrolling through Reddit comments. It's even hard to read a book or play guitar, which I know I will enjoy, when I could be doing something more stimulating instead.
This is my favorite instance of a voronoi diagram: https://imgur.com/a/zjNWL

I actually wrote into the Reese's company to find out what that was happening to their giant cups, and got no reply unfortunately.
Although I think Intel derives substantial value from x86 lockin, I don't think "doing things like Intel but with a different CPU architecture" really qualifies as a disruption of Intel's model.

I'd say disruption of Intel's model would mean different ways of selling CPUs, fast storage or other silicon. All I see is Intel's competitors trying to mimic Intel to some extent because the enterprise market is the most lucrative. AMD, Qualcomm, Cavium and IBM all consider Intel a main and direct competitor. So I'd be interested if anyone has an idea on disrupting Intel's way of doing business.
Toward a fully reproducible Debian
Yet shareholders who pushed executives over the edge with inflated performance expectations get to keep all their gains, if they sold before scandal hit. There are no sanctions in the arsenal of rule of law that could ever touch them.
> How many from GM who are just as guilty? What about the Equifax lot?

Broadly speaking, you get fined for fucking up. You get jailed for covering it up.

American commercial law largely protects company Boards and executives from their own stupidity. This is necessary, since the difference between madness and genius can only be ascertained ex post facto.
You're right in concluding that Mentat doesn't use the web of trust concept from PGP. Each device is assigned a UUID which serves as the safety number binding ownership between a keypair and a device. This number isn't displayed yet which is a clear flaw but a quick one to fix. See this issue for more of my idea on identity and proving ownership of keys: https://github.com/kenforthewin/mentat/issues/50

Thanks for the insightful comment.
> Her data should be protected!

but if it could be anonymized (i.e., the medical data such as blood tests, history of diseases etc disassociated with any names), then wouldn't it make sense to have this data be used for research?
You seem to be asserting that those who profit from war are/were aristocracy. This is (and was) not the case. The industrialists and capitalists rose from outside the aristocracy. Your other comments on the cost of war to the aristocracy are on point, but that is orthogonal to recognizing those who find war profitable.
With deep learning, actuaries were inevitably, mostly obsolete, at some point. It’s unpleasant to think, that in a way, tech can now readily disrupt nearly any arbitrary office-worker knowledge industry at will, destroying businesses and specialties and concentrate both capability and wealth in ever fewer hands. Coding isn’t a “forever” specialty either... self-coding machines will create languages, protocols and systems humans will likely be unable to understand, limit, modify, monitor or audit.
Chrome blocks the audio for me, but still allows the video to play. I use uBlock to remove the video player entirely, it is only information pollution and adds nothing of value to the article.
>(And not forgetting that the doctors with the the worst recovery rates may be the ones predisposed to take the trickiest cases).

IIRC there are a lot of surgeons not taking on cases already because of the risk involved to their career. This might exacerbate it if the data is used blindly.
So I'm not talking about exceptions, I'm talking about talking about errors. You can easily generate thousands of errors per second if you're simply validating and routing large streams of data.
Which is why positive AND negative feedback loops from your users/customers/<people whose lives your software will affect> are vital to building great software.
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> It's great but with healthcare I don't think people should be treated as dollar signs.

These kinds of models are also great for triage. Healthcare is a limited resource, especially in trauma situations which have been using models to measure survival for decades.
Man charged with making $1.3M in fraudulent returns to Walmart
Pretty much it comes down to profit.
It is not the same as not voting. Even if one disagrees with what the rest of the country decides, one should vote. If more people voted their conscience, the parties would be forced to reform.
Heh, interesting. Do you have a source for that? I would be curious to read more into it.
Cool, so we're on the same boat after all :-)
Median Home Size Compared to Median Household Income Since the 1980s
FYI for anyone who hadn't heard of this tool, the parent made a typo -- it should be stoplight.io
I learned to write on a blackboard with both arms at the same time (an ability which has had me labeled a freak!). In this case, it worked great so long as nobody saw you do it, and, the phrase wasn't two long.
The difference is that if the cable gets full you can put a new cable next to the other one, and double your available bandwidth. If the ether is full, it's full. It's also mixed with all kinds of signals, obstacles, power losses, etc.
Possibly related to the Peter Principle[1], where people are promoted until they reach a position where they are incompetent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
> There are no sanctions in the arsenal of rule of law that could ever touch them

Prosecutors can and do pierce the corporate veil [1]. Otherwise, losing money on their investment seems like fitting punishment for disinterested shareholders.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil
Sorry, thought I’d included a quote in my original post.

Disagreeing with this:

> History is about what happened, not what could have happened.
Yeah leveling is possible solo. I forgot to mention I was referring to the endgame content.
On the upside for Swedes, routing between europe-north1 and Stockholm seems good. Typically around 10 ms for a roundtrip.
I work for a cancer research hospital. I'm training an LSTM today using TensorFlow to determine months left to live for specific patient conditions given previous outcomes.
Even if the script doesn't just contain a sudo (which they often do), you're still just one local exploit away from installing a rootkit. I don't think they're that hard to come by.
How the Last Superpower Was Unchained
Regardless of medical / health insurance purposes, actuaries have been doing this for over a century esp. to price life insurance, among other things.
If not even Linux kernel developers with their merge review process and stress tooling are good at it, what to say of the more mundane developer...

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/47/Linux-Linux-Kernel.htm...

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-cdc-6600.html#S-P-Hardware

Search for "Characters on the monitor", seems to be software based vector display.
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What I was trying to say somewhere between the lines: Try structuring your code so you don't run into errors in the first place. Because if error handling performance matters, you're having too many of them.
Yeah, this website doesn't dumb things down. That page is an exception really. It just deliberately avoids using the common FP words that don't really have any meaning to 99% of programmers.

As this huge, detailed, functional programming resource demonstrates, it's perfectly possible to write clear and detailed functional programming guides without that jargon.
Clothing, especially designer or specialty / technical clothing, can be marked up 1-10x. In other words, a jacket that costs $10 to produce might sell for $20 or $100.

Don't worry, they are still making money on your wife.

(This is just based on my experience working for a major outdoor clothing retailer, not any sort of real data)
Size doesn't matter. I don't have node or npm or ruby or PHP or go installed on my system, it's all in containers.
I would guess they have injectors for the filling at the centers of those cells. A Voronoi edge is equidistant from the two points it bisects, so it kind of makes sense that this would happen naturally if the filling is injected at a constant rate.
Quite literally the only "FB" on the internet worth bothering with. The guy is a genius.
> used phased releases. Pause the release at 1%

Could you expound on this? How do you do that? (Related: How are you distributing? Through an app store?)
If your point of contention is that corporate crime is not as common place as regular felony, you’re right, my statement might have been better phrased.

The point I was trying to make is the percentage of convicted felons getting jail time ought to be close to the percentage of companies (i.e. their executives) guilty of egregious violations and abuses getting jail time.
> as long as you use your technology for the benefit of the ruling party

The dark side of this leeway are demands for patronage from middle-level bureaucrats.
I'm sure you're just summarizing your view or making a joke in a really bad way. But does having a restriction on firing employees even coincide with capitalism?
Well, instead of impugning my character and insulting my intelligence, maybe engage me on the point.
No, at least not compared to some of the people that I work with. I really like the creative parts of programming, but I actually have a really hard time getting into a headspace where I can pick up a problem and just go. I can produce a high-quality product quickly enough that my employer is happy with my performance, but I don’t feel like I have the kind of raw talent that makes someone really good. I miss doing things where I spend most of my day working with humans. I don’t feel like I’m making the most of my time by doing dev work.
I'd think from a profitability point of view clothing retailers want to like it just enough to buy it -- and return to the shop -- but not enough that you want to keep wearing it rather than but a new one.

One way to do that is to change the fashion regularly in order to apply social pressure to not wearing older clothing.

Another way appears to be making clothes very thin so they wear out quicker.

Of something is good, but not great, you'll but from that brand again -- and I bet sooner.
>Did a similar thing with Allen Edmonds dress shoes. Yes, they were expensive initially, but given how little I wear dress shoes, I wouldn't be surprised if they last me the rest of my life.

The average person is probably better off just buying a 30 dollar pair at Target and putting 470 bucks into the stock-market.
Just... impersible.

You're describing a highly sub-optimal solution if there was performance degredation, and lots boxing/unboxing is a code smell.

The biggest Exception penalty is only paid once when the exception code needs to be JITed along with more minor performance issues. Dollars for donuts, any CLR language will be faster using not-Exceptions, so a refactoring to model the exception path would have to do a fair bit work in unrelated areas to be slower.
Yes, and more retailers would size consistently based on this fact. There was a pair of jeans that fit me perfectly in GAP, for instance. I wore through two pairs of them (and at £39 quid they weren't worth getting repaired). The third pair I bought online. Same colour, same size, same name. Didn't fit at all. Went to store, all the sizing had changed across the board. About 18 months later, it changed back. Very annoying.

Edit: I bought APC jeans last time and the cost (and how good they look once worn in) was worth getting them repaired. Next time I can afford to spend a bit more, I'll probably go for Nudie - mostly because of their free repairs for life policy, which I think is amazing: https://www.nudiejeans.com/page/free-repairs-for-life
Honest question... what's the problem with Asian? I'm not Asian, but, if their applications were best, I wouldn't be offended if the entire student body was Asian.
Op says Adidas sambas. They're what I used in street football. Though I agree that the white version goes well with casual.
I can only assume that you've never worked in a manufacturing environment.