skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From that argument, we should be coding everything in hand tuned assembly, because hand tuned assembly gives a 10% to 200% speedup over C.

Yes, all things equal, it's better to write faster CPU-bound code. In a world in which writing optimal machine code all the time was possible without sacrificing anything else important, then we would always want to do it. This is hardly a controversial conclusion.

The reason we don't write faster CPU-bound code is that, in the world we live in, all things are never equal. Correctness, security, maintainability, development velocity, portability, engineering culture/trends, and so on are usually more important than raw CPU performance.
I suspect if this stuff was more widely democratized we might see more progress in that area, but that's not really what Amazon is doing. Amazon's tech is (ostensibly) not available to bad actors, and is designed to dismiss any public concerns like "how will stalkers use it?"

Tech like this is designed and deployed in such a way as to discourage people from thinking it's a problem that needs a fundamental solution. If people realize it's a problem at all they assume it will be solved with just a few laws or a company protest.

If there was a public website you could go to where anyone without authentication could monitor every street in your town, maybe that would spark more citizen-controlled solutions, in the same way that browser extensions intercepting Facebook logins at coffee shops sparked https adoption.

The problem of democratizing surveillance is that many laws prevent neutral actors from building these systems (what's your state's 2-party consent law for audio and video in public spaces?) As a result, the only people doing widescale recording are exempt institutions and companies that people are trained to think aren't a problem, or criminals that people think are rare or limited because their results aren't widely broadcast.

It's like social security numbers. If a company started just publicly releasing them en mass via its Twitter account, we would quickly figure out an alternative way to authenticate that prevented them from doing that. But if instead a company just leaks them to the black market, well that's just a security breach and the system doesn't need to change - even though the practical effects are very similar.

It's trivial to secretly monitor people via facial recognition. It's not trivial to publicize or demonstrate how easy it is in a dramatic way that will spark public attention.
Yes, and supporter accounts. https://neocities.org/donate

Nobody is more impressed than I am. It hasn't stopped being amazing to me that it works.
It seems like this idea is fully capable of generating billions in revenues, but just wasn't able to get past the technological roadblocks. I would be willing to pay for nice smells where I wouldn't pay for songs or other media.
How much did this affect performance?
I used to get stressed listening. Now I just re-frame the problem to solve as "making the other person feel better" -- this way I don't feel the urge to offer solutions.

As engineers and problem solvers, we should know how to define the problem properly.
Lol, how creative! I'll try to mail you if I find the time :)
You say that like the inability to be an emotional sponge is the only "problem" here. Can't mindfulness and meditation also help people who feel the need to vent about problems they aren't willing to hear solutions for?
It's not all someone else's fault, but the people who are making those decisions are very young and easy to exploit.
This is excellent, and these sorts of projects are wonderful to see, as they're nice reminders that although our modern computing tools are more powerful, there's much to be learned from studying the past.
The difference, of course, being that an ad-blocker can block those :)
Seems like a plausible guess, but Wikipedia says

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/guacamole#Spanish

> From Classical Nahuatl āhuacamōlli, from āhuacatl (“avocado fruit”) + mōlli (“sauce, something ground”).
In a lot of cases the person complaining is usually a loved one.
I wished, and very seriously thought about it. Unfortunately, after 4 months of out-of-France service they can cut your service. It would have made my day if it would have worked!
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By "marketed as" people just mean "described as by people promoting it"? Or possibly "described as by people promoting it who have a financial incentive to do so".

This seems obvious to me?
Saying "bitcoin isn't marketed because it isn't run by any particular company" in response to people saying it is "marketed" in certain ways seems like missing what was clearly meant to be communicated.
Supposedly in process. From the book's website: "The book is under contract to Cambridge University Press; it should be turned over to the press [...] before the end of 2015." But it sounds like that was after a few delays already, so maybe there have been more.
Correction: doing it out of greed, more than free will.
I kept a spreadsheet of when I was looking for a job in 2015 using recruiters. This was after filtering for location and salary. This was all within a two week period.

I network like crazy - with people who know where the jobs are.

Leads: 16

Position filled: 4

Phone Screens: 9

I didn’t like tech stack: 2

Didn’t have qualifications and didn’t apply: 1

In person interviews: 4

Offers: 4

Rejections: 0 - I took myself out of the running after accepting an offer.

I actually had 6 phone screens in one day from different companies.

Notice that out of the 16 “leads” none of my resumes disappeared down a black hole. I always knew where I was in the process and I knew that someone in the position to hire me was considering my resume.

Also, I don’t contribute my 100% non failure rate to being a special snowflake. I was able to discuss each lead with a recruiter and had inside knowledge of what the hiring manager was looking for.

I’ve worked with recruiters to hire people. The good ones form a professional relationship with the hiring company.

Back in 2012, I left a job with nothing in the pipeline for a new job. I called one of the recruiters I had been working with and within 4 days I had an offer making $10K more with what was then a Fortune 10 company.

My last job search last year took 7 days from the time I started looking to getting an offer with the salary, (slightly higher), the technology stack, the location, and the company size I wanted. The pickings do of course get a lot slimmer though the higher your salary requirements.
Shameless plug for a weird thing I made: https://elementcss.neocities.org/

The idea is to make it a lot easier to build sites with just simple HTML elements, the way I used to do it before CSS. Generally designed for text-oriented sites.
On Emacs, if you hit enter on a package after running (M-x list-packages), there's usually a brief summary and a link to Github. After you install the package, you have lots of commands to access documentation. Here's some of them:

C-h i: info manuals
C-h ?: help for help
C-h F: help for commands
C-h v: help for variables
C-h f: help for functions
C-h m: help for minor modes

That's a lot of help if you ask me!
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/discrimination

Which, by the way, contains boatloads of novel work. It uses internal parallel execution to work around some of the problems with discrimination passes between two groups. Cutting edge stuff.

It's haskell. People like you have chips on their shoulder about "typing goo." I'm sure one day someone will write a golang implementation then go to some inventor-centric conference and be hailed as a genius tho, as per usual.

But, did you not know about Radix sort or American Flag sort? Counting sort is a common stupid silicon valley interview question, and has been in the ruby code katas since like 2003. So as keen as I am to see this work widely distributed, it's not totally unprecedented the way you make it out to be.

Hey, want to know another surprising one? With a proper pre-encoding you can compress an (extremely long) binary value and answer questions about how many bits in a given range have occured (a popcount) in constant time. You can also, by extension, figure out the offset of the Nth hot bit appears, in O(1) time. Pretty surprising, huh? Especially when you realize that the entire space of 32 bit integers is only 512mb as a fully realized bitfield, 32x smaller than actually storing one instance of every integer.

See here: http://alexbowe.com/rrr/
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> Emo Phillips once made this joke: The other day a woman came up to me and said, "Didn't I see you on television?" I said, "I don't know. You can't see out the other way." Evidently Amazon has made that joke obsolete.

Like Stallman, I'm so uncomfortable installing a listening device in my home like OK Google, Alexa, Siri, etc.

It creeps me out on a visceral level unlike any other kind of snooping.
Does "Obsolete" only apply to consumer grade applications though? Can there be a market for refurbishing old phones, laptops etc for IoT controllers that don't need massive processing power?
Good stats
So is the person one is complaining to.

If the person you habitually complain to consistently offers informational rather than emotional support, it's likely that they do so because they lack the capacity to simply absorb your emotional outporing. Consider that, regardless of how much they care for you, they may not be capable of significantly developing this ability. If that is the case, the advice the article offers is unhelpful, and the relationship would be better served by the complainer finding another outlet for their emotional stress, or learning to accept well-intentioned advice.
The Lucene API has a lot of language specific tokenizers and analyzers that will help normalize what a term is in the index regardless of language. You can then apply various statistical NLP methods which tend to be more language agnostic.
If you go to McDonald's in China... They will have their main restaurant and a little window next to it. That little window serves ice cream and there always seems to be a line. It's dirt cheap (thinking back I hope it was real milk... But this is McDonald's so probably has better supply chain control) and I always got one if I was waiting around for someone.

I've also seen a vending machine that serves soft serve cones, which was interesting. So I'd say ice cream was probably trending after you left because I remember this from my high school days which was almost 20 years ago.

Additionally, I would not say there's no concept of dessert. You sometimes get red bean soup, or fruit, or other sweets after meals. Though nothing like the sugar loaded desserts in the western world (hence, diabetes snd weight gain...)
You're right.

Avocado -- mid 17th century: Spanish alteration (influenced by avocado ‘advocate’) of aguacate, from Nahuatl ahuacatl.

Guacamole -- from an Aztec dialect via Nahuatl "āhuaca molli", which translates to "avocado sauce/concoction".
Well, back in the old days, with gold bonded dies in ceramic housings almost all ICs had good value. This was in 1975 or so. Back in those days they also plated 30-50 micro inches on fingers. Then gold hit the roof, and all parts had gold "adders" = increased prices along with gold. They would like to use 1 micro inch plating on fingers, but copper and gold are totally miscible(same series in the periodic table) and with 1 micro inch the copper would migrate to the plated surface by diffusion and corrode with the CO2 in the air = green shit. Then they found that 5 micro inches of nickel plating would block diffusion and they could use 1 micro inch gold over nickel, so by 1985 or so, fingers began to decline. They are still valuable, but nor worth $100 a pound like the old military trimmed fingers were.
So find scrap buried in the 1970s, and you might have a shot - but only if you get a lot of boards, refrigerators had very little gold.
> I don't want you to feel awkward, so I won't ask if you went to school in Boston.

Does Bunker Hill Community College count?
Microsoft Movies and TV app to get on Android,iOS very soon
Big fan of playing with new tech. In a safe environment where failure is an option. Don’t go betting the farm on shiny things.
No. You do not have to Javascript to read it either.

The text of the article can be retrieved without any use of Javascript.
FWIW I was able to avoid this charge as a DSL subscriber, and do not now as a fiber subscriber.

But part of your experience could be because, as the article describes, since 2005 the incumbent telco (the ILEC) no longer has to provide the CLEC (sonic) wholesale rates on its lines. Sonic may have no choice.
The simple idea that economic means testing doesn't capture the total harm done to black families.
No one said it's a rigid guide, it's just a bit of a signpost.

Could we double or triple the length between recessions? Sure, but I doubt it.
> Facial recognition services are incredibly close to neutral technologies in my opinion. If we truly want to stop abuse of them, it should be done with legislation.

You're entitled to that opinion. But it's just your opinion.

What I like to ask myself is: given that we know we had a corrupt individual in the highest office of the US government in the last 50 years (i.e. Nixon), how might that have turned out with each new technology that's exclusively under the executive branch's control?
> (influenced by avocado ‘advocate’)

I think you mean "influenced by abogado ‘advocate’".
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The opportunity for trolling is endless, people looking to smell "strawberries" would instead end up smelling other things... B.O. , farts you name it. I wish the iSmell actually had succeeded, too bad.
Zen - the word and concept originated in China. From there it spread to Japan. It's roots are in Buddhism.
You can turn that off.
I don't use an adblocker because I don't like feeling like I'm taking something I'm not entitled to.

I don't like most of the ads I see, but I understand why they're there and that they're the reason why I don't have to get out my credit card to visit the sites I like.

Edit: Didn't realize that not being offended by ads was such a controversial opinion here.
This feels like a house of mirrors.
> But, did you not know about Radix sort or American Flag sort?

Oh, is it that the types somehow mandate roughly evenly-sized ordered partitions at any sample size? If so, I get it, now. Thanks.
Again I think you're ignoring the actual solution.

Relationships are not 50/50 compromises. They're a dance of compromises in favor of one party or another at different times. You've got to decide as an individual if the balance is acceptable and I can't say that you seem very giving from your posts.

Again, that's a choice and your right but don't expect reality to conform to your desires because it rarely will.
> People in general understand how to allocate their own money better than the government does.

Mwuh ha ha! Then why levy taxes for anything?!
I've been friends with the Alex duo for years now and I'm so impressed with how they've stuck with this core vision. Glad to see the engagement this is getting.
I hear this a lot but haven't seen enough evidence that fruits of labor (more like fruits of capital) aren't ill-gotten.
Well they are only banner ads, not video ads. But I'll admit I pay $10 a month for YouTube Red (actually they just renamed it Premium), which I get my moneys worth since I don't have broadcast or cable tv or netflix.
Highly esteemed: An end-to-end walk along Manhattan’s High Line
Also the Dell XPS 15 is usually considered a MacBook Pro equivalent (or better)
This +1000. :) People, remembering to focus on core-competencies, making the world a better place.
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I'm sorry, I don't find that terribly thought provoking. Xenophobia is a lazy heuristic, and the people who employ it simply don't understand their own interests.
Ah, but ad-blockers will block this as well :)
What are you basing this on, your gut feeling? If I look at where I can actually use bitcoins, or crypto currencies in general, the list is dwindling. A few years ago I could buy coffee with crypto, I can’t today. A few years ago I could buy certificates (if I could also pass them) and other Microsoft products with crypto, I can’t today. A few years ago I could rent an vacation home with crypto, I can’t today. Hell these days I can’t even conver crypto into actual money in my country.

Maybe it’s not like that in the US, but the only useful thing I can spend crypto on as a Scandinavian is paying for my domains.
Thanks, must have shown up recently!
Call it a dividend; we could all expect out monthly American Dividend check and it would perhaps help congeal some sense of common purpose as well.
The adblocker I use is not visiting websites with annoying ads (much). High quality websites tend to not have them.
> I don't use an adblocker because I don't like feeling like I'm taking something I'm not entitled to.

ads are bad and pollute whatever space they are in. the internet would be much better without them. i would describe it as unethical to force someone to view an advertisement.
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I find it funny that the article's conclusion is "stop giving informational support when emotional support is asked for" rather than "stop asking for emotional support when only informational support is up for offer". It's possible -- I'd dare say likely -- that those giving informational support do so because they are not as capable to give emotional support and may feel drained by it. It's a bit of a harmful conclusion to low-EQ individuals, in the same way that "people who don't like parties should be more outgoing" is harmful to introverts.

People are different and relationships are give and take. There's no "right personality" that people should be fixing themselves to match. There's only mutual understanding and compromise. Recognizing that your partner may be searching for a type of support which you are not giving is very important, but only in the greater context of also recognizing both your and your partner's abilities, and reaching a mutual understanding how to bridge that gap.
Unfortunately Torvalds rejected migrating to it, and seems to be quite an outspoken critic against the GPLv3
I'd include the Gigabyte Aero 15X.

Look at the specs on this bad boy:

CPU: 2.2GHz Intel Core i7-8750H (hexa-core, 9MB cache, up to 4.1GHz with Turbo Boost)

Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 (Max-Q, 8GB GDDR5 RAM); Intel UHD Graphics 630

RAM: 16GB DDR4 (2,666MHz, 8GB x 2)

Screen: 15.6-inch UHD 4K (3,840 x 2,160) IPS LCD (wide viewing angle, anti-glare, X-Rite Pantone certified)

Storage: 512GB SSD (M.2 NVMe PCIe)

Ports: 2 x USB 3.1 Gen1 (Type-A), 1 x USB 3.1 Gen2 (Type-A), 1 x USB-C Thunderbolt 3, HDMI 2.0, mini-DisplayPort 1.4, RJ-45 Ethernet, SD card reader, headphone-out jack

Weight: 4.49 pounds (2.04kg)

Size: 14 x 9.8 x 0.74 inches (356.4 x 250 x 18.9mm; W x D x H)
that's interesting, i do use an adblocker because i don't like companies with business models oriented on surveillance and building profiles of my behavior across the internet that they're not entitled to
UBI incentivizes producing more people. Like throwing nutrients limitlessly into a petri dish. Which is awesome. Unless the nutrients or the petri dish are finite.
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^ fact. I work for a refurbishing company, and while some of the scrap generated gets a decent payout from the recycling folks [the best common category being old PII and PIII boards / older finger boards AKA controller cards], the negative value stuff like CRTs, fluorescent lamps, and Ni-Cad batteries is awful to deal with. The big CRT operation in my state shut down a while ago, so now they have to be sent out of state i.e., cost more now to offload.
Though it seems hypothetically possible for what you're saying to happen, the data shows there's a linear relationship between many different definitions of unemployment throughout the years in the US.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2018/u-3-unemployment-rate-was-...
An oligarchy isn’t defined by a set of stable oligarchs. There can be a shift in power in a oligarchy and there typically will be because the oligarchs aren’t friends.

If you look to ancient Athens, it wasn’t uncommon for an oligarch to be exiled. If you look to modern Russia, well, there is a reason a lot of former Russian oligarchs chose to live in London and not a Russian prison.

An oligarchy is almost always a turbulent place, most of them making the BTC powershifts look calm.
Find good examples, re-implement examples, combine multiple examples and tweak until things break then look for explanations and trace through source code to figure out what is actually going on. Copy working tweaked example onto paper with pen or pencil.

Repeat as necessary.

Similar process for new algorithms but typically less thrashing around.

When doing this for work I usually try to track down an accessible expert earlier in the process and ask them to explain it to me as if I am a complete novice.
MacOS Mojave removes subpixel anti-aliasing, making non-retina displays blurry
I still think this could be a useful technology. As long as pages need to request permission to emit a smell (similar to how Chrome currently asks permission for notifications).

If anything, it'd be really cool to smell totally novel things that are unlike any other scent you've experienced.
I wonder if one could mess with programmatic-ad auctions by introducing infinite loops. Not from user space browsers, of course.
Ripple Labs Gets Hit with Another Lawsuit
Why am I not using custom AdBlock filters to block pesky social media users? I need to go write a bunch of Mastodon filters now.
I get one of those. Roads. Police. Firefighters. Not being invaded by foreign powers. Rule of law. Etc. There's no fixed dollar amount, but I use that cash flow to build my life.
So it's OK to take the product of a business if you don't like their business model? Why not just avoid visiting the sites you find so distasteful?
And I could say the same for your posts, which posit a single problem and solution ("the actual solution" -- lol!) as if that is what they are. I'm the one who pointed out the ridiculousness of favoring one personality by default and suggested that compromise and understanding your partner is the name of the game -- and you dare say I'm unaccommodating?

Exactly as you said, relationships are a complex negotiation. Claiming that inability to simply sit and listen to solvable troubles is "the problem" is unhelpful. It is SOMETIMES the problem -- probably more often than not -- but sometimes people just whine too much and are too full of themselves to accept much needed help and it's unhelpful to blame the listener for not wanting to sit through that emotionally draining experience every day of their life.
I think the iSmell, at least the way it's described in the article, was a terrible idea. Whatever the scent-enabled equivalent of a Rickroll or a goatse link would have been, we're better off without it.

That said, the technology seems kind of cool. The idea that we could define a set of primitive smells, then combine them into any other arbitrary smell is fascinating. If you have the binary data from an image file, and you know how to decode it, you can preserve a photograph forever -- potentially for thousands of years -- with no degradation. It would be really great to be able to preserve scents for posterity in the same way.