skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know of doctors, lawyers, dentists and software engineers who earned six figure incomes who had to live in their cars or vans.

For months at a time.

In LA.
Lately, I've had a lot of performance issues with Firefox.

I can pop open Task Manager at random times and see Firefox in the 2GB range (this on an 8Gb machine running Slack, Chrome and PHPStorm at the same time, so it's a little cramped for RAM at the best) and I'm running 20-30 tabs. Even chopping down to a handful still keeps you well over 2Gb.

It won't seize completely the way it used to prior to multiprocess, but you get this weird situation where you get a spinner just switching tabs.

For many years, I defaulted to Firefox because of an extension I loved (FireFTP) which could never make the leap to WebExtensions. I can recall developing on Firefox then patching things to make IE6 happy. But on my home machine I switched to Vivaldi entirely.
The Fed stalls the creation of a bank with a novel business model
John Dvorak: “Yesterday I was fired from PC Magazine”
I like those kind of questions, some books made me find a personal way to mean at it: I would like to post just what was inherent.
I'm agree that so often there is a lot of talk and a whole connected World, but not so many real comunication, between persons.
The books I've read explain (you can take it as a "sci-fi") how the soul, to discover itself, needed to create a "mirror", so as like dualism is everywere, and it's were we loose ourself so often, but it was the only way, as "to be or not to be".
Anything "is" so made just for/from the soul, to take the opportunity to make the "experience", and to become from consciousness, awareness. And we are the humans, a container made for it, that's not so little to spend thinking on left or right, and any duality.
The books explains also how persons perceive the colors different, or as like also women and men perceive things on a different mood.
https://alienabductionsblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/the-...
Browsing the Web over the past few years has become an often-nauseating experience.

I'm often amazed by "average" users who seem completely unfazed when they visit sites filled with animated ads and other visual noise; but it likely does negatively affect their understanding of the actual content, since they are being constantly distracted by everything else trying to get their attention. I was a few times forced into this situation and had to physically cover the flashing banners and other crap with my hands in order to actually read the content. Even if it's only in my peripheral vision, I found it to be sufficiently distracting that I couldn't think about the text I was reading --- it was like being half-asleep. I could read each word, but everything felt like a blur.

This brings up my hypothesis that the reason a lot of users seem to not notice things in the UI or read warnings closely is that they're so used to being distracted by useless things and desensitised to it that they've accepted not being able to concentrate and think as being normal, which is quite unsettling. Many times I've had to help someone out with an unfamiliar (to both of us) UI, and the person I was helping would gaze blankly and not be able to find something that I instantly saw.
I think he means that it's harder to grow/innovate with the language, not that it makes coding _in_ the language harder.
The Inquisition was evil. The people running it tortured and murdered countless individuals simply because they wanted to think and speak freely. An agnostic-sounding perspective does not reduce that evil in any way.
And this one gets fewer than a hundred.
The bias may be justified to you (since you just want to get a good meal somewhere and don't want a 9/10 chance that it's bad), but it's still unfair to the perfectly good Mexican restaurants that you won't eat at.
My understanding is that at least for the most popular languages, they were already doing more than the language server protocol would allow, so switching to language servers would be a downgrade.

That's their specialty, but I'm not sure it's all that relevant for users who prefer lightweight editors.
> Is there anyone who thinks that the current level of racism is required for the current accuracy? I can't imagine people that racist to be common in the data community

It depends on two things. The first is how you're defining racism. If the algorithm is predicting that 10% of white people and 30% of black people will do X, because that is what actually happens, some people will still call that racism but there is no possible way to change it without reducing accuracy.

If the algorithm is predicting that 8% of white people and 35% of black people will do X even though the actual numbers are 10% and 30%, then the algorithm has a racial bias and it is possible to both reduce racism and increase accuracy. But it's also still possible to do the opposite.

One way to get the algorithm to predict closer to 10% and 30% is to get better data, e.g. take into account more factors that represent the actual cause of the disparity and just happen to correlate with race, so factoring them out reduces the bias and improves accuracy in general.

The other way is to anchor a pivot on race and push on it until you get the results you want, which will significantly harm accuracy in various subtle and not so subtle ways all over the spectrum because what you're really doing is fudging the numbers.
That idea doesn't seem coherent to me -- Diamond is just another way to say "top 60-90th percentile". The vast amount of information is available to everyone equally, so it doesn't explain why some people are above average players. Players in every league have improved.
There's no static "diamond level" way of playing that's been unchanged over ten years to compare against.
After reading the revenue figures, the sale is a lot less outrageous than the title makes it sound.
Thats reading the chip. How about mending a blown fuse?
If the last neo-vefaminist they met was a great person, you'd be free-riding on a reputation that you hadn't earned yet. If the last neo-vefaminist they met was a terrible person (potentially someone who was free-riding on the name), and if you call yourself a neo-vefaminist, you're communicating to them that you're a terrible person which would be incorrect because you aren't.
Oh no!

I used to be able to Ctrl+C knowing that it would interrupt any currently running query but never lose my session.

If I want to quit the PostgreSQL shell, I'd Ctrl+D like any other shell.

What will I do now?
Might it not be the case that combating bit rot is best done at higher layers of the stack similar to how it is best done at levels higher than the IP layer in a networking stack?

For example, data painstakingly entered by the user a character at a time with a keyboard might deserve more redundancy than for example a movie downloaded by iTunes.
> Complaining about this is literally complaining that the new version you just installed has a new feature.

A hundred times this.

The article is misleading click-bait taking advantage of people's historical aversion towards drive-by downloads of malicious add-ons. Mozilla could have just as easily implemented this directly in the browser and this article probably wouldn't have been written, or if it was, it would have at least focused on the legitimate question about telemetry.

There is a legitimate debate worth having here, but basing the complaint on the good code hygiene practiced by Mozilla developers is silly.

Meanwhile, every web page you visit leaks the fact of your existence a hundred different ways and 99% of us don't care much.
Intel Ramps Additional 14nm Manufacturing Site to Ensure Chip Supply
I’m sorry, but I don’t think you quite understand what randomness, or pseudorandomness, means. In a truly random sequence, the probability of any given finite sequence appearing in it is 1.
I'm excited for hash partitioning. Being able to partition on a uuid is going to be very useful.
Ctrl-D still works. The new sql commands additions.
My intuition is that word-level sentiment is rather pointless. “The Disaster Artist was not bad” has a positive sentiment overall, but each of the individual words, except possibly ‘artist’, have are usually thought to be negative. Moreover, you can totally flip the overall sentiment by adding another neutralish word “The Disaster Artist was not even bad.”

Similarly, my guess is that alley is rarely found in a positive context, but the actual sentiment comes from elsewhere in the utterance.
“My body just didn’t seem relevant anymore," says
Iona. "And I felt like I arrived in some consciousness
soup which seemed like a different realm to the one I
ordinarily inhabit – even in dreams. It just seemed like
everything was rotating and swirling and spiralling. It
didn’t seem like there were normal space-time proportions
going on.”

I'm not exactly sure how close I came to dying, but I had the exact opposite experience in the ER one night.

I had a bout of acute pericarditis, a swelling of the sac that protects the heart, essentially preventing it from beating. Usually it's a milder chronic condition but for whatever reason (freak infection?) I had an intense acute attack one night. It presented almost exactly like a heart attack which is why I rushed to the ER.

We got there just in time. My lips were turning blue and I was drenched in sweat, semiconscious as I was wheeled back to the ER. Heart rate plummeting, etc.

So anyway I was hyper attuned to my body as the doctors worked on me. I was terrified and didn't want to die so for a lack of any other options whatsoever in my barely conscious state I became profoundly aware of my breathing.

I could feel that I perhaps going to die, and didn't want that to happen, so I just focused on being the best damn breather the world had ever seen. I figured whatever the hell was happening...well, I was alive as long as I was breathing, and the more oxygen I could suck into my body the better.

I have never, ever felt more connected to my body than in those moments.

Think about times you've been asked to focus on your breathing during yoga, meditation, etc. Like that, except times ten or twenty or a billion or something.

After some completely amorphous amount of time during which they worked feverishly, the doctors gave me a jab of atropine and I was more or less instantly OK, hilariously enough.
Stoicism in Nassim Taleb's Antifragile
If I am understanding correctly, these are two separate things:

- https://my.mixtape.moe/sjlprj.jpg
- this is whether data is reported to mozilla servers

- https://my.mixtape.moe/sflqrh.jpg
- this is data collected locally

You can see the latter in `about:telemetry`
Today’s funny pics :)
Great looking release. I’m really excited to see if the cstore extension can make good use of the parallelism improvements.
I have lost my train of thought from vague comments or questions like that.

The comment in the article was "…email about that 'thing'". I would immediately think "what thing?", then everything else goes down the drain.
This plan would only incentivize trucks to have a big enough gas tank to drive from Nevada to LA and back. The entire cost would pass directly to consumers.

Before you think that's isn't possible, it's not uncommon for a semi to have a range of 2000 miles.[1]

1 - https://www.quora.com/What’s-the-average-range-for-a-diesel-...
But now we're back to a distributed system
If you are seeing something different please let me know!
The Selfish Gene came out in the mid 1970s and was a big bestseller (probably in the millions of copies sold by now). Sure, a few other people adopted the term, but it was not in wide use. I would guess most of the people who talked about “memes” in the 90s had directly read Dawkins’s book.
Calvin is a research database, described in a paper and also provided as an open source project, but last I checked, it was pure research, not usable for real work. The "production version" of Calvin is arguably FaunaDB, which is a hosted SaaS product.

Abadi is a very well known and, as far as I know, respected database researcher. No need to avoid his work.
The intent was to express publicly, and then send an update that reflected this.

Would it feel less "[sneaked] in" if this were a core feature in Firefox?
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It has nothing to do with readline, but is a feature of the TTY (i.e. implemented inside the kernel) when in canonical mode. It will work for anything that exits in reaction to read(STDIN_FILENO, ...) returning zero.
If you take the log of the frequencies in Hz [1], then the difference between notes is a fixed step. A fixed step means that you can index the notes with an integer. So this notation is close to representing things in Hz. It's fairly easy to interpret each note as a duodecimal integer and write an equation for the corresponding frequency in Hz. BTW, why 'dozenal' and not 'duodecimal'?

A more interesting question in my mind is if you're going to change things up, why keep 12 notes per octave? Why not 8 notes per ... octave :-) Or 16?

Also, since this is a log scale, could we write a new notation which indeed does have 8 notes per 'octave', but which uses a different definition of an 'octave', and could be used to write the same music we play today.

[1] http://pages.mtu.edu/~suits/notefreqs.html
Would you mind pasting your `about:support` somewhere (github gist, pastebin, etc) and linking it here?
To oversimplify, I think the training set is something like:

Italian restaurant is good.

Chinese restaurant is good.

Chinese government is bad.

Mexican restaurant is good.

Mexican drug dealers are bad.

Mexican illegal immigrants are bad.

And hence the word vector works as expected and the sentiment result follows.

Update:

To confirm my suspicion, I tried out an online demo to check distance between words in a trained word embedding model using word2vec:

http://bionlp-www.utu.fi/wv_demo/

Here is an example output I got with Finnish 4B model (probably a bad choice since it is not English):

italian, bad: 0.18492977

chinese, bad: 0.5144626

mexican, bad: 0.3288326

Same pairs with Google News model:

italian, bad: 0.09307841

chinese, bad: 0.19638279

mexican, bad: 0.16298543
That seems more like enterprise built and sold specially, and less like commodity hardware.
My instinct tells me that this is a much better outcome for founders and many employees than “unicorns”.

It’s possibly not as good an outcome for investors, and they might actually view this as a bad exit.

Am I wrong? Would most investors be pretty happy with this? Would most founders/employees be better of going for creating a unicorn?
Telltale Games closes majority of studio
One thing the OP didn’t mention is that the JIT is not enabled by default. They found that it has performance improvements for only long and complex queries yet. [1] But it can be enabled by a simple configuration command: jit = on.

[1]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=PostgreS...
I'm curious what you think the primary feature is that makes a Go runtime have to be necessarily large? (If writing a new Go runtime against the specification.)

You mention the need for a runtime, but I don't see that this makes it necessarily huge. For comparison, I'd like to think about using a TinyC compiler[1], called TCC, as a complete runtime to compare against since:

"

* TinyCC (aka TCC) is a small but hyper fast C compiler. Unlike other C compilers, it is meant to be self-relying: you do not need an external assembler or linker because TCC does that for you.

* TCC compiles so fast that even for big projects Makefiles may not be necessary.

* TCC not only supports ANSI C, but also most of the new ISO C99 standard and many GNUC extensions including inline assembly.

"

Now it turns out that the above fits in 100 KB and implements "ANSI C", which for the C89 version is 552 pages or so[2]. The Go specification is 73 pages or so in the same font. (So 13% of the size.) I also think that due to its design the Go language specification and syntax has fewer corner cases.

So clearly there is some "huge" feature that is really holding things back from running on a resource-constrained microcontroller in a stripped-down runtime. What is it?

To see where 100 KB fits (by analogy with TCC above), I looked up some microcontrollers. I first found a popular microcontroller for hobbyists, the ATmega2560 which runs the Arduino Mega. That microcontroller has 56KB ISP flash memory, 8KB SRAM. That RAM is not enough if we take the TinyC executable of around 100 KB as how much is needed. This microcontroller also only costs $6.5 in quantity 1 (unless I misread.)

Moving up a bit in price so we can get at least 128 KB of RAM, a popular choice is something like the AT32UC3A3256[3] which costs $31.25 in an evaluation kit (that gives you an additional 8 MB of RAM), and as far as shipping just the MCU (with its 128KB of RAM only), costs $12 in quantity one. That is a 32-bit device unlike the cheaper Atmega2560 I first mentioned (which is an 8-bit device) so should be easier for people to implement the standard against. The specifications are: 84 MHz, 256 kB program size, 128 kB RAM size.

Why can TCC be 100 KB executable size but independently implementing the Go specification can't?

As for why someone would want to, sure, you're going to be quite constrained, but if someone already knows Go, which had the design goal of being a general-purpose language, why can't they use its syntax for their microcontroller projects?

So what essential feature in the Go specification makes this an absolute non-starter? it's a super small standard.

(As for your second response, about "You rarely see native desktop applications in anything other than C++ ", I read what you wrote but I don't see why the Go ecosystem isn't slowly catching up anyway. It's a great language syntax.)

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[1] https://bellard.org/tcc/ and https://bellard.org/tcc/tcc-doc.html

[2] found a draft here - http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf

[3] I found this recommendation here: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/192583/is-th...
PayPal would have prevented American Independence, citing violence.
> Telemetry for telemetry. Nice.

It's just a matter of time until some developer poses the question:

"Are people who opt out of telemetry more likely to use Linux? Or live in Europe? Or have NVidia GPUs? Or... "

and gosh darn everyone else at Mozilla begins to wonder the same thing, and the best way to answer that question is to include it in your "totally not telemetry" telemetry reports, and then we're back to Square One.
> Reminds me of how Google Photos couldn't differentiate between a black person & a monkey, so they've excluded that term from search altogether.

Technically that is what happened, but it paints an incorrect picture in people's minds. Out of the billions of images that Google Photos had auto-tagged, it tagged one picture of two black people as "gorillas".[1] This was probably the first time this had ever happened. (If it had happened before, it surely would have been spread far and wide by social media & the press.)

So Google's classifier was inaccurate 0.0000001% of the time, but the PR was so bad that Google "fixed" the issue by blacklisting certain tags (monkey, gorilla, etc). If you take photos of monkeys, you'll have to tag them yourself.

I'm sure Google could do better, but the standard required to avoid a PR disaster is impossible to meet. If the classifier isn't perfect forever, they're guaranteed to draw outrage.

1. https://twitter.com/jackyalcine/status/615329515909156865
I wonder whether the author is familiar with musical set theory? This is a very rich branch of modern music theory that makes use of some very similar ideas. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_theory_(music)
If you consider taking a role of "grandparenting" to be a potentially positive role in "your ability to reproduce", then both you and mjg59 are kind of agreeing there.
Did we say the same about Wikileaks when they weren't considered Russian sympathizers?
I mean, he did go on record saying "I'm perpetuating gender stereotypes" by virtue of writing that memo.
From the official website [1][2][3]

> The Language Server protocol is used between a tool (the client) and a language smartness

> provider (the server) to integrate features like auto complete, go to definition, find all

> references and alike into the tool. The LSP was created by Microsoft to define a common

> language for programming language analyzers to speak. Today, several companies have come

> together to support its growth, including Codenvy, Red Hat, and Sourcegraph, and the protocol

> is becoming supported by a rapidly growing list of editor and language communities.

[1] https://langserver.org

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18041419

[3] https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifi...
ES&S installed pcAnywhere on election-management systems in 300 jurisdictions
I ran into this as well. Here's a video: https://youtu.be/SomX22VGHHc

It doesn't always happen for me. Here, I had to play through the game several times before I could get the bug to trigger.
Personally speaking, I don't think Bing's result is worth paying for. I'd pay for Google's result without ads or being tracked or being collected. But there're already search engines like startpage (with ads), searx, etc, and they are free to use for now. I don't think pay for per query after exceeded the limit is going to work since users are used to unlimited queries.
Unless their product is extremely manual and depends on hiring on a bunch of engineers to train models for each customer
Wow, that is a pitiful way to let a long-term employee go.
But it looks like they have been posting updates since 2011.
Haha, you're too crusty to be listened to!

Yeah, you're right. In some respects, things haven't changed.
I'm sure this is an interesting article, but not only is my "article limit" reached, but I even can't login to read it.[0] Which is strange, given the hundreds of dollars per year I give The Economist to support them.

If you want to stop people from stealing your articles, maybe give the paying readers access would be a start.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/2uo4hnE
There is only one banknote in the US, so there is only one bank. A lent deposit is no deposit. A dollar is 25 grains of gold.
You could respond with tarrifs on physical goods. Tarrifs don't have to be on the same item, they could just aim for equivalent financial impact.
I find myself pressing ctrl+c on windows.
That's interesting, I was not aware of the US response to the IP theft I read about.

Well, it's been a long time coming.
Wouldn't that money be funded by the citizens and potentially be a waste of resources, duplicating viable products?
Free speech, as a right, has become obsolete given that corporations have become the medium for our communications. Anyone or anything can be censored. It's not about Alex being wrong.
I work at a small company, I don't really want to dox myself.

My advice (worth what you pay for it) is to focus on problem solving skills rather than language-specific skills. Enterprise companies might be concerned about Java skills, but in my experience smaller companies are much more concerned with your ability to solve real business problems with code, regardless of technology.
Guess I win this round, unless there are older farts than me - Commodore VIC-20 with 3.5KB RAM which was plenty for me to do really cool things with in BASIC and 6502 machine language)
What is the best country to get acquired in?
I'm trying to incorporate. I'll not raise any fund (I assume this why companies mainly others incorporate in the US) and I'm planning for an acquisitions. I live in the US, though.

My only objection about incorporating in the US is the HUGE amount of TAX that I'll be paying when getting acquired.

Is there any advice to reduce that burden? Thanks alot.
Regarding why there are 12 notes per octave, I found answers for my own question.

https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/24/why-are-there-t...

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/11669/mathematical-...
Report: Google suppressed an explosive memo about its Chinese search engine