skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a cool link - thank you. There's so much there I couldn't tell if there were benchmarks for implementation on embedded hosts. I'm constantly looking for something suitable for use on embedded stuff. Having an x86 would be like having a unicorn as my deployment target.

Recently (this year) the MCUs I've asked for have hardware crc32 and sometimes even AES128 but the suits tell me to Remember the BOM, Luke, and those fancy periphs aren't available on common M0+ my hardware guy likes (NXP KE0xxx for ex). Left wondering how this one will work on a run of the mill ARM.
I think it's more of an exercise in developing intutition than any kind of practical justification.
The image quality on this site is impressive.
> Please tell me how you think cancer drug funding works in England, because I'm pretty sure you're wrong.

Just to be clear: you're telling me that you think QALY calculations are not factored into the decisions of which treatments will be covered for an individual cancer patient under the NHS?
The big coffee containers with taps (e.g. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Hamilton-Beach-42-Cup-Coffee-Urn-...) that get set out by hotels and other event spaces for people to pour themselves coffee.

They tend to sit out over a heat source and, if the coffee wasn't lousy to begin with, it is after it's been burning over a flame or other heat source for an hour or two.
Speaking of motivations:

> These findings suggest young adults select and modify their educational experiences in part based on their genetic propensities and highlight the potential for DNA-based predictions of real-world outcomes, which will continue to increase in predictive power.
> their will decides to produce/disclose

Or someone else's will decides to shoulder-surf / keylog the password :)
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Ok, so this article is not about going meat free. Just about factory farming. If you "crave meat" maybe you could consider non-factory farmed meat, for all the reasons mentioned.

Regarding your 3 points:
'Availability' is a problem with non-meat? I would think in most neighbourhoods that have a butcher, you should find a supermarket.

'Satiability', really? You don't feel full after baked potatos with sour cream? Mac and Cheese? A pizza quattro formaghi? Noodle soup? Indian curry? All of the above and an apple pie? You need that patty, right?

As a life-long meateater, I can very well understand your last point on taste. Hard to argue with taste. Since I don't want to miss it either, I will have meat from time to time as a special treat. Usually when eating out fancy. So about 1-2 times a month. Makes me looking forward to those dinners even more and I don't have to go the hardest 10% of the meat-free way.
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Does that include NICs and RAM?
Ultimately I agree with you, I don't think this is a good thing. But I just don't see a way that we as a society can realistically address the problem of a few powerful entities having a disproportionate influence on mass culture, because that has already been happening long before google was around. You're basically wanting to eliminate large-scale propaganda, social engineering, and eliminate the culture industry. That's not going to happen.
One technique I haven’t seen mentioned would be to take advantage of the fact that the world is 3D but neural networks that make fake videos are somewhat fundamentally 2D. Making good 3D computer graphics is hard and involves a lot of lighting calculations that are very different from what neural networks do. It seems like it should be possible to detect the errors that a neural network will introduce that will make the scene unphysical, at least in cases where more is modified than just small bits of geometry like the position of someone’s lips and other facial features.
They are also alluring because of the fear that policies could be put in place which excludes people based on the factors that are pre-determined; this idea is offensive to both those in favor of "meritocracy" and those who believe in the equality of opportunities. It also challenges the idea of human worth, since many people (mistakenly, in my opinion) believe human worth is (or should be) tied to mental and physical abilities.
Disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi and Silicon Valley’s Saudi Hypocrisy
It takes me 1 year to train new hires in my team. I would not sweat it.

Develop good rapport with you Manager. Ask them what their biggest challenges are right now. Try to find ways to help them and provide more perceived value.
Perhaps in the future there will be a step to edit videos with human oriented operations to remove artifacts?
>As the article says, "In ancient literature, emotions were predictable reactions to external actions or events."

Ancient Greek tragedy has no more "predictable reactions" than a modern work of fiction would have -- it goes into depth about the ambivalence of a character's feelings for example.

Besides the article also says that people in ancient literature didn't openly talk or display their emotions, except through action (tearing their hair, etc). That's patently wrong even for the Iliad, and doubly so for Odyssey.

The article also bizarrely seems to restrict to literature after the fall of Rome and up to the 15th century or so, as if that constitutes the whole of being "ancient"...

Also, have the author read millennia old Greek, Chinese, etc poetry? They'll find all kinds of inner monologues and discussions of feelings.

My heart is no mere mirror
That cannot comprehend.
Brothers I have, but may not
On brothers e’en depend.
Tush! when I go complaining
’Tis only to offend.
No stone this heart of mine is,
That may be turned and rolled;
No mat this heart of mine is,
To fold or to unfold.
Steadfast and strict my life is;
Nought ’gainst it can be told.
Yet here I sit in sorrow,
Scorned by a rabble crew.
My troubles have been many,
My insults not a few.
Calmly I think—then, starting,
I beat my breast anew.
O moon, why now the brighter?*
O sun, why now dost wane?
My heart wears grief as garments
Inured to soil and stain.
Calmly I think—then, starting,
Would fly—but all in vain.

From "The Odes of Pei", several centuries B.C.
No, that's not really correct. The theoretical capability of a quantum computer to "collapse" to optimal routes to solutions during computation does not imply the existence of cryptographic trapdoor functions which are likewise intractable. More concisely: the existence of a quantum computer does not imply the existence of problems it cannot solve. They're orthogonal things.

That being said, Mahadev's recent research constructing a quantum verification protocol using the LWE is exciting along similar lines to what you're thinking. It allows us to say with authority that one of the following must be true:

1. LWE protocols are not post-quantum resistant, or

2. Quantum verification is possible via LWE-based cryptography.
Heavy use of complex AVX2 operations causes downclocking, too, but typically less so than AVX-512. More details are documented in https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/frequency_behavior -- also see e.g. https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/xeon_gold/6138#Frequencie... for an example how the frequencies differ depending on the number of active cores.

I think the reason for reducing clock speed when vector units are in heavy use is to keep power usage in check.

You might also find https://blog.cloudflare.com/on-the-dangers-of-intels-frequen... helpful, which goes into detail about a specific case where dynamic frequency scaling resulted in AVX-512 code running slower than AVX2 code.
Apple + Shift + 4... remember to hit Space Bar after to capture one window at a time.

Or Skitch, FireShot, Jira Capture, Marker.io...
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The big coffee buckets used for big meetings and conferences. Usually the coffee is bad in them.
Fair point, although I feel that your interpretation may be a bit too charitable. If she had said that the paper should take into account the possible interpretations/implications of the research, then I can understand that. However, she said that the paper itself was unacceptable. I can only conclude that she would prefer no research be done if there could be negative ethical implications.
In some universes it has no problems.
Not even a mention of MD5?
On NYC, Tokyo, and Seoul
And then uTorrent is released again as an unsigned app and everybody can happily keep on torrenting.
Occam’s razor?
The other answers have given good info, but speaking to your supposed factoring algorithm in particular - most of the internet's public key cryptography still relies on factoring problems. Your algorithm would be enormously useful and dangerous. You would likely be able to break anything that reduces to the hidden subgroup problem using it, which means you'd be breaking both elliptic curve and non-elliptic curve systems.
Wow, that sux. When you wrote about assholes up there, I imagined something waaay milder. Makes me appreciate people who organize these things a bit more.
> your polished 80s software is running the world. Not Slack, not Discord.

Comparing chat apps to shell scripting is apples to oranges - let's compare apples to apples:

- Discord: 130 million users

- Slack: 8 million (3 million business users)

- IRC: Optimistically 0.2 million (The best data I can find say 0.1 million, let's be generous and double that)

Given that slack has 15x as many business users as all IRC users combined, I think it's fair to say that Slack has a lot more effect on real-world productivity than IRC does.

The numbers of dropbox users vs rsync users are even more hugely different.

My point here is that there's no technical reason why we can't have great, useful, user-friendly, world-leading open-source software; but the culture of open-source says "let's focus on making shell scripting better, forget about electron apps", and the result of that is that while our developer tools are ok, all of our non-developer software is half-assed clones of proprietary stuff and we're always playing catch-up instead of leading. My worry is that attitude is making the open source community largely irrelevant in modern computing, which is going to be bad for its long-term health :/
Mimesis by Erich Auerbach is very good at tracing and considering these developments purely by looking at the works and language.
This does not say anything about motivations, which, in any case, are irrelevant in assessing the value of the scholarship.
Under the new string model in java > 8 a fairly frequent workflow is:

1) get external string

2) figure out if it is UTF-8, UTF-16, or some other recognizable encoding

3) validate the byte stream

4) figure out if the code points in the incoming string can be represented in Latin-1

5) instantiate a java string using either the Latin-1 encoder or the UTF-16 encoder

I know some or all of these steps are done using hotspot intrinsics, and then the JIT/VM does inlining, folding and so on, but I wonder how fast a custom assembly function to do all these steps at once could be.
Perhaps the author thinks the analysis is shallow due to the heroic nature of the heroes's emotions, which separates them from the common man.

Although I think the greek tragedies have a higher level of psychoanalytical sophistication that would only be matched in the 19th century.
And here are some of Lemire's own posts on the subject:

* https://lemire.me/blog/2018/04/19/by-how-much-does-avx-512-s...

* https://lemire.me/blog/2018/08/13/the-dangers-of-avx-512-thr...

* https://lemire.me/blog/2018/08/15/the-dangers-of-avx-512-thr...

* https://lemire.me/blog/2018/08/24/trying-harder-to-make-avx-...

* https://lemire.me/blog/2018/08/25/avx-512-throttling-heavy-i...

* https://lemire.me/blog/2018/09/04/per-core-frequency-scaling...

* https://lemire.me/blog/2018/09/07/avx-512-when-and-how-to-us...
Nice work by Tesla's PR team? Individual's cars are a very small contributor to greenhouse gases. One (!) big container ship pollutes as much as 50 million (!) cars. And there are approx. 40k + vessels on the oceans. Just saying....
The rationale for large phones is well documented in emerging markets where it is the customer's only computing device. Over the last few years, that has been a growth segment ("next billion") relative to the saturated US/EU smartphone markets. Apple followed Samsung's market leadership in phablets.

Other than Apple itself, market data on cross-device ownership would be hard to obtain, since the iPad is the dominant tablet. By definition, it would be a subset of the larger smartphone market. But the adoption behavior of this subset has strategic value to Apple, since it could extend Apple's iOS and phone silicon investments to compete with Intel in laptops.

A hypothetical (2018? 2019?) "always-connected iOS laptop" would again alter device portfolios.
It's worse than that. Often fairness is a process, not a formula or metric.
The author being Kenneth Reitz

https://github.com/kennethreitz
And if you ever have the opportunity to start a company at the dawn of a fundamentally new era of global economic activity, it might work for you too. Most people are likely more interested in what will work now however.
Yes, precisely that's what I would expect from an NLP system b/c it will find "African American" and, I would expect "Chinese American", etc. in documents more frequently than for a plain "American", much like what this article mentions with Banana and no one ever mentioning yellow. Still, the algorithm would have to be pretty approach would have to be pretty naive not recognize that "X-American" is a subset of "American". It would be like not recognizing that a query for "anonymous function" is something different than a query for "function".

Here's the underlying data at duckduckgo: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=american+scientists&t=h_&ia=list

I'm still interested in a possible technique which could lead to this type of bias without it being explicit (or requiring google to have an extremely naive approach).
The downclocking does not apply at all to simple 256bit bit juggling operations. The code in question should run at full speed.
I recently tackled a book that was rather above my French reading level. It only took about half an hour spent fumbling with my Larousse before I plunked down $6 on their iOS app so that I could get back to reading my book. That weekend, my trusty old dictionary and I paid a visit to the used bookstore.

It's hard for me to imagine an information technology that's been more thoroughly superseded than the print dictionary. Electronic media make it faster to look words up in the first place, sure. But I also get audible pronunciations, and, if a definition includes another word I don't know, I can just tap on it to navigate to its definition. A print encyclopedia, you can at least sit down with a volume and just read it, and it's an experience that's sometimes more fun than surfing Wikipedia, by virtue of feeling a bit more random and serendipitous. But using a dictionary is always vaguely unpleasant; all you want to do is accomplish a specific task and then get back to your business.

The author is right. They really do derive most their value these days from being, in effect, large blocks of wood.
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Determinants of Online Review Informativeness: Evidence from Airbnb [pdf]
Actually she says the paper is bad science, and says why in her Twitter feed. She's actually calling for more research, supporting more complex narratives.

Meanwhile here, we're seeing that correlation does not imply causation except when it supports common prejudices and simplistic narratives. Then it absolutely does.
MD5 is a (bad) cryptographic hash and therefore has entirely different goals and properties as this hash function.
Can you cite anything? I cited something that demonstrates the uncertainty and explains why it exists (difficulty of studying it, extreme variation among individuals).

There is no single, hard rule for nutrition yet. We don't even know how healthy milk and fish oil are. Vitamin D supplements were just shown to have no benefit for bone health. Exercise and amount of food play a huge role in whether a diet works.
I agree. Unless the asset compression is actually part of the application then this does not belong on the devs' plate. There are plenty of other things to focus on.
Does unlocking the bootloader still erase the DRM keys for the camera’s image processing and turn it into a piece of garbage? That’s how it worked on my Z3C. Other than that, decent phone if not a biiit too big still.

https://www.androidpolice.com/2014/10/02/unlocking-the-bootl...
Also, future genetic engineering can be used to both fix those unfair advantages, or even make the inequalities worse.

I feel, at this point, more energy is being spent in preaching things that are ultimately unscientific , rather than working towards fixing the inequalities.
But do you agree that it (a utopia of happiness) might be something worth striving for?
I'm surprised pdf.js isn't discussed often as an API for reading data from PDF files.

It allows you to get raw access to the text but also the visual rendering of the PDF.

The only downside is that it uses the browser to do this but you could use chrome headless to make this into an API.

I ended up building this:

https://github.com/burtonator/pdf-annotation-exporter

based on that strategy to export PDF annotations.

It ended up evolving to a full PDF and document management system for Electron

https://getpolarized.io/

... but the nice thing is that even if Polar is a GUI app I can do things with PDF.js in the future like uploading them to a search infrastructure.
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Is that true? Snopes makes me think it is just a rumor.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/is-it-illegal-florida-powe...
There was a video, but since I talked in Lithuanian, I doubt if it would be useful to many people :)
I like Ben's writing a lot but I think he's not very familiar with just how much better FAANG is in expectation value for your typical engineer - i.e. at current compensation levels it would be possible to achieve financial independence by 35 or 40 for somebody joining out of college. I don't think Ben has a particularly steep utility curve for money so working at a mission-driven startup is probably great for him, but the landscape out there has changed since he was last looking for work.
>Then, a few months later, you wake up to the headline that 36 people died at Ghost Ship, an artist collective in Oakland, CA. When it’s all said and done, it won’t be the landlord, but the leaseholders, Derick Almena and Max Harris, who’ll be charged with manslaughter and face up to 39 years in prison.

That's a big problem right there (all the bureaucracy that has creeped up for having a space or shop etc, a lot of it which didn't exist 30 and 50 years ago). If the place is inspected regularly, and is as it should be (e.g. have fire extinguishers, etc), NOBODY should be charged with anything unless they did something (like throw gasoline at the crowd).

Shit happens. If adults burn in a building, it's a risk they should be willing to take when stepping it, the owner is not some nanny to prevent all natural and unnatural causes from ever becoming dangerous....
Do you have job experience? In my experience, academic CS knowledge doesn't produce "high quality code" that I want to pay for.

Good code is easy for teammates and future workers to maintain and collaborate on. Academics usually don't learn how to manage that part of it.

Also, you'd rather work in fast food than write Java?

What about C# or Python? There are lots of jobs for those. Elm, Erlang, Elixir, and Scala seem to be popular enough for you to find a job, too.
>every little hobby revolutionary in the community just shits all over the work and proclaims the people actually getting stuff done should just stop and leave it to them.

Well, isn't that the default mode of "hobby revolutionaries" on everything?
You're reading me a bit wrong, though maybe the last sentence was me being an asshole while also failing to explicitly point out what's wrong with their approach. You're correct that I don't feel like changing my mind but that's because their argument is old and I know that I enjoy meat. The objective was to point out that instead of trying to make meat eaters feel bad they should just make it easier for us to make better food choices. Food that we don't have to explicitly search for.

I'm not going to pick a food because it has a label for "vegetarian" or "vegan". I don't care. I pick what tastes good and is mostly healthy. Many other people have that line of thought besides me. Those kinds of people won't be attracted by those two terms and the moral implications behind them alone. If the food was good enough and marketed enough you wouldn't even need mostly useless articles like this.

That was what I was trying to point out. Hopefully you understand now.
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> tell me again how that's "oddly racist" to think this is a problem.

They are discriminating due to race, which is literally the definition of racism. You may be able to rationalize it, and you may think the pros of such calculated racist behavior outweigh the cons, but that doesn't change the fact that it is still racism.
I used the Brave browser. No issue.
That time is better spent over lunch explicitly relaxing rather than in a meeting which people trade off against other things.

3 minutes is fine and re-enforces a relationship. but when it rolls on into 15-20 for a regular meeting among folks who already know each other, then it sets people up for not working efficiently and thereby not getting home on time.
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To our surprise, we found a lack of published, well-optimized, large-data hash functions. Most hash work seems to focus on small input sizes (for things like dictionary lookup) or on cryptographic quality. We wanted the fastest possible hash that would be collision-free in practice (like SHA-1 was), and we didn’t need any cryptograhic [sic] security.

This is an important passage that could be explained in more detail. I can look up a list of non-cryptographic hash functions, nine of which support 128-bit output:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hash_functions#Non-cry...

Given that the claim is that Meow Hash is fast, where's the benchmarking to prove it's faster than the alternatives?
>Invite only spaces. New members have mentors who are responsible for them. Anyone can be expelled for any reason at any time.

Will still end up being a problem if the intention is to preserve the original vision.

Mentors change over time, and 2nd and 3rd generation members (mentors of mentors etc) will form gangs and have their own ideas of how things should be.
MeowHash is also a bad cryptographic hash. Can we compare properties instead of intentions? MD5 is faster than SHA. Is MeowHash faster than MD5 or not?
What am I working on? I just replaced a resistor in my car’s aircon to fix it. Feeling mighty pleased with myself.

Not the answer you were expecting but javascript wasn’t going to fix this bad boy ;-)
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>I hear you. But to be fair can we generalize less and say __some__ people?

We could, but seemingly, if you've been in these situations, it's close to "all people".