skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have nothing against this article.. its all analysis and information.. but is it just me or does it have very little to do with what we actually think of when we consider where the benefits have gone?

Where are the numbers on average expected spend, including spending expectations for disposable income. so that we get a reasonable idea of someones saving power. and compare this to various income levels. We don't live in a vacuum and we all have to be living up to the expectations of those around us.

Also looking at social mobility, security to find a job etc. numbers are irrelevant freedoms are relevant.

If the poor earn lots more than the rich (in comparison to previous generations) do these days but rich people living expenses have not gone up and tax evasion has increased and the spending expectations on the poor have increased then I would still say the benefits have gone to the rich.

if the poor are still working 40 hour weeks and a few people are becoming so rich that if they reduced their income to millions per year that they could reduce average working hours to 30 hours per week i would still be hard pushed to say that the benefits were not being hoarded by the rich.

I don't know.. there are many ways to look at this but these numbers seem among the least relevant - like they have absolutely no causal link with the concerns that people have.

Are there any articles that go attempt to put numbers on some of these vaguer but more relevant things? i feel like even data with huge error bars could be very damning - or am i just naive and jealous of my parents :)?
If you have OpenSSL installed, you may also have a copy of the two decades old shell script, "CA", that still works wonderfully today.
of course but PIE is an imagined language with an imaginary date of 2500 BC

lack of any attestation kills all PIE claims

whereas sanskrit is a solidly real language with a lot of evidence that it dates back to 4th millennium BC or even much further back for the rg veda

evidence that is vociferously ignored or censored in the west for various reasons

so the tactic of making sanskrit a daughter language of PIE is not accepted
You are aware that half of these certified internet geniuses are trolls and crackpots who try to prove why Special Relativity Theory is wrong or promote their own free energy devices, though, right? RIGHT?

Or is this the first day you're on the internet?
Is my algorithm good enough? Developing a test framework for unsupervised AI
Same with atopic dermatitis. Everytime I talk to someone and they notice the red patches on my skin and I say it's atopic dermatitis, they immediately start rambling about how the friend of their cousin's barber totally got that fixed up with that magical treatment and I have to try it. At which point I tell them that atopic dermatitis is mostly a symptom, not a single disease.
It's the first time I've heard of TM, and having experienced some benefits from more traditional meditation in the past, I was curious.

So I ran into this document, which offers a comprehensive introduction into TM: http://minet.org/Documents/TM-FAQ .

Later edit:

My personal unqualified opinion on the matter: too much involvement of religion and bullshit in this program. While there is a scientific basis to the benefits of meditation, TM is not the most direct and straightforward way to reaching that, as it seems to be organized more as a money-making machine than as a non-profit for helping people.

Personally, meditation has helped me a lot in getting rid of anxiety, letting go of a lot of worries and stress, and simply having a better mental well-being, and with that comes a higher level of cognitive performance and general effectiveness. But I haven't stuck to a habit of focusing the attention towards breathing or anything like that, although I've practiced many forms. At this point it is simply a set of thought patterns, when I notice that I'm in an undesirable mental state, I simply breath, and let go, in a sort-of automatic fashion. This may be something entirely different from meditation, but I think it's a result of that practice.

For a while I've actually considered meditation to be counter-productive. In most matters, if something is causing you stress and worry, there's an evolutionary purpose in that stress and worry, and namely it's pushing you to solve the problem that's at the cause of it. Meditation in a way relaxes that push for solving the issue, that stubbornness, and also helps you let go of desires and wishing the world was in a certain way. It has the effect of making you more grateful and accepting of the state of things. But of course, there are some people for whom this stress and worry is kicked into overdrive by small things, and getting rid of that effect provides an immense benefit to their well-being and productivity, and I count myself to that group. But still, I think meditation is great in moderation, like most things.
I almost see artifacts on painting, similar to simple NN algorithms like https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/convnetjs/demo/image... produce.
Cheapest "cars" in China start under $1K, Cherry QQ is actually decent in comparison. Want different example? How about micro controllers? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rixo78hv_lw 3 cent in Asia, cheapest US based manufacturer offerings start at 30 cent.
this is always step one of cutbacks.
At 1 cent per mile, someone driving a 2400lb nissan versa doing an above average 15,000 miles a year would cost $150

However someone driving a 3500lb Merc e-class for below average 10,000 miles a year would have to pay 4.5c/mile or $450

Buy an F150 or Tesla S class at 4500lb for 10,000 miles a year, you'd pay 12c/mile, or $1200.

Then add say 40 cents a gallon to gas tax (in the UK gas tax + sales tax on that gas tax is 314c per gallon) to combat the effects of burning gas, and you get a cost per mile of

nissan versa (31mpg) -- 2.3c/mile
Merc e-class (25mpg) -- 6c/mile
F150 (22mpg) -- 13.8c/mile
Tesla S class - 12c/mile

With UK gas tax

nissan versa (31mpg) -- 11c/mile
Merc e-class (25mpg) -- 17c/mile
F150 (22mpg) -- 26c/mile
Tesla S class - 12c/mile
I would say that quite a lot scientific visualization applications are using Qt. Well, I'm working on one. ;)
"We're just ordinary guys"
And ladies, etc.
Or make a fortune maintaining the legacy rivy and python that the whippersnappers don't understand anymore?
If the court orders a search of someone's property, it should be done by law enforcement, not be the accusing party.
Snake Logic
From my layman point of view, this can lead to two different conclusions:

* The DNN is actually getting close to the way human brain works, as it falls into the same mistakes as the human eye;

* There is some kind of universality in these illusions, that every (or most of) vision systems will fall for.

But honestly I think that the second conclusion is a rewriting of the first one (what is a vision system? What is this universal property?).

Again I'm absolutely not an expert of the field so please correct me if I'm wrong.
"I haven't found the sweet spot that gives an Ubuntu-like experience out of the box, but has a very technical Arch-like community."

For me, that sweet spot is Manjaro. I have been using it daily on a laptop (T470) at work for nearly 2 years, with barely any problem at all. Moreover, it gives you many very polished DE options (official and community editions).
> If you develop on windows with WPF/MFC/Win32 calls, it will be obviously faster than Qt, because you're saving on that bridge calls.

Qt (Quick) is on the same level than WPF actually. Both create a scene graph and render it. WPF does not use native windows primitives.
Does anyone else feel like Facebook's entire advertising platform is designed like Windows 95? You know, you could skip the log in window by hitting the ? button and then doing a bunch of stuff. It genuinely seems like a piece of software written with literally no understanding that person using it might not be well intentioned. If it IS anything like Windows 95 then Facebook is going to spend the next 20 years patching bug after bug as they come in rather than re-designing the software properly in the first place.
> 1. Don't promote based on ranking in current role. The new roles that you are promoting into aren't the current role. Being a good X doesn't mean that you will be a good Y.

Definitely some truth in this but one needs to be careful. I think the way to view it might be that being good at X is necessary but not sufficient to being good at Y (assuming Y is a promotion, more responsibility, etc.).

If you're not performing well with the level of responsibility you have at X nobody should promote you to Y. For one thing, if you perform poorly at Y you're going to do a lot more damage than at X and the only real evidence anyone has for promoting you to Y is how you've done at X.

Possibly you can (or you might think you can) test for proficiency at Y but you may well be overestimating your ability to do this, and you open yourself up to all kinds of accusations about artificiality. Not only this but high performing employees can and should legitimately question why you as a manager are unable to accurately assess their suitability based on their performance.

Finally, skills are learned. Python is a learned skill; systems architecture is a learned skill; management is a learned skill. Even bad managers can learn to be good managers, and almost everybody starts out being bad at it. The key is engagement: do you want to get better at it? Are you going to invest the time in learning the skills you need to be better? If you do then, whilst it might take a while, you'll do just fine. The point with high performing employees, and why you promote them, is that they've already demonstrated the engagement and the willingness to learn that they're going to need in order to successfully take the next step.

Not to say there won't be any mess on the way, and success is obviously not to be taken for granted. Also worth pointing out that even great managers encounter serious difficulties - it's somewhat in the nature of dealing with people.
Not sure if it's EU-wide, but it's certainly the case in the UK too.

Here, we predominantly see adverts for: basic over-the-counter painkillers, cold/flu "remedies" (winter) and hayfever/allergy remedies (summer).

It's really quite jarring visiting the US and watching TV there. Not only because of the seriousness of the drugs they advertise, but also the sheer volume of pharmaceutical ads. I swear it often felt like 50% of the ads were for prescription drugs. Really weird.
When I am super-(dis)stressed then my mental constitution is best characterized by a constant high level of fear. Which is unsettling by itself and will give me a strong urge to leave this situation. From that angle I find it surprising that it seems that being super-stressed didn't seem to bother you on its own. Was it a eustress experience for you that felt good?
Using btrfs on Linux I have a job that takes a CoW snapshot of the whole filesystem every 10 minutes just so that I can undo whoopsies. I don't retain all of these snapshots, only the most recent one.
"We find a surprisingly simple result: normal wakeful states are characterised by the greatest number of possible configurations of interactions between brain networks, representing highest entropy values. Therefore, the information content is larger in the network associated to conscious states, suggesting that consciousness could be the result of an optimization of information
processing."

Could someone please explain how finding a correlation results in the conclusion of causal relationship. It's also obvious that your brain has the most active networks when awake.
I've seen several comments of this ilk today nitpicking the comments of other people on the detail of gendered language. I find them super tiresome and my feeling is they are probably counterproductive. Unless, you know, your real goal is to aggravate everyone and alienate them such that people start wishing women would just go back to being barefoot and pregnant.
Couldn't it just bind "this" to whatever object it uses to store component data?
On the other hand their TV ads have good comedic value when they spend 3/4 of the ad listing side effects, including the condition the medicine is supposed to cure or death, in a voice over while stupidly happy people play with their dogs and kids. Ask your doctor about Humira.
El Reg vulture sat four days of Oracle OpenWorld to write this cracking summary
> that type of wrongthink

Why is it "wrongthink"?
I don't understand why searches can be done by private parties, with no police present. This seems extremely wrong to me. How can this be?
Actually, some breeds of dog are banned in the UK:

https://www.gov.uk/control-dog-public/banned-dogs
>In TV ads you mostly see over-the-counter .. meds against digestion problems like flatulences.

In Poland they started advertising those by boasting about "side effects" such as losing weight ....
Google drops plans for Berlin campus after protests
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I agree with the part about people who worry about everything. But the bit Carlin misses is that what's troubling is the increase in the rate of extinctions[0]. Of course species go extinct on a regular basis, but when so many are going extinct in such a short space of time, it creates issues like a reduction in biodiversity, which in turn leads to a higher risk of a disease outbreak in a dominant species being catastrophic for an ecosystem. I agree with Carlin about most things, but like Bill Hick's blind spot about smoking, I think he's wrong here.

[0] https://www.britannica.com/science/conservation-ecology/Calc...
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Ask HN: Does your DigitalOcean droplet get hacked often?
Hi folks,

For those of you using DigitalOcean, wondering how many of you had your droplets compromised? I don't even know where to begin investigating how they were able to penetrate.

I'm also considering moving away given that I have repeatedly received emails from DigitalOcean telling me that "I'm the cause of traffic spikes and attacks on other websites". Contacting support is also quite useless as they assume I'm at fault.

Thankfully, it's only a personal website being hosted but it's still quite annoying.
I kind of see what you're saying in regards to leaving no room for subtleties but that argument goes both ways.

I tried to find accurate information on the technology and how they differentiate from the regular old dehumidifier spiel when I first heard about the prize, even spending a few minutes on Google scholar searches for their contributors. It was all drowned out by marketing materials and fancy graphics.

On one side we have a person with a Youtube brand that lives off of these kinds of debunkings, including their over the top tone. On the other side we have multiple companies with a product and accompanying marketing budgets. Both clearly lacking in room for discussion and subtlety. Could the youtuber get their point accross more objectively and clear? Sure. Would somebody listen or even discover their argument? I kind of doubt that. Just like the product would not gain traction from scientific papers alone.

Trying to make my point clearer, I do not feel like that the Youtube person is solely at fault for a weirdly framed discussion here. If the XPrize winners have more innovation to show than combining two technologies that they seem to have used before they should clearly communicate that, including scientific analysis that are easy to discover. They got a prize for a product that claims to be better than competition with similar tech in a space that previously saw players that absolutely were pure snake-oil. Just put facts next to your pitch decks and fancy marketing materials people.
Right? I’m surprised there isn’t more of this sentiment here. Flash did 15 years ago on a hardware from 15 years ago exactly what the “web platform” does now with hardware that’s orders of magnitude more powerful in every aspect. It’s embarrassing that Flash was left to die for superficial reasons.
Testimonials on ur site mathpix are awesome. too geeky !!!
I said that there are different degrees of 'victims' and that there is an over-use of 'victim'. I didn't speak about Rubin as I don't know the details and neither did I speak about justification.

(No need for personal attacks. Some friendliness would help not to split society/politics/discourse)
Why is every project written in golang have go in their names?! This is present even in some rust libraries.
It appears he was fired for saying basically:

"We shouldn't have any shows that use the term 'retarded' because it can be as painful for a developmentally disabled person to hear as the word 'nigger' is for a black person to hear"

As reported he used the "n-word" as an example of something really hurtful that shouldn't be said. Is that really worth a firing? Is it really wrong at all? What am I missing?
TV-shop of medical treatments, LOL.
The U.S. spends 3 times as much per person on healthcare than the UK. Where do you think the money goes?

Of course this gives "free" TV, that you pay for through more expensive medicine.
Same in Sweden.
Do you need to go out of your way to employ a Spanish speaker as a permanent employee, on the off chance of a "black swan" idea, rather than o a one of consult with a consultant?

wrt your link: "It is important to note, however, that correlation does not demonstrate causality, which would be challenging to demonstrate". I think a more interesting metric would be diversity relative to the local norm.
> QEMU hasn't got round to pointer-authentication yet either, so that's pretty good going.

Thanks very much! I do however note we're not trying for full system emulation for v8; we're primarily interested in userspace emulation since that's our primary usecase, so system instructions aren't necessary for us, which does reduce our workload!

While we're on that topic, we make a few simplifying assumptions for performance reasons (e.g. no self-modifying code). Thinking about it, I feel like I should document these assumptions somewhere; I'll do that when I can.

> That's quite similar to how we test QEMU against real hardware

That's great! I love semi-automated testing.

An emulator vs emulator fuzz test has some advantages: You can test more instructions than you are able to on hardware. For example, you can test arbitrary jump instructions and memory instructions (assuming the emulations have sufficient instrumentation to catch arbitrary memory reads/writes and jumps off into the ether).

We fuzz against unicorn here: https://github.com/MerryMage/dynarmic/blob/master/tests/A64/.... This uses our instruction table (https://github.com/MerryMage/dynarmic/blob/master/src/fronte...) to generate instructions.
Other (yesterday's) news:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/25/amazon_domain_kindl...

"Amazon tried to entice Latin American officials with $5m in Kindles, AWS credits for .amazon -
Brazil, Peru snub cheap gifts, refuse to unblock dot-word"
But is the "recovery rate" in Chernobyl significantly better than normal conservation sites?

My point is, why "strictly forbidden to enter" if conservation areas are successful enough?
If cancer were suddenly cured, those people would still die

What's the percentage of non-EOL people that die of cancer?
Rust Software Engineer
I know we are supposed to be all up in arms about his rights and certainly that is a big issue, but at the same time... he was running a questionable / edgy website... "he took a laissez-faire approach to policing which addons made it onto his site."

At some level, given the history of previous issues like this, what did he expect?
Yeah, I used to say CTO = main janitor of tech.

Software mechanic says: I don't mind getting my hands dirty while doing intricate work (computers, who understands 'em?). Janitorial work seems to be regarded as lowly drudge work, even though being a good caretaker/warden means preventing problems from occurring in the first place, like watering the garden and keeping leaks in check.

Everyone is trying to keep a cupboard in order somewhere :).
Its the opposite of the hacking spirit where you make something do more than it is supposed to. Something many people here take an interest in - its in the name Hacker news.
what's worth more - amazon the river or amazon the company?
> package manager is probably one of the most attractive features it has over other operating systems.

I agree with this and I'm using Linux only for several months, the update experience + software discovery is really something mindblowing (nope, Chocolatey and brew are not really comparable).

I still don't like the model completely (additional work for package managers that sometimes screw things up, see e.g. Debian Weak Keys) but overall this is a very pleasant experience.
Bearing in mind the moon exerts a significant influence on our planet (driving the seas tides and influencing the speed of the Earth's rotation), if humanity somehow managed to do this i.e. set up industry on the moon, how long would it be before what we did had an environmental impact on the earth?

That is to say, what would be a safe level of the moon's mass being lost to mining before we had to stop and at what point would we realise the moon's influence has become unpredictable?
How does that inform your reasoning above? How does being part of a group racially targeted by cops mean you can bring something different to a software development team, outside very specific examples of software?
Its pretty hard time find a good name for a project and go is a really good prefix for projects i guess, it can even add meaning like in this project.
That's only true if the population is static: if you fully replenish, and then discard the bottom 10%, on repeat, then your overall quality should be going up.

If you only make new bad hires, the 90% good population will stay the same, and the newly hired 10% will be fired.

If you make n good hires, such that that they're better than some peer in the previous 90% population, then the worst n peers will be shifted into the 10% firing population, and replaced with the better new hires in good 90% pop.

So, assuming your metric is solid, and replenishment occurs, the strategy should be successful.
silicose -> silicosis
Is luaJIT a competitor to Julia, in the sense that you can write high-level code, without the need to call bits of compiled C / Fortran

My impression was that Lua at least was in the Python class of scientific computing, by needing to refer to optimized, precompiled libraries.
That really depends on your load. I once feared a huge performance regression when a test took 2 minutes instead of 40s. Turned out one instance ran on a i7-6xxx machine, and the other on a i7-9x0. Normalizing for the different clock, the newer CPU had a 20% better IPC.

Disclaimer: I don't recall exact numbers, but they should be somewhat close to those given.
This is an opinion, not a fact.

It's likely that the incumbents, Google & Facebook, were both much further ahead and entrenched for Apple to break through. Apple also tried social networking (ping) and failed. And self diving cars. I don't see any real evidence for Apple not sharing data out of some moral high ground. If they could actually boost their bottom line and not drive away existing customers, they'd do it. They rolled over like a timid puppy when China asked for all, that's ALL of China's iCloud data. They could've walked away from the China business if they had a sliver of moral turpitude, but they obviously don't, which is also evident from their tacit tolerance of child labor and unreasonable working conditions from their suppliers in China
Sorry for my poor English, not my motherlanguage. You are right being a monarchy says nothing of the legality of private companies searching citizens homes. However being a monarchy means NOT being citizens, peer between peers and thet's a very very very important thing that may justify anything else.

Symbols are symbols but still have their importance.