skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I feel like you're way too defensive about your viewpoint! This seems 100% understandable. This guy is just talking about what's worked from his experience.

If anything, I can't imagine having more money making things harder. Wouldn't you be able to join a travel group? I guess the main issue there is people would probably be coming with their families, though.

There's gotta be some way to meet other bachelors who are decently well off.
> Two things, one: why does everything need to be perfectly optimized? And two: You're assuming that intangible benefits aren't useful. Is money all that matters?

Intangible benefits are difficult to quantify, but that's no excuse for assigning their value as infinity and assuming they justify any cost. Or for wasting resources unnecessarily.

You could try to estimate the intangible value in QALYs or some other made up thing, but it's usually best to just estimate it in monetary terms, because money is fungible and well-understood. If you lose $5000, that's $5000 you don't have to spend on fighting climate change or education or cancer research or whatever other productive use it could have been put towards if you hadn't wasted it.

And if you get $5000 in intangible value by spending $4500, you're still wasting $4000 if the same intangible value could have been produced by spending $500.
Is a bytecode language still a useful concept, though? It might have been when we had lots of ISAs, especially in education. When Java came up (its original purpose being used on set-top boxes) we had Power, MIPS, Alpha, 68k, HP-RISC, Sparc, and many others. Now there's only x86/64 and ARM/64 left.
Designing Your Future
Here's fasthttp running on my machine (best of three):

$ wrk -t2 -c90 -d9s http://localhost:8080/plaintext
Running 9s test @ http://localhost:8080/plaintext
2 threads and 90 connections
Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev
Latency 831.78us 364.48us 7.56ms 70.19%
Req/Sec 40.55k 3.31k 48.04k 74.44%
726417 requests in 9.01s, 87.98MB read
Requests/sec: 80603.64
Transfer/sec: 9.76MB

which I got by checking out https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks.git, disabling the mysql connection, and running frameworks/Go/fasthttp's ./server-mysql (which is what the benchmark script seems to do). I thought this would be easier than getting dash running the TechEmpower results.

and here's dash running with the kdb networking disabled (best of three):

$ wrk -t2 -c90 -d3s 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/?f=204&k=hi&v=1'
Running 3s test @ http://127.0.0.1:8080/?f=204&k=hi&v=1
2 threads and 90 connections
Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev
Latency 787.72us 213.62us 3.49ms 71.85%
Req/Sec 44.82k 3.04k 60.44k 83.61%
271946 requests in 3.10s, 16.08MB read
Requests/sec: 87671.23
Transfer/sec: 5.18MB

My laptop isn't a beefy "Dell R440 Xeon Gold + 10 GbE" -- this is just a loopback test, but it's already disinclined me to spend any more time on it; Fasthttp definitely is impressive how close it gets, but dash is still faster.

And comparing a 100 line C program to hundreds or thousands of lines of go or C or Java is a bit pointless. If the 100 lines of C doesn't do what you want, I'll throw it away and write a different 100 lines. That's what brief programs get you.

NB: I would have tried ulib but it wouldn't even build on my laptop.
The paper didn’t mention any fundamental limitations. Its main point was that current serverless architectures suffer from two major performance deficiencies: inter[process/agent/what-have-you] communication is funneled through the bottleneck of slow storage (e.g., S3, DynamoDB); and various forms of optimizations based on caching are hamstrung by the fact that agents are short-lived and not directly addressable over the network.

The authors’ concern regarding the potential lack of open-source projects that integrate with the serverless platforms currently on offer is based on the severity—roughly between one and three orders of magnitude, overall—of the aforementioned performance deficiencies. It appears to be based on the assumption that open-source contributors won’t invest in what they (accurately) perceive to be a technically inferior platform. This part of the paper isn’t particularly clear, but I believe the authors are talking more about extensions to current serverless platforms than about application-level code that simply runs on top of said platforms.

Anyway, I’m no expert, but I’m fairly familiar with the subject matter and I read the paper in its entirety. I’m open to corrections from those who possess a deeper understanding of the issues involved.

One major caveat: I’m much more familiar with AWS than I am with its competitors, and I’m taking the authors’ word for it when they assert that their AWS-based examples are broadly representative.
Because being smart doesn't make you immune from social biases and institutional incentives, which is the point of the OP.
The truth is that they were infiltrated by the Germans and the US - they were not fighting for independence but to find new rulers.

As the "Right wing" you mean national socialists - who want socialism only for a given group of people.

True right (as in Libertarians) was ridiculed by the likes of Michnik.
> No one ever has told me in school that for all squares, the length of the diagonal equals The Square Root Of Two times the side of the square's

This is basic knowledge (and as someone said, comes from the Pythagorean theorem) and taught on school in a lot of places.
Not the same guy, but I've lived in Thailand for a similar amount of time and I've been on my NON-B for the majority of the time.
How to GET a GIRLFRIEND IN ONE DAY
That is never going to happen.

This is a constant theme on Reddit at r/programming. It is based upon nothing but fear of web technologies (yes, I literally mean fear as a raw and savage emotion) and a lack of understanding what WASM is. It is best to think of WASM as an embeddedable VM for JavaScript rather than opposed to JavaScript. https://webassembly.org/

First of all JS cannot ever be replaced by WASM. This is a stated project design goal of WASM. You have to understand that Web Assembly is there to fill the proprietary application add-in void of things like Flash using open standards safely in a way that is technology agnostic. Web Assembly is not there to serve as a crutch for people afraid of web technologies.

Secondly, there will never be direct DOM access from WebAssembly for security reasons. While that is the nail in the coffin on this matter there is the more practical consideration that developers, even those who write JavaScript full time for a living, tend to be deathly afraid of touching the DOM. If this were a reality the inevitable overhead (think of all the dependencies, frameworks, and abstractions developers cannot live without because the DOM is scary) would likely be just as high, or higher, than writing your own DOM library embedded within your WARM instance.

Thirdly, you can have a DOM interface in a WASM instance. This is part of the web components API, but DOM trees created for the WASM instances are islands to the WASM instance created from external JavaScript - https://medium.com/coinmonks/develop-w3c-web-components-with...
In the US, FDIC is primarily funded by fees banks are required to pay, and there is an actual fund held by the FDIC to cover this. However, if the fund is exhausted the FDIC is backstopped by the federal government, which would step in and cover any losses.

Like any other form of government spending, that is not directly covered by "printing money"; that can't be done by the federal government. Instead, the money would come from a mixture of spending cuts, additional taxes, and additional borrowing. (Given current US politics, most of the money would probably come from borrowing.)

Now as part of an independent process, the central bank conducts open market operations where it sells and purchases US debt to try and keep inflation and interest rates within targets. When it purchases debt, money is effectively created, and if the US was forced to borrow a large amount of money to cover an FDIC shortfall some of that debt would no doubt end up purchased at least temporarily by the central bank, so:

> woulnd't the payout largely come from the Bank of Canada printing more money [...] You might get your money back, but now a loaf of bread costs $1000.

In the US, some portion of the funds would indirectly come from the central bank printing more money, but only to the extent that it would not cause that sort of spike in inflation.

(Also note that even when a pretty big bank goes under, they still have a lot of assets, and the actual cost to the insurance program once everything has been liquidated is generally very small if not zero. Even if extreme cases such as Iceland when Landsbanki went under, the desposit insurance guarantees were eventually covered by assets recovered in liquidation.)

So basically: 1) Deposit insurance is very important to prevent bank runs (ie, people panicing and causing bank failures even when the bank is actually solvent and 2) It's not that expensive, and doesn't represent the sort of risk or potential costs you can imagine. There aren't a lot of policies which are basically all upside, but deposit insurance comes close.
Using MDX with create-react-app 2
There was ANDF as well, but I think that commercial Unix vendors were leery of the idea.

http://wikien3.appspot.com/wiki/ANDF
The tax cut wasn't that great, most Americans didn't get enough to notice it and it didn't spur any job creation, in fact it's pretty much been used to pay out shareholders. Job growth has been slowly since Pres. Trump took office, mainly due to the uncertainty he's created in the markets due to trade wars and destabilizing relationships with allies. It's also true that as the markets have become more saturated this is to be expected, however salaries haven't risen despite a favorable business environment suggesting pretty much every company expects a downturn and backlash to reality. I got a pretty good sized tax cut. I'd rather pay more and have guaranteed healthcare that wasn't employer based, but that's a sample size of one. In your case you're touting $9-$18 a paycheck for the middle class as something to be excited over? They're going to lose their healthcare and jobs because of that tax break. Pretty sure that's worth more to them which might be some of the reason that support for the tax cut was lackluster.

Obama didn't increase the deficit. Congress did, congress controls the budget, the buck stops with them. Obama had a friendly Congress for precisely two years and they basically did nothing worth remembering other than the Affordable Care Act which will be rolled back and push us back to the pre-existing conditions, even higher cost healthcare the at predated it, because Congress won't allow Medicare to use competitive drug pricing.

The reason the debt went up is because we were in a recession, fighting wars, and cut taxes. Of course the debt went up. You always need to spend governmental money to pull a country out of a recession, the government is the only one with enough money to do so. Same thing prior to capitalism. Cities that flourish have strong governmental spending. What we need to do is actually raise taxes and pay for what we've already spent. There's no amount of cutting taxes that will make us reduce the debt. I personally prefer the balanced-budget requirements, i.e. you can't spend money unless you say exactly where it's going to come from beforehand. I also wish that there were more studies spent on efficacy of money spent against the purpose and this was published regularly by the CBO.

As for the border wall, it's a terrible idea. No one is against border security, however border walls are a relatively terrible idea in most places due to costs, land rights, water rights, etc. It would be far more effective to spend money on more agents and automated drones to assist border control. Add to that we don't have a wall at the border with Canada so the idea of only protecting the Southern border comes across as silly since most people who are here illegally simply overstay their visas. If someone really wants to get into the US, it's trivially easy through numerous locations.
I look at documents and remove everything from my computer, and my guess is that op worked on it on his own time on his own machine. He was still working 4 years in that company, so he was not removed from project. Feels like action was uh, he got documents out of company.

Don't get any data out of company, I would never promote someone who got any documents out of company laptop to his own.
While I agree this doesn't look great, I'm sure theres a few more possible explanations.

Eg Robinhood could have notified the sipc some more or less reasonable time ago, that they were planning this product, and the sipc took a(n un) reasonable time to get back to them.

Maybe they played golf with someone at the sipc who said they'd sort it, and it would be fine.
The idea is that they would be sweeping it into short term treasuries, and no, they don't pay 3% either, but it's more than a chequing account pays.

The remainder would presumably come from interchange fees. Ie, you put $500 into Robinhood, you then pay for something using your debit card, a cut goes to Visa, a cut of that goes to Robinhood, and a cut of that goes to subsidise your 3% interest.
DEC computers used to be built in the US. As well as Cisco gear and much more...
Java 1.0 had a reasonably shallow learning curve. A lot of complexity was added by later enhancements. I always felt they were not always worth the complexity tradeoff they brought.
Mental development is not linear.
There is a section in the book where he laments that certain mediums (like books, and movies) leak information about where the story ends (because in a book as you are reading it you will know you are coming towards the end). He explained one way to avoid this and retain some mystery in story-telling would be to finish the story some distance before the end and pad the remainder of the book with blank pages. However blank pages are too easy to spot if someone happens to flick through the book before hand, so instead it would be better to pad the book with text which appears to be related to the primary story and therefore is undetectable unless someone reads through the whole book in order.
I haven’t heard of any implementation. It can’t be better if it doesn’t exist.
Climate Negotiators Reach an Overtime Deal to Keep Paris Pact Alive
> The term has a well-defined meaning provided by the OSI, and they arguably have the right to define what it means and which licenses meet the definition, being the ones who pretty much invented the term.

Funnily enough, many people would argue the exact opposite -- that "open source" has a common meaning that is separate from the "Open Source" which the OSI defines. I don't really have a strong opinion either way.

> "Proprietary" does not suddenly mean "restricts any of the four freedoms" just because you said so.

I am using the term in the same manner as the FSF. Maybe you disagree with their definition, but it's hardly something I've just come up with in this argument -- this definition in the context of software licenses has been in use since the 80s. If you disagree with that definition, complain to the FSF about their subversion of language instead of me.
Much better that's debatable: 1) you can't really be a programmer without good English knowledge 2) I'm French and worked on a software in French: eventually the source code had to be translated in English (a requirement from one customer): what a waste of time & money..
Okay, I'm curious - did anyone else get a screen flicker when they clicked on these comments? I'm on macOS 10.14.2 chrome 71.0.3578.98. I think it would be interesting if someone wanted to trigger software based on particular URLs, or, more likely, textual content in the page. Because it is personal, and transient, it would be very difficult to detect.
This kind of glosses over some of the very real progress made in the last 30 years -- the Ads/CFT correspondence, solar neutrinos that led to discovery of neutrino oscillation, AMPS thought experiment with respect to black holes, etc.

LIGO with gravitational wave astronomy and the Event Horizon telescope with very long baseline interferometry are opening up new ways to observe the universe.

Yes the data is not as abundant as it used to be a few decades ago but that's the nature of the game. Our current models work very well in terms of describing accessible energies. So this is going to take longer and require more and more ingenuity. I don't think the problem here is lack of motivation for getting good answers -- to the contrary, anyone who can discovery something major is going to have a lot of fame and credit come to them.
Direct DOM access is certainly happening; it’s the thing that the wasm people are working on next. (Well, its prerequisites...)

I agree with you that that doesn’t mean anything with regards to “killing JS” or anything.
It would be neat if they could be cached as language-specific GCs, rather than having to be bundled individually with each application.
The Manipulated Man (1971)
Why does it seem like every NYT article these days is usually pushing some absurd agenda? What happened to reporting the news?
Don't miss the author's (Bee) comment

https://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/12/can-foundational-phys...

>But I have on my blog discussed what I think should be done, eg here:

>http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2017/03/academia-is-fucked-...

>Which is a project I have partly realized, see here

>http://scimeter.org

>And in case that isn't enough, I have a 15 page proposal here:

>https://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/~hossi/Physics/PartB2_SciMeter...
Do you mean the attention module?
I wrote up kind of a long reply about the vanguardism issue, but I think I want to sleep on it and see if I can potentially express it more clearly.
No no, it's resting!
Well fuck me, time to move to California and setup shop as a serial killer. According to you I can get into three digits before anyone should even bother to care!

Do I really need to explain the problems with your math?
Damn, nice.

And, yikes: https://labdoor.com/review/solgar-magnesium-citrate
90% sure someone will flag this, some people on HN sure love to hate on e98e
The results are based on AMD bulldozer which I don’t think is a great comparison to more modern uARCHs. The way it shares ALUs was extremely unusual even for the time.
Linux: IO without entering the kernel
Academia is fucked-up. So why isn’t anyone doing something about it? (2017)
I'm sorry, I stopped reading when I found:

> From a billion events, this “trigger mechanism” keeps only one hundred to two hundred selected ones. … That CERN has spent the last ten years deleting data that hold the key to new fundamental physics is what I would call the nightmare scenario.

These words show their opinions come from someone that does not know/understand the technology behind these systems and behind the computing power and capabilities at CERN. Of course, they have limitations, but are the kind of limitation that keeps pushing technology forwards. Using quotes on the trigger mechanism is saying how strange those concepts are for them.

The trigger system is a fine tuned filter that allows the electronics to work, otherwise they will be overloaded and will crash as they will be receiving a rate of data that simply can not be handled. How this trigger is being set depends on the specific physical process that is being studied and is supported by theory and simulation, the scope that can be tested is also limited so the selection is highly scrutinized and reviewed
It's usually an internal research team, specialised in a vertical, say Energy or transportation that prepares the material for the consultant. Still, most good management consultants are good at creating docs, excels and ppts. And they are good reading/sifting through the data quickly; just like a senior software engineer can navigate and grasp code more quickly.

The larger issue that I find with management consulting approach though is that they use the same set of tools to create solutions for ALL problems. They will throw in some charts, finance numbers, pas research etc. to sell a 'story'. They usually don't work on implementation but to present the first part of the solution. That's not how every problem should be solved IMHO. McKinsey et al. can make things easy for bureaucrats or government people to grasp, but to be honest their suggestions seems pretty ridiculous at times. Just look at some of the articles they have written about software industry and how out of touch it seems. Most of their solutions on social issues and such fields are rather ridiculous too. So I would hire an ex-consultant as an employee, no problem. But I wonder if I would ever want to outsource work to a Management Consulting company.
'During experiments, the LHC creates about a billion proton-proton collisions per second. … The events are filtered in real time and discarded unless an algorithm marks them as interesting. From a billion events, this “trigger mechanism” keeps only one hundred to two hundred selected ones. … That CERN has spent the last ten years deleting data that hold the key to new fundamental physics is what I would call the nightmare scenario.'

I don't know what the author is proposing. We don't have enough storage to persist all collision events, that would require zettabytes of disk space. The detectors are bottlenecked to store a few hundred events a second. Therefore they need to filter out the majority of the 40 million collision events per second that occur in the LHC.

Even then, I recall around 1% or so of the stored events were saved via a 'minimal bias' trigger, one that doesn't apply any filter criteria. This was mainly for calibration purposes, and cross checking stimulation data. So we still have petabytes of collision events that didn't have any selection criteria applied.
That's a really cool one. Do you know of any attempts to learn a connection gramar, instead of creating it by hand?
People dont find the singling out of any group to be an accepted popular opinion, even though it is, for some groups.

The consensus neglects the majority and minority powers of different areas. But I find the power imbalance to be a more encapsulating definition of in/sensitivies
Conformal coating or potting. Simply not exposing the components and board traces to environmental conditions at all is simpler and more effective - but then we no longer expect to need to replace vacuum tubes very often.
Those publicly owned utilities collectively have a fraction of the transmission & distribution infrastructure of PG&E alone. Most essentially serve as brokers to buy power and pay T&D charges over other people's lines. They are simply not comparable.
I can't edit my other comment, but I did think that it accomplished its mission.

> ensuring that anyone who stumbled across it would be suspicious.

Or the person who was meant to retrieve it would know what they found. "It's inside the car battery buried in ..." is a pretty easy instruction to follow.

The instruction can also be hidden in plain sight – a car battery is ordinary enough that no one is going to be suspicious if you write it down on a piece of paper. You can even hide the location in order or invoice number pretty easily.

If someone found it, they may be suspicious. If I found one my first thought would be that is just some junk someone threw out (you can't put car batteries in normal trash where I live). It is fairly easy to notice if dirt has been recently disturbed, even from afar (which his good if you're worried about getting caught).

TL;DR burying something in a car battery is actually pretty clever.
Test-induced design damage (2014)
You can de-PDF anything on the arXiv by chopping off the .pdf suffix and changing the /pdf/ to /abs/.

For example, https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2804