skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok sure, but 80 (eighty) percent returns? That's... inconceivable.
Is the information on the snopes page false or incorrect? No, it isn't.

There's a reason that they write more about each topic than merely the headline.

"snopes occasionally makes editorial decisions I disagree with" is not the same as "snopes is fake and unreliable".

Sorry, I must have missed it the first time, tell me again why you continue to rely on an overtly racist blog to be your arbiter of "ethics"?
have a look at ubiquiti routers: their edge router lite is capable of handling gbit, and can protect against buffer bloat at up to 100mbits/sec. the only doznside is that they are harder to manage than the average consumer router

They cost about $100
"worst of both worlds" is not quite right

Some SD cards are unreliable because they are removable storage and some vendors therefore think they can get away with sketchy quality. As soon as you solder on the storage (aka eMMC), reliability requirements shoot up through the roof and vendors tend to do a good job of ensuring quality and reliability.

However my suggestion is to just use an external SSD which are dirt cheap compared to SD cards (128GB for 26€).
>and two and a half decades of accumulated performance tuning.

Or two and a half decades of performance neglect.

I've read about things like dicts, sort and the like getting faster implementations, but I've never seen a big effort to make CPython faster in general. In fact the first versions of 3.x were even allowed to regress to slower than 2.x.
I just had a read, and found it to be informative. The article does not mention race or ethnicity and covers something useful which pertains to tech.

I absolutely do want to escape the politics, as I find the discussions only lead to anxiety and polarisation.
I do the same kind of things actually. I do not have ls alias with -a flag, and I do other thing like you mention, too. You are not alone here.
upholding national interests

'national interest' seems like a highly moveable feast.
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Not sure about the Tumblr one.

WordPress apparently powers 1/3 of websites. But I also know that a lot of webhosts powering those WP sites forbid any adult content. Why? For two reasons — the difficulty in policing it, just as Tumblr had. But more importantly, the web host industry is built on people paying for resources that remain unused (massive overselling).

Adult sites actually use the resources; bandwidth being the primary (which is a lot cheaper than it used to be), but now that video porn is ubiquitous, the processing needed to transcode and deliver video is immense.

Which is likely why almost all porn is centralized now at a few top sites, that fund their operations through deals with porn creators or some kind of upper tier subscription.
The problem (IMO) isn't your suggestion that marginalized people be taught to use and understand General American, it's that you characterize speaking Black English as a pathology.

It can be important to speak the prestige language if one wants to advance in society, but it's not a medical problem to speak a local dialect. Would you advise an aspiring London barrister from Yorkshire to see a therapist or watch some YouTube videos on RP?
The state of play on visa-free travel to the EU post-Brexit
>We’ve had almost three decades to optimize CPython

Assuming that was actively pursued. But if it was, all those other projects (Unladden Swallow, Dropbox's Python project, PyPy, etc, whose intend was exactly to make Python faster, wouldn't have been started).
That's just swapping one set of disadvantages for another.
True.. the reverse is true too. If a defendant wants to spend more than the state the defendant should be required to make the difference vs they are spending.
Ask HN: Is it possible the US isn't breaking up GOOG and FB due to secret deals?
This topic is everywhere and it's hard not to wonder about as I type this from inside Chrome with a deactivated Facebook account that is still probably somehow collecting data.
Korea will invest $40M in quantum computing over next 5 years
TRT?
Theoretically we can't distinguish them. But then again, if CCTV shows a hooded guy exiting your shop's front door at 4 am, it would be safe to assume that the same guy entered the shop some time before that, even though theoretically it could be an alien lifeform teleported into your shop out of thin air.

It's never aliens. (Until we actually find them, of course.)
Being exposed to political facts does not make them not political, although they are indeed facts if they are facts.
Apparently the word "useless" itself, from what you're saying
"killall - kill all active processes killall is used by shutdown (1M) to kill all active processes not directly related to the shutdown procedure "

So, intended for use by shutdown(1M) and nothing else. It's basically a completely different utility to the Linux one. They just happen to, unfortunately, share the same name.
Just like this one.
I rarely type ls; I have l aliased to something like ls -lAhFvN
https://everysecond.fwd.us/downloads/EverySecond.fwd.us.pdf (for those who dislike PDF, the report also is on https://everysecond.fwd.us, but I find it unnavigable):

”adults age 18 to 29 reported having had a parent incarcerated at more than twice the rate of respondents from other age groups (34 percent compared to 14 percent)”

That doesn’t quite answer your question, but it seems likely to be closer to that 34% than to that 14%, unless older people somehow forgot that their parent went to jail in their youth (the numbers are from “online and phone surveys”), or the younger respondents exaggerated.
> The system would probably adjust to fit crimes worth going after.

Or reinterpret what a "speedy trial" is (as would juries)
He doesn't. He just thinks it's a stupid idea.

There's a mature 30 year old codebase, with huge industry update and tons of major players using it, and some random project to rewrite it in a new fashionable language, that will more likely than not go nowhere (as 99% of such attempts do) and be abandoned when the committers lose interest and recognize how big the full task is.
pest isn't a parser combinator. It also uses a grammar file.
PA-RISCs lacking support for any meaningful support for any atomics except TAS (one with weird alignment reqs) forced me to add an atomics emulation layer to postgres. So I somewhat hate it now ;)
FWIW, gene testing may never be able to predict the exact odds, since some of the diseases heavily depend on environmental factors (what you eat, how much you exercise, how much you're exposed to carcinogens and sun, etc). In other words, the real distribution here is _posterior_, whereas the best 23andMe can do is somewhat accurately predict the _prior_. FWIW, my analysis from years ago seems to match the specific health issues my parents are now having in their late 60s. I haven't done the test for them, so it's not like 23andMe just cheated by randomly throwing in the answers from their health questionnaire. I now bring those up with my physician and optometrist and have them check for signs of disease.

What baffles me is why they aren't doing it themselves. A full genome sequencing (!) costs just $1k. I pay more than that for health insurance every month.
Why should non-desktop applications follow the XDG standard? Even for applications designed for "desktop" use, the standard is questionable IMO. After all, the "Desktop" folder that OP is complaining about is an XDG recommendation.
It's tough to value the difference between a Python programmer with 5 years experience and 10 years experience.

The second is not worth 2x the first... but what's the delta?
If you aren’t going to accept Wikipedia’s definition of what politics is about then you ought not suggest that people look it up and use it.
I am on the fence about this. I think it sounds great in theory and it may even work for smaller companies. However, a problem I’ve encountered with this approach to engineering management is that it ignores what the managers need to do to develop and advance. My current company has a very similar role for managers. The problem is that for the managers to advance they have to make an impact to the wider org. So this leads to the craziest, most toxic politics I’ve ever seen. In my opinion, when managers can be judged on their ability to make good technical decisions, it leads to a more objective outcome when judging the performance of a manager.

My take is managers are there to support their engineers but also to make decisions when the team does not have consensus.
This is wonderful news to me. So broadly speaking I should be able to drop in replace cpython with pypy for my fairly not so special projects?

I have a Django app that does some heavy data serialization and I'm not yet ready to optimize those serializers in another language.

I can't wait to try this out.

Crumb. I didn't realise pypy is on 3.5.3. Loves me my f strings.
>and most of their programmers complained that it was like using Fortran for modern web development

That's because they weren't capable of appreciating a language outside of fads and posts to social media.
I've had the misfortune of knowing people who rejected the plea bargain. It's always a gamble of being found not guilty, because in the punishment phase, it's always 3x or more of the previous offer.
There is an incentive for the prosecutor to charge the defendant with as many crimes as possible, possibly felonies when misdemeanors are more appropriate. Let the defendant plead down to those misdemeanors, get a win, but at the same time deprive a scared defendant out of his right to a proper trial. Mandatory minimum sentencing makes this even worse for the defendant. Throw the dice with a potential three years behind bars on a felony, or take the deal and walk out after a few weeks but with a permanent record.
And yet, here you are.

Flag it if you hate it, and move on!
I’ve been using Linux long enough that things moving to the freedesktop specification disrupts my expectations. Plus, it’s not obvious that having to traverse the extra directory is worth it: it’s nice to be able to do vim ~/.prog<tab> and save a couple keystrokes when editing commonly edited config files.
I don't think "Silicon Valley" is the descriptor you are looking for here.

Intel and HP (where the people "supporting and incrementally enhancing" itanium hw & sw work) are very much Silicon Valley companies.
I don't know if you're trying some Socratic method thing here. Mind just telling me what your favoured hypothesis is, if that's the case?

It's obvious that religious beliefs have poor epistemological backing and (to me) idiotic to hold. But I'm curious if you've got some novel hypothesis for their existence.
Most of what we know about Rentech's strategies comes from Senate hearings regarding the sketchy things they do. The common theme is that they find strategies with fairly low returns (~3%), and very low risk. They then use massive (and illegal) amounts of leverage, as high as 16x, to turn those low risk, low return strategies into outstanding returns. James Simons and Robert Mercer are among the largest donors ever to both political parties, so it isn't much of a surprise that these hearings haven't really gone anywhere.

Of course it isn't just that simple. Leveraging a strategy should increase it's downside risk along with it's returns. But somehow Rentech does it while never actually experiencing that downside risk. That's their mathematical genius. And the fact that they employ so many brilliant mathematical minds leads me to believe that part may be real.

The latest Senate hearing link: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/REPORT-Abuse%20of...
Most of the universe is completely useless. And I mean unbelievably vast quantities of space and matter.
Apple lover 'fan boy', photographer (not professional but good enough to make money doing it). I think the thing the commercials don't make apparent is the concept of 'right tool for the job'. Just because something can be used to produce a particular product does not mean it's the most efficient or best way to produce that product. Of course you can do all of these things with the ipad and have a good product in the end. The question is will it take more time (than it should) and produce as good a product in the end as the dedicated tool etc? Most likely not. Not the point of what they are saying but you know if you need to mow a big lawn you'd rather not use a small mower you want a professional mower built for the task. Generally at least.
These are amazing! Thanks for pointing them out.
Yes it is news worthy for the same reasons facebooks role in the election was news worthy, the same reason Goldman Sachs behavior was news worthy in the 2008 great recession.

People hold these companies and their employees in such high esteem (to the point some people don’t thing articles should be published about their bad behavior, rather articles should be published about other firms hypothetically engaging in the same behavior if the companies in question didn’t).

At the end of the day the worlds biggest companies are willing to knowingly take money from foreign governments to illegally spread propaganda to influence elections, help firms sell drugs that literally end up killing people, and sell their own investment clients toxic assets while offloading their own position on the same assets.

You are right others may have engaged in the same behavior, but: 1. That’s not news worthy and 2. other firms likely would have actually suffered real consequences. Certain firms like Facebook and others continually receive bad press because they continually engage in bad behavior but keep on like it’s business as usual. In other words, the article is focused on McKinsey not because there is a grand conspiracy against McKinsey, but because McKinsey actually committed the bad acts the articles is about.
I've also just started reading 'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism'.

Some of my colleagues at work use the term 'digital native' to refer to (young) people who have grown up with ubiquitous computing. Next time someone says that, I should now perhaps say "oh, you mean, the wage slaves of the surveillance capitalists".
It's not marketed that way, but Soylent seems kind of similar in the bland-but-supposedly-healthy drink niche?
>In your first comment you disagree with me

Well, I was saying "You are making an assumption here that I don't think is justified. Anecdata: I for one don't believe it." The way you were writing, you didn't seem to realize you were making that assumption, but that it was the plain truth, so I was letting you know.

>In your second comment, you are asking a question to a question

Your question seemed to be rhetorical, i.e. you were assuming that being off-topic renders comments valueless. If it wasn't rhetorical - No, I really don't think "off-topic" comments are valueless. (Besides that being not a clear-cut category, value on one side of the line, valueless on the other)

>all comments (short form or long form) if they are on topic, provide value to the post at hand.

Well, that's doesn't seem tru either - quite a few are downvoted and flagged for being abhorrent, or devoid of value etc. Maybe you get value from each and every on-topic comment. But that's different from what you were saying earlier, which is assuming that quality=on-topic and off-topic=valueless, and asking what to do about that problem. I was questioning your assumptions, because they don't sound right to me. (e.g. The only good response to "What do we do about the aliens making crop circles?" is to question the assumptions made.)
Google does a decent job w/ non-standard app stores. They have permissions that allow other apps to act as a trusted app store without opening the system up entirely.

I agree that Google Play Services is not competition friendly, but that is a different topic.
TransUnion, for one.
Consider the Cavendish banana. We understand it pretty well. We still can't save it. Same thing here.
I put away about three gallons of milk a week. I just drink a lot of it (and obviously lactose intolerance isn't a problem). I can't ever stomach these.

My wife, on the other hand, budgets her lactose intake, prefers lactose-free milk (which I find unpleasantly sweet), and will readily drink almond and soy milks which I can't stand. But I'm firmly ready to believe that I'm the dinosaur here.
Itanium was created precisely because HP thought it couldn't keep PA-RISC competitive. So they threw in with Intel to create the next great server architecture.

As an aside, Merced too forever for Intel to tape out. Part of the agreements between HP and Intel was that they needed to ship chips for HP. As a result, Intel had to fab some of the last PA-RISC chips due to the schedule slip and contractual obligations.

I worked on some Itanium system software once upon a time.
Not having to learn 2 languages and duplicate efforts for starters...
The system's not fair and is favored to those with the most money. Government has unlimited money.
Curious what the general story on Rust <=> Python interop is like now (beyond writing a Python interpreter in Rust). I'd checked out rust-cpython a couple years ago, and I see there's now PyO3, but I just looked at some code samples and it seems like they're a long way away from the convenience that you get with CFFI + C code, boost::python, or even SWIG. Anyone have experience writing Python extensions in Rust or embedding a Python interpreter into a Rust program? Could you comment on how hard the process was and how robust the result is?
You’re describing the civil court system.
It's not paranoia when someone's actually out to get you;) And the web is convenient even taking reasonable precautions.
Plus, the backwards compatibility issues of changing standardized pathnames has a pretty high cost in terms of updating existing shell scripts and such.
I'm sure there's no middle aged programmers working at defense contractors build unethical things.
Maybe that is something interesting to look at? Cap the punishment to some lower multiple of any plea bargain offered?
I've had a good experience with Verizon in rural areas in New England and Virginia/West VA. I used to use T-Mobile, and lose coverage frequently, but now I can go days without losing signal, even in the middle of nowhere.
Actually I was referring to manual translation of Python code to Rust. My experience with PyPy has been rather bad, unfortunately (it runs my code at less than half the speed of CPython) and I figure human translation should be a lot more effective than JIT optimization.
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No, there are more recent updates:

https://www.vmssoftware.com/updates_port.html
This is a pretty good review of both books.

Having read both books I'd say that if you haven't read Factfulness it is definitely worth it, indeed I'd say it's one of the best books I've read in years. It's interesting that this review concentrates on Pinker's views of various things, in particular the actual 'Enlightenment' and spends little time discussing much of the focus of Factfulness.

Pinker's book is still worth a read, but perhaps after reading a book just on The Enlightenment.

The central point of both books that the world has become much better over the past two centuries is really important.
> they’re not going to bring a wealth of refined wisdom as much as quirky opinions from years of subtle misunderstandings and past experiences that are irrelevant in the current context

Might be just me, but that sounds like an ego problem more than anything. And it can come from either direction, too:

* It might be that an experienced engineer is looking down on his (it's usually a he) younger peers on grounds that "look kid, I've been around a lot and know better".

* It might also be that the youngsters don't recognize, because of their lack of experience, that these past experiences actually are relevant in the current context.
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What they're saying in this case, however, is that they will not pay a covered claim. That's why people are up in arms about it. Cyber war is their euphemism for yes we should pay this but we won't. It's a preposterous and ridiculous claim and everyone here knows that. So the question stands: why would anyone buy insurance from this company that won't pay out covered claims like the malware in the article? I don't care how public or big this company is, after this case, you'd have to be insane to continue paying them when to them any run of the mill cyber attack is an act of war that they won't pay. Are you going to pay theranos now for their blood testing kits? No. The trust has been lost. Then why pay this company for insurance against cyber attacks when they've proven they won't pay the covered claim? The trust has been lost there too.
Meh. This is tripe for a slow news day.

1. OH NO! SUNLIGHT OFFGASSING!

2. OH NO! CIGAR SHAPED!

3. OH NO! TOO FAST AND WE MISSED IT!

4. OH NO! UNANNOUNCED ARRIVAL!

5. OH NO! THE MATH IS HARD! I CAN’T TELL IF IT ALL ADDS UP!

Taken together, none of these things are confusing or cause for concern, until you introduce the joirnalistic willingness to ask questions like “Do you believe in ghosts???”

Take an event with large gaps of direct knowlege, inject speculative anxiety cutouts tat fit neatly inside the huge gaping holes of the narrative, and selectively avoid alternative theories that could supply a less emotionally charged conclusion.
Why do papers collaborate with the government in this way? I don't see what they would have to gain, it's not like they're getting paid.
That might be the point of the article, but that wasn’t the point that I was discussing. Perhaps you missed my point. I don’t communicate with the legal system using the same language used to communicate with my peers. Why should anyone else expect to?
Flagging it would be inappropriate, it doesn't violate the guidelines.

The appropriate response to a story you don't want to participate in is not to participate in it. Stories can also be hidden.
A Thread from Walt Mossberg Explaining the Facebook/Apple Dispute
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I've been converted to the "add peripherals" side, personally. The standards are developed enough and the selection is broad enough to dial in whatever balance of price, portability, ergonomics and device features is desired - at the extreme end, a USB OTG hub connecting your full size mechanical keyboard, MMO mouse, graphics tablet, game controllers, and flash drives, and at the other, pocket folding Bluetooth keyboards and mini mice. It turns a phone or tablet into "just a screen" - a viable entry level workstation only held back by software and processing capacity.
> because SSH key auth was “too hard for our devs”

This always kills me; the worst part is that keys are easier to use after you take 5 minutes to set them up once!