skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, these are all very shallow forks that mostly “just” change UI. That guy doesn’t understand what nontrivial means.
Her father had the family business stolen from him by communists so that influenced her works.

Do you think there will be a strike lead by a John Gault type person? All the competent people leave or go on strike and let the incompetent take their place and have train wrecks?
This is interesting, but I think it's important to note one thing. Susceptibility to fake news != rate of believing fake news. This experiment seems to have measured susceptibility.

>For instance, in the first study stories were either favorable or unfavorable about either former President Barack Obama or current President Donald Trump. Favorable stories reported that the target had donated $50 million of their personal fortune to selected charities, while the unfavorable stories reported that the target was facing criminal charges related to voter fraud in the 2016 Presidential election. Participants then made "legitimacy judgments" of each story, rating how much they believed the story to be true, reliable, and trustworthy.

I'm pretty left-wing, so my biases would presumably lead me to believe the favorable story about Barack Obama, and disbelieve the favorable story about Donald Trump. [1] How does that work out in practice? Well, at first glance it seems pretty accurate. Trying my best to abstract away from the context of this study, I'd give about 2% credence to the story about Trump, and maybe 35% to the story about Obama (does Obama even have $50M of personal wealth?). Hypothesis confirmed, right!? Not exactly.

It's true that I'm answering these questions according to my existing beliefs about each politician. But those beliefs aren't simply the result of "bias". I came to those beliefs for reasons. For example, I know that Trump is infamously stingy. [2] Him donating 50 million in personal wealth would be a real shock to me, and for good reason. I know a bit less about Obama, but I don't have a strong reason to think he's stingy, and I do vaguely recall some news indicating that he has made a number of large charitable donations. [3]

So yes, both liberals' and conservatives' judgments are based on their beliefs, and if you put those people in a position where they have to use those beliefs to judge claims in the absence of other evidence, they are liable to believe lies. But one of these groups believes the truth - that Obama is more charitable than Trump - and the other does not. In other words, much of the liberal susceptibility to fake news can be explained simply by pointing at the justifiably higher credence they have in many pro-liberal stories.

[1] I'm relatively well informed, so I'd give ~0% credence to either story about criminal charges. But if one of these stories were true, it would probably be true about the person who's already under investigation for his actions in the 2016 election.

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-boasts-of-his-...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/02/06/obama-d...
I always thought that the primary quality measured by this popular interviewing style is "being-like-your-interviewer" which leads naturally to the avalanche effect due to which the practice becomes even more popular within the company and simply common sense after a while. The interesting part, to me, is how exactly similar the methodologies should be for companies different by size and domain. Even if you assume that some flavour of technical interview worked for Microfaceboogle, it might as well kill a copycat company (or may be completely irrelevant to its success or failure).
Biggest difference is Coda's constant 20kb vs still at least a few hundred megabytes for Vault. This matters because it helps in making cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency apps usable by people from their phones and browsers, at 20kb with Coda that's actually possible.

I haven't looked particularly into if any consensus / security assumptions are different either with Vault, but that could be another place for them to get down to a few hundred MBs without zero knowledge proofs.
The utterly unbelievable scale of U.S. debt right now
To my mind, the more likely explanation is that they would simply get too many false positives if they didn't use the algorithm stuff to filter potential hires. You lose a lot of potentially good hires that way, but the pool you're left with are all of a certain intelligence level. Whereas, if you don't use the algorithm stuff to filter, it's really hard to figure out who is even intelligent enough to do the job.
Ironically, if the Republicans hadn't called nearly every Obama era initiative "socialism", it might still have the negative connotations it used to.

As more and more people realize that "socialism" doesn't mean "repressive totalitarian government paired with top down government control of the market", cries of "that's socialism" when talk is raised of raising tax rates back to what they were under Reagan will be less effective.

Simply put, when Americans think of socialism, they think of Sweden, not Soviet Russia - and it's all thanks to Fox News.
Views of Rand didn't shift quickly. There have been a massive amount of people with a negative view of Rand. You just probably weren't exposed to people within your own social circle.

I didn't like The Fountainhead, and there were parts that I hated but I didn't really invest much emotionally in that book. It was only when I started meeting people who loved her writing and what she advocated for that I really started to hate her.

Truth be told I don't hate her as much as I hate what she represents.
> An alpha male with a huge stick.

No, you want to believe you're an alpha male. If you have to keep proving it every day it's not true.

You're acting out because you're insecure as hell and you're trying to prove to yourself that you're an "alpha male". A big part of being secure in your own opinions is letting other people be wrong sometimes.

At some point nothing you can say will stop them. Now you have to switch over to contingency plans. If you're absolutely sure it's going to break if they do it that way, then you need something more constructive than 'I told you so'. People trust you when you pull their fat out of the fire multiple times. Not when you dick wave at them.

> and in a way that I contemplated quitting the industry. I was too dumb for all this.

No, you're not too dumb. You're just wound tighter than a kettle drum. What you need, and I'm being sincere here, is a therapist, not another book on code styles.

We all have our histamine reactions to different things. While you're worried about 5 things someone else is worried about 3 others, one of which you never even thought of. I would hate to be on a team where everyone only cared about exactly the things I care about. My priorities help find issues faster but I don't find them all myself. A team of me would be almost as lopsided as the things I push back against. I try to remind myself that when I'm having trouble with feeling like my #1 priority is someone else's #15 or NaN.
Was the Udacity Self-driving course good?
If you call this firm a “patent troll,” it might sue for defamation
> Are you saying the number of transactions the market will demand of a system is independent of the trust of the system

No. I'm saying that if a 51% attack is practically impossible today, the increasing amount of energy consumed to secure the same amount of transactions is wasted. It's also a sign that the system is broken because the amount of energy consumed has no practical impact on security. Reasoning otherwise would suggest it is justified to consume infinite energy because that would be infinitely secure.
I think slowly they will get there with phones. Camera arrays with 3-5 sensors will be common on phones in 1-2 years.

That way you get to keep lens sizes very small, but your effective sensor size is quite large, and you can do a lot of other cool computational photography tricks with multiple sensors.
These same employers (famously) had a cartel that prohibited job hopping before - the Jobs/Schmidt email - so it’s not surprising that the system would trend toward the same equilibrium again.
Cool idea. Do you see yourself using this in Oculus or Vive?

Btw the Supermedium guys are great. I think they worked on A-Frame, which was really key to making this.
Bottled beer does start to acquire off flavors over time
Grin is PoW and this seems to be PoS though.
Here is also a lesser known open source project that demonstrates the use of proof-of-stake for energy efficiency, combined with a fixed-width directed acyclic grah with transaction sharding for parallelization.
Furthermore, "final" and "stale" blocks are dynamically forgotten to increase storage efficiency.

It achieves 10,000 tx/s on chain and transaction times below 1 minute.

https://blockclique.io/
> burn the plastic

Sure but that could still mean that it makes sense to sort it? Can you burn plastic trash more efficiently than mixed burnable material I wonder..?

Also, one big reason that we have less landfills (I'm pretty sure I've heard that we have at least some for some particular purposes) - is that we do a lot of incineration. We even import from neighbour countries.
The things you mentioned completely makes sense. People won't be confident to go out on a dinner with a complete stranger. I think 'bumble' is more of a digital Saide Hawkins but that suffers from the problem of scouring through hundreds of profiles.

What if instead of a completely blind date, we just match two people based on parameters and let them talk? This is a bit like other apps where people talk to each other before meeting them in real life. (And you also get only 1 match a week to encourage people to take things seriously)
I think most of your concerns could be answered fairly quickly in a conversation, though. I can look over a Github repo and check out its history and ask specific questions about changes and why they were made or why design decisions were made.

The cherry-picked successes thing is certainly a problem, though, and not just for coding. Maybe it's the candidates I've asked it but when asked "tell me about when you made a mistake in a project" they tend to answer with a strength and try to re-frame it as a weakness. "Oh, I worked too hard on this project and it made me tired" isn't a weakness. "I worked too hard on this project and that made me neglect business requirements since I was too myopic to notice" is a weakness.

Sorry if that's a tangent, it's been a pet peeve of mine since I started interviewing that not many people are humble enough or have thought enough about what their weaknesses actually are, and how that affects the success of their work.
I am sure the fines currently cost less than keeping the accessibility features.
This seems like it's maybe a useful corrective for 18 year olds who have a black and white view that Atlas Shrugged is a practical guide to an ideal society, but it's not a particularly insightful commentary on actual US politics. Paul Ryan did not want to stop building roads or defund the police. The United States is very far from Honduras, and Honduras does not mean that it's a bad idea to move at the margin in a more laissez fair direction.

I think that the downfall of Sears has a lot more to do with Amazon than Ayn Rand.
Ehh… does it kind of suck? The ABI of libc's syscall wrappers is basically "here's some ELF symbols to call with some arguments using the operating system's preferred calling convention". The only really "C" thing about it, other than the name, is struct layouts of various arguments.
Samsung's Galaxy NX range ran Android but failed to gain mass adoption. I think there is a niche market for this and hope someone else takes it up - apparently Yongnuo has one coming.
If everyone is giving examples, of LD_PRELOAD — it has serious production use at scale in HPC, particularly for profiling and tracing. Runtimes such as MPI provide a layer designed for instrumentation to be interposed, typically with LD_PRELOAD (e.g. the standardized PMPI layer for MPI). Another example is the entirely userspace parallel filesystem that OrangeFS (né PVFS2) provides via the "userint" layer interposing on Unix i/o routines. That sort of facility is a major reason for using dynamic linking, despite the overheads of dynamically loading libraries for parallel applications at scale. I'm not sure if a solution could be hooked in with LD_PRELOAD, but Spindle actually uses LD_AUDIT: https://computation.llnl.gov/projects/spindle
Deep learning may need a new programming language
I've done some fairly intense Spark turning.

We were able to get a query that took 16 hours to 4 seconds. This took a long time, and included changing how the data was stored etc.

Anyway, fast Spark performance is possible but it is very sensitive to tuning (this was in ~2016, so maybe things have improved).
> We need fewer coders and more money makers.

This only works in a relatively small niche, like consulting bodyshop where billable hour is the only metric.

A coder that works on some internal software, database, in infosec, design is not making any money. A game developer who created a beautiful realistic-looking reflection, a web designer that eliminated possibility of XSS attack, an embedded engineer that spent extra week designing FADEC in such a way that race conditions cannot freeze it, how much money did they make?
Also that last line, "The government wants the ability to throttle communication when necessary (see Pulwama terrorist attack )" is exactly the kind of slippery slope that no democracy should head down.
Still blue screen for me after typing in a handle on iOS.
I know they are extremely lacking, but compared to that a hyper-fancy NN with layers and layers of the darkest of black magic, trained at the zenith of the night for thousands of man years in the crypts of the terror itself, the TPU ... yeah, so it's not surprising it's better.

But it's no symbolic reasoning. It's not constructing a counter-argument from your argument. It simply lives off previous epic rap battles of internet flamewar history about .. well, about anything, since it's the Internet, and people like to chat, talk, write essays on every topic there is. Satire too. So there is always something to build that lang model on.

Though that will come too. Eventually.
One of the main benefits of science is being able to make perceptible to humans phenomena that are usually imperceptible. We can look at planets millions of light years away. With microscope we can see tiny microscopic crittters we didnt know existed a few hundred years ago. Before the discover of evolution and geology it was believed that the earth was basically unchanging, but those theories allowed us to detect changes to the earth that took place on the scale of millions and tens of millions of years.

I preface my comment this way because I believe you essentially saying are saying that the effects of climate change must be more perceptible to your body, unaided by the scientific reasoning and measurement that allows us to perceive things on larger time scales and to a finer degree. For example, 1F of temperature rise over 50 years is probably barely perceptible to an astute human without the aid of precise measurement and analysis. However on the time scales of geology, evolution, and climate, it is extremely perceptible and extremely alarming.
Interesting. Are you thinking like a 3D Dropbox or 3D Finder/Explorer?
64-way SIMD implementation of the DES cipher(1997) [pdf]
> You’re probably locked in a school system with bad teachers and

It's worse than that. You're probably locked in a broken family with bad parent(s). When your parent(s) don't care about your education because they are uneducated themselves, are poor role models (addicts, etc.), THAT sets you up for the failure fast track.

No amount of money going to schools and teachers can fix that at scale unless you basically make the school a boarding school and replace the parents with mentors and role models at said boarding school.
Why can't it be done using Permutation and Combination formula? I am bad at dynamic programming so can't really get into the solution right now?
If 99% of Bitcoin's hashrate gets taken off the internet, it keeps going without any problem. That's the beauty of a decentralized cryptocurrency. There's no central node and it's supremely fault tolerant.

Algorand has a lot of interesting technology and may have some use cases. But it's more like a distributed database / voting system than a true cryptocurrency.
> Am I cast aspersions or just stating facts?

Your previous comment was attributing without evidence, actions of malice by descriptive but undefined third parties. That is the definition of "casting aspersions."

"Stating facts" would start with something like, "See this evidence that Google's policies were changed by <corporate entity> or <person or persons>."

Since you are doing the former, and not the latter, I conclude that the answer to your question is that yes, you are casting aspersions.
Coq, can't get enough of it!
This is good news, unless we pull viable fusion power out of your asses in the next 20 years I don't see any way to power our world without nuclear power.

Sure, we can replace our current day electrical needs with solar panels, but there are many non-electrical energy sources, primarily chemical, that we utilize from fossil fuels and other mined minerals.

Fertilizer for example, it uses a good portion of our world's total power needs, but at the same time we are only inputting a fraction of the power required to produce it via electrical means. There is a ton of potential energy utilized chemically from fossil fuels, which in most cases for fertilizer production is natural gas. The carbon from that natural gas usage ends up in the environment just the same as burning it. There are ways to not use natural gas, we can seperate elements from the air and from water, but that takes like 100x more electrical energy to do. The same for plastics, solvents, and pretty much anything else in the world that relies on some sort of chemical processes, so pretty much everything.

So to truly become a renewable powered world, our estimates for the green energy production needed are woefully inadequate. Multiply the amount of solar panels required to power the world by 10, now how reasonable does it sound? Pretty much every industry in the world is limited in some way by energy production and in many cases we aren't going to achieve any truly meaningful gains in efficiencies because of course there is a physical limit.

The only power source I can see that can compete with our requirements, nuclear power. Right now that means uranium, in the future maybe we will have thorium or whatever exotic shit, but uranium power production is well known and well studied. The only problem with uranium power production, open pit mining, all the rest are mostly relics from running 50 year old plants and technologies that we haven't been able to replace due to political barriers. The safety problems with nuclear plants are based almost entirely on the fact that we are running the equivalent of Model-Ts for power and criticizing their crash safety, while refusing to build new shit. The Fukushima plant for example was built in the 60s based on designs from the 50s, it was designed basically 15 years after nuclear power was first discovered. And here we are now 70+ years later still using that same old shit. Imagine comparing a car from the 40s to a car built today, they aren't even in the same realm of engineering and safety and the 40s car already had decades of design improvements.
> What, like homebrew? :)

Context for everybody else: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?lang=en

TL;DR: author of Homebrew interviews at Google, but doesn't get hired because he couldn't/wouldn't invert a binary tree on a whiteboard.
How different is BlazingSQL to Uber's AresDB[0]?

[0]https://eng.uber.com/aresdb/
Understood - I wasn't really serious! However, when I worked in the City back in the late nineties/early two thousands I lived in Islington (20ish minute walk, one stop on the tube) first, and then EC1 (10 minutes or less walking) and although you're right about paying more, as a contractor for a bank, it was still affordable. Plus, I never needed a season ticket, I could pop home for lunch, and it was an interesting area (near Hoxton, Shoreditch, and so on) to live. Admittedly I was much younger and not married, which would definitely change your priorities...
Isn't that trend a bit worrying? I'm not an American but it reminded me of (the little I know about) the segregationist policies before the Civil rights movement.
Yeah, there's no argument, but there's calling it a "debunking effort" right out of the gate. I think that's called a bald assertion? Anyway, that there's a claim, but no argument to support it, doesn't make it neutral. That it's slipped in right at the beginning and then not returned to and elaborated on doesn't make it better. To instead pick one sentence from the first Google result of the university the author is at isn't exactly checking the quality of the source, either, that just removes it further from that slipped in bald assertion and the article itself.

> Like it or not … when an institution positions themselves like that, it makes me wonder a little bit about whether they really can support unbiased environmental science

Maybe the university can't, maybe the author pulls it off regardless. Has anyone ever seen someone do good work at a shitty company? It wouldn't quite work to say "can anyone tell me if someone who studies or teaches at a university with a questionable line of PR on website can possibly be unbiased about environmental science?", the answer is something like "of course that's possible, to the extent that any human can be free of bias.. to give a useful answer maybe tell me what person and more importantly what research are you thinking of?", which would bring us to a point at which the comment never arrived.

But if someone just "wonders", then it's supposedly not okay to ask them to make up their mind before they post, or at least say what is keeping them from doing so. It's like "I'm not entirely sure I'm convinced most people would agree that" and other phrases, it does imply something, as faintly as it may be, but with plausible deniability. Generally speaking I find that worse than even a direct false claim, which I can correct, in these instances it's like saying the emperor is naked, and people go "there is no emperor, how rude".
Dude, who cares about the energy used. Just make MORE energy
How can you make a connection by guessing seq nr ? What is the firewall rule that allow such an attack ?
>are you making the point that ultimately, all authority derives from violence?

Authority is different from aggression. If Alice and Bob, ex ante, agree to have Mandy the mediator settle a contract they have willingly given her authority. Mandy's authority does not depend on a violation of two-party consent.

>they're simply not allowed to unload the ship or enter the country

The implicit action is that they'll be shot or imprisoned if the refuse to follow the orders.

If I own the dock and then the political establishment changes who I can associate with "Anyone except those foreign devils from Country B!" they have effectively stolen from me (called a Taking). I used to have a product that could do X and Y and now only X. Saying that I'm free to immigrate to a different country is theft apology.
There are other, more recent cases of acid or threat of it, eg [1], though I'd say acid attacks are not particularly common in Sweden. Many more cases in UK, for instance. There are more actual cases of defenestration ("falling from the balcony") in Sweden.

In any case the leak of health information is nothing to laugh at e.g. for those who live under threat of "honor violence".

[1] https://www.na.se/artikel/hallefors/man-i-hallefors-anhallen...
Or they are solving other problems and that's the reason why one believes a solution is bad and another one thinks it's the best.