skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem I'm taking with your comment is that while technically you're correct, it isn't meaningful.

We can always argue about semantics. ALWAYS. Every subject is so nuanced that you can spend hours upon hours better refining things. Hell, I've seen books on o-rings that are several times larger than graduate level textbooks on classical mechanics.

The point is that there's a certain amount of refinement that is "good enough".

Here's an example, using the paper you linked. They say that there is no significant difference between biological half-lives in the different sexes of rock fish. They show that males have 274+-39 days and females have 253+-37 (P=0.16). To be publishable in many journals you have to have p<=0.05. And there's a 15% error on those numbers (most likely due to small sample size). But we don't just throw the results out because they aren't "exact".

In our case at hand, we're talking about a radiation level that is __EXTREMELY__ small. Unless we want to write a textbook we have to generalize. Given that we're on a forum and not an academic setting, this should be expected. Convoluting the subject to make a point that you can say with certainty that the vast majority of marine life will not be significantly affected by these levels of radiation. Again, this is because the quantities are VERY VERY small.

And if you don't believe me, read the freaking report [0]. We're talking about levels that are only slightly above background levels. We're talking about a possible anomaly considering that several samples previously were still below background levels. This is the reason we can make this generalization of "yes it is that simple".

We can restate the report as "radiation approximately maintains background levels." If we read it this way it is clear that nothing would likely be in danger. That's why I can make this claim with high certainty. And I'm not having any of your fear mongering when the case is trivially provable.

tldr: Don't be "fun at parties" and read the report if you want to sound smart.

[0] https://seagrant.uaf.edu/bookstore/pubs/MAB-72.html
What about nuns? In Québec, education was a religious matter until the early 60s. Which meant some catholic schools required teachers to be nuns. When schooling became government-run back then, many nuns left their congregation when they could now teach in civilian clothes. This left a profound mark on Quebec's catholic population and its perception of itself.

I'm not saying it excuses or changes anything. But the fact of the matter is that at least in Quebec, there was a large group of Catholic women who abandoned their religious garbs to teach because they didn't have to be nuns to do so.
Global ‘collapse’ in number of new coal-fired power plants
resistFingerprinting does a lot of weird stuff that can't be individually toggled, though.
This type of industry-coin idea could work if it allows the professional to mint their own token, and the market knows how many they've put out, so buyers can judge i.e. can this entity do that much work?, and look at previous transaction reports. Then a service provider can decide to accept other's tokens, by way of agreements or market value. Chances are you wouldn't do that randomly, but through referral networks.

Whether this yields stability or profit or quality better than current systems, who can say? For dentists, I doubt it; for sex work and illicit trade, maybe; for freelance software development anything would be better...
Why, the existence of noncompetes is exactly free market in action. "Competition" != free market.
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I've seen it, it's real bad.

They say a lot of things that "feel true" if you're disaffected, surround it with pseudo-intellectualism, and then tell you who you're now better than.
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Since this is implemented by a neural network, maybe all you have to do to obtain that is train it with different voices.
This study is a bit silly, I had to check whether it was an April Fool's joke. The chipset running the instructions is going to have a far higher impact on energy usage than the language compiling those instructions.

For instance, switching to ASICs or even FPGAs that are optimized to handle certain types of computations.

Just look at datacenters or mobile devices. Sure, optimizations are made to runtime environments to improve performance, and increase battery life. But you are going to see bigger gains through chip architecture. And that is what vendors focus on.
I'm basically assuming five minutes to read the script, negligible time to change it, and another five to make sure it worked.
I think you forgot one ;)

- A native GUI: https://github.com/revery-ui/revery
Wow, this totally explains why Torvalds has taken care to become so polite lately, almost to excess. We used to just blame the usual sort of SV-driven "woke" politics, but really-- who would ever want to be mistaken for one of those guys? The stuff that's reported in this article is surprisingly damning, not even due to the sexism itself but the extent to which ego-driven behavior seems to be supplanting any sort of real professionalism among that group.
Yup, that's a known bug. It will be fixed in the next release. I've already done the leg work to fix it, and it should be on master soon. My local copy of ripgrep can now search with my local /usr/share/dict/words as exact patterns just as fast as grep.
Gigs seem to fall into a couple categories: one group of clients has heard all the buzz and wants to get in on the action, without really knowing much about it.

The more serious types are indeed protective of their data, intellectual property, and processes. I have even seen paranoia around leveraging open source frameworks (Tensorflow, Pytorch) out of fear of their sponsor corporations coming for the client... not sure I see the logic on that one, but whatever.

Whenever I don't have much success in a venture, I try to look inward to see what I'm doing wrong. I suspect that there is a fair amount I have to learn about getting good gigs and being successful in the freelance game. Unfortunately, it's one of those "have to learn the hard way" type of things.
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i am new to the per-developer branching model. for those that practice this; my question is, why don’t developers just fork the repo?
Interesting. I just looked more into this, and it seems to depend on what performance regime we are measuring speed in. It seems like recumbants are always heavier, which makes them worse on hills, but extremely optimized recumbants with aerodynamic shells are lower drag on flat ground. From an agility perspective, uprights always win, which is probably the closer analogy for "cycle speed" that Handle cares about.

Thanks for teaching me something :)
From the article:

> Compass states 5,644 properties were sold in the city last year, 2,208 of those were single family properties and software employees represented more than half of the buyers.

10,000 home buyers would take 2 years to consume all SF properies and 4 years to consume single family homes.
It's a little sad to watch someone jump through hoops to try to please the people behind EasyList, when I sure don't see anything about country-of-hosting in EasyList's policies. Especially when almost nobody actually cares about the other members of the Five Eyes or the Enemies of the Internet in these discussions, but just knee-jerks about US hosting.
No it's not. I mean... what are you even talking about? There are hundreds of remote-only or remote-first companies that hire new remote hires.
Seeing to the amount of transactions running over cobol it might deserve a place in a list like this.
Looks like you'll have to wait a long time.
For example on a server the CPU will likely be set at full thrust even if it has nothing to do. So I don't think this matters until you need to scale, where you would need less servers/power with a more optimized program.
The big question in my life is whether an app can succeeed in 2019 without manipulating user psychology like this.

I built Pony [0], an email platform that delivers once a day, to see if this is possible. In the UI I eschewed every traditional user manipulation technique I could think of: there are no notifications, there are no unread message counts. There even isn’t read/unread message state.

I truly wonder whether people can adapt to a totally unstructured online platform, an unguided, unprompted experience that they create for themselves. My bet is they can.

[0]: https://www.pony.gg
Read the second half of his comment and ask what percentage of the Linux kernel source would be excluded by file type rules versus other projects. I mostly work on web and data archival projects and ripgrep is noticeably seconds (or more!) faster because it can skip images, archives, etc.

If you’re talking about the core algorithm, it’s not that much faster but the clever adjustments for common patterns and modern CPU architectures also counts for real world results. It’s just important to be precise so people know there hasn’t been some fundamental breakthrough in searching.
Agreed. I think the important thing is to recognize the diminishing returns of money on genuine human needs
He didn't say whether the rate of rotation was measured over time. It's possible the rate was decaying and the 150nA supplied was not a net positive.
I believe this study has been pretty thoroughly debunked.

There is no known (statistical) upper bound to how much more money helps people’s happiness. It’s just that it increases happiness logarithmically, and people are bad at reasoning about logarithmic growth.

Individual people may feel like they have enough, and not wish for more money, and that’s great. But when you look at happiness and satisfaction statistics (notably, not the same thing), the greater your windfall, the greater your long term happiness.
Unicode is a PITA. In Hyperscan, it's not pretty what gets generated for a bare \w in UCP mode if you force it into an NFA (it's rather more tractable as a DFA, even if you aren't lazily generating, although of course betting the farm that you can always 'busily' generate a DFA isn't great).

I've always thought that a better job of doing NFAs (Gluskov or otherwise) and staying bit-parallel would be done with having character reachability on codepoints, not bytes, generally remapping down to 'which codepoints make an actual difference'. This sounds ugly/terrifying, but the nice thing is that remapping a long stream of codepoints could be done in parallel (as it's not hard to find boundaries) and with SIMD. Step by step NFA or DFA work is more ponderous as every state depends on previous states.
Well ya the more times you roll the dice the more likely you are to land on the numbers you want. But lets not pretend its about just rolling the dice as much as possible...

Be a tenured serial entrepreneur with rubber stamps from popular VCs and tech firms that will set you up on easy street to get funding, hire, or acquired. From there not only is it easier to exit, but you can just use the funding to buy some (or all) of the success you're after. Finally your risk tolerance is massive because you can just stumble into a very well-payed engineering/executive position even if you shit the bed.

There's no doubt been a lot of note-worthy tech created by Niantic BUT how much of Pokemon GO's success is attributable to its ability to purchase and/or network-into via Google connections the Pokemon IP? You know that internationally viral brand that was already itching for a new game?

I think its disingenuous to push entrepreneurs to burnout BEFORE they learn the inner-workings of a heavily slanted system. Arguably suffering is the best way to learn it, but having gone through it myself I think there should be a better way.
The company does not own your brain; using experience with a system for hacking that system (on devices you own) is not illegal, nor should it be.

Remember also that the entire concept of intellectual property is a legal fiction created to prop up revenue streams, as well.
Also, housing is always the majority of what "cost of living" even means.
I don't get the 'all' part. If they're brothers then one being related means they'd all be related.
> I don't know if you're being serious or not, but some things are time sensitive, and a slow or underpowered response can be fatal.

And so can a hasty, under-/mis-informed, and/or overpowered response.
That's not all one might want to do the structured out.

Think of converting to HTML, as one example.
... and no, I don't know of any fast Thompson NFA simulations, but I don't see why they shouldn't be possible. They have a very simple "next" function, modulo the awfulness of getting past epsilons, but that seems to be roughly parallel to the awfulness of computing arbitrary 'next' functions in Glushkov-land. I'm not aware of anyone that's actually tried.
Is this the cost of restarting processes due to "let it crash" error handling?
Is he programming? I wonder if we'd all be doing exciting stuff like this if we didn't fall into the trap of programming.
Where exactly in the process of delivery are the majority of boxes not being supported from the bottom?
Hope that the cloud providers don't bill according to energy consumption. I like Python a lot...
Buying good will for 4 billion, that’s a lot of waste cause no one is paying you that when you are in trouble and need it

What I’m trying to say is your hypothesis is not correct
> Pony is the world’s first non-instant messaging platform

The postal service would like a word with you.
The ceptrum that takes up most of the bits (or the LSPs in other codecs) is actually a model of the larynx -- another reason why it doesn't do well on music. Because of the accuracy needed to exactly represent the filter that the larynx makes, plus the fact that it can more relatively quickly, there's indeed a significant number of bits involved here.

The bitrate could definitely be reduced (possibly by 50%+) by using packets of 1 seconds along with entropy coding, but the resulting codec would not be very useful for voice communication. You want packets short enough to get decent latency and if you use RF, then VBR makes things a lot more complicated (and less robust).
You're giving me flashbacks of Tesla's beleaguered engineering team.
I don't think Segways are exactly a great argument for practical design.
Nothing but a suitcase, centuries of slavery-generated wealth, and a swathe of the world's most resource-rich land ripped from its inhabitants by genocide and forced migration.
> this product isn't good enough,

And Mexico will pay for it

Don't trust a companies words at face value. This sounds like PR.

Wasnt profitable enough?
Just tested in the latest Chrome -- the page does take awhile to load, and doesn't jump to the linked section until right when the page finishes loading
I never used an Alpha, but somehow I fostered such an inflated impression of their performance that if someone told me today that their new i9 wunderbeast was almost as fast it would take a little while before I didn’t believe them.
Actually after dividends but after inflation too you're still negative I guess, hah.
Aren't the savings more in the type of application? For example, driving users to addictive content makes them use their phone more. Also, Bitcoin comes to mind.
No nee to switch to a fork for that. Tree Style Tab 2.x supports Firefox even after the switch to webextensions.

(Disclaimer: I work for Mozilla but not directly on the browser)
SF weather is neighborhood by neighborhood, with cold and foggy being ubiquitous only in the summer time, which is counterintuitive for tourists. It's anywhere from 58 to 72 degrees almost all times in parts of the city. Nice weather if you know where to look or have a particular preference.

So maybe thats just a secret for you?

But I do like areas that are warm at night time too, which SF is not.
Most of my life I've been self reliant. My thought process is that hard work pays off and that I can do anything I put my mind to. This often leads to some form of independence which I've learned is actually closer to isolationism.

I realized this by observing a good friend of mine. Whenever he wanted to learn something, he sought out an expert in that field and asked them for some of their time. Sometimes it was a golf lesson he paid for, sometimes it was a business leader he admired and just reached out to for some advice.

I immediately saw that I should strive to learn more collaboratively, through and with others.
What self respecting Nerd would work for Apple? serious question
It is both. There are plenty of places to have discussions online, sans a managed feed.
Are there any KT exeperts that can comment on the article?
Intel was one of the first companies reported to use stack ranking. If anything they had a reputation of firing too aggressively or for mundane reasons.
No idea, but I doubt it if they're testing with well defined algorithms. I can't imagine the tests throwing lots of errors.
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This is completely ridiculous. Housing is usually 33-60% of most people's discretionary budget.

The cost of housing can be drastically different depending on when you bought a house. And ESPECIALLY with prop 13 in California.

If n people live in an area, it doesn't mean n people can afford to live in the area at the CURRENT housing rate.

I think a lot of frustration comes from how insanely different 50% of your COL can be in the course of 3-5 years.

More money is wasted on credit cycles than any other human activity. Pretending everything is demonstratably fine is a joke.
The tf.layers API is Keras.
How did our ancestors survive such catastrophic conditions?
>Being extremely difficult to detect while also being outfitted with very high end sensors makes it almost certain that F-22s and F-35s are able to engage enemies on their own terms.

Agreed, and it's also very likely that the F-35 and F-22 would be leading and providing high quality targeting data to F-15s, F-16s, and F-18s, carrying dozens of long range air-to-air missiles.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a22355833...
https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/boeings-touts-new-16-air-t...
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>>The chance that police will escalate is highly unpredictable, though of course being a person of color adds considerably to that risk, as a fraudulent gun in the call will cause the police to hallucinate weapons with even greater frequency than usual.

Is there any actual evidence for this? People shouldn't throw around accusations of widespread racism so lightly.
Using an automobile is as much an irresponsible choice as using a cycle, and treating automobiles as an unchangeable environmental condition is ridiculous. Just because a majority of people do something doesn't make it right or good. Even then, only considering wealthy populations in isolation can drivers be a majority.
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No its not. The freedom to contract is nowhere to be found in the traditional libertarian view of rights to life liberty and property. In fact, libertarians (including those center libertarians in the republican party) consistently reject the ability for people to sign away their rights via contract.

You cannot claim in good faith that republicans support the 'freedom' to contract your rights away. Can you contract the rest of you labor away for a fixed sum (ie slavery)? Of course not. You have the grand ole party to thank for that too. The ethic is consistent
> Theoretically, I would assume those to be very close, since one compiles to the other.

I don't think that's a safe assumption. The Javascript results would be a lower bound (assuming the same algorithm, etc.), but there's no telling what "extra" Javascript (and thus overhead) might be inserted by the Typescript compiler.

As far as individual results go, there's no point jumping to conclusions when the results and code are available online and easy to try for yourself:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Typescript is still 2-3x slower than Node in several of the benchmarks, and the results could have been different in May 2018 when the article was written.
The author said in a sister thread[1] that for similar tasks the performance is comparable. ripgrep (and ag) both feel incredibly fast because they skip whole files and directories which are usually unwanted when searching.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19523263
Vulture, cannibalistic capitalism treats people like disposable cogs, not family. People gotta wise up and not work for such bastards, collectively bargain and get real co-op equity... otherwise working for random shops is playing Russian roulette with only one bullet missing.
It's neither entirely about rolling the dice nor about connections & rubber stamps, though those are part of the story.

Rather, the lesson I got from watching Niantic's story unfold is the importance of uncovering and correcting errors. You don't know the shape of the problem you're solving when you first venture off to become an entrepreneur. You'll discover that a lot of your assumptions were wrong. But when you discover that, if you're resourceful enough, you'll figure out an avenue for overcoming them.

In Niantic's case - the problem with Field Trip was that there wasn't really a point to it. The landmark histories were mildly interesting, but they didn't fit into what I was doing with my phone at any given time. So Ingress created a point by adding teams and game mechanics; they made the landmarks interesting by making visiting them the whole point of the game. And then the big problem with Ingress was the lack of that branding, and so they partnered with Nintendo to get the needed IP to make it a success.

Money certainly helps, but money alone doesn't create a successful startup unless deployed in an area that's preventing you from attaining success.
DARPA's mission is "to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security". Depending on how you view national security, you can make some easy arguments for DARPA investing money into sectors that help increase the nation's economy.
Can't we just force everyone to ride motorcycles? That would be a rare compromise that makes both sides happy!
Not unless you have EA-18Gs and EC-130s raising the noise floor along with lots of disposable drones cluttering the fire control RADAR. And more missile truck F-16s, F-18s, and F-15s carrying AGM-88s to supress/destroy the RADARs and MALDs to add more clutter and become seductive targets.
Yes, The F-35 is more like a EA-35.
Dollar cost average my guy. You would be golden by now.

Any study telling you that lump sum investing beats dollar cost averaging was only able to use a 30 year period of unprecedented and unreplicated global growth

DCA + Dividend Reinvesting + Covered Calls + a few years = Cost Basis of basically $0
Dinosaurs survived the extinction event as well[0]. Conditions may have been bad but not so bad that generalized forms couldn't survive.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_birds
Imo NES Tetris gets a bit too much attention, there's plenty of better Tetris games if you want to talk about speed (SEGA Tetris, TGM, clones like DTet or Cultris, and so forth.)
I feel like if we were to switch to a per-developer system we would end up with something similar to what you described in your last paragraph. But it would develop organically after the system is setup. So by the time we notice that we're back to a per-feature system it'll be too late to change back.....

We ARE using Git, the main reason why I'm dealing with this issue is that someone was tasked to merge different branches and they almost merged incorrect branches because of the similarities in their names. Management was quite displeased after that incident