skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This story doesn't really explain what killed lard in Europe. They don't sell Crisco or any other kind of shortening here in Norway, for example. Norwegian recipes often call for butter, but rarely for lard. Few things are ever deep fried and in pie crusts, we use butter, not lard. The closest thing you can find to shortening in a Norwegian supermarket is coco fat. The only thing I know of that was traditionally cooked in lard is donuts, which are literally named lardrings (smultringer) in Norwegian.

What happened in Norway is that butter was rationed because of WWII and they introduced margarine (another product of hydrogenation) as a substitute, and after the war, it was promoted as a healthier alternative to butter.

Lard must've been around, especially in other parts of Europe than Norway, but I doubt these domestic American events killed it.

I often see Americans attempting to explain why things happen in their country by pointing to domestic events, with said events failing to account for an identical thing happening all over the world.
Medicine is an interesting case. The prioritization isn't so much on the health of medical practitioners and nurses, but on patient safety.

It is argued that patients have higher survivability rates when patient handoffs/shift changes are kept to a minimum. The focus has never been on the health of doctors, nurses, X-Ray technicians, etc. but from a public health perspective.

This has far-reaching consequences in itself.
I can already tell it has markedly harmed my health.

What salary or other payout is worth "markedly harming" your health, actually?
Or their spouse is from one of the countries on the immigration ban list. Legal immigrants can’t really have the same peace of mind regarding being allowed to remain in the country that citizens do.
>To clarify they’ve said each step was impossible and that Musk was basically a fraud or a liar and each step has been executed so far.

This is a nonsense narrative that some people tell themselves to justify hanging on for dear life.

Sure, there was some skepticism about EVs, but it was mainly around whether there was demand and whether they could be built profitably at that level of demand. Who Killed The Electric Car? came out in 2006 and the entire premise was the feasibility of EVs.

So what has Tesla done? They've demonstrated that EVs can work, and that there is some demand there. They've burned through almost $20BB in subsidies and shareholder equity to get there. They are certainly not near profitability. In fact, they are changing their entire business model as of a week ago, apparently. Why, if they've proven that EVs can be so successful?

It's hilarious that the fanatics claim to think "long term", but then in the same breath claim Tesla has has nothing to fear because they haven't gone bankrupt yet, therefore they never will. Enron was the 7th biggest company in the US at one point, and won multiple awards for The Best Company to Work For. It doubled revenues between 1999 and 2000, and was set to do it again in 2001. Then it disappeared. "Nothing to fear!" right until the end...

>given a long enough time horizon you’ll eventually be right, but otherwise it seems to have mostly been nonsense so far.

By what metric? Most owners haven't owned the car for a year yet. If you bought the stock in the past 5 years, you're underwater. Do you consider that some ridiculous time frame for an investor or business? I certainly don't.
Nice additions.

I am self-tought and i made the experience that being wrong helped me to evolve. I guess i grinded the gears of many people in bulletin boards or irc channels in the moment i came by with my naive solutions.

But getting corrections and new insights helped me to grow. This is something i want to transfer to my trainee aswell.

I'm thankful for your thoughts :)
Looking at the Julia implementation fast math wasn't used. In my experience it's usually worth experimenting with turning it on (also of course for the other LLVM based languages), though I understand that this benchmark tries to keep the program correct at all costs.
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Heh. It's a longreads.com article, which should be a hint.

Basically it's about marketing firms trying to convince supermarket owners that inefficient layout and cute themes will save the day. All sorts of stuff is to be feared: millennials who prefer restaurants or Amazon (and won't age out of it by starting families), the giant Walmart monster, etc.

So make the customers zig-zag around a store, kind of like shopping at JCPenny or Macy's, or maybe even a casino. Take up space with weird stuff, like corrugated steel around the milk to evoke farm nostalgia. Create a mock up of an urban deli, complete with an awning that is hopefully useless under the supermarket's roof.

Evidently people like me are undesirable customers, because I hate all that stuff.
I wasn't trying to refute your larger point that quoting some arbitrary part of a government's total % of GDP spending is mostly meaningless.

I was saying that your claim that "discretionary" in "discretionary military spending" is a weasel qualifier is wrong, because that part of the budget is meaningfully broken down into discretionary and non-discretionary spending. You can decide to scale active military personnel up and down, you can't (as easily) decide to stop paying military pensions.

> [...]defense is one of the few things the federal government is supposed to do[...]

So you keep saying, but the upthread comment is clearly about how much is being spent on that topic. Just because there's a law saying a certain part of the government is entrusted with a given task doesn't mean it's not meaningful to discuss how much needs to be spent on that task.
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You should look again. Lua seems to be the slowest of the bunch.
> The last 30 or so years have been a lopsided tale of OSS creating a lot of value and SaaS / IaaS capturing most of it.

Well said. It is easy to forget that all that software that is running the cloud providers' machinery was in many cases started by enthusiasts that simply wanted to scratch their itch.

It is interesting that only a few businesses from the list of $100M+ OSS companies didn't receive VC funding. Also some of the facts are... weird. Mozilla financed by "Ads/Royalties"? Also, Coinbase? Maybe I just don't understand the contents.
Hydrogenating lard is such a depressing concept-- the entire point would be as a more healthful alternative to hydrogenated and highly processed oils, but I guess processing is a hammer to which everything is a nail...
I use Pobox Basic ($20/year) + AllMail ($10/domain to forward all addresses at that domain) [1].

Mail for anybody@example.com goes to Pobox, which forwards to me@home.example.com (my home server). My server is configured to send all outgoing mail through Pobox's servers, which avoids the problem of people blocking residential SMTP.

[1] https://www.pobox.com/pricing
Delphi was, and Lazarus is, amazingly well designed. Lazarus comes pretty close to a Swiss army GUI tool, and once you get to know it a little better, Object Pascal is actually a very nice language that rivals C++ (!) in power. It's still my secret weapon at work. If only the docs were better. Still keeping around a VM with Delphi 7 from 1999 just because documentation was sooo good then.
Because someone gave the brand team authority and they can't have their brand take second place to Microsoft's or Apple's.

Branding teams are in my experience very picky about lots of stuff. For example, my employer's brand design team recently released a rule that when our logo is included alongside others logos in a list of companies involved in a partnership, it may not be included in a vertical list, only a horizontal list.

Using the standard background colour for the platform on your app when it's not one of the brand design team approved colours? Also out.

etc. etc.
Can it make ukulele music?

Perfect for youtube ads that must have obligatory music complete with the drone in the background "Pond 5.... Pond 5..." and the producer can't pitch in 5 bucks for it.
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I very well understand the point. But it takes a certain level of willful ignorance on the part of the parent post to somehow think that it's crazy for one class of people to want health insurance because it somehow hurts another class of people (business owners). Because they didn't say "uber drivers that work 8 hours a month?" they said "Uber drivers".

I agree with you that the only pragmatic solution is to follow the rest of the industrialized world and move to a single payer system, then we just stop having this debate and even talking about who is more deserving of worry-free healthcare. (Not talking about you, just the parent post).
Putting unproven self-driving software into public use won't lead to a reduction in deaths. If Tesla were serious about preventing traffic deaths rather than pushing whizbang tech out before it's ready, it could push a software update that makes it impossible for its cars to speed on surface streets tomorrow.
Perhaps they sell analytics for how well their ads are performing, which is technically "user data," though that is also perfectly reasonable to sell.
Now if only they offered replacement parts for their cars to local mechanics. Then it could be a car you drive for the rest of your life =)
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Being too harsh on yourself could lead to OCD and anxiety
From the article:

> In some cases, pilots — many of whom are engineers and academy graduates — say they observed small spherical objects flying in formation. Others say they’ve seen white, Tic-Tac-shaped vehicles. Aside from drones, all engines rely on burning fuel to generate power, but these vehicles all had no air intake, no wind, and no exhaust.
"It's very mysterious, and they still seem to exceed our aircraft in speed," he said, calling it a "truly radical technology."

> "Imagine you see highly advanced vehicles, they appear on radar systems, they look bizarre, no one knows where they're from. This happens on a recurring basis, and no one does anything,"

> “Pilots are upset, and they’re trying to help wake up a slumbering system,”

> In 2017, the Pentagon first confirmed the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, a government operation launched in 2007 to collect and analyze “anomalous aerospace threats.” As the Post’s Joby Warrick reported, the investigation ranged from “advanced aircraft fielded by traditional U.S. adversaries to commercial drones to possible alien encounters.”

etc, etc.

So no there's little that explicitly states UFO is all about ET, but the inference is very high, considering the credibility of the witnessess and the frequency in which such things occur. That the sightings are typically over restricted airspace (military bases) is also rather indicative that these sightings are not balloons, other (known) aircraft, nor meteors.
I maybe biased after doing web work for toi long, but "hey, the site does not look the same in safari than on edge" has occupied a lot of my time.

It's a common concern to avoid confusing users who switch OS often (eg when demoing on someone else's machine.)

The fact that it contradicts the other requirement ("but it does not look like the other apps") is lost on no one.
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Interesting question. I would assume yes. There should be enough data for things like sustain pedal and velocity dynamics. Music people can be "crazy" and add a lot of detail in their work. It is pretty common to find midi renditions of pieces that contain all kinds of extra information, from pitch shift cues for guitar solos to legato for string instruments (when the finger slides across the string, instead of "jumping" from position to position), to even volume automation for fade in/out effects. Classical musical notation also contains it, though way more limited than the 0-127 range of MIDI, in the piano/forte dynamics notation.

It might have been stripped off to ease complexity, or maybe it was unadequate and created odd sounding results. Maybe the midi library they used doesn't do a good job of portraying it and it is actually there! Who knows!
You kid, but...https://twitter.com/Sierra_2015/status/929822581699629061
the stable release was in 2017.06 so almost two years, how often are they updating the code(e.g. security fixes)

is this supposed to be standalone home server, or something like a node of a large self-organized network(private social network,etc)?
I'm confused: https://www.acu.edu.au/ ?
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Per what data? Human-driven cars cause 1.25 deaths per 100 million VMT in the US:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...
Even Waymo is nowhere near 100M miles driven:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidsilver/2018/07/26/waymo-ha...

There's not nearly enough data to make a claim like that.
I recently starting using a training a productivity tracker that has a decent mix of tracking but keeping the data local. It's really amazing to see how time is spent in the office. If on a very unusual and rare day of say 10 hours, I might be lucky to get 6 hours of actual work (with maybe an hour of deep work in there).
My cofounder is someone I had work with for six years prior to starting our company together. During that time, he was my boss for all but one year of that time.

We both happened to leave our prior place of employment one month apart, then two months later met up again and started working on our current company.

I wouldn’t do anything different in hindsight. There are so many challenges in starting a company, who you start it with should be as de-risked as possible. Even with a long working relationship, we constantly have to work on our way of working to make sure we’re balancing one another properly. Had we not come into this company with significant prebuilt trust, things could have gone off the rails at multiple points along the way.

Hope that’s helpful!
Yeah, I don't think I care. China needed to do something about exploding population. India needs to do it, too.

I just sat in traffic for over an hour with a bunch of dumb apes driving multi-ton death machines and acting like complete imbeciles. My city was clearly not designed to handle even the modest population doubling that it has undergone. The crush of people even in the states is intense so I can't even imagine what it is like in the truly overpopulated parts of the world. Humans are just wiping out nature, that's the deal.
You caught me, I'll pass this along to our product team. Thanks for the feedback!
Federal government spending is about 4 trillion.

7.65 is Fed + State + Local.
I wouldn’t give much weight to those benchmark numbers at this point. Some of those language versions are quite out of date...
Judgmental much? It might surprise you but most people eat things they enjoy that are not healthy.

How is ordering from the web any more or less of a security risk than an app? They are both probably using the same backend system and API.

But, I am very careful where I put my debit card. I use a credit card for almost any untrusted payment. Yes you can dispute both, but the money isn’t coming out of your account with a credit card.
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That's a big jump between OCaml and Go. I'm not familiar with ray tracing, but skimming the source code it mostly looks like it's doing floating point math; it doesn't look like it's using the runtime (no allocations, no virtual function calls, no scheduling, etc), so I'm surprised that Go is performing relatively poorly.

I wonder if the performance gap is attributable to some overhead in Go's function calls? I know Go passes parameters on the stack instead of via registers... Maybe it's due to passing struct copies instead of references (looks like the C version passes references)? Generally poor code generation?

Anyone else have ideas or care to profile?

EDIT: From my 2015 MBP, Go (version 1.12) is indeed quite a lot slower than C, but only if you're doing an optimized build `-03`:

tmp $ time ./gorb
real 1m15.128s
user 1m9.366s
sys 0m6.754s

tmp $ clang crb.c
tmp $ time ./a.out
real 1m13.041s
user 1m10.284s
sys 0m0.624s

tmp $ gcc crb.c -o crb -std=c11 -O3 -lm -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600
tmp $ time ./crb
real 0m22.703s
user 0m22.550s
sys 0m0.073s

tmp $ clang crb.c -o crb -std=c11 -O3 -lm -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600
tmp $ time ./crb
real 0m22.689s
user 0m22.564s
sys 0m0.060s

EDIT2: I re-modified the Go version (https://gist.github.com/weberc2/2aed4f8d3189d09067d564448367...) to pass references and that seems to put it on par with C (or I mistranslated, which is also likely):

$ time ./gorb
real 0m19.282s
user 0m14.467s
sys 0m7.523s
Even better - what if you actually do not want these modified crops. Who do you sue?
Perhaps. But C didn't rule on the mainframes, either.

Your story seems to be that C won because of UNIX, which won because of the server room. But the server room was a small chunk of landscape, and code was being written for the whole landscape, not just for the server room. And C won all over the place - the server room, the desktop, and the embedded space. It didn't win on the desktop because of influence from the server room.
Had to create account to upvote this one :)
Ha, you’re right, I totally misread it! I read it as seconds and not minutes, doh. :)
Competing on features and winning in the marketplace can be enough. Facebook wasn't the first social network. Google wasn't the first search engine. People had plenty of choice.
Magnets can help AI get closer to the efficiency of the human brain
Direct link for those who are hoping to listen https://www.twitch.tv/openai
Long time ago at uni I used to give paid coding sessions to fellow students from IT facoulty (I myself could not make it to study on IT as I was not super star in math/physics which is requirement where I live, but I was passionate about coding and self thought and playing with code since 13). They was coming to me with their assignments in various levels of advancement so we was going through whatever they already had, salvaged whatever made sense and explained why other parts was of no use. Then we completed assignment together with proper explanation where things come from. I often heard this: 'you just start writing' and my answer would often be 'data structure is the fundation, I want to test different ideas so I can land at the best of my ability as soon as I can'... This was nice time in my life where I had no clue about maintainability and quality of code :)

On another note I remember watching video on youtube where someone said that for them programming is solving a puzzle. This resonates with me as solving puzzles is something you enjoy, programming should be something you enjoy and not just use to make your living...
We did notify Edmunds, yes. Haven't tracked down the rest of those people.
The sky is falling... only because a small portion of American's want to sabotage things and crow about how they don't work.
A pretty good hourly rate actually. I am definitely treating this as a sprint. And for the following 2 years I have lined up 35-40hour per week work. This will allow for a significant runway when the project ends as well. I’m hoping to have 12months salary in the bank.
The results are meaningless.

This isn't chess or go, where you either win or you don't. Chopin composed for a reason, and it wasn't just an excuse to throw a lot of notes at the page.

It might be possible for AI to work at that level someday, but it's not just a technical problem, and you won't be able to solve it by throwing a corpus of compositions at it.

Aside from that, this still sounds like aimless noodling. It's far more polished noodling with some awareness of genre cliches, but it's still essentially aimless - and so meaningless.
Quoting from Wikipedia:

Nils John Nilsson was an American computer scientist. He was one of the founding researchers in the discipline of artificial intelligence. He was the first Kumagai Professor of Engineering (Emeritus) in Computer Science at Stanford University, a position that he held since the chair was established in 1990 until his death. He was particularly famous for his contributions to search, planning, knowledge representation, and robotics.

His research was based mainly on the premise that intelligence is based on knowledge that must be represented explicitly.
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More a religion, in practice.

But "paradigm" is not well-defined, so you can't really say anything is or isn't.
Yes but the problem is that barrier to entry is proportional to prestige so there is very little prestige associated with nanodegrees. Whether it's right or wrong companies care about prestige. Not all of them of course but I have found this to be true for the most in-demand jobs.
Yeah, it seems Islam tradition solved identity recognition ages ago. It certainly makes business negotiations difficult; the burka wearer has the advantage of emitting no body language. An advantage if they are being pitched to, that is.
Maybe quick youtube tutorial videos.
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Whoops, yes, you’re right!

Now I’m tempted to try speeding it up, there’s no way it should be behind Python...
What is work anyway?

If you are a programmer then work is different. Sure you are not on your feet all day at the beck and call of customers, however, if you are not working then your computer is. Waiting is not supposed to be part of the job. Learning on the job is also verboten. Very little time that is on the company clock is spent travelling.

I have colleagues in sales that do lots of travel, then, when they are back in the office they spend the morning filling in expenses. Sure this is all work that the company needs someone to do and someone has got to go on those planes. I also know from experience that time spent travelling is tiring, but is it strictly work?

On the plane they could have the laptop out and be working on spreadsheets. Or they could be playing Angry Birds. Would one activity count as working and the other not?

If you are a security guard and are mostly monitoring the TV and kettle, how does that compare to the secretary that occupies the same desk by day, juggling phone calls with a constant stream of people needing assistance?

Or if you are a taxi driver working with half the day spent waiting for a fare. You could easily put in long hours doing that but how much of this work is actual work and how much of it is reading the newspaper?

With every long hours job in the Western world there are these job-specific factors to consider. If someone is doing extra shifts in a factory where there is a production line then I am far more willing to believe claims of long hours worked.
Python probably does eliminate a lot of problems of QT, much of its being the static typing of c++. However you are still bound by qt's internal widgets. Creating custom widgets requires reasoning about the renderer and qt's internal code.

The styling system of qt is also quite limited. Their 'css' is a small set that does not work well on everything.

HTML+CSS allows for creating almost anything, it's the same on all platforms if the renderer is right. It's seperate from code and easily viewable and debuggable within a browser program. I have yet to see anything similiar with Qt, or a style heavy program like Discord made in Qt without becoming spaghetti.
I love this sentence from the article: “I make my living convincing male skeptics of the power of emotions,” he says.
That's a great insight, thank you :-)
> You don't really need outgoing port 25 to run your own mail server.

You do need it to send mail