skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This person wants compilers to be interactively fast and believes that the outcome will be developers empowered to create fast programs. But I think the key set up during the intro is assuming that a) the compiler runs your tests and b) that test performance is a good proxy for real performance.

The counterexample to this in my daily life is working with an IDE that does a pretty good job of interactively invoking the complier as I change code. However, my tests aren't invoked with each compile pass, and the work they do doesn't look like a long running live service, or a giant spark job, or whatever. They're mostly aimed at checking correctness, and spend at least as much time creating and checking values as invoking my real code. If my real program is going to use many threads, do a lot of io and waiting for other services to respond, or decompress and deserialize big chunks of data, it's hard to see how a very fast local test ever could be a close proxy for that performance.
Good site I came across from a ted talk, lists problems and solutions: drawdown.org
> it's a suprisingly easy read in what seems like plain English

I've found almost every SCOTUS and appellate court opinion highly readable. Not only that, often quite fun. (Skip the syllabus, though.)
> Why is the candidate asking this question in the first place?

Conway's Law. You can lie about your company during the interview. (You probably do, at least a little. In my experience, every company does.) But ultimately, if your company's product is software, you can't fake the quality of the source code. If your teams are dysfunctional, it'll show.

(It can also be apparent in the use of the product, but lots of companies don't make consumer products, so it's not reasonable to expect the applicant to have used your software.)

> Employees always sign stuff to protect the IP. I’d have to go get paperwork from the company attorney to cover non-employees before I can show them anything.

Why? There are very few companies in the world where the source code contains any 'secret sauce'. There's PageRank, and ... that's about the only one I can think of. What exactly are you afraid they'll see? Give me 5 or 10 minutes to look at the source code to Photoshop or Mathematica and I might learn something, but I'll be no closer to launching a competitor, or hurting your business.

What I'm hearing is: applicants are expected to trust you implicitly, while you display absolutely no trust in them. Interviews are already an inherently asymmetric relationship, and you're doubling down on emphasizing your power over the candidate.

Compared to my experience in other fields, this is not normal. It's paranoid and petty on the part of the company, and it's no wonder tech companies have trouble with hiring and retention when they start business relationships this way.
> A 2011 study by the U.K. government found a person would have to reuse a cotton tote bag 131 times before it was better for climate change than using a plastic grocery bag once.

This seems disingenuous. 131 uses of a cotton tote bag doesn't replace 1 plastic bag, it replaces at least 131 plastic bags, if not 2-3x that amount since the tote bags are bigger and sturdier and hold more.

I think the fundamental problem with plastic bags is that since they are 1 or 2 use, they are always going to be entering the environment at a rate faster than they degrade. So there is going to be an ever-increasing buildup of plastic bags in the environment for as long as they go on being used.
This is about the 30% that Apple charges developers for app store sales. This will be interesting to see if the courts will buy the argument that this is an abuse of monopoly power.

Not sure if this will succeed but happy if it does I think.
I would like to remind you such machines are not built because it requires some genius touch in design, they are not built because there is little demand for them. But yeah, tool being not locked under some patent by some monopoly or the other is a good thing.
I wonder if that can also be used to combat stylometry.

(or in a more sinister tone, combat stylometry just good enough for most cases but not enough for when faced against actors with a lot of processing power)
Many plastics can be recycled to a certain extent, some can even be composted, and if they can't they can be burned for their energy and heat.

Trouble is that we choose to dump them instead.
Half of millennials say social media drives them to spend money they don’t have
There’s a sizeable gap between “weird people” and defecating/shooting heroin on community sidewalks and public transit. I’m referring mostly to the latter.
It wasn't by the end of his first term, though, right? Fair point overall, though.
Much recognition.

I actually use a pocket of a specific jacket whether I use it or not.

This is where I put them on entry, and this is where the check is on exit.

Without routines like these anything can and will happen, just ask my (soon to be) wife! :)
Considered moral by who? Those who subpoena people?

Our first amendment guarantees a right to speak. It also grants the right to not speak. You're saying its acceptable to deprive someone if that right because you want their information.
Are there other online Machine Learning apps out there for this? Or is Snap-Chat the only one?

I remember back in the VRML/SecondLife heyday where you could pick an avatar that was another gender. I still do that. But the emphasis for voice chat in modern games and MMORPGs make it far more difficult. A low gruff voice does not bode well coming from a feminine avatar. Catches too many off guard.
Does it set precedence in other similar cases?
The same things (and worse, IIRC) were said of Roberts, and while I disagree with some of the rulings he has made, he's been remarkably unpartisan.
Not if done correctly. This is simply one of the methods of applying lipstick. See: https://imgur.com/a/f8GE3iE

This also serve as an example of what I was saying above. I would have never thought to learn that skill if not for those apps that applied it to me. It's like having your own personal AI makeup assistant.
Also keep in mind that right now, debt is often monatory creation. If this debt is reimbursed, it might slow the economy and might create a deflation and push the growth of GPD to th negative (GPD is a bad indicator, but for stuff like that it is quite usefull). Its not likely, but still, people often forget that debt is good for our current economies.
"There are some people who find torture amusing and end up serial killers..."

You've described maybe what, 100 people in the country at this moment? Vs. the 11 million sales of the previous version of Mortal Kombat, and will likely buy this one. So sure, 100 folks remove from the equation, but you do NOT get to take the 11 million who found it entertaining out of the equation.
Looks like it's not just Amazon
"JD.com Inc and Shutterfly Inc have used the machines as well, the companies said, as has Walmart Inc.
Walmart started 3.5 years ago and has since installed the machines in several U.S. locations"

And they are faster too
"They crank out 600 to 700 boxes per hour, or four to five times the rate of a human packer"
He did, but only after he doubled it his first couple years.
We were talking specifically about the electricity production, not the total energy production. So you are changing the topic. But they are related topics. First of all, you must not make the mistake to compare the termal energy used in transportation and (to a lesser part) for heating with the electrical energy produced. An electric car uses less than a third of thermal energy consumed by a combustion engined car. Heat pumps are way more efficient than any thermal heaters. To convert all cars to electric in Germany, the electricity production would have to be increased by a mere 15%. To get rid of all fossile energy is of course a larger step, something we have to work at.
When comparison shopping all anyone really cares about is the price, and you're comparing like for like in most cases so Google works really well. News is something where I at least rarely find myself wanting just any old opinion on a story, so I'm more likely to go to a news source that I trust already for their take on that.
I agree with his post, more or less. It could probably have been delivered in a less confrontational manner. rayiner has often made posts with lawyer style arguments defending questionable behavior by governments and corporations. In this case he is deflecting blame from the companies that originate the carbon emissions saying that they're just fulfilling a free market demand, as if it's impossible for companies to behave ethically without government or consumer coercion.
Plastic became so spread out in nature that I don't think it will aver be possible to clean the planet up from it using traditional methods anymore.

I think only a bioengineered microorganism that can breakup plastics into other biodegradable components will be able to clean up our mess.

Either that, or wait some millions of years for it to show up naturally: http://feedthedatamonster.com/home/2014/7/11/how-fungi-saved...
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I agree with you. I'm with the daughter on this one and am super glad that I didn't grow up in a time when my parents could have posted things about me online (photos or text).
So the actual number of extradition requests for alleged sleep-sex-offenders could actually be 0, you didn't even check in detail? This is quite anti-climatic.

Alternative outcome: the brits spare 16m £, which they can then invest in fighting real crime.

They arrest the alleged offender when flying or at any routine control, since he's not a danger to anyone. Anyone except those unmasked by the leaks.
Just generic sysadmin related stuff.
He also nearly doubled the national debt though.
This discussion is so twisted with incorrect and downright offensive to proper reasoning rhetoric. Please look up modern monetary theory. Stephanie Kelton explained modern governmental finance very well in a pod cast on Tuesday last week with Chris Hayes. Basically, if the government runs a deficit then there is a surplus somewhere in the economy that otherwise wouldn’t be. The recent trillion dollar tax cuts and lack of resulting inflation underscore their point.

The US and world economies are enumerated with USD - a fiat currency. The government says “you may pay your debts with our currency” and only they supply it. Which means all money comes from the government and only the government.
The 20/80 rule applies in all aspects of life. Like 20% of the soccer players account for 80% of the goals. So why wouldn't we expect it to apply to money as well? This is like a law of gravity. You can attempt to fight against it artificially but eventually it will come crashing down
I totally agree. You wouldn't want to know how much money I spent on Europa Universalis and Crusader Kings. But I know what I'm buying and why, and it's a conscious decision, not succumbing to pressure or temptation.

I think it's healthy to recognise when a system, game or otherwise, tries to manipulate you into spending money, and I try to teach my son to recognise that. It's fine to spend money, but spend it on something that's worth it, something you want, not something you're pressured into.
> Are there other online Machine Learning apps out there for this?

Faceapp comes to mind[1]. There's also Artistry Virtual Beauty[2] but it is a bit less advanced. I believe that Facebook Messenger also have some similar features.

> A low gruff voice does not bode well coming from a feminine avatar. Catches too many off guard.

A lot of sound cards those days come with tools that allow you to modify your audio input. Often, they'll have a female settings where it changes the pitch to make your voice sound more like a woman's.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.faceapp&hl=...

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.perfectcor...
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Thanks for the suggestions/info everyone. I look forward to digging deeper!
Those places and even Bojangles tend to have spices in the batter that might give a slight red/pink color to the skin.

If you get the HOT Nashville Chicken, and I mean the hottest one hot they serve, it will be dripping red, almost smothered in red hot sauce and cayenne powder. I’ve been to Prince’s, Hattie B’s and Bolton’s. Bolton’s was crazy spicy and left the stomach in a state of fury for a few days.

Marinate chicken pieces in equal parts butter milk and a Louisiana hot sauce (cayenne based) overnight to get a really tender and juicy fried chicken.
Reading the comments here is a bit scary. Is taking the same 4-5 plastic bags back to the supermarket each week not super common everywhere?
Hope of cancer cure offered by ‘decoy’ molecules designed to kill tumours
Something like this has happened to me in the past. If I am having sex with my partner and we fall asleep, sometimes I will wake up 1 to 3 hours later and not realize that we fell asleep, and try to resume relations. This is our in the context of a relationship, and in each it’s been understood that this would not disturb my partner. So, it hasn’t been a problem. Now, if I fell asleep alongside someone with whom I was not just having intercourse (or especially never had done so) and did that, I could see how it would be a problem.
Oh ok my bad!
I like that early on in the story, he hits on the difference between subjective experience and objective theory when it comes to the sonics of hi-fi amps. There's this thing that "objective" dudes on the internet think, and that's "If you can't measure it, it doesn't exist". They look at power, noise, and THD specs on an amp, and think that's it - that's the total explanation.

In reality, there are things that plainly exist, but are not measured - either because they can't be measured economically, or we simply don't know how to measure them, or what it is we're measuring. So audio amps of similar specs can sound very different, and the one with the "bad" specs is often better than the "good" one.

Another thing I learned about audio, which has been useful in general for engineering... marketing sells specs because specs look good, not because they're meaningful. I roll my eyes whenever I see "total harmonic distortion" ratings. It's like measuring how well a car drives 50mph. It's fine as a basic "this thing works" measure, but it's meaningless for sound quality.
How is there no "real" intermediary?

To purchase a product I go to an Apple owned-and-operated store, give Apple my credit card, and receive an item that's been packaged and signed by Apple tools from an Apple server.
So the large news outlets have better SEO for their articles? I can't say that's very surprising.
This direct attack on culture and knowledge is just both sad and scary.

Thank you OONI and ellais for this report tho.
Keep up the good work!
Yeah let's not blindly worship common law.
The year should be 2014-2019

I thought it was just a repost from when this was on the front page in 2015, but it looks like they kept it up to date.
I couched my response as your ‘more than likely’ not having some static-encouraging medical ‘condition’, but I'd wager that even if you do have such a ‘condition’, you could remedy its effects by wearing non-insulative footwear.
George Carlin had some great quotes indeed (this specific one comes from his take on the environment [1]).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjmtSkl53h4
As others have pointed out, not hyperinflation. Hyperinflation requires a pathologically broken central government. One of the things that prevents that from happening in the U.S. is that the Federal Reserve is a quasi-public institution with a fixed mandate--low unemployment, moderate inflation. (Why moderate? Because a small amount of inflation incentivizes investments and consumption by preventing people from sitting on cash.) But it would be naive to say that the U.S. could never get there.

The bulwark that protects the Federal Reserve has been steadily attacked from the right since the financial crisis. The GOP almost revolted against Bush for the bail-out, and because the government was slow to respond and did so anemically the Federal Reserve stepped into the void with massive infusions of cash. This resulted in cries for the Federal Reserve's independence to be diminished. Such opponents were never forced to reconcile with the fact that the Federal Reserve saved our bacon.

Elsewhere, on both the left and right, you have the constant reminders that fiscal debt can be "fixed" by inflating away the debt. If our political culture continues to internalize that notion then at some point when things become more dire we may actually attempt it. But in as much as it's a viable approach, it could only possibly work from a position of fiscal and monetary strength, a position we would surely not be in were we seriously contemplating it.
Nuclear power (often avoided for ideological, unscientific reasons) could have a much bigger impact.
Man the propaganda machine is out in full force on this one. A couple people uncover war and humanitarian crimes all over the world and they're the only ones to be punished. Nearly a decade later and the witch hunt is strong, yet what came of the people who committed the real crimes?
Ya, but just don't say China isn't communist in a Chinese public forum, you might offend a 同志.
What if, instead of your wallet, it's a box by the door labeled "cab fare" and it's been previously discussed that this box is there for people in the house, me included, to use when catching a cab to the train?
Yes and no. The Extradition Act explicitly prevents extradition of individuals who might face the death penalty. The ECHR _also_ protects people facing the death penalty.
I was talking about the thumbs down for comments, not videos. I believe you're right that they rank videos for engagement, which can be both positive or negative.
To be clear, when your predecessor is Bush the Lesser, and he has run the global economy into the ground, this is not that difficult a task to accomplish. But yes, Obama at least, moved in the right direction.
You cannot do this. I run a website and mobile app ecosystem, which started as a website with standard credit card billing. If you want to mention that you have a website, or link to the website, you must provide every option the website has for purchasing, in your app, using apple's payment system. There is one exception, which is for physical goods/services, see Lyft and the like.

Sorry, but you have to take the 30% hit, or you can't mention your website, and you certainly can't put in a third party payment system. You'll get booted fast, or, won't even make it in the door when they review your app.
I understood OP exactly as you said. This doesn't justify OP's whining, not one bit.
That's a lie, he was handed a trillion + deficit coming in; which he cut down virtually every year of his presidency.
You can use Powershell for AWS, but it’s verbose, the community around it isn’t as large and you won’t find as many examples.

https://aws.amazon.com/powershell/
To the yacht builders of course. There happens to be only a few of those however.

I think if that money were to be spent by 10,000 people buying everyday groceries, cars, clothing the economic benefit would be far greater.
Don't consider it an incurable mental illness. It's not a sickness, it's just a genetic variation in how the brain is wired. Having a certain percentage of the population with ADHD was probably an advantage in our evolutionary past. There are a lot of good things that come alongside it, like hyperfocus, greater creative thinking, and an increased ability to multitask. It's only really a big problem in our modern society, that values people's abilities to be super-productive cogs in a machine and values consistent output over anything else (like creative solutions), that ADHD becomes a huge problem.
Google could definitely do something to democratize this valuable real estate, but they don't.

The question is: Do they keep their left wing bias active due to political alignment, financial incentives or a mix of both?
Seems like a credible and unbiased source, thanks for the link.
This generalizes: most individuals can't or won't think past the first order effects of any decision. Marketers know this and prey on it accordingly.
Well, again, in fairness, that was because the global economy had been run into the ground. The situation he stepped into had little to do with him.
I'd like to thank all the VCs who have been subsiding my travel needs for the last 4 years. I would also like to extend a future thank you to the retail investors who will be picking up the mantle going forwards - Much obliged!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tteYZfMat4
I've noticed with my own posts that some people here tend to downvote purely factual information simply because they find it unpleasant. Although that usually happens on some of the more controversial topics (and much more frequently on weekends, IMO). This post isn't really controversial...
Or cloth bags. Seriously, they are stronger, hold more stuff and hurt less because of sharp edges. All you need to do is just carry them
I think it's common, but not really a lack of trust thing -- instead the code is a work product unless what you are paying for is a functioning application + hosting + support.

If stuff is breaking then it means you have a more serious problem on your hands then just lack of access to the code base and that access will not solve it for you.
> Directions and evaluations still come from the top.

Precisely not as I have pointed out. It's like saying a democracy is a centrally controlled system as well, since you only have one government. But in practice the government listens to the people in order to decide what to do next. It goes both ways.
I get 27.300 results for "solar waste" on google. 88.000.000 for "solar waste management". Literally "no one ever"...
Yeah, it certainly seems that way. It feels like you'll have a better chance "reporting" to Google by going viral on Twitter, HN etc, than by actually reporting it to Google.
I refer to the Mali Performance Guide for wisdom into Geometry Shaders: https://static.docs.arm.com/100019/0100/arm_mali_application...

> Using geometry shading will generally lead to worse performance, high memory bandwidth, and increased system power consumption. Assert if geometry shaders are used

Geometry shaders are not what you want. They should not have been included in GL ES, and I will fight their inclusion into WebGL 2.1.

Tessellation shaders are better, but still kinda ultimately useless.
Empathy isn't tech's strong suit.
I can relate on the family stuff.

My (adult) daughter inherited ADD from me. Which means she and I understand each other in a way that her mother and her twin brother do not understand us. At least they've learned to just let us do the grocery shopping and not try to help.
>How can Apple’s App Store prices be monopolistic if the App Store has driven software prices so low that a lot of developers are having a hard time making money?

But Apple is the one that's skimming all the revenue and making huge profits on their forced 30% cut. Apparently they made $12 billion just from the app store in Q3 2018. How is it surprising that a lot of developers are having a hard time making money?
That's using the abnormally large deficit in 2009 caused by the bank bailout as the starting point.

The deficits even at the end of his second term were larger than the deficit in 2007 and about the same as 2008.

https://www.thebalance.com/us-deficit-by-year-3306306