skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> qsort() versus STL sorting algoritms with templates

This is one of the most popular examples for superiority of template instantiation. Yet when I measured the speedup on integer arrays (where arguably you can expect the largest speedup) it was less than 2x. Now considering also the tradeoffs that come with using C++ (larger compile times, larger binaries), and the fact that sorting is rarely a bottleneck, I'm not so sure anymore that std::sort is generally superior.
Parent was referring to clock propagation delay (resulting in multiple clock domains on the same chip), hence my confusion.

If you're talking about higher level timing, nobody is arguing for taking that away from you.
Digital India's response readiness against cyber attacks is frail
PowerPoint gains an AI-powered presenter coach and beefed-up design suggestions
Nice article and as others have commented, love the simple and clear aesthetic of the gifs within!

This is just the entrance to that rabbit hole though; for anyone interested in continuing the journey all the way down I'd highly recommend: https://github.com/leandromoreira/digital_video_introduction.
Google's Social Engineering Practice Exposed
Just tried it on our master account:

> You tried to use an account that is a member of an organization in AWS Organizations. To set up your AWS Control Tower landing zone, use an account that is not a member of an organization.

Looks like it’s only feasible if you’re starting from scratch.
The sequence of events went a bit like this:

Team in London started working the problem and called in reinforcements from elsewhere;

Upper management (me and one other person) got involved as it was serious/not resolved fast;

I spoke with the network team in London who seemed to have a good handle on the problem and how they were working to resolve but we decided to wake a couple of other smart folks up to make sure we had all the best people on it;

Problem got resolved by the diligence of an engineer in London getting through to and talking with DQE;

Some people went back to bed;

Tom worked on writing our internal incident report so that details were captured fast and people had visibility. He then volunteered to be point on writing the public blog (1415 UTC);

Folks in California woke up and got involved with the blog. Ton of people contributed to it from around the world with Tom fielding all the changes and ideas;

Very senior people at Cloudflare (including legal) signed off and we posted (1958 UTC).

No one had an axe to grind with Verizon. We were working a complex problem affecting a good chunk of our traffic and customers. Everyone was calm and collected and thoughtful throughout.

Shout out to the Support team who handled an additional 1,000 support requests during the incident!
It wasn't just the emergency number that was borken. The entire KPN telephony network was having issues. The alternative number could not be reached from phones using the KPN network, so having emergency calls on those phones redirect to the alternative wouldn't help much. Presumably the other networks didn't put routing into place since that'd be a rather large configuration change on short notice to a safety critical system.
there is no way of telling which degree would lead to progress. Steve Jobs famously studied calligraphy after dropping out but still "auditing" classes. if he didn't study "useless" courses effectively tuition free, apple would never have come to pass.
It's harder than that: https://twitter.com/aaronkbr/status/1071214578980261888

"Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 css classes to every single post in the timeline to make it more difficult to identify and block 'Sponsored' posts, oh my."
I had never watched the leaked video so this was a good time to check it out and see what the Google leadership did say. The focus was not about fake news or anything close to a "unique positions to see how heavily Russia worked to influence our elections".

The topics they brought up were left vs right, democrat vs republican, Conservatism vs progressive, women vs men, white vs black, poor vs rich, Hillary vs Trump, immigration, trade policy, globalization, brexit, Hillary campaign points, polling data and the failure of accuracy in it. A bit about net neutrality, regulations and taxes.

Project Veritas video directly say that Google executive Jen Gennai want to influence the next US election. The leaked 'all-hands' video from the Google leadership show that their political position is internally stated as democrat. Combined it gives us a very strong implication that Google might try to influence the next election.

National elections would be better off with less outside influence, be that other nations or companies that holds so much power, money and influence to rival nations. It would be great if Google, Twitter, and Facebook worked on removing information bubbles, bots and trolls, but I would not cheer if they simply replaced Russia as a force that influence national elections all over the world.
What is your specific skill?
if there is no natural intelligence around, you need an artificial one
> You would never see this type of behavior on the NANOG mailing list which has been on the front line of communications between ISPs and providers.

What element of the blog post are you referring to? NANOG often speaks in jargon and obtuse-professional speak, but with large routing leaks there are always strong opinions expressed. It's been this way going back well over a decade.

Another counterexample: go search the NANOG archives for opinions on AWS, EC2, and SES. You won't find much reciprocal respect - you'll find a bunch of unabashed criticism on how AWS operates, and how that affects the internet.

This is a clash of cultures. Cloudflare knows their customers expect a fast, accurate, transparent explanation. NANOG participants are used to an environment where their dirty laundry isn't aired in public to the point where they get calls from reporters asking about it.

Cloudflare is walking a tight line where they're trying to accurately explain to a lay audience what happened to their customers. They can't assume their audience knows what AS 701 is, or BCP 38, or the DFZ, or the prior harm that BGP optimizers have been known to cause.

A "professional" NANOG thread would touch on all of that, it just wouldn't be pieced together under a single byline for a mass audience.
here's what I used mine for:

- znc bouncer
- tiny public http server
- attempt at osmc/kodi
- see how low (Hz) can it go while still be emacs capable (https://monkeyplush.blogspot.com/2012/09/raspberry-pi-underclock.html)

plans that never realized:

- pi as electromechanic controller
- pi as atmel flasher (thinkpad bios fix/coreboot)
It would be nice if there was a whole segment of the internet that people used that was completely ad-free. Something that a network of blogs, forums, etc could be on. Server costs could be carried by donations.
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No one has forgotten Cloudbleed. It's something we talk about internally and every single day I look at a report that shows me status of software running around the world so that I never, ever again let a piece of software running on our edge crash and leak information.
> plenty of cities with no or very little snow

But what happens that rare day it snows? Hundreds of deads? Cars get recalled for much less than that.
Representation learning != knowledge representation, probabilistic methods != probabilistic reasoning. I'm talking foundations of AGI, which as far as I'm aware, nobody is seriously working on at the moment.
Strange. For comments you write yourself, obviously you can be sued into oblivion in countries like Australia and the UK. But being sued for what somebody else writes on your page? I'd expect the person who wrote it and Facebook to be held responsible.
To be honest I don't know... I'm usually just reading on HN, nothing else...
Falcon Heavy launches, two boosters land, the central core crashes on camera
I know someone from the Aberdeen area who says it that way, and I swear I've heard people in Spokane do it too, so it's not just Seattle at least. Though it's very possible the Spokane people weren't native to Spokane, I didn't ask.

My question for you, is do you notice it when eastern WA people say it? Does it stand out to your ear? If not it's possible that you're just used to hearing it either way and not attuned to the difference. I'm like that when people say "pen" and "pin" differently, I can't hear a difference at all. But the "bag" thing stands out a lot since it's different to me.
There’s a link between market growth and oil prices and production. Ie higher prices mean lower growth and vice versa. Meanwhile, renewables can conceivably grow at whatever rate we decide to fund. Sure, there’s only so much sun or wind power available, for instance, but not so much for nuclear. The upper limits are also pretty high. Moving to renewables should open up greater growth than staying on fossil fuels in the longer term.
I'm doing a bit of hiring at the moment. It's hard to find a single CV which doesn't have some kind of machine learning slant. As much as I think there are plenty of advances in ML left to take, I doubt every graduate will step out into a good application for existing machine learning tools.
You should go back and read what I wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20262316

I didn't fan flames. There was already a link to our status page on the front page of HN. While the event was happening I gave short updates by editing a comment here.

Also, your "affected less than 10% of their traffic during early hours of the morning" is incredibly parochial and seems to ignore the fact that people use the Internet world over.
It is already a requirement by the ASA to clearly label ad posts on Instagram too.
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So in the end all that will be left of the human race will be Apple hipsters?
A Libc in LLVM
Illegal: anywhere in the free world.
I did my final year of college three years after my first three years. In the first three years I took paper notes and got terrible grades. In the fourth year I used a laptop. The laptop however was not great, so it had no internet and I just used a full screen editor window to take notes, so no distractions, and no verbatim writing because I couldn't type that quickly.

Everyone learns differently. You just have to find what works for you. But no internet is key.
About advertising in general: we know it is sort of a prisoner's dilemma.

If only nobody did advertising... Only trustworthy and non-promoting information about products findable by search (pull instead of push)... It would also be a lot cheaper for the companies.
More Than 400 Max Pilots Sue Boeing in Class Action
Someone had posted on HackerNews that they had good experience with this sensor. Furthermore, it appeared to be easy to use the USB interface to get the data
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> - Non language items like URLs, code snippets or command line parameters- in one note I simply copy paste them, how do you write them ?

Typically I don't write this kind of information down ; I reference them from the original document.
Startup Lesson #5: Iterate to Perfection
The ASA rules also apply to instagram, but enforcement is necessarily sparse: https://www.asa.org.uk/news/new-guidance-launched-for-social...
if it's released to government it's in the public domain as the government serves the public... oh wait :D ... democracy never happend :D i remember now
The simplicity of Sanders' proposal compared to Warren's, which is full of buts, really highlights the differences between the candidates. He's the only one in this primary full of nerds who understands how politics works. You start with a grand idea and then let reality shave it down to size; you don't make concessions right out of the gate. God help us if any of these other losers get nominated.
Agreed on probably all points. Though I’m reasonably convinced that the technology does exist.

On price, oil prices have a significant, direct, and negative effect on market productivity. We could actually put ourselves into a depression by raising prices highly. This is both a reason to get ourselves off fossil fuels ASAP and a hurdle to doing so.

Politically, possibly the strongest and quickest change to the political system in the US would be passing the side stepping of the electoral college system across the states. It’s already over half way there. The House is more responsive to the democratic vote than the senate. The electoral college is the undemocratic influence on the President. So that change would make the 2/3rds of the federal government more democratic than current.
They always stated, they have no intention to be sold to a big bank.
Interpretation - better than adequate, not necessarily world class - is a solved problem.

The heuristics for dynamics and tempo changes aren't particularly complicated. You can do a lot with fairly simple phrase recognition. You don't even need a full harmonic, melodic, and structural analysis.

Composition is a much harder problem - especially at the Bach level. And the state of the art is nowhere close to being able to produce satisfactory Bach-level compositions. (In spite of what David Cope says about his work.)
I think one of the particularly interesting aspects of Machine learning is that the research into it has been focused on parallelism and partitioning from day 1. The result of this is that those work loads are particularly well suited to just scaling to more chips. It may be that we can continue our computational climb for a while longer simply by scaling out in a way that consumer driven products really weren't able to do.
I really like this idea, I was personally playing around with the idea of a bootable magazine that you could read in an emulator. Another idea was to release an entire album of music on a floppy disk. Both ideas I'm part way through, but have been incredibly busy.

I prefer the sound of the MP3 in the examples, although both are really dull. I think using some modern codec like WaveNet or others, whilst sounding better, kind of defeats the point. I think MP3 is really as new a codec as I would want to go, especially as pretty much any device that can play audio that is actively used today can read an MP3 file. (I'm somebody who still uses an MP3 player.)

That said, I think these floppycasts should simply be shorter, the easier they are to create, the more likely the idea won't die in the crib. I think 15 or 20 minutes is really not too bad for a start (especially a solo act), specials could come in multiple parts and still be in keeping of the theme.
Deepl.com is light years ahead for English to German and vice versa.
It is. I think what the parent poster is alluding to is,

> FedEx provides air transport service to USPS for Priority and Express Mail. Priority Mail and Express Mail are transported from Priority Mail processing centers to the closest FedEx-served airport, where they are handed off to FedEx. FedEx then flies them to the destination airport and hands them back to USPS for transport to the local post office and delivery.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service)

I don't see the relevance, and the GP is right; USPS could share whatever means they're using, it would seem. I'm also curious to know (and did not see in the article) if FedEx is actually liable, or why it is a good idea to have the shipping company, and not the shipping party, be liable?
"AI any week now"

What marketers proclaim that? Are they saying that or are they saying there is _utility_ in AI, now? Because me thinks, there is real utility, now, but it's going to take years until it overtakes us. Years!
CDR records are kept in every telco switch in every geo. Its required for it to work and to do billing. But the article is quite misleading in the data they contain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_detail_record
For me something stood out immediately: Over sparsely populated areas only very few impacts were reported. A snark would be that meteorites are evil and were trying to fall on people's head. A sober conclusion would be that there just weren't people to watch a meteorite impact.
Wow, I didn't realize duckduckgo had gotten so good. I'm sure you remember a couple of these for examples that I could compare, right?
"So I’m extremely careful about my financial security,"
"one of a new generation of banks that are app-only"

sounds legit... :s
Ask HN: Team Note Taking App
I am looking for a team note taking app, currently we are using google docs and it has a big discoverability problem (surprisingly search is not that useful when you have 1000 documents) Preserving company knowledge is hard when everyone uses their own evernote.

Currently considering: notion.so Is there anything else you recommend? It would be nice to have a live multi-user editing support so more than one person can work on the documentation at the same time.
Golang has good cross compilation built in. You can easily build Linux binaries on a Mac. Makes deployment and containers almost as painless as the interpreted/jited languages.
can you elaborate on what your goal is?
That is a popular example, because it is a simple way to describe the difference between templates versus bare bones C coding.

And in some scenarios even a little 2x speedup does impact

With template specializations that speedup can be increased even further and since compiler does see template bodies, there are even more opportunities for the optimizer to do its work.

C++ can be used in something like a Commodore 64 just fine, in fact with smaller binaries thanks to constexpr all things.

CppCon 2016: Jason Turner “Rich Code for Tiny Computers: A Simple Commodore 64 Game in C++17”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBkNBP00wJE
>In lectures, note-taking at all should be avoided, most of the time.

That's a very strong statement that I guess is based on your own personal experience?

If I can provide my own subjective opinion and educated guess, I do agree that taking notes verbatim feels close to pointless. You need to take in what you're hearing and grok it before you jot down your summary. Then you can go revisit your notes later to practice, or even better try to recall without looking at them first, and then check to corroborate.

>The idea I could do a better job than those authors while listening to the stuff for the first time is ludicrous.

I don't think anyone has suggested this to be the case. Even though it doesn't work that way for you, the point of note-taking even when the information is available from other materials is to facilitate retention and understanding, not to produce superior source material. I do believe it is effective for this purpose, for most people.

All through my education, I never really bothered to listen to teachers and lecturers and basically never took notes. I just read course literature and tried to grok the main concepts, and it worked wonders for getting me through tests and exams. Longer term retention of what I learned was atrocious though. Now as an adult I take notes and study in a much more disciplined way, and it's so much more effective long term that it leaves me with a sense of regret that I didn't know or realize all this as a kid.

Just my two cents.
We can look at natural experiments like England's switch away from coal gas, or the introduction of catalytic convertors, and the decline in rates of suicide in the years afterwards. Both these events removed popular methods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWPEVhrWZS0

Start at 6:50 for reducing access to means and methods.
Julia is the fastest (in speed achievable in a short dev time) language I’ve ever used. Especially for any scientific computing workloads.
how about they just don't give them in the first place
We build it in Docker, but copy the release tarball out of the container and upload it directly to our servers.
> Is it heavy enough to sink nets?

It depends on the type and size of the net. Dermochelys coriacea can weight 500Kg easily

a) An obvious solution that would protect fisheries, and save the lives of thousands of marine birds, turtles, seals and whales, would be to change by international laws the matherial used in nets to made it more degradable in some points

b) Another partial solution could be to build shredder ships

c) And I suppose that anything that would replace part of the expensive fuel spent by very big war ships (aircraft carriers, etc) would save millions of dollars. Equipate this floating cities with secondary motors able to burn plastic instead gas would increase dramatically the autonomy of those ships, reduce the temptation to get ride of the garbage dumping it in the open sea, and would benefit also the environment, something that can be used to improve PR also.

b) and c) could be combined in one solution allowing the shredder ships reducing their cost per hour at sea

All they would need is to equipate ships with big particle filters like black boxes to store ALL the dioxins and noxious substances until real decontamination in appropiate ports. Modern cars have yet this technology.

Some plastics are reciclable and could be sold and used as an economic resource instead as garbage.

Just my 2 Cents
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What's it's plan for making money.

As I understood it current (checking) accounts don't really make any money, they're just used as loss leaders to lure in customers.
My in-ears usually break in a month or two due to wax issues. I'm not sure how a detachable cable would help with that.
Our startup did, but that was 20 years ago and the Oracle regional office was literally the floor below us.
A standardized QR code printed on cones to say "construction ahead do this" seems relatively simple compared to correctly interpreting the construction site. Would also produce automatically labeled training data
While this could be true. We do have to be suspect that these security articles, unless very well detailed like what cloudfare publishes or many of the other great security services publish, could very well be fake news. Essentially this article gets 75% of its technical details wrong or embellishes on their details. We are then told, we can't disclose anything related to the hack beyond the fact that we saw a [insert] _____very well known type of hack performed___ on ___very large group of people___ and ____we've been investigating for awhile_____ and we know this because we saw the hackers get a password from ____one computer then hop to the next computer - then get the domain server!! jackpot______
OctoPrint user here. I'm surprised that unattended printing is somehow supposed to be the primary use case for OctoPrint.

For me the point of the software is not to leave a printer unattended for long periods of time. To be honest, I don't see how OctoPrint is fundamentally different from the printers' physical panels in this regard: my printers did not come with deadman switches either! If I wanted to start a 2 week unattended megaprint, I could do that from the standard printer panel as well.

The draw of OctoPrint comes from the fact that it's a standardized and networked UI. It allows you to upload files to your printer, manage its settings, take a video of the print. It's a deluxe firmware.
I agree with first part.

But what does it explain if founder has a small network or is unlucky that good candidates are currently busy?