skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The comparison is very useful for anyone looking to increase the speed of code they've written in Python.

Python has numerous mechanisms that are much more efficient than the solution in this artice, like zip, map and filter functions, as well as the excellent built-in libraries like itertools and functools.
Quite comparable - Phoronix did some benchmarks in the past ( https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=Talos+II ) and while performance wasn't always the greatest - the community has quickly responded in making things better by either addressing shortfalls in the benchmarks themselves ( https://sthbrx.github.io/blog/2018/08/15/improving-performan... ) or by bringing optimisations to the platform which x86 already benefits from ( https://www.bountysource.com/teams/ibm/bounties (as just an example)).
Common misconceptions programmers have about lists of common misconceptions
For the most part I now only eat meat, eggs, cheese, some nuts, and non-starchy vegetables. Mostly meat, and mostly very fatty meat like Pork belly. At 40 years old i've never been healthier as an adult - I don't buy the argument that meat is bad for you.
Buckfast doesn't deserve to be lumped with glue sniffing. It is more an icon of revelry than alcoholism with it costing about twice as much as cheap wine. Its herbal stimulants give it an immediate effect similar to doing shots of a spirit but with half the alcohol load.
patents only last X years, so the incentive is to take the revenue from drug A and use it develop drug B. otherwise eventually your revenue stream will dry up and you'll go out of business.
That's not how write offs work. If you spent $100 on materials making a widget, and valued it at $1000, then somehow lost it (eg. stolen, non paying customer), your profit is -$100[1], not -$1000. Likewise, you can't claim a $1000 loss on that debt, only $100. The only way you can claim $1000 is if you previously recorded the $900 in interest as profit (and paid taxes on it).

[1]

profit = revenue - cost
= 0 - $100
= -$100
Wikipedia claims that coreboot "includes an open source SMM/SMI handler implementation, for some chipsets" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Mode)
> Do you assert that the prevailing or overwhelming opinion was in favour of one particular position? Can you provide evidence for that?

I think like he's arguing exactly the opposite, as he's implied multiple times:

> The challenge is the low bar of whether or not a topic has an overwhelming majority of opinion.

> But I'm asking why the person posting believes that the HN community overwhelmingly believes X and their evidence for that.
Just remember in this less than perfect world, firmware bugs can cause physical damage.

- Signed, firmware developer.
Very funny: A security issue in a group sex app is reported by penetration test partners. It could have been the name of the app.
Alan Kay on scaling via distributed systems
I can answer this! So my work computers are 28, 32, and 96 physical cores each. And honestly, none of those are enough. I'd ideally have a very high clock speed 128 core desktop with a 1,000-10,000 compute cluster available with 10 gb/s internet speeds.

Now back to your question on why these are needed, parallelized simulations. I do computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for designing, fixing, troubleshooting, and optimizing processes and products. They solve large systems of equations that need many cores for meshing and solving and then we need high CPU/GPU core counts just to handle and process the data. In my case at least, the average industrial/manufacturing piece of equipment needs about 1000 cores to recreate as a digital twin due to the amount of multiphysics, complicated geometry, etc.
It seems to be very expensive. About 6 times more expensive than Semaphore 2.
Some strings:

/usr1/compiler_cpu/code/current/build/hcc_arm64le_ark/../../open_source/hcc_arm64le_build_src/gcc-7.3.0/configure --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --target=aarch64-linux-gnu --with-arch=armv8-a --prefix=/usr1/compiler_cpu/code/current/build/hcc_arm64le_ark/arm64le_build_dir/gcc-ark-7.3.0-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu --disable-multilib --disable-libmudflap --enable-nls --disable-sjlj-exceptions --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-linker-build-id --enable-shared --with-arch=armv8-a --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --disable-libstdcxx-pch --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-lto --enable-c99 --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-multiarch --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-checking=release --enable-threads=posix --enable-plugin --enable-long-long --with-pkgversion='Compiler CPU V200R005C00SPC030B003' --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,lto --with-headers=/usr1/compiler_cpu/code/current/build/hcc_arm64le_ark/arm64le_build_dir/gcc-ark-7.3.0-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu/sysroot/usr/include --with-sysroot=/usr1/compiler_cpu/code/current/build/hcc_arm64le_ark/arm64le_build_dir/gcc-ark-7.3.0-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu/sysroot --with-build-sysroot=/usr1/compiler_cpu/code/current/build/hcc_arm64le_ark/arm64le_build_dir/gcc-ark-7.3.0-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu/sysroot --with-gmp=/usr1/compiler_cpu/code/current/build/hcc_arm64le_ark/arm64le_build_dir/gcc-ark-7.3.0-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu --with-mpfr=/usr1/compiler_cpu/code/current/build/hcc_arm64le_ark/arm64le_build_dir/gcc-ark-7.3.0-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu --with-mpc=/usr1/compiler_cpu/code/current/build/hcc_arm64le_ark/arm64le_build_dir/gcc-ark-7.3.0-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu --with-isl=/usr1/compiler_cpu/code/current/build/hcc_arm64le_ark/arm64le_build_dir/gcc-ark-7.3.0-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu --libdir=/usr1/compiler_cpu/code/current/build/hcc_arm64le_ark/arm64le_build_dir/gcc-ark-7.3.0-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu/lib64 --disable-bootstrap --enable-fix-cortex-a53-835769 --enable-fix-cortex-a53-843419 --with-system-zlib

Nothing out of the ordinary at first glance. The tarball has your usual compiler stuff (binutils, gold) and a standard linux sysroot with glibc.

Whatever "ARK" is, I don't see it.
TV addiction is a very good point. If they're banning infinite scroll, then they should ban broadcast TV - viewers should have to deliberately press a button to continue to the next show. I personally would actually be very cool with that.
Have they taken meat off the menu at UN offices and HQ?

Or is this for « everyone else »?
George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles
> Why would courts care?

Because it's fraud. Taking on big debts you never intend to pay right before a bankruptcy will get you in a lot of trouble.
Fun fact: DF contains a CP437-to-Unicode mapping function, to let the text-mode output work on modern terminals.

It's still all CP437 internally.
Physicist Solves 2k-Year Old Problem That'll Lead to Cheaper, Sharper Lenses
The very beginning? Doesn't the famous Zuck quote put even that into the scummy period?
In sweden this is called being a Stockholm vegetarian, and it's very much a thing. I know a bunch of people like you, and they all claim that the hardest thing is to not just go "fuck it" and eat meat like they did before.
Imperialism has both good and bad. The bad comes in the form of top down governance. The good comes in the form of modernization. See Roman and imperial China Empires among others.
A comparison to cigarettes is not fair because I can quit cigarettes without any ramifications beyond the withdrawal itself.

Trying to quit overuse of mobile phones while not losing access to their good features (maps, calendar, actual phone) is like trying to quit smoking while constantly walking around with a lit cigarette in your mouth.

"Hey man what are you doing with a cig behind your desk?"

- "I'm trying to quit smoking."
Predict Employee Retention Using Keras and TensorFlow
>A) Linus won't stablize kernel ABI

Yes, but this is for very good reasons. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...
I can't test it, but maybe it's already there... :)

But if I need to add websites to spaces by hand it's not for me as a power user. Make something that will know what websites I often visit and place them automatically in certain spaces. You don't need to stop here! You can go further with this, so if I open 30 tabs of PornHub it will create Adult space for me so I don't need to worry. ;)
Looks like it's mostly from one `ui_gif.gif` file.
Not an epidemiologist, but I understand it mostly has to do with the means by which the virus is transmitted. Ebola is very lethal but requires physical contact of bodily fluids for transmission, which contains a lot its spreading. You can probably sit on a plane next to a contaminated person and you will be fine. That contains a lot the contagion vs a virus like the flu.
If no one uses them, how would they be profitable? Profit only matters if their revenues are still in the billions. If both of them raised prices by 25% this year and another 25% this year and lowered whatever advertising or marketing they do, they could probably cut down on their losses significantly. And without losing too much revenue.
Googling some gdp graph tells you that Estonia's GDP dipped -14% in 2009 while some other countries featured in the article's drug graphs had it a lot easier (around -5% for Scotlan, Denmark, USA). Seems like the # of unemployed quintupled as well. Combined with the country's rather light social safety net and relatively low GDP to begin with it must have been pretty nasty.
I wonder if you could set it up such that all donations go into a pot/fund, and then have each person vote for the party they wish to receive the funds proportional to that vote.
> possibly get mad about them, and hold the government accountable

When was the last time it happened, if ever?
The United States doesn't harvest the organs of prisoners.
Praise be to the corporations who were so margin-driven as to develop the cure I need, but can't afford.

If only parma had some kind of inherent motivating factor.
climate change is caused by activities of large corporations but your solution
is regular people
changing diet? it's like suggesting people start driving 2 cylinder cars with AC off while fleet of largest ship companies create more co2 than all cars combined.
you want to stop climate change? do the following:
-stop cutting down forests.
-stop drilling in arctic
-stop oil spills
-stop overfishing
list goes on and all of these things are done by large corporations with approval of governments. leave regular people alone, the capitalist system has strangled them enough already.
My attention span has gotten worse these past ten years and I don't even own a (smart) phone. Don't know the root cause, but it ain't phones. It's probably the Internet itself or at least some of the websites you can find that give you an endless stream of information.
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Six Smart Ways to Assess Your Health That Have Nothing to Do with BMI
People also died precisely because of market manipulation, due to food shortages, housing shortages, and of course healthcare shortages, which were especially catastrophic. I was not talking about the gulags.

And I am not Russian.
> The fear of the TV detector van kept people tuned in [...]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but that doesn't seem to me like it makes any sense. How could fear of being caught watching the TV without a licence make you more likely to watch the TV? It could make you more likely to pay, or less likely to have a TV, but those are entirely different.
What if you're blind AND have a black-and-white TV?
If it makes it easier to spy on the competition, why not?
Star Wars Is Struggling to Win over the Next Generation of Kids
The Chinese government can force cooperation from any company operating in China for any kind of data access, without court ruling or any due process. This basically means the Chinese government will have direct data access to phones running Huawei's OS.

See also https://www.ft.com/content/282f8ca0-3be6-11e9-b72b-2c7f526ca...
> Americans are over consuming food

Overconsumption is generally less than 10% of their caloric needs, so they can't just drop a large source of nutrition.
> Some people must really like associating with their blackmailers if that's the case.

Or their blackmailers require the social engagements and outwardly positive attitude as part of the blackmail.
Whenever I worry about someone bioengineering a plague for humans to save the planet, the pragmatist in me realizes they could just do the same against cows and only end up being remembered as half evil.
Local agriculture won't feed 7 billion people and even worst went the method you are proposing is GMO, fertilizer and pesticide free.
Why is their age something to mention?
Seriously, I understand everyone currently would sell their mother to lure in investors, but aren't they the one who take primary responsibility even? Ethically I would say yes, but laws seem to fail here again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio...

https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/torture/secret-c...
Tactical tablets are now being doled out to Marine grunt squads
It's a funny term since the (legendary) original "peeping Tom" was a man looking out from inside his house at someone naked in the public streets.
Wait until it gets into the US in a marginal part of society. Given we have no universal health care, it's likely to spread and evolve faster than we can stop it. The person in Dallas could have infected the homeless person in the same ambulance who subsequently wandered off. Imagine an illegal person catching it and fearing discovery tries to avoid a hospital, only to infect those they are sharing a tiny room with.
The users' data is far more secure as a result of Pen Test Partners' actions. So there's a dot on a map within a block or two of your downtown apartment, indicating that somebody in the area is freaky. As opposed to a public API leaking your location, birthdate, orientation, kinks, and nudes.
Why not? Put big (fatbike) tires on and a strong motor in, done.
Five Australians Accused of Cryptocurrency Fraud of $1.83M
Serious vulnerabilities discovered in VIPRE and BullGuard mobile antivirus
Tax write-offs are profits that were never made in the first place. It's not some sort of a tax credit. The reason you pay less taxes is because you didn't make a (or made less) profit.
Nothing is forever, just like empires come and fall.
So will lingua-franca people will adopt because money can be earned in the new lingua-franca.
> Buy only locally farmed organic meat.

No. Don't buy meat. Buy beans. Buy tofu. Hell, buy Beyond Burgers. We don't need meat. It's bad for the planet, bad for your health and it goes without saying, bad for the animals.
If everyone stopped traveling for fun, that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions even more.

You’re not going to guilt people into changing their behavior.

A carbon tax fixes this.
What a garbage take.

Too much profit is the problem. You completely ignored the case where the epi pen had it's price increased 400%

That literally killed people you fucking corporate bootlicking piece of trash.
I recently made a super simple personal website in Rust (https://github.com/martingallagher/website) it's basically just a markdown renderer. I think markdown input with some CSS provides a nice balance in terms of simplicity and aesthetics (subjective of course).
Well then the next generation will lack the attention span necessary to earn a PhD and get jobs on those teams. So in the long run the problem will be self correcting.
No, accuracy is but one possible goal. "Machine learning practitioners take pride in models that optimize the value of that model."

And since we cannot define exactly what this value is (accuracy, RMSE, bias or a specific confusion matrix), we have to make a more abstract definition.

We are now left with a question. Is this abstract definition quantifiable? If so, we can still exclude the statistician w.r.t. understandably. However, if we allow qualitative value as well, the traditional statistician is back at the table.

Now, a further refinement needs to be made. Since fairness, accountability and transparency in Data Science are in the limelight, we can make a point that our ability to understand is a key metric for Machine Learning models as well. It is interesting to see the tendency to associate words or phrases to key neurons in embeddings. For example, in embeddings of faces, we can associate gender, ethnicitity, fatness and gaze with some of the embedded neurons.
This is absolutely true -- you don't see drug researchers on yachts. The people actually doing the work aren't rich as avarice, it's the people who turn their work into a "business".

People doing groundbreaking work are motivated to do the work for whatever reason, and it's seldom money. There are more important things to them, whether it's simply doing Good, or status, or it fascinates them, or whatever. The guy who invented insulin sold the patent for a dollar.

New drugs and therapies are often developed outside these big companies anyway, and they just buy them, run them through the certification, and then sell them at incredible markup. The money's not in development, it's in the business side of things.

We've (some of us, at least) so bought into the argument that the world needs to be this way that we totally ignore these things actually get done.
The lat/lon floating point delusion
All those crimes happen offline, though. Internet is just a communication channel.
Well, solution would be to tax carbon, not the specific field. I don't see the reason and disagree to accept meat tax without banana tax. Carbon footprint should be taken into account the same way fuel cost is taken.
likely faster for huge lists:

Nope, at least not on my computer. The map solution was ~50% slower than the list comprehensions when run a list with 1 million ints, and almost twice as slow when run on a list with 100k ints.

In fact even using a for loop in the obvious way was slightly faster than map with 1 million elements (about halfway between the map and list comprehension performance wise).

Map without the last list call is however very slightly faster than the equivalent generator comprehension.
> They walk...

My grandmother is 90, and is unable to walk more than a few feet at a time without being in debilitating pain from advanced arthritis and her being too old for knee replacement surgery. These are the edge cases I'm interested in, especially as the first world rapidly ages and the number of people in the population with mobility issues increases. If the solution is exceptional accessibility for wheelchairs and electric scooters, perfect!
The misunderstanding of “let it crash”
The technology is not what is being regulated here. What's being regulated is the use of said technology to do things that were hitherto untractable, and therefore not explicitly forbidden.

In other words, for violating the spirit of the law, but on a computer.
I think we should be pointing to science - which to date it hasn't been adequately done relating to diet, to see what diet is optimal, and how that varies per group whether that's by blood type, DNA/ancestral data, or other - while taking in the particular sensitivities of each individual as part of the research vs. making the reference points based on a structure of scarcity of what was available based on what people could afford; also having an idea of a person's current health state, how healthy their GI tract is and overall system needs to be taken into account as to how they may or may not respond to different diets - including not limited to how we're only just beginning to understand how gut bacteria and within the whole GI tract can strongly impact outcome.
UBahn is (surprisingly frequently) used by people that appear to have some kind of mental disorder, yelling at and attacking other passengers, to a lesser extend by what I would describe as wannabe gangs, people under the influence and plain drug criminals.
Nevermind that the subway has a lot of strict rules in that regard but Berlin being Berlin they are hardly ever enforced.

Just an anecdote: I once witnessed a really large muscular and completely drunk guy attacking an actor that was dressed up as Friedrich II., including what looked like a rapier or small sabre. The situation was definitely unsafe for the actor and (if he would not have managed to protect his rapier, because that was what that drunk guy was after) potentially dangerous for anyone else.

Another day I had to interrupt some aggressive youngsters trying to rob other passengers in the middle of the day. When they left it turned out they were armed with knives. Not a fun thing to learn. I notified the subway driver once I got out (the gang was moving from wagon to wagon), but he essentially did nothing to stop them.

I have not witnessed such stuff in other cities' public transport. And certainly not in that frequency.
Coming from Alan Kay i definitely need to check these out. If I'd read this post a year ago I would have known almost none of the authors, but after reading "Hackers: the heroes of the computer revolution" earlier, these are all names that stood out right away.

Both Minsky and McCarthy seem like almost mythical figures in the book, and I don't think I could ever hold aa candle to them, but the next best thing is probably to understand their thinking. I think it's a bit easy for us to get caught up in the medium blog posts detailing a small segment of a new framework, when what we really ought to do to grow, is go back to the basics and understand them in-depth.
Uhh, not all sanctions are created equal, but it is true that 'life finds a way'. Just from what I saw thus far, the moment a bank notices that an entity attempts to circumvent sanctions, bank goes hard on them. The fines and penalties make it a risky proposition otherwise.
Modern medicine also means earlier detection and quarantine, so by the same logic it should mean less pronounced symptoms so a virus could hide longer.
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> Assume for sake of argument that climate change is catastrophic and that ExxonMobil knew as much. We’re to believe that the real victims here are ExxonMobil’s investors?

The law doesn't really subscribe to the theory of exclusive victimhood any more than it does to the theory (also popular in internet discussion groups) of exclusive responsibility; for any individual act the law has no problem with their being a number of different responsible parties (and even different classes of responsibile parties) and/or a number of different (classes of) victims.