skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 2015 paper is obviously wrong or selling something; it's virtually always IO bound. Yes, I know many people assert otherwise; they're wrong.

Some map reduce loads, especially the kind that people running spark clusters want to do, end up moving a lot of data around. Either because the end user isn't thinking about what they're doing (95% of the time they're some DS dweeb who doesn't know how computers work), or because they need to solve a problem they didn't think of when they laid their data down.

I guess I cite myself, having done this sort of thing any number of times, and helped write a shardable columnar database engine which deals with such problems. If you don't want to cite me; go ask Art Whitney, Stevan Apter or Dennis Shasha, whose ideas I shamelessly steal. FWIIW around that timeframe I beat a 84 thread spark cluster grinding on parquet files with 1 thread in J (by a factor of approximately 10,000 -the spark job ran for days and never completed), basically because I understand that, no matter how many papers get written, data science problems are still IO bound.
Then maybe he shouldn't be using made up statistics to reinforce his arguments. He can't just spout bullshit and be immune to criticism because he's not a true "x".
You are assuming that the music is the most important thing. It very well may be, but part of the culture around vinyl is, I think, the actual physical product, particularly the art that accompanies the vinyl. Add to that the DIY ethos that drives the punk scene, and those physical artifacts become even more important.
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I think it is helpful because it’s asking for consistency.

People are (rightfully) outraged when a protestor dies in Hong Kong, but protestors also die in the US.

For example, the Kent State shootings:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

The point is that if you’re demanding a certain standard from China or other countries, you should demand that in the US as well.
Goes nicely with 18497 "Wash and reset wigs" provided that the wigs are made of ginger hair.
You said yourself that the government has all the power, and can simply snuff out any resistence. If that's the case, doesn't that make the protesters assault a senseless assault? What were they trying to accomplish when they were beating the officer?
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> If he had access to these things, then he would have played at an even higher level than he did.

Access isn't enough, it takes a lot of work. There are plenty of talented players who simply can't hang with the people who spend most of their time studying. Now I don't have a way to know if Stu Ungar would have been up for studying solver results for 10 hours a day, but the rest of his personality seems to indicate otherwise.
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In case it wasn't obvious from my comment when I used the term 'people' there I was referring to individual non-state actors.

A drone or a drone swarm is an incredible force multiplier that will allow individuals to commit atrocities and have a significant chance of not getting caught which will make enforcement and prevention exceedingly difficult if not impossible.
> it only makes it worse because you have to think to yourself "he might be right"

Seems a self-defeating statement. Thinking isn't wrong. Neither it is that someone else is right.
Oh absolutely. We knew and he knew why we wanted a multiple-choice test :-)
100 kg of fuel and 50 kg less on the engine weight allows for a lot of batteries. Not sure what is the flight time, but if someone can help with energy density we can calculate the exact number. I wildly guess it is more than 1 hours, but definitely less than 6 hours.

Later edit: I did some calculations, the result is less than 30 minutes.
I think more precisely, my comment was about talking up something without adding extra insight or analysis to the discussion, and GP just posted their app without any extra insight. I intended to have been more precise, but got distracted. thank you for the elaboration, I would agree with you in general.
That's great to hear.

I'm by no means an expert, I became interested when my ex-wife was being taught p-value rounding in her first year course, right before the Crisis became well-known, which with a background in statistics absolutely horrified me.

I haven't put in a huge effort to stay up-to-date, so hopefully the situation has improved some, but the community has seemed... Divided on whether or not replicating studies is even important.
Why does the subset sum example here seem to fail on '0'? Or is it just returning the empty set?
Agreed. Looks like it was removed, good choice.

It is a bit disturbing to see a new account just drop a linked in profile like that.

Anonymous stores like this are great, but I really don't want to see the IRL profiles and etc for folks who don't have a voice or wish to stay anonymous.
>1556. Enter data into computers for use in analyses or reports

Literally scale.ai
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The issue is that Stallman has been this way for decades -- he's always been outspoken, nitpicky, and aggressively libertarian -- and FSF has flourished under his sole leadership.

It's only in 2019 that internet culture and clickbait media have made it a "problem". To me, that is significantly more harmful than any of the wonky things RMS sometimes says.
"524. Solicit new business." how did i never think of this before...
It took me a while to realize the conceit of this post. I took it seriously because you are absolutely right that there is money on both sides. The difference between the camps is that one has data supporting their argument while the other does not. Climate denial is supported by money and ignorance. Climate science is supported by a big grassroots efforts both by citizens and scientists AND the data. I hope in the long run this camp wins out because I would like my grandchildren to have a shot at correcting my generations mistakes.

Here's Phil Plait tearing William Briggs apart [1]. If you can call him an authority on climate science, I can call the Bad Astronomer an authority on science discussion.

[1] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/tag/william-b...
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Non-American here, i never really understood your second amendment or how you cling to it in the modern age.

What are a couple of rednecks with assault rifles (which arguably they shouldn't be able to purchase anyway) going to do against semi-autonomy kill droids being flown from a bunker in the desert?
> And the basic latency (e.g. for typing text or clicking a menu) is the same as terminal latency too.

If "terminal latency" is the high watermark, it doesn't bring pleasant thoughts to mind. I find typing over ssh to be irritating. Not awful, but a clear downgrade from a local terminal.
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I’m from the mainland and totally with HK’s cause. But I do think the violence is at least unnecessary if not detrimental to the movement. If tanks roll in, there’s no point using violence as they’ll be crushed. If they don’t, it seems to me there’s enough space for peaceful protests, which can be even more effectual in many ways. And the people of Hong Kong have shown an incredible amount of creativity in non-violent protests. The kid is so young he shouldn’t be involved in such violence. I hope he will make a full recovery.
With the software update thing the OP might have a point. On the other hand NotPetya got distributed via a software update. As well giving law enforcement access may as well result in handing the keys to third parties who have no incentive to keep them secret. And if keys are being kept at the manufacturer he might get overwhelmed by request resulting in wide in-house access to the keys.
How fantastic is this. I am Egyptian working in North America. This sounds like something I would love to attend
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How can you(US gov, Softbank) support a government who does this to a journalist?

"""

Kennedy says she heard Khashoggi asking twice whether he is being kidnapped and then saying, 'How could this happen in an embassy?'"
"The sounds that are heard after that point will tend to indicate that he's suffocated. Probably with a plastic bag over his head," says Callamard. "His mouth was also closed - violently - maybe with a hand or something else."
Kennedy believes the forensic pathologist now takes over on the orders of the team leader.
"You hear a voice saying, 'Let him cut,' and it sounds like Mutreb.
"Then somebody shouting, 'It's over,' and someone else shouting, 'Take it off, take it off. Put this on his head. Wrap it.' I can only assume that they had removed his head."

"""
The gestalt is a lie.
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Hi, do you think it's possible for someone from Europe to get an entry level job in the US VC firm?

I think there are 2 main questions:

1. Even if we assume that a VC firm/its partner would find me qualified, I think that unless I'm a real superstar it wouldn't make much sense to hire me from Europe when there's SO MANY great people with degrees from top colleges to choose from in the US

2. Would a VC firm bother to help an entry level position applicant get a work visa? It's not trivial & why go through all of this when they can just hire someone from the US
Great Britain gave HK back to China. They can do with it as they please - unfortunately I don't see how the protesters can come out on the right side of this without a revolution.

Thought experiment: if say Rhode Island had a Muslim majority and they voted themselves Sharia law in violation of federal articles, how cavalier would the federal government / the rest of the populous be in tolerating this?
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If HK'ers had a similar right to carry guns, do you honestly believe that they would be any better off right now?
Not always plausible;

When the LS 400 was disassembled for engineering analysis, Cadillac engineers concluded that the vehicle could not be built using existing GM methods

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexus_LS#Industrial_signific...
> People don't think this sort of thing can happen in the US

Yes we do.

Its one of the reasons i avoid visiting the US besides the obvious TSA/Immigration controls.
Audio books are fine but I've heard from teacher friends that a very high percentage of middle-school-aged kids now strongly resist reading without also having the audio version playing. I suspect access to such has stunted their ability to 1) sound out new words, and 2) to pick up tone, cadence et c from text alone. I find this worrying.

Last year my then-kindergartener's "reading time" at school turned out largely to be having the school iPad read to her. She got worse at reading for months before we realized what was going on and how much work we'd have to do at home to undo the damage the school was inflicting. If you give them the option plus little supervision of course they'll take the easy way. Ugh.
The problem is that for lots of these services, some of the coolest features come from them having your real data. I would love to be able to yell across my house and tell google to re-order toilet paper, or check what's on my calendar for lunch tomorrow, or remind me to change the guest bathroom lightbulb when I get home from work today. Seems like overly aggressive obfuscation would take a lot of features off the table.

I wish there was a way to have the techno-optimist frictionless utopia without giving up full control over my own personal data. The right to be forgotten in the EU is a good step towards that, but we need to go a little farther I think. It just seems like nobody is really sure exactly what that will look like yet.
A couple of the large files are explainable:

- The largest .c file is actually the CATH database, not sure why it has that extension

- The large .cpp file is actually C++ but has a kind of 'data as code' approach defining bonds between atoms
The principle I'm arguing for does not involve any specific view of what "better" is.

A norm of shutting down someone whenever a number of people consider that person's views or actions to be offensive or harmful will stifle change. It will stifle all change and evolution of norms and beliefs. It's an authoritarian impulse that will only ratchet up restrictions on what can be said and done.

If such a norm had been in place in the last few hundred years, it would have severely hampered all the past changes that are now widely agreed to have been good things.
Does that mean I can buy a more expensive house and get a higher salary to pay for it? If everybody gets that option, then nobody is going to live in cheap housing anymore.

That's great for lifting everybody out of poverty of course, but how is this suddenly possible? Can we maybe give everybody a Basic Income to take care of all the cost of living stuff?

Also, if living in an expensive city doesn't cut into your disposable income, then even more people will want to live in those cities, driving housing prices up even more.

I'm absolutely sympathetic to the equality for all argument, but I suspect there's a reason why this is not how capitalism usually works.
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I'm not so sure you can say the best players today are better than he was because, at least in the case of no limit hold em, the game is as much about psychology as it is about math. I've watched some of the video of his playing and, from what I saw, he controlled the table with a very aggressive style. It's one of the more interesting things I've seen in game composition because one would think that component of the game would not be such a determining factor. Who knows how, Phil Ivey for instance, would handle it.
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In theory would the performance be better or machine code smaller?
According to their policies, if you want to relocate, you have to tell the company which will choose to extend you a new contract or not.

(Presumably this partially relates to salary but they also make the point they're really not indifferent to location. They take things like timezones, proximity to customers, etc. into account.)
> if you’re demanding a certain standard from China or other countries, you should demand that in the US as well

America not being a dictatorship, there are people demanding this. Through elected leaders. Through independent courts. Through Constitutionally-protected assembly and protest.

None of the above apply in China. And they’re rapidly eroding in Hong Kong, too.

Yes, we should be outraged by police violence in America. But it’s a matchstick to the blast furnace that is Xi’s regime of secret police, political repression and concentration camps.
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The same thing that people in Afghanistan did?

It's also not cool to characterize people who have assault rifles or support the 2nd amendment as rednecks. I'm certainly not one. It's actually kind of offensive to even use that term anyway if you ask me.
The article is very narrow and focuses on a single example.

What's more, the real take-away is that you can put side by side two graphs. It doesn't mean there is any causal relationships between them. The example only seems convincing because both graphs are health-related. If they were Pac-man highscore vs milk production, it would show how hollow the article is.
But there is no issue really, just a case where the states didn't respect EU laws that they themselves wanted.

The EU law states no worker can work more than X hours a week, for the health benefit of the citizens. A court ruled that the volunteer firefighters time counts as working time. So now we need to include that in how we make them work when we need.

Knowing my country (France), I'm sure it will be some sort of "the hours worked as voluntary firefighter are not due to their other employer, but will still be paid probably by the state or by the employer but with according tax deduction", something like this.

So now comes a choice; either we think it's unhealthy for people to work more than 42 hours a week (and we did since we voted this in), and then it makes sense. Or we don't, and then we're free to change the regulation. Or we think some form or work shouldn't count against that limit (such as public work for emergency services) and we can update the regulation.

Saying we shouldn't make regulation because sometime we may have to redefine more precisely some of its details when the situation arise makes very little sense to me.
My parents had 2 dogs. The smarter one understood that when she buried some bones while the other dog watched - she later reburied it somewhere else when the other dog was at home.

She also knew not to go into the living room while father was there (because she was technically forbidden to do that), but went to that room when father was away.

I'm pretty sure she had some kind of theory of mind.
A few of these are totally ripe for disruption!

>51. Conduct raids and order detention of witnesses and suspects for questioning.
Obviously this is very complicated. Protesters have rights but so do police officers —we hope both operate within the bounds of the law and then that politicians would do the work for a compromise.

But, it becomes really complicated rather fast when rights get eroded.

When the Russians were caught unprepared for war, it wasn’t “right” to send their young conscripts to war with antiquated arms against a modernized force. But what was the alternative to certain carnage? Supplicant carnage? I don’t condone what the Soviets did to their own, but at the same time they had little alternative, though it was due to negligence at the highest office at the time.
Same thing the original Americans did when protesting the massively better trained and armed British Army. Keep their wits about them and keep fighting.

If anything the war in Afghanistan has proven that technology is no match for resilience and grit.
Pretty cool, but terrifying. I would be in constant stress and probably resign the day after if I was required to join an alway-on call.

I work remotely.
> In reality, I think the likely scenario is more like "I'm a she :)", and unless you continue to use 'he' pronouns then there isn't a problem.

This is flatly contradicted by both Caleb's post (upon which this whole thread is based) and Monica's.

Caleb resigned because the new rules proposed would not allow him to compromise by simply referring to trans people by name and avoiding all pronouns. His issue is not that he insists on using "he" for a transwoman, but that he refuses to use "she", and would rather stick to names.

Likewise, per the from-memory transcript she posted, Monica - who has no issue referring to a person who has changed gender by their preferred gendered pronoun! - simply stated that she often prefers to avoid the singular genderless "they" when referring to a specific person, and so would prefer to refer to a person who has that as their preferred pronoun by name. That, apparently, was enough to get her fired.
Sure lets ban cars and planes too. /s

That's obviously the wrong solution. The correct solution is to price things correctly. If energy is precious, increase energy prices. Some people will choose to fly, others will choose to have faster washing cycles...
Oh, so they are a classic tech company, then.
My first thought is that Toyota needs to license this for their hybrids, and mount it on/as the flywheel. Using something like this as either MG1 or both MG1 and MG2 would seriously minify their hybrid drivetrain.
They're pulled from crates.io. I suppose it works as every other dependency manager, except that you can't have a left-pad because crates can't be removed.

In this specific case, most dependencies are authored by people well-known and trusted in the community. The Rust standard library is pretty well-rounded (not compared to Python sense, but it's not like JavaScript either), so they're not something like left-pad or is-odd.

You have there an error handling crate by the second most prolific Rust compiler contributor (if the counts are correct), an OAuth client, an HTTP one, a interactive line editor (like readline), _the_ serialization library in the ecosystem with its JSON support crate, a TOML config parser, the URL parser used by Servo and a crate for determining user paths on Unix.
The video. Pretty clear he's swinging something that looks like a pipe or a wooden stick. Not the full context, and I imagine the police have things to answer for. But swinging a stick/pipe at an armed person isn't wise.

https://www.facebook.com/hkucampustv/videos/542398913195804/...
I find it interesting how split the HN comments on this story are. Half seem to think this guy is an entitled low performer chasing high compensation, and the other half relate to him and feel that he was treated unfairly by Snap.

I’m not sure what that means.
I'm not sure the implementation details can be ignored so easily. With certain exception, the Go authors do not like implicit conversions and the associated runtime costs.

I look at the discussion of covariance/contravariance and memory layout as two sides of the same coin.
An article about covariance/contravariance that doesn't once mention either terms...
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Indeed, I've 20/20 vision... Setting "Larger Text" in Accessibility Settings unfortunately doesn't increase the rendered text size on that website (it should) but it also doesn't increase it on Twitter's fully mobile website.
It is actually growing rapidly in Japan. But I think one reason that smartphone usage in adults in Japan is lower than other developed countries is because of their aging population. Their birthrates have been so low, it is hard to offset an aging population who are living longer and are unlikely to adopt smartphones.
I was thinking about Power BI.
Almost every one in America has the "luxury" of examining food ethics, when 95% of people in this country actively consume a product made through what amounts to a holocaust.

Of course we all are part of some systemic oppression one way or another in the products we consume, but with the availability of information on how brutal and sadistic factory farming is, nobody has an excuse in the first world.
> the violence is at least unnecessary if not detrimental to the movement

Judgement is complicated by documented evidence of undercover Hong Kong police dressing up as protesters and acting like belligerent idiots [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/world/hong-kong-police-pr...
Asymmetric warfare[1] strategies are incredibly powerful and allow just a couple of rednecks with assault rifles, common chemicals, and vehicles fight successfully against the most powerful militaries in the world. Just look at the war in Afghanistan to see how difficult such warfare can be.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_warfare?wprov=sfla1
I'm all for "more accessible design" as it also correlates with "easier to use", but otherwise I think you're making my point for me. Do your family members with dysgraphia (difficulty writing) benefit from ramps, larger phone booths and hearing-impaired accessibility features?
I'm unsure of how far along HK is in the reintegration prices with China. That being said, there is a strong case to be made that the Chinese have every right to eliminate dissidents and protesters regardless of whether these unscrupulous individuals were assaulting law enforcement, as China generally forbids such activities and these individuals are putting thousands of lives at risk by perpetuating these events.

In the United States, they still have some semblance of a first amendment. Drawing these parallels, is why it is apropos.