skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check out crater: https://github.com/rust-lang/crater

The rust devs recompile a huge chunk of the entire rust ecosystem to make sure new compiler versions don't break things.

I can't imagine something like this being even close to feasible in the C++ ecosystem; there is too little standardization of build tooling, too much brittle/broken code.

Still it's not cheap and Amazon is paying, bless their hearts and excess compute capacity when it's not Christmas.
Or license the tech they had developed to other manufacturers. Maybe that will still happen.
I’m with you on this. Takeaways have existed for a long time, and at least in the U.K., US, and other big markets, delivery is often a relatively cheap option.

Uber Eats and competitors like Deliveroo offer generally much better food, restaurant quality (just colder), but always do it at a much higher price.

I think there’s a market for it, but I wonder if when the VC funds run out and the subsidies dry up, will much of the market move back to just ordering “normal” takeout? Maybe this is the top end of the market and maybe it’s a much smaller business.
Also, while Canvas, SVG, etc. imply 2D or 2.5D (excluding the timeline) there are a couple of WebGL projects that could serve as the basis for a Flash/Hypercard-esque web standards studio:

https://github.com/jagenjo/webglstudio.js

https://github.com/tentone/nunuStudio
For what it's worth, I've only ever encountered people getting "deeply offended" over intentional misrepresentation of gender. I hear far more people complaining about people being upset about being misgendered than people actually upset about being misgendered. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, I'm just saying that in my experience the counter-"outrage culture" in many cases blows things way more out of proportion than the "outrage culture" they rail against.
> Unless one party is truly in it for the money, there is very little advantage to it other than the social acceptance that comes from being married which is vanishing anyway.

There are other tangible advantages that you’re overlooking. Immigration and medical proxy are two that come to mind. I also find it convenient that my wife cannot be compelled to testify against me, or I against her.
Free Software Is Not About Freedom
After visiting a friend of mine who was attending UC Berkeley in the 90s, I made the comment that "if you don't have an open mind, then get the fuck out of here." This current movement feels very much like an extension of what I felt there.
Taxes. Church and state get involved with the individual for extraction of assets, control resource distribution, control population growth by incentivizing higher birth rate(= work force = more taxes), ‘tithing’ of various forms and basically surveillance. From birth to death, they keep tabs.
I think a flaw in his letter is that it is printed in all italics. ugh.
I don't have the house rules handy but as I recall impeachment hearings are dependent on a vote to begin the process. Unless I missed a news story there hasn't been a vote of the house to begin impeachment.
I highly recommend not making more then say 5req/s - and preferably do it at like 2am.

These projects are fun IMO, but it's best to not hammer anyone's servers if it isn't necessary.
Philosophy’s Aspirant Tin-Pot Dictators
I really wonder what is going on here - I think any salary negotiations failed because the dancers are much more fungible than they believed

The clubs set the pay at the base minimum of $15/hr and dancers I talked to said the tipping system has also been upended.

So a lot of dancers left and BSC has a regional monopoly.

I dont really hear any discussion about what happened when asking for a higher salary.

Looks like different women applied and got in.

Maybe talented dancers left but good enough ones replaced them, customers aren’t that discerning even if the prior dancers were more entertaining.
I wonder how many different types of bucket lists there are. This is a "to-read" bucket list; I've definitely seen or at least heard other people opine on "to-visit" bucket lists. The more traditional "to-do" bucket list sometimes includes places to visit, but also a more wide-ranging list of activities and experiences.

I wonder what else warrants a full bucket list.
> Some dancers also feared being classified as employees would mean not being able to pick and choose which customers to serve.

> “I think they should control their own sexuality, they should control their own bodies,” he said. “The difference there being, of course, if you’re an employee, you don’t have a choice who you perform for, as an independent contractor you get to choose how you perform, whom you perform for, and what level you’re comfortable at.”

Is a stripper allowed to discriminate on protected characteristics? Can she say that she doesn’t want to strip for Asians, for example? Or will she run afoul of the anti-discrimination laws?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you're using a credit card the bank is only getting a receipt that shows the sum total of the transaction and not an itemized receipt. The club cards are consuming and tracking the data of the entire transaction.
Another option with note-taking capabilities is the Sony DPT-CP1
If your distribution is heavy-tailed, then in order to find the mean (or any other measure of "location") you typically need to pay _less_ attention to outliers, not _more_.

So, e.g.: for a normal distribution, with very narrow tails -- probabilities like exp(-x^2) -- your sample mean is the maximum-likelihood estimator. For a double-exponential (Laplace) distribution, whose tails are like exp(-|x|) and therefore much fatter, the maximum-likelihood estimator is the _median_, which gives much less weight to outliers. Another way to look at it: the mean minimizes the sum of |x-m|^2 and the median minimizes the sum of |x-m|, and the former grows in size and hence importance much faster as x gets large.
Elixir and Ecto – Multi-Tenancy Through Dynamic Repos
The OpenStack Train Keeps Chugging On
Emacs Settings for PHP Development
See the article; the cut which the clubs take, has gone up.
Accusing someone of secretly agreeing with your point of view despite pretending to believe the opposite does not amount to assuming good faith. Do you think you could rephrase your comment in a less insulting way?
Ten years ago,maybe. Today my techie friends are guarded (and the way everybody is correlating and analyzing everything, a single “throwaway” email is again a decade past it’s usefulness as a construct), whereas my non techie friends are merely impatient and will go to buzzfeed to get their non-signup fun (rather than any conscious concern). So it’s mostly an attention span thing in my mind .

Always ask yourself what is that signup/gate costing vs what is it gaining you. If you are losing X percentage of users for no identifiable gain, the question should be why is it there, not why should it be removed / why is it a big deal to somebody .
Perhaps. But it's worth noting there's a reason the Constitution is flexible on issues such as justification for impeachment. While law is not a formal system, a variant of Gödel's incompleteness theorem likely still applies (i.e. "There's a way to ruin the country without breaking any laws").
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fundamentalanalysis.asp
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Rich dudes have been getting prenups for like at least half a century.
As far as I'm concerned source code cannot be stolen.
His Juicero teardown is also gold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ
Or co-opt the rich people with big companies that pay for lots of employee health insurance. I've seen Bezos making waves but I don't know if anything has come from it yet.
If big pharma charged ridiculous amounts of money for new drugs, made off-patent drugs dirt cheap, and didn't find new & ridiculous ways to re-patent old drugs, I'd feel better about their business model.
The fact that 12/14 strip clubs in the area are owned by one business, suggests that we don't have a completely freely operating labor market, here.
I get that there is a much larger context to this (moderator losing her moderating bits over this issue, many other moderators stepping down in protest) that's almost certainly inflaming the discussion and driving a lot of the downvotes, but overall I don't really see much that's objectionable about this.

Essentially it boils down to: if you know someone's preferred pronouns, use them. If not, use gender-neutral pronouns. They even specifically point out that there's no requirement to actively seek out someone's pronouns if you don't know; just use something gender-neutral and move on.

I do see some issues, like: what if someone makes up a pronoun in bad faith, with the intention to troll people? There's some discussion around that in the comments, but the current policy seems to be "go along with it, but raise the issue with mods and they'll look into it", which is... not really a satisfying answer at all? And what if someone puts down a pronoun in good faith that you're simply unfamiliar with? Is it really reasonable to expect that answering a SE question will sometimes require googling someone's stated pronoun, followed by a value judgment to guess if they're trolling or not?

I come to SE (well, mostly SO) for answers to technical questions. For the vast majority of them, gender has nothing to do with the question or answer. Someone in the comments links to a question where someone put their pronoun preference at the bottom of their question, followed by an edit war removing and re-adding it[0], plus there's a meta discussion of the question[1]. Pronoun discussion in a technical question that doesn't even have to do with people is just noise, plain and simple. But it seems the consensus among community managers is edging toward leaving the pronoun notification in there, even though their FAQ explicitly states that the right place for a pronoun preference is in the About Me section of the user profile. This is getting to be a bit much.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/posts/58336846/revisions

[1] https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/390301/would-a-note...
True, but there's a difference between buying books and letting them pile up and just keeping a list. I keep mine on Goodreads now and usually get my books from the library. Also, I sell my books back to the bookstore if I didn't love them.

Kindle, on the other hand, never could get into it though it seems great to avoid Tsundoku.
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I expect two major components are demographics and a lack of partisanship. What I mean by demographics is that the Chinese political system is a very tall hierarchy. Representatives from each level vote for the one above it going all the way down to villagers voting for their village representative, and all the way up to the elected elite at the top of the hierarchy electing their representative - the president of China. And so because of this you end up with a generally more informed demographic at each level going up. This system means those at the top are not directly accountable to those at the bottom, but that lack of accountability also frees them up to pursue big picture goals.

Longterm goals and progress are quite separate from the everyday life of most people. China recently completed the largest radio telescope in the world. Next year they begin work on what will be the largest particle collider in the world. And then there are their rapid advances in space. In appealing to the lowest common denominator of demographics, these achievements are easy to tear apart. "Spending billions to grow potatoes on the moon while people are starving back here on Earth!? WTF!?" That's an illogical but common argument. It implies you should not achieve greater things until you solve the fundamental ails of society. Problem being it's likely impossible to solve those ails in complete -- certainly without any technological advancement. The argument is tantamount to suggesting a freeze on progress for the sake of progress.

And the partisanship issue goes practically without saying. Our founding fathers wrote extensively on the dangers of parties, but were unable to solve the issue. China solved the issue, but at great cost - there is only one party. But for now at least they seem to be avoiding the issues we're facing. As for how this applies to longterm progress, in 1972 Nixon remarked “This may be the last time in this century that men will walk on the Moon.” [1] A significant part of the reason he decided to strip NASA down was because of a feud he had with JFK. He lost to Kennedy in an extremely close and contentious election in 1960. Apparently even Kennedy's assassination was insufficient to put that feud to rest. One president wanting to destroy things associated with another's legacy, because of a political feud? As always, what's new is old. Hard to achieve much when in a few years the next guy's going to try to destroy everything associated with you because of a feud driven by our partisan nonsense. And then the voting masses just get dragged along between the feuds. And as our political leaders become ever more effective at this game, it seems to be causing a greater and greater fragmentation within society which means things like big picture progress are going to be ever less likely.

[1] - http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/jason-callahan/20...
Agreed on the high risk - when you have such an established and entrenched competition from day one you have to be sorta crazy to bite something this big off. (and I mean "crazy" in a good way)
The introduction of this policy rather contradicts your claim.
Lex Fridman's Tesla Autopilot Mileage Statistics and Charts
It is $60/yr, not per month. It's less than $5 a month.
“667%” is not a great way to describe that price hike. It went from $9 to $69. If some critical drug costs $69, that doesn’t seem all that bad. Using the number “667%” is actually losing accuracy, for the sake of a big scary number.
One of the problems is cost of development. We invested in an incredible company called Brightseed that looks at each of the tens of millions of small molecules in our food supply and uses AI to predict how those interact with metabolic networks associated with health. Because everything they discover is implicitly regarded as safe (GRAS) there’s the potential to develop products much more rapidly and cheaply. While we may not find something that optimizes on efficacy there’s the potential to get very close.
Thank you for the feedback. I agree with most of your points.

> Most -- nearly all -- benchmarking tools like this work from a normality assumption

I don't think that hyperfine makes any assumption about normality. Sure, we do report sample mean and sample standard deviation by default, but we also report sample minimum and the maximum. You can also easily export all the benchmark results and inspect in more detail with the supplied Python scripts.

> In fact, performance numbers (latencies) often follow a heavy-tailed distribution

So when is this really the case? In my understanding, if I am measuring the runtime of a deterministic program with the same input, the runtime should only be influenced by external factors that are out of my control (other programs being scheduled, caching effects, hardware-specific influences, ..). These are exactly the things that I want to "average out" by running the benchmark multiple times.

> What's worse is when these tools start to remove "outliers".

Hyperfine never removes outliers. What we do is to try and detect outliers. We do this by computing robust statistical estimates that specifically DO NOT assume a normal distribution (see https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine/blob/master/src/hyperfi... for details).

We perform this outlier detection to warn users about potentially interfering processes or caching effects.

Take a look at these results, for example: https://i.imgur.com/XRvE6Ys.png

I benchmarked a file-searching program. The underlying distribution, while probably not normal, seems to be "well behaved" and I think that the sample mean and the sample standard deviation could be quantities with a reasonably predictive power.

What you do NOT see in the histogram is a single outlier at 1.15 seconds, far outside the plot to the right. This was the first benchmark run where the disk caches were still cold. In such a case, hyperfine warns the user:

Warning: The first benchmarking run for this command was significantly slower than the rest (1.152 s). This could be caused by (filesystem) caches that were not filled until after the first run. You should consider using the '--warmup' option to fill those caches before the actual benchmark. Alternatively, use the '--prepare' option to clear the caches before each timing run.

In conclusion, I am not quite sure how your critisism applies to hyperfine, but I'd be happy to get further feedback.
Whilst it's true that the referendum isn't enough to justify actually seceding, I think that it clearly demonstrated that there should have been a legitimate referendum organised.
How to explore your dataset and know its capabilities
I use whatever pronoun I see fit and if I offend someone by using the wrong pronoun I will apology to that person and move on.
Probably not...

There's an ongoing case Linkedin v HiQ where Linkedin said HiQ was scraping publicly available linkedin profiles but there was a robots.txt that told them not to. HiQ kept doing it until Linkedin threatened them under the CFAA. HiQ just won a preliminary injunction to get to continue where the court said it was unlikely that they were violating the CFAA but they might change their minds as the case progresses:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/victory-ruling-hiq-v-l...
Not so sure why you landed on the "don't bother curing AIDs" argument but ok. I think that ultimately what you are saying is "if there is no profit motive guiding research we won't know what to spend money on." My answer to that is to allocate money for research based on the impact of the solution. So ultimately how many people are affected or how seriously people are effected, and not how much money you might be able to make. We currently have problems with drug companies not even making life-saving drugs that exist already because there are only a handful of people suffering from those particular diseases.
Aren't we already there?

With the looming fear of recession in near term, fully expect hardship ahead.
I read some anecdotes about pro cycling teams during the Tour de France who would take doors off the hinges and put them under mattresses to firm them up. Privacy wasn't that big a concern since they were likely taking a floor or wing of a hotel for the night.
Even a bike would take up precious living space.

I'd be surprised if you can fit any kind of deflatable vehicle into less space than it takes to store a folding bicycle.
While there is definite truth that paying even $1 to RSVP for an event cuts RSVP no-shows significantly, I don't see this flying when members of meetups are accustomed to paying exactly ZERO to attend events.

If there isn't an open source alternative to meetup.com now would be the time to create one, and if you want to create The Winner then have your meetup replacement able to federate with other (using ActivityPub?) to replace the "members of this group also join these groups" network effect that makes meetup.com so popular.
Me too, the time required for my to-read list is getting longer than my anticipated lifespan. What's the Japanese word for that?
As someone who used to make his living writing Perl, and who's been pretty salty about Perl 6/Raku for quite a long time now (because of how it led to the "used to" part), let me say to the Perl community in response to this news:

Congratulations. Seriously!

I know how contentious an issue this has been, and I'm glad to see the community finally steering it to what seems like a positive conclusion for both the Perl 5 and Raku sides. This feels like a good outcome. It creates room for both languages to flourish, and puts an end to the days when users of one had to carry the issues with the other around on their backs.

For the first time in a long time, it feels like a bright future can be imagined both for Perl and for Raku. And that's a great thing!

So congratulations! I'm looking forward to seeing what the Perl and Raku communities bring us in the future.
I totally agree with this too. So three sources of joy; money, elegance, and utility. Of course that reminds me there is the "other" side of developers the ones who find joy in puzzle solving, overcoming artificially imposed barriers, and discovering protected knowledge.
Hold up, is there something wrong with:

1. the #metoo movement

2. the idea that someone would want to tell their side of a famous story

?

Even ignoring the above (though I hope you're not insinuating some issue with #1) this is a few minutes, roughly halfway through ~6 hours of video. It's not like Gosling has set out to make a hit-piece on RMS
When does that get released into Go? That sounds cool
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I'm not sure that continuous growth can be reliably predicted over a 30 year span. There is reason to believe that we may need to move away from economic systems dependent on continuous growth. (edit: though I highly suspect this is more than 30 years away.)

Buying a range of stocks and holding them for the long term may reduce your risks, but that doesn't mean it isn't speculation.

Speculation just means that you are buying something with the expectation that you will sell it for a higher value. When your assets don't produce direct value (such as dividends, rental income, functional utility, etc) then investment in those assets is speculation, regardless of the risk level or time frame.
I'd confirm such a rule actually exists before criticizing the House for not following it. Most of the "irregularity" stories I've read contrast with the Clinton procedure, but Clinton was a one-off (as was Nixon's never-quite-impeached, as was Johnson).
> Studies show five hours of sleep per night over the course of a week lowers testosterone levels by an equivalent of 11 years of aging.

Do their testosterone levels recover after going back to a normal sleep schedule?
Elizabeth Holmes Is a Visionary, and We Need More Like Her
On my mobile phone the circle does slide a bit up and down. But aside from that is really funny. My best try was 94.6%.
What do you mean? My understanding is most of the problems arrive with the various Google services, but LineageOS can be installed without all that noise, or can it?
That’s insane but kind of valid - maybe restrict access to the light sensor api to same-origin sources?
A couple news stories back, it came out how much money Uber was spending on Eats and it was simply staggering.

My company has similar stories. When you look at the amount of requests per second we're actually dealing with, there are plenty of other companies doing something far less "sophisticated" and handling more traffic.

Keep it Simple, Stupid.

Allowing for heterogeneity is a blindspot for a lot of wannabe architects. We have a system where most of the code is dominated by 2 platforms and there is no way to democratically add/test/demo new routes that don't go through one of those two. And every change has to be able to deal with production traffic levels from word one. Similar with deployment management.

In this sort of climate, there is no incentive to ever go back and revisit NIH vs off-the-shelf tools that has now outstripped the functionality of the in-house tool. When the friction is so high it's a non-starter. And when some of those NIH projects started in ignorance (ie, a tool existed and was already mature enough to start using, but the author didn't find it) it represents extra frustration.

At some point your engineers figure out nothing they are working on will present well on their resume, and they either get burnt out or flea.
July/August 2014 issue of Cook's Illustrated

https://www.cooksillustrated.com/magazines/188-july-slash-au...

https://www.bookofjoe.com/2014/06/cooks-illustrated-editor-c...