skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Upon thinking about this further, I guess it's sort of obvious why this happens. dl(0) does a constant, a function invocation, a comparison, a conditional, and a return of a constant (although if you look at the bytecode you'll see a few more steps in there). len(str(0)) does a constant and two built-in function invocations, which (as it happens) involve lookups in the global namespace at runtime in case you have redefined len or str.

So, basically, it's only interpreting a very small number of interpreter bytecodes either way, so the small number it has to interpret to use the builtins is comparable to the small number it has to interpret to run the recursive definition, and so the interpretive overhead is comparable (and it swamps the overhead of things like allocating a new string).

This machine is kind of slow. This took 54 CPU seconds in LuaJIT:

> function dl(n) if n < 10 then return 1 else return 1 + dl(n/10) end end
> for i = 1, 1000*1000*100 do dl(15322) end

That means that approach took 540 ns per invocation rather than Python's 4640 ns --- only about 9× slower instead of the usual 40×. Or maybe this is a case where LuaJIT isn't really coming through the way it usually does.
Opposite direction, but Super Mario RPG's localization team apparently didn't get half of the pop-culture and cross-game references of Mallow's "psychopath" ability and the net result is that English "psychopath" text is hilariously non-sensical.

For example, if you use "psychopath" on Magikoopa, the English translation is "That's... my child?" which makes zero sense. A better localization would have been "You're that baby from that one time!?" - a reference to Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.

There's also a Donkey Kong-looking enemy named "Guerilla" whose psychopath text is "Don't confuse me with someone else!" In Japanese though, the enemy's name is more like "Dankey Kang" and his psychopath text is "This character has no relation to any persons, living or dead. Any resemblance is purely coincidental." (apparently this particular case was more due to memory constraints than the localization team "not getting it" though)

You can read more here: https://legendsoflocalization.com/the-pop-culture-obsessed-m...
Shocked, shocked I tell you!
If only there was a way to “ship” some representation of a book from one location to another using very little energy and space.
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This is more like an anatomy professor who's never touched a cadaver. Far less excusable than a theoretical mathematician not knowing Matlab - because Matlab is not the only way to apply math (the mat in Matlab is for matrix not math)
That’s such a short sighted cop out to a legitimate threat.

When you make the argument that “no one said the keyword so it isn’t uploading!”, you aren’t considering that it’s listening for voices, your voice, your SO’s voice, how many unique voices, what time they are talking, what temperature it is, if there is a TV or music on, what station it’s on via pattern recognition, all manner of meta data that DOES NOT require a keyword or a large outgoing data stream.

It could store meta data for days and dump it with a single MQTT packet which it’s sending all the time, and they’re all encrypted.

We flat out have no idea what these things are doing on the data collection end that doesn’t have to do with someone saying “Alexa” first.
Yes, aside from multiple load balancing policies, Caddy 2 has a circuit breaker that will automatically adjust the load balancing before latency to a particular backend begins to grow out of tolerances.

Both the load balancing policies and the circuit breakers are extensible, meaning it is easy to change their behavior and add new ones as needed.

I could also imagine a specific load balancing policy that adds up a cost for each request using headers such as transfer size; i.e. dynamic weights. This would be a great contribution to the project if you are interested!

Caddy 2 also has an embedded scripting language that can make this kind of logic scriptable and dynamic, but that's still a WIP.
Can someone please do an ELI5 for Linux namespaces and why this is important for a better Linux Steam client?
I'd break drunk driving and cheating on time cards into separate categories, as there are different reasons to deny each a job.

Drunk driving can reveal poor judgement and a lack of foresight. Cheating on time cards can reveal a lack of ethics. It could also reveal a personal struggle with gambling, drugs, or other other financial problems. These sorts of problems constantly demand more money and might cause future fraud or theft issues due to on-going or escalating financial desperation.

Of course, all that aside, it's often easy to tell if someone's "turned toward the light" and grown up a bit, usually making him okay to hire. I'd agree that brutalizing family members probably reveals a pretty screwed-up guy, and probably wouldn't ever hire such a person. It's worse than murder; one has to be more of a psychopath to hurt those he loves than walk walking into a store and shoot a man as part of an armed robbery.
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Comp.lang.c wasn't exactly know as a kind space. Thinking about it, the lisp group had a bit of unfriendly rep. The objective-c group had one damn fool who advocated that NeXT wasn't actually a true Objective-C. I do miss those group though.
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Well, at least Thinkpad is available in AMD, which is a huge potential enterprise market.
Not investors, middle and upper management. Gotta justify those consulting fees with new and hip stuff.
> nationalism is a form of extremism by itself

This doesn't make sense to me. Would a desire to paint my own house rather than my neighbor's be a form of extremism, or are you thinking about it on some other way than this?

> more accurately what the perfectly natural love everyone of us feels for his/hers own country becomes once filtered and distorted by propaganda with the purpose of making people do nasty things under the belief they're necessary for a bigger good

I accept that this is possible and has historical precedent, but I challenge you to produce any convincing evidence this is always the case.

> Try this test with some of the less extreme nationalists you know: show them a photo of planet Earth taken from space and tell them "this is my homeland. I love it and you should too", then watch their reaction. Some of them may agree, but most won't. The point is that planet Earth does indeed contain their entire homeland, but includes other countries too, which is what many people don't accept.

Have you literally done this, and literally observed that most people don't love planet Earth? I would pay money to see a performance like that in real life, it sounds utterly bizarre and fantastical.

> This plain stupid test demonstrates how nationalism isn't about loving one's country rather than not loving other people ones.

Even if you actually have conducted this test, saying this demonstrates your point is a stretch. I can easily think of a reason I would have a negative reaction to such a "test", my strong dislike for globalism advocates with their poorly thought out reasons for demanding I behave in a certain way - if I got an intuitive feel that this is what your game was, you would likely get an intuitive feel that I was displeased, but be careful what you attribute that feeling to. I would actually consider this a reasonably good example of a poorly thought out idea that I find annoying.
It matters for collation order, if you want to show a list of patients sorted by family name.
Maybe, but SMTP and IMAP are still widely used. It seems reasonable for a computer science student to implement these protocols.
Policemen are above the law because that's how the system was created. At least in the US, police departments were primarily created by the elites to protect the elites from immigrant masses. When the elites were all mostly anglo-saxon protestant, we didn't have a need for police. But when cities started attracting immigrants - particularly german and irish, the elites needed a forceful mechanism by which to suppress and control these people. Of course when the germans and irish moved up the social ladder and the new arrivals were italians and blacks, the germans and irish suppressed and controlled these people. Now in a "post-race" age, police exist primarily to serve and protect the rich elites against the less wealthy masses.

The idea of police existing to protect you ( Protect and Serve nonsense ) is just PR/marketing. Just like "Don't be evil".

I suspect in most countries, these same pattern holds.
And for the library, the choice was between not collecting fines and not getting the books back, or not collecting fines and getting the books back. So even in a model where the library is being run as a business, this is a better outcome. But, in a crazy model where the goal of the library is to provide access to books for free, this new system seems like an even bigger improvement!
I don't know about this. This feels like cheating rather than thinking outside of the box. Like when you ask a student to implement a vector in C++, instead of writing the code the student makes a wrapper around std::vector. Internally, `str` probably also use some equivalent of the naive solution implemented somewhere to convert a integer to its decimal string.
Wasnt HIPAA not intended for security or privacy when it was originally developed? Merely as a standardized approach so various vendors could integrate easier. I could be mis-remembering this though.
"the argument is that British police are not as afraid, so don't engage in excessive force as often, because there aren't guns around that could be used to kill them"

From what I've read, this has been changing in recent years, with British police getting more and more armed, apparently in response to terrorists and organized crime being better armed.

So the US and British police are converging, but perhaps not in the way that gun control advocates might have hoped.
This discussion is about the 1950s, not today. And no, that's not a guarantee.
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Caddy 2 has an embedded scripting language that allows this. We have to flush it out some more but it's looking really good.

In some of our early testing on basic workloads, we found that it's up to 2x faster than NGINX+Lua, largely because it does not require a VM. (This is a broad generalization, and we need to specifically optimize for these cases -- but this approach holds promise.)
But this has always happened in politics. CA just optimized it
She also has her own Lego figurine.

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/women-of-nasa-21312
Having the opportunity to do _good_, rather than being compelled to do something by threat or violence, can be really productive
“Don’t buy one” may soon cease to be an option, just like smart TVs.

Heck you get it even if you don’t buy it. My headphones were software updated with Google Assistant, plus there was the infamous Nest smoke alarm.
For OS X the .3 release seems to be the sweet spot.
Maybe you could use VOIP numbers for 2FA? Many VOIP providers (i.e. voip.ms) can forward SMS to e-mail, SIP client, callback URL or an other phone number. There's a cost, but I guess it's minimal, all considerations done.

Your second scenario is like a dead man's switch. It's interesting, as it could prompt you with a daily challenge that only you can answer. But I don't see how it could be implemented in a normal person's life?
But according to your logic, you would also oppose the first library doing this by making the same claim: that if it were obvious, it would have happened long ago.

Maybe it’s the case that the library has new information and/or is committed to a new or reinvigorated mission, and that this decision is an obvious step toward accomplishing that mission.
That footage certainly doesn't make them look good, but the real question is how much of that is sales-pitch, marketing bs, and how much of it is really effective. Every data upstart in the world has the best data, can target audiences with precision, get your brand unprecedented engagement, and use their magical ML algorithms to do magical things - according to their marketing and sales teams. Blah, blah, blah. Meanwhile if you could peek into the actual data engineering, their data is a giant mess, totally stale, and barely better than useless (which to be fair, is all it takes to make money in the data space right now). But it terms of actual influence... well... always be skeptical.
The "Standard American accent" is just vaguely midwestern, and it's not how the British used to speak. There is some support for it being closer than some modern British accents, e.g., they are both rhotic.
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> From a consumer point-of-view, it’s hard to imagine Alexa becoming so useful that we’d come running when it summons us. But Alexa‘s primary mission will always be to gather data. Simply put: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are all trillion dollar companies because data is the most valuable resource in the world, and Alexa is among the world’s greatest data collectors.

I know this has nothing to do with the overall theme of the article, but this is misleading, Microsoft is the only company in that list with a market cap over 1 trillion. As of the time of writing it is ~1.1T. Apple, on the other hand, has a market share of ~1.16T, and they have made clear their stance (or lack thereof) in users' personal data.
Just don't like the author's use of market caps to explain the power of "data" when their argument falls apart rather quickly.
One way of harvesting solar energy that's technically possible but is not even on the horizon, as far as I know, is using giant mirrors or lenses out in space to focus sunlight down to Earth.

If it weren't for its potential use as a weapon, I'd look forward to seeing it put in practice.
This seems like an excellent move on the part of the library system and mayor's office. I don't have a horse in this race (no late books in a long time) but it's great to see this being implemented for everybody's benefit.
Valve uses MoltenVK[1] on their own games. They have used it since 2018 for Dota 2[2], but I can't find a lot of uptake by others.

[1] https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK
[2] https://www.khronos.org/news/permalink/vulkan-support-for-do...
The guy has a PhD in algorithms. He’d he writing proofs, not writing code. The same for programming languages, you’re proving things, like the Pumping Lemma. Computer Science is not about producing coders for industry. You can learn how to code from a boot camp or Coursera, but it has very little to do with Computer Science.
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In order for Amazon to accomplish the goal of Alexa becoming proactive, there’s one major puzzle piece that’s missing: an Amazon phone (unless by some miracle either Apple or Google gives Alexa tighter integration into their OS’s)

I predict Amazon will make another attempt at releasing a phone within the next two years
When I first played Modern Warfare years ago I thought "no Russian" meant don't kill any Russians. I guess I'm not smart.
A friend of mine did some freelance Japanese-to-English translation for a video game you've heard of some time ago. Her source material consisted, in entirety, of an Excel spreadsheet with one column called "Japanese" (filled) and another called "English" (empty). That's it: she never even saw the game in question, and wasn't familiar with the series in general either. And then we wonder why the translations are bad...
Wonder how rayiner is going to pop up in this thread to tell us how this is a terrible thing.
What is correlation?
You call a fine for late book return threat or violence?

I dunno, but I'm going to stop paying rent if there is no penalty.
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Oh look at you and your fancy vt100

the lot of us are stuck on vt52s
I guess then the risk is whether or not the VOIP provider is more secure than my phone provider? I need to think that one through.

With the second scenario I was just thinking that, if I personally didn't receive the text on a given morning, I would know that my number has been ported and I would begin to freak out and try to race the attacker.
This deserves the picture: https://boingboing.net/2008/07/15/chinese-restaurant-c.html
Reminds me of this too:

http://freakonomics.com/2013/10/23/what-makes-people-do-what...
The Dayton Ohio shooter earlier this year was killed by police officers 32 seconds after he opened fire. He killed nine people in those 32 seconds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Dayton_shooting
They're doing 3D for the road path, and even predicting it beyond corners:

https://youtu.be/Ucp0TTmvqOE?t=8137

And later in the video they show 3D reconstruction from cameras and saying they use it in the car.

Watching the full talk is recommended if you have the time (talk starts around 1:10:00 in the video)
To say that it's the Saxe-Coburgs who rule all of Europe is... charitable. You could claim it's the other way around, after all, pretty much every single European monarch and royal house is somewhere in the British order of succession.

(Norway #73, Yugoslavia #103, Sweden #283, Denmark #321, Greece #565, Spain #699, The Netherlands #1160, Belgium #1345, Luxembourg #1687, Liechtenstein #1916, Romania #4146, etc... There's even a Napoleon in there. And a million German princes.)
I think the author above is including Proton, which actually works pretty well for many Windows games running on Linux.
It would be possible if say for example, the database was fully replicated in a masterless fashion.

The tradeoff is slower writes (there are ways to make it so that the more nodes you replicate across, write latency won't be affected!).

Reads will scale linearly for the more nodes you replicate across.

So, the novelty in some sense is fast replication of data in a masterless fashion (without any leader such as, for example in Raft or Paxos).

If this protocol was surprisingly simple (which dumbs down the complexity of the software significantly), would you pay for this sort of database?
Normandy evacuation? Dunkirk is nowhere near Normandy. It's close to the border with Belgium.
> Of course, I'm not even sure how many modern/younger readers will understand why "^H". I'm getting too old for this.

For all the other modern readers: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/386870.html
It is wiki nature to be an ephemeral snapshot of documentation in time. To ask it to be otherwise is like asking "a minute ago" to always be up to date.

Discoverability is hard. Build a better mechanism for that and you could set your sights higher than a better wiki.

I can't understand how the rest of the enumerated points is a problem with wikis per se. Or what the numbers assigned to those points mean, for that matter? (Ranking? Reference? Decoration?)
He does. He's been a great help as I try to piece together enough stuff to function as a system element. And thank you for that redbook link; I have a load of stuff, but somehow missed that one. Thanks!
plus CA was an aggregate human misbehavior, people pressing "give away my friends data" en masse. It was millions of people being careless with each others data.
>> 50. The error message 'No space left on device.' means you are out of disk space.

It can also mean that you're out of inodes. Or, if you're working with a non-disk-based FS, it can mean that you've run out of some other resource.
Rent for the poor is compulsory

But taxes for the rich are often not. Greece has a proud tradition of this...

https://aeon.co/ideas/voluntary-taxation-a-lesson-from-the-a...

Also safety nets for poor are begrudged because they are funded by Government taxes but safety nets for the rich are welcomed because they are funded by banks, and money of depositors and investors, since individuals who bail you out can (expected value) personally do better inside the bank than individuals who foreclose and help the bank (eg Trump’s bailouts after Taj Mahal etc.)
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writing a lot of markdown docs. ;)

edit of a new page/section is a PR to the repo.
once merged, you can auto deploy it to the target destination, rendering via jekyll or mkdocs or other things.

Discussions happen in PRs in that model. (you can also added previews of the PRs and deploy these next to the production version of the site)
Gotcha! Makes sense to me :). What price tag would you put on this software?

There's been a pretty interesting development from what I've seen on annual licensing fees for enterprise features, with the code open-sourced.
(sorry, it was an obscure inverted reference to the saying "not if, but when")
Had to ask. It's disheartening how much stuff that was so important to a lot of people just disappears.
Pretty sure that you're not renting right at the tower. The provider will have an aggregation point in the middle of large metros and round-trip latency from your phone should still be under 5 ms, which is way better than going all the way to the nearest cloud datacenter. (If it was right at the tower then you'd see an order or two lower even, but I don't think that's the model being promoted). At least that's my understanding.
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My mental model comparison says that the cost of those may potentially be about the same, with no clear winner over many benchmarks. I’ve even seen recently a claim that using two registers was measured to be slower than stack memory return when tested in another language, so it’s been on my TODO list now to performance test it (I work on another language runtime). But I don’t actually expect to be able to measure the difference—instead I expect the latency often may simply disappear in the execution of the `ret` statement. Plus, for a non-trivial function, returning via a register may mean you have to materialize an extra load, whereas the box could have been filled much earlier and kept a tiny bit more of the stack hot.
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The only situations I find voice commands easier/faster than just physically interacting with a device are when I can't use my hands. So in the car, and I guess while cooking or in the shower - although I've only bothered with it for navigation while driving.