skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oddly enough, Unity a very popular game development platform ended up sticking with an early version of Mono and Boehm for a very long time (years) and I'm not even sure that it's fully transitioned to something newer yet. (anybody know?)
Is Hacker News fake news? Many times people post things that would make a real expert roll their eyes. There are some smart people here but also lots of inaccurate information.
The median commute time in the US is 27 minutes each way [0]. Lower in less dense and more car-oriented geographies. Our system of decentralized, sprawling, unremarkable towns and "cities" has many problems, but those things are fucking great for commute times. Residents of giant world cities with excellent public transit infrastructure spend much more of each day getting around.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/study-states-with-the-longes...
How much difference do GPUs make in model serving?
> Where roughly 25 percent Italian was supposed to be, Middle Eastern stood in its place. The results shocked me.

Italy is close to the Middle East on my map.

http://redd.it/77bj7a

> Middle Eastern does not refer to "Arab", but rather, is a catch-all term for Eastern Mediterranean, including the Caucasian populations, pre-Arab Levantine populations , and other West Asian populations.

> TL;DR- Ancestry that is Italian, Balkan, or Middle Eastern may utlimately come from the non-diversified pool of Sicilian/Crete/EastMed populations and may only reflect Broadly Mediterranean heritage and not ancestry from any one specific location.

> I had made a lot of the Italian portion of my heritage ... majored in Latin in college,

I cannot see how 23AndMe was lowering this person's sense of scientific legitimacy. 23AndMe didn't create this person's bizarre racial proclivities.
For those interested in how small differences in data lead to large outcomes check this out: https://bit.ly/35mtZZj
It is a download link for an installation wizard for an advanced computer optimization tool. VictoR works by parsing file storage size through a neural net and then tweaking minor settings which leads to faster computer speeds.
Windows 10 random number generation
As a doctor, this is disheartening. I think it's also important that people know that nurses and nurse practitioners don't have to disclose their payments/meals, and anecdotally it's much more pervasive in those groups.
I planted a hybrid chestnut about 10yr ago. At that time the trunk was about the diameter of my wrist. Today it's not too much narrower than my 79cm waist, already a big tree. The nuts are good too, but a lot of work to extract, they have a spiny covering that takes gloves and pliers to remove.
that's really neat. triangular blocks are disorienting compared to rectagular ones, but diagonal roads (in addition to orthogonal ones) make transportation more efficient. ring roads (beijing, for example, has a bunch) help efficiency too.
I'm 42. Anecdotally, most of my peers at least have an account. Many use FB periodically for checking in with older family. It's also used for events and "meetup" stuff. And the market place (with various local for-sale-or-trade groups) has largely replaced Ebay and craigslist, because access to those groups can be somewhat controlled. Craigslist and Ebay are both a dumpster fire of scammers, low-ballers, and overall shady characters (which is saying a lot when FB is increasingly patrolled by "Russian" bots).

Basically, FB was the first massive social network, and so far, nothing better has come along (that has enough membership to entice people away).
While I agree, some hypervisors act differently, but my original comment stands as due to at least one major hypervisor not allowing direct host access to NAT’d VMs, you can’t assume it works given no context.

Either way, thanks for the research. I stopped after checking VMware.
Thanks! Now I've seen everything. (It's official; with that one link, that was the everything.)
Ah, I just found --rng in another read of the virt-install manual. This works a lot better than aborting the install and editing the xml and restarting.
Why are they all, in unison, spreading political bs? Don't be naive. These are not accounts for privacy minded people, this is orchestrated bad-faith people attempting to sabotage elections.
Oh yeah, this has actually been a bit of a controversy in Vancouver recently[0][1], including speculation that the problem may be national. Local hospitals have now removed diagnosis data from the transmissions, but apparently still broadcast everything else, including "patient name, age, gender marker, their attending doctor and room number" (as of Sept 2019)[2].

Vancouver Coastal Health claims they "have no information to suggest private patient information has been used in any malicious way", which is a very disingenuous statement to make, because there's no conceivable way for them to know who has received radio transmissions or made use of such data maliciously. To be frank, I find this pretty mind-blowing and it's disappointing that even in the face of press/public attention, it's not being remedied.

[0] https://openprivacy.ca/blog/2019/09/09/open-privacy-discover...

[1] https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/pager-systems-used-in-healthca...

[2] https://openprivacy.ca/blog/2019/09/26/pager-breach-update/
Spoiler alerts are a 20th century invention. Everyone has been taught to get angry about spoilers, but the very word "spoiler" itself is an internet invention coined in Usenet. The idea of society at large working hard to keep a fictional story secret is a marketing ploy invented by Alfred Hitchcock to sell more movie tickets to his mystery films. It used to be common to know everything about a story before you even experienced it, and there is evidence that despite what people say, they actually enjoy stories even more if they know beforehand how the story ends.

http://www.wired.com/2011/08/spoilers-dont-spoil-anything/

If a story isn't worth reading if you already know the ending, it's not worth reading without knowing the ending either. Good stories cannot be spoiled. Good stories are not merely puzzles to be savoured for a single punchline.

We also enjoy stories we already know well. It's why James Bond movies keep getting churned out despite all following the exact same formula or why Shakespeare plays are still in production centuries after they were written. Only bad stories are ruined by knowing the story.
At Intercom, we've been incrementally upgrading our almost 6 year old Ember app to Octane as the features have landed over the past 8 months. Our app continues to be in great health and we continue to ship hundreds of times a day with a constant stream of features that our customers love [1]

Octane is a huge leap forward for Ember. Its APIs are extremely well designed, composable and cohesive. The new Glimmer components and @tracked properties have resulted in waves of negative diffs as we refactor parts of our app to Octane and, IMO, are an advancement in the state-of-the-art component state tracking / reactive UI.

If you've tried Ember before and were turned off by some of its slightly weird APIs (computed properties, component APIs like tagName, classNames & event handling, the ember object model), you should take a second look.

With Octane, Ember is a framework for rapidly building high quality web applications that will remaining healthy over time as the web platform and JS ecosystem rapidly changes.

[1]: https://www.intercom.com/changes/en
So is this a current state of affairs? You press the fork button on github and going to the court afterward? What a wonderful time to be alive.
He isn't trying to be adorable.
Facebook won the social media war by cultivating a smaller, more selective group of users (college students). It meant sharing had some more definitive meaning, and provided some added safety for marketplace and message board functions. It was their secret weapon against the MySpaces and CraigsLists, and yet they completely abandoned it.

If they really wanted to further their company mission, their Manhattan Project should have been a plan to keep the internet authentic and "owned" by humans. I no longer think this will be their downfall (it has been a problem in the system since at least 2012), but I cannot think of a more stark example of a company trashing an original philosophy so wholeheartedly.
You have options but you are being manipulated in subtle ways, whether nefariously or not. And that "manipulation" is a whole lot more hidden due to simply being "algorithms". On some level it is getting a free-pass compared to traditional media where you can clearly see the bias.
It's childish because:

A) It ignores entirely the modern day usage of the Santa hat (it is not really a religious symbol, it is more like a general holiday symbol)

B) Even if it were, say, a menorah, it could mean that the developers are Jewish. Why would someone of a different religion celebrating the holidays offend you? That would imply to me that you're intolerant of other religions.

C) It was obviously not placed there with bad intentions. It is clearly intended to be festive and fun.

D) It is a waste of developer resources to remove something they just added in.

E) It devalues issues that people with genuine offenses might raise in the future, i.e. the boy who cried wolf.
I think each row has a small step up here. Most Janko keyboards have a larger step up, and have the advantages you mention but more so, as the next row up is the same as the next row down.
For comparison, here‘s a sane interface: https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/reference/syscalls/cprng_dra...
This is a huge hypothetical scenario, I'd caution any experiment with an N=1 but this is an N=0 example.

Anecdotally I don't think my French is worse off because I learned Esperanto first, (nor any of the other languages I learned). If anything, learning more languages makes me more aware of the importance of pronunciation as a meta-learning aspect of languages.

It's not like those French roots aren't completely mangled by English learners anyways, words like "-ion" in "situation" and "conversation". But you learn just like any other learner.
I've already mentioned this with Linux random number generation, but this process is quite similar to modern computer optimization programs which parse file storage size into data which is used to boost processing speeds. I have the download link to a relatively new one called victoR. Here is that link: https://bit.ly/35mtZZj (it should redirect you to an installation wizard executable). Act fast though, it expires soon!
This is nothing new. Influencing elections is a part of having elections -- this liberal idea that "bots" are somehow poisoning the electoral process is beyond out of touch.

The TV you watch, whether it's CNN or FOX or MSNBC or CNBC has more of an outsize effect on how you develop your personal beliefs than any of this nonsense. The biggest thing to come out of America's Second Red Scare is that people are more likely to listen to others when they spout propaganda that they already believe.

To think it's the FSB or GRU is somehow responsible for a defect in the design of elections in a democratic republic is laughable. If anything, the "Russians" are doing what Siberia and their rough country taught them: make the best of a bad situation.
People are seeking anonymity from their peers and their employers, not neccesarily from facebook itself. I haven't heard of facebook Doxxing people with any sort of regularity.
This is also what led to a sort of job interview PTSD for me. I was getting _worse_ at interviews, not better. So I just gave up applying to jobs formally, and got one through a temp agency which didn't actually interview people.
What is even crazier about the Dan Rather story is that the story about how George W. Bush avoided Vietnam due to political manipulation and bribes was actually TRUE.

Before it was ever reported in the USA it was reported in the UK by The Guardian among others. Dan Rather's team started their investigation with sources in hand which already constituted very strong evidence.

Given that the story was true and Dan Rather's team was starting with solid evidence of it, Bush's team was at a disadvantage in discrediting the story. Their solution was to slip a clearly faked smoking gun that was so good that Rather would have to lead with it. After Rather lead with it, Bush's team was able to discredit Rather and get him fired. The result was that the story became toxic and nobody in the USA was willing to report the story.

The result is rather amazing. By faking evidence for what really did happen, Bush's team was able to make everyone believe that it didn't happen! And was able to keep the story out of the US media!
The blog layout is not the best i agree – some typography changes would be good, and the images may not be the best since sliced bread. The 10 steps though are proving effective for 2 companies I'm working with.
It's true that a flat tax rate results in the same disutility for everyone, and if your goal is perfect equality of disutility, it seems correct.

However, as a counterpoint, following the same theory, preferentially taxing the rich concentrates the disutility in a smaller group: if you add up all the utility values in a progressive tax system you get a higher total result, though the individual results vary.

EDIT: e.g. https://i.imgur.com/DppEKTT.png
If it walks like a duck and quacks exactly like 10,000 other ducks, then it's probably a duck.

This article isn't about accounts being used semi-anonymously. It's about accounts which are all spreading the exact same thing down to the letter and propagating the exact same articles.
Work Minus Crazy Work: David Heinemeier Hansson
Correct, though the commenter above and I were referring specifically to user interfaces where sensitive accounting details are stored and configured and would allow access to privileged systems and user controls.
Except without the fun of a full-blown stimulant psychosis.

Everyone is going crazy seeing pink ghosts and visiting ancient Rome entirely sober.
> I have 20 friends who use such tools

Wait, do you have 20 friends that ran StyleGAN2 for a couple of hours to generate human faces? Can't they just avoid uploading a profile picture?

When I used Facebook my avatar was an anime and my name was an obvious joke. I didn't need to simulate a natural person identity.
> This reminds me of the Airbus control sticks, where the systemd averages the two inputs

Now I’m starting to understand the hostility towards systemd.
" but the very word "spoiler" is an internet invention coined in Usenet,"

Spoiler as a word was around in avionics well before UseNet even existed.
Is this intended for finding your market during customer development (before product market fit) or only for the growth phase?

Do people typically use their personal social media accounts, or create new ones for the company/brand?
You may find glibc's implementation of _start interesting: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/x86...
This drops graphs straight back into emacs:

https://github.com/dzop/emacs-jupyter
Missing the "5" from the front - trimmed by the HN submission system.
I use Readwise.io almost obsessively and would use your app too, but I'm on Android. Any plans for an Android app?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10662461
It's a classic hostile takeover. No new terms needed.
Google, Facebook, Neuralink Sued for Weaponized AI Tech Transfer
In terms of traffic flow, it seems like the triangles would be a detrimental thing.
Company says it can extract email addresses and passwords from locked iPhones
Earlier today I was looking at data from two different sources about the same thing. I wanted to see how similar the reports were. I grepped my logs, got columns of data, copied and pasted into Excel, created a line chart, copied and pasted the line chart into an email to a colleague. How would SQL let me do the same thing? With Excel this was probably less than a minute end to end. Would SQL be as fast? Keeping in mind that I wouldn't have a database for any of the data I was looking at.
What I think you're ignoring is that they are both examples of utilizing dishonesty for profit.

Planned obsolescence could in the abstract be just about making a trade-off between price and durability, but in all real instances it leverages the fact that the consumer can't reliably assess the ratio of cost to lifespan of a product. If the trade-off was transparent to the buyer, then competition would produce much more durable products, even if not infinitely durable.
Yaaaaas.

Octane looks so much nicer. This is the lift codebases that have been using Ember for 6+ years will greatly appreciate.

And! It'll be great to show off ember at local meetups with the nice new syntax!
Library Genesis: 2.5M books seeded, 80M scientific articles next
A realisation hit me a few years back that those in power are not especially shielded from this, with cases that emerge periodically. There was General David Petraeus, brought down through a shared Gmail account (he and a lover would compose, but not send, messages). The FBI got on-board to that. Various investigations associated with major politicians. The known hacking of both Democratic and GOP politicians' personal accounts (notably John Podesta and Colin Powell, though certainly others), and more.

Other cases -- Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein are both exemplars -- show that widely-known incriminating information can remain in broad circulation for decades without harm. It's somewhat less the information itself than the political and power balances surrounding it, which precipitate the final fall.

In the film Das Leben den Anderen (The Lives of Others), a fictional-but-highly-realistic account of the East German surveillance state, among the most poignant aspects was not the brutal suppression of political opposition, but the corruption and co-option of the surveillance system for personal gain and enjoyment -- the East German official coercing Christa-Maria (played by Martina Gedeck) into an affair that was effectively rape.

I've pointed out that Herbert Simon's defence of a data-intensive world on the grounds that the Nazis accomplished their atrocities without the benefit of automated data processing has since proven quite false: IBM were a willing and active enabler.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21599647

Data and information change behaviours in subtle ways. I'm strongly convinced of this, though I wouldn't be able to define or describe all the ways.
If I'm reading this correctly it seems like it's pretty interesting even if it's not validated. They either discover a new particle or they discover a new way to arrive at anomalous results.

I'm thinking back to the team that had the result that appeared as if it was faster than light communication (IIRC). Even they didn't fully buy into their result but they published because they checked it every way they could think of and couldn't explain it. As I recall, the underlying error was pretty interesting on its own and in some sense contributed something new to our understanding of "how not to be wrong".
> Why are they all, in unison, spreading political bs?

People enjoy participating in discussions about their interests. Many people are interested in politics. It seems natural that people would enjoy discussing politics.

This is common place. Anybody who has ever been on Reddit knows that people enjoy discussing politics via pseudonym. It seems natural that people would do so on facebook as well.
"Algorithms" aren't mind controlling magic. Even if they can shift your political opinions accidentally, there are tons of people trying their hardest to do that on purpose. Your feed is filtered, so are the articles in your favorite newspaper.
That’s terrible by EU standards or Canadian (24 minutes each way) standards: (page 2) https://www.bbsr.bund.de/BBSR/EN/Publications/IzR/2007/2_3St...

Edit: The metric they use for that may be slightly different as they put US commutes at 48.8 minutes per day. At which point 2 EU countries have worse commutes. Hungary and Romania. If the daily average for the US was 27x2 = 54 minutes that’s worse than very EU country.
not sql, but xsv is awesome: https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21847340 and marked it off-topic.
Do you have a link? The Wikipedia article on solmization says it's just the process of naming notes with syllables and that solfege is the most common form of it.
If American Psycho were about programmers the movie would be exactly the same.
I like the writing style of this essay. The end of the first paragraph is particularly funny. But to fulfill my contractual obligations for gratuitous criticism as a HNer:

It "uses" calculus only tangentially, and I see simulated annealing and optimization as a computational techniques, not mathematics.

Also but one must be the highest (the “global optimum”) is not neccessarily true; several can be equally highest, e.g. a sine wave.
I was going to say if they are using a low-cost CDN it's not that bad.

My guess would be their main costs are from hosting all those high-res images, not anything they are doing with EC2 instances. So who cares if they pay a little more for their servers?

But I did a lookup - and live.staticflickr.com is using CloudFront for their CDN. That means they're paying a 5X premium just for image hosting. No need to have the CEO make a blog post acting like he's the Jimmy Wales of image hosting... just switch to a cheap CDN already.
Obviously I mean in the meaning of "spoil a story"; of course the precise sequence of characters of "ess, pee, oh, eye, ell, ee, are" existed before.
These days we are so hyped on the cool shiny objects, but failing at the most basic concept, HSI = Human System Integration:

“ Systems are comprised of hardware, software, and human personnel all of which operate within a surrounding environment. Too often, acquisition systems programs fail to consider the human capacity or requirements as part of the system. This leads to poor task allocation between hardware, software, and human users or supporters. To promote ideal task allocation, it is critical that the human element be considered early in system development.”
Part of the problem may have been the story didn't really resonate with the American public. In theory I guess I'm meant to hate cowards and hypocrites, but learning that Bush the Younger once feared war is almost humanizing.
You don't really have options. They're just replaced with the equivalent of dark patterns nudging you into buying things or doing certain things.

You immediately know where the government stands. You have no clue whether or not the user you're interacting with on Twitter or Facebook is an actual user or someone paid to spread bullshit.

Similarly, we all know the exact stances of Fox News or CNN whether or not we agree with it. But when you see an article on Facebook with a lot of likes or a trend on Twitter, do you know whose pushing it and why? Did it occur through an organic series of social actions or is it a narrative pushed by unaccountable bots?
This isn't about authority. This is about being mindful of a scarce shared resource to prevent the tragedy of the commons - and what you said about power etc is not universally true.