skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comparing GPU floating point performance with CPU floating point performance is comparing apples and oranges. GPUs may have higher raw FLOPS, but they have issues with workloads that aren't massively parallel or require branching.
> Only slightly slower than Git

That's interesting. In your examples isn't it fast because monorepos are network-based, as in, you only fetch what you need when you need it?

Also reminded me of discussions around CPython's startup time and how one use case where milliseconds matter is in small cli utilities such as Mercurial.
I moved from WordPress to Hugo last year and dont regret it. If you search for some configuration examples for multi-language blogs and some shortcodes for image generation and so on, feel free to check out the blog post about it.
https://blog.kovah.de/en/2019/static-blog-with-hugo/
Source is available on Github: https://github.com/Kovah/blog.kovah.de
TIL that in 2019 people still have DPI problems with their software.
Is dead. Dead does not mean fake.
>the interface makes a lot more sense if you understand the underlying data structure

Except that I don't have to understand the underlying data structure to use a more basic VCS like Mercurial. What makes git so special that I would have to do that before being able to use it?

And for recovery from mistakes, I meant stashing the changes somewhere, deleting the repository and downloading a clean copy to start again, which I had to do a few times with Git and never with Mercurial (I might had to do it once or twice with SVN, though).
> I think the author got it wrong here. He mixes the words "successful" with "fame".

Reading the article closely, the author is actually starting to understand this. The interactions with his mother, the obsession with approval and recognition. It's a profound fear of social ostraszation due to one's self worth being based on the perceptions of others (as instilled deeply by his mother).
But consumers do run for ever thinner devices, and a 3.5mm jack will always make the device at least 4mm high (probably more to account for front display and backside assembly).
The Status Quo of Decentralized Gaming
It seems so bizarre to me that there is an r/cscareerquestions at all. And the only other r/__careerquestions are computer-related (IT, UX, DS). It's not like dentists and architects haven't discovered the internet yet.

Computers are the new gold rush. It seems like most people today got into this field just looking to strike it rich.
Cool, very pretty visualization. I might have to get a mug of the mountains I live in :)
This post is related to the delusional discount that we all apply to luck. Luck is the by far the single most important factor in success, but observing that reality is counter productive. It keeps us working like mad and blaming ourselves if we aren't successful, but without out that delusion no one would play the game and we would have zero successful people. Humanity would suffer.
Space is expanding but gravitational attraction and other forces are many orders of magnitude stronger on short distance. While the space within the box expands the forces that attract molecules of the box are such that it will not change its shape until the expansion gets much, much stronger.

Think of the changing pressure. If the box is tight and rigid and the pressure outside the box increases, the box will roughly stay the box until the pressure overcomes the the forces between the molecules that build the walls.

Same with space. If you could measure, the increase in the volume of space would put a constant pressure on every molecule to try to rip it from other molecules. The fact that the rate of change of space and the distances between molecules are so small means that it is not evident that it will ever be possible to devise an experiment to show this on very short distances.

We can only see this on very long timescales and between objects that are very far from each other because all other forces on those scales have diminished so much that only then the increase of volume of space can dominate.
> If you can identify all material objects that all observers can feasibly see, then you subtract the material objects that one person sees, from the material objects the other person sees in their reference frame...

Generally speaking an event is "observable" if some signal (usually light) could reach you from that event. It is generally uninteresting that different observers can see different sets of events at different points in their world-line. If you are lightyears apart, the signals will take time to reach you. This is what "spacelike separation" is all about.

But if you just sit around in one spot, signals can reach you from billions of light-years away. A certain event in your history might have been separated by space, but a point in your future may be separated from it in a timelike manner. You can't get away from events by simply going fast, either: the velocity addition makes signals impossible to outrun. What you need is to employ acceleration.

Consider a modified Zeno's paradox: you are 1 light year away from a signal, and begin accelerating. By the time it has covered 0.5ly, you are now 0.75 ly away. Unlike the original paradox, the math on this one works out: it is the acceleration equivalent of a black hole. (Most gravity and acceleration effects are interchangeable like that).

We could draw this out with a Minkowski diagrams, and find some line beyond which events become truly unobservable. We could call this line the "event horizon" (which, after all, is what the term is about in other contexts, too.)
I think you commentary does apply indeed to Southern Africa.

Steps after poverty:

1. Buy a GTI

2. Pay the installment at the end of the month

3. Have no money until next pay day

There are even memes about it: salary R 18 000, debit order SMS R 17 990, remaining balance R 10.
Logging for Gophers – Idiomatic Log Strategies in Go (Golang)
Ironic that that quote comes from someone who died in the year 180. If I got 2000 years of fame, I'd be pretty satisfied.
Ladas are basically workhorse tanks. Garage 54 on YouTube has put them through all sorts of torture and they take it and ask for more, I wish they were easier to get here in the United States as I'd love to have one.

Garage 54 English (dubbed) channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCydCOEgfcXAQnkRaLCTsAQ

Garage 54 Russian channel (has more videos) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBByzLy3MGJT8UMVLYLScNg
How Data breaches affect stock market share prices
If you aren't calm enough to listen to your own mind voice and it take it out,

Putting an interface in there ain't gonna make any difference.
IIRC, bio fuels are worse than oil because it takes multiple oil barrels to come up with 1 barrel of bio oil.
I sometimes wonder at the underlying cause for so many people to, seemingly intentionally, take an uncharitable view of something. It seems to just be part of the human condition, though HN is less rife with this than other places.
>for the money

No, they now simply make better chips, period.

In addition they are also cheaper.
Show HN: Software Documentation Using GitHub
Hi everyone,

I have been involved in a project that uses confluence to keep a software documentation.
As the project develops in each version, keeping and viewing the documentation has become a hassle to a point that we append the date to the title to know which documentation is the latest one.
So that got me thinking that maybe we can use Git to solve the versioning issue.

Eventhough Github and other version control website can already render markdown pages, but I need something that
1. Can render UML diagram
2. Can handle version link.

After a few weeks of hacking this is the result.
A website that can convert a Github repo into a software documentation website.
It still in it's early stages but you can try out the demo :D
I don't see why the two should be at odds when it comes to how tractors should be designed. I feel like tractors that can be repaired on-site by your own employees is a far better deal than being 100% reliant on the manufacturer's good grace.
Last I checked, about a year ago, they were still developing, albeit producing documentation at a pretty slow rate.

I think they are still iterating a fair bit on the micro tractor. But overall it seems there was a flurry of activity around 2014 but then it has tapered off.

IMHO, I think they set their sights a bit too high, with the whole construction set. Would have been better to focus on just the tractor first, getting the documentation really hammered out. It is such an essential piece of farm equipment. But as it stands, nothing on their wiki is really viable to contribute to, because you can't really work off of it.
Objectively better for SEO - and in particular if this isn’t a personal blog, but say a marketing site for your SAAS and then an accompanying blog. Having them in separate domains with very similar content hurts you

This has been fairly well beaten into the ground at this point.
The source of these videos could be anything from lone assholes to a state sponsored program to destabilize western civilization. Without tracking down the person who uploaded a given video and hitting them with a sock full of quarters until they explain themselves, it is impossible to know.
he's arguing the property after the fact is worth $2M.

No, he's not. What he paid 10 years ago is not a relevant data point in the calculation. What matters is the current market value.
Lightning also requires funds recipients to monitor their channels continuously, to make sure they're not closed early with obsolete balances. At least you can pay someone to do that for you.
Well, doesn't sound like it. I've seen this problem reported by other people. At least it appears to be solved now.
Let's also note that becoming a startup billionaire to then go off and fund your pet projects is a bit of an anomaly. It's very hard to "mimick" the successful parts of their lives.
I am the OP.

A few examples:

1. DeepWalk: You have the social network of users and for some of them their age. You want to predict the missing age values so that You are able to design a good targeted marketing campaign. The solution that DeepWalk gives: Learn a node level embedding, learn to predict the age based on the embedding, make a prediction for the missing users.

2. Graph2Vec: You have the molecules of hundred thousands of materials. You know that some of them is a carcinogen, while others are not. How can you predict whether a molecule is a carcinogen? The solution that Graph2Vec gives: Learn a graph level embedding, learn to predict the carcinogen / not carcinogen target and predict whether a molecule with unknown status is a carcinogen or not.
First Chosen-Prefix Collision on SHA-1 and Application to the PGP Web of Trust
Search "How to find a camera in your airbnb" on DDG and you'll find pages of tips on how to methodically search a space for hidden devices.

For me there's an easy way to avoid that:

Rent a room in a hotel. You get a few advantages in the process:

You don't really have to search for cameras in your room (and to the whataboutists that cram out some old story about the dodgy motel keeper who had cameras installed in guest rooms: How often did that happen compared to the shit that hosts pull off in Airbnb appartments?)

You don't have to tiptoe around other residents who understandibly hate your guts, because they don't appreciate an illegal hotel in their place of residence and all the shit that comes with it

Chances that you get ripped off by some less than honest host, or a whole ring of hosts working in concert, are much, much smaller

You don't get sudden cancelations on short notice

In better hotels you have a front desk, housekeeping and maintenance staff on call if things do go wrong

You're not breaking the law

You have, at least with larger chains, customer representatives, who actually deal with justified complaints and won't run into a "Eat shit, that's our final decision and we won't correspond with you about this issue anymore and if you insist we'll ban you from the platform" response (except when your issue blows up on social media and you get the usual pr lies from Airbnb and their ilk)

Oh, and prices for - if you're lucky - generically and cheaply decorated cookie cutter appartments managed by some faceless management company are really not that much cheaper, if at all, than the one for comparable hotel rooms. Espically in desirable locations.

Airbnb may have made sense in 2013. Nowadays I can just shake my head.
Tovala (YC W16) hiring full stack eng in Chicago
Bloomberg’s Bankrolling Wasn’t Just About Campaigns
I probably don’t know enough about computers, but wouldn’t there be a way to use e.g. the digital outputs of a DAC directly even in the earliest part of boot? Is there a good reason why CPUs aren’t doing this already?
I know it might be practical and hip if you're constantly on the move, but, eww.
when the fork happened there were indeed scam sites that asked you to "paste your private key to see if you have BCH"

There were also replay attacks possible, so that if you paid some BCH to someone they could replay the transaction to get the corresponding BTC as well

Neither of these are a concern anymore AFAIK (the first one never really was, never give away your private key)

And yes, "bcash" has a negative connotation.
I tried one of those. Despite having been a Beyond fan for ages, I thought the Dunkin Donuts version tasted terrible. AFAICT preparation makes a big difference, and whoever made that one at DD simply did it wrong.
‘Compounding success (which means “growth” in the case of an early-stage start-up) solves almost all internal problems, particularly hard ones.’

I’d say that growth can compel you to ignore internal (and external) problems more than solve them. You don’t develop the right culture that can stand up to adversity or attract the right talent, your growth (and success) isn’t sustainable.
You know I hear this argument a lot and I don't buy it because it ignores a baseline at the lower end.

I think there are a lot of people that are not concerned with the luxuries you reference but are deeply concerned with their base needs and random setbacks life throws at them. They basically want to save for a rainy day so as avoid stress when they encounter bumps in the road.

It's like asking someone who works for minimum wage why their worried about moving up to a salaried position because compared to the people in Sudan, they have a life of luxury.
To the degree that this is true, that seems awfully unfair to people forced to give their property to the government without their consent. The government can just make you poorer overnight? That sounds bad.
Lessons from the AltMBA [video]
In particular it is the game played by VCs, putting tremendous risk on founders, while they themselves spread all the risk.
> The fear that the good fortune is temporary makes this class live very simple lives. To them, "Winter is just on the horizon."

On one hand I still have this fear, but on the other it also is a bit comforting. I know I can survive on much much less because I have before.

It has definitely made me live simpler than others I know though.
Anyone still running it? I'd love to see the current screenshots. Unfortunately I couldn't find them on the page.
A good hack is experimental and scientific, designed to test hypotheses.

"the one your trying isn't going to work, ever, anywhere" is an assumption worth converting into an hypothesis and testing the shit out of cause it's a super disempowered stance to take.

What leads you to say it isn't going to work, ever, anywhere?
My most popular blog post was 'deWiTTERS game loop', which ended up with plenty of links referring to it, including the "game programming patterns" book.

I wrote it because there was nothing else like it.

So if you're researching something, but have to combine various sources and figuring out stuff, because there is no easy blog post, write that easy blog post yourself.
> "In fact you'll typically find significantly better work-life balance at a FAANG than a startup."

I agree with that sentence.

But it also depends on what people are looking for. If working at a FAANG means having to spend a capital for housing in the bay are, maybe that's not what they really want.

Or maybe life in the bay area is not the kind of lifestyle they like.

My point was more about trading money for freedom, especially freedom from bureaucracy/politics and freedom to prefer to be with your spouse instead that being at the office to retire early in your life and maybe divorce in the meantime.

We are young only once in our life, we have plenty of time to work hard.
You working for minimum wage or in the Bay Area or what?

Teslas are just status symbol cars, nothing more. Move on.

As far as property goes, there are other places in the country that aren't so high cost.
And Trump? Although being president is another level.
> "Despite our numerous achievements during the past 18 months, the Company continues to be impacted by the rising cost of raw milk..."

Out of curiosity, how much is a US dairy farmer paid for a gallon of milk?
Milk as a beverage is in decline, but milk as a product has been steadily growing as a raw material (cheese, yoghurt, etc.) The companies in trouble are those that were too concentrated in beverage milk and failed to diversify their business models to stay relevant.

Some of these companies troubles also smell badly of PE shenanigans with over leveraged debt deals and other PE card tricks.
Hacker Laws Update: Occam's Razor
Thank you for that story. The people who run these shelters are angels.

My wife escaped her ex by seeking shelter at a battered women's place. I owe her life to them.

There my wife met women of a completely different background. My wife is white, at the time already well educated, and very type A [0]. Her only "disadvantage" was that she was a recent immigrant to the US, with all the difficulties of being a recent immigrant. So the shelter is the only place in the past decade where she met people you never meet in the US; the others. She has very powerful memories of the people she met there.

They have one fundamental rule: you don't tell any men where it's located. Although I'm filled with curiosity (partially lack of discipline, partially to send them a cheque), I've never asked her where this place is; I don't want to put her in that position. Not to the place to which I owe her life.

[0] It's funny. She's very type-A, very much in charge, yet it took her manager, a black man, to force her to seek help. He told her either to go stay at a shelter or not come to work the next day.
So you have never imposed your view, like or dislike of something - be it a TV program, a video game, a piece of music, a political party/piece of legislation?
Auto-Generate Swift 5 API Client for REST APIs
I've had it with Intel and laptop OEMs.
Truly. Most terrorists have nothing over these guys.
New demand for old farm tractors because they're low tech
Toyota to Build City of the Future
The agent, using a learned graph-DNN policy, produces a vectorization scheme that:

* has a 22.6% higher average reduction in cost compared to LLVM compiler (as measured with its own cost model); and

* achieves a geometric mean runtime speedup of 1.015× on the NAS benchmark suite when compared to LLVM’s SLP vectorizer.

In short, the DNN achieves better performance in an NP-Hard problem than human-tuned heuristics and human-designed algorithms.
They did: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15213/the-microsoft-surface-l...

Spoiler alert; it does _not_ show the AMD chip in a good light. Will be interesting to see if Zen 2 does better.
Marcus Aurelius is asking exactly how will that be of _use_? (Even when you’re alive)
I tried running it a few years ago (it was a recent-ish 4.x version), but it crashed - so I chose The Bat! instead. The crash bug seems to be fixed by the way, but I'm happy with my current choice (which is Pandora Mail).

I'll probably try Pegasus Mail 5 anyway. :-)

It has not changed much over the course of the past few years:
https://windows-cdn.softpedia.com/screenshots/Pegasus-Mail_1...
It was the only one I believe. I'm still on the lookout for a good MiniPC solution that doesn't have compromises like a soldered CPU or requiring SODIMMs etc.
You also don't have to understand the underlying structure for a similarly powerful DVCS like bitkeeper. Yes, it isn't open source, but git was a major step back in usability for my group from bk to git.
poor granny
The T495 is available with dual channel memory. 8GB of soldered on ram is available on all models and the 3500u and 3700u models are available with 16GB soldered on. You can then add an additional 8GB or 16GB in the sodimm slot.

If you want to save some money quality 3rd party sodimms are available for a fraction of the price Lenovo wants and it takes about 5 minutes to install one. This is what I chose to do.
> 130k in low COL is absolutely not equal to 400k in Bay

It's amazing to me how little people read comments. They latch onto one idea, and then respond to that.

I mentioned - 3 times! - in my original comment that they were not equivalent, but only much closer than they appeared at first glance because of COL. In light of all the responses above, many of which were enlightening to me, I stand by that assertion.
New ultrasound technique significantly improves brain performance
Yep. And I'm grateful for it. And want more liberty than that.

Also, I think Bhutan shifting their government to metrics based around well-being is a great example of orienting the state away from money and toward human needs.

And I don't know of a state that's been designed to fully meet the human need of autonomy.

I'd like to design and implement one, perhaps through exercising the inalienable right to found a nation, just as the founders of the USA did. Or did they found a nation only to strip people of the right to found their own nation?
Gates Musk and Jobs all came from rich families and were able to work on what they wanted to work on.

The people going for prestigious institutions may actually need a job and and are optimizing for the best possible outcome.
Instilling ambition and an optimistic hard working spirit is a good thing many children don’t have, but if they are never willing to congratulate you, especially when you are happy about an accomplishment that sounds like borderline abusive behavior.

I would recommend getting a lot of long-term distance and lowered communication to discover your own mental space (german word „abnabeln“).
> Isn't evolution a really slow design process?

Not really, at least not in any directed way. To the extent that you might say that evolution designed us to do, including eat, anything, it is only exactly whatever we do do.
> I'm convinced there is a conspiracy that prevents laptop manufacturers from shipping AMD chips on 13" high end laptops.

Based on the Anandtech review of a Surface Laptop with Intel and AMD versions (https://www.anandtech.com/show/15213/the-microsoft-surface-l...) I suspect the conspiracy in question is "the small batteries found in 13" laptops would make the power efficiency shortfall a bit too obvious".
Show HN: Charade, a Python Server for Composable NLP API
Pepsi? why that company!
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21971545
>He is not - he is speaking to the HN crowd about what he'd say to himself. Big difference.

Clearly there was nothing in his comment pushing his religion on others or telling people what religion they should practice.

At the end of the day you are suggesting someone mask and deny their own faith.
It looks like they get up to a 26% increase in the static case. And for NAS they perform about as well (1.015x) as LLVM.
DIY Natural ways to remove fade dark spots
Considering the damage that ultra-processed foods have already caused to humanity, and considering how new this kind of thing is, I'll stick with real meat and other whole foods until I've seen a decade-long study showing that these alternatives are safe.
TIL. That's a huge flaw. Thanks so much for your response!