skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The granularity of the "correctness" is the major difference here and you're asking the author to be ok with an extremely rough success criteria when they are proposing a mathematically perfect success criteria.

All I'm saying is that there are easier and clearer ways of presenting the same thing that could be done in a sentence and make the "reason why" obvious. No need to introduce gadgets and go on and on for 30 pages about "exponential time" (is the author talking about the exponential time hypothesis? Or is this P vs. NP?) among other things. There's also some additional crossed wires about "needing to try all cases" or something, that doesn't make any sense. No SAT solver/TSP solver/MILP solver, etc., does this. Anyone who is at all familiar with this topic would not make such statements, and certainly not, in the way you mention, a "mathematically perfect" criterion that "is proven wrong." So which is it? Is the author being cavalier about the literature? Or do they simply not understand the basics?

Additionally, they're not proving anything wrong. This is, like what I mentioned before, similar to bashing people for saying "Nash-equilibria are PPAD-hard (and communication hard) so Nash-equilibrium as a concept is bad because it's computationally difficult." (In fact, I'd say it's even less interesting than this, because at least the latter is a nontrivial result; not a one-line argument that we can embed arbitrarily complex things into the market.)

> Rationalism has not been shown to provide a pathway to a general epistemology.

This is "rational" as in "rational agent" (utility-maximizing, or an agent that makes at least Pareto-optimal choices, or who plays to Nash or correlated equilibria) not "rationalists" as in people who apply rationalism as an epistemology. Applied broadly, "rational agents" could solve halting-hard problems by making an obvious game where an agent who solves such a problem gets a million dollars, since such agents are often assumed to have unbounded computational power. (In particular, nothing about the agent's computational power is often assumed.)

> Fundamentally the author is making a really good case for the idea that oblique or poorly specified/constructed goal and measurement criteria (eg. EMH) should not be assumed as a competent goal vectoring mechanism for society.

Not really, no. For one, EMH says nothing about exact solutions (this would require a much more careful argument with a different type of reduction), and two, in the same way as before, putting EMH on a pedestal (like putting Nash equilibria on a pedestal, or agent rationality, etc.) leads to absurd results. My point is that (a) this is well-known and (b) you can make much simpler examples (like the ones above) that don't appear to be as "clever" but prove the same (nearly-obvious) point.
ye, modifier keys suck. This is why I prefer snake-case over the other casings because it needs no modifier key.
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Yev here -> Hey there! We've just signed with a new program provider and hope to be rolling out the private program in early November with a public rollout to follow. For now though we ask folks to reach out to bounty@backblaze.com directly with any bugs they find so we can track them internally!
> And nobody else comes close to having a competitive search product. I've used DDG and Bing.

This was certainly true 10 years ago, now I can't really tell the difference.
> Just hire the cheapest one.

Do you know what they call the person who graduated at the bottom of their law school class? "Counselor."

Do not hire the cheapest lawyer you can find. The amount of work required to analyze this situation is a few hours at most; and the hourly-rate difference between a good lawyer and a bad lawyer is going to be far less than what it will cost you if you get bad advice.

> You might even get someone to file motions for you pro bono

No attorney worth a damn is going to provide a commercial entity pro bono representation.
That seems pretty small compared to the huge gap between python and basically any compiled language.
When I finished it, I got a congratulatory page and scrolling down showed me the five photos I dated, gave averages for color and black-and-white as well as the actual dates, and then showed the five photos I hadn't been shown with the same information.
> There are Mac equivalents

And yet, your citation of Windows software suggests either that your grasp on the facts of the case are shaky, or that you're more interested in trying to convince others that this is true, than you are in whether or not it is actually true.

> Ratcliffe is the head of the ODNI, speaking on behalf of the ODNI

You completely ignored the credibility issues I raised - issues that even the Republican majority in the Senate found troubling.

Further, your insistence on inscribing the authority of the ODNI (as an office) on Ratcliffe suggests that you, yourself, think he lacks sufficient credibility on his own. The fact is that there is no ODNI analysis or documentation on this. There is only the assertion of Ratcliffe, himself, who has already blown his credibility defending disinfo from Derkach (who the DoC outed as a high level Russian agent).

I'm not going to respond further on this. But I'll leave you with a quote I found insightful:

> these fake scandals Republicans concoct to smear Democrats work by being too complicated for anyone to follow. Instead, there's a drip-drip-drip of confusing stories filled with buzzwords and noise, all working together to build the illusion of scandal where none exists. The goal is to keep the words "Biden," "Burisma" and "Ukraine" in the headlines so people start to assume there must be something shady going on, even if there's nothing there

https://www.salon.com/2020/10/15/giulianis-latest-bs-ukraine...
"The law has now been amended so many times it offers exemptions for more than 100 industries."

I don't know about you but I take that as a sign that this is a terrible law.
Yeah I remember that! Did med school in the early 2000s and they glossed over this part.
Armbian has both Debian and Ubuntu running a 5.8 kernel for the Odroid C2: https://www.armbian.com/odroid-c2/
(OP is Armin)
>We only really care about the end result of a Pull Request

The thing we care about is a bisectable repository where each commit does one thing only and that thing is described in the commit message. Squashing makes this impossible unless the pull request could have been written as a single patch without violating the above rules. Hopefully this is what the OP means with his first point. PRs that mix fixes to existing code and new features in a single commit will most likely be rejected.
Quebec wasn't affected, it's on a separate grid linked to the rest of the eastern grid by back-to-back AC-DC converters.
I read this with "best" implying a product they choose to use and "top" implying more like "inescapable".
I can't read the article because of the paywall, but is this counting China? Since Google isn't used in China I can't see how they are hitting those %s worldwide.
This is a really interesting approach. I'd love to hear more. Were you patching cpython then? Is your work online somewhere?
Open source instrumentation – AWS announces OpenTelemetry Distro
Yes, a particularly annoying case for example is the "Coronavirus Map".

Everyone I know that typed that on google, wanted to visit the John Hopkins map: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

But to me, and to many other people I know, it starts with Google own map and statistics, then some ads, then some random crap, and finally near the end of the page John Hopkins map.

EDIT: just a note, I am not living in US, so the top-most boxes don't show US stuff.
"In fact, the model’s first recommendation for achieving maximum energy conservation was to shut down the entire facility, which, strictly speaking, wasn’t inaccurate but wasn’t particularly helpful either."

https://sustainability.google/progress/projects/machine-lear...
> The solution I always imagine is paying someone or having my employer pay someone to strong style pair program with me

Wow, that's some impressive out-of-the-box thinking!

The OP's situation is something I worry about, as I'm worried my neuropathy will reach a point where I can't use my arms to type/mouse all day. I spent some time researching speech input for coding a year ago, and found a few fledgling solutions, but I'd need to expend a lot of time to get something remotely workable.

Your idea is, if I may say so, genius, and having that as a backup sets my mind greatly at ease, so thanks.
By the time you're big enough to have to worry about antitrust, you've already made it. I doubt this will affect the advice given to startup founders.
It's a slap in the face.

Plus this is only for Purdue. How many other companies pumped opioids into the medical system? Not a peep out of law enforcement at all. You can wake a judge in the middle of the night to send 2 swat teams on a dynamic entry to get a 16 year old with 12 oz of cannabis. But the guys pumping over 90% of the opioids in the medical system? Crickets.

That's where you know that money talks in America.
Python is ~100x slower than C. There is definitely wiggle room for improvement.
What can improve how we learn online?
Technology has democratized a lot the access to information and learning materials, people. But it seems there is still a lot to be done here. What do you think are the biggest bottlenecks here?
Agreed, that’s an overly reductionist way of seeking a resolution.

I say focus on worker capture.

The only “market” Adam Smith mentioned is a free labor market, which is free by its ability to move between offers fluidly.

We have that to an extent in tech but not really and it’s hardly pervasive.

If the problem is the billions to influence culture, IMO its employee culture spend that’s the biggest downside to monoliths.

Wealth-caring becomes the corporate mantra. Or Jesus in the old days. It’s clear there is a biological addiction to privatized monoliths boxing in agency to fetishizing the monolith, by tickling our limbic brain just right and repeating “New trend we’re selling!” all day.

Let’s not let them do that, but let people work.
Did it function well enough for your purposes?

Because I don't need it to be hermetically-sealed perfection, I just need my python code to spit out a good result when I throw it at a problem; nevermind that it took a few seconds to spin up or needs more memory than a perfectly crafted C program.
Sure it might be nice with new words to have a distinction between animal mice and computer mouse.

I am not dogmatically against using english words if they are commonly used but I am against avoiding native words becouse it sounds abit like corparate speak to me.
Uh, you're too optimistic:

Everybody and their uncle had a lot of ideas about how they would fix "C++". Eventually all those contradicting ideas got merged into the C++ standard.

:)
But no Linear-A? That would be the real test

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A
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> That’s mutable interpreter frames, global interpreter locks, shared global state, type slots, the C ABI.

There's research towards solving all of these problems.

> The only way to speed it up would be to change the language.

Maybe we just haven't worked out how yet? Nothing you've mentioned is known to be impossible to make fast.
Not according to the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine. COVID deaths are about in line with how many people would die of flu in a normal year.

https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/covid-19-florence-nightingales...

The ONS actually shows COVID deaths as now lower than flu deaths:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...
unicode absolutely had to be done. it'd be even more insane to leave strings as they were. maybe if you never venture outside of 7 bits it's only pain with negative ROI, but trust me the world has more languages than english and first-class support for unicode strings as just strings is a must. it was a painful transition but a necessary one. all other modern languages simply started there (and they're old enough to have a beer, too).
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Talk of the "post dollar world" and the "cashless society" has been going on for more than a decade.

There was a time when if you said people would wear tracking chips you'd be labeled a kook. Today people willingly carry smart phones connected to social networks.

The disruption is similar in both cases. The result is predictable. The goals have already been stated at Davos.
Yeah I set my memory target lower as well (I think around 900mb was the smallest value setable for OSDs ... Oh it's 939524096) since this value is only a target it would generally try to hit it, but (in my case) overshoot it regularly. In normal use this isn't a problem at all, but I got OSDs restarting under heavy usage. I would be interested in your stability. Can/Did you check your logs for OSD restarts? I could imagine that OSD processes died and got restarted by systemd. If not this could just mean that you either have a lower load than me, it could be better in a newer release or my setup could have just sucked :) would be interested to hear back
I sort of agree, but part of me also thinks that if a company builds the world's best mobile OS and search engine and ad platform and video streaming service and internet browser and mapping service... well, good for them! They built the best products and it seems like it would ultimately be anti-consumer to do anything about it.

It's different if a company like Google establishes its dominance via one great product (search) and then wields that power to artificially protect its other lines of business through e.g. contracts, the same way Microsoft did with OEMs.

Sure, nothing "illegal" about it, but ultimately, it fits the de facto understanding of antitrust being about "consumer welfare." A company leveraging its dominance in one business to exert control over others =/= a company having success because it built the best products.
People use Google because it's what they know and the alternatives for whatever reason do not sufficiently differentiate themselves in ways that the user cares about enough to switch.

In order to be disrupt Google, you don't make a better Google. You identify something Google doesn't deliver and which people care about enough to use your search engine. I don't think anyone knows right know what that hypothetical killer feature is, and most probably assume it doesn't exist.

On another level, though, incumbents have a habit of buying potential threats (which can be a pretty good deal when you're in venture capital land and need to show your shareholders high returns). Google's bought a number of companies with a different take on search over the years, such as Like.com and Clever Sense.
> C ABI

Why should this make python slow?
Hmph. A shadow board of non-executive talent is all very well, but why "young", unless this is only about courting the millennial market segment? The examples given seem to support that reasoning, which is a bit shallow.
There are repos that carry it, but doesn't the Windows version autoupdate? Or at least warn you of an update?
"Like I told them on the call, as long as they don’t go evil"

Too late. How many racist sites get their service for free?
Can we please do parking signs next?
> You should familiarize yourself with power law processes...

Since you brought it up: my PhD was in applied probability, and I work with heavy-tailed natural data every weekday.

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As my comment noted, ML literally says 170K or maybe 175K, and flat-out dismisses 220K. The latter is an interesting figure, because we recently surpassed it.

We're now well out of the 170-175K envelope and still rising at about 5K deaths per week, about 20K deaths per month [1]. Note that our weekly death toll is the implied accuracy of ML's prediction. This is a failure.

If ML thought there was a power law behind the mortality from an in-process event, he should have said "170K deaths or maybe 1.7M". But he didn't say that, did he?

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It's interesting to see an interview with an excellent science communicator. They will say what we know, and not a bit more than that. They will choose their words carefully. They will distinguish between speculation and accepted truth.

I live in southern CA, and Lucy Jones (formerly of the USGS) is such a person, for earthquakes. These people are a treasure, because this stuff is hard and it's important to get it right if you're going to make public statements.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/forecas...
Yep, this is the most common gotcha on ARMs, with few exceptions.
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Still no grape in the stool.
Without moats of some kind, you end up with a commodity.

In this instance, marginal value asymptotically approaches marginal cost, which in the case of software is zero. Ironically destroying the incentive to participate.

The only alternative to moats is intellectual property, which is arguably far worse.
It might never be the best tool for the job, but it has certainly saved lives before: https://confessionsoftheprofessions.com/interesting-facts-of...
I was within two years of the right date on the hippy photo because of the design of the museum direction signs behind them. That clear acrylic and minimal font stuck to a wall style of signage is quite recent.
Depending on which DB you're using, I'd suggest trying out https://sqlc.dev instead of gorm if on PG. Mysql support is a bit flaky last time I checked.
Adobe CAI: how Adobe can spot the fake images created with Photoshop
Ahh that's a piece I didn't notice in the post. That does change things yes.
That's GraalPython.
There's a lot of supporting structure to nail a point of sale transaction for both sides. It isn't reasonable to expect every business to run bitcoind, handle cold wallet vs hot wallet, and integrate it with their ecommerce system.

Companies want a simple solution that lets them accept the various common ways people want to pay whether that's Paypal balance, any of the credit/debit cards, or any of the other services out there.
The US financial system does not allow or encourage people who "shill" for investments. We in fact have many protections and policies that limit your ability to solicit investment in unregistered securities, which is what virtually all ICOs are/were.
I'm pretty sure this is because very few users actually use any of the search qualifiers (eg all they ever do is type in the words they want). And they certainly have the data to verify this.

I bet someone decided to the L10N (it was not there at launch) for the label display name (as you observe), and certainly knew they were not addressing the search bar (that would be a much harder change), but figured it's ok since so few people use it.

It sort of makes sense to do the relatively small amount of work needed for the daily use of 99% of your users rather then get stuck on the really hard part for the last 1%.
Would it be possible for the victims to sue them now since criminal actions have been proven?
I have nothing to back this claim but I imagine it is probably the most competitive tech field. When you ask people why they learned to program the answer is frequently because they wanted to make a game. Also, based on reading "Blood, Sweat, and Pixels", along with "Sid Meier's Memoir!" the industry appears to be very tight knit so having connections in the industry seems to be very important.
Doesn't this just cause more noise and notifications, not less? A stale issue can be ignored, a closed issue may be duplicated.

Whenever I came across these issues, I'd just open up a new issue and link to the old one and politely ask if they planned on addressing it or not.
That just goes to show how effective "Googling" is compared to alternative Search tech.

It's been said that "to Google" has generically come to mean "to Search", but I think googling has become a synonym not for "searching" but for "actually finding what you are looking for".

When someone tells you to Google something, they are not telling you to do open ended research, they are telling you that you will definitely find the referenced information if you enter a specific term into the Google search bar.
I would guess that, if Python 3 hadn't addressed Unicode, Python would never have come to a place where so many people are worried about its performance.

Python's still a great language for the things it was being designed for back in the 2000s. But adding decent Unicode support is a big part of what helped it become an attractive language for use cases where I wish it performed better or had better support for parallelism. Natural language processing, for example.
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Appreciate all the discussion!

I touch on this in the article, but I should say: I'm an edge-case when it comes to CTS. Most cases resolve spontaneously. Part of it is that my nerve dislocates when I bend my elbow, and this mobility causes a bunch of additional friction / inflammation. This happens naturally to about 13% of the population, and mine is particularly pronounced.

All this to say, if you ever do start to get a burning or tingling in your elbows or wrists, or get numbness in the hands, it'll likely go away on its own, or with conservative treatment (a physical therapist is a great first step!).

And, for those who also fall into my unlucky percentile, hopefully it helps to know that there are tools and a community that exist to let you keep working without needing to use your hands at all!
Weird, I don't really hear any citizens complaining about Google being a monopoly. But I hear people complaining about local ISP monopolies. Yet the government seems to be focused on solving the non-issue, and perpetuating the issue.

Is it possible that the American government doesn't represent the will of the people? Just spitballing here...
NYC also offers tickets to baseball games and fast food gift cards to try to get people to show up for court.

> A law enforcement source told CBS2 a city program will offer those released incentives meant to encourage them to show up in court such as Mets baseball tickets, a subway pass or a Dunkin’ Donuts gift card. [0]

[0] https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/11/04/nyc-to-offer-mets-ti...
There's a pretty low barrier to entry to driving a forklift, at least in the jurisdiction I did it in. Training took place on the job site, by other employees, and it took no more than a few hours.
Default HTML5 camera input broken on Android / Chrome
> 4.1 billion internet users, firefox has 4% market share

Note that the denominator for market share as measured by StatCounter is "page views", not "browser users".

So for example, say you have 4.1 billion users, who use their laptop and phone evenly for their web browsing. On their phone, none of them use Firefox. All of them load the same number of pages every day. In this scenario, 4% of page views corresponds to 8% of users using Firefox on laptop.

Note that these are not realistic assumptions, of course: people vary widely in terms of how many pages they load, vary widely in terms of how their web activity is split between mobile and non-mobile, etc. For example, in 2010, I would bet that the average Firefox user used the web more than the average IE user, so the StatCounter number for Firefox was inflated compared to the actual fraction of users using Firefox.

If you want to measure actual number of Firefox users, you need to use a data service that tries to measure users instead of page views (i.e. not StatCounter).
There is DDG and Bing. Google runs circles around them in terms of quality.

Both DDG and Bing are not crappy, they are good but Google is just better. This is a bit like going after Tesla for capturing EV market. One can have dozen other reasons to hate and complain about Google but it is a simple fact that Google search is just too damn good and useful.