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by chalst 5y ago
> for niches such as ML and data science, I find you just can't beat the Python ecosystem There definitely are many areas where Python is best, but for ML and data science, Julia is (i) very competitive in library coverage, (ii) mor
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by chalst 5y ago
Repairability was the single largest reason for my move from an iPhone to a Fairphone.
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by chalst 5y ago
> Their successors won't get any bonuses by increasing the budget for something that has no ROI. Possibly, but not if the business has a culture of recognising downside risk. Single events that are not extremely unlikely and that co
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by chalst 5y ago
From the lkml post, it's neither from a real-world case nor from an especially constructed futex benchmark, but from an existing kernel benchmark where it was thought it would be interesting to see how it performed with the new call.
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by chalst 5y ago
"Huge" means different things in different contexts. A compiler optimisation that delivered a 4% increase in speed for a whole class of well-tuned C programs would be regarded as huge by people who follow compiler technology, but
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by chalst 5y ago
Oh, sorry for that. It looks like the FT are tightening their paywall. Try following the link in this tweet: https://twitter.com/txtpf/status/1387402675684356101
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by chalst 5y ago
If you have difficulty with the FT's paywall, either reader mode or switching off Javascript should do the trick.
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Global IPOs begin 2021 at breakneck pace(ft.com)
2 points by chalst 5y ago|3 comments
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by chalst 5y ago
I think so. https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/progressive-wealth-t...
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by chalst 5y ago
Their charitable status helps them accumulate a big stash of assets, but an effective tax evasion scheme will have a way to get at your funds when you need them, and that is hard to do without obviously breaking the law.
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by chalst 5y ago
Economically, they are not normal universities: equally though, hedge funds are usually not charities. It's a nice quip - I've quoted it myself - but sometimes quips can mean you don't dig a little deeper.
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by chalst 5y ago
Ads are possible but discouraged. They're what F-Droid calls an 'anti-feature', and IIUC Droidscript has a few of them.
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by chalst 5y ago
I hope the Droidscript devs do take it to F-Droid, but as it stands, the app faces a few hurdles before the F-Droid team will accept it.
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IPFS HTTP Gateways ranked by performance(reddit.com)
4 points by chalst 5y ago|0 comments
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by chalst 5y ago
I was commenting on the high-level claims of the article, not the specific algorithms the article describes. When you move from the article's example of a DP algorithm to the simple implementation I sketch of the 0-1 knapsack problem,
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by chalst 5y ago
The paradigmatic example of a DP algorithm for me is the simple DP solution of the 0-1 knapsack problem, which, although because of NP-hardness of the general case, becomes infeasible on many easily constructed cases, actually performs pret
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by chalst 5y ago
The PhD work of Sruti Ragavan appears to lie behind part of this development. She hasn't defended her thesis yet, but she's been recruited by the MSR Cambridge team behind this work, where she interned in 2018, IIUC just before sh
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by chalst 5y ago
Where I heard about this development nearly three months ago: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5621
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by chalst 5y ago
Ok discussion; the suggestion that the results given back by OracleT and OracleF are "equally valid" annoys me: mathematical logicians have the concept of Sigma^0_1-soundness here, which is something that, since the sentence &quot
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by chalst 5y ago
This is a much better title than the other Guardian story, which misrepresented the story in the byline, I guess to get the click-friendly "sustainability" word in the title. See the earlier story at https://news.ycombi
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by chalst 5y ago
If you read the linked story about Kevin Cooper, it sounds like he is a better human being today than when he was almost certainly wrongfully convicted. Just one data point, but at least regular prison has redemptive potential, while the le
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by chalst 5y ago
FWIW, Qiushi Wu's USENIX speaker page links to a presentation with Aditya Pakki (and Kangjie Lu), but has no talk with the same set of authors as the paper above. https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity19&
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by chalst 5y ago
The Guardian headline seems to be clickbait: the grounds are nothing to do with sustainability, but hypocritical behaviour by the bank. Standard Ethics may be influential on the people who put together sustainable funds, but that is a side
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by chalst 5y ago
In biology, signalling of any kind is a social behaviour of fundamental importance in natural selection and a frequent driver of pro-social behaviours in higher animals. Why do you use the phrase "nothing more than"? This looks li
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by chalst 5y ago
> I'm an old-timer so was introduced to Unix before bash was ubiquitous. Me too, my first contact with UNIX was with SunOS 4 in 1988, which had csh as its default shell. I don't think I switched to bash until I started administ
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by chalst 5y ago
The ethics in big-lab science are as dire as you say, but I've generally got the impression that the publication imperative has not been driving so much unethical behaviour in computer science. I regard this as particularly cynical beh
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by chalst 5y ago
For those like me who did not recognise the business incorporation class gGmbH, Wikipedia can help. I did recognise the last bit: bH means limited liability. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesellschaft_mit_beschr%C3%A.
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by chalst 5y ago
Good selection of tips, like Normille I didn't know $! even though I have read Bash's man page through more than once. Note that many of these are not just for Bash. pushd/popd is near universal among shells and CDPATH is sta
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by chalst 5y ago
Also an HN story on this by The Verge at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26899593 Original story: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/21/22396283/apple-schematics...
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Paul McCartney and Kate Bush lead call for change to music streaming payments(theguardian.com)
9 points by chalst 5y ago|5 comments

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