skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ZFSOnLinux is a kernel module and not a user space application (and you cannot OOM kill kernel threads) and the overcommit probably isn't direct, e.g. there are 64 worker threads who all need some memory to do the work and tell the kernel that memory allocation must not fail. If the memory isn't available either Linux starts killing userspace processes or gets stuck.
The same thing can happen in Solaris except there ZFS doesn't use a separate memory mechanism which does not properly react to memory pressure.
This is great! Super excited to see prototyping tools get up-leveled with preview ability like this. Congrats to the Framer team.

Vote it up on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/tech/framer-preview.
Research. There are systems that can surface relevant cases vs the old way of a bunch of junior lawyers reading.
Gwern has written a good piece on this idea here: http://www.gwern.net/Mistakes?cx=009114923999563836576%3Adv0...

"The Luddite Fallacy Fallacy"
> The Japanese government is doing exactly literally what the parent comment describes - paying people to dig up and break apart rocks

That's actually not the same thing. The parent comment's "have them go break large rocks into smaller rocks" carried the connotation of useless make-work. Your link describes a facet of concrete production, which is hardly useless.
Sasha was a responsible scientist with a stable life.

McAfee is someone who kept a minor girlfriend, fled Belize after being implicated in the murder of his neighbor and spent most of his time down there booty bumping bath salts.

For some perspective.
Having audio proof that contradicted a citation saved my ass before. When my lawyer was talking to the prosecutor, he kept coming up with justifications for the officers claim. When my lawyer pointed out a contradiction in the audio, the case was dropped. Had I not pushed for clarity, I would have needed to go to trial, my word against his (in which I would lose).
> There are also plenty of regulations that are limiting career mobility, both in medicine and in other fields. An example of this is that anything that makes it hard for employers to fire people also makes it more costly for them to hire different people (because that new person is an unknown, and therefore risky, as the employer has to hold onto them longer, even if they aren't willing/able to produce.)

In all 50 states, you can fire people easily unless:

1) You are blatantly discriminatory AND the people who are discriminating against can deploy legal muscle to their benefit.

2) The employer voluntarily entered into a contract with employee(s) that restrict the employer's rights.

There are no "regulations" involved beyond #1 in firing people. Its why almost everyone is fired for the generic "performance" reason. Its pretty much immune to criticism unless you are blatantly discriminating.
In the long run it would be better to find a standard way of doing this so that browsers implement it without the need for a worker initiated from JS. Static pages could benefit from safe long lived sessions as well.
I can't agree, there are lots of restaurants in SOMA as well as the city's best nightlife IMO.
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good call. The U2 has only gears in the center and "skids" on the wings, trying to get as slow as possible before they are needed (an some muscle car following for guidance). https://youtu.be/hxFz6ImB8fI?t=165
Not that I have a particular love of border control, but 1st Amendment freedom of the press doesn't mean journalists are exempt from laws that apply to everyone else. And ridiculous as the 100 mile constitution free zone may be (also not true, by the by), she was still in the airport, not chilling at her hotel, so it's more non sequitur hyperbole than anything.
This was somewhat common until recently on small tourist and passenger trains in the US too until about 15-20 years ago. The Cape Cod Railroad was shutdown for a long time due to disposing of waste on the tracks
Oh, first tier hardware support. The "Wait, our product does what?" crowd?
The statement you linked clearly shows a gross profit and net loss. "Selling, general and administrative" is not a cost of revenue, hence why it does not count against the gross profit. These are fixed costs not tied to the sales volume that covers the basic operation of the company, advertising, executive compensation, and other overhead costs not directly tied to generating revenue or R&D (since it is a separate line item).

Tesla takes in more revenue than their cars cost to build. It currently is not enough to cover all the other expenses of the company.
> I'm not going to waste my time with responding to this.

And yet, you did.
There must be more than two alternatives, though?

If we're examining it from the perspective of advancement, and we know that political restrictions on economic development (i.e., regulation) slow development (compare the development delta of periods in 19th century with today), what we end up with is an infinite number of mixtures between freedom and controls.

What I'm telling you is that there are some controls we have in place today that are helping to kill me, and it is almost perceptually obvious that an alternative (freedom) is possible, and that is what we should move toward.

Freedom from political and economic controls is good for those that want to work and think. It doesn't do much for those who can't or won't, but so what? Those people that work and think are the source of everything, and they have the right to priority. (Consider the effects on societies where the complete opposite principle is in action: the Soviet Union, Dark Ages Europe, Nazi Germany, Chavismo in Venezuela, Maoist China, ... possibly America in 20-40 years?)
Are sports economics zero-sum? Both teams get paid for playing. If one team loses, they don't give money to the other team.
This also brings to mind other attempts to clarify notation, such as https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_algebra#Relationship...
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Yes. Especially if you have kids. Here in Austria health insurance for kids is free (until they graduate), you get paid maternity leave, Kindergarten and schools are free, college tuition is less than 1000€ per year, and on top of that the state supports you with about 200€ per month for every child.
jobs are the cost of satisfying human economic desires. we want to minimise costs, not increase them.since nobody knows what sort of jobs will exist even 5 years from today, there is no point in speculating and wringing hands.
who saw the rise of zumba dance teachers? theres atleast a million of them today and they dont need high education or be employed in silicon valley. did president clinton with all the information available at his disposal have the foresight to plan for an app economy for his citizens or imagine how internet search would be something different than what lycos offered?
What "welfare" are you talking about? I don't know of any social assistance in my state that goes to individuals who can work but aren't working. Medicare would be close, but in practice that's very difficult to qualify for, and covering health care is a far cry from "pay[ing] them to play video games."
True, but not relevant.
There is a tiny flaw in your reasoning. I will give you a hint as to what it is. Prison inmate workers may earn about $4.73/day in the US.

If you pay someone $7.25/h to do nothing, that might be considered an incentive payment to not do work that does net harm to society.

While it would always be better to pay the $7.25 for something that might benefit the economy less in absolute terms, there is no "zero" that can be used to calculate a "net" cost of social welfare. Playing video games is not plowing a large vehicle through a crowd of people, or mixing fertilizer with #2 fuel, or strapping tiny backpacks filled with thermite and moisture-sensitive primers to bats, or cooking meth, or cooking krokodil desomorphine, or turning tricks in the park bathroom, or pooping in the neighborhood swimming pool.

One person can be very destructive, or at least thousands of dollars worth of annoying, before anyone would bother stepping in to check them.
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There is always a shortage of people willing to cut the grass with scissors for $0.05 an hour. There is always a shortage of people (for any price) capable of running a large corporation successfully. The former you don't need, so you go without. The latter you do need, so you pay what they cost.

If there is a shortage worth complaining about, it implies there is a critical need (a large financial upside -- these articles make it sound like it's an existential requirement for the bank) for hiring an employee that knows Cobol. My point is that if the compensation scaled with that critical need, plenty of people would be picking up Cobol right now, just like plenty of people are honing their business management skills.
https://openmedia.org/en/ca

Openmedia is an advocacy group that is very active and has a handful of modest successes under its belt. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMedia.ca

Another good resource for keeping informed is through the site of law professor Michael Geist. I should note that his focus is a little more on copyright law. http://www.michaelgeist.ca
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I wish I had enough rep to downvote you. For shame.
But it is still a winner-takes-all economy.
So the answer is to not use links at all?
just to point out, NMS isn't PS4 exclusive, it is releasing on PC as well.
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He was a blogger at DealBreaker back in the day. The archives are definitely worth mining for his content.
In dollars, I would guess less. In hours, likely a lot longer.
I want to use Uber's software, just like this guy wants to use the software that came with the hardware that broke.

Look, I agree that I don't like what this company is doing. But I don't like what the unicorns are doing either. I'm arguing for consistency of viewpoint; and in terms of damage, what this company is doing is far less damaging to the economy (and I'm not referring to the damage Uber is doing to taxis, I'm in favor of that, I'm just in favor of a herd of Uber's competing, rather than a single player monopoly run by a sleazebag)
> we're not all xenophobic Trump supporters, not even most of us.

Please, leave your virtue-signalling to reddit. We come here for a break from the partisan poo-throwing.

As an aside, the article is about China, which, like much of Asia, isn't that welcoming of outsiders. In even the most die-hard 'conservative' circles, you can become an 'honorary' Texan/American/whatever and be privy to all dealings and goings-on, but it's really, really hard to do the same in China (especially if you're black or white, and doubly so if your mandarin isn't native). You just won't get into many circles.

I leave with this: the US election, to an outsider like myself, is interesting in that many Americans claim any supporters of the other candidate must support their platform 100%. Such an ignorant view. Some people choose Trump for trade, some choose Hillary for a no-surprises, effective office from day 1 (whether or not they see themselves agreeing with the results of her work).
Even avoiding mutices and using lock-free algorithms doesn't guarantee that your thread won't starve. As another comment mentioned, fast wait-free algorithms are what you need in this context.
Didn't knew it, but a fig tree send a friend to the hospital with the same trick, delivering several weeks of excruciating pain and leaving permanent scars in his arms. Is impressive if we think about it.
MC Frontalot said this well here: http://frontalot.com/index.php/?page=lyrics&lyricid=41.
in C# terms...

//use CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver

public class ApiResponse<T> {
public T Data { get; set; }
public Exception Error { get; set; }

public ApiResponse(T data) {
this.Data = data;
}

public ApiResponse(Exception error) {
this.Error = error;
}
}

In this way, all API requests return ApiResponse<TypeOfData>
Many Dutch trains too, including fairly recent ones. Definitely far more than 10%.
Dunno. However, the Feds have a long history of defining "business transactions" in whatever terms suit their purposes at the moment. (Wickard v. Filburn comes to mind, for one thing.) And certainly export regulations don't make a distinction between commercial and private transactions.
exhaustion of natural resources? hmm. natural resources are INFINITE by definition since the universe is infinite. what is limited are "reserves". panicking about reserves dwindling is what Tim Worstall calls the 'No breakfast fallacy'
we dont look at our refrigerator which is running out of milk and worry that the world is running out of milk. we know that there is an entire ecosystem of farmers , truckers and supermarkets producing milk for us. the confusion between reserves an resources is common
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Technically they still hold true, but most people don't use them or even know about them these days.
+1. If the problem is that absent foreign investors are buying up all the housing stock, maybe we should make a 100 story tower on some parking lot in SOMA and sell each floor as a $5M luxurious penthouse unit with the stipulation that the buyer must reside out of the country. Boom, we just took a bunch of those foreign investors out of the market without increasing traffic and decreased the annual US trade deficit by 1% to boot.

Fundamentally, if people outside the country want to buy our housing, we should be happy about that, and create jobs by building housing to meet the demand. Imagine if our reaction to Chinese demand for Buicks was to limit car manufacturing and complain that foreign investors are making Buicks unaffordable.
Check out DirtyPCBs too. Based in Shenzhen but offers next-day DHL. Usually a 4 to 6 day turn-around time for me; great prices and good quality too.

If you're in a bigger city, also check out some smaller shops near you. There are a few nearby in the suburbs of Chicago for me and sometimes I go to them for quick turn-around time and a price that's higher than DirtyPCBs/Seeed's, but much closer than Advanced Circuits'.
Many jobs have been automated away. Jobs for medical doctors, as far as I can tell, are not among those.

Nor must you be a genius to be an MD.

It is a huge investment, though, at least in the USA.
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A lot of gliders do this and are designed for grass/turf airstrips.
No 'hence' about it. Those are just a tiny listing of what government does. Tribesmen in the jungle govern themselves without doing any of those things. Some current nations, for whatever reason, don't do those things. Yet they are certainly governed.

To blow 'use of lethal force' into the be-all and end-all of the purpose of government is over the top rhetoric.
> In algebraic geometry we take the radical ideal sqrt(I) for an ideal I which is most certainly a set of values.

But that's just overloaded syntax, isn't it? We're concerned with real numbers here.

> There is literally no reason we select the positive branch other than notational convenience

Agreed, it's just a convention, though a very helpful one.

> I've noticed some online resources recently are very careful about referring to sqrt(x) as the "principal square root function", something which is very good but that I have never once heard anyone say in real life, teacher or mathematician.

I had to look up that one, since my maths education wasn't in English. I agree that it's nicer than what appears e.g. in my textbook: "the square root is always a positive number or zero", which conflicts wiwitthe definition that's on Wikipedia. It's probably the conflicting uses of "square root" to refer to two different things (all solutions, which is more relevant analytically, or the unique positive solution, which is more helpful for notation) that causes the kinds of freshman errors you mention.

> You understand the concern here: simplifying notation masks the actual mathematics.

My point is that it doesn't mask the actual mathematics any more than the regular notation already does. Which also is a problem, but not the one at hand.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12139125 and marked it off-topic.
Please don't do the programming language flamewar thing on HN.
Google has done a far better job of abstracting the underlying math of machine learning into vertical-oriented services like the CloudVision API and the Cloud Natural Language API.

In contrast, the AWS Machine Learning service provides a 100% vendor-locked interface to logistic regression and that's it. You can't even import or export models. They just hired Alex Smola to do something about that. We'll see what comes of that.
Like the Iron Ring in canada?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
Unfortunately the TPP is enshrining the US copyright approach in other countries.
This is still anecdotal. You would need hundreds of people, also, the very fact that you are expecting calls pollutes that experiment already...
> Different financial markets have, over long periods of time, evolved standards of behavior that are not, perhaps, entirely honest in the most traditional sense of the word. To outsiders -- and to some less experienced participants in those markets -- those standards can seem shocking, even criminal. To regular participants, they can seem normal, even admirable.

Indeed, when I did my trader exams back in 2007, the regulations treated foreign exchange very differently from other asset classes as far as pre-positioning was concerned, because of the way the FX market traditionally functioned (e.g. No centralised exchanges), although I believe the regulations have changed in the past few years (i.e. after this particular incident).

It's very telling that the UK regulator presumably didn't see any grounds for prosecution or enforcement action. This is a UK bank dealing with a UK client, in the UK. There's no logical reason for a US prosecutor to be involved.
That was my point though -- excluding people who are in different markets, have special language needs, etc. etc. you're left with 95+% of the US market who have very efficient ways of legally licensing all but the very latest unreleased or specialty content. Yet still a huge number of those people pirate that content. So I just don't buy the argument that it's a lack of efficient systems that leads people in the US to pirate stuff. I suspect they do it because it's become socially acceptable and they'd just rather not pay for stuff they can get for free.
Probably because so much of math was derived from couching things in terms of geometry and geometric proofs. For quite a while squares and cubes were fundamental operations (hence the fact that we use names for them to this day), but general reasoning about exponents independently of geometry was more of a gradual development.

For example, x^4 would have been thought of as a square of a square, with all the geometric meaning that that entails, moreso than as a convenient way to express x * x * x * x. People wouldn't have cared about x * x * x * x, but they might have been interested in the properties of squared squares, hence the oddball naming schemes.

People reasoning about problems involving x^4 would have likely been using verbal proofs involving geometric concepts than using the notation everyone uses today, and in that context x^4 is the square of a square rather than simply being an instance of x^y in which y = 4.

Grain of salt though- this isn't my field, somebody please correct me if I'm wrong!
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Thanks for helping me understand both of your viewpoints. I can definitely see how that comment can be seen as spurious now and will try to avoid those sweeping generalizations.
No. I've worked some people to try and come up with product ideas to fit this type of future, but it's at least 5-10 years off, and dependent on factors like the current title-based education system being replaced by something more skills-based.
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PHP, for example, has very good documentation with notes already (yes, more curation on notes would be even better) and this will cause a lot of duplication and confusion.
No one said that professional CEOs always fail. I said it's a bad sign when one is hired. Are you arguing it's a good sign, or that tech companies do better with non-founder managers?
The point you're missing is that the ability to dynamically remux Blu-Ray contents is legally blocked by the DMCA, but if it wasn't there could be, for example, software that injects extra commentary tracks into the processing of a disc you have.
> The FCA might also be taking a view that...

These charges weren't brought by the FCA. I bet the FCA looked at this case and decided that no crime was committed (under UK law, at least).
Reading up on it, I'm a bit disappointed they make it sound like the Seafile Ltd is some aggressive fork.

They could have just said "We are ending close cooperation with upstream because they move to fast/dont provide the stability we need as a service provider using the platform"
yup, there are lots of non-EMF ways to get data off a device. iirc it's easier to transmit data with higher (inaudible) frequencies than lower ones.
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IANAL, but it seems to me that the intersection of "other people's money" and "lies made to those people about that money" tends to constitute fraud.