skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun fact: Smartphones became the biggest mobile phone market just two years ago. Dumb phones and feature phones are still almost half of the markets if you measure them by number of units (smartphones dominate revenues).

Many emerging markets still sell more feature phones and dump phones than smartphones. India for example.

There is even small reverse trend when customers in developed world when people are getting fed up with smartphones.
Hi mattbgates,

Thank you very much for this detailed comment and support.
I read a lot about blogging and about different success stories, but nothing will happen over the night, I know that. I'll come back again with a new analysis. Surely I will remember you :-)
You shouldn't care about what reference is taken. The point is that compared to any reference, the curve is increasing.
Moto Z has a nice innovative design - big magnetic attachment plate in the back for external modules. Still waiting for the killer mods like slide-out keyboards and gamepads though
No. It's definitely 41%. Look at page 6 of your link

The earliest that machines will be able to simulate learning and every other
aspect of human intelligence:

Within 10 years 6 5%
Between 11 and 25 years 3 2%
Between 26 and 50 years 14 11%
More than 50 years 50 41%
Never 50 41%
Totals 123 100%
Can someone explain why aerosols are decreasing in their graph?

A definition of what they consider an aerosol would be a good start, which I didn't see on there. Apparently the term can cover a large number of natural and unnatural compositions of matter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerosol
On the other hand, imagine if the data collection never stops and one of the big companies gets hacked, or faces a serious competitive threat making it more likely to sell its data, starts going out of business, or needs to cooperate by sharing its data in return for government favors, or needs to share data to get access to foreign markets etc. I have a feeling this venerable "consumer" is going to learn a painful lesson one of these days.
Well it seems the right has the same opinion... Are they going to ask Cali, aruz, new Mexico and Texas if they want a wall? Are they going to ask each state how many nukes they want to build?
> The only real question is: What are we going to do about it?

Zilch, so long as politicians corrupted by the fossil fuel industry are in power.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" -- Upton Sinclair
MySpace for Dummies (2007)
Does anybody else have trouble opening the link? Firefox gives me a "Server not found" error.

edit: I also tried it in Edge, same result
We have already established this is not the case.
For most people I'd recommended using the official helper app instead -

https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/blob/m...

Although, in truth I'd use the much smaller preact library -

https://github.com/developit/preact-boilerplate
800 million years ago is my reference point
You're right. However, it's hard to argue with the speed at which this warming occurs. It's never seen before if you look at all the records we have. That's what's worrying.
Which in practice means "revenues are lower than we're saying, and losses/outflows/overhead are larger."
That doesn't make sense. What if the reference is 5 minutes ago?
There's is no link.
>>With successful businesses like Uber or some bank you recently read about, it's assumed that somehow these behaviours are what makes the companies profitable.

I'm not sure that's true. At least with Uber, it's pretty well-understood that they are successful despite their toxic culture. And that's mostly because they have received billions from VCs, which does a great job shielding them from the consequences of bad decisions such as harboring and protecting sexual harassers at the corporate level.
Why Do I hate my friends on Instagram?
The parent poster referred to both "networked disk" and "networked file system". I didn't catch the implied reference to NFS, so I assumed he was talking about the former, so that's what my comment is about.

I agree that NFS is a terrible idea for databases.
This kind of partisanship helps absolutely no one.
> proponents of global warming aren't engaging with the facts in an honest and forthright way.

You want to read about global warming from climate scientists, as your questions are easily answered. Peer reviewers are as vicious as in any other science: the concerns you raise here would be the least of their ammunition.
That was really cool but it bothers me that they don't show the y axis for the effecting factors. Does anyone know if it's normalized or completely arbitrary?
Your GDP figure is missing about $600 to $700 billion (equal to half the Australian or Russian economy):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
This is a very interesting read for perspective, thanks.

If you're like me and wear pretty much the same thing everyday bought from thrift stores (excepting underwear), it can really open your eyes. Women do, generally speaking, all look better than men. I probably spend too much on outerware, but I save on clothes because I just don't care.

As an anecdote, one of the baristas at my coffee shop said a ski pass at our closest resort (I'm in the Rockies) was too expensive while wearing, what I thought to be, fancy clothes. After 9 months of interaction, I've concluded her clothes budget would cover 3 ski passes. My parents taught me to value experiences over material goods, and I'm very thankful for that.
I am using the Z5 compact with Android 7. It runs great! Doesn't get hot, great camera and battery.
+ reduced consumption of other drugs and both ordinary and
binge alcohol
Predicting the 89th academy awards
One might consider that if Enclosure did not increase total food production productivity per person, then the peasants would have had to just keep working the land like they did before. I'm not saying the peasants had better lives as industrial workers than as feudal farmer workers (they probably did not), but maybe in the long run more people will have better lives. Same problem today with automation.
I wish the issue of battery replacement wasn't so binary. I mean, if it just takes a screwdriver to replace battery surely that's okay right? There's a spectrum of ease-of-replacement, imho.
Had the same experience with Google and Facebook ads. ~80% of the clicks are simple bots that don't run javascript or store cookies.

Additional ~10% are more sophisticated bots that try to mimic real people behavior, but when you compile their actions to a video it's really easy to see that they are not human.

Most of these bots are run by agencies with the purpose of clicking on their clients' ads.
I recommend double checking reference tables in Wikipedia.

It is conveniently displayed first in search results, however for Sweden:

https://www.bra.se/download/18.358de3051533ffea5ea7f2cf/1459...

> 305 Completed murder, manslaughter and assault resulting in death.
> 9,851,017 Total population

= 3.1 per 100000 people
The sample size of our records is incredibly small when stacked against the history of the earth and all the records we're missing.
That's ridiculous, of course you need a baseline for any sort of evaluation. Your comment implies any sort of warming, regardless of absolute levels, is bad.
Very interesting! I think one thing that this would benefit from is a lot of usage examples, especially around pumpkinscript. I was reading recently about MUMPS and Caché and it's interesting to see a modern implementation of similar ideas.

One question - what is the storage layout like? Do you have plans to support efficient range queries at all?
It's a promise and nothing more. I sure would not pay a premium for that promise, considering how often it had been broken. I would find it more compelling if they announced updates for a small fee, then they could say "we promise, but we also promise that you only pay of we deliver".

At least they are offensively sticking to plain Google Android, so the usual excuse "we customized ourselves into a corner, now you can only get security updates if you buy new hardware" is out of the picture.
> I think back to how we handled the Brendan Eich debacle. I (regretfully) came down on the punitive side of that argument.

Can I ask why? I know many sober, moral and analytic people who got themselves quite riled up and (in my eyes) burned an accused man before the facts were all in. I understand why any angry crowd saturating a company's dial-in board would make any employer say "I don't know what's right or wrong - but you are a costly employee to keep on!" To me, that seems like the opposite of justice-seeking behavior.

But, I've been told, that my views on these things are too blinkered, and I'd like hearing it from your perspective (esp. now that you've calmed down!)
Find and message them on LinkedIn. Pay for the messaging plan; it is way more effective than stuffing your message in the connection request. Also, be prepared to talk salary and have a resume on hand.

LinkedIn is their tool of choice these days. StackOverflow Careers is another popular option for them. Facebook Jobs might pick up steam, so I'd experiment with that too.
Beyond a certain time, data collection wasn't common enough, so my understanding is that people pick a baseline from a period of time when people were already collecting data in substantial amounts. I guess 2nd half of 19th century, with all the industrialization, was when people both had enough resources, and were also interested in trying to actually collect it. I think this is similar to how the baselines for all satellite-measured data (like arctic sea ice, I think) start in the 70s.

But the other comment is right too, which baseline doesn't matter so much, so long as the choice is reasonable, and used consistently. This is because, in the end, absolute values aren't meaningful on their own, only differences between them (similar to how one always reads about global temperature anomalies, rather than global temperature).
No official statement yet, but I think they will support virtualization. There hasn't been an AMD CPU in ages without AMD-Vi/IOMMU.

But lack of ECC support is a problem if you want to use virtualization for security, as Rowhammer can be used for attacking other VMs and ECC is often the last line of defense against Rowhammer.

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/events...
Great words of wisdom in this article.
If you mean that by choosing one city in the US vrs the whole country's rate then you're right.

But my point was that Sweden is incomparable to the USA (Sweden has a population approaching 10 million). You'd find it very hard to find a city in the Nordics approaching that of some in the US.
If we're talking about annual average temperature, what doesn't make sense is thinking about 5min ago.
So, Um, How Do You, Like, Stop Using Filler Words?
>Whether a true 'generalist' AI is possible in the forseeable future is debatable.

Sure, but see the survey I posted above. The rate of progress of AI is incredible. We will almost certainly be approaching human level in a few decades at most.

>Now your AI is not just a 'generalist' but rather a specialist in AI.

That's what general intelligence is. The ability to learn different specializations. AI researchers are not literally born as AI researchers and capable of nothing else.

> This also presumes that the AIs are even capable of effective invention and improvisation rather than mimicry and optimization

Why wouldn't they be? If they are generally intelligent and can do all the same tasks humans can do. Whats magical about invention that would prevent computers from ever doing it?

>All of which is predicated on the limiting factor being software and not hardware.

All the same arguments apply to hardware. Hardware has been improving exponentially for a much longer time than AI has. And I think hardware may already be close enough. Transistors are orders of magnitude faster and denser than biological synapses.
Take the reference that is 5min ago, call it T0.
You will still observe that temperatures (i.e the sequence of measured temperatures minus T0) are increasing.
Changing the reference changes the y-scale of a graph, but does not change the derivative (the speed at which it changes, i.e. increases or decreases).
Haskell is what I use.
I consider having access to maps and ridesharing to be life changing, not just tawdry gimmicks. I'm not exaggerating - for example I don't think I would've been able to go car-free without Citymapper and Lyft.

I don't have any social media apps installed on my phone, nor do I have my work email set up.
Concept of Threading to a paper notebook
That message could be clearer. My informal answer would be: "Most likely 'Yes', but if you encounter any problems, don't ask WhatsApp for help."

I'm running a Xiaomi Redmi Note using Mokee (non-rooted) instead of the official MIUI 7. It works perfectly. I just get a notice that WhatsApp is not supported on custom ROMs upon installation. But, no problems after that.
> Here's a quick question - isn't StatefulSets and PersistentVolumeClaim the exact opposite of how fault tolerant database systems are generally built ?

In some cases it is perfectly valid to rely on underlying storage to get HA. E.g. RDS relies on EBS https://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/

> IMHO kubernetes still has problems in orchestrating an ElasticSearch/Zookeeper cluster for high availability

I don't think that is the case any more. It is not trivial to build a proper automation on top of K8s, but possible, here is an example of a complex distributed DB deployed on top of Kubernetes:

https://github.com/coreos/etcd-operator

There are many challenges, but they are not specific to Kubernetes, rather than just automating the deployment of such complex systems is generally hard.
A non-negligible portion of the bot networks are teenagers and college students learning how to manipulate the system.

Inexperienced operators like that make amateur mistakes like leaving in default user-agent strings for a variety of tools that are frequently linux-based as its cheap to go on something like LowEndTalk.com, pick up a couple $2/month VMs, pick up some proxies, and test out a small group of bots designed to fake traffic to generate Ad revenue.

The reason I said teenagers & students is you have to be really, really sophisticated for that sort of operation to scale beyond $100/month in profit so its generally something I've seen people "learn" on, realize the limitations, and move on. (i.e. Making no amateur mistakes that flag your traffic as non-legit and being able to use an IP address only a couple of times a day in random patterns)
Since most Android phones nowadays are anyway a commodity, success is much more about sales, marketing and branding than the phone itself.
I've made almost exactly this move from big ball of mud to micro services with a similar sized team.

Overall I think it was a net positive, but only because the velocity hit from working on the big legacy application is worse than the hit from working with smaller distributed services which all need managing. That's a very real overhead - you're now managing dependencies and deployment for n services rather than 1, and realistically the big application you're trying to move away from isn't going anywhere soon. We've got an API routing layer which purely exists to allow migrating individual endpoints to new services while allowing the legacy platform to continue serving everything else.
Maybe it's not a bad idea in the long run. I would have a meeting with the team and talk about "stages":

1) Start to split out monolith in separate packages ("services")

2) Use RabbitMQ to "talk" between the services / Simply have one package that is the REST portion and reference the other packages inside of it (which aren't REST... just libraries, basically)

3) Patch up design flaws

4) Slowly move towards true microservices

Step 2 would be deploying everything as monolith but at least it's split up.

This gradual approach may just work for your team!
Nearly every gas station and general store in the land will sell you a much better sub for the same price or less than Subway charges for their aggressively mediocre products.
You can own a majority of a company, still not know what you're doing, and take bad advice. Advice being a VC stock in trade.

By my read they tried to do the kind of high-growth strategy that benefits other kinds of online businesses, but routinely kills retail, what I internalize as "the Boston Market problem." They opened two stores while also ramping up manufacturing, while finding new designs, and having an inexperienced CEO, and so on.

$40MM should have been enough to create a decent sustaining business, but maybe they thought they'd get acquired? That part isn't mentioned, natch: "what were the actual goals of all this?"
The bigger the salary, the bigger their commission is. So, yes, they are incentivized by salary as well.

Not the case for internal recruiters.
We'd be incredibly unlucky to have missed a temperature change as fast as the one we're measuring now, if it indeed would have been caused by a small sample size of past measurements.
That's in the prior work section. It's a much older survey of one specific conference.
How is that "fake news"? It's referred to as a hypothermia shelter because that is what the church that runs it calls it.

Presumably they call it that because sheltering people from hypothermia is one of the main reasons they operate it. That doesn't mean that it is only open on nights when the weather is cold enough to induce hypothermia.
When running PostgreSQL in any cloud provider most of your data is served from network.
I would say performance varies, but quite good. In comparison to magnetic disks much better.
Most workloads you should be able to handle with network mounted storage.
This is awesome. I am currently building a decision tree from scratch in Java and will use yours as a reference.

One comment I have. in kNN, it is best to ensure that the neighbors list occupies O(k) space.
In every possible instance, anything but La La Land.

I tip my hat to the genius of Damien Chazelle. Not for La La Land, it's a horrible movie, but for his decision and ability to make it now. Apparently, he wanted to make La La Land for some time and using his Whiplash leverage now was probably his best chance to get it made. He proved that everyone who told him, "No," was right, but kudos to him for getting it done.
From my experience (on the hiring side), the good recruiters were autonomous and sourced qualified people. Bad recruiters wasted my team's time and brought and endless stream of unqualified candidates. It seemed like the good ones were 1 in 5.
What makes you think so? There's plenty of ways to indirectly know past temperatures, even if there wasn't a human writing it down.
Thanks for the links. Do you know about a project that Targets PostgreSQL as a operator, like etcd?
I'm an ex-googler. It's not that way. Googlers are themselves heavy users of the products.

Ads are treated like any other machine learning problem. The belief is that ads should be (essentially) predicted search results.
Well, I'm old and joined my first VC-backed start-up in '03. I am well-acquainted with these terms, and have had many in person discussions about VC, cap tables, and equity.

These days, I read cash flow, income and balance statements in the thousands per year.
Reading that last paragraph reminds of a recruiter we had at a previous company. She emailed me and wanted to interview me for a position, for the same company! She said I was perfect for the role and would fit so good with the company and I agreed. Seems she didn't read either my Facebook, Twitter, Github or Stack Overflow profile where I had which company I currently work for, very visible.

In the end, I agreed to have a call with her, just to show her midways that I already was in the office of the company she was recruiting for.

She felt bad for it, and then we found new recruiters. Not saying all recruiters are like this, just a fun anecdote.
I'd love something with the form factor of the new 3310 and the ability to do maps/navigation. I'd be all over that in a heartbeat.
I think the posters point is that the article talks about using NFS or other shared network filesystems, not a block storage protocol?
We definitely need better documentation! That's for sure. We only did a basic one just to get the basics out.

As for the layout -- everything is built around btree k/v, and the original idea behind PumpkinDB is to give primitives that are useful in building databases, indices in particular. The expectation is that, over time, we will grow our library to have more sophisticated primitives, including ready-made indices of different kind.

Does this help?
Terry Tao is the Erdos of this era - he was competing in the International Mathematics Olympiad when his peers were in middle school [1] and is now sort of the person to go to when your work has stalled [2]. It's ridiculous.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao#Childhood
[2] "If you're stuck on a problem, then one way out is to interest Terence Tao" - Charles Fefferman
This is a really interesting topic. Rape, unlike other types of crime, suffers from reporting deficiencies, specifically many victims choose not to report it out of fear of social backlash. I wonder if this is playing any part in observed changes.
> Parent's claim, as I read it, is that it's a better use of an enterprise CDN's money to hire security engineers to find bugs than to administer a bounty. Seems plausible to me. Where's that line?

Depends on the company, but tbpfh, most security engineers in a group tend to have a culture and that culture creates common blindspots. The fact they weren't testing for this sort of issue (i.e. parser memory leaks) is an example of something that seems obvious to some people that others ignore.

Maybe that is just my experience tho.
Good question. Nobody wants to invest time in the codebase, because it's supposed to be replaced. However judging by the current rate, it won't be gone by 2020.

I guess when 2020 comes around, we'll be shell-shocked to find that python 2.7 isn't supported anymore, and we'll find some unofficial package source for python 2.7 that will keep us afloat for a few more years.
> just want to point out that socioeconomic status is generally not an established correlate of crime, despite many thinking it is, though it's possible that the disparity may cause people to commit crime

Could you provide some evidence of this rather bold claim? I really am interested because many of my opinions are based on this assumption.
Research of consumer understanding of broadband speed in the UK