skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming that those numbers are known precisely, the 5%/$200M is clearly the better option. But in practice it's basically impossible to distinguish a 1% success rate business from a 5% success rate business. On the other hand, it's pretty doable to estimate best-case outcomes based on the size of the market being addressed and some assumptions about margins and market share derived from the business model.
To a depressing degree, most of our society's efforts against suicide work like this. The issue gets ignored altogether until someone is perceived to be in immediate danger, and then they either get support or (all too often) a three day psychiatric hold.

This process is terrible on so many levels. The psych hold in particular is both excessive (f someone isn't suicidal, it's a pointless kidnapping) and insufficient. (If someone just attempted suicide, they're at low risk right after. If someone gets antidepressants, three days isn't long enough for them to kick in.)

I suppose Facebook isn't in a position to help earlier on (at least, not without even more privacy invasion), but we definitely don't intervene in this issue at sensible times.
I largely agree with your comment and the sentiment behind it, especially when it comes to individuals, but this:

> I appreciate Facebook's efforts, but a committment to substantive, early, and ongoing support strikes me as vastly more meaningful and effective.

troubles me. I can't imagine a way that Facebook would be able to make a substantive, early, and ongoing effort to strengthen mental health and social welfare systems within its own system without being overly invasive.

Could you give me an example of a deeper commitment Facebook could make?
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While obviously, yes, we are a public company and aligned with shareholder value, you are vastly underestimating the core of the altruism in the Googlers doing this work (and working on Elections, and G4NP and so on)...and who are also a large amount of the shareholders involved.
>ECC should be a standard feature. If you don't want it you don't have to use it but to disable simply for market segmentation is lame.

I agree ECC should be a standard feature, but it follows the same marketing patterns (in that industry) as disabling multi-processor support or artificially limiting clock speeds.
Regarding the size of the word vectors files: the text files are sorted by frequency, so it is possible to easily load the top k words only.

We might also release smaller models in the future, for training on machines without large memory.
IMO, rkt is great since it's simple. Although I do agree in regards in how to build multi-container applications.
It is astonishing how different the middle of Vermont is compared to the middle of New Hampshire. I grew up, and live, in New Hampshire, but took my first drive through to NY only a few short months ago, in late October, and now regret the delay. What a beautiful part of the country, I recommend it to anyone with a sense of aesthetics.
Not this apocalyptic rhetoric again. This is reminiscent of Steven Hawking warning us that we might not survive the transition to artificial superintelligences (ASI). The problem is that ASIs are fictional.

Is there significant evidence that automation is stripping us of jobs at an unsustainable rate (i.e. we are losing jobs faster than new jobs are being created)? I am optimistic that there will be work enough to do for everyone, even with mass automation.
Heady Topper isn't sold outside of Vermont, so that is perhaps why you haven't.

I was able to purchase one when visiting there after learning the beer has a score of 100 on beeradvocate.com [1]

'Most loved' probably isn't the right wording :) 'Highest rated' probably would be better.

[1] https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/27039/16814/
don't have to walk around the car and also so you can line it up better
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Yahoo discloses yet another data breach, its 3rd in the last 6 months
Binary data is tricky with Lambda proxy (and by tricky I mean... I haven't gotten it to work). But I also haven't tried much. Typically best practice for me has been:

- When dealing with uploads have an API call to get a pre-signed S3 upload URL

- When dealing with downloads using HATEOAS and/or the Location header to send the client to S3 to grab the actual file.

It requires some client-side designing around eventual consistency but it works well and is very scalable.
Thanks for pointing this out. I found this on the specification page[0] for the ASRock "X370 Killer SLI/ac" AM4 board:

> AMD Ryzen series CPUs support DDR4 2667/2400/2133 ECC & non-ECC, un-buffered memory

So the board seems to accept ECC memory, hopefully that means the memory controller actually performs ECC? I found a reddit comment claiming that the boards accept ECC memory but don't perform error correction[1]. Not a great source but seemingly possible.

Do you have any more sources suggesting that ECC is actually being implemented?

For example, BIOSs often have ECC settings, if we had some screenshots of an AM4 board bios showing ECC setting that would be strong evidence.

[0] http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X370%20Killer%20SLIac/index.asp...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5v0cqo/ryzen_supports_...
So, the company that employs more people sets the rules for all other companies?
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Awesome. I'm not a Java guy but I'll take a look.
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> I'm guessing that he'd failed to consider the fact that non-left causes even exist.

In this case, you would be guessing wrong. My omission is not evidence of insularity but of walking on eggshells. I've made this point to many up here and found they are more willing to discuss and agree if I omit the narrow scope of "any cause".
I think it's pretty safe to say that Alchemist will never be the most popular craft brewery by sales volume.
No, it doesn't. Their hyperthreading model is clearly not as good as Intel's. Take a look at the Handbrake tests, which take full advantage of hyperthreading. The 7700K, with half the cores, is only a few frames/sec. behind.

If I was after encoding performance, I wouldn't buy a Ryzen. If I was after rendering performance, I wouldn't buy a Ryzen. Throw an mid-range nVidia on there for OpenCL, and the only CPU that makes sense for that price range is the 7700K.
It's a long way to go from that to saying that Uber have enacted a policy specifically because of it.
I also imagine it would change workflows a lot for many companies.

For example, my current company is very small and young (in experience). We're only now implementing meaningful workflows of builds, deploys, ci, etc... hell, even version control as previously an after thought.

With that said, trying to increase staff heavily to compensate for 15h work weeks would mean a lack of workflows would impact us greatly, imo. Ie, some people here don't document their in progress work, and barely commit. How is someone else supposed to pick that up mid way through? Ie, the project still needs to get done in say, 2 weeks, but the original 40h/week dev will not be able to finish it in 2 weeks, so other people have to join in and work on it together.

I'm not arguing against 15h weeks, just that it would mean single developers can't deliver the same product in the same timeframe most likely. So documentation, testing, and team communication would have to pick up the slack i imagine.
AFAIK, a $90 AMD RX460 should be able to output to dual 4K monitors.
Japan also has the advantage of being populated with Japanese, so distinguishing between cause and effect might be difficult.
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If that's the case, seems like a great argument against using lambda ;)

Side note, is that just startup time for a single lambda `node`? Won't you be running >>1 node and not really care about startup time for any single node?
Because newer games are usually better in every way except one: nostalgia. Even though diablo 3 is available the only game I play regularly is diablo 2 despite its horrible graphics, simply because it brings back fond memories of childhood.
Looking at those gaming benchmarks. Turns out the single core performance is still more important than having more cores.

https://www.purepc.pl/procesory/premiera_i_test_procesora_am...
>, it seems that companies with 'lenient' schedules (say regular 4-6 hours work days) tend to deliver better products (as in quality, customer acceptance, even financially)

I see that you did qualify your claim with "it seems" but if you could list the companies you had in mind that are beating competitors on quality + customer acceptance + financials by having employees only work 20 to 30 hours per week, that would be extremely helpful evidence in this thread.
I think the author is basing that position on this: https://www.beeradvocate.com/lists/top/

Heady Topper is currently number 8 there with ~13k ratings and often leads many "Best of" lists.

Incidentally, Heady Topper is also credited with originating the New England IPA style, known for hazy appearance and emphasis on tropical hop flavors (think: mango and passionfruit).
https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/news/new-england-ipa-...
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Just because something isn't guaranteed not to puke every few weeks doesn't mean that it will. I've been using Docker for a while now and it has been very rare that I run into issues because of an update.
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I like how nervous systems are like old software.

On the one hand you got stuff like the eye, with nicely done abstraction layers that allow to recognise simple patterns right at the optic nerve, way before the whole data gets to the brain.

On the other hand you got some neurons like the one mentioned in the article, that seem like "well, we didn't think about giving that part of the system access to the other part, but now we need the data from there... well lets do a quick hack here, none will be the wiser."
Not to be terse, but you should probably get out of the town center sometime: here's a list of ethnic food within 10 minutes of RTC:

Bartaco (Latin)
Barcelona Reston (Spanish)
Our Mom Eugenia (Greek)
Neyla Mediterranean Bistro (Mediterranean)
Crisp and Juicy (Peruvian)
Bento House (Japanese)
Ariake (Japanese)
Cafesano (Mediterranean)
Singh Thai (Thai)
Mon Ami Gabi (French)
Enatye (Ethiopian)
Lakeside Asia Cafe (Chinese)
Cafe Montmartre (French/Vietnamese)
Charcoal Kabob (Afghan)
Tipicos Gloria (Salvadorian)
Nomad Grill (Mediterranean)
Balaji (Indian)
Pupusas Express (Latin)
Taste of the World (Indian/That/Filipino)
Euro Bistro (German)
Pho 75 (Vietnamese)
Granada (Middle Eastern)
Thai Luang (Thai)
Russia House (Russian)
Busara (Thai)
Saigon Pho (Vietnamese)
Turcuisine (Turkish)

and so on....add 10 more minutes and you literally triple the number of places....add in regional Chinese (Cantonese, Szechuan), end up in Sterling and you open up the Middle Eastern places, head South East into Annadale and you're in the 3rd largest Koreatown in the U.S...or go to Centreville and you're in the 4th largest.

I didn't even put the more quasi ethnic places like Italian or Bagel shops.
Ah yeah, remembered it false. I thought Ryzen had no AVX2, but actually it has it, but at half the speed.
I see a few potential problems with this.

First, people in practice use folders for a few different things and it causes workflow problems when they can't use folders in flexible ways. (citation: "Don’t Take My Folders Away! Organizing Personal Information to Get Things Done", William Jones et al)

Second, despite the claim that "There's only one place anything can ever be," a hierarchical system allows only one of many possible (and conflicting) ways of organizing things. It's commonplace in just about any taxonomy to encounter items about which users have conflicting opinions about where to file, and items that could legitimately belong to multiple categories.

Third, to the extent that it accomplishes any of the stated goals, it does so to no greater extent than a standard, name-based folder hierarchy. The point here seems to be that by using numbers, companies can be freed from even the burden of having sensible and consistent naming... or that for example people can be made to say "12.04" instead of "the Payroll project for onboarding or something. I see this as unrealistic. Should manager correct those who use English, and instead have them use the inherently meaningless numbers?

Fourth, no one in practice will want to use a system called "Johnny.Decimal" Regular people have to be able to say something with a straight face, and not feel a little bit silly.
Oh man! I'm old enough to having coded CORBA in Java and in C++. I'm glad we aren't stuck in that era.
> there'd be fewer people working those types of jobs if there wasn't some extra money from the customers.

And somehow, Europe isn't suffering from a massive taxi driver and server shortage. And here in the U.S., there is no shortage of Uber drivers.

> for now it feels like you're taking away something they reasonably expect if you don't tip.

Uber drivers never relied on or expected tips. Uber seized the opportunity to change expectations and disrupt the payment model, and customers seem to like it. "This is the way it's always been done" isn't a solid argument IMO.
Isn't this true of all games in the Zelda series?
What we need is to begin working really hard on creating a new society. A society where every human life is priceless, where there is no space for "race" or "sex" on the application because it's not needed.Where the environment is cared for and not exploited. Where science is respected and not just used to push someone's agenda. Where people are supported and helped whenever they need that help, but they also understand basics of being responsible for their own actions.

While it seems impossible (and most likely it is), there is only one way to find out - try.

I don't know about you, or anyone else here, but I bet there are thousands, if not millions of people here who don't give a ff about having the newest phone in their pocket, newest social app, etc. but would give all the time and money they have to create a better world if not for themselves - at least for their children.

"How do you propose doing that?" most people will ask - a very good question with a very simple answer - I don't know, but I'm sure that it's not something that few like minded people could figure out. We would possibly fail, but so what? Either way, it seems like we're doomed, so we have nothing to lose.
I think that with all the medical aids (for instance, glasses), life may actually get worse at evolving.

Unless, of course, you consider those aids as part of the system.
It's possible they're going by critical or crowdsourced ratings like Untappd or BeerAdvocate.

I think it was #1 on BA for quite a while, though surely Tree House has surely knocked them down a few pegs they haven't left the top 10 in quite some time.

Doubtful you'll see DFH and especially won't see SA (aside from their Utopias)
It was arlington that blocked the expansion because they didn't want the wrong people coming from the wrong areas, not the other way around. [I lived in Arlington in the 90s-2000s]
I've been in the hospital twice in the past year (once to visit my grandfather, once to have my appendix removed), and I was really bothered by the lack of communication. In my grandfather's case, the nurses were bewildered by the fact that his blood pressure varied so wildly between lying down and standing (which causes him to pass out). I finally had to ask them "Surely the doctor told you he has Shy-Drager syndrome, right?" They had no idea that this was normal for him, and will only get worse as he gets older. If it only took me 30 seconds to explain it to them, why couldn't his doctor have done the same.

When I had my appendix removed, I was on a couple of prescription medications, which I brought with me to the hospital to ensure I got the names correct when I informed the front desk clerk as I was admitted. Two days later my nurses had a hissy fit when they discovered that not only was I on prescription medications (this somehow hadn't been communicated), but that I was also administering them myself (apparently a no-no in the hospital).

Apparently no one talks to each other in hospitals.
I'd also add it to the calendar here: https://www.cognitoforms.com/IAMA/IAMACalendarRequest. And mention the time in a few other subreddits like r/AMD, /r/buildapc, and r/technology. But it looks like the CEO has already scheduled an AMA for today: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5vl431/its_happening_a...
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I'm really hoping that Zelda/Switch are successful enough to push game aesthetics in a better direction. This headlong plunge into the uncanny valley is just gonna lead us to the same dead end that art found itself at the end of the 19th century. No one cares about the bad aesthetics of Orientalist painting any more, and this era of hyperreal titilation is gonna meet the same fate in retrospect.
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An enterprise room assistant that can help people book meeting rooms, navigate to them and give more information about a room, including comfort derived from sensor data. We're in a soft-launch to our existing customers right now so I can't point to a website.
Yes absolutely, I think that's the key. It's cool to see very tech-y CEOs like this. I feel like many CEOs would defer a hypothetical question about how a product could have been made.

I mean it's like asking Tim Cook about a different strength cellular antenna in the iPhone. Probably he could give a reasonable answer about what the iPhone antenna is actually like and why it's like that, and how many tests they ran to confirm it's the best design or whatever. But could he talk about an alternative antenna that could have been, on the spot?
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"The only reason WoW is preserved for the future at all with third party vanilla servers is because during the beta they made a mistake and leaked a ton of debugging info and world data early on. Ideally (from the company's perspective), we wouldn't even had that and one of the biggest blockbuster MMOs in history would simply be lost"

I'll disagree with this one right here. I've been part of the wow emulation community at its very early stages and it was in fact some inside info that a few people got. (Angry employees etc you name it) The earliest wow emulator is from late vanilla. The world data also exist on the client side making its easier to use them. Blizzard has found more ways of countering decrypting actual packets from the server to the client but of course as always at some point the c3-c4 packet algorithms are leaked by an unknown source.
I didnt know either until I listened to this excellent interview. change the way i thought about the company:

https://www.npr.org/player/embed/504852483/505017995
and if you want a good sense of the effect the style has had on the industry, NYT has a great article:

11-Hour Lines for a New Ale? Fans Wait, Breweries Worry

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/dining/craft-breweries-li...
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Perhaps not for most of the country by surface area, but far more than 5-15% of the population could be effectively served by better public transportation.
The R7 1700 is within shouting distance of the 6900k in most serious tasks - rendering, encoding, compilation etc. A $330 65w CPU is a credible alternative to an $1100 140w CPU. That is absolutely remarkable. The cherry on the cake is that the cheapest AM4 motherboards are half the price of the cheapest 2011-v3 boards.

For the first time in a decade, AMD are seriously competing at the high end. That's great news for everyone except Intel.
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> I believe MongoDB shares some blame for the 20,000+ databases that were compromised for shipping a product with
insecure default settings

No, its your job to have backup and proper review of your infrastructure, not someone else.
I'm definitely open to that.
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Then why do engineers/scientists keep talking about how they'd do it.
So... "magic robots aren't real but just you wait they soon WILL be if you take away my dirt cheap labor" theory?

>Edit: Also, maybe Foxconn was on track to grow by even more, but used robots instead.

Indeed. I eagerly await Foxconn's one million magic robots promised in 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015 and again in 2016.
In large enterprise it will take 6 months to get a version certified to work with tooling so need 3 year at the minimum to put any effort on it.
> The problem seems to be that Java devs like to create things more complex than they need to be.

This is the biggest myth! Like seriously how does using a particular language make you want/enjoy making things more
complex?

Why is Java (ecosystem and language) complex? Because Java has a massive very old ecosystem with organizations that have extremely complicated requirements.

Someone else argued Java is complex because it isn't expressive. This is a myth as well as clearly Go language proved you don't need powerful types or annotations to be simply.

Let me give you an example. The Java JSON parser Jackson. It is beloved and yet It is seriously freaking complicated!

Why is it complicated? Well lots and lots of organizations have different requirements.

Most of the libraries in Java that are mature are extremely complicated! They are this way because of requirements and evolution.

Scala is complex but it hides it (and I guess some would say elegantly). I prefer being explicit and so do many Java programmers consequently the complexity is sadly exposed.

There is another language rapidly evolving on the complexity front: Javascript.

The ramp up time alone with modern Javascript is now close to being worse than Java (the transpiling, tools, etc).
Aren't the CEOs of most successful technical companies engineers?
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Sure, but at least over medium to long periods of recent history there is a pretty direct relationship between work and economic productivity (productivity which is required to have the resources to do things like training doctors and building hospitals).

It's also not true that labor is uninvolved with technology. If people are busy with the hum drum details of survival they have less time to try new ideas and the like.
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+ Who would want to sign up for a service now knowing it doens't take security or backups properly?