skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a clear difference between all thoughts and intentions. Intentions are a subset of thoughts. There is a legal distinction between accidentally hitting a pedestrian with your car and intentionally doing so. I don't consider that thought crime.

To clarify, I don't think it would be illegal for the president to establish immigration restrictions (that are otherwise legal) while thinking something bad about Muslims. The problem is intending the restrictions to target Muslims.
But your honor! I was not texting while driving! I was using FaceTwit instead.
I've never understood why prominent websites don't always provide a print media stylesheet along with their normal styles. Hopefully frameworks like this will become more common as pages come to be viewed through increasingly diverse media (although I'm not sure "print" is on the up-and-up...)
I agree with you. I can't comprehend that the incentive to behave this way is great enough compared to the destruction it causes. It's a guarantee that I'm missing a piece of the equation.
Well they aren't technically wrong. I deleted my account after reading her story. Uber should be investigating itself and thanking Susan.
She has also increased AMD's market cap by 400% since she was made CEO 3 years ago. Pretty impressive person all around.
They are using CSS to make the background colour of your selection invisible. You can still select the text; it just looks like you can't.

::selection {
background: auto
}
::-moz-selection {
background: auto
}

See https://css-tricks.com/almanac/selectors/s/selection/
I don't get it, though. The article makes it seem like the primary use case is to connect your phones to the car via WiFi, so they can all use the car's 4g connection.

But don't most people that can afford this already have unlimited (or close to it) data direct from the phone?

Or is the data connection used by the car in some other way?
I've heard (and sometimes pushed) this rhetoric before, but something should be well understood before it's automated. Things that happen very rarely should be backed with a playbook + well exercised general monitoring and tools. This puts human discretion in front of the tools' use and makes sure ops is watching for any secondary effects. Ops grimorae can gather disparate one offs into common and tested tools but they don't do anything to consolidate the reason the tools might be needed.
"we have changed the SHD administration console to run across multiple AWS regions."

Dear Amazon: please lease a $25/month dedicated server to host your status page on.
That's great, but I think it's mainly because TempleOS has different target use cases to other modern OSs.
No. In Twilight Princess for Gamecube and Wii, Link would learn various sword techniques in certain spots in-game.
Russia has attacked other nations next too its borders, if Sweden can not project any acceptable military strength then Russia may potentially target Sweden with limited territory takeover (its strategically located islands for example) or just threaten to use force to support its political motivations. Why? Because they can.
Generally speaking the price of a processor is going to be the square of the single threaded performance times the number of cores. So your choice is more like one 8 GHz core versus 4 4GHz cores. Which might be good or bad depending on your use case. Well, there's a threshold below which you only get linear per-core scaling but outside microcontrollers you're not going to have to worry about that.
Solomonoff Induction isn't really an "algorithm" in the way we normally think of algorithms, as it isn't computable. There are computable approximations, but at that point, you lose the claim of theoretically optimal.
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Oh weird. You're right.
Not yet sorry. Features are priorities by the number of votes they receive on a public Trello board [1]. There's a card [2] for search (which is not the highest-voted feature). But it will definitely come.

[1]: https://trello.com/b/WpIUiPAd/fman

[2]: https://trello.com/c/ZtBmsZtA/98-file-search
Or it makes you re-enter the quantity of affected targets as a confirmation, similar to the way GitHub requires a second entry of a repo name for deletion.
Yeah, what course of action can they possibly follow? Nobody's claimed her story is false - can they go after her in any legal way for harm done to their business, given that she would have a fairly iron-clad defense of "Your business has a rampant sexual harassment problem, among others, and has directly harmed me and all I've done was disclose this as is my right"?
just keep installing/deleting it repeatedly.
Are you sure that the reduced FOV is an artifact of opaque rendering?

That's putting words in my mouth. I'm talking about what the company should have been prioritizing. If there's a physical clicker, then they should have left out the highly unreliable hand gestures. The fact that they didn't shows they don't quite have the corporate culture and/or management insight to do this kind of innovation.

When creating a new category of this kind, you don't put things in too early and turn mainstream customers off. That would have been like introducing the iPhone with a much smaller screen than it had, and with a wonky multitouch.
The traditional answer is various ways of forced community-building (collective punishment & reward, forming in/outgroups, etc) as a way of building loyalty to their individual unit.

Also note that in modern militaries, the ratio of behind-the-lines support troops to front-line trigger pullers is absurdly high. Depending on the country, you can end up with conscripts e.g. running the vehicle pool and doing logistics while the core infantry is essential volunteer.
An often missed point is that the NFL has a practical consequence and that is, learning doesn't happen if the model architecture is not well adapted to the structure of the data. There being structure is not on its own strong enough to allow for any algorithm to do well. The model itself needs to be aligned with the structure in the data. This applies to animals, humans too, by inserting structural priors, evolution sacrificed performance on certain kinds of problems to do well on the kind we met in the natural world.

You can read more in: Antipredictable Sequences: Harder to Predict Than Random Sequences by Huaiyu Zhu and Wolfgang Kinzel
M-q is useful, but something more useful IMO would be the same feature but one that removes unneeded white space within the sexpr between expressions and keep everything indented. A contrived example:

(defun x ()
(+ x x)) => (defun x ()
(+ x x))
Ostler was a human job. The parent comment implied that horses had jobs.
No on in HN is questioning this - "The Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) team was debugging an issue causing the S3 billing system to progress more slowly than expected." - they are debugging on Production System..
I'm pretty sure they are -- and they certainly are a beautiful style. Orientalist paintings are unfashionable in the current Western art world, which likes Modernism and still, 100+ years after its invention, hasn't figured out that the camera didn't make painting obsolete; but they're extremely popular in the Middle East, which used to be beautiful and is now drab, and where the rich want some sort of record of what their world ought to look like.

Art has fallen into the same sort of trap as architecture, where you get otherwise-intelligent, otherwise-tasteful students of the field -- like the author of McMansion Hell -- swooning over abominations like Boston's Government Center. Trust your heart, not academia. Refine your heart, to be sure (art is that which doesn't fall apart when you start asking questions about it); but trust it.
The point is that at eleven nines, you're entering the realm of very rare/unlikely events that will also affect durability.

In other words, there's a lack of humility about "unknown unknowns".
> Perhaps the "index subsystem" and "placement subsystem" are small enough for full-scale tests to be tractable, but certainly not cheap, and how often do you run it?

Rough guide:

CT = cost of 1 full scale test with necessary infrastructure and labor costs added up

CF = amount of money paid out in SLA claims + subjective estimate of business lost due to reputation damage etc

PF = estimate of probability of this event happening in a given year

if PF * CF > CT, then you run such a test at least once a year. Think of such an expense as an insurance premium.

What Netflix does with their simian army is amortize the cost of doing the test across millions of tests per year and the extra design complications arising from having to deal with failures that often.
To understand the context, this was a white suburb in a largely segregated city twenty years ago. And in that context, the racial implications were very clear.

If you read up on the history of public transportation in the US, you will be gobsmacked by the racism at play.

To wit: in NYC, the highway to the beach was explicitly designed with overpasses too low to accommodate buses, to keep blacks from the beaches and the white suburbs that surrounded them: http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/politics/216905-the-l...
I wonder if Amazon's new managed EFS service would make sense? It's exposed as a NFS mount to the OS. The claims are:

- Up to thousands of Amazon EC2 instances, from multiple AZs, can connect concurrently to a file system.

- Data is stored redundantly across multiple AZs.

- Low, consistent latency.

- Multiple GBs per second.
LESS  CSS/PHP – Eliminating legacy code and modernizing large CSS codebases
The Cosby case is still ongoing, but what accusations have been put forth against Trump and confirmed (except the "pussy tape")? It would be a huge scandal if the president of the US was found guilty of sexual misconduct.
Glass cost 5x as much as Spectacles. It was trying to be way too much at once.
Putting the capability to take down S3 in to the hands of a single engineer seems a bit much.

Is mere extra training the right solution here?

Maybe they need something like the procedure that's used in missile silos:

Not allowing the shutdown system to function at all without the explicit authorization of least two people.
What do you think they'll be doing?>
This is good. And for the software engineers, great.
I've heard from people doing the grunt work at amazon -- warehouse staff -- that Amazon incentivises employees to rat out each other for mishandling, late time etc, fostering intense competition
What you're missing is the ecosystem vs platform distinction. A platform is yours to control and an ecosystem has a life of its own. You're right that everything that was possible still is. But docker, as a term, developed in ways not controlled by you. It took on a meaning that's probably more limited than you'd like. And it developed momentum that can't be stopped or diverted by a marketing strategy and a press release from Docker, Inc.

You're not the first company that's had to deal with this. To me, it's similar to Google's failed attempts to keep people from using their name as a verb. You're both companies that has a wildly successful initial product that got associated with your company's name and that hindered attempts to branch out from that initial offering. But the more you try to repurpose the term to refer to your broader offering rather than the narrower base layer that it started out as, the more you create problems for those of us that have spent a lot of time and effort selling your approach within our organizations. Not everyone is sold on containerization and we (your advocates) have people that will pounce on any confusion as a way to push back.

Decision-makers in organizations are often surprisingly non-technical. Imagine if there were a company behind email. And that company wanted to make money selling add-on services like encryption and mailing list management. So it decided to call the base email layer libsmtpd and repurpose the term email to mean the broader platform offering. Now imagine you've got to explain this change to your elderly mother who's just gotten over the hump and gotten comfortable with sending email and referring to email correctly.

That's kinda the position you're putting us in.
Why weren't they there already?
I'm curious as to why their fix was to host the Service Health Dashboard on more AWS regions. It seems like the responsible thing to do is to host it entirely on a competitor's service. That way, it's very simple to know that the status page will work no matter what happens to you.
Cloud services have made the internet so fragile
Oh man, you're going to love Persona 5! Check out the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPqSkzNNPIg The 4th one is really good too, but definitely feels graphically dated.
I think having an always-connected car would be really useful. On certain cell phone networks, such as Verizon's in the US, you cannot make a phone call and use data at the same time. I often take calls while in the car and find that I need access to critical data at the same time. I've considered adding a hot spot semi-permanently to the car just as a work around for this issue. Also keep in mind there are passengers who do have tablets, but don't have cell phones ( such as kids ). Finally, how cool would it be to put some always on devices in your car such as a Nest Cam / Dropcam!
Is it ok to view a person's profile individually and send an one-time thank you note? If that is ok, why can't that be automated? Since the intent and purpose and outcome is the same. Just that a computer executes that human intent.
That is good to hear. My comment was not meant as a negative criticism of your process, although I can see how it could be interpreted that way. It was intended more as an observation about the openness that Gitlab brings to the process of design and decision.
I just wish you could do it the other way around from WSL. (LSW I guess) Windows executable inside the Linux kernel.
The problem with VR is dropped frames has a much stronger effect than it does when the same thing viewed on a monitor, too many and it can be instantly nauseating. You want consistent, very high framerates. You're also driving two fairly high resolution screens.

That requires a GPU costing at least $600 to do right. Then you need a computer to drive it.
I've always said Java was the first language ecosystem that let developers write code they neither understood nor could manage. I've been doing this long enough to remember what life was like pre-Java, and I did not at that time have a lot of conversations with developers for which their contribution was "I just use the foo framework, I don't really know anything about it."

So congrats to Java for helping shitty devs get shitty code to production faster.
It's not just what the neighbours have. It's what Russia is and has.

Do they have a leader who is disconnected from regular life, poses in absurd settings and gets his information from intelligence agencies? Check.

Do they have a political system that has an internally dysfunctional economy and that needs external enemies to keep people from looking at what happens domestically? Check.

Do they repress internal opposition? Check.

Do they despise democracy? Check.

Do they have a media that is spreading propaganda about neighbours and is controlled by the government? Check.

Do they think in terms of "spheres of influence"? Check.

There are enough parallels to Stalin's USSR to make neighbours worried.
Docker has never used SemVer, so no there has been no abandoning of it. People, including you, seem to have been confused by the versioning scheme into thinking we did. Other people complained that we did not. There has always been a deprecation scheme and an API compatibility scheme that has not been SemVer, and this is not changing. Now at least the version numbering scheme makes it clear that this is not SemVer.
False, because taxes can be paid with money from any source. Conscription can only be paid with labor from your own body.
The Titanfall situation was a different case, as that was a competition between multiplayer player basesizes being split, and as a result the game hit a death spiral prematurely. Both Horizon and Zelda are single-player games.
Amazon has the wherewithal to not freaking publicly name their actually human employee, so I'd imagine their culture around outages is probably a lot more healthy.
TLDR:

Never type 'EXEC DeleteStuff ALL'

When you actually mean 'EXEC DeleteStuff SOME'
Yep.

- 1 ounce of gold = 9.51×10^22 atoms.

- 1 Bitcoin = 1×10^8 Satoshis.

Now I'm not sure what the smallest tradable amount of gold is.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+many+atoms+in+an+ou...

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/114/what-is-a-sa...
Harvard scientists shocked the world by turning hydrogen into a metal
Someone who is only after a portable Stardew Valley could simply get a 3DS and Rune Factory 4. That would also be far cheaper.
> "All teams have a test server. Some teams are fortunate enough to also have a separate production server."

That's what I meant about the SSH comment. Not every team has the automation or infrastructure that allows you to avoid SSH.
> If it did, humans wouldn't be able to choose a good algorithm for specific cases, and obviously we can.

This is a surprisingly commonly held fallacy in some AI circles. It's the idea that humans are mathematically perfect. When you phrase it that way, it's fairly obviously false, but you still see a lot of people argue things like "NFL doesn't apply to ensembles because humans..." or "machines can never be as intelligent as humans because...".

The reality is that humans are subject to the same mathematical laws as machines. It's far more likely that my brain can't solve an NP-hard problem in polynomial time either. My brain can't beat random search on the set of all possible problems.
NFL is probably the worst mis-quoted theorem in ML.

The subtle elements of the theorems (both for inference and search) have had huge impact on the field of optimization theory. They touch upon (Kolmogorov) Complexity, Incompleteness, Halting Problems, and later related work on the physical limits of inference: One can not know everything about the universe, if you are a part of it, and philosophy: Is the universe itself a computer?

That different algorithms and search strategies will succeed for different tasks, does not imply that we have to try them all: We can use prior knowledge on what worked on related tasks. Also the tasks we care about, is only a very small (explorable) subset of all possible tasks.
Ask HN: How to negotiate a summer internship salary?
Hi all, I recently applied, and was accepted, to work as an intern for a web development company here in town. I'm in my last year of college, and feel I need the internship experience to make transitioning out of school into a web dev position easier.

Problem is: they're lowballing the salary really hard. I was just emailed I'd be making $12/hr, which is waaaaay low because I make $22/hr at my non-web related CS job right now. I have 4 years of summer internships / side research work under my belt so I definitely feel I deserve a considerably higher salary.

How do I go about negotiating this? Do I send them an email saying I feel I deserve a higher salary? Or not mention a number and ask to meet in person to discuss salary?

Thanks for any tips
GC technically speaking can reduce the amount of RAM you need, as it can compact the heap whereas a native malloc can't. In practice this effect is hard to measure as the sorts of languages that use compacting GCs tend to be rather pointer and allocation happy, so any gain from compaction gets outweighed by other factors.

The specs of the various devices have changed over time. Android scales better: you can give it very little RAM, or a lot, and it'll make best use of it by e.g. keeping more background apps loaded at once. iOS was at least historically much less flexible about this: boosting RAM was not worth as much as in the Android space because app devs would still target older devices for quite a while and so the additional RAM would go unused, and the OS wasn't capable of using the spare for much due to the lack of multi-tasking.

Eventually Apple implemented Android-style task switching, so I don't know if that's still true. I haven't done any mobile dev for years. But I also think at some point Apple realised nobody who buys an iPhone actually cares about whether they're getting value for money or what the specs are, so they just stopped competing on that area. I mean they have never reduced the price of the iPhone once, right? Despite the huge fall in underlying component prices over the years. They could ship a device with 128mb of RAM and if it did the same thing as the iPhone 4 people would still buy it, simply because they see themselves as iPhone users and not "smartphone users.
Snap is now trying to grow out of Venice because they've already businified/gentrified/grown too much and are getting a lot of local hate
> This is the kind of solutions we need to prioritize - low effort, high impact.

And I fully agree, but we have a lot of "technical debt" in our society. We have to keep supporting our existing "software", and fix all critical bugs, but we should also dedicate some time to refactor the society, even if it requires building version 2.0 from scratch, adding only these libraries that make sense.

As far as optimizing power usage in data centers - armies of engineers are already working on it, and there is really not much more we can gain there, but changes in software, to be more efficient, simpler and less bloated is something that would have a large impact. This however, as in the case with the light bulb, requires coordination of many different people/companies/technologies. This will simply be impossible not because it's hard, but because our society spends too much effort on making stuff look great, and making sure that we can be tracked by advertisers so they can sell us stuff we don't know we need or want.
And take off this "secure" info from this page.
I think you have it backwards. The post does not say they will simply be training the problem away. They are putting safeguards into their tooling to prevent the case of a fat finger.
It's Just 1 Line of Code Change – Ladders Engineering
I wonder why you'r downvoted, because even if one were to disagree, yours would be a legitimate position civilly expressed.

I happen to agree: you can win battles with air power and armored forces, but you can't keep an area without feet on the ground, hands carrying rifles, and if you can't keep an area, you won't win the war.
The article leaves little doubt that they didn't know such an event would be so hard to recover from. They knew it wouldn't be easy, but they were surprised by how bad it was.