skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat ironically, this problem hinges on an excerpt of a studio album song which plays over the ending credits for less than a minute. Not around the actual video album itself. That's what the content ID system latched on to.
Fair would be a comparison single-threaded to ptmalloc2 (glibc). I assume the slowdown will be ~5%.

And the size granularity is split into 3 (small, medium, large) which is fine, but other's have finer granularities. So benchmarks with object systems would be nice, not just random data.
A Procrustean-Bed situation right here; it can be hard to accept some (looming?) reality particularly when the consequences for your craft and pocket are very unpalatable.

Well, we've been told that software is eating the world. We forgot that Silicon Valley and all it represents still draw their breath from the world that's​ getting eaten up. :)
FWIW, all Siemens appliances are manufactured by Bosch Siemens Haushaltsgeräte (now BSH Hausgeräte)[1]. Siemens sold all of their shares to Bosch in 2014.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSH_Hausger%C3%A4te
Have you ever had an employer that didn't lie at least a bit ?
Sure thanks for the suggestion , I wanted the tagline to be under 5-6 words ... will think over it .
I just got a notice on Facebook. Another brother lost his battle. I don't use Facebook except to every month or so check in on a group of guys I deployed with. It seems like one or two each year take their own life. This has been going on the last ten years. Many others have struggled but haven't committed suicide (yet, it pains me to say).

After reading the article I still don't understand what's going on. I wonder if it has something more to do with society in general and how men in this demographic are received. I've heard almost all of my brothers say they feel rejected by society, or like an alien in their community. I feel/felt the same way.
If I was ambiguous, it was unintentional. I'm very pro-patent and moreover, I'm always surprised with opposition to them at the engineer level. I haven't met any entrepreneurs who were anti-patent.

I rather disagree that patents don't reward innovation; that is exactly what they do. As Lincoln said, The patent system added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius. Lincoln was among many many things, a patent attorney.
Another way to put it is that the lack of insurance in its turn is indeed gambling. You are imposing a risk onto yourself in order to achieve cash gains, while you could walk away without the risk but with less reward.
I think it's just basic macro. Interest rates are low, it's easy to get loans. Interest rates are high, and it's hard. Excessively low, and maybe people make 20-30 year commitments that they aren't ready for.

Like, would we all be better off if maybe student loans were a little tougher to get?

Also, lowering rates speeds up the economy a bit. It's probably better to run a little high, so interest rates can be dropped a little when bad things happen; that'll goose the economy, and power through small rough patches.
It sounds bad, but it's not particularly hard to get into that position. If everyone just insures their home, the value out outstanding derivates on peoples is already 1x. Now add in everyone that has mortgage insurance that is protecting lenders on home defaults, and you're already beyond 1x for total outstanding derivatives.
I think we can agree to disagree on the definition of intelligence.

Intelligence implies a lot more than pattern recognition. Current state is just a better way to treat large quantity of data. The smart is to feed the computer the right way with good data, iterate through different ways the computer can guess a model from the data and finally interpret the final results. Computers doesn't know how to do that. Yet.
I love this quote from the book "Origami Design Secrets":

If you are a beginning designer, you should realize that no design is sacred. To learn to design, you must disregard reverence for another’s model, and be willing to pull it apart, fold it differently, change it and see the effects of your changes.

Small ideas lead to big ideas; the concepts of design build upon one another.
Keywords frequently include terms like "digital signage", and sometimes "industrial", "commercial", etc...

You might like the one NEC makes with a slot for a Raspberry Pi:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/compute-module-nec-display-...

https://www.nec-display-solutions.com/p/hq/en/Launch.xhtml?i...
I would easily agree with you about cars, but do not agree regarding appliances. What the article states about appliances is absolutely true. If you look at most major appliances warranties, you will see evidence of this that is completely the opposite of what you see with cars. Cars are seeing warranties stretching to the 10-year, 100,000 mile mark, whereas warranties on refrigerators (compressor), for example, has been halved in the last 15 years, going from 10-year warranties in the early 2000s to 5-year warranties today.
Indeed, 13-20 million people listening to a voice in the background while driving to lunch is not exactly the same as 73 million people actively mentally engaged while reading an article.

Even notwithstanding his comparatively miniscule and unengaged audience, Limbaugh's agenda-setting power pales in comparison with The New York Times. The combined audience of The New York Times' editorially-aligned media ecosystem utterly dwarfs that of Limbaugh.

Limbaugh influences Hannity, Beck, Levin, and other conservative talk radio; and, to an extent, cable news like Fox and web media like Breitbart.

The New York Times influences a vastly larger media syndicate: the most listened-to radio organization, NPR; print and web media like The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The Atlantic; cable and network news like CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC. And while there are of course other areas of coverage, politics garners the largest share and most prominent placement. The New York Times' highly syndicated political message not only covers the general population, but also percolates through universities, where engagement with it deepens as it intertwines with the academic curriculum.

The vast reach and depth of the latter media apparatus means that The New York Times plays a major role -- and quite likely constitutes the single most influential voice --
in shaping the dominant narrative in American political life.
They were 17 years in 1886. We've increased them to 20 years to harmonize with Europe, China, ... and gone First To File. I think both of these changes are improvements.
The progressive case for immigration
My goal is also to democratize AI, in particular AI research. I believe that every developer should have at their disposal the same kind of tooling and, even more important, the same ability to intersect their data with the world's data. Engineers at Facebook, Google, Microsoft and so on can test their models or even enrich them by using the Facebook, Google or Bing dataset. Independent entrepreneurs cannot do the same thing with the same ease. If we want to reach general AI any time soon, indie entrepreneurs must be let in to play.

My strategy is to build a service, free for non-profits to use, that would solve the problem of "if I only had the same data Google engineers had, this product would be perfect". Here is how it would work.

1. Go to my webpage and register a site you want me to index for you. The site URL you enter may already have been registered by another user, but to be sure the data is in my index, register it again. I will now continue to index this site every 24 hours for as long as I live. You need higher frequency indexing? Sure, no problem. You will owe me for the additional cost.

2. Download a client of choice from the website, we have them in c#, java, python, R ect. The client will let you query your own private data as well as the data in the cloud (the data I'm now generating and refreshing every 24 hours). The query language will also let you join or intersect between the two datasets. In fact, due to the nature of RPC you can use your local data and all of the data I'm generating and refreshing, as if it was your data.

3. In the end, I will be indexing such a large part of the internet that there will not be much use for Google anymore, or ads. That's the vision.

I'm not American and can't see how I'm a good fit for the YC program this summer. However I will be needing funds for cloud machines pretty soon and so far I've found noone at OpenAI to contact. Is there anyone from OpenAI reading this? This should be right up your alley. Care to speak?
Wealth has diminishing marginal utility. You're suggesting that it is increasing.
Does that mean that VLC on iOS will be able to play AC-3? Now, one can't play a movie on an iOS. device, you have to transcode it first.
I wasn't hired to work with old junk. if I would have known I never would have taken the job. I also don't have enough money to walk away or risk standing up to management.

The code isn't just old, it's very badly written and has zero documentation.
> With new efficiency and safety regulations it becomes impossible to legally sell a dryer that can get your towels crispy dry in 30 minutes.

I hadn't even thought about this.

Funny... my parents have a very low energy bill compared to mine... even using these "old" appliances. I think it has more to do with the fact that they have a smaller house, and still prefer to wash dishes by hand, and don't leave any computers on or have an air conditioning system. Makes me wonder how much "efficiency" at the appliance-level matters. No doubt the EPA isn't a bad investment, but I don't think they are regulating the things that really matter. Homes built in the 1950s were tiny... like 1,200 - 1,500 sqft. Average house today is 2,700 sqft. And there are a lot more bells and whistles going into it.
Thank you so much for this writeup - it does ring a bell!

Don't worry about references. This is more than enough to get me re-started, dig through my old books/articles and find new ones.

> Further, even under this alternative explanation, I would still not call wa a topic marker.

-> "subject marker"? ;-)

Enjoy your vacation (and maybe pursue a phd)!
The big limitation of this device is wear. "Optane SSDs can safely be written 30 times per day", says the article. That implies a need for wear monitoring and leveling. Although you can modify one byte at a time, the need to monitor wear implies that just memory-mapping the thing isn't going to work.

Wear management could be moved to hardware, though, using a special MMU/wear monitor/remapping device. If you're using this thing as a level of memory below DRAM, viewing DRAM as another level of cache, something like that would be necessary. That's one application.

This device would make a good key/value store. MongoDB in hardware. Then you don't care where the data is physically placed, and it can be moved for wear management.
Please let all free or open source books classify and place in one place
I have a theory that the company is for sale and the owners don't want their ancient stack to show up on Google search in job descriptions.

If it's not that you guess is as good as mine :)
> Also I spent at least 2 weeks of work on it during the year I had it

To me, this is the most interesting, and the article doesn't really specify it. Excluding the building itself, why did you have to spend time on it? What kind of problems occurred?
When you consider European countries are the equivalent of US states in size, you can easily grasp why it's so common for people to travel between countries in Europe.

I'm not sure if you intended to say Americans are intentionally insular, but if so, that's definitely not the case. It's just a side effect of being able to travel 2000 miles easily without ever leaving the US.

Additionally, in order to travel to another country other than Mexico/Canada, airfare alone for a family of 4 will be like 10% of the average annual household income so it's not really affordable for most Americans.
I think it should be that way with cars. Just include a screen and some buttons, then let people connect their smart phones.
After working in or for the insurance industry for 15 years, I came to the conclusion that it is not right, and that it is the moral equivalent of gambling.

I understand that the vast majority of people rationalize insurance as a good thing because the cost is relatively low when compared to catastrophic loss, and even have a couple of personal anecdotes to add to those of the advocates of insurance that demonstrate the wondrous utility of insurance, but I am convinced that it is wrong.

I quit the insurance business and moved to a completely different career. I only buy the insurance that is required by law (what a ridiculous concept! does the government have to mandate that you also buy food?) and have paid the tax penalty for foregoing Obamacare.

I know this will likely not be well received here, but I thought I'd share my position for any who read this and wonder if they're the only ones who understand it this way.
I think I have got tabs allright in my emacs, although a tab-layer would be definitely appreciated in spacemacs
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You can already do that, it's just that dumb storage can be packed more densely than smart storage.

Memristors can make things more dense, but that applies to both options.
Yes, and there are still people working on GNU HURD.
I'm curious, why do you say so?
An oddity of the shuttle program (and I wish I could find the exact citation for this now!) is that the orbiter could fly this entire approach and landing on autopilot. But the landing gear button was engineered so that a human being had to press it, ensuring that the Shuttle would never fly unmanned.
Value engineering
I'm in Estonia and have a 10 year old Liebherr fridge. Not a single thing has broken yet, not even a bulb. I don't remember the brand of my old fridge that I also had for 10 years, but it was replaced due to size as opposed to a fault.
I'll take your job. I actually want the experience to handle legacy code. I'm ok with unsexy stacks because I consider that part of the craft. A true professional won't be able to avoid it, so embrace it.
It's weird that the article doesn't mention the actual, average latency of this device, after writing that Intel has promised a 1000x improvement in this area.

It mentions that latency is below 100 microseconds 99.999% of the time, but that's not more than 100x faster than a rotational HDD, albeit with less variance.
Nothing but State-backed monopolies. 'Limited liability' 'State privilege' and 'Intellectual property' hard at work. Beehee!
Unrelated to the content. When I tried to access the page, it showed me a message that my IP is banned.
Maybe they couldn't afford a refrigerator in the 1970's. Living within ones means is a value that has not been a large part of the country's identity (US.) We could just be growing more conscious of living with in our means now because of the economic crisis. I don't mean to sound like an expert or anything, I'm just playing devil's advocate
Yes Miele, but get as basic model a model as possible as they also have these "1.000 features you will never use but that will break and stop your appliance from working" types. A basic Miele washing machine will caost around $1.000 and weigh around 100kg, so don't put it on a flimsy table, but it should last you well over 10 years.
Because we’re all getting `dumber in the age of Google`

What's wrong with that ? I fail to understand ?
If you start putting everything into your brain, you'll soon go mad. A regular cleanup of the information in your brain to retain only what's relevant for your survival is okay. It's best such things are left googleable. What is the use of keeping in memory the capital of australia, when that trivia contributes a total `0` to do what you do.

If you keep doing, implementing and executing stuff that you are passionate about, I think you'll keep learning. Only thing is that we become more focussed as adults about our interests, than we are as children (inquisitive about everything).
The focus on weight baffles me. Most _bags_ are now heavier than laptops.
Yes to Miele: Very solid. Will cost about 2k / unit. Very heavy duty, very basic, and very reliable. We've had ours for 5 years now with zero issues.
There are many bubble-dwellers in SF, but that doesn't make SF a purely bubble society.

To those who think so, consider this: how many Chinatown natives or longtime residents have you met for so much as an hour (total) of meaningful conversation?

How many Bayview natives?

North Beach?

How many South Bay natives?

Oakland?

etc.

The bubble myopia can become one's universe if that person doesn't choose to pop out of the bubble now and then. So to speak.
Seriously! I'd like to know too. I thought these went extinct.
When I first moved to SF I basically was building a FreeBase competitor for entity resolution and ontology building. I think opening up another service like this is required for the future. :)
It's also worth noting though that there is no need for an AAC license to transmit AAC data. You are only required to purchase a license to use or distribute codecs, which is a one time fee of about a dollar per codec (AKA per device which can play AAC).

I haven't looked into AC-3, but a lot of audio formats would require a per-item costs or related distribution costs for the data as well. That's one of the reasons why MP3 is annoying to deal with commercially, as it has a cost of 2% of revenue for music broadcast/distribution, or a $2,500 cost to bundle MP3s with a single video game title.
"Along the way you will incur not-insignificant costs for Amazon EC2 GPU instances"

Is there some particular constraint involved that I cannot run the computations at home?
Let's start with ourselves. How long is the software you are writing going to work?
Perhaps it's a mistake to reward people just for good ideas.
Miele has a rock solid reputation in Germany when it comes to washing machines. As the old folks say "Miele, Miele, sprach die Tante, die alle Waschmaschinen kannte", which means something like "Miele, Miele, said the aunt, who knew all washing machines".
Not sure about other appliances from Miele. My Miele dryer lasted only 10 years (with a broken drum, beyond repair), which is far less than what you would expect from Miele.
And that's why I bought few years used Miele washer instead of new AEG. Just works, reliably. And it weighs around 90 kg :).
Would it be possible to link to the original source?
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Can't resist: my parents bought a KitchenAid dishwasher in 1970. It still operates to this day (45 years). For a fun read, find the Smithsonian magazine article about the inventor of the dishwasher. Incredible.

I like my Bosch dishwasher, even if I think it has only five more years max.
It also has a use for emphasis. And a few others uses.
Then why not title the article "Alphago is not strong AI"?
See the examples on http://www.jgram.org/pages/viewOne.php?tagE=ha-2
Fun fact I recently learned: about 90% of world population is in the Northern Hemisphere. I expected it to be lop sided, but not that much.

http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/563-pop-by-lat-and-pop-by-l...
I heard that nowadays it's possible to buy a laptop and a external GPU?
My first thought when I read the title was "no, don't leave. Working on legacy code will teach you the number one thing about programming, that no one else will teach you... Writing good code is about writing maintainable code."
It is hard to fix hacky code, but do your best to not write hacky code.
Another lesson to learn... To ahead and learn more about the attack they are using. Yes, you may never use that attack again, but it will actually make it easier to learn a new stack later on.
20 years is really not all that ancient either. JavaScript is over 20 years old... It might help you to learn some of the older technologies.
Now, that being said, I don't know the extent you were promised to work on new things, and how much you were lied to
and how bad the culture is.

I suggest you start looking for a new job, but in the meantime work hard on your current job. Take pride in your work. No matter where you go there will always be a legacy system you will have to work with. New or different technologies to learn.
@dang The linked page has little editorial value and too many adds not to make this suspect
Upvoted for strong morals.
Yeah, she might be able to finish destroying Uber quicker than Travis.
High end Bosch is now manufactured in Turkey as well :/.
I kinda wonder if technical advances means we actually have de facto deflation. Regular stuff is constantly being improved. Perhaps socks are 2% cheaper or better every year, effectively making inflation negative.
At first I didn't. Sales decreased dramatically. I then dropped my price to the same level but sales kept slowly decreasing until it wasn't worth it anymore (and OF did some upgrades) and I pulled the app
From the article:

> This gives the drives much greater endurance than NAND of a comparable density, with Intel saying that Optane SSDs can safely be written 30 times per day, compared to a typical 0.5-10 whole drive writes per day.

I understand this as: to get normal length usage of traditional SSDs you can get away with writing enough data to completely rewrite the device 0.5 to 10 times, whereas with the new device, it's 30 times.

The new technology is 3 times better than SSDs with regards to write durability.

I think the article would be better worded if it didn't leave out the most important number: 10 rewrites per day for how long before either the SSD or the new thing fails?
You're thinking of MPEG-2 Part 3 (also known as MPEG-2 BC) in Layer 2, a backwards-compatible extension to MPEG-1 Part 3 that allows multichannel audio.

MPEG itself has a FAQ entry on "When should I use AAC rather than MPEG-2 BC?" [1]; of course the point is moot in context of DVDs. This Apple documentation article [2] lists the supported codecs and lists the relevant one as "MPEG-1 Layer 2 Audio"... close enough. It talks about how AC-3 enjoys broad support worldwide, but MPEG-1 Layer 2 is only mandatory in PAL regions. It includes language to suggest that AC-3 may not play on very old players in PAL regions, implying that at some point AC-3 wasn't mandatory in PAL regions -- this is corroborated by empirical observations elsewhere, like this forum thread from 2004 [3].

The book 'Spatial Audio' [4] by Francis Rumsey mentions that MPEG-2 BC was supposed to be multichannel audio in PAL regions, but this push was later abandoned.

Dolby has lobbied extensively in favor of its own formats. This news article from MIT in 2002 recounts [5] an interesting situation where money exchanged hands between Dolby and MIT after MIT's vote to support Dolby AC-3 in a TV broadcasters consortium's recommendations to the FCC.

[1] http://mpeg.chiariglione.org/content/when-should-i-use-aac-r...
[2] https://documentation.apple.com/en/dvdstudiopro/usermanual/i...
[3] https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/164582-MPEG-Audio-Vs-LPC...
[4] https://books.google.com/books?id=b3kqBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA108&lpg=...
[5] http://tech.mit.edu/V122/N54/54hdtv.54n.html
I don't think that's true in the general case. For example, one penny has virtually no utility to me on its own, but there's plenty I can do with one pound, getting more than a hundred times the value from it.
Hey man, I wish we could all get along, we're on the same team. I read your sources; they prove nothing. You think immigrants are more prone to crime and we should build a wall on the border of mexico? But you can't begin to quantify what we'd get for it? Then you say shit like, "Well let's just wait and see how it goes, haha..." You're on the wrong side of history, and you don't even know why.
well ... your wife refers to the oven (baking) and you respond to cooking. while I would still agree and keep the old oven, I have to say it does make a difference. modern ovens are much more easily regulated to and kept at specific temperatures. to give one example.