skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was running this on (high end) GPUs back in 2011, in real-time (30fps), on 1920x1080 video textures. I can confirm that the clever recursion and performance of this is mind-boggling. Oh, and you get a distance transform out of it as an intermediate step, just for giggles. My general take is that while linear kernel-thinking in parallel might get nowhere, this is a prime example of recursion solving the problem when parallelism is available. I wish I could claim to have invented it... :)
Thanks for that... I have an ideas file in my man pages that is an org file. I might do something similar to this as well for just daily thoughts. The man pages have been invaluable for long running notes that are infrequently accessed or thought about.
Yes, Viewstamped Replication is underappreciated! It is actually older than Paxos, although the original paper is pretty incomprehensible too.

The more recent "Viewstamped Replication Revisited" paper is probably my favorite introduction to consensus protocols and their use in a real system:
http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/vr-revisited.pdf
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Doesn't Cisco have a daycare?
noteworthy large outbreak of malware

Depends on how you define noteworthy and large. The xcode backdoor thing was in 500.000.000 downloads.
Yes, of course. Just as we are killing publishing on Facebook, right?
It's not like Google's daycare is particularly accessible either. The cost is far above market rate -- almost 2x from what I've heard -- and your chances of getting in are <10%. It's not a free benefit, and it's not a benefit available to every employee by a long shot.

I think Apple's failure to start a daycare sends exactly this message: we're not good at running daycares.
Thankfully we will have control of our borders again soon, and so the spiral can be halted.
I'm not sure I understand how this is the same as the way the city/department behaved.
Indeed. And if it was an employer's responsibility to care for employees' children: Which employer? Most children have two parents; why should the employer of one parent pay to care for their children while the employer of the other parent doesn't?

Of course, the article answers this question with the assertion that children are a woman's responsibility; Apple's male employees are cavalierly dismissed as "not exactly breeders", which must be one of the harshest judgments I've ever heard applied to such a large group.

It seems to me that the attitude that fathers have no place in the lives of their children is a much bigger problem than the question of whether Apple employees have on-campus or off-campus child care.
> amazon, Facebook, and google. Doesn't make it a bubble

Yeah. Well.

Funny thing about "bubbles", they're usually reliably identified only after-the-fact...
People probably don't want to leave their infant children home alone while they go to work, regardless of the overtime situation.
They also charge for food and the gym.
Yeah, I'd had a few whiskeys when I read the article and I missed that. My mistake. Still a rough trip, and I hope he makes it. That takes some serious balls.
I gotta say, this mostly seems like an attack on the implementation of AMP in Safari than it is on AMP itself.
You're right, I was imprecise in my brevity. Speed is definitely a signal in ranking. I'm mainly grousing at classes of results -- like the "Top Stories" carousel -- that are only available to AMP pages, and rather difficult to organically rank above. The AMP results also get more vertical real estate, flashy thumbnails, publisher logo images, etc.

For example, searching for "Python" returns five pages of results where only two aren't about the programming language. But at the top of the page, bested only by python.org itself, is a huge carousel of 11 AMP stories about snakes in the everglades. These stories also appear in the normal search results, but not until the bottom of page 7.

So somehow the #68 result, "Python hunters eliminate more than 100 snakes from Everglades," got boosted to #2, because rankings #2 through #13 (if you count the AMP carousel) are not available to merely fast and relevant content.
Post purchase rationalization doesn't apply in the rust example because you've received gains that no other language offers.

I learned it knowing well up front that it had a difficult learning curve and that was the price to pay for safe/performant code.
im starting to think bitcoin should probably be illegal. its perfect for criminals, with very little value for anyone else. its also potentially catastrophically destabilizing for states. you are welcome to change my mind, but know that im not ignorant of it and have been "using" it since 2012.
A couple of days ago someone here brought up a good point why companies should not offer daycare- wait times to get children into daycare in sf are between 8-10 months. So in case the employee is let go/leaves then it'll take almost an year for them to get their children in a new daycare.
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To parrot the article. For companies that aren't trying to provide every other perk on the planet, this is a reason that makes sense. For a company that is including such things as work shuttles, food, and gyms... it is a little hazier.

That is, they are making a clear commitment to prioritize things that reduce the time you are away from the office. Having on site food is convenient for the employer. Less time away from doing work.

Daycare, though, doesn't really do much more than help the employee actually have a family life. You won't stay at the office longer, since it will close and you will pick up your child and go home.

I'd actually extend the idea further and say what else sets this apart is what people do in the other locations. It is not uncommon to network on a gym or cafeteria. Daycare? It probably can happen. Doubt it does.
The app will run only for 7 days
Contrarian opinion click bait piece.

Apple is top heavy, just like the military. There many many many that have stayed because their job is safe, their ESP is vested and earning them tons for their nest egg. There are plenty of people with 10 yr, 15 yr or even 20 yr letters of appreciation hanging on their cubicle wall.

What's more important is dispelling this myth that Apple's work life balance is great or that they even pay well.

Unlike SF, working in SV most people skew older than 30+, have starter families, and live in the suburbs. Their lives are already established. But Apple is under market when factoring in the commitment you put in.

On top of that day care here in Cupertino or even the south bay are extraordinary expensive. Google has child care, they even hire full time child care providers that are even issued RSUs. But then, Google is building a cult that Apple once were while Apple is transitioning to being a campus that Google once were.

Ask the contract bus drivers here when you have a chance. They will all tell you the same thing. Of the people they pick up, whether it's Facebook, Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn, every Monday morning, the ones that look like they most want to shoot themselves are Apple employees.
Many Corp daycares are for one-offs (they may cap it at some number of times per year, for example) when your regular caregiver can't render services or other minor emergencies.
Notational Velocity on the Mac, even if it isn't updated it still quickly stores and organizes (good for rough or final works). I'll use TextEdit or iA Writer if I need to actually work with the note or to publish. Sadly at least once a month I still need to use Office for Mac for something.

I don't personally have a need to save or insert data, images, or other content. If I really need to I'll insert the online URL or the location on my server in the note. Which makes a basic solution the best solution for me.

I also use iA Writer on my iPhone synced with iCloud for on the go access, and writing *nothing personal/private for security, secure notes are encrypted and accessed online or I use a physical air gap between machines I need it on.
Another nice gesture that's lesser known is hold down on the left side of the screen in any app then drag to the right to open the app switcher.
That seems to me to be a reason companies, in their own self-interest, should offer daycare.
As a founder, you don't have the time and energy to diversify. There is just too much to do. Founding a startup is an all or nothing game... all your energies to try to make something work. If you want to diversify, yes, that is a safer approach... but then you don't want to be a founder.
He is arguing against Johns stance on AMP by calling him a hypocrite citing his views on iOS, literally a perfect example of an ad hominem.
Transportation, food, and health/fitness services are benefits to the Apple employee. Childcare is a benefit to all the parents of the child - in most cases, only one of which is an Apple employee.
The press always try to terrify us about the dangers of censorship and I wouldn't mind if they were doing a good job of exposing bad behaviour, but what about Jimmy Saville etc etc etc etc. Our press are horrific.
Well, I learned something today.
> It might work on a planet with a really desnse atmosphere, like Jupiter.

Talk about "places existing tours find it hard to reach"!
Thank you. You finally made it clear exactly what you don't understand.

One person per second is linear.

.00001 person per year * current population is exponential, assuming only that the (fractional) person is added to the population factor so that the base is bigger next year.

If you don't understand that, you shouldn't be commenting on growth rates.
Google has, and should, downranked slow pages in favour of fast ones.

But instead of simply pushing that aspect harder, they're actively promoting their own tech.
That happened later. He was already becoming somewhat unhinged well before that. Though living for years locked in an embassy probably hasn't done him much good either.
Indeed, some of this oil and gas derived tech is amazing.
But rebutting an argument by attacking the character of the person making it, is.
Bing just feels gross to me, just like Google. But as someone pointed out, I guess DDG uses Bing for some of its results, so I don't have much of an argument here.
No real reason they couldn't allow non-employees to continue to use the daycare for a reasonable period of time.
Or Google do things the right way, ad could start punishing them instead. Google pushes those to the top of results, and then sweeps in to fix the "problem" that they created
> If your train had not broken down, you might have enjoyed the trip?

This is a somewhat meaningless hypothetical with Amtrak, though. I love to travel Amtrak, but it is pointless to speculate about what it would be like if your long trip arrived on time, because it won't. It might not break down—I've only once (as far as I know) been on a train that experienced significant mechanical issues—but it will be delayed by freight. 48 hours late is extreme (though not at all unprecedented), but 5–9 hours late for a 24-hour trip is just what to expect, at least in my experience.
If you increase the penalty you also increase the artifacts from measuring the speed. Should it measure first byte, content above the screen size (and which size then), or fully loaded site. What about lazy load which neither method represent when a site is usable, but rather at what point javascript takes over the responsibility to load the site.

A small penalty devalues gaming the way google measure the speed.
I'm surprised if you think otherwise.

WE are on the mercy of few SV companies and whatever they decide or push is our fate.
It is also pretty late here in Europe, perhaps there's more going on during the daytime
I'm guessing it was a typo, but the reference to SV workers having "starter families" brings up some fabulous mental imagery.
> Download Amaya binary releases

Isn't this the perfect type of application to run inside a browser instead?
Conceptually this isn't all that different from having a website that works in browser A but not B due to insufficient testing. Why did they not fix it?
I am aware Bing also supports AMP, but reducing Google's dominance in search data is key on preventing them from determining web design going forward.

DDG uses multiple sources, including Bing and Yandex. They also have their own efforts like their knowledge graph-type data features, which are open source and can be contributed to.
Well, if over time it is continuing shifting to match slower and slower exponential curves, its not actually exponential growth over the long-term.

A growth curve that is, in fact, logistic, would look like that.
The idea is nice, but this thing is a complete nonsense.
The required information to create such a map is simply not available.

Some are wondering about the lack of activity in certain regions: There is trading activity in these areas.

Disclaimer: Former exchange operator
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It looks like they do. But don't get excited because it's off-campus. How is that better than any other daycare in Milpitas?

http://child-care-preschool.brighthorizons.com/ca/milpitas/c...
The PBS NOVA series had a very nice episode a few years back about the WWI airship raids on London.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzW4258oIyg

It turns out the airship gasbags were made of cow-guts. Lots and lots of cow-guts.
Here's the original paper

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0138

You really should read it if you have any interest at all in the evolution of life. Just a ton of facts integrated in a framework that seems very sound, at least from my non-expert perspective.
Ah, yeah. Truth be told I realised after hitting 'send' that you may have meant that.

This being the case, I think even if building fast webpages may not allow one to circumvent AMP in the instant, it is still a strong way of removing much of the grounds for its existence.
> Apple's male employees are cavalierly dismissed as "not exactly breeders", which must be one of the harshest judgments I've ever heard applied to such a large group.

'Harshest judgments'... have you been on the internet?

In any case, her point was not "Apple male employees are dorks", but that "25-year-old tech bros are not breeders... yet". The 'yet' is in her comment. She was saying those kinds of men aren't up for being fathers now, but will be later.

> It seems to me that the attitude that fathers have no place in the lives of their children is a much bigger problem than the question of whether Apple employees have on-campus or off-campus child care.

The very next two paragraphs talk about these same men wanting daycare for their eventual offspring, and being able to find it at Google. Apart from saying the parenting burden falls disproportionately on mothers, the article makes no suggestion that fathers are lesser parents.
Now, sure; development on Amaya stopped in 2012, and it was started in 1996.

In 1996, it wasn't the kind of thing that you could do in any existing browser particularly well.
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If you make bitcoin illegal, criminals will use it no matter what or just find a way to get anonymous bank account if it happens to be cheaper. Making some technology that criminals use illegal (think guns, knifes, cash, computer networks, snail mail) does not stop criminals from using it and does not stop criminals from committing crimes even if they stop using this technology.
Except iOS is a captive market. Once you have owners of i-devices, switching requries capital investment and time moving to an alternate platform. You can exploit them heavily before they start leaving.

If we are talking about search, you can stop using google by typing bing.com or duckduckgo.com in your url bar any time you want, and every major browser supports changing the default search engine, even Chrome.
Bitcoin is not anonymous your link doesn't say it is. It's easier to hide your identity than a credit card but it's more) not anonymous and there is a big focus on fixing this.
Someone on here was slagging off the UK over Brexit the other day, and one of their digs was that the UK has hardly any resources left. I couldn't be bothered to post back then, but here's an indication of why that notion is nonsense. The UK has some of the best renewable energy potential in the world, including obviously wind but also tidal, with some of the fastest tidal races on the planet. There is also apparently considerable potential for fracking, and if we really needed it there is still a huge amount of coal left underground.
The results for localized stuff, e.g. a local store, are horrible. The results for complicated questions where the query is either not very specific or the page might not have all words, are also really bad. But if you have a good idea of what you're looking for, which is most of the time for me, it works very well.

At least it's honest about not having results whereas Google presents 5 billion, all of which are missing one of the three keywords (which it notes in a small, light grey text, which you only notice after the first three results were completely unrelated and you were wondering what went wrong).

For example, "new double c++" is the query I did most recently and in the top 3 there are 2 results that answer my question.

Making something up at random like "torrent clients" gives me as top hit the Wikipedia article "comparison of bittorrent clients", which is better than expected.

I can't seem to think of a vague query right now. "audio books" gives me sites with audio books; "psychology books" gives me articles of 'the best 50 psychology books' and such; and looking in my query history, "draw unicode" seems vague but the top hit (shapecatcher.com) is the one I was looking for.

Something localized then: "drankwinkel echt" (where Echt is a place and drankwinkel a liquor store) indeed gives terrible results. The store name, surprisingly, works though: "gal & gal echt" gives similar results to google.nl.
This would be my guess, too - along with the fact that Google is fine outsourcing things outside their core competencies while Apple would want to micromanage the exact color and count of every toy in every class.
I'm no Bitcoin fanatic, but you could say the same for cash.
"Impure function calls in pure functions are detected and raise errors at runtime."

Is there value in having a pure/impure distinction when all pure functions end up needing a try/catch around them?
Is Google Daycare staffed, or are the kids directed to a Google Group and advised to self-help?
Amaya was written in like 1997. Definitely didn't make sense then; doubtful that running as a JS app (as opposed to just augmenting the browser runtime with editing bits) is a big advantage now.
It has greatly improved over the years. I remember it being unusably bad when I first tried it in 2013, but today I only have to revert to Google once in a while. That being said, there are rare occasions when it fails spectacularly, bringing up totally irrelevant results for simple searches.

It seems to expect more precise queries, while Google is geared toward "close enough" searches. I've found that DDG is often preferable when I have an exact phrase in mind. Google is sometimes too helpful, correcting errors that are not actually errors and failing to take some queries literally enough.

The main issues I have with DDG are that it doesn't seem to prioritize recent results (which can be good, but usually isn't) and it fails at local results, which is basically by design.
It'd be easy to say that about an SMS API too though, no?
And for that employee it is most likely more important than a shuttle.
ETH is scam and a marketing program. It's interesting that even the educated developer community of HN cannot see this and how effective flash marketing can be
It does say it supports Windows.
In the Jobs-ian arcology, employees spring to life from the cloning tanks in bodies that look 20 and are preloaded with Apple software. Reproduction is obsolete, and so the ports have been removed from the design. Everything is smooth and white and rounded corners.
Are companies morally required to have daycare? It's a nice gesture if they do, but my kids go to a regular daycare. Bonus is that they don't have to switch daycare when I switch jobs.
You would probably like the Economist Kenneth Rogoff and his book "The Curse of Cash": http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10798.html

It argues that cash, precious metals, and alternative currencies should be done away with and that we should all become dependent on digital bank accounts controlled and monitored by the government- That way, if a bureaucrat is confused by any transaction you are doing they are free to just freeze all your funds at a moment's notice.

Hope you enjoy living in that world!
I don't see why any employer has to provide for day care. Instead allow people to work from home, pay for day care as a benefit etc. It would not be possible to build a day care easily to satisfy all employees since this is very personal. (Just like parents prefer different type of schooling)

And Google s day care is not free. And is like 2-3k a month ridiculously expensive.
> That means their fuel can be housed inside safe tanks of metal.

I think the point is moot: at a typical speed where airline accidents happen, these metal tanks will be punctured and catch fire.
Transportation, food etc... benefit the entire family the same way childcare does because most families mix their finances.

For childcare, the benefit to the non-apple parent is financial plus whatever benefit they get from making it more convenient for the apple parent to drop off their kid for daycare.

For transportation, the benefit for a non apple family members is financial plus whatever benefit they get from making it more convenient for the apple employee to get to work.
There are people who want to prohibit cash, control the Internet, forbid guns. There are countries which do just that.
The employers obviously think otherwise.
That's part of it, but it's also a failure of communication. We need to do a better job of appealing to people's emotions as well as their reason.
In my experience, if someone has a vague interest in something, then any new information (in an easy and digestible fashion) goes a long way in making them care a lot more about what you do.
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Still don't get why people are constantly surprised at the difficulty of building a career and having kids. Having kids is a life choice with upsides (awesome upsides imo) and downsides. Same goes for having a career in tech. Wanna do both? You can, but YOU WILL have to work 2x harder than all the people doing only one of these (arguably, you'll also get a lot more).
Starter family as in finally saving enough money to put down on a $600k new condo they just finished building in east san jose while working in west san jose and budgeting and maxing out Amazon Prime to get more diapers for the new baby.

It's a very expensive co-op game with plenty of DLC.
I think wfunction was referring to this, that food with a constant water content are still not cooked uniformly: http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2011/microwave-oven-diagnost...
> The required information to create such a map is simply not available.

All the major cryptocurrency exchanges have open APIs that offer access to completed USD/BTC exchanges- Of course there's gaps in the information, why would anyone expect otherwise?
"You need a Day of the Jackal type m.....f..... basically to do some sh.t like that, not a rumble tumble N..... like Slim."
>>>that means their fuel can be housed in safe tanks of metal.

TWA800 likely exploded due to a short circuit that ignited fuel-air vapor inside the fuel tank.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800
Note to self: No mater how bad things get, don't "pivot" the family.