skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We use the Raspberry Pi Compute Module, i.e. a special, stripped-down version of the Raspberry Pi which fits on a 200 pin SO-DIMM module. This version does not use an SD card but has a 4 GByte eMMC on-board. (It would be possible to use an SD card in addition to the eMMC but we don't make use of that.)

Of course the eMMC is still based on flash, which has a limited lifetime. So we use a customized version of Raspbian which has swap disabled by default (can be enabled if you need it) and tunes the syslog configuration to reduce the amount of log data written. It's also possible to use a tmpfs-backed /var/log (can be enabled with a mouse click or a simple command). That way we try to prolong the lifetime of the eMMC as much as possible.

We've also been in talks with the Foundation about this and they have asserted that the eMMC is of good quality and should last for the typical lifetime of a PLC (which can be decades).
I'd like to see public competitions between two AI giants like Google and IBM. Now that would be an interesting ongoing race for AI superiority.
pretty good at consistently losing to horses in running marathons? can't say i'm surprised.
You don't need to turn the phone off. Just filter out stuff that you don't want.
Pretty interesting attempt. The idea of catching where a word pops out of the primordial psychosocial ooze and becomes a signifier is a compelling idea.

Cant help but feel that "Using Google searches for words’ definitions" is catching these things when Memaw is looking them up not the kids...

The generation of slang that I have seen in life gets defined in practice. When something is google search mainstream it has ossified to some extent.

I remember the first time I heard 'mansplain' and since i am an old dude (older even than 'elder millenials' which is a term from the article that I liked) - I am sure it was old when I heard it back in 2014 on twitter. At the time I got it in the context of Lucille Ball saying 'splain me' in the way that she did on her show...

In the context I didn't need to do a google search - I just laughed my head off and found other examples on twitter and tumbler, reddit etc

For me at the time this was new and very funny. I would see it grow into other variants 'x-splaining',etc. Occasionally I use it in speech, sometimes in an ironic way when I am tasked with explaining something to a group.

I guess the point is that this is really intersting but i more phenomenology than ontology. I think peak google searches are when this has reified into something - first step into making it into the OED. When it is peak google the word would get . disgusted eyeroll from your typical teenager.

Anecdotally I heard 'triggered' in a google social media (what was that called again) discussion and mistakenly thought it was a joke. I got all kinds of blocks and hate and learned that this was something that had actual currency in certain circles and I should be aware of this in future conversations...

We coin these things all the time - most of them become private jokes, some take off and become viral. Most dry up and blow away. Some make it to a headline or a list of "10 words to knwo when you check your teens chats..." But the actual origin is probably in some subredit , twitter exchange, etc. These things dont pop up with definitions, and what is more interesting are the connotations - the way something like 'deplorable' got whipped around social media or a while and became a badge in opposition to 'sjw'.

That would be really interesting research - show clouds of meaning where these things bounce around and get the secondary meanings and associations for the brief flaring up before they become dank...
Maybe in addition to having your users indemnify you for their UGC in the TOS, you could have users agree to pay you 25k every time they posted something like a bomb threat, rape threat, drug deal, etc.
"You can judge a society by how well it treats its prisoners", was actually said by a Russian–he knew what he was talking about.

The US could start by no longer jailing drug consumers or first-time low-level street dealers. It just really really doesn't work anyway. That would reduce the prison population by what? 2/3? Suddenly you have 3x the budget and space, which should allow for quite a few improvements.

But what really needs to be done with it the basic idea of prison as some sort of moral retribution. Come up with a formula to quantify and compare the outcomes of the criminal justice system, then start maximising. The US could easily study the effects of prison and other punishments (as well as social programs, medial intervention etc) in every detail imaginary.

(Also I don't quite get your analogy. Are you saying Americans tend to be violent because there are too many of them for one country? FWIW the US is No 182 in terms of population density, barely ahead of Norway at No. 202. Far far ahead are Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, and most of Europe, all of which have only a fraction of the violent crime of the US)
In RL you have two modes, "explore" and "exploit". In explore mode it doesn't always select the best known move, instead it selects a promising move for which it has less experience. This is how the surprising new strategies are discovered, in self play there's no shame in losing.
It's prison population / N prisons. So, each prison could have equivalent populations. Further, the costs don't drop with overcrowding etc, your just taking out a loan with interest. Underpay now, and you will overpay in the future.
Bertrand Meyer's [1] book, Object-Oriented Software Construction [2], mentioned in another comment here, is good, IMO; some people consider it a classic. I had read large parts of it some years ago. He is the creator of the Eiffel programming language [3], which seem really good (I tried it out, some, using EiffelStudio, his company's main product - it also has a GUI libary for creating GUI apps, at least on Windows where I tried it, and can make EXEs, also has a possibly unique notion of freezing and melting, IIRC, related to compilation), though unfortunately Eiffel does not seem to have much adoption (like some other advanced languages).

According to the Wikipedia article about him, he also created the idea of Design by Contract [4], involving preconditions, postconditions and invariants, and DbC is built-in to Eiffel. DbC is now supported in many languages or in their libraries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Meyer

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-Oriented_Software_Const...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_(programming_language)

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_contract

Scott Ambler's The Object Primer was also good, also read some years ago.

IBM developerWorks article by him about the topic:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-using-oo/

The book:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/the-object-primer/BD0D5...

Just checked, it is still available, though the page at the link below says there is a newer version (linked on same page):
http://www.amazon.in/Object-Primer-Application-Developers-Ob...

Update: Just remembered, when I was checking out Eiffel some years ago, I had read up on success stories about it. One very interesting one was about how HP used it to create a printer driver for a printer, after attempts using another more mainstream language had worked, but the driver had a lot of bugs. IIRC, the article [5] said that with Eiffel, the new version of the driver was created a lot faster, and also had a lot less bugs.

[5] Found the article from a Google search:

https://archive.eiffel.com/eiffel/projects/hp/creel.html
We need to stop the "empty your mind" meme – it's harmful for new meditators.

The practice is about concentration and mindfulness[0]. It can calm your mind up to a degree when there are little thoughts present but you can't force yourself into this state daily, especially in the first years of practicing.

[0]: http://www.vipassana.com/meditation/mindfulness_in_plain_eng...
Perhaps your comment here is premature? In order to know whether there is a wage gap at Google, you need data. Without that data, you are no more accurate than the people you are fighting.
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To be fair, they could get the cost down to $74k if they had a woman do the research.
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How are you going to recreate the main selling point of facebook, i.e. the Newsfeed ? If things are encrypted, how are you going to determine relevance, etc.
Right, but there were only 7 mins of cgi dinosaurs in Jurassic Park 1
Is it ? I read the article and was pissed that there was no link to the actual charts or source.

I'm not sure what you're referring to with big data phobia, computer related privacy concerns have been around for a couple decades before facebook beginnings, IIRC it was a thing a few years before zuckerberg's birth. Then privacy concerns about facebook have existed a little while before its conception with Facemash.
Most Android vendors now test and release android versions within 4-8 months of a new Android version and generally commit to 2 android upgrades for any given model.
Do they ? I've looked for a link to the source in the article and failed to find any.
I was in the middle of some major rail cancellations a couple of months back over 2 days - on the 3rd day many of the assets were out of place around the country - they were clearly trying to solve it manually and the impact escalated over the day even though most of the original problems had cleared

it's got to be a great problem to work on - and must be pretty rewarding to watch when you get it right
How about 1. Google AdWords/AdMob 2. Fb Ads 3. SEO (obviously, 1. and 2. provide instant gratification while 3. would be a slow starter).
The rise and fall of Yik Yak
I was really confused by the comments until I realized SNAP must be SnapChat.
https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla...
I wish the author had spent a bit more time trying to uncover the inside story of Yik Yak as well. It would have been nice to see a post mortem from employees, investors or the founders.
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One problem GNU Smalltalk addresses for me is "getting started" because it mostly takes tooling out of the equation. Mostly because my experience was of normal install a new programming language and integrate it with my current tools hiccups. But there was not an entire alien landscape filled with many overlapping windows as with Pharo or Squeak. I can focus on learning the language and its semantics without orthogonal cognitive loads. I think this helps me more readily achieve flow.

Part of what made a sustained attempt at learning Smalltalk difficult for me was that traditional Smalltalk IDE's did not allow me to approach Smalltalk as just another programming language living in the same Turing tarpit as Awk or Perl or Python. Smalltalk IDE's make a set of design decisions that embody a particular philosophy regarding the "best way to use a computer" rather than "here is another way to use a computer." They are not the best way for me to use one.
I strongly believe AI will become a part of us like an external brain. Today we already have phones augmenting humans. Those smart phones will keep getting smarter and smarter.
Unfortunately, as awesome as that is, that pretty much means industrial "in name only"...at least for non-hobby / non-startup projects
Sorry, which university is that?
I will just leave it here in case someone will want to employ copper pots: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10383875
I am aware of Google phone. But is it Google who's also rolling out the upgrades to users directly? iphone does not care carrier's upgrade schedule.
The fact that there are people who don't realize that they prevented CRT burn-in just dates me I guess.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_burn-in#CRT

Hence the name, "screen saver" ;)
That's the beauty of it, the useds themselves are snitching on their friends. Not only are facebook useds working for facebook for free exposing themselves and others, they also provide troves of metadata.
Their attorneys probably cost at least 1000 an hour. Would be cheaper to release the data than to fight this.
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Ah! I used to wonder about that when I was a kid playing with DOS. I had the vague notion that com programs were 'dumber' than exe or less complex and were often part of the operating system. And if a 'big' application was a com then it means there were a bunch of additional com or exe files in the directory.
This doesn't apply in the USA, since for our citizens the purpose of our prison system is not to rehabilitate, but to inflict savage vengeance.
I got my first smartphone in June 2009. Here's the list of what's happened (in no particular order):

* 2 phones had their 2.4GHz radio die (no bluetooth, no wifi)

* 2 phones were damaged by water

* 1 phone had screen cracked

* 1 phone was lost

I'm now on my 7th phone in 8 years.

Ironically it was my first phone that lasted the longest (about 2.5 years before the 2.4GHz radio died). Since then I've gone through about 1 phone per year. Phones have gotten much more fragile as they've gotten thinner, though water-resistance is now more common so that could solve at least some of my problems.

I do get what you're saying though because my wife's smart phone lineup is:

Palm Centro

iPhone 4S

iPhone SE

Each upgraded because software that had previously worked stopped working.
It reminded me http://grakn.ai , another quite solid and interesting project right know.
Very nice! I have many fond memories of the After Dark screen savers - my favorite was from the "Twisted" collection had featured a silhouette of a big city apartment building with crazy stuff happening in the windows. There was an old lady that would bank on the ceiling with a broom, a guy spanking a monkey, lovers that would chase each other, a crazy guy with a shot gun trying to down a UFO, and ton of other stuff. I also liked the Twisted version of the fish tank which featured that maffioso that would fall to the bottom wearing cement shoes and eventually die after holding his breath for a few minutes. After Dark was about the only software I ever paid for. If I remember right they were bought by Sierra, whom I believe was more interested in their You Don't Know Jack video games, which promptly killed all their screen saver products.
OK, there are millions of Android users and most users put their personal information on their phone. I think any breach here would be considered gravely significant.

Non-Google branded phones get updates far later than their Nexus/Pixel counterparts if at all. Google and carriers drop devices from updates eventually (2ish years) so if you continue to use your device after that, you're playing with fire.

That's just covering the delivery mechanism, not the inability to set a encryption password separate from your pin, or the vauge permissions groups, or the fact that all apps can see your global clipboard, etc. If users can't get the newest version of their OS software, then you kind of fail at security 101. Any bug fix only fixes a small subset of your users. At least Windows XP device users knew how long they'd get security updates and had a clear upgrade path afterward.

Linux IoT suffers a lot of the the same problems. No one updates embedded devices.

You can draw the "nightmare" semantic line wherever you want, of course. IMHO it's not even remotely secure unless you only and always buy the newest Pixel phone directly from Google. Then we can talk about modern Android security issues.
Did the OP ask you to do this filtering for him? If not, let the man own his own words and thoughts. You're free to start a new top-level comment free of the vitriol.
My respect for Google has gone down significantly. I would not work for Facebook and Google even if I was offered a million dollars.

I predict that the Golden years of FB and Google are right now, they will slowly head into a plateau
In litigation, there is the expectation that parties shouldn't be expected to bear discovery costs that are out of proportion with the value and relevance of the requested data. "It'll cost too much" is thus a stock answer to discovery requests. Google can absorb the $100k cost--they'll likely spend tens of thousands to just to litigate over the discovery dispute. But they're entitled to hold the government to it's burden of articulating why that data justifies the cost.

Obviously the real reason is that Google doesn't want to hand over the data. But you should never just hand data over to the government. Government lawyers can get pretty creative with spreadsheets of numbers.
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The carriers do in fact have a say in the upgrade schedule. I know that (at least for a little while) they stopped being able to release updates quite as quickly once they released the iPhone for Verizon in the US.

And yes, if you buy your phone directly from Google, you'll get your updates directly from Google with no delay (other than their staged rollout process).
You cant google this information?
My thoughts exactly. I don't like the idea of a culture where it's ok to think "you're saying things I don't like, so you should be banned from saying it completely". its unhealthy and causes more harm the more it's permitted.
I don't get this - why would there be back payments? A contract is a contract right? Regardless of what's in other people's contracts... Perhaps it might mean new contracts might have to demand more but I guess on the other hand they could probably squeeze other areas that are overpaid?
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The US government is not asking for the data to be made public, it's asking for it to be made available to their officials:

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs asked the technology giant to submit information in September 2015 about its equal opportunity program and to provide supporting documents as part of a scheduled compliance review. As a federal contractor, Google must agree to permit the federal government to inspect and copy records and information relevant to its compliance with the equal employment laws administered by OFCCP.

Google employees would be none the wiser about the fairness of their wages.

Source: US DoL website, https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/ofccp/ofccp20170104
this is on the front page right now, please help keep down the noise and check for dupes before submitting!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14429673
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Both the hardware (base board schematics) as well as the software are open source. Let's say Kunbus goes down the drain and you hit an issue. Best case someone in the community has already fixed it. Worst case you'll have to hire a decent consultant. Show me another PLC that affords the same kind of vendor independence.

As to availability, the hardware is manufactured and assembled in Denkendorf, Germany, so the supply chain is short. The Foundation guarantees availability of the Compute Module 1 and 3 until at least January 2023.
Interesting. Two studies with pretty much conflicting conclusions about safety of copper for potable water. I imagine that there is a level (range) of exposure that is in the sweet spot between 'kills harmful microbes' and 'kills/harms humans who drink the water'.
Heh Heh Heh

Back in the early days PostgreSQL was a NoSQL database called Postgres, using a query language called POSTQUEL.

Then SQL was added, becoming PostgreSQL.

With Agens Graph adding an optional non-SQL query language back to it, it seems like it's gone a full circle. Hopefully on an upward slope though. :)

If anyone's interested in the pre-SQL Postgres, there's some info here: https://www.postgresql.org/about/history/
How do you turn off real life though? These online streams aren't limited to existing just online. They spill over into the real world.

Why do you think bomb threats shouldn't be taken seriously? What about death threats? What about threats to do you bodily harm? When they start to harass you in the real world, where do you draw the line? At what point do you stop taking things seriously?

And before you brush all this off as "Of course that shouldn't be allowed" that's literally what is being discussed here, and you completely missed it.
well the problem is that less woman want to be programmers. (At least where I live) Which actually means that men are more present so if you have 50 programmers where 5 are good you only will have a pool of 5 woman programmers where maybe 1 is good. that actually leads to the data, which actually not says that woman can't program better or worse, it just says it's harder to find a good woman, because there are overall less woman in tech.

actually I also think that not only in germany near freiburg are less woman programmers, I'm pretty sure that MINT is still "not that cool" for woman. the number was raised the last years and still climbs but it's nowhere near a 50:50 sadly
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I'm curious if anyone can give insight on how the passenger backlog is resolved in these situations. How was it done before smart digital systems (probably circa 1980's?) and how is it handled today given all the intertwined applications. I can imagine that it must be fascinating and equally exhausting on a grand scale.
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The issue of possible underpayment aside, It has to be in the interest of the company to provide as little information as they can.

It's a court case. The attorneys wouldn't be doing their job if they didn't use every legal means at their disposal.

And they may in fact have a point (to an extent). Government shouldn't be able to accuse a firm of something, then demand the firm spend money assembling data to prove the governments case. The fact Google "makes a bunch of money so no big deal" (which is what the .gov attorneys are apparently arguing) is irrelevant to that principal.
> My point is, what works for Norway (population: 5.2m, prison population: 3874 or 0.0745% [0]) is never going to work for Brazil (population: 207m, prison population: 659020 or 0.31% [1]).

Actually the population density of Brazil is just 1.5 times that of Norway. Not a great difference.
A 4% heat throttle seems an unusually subtle adjustment. If testing has found it to be effective that is a good finesse.
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So why not do something like make a shim COMMAND.COM that handles compatibility and calls the new COMMAND.EXE?

From my novice view, it seems like it would be generally simpler to reason about.
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One study is abut storing water in copper pots and the other is about copper in drinking water. Does storing water in pots automatically mean that the copper goes into the water and if yes, how high is the concentration?
Back pay would be signicantly higher than $20m.
You know what happens if you give up your lunch money to a bully once?

Maybe better in the long run to not be seen as an easy mark, even if it causes some short term pain.
>> that actually leads to the data, which actually not says that woman can't program better or worse, it just says it's harder to find a good woman, because there are overall less woman in tech.

What data are you talking about?
I don't know where you got this idea. The NSA is known for being close to useless in terrorism matters and champion of industrial espionage and spying on political leaders.
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I was just wondering how hard it would be to do this.
Yes, it's Google rolling out upgrades to users directly.

(I have never owned an Android phone other than the Nexus series.)