skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I also cursed a bit, but unlike the OP, didn't cry (WTF?).

It's not really constructive to criticize how someone else responded emotionally to the same situation. It's great for you that you didn't cry, but it's not like anyone chooses to cry, and there's nothing wrong with them for doing so.
Is bandwidth really the limiting factor for Google?
Not only that, but it took a solid minute of frustrated tapping to successfully hit the 'I agree' checkbox. Using chrome on iOS.
> Aside from that, they do what, exactly?

In CS the ACM organizes conferences... beyond that they are an effectively useless organization.
But the fix was to limit the cache based on process memory constraints. jmull's point is that if a cache is permitted to blow out so big that lookups are impacting performance, then that cache is not really serving its purpose in the first place.
Interoperability seems inevitable, even if the Ethereum and Bitcoin developers don't want to implement it.
Admittedly, that's bad, and pretty devastating.

But I think compared to having the gestapo kick in your door, take you away in cuffs, and no-one sees you for 90 days is just a little more egregious.
Just occurred to me: We could consider it neutral, and then nominative = accusative...
I'm working through the 2nd edition at the moment and finding it very good. I'd tried a lot of primers and summaries, but I needed something that goes into deep technical detail to have it really click in my head.
Was it called The Twentieth Century Motor Company?
Pinterest [1] and Instagram [2] may be the two largest. And I guess technically Twitter [3]. But Google is so massive that I'm not sure it really would impact their overall market cap at this point. For example, Twitter is about 2% of Google's $640 billion market cap. Although, Instagram is worth around $50 billion now, which might be primarily because of Facebook, but in the most generous case could've added around 8% to Google's overall value, which is moderately significant.

Anyway, I applaud their effort, as I think it has a significant chance of empowering some people to build some awesome stuff that they were otherwise too hesitant to go at alone.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Systrom

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Williams_(Internet_entrep...
> My point was simply that XML use is very limited, not exposed by any high-level APIs and can be easily ignored.

Saying "you can change it to whatever you want" is not a helpful thing to say. I understand your point (it's not "baked in" or wahtever) but you're not helping your cause by stating that "oh, we could just change this part of the protocol whenever we want and it would all just work". Because it gives an aura of instability and "we can move fast and break things" in my eyes (even though DBus has been around for a long time).

> DBus is a message-passing protocol. You can write it in anything you like.

The message passing daemon is written in C, and kdbus is a plan to put it inside the kernel (written in C). Just because "you can write it in whatever language you want" doesn't change that it is currently written in C, and I doubt that anyone is going to rewrite it in Rust any time soon.

Again, I understand that DBus is a protocol and an implementation and you can swap out the implementation if you want. But how many implementations currently exist? One. So currently the dangers of having custom binary formats in C is a valid concern even if you might be able to switch to some other implementation in the distant future.
I once tried something like that for a very big montecarlo simulation of matrix convolutions for an online ads company.

Indeed, when you have no alternative to just have stuff in RAM as data access patterns are almost completely random for entire dataset, exporting swap over RDMA NIC will have an advantage even over a very fast local PCIE SSD.

I'm glad that somebody put time to make a proper solution to rationalize deployment of such setups
Can someone at Area 120 make bringing back Google Reader a thing?

I'm serious.
You'd think so but (bad) managers never take the blame or responsibility for something unless it succeeds. That's been my experience at least.
If the alternative hinges on the odds of realizing those dreams successfully via the current startup ecosphere (and not getting fleeced by financial backers), I'd sell them. I'll always have plenty more where they came from.
A) Look: New Vaporware!
B) Yeah but it's still vaporware

Not necessarily constructive, so much as pointing out a thing.
You seem to have given this a lot of thought. So serious question - why don't you create a secure operating system for governments and big corporates? You would easily get the funding and likely an insane amount of revenue.
The DRM won't change the availability of O'Reilly books on pirate sites in the least.
They still have their uses, particularly with largish LOB/enterprise apps. For me they are no longer the goto solution for apps I write though, if I started building one today I would start with an "ORM lite" (never liked the term) like dapper. If it ever got big and complicated enough that an ORM was justified then I would introduce one.

I find an ORM really excels when you've got complicated business logic, the sort of thing where there are dozens of business rules that may or may not be involved in any given installation. Something like this is extremely stateful and and ORM does a great job of tracking this state. In fact, this is what I'd define an ORM as, a state tracker for database modifications. If you don't have much state then you probably won't get much out of an ORM.

Even when using an ORM does make sense, it's important to remember that they don't make sense everywhere. For a performance critical or particularly complicated query then SQL should still be a fallback.
Assuming you meant "Perf[ormance reviews]", like a sibling comment suggested, don't you think Google can figure out how to assess someone, even if the environment is more-experimental than just plowing through well-defined backlog? They already have Research (capital R) teams for which they must have addressed this in some way, and those are probably even much less causal in their contribution to output relationship (which is what I presume the difficulty in measuring performance amounts to)?
Arguably, Canada can complain about whatever they want (according to their laws), that affects a company that hopes to do business in their country. The US prohibits American companies from selling weapons to it's enemies. By your logic, this transaction, which takes place outside of the US, is none of their business. But you had better believe they make it their business.

Google is free to tell Canada to shove off... if Google doesn't want to do business in Canada anymore. And it's in Canada's best interests to protect their citizens' intellectual property both locally and abroad.

There's nothing "absurd" about this decision. Canada has said that this must be the case if Google does business there. There's a huge issue with people's notions that no country should be able to regulate Google's behavior. The nature of them being an international corporation should not mean they are immune to everyone's laws.

Rather than an international corporation being subject to nobody's laws: International corporations should be required to follow all of them.
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Why would a Googler do A120 vs. leaving and doing a startup and potentially quick-sale back to Google?

(I guess access to Google infrastructure could be worth it for some projects, and for people who have large stock grants who want to vest them out for another 6-12mo before leaving)
GCM has an integrity check built in, which is very useful in crypto.

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/2310/what-is-the-...

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/14747/gcm-vs-ctrh...

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/33569/why-do-yo...
HN is my new Facebook
I find myself not checking my Facebook feed as often as before. Instead I check the HN feed more and more everyday. Am I alone? Between VR, AI, Cryptos, etc, I love the technologies of today's world. Very exciting time ahead. Thanks HN.
There are some misconceptions to be tackled here:

> The key phrase being "that meets the modern standard of care", as opposed to most current available knowledge. Aka "good enough".

This is a gross mischaracterization of what it means to provide the standard of care.

> And just as there's no realistic way for doctors to stay completely current (I doubt specialists in a field have trouble staying current there), I'd have to see some pretty extraordinary proof to get me to believe doctors are confirmed to be comprehensively up to date on all "modern standard of care" medical knowledge.

Each physician has their scope of practice. Outside of their scope of practice, they are expected to refer to or consult another professional. Within their scope of practice, they are absolutely required to be up-to-date in their knowledge. This includes the obligation to recognize when a patient's needs exceed their scope of practice.

> And in Canada, you take what little medical care you get and you like it.

More medical care is not better medical care. A number of pioneering efforts to use resources wisely first developed in Canada are now internationally recognized. They represent impactful advances in improving the quality of care. See, for example, the Ottawa Ankle Rules.

> Luckily, the vast majority of patients are utterly uninformed, so this theory would rarely be put to the test.

Contrary to your assertions, the majority of my patients ask pertinent questions and participate meaningfully in their own care. This has been the case regardless of their level of education and general health literacy.

> Wow. So, you literally can't even believe a scenario can possibly exist where any patient might be aware of studies related to a particular ailment, and that upon informing the doctor of it's existence, the doctor could then go read the study for him/herself and incorporate the knowledge into their practice?

Feel free to recommend studies for your doctor's reading list. There's no reason your doctor should be averse to that--it's no different from recommending a novel. However, if delivering appropriate care to you requires the reading of studies the existence of which your doctor is not even aware, then your doctor is no more qualified to provide that care after reading one or even a small number of studies. Have no expectation that your treatment will change after recommending a paper any more than it might after recommending a novel.
Risk.

Area 120 has bounded reward, but the downside risk is measured entirely in opportunity cost. If your goal is a quick sale, the upsides may be comparable as well.
Examples of other companies with "an established company culture and the existing behavior patterns of employees" include Uber and Binary Capital.
I noticed the license on this repo is "All Rights Reserved" until 2018, at which point it reverts to MIT.

It also has 46 forks at the time of writing. Is forking All Rights Reserved code technically a breach of license? I'd never actually considered the implications of that button on such a license before.
It's basically the "robbing a thief" argument - it's not stealing, because the loot wasn't theirs in the first place.
For some industries it makes sense.
Rail and power networks use their own physical infrastructure as they have specific latency and reliability requirements for protection and signalling systems and it's convenient to just build their own comms networks alongside their other infrastructure.
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That's a strange assumption. I would think that any employee who pioneers a successful idea will land a leading role in the subsequent product development team and a bonus at least. Sure, the reward isn't as high as if you spun off your own startup but it won't be nothing.
Most ladder logic editors allow you to see the code in structured text format. As a former PLC programmer I think you or your friend just didn't know it well... it's pretty good for what it does: control industrial machines.
Use docker for your pentesting labs
he answered no to the question "Have you ever been arrested"
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It doesn't matter if they're successful or not. The point is that bright, hard-working people left Google, and chances are, they won't be back even if the startup doesn't pan out.

If they try out their idea in Area 120 instead, then
a) Google can own the product if it ends up being good
b) It has a better chance at success with Google behind it
c) If it fails, the "founders" are more likely to rejoin the mothership
Great list of books, I have quite a few in common and some to add:

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Linux-Administration-Cutting-E... (General Linux)

https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html (SRE)

https://www.amazon.com/Ansible-DevOps-Server-configuration-m... (Ansible)

https://www.amazon.com/Puppet-4-10-Beginners-Guide-Second/dp... (Puppet, beginner)

https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Puppet-Configuration-Managem... (Puppet, intermediate)

https://www.amazon.com/Learning-SaltStack-Second-Colton-Myer... (SaltStack)

https://www.amazon.com/Networking-Systems-Administrators-Mas... (Networking)

https://leanpub.com/serversforhackers (SysAdmin)

https://leanpub.com/scalingphp (Scaling)

https://debian-handbook.info/get/ (Debian Linux)
Ya, but the ACM is also a professional organization. That's a fine service to provide, but it doesn't need to be comingled with publishing.
It means I'll be trying it out and seeing how I like it.
1. Research teams at Google are unlike most other companies. You're expected to write code and deliver results.

2. It's not inability to measure Area 120'ers. Not putting participants through perf is ostensibly because they want to give a true entrepreneury environment where you are only measured by your product's success. Traditional performance review is...more complicated, to say the least.
I can certainly see the sentiment. I also thought maybe this is like a startup incubator where the Google employees get some 'test customers' to actually see if their science project has legs. Because who doesn't like being a test customer right?

The optics are horribly bad here, to someone on the outside, hitting that landing page, it looks like "Gee we have these fans that will do almost anything to feel like they are on the 'inside', lets have a thought shower and see how we can exploit that!"

What's next, let us be early testers of the fully immersive VR environment? You know strap us into a harness, feed VR right to our brain, and harvest our thermal energy to power data centers?
Here is a previous HN discussion on the topic -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12661227
Performance Review. A cycle is 6 months.
there are no tick marks on the x axis.
TempleOS or any operating system with networking disabled via hardware switch.
Sure you can, I doubt anyone would care, though.
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After Diffie, Hellman, New directions in cryptography

https://www-ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/publications/24.pdf
Even on a quick scroll down/up it kept re-animating. The person that decided that was a solid design idea should straight up feel bad.

I avidly utilize extensions to block annoying crap like that, is there anything to disable that sort of "feature"
Private parties cannot request the moon. The test for interlocutory orders is HARD to satisfy, and involves substantial expense for litigants to raise. In Canada, if you lose this motion, you're paying half your opponent's legal bills most of the time, too.

You need three things to satisfy the test:

1) a serious issue to be tried
2) irreparable harm if the injunction is not granted
3) that the relief is just on the balance of considerations

Note that irreparable harm and balance of considerations are terms of art, both of which heavily restrict the ambit of what is admissible under those sections of the test, a process which is continually monitored by the development of subsequent jurisprudence.

But even if the injunction test is satisfied,

The physical products hypothetical you're advancing is incomplete and leaves out a number of facts which are instrumental in the court's ruling. Assuming the ruling is applicable outside of those parameters requires that clear arguments be made regarding why changing those parameters isn't a big deal.

As an exercise, try to go through the ruling and pull out each of the factual elements which the court seems to rely upon in coming to their decision. You'll note they rely on a lot of determinations to get to the decision they ultimately arrive at.

Other replies have gracefully dealt with the physical goods analogy more directly: things get ripped off shelves all the time. That's why the Apple v. Samsung cases are so high-stakes.
Software is specifically exempted from that.
What's really annoying is that most browsers actually support an accessibility feature called "prefers-reduced-motion"[1] in CSS media queries to tell a site not to do this sort of thing, but Google don't appear to use it.

[1] https://css-tricks.com/introduction-reduced-motion-media-que...
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What's the difference between jail and work?

In jail you're rewarded with time off for good behaviour.

At work you're rewarded with more work.
My feeling is that the misery is inhomogeneously distributed when it comes to scientific disciplines.

In physics the situation does not seem too terrible. The American Physical Society is a nonprofit which runs a family of go-to subscription-type journals. Preprints on arxiv are the standard.

Publishing innovations are popping up from time to time. A prominent example is scipost.org, which is funded by national funding agencies and is free to both publish and read. Also, their peer-review is public.

Full disclosure: I have published in various APS journals.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14653304
Thanks, obviously your example is more concrete. GP's comment was good for introducing the idea and your comment is great for showing how the idea is useful.
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Thanks for all the details. Are those atlas based methods applicable to standard T1 scans or require extras like T2 or flair? Are there available software implementations or it's all research code?
Couple of questions:

- Assume paypal implements a smart contract system. Users have an option to keep their contracts public or encrypt them with their password/random secret key. Defining a contract is like specifying a template. Deploying the contract locks up the requisite sum from the concerned parties. The contract distributes this sum according to its logic, when triggered. Since we don't have mining/redundant copies of data, paypal can afford to charge lower transaction fees overall. The system is altogether more efficient and user privacy is ensured via encrypting the contract to ensure nobody except the owner sees them.

Apart from decentralization, what else does ethereum offer over and above this combination?

- Despite trying pretty hard, I have been unable to understand the valuations of cryptocurrencies.

According to my understanding, bitcoin is a commodity rather than a currency. Like gold, its value resides in how much value people put on it (unlike currencies, which have to be accepted all across their native country). However, unlike gold, bitcoin has no intrinsic value i.e the amount of money somebody would give to just hold onto it for eternity.

So the value of bitcoin should be estimated from [value of transactions that happen on the network / number of bitcoins in circulation]. However, most of the transactions happening on the blockchain (IMO) are transactions between cryptocurrencies (eth->bitcoin->eth..). The few that happen in the real world (buying goods/services) are hindered by the continuously changing market value of bitcoin/eth.

In this catch-22 (speculation hinders transactions, which makes it tougher to do fair valuation, which encourages speculation), how do we reach a consensus on the value of bitcoin?
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How does automation change this analysis?
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I guess I'm an anomaly in that I read far more books than watching movies, but I agree that most consumers will want a variety of music and shows, unlike books. However, isn't the price point ($35/month), which is 4x more than Spotify, roughly in line with the price for a single book, which is roughly 4x an album.

I guess the main difference is not that the price ratio between subscription and individual items is off, but rather that most consumers don't want 1 book a month. It's a bummer that they don't give people an option, but I'm still a fan of Safari...and I hope this move will mean they drastically improve the Safari app, much like Netflix has doubled down on Streaming now that they don't do DVDs.
Well, that was my initial reaction, honestly. It's great for you that your reaction was different, but it's not like anyone chooses their initial reaction. How is criticising me for it constructive?

I only wish the best for Daniel, I know the situation sucks.
Sure, but none of that makes it a useless assertion. I'm not saying React is a magic shield from lawsuits — I'm saying that React doesn't appear to be any more dangerous in this regard than the majority of open-source software. You could validly express the same concerns about nearly anything.

Remember, the claim I was disputing was that "only a fool will use reactjs" because the patent license is conditional. All I'm saying is that I don't see any reason to be more concerned about React than, say, Angular.
I played Keen 1 first, and Keen 4 a couple of years later. We might've had at least the first one before we even had Windows 3.1. I remember the clamshell package that shareware kinds of games used to be sold in, because after installing Keen4, that package sat on the hutch above the computer desk for a long time, and I touched it every time I reached up to turn on the speakers.

I knew about Keen Dreams at some point in my childhood. 2, 3, 5, and 6 were unknown to me for a long time (might've been in college in the early 2000s before I knew of them?)
Not sure I agree with the analogy "
Being denied entry is the same as being accused of a crime"

Consequence of being accused of crime is prosecution, with potential loss of freedom (or death).

Consequence of being denied entry into one country in the world -- is not the same (unless you are unfairly prosecuted in your own country and there is no other country that you can go to).

Being denied to enter a country, more akin, in my view, to being denied a job interview (and subsequent employment).