skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also strange that a language that wants to encourage parallelism requires for loops, and specifies that they always run sequentially. Java 8 can put map/reduce with a thread pool in the standard library precisely because it doesn't use a for loop; imagine how tedious and repetitive the Go version would be: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/collections/streams/...
It's almost a mark of authenticity, the way Nobel laureates always have the ugliest websites.
Later this year I predict they'll relaunch the product as being built on the blockchain.

Problem solved.
Thanks so much for that analysis! My mind was not that irrational then when making that guess :)
Yea it says that on their homepage, but when you click pricing the cheapest server available (at least on the pricing page) is $10/mo
Indiana Pi Bill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
> Today, nine out of ten imported avocados in the U.S. are from Mexico.

>A politics of avocadoism is intrinsic to this history. If you worry about the eclipse of American agriculture—or the market effects of cheap, distance-shipped produce—you’d be right to regard this international trade with disgust.

>If, on the other hand, you celebrate competitive international trade and cosmopolitan access, the avocado is a fruit of heroism.

The point that the author is making is that the "anti-avacado" sentiment is a result of anti-urban and anti-globalization/anti-globalist sentiment. It's something that cities have more access to, is relatively new, and is imported from mexico. Its a partisan division.
A plug-in hybrid?!

Given his length of time on the road, he'll burn more energy lugging that electric drivetrain around for the latter 80+% of his trip than if he drove a fuel-efficient gas or diesel car in the first place.
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Democratizing training is a great mission. Will the free access have office hour privilege with the content creator?
5 machines. Even numbers of machines introduce a higher failure likelihood for no greater tolerance.
To me, you're an alcoholic if when you stop you have physical withdrawal. If you need to drink rather than just enjoy drinking. There's probably a fairly wide grey area.

I've always felt that drinking was a choice not a compulsion. I can go a week with no booze and have no symptoms. But occasionally I get past that limit and my self control evaporates and I pay for it the next day.
Yea, watson's distinguishing features can't be "magic beans".
And IBM often tried to get people fired for not buying IBM – a former colleague was once the CIO of the only Fortune 100 company that didn't have a corporate IBM mainframe (one or two of their subsidiaries did, but the conglomerate mother ship did not, only Univac). IBM had quite a few golfing conversations with the CEO trying to get him fired. [This was back in the '70s].
ok, so you've identified that the US isn't Finnland. Very inquisitive.

Also, what place in the US, at those pay levels, is hiring a new grad for remote work?
I don't know why they are, they are increasingly becoming the equivalent to a free net cafe. It's a ridiculously underpaid profession, partly because computers cost so much to maintain and service for them.
Good point/question...

re: Nanobox vs. Vagrant, Nanobox is much easier to use than Vagrant, especially for the "common" web developer:
https://nanobox.io/why-nanobox/nanobox-vs-vagrant/

Nanobox runs on top of Docker (see this explanation https://nanobox.io/why-nanobox/nanobox-vs-docker/), and uses Docker to create instant, isolated environments that are exactly the same, whether on your computer, your new devs computer, your outsourced contractor's computer on the other side of the world, in staging environments, and in production.

I hope that helps.
In some ways, yes, it actually is bad. Depends on your perspective.

As a very simple example, imagine that you were able to fully automate, such that you required zero workers. Imagine further that all other businesses did the same.
Or you end up competing with something booted up by someone powerful's kid. Operating in these systems is a totally different skill set from competing in international markets.
"IBM DAD"? :)

More seriously, do you think Microsoft would have been more honest if they'd called Windows "Microsoft Graphical Multitasking Operating System"? Or if BMW had gone with "BMW Better Performance And A Cooler Badge But It'll Cost You" instead of "BMW M"?

Brand names exist for a reason.
I don't know you and you don't know me, despite the fact that you say we're in the same boat, but it sounds to me like you're saying you really think it's time to start bailing. I hope by the same boat you just mean the same model, because if what you're saying is as true for me as it is for you, I'm going to sink, because honestly I don't feel like I'm gaining water.

I feel like I might have stretched the analogy too far, but here's the thing: What's the first step, again?

If you're happy, and if you honestly don't think you have a problem after some serious introspection, then you don't have a problem. You might have a diminished life span and you might have some health complications, but if the root cause of those things is you living your life the way you want to, maybe that's something you should have the choice to do.
This is only the beginning of selling AI as a panacea. People, if it does something useful, there is a term for it. The only reason not to use that term is to AVOID direct comparisons.
This sounds no different than my experience with some Oracle and SAP products that we had the unfortunate pleasure of supporting.
The reference is to cafes, not making it at home. Aussie cafes charge like $20 for avo toast and millennials line up to pay it.
Or for example, there is any free text user input that could be subversive...
Show me a business problem and I’ll do my best to avoid it
But won't it provide competition in the cloud space to drive costs down ? Or will no one take it seriously ?
Forget generics. What I missed most are algebraic data structures.
Sorry, but if "a major cloud platform suffers a production outage at midnight" is the bar for effecting change in Go, then I want no part of it.
I recently sat through a sales pitch for a piece of IBM software that has an intensely focused (and better) competitor.

IBM's sales pitch was that 1) this particular piece of software was "central to IBM's [market niche] strategy", and 2) if we didn't go with IBM's product, we would miss out on all the interoperability with IBM's Watson that the future is going to bring. The tone veered toward fire-and-brimstone. I wasn't sold, I was put off. They've demoed other things in the past that I've had my socks knocked off by, but they're nothing that's the sort of "indistinguishable from magic" that they're promising in all the marketing hype.

The thing is, IBM delivers tremendous value, and they have some fantastic products. However, stunts like that leave people like me with a very sour taste in my mouth. If they'd just focus on delivering a better product, as quantified by hard metrics, (which they could easily afford to do), they'd keep making out like bandits for a very long time. There's tremendous good-will toward them in the market: bad experience aside, I'm still favorably disposed toward them.
Yeah - it's an interesting conundrum, but it's not like similar doesn't happen with US providers - it's pretty much commonplace here given taps in DCs and under-the-table agreements, "Room 641A" and all such things.
The key is the trust that this special power that the Federal Reserve and Banks in general have to create the medium of exchange. If that power is used in such a way that all participants are not treated fairly, the system is ultimately unsustainable.
I would love to buy it and give it another go. Wonder how that would work and how much it would cost, and if it's even an option. Seems a shame to see it close.
I do the same. But with a bit of lemon juice and pepper.
If literally all imaginable human work was 100% automated then the cost of goods and services compared to today would be tiny. The poorest member of that society would live like a king from our present day world.
My grandparent post is talking about a man greater than I can ever expect to be, and all of the great things he achieved. Oh and also he drank his own volume in alcohol a week and smoked enough cigars to keep a tobacco plantation in business single-handedly.

Now I'm no Churchill, so I don't expect to make his political or tactical achievements, but maybe I can match him at the other things.
I have actually worked in bathymetric survey projects in 4 different continents, and I can tell you there is a good reason why the ocean floor hasnt been mapped yet.

For one its cost. A single survey ship (their rates are cheap now due to low oil prices), cost about USD30000 a day, A single ROV (>5k a day), ROV crew, divers, backup ROV(yes there needs to be 2 ROV's) why? one needs to recover the other in deepwater, ships crew, the survey crew etc... all usually comes to about 50k-70k a day in cost (and this is being really conservative). I am not including cost of bunkering (refueling the ship), crew transport to location, rotations, food, water, waste disposal etc and the list goes on. If you take USD100000 a day at an average of 60miles a day in length and probably a mile width, USD18.5 mil would probably not cover much of a distance. Dont forget the cost of processors to process the multibeam data (yes multibeam provides higher resolution because it collects more data points), the mappers-charters, engineers etc...etc. Just the cost alone is enough to put most people off. There is a reason why MH370 couldnt be found, and the cost was enormous that they had to call of the search.
I had always assumed that Watson was a reference to Sherlock Holmes' assistant. "Elementary my dear Watson" and such.

Googled "ww2 watson" to find the wiki with the info you reference.

Does IBM make clear which Watson the name's a reference to? I have to think you're right, but the Sherlock Holmes reference makes so much more sense to me in the sense of being the assistant while also stroking the customer's ego as the brilliant detective who hired Watson.
> Truly terrifying things that may exist in the universe at large may not come across as terrifying to us given that we have had no exposure day to day (GRB's, anti-matter, etc).

Well... I made the mistake of letting my kid watch a few Kurzgesagt videos on Vacuum Decay and GBR and now she is terrified of Vacuum Decay or GBR wiping us out.
Stable against what perturbations? What impact would a large body passing through the system have? Stable as in self-correcting (up to a limit)? What is the limit. Even long running accurate simulations of the three body problem are sensitive to perturbations...
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> Conversely if this the canonical failure case, why's everyone so harsh on Watson?

Because what is being promoted under the “Watson” brand is (or at least includes) examples of this failure case.
Can I host a blog that criticizes Putin on one of these servers?
it seems interesting that noone notes just how much their wording is almost identical to AWS's - they even call their "container service" ECS instances - That feels like something that will sit poorly with Amazon
Quantitative traders have trouble teasing signals out of data. And there is so much data in the public markets: stock prices, volume, interest (and the rest of Bloomberg data), Twitter sentiment, satellite data. The private markets have so much less data, so the best indicators are who the founding team is, how big the market it, and other obvious stuff like that. There are some quantitative VCs in Menlo, SF, and NY, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

VC is probably speculation, but let's wait for VCs to show consistent back to back returns on funds and we'll find out. For hedge funds, it hasn't panned out so well - not sure it'll be different for Anyone Else.
It's like life imitating art: https://vimeo.com/115585199
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i like how you made it more succinct by changing it to "Change needs feedback" but your drawn out explanation makes you sound like a person who doesn't know how to provide feedback
My take on the Drake equation is that it gives you a way to play with numbers and break down your guesses in a rational way. The article suggests an estimate of N(Earth) so this is one step in the direction of not entirely ruling out an N<1.
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https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmNoHDmdynXAr9ahtyo2GjAe4iKtzDDC1dEBQbN...
> If you're happy, and if you honestly don't think you have a problem after some serious introspection, then you don't have a problem.

See here's where we disagree. Alcohol is extraordinarily addictive. I have begun to believe that I'm not living my life the "the way [I] want to," but am convinced through conditioning and social norms that this is the "good life" or whatever.

Nobody is living a "good life" with 6+ drinks a night, particularly in the way I do. Alone, at a laptop, working until 3 a.m. There's a difference between a casual/social drinker and a habitual drinker. The latter will - via addiction - attempt to justify our drinking.

And let me also say that you're right - we may be in the same boat but perhaps I'm at the bow and you're at the stern. For a long time I didn't even think about my drinking. I'd drink occasionally. Then semi-regularly. Then every day but I was 25 so who cares that's what we do. One day you wake up and you have a wife and family and you're still drinking like a college sophomore.

Again, all of this would be fine if I were just a functional alcoholic and that were the end of the repercussions. But this is physically destructive behavior. It's the kind of thing you don't really consider until you start to get a bit older.
I do this, especially enjoyable when you happen upon an avocado that's just ripe enough to be almost buttery.
Clicking Buy for web hosting leads me to a Chinese website:
https://ews.console.aliyun.com/buy.htm?spm=a3c0i.149865.7761...

This doesn't look like a serious contender with AWS.
Declaring that every method throws Exception doesn't break the world any more than every Go function returning an argument of type error. You're intentionally saying pretty much anything could go wrong and nobody can plan ways to recover.
Don't have near the breadth of services of an AWS.
And that number in Vancouver is the average market rate. Work on a tech role at a non-tech company and the range can be up to $30k CAD lower than that at varying experience levels.
Best story I heard from a guy who claimed to have worked at IBM in a bar was when he went to meet a client and they asked, in all seriousness, where the talking hologram from the commercial was.
The big win from ai won't be self driving cars, it will be scaleable curation. Google search was amazing, but it's kind of fast food information. Getting high quality information and the halo of related concepts, like you find in a cool library will be another information revolution. Current search raises the lower bound, future search raises the upper bound.
Lol. You don't understand. It's a fantastic way to seem like you're doing something innovative when you're not really doing anything at all.

The good ones use it as a smoke screen to cover for doing things that need to be done but that the C-level isn't necessarily going to like, the bad ones use it as a cover for incompetence.

The fact that you're more concerned about the truth is why you'll never be on the take like them. :-)
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I am not fixated on price, I mentioned it once. But if you press me on the kimono (which is a very broad category, but I'll assume we're talking about the dressier types), I'd say that the fact that normal people are willing to pay these prices means that it means something to them.
I find it keeps me from my best self. But I only notice the first day or two, and then it becomes the new normal.

My sleep is shallow, I stay up to late, I'm dehydrated, I become irritable when I'm not drinking. I do function. But not as well.

I became more aware of this when I started training, and now I can't ignore it.
Yup. Sabre Red 50 grams (with UV dye) works wonders. Every sane, normal person should carry capsaicin spray on their person to non-lethally halt the majority of (usually ambush) attacks by animals, human or otherwise.
could 100 solar/wave-powered drones do the job in 10 years?
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Sounds like a post-scarcity utopia to me, depending on how large the set of "all businesses" is and what we do with the surplus in production :)
Actually, it's worked out quite well for some hedge funds. Renaissance Technologies is a quant-driven HF, and it's one of the largest and most successful in the world.

The only quantitative VCs worth anything will be the ones who have been operation for many years and who apply the algorithms to the data they have collected during that time, on all the startups they interacted with and invested in. They hold enormous private data stores about those private companies.

I think the real problem is that the best and most famous VCs, like Marc, don't need the algorithms to get access to many of the best deals. They're already overwhelmed with companies good enough to merit a meeting. And maybe they feel as though their funds are doing good enough. But for funds willing to leverage their private data, there's an edge to be had.
How do they market it to a tech audience who presumably see through this sort of thing due to a technical understanding of the subject matter?
This is a great example of survivorship bias.
Currently on mobile, but the hardware blog Hardware Cannucks has a fantastic post covering how "true" ECC support / functionality is on Ryzen. They also investigate this on both Windows and Linux.
This is so good!
You're thinking majority not Byzantine fault tolerance. 2/3 have to agree.
Any content hosted outside China is very slow for chinese users. So if you're serious about serving content in Mainland China, you will first need to obtain an ICP license. Only then you will be able to use the Mainland CDN and cloud instances.
It's all fun and games until your body screams to stop, you can't go on drinking like that for ever, it does have it's consequences.
Aliyun is Alibabs cloud computing unit so i dont know what else youd expect?
>If literally all imaginable human work was 100% automated then the cost of goods and services compared to today would be tiny

Well, that assumption is pretty general and doesn't account for natural resources/raw materials, energy inputs required for production, or other factors. It would also vary per sector, such that the statement is far from universally true.

>The poorest member of that society would live like a king from our present day world

But, regardless, there would be some cost for goods. How do you propose the now 100% unemployed population pay for anything, let alone "live like kings"?

The answer is that you would need to devise a method of wealth distribution that is orthogonal to capitalism. Say, for instance, a tax that subsidizes everyone else. That, of course, would not be capitalism.

The point is that wage labor is fundamental to capitalism. Somewhere between our present state and 100% automation, a capitalist system requires so much intervention that it breaks down.
Do you think it would be more serious if you were Chinese?
No, they just said they can't give you a date.
When did ArsTechnica start abusing clickbait titles?
I don't know where you're buying it but BNE CBD cafes charge barely over $10 in most cases that I see.

Still, I find avocado disgusting so I have no desire to eat it. I also own a unit though so I'm not helping whatsoever with the stereotype.
What conversation?
Yes, I forgot to mention that. If you're a foreign company and bringing some damaging competition to a Chinese local owned company, you better get ready for some trouble
" If you're offering a wage for months on end, and you can't fill the role, you aren't paying enough. Full stop."

I do think that's a big part. At local meetup groups, companies come pitch their job openings, and almost always say "we're having a hard time finding folks - and we're paying market rates!" I will sometimes counter with "if you're offering a rate and no one is taking you up on it, by definition, that's not the market rate". It might be in someone else's market, but not yours. The "market rate" for ipads was $499 for a long time, but that didn't mean HP could get $499 for their tablets.
This might have a side-benefit of not amping up the officer with extreme shouting. A loud megaphone, tactical breathing and a calming voice can defuse more situations instead of self-fulfilling prophecies causing bad outcomes.

Meta: also, the US needs more of citizen-led policing a-la Michael A. Wood, Jr. where the police are part of, and communicate with, the community, instead of being merely a mandatory, occupying, paramilitary mafia resting on the monopoly on violence with impunity, lackadaisical/inconsistent training and blue wall of silence.
As has been explained to you by two different residents, you are not in fact a target in "South Chicago", which is, by the way, not the same thing as "The South Side Of Chicago", where you are also not a target.

People of a particular political persuasion who do not live in Chicago (and, probably, many people of that persuasion who do) like to believe that violence in Chicago is motivated by race or class. In fact, white dudes carrying laptop bags are not the natural adversaries of the people doing the shooting in Chicago.

I think you should stop talking about Chicago now; the examples you've provided, all of them poor, are not making your arguments more persuasive.
Out of interest, roughly what percentage of candidates agreed to take on the project?
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this is definitely a valid concern. decoupling automation from your cloud provider, moving it a layer up the stack, and leveraging only IaaS, can actually be quite helpful in these scenarios. this is an area where having a multicloud strategy, or minimally the ability to move between clouds at will, is essential.
The article is bizarre because the whole 'avocado toast' thing is, IMHO, entirely Australian and I'm not all that sure it makes sense when the meme is taken internationally.

Edit: to clarify, yes, it's spread to the US, it's had its rounds in the US media people know about it (this article is proof). But so many parts of the 'avocado toast vs home ownership' are unique to Australia.
Your images are illegible on my non retina macbook http://i.imgur.com/XzBrZX8.png
Sabre Red and similar pepper-sprays have a UV dye so it's possible to see on whom and where it was deployed under a blacklight.
Just want to point out that there's also the fact that if they want good unit economics, only a fraction of the $50 you pay the is going to paying for the hardware.
Maybe, but then again you can't buy IBM if you're forbidden from buying it in the first place.

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/queenslands-ibm-ban-lives-on-...
> They probably blend in with all the other greens.

...yes. It is a vegetable.
$30/year is a special offer. there is a link on top of the pricing page "SSD Cloud Server up to 84% Off. Start deploying." it leads to the page with offers: https://www.alibabacloud.com/campaign/ecs-ssd-cloud-server
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For starters, stop airing commercials on TV that show Watson whispering to the capacitors in a jet airliner, or the grapes in a vineyard.
yep!

My company will never trust any chinese company with anything especially our data.
If you check the various data centers and non-windows operating systems, you'll find as low as $5.10/month. But their special offer allows you to get one server for $30/year for the first year prepaid. Kind of a crappy way to advertise a PAAS.