skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He should call out his mistake, yes. But apologize? Expecting that from him seems beyond the pale. Language isn't like contracts where any mistake by the author gets to be interpreted however the reader chooses. Instead, we're supposed to look for the intended meaning, either using context or by asking for clarification. If you use the definition you cited, his sentence becomes self-contradictory and, thus, requires clarification, not an immediate rush to judgment. Instead, everyone has assumed the worst about what he said, gotten him fired and vilified him. I'd have a hard time apologizing to people who overreact like that.

Had the reaction been one of kindness, understanding and a desire for cohesiveness where people tried to point out misconceptions and alert him to how his language was being received ("when you say 'lowered the bar' it makes me think 'less qualified', so perhaps you didn't meant that?"), this whole blow-up could have been avoided. Instead people reacted with righteous indignation and jumped to labeling him a misogynist and a bigot. At that point, all hope of a productive outcome, for him and Google at least, was lost.

For my part, I'm less interested in whether Damore really is bigot and a misogynist or any virtue of his opinions. I'm only defending what he could have possibly meant because I see so many people jumping to their own incomplete conclusions. This whole incident, to me, was more about how unproductive our reactions are to anything relating to a sensitive subject. People are so quick to trigger off anything resembling an assault on one of their sacred cows that they never take the time to figure out the intended meaning. I'm so sick of walking on eggshells knowing that I have to watch every single sentence and word choice because they'll be taken out of context and used against me. We're losing nuance in our discussions and it's creating a polarization of thought on each side that I find dangerous and divisive...there's no room for middle-ground thinkers to participate without being attacked by one or both sides. This makes those people either gravitate towards one of the extremes or disengage entirely.
You can always check out the latest[1] version in your browser. Build is from Aug 15th at the time of my writing.

[1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/
That's a shame. Good news is that any graph of bitcoin's historical price over the last 6 years will serve just as well :)
I think Coinlist and SEC approved token sales are the way to go, at least in the near term. Long term, there is the worry that excessive regulation would cripple innovation in these areas. Many companies in the space are already located in Singapore or in the Crypto Valley (Switzerland).
I think this is what you're looking for: http://asciiflow.com/
The ToS box is a debasement of standards of public discourse. Not only do most individuals knowingly lie, everybody knows that they lie, and they know that everybody knows that they lie, et cetera. It makes me question the legitimacy of marriage vows and statements like 'How are you?'
I think he means on a global scale (multi datacenter/region/cloud)
This really needs to be done. The journalist's article has nothing to do with the paper (I do not think the journalist read the paper)
I agree, by the time Monero becomes the default part of these discussions it will be a much more hardened network
Next.js 3 Lands with Static Exports, Dynamic Imports, Etc.
There are many, many things that are most likely provable that have not been proven yet. Fermat's Last Theorem went 358 years before it was finally proven. Theoretical computer science is a very young field by comparison.
We basically did the same thing except we used Ansible for our templating. This allows us to store all our shared "environment configuration data", e.g., name of RDS for services in prod environment, name of backup S3 bucket for services in dev environment, in an Ansible role then just pull that information into our templated deployment manifest file. So far, it's worked out pretty well for us.
I think it's because the downvoters feel like it doesn't add anything to the discussion, because you don't really address the concerns in the article.
Whenever I watch the Apple WWDC keynote, and I hear the handful of enthusiastic screams from the audience when Tim Cook announces some new feature, I always wonder if those are genuine or not. They just don't seem real. Like 99% of people watching, I've never attended in person, so it's hard to tell.
Is your intention to churn the bottom 90% of your organization through inflation and greener pastures elsewhere?

It does seem generally the case that if you're not a total screw-up, you expect and can get periodic increases in compensation and responsibility. To deny this to someone is to declare them a total screw-up, because you're signaling to them that they ought to leave for another company or field where they won't have already peaked.

Staying in the same role and salary you had when you first entered the workforce doesn't seem like something we can realistically expect from 90% of software engineers.

So I'm not sure it's terribly broken just because most people are getting promote-able ratings.
I can. That world is called "$40/mo", or about the price of a typical cable subscription.
In essence that's a concept worth spreading. For example see how the Google memo debacle, or how Trumps president run news were formed to fit the particular outlets readership for maximum rage-views and/or confirmation sympathy.

As for combating this - there are no golden bullets. Even Google's search starts to lean towards sources that a given user visits more oft... or actually my search patterns fit to a given scheme that's abused by media outlets in their SEO.

I've had an idea for aggregating time-ordered news headlines for analysis to get a broad comparison of author and company leanings. This could be then shaped to a browser extension informing the user about that. The problem is that then it would be accused of labeling stuff with broad strokes.

(This mainly comes from me not remembering which news site likes which politicians and social issues.)
The correct answer to "many people find this confusing" is never "I don't, so it's fine."
Your health is more important than your code
>At what point is Netflix no longer considered a technology company?

heh. This reminds me of "teams" where everyone is "qa" or everyone is a "developer". What's your mission if you're on the QA team? To QA all the things? That's not a mission.

What is a "technology" company's mission? It'meaningless. Technology is just a means to an end. Consumers don't buy technology - they buy products.

Netflix sells content. Using some cool tech, sure.
User-mode Linux was capable of self-hosting. There's always that.
light seeking light doth light of light beguile
Let's Talk About Perfectionism
Any operator of such announcements know that seeding a crowd is highly effective. You don't need all of the screams to be planted -- 5-10% should be enough.
Why did the confederates write a receipt to the US government?
"During an earlier conversation, Ng told me that his personal goal is to help bring about an AI-powered society."

So is this Elon Musk's arch-nemesis?
I don't think this is true. We always have that moment at parties, "Where's Kyle? Oh shit, he deleted his facebook and didn't see the invite, did anybody text him to tell him?!" No, we didn't, because 99% of our friends use the very useful party organizing app with integrated chat and picture sharing, Facebook.
It's really great that you present the example of supermarkets. You mention that the group that holds the most power over the supermarkets are the suppliers, not the consumers - a counterpoint to the Facebook situation.

An extreme difference in the situation is that what is being sold by the supermarket is a physical commodity, and in the Facebook case, what is being sold is highly personalized data, the understanding of which could be used to affect the Facebook user far into the future.

Buying lettuce from a store does not bind you as tightly to the store.

What is the same in both cases, is that the larger, more organized entity with more money is being catered to, and the needs of the mass of consumers is being given less weight.

That seems like a natural outcome of how the incentives are set up - the corporations have more at stake, and have more veto power per organization. Therefore, they are going to bargain harder, at a higher level.

One way that you cannot compare the two ("If it does not fundamentally provide some value ..."), is that I can go to any supermarket to get curry ingredients. I may only be able to go to see what a particular person has to say, for example my mom, or the hot person I just met.

A great example. Thank you.
What would your suggestions be to make this readable?
Please, please, point us to this in the GOP party official platform documentation.

This is the sort of hyperbole bandied about casually by liberals that so infuriates the right-leaning and empowers Nazi assholes to attract "mostly normal" folks who would otherwise never consider such a thing.
I actually enjoy writing ridiculous things inside my app's terms of service. Stories, making fun of the possible users of said apps, quips about when the Undertaker threw Mankind off of cage

Its fun.

Also, Penny Stock newsletters also have similarly funny things in their disclaimers, check them out, its a by product of the regulators strong-arming and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. It was my inspiration.
Vice Just Released Chilling Footage from Behind Charlottesville’s Battle Lines
You never know, Overstock.com is now keeping 50% of their crypto payments in crypto.[1]

[1]: https://www.coindesk.com/ostk-hodl-overstock-keep-50-bitcoin...
It's for the best. Now if they just learn to stay away from right-wing causes too, maybe they'll actually make the world a better place.
Don't have anything relevant to say except to make a fun note that we can change your second sentence, keeping it correct, while increasing its ambiguity. If we restate it as:

Are they talking about basically getting the most out of the current ML type systems?

Since Deep learning is a subset of machine learning, the sentence retains correctness but there are now two equally valid interpretations.

Okay, I do have something relevant to say. I don't see what advantage there is in raw sensory data streams, models can be trained off-line to operate on sensor streams just fine. What we actually want are systems that learn adaptively and on-line. To do that well, they'd need to also be data efficient.
Works great with Cisco Anyconnect too. My setup even automatically pulled an RSA token from my stoken config.
It is a book.

You can build LFS on any system that meets the requirements[1].

> Does it support SATA and UEFI boot disks yet?

The Linux kernel supports SATA disks since forever. UEFI is also supported by most bootloaders. The distro you build by following LFS will define support for things like UEFI.

I think you're confusing LFS with maybe a livecd image they used to put out?

[1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter02/ho...
Maybe, maybe not - it depends on how enforceable the courts consider the TOS, and I'm pretty sure they can't override actual laws or legislation.

Anyways, I mostly don't think about it. Time is a scarce resource, and it's fastest (as well as perfectly reasonable) just to pretend they don't exist. Issues are unlikely to arise, and I consider anything that isn't data under my control to be at the mercy of these providers anyways. If they have a problem with how I use their service or something, they can let me know and stop serving me.
I love proton and am a paid user, but I'm not sure if it has all the features a business needs. I'm personally waiting for a calendar before dumping google altogether (except for spam / email lists). Still, it seems better than anything else out there as far as privacy, though I would never count on email privacy to begin with for obvious reasons (unless I encrypt it myself / have others send encrypted email).
Why is intensity at all relevant? Are ad-hominem attacks fair-play? The original poster called this 'idiocy' - is that an engineering term? This isn't about trying not to "make someone sad" - the OP has gone much further than "making someone sad".
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They also tend to value transparency more, IMO.
> Damore took every precaution to avoid offense without changing his position

Perhaps every precaution within his ability. Unfortunately he made plenty of provocative mistakes. I highlighted some in the Medium post I linked to.

> First of all, I'd like not to use "threat-response" as a synonym for "taking offense"...

If you think that's what I'm doing then you're mistaken. I'm talking about stress hormones, cortisol, fight or flight.

There are probably better [primary] sources, but Tania Singer & her team at the MPI in Leipzig do a lot of work with stress responses caused by things other than "damage to person or property".

When you use the language that Damore used, in a confrontational way as opposed to a collaborative way, that reaction can be the result. Threat responses are caused by threats, including threats to identity groups, or to future prosperity (something that significantly affects the life chances of any offspring).

Whether you consider it "unreasonable" or not is irrelevant. My advice is to approach the debate in a collaborative way, instead of being confrontational like Damore, and you'll more likely avoid that outcome.
>With the old order, it was all or nothing.

Not really, HBO was always an add-on. In the new order, Internet access = basic cable, streaming services = premium channels.
Bog-standard. As mentioned in sibling thread, you could find really old SSDs without this feature, but they're getting rare.
If there's anything we've seen, over and over again, it's that theoretical and infeasible attacks eventually become, in order:

1) possible

2) feasible; and

3) reliable to the point of weaponization

It may take 5 years. It may take 20 years. It will invariably require a huge amount of other research, only some of which will appear relevant. Then all of a sudden the intermediate pieces are all understood and the first practical attack becomes possible.

Even if this attack only works against an ideal target, it still shows a new way of thinking about particular attacks.

> Any read pattern that hammers a particular location will trigger garbage collection or data rewrite to a fresh location.

I can't help thinking that you may have inadvertantly outlined how an eventual practical attack will be performed. This wouldn't be the first time a mitigation method is abused to prepare an attack either - what if you had statistical methods at your disposal to predict how the SSD's wear-leveling redirects your writes? Could you arrange for the cells to be rotated in and out in a reliably determinable pattern?

I'm not discounting your doubts, btw. I'm just pointing out that dismissing the attack due to its current sophistication (or lack thereof) feels shortsighted.
UML inside UML doesn't work for me:

$ linux
Locating the bottom of the address space ... do_syscall_stub : ret = -1, offset = 1052680, data = 18ca9008
do_syscall_stub: syscall 192 failed, return value = 0xffffffff, expected return value = 0x1000
syscall parameters: 0x1000 0x1000 0x7 0x11 0x3 0x2449
Failed to flush page for address 0x1000
Killed
On mobile, memory _may_ not be _that_ cheap if you look at what you pay for it in power requirements.

Exact data is hard to find, but, for example, http://www.buildcomputers.net/power-consumption-of-pc-compon... claims 2 to 3 watt per stick. That seems very little compared to CPU, video card or backlight, but your RAM more or less uses that _continuously_. Power usage doesn't go down if you don't use your laptop/tablet/phone, or don't use part of the memory (this may be an area where innovation is possible). So, power drain while your laptop/tablet/phone isn't is used may be dominated by RAM power requirements.

As I said: hard data is difficult to find, so I don't know how big this effect is. I think power usage is an important reason why Apple keeps the amount of RAM in their tablets and phones fairly low, though.
Yes, your last point seems quite accurate -- smokers often complain that they would like to stop smoking, but don't want to miss out on the social connections it entails.
You can be as harsh as you need without being a dick. Just address the content and what's wrong with it, not how stupid you think the author is. On the very rare occasion that it's useful to talk about someone's intelligence, you should say more than "you're an idiot".
For lazyloading stuff like images and ads. Or that technique where you have an infinite list, and the elements that are scrolled off-screen are recycled on the other end.
Said everyone trying to reinvent the wheel ever :) . I would replace that with "rarely". Sometimes it's obviously optimal to roll your own thing but in almost every case it wasn't.

My bar is pretty high. Unless you can write an academic paper on the thing you just invented you should try what's out there first.
>I'd like to point out that this thread has depressingly similar patterns compared to talking with drug addicts about their habit.

I feel like if I applied the logic you're using here for that, I could say the same thing about buying food in a store.

"It is legal to hunt. There's nothing stopping you from going into the woods, killing a deer, and salting its meat other than your own dependency on the conveniences of the modern era."

I mean, at some point, we have to accept that the world is becoming a lot easier to live in.

I'm curious what era you grew up in - were you around when literally the only way to get a hold of someone was hope they're home for a phone call? It sucked. I genuinely believe people that disagree are wearing rose-tinted nostalgia glasses. Back then, my only friends could be the ones that went to my highschool, or lived in my neighborhood. In a city like Houston, that's quite the restriction - my sister can have friends from all over the city, as far as Pasadena or even Sugarland! Impossible when I was a kid.
I give up. An atheist is not an atheist by logic. But rather by arrogance and ignorance. And the nature of your tone seems to prove it. My only advice is to tone down your hate and aversion to all things theological and reduce your pride in the explanation of science. Because when it gets old and stale and the excitement wears off, you will see things in a more "connected sense." Like theology is just another version of science kind of thing.
7B?? Where is it coming from?? If average monthly fee is $19 then you need 333,000,000 paying customers. Or 33,000,000 annul.
LFS current stable comes from February 2017. The current version rc1 was released today. It's hardly dead, archaic styling aside. (Anyone else remember when books on specific software suites were relevant...?)

The links they give are to upstream. Some are already HTTPS, some redirect from HTTP. I found one case where upstream provides both HTTP and HTTPS and they link to HTTP. They should fix that.

They also provide md5sums of the tarballs, which get checked automatically in their automated build. They should switch to sha256, but there at least exists an integrity check.

I agree it's much more an educational project than a production one. But that would be true regardless; any system you're putting together by hand like this shouldn't be one that's going into production anywhere.
The Day the Mona Lisa Was Stolen
As someone else mentioned, we are also getting better at treating disabilities in children through better healthcare and parental nutrition. Cerebral Palsy, for example, can be congenital where something happens to the child in the womb or acquired through brain injury as a child, both of these can be prevented (or likelihood reduced significantly) with better medical care, there is also genetic predisposition which cannot be prevented (currently) by modern medicine. So it doesnt mean all children with cerebral palsy (and this is a very apparent/visual disability) are being aborted, it may mean we are better at preventing it occurring in the first place.

Spina bifada is prevented by ensuring that the mother has enough folic acid. I have an uncle with Spina Bifada (he is in his late 60's now) but it is so easily preventable in first world nations (folic acid is readily available as a supplement) that it is likely due to better healthcare and not abortion.

There are so many other changes in healthcare attitudes such as knowing that drinking alcohol/smoking while pregnant is not healthy and can impact on the unborn child that we take for granted, but 50 years ago they prescribed guinness to expectant mothers because of its supposed high iron content.

TO assume it is all down to aborting unhealthy children is to deny the advances that we have made with modern healthcare.
Using the downward API, your application can get the number of CPU cores or the millicore value via environment variables or volumes. This would let you configure your number of workers based on what resource limits you set on your container.
BSF Camel Corps ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikaner_Camel_Corps ) are probably the last forces still using camels for active duty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqr0_PjPEIk
Mona Lisa: The theft that created a legend (2013)
I found an archive of it: http://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/kz0566

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The Facebook API is pretty easy to use. I'd recommend writing some scripts and then PushBullet'ing them to you as necessary. The goal is to prevent yourself as much as you can from opening facebook.com.
A good open source email server is https://mailinabox.email/ :)
> Could we agree that everyone who writes anything about crypto puts at the end of his/her post a disclaimer telling us if he/she is invested in tokens discussed in that post and if yes what is the share in their portfolio.

No? That seems like a silly question. If I'm the kind of person to hype something so that I benefit at your expense, then I'm unlikely to be the kind of person to tell you about the trap I set.

> Or to be clear, any discussion about crypto might be motivated by financial incentives which makes a meaningful technical discussion quite hard.

In general, anything dealing with other humans introduces ambiguity of motive. A good technical argument should deal with concrete facts, which can be verified and evaluated on their own terms, independent of the motive of the person that provided them. Take it as a given that you can't completely trust anyone else's motives.
The front rows at Apple's keynotes are usually reserved for Apple employees and often this includes the teams that built the products that are being announced. So the excitement is genuine, but from Apple employees, not random attendees.
It is like falling asleep in a Docker container. You don't know what is outside of the container and you don't know where you are because kubernetes doesn't tell you. Everything is abstracted.

This is pretty neat overview though:
http://www.inception-explained.com/
The address space in x86-64 is specifically designed to prevent the use of unused address bits for tag bits.

"The AMD specification requires that the most significant 16 bits of any virtual address, bits 48 through 63, must be copies of bit 47 (in a manner akin to sign extension). If this requirement is not met, the processor will raise an exception."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Virtual_address_space_d...
Yep, it helps to remember that only 0.000000014% of the population is the literal best at anything.
When did software go off the rails?