skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like a good business opportunity to develop and offer a privacy shield service for customers who care.
I kind of disagree with this one. The number is high, but a bunch of countries haven't signed it
(As of 2016, eight Annex 2 states have not ratified the treaty: China, Egypt, Iran, Israel and the United States have signed but not ratified the Treaty; India, North Korea and Pakistan have not signed it.) [[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Nuclear-Test-Ban...
I'm so sick of seeing articles like this. And it seems like a cop out or excuse people can tell themselves if they don't get what they want.

I think the old adage that luck is when preparedness meets opportunity is much closer to being the truth. Look at the example they give with Bryan Cranston. That's an opportunity that happened to open up for him through a series of events outside of his control. But he wouldn't have been offered that part if he wasn't of a certain caliber in the first place. Successful people generally work hard and usually that pays off in the long term for them by being able to seize opportunities when they arise. No one is going to run after you to say "hey I have this great thing that you need to be involved in" if you are mediocre.

I can smell the privilege and white guilt ideology that underpins articles like this. I've seen it before in much lengthier pieces. This one is no different.
You want to see some weirdly long ping times... try pinging Israel to Turky. Compare that to say, Israel to Netherlands.
Probably the asteroid Apophis, due to hit the Earth in 2029, will cause enough cooling to prevent most clathrate from melting. If that works we have a nearby supply of small asteroids that we can fire at the Earth to deepen the winter effect. It works best if you hit a shallow coastal shelf area with lots of limestone rock. Maybe we will sacrifice the Caribbean?
The original point I was trying to make was that this tech was already deployed in consumer facing technology that is just waiting to be turned on.
I met John on the Summit at Sea last year and the way he described his tenure it does seem he had some successes. It might make you realize that a lot of unfair media coverage is out there about him.

For example, he didn't fire Steve Jobs, despite the popular myth.
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Please get rid of AMP. You've ruined the internet.
Food on site is intended to keep your employees on site. There's no other point.

Every other employer provides meal stipends, which employees can use as reimbursement for meals (perk). They also get wider choice and variety. But then they're not in the office.

If you can't afford to build a kitchen, you provide a stipend and a website to order delivery from a rotating array of local restaurants.

Keep food on site, they stay on site, where they can continue to peer-bond, talk about work, and get back to work.
> This preloading is part of the reason that the experience is so fast.

And a waste of bandwidth if the user never clicks.
Without a shred of citation that any non-trivial number of the 2700 are not unneeded though.
I've seen a story about it being the only readily and quickly accessible thing approaching small scale investment for people.
How do you know this?

It's equally possible the majority of people just don't care. That doesn't mean they like AMP or would op-in to it given the choice.
Thanks for the Discovery Science explanation.

Annoying plug though:
>Subtext: another feature of Google Cloud that doesn't exist at AWS or Azure. Nothing to turn on, no extra charge.

I get it GCP has TPUs and BBR, but are we really implying that it is more feature complete? I don't agree.
> A single Boeing building in Everett, north of Seattle, is 4.3 million square feet. About half of Amazon's total.

You're talking about the Boeing Everett Factory[1], 399480 m2, 4.3 million square feet...

Of course it's big, it's a production line for Boeings 747-787, it's the largest building in the world by volume, you can see[2] that it can roughly fit 4 planes per line, with 6 lines, that's 24 planes

But... what does this have to do with office spaces in Seattle?

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

[2] https://roadtrippers.com/stories/boeing-factory
Recent CompSci grad, I went down the interview path with both TW and my current employer, ended up cutting the TW process short as I decided to accept the latters offer. This is very interesting.
Now that Google has confirmed that they asked Apple to make this change I fully admit that I was wrong. I wish I could edit my post.
I'm trailing Brave out at the moment and like it but plugins are important to me.

Firefox is an interesting choice but the Chrome plugin ecosystem seems much more complete for me than Firefox has today.

It'll be interesting to see what happens in the space. I was a Mozilla user, then Firefox and now Chrome user. I have no issue going to better platforms.
I've had a different experience.

It's been successfully bringing me the correct stackoverflow results I would expect when I need to search.
Losses may or may not get worse. AFAIK, they have gotten better every quarter since China was sold off. Assuming steady state or steady state of change are both reasonable ways of forecasting. A strong trend line spanning several quarters better supports the latter in this case.

For what's its worth, I recently saw losses as a percent of gross bookings posted elsewhere: Lyft at 13% vs Uber at 8.5%. Are you assuming that Lyft will increase subsidies after this new round of funding? If so, that will only worsen its losses as a percent of gross bookings. Furthermore, that isn't Lyft's biggest round. They raised $1B in January 2016.

Uber just needs to remain more efficient than its competition in all markets, which is easier to do with global operations and multiple business lines that are easy to scale out.
Just a quick interjection: I wrote a library that migrates between any 2 relational databases. In my case, I migrated off of Oracle and onto MySQL, but the tool supports any RDBMS supported by SQLAlchemy.

https://github.com/seanharr11/etlalchemy

The best way to know is to try! It takes 4 lines of python to get you migrated.

PostgreSQL is a bit more feature rich in my findings, but for the majority of web development there really aren't huge differences. In my experience, MySQL performs a bit better for lots of simple READ queries, while PostgreSQL can handle larger, more complex queries and very frequent WRITEs.
The contracts Amazon offered (at least as of two years ago) were heavy on the starting bonus and grant of stock that you gave up if you quit before two years.

It was apparent from the job offer terms that they didn't expect people to stick around for much longer than that. Most of the future compensation was the promise of more stock grants. No guarantees, and your long term financial future was betting on investors continue to write Bezos a blank check.

To me, Amazon looked like working for a big company with many of the drawbacks of working for a startup. I didn't come away with the impression that you could make a career there.

That's working well for them I guess, but they're well known for their ridiculous employee turnover rate.
I personally turned down all the government grant money I was offered for school. I didn't feel it was right to take peoples tax money. I did take other grants and loans supported by companies, individuals, or the university.

I did it because of principle. I didn't / don't think it was moral correct for the government to take tax money and hand it to someone blindly. It should be a choice of individuals to contribute, not the right of the masses.

Not exactly luck, but most people look at me like I'm insane. I'm sure there are people out there willing to eliminate luck for a similar reason.
The commenter you were replying to did not say anything about "Apple standing up to AMP."
Public transit doesn't go everywhere whenever you want like Uber. Also, compared to car ownership in a big city I end up saving money for my occasional Uber's vs having the car.
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This is a very interesting proposal. Hopefully this will become part of the "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks because we were out of time yesterday" strategy.
I had assumed this deal had already gone through. Amazon Fresh has gotten orders of magnitude better in terms of selection and pricing this last month. Perhaps they started working together before the deal finished?
I'm trying to give some consult to a company who is looking to store JSON data in MySQL, and they have a Rails app.

Given a Rails web app (i.e. ActiveRecord models), what is the best choice if the JSON column type is essential?

Initial research shows that PostgreSQL stores JSONB more efficiently, and provides faster query performance with indexes, while MySQL exposes and JSON query interface w/o much optimization. Thoughts?
And, for that matter, if you counted all adjacent cities that would reasonably make up a metro area.
So 'yes'. Thanks for the clarification.
Is that already what a Tumbler does?
High-end non-electric bikes are in a similar price range...
Looks good now, don't know what happened.

I was viewing it through the corporate proxy at work. But I don't typically have issues like these.
> But the NYT is not exactly a small player and could easily up their game in the page speed department. Besides that you could slowly ramp up the weighing to give parties the time to adjust

When I'm looking for news, I want the highest-quality source first. AMP gives everyone the option of going fast now while kinks are worked out back home.

(I should mention that my default search engine is Duck Duck Go. I usually !news (Google News), though, because I like Google's news results better.)

> it's a very seductive proposition, and one that given Google's power in the marketplace they just might get away with

They might. But a lot of things might happen. AMP makes good journalism more accessible. If Google abuses that privilege down the road, it's not like they're legally unassailable.

> It's possible to both worry about journalisms decline and monopoly power abuse on the web, especially when it concerns the distribution of news

Lecturing newspapers about why they should have had speedier websites went nowhere. Seeing that the same content produced more views through AMP got the message across.

I don't think the analogy to India's space program is accurate. Technological development lifts standards of living. There's a solid argument for doing both because each helps the other. Killing AMP and forcing to choose users between crappy websites and efficient walled gardens is counterproductive.
Wow, this is awesome for viewing X-Ray or MRI images. It is especially useful for separating the subject from the background stars in astronomy, if you can take two pictures six months apart to get a stereoscopic separation of 2 AU.

MRI: http://fuckyeahnervoussystem.tumblr.com/post/3723835723/brai...

Eagle Nebula (?): https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b4/4d/10/b44d10e3d9cef1d90340f443d...

I would love to see an IC with the layers separated this way, or a 16-layer PCB.
As a suggestion, I use Glacier (with Arq) as a tertiary backup. If I have to go to that it means a lot of other things failed and I'll be willing to pay the price.
His pulled hamstring is from over extending this analogy.
I wonder about that point though, although professors also pursue the universities with more prestige, did they really spend the time to acquire the title of professor for prestige?

I think a decentralized system prioritizes the professor over the administration. In fact if universities aren't meant to be areas of teaching then why have them? My approach is more cutting out that middleman which is the university.

Moreover, prestige of unis are gradually fading away, although rare, I can sort of see a future where university credentials dont matter.

Excuse my bad grammar, I write very fast and in between my work so I dont really proofread.
The hand/home-made engineering is mightily impressive, but it's worth noting that the design is not original [1].

[1] http://qlocktwo.com/info_w.php?lang=en
The Coursera/edX model is a university that is 100% administration -- they themselves employ no academics on a continuing basis at all.
Page has been updated to say "per GB" (in bold, lol)
C compilers have presumably gotten faster since then as well, of course
Great that they are mentioning ThorCon's project in Indonesia. Too bad that they had to leave the US after trying really hard to find a way to build it here.
More minor, but AMP results get the little lightning bolt icon too.

I believe there is research showing that little adornments like that convey trust and increase the CTR vs other listings that don't have them.
I tried this recently because ideologically I agree. But the small issues build up and make me less productive.

For example, if you use a U2F key, you need an extension for that to work - and that extension doesn't work with FF 57. I honestly don't remember the last time something broke with Chrome.

Or smaller things, like the fact that I can't use the keyboard to manage bookmarks (in FF on macOS, backspace doesn't delete bookmarks).

But the worst is in FF, Ctrl+Shift+N isn't new incognito window, it's restore the previous window. Years of muscle memory don't go away overnight.
Immigrant here. I dramatically reduced my social media usage after the election. Seems like it was the right call.
Great article, the lecture comparing the two from John Hopkins, part of the Data Science Specialization on Coursera also offers a great explanation.
Quoting from the article: "This accomplishment would not have been possible for our three-person team of engineers to achieve without the tools and abstractions provided by Google and App Engine."

Talking about the use case from the article, they release the puzzle at 10 and need to have infra ready to serve up all the requests. On AWS, you need to pre warm load balancers, increase the quota of your Dynamo DB, scale up instances so that they can withstand the wall of traffic, ... and then scale down after the traffic. All this takes time, people and money. Adding few other things author mentioned: Monitoring/Alerting, Local Development, Combined Access and App Logging ... will take focus from developing great apps to building out the infrastructure for apps.
>1) Say, 100 rides at $2 each = $200 2) Double the price (surging), 40% ride drop: 60 rides at $4 each = $240

>Uber still made 20% gain in revenue due to price doubling, right? That's a good thing for Uber, isn't it?

the next big good thing would be market segmentation : those 40% at $2 while the rich 60% at $4 - the total would be $320 :)
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And coal plants kill far more people than nuclear ones. It's just not as obvious that they're the cause to those who are sick.

Who is to say that eating an equivalent amount of this fake meat product wouldn't cause a far greater number of deaths and reduction in quality adjusted years? It will be much harder to tell, because the problems aren't as obvious/acute, and there are always a huge number of confounding variables when it comes to nutrition.

Unless the problems it causes are acute, the FDA isn't going to have a very good way of comparing the safety of these with normal meat.
They should be frustrated with the vendor if an upgrade is being held up by the trivial Upstart to systemd conversion for a dozen lines of code. Supporting both init systems combined is an order of magnitude less work than SysV init, and it allows you to rip out a good bit of darmonization code which tends to have details less portable across Unix variants.

It's far more likely that the real cause is one of the many major dependency updates (6 to 7 is like a half decade jump) and the systemd mention is either an excuse or axe-grinding.
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i really like AMP, and i wish google would give people an option to disable it just so we could have a discussion about AMP on HN that wasn't completely taken over by people whining about how AMP is an evil plot to destroy the web because it scrolls funny on iPhones.
That's exactly what I wanted to know. Thanks!

Full D is compatible with foreign exceptions and unwinding. I'll see about making D as Better C also compatible, but I suppose Rust's precedent makes it acceptable to not handle it.
I think it’s ok. Personally, I like it.
Yep, there's a ton of deadweight and high salaries in the sales team and management team. Expect that talk of continuing with the same management team to not be true.
I think we're making a serious PR mistake calling these "Thorium Reactors" even though the term is accurate.

"Reactor" evokes "Nuclear Reactor". For many people, "nuclear reactor" is a deeply loaded term. Likewise "Thorium" (and other words that end in "-ium") sounds dangerously like "plutonium" and "uranium".

It doesn't matter how much better/safer this technology is. Don't expect the public to respond positively when we use those words. There's too much knee jerk, "no nukes!" baggage.

We should start calling these "salt power stations" or something else accurate, yet non-threatening. Otherwise, IMHO, it will be a steep uphill battle getting public and legislative support for building these things, regardless of their many benefits.
People here are users too. Unique culture, sure - but this audience counts.
It’s a paid service that hundreds of thousands of people use. Not world changing stuff, but considering competitors are still using Java applets and Flash, I for one applaud their efforts.
True, what I'm proposing is not a full manual administration. I see software really as the thing that relieves people of a lot of manual supervision or administration by physical people. I also wrote an article before on the idea of Blended Learning and that I think its far more effective than physical or online learning, Coursera was just a similar comparison that I could use like "Uber for dog-walkers".
Today is the first time I've heard of AMP, so I don't have a dog in this hunt. I visited each of your links and followed some links on those pages, and I still have no idea what AMP is. All I see is a promise that pages will load faster. It also seems that if my boss drinks the koolaid and says "We need AMP!" it's going to cost me money in developer time, because the technology is inscrutable to my unskilled content providers. What benefits does it provide that disciplined web design doesn't? Is Google going to penalize my sites if we don't use it? We don't include advertising in our pages, so should we care about AMP?
How would this be implemented without special cases? Why should a platform care about AMP's policy?
Funny you mention that, I was just experiencing this yesterday in the flex environment. Re-deploy time for a 3 character text change on one page is 8+ minutes for each re-deploy. This is insane.

Does anyone know how to speed that up?
I also definitely don’t love AMP.
A cursory glance at Wikipedia disagrees. It was probably a comment made in jest but if most of the readership doesn't get the joke, it's probably not working as intended.
Actually, it is unique in that cost is no barrier to receiving an education at Stanford.
This has been known for many years. Women engineers at Google were particularly disappointed when for a lot af them the ads demographic inference algorithms would predict that they're men, based on their interest in engineering.
In an administrative heavy organization every problem seems to be answered with "how can we add more administrative layers, processes, and backroom deals to satisfy x group (management, media, special interest groups, voters, etc) that something appears to be being done?" rather than asking "looking at all available options what is the best way to resolve this problem (inside and out of government)?". Basically a "When all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail" type of thing.

This is the difference between group A (admins) and group B (engineers, teachers, etc) in Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy [1]. The former is often presented as a clever talented group of smart people who savvily work the system in TV shows like House of Cards but I question the utility it really offers the world when the ROI is so often questionable.

I'm curious how much of this modern dysfunction in modern governments (not just in the US) is due to the fact politicians are now almost entirely career politicians who spend their formative years in this insular world. The majority coming from the same private schools and 90% of them with law degrees. Rather than in the past, such as the founding fathers, who were businessmen, writers, and intellectuals first embedded in the real world who then went into public service.

The same analogy applies to Universities with administrators being raised within the system rather than the teaching staff intimately familiar with the front-line realities of the organization.

[1] https://www.jerrypournelle.com/ironlaw.htm
Right. A Thorium-232 atom that absorbs a neutron becomes Protactinium-233 which decays to Uranium-233, a fissile nuclide like U-235 and Plutonium-239. This is how the controlled chain reactor works but like any fissile material it also has potential weapons uses. Thus, Thorium reactors require safeguards and monitoring just like any other peaceful nuclear reactor.
> CPU scheduling is integrated with messaging.

So QNX messaging is implemented in kernel space?

I never really understood why kdbus was rejected from Linux, it seems to only have advantages compared to a user space message bus. The only disadvantage I can come up with is security.
Aren't the FreeType patches less relevant now since the new v40 interpreter[1] was released?

[1]: https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/subpixel-hinting.htm...
> This is identical to the ranking boost given to Google Shopping (for which Google was just fined 3 billion EUR), so you can expect the same result.

Isn't it different because (presumably) the AMP links aren't owned by Google?

The fine was specifically for anti-competitive behavior, i.e. consistently surfacing their own links over those of shopping competitors, which at least with AMP links isn't necessarily the behavior, though there is likely some overlap there.
No problem!

This isn't my super strong area of expertise, but don't you have to specify how the unwinding works? I believe this is part of the reason why Rust punted; you'd have to specify exactly what kind is supported. (Rust uses libunwind for panics, incidentally.)
Prime means you get fast deliveries.

ducks.. found that one hard to resist

Edit: downvotes, really. what lovely, entertaining people you all must be.
How many minutes/seconds do you mean by fast? Can you point to guidance on how to make that happen because I am seeing 8+ minute re-deploy times.
> extremely simple use cases

When's the last time you saw someone put black tape over a stop sign? These adversarial examples are not simple use cases. They're situations that humans rarely if ever encounter.

> apply common sense ... "think"

Ever seen the "invisible rope prank"? Humans are easily fooled as well.

> if-then conditionals

That's not the way statistical machine learning works. It's layers upon layers of probabilistic functions.

> who knows if ... representative of human driving conditions

I've read reports that a few of the autonomous vehicle companies are indeed testing/training on regular roads, which would allow a representative sample of human driving conditions. Frankly, that's just basic science -- don't experiment with a biased sample.
> There are unintended consequences to increasing speed's weight in search rankings. Principally, it disadvantages smaller players.

It's that the case with SEO already? The rules are pretty opaque. If e.g. page weight or connections made was used as a metric, it could be the other way around. Small players don't usually have hugely bloated sites, and don't load hundreds of javascript tracking shit - that's what the big players do.
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