skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, two things here.

First: Really, the requirement for vendor 'support' is something I've always had a bit of a hard time rationalizing.. Getting a vendor in for consultancy/implementation help is a bit of a different story though and is often worth it.

Back to support.. The old "Alright, we pay RedHat or Oracle for support for when something breaks" thing.. The reality is when something does go arse over bollocks you'll get two options from your vendor (at least from sun, oracle, redhat, ibm and sap in my experience): upgrade to the latest version, or downgrade until you get a code fix from the vendor. Your critical oracle 10 db running on some older redhat point release shits itself? Not their problem. Hope you have backups. They will take file a bug internally to prevent it happening again but they can't do much more than you can internally to get things back up.

I've been in ops for almost 15 years and I still don't have a single story of a vendor 'saving the day' outside of hardware support (actually, that's not true -- once Joyent solved a problem for us by patching some servers within about an hour of us reporting a problem which remains the single greatest support experience in my life).

We worked out how to do software upgrades and rollbacks a decade ago, if one shitty linux kernel package is enough to down your business then yeah, you're doing things wrong and hopefully will learn from the experience, but paying a support fee per instance isn't going to help you recover or avoid those things.

I think we agree, all I'm trying to say is at least in my experience: You're almost always better spending your money on good staff than support contracts.

Second: In what world do you live in that your sysadmins can write kernel patches during prod outages? Maybe your reality is very different to mine, but adding/changing code has never been the solution to bad outages (and I've been through some gnarly ones, trust me) for me so far...
What's been crazy to me has been discussions with dudes I know who work there telling me that Watson branding has encroached on Cognos offerings and even disrupted sales.
This is in fact an article about discoveries in palimpsets, where an older manuscript was erased and used to write a new manuscript over it. Lots of similar discoveries in papyri re-used to wrap mummies, as well. It's the ancient equivalent of re-using old newsprint as trivial garbage, but a valuable discovery today.
Banks datacenters holding money are off the grid, and they have material goods for backing part of it.

It doesn't mean they would not be affected by internet going down. They would be hit hard. But they would not disapear.
9.8 / 0.002 = 4900, so was that about 1/5000 Earth gravity?
Going functional with webhook dispatching (2016)
Well that's a shame.

Are there any alternatives, especially in a format other than PDF?

I understand that layout for programming books is difficult, but I don't want to put a PDF on my Kindle and have to choose between zooming way out or flipping up and down the page.
“We shouldn’t reflexively send $10 to the Red Cross”
And besides the natural lock-in that comes with investing in a DB, Riak may just be that much better than the other options at what it does.
I think it's important to stay up to date on technologies/fields outside of your area of expertise so that the eventual switch to another domain is less of a complete overhaul for you.
You're sitting in a chair in the sky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTcAWN5R5-I
There is a reason I work in public government, and it isn't the pay. :)
Education has no age limit.
If your fellow passengers found out who killed the movies in the middle of a long flight... in this particular case, yes, it might.
Show HN: I created an app ACrypto which shows arbitrage in cryptocurrency
Physical attacks on the power grid are also a big concern. In 2013, there was a sophisticated, multi-person attack on a large Bay Area electrical substation. The attackers cut fibre optic cables and shot transformers, causing $15 million of damage. It's unknown who did this or why.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack
GPS + external sensors for pressure, wheels, …
that's not quite the case. There is such a thing as objective value. Stocks have objective value because they pay dividends. Real estate in warm climates has objective value because it's pleasant to be in a warm place in winter. BMW costs more than a honda civic because it is objectively a better driving experience. Etc. Etc. So, no, it's not true that there is no objective value
Facebook's Ads Manager claims a potential reach of 41 million 18- to 24-year olds
and 60 million 25- to 34-year olds in the United States, whereas U.S. census data
shows that last year there were a total of 31 million people between the ages
of 18 and 24, and 45 million in the 25-34 age group, the analyst said.

I doubt that Facebook is purposefully lying about their numbers, but the fact that they estimate their reach to be greater than the census results means there must be a lot of bot accounts on Facebook.

Assuming that Facebook isn't lying, and they actually see as many accounts as they claim to reach this data would suggest that at least 25% of the accounts on Facebook are alt accounts or bot accounts. And that is assuming that everyone in the target demographic who was in the census is on Facebook. Facebook must be greater than 25% bots.
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It depends on what folks are binge watching. My only gripe with living in the 'Golden Age of Television' is that the shows are too good, contain too much depth, and warrant 100% attention to lest you miss its subtleties.
Few people are, else the planet's health wouldn't degrade so fast. The population is growing fast, most people in developed countries have a high fingerprint on environment (as 40% of the pollution is residential (source: https://www.airparif.asso.fr/pollution/air-et-climat in french sorry), it matters a lot)

So the best individuals can do, I think, to contribute positively to society, is reducing their fingerprint on environment, and educate others, children, ...
Info on the 86%

> The researchers say that using the test, they were able to identify Alzheimer's patients with up to 86% sensitivity and specificity. (Sensitivity refers true positives identified by the test, while specificity refers to true negatives.)
It's a 32MB PDF, as it's image heavy, and takes a while to download from their servers.
For now, my project isn't very sensitive to taking a couple-of-seconds warm-up hit. But I'm aware of the issue, and it seems that keeping your classpath lean works wonders. I'll be investigating further, but my tentative plan is to section the endpoints by their dependency-size. The majority of the enduser-latency-sensitive endpoints will need little more than a JDBC connector.
That is heavily dependent on what you think "society" means.

Is it the entire human population of the Earth? Just the people of your own nation? The people in your hometown? Just rich and influential people?

Most of the time, I'm contributing to my own nuclear family by exporting my labor and importing other people's money. And that's "society" enough for me.

Other people can derive some ancillary benefit from what I do, but for the most part, the majority of them have been quite rude to me for no readily apparent reason beyond my general homeliness, so I stopped trying to satisfy them a long time ago.

The only contributions I feel are valuable in the ultra-long term are development in more efficient space launch technologies, space habitats, space propulsion, and ecological remediation here on Earth. But I don't do any of those things, so I don't value my own work very highly. I'm just workin' for The Man, and he doesn't love anybody or help anyone except Himself.
Java EE 8 Hands On Lab.
I don't think casual movement or low pace walking is enough. I've been less active for a while and can feel a difference after I run.
What's different this time is rather than replacing physical effort we are replacing judgement. Automated checkout lines, self driving cars etc are attacking the kind of jobs you can train people to do.

It's true we are creating more jobs, but mostly by having people do things that are low priority and thus low paying. There might be unlimited demand for service jobs like raft guides, but they pay crap because they compete with things like video games.
probably none. that is a different discussion. there were many better solutions than http for the web, hotly debated, but http became the defacto standard. betamax vs vhs. lots of reasons why inferior technology sometimes wins mind/market share

i dont drink the blockchain kool aid myself as a silver bullet for every problem, read IBM's hyperledger marketing materials and they try to make a case for centralized permissioned blockchain. ymmv.

but if millions of your citizens are using blockchains, as an authoritative regime, you probably will want to control its use. you arent particularly interested in the best tech solution to a problem. just control.

and lest anyone think i am abusive of china, i fully expect the US to highly regulate the hell out of this eventually ... if not now under the Tweeter in Chief, when the Dems get control again.
229 dead from an overheated entertainment system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_111
I'm a completely uninvolved party, never even visited sci-hub.cc before.

The text which arguments the block (as read here: https://polit_satira.d3.ru/osnovatelnitsa-saita-sci-hub-alek...), makes an impression that the person who wrote it is mentally really not quite well. For instance, the text start "neutrally" describing situation around Alexandra, referring to her in third person and in the middle switches to first person, direct insults and invective. Signed by herself. The text is not healthy.
They've been putting Watson on everything. Even Silverpop now looks like a Watson product.
Having satellites broadcasting the blockchain is a good step to make the network resilient but it doesn't prevent governments messing with miners. A great disturbance would occur should china decide to unilaterally shutdown the miners on its territory for instance.

Furthermore unless I'm missing something these satellites broadcast the blockchain but don't relay new transactions. That means that if I'm stuck in some place without internet access I can use the satellite network to keep my copy of the blockchain up to date but I still can't make new transactions, effectively making it useless. I guess they could expand their services to allow for satellite transaction relay but that sounds very expensive.
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IBM is nowhere close, but is there anyone closer?
Nice idea for a toy! But learning an internal machinery of
that process isn't that fun if you are not inclined for that kind of activity.
Oh, I agree. There's definitely a need for this type of thing. The work of white hats is essential.
I've often thought the genius who thought it was a good idea to put a crappy low sensitivity touchscreen directly behind my head needs to be kicked squarely in the nuts, repeatedly.
I think APACHE-2.0 is probably the best for end users in terms of acceptability in enterprises etc. A lot of places have issues with the virality of GPL licensing.
Yes. I'm working to advance technology. Technology creates the economic surplus that makes everything good possible, it is the reason the old aren't starving and children aren't working the fields.

Also, I'm part of a country that has one of the highest standards of living in human history which was built on immense toil over thousands of years by my ancestors and millions of others, which only continues to exist based on mutual support between myself and many others.

I may question the value of what I'm working on at the moment, but I don't question the value of knowledge, technology, and the society that allows me to pursue it.
Hackerrank is a really good tool to separate the incapable from the capable, but not a very good one to separate the good from the best (or even the average from the good).

It's impressive the number of supposedly senior candidates that can't follow simple instructions from the platform or write a couple of lines of code in their language of choice to sort the words in a string or something similar.

I fully agree that multiple complex algorithm or puzzle questions are bad - require a longer time investiment that most candidates should be willing to devote to such process, are distanced to the reality of most programming tasks and favor those who enjoy and practice programming puzzles.
I totally agree. My point wasn't that the interviewing system was great. Just that the problem with it isn't what it's trying to test, but how.

I have issues with people who dismiss the problem space entirely. "I don't need to know CS fundamentals to do my job". To which I say: you do. You're just doing a subpar job because -everyone else- is and that's the standard even though it's suboptimal.

(Note I don't have a CS background myself, and thought this for a long time, until I ended up working in environments that were CS heavy and seeing how "hard problems" were trivialized, so we could spend time solving "real" problems instead)
I'm very very curious what your idea of an expensive house would be. I only ask because I (and probably most) view $500k as a downpayment as impressive.

The best way to describe my perception of this type of mindset is that reading your comments reminded me (in a non-negative way) of reading https://redd.it/67zv7a, a serendipitous thread (which I found via https://redd.it/682xc3) that veered off into an interesting discussion about the relative views of being rich.

Myself, I've never experienced this personally, which is why I perk up and take notice wherever I see it.
FYI, Crimea has been a part of Russia for over 200 years, except for the post Soviet Union period, which in and of itself was the result of a symbolic transfer of Crimea to the Ukranian SSR in 1954, marking the 300th year of the Ukraine under Russian rule. A move, which was supposed to have no strategic consequence, until the Soviet Union broke up and twenty years later NATO attempted to bring the Ukraine into their fold.

Of course Russia could not allow their warm water port to fall under NATO jurisdiction
I’ve found that to be true in my case too. Many theories have been proposed but my personal favourite is [1]: "I can't start work until I've exhausted every possible distraction.”

Someone should invent a straitjacket for the mind.

[1] http://ask.metafilter.com/272294/Why-am-I-most-productive-la...
I find this hard to believe. I always thought that IFE and avionics are on separate machines and run over different internal networks and wires. But I'm also not a Boeing engineer.

Can someone confirm the above post?
> So if I get assigned, say, a performance problem I might, after some research, come up with the idea to use a different data structure to solve it.

Yup. And my feel on that is that (assuming the perf issue is related to a core data structure), that -particular- perf issue shouldn't even have happened in the first place. It should have been obvious given the right background and you could have spent that time doing something less fundamental.
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"We" as outsiders only lose the potential of having that culture shared with us. If your co-worker wrecks his car, you haven't lost the ability to drive it. You never had it. He might have chosen to let you drive it, or he might have chosen to let you ride in it, but you haven't lost anything just because the car might have been useful to you.

Sympathy is the appropriate response. Being ready to help people defend their culture in a conflict is fine, being ready to help people preserve culture before a conflict is fine, being available to help people recover what they can after a conflict is fine, but undermining people to preserve your expectation of value (like by hiring mercenaries to secure archives in a conflict zone) is not. That is an important difference.
I've been here before. I fought like crazy to prevent SunOS 4.x from being tossed on the trash pile. If you think Solaris going away sucks, it sucked harder (for me) to see SunOS go away. It was a far more pleasant environment than Solaris ever was.

As an example of that, because it's fair to go "what??!", I installed some open source solaris in the last few years to play with it. The default install was miserable, the tools were crap. I was having lunch with Bryan Cantrill and some of his team and I mentioned my negative reaction. They laughed and said you have to install the GNU tools and put that in your path first.

Say what? SunOS 4.x came with good tools. In /usr/bin. The default install was useful. Solaris was "standard" in that it came with all the System V stuff in /usr/bin. And Shannon and crew "protected" those standard tools and refused to evolve them to make them useful. They started sucky and stayed sucky all in the name of being "standard". Except nobody else used those tools. There was no other System V based Unix that had any significant volume. *BSD certainly didn't move to System V, Linux wasn't System V, the only System V Unix with any volume was Solaris. So they were standard for no good reason and all these years later Solaris still has crappy stuff in /usr/bin, you want /opt/GNU/bin or something.

Sorry for the rant, and it's off topic. Well maybe it's off topic, maybe not. I sort of wonder if Sun had shipped the GNU stuff and installed it by default as the real tools, would it have made any difference? Probably not but boy, do the default tools make a bad first impression.
I've been wanting to know how electronics' power efficiency compares to biological neurons, and this paper gives a clue. The most efficient hardware it mentions is the GV100 "Tensor Core", at 400GFLOPS/W for FP16.

If a typical neuron requires 10^6 ATP per activation [1], and if it takes 30.5 kJ/mol to charge ATP [2], and if a typical neuron has 100 axons, each of which is contributing one FLOP, then I _think_ a human neuron is about 500 times as efficient as a GV100 [3], at 200,000 GFLOPS per watt.

[1] https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/185984-the-human-brains-...

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

[3]

Neuron:
10E6 ATP = 1 activation = 100 FLOP
30.5 kJ = 1 mole ATP = 6E23 ATP
1 kJ = 0.28 Wh
...
2E5 GFLOPS = 1 W

GV100 "Tensor Core":
4E2 GFLOPS = 1 W
What's the benefit of using this over the argparse module which is part of the standard library?
I've met and talked to Olin kids, and also been to Olin - this doesn't surprise me one bit. They seem to attract the "maker" type, and also seem to be committed to actually teaching kids how to do things rather than picking kids who already know everything. Everything feels super hands-on and project driven, and the goal is to ship things. They even have classes like products & markets (http://www.olin.edu/course-listing/ahse1515-products-and-mar...), integrated product design (http://www.olin.edu/course-listing/engr3250-integrated-produ...). The focus really seems to be industry and entrepreneurship rather than academia. My own school (WPI) also has a similar approach to classwork, and it works, but I don't think is as good as preparing students for business as Olin seems to be.
If the choice is between memory contention and all of the issues that come with btrfs, I think memory contention is the better option.

That said, if the only issue is that ZFS's memory profile is too heavy for personal systems, that seems like something that justifies some tweaks to ZFS, possibly a "home use" operational mode, rather than a completely new FS, am I right?

I'm using ZFS without incident, but my workstation has 64G, so not really a good example...
I have not read any Rails book ever and they could therefore not be the inspiration for this one :)

The true rationale behind the book was to give a better tool to train new coworkers that could help us operate the Erlang routing and logging stacks back when I was still at Heroku, and at the same time to provide similarly useful resources to other people maintaining similar software in the broader community.

Most of the operational aspects of Erlang were a bit of black magic, knowing where to dig through experience, having read the right kind of docs, and everyone would carry little gists of incantations and anonymous functions to run on production servers to help figure out what may be going oddly on there by correctly prodding at the VM.

I wrote the 'recon' library along with Erlang in Anger so that instead of just being black magic & oral tradition, people would have a better set of well-encoded practices to help approach the debugging and optimization of running systems.
How much of those steps are real, physical exercise? This is the biggest problem in American culture. No one actually exerts themselves physically. Take a look at the legs of a Dutch grandmother. Rippling with muscle because they bike every day, everywhere.
Being a parent myself and also in IT: what changes is that you start looking for things that are actually decent and contribute to the quality of life as a parent.

Effectively that does a few things to selecting possible jobs:

- based on age you start to evaluate e.g. the next unicorn offering you a job instead of just accepting and working long hours again. Questions to e.g. consider: does this provide a personal perspective? Can I tell my kid where a work? The last one is especially interesting as kids will quite blandly tell you if what you do at work sounds ridiculous.
- personally, being employed or freelancing does not matter for me. But having a kid gives you this feeling of being grown up, so the you start only doing work that is satisfying. I avoid work or contracts where I feel like "this is total BS".

If anything could be the most common thing about being a parent and working... I would stay you start being an adult questioning the sanity of your choices. You do not have to do that without kids because you are only responsible for your own life.
I think he might be counting his exercise time in that and working 7 days a week. 11 hour work day with a total of 2-4 hours of breaks interspersed sounds about OK.
How  to Focus at Work, from an Executive Who’s Struggled with ADHD
"Shibboleth"? Cultural appropriation!
Yes this is true but it is not a productive practice nor helpful. These responses are supposed to be comments; well formed opinions and policy suggestions which policy makers can read to gain perspective. Its not a system for voting.

It is OK to think that US citizens should have a more direct, democratic say in the power structures that control the internet. But FCC comments can never be a good vehicle for this.
To those currently upset at the FCC over the rollback of an Obama era rule, I would invite you to critically consider what parts of the communications acts are actually constitutional and whether photons superimposed across state lines should fall under the scope of the interstate commerce clause or the bill of rights.
For those like me who didn't know what the over night rate is:
"The overnight rate is the interest rate at which major financial institutions borrow and lend one-day (or `overnight`) funds among themselves; the Bank sets a target level for that rate."

http://www.bankofcanada.ca/core-functions/monetary-policy/ke...