skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually still done in many large cities with time-of-day electricity prices. The cooling is done using typical cooling equipment, but instead of directly cooling the air in the building during the day, ice is built up thoughout the night when electricity is cheap and the outdoor air is cool. During the day, the air in the building is cooled with melting ice and the normal refrigeration equipment is used as a daytime backup only.
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We are currently good at testing …. but we want to take good to great! Our developers test their own code, we have some automation suites, we do new feature testing and run well organized internal Beta programs with every release. So, to take us to the next level, we need a talented, technical and strategic quality engineer who can review all aspects of our testing, identify gaps, drive the selection of new test management tools, improve our processes, and own the overall Test Strategy. This position is a peer role with our development leads, and we expect the successful candidate to be able to work with code, just as we expect our developers to do testing. Key current areas are to drive performance testing and system-level automation. Over time, this lead position will be building a dedicated QE team.

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This is the main reason I'm often bothered by lack of nuance and sometimes outright 'religious' anti-religious sentiment I find in 'rational' circles.

Dismissing religion as some kind of overpowered source of evil, even in the unlikely case that this might be true, strikes me as a waste of some very valuable lessons in human behavior.
"We" is inclusive - 'most developers' is exclusive. Mystery solved.
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The closest thing you can do to deleting your account is actually manually deleting all your posts and albums first... the using their so called delete/deactivate option.
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I deactivated first for about 6 months, didn't get any communication from them. Eventually I went to delete and used a link from deletefacebook.com taking me straight to the right page. Maybe it was because I was on mobile but there wasn't any emotional blackmail begging me to stay and it was done. I was expecting much worse but the experience was quite smooth for me and I'm happily free of Facebook for good now.
I think what is being suggested is not that it is a special function that only occurs in the case of the corpus callosum being split, but that these other communication channels are always operating regardless and the corpus callosum is specialized channel for certain kinds of information. Speculating based on the article, one would suspect that it allows for fast integration of visual information, but that other integrations rely on other, probably slower, channels.
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If someone only has familiarity with AI from reading passing news stories, it is reasonable to think they would have such a perception of the field. I think your diagnosis of the downvoters might be correct, but "not even wrong" seems a bit extreme. AFAIK somebody out there is probably trying to do a research paper on simulated neurotransmitters as we speak. More interesting would be if anyone had links to existing research in that area. It may not be high-efficiency or high-performance technology, but as a learning tool for exploring theoretical models I think it could be very beneficial.

The topic reminds me of a book I read (and was fascinated by at the time), The Muse in the Machine by David Gelernter. It seems he has moved away from AI research and into political punditry, however, and recently made headlines denying that the moon landing ever happened. Nevertheless, that book contained a lot of exposition around the idea of creating AI with simulated emotion. This is simultaneously in line with the idea of simulating neurotransmitter function, but also has parallels with more general mathematical techniques that are in widespread use. Thus, the book (and perhaps the idea itself) are a bit dated, but I don't think it makes them less relevant.
He was and still officially is one on paper but evidently he now supports the ACA and war with Russia. If he ran on those ideas its possible that many constituents would of voted differently. If you simply outlined his policies he doesn't differ all that much from Clinton.
This is bananas.

We've known for about 2 years now that Rowhammer is nominally possible. This research is interesting, because it blows away all of our assumptions about mitigations to Rowhammer: it even defeats all of them _at the same time_.

For example: it turns out it's not necessary to hammer multiple DRAM rows to trigger the bug, you can just go after a single location. This makes the attack more stealthy but also faster. They've developed new techniques for deterministically modifying userspace binaries without exhausting memory. Preventing exhaustion-based page placement was thought to prevent Rowhammer attacks, but it turns that's not necessary either. The new technique is crazy clever, exploiting specific performance tweaks in the Linux page cache to place a page right where they want it (in physical RAM). They also made the techniques for memory pattern mapping (spraying and grooming) much, much more subtle, making it harder to track the attack from stats. And, in a final coup de grace, they shoved all of this into Intel SGX, which does a mostly-good job of hiding this from the rest of the system (including the kernel), by design. In particular, you can't look at performance counters anymore to know that something is banging the heck out of something, because SGX bypasses those.

The "obvious" attack is to go after sudo to get root. They do that. Another cool one is that SGX, when it detects tampering, will _halt the entire damn box_ until you power cycle it. So turns out you can cause some pretty serious havoc :)
There used to be a service like this for facebook and twitter, then those two services blocked them from doing so.

Which was sad, but it ultimately worked well for everyone who ended up using it before the ban. It would untag you from photos, delete your comments, wall posts, photos, information, change your name, and issue a deletion after changing your password (and emailing that to you).
>people from Brazil are hungry and the country must grow to make the lives of all the human beings there good.

Poor Brazilians, today, eat better than middle class Americans. Basic conditions have been improving considerably since the center-left took power. The neo-liberal right has swung back into power recently and we've been seeing things worsen in lockstep with their re-ascension.

Don't listen to this guy. Building these dams does nothing to improve general welfare. It doesn't make energy cheaper. Energy prices continue to rise dramatically. Furthermore BNDES is funding these projects at 6% NEGATIVE interest. 20bi at 6% is a lot of money. How are these projects supposed to help anyone other than BNP, Alcoa, Camargo Corrêa, and Odebrecht??

>If those who complain about it would go to Brazil and try to live a middle-class life there with a job in shitty conditions going through a crisis every decade, always feeling things aren't stable enough to make a living.

I am a US citizen, who has been living in Brazil continuously for 10 years. I've made 200 a month and 10000 a month. Right now I live just fine with a wife and kid on R$2000-3000 per month, in Sao Paulo.

Brazil is not impoverished like it was in the nineties. The main problem today financial irresponsibility. Decades of inflation and an endemic infatuation with American Consumer Culture has bred a system of financial priorities that run contrary to what is considered correct in many other countries.

>Perhaps living in a big city, taking 2-3 hours to go to work, then 2-3 hours to go back, I've bet that they wouldn't care too much about Amazon

I have spent 6-7 hours in daily commute. It did not affect my concern for corruption, unjust appropriation of traditional lands, or deforestation. I continued caring. This is a question of education and contact with nature, not money.

Brazilian has an unfortunate hertiage of institutionalized domination. It was one of the most effective mass-misinformation apparatii in the world.

I am appalled by the behavior of the traditional ruling elite and their shameless pandering to Europe and the US. They have been selling off water, oil, land, and mineral rights to multinational interests for pennies on the dollar for centuries. To this day it continues as the default business practice.
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Java is a static language. While there are dynamic languages on the JVM like Jython, JRuby, Groovy, they don't get anywhere near the performance of the static languages.
I've seen Hamburg, Hannover, Berlin. You have to pay attention REALLY well to spot the handful of homeless there.
What if you fill your Facebook profile with bogus info?
Like writing random bytes on a drive to wipe it.
What an absolutely petty and useless rule/standard.
Yet another bullshit article from aeon.
In the absence of a working fusion reactor, everything is necessarily speculative. That said, going from chemical to nuclear propulsion is estimated to reduce round-trip times from ~600 days (you have to wait at Mars for the orbits to realign), to 30 days.

This is roughly the difference between an 1881 steamliner from London to Syndey, and a 747.
I did not expect them to ramp up the amount of notification spam 100-fold as I engage with the service less.

I've no intention of logging back in to check my notification settings, but when I was using Facebook, I would get a push notification maybe once or twice every couple of days. Now, I get more than a dozen SMS messages a day.

I've built notification systems in the past, and in every instance, respecting the fact that abusing the notification power entrusted to us by our customers was seen as a cardinal sin. Maybe it's the absence of that respect that has catapulted Facebook to where it is, or the presence of it that's held me back in my own endeavors, I don't know, but man, as the recipient of all this spam, it really, really feels unsavory, and further evaporates whatever trust I might have had in the platform.
Yeah no it doesn't. Just one more thing to ignore. Unless I personally saw someone turn gay from drinking water, but even if I thought I saw that, I wouldn't totally believe that either.

And I did mention trusted parties, which could be a reporter. You guys are just not in the mood for philosophising tonight I guess. You want to be certain of things. Disappointing response. Should've avoided the term "fake news." It's Pavlovian.
Front-end means different things in different contexts. What do you mean exactly? Static JS code? Some web heads?
I think the key is that it must be clear that the work had impact on the progress of science. If the Higgs would not have been found, it would have been a costly dead end.
With LIGO, the theoretical foundations have been defined decades ago too.
It's a product/marketing thing. "Apache clientless remote desktop gateway" sounds nowhere near as interesting as "Apache Guacamole".
Not all disagreements are opportunities to change your own mind
Unfortunately most of the IT industry is filled with so many bored people they hardly feel anything about the most outrageous over the top names or the software itself.
runkit is owned by stripe so they likely don't have to be profitable.
Technical interview process updated for the 21 century
1. skype or phone initial tech interview

2. reimburse $20-$40 for pluralsight.com(or another one) for a month.(why seem cheap)

3. highlight deficiencies from interview and courses they could study

4. re-offer interview(different but similar questions)2 weeks later.
GDPR = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...

> a regulation by which the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission intend to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European Union (EU). It also addresses the export of personal data outside the EU. The GDPR aims primarily to give control back to citizens and residents over their personal data and to simplify the regulatory environment for international business by unifying the regulation within the EU.

Emphasis mine.

Full text at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:320... .

> The protection afforded by this Regulation should apply to natural persons, whatever their nationality or place of residence, in relation to the processing of their personal data. This Regulation does not cover the processing of personal data which concerns legal persons and in particular undertakings established as legal persons, including the name and the form of the legal person and the contact details of the legal person.

The specific clause concerning customers appears to be:

> In order to determine whether such a controller or processor is offering goods or services to data subjects who are in the Union, it should be ascertained whether it is apparent that the controller or processor envisages offering services to data subjects in one or more Member States in the Union. Whereas the mere accessibility of the controller's, processor's or an intermediary's website in the Union, of an email address or of other contact details, or the use of a language generally used in the third country where the controller is established, is insufficient to ascertain such intention, factors such as the use of a language or a currency generally used in one or more Member States with the possibility of ordering goods and services in that other language, or the mentioning of customers or users who are in the Union, may make it apparent that the controller envisages offering goods or services to data subjects in the Union.

Regarding non-resident visitors, I can't tell. The directive says "whatever their ... place of residence" so almost certainly yes. It also contains text like "data subjects residing on its territory" so you might have problems lodging a complaint if you aren't a resident.
There's a reason why naming is called out as one of only two truly difficult problems in programming. (The others being cache invalidation and off-by-one errors.)
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No immediate deletion makes sense in that it would encourage hacking. But if they say 2 weeks it should be that.

However, as someone else mentioned, the reality is you don't have a FB account, FB has an account on you.
How do news organisations get "facts"? Recycling https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15356836 :

Journalism is not about digging until you find some kind of underlying "fact", there simply isn't time and what you're asking for could potentially be an extraordinary amount of work; journalism is about reporting what the reporter sees and what people tell them. Obviously it's incumbent on them to evaluate their sources, but not usually to write next to the sources' words the journalist's own opinion of the situation.

So for example in the Vegas situation, there will be a large number of official statements put out by various official bodies; or the reporter might call the hospital or a contact there; or they might go there and interview some people standing around.

But remember that this stuff does not cross the bar into what science or history would consider a fact. It's a snapshot of who's available and summary of what they said. There are always more people or organizations you could call for a quote, more people you could interview. And of course not all of them can or should be reported directly - there may be whistleblowers or vulnerable people to protect with a layer of indirection.
These aren't Google devices though, are they? Presumably all of those were returned to Google when they quit.
In Australia police do go into homes and check.

They have random spot checks to make sure guns and ammunition are stored correctly (locked up separately).

They check the guns owned and make sure types and serial numbers match up.

And if you no longer have a valid reason to keep them (you quit regularly shooting at a club/range), they will ask you to hand them in and you're no longer allowed to keep them.
Well, yeah. But that's just another name for clickbait, which people generally agree is a bad thing.
Also a "good" solution to me means the connection is established via some cloud mechanism, and doesn't require me to open a bunch of ports on my firewall.

And VNC on Mac has always had miserable usability for me - updates paint slowly from the top to the bottom of the screen, can't see my text in real time when I type.
>> I later travelled to other countries where software engineers were treated like factory workers

It's not far above that in a lot of UK places, particularly the SME space.

Maybe I should have tried contracting in Aus when I lived there!
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I am writing a blockchain implementation using go, rust and quantum: livir-go[1]. I started when the news broke out and half finished already.
It's so humorous. I never managed to activate my Facebook account (lucky me). Some "database error", or so it says. So I have never actually even logged in. But they do have an email address I used when I tried to create an account and it gets multiple emails per week with friend recommendations. They all get routed to my spam folder.
A reason which you appear to have forgotten to include in your post.
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That's true, that's my greatest gripe with them. It's a major part of why I'm looking to other platforms for my workstation.

That said, you can't escape that with their nearest competitor, so it's a bit of a moot point for now.
Hmm that is odd. I get the phone notification because I had thst problem if I didn’t remove the app and if I haven’t been on facebook for more than a day.

I think the “user is idle let’s poke the user” is a supposedly a “nice” user engagement to get users back on the system. I hear your concern.

I think at this point:

* opt out notifications before deactivate your account (go to account settings)

* deactivate and opt-out notification at the time of deactivation

* set facebook email as spam or something (although you’d miss any potential real security notifications.)

Or you can also remove your phone number and change the account’s email address. I own a dozen gmail accounts, one for mailing list, one for billing, one for personal, one for school, one for important tech accounts like digital ocean/aws, one for banks, one for general garabge I don’t care and so on. I also run a YouTube channel with a friend so I also own a separate gmail account to be added as a manager of the channel.

Much neater than labels (amazon emails can fuck me up easily, ugh).

I highly recommend this multi-email account approach. I can ignore 50 emails sitting in other accounts most of the time. All of them have second auth and some accounts have different passwords for additional security. Not hard to manage because the address format is always <A>.<purpose>@gmail.com. Consistency!!
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I second that. While the people in the limelight will probably get a ton of requests right now and might not find time to answer, the "lower" ranks will.

I'm a scientist myself, and it's always nice to get feedback/questions from interested people outside of the community, especially if they are not peddling their pet "theory" and are honestly willing to learn, read papers etc.
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90's kid. First computer was a slicked-up gateway machine. The only think cooler than the computer was the spotted-cow-style box it came in.

I still wish I had the box.
I remember a talk by Alan Kay where he mentioned a number of problems commonly solved serially, such as 2D layout and typesetting, and then he demonstrated a parallel algorithm for each problem. If I remember and understand correctly (I may not), one of his points was that such algorithms can become trivially implementable in a dynamic language and would run fast too, if the hardware supported some of the primitives of that dynamic language natively. He expressed hope that FPGAs may create such an opportunity.
I run a PC at home with x2go. I use it to surf the web among other things. Images are fine, video will stutter, sound generally works fine.

I used it for years with only a 1mb uplink, although I now have 10mb.
problem is when things are not as easy as black & white or good & bad. In reality things can be fuzzy.
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