skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you, it was FoundationDB I was thinking of, post-mortem analysis from the VoltDB guys here[1]. I'll contend they failed though because Apple bought them as an acqui-hire and killed the product. They were acquiring good engineers with a track record of executing well at a premium. It's a common recruiting strategy for tech companies. It doesn't mean that FoundationDB was a successful product - certainly it means it was not successful enough for the founders to risk turning down a lucrative acqui-hire deal.

> his is a rigid and narrow view. There's lots of other design possibilities such as fractured mirrors, column decommission only within pages, etc.

Yes definitely I over-simplified to make my point, but I'll stand by it. OLAP and OLTP are different enough workloads and the engineering tradeoffs for being good at one of the other make it hard to excel at both. VoltDB is a row store, best suited for OLTP. Vertica is a column store best suited for OLAP. VoltDB can also make a decent OLAP database. Vertica does not make a good OLTP database. Both databases come out of Michael Stonebraker's work (although given the number of people required to make complex products like VoltDB and Vertica happen, it seems unfair to credit him unduly.)

But especially in the case of a sharded, distributed database where communication overhead is likely to dominate many types of queries (VoltDB, TiDB), one might not notice the inefficiency of using a poorly-suited design, like a row store for OLAP. This can make the differences less striking. This might also hide the inefficiency of basing everything on a generic KV store in TiDB.

[1]https://www.voltdb.com/blog/2015/04/01/foundationdbs-lesson-...
Monarchs used to be a "oh cool, look, it's the 50-100 monarchs in that field which we'll see a couple times a week for the whole season" thing here. Now it's "holy crap, it's our one single monarch butterfly of the year!" thing.
Instruction reordering, branch prediction, speculative execution, and optimizing compilers would all be examples of details that are abstracted over by the model of sequential instructions.

"Lie" might be too strong of a word, but "simplification" would be accurate. And sometimes that abstraction is leaky.
As someone who has gone through the exact steps she showed, it’s most likely because FB believes she has more than one account or they believe her account isn’t real in some way.
I'm a native English speaker and I read "ever pregnant" like you would read "evergreen".

Evergreen trees are always green, so ever pregnant woman are...
The Go community learned to understand that the margin of victory is meaningless along time ago. The most famous game of Honinbo Dosaku, a famous Go player from the late 1600s, is arguably a game where he gave a handicap to his opponent and lost by one point. Lee Chang-Ho, who was the reigning champion in the late 90s, had a style that consistently tried to win by small margins.

AlphaGo now appears to be better than humans in all aspects of gameplay, and it better at calculating very thin margins of probability that a human cannot. This is not unique to any individual aspect of its gameplay; against humans it can also win by huge margins depending on what mistakes the human makes.
It is probably worth noting the financial relationship George Mason University has with the Koch brothers.

https://www.desmogblog.com/koch-and-george-mason-university
Is it a bureaucratic problem, perhaps? I don't want to recapitulate the many (and far better informed/experienced) discussions of this on HN in the past, but the economics of peer review seem really broken. There's a natural temptation for reviewers to rubber stamp things both favorably and unfavorably depending on circumstances, but it doesn't seem efficient to have experienced scientists spending valuable think time reviewing things like basic methodology - naturally they're most interested in the new claim, and secondarily interested int heir own academic reputation depending on how they're cited and so on.

One possible way out of this (which may have been tried and rejected already for all I know) could be to take up the approach of legal journals, which are usually edited by students rather than professors. There are downsides to this as well - a fetishization of formatting and a busywork demand for citations on even the most prosaic claims, not to mention a tendency to proliferation, but there's an endless supply of eager reviewers who are highly motivated to do good work to burnish their academic and subsequent practice credentials. Being an editor of the Harvard Law Review can get you into all sorts of high-powered jobs, for example - though so, depressingly, can putting your name on a ghost-writer's monument to your commercial vanity, so that shouldn't be the only reason to do it :-/

I agree with the necessity for automation, and maybe some sort of tokenization so that people can save time by being able to rely on trusted certifications. Remember when Creative Commons seemed like an idea whose time had come and a lot of art work was appearing with standardized icons that quickly summarized the scope of the legal rights being asserted over the work's copyright? After a great start that model seems to have run out of steam, perhaps because copyright as a political has been sidelined by more fundamental concerns - at any rate, I had anticipated seeing the CC 'branding' much more widely by now than I do. But similar shorthand cor certifications of statistical rigor or procedural validity might help to make scientific publications more reliable, as well as accessible to lay readers.
This is how you empower the envious to bring everyone down to their level of mediocrity. The vitriol directed at the successful is already damaging us, why should we further encourage it?
FYI - if you do get a Honda Element don't wash the interior out with a hose: http://www.elementownersclub.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-...

(I am an Element owner - I have not hosed out my Element however)
Solid cacao and black coffee both have some good and reasonably well-established therapeutic properties in small amounts. But "American-style" (huge servings with tons of sugar and fats added) they are just junk food.
I f*cking love Moxie.

Nobody but you will understand the significance of that comment, unless they Google.
What do you mean "nothing negative" has come of it? I agree that the scenarios of robbers targeting folks based on an income database are far-fetched, but I interpret "negative" to include more subtle, systemic impacts, such as furthering the bias against haves/have-nots, or at least making it easier to shame/doxx people.

It's also important to note that public employee salaries are within a specific domain with specific features. Among the most important: public agencies already have to publish pay schedules, so it's always been possible to guesstimate what someone makes given their job title. And there's the moral argument that citizens have a right to know how their tax dollars are spent.
It's hard to buy better stuff when you can't find work that pays enough for it. The problem is bigger than the purchasing decisions individuals make.
You seem to think that the society is all that enabled them to become rich. But if that's true, why does Bill Gates have more money than me? I'm in the same society.

Billionaires didn't really exist until there were billions of people. You can't amass that kind of wealth if there aren't people to generate it. Wealth is a means of capturing value and part of the value it captures is the value created by human intelligence and labor.

The fact that some people are both talented at capturing value created by society as a whole and well positioned to do so is a large factor in why some people have vast wealth and some do not. It doesn't mean someone like Bill Gates is "better"/smarter/whatever overall than other people. There is a combination of factors that lead to the concentration of wealth in the hands of one person like that.

This is why people argue so much about it. That wealth is created by the very existence of all of society, but inordinately benefits a small percentage of people.

I don't know how we do this better. I am not for Basic Income, nor am I for trying to manipulate things with a goal of creating "level" outcomes. I think both of those approaches are inherently problematic.

For one thing, society as a whole benefits when we actively reward certain behaviors. Being too punitive and too angry about some folks being rich hurts society as a whole. Bill Gates helped create real value for society by making the PC available to the masses, thereby revolutionizing life and business for pretty much everyone.

We need to not be discouraging things like that (things like people creating real value for society by being business people, etc). But I do think we need to do a better job of not shafting the masses.
"Most rural", interesting. I haven't found the rank but I see VT is #1 "most rural" which I assume is % living in areas considered 'rural'. Surprising to me, as I certainly don't consider it to be a sparsely populated state-- and in fact, it's the 38th most densely populated state, between Colorado and Oregon. Fascinating.
and pay double? no way
The numbers come from quantum error correction and the goal to build a logical qubit (error protected qubit made of many actual qubits). In the surface code (planar version of a toric code), a single logical qubit protected with a code distance d = 3 corresponds to 17 physical qubits, and a distance d = 5 corresponds to 49 physical qubits.

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

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41534-016-0004-0
That’s interesting! I googled it too, but found out it could be Abraham Lincoln or Peter Drucker...
Yes, and excellence is not rewarded in such societies.

Edit: Look at how pay works in countries where such information is public (i.e. Scandinavia). My understanding is that within a given line of work, everyone makes just about the same amount, adjusted for seniority, regardless of performance.
That seems like a very strong and unverified claim.
Huh. I'd take a bet that it's less than a dozen. I think it would be difficult to transfer it-- you'd have to have an OB-GYN who was also do research who didn't follow proper cleaning protocols between researching and doctoring.

Unlike Devils, we don't bite eachother's cervices as a way to say "hello".
Enjoy your downtime then.
"anything on a unrooted mobile feels like 2002 desktop with all the flashing, scrolling, pop overs. It's a nightmare."

fixed it for you.
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I'd imagine it's to give the product/voice a more human-like feel to it. "Echo" sounds like I'm talking to a robot, or a dog (or a robot dog). "Alexa" could be a human.
The book was published yesterday, and I just got it this morning.

I just got finished with the first 150 pages, and this book is amazingly great at conveying how obsessed with knowledge he had while dissecting all of his works. Highly recommend everyone to read it.
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I know (based on a NY times article I can't quite find atm), that a lot of the labor at the factories is "contractor" style labor that's not paid as well as the full time positions. These full time positions are obviously harder to get, but do allow the company to say "minimum pay is $11.50) while in reality, they're probably paying less to a significant portion of their workforce.
I'm sure there are other kinds of stores wal-mart could push out though.
Okay, how about hackers targeting your bank/retirement account after they learn how much you make over the internet?
The claim was not merely that client-side protection "exists." It was that ads are not a privacy issue any longer, implying a ubiquitous native solution, which is false.

It's great that some OSes are trying to solve it system-wide but host blocking isn't viable as ubiquitous protection against this attack. It would just break all ads all the time, which ultimately would make the platform untenable for ad-based apps. What you want is something like the machine-learning Intelligent Tracking Prevention that Safari just rolled out, but applied to native apps. That is non-trivial.
Faculty at a Pacific Northwest university, and prior to that at a university in the South. This article was eerily familiar.

My personal favorite, about the medical school struggling to stay funded: "Well, why do we need a medical school?"...because we have a teaching hospital, and you can't really have a teaching and research hospital without a medical school. "Well, why do we need a hospital?"

And this was about one of the best medical schools in the country.
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> zero insects splatters on the windshield or bonnet after an intercity travel.

Still happens for me in Romania. In fact, I've just noticed it today after an 8-hour trip in my car through half of the country. Could be caused by the fact that we're not that "advanced" when it comes to use of insecticides.
I don't think that's really true in the Haskell community. I've seen lots of self-criticism of Haskell on /r/haskell. Even SPJ himself is willing to admit that Haskell has design mistakes.

Some things Haskellers readily admit as issues with Haskell:

- the String type

- records

- laziness (more contentious, but many people agree that this might not have been the right choice)

- error messages

- the prelude

Essentially, my experience has been that Haskellers are willing to accept that Haskell is not perfect.
> But when I see this I view it as punishment to those who figured out how to "succeed in life" with regard to acquiring wealth.

And this is one of several reasons why we have income inequality: people such as yourself who are stuck in a bad place don't want help getting out of it.

The problem is that you seem to look at rich people as having gotten there as a function of only their own success and hard work, when in reality they got there for a variety of external reasons they had no control over: maybe they were born into wealth, or maybe they were born into a race with structural advantages, or... (the list goes on).

The fact that you are in poverty is likely due to a large number of factors that you've had no control over, or never could expect to have control over, even factors that may have been put into place generations before you were born. I'm not saying you bear zero responsibility for your situation or should bear zero responsibility for getting out of it, but it's also patently false that you bear 100% of the fault, and my belief is that you also should not be forced to bear 100% of the responsibility for getting out of it.

I'll freely admit that some of my motivations are selfish: I hate the higher crime that poverty brings, which makes me feel less safe. I hate stepping over human feces left by homeless people when I walk around my city. I hate being asked for money on the sidewalk. I want more people who are unburdened by crippling financial worries who can help improve our society. But overall the bottom line is that I hold no illusion that I'm in a secure financial state based solely on my own work and actions. I've had a lot of help along the way, and it's insane to think that it's fair for me to avoid helping others improve their situation.
Specs are not meant to be read by average developer. Average developer should read books. Specs are meant to clarify moot points between different implementations. Spec is like legal document, they are hard to read, but they serve their purpose.
For these workloads, I would consider a compiled language with great parallelism/concurrency. e.g Rust or GoLang.
Why not also blame Samsung for their Exynos or Huawei for their Kirin? Do you know what all 3 of these 3 SoC's have in common? They all use the same reference design developed by ARM. None of these SoC makers are going to spend the additional billions in SoC R&D deviating from the ARM design. If you really want to see a change then it must begin with ARM.

>Qualcomm doesn't really seem capable of keeping up with what Apple is doing. Snapdragon 835 came out 6 months after the A10, and scored about 2/3 as well at single core, and less than 10% on Geekbench 4. A11 scored twice what the 835 did on single core, and over 50% more on multi core, and the 835 is going to be the best chip available in the U.S. for Android until sometime next year.

Qualcomm and Apple are on different release cycles. The SD 845 will be in the same ballpark in multicore score and about 25% slower in single core than the A11.
My point is insane geniuses become famous and have a good chance of passing down their genes, and their insanity and genius maybe separate genes, so some descendants may receive only the insane ones. Apologies for not expressing myself in proper academic nonmenclature.
And who doesn't have at least one person like that in their life? Although it definitely wouldn't be limited to just jealous or spiteful family. Public salary information for all people would cause routine problems between friends and family across countless situations and issues over a lifetime. It's a recipe for social disaster.
Did they publish any papers on AlphaGo Master ?

AFAIK the 2016 Nature paper is Alpha Go Lee. And now we skipped to AlphaGo Zero.
Here's a self-play game: AGZ v AGZ - http://eidogo.com/#u2UdsDFJ
Most people that have used both w3s and Mozilla Dev Network prefer MDN, and formerly were disappointed that w3s's better SEO formerly meant wading through their links when googling.
I also had a recruiter (in-house, working for the company) become difficult when I refused to provide current salary. She tried several times to suss it out of me and when it didn't work, discontinued the engagement, at which point the interviews stopped. I think I may have dodged a bullet.
I'm imagine that Step 0. of Materials & Methods in new papers going forward will be: "We verified that our cell line was made of intestinal cancer cells with PCR and genomic expression tests..."
I'm like you, in that I started in management (center manager at Kaplan Test Prep) and then became an engineer. After 7 years programming my opportunity to become a manager again came at a small startup when the CTO left. I was already lead engineer so I made a case to the founders that it would ease the transition if I were promoted instead of bringing in someone from the outside.

The transition for the company was smooth but for me it sucked. More meetings, less coding, more BS. I spent so much time writing status reports and making spreadsheets. Management was so dysfunctional that they spent more time focusing on micromanaging teams than growing the business.

Overall it was worth it to get the bigger salary and title on my resume, but I never want to deal with that again.
I sometimes wonder what people were thinking or doing, in the days before a calamity.
In Pompeii, in Lisbon, in Hiroshima, ... Unaware of what was about to happen to them. Just living their daily lives. I also sometimes wonder if future people will have reason to think of us in a similar way, when I hear of news like this, or the clathrate gun hypothesis.
You need to run multiple applications side-by-side and they need to be able to talk to each other. With containers that means figuring out the network layer and service discovery.

It also means accounting for each system failing in your own app, retries with exponential backoff, timeouts, logging errors, circuit breakers, plus all the exotic ways a network layer can fail - if your RPC protocol has arbitrary limits (message size, timeouts, etc)

You will probably want to use kubernetes with istio, not raw docker. All very do-able, but definitely not simple.

I agree that services make sense, but there's a level between single-threaded and micro-services where having concurrency within your application is useful.
People can't buy better stuff because they don't have jobs or jobs that pay well enough. Those jobs leaving are what helps them buy the cheaper stuff. Quite the roundabout, isn't it?
I feel like this is kind of silly. Anyone could make a reasonable estimate of your salary based on your job, which is easily discoverable. At least enough to make a decision "should I rob this house." What are we even talking about here?
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That's more a cause of the culture than the result of it, though. If all salaries were made public tomorrow, yeah, there's going to be the bit of occasional strife, but more than there is now over the long term? Hard to say.
Article on the same topic from April referred to this as the "windshield phenomenon," you're definitely not the only one noticing it. I wasn't driving in the 80's and 90's, but I remember having a lot more bugs on the windshield as a passenger on family roadtrips.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/where-have-all-insect...

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14323533
One of our problems is the idea that a single cause is responsible for these things. It is not just pesticides or CO2 or some other single change. It is the combination of those changes (even the small ones) that is driving this huge environmental problem. The only way to get out of this is starting to think of the environment is a complex system that needs to be preserved, not trying to find a single culprit that we can manipulate.
Think of this article as describing the canary in the coal mine. The effect it describes is absolutely real. Universities in the US are facing serious issues.

The university system in the US is the envy of the world right now. But US universities are degrading on several fronts, some internal (rising tuition which drives out smart students from less well off families, most evident now in law schools) and some external (cuts in government funding, most evident in Wisconsin GOP donor attacks on universities and public education more generally[1].)

There are some posts below from students who say they don't see much going wrong. Yes, they don't see much going wrong yet. But the underpinnings of universities are being eroded.

Research funding is harder to get. NIH and NSF budgets are down 20-30% in real dollars in the past two decades. Meanwhile schools are expanding and hiring more faculty and staff that are supposed to obtain their salaries from NIH and NSF. At the same time the long-held commitment to educating the best students is fading [2].

[1] "Hacked records show Bradley Foundation taking its conservative Wisconsin model national"
https://projects.jsonline.com/news/2017/5/5/hacked-records-s...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/book-review-failing-...
"If you think those claims sting, consider Tamanaha’s argument that law school effectively transfers money from students to relatively well-to-do professors, via student-loan debt — much of which is ultimately guaranteed by federal taxpayers who are generally not as well-off as the typical law professor.

Law school faculties are also bastions of liberal politics, and this irony is not lost on Tamanaha, who accuses the professoriate of not only enriching itself but also erecting de facto barriers to upward social mobility and true public-service law practice, all in the name of “academic freedom” and other abstractions."
Exactly. Same with vibration, accelerometer, and gyro. For me personally there is zero reason why my browser should ever need these yet they can use them without any permission on Android Chrome and they cannot be disabled without rooting your phone.
There are 2 just a couple of miles apart in Pine Grove, CA, too. Very small foothills community. Odd.