skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'multi-user scenarios often cause surprising changes to the way queries behave, so real profiling has to be done under a realistic multi-user load. You may find that locking issues outweigh anything you can get by faster individual queries.'
You might be surprised by how much safety critical software is built by code generation tools like SCADE. It's not entirely the same thing, but the programmer is pretty removed from the final product and it is very spec driven.
$3,750 per year?
> ...But on the other side, I wonder why didn't these platform producers - Google and Microsoft alike - create these slimmer platforms to begin with?

They did, mobile OSes started about ten years ago for devices whose power was but a fraction of what we have today. Stuff just got added over time. One could argue iOS had the more efficient approach in that their OS and apps were made in a native language instead of on the JVM (and it took about five years for Android to catch up in terms of performance and UX), but the main thing is that Android used to be slimmer.

At one point you have to either strip out 90% of the features that were added over time, or start from scratch. It's an example of feature creep, bloat, bitrot, all that stuff.
Pennsylvania isn't considered the Midwest. It ends at Ohio. Eastern Pennsylvania is closer to NYC than it is to Chicago.
The only way is population control, and how does that work outside of nightmares and cautionary tales from history?

Great Filter here we come.
This is the reason I'm considering going back to consulting. I could work less hours yet create lots more value and have plenty of time to rest, read and have healthy activities.
1. No, I meant it as a tangential reply to your comment.

2. Yes. I think it's crazy that an ad-tech firm is using its sixth round of funding to buy a worthless comment/tracking widget.
Federal court cases have already been influenced by the current administration's actions (speeches, interviews, tweets) outside of court documents and statements by attorney. What Pai says now can indeed be referenced within court proceedings. Whether that will be effective or not is unclear.
As a TDD, I really don't care too much about the implementation as long as my tests pass. Performance however is another issue, but that's something that can be optimized and re-written into something like this depending on the language.
When things like that happen to me I look at my 401k and other savings and remember that someday in the future I will get to enjoy things in life they will never be able to afford.
I assumed Go would be high on the list due to the fact that they have full control over it (avoiding Oracle and their lawyers) and it has good performance. I agree that Kotlin is probably a better language for writing Android apps. Having done a ton of Java, I was pleasantly surprised at how lovely it is to work with.
I was thinking the same thing. I had another ASUS tablet from the same era that had similar issues.

People would literally install the OS on the SD Card and run inverted storage to avoid the issue.
Apparently some Java apps are replaced with Go versions.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/12/google-releases-andr...
Leaking customer data is one thing but the article mentions the app also collected contacts from these phones. And that was leaked too!
Which is why I won't fly on certain airlines :-).
As a Software Engineer who worked at an avionics company, I know who our big customers were and what bugs are in the products they bought, so I avoid them whenever possible.
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Ahh. I overreacted. This must be it.
They probably rent servers / instances for a fixed price per year and use those to do video conversion when they're not busy, instead of renting additional or on-demand instances when there's encoding to be done. So just reusing existing systems instead of spinning up new ones.
Brett Victor has done some lovely stuff allowing people to interact whilst telling a story [0]. Doesn't work so well in mobile, but the Google page suffers in this aspect too.

[0]: http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/
"A statement I commonly hear in tech-utopian circles is that some seeming inefficiency can’t actually be inefficient because the market is efficient and inefficiencies will quickly be eliminated."

There's equivocation in that statement; what market efficiency is and what people generally mean by efficiency are not the same thing. This is not an accusation of danluu, though, as I believe it is an accurate statement of an error made by a lot of people.

Market efficiency is really a rather boring statement about the difficulty of performing arbitrage in the long term. Plus, given that the market is not absolutely efficient we should expect errors to be made.

But we can do some numerical analysis here. Consider the range of possibilities. Suppose population X is paid 0% of what everyone else is paid in the market, for the same output. It would take an astonishingly-large, an implausibly large, countervailing force to prevent some company from swooping in and claiming that free labor. (Remember, even if 99.9% of the firms on the market choose not to, it just means that the .1% is going have that much easier of a time.) However, for group X to be paid 99.9% of what everyone else is paid on average doesn't take much at all; indeed, mere noise could produce that result. Rather than it being a question of "is or is not discrimination", this sort of analysis can put numbers on how much, from which you can start analyzing things like the value of certain changes vs. their costs.

No conclusion; I'm just musing here. Except that I think that people generally do a lot of binary thinking here when quantitative might be more useful.
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Native Android apps launch faster on slower previous generation hardware than native iOS apps and have for years[1].

[1] https://youtu.be/hPhkPXVxISY
That's because Epyc is a new name, while Xeon is up to what, E7? I bet you're not getting so many hits for the latest Kaby Lake Xeons. And you'd get better results looking for comparable Opterons for older systems.
What about Facebook, it is also designed to be addictive, so you can spend as much time on it as possible to be shown ads?
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I might also suggest pulling from as many exchanges as possible and applying something like an average function to them. Of course you need to make sure that doesn’t cause the contract to be even more vulnerable due to outliers spiking the average.
Since when is being desperate a bad thing?
Are these apps developed by Mossad?

Edit: Why downvote? Kaspersky is supported by KGB. Google Maps is supported by CIA and NSA. Whatsapp messages from 2011-2013 are available for CIA in Reza Zarrab case (it was revealed few days ago).
>When researchers installed Ai.Type they were shocked to discover that users must allow “Full Access” to all of their data stored on the testng iPhone, including all keyboard data past and present. It raises the question of why would a keyboard and emoji application need to gather the entire data of the user’s phone or tablet?

I have a suspicion that due to how cheap bulk storage is these days, that companies collect as much information as they can get away with in hopes that _maybe_ it will be useful one day. That mixed with poor security practices is just going to keep leading to these sorts of events happening.
> how "markets" will prevent the peg from going out of whack.

One only needs to read about Long-Term Capital Management to see how flawed this is.
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This will not just get rammed through. I believe both the ACLU and EFF have lawsuits waiting to be filed once the vote happens. Between Pai's comments and actions, they have a strong case that the agency disregarded the public's opinion and is therefore not acting in the interest of the public, which, I have been told is a legal requirement of the FCC. This is another example of a Trump appointee trying to weaken the agency he was put in charge of, only to have the federal courts deny that.
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The first result is a link to a MS blog post about Azure integration with IOTA: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-blockchain-upda...

But no mention of the marketplace demo (the subject of the article). You're correct, the quote is from a Sales guy involved with their blockchain strategy.
It's playing a game when one uses it as an excuse to not respect the other party in a charitable discussion. That is, you don't need a source if you accept that the other party is acting honestly in the discussion.

Asking for sources so that you can examine the data yourself is admirable. Asking for sources because certain words "trigger red flags" for you that the other party is not acting in good faith is a different problem.

"In philosophy and rhetoric, the principle of charity requires interpreting a speaker's statements to be rational and, in the case of any argument, considering its best, strongest possible interpretation."
> Just divide up whatever IP network you're using (e.g. 10/8) and make sure you allocate "enough" to each rack/whatever.

Easier said than done. Most datacenters are bit more deliberate about allocating addresses and hand them out in non-contiguous CIDRs. The VLAN mentality is still very prevalent. Getting a /20 at a time is pretty common.

Using overlapping IPs puts you right back into the overlay model.

>Assuming everything is nice and hierarchical, you can easily aggregate an entire rack to a single prefix.

Yes, exactly. The trick then becomes how to you ensure that endpoints that get created within the rack get an IP from the prefix? Romana (the project I work on) does this. It lets you capture your network topology for exactly this reason. This is especially important if/when you must filter routes at ToR.
We've only had the rules for two years, and this only shows that the next administration can also pull and about-face. The lawsuits might not even be settled by then.
The problem "safe" languages have in this context is that they really truly are no better than C, for the simple sake of them throwing out performance and resource considerations from the get-go. Additionally, if you take even just a day to read up on UNIX and C history, you'd quickly find the two are essentially intertwined, and that to usurp C, you'd have to nix UNIX, too.

I've yet to see anyone with serious industry experience come out and say sane things about replacing C. It's just not going to happen. Not in my lifetime, unless someone decides to write a new operating system, and Linux subsequently loses footing.
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Savage. This is part of the reason I don't use Apple products unless I have to.
Fees aren't fixed per block, and they're also not a percentage. Exchanges and Bitcoin software suggest a fee that ensures a quick confirmation, but you can choose whatever fee you want. Transactions with a higher fee are prioritized by miners, because then they make more money. Coinbase always uses a really high fee (around $3.50), so your transactions are always confirmed as fast as possible. I made a few transactions recently where I set the fee to $0.20, and it just took a few hours before it was confirmed.

So if it's not urgent, you can send $2 million USD with a fee of $0.20.
I totally respect (and have donated to) the OpenBSD project, and ran it for years for my firewall machines. Though these days I'm running containerized Linux firewalls for ease of upgrades. Anyway...

I do understand OBSD's objections to using a new implementation language for their core utilities. And I understand their philosophy for what they're doing and how they're doing it in the general case.

But the fact remains that POSIX, as it has evolved (or not, in some cases) makes writing correct programs harder than necessary. Especially modern multi-threaded programs.

I'd like to see something better and simpler. And maybe written in something other than C.
> Well under 1/2 the worlds population cheats at any point in their lives, that number is not going to change any time soon.

And how did you arrive at this number?

> The number of possible Alcoholics don't add up to 75% of the global population.

True, but the impact is still significant: alcoholism is among the top causes of death, at least in the US.
There is no need to stress about surveillance nor what else you cannot control.

I like to cite the heat list (i) that utilizes artificial intelligence to determine who is most likely to be shot in a top 400 ranking system by their association with previous people who have been shot. Volunteers then reach out to these people and suggest ways to stay alive.

I still enjoy knowing that I pay for my tracking chip (cellular phone), entertainment advertising supported delivery with tracking (television), a multi step filtration system with bi-monthly checks for clean water (5gallon fill up), and roll the dice with what is in the soil that grows the food I eat.

If the ground water is not safe to drink, is the food safe to eat?

i. https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/chicago-police-...
It's really unfortunate that Bitfinex is now suing this person because of simply trying to bring some transparency to the situation. I'm really glad the news outlets are picking this up and hopefully Bitfinex and their shady PR firm stop trying to silence this person.
The sheer scale of these potential frauds - including the total ambiguity of massive $ raised for ICOs is not only consistent with the shenanigans of the .com - it's much worse.

In .com - companies were creating value, and we all assumed people would pay for 'email' - turns out consumers would not - so many businesses failed, and there was a stampede out of equities.

All of this coin and ICO fraud, including 'regular company' valuations of 300x P/E rations - is absurd.

In 2000 - the bubble was popped with a little bit of an interest rate hike that caused major funds etc. to scramble, causing a stampede.

Markets are definitely emotionally positioned for a black-swan event to cause a scramble.

The markets have to correct for all this sketchy/possible fraud going on.
I have a Nexus 9 (16gb Wifi) and situation didn't improve at all (nexus 7/9 probably my worst product purchases)
This is an old science-fiction idea, Robert Heinlein's _The Roads Must Roll_ was published in 1940. When I looked this up to get a date for the citation, I found that H. G. Wells used the idea in 1910 as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_walkway#Slidewalk
To be fair the situation with WWII is even worse in Russia. It still is an absolutely religious topic over there.
all the "safeguards" the financial instruments have, didn't stopped them from crashing the economy in 2008, bitcoin is actually a response to that, I did lost my job then and had quite a hard time, now the same bankers tell me what is fraud and what is not.

In my country banks moved away from their social propose lending, and they just take high commissions for everything (eg. ATM commission for seeing how much I have in my account) and buy state bonds with deposits money, they advertise credits, but they don't actually credit businesses they credit people who don't need a credit and have enough real estate guarantees to pay the loan in full, so they won't lose interest profit.
So if Ethereum price goes down, you're insolvent.
Tether is a pegged currency. A stablecoin is something different, see this: http://slides.com/ethereummadrid/cryptoeconomics101-stableco...
I don't know about the person you replied to, but at 33 I've seen enough people rise and fall on new incomes to not be impressed. And more importantly, I've seen enough people find fulfillment in simple things at all income levels and professions to know money is not important past a point.

These days, I enjoy fiddling with knobs on a synthesizer for an hour or watching an old movie with a friend more than I ever did material things. Money can't buy being deep in a conversation where "So it's like Japanese vaporwave?" is a reasonable thing to say.
wow, thanks for some reason I got auto-corrected from Kubernetes to Kunernetes.... that's both frustrating and kind of funny.... maybe my experiment using swiftkey shall end soon...
How will commenters submit their comments? Would they be required to enter their email? Or are you implying an email address would be generated for them to associate with their activity/comment chain?
That is a realllyy simplistic way of looking at things that doesn't at all speak to the issue at hand.

Is there still lots of plant cover? Sure. But when you get into what types of environments are intact and healthy enough to support the normal fauna, we start to see problems. So there may be forest, but there may now be a tremendous drop in the amount of wildlife in the forest because the food chain has been badly damaged.

Insects form the foundation of many ecosystems and massive drops in insect biomass would be devastating to all of the animals up that food chain. And there are a number of reasons insects can be disappearing from pesticides, to loss of specific species of plants, to air pollution.

Even if we continue on our path of anthropomorphic mass extinctions, life on Earth will adapt and move on, that's not in question. But Earth may not be very hospitable for human kind if we don't change course.
The oraclize query will get data from cryptocompare.com, which is an aggregate.
He doesn't. Ignoring the public comment period and making comments like demonstrate he's not acting in the interest of the consumer. There's a good chance a federal judge will strike this down.
Mozilla, NY Times, Washington Post & others have contributed to creating the Coral Project which looks like it has a much better comment system for websites to use. It's no where near as easy to use but you can get it up & running with Docker pretty quick if you know how to use Docker. If you have a larger audience, the engagement features really seem worth the effort.

https://coralproject.net/
https://coralproject.github.io/talk/index.html
Can mods add a [2015] tag to the title? While this is an impressive analysis, it’s not a cause for panic now as it has long been patched.
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> Henry Spencer's regex code: https://github.com/garyhouston/regexp.old

Glad to see that come up in this thread. It was the first clearly explained regex engine for me in _Software Solutions in C_ (Schumacher D., Academic Press, 1994). I still have a copy and the original disk (and disk image). If anyone is interested I could scan that chapter tonight.
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How is GKE cheaper than GCE?
Processing.js[0] might be a good start? Or maybe Paper.js[1]. Possibly including Tween.js, or something else[2]. It wouldn't be a memory-conscious thing at the outset (without investing much more work), but if there was a more convenient layer overtop of one of those, or a combination, as a drop-in widget that can be customized by some simple UI or much more rudimentary scripting as something possibly embeddable or native to a blog or news platform might cut it.

Sounds like a good idea. IIRC D3 came out of the NYT? Of course that was rather programmer-centric, but similar root need seems to have inspired it.

[0] http://processingjs.org/
[1] http://paperjs.org/
[2] https://www.createjs.com
The median personal annual income in India is around 616$ (Source : Gallup 2013). I don't think 7$ is "cheap".
> For one, taking credit for something they have not delivered.

Google has provided free wi-fi across various Indian railway stations which I am told carries more traffic than entire cellular 3G-4G traffic. India has 13000 trains running at any given time and carries over 8B passengers every year (legally).

Google has put a lot of efforts in providing Google services in over 10 different Indian languages. That is why my driver is able to use Google maps. He does not understand English. Google like many other tech giants has surely played an important role in making Indians use internet more and more.
It is pegged to the USD. A "pegged" currency means it's a fixed exchange rate.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/currency-peg.asp
In Michigan, the majority of students don't benefit from the huge endowment that UM has, the schools don't have financial ties.

(Michigan State alone has larger enrollment than UMich and then there are quite a few more public universities and then also community colleges)
More than half of my work is time and materials work (as opposed to a fix bid project), and so it's directly billed to the client. My putting in hours is directly proportional to how much the company makes.

I don't like it either, and I feel like I could contribute a lot more effectively on the fixed price items if I wasn't constantly scrounging up T&M work, maybe I'd even have time to think up decent solutions instead of justifying why I have to spend another 2 hours on issue #blah, but it's an example of why required hours exist.
That kind of regulatory uncertainty is bad for the industry. Congress really needs to act.

... hahaha ... congress ... act ... hahahahaha ...

In all seriousness though: I think it's a mistake to focus on the FCC even now. That's obviously a lost cause. Focus on Congress and the next election cycle. Network neutrality needs to be law.
Does anyone remember when Jack Valenti was widely mocked for his being instrumental in abusing the rights of consumers? There were huge campaigns against the MPAA and Valenti.

Where's the PR push back from the techno-intelligentsia? Why aren't we pointing out Pai's attacks on the rights of American citizens? Why aren't we pointing out to regular people why this is clearly an attack on one of the few freedoms they have left? Where are the "Put this in your Pai hole" t-shirts and bumper stickers?
The overhead is absurd yes. There is work to be done. My problem though is the Democrats just want to raise the budget, which technically works but means setting a good 70% of the money on fire, and the GOP just wants to cut the hell out of the budget, as they're doing now, as if this will make the bureaucrats take lower salaries in the name of helping people, despite having never had that happen before.

And all of this needs a solid, informed and rational discussion about how best to help people in need, which we cannot have because the narrative of this country seems to be locked in this mindset that the poor are the people who failed, the people who made dumb choices which apparently warrants a lifetime of check-to-check starvation, or in the most extreme cases people who have offended God or whatever and had their wealth taken from them. And that's not even going into the issues around everyone here being "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" and not wanting to tax the rich, because when they get rich, they don't want to be taxed.

The whole thing is screwed, not even just in the Government but in the culture.