skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> heuristic

These aren't heuristics, they are all speculative. We can speculate many other reasons too:

For example, people value career stability when they have children and other long-term, serious obligations.

Many people work in government because they face discrimination in hiring and promotion in the private sector, such as women and minorities. Even Supreme Court Justice Ginsberg says that's why she ended up in government.

Finally, it may be hard for HN readers to imagine, but most people don't seek the life of an SV entrepreneur. It's not that they would do it if they could and settled for something else; they want something else.

I could add more speculation, but without some data I don't think I'm adding much.
No, it was with the same 'almost certainty' an overheating of a battery back in the load.
Forget US, you need reskilling to keep your job in India
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I would love to work for them, creative interesting projects with funding, pick me!
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So far I'm alone to have thought contemporaneously this"don't be evil" gimmick was the most insulting piece of platitudinous double speak that the only possible positive spin I could attach was of two naive young boys helpless to direct the intent of their"adult supervision" away from, well you don't build surveillance on this scale and keep the number of people involved small. Silence does not mean not many people involved. Look at Blair slipping ten percent of the population into the country only unearthed by delayed census data. Nobody can do that outside of true authoritarian regimes. But I've been told to forget about trial or bail despite having just told the judge the paperwork claimed was a nullity impossible under any legal theory and therefore I could not have been lawfully arrested...forget bail or trial. Saif the judge. After I pointed out that I was illegally held. I was of course right. Further attempts on my life were desired however. Since 2004 we have been under the emergency powers act suspending legislature and all non executive branches. Two privy council members sit in private to excercise any law as necessary. I caught out one at the through of a massive fraud for which my mother was nearly abused to death to try to shut her up. But if a long story. But war office director for a uncle, ministry of information father well used to censorship the necessary evils not the unnecessary ones... Was the world so completely credulous?
Exploiting a flaw in browsers' built-in password managers to #track users
I think it's pretty cool that she made a go of it, managed to step up, and found a new passion.

I did extra work in the mid 00's, and it was an interesting and highly unstable way of making a living. It was mostly actors and musicians at the time, as the money was just good enough (for some) to make time for auditions and workshops.

The rest were people like the author: people who just couldn't find a job and make ends meet.

I think that extra work in LA is possibly more fickle than out east, mainly because there are a few thousand people who move out here to become an actor every week, and the first place they find themselves at is Central Casting. Being too (fill in the blank) was the difference between working all the time and working just enough to pay for a calling service. It seemed that the next step for many was use the free time to launch their own business. It's very difficult to find a job if your resume says "extra work" for the prior two years.
My honor, mind, and optimism are surviving the sex parties of the poly and BDSM scene just fine, thank you very much.
No, that is not how it works. PHP is not AST interpreted anymore, there is a distinction between compile-time and run-time. And this error is compile-time, otherwise it would make no sense at all.
See the three-year warranty here for boxed CPUs:
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/pr...

Note the first bullet under "WHAT THIS LIMITED WARRANTY DOES NOT COVER":

"design defects or errors in the Product (Errata). Contact Intel for information on characterized errata."

Guess we're not covered on this one.

EDIT: That being said, given the potential scope of this issue (years of affected CPUs, massive PR hit) I'm hoping that Intel will at least offer some remedy to recent buyers. According to the article from The Register [1], OS vendors have been working on the fix since November. The blog posted over on pythonsweetness [2] posits the bug may have been identified in October. It'd be interesting to know for how long Intel has been selling Coffee Lake CPUs that are known to be vulnerable.

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_fl...

[2] http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/169166980422/the-myst...
Could be interesting to include an optional argument callback that would receive the part of the string that's being censored and returns a string to replace that part of the word with - so that you can conditionally prevent censorship or censor it with something else than *.
The incindental economist blog covers this issue well. Basically you have providers and payers both striving to be monopolies. Payers are a two sided monopoly so they can pass on costs. Patients are a captive audience.
Because it's a business designed to make maximum profit?
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Even that is changing. I know of a masters course in a UK Russell group uni where Chinese students outnumber any other group including locals. The result of this is terrible, terrible English skills and huge pressure from the "sales" department to give better grades to keep that sweet Chinese money flowing. Essays written in broken English that suddenly and suspiciously transition into perfect prose are common and no longer punished. When one of the students was asked why they picked that course at that uni, they said it was because the entry requirements were easiest and the level of English required was low.

Now, obviously, this course at this uni is clearly going to crash and burn at some point, having used up all good will pandering to rich Chinese students. The problem is that this is an industry race to the bottom. Sure, the main stem subjects at Cambridge or Manchester are in good shape, but all the fringe subjects are going to shit, especially the one year masters courses.

I can't name the specific course or university as I was told this in confidence by a faculty member, so believe what you will, but the race to the bottom is happening and is causing immense harm to UK institutions at all levels, not just the ex-poly degree mills.
Exactly. There is no competition on the supply side. Suppliers are often granted legal monopolies as a matter of fact!
I always wonder why kp hasn't expanded more.
Not every criminal "reads". :)
America is a net importer of capital. Money is cheap. The world pays America to be wasteful and spend. All of these problems will be "solved" when that reverses.
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Well yes, since except templating and data binding they're all included out of the box now. But the ones that aren't are useful.
If only Apple and Google engineers would understand that it's almost impossible to mistype A and Å on a qwerty-keyboard, it would be awesome.
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I wasn't making a prediction. I was thinking out loud, in retrospect of the gains and then falls, about what might have caused it. The only reason I said "called it" was because the Bloomberg article is making a similar point. In any case, I take your point and accept why people are downvoting.
Ricky Gervais made a hilarious sitcom about the life as an extra. Aptly named "Extras", with a guest star every episode. Highly recommended, the Christmas special is one of the funniest things I've seen in a while.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445114/
Ah, I see what you mean. Apologies, I didn't mean to digress from the spirit of your comment, I suppose it just varies with experience: of the things mentioned, including web frameworks, I _did_ hear of the history of how people have done databases, but other than that GNU tools are just things I used to get the work done, and I learned git through open source. (Though I think it would make a great 'stuff you've learned put into practice' talk: diff algorithms, data structures, etc.)
> Haven't we pretty much already crossed that bridge?

It's because CSS syntax has no changes for almost 20 years and even IE managed to clean up mess. New syntax -> new bugs in browsers.
> "The US spends more on healthcare because the prices are higher!"

> Um, okay. Duh. A better question to ask would be: Why are prices not falling?

It's an excellent observation, and it begs your excellent question.

Unfortunately, we can't get to an excellent answer. The US is ideologically incapable of acknowledging that "market failure" exists.
It can be turned off

https://lwn.net/Articles/742404/
Is this article from 2015 or 2017?

It would be great if the page displayed the date that the article was posted/updated. It is not in the URL nor the sources. The only way to see the dates is in the RSS feed and even that is only for new articles.
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There will be rioting in the streets when that happens.
Sure it's technically possible. If you were a woman would you want to have sex with Henry Kissinger?

Drugs, alcohol, and whores are cheap compared to the value you can extract from people using them. This article was fun to read; there have been lots of hit pieces coming out this year on SV, can't say it's undeserved either. Nothing here is shocking or unexpected, pederasty would be shocking -- no names which takes a whole lot of fun out of it for the spectators.
I could understand this perspective if intelligence was a binary thing you have or you don't. But we shouldn't pretend abuses while gaining some forms of intelligence are justified by the need for other forms. You are arguing that intelligence is needed for military purposes. I'm arguing the apparatus doesn't need to grow in a time of military usage reduction. We might be talking past each other. The types of intelligence we're talking about barely overlap in a Venn diagram (i.e. domestic vs foreign, massive vs targeted, etc).
Wouldn't a profit cap encourage profligate spending on things like corporate helicopters?
that's what subsidies to a private sector do, duh
> https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/comparing-government....

Who is the Fraser Institute? Looking at their website, they seem to turn out libertarian and conservative arguments. For example, playing down income inequality, complaining about difficult investing in oil and gas, "Top 20 per cent of families pay 56 per cent of all taxes in Canada", etc. Wanting to reduce public sector pay would fit with that.
It's simple economics: third party payment. Patients want as much care as possible, doctors are incentivised to provide it and insurance companies pay for it. Until that changes healthcare costs will not decrease
No.

As someone whose PhD touched this: it is actually ok because it stabilises towards using the most available paths.

As someone who set this up at an ISP: you can QoS the hell out of P2P and keep everyone happy. That's unless you tried blocking it and now find yourself in a stupid arms war, against folks with more free time than yourself.
DAG based coins don't have a blockchain to download. Byteball offers Blackbytes for privacy right now over Tor
http://freebe.byte-ball.com/
UMG, Warner, Sony and Spotify cannot share bills for running a common database on AWS today without creating yet another corporation and relinquishing power over the data to it.

Blockchains are not the next big thing in databases. They are here to revolutionize how existing organizations co-ordinate, enter into contracts with each other, and even allow individuals themselves co-ordinate directly with each other without intermediaries through novel org structures.

You are trading computational scalability for social scalability.

http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2017/02/money-blockchains-a...
Seems pretty clear to me that Apple is doing this to make Xcode for iPad viable. For vaguely complex apps, the iPad still wouldn’t be fast enough to do compilation in a reasonable time frame. By moving compilation (or at least some of it) and release processes (archiving, signing, etc) to the cloud, Xcode for iPad becomes much more streamlined and capable of building larger, more complicated apps.
I feel we are not talking about the same thing.

There's no question you instantiate a substantial number of arrays and hash tables in your program. Maybe most of them are global variables, but you still spawn several instances of arrays and hash tables. You do not have a single giant array and a single giant hash table, you have several of them.

Same thing with parsers. Lex/Yacc used to allow only one parser of any kind in the whole program. But if you want to parse 2 languages, you need 2 parsers. Of course, you'd need only one parser per language, and perhaps those two parsers parser's state will be stored in global/static variables. You still instantiated 2 parsers.

At least that's how I understand "instantiation".
As a former Intel employee this aligns closely with my experience. I didn't work in validation (actually joined as part of Altera) but velocity is an absolute buzzword and the senior management's approach to complex challenges is sheer panic. Slips in schedules are not tolerated at all - so problems in validation are an existential threat, your project can easily just be canned. Also, because of the size of the company the ways in which quality and completeness are 'acheived' is hugely bureaucratic and rarely reflect true engineering fundamentals. Intel's biggest challenge is simply that it's not 'winning big' at the moment and rather than strong leadership and focus the company just jumps from fad to fad failing at each (VR is dead, long live automotive).
"When you hand over that metal card you feel special"

The CSP is a metal card as well though, and the annual fee is definitely lower.
Are you referring to mobile-phone autocorrect issues?
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I'm so confused. Isn't that what's supposed to be so great about privatization in the US? Isn't that why so many in the US are against public health care? Some sarcasm here, but I also really actually don't get Americans sometimes.
> the Presidency should be motivated by public service

I don't see who this applies to in your last election
No, it is not a supply side problem. Why do you thing that? Compare the US system to other systems' cost of care and providers per capita.
There's no competition at all on the supply side in Canada or Taiwan. Why are their health care costs microscopic compared to the US?
Part of the reason it is more expensive in the US is because medical school is very costly in the US. This increases the financial risk of those aquiring a medical degree. Higher risks usually demands higher profits in the market.

Hence free university education could be a factor in reducing US health care costs.

Fundamentally you see how the free market approach to everything drives up costs everywhere.

Or more specifically drives up costs in industries/services which don’t naturally have functioning markets.

Free market approaches to health care found in Europe or Asia that works tend to be strongly regulated. E.g. max prices for procedures
I think GP is saying that many/most people just trade Monero/Zcash for profit, they don't actually care about concealing their own transactions.
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Are you thinking of node or a web project? Node requires zero tooling and is distributed as a single executable ~10-20MB on all platforms + already comes with npm.
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so often an obscure word is substituted for a common one (I'm talking about swype on android), the one that springs to mind is thou for you.
They are more regulated. More use of max prices, more standarization. US hospitals can charge whatever they want and hide it.
It's a terrible critique. It contains way to little substance and too much ad hominem to be taken seriously. How could something like this reach the front page?
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Part, but definitely not the main reason. If the doctors worked for free, US would still be more expensive than Germany or Japan.
The US gets that much more military for its money. Look at the diagram on the bottom of https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/carriers.htm . Or remember that the US Air Force is the world's biggest air force, the US Navy is the world's second-biggest air force, and the US Marines are the world's third-biggest air force.

There's space for people to disagree on whether what we get out of the military is worth what we spend on it, but there's no mystery about where the money's going.
Similar to English "o" (more so than the Scandinavian o). It is one of the easier vowel sounds. Ø and y and u are far harder for English speakers.
for the most part - I'm grateful for what I've learned from Uncle Bob. brb checking diversity drama
> The only reason that revenue stream is possible

Enforcement is not a requirement to possibility.

Quite a few people make money with copyleft works. Even so, it is difficult, because strongly enforced copyright, and propaganda have created a culture that tries desperately to require copyright.

> Not every instance of copyright usage is automatically detrimental to society.

Of course not! But many are:

I can't watch Netflix in 1080p using Linux because of DRM.

Security research is illegal because of DRM.

I can't start a P2P music streaming service like Spotify did, because I don't have the capitol to pay for licenses. Any innovation in this sector must be done by incumbents; who have already found success, and are more content with stability.

I can't upload a video with fair use copyrighted content to Youtube, because Google has been bullied to/shows off their "capability" to weed out copyrighted content. That also sets an unfeasible precedent for competitors; who will never have the resources to do anything similar.

s/I can't/Practically no one in the world is allowed to/

Something need not be 100% detrimental to be more detrimental than it is worth. Copyright is a clear example of that. It began somewhere near middle ground, but has since drifted extremely to the benefit of media corporations, and the detriment of everyone else.
Probably because the method of checking is flawed and should be done in make/model (i'm no kernel expert but this is the general oppinion i've seen so far).

I've seen nothing except the 'caution side lets do it with all' approach and no indication of other problems on the other hand.
Because RLGs are still spin gyros the dithering motor has to spin and spin pretty darn fast (to prevent lock-in) which prevents miniaturization.

MEMS operate on vibration which can be induced with solid state ultrasonics.

Also since most navigation systems today are hybrid drift isn’t much of an issue over long distances anymore and for short distance applications it doesn’t matter.

MEMS are much smaller, FOGS can also be made smaller especially considering you can use a single external laser injector to feed multiple sensors.

So while RLGS are still probably the most accurate production gyro we can make there are technical issues on making them smaller and since we have alternatives there isn’t likely much reason to invest in miniturizing them further if it’s even possible.

This is at least my educated guess.
You do realize that the US has this problem alone.

It doesn't require innovation or technology.

Just proper policy on pricing, like every other western nation has. The market will fix the efficiency, but not as long as the medical field itself can set the prices, since life and death choices are the ultimate i-will-rob-a-bank-for-this price elasticity.
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Health care is the absolute prime example of a Veblen good as people are willing to pay for perceived quality. After all would you prefer the heart surgeon who charges $5000 or the one who can charge $25000
Denverton is much more complex than a "simple" Atom (performance of a C3958 is up to about half of an i5-7500 in single-thread, twice the total multi-thread performance). Avoton is really no slouch either. It's really not surprising that the incidence of bugs is increasing on those uarchs as the complexity grows.

The Skylake/Kaby hyperthread bug has been fixed in microcode and is no longer applicable. It's perfectly safe to run HT on these processors now.

The AMD Ryzen segfault remains unmitigated at this point in time. Phoronix rushed to declare the bug fixed because they got a binned RMA replacement but there are plenty of reports of it occurring in current-production processors to at least a moderate degree, roughly proportionate with ASIC/litho quality. It's unclear what the scope is w/r/t Epyc since Epyc is on a different stepping but also hasn't really ramped yet either. The early Epyc processors were essentially engineering samples (on the order of hundreds to single-digit thousands of samples) with no real (public) visibility into any binning that might be taking place.

The Ryzen high-address bug is no big deal, that's the kind of thing that gets patched all the time (like the Skylake HT bug). That's one thing Dan is glossing over here - there are tons of these bugs all the time and as long as there is an effective mitigation available it's no big deal.

The PTI patch can be viewed as making syscalls take somewhat longer (about double iirc). Gamers and compute-oriented workloads won't be hurt hardly at all. The average mixed-workload case sees 5% performance loss, not ideal but it's not critical either. Losing 30% is real bad though, and that's what you will get on IO-heavy workloads that context-switch into the kernel a lot.

The only real mitigation there appears to be right now is to give up hyperconvergence for now and harden up those DB/NAS servers that are going to be pushing a lot of IO so that you know there won't be hostile code running on them. That will allow you to safely disable PTI and sidestep the performance hit.

Of course, Epyc was not that good at running databases in the first place, so you still might be better off sucking it up and running Intel even with the PTI patch. It will probably depend on your actual workload and the relative amount of IO vs processing.
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I'd like to learn more about GraphQL.
I know hiring is hard, and the truly qualified candidates for any posting are sparse, but startups throw out way too many potentially-decent candidates before giving them a real look. Bigger companies can afford to use more blunt heuristics than startups can. When that "elite 1%" only makes up .1% of your applicants, you have to be willing to use a finer comb.

I can't speak to the general case, only my personal experience as an applicant and early employee at 3 startups, but I can't count how many times I've been told that I wasn't a good fit (pre-interview) because I didn't have experience with parts of their tech stack, even though any developer worth hiring for those early positions should be able to pick up a new stack and run with it. Very little development experience is actually "irrelevant" to any given opening.
Only if that's deductible.
Maven's documentation is great, and the project structure is well explained. Inflexible yes, magic no.
In Firefox, about:config and then set media.autoplay.enabled to false.
Is that based on some evidence or expertise that everyone else isn't aware of?
Are we having a market failure, or a failure to have a market?