skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firing has everything to do with it. It takes a herculean effort to fire one direct government employee. Replacing the prime contractor and their hundreds of employees and subcontractors' employees on a work order is much easier.

I once heard some "war stories" from someone who had previously worked in a state government office, about the fistfights that broke out between government employees, and the difficulties in keeping malware off the boss-of-the-boss's computer as he routinely visited NSFW sites on state-owned hardware during the workday. That stuff simply doesn't happen in workplaces where people can easily be fired for gross misconduct.

There's good money to be made in actually doing the work that government employees don't do. And that's why no one close to the matter makes a great deal of fuss about them not doing it. If the work needs to be done, and there is no way to force those nominally responsible for it to actually get it done, they can throw more budget at the problem and get a contractor. If you know enough about the problem to say why the direct employees can't fix it, you also know enough to do it yourself and get paid.
You might want different molds for different parts and maybe sell those at a premium for DIY at home. Also local delivery with premium fees (its gotta stay cold) to all local hotels for bachelor/ette or any kind of party.
The claim is that it's 2% to 5% in most general uses on systems that have PCID support. If that's the case then I'm willing to bet that databases on fast flash storage are lot more impacted then this and pure CPU bound tasks (such as encoding video) are less impacted.

The reality is that OLTP databases execution time is not dominated by CPU computation but instead of IO time. Most transactions in OLTP systems fetch a handful of tuples. Most time is dedicated to fetching the tuples (and maybe indices) from disk and then sending them over network.

New disk devices lowered the latency significantly while syscall time has barely gotten better.

So in OLTP databases I expect the impact to be closer to 10% to 15%. So up to 3x over the base case.
I feel like Stross' observation applies here though: Stross maintains that before the advent of the corporation (AI) armies weren't so strongly self-regulating. The wars to which you are referring are after the corporations started to eat governments (and thus governments became corporations, to one extent or another, mostly by being built by and from corporations).

From that perspective the Eisenhower Warning was at least a half-century or so too late; the military-industrial process built the modern army (not vice versa) in its AI paperclip-maximizing.
I partly agree with acangiano and partly with you. On the whole, I tend to agree more with him, with this proviso: don't just name the functions well, name their parameters well too. That can make the overall program easier to understand, and we can still get the benefit of modularity and black boxes, while not creating more confusion. YMMV, of course.
That idea is not new, either -- we just have a collective propensity to forget hard lessons.

>Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. -Mark Twain

The strange irony is that you no longer have to travel very far to meet a broad range of people, but still so many avoid leaving their gated communities.
Yeah. I see zero reasons why this can't be extended internationally -- just flag these developer accounts as unable to charge or profit (in any way) from apps, including having the review process exclude anything with in-app ads (which, IIRC, are already flagged/audited in some way).
is it vegan?
> The security updates may slow down older machinery by as much as 30 percent, according to The Register.

I will eat my hat if that 30% number holds up.
No, it reduced what the same authors recommended the RDA should be based on the same researchers previous work by half, but that's only a reduction by a third from what the actual RDA is.
I wish they would just make the ad-hoc distribution mechanism actually useful, by extending the expiration to say, 1 year. This would make it easier for students/hobbyists/indies etc. to build apps for their own devices. Currently, if they build an app for themselves, it only works for 7 days before they will have to reinstall via Xcode.

If they later want to publish to the App store, I think it's completely okay to ask them to pay $99 then.
I wholeheartedly disagree with your appraisal. But feel free to invest your money based on those assumptions because I'll be happy to take it from you.

How is Trump removing citizen bnefits? Healthcare costs spiraled out of control under Obama. 100%+ increases!

R&D? I have no idea where you're getting that from. Government shouldn't fund every single thing that every single person wants.

Alienating other nations? No. Trump has made it clear that Americans will put our own interests front and center going forwards. Obama never once stood up for this country. Never. Once.

Drive away top performing employees? Please. The rich people in SV and NYC are getting richer every second no matter who is in office.

Unattractive to new hires? Putting American citizens interests at the front of the line.

Increase long term debt. Stay tuned on that one, I have an inkling that the debt is going to fall soon.

What is not going to be pretty are all the snowflake meltdowns over the next few years when each of you is proven wrong continuously.
> The big guys won't LOVE it because they still lose their monopolistic stranglehold, but at least you aren't using public revenue to push them out of the market. You're using public revenue to create a road that any business can use for an equal fee.

I really can't imagine the response from larger incumbents being any different if this sort of format were being proposed. Why accept any competition at all when you can have none or almost none?
Executive summary: ATS has a much more powerful type system, but from a human factors standpoint suffers from death by 1000 papercuts. Rust is much more usable as a tool, but very intentionally only pulls ideas from established research, and is somewhat more limited in what the type system can do.

Lifetimes (typically referred to as "regions" in the literature) come most directly from Cyclone (which first applied Tofte & Talpin's work on regions for ML-ish languages to the systems space). Type-level ownership tracking goes back to ATS (or possibly one of its predecessors, not sure) as well.

What rust does well is package up a lot of this knowledge into something that's actually a usable tool. The ATS compiler spits out some of the worst error messages I've ever seen, and while Xi has done some really incredible groundbreaking stuff, he doesn't have the kind of design sense that it takes to make tools that developers can actually use. It's the little stuff, really -- error messages, tooling, documentation. Some of the instructional material reads like stream-of-conciousness, and clearly doesn't have a specific audience in mind:

http://ats-lang.sourceforge.net/DOCUMENT/INT2PROGINATS/HTML/...

The biggest fundamental technical difference is dependent types. The Rust community has been flirting with some more limited forms of this; search for "const generics" to see what they're up to.

ATS's version of dependent types is of a different flavor than what's available in e.g. Idris/Agda/Coq, and not as powerful, but still able to do some really impressive things. There are still a lot of low-level tricks that folks regularly pull in C that can't be done in a type/memory-safe way in Rust, but can in ATS. This paper gives a neat example of converting an array to a linked list in-place, which I think is pretty mind-blowing:

http://www.ats-lang.org/MYDATA/SPPSV-padl05.pdf

It's also one of the better descriptons of what's special about ATS.
Your terse and borderline patronizing answers aren’t helping to advance the conversation, though you do link to an important book.

Capers Jones’ work does not “disprove” the triangle, and doesn’t even mention it. If anything, he implies that quality is a more complicated subject than the simple triangle implies, in that lower quality will have non-linear negative impacts on the project cost, time, and scope.

This is the triangle:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management_triangle

The original triangle assumes that as a PM, if you don’t recognize the trade off among scope, time, and cost, quality will suffer. This is true even with Jones’ data, but it is trite. The practices that help to ensure quality that are outside the triangle’s intent as a guideline: it is necessary to recognize these trade offs, but not sufficient, to ensure on-time, on-budget, sufficient quality and scoped delivery. One could manage tradeoffs among the time/cost/scope variables and still screw up their product’s quality due to poor methods and practices. Which is obvious, when you think about it.

Jones’ book also has a number of flaws - it’s hard to put his recommendations in practice (its more a survey than a “how to”), and he lacks data on a number of effective , newer practices that involve both quality, improved velocity, and requirements gathering or product/market fit. The result is that he tends towards promoting older practices that help quality but don’t have much impact on whether you’re building the right thing in the first place. To be fair, he admits this throughout the book, but being a data guy, shrugs and moves on to discuss what works with the data he has. A classic case of “looking for your car keys under the street lamp”. Nevertheless, it illustrates why quality pays for itself, which makes it important.
Here's hoping Byford can turn things around like Ravitch did. I can half-picture Jamie Dimon getting on board.
Everything you've said is right, but I'll expand a little more because ROP is fun.

ASLR, PIC (position independent code: chunks of the binary move around between executions), and RELRO (changing the order and epermissions of an ELF binaries headers: a common ROP pattern is to set up a fake stack frame and call a libc function in the ELFs Global offset table) are all mitigations against ROP, but none solve the underlying problem.

The reason ROP exists is that x86-64 use a Von Neumann architecture, which means that the stack necessarily mixes code (return addresses) and data. The only true solution is an architecture that keeps these stacks separate, such as Harvard architecture chips.

As for bypassing the aforementioned mitigations...

ASLR: Only guarantees that the base address changes. Relative offsets are the same. So to be able to call any libc function in a ROP chain, all you need is a copy of the binary (to find the offsets) and to leak any libc function address at runtime. There are a million ways for this data to be leaked, and they are often overlooked in QA. Once you have any libc address, you can use your regular offsets to calculate new addresses.

PIC: haven't yet dealt with it myself, but you can use the above technique to get addresses in any relocated chunk of code, but I think you'll need to leak two addresses to account for ASLR and PIC.

RELRO: This makes the function lookup table in the binary read only, which doesn't stop you from calling any function already called in the binary. Without RELRO, you can call anything in libc.so I think, but with RELRO you can only call functions that have been explicitly invoked. This is still super useful because the libc syscall wrappers like read() and write() are extremely powerful anyway. Full RELRO (as opposed to partial RELRO) makes the procedure linkage table read only as well, which makes things harder still.

If this is the kinda thing that interests you, I heartily recommend ropemporium.com which has a number or ROP challenge binaries of varying difficulty to solve. If you're not sure where to start, I also wrote a write-up for one of the simpler challenges [1] that is extremely detailed, and should be more than enough to get you started (even if you have me experience reversing or exploiting binaries)

Disclaimer: I'm just some dipshit that thinks this stuff is fun, if I've made a mistake in the above please let me know. I also haven't done any ROP since I wrote the linked article, so im probably forgetting stuff.

[1] https://medium.com/@iseethieves/intro-to-rop-rop-emporium-sp...
"Fee waivers for other countries will be added as they become available." https://developer.apple.com/support/membership-fee-waiver/
The actual RDA for Vitamin D is set based on bone health, since there is not sufficient data for other conditions it may effect, so that's not a significant caveat when it comes to a recommendation to change the RDA.
Anyone feel worried about an environment where your competitor products are basically all propped up by big companies who couldn't care less whether they made money as long as they fly low of the anti-competitive radar? Of course your lemonade stand can sell lemonade for a cent a cup if your rich daddy will pay the other 99 cent from his pocket.

For eg. Spotify had to lower their price from $10 per month to $15 per month for 6 (family plan) because Google Play Music offered that price point along with YouTube Red. Of course, neither Google nor Apple need to make money from their music services. Funnily or sadly enough this is true for almost everything Google does other than Ads.

Most people would agree that Spotify is a better music player while each of Google's music apps are bad in different ways, but online subscription services are a market where people want to nickel and dime.
How I accidentally discovered the pill to enlightenment but I wouldn't recommend
> Company management may accept with varying levels of ease employees voluntarily sharing salary info with each other.

May accept? No, in the US, they have to accept it (unless the employees are supervisors or working for one of the few exempt industries such as railroads or airlines; even then, other laws may apply). See https://www.nlrb.gov/rights-we-protect/employee-rights.
As a side note, I wonder if this is why Eric Schmidt left Google: https://citizensagainstmonopoly.org/
I am the OP. (i lost that password somehow)

Some clarifications...

Annual Package - $105,000

Withholdings - $25,000 - (TAX+INSURANCE+ETC,.)

Expenses - $35,000

Savings - $45,000

DCU - Digital Credit Union - Auto Loan

AAA - Auto Insurance

Stash - https://www.stashinvest.com/ - I did a investment of $1000 in some ETF's.

Comcast - Just internet.

Car Service Plan - I took a premium service which covers some expenses for 10 years. I agree i could have avoided it. It is a one time cost, not yearly.

Electricity - Sawnee - Yes we have a air conditioning unit for both cold and heat. 4 months a year have to use it full time other time we use it 3 hours a day.

I will check on the categorizing part.
Eastern enlightenment is not what you think. I mean, maybe it is. But it’s probably not. There’s a reason it’s so elusive, and there’s a reason that it hasn’t joined western science and the western world the way that curiosity and discovery have as a driving force.

This is the story of my mistake accidentally discovering enlightenment.

February 2017
I was noticing some weird symptoms. I felt cold. Which was strange because I have never been cold. Nicknames include “fire” and “hot hands”, my history includes a lot of bad jokes about how I am definitely on fire. I am known for visiting the snow in shorts and a t-shirt. I hit 70kg, The least fat I have ever had in my life. And that was the only explanation I had. I asked a doctor about it, I did some reading – circulation problems. I don’t have circulation problems at the age of 25. I am more fit than I have ever been in my life. I look into hesperidin (orange peel) and eat myself a few whole oranges including peel. No change. I look into other blood pressure supplements, other capillary modifying supplements… Other ideas to investigate. I decided I couldn’t be missing something because there was nothing to be missing. I would have read it somewhere already. So I settled for the obvious answer. Being skinnier was making me colder.

Flashback to February 2016
This is where it all begins. I move out of my parents house into an apartment with a girl I have been seeing for under 6 months. I weigh around 80kg (that’s 12.5 stones or 176 pounds or 2822 ounces for our imperial friends). Life happens and by March I am on my own. I decide to start running. Make myself a more desirable human.

I taught myself a lot about routines and habits and actually getting myself to run. Running is hard. Actually, running is easy. Leaving the house is hard. But I work that out too.

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Visit blog to read the rest...

http://bearlamp.com.au/how-i-accidentally-discovered-the-pil...
It’s also a way to show the employer that you can accomplish more and be rewarded without having the employer risk raising a salary. It’s also a differentiator from your peers who may also want a raise.

There is a risk that your employer can take advantage, but then if you have a jerk employer, you will suffer in other ways as well. The added responsibilities will make it even easier to find a new position.
tl;dr The 50th Mersenne prime was just found by a volunteer of the GIMPS (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search) project. It is 2^77,232,917-1 and has 23,249,425 digits. Mersenne primes are extremely rare and are always of the form 2^p-1 for some positive integer p. The first four Mersenne primes are 3, 7, 31, and 127.
Yes, agreed about the counter-argument. See my nearby comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16064412

I think the important thing is that modularity (breaking up longer functions into shorter ones) helps, but only if not done blindly. One has to spend some time doing it, since there are many possible ways it can be done, and some of them will be better than others. So it can pay off in the long term, but only if one is willing to put in the effort and time, and be ready to throw away some not-so-good attempts. I've done this sometimes and seen that it does help.
This "toilet water" part really reminds me of the movie Idiocracy...
Yes, as someone who commutes to SF from the South Bay, it's depressing how our public transport compares to other major cities.

BART needs to just go around the Bay Area entirely in a loop, or Caltrain needs to become more efficient. Hopefully electrification will help in this regard.
If you don't have alternative offers, your cost is probably very close to your value. Otherwise a competitor could offer you a higher salary and still collect a little surplus value.
Eisenhower warned of this in 1961, and claims (sometimes correct) that war profiteers were responsible for causing wars can be found throughout history.
This is coming from a comparatively spoiled Rails developer, but: why would anyone bother using a language in production if it lacks fundamental things taken for granted like dependency management and stable testing frameworks/practices? Do people just not do enough due diligence and get blinded by a language's honeymoon period?
I think media can harm attention spans. I used to spend a lot of time reading books/programming for fun and after spending more time consuming short term content my attention span seems far more fragile.

Abstractly, anything you spend a lot of time doing is going to shape how you think and not necessarily in positive ways.
Is it really wise to do 401k if my employer does not contribute anything to it?
What actual services are really left for them to provide on an OAN though that aren't just as well served being a website?
It wouldn’t surprise me if Apple not being in that game yet is because of their long standing agreement with Apple Records (the Beatle’s label), who challenged their trademark a while back when they started selling music. I suspect getting into directly signing artists would breach whatever agreement was made and leave Apple open to a huge trademark suit.
Doing what is right isn't the same as "good feels" -- does conceding your own personal self interests on behalf of a group feel good? Trying to empty the ocean with a bucket is "good feels". You present a theoretical reason against a system that works already in other jurisdictions -- this is not some far off space age shit with flying saucers, it can be done and if done and it functions well enough will improve the lives of A LOT of people.
> or gone (soundcloud, grooveshark, rdio)

I can't speak for grooveshark or rdio, but as far as I know soundcloud still exists. I just added a song there and listened to some other stuff a week ago. Did I miss something?
A Batesian Mimicry Explanation of Business Cycles (2010)
Evolution is all about local optimas. If you can't reach your goal with just a series of small improvements, it can't happen. The article claims an organism could just eat metal ores. Sure, but to do that you need to start with an organism that already eats and digests ores. Presumably calcium bones evolved in an organism that already had a lot of calcium in it's diet for other reasons.
Even with regard to emergencies, there is no reason you can't shop around in advance so that you already know which hospital you want when the emergency occurs, given that there is more than one in your area.
> He calmly explained to me that actually you don't have to take your pills for the whole trip. Malarone is a curative drug, and you can just take it when the first symptoms appear.

Huh?

A. It's always better to prevent an infection in the first place than to treat one that has already occured.

B. Malarone is not a 100% effective treatment, there have been reported resistant cases to treatment.

C. There are reasons the CDC develops guidelines. Don't ignore them frivolously.

https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/travelers/
Show HN: A curated list of discounted resources for students
Dutch plan to build world's biggest wind farm, with a large floating island
Considering how the block size debate played out over the last few years, I'm not sure Bitcoin is such a great example of easy protocol upgrades.
Please post a working link.
Another counterpart is that not everything can be made a metric no matter how hard you try. The advertising world has duped us into believing that we can make metrics out of exceedingly subjective things like "satisfaction" and "happiness", but just because you ask a dozen people to pick a random number between 0 and 5 on any subject you think you can come up with doesn't mean that a 3.76 average means anything at all in the real world.
the echo is pure evil -- in the same way the 1984 Telescreen is evil. It exists to control, manipulate and spy on you. If you dont see this, I am truly sorry my friend, but it is too late.
Tier II last miles like Comcast weren't going to give them transit anyway.
The Hippocratic oath was there long before Asimov's laws.
Well its only personal experience but I am on a lot of immuno suppressant drugs (enough so the flu jab wouldn't work on me) and 20k IU Vit D a week. Fingers crossed I don't seem to have had a winter cold this year.
Don't take it personally. You won't get many warm replies from American city dwellers for pointing out the failures of their communities.
Does this imply certain open source projects could setup related nonprofit associations then waive the fee?

Could be interesting if an “app archive” nonprofit starts up to bring back abandoned indie projects (assuming the original developer decides to open source)