skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think some people find relationships "taxing" and that's okay. But I think working in tech makes it harder for men, who would otherwise enjoy relationships, to find women with whom they have things "in common." I got married not that long after leaving engineering for law. My wife, who is also a lawyer, and I talk shop constantly, attend professional events together, etc.
Is having a conversation a chemical addiction? If I say something that receives a negative response, will I not try to follow it up with something that receives a positive response? After I've received that positive response, will I not try to please my conversation partner more to keep feeling good about myself? Should we then ban conversations?

Some people use "it releases dopamine" like that's a bad thing, like our bodies weren't wired with dopamine receptors to teach us how to function in a society. Are you proposing we get rid of everything that releases dopamine? We should all live a bleak and meaningless life?

Humans are social creatures. We're wired to seek positive feedback from our peers. Getting a laugh in a face-to-face conversation is no different than getting a smiley face in an SMS is no different than getting likes on Facebook.
Well, I got nothing... They're good people I guess? I'll never know, mushrooms are illegal and I can't get my hands on them.
According to the article, "can" = has the capability to.

Isn't that obvious though? Any internet connected device with a microphone has the capability to always listen to what you say. Whether they choose to or not is up to the manufacturer, and you're placing your trust in them. And it's funny to me that people freak out about smart speakers when your cellphone is within listening distance of you all the time.
I mean, yeah, 45 minutes is more than enough to exchange a ton of really critical information about a specific solution to a given technical/product problem (for example)...
https://twitter.com/shlevy/status/956313877800566784?ref_src...
"The chart below shows that, of the top cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, some - like EOS, Cardano, Monero, and Bitcoin - have had a lot more commits than others - like Populous or Bitconnect". Since Bitconnect is a now defunkt ponzi scheme and not a cryptocurrency, their lack of Github activity makes sense :) This analysis would be more helpful if the author properly curated the projects / tokens to include in the study.
Wow, it was even posted on "undefined 24, 2018" I had better go share this on face boo k
Ah ok, that makes sense, thanks for the info. I can see how only having a bootcamp and an unrelated background gives just a single data point to work with, which even then isn't very illuminating.
Designing and evaluating programming languages: Dagstuhl trip report
20 years of XML
A former banker, have also done freelance consulting work and did an MBA do know lots of consultants. I'm relaying things I've heard from lawyers I've worked with in various roles. Am a hobbyist programmer, been doing 10-20 hrs of coding / week the last 18 months, and interned at a FAANG in business roles tho knew some engineers

The stuff you do in investment banking is at least an order of magnitude simpler than making any useful software. It's basically modifying excel templates and debugging complex models, making slide decks that are 80% template slides, and working on deals that are intellectually challenging on occasion but a lot of it is blocking and tackling and managing processes
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/amazon.jobs-public-docume...
> Why would I bother going out and attempt to have conversations with women who have nothing in common with me.

Well, the general idea is to find women who have something in common with you.

> Why have a relationship with a woman when it's taxing physically, mentally and emotionally?

Addressing the preceding issue may result in this being less often the case. But, yeah, if a relationship is like that, on balance, it's probably not one you want to be in.
Google gave the world powerful AI tools, and the world made porn with them
What uses those these days?
It's a double edged sword.

The Internet gives voice to the voiceless!

followed by:

Oh shit, they were voiceless for a reason.

The idea of curating the news didn't come about because of some big illuminati conspiracy, it's because loud tactless assholes tend to drown everybody else out given the opportunity. Call it the paradox of free speech.

Having your information controlled by someone is bad, but so is having no filter at all, and a middle ground is difficult to achieve and in some ways impossible.
Really, how do you deprioritize?

I'm in Canada, so it may be US only. I do know you can force them to use Canada Post if you enter a PO Box.

Also, amazon's delivery service has been excellent here, chiefly because they don't require signatures. Using any other courier means it often goes to some depot in the suburbs, which is a terrible policy for urban Montreal.
pro·fes·sion·al
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adjective
1.
relating to or connected with a profession.

What do you mean by, "not working on professional things"? Seems a bit insulting to me?
Would you care to put that argument to a test?

Because it appear to me that papers like (picking one from the front page of cell.com) http://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(18)30... "A Metabolic Basis for Endothelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition" require a lot of specialized knowledge to understand.

The same for https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02935 "Suppression and revival of long-range ferromagnetic order in the multiorbital Fermi-Hubbard model", picked from a recent arxiv.org preprint in condensed matter physics.

Or "High-Content Surface and Total Expression siRNA Kinase Library Screen with VX-809 Treatment Reveals Kinase Targets that Enhance F508del-CFTR Rescue" from https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.7b00928 .

What does "critique it creatively" mean?

I remember how long it took me, as a young smithling in graduate school, to read a scientific paper, in the field I was entering, where I had several years of education. It took a while to understand the literature, and even longer to be able to critique the literature in any more than superficial way.

I don't follow your comment "If a paper doesn't link back to its foundations directly". Papers are often like a skyscraper. The 50th floor links back to the 49th, which links back to the 48th. There are support structures which might span a few dozen floors, and (to stretch the analogy), express elevators connecting it to the ground floor.

But few papers really reference the foundations, because the audience is expected to know the foundations.
Ahh, I'm postulating a bit.

>I'm no sure if that's all true of if it's anything more than correlation, but it makes some sense as a hypothesis.

As I said, I could be wrong. But we know that other fields like management, fashion, music, etc are dominated by risk takers. It may not be true of sports or all sports, but you could imagine that a risk taking basketball player, football QB or running back, soccer forward, or similar players tend to be risk takers.

Again, I could be wrong.
Yes, it does. It's the best option currently available.
So the next thing is to disable all javascript loaded without https I hope.
Some people find, through hard and painful personal experience, that seeking out potential partners they have something in common with is exceptionally difficult and time-consuming.
Trump travel ban prevents Techstars Seattle entrepreneur from entering U.S
everyone blaming gentoo here is completely wrong. we had a very similar meltdown where the osds were hosted on rhel 7. they would not start. we had mds failures as well on rhel.

ceph is just a buggy piece of shit. it configures its options like a windows registry. at one point I literally built ceph on my gentoo system and ran the mds over the vpn. it was the only mds that wasn't crashing. nothing about gentoo is to blame here, it's more stable with ceph if anything.
Suppose you are right, what does that prove? You can be morbidly obese for decades before dying of the consequences. It's still not good to be morbidly obese.

That this is a social illness that has been with us since before the Internet does not excuse its continued existence. It's a waste of what Clay Shirky has dubbed "Cognitive Surplus":

> It represents the ability of the world's population to volunteer and to contribute and collaborate on large, sometimes global, projects. Cognitive surplus is made up of two things. [First,] the world's free time and talents. The world has over a trillion hours a year of free time to commit to shared projects. Now, that free time existed in the 20th century. [However, the media landscape in the 20th century was mainly very good] at helping people consume, and we got, as a result, very good at consuming.

> [That is the second part of cognitive surplus. Now that] we've been given media tools -- the Internet, mobile phones -- that let us do more than consume, what we're seeing is that people weren't couch potatoes because we liked to be. We were couch potatoes because that was the only opportunity given to us. We still like to consume, of course. But it turns out we also like to create, and we like to share. And it's those two things together -- ancient human motivation and the modern tools to allow that motivation to be joined up in large-scale efforts -- that are the new design resource. And using cognitive surplus, we're starting to see truly incredible experiments in scientific, literary, artistic, political efforts.

That people wasted their lives in front of TV does not mean that we should have to keep accepting business models based on "zombification", especially when the media of the 21st century has so much potential for individual empowerment compared to television before it.

But I do agree that Facebook should not receive all the blame. You know which product is not criticised nearly enough in this context? The iPhone. Because at its core, what differentiated the iPhone from the other smartphones when it was introduced, was that is was a portable, always-online computer optimised for consumption. And it definitely had a large role in the rise of the current form of social media, compared to the internet communities that existed before it.

The attention economy is the equivalent of bitcoin mining, except with human brain cycles: its economy is fundamentally based on wasting resources, revealing an utterly cynical view of the worth of human life.

On an individual level the attention economy is a waste of human life. On a societal level it is a waste of cognitive surplus. On a global level, whether or not we waste that cognitive surplus will mean the difference between collectively being able to get out of the mess we dug ourselves into in the last century, or racing ever harder towards collapse with then having to try to recover after that.

How is that for apocalyptic bombast?

[0] https://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cognitive_surplus_...
I also can’t recall anything Amazon has done to question their honesty.

Can you point us to facts please?
It's astounding to me how the last couple patches have made performance worse and introduced new, gamebreaking bugs. The last patch took everything down for 5 hours. The patch before tanked FPS by like 40%. The patch before caused 2/3rds of games to spawn players below the match or simply crash on load.

They don't do QA, and their 'deploy process' takes everything down for hours. It's embarrassing.
I think it's pretty telling that there are 200 comments here and not a single one praises AMZL.

I think I saw one person who said he/she hadn't had any specifically bad experiences with AMZL, but that most of his/her deliveries are UPS anyway.

The phrase "piss-poor" comes to mind.
Would you still trust that it's off when it says that it's off?
Now compare this to online banking and seriously tell me that this is easier. Yes, you can set up a system that is very resistant to failure. But my grandma doesn't understand the difference between minimizing a window and deleting her facebook account. I'm not excited about explaining SSS to her.
Do you have a child? Wait, that is a rhetorical question: you don't. Because if you did you would realise that this statement makes little sense, unless you specifically decided to have children as a form of economic investment, which is unlikely because it's probably the worst economic investment you can make.
That is sociopathic reasoning.
Announcing Giraffe 1.0.0 (Functional .Net Core Web Framework)
... killing time...
You can try my project: https://github.com/elabftw/elabftw ;)
Another factor to consider is the content of each commit. Is it just copying from another project or making trivial changes, or is there real work being done?
If you could open the case and verify that the switch does what it's supposed to do, why not?
I was curious which countries (out of the wealthier developed economies), for programmers, are the most out of line vs the median income for that country (based on a full-time job median wage).

The best are the US, Denmark, Israel.

Germany has a higher median income than the UK, but the UK pays better in programming. Sweden's median income is quite a bit higher than both Germany and the UK, but Germany and the UK pay close to what Sweden does.

Canada is at half the rate of the US, drastically below where it should be based on median incomes.

The worst is France by a wide margin. The average software engineer salary there is around $38,000. Almost one third that of the US.

Switzerland pays very high (still below the US), but their median income is extremely high.

New Zealand has a considerably lower median income these days versus Australia, but only pays about 15% less for programmers than what Australia does.
Yes—and in the process—give Amazon more of your money.
I feel your frustration. But history also shows us that things can get better sometimes. The country I live in went from totalitarian to democratic at some point in history.
Why Every Company Will Become a Media Company
Meta-analysis show no correlation between good teaching evaluations and learning
AI Changes the Rules of Contact Centre Staffing
> pledges not to use Waymo's trade secrets

If this statement is indeed true and Uber isn't totally brazen, then yes it would imply that Uber is going to have to seriously clamp down on how it uses the data/IP they got from Otto (which clearly they got from Google/Waymo). Not a lawyer, but that's how I read it.
and the library too for that matter!
Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They're not directly funding government programs or departments are they? They're surely just giving money to politicians who spend it on advertising because - this is the real problem - Americans insist on only ever voting for candidates who spend enormous amounts of money advertising themselves. That's ultimately your fault if you refuse to vote for anyone who doesn't receive funding.
I just unplug it, and when I want to listen to music plug it in, problem solved!
I didn’t read past the first paragraph before I formed the opinion that running all your VMs on a file system like this is a terrible idea.

If you can’t afford an enterprise SAN (I’m not even talking a NAS, I mean a real fiberchannel-based block-store) for your virtual environment (and I get it - many cannot) then just do yourself a favor and run on local disk.

The reduction in moving parts will dividends. I promise.
What you described applies to copyright. Patent licensing is different.

There can be damages even for no-cost software because it isn't measured by the profits or earnings from the software but by the market loss on other software profits.
Edit: I was wrong - you're right.

Have a look at the actual DSM-V section on it (starts at p795):
http://displus.sk/DSM/subory/dsm5.pdf

As for how proposed criteria sets are actually recognized:

Proposed Criteria sets are presented for conditions on which future research is encouraged. The specific items, thresholds, and durations contained in these research criteria sets were set by expert consensus—informed by literature review, data reanalysis, and field trial results, where available—and are intended to provide a common language for researchers and clinicians who are interested in studying these disorders. It is hoped that such research will allow the field to better understand these conditions and will inform decisions about possible placement in forthcoming editions of DSM. The DSM-5 Task Force and Work Groups subjected each of these proposed criteria sets to a careful empirical review and invited wide commentary from the field as well as from the general public. The Task Force determined that there was insufficient evidence to warrant inclusion of these proposals as official mental disorder diagnoses in Section II. These proposed criteria sets are not intended fo r clinical use; only the criteria sets and disorders in Section II of D S M -5 are officially recognized and can be used for clinical purposes.
Yea, and my point was that this can be expensive regardless of the semantics of whether or not architectural degrees of freedom are hyperparameters.
Indeed! We are discussing take-downs, rather than wiretapping. You're completely right, and I failed to be sufficiently clear previously. Any level of ISP might be tasked with taking down content that flows over its wires.

For example, at one point a Pakistani ISP accidentally black-holed YouTube worldwide (briefly) through BGP while attempting to comply with a court ruling to block it.
They grow wild in many locations... look around among the trees at the edges of fields where cattle graze. The first time a good friend of mine had them, that's where that good friend found them. b^) Be sure you've got the right ones, since many mushrooms are poisonous in a bad way.
If your politics differed from his you would remember, because I’m a huge Joss fan who’s had to sift through a ton of insults to my beliefs in order to keep up with his work. I respect my opponents’ beliefs but I am quite happy to see him suffer the blowback on his rank hypocrisy.
Most of this post-mortem has nothing to do with Ceph or Gentoo, and everything to do with competent system administration and change management. No one appears to have stopped to consider the ramifications of unannounced upgrades to the fileserver or OSD's. Once you're frantically rebuilding world, its over. the lessons learned completely ignore communications between sysadmins and management or, god forbid, even customers. "do everything whenever you like" is not system administration.

>If we notice something is going wrong with Ceph, we will not hesitate to shut down the cluster prematurely.

once bitten..twice shy? how does this solve future problems in the HA filesystem for your customer?

>We should not update Ceph on all machines at once.

HA/HPC 101. rolling upgrades are fine, slow and steady, with lots of testing and a documented rollback procedure if things go screwy. large enough/critical systems often have dev test and prod

>We will build glibc with debugging symbols.

you will plan your OS upgrades separate from your Ceph upgrades and with properly communicated actions before, during, and after the events.

>We will track Ceph releases more closely

as opposed to...what? being a sysadmin, Im on more than a dozen release mailing lists. I track load balancer known issues and patches to make sure i dont roll out, say, an F5 firmware with known failure to properly proxy HTTP2
That can be tricky because you can't emulate the semantics of the C99 bool type.

In C99

(bool)256 == 1

but on systems which emulate bool with, e.g., an 8-bit unsigned char then

(bool)256 == 0
How a Low-Level Apple Employee Leaked Some of the iPhone's Most Sensitive Code
Please don't post unsubstantive or name-calling comments here. "Silicon Valley lawyers" may or may not deserve better, but the HN community certainly does.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I had to read the entire site twice to understand what you're doing. I think you're too close to the problem to know how to explain it clearly.

"Grab a persons email and instantly learn all their social media profiles so that you can follow them."

Course then you have the problem that they're most likely not in your database. Once you have the email then you need to contact them, tell them who is trying to reach out and get them to sign up for an account. Then if successful recontact the original poster and tell him the information is now there.

Hopefully you know that there are a couple of dozen startups who have tried to solve the problem and failed. Good luck!
This theory is so wildly off from what my lawyer friends have told me about the case (including one who has 5+ years of IP law experience)

They are mostly in agreement that Google had enough to win the case but that they likely had the worry that juries are always unpredictable and you really never know what will happen. They seem to believe that the thing that Google cared about the most was restricting Uber's usage of the stolen technology. They believe that Uber felt they had a decent chance of losing so they mutually agreed to setting, giving Google what they wanted (restriction of the technology usage). Once that was offered Google immediately moved to settle since that was what they wanted from the outset and any additional cash or destruction of Uber's image would have been beyond their needs.
Is there any game that can do 6k+ simultaneous players with a similar level of physics/combat system that EVE has at a 1s tick rate?

I'm fairly sure there isn't.
> Datagrams can be easily and effectively encoded as discrete short-lived streams. If you need streams of datagrams, you can encode your own header to do that. I see no reason why this has to be built into the protocol when the provided primitives are sufficient.

Using discrete short-lived streams could mean a little more trouble understanding which message was in response to which other message. A stream of datagrams is already a logic container. But I gues you could track that by hand, too.

Maybe I just found an easier way to implement all of that on the protocol, so I don't see why QUIC could not. Maybe it's just something that I always end up doing by hand so I would just be happier if was provided. I mean, IP/UDP already has all the primitives I need, but it's not like everyone likes to reinvent the wheel.

> > Forward error correction is actually cool but just using XOR is too limited.

> Pretty sure FEC was removed from the IETF draft.

Yes, did not know about that. A pity, my experiments with proper FEC showed wonders after a minimum packet loss rate was surpassed. Even better on high-latencies.
That's what I've done. Hardware RAID + XFS + NFS + backups, done. It wasn't HA, but at least I understood how to get it back up.
How a thrill-seeking personality helps Olympic athletes
Very good lesson:risk pays off. Lewandowski risked and it paid off.