skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. Me and my lady enjoy watching [some abysmal show that I won’t admit to] which is currently broadcast on one of the Australian networks. I don’t own a TV receiver, so everything is streamed.

Their site is so pitifully bad I refuse to use it. I tried, I really did. But when the ads break and you’re forced to reload the stream, only to be put back to the start, with no ability to skip forward? Sorry, no.

I wait a day and torrent the show with the ads removed. And I don’t feel the tiniest bit bad about it.
Note that IIT was heavily criticized by Scott Aaronson for producing largely nonsensical results when applied to a simple square grid of XOR gates: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1823 https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1799

It is clear to me that, whatever it is we're talking about when we're talking about consciousness, an expander graph doesn't have it.
They abandoned skeumorphism because pixel perfect design doesn't work when you have multiple size screens. At the time they had two - a 3.5 inch screen and a 9.7 inch screen. Now they have four different iPhone screen sizes and three different iPad screen sizes.
Google, Facebook, and Microsoft also make significant investments in tooling to get their monorepos to work. Picking a good package manager (or artifact repository) and making it a part company culture could be less work, depending on the context.
Neural Network for Generating HDRIs
Min. time launched before calculating customer acq. cost, lifetime value of cus
I'm looking to raise, but I think I'll get a better deal if I have some numbers regarding customer acquisition cost and lifetime value of customer.

How long does it take to get solid numbers?

Or, how solid do these numbers need to be, to get a much better deal ( than pre-revenue )?
No, they have used this profile several times in the past. The past couple droneship landing have used three engines for the landing burn (the outer engines shut down before landing).

The recent "stage that lived" was testing three engines all the way to "0" (which worked fine, apparently).

My guess is the hotter than normal reentry meant the engines were a bit tougher to relight, and they burned through more starter loads than they expected.
"pull its ads from social sites such as Facebook and YouTube if the tech companies don't do more to minimize divisive content on their platforms."

Can the divisive part also apply to any cable news networks guilty of divisiveness?
1. Accesses through pointers type-punned to something other than `(un(signed)) char` are undefined behavior.

uint64_t n = 0xdeadbeef;

uint32_t foo = (uint32_t)n; // OK

uint32_t *bar = (uint32_t*)&n; // "OK" but useless
foo = *bar; // undefined behavior!!!

uint8_t *baz = (uint8_t*)&n;
uint8_t byte = *baz; // OK, uint8_t is `unsigned char`

// Same-size integral types are OK
const volatile long long p = (const volatile long long*)&n;
const volatile long long cvll = *p; // well-defined

2. Structs are aligned to the member with the strictest alignment requirement, so a struct of a `uint64_t` and a `uint32_t` will be aligned on an 8-byte boundary, meaning its size will be 128 bits.
The article did mention that the photo was long exposure, so it may not be possible to see it easily with the naked eye. A single photon emitted occassionally would be pretty hard to see, even though the human eye can detect a single photon.
There is more to trust than advertising. You also must produce a consistent product.
Consider it as an investment portfolio. It's not necessarily about leveraging experience across brands (although that's definitely helpful) as much as it is about investing in one kind of investment (product) which behaves in a certain way.
American grocery stores have been doing this for a long time as well. Often their products taste better too because they use less added sugars and preservatives.
I am supporting OSM and have dedicated a team of three executives to do updating for OSM.

Nevertheless, I have this burning question on how can we prevent people to abuse OSM by making false edits intentionally. This is an important issue as a lot of applications depend on OSM.
HIPAA (and PCI compliance) has done little to prevent 1) in practice, especially when balanced against the huge costs it has on industry and the 'hidden' cost of crippled innovation.

You can't measure the true cost of hundreds of thousands of projects and startups that were never realized because HIPAA scared them away...and this is stuff that would have saved billions in healthcare costs, improved the public's health, and supported research/processes that could save lives.

Saying it's only a dynamic between "profit vs security" completely downplays the utility of technical progress in health care. This isn't just about quarterly profits of large mega-corporations.

As someone who started off working in the health space I can assure you I personally gave up on multiple potential projects because of HIPAA. And know of countless others who have to in spaces that seem "crazy" no one has yet built software for.

And I say this as a complete paranoid hawk on information security and privacy rights...
I didn't notice a link to "Software Engineering at Google" which is a great article that goes into the monorepo argument as well as a lot of other cool practices.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01715
Yes they do, and the math works out. About 8k people work in their two belltown towers alone.
I used to do AMS <-> LON quite a bit a few years back. It was 5 hours with eurostar door to door or about 3 for flying for me. So I only did eurostar when I had the time and wanted to look out the window or had lots of luggage. It was generally more expensive but deals could be found if booking enough in advance.
But didn't put in 3 times as much fuel? Seems like a simple oversight.
The future of mobile being Web has been promised by Apple, Palm, RIM, and Microsoft. Everytime the "future" has been worse than native apps.
I wrote my first program in 1973 but didn't get paid until 1981 for the first time. Still writing code (iOS) today. You don't meet many folks programming for that long today because there were only a few % at most of the number of programmers today. Many dropped out during that time as well.
Thanks for the link. Very cool. What are some use cases for this service?
I found myself just living for summers and then trying to grasp them like a fist full of sand as they slipped away all too quickly, leaving me to contemplate all the things I wished I'd been able to do, while staring out at the relentless gray sameness outside as another long winter arrived.
Roll-out of NLP/SR/TTS ML system automating most of customer interaction? If you are a seller on Amazon, it already feels like talking to bots when you hit some issues, maybe they can now automate most of those issue types?
Hamsters "The Wire".
> The IIT answer is that the cerebellum is highly regular, like a GPU having many units, but all doing the same thing.

Isn't the cortex also the same unit (the cortical column) repeated over and over again?
People always talk about how it takes all this tooling to have an effective monorepo— it definitely does; many moons ago I was a Googler too and experienced all the fun little perforce wrappers that would check out the portions of the tree you needed to build whatever it was you were trying to build.

But having things split across many repos also takes a lot of tooling too. So really, for each approach you're looking at which portions of it are covered by the version control system itself, and where the gaps are that have to be plugged by auxiliary stuff. And of the auxiliary stuff, how much of it is standard enough to be things you can inherit pretty much off the shelf from your distro or other ecosystem vs. something you need to actually build and maintain in-house.

Other organizational priorities come into play too, like the importance of open source in your codebase, and what your relationships are to your upstreams, if you have them. It actually surprises me that there aren't more/better tools out there that help with synchronizing commits (or portions of commits) in and out of external standalone repos. The main patch-management tool I'm aware of is Debian's quilt, which pretty much just boils down to a handful of bash scripts and arcane conventions. Why isn't there more stuff in this space?
Thank you!

1. Hummingbird looks like it's tackling a similar problem with a similar approach, though it seems focused on games (where this problem & solution are pretty well cornered by Unity.) We're currently focused on non-game web & mobile apps.

2. We're always on the lookout. Are you interested in chatting? Please email jobs@haiku.ai with a quick bit about yourself.
Licensing a movie in such a way that it can be played in France but not Poland seems as ridiculous as licensing it such that it can be played in Pennsylvania but not Minnesota. When will this Stone Age practice go away?
One or two companies own almost every widely-known beer as well.
Cannot agree more. It's only convenience for me as well. An mp4/mkv file has no ads, doesn't care about my browser version and will play perfectly on the plane or in any country. Ah, and I can have it in any language available with any subtitles. Sorry, but all that proprietary crap out there can't beat that.
> the majority of consumer internet connections in Australia have a copper last-mile serving ADSL2+.

Half the point of laying fiber was _because_ of all the old copper and how unusable it has become. Exceptionally short-sighted.
The Detroit Auto Show (and most others) are dead, they just haven't stopped moving yet. Year after year the displays have shrunk, and the focus has turned to the LA auto show, and Chicago. I think we'll see the show circuit collapse down to one, maybe two, premiere shows and the rest will go away.
This is smart, decreasing the hurdles to contributions will inevitably result in more contributions. Economics 101. And I don't think it necessarily follows that they will be lower quality either, maybe for first time contributors, but we all start at the same place and have to learn. More first time contributors will also lead to more repeat contributors.
Huh. So you're saying I should see them as shareholders rather than normal companies?
> There is no one thing that can go wrong on a 747 that will down the aircraft.

C'mon, that's demonstrably false.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_981 involved a poorly sealing latch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_123 involved a single poorly repaired bulkhead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800 may have been a spark in the fuel tank.

Plenty of other examples on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Airliner_accidents_an...
Oni v0.3.0 released – modern modal editing
I had the exact opposite, started with iPhone, switched to Android.

Always stayed on Windows though
Apart from tunnelling all traffic, Has anyone checked to see how malicious the Onavo installer is? The pessimist in me expects SSL root certs and even keylogg-e-r-s - apologies, dictionary personalisation profiles.
Unless your time travel method is gravitationaly bound (then you probably just end up inside something or x distance in the air).
There's a lot of comparisons between Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap, and I think this one is valid: when Wikipedia first started out, its mission was to populate new articles. As most topics became fleshed out, they transitioned to having higher editorial standards (ignoring the various dramas for now) and spending more time curating existing articles.

OpenStreetMap is in that 'early' phase: tons of edits are adding new data for fundamental things: streets, houses, addresses, land uses. And it has a barrier to entry - you have to be a tiny bit nerdy to confidently make edits. But in the not-so-distant future, it will need to transition to more and more maintenance and data quality tasks.

Personally, I think a good intermediate step will be to embed better and more automated review processes. The simplest one is in use by companies/agencies that use the data already:

1. Take a snapshot of your region. Vet it for your use case and deploy.

2. Grab a new snapshot at a later date (time to update the service). Look at the changes - is anything wrong or popping out at you? If so, fix it, then download + deploy.

If this becomes the primary means of adding data to OSM, a similar two-step process could be embedded into the contribution mode: Add data, then get the edit reviewed. Plus, there are automated tools to spot and characterize changes already (e.g. QA tiles) and they'll only get better.
> but when you miss a flight because of train delay, tough luck.

Solution for that is to put the airline checkin at the train station and make getting your from there to your destination the airlines problem.

Which brings up the issue that transportation networks are often hopelessly Balkanized. At least in the US.
I'll give a very simple example that shows the power of blockchains. I needed to receive a very large sum of money from a foreign country.

Half was paid in cryptocurrency, and half was paid in cash via the traditional banking system.

It took 3+ weeks for the money to make it through the banking system.

It took 15 minutes for the cryptocurrency to arrive. I don't get how anyone can not see the obvious merit to this system
No idea if that’s Apple’s issue, but I find it easy to believe. Many PMs have made life shitty in the course of my career.
> Do you feel more satisfied with fiction when powerful villains are, by some miraculous stroke of luck, brought to justice? Or do you feel more satisfied with the logical consistency of stories where the powerful can mostly get away with crimes, because that's what power is?

Given those two choices, I prefer logic. But, I would prefer justice if it wasn't "by some miraculous stroke of luck".

I'll check out the show first. I already have Netflix, but haven't bought the book yet.
Yes according to [0]. Just look at their campus map [1]. It is massive and some of those buildings are dozens of stories tall.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/4kc8ovgnyf996yn

[1]: https://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/7...
Note though that once the market is majority passive - which seems likely within the next decade - it actually is theoretically possible for active to slightly outperform passive.
> The ISS is way too high maintenance for a profitable business.

The ISS was never meant to be a "profitable business."

> Putting humans in space is too expensive.

It's an investment. If humans do not go into space, we are destined to be a one planet species, which carries its own health risks (comets, and other high speed massive objects that would be ridiculously hard to deflect, for example).

> Further study into the effects of space on humans for the purposes of leaving Earth due to some apocalypse is very exagerated as well. Even in a bad apocalyptic scenario, the resulting Earth would still be better to live in than any

Just because the surface of Mars is not habitable in its current state, I'd much rather be living in a box over there than on an Earth subjected to the 1918 Flu Pandemic v2.0 or the inevitable collapse of the US (all nations collapse, don't kid yourself thinking this one won't).

> The pictures from back from Juno, New Horizons, the Mars rovers, and the Hubble continue to inspire the future generations, and earn support from the general populace already.

It's not about "inspiring" or "earning support." I'm guessing you are from a previous generation where space travel was a great race to be the first to orbit, first to the Moon, etc. That 'motivation' should have died in the 1970s, but I see it is still alive and well amongst civilians. Politicians invest in space travel for national prestige, but there is real scientific value in studying how humans function in space.
> Better Legitimate Alternatives

By no way can a vendor-locked, regionally-policied, DRMed thing be considered a "better alternative", IMHO. I would rather pay twice (or even more) the price of the legitimate alternatives to just legalize the usage of unlimited, no-nonsence, DRM-free standard-format files exchange if only this was legally possible.
Boston Dynamics’ Unsettling Robodog Can Now Escape Through (Unlocked) Doors
Not at all. I wouldn't even argue that the cortical column is the main organizational unit.
Is this just go-faster-juice for Tensorflow code or does it have other implications? If you train on TPUs can you still run the model efficiently elsewhere?
Cox added 1TB caps in the Phoenix area in 2017. Only other competition is CenturyLink, which is DSL and in most places only provides 20-40 down/1 up. I think they're starting to up it to 60/80/100 down and up to 40 up in some places, though.
Firstly if you have time, I'd recommend watching Max Landis' Wresting Isn't Wrestling [1]. Warning, its a 30 minutes comedy, but to get his message you really do have to watch it all.

Just as Landis says, most of wrestling sucks. Its poorly choreographed, the storylines can make no sense (why does a communist boar want to fight a football coach?), or straight depressing (people well past their prime, ala Mickey Rourke's character in The Wrestler).

However, there is something magical to having the empathetic bound with an indie wrestler. You know that are doing for the love, because they might be paid $0, even after driving hours to the show. In Mick Foley's books, he talks about how he slept in his car eating a tablespoon of peanut butter to train at a particular school.

In addition, its story driven, much like any soap opera. Characters come and go and some stay and change. These characters arcs are the appeal to audience members, but they take longer levels of commitment to develop. Once they are there, its near impossible to remove the need to keep up with the story, even on a minimal level. I don't watch RAW every Monday, but I still make sure to check /r/SquaredCircle on Reddit for the latest news/videos.

In one podcast, I recall Shawn Michaels (former wrestler, now a born again Christian) talk about how wrestling consumers very, very similar to Christian consumer. In his example, he was promoting a Christian redemption movie (The Resurrection of Gavin Stone) he stared in. It doesn't necessarily have to be the worlds greatest, but they will spend money on it because it explicitly it supporting one of the consumers' major interests.

Plus, who doesn't think some of the moves just LOOK BADASS?!

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYvMOf3hsGA
> The fix, he said, was "pretty obvious."

I've said the same before many software bugs or family computer problems that ended up being all nighters on :P

But I'm sure SpaceX will get through this,,,
You can do it like this: https://godbolt.org/g/r6WruQ
Right, but the entire point is that 64 bits is PLENTY. The default block size is 128KB.

So 2^64 * block size = 2417851639229258349412352 bytes

Or 2147483648 PB. Sure there might be distributed systems that are mind boggling large, but those aren't in a single filesystem attached to a single node.

ZFS would be a better filesystem with "only" 64 bit blocks.

Today's higher density nodes are something like 48 disks * 12TB, so approximately 2 per PB. 12 per rack would be 6PB. So 178,956,970 racks consuming 300 times the annual production on earth and you'd start wishing for that 65th bit. All in a single OS connecting to a single storage system.

Or you could assume that in the next few decades you'd be batshit crazy to want to install that much storage on a single zfs system and half the overhead of every pointer into the filesystem.
Peter G. Neumann at SRI worked for Howard Aiken at Harvard
programming the Mark IV in 1954 [1]. His short biography
says he has been a computer professional since 1953 [2]

As far as I know, he is still active at SRI in computer security, with publications on computer hardware/software
design as recently as 2015 [3][4].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/science/peter-g-neumann-an...

[2] http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/short.bio

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/science/rethinking-the-com...

[4] http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/#2
So do you de-friend people if you get a job with them? Or do you regard people you add after you've finished working with them as 'real Facebook friends' and let them stay privy to your social life?

I know I've definitely experienced a bit of a 'chilling effect' on the stuff I post since adding a few former colleagues. Tech is a small town and you never know who you'll be working with next year.
>It would be one thing if we were in dire straights as a company.

Oh, so as long as the company is profitable, it should just throw money at employees that are no longer adding net value?

>Imho, this is just short-sighted nonsense so some senior leader can hit an arbitrary goal and get a bonus.

Based on what? Reading an article with no internal insight and absolutely no knowledge of the business itself? Sounds more like you have an ax to grind.

>I wonder if Alexa or AWS are hiring.

I mean, you didn't even read the article.
I think you may be referring to an image from this What-If article, where the capacity of a gallon of MicroSD cards is estimated at 1.6PB per gallon:

https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
Yes, Amazon is known for its short-sightedness...
Didn’t FB just dial down it’s toxicity quite a bit?
Maybe your ISP is specifically throttling Netflix, but not their speed test?
Sounds like the advertiser needs to create a progression of videos/display ads instead of showing the same one. I work for a company that provides tools to create such ads. Maybe they need me. :D We definitely know how many times we've shown ads to which people (even across devices).
I think you misunderstand the argument made by many who say "a corporation is people". "Corporate personhood" is just a word the left uses to make it sound crazy.

In reality, the argument is that you can't restrict a corporation's speech because using a corporation to speak is merely a form or method people use to speak.

You could speak via billboards, grass roots organizations, a radio show, lettets, or even a company you own.

The government can't curtail your speech no matter the method.
It's not about responsibility, it's about the unnecessary red-tape.
AWS Re:Invent 2017 – Introducing Amazon SageMaker
Why do you suspect the Onavo installer to be malicious?
> wave 1

I've found that regular pruning keeps my utility on Facebook very high. I only really have to visit it once a week (as my newsfeed doesn't stream all that fast with only ~50 friends) and it's highly relevant. Apart from the constant nags to friend people that I don't know, that is - Facebook seems to take issue with my succinct friends list.

> forwarded memes

People who I give a damn about are posting to my timelines, so even the memes are mostly enjoyable. If they aren't, there is usually something enjoyable soon after precisely because my timeline moves so slowly: the signal to noise ratio is pretty good.

The downfall of Facebook is in limited ways PEBCAK. Facebook encourages degenerate use of the platform, but you don't have to fall for it.
Overly pedantic quibble: a quantum of anything is the minimum possible unit. One planck length, time, mass, charge, temperature.

Everybody uses it to mean "big". Oh, language.
Oh, God no!

I like to watch the first episode of a new show to see if I'll like it. But this is one show I deeply, I say again deeply regret watching. I'll never get those 22 minutes of my life back.

The show is cringeworthy. It's one of the un-funniest sitcoms (can they call it that?) I've ever seen. It's that bad.

Everything has a price, but I wouldn't watch another episode unless they paid me $100. And if the second episode was as bad as the first, they would need to keep doubling that payment for each additional episode.