skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on the scale, really. When you only account for a small % of traffic, your impact to subscription revenue is also small, to the point where they can just bucket any cost or revenue loss under the marketing budget.

We still integrated with many of them (for years now at this point), with quarterly meetings with their senior management. They limit our integration to some small % of their traffic, undesirable articles, low flight risk users, or low loyalty users.

We're letting them control their revenue risks, and they're all just slow, risk-adverse, engineering resource limited, and enjoying the high Trump brought back to the press.
I read their response as not limiting themselves to a single character (which you have too, if I read you correctly). If they use a text column, it's practically arbitrarily large. I believe the limit is around 1GB in Postgres. They've also dismissed concerns of storage, so it's a price they're willing to pay.
Could you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow those rules when posting here? They include: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work." Doing that dumbs this place down, and we're hoping for better.
Well, let's look at an atheistic country, say the Soviet Union. They certainly had no moral qualms about mass human experimentation and genocide when it suited their purpose.

On the other hand, even Islam, the most violent of the big religions, still teaches from the Koran that every person has something divine in them that gives them value. Islam has not conducted killings at the same scale as the atheistic regimes have.
RTK is changing the world -- this is an introduction.

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100M ton Tsar Bomba, surface explosion just outside the Golden Gate bridge.

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=100000&lat=37.813996...
Funny you should ask:

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/2qawmFix...
Ask HN: How did the dot com bust affect develop salaries post 2000?
I was not yet a developer in 2000 when we went through the cycle of boom to bust.

Curious to know how developer salaries changed at the time. Looking for a reference point for if something similar was to happen again now.
I’ve looked into the extension school a few times but never went forward due to lack of good first hand success stories. Mind if I drop you an email in the future? Anonymous email is fine if you prefer (saw your below comment).

Or you can ping me (in profile).
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perfectly understand your concerns. Thanks again and wish you well on your journey!!!
I agree that client-side UI modifications tend to be faster if no server round-trip is necessary.

Rendering HTML will, however, tend to be faster than having a client parse and interpret JSON, and then manipulate the (shadow) DOM accordingly.

And then it always felt wrong to me that I have to force countless clients to do the exact same view transformations, which could have been done once, on the server, and cached.

For a new project, I'm prerendering HTML fragments via AJAX with IntercoolerJS - it's a pleasure to work with, and the developer and user get both the best experience of those two worlds: A dynamic, blazingly fast UI that feels like an SPA, but degrades gracefully even for the Emacs-w3m user and Googlebot.

I also found it's really worth it to move servers or reverse proxies closer to the client - independent of client/server rendering. Users shouldn't wait more than 200ms for an Ajax request to finish.
I think that instead of trying to create a tsunami, it might be slightly more effective to drive one straight into a port/city, and detonate at the surface.

New York: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?t=a1c1cd0eeccb2488024ace...

San Francisco: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=100000&lat=37.747095...
Why bring up Putin? It is possible to be in NATO but not the EU.
Early 2000's was the heyday of illegal music services though. Audiogalaxy being the best but things like Napster and Limewire and emule were just too tempting for any legal alternative to swoop in yet.
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The Soviet Union may have been atheistic, but whatever problems it had don't stem from your complaint upthread about atheistic persons not having a belief in right and wrong; Leninism is no less an exclusive, total ideology of right and wrong than those associated with theistic systems.
> a) at least on unix the libc is certainly considered part of the OS

Maybe on proper UNIX (and BSDs) where you have the whole base system as more or less one package, but on Linux certainly not. Honestly the whole concept of "OS" does not make that much sense on traditional Linux distros. You could consider a whole distro an OS, but then the phrase is so all-encompassing that it becomes meaningless. On the other hand calling just the kernel "OS" is not quite right either.

> b) malloc has to get the memory from the OS eventually, via sbrk or mmap.

Yes, eventually and occasionally. But there is fairly big disconnect between malloc and OS. You got me curious, so I did run the code from the article with few different NUM_ALLOCS values to see how it behaves. These are the results from glibc malloc on my system:

Benchmark: Allocate/free 10000000 memory chunks (4-128 bytes)...
70.310378 ns / alloc
% time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
100.00 0.023622 4 5996 brk

Benchmark: Allocate/free 1000000 memory chunks (4-128 bytes)...
171.745062 ns / alloc
% time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
100.00 0.250319 17 15004 brk

Benchmark: Allocate/free 100000 memory chunks (4-128 bytes)...
33.700466 ns / alloc
% time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
100.00 0.000203 3 63 brk

Benchmark: Allocate/free 10000 memory chunks (4-128 bytes)...
30.589104 ns / alloc
% time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
0.00 0.000000 0 9 brk

Benchmark: Allocate/free 1000 memory chunks (4-128 bytes)...
26.941299 ns / alloc
% time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
100.00 0.000008 2 4 brk

Note how the syscall count blows up at NUM_ALLOCS=1000000, which just happens to be the original value from the article. Yes, I checked and glibc did not fall back to mmap in any of these cases. You can already start seeing why this might not be the best of benchmarks.

Then just for fun, I tried using jemalloc, which is a drop-in replacement for standard malloc. These are the results:

Benchmark: Allocate/free 10000000 memory chunks (4-128 bytes)...
68.486404 ns / alloc
% time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
100.00 0.000186 4 47 mmap
0.00 0.000000 0 2 brk

Benchmark: Allocate/free 1000000 memory chunks (4-128 bytes)...
59.097052 ns / alloc
% time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
96.45 0.000544 16 33 mmap
3.55 0.000020 10 2 brk

Benchmark: Allocate/free 100000 memory chunks (4-128 bytes)...
54.659843 ns / alloc
% time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
0.00 0.000000 0 24 mmap
0.00 0.000000 0 2 brk

Well, well, well. It certainly paints a very different picture.
I think the mathematical sciences see peer review as less of a requirement than the experimental -- in theory, anyone can verify a proof for themselves. But in experimental science you really need someone familiar with the techniques to make sure that they did all the needed controls and didn't do any shortcuts and that's what peer review is useful for.
The downvotes of your comment once again confirm how tolerant HN is of different opinions. The people downvoting you are the same people who call themselves progressive and open-minded. As long as they agree with it of course.
It does seem like the Obama campaigns got preferential access to Facebook data. Data for even more people than CA got. And perhaps the Clinton campaign did as well, or at least got access to the older data.

What distinguishes CA and the Trump campaign is how well the data was used. CA staff apparently just did a better job at using the data to manipulate people. Their canvassing app. Using bots on Facebook and Twitter. Plus entrepreneurs from Eastern Europe or whatever. And maybe they went further, discouraging potential Clinton and Sanders supporters fron voting.

But anyway, the key point isn't whether CA or Obama/Clinton got more data from Facebook, or whether Facebook willingly helped Obama/Clinton. The key point is how well voters can now be manipulated. It's another level in the problem that money buys political power. And it's arguably how AI could do the same.
Awesome! Best of luck to your team.
Also, I got rejected twice (!) at Microsoft and didn't even get an interview at Amazon, so I can sympathize with "GoogleyAsHeck." Clearly hiring is a very noisy process with a lot of randomness. A lot of it is beyond your control no matter how much preparation is done.
It might have been cheaper, but my conduit is full and won't handle the extra size. I trenched and buried that in the rock years before I learned to always oversize any conduit, especially ones that I have to trench and bury.
5 years? PUBG is probably the first massively successful battle royale game and it's not been 2 years yet.

H1Z1/Rust/etc are all a continuous survivalist game and other games were mostly mods.

I'm personally excited to see where Activision or EA take the genre (Blizzard too but I don't see that happening anytime soon).
That's roughly where I'm at. WaPo takes the place of CNN.com for me, and NYT takes the place of Slate or The Atlantic, for when I just want to burn a few minutes reading.
> Once you've established yourself as untrustworthy you can't talk your way out of it

Can't you? I mean clearly this is a common opinion, it's the basis of the American belief that all crimes should result in 30 year prison sentences. But I don't see why you should think this way.
How does this show that data mining isn't an abuse of expectation? The reason this is even an article in the first place is presumably because it conflicts directly with expected use.
> No one who is concerned about the well-being of black students, in the legal academy or elsewhere, should welcome public scrutiny of the relative academic performance of those black students who are benefiting from the practice of affirmative action at elite universities! And yet, this is what the pillorying of Amy Wax will surely lead to. I promise you, as someone who knows a thing or two about what's going on at the most selective academic institutions in this country, no good can come of that.

I'd kind of like to know what would come from that, and how it would be detrimental to "the well-being of black students".
I wonder at what depth a nuclear sub would detonate. It does seem conceivable that it might surface. The fallout model relies on the fireball touching land, so the part that is over water would have less impact. However, with a bomb that size, the water might consist of only a fraction of the total area.
Was this the thing that would put up a notification on your Facebook profile that you just bought a dildo from Amazon (for instance)?
Banker? I know him only as a columnist and have found him to be one of the most sober analysts around.
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Except that the dude is measuring every individual cell (remaining capacity, resistance, ...) and then builds his power packs from the good cells. Just look at his channel, he has lots of videos about the process and multiple thousand cells to choose from.
I disagree. Even with the current peer review system in mathematics, false proofs have made it into the literature. Who knows how many more would creep in if we did away with peer review?
What's amusing to me is how closely this resembles the path that some of us went down in film rendering.

If that history is any guide, the hybrid approach here is likely to be a short-lived stop-gap before moving on to full ray tracing for everything. It quickly becomes annoying have to maintain the code paths and the data structures for both rasterization and ray tracing. You have to keep the two carefully in sync (e.g., tessellating to the same level, using the same LoD levels, displacements the same) or you'll get weird artifacts. Even then, numeric precision can still bite you; surface acne and ray trace bias issues are worse than usual when the launch points for your rays are computed by an entirely different rendering technique.

Things get a lot easier when you have just the one codepath and set of data structures. Not to mention that ray tracing for primary visibility tends to be fairly cheap since that's when the rays are the most coherent. A lot of the ray tracing research back in the aughts dealt with efficient acceleration structure traversal and intersection for tightly coherent bundles of rays. People have been ray casting for a long time. I think the bigger deal is that it's only in the past decade where we finally have enough compute power to really start to handle the less coherent secondary rays at real-time rates.
Interesting, that is same as the number of times "sorry" and "apologize" was used apparently.
I have a question. How do you speed up the database CRUD operations when the number of records fitting a certain criteria may range to 10000 or more. It takes a lot of time to get this over the network and the user is not going to use/see all of it at once. Given such constraints, how do you speed up the query so that there's little to no lag time for the user(at least for say first 100 records).
I'm not sure why you keep on repeating that line, it's just a statement of fact. There were hundreds (if not thousands) of FB apps from that time period that pulled comparable social graphs before FB switched to the v2 Graph API in 2015. What CA did beyond this is that (1) they collected their political data under the guise of a personality test, without any indication to users what their data would be used for, and (2) the data was used for political microtargeting (in violation of FB's TOS) instead of just sending voluntary messages to friends.

If you know of any evidence that Obama's campaign broke either the law or FB's ToS, please let me know.
> Inflation is a tax on wealth

Part of wealth that's stored in cash or fixed-rate debt instruments. Most other assets - real estate, equities, floating-rate debt instruments - adjust accordingly.
> In 2015, [...], so we immediately banned Kogan's app from our platform,

> Last week, [...] We immediately banned them from using any of our services.

Can someone explain how they banned them twice, or what the differences are between FB's "platform" and their "services" ??
Even with their data policies, FB (and any ad platform) enables massive data-mining by the third parties which host the ad exchanges and destinations.

And microtargeting can be abused (or just plain used, depending on your perspective) to infer only additional data by incorporating it into the 3P analysis once users click and start loading non-FB content. Microtargeting by its nature leaks information about the target segments ...

Figuring out the data FB uses to microtarget is simply a matter of buying enough ads, or getting in the middle of enough campaign-to-user relationships (as a central 3P ad exchange or tracking service).
Lol.

Inflation is taxation only for those who can’t afford to invest their “wealth” in assets like real estate. How progressive!
I can't access Facebook page, because I followed yesterday's HN post on adding list of FB domains to my hosts list :)

But from reading HNers comments, it doesn't seem I missed anything.
The whole reason they charge money is that not everyone who wants to read the papers has access. I work for government cancer lab. We subscribe to a lot of journals. Even so, I see these paywalls come up regularly because we can't subscribe to all journals.
Yes but the example given was Iceland where the opposite happened: debt (and more importantly interest payments) was denominated in a currency that appreciated against the currency where the revenue to pay the debt was being generated.
You've made a better case for it than I'd imagined! But is it necessary? IMO the damage of internet shame-memeing is larger than the local benefit.

The point isn't to defend Zuckerberg, btw; it's to defend the quality of this community. If we're to realize our dreams of doing marginally better than internet median, we need people to check their worst instincts here.
"We will reduce the data you give an app when you sign in -- to only your name, profile photo, and email address" -- Profile photos can be used to infer age, gender and ethnicity.

So the above statement should be "...name, email address, age, ethnicity, gender and countless other things future ML systems can infer from profile pics."
Old news

https://www.theverge.com/2014/11/24/7255199/slack-alters-pri...
I see no support for the title in the article. On the other hand, there is evidence to suggest smaller genomes have been an asset to flowering plants:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/with-downsized-dna-flowering-...
Which school?
It was reported here by some Clojurists and I took their word for it.
Think more in terms of killing a whole carrier battle group in one shot, or closing a major port (for a long time) due to blast damage and radiation. Larger bombs are diriter bombs, and detonating in water is pretty much the dirtiest use of a dirty bomb.

In short, this is a strategic terror weapon, an area denial weapon, and a radiological weapon.
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This is why I never got into the elk craze. Especially coming from oldschool syslog/syslog-ng/rsyslog/journald/etc... and usually searched from the command line.

For some reason though the past few years companies and people have become obsessed with gui's, and nagios/cacti were falling out of favor, so people started just dumping elk/graylog so randoms could quickly and easily get that gui... without considering the resource requirements and lack of scalability. (graylog2 fixed a lot of the graylog problems)

It seems a lot of managers also started wanting gui-dashboards, which is probably the big reason behind the push. Regardless, I don't think the trend is going away, so the market is ripe for disruption for something that does the same thing but faster and with less resources. The real problem is most of the competitors for some reason decided proprietary was the way to go, and the people using these tools don't want more proprietary bullshit in their stack.

The feature that makes them different from other web-gui-graphing tools though is the search/query customization.
I am mostly worried about the bait and switch. If this feature was only applied to messages after the announcement then that would be fine. I am sure many of you have had conversations over slack thinking well it was okay because nobody could see them.
It's not different. If police started arresting people for letting their adult mentally handicapped dependents do reasonably independent things, then it might be a good idea to pass some legislation to modify the relevant law.
Yeah, because overall there's far fewer black people than white people (13% vs 77%), and many more places it's dangerous for them to be.

A white guy wandering in the Baltimore ghettos is liable to be robbed, but no worse. But a black guy in the wrong place is liable to have the police called, which carries the threat of death.
"it's generally called a war crime."

Or UK strategic bombing policy in WW2... the Nazis even called the allied bombing "terror attacks".
You can do the math, it's not that hard.

Toys r US's numbers were significantly below where they'd need to be at to survive. It's unclear why you think we should infringe on banks ability to decide who to lend money to and what collateral to require.
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I've used these and they're good. Their digestive enzymes are good as well. I wouldn't trust any of non-refrigerated grocery store brands.
http://www.giprohealth.com/probiotics.aspx

You can also get Rx probiotics from a pharmacy (in single use packets). I think they are pretty expensive without insurance though (around $250 for a month's worth) but may be cheaper than the above if you only have a co-pay.

You can also make your own yogurt. Letting the yogurt ferment a full 24 hours instead of 4 to 8 produces a lot more of the probiotics and reduces the amount of lactic acid left, but can be a pain to make (normal yogurt makers will usually overheat).
Everyone there too rich for jailtime?
Disaster? This is the greatest thing to ever happen to Europe. I don't understand why humans cling to heritage when that heritage is despicable, disgusting, immoral, hateful, and violent. Extremely fucking violent. This nastiness can't go away fast enough. Europe has become an amazing place in the last couple of decades and I have no doubt this is one of the reasons. It really is like cutting out an organ and then finding out it was just cancer, not an actual organ.

The alternative is that we can always bring back the witch hunts, the crusades, the Spanish inquisition, pogroms, the Holocaust, and so on and so on. Oh such terrible losses. How will we ever live without such things that are our heritage? I miss them already. /s
HPC != super computer, and hasn’t for 10+ years now. Just like mainframes (for most tasks) have been replaced by clusters, so have super computers (for most tasks).
I was responding to the claim that increased privacy would lead to possibly unacceptable price increases. I accept as axiomatic that increased privacy reduces profits, because, for one, you can't sell data that is private let alone the regulatory burden. My position is that these vociferous critiques of even minor bequests to the public are ill founded.
USA. I'm currently on an L1B (which is difficult to get and renew, and only renews once). To get an H1B I need that degree, and it helps if it's related to the field.
I'm pretty sure that polls like that are ineffective for discerning the impact of any type of marketing. The best evidence I can think of for whether somebody found something influential is whether they liked or re-shared a post, and there's plenty of evidence for that. Those are, after all, the sorts of metrics typically used for measuring the success of a social media campaign: https://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/10-metrics-to-track-for-...
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> Obama's campaign said they were scraping for academic purposes, downloaded a bunch of data and then lied about deleting it?

Fair point. But wondering if anyone asked them to delete it, and then went about verifying it later? I am guessing nobody bothered too hard because as the person in charge of the strategy said "Facebook were on our side"

https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975568208886484997

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They [Facebook] were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.

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The ecosystem and the community is fantastic. But I have to say, Rust is a harsh mistress. Guess I need more practise.
And just wait till it is joined up with the Equifax data and the Spectrum Health data. Fun times ahead for sure!