skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> most people don't care what's missing

That's a misleading metric, as I'd assume "most people" in any country mostly care about sharing lowbrow content on social media.

Also it's hard to consciously miss what you don't know exists. Apparently some of the sensitive topics in China have been so suppressed that many younger people aren't even aware of them and have few ways of finding out.
>Are they going to shoot down thousands of Starlink satellites?

I wouldn't rule it out.

>That's a massive disaster in space that would destroy their own satellites.

As long as it hurts the US more than it hurts them.
My bet is not because of malware but because of govt pressures.
The F-35 promised a major a leap in technological capability. However, technology is not at the point where it deliver on that promise.
As a software engineer, I can relate to the difficulty of joining multiple sources of data. This is something that AI can potentially do very well.
I foresee the next generation of F-series aircrafts having something more akin to an AI co-pilot. This would prevent information overload.
Instead of a pilot ingesting hundreds of data points, they could have a simple interface and all the cohesion handled by the AI.
It's not obvious to me: why wouldn't someone using OCaml use QT? I see some bindings; is there something that makes QT less appropriate than GTK, e.g. C++ vs. C?
The Russian engines they were initially prototyped with, or the Chinese engines they're planning for the production version?

I'm not sure it's hugely relevent though. The F35 procurement was structurally unsound. The result is an aircraft that's a jack of all trades and a master of none..

...or nearly none. I understand it currently holds a marginal and very expensively won advantage at long range air-to-air. Or at least it will once all the kinks are ironed out.
I really wish Google would step up and put some of its power to use and stop Stephanie (My Google listing expert) from calling me (and probably thousands of others) 3 times a day. I have given them plenty of info and even offered to buy their bullshit so they can follow the money. Google couldn't be any less interested.
In a word, Yes. The median salary in Alabama is $41,657, these would be high paying jobs relatively speaking.

The only upside is their stated unemployment rate is sitting around 3.5%.
Catwings series by Ursula K. Le Guin
I was about to install it, but then didn't because of all the access rights it wants. Why does it need my called id and information on who I call?
Will we be able to use the Citus extension? Been itching to get Citus running on GCP.
Sorry if what I said offended you!

> I think any effort to change that could have a positive effect on workplace productivity and moral.

Of course. But in most big companies, that's just CEO speak, business goes on as usual 2 days later. Musk already has a cult of personality, this type of email makes it sound even more like it'd be a good place to work (which it might be, but not because of the line you quoted).
Have you tried these tutorials https://github.com/magomimmo/modern-cljs ?
After 30 days, you start paying 0.02% of your monthly income but you'll save 20%
Can you speculate on what these APIs will look like? JS is well suited for dealing with cross-browser incompatibilities because of its reflection support. That is much harder to build in a low-level target like WASM. COM is an example of what we might get, and that is not a pleasant prospect.
I got excited about the headline, because I whole-heartedly agree with the statement, but then the author’s answer was to reinvent HTML with doodads.

I was hoping this would be a call for a higher order of expression which could be interpreted by lower order frameworks, but alas. I think the author is confusing the technology with the tools. The tools for building interfaces haven’t changed a whole lot in the last decade.
Thanks for the idea! Supporting things like anonymous login or username/password is definitely something we're considering. :)
Sounds like a replay of Next.
> It's never appropriate for, e.g., a PostgreSQL package to create a postgres account and configure a postgres service running as that account -- this is not how I want to run postgres

I don't mind it creating a postgres account, but what I do mind is the package automatically enabling the service, and starting the service.

Even worse, on Linux, most packages will be helpful, for example upgrading the MongoDB package on CentOS? It'll helpfully restart the service for you.

Nevermind that you've just scripted this and it's being run on all of the servers all at once so instead of doing a nice easy rolling upgrade WHEN you are finally ready, it's done at the same time.

I hate this behaviour. Let me worry about the lifetime of processes, don't auto enable them, don't auto configure them, let me worry about making sure systemd knows it is time to start/stop them.

FreeBSD let's me upgrade packages all day long, and until I restart the service, nothing happens. That way I can upgrade the packages, make sure everything looks good, then restart the service.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H
The downside to Athena/PrestoDB is you need to get the data into an optimal format/file size to get the best performance (e.g. Parquet or other columnar format)

This is fine for batch workloads where 'real time', i.e. latency of < 5 minutes, ideally < 1 minute, isn't much of a concern.

but adds complication if you need to make data available quickly, because you either adopt some hybrid approach where you have 'recent' data in database and everything else in S3 - meaning your query layer has added complexity.

I believe this is how BigQuery works with streaming inserts, where recent streamed data is actually stored in BigTable, and asynchronously copied into Capacitor over time (this might be outdated information)

So while BigQuery seems expensive, the other solutions have a lot of other costs that you need to factor in!
Occam's Razor doesn't say that the simplest explanation is automatically true; it just says that if we can't know for sure, and we have to choose between two equally valid hypotheses, then we might as well assume the simpler one.

This being a real-world situation, it should be possible to figure out what's really going on, which is what California seems to be doing. No reason to make unwarranted assumptions either way in the mean time.
> Given our ability to precision target planes with missiles delivered by drones, what's the point of the F-35?

The F-35 has a smaller radar cross section than the F-22 which has a smaller radar cross section than the B-2 which has a smaller radar cross section than the F-117. The B-2's radar cross section was described as a bumble bee. If you combine that with ECMs and support for EW like Growlers, the F-35 becomes difficult to shoot down with missiles.

During the initial stages of an armed conflict, the first thing you do is go after your opponent's air superiority. That means targeting Radars, SAMs, runways, and Drone stations. This is where the F-35 is suppose to shine. It works in squadrons of 8 or more simultaneously spot, targeting, and engaging multiple targets.

How do you counter that? Will an air superiority fighter playing an intercept role to engage and take out the attacking force. That's where the F-22 comes into play. The F-22 is an air superiority fighter that will provide operational support to the F-35 engaging any threats well before they can pose a risk to the F-35.
Why not cite your claims about Amazon with a news article, just show good faith
Because there is a very long causal chain between raw physical phenomena and your perceptions. Your equipment could be faulty. You could be suffering from hallucinations. You could be a brain in a vat.

Example: I want to test if evolution is true. I hypothesize that if evolution is not true, then God will give me some sort of sign, e.g. I pray to God to make a coin that I flip come up heads if evolution is false. I flip the coin and it comes up tails. I conclude that evolution is true. That conclusion would be wrong even if evolution is true.
I did say 'probably'. If someone can speak more than 12 languages they're a hyperpolyglot. You'll probably find as many living Nobel Prize winners as hyperpolyglots.

Plus I live in Belgium and my partner speaks 5 languages.

I think the comment still stands for most mere mortals.
"EPG takes a step toward agents that are not blank slates but instead know what it means to make progress on a new task, by having experienced making progress on similar tasks in the past."
Can someone explain to me how they take a step? It seems like they just use random search define a loss function for the sub-policy to optimize against. Is it because the loss function is "learned" over the sequence of actions, making it adaptive?
In that case you might appreciate this quote by Steve Jobs

"Everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you"
Why not? Alabama isn’t exactly a worker friendly state.
Unfortunately last time I used CloudSQL for MySQL it was incredibly unstable. They would take down our master AND standby at the same time for maintenance. When we filed a ticket they just said it was a known bug with no plans to fix.

A major client of mine migrated to AWS because of this and other issues.
It could be reasonable to save up for a down payment in an investment vehicle that moves with the size of the down payment needed.
Misleading.

Oracle will charge companies for extra updates after Jan 2019 for Java SE 8.

The very large majority of companies will be fine using the existing Java SE 8 or they'll upgrade to 9+.
well, i second his story. I know a guy who got serious issues with his shoulder from working at Tesla. He is low income, large family so no skills/time/resources to pursue his case (his description was along the lines of Tesla just refusing to pay)
Police order maybe?
Most people talk in offices. Many including to themselves. Most people don't have issues with it. You will be happier if you adapt to the world, rather than asking the world to adapt to you.

Since you're new, you should probably read the HN guidelines regarding the types of things to avoid.
If you plan to use it for your personal traditional storage HDD, you have to keep in mind that it will render most (if not all) data recovery tools naught. Tools such as PhotoRec rely on the file headers to determine the file type to recover the data.

I have a long-term storage HDD that I thought I would never need data recovery on it until I fucked it up good by a wrong partitioning command. Normally those types of mistakes can be recovered by TestDisk but not that time. I realized my only hope was to use PhotoRec to recover what I can from the garbage that I overwrote on the disk. Thanks to PhotoRec I could recover most of them with messed up names. I was so thankful I didn't use any fancy compression algorithm.

Tools such as LVM, SSD backing storage, btrfs, compression and stuff are all nice when you understand their limitations. For now, I don't use all of my storage so I just create ext3, ext4, and exFAT partitions to store my data for the maximal chance of recovery, whether it is due to hardware or software.
It is a valid strategy to invest a small amount into a lot of ICOs, hoping that a few will rise very high and therefore make up for the loss of the rest. That's actually more or less what many VCs do, after all. As long as the majority of ICOs is honest, the occasional scam doesn't make much of a difference with that strategy.

Investing a lot of money just into one or only a few ICOs is insane, of course.
If a proposed high rise is near a BRT line or rail, a reasonable zoning code shouldn't mangle it or block its construction.
the author specifically excluded cli editors for what seamed to be reasonable reasons.
There is interesting psychology when it comes to learning. I'm a big believer that those who pay, pay attention.

Meaning, as a baseline, if I pay for a training I'm going to get more out of it because I'm psychologically motivated to do so because of the financial investment.

There are other ways to make someone "feel like they have skin in the game" but a price tag works.

The most recent online training I purchased was Brennan Dunn's "Double Your Freelancing Rate" course and it was definitely a good investment for me. It's easier to justify a course like this because it more of sales / marketing training and can quickly pay for itself in new business it helps you generate.

I used to subscribe to Avdi Grimm's Ruby Tapas which was another great investment at the time. I haven't purchased any of his courses, but Wes Bos looks to produce good premium content.
Children book recommendations are very age-dependent.
The Marriage-Saving Robot That Can Assemble IKEA Furniture, Sort Of
This has been true across the board at Tesla... they make almost all of the parts in house, even when there are established reliable providers... even when it costs them more and results in lower quality.. even when they are already short staffed. Musk is pro-NIH syndrome.

In fairness, Musk says they will eventually be as reliable, and as high quality as others and it'll be cheaper.. one day. That's the common NIH fallacy though.
I don't see why it was necessary to make it personal with the "middlebrow" remark.

> The only thing wrong with the Dow is the way it's weighted.

You are right. Price-weighting is indeed unintuitive. Other things wrong with it:

* Its name, "Dow Jones Industrial Average". It's far from an average of modern US industry.

* It size. 30 companies is a small basket, when we have many alternatives that cover the economy much more comprehensively.
I'm looking around for more details on these "regional" disks that replicate between two zones at the block level. Is that just a fancy term for os level mirrored disks using the cloud persistent disks?
Would a scammer really act so brazenly? What purpose what that serve for them?
There is no such thing as Google best privacy practices. Google is essentially in the business of invading privacy.
St Petersburg lottery. An hour's statistics teaches you that if there's only a P chance of winning, and the amount you win is N your expected outcome is NP so you should definitely consider spending anything less than NP to participate. High risk investments are great if there's a high reward, right? If you stick around for a few more hours they'll warn you that this assessment is... misleading at best if P is very small. But ICO investors aren't waiting that long, got to get in fast.
I have paid for Pluralsight in the past (right now I have a free subscription).

In my experience the courses are fairly comprehensive, and the quality of the videos is high.

Pluralsight started out fairly Microsoft-heavy, but their course catalog is expanding all the time into different platforms and technologies.

For what you get I think the price is reasonable.
At first I was confused because I thought that someone miraculously implemented compression with no context switching via VDSO. Funny to see how wrong I was ;)

Could someone explain how VDO works to me? Based on the example, it looks like another DM backend, like LUKS and such. It exposes a virtual device backed by a real one, adding a layer of compression, am I reading it right? I can also see that we're specifying a "logical size" that is exposed to the user. How much space is really used and how is it allocated? Can I grow the logical size later?

Apart from this - what is the status of the patch, is it redhat-only or is it on its way to the upstream?
I've started many online courses. The only ones I ever finished were the ones I paid for.
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There is also some ability to explore optimization strategies. http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/01/07/optimizing-brainfuck.... As it’s such a limited language, it is something that may be more accessible (compare optimizing MIPS).
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I mentioned the jets, not air force. Many branches of the American armed forces operate jets. Allied countries also operate American jets, even the F-35.

The F-35 has many variants, and can fulfill many roles.
C'mon, join!
"What I'd like the OS itself to do is to block by default copy/pasting between apps, with the user agreeing to each combination, with "only once" option available."

Please no. At present any application which could compromise you by stealing passwords could probably just as easily pwn your entire system thus you will have saved zero people from harm. Meanwhile 99.9% of people will be frustrated by such an ill thought out security measure. 50% will have to google how to fix clipboard permissions to disable this. 25% will ask their computer literate friends how to do this. 20% will click once every single time and just think the new release of their OS sucks slightly. 10% will accidentally click deny at some point and think cut and paste is broken. Some percentage will probably reinstall their entire OS to fix cut and paste or just hate their life every time they hit this application combination.

Random web pages should probably just never have access to your clipboard because people will just click accept when the malicious site askes. Its sufficient that your browser which you either trust or are already laughably pwned to have access to the clipboard so that you can paste stuff into websites. Said sites don't even need to know the difference between user typed foo and user pasted foo.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-...
I've listed at least 3 things that individually are problematic (predisposition, process, and the arbitrarily high threshold). Putting them together, I see no reason why we SHOULD extend a principle of charity.
You can request the debt collectors stop calling you and then they have to decide if they will sue you or not. If they keep calling they can be fined and you get the $$.
As are non-EU citizens while in the EU, in some cases, and possibly even non-EU citizens not in the EU while using a service centered on providing them with e.g. travel arrangements in the EU. As a lawyer specializing in GDPR recently told me.
Even investigative data journalists are going to have a lot of fun with the consequences of GDPR if she's right.
>And I wanted to do it in OCaml

He glances over that part...

Also, not sure why he is fixed on JSON. There are plenty of GUI libraries that use XML, why doesn't he use one of those (and therefore not use OCaml).

Misleading, clickbait title and low quality, narrow content. It's a shame.
I'll rephrase again:

"A"

vs.

"A AND there's a being, which is conscious, all-knowing and all-powerful, sitting somewhere, or actually nowhere, that uses its power to set things in motion or not, depending on its mood, and how it likes some people, but by no means follows a steady logic, and also isn't detectable by any means whatsoever and there is absolutely no evidence of its existence, but it exists and has impact on the universe, even if such impact can never be measured or even detected"

Now use Occam's Razor?
Yes, the gc isn't exposed yet, so neither JS nor wasm are notified when an object goes out of scope (which would allow to reclaim the memory on the wasm side). It's on the roadmap, so it should eventually come.
If it's what you want to do it's not a waste of time. I've known people who took similar paths (though not into ME/AE).

You do have an advantage in being older and hopefully more mature, you'll likely find most of the coursework fairly easy compared to your younger classmates if you approach it properly (like a job: with planning, scheduling, and deliberate action).

Pay attention to what credits will carryover. Not everything will to every school. Some will be very picky.

Start contacting faculty at universities you're interested in. Find ones that have a specific interest for you. Different schools have faculty focused in different specializations, and there's often a degree of synergy in the department. Using CS, since I know it, a school strong in AI will have a number of faculty focused on it. A school strong in distributed computing will be similarly staffed.

So find the fields of ME/AE that interest you and start researching which schools have that, don't just get the degree. Take advantage of the time you have and the experience you have to make a better decision than most of us did at 16 or 17 when we applied to our first colleges.

Look further, into graduate programs or what you'll do after you graduate. If you want to work for a SpaceX or Blue Origin, you'll want to study different things than if you want to go to Gulfstream. That will help guide your decision on which undergrad program you pursue (assuming you can't get directly into an ME program).
My first response to the article was Ctrl+F Delphi in the comments.

Because everything the author was complaining about was solved in Delphi in mid-nineties.

Heck, if he were to write for Windows, he could still use Delphi and get what they want!

For that matter, VS.NET platform would be a pretty good tool for that job too (no surprise given that the head of the project was heading the development of Delphi before jumping ship to MS).
The "retirement" feature is a good start, but oddly over-engineered. Just stop allowing username reuse, period!
Is that ... Fortran?
Repeating your misunderstandings doesn't make them less wrong.

But thanks for summarizing your thinking for those who didn't click through to the source.
> The BrainFuck computer is an attractive solution for
servicing high throughput BrainFuck cloud services, both in terms of performance and cost.

BrainFuck as a Service?
ZFS dedup block size is whatever you set dataset record size to be. Powers of two from 0.5 kB to 256 kB are allowed at least.

So you can set ZFS to dedup 4 kB blocks. It just requires a boatload of RAM.
Are you talking about accessing location, files, camera, and microphone from web browsers? Those are all already possible. For identity, there's various libs and APIs for authenticating with major identity providers. Not sure what you mean by device and app history.
I HATE these calls too. Godaddy does the same thing, but uses local numbers so that they might trick me to answer.
NDAs are out of control everywhere. I understand they have a time and a place where they are useful, but most of the time they are being abused (ie. Stormy Daniels NDA, etc).
Yet Russia made a very fast drone (if you believe Putin):

https://russia-insider.com/en/putin-stunner-3-dagger-invinci...
Indeed. Tetrachromacy is real, and men are unlikely to enjoy the superpower:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140905-the-women-with-supe...
The Elephant & Piggie series, by Mo Willems.

IMHO, the best kids book we've encountered. Some of the nice features:

a) well drawn and sharply delineated characters. (One of my pet peeves about some kids books is difficult to distinguish images that tend to get lost in a sea of bright colors.)

b) the text is _large_ and changes size according to the emotions of the characters.

c) phrases are repeated -- great for language acquisition -- but not in a way that's irritating or vacuous.

d) funny stories; real emotions that toddlers can grok.

e) good construction -- high quality printing, thick pages, etc...
If you're pre-calculating the metrics and dropping the raw data from your systems, you can't actually get the benefits of the ad-hoc systems. You can't ask a new question to your existing analytics data and you need to do custom development every time you need to see a new metric.