skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some updates are modifying "side-by-side" files. The Windows SxS system allows for multiple versions of the same DLL to live in the OS, so programs can get the version they need. And analyzing which DLLs need to be duplicated is I/O limited.

One of the other issues is the Windows Update model, where some updates "unlock" other updates. You start with a fresh Server 2008 R2 install, it takes ~130 updates. 1 of those is the SP1 upgrade, which unlocks another ~130 updates. Another is SP2, unlocking another ~60. A third is a .NET version upgrade, which unlocks another 10 updates.
There's actually a great analogy in the article:

> “We don’t completely blame Facebook,” said Harindra Dissanayake, a presidential adviser in Sri Lanka. “The germs are ours, but Facebook is the wind, you know?”
Legalizing human experimentation in this manner would result in it being counted as employment (e.g. for tax purposes).

Meanwhile, unemployed people risk losing their benefits if they refuse a job offer. So depending on how these jobs are treated, an employment agency might put you in a position where you may not be able to refuse.
Show HN: Labeled Training Data
From the same author/artist: https://blog.mattbierner.com/theremin-x-proposal/
Arron Banks, the insurers and my strange data trail
Of course the omnipresent Gwern makes an appearance in the comments.
It seems like people are placing their hopes into HIP more than OpenCL now when it comes to using chips from AMD and others.
It’s very likely that I’m just not aware. What databases enforce no deletes or edits in a verifiable way? I would appreciate you sharing some examples.

In my use case you have say 5 people covering different territory collecting info that usually doesn’t conflict. Imagine doing a census of a few villages. You don’t want data changed or altered especially time stamps and want it to be shared across all nodes when they are in proximity so they can sync to a remote instance when back in coverage. In some situations it’s literally the group meets at a tree at noon with a coordinator that syncs up all the collectors and moves on to the next group.

There are some conflicts that need to be merged, but mostly just syncing lots of nodes asynchronously and you don’t want anyone dropping records, maliciously editing them, or accidentally overwriting.
A promise is a promise ...
I don’t need it to merge automatically, but storing them in a way that can be reconciled later is necessary. In some situations merges could be automatic if the records don’t have any conflicts.
> "I have tried Li-ion batteries like Panasonic NCR18650B, LG He4, none are not as good as a cheape Li-po batteries you can get from Ebay. "

that's scary as hell considering the battery is likely to take physical abuse. Look at the number of fire incidents caused by drone LiPo charging. There's a reason why serious drone enthusiasts charge their batteries in special battery bags.
I’ve used all of the amazon datastores and none of them write as quick as a data store designed like this or maybe something like Hbase or Cassandra depending on what you are doing. Something like this is even better. I think amazon does Hbase as a service btw.Those use cases are rare so Aurora is usually the right answer. Alternatively A hundred s3 buckets can handle a large amount of writes as well for large or medium sized writes but it’s annoying to manage.
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Vagaband: Safety Wristband for Travellers
Exactly, it was simply fearmongering. People can't just call loans due because they want to.
Aurora currently supports automatic horizontal scaling for reads [1], and horizontal scaling for writes is currently in preview [2].

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/amazon-au...

[2]: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/sign-up-f...
Seriously? They are recommending the company known for repeatedly including hidden, malicious software on their computers?
Or maybe this attitude you have, that doctors should be sued for vague ideas like lack of "critical thinking skills" is exactly the reason why doctors are incredibly risk averse and the system is messed up to begin with.
I'm curious what enterprise CMS you use. I work in enterprise CMS from last 7 years and would love to know your use case in detail. I can tell you that this is definitely a issue with many organizations face but none of the cms offers an OOTB functionality to cover this.
That’s right, the blockchain part just adds in immutability of data and being able to trust different nodes. What database models have replication/merging models provide assurance of data integrity and perpetual versioning?
Would that I had that knowledge 30 years ago!
50 km/h is pretty common descending a hill on a good quality road bicycle. The major difference there is that you will have a properly balanced wheelset (a 700C wheelset alone on a decent roadbike, sans tires, are worth at least $275-350), with gyroscopic stabilizing forces. And you will have brakes. It's also possible on a road bike to aerobrake yourself on a descent by sitting more upright and adding drag.
More information post by inventor here:
https://imgur.com/gallery/Y8mvCfr
Review: Purism Librem13 laptop
Here is the note in question: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DbA68_VXcAE8S1W.jpg
You can only delete up to the last point you synchronized. So once your record gets onto any other node, then it becomes harder and harder with more nodes to delete or change. Regardless of root/permissions/whatever.

Of course you can use signatures as you basically start recreating blockchain at that point (eg, each transaction is signed and linked to the previous; then connected with other nodes doing the same thing. A change to any segment would be detectable, etc etc).

Basically, it is just a distributed log that removes any change for changing data and the inability to set any permissions to remove data.

Maybe I’m being dense, but please let me know of any mainstream databases that give this functionality without relying on permissions to insure integrity. If an admin is able to change data, then that won’t work in my use case.
we should find this person and sue them for what I'm sure is a 100% accurate retelling of a 20-year old story on hacker news.
Mono? Xamarin?
Ok, you are correct - but this article presents the info in a super confusing way.

A much better presentation is: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/04/electrify-america-will-...
I think the ways people find news on the net are also to blame.

I knew someone who worked for a company that monitored newswires and other media all day watching for breaking stories. They then rewrote them in an SEO or viral friendly way, propagated them through social media using bots or an influencer network. By being the first to publish something that ranked on news aggregators, they could pull in views and get ad money.

If the story was from a subscription newswire I guess this is okay. If you are writing a story reporting someone else reported a story you are kinda stealing revenue from the people who did the hunting.

But whoever does that will win, and writing a story that will spread then getting it to the aggregators is a skill.
C'mon, put more effort into your comment. Or just write out the comment and don't submit it, to get it out of your system (this actually works surprisingly well).
You need to keep an eye on the temperature too as the cells are not allowed to go above 60-70C depending on brand before you risk venting.
Without fraud, the digital media business would collapse
New Zealand also announced it was going to be the first Smokefree country by 2025. I wonder how that’s going.
> In a Harris Interactive survey of more than 2,000 people, 6% said they were vegetarian, 4% pescatarian and 2% vegan. Reflected across the whole UK population, it suggests 7.8 million people have ditched meat, with 3.9 million identifying as vegetarian - more than triple the 1.2 million recognised by 2012 data from the Vegetarian Society.

This is the most relevant part of the article, but I'm sure their sample size could have been larger.
Git allows for rebasing. And that’s what I’m currently using with a bunch of code to provide record/db functionality. It’s a pain and would be nice to have software that is designed for this purpose.

Also, git is a blockchain.
In the past researchers did self experimentation so maybe that would work. Doing risky research on others has a lot of ethical problems. How do you the person hasn't been coerced?
> Very few people are any of those things in any meaningful way.

Then how would you explain, well, most of human history?

For example, look at this graph of approval of interracial marriage, which has increased quite steadily: http://news.gallup.com/poll/163697/approve-marriage-blacks-w...

What changed, if not the level of racism?

Or look at the various declarations of secession of the southern states in the US Civil War, or the Cornerstone Speech; it's pretty obvious that people were willing to go to war to defend both personal racial bias and a system of racial discrimination.

The people who study racism professionally don't seem to have a hard time defining it. And I don't think most of US history can really be explained without it. It began with rule of, by, and for well-off white men. Even after Reconstruction we had the Nadir [1] and sundown towns [2] and Jim Crow [3] and redlining [4] and a whole lot else.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadir_of_American_race_relatio...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

[4] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/the-rac...
I use this Speedometer app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/speedometer-speed-box-app/id...
The Real Cost of Cheap Shirts
Do you have a good comparison point? And not, hopefully, comparing to what they could do a decade ago. I'm assuming they didn't sit still. Did they?

I question whether it is just 100x compute. Feels like more, since naturally speaking and friends didn't hog the machine. Again, over a full decade ago.

More, the resources that Google has to throw at training are ridiculous. Well over 100x what was used to build the old models.

None of this is to say we should pack up and go back to a decade ago. I just worry that we do the opposite; where we ignore progress that was made a decade ago in favor of the new tricks alone.
Not really. A treatment can decrease quality of life to the point where you don't want to live, or perhaps bankrupt your family for a small chance of success. This logic only holds if you assign infinite value to "live at any cost"
Hunt threatens new laws as he blasts social media 4 failing to protect children
I explain it on the thread, but I have health records for disease outbreaks where the version is very important never to delete. The copies end up being stored amongst a few countries and Health partners. In some situations, countries can’t be trusted to archive or not alter records as it could be politically sensitive (eg, “maybe we just edit the db to say 10 cases of disease X is really 10 cases of disease Y.”). Or prevent situations where one site accidentally deletes some records, but not all, and it isn’t caught for weeks later where there have been other adds and edits over the time. Figuring out the restore was really hard. Being able to immediately detect changes across all nodes is valuable.
"These doctors are vile dogs. If I was a physician I would take all the hard patients, heal them all, and be a hero of the people."

Yeah, if you were given one operation where the patient has a 100% chance of dying without it, but 80% of you killing them if you operate + 20% chance of them living after, maybe you'd do this once and get lucky. But try doing this twice, you have a a 96% chance of killing a patient, three times makes a 99.2% chance of killing at least a single patient. This probability quickly approaches 100%. If you kill a patient you get dragged into court, branded as a murderer by the opposing lawyer, and your career which you have spent your youth, your 20s and a half a million dollars training for is down the drain. Taking risky cases, if that's not your niche, is is guaranteed to have you out of a job and in debt from legal fees.

To suggest that "bad hearts" are involved in this necessary calculation, is incredibly naive.
So the spleen is larger. We don't even know what the spleen does. It appears to do something with the immune system. Possibly holding an infection at bay better. Not too long ago we'd just remove it and toss it. Rather than genetics, the enlarged spleen could be from the constant onslaught of bacteria they are fighting off.
On mobile this site attempts to force installation of an app to read the article.

Workaround: https://archive.is/ZzIiK
According to New Zealand's Ministry of Health, the project is going as planned. This fact surprised me though:

> Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death and disease in New Zealand, accounting for around 4,300 to 4,700 deaths per year. When the deaths caused from exposure to second-hand smoke are included, this estimate increases to around 5,000 deaths per year.

https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/preventative-health-well...
An investigation of the monetary reward system of science in China (2017)
>>It's clear that you are anti-union.

I don't think being pro or anti-union is the issue. I think being pro or anti-union due to ideological biases or a personal financial conflict of interest is the issue.

That's what the TAs unionizing could result in.

If one has a normative stance on unions that is derived from impartial analysis, that seems fine to me.

>>It's like you didn't even read the Wikipedia page for Commonwealth v. Hunt.

I was not talking about that case. I was talking about your earlier point about unions existing before labor laws gave them legal privileges, which you claimed proves unions can survive in a free market.

My point was that historically, in the pre-labor-law era, all of the leverage that unions had seems to have come from the threat of violence toward replacement workers, and company property, which intimidated employers into negotiations.

Are you familiar with how strikes were conducted in the 19th century?

Are you familiar with the blockades, violently enforced picket lines, etc?
We chose to have our daughter delivered at a hospital that is renowned for its neonatal ICU. It's obviously a great place to give birth, but if you look on paper, their c-section and other intervention rates are above average. Which makes sense when you understand that they are equipped to handle the highest risk pregnancies.

A similar phenomenon occurs in education. I taught high school in Baltimore, where the vast majority of my students were high risk. Baltimore has a few renowned high schools, but by and large, they serve the easiest students.
Having worked at companies with a 6+ hour long retrospective

There is 0 chance in any scenario that a net benefit would come out of that.
I was basing my analogy on the idea that a standard dose of beer, for someone drinking beer, is probably 2 12 oz. bottles of beer.

"If it isn't affecting perception, it's not affecting experience!" I think this is the main point on which we disagree. I'm curious why you assert this so strongly.

If we agree that there is an effect on the nervous system, then the question is, at what point does that effect "matter". And you are saying that it only matters at the point that the subject can detect the shift in their own perception from baseline. You also argue that any purported benefits of the substance are only realized as a result of the detection in this change of state.

I can think of a few examples of cases where we would not be consciously aware of a change from baseline, but would effect our experience. Do you need to be aware of your change from baseline for the painkilling and pleasantness of endorphins released after a mild walk to have an effect? Do you need to be aware of your own difference from psychological baseline for the little bit adrenaline released before an important meeting to have an effect on your alertness?

Our recognition of our own perception is a fallible signal detector. There can be effects on the nervous system that have effects on other systems, regardless of whether the conscious mind detects a signal.

And if you agree with me so far, then the question is if the effect on the nervous system and in turn its effects on other internal systems has any therapeutic effect. That's a different discussion, I reckon. But unless a requirement of all the purported therapeutic effect is that the subject has consciously observed their altered perception, then it is possible for there to be an effect on people's lives from sub-perceptual doses of chemicals. (for example: non-psychoactive drugs, heavy metals, viruses, etc.)
Ah. I was thinking linear inertia and you were describing rotational.
The (oversimplified) notion that the matter we typically deal with is mostly empty space is a direct consequence of that experiment, not an artifact of the Bohr model.
Your link i̶s̶ was giving me a 503 error, so here is a transcription of the article for mobile users:

AMD And Intel Had A Baby! And It's A Beast!

• In early February of 2018 we published an article about the cooperation between AMD and Intel, or as we dubbed it, AMD's hidden strategy against Nvidia.

• Now we look at the first fruit of that strategy, the Intel Hades Canyon NUC, a powerful small form factor computer.

• The Hades Canyon NUC is capable of running AAA title games at 1080p without a problem, proving that AMD's strategy should work flawlessly.

In early February of 2018 we published an article about the cooperation between AMD (AMD) and Intel (INTC), or as we dubbed it, AMD's hidden strategy against Nvidia (NVDA). Please read the original article for more background, but we will summarize some of the key points here.

AMD is now cooperating with Intel. Yes, indeed, hell just may be frozen over at the moment. AMD is selling Intel its Vega GPUs in silicon form, no IP transfer. Intel then packages these Vega GPUs on the same substrate with one of its CPUs to make what AMD calls an Accelerated Processing Unit (APU).

(Image of Intel CPU and Vega GPU attached to a single CPU socket board)

The GPU communicates with the CPU via an 8x PCI-E bridge and shares power circuitry to create better efficiency.

Ok, so that sounds good for Intel, but aside from shifting more GPU cores, which AMD already has no problems doing, what is the benefit for AMD? Ah, but that's the "hidden strategy!" You see, one of the biggest hurdles AMD has to deal with at the moment is software support. Nvidia, AMD's GPU rival, has a stranglehold on the higher end gaming market at the moment. As a result, most of the games coming out on the market are optimized for Nvidia's GTX GPUs first, and are only later tweaked to perform well on AMD's hardware.
Ask HN: Is anyone else receiving spoofed gmail spam in their inbox?
I have been receiving spam emails in my gmail inbox that are marked as being sent from my gmail account. The email headers show a non-gmail mail server, so it appears that someone is spoofing my email address to send me spam to get around the gmail spam filter. Several friends also mentioned that they are experiencing the same issue, and I see reports on reddit as well [0]. I'm curious how widespread this is. Normally <1 spam email makes it through to my inbox each month.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/GMail/comments/8dztcj/spam_getting_into_my_inbox/
That sounds great!

I'm reminded of https://xkcd.com/810/
Realistically, you're going to die either way. We know that for sure. So what's really important is some notion of probability of quality time.
I worked on LLVM/ISPC with Matt in ~2011. I continued the work of Bruno Lopes on implementing AVX in LLVM, and Matt was one of the few people outside our team who was excited about this work. He provided excellent test cases in LLVM-IR. Matt is such a pleasant person and I really enjoyed our interaction.
And I hope you understand we've spent over a year with a large open source community collectively working on reviewing the implementation, discussing it with colleagues around the world from MIT and Navy personnel and more, working to make it secure, and even now still improving it.

Do you have any vulnerability to report? Please send it in. Security is an always evolving process.
Yep, got a couple of ``Sexy Girls Asian Girls Looking for US Men`` tonight.

This may be a spoofed message. Inbox couldn't verify that it was actually sent from your account.
True, desecration is too strong a word in my opinion. I'm not familiar enough with other cultures and religions to say whether that would be true for everyone.
Or, if you want to go the classic route, ship's A.I.s with personality complexes.
I'm as close to an ebike expert as one can be without being one. This is tangential. Ask me questions if you have any.
Contact Gmail re: spam addressed from my account
I'm getting gmail spam purportedly from my own email address. My passphrase length borders on absurdly long, so I doubt they hacked my account. It looks like a mailserver (telus.com) that Google trusts got 0wned and is relaying. How do I report it to gmail SRE's? In this case, I don't want to click the "This is spam button".
Charging at home, yes, but driving over 200 miles in a single day is super unusual. I see no need for a predictable commute or not driving "too much" unless it's extreme.
Blockchain adds neither things you mention. Both can be accomplished with digital signatures and timestamping, which are not new.

Blockchain alone doesn't prevent you from modifying data -- just rewrite the entire chain. As an example, Bitcoin only prevents this with proof of work, but only following accumulated difficulty prevents someone from thinking my privately-mined chain is true.
What use cases do you have to regularly count characters eyeballing it? The characters are still distinct and equal width in the code and the line length doesn't shift, so it's just a visual thing...
GUN is a CRDT, you should know that if you've read my comments from years ago.

I get it, you don't like seeing Open Source (MIT/ZLIB/Apache2) posted about. But that isn't my problem, others do, and I don't profit from it. In fact, it takes a significant amount of my time to help provide free support to any the ~8K developers developers in our community. I'm not ashamed of this, nor do I think it is spam. If I was selling a service or a product, sure. But that isn't the case.
Oregon wound up with way more pot than it can smoke
Did you setup mail forwarding to your new address? I don't know about the UK, but in the US that puts your new address in a database that can be queried by anyone who has your old one.
> I guess I'm just shocked that the surgeon could offer that level of assurance about something like that

I'm not. That's been my experience with pretty much every surgeon, and even a fair amount of the non-surgical doctors. Letting patients see uncertainty and indecision is not part of the medical school culture, as near as I can tell.

It behooves anyone with serious medical issues to do independent research. (God help you if you don't already know how to deep learn on literature not in your field.)
It's the same reason you can't buy a kidney in most countries. As soon as you make it possible to buy life, you can create a system that exploits the poor.

E.G: I was watching an episode on kidney trade (Netflix TV show The Traffickers) and a man was duped into selling his kidney. He expected more but only received less than $300. There might have been complications with his operation because now he has pain that he will have to deal with his entire life. I'm not sure if he actually understood the risk of this entire thing. And he has also been ostracized from his community. This system of organ trade, even though it is illegal, has become so bad that it's like a human pyramid scheme. They recruit one person to sell their kidney and every time that person gets someone else to sell a kidney, they take a cut. Pretty terrible stuff.