skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still have not even zip, zilch, or zero idea how to make the infinity. Or how to do pleating. If I knew those things, then I would also know how to make the dough and wouldn't need the dough recipe.

I can understand the Radon-Nikodym theorem in measure theory and the proof of von Neumann just fine. I made As in high school and college chemistry and can follow Eric Lander's lectures at MIT. I've made Sacher Tortes, Black Forest Cherry cakes, several French dishes, lots of American dishes, some Chinese dishes, have cooked successfully from Escoffier, Diat, Pepin, Child, etc., so I can learn.

Still I don't know about how to fold dumplings. That dumpling folding is common in kitchens doesn't make it common in my kitchen. The OP didn't help, and neither did you.

For making the infinity fold, the OP text is:

"Pull up two opposite edges of the circle, and stick them firmly together above the meat. Do the same with the two other edges, creating an X shape with the edges. Now join the “ears” by pressing together the corners, turning the X shape into an infinity symbol."

Between the first and second steps, sounds like a 90 degree rotation about a vertical axis through the center of the circle of dough.

The OP starts with a nice picture, but it's not very instructional on HOW to make the items shown, and among those items I didn't see anything like an infinity symbol.

For the infinity, I'm beginning to guess just what she means, but it's still a guess.

As is common in cooking, IMHO the OP is more for entertainment, for vicarious escapist fantasy emotional experience entertainment (VEFEEE), with the fantasy of being with a big, traditional family in a family kitchen in Eastern Europe, with lots of aromas of spices, herbs, and browning dumpling dough, etc. Still, such VEFEEE is zip, zilch, and zero for instructing me how to fold dumplings.
"How much protection money would you pay google to not: (1) track you on just about every site you visit, (2) know exactly where you are at all times because of that little GPS you carry around with you, (3) tie-in your purchases from brick and mortars to identify what you like to buy, (4) maintain a full history of things you have been interested in (searched for) so they can market stuff to you"

For #1, I am hoping that the tracking blocker plugin I use has already done this.

For #2, I've tried disabling the tracking stuff on my phone and it basically completely hamstrings the device's built-in assistant to the point of being useless. So I don't know a way around this one.

For #3, "May I have a phone number or email for your purchase?" "No, you may not."

For #4, I've disabled search history to the best of my knowledge, but I don't for one minute think they are not still using it internally.

I would not pay Google. I would switch to a search engine of comparable quality that sells ads based upon what was immediately searched for, and not based upon their tracking and identification scheme. I like the idea of DuckDuckGo but I haven't gotten the same quality yet.
DDG used to be much better half a year ago; recently they seem to have adopted "I know better than you what you want to search for" from Google and often even "" doesn't return anything useful until you start adding "-" to any terms that are out of whack.

Friends at DDG, if you read this, please return back to what you had before, aping the leader with its warts is not going to make you more competitive, but definitely less useful.
> But the TPUs are half the cost per this article?

Exactly. Nvidia can match the performance already without 100% specialized processor. It's the just the price they need to cut by optimizing their architecture for tensor processing and reducing their profits when competition emerges.

Google is not in the business of becoming a major chip maker or competing with Nvidia head on. Putting hundreds of millions into new microarchitecture every second year eats lots of resources. They just want competitive market and the prices to go down.
I think that idea has been proven wrong in every single application of it in the entire history of human activities. There is not a single example anywhere that anyone can point to, where someone afforded that level of trust lived up to their responsibilities.

I invite you to cite some examples which prove my hypothesis wrong. But history would suggest that we should never, ever, ever trust _anyone_ in that particular way.
I've been using DDG for a few years now and I have the reflex to immediately add "!g" after a query if I don't find what I'm looking for in the first screen of results. Nowadays I notice more and more that when DDG doesn't find what I'm looking for then google often doesn't either. I think the duck is pretty mature now, at least for my use cases.

That being said I don't fool myself, DDG is free which means that if it ever becomes really mainstream it's going to turn "evil" at some point in order to monetize the users one way or an other. Let me pay for your bloody service, add a few gizmo premium features if you have to. I want to be the client, not the product.
something's not right about this survey

>Survey respondents said that they would have to be paid $3,600 to give up internet maps for a year

is the convenience of internet maps over satnav, desktop offline maps (they used to be a thing!), and paper maps really worth thousands of dollars? and what about the $17k figure for forgoing google? that's more than half the us adult median income! surely google isn't that convenient. I'm guessing they either surveyed very affluent people, or the respondents greatly overestimated
What is preventing linux from having the visual polish that windows and OS X has???
Yes it is, did you bother checking? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13523349

> coupdejarnac on Jan 30, 2017
> Are you a nodechef cofounder by any chance? I host with nodechef and am happy with them so far.

> squid3 on Jan 30, 2017
> Yes, I am one of the co-founders. Thanks for hosting with us.
That's how DuckDuckGo ads work.
An average IC5 eng at Google makes $350k all in. An IC6 eng goes to around $500k. You dont get those types of salaries elsewhere easily. This is especially important if you have a family in the bay area given the expenses.
long long ago, probably 2005, they called me up and said they were going to interview me for a different position than what I had applied for...

I had applied for a developer position and they wanted to interview me for a systems engineering position.

I said "I didn't apply for that position as I don't think I qualify for it"
They said "Just go with it".

Predictably, I bombed it, one question I remember is what is the name of process id #1 in linux.

Never applied at Google again.
Well it doesn't help that LendEDU is a YC startup.
The argument is that all the revenues from congestion pricing get filtered through the general fund, so it's really just a sin tax at the end of the day. It's not a way to sustainably fund a public good through demand for the good.
FWIW, I’ve seen the same practice advised in “unconscious bias training”. The idea being that if you notice that someone went to the same university you did, or a prestigious university, or worked for a prestigious company or a company you worked for, you’ll be unconsciously biased in their favor. The antidote to unconscious bias is to have a standardized interview and a standardized rubric for evaluating the candidate’s answers and to disregard any other information.

I’m very deliberately not sharing my personal opinions on this.
Exploring container security: Running a tight ship with Kubernetes Engine 1.10
I am similar. But I actually derive a lot of satisfaction from the saas project i created and work on because of the things that the money will help me do.

I do enjoy providing a product that helps make users lives and businesses simpler. But everytime a new customer signs up, I chalk that up as more time for my family, more money for travel with them, more money for a retirement income, more money for our dream home. It's exciting!
Excellent work. Do you have plans to open source the scripts/implementation details used to reproduce the results? Would be great if others can also validate and repeat the experiment for future software updates (e.g. TensorFlow 1.8) as I expect there will be some performance gain for both TPU and GPU by CUDA and TensorFlow optimizations.

Sidenote: Love the illustrations that accompany most of your blog posts, are they drawn by an in-house artist/designer?
If your load is still consistently high enough, it is possible to be caught in an ASG cycling situation with t2s that can affect your application.

Ex:
- Say your ASG is set to 4 max instances, min 2

- You get a sustained increase in traffic and scale up to 4 instances

- Sustained 70% across 4 instances consumes more credits than are earned

- As instances run out of CPU credits, they'll be pegged at 100% and stop responding correctly to TCP health checks.

- Autoscaling will see that it's passed the threshold for too many failures and will stop routing traffic there, and terminate the instance and add another

- Other instances fail at about the same time for the same reason (though hopefully this is staggered) and also get terminated and a new instance is created.

- each time an instance gets pegged, the elb traffic gets routed to one of the remaining ones, causing the remaining instances to consume their remaining cpu credits faster

Now, it's unlikely that the timings would work out so that all 4 instances are concurrently unavailable, and launching new instances is relatively quick. However it's still possible that each time an instance runs out of credits that it could be serving a request and thus send an error to the user. It also would create a lot of monitoring noise.

The other thing I could see being problematic is that depending on your ASG termination policy, when you scale back in, it's not guaranteed to terminate the instance with the fewest remaining cpu credis. So you may scale down with traffic at closer to 40% cpu, and run out of credits anyhow because the instance with the most credits was terminated on scale-in.

Edit: And I should add that the scale-in scenario can be especially problematic if a cooldown period is configured (default is 5 min). So if it just scaled back in to 2 instances, and those two were close to max and get pegged, it will not scale back up for 5 mintues. It will still attempt to replace them for health check failures, but once you get to a scenario where you only have 2 up, your likelihood of a full application outage goes up quite a bit (even if it's only for 2-3 minutes).

So I would say that even if using an ASG, special knowledge is required for effective use of T2 instances.
So 16 million people are nobody, huh?
A strategic hole in America's privacy advocacy front, obvious with the benefit of hindsight, is the degree to which we count on lobbying by technology companies. They have the users and they have the lobbying dollars, the thinking went, so why not leverage it? It made sense. But it afflicted on us a Dutch disease [1]. Every problem was more easily solved by pressuring Google than by organizing a community. The more we did it, the easier it became.

This was fine, while they were on our side and influential. But counting on a small collection of correlated elites is not a robust strategy. We need to turn privacy into a grassroots cause.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
41 Organizations join the Linux Foundation to support Open Source Communities
I have had good success converting PDF to mobile format with k2pdfopt http://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/
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> The mac UI is nicer than the various Linux window managers.

Well that is entirely subjective. To me OS X is a cluttered, distracting, cold-grey mess.
The concrete examples the author is looking for, where it's easier to analyze programs according to their behavior instead of their imperative structure, is Per Martin-Löf's paper Constructive Mathematics and Computer Programming (DOI: 10.1016/S0049-237X(09)70189-2). For a brief and intuitive explanation, see this post by Robert Harper on the RedPRL prototype that uses cubical computational type theory https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2018/01/15/popl-2018-t...

You can also have your legacy cake and eat it too with this excellent recent paper on gradual typing https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.00061v2.pdf

"This allows for the introduction
of new typing features to legacy languages and codebases without the enormous manual effort currently
necessary to migrate code from a dynamically typed language to a fully statically typed language. Gradual
typing allows exploratory programming and prototyping to be done in a forgiving, dynamically typed style,
while later that code can be typed to ease readability and refactoring."
Fixable issues. You'ld be shocked to know the Model T was less reliable than a horse.
So, when I interview someone, I ask them some technical questions and maybe some questions about their work, and provide structured feedback to a seperate group of people who make final hiring decisions.

There's actually not a whole lot of reason for me to look at their resume. The group who makes hiring decisions has it, so my interpretation of it won't be that valuable. Potentially I could ask them to elaborate on some of their prior work or projects, but that's usually less meaningful than just asking technical questions.
1) I'd prefer if I could capture a window that includes the previous x seconds, plus what follows. Live Photos on iOS do a great job of this. Spectacles begin recording immediately from button press.

2) I'd like to directly access the captured moments from my camera roll. I don't use SnapChat.

3) I'd like a more innocuous design than Spectacles. I don't mind a "recording indicator", but the style doesn't really fit a 30 year old dad.

I realize I am not a fit for Spectacles target market. However, I think the market for what I want is a) quite large, b) much more willing to spend.
Just what the AI/ML crowd needs in the midst of burgeoning fear of AI: a new technology with "Adversarial Machines" right there in the name.
Nicely done; thank you!
I used Lexis before there was AltaVista, though I did not pay for it directly. I used AltaVista before there was Google. I'm confident I'd pay to continue using Google. $10/month would be a no-brainer, which is I think much higher than Google's current ARPU.

Who was the business genius who starved AltaVista? I don't mean who pulled the plug. I mean who under-resourced it so that, in it's final years, it was too late to compete with even a nascent Google.
And CloudFormation users can specify it here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...

Good to see it's becoming more common knowledge though.
Of course this depends on what services we're discussing but for example, ad blockers and privacy badger cannot prevent Google from reading your E-mail contents. The only thing that can stop that is PGP, and it's not a coincidence that Google has refused to provide any built-in method of E-mail encryption. They know what they're doing. They know it's wrong. Inside they are laughing at their "users" who think they're getting any sort of value from the service.

Fact is, Google does not offer _anything_ that is not also offered by someone else, and often without all the exploitative policies.
We have a little bit of assembly for processor-specific startup housekeeping, but that's mostly reused with small modifications for different boards. The rest of the code base is entirely C, managing functions such as ground communications, mobility (locomotion, navigation and control), thermal management, power management, fault detection and recovery, payload (e.g. science instrument) management and mission planning.

We need 100% branch code coverage at unit test level, and have function validation tests written in Java that validate the software against the requirements, running on simulated hardware. Similar tests are run against simulators with progressively more hardware-in-the-loop for more confidence.
a) 2013, when they still asked brainteasers

b) That's a different question from this set about UNIX arcana, so it's not the same set

c) All of the other questions on that page are non-technical, so this isn't a question from a standard director set either. (It may be what 'DannyBee said, that people assumed they were being screened for a much higher position than they were actually being screened for.)
Petty theft will increase in resorts etc., but probably won't affect too many people. I imagine security services have had similar tools for years and if your threat model included hotel room break-ins, you would work to mitigate anyway.

This doesn't affect the biggest deterrent to petty crime: surveillance cameras.
No, nice reducto ad absurdum, but just because they didn't create the company for this hit piece doesn't mean the authors hadn't been mulling over negative thoughts towards Tesla for awhile and found a convenient place to present them.
There are a lot of valid reasons to praise systemd.

There are a lot of valid reasons to criticise systemd.

However, actually discussing those requires a level of nuance and consideration of the trade-offs involved, especially around forward progress versus reliability, that seems in this case to invariably get utterly derailed by screaming assholery from the far ends of the spectrum.

(signed, somebody who has more negative than positive things to say about systemd, but has also given up trying to engage about such things on here)
This sounds like my dream job.
In the spirit of transparency, it would be neat if Facebook would show you, how many people saw a post at least then they couldn't just subvert the communication channel, they would have to actively lie to their users. Also, has some other interesting attacks that are possible. I haven't posted anything in over a year though, but I can see that this might be an issue of arbitarry censorship, where fancy AI takes over and noone knows what's going on.
Take it to a high priced dealership.

In all honestly, so many vechicle companies are forcing customers to pricey dealerships for repairs.

As someone who's been to Automotive School, I find paying $240/hr. for some dealership mechanic to work on your vechicle crazy.

In most states, auto manufactures will not sell service manuals, or even the the opportunity to buy the proprietary scan tool.

So many companies are denying acces to repair manual.

My fathers last vechicle was a Dodge Dakota. He didn't think twice about telling the sales person to throw in the service manuals before he bought the truck. He would not understand today's climate of price gouging, or violations of The Sherman Anti-trust Act.

It's not just vechicles, it's watches, it's Apple products, etc.

It's ironic because the whole DIY is thriving, and learning how to repair something has never been easier?

I hope this bill is passed:

https://a13.asmdc.org/press-releases/20180307-eggman-introdu...

(We are living in a society that really penalizes the poor. Poor people work on their stuff. We used to squeak by, but lately it's just getting so hard.)
Sounds like an interesting enough bloke, but I find the article's framing of him to be exasperating.

Knew everything? Truly? So he could hold forth at length on the philosophy of Zhuang Zhou or Nagarjuna, or the history of the Mayan Empires or the Tokugawa shogunate? Somehow I very much doubt it. Doubtless he was a considerable polymath within the confines of one particular cultural frame of reference -- but by that standard, there are people living in uncontacted tribes in the Amazon who "know everything" today.
The Theory of Quantum Information
The main problem I see with Linux is the barrier for contributors. Somebody who works as UI designer or web / app developer wouldn't want to to go back to arcane ways of coding UIs, but would want to learn and build upon the skills he needs for his profession. This chasm between how the real world works, and how it works in the Linux ecosystem has to be closed first.

Something like React Native for Linux could help, or maybe a distro that is focused on full stack web/app development, and sets the standards for the rest of the Linux ecosystem in this regard.
Sure, if you dig into the SAST Dockerfile you'll see that it's running `bandit` if you're in a Python repo. So add this step to your .gitlab-ci.yaml:

bandit-check:
# This check runs Openstack Bandit, a Python static analysis tool that checks for
security issues.
stage: unit-test
script:
- bandit -r -x 'tests,test_,/migrations/,./src/' -c bandit-config.yaml -ll ."

DAST uses ZAP, which you can also run in a Dockerfile yourself.

Of course there's also some window dressing to display the errors on the main MR, instead of having to dig into a step failure, but that doesn't make a meaningful difference to me.

(This feature could well have moved on since it was first implemented, that was the only time I dug into it).
Magnasanti: Large and Terrifying SimCity (2010)
With $5/mo + a domain, so total of $72/y, you can use G apps for business.
It'll make you fall asleep, sure, but have you measured sleep quality?
Behind the scenes with the hackers who unlocked the Nintendo Switch
> I've often lamented that as a 30-year 'veteran' I'm still often treated as though I'm probably incompetent, until proven otherwise beyond a reasonable doubt.

I have had a pleasure of interviewing a 'veteran' who listed both Emacs and vim on his resume, among dozens of other keywords and many, many years of professional experience. I asked him, how do you exit these text editors? "As any other program", he answered, perplexed - "you click on the cross in the upper-right corner".

This was not an unique and ever especially outstanding event in my interviewing experience.
Meltdown would likely increase Intel sales not decrease them.

The problem with AMD is that it stopped making server CPUs for 5 years, Epyc was their first release since December of 2012 and that is what essentially prevents any serious ramp up of Epyc currently.

Not having the fastest CPU out there isn't a problem if you can price it correctly but when you don't give your customers any options to upgrade or grow you essentially give them only one option and that is switch the the competition completely.

If people can't trust that AMD won't abandon them again for half a decade to sort their shit out they will never take the risk of using them again at scale.

That 5 year gap also essentially killed the AMD optimized software ecosystem and toolset which now needs to be built from the grounds up again.
Except when Toyota does a recall, its just a note in the mail and a little extra work at your next service appointment.

When Tesla does a recall, its a major headline news story and fodder for many forum trolls to use in their rants against the company. (plus, a notice and a little extra work at your next service appointment)
> I think it is cognitively harder to use autopilot and pay attention, than to simply drive safely.

Just out of curiosity, have you driven long stretches using Autopilot? I just did a road trip and on Tuesday during which I drove 11 hours, most of which using Autopilot. I emphatically disagree with you. I'm able to stay more aware of traffic and situations around me because I'm not having to constantly do the tedious tasks like staying in my lane and monitoring my speed (they aren't hard tasks, but take some amount of effort, and are mentally fatiguing after several hours).
People forget that Google was an enormously profitable business even when the tracking part of its operation was in its infancy. Search ads sold by intent will always be valuable
You don't think that's slightly patronizing?
Unrelated to the main point of the article, but I really hate when people point out "been programming for XX years, since I was 6 years old!!" Years of experience does not equate to being a skilled programmer. I could play basketball for 40 years and be way worse than Lebron James was in middle school. Experience is important for other reasons.
Who are you calling a hipster....
For no ads/tracking, $50/mo.