skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Rogers cable in Canada, I noticed the jump from DSL to cable, and from 25 Mbps cable to 150 Mbps, but that was accompanied by a modem change from plain old DOCSIS to DOCSIS 2. I didn’t notice the jump from 150 to 250 as much (at all) but the jump to gigabit was significant in that it increased upload speeds to 50 Mbps. The next jump was from gigabit over coax to gigabit over plastic optic from Bell Canada, with 100 Mbps up — asymmetric still, but it easily handled multiple requests at the same time with very low latencies to Bell-peered servers. I mention that because gigabit symmetric was again a jump I noticed, in that posting photos and videos became instaneous, but Bell not peering with TorIX the way Rogers does means most of my traffic to Toronto routes through New York or Chicago first as both Bell and TorIX have US peering arrangements. So not everything is perfect even with symmetric gigabit finally. I suspect my next speed increase will arrive when a third-party is finally able to use Bell’s fibre optic network at which point they might peer locally. I’ve contemplated running both Bell and Rogers for the pings, but I’d need somebody to give me BGP for the routing which is likely expensive...
Wile waking up a sleepy conductor seems like a good idea, how much longer is a train conductor job going to exist? I feel like rail is the the one form of transportation that is most susceptible to automation. Since trains are usually run by slow-moving government agencies, I see how they may have lagged behind the times. Although this is stupidly oversimplified, a train is like an elevator on its side, and we don't have many elevator operators these days.
So what's a political agenda?

Is the promotion of cats a political agenda? Can allcats.com take down videos of dogs?
There was support for openid initially. It was removed years ago. Not sure if there was a statement about it.
Yes, because the list shows you stuff like the name of the place, its address, ratings, hours and all sorts of other stuff. Plus the full screen map view is a short swipe away.
Uhhh, yes it's exactly like that, regardless of what is getting taxed.

Let's say today I make $24,900/yr. That puts me at the edge of the 20th percentile for 2017. The average effective tax rate for people of my income was -4.7% (or a tax of -$1170)[0]. You're suggesting increasing my taxes to 15%, taking $4905 out of my pocket as compared to today. Now, since I make next to nothing, pretty much everything I make is going to rent, food, and just generally getting by, and I have nearly $5k less real money (or ~20% of my income!!!) in my bank account to make that happen.

[0] - http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/model-estimates/baseline-aver...
I knew people who had their division pay for Watson as a way to get their business AI and data science needs fulfilled without hiring developers outside their price range.

Eventually they scrapped the project because it not only took a ton of employee time to talk with IBM's team to get it set up and working, it also cost a significant chunk of money and wasn't as good as what the people who already worked at the company thought they could do themselves.

With all due respect to the people that work at IBM, I just can't imagine IBM's sales and consulting cultures to work well with deploying AI. I don't know firsthand, but from what I've heard and what I would guess anyway, a lot of the people selling Watson and actually on the front lines working with it probably aren't that knowledgeable about AI/ML/whatever. I just don't see how you could determine a project's feasibility or effectiveness without having a sharp conceptual knowledge of the actual AI algorithms and what potentially what kind of data is needed to make them shine.

Suppose a university admissions department offers paper surveys to prospective students at the end of on-campus tours. In an effort to improve admitted student yield (the percentage of students that actually attend the university after being accepted), the university wants to be able to scan these surveys' text digitally and then perform sentiment analysis to determine how excited the student is about attending the university, or more directly, how likely the student is to matriculate. The university doesn't have any people capable of doing this, so they get into contact with Watson.

How much will the salespeople at Watson pry into the questions of the survey, demographics and culture of the school, or the sample size? Will they ask about statistics such as acceptance rate, yield, and which students are most likely to matriculate (based on quantifiable metrics)? Even the type or color of paper and text field sizes on the surveys on could affect the feasibility of the project regarding OCR, or bias the responses toward short answers. I would argue that a lot of knowledge about the project would be necessary before a sales quote or even the feasibility of the project itself could be considered, but would a salesperson know to ask these question? Would they even be incentivized to ask? Would the consultants know that certain questions could make OCR hard or sentiment analysis a wash? Would a statistician be consulted to see if the same or better results could be obtained from simple analysis of GPA, ZIP, and test scores?

I'm sure everybody at Watson is pretty technically competent - and to be sure, I'm sure for most consulting and sales that IBM does, I wouldn't have to make the following qualification. But to be brutally honest, I think the type of people who are familiar enough with AI to be the person you want working at Watson in consulting and sales probably are using those skills as developers and data scientists. And even then, again with all due respect to IBM employees (and I know IBM puts out a lot of great research), those people might not also be at IBM either.
I've seen it reroute me to save time (based on live traffic) but never seen this behavior. Perhaps in your case it's this feature behaving poorly, or some other bug.
Jan Koum Personal Statement
Here is the core of the site. I have not had much time to keep robots on line but if you want a demo you can ping me at my username at gmail and I can pop a robot on line (during work hours if I am in the office).

I have been working on a better web interface that has on screen controls, because most people seem to want to type in like twitch, but the arrow keys are what you use.

https://github.com/mbrumlow/webbot
> I know it’s out of fashion in 2018 to acknowledge that TOS exist and that users should have read them before agreeing to them (or at least before complaining after the fact), but this is the reality.

It's not "out of fashion," it's unrealistic and unreasonable.

If everyone fully read and understood every TOS and EULA they're affected by, along with all the unilateral changes they also usually "agree" to be bound by in the future, everyone would spend so much time reading them that they'd die because they'd have no time to eat, let alone actually use the services tied to the documents.
My very first Comcast cablemodem gave 10 mbits/sec due to living in the ghetto (no other data subscribers around) and @Home not having figured out how to set a rate limit in the docsis config. They never changed my service as long as I was on the system. When I moved to another system, a different company was managing their data service and I had a 3 mbits limit.
I feel like there has to be more to this, I've never seen that happen and I use google maps for driving very regularly (almost every day)
"Come see our river which catches on fire. It's so polluted that all our fish have AIDS."

For those unfamiliar, the Cuyahoga river which flows through Ohio was so polluted at various points that it caught on fire 10+ times. The fires were one of the catalysts for the environmental movement.
I suspect this is an 'archive' article -- a lightweight piece that's whipped up at a moment's notice or lay about idly until a slow news day comes along and something with snappy pictures is needed to fill a void. This news contains little that's especially new.
True, GDPR simply adds one more lane from which you can be attacked. Never claimed otherwise, and you are correct.
These sorts of disagreements and exits happen all the time, but they are usually kept quiet and excuses are made. It's unusual to see this done quite publicly, apparently hand in hand with a journalist. I'm guessing he wanted to spark some debate.
It is absolutely a component of economics, just not the only piece needed for a comprehensive tax policy.

You're literally arguing against the accepted definition of a term.
Imagine a forest with only young trees - that only happens if they all die young, or if the forest is growing back after a forest fire/clear-cutting. Similarly, the suburban "dream" is only realistic in new (empty) developments where families can move in and cluster together.

"Dream" is just doublespeak here... it's post-WW2 lifestyle advertising. They were convincing people to buy cheap remote land at a steep markup by putting a house on top.
Twitter is supposed to be public.
Generally ST Micro did some fairly abhorrent stuff around mapping their registers into bit field packed structures for the Cortex M line. One of the reasons I don't use their library for coding them.

The authors use of looking at lines of assembly language code as a metric of goodness for the choices was also problematic. If they coded that stuff for a VAX they would be treated to variable length bit field addressing (see [1] below, page 8-6). Easy to implement very complex bit manipulation in just a few assembly language statements :-).

A better measure is CPU clocks + Memory Accesses (typically measured in kilocoreseconds [another VMS joke])

[1] http://www.ece.lsu.edu/ee4720/doc/vax.pdf
weird.... most embedded platforms do something like ( following from an actual lib header, which is full of the same ). The entire interface to the hardware is basically bitfields.

typedef union {
struct {
unsigned REC :8;
};
struct {
unsigned REC0 :1;
unsigned REC1 :1;
unsigned REC2 :1;
unsigned REC3 :1;
unsigned REC4 :1;
unsigned REC5 :1;
unsigned REC6 :1;
unsigned REC7 :1;
};

} RXERRCNTbits_t;
I've always thought it'd be nice to be able to code at the speed of thought - you can often envisage the code or classes that'll make up part of a solution, it's just so slow filtering that through your fingers and the keyboard; if the neural interface 'thing' could be solved that'd be a winner I think, both for coding and manipulating the 'UI'.

It seems within the bounds of possibility to me (from having no experience in the field ;), if patterns could be predictably matched in real-time or better time than it takes to whack the keyboard or move the mouse (can EEG or FMRI make predictable sort of patterns like that?).
I'm not sure you understand the specificity of the mosaic hygienic laws to which I'm referring, but a bit of research into the knowledge of the time coupled with a close look at the high level of detail given in the law shows that no, human origin is not the more rational conclusion. There's a LOT more going on than 'dont eat certain foods'

>It seems that the grandparent comment is starting from the premise that god exists and looking for evidence to support the conclusion they already hold.

it seems that you are assuming anything affirming God must be irrational and therefore state that I must be approaching this irrationally.

I encourage anyone who finds the concept interesting to check out this book:

https://www.amazon.com/None-These-Diseases-McMillen-MD/dp/05...
his customers are CIO's they need help in selling things to the board, I guess that's what he's talking about.
Why should it matter unless you were close to retirement or depending on your investments for income?
At least I thought carefully about what I tweeted since I knew it would be public. I'm much more upset that private Facebook data, never intended to be distributed to the public, was taken from me.
Michael Hayden: The End of Intelligence
Consider yourself lucky, then. You are speaking English, with its thousands (if not millions) of competent translators translating everything remotely interesting from other languages. The bar for "good translation" is kept reasonably high for English.

As a Korean speaker, if I walk into a bookstore and pick up any book translated from English, and read a page or two, chances are that I will find at least one sentence where I can see what the original English expression must have been, because the translator chose a wrong Korean word which sticks out like a sore thumb. Like, using a word for "(economic/technological) development" to describe "advanced cancer". Or translating "it may seem excessive [to the reader] ..." into "we can consider it as excessive ..."

And yes, these translators don't think twice about making sentences that no native speaker would be caught speaking. Some even defends the practice by saying they are faithful to the European syntax of the original text! Gah.
Yes, and people keep missing THAT point exactly.

Guess they believe in the system more than I do. My country -- and the EU -- has been known to have cases where a big player makes a grizzly example out of a small player, in basically every business area.
For actual biohacking, stay in touch with your GP, an endocrinologist, and the folks on /r/transdiy.

Beyond that, I would say that most things that aren't melatonin are either not studied adequately enough (Including the problems with withholding negative results in the medicine industry), or too addictive to be of much use (See: nicotine).
Sure, rock is also directly descended from folk, and other genres too. Musical genres can have several different direct ancestors.
I've experienced similar behavior. For awhile it seemed it would find a "new route" and give me x seconds to say no or else it would default to the new route. It seems the behavior switched to the default being no to the new route...

I wish there was as good as maps paid alternative. I'd gladly pay for something other than the ever slower with each update Google maps.
Jan Koum leaves WhatsApp
Big companies take care of details that take time.

Every few weeks I have some form of training. Diversity, reminders to obey copyright law... There is a fair number of things that I could screw up, a small company hopes I won't - or at least I won't get caught. A large company will change any bad behavior before there is a problem.
Just installed it, played until level 14, then uninstalled because of the ads: they break the experience and destroy the relaxing effect.

Probably not your fault since you sold it, but just fyi that their are too many ads.
Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud (and launched preemptible VMs as well as contributed to our GPU efforts).

That's for 1xV100.

The interesting action is in multiple GPUs at once, for say deep learning. The spot market is fairly non-linear in pricing, so the 8xV100 is more than 8x as much, while it's strictly linear for Preemptible.

Similarly, you have to attach a lot of cores (Broadwell only) and RAM to the p3s, which is often unnecessary for GPU applications (you often want 1-2x the total GPU memory depending on your application, but rarely do you need 64 vcpus to go with them).

Additionally, if for some reason you want super fast local SSD to go with your GPUs (say a GPU accelerated database), you can do so on GCE.

tl;dr: linear, flexible pricing that usually wins (plus Skylake, local SSD and more).
You can decide to not watch youtube.

TV stations decide what shows they want to air, and which ones they don't. And nobody calls it censorship. Youtube feels like public infrastructure. But legally, it's no different than a TV station deciding to cancel a show.
Agree. For Embedded coding suggestions you have to know what you are talking about really well otherwise it could be just misleading. Bit fields should be avoided even for resource restricted MCUs, period.
You're totally right, but yeah, I tend to roll it in to the same category since I consider the denial of service associated with memory leaks to be as bad as stricter memory unsafety. (And to be very pedantic I said 'memory management safety', not just 'memory safety').
>If you can't read and understand that I'm sure you can collect disability checks from the government

When it comes to computers there is a WIDE divide between can't read and doesn't read. I'm sure nearly every person in tech has at some point in their life had an encounter with a non-technical user who, given an error message that clearly states the problem, has selective blindness and doesn't read the error message but rather just clicks 'okay' and can't figure out what the problem was. They could read the error message but have effectively been trained not to.

Similarly facebook users could read that message detailing how their privacy is about to be violated, but have probably been trained not to care.
Soon to be followed by train videos, which could put people in harms way to view rare trains, then siren videos, as prolonged exposure to high intensity sound can cause hearing loss. And storm spotting as well, clearly the only safe space when there are large threatening clouds in the sky is in a 300ft underground nuclear silo...

OH NO DID I JUST SAY NUCLEAR? banned.
Pretty sure it's sorted by average rating first.

The place literally across the road from me is a screen down the list (on mobile) because it's got lower reviews (by about one star or so) than the place 7km away which is at the top of the list.
> Like, using a word for "(economic/technological) development" to describe "advanced cancer"

That sounds like a mistake caused by the translator having a (relatively) poor knowledge of English. A bilingual English/Korean speaker wouldn't make that mistake. I mean, I don't know your linguistic background, but you clearly know enough English and Korean to know that that's a bad translation, and you presumably wouldn't have made the same mistake if you'd been translating the book.

>Some even defends the practice by saying they are faithful to the European syntax of the original text!

I think there's always a tension between making the translation faithful to the original text and making it idiomatic. That's partly a matter of taste, especially in literature.
I hate to tell you this, but there are like four of these companies in Seattle now, there was a story about companies doing this same model in San Francisco except with electric scooters that people are bitching about clogging up the sidewalks; Seattle has been working with the bikeshare companies so maybe they won't end up with massive junkyards of bikes after the bikeshare #12 learns the hard way that there is only room for three bikeshare companies in one city, but I know the SF scooter companies are completely unlicensed.
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I will, thank you vm :)
+1 for plantuml. You can make very useful sequence diagrams with it, in ascii no less.
That bugs me the swipe though...sometimes it will show part of the map and I tap the map expecting to see it full screen. No, it just erases, goes to a blank search.
I don't run a side business and I don't collect personal data.

I had 7 hobby projects that very few people used. After I read on the GDPR yesterday, I simply deleted all their databases and apps (without backing anything up) and didn't look back.

I believe in the GDPR and I don't want to become a part of the problem. The lowest friction solution was to just delete stuff I don't deem at all important.

If I am to open a business, I'll cross 100 rivers to be GDPR compliant. And you are correct -- us the techies aren't special, of course.

I only asserted that for hobby projects or projects that are not turning a profit the extra effort is simply not worth it. Nothing more.
Most places I've worked, the older a bug is, the less likely it will ever be fixed. The reasoning goes "users have lived with it for this long, so it must not be important." And we have regressions in the code that's about to go out that have not faced users yet--fix them first.

Has anyone ever successfully argued for going back and fixing ancient bugs, prioritizing it over fixing more recently-discovered bugs? What argument did you use?
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8fyokt/faster_...
Moby Dick Big Read
Fantastic book, and if anyone liked this, this one is also fantastic (though better in audiobook, I feel, as the narrator was so emotive): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21086818-do-no-harm
Often, I will search for a string such as "Cost"; I'll probably be referring to Costco, but in the map, it will also show me results for Cost Plus World Market, for example. If I'm only looking at pins, I can't see the names without clicking on each pin, which isn't really feasible in the middle of driving. However, in the list, it's easy to differentiate between the two, in addition to by distance (since that's the information the list shows).

Conversely, if I'm on the way somewhere, and I want to add a stop using the "add stop" feature, such as a gas station, then it sorts by the amount of extra time it will add for each stop, as well as showing the pins on the map. Since I don't really care where I go, as long as I get gas, this seems like a reasonable compromise. (It also puts the gas prices on the map, which is nice.)

However, perhaps I am a happy-path user, or have been trained over time to use the application as the developers intended. Regardless, the current behavior works well for me.
I've seen folks wrap their step tracker in a couple pairs of socks, then either throw it in the dryer, or tie the socks to a ceiling fan on low. Those particular folks called it "going jogging."
Better source: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:A_Falling_Wizard
Of course, that's why the article was written. Here's the first line in it:

> The billionaire chief executive of WhatsApp, Jan Koum, is planning to leave the company after clashing with its parent, Facebook, over the popular messaging service’s strategy and Facebook’s attempts to use its personal data and weaken its encryption, according to people familiar with internal discussions.

So obviously it's meant to spark some sort of discussion on Facebook's attempts to remove security features so that it can monetize the app better.
Simulation of Biology, Greg Turk
I don't see any evidence that Koum collaborated with the author of this piece. It's more likely that the article is entirely based on leaks and rumors, like the majority of Silicon Valley gossip articles.
I’m not sure what you’re proposing. I grew up in Detroit and went to public schools; I learned nothing in junior high or high school there. What could my parents have done differently? I feel that we should have moved, but my parents were committed to a higher goal and we stayed.

My brother and I had rough lives there, assaults, hate crime, etc. I made sure to settle in a better place now that I have a family.
Not until we can have independent audits of the pigeons and the freedom to distribute forked pigeon breeds.
Heads up, if you’re not a US citizen, Azlo (the underlying checking account provider they use) doesn’t let you open an account. I’m not sure if they have a special deal with Stripe that lets you through, but they definitely don’t let their regular customers through without a US passport.
>To all the people who've made my world possible, I apologize for my apathy, and I'll do better.

my comment is quite directly related to this expression by OP

>but this comment is a reason why religion is not useful. This reply could be used as a response to any comment and adds nothing useful at all.

this is fallacious reasoning. Particularly affirming the consequent to my eyes (If religion is useless, religious comments are useless. this religious comment is useless, therefore religion is useless)