skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had a lot of success working with teams that use scrum practices and agile values. Many team members (like several developers and testers) have actually gone on to become scrum masters themselves at different companies. The feedback I've gotten is that it's an empowering way to work - you choose your commitments, team aligns around a goal, priorities stop constantly changing, teams make time to improve the things that slow them down, etc.

It's hard for people to go back once they've seen it work. The people that I've worked with have said that when they do move on to other companies they didn't realize how helpful it was until it was gone. It can seem like some bullshit, I get it. It's change. It's not a perfect model. Also, when leaders or teammates behave in a command-and-control and uncollaborative way, it's a lot less fun.

Biggest personal challenges: connecting team members to real clients, integrating UX (need more people and up-leveling of team members), too-stable of teams (I like forming around new ideas and the excitement of that), being distributed, the language (Scrum Master - really?!!?), perscriptive agile peers
>Time and scale. We just had more time to check it out.

Random mutations don't follow a pattern. They're random. You can't look at the past history and say "Yep look fine to me".

>Highly tested for being economically sound. That's all.

Complete nonsense. GMOs are studied extensively for their nutrition, allergens, toxicity, and virtually every other metric under the sun.

This testing is a requirement of the FDA. "Economics" has nothing to do with it, and you're just throwing out Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt to try and discredit it.

>The testing process needs to be improved.

Where has it failed? There has not been a single allergen introduced in any GMO approved for human consumption. The same can not be said for non-GMOs.

>We already produce more food than we need.

So it's a solved problem and no new technology is needed, right?

People are still dying. GMOs are the only method that have allowed us to keep up with the problem at all.

>And GMO sellers have no interest in solving human problems

Food shortages and malnourishment aren't "human problems"? GMOs like Golden Rice have been engineered specifically to solve this human problem. GMOs allow farmers to produce the same yields in less farmland, reducing the environmental impact of agriculturalization.

>Again, it's a matter of agenda.

Consider your own agenda. Are you arguing from a position of scientific evidence, or one based on a distrust of corporation?
Nope, because the whole thing about Optane is that it is super low latency, like RAM, so yes, it’s slower to actually perform read-writes, but way faster than even an SSD disk for random reads making it reasonable suitable as a RAM replacement.
The 9570 does not come with RAM soldered on. Hopefully I can get an official answer from Dell once this product is released!
If I remember correctly, one of the things that's likely changing in the next version of the C standard is that arithmetic will be required to be 2s-compliment. There just aren't enough machines around which use anything else anymore.
> If you write code on .NET, you should adopt this release ASAP.

That really depends what classes you use. There are still a lot of classes that haven't been implemented in .Net Core and many of them supposedly won't be implemented. Others were re-implemented and renamed and might not match features. You'll want to move to .Net Core eventually, but not every .Net release is going to be easy to move. Moving from .Net Framework to .Net Core is like moving from .Net Framework to mono. It's mostly similar, but it's still wholly different and not intended to be a 100% drop in replacement.

The Microsoft.Windows.Compatibility namespace isn't new at all. At least that's what the Windows Compatibility Pack for .Net Core [0] used at the end of 2017. It looks like it might just finally be out of the preview stages.

[0]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/11/16/announcin...
Even just targeted advertising is enough. Setup a campaign landing page for each campaign and anyone that clicks the link just exposed their gender or any other criteria you set up when defining the campaign.
Sadly, I do not personally own any historically significant jewelry. But you can read about it pretty easily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Prince%27s_Ruby

> The Black Prince's Ruby is a large, irregular cabochon red spinel weighing 170 carats (34 g)

> It wasn't until 1783 that spinels were differentiated from rubies.
That is not what I’m getting at at all. I’m referring to the changes in relative value of different advertising channels post GDPR.
Appraisers are a bad example. I think most people would be shocked at exactly how many appraisals come in exactly at the contract price. You can't tell me something's not influencing them, even if it isn't direct pressure from a lender.
Or a scanner: http://dwarmstr.blogspot.com/2011/02/adventures-in-large-for...
Thank you! That's great to hear. I'm sorry that they chose that direction; I'd much, much rather not support Windows than not support Unix's fundamental primitive for multiprocessing (and its coordinated IPC). But I do realize that not everyone can act on such preferences. Fortunately, perl5 is still well and strong.
I laid out some ideas what appears to be 79 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16570017

In a nutshell, one of key aspects of the reddit system is that an upvote arrow affects everybody equally, so the majorities affect whether something is negative or positively rated. When you take that into account for where and whether you show a post, the net effect is that at scale you pretty much guarantee that the majority within a given community can suppress the minority. The majority may not even have to necessarily try; it's something built in to the system, even before we get into matters of people deliberately trying to game the system.

Systems like Slashdot, HN, and Reddit try to fix that either with human moderation or a variety of heuristics to try to minimize the impact ("that looks like a voting ring, let's make its votes worth less", etc.), but another alternative is to make the upvotes not be universal anymore. Instead of an upvote meaning "I think everybody should see this more", it could be rewritten to mean "I think I want to see more of this poster". It's more math, but we have bigger computers now. As a side effect, it's robust against a lot more attacks, though I don't guarantee it wouldn't have other weaknesses.
Technology allows high productivity and efficiency.

Ads have cognitive cost that users pay for the service. Price competition in free service means annoying users less with ads. If there is competition and innovation in social media works, it has the potential to become the lowest profit margin business sector ever existed once it matures. Wast volumes and very thin profit margins.
Rust has no more runtime than c. Threads are implemented in the standard library, but they'll only be used if you explicitly create one (or a library you are using does). Fork works fine :)

Rust has a very different design philosphy to c, and in that respect you are right that it isn't a complete replacement. That said, Rust is good for far more than just multithreading. It solves memory safety as well as tgread safety.
It was shoeboxes for us. Also, remember 126 cartridges? When I was a kid, we'd make little cardboard boxes that fit over the film area, with a pinhole in the front, held together with rubber bands, and film advance with a popsicle stick. This is sort of the whole point of pinhole, crude and sloppy.
IP, browser signature, topic browsing patterns, linguistic mannerisms. Not too hard.
Oh, yeah, looks like you also have to add the CPU, that's not included in the base price.

Although, for RAM and storage you can purchase that separately at cheaper prices.

I just tried to sign up for IBM's cloud, to see if I could use the limited free trial or $200 credit to try out one of the bare-metal systems.

Nope. The limited free trial only seems to apply to a few of their SaaS offerings; and the $200 credit also doesn't apply to their "infrastructure services" like VMs, bare metals servers, storage, etc.

Additionally, it looks like you need to get manual approval for you account to be able to use the VMs; even once I added my credit card info, they tell me my account needs to be reviewed by someone before I can actually rent server time.

On AWS or GCS, you just sign up and spin up VMs. I've used that many times for quick compat testing against different operating systems, some quick extra CPU cycles, deploying test servers, and so on.

But on IBM's cloud, you need someone to actually manually approve your account before you can do anything but use their SaaS offerings.

They really don't seem to want to attract people casually trying things out.

edit: after a bit, they did approve my account for infrastructure access. But the bare-metal POWER servers can't be rented by the hour, only by the month, and they start at $1000 per month. Still not really helpful for casual exploration. They also have such wonderful usability features as requiring you to allow popups in order to configure and order servers or VMs.
Is it? Wouldn’t it be better if the loans were not needed because the education would be paid by state? Doesn’t this actually cement the current situation?
I started porting one of rocket-based synchronous services to actix-web and so far I'm pleased with the process.
As a dead animal carcass whos insides are torn out and spewed out along the side of the road, I wish I could use reddit for similar, yet somewhat more distant categories too ^.^
If you try one on it might change your opinion.
What surprises me is now far down PornHub is on the list. Reddit way sticker than PornHub!
> Are you referring to the missing warrant canary?

That's certainly part of it. But even before then, reddit was sharing data with the authorities. Just like google removing "don't be evil" didn't mean that they weren't evil before they removed it. It just made it "official".

> I think OP is talking about all the now banned subs:

Right. And reddit was monetized while those subs were around.

> I don't use Reddit anymore, except for local subs sometimes.

The only time I check reddit is if there is a major news event, but the news and worldnews subs are now run by the news media employees, so it's all links to bbc, cnn, nytimes, etc, so even those subs are pointless now.
switched to firefox a few months ago but i keep going back to chrome everytime i need to watch a video online. Firefox videoplayer just doesn't work. The video lags very frequently and the cpu is always overheating.

Only when that matter is fixed will i be able to completely ditch chrome.
I have three siblings and one parent still using Yahoo. The other parent uses Outlook. They just don't wanna deal with the hassle of moving to Gmail.
If you are mostly a lurker that probably works great. But I have found that the most influential/upvoted posts tend to come from established accounts with higher karma.
I believe the whole idea, beyond pure speed of RAM vs SSDs, is they are promoting a programming 'model' where you bypass the operating system I/O (transiting via pages/blocks) and instead directly read/write data (via bytes) to the memory from the application. Which could be useful for particular usecases / subsets of data.

They mention write cycles in the article...

> The existing enterprise Optane SSD DC P4800X initially launched with a write endurance rating of 30 drive writes per day (DWPD) for three years, and when it hit widespread availability Intel extended that to 30 DWPD for five years. Intel is now preparing to introduce new Optane SSDs with a 60 DWPD rating
How to Get People to Read Your Content
How would Optane-on-DIMM affect the performance of relational databases as compared to the NVMe variant of Optane?
Herbalife linked to money laundering, drug trafficking, Paul Manafort
Ahhh. So it'd be more a matter to figuring out which chip holds the info and somehow replicating that?
> They don't 'sell data' they show you ads based on relevant data

What they do to show these ads is to sell your data, wholesale.
Surely this exact situation is how university prices skyrocketed in line with increased loans to students.
Do you use the first-party app? It's probably the worst option out there.
Sorry but the complete opposite of everything you say is true.

Hashrate follows price only. Very rarely will the hashrate effect price

Miners have no say in what is a valid transaction. Mining system had only one purpose. To make sure miners have no say on what is a valid transaction

Miners have no control over how new coins are made. They disempower themselves by competing for the protocol dictacted reward
I’m not sure why you are getting downvoted. The OP is not providing any proof whatsoever of the CME futures influence.

Yes their volume is tiny compared to the unregualted market I can hardly think it’ll have any effects.
Isn’t this just the byproduct of the karma/voting system? Content voted by the majority of users is going to have higher visibility, it’s pretty difficult to get around that without fundamentally changing the way the website works.
I would go so far as to say that while the moderators of most major subs may have started as volunteers, they are almost certainly on someone’s payroll now as “social influencers”.

This includes the political subreddits (actually especially the political subreddits). It’s legitimate user posts and discussions filtered by whoever has the coin to rent access to those moderators.
I also think that the committee is out of touch. C99 was an awesome improvement on the language, and since then, it went downhill.
We don't need the extra weird C11 syntax things, duplicating of existing libraries; we want tools that scope C better, or extensions that have been proven helpful and stable (one such example is the switch(x) { case A...B: } from gcc!).

I want strict boundary checking, I want an array base type that can't be cast as a pointer. I want some sort of scoping mechanism (ie, blocks), I want a bit of standardisation of memory barrier and such. I want #pragma once FFS -- it was proven a good idea for 25 years.

Basically there's tons of stuff that could help make the language better -- C99 did that; C99 is a masterpiece for example on how you can statically initialise extremely complex data into a single block, without having to use code. It's used all over the Linux kernel (amongst other thing; for example my own simavr is heavily based on that feature [0]).

* Standardise the stupid bit order in bitfield declaration FFS. I've been wanting to use that feature for 30 years and I can't because they 'forgot' to make up their mind!

* Coroutine standardisation would be awesome (stack swap primitives, with boundary checks etc)....

* gcc 'sub functions' (or a derivative) would be awesome if improved to make them safe.

* Reference counted allocator (basically, get libtalloc and roll it in [1])

There are so many things that could be improved, without diverging into weird stuff nobody needs (complex math anyone??!?!).

* In fact I want SIMD. I don't need these complex types.

[0]: https://github.com/buserror/simavr/blob/master/simavr/cores/...

[1]: https://talloc.samba.org/talloc/doc/html/index.html
Right? My blog post on the same subject would be more on the lines of "freak out about how to have a roof over my head next month and not have my family's health insurance cancelled..."
I think the flip side to this is that the communities are becoming so large now that they aren't really a community. I sometimes go on the /r/UK and the level of discussion gets lower and lower as the community dissolves. Rather than getting to know people everyone is just shouting into the void - unaware of who anyone else is.
Are you saying that every $1 spent on UBI is expected to return $X > 1 and that $X > $Y (where $Y is the return on current social service programs)? If so, I would say [citation needed], but, if proven, that would be a great argument for UBI.
It is quite simple, the big 4 have the UK and US top companies sewn up. We need a cap on how long a form can audit one company as a start. This would take away the incentive to keep the client ahead of making good judgements
They aren't doing anything with the padding bytes. But what probably happened was they copied the array into userland memory. Which potentially allows a malicious sandboxed program to read the padding bytes that contain bits of kernal memory.
The regular folk have no idea what "mine your data" actually means: very few people outside the advertising technology industry really understands how their data is processed, shared and monetized.
Traders aren't limited to one market or the other and there are plenty of arbitrageurs who will buy/sell futures and do the opposite in the spot market to squeeze out any discrepancies. If the futures are "expensive" you sell them and buy BTC. Reverse if they are "cheap".
Yeah, I can't see many C/C++ types swallowing that. The cost of writing a single function tends to be much lower than the cost of maintaining an external dep, as leftpad proved.
Unfortunately, this is not correct. Intel and AMD exposed MSRs for the Indirect Branch Prediction Buffer (variant 2), Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (variant 2), and Memory Disambiguation Disable (variant 4). Variant 1 is unfixed. Variant 3 is meltdown.
Well from one of the articles I referenced:

This follows a report by benefits consulting firm Aon Hewitt finding that 83% of large companies don’t expect the tax cut to boost salaries at all — just help pay for small bonuses companies like WalMart WMT, +1.98% and AT&T T, +0.70% gave workers, which reporters soon discovered were, themselves, skewed toward higher-paid, longer-tenured employees in many cases.

However one feels about the issue my point still stands. Th comment that started this thread gave no supporting evidence for the claim and thus deserved to be downvoted.

Also the article we are all nominally commenting on is about Walmart which is a Fortune 500 company. Is its tuition plan because of the Trump tax cuts?
Whichever team published VS Code seems to be not evil, at least.
Knew I recognized this guy from the greenPi post he made. I'm a sucker for posts about raspberry pi task automation.

If anything he is extremely good at getting some buzz around things he is working on and deriving value from having worked at Google.
Because we have to deal with people as they are, and not as how we want them to be.

This is for sending large assets from party A to party B, where either the parties do not have access to a shared rsync-capable server, or they do not know how to use rsync. On a deadline, you can't afford to become a CLI trainer or require special software.

A common use case would involve service bureaus and creators. Trust me when I say that there are a hell of a lot of creators out there who would never be able to manage rsync. You want to make stuff like this drop-dead simple for people. That means a service that works in-browser.
Caring and wanting to learn are not the same as wanting to spend one's free time learning.
> $12 a year to Facebook

If there was enough demand for this it would already exist.

Despite the amount of noise of complaints, most people are actually very willing to have some of their information used in exchange for all of the free services they get in return.

Most users are just going to accept the terms and move on. Just as they have already done in the past with EULA's. If this does happen, then essentially users are saying they are already happy enough with the choice they have.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/17/facebook-gdpr-changes/
UK financial auditor here. Putting in a low bid for an audit engagement is considered a breach of professional ethics. You might have an incentive to do less work and gloss over things if you're on a very tight budget. So it's hard for competition to bring fees down.
Unfortunately they may think that it was because of the redesign.

joking, joking, well kind of. yeah, no, the redesign is awful...still.
It might, but I tried on a Patek Philippe and the supposed “mystique” simply wasn’t there. It’s a watch. Big deal.
Actix-web is great! I've adopted it for my projects. I can take full advantage of what Rust offers for concurrency and safety without going too deep into the weeds. Documentation, a growing number of examples, a very responsive author, and growing community are some of the reasons why I think this project is going to play a major role in Rust's web development story going forward.
I wonder if an increasing bot population is playing into this. If you believe the premise that "power users" are responsible for most content, and then notice content submissions are rising with user registrations, then that might suggest that either the paradigm has shifted or the content is fake.
That’s a strange fursona...
In the UK firms are meant to rotate auditors.
Most of this has nothing to do with my comment and is unnecessarily emotional and partisan. UBI does need nudges, not because I'm objecting to how people spend the money, but because it is _inefficient_.

Do you want to raise people out of poverty? Great. How long would you like that to take? 100 years? 50? 20? 10? We don't have 100 trillion dollars just lying around, so we can't just give everyone a fortune _right now_. So it will take time for a UBI to have a lasting effect on society. If you don't want that to take 50 years, you have to try to be more efficient with that money, so that 50 years can maybe be shrunk down to 20 years, or even 10.

To reach better efficiency you need to be smarter about how you solve problems with the money. To do that you can look at how the money is spent, and help people to spend it in a wise way.

Some of those ways include financial literacy programs, help with getting into social programs, job training, hell even carpools. Sometimes it will be a more efficient health insurance plan, or tips on shopping or cooking. Maybe even investing some of the money in a savings program, or debt counseling. Some people may need more than the UBI, and some people may need less. This isn't a partisan judgmental thing, it's a simple fact that not everyone has the same financial problems. Maybe one person needs $2,000 a month, and maybe one person needs $50k right now. You don't know until you look at the bigger picture, and that requires data.

I'm not being partisan or lecturing people on what they need to spend and how. Everyone in the world could benefit from having their spending analyzed and having suggestions on how to be more efficient with their money. I'm saying that if you're doling out a fixed amount of cash, maybe you might want to do it as well as you can so it can have the greatest effect possible, rather than just throw cash at the wind and hope it sticks the right way (because a lot of the time it won't, because people have different needs, and inequality is not just economic)
I think GP meant anonymous to other users - not Reddit itself.
Apollo on iOS is good IMO
There's also been a few accusations of r/tesla moderators being on payroll (can be read at r/realtesla).
You can make a new user account on Reddit in 30 seconds and don't even need an email (last I checked).

Pretty easy to maintain a significant degree of anonymity by just deleting your account and making a new one.

With that said, most users are more concerned about being anonymous to their peers in conversation than they are to Reddit's administration itself, IMO.
The idea is to drive CPU utilization as well.

For example, in the x86 world, pairing NVMe drives with putting portions of the application writing to NVDIMM drives core performance, say, in SQL, from 40% util to 100% util.

Even a single 8Gb DIMM can dramatically increase utilization and performance.