skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work for a medical software company which evaluated Watson for use in our diagnostic product.

It should be seen as a Good Thing that medical is a Serious Field where Non-Serious Ideas get run through the ringer and fail.

And that's what happened with Watson.

The word from our engineers was that Watson was designed to sell commercials, not be a useful tool in a problem space like differential diagnosis or drug reactions.

I think this is good. Financial has the same reputation. You can't just use agile to bust out a minimum viable medical or financial product. You will be chewed up and spit out. And rightfully so. Because when it comes to our health, or our money and our investments, we don't have tolerance for failure.

OK, my social network double posted my communication, annoying but it's just a communication. However "my financial tool just double posted a transaction", or "my prescriptions tool just doubled the dose of a medicine" -- these are not OK states at all.

I wish Watson lived up to the hype, but sadly, our experience was that it does not. So it failing out of Healthcare isn't a surprise to us, nor is it a bad thing.
Some overseas exchanges allow it (Bitfinex probably the largest), but that would also introduce some counter party risk. Large owners of BTC could be playing in the futures market or loaning their stake to hedge funds / prop shops.
They can track you without your consent if they can justify it through one of the other 5 lawful bases for data processing, consent is just the easiest to some extent since it transfers the much of responsibility to the consenting party however it’s not without its own pitfalls.
It doesn't take a track, just an aggressively inappropriate driving style. In a family sedan. :\

Flooring it between lights is stupid and unsafe and to the extent that it's causing massive brake fade you should detect it (and stop) unless your recklessness is accompanied by incompetence.

If you're driving so aggressively that you manage to destroy your brake pads in a few miles, you're either on a track or an utter moron.
"What that enables is powering down servers that aren't being used with the ability to power them up in milliseconds rather than seconds." (great-grandparent)
>Voat has fulminating hate boners and tumbleweeds, and literally nothing else.

I go there and I can tell you this is categorically false. No one's asking you about "the JQ" in the gardening or painting communities.

There's a lot of VERY unpalatable content on voat because its free speech and censorship policies allow what nearly no one else will, but to claim that's literally all that's present there is just a case of finding what you set out to find regardless of what's there.

Freedom means accepting the existence or discussion of things you don't like.

I think you're wrong when you say people don't want freedom or a no-censorship environment because reddit is popular. What people want and what people will tolerate are very different things.
I don't know if it's SAN specific, but while waiting for XPoint, several vendors went to battery-backed DRAM. They confirm writes when in RAM, then whenever power is lost all RAM is dumped to flash, then loaded back up on boot:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVDIMM

Fortunately XPoint should solve this.
>When you do that, you’re sending a buy signal

I don't agree with that. I also don't have any patience for tedious sales processes. If I'm talking to vendors, it's because I at least want to buy something, and I always talk to a few of them. My goal in talking to them is only to get the information I need to make a decision. Being expected to sit through a sales script before my questions are answered is very frustrating, and usually sends me a "our product doesn't actually do what you want" signal.
But the integer stays the same. That's the main point here. Everything else is just converting it to local time. Sure timezones might change that.
Because the assumption is that "entry level" means someone who's still living with Mom & Dad; or various other situations. (Leaving jail, recent immigrant, mother returning to the workforce.)

IE, someone in an "entry level" position is someone who has partial support in their household.

Of course, there's plenty of good discussion to have about the ethics of this kind of employment. Needless to say, I prefer to spend my dollars are stores where "entry level" employees are teenagers, retirees who just want to get out of the house, and people who need an extra opportunity to make an honest life.
If you browse /r/all/top?t=day it is VERY different from a few years ago

I remember the first slide to anarchy was vague titles. "This." or "Good boy" etc would never be upvoted. Instead you would have long descriptive titles that summarized the link.

Images became far more common to share, with imgur and then reddit providing hosting.

Subreddit politics got crazy between moderators of large subreddits and between admins and users when very questionable subreddits started popularizing.

US politics happened. Conspiracies and fake news and then The_Donald somehow taking over half of the entire front page.

I still love using reddit for the smaller communities, but to say it hasn't changed is so false. You can rewind and check out archives of the site from 10 years ago and you'll see.
The visualizations are a really nice way to stay motivated. I have been hoping to see more of these types of concepts used. The Apple Watch has different goals that it sets out for long term accomplishments which have helped me plan out my month better to reach those goals. Following the 30-day cycle is a nice stepping stone for that. Maybe add more of these types of goals or rewards like "wrote x words in a day" "7 day streak" "new records" ... Etc.
I wonder if Intel is trying to keep the endurance number under wraps. If they can't beat the current drive writes per day spec it is like having a 10 gigabit internet connection but a usage cap of 1 gigabyte.
I disagree, I think it is satire showing the over-hyped nature of Watson and AI in general during this latest VC investment boom. HN still has room for humor
It's pretty neat (I use it every day).

It closes the gap on OSX for "*nix experience on a computer that can run Photoshop and Excel"
It would certainly be a novel way to kidnap a bunch of people over the Internet.
I should clarify too the bonus should be paid along side W2 earnings as steadily as possible, not at the end of the year. End of year refunds / cash don’t help pay rent and groceries in June.

The graph need not ever result in less pay, but Your rate per hour would decrease after the cap is earned out.

Somewhat harebrained perhaps, I like Friedman’s negative income tax but also want to encourage both employment and small business growth.
> it is worth pointing out that the Evening Standard is handed out for free daily at every corner, while still having strong political views

"While"? Those are two things I would expect to go together. Free literature is generally free because it expresses someone's views, and that someone wants to persuade.
C++ if you want speed

Python or Go otherwise.
- withLocalSelector() allows us to mount multiple kepler.gl component instance in the reducer and select which one to dispatch and read from. We wrap around connect(), so the user doesn't have to worry about it. They can mount as many kepler.gl instances as they want and it should just work.

- I know nested state has performance drawbacks, that's why we try to flatten certain properties with large arrays, such as datasets, layers, and layer data. But for other properties that are simple strings, floats or boolean, I think it's fine to have them nested. Because we have this reducer plugin feature, where developers can add custom reducer handlers, I try to keep the number of reducer small, so it's easier to explain what they each do. Besides that, I came across couple of cases where 1 action updates multiple reducers sequentially, I don't want to add thunk, so we then had to add this composer function which is kinda complex.

There are lots of questions, don't have time to answer them all, but I would love to keep this conversation going. :)
“First in, last out” solution to the Fermi Paradox [pdf]
To the extent the OP took it, as a universal way that 'servers' could go, not very feasible. Partly because we already HAVE what's being described, in the form of hypervisors.

We then layer within it all that other stuff that's chopped away to bring us back to a system that has a bunch of stuff we want, but most importantly that supports a wide range of applications we want to deploy.

The big problem with stripping back to the absolute bare essentials is that you optimize towards a local maxim, and severely limit your flexibility. This is certainly the way you want to go if you have deep pockets coupled with a need for bare-bones speed that can't be sharded in an effective manner. But that's not the majority of workloads.
I have a plushie goat and this works for some things. In particular, when you're stuck on something which you mostly understand but you're missing something or when you are comfortable working at that layer of abstraction.

But for development environment issues where the key is some piece of knowledge like "run rbenv rehash" that you just don't have, it doesn't work.
I run a public transport website that includes a few mobile apps. I've broken it down into quite a few microservices, but the bulk of it runs on Node and JVM.

I have a 64GB RAM, 12 core server, and the JVM services take up about 25% of resident RAM (ignoring Kafka and other Java stuff).

I've wanted to learn Rust for a while, so I recently bit the bullet. I use gRPC everywhere (Dart/Flutter, Node, JVM, Python), so I decided to start by rewriting some small services in Rust using gRPC for comms.

For now, I've taken a Java service that used 500MB at peak, to under 10MB RAM. I'm planning on eating into the big stuff over the coming months.

It's not making money, so it's a "hobby" yes. Consulting's paying the bills so I don't mind at this point.

EDIT:

E.g. here's an url shortener gRPC server that runs on NodeJS, and a Rust client that can shorten urls and get results back.

https://github.com/MovingGauteng/shorty

https://github.com/MovingGauteng/rust-grpc-shorty
> Nobody should be surprised by basic concepts that are trivially Googleable (e.g. available on Wikipedia).

Abbreviations are terrible for searchability. For example, a DDG search just now told me that ECC could mean Erie Community College, Elgin Community College, El Camino College, or Essex Community College. Of course it's easy to find out what "error-correcting code" means once I know that that's for what "ECC" stands, but that latter fact might not be so easy to discover. (In this particular case, it's the 5th DDG result, but I've definitely run into abbreviations with no plausible expansion, or, which is perhaps worse, multiple plausible expansions.)
Considering that they look at IP addresses, it is a switch off for "GPS data"; not "location data".
>Reads are more likely to be performance-critical than writes

Yep. I've worked with multiple environments where people were caught off guard by seeing read latency spikes that were much higher on NVMe drives than regular SSDs. This hit them pretty hard on database-style workloads.

Moving to utilizing the Kyber scheduler basically eliminated the latency spikes - it allows you to set a target latency for IO operations and reorders them to keep to those targets.

I recommend it for anyone using a blk-mq device that has a mixed read/write workload where latency is important.
s/changing the world for the better/chasing those sweet adtech dollars/g

Is anyone else cynical about this phrase?
You are just dealing with ELF files, so objcopy works fine in those scenarios as long as the architecture matches for the linker. This trick works many other compilers that use ELF such as clang, MSVC, Green Hills, etc.
That's not quite how it works. Publicly-traded companies don't reduce their net income using a tax cut, because their entire industry is getting the tax cut. The company's market price is tied to how their NI compares to the rest of their respective industry NI.

Stock repurchases are filed on the balance sheet, post taxes, which is why companies take the increase in net income but then use the extra cash to buy back stock. The former keeps the company competitive and the latter increases the stock price.
> Reddit is 80% government, politics and news propaganda

I don't think the list of top 50 subreddits [0] particularly supports that assertion.

[0] http://redditmetrics.com/top
Not complaining, I just wondered if it's just me. Apparently not
Possibility because your csv format is different. Does it have a header? etc. If you file an issue on github and link to your dataset https://github.com/uber/kepler.gl/issues. I will take a look. Thanks for trying kepler.gl!
I made an ad-free reddit alternative that has the option of super-liking a post to send $5 (minus paypal fees) to the author: https://www.vlnc.co/
I can't provide any evidence but I will say any company not utilising the opportunity are missing out big time and it's actually extremely easy to do.

Try this yourself - use imgur and upload some reaction gifs to an account so you can go back and see the view count later.

Don't spam the images but work your way through some comments sections from /all, find some comments you can use your reaction gif on and head back to imgur a few hours later. I expect you may be surprised just how many views that one link you posted got.

Comments get way more views than a picture because people will read a comment more often as they scroll past than people who click a link.

Now imagine you're someone who wants to promote an idea or a product. The amount of eyes that go over what you type into that comment box has the power to drive big traffic. Even just a few thousand views from one comment looking at or even just thinking about that product or idea on a large scale with barely any effort.

I can't prove it happens but I'm more than confident it does.
Show HN: “venn” shell script does set operations for union, intersection, etc.
read some years ago in the context of high end speakers:

"so, you are're just packaging $500 of speakers in nice boxes and selling it for $80K?"

"you don't understand. The people are paying for the price."
Walmart has a long history of preferring candidates that have a history of being in the shit. Bad managers cost the store in no call no shows, short retention, and disgruntled employees. Managers that have experience in the store can train faster, have higher empathy towards those they manage, and have a deeper understanding of the day to day operation of the store.

Working for Walmart isn’t a fantastic experience, but promoting from within is a great practice they have.
Nestle to Cut 500 IT Jobs in Biggest Swiss Restructuring Plan
I have a home office that I love. I spend a fair bit of time in it, but not 90%.

Ikea Standing Desk (Skarsta, crank, 63"). Dual 34" monitors, a desktop I love, Kinesis Freestyle 2 keyboard, and a Kensington Expert Mouse. Pen holders, notebooks, filing cabinet like thing, and a standing mat. I also have a glass whiteboard (essential) against the wall, art in front of me that I appreciate.

I have bookcases full of books, technical, religious, and science fiction - different things to chill out with should I need it. I keep a guitar handy, on a stand, ready to go, with a stereo system, decent speakers, and a great turntable.

I have a papasan chair, and a roadbike on blocks, so that I can force myself to change my space, to explore an idea, or calm down.
Some people are desperate for it to go away, or are just pissing and moaning. Treat it like a UI change on a major site, realize that in a month or two the rage will die down and acceptance will emerge. After a year, assuming it works as intended, broad acceptance.

For now all of the benefits are hypothetical, and some people think they’re feeling the pain, so we’re at the peak of a whining asymptote. This is buoyed by the fact that some people resent regulations on ideological grounds, and others resent anything that in any way restrains their freedom to “hustle” by screwing over people for money.
Side effect of people migrating to Facebook Mobile while reddit is still more popular on desktops?

On Google's Play Store, Facebook is said to have 76 million users. Reddit has only 630k users.
Huh, that looks like exactly the place I'm looking for. Fantastic.
You can get async/await on .NET 4.0 using Microsoft.Bcl.Async
There's a misconception, however. It is compliant, yes, but you also only get limited access.

See the topics sections, only news, arts & life, and music are available. And only the top articles of those.

All other links redirect you to that text start page.
No disrespect to Reddit, but that's __a lot__ of visitors + page views for what a fair percentage of the population might not be aware of (in a FB, etc. sort of way).

Maybe I'm not questioning Reddit's "fame" per se, but the validity of the algorithm that puts them at #3.

Perhaps it's just me?
To supplement the other sibling question that I answered:

It's a learning experience. Right now, I can't port everything to Rust, because each platform has its advantages. Rust is still missing a lot of libs that exist in NPM and Maven, so it makes it difficult.

I've been exploring exposing some functions that exist in Java/Kotlin through gRPC (as everything runs on the same network anyways) until it's available on Rust.

I hope to blog about my experiences in the coming days/weeks.
I wouldn't trust... most of these... in an IT environment. There's a few gems in there, but IT is such a wide field and the most key element is that you need solutions that fit into your existing environment and existing workflow.

For example, two of the highest rated tools are for Macs. I don't have Macs in my environment. Nor is outsourcing our networking or security to a cloud service a good choice, and I've seen way too many issues with Google accounts to ever consider G Suite viable. (I'd go with any number of alternatives to Microsoft Office long before I'd even consider it.) Chat is a compliance nightmare to add in, and it's outside the workflow of my environment, so everything Slack, Teams, etc. is all useless.

How many of these are PCI compliant? HIPAA compliant? Insert X compliance requirement compliant? (CJIS is a great one to bring up if you want whoever is trying to sell you something on the phone to give up and leave you be.)

Which is to say: My feedback here is that you need to filter for people's needs. We don't cargo cult in IT, I need more than a fancy brand logo.
This is almost certainly due to the SHA-1 certificate used by iTunes Store expiring. It is most likely that iTunes and macOS either pinned the old SHA-1 issuing CA and/or simply don't support SHA-2 at all in this context. (No new SHA-1 certificates may be issued for any reason.)

Apple offers free software updates to newer versions of both macOS and iTunes, and has indicated that applying those updates will be necessary to continue accessing iTunes Store.

See also, for example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16467490 or https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208104
There are a set of converging interests causing pain in the ecosystem. First a company promoting a project, then people hoping to provide services, consulting or training, and third people hoping to get a job or padding their current resumes.

None of these people have a particular interest in the technology or its merit, its anything they can make money or benefit from and then forums like HN and others are used to aggressively push out these technologies.

By the time people start catching on about flaws, over-engineering or needless complexity the latter 2 groups have already moved on to something new. Rinse and repeat and HN is very much a part of this.

There is very little tolerance for skepticism and proper scrutiny of anything 'new' and in the hype train. These are usually dismissed with ad hominems about 'grey beards' or people 'scared' of change. Since everything is so 'new and cutting edge' there is no respect for any authority or experience and scrutiny becomes impossible. And since self interest is involved the arguments become needlessly charged.
Probably not huge losses. The author here estimates he was up 5%. The shares fell but paid dividends. https://www.gurufocus.com/news/651725/how-much-did-warren-bu...
The logistics of how this paid content gets written by the news staff is kind of important, even if it seems mundane. Let's assume that Google is indeed buying favorable coverage. Who writes it? Presumably it'd be the tech reporter, on someone on the business desk. Who tells this reporter to do it? In other words, is the reporter part of this conspiracy? Or just their editor? If the reporter is not part of this conspiracy, how is the reporter compelled to write a puff piece about Google if their (likely legitimate) excuse is that they're too busy working on actual stories for their beat? At some point, that reporter is going to get annoyed and suspicious if they are repeatedly asked to stop what they're doing to jump on a random puff piece.

How many stories does this deal buy? When are these stories assigned -- e.g. does Google have a year to assign X number of stories? Does this deal include the power to kill/subvert stories -- e.g. if a privacy fuckup becomes news, Google asserts the right to have prior review and make as many changes as it wants? Who is the contact person for this on Google's side? Presumably it wouldn't just be an advertising person, it'd have to be someone fairly experienced in PR.

This is a long way of getting to the core problem: this kind of thing requires a committed conspiracy, especially in the face of possible sanctions by the UK advertising authority. If it gets exposed, besides sanctions, Google risks a massive publicity blowup. Having several editors in the loop is problematic enough -- it gets even shakier when you add in reporters who may likely rebel.

As someone who has worked in a few newsrooms, I know I'm biased into thinking that journalists will do the "noble" thing and speak out. But I don't think I'm in the wrong in this kind of situation. Even in today's emaciated industry, journalists don't have much of a problem speaking up even if it means their jobs:

- https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/univision.php

- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/business/media/denver-pos...

- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/business/media/fox-news-a...

Note that it's not just adherence to principle at play -- journalists who make a brave public stand have a chance at getting hired by other outlets.

It's not that news outlets can't have systemic bias or subservience toward commercial interests. But that usually comes via pervasive influence over time from a publisher -- i.e. the fable of the frog not jumping out of a slowly heated pot of water.

One of the best known examples of a newspaper selling out that I can think of is the LA Times' 1999 arrangement with the Staples sports center to share revenue from an issue devoted to positive coverage of the center:

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/04/business/the-media-busine...

A few editors were apparently in the know. But once others outside of the conspiracy caught on, it immediately blew up into a major scandal.
Thanks, I liked your post but couldn't help but feel a bit jealous. I've seen a few of your other blog posts before and really liked them. Have you still been working with Sia? What are your thoughts on Filecoin or other alternatives? You're one of the few people with any understanding of this, what are the barriers preventing adoption and even lower prices? Have you read or contributed to the source code?

Was that too many questions?
Correct - they'll know your entire itinerary (and whoever else you traveled with) because of your hotel booking confirmations, too. Same with whatever events you bought tickets to. :)
Check LinkedIn if they have any dedicated security professionals on their staff.