skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tried to make sense of one their patents: - patents.google.com/patent/US8548003B2/en

Data transmission units (data units) from the source network are received at an encoding component logically located between the endpoints. These first data units are subdivided into second data units and are transmitted to the destination network over the transport network. Also transmitted are encoded or extra second data units that allow the original first data units to be recreated even if some of the second data units are lost. These encoded second data units may be merely copies of the second data units transmitted, parity second data units, or second data units which have been encoded using erasure correcting coding. At the receiving endpoint, the second data units are received and are used to recreate the original first data units.

Got brain damage. What, ffs, does it mean? Help :)
> Erasing everything I ever wrote down about you is difficult.

Why do you think this is required by GDPR?

Here's the actual bit of law. Note how many exceptions there are. https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/

It's not surprising you fear it so much if you think it forces you to do all the stuff you've said. What is surprising is that almost everything you've said isn't in GDPR or has been exagerated beyond recognition.
Nvidia Takes More Control of Its GPU Compute Platform
The pricing includes 10 days of storage and the cost of the bandwidth. Today an upload can be downloaded many times but in the future we will be deploying download based billing which will charge you for the data downloaded. We are also working on a pay-as-you-go storage option so you can extend the expiry beyond 10 days and pay some low cent amount per GB for the data stored.
Lazarus IDE 1.8.4 is released with Free Pascal compiler 3.0.4
They invented bad ramen?
Ask HN: Paid PhD or Silicon Valley?
Hello HN!

I'm at a crossroads in my life with two very different paths and I'm not sure of which to pick. For context, I'm 25/F with a MSME currently in the midwest. I'm in a unique situation and am looking for advice.

My current options:

1. Paid PhD ($90k salary + tuition) at a midwest state university. In exchange, I sign a service commitment with the Department of Energy for ~15 years after the PhD is completed.

2. Move to SV and work at an autonomous car company (think Lyft/Uber ATC). $150k salary + ~$100k in RSUs/year

The government route is obviously very stable and has a pension, decent benefits, etc. However, the work will trend from technical to managerial (contract management, etc) within less than 3 years of graduating with the PhD. Exciting work is traded for stability + pension.

The startup route is almost the polar opposite - not stable but with almost a guarantee of interesting work! Additionally, friends and family (from the midwest) are always talking about the tech bubble in SV and how autonomous car companies could be killed tomorrow by regulation.

If the RSUs are valued at $0, then the SV offer is a slight pay cut.

Many of my academic friends would kill for a $90k/year fellowship + stable job after graduation; many of my industry friends would love a $250k compensation package.

Has anyone been in a similar situation? What route did you take and what information do you know now that would've informed the decision differently? More generally, what advice would you give?
just as nearly every culture converges on “meat onna stick” (and some progress to “sausages inna bun”), nearly everyone converges on salty spicy soup with carbs. This variant sounds a lot like the creole version of pho.
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I once waited for a long time for an older Haskell dependency solver to contemplate a situation before it gave up.
Since when has more regulation translated in more entrepreneurship?
> No, it did not. I didn't see any proof of that. Or is your proof the fact that you work with the human genome and we must believe you?

I mean, I certainly trust an expert more than someone with an unhealthy amount of distrust in experts..
Linux and the BSDs have had a VM for decades in the form of BPF.

Before that the exokernels absolutely loved VMs at ring 0.
While Dandelion is the flashiest player in the Geothermal space right now because of their relationship with Google, they really aren't offering too much innovation inside the industry where some really exciting things are happening.

For example, there is startup, Geothermal Drilling Solutions [1], that is, in my opinion, poised to disrupt the entire industry.

Their website isn't great, but from what saw and heard from them at a recent conference, they have a rig that can drill in the basements of existing structures. They are going to bring geothermal to major population centers where it is otherwise impossible, and I'm hopeful from the demo I saw, do it faster and cheaper than "traditional" drillers like Dandelion.

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There was an article about russian bots on aws clicking google ad words of sites also hosted by russians on aws.

they were basically hosted a fake net to generate google ad word money.

can't find the link anywhere anymore
>How much will it cost you if your data gets hacked? What will be the impact if you share the data with a partner and the partner gets hacked?

Historically, these numbers have been $0.0+/-0. Executives aren't exactly bumbling around with hazardous materials.
In copyright law you can still be caught holding illegally some data you obtained even if you did not personally steal the data and was simply given to you by the thief.
Yes, probably most people are materialistic, low IQ, and shallow. You're probably no different, and I don't mean that as an insult -- just that you're human, too, like all of us. Welcome to the club.
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It is procrastination when the thing without a specific deadline needs to be done eventually for your own good, like seeing a dentist or making craigslist listings for clutter, or the next step on a side project, or calling for a warranty repair on a piece of mildly broken furniture. These are things that have been on my to-do list for 11 months.
"...there is no well defined goal nor can one exist."

Consulting is the pejorative we gray beards used for that activity.

You reminded me of another pithy throwaway line:

Agile didn't improve outcomes, it just reduced the cost of failure, allowing teams to fail many more times with the same budget.
> Note that modern CPUs store a tag of the current "address space ID" next to the TLB line, thus the cost of the flushing is heavily reduced.

Except you flush the TLBs as part of the meltdown mitigation.
That video was blocked for me.... maybe because I'm in the UK.

Is it this clip? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUH6oRkWm-Q
This is exactly why he's saying it. Anyone who follows Benioff and the Oracle ilk knows this. Which is why GDPR needs to be scaled appropriately so that it fosters innovation while still protecting customers interests. Having a lower bound of €10M in penalties with no respect to how much data the company holds is what makes this taxing for startups.
I know this about the state of Deep Learning but I like to point out:

While autonomous driving systems aren't perfect, statistically they are much better at driving than humans. Tesla's autonomous system has had, what, 3 or 4 fatal incidents? Out of the thousands of cars on the road that's less than 0.001%.

There will always be a margin of error in systems engineered by man, just hopefully moving forward fewer and fewer fatal ones.
CloudBerry is an application that needs to be installed on the client workstation, something which many corporate IT departments do not allow.
They also regularly "recruit good people and leave them alone" and they fail. And then we look on those people as "bad" people. Which was my original point above.
Right, ska::bytell_hash_map is the most recent iteration and ska::flat_hash_map was the previous one.
Exactly correct we are running on Azure also so it's slightly more expensive. The idea is eventually as we load the service with users our cost will come down and we can pass some of those saving on to our users. We have built out a network that can run on any cloud so in the future we will be able to further optimize cost by finding less expensive routes that have the same level of performance.
> "It definitely doesn't happen "all the time" in development."

It absolutely does in different business units. I'm glad this hasn't happened to you in your business units. That doesn't say anything about other types of business units.

My experience is particularly in developing machine learning research that is both publishable and simultaneously directly useful for a performance-constraint business problem.

In this area of work, the output of two weeks of labor is often nothing other than "I thought about this and here's what I learned... and I suspect we are no closer to anything usable." You string a few of these cycles together, and then things finally crystallize and you suddenly make a dramatic amount of progress very quickly.

Then, after that point the problem becomes more like a standard engineering problem, with an iterative cycle to steadily bring a software system wrapping the research product into a deliverable state, and incremental progress is appropriate.

You just seem to think only from your bubble, where the idea of incremental progress is almost always useful for you. But there are whole business domains where the idea of incremental progress is nonsense, and you have to dig into a problem in a deep and uninterrupted way for long periods of time before you can describe what's going on.

Why would it be better to force people to shoehorn their work into a prescriptive model that requires you to give incremental progress, when that goes against the very nature of the work?

Why not let the team customize it as needed. Maybe Person A doesn't need to check in for a month, but Person B is working on productionizing a new solution from two months ago, so Person B does need to check in more regarding incremental updates. Why not let them each have different planning cycles just using basic common sense and trusting them to do their work?

I still don't see anything in your comment beyond just saying, "my work area has happened to never be like that, therefore Agile works in all situations."

> "Nor does it happen all the time with research. I've run research on a scrum basis with 2 week sprints for 6 years with great success. It just isn't that hard to break work into reasonable pieces. If it is really hard, even after years of practice, then writing software is probably not a good career choice."

Oh. I see. You're just trolling.
I think the point was something like “constraint forces creativity”
I could say the same thing in reverse about regulations. Every few weeks some regulation ruins the internet even more and finally people are sick of the regulations.

Name one way your life was ever negatively impacted, in a concrete way and not just in your head, by companies using your data to create value in the form of targeted ads and such to keep websites free. I'm waiting.
NaCL relied on a lot of segment register tricks that are only available to ring 3 AFAIK.
So in light of Spectre, the Chrome developers don't believe it's safe to have any sensitive data in the same memory space as V8, but WebAssembly is safe in ring 0? What am I missing here?

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs...
It's almost like the thing that people regularly describe with a "pressure" metaphor is similar to pressure.
I know that more than most, from very personal experience.

However, think about it this way:

Imagine investing $20,000 a month in supporting compliance, instead of Remicade. For dietary interventions, this could mean a nutritionist with weekly meetings, occasional meal-prep provided by a personal chef, and even weekly therapy sessions. This would still likely be cheaper than $20,00 a month.

We're willing to make this kind of investment with drugs, often without batting an eye.

Why not with other interventions?
I'm just the marketing guy :) but I will ask the engineer who wrote it and get back to you.
You seem to be under the impression that the act of communicating thoughts in some way precludes it from being "thoughtcrime". This is a ridiculously narrow and pedantic definition; we can't read minds. The term as it's generally used means being punished for expressing a particular viewpoint.
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Currently, honest companies that respect the user's data cannot compete with companies that try to profit as much as possible from our it.

I see this as similar to regulating pollution. Forbidding companies from cutting costs by polluting the air and the rivers allows for innovation and entrepreneurship in cleaner alternatives.
Who upvotes these things?
Minus Chrome.
> For example, Remicade costs up to $20,000 a month -- and the market of potential users of it is many millions of people.

That is the annual cost: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infliximab
In part one of this series (https://www.lambdacambridge.com/blog/2018-05-how-scrum-destr...) I explain how technical craft was key in all the agile methodologies, except Scrum. So I think that was part of the thinking in the original manifesto, but not expressed at the time (fish don't perceive water?)

I suppose you're right that Scrum is better than waterfall deathmarches, but I hope we can do even better.
I don't understand why you think GDPR is any different from all the other laws that you must obey.
15 years is a long time. You're giving up a large amount of freedom right there. The DoE will still be there in 12 months if SV doesn't work out. I'd do it that way round.
Quitting smoking only drops your risk of lung cancer by 21%: https://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/20080506/quit-s...
I read it as "I'm running a bash script for someone else so they can pick it up from a server", not "my employee who has this issue created a bash script"...maybe I misinterpreted.
Is it a universal law of procrastination, or a universal law of hesitation/perfectionism? Submissions close to the deadline could also be due to people continuously refining their submission, and not because the work hasn't actually been done. People are just hesitating to submit because they want to optimize their chance at success.

Real procrastination has a different character I think, speaking as a terrible procrastinator myself. Although hesitation/perfectionism is definitely a part of it.
The "data" you've provided so far consists of:

1) A link to IIHS crash avoidance test results. The Model S got a perfect score in those results, so those results don't at all support any claim that the Model S is worse. (I can certainly accept that the test is not definitive and the Model S could be worse than others while still getting a perfect score. My point is merely that this is not relevant data.)

2. A mention of 18 crashes with Autopilot enabled. Without a baseline to compare it to or at least some sort of rate based on the total fleet activity, this is more of an anecdote than data. Note that the average American driver crashes about once every 18 years (https://www.forbes.com/sites/moneybuilder/2011/07/27/how-man...) and there are around 175,000 Teslas on American roads right now (https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1115454_tesla-expects-2...). If Tesla drivers crash at the average rate, we'd expect to see about 175000/18/365 = 26.6 Tesla crashes every day, and that's just in the US. 18 Autopilot crashes ever is... not very high.

3. A completely unsourced and frankly implausible claim that the crash rate for other manufacturers' driver assistance features is zero.
lol I'm well informed on this topic but thanks anyway. Maybe I didn't make myself clear in my previous post. I was questioning the motivation -- Is there any existing profiling work that shows a significant amount of time has been spent on context switches in this particular workloads and how much you can save by adopting this approach.
A Case for Variability-Aware Policies for NISQ-Era Quantum Computers
No, not at all. There is no evidence that tax cuts lead to higher wages or economic growth. It's been studied and debunked to death but it never dies.
Many years ago, at a party with a bunch of pharmaceutical reps they all were touting the 'off label' use of Lipitor. Apparently, if you take it before drinking heavily, it makes hangovers much less severe. Something about coating the stomach. I never tried it myself.
I'm not sure I understand what happened here.

Did they arrest someone who was hired to kill him? What was the point of this?
I don't know which specific novels you're referring to, but the first sentence/paragraph/chapter of a novel often need to have a different tone from the rest. The opening of a novel sets the scene and sets the tone and raises expectations for the rest of the story in a way that a strictly narrative opening wouldn't. In other words, these "literary"-style openings are no more and no less clichéd than any other.
Similarly I run StumpWM as my main WM. I just run a full gnome session on a separate x server and when I want to setup a printer or whatever I just switch to gnome with ctrl-alt-F2.
I can easily automate that by calling /bin/true.
It's dismaying to see no black people among the employees in the picture.
Let's try something different. How about a smaller law requiring transparency first (not even the ability to delete or how to handle the data or that you have to have a certain appointed position or any other nonsense). Just transparency at first. The transparency requirements can be detailed, as food labeling is, but it doesn't need to require companies to provide users their data (just yet). Then, begin PSAs and public education awareness campaigns that show some of the harms of over collection of data, overuse of social media, lax approaches to information protection, acceptability of ad blocking solutions, etc (EDIT: rethinking this, I would no longer recommend this, at least at first). Then work on a law defining culpability of data breaches (i.e. data escaping its now-more-transparently defined intention). Also, consider grants to companies providing healthy privacy practices in the social media space (these should be small, measured, and for non-profits only of course). But I would just consider it, I wouldn't actually give them out just yet.

All in all, this can be done w/ steps that don't rock companies. Also, what we're going to find out is that people are happy with the tradeoff that currently exists and you can't legislate that away from them without pissing them off.
I use a javascript library that works in the browser and supports S3 file copy chunking and resuming. Host that in a simple S3 bucket, create a target bucket with acceleration enabled and bob's your uncle.

It's very efficient. I've never seen it fail to consume all of the available upstream bandwidth from the client. If this is of interest, I can go dig up the library I used.
Be skeptical of anyone who says they can predict markets and is not a trillionaire.
Scrum intentionally takes away power from the developers and puts it in the hands of a new manager class.

It makes moving paperclip more important than making them.

And that's evil.
Within the last week the UK arrested and jailed a man for being a known right wing sympathizer in public. His crime? His mere existence might cause disruption.
Some discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17188038
Wow, that kind of thing could give someone PTSD. I think "doghouse" is putting it mildly.
For technically capable people there are certainly lot's of good options for sending lots of data fast. We are just trying to make a service that makes this more accessible and requires no setup. As a side note we are currently working on an API and we intend to integrate with rsync so it can be used to upload content to our network.
I'm not seeing "significant liability" in how even major data breaches have been handled in the US so far. Where are the fines large enough to be noticed for gross negligence? Where are the prisons terms for the captains of industry that set the priorities and determine the budgets that inevitably lead to such negligence?

Equifax? Yahoo? Target? Heartland? TJX? eBay? JP Morgan Chase? Adult Friend Finder? Locationsmart and the cell phone carriers providing real time location information on all of their customers to third parties?

A CEO of a major corporation The Land of the Free™, wouldn't consider liability for negligent data handling very seriously given the government's seeming lack of interest in seriously prosecuting same. S/he'd probably even argue that investing more in security would lower profits and harm investors. And we can't have that.

What am I missing?
Ajit Pai disagree
> How much will it cost you if your data gets hacked?

If I understand it correctly (IANAL), there are no penalties for getting hacked. Rather there are penalties for not having proper procedures for how to respond to a hack.
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So can our org pay yours to be our guinea-pigs? :-)