skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would this affect law enforcements ability to use data they bought from telcos?
Are they riskier? The company risks, say, a month of trial time...

They are riskier for recruiters who are enforcing artificial scarcity.
Sidestepping the issue of whether or not those two women deserved to be banned: that's just two women. As I said earlier, the shades of gray are important here. A handful of people being banned from Patreon versus a great many people getting randomly demonetized on youtube.

Whether or not you've got a political grudge against Patreon, the simple fact of the matter is that Patreon does currently provide a sense of security for creators who feel very insecure on the capricious youtube platform.
Thank you for sharing your experiences.
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Yes, there are indeed pieces missing for this use-case. I intend to push another system call for the next merge window (4.19): "cpu_opv" [1]. It stands for "CPU operation vector", which is needed to take care of moving user-level tasks around between per-cpu work-queues touched by rseq fast-paths in a way that is safe against CPU hotplug. It's also needed to migrate free memory between per-cpu memory pools modified by rseq fast-paths safely against CPU hotplug. Some of it can be approximated by setting cpu affinity, but it's racy against CPU hotplug.

cpu_opv can be used as a slow-path fallback in pretty much all scenarios where the rseq fast-path aborts.

rseq user-level APIs are pretty much limited to only work on the current CPU, whereas cpu_opv allows creating operations on per-cpu data structures [2] which take the CPU number as argument. If it happens to be on the current CPU, rseq can be used and it is fast, but if the CPU number is not the current CPU, or is an offline CPU, then cpu_opv takes care of performing the operation safely with respect to rseq critical sections, and other cpu_opv operations.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rseq/linux-r...
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rseq/linux-r...
> In fact, international relations tend to be dominated by positive incentives, which is why "cheeseburger diplomacy" is such a reliable concept

“Cheeseburger diplomacy” is not a reliable concept, either the Obama practice to which the media gave the name or Friedman's McDonald's peace theory, which makes more sense in the context of your comment.
> What about blaming the companies who decided to depend upon a service that they have no control over?

Unless you're advocating against any kind of *aaS, this is kind of a silly argument.

A lot of these services are not "a few days of development" worth of work. The value in these is that they have dedicated teams of people who's entire job is to run that specific targeted thing. Unless you're willing to also invest in major development, it's going to be difficult to match that functionality.

Obviously when you make your product/company depend upon these things, you're taking a risk that they could go away, but you protect yourself against that by having robust contracts.

Outages are different, but for a significant outage you expect to see some kind of RFO and explanation of how they're going to mitigate it.

Deliberately withdrawing service for all customers with 30 minutes notice? That's entirely the fault of whomever is in charge at Smyte.

Even 30 days, while it'd probably ruin some existing plans, would at least allow people to have a chance to migrate without things just breaking.
Just out of curiosity, what if a road had concave shaped lanes such that the steering was always biased toward the center of the lane. Then at some point the surface changes. Would that have a similar effect of causing drivers to potentially crash at that point?

If not, then any driver assisted implementation should emulate the feel of a concave road (or road ruts) as much as possible. Make it so that the car is more comfortable to drive, but just subtle enough so that the driver's attention doesn't drift too much.
The super important takeaways for me are:

1. Swallow your pride, take a beat-down as an opportunity to learn and change.

2. You aren't good enough: Listen keenly when in a room full of domain experts. But know that you're exactly where you want to be.

3. Bias towards gathering facts by actually doing things.
xe.com tracks bitcoin vs other currencies,

https://xe.com/currencycharts/?from=XBT&to=USD&view=5Y
It's probably not economical for cases where there's a grid available for the reasons others have given. On the other hand it might be useful for remote outposts. Or it could potentially make electric passenger planes viable.
Oh no, I never said or meant that current bad practices are justified based on past precedents.

Just that blaming the incumbent while ignoring identical practices by the predecessor seems borderline biased reporting by the media. Not that the current situation shouldn’t be highlighted - it most certainly should be. But giving the impression that it is a new development (by ignoring the fact that it isn’t) seems politically motivated - just because of the extant political tensions and divisive climate.

I’m not sure past wrongs can indeed be redressed except notionally, by official apology, but at the very least future wrongs ought to be prevented.
The strength of the share-alike requirements in the free, public license. I believe Qt us GPL, and partially LGPL. L0-9 (and a forthcoming evolution, the Parity public license) closes the ASP loophole, requires sharing of changes even if you avoid distribution, and covers programs written or improved with licenses developer tools. That makes the model work better, and for more kinds of software.

The real difference, however, is making the kind of mode Trolltech and MySQL and other companies have run, and making it available to individual developers, on a turnkey basis. All you need is a Stripe account.
>Since you don't know what he's done, why do you second-guess his explicit statement by positing "is it unfathomable that he has accomplished something that some donor would like to speak to him about privately."

>Apparently yes, it is unfathomable to Kuhn and Sandler.

I am second-guessing it because it obviously not unfathomable that the author, who has many years of experience in his field, has accomplished something that someone finds worthy of a private conversation. When there is any doubt of people's motives, you should not go around and assume the worst, let alone make angry, public accusations.

>I cannot easily reconcile what you wrote, when I compare it to the original text, as something other than trivializing institutionalized sexism.

It is regrettable that you had to add an inappropriate accusation like this to your comment. I hope you are more respectful in your daily life when you encounter people with opposite viewpoints to your own.
I am reading it and I am replying to it. Perhaps you should let people themselves comment rather than pretend you are the judge.
You can't be pro peace and work for a company that is supplying your code to a government that wants to kill brown people a half world away.

I hope more engineers do the same when working with the American government and understand that something they may see as benign as Excel can be used to facilitate harm.
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You were saying they were an asshole, in both versions. Trying to be coy about it doesn't change it. I'm not sure why you bothered to be coy about it since you regularly get away with incivility on this site.
But the way that plays out in politics is like this: If I don't have truth, I can't persuade others that their position is wrong. So I have to try to persuade them that their position is less useful. But in the world of politics, that itself is a truth claim.

So I'm reduced to "what's useful for advancing my team". And it turns out that fake news, outright lies, and constant propaganda are useful for that. (Postmodernism doesn't recognize the possibility of real truth. Does it recognize that some things are still lies?)

In practice, therefore, postmodernism turns out to be rather destructive in its effect on the political system. One might even say that, in this area, postmodernism is not useful, at least in terms of the system as a whole.
In addition to the physical concern, there's the unfortunate political concern that anyone who builds something that can redirect useful amounts of energy from space to Earth for planet-side consumption has probably also built a death ray.
Keep tellin' yourself that
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Although my initial reaction was to strongly agree with the decision, I find the dissents much more interesting and Gorsuch's analysis compelling.

This case may have made a mess of things. Maybe the right answer here is for Congress to clarify what the digital equivalent of a safe deposit box is.
I was the last engineer of a small startup (from 4 full-time employees + ~4 contractors). I stayed a year beyond everyone except the founder/CEO in an attempt to launch the nearly-ready service, despite clear red flags. I achieved the established technical goals multiple times, but it became obvious the product would never launch due to non-technical reasons. It was a big mistake from which I have not completely recovered.

I'd suggest seriously considering what you hope to achieve and what you can reasonably expect from several angles: Financial outcomes, career trajectory, and personal motivations to name a few.

A few relevant questions: Have the issues which led to the current stagnation been addressed? Does the startup have a product that has been validated and can produce sustainable revenue? If not, what is the likelihood of securing (more) funding? Are you being paid well (without considering any equity/options)? How will your decision to stay look to future employers, considering likely outcomes? Why do you want to stay? Because you enjoy it? The challenge? Responsibility/Obligation (and to whom)? Sunk costs? Ego? Hubris? Messiah complex?

If you do decide to stay, I would suggest setting concrete limits/criteria for when to move on, so you don't get stuck in a zombie company.
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Consumer Reports does this too. I remember when they used to release their annual camera and tripod recommendations... all my photographer friends thought it was the funniest thing. Or their beer recommendations... many LOLs from my beer snob friends.

These general review sites are not really "for" people who already know a lot. The state of knowing a lot necessarily changes priorities.

I know a lot about photography--why? Because I have a motivated aesthetic sense of photography. I didn't just acquire all this knowledge by accident--I sought it out, in an opinionated way. So, my sense of what is important is going to be different from a random person's. The idea of sacrificing image quality to save a few ounces seems ridiculous to me; but most people don't want to carry a heavy tripod around. So Consumer Reports would usually recommend the lightest tripod that did an OK job.
Prove was already there, what we did is to improve it to eliminate even more bound checks.

PS: I'm the author of those prove patches.
Are we talking about murder in general or just the tiny fraction of it made up of people snapping and committing semi-random violence?

The things that cause of typical murders and the things that cause mass shootings are very, very, very different as are the options for solving those problems. Trying to consider them as related is not productive unless the goal is to create confusion in order to push an agenda that is not supported by facts and statistical evidence we have.

Most murder is basically a symptom of illegal drug trafficking (either directly or indirectly) and the problem is made worse and harder to solve by a bunch of systemic issues (racism, incompetent government, etc.).

Mass murder (the real kind where people commit senseless violence, not the kind where it's just multiple normal murders at one time that people use to inflate the numbers) is basically a publicity problem[0]. Once a few people start doing it and everyone becomes aware of it the people who were on the fence figure why not. Same goes for suicides, riots and a lot of other things.

[0] https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/why-do-mass-shootings-...
Holy shit; I did not know that. Thank you!
They don't need to be 'good' at anything, they just will move slower than an equivalent market based system but eventually they will get there.

As long as the rest of the world out-innovates them they may not catch up but do not underestimate the power of over 1 billion people, especially not when a large number of them are very smart.

Have a look at China 30 years ago and China today and tell me that that authoritarian regime isn't moving forward, and relative to the rest of the world they are moving at an incredible pace.

We, the West (assuming you are in the West like I am) should count our blessings that China isn't going full-bore on a market economy and democratic system because the Chinese in such a configuration would be absolutely un-stoppable.
So removing Saddam and stabilizing the power vacuum aren't justifications for spending 10 years?
This is a great point, and it also fits with how a lot of "tribal" societies work/worked. You never accumulate wealth, but, for instance, if you have a large yam harvest, you throw a feast for the entire community.
Similar thing working in a kitchen: always grab things out of the oven with a dry towel. Use a wet towel once and you'll never make that mistake again: the steam exploding against your skin will hurt you a lot more than the metal on your bare skin would have.
It's not named babyseekingbrutalkiller9000, meh.
Hawaii has a producer: http://www.hawaiianvanilla.com/
[citation needed] ;)
Little bitter? too bad I 100% whole hardly agree. Going from single to married with kids changed my views on a lot of society and coding in particular.
What Do Men Think It Means to Be a Man?
Agreed, and I do the same.

But I bristle at the use of the term 'SJW', especially here. It's a dog-whistle of a term which has lost meaning unless you subscribe to a simplistic "us" vs "them" mentality about people on the Internet.

Resist that.
Facebook is testing paid monthly subscriptions for Groups
Healthcare data can't be shared the way the browser histories, cell phone location data, etc. can. It's a completely different set of a rules that people have to play by (HIPPA for example). I build machine learning systems using healthcare claims and EHR data and without the direct cooperation of several large insurance companies (and access to their data) we'd be dead in the water. Even with access to their data there are incredibly strict limits to what we can and can't do with it. You can't just go out and collect healthcare data the way you can many other types of data.
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I wrote up a model for dividing equity in the very beginning, and it often ends up with different splits among co-founders.

See: https://payne.org/blog/dividing-founder-equity-in-the-very-b...

TL;DR: (a) figure out ratios of ownership in the beginning (vs absolute percentages), and (b) use simple "buckets" of contribution to figure out the ratios should be.

For example, the two founders that have been working on the idea for 6-12 months may end up with more equity than the next "founder". Or a part-time (e.g. academic) co-founder may get a little less.
Something similar is the case with Maple syrup.
Also, people were watching those addresses. So when it was sold off-exchange, people still could see it and react.
and thats where my quesiton is not for the employees but for the employers. Why are you choosing to use a product in your company that has no use.

If it had use then it wouldnt make people "crazy". It would make them happy. This inherently leads me to believe it has no use.

Personal experience, there is no golden rule to these things. Email , slack , google calendar. You eventually need to build your own relationship with these things and be adult enough to maintain that relationship (inbox at 0), seperate it from your emotions and be prepared to toss it to the side for in person conversation.

Its not slack that is making people crazy its the policies of using it at the company (or usually the lack there of) that make its benefit inconsistent. But it seems slack has not improved the situation but only exacerbated it.
> The whole thing with Mercury was readily visible and had been observed for a long time, but Newton and others never came up with an acceptable explanation for it while Einstein did. This didn't involve insane precision or high speeds or anything like that.

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

Perihelion of Mercury was observed to advance by 574 seconds per century. That is 0.16 degree per century, or 0.0016 degree per year.

Of this 574 seconds, Newtonian physics could accurately explain 532 seconds as gravitational interactions between planets. That still leaves about 42 seconds as unexplained.

General relativity predicts an additional 43 seconds, which is a near perfect match.

Of course, it's always a matter of opinion whether something is "insane precision"... so feel free to think it is not. (Never mind most people never see Mercury itself in their lifetime: I certainly haven't.)
We're already getting there with stuff like Foxconn city and private security teams.
> "That does not follow logically at all."

I never said it follows in a strict mathematical sense, I said it was implied, and implied that it was implied in an informal sense. And I stand by that. By saying that most people don't read warning labels you absolutely meant to suggest that that a very large portion of the population would have trouble with products which require warning labels.
Startup, no, but I was the last engineer in an established company that had been around for over a decade and fell on hard times.

I basically spent the last two years building my own business, and learning. When my boss walked in with the expected news that the company was shutting down, I wasn't in the least bit surprised, and was fully prepared for it.

However, I discovered I had a lot to learn about marketing my own business and took another full-time job about a year later.
Was the question about Bed Bath & Beyond ? I think they were prohibited from selling magnets even on their own site, let alone Amazon or welding supplies store. They were sued to close the sale and recall the product, not to stop selling it to Bed Bath & Beyond. Do you really think the situation is in any way similar?
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As far as I know the EHCI (Euro Health Consumer Index) is the one that is considered a very accurate source, and they have ranked The Netherlands as having the best system for 8(!) years in a row so far, with the Swiss hot on our heels[1]. They're also coincidentally Sweden-based, in case you might feel they would be biased.

The problem with comparing worldwide is that the WHO does an annual health report, but this focusses on a different aspect each year, instead of a general outlay. It has been done in 2000, with data from 1993-1997. The Netherlands switched from a completely socialised system ('Ziekenfonds') to the hybrid system in 2006. A lot of our improvements are because of that, and thus aren't in the 2000 WHO ranking.

The only other source I could find is the Legatum Institute prosperity index[2], which puts us 6th behind: Luxembourg, Singapore, Switzerland, Japan, Austria, Sweden, Norway. As their healthcare research is only part of a bigger picture (and thus less focused), I tend to give it less weight.

As a sidenote, aside from a small bit of extra pride its not very important where a country sits in the top 15, all these countries their healthcare systems can be regarded as top notch. The only places to attain a higher level of care would be in (usually foreign) private institutions, which come with such high costs that they are only accessible to an elite few.

[1]https://healthpowerhouse.com/media/EHCI-2017/EHCI-2017-repor...

[2]http://www.prosperity.com/rankings
> I'm not just talking about a colloquial US usage.

but thats what we are talking about, thats what context means

its as fluid as any variable name you add to a program, in this case that variable's name is conservative.
At work we have an enterprise contract with Slack, but the implementation is really strange.

Before the contract, there were a lot of teams/departments using Slack, so naturally an assortment of team workspaces started to accrue.

Once the enterprise contract came into place, those workspaces were integrated under one company banner so you can sign up with one login and join any company 'workspace'.

This means that if you need to talk to a team in a different workspace, you have to open a new tab in your browser and then join that. This is annoying, and is even worse when 'global' channels were introduced, because ANY notification gets broadcast across all the workspaces you have open.

Even DMs, if someone DMs me my Firefox tab bar lights up red across 5 different tabs.

This is partly an organisational problem in the company, but I think Slack should take some of the blame too to reduce these niggles
Cool stuff - I'll check it out!
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IANAL, but the way I read it they would not be able to use that data without a warrant, which will likely mean that law enforcement will no longer be paying for a third party when they could just use the warrant to get it directly from the telcos. (Unless the telcos don't have historical data but a third party does? Either way, a warrant would be required to gather that data without risking jeopardizing the entire case.)
Did you miss the part where basically nobody would give their child a box full of non-magnetic BBs anyway? Even if you had no clue magnets were dangerous, if you thought they were the safety equivalent of stainless steel BBs, you wouldn't give a toddler a box of them.
It is interesting that H.262 ( MPEG 2 ) > H.263 ( Divx ) > H.264 ( AVC ) > H.265 (HEVC )

That is 4 generation a video codec improvement, and yet as an image format, MPEG 1 based Jpeg is still doing very well compared to latest HEIF. I mean four generation of improvement and we only got 50% reduction at similar quality. Why is it still image don't scale down as well as video?
FWIW there's still a pretty large delta from Lua and JS as far as embedding targets go. We use to run our whole game state in a 800kB fixed block on a 8mb system heap in vanilla Lua(pre-LuaJIT) with good success.

I've done some poking at various embedded JS frameworks like Duktape and it's pretty easy to trip on various memory leaks[1] that make it really hard to recommend it as a viable platform for memory constrained spaces.

[1] http://point.davidglasser.net/2013/06/27/surprising-javascri...
It's almost like there's more than one person on HN, with different thoughts and ideas.
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He's in the middle of a culture clash between (traditionally union-friendly) automotive industry and (traditionally union-hostile) Silicon Valley startup, and he appears to be tossing his lot with the SV startup ecosystem.

That has rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.

(Possibly more importantly: he's also fallen prey, it seems, to the traditional SV startup ecosystem behavior of overselling capabilities in the Tesla cars, which may be contributing to avoidable deaths as people assume the low-tier driver assist the cars actually have is real self-driving functionality. I'm not sure why this bug hasn't propagated to SpaceX; perhaps he's populated the company with enough rocketeers to know that it's very much a "Screw up and people die" industry, and he's hands-off enough to let them succeed).