skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We already have that in America. There are around a thousand summary executions for minor crimes a year in the US. You may be more familiar with them by the name "officer involved shootings".
There's that...but like any job. Some people really are better at it and put more effort into it than others. Sure you can fill a position quickly I imagine, but finding someone reliable and hard working I imagine is just as difficult as any other job, if not more because I'm sure you get a lot more low quality applicants. If you actually do get someone that works hard and does well at a job like that i imagine you probably try to keep them.

It's been many years since I worked in a fast food place, I'm gonna add my grocery store work in there too because it's fairly similar skill wise, but there were people there who'd been at these places for a long time, like most of their lives, they were treated really well, paid well and pretty much allowed to do whatever the fuck they wanted. A few of the employees like that at a grocery store I worked at in a small town were hunted and hired by a competing grocery store. Even me when I worked there, I was only there for two years, but I got a bunch of raises while I was there, was given a bunch of responsibilities, got to choose my shifts and was told when I left if I ever needed a job I'd always have one there just because I didn't fuck around and worked hard while I was there.
The whole point is that they don't; that workers have been barred from seeking jobs that would pay better at another franchise.
Speaking frankly, unless a Splunk alternative implements API compatibility for search, it’s a nonstarter in the marketplace. At the enterprise I work at, developers and operations teams both use splunk to observe and analyze application behavior, and have thousands of dashboards and alerts set up and integrated into mature operational processes. Migrating this over to another application is nontrivial. And the biggest problem isn’t even a technical one, it’s a social one - how do you train three hundred engineers to use a different log search tool.

I would absolutely love to see a competitor emerge that addressed the migration problem through a compatible search api. Handling other timeseries data like metrics would just be icing on the cake.
Hypothetically speaking, what will your reaction be if he loses this time too? Will you (personally) accept his defeat and wait for the next election or will you take to the streets and protest against the election results like 2014 (given Khan calls his supports out)?

I am only trying to get the feel of Pakistani politics here, no personal bias.
Fair enough, for in-memory only, if 1TB is your raw data, by the time it's indexed, it's going to be bigger.

Surely, though, workloads that require in-memory performance are fairly niche, and jumping from there to distributed (even in-memory) seems non-obvious, at best. Why aren't large arrays of fast SSDs a better alternative? The bandwidth is comparable, but the latency is terrible (still comparable to ethernet to a remote node, though?)

What about workloads that don't require fully-in-memory in the first place? If the cutoff is, then hundreds of TB, wouldn't that cover the vast majority of common use cases?

> I can't really comment on rates of machine failures, but I have seen it happen before, even just for stupid reasons like someone in a data center unplugging a machine.

That sort of anecdata isn't very useful, because a human can cause any failure at any layer, including someone stop a whole cluster, which I've seen happen before.

My point about it not being a legitimate concern is that what is now common practice with what is now common equipment means it's uncommon. These practices and equipment had to evolve, but that evolution happened on the order of over a decade ago.

Also, be wary of selection bias. It's very easy to remember the "fire drill" because of the one machine failure, and it makes a much more interesting story to tell that gets passed around and modified enough, eventually sounding like multiple stories and therefore multiple machines. The hundreds of servers that operated unheard and unseen for years, sometimes beyond their specs (e.g. with only only blower out of four still turning and only half-speed at that), get nary a thought, let alone mention.
>I fear that one day we will wake up and realise that we are behind, to discover that our friends in China have been innovating.

As much as we'd all like if every country to got along with one another, if we find ourselves in that position I'm sure the intel agencies will get it in gear.

Maybe the war on terror has to die before we really turn and see the threat that China poses.
"While this setup has been working really well for large parts, small components haven't worked out".

Too bad. This is a good idea. I have some boards with lots of small components where this would help, and I have access to laser cutters. Maybe with a thinner plastic layer on top... Also, with small components, getting the placement stencil off without taking the tiny components with it may be tough.

Board edge shearing is less precise than the pad placement, and this thing uses a base frame to align to the board edge. Pick and place machines align to reference marks on the board, using cameras. You might need some kind of fine screw adjustment to move the board very slightly.

I've seen videos of the Liteplacer, which is a slow pick and place machine for prototypes. It's useful for when you are only making a very small number of boards, because it can work from components laid out in wells or on tape that's not on reels. The production oriented machines require that you have enough components on reels to get the feeders started.
Aptly numbered podcast episode #666 of Planet Money named "Episode 666: The Hoverboard Life" explores the discovery of the "hoverboard" phenomenon from a couple of years back -- "The hottest toy this holiday season has no identifiable logo, no main distributor, and no widely agreed upon name".

The podcast (I listened to it a long time back) goes into how the Hoverboard invention was fueled in late-night drinking sessions by Chinese engineers / businesspeople trying to make a more accessible and more fun and less dorky Segway. All those people bounced ideas off each other and made incremental improvements to get to the form that was commercialized by umpteen companies. Maybe this product was developed in a prototypical "Chinese model" where ideas are cheap, widely shared or purloined, improved on, reverse-engineered, etc. -- with the obvious downsides of rushing low-quality products to market that are subject to exploding batteries with no accountability.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/11/27/457404184/epis...
While this experience may give some insights on cultural biases as a whole, it is pointless if we try to apply it to any given individual.
In these criticisms, I find a laudable impulse to protect language from being captured by formal analysis, with an ethical impulse something like not wanting to see an elephant caged at a zoo.

But in outcome, I always seem to see so much more detail in the positive efforts to analyze than I do in the defenses of language as being beyond analysis. Effort at making analysis comes with deep engagement on the different dimensions upon which language can be expressive, and the gist of challenges to these analyses are "it's subjective. You just can't do it!"

And without even commenting on the substance of these respective arguments, the types of output they tend to produce makes me more sympathetic to those making the effort to analyze.
Cañón – Historia de los inventos
45 years ago, the median salary was not $97k. You need to adjust for inflation of the salary as well.

Edit: You're also not accounting for taxes, which will take a sizable chunk of dividends and capital gains.
If anyone's interested, here's the PDF of the indictment:

https://www.pdfhost.net/index.php?Action=DownloadFile&id=734...

It's quite an interesting read.
I think ex-employees steal previous company data all the time. It's just happens that add "china" to the title these days can grab more attention.
I've got a wiki style site built with hugo. Source code is here (readme includes link to actual site): https://github.com/neRok00/mq-patrol
Not to be offensive but these people do low skilled work. You can onboard another employee relatively quickly.

Not if you can’t find anyone willing to work. I doubt the teenagers I see driving to their minimum wage jobs in decent cars are doing it out of necessity. Many are just doing it for work experience.

I’m sure their are other high priced areas where the people who work minimum wage jobs aren’t doing it to support themselves and their families - especially in places that are inaccessible via public transportation.
I understand the concepts just fine. They're from the 1970s, and probably made more sense then, but it isn't the 70s anymore. Hell, the people who made it moved on and improved it with Plan9 and even that was decades ago.

Stop treating UNIX and posix like they're some kind of religion.
Unfortunately every company operates that way; once you accept a lowball offer (which you usually don't even know is low due to salary secrecy) you can never get out of the hole except by quitting.
They don't offer identical wages. The McDonald's by my house offers $17/hr starting pay. The McDonald's by my work ~7 miles away offers $13/hr starting pay.

That's about a 30% raise for an extra 15 minutes of commute each day.
There might be a difference that's worth noting. There are game designs that are clearly engineered to create either outright addiction, or at the very least, cravings. Porn, at least superficially, doesn't seem to attempt to engineer addiction in a similar way, maybe because they don't need to?

While the end result might be the same, there seems to be a much clearer intent to create addiction in some parts of the game industry, especially where gaming and gambling meet.
considering kinect had the added bonus of snooping on you people didn't take kindly to paying for that feature.
As I've stated throughout this threat, it isn't just about mosquitoes. Honestly I would not mourn mosquitoes if every last species was exterminated. What concerns me is the social impact of further establishing humanity as the arbitrators of which species get to live and which deserve to be exterminated. It won't stop at mosquitoes; the extermination of mosquitoes will be used to justify even more exterminations in the future.

(Furthermore exterminating a species just so the human population can grow even faster will lead to an incredible amount of additional extinctions due to habitat loss. Humanity is growing fast enough already; we don't need to optimize for this any further.)
This sort of systematic wage suppression is why America is cruising towards socialism. You can crush the workers only so much, then they rebel.
Augur a decentralized prediction market built on Ethereum launched
If a study later comes out showing that they weren't actually addictive, what happens then? What happens if the initial study showing it was addictive was actually fraudulent because someone (who might now be dead) just hated Nike?
Oh, so Americans cheat too?
I might be projecting and misinterpreting here but I think your parent commenter meant that programmers are being flat out judged preliminarily, before people actually get to know them as persons.

I myself encountered a lot of bias due to the sheer fact of sharing that I am a programmer -- even if only when asked (as I get older, I more and more hate to say anything that sounds like boasting). But I shrug it off as these people just feeling insecure; most of them probably realize your brain is much better trained than theirs -- or at least in the mechanical and creative department -- and they go on an ego-saving trip trying to demean you.

Bad luck for them that I am one of the best roasters I've met for my 38 years. Some even tried unsuccessfully to turn physically violent only because I defended myself with a good roasting counter-joke that made everybody on the table laugh.

Pretty hilarious at times, I have to tell you.

But, you know, the rest 95% of the time, people just immediately put you into a group they dislike but don't have the balls to say or do anything; they just stare at you disapprovingly. Or they are actually open-minded.

The situations showed in the article don't happen that often as the author makes it sound, IMO.
Marc Andreessen on pitching your startup to investors
Do a simple math.

China should on average has 4x more people stealing tech than US, based on pure population numbers.

Even Chinese are 75% less likely to innovate, that's as many innovators as the US.
Maybe the suppression of wages due of inhibiting mobility outweighs it?
You mean changing variable names and rearranging bits of code. Not really.
and mac isn't trash? The keyboard is beyond abysmal, the action, breakage and lack of escape. It runs at high temps and spends a lot of time in overheat throttle mode. I have more beefs with but apple laptops special? no way.
Colleges now have sophisticated software to catch cheating even in computer programming courses. I believe they compile down to an AST, and then compare for similarities.
I ended up leveraging multi-stage building with Docker and have a gradle image as my builder image, build the jar, and copy that to the image that is going to get deployed.
Oh man, I'm feeling uninformed. So cower is being deprecated and Falconindy is rewriting it as auracle. I guess that's 2 programs I'll have to replace. At least I know this one's replacement.
Can you comment on the scale of VIN reader deployments? They're harder to read because of the smaller size, but I'd guess they're less likely to be intentionally altered or obscured.
> Chinese graduate students has been incredibly disappointing

That's kinda selective bias. Only these students have higher chance of making it to the U.S. lol
This is very likely true, sadly. Doesn't help them that some of us grew to be big men with karate and aikido background either. So they try to vent insecurity through other venues.

These days I just laugh in such situations.
I just picked up an SCPH-1001 (original PS1) on eBay for 25 bucks. With the multi A/V out into a tube stereo, CDs sound fantastic. Not very convenient but a nice option.
Is it over-generalizing when there is a cultural predisposition around it? Making generalizations about a culture when an element of that culture is the target of the generalization seems fairly reasonable. As always, “it isn’t everyone,” but the exceptions prove the rule.
Inside Apple's shady partnership program
Data consistency is one of those things that sounds like it matters but often doesn't. There's not much in Netflix's platform that screams data consistency is an ultra high priority. Any application that deploys active/active multi-region is by definition going to encounter scenarios where data loss is possible. There's just no way around CAP.

I'd venture a guess that most applications have all sorts of race conditions that could cause data corruption. The fact of the matter is that almost nobody notices or even cares.
The App Store is closer to the official Arch repos, since it is vetted by Apple. The AUR is closer to just downloading stuff off the Internet.
In Santa Monica, the system helps you find your car if you don’t remember where you parked. Call me southern Californian, but it helps.
Horrible package management story. Cross platform is a headache. Slow.
The price is pretty absurd. I was expecting this to be in the range of $15, not $115. You could buy several years worth of dramamine for that price and won't look goofy at the same time
Did they cheat or did they study together?
Got it, well thanks for open sourcing some of it!
Potential customer looking for your exact service here, and that line comes across as distasteful and childish, no matter how much I agree with your intentions. Talk that way to friends over a pint, not on your corporate website. Or don’t, but I’m looking elsewhere.
Copper bracelets for sea-sickness? When I was a kid, the scam was that they cured arthritis.
NPR Planet Money The Indicator podcast had a great segment the other day on why teens aren’t working summer jobs anymore.

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/29/624566202/why-teen-employment...
Good point. Hole up in a cave. Living in a society is a trade off. You give up certain freedoms to gain certain other previleges. You give up right to kill people (whih was pretty common when people were normadic) for greater collective security. I dont see ice as anything different. They are enforcing the laws of society. If you dont like it, vote to change the laws.
> You can onboard another employee relatively quickly.

If that were true then there would be no point in creating this regime. If you want a higher wage as an Arbys employee, you need to jump to McDonalds or Popeyes or anywhere that's not Arbys. They wouldn't have bothered to make these deals unless there was some economic advantage for Arbys chains to hire workers from other Arbys restaurants.
And in order to fill up at a regular gas station, don't forget or lose your icar special dongle or else the regular gas pump won't fit into your gas tank.
In my experience, the ~30% of Chinese students who went to international schools, understood American culture very well, spoke almost perfect English, and who didn't exclusively hang out with other Chinese students never cheated any more than other students. It was the Chinese students who only hung out with other Chinese students who were the major cheaters

However, I only ever TAed for undergraduate courses, where a much larger portion of Chinese students were from the subset with international educations / who were better able to culturally assimilate. And going to a school that was hard to get in to, typically you need to be very impressive to get in as a Chinese international student (or from a powerful family, preferably both) regardless.

At a similarly selective program for graduate school, the Chinese students were, for lack of a better term, more "Chinese" culturally and more insular. I wouldn't be surprised if cheating were worse. But there's also the fact that graduate CS programs are less discerning of international applicants' credentials/pedigree
statements like that typically come from best-selling author and keynote speaker. This kind of articles seem valuable to some audience, but it's probably something I can never understand.
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In early 2001 the Taliban banned the growth of poppies and opium export plummeted to near zero.

>The first American narcotics experts to go to Afghanistan under Taliban rule have concluded that the movement's ban on opium-poppy cultivation appears to have wiped out the world's largest crop in less than a year, officials said today. The American findings confirm earlier reports from the United Nations drug control program that Afghanistan, which supplied about three-quarters of the world's opium and most of the heroin reaching Europe, had ended poppy planting in one season.

>But the eradication of poppies has come at a terrible cost to farming families, and experts say it will not be known until the fall planting season begins whether the Taliban can continue to enforce it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/20/world/taliban-s-ban-on-po...

Later that year America invaded and poppy production soon exceeded historic numbers by a significant margin.

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

Make of this what you will.
The article says it's "an international partnership between CSIRO, Verily and James Cook University".
Amazon and Orlando Cops’ Controversial Face Recognition Pilot Isn’t Over
> collinear anatidae

I'm stealing this phrase, please and thank you.
China is a collectivist society. Their ideas of property rights and intellectual property are fundamentally different. There is “the” answer, not “your” answer.

It seems weird to us but it’s worked well for them. And while our system might seem better, or at the very least “normal” it certainly has its flaws (i.e. patent trolling).

There is probably some middle ground we could come to in the future but the US is completely unwilling to budge from its position. The Chinese simply don’t even understand what that is. How can someone own an idea? Especially one which is just a fundamental truth. Think about that for a second. Think about it as if you were a child. It’s kind of strange. We grow up in the US being taught that we can own just about anything, and to the exclusion of all others, and then we develop systems to promote and protect this. That’s definitely something you can do (as we do) but there is nothing natural about it.
The algorithm for building the lexicon and scoring the vividness of each word is still evolving pretty rapidly, so I'm not quite ready to publish the exact details yet, but I'll eventually write about it in-depth...

Until then, here's a high-level overview:

1) Start with a human-curated list of several hundred vivid words. Be sure to include words that invoke all the senses: sight, sound, touch, smell, taste, and bodily sensation. These are the "seed words".

2) Scan through the entire corpus and find all instances of those seed words.

3) Vivid words tend to occur in clusters, so find all words that tend to occur in close proximity to the original seed words.

4) Create a list of new candidate words, and suggest them to a human reviewer.

5) The human review accepts or rejects each of the candidate words.

6) The accepted candidate words become new seed words for the next iteration. Eventually, you'll have somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 words :)

7) The score of each word is based on a modified TF/IDF metric, with a few extra finishing touches (like incorporating sentiment scores from the "Hedonometer" project at the University of Vermont Computational Story Lab).

That's where the algorithm is at right now. I've been iterating on this basic premise for over a year, and I'm pretty happy with the current results. It's not perfect, but it's useful. As far as I'm concerned, it's a pretty mature "version one" of the vividness metric.

But it has several weaknesses I want to address in a "version two" sometime soon.

The biggest weakness is that TF/IDF is only a shallow proxy for intensity of vividness.

For example, looking through the 500 million words in the prosecraft corpus, the word "blood-red" occurs 972 times, yielding a vividness score of 6.1. But the word "magenta" occurs only 515 times, yielding a vividness score of 8.3. It's more rare, so the model thinks it's more vivid.

To me, that seems wrong. Because the word "blood" has special bodily meaning, beyond just a prefix for a color-word, my intuition says the word "blood-red" should be scored as significantly more vivid than "magenta".

I have some ideas for addressing that deficiency by using the output of "version one", alongside a new "sensory hierarchy" model to train a new "version two" classifier.

But that new model is still in its very early conceptual stage, and I'm not ready to write about it yet :)

In the meantime, I consider "version one" a legitimately useful tool for working authors.

Glad you asked!
Poison oak please.
Just because it's not API-compatible with Splunk doesn't mean it's a "nonstarter."

Splunk is far from the only way to do what it does.
Isn't it more like paying a drafted athlete? It's not like founders have no prior history to go on.
Those mosquitoes aren't invasive anywhere. Eradicating them means killing them wherever they're native as well, which is definitely what many people in this discussion are proposing.

Culling invasive species wherever they are invasive is something I support. But many people want to go a lot further than that.
That’s actually pretty solid. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Thanks for sharing. I find myself reading docs but am missing the experience to know when/when not to use something.