skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or we could just raise taxes on billionaires directly instead of imposing this convoluted nonsense.
But Seriously, How Long Can Humans Live? – Future Human – Medium
This is further confirmation of the spread of the nuclear signatures. Independent journalists were suppressed and threatened by California officials in Watsonville and Monterey when they were reporting highly elevated levels of radiation on the beaches and water there. See youtube.
He could have made it all up and the article would have looked the same.
1. You do not reduce an overhead by creating another overhead.
2. Aren't the 'NOP' inserted making the read easier for the code to be reversed ?
Wow, that article led me to the artist Bob Kuster (http://bellemeadhotglass.com/gallery/glass-chandeliers/), "who's making chandeliers so closely related to Chihuly's that Chihuly frowned when he saw them in black-and-white, photocopied reproduction and asked, 'Are those mine?'"

That opens up another interesting thought process of which is more art, the chandeliers created by Chihuly's hired glassblowers directed by Chihuly himself, or the chandeliers inspired by Chihuly designs which are physically created by Kuster? What imbues a Chihuly design with "art"-ness? The fact that Chihuly signed off on it personally? The fact it was created in his studio and received his blessing?
Google Cloud Downtime Postmortem
Pledge and unveil allow you to do privileged setup within the process, e.g. obtaining a bunch of file descriptors, or doing other things that need caps, then holding onto them and then dropping those privs.

That's not possible with an external container/sandbox launcher, you need to interleave it with the control flow.

Seccomp&co are too low-level. Jail launchers are too coarse.
I thought one of the advantages of the "holey" variety was that you don't have to put your hands on anything to piss... ehh, Eli.
Note that this means the back end team has to keep the schema backwards compatible forever. Having everyone have direct access to the schema (speaking from SQL experience) is bad. This is the start of a slow moving disaster train that you can't stop.
Absolutely. The secret of NYC density is transit. Nerds invariably think that you can force people to act against their own interests; they call this "NIMBYism", but it's just rational economic behavior.

You don't make a neighborhood dense by changing zoning. You make a neighborhood dense by building decent transit, and letting economics occur. The zoning changes will take care of themselves.
That's interesting, because as a frontend engineer, I find most RESTful APIs to introduce more "needless hassle", mostly in the form of making me send multiple requests to get data multiple levels deep and then consolidating it on the frontend, rather than just sending me what I want to begin with.

I agree with query building being tedious, though I'm working on a query builder helper library to make this less painful. Hopefully at some point I can open source it.
Putting billions of dollars and hundreds of engineers' time into Android for years rather than something else does seem like the definition of a significant risk to me. Not to mention all the legal issues.
Alibris is site that's very similar to AbeBooks, but thankfully not owned by Amazon.

I think Alibris is _especially_ wonderful from a seller's perspective. Their chat support is friendly and efficient, and does not seem to be an outsourced and overworked call center, but actual Alibris employees who can fix things.
Elixir runs on the Erlang VM, which lets you spin up processes at will. Here's an article of Phoenix tips - skip down to "AVOID TASK.ASYNC IF YOU DON’T PLAN TO TASK.AWAIT" to see how you'd spin off a background job.

https://dockyard.com/blog/2016/05/02/phoenix-tips-and-tricks
I cruised some BITNET lists before they went dark. 132 column lineprinter listings.

I loved the moment finding the Camel Breeders of the middle east using Teaching Hospital networks (IBM systems) to discuss vet science issues in camel semen...
Yes, I'm asking that. Because all sea water is irradiated anyway, the effects depend on the amount of radiation in the water. So, what problems is this water entering the sea causing?
A rogue wave hit them, so fast no one had time to react.

> 2.1 Factors leading to the capsizing and loss of life

> ... The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) stability assessment supports the conclusion that the forces exerted on the vessel by this wave were sufficient to overcome the stability of the vessel and cause it to capsize; no other significant factors contributing to the capsizing were identified.
Still that's bad design on the clients' part. E.g. - Just because malloc "never" fails doesn't mean it can't fail :) so better error check for it.
A more recent, and very high profile, example of this is Incyte and Merck's failed study of Incyte's IDO inhibitor in combo with Merck's PD-1 inhibitor [0]

Immuno-oncology has been the most active area in biotech VC for years. THe excitement has been driven by PD-1 and PD-L1 studies showing dramatic benefit in many types of cancer. However only 20-50% of patients respond to these drugs, so VCs and pharma companies have been spending billions of dollars studying "combo therapies", basically regimens where you add drug x to a PD-1 inhibitor to improve effectiveness and response rate

IDO was one of the most promising combo drugs. Bristol myers bought a leading IDO startup for $1B 18 months after series a. after this study pretty much all IDO programs were canned across industry. beyond that, many investors / companies now want to see that a drug works as a standalone agent, not just in combo w another drug

as the paper says, there are lots of valid reasons to use innovative study designs, but proper phase 3 RCTs are importnat

[0] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180406005141/en/Inc...
It's largely a side-effect of the heavy marketing of processed foods post-WWII in America. Companies producing rations pivoted into producing processed food for the consumer market, which was marketed based on its speed and simplicity. The result is that the poor are either working so much that they value the speed of processed food, or they simply don't know any better and buy the processed food rather than cooking their own more nutritious food.
Religious change preceded economic change in the 20th century
Exactly! So if all Chihuly does is take a crayon to a piece of paper and say "Make this thing!", but your friend and others like your friend do the heavy lifting to bring the idea to life, is Chihuly that great of an artist after all?
Please elaborate on why we should consider that belief false? Plenty of Senators disagree with you.
the temperature-to-survival time table:

http://www.ussartf.org/cold_water_survival.htm

In this case water was 14C, so while such water may be very unpleasant (depends on overall weather - on a nice summer day it is very nice to go into water at Half Moon Bay where water today for example is 14.5C, and where i originally come from we have 17C, at best, water in summer and everybody enjoys it immensely), it isn't such an imminent danger on its own if one has flotation vest on, as one can survive for several hours in it, yet unfortunately most people wouldn't be really able to actively maintain flotation on their own without the vest, less swim, for duration longer than may be 10 minutes. Basically having vest on or off is the critical juncture.
Yes. And if they aren’t monitoring locally they are monitoring remotely.

But the level of automation right now in aircraft is dangerous: enough that the pilot’s job is really boring, not enough that the pilot isn’t occasionally needed. We all know how that works out in practice.
They Bought a Ghost Town for $1.4M. Now They Want to Revive It
Decidedly, statistics is hard. Everything above is wrong. Let's label the twenty drives D0 through D19. There are 2^20 possible scenarios, which can be represented as a string of 20 bits:

• 00000000000000000000 = all 20 drives are working

• 00000000000000000001 = D19-D1 working, D0 failing

• 00000000000000000010 = D19-D2 working, D1 failing, D0 working

• 00000000000000000011 = D19-D2 working, D1-D0 failing

• etc

The probability of each of these scenarios is:

• 00000000000000000000: .97^20

• 00000000000000000001: .97^19 × .03

• 00000000000000000010: .97^19 × .03

• 00000000000000000011: .97^18 × .03^2

• etc

There are C(20,4) = 4845 scenarios with exactly four failing drives (four "1" bits.) The probability of each scenario is .97^16 × .03^4. Therefore the probability of 4 failing drives (any drive) is the sum of the probability of each scenario: .97^16 × .03^4 × C(20,4) like I said 3 comments above.

However the probability of a file being irrecoverable is P(4 failing drives) + P(5 failing drives) + ... + P(20 failing drives):

.97^16 × .03^4 × C(20,4)
+ .97^15 × .03^5 × C(20,5)
+ ...
+ .97^0 × .03^20 × C(20,20)
= 0.267%
Doesn't matter. Engineering around human failure is part of the profession.
I'm getting tired of putting my hand on a 40 degrees hoven all day.

My hands hurts, it's painful, tiring, enough for me to buy a new keyboard without much tough, and certainly enough to make me think twice about buying a Mac again.

Get your shit together.
The difference between pledge and seccomp, or unveil and namespaces, is that pledge and unveil limitations are not inherited.

Intuitively you would think that makes them less secure. But inheritance means that it becomes impossible to use system utilities. On OpenBSD /bin/sh is pledge'd; you could never do the same thing using seccomp because it would make the shell useless. At best you'd dynamically seccomp a single shell session according to a particular task, and you'd have to do it from the invoking process. Unsurprisingly, nobody bothers doing this.

So it's impossible to emulate pledge, and impractical to emulate unveil, on Linux. At this point, almost every program on OpenBSD uses pledge. No configuration. No option switches. It's done. Everything works like before, except now the security risk of bugs in all that code are substantially mitigated.

All the criticisms of pledge and unveil miss the basic point of these interfaces--to be easily useable by developers and easily used in all programs, not as low-level primitives to be used to write libraries to be used to write tools to be used by sysadmins for sandboxing services.
As one of my better bosses used to say:

Graphs are for asking better questions, not for making decisions.

When I use graphs to brainstorm ways to verify the existence of a problem, I have a lot better time than when we jump to conclusions. There's something a little rotten in pretty much any projection of data that you try. Building policy off of a graph is a bad, bad plan.

Such a bad plan in fact that Mark Twain has a joke about it.
The figure is showing percent of all bugs, not percent of resolved bugs. Likely the rest of the 100% is unresolved bugs.

The confusion on the second point hinges in "most likely". You're likely interpreting that as the expectation of resolution time whereas they are using maximum likelyhood estimation. MLE is rather useless in this case, but it is technically still correct.
I generally do something similar, where I push a message onto a queue to trigger a long-running job. I mostly work in Java, so I usually use a JMS provider of some sort, like ActiveMQ or HornetQ. Depending on what is supposed to happen on the receive side, I might run the job in a Java thread, or I might use ProcessBuilder to spawn a native process.
Just tried to post a job.
Remarks:

1. Unclear why there are both "Company e-mail" and "Apply Email"

2. Unclear what I'm supposed to put in "Based" if I really do't care. I've put my TZ instead.

3. Main Technology: That's a list of... programming language? Why? I don't care about that, I care about candidates experiences with various business domains (networking, monitoring) and technological environment (TCP/IP, distributed sytems, unix system programming, web technologies...), and that the candidate is already somewhat familiar, or is willing to become familiar, with all of the many languages that are used around here.

4. Is the price going to change? When? How?
A story I kinda wished I hadn't read, 7 days before heading out into The St Lawrence, Q for a whale-watching trip (gulp)
So that's the problem. No plan is going to be perfect. Better remains the enemy of good enough and I think this would have been a really good start. Note that the rebuttal posted here demands the repeal of Costa Hawkins. Doing so would strip all homeowners of the right to evict renters from their own home. Please tell me how that helps any homeowner whatsoever. Or if you don't care about homeowners (in which case why should they care about renters?), please tell me why California would be a better place by doing that to every single homeowner in the state?

I personally think you need to build bridges not tear them down and there's a lot we can agree on when it comes to California infrastructure

But if you're going to veto everything that's imperfect, IMO you're just perpetuating and exacerbating the existing situation. I suspect SB827 will be back next year because the hyperbole (from the left BTW not both sides in this case) about Scott Wiener being a closet Republican was absurd and it took an insane degree of cherry picking of his voting record to make that case.

I read that ~54% of homeowners vote as opposed to ~28% of renters. I think the proposition to repeal Costa Hawkins is really going to bring out the vote here and the numbers are not on the side of renters. I note also that the cost of California Home Ownership is just not all that high once you get out of the major cities. I had to give a talk at UC Merced a couple months back and I was really tempted to immediately move there and buy a mcmansion for the price of a single room condo in SF.

Finally, this could have been a wonderful opportunity to put an additional proposition out there that we could all agree on. Too bad we're so busy fighting with each other while the other side of the political fence slowly assimilates power.
Will SF reach a point where homeowners decide to build downwards (like they do in London) to gain living space? Is it feasible given the geography?
Strike two.
Not forever, just as long as you support out-of-date clients (either because of cached JS on the web, or mobile apps that haven't been updated recently). Plus, you generally don't want to introduce backwards-incompatible changes to your schema anyway at a certain scale, unless you can afford to have planned downtime, so GraphQL doesn't add anything new here.
Great points. It's impossible to know what would happen to the prices in your neighborhood under different conditions. But prices /probably/ wouldn't rise as much if people were forced to sell their homes due to increasing tax burdens.

1) Home owners would new favor development to keep supply high, prices stable, and taxes stable. Who wants to pay more taxes for the same thing? No one. With Prop 13, you get that guaranteed. But everyone else gets fucked. As far as your concerned, who cares?

2) Even though prices would still inevitably rise, it would force those that can't keep up with the increasing taxes to sell, increasing supply and holding down prices.
This is extraordinary in both medium and message. The message is about regulating away a large part of the housing economy and the price we're still paying for that. The medium is a graphic essay, a long form infographic that conveys its message with informality and power.

I only wish the text were searchable. It's a shame for these words to be invisible to spiders.
"One person who has spoken to Fuchsia staff described the effort simply: "It’s a senior-engineer retention project."

This has been my therory for a while. You see all these different projects competing against each other (multiple messaging apps are a good example) and you think: why is Google so unfocused? But what Google basically wants to do is hoard engineers so they don't leave and go work for competitors and make them stronger (or start their own companies that could compete against Google).

So Google's management figured out that if they give these enginners some cool stuff to work on, they'll stay at the company, even if the stuff they work on is a duplicate of something else the company has already done.
Sounds fantastic for the wealthy, who in a recession still have access to easy capital. Better yet REITs, who can swoop in to take entire blocks of SF homes and then rent them back to the same people who don't want to leave.
I haven't used Dialogflow so I'm not much help for your questions directly, but I know that Google people sometimes respond to Stack Overflow questions.

It might be useful to take this question to Stack Overflow (as one or more questions). If the pricing is confusing, I bet other people would benefit from having the answer in a convenient format like that too.
Pretty much all of these "most" findings are explainable by the distribution of the installed user base, i.e. they are not real results but just artifacts of the population sizes.
By 2014, "checklists" and "investment criteria" had rebranded themselves as "algorithms" across most of finance.
Do I need to pay for Java now?
Modern art is simply the craft of creating financial instruments, the only reason it's imbued with all of the imagery of sophistication and insight is because the people who buy expensive financial instruments like to think of themselves as sophisticated and insightful.

There's no difference between collecting fine art and collecting stamps. A stamp may be pretty, but its purpose is to be scarce, difficult to copy, and to have a clear provenance from a known issuer.
Privacy Explained: What It Is, How It Is Challenged, and What to Do About It
Bwauhahahaha.
Pretty much everything. But since I don't want to start a debate...

Aladdin 1 magic carpet:

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/f/f4/Magic...

Aladdin 3:

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/aladdin/images/d/d1/C.A_...
That assumes that building more creates more diversity among the services or that the people living there are the McDonald's kind of non-picky persons that accepts whatever is being served.

People move to dense areas in belief that a dense city has more to offer in terms of jobs, but end up moving to country-side in their mid 40s despite commuting due to realizing what truly is quality in life.
That's a beautiful way to put it. I'd read that book.
Metrics Based Onboarding
Be realistic about your talk ... is it post doc shit or is it just some small howtoo ... dont het an ego just enjoy being part of the community and giving back. For everyone of you there are 1000 only watching. That makes you special. Also add a cat picture in you slides
Lol of course just because its something "new" and different, evolutionary algos must be "more powerful"
Open source code is a gift. You don't have any right to demand this of them, and neither does anyone else. (What could possibly give you this right?)

If the governance of an open source project is bad enough, the way to fix it is to get a group of people together to maintain a fork. (Companies that depend on open source software can and will maintain their own branches.)
You're using a lot of words to say nothing concrete.

What, precisely, do you mean by "professional", and how is the Python team not being "professional" right now? Because the definition of "professional" I use is "Doing something for money, as a profession", with no implications about the quality of the work, and that's obviously not what you mean by it... right?
The common cold that you get every 12 to 18 month is a different thing than influenza. A lot of people die of it but the actual incidence is not that high that you get it every year (every 10 years would be quite often actually).
Galvanize to Acquire Hack Reactor
Ask HN: Advice on getting back on the job market?
Hello HN,

Could anyone offer any advice on how I can get my career
back on track after a year-long hiatus?

I spent the bulk of last year bedridden due to a pretty
severe illness, and it's beginning to dawn on me that this
situation had struck at an incredibly inopportune period in
my life, career-wise, since I had to leave college and had
only completed one internship by that point. Fortunately
I've been well since I came out of recovery earlier this
year and am working to "get back in the game", so I've been
sending my resume to various companies and replying to job
posts, but I'm not getting any replies and I don't even
know if my resume is making it passed the HR filters.

I've considered going back to finish college but it's just
not in the cards for me financially after last year, and
I've been managing alright improving my skills privately,
so it's hard to justify the financial load.

If anyone has faced similar circumstances or has any advice
on how best to surmount this barrier, I'd really appreciate
it. I've revised my resume so many times at this point, I'm
starting to lose perspective.

I'm posting anon because of the somewhat personal nature of
the situation, but I'd be happy to send my resume privately
to anyone kind enough to offer critique and such; just let
me know

Thanks in advance!
That is an expression which evaluates to the symbol add. It also has an important side-effect of defining a function.
> What I've started doing is if I get the feeling they're not helping, I just hang up and call again.

How much time do you end up waiting on hold?! Every time I had to deal with Verizon support it was a 30+ minute wait.
Where are people getting all these chinese knock offs? I have never had this happen on Amazon I am curious what products people are getting
Yes but at least that far in the future we'll finally be rid of JavaScript.
I'm member of a German public health fund (for political reasons, I could instead opt for cheaper private health insurance which many people argue is better, this option is not even available to most of the population). Last year, I went directly to a specialist for a non-urgent reason (two weeks between my call and the appointment) who recommend surgery which was scheduled in a top university hospital about four weeks later and performed by a highly regarded doctor. To make sure this is a good idea I visited another specialist before. I could have visited more if I wanted but there is really no reason to do that. I worried about lots of things but not one second about billing issues, waiting times, or quality of care.

Only thing I paid? The taxi ride home. For anything else there was my insurance card.

This is the same type of insurance plan 89% of the population uses – including the unemployed, middle managers, elderly, students, chronically ill, and always healthy.
Yep, that clears up my confusion. Thanks
Google doesn't sell your data. Advertisers pay Google to deliver their ads to the demographic they want to target.
I'd check out Apollo for these use cases. They allow a client GraphQL schema to be sourced from a bunch of different places, including (I believe) local-only state, REST APIs, and others. See https://www.apollographql.com/docs/link/links/rest.html
I disagree; the GraphQL schema should be your point of stability, whereby anything in front or behind can change. That being said, ofc, you'll need to deprecate something at some point and that is fine, it might just take a couple of weeks. See @deprecated decorator examples
That would solve the problem with adding generics, yes. It would also destroy the thing people appreciate about static typing - that you get told at compile time when you've done something wrong.
Starting FORTH
> Careful now, can't be criticizing Google too much on HN, they send the wolves for you.

These are kale fed wolves. You'll be fine.