skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting thoughts. Quilt has a ways to grow. You correctly point out that, in some cases, S3 is lighter weight. You'll see future versions of Quilt get lighter, and offer more S3-like "just store this" functionality. In its next minor revision, Quilt simplifies point updates (i.e. it will be possible to update a single training example without materializing the entire package).

That said, there are a few areas where your system glosses over the needs of a data pipeline:

* "immutable by convention" is not a data preservation strategy; the system should enforce immutability

* what about deserialization? it's not enough to store and move bits. there are so many examples of "serdes" headaches. pickling (yes, pickle is a horrible format) in python 2 vs python 3 is one example. not to mention performance. my point is not that scripts can't do serdes, but that serdes information should travel with the data, so it's (mostly) transparent to the consumer.

* multiple writers (e.g. suppose you are generating training data in a distributed manner) requires write atomicity at the bucket level, which S3 doesn't provide

* deduplication of data fragments - I can see how one might do this with a "scripts over S3" strategy, but it's complicated enough that it's far easier to rely on a third-party app that just works in this regard

* fine-grained permissions - what if each data package has a different audience? sure, you can roll this with S3, but is that the best use of developer time?

* change history and access auditing

* querying and filtering - in many cases there is an enormous data corpus which needs to be sliced a different way by each user, e.g. Google Open Images. it is much more robust to have a single query mechanism that understands data layout than to write a fresh script for each slice.

* indexing data so they are searchable, etc.

PS - I am a contributor to Quilt.
This is what I like about HN. Feels like a small community where cofounders stepping in to guage feedback.
What I draw from this is that polarized light doesn't quite work the way we think, and the investigation should be into the modes of polarity.
you can add "hype speak" to that hyperbolic vernacular:
https://blog.codesolvent.com/2016/10/hype-on-hacknews-and-si...
Sigh. It was hyperbole. You took, the point, right? They were the poorest of the poor, and now their iPhones jiggle in their pockets as they dance on the world stage with the big kids.

Also, "median".
China missed the industrial revolution, but didn’t lose 5000 years of development in the process. Look st how fast Germany and Japan bounced back from being bombed into oblivion? Once development is in your DNA, recovery is much easier, it’s not like starting from a mostly undeveloped country in SE Asia or Africa.
There are already "click farms" [0] in China that are set up to game the app store rankings, this wouldn't be an unrealistic extension of their business model.

[0] https://kotaku.com/inside-chinese-click-farms-1795287821
> Several of them died on the tour essentially of exertion and dehydration.

In case anyone was curious, four cyclists have died during the Tour de France. One drowned during a rest day (in 1910) and two crashed in different ways (in 1935 and 1995). The remaining cyclist died of heart failure on a hot day (in 1967), after mixing alcohol and amphetamines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Tom_Simpson
You're ignoring the near-fixed costs to building tunnels: right-of-way, ventilation, maintenance. Even then, your 2 second gap is a pipe dream, not technically but logistically. You need scheduling flexibility to maintain such small gaps. Whether it's long wait times at stations, long detours to avoid congested routes, or keeping the system significantly below capacity, you can't assume that both a) pods can get on and off at will and b) there's a continuous flow of pods.

>You should also factor the much higher efficiency of a system with no train changes, where the pod occupancy is optimized to avoid those empty returns to the busy area

How do you avoid empty returns to the busy area? You still need to supply the pods, and if your solution is underfilling pods on the way back, that's exactly the same as sending a light train.

>where you don't have to dig a whole tunnel worth of capacity (6 tracks) at the terminus stations since one is enough for the traffic there

This is only an advantage at small scales. At higher scales, one train tunnel is just enough at the terminus stations, and the busier routes have more.
One data point: it was an explicitly stated rule of my Chinese student visa that I don't publicise any criticism of China.
I’m sorry to hear you’ve encountered some issues. Rest assured that core improvement remains our primary focus. On support, our metrics (primarily, responsiveness and customer satisfaction) show substantial improvement over the past two years — and we actually just launched free, 24x7 phone and chat support for all Stripe businesses. https://stripe.com/blog/phone-and-chat-support

For whatever reason, those stories don’t get upvoted as much on HN :-).
Fighting the Server Conspiracy
I think the community would be interested in this topic, but you should start the conversation with something more substantive, such as:

- talking about your particular bad experiences

- a theory about why some companies are better than others

- what companies should do to improve their bounties

- data showing that bounty payouts are cheap compared to breaches
There is very little information given, to save a click through:

The CEO was (presumably forced to) resign for violation of the company's personal code of conduct policies but it's not being released what the violation was.

>Texas Instruments said Tuesday that CEO Brian Crutcher resigned for violating the company's code of conduct related to personal behavior... TI did not specify exactly what Crutcher did that violated company policies. He had been at the company for more than two decades before assuming the role of CEO.
For reference, until Nov 2017, Zoox drove a cumulative 2200 autonomous miles driven in public CA roads, with a ridiculously high disengagement rate of 1/430 miles.

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/495c1aa7-2a3b-4dd8...

For comparison, in the 12 months ending in Nov 2017, Waymo drove 352000 autonomous miles in CA public roads, with a disengagement rate of 1/5600 miles.

This article is a joke...
I was under the impression that 0%, 100%, and any% were completion ranges, not different levels of glitches allowed.

0% means you make as little progress as possible, level up as few times as possible, pick up as few items as possible, and otherwise avoid progress other than completing the objective.

100% means you pick up every item, finish every quest, etc...

any% means you do whatever you have to in order to get through as quickly as possible.

That said, there are different levels of glitches, exploits, and external tools allowed in different speedruns. TAS (Tool Assisted) speedruns would probably appeal to this crowd.

For instance this run[0] of the NES Super Mario Brothers games where all four games use the same controller inputs and finish in the same second. (Host says 3 games, but it's really 4.)

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3358&v=EHfw-BEuR...
I'm actually pretty enthusiastic about this; Templeton resided over the golden era of TI, and now he's back in the role of CEO.
Wow, if you knew anything about how shitty our system is to dying people and their families I suspect you wouldn't be sealioning someone in GP's position.
>There is a complete and utter lack of respect for the individual or person in China. People do not have innate value as people simply because they exist.

Respect for the individual simply because they exist as opposed to being part of a larger group is mostly a recent West cultural thing. In most places, and throughout most of human history, what has given a person value is their relationship to the larger society.
Such determination to sneer!

Dropbox is not in any kind of nosedive. They have positive free cash flow margins that have grown steadily for three years [1]. That is precisely the opposite of a nosedive.

You'd have a point if we were talking about Uber, but we're not, we're talking about Dropbox, a company that has solid and improving financials, which is why it's trading at a healthy premium on its IPO price.

[1] https://medium.com/@alexfclayton/dropbox-ipo-s-1-breakdown-3...
Goldman Sachs Is Secretive and Hidebound. Its New Chief Wants to Change That
Every conference room I've ever been in has had a ring of dongles attached to the cable.

The new Sony full frame cameras all have USB-C charging and very fast transfer speeds.
No it does not.

The power output can cary massively, especially with multiple reactors, and there are verified designs that are inherently load-following. You build nuclear capacity to demand, including peaker plants and such, you do not (and in all probability can not), try and store your way through peak demand.
As someone who's experienced life prior to the internet, it's not that one can't live without social media but it does affect how easy it is to organize things when everyone else does. As another comment pointed out, social events are organised as a part of facebook events, or through group chat. Buying and selling things locally are done through facebook groups rather than a newspaper or even eBay or CraigsList. Photos and the like are shared on social media for key important events in people's lives that you mightn't have the opportunity to see all that often.

All of these things can be worked around, but the alternatives are slower paced and less efficient and leave you ultimately out of the loop. So it's not a problem of imagination, it's a problem of wanting to be able to keep up with what's going on.
Being able to send a dish back doesn't exist because waiters rely on tips. If restaurant owners and managers didn't accept it, waiters would not be permitted to do it. It's not like waiters take a plate back to the line and beg the cooks to do another one because otherwise they won't get tipped. "The customer is always right" is why American service (in general, not just in restaurants) is customer-friendly. It has nothing to do with tipping waitstaff.
I've seen more home-made string implementations in C++ than C. :-/
NZ has done something similar. Seems to work quite well; I recently went to a pharmacy looking for an OTC solution for a mild infection (it didn't seem worth seeing a doctor over, and I didn't have time anyhow) and ended up with a prescription from antibiotics written by the pharmacist, which was super useful and convenient.

Also in the case of oral contraceptives, a change recently went through here (last year I believe) making oral contraceptives OTC as long as the purchaser had been prescribed them within the last 3 years. Bit of an odd compromise, but a nice stepping stone towards greater liberalisation if it doesn't end up causing issues.
Photonics will replace electronics by that time, of hope.
Sorry, I was meaning my comment from the context of the conversation, where they'd be in a separate pool competing against each other. If cheaters want to cheat each other, it's no skin of my nose. Might still be a good revenue stream for Riot.
The private behavior of scientists may negatively effect the quality of other scientists' work.

That said, I kind of do suspect that there will at some point be a "Footloose" situation except with dancing banned by people of the far left instead of a conservative preacher.
As to the one second claim, I think that's a math error, because even 10k * 10MB is only 100GB.

But spreading the data over 10k drives isn't unrealistic, it's a different architecture. Pick a different 20 drives for each file.

Working it through: Assume 200 machines with 50 drives each. Each machine has to read 1TB, transmit it over the network, do a parity calculation, and write out ~50GB. With dual 10gbps ports the bottleneck is the network, and if we dedicate one on each machine to the rebuild we get a 15 minute clock.

Not that having such a monolithic architecture is worth the complication and extra bugs.
I thought it was a refreshing change from the over hyping, screaming in my face, style that is common on youtube reviews (incl. Linus tech tips).

The issue he raise is really serious. As a 2016 MBP user, I was slightly tempted, but what is shown here is that it's completely unusable. Thanks for saving a lot of money!
NYC people are more blunt than rude, in my experience (Californian who's spent a couple years there). There's a fun little cartoon book that gets into the logic of this: https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Tips-Etiquette-Nathan-Pyle/dp/0...
I grew up in China. Line cutting has always been annoying, even infuriating, for me. The last few times I visited back, I noticed the young generations are much better in this aspect. There are rarely any improvements in this regard among my generation and older ones. So I guess we have to wait for nature taking its time.

Gawking is common in places that are not culturally diverse. I drove to many small towns in Midwest. I got stared at when I was walking around the town. Especially so when I entered local stores, diners, and pubs where everybody else was white. I could tell many store owners, waitresses, etc. were not comfortable when talking to me. I hope it is getting better.
You complained - without providing any substantive arguments why this might be an issue - that all Bell test experiments use polarizers, I pointed out that you are wrong. I have no idea what you are complaining about now, what is »[...] qualities of the mediums that quantum uncertainty affects [...]« even supposed to mean? You are obviously far outside of your area of competence. If not, just do the experiment, write the paper, and collect your Nobel Prize, no need to argue with clueless people on the web.
NASA used to use ferrets to thread particularly long, circuitous passages in rockets.
In my experience yes but too few data points.
My Mom is showing early signs of dementia, and every neurologist we talked with said the same thing Gates suggests: get an early baseline test.

There's only one problem. Neither she or my dad will get one...

Hopefully, Bill Gates can throw some weight behind acceptance of these tests as both dementia and Alzheimer's seem to show signs of responsiveness to simple changes in behavior...like walking every day.

It might be that simple or not... without access to the test data over time it's hard to make solid arguments.

"Mom, you need to go for a walk today," just doesn't sound very scientific, but "Mom, Bill Gates says you need to go for a walk today," might just work.
Trivago has had success
This is a good thing. Doctors, while good for some tasks, can have an adverse effect on the flow of medical issue processing and patient care commodity distribution. This initiative will lift the barriers to competition that forces us to depend on the stodgy old-fashioned personal visits. Medical issue processing should require no more than a few snapchats per conflict.
So when I looked earlier the book is available for Kindle on Amazon but I could not find it on B&N for Nook. They've got at least 1 ebook format though, plus the website.
It's kind of amazing, how much advice is available on HN from people with no clue whatsoever.

[EDIT:] I am not easily offended, but the fact that this comment is [flagged] while the privileged-bullshit parent comment is not, has sort of sent me around the bend. Hypertension is associated more with age and genetics than with "healthy lifestyles". Which you would know, if you didn't get all your medical knowledge from the chumbox.
Is it even possible to set up an individual practice these days? Most individual practices were established decades ago. Most new physicians will work with an established group practice on contract.
By investing even more money in politics, rich people are making it so dysfunctional that the system will all come crashing down. At this point, we’re so close that whatever moderate reform could be pushed through would just allow the current system to limp along as is for decades. Therefore, I like that we are accelerating the decline by opening the money gates up even more:
It's not arrogant it's simply someone with experience commenting on someone with obviously no experience. It's simply obvious you've never been seriously ill ever.
Half their population, 700M people, can't afford the iphone.

The annual income for rural residents averaged $1,797 last year

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2089654/chin...
Text is pretty accessible to visual or reading-impaired users. Screen reader tech is pretty good at handling articles like this. Anybody who needs it probably has a better solution than Polly.

It is a cool way to demo their tech though
Former DTA head says My Health Record may end up a tech wreck
Sadly not even Swedish nuclear bunkers are safe from disaster: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/19/arctic-s...

> Arctic stronghold of world’s seeds flooded after permafrost melts
> It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the world’s most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity’s food supply forever. But the Global Seed Vault, buried in a mountain deep inside the Arctic circle, has been breached after global warming produced extraordinary temperatures over the winter, sending meltwater gushing into the entrance tunnel.

There are always unforeseen and unforeseeable risks associated with any location. You can mitigate them but you can't claim X number of 9s for a single physical datacenter.
OK, "peripherally about".
As a 2013 MBP user before getting a Lenovo I was tempted by the 6 cores until I saw this.
Although fridges are on special at the moment mmm...
MacBook Pro with i9 chip is throttled due to thermal issues, claims YouTuber
OwnLocal (YC W10) is hiring a back end Engineer to support local journalism
American service must be that way because the variance in the behavior of the customers is so wide.

How many French customers ask for gluten free water with a straight face?

How many French customers request a cube of ice to plunk in their merlot?

How many French kitchens stockpile frozen nugget-shaped food items because families expect them to tailor to the needs of their screaming toddlers?

An American server will effortlessly deal with all three while politely denying entry to the woman who is yelling about the constitutional rights of her emotional support goat.

If American economy is slowly becoming Arrakis from Dune, our wait staff is the Fremen.

The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.

So tip them well.
Dude... Ridiculously complex logic in the view is like the quintessential problem of templates; this problem is further amplified by the burden of groking the idiosyncrasies of every other self-styled templating API.
Isn't turbo boost an Intel trademark? If so, that sounds more like a "factory overclock", which isn't really an overclock at all.
> I'm willing to bet that very few people accidentally consume bleach or warfarin under the belief that it is beneficial.

I believe that a number of children and adolescents tried to consume Tide detergent pods. [1]

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/01/11/ti...
Except that photons don't have tags..
Each time a story talk about entanglement, I'm stuck: what does it mean experimentally to verify that two particles are entangled?
I don't know..
Isn't that what the directions that are on every bottle are for?
Also, remote teams can be a world of difference. Even if you're pure of spirit and think countries are just lines on maps it's really unlikely that they see it that way too.
Could have sworn I was going crazy last night; was attempting to write a scraper to download attachments / tickets from pivotal tracker for a yearly accounting report. Everything was working fine, then suddenly not. At around 2am I gave up and just put it down to the 'gods' telling me to go to bed.

This was the first article I saw after I woke up, somewhat refreshed. /feeling-vindicated
That doesn't make it an answer to a systemic issue though, regardless of the benefits of the story being told
Great post. Will be forwarding this to all my non-technical founders.
So an idea guy that just needed some programmer to code together his revolutionary idea actually found a programmer, a PhD from Stanford no less, to agree to it?
The raw number would imply that, but I'm pretty sure the math breaks down when you're storing 10 byte records.

Chunks of your data are going to be stored together, so it's a very small chance of losing a big block of 10 byte files. There's no failure mode that loses just one, and does so often.
Ever since I first discovered this project, I have known they have a solid vision and best of all can be trusted to deliver above spec. They think with the metal tube box, not outside of it. And this is the real value they are bringing to the auto war.
TI Code of Conduct: http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/company/ti-code-of-conduct.pdf

- Signed in 2015 by then-CEO, president, and chairman, Rich Templeton. Rich had named Brian Crutcher as his CEO successor on June 1st, and today has permanently resumed CEO responsibilities.

Their CEO isn't exempt from the ethics policy: Violations of the code may be punishable by reprimand or termination, and in some cases, are criminal offenses. No provision of this code may be waived for any director, officer or employee.

Not seeing fraternization listed, only lawbreaking, bribery, export controls, conflict of interest, etc.

From another article[0], Brian has only been CEO for 47 days, since June 1st.

TI said that Crutcher resigned because of violations of the company’s code of conduct related to personal behavior “that are not consisent with our ethics and core values, but not related to company strategy, operations, and financial reporting.” [0]

[0] https://dallasinnovates.com/rich-templeton-takes-command-aga...
1. I wonder how much the longstanding Cultural Revolution has had an impact on their culture, it wasn't that long ago. While they were breaking down as a country, USA was united and placed on top from WW2.

2. Is there an "it's working" view of the government because they're experiencing explosive economic growth. There may be some resentment towards American corporations eating up the world and our government's active involvement in every country's affairs. I could see how the Chinese government pushing back against America enabling the rise of Alibaba, Didi, Baidu, etc making up for some undesirable policies.

3. I want to hear more perspective from the youth in the cities in China.

4. I thought this part was odd:

"The tragedy of modern American foreign policy is the history of active ignorance and refusal to actively confront the Chinese norm or legal violations. The Trump administration is utterly incapable of defending the values and assembling the coalition that would respond to American leadership as they face even greater threats from China."

Trump literally just started a trade war with China. Right or wrong, he is blatantly pushing back towards China economically because of their unfair practices. It might completely backfire and might not be praiseworthy 'values', but you can't say he's not actively confronting China.
We partner with a printer called Hemlock to make our books: https://www.hemlock.com/
This resonates with me. The kind of company that makes a good human-driven car is so far away from the kind of company that can develop a level 5 autonomous system that to try to start up both at the same time would be simply multiplying an already low chance of success by another low chance of success.

How about developing the world's leading level 5 system and then licensing it to the all auto companies?
I was quite amused when I clicked that link once, thought the same thing.
Based on your comment, I'm guessing you have, but on the off-chance you've not read Robert McFarlane's Landmarks, you should. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23597544-landmarks?from_...