skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The scary thing is that these private companies have an superhuman memory and are motivated to judge my worth as a customer. The article alludes to Amazon disabling accounts, but in the near future anyone can be blackballed from a major transport provider (Uber), communications service (Facebook, WhatsApp), store (Amazon), news source, TV network (YouTube, NetFlix), etc. with little to no recourse.

Up until this point in history having cash was all you needed to complete a transaction. Now you have to maintain your status as a “good” consumer, under the threat that you will be defacto excluded from a part of society by an algorithm. At which time you lose access to the platform as well as all your previous purchases.

There are also companies who are commoditising digital reputation. So a single, private, company will be able to effectively turn you into a pariah.
Experts weight in on the future of AI and evolutionary algorithms
Chromium browsers compiled without proprietary codecs require webm. It's a small subset of people (I am one), but I just don't play and/or leave sites with mp4 only.
I still find Netflix a curious addition to that list.
It dries out, loses volume and weight, then deforms and tears. There was a dike near Wilnis that actually broke in 2003, leading to half a metre of water in some streets there. Maybe the dike that was in the news a few weeks ago (it didn't quite break, but there was some danger) was a different one; I didn't check, but it was also near that village.

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadebreuk_Wilnis
But it's always been a brute-force approach which is usually used at CERN, for detecting and analyzing the particles that may arise out of the various particle accelerator collisions. It is however a wiser approach to probably involve the current hardware capabilities to crunch the vast amounts of data through some statistical analysis or algorithms to sift through so much data without much human intervention and obtain results that have lesser false positives, as those are one of the drawbacks of using the brute force approach. Further research in these areas which could then help improve the accuracy of these models an then be reinforced into the chain and obtain only the required data to then manually observe.
Gracias por la buena onda!

Respondiendo punto por punto:

- Usando fondos mutuos podemos pagar rescate de las inversiones en 3 días habiles, fondos de inversión tiene que ser sobre 10 días. Tanto fondos mutuos como de inversión tienen beneficios tributarios, creemos que los que aplican a fondos mutuos responden mucho mejor a inversiones de patrimonios menores a US$500k (en nuestro caso, beneficios como 57 LIR, 108 LIR y APV).

- Tendremos carteras diversificadas (no expuesto a ninguna empresa particular más de 3% por ejemplo), y vamos a ir diversificando más geográficamente a medida que vayamos aumentando la parrilla de ETFs. En la parrilla actual hay ETFs de acciones emergentes, deuda emergente, acciones globales, etc, y el algoritmo de asset allocation es el que elige cual entra y cual no. No han entrado ETFs fuera de US porque probablemente tengamos que aumentar la parrilla con ETFs que cubren zonas más puntuales o correlacionan muy distinto con el mercado de US.

- Cobramos hasta 1,19% de remuneración, puede ser menos. Nosotros cubrimos costos bancarios por transferencia y costos de transacciones de ETFs (corretaje). Lo único que no cubrimos es el management fee de los ETFs contenidos dentro de las carteras, que usualmente es muy bajo.

- Lo que sugerimos es agendar una transferencia programada desde el banco de cada cliente, nosotros detectamos las transferencias y las asociamos automáticamente cuando llegan.
1.5 years of wall-to-wall TV news coverage got him elected. Has the TV news started to cover something else? Not that I've noticed; they have to chase the ratings after all and Trump has been a godsend for them. So, yeah, Hillary will lose to him again.
You're more arguing the differences between digital and physical technologies than you are arguing the merits of ownership as such.

If we can ignore ethics for a moment, piracy still provides a superior product than rentals because pirated objects don't lock you into particular ecosystems nor does it prohibit you from using the product in any way.

Given the choice, I don't want to have to buy an apple, android, or windows phone/tablet just to download movies to watch while camping or something. I would rather have the freedom to do whatever I want with the things I paid for.
That's what he was accused of, but since he never got a trial on that matter why do you assume it happened?
Every community is an echo chamber, digital and analog alike.
I worked for one of those for a couple years that had started as a "startup" when I did my internships with them but had morphed into "slow-growing lifestyle business" by the time I left.

I'd argue that you get most of the downsides of both with few of the upsides. You don't actually get stability with this setup; you're a couple of customer cancellations away from layoffs at any time. There is no career advancement. You pretty much don't have a shot at getting rich. It doesn't get you much of a resume boost (other than being employed) or much cred at parties. The workload is still fairly high, though not as insane as a fast grower.

The one thing it does have is that your learning rate will still be fairly high, and you have a sense of independence & responsibility that's akin to what a startup would give you. For the time period I was there (first year out of college), that perhaps was just what I needed. I wouldn't recommend making a career out of it, though.
I don't know, if in fact the plaintiffs are being silly (losing lots of money can make people do silly things), I don't mind. I like when organizations are willing to call out bullshit. Whether or not it actually is bullshit is for the court to decide, but clearly match group believes it is.
Agreed; I have been driving for 20 years, motorcycle rider for 10 (and have owned anything from 50cc scooter which was my favourite, through 400cc supermoto to 750cc adventure/touring), enjoy bicycles - but the e-scooters / electric mopeds in Toronto, Canada are absolutely horrendous. They follow no particular rules of traffic - one second they are a vehicle occupying middle of a lane and blocking other vehicles. Next second they are a bicycle scooching to the right of the lane. Then they are pedestrian, crossing the street over a pedestrian crossing when all the rest of the traffic has come to a stop. All throughout they are drunkenly weaving in and out with no predictability or order.

They have no training, no safety equipment, no licensing, no enforcement, no accountability, and no care. In the meantime everybody else around them is trying very very very hard not to be part of a fatal accident.

So like the poster, I have no problem with technology. I have huge problems with lack of regulation and enforcement, and/or the users of such vehicles.

They are fairly explicitly advertised as tool to avoid regulation, insurance, rules and safety, for their own personal selfish convenience; and again, explicitly designed to mislead - they are designed to look like a motorized scooter [why not make them look like an eBike that they are?], but with semi-functional pedals so they can claim they are a bicycle.

Get these punks off my lawn! :-)
[and let the hate and downvote begin!:]
Thank you!
I didn't watch #2 yet (I think that in Switzerland they'll start showing it only in October) but when watching the comparison I tend to like more the old/#1 version.
Maybe because it looks more "plastic"/"synthetic" and therefore "cartoonish"??? Not sure... .
No one claimed “panacea”
Thank you. I find your explanation enlightening and interesting.

I haven't spoken with him in some years, and I won't mention names, but a good friend worked on calibration of the CMS detectors (scintillation). The last time I did speak with him, that was a very interesting 2 or 3 hours. Although I don't recall us discussing the data processing aspects in any depth; my limited impression of those I mostly gained from random articles and whatnot.

P.S. I guess I'd bettter RTFA, now. ;-)
Apparently they added an author since I last studied. Damn, that was over 10 years ago.
The expense for space is producing RAD Hard parts. (The designs are done on the same FPGA then a few RAD Hard chips are made.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening
Musk has been risking other people's money for all of his endeavors...public investors for Tesla (and banks), and government money for SpaceX and SolarCity.

Other billionaires are trying to make a difference in things that actually matter, like curing diseases or eliminating pollution. Hell, some of them are doing the same things that Elon is, but aren't so self-aggrandizing about it.

And their are others that recognize that hyperloops are a solution in search of a problem, that the hard part of tunneling isn't the boring but the post-boring activities (i.e., tube construction), and that self-driving isn't something you can solve in 6 months.
Match might have to find a model besides "buy the latest popular matchmaking firm"?
I love a good writeup backed up with some performance benchmarks.

But I'm a little befuddled as to why the three possible solutions to putting a "status" column in your Products table were:

1. Add a status_id column to the product table and reference a new status table
2. Add a status_id column to the product table and let the app define the mapping of what each status_id is
3. Add a status column of type text to the product table

What about :

4. create an enum column with your possible statuses.

If you ever reach more than 65k possible statuses, you've got a different problem.

Perhaps the status example is just a hypothetical example? Although the author says they would use option 1 in this case, so what gives? Seems crazy to create a join table for 'status'.
Using the cliche allows you to make a statement that contains zero information. If you use different language people might try to read into it.
1 vCPU instances do not simultaneously share cores with other customer instances via SMT (Intel Hyper-Threading Technology). A core can be sequentially time sliced between customer instances when you use a fractional (m3.medium) or burst (T2 instances) CPU instance type.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ includes a note that provides some additional information about when vCPUs utilize Intel HT Technology:
Each vCPU is a hyperthread of an Intel Xeon core except for T2 and m3.medium. (emphasis added)

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/virtualcores/ provides a table of the number of cores allocated per instance. Notice that an instance like m5.large that has 2 vCPUs and 1 core. An instance like t2.small has 1 vCPU and 1 core.

Disclosure: I work for AWS
Well, one is 40% "too slow" and the other is ~15%, so yes :P
...which is meritless, after all.
Depending on those handful of corporations may be a problem, but it also may not be. You depend on a handful of corporations for many important services, and I'd bet you mostly doesn't even notice that. It depends mostly on regulations and competitiveness of the market (and more on the quality of those than their existence).

Besides, a for profit service can create a community just as well as a communal repartition of it. It adds another risk to the community, of the service provider going bad, but it's not some overwhelming factor that makes all other irrelevant. Like it or not, you are sharing stuff when you rent them, the resource pooling is present (more or less present, depending on the renting modality), people are coming together (or not, depending on how it's shared), and there is social development just like with a communal resource.

The problem of Uber|etc and Netflix|etc is much more on how they do the renting than on they actually renting things.

There is some related problem you didn't point, in that once people start pooling some resource they didn't use fully, they should become more wealthy. We are not seeing this, so is it that the pooling isn't efficient or is it because people are being forced into pooling them by poverty? Either way, it's a problem.
As someone joked to me, Google has too many compiler people, and this may have explained some design choices.

While I am sure pytorch competition contributed to this change, having a graph-based API was a terrible idea whose time would have passed anyway I think. It made some many things complicated for users. As an implementation/optimization strategy, using a graph was a reasonable choice, but to let drive the API as it did was indeed terrible.

It is reassuring to see the TF team addressing the main flaws of the library: removal of graph-based API, and fixing the lack of consistency/plethora of APIs attacking the same problems.
I remember browsing the directories of a Broadsoft Broadworks application and network servers back in the early 2000s and being shocked at just how much of the product was implemented in Perl. Many fortunes have been made on the back of interpreted code.
How Fastly protected its infrastructure against SegmentSmack
If you pull an application apart and squeeze it into managed services, your costs can drop by an order of magnitude depending on your availability requirements, engineering related costs, etc. A good article written by Spotinst's CEO [1]

Not trying to shill, not everything should be serverless, and I should work to be more platform agnostic, but AWS has been great to and for me, AWS marketing material [2]

[1] https://medium.com/@amiram_26122/the-hidden-costs-of-serverl...

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/
I'll read "The Paypal Wars". But what do you think Musk learned from his mistakes at Paypal?
For ebay sellers, it eliminates the possibility for scam buyers to steal their money back after receiving an item.

On the flip side though, it enhances the possibility for scam sellers to never send products and steal money from buyers.
Disabling Intel Hyper-Threading technology in some situations.

Okay, but which situations?

Edit:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-tec...

Is Intel recommending HT is turned off?

For a portion of the datacenter market – specifically a subset of those running traditional virtualization technology, and primarily in the datacenter – it may be advisable that customers or partners take additional steps to protect their systems. This is principally to safeguard against situations where the IT admin or cloud provider cannot guarantee that all virtualized operating systems are protected. Deciding to take additional steps depends on the system software in use, the workload, and the customer’s assessment of the security threat model for their environment.

I wonder how many devs should think about this? Is it a risk from Vagrant, Docker, etc?
Your background only matters for getting the interview. Whether or not you are hired depends on your actual performance during the onsite.
The bulletin is here: https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2018-...
> I could imagine someone "accidentally" stretching at the right time to clothesline someone riding down the sidewalk.

What you're describing here is aggravated assault, which is a serious crime.
Firemen all over Europe had warned loudly about that type of cladding. In Germany, it is illegal to use it in multi-floored buildings exactly because of that reason.

There are probably many more aspects which led to the Greenfell disaster. The building having a sprinkler system would have prevented it. The firemen having an appropriately high ladder rtuck or aerial work platform would have made it almost comfortable to salvage the trapped 80 people. Some waited many hours before they borned to death. The firemen in London, Kensington didn't had a high ladder. Because of cost.
I think more precisely, plenty of billionaires put money into these things, but it’s too often to little effect due to lack of direction/clarity in the organizations the money is being poured into, too little money being put in, or both. What makes Musk (and Bezos) different is the laser focus and zero hesitation to commit huge amounts of cash to said goal. Where others would be happy to say, “oh well, maybe tomorrow” Musk is always asking, “why didn’t this happen today?” and acting on the answer for better outcomes in the future.
"How many people want to climb 20 stories... I'd guess a lot"

I'd guess very few -- I work in a 23 story office building (on the 20th floor, coindidentally), and from my desk I can see the stairway door in the hallway.

Other than maintenance staff, I don't remember seeing a single person use that door. We have another office on the 15th floor, and I know of no one that uses the stairs to travel the 5 floors from office to office.

So I think the number of people that want to climb 20 stories by stairs every day is very low.
Reading article still no idea what happened. Two scientists resigned at age 75 and 80 after year sabbatical.
No specific reasons or issues named.
The submitted URL is not stable, it just links to the front page. So for the benefit of later-visitors, here's the direct link:

https://www.brianlikespostgres.com/cost-of-a-join.html
IMO, the business ought to make clear “this vehicle does [or does not] require a license to operate on public roads”.

After that, they’re not cops.

I bought an airplane before I had a pilot certificate. It wasn’t illegal nor improper to sell that to me; it’s on me, not the seller, to comply with the law, IMO.
Actually the EDA industry for the longest time only hard working versions of their tools for "esoteric" cpu architectures like the Sparc and Solaris :). So yes by now they do support linux very well, some of the cadence and synopsis tools might not even work on windows (you need them for simulation, when Modelsim does not cut it). In any case EDA has been a Unix / Linux domain because it is so old and used to require really expensive unix workstations.
Combine that with the advent of cheap structural steel.
I had the exact same thoughts.
Paraphrasing the Trump Tweets as seen here:

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/13/638161148/in-presidential-twe...
It's amusing and/or alarming, depending on your mood, that someone like Cowen, a believer in the market's solutions, can sound so similar to Stallman on this issue. Stallman pounds the same talking points over and over, but he founded a movement and released products that espoused the change he wanted to see in this world. Yet despite the tangibility of his works, the market and field is flooded with clickwraps, SaaS, and mandatory arbitration. And this extends beyond infotech, where as the article notes, rentier things are proliferating.

In many cases in the real world, the economics of the rent-based solutions are the only ones that make sense for the consumer, because alternatives require steep barriers to entry that are hard to surmount. This is the case when prices on land and houses require loans and money down, or when comparable services don't exist due to requirements in capital, expertise, and IP. Sometimes this price is artificially low (Google, Facebook, Uber) or artificially high (mobile data), but it's hard to compete with free, and hard to start a cellphone network. In one case, giant corporations are dumping at a fictitious price to encourage an ecosystem, while in the other, giant corporations are buying into a moat of intellectual property while paying large bills on the immense infrastructure that enables their service model.

When fewer people can afford to become meaningful shareholders, or band together to start alternatives, the more likely they are to be on the passive end of this transition. This is what we're seeing now.
If your in a country with a American Express they will give you a card based on the fact you had one in the other country.
I find it more interesting that the casual behavior is to break into multiple pieces. Twisting is a neat way to add more input into a very simple system.
Absolutely love the message from stallman and the response (paraphrased below, full quote [0]):

Richard> I don't think a 3% speedup is worth those drawbacks [ed: added complexity]. Or even a 10% speedup. A really big speedup would justify the costs.

Tom> It is 3x, not 3%.

[0] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-08/msg00...
How to create your first Git commit
Open fireplaces are inefficient heaters, the house probably lost more cool air due to the fireplace sucking in unconditioned air from outside than from direct heat from the fireplace.
We currently don't support this, but it may be something we consider in the future.
You can't decouple validation from the datastore if you want to be certain that all the validation happens and none is ever bypassed or outdated.

It bugs me how many systems have opt-in correctness.
We are (well, AMD is) working on it. It's all being done in the open; there are PRs you can follow. You can even help out if you're so inclined.

It's not going to be simple or fast, but it's coming...

(I work on XLA, a compiler for TensorFlow, and I've been working closely with AMD on the TF/XLA -> AMDGPU port. My team also works on CUDA support in clang, and we've been reviewing AMD's patches to support HIP in upstream clang.)
"All Rights Reserved"?
Man-In-the-Disk: A New Attack Surface for Android Apps
Possibly because ENUM column types don't seem to exist in all SQL databases? I could be wrong though...
This seemed less and less likely for a long time. Perhaps paradoxically, I'm inclined to see it as more and more likely from now on: if everything were as hopeless as it has seemed, surely there would have been massive lawsuits by now?
Is Bird suggesting a pledge likely to have any impact on the other players in the sidewalk transport market?
I live in London UK. We don’t have Bird because electric scooters are illegal to use on both the sidewalk and the highway. Individuals do own and use them but a commercial service couldn’t hire them out.
On the actual pledges for dockless bikes my local council are definitely in favour of item 1 repositioning.
Item 2 usage per day I don’t know, this seems more like a rule of thumb to have 3 hires per day.
Item 3 contribute 1 USD per day seems odd. If permission depended on contribution from the companies then the council would put out a procurement exercise and see who bid highest.
As it is, the council want to see dockless hire bikes available but don’t want the sidewalks overrun. They gave the licence to Ofo not Mobike.
>> Across almost all metrics, infrastructure, corruption, ease of business, electricity, even cleanliness India has improved on.

Source?
If quantum computers are not possible, why are classical computers possible?
It's actually pretty similar to the Heroku free tier dyno "sleep" till there's a trigger, but it's stateless.

Different pricing, different ways of conceptualizing but from a user perspective that's a pretty good comparison.
The code is in branch feature/libjit of emacs' repo, if anyone wants to take a look. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/?h=feature/l...
I wonder if this is due to the success of the current models (less hidden corners), academic incentives for paper production as opposed to breakthrough work, the ever growing specificity and cost of experiments (making less sure experiments unviable) or some combination of these factors.
Plenty of houses have been built across the southern USA before AC was common. When I lived in Tennessee, my house had a big shaded porch in front, plenty of shade trees, and (best of all) a huge 3 ft diameter whole-house fan in the hallway ceiling that kept a nice breeze coming in through the windows.

It was still uncomfortably warm on hot (and humid) summer days, but tolerable.
ENUM is in mysql/mariadb. Not sure about oracle or some of the more obscure ones..
I believe this was on hn recently
(uses icestorm as mentioned by others):

http://www.excamera.com/sphinx/article-j1a-swapforth.html