skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you enumerate some of those benefits? I'm not seeing the "better pay" in any example I've seen online. And benefits are questionable, and rather subjective. I don't want my job to provide anything, I want them to pay me a lot of money and let me take care of my problems without becoming involved. Most "job benefits" are just bullhshit and ways to cut taxes.

I don't mind talking to HR. You should always hire a lawyer if you're having any serious discussions anyway, so I don't see in what way a union would help me. If your HR department won't let you discuss something without a lawyer present, that's a clear sign you need to leave immediately.

Your power is that you have an influential position within the company, and if you leave it will cause them to have to hire someone and teach them all the intricacies of your industry. This takes a lot of time and it's incredibly expensive.

If an engineer is fired for a bullshit reason (i.e. I don't like em), other engineers will speak up if they think it's unjustified. I'll also make sure to publicly express my criticisms of the company so nobody within my social circle will seriously consider joining.

Maybe a union makes more sense for a larger company, but so far I'm unconvinced by your points. Like I said, I'm not against unions, but I'm unclear as to what benefits I'd get for joining one.
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You can do a mix of the two to reduce server traffic (especially for abandoned sessions) and user latency.

Give the client a client ID that you generate that should be properly random... Have them submit that ID along with their self-generated ID.
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That it the market Microsoft is aiming for? Will your grandma do it? Or she doesn't need the transparency and fair dealing?
although I've not seen much on K8s + containerd without Docker in terms of tutorials, it is a very new space, and (IIRC) cri-containerd is also pretty new.

I'm not aware of many k8s distro's running anything other than Docker by default, at the moment
Kind of sad to see that the discussion was mostly about topics like Java's checked exceptions and/or stack traces.

Object-oriented exceptions, non-terminating, with handlers and restarts:

http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Exceptional-Situations-19...
2) Unless you are an ISP, in which case you might use office365 or similar for company email, but you absolutely need to know how to properly do your own SMTPd.
Yet another article not available in countries subject to GDPR, would be great to headline [US ONLY] for media not prepared to serve content to EU, much like the paywalled mentions.
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No, the improvement comes from reversing the change. Turn things to shit, then take credit for improving them.

Really smart move by the UX team.
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There could be a technical definition of an ad:

"user-visible text or image(s) meant to advertise a product or service, separate from the primary purpose or offer of the page in which it is embedded"

... or something. IANAL.
Collaborate on complex problems – but only intermittently
Knowing this and that AI is so good at creating nightmarish pictures, would it be possible to attempt a reverse? Ask/learn AI to create the most frightening, most nightmarish rendering it can ever produce?

Is such picture even exist? That I would seen it once and wouldn't sleep for a week? Or upon seeing it, start crying without explanation?

Seeing something like this created by AI would be very impressive: "prepare to cry when you see this picture (guaranteed!)"
My mother had insomnia and her doctor prescribed some benzo (can't remember which) 3 times per day. She would take one in the morning and spend the rest of the day sleeping or calling random people with super weird conversations. I went back to the doctor with her demanding why he prescribed such a strong medicine 3 times per day when her problem was having difficulties falling asleep, and he says "oh she looked like she has anxiety". I wanted to punch him in the face. These doctors prescribe whatever the pharma marketeers pay them to prescribe.
HN doesn't have a follow feature.
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The point is that the GAN is trained to model the "probability distribution" of the descriptions it's trained on precisely so that the concepts are generalized and can be synthesized/extrapolated. Once trained, you may fix the random seed so that the same description would generate the same image.
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Is your reference behind a paywall ?
I’ve been getting what I assume are geotargeted ads for this http://monopolyamazon.com/ for months on twitter (I work a block from the White House). For example https://twitter.com/setonmotley/status/981262337905602560?s=...
I went to Koh Lanta in July, the beach was disgusting, covered with garbage, worst I've ever seen. Many beaches in the Philippines, or Indonesia are very dirty too.
The only thing that frustrates me with this article is that they conclude with a rec for "intermittent isolation" when it is "intermittent collaboration" that's the way to go, according to the experience of every person working in a deeply problem-solving-oriented job.

Shows how deeply lost the industry is in this area.
I remember a few of those being read out when I was young. I thought it was funny at the time, but it must have been terrifying to have someone personally address you over national radio.
TFlops is correllated with perfomance, but this corellation is not that perfect that you can just use TFlops as a stand-in for perfomance. Perfomance is complex. I'd wait for benchmarks.
How so ? It's really not that hard. I've done it, and it zeroed spam coming through a web form almost 100%.
Rather one-sided source, perhaps? And their references are literary rather than historical.
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I wonder how this is going to evolve. Are we going to get used to see garbage everywhere (like in the movie "Idiocracy"), or will we take action?
Govt contracts have their own unique sales process and having a detailed webpage is not relevant
Your grandma comment is misguided. Your parent comment has a good point.

If a system is sending out sensitive data, there is a way to figure it out by setting breakpoints and reverse engineering the payload that is getting encrypted.

Once a researcher finds whether or not sensitive data is being sent, the researcher can publish the information so that your grandma can know about it and she can have the transparency and fair dealing she needs.
Nobody is missing basic ways. These "poor" countries only problem is large deep corruption. I mean look at the world map - Africa as a continent is twice the size of USA. Enough of it is in a climate perfect to grow vegetables, fruits, and so on. But so what? You send a $100 in aid to Africa, most likely only a dollar would be handed to some poor champ, rest goes thru politicians and government blood hands :(

That's it. Fix enormous corruption and these countries will be in the top 10 prospering in a decade or two.
And who decides what is "degenerate stuff"? You?

No, thank you.
This seems similar to the scheme in which Microsoft diverted the no-ip.com DNS to their servers some legal shenanigans, namely some system of being able to get a judgement without informing the owner of the domain they were going after.

Ars Technica http://bit.ly/2whNn9x, zdnet https://zd.net/2MLdcZU

Since when did they become the policemen of the internet. and do the judges who authorize these things have an understanding of the internet at all?
It depends on the theme of a blog. The themes are customizable, so blogs which set their theme were not changed when the new default theme (without indentation) was rolled out.
I have emergency contacts on my phone. You can access them, together with my medical information, without having to unlock my phone. A simple system that works.
If anyone from the LA Times is listening, even though I am accessing the website through our US VPN, I'm still fully protected by the GDPR.

The geographic block is futile and ineffective as a liability protection.
"no adverse health effects" for anything you'd usually use in your household.

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave#Effects_on_health
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Cavity search? Was this a medical professional who performed the search?

It seems like either:

1. There does not exist a medical professional on site, so they cannot perform cavity searches, OR

2. There is a medical professional on site, so it would be expensive to have him there and _not_ perform constant cavity searches, OR

3. An untrained agent is performing cavity searches.

Does this person know how to deal with diseases, aberrations, birth defects, etc? Cavity search is very invasive.
Yes, you can disable it forever [1]. Oh and there's actually a tiny "skip" on the nag screen in dull contrast, more user hostility. It's the concept I object to, though: If I pay for it, I should not be the product. And a privacy notice on something that's by definition supposed to be private.

1. Control Panel -> Info -> Device Analytics.

https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/8mdioc/device_ana...
Maybe he backed a security with the house and sold that instead...
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You can build the containers with Docker and ship them to a repository. The format is the same.

There are also tools like jib which can build containers without docker: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib
You forgot about FakeBook. In my country, FaceBook bans users if their posts mention certain politic (Henadii Moskal). For the sake of democracy, of course.
It also seems they incorporate the 'if a situation is unclear, stick to the speed limit' heuristic that many human drivers also use.

The car did not brake because it detected a 'false positive'??!

The Uber Volvo SUV that hit her as she walked her bike in a pedestrian-heavy area had a hard time identifying her, plus the car was programmed not to brake if it believed it had detected “false positive.”
According to http://www.sibleyguides.com/conservation/causes-of-bird-mort...
the biggest threat by far is windows.
It's also not free, and people are getting pretty used to free.
“context”
So I think this is actually the secret to creating actually dependable, no-downtime transitioning endpoints. It's just an idea that has been rolling around in my head but:

- Express all operations as log messages (ez pz distribution)

- Ensure all operations are idempotent

- Record the operations (this is the log you can distribute if you please)

- Disallow API code modification, only allow accretion/use of new API endpoints.

- All APIs that come up have their own databases, a bit of the CQRS model here (but without events -- just the actions performed)

- When you need to stand up new API servers, start the new ones (with handling code for old operations completely unchanged) next to the old ones, and update the http-server code (like request handlers) to output the new commands. Older servers that don't understand the new commands will ignore (or redirect), and new servers that do understand will process and add to the distributed log. New nodes just stream the replications of the already existing nodes and no one spends any time with an inconsistent view of the database

Of course, writing to a distributed log is slow (pick whichever consensus algo you want, you either have durability with a quorum or best-effort without), but this only is a huge deal if you're doing lots of writes, and for most web applications, that's not what's happening, the vast majority is reads.

CRDTs might even fit in here, because if you want a multi-master setup, you could literally keep the log as a set (I'm not quite sure how truncation of super old records would want) keyed by transaction ID -- Assuming the same request doesn't go to multiple servers, their logs should be easily combinable at the end of the day -- API1 is gonna see events A B and E, API2 might see C and F, and API3 will likely see D G and H.

Honestly everything I've described here is really more like moving the coordination/distributed log problem to the application level (up until now all this action would just happen @ the Postgres/DB level), but I'm not yet convinced it's a terrible idea.

I haven't found the time to actually try to make what I'm describing here a thing but would love to hear thoughts
Exactly. This is advertising people.

Since the dawn of time advertisers have over-exaggerated and over-sold products. Call it an art (I might, but not in this case), call it a sham. It is what it is. No surprises here.
The scarcity is in the "quality" - its ability to move us in new and interesting ways, just like now. A trillion similar things are not very interesting, so quality stands out.
My first thought is why would I need a SaaS app for a checklist, but I figured there must be something to it, so I poked around the site on my phone for a screenshot or something but the only option is to sign up, and I don't know what the value is yet so I don't have incentive to sign up. I am curious what it is though!
Where are you getting these TFLOPS numbers? I haven't seen them in anything other than rumors that got a lot of things wrong so I wouldn't be too certain about them.
> supported by both national political parties and the sitting president.

This coming from a company from a country that can barely be considered to be democratic and that has the largest modern track record of interfering with foreign states' elections means that it holds very little value.
Or, you know, demand from the vendor to supply a system that doesn't need a researcher, who was able to secure a funding for such an endeavor.

Meanwhile, the point still stands: windows phones home, sends out the data, which are encrypted in transport, obfuscated inside, and the user has zero control about it. Requiring the user to prove which data were send and which weren't is dishonest; it is the vendor who has the source code and knows exactly the answer for what is being asked of the user.
> Yet a bigger house and yard naturally translates to a higher quality of life.

_Does_ it? I live in a 65sqm terraced house within walking distance of Dublin City Centre. For the same money I could probably get a 2-300sqm house in the middle of nowhere, but I'd have a far lower quality of life (at least subjectively; people who value space more than commute times might disagree, I suppose...)

Smaller houses in European countries vs the US is to some extent a function of differences in urban design. Though it's not like small expensive urban housing doesn't exist in the US; I'm sure many people who live in small apartments in New York think their quality of life is just fine.
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Where are the TFLOPS figures from? I don't think Nvidia has officially released those but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
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>Sounds like either an oxymore or someone can't fully express their thoughts.

Bear in mind, Trump was elected in part precisely because he can't fully express his thoughts in the way a "politician" would. He doesn't appeal to his base through rational argument but emotion.
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Microsoft, the self-appointed unelected guardians of democracy who will privately decide what is and what is not a threat.
Yes, I am a founder from India also based in Mumbai. I will email you.
That's always the problem. Minds that aren't aware of this become more predictable.

Until they are aware of this.

I still have to personally hold onto the belief that no one mind is ever intrisincally more strong than any other mind. That's the belief assumed to be axiomatic and foundational for all the studying of minds people do.

If I can predict how I believe you will think, I assume I'm mentally stronger, but that stuff is not something anyone can hold onto as a certainty. At least that's my belief, my own faith, my own boundary I believe in that must not be violated. Trying to intentionally control how people think is extremely violent, to me. Just because it doesn't look violent, doesn't mean it's not.
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Adverse possession is extremely misunderstood. It almost never applies to landlord/tenant type situations.

The reason being that that posession is not “adverse” in the sense that the person was living there with permission in exchange for rent.

Adverse possession, generally, comes into play with property line disputes, and sometimes with genuine long term squatter situations.

A core and often overlooked element however is that a license or permission to use the property means you aren’t possessing it “adversely”.
Thanks for the feedback!

It gets useful once you have lots of repeating checklists. E.g. when you do QA for a client's website. You want to make sure that certain things are always checked (e.g. a website always needs to be tested with all different browsers). That way you fix a lot of low hanging fruits before the project is delivered.

Now you can write the list of things to check down in google drive. But now you have to always copy these lists around, and once you are working with multiple people, things get a bit complicated.

That's why we built the tool. We first used it internally to manage our different kind of recurring processes (like QA testing), and then later decided it might be useful for other people to.

Thanks again for your input :)
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Thats why the average persons actually do not really trust statistics (anymore).

Negative sideeffect of your precious profession also shows with climate change disbelieve etc.
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This is the same system with the same problem. Yes highest salary wins but the ultimate goal is to increase the cap. If the cap is increased to 300k per year and they switch to an auction, you are going to get more 55k senior engineers in dallas and they get to say they fixed the problem.

Really, they don't care what happens as long as the cap is increased.
I did read the essay. The author's portrayal of Ender winning at any cost is correct. But the rest is not. Ender feels remorse (the author doesn't acknowledge it much). Rather, the author says that Card lets Ender get away with it in the universe he's created. That's not what happens either.
In an era where artworks are already abundant, curation creates scarcity. Not all works are considered equal.
That helps explain the incarceration rate in the US. Mo money mo problems.
The value is in the margins. SodaSteam I'd imagine has lower costs. CO2 is not very expensive, but those cartridges are $20-$30 to refill. That is almost pure profit.
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In this case should one be allowed to request a death penalty? Wouldn't 150 years in jail be considered cruel and unusual punishment?
I am European but I agree.

Although the terrible situation in North Africa and the Middle East (notably Iraq, Libya, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Palestine, Iran) was and is still enforced by some NATO member states (notably USA, UK, France).

Maybe the population in Africa is too dispersed which makes it easy for bad traditions to persist and for corrupt politicians to rule like kings or warlords.

This reminds me of another post regarding India.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17332015

And this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcA3P6abmjY&t=1066
But it would be fun to see NP bodyblock the entire enemy team with one set of treants.
Both (custom and recaptcha) are essentially security by obscurity, in the sense that a skilled attacker will eventually bypass it. The problem is not that difficult. The advantage Google has is being able to move the goalposts, potentially on a daily basis, while you presumably have better things to do. On the other hand, they are a juicier target, so will draw more effort. Ymmv.

Google tends to strike a good balance between convenience and irritation.
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Thanks. I read it. It's touching. It has a different moral message from Ender's Game though IMO.

<spoilers>

The aviation part of me feels the scenario a bit contrived (20% reserve on flights is common). The lack of resistance on the girl's part also strikes me as a bit contrived. She should maybe fight, try to knock the pilot out and jettison him instead. She may go to jail, but that's better than death. Maybe that's what Ender would do...?
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It's not a good move, but I don't understand the vitriol expressed on Github, calling the developers jerks etc.

Our company has never paid Docker for anything, but we've benefited greatly from having Docker images be the output of our backend build jobs. I never have to dig into classpath errors from conflicting JARs any more, or deal with out of date JDKs living on QA and production machines. I can deploy a dependent service that I know nothing about without digging through code and documentation. Yes it has its issues but the positives far outweigh the negatives.

I understand that it's a frustrating move and the wrong path to go to for monetization, but can we also recognize that it's a company has done a lot for the community and is struggling to secure its future, instead of calling them names?
So would disabling submissions. The real question is how many legitimate submissions weren't made successfully because of a bad captcha.
Well... To be fair, it's an AWS spec sheet reworded as an RFP. Other cloud providers - even Google and Microsoft - can't meet the requirements, because they don't have the same marketing jargon. For example, there's a requirement in the RFP for a "ruggedized" storage product. That's a made up word that Amazon uses to describe AWS Snowball, so no other company satisfies the requirement.

Some other AWS-only requirements:

* exactly 32gb of RAM. Google promises 30, Azure promises 28. We all know how realistic this isn't.
* 150 miles between data centers. This arbitrary number is exactly what Amazon advertises. Others can manage 100 miles, or 130, but this number comes right out of Amazon's advertising package.

Not to mention the idiotic idea of a single provider solution.

On the other hand, this is a 10 year contract worth about 1% of Amazon, Google, or Microsoft's bottom line in one year. So there's a bit of mountain/molehill going on here
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That‘s how you get millions of badly maintained WP instances spreading malware. No, thanks...
Okay then, data science is probably a better fit over generic software engineering.

As you surmised, the latter is more focused on algorithms and data structures as the basis for solving problems. Your gut response is good. Go with your gut.