skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US content is much deeper than UK, most likely due to (a) operating for longer in that market and (b) better economics for going hunting for licencing rights for not-even-that-long long-tail content.

In case anyone hasn't seen it, here's an eye-opening post from someone at the British Film Institite, explaining the rediculous lengths they had to go to just to do a screening of Kathryn Bigelow's "Point Break"

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/com...

(and the follow up when they eventually managed to get rights to show the movie)

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/fea...
How online tracking works [pdf]
FWIW I brought my 2017 MBP in for keyboard repair in Houston and had a new one mailed to me after a day. Had a whole new front panel. I left impressed with the service and the ability to digitally book with a face-to-face human.
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Are you thinking of "white label"? Private label means Amazon-branded. They could still have QC issues though.
But how do you solve a typical multi-tenant SaaS with users and teams? You can‘t create roles for every login user because (s)he may have special access control rights for every project (s)he is participating in.
> I don't know what to do about it

Get air conditioning?
Sane defaults are good, customisation for those that want it are also good. A single way of doing things, good for those it works for.
this is a fantastic read. i thought i was a connoisseur of bragging but this is next level. also a little painful- it may expose your own bragging to you. to the author: truly enjoyed this, thank you and keep writing!
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The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is infamous got how broadly it defines "unauthorized use": basically anything other than what the designer or owner intended. So their case would be pretty solid.
> What you should be noticing is that the majority of private label sellers are simply resellers of China-made crap. Things you can get for pennies on AliExpress/Alibaba costs $20-$30 on Amazon to cover storage, dropshipping, etc.

And on top of that Amazon themselves barely spend a penny developing their own private brands or run their operations. There are companies specialising in exactly that - "private brands as a service." You can outsource basically everything till the moment goods get to the shelves, an in case of e-Commerce, even that is irrelevant.

Their logic - if we can't win against Aliexpress and Co., we will become Aliexpress and Co. This is them acknowledging that the entire business model they had had weakness at root - no matter how successful and sophisticated they are at selling stuff, the stuff they sell still comes from China.
How is this story on the first page? Frankly there are so many good resources to approach DL-based computer vision, that this looks such a random blogpost in comparison. I must be missing something.
Index funds are (slightly below) average by definition.

The index itself defines the average (it's the benchmark that all funds use to measure performance), so a fund perfectly tracking the index has almost zero alpha. The "almost" is whatever fees the index fund charges, which lead the funds returns to be slightly below the average if they otherwise track perfectly.

Edit: Just to add, by the above definition, where you take the total return on the index as the average, most investors do significantly worse than average, a few do a lot better than average and investors in index funds make almost exactly the average.
Forward Health, the healthcare messaging app, scores $3.9M led by Stride.VC
Has anyone an example for wanting to fork? Most use cases seem covered by either threads or fork+exec process spawning.

The example given by the author:

make it practical to introduce concurrency after development, rather than designing it in from the start

seems risky to me: Even if you're safe from other threads, there is a lot of other unknown state like fd's still inherited. And concurrency can be introduced after development, e.g. by using message passing. So going all the way threaded or re-execing yourself seem both safer to me with no real downsides.
This made me smile: I claimed that I was both a Haskell and Lisp programmer, a statement that you can roughly translate into non-programmer talk as “I only listen to My Bloody Valentine shoe-gaze and Radiohead B-sides played in reverse”.
> they promised Tor integration like 4-5 years ago and all they did is setup 3 middle-nodes.

They never promised any Tor integration for the near future, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17205441 and the first comment. Brave can do Tor integration because its user bases is much smaller than Mozilla's (scaling the Tor network to support the load from all FF users still requires much work).
That’s interesting. Can you name a few of those companies?
Sorry, this is not worthy of being on HN frontpage.
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That is a good question, did the Chinese target specific customers, identifying the relevant sub-contractors and modify these boards?

Or are these boards commercial-of-the-shelf things that are mass produced?

In the latter case these boards can just end up anywhere, in the first case not so much. As a result using commodity boards would provide some degree of protection against such an attack as slipping a manipulated one into a specific target's servers would be a game of chance. Also the risk that the attack is discovered would be much higher.
I'm also not an American, so I might miss subtle cultural context, but I would also be astonished to learn that the first amendment is absolute. There must be at least provisions that limit speech that would harm others, as [1] suggests (child pornography, fighting words,...).

The EU (you might be surprised to learn) also recognises the freedom of speech (in fact it's a universal human right, see [2] article 19). However, this does not mean GDPR is not valid law, just as I have a hard time understanding how the first amendment would prohibit privacy laws to exist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

[2] http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
It is surely faster than windows. But I don't think the TLB stays intact: You have to redo all page tables etc.., as every memory write will cause a copy on-write (if one process writes to memory, it gets a copy of the memory and the other process never sees the write)
It's like everyone forgot you can host your own blog
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The new Copyright Directive may have that effect though.
What developers?!

I really dislike this HN generalization that software developers are a big mass of people that think all the same way, which most of the time is actually a synomim for a thin subgroup of developers doing web applications with CLI tooling on UNIX like OSes.

There are many kinds of developers out there, some of us have experienced multiple kinds of platforms and development models towards the years, to make our business decisions how to provide our work according to points of view and related cost/benefit.
I don't see the point considering it takes about 5 minutes to setup OpenVPN on a server? Am I missing something?
It's like typing without looking at the keyboard or speaking a foreign language like a native speaker, you gotta practice tons and it takes time
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If you want to explore 3d fractals, I really recommend you to test this VR experience:

https://nshelton.github.io/vr/fractals/2017/12/30/RTA.html
>Are you thinking of "white label"? Private label means Amazon-branded.

In later years, the line in between these two kinda began to disappear. Amazon may well fly their private label unit people to China, and actually pay companies there to stuff their marketplace with properly made and maintained listings from inventories of Chinese trade companies.

In retail - the term for such things are "shelf filler": for as long as you don't have any "real deal" product for the category, you may well desire to just have some crappy goods put on shelves just so shelf space still makes at least some money, and investment analysts be happy with that.
Like most people I have zero interest in installing an alternative operating system on my phone.
Do great work and tell others.
Not if all standards of due process and normal jurisprudence were thrown out the fucking window.

These allegations were held in the pocket as a political football instead of being handed over to a bipartisan committee and investigated by the FBI from the get go.

Feinstein's unethical manipulation of this allegation in the handling of Dr. Ford and outright lies about her alleged fear of flying in order to prevent her being forensically interviewed, like a normal case, are inexcusable.

The Democrats had two months to hatch a plan while Kavanaugh's life got turned upside down in less than a week. That's a legal ambush, complete with an angry mob. It's not just at all.
really beautiful renders.

I've never seen 3d fractals with moody lighting before.

i would play the hell out of this, even if the whole of gameplay was just bumping around in a ship (with hyper drive).
https://swagger.io
It's almost as if we're a bunch of barely evolved primates jockeying over money, power and status for a limited pool of breeding partners and resources. Of course I realized long ago that I'm above such petty concerns.
People are lazy and don't care.

It's why we are now in a world where either Google or Apple have access to pretty much every piece of data that every person on the planet produces or consumes.

The Google Problem in particular is spawned by people wanting free or cheap stuff at any cost.

It will take more than a few hundred people to change this now. It's too entrenched.
Hi less_penguiny - absolutely loved this article.

Brilliant writing.

I'm also finding myself thinking a lot about social interactions, especially the dumb nonsense vast swathes of our populations carry out, and being currently in the middle of Desmond Morris "Human Zoo" (brilliant, slightly dated, but you'll love it if you're not familiar) your piece really struck a chord - particularly with "Bragging is personally imposing what-you-believe-to-be status-elevating thoughts on your audience". Status, tribes, dominance, all seem explain so much modern phenomena from a species which ought to know better.

In "About" you write "I was heartbroken by the tumbleweed response I got for my last writing project, so I don’t intend to spin my wheels writing in vain again."

Please don't feel discouraged I get much the same on pretty much every submission I post here, so it's not you, per se! Writing is the easy and fun part, but like a startup I suspect promotion, networking, and all that play a big part. Being an established name makes a huge difference too - it all gets much harder if you don't have a large following.

Are you on Twitter? That can be good for exposure. Happy to follow and RT!

Best of luck!
I had to google it, so for anyone else's benefit:

VLSI is "Very Large Scale Integration"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-large-scale_integration
Great trailer at the end.
Yes, you’re describing pretty much every environment I’ve ever worked in.

I’m not arguing that k8s is the wrong tool to manage that kind of complexity. I’m arguing that, in almost all cases, that kind of complexity is completely unwarranted.
"in fact, I'm much more humble than you could understand"
Hackintosh is surprisingly easy these days if you find the right hardware.

Running a "virtual Mac" in a VM is even easier.
> I don't see this "technology craze" you mention, but I have seen things like parallel processing, bitmap indexes, selective indexes, query plans that use multiple indexes, online index creation (no locking), support for complex data types like JSON or XML, partitioning, vastly improved resource usage (CPU+memory+disk) just to name a few.

Those all seem like pretty ad-hoc features, some of which were influenced by prevailing tech fashion trends at the time. For instance, the fact that you need to manually specify so many details about indices sounds like a failure to have a good theory around indexing which can be integrated into query plans. There are a lot of flaws like this in SQL stores as a whole.
There was a fascinating article posted to HN a little while ago about Ithkuil's creator's relationship with its users.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-be...
I used to burn with envy when I read about a 19th or early 20th century author or artist just picking up or moving to Paris, etc. I never read _anything_ about visas, immigration, etc.

Even now, there's no shortage of travel blogs talking about moving to a new country and the vast majority fail to address this key detail (usually it seems they're written by a spouse of someone from said country).

It would appear it did indeed used to be easier to travel pre-WWI, at least in terms of paperwork. There one was an understanding we should abolish passports: http://uk.businessinsider.com/when-governments-wanted-to-get...

Unfortunately, I strongly suspect that the main reason we keep immigration controls around is that not long after we brought them in to force, travel got really cheap. In 1880 traveling internationally was a hell of a lot harder, and one supposes there weren't as many people doing it (even proportionally). There also was just an awful lot more Earth to go around - a world with 1 billion people is a lot less crowded.

Even now, most countries are fine with rich people entering. We just stopped being able to use "they came 5000 miles to get here" as a filter.

It's kind of interesting that even though I'm fairly left, this is one of the arguments against a strong social safety net that I can buy. When you view every potential immigrant as a potential expense it gets harder (even if only politically) to let people in without trying to filter out those likely not to be net contributors.
What do you mean? Large enterprises will surely staff and train their own Mac support staff. I went to my companies walk up support desk in my building for an HP Zbook issue. They had a few Macs taken apart they were fixing.

Apple stores are for consumers like you and me. No large company is going to send an employee there. It’s likely the company has support contract with Apple or a 3rd party.

Beside you can just overnight your laptop to Apple for repairs anyway.
first time in a long long time. Perhaps it will improve quality.

Yay netflix!
sudo apt-get upgrade?

Lets not make it more difficult than it has to be.
Because commercial UNIX companies decided it was cheaper to commoditize UNIX on their hardware than keeping on investing on their own.

Linux would hardly be where it is without the help of Intel, IBM, HP, SGI, Hollywood studios, ...
I disagree with your definition strongly. An investment portfolio at the end of the day is just a collection of securities, and an index is a frictionless way to measure and evaluate a collection of securities, typically to a predefined methodology. You could run a S&P 500 like separately managed account to replicate a passive index, and this would have nothing to do with being invested in a fund. Meanwhile, Yoi could create a commingled fund, mutual fund, or active ETF that has no index.
You missed the point, but it's a hard point.

Suppose I utter {mi do tavla .i ba go'i}. {ba go'i} means "the previous utterance, logically, but with a future tense". English has no satisfactory translation for this entire phrase; the closest we might come is, for example, "I'm talking with you. In the future."
Demos not working for me.
Long time ago, I worked in one called Yameen in Singapore. Named after the owner. I'm sure that they are not around anymore as I been googling what has became of the company for last 10 years without any result. The second one I worked with was AMR International HK (aka AMR Global Sourcing).

Just any other trade company would also do that - Marubeni, Sojitz, Itochu, Canada Export Centre - (the later should be really called Canada Import Centre) and others
The benchmarks where the 1080 doesn't even compete - FP16/Tensor Cores.
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Actually, people do care about repairability more than you think

If they really cared it would be reflected in what they buy.

People who care about upgradeability are people who know better

I see, you are so smart and the rest of us are sheep like idiots for buying products they can't repair.
Analysis; some model building.

It is popular to buy a bunch of servers (or worse, host them on AWS), a bunch of sysadmins, and so on, so you can support a couple smart analysts with some complex hadoop java streaming somethingrather, but it is much cheaper to just buy them beefy workstations and use awk: A HP Z8 G4 with 1.5TB ram is under £30k, and it's hard to get a sysadmin that has any brains for that, let alone two and servers...
Millions of Americans take vitamin D. Most should just stop
My advice then would be to live frugally, do personal projects and save and save, then leave the company if you have 3-6 months of living covered. You can spend more time on getting your CV right and searching for offers. If recruiters and/or companies see you have a company known for paying peanuts, they'll unlikely to hire you unless they are the same predatory company. Nobody wants a burnt out employee that won't respect him/herself. That's why you wouldn't put such company on a CV and should have a good personal project to show instead for that time frame.
Is this sarcasm or have you never met vegans?
Apple Enterprise support programs exist. They're partially ran by IBM and on-site.
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Yeah I'm avoiding telling any of my managers a out this new development, I like gitub and I don't need Jira fucking it up.
In France it is the "Arab telephone" !
Amazon is swamped with products from China of dubious quality. Just search for 'earphones' for example. All top results are very poor products from unknown brands.
Amazon needs to handle this now unless they want to turn into Aliexpress.
The down side to wind power
Custom cameras and mechanical counters at one stage I believe.

Though telcos have much higher standards when it comes to the network / exchanges major failure's where meant to never happen.
You might call it "tongue in cheek" in the UK, a statement made with no pretense that it's true, with a gently humorous intent.
That's just once per year?

Microsoft throws away all of your open work at least every month. NSDocument alone is 25% of the reason I stay with macOS.
Fun fact: I am now learning theory and chord names.

I was in a band in college and I could never play along with the properly trained. "Can you play that in a C minor pentatonic scale?"

"Yeah!... So what frets are those?"
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That quote seems to be describing a software attack, not a hardware attack.
But the parent's comment was "you cannot beat the market on average (since the index funds are the average)". If you take a particular index fund to define an average then this just asserts that you can't beat a particular index.

GP might be trying to argue that alpha generation is a zero-sum game, but alpha and beta are notoriously slippery concepts. If you want to define beta as the index return, I think you're going to have a hard time convincing me that alpha is zero sum without assuming the EMH or something similar.
There are ReactOS developers who do understand Windows. They would be happy with increased user base and community support.
It may work in smaller companies, but in corporations this often ain't true. Marketing beats raw skills easily, since those promoting/increasing salary are usually quite far from technical aspects of daily life.
You could also fork out a pool at start time, before creating any threads.
I'm open to arguments, but right now I feel that threads are (for many uses cases) a poor man's fork. Like threading, forking gives you concurrency but unlike threading it also gives you isolation. There are plenty of IPC mechanisms available to communicate things back and forth when you need to.
Early computing was a kind of walled garden.

Each computer system was its own eco-system with special hardware features.

The PC was the exception to it, only because IBM wasn't too clever about securing the platform like everyone else.
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{mlatu} "kitty!"

{oi mabla skami} "Ugh, fucking computers."

{po'o fi'ure lo ro pipno ku zasti} "Only half of all pianos exist."

{cicricfoi bartu} "It's a jungle out there."

{lo se tsarainaitrusi'o ku ta'e na'e pensi} "Fascists typically aren't thinking."

{za'a bridi} "I observe the nature of some logical relation, probably uttered or written somewhere."
Really appreciate the Bible reference there at the end! Not often you get a bible reference on here, and so topical :)
That's a few seconds too much.

If it were a free OS where you could upgrade to get rid of the ads, I wouldn't mind it.

But it's not. It's an operating system whose basic price is over $100 and you cannot get rid of them permanently in any way without using third-party software. That piece of shit will never become my choice of the operating system.

The very least they could do is to offer ad-free experience in the Pro version. At this moment, I see no benefit of buying Pro at all.
Index funds are designed to passively track specific markets. The S&P 500 tracks ostensibly tracks the approximate total average equity market growth in a reasonably diversified manner, for example.

However you can design any kind of index fund for any kind of market. Many other indices aside from the S&P 500 exist which are more or less passive depending on the process and criteria used for inclusion.

Since no index has absolutely no fees, it's considered acceptable to state that indices return an average of some sort of market - with the proviso that it's actually slightly less fees and costs.

EDIT: Based on your reply to a sibling commenter it seems like you're taking issue with the claim that indices tracking a market can't be beaten by active investing in that market. I agree; to wit: that's not a defensible claim without assuming EMH, as you say elsewhere. But that doesn't change the fact that indices (ostensibly) return an approximate average of a market.
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How would that have that effect?
Only those using Macs as pretty UNIX.

There are other kinds of developers.