skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We aren't trying to recoup costs, The program also includes all service and support, repairs, etc.
This is spoken from a position of privilege. We, as highly skilled tech workers in a field where demand outstrips availability, with probably a solid rainy day fund accumulated, we can afford to say no to a contract because we know the next is round the corner and we know how to feed family until then.

A large chunk of the workforce does not. They depend on the paycheck, need to feed people that depend on them and in their case, the employer holds all the cards. They more or less must sign. Even if they have another option lined up, for them it’s probably the choice between bad or worse terms.
Looks great! Can we think of a way to integrate muze using your approach? :)
Maybe for the benefit of everyone could you elaborate more on your vanilla application. So we can understand the context of why your problem-free experience differs from the author's or others'.
As a designer the most interesting thing about Schiff is he heavily engages with a huge part of the designers job that most working today would rather pretend doesn’t exist.

Instagram rebrand for example “we asked everyone in the company” was an active diffusion of responsibility of the visual design yet lead designers happy to take credit when it pays off but hold excuses like that in their back pocket.
That'd be great, if I didn't have to turn it off. System Restore is so slow as to be borderline unusable. (In my experience creating the restore point accounts for the majority of time Windows spends doing updates, on a true CoW filesystem this should be nearly instantaneous.) Furthermore if you have VSS enabled on a volume hosting an MSSQL database it creates entries in the backup log for every snapshot, which destroys the chain of differential backups. This makes it impossible to use SQL Server Agent's maintenance plans alongside VSS in small-scale deployments (e.g: a workstation.)

I cannot stress enough: NTFS is not a CoW filesystem, any attempt to add CoW features on top of it will be poorly performant and doomed to fail, because they actually have to copy the old data blocks when you overwrite something. ZFS, btrfs, et al. are not actually copying user-data, because they don't have a concept of "ovewriting a block," every block that is written is written to unallocated regions of the disk; blocks that are not referenced by a dataset or snapshot are then returned to the allocator for later use; at no point is the old data "copied", it's just "not returned to the allocator for reuse."

What btrfs or ZFS mean by "copying" is not the user's data blocks, it's copying filesystem metadata, portions of btrfs' extent tree, or ZFS' block pointer tree. There is a world of difference between volume shadow copy, and an actual CoW filesystem. -- Microsoft knows this, that's why they are working on ReFS. (Of course in typical MSFT fashion they've made a number of critical mistakes: user data checksums are optional, and volume management is not integrated so it can't even use those integrity streams to self-heal corruption. Also last I checked ReFS can't even be used as a bootable Windows volume. -- It's worth pointing out APFS also made the mistake of checksumming metadata but not user data; which in my opinion makes both of them unsuitable as next generation filesystems.)
PC market flat, as Surface becomes a top-5 computer brand in the US
Indeed, and I quite understand this: once relatives (parents and grandparents) joined the Facebook bandwagon, the fun was over. What once was some youngsters'-inner-circle has become the new sons-and-daughters-surveillance service.

And as with all the forms of surveillance, kids are escaping it.
That number could be made arbitrarily high... an hour of 720p TV is 1280 * 720 * 3 * 60 * 3600 is 238GB

Granted my eye averages/summarized the pixels and my brain ignored a lot of the content (i.e. I don't notice the clock ticking in the corner while the hero is fighting the bad guy), yet still an argument could be made that that's the amount of data I'm exposed to while watching an hour HD movie through my HD display.
In many cases, employees are replaceable cogs who can be done without for the brief period before being replaced, while employment is vital and the absence of it for even short durations can be life-threatening.

Software is a rare exception, not the rule. Even then, people like me who have enough savings to live for over a year without a paid job (looking after a parent with Alzheimer’s in my case) are a tiny minority.
I wonder if the family of Benjaman Kyle [0] will eventually be found as more and more people are added to the databases.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjaman_Kyle
You're right. We should let people (employers) employ young children to do dangerous work. As long as the dirt poor parents consent, then it's OK right?

If those people don't want their kids in this situation maybe they should try being not poor. You feel me?

Hold a gun to someone's head and act like they have a free choice when they decide to do what you demand of them.
I’ve read this comment about MS getting rid of their QA in a lot of places. Is that something they actually really did or is it something that people say because their QA quality has dropped significantly (which as in Apple’s case could be due to the increased release cadence).
Yes, and yes, and don’t forget: employers tend to have ready access to legal advice which is too expensive for the average employee. Our legal system gives strong advantages to entities the more they can afford.
The problem is this was announced as giving them a massive raise. It turns out it was really just a wash and mostly a PR stunt. They aren't actually giving the employees more money than before.

People were comparing this to Henry Ford's livable wage.
I know you're joking, but there needn't be anything private to be hidden on this network. That would seem to make this of limited use to the NSA.
Finishing the whole job in under 15 minutes is impressive but also a bit suspicious, in a way. Back when I used a top 10 HPC facility at a national lab I saw a lot of jobs in the queue that could have run just fine on business class servers without the fancy, expensive interconnects needed for Grand Challenge problems. People didn't run their jobs on smaller machines because there was money in the budget to build a world class Top 10 computing resource but not money to buy less exotic hardware matched to typical jobs. Individual research groups didn't really get their typical compute needs measured or surveyed.

These are obviously leading questions, but:

- Are there significant research advantages to super-fast turnaround (less than 15 minutes, enabled by massive parallelism) in this domain?

- Do you feel like a massively parallel system with Xeon Phi nodes is a good match for this problem? Or did the code get optimized to run at high scale on Cori Phase II because that's where you were given compute resources?

Finally, a bit less provocative:

Does this approach effectively scale down to e.g. a university that can afford a large storage array and beefy commercial servers (optionally equipped with Phi or other accelerators), but doesn't have HPC resources that are contenders for the Top 500? Or do you really need things that smaller systems can't deliver, like many terabytes of memory in distributed global arrays?
I think this could be solved by outlawing severability (where if one clause of the contract is junk, the rest still stands). That would make the contract written in a much more careful manner, and make those junk clauses a liability for the entire contract.

Not a lawyer though, so happy to hear the flaws in this.
Oh, that's a good one!
So somebody stows-away aboard DM-1 and then claims ownership of the ISS by right of possession. :-) That would make for an excellent young adult adventure novel.
Those 900 dollars don't just stay in everybody's bank account, they get spent, and start circulating the system and eventually consolidated into fewer hands, who in turn buys properties or other assets.
This is a terrifying thing to read on acid.
FastR also uses native BLAS and LAPACK libraries. It should be possible to link it with Intel MKL as well.

We didn't want to include comparison to R-3.5.X, because FastR itself is based on the base library of 3.4.0, but the results for GNU-R 3.5.1 almost the same as for R-3.4.0.

AFAIK ALTREP is not used that much yet inside GNU-R itself. They can now do efficient integer sequences (i.e. 1:1000 does not allocate 1000 integers unless necessary), which would save a little bit of memory in this example, but that's about it. FastR also plans to implement the ALTREP interface for packages. Internally, we've been already using things like compact sequences.
"Over the next decade, interest costs will total nearly $7 trillion, rising to become the third-largest 'program' in the federal budget."

If you thought a trillion dollars over thirty years for the most advanced jet in the world was a lot of money, how do you feel about getting absolutely nothing for $7 trillion?
Isn’t PeerTube mostly videos promoting PeerTube and crypto currencies?
It doesn’t need to be enforceable, as far as the minimum wage class is concerned- if the spurious suit alone would have the defendant summoned to court multiple times over months, and likely unemployed during that time, it’s just as destructive as a real, successful suit would be for an ex-Googler, if not moreso. Without wages they can’t pay rent or feed their family (because this class is rarely able to accumulate savings.). If they can get a job before the suit resolves, having to move shifts around to get to court appointments could make them lose it again. And that’s assuming they have complete faith, somehow, that the law would rule in their favor- when they’re fighting a corporation, have minimal legal resources if their own, they would have to be very sure they live in a no-enforcement state- because a successful suit would end their financial life.
> This is a rare case where a potential forensic tool is probably biased toward identifying wealthy white individuals.
C'est la vie, no?

I realize it seems strange, but is it not just because it's new. Is it really all that different from some unknown cousin or somesuch popping up in your life? The truth, is that IVF exists. I don't think we should feel ashamed or disturbed that it's true. It's wonderful that you guys get to be parents, and that we're no longer totally limited by biology.

There's other stuff to worry about anyway, when it comes to having kids. What if they become teenagers?
I don’t believe it is. The parent said MS should have a team that manually sifts through raised bugs and sets severity. From the article it appears that MS is instead adding the ability for the bug reporters to set the severity. That’s definitely not as good a solution because everyone thinks their issue is the most severe.
But a newly promoted staff engineer has more ability to move up in pay in annual reviews.
> My point was actually to refute the implied point that something that relies on manual labor doesn't scale.

That was not my point at all. My point was that there is zero economical demand for reforestation, you're not going to convince masses to plant enough trees. There is clear demand for deforestation, be it coal underneath, wood itself or a place to live.

Yes, we need to stop deforestation, I did not say anything against that at all. Let's not see the world as black or white.

> No matter how close you think these drones are to reality, this just simply does not exist, no one is funding this, and no one is building or running this.

That is a problem we should solve, on top of others - like stopping deforestation.

> On the contrary, going out and planting a tree is literally something that you can do today, and people do by the thousands and millions every year.

And yet we're here talking about the problem that it's not nearly enough.

> Technology is prima facie the reason this planet is threatened by our existence.

Definitely. There is a huge demand for the ease of living technology offers. People are never going to let that be and live more frugally, never. That's why we need better technology - technology that can solve problems we've done and technology that is more clean.

> God forbid someone suggest manual labor, working with our hands, and thinking seriously about how we've seriously, seriously fucked up.

I agree with you but this is never going to happen. You're not going to convince masses about this, ever. Almost no one on the global scale is going to happily let go of their easy lives, much less do any significant manual labor. We need a solution that doesn't involve manual labor of tens of millions of people. And, to be honest, I find the expectation that people will think about their mistakes naive - I don't think they will even admit a mistake.
Even if it is clear, people will want to visit the site and if they don't find the button in Chrome or they don't want to bother with the nag screen (you can't "continue and remember" in Chrome)...
Just curious, did you burn out because of the workload?
..geo-awareness fail? or faith in bombing range containment?

https://imgur.com/HcVFJ0K
I disagree that it's analogous (surprised that it would be considered so). I made no comment on the merits of Zolang. I responded to an unaffiliated third party about _his_ comment being optimistic.
JWST is just one program among many. Also, it may seem that it matches the level of problems of crewed spaceflight but it really doesn't. The JWST program's enormous budget is small (in per year amounts) compared to things like Orion or SLS. If JWST was burning through money the same way SLS was it would be a $40-50 billion program.

Additionally, there is a huge number of highly successful robotic missions that have been running or are in the works. Just now in terms of active programs there is the Curiosity rover, the Juno Jupiter orbiter, the Parker Solar Probe, New Horizons, InSight, Dawn, TESS, Osiris-REX, MRO, Fermi, STEREO, and many more.
We have the same thing going on right now, but without the excuse of novelty.
What happened when Buffer stopped using Slack on Fridays
While carriers are certainly used in this role, I've taken part in two such missions while deployed with the USS Ronald Reagan, there are ships that are more capable in handling humanitarian and disaster relief, and non-combatant evacuation efforts, such as LHDs -- which also have a larger complement of helicopters/V-22s and ground-troop support than a carrier.
I don't think the microwave applies here. Folks were nuking food with radio waves as far back as the 30's, long before NASA was even close to being around.
Bad news if you use Dialog chips in your designs. Little chance they are going to keep working on those when Apple needs their own custom chips.

Its too bad they had a nice niche that nobody else really filled.
Reading the indictment, it sure sounds like the victim company employee was in on it. I wonder why "Employee 1" is not also charged. The press release makes it sound like the Chinese spy was soliciting company insiders to give talks where maybe they can learn something, whereas the indictment alleges that he was brazenly asking the insiders to send copies of confidential designs. And in this case it seems the insider did exactly that, and was hand over of a big dump of valuable data was imminent when US authorities decided to move in. It seems to be more than mere conspiracy, they were actually committing espionage.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I wonder if "Employee 1" is a Chinese national and was under some pressure, or if there was a big payout on offer that isn't mentioned. Otherwise I can't understand why anyone would betray their employer for a few grand of travel expenses.
What about the case where the contract is enforceable at the time of signing but the law changes after it's been signed?
where exactly do you think money comes from? there are two kinds of money, debt money and non debt money. Banks create most money which is debt based. Government creates non debt based. If government didn't give money, there would be no money!
If you are going to waste some resources to produce heat, you can mine some cryptocoin (and get a few cents back).
When people find out that their dad isn't actually they're biological dad they're not going to tell anybody because it is likely to make everyone hate each other (especially if the non-biological dad doesn't know already) and because it reflects poorly on them in some contexts.

There's probably a lot of mothers out there who feel really worried when they read news stories like this and there's probably a lot of people who aren't much like their sibling(s) that wonder.
Sounds a bit like naked objects?

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

http://downloads.nakedobjects.net/resources/Pawson%20thesis....
Good to hear you like the content. Regarding the title, yeah it's a tricky one to name. Ultimately the top few are new techniques illustrated using vulnerabilities, and all the entries are evaluated through the lens of whether the underlying technique can be adapted and applied to other systems.

Admittedly, Cloudbleed is a bit of a weird one. But I like it for that.
devops are like brake pads on trucks, you stomp the hell out of them whenever you didn't look far enough ahead, and when they start to make a squeaking noise you throw them out and get new ones.
> I came to find out that 'fellows' were just guys that had retired, had never written anything down, and then HAD to be re-hired, at any cost.

You'd think that if there's information in someone's head that a defense contractor can construe as "crucial to the building of the country's war-fighting competency" (i.e. "we can't build the damn planes/missiles you're depending on without that guy"), they could, for example:

• Get Congress to subpoena the person's "testimony" for a closed session of the Intelligence Subcommittee.

• Get the president to Commission the person as a military officer, and then immediately court-martial them for not doing their duty to the state by withholding the information.

• Just plain charge the person with treason, same as if they knowingly sabotaged the planes.
How Kubrick Made 2001: A Space Odyssey [video] (2016)
I mean the guy who comes to your defense here also works on React. I don't think Google makes posts on Hacker News soliciting feedback on Angular and then has their devs start astroturfing the thread. It kind of proves my point. If you guys think this is the venue to get technical feedback, it shows that you guys don't know what you're doing, but I'm sure you do, because it's PR.

I'd bet posts like this got flagged by someone who works on React - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12284926.

React is nothing revolutionary, but you wouldn't know that from the PR apparatus that is facebook, and some people should be rightly concerned about facebook's motivations when the company seems to prize market share above all else. This post seems to fit in that puzzle for me.

I don't know if HN has the same attitude towards 'shilling' as reddit does - but I feel like the FB dev team is guilty of this offense from time to time.
I'm not sure how much of this is "algorithmic merchandising" vs how much of it is that Amazon's product database is cluttered and teeming with duplicates and inconsistent data entry.

Also, couldn't he have just, you know, run to the drugstore?
Anybody know if he got any royalties from Signetics?
Churchill didn't invent famines for crying out loud. It wasn't an evil plot on his part. The year was 1943...the entire world was at war...maybe you heard about it. The Japanese cut off supplies. Lots of people were being murdered, Britain might not have even survived but for Churchill. War is fucking hell. You have to make trade-offs and decisions that lead to real deaths and the consequences are felt for centuries after. Boy you name one leader of any war torn nation that has never made zero mistakes.
L5 is one of Google's internal levels. They're putting it there to let people know where they were in Google's hierarchy and they note that it denotes Senior. From what I know, people generally start at 3 right out of school.
Thanks for the heads up, I'll pass that on.
> Volume Shadow Copy Service

Sure, and the first thing every WIN virus does is deletes the shadow copies.
Stephen Hawking’s final paper published, tackles famous paradox
That combined with the hysterical writing style (what, he can't go to Duane Reade for a bottle if he really does have an infection?) really undermines what he's saying. If you go to Wal Mart or Duane Reade you will get Equate (the Walmart house brand) or the Walgreens brand respectively.

Go to an independent pharmacy (of which there are fewer and fewer) and you will probably get 1-2 choices maximum for hydrogen peroxide which is so low margin that there aren't many companies that want to invest in branding for such a commodity product.

This is one of the worst examples if you are complaining about Amazon search results. One of the more common complaints you'll hear is about generic headphones. You will get pages of crap unless you restrict the search to certain models and brands. With Hydrogen Peroxide it looks like ultimately he got many different choices (more choices than he would have at any brick and mortar store in America) at an awesome price.

There are so many better categories to complain about if he wanted to make a good complaint post.
It seems like your objection is semantic, and depends on the meaning of "have." Does it mean, strictly, vaginal birth? Natural conception? Does a Cesarean section count? Does artificial fertilization count? Only if it's in-vitro?

It is stipulated that the babies are the direct genetic descendants of, and only of, the two female mice, and it appears that the babies are physically under (at least one of) their care. So the babies were produced by artificial assortative mating and are under the care of their their parents. If you think that artificial reproduction of any kind isn't really "having babies", where do you draw the line between what is or is not artificial?

I concede that "have babies" obviously has some generally agreed upon connotation beyond the literal meaning of the words; if I picked up someones’ babies at the park and said I "had babies," my statement would be regarded as unreasonable by almost everyone.

I'm not writing this just to be pedantic. I think artificial reproduction is interesting and sometimes controversial, because it invalidates our assumptions about reproduction.
Out of the gate, identifying the OP as a theorist, isn't that an ad hominem attack? Why trust anything he says, he's a dirty theorist!
Sadly, booming economies often create the conditions for recession (e.g. supply chain constrictions, pricing distortions). They're hard to predict - often we don't know we're in one until it's been going for months. The old adage still stands - if it can't go up forever, it'll come down.
I'm compelled by others responses to my comment to encourage you and say that you are absolutely solving a real problem.

Many-an-occasion, I have written foo.xml and translated it to Python/JS/Java/C++/Excel/whatever.

This type of thing is very useful in that use case - though in my case, it was generally used to add bindings to C++ code.
From what I've seen Wikileaks releases all kinds of stuff that has nothing to do with the things you mentioned.

As for the AWS information, I'd be hesitant to have my data hosted at the one in Oregon, it's right next to a bombing range! One bombing mishap...
Why are CVS receipts so long? (2018)
Red Hat was a founding member of OIN and were, along with IBM, the primary movers behind getting it off the ground. "Along for the ride" is somewhat reductive.

Disclaimer: Red Hat employee.