skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, pathogenic designs can come out of poor success metrics.

Some low level PM was tasked with optimizing time-on-site. They had some negative user feedback, but it didn't show up in their low sample UR and segmented rollout. Since they had good results in their primary success metrics and the secondary metrics did not tell a consistent story, they rolled it out to 100%. Any negative feedback from there was chalked up to change aversion among a small segment of users.
Spark on Kubernetes: Native Kubernetes Integration for Spark
For that matter, what did AltaVista and Yahoo's index have to do with Google? And how does DDG relate now? It's a good discussion.

Google contribution is algorithmic ranking, in my opinion, which amounts to an ongoing war / immune response with SEO and huge stakes for visibility of accurate information.
Some high profile users like Linus were active on G+. I can't imagine those people using FB so what's the alternative?
Why would you do this over a setup with real keyboards and a big screen

Given the choice I wouldn't, my point was more that only having access to an iPad is no reason to not be able to learn how to program.
There’s a difference between telling people to not put themselves in risky situations thst will just lead to adding a casualty (firefighter running into a collapsing building) and shooting people to “be on the safe side.” The equivalent for a cop would be to wait for backup, not murdering someone else because they’re scared.
My biggest issue with living in the South and (slowly) shifting vegetarian is restaurants. I want to go out and eat with my friends, but most of them just don't have good vegetarian options, and it's really annoying. It's part of the reason why I haven't completely gone vegetarian yet.
>For most of the posts users would make, users would probably spend more time thinking about which circles to enable than actually writing the post. It's a headache and it leads to a poor experience, it feels like a hurdle, something you must do; it makes posting less natural.

How low have we got, capacity wise, when this is even considered "a hurdle"?

At one time, people had to walk to the TV to change the channels...

And before that, they had to have candles and be good with finger shadows to entertain themselves...
cardiac arrest, it's pretty rare but still scary. Over 400k Americans die from it every year.
Dashcam footage (/r/roadcam /r/idiotsincars) is good for a sobering reminder of how easily crashes happen, and how hard they can be to avoid even with careful driving.

~40,000 Americans die a year; it's nuts out there.
According to numbeo[1] which crowdsources data, groceries and restaurants are 20% cheaper(adjusted for currency) in Toronto, but of course the salary is more than 20% lower, which might explain your experience. The real kicker is the rent, while Toronto rent is definitely increasing, it is nowhere close to New York City levels, and most sources do say you have to pay 50% more for an equivalent apartment in NYC.

Also according to my calculations from the data on numbeo, the equivalent of (pre-tax) $135,000 USD in NYC is $110,000 CAD in Toronto. It is of course easier to get 135k in NYC than 110k in Toronto, but the difference isn't nearly as big as the CAD/USD differences and wage gap makes it seem. And if you can get a job in the Waterloo-Kitchenner area, CoL of course plummets. Freelancing for clients in the US or working remotely also has great advantages.

[1]https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
Ignoring for a moment that most of those 500K users had probably forgotten they even had accounts, what strikes me as particularly shameful is that Google decided against informing anyone back in March when they discovered the bug.

If they couldn't tell exactly who was affected, or whether any data had in fact been improperly accessed, shouldn't they at least have notified users of the possibility their private data might have been leaked?

Oh, but that might have drawn "regulatory interest".... much better to sweep it under the carpet and hope nobody notices.
No. However, I am certain that there will be others that will try. You can count on it.
Well, higher end z370 board are not much cheaper and I expect the new z390 close the gap even more
I don't have statistics, but what if a person is driving along a street with parked cars and someone pulls out such that the impact is on the right corner instead? That seems like a plausible scenario.

Or a car is unexpectedly stopped in the right lane because of an accident or a police stop. I came around a corner with no visibility today to find a police car attending to a wrecked vehicle on the right.
That intel scientist was Shekhar Borkar
imagine working on google+ for the last 8 years
The title says "data breach," but that's not what actually happened. They had a security vulnerability and fixed it. Yes, that's bad, but the title makes it sound like it was exploited, which would have been worse.
I haven't said, it is a problem. I said that this shows the problem. The problem that a police officer is more afraid for his/hers own safety then actually protecting and serving others.
For me this shows why US police is trigger happy. Where they are trained always for the worst, where they always expect the worst. No wonder a lot of them can't tell right from wrong.
Also, when you have to deal with mentally ill people, in certain cases for an untrained person might be really hard to identify and know the difference between a person suffering from mental illness, or being high on crystal meth and ready to chew your face off.

If the civil population wouldn't have all these guns and gun crimes wouldn't be the top concern in the country, maybe then the police could change it's training to be more calm and helping in diffusing dangerous situation rather then go in guns blazing.

Not going to say, that having guns is the No. 1 cause, but it certainly makes the whole situation worse.
Then I would highly recommend Peter's book: https://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Modern-Scientists-Program...
What is `wasm_gc` all about?
> 4) get disrupted

More like 4) Hire lobbyists and donate to politicians in order to to criminalize competition under the guise of "protecting the public". :-)
It will seal just fine up to a 4 or 5 inches or more I can't remember anymore. I do remember it being discussed when I went for training to be the company NBC NCO. And it boiled down to appearances more than anything.

Also special forces are expensive to replace and are out in areas that could have NBC related threats and have some of the biggest beards I've ever seen.
Was this announced on G+?
DOT says drivers don't have to be human
Using WebAssembly + WebGL/Canvas/whatever to basically replicate Flash is perfectly fine, for games. Using Flash for games was never a problem. Flash was a problem when it was used for non-game things. And I suppose it's possible someone could use Unity exporting to WebAssembly + WebGL to produce a crappy restaurant webpage (to name one common Flash offense), but it doesn't really seem all that likely.
As horrible as it sounds, in this specific respect, the current US administration has been really fantastic for Canada. More and more new grads are choosing to stay in the country and work with local tech companies, and we're experiencing a reverse brain-drain like never before.
Other countries follow a lot of FAA recommendations voluntarily, even if they have no jurisdiction there.
Just use the average stage cycles per second, that's what we do.
reddit thread from a year ago https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5790ky/benchma...
Okay yeah, I wasn't sure if you were saying "the frameworks that exist are bad" or "a framework should exist". Thanks.

(And yeah, there are several of these in Rust now, but they're extremely early days, and not really ready for anything serious at all.)
Is the FAA different in risk aversion to other developed country equivalents?
The milk is always at the back of the store.
Yeah, if the pension plan had no assets, the state would be in deep trouble, as would most others. But in terms of pension cashflow as a fraction of total assets, IL is actually doing really well, better than the vast majority of states:
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-bri...

Which is what allowed politicians to kick the can down the road for so long. So yes, there is a hole and it needs to be plugged. But this is a big state, plan assets are considerable, and there's a lot of new contributions coming in all the time as well. This won't trigger "ever increasing taxes" as some doomsaying politicians put it, there can be a correction once there is political will to do so.
I honestly don't know how to do it. But I will say that on HN at least, there seems to be a moderation team interested in finding that balance.

The only comments I've seen that get killed are so far off the rails or so hateful as to be completely unproductive.

From what I've seen online, the malevolent ones just seem to want to resort to personal attacks, or make terrible arguments full of basic logic flaws.

I get what you're saying, but I would say that the onus is on the individual arguing to prove they are not malicious. If I type something that can be construed as 'off-topic' or malicious, I always either preface it with an explanation to the word choice (i.e. don't read tone in text, because this is said with a flat emote). Otherwise, I expect my comment to get flagged and killed.

Like this one. This has nothing to do with the original story, so it may get killed. And that's something that I understand and am okay with.
Yeah it doesn't totally make sense, but it's a real thing. For example: https://observer.com/2017/08/italian-christopher-columbus-st...

And https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/opinion/christopher-colum...
This is super cool. For what are you using it?
Not a lot of chips gain a lot from power gating though, due to various reasons.
Shutting down Google reader was a political rather than a metric of feedback driven decision.
I don't know much about these researchers but I'm sure their research will be used by those who believe ridiculous things like this and will definitely use it to drive their own racist narratives. You can count on that happening.
Decentralized-social-networks
Disclaimer: I'm a licensed private pilot and have a registered drone.

I can sum this up simply: jerks ruin everything. Drones were unregulated and would remain so, except for people being jerks.

Pilots have areas they can't fly below a certain altitude because the noise would rile up wildlife, like flocks of birds; jerk drone pilots, oblivious to this, started zipping through those areas and national parks, scaring up the wildlife (and annoying people), which led to them being banned around national monuments and parks.

Drones have also interfered with commercial approaches at airports in Class B airports so they became banned around airports, unless permission is granted from the airport. The FAA came out with regs requiring you to register, and you had to make sure you acknowledged that you had to be permission to fly in class B airport, from the airport. Simply stated, it was so that if you were an jerk and your drone crashed, or you injured anyone on the ground they could find you. Seems reasonable to me.

The new regs are just an incremental update. Many flights operate on VFR (Visual Flight Rules), which is basically "see and avoid." Most commercial flights operate in IFR (Instrument Flight Rules) where air traffic control system guarantees you separation from other aircraft. Of course, they can't see small drones on radar, so they can't vector you around them or talk to the drone operator. There was a case where a black hawk was struck by a drone last year, requiring an emergency landing. The NTSB ultimately found the guy through the manufacturers serial number, because he his drone never returned.

There have been many, many bad actors using drones to harass neighbors, spy on women, and it's getting ridiculous. When a licensed pilot has an accident, they know the NTSB and FAA will investigate. You file a safety report and own up to any mistakes, or it will be very bad. The NTSB is very thorough and is primarily interested in keeping future accidents from happening. However, drone pilots run away abandoning their hardware.

I think the next iteration will be drones required to have transponders, so air traffic control can see them, and a pilot who has TCAS can see them also. This just means they will be become more expensive, and over time, hopefully transponders and ancillary avionics will become cheaper on aircraft as these companies push into general aviation.
I am sure Dallas and Houston are great places to be, but my own prerequisite for "big city life" is the ability to live comfortably without a car (and because the poster is from the Bay Area, I assumed they had something similar in mind). This doesn't just mean public transit, either, but high density architecture to eliminate the amount of time I need to spend traveling for groceries/food/coffee/social activities (so I can continue working asap).

Good public transit gives me freedom to concentrate my income on things that are important to me - no car maintenance, no debt, and an even further increase to the amount of time I can be productive in a day (by doing work on a train/bus).

So keeping this criteria for "big city" in mind, I think few in the US can compare to San Francisco, New York and Chicago, and out of those three Chicago has a drastically cheaper price point.
True story, I know of many skilled folks who moved to Canada because residency in the U.S was just too painful.
Lots of people here talking about the good bits of Google+ or how they could have made it succeed. But from my POV it was just the wrong idea from the start. From what I saw Google panicked about the growth of Facebook and Twitter and tried to build a competitor. But no one wanted more social networks. And Google didn’t have a compelling story about how they were better. Instead it was just a bunch of user hostile changes—forced linking of accounts, elimination of stuff like Reader—and Google seemed to be forcing itself into parts of your digital life where it wasn’t welcome. I’m glad they’re able to admit it’s a failure now even though it took several years too long and this silly excuse about a privacy review.
I wouldn't mind too much bing in your shoes: you have not developed your library for that, it's not its main use, and you didn't even know about it.

I work in cloud related things (I do UI stuff for the cloud), I'm pretty sure 3-4 contracts from me, the code I work on could be used for weapons, but I'm clearly not developing a weapon nor something whose main goal is killing.
I'm not particularly outraged, but the stereotype that Google shuts down projects too frequently to depend upon them is not going to go away when it keeps happening.

I use their mail, as a backup, their maps, and search engine. But I'd think long and hard before I developed against one of their services, or came to rely upon any future-project they released.
> Is it? Commercial flight isn't that much more dangerous in other developed countries.

Developed countries also have an FAA equivalent. Regulation is equally strict in the EU for instance.
Are people with GCs screwed too? I've been postponing getting a citizenship, for no particular reason, but I'm now wondering if I should get on that just so that I don't somehow get bounced out of the country or get locked outside when I travel.
Btw, is anyone building a google inbox clone yet?
I did exactly the same about a year and a half ago, except I deactivated my account (kind of a step between just logging off and completely deleting it), and I still feel the positive impact of that decision on my life until today. I encourage more people to do the same.
Show HN: Kube-score: Kubernetes object linting with recommendations
I live on the South Coast. I deal with R1400/m (±$100) for 220gb data (LTE) to be able to work. Our Neighbourhood's Telkom copper got stolen 8 times this year.
Shitty, I know.

But on the bright side, waking up with a gorgeous view over a river and the ocean every morning, nice and quiet does a lot of good mentally, especially having lived in one of the largest cities in the world for 5 years prior.

And yes, there's crime. Gotta activate the alarm system at night.
He said dudebros don't want to change the world. He didn't say everyone who doesn't want to change the world is a dudebro.
I never did the test by myself, I just watched now a couple of yt videos. It looks like the test duration is a couple of seconds. To be fast a couple of seconds is not the same as to be fast for a long time.
And there are other much faster single core cpus on geekbench.
Of course, todays cellphone cpus are "little wonders" but the are (of course) not the same as a desktop cpu.
More damning is that fact that Intel does have a fix in Whiskey Lake. So why aren't these 8-core desktop CPUs using Whiskey Lake? https://www.anandtech.com/show/13301/spectre-and-meltdown-in...
I guess YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook are expensive hobbies? They not only didn't make money, but literally lost millions for years.
I wonder if the Mac Mini will get an upgrade.
Looking forward to testing this with Blazor. This was the biggest problem currently.
As a Canadian (in the Bay Area) today, getting bounced out of the U.S is always at the back of my mind.
In increasing digital world, where do you draw the line between a healthy hobby versus an addiction? From the article, it seems like you would like to stop people from video games altogether versus curtailing their addiction to healthier levels. Organizations such as MADD have faced similar problems where they started as a way to rehabilitate people, but turned into organizations with an extremist agenda.
No it actually closes off a lot of them, especially many physical side channel attacks.
Agreed! Apologies, as I think my use of the term "exposed" left that ambiguous. I should have used the original term "acquired". The first line from the link says the following:

> California law requires a business or state agency to notify any California resident whose unencrypted personal information, as defined, was acquired, or reasonably believed to have been acquired, by an unauthorized person.

With links to more specifics in the CA Civil code.
> As the administration of President Donald Trump has increased scrutiny of H-1B visas

Has it? All that has been done is a study of potential H-1B reforms that is still under way. I'd bet that nothing changes in the next two years. The puppet masters wouldn't want it any other way.
> Most people don't have that amount of RAM.

Most people don't buy desktops with 16 or 32 or 64-thread processors designed to maximize throughput.

Those who do tend to want to max out how much RAM they can shove in their box.
> [...] it's probably easier to provision a [...] network of health care providers [among Germany's 16 Bundeslaender] than [...] across all 50 states.

Maybe. Slightly. Not really a challenge in the computer age.

Also the last paragraph of my comment above still applies.
You say that, and yet here we are discussing French police corruption that is exactly like what occurs in the US
Looking forward to the Show HN!
That's the tragedy. It's a business that became one of the richest companies in the world in a few years, obtaining massive capital looking for investments along the way. It then holds all those investments (of money or time or intelligence) to the same standard of success and failure.
> The previous generation you're referring to is one that actively discriminated against women and people of color in the work force.

Some part of the previous generation did that. Some, obviously, did not, just as some part of the current generation continue to do that, and some do not. In some cases there is a real, legitimate argument that the discrimination has reversed -- there is a lot of discrimination and exclusion going on in this country all in the name of tolerance, inclusion and diversity.

In any case I appreciate you making my point for me.
All of Lin's stuff is amazing. https://hacks.mozilla.org/category/code-cartoons/
Sorting feeds into algorithmically informed circles would be helpful. The current algorithm is a nightmare if it is data starved, ie you get fed a bunch a irrelevant info from people you just interacted with. There is no process to say, hey Facebook show me what my old college friends are up to. Or hey Facebook show me what my family is up to or hey Facebook show me political news. It's just a bunch of random grasping at straws.
One website tracked Hiroshima bombs worth of heat (4 per second). It was perhaps tasteless.
Managing data store locality at scale with Akkio
You can see the difference in the WebAssembly Benchmark: http://iswebassemblyfastyet.com
There are tons of awful areas in Chicago--I used to live in a pretty ghetto area of the south side. In the 1990's, the whole area I lived in was a battleground between two major gangs. Walking down the alley past a certain part of the night was practically a guarantee that you'd get robbed, at gun point, by a passing car. Gangs used to recruit kids in my elementary school, and the nearby high school was completely overrun by gangs.

Still, that area of Chicago was pretty damn clean compared to what I have seen in SF. Living here is so depressing, even more so than what I've encountered in Chicago. Walking past literal hobo shanty towns on the sidewalk; seeing god damn used needles on the sidewalk across the street from my office; having coworkers visiting from out-of-state harassed by homeless people; SHIT EVERYWHERE. Not even just downtown. I live in the Richmond District and there's constantly shit on the sidewalk. This is easily the grossest city I've ever been in.

The most maddening thing about all of this is how much it costs to live here. Fucking hell. AND HOW MUCH THEY CHARGE FOR SECURITY DEPOSITS! This is all so crazy to me.
Yeah, but most CPUs today are OoO without using scoreboarding
Please. It's something I miss every day.
I think that normal people internalize a multi-layered context of ethical rules. Following the letter of the law is only one layer. Hence most people would not say "fair enough" just because regulations were followed, if the meta-rules of society were not. I don't think it is possible to do away with meta-rules by writing more detailed laws, although I get the impression that is an increasingly popular assumption. In my opinion, the ubiquity of computers leads to an overestimation of our capability for directly handling complexity in rule-based systems.
> it's about preemptively conditioning the west

Who is doing this pre-conditioning?

> into accepting the mass arrival of "climate refugees" that's going to happen no matter what.

So, either climate change exists, and this will cause refugees (as will anything that causes a place to become unsupporting of human life, war, famine etc. etc.)

Or, climate change doesn't exist, or does but is exaggerated, and the "climate refugees" are going to be forced on us by some unmentioned power with climate change being used as the excuse.

If do belive in climate change but don't particularly like immigrants then your only real option is to prevent climate change. People will leave their homes when the place they live becomes unlivable (for instance, in the case of Bangladesh, underwater). This is a hard fact, it's not something unique to these people, it's what everyone would do. Only the insane would stay behind railing against the encroaching ocean.

If you don't believe in climate change (despite the overwhelming evidence that it exists) then you're left with some sort of conspiracy theory that refugees are somehow being sent to punish you and climate change is being used as an excuse. This is fantasy, and there's not much that can be done to help you in this situation because what you're taking part in at this point is a religious belief (the evidence points to X but you're going to believe Y).