skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not legal, but often if you're a waiter/waitress and report you're making less than minimum wage and want to get paid the difference they take that as you're not performing well enough and will fire you.
The problem is that you are treating homeless people like rational actors.
> Goes directly to FBI without telling boss at Apple.

This is really hard to believe. An engineer who found this bug at Apple would most likely be praised for finding it. It is a huge discovery. What motivation would he have to not tell his manager?
We built HopsFS on NDB, not CalvinDB, because we needed performance for cross-partition transactions. Some workloads need it. In the filesystem workload, when FS path components are normalized and stored on different partitions, practically all transactions cross partitions. So if you serialize them, then writing a file in /home/jchan will block writing a file in /home/jim. This is what most distributed filesystems already do - have a global write lock on the filesystem metadata. I like having the freedom to build my the concurrency model on top of READ_COMMITTED, as i can squeeze out 16X performance improvemnts by doing so (ref: https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast17/technical-sessions/... )
Most USA beef is raised by people who own or rent the land they use. Only in the West do unsavory types like Cliven Bundy get such a sweet deal from the federal government. Even then they barely make ends meet, because the land is so unsuited to grazing. We should end the whole shoddy pretense of grazing fees enabling environmental destruction, but it would take a political miracle to get that through the Senate.
Or alternatively, maybe it's true that there are major economies of scale to most businesses, and big companies get big not through "lobbying" and "regulation" but because they're far more efficient than small companies?
So get an amendment passed.

Just remember, you have to get 2/3 of the states -- including all your fly-over states.
No, because he didn't claim it was fatal. But your comment reveals just how much of a dick you are. He's 6.
Oh, sure, there's probably lots of that around political issues outside of the regulatory comment process.
That's probably the most reasonable interpretation of their disengagement report for 2016 and 2017. Still speculation, though.

Hundreds of disengagements, all in a few days in October 2016.

Consistent with multiple attempts of filming their self driving promo.

No disengagements apart from that in 2 years.

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/f1873c87-4f21-4beb...
Yes. Make sure you are using direct sampling, attach a long wire, string it up. Use an audio pipe to pipe the audio from your SDR software into the WSJT-X software, which also lists the default frequencies for a given mode. Enjoy!
Your argument sounds a lot like an argument that excludes the middle. It is perfectly reasonable to work for a government or a company while at the same time demanding that decision-takers within that organization do not completely disregard morals, or the general well-being of society.

This sort of thing is not a matter of binary choices.
Tectonics Game
Not many, but a few. Civilization still thinks quite hard in the late game.
Part of the social contract does seem to dictate that the relationship between criminal and victim is governed by law. For example, if you were to respond to the attack by defending yourself in the moment, resulting in the assailant's death, you would potentially be free of any charges due to your right to defend yourself. However, if you were to wait a day (or, say, until after the assailant's release on what you perceived to be too short of a sentence) THEN assault that person, the law likely would be against you. You certainly have the right to continue to FEEL victimized, but query whether or not your right to act on those feelings after justice has been dispensed by the state isn't subject to the social contract with the state.
I'm guessing they meant traits like hair color, eye color, height, distinguishing tattoos or marks, gender, but not skin color.
Economic inequalities exist on every level. In a sovereign city state, the wealthier neighborhoods would subsidize the less wealthy neighborhoods.
Digital immortality
I'm not trying to argue that Bloomberg did anything illegal, so lets stay away from that red herring. I'm talking about whether their action was morally right; granted, morality and civic duty is a much more ambiguous topic, and I'm open to the possibility that my position is incorrect here.

To make an analogy: What if a newspaper was given sensitive personal information about someone that was legal to publish, but could have damaging effects to that person and the population as a whole if published too soon? Do newspapers have a civic responsibility to hold off on publishing information that would only be damaging to everyone (at least until it's safe to do so)?
I created a graphdb in python which _might_ be helpful https://github.com/amirouche/AjguDB
Summary, taken from the article:

> To summarize the overall FaunaDB protocol, each transaction proceeds in three phases:

> 1. The first phase is a speculative phase in which reads are performed as of a recent snapshot, and writes are buffered.

> 2. Next, a consensus protocol is used (Raft) to insert the transaction into a global log, which results in the transaction receiving a global transaction identifier that specifies its equivalent serial order relative to all other transactions that are being processed by the system. This is the only point at which global consensus is required.

> 3. Finally, a check begins in each replica which verifies the speculative work. If that speculative work did not result in potential violations of serializability guarantees, then the work becomes permanent and the buffered writes written back to the database. Otherwise, the transaction is aborted and restarted.
> Since we aren't doing that, presumably we are rehabilitating them.

This doesn't follow. We could just be locking them up for as long as we are allowed to to keep them away from society.
I live in northern Italy, but I am from Rome, "Roma Roma" as we say in Italy

This is simply not true

Half of your taxes pay for Formigoni that takes bribes from healthcare in Lombardy

Pointing out what's wrong in our country is good, blindly believing in black propaganda is not.
Mystery of the ketchup cups
My distant observation is that the high risk mindset that allows companies like Stripe and many others in your area to succeed is the same that brings people to the streets. I imagine many successful founders are homeless in many parallel universes.
There is nothing wrong with some sticks working together to get better deals on medical supplies or defend from other sticks in time of need.

The issue is that you are forcing the stick to give up its national identity, borders, fishing rights, and laws in order to be part of the bundle.
They're probably referring to alternative teaching methods like "reading by writing". AFAIK, that method was developed to encourage students to practice more by putting more emphasis on writing and to prevent demotivating feedback by not correcting mistakes.

There has been a bit of a splash in Germany recently when a study found very strong negative effects compared to the traditional method and several regional governments decided to ban schools from using those methods. (So it's not about centralized education forcing silly policies onto schools but the other way around.)

I'm having trouble finding quality sources in English, but the German conference poster [1] has graphs and you asked for graphs. The line plot shows a longitudinal study and the box plot is of a cross-section with higher sample size, where the horizontal axis represents time in steps of half a school year. The vertical axis shows a measure of writing ability normalized to units of standard deviations from the mean.

red = traditional method using a primer

green = reading by writing

blue = "reading workshop", another method were kids are supposed to decide for themselves what to learn next

The longitudinal study (line plot) also controlled for pre-existing knowledge at the beginning of the study. Students enrolled in schools using the "reading by writing" method had significantly better initial conditions, but students using the traditional method showed much greater improvements. In the cross-section, the traditional method had consistently both higher means and lower variances.

Conclusion: the two alternative methods "cannot be recommended unconditionally".

[1] https://www.psychologie.uni-bonn.de/de/abteilungen/entwicklu...
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Might as well jump in here - founder of Trolley [1] which lets you put a payment button on any website, which triggers a Stripe-powered shopping popup.

[1] - https://trolley.link
There's more nuance in the greeting than at first glance, based on social distance.

Implicit in the question is, "How much are you looking to talk?" and "how close do you feel to the person asking?"

Also encoded is my expectation of conversation. If I say it casually or to a group, I am expecting a casual response. If I slow it down and emphasize "Are" or "You", I'm providing subtext that I am expecting a longer conversation or are genuinely interested in a longer conversation that can dive into more personal matters. If I know someone isn't doing well (death in the family, etc), it can slow down but not have the increased pitch of the other greeting, inviting knowledge that we're already past that.

When responding, I have the opportunity to interrupt the normal flow in both polite and impolite forms. All of this is highly contextual so that the "simple" answer is to say "Good, and you?" but there's subtext to learn.
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FoundationDB has long supported both synchronous and asynchronous replication across regions, and its major users use multi-regional configurations. In the former mode, you will see 1xRTT latency for commits [1] from the active datacenter and 2xRTT latency for commits from other datacenters. In the latter mode, commits from the active datacenter are fast (0xRTT) but the durability property must be sacrificed if a region fails. I believe almost all users currently use asynchronous replication because the performance is so much better (than any geographically replicated synchronous database).

The new "satellite" replication model in FoundationDB 6.0 allows the best of both worlds: if you have two or more datacenters in each region (each storing transaction logs, but only one storing actual data) then you can do synchronous (0xRTT) commits to the regional datacenters and asynchronous replication to the other region(s). If there are failures in one region, the database can quickly and automatically fail over to the other region, while maintaining durability (by getting the last bits of transaction log from at least one datacenter in the failing region). Even if a whole region fails, as long as the failures of the datacenters and network links in it are spread out over time the database will complete a full ACID recovery. And in the worst case you can fall back to ACI recovery as in asynchronous replication.

The question you are linking to is asking about something different, the ability to have different parts of a single database have subgeographic latencies in different regions.

[1] You will also see 1xRTT latencies when you start transactions, but you can solve this by setting the causal_read_risky transaction option on all read/write transactions. This is not actually risky because if the reads in the transaction turn out not to be externally consistent, the transaction will not commit.
Actually I keep providing specifics which you ignore, for example the blog post declares that DNSSEC is "unsafe" because it can cause hostnames to be revealed and you give the example of Bank of America, owners of the bankofamerica.com domain for which you say such a policy "does not work so well".

But today actually FQDNs like 14021-nonprod.bankofamerica.com or whkgm04ye.hktskcy.apac.bankofamerica.com are not just accessible if you brute force DNS, they're automatically published, because Bank of America heavily relies, in fact, on the Web PKI and its issuers log the certificates.

It seems very strange to focus on the security for .COM when my point is that that entire TLD is badly run, it's like you're focused on how good the lock is on the front door (somebody call Deviant Ollam) at Lehman Brothers when the actual problem was they've invested all this money in worthless mortgage securities.
Agreed. There are times when it is ethical for a news organization to either delay or scrap publishing a story with national security implications ... but the standard for that should be very high. This doesn't feel like it is one of those. If the facts as reported are true then it is newsworthy and should be reported. If the facts as reported are not true, then it is a colossal screw-up on the part of the paper as this will cause billions in monetary and reputational damage to all parties concerned.
Thankyou for clearing this up. I've been confused about this for a long time. It also explains why the decoherence theory fits in with this story.
> You can go to any online SDR and tune around to find obnoxious, toxic, and illegal behavior within minutes

Ah, so 4chan for old people.
Automation is democratizing experimental science
Only for games that require lots of individual object/ai management, like Ashes of the Singularity or maybe civ games
I find that theory very problematic though, because A: it's not terribly necessary B: the government did not particularly jump on this as it would have if this was coordinated propaganda, and let's be honest C: if you want to make that case there's probably 25 equally large, true stories that could be published if the intelligence agencies were willing to burn a few sources or something as they seemed to in this story. It's not as if the espionage status-quo is "nobody's hacking anybody else, because everyone's afraid of the consequences if they do"; what public evidence we have suggests the status quo is more akin to a free-for-all.

Heck, just the HN replies to previous discussion on this story had some comments from people who had jobs for a while detecting espionage on their boards, which were created precisely because some was found prior to that. For instance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18138699 You could make more hay with that story than a faked-up one. There's no need to lie for propaganda's sake, because the truth would be more than adequate! (The propaganda element would be in the spin and claims about the scale of the problem, not the brute facts, which certainly exist.)

If this ever was government propaganda, they changed their mind before finishing the job and hung Bloomberg out to dry.

At the moment, the best theory that seems to fit all the facts, including the comments from people who were interviewed for the story, is a not-sufficiently-technical reporter very motivated to tell this story (perhaps because of the reward for stories that move the markets?) who compounded confusion upon confusion in a domain they were suffering from Dunning-Kruger until they were able to write that story. And presumably, similar problems in the fact-checking and editorial staff. I'm still not guaranteeing this, but I'm giving it at least 75% at this point.
I've heard it called bore-out
And Apple -- being, in part, a hardware company -- has extensive tools and expertise at their disposal to investigate any hardware abnormality. If they've concluded that everything is normal, I'm inclined to believe them.
Is there a reason to perform linear regression using an optimizer like SGD or Adam as opposed to using least squares? For large matrices is optimization more scalable than solving the linear equation? Or is it because since optimizers are more expressive, it's a programmatic convenience/readibility thing?
SignalWire Launches Twilio Alternative with Disruptive Pricing
Private people can have secrets, the government shouldn't.

I don't think they did anything immoral by publishing (unless they believed what they wrote to be false).
Ask HN: What does good technical management look like?
Curious about what distinguishes good managers from bad in engineering. Google's done some studies, but wondering about the world outside. Looking for anecdotal stories as much as hard science on this subject.
What? It's far more practical to reteach his wife the language she lost, which also happens to be his first language AND the primary language of the country they live it.
They free you from conforming to monolith conventions, which may be very far away from what would be best practice for given service.
Right, but both the title and the body of the article use the unambiguous "most massive" not "largest."
If the skin is that similar to the original silver color and texture of original Macbooks you might also see a market for giving non-Macbook laptops that Macbook color look.
It's not immoral if what's being reported is in the public interest. It's questionable when it's something like "Brad and Angelina are breaking up", but obviously not illegal.
>There is no reason to believe than Tim Cook or any executive would be aware of anything.

The minute this story hit publication you can bet internal security teams at Apple would have validated it and submitted findings to Tim Cook. At this point Tim Cook, along with his legal team, has all the facts as they pertain to Apple and Apple suppliers and every component inside Apple devices. You don't come out without a strong denial like that unless you are sure you can back it up.
Stop going. I’ve used this strategy a lot, and no one seems to care. You’re likely overestimating the amount people are thinking about your presence.

For the first time or two, have a response ready, like “oh I just had to make progress on blah, did I miss anything important?” After awhile, if anyone asks, you can say that you don’t feel like you add enough value to justify the time spent. Your boss can always correct you and ask that you come again, but that at least gets him to evaluate if it’s important.
I smell logistics failures here.

The article says 24 prefab buildings. Building 24 buildings at once as a new company sets off alarm bells for me. It also talks about cost overruns. On prefab buildings? Oof.

From the picture, if you look carefully I think you can see almost a dozen of them in an incomplete state (the one on the far left might be done).

It sounds like they didn't stagger the buildout. I can't imagine the property in Central Washington was the expensive bit. If I were involved in this project I'd have been much more comfortable if they had bought all the land, and come up with a three phase plan where they figure out how to do construction without interrupting operations in the other buildings. If the contractor screws up the first 8 you switch contractors.

Or maybe even better, you plan for 32 buildings and do it in 4 phases. Give your salesforce a story about growth and good things in the future. They can work with that.
Most Popular Chinese Electric Car Sales – August 2018
I'm working on a service that texts you when one of your preloaded accounts sees a change in balance - for example, public transit or toll roads. I've got three services supported so far: https://balancebeamapp.com/

I think it's cool because I login to these accounts very infrequently and months later I have no idea what balance I'm carrying, whether I'll be able to board the bus in a city I'm visiting, etc. Also, the websites are usually not great to use especially on mobile.
We do our "serverless" using the self-hosted version of Azure Functions - Azure Webjobs. For most of the events we can scale out to 32 beefy machines. We also don't use graph SQL, preferring simple rest endpoints made in Web Api 2, and some reporting functions. If we need to do more than that...well, we'll have to rethink some things.

It will be a good problem to have.
You can't force 'society' to change its opinion of former criminals via acts of law. The law can only govern a very limited scope of behavior, not peoples opinions or feelings.

I agree our society does not treat ex-convicts well. But changing that requires a cultural shift, not a legal one. We should work on getting people to humanize ex-convicts, not legally trying to make them forget they are ex-convicts.
Disappointing that it's still only 2 memory channels. Would have loved for quad channel to become the norm.
CPU performance also tends to matter for competitive gaming where you will normally turn down graphics in order to match your monitor's frame rate (144 or 240hz).

Overwatch is one game where in order to get 240hz, your RAM speed and timing can be a bigger bottleneck than your graphics card.
In your view, are libel laws an infringement on my right to speak however I want about somebody else?
This is even weirder and outright nonsensical. Observing the fact that a child can use an iPad at age 2-3 does not imply anything about expectations for their speech development.
> At the risk of coming off as some bleeding heart liberal, what's to stop corporations from doing this kind of stuff all the time?

This doesn't strike as being a conservative vs. liberal issue. Most of us can probably agree that it's an unacceptable attack on the foundations of a representative democracy.

And as a social conservative with strong "law and order" leanings, the apparent fraud and identity theft make me very angry. The unwillingness of the federal government to investigate this only adds to my frustration and anger, because it smacks of (at least) passive corruption.
Yeah, and I agree. My comment was more of a tangent that struck a nerve :)
The Betrayal That Sealed Nike's Special Influence Over the University of Oregon
Microsoft launches Spend iOS app that automatically tracks and matches expenses
This is very cool

But there is an even harder super boss level for distributed systems: Byzantine Fault Tolerance

Is FaunaDB Byzantine resistant? I have asked many projects, such as Dat, what happens if there are conflicts, and they haven’t built systems that are BFT yet.
There is a game if you want to try it for yourself. I agree I would be curious to aggregate https://www.federalbudgetchallenge.org/
> “We turned the company upside down,” Cook said. “Email searches, data center records, financial records, shipment records. We really forensically whipped through the company to dig very deep and each time we came back to the same conclusion: This did not happen. There’s no truth to this.”

Wow, ok then..
> Just one nitpick: the anti-democratic nature of the Senate (and the Electoral college, while we're at it) is very much seen as a problem by a lot of people living outside the sparsely populated rural states;

It really depends on how you conceptualize it: there isn't much of an issue if you think of the Senate as a body that represents states as sovereign political entities not population. IIRC, Senators were originally elected by state legislatures, which made that role clearer.

If the Senate is to be reorganized to be proportional to population, some other "anti-democratic" compromise will need to be implemented to prevent small states from becoming neglected backwaters. The current comprise means neither small nor large states can ram through legislation that neglects the other's interests.

But to be honest, the cleaner solution to the problem is more federalism: increase the power of state governments over their own state, and correspondingly decrease the scope of the federal government over areas that aren't truly national concerns. The sacrifice there is that many groups would have to abandon their dreams of national dominance and satisfy themselves with regional influence.
I’d be particularly interested in solutions that do not involve taxation or any involuntary contributions. Can we change the law so that building housing for the homeless is cheaper, for example?
Few states would institute slavery or really anything else remotely so monstrous if they were released from the Union tomorrow.