skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But spanner uses 2pc for cross partition transactions and paxos within a partition. There's no global coordinator service there.

Dont get me wrong. I think Calvin/FaunaDb is great as an alternative to Spanner for multi region Dbs. But strict serializability is not a goal for all systems and certainly not for high performance distributed systems that can provide their own concurrency models. Not just HopsFs, but any system layered on top.
In my experience less than 1/10 of the wild horses can reliably be sold for this kind of use. In the southwest at least many of the wild horses are simply undesirable for any realistic use case more complicated than the glue factory.
Pre-Soviet Russian architecture served tens of thousands of highly privileged people in metro areas and estates. Meanwhile everyone else lived in izbas with no electricity, running water or sanitation, or worse.

The khruschyovkas and neobrutalist apartment blocks, for all their faults, lifted tens of millions of people out of medieval living conditions. They made extensive use of mass production and prefab.
In my freetime I have been working on learning React, and more generally modern javascript. After dragging my feet for so long because of bias, I took the plunge a few weeks ago and I love it! It's very cool, in my opinion, because the web ecosystem really has grown a lot as an app platform, and honestly I like it. The "old" web and an app web can exist side by side, I see now.

At work, still just connecting API to API, test to test, pipe to pipe. I feel like a plumber, but I guess that's "backend".
It's like opening a kitchen drawer to get a fork and seeing that someone in the house is replacing the forks with cups. And they can't seem to understand why they're just slowly making this drawer completely redundant.
Honestly I'm not so sure. People apparently use Grammarly.
There seems to be a belief (in the US) that the United States stopped creating or commissioning propaganda at some point in the past. Most people might say around the end of WWII. It's part of a greater American exceptionalist belief system.

I am curious to know when people in this thread believe that American propaganda stopped. For me there are so many obvious examples, from misleading explanations on the news for military actions to giant blockbuster films and TV shows.
Doesn’t mean they can access the equity.

But we wouldn’t want them to have to pay interest now would we? They should be able to pocket that huge financial win for themselves.
How does this compare to schoolteachers?
"Them" refers to the "unwashed masses", not the emigrants from Southern Italy. I'm convinced that in Southern Italy everyone is aware of Turin and Milan, but there are places in Germany where everyone thinks all Italy is like Carlo Levi's Gagliano. Thet's because their Italians were all from Gagliano and similar places.
> but getting the CO to go to C is the highest temperature reaction known.

Even higher than H2 + O ? (I'm sure it's not higher than H + H, but that one probably doesn't count.)

And won't atomic carbon react with other carbon? So you don't actually need to supply as much energy as it may appear.
HTML version: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8484
This was for my first job out of college. I just chalked it up to only having three internships and no real work experience. For jobs I found especially interesting I would adjust resume headings and the contents of my cover letter. The financial analyst market in LA is quite saturated, evidently, and people would rather hire MBAs with no experience than undergrads. The other problem was that many firms' HR departments do not understand the difference between "financial analyst" and "accountant," which is significant.

Most of the interviews came from younger tech firms, which were more lenient (and also willing to hire less experienced individuals due to budget constraints).
If the goal was to make the fact that the man who said those words is not important while the words are, why not just not mention Solomon or Ecclesiastes in the first place.
The average basically is the median - IQ is pretty well normally distributed.
Answered in my other comment.
Note: many of these families would HAPPILY buy and maintain the land themselves but the government has decided that holding the land in "trust" and allowing a tragedy of the commons to destroy the landscape is a better idea.
I agree with low safety net, but an average income is taxed about as heavily as the UK or Germany.
Car insurance is sold in a 6-month or 12-month policy term, with a "lifetime limit" during that term. You can buy a new policy at the end of the term, but the insurance company isn't obliged to sell it to you.
Probably far more than teachers? I don't remember being stopped by one of my teachers very often in the middle of the night with nobody around watching.
What is the meaning of "circulation" in the section Business Credibility?
It's not deliberate, but that's just how the incentives align. You have expensive treatments with outcomes not much better than control/placebo[1], but doctors and hospital administrators prefer to have nicer houses and drive better cars, so this is what you get. It's not their problem if patients pay tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars more, based on the hope of being in the small percentage of those who get good outcomes.

Medical services are an inelastic good. If someone has a problem that's a serious threat to life or happiness, they will spend every penny they have and some they don't on the slightest chance to avoid it. Competition, for various reasons[2], doesn't work well.

[1] In some cases where the intervention has slight mean/median benefit. In other cases, the outcomes are no better than control/placebo, even on average, but studies funded by drug companies or medical suppliers suggest that the intervention outcomes are better than controls, due to scientific mistakes or even intentional fraud (starting with bad experimental design, then cherry-picking data and cherry-picking studies).

[2] Comparison shopping works well for choosing suppliers of standardized drugs and services, in non-emergencies, but even that's usually torpedoed by what your insurance will cover; If you have the luxury, you can compare various brands of drugs that have generic versions. You can comparison shop for prices for blood draws and scans (CT/MRI). Beyond simple things like that, the treatments are not identical so comparing costs is difficult. Also, patents. Nobody will raise the price of a drug 100% in a day, but companies build in fatter and fatter margins because they have a patent monopoly, and everyone else is doing it to. There is no price control through competition except where there are genuine equivalent goods. Since healthcare is largely price-inelastic, without strong competition on the supply side, you get runaway costs. This shouldn't be a surprise.
Meanwhile, in Turkey...
https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/2018/07/06/cancer-treatmen...
Drunken ‘DREAMER’ Killed 73-Year-Old Man on Bicycle in Arizona
I tried it on Mac with Wine

Works:

- Drag and drop from Finder

- Icon in Dock

- Audio device selection from within preferences

Visualization don't work sadly.
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
You /might/ be able to find Spotiamb. It was a Winamp like Spotify client written by a Spotify developer when they used to support libspotify. Obviously Spotify have killed all libspotify development now and I don't know if Spotiamb even works now.

There is librespot [1] if you want to try and do something yourself though, it's a reverse engineered client for Spotify's protocol which Spotify so far doesn't seem to care to kill off.

[1] - https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot
Scientists Prove a Quantum Computing Advantage Over Classical
> This kind of statistical chicanery leads people to opt for treatment, which is usually very bad for you.

In the 70ties survival rates for cancer was 25% today it's 50%. You think that's because we discover it sooner and tweak statistics.

Sure statistics can be made misleading, but overall stats comparing survivor rates across decades can be expected to correct for stages and time of discovery.
In NM that's pretty good. I'm willing to bet if he was given ownership of some of that land he could improve it to the point it wasn't insane to do.
Not only is it not far off, the practical personal tax rate is actually higher in the US than in several European countries. It's not as simple as "the US has lower taxes, and therefore fewer public benefits".
For major medical plans, sure. Short term plans (which are still unregulated and should not be allowed to use the term "health insurance") generally have MLRs in the neighborhood of 50%.

Also keep in mind, prior to ACA buying a major medical plan without through a large group required one to have no preexisting conditions. If you had one you were either denied or got an exception written into your policy that said they didn't have to cover anything related to that thing. That's one of the other major things that ACA did away with, and another reason premiums are higher.
But if everyone installs the patch, the only way they'd get green lights faster was if their 3rd party system was smarter... Which is a net win. (Unless some people can't afford the 3rd party patch.)
It’s only a matter of time until terrorists use AI as a weapon
Is that really a killer feature though? Seems more like a series of conversations with those important people in your life vs. Some sort of optimization algorithm.

And rather than have competition destroy your idea, take it as one data point towards validation.
Did they really call their markup language lame ul?

Also, no one is going to Twilio for their per minute or per SMS pricing.
United Healthcare's CEO received $17.4 million in compensation last year. I don't know anyone on the GS pay scale making that. That excessive compensation could've been directed towards healthcare delivery instead of padding someone's pockets.

Private insurance is beholden to shareholders, universal healthcare is beholden to citizen stakeholders. It's plainly obvious that the private insurance market in the US has failed us. Politics aside, from an economic efficiency perspective, it would be illogical for us to continue to operate the system as it currently exists.

EDIT: This isn't an emotional appeal, it's an economic appeal to cut the fat of unnecessary, expensive bureaucrats who have no accountability except to their shareholders, and no involvement in the delivery of care. Private insurance interests are in the collection of their piece of total revenue, not care delivered.

> Either way, the public is on the hook if the system is more generous.

The public ends up on the hook regardless, whether that's through higher premiums, government subsidies, or diminished quality of life and lower life expectancy. Socialized losses, privatized gains.
fasces: (in ancient Rome) a bundle of rods with a projecting ax blade, carried by a lictor as a symbol of a magistrate's power. In the 20th century used as an emblem of authority in Fascist Italy.
There is no global coordinator "service" in FaunaDB either. The "coordinator" is a stateless function on available on every node. The log is a stateful, logical function implemented in Raft, so no different than a Paxos ring in terms of failure modes and high availability.

Think of it as a way to scale a single Spanner tablet to support the entire dataset and eliminate the 2-phase commit, as well as the associated write skew or clock ambiguity window.
That sounds like the sort of hacky solution I would be ashamed to ship, but would do if the project is systemically badly managed to the point where you can't expect the sources of problems to be fixed.
No idea what Audacious is doing for you (never used it), but I find that Quod Libet is somewhat in the WinAMP tradition (IIRC) in that it's pretty simple: It has a "library", "queue" and you can basically configure it down to a search field, the list of matches (from your library) and a queue.

(Graphically, QL is probably the most boring music player ever, and that's not quite what WinAMP gained popularity for, but functionality-wise I think they're quite close.)
Then why would anyone use tensorflow with this loss function in practice. In my school's ML class, we used this technique too (in addition to closed form solution). Is there any practical reason to use an optimizer to solve a linear problem?
He is known as an unprincipled opportunist, he will fit right in at Facebook.
It all depends on what you're doing with it. For gaming alone, current games are barely using 6 threads, so a 2700X is complete overkill with 16 threads. It's always a bit revealing that people leap to recommending AMD's flagship processor as some sort of a value king for gaming. You really should save $100 and go with the 2600X instead, there's virtually no difference in gaming benchmarks.

The 9600K, 9700K or 2600X are really what gamers should be looking at. The only thing that's going to make use of a 2700X or a 9900K right now is productivity tasks (video encoding, 3D modelling, etc).

Intel still has a lead in high-refresh gaming (which is a coded way of saying they have better gaming performance that is currently bottlenecked by GPU performance), so if you're primarily a gamer it's still worth leaning to the 9600K/9700K. And the 9900K, while expensive, combines that gaming performance with a ~20-25% lead in productivity tasks. Expensive, but hands-down the fastest thing on the market for at least a year.

Threadripper is great for productivity stuff, but since it's NUMA it really doesn't perform any different than a 2700X for gaming. Also, the 2990WX has an even weirder configuration where half the dies don't have access to RAM, so it's hard to recommend except as a specialty product. 2950X is the generalist recommendation there.

Next year the Zen2 upgrade will hopefully bring AMD up to parity with Intel in gaming, and probably beat them in productivity. But it's hard to recommend planning on buying two different processors to "save money", so if that's your cup of tea, just wait until next year.

So, the recommendations look like:

60 Hz gaming => buy a 2600X

high-refresh gaming => buy a 9700K

60 Hz gaming+productivity or productivity only => buy a 2700X

high refresh gaming and productivity => 9900K

really heavy productivity stuff => 1950X/2950X/wait for 3800X/3950X next year
I do not and I never stated I do.
What I am saying is that I already had many reasons to stop
trusting them and now they have another dubious article out there. I don't have the time nor the patience to investigate each of their articles and it's not like they are the only source of news out there.
I've had enough with them already and that's the whole point of my comment.
Shouldn't part of the journalistic process include making sure one guy isn't going off the rails and making stuff up? I guess that could be part that's broken.
Ask HN: How do you find meaning in tech when it net destroys means of living?
I'm having a lack of sense of meaningful purpose and motivation to continue doing anything in tech because it seems like a net destroyer, taker of jobs and concentrator of wealth for the very few, and that participating in it would be complicit in the destruction of countless lives. And not thinking about it or rationalizing it away doesn't make the externalities disappear. No mythological trickle down or freed up labor for other "new" job lies can gloss over the chaos and damage caused by software designed to replace people.
Apple Self-Driving Car Involved in Minor Collision on October 15
I don't think the process of repentence+forgiveness can or should include things returning to a state as if nothing had happened. Scars will always remain and they are an important part of the human experience and help society remember and improve.
How is this acceptable content for Hacker News? CNN world edition politicized stories aren't what Hacker News should be about. We have enough divison, polarization, and outrage, let's keep HN true to it's roots.
Corporations do do it all the time. It's called the PR industry.

It used to mean placing positive stories in the trad media. Now it means placing positive stories in the trad media, and also using shills and bots to influence social media.

Nation states also do it. Is this story true, or is it manufactured?

https://medium.com/dfrlab/trolltracker-twitter-troll-farm-ar...

Is the Bloomberg chip story true, or is it manufactured - maybe to demonstrate that the US can easily put market pressure on selected Chinese businesses?

(I don't actually know the answer to either of those questions. Worldwide, only a handful of people do.)

Cognitive violence and zero-trust media have become endemic. This is a problem for any democracy, because you can't have genuine democratic accountability system when mass media of all kinds are weaponised for political ends.
Flash hailstorm kills 400 kangaroos and 150 goats in New South Wales, Australia
> A lot of (possibly most of?) the money spent treating cancer is spent in cases that have very little chance for long term success.

Citation needed.

But really, in this case shouldn't we ask if the 42% who loose their life savings had an easily curable cancer or not?

It's the rich that spend most money, and they don't manager to spend everything.
DHS Seized Aftermarket Apple Laptop Batteries from Independent Repair Expert
Nothing but the participation of citizens. Go read https://www.reddit.com/r/KochWatch and https://www.reddit.com/r/Mercerinfo/

Go research how similar write-ins have been done for decades for broadcast decency TV standards.
More context to the story:

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

The story is by Steward Brand[1], who, besides bringing the Whole Earth Catalog into existence, help Douglas Engelbart present the Mother Of All Demos[2] - the demo that gave us the mouse, hypertext, and many other things that Xerox PARC (and then MacOS and Windows) emulated.

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

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
Unfortunately this won't help while we continue to trust JS sent to us by the server.

Their threat model is "server is compromised by an attacker, who then vacuums up all the cleartext passwords". Assuming that under normal operations there's some fancy UI that takes the password and handles the PAKE stuff (which it will have to be, until browsers support it), there's nothing stopping that attacker from simply adding malicious code that fire off your cleartext password.

If you want user authentication security, use client side TLS certs. 1) the UI is built into all major browsers, and can't be faked, and 2) the server doesn't require the CA's private key, only the server generating new certs needs it. In the above threat model, the worst that can happen if an attacker compromises the server is he can MITM the traffic at the time... but the attacker will never capture user credentials that can be used in the future, or be used to decrypt past communications.
> b) they aren't designed

It does seem like a reasonable statement, but when you take a bit of time to think about it, billions of people disagree with it. A sobering thought.

> so there's no expectation that they should make sense under the hood

What doesn't make sense is that at first you deny a religious explanation, then without skipping a beat you ascribe (what can ironically be described as divine) mysteriousness and inscrutability to a body organ.

This not only doesn't pass the Occam's razor test, but also assumes a defeatist position that "we might never know for sure".

EDIT: I've taken uncharitable tone with this comment, and it may come across as too personal, which wasn't my intention.
It's wonderful that some are rounded up and sold to people who want them, and it was even better back when there was more demand for cheap horses so that more were sold. The misguided meddlers who ended horse slaughter in USA (against the recommendation of every single association of veterinarians) destroyed the market for cheap horses, so it's no surprise that those numbers are lower. There's no guarantee that any particular mustang will make a good riding horse, so fewer people are willing to deal with that risk. The slaughter ban was bad for lots of domesticated horses about 8-10 years ago (one could drive around and see fields full of starving and neglected horses), but that level of owner is largely without horses at this point. If it's too big a risk to keep a few domesticated horses around, it's certainly too big a risk to buy mustangs.

That's only part of this particular issue, however. Even if five times the current numbers were sold to willing owners, feral horses would still be destroying the environment. They aren't native and they are uniquely suited to disrupting the life cycle of native plants. The American hunter is probably not ready to control this population in the way that e.g. deer and elk populations are controlled. The best solution is probably sterilization, but even that would be very difficult at this scale. That is especially the case given the level of interference that could be expected from the Humane Society, ASPCA, etc.
This seems just for show. In all likelihood, nothing will change and 99% of phone sales will continue with the current setup. It's unlikely that someone will invest to build a competing suite to gmail+youtube+maps.
Spotify has a playback SDK[0]. It's meant for web use, but it could probably be used to create a custom native player. You'd just need to have a webview somewhere.

[0]: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-playback-sdk...
Apologies, I quickly skimmed the blog but in the summary did not see clear answers for: When is the transaction acked? What is the reader-writer consistency? If the transaction is acknowledged only after speculative work is validated after ordering, what is the value add for doing the speculative work? Would you achieve similar benefits from just batching commits?
Would love to read this comment but it's possible this is one of those Russian troll comments.

It's probably coming straight out of the Kremlin. We've all seen how they get someone elected and polarize nations.

Love the idea of a comment, but I care more about not enabling evil people from getting control.
My friend balao doing great moves
I got an X1 Yoga (2017 model) last year, and if I can't use bluetooth headphones while on wifi under Linux. Soon as audio starts playing, the wifi will cut out. Problem doesn't occur under Windows. (This is with the latest Fedora, haven't tried other distros yet).

The problem goes away if I switch the wifi to a 5GHZ band, however that isn't an option except at home.
Yes, with citizens united if you work for a company you already get 2 voices. If people are so swayed with what the consume on the internet we are already doomed.
I can't tell whether this is a testament to the incompetence of public IT operations or an indictment of public records keeping practice. Maybe both?