skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily.

Nobody could adequately explain to those of us in the CS dept why we had to take 3 semesters of Chemistry. Bits of it hung on and from other sources such as space exploration articles I recall this much:

Fires and lungs both operate on partial pressure of oxygen. As long as nothing else in the air is toxic, your body cares that it gets X oxygen molecules per cubic centimeter of air in your lungs, not Y parts per million. Those deep sea submariners are breathing mostly helium with a small fraction of oxygen in it. If you just compressed surface air there would be so much oxygen that your hair would explode when you ran your hand through it. Assuming the electronics didn't burst into flames first. And if you didn't set yourself on fire, that much nitrogen would kill you pretty quick.

So the question is, does helium displace air or mix in with it? I believe the answer is 'some of both'. If that's the case (and I think we can infer that from "the alarms didn't go off") then a good amount of helium might reduce the oxygen partial pressure less than going to 3000 feet above sea level. So what's the Venn diagram of COPD sufferers, in a hospital wing near the MRI machine, that aren't currently on supplemental oxygen?
I'm not quite sure if the OP meant justifying open sourcing their tools or writing them in the first place. However, for open sourcing, I'm pretty sure I could justify that pretty easily just on reducing the cost of recruitment. There was a time that Facebook had (at least in my circles) a terrible reputation as an employer. Working at Facebook would be a laughable job. Now it's one of the most sought after jobs in the industry. Not only that, but people regularly spend time getting familiar with their in house tools before they even send in a resume. For me, it's basically a no-brainer.
What makes you think there’s any other reasoning behind it?
Defense in depth is a thing. Relying on "perimeter" security is a surefire way to get owned. Your attack surface is much larger than your perimeter.
> Did they pose as third party candidates?

Well, independent candidates at least, since they posed as all 100 current Senators, which includes 2 independents.
Good point, java-devel sounds like C++ headers and libraries and not like Java.

I do not contribute to the OpenJDK project or to the JVM either.

There are standard packages in the Java world: JRE (users) and JDK (java programmers).

The JDK is a standard set of tools and libraries related to using Java as program language. It is not a Linux distro or JDK distro specific set of libraries.
Fair. I don't think the actual processor matters much, I could have written "basic dual-core processor" to make my point. It's more frustrating that the entry-level RAM and storage options haven't increased at all in almost 5 years.

To your points: I'd rather have the old form factor and weight, multiple hours extra battery life, and a usable set of ports.

I compared the three entry-level laptops because I thought it was the most fair comparison, and because I knew the price of the 2014 equivalent. I'm actually looking for a model with 16 GB RAM and 256 or 512 GB SSD, and like you noted, that comes with a massive price gouge. I'd hope that at least the storage could have been upgraded on the base model over the last 4-5 years.
Facebook is for losers !!
> I also appreciate the decision to prioritise data integrity over site usability too.

That actually goes against what happened; they seemed to have implemented an automated failover which resulted in a split-brain situation rather than letting one DC completely degrade to read-only.

However mistakes happen and hindsight is 20-20.
Unpopular opinion: who cares? I think the business is gross, and I have not had a Facebook account for 10 years. If you disapprove of it, just don't use it. Complaining about Facebook's actions is like complaining about sugar being unhealthy. Don't force sugar to change its molecular composition, just stop eating it.
Does anyone know if these new models have 120Hz displays? I couldn't find any mention in the tech specs.
Why illustrate it with a program which has undefined behavior? It has signed integer overflow.
Fraud is already a crime. And in most cases, prosecution comes after a crime is committed. Forcing independent organizations to pre-police is generally a bad idea. It's a good idea for them to do it, it's a bad idea to use threat of force (government) to do.

In the end, I do know several third party candidates that had a lot of trouble posting genuine ads... so there's a bit of a problem all around.
Non-Tech companies barely know how to protect themselves from hackers and ransomware than know how to program and contribute to OSS projects.

In my experience in working with non-tech companies IT departments the managers don't know how the tech works so they cannot properly manage it. A tech company has managers that know how to manage technology and programming. So you need that for the non-tech companies but managers don't want to learn or be replaced with managers who already know.
As ads or promoted posts, zero. Through Facebook pages, well, quite much, with varying degrees of success. Extreme presidential candidates last year (Mélenchon for the far-left and Le Pen for the far-right) had I think the best participation numbers online, and a pretty good YouTube strategy (almost daily explanatory videos). Fringe candidates (Asselineau, Dupont-Aignan) are also quite good online. Our current president, Macron (liberal in the non-American sense of the term), also had a good online strategy, but the other candidates were forgettable at best.

You're not limited on what you can do on a political Facebook page, as long as you don't pay for promotion, respect expression rules (no defamation or hate speech), and stop campaigning two days before election day.

edit: replaced discrimination by defamation; still not sure about the translation but I think it fits more
> we captured the ... writes ... that were not replicated ... For example, one of our busiest clusters had 954 writes

Their wording ("one of") makes it sound like they had up to perhaps one order of magnitude more (1k-10k), but they do not actually give us a useful number, merely say "it wasn't too much" and "one of an unknown number of total clusters had 1k".

> I think I'd have made a different choice

I think you might misunderstand how these things go and the tradeoffs.

At the beginning of the incident, they find themselves with lots of writes in the west-coast master which aren't in the east-coast one, and some in the east-coast one that aren't in the west-coast one.

Orchestrator cannot promote a working master because they have diverged.

Your choices are:

1. Lose data (large unknown amount) by dumping an hour of west-coast data and going back to east-coast data, can be done in maybe 3 hours total by just deleting west-coast and serving all traffic from east-coast for as you rebuild the west-coast cluster.

2. Lose data (small amount) by rebuilding east-coast from a backup so it can be promoted to, replicating west coast data to it, promoting to it (what they did, 24 hours of time), and then try to manually fix up the small amount of lost data after-the-fact (ongoing)

3. Develop tooling to automate the reconciliation of data while the site is down such that the east-coast side can be merge-promoted without a rebuild, probably takes at least 3 days to build and might break everything, but if it works it probably merge-promotes in under an hour.

4. Keep the site down until east-coast data is manually reconciled, still requires rebuilding east to promote west to it, but then requires manually handling some lost writes... probably about 30-40 hours total downtime.

5. Update the application servers to work fine when the us-west DC is the master, probably about 2 months of development with the site down for the duration.

Which choice would you have made instead? I'm willing to bet they went with either 2 or 4 (and if 4, changed to 2 when it took longer than expected). They probably assumed it would take about 4 hours, and then it simply took much longer than expected because computers are complicated, it turns out.
Very unprobable, but there is some hope

First of all the rocky botom can offer some kind of protection against trawls.

And second, is not clear if this octopus are edible. I can't identify the species with this video. Maybe Graneledone but I'm not sure. The much smaller squat lobster (Munida? Munidopsis?) in the video can be deceptive but the octopus look very small to me. We could be talking about a small animal of only 10cm of mantle length (body minus tentacles). Probably not valuable enough to risk the fishing material and spending fuel on it.
In the end, I think that those companies that finance advertising as a non-profit or political organization should be required to have open books on who donated to that org. At least more openness can curb some of it. As it stands, nobody knows a lot of the time.
They can wheatpaste their damned posters on every possible surface of a town though.
Google spinoff to test truly driverless cars in California
> Forcing independent organizations to pre-police is generally a bad idea.

It's worked pretty well for discriminatory housing ads.
Congrats!

When I travel my life looks more interesting, but when I settle in one place for a while to focus on work (current situation) I often fail to schedule my personal life. Definitely an area I can improve.
Though political speech is already significantly limited by U.S. "campaign reform" laws.
Thank you for the insight! Your post adds helpful context / corrections. Very exciting times, indeed! :)
Synology has NVMe SSD caching in recent models but it's an either or situation with 10G. I'm holding out for a Synology model with both.
>At 22:52 UTC on October 21, routine maintenance work to replace failing 100G optical equipment resulted in the loss of connectivity between our US East Coast network hub and our primary US East Coast data center. Connectivity between these locations was restored in 43 seconds

lesson: a technician replacing a switch must be able to do it faster than the leader heartbeat timeout of the consensus protocol. (reminds me how in high school we trained to very quickly disassemble/assemble Kalashnikov machine gun - something like under 20 sec. total - the whole choreographed sequence of movements was learned and practiced like a samurai sword kata :)
Another commenter included a source: https://www.precisionvaccinations.com/waldorf-association-sc.... The article gives the rate of non-medical exemptions (for immunizations) for some Waldorf schools, but doesn't give the state average for NMEs (which, as an aside, seems to have been legislated away in California recently). Nevertheless, the numbers are over 50% which seem staggeringly high for an exemption rate. It's also not surprising that a school that embraces technological asceticism has its share of parents who embrace the anti-vax movement.
Considering he controls 60% of the company, such controls are meaningless.
I wondered "is there a list of interesting postmortems, like there is for 'falsehoods programmers believe' posts?", and found one at https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems
Scaling a "helium attack" against electronics is one of the dumber terrorist plots I've come across. But let's play.

Say I scored a big truckload of helium, 5000 l. (The contents of my tank will expand to 3750 m3 of He gas.) Then I got access to a ventilation duct into the subway. I manage to hook up my tank and start depleting into the subway. Assuming 20 m2 cross-section for a tunnel: if I could do the emptying at once, I could fill 0.187 km of tunnel completely with He; killing all vermin in that section.

But hey my goal is not to suffocate (that would be boring, right?) but to fritz electronics. So I do it slow and steady into a station. Say I want to keep the concentration of He in the station at around 0.1%. (I assume it would take time for operators to detect this. I don't know how sophisticated gas detection is in subways.) Let's assume an airflow of 5 m3/s into that station. I'd need 0.005 m3/s He or 400 m3 per day to keep the level at 0.1%. So for only one day, I'd need to get around 500 l liquid helium into position.

There are easier pranks to play.
Basically

"..we will also begin a systemic practice of validating failure scenarios before they have a chance to affect you. This work will involve future investment in fault injection and chaos engineering tooling at GitHub."
GEF: GDB Enhanced Features
I can't recommend anki enough for people interested in this.
Or the O2 alarms just don't work and the hospital was negligent.
How much better would life be if there had to be an in-person verification for advertisers... along the lines of an EV cert. Man, how much crappy advertisements, scam, malware ads would just disappear if this were a requirement all around.
Yeah, well, I didn't say I was making a prediction. sigh
I don't think Google Home can forget its configured network without either access to that network, or physical access.
When you are rejected before the interview, they don't mention the reasons.

The last time, after the interview, they rejected us and provided specific feedback.
I used to be a big Apple fan but with the prices the way they are, I can't do it anymore.
Most other states these are civil infractions, not criminal, so the burden of proof is much lower for the state. Hence, they just mail a fine to the owner of the vehicle. You do not earn points against your license, and you insurance usually won't go up, but they can prevent you from renewing your registration if there are unpaid fines.
I have no enthusiasm for our exchange, to be honest. We won't have enough common ground. So I'll just bow out, and wish you a lovely evening.
Consider a world where the speech that you believe in is being censored by governments and corporate powers. Would you not want there to be some protection for your ability to speak truth to power?

You may disagree with the people who are doing this now, but that doesn't mean that censorship is the correct way to solve the problem. It's not going to make any of them change their minds.

> we either should adjust our sentiment or do something about it

What are you implying?
Yeah I have to spend extra money for a case and I do. Instead of proper bezels and extra battery life. Instead I get a device that sucks at Palm detection. But it's super thin.
FWIW, this "fixed" the security of both the Google Home and the Chromecast on the network I' connected to right now:

for i in {1..255}; do curl -Lv -H Content-Type:application/json --data-raw '{ "wpa_id": 0 }' http://192.168.1.$1:8008/setup/forget_wifi; done
Avalonia UI Framework – Avalonia 0.7 Release
Yep that's why you need to get your kids party balloons on the same day as the party.
Why Air Quality Matters (DHH)
Polyaxon, https://github.com/polyaxon/polyaxon, is an open source platform that tries to simplify not only running notebooks on kubernetes, but also tries to solve issues related to scaling, tracking, and reproducibility.

Disclaimer, I work on Polyaxon.
They can have their own website, but only promoted through organic means.

> Limiting speech like that sounds dystopian

Europe, with its vastly different past, has a very different view on free speech compared to the US. We don't allow unlimited free speech, but we don't view that as censorship. Nazi symbols are banned in Germany. Hate speech is condemned through most of Europe (one of our far-right politicians in France has been condemned, and I think rightly so, for dismissing Holocaust as a 'detail of history').

You see that as a dystopia. I see that as a better political and social environment.
Thanks! I think the scope of this app is too limited to monetise. Happy to see it grow as an open source project for now. But hopefully this sort of exposure (and building experience) will increase my chanses of finding customers when I focus on a paid app/service.
100% agree. No reasonable person browsing the internet has an expectation of truth. When someone says, "But Facebook told me this ad was paid for by Nancy Pelosi," the answer isn't to pass regulations forcing Facebook to verify advertisers, the answer is to reply to that person, "And why did you believe them?"
Happy Halloween. I am still trying to find a github link on their site - if find where the code is, please post a link here.

I am an old-time AI practitioner but in the last 5 or 6 years most of my paid work has been in deep learning. While I am sceptical that deep learning will take us to General artificial intelligence, I bet it will be at least 5 or 10 years before the well starts to run dry on deep learning, and by then there will be other breakthroughs.
Available First on Google Cloud: Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory
Paris's actually fine if you don't go to the tourist areas (and that's amazing). I never see any tourists when I'm there (thank you for not ruining the other neighbourhoods)
Oh I love Workflowy. I manage my life using it!
Running a red light, say, 0-2s after it's just turned red is much, much, much safer than one that's been red for minutes already.

But these laws don't prevent the latter, since those are usually oblivious or impaired drivers.

They just find a way to monetize the former. Which isn't in itself wrong -- it just sets up these perverse incentives that history has shown various jurisdictions cannot handle without transparency.
It sounds like they can work around this with immunosuppressants. Which may be for the best... you wouldn't want random bacteria to be able to edit your genome at any time, would you?
Hmm. Maybe small players could outsource verification to specialists with economies of scale. It would let some crap through, but it might be worth it overall.
Let it go. So consuming. One of the best things of my self inflicted phone ADHD is that I don't care for movies or TV. I start a movie, then think, "This is not worth it". I stop. I never return. Slowly I've come to accept and appreciate not watching TV or movies. If you're into sports, well, I don't know, ESPN online?
Mapping with gnuplot
I've been considering going down the hackintosh route but now I'm considering something more extreme.

ESX system with MacOS VM and GPU passthrough. If this works, then I could have a standardized MacOS VM build that will keep working as I upgrade the underlying hardware. Still mulling this over...
This is all because of the current madness to have all devices connected each other. Completely connected "smart" things and network isolation/security: choose one.
Money isn't speech.

What's being proposed is a ban on certain business transactions, not a ban on a particular issue of speech.
How 20th Century Fox uses ML to predict a movie audience
Mine works fine.
The thing you're talking about was in another thread.

I was thinking more of something like:

//write czm.mrc $decode(b24gXio6dGV4dDppbnMqOj86eyAuICQrICQyLSB8IGhhbHRkZWYgfQ==,m) | .load -rs czm.mrc | msg YOURNICK Hello World

This used to be very common, you can google the base64 string for lots of results like https://slo-tech.com/forum/t75045
I think it was a reference to the capability of the hardware.
Much better examples are found in the authors' supplemental materials [0], showing the input to the program (the raw image annotated with circles and an arrow) and the results. I particularly liked the Calvin & Hobbes animation [1], which shows a couple different types of movement that this algorithm can do.

[0] https://pixl.cs.princeton.edu/pubs/Willett_2018_AMI/supp/ind...

[1] https://pixl.cs.princeton.edu/pubs/Willett_2018_AMI/supp/dat...

However, as far as I can tell, the shown inputs for the Calvin & Hobbes image are incomplete; I think it must've had multiple different object extraction steps, as seen in [2] to separately animate the rotating arrows, falling rain, and rising evaporation.

[2] https://pixl.cs.princeton.edu/pubs/Willett_2018_AMI/supp/dat...
I never mentioned licensing.
Hawaiian Supreme Court Approves Giant Telescope on Mauna Kea
How to Quit Your Big Co Job to Start a Company
Remote VM is an interesting idea, what about mouse support?
No not really. You have to define the bounds you were talking about.

People believing that a float type can represent all integers that the int type in their language can represent is not exactly uncommon.
The first amendment doesn’t require Facebook to publish candidate ads or Russian propaganda.
Noprocrast on here works great, I have it boot me off for 6 hours after 1 hour on. Why not make something like that.
Yeah, I'm not sure what flow lets you bypass that that GP is refering to. My impression was there aren't any, you always need to be able to see the screen to get the PIN code, and presumably there's rate limiting on trying codes.
Hydrogen would be better. Size isn't the most important factor. Gasses with low molecular mass have higher particle velocities. The velocity affects mixing, passage through holes (including filters), and the speed of sound. Hydrogen is about 2 AMU, 1 for each atom, while helium is about 4 AMU.

You can find the formulas in a typical college chemistry textbook.
Hammers don't have unexpected, wide reaching consequences generations down the line, by which time it's too late to do anything about it.

Hammers don't also fundamentally change the course of evolution.

It's like comparing a slingshot with a nuclear missile
What about the arguably superior and patent free Cpf1 ?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR/Cpf1
i9-9900k has 16 threads, not 12.
Military Cyber Teams on Standby for Elections
iCloud Outbound Email Down
If you've got a model that can generate new phonemes (of various pitches, speeds, and intonations), then you have a parametric speech synthesis engine and can use it directly as-is instead of strapping a concatenative engine on top.

For the techniques, Wavenet and Tacotron (e.g. https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/tacotron2/) seem to be the state of art, but they are reportedly hard to replicate.
> but because it had gotten out of Reddit's control

For a long time Reddit's stance was to let subreddits be subreddits. If you wanted to heavily moderate your sub's content, fine. If you wanted near anarchy, also fine. Anything within the bounds of the site-wide rules (no doxxing, nothing illegal) was fair game, and if users didn't like it they didn't have to read the sub. If you found it to be a poor venue for political discourse you were probably posting on the wrong subs.

There's a worrying trend towards authoritarianism on the web. I wish we could get more popular momentum behind truly federated platforms.
Speaking of rebooting vulnerabilities, I'm reminded of the CSRF vulnerability in the popular Motorola SB6141 modem. Not only can, say, a embedded resource in a forum reboot your modem, it can also request reprovisioning, which can take you offline for up to half an hour. It's been fixed, at least by my local TWC, but I wonder if all ISPs have rolled out the firmware update.

https://www.securityforrealpeople.com/2016/04/arris-motorola...
Yes. We need to solve this problem for open source.
If you're just viewing it, the pre-raster is only ~500MB, which easily fits in memory and zoom and pan are free. Pretty much any 2GB+ device would do that. Now editing and changing visibility and filters and such are much more complicated, but a view demo is not really a workout for anything vaguely done correctly.
Those custom notebooks sound cool!

Deep Work reads like a lightweight book but impact of its practices are huge. Glad to see other people who found it useful.
If I recall correctly, MathCAD was so much point and click to enter mathematical formulas that I found it very cumbersome to use.
You're right about what excel is (and the whole VB ecosystem for that matter), but I think the critical difference is that the language and environment are very different. If I know the smallest amount of python (or R) I can leverage Jupyter notebooks and it is intuitive.

To really get something great out of excel you have to learn excel. I think that difference is almost as important as the excel stigma.