skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The catch is marketing. Most people don't make decisions based on what is universally better for them, they make decisions based on the very limited information they have and rely heavily on the people they know as well. All of this means that usually the companies/products/services that are the most well known will take the biggest share of the market, pretty much regardless of anything else (unless their offering completely sucks, but then they'd probably wouldn't be able to spend as much on marketing). So it's not about price and it's not about features or quality.

Very hard to compete with Amazon.
If all you need to do is serialize data structures, we solved that problem 30 years ago—including all the schema-validation and querying stuff—with ASN.1 (and then re-solved it with Protobufs and Thrift, and solved it again in half-assed manners with JSON, YAML, etc.)

XML is a markup format, a regularization/minimization of the syntax of SGML. It's good at being a markup format—the paired named open+close tags allow for corrupted-stream repair in a way that e.g. Markdown just doesn't. XML is great in, say, DocBook.

But XML gets used for pretty much everything except actual markup. And for everything else, it's not solving those problems well.
I've never understood the criticism that Condorcet is hard to understand. If one candidate would beat all others head-to-head, that candidate wins. That's it.

The weirdness comes in the strange tiebreaker methods if there's a "loop", but when you have a lot of voters, loops are rare.

(Condorcet proponents would probably get more mileage if they had a better conceptual split between methods that identify the Smith Set, and methods that seek to award single winners of multi-member Smith Sets - those "tiebreakers" are where all the problems happen, and none of those flaws are relevant in elections where there is a Condorcet Winner.)
Is there any public, comprehensive list of SoftBank-funded startups available?
Actually I was thinking of hot rolled. Turns out the regional differences are huge:

Hot rolled in US is 928$ per metric ton

Hot rolled in EU is 620$ per metric ton

China is in the mid 500s.

Unclear to me if the new US tariffs are to blame, gap is larger than the 25% I expected.

Source: http://steelbenchmarker.com/files/history.pdf
Hopefully the manager of the team is also subject to performance reviews. Generally the manager of the team is responsible for the performance of the team, meaning the manager fails if the team fails or has significant problems.

This is highly dependent on company environment however and obviously can come with it's own set of motivations and problems.
preferring the cheap stuff is not the same as not being able to distinguish between cheap and expensive stuff. These tasters can tell the difference, and prefer cheap
Then why do they continue to use it at all? It's like measuring your electric car in the number of pistons it has. We all agree process node numbers are meaningless now so why do we keep using it?

How about a number that actually relates to the performance and can be measured?
I tried to come up with a smart and polite comment but I can't. The target audience for memsql aren't developers or engineers. It's the management that has no idea about IT. I don't like closed-source solutions. I don't want to book a demo. I want to be able to read the source. I want to install it, use it, benchmark it, be sure that the results are 100% accurate. Sadly, I see this post as marketing ploy and I can't find any nice words for this product.
A re-evaluation of voting systems with ideas from Bruster's Millions would be nice too.

* None of the Above (NotA) / No Confidence **Note
* Requiring a fully ranked ballot (at least until after NotA)

If NotA then all of the candidates who've run for the current vacancy in "this election cycle" are banned, and a special election is held from scratch. About 1 month to get signatures/on the ballot and then directly to a special election no greater than 3 months from the date of the failed election.

I still prefer weakest looser elimination ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method ) and feel that the above tweaks would greatly improve many of corner cases.

The Wikipedia articles are sufficient to avoid watching the film.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088850/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_Millions_(1985_fi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/None_of_the_above
> As someone who isn't represented by either party of a two party system

Nobody is represented by either party of a two party system. They each represent opposite sides of a fractious and inelegant border between the emergent political and cultural forces of a society. Whether by design or by accident they're descriptive rather than proscriptive.

Unless you are the mythical true-independent, whose views perfectly split that fractious divide, it is certain that one party is more aligned with you than the other. (To be blunt, in this grotesque age of narcissism and brutish xenophobia, all human beings with decency are categorically incompatible with one party.)

If that's true, and it almost certainly is true, everything aligns for you to vote with the more-compatible party. Do that to shape the society given the state of its political machinery, and also work to whatever extent you can to change that machinery. Opting out of the first because of some purity test of perfect representation is cutting off your nose to spite your face and the faces of everyone you live with.
CIA should have sought out the information theorists at NSA for advice.
TabNine will still work on projects of 15MB or more, it will index the 15MB of files that are most relevant to the files you are editing (determined by distance in the directory tree).

The limit exists because otherwise latency or RAM usage might be too high.
That makes sense, but I think "feature frozen" is the worst possible term to use here. Only the backwards compatibility gets frozen, not the set of features.

And "specific to Rust 2018" is also an awkward term. From context I think that means the set of features that are part of Rust 2018 and also existed on its release day? But that meaning is not obvious.

Is there any other term that means "the Rust 2018 set of features, as it was on release day"? It seems like something that really should have a clear name.
Oh, yeah, I could see that. Most of my experience was with a company where my team and a dedicated technical recruiter did all the filtering, and where the engineers could override the recruiter decisions (in either direction).
Most lead investors at the series A level look to take a board seat, and spend a lot more time per-company than at the seed round.

There's a finite amount of time in an investor's day, and somewhere around 20% ownership of a company is, for whatever reason, considered the magic number where it's worth it to spend that much time with them (through assistance, board meetings, etc).
Not necessarily...

"What will ya have?"
"Yeah give me a half pound of the turkey that's on special."

Perfectly appropriate conversation. It's a transactional conversation. Pleasantry are nice but the absence of them doesn't mean one is being rude.
Speaking from experience, OpenStack was no longer hot by 2015. :)
> Why is it called TabNine?

> When using the Sublime Text client for TabNine, the keyboard shortcut to select the ninth suggestion is Tab+9.

Before reading that I thought it was loosely named after the old T9 (Text on 9 keys) predictve system for mobile phones with numeric keypads only.

That being said, while I'm still passively learning to code and may not need a full license yet, it's a well-priced gift idea for friends who are full-time developers.
> Experts do something that seems obviously wrong/fixable

This is always cause for serious re-examination. If I were a betting man I'd assign probabilities something like

15% CIA is incompetent
85% Theres no reason to care if these agents are exposed/identified as their work does not require non-identification by state level actors.
Perhaps not!

There's a famous blogpost that claims that rooftop solar panels are about ten times more deadly than nuclear power stations, because people might fall off the roof when installing them: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all...
After recently binge-watching The Good Place, this comment rattled me :)
Often the generalized parsing/lexing/codegen/etc. algorithm that exists in service of -O1 through -O3 can be turned "down to a trivial level" with -O0, but not "off"—as that would require an entirely separate code-path.
I stand corrected. You're almost right, I should have said 4 billion, I remembered the number as 4-something. You can see at 1:16 in, the ARC pilot says 3,000? M$. Without going through the whole video again, I'm almost certain someone during the discussion mentioned 4 billion. You're right thought, a proof of concept can be done for an order of magnitude less.
it's almost impossible to prove that something is inherent to a gender vs culturally embedded (education, norms, myths etc.)
It's dysfunctional all the way down.

The CIO being soled to isn't interested in "solving the problem" of their organization either. They have their own metrics, and so on goes the rabbit hole...
Do rents write anything?
Trying to fix politics by modifying the voting system is like trying to fix dysfunctional corporate culture by implementing some new task tracking system. It actually might have some small benefits, but it ignores tackling the real problem.
Yeah, I've thought similarly. I actually consider multi-candidate Smith Sets a feature though, not a bug. Because I believe it means the electorate is honestly confused and not ready to make a decision yet.

So one option is to hold a runoff between the candidates in the Smith Set.

Another is crazier, but I haven't found a flaw yet. Basically introduce range/score voting on the ballot, but only use the scores if there is a multi-member Smith Set. That way you guarantee Condorcet compliance. And since the voters don't know if the ranges/scores will be used (and they probably won't), they don't have incentive to strategically score a less-desired candidate ahead of a more-desired candidate.
They are criticizing through collective action. That is a news worthy thing.
Just for giggles, lets say that a large company doesn't need an HR person or department.

What are the alternatives? Is this something we could build an automated system around? Could the functions be moved to managers (hiring, firing, pay, etc.)? It seems like moving this way would be somewhat like implementing the officer/NCO relationship in the US military.

Are there benefits for non-specialized decision making as it applies to employees?

> pay quanta.

What's that?
I've recently built a TR-based DL/ML workstation and bought 128GB ECC 2,667MHz UDIMMs for ~$1600, roughly the same price as 2990WX, but would have vastly preferred to get 256GB instead. Unfortunately, only Samsung is now sampling 32GB ECC DDR4 UDIMMs - I haven't seen them anywhere yet, and I expect the price is going to be insanely high :-(
Probably, but we shouldn't expect to actually solve this entirely...if so, great, but realistically, anything better than the present is...better.
I don't believe you can have a mixed Scylla/Cassandra cluster. In our case we cloned our drives and started a whole new cluster with Scylla. When we were happy with Scylla and done the appropriate testing, we shutdown the Cassandra cluster.
They became the industry leader. A decade later, they shut digital off
Whether you think that they should be taken seriously or not is irrelevant; they are citizens with a right to vote so their concerns are valid. Not taking people seriously and not listening to them over uncontrolled immigration is what led to Brexit. It is a serious problem for many people for a variety of reasons.
This is likely true. However, to scale nuclear power development, we would have to lower standards in some ways to meet more aggressive timelines, which would almost certainly increase the mortality rate.

Nuclear can be the safest, but it's not the most efficient to build.
"After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world." - Calvin Coolidge, 1925
> a compromise candidate might win when they otherwise would lose? That doesn't seem to be a bad thing.

Only if you assume that compromising is fundamentally good. Do you believe the propensity is to compromise to get the best of the both worlds or the worst of the both worlds? I would point out, for example, that during the bush (II) administration, the only truly bipartisan, compromise initiatives were war in Iraq, No Child Left Behind, and Corporate Bailouts.
Perhaps he should talk to Alan Kay inter alia and attempt to invent something building on the shoulders of real giants.
I've had better luck with TernJS and deoplete in vim. I really like that this is much more responsive but it lacks the completion support that I have to expect with ternjs.
Remarking on possible cultural differences between countries is in no way a rebuttal of the actual point. A rebuttal of the actual point would be "In my country, men and woman both speak the same" not "I see myself as more polite than you because of the cultural norms for my country being different from the cultural norms for your country."
That's not how VAT works. As a simple example for a EU company:

- buy something nationally (you pay VAT to the company)
- export it to another EU company (reverse charge, so no VAT received or paid)
- get the VAT refunded from your local tax agency.

Even nationally, you get VAT refunded if you've paid more to others than you've collected. At least for NL, but I'm pretty sure these rules should be the same in all EU countries.
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The proposals I've seen do MMP separately in each province, (so the overall results is roughly proportional) to avoid this.
This article is written entirely in terms of death counts. I guess that's a good proxy for safety and makes nuclear power look good, but I don't think it's an appropriate way measuring impact. Denial of use of property is pretty important too. About 150,000 people had to evacuate after the Fukushima disaster due to radiation concerns [1].

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/5-years-after-fukushima-by-the...
You asked for reasons along with any downvotes. I'm here to oblige you.

Contrary to what has been reported in the Fox News / Trump Birds bubble, the people in the caravan have expressed their intention to follow a fully legal process of applying for asylum.

As to why people lawfully applying for asylum might be a problem, I don't think it is a one. You may agree... or if you disagree, I would point out the fact that such acts follow a long tradition of lawful immigration to the United States, one which has built our country from some of the most motivated people in the world. But you may be laboring under the false assumption that they are intending to enter the US illegally.

Based on the amount of false information being pushed by people with a lot of money and very loud voices, it seems likely that your opinion that the caravan is a problem may be based on this particular misunderstanding of what's going on... that you think they plan to enter illegally.

If not, we're in a different conversation entirely, about what America is at its core.
"Consent of the governed?"

EDIT: Good to see the down votes
The piece mentions some articles by Hu, associates, and his advisor at MIT

By his advisor at MIT, Dr. Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan:
> Geometry and Physics of Wrinkling - https://www.seas.harvard.edu/softmat/downloads/2003-03.pdf

By Dr. Hu:
> Fire ants self-assemble into waterproof rafts to survive floods - http://www.pnas.org/content/108/19/7669
"Generalization of Hanlen's razor: Never attribute to malice what can be explained by laziness/greed/stupidity."

I think OP was going for greed.
Apple's T2 chip is blocking Linux from booting on new Mac hardware

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3065755/apples-t2-...
Imagine if developed economies doubled down on nuclear in the 60s and 70s to the same extent as France ... How many trillions of tons of CO2 would not have been emitted to the atmosphere. I suspect the anti-nuke environmental movement is not going to be seen in a friendly light by history.
It's very complicated. Leading to severe security problems, which means you basically should avoid any untrusted client supplied xml, if you can at all avoid it. It is a step backward from s-expressions, being harder to parse for both machines and humans whilst being less expressive. Whitespace handling is comically bad. It doesn't have a working comment syntax. The list goes on. The only excusably bad thing about xml are namespaces. The design is not a success, but it springs from a list of desiderata which look quite sensible on first sight.
You're forgetting geographical availability. Where is their DC in Sydney or Brisbane, Australia? How about Singapore? Or Japan?

Unless you're in Germany, Germany, or, perhaps, Germany (or Finland) then you're adding a lot (yes, a lot) of latency to network requests for anyone outside of Germany and especially anyone on another landmass.
Their (3) is the only debatable point (aside from the inherent subjectivity of statements involving the word "should", which applies equally to you), since dependently typed languages tend to put a lot of the burden of proof onto the programmer. The other points are practically true by definition.
I'm sure lots of people have stories like ours, one way or another. Things break. Not everything is perfect, but sometimes it is. How often are macs really failing? We hear stories because Apple is hated and you-tubers love getting scenarios where they can make an attack apple video. But without actual numbers we have no idea if this is a trend or not. Consumer Reports regularly ranks Apple as having the best failure rates.

For a long time smart car buyers never bought redesigned vehicles. Why? Their reliability is unknown. As device gains in hardware continue to diminish, perhaps it'd be wise for us to take this stance with electronics - and wait a few years.

> I still prefer Macs for working because of macOS, but I don't know what I will do when my current laptop dies.

Sadly it's not much better on the other side. Premium window machines still can't get basic things like the touchpad right. Windows 10 is pretty bad. I'd gladly get another machine - but nothing offers what I like about my Macs. The linux people aren't worth bothering with. Most people don't want to deal with the limits - and there aren't a lot of manufacturers.
According to the WHO, outdoor pollution from burning fossil fuels and biomass causes at least 2 million deaths annually. Even if the 1 million death toll were true, nuclear would still be vastly safer than coal power.

You could additionally push for the adoption of nuclear only in well-developed countries if you were adamant about safety, as in the United States the death toll from nuclear is 0.1 per year.

But the primary benefit of nuclear would be the reduction in CO2 emissions, with the tremendous safety gains being a bonus. If you only cared about reducing CO2 emissions you could have a Chernobyl every year while still being safer and less polluting than coal power.
making new laws to solve problems that don't actually exist yet is the opposite of what I would call a good thing. maybe this is a cultural difference between the US and Europe, but over here we tend prefer for the government not to swing its weight around until there is clear evidence of a problem.
They'll move back to the blue states when they like having nice things again.

They always do.
> it's not necessarily uncommon for JS developers to include node_modules in their git repos

It's highly uncommon, and I've never seen an active, maintained, or popular project with it.
SuperMicro has systems with 2 dual-socket systems in a 1u form factor[0], so 256c/512t per rack unit is not that far fetched.

[0] For intel scalable: https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/1029/SYS-1029T...
I totally agree. I did Java certification 10 years back when I was a junior dev. At that time, many people and companies valued that on resume. Over time, people realized certification doesn't add any real value as things/technologies change over time. Nowadays people would doubt your skills if they see Java certification on resume. Also, Certifications are values in consulting market. If you are looking to work in core tech companies, it is better to invest that time learning something else. Also, I would say in those times people had no other way to showing that you have the skillset. We are living in an era where github is your portfolio. Do open source contributions or do side projects. That is a way more valuable skill than Java certification.
But it's not fair to group a bunch of different power sources all under "renewable." Nuclear is at 20%, the biggest renewable is hydro at 7.4%, followed by wind at 6.3%. I might call all of those reasonably major.

But solar PV falls way behind at 1.2%, geothermal is 0.4%, and solar thermal only 0.1%. I'd call those minor.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
Thampi takes care of most of the DevOps for machine learning prediction systems by using AWS Lambda(Zappa) and Docker.

Here is the introductory article: https://medium.com/@rajiv.abraham/introducing-thampi-ec40a9b...
Repo: https://github.com/scoremedia/thampi
- Are we supposed to prepare an answer for that question now as well?

Nope. I don't want a prepared answer. I want an honest answer. Hence throwing them a rough, non-technical question that absolutely will not be on the resume, but has been part of the career of any experienced candidate.

"Autocratic management" isn't a good answer, because it's too general. What did autocratic management do? Were the requirements incomplete? The schedule unrealistic? Beaten by the competition? Depended on unproven technology? Sometimes, everyone does everything right, and a project fails anyway. There's still a reason it failed.

But when I hear a candidate talk about failure in the form of "I was a hero, but my idiot co-workers and malicious bosses ruined everything", I hear them finding someone to blame, rather than a problem that didn't get solved correctly. And that tells me a lot about what working with them will be like, when we have our inevitable failures.
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HN: This is the worst Apple product ever and Apple has abandoned satisfying their customer with the things they actually want.

Reality: Apple product breaks sales records.
For n = 7, their formula gives 5901 and yours gives 5907. How feasible would it be to verify which one's correct? Exhaust every 5901-long sequence? Or is there some smarter way?
That's probably true. Another factor is that I have support roles on my resume, and now it's really hard to be given a chance at anything other than support. I had an easier time getting programmer interviews when I had no experience, but that's another topic.
Who will wipe you when you are 97? Hard to find a citizen to do it.
As a fellow french having lots of tax lawyer friends, let me just say that you are naive.
Google & al earn money in France, they should pay taxes.
Simple.
Right now those tech giants are using dubious tactics to avoid paying their fair share.
What is needed is simply justice and fairness.
This is an opinion piece disguised as news.
Any chance this could be a configuration option?
Having a right to vote does not automatically make all concerns, including false and deluded ones, valid.

Yes concerns should be listened to, and if the people have utterly ludicrous concerns, the people should be educated.