skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh great! I hope you take good care in designing the "modern" language, because once people start writing scripts for your shell, it becomes very hard to fix mistakes (this has been a problem for fish's scripting). I wish I had the time to be involved in designing a new shell scripting language, as it's something I'd really like to see done right, I just have no time to spend on that.

Incidentally, the link to the `modern` module is broken, it's just program::modern (which is of course not a valid link). Given that I don't see a `modern` module in the TOC I'm assuming the module doesn't actually exist yet?
Yeah, you could accomplish this for hq to satellite office over private circuits, MPLS, etc. That wouldn’t be enabled by default. If a carrier made a point of on-net connections being protected by default, it would probably be easier for more businesses to adopt.
Here's a slide from Dormando (memcached maintainer) who spoke recently at QCon SF. He created extstore, which lets you offload values to SSD and keep keys in memory. With all hits on different types of SSDs, he's seeing near all-DRAM performance in terms of throughput and latency.

https://twitter.com/justincormack/status/1059540644245295105

The NAND SSD (dark blue line) is still hitting good performance but at ~250K queries per second hits P99 latencies above 1ms (a typical SLA Netflix calls out for their own caching using extstore). The Optane SSD (light blue line) stays well below 1ms P99 latencies up to ~500K queries per second.

DRAM alone can handle more throughput but by then you have to take into account what your network can handle.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18439924
> You mean the API is cheaper now than what other companies offered 13 years ago? That's irrelevant even if it's true.

No, it isn't. How can you prove consumer harm if there's more choice at lower prices?

> Instead of being able to choose from competing vendors you're effectively stuck with Google and your business depends on their whims.

There are plenty of other vendors to choose from. Did you miss all the "we switched from Google Maps to XXX" posts on Hacker News?
+1 for the apt cake analogy
Doesn’t anyone remember a trove of John Podesta’s emails being dumped every time some fresh scandal about Trump breaking?
Read that last paragraph in the emperor’s voice from star wars episode 6.
People are not going to read and remember detailed instructions for every one of the hundreds of devices in their daily lives. If that means they're stupid, then you have to design for stupids. It sucks, but that's how it goes.

You're quite right that this is an ongoing problem in software UX. The problem is devs who insist that the user should accommodate the software rather than the other way around.
2018 Cloud Pricing: AWS Now Cheaper Than SoftLayer
> To me, every manager should be deeply technical

This sentence needs to start with: "I have a dream..."
> Sure, but you're acting under the premise that "if we just did it 'right' the first time, we wouldn't have this mess".

I think you're right that every long-lived code base will have warts. And I don't think that means that the original builders were wrong-headed.

But if you've got a decades-old system that nobody understands anymore, you've got a huge liability. You can't ship features to compete, you can't fix bugs, you can't comply with new regulations. You can't even rewrite confidently because you don't know what the old system does.

There must be things you can do as a code base ages to keep it maintainable, allow incremental rewrites, etc.
There's plenty of space elsewhere in the country, why not relocate your family to the Midwest? You can get a cheap home and there are plenty of jobs
> and then placed files in the original folder that was supposed to be redirected elsewhere, which you shouldn't be doing even if you are using folder redirection. (In short, to have this issue, you had to use a feature almost nobody uses, and also be using it improperly.)

I seem to recall reading that the "improper use" in this case could also consist of using a program that hard-coded paths and was not aware of folder redirection.
Here you go:

https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...
You're not entitled to have every community be in your image.
Colorizing and Restoring Old Images with Deep Learning
You are only valuable if you can align those well with company goals. That’s the way I see it: I try to find employers where the dot product of their desire vector and my desire vector is high and where the dot product of their desire vector and my capability vector is high. Not just the basis vectors but the actual value.

So far it’s worked. But I haven’t had the decades of experience yet to reflect on it.
How would Windows deleting his personal files ruin his installation and why would a re-format help in that case?

But maybe you're referring to another bug.
> I don't see any problem with them paying someone in Canberra less than they pay an equivalent person in SF, but I think it's disingenuous to make it about "cost of living." Someone with kids and a mortgage has a much higher cost of living than someone without (in the same location) but do they automatically get paid more?

Only one of those two things correlates strongly with market wages, though. But you may be right that it may be more transparent to just say "cost of labor" rather than "cost of living".
I bought a Sony TV at the start of this year and it has Android TV. The Android TV stuff is slow and will throw out error messages that don't mean anything to me. Stuff lik "Huey module has stopped". Or it complains about a Samba issue. We ended up buying a Roku box and use that instead of the Android stuff.

The only thing we use Android TV for is the MLB app. I'd like to figure out some way to delete everything but that one app because I always have to search for it.
How Podcasts Became a Seductive–and Sometimes Slippery–Mode of Storytelling
> If a company has a persistently high market share and has had for a long while, it has an effective monopoly whether or not it has ineffectual competitors.

No, it doesn't. Making up your own definition of monopoly (or the meaningless "effective monopoly") doesn't make it true, valid, or useful.

The Supreme Court has defined market power as "the ability to raise prices above those that would be charged in a competitive market,"(8) and monopoly power as "the power to control prices or exclude competition."(9) The Supreme Court has held that "[m]onopoly power under § 2 requires, of course, something greater than market power under § 1."
Not from a legal perspective. But from a technical perspective, I refuse to use any app that doesn’t use the SFSafariViewController for third party content - including Facebook. The web is an awful place. An app that doesn’t use an SFSafariViewController doesn’t take advantage of the built in content blocking framework.
What a great story to share.
The whole point is to clone an object. You lost track of the whole point.
Not true. Chrome has enabled SharedArrayBuffers again as of Chrome 68.
I am not sure how unions would help in tech sector, but I would like to see European style laws to protect labor from management.
Gitlab's “all remote” manifesto
Two major data loss bugs which caused real damage their customers' businesses are not what I would call "incredibly tiny". Niche security bugs, or issues with nonstandard or unsupported configurations often don't end up hurting many people; this set of bugs damaged businesses, and those businesses in some cases could not avoid installing the update, or would not have been able to preempt doing so.

If the configuration is marketed as supported, and users don't have a choice in the matter (as is often the case with Windows Update), then it doesn't matter how relatively niche the circumstances are, because it doesn't make those data any less gone.

What's more? These are not ancient or obscure configurations. In October, on top of the data loss bugs, on top of the loss of the file replace dialog in some circumstances, they broke compatibility with some of the most popular video games released since 2013.
I might be wrong, but are you suggesting getting to LGA from LIC is ...inconvenient? I think in all of NY there is no relationship between neighborhood and airport that would be better? Not sure about public transport since I would think everybody would take a lyft/uber/taxi from LIC to LGA. It's 10min and cheap.
I cannot upvote this enough. "Just write your posts in Markdown and publish to your site using Jekyll and Git!" is utter gibberish to the vast majority of people.
A company shouldn't be laying people off in hard times. They might let some contracts end, and if someone leaves for other reasons they won't be replaced; but they shouldn't be laying people off. They should have savings for hard times. That might mean no rasises for a couple years - including the CEO, but everybody has a job. Every time they lay someone off they forever lose everything that person knew.

Hard times are should be used to invest in the next product free from the distraction of supporting the current ones (since nobody is buying). When good times return they are met with the introduction of great new products.

A layoff should mean that the company is exiting whatever industry you are in. Thus it should not be a few people - but everybody at once.

The reality is few companies are managed well enough to pull the above off.
sounds like a public official gambling with public money. While may be not fully outlawing, some serious limits should be put on on such a risk taking.

At least there should be requirement of a level playing field. How come that granting tax benefits and various other huge privileges to say Foxconn or Amazon is supposedly good for local economy while granting such perks equally to other businesses isn't a good thing? Shouldn't the first thing government to care about be the level playing field and not skewing it in favor of chosen players? I mean a typical Joe can't just come down to your Colorado town and setup business on the same conditions as Amazon or Foxconn. Why such an injustice?
Another thing I don't like about Gitlab is their interview process. They are the exact kind of puzzle-gotcha-question asking interviewers that are looking for a particular right answer that get ridiculed on here quite often. They asked me a question about prototypical inheritance in javascript, I gave what I thought was a very thorough, in depth answer, except it wasn't the type of answer the non-technical phone interviewer was looking for, who was just looking at a list of questions and answers on his or her sheet.
This comment does a better job of explaining it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18439954

"It's a basic fact which he seems to claim doesn't happen"

Even your quote doesn't back up what you say in the slightest:

"[Colonial subjects] also go largely uncommemorated by the hallowed rituals of Remembrance Day."

The articles does not say it does not happen. The article says that it does not happen enough. Saying otherwise is a lie.
Sharing this, inspired by the discussion from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18441768
Juul to Stop Selling Most E-Cigarette Flavors in Stores, Halt Social Promotions
Prisoner's dilemma. Not bidding is a great decision and probably globally optimal for the players. But once one bid is entered, the rational choice for all other actors is to also bid.
Mondelez also own Tolberone (who removed segments from their bars, and spaced the rest out to keep the bar size the same). And Chocolate Orange, which now has a scallop out of each segment.
I don't buy anything modelez anymore, I don't want to finish eating a chocolate bar more annoyed than before I began.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-banks-cobol/banks-scr... describe banks struggling to maintain ancient COBOL systems as the developers who understand them are dying off.

I don't know exactly what they should have done and when, but it seems like rewrites are going to be necessary, and it sure would be nice to start rewriting a system while you still have someone who can explain what it does.
I would agree with that for sure. The big issue here is it's a few people making a decision in secret. You put your offer in a referendum and let the population vote, I'm totally cool with that.

Unfortunately, what usually happens is that a dozen people make a deal for a huge population that affects them in a big way.
>as an influencing factor in US elections

Allow me to add "significantly" as a modifier to "influencing factor".

In 2016 we were primed to look for signs of Russian interference once Hillary accused Trump of collusion.

In 2018 we were warned of non-specific Russian (and Chinese) threats, but had no direction on where to look, so we didn't see much of anything.

The contrast was enough to make us believe the Russians were a no-show.
I've always enjoyed this project for pulling nfl stats. https://github.com/BurntSushi/nflgame
That "as soon as" is a high barrier to pass - there are many ways for temporary immigration to EU, but there's no mass granting of citizenships to unskilled immigrant workers, just as in USA.
I think the difference is that it isn't a person bidding on the Amazon HQ, it is a city, and IMO, cities in the same country shouldn't be competing with eachother for business. Amazon has to put a headquarters somewhere in the US, what benefit do US citizens get by allowing cities to undercut eachother in an attempt to get the HQ in their city?
Threatin's Fake Fanbase Fails to Show Up for European Tour
Got a follow up question for you... have you guys integrated the IOS into Apple's "Shortcuts" app? This app was created by a 3rd party used to be called Workflow. Apple bought the app 2 years ago or so.

Reason I ask... I have a one-tap shortcut to turn off WIFI and Bluetooth for leaving home. Would be awesome to turn off WIFI / Bluetooth / turn on Cloudfare with a single tap as I head out the door.

I don't need the battery drain from VPN usage while sitting at home, and already have my DNS routed away from my ISP.
This is incorrect. There are two systems here: autopilot and stall/overspeed protection. These are both automated systems, but they are controlled separately.

When autopilot is off, you'll still have stall/overspeed protection that will pitch down/up in the corresponding condition. This protection can also be disabled by switching off some flight computer control. This is the case for both Airbus and Boeing, and the specific controls required depend on the particular plane model.

The issue at hand is ensuring that training for these situations and knowledge of the flight control computers is adequate.
They say that Fi only works on a few Android phones, but as far as I’ve been able to tell, it works well on iPhones as well.
ONAP Fundamentals (LFS263)
>Not sure why they didn't choose Dulles

Dulles is no better of a commute for most people in the DMV, especially those that want to live within the DC/Arlington area.
If your problem is with short-term thinking that is not in alignment with the people on the ground, force referenda and independent third-party evaluations. I might even trust a federal board that stalls poor action. But to fully ban? No thank you.
Artist uses jigsaw puzzles with the same die cut pattern to make mashups
He is pro-choice, and he's not trying to fool anyone. He believe people should have the right to make the decision for themselves whether or not to have an abortion. For himself, he's made the decision he wouldn't want his partner to have one. There's nothing inconsistent or nefarious in that.

I find that kind of honesty refreshing in a politician, when they can set aside their own personal beliefs and actually represent the people who elected them.
> Now Reddit has screwed up their interface too.

At least Reddit has alternatives (for now), e.g. dm.reddit.com ; old.reddit.com
This is something else https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5cqazajP1Q
You can replace anything transparently, the Redox kernel supports scheme namespacing.
> If you live in Omaha where tech salaries for the best of the best top out at $70-80k, but you're making $175k at Gitlab, it's going to take a lot to get you to leave.

That being said, if you live in Omaha, and working for GitLab, you're going to need to be executive/director level to be making $175k. FrontEnd manager? $110, tops. Security manager, $130, tops.
I have heard that for an N-pound dog, it would take approximately N ounces of dark chocolate to be fatal.

That's encouraging, because such a scenario seems very unlikely, even by accident, but I do not intentionally give my dog any chocolate at all.
Those would be a fair compromise between our positions.
>Those are terrible ideas.

To the extent the ideas from the peanut gallery are terrible, it is because intellectual property does not allow the peanut gallery to inspect the full airplane designs, schematics etc... I feel confident the community at large (or the relatives and acquaintances of the deceased and their lawyers and or engineers they appoint) could provide better criticisms. But if my aunt had balls she would have been my uncle: intellectual property kills. What is the statistical value of a human life? What is the statistical value of intellectual property?

>No one can foresee all possible threats, or reliably predict which ones will come to pass.

I think that is an open question. But let's pretend you are right for the sake of argument. Improvement does not necessitate foreseeing all problems, excluding failure modes as they are discovered is still improvement, even if they aren't absolute panaceas.

>It's not possible to split cockpits down the middle because some critical controls such as circuit breakers exist only one one side or the other, but are reachable by both pilots. Adding duplicate circuit breakers on both sides isn't practical for space reasons, and would introduce additional failure points.

Space reasons? I'm sure the passengers appreciated their extra millimeter of legroom while crashing into the alps... why not each their own breaker and the circuit only breaks when their breakers agree on breaking? i.e. logical AND. Yes any additional complexity would make the problem space more complex, and should be dealt with using formal verification etc...

>And allowing ATC to block out a pilot from flight controls would itself be a failure point. What if ATC is compromised?

Obviously, the plane only listens to ATC pilot selection when one pilot disagrees (visualize a big red disagree button if you will). As long as none of the pilots has the disagree button engaged the plane ignores ATC. ATC can not initiate selection of pilot. Yes there situations that still admit malicious pilots like: collusion between 2 pilots, collusion between a pilot and an ATC controller. Use things like sortition, and reward ratting out proposals of collusion...

Edit: spelling
> It won't reverse economic decline, and everyone's lives will not improve.

Then the Seattle city should be in ecstasy now. But I think from the news I read, the locals seem worried, lest happy about it.
I posit that complex NN models can achieve the same level of interpretability as logistic regression. In part, because some interpretability methods use logistic regression as a white box model to explain black boxes.

In other words: If you are comfortable OK'ing a logistic regression model (because you looked at the coefficients and they made sense), you should be comfortable OK'ing a complex NN model (because the evaluation and interpretability modeling makes sense).

Nitpicking, but significant: Most models don't output decisions, they output predictions. Decision scientists then build a policy on top of the model. Key issue here is that the policy makers don't trust the predictions. But I posit they have no reason to trust the predictions of a logistic regression model any more than the predictions of a complex black box. Provided, of course, you deliver interpretability UX, confidence estimates, and strong statistical guarantees and tests. Which is possible for even the blackest of boxes.

If automatic justification is impossible for computers/black boxes, I believe it is impossible for humans too (as per Church-Turing). But let's say it is impossible. Do you think Google would use a white box model to optimize Adsense, because they can't interpret powerful deep learning solutions (like risk management for BlackRock: a very critical part of their business)?

I'd say Google came pretty close with https://distill.pub/2018/building-blocks/ (they are not the only players in the interpretability field, and plenty of methods are becoming available, in large part driven by academia not business: interpretability and fairness are not too important for the bottom line).
I never worked in Drupal 7, but I can't image it was much better.
I find it similar to arguments that try to scare me with "but then we won't be able to eat meat for every meal."

"Well, good," I think, "sounds like exactly what we need."
> should be decided via a public vote

Completely agree, but I am having a hard time reconciling that with my belief that if a citizenry wants to remove the handcuffs of its leaders to make these moves, they should be able to. I think transparency in public spending and negotiations is what we should be asking for at a higher level.
Product Insights for Slack
Visual Basic in .NET Core 3.0
All plants and animals, right?

Everything that expires an O2 or a CO2 molecule is producing nanoparticles.
All that marketing text (and among the other docs in the linked Github repo) and they never actually say what their salaries are other than the vague indication that it's the 95th percentile for Chicago.
It’s only a “problem” for a relatively few techies. Most people would be better served by a wall gardened. Seeing the mess that the average consumer makes on thier Windows computers is evidence.

My mom would never have to worry about getting malware because she searched for a printer driver if she had an iPad. Heck, she wouldn’t have had to worry about a printer driver at all.

And if you want to see what happens on mobile when you have an App Store with an out clause like on Android for the common consumer, look no further than what happened with Fortnight.
Don't advertise your domain with "www", BUT make it handle it if entered that way by a user. Another advantage of "www" is that word-processors and text editors can auto-recognize it as URL if it starts with "www".
Redox is a microkernel. All drivers are run in userspace. I'm not clear on what your criticism is here.
I feel your accounts bio perfectly matches the spirit of your posts content here haha!
Should we dispense with competitive processes completely?

When we're talking about pitting strapped local governments against each other in corporate welfare bidding wars, the answer is, absolutely, unequivocally, yes.
I am currently going through a very intense transaction, from being the CEO of the company I founded, to no longer having a full-time position at the company. (looks like I will simply remain as an external advisor).

I am curious to hear if any of you had a similar experience, and if you have any suggestions or tips to share.
I still living in the 70s for now... Maybe one day I can be a modern man living in a modern world.

Until then I struggle with background jobs, because they are a fucking pain in the ass.
The Five Universal Laws of Success
The argument for Austin or Pittsburgh isn't too different than an argument for NYC or Washington, DC.

My point is that there are cities in the United States that attracting talent, creatives, and business investment and instead of crying foul, we should learn about what they're doing and seek to replicate it.

If Amazon had chosen Austin or Pittsburgh, plenty of people would still be complaining, although Maybe not as much as NYC and Washington.
If nobody bids, then some town somewhere gets benefits worth $X.

Once a town bids, then some town somewhere gets a small fraction of the benefit, and Amazon gets the remainder.