skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's mostly because those two are stable, and there is near to no gain on going into the bleeding edge. When people gain something from an upgrade, they do it.
I don't have much either, but basing it on behind the scenes TV shows based on jails. (I guess different to prisons - more comings and goings). Obviously TV will show you every fight, and maybe they don't happen often, but I bet there is a lot of posturing leading up to those fights. I remember what high school was like, probably not much different.
There are probably different types of inefficiencies that relate to, among other things, having to be more accountable for spending tax payer dollars. If $LARGE_CORPORATION chooses a given vendor for a major software system, the losing vendors may piss and moan but there's really nothing they can do about it in general. If it's a government agency, there will likely be formal challenges requiring lots of paperwork and effort.

But, for the most part, I agree with you. Big organizations can do things smaller ones can't but that size comes with a lot of overhead. I'm often surprised not that large organizations are inefficient, but that they can get anything done at all.
> It's not the same thing. With chargebacks, in the case of fraud the payment processor almost always extracts the money from the seller, acting both as a deterrent and reducing the cost of the protection. If it was just insurance, it would be more expensive (because there would be less deterrent to (seller-side) fraud and it would cost more to recoup the costs).

It's still possible to do that by having the insurer escrow the payment in cases where you want the insurance, if that's actually more efficient.

But sometimes it isn't. Doing it that way subjects you to buyer fraud where the buyer actually receives the item, claims not to have and has their money refunded. The cost of that has to be paid by honest sellers, which then have to charge higher prices to honest buyers.

And an insurer who can't recover their costs from the seller has more incentive to vet the sellers (and buyers) so that they aren't insuring fraudulent transactions to begin with, which could plausibly have lower overhead than sellers eating the entire cost of buyer fraud.

Different choices may be more efficient for different transactions. A transaction between a reputable buyer and a reputable seller will have low insurance costs even without escrow. A seller with less reputation would have higher insurance costs, but can mitigate the cost by offering to accept escrowed payments but only from more reputable buyers. A buyer with less reputation could do the opposite, buying from a more reputable seller at low insurance cost by waiving the ability to easily reverse the transaction.

Forcing everyone into the same box only creates inefficiency.
That's a good thought, but low tuition costs mean CS professors at California community colleges are making close to nothing.

Warning, anecdotal evidence, but I took CS at CCSF and when asked how to tell if a number was prime in Java, the professor responded "I don't know, google it. There's probably a function that does that."
AIX sort of died in the 2000s. Back in the late 90s the only reason to have AIX systems were as gateways to the AS400 systems. You didn't generally use AIX systems for anything else back then.
To get onto Consoles in the first place, your product needs to be high enough quality, whereas iOS accepts basically any ol' junk.
The economics are so poor on iOS that it is basically impossible to survive (in games for example) without relying on exploitative free-to-play mechanics.

So it sounds like you’re arguing that Apple should have stricter controls...

I can tell you that AppleTV streaming apps were a lot better and more consistent on the 3rd generation AppleTV where Apple did have stricter controls than on the 4th Gen AppleTV.
Meanwhile Trump is doing everything to convince talents around the globe that US will not let them pass by easily /s
Good grief, nobody cares about your kids in either direction. Sorry.
They get IVs to stay hydrated. They're not "in need" of medical treatment, they're choosing to use something that's usually a medical treatment as a routine process instead of drinking from a water bottle. I assume because it's either faster hydration, or avoids stomach issues.
Also, in the US at least, commercial copyright infringement can be criminally illegal.
I know. Not much I can do about it. But thanks
I've been meaning to read some of his work for quite a while. Could you recommend a book? There seem to be quite a few on Amazon
"The web" delivers on its name, not a hypertext of explanations, but a cobweb of obscurity.

Writing of the author has been featured here before, also in line with her interests in obscure business schemes, about gratis watches and dropshipping that for me personally went into modern themes of brands and identity:"Museum of Capitalism - There's No Such Thing as a Free Watch".
No, I'm just saying that the subject is more important than the writing. I don't think the author is advocating a particular viewpoint, but I think the author wants us to seek understanding, and that includes discussion. The penultimate paragraph even includes people's opinions on the morality of the event.

It invites discussion, without necessarily directing it. Something of a lost art in today's world.
Ask HN: Transferring to Make School
I'm currently a freshman at the University of Maryland in compsci. After seeing a post about Make School on here, I'm considering on transferring. UMD is a good school, but I feel as though my time is being wasted with a lot of useless information. I think I should be able to get in considering I have previous work experience, and I have a decent GitHub (working on a large open source project, and personal projects). Money isn't a major issue for me, I just want to maximize my productivity and possible opportunities.

Has anyone tried out Make School? Is trying to transfer from a decent state school a dumb move?

Edit: I realized that they require a Mac. I refuse to run any non-free software or a non-free BIOS so I will be unable to attend Make School.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14072055
This is only two years old and it's very out of date. Amazing how quickly Sam (and YC) evolve.
not new, and not the first to try and leverage learning and prediction in law enforcement. big guys tried it; ended up bombing a few weddings in afghanistan.

and sure it makes sense that we try it. but my instinct tells me that we will gloriously and painfully fail at this, and hurt alot of people trying.

woe is human, is all i can say. what a time to be alive.

its scary how we attempt to leverage the fault-free individual, while
ignoring the fact that most of us are a jittering bag of forgiven misdemeanors and partial insanity trying to make it in the world.

and they want to use machines to sort us. this wont backfire /s
You did write "I'd really like to fuck off" which usually means you'd like to not work very hard. Of course, there are many jobs that get you involved in outdoor recreational activities but don't pay very well or offer a lot of financial security but do get you outside a lot.
Autoscaling doesn't always help with hot shards (which I think gp was referring to) because you can have a single shard go over its share of the throughput[0] while still having a low total throughput.

[0] total throughput/num shards
Maybe a more relevant analogy are medical procedures. IE. Banning specialized brain or heart surgery because only rich people can afford it.
Sounds like a startup opportunity. :)
RackSpace for hobby projects?
Ask HN: How does one handle noisy public transport neighbours?
Should we apply A/B testing?
Aurora did not work well for us (it was using local ephemeral disk to do sorts so our query results were truncated / limited to largest local storage) so the best option for us was to run MySQL or PostGres on a i3 instance with local SSDs.
If you're Korean, India is Western. They share "Buddhism", though generally not the same sect of Buddhism. They don't share a cultural tradition.
That's nice that the kids are standing up for something (that's unlikely to affect them, of course). But I would be far more impressed if they stood up against something closer to home, like personalized search results, dark patterns to make sure they monitor you, or monitoring whether you agreed to it or not, misuse of private data, creation of filter bubbles etc. etc. But that might actually affect their paychecks, so no, can't have that.
My interpretation, possibly missing something, is that these e-commerce sites are a long tail play. They have lots of peoples time committed to work on this, so why not build a network of random Shopify sites that sell stuff you can get elsewhere for cheaper? Most stuff won’t sell, but the things that will return a disproportionate return relative to the effort.
I hope they continue the study for a few years and see if the effects remain the same. Hopefully the pet doesn't become part of a routine, and the symptoms don't resurface. I have seen a lot of people adopt pets and then discard them once they get bored of it.
> "Once we do this, we're no longer human." Perhaps for some people, this takes the form of "this is playing God".

I think the burden of proof is on the person asserting that to say why it is so. We alter ourselves in lots of ways, why is this different?

> EDIT: What hysteria were you talking about?

All the scientists condemning this as terrible, and articles written about the dystopian future it portends.
As bad as the US is in many different ways, China is immeasurably worse. A future dominated by a hegemonic China would be a dark world. Little steps like these are helping to contribute to that possibility in 50-100 years.
> Different version, different video.

In the context we're talking about, do you believe the comments on video A (10 minutes of maths lecture with a typo in one of the digrams) would be hugely different from the comments on video B (10 minutes of maths lecture with that typo corrected); so much so that it's worth throwing out all the early comments and starting from scratch? Or are you thinking of some other use-case?

> I don’t want to additionally have to pay attention to whether we watched the same video or not.

Good news for you then! Making "video version number" part of the API means that you can filter those out programatically too :)
If a change to the gene line prevented procreation it would eliminate itself pretty quickly. Unless we changed half of the already born world's genes all at once.
Along with the other stories suggested here, Alistair Reynolds' Revelation Space features "beta simulations" which are essentially the same thing: reconstructions of people based on recordings of them and their speech/writing/interactions.

(There are also "alpha simulations" referenced which were experimental direct mind uploads. The experiment was never repeated because, due to some deficiency in the process, the uploads went mad.)
> DynamoDB does offer autoscaling these days, which should alleviate a lot of provisioning-related headaches

The problem they noted isn't lack of autoscaling, it's that you have to provision the entire datastore to accommodate your hottest partition.
Why not? Make it part of salary negotiations.
I suspect that people are looking for something more structured. For that matter, just go on a backpack someplace that doesn't have cellphone service (or just leave your cellphone in the car).
What kind of p99.9 latency are you looking for?
They updated the song "Radioactivity" for their "3-D" box set, and the updated lyrics include Fukushima.

Highly recommend seeing them live, if you have the opportunity.
Not one person has come forward with proof they've successfully registered with the Tether redemption platform.

Tether does not back 1:1, they charge 3% if you can even register to "redeem" so at best it's 1.00 : 0.97

Also worth noting, Tether has removed any mention of audits on their website:

Current FAQ:
https://tether.to/faqs/

Is Tether transparent?
Yes. Tether’s platform is built to be fully transparent at all times.
Every tether is backed 100% by its original currency.

Archived page (from June):
https://web.archive.org/web/20180628141947/https://tether.to...

Yes. Tether’s platform is built to be fully transparent at all times and is regularly audited.
Every tether is backed 100% by its original currency.
Yes. Very often. They usually use such synonyms as "capable" or "sophisticated."
I am employed by one of the big tech companies in the bay and was recently chosen to interview candidates for our new grad program. I was astonished by how many top of class graduate students we brought into the program that had identical backgrounds. Around 90% had studied in and were from China, usually undergrad there and Ivy League grad school with close to perfect GPAs. If they are keeping their students, I haven’t seen it yet. Will see how it plays out in the near future
On a long enough timeline, this world will face one extinction event after another: an ice age that covers our hemisphere, world killer astroid strike, super volcano eruption, etc. It is Human ingenuity that stands a chance of preventing or mitigating some of this. Maybe it will be preserving some level of biodiversity - even it if is just DNA samples.
Salt Lake City? Constantinople? Saint Petersburg?
Inspiring if you're very very rich and hope to some day within your life time to get some spare/replacement organs.
Amazing, if I was going to college now I would definitely put this on my short list.
That would make me a little sad. I'm not excited about the idea that we figured out the ideal way for a program to be encapsulated in 1965 and it will never change.
annotations were a highly versatile tool in the right hands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yTHYkauWUg&t=0s&list=PLf45o...
i think too many people just experienced poorly used ones that were more akin to a popup ad.
The more things change the more things stay the same
Chess24 has had 3 top 25 GMs narrating together for the last few games. Tomorrow's live stream is at https://youtu.be/HBvQ36SqgqM.

Note: If it wasn't clear, that stream will not literally be of Carlsen & Caruana. It mirrors the current position in the game and has commentators analyze it. I don't think a free livestream exists that shows Carlsen & Caruana live, making the moves.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/how-amazon-dynamodb-ad...
Sounds like your psych wasn't familiar with off label uses. I know a lot of people who have tried or regularly used Modafinil. It eliminates brain fog and improves focus, like many stimulants do.
UN Environment’s 2018 Emissions Gap Report
Of course it will. Soon as one of their children is saved from dying, opponents will quickly shut their mouths about it.
The scariest thing a person in this world can hear is : I'm the police, and I'm here to help
To everyone - I literally came back home from lab to find this blown up. Little overwhelming frankly.

I built the bot as a gift for a friend, and didn't really see the Black Mirror angle, even though I have seen the series.

Anyway, if someone is interested in building extensions of this, please write to me at smadan@mit.edu, I'd be happy to collaborate and guide :)
Don't. Sexual abuse in prison is very high.
To be fair, that's the correct answer if you're trying to do a primality test for some non-didactic reason. They're complicated.

There are very simple ways to test for primality, but they're... slow. (And at that level, the "in Java" part of the question doesn't make any sense. "What cryptography libraries do you use in Java?" is a perfectly sensible question. "How do you divide numbers in Java?"....)
When I was little a game I would often play with myself is to switch on the Pinyin IME, keep pressing random keys for a minute or two, and then try to make sense of the ridiculous stuff I typed out. It was a lot of fun because you can always make some kind of sense of it.
How about when their children can be saved, but they can’t afford to do so?
...or they discontinued it because it was a crap experience. I turned off "instant search" in every browser I used. It was awful.
Nothing prevents humanity from experimenting. Its not like everyone, everywhere will start gene editing at the same time. Let people experiment and see where the chips fall.

As for economical risks and the like, we may be poor at dealing with it in the short term but with time humanity can progress and solve most problems.
I think either of these are much more useful links:

http://fastmri.org/

https://fastmri.med.nyu.edu/

Looks like a decent effort, FAIR and NYU involved, open source baseline system etc. Still have to apply for access to the dataset though.
Excuse me but, what are you talking about here?
This is neat, and it's important to iterate on things we take for granted like what terminal emulator we use.

But a larger question, at what point do we focus on the novelty of the project, not that it was written in a specific language?
Ask HN: Not disclosing employment (under an NDA)
What would you do if a previous employer asked you to sign an NDA (tied to receiving severance pay) stating that you wont disclose that you worked for them and what you did for them and how?

How would one notate this on a resume? Especially if you worked there 9 years and it would create an employment gap. Think finance sector.
Cloning isn't really an unnatural process per se, apples and bananas are grown through cloning. The majority of people see it as unethical or whatnot but if you're being born from a mother, grown up like a normal child, are you really unnatural?

Although it is true that there is a large failure rate and it is in essence a pretty expensive operation for something people can already do, which is reproduce.

https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/cloning/cloningmyths...
The title of this submission is misleading as the issue is "some Win32 programs can't be set as the default program for a given file type"
Im looking forward to the launch-rocket api.
English CAN be easy for several reasons:

1. Very analytical, wake in inflections.

2. No genders for nouns.(As an Eastern Asian, I have serious problem understanding the motivation of introducing such concept into a language.)

3. Reasonable number of tenses comparing with rest of European languages, with the exception of probably present perfect tense, which can be fairly confusing.

It CAN be hard for the following reasons:

1. Huge amount of French/Latin borrowed words that don't follow the orthodoxical way of word construction in Germanic language family, unlike German. This leads to a lot of cognitive overhead having to memorize those words since they tend to appear more often in advanced writings.

2. Related to the first argument, English pronunciation CANNOT be reliably inferred from its letter representation. Again leads to a lot of mistakes and force memorization.

I think English is easier as a language for everyday use. But to read and write academic text, it still requires years of training. Personally, it takes me about 10 years to reach a certain level of confidence in writing and conversation, for speaking it is even longer.
> I disagree, given the massive cash reserves the tech companies have.

They have massive cash reverses because the tax laws have encouraged that rather than paying it to shareholders as dividends. And that level of return is necessary because of the nature of the industry -- you have to spend millions of dollars trying to create the next tech giant before you know whether you've succeeded or not, and most of the time you haven't. The returns to success have to be enough to overcome the high failure rate.

Most of the employees aren't taking the same level of risk. If you work for a company for five years taking home a six figure salary and that company fails, you don't have to give back your salary and in a few months you're working for another company making the same amount of money.

If you think you can do better on your own, risking your own time and money instead of taking outside investment, go right ahead -- but then shouldn't it be you who gets more of the reward if you succeed rather than the people you hire in after you're already an established success?
Perception is an important thing when it comes to interacting with a community.
Except for the no parking, homeless/begging, unsustainable ideals, car "music bumpers". I can't argue anything about the restaurants however.
The Wright Stuff: Dirtbagging Is Dead (2014)
Many of the financial services/bank s have already moved out they won't go back even if the actual brexit doesn't happen
Just like the fabricated Bloomberg stories about Super Micro before it.
https://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/1706143/diff/0/1
Sure seems less "compelling" when they make these sorts of edits.
Well, they aren't exactly an equal partner, but it isn't bad. Your PM signed a mutual extradition treaty with them and you accept any investment they want to make while they don't need to make any concessions to you so they have no reason to be.
Ok but I'm not sure this is relevant. We're talking about using Aurora in place of DynamoDB, not how it compares to other SQL DBs. With DynamoDB the kind of internal sort you're talking about isn't even possible, right?
Alexandria wasn't utopian afaik, but it was a planned city that seems to have been a success right away.
Mappingjs 1.0.0 released
> We alter ourselves in lots of ways, why is this different?

This is a fair question. And I've had philosophical problems taking psychiatric drugs, for that matter. (I think it's resolved to some extent by considering that lots of substances we ingest all the time are psychoactive. So it's part of the normal human experience.)

I would say this - Whatever modification you make, you have to come up with a line, a standard, for which you argue "this is still a human." I draw that line at deliberate engineering of genetics. What is yours? Are there some genes that still shouldn't be edited? Maybe you could draw some line there?

OR, if you think that's a silly question and don't care about what is or isn't a human, let's revisit the equally silly assumption that we should care about propagating the human race. I personally feel like if you take such a nihilistic approach to the definition of human, you may as well go all the way and adopt an anti-natalist position. It's just not clear any more what game we're playing.

> All the scientists condemning this as terrible, and articles written about the dystopian future it portends.

Interesting, I'd expect scientists to be on the pro-side of this. I don't know have a strong opinion on the consequential outcomes.

(Made some edits above)
Mitch Altman also gave a talk about ArduTouch at EMFCamp this year. A video can be found here:

https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2018-24-ardutouch-music-synthesize...
I think the demeanor, aspirations, love of country of most people changed drastically very late in the evening of November 8th of that year.
Prema Entha Madhuram – Directed by Ravikumar Pediredla
Privacy Perceptions, Concerns and Privacy-Seeking Behaviors with Smart Speakers
> the FBI executed seizure warrants to sinkhole 23 internet domains
"a reputable institution" for off shore banking and money laundering currently under investigation.

https://thebitcoinnews.com/brazil-tether039s-new-banking-par...

https://www.livebitcoinnews.com/tethers-new-banker-in-the-cr...
That you called it "Baido" (unless typo) implies to me that you're not Chinese, and with that assumption, your post also reads incredibly condescending. Chinese tech is not subpar across the board, there are very smart people there who choose to work on the problems they choose to work on. Some in support of greater state surveillance, others not.

What you have here are American engineers choosing to not work in support of greater state surveillance for another country. Reducing it to thinking that all they're doing is wanting to virtue-signal is condescending.

Can you not see that the crux of your post, calling out others' supposed condescension, appears to be projecting a bit?