skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FAIR was Uber's way of offing a massive leasing program screwup uncovered after the fact at some point near the end of 2016.
Fair was the vehicle to conceal the losses.

Uber sold to fair in DECEMBER 2017
http://www.autonews.com/article/20171227/MOBILITY/171229882/...

Fair ALSO RECEIVED an INFLUX OF CAPITAL IN OCTOBER 2017
$1BILLION INVESTMENT JUST BEFORE the PURCHASE of Uber's Xchange

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/20/flexible-car-ownership-mar...

"Losses per vehicle ended up being 18 times more than Uber expected. Uber plans to discontinue its subprime car-leasing operation as it currently exists, according to The Wall Street Journal. ... Around 500 jobs could be affected, or around 3 percent of Uber's total 15,000-employee workforce."

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/8/16112498/uber-phase-out-xc...
This twitch video appears to be shot from Jetty Park, so there's a hill in the way. The people talking in the video can't see that the booster is out over the water. This is actually what's supposed to happen if the rocket thinks it has a problem: it's pointed offshore until the middle of the final landing burn. If it's unhappy, it stays pointed at the ocean.

This video from a plane shows how far offshore it was: https://twitter.com/flying_briann/status/1070392207696453632

And Elon's tweet with SpaceX's video from the booster itself: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1070399755526656000
Looks like the rest of the world is about to catch up with Jean-Pierre Petit's theories about negative masses surrounding positive mass objects like galaxies and holding them together... Even the proposal for the modification of Einstein's theories... Times are a'changin.

It took almost ten years (2007-2017) from JPP being shunned by the scientific community (and the highly politicised French Wikipedia) to others "discovering" the same things he had been saying all along. https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.0067

http://jp-petit.org/papers/cosmo/2018-AstrophysSpaceSci.pdf

You may give yourselves the smallest pat on the back in the universes.
I see Spinoza, I upvote :)

To give the benefit of the doubt I'm not sure if OP was objecting to the first step of placing a person or company along a good-bad continuum or the second step of reducing that continuum to a binary label.

In either case though, no amount of complexity makes it unreasonable to consider whether a company like Facebook is a net positive or negative force on society -- which is a binary decision that requires reduction.
You may or may not have "true" free will with randomness, you definitely can't have it with determinism.

Random just means unpredictable. It means that the information about whether your eat a pear or an apple is nowhere to be found in the universe. We can only see it after the fact. Something has been injected in the universe from outside.

That something is undecidable by definition, therefore, it is outside the realm of science, and it may very well be free will, god, a soul, whatever. Having that randomness leaves an opening for metaphysical free will.

On the opposite, without randomness that form of free will is impossible. Everything is determined and science doesn't leave any space for these concepts.
I started using Postgresql a long time ago when I tried to do a sub query in MySQL and it didn't support sub queries.
Haven't looked back since.
Isn't that just what haveibeenpwned does? In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if monitor.firefox were using hibp internally.
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FutureMe: Write a letter to the future
Right, I think there's a distinction to be made between education-based cultural continuity ("we all learn Tang poetry in school") and personal cultural continuity ("I learned this knowledge/value/principle from my grandma/village elder/apprenticeship").

10 years is indeed a long time. It's not enough to break the education-based continuity, but it is absolutely enough to break the personal cultural continuity.

My experience of 15 years living in China is, very few people have experienced that personal continuity, to the point where disciplines like Chinese medicine, taiji, traditional music, etc, are best carried on by people in Taiwan or even the US.
I worry it ropes me into my domain and way of thinking, without a way of getting out of it.

I also would likely mean the web framework, but if I suddenly become interested in Django music one day, I don't want Google to make assumptions.
I've had a drive from every major manufacturer fail at some point. Brands don't matter, backups do. Buy hard drives in pairs and put an item on your calendar to pop the other one in once a month, sync it, and put it back in a fire-resistant safe.
In 2013, I ordered 6 x Seagate Barracuda drives (3 TB). By 2017, 5 of the 6 had failed. There was a famed "bad batch" that I think my drives were a part of, but I will never buy Seagate again.

I think Backblaze has the best public hard drive statistics available.
The best and most concise way to list your skills is in the context of your job descriptions. Anybody can SAY that they have some skill, but if you can SHOW then it becomes much more convincing. Here's an example.

SAY

Skills: Java, Salesforce, Communication

SHOW

XYZ Corp | Software Engineer | 2013-Present

- Created recommendation system using Java lib FOO that increased user engagement by 23%.

- Revamped Salesforce integration with Product ABC for 40% more leads and 65% higher conversion rate.

- Implemented daily standups to improve project stakeholders visibility into project progress.
You can see the whole calendar at twitter (@svg_js): https://twitter.com/svg_js
Yeah. I collect the actual items talked about in them and having these just makes a neat extra element to a display or something.
If you go to sleep at the same time (relative to actual-midnight) and get up an hour before school, you get more sleep when school starts later.

That still doesn't seem all that helpful. If my high school had started at 10 instead of 8, I'd be out of class at 5:30 instead of 3:30, done with fencing practice at 8 instead of 6, etc. I'd finish the night's homework two hours later, and finishing that was already well past sundown even on the original schedule. A later start time wouldn't have been an opportunity to stay up later -- it would have been an obligation to stay up later.
Cool video of failed landing of Spacex booster
Infants' brains attuned to baby talk and nursery rhymes
It's not the same. There is a measurable difference between solving cancer and not solving cancer. Your issue is actually not an issue at all, and it isn't worth any consideration.
Same concept with free shipping. People really like it, even if the total cost is higher.
How uniform is MD5 (compared to other non-cryptographic) functions?
I'm sure they'll release video of it sooner or later. They not long ago release that montage of all their rocket failures.

I'm a little disappointed too, but it was probably the right call by them to cut the feed.
Alternatively, you can lobby for a different choice, or pressure the 'lesser evil' to improve themselves. Rarely do folks bother to do this though after they've made their choice.
Same, in Indiana. High school started at 7:45, bus picked up at 6:45.
Ah, yes, let's put the burden back on the user after we promised them something easier.

We should just go back to traditional keys if this is the case.
> If I were the insurance companies, I'd be putting pressure on the car companies

And also give car owners an incentive to keep their keys safer, given how many vehicles out there are vulnerable to this. Just fixing this for new cars is only half the solution.

I remember back in the 80s my parents got a discount on their insurance for installing a third brake light in the back window of their old Camaro. If my insurance gave me a discount, I'd get a faraday cage for my keys. I'm considering doing it anyway, even though my house is pretty far from my driveway, and we have cameras.

I've searched for nice-looking faraday cages but haven't found anything good. I think there's a market for fashionable key/phone faraday cages, between this car theft issue and the push to digital detox.

EDIT: curious why this is downvoted? I'm not saying that this shouldn't be fixed by car manufacturers going forward, but we need to do something about the millions of cars on the road already. Is there another solution that would make more sense? Or is there something I'm missing here?
Things do get more expensive as demand increases.

Have you not bought enterprise SSDs up until 6 months ago?

https://cdn.pcpartpicker.com/static/forever/images/trends/tr...

This is the average price of a 256GB SSD. In May 2017 they were just above $100. Soon after that demand pushed that near $175. Just recently that price has dropped as new processes have increased inventories.

> why wouldn't someone undercut the current suppliers

Why would you when all your production is sold out for the next six months?

You don't understand supply and demand curves at all, do you?
Elon's saying they shouldn't have cut away from it. He just posted the rocket-eye view of the water landing:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1070399755526656000

Engines stabilized rocket spin just in time, enabling an intact landing in water! Ships en route to rescue Falcon.
If the schools are fun and a great experience, the kids would wake up at 5 for school. The schools are so boring and useless, the kids obviously find no use or interest in attending them.
SSMS is a really good free database management IDE/GUI/tool for MS SQL Server. It can do graphical live query profiling, index management, management of views/stored procedures/triggers/constraints/functions etc.

Postgres currently has nothing comparable. DataGrip, though proprietary, is the closest in terms of functionality, but even it doesn't have the tight integration with the database that SSMS has.

If you've used SSMS, other database GUIs feel underpowered. (Oracle SQL Developer is ugh)
ElonMusk just posted a video of the actual landing - including the fall.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1070399755526656000
How does she unlock her front door?
What happens if the gravitational mass is the exact negative of the inertial mass for some fraction of matter, though? Does that break GR?
Googlers Write to CEO Demanding Equal Treatment for Contractors
Can you be more specific? I always wondered why people use them
Quite possible, once Microsoft has ported all the important bits to ARM64. There will be the second coming of Windows Smartphones.
Thats a really good point! It is interesting that support for websockets on a large scale is still quite limited when it comes to AWS/Azure/Google.

Probably explains why SSE is more and more a viable alternative even though it has more overhead than websockets
The trick is almost all creatives are already paid in the model most fitting the production of information - people that want the fruits of their labor pay them to make it. Very few software engineers, for example, are living off copyrighted sold copies of the software they wrote. The company they work for might, or some other knob in the chain, but for 99% of us we are not directly using copyright as our source of income - someone else is.

And that is the trick. People want software. We threw this extra, pointless step in the middle between "people C want X software" and "pay people D to make X" in the form of "have publishers / corporations P pay people D to make X to sell to C".

Every conservation on this always functionally boils down to "but that is so different from the way thing are now!" which of course it is. Its the same reason why the market for prohibited drugs is so much more convoluted, dangerous, and disconnected from regular commerce - you make things more complicated, like criminalizing posesssion of the good, or enabling the profiteering off information, and the market will warp to both meet demand and maximize profit using the framework the government provides to do so.

Its really no different from how you are told to get started in music or art or even how to get a job programming. You make stuff for free to start out to get a portfolio of work proving you know what you are doing. Once you can prove your ability you ask for money to make more, be it words, art, designs, code... its how the world has worked for all time. It is only in the last two hundred years this model of "make stuff and ask for money later with the backing power of the state" perverted commerce. And all of us commoners never even got to benefit. We still work in classical employment. We still need to do the work for free to prove we can make more information in the future. We still get paid for our time, not the fruits of our labor. Which is fine - its how the whole rest of the economy works!

There is only one scarce thing in the creation of new ideas and that is your time. You should be charging for it. Its all thats worth anything in the equation of creativity. Most people do charge for it with salaries. The world still predominantly runs in tandem with reality. Its only a very few people who get to throw a state backed wrench into economics to rent seek already made ideas.
Windows (for test/dev): https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/mssql-server-windows-deve...

MSSQL also runs on Linux: https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/mssql-server/
Find an ACTEC estate planner who will help you with putting the money in a revocable trust, depending on your state, which may shield it from estate tax for generations to come. So long as you're the only trustee, it's like you holding the money personally. You're married, so you're a safe distance from the lifetime exemption for now, but laws may change. Find a tax attorney who understands estate issues. Sign up at Vanguard and you'll get preferred treatment and access to advisors of many kinds free just because of the amount you hold.

Now for the controversial advice. As far as lifestyle, stick with what you care about. The things available to buy now for the wealthy are not particularly interesting unless you're vacuous and vulgar or your time is extremely valuable. Fractional jet ownership that gets you where you want to go a few hours faster? A huge house that you can fill up with stuff you don't use or care about? A car that speeds up a little faster or looks a little nicer? There’s nothing available now qualitatively inaccessible to someone middle class.

That won’t always be the case. Invest with a strategy that’s been successful if back-tested for 100 years, like total market index, and in 20 or 30 years, there will be extremely interesting things worth buying. Life-extending treatments, trips to space, Chappie-style robots as bodyguards (or dishwashers), brain implants, organ replacements, brain backup services. Things we can’t even imagine. Hold onto your money until there’s something worth buying.
Internal Tensions at Facebook Are Boiling Over
You should host teachings in college and schools.
> A fully loaded truck moving at highway speed needs a lot of space to stop, at least 150 to 200 meters, and the long-range lidars now available can’t sense things in sufficient detail that far ahead. ...

> Reliability is also limited. I mentioned that we use components that are automotive grade, that we’re certain will work over the lifetime of our vehicles, in all the various conditions we require. Lidar isn’t there yet.

That makes me think how inefficient it is for every vehicle to carry its own lidar, radar, etc. Why not pay once for high-quality sensors built into the highway infrastructure, and have them feed data to passing vehicles. It would solve the lidar range problem, among other things.

One obvious challenge would be that smaller roads would not be outfitted with the sensors. Perhaps automated driving would be disabled in that case.
Insurance companies will just raise rates and be done with it.
Oracle SQL Server is like 50 years old
A New Connection Between the Gut and the Brain
Man, this is a handy little reference; I hadn't known about these! Cheers!
Not lately but I've found this site really enjoyable. It's fascinating the weird stuff that was being engineered a hundred years ago; its essentially the rapid startup culture of today but with steam.

http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/museum.htm

http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/locoloco.htm
MySQL is still under development, and there are numerous forks. I use it for my company; it's still a very good database option, albeit perhaps a little basic.

However the fact that it's owned by Oracle does make it a little bit scary, even though we have no exposure to their code or anything linked at all. I sort of wish we'd chosen Postgres instead.
Hey can someone from TiDB help me understand the benchmark results you posted comparing 2.0 with 2.1?

https://github.com/pingcap/docs/blob/master/benchmark/sysben...

The main question is this: how large is the dataset created in Sysbench? 16 tables with 10,000,000 pieces of data per table is interesting, but how big are those individual pieces? Morgan said "the expected data volume for TiDB is larger than memory," so does this benchmark actually test the underlying storage, or is it all in-memory?

Thanks for any help! Would like to try replicating this if possible in our lab.
It's because they keep getting the worm.
Not big on the empathy this guy, is he? I get that it's a bit of righteous entertainment dressed up as commentary, but even as that it's quite breathtaking in its lack of respect for its target.

EDIT: Ah f- it, flagged. This is hardly satisfying anyone's intellectual curiosity.
Note that many people still use HMC without a closed form for the gradient, via approximation. In fact, Stan (http://mc-stan.org/) automatically approximates the gradient by default if none is given.
One of the things I liked about Mongo (compared to Postgres) was the ability to configure a list of connected servers, an election pattern for deciding the master, and... that's it. With that, servers on multiple hosts were load-balancing read-only queries, propagating writes, and failing over in a way that worked for us (a few seconds of write failures of the master ever died was fine for the application we were making).

Meanwhile, postgres has this replication scheme available ("Trigger-Based Standby Master Replication") but the steps to implement it were much harder, and required an evaluation of possible replication/failover needs that we didn't know enough to do. It also requires a dive through pages of the documentation at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/different-replication-sol... to understand how to implement any of the above strategies.

Postgresql's availability of different replication methods, and the resources available for each, are impressive for sure. But there's something to be said for having Mongo's easily-understandable list of steps to get multiple servers talking to each other right away.
There is a lot of great technical discussions here of ways to possibly solve the issue. The real problem points back to the lackluster security the auto industry is used to. Only if some sort of accountability or software security testing requirements are enforced this will get fixed.

They have to have a mandatory recall if your Audi accelerates quickly by itself (that was in the early 80's i think), but no recall for a possible vulnerability in a jeep where someone can hack into the machine and control the acceleration (and other items).

This would be worse with centrally controlled autonomous vehicles, they are always sending and receiving data. Image the firmware on your car not being updated after 2 years and being stuck with the still open vulnerabilities.
And the social network business model leads them to validate and reinforce each others' worst tendencies.
Wouldn't that allow for a "perpetual motion" setup where a blob of normal mass is in front of a blob of negative mass? The negative mass would push the positive mass forward, and then be attracted to it and follow. What am I misunderstanding?
There really is no safe distance. A better antenna will be able to pick up the signal no matter how weak.
T-SQL might have some oddities, but Microsoft distributes SQL Server as a Docker image, very easy to setup.

https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/mssql-server/
Some good points, but I'm worried engineers take this as advice to always test with real customer data and even connect to prod from their dev boxes and such. Not a good way to handle PII.
Same but the one I got from the RMA has been running for 5-6 years without any issues.
Typically if you're trying to provide VPN access to your own private network, you would run your own VPN server on that network.
It's been just 3 years since the first rocket landing, and we're so used to it to the point that today's mishap will get more coverage than yesterday's achievement. Seeing the renewed speed of the space launch industry puts a huge smile on me.
Having built & led many teams, the time and energy that goes into managing an underperformer or a poor culture fit far outweighs the cost of thorough interviewing.

Even worse, you have to go through the hiring process again! So we can at least say it costs twice as much.

As mentioned, this kind of investment in the hiring process requires you to actually iterate it and continuously improve your win percentage. If not, you might be throwing money away.
If you're in the US, check into the QSBS exemption, which can give you a huge tax break on your gains. You can exclude gains, and if you reinvest in other qualified small business stock (angel invest) during a certain window then you can roll over the gains for that portion.

This doesn't mean it's a good idea to angel invest now, just that it lowers the risk a bit. I used to be a tax lawyer and know folks who advise on this; feel free to contact me through my profile if you want to talk further.
The criminals will be using more sensitive equipment than what the car is, so "Just far enough way that the car doesn't pick it up" is bad advice.
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New Yorkers overwhelmingly support Amazon campus in Queens: poll
Oracle is like America. Its not all the same. The database itself is now one of the most rock solid pieces of software ever built. Other products - yeah, less so.
Well, in this case "more culpable" doesn't make much sense, or do you think otherwise? Perhaps equally culpable would be an option.

Not sure what point you are trying to make, though.
I thought Oracle was founded in 1977 so it would be closer to 40 years.