skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I welcome both of you to Canada. The technology company I worked for in Toronto had an incredible number of immigrants that were well on their way to getting full citizenship (I think it takes just 5 years?). It was a great work environment with an eclectic mix of east asians, eastern europeans, etc.
Nice. Recently tried setting up both openvpn and wireguard and was struck by how much easier wireguard was.
> One of the most important parts of the original design for go get was that it was decentralized

That's one of the things I like in go most. Having decentralized packages via domains and URLs and then index them (godoc.org works very well), it mirrors the design of the Web. In contrast npm, Rust and others that are tightly coupled to one site feels like Google AMP - centralizing and hosting everything in one place.
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It's kind of their job, no? You wouldn't expect to hear a VC say "Hey, here's a term sheet, but no rush - get back to us when you feel like it, there's always plenty of money later."

"Recession is just around the corner" is VC-speak for "Offer available while supplies last! Hurry, operators are standing by!"

That doesn't mean it isn't true, of course.
Maybe where you live. Roads can easily be designed or redesigned for other modes of transport, like bicycles. We've been doing that in the Netherlands for decades, with great results for road safety.
His blog is great for general "this is what's going on in chemistry and pharmacology" news too - it's not just things he won't work with! Admittedly, I really wish he'd do more articles in that series, because they were absolutely hilarious.
> Just look at how Apple apologized about their battery dilemma. Here’s a great way to show you care about your users

In Apple's case, users are also customers and everybody take genuine care about their customers.

In Fb's case, users are not their customers, they are product for them. and product are meant to be for sell, and this is what they do.
Insurance is complicated in the US in no small part because of government intervention.

Starting with the fact that employers pick insurance plans for their employees, eliminating enormous market power: and this happens because the government doesn't tax the money that is spent on insurance plans.
Is there enough interest in ZFS that an organization could be set up to keep a single core ZFS and coordinate its ports into different OSs in a way all ports benefit from updates and the frontier between core and OS can be clearer?
Germany just opened up (alot) you just need to find a job and can you can stay. (in IT not that hard right now)
Is it just me or it feels like valuations on these deals is just to make LPs paper profits?

Where the reality is that if SoftBank does not provide funding, WeWork is not making it to the choppa?
Hardware is about 10 years behind the rest of the software world and hasn't discovered the benefit of open source yet. I have talked to some firmware devs and the idea of open source is totally alien to them.
I have no idea why you're being downvoted. You have successfully summarized 5g.
Lots of people shaming companies this week, but all of them including this one just don't sound justified at all.

I mean an Iranian company using American products and expecting EU protection?! None of it makes any sense.
The graph is projecting global yearly investments not just California. And even if it was just California I would be doubtful of a projection 20 years into the future.
You have to reprint the thing so you can sell new copies of it. Or persuade a publisher that it's worth them going through the hassle and expense of reprinting it. Or hassle with getting it into newfangled distribution services so you can sell electronic copies of it.

Trust me, this is work, I am an independent artist who has a thing that's out of print that she now regularly gets people asking her to reprint, and I am so damn burnt out from my last Kickstarter that I'm ignoring this ever-growing mass of people eager to give me money.
You're still thinking in 2018 terms. What about 2025?
As I am sure Scott knows, you can completely remove the complex amplitudes from your equations at the cost of storing the phase on a single ancila qubit.

Complex numbers are a qubit the universe gives us for free.
Why would anyone want to work at WeWork at twice the price?
I think the best interpretation of their point is that at some point the breakthrough was questioning a fundamental assumption. I think the point about matching real neurons was just to give credence to their hunch that backprop is not quite the right track to be taking.
Getting an empty response for this link. Do you have an alternate?
All demand is always infinite: you can always get more. (i.e. I want my cold to be checked out by a panel of CDC experts
I used VB a bit after a bit of linux/bash and I was super sad that MS never (even though it's not surprising[1]) marketed VB as a system customization language for Windows'es. It's not a great language, but at least it has some kinds of type, and with COM modules you can tap into just about anything in your OS (for better or worse of course). Bash felt like a string grep hell very fast to me.

And nowadays powershell seems a great replacement.

[1] of course Windows wasn't meant for tinkerers but for users/customers, developping was for the MSDN side of things, for which you'd agree to pay because you'd sell your creations I guess
The arguments like above are "platitude level arguments".

We really don't learn anything from the problem in had by talking in generic terms. We use these arguments when we want to justify our hopes and feeling, but there is really nothing to learn from it.

Hinton, Hassabis, Bengio and others point out that we can't 'brute force' AI development. There needs to be actual breakthroughs in the field and there may be several decades between them.

AI, brain science and cognitive science are extremely difficult fields with small advances, yet people assume that it's possible to 'brute force' AGI by just adding more computing power and doing more of the same.

Macroeconomics is probably less complex research subject than AI or brain science, but nobody assumes that you can just brute force truly great macroeconomic model in few years if you just spend little more resources.
Here here. There is an ideological divide between those that want socialized medicine and those that want a free market.

But what the US has now is neither. And many of the most pervasive problems it has now are very much attributable to current regulations and laws.
The latter is a true hypothetical as US law prevents charging different rates to different users for the exact same product/service.
I liked the abstract though: I felt like I understood the content of the paper without having to read the abstract multiple times.
There's a big difference between apprehending a suspect based on fuzzy phone video vs just driving around a little to drop off some packages. Why would you compare those two actions?
What about windows containers?
Thanks - funny how diesel locomotives stay iddling for hours, yet our diesel cars now turn off when stopped for just a few seconds - due to idiotic CO2 related testing and legislation.
Result, a horrible experience of noise and lurching, often every few minutes in traffic, less responsive so less safe, more engine ware, all for zero fuel actually saved.
freebsd code base would be to be a marquee feature to me
Factory machines to use time-sensitive networking to coordinate work
In the comments on TFA the author (and others) shows that the lack of commutativity in the quaternions leads to faster-than-light signalling.
> In Japan the first time I went to a doctor it was for stomach pain. He gave me on ultrasound and declared I had hepatitis.

Ultrasound? That is absurd.

I can't speak for UK/US/Japan but in India situation is quite similar. Opaque pricing along with quacks (or maybe genuine doctors) out to milk as much as they can, especially if they know that you have insurance.

A colleague of mine who had stomach pain was told that he had to get his appendix removed. When he refused the doctor actually threatened him with a write-up to ensure that he doesn't receive any insurance money. After the company got involved he was moved to another hospital, only to be told that he had stomach gas.
This was famously denounced by Milton Friedman a long time ago.
Hidden Advantages of Cross Platform Mobile App Development
In which case they could've just used a separate encryption layer with any database, including DynamoDB. The HSM security keys available from all the clouds makes this rather simple.
Julia 1.0.3 is now available
Wow, this looks really amazing.

As a heavy emacs and magit user this looks very promising.

Tarsius is doing amazing work as always.
Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing a Package Over Its Name
> Slack is an American company, GDPR is a EU law and OP is Iranian. That’s not how this works... Sure companies that operate within the EU have created tools to export your data automatically (they still have contact points to request the same data if you don’t have an account or were banned so can’t use the automated tools) so they opened those tools up to everyone not just those within the EU. But that doesn’t mean you are covered by the EU law and can demand your data. Only thing I would suggest is to lookup the GDPR email for slack and manually request the data. Though I wouldn’t expect anything.

Slightly unrelated but note that many "American companies" are explicitly headquartered in the EU for tax reasons, and by structuring themselves in this way they are explicitly putting themselves under EU jurisdiction. Examples include Apple and Google (headquartered in Ireland) and Amazon (headquartered in Luxembourg).

A quick search found that Slack is actually headquartered in America. But if they are dealing with the EU market then they very likely need to have an EU subsidiary (and looking again they have a Dublin office and so are likely incorporated in Ireland). However, GDPR only applies to EU/EEA residents -- so you can't just send a GDPR request if you are not resident within EU/EEA.
Network of people working there, perks, quality, brand. Why do people do anything for twice the price?
Why do you think that is weird?

My understanding is that "mice studies" cost less than clinical trials, therefore more "mice studies" with (correct/incorrect) conclusions are created.
I worked for Spotify very close to this integration. Not going into too many details, but the access they got is generally what's being reported. That said, I'm not aware of Spotify doing anything with messages other than displaying them to users; they weren't mined for data or retained. The intent was a unified messaging experience across apps, but it's been effectively dead for over four years. The only creepy thing I'm aware of that they tried with Facebook data was try to build a taste profile from "likes," and this is from public profile data.

There's a big difference between what the permissions could do and what they were actually used for. Facebook takes its contracts with trusted partners as seriously as they say. My concern would be less around "how was my (let's be honest--Facebook's) data used" and more around Facebook's growth at any cost engine.

Or the overall growth engine of tech.
Why? Arabs are from Arabia (it's named after them), and the backers are from Arabia (aka. the Arab peninsula).
Actually, since copyright is life + x years, an artist that wishes to leave his descendants with a source of income off of his works is better off creating a work and leaving it to them to slightly tweak and then publish as "by FAMOUS_ARTIST and his second cousin's daughter".

That way, copyright will last for the life of the involved descendant as well.

So I'm doubtful if anyone would publish anything just for the same of supplying for their children. It's just not the best way to achieve the goal.
Not only arrays, you can, with some limitations, create proper types with field names, if your ORM supports that you should use that over JSONB if it fits.
Hi,

It is my understanding that Prometheus's storage engine is LSM based, and uses a compression scheme inspired by gorilla.

Boltdb is basically a btree which causes more write amplification.

Maybe you should try badgerdb.
Honestly the hardest part I have encountered so far has been learning the lingo. So much of what I was reading early on went over my head because i didn't fully understand the terminology and I don't really have an electronics background. But with enough patience and reading it starts to become clearer. And there is so much material to learn from online.

The cheapo Chinese FPGA boards don't have much onboard except an LED or two, so you will need some components and a breadboard or two to start making stuff happen.

If you have any experience with micro-controllers like Arduino (IE: knowing how to connect to components on a breadboard), and are already familiar with Boolean Algebra and finite state machines, then you won't find the initial learning stages to be too challenging either.
You can put a CDN in front of anything, including Wordpress or any framework. No need for a static site, and the homepages and section pages are rather dynamic now with user logins, story feeds, and personalization.
I used in back in '86 while visiting Adelaide for the F1 GP and remembered it being smooth, fast and super cool at the time.

Things wear out...
Love the downvotes instead of comments. I've walked away from Elixir as the best practice deployment methodology (Distillery) is non-op on FreeBSD[1] and has been for a few months while the Distillery author is mum. All of this despite the vast love that the Elixir community seems to heap on FreeBSD.

Erlang and Elixir have plenty of promise but there simply is no good story for production deployments. Distillery and edeliver approximate capistrano, and that sounds great when it works (although I'd just as soon skip edeliver). But when it doesn't I'd much rather dig into the mess of ruby that is Capistrano than the mess of shell scripts, erlang, and god knows what else goes into a Distillery release.

Elixir is a really interesting language, but Phoenix seems to still be pretty wet behind the ears and very much in flux. Ecto too to a much smaller extent.

1: Some of the distillery scripts can communicate with epmd, some just give up.
Well, the bill gets to the tax-payer instead of the patient.
I don't care whether the story is a wind-up or legit, there's a bigger principle.

Want to maintain professionalism and integrity? Due process is important. You can't just slam the door closed in peoples' faces arbitrarily and go radio silent or word's going to get out that you're untrustworthy. Do right by people; don't be a dick. Otherwise: problems.
See also: PostGIS.
VB.NET is still taught in the GCSE (secondary school) Computer Science course in the UK. My daughters are doing it now. Fortunately they are able to run it fine in Visual Studio for Mac.

I’m teaching them a bit of a Python as well, but I’m impressed with the material they’re doing at school, it’s all good stuff even if the language is a bit clunky. Apparently they will be using Java for the International Baccalaureate in a few years.
Last year I saw many large group tours of Japanese businessmen from various companies (around 2 dozen people each time) in Seattle WeWork offices. Then the Tokyo WeWork locations opened earlier this year. I visited one during a recent trip and it was as full as the flagship one in Seattle.
> Jaime Escalante and a few others who did things such as take over a class of the worst performing drop out bone headed students at a failing school, brought them enough up to speed to be able to score well on the AP Calculus test, and to this day all of them are doing much better than any of their peers

This isn't accurate. Jaime Escalante spent years setting up a multi-year pipeline into his class. His students were selected and trained up to the standard he could enforce before they met him specifically.

He's an example of effective management and academic tracking more than effective teaching. (It is true that he achieved much more with the students he was responsible for than would be expected based on demographics.)
> I mean an Iranian company using American products and expecting EU protection?! None of it makes any sense.

It should be noted that Slack has an office in Dublin so it very likely has an Irish subsidiary (just like Apple, Google, and half of the tech industry so they can avoid taxes) and thus is subject to EU requirements. The GDPR applies to them, and since they have an EU company they (I believe) need to obey GDPR requests from any source. [EDIT: This is incorrect.]

But I can understand why Slack would cancel their account, since violating export sanctions is a really easy way to end up in gaol.
Why do you assume that there is only one planet nine?

Are you using the IAU definition of a planet? If so, why assume that there even is one? And if you are using a different definition, why assume that only one single object meets those criteria?

If you are willing to forego "cleared the neighbourhood" then there might be dozens of round worlds with upwards of 10^20 KG mass in the solar system. We even know of such worlds not bound to any star at all!
I think it not so bad because a system like this isn't really competing with primary producers (solar/wind), it's competing with peaking sources fueled by nat gas/oil/hydro/batteries. All of which have a higher cost per MWH. I think too you can do the equivalent of cogen by using the waste heat from the thermal cycle for commercial and industrial heating.

My take is thermal storage is going to become really important once we start taking coal and nat gas plants off line causing the daily power price curve to invert. Power goes from cheap at night, expensive during the afternoon to cheap in the morning and expensive in the early evening. Once that happens thermal storage becomes balance sheet economic.
Why wouldn't you be able to take advantage of those systems? I think it's quite the opposite where you can take the advantages without even knowing about it / affecting other parts of the system.
Wow. This is amazing. My 96-yo grandmother could really try this because anything that could potentially improve her QOL would be good.
Also, many travel credit cards will cover the $50/$100 charge whenever it needs to be renewed.
absolutely. Wanting to know the salary without looking at the full context is like wanting to know the run-time of a function and only looking at one of its many subroutines.

For instance, 60k in some areas of the USA means you are living like a king, have acres of land, a lake, multple cars, etc. That same amount in NYC probably makes you homeless.
Medicare has 30 million patients and costs about 3% of gdp. Multiply by 10, and you would need to almost double the tax-base to pay for medicare.

I propose the other thought experiment: why doesnt medicare just compete in the market with other insurance plans: it charges X and provides the service. If its truly more efficient it will beat all the rest.
Absolutely. I meant no disrespect — you’ve surely done more than I in this space. I just recognize, however generally, how terrible those in our age group are at looking at everything objectively, no matter how intelligent or successful. You may have incredible blogging experience, but life experience colors all subjects. A lot of advice you gave, from promoting, to design, and even the defining of an audience, is what worked for you and how you like to run your blog, not blogging as a whole.

An example: some people (like myself) really really care about blog design — it’s why I enjoyed looking at yours! I also like plaintext design and other stuff, but my point is I care. Your audience might not, considering how you defined it, but another audience might! Another example is the newsletter: you & your audience might like one, but Daring Fireball doesn’t have one and I like that aspect of the that blog.

So again, with all due respect, even your own points are contradictory. You didn’t look at blogging objectively — only what worked for you. Which is fine! Thanks for the advice. And please ignore mine — I’m 21. But hopefully you get my point.
TC39 / proposal-JavaScript-standard-library
That has the meta-problem of only allowing two different levels of hierarchies. For one more, you'd have to introduce a new separator.

I feel like the fixpoint of this function is going back to only one separator, or something, but I am not seeing the reasoning clearly.
> Having just experienced first world level healthcare in another country and paying for it out of pocket at 1/20th or less of what it runs in the US, I am certain we are getting shafted.

We are, but not by insurance companies. Their profit margins are thin. The issue is hospitals.

Sarah Kliffs idea to reduce the cost of hospitals is price controls: for the government to tell them they cant choose a price, and to ban them from accepting other insurance.
You should look into what Kaiser does to its providers. Its pretty grim.
> And now that piracy is way down due to streaming services, what do they gain by maintaining their copyright?

I think this is only temporary. The ongoing balkanization of streaming space makes piracy attractive once more. Sure, torrenting or even enduring a bootleg free streaming service isn't as convenient as Netflix or Hulu now in terms of watching (though I haven't used PopcornTime, maybe the experience is similar). But it also doesn't require you to juggle 12 paid subscriptions just to keep up with the movies you like.

Personally, I expect a resurgence of piracy in the coming years.
living in US for the last 8 years

In other words, you came in on an H1B in 2010, right as the recession was peaking and there was lots of tech talent unemployed and underemployed (scrambling for contract role after contract role)... which exemplifies the problem.

Even in the teeth of the recession, the entire quota of new H1B visas was consumed every year.
Rob Pike corrects an audience question when the guy uses golang instead of Go.

"Sydney Golang Meetup - Rob Pike - Go 2 Draft Specifications"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIvL2ONhFBI
Most likely there is no singular cause, but a slew of contributing factors that prevent amyloid clearance and promote plaque formation. That's why overlapping,
holistic solutions like the Bredesen protocol, ketagenic diets and now possibly ultrasound are the best treatment than waiting for a panacea that is unlikely to ever exist.
> I think you're saying the problem is as more people take taxis the lines for them get longer at the station. But I don't need to wait in that line if I'm going door to door.

I'm saying that the immediate area around the station gets incredibly congested, so it's difficult to get close to the station in anything that approaches a timely fashion. It prevents "door to door" since it takes longer to get to the station "door" with the congestion than it would have taken to simply walk.
Or it can tell the patient "this is the treatment that the state will afford" and then they shut you down.
My point was just we do have regulated monopolies in the US. But healthcare in the US isn't a fully regulated monopoly.

I'll argue whatever PG&E problems are they don't rise at all to the level of healthcare. And their problems are due to poor regulation and the US's current terrible management culture.
Except that the DMCA troll just repeats the takedown notice. What should happen is that a lawyer making fraudulent DMCA notices should be held liable.
They gave me RFE for my H1B extension

Who is "they"?
This still presupposes that the concept of copyright is justifiable...and it's not. People generated creative works for all of human history, long before the concept of copyright, and they did so by building upon the commons. Copyright is theft from the commons, stealing from us all and robbing us of works that may have been. All because some people profit from Imaginary Property (which often infringes upon your actual physical property rights...).