skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I intended there was not to accuse you of anything. I still think the question is relevant, because it may be that the political objectives were never realistic, and thus the effort is Doomed with a capital D, and dogged persistence can only result in perpetual war.

It's also possible that, given the political, religious/sectarian, and economic factors at play, the region is likely to "relax into a minimum energy state," so to speak, which is unlikely to be much perturbed by the specifics of withdrawal.

There are always better and worse ways to do something. The hazard of holding out for the optimal withdrawal strategy is that it aligns you with disingenuous people who don't really want an end to the thing at all. They will poke holes incessantly in any proposal because either they still think the thing is winnable, or prolonging it advances their personal or institutional interests.

I'm still curious to know what precisely is so complicated about US withdrawal in Syria, what the counter-proposal is, and what objective it's supposed to achieve. This thread is going to get depth-limited at some point though, so I may not find out.
It's not a thin client though...
Usually comets look gray even in color pictures.

True-color image of comet 67P/C-G: https://i.imgur.com/wVMkBOV.jpg
How do you suggest getting into designing and working with distributed systems without job experience? Maybe virtualizing a data center on a home server?
This would be detected by SSH, as the host key wouldn't match. (The impersonator wouldn't be able to use the same host key, as they would need the private key, and that requires root privs.)
I believe that's the prevailing theory for what it is.
I am not saying it is trivial. I am saying it is not rewarded. It takes skill and willingness and some companies are not motivated to do it. Nevertheless, it is quite possible to not cruck when you decide you don't do that, period.

Prioritization, negotiation and saying no. Estimates large enough that they have buffers. You don't need on hour predictability. It is precisely when you have dynamic requirements when you are supposed to use tools like that.

After crunch, there are typically many bugs and convoluted code. It just adds to overall time in long term. Pretty much all studies found crunch to not be effective. It is not about achieving more.
In a nutshell, AI micro was flawless, makes up for suboptimal macro?
I have one of these, if you have any questions. I object to gutting them - they're amazing little devices as-is. Some notes:

You can hold down Shift while booting to let you into the Windows 3.0 Program Manager so that you can edit the GUI. (It is not, as claimed in the article, Windows 3.1.)

Holding down Alt-Shift allows you to edit the boot drive, and then there's a SYNC script to write your changes back. But it is VERY EASY to irretrievably brick the device doing this, so be ultra ultra careful.
Everyone looks up to someone. I suggest that you look up to Tyler Schultz.

That guy stuck to his guns and faced a hell of a toll for it. He had his life destroyed. He knew that was going to happen. He went ahead anyway.

Why? Because it was the right thing to do. Tyler saved countless lives, real actual people's lives; Elizabeth and Sunny's greed and hubris undoubtedly would have killed many people, no question.

Tyler Shultz is a hero.

Never let anyone tell you that you don't matter. Do the right thing.

Be like Tyler.
Except that a disproportionate percentage of poor defendants (who can't afford expensive lawyers) plead guilty before trial because their overworked and underpaid public defenders advise them to.

No, a disproportionate percentage of poor defendants plead guilty because they're actually guilty and their underpaid public defenders have advised them its not worth the effort to fight the charges--for the PD or the defendant.

Especially since, as you helpfully pointed out, the DA is less willing to give shorter sentences to guilty defendants who demand a trial. In this context, "shorter" meaning shorter than the likely sentence imposed by the judge after trial, usually even shorter than the statutory range imposed if the defendant is found guilty at trial. This is why defendants plead before trial--in many jurisdictions its the only way you can get a sentence less than the range unless you have a fantastically expensive lawyer (like the lawyer for Brock Turner, the Stanford Student Rapist).

The alternative is going to trial and being incorrectly found guilty and getting a larger sentence for a crime you didn't commit (your public defender has limited time/resources to make a great case for you).

You appear to have a Law & Order understanding of how criminal defense works. In the real world, even private attorneys spend most of a case attacking the DA's case, not building their own case. The Defendant doesn't need to prove anything.
> Unless you ingest it, I'm pretty sure the toxicity is a minor point.

Inhalation is also a risk: i.e., no sanding or spray application, unless you have a good filter mask and spray hood. When in doubt, the MSDS for the material in question is your friend.
There's ample historical precedent of unions in US being anti-minorities and anti-immigration. It may be a far fetched worry in this climate (although given electoral demographics, I wouldn't be so sure), but it is a legitimate one.

Here's history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiatic_Exclusion_League

Here's a recent example of unionized workers exhibiting racism:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/16/us/gm-toledo-racism-lawsuit/i...
the 1000 apm thing is because of a bug in how apm is calculated in starcraft2. There is a hotkey to assign all your units to a new control group while also deleting it from all other control groups which TLO extensively uses, and while it just is one key-combination to press it records as 1 action per unit which was selected. The real APM of pro players averages at 250-400 and peaks at 600-700.
It is definitely not as good, especially for certain queries. Those tend to be queries that have additional semantic meaning outside of just the keywords typed.
Yep. I just signed things via docusign 2 weeks ago. There was no 'create an account' first. IIRC, there was something at the end indicating I could create an account after the doc was signed, but I got a copy via email anyway which was all I needed. The last thing I need is yet another account/login for what is essentially a one-time thing.
Agree. The title hurts discussion and I think it could be less clickbaity and a bit more accurate to topic.

The topic is more about attributes of people who do large scale endeavors. Success should not be used in this context.
There would be an entire new dimension of decision making, in addition to good macro, where you have to prioritize actions. Will be interesting to see.
> The increased taxes would be cheaper than ...

that's probably true overall, but it matters where the benefits flow to and where the taxes flow from.

in LA, how are we going to increase taxes on car travel enough to reduce car trips to the point where deaths and pollution are noticeably reduced and then redirect those new tax revenues to improving public transport? what politician or government leader can deliver that message and actually succeed?

one of the first political realities that leader will discover is that the increased taxes must not be levied on working poor drivers. (most of them still need to drive their cars because public transport is not everywhere yet.) there will be a lot of complaints. and such taxes could actually increase levels of poverty because some poor workers won't be able to get to their jobs in their cars anymore. such a leader would be demonized for hurting low income people.

that means the leader will have to propose an even greater tax hike on the middle and upper classes. well that's a hard fight too. those people vote. they fund campaigns. they also do not use the public transport systems as much as other income groups.
What about tarpitting known spurious attacks? Possibly proxying/forwarding to a different host?
They did capture color. Ultima Thule is red.

https://www.space.com/42878-ultima-thule-new-horizons-first-...
I don't necessarily disagree with what you are saying, I do think your perspective is somehwat wrong however. The ultimate goal of a union is of course to improve the state of affairs. But the larger reason reason to have a union is because it is a right to be able to affect your own future.

There are shitty unions, but there are also shitty companies and you only have the right to affect one. If people say shitty things, should you abandon free speech or should you engage in the free speech you believe in? Most people would say the latter because they think free speech is an important right. I guess a similar conclusion would be that worker participation is too important to be left to shitty unions.
There were examples of very large polls that failed spectacularly because of the badly chosen samples

https://www.math.upenn.edu/~deturck/m170/wk4/lecture/case1.h...
U.S. Oil Production Is 23 Years Ahead of Schedule
You've got it right, Ultima Thule is what's called a contact binary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_binary_(small_Solar_Sy...
Moving development doesn't necessarily entail outsourcing. Publishers can contract foreign developers for the whole game. Blizzard is already doing this with Diablo Immoral, handing development off to NetEase
There was a low-resolution colour camera and a high-resolution black-and-white camera. But the colour information isn't very interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(486958)_2014_MU69#Gallery
Standard practice at university. Everyone just had a generic <Name>, Selwyn College, Cambridge address, so you'd just meet them at the main gate. Rarely checked ID (non-Deliveroo).
Approximately zero seconds.
Comes to the same thing. You get all the 'advocacy' you can afford, and the poor cannot afford any. So they give up early.
I think we will see various governments pass regulations, and they might even help a little, but governments have stronger incentives to push the other way.

Whether it is to protect IP, to enable police-interception or to prevent you from cranking up you radio signal governments and companies have joint interest in ensuring gadgets don't always obey their users. Often for good reason.

Politicians therefore have a much stronger incentive to push for piece-meal regulations to get devices to do certain thigns (will sometimes be consumer-friendly) than to support a general right-to-tinker which can allow uses that powerful stakeholders (including the public) will dislike.
Unfortunately, it can take as long as two weeks to recover, and the withdrawal can keep ramping up for several days.

Here is an example of something.

The last time I quit caffeine, I went for a piddly little four mile run on day five or six. This is something I'm more than accustomed to as a regular runner. Moreover, I ran it at a snail's pace. Yet, the next day, my entire body was sore: arms, shoulders, back, abdominals, not to mention legs: calves, quads, shins, everything. It was worse than after having run a marathon. The soreness almost a week to completely dissipate.

It's not just your brain that is used to the caffeine, but your entire body.

Basically, two weeks of plodding through a fog, with a heavy body.

> Take pain killers if you must.

Just, obviously, avoid anything with caffeine, like Excedrin.
That's the stupidest comment I've ever read. It doesn't really deserve a thoughtful answer and I find it pretty insulting to get lectured about life choices by someone that simply doesn't understand the situation.
They are taking a very good care to select the right 4000 people.
> If convicted, justice would be had but would it send a negative message to entrepreneurs?

It might send a cautionary message, but cautionary messages aren't inherently negative.
I think a lot of people object to the labour practices of most if not all of the food delivery services; this isn't particularly new news. In Australia the drivers/riders are not treated or paid very well and there is considerable controversy about whether they are really employees vs contractors.

I'm surprised that this hasn't occurred to you already at least as an issue for someone (not necessarily you, or, for that matter, me). Still, this given that this is a thread where things like "food delivery" need to be explained from first principles, I shouldn't be too surprised.
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Tbh, the way Jack told the story makes him sound ignorant. His tone sounded like he wanted to make fun of Zuckerberg.

Wanting to learn and experience where food comes from end-to-end sounds respectable.

I fail to see why that is laughable.

But a lot of people are making fun of Zuckerberg, though Reddit seems to respect Zuckerberg on this point: https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/ajdaaq/twitter...

As a former not-so-early Twitter employee, I'm disappointed in Jack that he even brought up this topic and said it in this tone.
What Happens When You Try to Sue Your Boss
Is there any way to download OneGraph GraphiQL explorer binary? Is it open source?
We’re being seduced into believing in social constructs. His language is much more palatable.

For the record, I’m fine with it.
We created an App that helps strike a balance between screen time and physical activities. It's called healthy limit, currently available on the Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.healthylim...

The idea is to use a Fitbit to track a kids steps and sleep, and reward them with screen time for every step and every minute of sleep.

Parents decide the rules of exchange for steps and sleep to screen time.
I always felt like increasing security has some cost on convenience.
> Is it purgury to say "I dont know" when you actually do?

It is perjury, but often a particularly hard (though not impossible, as legal proof is not the same as logical proof) to prove form of it.
> The news here is that Office is now in the Mac App Store, not that big of a news.

It is bigger news than you might think. The Mac App Store has resoundingly failed to attract most "premium" Mac apps. Skype? No. Spotify? No. Chrome? No. Photoshop? No. VMware? No. Steam? No. Minecraft? No. Dropbox? No. Sketch? Left.

The redesigned App Store app was the first signal in years that Apple was starting to take it seriously again, and now they've brought one of the most popular pieces of software to the store. That's a big move.
Oh right, without a mapping its a "chicken and egg" situation. Cheers.
Another interesting paper on optimal transportation and GAN: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05488
Nearly any coherent process an entire organization commits to will work. The questions are more around whether they'll actually commit to a coherent process.

Most orgs I've done "Scrum" in have done "Scrumbut" instead: "It's Scrum, but..." and then screwed it all up.

Customization is part of the game for sure, but gutting the core principles to reduce Scrum to a fancy status tracking mechanism doesn't preserve the benefits very well. It's not the right kind of customization, it's neutering. That seems to be such a common antipattern I have to assume it's a gross flaw in the system itself:

The short term compromises are so startling to traditional management they won't wait to measure medium or long term gains, and instead tweak it to death.

This isn't super surprising given that half the process in Scrum (product owners, scrum masters, either finish as planned or scrap the sprint entirely, etc) is to keep management concerns from whipping back and forth by limiting the amount of influence management has mid-sprint. The other half is supposed to make them comfortable with the first half (estimates, feedback, status, burndowns), and predictably is the half most commonly preserved--as overhead without a tradeoff.

So yeah, think it could definitely work in a group that understands it well, and embraces both the flaws they were getting away from and the features they were getting away to. Unfortunately, I rarely see that level of cooperation in an org, so it usually doesn't work very well.
Neither. The existing Office desktop apps are already sandboxed.
I sure hope so---then I could a 4X AI that was worth a damn.
There is a fair and dirty way to fight. I think most people on HN agree that Damore was out of line to milk all the controversy when his memo leaked out. I would argue that similar things happened with Maven, Dragonfly, and exit payouts to execs, but I don't want to go down that rabbit hole.
Unions in Hollywood place a useful role of insuring proper credit and arbitrating when there is a dispute. Some game publishers have tried to avoid credits, partly to make it more difficult to know which employees to poach. But I have seen credits sorely abused in some instances.
If you're regenerating lock files, you're losing all your locks for the stuff that didn't change, which can lead to unpredictable bugs.

Fortunately as someone else replied, both yarn and npm have safe and easy ways to resolve merge conflicts in their lock files.
AWS LB does not validate backend certificates, so you can put a self-signed cert on the instance. Heck, even if the cert expires it will still work, and make LB<->EC2 connection technically encrypted. Yay compliance.
Do you the reason why Linus rejected this idea?
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I can't just have a morning cup without it escalating into something like 10 cups a day.

Then suddenly not enjoying those is a different story from yanking away the morning cup.
The sky is blue, what is that dogs name?
I think OpenAI would have been by lots of humans, but they decided to train it with 5 unlimited, invulnerable couriers. (until the TI showmatches, in which they were beaten easily.)
The idea that there is only one way to be successful, and that we are all in some grand competition to make as much money as possible, is beyond stupid. Financial success does not in any way shape or form have anything to do with achieving happiness.
Some do. Others may lead totally balanced lives, with a fair employer, earning good wages -- a union may serve them only detrimentally.

It's not as clear-cut as "unions are always good for all workers."
Huh? Hardware TSS has nothing to do with separating address spaces. It’s just a trick for switching the address space, and it’s really quite slow on modern CPUs. In theory, a kernel could use hardware task switching to switch address spaces on user/kernel transitions by forcing a hardware task switch when this happens, but the performance impacts would be considerably worse than KPTI.

What does seem to mitigate Meltdown on some CPUs is enabling segment limits for user code. This does nothing for 64-bit code, though.

edit: not to mention that there are no hardware context switches on 64-bit kernels. AMD removed support entirely in 64-bit mode. The TSS still exists, but it’s just an awkward dumping ground for a couple of data structures.
If you are interested in color, pigments and paint from an artist's standpoint, I strongly recommend Tad Spurgeon's blog and his book "Living Craft"[1]. The book delves into not just classic and modern pigments and their combinations (palettes) for painting, but also many variants of and recipes for binders (paint == binder + pigment), most notably hand-refined linseed oil, which can apparently be made to dry much faster and be relatively more permanent than most commercial oils. Not always scientific but always thoughtful and surprising, the book is a very enjoyable reference for a hardcore paint geek.

Spurgeon reminds me of Knuth, in a dedicate-your-life-to-an-extremely-deep-inquiry sort of way. The book was an investment (I think I paid 80 US), but one I definitely haven't regretted.

[1] https://www.tadspurgeon.com/the_book.php?page=the+book
Interesting observation
Yeah. Jury consultant here. Juries definitely have their problems but a lot of the scary bad things I've seen happen in trials have stemmed from bad rulings by the judge. I'm reminded of a case I had where the judge refused to DQ an expert economist who produced a damages model with a p value of 0.5 (yeah, not 0.05). Basically all the defendants had to settle because it had the judge's imprimatur and they wouldn't be able to convince the jurors it was bullshit. It's easy to blame juries when there are bad outcomes but a lot of the time their bad decisions are precipitated by bad rulings.
Nice article!

If you want to have lots of fun, you could look at switch_mm() on a modern kernel :)
I managed to dig this up from an 8 year old chat in FB Messenger(!!!) where I asked my friend about an album I heard in 1992.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Monte_Young https://www.discogs.com/La-Monte-YoungForever-Bad-Blues-Band...
> A CS major at a state school in North Dakota doesn't go as far as one from say, the Cali state system.

Fair, but honestly I don't think FAANG companies put a lot of weight on school past the top 10 ranked. I don't think your average hiring manager is going care about the difference between Bing and NDSU.

> A CS and Math/Econ double major in 3 years? How many people do that and have a GPA that isn't toilet-adjacent?

Don't sleep. Study a lot. Keep in mind we're talking state school here. Double/triple majors are a lot easier at Bing than at Harvard. If you come in with AP credit it's definitely doable.

> 'then go into finance/tech': If by 'finance' you mean IB/PE/HF, those firms don't recruit at state schools unless it's in a major metropolitan area or has a history of hiring alums. If you think you'll get into IB by just submitting an online application like the rest of the world, then good luck.

Okay, sure, finance might take a bit more finesse (although outside the big firms I bet it's a lot easier). But tech is generally more focused on general hiring pipelines.

> Same for FAANG and the other companies that offer big salaries to fresh grads. They aren't exactly flocking to the SUNYs to pick up CS grads.

I actually know quite a few people at SUNYs that have FAANG internships. Especially Stony Brook. Not unbelievable that they'd get a decent offer out of school.
It just plays into the classic class warfare theory that seems to be common these days.

It basically boils down to essentially being if you are successful then it directly because of your privileged class...not from your hard work or skill. If you are unsuccessful or poor then it is because the privileged class is holding you down and preventing you from being successful.

In the end though it only hurts those who believe in it because those who believe in it also believe that it is a waste of time to work hard, be innovative etc because it will only lead to failure. So they never try. People also use it as a way to justify why they are poor or unsuccessful...not their fault...it is the privileged that made them poor! Their other political views will mainly focus on "economic justice" like more regulations on successful businesses, higher taxes for the rich, welfare programs for the poor (basic income basically a dream come true in their eyes) and so on.

Seems to be a very popular view these days among young people.
That sounds a lot like Eric Meijer talking about Haskell IO. (Browses article) Yep.
(Just in case) they are free in Canada.
Union works this way in the US? Wow, this is not a clever way to achieve anything. I understand why some people are anti-union then.
What does Postgres have to do with Apache? The basics for building OLAP systems are already well known and Apache has several projects (Druid, Calcite, Arrow, Parquet, ORC, Drill) that are related to it.

It's one thing to take a database and fork it towards a specific narrow focus and runtime, it's entirely different to try and put those changes back and make the original database more capable in a general environment.
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That's a pretty good description of apparmor.