skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cloud computing was never about price, it was about the ability to provision and operate infrastructure instantly through an API.

If you can take advantage of that flexibility to build reactive capacity then you can save money, but that wasn't the initial driving point.
> It’s interesting how every company that suddenly leaves the UK as the deadline approaches says it’s due to some other reason and factors.

Nobody wants to get in a fight with the Brexit press.
Then I have a problem with my eyes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Eyes adapt, but mine get nowhere near the point of perceiving white items as looking anything but yellow under sodium. Always yellow near orange. 25 years of driving and dog walking in a very yellow world before LED started arriving. With all yellow snow when we still got snow. There was no white, until headlights caught something or dawn.

FWIW eye tests put my colour vision as normal.
Right at the top of that link:

> Testing or measuring procedures cannot be determinative in employment decisions unless they have some connection to the job.

IQ tests are not directly related to the job, and so are illegal according to that ruling. Coding tests are directly related, which is why they get a pass.
I can't read the article, but this is a nice piece which shows the insides pretty well:

https://www.oodihelsinki.fi/en/what-is-oodi/architecture/

It is a really beautiful space, I was there with my child last weekend and shot lots of videos of the various areas. There are trees inside, play-areas for children, and many nooks for reading/resting/chatting.

This link (Finnish) has a brief video showing people cleaning the snow from the roof too, which is a semi-common occurrence in buildings/streets here in Helsinki:

https://www.hs.fi/kaupunki/helsinki/art-2000005998579.html
> [...] but there is no substitute for the wisdom learned over time [...]

This is so very true. And, took me many years before I finally learned this!

Fortunately, early on in my career, I had the opportunity to work with some very senior developers. Even though I was a self-proclaimed 'rock star', they managed to open my eyes as to how much I still had to learn.
I'd be curious to know if anyone can anecdotally confirm a slightly different, but similar connection to IBS: chronic pain.

I have read that IBS is implicated in fibromyalgia, including shoulder pain, but I am interested in the reverse causal direction: can a painful shoulder injury cause IBS?

If nerves and the gut are tightly connected, it seems plausible that pain receptors would also be implicated in both directions. (Of course, going back to the link to the central nervous system, your brain doesn't have pain receptors, but it is connected to every nerve in your body.)
I use Lithium which the pro version can sync between Android devices. Doesn't do the Linux part as far as I'm aware, though.
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It is weird how many things in this list are now 20+ years old that I've seen being the hot new thing that would solve all our troubles.

Truly, this profession does not learn from its own past.

And I feel old :-/
Bugs are easy.... you just point out the bug and move on... design flaws are hard... it's hard to bring up the fact that while yes, your module solves this one immediate problem, it was written so rigidly that two sprints from now the whole thing will need to be re-written scratch. Or maybe you took a particular approach that seemed easy to implement, but it won't do async stuff properly and so it needs to be re-worked from the ground up. And I get you solved your immediate problem for your immediate task, but whoever works on this next is going to have to completely re-think the approach and that's not theoretical, that next week when we add more behavior.

You ever worked on a team a where someone would go write code in their own crazy way that wouldn't follow any sort of existing pattern or take advantage of existing tooling? So they spend like a week on a simple task because they re-wrote the strings.c because they didn't want to include it? Yeah, they get fired eventually, but they are the worst to write code reviews for, because you go into it just thinking WTH, why are they doing it this way, this entire approach is convoluted and error-prone and rigid and fragile and complicated.

If a super engineer has advice for me on how to deal with this stuff, I'm all ears. I usually just ignore it unless it directly impacts me and then go back and re-write it when we have to add on to it/make it interop with some more code/release it as an available API.
Using Dc.js and Crossfilter with React
Why the Last Words of Anne Boleyn Remain a Mystery (2016)
Cool, I'll bite. I don't know some of your mathy terms like "putative extensive transduction" or "anisotropy" so go easy on me.

But I hear you say things like "Neural nets are nonlinear iterated function systems by construction.", and it resonates with me. I've often tried to draw a parallel between the recursive tree structure of a program with the matrix structure of a neural network, which as I understand it is mathematically still a graph of functional nodes feeding into one another - it's just that treating it like a matrix allows the programs to be much more performant by using low-level structures like numpy arrays.

In any case, I often think about the tree structure of programs, and we whether could get to a place of programs that can analyze, understand and evolve the abilities of other programs. This could be seen as the old-school "symbolic AI" mindset. And then, the similarities and differences of that with the matrix-based neural network revolution that's happened in the last years. I wonder about possible holomorphisms and interfaces between those two paradigms.

I don't doubt that I barely skimmed the surface of what you were actually saying. The very general and meta way you were talking about information processing is intriguing to me, and I'd love to understand more. Thanks for sharing!
This is really a public education issue. I don't think people would object to stuff like that, when it's demonstrable that it's more beneficial - so long as it's clear.
Generally, pro-audio users lag behind on OS updates and hardware updates. Apple generally has problems with audio with every new generation, and this is nothing new. When you count on something to work, you tend to buy the old models.. you tend to run the previous known good OS... you tend to avoid updating anything as much as possible. This is only getting worse as apples software and hardware quality are severely degrading over the past few years. Pro users are leaving left right and center.
I can't anecdotally confirm that, but could speculatively postulate a possible explanation for such a phenomen, assuming you are interested.
How to Diagnose OutOfMemoryError in Android?
Every time I see one of these I'm validated in my decision to switch to Apple.
That’s the company selecting against you as a customer. If you have the gut reaction that every other poster to this thread (as well as me) has, it just means that you are not their target customer.

Similarly, the enterprises that will buy this thing would never click the buy button on the $50,000/month column of a pricing chart. That’s just not how that world works.

Developer folk get all worked up about this style of sales, and often muse aloud about how much business these companies are losing. But they could add all of our business up and find that it all fits into the discount they give to one of these big enterprises that are their target customers.
I spent so many years yearning. It was so unfair that all of the other kids had Pentium computers at home, and all I had was an old 386. My parent's refused to get me a game console, or cable tv. I was SO BORED, in my desperation, I tried making games in QuickBASIC.

I still think my parent's should not have gone so Amish, but I also don't think I would have developed as a programmer without that.
Many lower income individuals struggle to see their income increase faster than inflation. By contrast when you have immense wealth, it's pretty easy to achieve extremely stable returns on that immense wealth well beyond inflation. In cases where this is true it means the net effect is that the poor effectively pay more while the rich effectively pay less.

There's also an issue of debt differences. One of the big 'benefits' of inflation is that it makes old debts worth less. This is a major incentive for pursuing investments on debt. Not only can you see investments on money beyond what you presently have, but the debt that you took on becomes worth less - meaning it takes a smaller share of your profits each year assuming the principle is not growing. For instance during the government auto bailouts Ford took on a loan for billions of dollars of debt from the government. The interest rate on that loan is sub-inflation. Unsurprisingly, they aren't paying it back since each year it becomes worth less, and given enough time, it will become worthless.

By contrast when a lower income individual takes on debt, it's often 'consumed' such as in the case of education. And the debt becoming worth less over time is not true if an individual's income is not keeping pace with inflation. And another big issue is that lower income individuals are also often going to be seeing rather high interest rates on their loans further diminishing any theoretic benefit of inflation.

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This is not to say inflation is bad. You can create a comparably negative argument against deflation. I don't really have much of an opinion one way or the other. We've seen how depressive systems can end. And while our current inflation and debt driven system has not yet collapsed, it's not looking as stable as it once did to put it very mildly. I think in 20 or so years (and especially once the petro dollar is 100% dead) we'll have a much better idea of the pros and cons of each system.
Con: Apple has the final say for your app being released.
Gentoo as a Docker Build System?
It's what integration tests are for! Have a lab full of machines running popular workflows on lots of existing applications. One would hope their rigs compare sound out the audio port with expected waveforms; they certainly have the budget for it.
ROP-Ing on Aarch64 – The CTF Style
Doesn't look like. Seems Linux exclusive.
Why not? It works with religion, and religion is as changeable as political views. Yet we somehow pretend as if political views are a free choice, made by an informed citizen.
I love software and always will, but I don't think it's the kind of job you can stagnate in happily. Like any creative endeavor. I think everyone has periods where they take a step back from code for a while, if not entirely.
>Apple is the richest company in the world, and instead of paying their engineers top wages,

Any numbers saying that they earn just an average salary?

Also, why would the touchbar be an engineering issue? Some people like it. (I don't)

I do understand your concerns and I agree with some of them, I just don't believe it's because they pay their engineers less, or they are not good enough.

Some decisions come from top management. If there is only capacity to fix 10 bugs, well, that's it. I don't even see this large amount of features delivered on a monthly basis, so I assume their plan is really to invest just on their iPhones and hardware, maybe.
You definitely ticked all the cliches. Complains about:

1) Apple products being expensive but buys the most expensive one.

2) Being forced to use iTunes even though it hasn't been needed for any reason for quite some time.

3) Quality getting progressively worse based purely on anecdotes.

And of course the "I own Apple products and shares therefore my opinion is important" line. Always a classic.
> Static typing does not live up to its promises. If it did live up to its promises, we would all use it, and the fact that we don’t all use it suggests how often it fails.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum
I'd say yes, but for practical reasons those that the (overwhelming) majority holds probably don't need protection.
How does it handle huge (>500.000 files) libraries?
What Is the Best Productivity App You've Found in the Past Year?
I am in fact rather interested! A few years back, I went through a lot of physical therapy for a shoulder injury, and within a month or two, I had a year and a half long bout of IBS and leg cramps. Ultimately I controlled the condition (somewhat) with diet, but I can't help but think the real problem was simply that my pain was the original trigger.

Since the problem has only mostly subsided, I'd be thankful for any ideas about just what was going on.
You can't dismiss claims that the structural problem is wider/you fail to see the forest for the trees with "whataboutism". Whataboutism is a magic trick -- look at the hand doing crazy stuff with a bowling pin while the other retrieves a card from the sleeve.

At any rate, it's ironic that you would try to disrupt a plea for those that are underprivileged for invisible or overlooked reasons with "what about black women". Yeah man, we know about black women - it's a core theme of progressive culture.

The data that looks at gender and race disparities will only give evidence about gender and race disparities. This is the proverbial drunkard looking for his keys near the lamppost because, well, you can't see elsewhere.

If there's an ethical program to fix discrimination - specially discrimination that happens as a systemic, involuntary kind like what the OP proposes, we have to look at discrimination itself.

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A great success case is making orchestral auditions take place behind a curtain. If I remember the data correctly that vastly improved the participation of women, including in protagonist roles. But it's also an inclusive policy for the elderly, autistics, unattractive people (specially people with very awkward deformities like face muscle overgrowth), etc. People in that situation are judged for the music they make.

("But the mentally ill will need more time off." And women get pregnant. We have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.)

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Bonus "SJW" literature: https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/invisible/
you MIGHT save money.

The price difference can be substantial enough that you might simply be better off having it "over provisioned" off hours.

Also, not having "reactive capacity" might simply mean that your 95th percentile goes from 100ms response time to 300ms. Which again, might be a more cost effective approach.

I think the initial development and ongoing cost of maintaining that reactive capacity is also substantial enough to be considered.

Most of the apps that truly need the elasticity should probably going hybrid anyways. Baseline on dedicated hardware, spikes on spot instances.
Great book from one of my favourite profs at UofA.
It's very focused and provides examples on how to implement what I would call classic RL algorithms, and can serve as a decent intro. Don't expect to read it and implement Deep RL right away however.
I didn't phrase that unambiguously -"injected DLL" in this case means "the DLL with new code that is injected", not "the DLL that the code is being injected into". With LD_PRELOAD, all you need to override a symbol is an .so that exports one with the same name. With Detours, you need to write additional code that actually registers the override as replacing such-and-such function from such-and-such DLL. But yes, the code you're overriding doesn't need to know about any of that.
Couldn't agree more. I am a pretty big Apple user (mac/iphone/ipad), but their audacity (shamelessness?) with the recent pricing is breathtaking.

They will probably fix the audio issue and use the opportunity to charge $500 more for the new improved Macbooks.
You probably mean triceps?
Coal is to expensive to use as a power source for mining, don't worry about that one
This is wonderful. Every library ought to be a palace.
What part of the installation instructions was confusing?

https://wiki.magiclantern.fm/install

Unrelated to that learning basic photography skills mostly involves learning the relationship between ISO, aperture, and shutter speed. You can google guides, probably attend a course in a local university/college, or adult-educational center, and also experiment via trial and error.
it's not about returning to low cost but about global competition. The UK has outdone itself to proof they can't be trusted with providing a stable climate in which to plan ahead.

also we don't know what kind of concessions the city of Tokio, Osaka or Nagoya have made as a promises to the company if they return and create X number of jobs there. As others mentioned it might be because of the recent EU-JP trade deal but usually the reason is that the region has promised to give tax breaks or other incentives ...
Why would they want to do that? I would bet lots of people will revolt, forcing them to drive on the wrong side of the road.
I'm trying to figure out the subset of people who are saving RAWs but relying on the camera's EXIF data, when Lightroom et al are perfectly capable of setting all the metadata right there.

Get into the enthusiast / prosumer models and there's more buttons for a reason. I want to change metering on my 5D4? I press the metering hard button on the top of the camera.
I have no idea if syncing reading position works because I only use it on one machine but Moon+ is awesome in other respects.

It supports Support epub, pdf, mobi, chm, cbr, cbz, umd, fb2, txt, html, rar, zip or OPDS

Its nicely customizable, takes up the whole screen when running including status area, has a night mode, can autorotate or pin the orientation.

Personally I really like using it plus calibre companion to sync files with my computer.
"I don't know if your conclusion is true or not, but I don't understand why you think that statement demonstrates it?"

The article clearly indicates that Japan is shutting down manufacturing in across Europe.

We also know that the Japan just signed a major trade deal with Europe, which would abnegate the need to manufacture in Europe.

Though surely Brexit could be mentioned in the article, there's no reason at all to cram it into the headline, as there are no facts on the table to tie the events together.

A more obvious headline would read "Japanese auto makers shuttering plants across Europe after EU-Japanese Economic Agreement Signed".

But that would imply an entirely different narrative - which is by the way my interest and point i.e. 'how these stories are presented' whatever the facts.

As with a few other 'tiggering' subjects - it's hard to have a discussion about Brexit on HN.
thanks a lot, will go through and get back to you if I have clarifications :)

some suggestions if I may:

* could you add your website to your HN profile? https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=acidburnNSA - makes it easier to know about it, that was where I looked up first before commenting in this thread

* just saw about your book on the website... for the regex video showcase, I see that you are using double quotes - I'd suggest to always use single quotes unless you need double quotes (see https://mywiki.wooledge.org/Quotes and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7680504/sed-substitution...) as double quotes are interpreted by the shell before it is passed to the command

the topics covered in your book are super interesting and make for a nice workshop, will check it out :)
> People often think they have workloads like that.

This is exactly what I see on the regular. The AWS model promises huge savings if you have these cyclical use cases and rarely does this ever happen in a small business or startup.
I knew it! The CIA really has been fiddling with my guts when I sleep! Just wait until the aliens in my teeth hear about this.
>Can you list a few sectors of the economy that are driven entirely by taxpayer money through the government?

You can begin with a symbol -- the largest single private employer on the planet, the retailer named Walmart. A fully subsidized operation that, per its own filings, depends upon SNAP payments paid to its customers for its income. In addition to being dependent upon these payments the company depends on SNAP serving as payroll subsidy for its hundreds of thousands of workers who they choose to pay poverty wages.

Then for sectors, you may move to the depth and breadth of the energy, R&D, defense, security, health care, package freight and construction sectors, who, without their single largest governmental customers, would be a small fraction of what they are, employing a tiny fraction of historic levels.

Then there are sectors that are utterly dependent upon government subsidy, such as pharma research, agra, and transportation. Add to this the rest of the economy: sectors that would grind to a halt if not for indirect dependence upon public goods -- courts, roads and communications capacity funded by taxes.

Fact: taxpayers, uncompensated by any shares of stock, pay the bills and line the pockets of stockholders in most of really existing capitalism. Socialism exists and dominates for the rich while the market discipline that libertarians live to defend is in fact something that is reserved exclusively for the non-rich. Capitalist fables about the importance of incentives and market discipline fall on their faces the second you scrutinize flows of taxation as well as flows of appropriated value taken from workers under capitalism.
Can someone provide a good quality example of code that would bug on system clock updates? I have a hard time thinking about one. Especially as these system clock updates shouldn't change the time for more than a few seconds, at least if you have automatic updates turned on (and the fix in the article is to turn that off). I'm not interested in examples that shouldn't have made it through a merge request in the first place. It's not about the actual bug that happened here, but more about general things to think about that can go wrong with system time updates.

I can think about two main use cases for system time: Measuring time elapsed, most notably for timeouts, and scheduling something in the future (which can be done with a timestamp instead of time elapsed). Maybe I'm already missing some important ones here.

In the time elapsed use case a time shift into the future might delay something for these few seconds, which shouldn't result in more than a lag. A shift into the past might trigger a timeout, but a timeout that triggers on a few seconds should be a handled error.

In the schedule use case a time shift into the future shouldn't make any difference. You can't assume it's run at exact times anyway and always use "should happen after", i.e. greater than timestamp. A time shift into the past might only delay it a bit, still no reason for a bug.

What am I missing?