skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't, though. You have room for $300m of opex, coming in over time and allocated, as mentioned, around $8m a month. Less early on, more later.

If you gave me $300m to spend, largely up-front, for significant capex purchases? Sure. We could do it. The team I would build would also probably still make mistakes that AWS et al have already largely learned how to avoid, but we could do it. But capex and opex are very different beasts. By the end of that three years I'm already looking at spending way more to refresh what I bought at the start of that three year period because I'm starting to near the end of early contracts and I'm figuring out how best to wrangle, in a way that makes the rest of the business succeed most optimally, a now-heterogeneous environment, etcetera etcetera and etcetera. It's all solvable. But whether it's cheaper, at scale, and more reliable, and presents a unified tool for use by the business...that's a harder question.

Understanding how capex and opex work and how they differ is pretty critical to successfully running an engineering organization, to say nothing of a company.
Require buildings to pay for a fire inspection. Use that money to hire more fire inspectors.

These solutions are not difficult. Lives are on the line.

There was a big fire on my street last night in New York. The city has a ton of old dumpy buildings.
users or victims?

How can a teen be held culpable for understanding their choice? This is a clear case of predation.

So so glad Apple kicked them out of the iOS App Store and revoked their cert.
I think my estimate was a little on the high side. I've tempered my opinion since then (and I've edited that part out of the post). I don't think 9 out of 10 developers are incompetent.
Is there real evidence / studies that show blue light is bad at night?
I can fall asleep in minutes after using computers/phones/tv with no (aparent) issues at all. My wife and kid too.
That assumes that manufacturers can reduce their margins without going out of business. That will not generally be true in a competitive market, however, since economic profit (which includes opportunity costs) tends toward zero.
And yet, more efficient and less corrupt, because there is no money and no financial speculation. Much better!
At Scribophile, I set up an option to pay for a membership upgrade directly with Bitcoin, i.e., without an intermediary to USD like Coinbase. Customers would be given a Bitcoin address to send a certain amount of Bitcoin to for a 1-year upgrade purchase, and once the transaction was verified, their account would be upgraded.

In the ~5 years we had the option, I think we had about 3 purchases with Bitcoin.

I kept it as an option for a long time because I was mildly interested in the philosophy of Bitcoin. That is, its use as an alternate currency for everyday transactions, not its use as an intermediary for USD transactions or its use as a Ponzi scheme to separate the stupid from their savings.

But with such a poor sales rate I finally removed it some time last year. It was interesting while it lasted but Bitcoin is clearly nowhere near being useful for e.g. buying a bag of flour.

After some thought I decided that the entire cryptocurrency space, in its current pump-and-dump/outright scam incarnation, is mostly stupid, and unethical at best and criminal at worst. I could have kept Bitcoin payment as an option indefinitely--it's not hard to keep a static page up--but I felt that doing so would be in some small way promoting an unethical industry. (Unethical not because of what people are buying with crypto, but because today crypto is being used as a thinly-veiled scam to trick gullible people out of their investment money.)
Thanks for sharing your experience. That will help us with product development as we think about how to support other use cases when people request references, even when they're not actively job-seeking.
The usage seems reasonable to me.

> The preternatural is that which appears outside or beside the natural. It is "suspended between the mundane and the miraculous." In theology, the term is often used to distinguish marvels or deceptive trickery, often attributed to witchcraft or demons, from the purely divine power of the genuinely supernatural to violate the laws of nature. In the early modern period, the term was used by scientists to refer to abnormalities and strange phenomena of various kinds that seemed to depart from the norms of nature."

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preternatural
I can't prove it, but I'm convinced it's due to lobbyists.
> the customer would presumably be on the hook for any rejections or audits

And penalties.
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Great advice here, thanks.
Only 2 of my 80-ish games don't work either natively or with Proton. One requires Uplay and the other requires something like Games for Windows Live, neither of which I can get to work in Wine.

Otherwise, I've had pretty good luck. A couple have required some tweaks, but otherwise it's been pretty easy.

Anyway, yay to no more VFIO/passthrough.
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> Since SystemD has become so prevalent in Linux, I've been looking longingly at BSD.

After ~20 years of using Debian, I switched my desktop PC to OpenBSD about a year ago due to concerns about the direction Linux has taken (eg. systemd).

It was easier to set up the kind of minimalist desktop I like than on Debian, where I have to change a lot of defaults (eg. switching to sysvinit). The package manager is great, and there are ~10k packages available for 6.4. I'm now looking at switching my server to OpenBSD. I'm keeping some dedicated audio workstations on Linux for now (need the raw performance and drivers), but my impression of OpenBSD so far has been very good.

OpenBSD caveats: Video and audio can be a little glitchy. Releases are only supported for one year. ABI can change between releases. There's no filesystem journal. The only non-BSD filestems supported are msdos and ext2fs (and read/write speeds on those are slow).
We haven't run into many causes where a referencer's employer has a "no reference" policy. Our terms and conditions has language that the reference's opinion does not reflect their employer, but we will continue thinking about this as we develop our product.
> They had negative nine figures of (profit).

FTFY
Weak response. The left contains many poor and uneducated citizens and many of them minorities.

Comments like the one above shows we have a lot of work to do. Treating those citizens as second class does not valid your point.
Same as when I read reports of Russia "attacking" the US, I'm having a hard time believing there was the actual evidence to support the origin of the attack in this case as well. Any even modestly sophisticated hacker, let alone US Cyber Command, would have no problem hiding the origin of the attack in order to have plausible deniability. Truth of the matter is, you don't know if it was USCC or some teenager in her parents' basement.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the two countries don't ever attack each other's computer systems. I think they do it all the time. I'm just saying that when someone says "this particular attack was definitely from country X" they're usually full of shit.

Disclosure: I'm Russian-American.
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Sorry to hear about the trouble! We'll address that soon.
Years of accepting an unquestionable narrative on either end of the spectrum tricks many people into thinking it is a fact as the perceived majority in their own social network bubbles push it as an undeniable truth as part of a multi-year long black/white narrative. Because it is a fact, it cannot be political :)
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"504 Gateway Time-out"

This person had an idea about a blog but not the skills to keep it up?
There are huge problems with that data. It equates a degree in physics with a degree in romance novels. I feel strongly that the physicist is far more educated. Somebody with a pilot's license or a welding certification is considered to be less educated ("non-college") than a person with a college degree of negative market value. What the data actually counts is years spent in a bookish classroom.
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When you write on the internet, you're going to be criticized no matter what.
Fast radio bursts as synchrotron maser emission from decelerating relativistic blast waves:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.01866.pdf
If you were running VMs/Baremetal with fast deprovisioning/provisioning, what would be your ideal setup that a single person could manage?
To play devil's advocate, I have worked shitty jobs in the fast food industry. Two and a half years at McDonald's and then another two and a half at Longhorn Steakhouse. I never witnessed a single incident of physical harassment against any of the girls I worked with, not even once.

There was one guy that pushed the line a little too far sometimes but the girls weren't afraid of or offended by him so much as they took pity on him. He was a very depressed individual.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen, only that anecdotal evidence is fundamentally incomplete. It is entirely too small of a sample to be statistically significant.
Ha, I’ve been building something very similar. I wonder if I could be helpful, I’ve got a lot of people wanting a product like this.
I appreciate AMD's focus on Linux drivers!
Everybody in Congress is too chicken shit to declare war because they don't want it on their voting record when things go bad.
It's essentially an approach based on heuristics. It can be brittle and cannot deal with ambiguity well, and that's where ML shines. It's not uncommon that people combine heuristics with ML in real world, since rule-based models are fast and cheap.
Kids opened up things for my wife and I. Between little league, school, etc we expanded our social network pretty substantially.

One nice thing is that everyone does something else. It's exhausting to be surrounded by geeks. I have beers every few weeks with a locomotive engineer, a teacher and a dentist. We cannot talk work, because none of us know anything about what each other does.
Yes, Facebook is a government agency. An important one too. This is correct.
> I ain't got time nor interest for the details. If you can't speak in terms that I can understand within a short timeframe, in a way that appeals to my preconceived notions, then I'm voting for the guy that promises me the wall.

Haha, I like that. Everyone wants the elevator pitch. Fair enough.
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I think if you enjoy this article you would enjoy Taleb's Skin in the Game book.
Terraform and InSpec for automated infrastructure as code testing
Base64 encode the video and embed it in the HTML?

E: typo
I used to teach a course at a local university. I asked the kids every year about facebook. Starting in 2015 the female students basically stopped using it. It wasn't politics or even advertising. They said the "creep factor" just got too high. Everyone one of them had a story about an unwanted stranger suddenly appearing on their or their friend's facebook.

The next wave of political manipulation is those "private chats". Facebook/Google/Apple can crack down on the adverts. They cannot so easily police invite-only chats that are often end-to-end encrypted.
Interesting library, thanks!

> Any query is going to require deserializing every row in the table (JSON and Protobuf alike) which is basically a non-starter for any project with performance requirements.

Apparently you can create indexes on the json functions, so I assume on your proto ones too.

> I believe that Protobuf messages are decoded as a whole, rather than just the desired field, which is going to be slower.

With the official library, yes, but it's an implementation/API choice. The wire format [1] can be skimmed fairly efficiently. Most significantly, message/byte/string fields all are written as tag number, length, data. So if there are submessages (entire trees) you don't care about, you can just skip over them. I've seen custom proto decoding things do this.

I think the most efficient approach would be to parse the path once per SQL query into a tag number-based path. And then have the per-row function just follow those with custom decoding logic. Unfortunately from my quick skim, it looks like SQLite's extension API doesn't really support this. You'd want it to build some context object for a given path/proto, then call extract with it a bunch of times, then tear it down. Still, I suppose you could do a LRU cache of these or something.

btw, I see your code is compiling a regex [edit: originally wrote proto by mistake] in the per-row path. [2] I haven't profiled, but I'd bet that's slowing you down a fair bit. You could just make it a 'static const std::regex* kPathElementRegexp = new std::regex("...")' to avoid this. (static initialization is thread-safe in C++. The heap allocation is because it's good practice to ensure non-POD globals are never destructed. Alternatively, there's absl::NoDestructor for this.)

[1] https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/encoding

[2] https://github.com/rgov/sqlite_protobuf/blob/0a148ac6a5a2c02...
Steel tariffs (for example) are great for US steel producing jobs but terrible for US steel consuming jobs (auto makers, etc). From a jobs perspective (ignoring any retaliation) it would make more sense to have tariffs on consumer goods instead of intermediate goods, but that's more politically difficult since obviously consumers are going to notice tariffs on consumer goods more.

I'm very skeptical that even without retaliation, tariffs on China will lead to much USA manufacturing jobs (as opposed to automated US manufacturing, or manufacturing shifting from China to Vietnam, Thailand etc.

Of course certain industries will be big winners or losers though.
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Bill Gates seems to have upped his media presence this year. I am seeing a Gates article in some stream or the other almost on a daily basis.
Resumes are statements of past performances, and our mission at Searchlight is to help candidates gather support around these statements.

AI helps us analyze the references, and will be developed more as we grow.
Having done a bunch of bare metal, I can tell you the calculus isn't really that hard. Bare metal will save you money.

Operating bare metal at scale requires talent that doesn't exist, not necessarily at an engineering level, but at all levels.

As an example, I worked at a place that had a large bare metal deployment, i.e. >1MW worth of compute. It was woefully inefficient and costly to operate. The product that they offered required network QOS and compute with real time capabilities, neither of which was available from any cloud provider at the time.

One of our executives (formerly a leader in the DC ops org at AWS) left the company to be replaced by another executive by another well-known silicon valley org who then insisted we should migrate everything to the cloud.

I showed him the relatively easy math that efficiently utilized bare metal was way less costly and that the aforementioned QOS and RT requirements would be a deal breaker anyway. He failed to fully grok this and remained insistent. When I quite, he seemed surprised. After the fact, I discovered that they'd made a deal with IBM to move everything into their cloud. A year later it was an utter failure and they abandoned the project.

There are lots of folks in the valley with lots of experience on their resumes that suggests that they should be capable of understanding these kinds of things that simply don't. Lacking that understanding leads to poor decision-making, which leads to failure, which leads to risk-aversion, which leads to everyone believing that it must be cheaper in the cloud.

Or so goes the old adage, "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM."
>Does anyone believe we have gained more with this "democratisation" of publishing than we are losing to conspiracy theories, hoaxes, and populism?

It's too early to say as of right now. However, I think the eventual answer will be "yes".

Skepticism and the scientific method may be just one competing idea while hoaxes, conspiracies, and populism will take a billion different (mutually exclusive) forms. But with access to more information than ever before, people all over the world are likely to independently come to roughly the same conclusions about important questions based on actual critical thinking, and it's much harder to "convert" somebody from positions supported by science and/or clear reasoning (i.e. how many reputable scientists backslide into climate change denial?).

It will help that hoaxes and populism usually only have success in the short-term and tend to shoot their own ideology in the foot, whereas remaining loyal to reality comes with inherent real-world benefits.

With the interconnected world in its current, chaotic state I do find it hard to really imagine that even skeptically-minded people will be able to defend themselves from bad ideas that "go viral." Humans seem better at convincing each other of bullshit than ever before. However, the robustness and effectiveness of the scientific method and at least a slight tendency for the best ideas to win out over time is unquestionable to my mind, so this conclusion seems clear.

Maybe the missing ingredient is popularizing some kind of common, simple (but not necessarily perfect) epistemological framework for smelling out bullshit on the internet. Maybe one is already taking a very early form, who knows.

The real question I think is whether we will live long enough to see all this play out in our lifetimes. As long as we are able to conquer our current short-term existential crises and survive mostly intact into the long-run, then I think there's significant reasons to be optimistic about our future.
Assuming your device is functional, Apple's buyback program is significantly worse than selling your device to someone that will use it.

They are buying the products to get them off the market so that people will buy more new stuff. Sure, it's better than throwing it away, but just put your device on eBay, you will get more money and also a lot more use. Apple products especially seem to last pretty long.

It's Reduce > Reuse > Recycle

Apples program falls squarely in the very last category.
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Automatically building a scikit learn estimator might include many conditional hyperparameters and also a very large amount of them (<100) [1]. However, performing joint architecture and hyperparameter search can be framed to be on a much simpler search space, e.g., for a recent paper that aims to automate the design of RNA molecules, we formulated a 14 dimensional search space which includes very little conditional hyperparameters [2].

The tools included in the repository are very broadly applicable and only a few of them are specifically targeted at neural architecture search.

[1] https://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/08/winning-automl-challenge-a...
[2] https://openreview.net/forum?id=ByfyHh05tQ
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