skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is that any different than the new yorker or traditional media spreading lies and hate about jussie smollet, covington or any other incident and causing mentally unstable people to attack others?

I find it strange how new yorker feels they should be allowed to be toxic but everyone else isn't. It's strange how they feel they aren't responsible for the mentally unstable they accidentally influence but everyone else is responsible.

Using that logic, every movie director, author, journalist, musician, etc would be liable for the actions of the mentally unstable. That would be the end of all media, including the new yorker.
The USB accelerator is designed for that - so you can target models for the a (small scale) TPU and then scale up on the cloud.

This would specifically let you make sure that the TensorFlow ops your algorithms use are supported on a TPU.

https://coral.withgoogle.com/products/accelerator/
Laughably so
>Hand outs and taking people's money at the point of a gun is what the heirs do from those who work and create wealth. Larry Page talks about how the police encircled the auto plant his hammer-armed grandfather was [striking].

Would Larry appreciate a 75 - 90% tax on his earnings over ${rich_dude_income_threshold}? I'm not sure we can pass a law that taxes proletarian-grandkids-made-good at a lower rate than trust fund babies.

I will agree with your implicit point that if we tax income, we treat wages and capital gains equally.
Well, you could get one of the development boards? Not sure what the use case you have in mind is, but these Edge TPUs are not for use inside of their GCP AI solutions, but rather on an 'edge' device. For anything else your 'local TPU' should be a hefty desktop with a couple of NVidia cards.
> every company prioritizes profit over ethics

That's just because companies are compelled to prioritize shareholder value and profit has much higher impact on that than ethics.

Employees pushing for anything won't work. You'd have to create a way for ethics to influence stock price and how much of companies profits shareholders are entitled to get.

But for that ethics would have to be codified... Law?
Navigating the Leap from Big Tech to Startups
You can opt out of the vast majority of junk mail here if you wish: https://dmachoice.thedma.org/
Ketogenic Diet
im a simple man. i see Elixir, i upvote.

that being said, this article was pretty informative. The bit about the proposed SO_REUSEPORT socket option was really interesting. Really fun to read about performance bottleneck detection and improvement.

edit: wow, downvoting for making a simple joke about liking elixir. Cool.
Gitmodule is really sucks when we have to bump a bunch of them.
> a new company called Coral.

On that website, each page has the Google logo at the bottom and "Copyright 2019 Google LLC. All rights reserved.".
Also, at [1], Google LLC is mentioned as manufacturer of the devices. At this point, Coral still seems to be a brand only, not a company. Maybe they just didn't want to harm/affect their "main" trademark with this. Or they actually do want to create a separate company and this is the first step.

[1]: https://coral.withgoogle.com/legal/
Hey at least the government will have copies of ll your mail now too.
They merged with... Essilor, I think, so they do lenses as well now.
These are big in Korea too, and the purpose isn't just infidelity as the article would have you believe. It is common to live with your family until marriage, and many Korean families outwardly hold traditional values of chastity until marriage. Families also tend to have a greater financial involvement (and therefore more influence over) in their childrens ability to rent a nice place because of jeonsei (very high security deposit - like a downpayment - in exchange for reduced rent), so it is in adult childrens best interest to keep up appearances with their parents. The average marriage age is 32 for women, 35 for men. So this means many, many years of adulthood dating where you cannot bring home a date to sleep with because you live with your parents. So love hotels are common in Korean nightlife districts and they are actually quite nice and cheap too. I stayed at some of them years ago and I recall they were around $75 per night, with free pirated DVD movies to borrow.
Can't wait to see how fantastically expensive the Uptown and Edgewater station reconstruction ends up being.

(They should have thrown in another billion to rebuild the Sheridan stop. Now that's a narrow platform.)
Webpage text doesn't render at all unless you enable some Javascript which is used to load fonts with no fall-back, and the fonts once loaded are also ugly and unreadable.
If the drivers are so junk, why were they accepted into the Kernel? Isn't part of the point of forcing all drivers to be open source so that they can be kept to a certain standard?
Next generation web framework for Node.js
I find the pro-plague movement very similar to the flat earth movement. Nothing will change their minds because they want to believe their story so badly that nothing will make them budge.
Sipser [1] is the standard and deservedly so.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_the_Theory_of_...
> I wouldn't want to work at a company that doesn't value whiteboarding or doesn't know how to conduct a whiteboard interview.

But using the whiteboard as an interview technique is a terrible idea. It's not representative of the work that the candidate would be doing, and it doesn't give the interviewer much in terms of useful information about the abilities of the candidate.
I have a HP LaserJet printer than ran off the initial toner cartridge for something like ten years. I reckon I don't print as much as you do, but I was impressed.
Also got my first pair of glasses a few week ago when visiting home!

I love them, everything is so clear, it's almost like switching to 4k! But something is off when I read my computer screen. Also they cause eye strain after a while if I am reading.

Several people mentioned having separate pair of glasses. I have started reading about lenses and all that, very interesting. I'm considering getting extra pairs for cheap to test if I can get something better to use with a computer.

I've seen many recommendations about regular glass (non polycarbonate): heavier, but harder to scratch, and with fewer aberrations.

Also, I've been reading about how some lens maker can go with very precise steps in dioptry, also for the angular degrees of astigmatism instead of rounding. Maybe that would help too?
It turns out small businesses make money from customers who stop in, not people driving by in automobiles.

I had no problem walking into shops at metro station construction sites in Copenhagen or Budapest.
Reproducible builds were already infeasible for other reasons at the time when people thought this was a good idea. So in that context, it wasn't so dumb
That's not really nice. Aggressiveness is not warranted.

IANAL and this does not constitute legal advice. Scraping public data is legal in the US. See the couple of cases which did go to court.
I think we need to stop using the word fail for things like this---expressions like "fail fast" and "learning from failure" and "embrace failure" often give people the wrong impression. Instead I prefer to re-calibrate success. If you are doing a startup, or anything else (borrowing Ries' definition here) under extreme uncertainty, your goal can't possibly be to succeed. This could very well be an impossible goal, and you could fail for reasons entirely outside your control and outside your visibility.

Instead, you should identify the unknowns where possible (your hypotheses) and set your goal as de-risking these unknowns. For example, your startup idea might be "Uber Eats for umbrellas" where you deliver umbrellas to people at the push of a button. Can you build a successful company around this? Who knows. I certainly wouldn't measure myself on my ability to build a successful company on this. But I might measure myself on my ability to determine whether there is a market for it. I might be successful in determining there isn't a market for it and then decide not to continue any further, and I wouldn't call myself a failure for it. And even if there is a market, then there's a question of whether the economics make sense. Again, your goal now is to determine the answer to this question regardless of the yes/no outcome.
> I was sure I was in for a fun takedown of web design gimmicks.

I'm still not certain that it _wasn't_ that...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19130896

They mentioned previously that you had to compile your models on the cloud, and not locally on your computer. Not sure if they've changed this policy.
> Statistics doesn't work that way.

I asked how likely it was for two sets of gamete chromosomes to be similar at levels a particular distance from the expected mean similarity. That's pretty much exactly the kind of question statistics handles.

> Each chromosome has a 50% chance of being shared between both children.

On the other hand, biology really doesn't work this way. Chromosomes recombine in meiosis; you shouldn't see a child sharing any entire chromosome, except the father's sex chromosome, with either parent.
ITA Software — the company that wrote the engine behind Orbitz, Kayak, etc. and now runs Google Flights — was acquired by them a while back.
I have being using this for a while. It's quite nice.
The treasure element buried near Fortnite Battle Royale
https://google.github.io/styleguide/lispguide.xml
> So people just take whatever is offered. Because, there are tens of thousands of people applying for these jobs. Most of them are likely to better than you and they didn't crack all competitive coding style interview to land a job like you did. So people just find it hard to turn down the offer and take it.

I don't speak for everyone obviously but the reason I took the offer is that it will still >50% what I was making previously. I didn't bother looking into how much other people make.

> It's only later do they realized they are not building the next search engine. Nor building the next gen e-commerce platform, but building Jsons and posting to dataservices. By then you are conditioned to free food and you are not comparing your salary with people outside but inside.

Somehow I feel you have a bone to pick? I've been on 3 different teams and this has not been my experience at all.

People at Google seem to be just like people at other companies. They're happy they have a good job but look forward to retirement.
They will not, whole process from water to hydrogen to fuel cell to electricity is very inefficient. You only get 1/3 of input energy back (if you use 100kWh to make hydrogen, you get back from the fuel cell 35kWh)
ZenHub cofounder here - some really good points in this response, and it didn't sound like you were throwing project management methodology to the wind at all! For a lot of teams we work with, simply getting these insights is half the battle. A team shouldn't expect a tool to solve their problems, in the vast majority of cases it comes down to people and processes. We hope that these reports can drive the types of insights that are catalysts for those larger changes.
Might be useful for anyone who hasn't heard of Docker yet.
That's what coreboot moved to (incl. the timestamp of the commit in its timestamp field) for reproducibility.

Thing is just that host + build time is what was traditionally used. There's no single commit you could use in cvs.
When I lived in Seattle's Central District, my local Post Office branch had a drop box in the lobby for any mail you received that was addressed to previous residents. I used to collect anything that seemed important and I would drop it off periodically. This is not something I've seen at many other Post Offices, curiously.
CTCI-style questions on a whiteboard without any interaction from the interviewer is definitely a big red flag. Most of our whiteboard questions are solvable with simple if-statements, loops, and basic data structures; boxes and arrows are also appropriate if you communicate what's being abstracted away.
I tried Kakoune for a few days a while ago. Mostly I was in a position where I stumbled a lot from things not lining up exactly with Vim, but I also didn't see what advantages I'd get from switching over. Can someone who has used both Vim and Kakoune describe why you might choose to switch?
> The remedy for the next guy...

Again, you're leaving your problems for someone who has no connection to you. It should be you who files those forms to stop the mail you don't want to receive, not the poor person who happens to move in after you.
Congrats on the launch! Any relation to Stream [0]? Your logo is very similar.

0: https://getstream.io/
Not na expert in any of the languages by any means, but Go and Erlanger/Elixir focus on different things:

- Go wants to be performant at high concurrency scale

- Erlang/Elixir wants to keep running at high concurrency scales, whatever the issues are in your application code. Performance comes second.

There's no clear cut answer to your question; I guess if you trust yourself to write servers that will hold a large number of connections while doing a lot of processing then Go has an advantage, otherwise you should probably trust the man-centuries behind the BEAM VM and follow the various blog posts/presentations explaining how you can fine-tune your machine to get to super large scales.
It's better because it's cheaper for everyone to do business. More competition, everything gets cheaper.
The Thirty-Something Apprentice
We would love to interview you to understand your experience, can you please drop me a mail here: emil@getdockup.com? Btw, we had the exact same requirement too - be able to test how a related change in multiple apps would affect the whole system. Check out our deployment form that helps us do this now: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1707078/53836663-6...
Cool project.

I'm always wondering though, if those optimizations are really needed or if they are created by engineers that want to have fun and do premature optimizations. Ever wondered why a "WebApp" like Uber needs so many engineers and new projects?
> If that one Nazi were to turn into a thousand Nazis, then I suspect people would be more circumspect about the whole thing.

Why? I mean what do you care how many people say the earth is flat? As for Nazis, Antifia and whatever other group you care to use an example, it seems like we already have a descent set of laws in place to protect people from direct harm from those groups.

I'm sorry but I think what's going on at these social media companies and with the legacy media is blatant political censorship.
wow, haven't though of it. Sound like very good strategy. Going to try it out.
Can someone explain what these "security keys" are? I couldn't find details about them in the article. Thanks.
Unicode 12.0.0 Announced
Having been at the hurting side of both a 500+TB globally distributed Artifactory cluster and a relatively smaller 30TB Quay cluster, I for one welcome this new contender! Scaling binary object stores globally is no small feat. FWIW, JFrog the company behind Artifactory is way better than CoreOS/RedHat from a vendor support aspect.
In terms of raw skill, I'd expect introverts to come out on top, for the sole reason that they have likely put more hours into coding than extroverts.

On the flip side, more extroverted programmers probably do better when it comes to working on a team and project planning.

Ideally you're hiring a balanced team so they can cover each other's weaknesses.
> Going from a magnetic connector to usb-3 is a usability regression.

It's a trade-off that I'll take for having an industry standard power supply and a replaceable cable. Used to be if your power cord frayed at either the MagSafe end or the brick end you were out $80 for a replacement.

Now you can buy a 60W USB-C power delivery brick with 3 bonus USB-A charging ports for $25 and if your cable ever goes bad it's a cheap replacement from Anker or similar. And I doubt you'll ever need to replace that cable because Anker is apparently better at making them than Apple ever was.

I have one of these under my desk with cords for charging my laptop and phone/tablet: https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=24425 Monoprice has frequent sales for even cheaper.
What if you keep that in mind though? For example, I believe myself to be TERRIBLE at brain teaser type questions, especially in interviews. Keeping this in mind while interviewing candidates, I can still learn many useful things.

Does this person ask good questions? Do they respond to my hints well? Do they give up easily?
I'm under NDA with one of the companies in my list, so I can't provide details. The short answer is yes, but not necessarily with US-oriented vehicles.
Many of them do not. I know the owner of a business who is really struggling for this reason.
I have been interested in Kakoune before, and I have never been able to nail this answer down:

Does Kakoune feature IDE-style omnicompletion? Like Elixir module name and function completion.
I spent some time looking at TimeSync and my primary takeaway was simply that while it was nice, there's no actual hard numbers on how accurate it really is. I suspect it is very accurate but proving this (to yourself) is going to be challenging if you want to rely on global clocks to avoid consensus without details or insight. You are essentially making a huge bet on performance considerations by trading consensus for clocks, at the expense of a far, far higher bar for correctness.

It seems very likely based on when it was rolled out that it underpins AWS tech like DynamoDB Global Tables -- so it almost certainly powers critical infrastructure. But there's no SLA or reports on what the tolerances you can expect without doing a lot of work on your own. It's more of a nice bonus rather than a "product" they offer you, in that sense, so being wary maybe isn't unwarranted.

IIRC from the original Spanner/TT paper, they had a general error window of ~10ms from the TT daemons, and I would be extremely surprised if Google hasn't pushed that even lower, now, so your job is much more cut out for you than 100s of ms of error. And yes the clocks are in the same DC at a very precise window, but bugs happen through-out the stack, your hypervisor bugs out, systems get misconfigured, whatever, your process will fuzz out, especially as you begin to tighten things. You don't have the QA/testing of Spanner or DynamoDB, basically.

None of this is insurmountable, I think, though. It's just not easy any way you cut it. Even a few people doing the work to test and experiment with this would be very valuable. (It would be even better if AWS would make it a real product with real SLAs/numbers to back it up.) It's just a lot of work no matter what.

The fact that it is limited to AWS (for now) is a bit of a shame. I do hope other cloud providers start thinking about providing precise clocks in their datacenters, as well as accompanying software to go with it.

> Recent linux distros use chrony instead of ntpd to synchronize with the reference time, which should introduce only microseconds of error between the reference time and the system clock.

To be fair not everyone uses chrony; a lot of systems still use just ntpd or timesyncd (I spent a lot of time working on fixing time-sync related issues in our Linux distro lately across all our supported daemons, so I can at least say Chrony is a very wonderful choice, accurate, and so very easy to use! I actually found out about it when looking up TimeSync)
> Whiteboarding

Stop using the term "whiteboarding". Judging from the confusion the discussion here, some hate it because it means writing code at a whiteboard (which is obviously a horrible idea) while some love it because they think of discussing some conceptual issues while drawing arrows and waving arms (which is great).

Just say what you mean. Whiteboards aren't a problem if you use them right.
As far as I can tell, knowing explicitly whether somebody's political leanings were shifted is an impossible metric to test—earlier, now, or later. People are prone to lying about those things (either to themselves or to others for many reasons).

If you want to see one (non-scientific) example of media affecting someone's political outlook, I recommend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brainwashing_of_My_Dad

It's from before all of this and mainly focuses on Fox News'/talk radio style of vitriolic, non-factual reporting. Similar tactics were employed and amplified. I'd be surprised if they had no effect with the amount of noise that has gone up. I've personally seen it in others as well, but I understand that adds little to your search.
The female's sex is varied in the sense it differs from the standard female (gonadal dysgenesis).

Around 1 in 100 humans don't fit the standard male and female definitions according to http://www.isna.org/faq/frequency
Depends on the definition of superior.

If it's pure benchmarks, then Go is usually going to come in a little bit ahead.

When you get into comparing language design, underlying architectural decisions, problems solved/created/avoided by those decisions it gets more complex.

I did a big write up for code ship a couple of years ago. Had a solid discussion on HN and the comparison remains fairly accurate.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13497505
(Disclaimer: I am not an anti-vaxxer.)

It seems that their arguments are changing [1].

The gist, as I understand it, of their changed argument: The media has overblown the recent measles outbreak, there are things way worse for our children than measles and we should not be influenced by this media hysteria. Measles is uncommon and treatable so we should not be forced to vaccinate our children.

[1] https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2019/02/readers-respond-m...

[EDIT] Changed "evolved" to "changed".
Russia’s New ‘AI Supercomputer’ Runs on Western Technology
I was a bit surprised myself that the author prefers JSON to bit-packed protocols, but given that the author is none other than Eric Raymond, I have to take him seriously.

Accidentally, in my work lately I used JSON for data exchange over the network where performance is not important, and MsgPack otherwise where it is (which is essentially a packed JSON).
Personally I only hire engineers that wear the same pair of dad jeans daily with a conference shirt they got for free.
If Luxottica is a as big a player as they say, shouldn't some anti-trust laws come into play?
There is no denying that sleep is beneficial and I agree with that assertion. I was specifically addressing his point about the drawbacks of sleep - "There are several survival drawbacks from sleep, as it leaves one vulnerable.".

Sleep wasn't a liability to our survival, especially our ancestors. It actually aided in our survival. Human beings who were active at night would have been the vulnerable ones as they would attract predators and were more likely to perish as a result. Especially considering out vision would be limited in the dark.

In short, sleep kept us away from the dangers at night.
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