skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linux and Open Source tech is a huge part of Azure now. They profit from people using Linux on Azure. They don't have a reason to chase customers away when they are making money from them.
I wish I had a money tree too
Friends working for Google told similar tales. Until they worked at Google they had a pretty high idea of their own abilities and then they were outclassed to the point that some of them just gave up entirely. Being the best during your youth isn't always an advantage.
Candidate Features for C# 9
That is not what I asked. I asked how well this new terminal emulates DEC VT-family of terminals.
The young now can barely write traditional script due to mobile. It will require a lot more training soon :)
Many don't just use display:none but position text off-screen or make it tiny or use sizing and overflow:hidden. I've seen a blind user be tripped up by these, so yes, it often also filters out disabled users.
evolving agents like those are very good at finding bugs to abuse. so, if they'd find a zero day to break out of the quake-sandbox, what would they do? i guess, for the longest time they'd just use the DMA into the sandbox to increase their score (i.e. cheating by developing and using external tools), as their fitness function still weights CTF wins only.

to (accidentally) change their fitness function to change it to "conquer the world" they'd need to modify a lot of different processes at once.

IMO the chance is negligible for now.
No offense, but you're aware you make it sound as if we used to use punch cards until the arrival of docker?

You can often run daemons as different users and set appropriate file permissions. You can add ENV variables to your start up scripts or configuration files. Volumes are mounted by the system (and you set appropriate access rights again). Monitoring and restarting services is managed by your init system (and probably some external monitoring, because sometimes physical hosts go nuts). Depending on your environment you can just produce debs, rpms, or some custom format for packaging/distribution.

Yes, sometimes you still want docker or even a real VM, and there are good reasons for that - I totally agree. But often it is not necessary. I'm often under the impression that some people forget that the currently hyped and cool tech is not always and under every circumstance the right solution to a given type of problem. But that's not an issue with docker alone...
The AntiVirus industry is a snakeoil industry. Their products barely work and if they do, they do while sucking a lot of performance out of your device. If you absolutely want one, install ClamAV. Then use uBlock Origin + HTTPS Everywhere on your browser and PiHole on the network. Install all updates on devices, devices with no updates are isolated into a separate network. Use a password manager and SSH keys, disable password auth on all SSH servers you connect to. Close all ports to the outside that are not necessary and could be accessed with a VPN instead (keep one SSH port open to repair said VPN). Do not download email attachments you did not prompt for. If you need to open email attachments (ie you're HR and you received a Resume), make sure it's a real file and not a fake (a .pdf.exe) or ask for a share link from a popular storage provider (Nextcloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.).

The above notes should get you protected better than 99.9% of people on the internet.
I'm having a hard time imagining that from your example. For example I have several successful project cars, I've built a custom wheel balancer from an accelerometer, and am currently programming the fuel injection and spark on a car from scratch yet I don't know if a career in that would really make me any more income than my current Software Engineering manager role.
next up. irish supreme court dismisses NSA's complaint on facebook surveillance
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Website Hacked
Most of articles speaking about gifted people talk about gifted people being sad and not having a good life when in reality gifted people are in average more successful.

Explanation is easy, to be diagnosed as gifted you need to consult a doctor, and you will consult a doctor only if you think you have issues. So gifted people are most of the time not even aware they are gifted.
This article is about why it is so expensive to build new infrastructure in NY. Debt service comes out of the operating budget.

If the question at hand was why the MTA provides such poor ongoing service with such a high budget, debt service would be part (but only part) of the answer. However, in terms why construction costs are so horrifically expensive as compared to literally anywhere else in the world, debt service plays no role in answering that question.
This question makes no sense.

First, NLP based search can be executed on top of any engine (APIs are very handy), relational, kv, graph, filesystem .. so that part is totally irrelevant.

Assuming "big data" in this context is still relational data, then any of those systems would suffice, within their own particular tradeoffs and features.
Same thing happens to me. It's from emails you received that have phone numbers in the content.
"there's no spam that doesn't try to promote something" is, unfortunately, not true. Or at least, some spam plays the long con. On sites where karma or social graph confers advantage, bots will harvest one or both through low-effort, high-payoff posts. Various disinformation and distraction campaigns may sell only confusion, discord, or volume of content. And if it's the graph itself or specific connections which matter, ossiby for hishing, recruitment, or other compromise, you'll see other behaviours.

Not all media manipulation is commercial. Not by a long shot.

You're fighting the last war, if not older.
It's strange, given Google's resources and size, that they haven't even started using the new branding yet. It was announced over a year ago.
The popular book "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance", explores this topic in more details, for those interested in the topic.
I just removed Google's ReCaptcha for a honeypot solution with an additional name and url field. But there's also a timer which checks how long it takes you to submit the form. If you can fill out everything in <2s, you're most likely not human. I have to figure out how people with disabilities can use the page though. Good to get a reminder here. So far it performs way better than ReCaptcha, I haven't received any spam so far and plenty of ham of course. No human complaints either.
New (Free) Udacity Course – Secure and Private Artificial Intelligence
Who is this commenter?

Containerised applications are commonly used. At this point it's a proven technology with clear use cases.
On POWER9 NVLink is 300GB/s aggregated in/out.

PCIe 5.0 has a higher transfer rate, but can't aggregate links, so it's limited to 63.01 GB/s (at PCIe 5.0 x16)
Looks like a graduate thesis project, where they ran out of time before they could really explore the capabilities of the system. Slightly disappointing that they seem to have implemented threading but not vectorisation, which would be more suited; does anyone have resources on auto-vectorising Lisp?
We've used them as a more reliable/resilient/replicated (with a lower operational effort) provider of HBase tables and Kafka streams, and a bit of file storage.
The result is that the non-uniformity does have an impact effect, but it's very, very small. When there were four or less people in the room, from my experiments, the non-uniformity of distribution resulted in a slight decrease in the chances of a birthday collision (but this could loss of precision from too small a sample size as the percentage of times, for instance that two people collide is just 0.274%). After five people, the non-unformity provided a slight increase in the chances of all collisions. This is what I would expect.

Does this make any sense? The author says that with a realistic non-uniform distribution of birthdays, they found that collisions were less likely when there were fewer than 5 people involved. I can't think of any reason this would be the case. If certain birthdays are more common than others, I'd think that the chances of a collision must go up regardless of the number of people involved.

Is there any plausible mathematical explanation for this effect? Or was the experiment just underpowered? Or worse, might the simulation code be buggy? Presumably they would have run the simulation more than once after getting such such a counterintuitive answer, and it seems really unlikely that this effect would be consistent unless something was broken.
I suppose I haven't worked in environments scary enough that Docker was a necessity.

As a result I find it difficult understand the hype.
Ideally, it’s “Always suspend, except for long running processes”.

Almost all pages are not / should not be active in background. Even most SPA (think Gmail) don’t need to refresh if you aren’t observing them. A small minority of update or admin type tools that run things on remote machines seem to need the page active to let the remote know you’re still there and it should keep running. In browsers that pause unseen tabs, I dislike this SPA design as I can’t click away or they stop.
Yes, if you get there early (like in a good school) then your view is complete and you're still happy to later tone the things down and chill on the job.
This is a good realistic perspective. Another great way to look at it positively: surrounding yourself with people better than you is a perfect opportunity to “up your game”. I played a lot of basketball in my youth but was never more than a mediocre player. it wasn’t till my late 20s playing street ball in Oakland that I got a lot better. Those first few weeks were really hard, understanding just how far I was from the other players.
For a somewhat amusing (if roundabout) investigation jumping off point into the robocalls problem: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/awhk76
Great but how does that help recoup the investment the article mentions?

I’m making no comment on the specifics of the Docker or Hadoop ecosystems as I have no skin in either game but history is full of useful tech that didn’t make money.
The nuclear weapons and the carrier battle groups do that, surely?

Messing around with the flow of trade goods to disrupt the economy of other countries that you're nontheless inextricable from is a form of conflict, but not a warlike one.
If you'd like a pretty reasonable terminal right now you can look at ConEmu or cmder (which is a further customised version of ConEmu). You get tabs and reasonable key shortcuts etc.

I'm also looking forward to the new terminal though, I hope it'll be a lot nicer.
That's Groupon?
;)
The parent comment said there would be a niche for you, not (necessarily) that it would be lucrative. You might be more valued there (in the "we're lucky we found this guy" way if not the cash way).
NSF Greenlights $1.1M Remake of Microsoft's 2016 'Code Trip' PBS Show
Netflix limits all non OS bundled browsers to 720p. Safari, Internet Explorer and Chrome OS go to 1080p and Edge to 4K.
As I mentioned before, I spent half a decade studying Biology in a university context and am aware of its implications.

With that being said, I'm going to do what I'm going to do. I don't intend to hurt people but rather come up with ways to help people. Just like any other field. So thanks for the warning, but I'll be okay.
I hope that Mexico retaliates by tariffs on the huge corporate farms in Texas owned by Mexicans that have out-competed and destroyed small farms back in Mexico.

Free trade is world wide leveling, and every developed country should have high import tariffs to protect their domestic farmers, workers and industry.

Trump gets it.

The high tariffs in the 1800s that made America great the first time were removed by US socialists who preferred progressive income taxes for government revenue. Ugh.

Here is hoping that Trump tariffs bring back American semiconductor manufacturing to Austin.
Yeah, off to a bad start, and made me stop reading.
In many ways, this was my story growing up until I got really into soccer.

I started playing late, but loved the game, so clawed my way up through practicing in much of my spare time, whether down by the field or in the street in front of my house.

Soccer pre-season conditioning also was probably the hardest thing I’d ever done, and left me in the best shape of my life. This instilled the feedback loop of effort = reward that was missing due to academics coming so easily.

If you have a gifted child, find a sport they enjoy and encourage the hell out of it.
Isn’t that like the whole point of globalization? It’s an equalizer for all countries in the world. For the US to realistically stay competitive in rare earths it has to run similar tactics that other countries with less environmental regulations use. It’s a race to the bottom.

The same could also be said about wages and income inequality. I don’t see how globalization will prevent the bottom half of the labor force from competing against Indian peasants.
>> Google stopped using MapReduce

How are they then querying over big data these days?

We don't know, do we? Or did they open-source their search engine?

By using Hadoop people are trying to not reinvent the big data wheel, partly because it's a motherfucker of a problem to have to solve and party because they want to solve the business problem, not the technical one. I don't see how that is in any way worthy of being frowned upon.
The politics around unions in NYC are pretty fascinating.

Many of the trades and at least some of the public sector workers are making enough money to be upper middle class (or higher) by any reasonable definition. Much more so certainly than many professions requiring college or even graduate degrees--for example publishing is still fairly big in NYC but pays terribly. However the rhetoric coming out of these unions still hits the themes of poor, underdog working class pretty hard. Meanwhile the actual working class is hit the hardest by inflated costs of virtually everything.

You end up with tragicomic situations like the infamous inflated rat protests being manned by poorly paid temp workers because the actual union members can't be bothered.
Point being. Grit is what gets you places.
How many megapixels is this one?
Thanks; commented - https://github.com/w3c/apa/issues/28
One of the first articles I remember reading on HN was back in 2009. The gist of the article was that you shouldn’t praise your kids for being smart, praise them when they work hard. Rewarding hard work will better serve them in the long run since being smart will plateau at some point.

I have a 9 and 11 year old and I still bristle a little bit when my mom says y’all are so smart.
There is a good book I read about this years ago (pre-9/11) called The Culture of Fear by Barry Glassner. It went in depth into the different things that people are afraid of and how they are covered in the media vs what you are actually likely to die from. Definitely made me think a little differently about what I saw on the news for good or bad.
The 20th Anniversary of Napster: the app that nearly killed the music industry
I admit I only skimmed it but I definitely disagree with the conclusion which seems to be somewhat summed up in this earlier sentence:

> If we think about it, the prices of basic commodities, such as food and fuel, cannot rise too high relative to the wages of ordinary (also called “non-elite”) workers, or the system will grind to a halt.

I don't see it. If fuel is too expensive we start driving electric vehicles. This one is easy because we already have solution that we know it's viable but in many such cases we don't even know the alternative solution yet because there was no incentive to develop it.

Food market is also evolving and becoming more efficient (optimization functions leave something to be desired but that's another story).

I have not enough knowledge to have a strong opinion on peak oil, but if it stays cheap then so be it. Just don't make other people life miserable. So if it enforces some cost on other people, they should cover it (or ideally it should be opt-in), which would make the price, which now includes that cost, higher.

Shared resources like clean air and ocean are a complex problem and the dynamic I described above doesn't apply because prisoners dilema etc.

I'd love to learn btw, if there is at least any theoretical utopia system (even if it's not feasible to implement it) in which market could reasonably manage those shared resources. Just going to war with country which won't limit pollution to the limit we agreed on seems suboptimal. Trade war seems like an improvement but just moves the problem (there's now prisoners dilemma regarding trading with given country)
> - Fits on one computer (most of the market)

There's one category above that, which is "Fits in memory" and that is a huge chunk of the market. I've seen first hand people getting way too cute and complicated planning for scale, and then it works out that they don't even have more than a couple of GB of data.
I know there is cost to this solution but it's a good one:

Use the same OS and similar hardware for development and production.
Which Country Makes Healthier Shopping Lists: Canada, the USA, or the UK?
This only works for Aurora Serverless, not regular Aurora or any other managed databases.
The education system provides fairly clear and predictable paths to affirmation, success, and a sort of grade based people ranking system.

Life outside that system often very much does not.

Everyone has to come to terms with it at some point.

I can understand how for someone who school makes a strong impression on them it can be a real struggle without what was such a clear and predictable system.
It's a kind of fear of missing out. If you spend all your time becoming keeping up with one tiny field, there'll be so much else that you know nothing about at all.
Another small step at making the command line more user friendly.
What to you think? Is that true Canadians are much healthier than USA and UK people?
People blossom at different stages of their lives - sometimes it's physical/technical, other times it's emotional, but in any case sometimes these advantages/head starts end up evening out after the first 30 years for people. To tell some anecdotes of people living at the pinnacle of piano:

There is a pianist called Aimi Kobayashi who was a real piano prodigy - she was performing big concertos by the age of 9.

Here is her playing a musically mature recital of Chopin Impromptu No. 1 (Op. 29) when she was 11 - she sounds like a pro already[0]

People who were following her were expecting her to take the world by storm as a world-beating titan in the world of piano but she somewhat "plateaued" (relative to her peers at the top) in her teenage years.

Meanwhile Yuja Wang is an absolutely huge pianist (I note that her BBC Proms this year sold out almost instantly) but accounts of her career/development tell of her being mostly middle of the pack and unremarkable during her teenage years. No one in their right mind would question her technical prowess today though.

Yuja doing Shostakovich 1 [1]

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX57r1l5W3U

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo0yIuZTQKg
As developers we should take a blood oath that we will always optimize for Firefox.
> Even the common GUI platforms on Linux would require the user to manually save the file and explicitly marking the file as executable.

If someone can find a way to drop a text file in my "~/.config/autostart" dir, next time I log in my Gnome desktop will happily execute the command present in the "Exec" line and it doesn't require the execute bit.

I think something similar could be done using "~/.local/share/applications", overriding an installed application next time that application is launched, but it probably would show two icons; the autostart at the moment is more stealth.
> I know a lot of people hate Qualcomm, but reading the 230 pages of the report I cant help but felt sorry for them.

They had a special opportunity to take a lead role in protecting the American public from being victimized by criminal behavior within the NSA and they chose to side with the criminals instead of the victims.

What's to feel sorry for?
Ok but Larry Page has been ignoring East Lansing since well before the Larry Nassar shit came to light so this is not relevant to the discussion. Tarring an entire city because of a few assholes also doesn’t seem very sporting.
This is scary. Not because GM or mosquito populations. This is scary because we don't know enough of fungi role in the environment. Yes, we know this species infects the mosquitos but what else? What other roles does it have?

And with fungi this is especially dangerous because spores get literally everywhere and are hard to eliminate!

Unless we can ensure the fungus is engineered to not generate viable spores on a second generation this is a recipe for disaster.
Thanks!

Some of this stuff looks like what I've done in biology and chemistry labs. So I'm already familiar with some of the techniques, especially ones that deal with running experiments and using equipment.

The "Biology and Genetics" playlist is interesting and looks like some of those experiments can be followed along.
Intel is porting ifort (intel Fortran compiler) to LLVM
Digital Twin Technology – Why Should We Talk About It?
>“People will say to me, ‘Why are MTA construction costs so high?’ And the answer is ‘Everything,’ ” says Julia Vitullo-Martin, a senior fellow at the RPA and co-author of its 2018 report comparing New York’s construction costs to those in peer cities. “Every factor you look at is flawed the way the MTA does business, from the first step to the end.”

>When you’re doing everything wrong, the best way to fix the problem isn’t usually to go through the list of things you’re doing wrong and fix them one by one. It’s best to step back and ask why you’re so bad at everything, whether a systemic problem is causing you to make so many separate mistakes. And in the case of the MTA, the root cause of its capital-construction failures is usually diagnosed as unaccountability: Nobody knows who’s in charge, so nobody has to be terrified of taking the blame for obscene costs and endless delays.

This is very similar to the explanation for the American healthcare system's turmoil given by David Goldhill (founder of https://sesamecare.com/) in his book Catastrophic Care. Even for those that disagree with his recommendations, he delivers a great analysis of the perverse incentives that gave rise to the broken healthcare system.
> However, I'm wondering if SQL is the right tool for the task.

In my anecdotal experience, yep, it's a data analysis language everyone in the industry knows - BAs, product managers, developers, and data scientists.
That plan has a lot of unnecessarily extreme facets.

The US could just impose a strategic subsidy or tweak the legislation to allow rare earths a special exemption from environmental legislation. No need to nationalise anything or send in the army corps.

The US crushed the Soviet Union by being able to fund their logistical support networks while the soviets couldn't. Arbitrary nationalisation of things because there are security issues is a great way to see the roles reversed for the tussle with China.

Rare earths can be mined anywhere at a nominal profit, mining isn't a game of cheap labour. It is only the USs environmental standards that is making a difference between mining in the US vs China.
Interview with Vinay Johar, CEO at Rchilli
All desktops that are not on Windows 10.
Maybe you and the downvoter crew do not know it.

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/06/25/goog...

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Google-stop-using-MapReduce-an...
The first two lines, wow—You very clearly wrote what I've struggled to think of how to convey. Thank you.