skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the very small N part still applies here though, the study was done on 18 children only, given the prevalence of ASD and the complexity of it I think we just need more proof. I won't count it out but I think the conclusions should've just been: this looks promising but we need to study it more. (tbf, i think i'm complaining more about the tone of the article.)
Being able to iterate rapidly might be helpful to get tech of the ground into space once we have it. But right now even Earth-bound optical interferometry is in its infancy compared to optical astronomy and radio interferometry. It is an interesting subject of research for method development, but we are far away from an instrument that is sufficiently well understood to be useful.
Um, no. The direct effect is on the lives of those who would otherwise have to birth and support those babies as they grow into children and adolescents. Using words like "culling" and "veneer of do-goodery" leads the discussion in the direction you want it to go.
Look - it's straightforward, is there a genuine contribution, is the thesis of sufficient quality to effectively communicate that - there's the standard. Who cares what random referees have / have not decided about the work if you are examining it?
9to4Mac has obtained some leaked screenshots. Unfortunately they are not very revealing.

https://9to5mac.com/2019/05/29/macos-10-15-music-tv-app-scre...
There's also no shortage of people claiming to be from Venezuela, asking for BTC donations.
The federal government also promised college students in 2007 that student loans would be forgiven after 10 years of work in public service professions.

Of the first 29,000 applications filed with the Department of Education to take advantage of this promise, 96 were approved. That's an approval rate of 0.33 percent.
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As we can clearly see with this comment, that's a headline that does much more harm than good. In fact: you are broadly subject to search at the US border (that "exception" to the presumption against search was in effect during the administrations of the framers of the Constitution), but that's approximately the extent of it (don't get us started on that dumb map they drew).

It helps nobody to perpetuate the idea that you lose your rights to due process, &c simply by dint of being intercepted by CBP at the border. Similarly: citizens of the US can neither be detained indefinitely nor denied entry at the border.
Personally, I've always wanted take a look at Liquidity Lang [0] which exists on top of Michelson. At a glance, it seems to solve a large number of issues that have caused bugs in Solidity smart contracts (e.g. liquidity has abstract data types, disallows inline mutation of state, etc)

[0] http://www.liquidity-lang.org/
30 tasks x 0.25 hours per task is 7.5 hours. Looks simply like a calculation.
That's literally what a PhD is for - the fact that you're an expert in your field and breaking new ground. Wouldn't a masters in comp sci be the equivalent to a masters in engineering? You can get a PhD in engineering as well.
> Anyway it’s hard to understand what kind of influence influencers have.

Most have none, as they're entertainers rather than actual influencers.
Storing a file on two tier1s would surely protect you from fire, water, theft no? Yet you will also be paying for all the extra copies Amazon and Google each make. I'm not disagreeing that this is the right strategy, just pointing out that the market offerings and trends don't support it.
Then maybe you shouldn't be building that product with a 2 person shop.
Holy f*ck.
That's my reaction so far, still need to process that information deeper.
Shared resources, especially across privilege boundaries, almost always create undesirable side channels that leak information.

Hardware designers need to come up with better isolation mechanisms.
> DO seems to have gone with the "hire cheap overseas support that almost but doesn't quite understand English" strategy, whereas the tier 1 guys at Linode have on occasion demonstrated more Linux systems administration expertise than I've got.

That's simply not true. There's support engineers hired around the world, and depending on when your ticket is posted, someone awake at that time will answer. DO is super remote friendly and as a result, has employees (and support folks) everywhere on the planet. Not "cheap oversea support" at all. There's a lot of support folks in the US, Canada, Europe, and in India where they have a datacenter.

disclosure: ex-employee
I think it's already insanely fast. If I remember right, it came out a little after USB-3 and it's already has comparable adoption. Of course, it's not going to go as fast as USB-3 since USB-C doesn't use backwards compatible hardware. With regards to random devices that are not USB hosts, it's still preferable to use USB-2 for greatest compatibility unless extra speed is needed like on external storage drives.
He literally call schools prisons:

"What bothers me is not that the kids are kept in prisons, but that (a) they aren't told about it, and (b) the prisons are run mostly by the inmates."

Source: http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
He's using mathematics to compute the number of tickets an employee can handle per day, given certain assumptions. Given the data from znpy above, we see that nurettin's assumption that the time per ticket is 15 minutes is inconsistent with DO's expectations; instead, the average time spent per ticket should be about 5 minutes.
Specifically, the question is whether the current process (user or kernel) has mapped anywhere in its address space data the attacker[0] should not be able to access.

0: ie, there exists a entity (other than the end user) that should not have access.
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https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/api/apollo-client/ is pretty terrible all around.

As a trivial example look at the documentation of client.query(), the most fundamental function. It lists the options for `errorPolicy` and `fetchPolicy` but doesn't explain them. The links lead nowhere (that's true for at least half the links on that page). You have to remember where to find that the Apollo React documentation instead. `fetchResults` is described like something that sounds like a boolean, but for some reason it has the type any. `metadata` is described so vaguely that I have no clue what it does. `query` is unhelpfully described as being of type `DocumentNode`. I'm left to guess that a gql string propably results in a DocumentNode, but I'm not sure everyone makes that deduction. `variables` is pretty much the only decently described parameter.

And that's for the simplest function. Just below that the `subscribe` function has a fetchPolicy parameter without giving any idea how fetchPolicies interact with subscriptions (how does a "cache-only" subscriptions work???). And I really hope I never want to directly use an ObservableQuery class, 7 of 11 members don't even have a description.

The documentation for the react stuff is mostly fine, but once you have to go beyond that you are on your own and end up reading source code to figure anything out.
Brains have the benefit of an elaborate microscopic network of coolant pipes that double for power delivery
Seconded. I always put TL;DR at the beginning if it's meant as an actual summary. I sometimes put a TL;DR at the end, when it's meant as a humorous summary.
Feels pretty reassuring that there are a ton of smart and talented people out there. Imagine what the world would be like without them.
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Out of curiosity, does anyone have some resources to have a homegrown DO/AWS server space?

Say I have a friend at all the continents (including Antartica for hypthetical fun-ness), they are all willing to allocate some square meters to plunk down some servers for whatever is needed.

How would I go about it and build this small(ish) infrastructure myself?
Won’t the customer consent just become a line in the T&C’s and unless you accept it you can’t use their service? This would be a similar situation to the cookie disclaimers.
> No one will bother. Because this does not affect citizens.

I, a US citizen literally JUST spoke out against the practice in the post you are directly replying to.
This sounds exactly like how communist economy used to work in Poland before 1989: Governing communist party claimed to represent the common people, so we had government-mandated full employment - state-owned companies (the only kind there was) were employing people, whether they actually needed them or not. To finance that, government would print money, causing hyperinflation.

Net result was: everyone had a job, everyone had a high (in nominal value) salary, but the money we had was worthles - you couldn't actually buy anything with it, because the store shelves were empty. Government had to ration all consumer goods, by introducing stamps (similar to foods stamps in the US).

It is funny to see communism making its great comeback :)
I would say that it doubles the cost of backups, but using this math, we start with one copy plus one backup, and add a second backup; that means only a 50% increase.
About Basque Country:

- New Poll shows rising number of Basque Country residents want to remain in Spain [1]

- Only 26.9% of Basques want independence from Spain (2017) [2]

- 23% of Basques want independence (2019) [3]

[1] https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2018/12/07/new-poll-shows-ris...

[2] https://elpais.com/politica/2017/06/23/actualidad/1498213521...

[3] https://www.lavanguardia.com/local/paisvasco/20190412/461599...
An unpleaseant conversation with his pillow. It's a two people company and he is the only technical person.
Such checklists exist, but not all services are of equal importance to the customer, so they are not vetted in equal detail.

Often the supplier has to fill out the checklist themselves.

> do you have backups?

Manager: [X]

> are they offsite?

Dev: cloud provider docs say so

Manager: [X]

Customer: Great, you won the bid.
In what sense is it under-valued? There is a fabulously popular musical about how the ability to write well can propel you to the heights of leadership of a nation. In my experience, people believe that the ability to write well is key to professional success.

Where are the people who believe that writing is not a valuable skill?
Yes. There's been Supreme Court cases that say you still get due process, can't be beaten into confessions, etc. I don't know if that applies to 1A specifically, but they absolutely have some rights:

https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/immigration/255281-ye...
Israel to auction prefab classrooms donated by EU to Palestinians
Economics? Politics? le gasp Religion?!?

Society says go find an echo-chamber and don't bother anyone. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So just go with the uniform return value someone wrote Apple is going for with Safari: Return a pitch-black rectangle every time.
The configuration should be yes/no and always-ask/never-ask with the default being no and always ask.
CAFC has continually shown itself as a renegade court which might be corrupted or captured by the "intellectual property" industry. We can presume they will consider everything copyrightable and everything patentable. They've continually tried to circumvent supreme court rulings to make things more patentable. The same can be applied to copyright.
Also, it looks like it was uncontrolled from what I can tell. Anyone seen the actual study?
It would be cool if there were a way to see how "repeated" the content of a given comment is across similar stories so users could make their own judgement on the value of novel views. Similarly, penalizing comments (display-order wise) for being "mere" repetition would be a neat way of nudging discussion towards novelty without applying the "strong" censorship of deletion.
> Party B does not win the election but, because of how the system works, they could take the council by joining forces with other parties (who were also against the LEZ)

Isn't that how democracy works? I know that the system maybe could be improved but that's how the game is. In fact, the current Prime Minister started its government the same way.
> That's simply not true. There's support engineers hired around the world, and depending on when your ticket is posted, someone awake at that time will answer. DO is super remote friendly and as a result, has employees (and support folks) everywhere on the planet. Not "cheap oversea support" at all. There's a lot of support folks in the US, Canada, Europe, and in India where they have a datacenter.

Going to guess from this tweet https://twitter.com/AntoineGrondin/status/113096281882239385... that you're currently staffed at DO. That's fine; I know two people who do great work on DO's security team. But it would be helpful if you could disclose this when you comment about your employer publicly so that readers don't have to dig up your keybase and then your twitter account to understand it.
In the sense I've never seen any interview require a writing sample from a dev.
You probably already know of it, but you might find Halide interesting. It aims to separate computation strategy and dataflow, in a performant fashion.

Also, potentially pyCUDA and other things that google autocompletes when you type "pyCUDA vs".

None of them are exactly what you're talking about, of course.
There's absolutely no search hits on the text of this question. Is this real?
Apparently some engineers who believe writing code is all that matters (myself included at some point in time).
Back in the day, we used to talk a lot about how RAID is not a backup strategy. The modern version of that is that S3 is not a backup strategy.

> So what is the purpose of the massive level of redundancy that you are already paying for when you store a file on S3?

You're paying to try and ensure you don't need to restore from backups. Our data lives in an RDS cluster (where we pay for read replicas to try and make sure we don't need to restore from backups) and in S3 (where we pay for durable storage to try and make sure we don't need to restore from backups), but none of that is a backup!

If you're not on the AWS cloud S3 is a decent place to store your backups of course, but storing your backups on S3 when you're already on AWS is, at best, negligent, while treating the durability of S3 as a form of backups is simply absurd.

> I don’t think it’s terribly common for even medium sized companies to have a multi tier1 cloud backup strategy.

The company I work for is on the AWS cloud, so we store our backups on B2 instead. It's no more work than storing them on S3, and it means we still have our data in the event that we, for whatever reason, lose access to the data we have in S3. Who the hell doesn't have offsite backups?
Why is this mindcanon? The rich are very much in debt... the "poorest" member of the US house of representatives is something like 15 million dollars in debt, and Donald Trump reportedly is 300M dollars in debt to Deutche Bank. Financial instruments that only the rich have access to (shorts, puts, ETFs) rely on freely available low interest debt to exist in a efficient fashion.

Moreover, when the poor are in debt, assuming they have access to some sort of formal or informal banking services, which many do not, they're usually in debt at short term high interest rates (think low double digits in the case of credit cards for the lower middle class down to 20-30% per annum rates for lending shops for near-poverty and below), which are basically unaffected by nominal debt burden effects of inflation.

If you're spending 90% of your income on day to day needs and there's 1% inflation, that's a ~10% decrease in your margin of survival. If you're spending 20% of your income on day to day needs that's ~1% decrease in your margin of survival.

Now, of course "wages keep up with inflation" or something like that. Except, they don't: (https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/ - bonus: the divergence kicks in right after nixon closed the gold window), and even if they did, the model that inflation is a policy strategy for correct for sticky wages (https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/the-case-for-hi...) goes out the window.

Inflation exists to silently steal from the poor to give to the rich.
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i.e. the few middle/upper middle class people who choose to live within their means, keep a rainy day fund, save for a vacation instead of putting it on a card, etc.

I guess I'll just hoard ammo and gold bars instead of building savings. At any given time at least one of those is in high demand.
all that money and Reid Hoffman still can't afford a gym membership
All backups have to go to iCloud now?
You say that as if there's something wrong with that.
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This is a direct result of the disinformation regarding this story by both supporters and detractors of Assange.

Details are repeatedly argued because low-info headlines kept being released by media conglomerates, and, even the readers here have relied on those.
Ultimately, someone has to make a judgement call whether there is a genuine contribution or not. Ideally, the committee can serve in this role, but there is a possibility that their views are biased or uninformed. This can be countered by the external validation offered by refereed publications.

Edit: I absolutely recommend the change suggested in the article. In contrast to many other programs, many Indian universities commonly do not support student travel costs for presenting research. A hard requirement for two conference papers means that poorly-paid Indian graduate students are either (A) limited to publishing in relatively-affordable but less prestigious local conferences, or (B) taking on significant personal expense to meet this requirement.

By lifting this requirement, students could publish exclusively in journals, for example, which do not have a presentation component. Allowing individual institutions to have more control over these requirements makes more sense, in my view.

For comparison, my US-based institution requires only a single publication (conference or journal) prior to graduation; this is meant to address the external validation problem mentioned above without discouraging students who want to work on extremely hard, extremely time-intensive projects that might produce fewer publications than "hot" topics could.
I still do that if I come across one when I'm thirsty. This is the first I've heard of their dangers!
> Without iTunes, customers can manage their Apple gadgets through the Music app.

Presumably this will get moved into Music.
with no data or experience to back this up, i'd expect this to be kind of a long tail, where some will take an hour, and the majority will take 30 sec
What is a good book on this subject?
I don't work at DO anymore, but you're right I should disclose that I used to do so. Will edit my original post.
I was financially prepared to have kids. Letting one's kids "suck up all" one's money is my definition of not being prepared, medical emergencies aside.
Stuff like this is why I'm glad I'm a uMatrix user
So who would you recommend?
If folks are interested in this sort of thing, either because they want to use it or because they want to hack on it, I'd humbly suggest checking out Sourcegraph: https://sourcegraph.com, https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph.

We've spent years building semantic code intel and search that's available for open source and software teams that aren't inside Google, which has an amazing internal code explorer powered by Kythe (though, unsurprisingly, a lot of our users and customers are ex-Googlers!)

Much thanks to GitHub for open-sourcing this. Our own open-source code analysis stack uses tree-sitter (as this does) in addition to other language analyzers via LSP, and this seems like a great contribution to the open-source code analysis canon!
what considerations go into choosing between one option and another? Is there a blog post I could read on the topic?
If you can only read one book on the topic I'd make it this one - https://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Rober...

It's not about sales it's about how people think, act, and make decisions. I would bet that most any book on sales will invariably touch on at least some of the topics covered in this book.

It's a fun read and I promise you will start to see these patterns being used in everyday life in verbal and non-verbal communication.
The podcast Why is this Happening? had a great episode about MMT earlier this month: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/msnbc/why-is-this-happening...
I’d say you have two choices, “it’s coming sooner or later” and “this time is different”. Pick your poison.
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Sometimes the simple option is the best. Having said that, it’s not that simple, for them. I believe it relies on being able to fetch and dissect different results for different clients in the same query (all while applying their own form of RLS).
In empirical studies, there can be both strong evidence and weak evidence.

evidence

noun

The available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.

‘the study finds little evidence of overt discrimination’

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/evidence
In response to my first support request DO sent me instructions for closing my account. I followed up and they refunded me a random few dollars.
> How many horror stories need to reach the front page of HN before people stop believing this

Sounds like the opposite of the survivor bias. I don't believe it's any sort of common (though it does happen), even less that "it should be the first scenario in your disaster recovery plan"
Future work:
Reduce load on Postgres by:
- Mapping events to active live queries
- Incremental computation of result set

Fake it till you make it.

Meanwhile: https://opensource.janestreet.com/incremental/
I wonder if this also means the end of the WebObjects stuff currently backing iTunes, or if this stuff will just be consumed by Music now.
I remember when iTunes came out for Windows ca. 2003. I had friends with Macs so I leapt at the chance to try it for myself---it just seemed lightyears ahead of whatever I was using to interface with my music library at the time (Winamp, probably).

And what a long, slow, weird, decline it's been since then.
Should we start a blacklist of Oracle employees after this falls out that all interfaces are copyrightable? This ends the fundamental notion of interoperability completely across all of computer science. Anyone who continues to work for Oracle after some point can and should be considered an enemy of the the entire field.
All[1] of them. All the kids. They all have the potential for fulfilling lives that contribute to society.

[1] Fine, almost all, there will be exceptions, but the goals of the education system should include making exceptions as rare as possible. At the very least I'll claim a belief that achieving a low enough rate of exceptions so as to make them negligible in practice.
These can be done without Javascript, btw, using images and other assets. The Steam block example in the article is using the favicon.
I'm really not sure what your argument is.

Their entire business was completely reliant on DO droplets. It doesn't take much foresight to think, "hey, I should probably make a backup in case this VPS goes down."

Nothing in this comment thread, or the OP twitter thread mentions anything about the rest of this imaginary contingency plan of theirs.
I think the smart thing is they didn't wander too much into politics. At least most of my LinkedIn feed is mostly still about work related topics.
I didn't see this before I posted my reply. I'm so glad I'm not the only one who is seeing this. I would go so far as instead of saying:

> It was fine.

To say that "it was better", because there was more competition.

That's a keen insight, that it might be a "generational thing". I remember things, in general, working better before the Shermann Antitrust Act stopped applying to technology companies.