skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> mathematicians do blog, but the thing is: it is hard

I'm on the applied side of science and I think it's definitely hard but worth doing when on the applied side. I have blogged and if you're purely theoretical, I have no idea if it would be worth it. My research has a 1 sentence tagline that's awesome, but as soon as anyone wants more than that 1 sentence, they look under the covers and take a real pause as they see the writhing mass of intertwined domains involved.

To get people from sentence 1 through to a basic but sound understanding of the issues, from which I can start talking about 'where do we go from here' requires what I dare say borders on performance art. Over several years and untold presentations, I've gotten it down to about 7 minutes with the right words and pictures and audience, and the audience response will be that sort of perfect moment of hushed silence at the end, but the piles of errors and failures, reams of words never read, data never even looked at, reels the mind. I think back on all of that and cringe even as I wipe the sweat from my brow and uncramp my fingers.
It's not one you linked but I ended up at https://github.com/adnzzzzZ/blog/issues/31 and really liked the bit about Premature Generalization.

It's something that has stalled me out a bunch of times, trying to find the 'correct' way to implement things, rather than just charging through and trying to see if my ideas even have merit to stick around long enough to desreve improvement. It has obvious links to the famous saying about Premature Optimization too.

The bit about globals and team vs solo matched my experience too (especially the part about how much you can fit in your head at once).
> How is Android, or chromium any better in that regard, given Googles plans to disallow proper adblocking as it interferes with their business model?

You can install Firefox on Android with ublock origin.
That’s really unrelated. I get that it seems analogous to you, but it’s weird to me that a cats claw is similar to a foreskin in your mind. Declawing is much more like cutting off the cats fingers
Really? What is so bad about your support that you needed to hear about this from HN before you did anything?
It's hard to come by rigorous numbers. But RFE's (request for evidence) are now the routine (approx 70% of cases) in all immigration cases. I haven't even heard of an acquaintance having their immigration (H1B, OPT, L1, permanent residency) being approved without an RFE in recent times. RFE's used to be the exception rather (where the lawyer/applicant genuinely made a mistake) than the norm. Now it's the other way round. They find a minor technicality to issue an RFE.
There is no "cache flushing" when barriers or other instructions are used to ensure seqcst on any system I am aware of. Such a system would perform so slowly as to be practically unusable.

At most there is usually a local dispatch stall while store buffers (not caches) are flushed and pending loads complete. In some scenarios, like a cache-line crossing atomic operation on x86, you might need additional non-local work such as asserting a lock signal on an external bus. There might be some other work such as ensuring that all arrived invalidation requests have been processed.

Still, you are talking in the range of 10s or maybe low 100s of cycles. Nothing like a cache flush which would probably be an impact of 10,000s of cycles or more (depending on how large the caches are and where the data to reload them comes from).
> if requiring dark matter to explain galactic physics can be dispensed with by a distance correction

It's not that simple.

First, as privong pointed out, our estimates of distances to all galaxies would have to be wrong, and we have no evidence that that is the case.

Second, dark matter explains more than just galaxy rotation curves and other observed parameters. It also explains why our universe has structure at all (galaxy clusters, galaxies, and stars) even though the data on Big Bang nucleosynthesis puts a strong limit on the amount of ordinary matter (baryons) in the universe, and it's far too small to account for the amount of structure (gravitational clumping) that we see.
taxis have existed for over a century, but ride-sharing apps make "taxis" more popular due to increased availability/affordability/convenience.

this is all speculative, i've no data :)
If this was a story on a paywalled site and I had a non paywall link then I would share it for the benefit of others.

Similarly, if a story is on a website owned by paranoid people with a track record of harm I would prefer to read a third party report. I don't believe I am alone in that.
> I don't know if it's a promise ...

I suspect that it almost definitely is not.

As IT professionals we should do better than use words like 'kill' to describe system and account changes.

As I understand it, Digital Ocean suspended the account, and because the (perceived) problem was related to excessive / potentially fraudulent CPU usage, they suspended the machines. The data contained on them was not deleted. Does that match your reading?

As someone who suffered from extremely noisy neighbours in AWS (in the very early days), risking significant damage to the performance guarantees to our customers, I'm actually cautiously happy with automated protection systems. Naturally I'd rather noisy neighbours were throttled so that I never heard them, and I expect that's closer to what happens these days
> but Apple isn't required to help them crack the users password so they can decrypt it.

Apple would have to argue that in court. They would almost certainly lose.
> The OPs comment didn’t reflect the reality of the situation.

He said he failed, then you said he failed, it seems like you agree, but feels like kicking someone who’s down. The comment was about Limor, not his life story... maybe it doesn’t need to capture every nuance? Did his point require more detail?

> while harsh, my comment is not false.

Does that make it necessary to litigate here and now?

> People should always keep in mind failing doesn’t always just end there and is over.

Indeed, failure leads to lessons learned. People who’ve failed and then try again tend to fare better than first timers. Maybe your idea is something worth mulling over before declaring in public you wouldn’t give him a second chance or back anything associated with him ever again?

I’ve tried and failed before, and it was intensely stressful trying to keep people happy while making stupid mistakes and having things go downhill. I suspect having people with an axe to grind spread super negative feelings about me and my future work wouldn’t be any fun, or helpful, or educational. It’d be one thing if it was a scam, but poor execution, maybe let that go?
Unfortunately employment opportunity doesn't help in this case. They are already offered jobs/interns but cannot legally start working (anywhere) because they have to wait for the work permit (OPT) to be approved.
Google makes lots of money from search ads from Firefox users.

Even with these changes, there are still lots of ways for Google to track you and monetize ads.
This paper is not based on new measurements. It's based on a new analysis of existing data.
Very cool, I do consider this art!

As a side note, I just played through console.log(), and I thought you might want to know that there's an unnecessary apostrophe in the winning text! Of course I only saw it after also discovering, I believe, every possible way to die.

edit: I've submitted a pull request.
>That’s really unrelated.

it's a state-allowed form of mutilation for the sake of convenience, and very rarely medically indicated.

the furthest reach is that one is a human practice -- the rest of it seems pretty relatable.

Does the fact that cat declawing has no religious adherents bother you with regards to the comparison?

That's understandable, but it doesn't make the two less comparable, just more sensitive to argue about.
is $300 a fair price for an ambulance ride though? paying a skilled paramedic + driver for (say) an hour seems to exceed $300, when you factor in the overhead of the ambulance itself (not to mention services rendered).

edit: i ask that question, because who is going to eat that cost?
I've recently had similar experiences with a loved one.

Older (Geriatric) friend of mine, serious medical condition, which necessitated (I'm told) continuous tests, medication & checks to be run to make sure he was in a "serious but stable" condition instead of a "on the way to death" situation.

But this was for a number of days (nearly a week) and essentially it meant the few times he was able to sleep past the pain/illness, he'd be woken up within a few hours for another round of tests, medication, etc.

He managed to get through it somehow, and I don't have any solutions to how they could have done it better (I'm no doctor), but it can't help the condition that he was getting by on one to two hours of sleep a day on top of the medical problems.
It's kinda sad how games don't really work this way anymore. There are few open-world sandbox games and mods aren't really a thing. It's "free-to-play" skinner box treadmills from here on out.
This only doubles the number of satellites iirc, I doubt it will mean many have to fundamentally shift how they operate.
Young, pregnant urged to take blood tests for lead after Notre-Dame fire
Multi-account containers is probably why I won't leave Firefox. I have different containers for Facebook and all its websites(instagram, whatsapp), google, amazon, Microsoft.
Forgive my ignorance of this domain, but what's preventing China from pilfering the necessary talent from Taiwan to develop its own 7 nm tech? Wouldn't there be numerous economically (and politically) irresistible incentives working to make this happen?
> Didn't Apple prove to the FBI in court that they literally cannot access a users iCloud data without their password?

No. Apple regularly hands over iCloud data to government investigator. In China, Apple handed over its keys, so the Chinese government does not even need to involve Apple to get iCloud data.
I think it’s pretty disingenuous to suggest that not allowing foreskin amputation nullifies all of Judaism. Many Jewish people whose parents decided not to circumcise them grow up to have fulfilling spiritual and cultural lives. No one does a dick check when you walk into synagogue.

There are many ways to maintain the symbolic importance of circumcision without resorting to unnecessary amputation, such as cutting a small mark in the foreskin to symbolize circumcision.
Sorry for the late response. A company named SCO claims they own the language. They obviously don't (possibly just a specific compiler), but they still try (or tried for a while) to charge licensing fees. I'm having a hard time finding references to this now, but here are two links that talk a bit about it:

https://lwn.net/Articles/39227/

http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#revenues
We’re looking into implementing the language on our platform so folks have the option of deploying it using Docker/K8s.

Would love to get your feedback if you’re interested? Also happy to exchange thoughts and insights as well if you have time.
That and a way to turn off transition animations...
Add basic web design to the list. I'm sorry but it is 2019, stop creating websites that look like they're designed in 1995. It isn't cool. If you have limited web skills, at least use wordpress with a template so the website looks at least somewhat aesthetically pleasing on the eye.
I have the same, but it's just Opera's ad blocking. Check what extensions you have installed
I like it when a company conducts a full failure analysis and takes responsibility. Doesn't happen often. Hope DO meaningfully improves its service as a result.

Its catastrophic to get locked out like that.
We're a separate company from the Handshake Foundation with our own cash reserve.
This really isn’t the forum for a religious discussion, but I have to say I’ve never understood this part. If you disengage Judaism from ethnicity to be purely a religion then, assuming freedom of religion, shouldn’t it be down to the child to make that decision at some point when society deems them capable of making a decision on their own (typically 16)?
Article author here. Happy to answer questions, if you have any.
Why should the developers worry about a browser that is only covering 10% as I remember that is the cover ? Specially if you have a small team who has time and people to make multiple versions to run on different browsers?

You can just put a banner saying this website works well on chrome.

FF should be more active in making all the sites work on their browser.
There is also no telling if they're not going to follow through, and it is not mere lip service.

What cloud business do you run that does better, according to your standards?
I think check/handle is much better than this.
Show HN: Translate English to SQL
The Last of Us was a masterpiece. It deserves a place in gaming history up there with Doom and Half Life 2.

The Uncharted series was gobsmacking production values, a great story, some nice adventure aspects, a bunch of lame puzzles, and at the core a mediocre hand-holdey shooter based on arcade style bullet-sponge mechanics made absurd by the parallel universe of endless cut-scenes where death is consequential and killing is bad. Why are we (the supposed good guys) gleefully murdering so many people? It doesn't make sense.

I absolutely loved the Uncharted series, but that contradiction never sat right with me. And it became all the more obvious in the later games as the production values improved to ever-greater feats of realism and the cut-scenes increasingly humanised the enemy.
The academics putting stuff on youtube is almost laughable. It really exposes their flaws outright. Their lectures are boring and dull. Heck, it even shows how poorly some of these people are at teaching. Sure, we get it, you have a PHD in physics and you're smart but who cares about that if you can't actually teach the material.

No wonder so many kids these days are flocking to youtube to learn stuff. It is because of how horrible the current education system is. We put people in teaching positions when they can't even teach in the first place.

The truth is youtube, the internet and computers are absolutely game changing technology when it comes to education. With the right tools, youtube + internet + right computer tools will be able to provide the best learning experience for the student, even beating out top-tier education institutions.
It's not just tests. It's also constant beeping and the light from the hallway.
I'm not sure about the ordering part, but about "cache aliasing rules" - can you give some details? This situation can be trivially set up via mmap, so if that breaks it would seem to be a problem?

I understand that aliasing is an issue when it comes to hardware design, but the practical need to support systems that allow this to occur means that all major architectures I'm aware of support transparent V->P aliasing, either by having their caches physically indexed, effectively physically indexed like VIPT or some strategy where V is used to look up the way in L1 but misses due to aliasing will be resolved in the L2 (i.e., aliasing "works" but is slow), or some other similar strategy.

I would be curious what systems don't work this way.

Note that I'm talking only about data - systems definitely have all sorts of rules about modification of instruction-containing pages.
Yet another reason to run Linux
Is writing software protected by freedom of speech?

Is encoding a set of account values into a genesis block posted on GitHub a security offering?
It's so disheartening that every time I post about this on HN, I am downvoted into negative numbers and argued with.

If you disable iMessage, any messages people send to group chats you were in will just silently stop working. I don't know what else to say. You will never see those messages. Yes, it sort of integrates with SMS. But if you want to actually see all of your messages, once you are in you have to stay in.
Just applied through email. Hope to hear back soon!
I don’t think there’s tariff on CPUs due to an international agreement of zero tariff on IT goods. Edit: https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/inftec_e/inftec_e.htm
Ask HN: Highest end job search (outside of bay area)
I am a very well compensated and skilled developer in one of the hot fields of tech. I am in good standing and fairly senior at my current job. I am also somewhat well known in the field.

I'd like to move out of the bay area to a specific location for family reasons. I want to come back to NorCal one day, but I will have to move to another city in the next year. I'd rather stay here for professional and personal reasons. However, it does not look like that will be the best for my family.

Assuming I can't become remote at my current job (I'd like to get an outside offer before bringing this up), what are my best options? Are million per year compensation unheard of outside of the bay area, NYC, Seattle? The city I am moving to probably does not have good compensation for tech. I will also like a job close to a specific suburb for family reasons. I'd be looking for a job in tech or finance (hedge funds more than HFT).

EDIT: I realized starting my own firm/business would be an option. I'll be considering this along with more traditional roles.
Better get started, your competition just launched 6 months ago: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/review-helm-personal...
Because they link quality of life to making great art rather than rent seeking(?)
Nearly all early Christians were required to sacrifice to the Roman emperor acknowledging His Divinity as God Emperor. They then received a chit called a Libellus that indicated they had sacrificed.

Only the Christians that did not have a libellus and refused to conform with the legal requirement to sacrifice were executed.

Most everyone said it's no big deal. You can acknowledge the God Emperor and still be a faithful Christian.

Those that disagreed are now considered to have been "Martyrs", those who died for their faith. But perhaps they were just delusional. What is the harm in sacrificing to the Emperor, acknowledging he is the True God? You can secretly believe in your heart of heart otherwise and there is no problem with that, most people say. It's perfectly fine to kill, to abuse, to do whatever you personally feel is ok. All will be fine. Just do it.
> precautions when taking destructive actions.

No data was lost, it is not destructive in anyway.

> because of some automated heuristic.

If the customer had "payment history" none of this would have happened. Probably it was being used under "startup credits"

> people host their businesses and livelihoods on cloud providers

people shouldn't run entire operation on credits and blame DO in twitter.

Only issue is that DO took 29 hours, apart from that i see no problem with DO.
Apple sold out kids' privacy yesterday under the guise of “screen time” apps
Firefox will not going to win with a focus on privacy. Period.

It's like a privacy friendly social network can't beat Facebook.

Unless Google does something extremely stupid people are going to stick to it.

People use Gmail, YouTube, Docs,Google search, Android and all of them are in sync with chrome. It goes hand in hand with your life.

Same is for Apple, they make iPhone they have mail they have macos. Everything sync with safari. Makes life easy.

What does Firefox offer? Only a browser. And privacy is not going make people switch to them.
I don’t understand how the account did not have payment history. Hadn’t it been in operation for quite some time?
People derive enjoyment from lotteries and scratch tickets. I agree that some people exhibit problematic behavior by spending some of their limited funds on these items but that is their right. I'd rather these entertainment sources be captured by the state for the good of all its people than administered privately or clandestinely.
Back in the days of Windows 3.1 when people bought software in a store on floppies, end-cap positioning was discussed as if it were under the control or influence of the 'distributor' layer of the retail food chain, and therefore the developer (the company) would design the collateral for the end-cap and work with the distributor. The end-caps were not usually bargains but "important" such as newly available OS's.
They're good at making interactive movies, not games.
My internal monologue when reading this:

Imagine if people got funding based on Twitter engagement - what a disaster.

Why?

Well people buy Twitter engagement from bots.

And they don't buy citations?

Oh nooo, I can see that become a trend too. We are doomed!
Yes I do edit 12M images on a ~15M monitor. Its also the weak point in the system, as your average midrange+ DSLR is 25-50M, and its pretty easy to create a printout where the effective resolution of the page/poster is vastly higher.

But that is not really the point, the apple presentation goes on about how the machine can play 3 8k video streams simultaneously, but you have to buy a 3rd party monitor/projector to even be able to view a single stream.
Sure, but China has a less competent industrial espionage than Israel, who has failed to steal the secrets of TSMC's or Samsungs processes for Intel (leaving them trapped on 14nm with a really broken 10nm node in development).

As it turns out, bleeding edge silicon lithography is massively expensive, and the cost to build newer processes balloons every generation. Most of the secrets of each process aren't generalizable between vendors (like how transplanting a design from TSMC 14nm to Global Foundries 14nm would take a fair bit of engineering work).
It should be pretty hard to shit down a legit biz. Seemed automatic in this case.
In an ABC (Australia) news story this week a journalist who was involved back in 1989 recounted that families were only allowed to collect the bodies of victims from hospitals and morgues if they agreed to sign a document confirming that the victim had died under "accidental circumstances".

This was one means by which the official bodycount was understated.
I think the account used startup credit.

https://www.digitalocean.com/hatch/
It's related to the extent that antisemitism is related to every post in the entire world in the minds of a huge number of people who rabidly foam at the mouth and drool over the possibility of a final and complete holocaust.
In another perspective, it took 500 years for it to happen, progress feel slow.
All the problems in this world and you have to shitpost about this? Why don't you submit an article about circumcision and let it stand on it's own merits instead of hijacking an unrelated story.
I don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t that.
>the Epic store is every bit as good at this point

So it has cloud saves and you can buy games to send as gifts?

They have the “Buy game > download game > launch game” flow working, but there’s a heck of a lot of catching up to do. Frankly I’d say that cloud sync for game saves is table stakes for a game store in 2019. If Epic weren’t throwing around millions of dollars on exclusives and discounts, no one would use it.

I’m sure there are other missing features, the ones mentioned above are just what came to mind from when I looked into EGS after Borderlands 3 was announced as an exclusive.

They might be on track to catch up to Steam sooner or later, but it’s far to early to say they’ve done it.
While I agree some games take most of players you know who those players are and which games are those?

I don't think it's the most revolutionary games. For example, EA sport franchises make more money than most of their other games. Not to mention casual cash grabs with pay to win mechanics.