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Because we blogged about our new vectorized sql engine[1] & our new parallel commit protocol[2] recently, two "big"-ish engineering lifts that were packed into this one release.

[1]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/how-we-built-a-vectorized...

[2]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/parallel-commits
> I have to remind myself that in "real" engineering there are (in theory) no surprises for the well understood physical processes at work.

That's not true. Tons of sht goes wrong in civil engineering projects. Like the ground moving, or it is not strong enough to support your building, or the workers bailing on you, or suppliers changing the product, or suppliers delaying a shipment, or suppliers going bankrupt, etc...

I think the difference is that it is mostly* redoing the same thing over and over again with minor challenges overall. Whereas in software development you are starting new every time for every new project.
Pre-nups in the US (maybe elsewhere too, but I am not knowledgeable enough to talk about other countries in this aspect) are not some magic wands that can stop the income earned by the household from being shared. Best use case for pre-nups is mostly protecting the assets you had before marriage. Of course, you can write whatever you want in it, including something like "in case of a divorce, person X gets all of the earnings they accumulated during the marriage, while person Y gets theirs, no 50/50 split", but it is guaranteed to be thrown away by courts during the divorce proceedings.

tl;dr: pre-nups won't allow you to avoid splitting your earnings made during the course of marriage 50/50.
Inference in Deep Learning
They believe in making money.

The issue is that OSS is the only way to compete with the cloud. Quay would die without 3rd party contributions vs Amazon, Google, Microsoft.
Wasmtime is being developed to be usable as just such an embedded runtime. We have some demos of this here: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime-demos
Newbie question: How does quay differ to docker hub?
Could you possibly define "pickling" in this context for us ML noobs?
> A 4 9’s means you can only have 6 minutes down a year.

4 9's is 52 minutes of downtime a year. Keep in mind that single region EC2 SLA is only 99.99%. And if you rely on a host of services with an SLA of 99.99, yours is actually worse than 99.99. So if you want to actually get to 99.99, your components have to be better than this, meaning you will have to go multi-region. So achieving this is actually way harder than this simple step.
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You will determine which ongoing projects have highest returns (ROI), expand those, and propose creative new projects. You will translate these projects into budgets for your product line, and be responsible for implementing the projects. The implementation includes making hires and managing teams, as well as working with engineers, marketing experts and test content creators.

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Don't forget the offers for "important" (actually worthless) services related to your domain, like search engine listings or other useless SEO services.

Thankfully, increased privacy on WHOIS records have clamped down on these practices.
That would also be interesting because it would essentially make the cryptocoins non-fungible. For example, people might be willing to pay more for a coin if it was used in the past by a movie star.
So what if Brown is friends with someone who shares a commitment to school choice? School choice isn’t a “right-leaning” position. Most of the OECD has it in some form. In Sweden and Denmark, you can get a voucher to go to private religious school. The UN Declaration of Human rights underscores the right of parents to choose how to educate their kids, including religious education if they so desire.

If Facebook treated Brown’s advocacy for school choice as disqualifying, that would actually be an indicator of extreme left-wing bias.
Dissenting opinion: I've owned and used a lot of Seagate drives. I have had a total of one fail on me. Given that they are usually less expensive they are then competing drives, I think they're fine. At the rate of disk size growth I end up replacing the disks for size reasons before they fail anyway.
I'm assuming your point is that words get shortened for convenience and that that's OK. That's a fair point. It's also true that language doesn't always evolve in ways that make sense, and I get that.

With that being said, there's a huge difference between shortening "weblog" into "blog" and shortening "blog post" into "blog":

First, when "weblog" was shortened to "blog," "blog" didn't already mean something (and certainly didn't mean anything in the relevant context). When "blog post" got shortened to "blog," "blog" already had a meaning - AND it already had a meaning _in the context of the internet_. One of these leads to confusion, one of them doesn't.

Second, when "weblog" was shortened to "blog," we didn't already have a shorthand way of saying "weblog." But we've been shortening "blog post" to "post" basically since the beginning. There was no reason to shorten it to "blog" also. "Post" was just fine.

I'd argue that a more fair comparison would be if, after using "blog" for a while, we decided to shorten "weblog" into "web" instead. It would have been silly, because "web" already meant something, and because we already had a shorthand version of "weblog" (i.e., "blog") - so why did we need another?

But I guess your sarcasm and the down votes answer my question anyway. The internet has accepted "blog" as meaning "blog post." I might as well get on board.
Missing here is "why"? I get adding a window to a room without windows, but I see no reason for putting a camera in front of a TV in a window. Unless maybe like, a privacy concern? They want effectively a one-way window? Even then, there are better ways to accomplish that which look better.
There's a lot of exploit to do in computing, I mean, we've sat on top of hardware improvement and just slurped it up... We can do loads more with what we've got in the locker now, and what's happening isn't the end of hardware improvement is just the end of rapid exponentials.
20 Signs of Entropy in an Organization – Max DePree
Same with « will kits » that are a template that you fill out. And the legal jurisprudence in Canada that make them valid is a farmer getting stuck under his tractor scratching in his will in the fender with a rock.
I see, thanks. Curious to learn more when it is public.
> Whereas previously it was tempting to look at my roadmap and think "what would people like me pay $9 for", now I am thinking more about what actual businesses would pay $50 to $100 a month for.

Two things have changed here. The $ amount, and the TARGET AUDIENCE. While the title suggests the article is about pricing, the text is about finding the right audience.

This is the first time I've heard of "Votemojo". My first reaction was, that's cool! I'd like to use that for some side projects I'm working on, but a single tool isn't worth $50. As a consumer, I'd expect it to deliver more than services I'm paying for such as Google Mail ($10/m), Adobe Photoshop ($20/m) or Dropbox ($12/m). It's fine to price out the consumer in favor of enterprise sales, but I'd be curious what the user demo breakdown is for a single tool.
The probability may be remote, but the impact of a hit is high, therefore it gets a lot of weight despite the low probability.
The problem is, you can no longer trust Snopes to ask the "original" question. They've been caught changing the question at least dozens of times to be able to not change a wrong answer.

That's not as much of an issue anymore, since they just change the question from the start now.
My friend and I swear by these MBPs, but we disagree on updates I reliably update the firmware because I'm terrified of viruses. He, OTOH, _never_ updates, because he's afraid of planned obsolescence gradually bricking his machine. P.O. is no longer a tin foil hat thing, it's proven. But is he going about it the right way?
Developers do this. On the flip side, "product owners" or clients or "stakeholders" or whatever will, not infrequently, propose a little feature that is someone else's entire product.

I always try to point this out when it happens, and advise them to just pay for it, unless they want to create a competing product.

Bonus points for such requests when that feature/other-person's-product is probably more lucrative than the entire actual product they're trying to build. Which does happen, and never fails to be funny.
More damning. The only non-commerce related link is the one for Wikipedia. On DDG mobile, there is one Best Buy link and everything else is a site delivering some form of information on the topic.
Glad to see Cockroach Cloud, I signed up for the beta.

I'm only really interested in an elastic, managed program with transparent pricing. As a contractor with a fair amount of exposure to various startups around the bay, I find these to be relatively ubiquitous criteria.
Wasn’t this the whole point of buying BAMTech though? So they would have the technical leadership?
It's gotten so bad that I can usually identify the junk by how official it claims to be. Real official correspondence is often pretty simple.

And also looking for presorted first class postage. That's a huge giveaway that you're looking at trash.
For this reason I host all the JS/CSS myself and don't have any other JS running. I.e. no google analytics or ad shit.
Yeah, we've seen this play out where rules are made explicit. Think of all the people who want to speed, but know that they can avoid tickets by driving no faster than the posted limits!
I'd love to see some data on this.

I'm worth literally zero to Twitter; I use an adblocker everywhere, and when that fails, not only do I never click on an ad, I purposefully scroll as quickly past them as I can.

I'd pay a couple bucks a month to remove that hassle.
The ai incentive isn't searcher satisfaction, it's revenue maximization. The longer it takes you to find a good result the more likely you area to click an ad. The more often they show you adwords supported sites like ehow and YouTube the more likely you'll click an ad.

Consider the trend in ads for ad supported sites as an indicator.

The customer is the ad buyer. They want more of those. They have maximized product supply. They can't produce more product, they can only resell existing products by more ads in search results as a ratio plus more ads on the organic links.

There is no measurable financial incentive for them to show you organic results without adwords.
I was talking with a colleague today who mentioned that he had looked at WASM for a particular use-case (file-verification IIRC) and had concluded that for now the overhead of copying memory made it run worse than well-written JavaScript. It is also my experience that the overhead of memory copying can really put a damper on performance improvements.

Now, I get that sharing memory is a huge safety issue - it kind of inherently breaks the sandbox, but when I see the "nanoprocesses" bit in the article I worry about death by a thousand paper cuts (lots of tiny WASM module spending more time copying data than processing it). Are there ways/plans to minimize memory copies that don't conflict with the safety concerns?
There's a serialization module called pickle that can be used to store models:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html
> has always been relatively useless at generic queries

I beg to differ here. Years ago I felt like I could discover useful information about a topic through Google with relative ease.

Results would contain informational links that let me explore the subject.

This basically impossible now; with Google Search at least.
Have you tried the book "Game Scripting Mastery"? It lays out the detail steps to construct a C-like scripting language and a Virtual Machine to run on top of a customized byte-code.
The WASI and Bytecode Alliance approach is based on capability-based security, granting only the access needed for a module to do its job.
Different ways a hacker can hack your iPhone
Why do you think identity matters for insurance?
The "most correct" pronunciation of Quay is "key", as that link says, but the CoreOS team always pronounced it "kway".

(I assume this has carried through to Red Hat.)
I believe you meant to say 120 tons per second. Your [1] link shows 3.8x10^15 grams, which is 3.8x10^9 (metric) tons, not 120. That is in mass of hydrogen. Multiply by ~9 to get the total mass of water used to electrolyze that quantity of hydrogen.

However, the water cycle is pretty fast on average, and has incredibly high throughput, and the cycle quickens as water vapor concentrations increase. If hydrogen generation is sufficiently distributed, you could likely just wait for the next rainfall to release the brine.
>Choice for "some" is at odds with fair access for all

So instead of implementing policies to make sure the choice is available to all, your approach is to remove this choice from everyone and funnel them through the same monolithic system?

Nothing you argued, even if true (and I suspect you're not an objective observer either), is unsolvable through policy or regulatory changes.
It is secure. The password is not sent to my service. Try setup an `netcat -l -p 8000` and go into your browser and write `http://localhost:8000/#hi`
You will see the hi is never sent to the server
The primary use case for WebAssembly is malware.[1] We're probably going to regret letting WebAssembly into the browser. Because vendors won't let it be locked down so much that it can't be used for ads and tracking. Which means it has to allow malware.

[1] https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/Medien-DB/ias/pubs/2019-dimva...
"Pickling" is just the pythonic term for serialization. In this context, it most likely means persisting the model to disk as some sort of file.
Putting people in jail for small scale, non-violent crimes isn't a good idea - it can convert petty thief into real criminal. People who have jail time on their permanent record feel like they have nothing left to lose, and go all-in on their criminal career.
After all MSIL already supported multiple languages, including C++, back in 2001.
Define "bullshit cases."
It has a lot of promise to provide Spanner-like functionality to people outside of Google.
Hmm.. So how would that work exactly?

The source for that page only has Javascript in it.

Anyway, when I try to load that page in Firefox while blocking scripts with uMatrix, I get this error:

"The website you are visiting is protected and accelerated by Incapsula. Your computer may have been infected by malware and therefore flagged by the Incapsula network. Incapsula displays this page for you to verify that an actual human is the source of the traffic to this site, and not malicious software."

And then it tells me it wants me to click a "I am not a robot" checkbox.. but, of course, there isn't one, because I'm not allowing Javascript.
Compiling a Functional Language Using C++: Type Checking
I hadn't thought about the load on the strut that the pod hangs from.

When in working order, cruise ships can spin slowly in place so that all the passengers can see some scenery (e.g. the glacier at the head of an Alaskan fjord) from their own balconies. And they drive up to the dock without the aid of tugboats. But pods aren't the enabling technology for this maneuverability, bow thrusters, screws and rudders can do it, too.

I think the fuel efficiency is the tempting advantage of azimuth pods.
> back to what they once knew. Unbridled love and trust in others. Non-judgement...

That's quite an optimistic assessment of little children.
There will be ways to memory-map files, share memory between modules, and otherwise avoid copying memory unnecessarily.

Shared memory doesn't break the sandbox. Sharing all memory by default would, but controlled sharing of specific memory doesn't. Think of it like inter-process shared memory, rather than threads sharing an entire address space.
Or the courts should start taking graphic design into account: if there is any ambiguity, the large & legible print should be enforced and the difficult to read fine print disregarded.
I don't think you have the story straight.

DN did infringe, and when called on it, they immediately pulled the photo and offered 5 times the photographer's highest recorded fee charged per photo.

The photographer felt $1100 was insufficient, and took DN to court. (Apparently, based on the discovery requests, with an intent to rack up significant legal fees for DN.)

So yeah, I'd say the photographer is the bad guy. Or has bad lawyers. Maybe $1000 for a $200 photo isn't enough, but it's probably the sort of thing that could be negotiated reasonably rather than heading straight to court.
Exactly exactly.
I made sure to be resilient to Google bots/Virus Scanners by doing some fancy javascript tricks
My thinking is that this would serve a similar purpose to the trend for web browsers to warn users of insecure websites -- the more "in your face" the warnings are, the more incentive there is for providers to be secure.

I've had friends / relatives experience drive failure a few time in the past, and the look of horror they have when there is very little I can do to help them recover their photos etc. is something that I hate seeing.

And having the OS give a simple warning (that can be dismissed, with a "don't show me this any more" checkbox) would not over complicate things, and may end up saving some people's data.

Really no different than the current warning that Windows has, when you don't have antivirus installed. Or the fasten seatbelt signal that comes on the dashboard of your car when you start it. Or the flashing red light that gets added to some stop sign controlled intersections.

Also it would be nice if there was a standard way that backup software could inform the OS of backup status (this way it would serve as a secondary check in case the backup software's internal reporting fails to notify the user of bad backups). Just a little nice-to-have.

(I'm not advocating for this to be a legal requirement, just a nice feature if any OS vendor wants to add it).
Why not listen to podcasts on a podcast app?
Agreed, but if I was running for office or using it on official forms I would want to be a bit more certain.
What makes you think physics has little left to discover?
Socialism is usually based on the principle of from each according to their production to each according to their need.

In this case not everyone gets equal bandwidth. Those whos profession nessesitate more bandwith or those who require some internet connected medical device will probably be (democratically or otherwise) allocated more space than someone who uses the internet primarily for gaming or pleasure.
Hey, send me an email, I'm interested.
I have found it significantly easier to use, myself. Every time I try to use Docker Hub I get very frustrated very quickly and start trying out the competitors again.
Yeah I mixed that up. Edited.
The Indiana data point for this was only two years of study, a decade ago 2007-2009, and crossing the very exceptional 2008 recession year. This is a questionable time period to claim proof of savings on health care costs.

The Singapore cost savings example is attributed to silver bullets of price tags and deductible scheme while completely ignoring that most care in Singapore are delivered via government owned corporations of hospitals & clinics that service 70-80% of the population. Drug prices for example are controlled essentially by government boards nationally negotiating prices with vendors. This too is ignored in the marketplace article and seems fundamental to making those silver bullets viable.

I would submit that the fundamental control of pricing at work here is that the 20-30% private care needs to compete with a basic competent and majority publicly provided care delivered at gov't negotiated prices. The financial structuring of how the care is priced to the user base is a far far lower contributor to Singapore care being 75% less than the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Singapore

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/25/15356118/s...

Edit: I would also say that it's a nice trick to keep some small component of private care boxed into an area where it has to compete on fundamental effectiveness. This allowance I think is a nice way to accommodate some level of private innovation maybe helping to keep a public only system from becoming too stolid.
Wow, then today does sound like a botched launch.
Pickling isn't ML-specific. Pickle is an object serialization library in Python.
What a weird post. I actually just gave a talk at an internal conference about an early-days PID control loop for doing capacity management (and am generating gain parameters as I type). Is her argument that I shouldn't have built it because... the people who will benefit from it don't know how to use it? Or something? Not every problem can be solved by implementing a controller but lots of them can, and "it's risky!" seems like a poor reason to avoid working toward a control plane.
Please don't post nationalistic flamebait to HN. We ban accounts that do that. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use the site in its intended spirit, we'd be grateful.
Yeah, the reason most people don't switch is because it doesn't happen to most people, ever. If you don't like a company's service you switch to a different one, that's how capitalism works, especially services you pay nothing to use.
First decentralized on-chain governance action on ICON quietly just happened
Woah, logos meant so much more than that! Check Wikipedia.