skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"For my niche use case, I'd love to see this somewhere in the middle of the US so I can have a single instance with similar ping to both coasts."

That is why our primary location is in Denver. No earthquakes, no terrorism, no floods.

rsync.net customers all over California happily keep their backups in boring old Denver ...

(with a one hop route into the he.net core in Fremont ...)
I'm sure his intentions were good. It doesn't mean he followed through or succeeded.

If they canceled a "ton of bullshit projects" and still ended up with a time when Hangouts, Hangouts Chat, Hangouts Meet, Allo, Duo, Messages, and Voice are all actively used but somehow still missing important fixes/features, then he utterly failed.

No one gets credit for the things they didn't release when the things they did release are still baffling and often result in a betrayal of their loyal users.
15% includes other failure modes - Address does not exist, signature required but customer not available, etc.
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Three Technologies Transforming Military Training in 2020
Nice. I wrote myself up a quick C++ wrapper just now. Will play with this. Intend to use on embedded/bare-metal systems with no C stdlib, so will have to rip out the printfs and the like.
UBI is looking unworkable. Mature economies might have some reserves you can milk.

Tell me how does UBI work in a place like Cuba, Haiti or the Philippines?

Yang is saying $1000 per adult per month (he used to use the more undefined “per person” previously.

At 1000/adult/month one, it’s too much and the economy can’t afford that and two, despite that, that’s not enough for a family of four with two adults two unemancipated ($2000/mo).
Which countries have the most bot traffic?
It was fun to read also :)
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Interesting you mention these channels. As a longtime IRC user, Freenode's #javascript was or has been one of the least enjoyable channels on the whole network over the last five years or more. I only lurked in there but it was so bad that it was referred to jokingly elsewhere on Freenode as an example of a bad channel.
What kind of disk costs? I'm fairly certain this is not how EBS works: you pay only for the time you have the storage provisioned. I think the granularity on that calculation goes down to the level of seconds? Much smaller units than months, at any rate.
No one on this thread is saying news is perfect. But what some people seem to be saying is that propaganda outlets are just the same as people who at least try and do real news, which is pretty horrible. That's how the propaganda wins.
TIOBE notes that it is looking at popularity. This is different than use. Go didn't loose a bunch of users. In the ways TIOBE measures popularity... it lost some popularity.
I wouldn't always call it a phobia, they look unnerving to me too.

The way I've always interpreted it is that it looks like and reminds us of an infected pimple/abscess/parasite/something growing under the skin where it shouldn't be, coupled with enough empathy or imagination to picture it happening to us. The natural reaction is then disgust and aversion. It's just a result of the way our brains are built, similar to seeing faces where they don't exist.

I'm pretty sure I've seen a lotus seed pod in real life and didn't have a reaction, since it's much easier to construct a mental image of what it really is instead of what it might be.
> For a while after Bill Gates stepped down as CEO, there was this awkward tension where Steve Balmer was CEO

Bill was simply playing politics.
According to [2], the average household size 2.53 giving a per-capita income of ~$25k if the household number is $63k.

That seems feasible if 44% of workers have $18k in wages and 56% have something potentially higher, or multiple jobs are worked as you noted.

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/183648/average-size-of-h...
Or to play with the metaphor, it may be a pipeline problem but there's also the phenomenon of "back pressure", where cause-and-effect move in both directions.
Leaving just when there are the first real signs of existential trouble for Google ...

Google was fairly succesfull right from the start, they deserve a lot of credit for that, but anyone with experience knows how different the climate is when things are up vs. down; When things are up, everything is easy, when things are down, everything is hard.

As much as I kind of loathe Ellison ... at least he's there 'in the control room' the whole time.
> If you can afford and access clean product, coke is a very productive and perfectly functional drug. I suspect most sociopathic high-level executives use it regularly, as it really amplifies that side of one's personality, which isn't necessarily undesirable for leadership roles at large organizations.

I was agreeing with the sentiment of your post up until this point, I too cannot withstand caffeine, the most I'm willing to consime is found in most Kombucha and even then I try to break it into 3 servings now. I've worked in 2 Industries where Cocaine use is as common as coffee is in an normal office setting, its pretty alarming at times. The mood swings and emotional instability from constant use is something I don't think it lends itself to well-being, and 'productive' is a useless word in that context: if you close 5 deals and make the business a ton of money that day you're productive, but if you got there by raging, anting and throwing stuff at people who no longer want to give you leads or access to their sales pipeline what's the point?

Funny story, I was just re-watching Bourdain's podcast with Joe Rogan and they said that in England coffee shops were seen as dens of sedition and were being shut down, because prior to that mead was the drink of choice for the working class. Which lead to mass intoxication and made the effective rule of the Monarchs absolute; it was when they were 'sober' that it led to things like the Magnacarta was supposed to usher in (Workers Rights, Property Rights etc...)

Personally speaking my palate is too sensitive, which affects my current role as a chef, if I drink coffee (which smells and tastes like burned food) I cannot taste things correctly for hours. I will however de story cans of Thai Tea.
Yeah it wasn’t till i got here that i remembered this thread was about beer.
All of the listed apps have a subset of vim's functions. So does vi.

You use the listed apps because you wish you were in vim, sort of.

When you log in to a strange or bare system and need to edit, you wish you had vim. But at least you'll have vi, almost as good.
It's there on paper, but is is really still there?
Is that the picture with a few peas still attached? I think that's the bit that really brings it home, without that it wouldn't effect me at all.
We are on Azure using Spark via Databricks. We had to abandon sci kit learn because of this choice. Does your service require AWS and can it be used in conjunction with Spark? Thank you for your time and consideration.
"Outgoing". The terms usually published, for infected men, are reckless, and unattractive to women. For infected women, more adherent to convention.

I have not encountered "outgoing" anywhere.

A course of antibiotics is said to cure both the infection and the behavior.
pkg.go.dev is the module aware replacement for godoc.org.
> Is it simply the null hypothesis (gap, ergo discrimination)

As far as I've ever seen, this plus occasional anecdotes, no actual data.

> Last I asked this question, I was referred to the orchestra blind audition study (Goldin et al), but I'm pretty sure that was data from 1950s-80s, from a different industry, and didn't actually demonstrate a significant effect when accounting for large error margins.

Forget the large error margins, it didn't have the effect everyone "knows" it had [0]. It even benefited the men instead of the women at certain points.

[0] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/05/11/did-blind-...
TikTok apologises for removing viral Uighur 'makeup tutorial'
> For monitoring, we have relied on notebooks this far.

This is pretty interesting approach. Notebooks are a natural environment of Data Scientist and for monitoring they'd provide really good discoverability, flexibility, and interactivity.

Do you use more traditional monitoring that will alert you somehow if a workflow fails, or a workflow hasn't run at all for X hrs/days?
Unfortunately, Wikipedia finds your experience to not be universal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Europe . I hope this continues to change, however!

More relevantly, it is useful to understand the VC process as selling to a mix of individuals. The horrible ones stink and need to be written off. It sucks, but that's life. (You probably don't want to work with them anyway: should you really trust them with your life's work through all the closed door activities that happen?) At the same time, there is a strong wave of individuals and firms that view non-traditional backgrounds as a valuable leading indicator for key difficult aspects of company building. Fundraising is a form of sales. You only really need one yes, so having access to otherwise closed off sources of capital is an amazing advantage.

It's a weird world and something I care about, so I'm genuine in my offer to folks here.
Cloudera's Open Source Commitment
How would it work ?
They state that the code will be open-source but requires a subscription for download "cloudera-hosted" binaries ?

Can't understand how it can be open-source license with explicit need for subscription ?
Does that mean they will open-source the code but people will have to build the code themselves ?
Anyone aware of a similar setup in the open-source industry ?
Yeah. As anyone at Google could tell you, they've been a familiar face at TGIF, and nothing more, for years.

At least at the operational level. I'm sure Sundar has had much contact with them. But regular Googlers certainly have not.
Billions are being spent on housing in the bay area by these ultra rich companies even though it is arguably not at all their responsibility.

Except it is, because of course it is.

Who is responsible for fixing the gender imbalance in tech, if not the leaders in tech?

(Of course the housing thing may just be a cynical calculation that it’s cheaper than the toxic public relations of doing nothing. But maybe that should be the case for the gender thing too.)
> theories do come up in any serious work

Depends on what you classify as serious work, I guess?

From years of reading similar comments and my own experience, I was under the impression most “software developer” jobs only lightly touch on anything complex - most of us aren’t designing databases and complex low-level stuff day-to-day, but we do need to know enough to not do something terribly inefficient and stupid in basic plumbing code.

I think what you really need are smart people, and people who are willing to put in the work to get past the first few years of stumbling and not knowing what anything means. Likewise, young developers need good mentors and patient senior developers to lean on and who they can pick this stuff up from.

Not sure what your company is doing, but if what you say is true, maybe you are one of the rarer groups actually doing the hard stuff.
This is pretty off-topic, and you're asking an infrastructure engineer who is not going to be able to answer this.
John Legere is stepping down from T-Mobile.

Perhaps he might be asked to step in for Sundar if Sundar can't turn it around in the next 18 months.
This is a good reminder that sometimes complaining about companies on social media like Hackernews and Twitter does actually help. Not always, maybe not even usually. But Slack went from, "no, we have no plans to adjust this", to "yes, we'll include a toggle", and the reason was that a bunch of people publicly complained and wrote a bunch of messages to support.

It is a very, very, very small victory, and if I was going to choose a victory, Slack's Markdown editor would not be very high on my list of priorities -- but I'll take it.
No no no, Larry and Sergey are simply pivoting.
When will they add tabs for open conversations? Why is there a limit one of open conversation at a time? Many times I lose the person I was talking to and have to hunt down few names to find it out again.
> Decimal numbers are not conceptually any more or less exact than binary numbers.

True but irrelevant. The problem isn't with the math fundamentals, it's the programmers.

The issue is if you get your integer handling wrong it usually stands out. Maybe that's because integers truncate rather than round, maybe it's because the program has to handle all those fractions of cents manually rather than letting the hardware do it so he has to think about it.

In any case integer code that works in unit tests usually continues to work, but floating point code passing all unit tests will be broken on some floating point implementations and not others. The reason is pretty obvious: floating point is inexact, but the implementations contain a ton of optimisations to hide that inexactness so it rarely raises it's ugly head.

When it does it's in the worst possible way. In a past day job I build cash registers and accounting systems. If you use floating point where exact results are required I can guarantee you your future self will be haunted by a never ending stream of phone calls from auditors telling you code that has worked solidly in thousands of installations over a decade can not add up. And god help you if you ever made the mistake of writing "if a == b" because you forgot a and b are floating point. Compiler writers should do us all a favour and not define == and != for floating point.

Back when I was doing this no complier implemented anything beyond 32 bit integer arithmetic, in fact there was no open source either. So you had to write a multi precision library and all expression evaluation had to be done using function calls. Despite floating point giving you hardware 56 bit arithmetic (which was enough), you were still better off using those clunky integers.

As others have said here: if you need exact results (and, yes currency is the most common use case), for the love of god do it using integers.
> Not everyone is afraid of spiders or snakes, but there's a good evolutionary reason to be, so maybe people who aren't afraid of them are from areas without extremely venomous versions?

This reaction is almost certainly a taught cultural behaviour.

In some areas of the world, snakes/spiders are considered food sources. Many of these areas, such as the amazon, also contain the highest concentrations of venomous species.
I am not sure I grok your reasoning. How is being specific 'excessively and indefensibly discrimintory'? Honest question, your words are strong.
ZNC runs in docker and is highly configurable, mature, and well-maintained.
What's the Cloudability pricing? I can't find it on their website.
> Real-time, low latency, network-based applications.

I thought these kinds of applications generally (try to) avoid the kernel entirely e.g. high frequency trading algorithms running on FPGAs.

Maybe using it to get data on/off of the FPGA for charting / updates / etc.
I just want to see them in laptops before mine dies.
I've had several packages delivered to a gas station not too far from where I live. I'm glad they're open until midnight because sometimes I've worked late.

I'm also fortunate that my nearest grocery store has an Amazon Locker, which I use as much as I can when purchasing from Amazon -- that grocery is also opened until midnight.
To be completely frank, it sounds like you have a problem and your ideal solution would be to create a different problem for everyone else. If you were an alcoholic, would you support a ban on liquor sales in your locality?
RDS is expensive.

People still treat their databases like mainframes; just make the machine bigger to get better performance, and use more reliable components to decrease the risk of data loss or downtime. Amazon is happy to take your money to manage that for you. Their profit margin exists in you being scared of what can go wrong, and the ease of getting things set up.

(I don't have a good suggestion for an alternative to this approach. The design of commonly-used relational databases surprises me. They all assume disks have some sort of intrinsic durability. Disk manufacturers all make you pay extra money to maintain this illusion; underprovisioning, wear leveling, background garbage collection, hardware RAID. But at the end of the day, it can all just get sucked up by a tornado (or a rogue shell script) and all that means nothing. I do not understand why disks are not just dumb blocks of NAND flash connected directly to the application, which can then provide cross-datacenter redundancy and save everyone a ton of money. I guess that is why Google makes their own SSDs and their own planet-scale database engine. They know it's silly. The rest of us are stuck with expensive garbage that is, with 100% certainty, going to fail. Who to blame is all that we can work around, and blaming Amazon is better than blaming yourself!)
Not sure what GP meant, but I'd guess promotions are much more susceptible to discrimination cases than hires, since there's something much more concrete to compare against.

If you hire only one gender with narrowly targetted job advertisements, the"wronged party is a pool of thousands (or more) of engineers that didn't even know the job existed. If you promote only one gender from the mail room, the wronged party is a small cohort of peers that can visibly see exactly who is promoted above them. Those are much more dangerous waters to tread.
What does that have to do with the failure to discuss politics in American democracy? The norm of being politically mute in person?

Everyone should be voting. If everyone voted, people might have to start talking about black futures.
Oh, and if you try to organize people speaking up, you'll be fired.
The reverse is true.

Affirmative Action is requirer by law:
"The order specifically requires certain organizations accepting federal funds to take affirmative action to increase employment of members of preferred racial or ethnic groups and women... quotas based on an analysis of the current workforce compared to the availability in the general labor pool of women and members of racial minorities. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action_in_the_Unit...
> Autism and Asperger's occur more frequently among boys than girls.

More males are diagnosed, doesn't necessarily mean it occurs more.
I would hope that every single person - including shareholders, managers, and employees - holds our fundamental values like peace, freedom, or justice higher than their desire to maximise profits.

The top question is not: will it hurt the company. The top question is: will it hurt humanity.

We liked Google because their founders did the right thing for a long time, and fended off profit-maximizing shareholders.
Hmm, you know, people don't actually ask me this all that much, because I've just always done both development and anthropology alongside each other. So I've had to make tradeoffs to balance between the two, but I have never really had to make a single switch from one to the other.

In my experience, most anthropologists don't understand technical work very clearly, so it's kind of opaque to them.
How easily are Amazon Lockers hacked? I've not heard about that before.
How is this different / better to existing tools or workflows? I don't like to criticise new frameworks / tools without first understanding them, but I like to know what some key differences are without the marketing/PR fluff before giving one a go.

For instance, this tutorial example here (https://github.com/Netflix/metaflow/blob/master/metaflow/tut...) does not look substantially different to what I could achieve just as easily in R, or other Python data wrangling frameworks.

Is the main feature the fact I can quickly put my workflows into the cloud?
True, but this isn't really case for optimization problems and results about theorems or lemmas.
How to become a good theoretical physicist
Hoping for More Investment in API Design Tooling
BMP + 16 planes.

You can blame UTF-16 for this mess. Unicode was originally meant to be able to encode two billions (2^31) characters. It bent over backwards to accommodate the limits of the bastard child that is UTF-16.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_(Unicode)
Isnt that just a silent admission that modern tech support is woefully broken, more than a twitter is good message?
I'm saying that, if one thinks diversity is important [0] at companies, then the outcomes of hiring and retention are largely (overwhelmingly) the responsibility of the hiring company. This is especially for very large hiring companies.

[0] If you don't think diversity is important, then that's another discussion altogether. In this thread I have been operating under the assumption that we agree it is important (and in fact I personally do).

That means that in my view it's just not reasonable or acceptable for a company to say "diversity is really important to us, but we tried some things like diversity training for our hiring managers, and that hasn't worked, so we looked up some statistics and we have concluded that it's a pipeline problem so we can't be expected to do anything about that."
Downtime at 'Aging' Nuclear Plant
At this point, S3 IS the standard for that. And Google's and Microsoft's offering all mimic that API. This could happen for all other of their services.
Nah, those are charity superyachts. They help poor people by showing them how good it is to be rich.
Especially a 15” laptop. I can’t do it and I’m not that big.
One year later:

https://www.stanforddaily.com/2016/11/08/graphic-gender-rati...

It would seem declared majors aren't following through to the end of their programs.
Is there any similar site for Computer Science students similar to this?
Yes, Google has a chaotic culture of project incubation, which leads to over-promotion of product launches and their eventual deprecation. And this predates Sundar's tenure on CEO. I think Sundar is trying to reduce a frequency of product launches, but there's already a crazy number of product in flight or development so deprecation of certain products are inevitable IMO.
As a cystic fibrosis patient, I donate to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF). The foundation paid for my second CF gene mutation test when the first one (paid by insurance) came back unknown. My insurance wouldn't pay for a second one.

https://www.cff.org/
Sundar made a mistake in wading into politics after the 2016 elections. A good business leader knows to stay out of the forbidden topics of politics and religion; unite the troops, don't divide them. I don't think he realized how much impact his words would have on conservatives once the TGIF video got out. Anyway let's hope they learned something about remaining neutral in public, as the company "grows up".
Tucked near Mississippi's border with Louisiana, deep in Entergy Corp.'s territory, rests the largest single-unit U.S. nuclear power station.

It's called Grand Gulf, and it boasts a 1,443-megawatt capacity.

But it hasn't been acting like a dependable backbone of the power grid.

An E&E News review of federal daily reactor status reports from 2013 through last month found Grand Gulf listed at full power roughly 52.5 percent of the time. It was at zero percent power almost 21 percent of the days studied. On other days, it was at various reduced levels.

Does that sound like a baseload plant?

"No," said Ted Thomas, chairman of the Arkansas Public Service Commission.
Leadership is a skill to learn, just like programming, writing, or most other things really.

People who are introverts at heart can learn to become just as good managers as those who aren't. It may come less naturally, I couldn't say, but it's definitely possible.