skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes you do, and normally an upper bound epsilon for clock rate skew is explicitly assumed. That's obviously fragile but there are many highly available systems that have managed to get away with it, partly by keeping leases short.
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Ime past a certain point years of experience doesn't seem to improve one's programming ability. Even in large organizations promotions tend to slow after reaching senior engineer as the job becomes more about people management than actually improving as an engineer. Yes you can continue to gain experience in new tech but the fundamentals of thinking through software solutions doesn't really change.
Literally yesterday we had an issue with someone trying to piggyback into the office behind an employee who had badged in. Said person was intoxicated and removed his pants in the elevator, so it was immediately apparent there was a problem, but what happens when it's someone more nondescript?
Twitter testing community points to fight misinformation
> With the corporations, you can go elsewhere.

Typical quote from the 60s. This may be the reality for in-demand jobseekers in the current bubble, but it's typically not an option in the modern labor force.
If I could drive my car onto a railroad track in SF and then not drive again until I drove off the tracks in LA, that would be great.
I don't follow.

I can still sue someone who never speaks.
Are there any studies comparing the impact of burning fuel at sea level VS at cruising altitude?

Also, it's not all about co2. I'm quite sure planes release a lot of other nasty things.
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FB is a publisher because they don't allow everyone on their platform.

Edit:

We try to make Facebook broadly available to everyone, but you cannot use Facebook if:

You are under 13 years old.
You are a convicted sex offender.
We've previously disabled your account for violations of our Terms or Policies.
You are prohibited from receiving our products, services, or software under applicable laws.

From Facebook's Terms of Service:

https://www.facebook.com/terms.php
Apologies! We've made that clearer now.
It just happens that I have been working on something like that, posted on Show HN.
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If someone becomes a NAZI after being tossed in jail for no good reason, well hey, fuck em'.

How about we stop justifying hurting people because of their (in this case retroactive) violations of social/political norms and worry more about if our society itself is tolerable and is, in fact, sometimes perfectly deserving of extreme reactions.
And I open them in a disposable virtual machine on Qubes OS :)
This makes me wonder if there's ever been any studies done showing worker happiness over time at comparable jobs compared against the increasing rise of workplace surveillance over time. It would be interesting to see if there's any correlation between the two. I know personally i've always been happier and more productive at jobs when I don't have employers breathing down my neck and counting every second of work I do.

Humans need a level of autonomy and a small amount of freedom to 'fuck around' as it were. Not to the point where productivity starts to fall, but there's a balance between oppression and total freedom I feel creates the ideal working environment.
That's true. I didn't think of eye contact at all. That really is a big part of the interaction between driver and another driver or pedestrian.
Part of the crazy markup in the mattress industry might be in the non-returnability of them. Manufacturers need to price in the fact that some % of them will be returned (read: given away for free) because no one wants a used mattress that might have bed bugs or other unknown substances.
> I agree with depreciation and other non cash expenses obfuscating P&Ls, but can we agree that in an article focused on securing debt financing, which will incur real interest expense, the term “free cash flow profitability”, “loosely” meaning “profitability” is a little misleading

It depends on the industry. DO is in the capex heavy industry so depreciation is not a funky accounting cost, it is actually something that's applicable to the vast majority of their assets.
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That is not what I understand it to mean -- rather, the opposite. That is, finding an engineer at the Toronto office is so improbable that it is remarkable, hence you are reminded that it is normally an engineer free zone.

There are some idioms that do mean it is unexceptional. You might be familiar with the Pratchettism "Million-to-one chances happen nine times out of ten."
First time I'm hearing of Vultr...they look like a carbon copy of DO. What does Vultr have that they don't?
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I agree with your take and suggestions. They probably feel it would dilute the value. As you suggest, they could add “Premium” or “Pro” labels to distinguish people who pay for status. Maybe charge them by audience or reach as well.
I’d argue you’re incorrect on most accounts. I work in this space, and have implemented what’s being described related to synthetic data.

You can see some of my work here:

https://medium.com/capital-one-tech/why-you-dont-necessarily...

The reality is, you can guarantee certain values are not passed. That’s fairly easy, what you can’t do is block general trends easily in synthetic data - else the model can’t learn. So you have to be willing to accept that “leakage” when using synthetic data.

If you accept that leakage, then you can actually improve model performance in some domains. See ubers architecture search blog, there’s a lot of material (also from Uber) showing this.

Regarding cost of training, yes model training costs could increase. Although, I’d suggest much much less than 10x more like 50% or something. Is that worth it for privacy?
What if instead of an extra $3/hr, the differential pay were an extra $10,000/hr? Obviously then the cost difference would matter. So, there must be a cutoff somewhere. Is the cutoff more than $3 or less than $3? We don't have enough information to know, nor do we have enough information to know whether upper management were just being comic book villains or whether their decision was based on crunching the numbers.
You can be skeptical of DSL's but still recognize that they provide a time/complexity trade-off. I agree that it's probably not the right decision to write your own DSL for something but to dogmatically crusade against all DSL's feels silly to me when there are so many popular projects using them.

Ansible is popular because it is accessible to devop type roles (previously known as sysadmin or IT services) that may know some programming but would fail to produce results nearly as fast if they were simply left with python libraries. It would not be as popular as it is today if it were simply a python library.

Criticizing this project for using a DSL as it's interface over some programmer purity test BS is completely missing the forest for the trees.
Google and Microsoft don't have a dominant market position in cloud hosting; and their other dominant positions don't seem to be impacting the cloud marketplace (well, maybe Microsoft is doing some tying)
Thanks for the reply, apologies for the incorrect assumption, but it's the internet.
Which rather demolishes the telecoms' argument.

Clearly, the First Amendment right to free speech isn't absolute and unrestricted.
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I'm sure you're right.

I have to say my experience was very good in that regard, possibly because I went with the most respected brand in my country (Canada) and the industry is much less crowded/competitive here.

Having said that, I bought the mattress over 2 years ago now so maybe things have changed. I hate dark patterns with a fiery passion.
Apple may allow Spotify to set as Default Music App
IMHO containerization exists because of this "pattern." It's a way to just take big balls of crap, roll them up along with the entire host OS image, and deploy them as a unit. Problem "solved."

Of course now you have microservice architectures where you're basically creating programs made of containerized services. Any bets on how long it'll take to have containers-of-containers be a thing?

Maybe this could be the "big box of crap" pattern.
"This slide says..."

When people start off every (let alone any) slide this way, I'm left to believe the presenter doesn't know the material and has resorted to teaching me how to read.

This is related to what uberman said, with the blatant habit of telling the audience over and over again that they are reading the screen verbatim for them. Imagine if newscasters announced every time the teleprompter scrolled.

Even worse is when presenters say "This slide speaks to..." No it doesn't speak. The audience can only wish it would speak so they wouldn't have to listen to the pinhead up front of the room speaking down to them like they were school children.
On the other hand you have this

> Assange, said Rohrabacher, “emphatically stated that the Russians were not involved in the hacking or disclosure of those emails.” Rohrabacher, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, is the only U.S. congressman to have visited the controversial figure.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170817205448/https://rohrabach...
I would just like to say THANK YOU! I can't believe it has taken this long for someone to solve this problem in this way
Hyperloops :P
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What do you physically do in regards to restoration efforts? I'm curious how that works, I've been scuba diving for years and it's crazy to see the coral slowly turning less and less colorful each year.
I used them for my private VPSes but they became too big and business-like.

I moved to Scaleway now, it's still in a much earlier stage, cheaper and with unlimited bandwidth. I like the way you can still talk directly to their guys on slack to ask questions. However they're becoming big too. I hope they'll still love us and I don't have to move again soon :)
I'm just going to leave this here, seems relevant:

https://movetoamend.org/
It feels like there might be other possibly uses of old or unwanted foam mattresses. Perhaps they can be cut down to standard sizes for home insulation batting? As insulation between raised garden bed containers and the ground? Insulation between the ground and a fish tank in an aquaponics setup?

While there might be better solutions for all of those things, if these materials are going to end up in the landfill and can be provided for almost no cost, it seems like a waste to not utilize the resource.
And you'll be told their production is using PostgreSQL.

Having identical environment makes life easier. I never run anything on my Mac despite many Unix daemons being available but either run it remotely on Linux or locally via Linux VM with same distro.
I worked at a company during college who at the end of the year would give every employee a "Shrink" check depending how well/poor their store performed over the course of the year.

If you came in mid year they just pro rated the amount you would have gotten if you stayed the whole year.

I remember this helped employees keep an eye on each other as you were essentially stealing from everyone else's shrink check.
Maybe not disabling accounts, but they do shadow ban:

https://metro.co.uk/2018/09/06/twitter-admits-shadowbanning-...
Sleep sacks can actually be required for hostels. (http://www.reidsguides.com/hostels/sleepsacks.html) I imagine a silk one could be expensive but they're pretty inexpensive for the most part.

That said, as someone who travels a lot, when I look at travelers' catalogs like Magellan at a lot of the safety, germ protection, etc. items, part of me thinks that people who buy all that stuff are probably better off just not traveling.
Oh come on, what's the fun in this negativity?
(1) is the interface to trigger (2).
Bungled logic can consist entirely of propositions that are individually all true statements about the world.

"Socrates is a man. Socrates is mortal. Therefore, all men are mortal."

Here, we can verify the facts that Socrates is a man, that Socrates is mortal and that all men are mortal.

So as far as "extracting data points" goes, everything is cool. We just ignore how the data points are related together, and pretend we don't see funny terms like "therefore", or "that explains why" and such.

If we just look for data points to extract, we are not engaging the arguments, though, It's an understandable reaction to the world though, in which we are bombarded on all sides by material trying to persuade us to believe or do something.

> R0 and lethality are unrelated.

Calling the bluff. You didn't extract this data point from the quote: it's something you already know. Nothing like vocabulary you're using appears in the quote.
No credit is already somewhat worse than bad credit so I don't quite see it as implausible.
This was my test actually. Because that is the exact reason that I would use this for.

And it was spectacular. I'm amazed at the speed at which it clears out an entire folder.

Another nice touch is if I ask it to delete a folder and that folder is open in a command prompt somewhere, it just goes ahead and deletes it's contents cleanly.

Excellent piece of software.
I think the claim is a little more nuanced. Basically yes those people went over a line and got punished but at least some claim that others also go over that line but don’t get punished (as often).

I don’t know how true that rings.
If Oracle wins it cements monopoly control of the computing ecosystem. Each megacorp will have their own API moat around their business. LEGO will be stoked.
My first thought reading the parent comment was indeed that WebComponents would be perfect for this. Thanks for the link.
Some of Clive's videos are definitely not family friendly. For example, the surstromming one
I think a fundamental issue is that journalists want to be a protected class with special rights that are unavailable to the average citizen. A journalist should have exactly the same rights as the average citizen. Thus, if the laws are not amenable to an average citizen looking into the affairs of their government, fix the laws, don't try to carve out exceptions for journalists.
Big Companies Buy Credit Card Data on Millions of Americans
Even if you use some other consensus mechanism they're still inefficient. All full nodes in the network still have to propagate, validate and store all transactions forever.

This is indeed much more inefficient compared to a centralized solution and it's very difficult to create a decentralized network that can handle the amount of transactions that VISA processes for example.
I had a friend who moved into an old oddly shaped rental. When we went to move the heavy stuff in, the big front picture window was out for repair and the guys said we could move anything through it while they went to lunch. In the end, we spent an afternoon chopping couches and dressers and such into pieces and hauling it to the dump. Didn't really think that through.
The article does not have a link to the company's website; this will save you a few actions: https://gretel.ai/
Tesla's getting enough hours under control at this point that they're likely to win the regulation battle for Uber simply by virtue of statistics, though. Obviously there has been the occasional tragedy (and there no doubt will be more), but the point where they launch the "Autopilot is provably safer than humans!" press release isn't too far out at this point.

Again, the measuring stick is real drivers. And real drivers are really bad at this stuff too.
That I'm in a meeting.
Hi everyone,

I made it a challenge for myself to author and publish an ebook about Git in two months. This has worked out wonderfully and now I'd like to share my process, workflow, learnings and key takeaways.

I hope there's some useful tips for potential authors here!
Tough question. Short answer is nobody really knows.

What you're asking is sort of like this, "the big dam is breaking apart right now because of all the rain, and the rain isn't letting up. What do we do?"

Demographic challenges are really tough to overcome because they affect the demand of everything. As people have fewer kids, there is not as much need for schools, or teachers, or pencils, or wood to make those pencils...

As people get older, they tend to want smaller houses (kids are grown and out of the house). Smaller houses use less wood, less heating and air conditioning, etc.

One last thought for you: Japan, doesn't have millennials. That's right - there was never a second big population boom after their baby boomer generation.
I think it's really two different markets. DO is for lower end sites that need little more than a VPS or two.
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I almost spit out my coffee because I thought you were about to say: "Yes, but IIRC, the project was cancelled or greatly scaled back after Senior Management discovered that Sauron was also reading their emails and just not the orcs in Sector 7G.
I have the AmazonBasics mattress: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07C49ZPQG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

It's my guest room mattress but I do sleep in the guest room occasionally, and when I do I sleep better than my normal mattress. That said, the edge support isn't great. Being close to the edge makes it feel almost like you're at a slight slope. Still, no regrets for $250.

Edit: I'm 6ft / 165 lb. It's possible that it would be less supportive for heavier weights.
You might want to re-think that name: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dolt

> A mental retard who is clueless not only about current events, but also has the IQ level of a rock. "Dolt" may be the most sophisticated insult in the English language. Dolts commonly populate such stereotypes as jocks, nerds, fruits, bookworms, and dorks.
#1 buying #4 looks very different than #3 buying #4. (Think about AT&T & T-Mobile vs. T-Mobile & Sprint.) But I agree that DO has little or nothing to offer Google/MS.
Thanks man super solid across the board and mirroring what I've already kinda decided on almost all this. Good reminders too (aka use what you know, kiss, etc). Good stuff!
Him: self driving is more than a decade away.
You: No, because this attack is for an old vehicle (implying that newer vehicles are able to evade it). You see, the new cars don't have this feature at all!

Cool, so the new cars have even less features than before. And that justifies that self driving is near?
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A recent(ly featured on the front page) example where synthetic data is helping solve an unsolved problem:
https://eng.uber.com/generative-teaching-networks/

I'm being pedantic by posting this though, because their approach involved learning the synthetic data generator simultaneously with the classifier/whatever that you're training. That is not relevant for a static synthetic data source.
Makes sense I guess although I've never run into that requirement.

By description the thing she had was much smaller & more form fitting than above link. One of the "selling points" was how small it packed into carry-on, for example.
I haven't researched it, but I'd assume that Donald Trump had a blue checkmark back when he was widely known as a media personality and landlord.
I should have realized this in my first reply, but your argument is exactly what I mean by begging the question.

Facebook and Google occupy a legal grey area between publisher and common carrier that was literally created by the CDA. So your argument is like saying, "Vaping has to be legal because how else is Juul going to stay in business?", or "Loot boxes have to be legal because they're so important to EA's and Activision's business model." These companies only exist because of a certain legal environment, so how can their existence be used to justify that same environment? Are Google and Facebook now considered inalienable human rights used to derive laws?

Maybe Google and Facebook would be able to survive a change to the CDA, or maybe not. Who cares? The internet ran just fine before the CDA and the technology hasn't really changed much at all. Heck, the two of us are conversing right now without Google and Facebook involved.

Everyone gets so bent out of shape these days about Google and Facebook but no one is willing to even imagine an internet without them. Present company excluded, of course -- at this point I'm just ranting.

> A newspaper would be different if it published every letter to the editor it received, so long as it didn't contain the words "child porn", for example.

This is not true. It has nothing to do with the choices of the editor and everything to do with the medium used. The CDA carves out a specific immunity for internet companies that does not apply to print and broadcast media and that's what Barr is putting on the table here.
Does anyone else find it annoying that people are calling this the coronavirus rather than it's actual name? What happens when the next coronavirus comes up?
Provided you can get it into your car. If it came vacuum rolled, the odds of this being the case are low.
You will probably want to sleep or take a break.

I also don't know how far out of your way you may need to go to get around terrain. Some areas are fairly flat, but there could be mountains, canyons, and other structures that might take some effort to go around.
It's also completely reasonable to say "We shouldn't do Y". The response to everything shouldn't be to go immediately into solution space and list off trade-offs on the assumption that Y is happening. With people you trust for both their integrity and their expertise, "we shouldn't do Y" is a reasonable shorthand for "there are a pile of valid reasons we shouldn't do Y, and you and I both know I can list them for you off the top of my head, and it might well be possible anyway but it would take a lot more work and trade-offs than you might expect".

That isn't the end of the conversation; if the response to "we shouldn't do Y" is "it'll be a pain if we can't do Y", then you can explore solution space together, where that solution space includes both trade-offs to support doing Y and alternatives to doing Y. Use experts for their expertise, rather than the equivalent of "I don't care, make it happen".

Or, in short: yes, of course the DBA doesn't unilaterally dictate the architecture, but maybe listen to their expertise anyway.
Please let's not use weev as a cautionary tale.

The guy had been baiting people to clock him in the face for his anti-social behavior on the internet since forever. I don't think it was what he did to AT&T that got him sent up, he'd been on the feds' radar since at least the Sarah Palin email hack.
You might be interested in reading https://startyourownisp.com/.
If you take the MNIST dataset and generate synthetic data that has variations on the original images, e.g. rotations, added noise, different background images, etc. you will get a higher model accuracy than the baseline model in exchange for a longer training time.
> "Take care of your tools and they will take care of you"

In my increasingly out of date experience in that area, this definitely applies to "don't leave your wrenches out in the yard overnight, dummy" but usually not so far as "don't use that as a pry bar". In either case though, if the tool breaks you toss it and move on...