skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are porn apps I'd like to be able to create/run but Apple's disallows porn apps forcing me to use some other less private platform if I want to run sex positive porn apps which in effect makes my activity less private. Further, even if they did allow porn apps via the store Apple has a list of all apps I install so they know if I install "tooKinkyToBePublic.app".

They really do need to allow easy side loading and/or alternate stores. I shouldn't have to chose between Apple's nanny-state "no porn apps", "no political apps" allowed and "privacy"
The official report just came out. On what grounds would the existing administration just fire upper level management at an early stage?

The appropriate response would be to force FAA to ground the planes (if and which FAA did not do themselves), and wait for the official report and then open an investigation in to Boeing and FAA. Time is a factor to take into account.
I’m pro-Apple but will be all-in to the Apple Cares camp when they encrypt iCloud backups.
>They removed the switch to turn it off.

You can't just add a switch to suddenly turn the aircraft into an illegal one. Any sane pilot would immediately turn it off for their own safety or be coerced to turn it off after launch by the airline companies. All the manufacturers would add an MCAS equivalent system to skip regulations. In the past the F1 went through this bullshit where cars were legal before the race started and the race ended with all cars turning on illegal features.
That would've been called an antitrust abuse by any other company but it seems Apple gets a pass by its fans.

Apple ecosystem is completely closed off. It does make it easier to ship software. For example they've hijacked SMS by creating their own iMessage, they tried to take full control of the mobile news publishing until Google came up with AMP and they have been dragging their feet when it comes to new web standards in Safari because they prefer native apps.

So the morale of the story is as long as you ship quality products you'll get a pass for tactics other companies don't usually get a pass for. None of openness, fairness, privacy, etc. matters really.
The question is asking about online games...
This is a lot of how the major ISPs smooth out the peering situation, they also offer colocation and carrier hotel services to large customers. Unfortunately, the popularity of Netflix and other streaming services has largely upset this balance and it's very hard for any ISP to keep traffic equality.
Thanks for your interest. My first was in Electrical Engineering (as was my BS) and then I went for Computer Science. I later did the Artificial Intelligence nano-degree at Udacity (MOOC). I continue to take online courses here and there.
Yes and if we look how they have behaved in the US since the tax payer last bailout them out one can note they have:

Began charging for basic provisions that used to be included in the ticket price

Began cramming people into narrower and more uncomfortable seats

Added yet more fees

Reduced the frequency of flights on many routes so planes are more crowded

Fought to keep foreign carriers(competition) out of the domestic market
AFAIK this is common practice in many armies, where each group obtains a predetermined amount ('dotation') of goods (gas, ammo, clothes...) for a given period (often a year), uses whatever it needs, then an accounting process takes into account whatever wasn't used in order to calculate the next dotation.

It seems consistent and efficient.

However it neglects human nature.

The soldiers want to avoid missing anything, they simply refuse to see their dotation reduced, therefore just before the end of the period they discreetly use (without any other reason) or destroy all unused goods.

Centralization and bureaucracy excel at breaking human will and things altogether.
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"Additional
funding was provided by generous gifts from Intel" I want to know more ! Was Intel tired of this team finding a new CVE every 6 months they sent free AMD gears ?
Edit: Intel is funding some of the Graz students (to work on anything) https://mobile.twitter.com/lavados/status/123608333055623168...
I suspect that it's a hash. But of what, I don't know. There's a seed phrase for the "account".
The point of the rule is "use it or lose it" - if you don't fly routes that can be boarded by passengers, you have to make space for another airline to compete.

Making it possible to just reserve space would result in obvious approach of squatting, especially when it's cheaper than flying a plane in.
Hi kentonv! I have a tangential question for you, if you don’t mind. I brought up your capnproto with a few friends at work, while chatting about the profiling data of our services (mostly CPU-bound, mostly on protobuf de-/encoding). After convincing ourselves that language-agnostic “zero-cost” requests weren’t completely magical, and that the whole promise thing is very useful, we got to wondering...

Do you think it’s possible, that gRPC/proto could evolve in a non-total-rewrite way to earn the benefits offered by capnproto? I figure you’d be best positioned to answer that kind of question, having worked so intimately on both! :)

We have enjoyed getting to know and using gRPC and proto, I also want to thank you for your work! capnproto is an inspiring solution to a prima facie unsolvable problem, I hope to see it succeed more universally, or at least inspire a proto4. :) Thank you again!
There is much more: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/nda-and-bla-approvals/fast-track-a...

Just last year: triclabendazole for liver flukes. That's emphatically not political. From 2018: apalutamide, an androgen receptor antagonist. Prostate cancer doesn't nearly get the attention it deserves, not political but sorely needed. 2017: secnidazole, for bacterial vaginosis. Strange to see that there, given that there are sufficient nitroimidazoles at market already. No political pressure.

Please, no reflexive regurgitation of libertarian propaganda directed against the FDA. They actually do their job.
Thank you! We're actually a team of Canadians too (but have been living/working in SF Bay Area) :D Always great to see more applications for data science - best of wishes to you too!
She mentioned a hell of a lot of googlable terms: epoll_wait, Apache thundering herd, EPOLLONESHOT, EAGAIN, idempotent requests, userspace threads, copy-on-write, queue depth determination, selective LIFO, strongly typed RPC, ...
I used to work in litigation support and something that stuck in my mind was an article some years ago in a trade magazine about how a new trend in venture capital from the UK was funding American lawsuits.

I always think of that when someone is sneering at the American legal system or blaming Americans for everything they interact with globally.
I think LetsEncrypt (ISRG) is one of the best examples when it comes to donations. They have a super small budget and a very small staff, but they single handedly made pretty much every web site today encrypted. One billion certificates issued so far, and the rate if it is only going up.

If you have a budget to make some donations, please out LE on the top of the list. They are doing a wonderful job and you are will make a massive change.
To illuminate this further. During therapy two people(usually one male one female) are required to be present to reduce the risks of something bad happening. But only one is required to have a license. And in this specific scenario though the person she had the sexual relations with was the unlicensed individual.
> The code objects and other things that are immutable. (CPython refcounts those too?)

CPython refcounts all objects. Refcounting is not required because of mutability; it's required because the interpreter needs to know when an object's memory can be reclaimed for something else.

I don't know if code objects specifically would have their refcounts mutated a lot, since typically they're only referenced by one object, the function that they're the code for. But function objects will have their refcounts mutated every time the function is called, since that sets up a stack frame that grabs a reference to the function object and then releases it when the function returns.
I kind of like the approach on lobste.rs but ironically I'm too lazy to switch. But that is slowly changing.
HTTP is overly verbose, is a pain and slow to parse, and there are various interpretations of what the protocol spec allows and disallows. If machines are communicating why should it be in a human readable format? Binary is far quicker
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This might help you, but honestly, if you want literature that will help you arrive at the same conclusions, you should read docs.

https://medium.com/@genchilu/brief-introduction-about-the-ty...

The problem is that a solution for I/O bound workloads has become generalized as the solution for all concurrency needs when in reality, that’s just half the picture.
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For Gmail they have Google Takeout:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Takeout

Actually works very well.
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> senior management by introducing heavy handed processes (daily stand ups, retrospective, bi-weekly planning sessions, scrum masters, etc

said slightly more succinctly:

managers deciding that you will do daily stand ups, retrospectives and 2 week sprints is the EXACT OPPOSITE of team self-management
Airlines are reducing capacity by big percentages and margins are tight they know some people have to travel so will increase prices.
By two months I mean until the time the CCP made public announcement around Jan 2x, relative to the reported date of first patient 2019-12-01, which is supported by CCP's own media (for eg: http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2020/02/23/693805.html).

A little bit off topic:
for me, this first case looks very impossible to be the first one, and it further supports my theory that wuhan virus is a bio-weapon created by CCP and got leaked. That is why it is so hard to pinpoint the zero patient because CCP is hiding this info.
Protection money by any other name.

One of the better side effects of Trump is that the world has gained by finally stepping away from US reliance... American hegemony is no longer.
> The 1970's gave us band after band, performer after performer who are still revered today. Who is the 1980's example of, say, Led Zeppelin? Or the Mahavishnu Orchestra?

I think the hint is in the examples you're giving : the 1970s were the heyday of progressive and what is now called "classic" rock, and that particular genre seems to be your frame of reference.

Whereas for us Euro synth folks, the 70s was the age of early pioneers like Kraftwerk, Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre (I suppose that's where rock music was in the 50s)

And the 80s are THE golden age of synthpop explosion that put us on the map, with legends like : New Order, Yazoo, Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, Bronski Beats, Eurythmics, Jean-Michel Jarre, a-ha, Tears for Fears. Our 80s are rock music's 60s (think Beatles & Rolling Stones).

The 80s are so revered that for the past 5-10 years there's been a whole music genre ("Synthwave") dedicated to reproducing its aesthetics with a contemporary twist. It's even been preempted by mainstream pop recently with The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" single.

Our own Led Zeppelins are 90s kids Daft Punk, Chemical Brothers, the Prodigy, Fatboy Slim.

In the 2000s, we took over for good and mostly killed any remnants of rock music's mindshare in Europe, and the US followed in the 2010s with the "EDM" mainstream pop flavor of our stuff.

In other words, it's all a matter of which bubble you're living in !
Indeed. However, many people trust Apple, so they don't have a problem with it. Personally I think this is a great thing and support the idea, but it's interesting to me that Apple rarely comes up in discussions about the coercive domination of large platforms and the merits of government intervention to reduce it.
What are your thoughts on this? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
When they mention conspiracy theories that people who support Israel have undue "control" over the Congress (or bribe them, as someone here said), they're using old anti-Semitic tropes, as you are well aware.
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> I can't imagine the logic for that since two sensors are physically present

My understanding for that is that if you look at two sensors, then a disagreement can happen, which has to be resolved somehow. In the case of MCAS, this would likely be turning MCAS off and telling the pilot, which would require training on what that extra warning light meant and would have required telling the pilots about it, jeopardizing the type rating.

Looking at only one sensor means the system "cannot fail"...
The whole point is that it's the conforming behaviour (leaving the location tracker on) rather than the non conforming one (turning it off) that led to him being a person of interest. A completely legitimate one, I might add.
Contrasting REST with RPC makes more sense, while REST apis map quite naturally to RPC as the other way around is more convoluted.

But a dedicatd RPC stack such as grpc or thrift constraints my architecture in other ways, that json-over-http doesn't.

And what are those unavoidable costs of REST that are not just the wire overhead of HTTP ?
Lol, man go spread your disinformation somewhere else.
Another fascinating fact is that about 20% of cancers are directly caused by viruses -- they push the cells they infect to be more cancer-like. The famous example is HPV, but there are many more.
Australia learned this the hard way by buying fighter jets that didn’t work in the Southern Hemisphere. America wouldn’t Give us the source code, so our version of the NSA (DSD at the time) had to reverse engineer the jets to make them work.

... always check the fine print
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Oh yes, totally. I have complete respect for Intel’s engineers. It’s their business department I’ve long had trouble with, but those engineers do truly astonishing, near zero bug work.
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I am concerned that the Dreamliner is also a potentially unsafe aircraft, as has been suggested often. Please see the last bullet point on page 5. Is anyone aware of this exact issue?
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Is the reason sand filtration effective, because the virus is too big to fit between the sand particles as the water flows around it?

I have no clue on how it works, so any insight is appreciated.
You can use spleeter and align in any audio application.
Vanessa Teague:

> I can't believe @healthgovau is still saying "The dataset does not contain the personal information of patients."
We have shown many of the patients' records can be easily and confidently identified from a few points of medical or childbirth info.

https://twitter.com/VTeagueAus/status/1236402085974798336
Godot game engine, definitely. Sure, it still have a long way to go, but it is getting quality updates regularly that the hype for the updates is mind blowing. I can definitely see it being a serious rival to Unity in a few years, at least in the 2D market.
Geofence requests also require two warrants. The first warrant retrieves a list of locatuons for pseudonymous phones in a bounded area during a bounded time. The second request reveals the identity of select phones. Each time you need to convince a judge to grant the warrant. Acording to this article, it looks like the suspect has an opportunity to contest the second request.

This isn't covert mass surveillance. We already allow law enforcement to search more private spaces with a warrant, so this doesn't seem like a stretch.
This is exactly what politicians do. That’s where the term dog-whistle comes into play because it’s not always clear what they’re talking about. “Jews will not replace us” becomes “we’re concerned about maintaining our cultural heritage”.
Things like app subscriptions and so on are just distracting gimmicks that companies provide to tick the box without taking the real actions that takes guts to take.

- Pay them good money, they are adults, this replaces all your "allowances"

- Give them flexible work hours

- Ensure no work, sms, email, slack, etc is expected implicitly or explicitly after work hours

None of this is hard except companies don't genuinely want to commit to these benefits. They want the benefit to come to them for free. So instead they go chasing gimmicks.
Uh, yes. I cook a lot. (Also, I paid nothing close to $200 for it).

I have a pair of very fancy nakiris that Erin picked up when she was in Tokyo that I avoid cooking with (one, a blue steel not-especially-stainless one, I never use at all). That's something closer to a Veblen acquisition (though the nakiri I do sometimes use is a blast to cut with). The Mac is a workhorse. And: I mean, get _any_ Mac knife.
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So my name is Lee Daugherty. I am an intensive care doctor just down the road at Johns Hopkins. What we're going to be talking about today is how we make decisions about who gets life-saving resources in a situation where we literally cannot take care of everyone. Today the scenario we'll talk about is pandemic influenza.
> Great write up.

Thanks.

> Can you say more about how the congressional district pork funnel works? I mean, how brazen is it?

That depends on what you mean by "brazen". In my tenure no one ever explicitly said, "We need to do X because we need to send money to congressional district Y." It was more like: "Your proposal will stand a much better chance if it's a joint proposal with institution Z." When I asked why, there was never any technical rationale for it. It was more like, "Look, I'm just trying to help you out here. Don't ask too many questions."

To be fair, sometimes those coerced collaborations were productive. But other times they caused some very serious problems in the case where there was really nothing useful coming out of Z. In that case we had to find a way to shoehorn something coming out of Z into the project, and that usually did not end well.
It doesn't though. Hiring a lawyer was his choice. Location tracker data alone is not enough for him to be even a suspect, just a person of interest. And it's the tracker data that shows police that his passing the house 3 times around the time of the burglary (which is a completely legitimate reason to question someone) is in keeping with his usual routine and thus exonerates him.
Just the WireCutter and Serious Eats reviews.

I need to be better about sharpening my knives. I took a class a few months ago (highly recommended! do this!) but haven't gotten it into my routine. The truest thing you can probably say about knife value for money is that it's entirely irrelevant if you aren't keeping your knives sharp, and most people don't.
People can be awful, I learned that at my first customer service job.

However, from 40,000 feet, one might listen to your story and think, ok, you took money from someone and didn't give it back, and now you're being inconvenienced and harassed, and this is supposed to be a major societal problem? What about people that get sent to prison for stealing the same or less money? Or a candy bar?

To be sure, I can imagine being in the same place, and I can imagine dealing with a crazy/obsessive litigant and being very unhappy about it. But if it were me, I wouldn't expect people to sympathize or agree that it's a problem with society.
To be fair, a lot of NASA's risk aversion stems from the fact that their work is very capital intensive. Even a cheap spacecraft costs many hundreds of millions of dollars, so failures can be very, very expensive.

Also, in the case of the manned program, human lives are at risk.
This is no longer a draft: https://www.ilpost.it/2020/03/08/coronavirus-decreto-isolame... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtoF7wagkyY
Thank you! There's definitely a lot of growth and potential in this space and we're really excited too. We're focused on intelligent monitoring and alerting for metrics that the user cares about & defines. We also automate the diagnostic playbooks that teams use today after detecting an issue (eg check data, check user segments, check geographies, etc.) Outlier seems to focus on insights and less on monitoring/alerting. They comb through data to surface 4-5 "unexpected insights" about your customers or business every day in a FB feed-type product.
In fairness, it's also a lot easier to sharpen a chisel than a kitchen knife, and it's very difficult to work with a chisel at all if it's dull, unlike a chef's knife, which will blunder through most tasks at mostly the same speed even after you whack it against a brick.
Sure it was, if they walked/biked by the house 3 times in close succession around the time of the burglary. A completely legitimate reason to make him a person of interest and interview him. If he was picked up on a neighbour's door cam, this wouldn't even be on the news.
> For running fewer, larger clusters GKE is the most affordable option.

For running that on GCP, perhaps.

It may not be affordable for running managed K8S on-prem.
Does that make you feel better as a user of apps?
Yeah, anecdotes aren't altogether useful, but I'm also trying to picture the scenario where a lack of comparative data makes anyone think it's not a big deal.
In the case of the article, you are correct. I have a slightly different case where I'm wrapping scikit-learn model. We're NOT just calling another service and waiting for a response, we're doing computation, in Python. So the GIL is actually a problem.
> full-sized kitchen knife I found buried in the garden

Um… Maybe my imagination is running away with me, but I struggle to find a sensible reason for burying a large knife in the garden.
Point taken - this is as valuable an opinion as any other. I'd love for an empoloyer to care about it enough to 'put their money where their mouth' is when it comes to making sure I'm looking out for myself sleep wise, but I wholeheartedly accept this stance.

ref:

[0] Sleep deprivation: Impact on cognitive performance https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2656292/

[1] Need for Sleep: the Impact of a Night of SleepDeprivation on Novice Developers’Performance https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.02544.pdf

[2] Personal anecdata
Well this seems to be quite the disappointing outcome. Since the tool looks like a good complement to AutoHotkey, it’s a shame that it’s going away due to Google’s automated indifference.
The question is, how can you do it automatically..