skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it possible that it still counts as "putting on airs" even when done by academics?

I had a long stint in academics as both a student and as research staff, and I noticed many instances of unchallenged self-aggrandizement within that community. I could easily believe this to be another instance of that, even if institutionalized.

Edit: FWIW I haven't looked into this history of this particular topic. There may a respectable explanation and I'm just ignorant.
> Also, I think people are quite forgiving of language mistakes if the content is interesting.

True, but working with English native speakers I noticed that the level of engagement I can get from them depends not only on whether my writing is correct, but also on its style. The same applies to non-native speakers, but to a lesser extent.

Anyway style is something I know I need to work on if I'm to wow someone else than a HR person from a local IT company.
You have to, since systemd implemented the feature incorrectly. You're missing the forest for the trees.
The fact that you are acknowledging what you are feeling about others when they are in a miserable situation and the empathy that you show to them is a gift.

You don't need to research about this more! Just try to do what you can do to others :)

If you help others' you help yourself.
>Why does anyone work there? What a nightmare.

Money. Lots and lots of money.

Amazon also operates at a scale unimaginable for most of us, which I imagine is enough of an interesting problem for some people to look past everything else.
>It requires Amazon to have a massive and expensive choke point in their network: load balancers. When a customer tries to upload to S3, she is given a single upload URL to use. For instance, s3.amazonaws.com/<bucketname>.

Now that Amazon has deprecated the single URL version and replaced it with region-specific URLs (e.g. s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com) and tooling has been mostly updated, this huge reason for not supporting the S3 API is gone.
Tesla Model Y Paint Is as Thin and Uneven as Model 3
Designing a Notifications Service with SQS and SNS
Costco is an okay place to work however, As someone who worked for Costco in the past, i think i was getting barely $1.50 more than minimum wage (this was 2015).

Furthermore you have a ton of full time employees who will sing praises about the company. However part timers get shafted hard. Oh you can't work 3 days a week due to school, okay enjoy barely 8 hours a week. There were a lot of people there who had to work multiple jobs simply because they could not get enough hours.

Unless you are fully willing to commit to them it isn't a great place to work.
I'm not sure how I ended up with "around 500,000" instead of the (readily available) actual number. Thank you for the correction.
Daniel Canogar's opening at Bitforms prompts a look at the flow of information
Simpler Alternative to Conventional Commits
Bezos in front of congress just got a lot more interesting. This is something that they will likely spend a lot of time on.
I've seen the odd post from people along the lines of "why should my taxes pay for someone else's healthcare? No thanks, I'll stick with insurance" and the inevitable "you do understand how insurance works, right?" responses. Always fun.

As usual, this seems to be partisan politics at work. Though I don't really understand why the right portrays universal healthcare as socialism when it's so clearly more "free".
Yes, absolutely, an international superpower will realize it's a possibility. However, they may have about as much luck as the comments section of HN in being sure.

It's an asymmetrical thing; you spend a drop in the bucket putting out this sort of disinformation, and if they spend $10 million in black ops research following up on it, you win in relative terms.

There's other possibilities you can come up with, too; throw the conspiracy theorists a bit of what seems to be red meat every once in a while and they'll maintain a smokescreen of radical disinformation and a thick patina of disbelievability over everything that even remotely resembles this sort of thing for almost free. The truth may well be in that mess somewhere but good luck picking it out.
Yev here -> Anyone can write to the B2 Native API or our S3 Compatible API, we have tons of integrations that do it, here's a list -> https://www.backblaze.com/b2/integrations.html
This will surely hit low-paid workers the hardest, especially in London where car parking (if available) is really expensive. I'd rather a price scale that discounted fares for essential and low-paid workers, but surcharged others.
"As [Baron Vladimir Harkonnen] emerged from the shadows, his figure took on dimension — grossly and immensely fat. And with subtle bulges beneath folds of his dark robes to reveal that all this fat was sustained partly by portable suspensors harnessed to his flesh. He might weigh two hundred Standard kilos in actuality, but his feet would carry no more than fifty of them."

As I've gotten older and fatter this seems like a better idea. I'm ready for my portable suspensors now please. This may help to solve the Navy's problem with obesity among recruits.
It feels like a proto-dictatorship move to ask people to worship an arm of the government, instead of seeing it for what it is: a provider of a service that needs proper funding and management.

There are definitely people in health services that deserve praise, but praising the institution in this way is a bit different...
The "background" section of this particular patent [0] starts pretty sane (if obviously a little grandiose--enough to get one's guard up) but rapidly and suddenly dips off the rails. The trouble is that the mostly unintelligible details about "hyper-frequency" rotational and vibrational coupled modes are interspersed in a bunch of technically correct--if vapid--physical statements about quantum fields pervading all of spacetime, and other phenomena being emergent of excitations in these fields. (Notwithstanding the fact that uniting QFT with gravity is the biggest open problem in Physics today...)

I think this is an illustrating case in how much easier it is to create high-falutin' nonsense than it is to debunk it. Most of the claims are somewhat vague but they touch on areas where someone needs a lot of knowledge and precision to coherently dispute them.

I highly recommend reading a patent lawyer's research into the history of this particular patent from the last time it was posted here[1]. Apparently the examiner tried to reject the patent claim several times on technical bases, against the protest of some Navy brass, before finally admitting it without comment months later.

[0] https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19763445
restic (if you need deduplication, snapshots, encryption, etc, which it doesn't sound like you do), or rclone, to BackBlaze or rsync.net. I use the latter and am very happy, I've never used the former.
I have been using backblaze to backup our Synology NAS with lot's of personal data, mainly photos and videos.

Have been restoring ponctual data easily. Did not do any major restore yet (hopefully).

I found them really good and cheap. I can only recommend.
I doubt AWS would immediately fall over if some engineers walked out for a few days. Might still send a message though.
Later on it may be a major factor, but right now it is probably outweighed in the counts by less car accident deaths, lower transmission of other communicable respiratory diseases, and less work and leisure accidents.
I know Columbia, way back when I attended, had some classes with the lectures online that way. However, your response is showing a lack of understanding of what I mean by teaching online is different. If you go with the heavily edited lecture video style, that is likely not done real time. Instead, it becomes a watch offline experience in which case my gut reaction would be to flip the classroom. If the instructor wasn’t already using that technique, they would likely have to redo their entire syllabus and teaching style.
FaceID requires more than a camera, there's an additional sensor involved
It's possible they're eating the cost of the load balancing necessary to multiplex from their backends to client requests, which should theoretically stoke an increase in business due to reduced switching costs (and what timing, with an economic contraction likely pushing cost reductions at those needing cloud storage).

Disclaimer: Happy Backblaze Mac client and B2 customer, no other affiliation.

EDIT: @yev: I took the signal out after the sibling reply :) Appreciate the responses as always. Please stay awesome.
Smart use of genomic data needed in species conservation
I can't find a source for this right now, but IIRC USB-C was designed such that the cable was always the weak point, so in cases of extreme stress the cable will break before the port does.
What makes you think this is a futile cause? Union protections are at an all time low right now, it's likely they can continue suppressing employee organization if they kill lines of communication. Especially with the historic high unemployment rates hitting middle america right now.
I guess you'll have to mop up your tears with that 300k.
I meant to include the runtime in the "toolchain" term. See how I spoke about the library loader that Go implements.

The libc is only part of the greater issue of community tolerance of C components in the stack, like openssl or host OS TLS implementations, while Go mainly seems to just use the tls implementation of the language creators. There is rustls but it's not regarded as good enough and the defaults are using native-tls or openssl. And even rustls uses C components as it builds on ring which has C components of its own...
I've been wondering how much they "exploited" the recently-turned-100 Captain who was walking up and down his garden 100 times to raise money for the NHS. He or his family probably came up with the idea themselves, but I wonder if some individuals working in the government helped it "go viral". The same government that's been slowly stripping the NHS, when suddenly, a free 100 million pounds (and counting) to spend! And a nice old man that the nation can cheer on. Feel good story, distraction, etc, etc.

Another cynical look about the hero worship of the NHS is that heroes often die, if I were running a government that failed to supply PPE to doctors and nurses, I'd cheer on the idea of making them heroes because then their deaths would become something honourable and somewhat acceptable...
If that's how he feels personally, his appointments to the National Labor Relations Board don't show it. And if it would take legislation, he'd never get it past Mitch McConnell.
for small projects, this schematic/layout duality is really quite cumbersome. I really don't mind the warts in the layout section, there isn't that much to go wrong...but the parts management - making a crappy symbol, making a crappy footprint, making sure those are aligned...dealing with the ridiculous library notion. what a waste of time.

but kicad at least has an approachable format. so I wrote some crappy tooling to at least generate symbol and layout from a single description. and I could theoretically write a front end and leverage things like Gerber generation.

I don't understand why we don't have vendor supplied footprints in a tool-neutral textual format yet. I know people have tried - who are the contenders?
Sure, your needs are your needs, but the person you're replying to is saying they aren't objectively worse, not subjectively. Windows/Linux on a PC laptop is an obviously-viable tool for a great many people, and those people may want to start looking at what's available if they aren't satisfied with Apple's offerings. Personally I'm not a fan of treating laptops as anything more than nice SSH clients to the more powerful machines where I do my actual work, but again that's subjective :)
Dilbert strips are now an utopia with proper cubicles. How ironic ...
Msquic: Cross platform C implementation of the IETF QUIC protocol
I lold :D
₹200,000 indian rupee for 16inch model which is 2399$, ₹175,000 for 1799$ 13inch. Bad pricing will pass.
I've had a company-issued XPS 9570 for the last year, and overall I haven't had any big issues.

Cooling is sub-par, but I think that's mostly due to the Intel i9-8950HK running way over the advertised TDP during Turbo. Dell has been tweaking their cooling profile in subsequent BIOS updates, at with the latest version (1.15) they're quite aggressive on ramping up the fans to keep things cool. Which is good from a performance perspective, but really annoying to sit beside all day. While I didn't experience severe thermal throttling, I did end up disabling Turbo as it made the laptop sound like a jet engine too often for my taste.

My only other complaint would be that despite Dell's claims of 100W+ power delivery from their ThunderBolt dock (above and beyond what USB-C PD can deliver), I frequently find the laptop discharging the battery under moderate load (high CPU, idle dGPU) when connected via USB-C to the dock. Using the supplied DC charger solves this, but it's still a poor user experience.

At my previous employer I had a 2017 MBP. IMHO an XPS/Precision is a better option as you can (in no particular order): upgrade the RAM, upgrade the SSD, run Linux on it, and (until the new MBP release) had a much better keyboard experience.

As others have noted, Dell's enterprise warranty support is fantastic. I was able to invoke the warranty to replace a motherboard in a Latitude I bought used on eBay; they sent a technician to my house to replace it free of charge.
Pretty sure its mainly just recycling service. It's for people that have no interest in attempting to deal with the hassle of reselling.
It is indeed, but within the context of this overall discussion, note that BeOrg doesn’t support SyncThing.

There isn’t an alternative for that particular user case without dual-syncing with another sync provider. Best I can tell, there are zero iOS apps of any kind with SyncThing support.

You can (and I have) configure SyncThing to track and sync changes within the iCloud app directory corresponding to BeOrg. It definitely feels janky and I worry about file corruption.
Around 1994 or so One mac model (system 7) was notorious for having a power switch next to the floppy drive that looked like the eject button.

Those of us from a windows / unix back ground where for ever pushing the power button when we wanted to eject a floppy.
That's a good question to ask. S3 has become so common that it's going toward that road.

It's like brand names that become so common that people use no more the material name, but the brand.
Hey we love to hate on XML now, but not only did a framework of markup and schema make sense at the time, markup as an interchange concept was a pretty new thing in 1986. We had some scattered formatter precursors like TeX and troff but not a general purpose framework like this.

Look at everything SGML begat or enabled: Docbook, HTML, XML, SOAP, WSDL/SOA, and ecosystems around transformations like DTDs and XSLT.

I think the biggest failure of XML was the pesky humans who kept trying to poke it by hand instead of working with abstractions so they never saw it.
>Dengue does have a vaccine, but like many vaccines, it isn't 100% effective. While it does reduce the chances of being infected, it also increases the likeyhood of a severe infection (similar to the risk increase from a previous dengue infection) and thus is only recommended for those who have already been been infected once.

Yeah, it's quite new. One of the issues with Dengue is that there are multiple types of the virus. If you get Dengue once, you're mostly protected against getting the same type again. But if you get one of the other types, you're at significant risk of severe complications (e.g. hemorrhagic fever). (ADDED: Hence, why you get the vaccine if you have had Dengue before.)
If you figure out how to find an employer without issues, please let me know.
Sounds like we need better heuristics. It doesn't make sense to ignore research papers based on their origin.

Each paper should be evaluated on its merits. A system with submission, voting, and comments (HN/reddit) is a good way to filter the wheat from the chaff. It's hard to believe this basic technology hasn't reached the scientific fields.
In some sense, nothing has been really disruptive since the web browser. But that doesn't matter because what I'm talking about is reduced cost, reduced accidental complexity, reduced systemic latency.

Having lived through it, it's just loads easier to get something up and going these days. I ended up back in some Java code again recently, and servlets are a) a pain, and b) a general-purpose abstraction. They're adequate for a lot of things, but not particularly great at anything. Whereas these days people have had 15 years to come up with special-purpose code to accelerate all sorts of common activities. My point wasn't that AWS and Rails were the only good things that happened in 15 years. It's that those, which now seem old and boring, were near beginning of a whole wave of innovation aimed at making it easy to have a consumer-grade user experience up and running.
> I think that we have seen an unprecedented campaign to propagate the belief that the "mainstream media" is untrustworthy.

Both can be true. The large national news outlets can be faltering AND someone could find a partisan advantage by making hay out of that fact.
I recently spend two weeks on and off hunting down a bug on a platform that didn't support `rr`. I am fairly confident to say that if I had `rr` available it would have taken me a couple of hours at most.

Being able to run backwards from the point of failure and understand where a value is coming from is very powerful.

Having this available in Julia directly is great, and will make it much easier to get bug-reports from users.
Try finding more specific communities on Reddit. HN is a crapshoot and on Twitter you already need to have a bunch of followers. If you don't get up within the first 10 minutes almost nobody will see it just due to the volume of new articles.
They pay extremely well, don't they?

And a huge number of people just don't care about these issues like you do.
no kidding and you're being unreasonable... yes, what ii stated will get you 99% of the way there. what you're belly aching about is the 1% where you have to veer from this and do it yourself. big deal.

look... you wouldn't forego taking a plane across the country cause you have to take a cab the last 2 miles to the hotel. same thing here. just because something falls out at the last 1% doesn't mean it a bad way to do things.
Amazon is every other on fire in media for poor working conditions but they don't care because stock buyers of Amazon don't care. They will continue to invest as long as their wealth grows. This is what true capitalism is.
One tip that helped me a lot was to forget about the audience - write for yourself. Use blogging as a tool to flush out your thoughts, and truly understand something. Once that concept clicked, writing once a week has been a blast!
"No I won't read your amateur Special Relativity 'Research Paper', you dumb patent clerk"
Racism is the systemic discrimination against a race -- ie, there may be systems in place that cause a particular race to be disadvantaged, even if those systems aren't consciously put there by anyone.

For example, post redlining, many cities still have economically depressed areas that correlate with race. The policies that caused the issue are largely gone, but the systems created by them remain. (Systems, in this context can mean both formalized systems, e.g. welfare systems, and de facto systems, e.g. wealth inequality, incarceration rates, and prejudice).

Applied to employment decisions, there may be any number of factors that were not directly discussed as reasons to fire someone, but still impacted the firing decision. People may be unconsciously biased, there may be fundamental attribution errors applied because the person is in an outgroup, etc.
A third party service that validates all members are part of a company/organization, and then allows anonymous postings viewable to just those validated members would be very useful, IMO.

There is good reason to have these discussions in a place where Amazon's management is not in control.
Internal report warns Beijing faces Tiananmen-like global backlash over virus
Yev here -> Double good news for you this morning: we're now signing BAAs for B2 Cloud Storage ;-) Just contact sales and they can get you sorted out!
Intel can sell x86 with 50-80% margin + 80-90% market share.

Or sell arm compete with TW, China ARM licensee at 10-25% margin for 5-15% market share. And you don't have any competitive advantage like Qualcom with IP on CP.

If you're Intel CEO, how are you going to choose?
No need to change your mind. Containers improve orchestration of deploying scalable services. The Kubernetes ecosystem will continue to improve and one day your boss will tell you that you have to use containers to deploy your apps or find a different job.
Amazon needs to stop internally framing labour dispute problems as PR problems. Huge respect to Tim Bray for walking the walk in defence of his values, something I've only rarely seen from high-earning people with left-wing sentiments.

My own sense of the situation (and I could well be wrong) is that Amazon is not a particularly bad place to work as a warehouse worker (they after all employ hundreds of thousands of low-skilled people at $15/hr, no mean feat), but that they have a justifiably high exposure to the press for their workplace practices due to their scale.

I think that this is why some middle-management jobsworths think it best to fire activist workers rather than address their issues. It's those managers who should be out of a job now, not Tim Bray. I feel Tim's railings against 21st century capitalism and praise for France for their bare-faced protectionism are misplaced, but understandable under the circumstances.
If you can communicate faster than light then you can send information backwards in time. That's not just a violation of the known laws of physics, that's a causal paradox, which is much, much worse. It's actually conceivable that the Navy's gadget could work (though I will give you incredibly long odds against). It's not even conceivable that mine would even under alternate laws of physics. The universe would have to be logically incoherent to allow that.
Hyperpolarized 13C MR?
So how many times a month do you have to implement this to be reasonable compared to the cost of the storage?
Just a year ago B2 couldn't do server-side file copying.[1] If you wanted to rename or move a file you had to re-upload the whole thing (not great for large multi-gigabyte files)! That ruled them out of consideration for storing my personal backups.

Glad to see they've since fixed that, and with this update are clearly continuing to improve ergonomics. I'll have to give B2 a fresh look.

[1]: https://github.com/Backblaze/B2_Command_Line_Tool/issues/175
That is indeed the big signaling aspect Kaplan talks about. It's still signaling, that is, what the student learns during that is considered less important.
The use of "we" is not "faking an authoritative voice," it's just a standard feature of a certain kind of formal writing. I'd be happy to pillory the paper for being bad, but let's not fault the author for at least conforming to standard conventions and making it easy to read and dissect.

Waggoner's article is actually more bizarre to me on the second read. The claim does not appear to be that the paper bad, just that interested, non-credentialed amateurs don't get to have (public) opinions, no matter how well-reasoned. While I'm highly skeptical of armchair epistemology a priori, there are plenty of criticisms of the (un)linked article that are more interesting and educational than pointing out it's written by someone without a PhD in epistemology.