skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HA = High Availability

AP = AP in the CAP theorem, which states that in a distributed system you must either choose consistent and Partition tolerant (CP) or Available and Partition tolerant (AP), sort of the "heisenberg uncertainty theorem" of distributed system (you can't have CA because for practical purposes the "distributed" constraint implies "partition tolerant").
High availability and available/partition tolerant.

These are concerns that are of particular interest when running a set of servers that communicate with each other directly, which is common in Elixir/Erlang due to this being supported by the OTP libraries.

The AP comes from CAP theorem, which is better documented on wikipedia than I could give justice to.
Reminds me of the time the Canadian government used to advertise along the 101 [1] to tempt people with "H-1B problems" to "pivot to Canada."

[1] https://mgalligan.com/post/52327738889/canada-h1b
Bye to some of the 40 odd Billion dollars which flows into the economy from these students. While the US closes their borders, other countries will be willing to take these students in.
It would be better to norm "getting a PhD" by undergrad department. Ivy league stem graduates often go straight to work because their salaries are basically as high as a phd
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I agree with what you are saying.

> Carousels are good for things users should be vaguely aware of but are not likely to click on

Carousels should be used to set the _tone_ of the webpage, and not be meant for content to be clicked on.

For example, all major fashion e-commerce website dedicate large amount of homepage screen-estate to a carousel showing their major brands, current discounts, etc. The user can still use the search or menu functionality to look for what they want (and I think majority do), but now the tone of the business has been set.
I have over half my net worth in BRK, but I’m also a realist. Every year Berkshires asset value grows and every year it makes Buffett’s job harder. He’s a master of resisting bias and unwanted psychological influence, but he has to be thinking of expanding his strike zone. I’m hoping for massive stock repurchases to make things easier for him.
This is a weird comment. Leave aside that anything the Mozilla root program does will, if history is a guide, likely be backed immediately by Google. Minority browser or not, if your CA isn't trusted by Mozilla, you will lose all your customers. Nobody is going to do business with the CA that offers "the majority of browser users" when the rest of the CAs offer all the browser users. The CAs have almost no cards to play here.
And it has an optical drive?!?
I not sure I follow? They have to come back or else they lose their visa, that they don't need because they aren't coming back?

They don't need a visa to take online classes from overseas.
I agree in most cases. I think they should be avoided in hero scenarios but a small flickable carousel to show product photos or something below the fold is reasonable.
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Appeasing advertisers, outrage mobs, trigger happy political censors, and mindless algorithms is not a game anyone should risk their livelihood on. All creators should be directing viewers to alternative platforms with RSS or ActivityPub for subscription notifications BEFORE Google decides they "arent commercially viable". Once you find a good creator, no one cares what site his videos are on, and no one wants their subscriptions silently replaced with 'promoted' recommendations.

https://peer.tube/
https://dlive.tv/
https://d.tube/
https://lbry.com/
it is very unfortunate that owners have such an incentive. they shoudn't. in germany for example, much of what the unions have fought for eventually became law, giving the same benefits to everyone, and not just union members, making the unions less important.

the problem really is the adverserial nature of the relationship. a cooperative relationship between employees (with or without unions) and employers would be beneficial to every one.
Reminds me of Jobs' commencement speech at Stanford, he attributes the explosion of fonts to his previous studies. The bit about connecting the dots looking backwards.
There is no argument against academic acceleration beyond that it increases inequality of achievement. If the school system was about education more than childcare acceleration would be the norm for bright children and we’d have 14 year olds starting their Bachelor’s level studies in every school and 20 year olds who already had doctorates in every city of any size. Instead we waste their time, to their detriment and ours. Theirs, because if you’re going to be in school you should be challenged, and ours because they’d be able to start their professional lives earlier or with substantially more education, and hopefully skills.
I agree, DU munitions are not illegal. Weapons that cause unnecessary suffering are illegal. The question is whether DU munitions cause unnecessary suffering, and whether the US knew that the caused unnecessary suffering.

Ultimately the question is not of great importance because no one actually enforces international law.

Have a nice day :) (said sincerely, without irony)
Only if they had to hire someone new.
Some kind of typo or misunderstanding. "A" represented the glottal stop, not the vowel sound. Maybe the person who wrote that article was struggling to explain what a glottal stop was? Either way, its nonsense.
If you did more than 5 minutes of Googling, you would have all the evidence you need. I dislike Chinese Shills, but I'll provide some links here.

There were millions of falun gong practitioners (focus on the "were" there). China started an organ program. You can't just take organs after a person dies. Only brain-dead people are viable candidates.

China can get an organ in a week or so (their record is 4 hours). The reason transplant lists are so long here is because you have to not only wait for someone to die in the approved way so their organs are usable, but they must also match. The intersection of these two things is very small. Such fast matching and delivery can only mean they have people pre-screened and waiting to die.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilgour%E2%80%93Matas_report

https://www.chinaorganharvest.org/

https://endtransplantabuse.org/an-update/

As to concentration camps, the camps are admitted by the Chinese government itself (claiming that everyone is there "voluntarily"). The locations of many have been pinned down. Furthermore, satellite imagery shows the break-neck speed at which new buildings are being erected and can be used for a quite accurate count of victims (especially when cross-sectioned with testimonials).

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-01/satellite-images-expo...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50511063

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/a-sp...

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/02/asia/xinjiang-china-...
Here is a "nonsense" theorem that is provable in Lean:

“There exists a real number r such that 1/r = 0.”

If you try to translate this theorem into maths, you will run into trouble at some point. At which point exactly depends on how you want to make things precise... which is exactly what mathematicians avoid when talking about division in fields.
> Slavery (including the enslavement of whites) is not legal, at least not in the US

when you get this fundamental assertion wrong why would anyone bother reading anything else you have to say on the subject?

i recommend reading the 13th amendment again.
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Same here, in the 90s!
This seems interesting. I checked and it seems Sigma makes everything in Japan. Amusingly enough all the well selling digital camera manufacturers(Fujifilm, Sony, Canon, Nikon, Olympus) are Japanese.
Has Apple investigated them for the clipboard thing? Or did that turn out to be a hoax?
As far as I can tell hackernews is the local optimum for what you describe. The site is far from perfect and so am I, but I have a better chance of substantive discussion of topics that are interesting, difficult, or both here than anywhere else I've found on the Internet in recent memory.

Snark and irony are both discouraged here, which I appreciate all the more given my unfortunate inclination towards both. It's evident though that conversation is far more intellectually nourishing when they are held to a minimum.
A 450MB file in 1988!! CD-ROM drives were extremely new at the time. It was larger than most people's hard drives.
It's a pronunciation reference. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_breathing and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_breathing
What makes you think that more than 10% of PhD students even desire professor positions?
What about film making, TV, photography or even computer games? They sometimes have scale and majesty. Just with a different funding model than a few rich benefactors.
Yes, it is completely unreasonable. $12B represents a far more significant sum to AA than it does to Google.

- Unlike AA, Google has enough cash on hand to cover expenses for close to a year

- Unlike AA, the service Google provides is not commoditized and highly profitable

- Google's market cap is 100x that of AA

- Unlike AA, Google's services are not highly susceptible to disruption by things like fossil fuel prices, terrorist attacks, politics and global pandemics
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In the following sentence from my original post, I intended for the (now) highlighted section to have semantic significance:

> he kind of journalism that these people do
Go into your embassy. They'll help.
For reasons I don't entirely understand, a large number of people think that giving a gift card is "more polite" than checks or cash. Even though you are literally giving just a worse version of cash that can only be used in one store.
Really informative comment.
We were just discussing this past weekend how folding lawn chairs are far more comfortable than the "bag chairs" that have become so popular in recent years. Plus they seem to be quite a bit more durable.
I think that’s missing the point. What I’m saying is “this is a convention, and because it is a convention, it may be reasonable to follow a different convention at times”. Different conventions are convenient for mathematicians working in different fields. Whether a convention is “semantically correct” is not a question that even makes sense, because when you define something, your definition is true by definition. The only real question here is whether you can reasonably expect people to understand you if you use different definitions.
No. I went to look up throughput in the dictionary and couldn't understand how it was different from bandwidth.
As a young adult I could absorb myself in projects like this...in recent years, mid career, it just doesn't seem to happen. I can't make myself care enough about anything to the extent it's very hard to imagine how someone could do anything like this project. Anyone have a suggestion for how to find that again? Maybe I lost the ability to focus on anything I'm not required to do to get paid. Or maybe I'm mildly depressed and don't know it...how does someone do this?
I'm totally confused... so it's not the cameras themselves? They just aren't offering cloud managed cameras, correct?
If you razed a SFH in a SFH neighborhood and put in its place a 10 unit complex the surrounding home values would absolutely go down. Values would only eventually go up in the long run as the whole area is turned into dense housing and there are holdout SFH in the area.

I thought we were past framing the discussion in terms of increase/decrease in value. NIMBYs (generally) aren’t against it because it’ll lower value and bringing high density housing doesn’t increase value (except in the extreme long run).
The significance of positive test rate rates is extremely dependent upon the slectiveness & availability of testing, which has trended higher but has varied in extreme ways.

Initially, only the sickest patients, most obviously suffering from COVID-19, were eligible for testing. We would of course expect positive test rates to be sky-high during this time, as we were only testing those whom we were pretty certain were infected and were suffering life-threatening symptoms.

Now, tests are more widely available. Testing is no longer tightly constrained to the most obvious suspected cases. So, with a wider swatch of the population being eligible for testing, we would probably expect the % of positive test rates to fall even as the number of infected goes up.
No? You're saying that someone shouldn't have believed that one kind of scam was happening, because only the other kind of scam is real. That's a much more subtle distinction than just "payment in gift cards is a scam". It also doesn't seem like a thing that can really be supported with definitive evidence or authoritative decree.
It's only been a recent trend, and it's more to experiment with new form factors and nudge the PC ecosystem in right direction more than anything else.

And the recent trend is for software companies to start making their own hardware (AWS making Graviton, Echo products,and Google making TPUs, Pixel) while hardware companies move into software (Apple moving into Apple Music, TV, News).
Not everyone is meant to go "up". I used to be a manager and purposely went "down", because it's more fun to build features than discuss features and negotiate timelines. Pay doesn't necessarily rise when you go up either. This is a field where CEOs enjoy their $1 salaries and 80 hour work weeks.
The real problem is that cyclists typically ride near the edge of the lane or road rather than in the center of the lane. This puts the cyclist outside of the foveal field of view for the motorist, which means that they're less likely to see them in time to avoid a collision.
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IBM has some freebies you can sign up for. I did it a couple of months ago to test ci/cd on Z and Linux.
Ticks all the boxes, thank you
Timothy Pearson from Raptor here...so if storage becomes a main concern it definitely becomes less expensive to lease a dedicated box vs. a VPS from Integricloud, and that's by design to some extent. The Integricloud architecture is centered more on making sure that your data stays private than competing directly with Amazon etc. that simply don't have the ability to make any assurances beyond general platitudes in that area (for starters, they don't control the firmware on their own machines), and the design (and pricing) reflect this different approach to cloud services.

The dedicated boxes are also unlimited data transfer, and you can put in some fairly large storage arrays inexpensively. We have a bunch of projects that are using dedicated boxes for development work, for example we sponsor Adelie Linux with one, and so far they've been very happy with the service.
Just as a neat bit of trivia that isn't mentioned in the article, the inventor of the equals sign was Robert Recorde[1]. Dijkstra provides some additional background at [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Recorde

[2] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/E...
How should I prepare myself for the AI revolution?
Hi there! I recently finished a BS in CS and am currently working as a SWE. I am excited about the upcoming prospects for artificial intelligence and I wanted to get some thoughts on the best way to take advantage of this tidal wave of change.

I am intending on starting an MS in CS soon and have thought about a PhD in CS (but this is uncertain). Could you let me know what your thoughts are on the pros and cons of getting a CS PhD in the context of this upcoming revolution? In what other ways could a young person best set themselves up to take full advantage of this change?
Nothing beats a plastic Adirondack though, comfort and durability!
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The screenshot shows a regular board and I need to sign in to see what makes this recursive. Not going to sign in to check out a product (this is repeated over and over on HN).

Could you describe what makes this recursive and/or update your landing page. Not a whole lot to go by now.
It's often credited as being one of the most "free" states, with things like information and no income tax.
it's not that you need to "care enough" - it's something you cannot stop yourself from doing.
That's also why you practically never hear about anyone being left behind a grade. From the start of kindergarten to the end of high school, the everyone I knew who started in my grade finished in it. I can't remember a single exception. In what other areas do the fastest and slowest do 13 years of work at nearly the exact same pace?

The only difference allowed seems to be in AP classes, which are pretty limited in availability. If you imagine AP classes and stuff like that making maybe 2 years of difference in what you're actually taught, that's still putting everyone within 15% of each other.
I agree. How do we change it?
Unfortunately, where I live bicycles keeping to the side of the lane is required by law. Even in situations where this isn't required, drivers can easily become aggressive towards slower vehicles such as bicycles.

Bicycles often fall through the cracks: not quite first class vehicles but not afforded the same protections as pedestrians.
> Agriculture was considered "tech" at one point of time.

And it still is... agritech is a very interesting field!
Does Canada have the capacity for these extra students?
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This story sounds pretty typical of any corp IT job really. I've had plenty of managers that I just didn't get along with and they seemed to always be on my case or something but let their "friends" do what ever.

One time I was trying to move to a different team. My would-be-new-manager kept asking me what was the hold up. I'd go to my current manager and he'd blame it on the would-be-new-manager stating that he didn't actually want me on his team. I couldn't tell who to believe. I could have said "it's because I'm black" (except I'm white and can't use that excuse) but instead I just left the company. Only thing is, that took nearly 2 years of interviewing. I'd spend sometimes a whole week making my cover letter perfect for what I was applying for, but still I'd get no response or very little of one. I landed some good interviews in that time too and they went well, but still nothing. Ironically I remember thinking that if I was black, how I would have a strong urge to burn up twitter with comments about how I couldn't even land a job interview because of my skin color. But I was white, had a good resume and cover letter, and experience to back it up. Yet that was not the problem at all (applying for a job just sucks in general).

Anyways, by how this woman describes asking several different people for help with her coding, this doesn't always sit well in all environments. In many cases, just asking for help or tips by a new hire is seen as them being an idiot. And to top it off, I don't know of any "smart" people that would want to actually work at Capital One (not as a code monkey anyway).
This study is clearly wrong. When I was 16 I completed my CS degree, finished university by 22, and joined an early tech company by 25. It changed my life forever.
To be fair, Call of Duty games are notorious for their poor coding and design. I never have the issues with any other games that happens with COD. Not sure if it's an odd dev team, or if they really trying to wrangle performance out of the hardware that makes them do all these kooky things.

There's a very common complaint that COD requires double the game size free space to download updates, regardless of the update size itself. This is ridiculous and not something that is common to other games.
At the school where I work, they disabled key card access for everyone campuswide. You need to special permission to have them unlock it for a limited time period to get in.

Of course a few old buildings still use regular keys so people can sneak in potentially.
That’s a perfectly sensible function, it’s just not ordinary division on the reals where x = 0, and you can’t use it that way.
It's a good point about the definition of tech. I was trying to refer to digital tech companies. But certainly as you go back in time, tech applies to so many industries before the digital age. Automotive, photography, industrial equipment, aviation, chemical engineering, materials science, etc etc all could be thrown into the technology umbrella, so it's important to make a distinction.
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It doesn't matter who is in office, both the democrats and the republicans agree that the DoD needs more money. Always more.
it depends on the size of the hole at the bottom of the ship
That's not what I said... If a person doesn't feel they can meet the discussed expectations, you wouldn't hire them in the first place.
I remember the term social network being used in the BBS era. Sure, maybe it wasn’t called like that all the time, but it’s not a term from the 2010s either?
The software will be EOL on 1-Jan-2021, but you can keep running it if you want to. As I intend to as mine is kept inside my home network, running in a container, and not exposed the the world.

They are killing of their cloud based service on 1-Jan-2021.
Certainly many of them do, but there are also plenty of people who want to focus on investments that also have a positive impact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socially_responsible_investing

One specific example of a robo-advisor that does this: https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-us/feature/socially-responsi...
This was determined to be a grift from the start. The fact that the head of the executive branch fired the person agreed upon to provide oversight 2 days after the bill was signed made that abundantly clear.

Yes it's wrong that small business are taking money they don't need. But that's because it was essentially used as a slush fund as is now coming to light.

The need more openness in government technology. There should be a platform right now where anyone can look up who received money from this fund larger than some amount.
The test comes before the interview, after speaking to a recruiter.
Article says this:

>Meanwhile, international students who remain in their home countries will only be permitted to maintain their “Active status” and take an online courseload remotely if their school is online-only.
The best part is when carousels show up on game consoles or kiosks when you're trying to log in or something that makes what you're trying to do impossible.
That exactly was the attraction of CD-ROMs in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was (to the era) practically infinite storage compared to what they were used to. Before the dawn of the Web in the mid/late 1990s, CD-ROMs were a major industry with the first electronic encyclopedias and many other reference works later made obsolete by the Web.
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> The author knows this. Their point is that even if you're NOT using CPython, you STILL shouldn't worry about it too much, and I think I agree.

The author is completely wrong and so are you.

Used to be you could not install some libraries in pypy because setuptools leaked fds handles, and if your installation was not simple enough it’d run out.

You could not install libraries because some folks couldn’t be arsed to properly close their fds.
Not sure why you're specifically against Palantir. Tableau basically does the same thing. Excel did it before either product. Police, NSA, CIA, FBI use Excel, AWS, GCP, Oracle, twitter, tor, bitcoin (insert any tech product) etc... If Palantir supports surveillance because their product can be integrated with municipal data, then virtually every tech company supports a surveillance state because any tool can be leveraged by these law enforcement entities to surveil a population more effectively.