jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Lots of circumstantial evidence supports this view. Apart from the specific focus of the story being a "positive" use of spying, the use of distorting phrases like "the Snowden controversy" and "the arrest of Mr. Miranda" (who was "illegally" detained, not arrested) are suspicious.

Also, it comes almost immediately after the government became aware of what was leaked (thanks to David Miranda). Not knowing this put them at a severe disadvantage before, as they were constantly a step behind and being continually caught lying was ruining their credibility. As others have noted, "was contained in the leaked documents obtained from the NSA by Edward Snowden" are weasel words of the highest order, and the linked article by the Guardian is clearly calling this out.

It's easy to picture a narrative where the government wishes to ham up the "national security risk" posed by these leaks, which they couldn't do effectively when they didn't know what was in them. Intercept David Miranda to find out, cherry pick some information that sounds important but non-threatening to UK nationals, and leak it to The Independent in exchange for a sympathetic story. This also explains even the nonsensical "destroyed hard drives" affair - they weren't trying to delete the data, they wanted to make a big show of "trying" to.
Repeating false information does not make it true.
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depends what you mean with reproducible:
build a jar twice, and its md5sum will change
because there are timestamps in the archive.
Didn't Google just bolt a ton of sensors on top of an existing car and called it a day? Also, it seems that only they are using LIDARs - apparently Tesla is doing self-driving cars without them (look at the Model S - do you see any sensor?), and so are some major car manufacturers.
You don't need that `existential force` question to find hypothesis and answers to your first question. You are framing your question by opposing (`or`) that `existential force` to whatever your answer is to the first question.
I'm guessing that too as I had a similar issue in a hobby web project in Python. I wanted instant messaging between users and the time required to read the docs for twisted and port the whole thing over was off putting. I ended up making a message server with Node and Socket IO that's like 50 lines and sends messages to and from clients and the server. It works but it seems a bit of a kludge.
No it wasn't rude. I was agreeing and criticizing the HN community.
It's really more rhetorical. Clearly I can't just oppose it because there is not a definitive answer. Just seeing what people think as far as the progression of mankind goes.
And yet, both C# and Swift somehow manage to do it…

http://www.matt.digital/comparing-c-nullable-types-and-swift...

https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=25
It’s not? We’ve had rolling black outs in the Bay Area few the past few years - not to mentioned a few massive fires started by crappy infrastructure.
Correct. We would not know.
Anakata (guy who founded the pirate bay) hacked a bank and he is definitely some kind of genius. His idea for getting money out of the bank was to enlist a teenage thug to go to the ATM and withdraw money, which he had sent to the guy's account. Smart people do stupid shit all the time.
> and a human driver quickly took over and avoided the accident

Can we be sure that the average driver who has received no special training in the matter will be able to take over from an autopilot in a split second when driving at high speeds? Heck people can't pay attention and keep their eyes on the road even when they are the ones in control.

> The responsibility is still on the driver even with driver assist / full self driving technology turned on.

If/when the system is rolled out at scale will drivers actually comprehend that?

> Then the driver will face the consequences as if he had been driving the car himself

Assigning blame after the fact is fine, but no one can bring a dead pedestrian back to life.
I didn't ask you why or whether you want to work with people more capable than yourself (on that, I'd agree with you, striving to work with people more capable than oneself is generally desirable).

Would you mind answering the question I asked rather than an unrelated one? Maybe I can be even more clear than in my original question:

What does someone else (who knows heavier CS than you) liking some tool have to do with that tool being the right long-term solution for any particular use case?
Under funded university labs often have need for archival storage to "keep results for future".

You name the technology, I've seen it be used to store results. If a system is centrally funded by the main university (and not the lab itself), researchers will find a way to get it to hold research data if it has an interface to ingest a file...

They don't need acceptable APIs or performance - they need something as opposed to nothing, and they'll find a way to make it work! More to the point, they need basic IT infrastructure funded by something central in the university. If there was a centrally funded way to use s3 with glacier for archival, (so they don't need to spend lab money on it forever more), many would use it.

In my experience, often the issue is a lack of local budget, meaning infinite ingenuity to find a way to use what is available to get the best outcome for their research. Any ability to upload and store a file for later retrieval can, with enough low-cost RA time, be made into a apparently infinite free storage system!
>In the modern economy skills, training, and education are the surest means to success.

Nope. Still land:

http://mattbruenig.com/2013/06/13/whats-more-important-a-col...

actually it was never just land either. It used to be about owning land, debts, gold and slaves

Now it's about owning land, debts (bonds), gold and shares.
Disable the console.
It is exactly what Travis CI does for auto-PR testing on Github: they pull in master (or whatever base) and fetch the feature branch. They create the commit themselves and test the result. That way, you always get the tests based on the merged result which gives far more insights than tests on your (local) feature branch.
There are lots of things in Haskell that I miss when I use rust, so I'd still encourage you to learn it. For example, concurrency in rust is OK, certainly nicer than other imperative languages, but Haskell has easily an order of magnitude more awesome to offer.

I recently wrote a library for testing concurrent code. It's basically fuzz testing of scheduler behaviour to root out race conditions. In most languages, you'd need a special compiler or runtime to do this, in Haskell it's a library.
In the Rust project, the merging itself is automated and the merge bot (bors) runs the test after having effected the merge. The merging is attempted after the branch has passed review.

That doesn't preclude running e.g. travis to get the branch's own status before the review happens.
2. No. Because most allocations by the kernel are not a result of the program calling malloc. (They can be the result of a pagefault when the program tries to write on some memory)
Great except for the fact that smart TVs connected to the Internet have all sorts of privacy concerns:

* https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/01/fbi-smart-tv-security/

Samsung actually released a TV app to tell you what it's doing:

* https://fortune.com/2020/01/18/samsung-smart-tv-data-privacy...

Which is nice, in a way, but it'd be better if they just didn't.

I'd be much more trusting of Apple TV being connected to the Internet than with a smart TV.
It is!

Beware the lure of MDX/equivalents. If you want to provide structure to your content and maintain it colocated to where you use it (or imported and type checked for where you have that kind of reusability), components in Markdown is an awful experience. Inverting that and writing Markdown within posts is my current solution. It’s not as nice as a plain .md file but it lets me mix writing and structure without compromise
Thanks, I hadn't seen that twitter account, and as I don't speak German it's difficult to parse.
I tossed bluetooth dongles aside and got an intel AX210 and it fixed connectivity issues for me. Turns out bluetooth actually needs antennas and reliable firmware.
I don't really see any criticisms inherent to the idea of a smart TV, although some might like them to be simpler for simplicity's sake. But I would imagine most people would love their smart TVs if they were not just one more convoluted layer of ads to generate continuous revenue and spy on you to harvest data.
I've never seen anyone not use MTBI as a horoscope. I'm inclined to believe there's high likelihood that the measurements will be misused, even if it were measuring useful.
An interesting thing about introversion/extroversion and testing: Assuming that I remember details right from a class I took over twenty years ago, taking caffeine before a test improves performance for introverts but not extroverts (unless I misremembered and it's the other way around). It's a remarkably strong result and one of the few strong results in experimental personality research.
Thank you. So far, I think that only addresses the menu accelerators issue, and none of the others I listed.

I think the fact that it is off by default in the first places illustrates my point quite well. And so does the fact that I have to seek out separate configuration for the toolkit.

Not only that, but on the very page you linked, people are complaining that even the setting does not work reliably. I know that when I tried to adjust it in the past for other apps it did not work for me.

Perhaps I just needed to reboot? :)
Steve J is tall and skinny. Steve W is slightly shorter than average and fat. Linus is pretty much dead average, maybe a little tall and a little heavy. Brendan's the same height as Steve W, and was weight proportionate at the time, though he's put on weight since then.
Tangentially. From the OC:

> I don’t have an MBA, but this to me is a clear case of The Innovator’s Dilemma. PostgreSQL protocol v3 is the incumbent, and protocol v4 and/or other protocols like HTTP are the potential disruptive innovators.

I have no idea what Christensen means by "disruptive technology". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation

The fifth qualifier "New firm's business model differs significantly from incumbent" seems important.

The rest feel like Just So stories. Especially "Originate in low-end (less demanding customers) or new market (where none existed) footholds".

I think time has shown Peter Drucker to be more right. First target affluent customers and then ride the cost curve down towards market success.

I just reread Innovator's Dilemma, and searched the rest. Nothing about cost curves.

I've been trying to think of how "disruption" would apply to Tesla vehicles and Apple Silicon. Neither products came in as "toys".

Rather, I think both initially targeted very high end niches (novel use cases), and the underlying enabling technology was just starting their cost trajectories, whereas the incumbent mass market products were at the end of their trajectories. Plough metric tons of cash into R&D and wait for the new to overtake the old.

--

Back to AWS Babelfish.

AWS adds TDS and T-SQL compatibility to steal business from Microsoft Azure. Just some more bullet list items for middle management purchase bots to check off.

It'll surely improve, but switchover costs for non-trivial projects would still be pretty high. Back when I was warehousing medical records on both MSSQL and Oracle, all the hard work was tweaking the physical design, eg codesigning the indices and queries, to make stuff performant. I'm sure that's still true.

I think adding these features to Postgres is good for everyone but Microsoft.

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I guess I object to the common use of "disruption". As though there's an element of surprise.

I'd suggest the OP framed AWS Babelfish in terms of competitive threats (aka insurmountable opportunities). And maybe predict some unforeseen consequences.

On the positive side: The meaning of "disruptive innovation" wonderfully Agile. Perfect for consultants, pundits, and polywogs.
I think that’s what the case will show with a conviction or acquittal.

I think it’s hard to know how much someone tried or didn’t try superficially based on a Times article and the doctor’s story.

The system is so messed up that the director of covid vaccinations can’t even find 9 people to vaccinate in six hours.
The valve employee handbook talks about the T shaped engineer (page 32) https://media.steampowered.com/apps/valve/Valve_Handbook_Low...
As usual with these types of articles, the advice in the maxim is asserted free of context.

> On a long enough time line, wisdom is always more valuable than knowledge.

In practice, context is everything. That’s why for every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert.
I do have my own domain name. I use Fossil as the repository; although fossil supports exporting to git, this doesn't currently work remotely (although I could provide a git-fast-export file to users who ask for it, I suppose). I have it set up so that no accout is required to send bug reports or to clone the repository, and I will not allow others to commit to the repository. (If people want to mirror it elsewhere, that is OK.)

I do not and will not use Discord, and do not like Discourse. For fast communication, I would use IRC (although do not currently have one set up); if someone else wants to provide a bridge of the IRC to Discord I would accept that though. For slow communication, I would use NNTP (which I already have set up), but I would accept contributions to provide a web interface and mail interface to the same messages (the messages are stored in a SQLite database, and I can provide a link to the database schema and documentation for those who are interested).

In the case of my projects, I do not allow others write access to my repositories. However, if someone writes a bug report or other message with a patch included, then I can review it and then possibly apply it.

I agree with your second paragraph ("Once those basics are setup it's a matter of attracting users ... Overall growing and cultivating a community is a ton of work") and unfortunately, I am not really sure what to do. Hopefully, if someone on here looks and is interested in these projects (whether mine or someone else), then they can go on there. You can also post here, if wanted.

I also agree that documentation is important (comment 26106008). (I often see projects without good documentation.)
A friendly suggestion for the OP:

An uppercase theta should be used for "Big Θ time complexity" regarding algorithms but for angles like in the article, it should be the lowercase theta that looks like this: θ.
This isn't "racial bias" and has nothing do with race, but the types of music MP3 developers, who were western men, decided to use as a reference. Famously, Karlheinz Brandenburg focused on making 'Tom's Diner' sound good, which suggests the mp3 model is strongly optimized to rock music and, as others have claimed, sounds sub-optimal when encoding non-Western music.

Your comment was good until you got into an unfounded and reactionary "reverse racism" accusation.
Thank you for sharing your story, I never even considered that this was a possibility
I agree on the very long term possibilities. However, the first problem to solve is the data collection. Saving doctors and nurses from their horrible professional softwares and replacing them with user-friendly, well-thought, data collection friendly softwares would be a huge step forward.
There are easier paths, such as:

USDT -> kraken[1] -> USD -> your bank

or even

USDT -> bitfinex[2] -> your bank

[1] https://trade.kraken.com/charts/KRAKEN:USDT-USD

[2] yes they do allow fiat withdraws https://support.bitfinex.com/hc/en-us/articles/213919309-Fia...
Fantastic analogy. I hate when a job pulls this "not mandatory, but actually...". It's a round about way to pressure people without taking heat for a mandatory policy.
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China, as most other communist countries, implemented gender workplace equality much earlier than the West. Furthermore, China has probably the most aggressive affirmative action programs in the world. Yes, China is bad on human rights in some aspects, but these blatant misrepresentations need to stop. They only serve the massive propaganda campaign the US started in recent years.
While it doesn't relate directly, but quantum computing (which is reversible) is represented by BQP complexity class, which contains P, but it's still unclear how it relates to NP.
I'm not certain if this is what you meant, but optimizing cloud spending is one of our organizationally agreed upon goals.
It's probably buried somewhere in the IBM Journal of Research and Development.
According to what theory? This sounds like the law of large numbers, which depends on the assumption that the averaged random variables are independent and identically distributed. The history of speculative bubbles contradicts the idea that speculators act independently.
no, the per-ip key is just the one you would use for ECH, in the encrypted part you can use separate per-vhost certificates as usual
a) I believe your 99% figure is way off.

b) I believe the remaining 1% matters, perhaps more than the others. (See wheelchair analogy.)

c) Yes, it does take a least common denominator approach at first, but you can build a lot on top of that, carefully, without upsetting even such classics as Netscape, Mosaic, and IE4.

Would you say that one developer working part time for a couple of years is "enormous resource"?
Wasn’t the NN claim you would be charged more for services? As I understand it, not charging you for a specific service would still be allowed under NN.
I can appreciate that from the perspective of rolling kayaks or shooting trap. Rolling a kayak back up when underwater in bad conditions, I've twice had that sensation of thinking about particular technical steps instead of executing the maneuver as a whole and failed miserably when it would have been really, really great to not be swimming. In trap, the pressure of the last shot or two when a score is tied, I can observe my brain saying things like 'remember to lead it', 'remember not to overthink it', etc., it's somewhat humorous to watch the sabotage in action.
The thing is - cars are not like computers and will never be.

For most workloads a normal person performs on their computer, the hardware is ridiculously over-provisioned. Most of it is idling 90%+ of the time, the utilized portion is mostly wasted in a sea of inefficiencies. Performance improvements of 100x are not uncommon. To simplify a bit - Apple's business model boils down to selling mediocre hardware at premium prices, and concealing that fact by a large amount of optimizations and polish.

Cars are nothing like that; they're already at their efficiency plateau. An improvement of 10% is considered astonishing. Cars are much more like gaming rigs - raw power is required there, the games are already reasonably optimized, and no amount of sleek design and UI polish would hide the lackluster price/performance ratio. There's a reason Apple is not in the gaming business.

For Apple to maintain their margins, they'd have to sell something like Nissan Leaf for the price of Tesla Model S.
People want guaranteed TCO so that they can write code relying on it. If TCO ends up not happening such code will leak stack memory or hit max-recursion-limits.
Not geezer splaining you, but they had a fairly heavy advert presence in gamdev magazine and dr dobbs. They are right behind Attachmate in being a big software outfit in Seattle.
Here in Canada we use the CANDU system which is far safer than the systems like what you found in Three Mile Island - and no-one is as foolish as to do the Russian tests again.
This is what I'm working on with aggrefolio.com, but it's only just started learning to crawl and is not launched yet.
How about a different approach all together.

Create an incubator where people register their ideas, talent and available time.

Ideas get categorized and weighted then voted upon.

Weighting is based on the supporting information to the idea: product spec, site, code, etc..

The ideas are voted on for feasibility and a range of factors and then get an execution plan built.

A plan based on tasks, resource needs, etc is put together, and then member of the site can get coupled to an idea to contribute a specific amount of time to a project and a specific set of tasks.

If all the ideas are web-apps, the people who register as "designers" can produce UIs for hte ideas, DBAs could develop schemas, etc.. etc...

Members can work on multiple projects - and get % equity of each idea they contribute to.

A whole range of incentives/disincentives could be setup.

The fund pays for milestones etc... and as things spin up for certain ideas, they can spin out to more traditional company setups...

This is basically to put out MVPs for given ideas and match those ideas with the appropriate skills of the membership - everyone has a stake.
Please tell me who's in charge of governmental relations in Yandex, Mail.ru and Google Russia.

If you can't figure it out we'd assume there is none.
If you want to upgrade to 11.04 with a PAE kernel and proprietary Nvidia drivers, be careful: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-common/+bug...
Put the button on the right in the middle - see it from the top and the bottom.
Example: https://www.library.pima.gov/blogs/post/trichlorethylene-tce...
Hughes is now Raytheon
Trichlorethylene (TCE), an industrial solvent, was routinely dumped in areas of South Tucson during the 1950s. The Tucsonans who lived in these areas have had various cancers as a result of this pollution.

The boundary of the area contaminated by TCE is roughly south of 22nd street, north of Los Reales Road, east of Interstate 19 and west of Del Moral Boulevard.

Hughes Aircraft and the city of Tucson were accused of dumping TCE in the water table for 29 years, beginning in 1952. A lawsuit against the city was settled in 1981 for $31 million, and in 1991 a suit against Hughes Aircraft was settled for $84.5 million. In 1981 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tested water wells on the south side of Tucson and found TCE levels were beyond the EPA limits.

In 1983, the EPA set a large southside area of Tucson on its Superfund cleanup list. In March 2000, a $35 million plan was secured for cleanup of the contaminated areas. Other government supervised cleanups started about 20 years ago. The last settlements involving TCE lawsuits occurred in June 2006.
It just needs an auto-playing video that docks itself in to the corner as you try to scroll away from it
> mostly occur without family history

Does that suggest it's environmental rather than genetic?
I agree. You could pour 80% of web content into this and it would work.
Default dark mode swap would break _a lot_ of websites. Anything that does not do a full CSS reset including Colors basically.
I'm out. Good luck.
How am I spreading flame? This is something I feel passionate about because these issues affect my life.