jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Inertia is only that - inertia. It doesn't affect the overall trend, by definition no democratic system can withstand a popular-but-harmful idea that remains popular over a sustained period of time (Brexit might be an example). If a system doesn't manifest that public opinion then it is no longer democratic.

This is a spherical-cow version of politics that doesnt reflect reality. There are plenty of path- and timing-dependent effects that shape public opinion and policy, especially given the powerful status quo bias most people use as the core of their cognition about policy.

> what you're arguing against here isn't rapid change, it's democracy as a whole.

There are two senses of the word democracy that you're conflating. One is democracy as a pure platonic concept, and one is the much more universal colloquial use to refer to a polity that meets a certain threshold of being democratic. The maximal case of the former word sense would be something like direct democracy with no constitutional protections. Very few people would argue for this form of "pure" democracy, and a marginal directional move away from that end of the spectrum doesn't suggest one is opposed to a country being democratic in the colloquial sense. (The distinction of the senses is important enough that explicitly anti-democratic phrases like "tyranny [of the majority]" are often used to refer to the "pure democracy" perspective).

A second assumption you're making is that the distribution of the "goodness" of a policy is completely neutral with respect to policies that the masses are whimsical about vs have sustained support for. This is quite an extraordinary claim to make so confidently. If anything, it seems more plausible to me to assume that this distribution would shift in favor of the sustained-interest policies, which is precisely what inertia optimizes for.

Now obviously, it matters where you are on the inertia scale. A society going through rapid, ill-considered, constant change is going to benefit from inertia while a sclerotic, declining polity in need of bold gov't action would benefit from less. But showing that the second case is relevant and making a case for the necessary policy shifts is a far heavier lift than the oversimplified assumptions you rest your general case on.
Deaths in Sweden were only 6% higher in 2020 than 2018:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...

And even that can be mostly explained by a weak flu season there in 2019, and a generally aging population.

Its difficult to interpret the deaths from this virus as justifying complete lockdown of societies - especially when Sweden has fewer deaths per capita from COVID than a significant number of countries which did order mandatory lockdowns.
Does this include Yahoo Answers Japan (which I believe is still quite active)?
That's very explicitly forbidden. It may be obvious to you but it's on par with saying that bank robberies are going to happen. That doesn't make it any more legal.

Messing with the market at this level will have very serious repercussions.
Having root credentials is sufficient, and based on the fact that this guy said "apparently the s3 api lets you spin up ec2 instances" it looks like he didn't touch IAM.

Root credentials are deprecated, but can still be used and if this guy used them then yes, his billing alarms could have been disabled.

There's a difference between an admin iam user (can't do billing stuff) and the root credentials (just as powerful as username / password).
It's an odd argument. Many technologies were dominant but their fall from the top generally has a reason.
How would you respond to the criticisms of graphite in a previous graphite-themed HN thread? [1]

Some examples:

"FWIW I've found influxdb considerably easier to install and manage
than graphite (graphite doesn't play well with virtualenv, which
makes dependency management horrible, compared to influxdb's single
static binary)

Also, I can see logging dictionaries being much more efficient and
useful than logging single values -- with graphite if you want to
track page hits per section of your site (of which you have 10) per
user (100) per browser (5), you end up with 5000 individual metrics,
and you need to have thought of them in advance. With influxdb you
can log {"section": "front page", "user": "bob", "browser":
"firefox", "hits": 1} as a single metric and then use an SQL-like
query to filter by section / user / browser (or any combination of
those) as and when you want to."[2]

"I've spent the last week working on upgrading our Graphite
system. I ultimately killed it and went with InfluxDB. The ease of
installation and cluster creation were clear winners.

Additionally the storage options for Influx trump Graphite across
the board. I tried writing a custom backend and it went nowhere. The
docs and code are terrible. I also noticed that Ceres hasn't had a
commit in a year - kind of disheartening."[3]

"I haven't had the best experience with Graphite. Namely, our main
systems practically never crash but Graphite does fall over every
few months. Seriously, Graphite is less reliable than the systems we
use it to monitor."[4]

"We've had the same problems."[5]

"My biggest problem with Graphite was that it managed to grind an
expensive large RAID array into the ground with a relatively small
number (in my eyes) of metrics. We had the realisation that we'd
waste a tremendous amount of hardware or have to cut down
drastically on our data collection if we were to roll out Graphite
across the board.

(And yes, we had crashes too)

The reason for the disk grinding was simple: The whisper storage
system is ridiculously inefficient as it does tiny writes all over
the places, and an excessive number of system calls to boot."[6]

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8739208

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8739784

[3] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8740058

[4] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8739391

[5] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8742242

[6] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8739465
This is nonsense. Facebook is effectively a website, not an infrastructure in the same vein as telecoms. Why should they be regulated like telecoms? They aren't providing bandwidth or pipes. The DT guy has his business confused. Facebook isn't a utility. It's like the electric company complaining that microwaves funny have to be regulated the same way as power plants. Facebook is ultimately a consumer of telecom infrastructure, not a provider of it.
I like the simplicity of the site. If you don't mind asking: where do you get the specs information?
Talk to small recruitment/staffing companies in your area to drum up some clients. Best part is they do the collections and handle the sales. You just set the rate.
A true AI can solve problems that you haven't explicitly designed it to solve. It doesn't necessarily have any "desire" to solve those problems or any kind of survival instinct. It doesn't necessarily "care" about solving the problem or "want" to solving increasingly difficult problems. A strong AI doesn't necessarily ponder its own existence.

Being immortal also means there's no reason to care about these things.

I assume an AGI will be able to communicate fluently with humans and answer questions and solve problems that are properly presented. I think the trick will be fully explaining the constraints of a desired solution since even a powerful problem-solving AGI might not have human intuition about the "right" way problems should be solved.
Similar experience, with a full refund before the item was returned.
I don't know about the US but you don't get anywhere near this kind of service with any other UK retailer.
Pro-tip: no one will ever, ever misdeliver a package addressed to {house#} MLK #{Apt#}. I've lived on an MLK. If you live on Lakeshore Drive in Chicago, LSD works just as well. Where MLK is concerned, he has an official holiday, Americans know what those three letters mean.
This never ending attempt to affect systems by ignoring systems and changing individual behaviour instead has always struck me as a fool's errand.

Nevertheless, I predict it'll continue, perhaps until the end of time.
Both the Netherlands, France and Germany, were already ready to close contracts, when the EC stepped in to do an EU wide contract. It absolutely makes sense to do an EU wide contract rather than depend on the solidarity of larger countries that order surplus.

The issue is the EC went on a panel wide long discussion to then get to more or less a carbon copy of the initial german contract. Those were 3 months wasted that could have made a difference in ramping up vaccine manufacturing.
> somewhat overblown.

Somewhat?
Possibly one of the most overblown statements I have ever seen. Just try to picture the headline - "Halo 57 multiplayer brings whole ISPs down due to UDP design DDoS". Hilariously overblown.
Out of two stylized models of the world:

1. Every part of your DNA influences your health

2. There is an identified portion of the human genetic code
(including mtDNA) which has no effect on health

you'd have to be crazy to believe in model #2.
Exciting for a movie plot I guess. But, what could they win from exterminating another inferior intelligence?
By your context, they are already inferior, and thus, no threat to the apex civilization.
It's great to see I'm not the only person who thinks this way. There are going to be no shortage of thin analogies and excuses in response to you in afraid. Regardless of the merits of copyright and how "dumb" the laws enforcing it are, I can't see how you can argue with your point about the content creators being deprived of an income. Maybe those creators do get screwed but they're still getting something and to say pirating is okay because maybe the system changes and those creators get a bigger piece of the pie or change their business model seems wrong to me. Who are we to decide what amount of collateral damage is acceptable? Like you said, this stuff is easily accessible legally.

Just about all of us can easily get what's primarily being distributed on sites like Pirate Bay. Netflix, Hulu, iTunes, Cable Company X On-Demand streams, HBO Go, Spotify, etc. it's all out there and far easier to access than hopefully getting a high quality rip off a torrent site. Okay, maybe some things aren't available in all countries and maybe the business model makes it next to impossible to buy a copy of a movie or song once and have it on all your devices in some cases. But really, is that really the primary use case for the Pirate Bay? Someone is going to say it is for them but if you believe that that's the primary use case across the board then you've got to be an apologist or just lying to yourself. Have I pirated movies, music, and software? Absolutely. Because I couldn't afford or just didn't want to pay for it. But I sure as hell am not telling myself that it was okay because copyright is evil and because "business models" and people who pirate wouldn't pay anyway so no one loses money. I live in the real world, not the ideal world.
Agreed, it's not the best. Maybe you can help come up with something more palatable?
It depends. The fees for international wire transfers of those amounts are more complex. A random calculator I found suggested much, much more. Transferwise (cheapest I know) doesn't do that large transfers so you'll have to do it in ~100 transactions but the fees will be a lot larger, and this does not account for conversion fees which will be higher on their own. I found this for GBP, I assume it's similar.

>For payments in GBP the fee percentage for the first 100,000 is 0.35%, and for any amount above that it’s only 0.20%.

https://transferwise.com/gb/blog/send-large-sum-of-money-how
At the moment BTC fees are 100 times higher than those of bitcoin cash though. (Of course for $38M it doesn't matter, but at least with “half a penny” transactions, you can actually use it as a mean of payment (but even BCH wouldn't scale for mainstream payment)
Is there a bug filed for this?
Sell half once it doubles. Then you can tell yourself you're playing with the houses money and you never sell unless you realize it's a bad investment.
I mean all people. When you work on the laptop you probably connect more things than a network => you have a dock => you don't need the rj45. So there might be negligible amount of corporate workers that need it, and some portion of tech workers, maybe. But overall, out of all customers, it's not enough for the hassle. Especially since it has drawbacks for the rest of the customers.
I would bet 100$ with you on this but unfortunately I have to use it for fees to pay for my 10$ Bitcoin coffee invoice.
How does this stack up against 'go'?
Is there a bug report open for that yet? FreeBSD has this so they should be able to resync easily enough
In this case, what you specifically want is Sentiment Analysis. It's getting pretty accurate+efficient, and should be usable in just this scenario.
> A single offhand mention like, "Donated to informant's mother's pension fund" might be enough to identify an informant, round up him and his family, and torture them to death.

In such a case, I would blame the people who did the rounding up, torturing, and killing.
He even said “Everyone wants to hear what you have to say…” when you have a brain tumor.

Apparently NYTimes still has the romantic notion of banker noblesse oblige.
Every time I hear someone criticize Wikileaks it just seems to me like they simply don't want to know what's happening in the world. Because if you want to gain more true understanding of what's happening in the world then why would you criticize more source material? The conclusion I then draw is that people who criticize Wikileaks seek ignorance.
Interesting I wonder if it was actually deleted by mods or if it was a community delete.

Tons of false, ignorant, and malicious statements. Tons of unsubstantiated personal attacks from people whose only context is reading the post.

Personally I am here because we don't have as much of that.
And why is it being streamed in flash??
Don't tell me.
They want to put the foosball table next to your desk.
When will they learn!
> A recent failure of systemd i have seen was related to NFS. For some reason systemd would yank the network down before dismounting NFS.

This isn't specific to systemd – I had to deploy workarounds to the same bug in RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, etc.
Do we? Most discussions in comment sections between people of different persuasions tend to be toxic and abusive these days. when moderators attempt to impose standards of civility there's a chorus of complaints about 'censorship'. There have to be limits to patience with bad-faith dialog, otherwise you're just enabling trolls and abusive people.
nah, a pandoras box was opened in wake of the 9-11 attacks. In comparison, this has practically no implications for big tech going forward.
A Gallows and a Guillotine are different symbols, and France doesn't have the same prolific and recent history of lynchings that the USA does (AFAIK). The equivalence you draw here is false.
If I'm doing business with Azure, I would absolutely expect them to keep my data and behavior private. It's part of the reason why I would be paying them (instead of expecting something for free) in the first place.
Once you decide your cloud platform will include a marketplace for paid, licensed enterprise software, this doesn't surprise me all that much (although it kinda sucks)

I mean, is it even possible to buy an Oracle license without Oracle knowing who you are?
If I search for "Victorians Expecting The Very Worst After Dan Andrews Spotted Making A North Face Run" using google.com.au[1], the first result is for an article of The Betoota Advocate[2], which is indeed what I had searched for. Unfortunately this esteemed news organisation is highly unlikely to meet a long list of criteria for a registered news business corporation or news business or whatever and therefore wouldn't qualify to be paid anything under this proposed legislation.

Instead of remunerating the obvious party, will Google instead be paying the registered news business corporations corresponding to the 5 news articles that show up in the top 10 search results for this query? The other 4 search results would miss out on being paid as they consist of 2 social media discussions of the first result, an international news organisation and an international news aggregation website.

What if instead I search for "Ancient Egyptians collected wild ibis birds for sacrifice, says study"[3] which brings up the original press release from an Australian University[4] as the third result. All other results returned are for the most part a copy and paste of the original press release and include a WikiNews article, two Australian media organisations ([6] copied from [5] copied from the original [4]) and a number of international science news websites and international media organisations. Who is Google paying in this scenario and why should anyone be paid anything for copying and pasting a press release that is returned by a Google search result? It looks like this question is unanswered according to section 52X which states it's up to companies like Google to figure it out after this legislation comes into effect:

> The responsible digital platform corporation for the designated digital platform service must ensure that: (a) a proposal is developed for the designated digital platform service to recognise original covered news content when it makes available and distributes that content

[1] https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Victorians%20Expecting...
[2] https://www.betootaadvocate.com/headlines/victorians-expecti...
[3] https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Ancient%20Egyptians%20...
[4] https://news.griffith.edu.au/2019/11/14/genetic-analysis-sug...
[5] https://theconversation.com/holy-bin-chickens-ancient-egypti...
[6] https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6494482/how-egyptians...
Targeting taxes directly towards specific companies seems overly aggressive. I hope they will find and implement more generic rules to achieve what it is they want to achieve which, if I'm not completely mistaken, is to protect me from invasive tracking.
Statistics is a "foundation" for ML. But I am talking about the practice of ML.

It is precisely via my knowledge of statistics that I make this point: and even google agrees! Hence this very article.

However, note, that this isn't about in-out samples or about the "preservation" of the data distribution.

It is about the relevant variables for deciding Y not being present in X. Statisticians, in practice, are able to better overcome these issues by simulating relevant variables and, eg., performing a bayesian analysis.

Machine Learning systems have no theoretical basis to automatically build the environmental models to "complete X".

It is much more radical problem. Statistical model building cannot be automated. What we have, in ML, is the automation of aproximations on top of approximations of model building.
When it comes to radio, though, it's not just copyright that gets into your way.

Unlike wifi/bluetooth, which happen in the license-free ISM bands (2.4 GHz), you need your entire product certified by FCC (US) and by whomever in Europe in order to legally operate in the GSM/UMTS bands; not to mention carriers won't exactly like you if you mess up their network.
tbh i read it more as yet another example of a platform trying to restrict the rigths of its customers to do every other aspect of their business in the way they choose.

I take your point - and its probably true. BUT when I use what is essentially a glorified website builder to build a site they don't get to tell me who i can put my money through or dictate anything about how i run my business beyond hosting and the builder.

The reality is that it is even more reasons for a business to not build a business that is dependant upon another in this way.
Those aren't just "books", it's going to helping "literacy and gender equality" in third world education. For example, fact that women are often under-educated is a major source of issues in these countries. So yes while it's still about having to allocate things differently, don't just write off "books".
You could extend that concept to patents http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1792087 and a lot of other areas. I'm not sure how common is restaurant poisoning (never experienced it), you may want try to fit this idea in other industries.
One of the things the author doesn't mention is fire codes. I assume this is one of the reasons buildings are built further back from the road, and also one of the reasons that catastrophic, city-demolishing fires are a thing of the past in the U.S.
Just found this (not related to me): http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/2167846199/recap-design-fo...
Thanks, Axiom. We're proud of the work we're doing here.
Same concept as escalartors never breaking - just becoming expensive stairs.
I tested them both on Linux (Ubuntu) and Win XP. They both worked without any trouble.

(Root)
Linux: file:///
Win: file:///C:/
Tag suggestions does not autotag photos. It does make it easier for people to tag photos that are already being uploaded. Many of these photos are actually already being tagged, albeit through a much more cumbersome experience.

We're not expecting a significant jump in the number of tags created, just a significant decrease in the time people spend tagging.
Why is this being downvoted? Does someone want to make the argument that life in suburbs in less resource intensive per capita than life in a dense urban core? If so, they should make that argument and I'll make my counter-argument. But my point is fairly obvious: people living close together can share be provided with infrastructure with less resources per capita, or to put it another way, the denser the population the more intensely used any given piece of infrastructure is likely to be used (the same point, stated the other way round). Think of a road in New York City, and then think of a road west of Washington DC, in the suburbs of Virginia. Which gets more use?

I suspect that anyone wanting to downvote my comment is someone who themselves lives in the suburbs, and they are downvoting my comment because my post makes them uncomfortable. But just because an idea makes you uncomfortable doesn't make it untrue. My point is entirely valid, and it is correct.
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I would appreciate feedback on what people in this field are looking for in terms of experience. Specifically, my impression is that a lot of compilers is R&D, and while I'm fine with that, I'm more interested in applying techniques that have come out rather than trying to research them myself (otherwise I would be going for grad school).
If you have problems comparing code,
you can adopt the practice of using a diff tool to highlight differences in code for you.
25% sounds about right.
Linked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8939637
There was an attempt to put me on Ritalin in school. This was quickly aborted because my mother was told about it and almost defenestrated the vice principal over it (third story window, so that counts for something).

Giving continued-used psychotropics to developing brains is an excellent recipe for fostering lifelong addiction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zidiWe9yq88