skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I really do need that explained to me, and no I'm not kidding when I say I don't see us heading for that future.

Hey, I could be wrong! I'm willing to be wrong, this is not my primary domain of expertise. But I remain unconvinced by arguments that are consequentialist without any reasoning about the specifics, because they are just as susceptible to be hysterical as they are to being valid.

Tell me exactly how you envision us getting from the current state of artificial intelligence to, "an arbitrary person to automate the design and deployment of a bomb, such that dangerous warfare is meaningfully democratized."

I understand you think this is possible; a lot of things are possible. I want to know how you think we can get from point A to point B. I don't want to hear something that devolves to, runaway or recursive AI self-improvement. I'm a technical person - if that's a component of your argument, I want to understand how exactly you see the current state of the art in AI research proceeding to something that empowers people to participate in warfare with unprecedented capability and autonomy. "Programming" is a force multiplier, as is "lots of money."

Let's talk about specifics, because very few people counter that it's simply not possible, they counter that it's not a priority concern, and they do so aware of the things you said. I can't combat an argument if you don't provide a sufficient amount of precision as to be refutable, and I'm going to have to say that I don't really worry more about AI on an axiomatic basis, just as I don't really worry about the Sun exploding. It's possible, it will probably happen, but is it relevant and how does it happen?
Ebay to launch visual search
The FreeBSD Foundation's projects update from earlier this year has an introductory summary: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/february-2017-project...
Good catch - thanks.
What do you mean by the "side-effect-laden" part? Did you find yourself writing lots of side effecting code because of Haskell (which seems weird)? Or Haskell just wasn't a good fit for a project that was full of side-effecting code?

If it's the latter, I can definitely tell you that part of the zen of Haskell is firming up the boundaries between side-effecting code and pure code -- for example, IMHO the better you get at Haskell, the less `do` statements show up in your code (for better or for worse, because >>=, <*>, and co make it harder for newcomers to enter a codebase)
What would you recommend, a fine, perhaps a stern talking to by the authorities?
I agree that she supported the launch, but Marissa wasn't involved in any of the infrastructure work, machine planning, etc.
Source? It sounds like a game-of-telephone version of what's in the HSBC deferred prosecution agreement: https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/legacy/2012/.... Notably, the inference of intent is completely different under your version.

> 50. The Department alleges, and HSBC Bank USA and HSBC Holdings
do not contest, that, beginning in 2008, an investigation
conducted by HSI’s El Dorado Task Force, in conjunction with the
U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York,
identified multiple HSBC Mexico accounts associated with BMPE
activity. The investigation further revealed that drug
traffickers were depositing hundreds of thousands of dollars in
bulk U.S. currency each day into HSBC Mexico accounts. In order
to efficiently move this volume of cash through the teller
windows at HSBC Mexico branches, drug traffickers designed
specially shaped boxes that fit the precise dimensions of the
teller windows. The drug traffickers would send numerous boxes
filled with cash through the teller windows for deposit into
HSBC Mexico accounts. After the cash was deposited in the
accounts, peso brokers then wire transferred the U.S. dollars to
various exporters located in New York City and other locations
throughout the United States to purchase goods for Colombian
businesses. The U.S. exporters then sent the goods directly to
the businesses in Colombia.
Santander International do for a start.
Switching jobs would incur a slight penalty of 1) removing chip, b) re-programming chip, c) leaving chip. I think this is something a lot of people would like to avoid.
ahh so that's what happened to the keyboard nav
I'm a co-founder of a stealth-stage company that helps data analysts/data engineers build data pipelines. Every "task" that can be done in our framework is essentially just an image that can be reused over and over with different settings.

We deploy these tasks across Kubernetes clusters on AWS, GCP, and Azure.

Since these tasks are schedule irregularly and are short lived, we had to do a lot of work to dynamically scale the nodes up a head of their demand and down after, and we typically have to pay for at least 10 minutes of usage no matter how quickly the job finishes.

This "pay-by-the-second" will be a huge win for us. Most of our tasks deal with S3/Redshift or GCS/BigQuery, do we can't immediately use this. But as we onboard more clients working with Azure Storage/Data Lake/Data Warehouse I see some big operational gains for us.

Here's hoping we see similar developments across the other major cloud providers. Very impressed with Azure's development in the last 3 years!
I'm on Linux. Yes, looks like my machine has ipv6. It shows an ipv6 address in the output of "ip addr".
Yes. What hyper.sh is pitching for years is the "Container Native Cloud", and Azure ACI definitely shared the same idea. But will it become the future of cloud? I hope so.
You aren't really showing off different ways to get arguments in any of those examples. In all of them, you get the arguments in a list called @_; you're just showing off three different ways to get values out of a list, which Python has plenty of ways to do as well. Translating your examples into Python:

def add1(*_):
_ = list(_)

arg1, arg2 = _
return arg1 + arg2

def add2(*_):
_ = list(_)

arg1 = _.pop(0)
arg2 = _.pop(0)
return arg1 + arg2

def add3(*_):
_ = list(_)

return _[0] + _[1]
I stand about 2 hours per day. At first an old knee injury bothered me, but that knee is better than it has ever been.

I wish I had room for a treadmill in my office, but I don't.

Topo standing mat was $50ish and worth every penny. I can stand for about 15 minutes without one and 2 hours with.
I have since seen it listed, so whilst it wasn't immediately known it didn't take long so I don't see how that protects anyone.
Yes, part of it was marketing, but there were benefits, too, e.g. for slow typers, which of course do not abound in this corner of the Internet.
We've probably encountered a different engineering demographic. But it's not just a question of being religious. Would the religious engineers of your acquaintance say that unbelievers are incapable of being the best kind of citizens, by virtue of their lack of belief in the supernatural? That's what the Boy Scouts say.
International cyber security evidently not a Trump priority
When C was first written, it wasn't necessarily possible on some architectures to get traps to trigger at the exact instruction on some hardware. Thus, any potentially-trapping instruction had to be undefined instead of implementation-defined.
Maybe it's not due to AA but Ford Sync.
As far as I know, I only needs to connect my phone using USB regardless of whether the car is powered up or not.
I really hope not; I can't count the number of times I've lost a bunch of data because I hit backspace when I thought I was focused on a text field. Alt+Left is plenty convenient, I don't run the risk of data loss, and I always know what it's going to do.
Perhaps global warming could play a role. It affects reptiles a lot (limiting fertility, making it so that there are more females than males, turning males into females, etc.)
I'm of the opinion that we will have to use technology to restructure the fundamental ways businesses work.

Whether that means every person is their own business or we try some other type of union to give workers more leverage when negotiating or we crowd-fund the resources to start a competitor to shitty company A and have all the workers walk down to a new building and start company B with 95% of the same people but better deals all-around.

Lots of ideas, very few potential solutions. I don't think the wealthy are ever going to change the game to make it easier for us plebs, so we've gotta figure out a way to play the game and beat them at it.
The difference now is that we have seen a big uptick on inequality in American. People that are well off not only drive up housing prices, they also use their political clout to avoid the construction of affordable housing in order to maintain the value of their homes. It is a double effect that makes a big difference. Also, Americans got used to the idea that their personal home is wealth, which is a misleading and dangerous idea.
The record of human evolution we know of is ~3000 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_adaptation_in_hu...
Does anybody really look at the Google home page any more? Browsers and mobile devices all have search boxes now. Bing tried putting good artwork on their home page, and nobody noticed.

Google's "robots.txt" file doesn't let bots read their home page. Most other pages on Google are bot-readable, but not the home page. It's like they don't want it to be indexed by other search engines. That might change once it gets content.
Exactly. I've never worked somewhere that gave >5% raises, yet simply switching jobs has gotten me a >8% raise every time.

I've stayed beyond what pay would incentivize at almost every company I've worked at because I liked the culture/coworkers/etc., but workplaces are fragile ecosystems, and culture/coworkers/etc. can drastically change with surprising speed.
If you're thinking about standing instead of your task, you may need a foot rest or better antifatigue mat (or both).

I have a Humanscale Float (non-electric adjustable sit/stand desk) and I love it. It was a bit expensive but being able to very quickly transition between sitting and standing means I'm more likely to do it.
Containership launches its fully managed kubernetes service
My office has these as well - maybe 1 in 20 people use it as standing on a regular basis.

We do use them more often when someone swings by your desk to look at some code or troubleshoot. Having everyone at the same height balances the dynamic and makes the screens easier to see.
Second the experience about better focus while sitting. But I prefer to stand for a while (~30min) when just arriving at work, coming from a meeting, or back from lunch.

It helps me stay "active and focused" on taking control of what I'm doing ... which is super for making sure I get started with actual work rather than drifting off onto some lazy web surfing or whatever.

And then, after getting properly into my work (opened the IDE / tmux/vim setup and started to code), I tend to slip down in my seat pretty quickly, to get into proper un-distracted focus.

Getting back to standing mode occasionally if getting too drowsy etc.
Design for Complexity with Structure Synth
Yes, though those are considered bugs in the Rust compiler. As the goal of Rust is to forbid memory unsafety in safe code, the Rust developers accept the burden of working around LLVM-related UB (which sometimes is quite difficult, see e.g. this longstanding UB bug related to how LLVM translates certain numeric casts: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/10184 ).
I dunno i'm 35, own a home and have a kid and the longest I've ever worked anywhere is my current job at 2.5 years. I'm only sticking it out here to get a bit more vested and then I'm taking my shares and going on to the next thing as always. Especially because each time I change jobs I end up with a close to a 20% raise on average...
A big part of that is how quickly people upgrade their cell phones -- on T-mo at least, a device had to support IPv6 and 464XLAT in order to connect to the LTE network.
Hay Day Hack
Well there goes an entire category of meme. RIP internet.
That's definitely a bit tougher then. I have experience only with European banks that don't do the security question theater.
That reads more like AWS marketing copy :)
At scale you have to architect around AWS crapy network.

0 network transparency

abismal IOPS performance

very limited config. options

Horrible uptime (US East has worth uptime as a region than wast majority of quality DCs)

0 Access to people who can really help you (unless you are at several mil. per month spend)
Most of those are well intentioned laws to fix actual problems, but the lawmakers didn't take into consideration that not all developments would have those problems. The parking thing is a good example. It basically just says you need to have a space for most people in the building to park so they don't fill up the street parking for the entire block all of the time. A very valuable rule for suburban development where most units will have at least one vehicle. Not so necessary for downtown units where most of the apartments won't own a vehicle.

Or there are just cases where the developer is complaining about having to build parking, but if they had built the building as they wanted the parking would have been a total nightmare, not only for residents but also for everybody else in the neighborhood. In other words they're being forced to consider the actual cost of their actions instead of pushing them off on the community and pocketing the profits like in the good old days.
>There is a pretty clear path off of it, via physical token authenticated password managers. The only thing missing is a standardized and well popularized protocol for changing passwords.

I don't think it's that simple. After all, the basic tech to handle this stuff has been around for literally decades at this point. Even in terms of open source, projects like OpenSC date back a decade and a half (2002 or before). The problem has always been in terms of bringing the elements together into a standardized system that has a least a few major implementations with good UI, and gaining critical mass to kick start a virtuous circle of adoption, uptake, demand, and more adoption. It's not a technology problem. I've seen enough hopes raised followed by false starts or even flat out regression that I think it'll be a hard slog, though as the problem is only getting worse I'm hopeful we'll get there eventually. And even more, that once there is at least one good mass example showing people how things could be better there will be mass demand and we'll see a nice S-curve of adoption rather then linear.
To say nothing of the many potential causes for potential cognitive decline in later life. I would expect the vast majority of cases of dementia in life to not include CTE.

Except for NFL players.

I'm honestly puzzled at the people coming out of the woodwork to troll this post. What is driving these people and their abandonment of reason?
It actually does matter a lot. That's just how income works in different locals. The cost of living in Sacramento is very different than the Bay Area.

If you want to see how stark the difference is, look at the compensation calculator gitlab developed: https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/developer/
Which phone are you using?
I propose LUG. Life, the Universe, Everything.
Interest rates were also very high in the 70's and early 80's.

If we could get housing interest rates up to 8% you'd see a large decline in housing prices. If it got up to 1970's and 1980's rates it would be around 17%. This would dramatically reduce the price of a typical house and become a darling market for people who have can pay in cash.
Even with the fixed pricing data... it's still ~$360 a month, right?

So that's about 3x as much to not manage the VMs yourself in a cluster. For even a moderate cluster, that seems like it would rapidly stop making sense.
Have you tried using google.com/ncr?
Similar, but I went a bit overboard with my setup and created a sliding platform for my chair: https://cl.ly/2e3q0B0f2O3o
I'd assume it was forced by all of the initiatives of making the "American dream" of owning a home a reality for as many people as possible.

Real estate shouldn't be an investment, it shouldn't raise in value, and it shouldn't be possible for a huge chunk of the population to fund the financial sector through mortgage interest. It's a tax on everyone designed to funnel wealth upwards towards a sector of capital owners that get paid for doing very little.

Regulations and taxes should be arranged such that it is very expensive to own real property that isn't for your own personal or business use. If you want to act as a gatekeeper for real estate, at least a large chunk of the profit should go to the state for the benefit of the public. If it's expensive and not beneficial to own things so others have to pay you to use them, the market will shrink dramatically and more people will actually be able to own homes.
It sounds like one of his friends didn't get hired so he went on a rant confusing corporate culture with all white people.
NAT64/DNS64 is supposed to work well for allowing IPv6-only networks outgoing access to IPv4. Servers are less likely to use software like Skype that only works with IPv4.

It would be nice if providers that support IPv6-only networking would provide NAT64 gateways and DNS64 DNS servers.
Hmm. I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss people's concerns about being microchipped--Christians or otherwise. We may hear more rumblings if this is implemented at scale.
That does not change the fact that in Python everybody writes

def add(x, y):
return x + y

whereas the Perl codebase that I work with has every possible combination of these methods.
the clear end goal here is that you have to deal with things like 'provisioning virtual disks' and 'doing ubuntu updates'. this whole virtualization thing received you of the burden of buying pci ethernet nics and rack mount brackets and provisioning cooling.

but really this whole business of writing chef recipes and provisioning harnesses is really the same kind stuff. it seems important because you can't run without it, and thats what your whole day is...but really its pretty secondary to what you're actually trying to accomplish (run a service)

its interesting to think about what that world might look like...someone is going to make something like that stick at some point. so...why are people provisioning their own containers/vms instead of using the higher level services right now?
Yep, biggest example is marc andreesen himself. His wife a member of the Arrillaga family (old money real estate in the south bay, lots of buildings in stanford and palo alto parks & rec named after them), and they have more land wealth than tech wealth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Arrillaga

> In the 1960s, Arrillaga and business partner Richard Peery bought California farmland and converted it into office space.[4] They became two of Silicon Valley's biggest commercial landlords with more than 12,000,000 square feet (1,100,000 m2).

> His daughter Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen is married to Marc Andreessen, the successful entrepreneur
Uber Elevate
They do run in parallel, so long as all but one are running low-level library code which has released the GIL, but you can't call back into the runtime without grabbing the GIL.
I feel the exact same way. I run a 45M pv/mo network on a single dedicated box. The cost of our bandwidth alone at any cloud provider costs multiples of what we are paying for our current server. The cloud just doesn't make economical sense for a lot of workloads.
Mine is currently right on top of my bits & pieces, so yes?
Yes, I'd say so.
Maybe an automated system ? "Blacklist my IP", only validated if the action is requested by this IP.
Historically hosuing has not been an investment where people could expect a BIG payout after ten years. It was a good, conservative investment but not a money maker as it is now.
I noticed the art. :)

I thought it was funny because they touted how relevant their search results were then blasted you with seemingly random pictures.
The Rise Of AI Is Causing Google And Microsoft To Become Chip Makers
401k, bonus, sabbatical, profit sharing, "sitting the bench", annual raise, stipends. These are words and phrases most younger workers don't even know the meaning of.

Employers have been extracting maximum value out of employees with little investment in those employees in return. It's no wonder high turn over is so common place.
Answered the sibling already, but I have experience only with European banks where I don't see this happening. I have account in two banks, both of which provided a paper slip with one-time authorization codes.
> For example, maybe a marketer wants to start a company, but an existing company needs a senior marketer to strategize and execute the plan for its next segment. The company could give the marketer opportunities to meet funding sources and receive education about company building, while the marketer can whole-heartedly deliver on agreed objectives for the time period of two years.

That seems like it would be incredibly difficult to match up needs, considering how hard employers say it is to fill jobs and how hard many people find it to land a job. There's already serious matching issues with a relatively simple system for hiring.
It's pretty cool to see Perl adding this feature. My rubric for the three big scripting languages (once upon a time?) was:

Perl: Good at regular expressions, and proper per-processor core threading, Bad because what you wrote will be indecipherable to future you

Python: Very expressive (without being too much), lots of library support, good drop-to-c/do-stuff-fast support, sensible support for object and functional programming paradigms that evolved over time, super useful stdlib. Bad because GIL

Ruby: ???? at least it's beautiful? seems to only be used in codebases that are rails-based which is basically a red flag for me now due to personal preference

It looks like Perl just got another killer feature
Of course this needs to be done with care because retraction shouldn't be a reliable get-out-of-jail card if you use false accusations as a normal way of conducting business ;)
My home is my office, and it's constantly changing. Furniture gets moved every week, and there's always...stuff laying everywhere. I don't imagine a map of my home being very useful.
I think engagement is better off being a byproduct of value/utility, as opposed to the first-order driver of product decisions (even if that runs contrary to the $$$ in the short-term)
I like to use my desk in a standing setting when in virtual meetings. Even if I'm not on camera, I feel more confident, assertive, etc. One of those posture -> psychology.
maybe he was laughing too hard and spit out the coffee that was in the person's mouth
Maybe ubuntu is just as usual buggy junk? Anything other than lts can usually be assumed to be problematic.

I think its worth noting that 16.04 is is 16 months out of date on zfs releases and even 16.10 is 10 months out of date.

In a version of software in development the most current stable release potentially has a lot of bug fixes that ubuntu users are missing out on.
I rode a set of Nokian studded tires for three winters, no wear on the studs. I learned:

(1) studs are tungsten carbide, which has a Mohs hardness of about 9 (similar to sapphire)

(2) most important thing: giant, wide tires will float on the snow and are not as safe as a narrower, touring tire with studs -- the narrower tire won't float on the snow and will give you control
There's nothing of substance on this landing page, just a few requests for my email address. Which I'm not going to give you until I know some more about the product.
But people using Python do at different times use destructuring, pop, and indexing to get values out of a list, which are the different ways of doing the same thing that you demonstrated.

e: Just clarifying that your complaint here is that every sub in Perl 5 just receives a list of its arguments; this isn't a "more than one way to do it" issue.