skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I think that point was also reached with the tens of thousands of Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep car radios/head units that were wide open to the Internet over cellular.

The staggering incompetence responsible up and down the chain for that should have been investigated fully and publicly, and certainly would have been if anyone had been injured/killed.
AirPods seem nice, but the whole "10x cost" thing has me questioning Apple's "courage." I'll consider a phone without a headphone jack when Bluetooth earbud prices aren't insane.
stop wishing you would do something great, and do something, period. nobody talks about their crappy first or second attempts, because they almost always are not worth talking about.
That doesn't explain anything.
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Just buy any of the many other tomatoes available at a Dutch grocery other than the cheapest option.
I admit I have a hard time imagining how an advanced economy could work without a government. Can you clarify your opinions here - in your anarchist utopia,

- Does money exist? If not, how are workers compensated for the full value of their labor?

- Does a central bank exist? If not, how is inflation & deflation controlled? (A common criticism of Marxists is capitalisms boom / bust cycle - how does getting rid of the government solve this?)

- Without a government, how are market failures solved:

Who discourages negative externalities such as pollution, violence, theft, human trafficking, pushing dangerous drugs on minors? It's in no-one's individual self-interest to prevent these things - they require collective action.

Who funds actions with positive externalities such as trash collection, fundamental scientific research, maintaining and protecting national parks, etc

- Many modern industries are extremely capital intensive. I get the idea that a revolution will expropriate existing capital. But going forward, who will create new capital if owning & profiting from it is impossible? Who pays the laborer who produces capital? In my understanding, we either need to incentivize capital production by having the government pay for it and own it (state-owned industries), or by allowing people to buy it and profit off of the ownership. How does anarchism solve this?

I get vastly different, mostly non-answers to these questions from different leftists.
You can make all these quotes, and comments, but they don’t help in the real world.

If you want that every child can run linux, that you can run linux on physical Internet of Things devices that are supposed to run for decades without maintenance (because you cannot access them), then you either have to build something so this can work,

or you end up with Windows 10 IoT and Windows 10 Cloud running everything.

No one’s gonna hire a sysadmin so they can manually upgrade every lightbulb and fire alarm on the planet, and so they can upgrade all of the servers running your containers manually.

Do you think Google has sysadmins manually pulling every update for every server, writing every config? Do you think they will just because you eliminate automation?
My take is that a "compiler" always compiles down (i.e. throws away information that cannot be recovered from the result), while a transpiler may actually be lossless—you could potentially write another transpiler to go in the other direction, and the two together would form a bijective function.

On the other hand, sometimes "transpiration" involves both throwing away information, and then either heuristically recovering information (i.e. compiling to assembler, followed by decompiling to the target language) or inventing information (i.e. compiling to object code and then wrapping that object code in a VM written in the target language.) You wouldn't call a program that involved either of these a "compiler"; it would most certainly be a "transpiler" only.
And Henri Rousseau, who only started painting in his 40s! Largely self-taught, too.
In your scenario, does all software now requires a certified software engineer?
Researcher Claims AT&T Modems Have Nasty 0-Day Vulnerability
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A simple homework assignment will do much of the same and allow them to do it at their own pace and having full access to any tool, instead of during some arbitrary time limit with someone else breathing down their neck. Or having to feel guilty about reaching for Stack Overflow and wondering how that would affect their interviewer's opinion of them. Sure they could Google the question but then give them something that requires a litte bit of creativity on their side and ask them to talk through their submission.

In an interview I'm much more interested in hearing how people would structure and architect applications, how they think about and would deal with tech debt, how they'd iterate and improve, how they think about reliability, instrumentation, testing and what not than having them solve a simple question in 30m. I'm not hiring people for a position that boils down to "solve a simple problem in 30m" either.
Processing UTF8 is very barely more complex, and mostly for whoever writes your language's String implementation. Once you have to worry about whether a code point is more than one unit, there's not much difference between 1-2 units and 1-4 units. Ideally you should be working with grapheme clusters anyway since that's the only way to have a hope of not butchering things (even non-normalized Latin text may contain multi-codepoint letters), but most languages don't give you a good way to deal with them so that's difficult in practice.

With UTF-8 you'll at least have a shot at noticing that you're not handling multi-unit codepoints well, while with UTF-16 you won't notice unless you test Chinese or a more off the beaten path language.
A deflating currency is bad for the working class and for economic growth. It is good for the upper-middle classes, who can afford savings but not major capital investment after having paid off a house, but they're surrounded on both sides by a majority whose interests run in favor of moderate inflation (devaluation of debts) and heavy rates of reinvestment.
It is not a crime currently, and even under the GDPR it's not absolute, it also gives most companies an easy way out as they can deny requests based on "for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information;".
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/

Also "deletion" and "processing" are very vaguely defined terms. Data can be made inaccessible while complying with deletion, but more importantly data can be abstracted in a manner that it is accessible but still compliant with the right to be forgotten.

I've worked on a few solutions for deep analytics this past year specifically designed to keep the data while being 100% compliant with the silly GDPR regulations including the right for erasure.
Very well then, i shall get me some borderline chat logs and train a NN for customer service?

Its certainly adding to the experience one usually has with customer service- like drunken personal, constant advances to sell stuff to you- or to put you in the problem accelerator, by handing you around.

If the customer is king, and this is what is flung at the king, one may safely assume, that the rattling cart below is going to the Place de l'hôtel de ville.
Yes, I'm learning that lesson more and more as time goes on. I just wish I could look at the calendar of my life and be able to emotionally deal with the 3-4 years of "lost time".
Exactly: they give you stuff, only to have the impression you have something and someone cares. Actually, nobody does not, the citizen is just a milk cow.
> We've seen this interest in the past in the afterwake of Katrina, and we've been exporting this knowledge for quite some time. Unfortunately, it's probably a difficult problem to solve on the massive scale the US needs.

Interestingly, this is a nearly 200 year old problem in America. Most spectacularly in Chicago[1], where the city was barely above the natural water table (Lake Michigan). As the city grew they produced more sewage and the ground was unable to absorb water quickly enough, so water began to backflow into the sewage system. A single Cholera outbreak in these conditions killed 6% of the population.

The solution at the time was to just build the sewers above ground, which was obviously a terrible idea. Over 20 years they began raising most of Chicago over 6' into the air. I think this isn't necessary with modern sewage, but in the coming decades we may see stuff like this again for east and west coast cities in the US. It's cheaper to raise entire cities than rebuild them.

More energy in the atmosphere means more violent storms, so Southern coastal cities will probably have to move inland.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago
How to lead when you're not in charge
I don't know about that? "Boer zoekt vrouw" is incredibly popular. One of my listening exams for NT2 was a farmer giving an interview about his life which was very interesting. I have relatives here who grew up working in the greenhouses. I admittedly don't read much mainstream Dutch news, but I don't get this impression.

The one thing that jumps out if I think about Dutch farming and the news lately is the Fipronil incident. But even that was obviously one bad actor - however bad it is that it spread through so many farms and had such a large impact on Dutch farming.

There are some farms with bad reputations, but farming in general seems to do quite well here!
You mean if we model an AI after our biological brains it will be prone to stereotyping? So our artificial brains do in fact do what we set out to do. They act a bit too human.
This piece, from a foreign media outlet is the only positive story about Dutch agriculture I saw in nearly a month. The last one was about how little antibiotics we use compared to the rest of the world.

Stories about how our farmers are bad? Missed the whole fipronil hype that completely unsubstantiated?

Talk to a farmer. Ask him who speaks for him nowadays. The lobby is "doodgepoldert". There is none.

Check how the NPO, Wakker Dier, Pvdd, Milieudefensie and Greenpeace are connected and you'll see the size of that lobby.
lots of people who have produced super high quality, money making software in c++ ignore almost everything advised by stroustrop and other modern c++ advocates. don't worry about it, just aolve your own problems.
I agree. Most people want to try "nootropics" when all actuality the best way to focus and get things done is programming is after a nice session of exercise, especially cardio.
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bit of a tautology there. correct if correct.
This reminds me that I should be working instead of reading HN. It's Sunday evening and family is asleep, you now got around one hour where you can either do house chores, relax, or work on something. One life, one hour, make it count.
Build command line apps using PHP 7
Yep. I moved to the Netherlands from the UK 8 years ago, and I've found the quality of food in general to be consistently better than back home.
If the Red Army Faction is modifying license plates in Switzerland or Austria, that's their problem, not Germany's.
Because you unionized, because you pressured the state to maintain full-employment policies, because the welfare state helped you bargain harder against your exploiters...

You know, because you actually fought for your interests instead of accepting your lot as a constantly-devalued cost center.
I’ve got 1400 init scripts my systems, each over 800 lines long, before I switched to systemd

And in a language without linters or typecheckers.

It’s literally easier to read the entire systemd code than trying to debug the interactions between these init scripts, all slightly buggy, interacting in slightly unexpected ways, and working mostly, although they never should.
This article is just a proof-of-concept, and unfortunately we can't make the claim that this means we can effectively use EtOH+Gel to treat tumours that are not encapsulated; particularly because it isn't clear to me whether the cancer model used is a good model of those "hard-to-treat-w/-EtOH-ablation" cancers.

There is also a very honest list of caveats in the discussion,

"Although we have demonstrated the efficacy of enhanced ethanol ablation in the treatment of squamous cell carcinomas in the hamster cheek pouch, there are several limitations to this study. First, the use of
a chemically-induced tumor model (in which spontaneous tumors arising in sites adjacent to a treated site
would be indistinguishable from the original tumor) precluded the possibility of any long-term monitoring of
tumor recurrence. Second, a single animal tumor model was utilized. Further study in other tumor models is
needed to investigate such recurrence, and demonstrate therapeutic efficacy more broadly. Since this study was a
proof-of-concept, sample sizes were relatively low. Although other studies have shown systemic safety of ethanol ablation in a variety of applications, more research is needed to investigate the possibility of damage to surrounding tissue. Leakage of ethanol and nearby necrosis should be minimized, and details may be specific to tumor types. Although ethyl cellulose-ethanol has been used in the treatment of venous malformations, further safety evaluations of injections to tumors are clearly necessary. The ethanol-ethyl cellulose-water system has
shown promise; but its more complete characterization will inform optimization. For example, better understand-
ing of physicochemical details of the sol-gel transition, e.g. involving pressure and temperature, will benefit from
improved discrimination between the sol and gel phases. The mechanical phantoms proved helpful in this initial
study. Follow up use of them can improve details of their poroelastic structures and properties, and thus improve
their role in the design process for enhanced ethanol ablation."
Hey, dingaling, you really should bring that up to your employer. In about the same number of years in the same industry, I've gotten salary bumps to cover inflation in most years I've asked for one.
YC has a research division? What do they work on?
This is a shocking and overly broad title.

I have Sonic Fusion, which includes a Pace 5268AC modem which is provided by AT&T U-verse and I cannot replicate the issue.

The title should be "Some AT&T U-verse modems..."
This whole argument is about whether a language's built in string support should use UTF-8. There is no way that you could build a JavaScript engine where you'd even notice the additional complexity of UTF-8 compared to everything else you have to get right (and yes I've had to handle UTF-8 decoding directly before).

Plus I'm pretty sure all the major JavaScript engines (V8 for sure) already know how to handle UTF-8 since that's the encoding most scripts come from.
I really hope I'm wrong, but if you're talking about VB.NET, then my personal experience with it has been the exact opposite of easy and convenient.

Edit: Okay, good, VB.NET is probably not the Visual Basic you were talking about. Thanks for the history lesson!
That's not why it's called "the dismal science". You sre a very simple Google query away from learning the origin of that term.

Your argument about the empirical validity of economic models would be more persuasive if you could cite some of those models that are in common use in the profession, and formulate an argument about how they oversimplify reality.
Perhaps a "compiler" transforms to lower-level languages (which includes Javascript, C code, VM bytecode, and chip instructions), a "decompiler" will transform to higher-level languages, and a "transpiler" will compile then decompile.
I don't know. I left a company in 1992 that I thought at the time was imminently doomed. They had been acquired and layoffs were rolling. However, the location didn't actually close until last year. 24 years later. Not acquired by Oracle I should say. Oracle at the time was this odd thing that somehow implanted consultants into some of our business analysts' offices with better Sun workstations than we had for developing the product.
Why should people be incentivized to take home more than 400k/year? Why not reinvest that money in the business and have the executives take home only $150k/year?
On the one hand I do worry about the loss of ownership, but on the other hand, I can't help wondering if it would make a lot of things more efficient.

Ultimately, there will always be some level ongoing cost to the clotheswashing service, but ownership can obfuscate that cost. Consumers are bad at buying cost efficient washing machines, and can end up spending a lot on replacements or repairs, but a serviced washing machine rental company is likely to be a lot more discerning.

And I'm not sure your concerns about instantaneous income are fair to apply here. If people are struggling to pay for a reasonable baseline of services, I think that's a wider economic problem, and I don't think a service model would make that any worse. If anything, being able to cancel your clotheswashing service is a choice that someone who bought their washing machine doesn't have.
The entire content of this blog does not load unless I disable uBlock, I just get an empty white box.
So what can we learn from this? Did they tackle more things than their time-constraints allowed? Or was the issue that they thought they had more time than they did and they weren't in clear enough communication with the investors? Would it have been better to just stick with a few really promising projects and build something that they could sell so they wouldn't have to be as dependent on investors which would give them some margin for experimentation?
They don't have to be. A "death tax" for example that takes 100% of a persons estate at death would be both simple, non distortive, and in terms of equality level the playing field every generation.
Well I might be ruined because I manage a large agricultural newsletter (for both farmers and nature lovers) so I see almost everything that's written (and said) about them.
Lots of natural gas and coal to keep those greenhouses warm, indeed! This will probably change though: https://blog.maripositas.org/horticulture/greenhouse-systems...
I presume this is why they reversed the river too?
>Technology cannot necessarily miraculously make the pro more skilled at their job

Well, in the case of Uber that's exactly what it did. Uber wouldn't be possible at all without consumer GPS routing apps, that's one of the reasons (at least ostensibly) for regulating taxis. Cf The Knowledge, London taxi drivers' training that is so extensive it actually can be detected on a brain scan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_the_United_Kingdom...
>Can't trust ISPs to care about your security.

This is the kicker here:

You SHOULDN'T trust an ISP to care about your security - just like you shouldn't trust a the water company to select which Faucet/Shower head you install in your bathrooms.

Raw pipes to info == raw pipes to water (interesting aside, the Mayans always equated thought as being symbolized by water)

I am paying the water company for pipes to my house, I choose which faucets/shower-heads and use the water is consumed for.

Imagine if the water company charged me a different rate for Kohler Faucets used in the kitchen for washing my dishes, vs a Home Depot Hose used in the garden to water my plants? I pay the water company for the volume of water consumed. I pay the ISP for the bandwidth (volume of data) consumed.

Further, if the ISP is ostensibly providing my security to literally anything, then, by contract, they are assuming some of the risk? If "what we do is for your protection" -- then they assume full/some liability.

The water company provides zero such assurances. A broken pipe/leak/flooding/damage has no affect on the water company, my agreement/bill with them.

Further, the water company isn't injecting "paid supplements" (aside from fluoride, which we can equate to NSA backdoors in this example) into my water supply without my will (ads) -- they don't feed me a % of Gatorade in my water supply because Gatorade has a deal with the main faucet - or fertilizers into the garden hose because of a deal with Monsanto.

Source: My family owns an actual water company.
Thank you, I know how AC works. The point is the difference is minuscule, on home scale. Unless all home AC users start to vent their refrigerant tanks into the atmosphere (which would defeat the whole purpose of having AC), and keep doing it for decades, the effect of it would be nil. In practice, the leaks are small and are promptly fixed because when refrigerant is leaking, AC is useless and nobody wants that. Of course, it would be nice to use even better chemicals (such as HFOs), but even now the contribution of home AC - if properly used and disposed - is small.

> The collective use of air conditioning does indeed contribute to climate change.

Not significantly more than any other use of the same energy.
OT : has anyone noticed that microsoft is adding features which were covered by niche saas companies?[1]
There is a similar tool that has recently been introduced by microsoft for feedback form,automated mails and chat(drift/intercom) that integrates with outlook.

[1]https://coderpad.io/
I liked the entreprenure who developed coderpad, he gave a talk on youtube as well.
> Solaris was competing against free

Red Hat gets a nice check from us once a year. It isn't free by any means.
The "rat park" experiment: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-...
Unfortunately, on Uverse you are required to use the ATT-provided CPE (due to 802.1X authentication).
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The only non-finite resource is knowledge, and even that runs into asymptotes of diminishing marginal utility.
Apropos of nothing,

"Zack Kanter, Boulder, CO-based entrepreneur, speaker, futurist, and writer, CEO of Proforged, amateur chef, all-around nerd."

I don't think that's the Proforged (http://proforged.com/) that makes suspension parts.

Or maybe it is. https://github.com/Proforged
You can visit http://ycr.org/ for more info.
Has decentralised technology already outdated the GDPR?
Neat. compiled right up on my SunOS 4.1.4 machine with only a slight modification (dsub.c had some C++ style comments that the old BSD cc didn't like).

phoenix$ zork
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Your definition also includes decompilers though, which go from low-level to high-level. Or is a decompiler a type of transpiler? Oh brother!
Doesn't a vtable imply an extra level of indirection? You have to find where the vtable is in the object, then the function within the vtable, right? Is that not slower?
Your general trends and understandings are supporting redistributing resources from the children of citizens to illegal immigrants, because the illegal immigrants are near adulthood?

I did not argue a zero-sum game, this is a cooked book. There will always be losers until that is fixed, and this is more redistribution. At least according to my understanding of general trends.

As for the crime, it is the enforcement, not the act. You are arguing for not having a clear code of laws. I am arguing for the opposite, and for the revision of said laws as deemed necessary by the citizens. Without law, we cannot hold individual nor government accountable.