skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a classic reactionary comment that doesn't understand the asymmetry between the "bourgeoisie" and the lower classes.

The "hegemonic" "bourgeoisie", secure in the status quo, sees politics as a game for "opportunists", while the oppressed classes lay aside their differences so they can try build enough power to overthrow the oppression and end their suffering.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013753/quotes/qt1525548
[City Councilman Dan White is complaining that he is having trouble getting re-elected because his base doesn't have any problems that need government intervention, while 'lucky duck' Harvey Milk has the natural support of the gay voter base who want the police to stop murdering them.]

Dan White: You have an issue [gay rights].
Harvey Milk: It's more than an issue. This is our life we're fighting for.
Kafka by default is not persistent, the logs expire after 7 days. You can increase it on a per topic basis. It also doesn't scale automatically. If you have three replicas on a single partition topic, they will live on their assigned broker forever unless you manually reassign them. Adding new nodes does not kick off rebalancing of partitions. Its automatic cluster management is very primitive compared to something like elasticsearch.

For example, if you lose a broker, the replica will just be gone forever. Unless you replace the broker with the same id.
Regardless of legality, it will be interesting to see how this is spun if/when Zuckerberg runs for public office.
Great question. Ultimately, I can't know for certain, but I can make some reasonable guesses.
A lot of software vendors charge $X,000 / server / year in subscription fees.

Redhat charges > $10,000 per physical server for their OpenShift and Pivotal gets for 100s of nodes often 7-figures. Remember just how much VMWare costs...
Postgres doesn't help with the streaming part though, does it?
> Woah, did I read that correctly?

Yep.

> If so then that's insanely cool!

I find it rather disturbing myself.
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So, if I was to draw a parallel, murder is only bad if it is successful?
It's the line that Putin and Lavrov (foreign minister) have been pushing since forever: "you westerners are no better than us, stop shaming us for the shady things that we do". That's an easy way to keep your population happy – tell them that life is no better in other countries. Corruption is everywhere, police state is everywhere, etc. And most Russians believe that.
When I try test my digital voice, after clicking "Generate," I get this error after about 10 seconds:

Something went wrong. Please try again!

I've tried about 5 times.

EDIT: I went to back to the page a few minutes later, and the recordings were all there. So it looks like it works, but is giving a false error message.
Why won't it be the fastest? I didn't think there would be any difference between "native" in the system paths and in a virtualenv.
"White Culture" was invented as a defense of Slavery and Colonialism. Remove racially-based oppression as well as its legacy, and you remove the notion of "White Culture"
So? This isn't about morally shaming Russia.
I personally prefer the co-location of styles and markup, because it means I'm context-switching a lot less. And it's essential that the compiler can analyze the styles in the context of the markup to which it applies in order to do things like dead code elimination.

But support for external files and preprocessors is on our roadmap.
Yup. I'm amazed too.

On the one hand I wish the signing keys are found/"figured out" one day; that means I can look at the OS myself, which would be cool.

But on the other hand, that gives rise to "3 CPUs for your rootkits!" (there are 3 486 cores) intrusions that would be unsettlingly hideable.

I'm torn about which way to go. Personally I actually wish the signing keys (or a circumvention) was in wide circulation - it means I have to be hyper-aware about my system state and what's running on it, but the chances are, if I can modify the code running on the 486 cores, I can run my own code on them that interacts with the rest of my system in detectable ways I can define myself (eg, writing a tiny string to a known part of memory immediately causes it to be changed (eg, hashed) to something else according to an algorithm) so I know the 486 cores are busy running my code (and hopefully only my code). Shard, fragment, encrypt, obfuscate, etc that logic a few degrees, and you should have a good canary.

And then I get to say _I'm_ using (in the sense that I own) all 11 cores, 19 cores, 27 cores, etc in my Intel CPU.

FWIW, it does seem that the keys are floating around out there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14189982 (i336_ was my previous account before I accidentally locked it)
Agreed. It's a super strange article (sure, written like an academic, but even most don't bury the lede that badly!)

From the article it isn't clear if all or just a portion of the text is decipherable using the implied logic (ligatures of abbreviations of medicinal items).
Unfortunately still not working on IOS. Tried with both safari and chrome.
If this was phrased as a question it would be a trick one.
I doubt it has anything to do with foreign adversaries, and more to do with control of the internal population in some manner.

I tend to wonder how they'll get self-driving vehicles to work over there (hmm - I wonder if there are any Baidu papers on this issue available?)...
Let's put it this way - I won't sacrifice something my child needs for the benefit of someone who will be born in the year 10000. I care about that far future person in an abstract way. Maybe I'll buy an electric car and feel a bit better about those future people. But I definitely care more immediately and viscerally for the here and now.
struct fields {
uint8_t f1;
uint16_t f2;
uint8_t f3;
}

> What do you think the size of this structure is? It should be 4 bytes, right?

Of course not! Ever heard of this "memory alignment" thing? There even were
architectures where accessing an unaligned int would get you SIGBUS
(Solaris/SPARC was one, from what I remember). Have you never wondered where
all the unix signals came from?
Can you refresh and try again? Let me know if it works.
To be fair, this was also true when I was using Matlab back before switching to Python (2006ish!), except you had to dig through documentation instead of just having everything immediately available on SO. :)
You're both right. Sounds like a law that hasn't been updated yet for online ads.

>The laws that prohibit foreign nationals from spending money to influence U.S. elections do not prevent them from lawfully buying some kinds of political ads on Facebook and other online networks
Would you mind expanding?
Sure, but what about it? Does it not invalidate the basis for complaining, or at least the moral high ground, if you do the same thing? Of course on some level it can be a legalistic tool where while you might have done something illegal you can sue the other party for having done the same, like a countersuit.

I'm almost willing to bet that if Merkel was found to have interfered on behalf of Bernie, we'd hear some musings, but not nearly the vehemence we hear about alleged Russian interference (that particular accusation seems to have become muted recently, however).
You know, it does seem odd that there's no background on the author and his qualifications attached to the article, and I can't seem to find any sign of him elsewhere.
Lets imagine a culture that says anyone that has brown eyes is a non-person and can be owned. Once owned that person can be beaten, raped, or killed at the whine of the owner. Further more, any crime comes with a price tag, if you pay the price, you can do whatever you want with no legal repercussions.

I think we can rank our current culture as better than that one. If we can rank two culture than it is possible to compare them. That said, we might not be able to conclude if Japanese or German culture today. But we can say that Sudan could be improved by adopting parts of those cultures.

I think saying we cannot rank cultures leaves up hobbled when it comes to critically evaluating them.
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In fact we don't have any elections. Opposition leaders are banned or get killed (Navalny, Nemtsov). The opposition is only allowed to have marginal media (Echo of Moscow, TV Rain). An opposing media that becomes popular gets seized by loyal oligarchs supported by corrupt courts (NTV, Lenta.ru, RBC).
The US blackout of 2003 caused a fair amount of economic losses (mostly spoiled food due to dead refrigeration) and ~12 deaths (about 0.00003% of the affected people). It was a minor annoyance and life goes on. I'm hoping that's the most these hackers would be able to do.

The question is, at what point does the hacker threat turn from a minor annoyance like this, where for most people life is back to normal in a few hours - days, to a serious threat to our civilization -- can they keep the network down long enough that food and fuel production / distribution is affected to the point that 1%, 10%, 50% of the affected population dies? Can they permanently destroy so many generators / wires / transformers so that available repair crews and equipment stockpiles are exhausted and entire towns are without power for months? Can they send massive over-voltages over power lines to destroy all plugged-in electronic devices in every home and business, and create widespread explosions and fires at the push of a button?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
Since you agree that subsidies are a tool to promote a country's self interest, how can you deny that these are 2 sides of the same coin.
Professors are expected to have some self-awareness and avoid stating their opinions as facts.
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Was at work and attempted to log into my Apple developer account to fix a provisioning profile issue, and was presented with [0].

Apple's system status site [1] shows that several parts of their developer portal are "under maintenance."

Yesterday my team couldn't access several Visual Studio Team Services sites for our automated builds and release pipelines...it's been an unlucky week for our dev tools so far. I'm almost wishing we were still using Jenkins, if only to prevent dependencies on all these remote tools.

[0]: http://devimages.apple.com/maintenance

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/system-status/
As much as America would like to think their laws apply across the globe, they don't actually have jurisdiction over you. There's nothing they can do to prevent you from talking about the campaign.

They do have jurisdiction over the candidate and campaign you endorse, though. If you contacted your candidate and offered them money or services in the hope that they could use your help to get elected, and they accepted your offer they would be guilty. You wouldn't be.

Unfortunately, it seems like a fairly impotent law if all you have to do as a foreign national with an interest in the election is to support a candidate without their endorsement.
From the original article:

These basic cultural precepts reigned from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. They could be followed by people of all backgrounds and abilities, especially when backed up by almost universal endorsement. Adherence was a major contributor to the productivity, educational gains, and social coherence of that period.[1]

People attach happy ideas during this time because during good economic times, things just work on all cylinders. However, two major things were happening that actually led to the advancements and fruitfulness of the time mentioned from 40s to mid 60s.

1) World War II happened and ended, everyone was obliterated but the US. This led to massive gains in all areas of wealth and industry. It was a war that took us to a superpower, and at the time, everyone owed us money. Good economic times lead to more ability to have kids and a solid consumer base to support middle class housing/restaurants/retail etc.

2) Women started entering the workforce and diversity started to happen opening up the workforce that was previously built for 1 person to provide for multiple people and salary needed for that, to suddenly having sometimes 2 in the house that brought in double the money needed for a time.

You could say a move away from family focused housing and middle class retail/restaurants is a problem, but that is more to do with wage stagnation and the internet/productivity. People can't afford to get married and have multiple kids as they could before, wages have not truly kept up and been steadily dropping since the 70s as well as share of productivity/GDP gains[2].

People have more kids in good economic times and less kids in bad economic times[3][4], same reason there was a baby boom in the time they mentioned from the 40s to the mid 60s. The 90s are similar in terms of good economic times, people had more kids, people bought more homes, more products, people were getting wage increases, new technologies/innovation that gains advantage worldwide etc.

In the end it is economics and timing, whatever is popular during those times people will attribute it to their own confirmation biases.

[1] http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/commentary/paying-the-p...

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=2Xa

[3] http://www.prb.org/publications/datasheets/2012/world-popula...

[4] http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2011/10/12/in-a-down-economy-...
Apologies if I missed the nuance but in the paper's conclusions:

> Instead we will try to:

> 1. discount money in the normal way to take account of inflation and opportunity costs.

This is one of the problems with discounting though. Inflation is measured very badly over time due to technological change. If you go back to a policy maker in 1817 would have no idea that 2017 dollars could treat schistosomiasis, or any number of other medical conditions, so they would undervalue a 2017 dollar. I think it's fair to assume this process will continue to some extent over the next few hundred years.

This suggests that money is the wrong way to weigh up long term decisions. While problematic in their own way, something like QALYs and functions of QALYs could serve much better as a unit of account because their meaning is not relative with time. But you'd have to model how many you get in the future explicitly.
Immigrants are human beings
That's the curious thing: to an academic there's no such thing as "extremely boring Latin", especially when it comes to the Voynich. Why we're only given a tantalizing line is odd. Perhaps there is no single "universal" solution? Perhaps this is just a guess that happens to roughly work for a single line, but nothing else?
How was it worthwhile when communists today haven't been deterred by the horrors of the system before?
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Building on this point, values for a single person/group can be ranked in terms of importance: I value easily drinkable water much more than I value easy access to cat pictures, and I value easy access to cat pictures more than I value Irish independence (for example).

This being the case, two groups that might differ on some values can oftentimes work together if they have similar regard for highly-prioritized shared values--for example, I would have no problem protesting with somebody from the IRA were our common supply of water or internet threatened.

The cancerous line of thinking adopted by extremist conservatives and progressives, though, requires that all values must be ranked according to some ill-defined group gestalt, and moreover, that any difference in value systems--no matter how low-priority!--is sufficient for name-calling and failing to cooperate.

That desire to gridlock over petty things is what rots a society.
Would love some feedback from fellow developers on this project
You can take your assertions further -- every Russian, national or not, is an agent of the Russian government with 101% certainty at that. Furthermore, everyone who associates with Russians is an agent as well, with a reasonably high degree of confidence.
Why Astronomer is Betting on GraphQL
http://bit.ly/unipain is my go-to reference whenever i get tripped up on what's going on with unicode in python.

it is significantly more sane in python 3.3+.
Well, it's important to bear in mind that most of these ads supposedly didn't back or attack a particular candidate, and that banning foreign funding of political and social activism of this kind would be a very Russian thing to do. Claiming they're foreign agents is one of the Russian government's favourite tactics for raiding and shutting down inconvenient political NGOs and activists. Frankly, I wouldn't entirely put it past them to fund these ads partly to bait out something they could use to justify their own domestic crackdowns and spin US criticism as hypocrasy.
It doesn't hurt to get a performance boost from your processor's crypto instructions, assuming you optimized your cipher lists to prefer crypto with a modern hw implementation (AES128-NI is 179% faster than RC4).

But is this traffic ongoing connections, new connections, a mix? They have different penalties, and result in different numbers: 90Gbps of ongoing connections might be, like, 100,000hps, but 90Gbps of new connections during primetime might only net you 50,000hps. And are you using Google's UDP TLS stuff?

Google also hacked on the kernel a lot to improve their performance, I don't know if any of that's upstream currently though. Maybe Cloudflare can answer you, as they seem to support the most HTTPS wizardry of the big CDNs.
Yes, mice are bread and engineered with suppressed immune systems and other traits.

There are specific breeds of mice for specific experiments while they aren't technically clones their genetic profile is very specific and their genetic diversity is very reduced.

When you buy mice for research you get a very specific genetic profile many labs today will customize it also for your needs lab mice and rats are not pet store animals.

Institutions such as CIEA breed experimental animals with specific traits https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Institute_for_Experi...

This goes beyond simply knocking out genes for example transgenic mice and other experimental animals are engineered with human genes that can for example add cellular recptors that do not occur in those animals naturally to test anti virals, vaccines and other drugs.
I learned Spanish as a kid/natively, and stopped speaking daily at 17. Now mid-30s, I've lost a significant chunk of my vocabulary, and there are adult topics of conversation with vocab I haven't learned.

But I went back to South America for work in 2009, and apparently I just sounded like someone from a different Latin country. Someone even asked if I was French.
I also like this talk by a George Neville-Neil a FreeBSD networking engineer. Start at 57:45 [1]. That part of the talk is about differences in how the two different Network stacks are implemented.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mv_oKFzACM
Prefer remote but could be persuaded to take a position in DC or NYC.
Well sure, but they were natives that weren't part of the "culture" one pictures when one imagines an average New Zeala---ohhhhh
Somebody else that manipulates and corrupts Russian elections: Putin.
No, I don't think you misunderstood - I may have just not clear. Yes, it's the case now where people prefer to spend their deflationary USD, but I think it's primarily because many of us are speculating on the price of BTC. If and when btc is stable enough against USD, the trend of spending USD will continue but for a different reason: the USD's inflation. Hope I explained well.
I'd say it isn't appropriate for permanent data storage because the individual brokers don't scale well with the amount of logs present. If you have hundreds of partitions, and millions of logs, then any operation dealing with the indexes (like an unclean startup) will take an extremely long amount of time. So your individual brokers are now down for an hour if they don't shut down cleanly. Which happens often (oom, weird zk errors, etc)

It scales linearly.
Thanks a lot! I know that feeling, so many exciting things going on :) If you get around to it, I'd love to hear about your experience.
First, that's not much of a parallel. The morality of generic murder is clearcut, the morality of interference with other countries elections is not. Not everyone subscribes to prime directive. As a Russian I personally appreciate that someone is at least trying to instill some positive change in Russia.

Morals aside, you said

> It's curious this is virtually never mentioned amidst all the accusations of Russia involving itself in US elections.

I told you why. Because whatever the US did was not effective, and it's not as newsworthy as things that are happening in the US and affecting Americans.
Do you think twitter deleted them from their database?
Or just flagged them as not visible?

Id bet on the second one.
Most contrarians here quote nightmare/slippery slope scenarios as to why you don't want it, but in reality, you're more likely to be negatively affected by slipping in the shower.

I doubt most of the people intentionally avoiding Alexas and 23andMe also have shower pads that help prevent slipping. This is why I think most of this anxiety comes down to some combination of neo- & techno-phobia, like we saw with GMO crops.
While I love freebsd, you can definitely take the time to tune it if your application requires it.
I certainly may well be confused. I don't have an economics degree and just find the field fascinating. One reason I put it here is that there are many bright people not seemingly hesitant to share their opinion. Thanks for this! Mind expounding further?
So, for things like tensorflow, you have to build from source to enable certain optimizations. Wheel's aren't source builds essentially.
It's working now. Thanks. Very cool.

Small issue: Would be nice if you could delete recordings.
the 'white' category in the US contains many more groups that would not be considered european on the NZ census, for instance hispanic and MENA ethnicities. the US is about 60% white by a categorization system closer to what is typically used informally.
That is somewhat true, I believe attempted murder sentences are lighter than actual murder sentences.
This reasoning ignores the tragedy of the commons: Earth is finite, so exponential growth cannot be sustained indefinitely. Even if we go into space, at best we can expand at O(n^2). So the urge to preserve your children has to be tempered by the self-discipline not to have more than two per couple (on average). And that has to somehow be extended to everyone, because even a single breeding pair whose genes allow them to ignore this fundamental fact puts us back on the path to eventual calamity. Sooner or later exponential growth must stop. If we don't do it ourselves, the laws of physics will do it for us.
I bet we spend a lot more on it than the maximum $150k discussed in the article. Talk about a nothing-burger.
Federal Government has a backlog of 700,000 security clearances
> labour disputes involving a few shootings

Like, what's a few dead employees between friends?
That's an interesting question. My gut reaction is that it doesn't make any emotional difference to me.
Right to try laws are pretty recent, and they don't completely fix the problem. Not all states have them yet either.
I am curious how you are measuring that you 'outperform' a major CDN? Average response time from your local connection? From an arbitrary IP somewhere in the world? An aggregated average response time from many places around the world?