skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is replicated all over the rust belt. One of the saddest portrayals of this is the photo essay, The Ruins of Detroit[1]. These once mighty economic engines have been silenced: manufacturing, coal, etc. What happens next is that the people who depend upon these industries to make a living, and live ... do less well of a job of this.

Some argue that unions would help (they wouldn't), or anti-globalism would stop factories/industries from moving (maybe temporarily). The sad fact remains that industries are, to a degree, tied to regions, and people grow up depending upon those industries in those regions. Once the industry finds a lower cost mechanism to come to market, those dependent people are cut free.

Its the short term, profit focused mindset and all it brings that is a huge part of the problem. Note that I am a staunch capitalist, and I see this.

I don't have a solution to this. I wish I did. None of the political parties have anything close to a solution for this. Giving money directly to people may help for a while, but is likely to spark inflation, which will cause this to repeat in a few years.

I remember one of the political parties crowing about how they saved the auto industry in Michigan during the last major financial crisis. Funny, as I live there, and I remember one of the people who lives in my sub whose business was destroyed by this "saving" thanks to many long held overdue invoices at one of the car company's being zeroed out, coming to my front door, with his son to ask for help. Food specifically.

Foolish policies that do not contemplate consequences for actions, apart from the groups that the politicos favor, help decimate regions like this. Coal is evil as I've heard. And the people who mine it? They are the ones now suffering because, you know, its evil, and coal must die.

Every decision, every policy has consequences. There are never any easy solutions.

(edits to correct spelling/punctuation errors)

[1] http://www.marchandmeffre.com/detroit
AOL never merged AIM and ICQ. They may have shared some server infrastructure at times, but the networks were always kept separate. I remember as a user of ICQ prior to AOL buying them [1] there was always fear that AOL would merge the two and make it the worst, lowest common denominator of the two. For a long time it felt like ICQ had the most features of the two. (Then eventually everyone was on AIM instead. Then eventually everyone was on Google Talk instead. Then eventually everyone was texting or FB messenger or Slack or something in this modern diaspora.)

[1] I recall I had a 5-digit number at one point as a kid and switched to a 7-digit number later to appear less "weird"/elitist on ICQ.
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But people who know about that will disable it in settings, and the majority of the world will go on using WiFi fully oblivious.

Before the command center existed people weren’t saying having a WiFi toggle hidden in the settings app is a security vunurability.
He thinks the developers shouldn't waste time on this feature, and instead waste time on another feature that already has multiple solutions in the plugin library.

Since I don't think you would be able to do this kind of work in a plugin at all, and can clearly implement his feature in a plugin I feel like he can pound sand.

I think he just doesn't want to pay the pittance the developer of the best scp plugin wants for his work.
I have a similar Google lunch story. A guy sat down, introduced himself as Rob, and told me it was his first day at Google. We had a nice chat, and later I told my office mate that the new guy seemed really smart. He laughed and told me I'd just had lunch with Rob Pike. :)
Not directly. But their users create and post news, and for a decent percentage of the population, said users are more reliable/better quality than mainstream media organisations. This is especially true with specialist accounts on Twitter, which can be better news sources than proper websites.

So in the same way that gaming sites are now often losing to YouTube channels and Twitch streamers as a source of news/reviews/opinions, the media is losing to individuals sharing their stories online.
We have moved to low power mobile phones that are always on anyhow, so those days would be over regardless.

And, are you sure that facebook doesn't consume even more power with whole data centers fir storage, analysis and serving of mountains of trivial data, all to sell more ads?
The 7 stages of becoming a Go programmer
Maybe if humans took responsibility for the algorithms they created and didn't shrug and say, "It's the algorithm" then "the algorithm" wouldn't be the antagonists in this story.
I switched to the beta a few days ago and it's crazy fast. I only use ublock origin so I don't miss any extensions, but I'm definitely not switching back.
Prompting the user every time for a nuance they likely don't understand instead of just doing the thing they want 99% of the time is bad UX.
True, the restricted length makes it a terrible format for any sort of nuanced discussion on complex issues. Way too easy for folks to talk past each other.
Ouch. (Someone please give this guy an industry medal.)

Talk of Hazelcast reminded me of Coherence (now Oracle, before Tangosol): https://www.javalobby.org//java/forums/t78008.html

Oracle docs sensibly call it a distributed cache:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/coherence/distr...
Interesting he mentions religious _communities_ along with hermits, they seem very divergent to me. A monk is normally a part of a tight knit community working towards common goals. They also talk about hermits being constantly visited by people for them to take advice, that doesn't sound like my notion of a hermit at all? Not much solitude if you're continually advising others.
Why would it take any time at all to "create a restore"?
Great analysis.

(A) When there is more than one solution

And this is exactly why the concept of a "growing pie" is flawed. Markets generally pool around a single solution versus averaging around multiple and there isn't enough capital (labor or dollars). I think it comes back to power law driving behaviors here and everyone wanting a huge win. So in effect markets look like fixed pies in the short term and the winner is the one that grows the pie.

Trouble with this scheme is, the "pie growth", when it happens, is distributed to a very small group of people who have the ability to make big bets - so it compounds.

In terms of (B) those are basically local maxima tied to (A) so that distribution of growth is chaotic and skewed. So while it might seem like corruption of the network, it actually is a function of the "winner take all" nature of any market in the absence of either consumer/user self regulation or some deus ex machina regulator (government etc...).

Bottom line, it's a problem with how humans act (or fail to act) collectively around information sharing.
Interesting. Have you ever computed how much power you would save if you turned them off when not needed?

Or is every pod constantly in use? Would it help if smart algorithms repartition the data on storage pods, to optimize power use?
My money's on Go.
I think a huge reason people find this difficult is that it's being presented alongside a whole bunch of other ideas. Even the fairly minimalistic vimtutor goes off the rails after lesson 1. Most of the stuff in that tutorial could wait until you've been using vim for a month or longer. Learn the movement keys, learn to enter and exit insert mode, learn to delete text, and learn to save and quit. Trying to learn that and at the same time trying to learn about how commands are composed of actions and motions, or how to use plugins, or buffers, or regex, or anything else, is going to cause you to stumble over the basics.
We use git flow at work, which means we rely on PRs to be reviewed and merged in order to make it into staging/production. This tool was made to give us a report of stale PRs to know what to review first (and how behind we are on reviews).

It's also really nice for open source repos that you don't look at every day.
Thanks for the plug, I've been able to cross build just about every a.out buildable Linux kernel from Windows.

In addition I've built and did some minor tyre kicking with GCC 0.9

https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/12/01/building-using-gcc-0-90-...

I've done minor shuffling to get DooM to compile with GCC 1.39 on MS-DOS/x68000 & OS/2

https://virtuallyfun.com/2017/07/29/null-doom-gcc-1-39-go32-...

GCC 1.37 on MacOS

https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/05/24/gcc-1-37-on-macos/

And of course using RSXNT / EMX to get GCC 1.40 targeting Windows NT

https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/05/06/gcc-1-40-on-windows/
Capitalism is the best thing that's ever happened to humanity. The author's ideological bias gets in the way of understanding.
It seems you've misunderstood my comments. Perhaps read them again? I'm saying that it's easier to have fewer more powerful servers than many more smaller ones, but even then some software designed for single-node operations still has problems utilizing all the cores (like postgres until recently). I never mentioned mongodb or cassandra.
When in doubt, use brute force.

The first time I read that it was in something about Belle playing Q v R against Walter Browne. Belle had the R and Browne had to mate in 50 moves. Seven piece tablebases are achievable now.
Printable Medications Could Improve Dosing Techniques, Drug Research
By using prepared statements, which you can use as well.
Found it. http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
Text messaging = SMS for many people in the US. The term SMS has never been used much by consumers here, that I have heard. People call it texting. It has only been popular enough to be useful since about 2002-2005, which is after the glory days of ICQ for me.
Wait, is this Kyle Kingsbury? If so, where is his name? Who are the authors? I notice this text doesn't mention the authors:

"We wish to thank Jordan Halterman for his discussion of Hazelcast use cases. Luigi Dell’Aquila & Luca Garulli from OrientDB, and Denis Sukhoroslov from BagriDB, were instrumental in understanding those systems’ use of Hazelcast. Thanks also to Julia Evans, Sarah Huffman, Camille Fournier, Moishe Lettvin, Tim Kordas, André Arko, Allison Kaptur, Coda Hale, and Peter Alvaro for reading and offering comments on initial drafts. This research was performed independently by Jepsen, without compensation, and conducted in accordance with the Jepsen ethics policy."

I'd like to know who stands behind this research
Regarding 1): rclone does the job. That's what I use with B2.

https://rclone.org/
Thank you, and thank you everyone else for all these resources. My wife will be rather displeased that I'm not playing Divinity 2 with her this holiday weekend ;)
I am more thinking to Steve Ballmer. But I should have been more explicit.
Great suggestion! I find it very enlightening too and to be honest I actually attend his courses :)
anyone who downvoted this can go fuck themselves.
I believe that you're looking for a very different piece than this was intended to be. This is essentially a summary of the book. I don't know what the motive was, but it's probably something like "I believe that more people should hear these ideas". The treatment you're requesting would likely qualify as a doctoral thesis. The writers at Wired do not have the time, nor is it likely that they have the expertise, to create that work, nor does the audience or funding exist to make it responsible course of action for the author.

If you wish to engage on the claim itself, instead of spouting unsupported emotional appeals like "outrageous" and "nonsensical", perhaps you could present a rational argument? I suggest considering the belief I noted earlier about the scope of the argument: The label of "artificial intelligence" is valid for more than just financial organizations and market(s).
I tried... but it has no 802.11n support, from my understanding. That was a deal breaker for me.

Also, I was using an ancient CardBus ethernet adapter and it kept freezing up. Works fine on Linux. It's just unfortunate that all the things I tried had problems.

Linux just worked on the system I was using.
ORM is like C++. SQLAlchemy is the best ORM I know of. You can use it lightly and map tables, migrations, and never go deep into the ORM "problem". Saves you a lot of effort doing SQL push-ups. Many projects doing OO end up building a worse ORM from scratch eventually.
It is certainly true that SMS predated it, but in the US SMS was very limited at the time. The cost and mediocre phone keyboards kept its use down, and, of course, it wasn't practically usable from PCs.

Ironically, SMS probably replaced AIM for a lot of people as a lot of these limitations started to fall away.
Makes me wonder how much data/files you are trying to get back from their storage.
> what do you do when the fish are just gone?

Move to where the fish are. The economy isn't terrible everywhere.
My only objection to this is a semantic one -- the word "algorithm" is not being well-served here. The correct word for this sort of thing is "heuristic". The concern isn't that algorithms themselves are incorrect, the concern is that the problem they are trying to solve is a heuristic one, not a formal one.

Saying "let's write an algorithm to improve search results" is meaningless; "let's design and implement a heuristic that improves search results". The algorithmic part of this is how to efficiently implement that heuristic.

I can usually get through articles like this by silently replacing "algorithm" with "heuristic"; the problem arises when some articles attempt to draw equivalencies between "algorithmic" concepts, like running time and space, and "heuristic" concepts, like optimizing for the wrong thing.
For work, never. If shit hits the proverbially fan and I had to do it because something was broken then I'm sure I would. But other contingency planning and dev practices has obviated the need for that.

For fun, every now and then. Not a regular thing but it's fun to pretend to be in your early 20s.
The concern I have with this will be inflation. People now have money, sellers can now raise prices. Which eventually gets us right back to where we were. You can give them more money, but then you are accelerating the cycle.
That is my experience recently. Developers storing 500GB on a database (pre-launch), with < 1GB of meaningful data. A bunch of json logs that they knew data science would want eventually, but couldn't be bothered to either pare down or put in a more sensible place.

The thing is, it didn't really matter; Postgres still had a ton of performance left over even after the product went live. If you can still fit it in RAM, why waste $$$ of dev time over the $$ cost of a bigger instance.
> The siren song of cross-platform development sounds so sweet to the ears and I've fallen for it quite a few times only to get bitten in the end.

Indeed it is the much harder road to travel. It all depends on who is developing the platform however. Google can pull it off, which is why Flutter is worth considering.
Assume that the one thing you do best for a job AI/computers come out and do better. How do you recover from that. Especially, if said AI owners decide you only get a barely livable stipend while they keep most of the profits.
> With AIM on its way out the door, now’s your last chance to write that perfect away message.

Interesting in hindsight then how some platforms adopted this one element, turned it into a log of away messages, dropped the messaging, and created "social media".
Django REST Framework v3.7 Released
Mail server, web server, CalDAV and CardDAV server, and development laptop. Never looked back.
the main thing is the country is something like 97 percent japanese and there is extreme pressure to conform. anything different is judged.
> I'm ashamed to admit that one thing that might keep me on Chrome is the trove of passwords in my sync'd up account.

I was the same until a few days ago when I finally took the time to switch to a real password manager. A HN'er recommended Bitwarden[0] and I have to say it was pretty painless and I am much happier knowing my passwords are with a third party (not that I have any real issue with Google but I did worry about having all my eggs in one basket as such).

I haven't paid for Bitwarden yet but I plan to providing it doesn't have a massive failure in the next couple of weeks. Looks like it will easily be worth the $10/year though.

Another added bonus is that their Android app is very decent as well and so far has worked with all my apps as well which is handy and not something I had thought much about in the past. Makes life that little bit easier although I don't have to enter app passwords much in Android it is nice to have the option now.

But back to Firefox - I checked out Nightly when it hit 57 a while back and was extremely impressed. It felt like a whole new browser. Not sure if I will switch from Chrome just yet but I am excited for the future of Firefox again.

[0]https://bitwarden.com
All of those were developed on linux and linux distributions and were available on those before obsd...
Chromium also sends data back to Google... unless you use Ungoogled-chromium, but the latter has the issue of not being up to date (= missing recent security updates).
Haha. I appreciate the attention you're giving our little social network, but you clearly know nothing about us. We've been around for well over a year and our founders and team members have been long-time members of the crypto community. We've been giving out rewards every day, our crypto is traded on many markets, the price is stable, and our userbase is growing exponentially. I'd love for you to give an estimate on when exactly this "dump" will come because I've been hearing this from people for a long time now. Probably as long as you have been seeing stuff like Steemit on HN, though that's obviously not true. Anyone with a rudimentary understanding of blockchain technology knows our tech is legit. Meanwhile Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Steem have made me a very happy man. Oh btw, how much have you made posting on HN? ;)
I had a similar thing happen to me, what I did was pick the files I wanted immediately and got a zip file with those within... 30 minutes? Then got more of the files later
The tips in your article are indeed very helpful for someone who is just starting out with deep learning. It took me some time to come up to the majority of these conclussion and I would have felt very lucky I have read your article. Thanks for sharing!
Is there any less expensive way to get the original Thinkpad style keyboard on a more modern motherboard?

I really like this retro machine they're releasing but it's just too costly for me.
uMatrix isn't a replacement for NoScript. uMatrix lets you do some javascript blocking, but has none of the other features of NoScript. Several of those features are not available from anything other than NoScript. Eg. I haven't seen any other content blocker implement anything like NoScript's surrogate scripts feature.
Alright.

Why can you see into a house through its windows at night while those inside only see their reflections in the windows. Why is this reversed during the day?
"I'm not sure either. A quick script in a cron job could also do this."

Except probably 99% percent of the planet couldn't tell you what a cron job is.
If that's our threat model then we're already hosed. It's not like "turn off your wireless" is a solution to vulnerabilities like this outside of security circles.
Just a small guess, but was that a Dydo stocked vending machine?

Dydo stuff tends to be what the absolute cheapest vending machines offer. About five times I have bought a Dydo coffee, and five times I have decided to never do so again. Any of the Coca-Cola or Kirin (Pepsi does not exist beyond the brand here) stocked vending machines should be good and safe.
> If all you ever knew is coal mining, that's your condition that prevents you from finding gainful employment.

Why can they not expand their knowledge?

And if they truly cannot, then ...

What productive purpose can we possibly expect them to have? Or in other words: why should we evaluate them as non-negligible?
> This one touches on the effects of Uber’s behavior and misbehavior, why capitalism is like a rogue AI, and whether Jeff Bezos might be worth voting for in the next election.

I'd prefer 'Why OReilly believes capitalism is like a rogue AI'. Having Wired repeat OReilly's statement, rather than attribute it to him, makes it seem like they're not critically examining a very significant claim.
Great to see this pivot and new feature set -- it is definitely a tool that will be useful to a lot of early stage startups!

Do you plan on adding any Excel support down the road?
I read through each of your links and there's some interesting stuff there. Overall it looks like Russia basically ran a full-time campaign marketing team with access to a few million dollars for ad and social media sharing buys.

That said, the breathlessly covered "tens of millions of ad impressions" isn't that much on Facebook. From my experience getting 0.1% of viewers to care would be a significant number.

Being familiar with online marketing makes a lot of this sound less scary.

What I'd love to see is the Russian ad spending in the great context of the entire campaign. Considering both sides spent $1 billion on their combined campaigns it's entirely possible that the ~200 PR stories and 10M ad impressions are a minor blip in the wider scale.

What's interesting is how many people voluntarily shared these posts because it struck a chord with them (although it's equally as easy to buy fake likes/shares). And the fact they were focusing on critical swing states that Hillary's massive campaign failed to hit, basically non-english foreigners outperforming the most expensive American consultants...

The leaked data is another story and Wikileaks will never be proven, which means 50% of the leaked data is very likely via Russia.

For each of these, there were plenty of moving pieces out of Russia's control (the FBI and media's handling of pretty insignificant stuff, the highly receptive audience sharing the propaganda, etc) that all worked in their favour. Even if their contributions were minor, the US political environment played a huge role in amplifying it into something far bigger than they could ever do themselves.

Outside of some future smoking gun connection with the Trump campaign (which seems highly unlikely so far) it's going to be very difficult to measure exactly how much meaningful influence Russia really had on the elections. But it's an interesting lesson for the future regardless and the vagueness will offer plenty of leeway for the Clinton's campaign to sidestep responsibility for both running a bad campaign and for being a generally unlikable person (which matters more in these popularity contests than capability).

And if you didn't notice my entire original comment was satirizing mainstream discourse. I don't think you need or should trust intel agencies nor the media's uncritical interpretation here. I left it purposefully vague for those smart enough to see through the popular narratives.
What I meant is that if you have a major announcement about your project that you can reasonably expect to be shared, it's nice to give some context within the announcement.

I think this also applies to people on your mailing list. So often I get announcements sent out to a mailing list I signed up for where I forgot what the project is. Just having a sentence or two with a reminder goes a long way toward keeping me interested.