skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> whatever shall you stamp when you should have one node on Earth and another on Mars?

Again, if you were familiar with the content of the papers, you could answer this yourself.

How it would work is establishing a phase locked loop between the oscillator on earth and the oscillator on mars, and then running a TrueTime style interval protocol. The downside of "Mars Spanner" is the very long round trip time would make the two phase commit protocol unacceptably long latency. However, the basic properties would still hold.

I don't know how else to explain it to you: a communicating distributed system can establish a single, canonical, total order on events. This is not a physical impossibility.
Uh.... the number of people inside the blast radius?
To answer my own question of “why was this posted?”, I’m going to assume so that we can mock and ridicule Mr. Chanos. I mean, zero? Even he knows that’s not true. Though he might have a reasonable explanation for why he thinks TSLA is worth “more than zero, but not $340” (he doesn’t, BTW), many will have already closed the tab.
I was a child of the 1950's. Only 50 miles south of New York City, we little grade school kids were routinely drilled in cowering under our desks in case of a nuclear attack. Every time I heard an airplane, I was afraid it was going to drop bombs. Popular Science ran features about how to build your own fallout shelter, and how Dad could prepare his family for the coming nuclear apocalypse. The understated, tragic horror of _On the Beach_ was complemented but not countered by the mordant humor of Dr. Strangelove.

The clips here don't have the bizarre choreographic beauty of the Dr. Strangelove finale, but they bring back the all too keen anxiety and existential terror of being powerless, while deranged world leaders measure each other's manhood by "mine's bigger than yours." Fine, you proved that yours is big enough, it doesn't really matter whose is bigger any more than whose hair is dumber, now can we _please_ return to sanity?
If you think about it, only 20% if employees can use office at a medium to high level anyways - a lot less people to retrain. The rest are "I click this button then do this thing"
"And while both parties gerrymander, only one party engages in the most obvious and egregiously unfair form of it while benefiting overwhelmingly and disproportionately"

i like that you said that. ive always said that it wouldn't surprise me if d's try suppress vote if it benefitted them. its just that they are fortunate enough that enfranchisement benefits them and is also the right thing to do. i dont mean to equate r's and d's, but just to reinforce the idea that all parties seek to consolidate power and preserve themselves.
Those are two very detailed explanations of how elliptic curves work, with a side helping of side-channel attack resistance just to make things more confusing for the beginner.

A better explanation to me would take you through the basic group theory, the overall design of a Schorr signature and then maybe a sketch of the security argument. Unfortunately doing that requires random oracles and so it’s messy. But what’s the point otherwise?
There doesn't seem to have been much of a lobbying process. It was accepted with little debate, and other options to promote progress were rejected. Copyright was a well-established practice inherited from British common law, and viewed by Madison to be clearly in the public interest:

"The utility of this power will scarcely be questioned. The copyright of authors has been solemnly adjudged in Great Britain, to be a right of common law. The right to useful inventions seems with equal reason to belong to the inventors. The public good fully coincides in both cases with the claims of individuals. The States cannot separately make effectual provisions for either of the cases, and most of them have anticipated the decision of this point, by laws passed at the instance of Congress." Federalist 43

For more background: http://www.copyhype.com/2010/09/copyright-and-the-constituti...
Yeah, I also know a number of extremely left leaning folks who advocate some authoritarian nonsense, and I agree that they're wrong. I don't care to address the free speech week which was clearly set up to provoke the response they got.

However, none of that changes the fact that Sam Altman is playing loose with some sloppy analogy. No one is stifling his speech.
Not just academic mediocrity, mediocrity in general.

If average guys can be successful, it means that you, too, can be just as successful. It gives hope.
Population density near the blast sites? Not that they all did the right thing, and real people were absolutely affected. But there is a significant difference.
Okay so how much did they get for free by moving to Google Cloud? That's the question you should be asking.

Etsy has been hurting; why would they move infrastructure now unless t hey got kind of kickback for the PR?

This isn't an easy move; so there has to be a huge benefit to them.
I've had this thought for a while, and I'm wondering if it holds any validity.

I think it comes down to healthcare. We're good at keeping people alive now. Really good. Cancer mortality has dropped 50% in the last 10 years. I'm sure there are similar statistics for other common causes of death.

We have older generations who should be dying off and getting replaced by younger ones. It's not happening. Anecdotally, my parents are in their late 60s and working just as much as they did in their 30s.

I see this at work; my office building is chuffed full of grey hairs. My coworker at 40 years old is at the same level I am (late 20s) and can't move up because the hierarchy is full of people who should be retiring. Just look at the US senate and congress, the average age is 61, the oldest in history. These guys are ancient!

In my city, we have a housing problem. If you drive around during work hours, the streets are packed with retirees going about their daily business. What the hell are these people doing living in a bustling suburb? Move out to the country for god's sake, why are you living next to a school? This city should be for families, it was built as a bedroom community.
The FCC is effectively controlled by 3 Republican appointees[1] who aren't accountable to anyone by Trump. They do not care about the will of the people. Pai is a former telecom exec and his only concern is lining the pockets of his cronies with more cash.

[1] Yes, I know Pai was appointed by Obama, on Mitch McConnell's advice. That's how these things work: 5 members, split between the two parties, with the incumbent administration's party getting the extra seat.
Google, Mozilla, and the debt-based economy
Anything you think you can solve with Excel plus Python is much better done in just Python.

This is like adding a tumor to Python.

Operable, luckily.
Because it is! (edit: oh I see it's in the header)
(rant, sorry in advance)

Eh, f--- Pirate Bay and everyone else who makes a living stealing the efforts of others.

(And F-you too if you're a supporter/user of theirs.)

Of course the various governments were stupid, clumsy, ham-fisted, and in the pockets of corporations. So what else is new?

How does that make it OK to steal stuff?

People want to talk about what total hipocrite jackasses they are (which is true) to deflect attention from the fact that they are casually and constantly taking stuff they don't have a right to (also true, come on why don't you want to talk about that?!?).

If you don't like the terms, prices, availability, etc, of the Taxi reruns they are selling, well, then, don't watch the Taxi reruns. Trust me, despite Danny Devito, you aren't missing much. Likewise for all the pop music, old software, movies and virtually all the other content people are stealing through PB and similar.

Is this the stuff you really what you want to sell your integrity out for? Think about it.

If you all were mainly -- well, even just somewhat sporadically -- taking enlightening, high-quality stuff with an ounce or 1/2 of cultural importance that was otherwise too expensive, then I might be able to understand. But no. You're just mainly swiping bad superhero movies and video editing software that you'll never learn to use.

I think we need to proceed on all the right paths here:

1. yes, the governments and their associated law-enforcement, and regulatory bodies are a-holes who are beholden to petty, stupid, obsolete, obnoxious corporate ip holders.

AND

2. Stealing is wrong (and that doesn't change if you are stealing from 1.)
No. The moron who “didn’t like” your correct code is the whiny bitch.
Awesome. I really appreciate how professional Ajit Pai has been through all the internet hate. Finally a step in the right direction for government policy.
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Next up, get rid of Access
Nice work, I like it! It's like Learn X in Y Minutes, but with some more depth..
> Waiting for hardware allocation. Once you get to a certain size you have hardware spare

Requisitions for non-cloud server resources can takes hours, days, and in some places weeks; even when there is availability depending on the org. At best it takes close to an hour compared to a few seconds in the cloud via a web dashboard.
It downloads and catalogs a bunch of crap onto a local hard drive.
He wrote the fanfare too (the one that comes before Star Wars, which was an adaptation of the original).
Money does not ruin everything. The pursuit of money above all else ruins everything.
Yes, there are several legacy systems where a full rewrite is way more risky than maintenance-and-minor-enhancements-only. If you're surprised that Perl is still alive, don't go asking about how many COBOL systems are still out there!
I moved to Singapore a few months ago. Frankly speaking, the venture sounds ridiculous.

* the public transport is probably one of the best all over the world (even though the locals keep complaining), with completely driverless trains and accuracy that would make the Germans and the Swiss cry in envy.

* like elsewhere in Asia, it's mostly about the price. Nobody except for the hipster expats gives a hoot about going green, Singapore is green enough already. Grab is kicking Uber's ass, even though the app is buggy and the support is poorly organised. Uber is considered somewhat of a "luxury" service.

* Grab, Uber, and the local taxis are available everywhere at a couple of minutes notice.

* because the cars are so expensive, driving skills are not at all universal.

* again, the price. There are traditional rentals companies, SMove.sg (https://www.smove.sg - a local equivalent of ZipCar, but integrated with the public transportation payment system), and scooter / bicycle sharing everywhere.

Now regarding the self-driving cars in SG. I was very enthusiastic and curious about that one, but was disappointed when I learned more. These guys (nuTonomy?) have their tests around the one-north area where all the startup kiddies are. There is even a sign proudly proclaiming "Autonomous Vehicle test @ one-north". They apparently let outsiders try it out. My associate took one, and it turned out that:

* it's a closed loop, not a real street

* it's slow, golf cart style

* there is a backup car following you with a live driver and engineers at all times

Kinda sad. I was hoping these thingies will go live around 2020. I wonder why nuTonomy even bothered coming all the way here.
"C99 is substantially completely supported as of GCC 4.5 (with -std=c99 -pedantic-errors used; -fextended-identifiers also needed to enable extended identifiers before GCC 5), modulo bugs and floating-point issues (mainly but not entirely relating to optional C99 features from Annexes F and G)." [1]

Sounds fully supported to me, for all practical purposes.

"Default standard is now GNU11" [2]

What do you know that I don't?

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html

[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-5/porting_to.html
He thinks it's zero because Tesla is overleveraged and the equity will be wiped out in the event of a default.
Alternatively: "Hard-drives let you permanently keep your stuff, for life"
My computers have the Facebook domains blocked in their hostfiles.

Best decision I’ve made. Just make sure not to logout or Facebook will hammer your email to entice you back in.
There's a big scramble in the Department of Energy to preserve (and declassify, where possible) a lot of the data from the days of atmospheric testing, which is literally rotting. It's some of the only real world data we have on e.g. fallout dispersal, which is important for building the simulations that would allow emergency workers to safely operate in the aftermath of a nuclear attack. It's also of interest for nuclear forensics, which is highly relevant at the moment with the situation in Korea.
The actual paper is open access here: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/12/e1701423

Even if you don't want to read the primary literature, I recommend visiting the original to see better pictures.
I am concerned they'd go farther and use such demands to subsidize consumer rates. Then people would get complacent while losing the freedom of choice.
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Or perhaps they have had different experiences from you?
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... but hard drives don't last forever? And if that is all it's doing, why not just save the stuff to your hard drive in the first place.

I am so confused by what these people do.
The main disadvantage of serverless though is the need to learn an entirely new tech stack, and one that is locked in to AWS. Migrating a large (or medium sized) Django app to Lambda has non-trivial cost in terms of engineering time. Also the Lambda stack is less well known, which may cause some challenges for the engineering team (ramp-up time for new hires, etc.)
I’d love to see them make a video series like startup school out of this.
They are kids
You as well!

This is a really good reminder that there is indeed a tragic past of marginalized groups being treated poorly and receiving harm/violence. And there still is in certain areas, meaning that even though my standpoint may be that "of course I value them as a person", from the recipient's standpoint that cannot be assumed, and indeed it may be safer not to. This is super important to keep in mind, and at times may be worth stating explicitly (if the topic comes up/is appropriate) when talking about this with folks. I can't assume they know I believe this.
I get the feeling that lambda is only good for small apps..

Once request volume goes up, instances are much cheaper.

So lambda makes sense for hobby stuff and those small services that you only use occasionally. And then again, the financial motivation probably have more to do with maintenance cost.
From the POV of an insurance company, the patient might go elsewhere in a few years and they would only partially benefit from a cure.
If that happened to you, wouldn't you investigate it and try to explain it?

In practice, if you saw this happen you'd have probably notice that something was off. The coin is probably weighted, or some sleight of hand tricked you.
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>But I’m more wary of services that are mashing that data together to get a fuller picture of you.

Certainly that must describe Facebook, and I would think Google as well?
Yeah, I just clicked a linked story where he gives a more reasoned explanation. Having read that, I’m not saying he’s wrong, but the market is sure as hell saying he is. And we know what they say about markets and irrationality. He’s obviously got a stronger stomach and more money to piss away than I do. (Chanos is short TSLA, and keeps adding to that position, as recently as a month ago.)
Do they have credit reporting agencies in China as well? /s
I’d be interested in a system for converting existing stuff from, for example, the Firefox “ScrapBook” plugin, to this format. (The ScrapBook plugin is not compatible with Firefox 57’s plugin API, so anyone who upgrades to Firefox 57 immediately loses all their saved ScrapBook pages.)
Yea, but they could invest in new content aside from 21st Century Fox... Netflix didn't build up their original content via acquisitions, they invested in content creation... Disney could do similar, especially with the various IPs they already control.
Any suggestions about how to find this type of person running in this type of district? I agree that supporting this type of person could be disproportionately effective, but how do you find them when still in the early stages?
Sure, but "some conclusions" is a long way from "cigar-shaped".
Hard drives are an especially bad choice for lifetime reasons, and SSDs don't solve the problem either :P
All politicians occasionally lie about the facts; that is the nature of politics. Yet it was not that long ago that Democrats and Republicans were equally likely to base their policy proposals on (actual) evidence. The decline has been happening for a long time, but in the past decade Republicans have completely abandoned the idea of interpreting (actual) facts from a conservative perspective and have instead come to rely only on "alternative facts" (I believe in Canada you would say "fantasies" but I am not Canadian).

Put another way, I like to remind people that it is possible to be an intelligent conservative, despite the image the Republican party has been projecting lately.
You can't say that Amazon dominates retail to the extent that Youtube dominates internet video, but there have been a few occasions where Google has kept it's dominant Youtube video off of platforms that Google competes against.

Windows Phone, Echo Show, and Fire TV come to mind.

Is Youtube's share of the online video market large enough that this pattern of behavior would trigger antitrust concerns in the US?

How about under the EU's competition law, which kicks in at a much lower threshold? Would Amazon and Youtube both have a large enough market share to get them into legal hot water for anti-competitive behavior in the EU?
> Who appointed Ajit Pai to the FCC in the first place?

The FCC by law cannot have more than three commissioners from the same party. The sitting President therefore finds himself in the position of having to appoint up to two commissioners who are NOT from his own party.

I don't think that there is any actual requirement for how the President picks such nominees--so a Democratic President needing to appoint a non-Democrat could in theory choose someone from some left-leaning non-Democrat party like the Green party, and a Republican President could choose someone from a right-leaning non-Republican party, such as the Libertarian party.

In practice, though, what Presidents of both parties usually (always?) have done is ask other party leadership [1] for a name, and then the President nominates that person.

When the nominee comes up for confirmation in the Senate, generally the Senators from each party pretty much automatically vote to confirm the nominees from the other party unless there is something that actually disqualifies them. They don't vote no just because they disagree on ideological grounds.

So yes, Obama originally put Pai on the FCC, but you can't really read anything into that as far as Democrat positions goes. Pai was the choice of Republican leadership for one of the two seats that could not go to a Democrat.

People are too focused on Pai here. Getting rid of net neutrality is in the freaking GOP party platform. By winning the White House, Republicans won a majority on the FCC. It didn't matter which existing Republican commissioner they elevated to the chairmanship (Pai or O'Reilly) or if they made their new, third guy chair (Carr). Whoever they picked was going to do this.

[1] Usually whoever leads the other party in the Senate, I believe.
Ah, perhaps you were referring to this[1]?

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/14/amazon-start-selling-app...
what he means, in reddit words is "putinbots are out in force in this thread"
Me, too. My background is biomedical, so i spent most of it thinking "epigenetics doesn't work like that!"
IIRC, Apostol's Calculus, volume 2, does it right (linear transformations first, then matrices).
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They have to make up for the loss of all those Russian ad buys somehow now that election season is over.
I meant to suggest Anathem.
Intolerance based on thoughts you have a choice to verbalize is markedly different than intolerance based on physical/physiological attributes you can't control. Someone having a bad experience because they expressed an unpopular opinion in SF seems bad if you've never been the target of disdain for just existing.
Not sure why people are downvoting this but Title II goes back to the Communications Act of 1934 [1] [2] [3].

This may have been revised extensively in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 [4] and with subsequent policy changes around treatment of "telecommunications services", "information services" and "common carriers" but the point remains: Title II has a long history.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality_in_the_United_S...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Act_of_1934#Str...

[3] https://transition.fcc.gov/Reports/1934new.pdf, pp35-136

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996...
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Yeah I think its just poorly managed with all the traffic thats been cluttering the systems
Much as i would love for the power of Python in Excel it is important that whatever is done is consistent across the office experience. Some of us old enough to remember the multiple versions of VB-whatever across Excel, Word, Access and that in itself was a blow to productivity.

Yes they should choose Python, and in the process decide if it will be Python with a .Net library (standard and core as seperate libs please!) or IronPython. This in itself is an important first choice.

Then it has to be done in a mechanism that enables the exact same libs and user written python code to work in the same way across all the Office products.

Other languages have been suggested, all good choices with their own merits. Lua is a good chocie for compactness and speed. C# is lingua franca of commercial developers so would suit ISVs but i think too heavy for end user scripting. Nim or even freepascal maybe? Lastly whatabout just using VB.net consistently? VB is a great language for newbs and casual/adhoc programmers .... but it gets ignored because of problems with consistency of implementation by MS.

Last point i would like to make is IMHO the choice needs to be based on:
- ability to transpile to javascript so that Excel365 can be scripted from webapps
- install-free deployment; should be built into Excel in a way it can be used without any user install for dev or runtime
- standard vanilla language, not a variant

Disclaimer: A huge fan and long time user of python here. I also spent largest part of working life in ISV world rather than end user land.
> the large majority of Americans don't use the internet like you do

They might not for the majority of the time, but they certainly do use the internet like you and I do.

Were this not the case, "googling" would not have become such a common word.