skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you sell internet access with a 1 terabyte cap, you have to market it as a 3 megabit connection. The effective sustained rate. Or preferably, just outlaw data caps entirely.

That's like saying that laptops must be marketed with their "effective sustained" battery life. The MacBook Pro can't be marketed as having 10 hours of wireless web, but rather just 2 hours of "effective sustained" performance. Regardless of whether it's a sensible measure for your typical user, who is actually likely to get the 10 hours because they're using their laptop for office and web browsing.

Residential ISPs are selling burst connections, which is an entirely sensible thing to do in a world where the top use case for a home internet connection is sucking down a 5MB Facebook page as quickly as possible then going idle. It's not like they're hiding the data cap in fine print: https://dataplan.xfinity.com.

Note that outlawing data caps doesn't address the phenomenon of companies with market power being able to charge monopoly prices. It just redistributes the burden of that upcharge away from heavy data users to ordinary users. E.g. consider if you outlawed Apple's practice of charging $100, $200, etc., more for $15-20 worth of flash memory on an iPhone. Do you think Apple would just lower those prices and leave it at that? No, they'd raise prices on the base model. All you'd do is hurt the users who keep everything in the cloud in order to favor those who store a lot of data locally. (Unsurprisingly, price discrimination tactics that benefit ordinary users at the expense of power users are unpopular among power users.)
In professionally typeset material people use either spaced en dashes – like this – or un-spaced em dashes—like this—but spaced em dashes are unconventional and unprofessional, frowned upon by anyone who knows what they’re doing. Sometimes professionals put hair spaces or thin spaces around em dashes — like this — but on the web those often are rendered improperly, such as on this forum. Try copy/pasting this paragraph into a rich text editor and swapping between a few typefaces to see what the effect should look like.
Do you know the difference between anecdotes and science?
Unforgeability can be weakened systematically to unguessability: https://capability.party/philosophy/2017/07/29/unforgeable-v...

Unfortunately, the concept of "taming", where ambient-authority systems are used to implement functionality in capability-safe systems, is often a sad and frustrating path due to massive impedance mismatch. Like you say, paths are not caps, which means that capability-safe languages on UNIX-like systems are constantly dancing to tame the OS.

As usual, it would be great if you made your VM cap-aware, so that we may eventually get over this hump.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Seattle Sugar Tax [0]. Forgive me I don't know much about it and I don't live in Seattle, but I saw this on the /r/seattle subreddit and was surprised. (I am entertaining the idea of relocating to Seattle from Austin. Thus, that's why I was browsing that subreddit.)

[0] https://i.redd.it/0sfewnke5h801.jpg
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16084575

(also your link is broken)
The film clearly opens up in the end and includes the front porch and the back of a pickup truck.

But yeah it’s a pretty great film and the acting remains solid despite not having a really high end cast.

I think this is one of the few sci-fi works that somewhat got immortality right (and no it’s not really a spoiler).
How much does it cost to make a U.S. Quarter?
>employers declared that they believed the women before inspecting all evidence

No, you gave examples of employees claiming that about their employers. In a discussion that started with you claiming we shouldn't treat accusations as facts, I would have expected that you could tell the difference.
It charges fast because it has a very small battery, not because it has Fast Charging™
It doesn't make sense to talk about whether HTTPS is end-to-end encrypted. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. If you're exchange secrets directly with a web application that doesn't leave the application's secured deployment environment, TLS is all you need. But if you're exchanging secrets with another person using a server as a mediator --- as is the case with web chat and web email systems --- then it's not.

I don't know why we'd bother with fussy contraptions involving special email addresses that nobody knows about, let alone uses. We have secure messaging systems today, systems billions of people already use, they're designed from the ground up to handle these problems, and so they're much better at security than any email system we can even reasonably come up with might be.

Why are we wasting time trying to make people feel safer emailing secrets? We should get them to stop doing that at all.
1. Create a team to build a product and maintain it.

2. Once the product matures, and needs less attention, shrink the team or use the free capacity to build another product and add it to the team's portfolio.

3. If at any point in time the workload becomes to much, grow the team.

4. If the team gets too big, split it and distribute the product portfolio onto the two parts.
My dad smoked for 50 years until quitting in his 70's. Now, at age.80, he's still healthy as a horse. However, I wouldn't draw a conclusion from an anecdotal data point and say cigarettes aren't a health hazard.
I agree. I was the very happy owner of an Apple Cinema Display that served me well for many, many years, and was still in perfect working order when I had to abandon it in favor of an ASUS display because I needed more resolution and Apple wasn't selling standalone displays any more :-(

I want to be an Apple fan. I really do. But they are making it impossible for me nowadays.
This is a cool page about creating chladni patterns in code https://thelig.ht/chladni
Astronaut John Young, One of Only 12 to Walk on Moon, Dies at 87
But that doesn't explain the keyboard and trackpad though, which can be used while plugged in and charging.
Look at X3DH, Double Ratchet, and Sesame and sketch for me a comparably secure system that uses SMTP as the transport and that doesn't reduce SMTP to a tunneling mechanism for an entirely different protocol.
This mythology surrounding the suffering artist is pretty much a fairly modern invention.
That's not to say that earlier artists didn't struggle - but it was not fetishished in the same way.

Mozart, Handel both had wealthy patrons, and made music for their use. Mozart also made quite a lot of fairly commercial music. Bach and Teleman both worked for the church.

Was Rembrandt a worse painter than Van Gogh, since he had wealthy patrons?
So then all the measurements are relative but at least there is an equal and measurable baseline? I’m not for regulating technology though because it’s by definition not set in stone. What might have been reasonable to measure in the 80s is out of touch with how it might be measured today. Ideally we outlaw deals that restrict competition that allows monopolies in the first place
Very interesting. At first, I thought this was pushing the processing closer to the data with some new special CPU logic inside the DRAM. I'm not sure, but it seems to be available in out of the box current memory.

The fact that Intel + NVidia are present in the paper is very exciting too. Does this mean we could see the improvements with a simple software update?

This end of 2017 and start of 2018 is very weird. We got industry-wide performance degradation with meltdown, and now we are seeing industry-wide performance upgrade with another hardware trick!
Very reasonable, I totally agree.
War on poverty, War on drugs, War on childhood obesity, War on terror, And to an even greater extent the many wars we’ve been fighting and failing to win for decades in Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, Vietnam...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower%27s_farewell_addr...

Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense. We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security alone more than the net income of all United States corporations.

Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence—economic, political, even spiritual—is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet, we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources, and livelihood are all involved. So is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together

...All while a few become unfathomably wealthy and powerful, and the rest move in the opposite direction. All while we fail to invest in infrastructure, quality education, and functional public health, mental health, and nutrition.
I don't know if I believe this narrative much any more, it's like we blame markets for our own lack of personal responsibility and consciousness.

It's the same for climate change. People constantly think it's governments that need to fix climate change without making any of their own lifestyle changes to help address the issue.

Maybe you're right, but these markets exist because people buy these products. Coca-cola got to where it was today because people drank it by the kilolitre.
Another similar article: https://css-tricks.com/robust-react-user-interfaces-with-fin... (full disclosure, I wrote this)

There is definitely a learning curve to state machines, and even more so with statecharts/UML. It's much, _much_ easier to start coding an application from a bottom-up approach (start coding, colocate app logic wherever it's needed, refactor later) than a top-down approach (systematically plan the entire higher-level behavior of your app's various parts before writing a single line of code). That's why it's slow to catch on in the application development (web + native) part of the tech world.

However, in game development, hardware development, etc. state machines and statecharts are more commonly used. To me, the ability to declaratively structure your program's behavior as a directed graph opens the door to the possibility of being able to automate integrated tests (simple path/shortest path/etc. algorithms), statically analyze logic (are all states reachable? are all events handled?), optimize paths, add and remove features without worrying about if some other part of the application will be adversely affected, have smarter analytics, visualize app state, and much much more.

I know there's critics to FSMs where other more idiomatic language-oriented approaches would suffice (I myself absolutely detest the OOP state pattern - it's a needlessly imperative, hard-to-analyze state machine), but I think if developers further understood and saw benefits to functional, declarative, reactive programming and statecharts (a huge improvement over conventional FSMs), application development as a whole could reach a new level of efficiency and robustness.
I read for a full 5 minutes and the author had not said anything substantive, just their own thoughts about pigeon love based on some pigeons he saw in his backyard once. Ok.
Formally, DRM cannot work in capability-based systems, just like it cannot work in ACL-based systems. The proofs are pretty easy, depending on the system's primitives, and are akin to the standard proof using "real" bit-based digital logic: Information, being inherently copyable, cannot be protected from exfiltration by any agent which sees the information, even only once.

Privacy, on the other hand, works fine. The model used by the E family of capability-safe languages, like E-on-Java and Monte, allows for a compute node to be totally isolated aside from The Network, an abstract message-passing I/O interface. The resulting model grants nodes privacy within themselves by default.

If you want your code and data to be private, do not put them on machines which you do not control. If you want certain friends to not reshare private photos, do not show those friends those photos. If you have a secret, and you tell somebody, it's no longer a secret.
It actually kind of is related to data caps. There's many telcos who use a cap, but make it so certain websites (HBO, Facebook, etc) won't count towards your cap. This means that traffic is no longer being treated equally. It also means you're more likely to use services that don't count towards your data cap, so entrenched players are going to stay entrenched longer.
Seems to me this person has a secret issue you're not aware of then...
If folks are interested in this, I figured some folks might like our c++ version of this (been around for 5 years ish now):
https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp

Also comes with tons of pre cooked projects already ready to go:
https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp-presets

We use it in production at skymind and it powers our whole cpu and gpu stack with built in memory management among other things.

Also has maven and sbt plugins so you can plug it right in to your workflow automatically just maintaining the java code.

One of the coolest features is the name matching
so you can get semi automatic mapping.

We auto generate our JNI bindings from this.
Monetizing completely useless stuff on the back of a block chain.
The last time this was posted a few commenters mentioned using PostGIS instead of Uber rolling this themselves.

If anyone's used PostGIS with a similar level of traffic/latency requirements could you comment on your experience?
> The sad fact of the matter is that Mrs. Clinton was easily the worst candidate that the Democrats have put forward in a generation — she makes Mondale, Dukakis & Kerry look charismatic!

I saw this sentiment floating around Reddit a lot amongst disenfranchised Democrats supporters. It sounds exactly like the type of meme the article is discussing. Does being charismatic actually matter? It makes sense to make this a talking point if the candidate you want to win has no political experience but is a great showman.
Your comment would be relevant if this post was about the US, but it's not, it's about Australia. I recommend you read the link
Rothko's paintings are ideas just like Duchamp, Kandinsky, Richter and Pollock.

There are two kinds of people that criticize them:

- First kind, the ones that criticize and challenge their ideas. Not the process, not the method, not the work itself. Examples - David Sylvester and Michael Peppiatt who criticized Francis Bacon [0]. Those were constructive, extremely interesting encounters that challenge artist's notions and provide different perspectives. They vehemently opposed the artist [1], but thoughtfully to incite and open new conversations around their ideas. They also understand the historical time frame and overall art history, especially the turn of the 20th century.

- The second kind, criticize materialistic, physical and methodical manifestations of art. Such as trying to judge how relatively easy/hard was it to paint; "Any one can do that"; paintings are trash because I personally do not resonate with it visually; no revolutionary methods or interesting ways of physically making the art, etc. They also try to find deeper meaning where there isn't and make up far fetched meanings to justify their understanding of something that is not meant to be literally understood. There are also people on the other end of the spectrum such as people working in the galleries that try to bullshit you with their sales pitch which often contains non-sense and wordplay.

The second kind do not understand art.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoFMH_D6xLk
[1]https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/...
It's entirely possible for someone to suffer from depression despite knowing that they have a good life.
Their sales people start emailing you at ~4Tb/month on the business plan.
Relevant anecdote: I've recently switched to full-time hotspotting with Verizon, and I'm still adjusting my Netflix habit to match.

Verizon, as usual, sent me my "you're at your last 10% before we throttle you" notice just as I went over my limit, and at the exact same time, DNS stopped working for netflix.com.

Everything else worked just fine, but none of the netflix.com properties would resolve.

I had lazily been using Verizon's DNS for my hotspot. Changing to 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 immediately brought it back online.

I can't prove it wasn't just a glitch, but it was pretty damn suspicious anyhow, and exactly the sort of underhanded behavior I'd expect from today's telecoms.
Maybe depression, with it's concomitant disinterest in life and society, and increased risk of suicide, is a global immune reaction to humans unabated efforts to destroy the biosphere and each other.

Or, with slightly less woo-woo: is it any wonder so many of us feel hopeless when we are, collectively, shitting in the pool and force feeding each other hollow materialistic junk via brainwashing advertising.

Yeah, I'm gonna say it: this disease, this depression so many of us suffer, is a result of a sick society. But our hyper-individualistic culture blames the individual, then lets, no expects, that doctors prescribe them addictive drugs that don't work and are terrible to try to stop taking.

Seriously, what the hell are we doing? If I treated my dog like this I'd end up in court for animal cruelty.
Oddly, it was upvoted twice /and/ flagged. I guess anyone with enough reputation can bury things just by hitting a "flag" button.
Australia is more or less the US in the 60’s, if I’m being generous. Not to mention this same policy is being debated in the UK, and US.

Edit: pop this into Google: war on sugar uk usa
Is everything you think you know about depression wrong?
Quote from article:

"Professor Andrew Scull of Princeton, writing in the Lancet, explained that attributing depression to spontaneously low serotonin is “deeply misleading and unscientific”. Dr David Healy told me: “There was never any basis for it, ever. It was just marketing copy.”"

This.

I have been saying this on HN and other forums for years.

Each time I get downvoted for how dare I suggest that it is other things in a person's life and that clinical "depression" is unscientific.

Most people would rather play victim i think
Yeah, but we need email 2.0, encrypted by default. Maybe not call it user+secure@example.com but something like user@@example.com
I disagree with "practically no one supports sexual assault", because otherwise, it wouldn't be so prevalent in society. They may not "support" it, but they definitely perpetuate it and turn a blind eye to it. That, and they don't treat it as a serious issue. For example, people have used the promiscuity of people as a way to minimize the rape of individuals, they don't believe women, etc. The fact is society's attitude towards rape and sexual assault is all hush-hush and gives passes to people who commit it. That's the whole point the movement is making.

MeToo isn't just Harvey Weinstein. He is just one creep who is representative of a larger problem in society.
> and likely ecosystems that currently exist

Well if that's part of "Earth" then "Earth will be fine" is a lie.
I don't think that the GP is advocating that we motivate students to study linear algebra by telling them it will make them rich. They were merely saying that this is a nice way to grab student's attention.

I really liked it when we went over PageRank in one my university lectures. It made me think "Wow, I can actually have an impact using the things I've learned here".
It still seems many people believe there is strong scientific evidence to the "chemical imbalance" theory as an independent cause of depression, which is a myth.

It is a paradoxical issue though, because chemicals can indeed play a crucial role to overcoming depression.
(2008)

It's a good satire - it perfectly skewers the "think-tank report" style that the US DoD was so enamoured of at the time. Very Strangelovian.
A must-read followup that explores other data structures for geofencing:

https://medium.com/@buckhx/unwinding-uber-s-most-efficient-s...
Thought it worth pointing out that Cheri are giving hardware capabilities another go.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/
> I will never be in that situation because I won’t allow myself to be in that situation.

How do you intend to accomplish that? Remember we live in a world where people have accidents with cars, guns, and preparation of prescription medicines. You do not control everyone else, yet everyone else has the potential to alter your lifestyle in a few moments of recklessness or distraction.

Force majeur exists in contract law for a reason.
>it's like we blame markets for our own lack of personal responsibility and consciousness.

I've read that new research say, "Sugar is more addictive than cocaine." So does personal responsibility still apply?
I don't see how adding another example why systems of linear equations are important would solve the speeding problem.
I've been depressed, and I'll tell you this straight up. If a doctor gave me a cow instead of the pills, I would have been way better off... ignoring all the actual problems the cow solved for the rice farmer in the article, just the honesty of the doctors recognizing the real issue in the right spirit would have made me laugh, and prolly "cure" me, at least for a little while.
There is a huge difference between "all great artists did X" and "there is nothing particularly in common between all great artists". My intuition is telling me that the truth is definitely in the middle, and if there was some way to perform a "clustering" algorithm on artist's lives/work/legacy/commercial success we would see some clear patterns emerge around certain "archetypes" or "personas" of artists, and this guy doesn't seem to fit into one.
How Warren Buffet and Joel Osteen Overcame Terrifying Fear of Public Speaking
Here we go Again
Okay, so how do you decide whether to have hire school crossing guards or not? Or to put in a stop sign or not? Or to require seatbelts?

We can and do make decisions as a society to change the environment we live in for the better. You can't eliminate all risk and not every proposed solution is going to make sense, but that doesn't mean you just say "hey, they're adults" and shrug.
I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/g-search-filt... for filtering Google. Can't live without it. It would be interesting to have a Github repo with some precompiled filters based on certain business domains.

But for me at least, a couple of rules are enough to solve 99% of the problems.
I agree this is a reality.

Just like the cynical reality that C/C++ programers don't want to encourage package managers. The higher the barriers to entry the more you're talents are worth.

The reality is, regardless of any one groups desire, the productivity wins of package managers are too great and the momentum of the larger software development community is moving towards package managers for every language and will one day include C/C++.

Similarly, lawmakers are a select few of a larger community of domestic but more importantly international lawyers. You give the larger community a 10x productivity win, and just sit back and watch the domino effect work.