skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the cognitive dissonance is only among the leadership of the project here. Big projects like this are chronically underbudgeted (or "optimistically budgeted"), and leadership always jumps through various mental hoops to attribute cost overruns to unforeseen factors, where more than half of the factors were easily foreseen by commentators.

That being said, I sympathize with the nigh-impossible pressures here: it's difficult to convince an entire, diverse state to contribute funds to a project that will take a long time to come to fruition, and whose benefits will be broad, but marginal, across a variety of metrics. So there's a pressure to deliver an ambitious project at prices that are scarcely realistic. Being able to lead this does invite a certain amount of cognitive dissonance; in the famous words of Upton Sinclair, "it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it".
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Thank you for illustrating the tall poppy thing so well.
Yeah, it is plenty stupid. I have read many people complaining the same, but to no avail.

You can also add the lack of reliability to the drawbacks (more hardware, more software involved).

I am fond of thumb trackballs, and the M570 I was forced to buy did not last very long ('forced' because I did not want wireless). It stopped working after a while, without any visible sign of damage on any component.

Whereas my much older Trackman Wheel (the same as M570, but wired) is still my daily driver after more than 10 years.
No, eminent domain is already a questionable practice of screwing over the individual in the name of the collective. The state should never be able to simply co-opt private ownership just for "reasons".
I did not realize that lack of desire for playing along with suddenly relocating from my land cheaply makes me corrupt. Learn something new every day.
I don't understand the law here. Are ponzis only illegal when you make money on it? How all those 'victims' are able to sue 'scammers' while only difference is they were late to the scheme?
Its not fascinating. The contents of the tax plan were only known to corporate CFOs during the week of the vote, there hasn’t been time for due diligence since then to change direction of a top 10000 US company.

Any corporate announcement you read in january has been under corporate review at least since end Q3 2017.
You'd need a sort of 'motor city' for electronics. Something like what Detroit was for cars, or like what Shenzhen is now.

I'm surprised that no stateside port cities have tried to encourage that sort of thing; there are plenty of negative externalities, but I would still LEAP to move to such an initiative.

It's like...I want to create something that could make a difference for people, but all that I see in our current tech cities is faux do-goodiness, iniquity, and seething resentment. It's a bunch of people saying that they want to save the world while reaching into the pockets of people who can't afford it, and it hurts to be unfailingly lumped into that sort of behavior.
Actually, you're correct since there's no one frequency that's being modulated. It must have been AM.

By open-ended cable, I meant that there was an audio cable coming out of my sound card but connected to nothing on the other end. That's how I remember it, anyway. Actually, I think I increased the volume output in my PC was well as the volume on my receiver.
Small company owner here (5 devs, no dedicated devops or ops people). It is a pain. We manage secrets with Ansible and Ansible Vault. When a key needs changing the process is very annoying. But at this point I never thought of it as a problem I would pay money for because it is still not painful enough.

Things would likely change if my company gets bigger, let’s say > 15 devs. Everybody can deploy the ansible playbooks right now but if the company gets bigger then I will have to worry about access control for different people. I may also have dedicated devops/ops people in which case I will want to limit normal developers’ access. I will worry about whether there is a process in place to ensure that keys always stay safe and are rotated whenever an employees leaves. etcetera.

Your product reminds me a lot of Launchdarkly, in that it solves a seemingly trivial problem (they help you manage feature flags), yet when you think of it in the context of a larger organization where people have to work together then there are suddenly lots of related problems that aren’t so trivially solved. Launchdarkly apparently managed to convince VCs to invest in them. You may want to look at them for inspiration. They have material posted on Heavybit.
Many states will issue an absentee ballot only if you will be out of state on election day or have physical disabilities that will prevent visiting a polling place. Submitting an absentee ballot without meeting those conditions is voter fraud, which is a felony.
Election day is a holiday in India and there is still pretty low voter turn out.
The timing of this story is interesting to me because my Apple Music subscription is set to end today. On the one hand, I've really enjoyed the service as it has allowed me to discover many new artists and even genres that I like. On the other hand, I can really identify with the author when he says that "all music is becoming Muzak".

The turning point for me happened recently on a road trip when I opened up my music library and tried to find something to play. While I have "liked" a large number of songs and albums in the last year which now show up in my "library", it turns out that the majority of them are not something that I would choose to go back to after a listen or two. I can't even remember what a surprising number of albums in my library are! And so it happened that with my library of 130-ish new albums that I've added in the past year, I couldn't find anything that I wanted to listen to, and listened to the radio instead.

My plan is to take the $10/mo that I was spending on my subscription, buy a new album every month or two, and really listen to it before moving on to the next new thing.
You're just exemplifying what I said later where critique is unwelcome.

I don't think media is some egalitarian process where everyone is celebrated just for doing something. There's a lot out there in popular culture that is just outright technically flawed. Or just crap -- trust me, I've listened to more crap music and watched more crap movies than probably anyone (I much prefer to talk about the stuff I love though). We should be celebrating the stuff that's truly outstanding, not just because it's popular. Some really outstanding work isn't comfortable for the viewer/listener either.

Do you even know what you really like anymore? A lot of stuff is just rammed down our throats. Your brain triggers that dopamine hit just for recognizing the pattern regardless. It's good for business, but is it _good_?

I guess it all depends on how you about whether you feel media is artwork or entertainment.
Yes, when I look at a government project being massively over budget, it's the people who are legally compelled to give up their land for the project to be successful that I look at and ask myself, "how can we be more forceful with these corrupt people?"
So far no evidence has been shown for these "broad" benefits.
Make it a half day instead?
You wouldn't if you worked at Google.
> Yes it's quite illegal

Is it?
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The buck stops with the President. If the GOP Congress won't work with the President, it's the President's job to find a way to get enough of them on board. LBJ was a master at getting "impossible" legislation through Congress, so I don't believe it was impossible for Obama. I suspect this is where his inexperience in politics showed.

An example of this was outlined on Frontline a few years back. Obama crafted a bill, and included a number of items the GOP said they wanted. He then presented it to the GOP, and was surprised when the GOP soundly rejected it. This is a failure of Sales 101, in that it was set up so Obama would get the credit. Of course the GOP rejected it. A craftier technique is to invite the GOP to write those sections of the bill themselves, and give the GOP the credit. Same bill, but totally different approach.

Again, the buck stops with the President.
The author's problem is he's cast his net way too wide. Even if we limit ourselves to e.g. Rolling Stone Magazine's "Top 500 albums of all time", it would take a decade to deep-listen all 500. With that much super-high-quality music, which has stood the test of time and left its mark on culture, the author is making a huge mistake by wasting so much time on the ridiculous obscura he keeps name-dropping in the article.
The California HSR makes sense if you consider it not a railroad but a jobs program for eminent domain and environmental lawyers.
I think it really depends on how you grew up. I grew up around plenty of ingredients in my food that are just as pungent to smell, so fish sauce smells distinct but innocuous to me. But for some reason grated parmesan smells pretty bad to me even though it's delicious.
I feel like this is one of those things where if you knew about it it would already be dead. It only works when its a small community of like minded individuals, once it goes mainstream its ruined or at least transformed.
I agree. This would be market-y even if the actual resource wasn't hidden behind a signup page; most security firms have guidance for lambda security, which makes it odd to see a random firm declare the "top 10".
IMO this article is a waste of time. The issues outlined in the article like "increased attack surface" due to consuming data from HTTP APIs and message queues is nothing any other microservice-ish application isn't going to have to deal with. It's definitely not unique to serverless applications, and neither is anything else outlined in the article. And some of the assertions in the article such as a supposed inability to deploy a WAF in front of a serverless application are downright false.
Not only the right to be forgotten - but also requiring real, informed consent, up front, that can be denied.

Seems simpler to try really hard to keep the data anonymous.
Citing Minority Report the story as a cyberpunk tale would be anacronistich since it was written well before cyberpunk tropes and themes had been established.

Also it would be wrong because, besides being dystopic scifi, it has very little to do with cyberpunk.
shoot me an email graham at startyourownisp.com.
Now if he can only find a justification for Clamato juice
According to the article the new campus would be for support. Most of that in the U.S. is currently part of the Apple Texas campus. So this would not really alter much in Silicon Valley.
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Are the lawyers involved salaried employees of Mozilla? [edit:no] Perhaps there is some pre-paid number of hours/month type of thing... it may even be pro bono!

If instead they are billing hourly, then the whole process gets slightly more interesting to me - these do seem like the right people for the job!

https://www.steptoe.com/professionals-Georgios_Leris.html

https://www.steptoe.com/professionals-Markham_Erickson.html

I'm honestly not genuinely interested to know how that much about the funding situation (nor do I consider it any of my business), but considering how this affecting Mozilla's bottom line helps me understand their level of commitment. Is this just a marketing stunt?
Absolutely right. WHY does LinkedIn need to be another social experience? It's ridiculous.
These types of submissions are off-topic for HN.
> If you have clothing which you could still wear but don't want/don't fit in anymore then consider donating.

But please only to local homeless shelters/refugee assistance organizations, and only after checking if they actually accept the kind/size of clothes you want to bring, as most of them only have limited space. This is also valid for stuff like sleeping bags or food.

The "donation boxes" you see all over the streets in Germany (or those at charity organizations) are in fact often the worst of the worst - the charity organization may get money, yes, but the price of that money is the total and utter destruction of African textile industry. The "creme" aka first-class clothes goes to second-hand stores, the not-so-fine-anymore goes to Eastern Europe and the rest goes to Africa... and for local dealers it's hard to compete. Of course, the trade creates jobs, but the price of the countries not being able to produce anything locally and making them totally dependent on donations is enormous.
Apple expects to pay $38B in tax on repatriated cash
Or in other words...about 80% of what California spent on prisons, or about what they spent on roads in a single year [1].

It's irritating that these kinds of stories don't put the numbers in context, so that it's possible to do a cost/benefit analysis.

(These are statements of fact! If you want to express a value judgement, do it in a comment. Don't just downvote because you don't like facts.)

[1] http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2016-17/pdf/Enacted/BudgetSummary/...
Not op, but I did a search and couldn't find the correct query to confirm or deny. It might not be illegal for businesses to refuse time off for voting in the US. (seems like a bad place to work, but I'm sure it happens.)
I had a chemistry professor mention to the class she always travels with natural fabrics, cotton and the like, whenever she's onboard a flight. She mentioned something along the lines of it increases your chances of survival if ever there's a fire because synthetics melt and stick to your skin and burn like crazy.
There are huge differences in quality between brands. Many people swear by Squid, which I used to love, but having had Red Boat, let me attest: you can get the amazing flavor without the awful smell.
Accurately is a misleading word. It depends on what your goals are. Maybe you prefer to make a bit less profit so that people can read more, as a public service. Or maybe you're just using those books to attract people into the store.

Finally, the scanners don't know if you can price "accurately", so if you can, they're just occupying space and blocking ways for no benefit to anyone.
In some states, at least, employers are legally required to give employees a "reasonable" amount of time off to vote.

A lot of this stuff varies state by state.
which serves to illustrate my point that the author doesn't have a clue...

Minority Report wasn't a very cyberpunk movie either.
I assumed they felt that the thrift store was basically a charity helping the less fortunate buy clothes for a discounted price and that resellers buying all the decent stuff was taking away from the needy.
The point is that no one would have to be debating which languages should be supported by Lambda if they made their environment language-agnostic based on a protocol rather than a bunch of individual libraries.
Yeah exactly. Considering in many cases a plane ticket from SF to LA will cost less and get you there faster, the high speed rail project makes little sense
Yes, by law.
> a lot of companies disallow election day requests for time off specifically to disenfranchise their employees

Is this true? That seems crazy.
> By "does not move us any closer" I don't believe he wants us to do it at all.

Then take a look at § 5.1 of the paper which gives a clearer example with which to draw the distinction.

Eliminating trusted code is what you're doing by decorating uncompress with pledge() with any capability to acquire resources; anything beyond stdio (or seccomp)

Minimizing privilege means focusing on finding some other argument for pledge().
I've long thought we should eliminate Columbus day, and making election day a holiday.
> From the article, it sounds like the biggest obstacles are "land buys" and "delays relating to land buys".

So far, right? If you're having trouble acquiring the land, you've still got plenty of hurdles before you've got something built.

If the actual problem is incompetence or inefficiency, this is just the first sign of more to come.
Please let's not. The security issues are terrifying.
It's not clear to me how you arrived so quickly to the conclusion that these obstacles are a consequence of "money-appeasing corrupt landowners trying to hit the jackpot".

While it's possible that's the case, it's also entirely possible that the initial estimates for the cost of land purchases were simply inaccurate.
It should be the case that if the same amount of work is done, then the energy used will be the same. If it takes less work to compile the web assembly, then less energy (holding all other parameters the same). If you have to idle a CPU, then you probably use more energy (holding all other parameters the same) i.e. because you will spend more time and accomplish the same amount of real work (but waste energy on the idled core, albeit waste very little, accomplishing extra, but non-productive, work). Cannot let some other CPU parameter changes as a result of cores being idled (e.g. frequency gets boosted on non-idle cores as a result of dynamic frequency scaling with idle cores) to run this experiment. Thinking about CPU energy use is interesting :)
Nice idea but could you remove the mining script from the site. It's a great way to piss people off and keep them from sharing the site.
BART faced all of these objections as well. It was also over budget. Are you against infrastructure projects in general? Do you think the bay area would be better off without BART, even with the cost overruns?
"just an electron app"... :(
Why? Was it so good that no other book on the same subject is worth reading? If so I'll have to check it out haha
20 states don't allow absentee ballots unless you have a valid excuse (medial or you'll be out of state).

Some of those require you to appear in-person at the country registrar or before a board of elections to fill out a ballot.
Nice! I like the idea from the descriptions on the first page
Yes, but there are other nutrient needs, also looks like in certain cases additional nitrogen fertilizers are used for soybean crops.

https://www.extension.umn.edu/agriculture/nutrient-managemen...
Many countries have elections on Sundays to make it easier for most people to vote. Wouldn't advocating for moving the election day to Sunday be better alternative?
They've already implemented a lower-level protocol "we fork/exec your binary, it needs to bind to port _LAMBDA_SERVER_PORT, and it must follow gos net/rpc protocol". aws provided a library, aws-lambda-go, that every go implementer must use.

Anyone can implement their own 'aws-lambda-go' library in what ever language they want, but the choice to use net/rpc and it's gobs format makes it more difficult than it could be. json is implemented in practically every language. there are binary formats with libraries is most languages if your want to be efficient.

Choosing a protocol other than net/rpc would
1. make it easier for AWS to support more runtimes
2. make it easier for the community to support custom runtimes.
3. be as easy to integrate with as aws-lambda-go is.
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But is that really the case...?

Many years ago I commenter on Slashdot gave his (or her, don't remember) take on the movie ending and since then I had to completely re-evaluate the whole thing.

The film is now old, but...

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When Tom Cruise's is captured they put the "halo" containment device on him.
If you remember, when they did the same to the guy who attempted to murder his wife at the start of the movie, he asked, understendably worried, what would happen to him, and the policeman answered something like "you will just dream what you want to dream".

Ok, now consider that everything that happens from the moment that Cruise was arrested until the end is... a device-induced dream.
He was framed for murder, and... he just spends his life (or an untold number of years) in confinment - but he dreams the whole ending. Over and over...

This blew me away. Especially because it could hardly be more Dickian than this, while at my first watching the ending was too damn sugary/optimist/Hollywood for my tastes.
See The Go 1 Compatibility Promise[1]. Something programmed in Go 1.5 still works in Go 1.10

1. https://golang.org/doc/go1compat
Honest question: where is this happening?
As someone whose job is to solving problems with computers: this is not a problem that can be solved by computers.

Mainly, it all comes down to trust. Computers introduce too many complex systems to properly audit and thus require too much trust to use for voting.
Isn't that how TMS is theorized to work, not by enhancing (amplifying) the functionality of a region of the brain, but by interference?
Worst case scenario? Plenty of time for costs to exceed even these projections by the time the initial segment is due to be completed in 2025.

The $6 billion price tag was ridiculous. That's as much as the D.C. Metro Silver Line cost, and that was only 22 miles long. This HSR segment is 119 miles long. Yeah, it's probably cheaper to build through the Central Valley rather than the D.C. exurbs, but that much cheaper?
Facts on FISA: Correcting the Record on the Section 702 House Floor Debate
Remember those articles after the election about how researchers found that pretty much all of the net jobs created since 2005 were temporary, contract work, gig economy or other such insecure short-term non-traditional employment? For instance, https://qz.com/851066/almost-all-the-10-million-jobs-created...

Think carefully about what that means for the Obama years, and what it says about all the people who insisted those headline unemployment figures were iron-clad, indisputable proof that things were getting better and that anyone who claimed otherwise was simply lying.
> a lot of companies

where is the evidence for this claim?
“Country” is misspelled in the title.
It's easy to build infrastructure when labor costs are around $3/hour, eminent domain payment can't be litigated, and environmental impact studies are effectively not required.
China’s HSR lines didn’t come cheap, even if labor is cheaper there. They incurred a lot of debt to do this (much of it private via public SOEs), and it isn’t clear if it will pay off (only SH BJ is operating in the black ATM).
Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubeflow

Interesting! I read up on Sagemaker here[1] and didn't see any AutoML style training/tuning features, but you would certainly know better than me :)

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/sagemaker/
Scumbag fucks! Phewww! Do we kill spies? We’re the good guys and our wrath shall be quick and merciful, if need be. God bless America and peace be with you.
They fought this bill hard because the tax proceeds are being given away to corporations with a massive reduction in the corporate rate (along with other giveaways that benefit the wealthy such as lowering personal income taxes and raising the threshold for the estate tax), in direct contravention to their policy goals.

Had the Republicans chosen not to use this opportunity to go for broke while they're in control of Congress and the White House, they'd have Democratic support.
Data Definition Language in Google BigQuery
Go-style defer() implementation for C
I'm not sure there's much rationale to unpack. What benefit does proprietary have over open for the user?

The reason I even bother to state the obvious in the case of Datomic is that having this 1 restricted area in the otherwise open ecosystem around Clojure makes me want to start looking for an alternative environment. I'm sure everyone else that says it feels similar and just hopes if enough people say it, it'll be opened up. Obviously, Clojure can be used without Datomic, but I can't help but feel like I'm missing out on the bigger vision by not using it and I don't like that feeling because that's exactly how vendor lock-in begins.