skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure the author thinks more highly of his audience than that.

It gets your attention, then you think "oh, that can't be real", and then, hopefully, "but it's the same sort of thing that they really use, and training to spot cars and signs is probably useful in a military context."
“Productive” here means that there is no distinguishing feature of the diamond industry in particular with respect to the luxury industry. In other words, the criticism of the diamond industry is not productively precise. Of course, you can productively criticize the entire luxury industry, sure, I don’t disagree with that.

More to the point, what exactly is the fallacy? That the “real” products are better? They are better for some definition, you just don’t share the same definition of “better” as the people buying them. That’s the problem: the claim of superiority is not falsifiable, and it’s normative. It’s valid to say that synthetic diamonds are better according to some metrics like flawlessness, but that isn’t the metric everyone values. Many people demonstrably want “as flawless as possible for the ‘real’ diamond I can afford.” That desire is not based on a fallacy, it’s based on different priors. People are approximately never perfectly price-efficient in their purchasing decisions, which means there’s some amount of irrationality everywhere. A desire to buy an inefficiently priced luxury item with artificial scarcity and status associations is price-irrational but it can make sense in general. In your view, there should be a rigorous notion of “the metric” to optimize for across various products, but that notion is fundamentally at odds with how humans operate culturally. To put it bluntly, many people know and don’t care that synthetic diamonds are better in many respects, just as many people know and don’t care that a “franken-Rolex” can be better than an actual Rolex in many respects. They still want the “real” version, and from there they’ll optimize further.

Like I said, I think there are legitimate criticisms of the diamond trade, but in my opinion they’re glossed over when we get preoccupied talking about what constitutes “real” versus “fake” and whether or not people should want the “real” thing.
I could of course be wrong or ignorant, but I have yet to see a single application that isn't speculation, save a few that uses it as currency transfer but using centralized nodes, meaning they could just use any much cheaper sharded data storage.

I don't doubt theoretical applications, I'm just saying everything thus far has been hype and cluster"%#&s.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/a-sim...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/cisco...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/cisco...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/01/hack-...
Spend your money on good craftmanship instead. The work of a skilled jeweller lasts much longer than any stone.
> They don't subordinate countries.

aaand the people within them?

last I checked I cant make my country unilaterally withdraw from a treaty because I don't like being prosecuted by a foreign corporation via a proxy-kangaroo court..
Google Cloud Platform builds its own: https://www.wired.com/2015/06/google-reveals-secret-gear-con...
Bad security is typically the tip of the iceberg.
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I've spoken to a few engineers at Sandvine. Both said they knew what their product was being used for. One quit (at least partly) because of it.

I also went to school with a bunch of people who were pretty seriously environmentally-focused (environment faculty programs). Some ended up in the oil and mining industries. When probed about this, the general response boiled down to "I want to find something else but I also want to be employed."

I'm no psychologist but I think it's just kind of part of the human condition that our needs > our wants. Morals are less of a need than employment, maybe? Just spitballing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16259127

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13923669

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13466187

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14594331

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5401496
Managing yes, but managing a decline. Their one lever to keeping prices up has been the (artificial) scarcity.

With that gone they have very little to play with. Fashion, possibly, but that’s strongly fickle & temporary.
> they definitely need at least a year before they understand the problem space well enough for their offers of major architecture changes to be welcome.

I think there's a role for humility on both sides. In my current role, I was an experienced hire. After a month on the job my manager and his manager pulled me aside and said "What are we doing wrong?"

The interesting thing was that when I told them that I thought their module system was seemed backwards, the response was "Yeah, we know. It's a quirk of history that it ended up that way, and we've got a plan to fix it. Anything else?"

They very much valued a fresh set of eyes to ensure that they weren't missing something they had become house-blind to. At the same time, as a set of fresh eyes your attitude should be one of questioning, "Why are we doing it that way?" rather than "We're doing it wrong" or "This way is better".
thanks this is a great way to learn about new terms. Adding onto this, I usually find the github repo of that keyword term (if its open source) and star it. If its a close source platform, I usually bookmark it on alternativeto.net and check up its competing cases. If its a youtube video, I usually put a like on it. this way I can just thumb through my favorites / likes / stars and get a complete picture of a modern toolset

Another good term is to do "Term VS ______" in google to learn about competing technology use cases as well

At the end of the day some of these terms are possibly all buzzwords but its nice to see what actual companies are using, what that business does, and why they might be using it. Sometimes you get some really nice insights when you dig down deeper (look at their forum posts, etc). This is especially true for things like ecommerce carts (run wappylzer → inspect what the site is running on), sometimes you can actually physically see the decisions they made at a company publically.
That is due to tooling but it is an issue because it is rarely used.

Carbon is fragile and breaks but it is cheaper to repair once again because Titanium is exotic right now.

https://www.livestrong.com/article/271286-titanium-vs-carbon...
I recently read about a decentralized alternative to YouTube called DTube.

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https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2018/3/7/17087668/steem...

It’s built on STEEM and IPFS.

> DTube is an application fully written in javascript, that runs in the browser, that allows you to upload and watch videos on top of the IPFS Network. Moreover, it uses STEEM as a database and enables earning [...]

https://steemkr.com/video/@heimindanger/introducing-dtube-a-...
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Never the less, she is quoted as claiming "This TPP sets the gold standard in trade agreements to open free, transparent, fair trade, the kind of environment that has the rule of law and a level playing field".

She cannot denounce that. There is no way to say you support and believe in something with more vigor than that.

It'd be her version of saying she liked something before she didn't like something in the most convenient way.
Cisco has had a bunch of boneheaded security issues "recently" (last 2 years or so, by my casual observations). A quick Google search will find several such examples.

See for example:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/06/stop_us_if_youve_he...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/26/cisco_elastic_servi...
That's structure-through-motion and it's an older tech.
Do you have experience doing this? We are worried that one can't feesable click test an entire applications worth of prettier changes in a single PR.
Someone should let Linus (the Tech Tips one) know. Not sure if he'd want to be endorsing tunnel bear now that its owned by McAfee.
No one in right mind should have written high perf backend servers in Javascript, desktop apps in electron or databases in Java but here we are.
Mullvad (https://mullvad.net/en/) is the highest rated VPN service by That One Privacy Site[0] and it's pretty easy to use.

It's what I use, check it out!

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Yes! Getting close though. Only two stages left.

For those who need context: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135479.Cat_s_Cradle
I'm sure the promotion committee had a tough time making that call...
Nobody gets fired for buying cisco.
It does but it requires them being ok ceding the mass market.

Which is fine, but it’s a massive cultural shift for them & I’m not sure they’d want to do that (though they may have no choice).
> they definitely need at least a year before they understand the problem space well enough for their offers of major architecture changes to be welcome.

No offense intended, because I don't know your situation, but as someone who has worked in several industries, every time I've heard that kind of phrase it's boiled down to some combination of unnecessary complexity (of architecture and/or process) and undocumented tribal knowledge.

I can't imagine any problem space that would take a senior developer a full year to become competent.
For what it’s worth, I much prefer your version. It emphasises the similarities between “empterprisey” SOA and the “cool hip” Microservice, while also highlighting one of the bigger differences.

People get too caught up in “how small is micro”, which is just silly extremism.
How is that a pro-OurLanguage protest? The board already had Kannada and English. In addition, Hindi was being added. That is clearly an anti-Hindi protest. Not a pro-Kannada protest.
You are correct, and I was thinking of William Gibson. Thank you for correcting me.
> But, we will get an article from MIT making it sound like everything works flawlessly.

Well, I don't want to speak to the draconian political implications of this -- that is a separate issue with troubling implications -- but I do want to address the general notion that imperfection should prevent a system (any system) from being practical.

Just because it's not perfect doesn't mean it is not usable -- you just need to create rules that govern what actions can be taken. We do this with almost any real world system (vehicle routing, plant control, etc.). No predictive model is perfect, and we practitioners understand this and regulate our behavior accordingly, often through simple rules. We build in checks, overrides and recourses. Us techies often think of technological solutions as being all-encompassing, forget how much of a human element (and human judgment) there is in real-world feedback loops.

Also, lest people think parsing out multiple sources from a signal is a new thing, Blind Source Separation [0] is the name that has been given to the study of this type of problem (sometimes called the "cocktail party problem"), and it has been studied for decades. Like most model inversion problems, it's known to be an underdetermined problem, and it is also known that you cannot get perfect separation all the time, but you can get a certain degree of separation if there is some signal (however weak) that helps discrimination. So it's not like practitioners have no idea about the potential issues -- most are acutely aware of them. This doesn't diminish the fact that the algorithms do actually work, for some definition of "work".

Techniques like ICA and NMF preceded DL approaches. It sounds like DL (deep learning) approaches hold promise on these types of problems, and this is something of note.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_signal_separation
Seconded. I spent about two weeks studying with the mobile version of this site in my free time and managed to pass the technician, general, and amateur extra exams in one sitting.
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It doesn't cease to amaze and shock me how what were 1980s hard union democrats who fought hard against Reagan's little globalization, dissolved under Clinton's charismaman persona and fell for big globalization.

Even NPR, typically on the workers side, pushing FUD like canned goods will get expensive due to steel in the cans. As if half a penny per tin will break people and second as if we didn't have alternatives like glass and aseptic packaging.

I'm heartened to learn there could be provisions for us to amend the execution of the NA trade agreement; as it would make sense for our workers.
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Sounds like they haven't actually broken open the diamond, so can we really be sure?
Nope, sorry but just nope. I use dry-validations and it’s fine for what it is, but unless this stuff is at the language level it’s just a hack and janky to use, which sacrifices one of ruby’s main attractions - language aesthetics.

I agree with parent, ruby is a pain to work in, especially if you’ve drunk the FP koolaid. I’m back doing rails again after a while doing react front end stuff and a bunch of own time elixir. Ruby needs to allow more functional programming imo.
Yeah, I had a similar thought. I think the author was being deliberately modest, prepping the reader by getting their guard up for a big assertion and then delivering a relatively unsurprising point.
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More on the latter point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

The same effect was also used in understanding brain development by looking at Carbon isotopes in brains of people born before WW2 to determine which cells were formed when.
As a Ruby/Rails dev, the OP makes a good, directionally correct point: "I don’t believe that simply being better than Rails is enough to displace Rails."

However, he's off by a bit. It's going to take another framework to not just be "simply better". This framework will need to be an order of magnitude better to get me to switch from the amazingly productive Rails ecosystem. The framework/language marketplace is crowded and you are going to really need to standout to get any serious adoption to compete. For me, the cost of switching all new development projects to Hanami seems to out-weight the benefits (this also assumes Rails is the correct tool for the job of course, which it often isn't).

That said, a Rails/Hanami/Sinatra framework built on the Crystal language, which looks almost exactly like Ruby but gives you C performance, appears like it might be that order-of-magnitude to 100x game-changer that could get me to switch stacks. [0]

Whether you like him or not, Peter Thiel has some good thoughts when it comes to innovation and I think this argument perfectly encompasses this Rails/Hanami discussion:

"As a good rule of thumb, proprietary technology must be at least 10 times better than its closest substitute in some important dimension to lead to a real monopolistic advantage. Anything less than an order of magnitude better will probably be perceived as a marginal improvement and will be hard to sell, especially in an already crowded market. The clearest way to make a 10x improvement is to invent something completely new."[1]

[0] https://crystal-lang.org/
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There is also lbry, a decentralized media hosting platform based on cryptocurrency.

Although I'm still not convinced that the crypto is necessary here...
TunnelBear never had good security. It's Canadian HideMyAss. Well, it was.
There are extensive diamond mining operations in the Canadian arctic. I always thought it ironic that people choose for a symbol of their love an object that necessitated destruction of the natural landscape and the production of toxic tailings.
Often it is the government who has to do the clean up when it is done at all.
It would be a fine thing if lab diamonds could stop this.
I don't want to advocate for nihilism, but most institutions are unethical in some way, or pave the way for evil third parties.

There are exceptions, of course. They just hire less often, pay less, want an specific cultural fit etc.

Myself, I've taken the path of avoiding such businesses – thankfully I'm frugal – but when I imagine the expensive things I could have/do, or when I'm picking cheaper stuff to do with friends and dates, it's hard not to remember the allure of selling out.
That is really the best solution, especially since it’s easier than ever to partition code bases (e.g. multi-process tools where you’ve only had time to modernize one of the pieces so far). It’s no longer “new project” so much as “new piece”.
Sorry, but language acquisition has been found heritable.

I am aware of the definition. I fear it is you who doesn't have the epistemological clarity. It is not words that define but procedures with which you arrive at your results. And they do not discern culture, environment, flesh unless you take an extra care.

How do you propose to measure heritability of the first spoken language? What would be the variable here? It is perhaps hard to define variance in the language you speak, no? Are you aware of any such study, proving as you say that language one happens to speak is not heritable at all (as opposed to obviously)?

To see about an obviously cultural trait you'd like the first spoken language to be, it would be perfectly possible to measure accent variance, and perform a GWAS or twin study on that to see whether this is heritable or not. I am not aware of such study.
Is it? At runtime, I can cover my code with couts, and run a debugger. At compile time this is much harder.
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It also suggests "cynical." See definition #2:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jaded
C++ also has the `mutable` as a way to achieve something akin to internal mutability
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Nope, a result<T,Err> like expected-lite on github.
I disagree. Gold is clearly a luxury item despite being natural. More importantly, diamonds are luxury goods, for better or worse, which means they wouldn’t adhere to the price dynamics of water.
Taleb has an annoying habit of attacking the people as much as the idea he's criticizing. If you don't agree with Taleb you're suddenly a "charlatan". And if you don't take his hardline stance on GMOs you're a shill for Monsanto. I've read almost everything of Taleb's by the way, but I find his inability to accept criticism annoying. Seeing how he behaves on twitter has made me admire him less.
Tried them until they implemented the policy to block the torrent protocol. WHY. WOULD. YOU. DO. THAT. TUNNELBEAR. That's a legit protocol where legit downloads happen barring the overwhelming illegal activity that happens there.
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That story on Adam Curry's blog was not written by Curry himself, but by a Richard Dougherty (NS0S) of Kansas City. The Reddit story it linked to was deleted, so take this all with a grain of salt.

That said, it doesn't surprise me in the least. There are a lot of wannabe-cop wannabe-military whackers in the amateur radio community, unfortunately.

(NW5W here)
I don’t believe intel owns mcafee anymore.
The spammers rotate through new numbers every few hours. We're actually adding 1,300 new numbers per day and the full blacklist is over 700k entries.

As for getting connected to the phone system - Yeah, they have to jump on the phone network somewhere and, in theory, the best way to stop these guys would be to at the ingress point.

The problem is that the phone system is built for interconnection. Even just one bad actor letting the traffic on spoils the system. Layer on top of that the way the network routes calls through multiple hops through multiple carriers and tracking the calls back to the source is nearly impossible. Throw in common carrier regulations (you can't just willy nilly block calls coming over the network) and it amps up even more. Finally, allow all this to be done for fractions of pennies and you get the perfect storm for robocalls.

As for the neighbor spoofed calls, make sure that you enter your phone number in Nomorobo so that we can make sure we protect the correct number block ([Area Code]-[Exchange]-[0000-9999]). In our initial release, we were only able to identify these calls but not block them. It had to do with blocking calls from families with sequential phone numbers. But, in our last release, if you give the app contact access, we can now scrub those numbers and fully block the neighbor spoofed calls.

It's been a bit of a balancing act between being privacy conscious (not needing your email/phone number/invasive contact access) and getting the job done. The balance that we've struck is this - you don't have to give us any of that and you'll get really good protection. But, if you try out the service and start to trust us more, we can do an even better job.

And finally, yes - it's going to take a lot of effort to tackle this problem. While Nomorobo isn't perfect - admittedly, the sim ring landline version is just a crazy hack that the carriers can't stop - the past 4 years have seen some great progress in the fight.

As more and more people become aware of robocall blockers and we show that it's actually a very safe way to protect people, only then will the larger industry come along (kicking and screaming the entire way).
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Poetry is a new tool to help you manage your Python projects.

It is both a dependency management tool and a packaging tool. Note that for the moment the focus has been on the dependency management part but the work on the packaging/publishing has started and is ready for simple, pure-python projects.

Most of the reasons why I started this are detailed in the README (along with why I don’t want to use Pipenv) but if you want to know the advantages of Poetry compared to existing tools, here are a few:

- Exhaustive dependency resolver

- Intuitive CLI (See [Commands](https://github.com/sdispater/poetry#commands))

- Emphasis on semantic versioning and constraint specification so that wildcard dependencies (`*`) will be considered bad practice

- Support for dependencies caret, tilde, wildcard, inequality and multiple requirements.

- Only one file: the standardised `pyproject.toml` which aims at being readable and clear.

- Mandatory compatible python versions specification.

This project is a revamped version of [pypoet](https://github.com/sdispater/poet) to have a cleaner codebase.

Be aware that not all the features described in the README are implemented yet (but most of them are).

Also, Poetry is Python 3.6+ only but can manage Python 2 projects without any problem.

And finally, Poetry is not stable yet so internally things can change but the CLI and commands are pretty much stable so backwards-incompatible changes should not happen too often.
> HyperCard has been used by LGBT and other marginalized people to make interactive art representing their experiences.

What an odd thing to say about it. Handwriting, too, has been used by LGBT and other marginalised people to make art representing their experiences. HyperCard has no doubt been used by mainstream people to make interactive art representing their experiences. HyperCard has no doubt been used by marginalised and mainstream people to make business applications.

HyperCard was really neat technology, regardless of who was using it at the time. It enabled some neat stacks, with a pretty neat visual æsthetic.