skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Second, Russian President Vladimir Putin wants the political benefits of resisting U.S.-led sanctions policies toward North Korea.

I think this is one of the key reasons behind Russia's actions. It's not that they want to enable a dictator pursuing nuclear capabilities, but rather the political capital gained by opposing all international sanctions or policy brought to other, if it comes from the USA.
The Allwinner BROM is about 32KB, almost completely reverse-engineered at least for the earlier chips, and in any case the only thing it does during a normal boot is to load a chunk of code from a fixed location on the SD card to a fixed location in SRAM and immediately jump to it. It's nothing the Raspberry Pi boot process, where even the initial boot ROM has FAT filesystem support and it loads a proprietary blob which runs continually on the "GPU" co-processor with full access to RAM handling various important runtime functionality.
He is arguing that it is not clear that "buying cow is obviously better". Because many people really do argue like that when it comes to rent vs. buy.
Both static and dynamic typing are useful. They should be available in the same language but that language doesn't exist yet.
Hardly. Zero immigration or zero net immigration? I'm not sure people realise that the only countries that have that state are ones that are both so authoritarian that they can enforce it and so bad that nobody wants to live there.

"Zero work visas" leads to even more egregiously stupid outcomes. No trade shows. No touring bands.

("Zero immigration" also means that if one of your nationals wants to marry a foreigner, they have to leave the country. And so on.)
Depends on how capable the robot is. If it is a re-purposed military killbot you probably want it to play nice.
Clearly you have too much free time at work ;-)

Just kidding, know how those rabbitholes are.
> What matters are the power law companies, not the average company.

Depends on your viewpoint. Average company can be pretty good for most personal goals that most people have.
but how many of those views are on mobile devices?

this is a desktop feature. in general, mobile traffic > desktop traffic.

we’d need wikipedia’s browsing statistics be sure, since some sites see different ratios than others. What if 1:8 wikipedia visits are on desktop? That would make the 5K/minute much more significant.
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> When you optimize for one metric, other metrics fall.

This is very true. People often assume that things like machine learning or AI won't have racial biases, but then we find out time and time again that our algorithms are in fact biased. It's not that the bias is intentional (even human bias is rarely intentional), it's that by focusing on metrics, the metric of racial equality often suffers. I'm not sure why you were down voted for pointing this out. This is a key concept to understand if we care about creating a more equal society in an age of big data and machine learning. Google did some research in this area: https://research.google.com/bigpicture/attacking-discriminat... The TL;DR version is that in order to eliminate bias, you have to be aware of biases as metrics and optimize to eliminate them.
Only using visual development exacerbates traceability and verifiability though. Reviewing "code" is hard if there is none.

For example I have yet to see a good way to visually diff graphs.
Aah.. makes sense. And indeed flights were ridiculously unreasonable even 1.5 yrs ago or so.
There is this product called Labview that does visual programing. I am not a huge fan because its just easier personally to write c code. Does everyone just want picture books. Plenty of people like normal books. I think Code is just more concise to understand. There are probably plenty of people who feel the same way.
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As a new farmer, this is good news. My target range for CO2 is 1200ppm. This means our future will be greener!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkDgYLxp8Sg
The current business model of ICOs is functionally as a pyramid scheme due to the deflationary nature of most cryptocurrencies. The idea is you buy, then you hold & evangelize, then you sell at 10x/100x. Look at the dropping transaction volume across the board even during the mainstream attention on cryptocurrency.

If these cryptocurrencies or tokens were inflationary and meant to promote commerce/trading rather than holding and speculation then I don't think anyone would have a problem (like more easily traded microsoft points or MMO gold).

This also doesn't change the fact that most online currencies are functioning as unregulated securities and are facilitating illegal transactions and money laundering.

If more thought was put into creating decentralized, inflationary currencies that followed current financial regulations I would not have a problem with cryptocurrencies. But the predatory nature of the community that has developed around cryptocurrency and the focus on get rich quick schemes rather than online commerce is what worries me about cryptocurrency.

Sorry for the rant.
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No it's not. For some reason, people with no SW background tend to under-estimate the complexity of seemingly simple business rules and their interactions.
Yeah, it's like Americans have this massive blindspot when it comes to government. The "problem" of standardized medical record storage and distribution has been thoroughly solved in France. There you have a nationwide system of healthcare and there are largely no issues with medical record access. (Which is not to say it's perfect but what you're dealing with are largely internal organizational issues not the massive coordination issues that make American healthcare so unpredictable and expensive.)

There's this very naieve view that blockchains are somehow going to replace governments. I think a lot of people are in for a very rude awakening. The government, as they say, are the guys with the guns. It highly unlikely that they will surrender enormous power and privilege to decentralized networks. When it comes to currency, capital formation, medicine, energy, defense and transportation the governments will step in to ensure they remain firmly in control. These are political "core competencies" that no government in their right mind will abrogate.

This is what makes all these blockchain delusions about a blockchain of medical records so stupid and pointless. If there were such a blockchain it would be controlled by the government in which case you wouldn't need a blockchain at all as everything could be done much faster, cheaper and more securely using a centralized, government-controlled database. I mean, really? Do people not see this?

And the idea of "forking" Google or Amazon is so hilariously dumb all I can do cringe that somebody seriously wrote that and put their name behind it.

It's clear now that many of these blockchain advocates don't really understand where the blockchain is actually useful. There actually is a class of problems that require global, decentralized, democratic consensus and are not susceptible to economies of scale but are susceptible to network effects. (I say democratic consensus here because this idea that blockchains are "trustless" is nonsense. Every blockchain is a democracy and democracy requires enormous trust. As we've seen again and again if the majority of nodes vote one way you have no choice but to follow or lose all your assets. Blockchains do not fulfill this libertarian fantasy of freedom from democracy.) This class of problems does not overlap with what governments at all. But it does overlap almost 100% with those problems that the internet has already solved so successfully. Particularly investors like USV should be looking at their previous tech investments -- Twitter, blogging, open source companies, digital collaboration, content generation, messaging -- and thinking about how blockchains could help these problems. TLDR: the blockchains aren't anything new. They're global, decentralized networks that let millions of people communicate and coordinate in real-time. Just like the internet itself.
Nothing more true than that. Except I'll add that people become a bit more disillusioned by experience and willingness to take risk as they get older - at least maybe with dating and startups, maybe not lotteries and religion
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(but there will be severe limitations and in practice the users will end up logging calls to IT support)
This is great! Would be great to see an option for Typescript, and splitting vendor and application bundles.
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Do they really use Snapchat for writing? I've tried to use it besides picture sharing and it's really cumbersome...
It's really slow to startup (compared to other apps), the UI is confusing, and old messages get deleted...
I should probably not care, but i do: Emacs, not emails. I should also not write these on an iphone.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic_efficiency

You’re both right - there’s lots of room for practical improvement.
Not if you store the algorithm alongside the media.
Why would I ever want to do this? Why would anyone want to do this?
I think is a totally reasonable point of view and comes down to a classic cost-benefit analysis.

Are you OK with using the grid as a highly-reliable, ~infinite capacity power source to smooth over your uneven solar generation at a cost of selling your excess back at a discounted rate,

or

do you want to try and capture that discount yourself at the cost of having to buy, install and maintain your own integrated battery backup system?

Maybe the calculus works out in your favor for you, specifically. Maybe not. But it's good to have options.
Oops, I missed this late answer. In case you wonder by here again, would you mind providing a link and maybe a brief summary of what parts of the Reuters article is BS?
For parsing and prepping large amounts of data, awk is shockingly effective. And after a while, you even get used to your eyes bleeding...
Sometimes you pay for something, but circumstance prevents you from making use of it.

Tough luck.
Not to criticize the hard work that went into doing this feature (I worked on a project using wikipedia/wiktionary data), all the things that had to be achieved to come up with a "simple" preview features are just made hard because the data in wiki media is not machine friendly. Things like the obvious priority order of fields and bizarre templates that one needs to implement to parse the data makes the job unbelievably hard in the first place.
This is a very good point and one that I've been wondering but not seen much discussion of.
> when serializing, all signed integers need to be sign-extended to 64 bits, to support interop between different integer types

FWIW, I think it'd be awesome if the only wire integer format were a bignum, in order to support full interoperability between integer types. Maybe even do that same for floats, too …
Then UE walked on the democratic opinion of its citizens and established the constitution without asking the citizens, with the treaty of Lisbon.
I agree with all of this, except are you really implementing bayesian models in SQL? I'm not sure that is what the author is advocating in the first place. There are tools for bayesian everything, I much prefer using those over hacking together some illegible SQL script.
What timezone are we using for this? Is it midnight Zulu on the 25th, the 26th?
Doesn't seem to work in Chromium 62 or Chrome 63. Occasionally the browser says "Rats! WebGL hit a snag. [Ignore] [Reload]", and neither action helps. Occasionally WebGL doesn't hit a snag, but the visualization only loads partly, with some buildings, sometimes with color but sometimes not, and just overall appears broken.
Both scrolling and panning (dragging) feels inverted to me! Specifically, it behaves the opposite way to for example Google Maps. (Scrolling away from the computer, towards me, takes me closer to the map. Dragging doesn't keep that map pixel under the cursor, but drags the "camera" around.)

The visualisation itself was cool, if a bit slow in Firefox on my laptop.
And anyone working on ML/AI who doesn't understand overfitting is selling snake oil.
The MSDN subscription gets you licenses for almost all MS software, including their OSes.
The first DDG hit for "electricity production deaths per kwh" is https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...

(Not saying Forbes is a reliable source on this particular statistic, but maybe you can find a more authoritative one if you search?)

As for scalability, I guess the argument is that wind is somewhat limited by suitable sites, whereas nuclear produces a lot of power on a small area, with fuel lasting for millenia?
The blockchain is nearing it's 10th anniversary with no sign of slowing down when it comes to people investing time in it.

Furthermore as far as I am aware there is not BlockchainX
“Rather than having to pay upfront, even the smallest startup could access technology that rivalled what a large enterprise had available to them.“

This assumption seems wrong to me and I’ll even suggest the exact opposite. Cloud software has traditionally been cumbersome since its the one size fits all approach. With the advent of the cloud, people were willing to sacrifice functionality for convenience. Now that everything is in the cloud this is not true anymore and we’re starting to see pushback at all levels. Almost every company has a different workflow that only custom software can serve best. This is why companies with more resources will win at the software game; assuming they know how to play. Molding software to your workflow is always better than changing your workflow to accommodate software.
A perfectly reasonable default position to have, in my mind if you are going to bring outsiders in, you should probably do it for selfish reasons.
so what you're saying is that I could turn the 10 used laptops in my basement into a business?

okay....brb...reformatting them to linux.
This article has a bunch of pictures and stupid shit in between paragraphs and makes it hard to read. Not HN worthy at all.
When a millon refugees walk across the border, what are the options? And what will the outcomes of those choices be?
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I used to work at RackShack during these times, and when it was renamed to Ev1Servers, which this article is about. I can answer any questions and clear up any misconceptions.

The company started out pretty much exclusively with Cobalt Raqs at first. They eventually bought their own real datacenter and physically moved all of the servers there and had a lot more room. I remember when they got these machines they're talking about. They sold them as AMD Athlon "white boxes" I believe. I was a little surprised when I noticed they were literally super cheap desktop machines, similar to "emachines" back then. They even had CDROM drives! But it didn't really phase me. Why the hell not? He obviously got a good deal on them. We just made racks, 5 on each row, 4 rows. They ran Linux just fine and had 100mbit network cards in them.

And yeah, no firewalls. That's your job on your server. Most people ran servers on these machines, why would they want a hardware firewall? The networking was simple. Just 5 daisy-chained switches, one mounted on reach rack. 100 servers would share a block of 512 IP addresses. If your subnet ran out of IPs, we would literally move your server to a different subnet.

They also saved money because most support techs were 18-20 and made just above minimum wage. But it was a great opportunity and I learned a lot. And we really did have a lot of really smart people working there.

Someone else in here said that they would require your root password on support forums. No one was stupid enough to request that and customers were generally not stupid enough to post it, but I'm sure it probably happened once or twice. It was a similar situation in the official IRC channel. Some customers didn't grasp the concept and would accidentally paste their root passwords in there.

The story about their fiber connection being down, I remember that I think, but it was before my time. I believe they only had 3 fiber connections, and one of them was severed. They decided that it was because of a dump truck picking up a garbage can. They were pretty open about it and posted pictures on their forums. They kept acquiring fiber connections. I believe they eventually had 10 different 1-gigabit connections at a single DC.
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No, you're not - there are plenty of options in between the current state of things and complete indifference to peoples' lives. Alternatives include accelerated immigration programs focused on refugees. Or a peace-keeping intervention in the war-torn places.

The issue GP is pointing out is that this framing is basically shutting out any possible discussion. While myself I'm rather currently in favour of relatively lenient immigration policies, a lot of people I know personally are anti-immigration because they feel like we're being scammed with a bait-and-switch tactic - i.e. that we're told to accept war refugees, and what we get instead are economical migrants. Whether justified by evidence or not, I find those fears are something reasonable for people to have.
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Depends on the robot. A mere vacuum cleaner is as you describe, but a fully general household bot could turn a gas hob on without igniting it, combine unsafe combinations of bleach when cleaning the bathroom, fail to recognise when food has expired before cooking it, mistake bleach for a drink when serving dinner, mistake the owner’s fingers for carrot or a sausage when making dinner, or lock one or more doors in an open position overnight.
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> We have all the data we just need to formulate it into something that makes sense to predict which times of day, days of week, for each region, where we have more traffic then use that data to pre-scale.

But then.. you would be doing ML ;)
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make = webpack, this tool = autotools

We are going around in a cycle!
And they can just use regular SMS?
We are continuing to improve our issue tracking / project management at different tiers. You can take a look at these epics and issues to see much of the work that we have already planned. Most of these issues are in Core or Starter:

https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/8

https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/5

https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/6

https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/22

https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/156

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/3969

Highlights are bulk subscriptions of issues, better subgroup support for labels and milestones, and expanded issue weight support.
Oh man do I hate Labview. I used everything else when possible including C, python with C bindings, and even MatLab compiling into C to give direct equipment directions. But that being said it is just my (and it seems like your) preference. I had several peers who were significantly better at getting the whole lab collection, processing, and output process up and running quickly and efficiently and they did not know how to code. I think there is a space for "no code" tools. Of course there will be someone on the back working with code but visual tools help lower that barrier for individuals with other skills than coding.
Very cool, small quality of life suggestion is allow movement with WASD or the arrow keys.
I believe the perception that the immigration policy is "as much as possible" doesn't reflect reality. Many in the west feel it is the humane thing to offer immigrants in war torn ME an opportunity for a better life considering the selfish meddling the West has been involved in WRT ME policy for the last 100 years (think Sykes-Picot, which carved the ME up for UK/France ends).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement
> this leaves basically everyone discontent about something everywhere.

That's life, I guess.
I don't see how your particular example regarding Hungary is anti-semitism. Being a Jew does not protect you from being critized.

Of course there could be example of anti-semitism from the gov in Hungary, but I don't think that's the case of the linked article.
Why not just wait till the 27th?
Perhaps of interest here:
http://www.bytecellar.com/2012/09/11/susan-kares-32x32-pixel...
I second this. I'd also add that the inputs are way too sensitive. Moving my mouse only a couple of pixels completely inverts the visualization! It's basically impossible to exert any fine-grained control.
As OP stated, that's tied to your cookies though and won't be a "permanent" solution.
FFS, just delete it on 27
Yup, I have a user stylesheet that limits wikipedia's article width for this reason
> Like all those workplace drama questions

They're like a soap opera for geeks
Wake up in the middle of the night with your Amazon robot standing over you, laughing.
>Blockchain style solutions are not relevant for many projects. They have some legitimate uses, however, and saying "But you could..." isn't a retort.

Except you've got that backwards. Since none of those solutions actually exist yet beyond hype, it's the blockchain proponents who have to show how using blockchain technology in those situations is not only feasible but superior. Saying that you can already solve those issues with existing techniques IS the default.
Ahh... Great point!
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The Treaty of Lisbon is not equivalent with the proposed constitution. It merely amends current EU legislation with some aspects salvaged from the far further-reaching Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe.
Though 1k is a pretty naive estimate, 12k a year is just not right.

I'm having trouble coming up with any way to prove it wrong, besides common sense. Think of the price of appliances, and then think of how many you can get with 12k. Reshingling a roof tends to be around 5k, and lasts for 30 years.

I can't even imagine a scenario where you spend 12k a year.
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Could you clarify what is not? The only advantage over rolling out docker images by yourself is the scheduler. And if I consider what we wasted amounts of time we already in my team I'd say in that time we could have written our own docker container that can schedule containers on (or from) other hosts.

You can easily see that a solution is mediocre if you see that it doesn't attempt to solve any of the hard problems (in this case networking, network debugging, storage, performance) while requiring lots of overhead to do a trivial thing (e.g. here are my static html files, no go and host these).

It works okay on AWS/GoogleCloud but at least on AWS you already have all the features of k8s on IaaS level. On everything else it runs shitty and you spend more human resources on getting it to work / keeping it working than when you do the scheduling yourself.
The code is the easy part.

The understanding of how systems and resources fit together to accomplish goals -- that's the hard part.
You're right and I don't want to get too far down the road of defending blockchain (as I seem to have unwittingly done). The marketing most certainly is over the top.