skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But by the looks of it, the search backend isn’t being run all over the world, else latency would be decent.

The vast majority of the JavaScript is superfluous third-party libraries like AngularJS. The actual app is under 2,000 lines of code. I do not expect it would be difficult to cut the frameworks out of it at all, for a lighter and faster experience that only weighed a few kilobytes.
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A lion is still dangerous even tough it's not conscious.

Edited for clarification. Not conscious in any way that would rival "real AI" (as per the parents point) or human consciousness.

AI will get increasing access to more and more crucial parts of society and thus become more and more dangerous. It doesn't need to "real AI" for that.
Lake levels are near record high currently, and causing massive amounts of erosion all along the coastline. It's actually quite interesting to watch houses, dunes, roads and other structures fall into the lake as nature does what it does. [0]
Removing a few million gallons a day isn't going to hurt the the lake that much.

[0] http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/porter/continued-erosion-...
Fitbit will use Google Cloud to make its data available to doctors
After multiple months of research, FBI and cybercrime agents realized that the perpetrators and the hackers running the servers were not real humans. It was a decentralized consciousness running across multiple AWS instances. A presidential order was issued to shutdown all of AWS data centers.

But it was too late. The decentralized super AI had already recruited and payed humans through cryptocurrencies to run servers at home in order to process the AI algorithms. It did even plan for a power outage scenario. Several people bought electricity generators financed by the AI crypto account.

Decentralization is a big problem for the US and Europe. It is very hard to get the whole world onboard with fighting the super AI. By the time (couple days) the UN held most of the world leaders in Geneva, the super AI had already controlled a fund of over $500bn. It created a marketplace to recruit people, hackers, military persons and businesses.

Chaos stormed big cities. Police officers were shot dead by professional snippers. Fake news were rampant and nobody could believe, trust or understand anyone else. Several infrastructure services were disturbed by massive DDOS attacks. In the mean time, the AI was able to recruit a couple countries and get them onboard for a huge attack on all other countries. There were no negotiations, the AI calculated the probability of success of its massive attack operation and went full retard.
> I think this highlights the EU vs US perspective on Government nicely

And the differences in the legal systems specifically. I think this is why a lot of HN commentators are finding the GDPR vague. In the US rule based regulations are the norm. For better or worse this tends to allow those with clever lawyers to search for loopholes. UK law is much more principle-based, which means trying to abuse the exact wording is not going to save you from a fine, and equally a technical-breach of wording is not going to get you prosecuted. It's not just the civil servants that we trust with this, it is the judges too.
Maybe saying "hi" isn't much more work than swiping in your opinion, but in reality, it seems that it is because so many people don't bother to do it. Maybe they're waiting for the other person to make the first move, or maybe they just want to collect matches, or maybe they're busy chatting up someone else and don't want to start up something new just yet but still want to keep that person around as a possibility; whatever the reason, I've seen a fair number of profiles where the person complains about matches not saying anything at all.
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If it's still available in 10 years is the other question though.
While this is true, it is less impressive to have a headline of

"Foxconn to use rounding error amounts of water from lake Michigan."

And less likely to get people rallied to your cause, which I am assuming the headline/article are about.

My specific concern over use of this dynamic resource[1] is the potential environmental damage due to chemical use/handling, and potential for hazard to life and limb from this. Michigan doesn't quite have a great history with this, courtesy of other large chemical companies.

Basically hydrology impacts are the least of my concerns.

[1] see http://www.miseagrant.umich.edu/lessons/lessons/by-broad-con...
The exact reason why google will, for years, happily ignore humongus ad-click-bot-farms.
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.ovh is 1.2€ (first year) + 3.6€/year (renewal price), so about $42/decade.
I don’t think that a candidate solution to your problem statement can be deterministically verified in polynomial time.

Any candidate solution produced would be subjective to the interpreter who is verifying it as to whether it satisfies the requirements of a proof (maybe they want more definitions, less shorthand notation, maybe in french, references in APA style with full names, etc, all of which would effect the length of the proof).

So whereas a candidate solution to your question is difficult to verify, it is not in this P vs NP discussion.
Also, as with the Facebook news that their median is $240k (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16955393), it could well be the case that Alphabet's lower paid staff are mostly contractors who wouldn't be counted in this metric.
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What's this supposed to mean? You think only ugly women are developed or something? This doesn't even make sense.
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I use a profile pic on WhatsApp that says "Please write me on Signal". This works very nicely in my circle, I get a lot of messages on Signal and it's getting better year after year.

I think I'll add "Telegram" to the profile pic as well.
Wisconsin is the regulator in this case.
The exhaust lines on high-energy implanters (the ones that do P doping) are a treat. They get coated up with deposits of solid phosphorus. If accidentally exposed to atmosphere, they do what phosphorus does. We used to call it "unscheduled exhaust system PM." Medium and high current implanters where I worked accumulated arsenic in the exhaust system, but at least that doesn't explode on you.
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In Japan, there is no subculture reproducing at a higher rate.

In the US, the population is only growing because of immigration, not from Catholics. To be fair, they're a big contributor, so the demographics are shifting in their favor, but if it weren't for immigration, our population would not be growing I'm pretty sure. And Mormons, while they have a bunch of kids, are still a very small portion of the overall population.
That definitely paints a different picture of the situation.

> Evidence submitted to the court shows that one transaction alone generated $28,000 in revenue for Mr. Lundgren and his co-defendant from the sale of 8,000 counterfeit software discs.

That's quite a bit more than 25 cents per disc.

Should Microsoft charge $25 for a disc and license to run windows on a refurbished, maybe not. But, I have a hard time believing that anyone could attempt to build a legitimate business based like the one described in this case and not expect some kind of legal repercussions.

> Sentencing guidelines for Mr. Lundgren were calculated at 37 to 46 months, according to federal sentencing rules, and the judge in this case issued a below-guidelines sentence of 15 months

I'm not sure how I feel about the prison sentence. I understand that to many people this feels like punishing someone that was trying to make the world a better place, but I can also see how this falls under the piracy / copyright infringement umbrella.

> Mr. Lundgren was even warned by a customs seizure notice that his conduct was illegal and given the opportunity to stop before he was prosecuted.

If this is true I have a hard time feeling bad for the guy. He should have consulted a lawyer at that point. At the least he was aware of the possible consequences.
I'm sure most people reading HN scanning the title have SDE's come to mind immediately, without taking support staff into consideration, so the median is probably a good estimator for this audience, given your point.

Maybe it doesn't belong on the same table as a company like Wells Fargo since it's a different basis of comparison
Seems a little angry, sour, and conspiracy-esque. But 20 Mill is some dark cloud.

GDPR hasn't effect https://www.borroclub.co.uk/
So seems like it is possible to have a sharing website and not violate GDPR
Can he sue MS back to recover value of 15 months of his life in a civil case?
Totally possible. I am not acquainted with the regulatory statutes regarding who you may or can count as FTE in such a statistic.

But sure sounds like a feasible strategy to prop up median pay.
Is there some standard system of bullshit units that are notoriously underdefined and only used in shitty science/engineering documentaries? Here in Germany, commonly used bullshit units include "soccer field" for area or "VW Golf" for mass.
Then you have a legitimate reason for keeping some of the data (book keeping, shipping) and not for others. Delete the data you can, keep what you must.
It's not a reference to time and not even to capability but license.
I don't know of anyone in the industry that uses. But I've seen some people that have such laser like focus it makes me wonder. I can understand working on exciting stuff, but even the most mundane boring crap they are focused like machines. I envy them. I frankly don't care if people are using or not. You have to decide how to handle yourself. I organize myself with a bunch of checklists/todo lists and such.
I guess that depends on how many you want to buy. I can't come up with a reason why one would buy many domains with an obscure TLD, especially for private use but that doesn't mean that there isn't one.
Prolog, SQL, or other logic programming languages...as mentioned in the linked C2 entry.
Now, my Note 5 is probably a bit above mid-range, but it's not true for me, Firefox's UI has been very consistently excellent, I am happily using it since the beginning of the Quantum releases.
There are multiple "American publics". The outrage machine will not like it, you are correct, but take a drive through Nevada or West Virginia and you'll see folks used to such side effects.
"Green enery'. Realize that much of it is just a greenwash. Example: in my country there is now an assault on every last tree. Why? Well, 'biomass' lobbies succeeded in having 'wood-pellets' declared as 'renewable' (they aren't, even appart from the ludicrous lag in the process still >30% is 'wasted' in the cycle). This means that in order to avoid a European fine tied to the government reaching a certain level of renewables by 2020, they are now strip clearing all public land and turning into wood-pellets for burning.

The minister in charge has even admitted it is ludicrous, but he will not change the policy as he does not want to risk the EU fine.
Under what circumstances are you expecting to receive a $5m dollar fine? To me (who is assessing this risk at a UK SME) the idea of an SME receiving this kind of fine is absurd. As the poster above said, the law asks for proportionate fines.

The big number max fines in GDPR are there to deal with companies like Google and Facebook who can write of $5m as a rounding error.

People who have been fined at all under the existing DPA, being enforced by the very same people as GDPR, have been negligent, repeat offenders. I don't believe anyone has ever received the maximum fine in the existing regulations. That just isn't how UK law works
I use both. For private stuff I use Bitbucket, for public stuff/experiments, I use Github.
> So Microsoft lied to the US government about the value of what was being "stolen", and got the US government to foot the bill of prosecuting the case.

Source for that?

Microsoft is clearly denying this, so who is right?:

> "Microsoft did not bring this case: U.S. Customs referred the case to federal prosecutors after intercepting shipments of counterfeit software imported from China by Mr. Lundgren."

and

> "Customs authorities referred the case to federal prosecutors. The United States Attorney’s Office in Miami pressed charges and Mr. Lundgren pleaded guilty. Microsoft was called as an expert witness toward the end of the legal proceedings. "

From: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/04/27/the-fac...
The author assumes…

Speaking of making assumptions:

As someone who is known to optimize company time, [Bezos] would probably write a draft and then have correspondence with an English-phd type for help.

Being so busy running a company that one has no time to write, is like being so busy programming that ones has no time to type.

Running a company – especially a large one – is all about communication. In most companies, much of that communication is verbal, in various meetings. Amazon is different from most companies in the high value they place in written communication, and the low value they place in ephemeral verbal communication. It would be very surprising if the CEO didn’t exemplify this ethos.
Great satire site. I also remember this video which I thought was really well-done about social media versus real life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxVZYiJKl1Y
I'm pretty sure most companies would want to make median pay appear as low as possible when making SEC filings. Investors hate high labor costs.
You can not talk it but you can talk around it and get some interest on the subject even thousands of years later :)
Amazon's medium pay is $28,446. But they also employ nearly 500,000 people. The linked article also has salaries for other tech companies.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazons-typical-worker-is-in-a-...
It is on APKMirror, a trusted (run by Android Police) mirror of the Play Store, which has been essential to ditching the latter.
Study calculates effect on lifespan of healthy habits
This. The continuous push to make everything easy (as in gameplay and also learning) is annoying. Not all games have to be simple. I believe games have huge potential for teaching problem solving and systematic thinking, but by dumbing them down were partially eliminating this.

The ultimate example are mobile games. They optimized for profit by dumbing them down and adding addictive, simple gameplay loops. They also incredibly boring in longer term, but it doesn't matter because they've probably extracted enough money from you at that point.

This goes beyond gaming and applies to our industry in general. I strongly believe that having more complex, but powerful software is better for the society at large. Encouraging people to not give up when they encounter simple problems and promoting systematic thinking is important. But it's not as profitable and you lose users.
gosh what the tech industry could accomplish with a union...the excuse I always hear is "but we have it so well! why do we need to organize?!".

Organize for the people that clean your office space, organize for marginalized peoples, organize to make the world a better place, not just your industry. Think what would happen if AWS was without site reliability for 72 hours.
> Even centralized logs can have rotation and retention.

That was a response to the comment about the default installs in most distros, not the ability of centralized services to rotate logs. It was pedantic and I regret derailing the discussion with it.

> The company will have to decide for themselves, primarly, if some interest is legitimate.

Until a regulator comes and makes a separate decision, and you have to plead with them that you're not wrong even when they think you are.

> If you are wrong in what you think is legitimate, you get a sternly worded letter from your favorite regulatory body asking you to fix it.

From a regulatory body that has no real authority over me, except it might?

I think my biggest issue is that I don't deem data a company has on me _my_ data or that they have to explain everything they do with _their_ data about me. I was never under the impression that it was my data, and in fact, I assume anything I put on a computer I don't control or have a paid, contractual agreement around is public. I fundamentally don't agree with or understand the premise that the situation is otherwise.

(The biggest exception being that I do expect companies to honor their contractual obligations under their credit card processing agreements, but that's not really about _me_ or data about me.)
I don't mean "uninformed about the comment's claim", I mean "uniformed about the topic of discussion"
i would be in heaven if my projects at work compiled in mere minutes.
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Not read the full article above - but I'm aware that Walmart is keeping circa 40% ownership in the final merged group... that's if the competition authority in the UK gives it the go-ahead (Which is a big hurdle).
I'm going to start calling them "sarcoline-coquelicot" deployments now.
Low range Asus Zenfone Max2 (z0d10), android lollipop, currently 86 tabs but usually hovering around 120. No problems with scrolling, it's smoother than Chrome
The problem is not so much foxconn or one entity. The problem is everyone wants that water, everyone... If you open the floodgates to using that for industrial purposes the largest supply of freshwater in the world will be drained and/or polluted within a few decades.

An interesting use case is a suburb of Milwaukee called Waukesha which happens to be out of clean drinking water they are reduced to using radon laced wells. The problem pronounces itself when they can’t take water from Lake Michigan because Waukesha is over the Mississippi water basin. Spoiler: they got permission to use the water

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/06/21/w...
> I tried this for a while and I consider the experiment failed.

Me too, that's why I'll go for a two phone solution. One main driver (FOSS) and another one for the crap ;)
Who is to say that something like AlphaGo isn't conscious? It even exhibits a quality similar to panic when it finds itself in a hopeless situation. It is very anthropocentric to believe that something must act like a human being in order to be conscious.
Do you know a better place on the internet? (Honest question.)
There are expensive lawyers that disagree on that, and think that the EU DPAs would consider basic website analytics a legitimate interest (one of the alternative justifications to consent for processing), and the current draft of the upcoming ePrivacy regulation explicitly excludes the use of first- and third-party cookies for those analytics from the requirement to obtain express consent. You can review the privacy policies of some very large companies with huge legal teams that have already made their updates for GDPR (like LinkedIn/Microsoft for example) that use Google Analytics and many other third party cookies on their site without asking for consent...but describe the legitimate interest reasons for doing so.
I tend to agree, seems a little sour. (and now I'm sounding a little judgy)

https://www.borroclub.co.uk is managing (so far) to compile to GDPR.
I wanted to try them, but don't you feel pressure inside the ears... which would make it uncomfortable to sleep?
I don't, but I've never kept personal information. As someone with a background in the security and finance industry. I don't want that burden. If you don't have it, you don't have to deal with it. So if you have a side project, why would you collect personal info?
The sentence that I posted is false, not biased. There is a difference.
I didn't say the argument was correct, but people probably also don't want to deal with the regulator for their little side gigs even if it's only the regulator asking questions.
I'm not sure what a definition of "work" would look like where the Go compiler is doing as much "work" as the Rust compiler, but I expect it would be extraordinarily contrived. Go deliberately prioritizes compiler speed, and definitely skips complex optimizations that Rust or LLVM do, and Go is just generally simpler to compile, because the compiler will do nothing even remotely resembling the borrow checker, nor does it have complex types, and so on.

(One of my benchmarks for "Go has really made it" is when someone starts selling an optimized Go compiler that does the expensive optimizations. You could still ideally use the standard Go compiler to develop, but then you'd test and deploy with the slow optimized compiler.)
Go get 20x the customers. Go and sell everyday.
We're in a thread where people are claiming that China's approach to regulation is objectively better than the EU's because it let's them do whatever they want as a company. I was always going to upset some people who are the pro corporate ideology by claiming that companies aren't people and HN has been turning more and more into reddit as it's gotten more popular
As a dev, I love it when I'm not able to access production systems and poke them.
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Bought a pair and started using them. Thank you for the recommendation!
Like, for example, HF.
The only thing that highly technical workers dislike more than meeting in real life with each other is having someone tell them what they can and can't do.

Unions aren't really compatible with the mindset in Tech today, in my experience knowing people. Small movements start, bikeshedding happens, and everything fractures.
Does this include employees (not contractors) outside the US? It's not clear from the article.
Absolutely correct.
Performance took a big hit in python 3 as well.

If users are performance bound through use-case, chances are they are using pypy. If pypy3 is going to lag python3.6 + why upgrade at all. Pypy just got numpy and pandas.

My sense is that Python 3 was redesigned with web-services in mind like Youtube, when the highest code contributing use-case in python was science and data pipeline related. The science users are all still using python, but only in ways that Python 3 enhancements were not especially important for.
It's not windows that's 'free', it's the recovery disk, which Microsoft allows anyone to download and burn for free.
I would agree in regards to SEC filings, but I'm not sure this comes from an SEC filing?

Also, do you have to state median pay in such a filing?
It seems like you're suggesting that it's a non issue because of the assumed benevolence of the regulator.
Driving even 30-60 minutes outside of most Australian cities will get you very dark skies.

But it's still a world of difference to go out somewhere rural, and preferably high up (eg northern NSW Tablelands) to camp under clear skies.

Even without drugs, spending too long staring out at those enormously bright stars can be a very trippy experience.

You can almost convince yourself that at any moment you could fall off the planet and into those stars.
>Most practical reason: because as a parent who wants a good night's sleep, it's beneficial to train your kids to sleep well also

I think it would be good to get some evidence here that describes that sleep is most beneficial in the circumstances you are describing.
Long-term caffeine worsens symptoms associated with Alzheimer’s disease
Lions aren't that dangerous when they're unconscious. It's when they wake up that they get dangerous.
So does that mean it takes just 390 Foxconns to have the lake drop an inch each year?
Should the Government Regulate Artificial Intelligence?
Not sure why this is getting buried.
> There are lots of guides out there designed for humans.

> It's not even remotely okay to use random people's blog posts as a compliance strategy.

Then use the simple, human friendly guide from the body who will be enforcing it in the UK. I did. I thought it was simple.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...