skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"few". Handling customers individually in terms of logs and database backups, for instance, is not a small undertaking. Deleting all traces of a customer is neigh impossible; I bet even "compliant" places don't do it right.

The pci DSS has nothing in it like the gdpr; I'm not even sure why you would compare them.and it makes me think you know nothing about either.
And there are plenty of articles and blog posts & etc online all the time about such cases, I know I've read many of them. so I don't really understand why this particular article is up for particular criticism, as though JLG has a personal obligation to correct a perceived bias in the internet. The whole premise of this criticism just seems bizarre.
Exactly. Its's not that by now anyone believes any of that s#%t is real. It's more like, you have an audience and they want to be entertained. You posting things is acknowledging that and demonstrating you do the best you can to deliver top notch entertainment. Social media representing actual reality would be abysmally boring. You can get boatloads of reality just by walking out your door. But where would be the fun in that?
Totally. Wasn't the satirical version of facebook called lifeinvader in that game? very similar :)
There is no way that human civilization collapses because of climate warming.

Among all higher life forms (fish, reptiles, mammals and even most plants), humans with technology are the most robust.

Some billionaires waste even time and money for the colonization of dead spaces like Mars or the Moon.
With the amount of energy it takes to bring anything to orbit, I suspect a ground based solution that just recaptures CO2 or regrows trees is going to be much more cost effective.
Even in the military there is no such thing as this type of training.

source: was infantry.
>Isn’t that assuming that lack of sleep affects everyone in the same way? Different people need different amounts of sleep.

Not according to all medical advise I've read (no lifestyle advice / lifehacks).

The body really needs its sleep, and the amount is more or less fixed to 7-8 hours.

There's only a small (1-2 hours variation with age, not with individual people).
'Growth hacking' is a long con that will only lose you millions
When kids are babies there's a concern about things like the covers suffocating them at night

Later it's more of a practical thing -- the bed's small enough already without a wriggling 4 year old!
But coroutines are not threads right? Multiple coroutines can run on the same thread isnt it?

I find it confusing when coroutines are interchanged between concurrency and parallelism.
I'm starting to feel like Inigo Montoya every time I see/hear the term AI...
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I knew multiple people who attempted sort of this and they tended to be more irritable and sort-of-dumber while trying this.

I recall reading that if you sleep less then six hours per night for more then two weeks straight, then the impact on your reflexes, attentiveness and performance is as if you would be permanently under alcohol influence. You may feel good, but impact is measurable.
> ... the biggest FUD of all is this notion that the EU even has some sort of legal enforcement mechanisms independent of a Member State.

In that case, I'm not sure how to interpret Microsoft v. Commission (triggered by EC, ruled by ECJ), or how to make sense of the fact that the EU, IIRC, has its own (non-state) representative at the WTO, which in turn has its own (state-independent) dispute resolution system, with capacity to inflict trade sanctions.

The 'cops' analogy might be very misleading here, right?
I was about to ask why toll-free even matters, since cell phones make dialing "long distance" free. But I guess the 55+ target market is probably the least-saturated market when it comes to cell phones too, yeah?
I don't think this is just about being more or less verbose. It's about the awkward ways it contorts the ways you write programs. For example, in C++ you might write an asynchronous job scheduler with an API like the following:

void Scheduler::schedule(const Job& job, Result* result);

void Scheduler::wait();

The consumer of this API in C++ has an easy job. They can create an array of results and iteratively call schedule(jobs[i], &results[i]) for each job, and then call wait(). A similar API in Rust would be a giant pain in the neck to use, because there's no simple way to collect the results. You'd likely want to scrap this API entirely and have Scheduler expose some kind of queue or something.

My point is that these extra constraints are not just extra typing locally to specify how you're using lifetimes. You'll likely have to rethink the way you write APIs and whole programs in Rust because of the ways it restricts mutability. Which is OK, it's a trade-off, all I'm saying is the safety doesn't come for free.
Maybe I'm getting old and cynical, but the fact that something is both new and popular makes me even more reluctant to try it. The commons seem to be really good at picking mediocre-at-best winners, and fad chasing is really common.
Climate change policy is a political and moral issue, not a scientific matter. Science can certainly inform that debate, but it cannot give an objective answer to what we should actually do. The world is more complicated than a simple lab experiment where you can control the variables. Social scientists are eminantly qualified to advise in those kind of situations.
I (almost) always try to make positive/helpful comments in this forum. But reading (again) about these "complaints" the below comes to mind:

...<title of Lake Michigan article>, while at the same time, somewhere else on this planet (perhaps China?) many factories do the exact same thing, and since it hasn't caused noise, very few think about it. And at the same time people in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Oceania, rest-of-Asia (countries that don't host such factories), go on in their day looking at their smartphone screens, reading news about Lake Michigan.
Nice.

"Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is it possible to write the pipeline code in another language with better formatting, e.g. Python or Jython, instead of having 15 lines with nothing but '}' on it? Here's a possible rewrite of the sample from the posting:

#!/usr/bin/env someotherlanguage
pipeline:
agent any
stages:
stage('Build') :
steps:
sh './build.sh'
stage('Test') :
steps :
sh './test.sh'
stage('Deploy') :
steps :
sh './deploy.sh'
stage('Deploy - Staging') :
steps :
sh './deploy.sh staging'
sh './run-smoke-tests.sh'
stage('Sanity check') :
steps :
input "Does the staging environment look ok?"
stage('Deploy - Production') :
steps :
sh './deploy.sh production'

Now that can better fit on one page. Coming to think of it, are all those 'steps:', 'stages:', and 'pipeline:' clauses really necessary?
>The only challenge is going to be convincing the powers that be that it's on their economic interest to pay you to do so. But as sea level rise, it may quickly become self evident.

I don't believe the idea that hurt from climate crisis spurs sufficient action. Our time horizon shrinks during crisis.

Any corrective actions starts to have an effect decades in the future. Once the sea level raise starts to inflict "unbearable pain" all money is channeled to treat the acute consequences. If governments go to emergency mode, they put trillions to relocating people, solving immediate food crisis, stopping hunger , fighting military conflicts etc. All the cool technical solutions requiring trillions in investment go out of the window.
And then you have Phosphene gas used to dope silicon, where people have died changing empty supply tanks.
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My guess: with what appears to be a dazzling personality.
Even if we assume the treated water wont return to the lake basin. Would still need 508,806 years to drain.

Are there any other dangerous side-effects or why is this a thing?
Enlighten me please.
Can someone legal(ish) explain to me why this sentence is so poorly structured?

> the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the Union;

I mean this should really be:

> the offering of goods or services to such data subjects in the Union, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required;

I mean why put that sub-clause in the middle of the sentence to which it relates? Seems bizarre to me.
Permanently removing water in those quantities is basically impossible. The energy costs from electrolysis or evaporation would be staggering.
The founder claims this wasn't true.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16956549

AFAIK, slander is still a problem in some parts of the world.
The article addresses this:

Of course, if you don’t have a DVD burner (remember, this was a while back — these days you’d use a USB drive), you’d have to get one from a friend who has one, a licensed refurbisher, or your manufacturer (for instance, Dell or Lenovo) for a fee.
The issue isn't fan clubs.

The issue is successful companies are riding such a tidal wave of money and good will you can never tell if they're successful _because_ of X, or successful _in spite_ of X.

For example, the stock price of GE rose 4000% in the 1980s when Welch introduced Rank and Yank [1]. Does that mean it was a great policy - or was there some other change responsible for the rise, while Rank and Yank had a neutral or even negative effect?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve
So a sort-of-on-topic question: for all the people who are warning of the coming AI apocalypse and warning us to be careful with AI... how do you enforce that? What’s the enforcement mechanism to ensure that the bad people don’t get AI and that people don’t create bad AI? All these warnings, but what can we do about it?

If strong AI is invented, especially if it’s open-sourced, the cat is out of the bag and it’s game over, right? We’ve seen how good we are at preventing rogue states from getting nukes. How can we keep them from getting life-ending AI?
For the scientific notationally challenged, that's 1,300,000,000,000,000 gallons of water.

Incredibly, 7M gallons of water a day is a rounding error for lake Michigan.

I don't mean to minimize the impact this factory might have -- I just mean to emphasize the incredible amount of water Lake Michigan has.
The rest gets evaporated
>But even without that, the cost of green energy is going down every year. The moment—which might be forthcoming in a few years—when owning a fossil fuel vehicle becomes an exorbitant deal, people will switch in droves.

This is one case where the market based approach simply cannot deliver. The objectives of continued growth and reduced emissions cannot be reconciled. Energy consumption is directly tied to global consumption and hence growth. [1]

The fallacy that increasing energy efficiency will somehow allow us to mitigate climate change whilst maintaining the growth rates we're accustomed to has no empirical or theoretical basis. Classical economics failed to recognise that energy is a factor of production akin to labour and land. Once we account for this growth becomes endogenous and there is no longer any reason to assume that perpetual growth is sustainable. [2] As long as economic growth remains the primary goal any efficiency gains (manifesting as lower energy prices) will simply be cannibalised through increased consumption. [3]

Simply put, we are past the point where 'sustainable growth' is a possibility; as long as growth remains paramount and economic incentives do not change then the choice between growth and sustainability has already been made. The cake is disappearing slice by slice.

[1] http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/01/wealth-and-energy-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_returned_on_energy_inve...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
15 months sounds excessive, but the fact the software could be downloaded by customers for free is not a mitigating factor in a guy attempting to make a profit making it look as much as possible like a paid for product sold by Dell/Microsoft...
Problem is, if we take it to extreme, we are basically playing Cluedo game.
Is "18 year old" PII? - no
Is "orders pizza every Friday" PII? - no
Is "always misspells word cheese" PII? - no
Is "leaves 10% tip" PII? - no
Combine it and you have PII.
At this point, there really is no discussion anymore about whether or not there is climate change. The question is what we can do to survive as a global civilization.

Continued survival seems pretty like win/win to me, no matter what the political orientation.

Also, I seem to remember that environmental protection came pretty much out of the conservative corner. See Teddy Roosevelt and his national parks.

Also also, coal vs. renewables is /not/ a conservative vs. progressive discussion. I've yet to find a conservative that thinks the public should allow the externalization of the costs caused by private pollution.
>>But what is the alternative? Is business creation the final goal of our society? Or there are things more important?

The alternative is to let consumers fend for themselves, and if government is going to help, limit that help to investigating and punishing fraud, enforcing contract law, and providing free information resources to help consumers make better informed decisions.

Yes business creation should be the highest goal of society. New businesses are what counteract income inequality and drive innovation.

We need innovation to solve the already existing problems in society, that claim tens of millions of lives every year. There is no zero risk path open to society.
Not everything is so cool in Silicon Valley
I see this in cartography a lot. Traditionally we had to author static maps so they needed to have all the data you might need "rendered" at the same time. Look at a road map from your glove box for this. But with digital maps (and games, and apps, etc) you can be far more judicious about what to show initially, always, incrementally, and through custom settings.

Into The Breach is beautifully successful at this. At any point you see nothing but the current state of the board. Everything that can be memorized is hidden. But for accessibility you can always quickly get at token meanings, stats, etc.
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"Bounce and Bounce". A viral game hit on WeChat. Fulfils this criteria. There is something deeply rewarding about the one touch game mechanic and ensuing chain reaction. Not to mention an ideal candidate for iOS / Android clones ;)

https://technode.com/2018/04/25/mini-game-balls-viral-wechat...
this is all fine, first generation of 'true' ai will probably be extremely biased and too simple for practical use. even though we are automating and digitizing more and more and making everything more streamlined the rules will be as rigid as they have ever been. the human factor will come from generations of ai iterations -- if we are lucky. to be rejected by a machine will be brutal experiences when we all get this pushed in our faces. rich will grow richer and middle class will disappear in favor of poverty across the board.
Concurrency does not equal parallelism.

Lets say there's one core, or "hardware thread". Then the scheduler has no choice but to stick them all on the same thread. They are running concurrently but not in parallel.

With more cores, Go can schedule them to run in parallel.

Rob Pike has a great talk on YouTube titled something like "Concurrency is not parallelism" on this exact thing.
Proportionate is subjective and means something different from person to person.
While its easy to dismiss the Sci-fi fantastical end of the world claims on the dangers of AI, its important to at least address some of the realistic externalities of this technology.

"Brin is showing more real-world concerns of AI-powered systems replacing human jobs or being used to spread propaganda and fake news rather than rise up and enslave humanity"
What is the difference from any other marketing efforts to sell us buying expensive stuff we really don't need?
To several commenters:

You're right, phone numbers aren't fixed. I went too far slipping that one in. My apologies.

However...

I generally don't remap remote phone numbers on my own equipment at home. I'm sure I could run an Asterisk PBX, but that's at least one level of complication harder than using a hosts file. The phone system is designed for companies to talk to one another, the internet is basically designed to allow distributed authority and control.

Hackers have spent decades hacking into the telephone system to make it work more like the internet, before there was even an internet to resemble.

And the internet is agnostic, it will absolutely let you give up control to a remote authority over some aspects of its operation, like for DNS or certificates or DDoS mitigation, and sometimes that's a good trade. But it's never obligatory.

So the two converge and overlap, but I stand by my point that there's a fundamental difference stemming from original design and philosophy.
There's just...no reason at all to do it for business purposes. If you're a prepper or looking for a science project I can understand it, it's a cool project. But from a business perspective you can buy the same thing but better for dollars and have it the next day.
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Scheduling client work is more complicated than you think
At least there isn't anyone out there designing and manufacturing military grade weaponised drones and letting them autonomously decide whether to pull the trigger.

Right?
Want to make the US carbon zero? Plant and maintain a forest 5x the size of New Zealand on a cheap piece of land somewhere.

Or just start a damn carbon tax priced at the cost of offsetting the carbon. Which will turn out to be so freaking cheap, almost certainly less than ~$10/tonne. To put this in perspective, you know how air travel makes you a terrible person? Well not if you offset with a dollar of trees per hour of airtravel.

What pisses me off most about climate change is that it is stupidly easy to solve. Offsetting the 5 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per annum the US produces would cost at most $50B per annum. And I suspect a lot less if you actually put some thought into it, or better yet, got market forces to work on it.
Link to the Alphabet 2017 Founder's Letter : https://abc.xyz/investor/founders-letters/2017/index.html
I sleep terrible during the work week but get good rest on the weekends. Usually only 4-5 hours during the week and work ~10 hours / day. I don't usually feel like a Zombie.

Weekends I get anywhere from 8 to 12+ hours of sleep.
I think a JS SPA is a good fit for this. A common search use case is trying to find something obscure, which usually takes a few different searches. Once you've loaded up the SPA once (ie. your 4 second delay), you are able to do multiple searches quite rapidly as the subsequent post requests are tiny (3kb out 16kb in), new DNS resolution / TLS connections won't be required for at least a few minutes.

So if I'm doing more than one search, which I would guess is the way most people use it, then the current implementation will be much, much faster than doing a full page reload on every search.
Targets for 2040 and 2050 are required.

The problem is what targets will be determined for 2020, 2030, 2040 and 2050.

Several Trillions of dollars have been wasted just to finance war in the Middle East.

Support of the fossil fuel industry and wars and military and waste of time and money and lack of technological investment is the shame and inexcusable guilt of politicians and the democratic majority worldwide for the last 50 years.
The gdpr is ill-specified for starters. The commentary conflicts with the law itself, and the law makes it nearly impossible to know if you're dealing with a gdpr data subject.

I firmly believe that companies need to protect their data better as the consequences of loss aren't shouldered by them, which the gdpr says nothing about.

I also firmly believe that it's their data. When I send data to another machine, I was never under the impression that said information was mine. I was never under the impression that anything I have on Facebook was ever or will ever be private. I consider order information vital information _of the company_. When I choose to load thea Google analytics tracker, I have no notion that I own that tracking information.

Splitting basic infrastructure like backups and logs by customer or introducing a whole system of flimsy cryptography to support that is no where near reasonable and well beyond common decency.

Explaining all uses of data and why decisions are made isn't common decency. Again, I sent you my data, it is now the server's/company's. I expect them to do what they will with it.

The gdpr is well intentioned, but ultimately nothing more than toxic smoke and carnavel mirrors. It is an underspecified mess and burden creating the notion that you can renege on data you send someone else.
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“Revealed” is really clickbait titling. Reading the article, it has very little to do with AI, and nothing novel.
Consuming is what I meant. I have edited the post to make that correction.
Not the commenter you're responding to, but at my previous place I dealt with compile times of around 20 minutes from scratch, and 1-2 minutes incremental using Clang/LLVM, on a 20ish physical core Xeon with 128ish gigs of RAM.
Siesta culture means sleeping an hour after lunch when the sun is higher and is more dangerous. You don't change your sleep hours because of that.
I learned when my stereo broke as a teenager and my dad worked with me to rebuild it. Radio Shack was my best friend back then and I would order in different parts. Took 2 months to get it working and it sounded awesome.

If I had access to YouTube and the DIY community today it would have been so much easier.
I think it's going to parallel the virus/anti-virus eternal struggle. The bad AI will need to be targeted by the good. It'll be a mess, of course.
Thanks for the links. Seems like anyone in the right mind, would not deal with this, in anything other than a professional lab setting.
Most companies collect and centralize logs, making logrotate irrelevant. What prevents a company from having decade long rotations? Also, who decides what is a legitimate interest?
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