skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would love to see more direct sources/citations, but I thought this reddit thread on what happened to victims jailed to be interesting, most of those individuals still had to serve out their time as the law was repealed vs being ruled unconstitutional

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/37yzhw/when_...
I was paying for 20 mbits for years and only getting 5 the entire time.

Only until 2017 did I actually start receiving the advertised speed.
I'm not American, and maybe that skews my opinion on the matter, but I've never seen construction trades as being predominantly white.

Predominantly male, yes, but ethnically a very diverse field.

Also: Dish washing, fruit picking, and house cleaning are not trades. They are not skilled occupations. Being a chef is, so is being an orchardist or a farmer.
Good point, I'm assuming their Nvidia GPUs have enough power/memory to do the processing they want to do.
The suburb I grew up in still has several of these every summer.
"Works just like an antivax website" is not a glowing endorsement of either youtube or the rules under which it is working.
It's an important distinction though. One is legally sanctioned censorship by proxy of a defecto monopoly. The other is government enforced.

One has a penalty of shutting you up, the other of shutting you up, fining you, and or jailing you.

They shouldn't be conflated as the same type of censorship.
Even then you should still use authz with pkce. At the very least nobody else should be able to get your access token. For some workflows this is all the guarantee you need.
>"x86 requires some kernel memeory to be mapped always, for example the stack for syscall and trap handlers."

Can you elaborate on what you mean be x86 requires that the kernel stack always be mapped into a process address space in order for system calls?

The kernel always knows where a process's kernel stack is located as there is a pointer to it in the user process's task_struct. It is only in kernel mode that the kernel switches the CPU's stack pointer to use that that processes kernel stack.
That's a problem created by a different breed of well-intentioned idiocy around homeless policy.
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Then don’t run a private playground. Advocate for public parks.
Please elaborate on whether hashing is a good pseudonimization strategy in context of GDPR guidelines.
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pretty much this.
"1 Except perhaps Wittgenstein, an inspired guy, in the work of which everything can be found, but - like Nostradamus - only afterwards"

The Blind Spot, Lectures on Logic, footnote p. 141
YouTube could not survive on its own. YouTube only exists so that Google can guarantee they see no competition in the video space. It loses money by the mountain-load. It is propped up by Google Search and the titanic amounts of money AdSense brings in. If you wanted to build a competitor to YouTube, you would need investors willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build the infrastructure - and willing to accept tremendous losses for potentially decades. Google will continue to prop up YouTube in order to guarantee competent competition will never exist.
You answered your own question

> Instead, you all wanted to make money. (Understandable)

There isn't as much margin in self hosting and dumb pipes
A lot of CIOs are surprisingly non-technical themselves.
For the third type of "leak" (GC frees memory from the program, but never returns it to the OS) the article says that this is often an issue for Python and Ruby... Does this happen in other languages with a GC like Java or Go, or are Ruby and Python the only ones/especially bad?
How is progress on deterministic builds?

It would be nice to be able to use something like Keith Winstein (Stanford) et al's gg.[1] Sort of `make -j1000` for 10 cents on Lambda. Linux kernel cold compilation in under a minute.

[1] https://github.com/StanfordSNR/gg ; video of talk demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9qqSZAny3I&t=55m15s ; some slides (page 24): http://www.serverlesscomputing.org/wosc2/presentations/s2-wo...
CNN investigation: 103 Uber drivers accused of sexual assault or abuse
I was under the impression that drug dogs we're mostly ineffective[1] anyway so this shouldn't be an issue. I guess this article would imply I'm misinformed. I'd welcome correction.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/08/04/...
If fear of damages isn't control, then you have no control as anyone can break into your home and steal your photo.
Why not just make it $10/mo or ads?
Stay-at-home spouse means you don't have to keep yourself fed or keep the house clean, and you have to do less of the ordinary needs as well. The stay-at-home spouse of course doesn't have to work or commute.
They also fucked the Queensland Health payroll system.... 1 billion over budget.
> The network effects would have not worked, because there are many people that can not afford $10 a year. These people would have used an alternative and at the end everyone would have used that alternative (because network effects).

There must be techniques to get around that. Maybe grant free or discounted accounts if you're connected with enough subscribers? Allow subscribers to gift free memberships to their friends? Maybe have a long "initial trial" (e.g. totally free for 1 year)?
I definitely don't think it's intrinsically generated. The reality at ground level is that your manager will almost always fill your plate at least a bit higher than you can reasonably fit in, because there is always room to do more work until there isn't. The more you can do, the better your manager looks.

There's another important dynamic: your manager will often be able to get more done in the same time than you will if your manager does it himself/herself, because the manager is typically more experienced and wields power in a way that you can't. This stays true for each step up the hierarchy. Since managers often gauge a reasonable amount of work for the employee based on how long it takes the manager, there's a disconnect in anticipated workload too.

Finally, the higher you go, the more you are able to buy into a strategy and vision. If you're at ground level, executing on that strategy often means spending days squashing bugs. It's much harder to buy into the big picture when your immediate picture looks like more of the same as everywhere else.

Not to say "you shouldn't work hard," but I do think there are structural reasons why ground level is a less motivating place to be.
This still happens in gated communities within the US
The problem is that for the people with the power (on all sides...) this is largely a feature not a bug.
Nobody here is under the impression that youtube is threatening people with imprisonment. So pointing out the distinction is tiring and pedantic.
Facebook Is Investigating a Claim That an Employee Used His Power to Stalk Women
This article has some issues, the first struct in Example #1 is only compiled by GCC with a size of 2 if it has the packed attribute. Other compilers may behave differently which is exactly why bit-fields should be avoided. The behavior of bit-fields even changes between compiler versions, for example:

"""Packed bit-fields of type char were not properly bit-packed on many targets prior to GCC 4.4. On these targets, the fix in GCC 4.4 causes an ABI change. For example there is no longer a 4-bit padding between field a and b in this structure:

struct foo
{
char a:4;
char b:8;
} __attribute__ ((packed));

There is a new warning to help identify fields that are affected:

foo.c:5: note: Offset of packed bit-field 'b' has changed in GCC 4.4

""" (https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.4/changes.html)

Also, the code in Application #3 isn't using bit-fields at all (the definition of GPIO_P_TypeDef is here: https://github.com/SiliconLabs/Gecko_SDK/blob/master/platfor...)
Can the USDS assist here?
Most people weren't actually paying. Apparently, the vast majority of users were granted free lifetime memberships (see comments here [1] and article here [2]). When Facebook acquired it, it only had $10 million in annual revenue [3] against 450 million users. Clearly, most users were jumping on board during times when it was made available for free.

[1] http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/07/16/whatsapp-goes-free/

[2] http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/recommendations/whatsapp-messen...

[3] https://www.recode.net/2014/10/28/11632404/facebook-paid-19-...
An overview of the Blockchain job market (Infographic)
> A bilingual English/Korean speaker wouldn't make that mistake.

Well, "bilingual" is not black and white. I think you have a point here, but considering that people who are paid to translate can't get these stuff right, the argument veers into the territory of "no true bilingual person".

Anyway, my pet theory is that it is surprisingly hard to translate from language A to B, even when you are reasonably good at both A and B. Our brain is wired to spontaneously generate sentences: given a situation, it effortlessly generates a sentence that perfectly matches it. Unfortunately, it is not trained at all for "Given this sentence in language A, re-create the same situation in your mind and generate a sentence in language B that conveys the same meaning." In a sense, it is like acting. Everybody can laugh on their own: to convincingly portray someone else laughing is quite another matter.
That was a very interesting read. As developers, let's face it, university was a tiny fraction of our knowledge. Most of it is ad-hoc real life problem solving, followed by seeing someone else's solution and saying "wow that's neat" and getting better that way.
Number 1 is pretty much yes, they can. It's a diminishing cost, and the price of storage is very likely diminishing faster than the rate of video production is rising.

Number 2, agreed, we in fact know it can only be censorship (and not competing viewership) that drives the decision. That's my whole point.
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From context it seems to mean that cocaine itself isn't detectable, but that a person who has consumed cocaine can be detectable by odor. I can't find anything backing that up though.
How would it be a privacy risk, unless, the data files were included/embedded in the source code repo?
Is your wallet code open source? How can a user verify that the token is safe, and won't be easily hacked.

P.S. I understand that most tokens don't have much monetary value, but just wanted to understand the benefits and legal ramifications of taking on a custodial wallet...

Good stuff!
Why do we need bike shares at all? Shouldn't there just be enough bikes lying around that everyone could just ride whenever they wanted?

There are around 18MM new bikes sold a year in the US [1].
About 100MM people bike each year in the US [2].

Do bikes really wear out every 5 years? Mine is 22 years old and still in great condition.

We should have piles of the things at every street corner. There must be landfills full of bikes.

[1] https://nbda.com/articles/industry-overview-2012-pg34.htm
[2] https://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/03/04/survey-100-million-am...
I'd say the monkey has most of the hardware but not the software, analogously. As for the phone, right I was assuming the cars have enough processing power and memory to do the necessary processing. But granted they haven't exemplified full self-driving on their current hardware, I will have to concede that we do not know how much processing and power are needed to be truly self-driving. For all we know, that last 10% of self-driving capability may require an exponential increase in the amount of processing required.
Another option is to keep a local mirror of your gmail, this can be one or two way and with or without tags.

https://github.com/gauteh/gmailieer and http://isync.sourceforge.net/ are tools I've used for this. isync/mbsync is a high performance IMAP based syncing tool that works well with for large mail spools. gmailieer uses the gmail API so it only works with gmail but has good support for two-way tag syncing.

Some advantages of this approach are very fast local access and and the ability to use your preferred local indexing and tagging tools (notmuch under emacs in my case).

PS, I forgot that gmailieer is notmuch-only but I think some mutt users use notmuch for indexing so it could still be useful.
They don't even work:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-26/workplace...
i agree that data is a liability, however even my plumber's truck can kill someone and can be considered a liability. regardless, the truck is not something he can do business without. I agree that companies should fear the data they retain much more than they do today.
In 2015, when WhatsApp had ~1B active users, Facebook said that the overall revenue from it was insignificant enough they they were just making it free. I'm pretty sure it wasn't charging the vast majority of users (which is how it got popular in developing countries in the first place).
Deep-diving 'sea nomads' have evolved an internal scuba tank
Piling things up on public space requires some infrastructure and regulation.

edit: your question is akin to asking, "Why are people starving when our farmers are so productive, and the average restaurant/grocery throws out tons of spoiled food annually?". The problem is not purely one of lack of quantity.
But those are all intrinsic factors - as in, they are self-generated by the middle management layer. They're not imposed from on high.

To enumerate:

- Manager fills plate higher, accrues rewards.

- Manager judges your target output based on her ability.

- Manager buys in to strategy and vision (because of access), becomes more motivated.
Like most things Google, I don't think it's that simple. It seems to rank on multiple factors including distance, rating, if you've been there before, if you've saved it, popularity and surely lots of other signals. My search results from your location are probably different than your search results.
answer would be it very much depends, some considerations that I would want to know:

- big difference between 10x revenue vs profit, what's the current cost basis / margin in the product?
- evaluating current marketing efforts, how much demand is from inbound vs outbound, what's working and what's not
- pricing, is the product being priced correctly
- cost factors: support, infrastructure, salary, anything around cost of goods sold
- what's the current revenue base? I would argue going from 100k MRR -> 1m MRR is a lot easier than going from 1m -> 10MM, that requires a lot more coordination and most likely enterprise customers
- existing customer base, do I have success selling into some enterprise vs selling into longtail b2b segment

if I just had 1 year, I would be biased towards trying to focus on my core products and growing them, however if I don't have a large enough addressable market and I needed to 10x in 12 months, then I would focus much more on product development +R&D

if I had 3 years, I think the strategy would be similar, but with longer time spans to test different strategies
It's funny that programmers (and their ilk) are constantly on the outlook for new ways to gain an edge by increasing focus, attention, and endurance, when two of the best substances for doing so have long been known: caffeine and nicotine. Consider – in both World Wars soldiers rations included coffee and cigarettes. There was a reason for that (and it wasn't just "comfort").

Now, you might say, what about the significant downsides for each of these? Well...yes. They are there, and they are fairly well understood.

There is a growing trend in pharmacology to try and get most of the benefits from some substance without most of the downsides. For example, the list of "new" antihistamines is long and growing every day. You know what the best antihistamine is? Benadryl! It just happens to come with a whole host of undesirable side-effects.

The problem, of course, is that for any "new" pharmaceutical, there's no way to be really sure of all the potential downsides until after they've been in use for some time. Take for example: Rofecoxib. Paracetemol (Tylenol) will destroy your liver, and aspirin and ibuprofen will tear up your stomach. Rofecoxib was supposed to bring all the benefits of these NSAIDs without the significant downsides...instead, it caused heart attacks!

So, not really a tip, but more of a caution/word of advice: if you want the best drugs to improve focus, attention, and endurance have a coffee and a cig. If you don't like the impact that has on your health, then keep in mind any alternatives you want to try could have less downsides...or more.

Maybe the best thing would be to get some rest and follow Michael Pollan's wonderful advice: "Eat food, mostly plants, not too much."
Yes, but the reduced risk of heart disease/stroke/obesity more than makes up for it. Also better lung function and less car fumes breathed in since your car cabin isn't trapping them.
> Microsoft did claim they were worth $20, according to Gov. Exhibit 17. Most of your argument is thus false.

Microsoft thinks that the OEM license disappears if the original install media (CD or recovery partition) are lost. Your options at that point are to either (a) get a new OEM CD from the manufacturer, in which case the original license becomes valid again, or (b) buy a new license, for $20. I don't know enough about how Windows is licensed to say whether that's legally correct, but it's Microsoft's position.

Assuming that's correct, his customers thought they had a compliant license, because they thought they'd bought (a). They actually didn't, because the CD--even though it was bit-for-bit identical to the authentic one--had the wrong provenance. If his fake OEM CDs didn't exist, and the real OEM CDs weren't available either (which is apparently the case), then the customer's next best option would have been to buy a new license. Microsoft is claiming not that each of his disks was worth $20, but that each disk cost Microsoft $20 in revenue, because everyone who bought his fake OEM disk would have bought a real $20 license instead.

I still think the sentence is disproportionate and stupid, and the convoluted legal situation of Microsoft's own making seems to me like a good reason to depart from the sentencing guidelines (which already seem high to me). I'm not sure the $20 is as wrong as the article makes out.
Holy shit. Gonna bookmark this for later, and study up on this one. Thanks for sharing.

For those interested: http://contemporary-home-computing.org/turing-complete-user/
They'd probably have to do quite a bit of manual labor on the things without significant cooperation from the bikesharing companies, given that all of them are equipped with locks attached to the frames that can only be unlocked with the ridesharing companies' apps; and many need significant maintenance, if you've ridden these a number of them probably don't really have properly functioning brakes or messed up chains and stuff. Not to mention any brand impact that would have on these bikesharing companies. All surmountable but would stand in the way of making it a slam dunk.

That and it's not like Africa is the only impoverished place these can be helpful in. Parts of China itself, as well as many of its neighbors, are in equally perilous status economically.

The feeling I get is that the central Chinese government really wants bike sharing to succeed since it has the potential to relatively cheaply solve so many problems, from last mile transit (at least for the able-bodied) to reducing car dependence, but local Chinese governments got saddled with dealing with the chaos of it all.
How many usable cars are abandoned by their owners to be dumped into random car graveyards?
WhatsApp and Facebook have many users in the developing world who could not afford a subscription unless the price was extremely low.
>...counting words, which is what data analytics and machine learning are really all about

The piece is welcome anti-hype, but, what? How can a true expert in the field say something like this? Or, maybe I should tell my colleague who is working on ML for diagnostic radiology to think of voxels as, uh, words?
the JVM _NEVER_ returns memory to the os. but that is not a problem since memory can always be reused on the jvm.

I wouldn't consider the third category a memory leak.
It feels like modern web design practices have grossly skewed people’s estimates of what it costs to deliver a service. Text messages are not fundamentally hardware intensive to deliver - unless you add tracking, “machine learning”, ad delivery, and mountains of JS for serving the app itself dynamically.
it sounds like unsubstantiated nonsense. Cocaine, like many chemicals, has a particular odor.
But if I do need the original data back, say, the driver needs to produce an expense report with the hours, what would you do in that case? I have thoughts, but trying to bounce off of someone else.
Lots of runners in my family. They often get injuries (especially knew) from running. Biking is a lot kinder to your joints.
You can't unmap the kernel stack in Meltdown mitigation, because the syscall instruction will want to push to the kernel stack before you as the kernel has a chance to map the kernel stack.
hello
i am new here and a noob.
But this application messenger is only maked for France government use or also for everbody people around the world?

thereby, Riot is developed by the france government.
Big change it has a back-door or something. you cant trust it as a citizen.
correct me if i wrong but this sound like a honey pot to me.
Yep: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nzkxgm/bitcoin-mi...
"Anonymization" in the sense of transforming a dataset so that it's still useful but doesn't significantly reduce the privacy of the people it describes, is usually impossible, or at least beyond the state of the art. People start out with just a few tens of bits of anonymity and bits are everywhere.

You probably have a better chance of creating your own secure block cipher than of achieving this goal. In a similar way, your inability to see what's wrong with your scheme is not evidence that it works.

I don't like to be negative, and I'm all for continued research, but at this point the conservative thing to do with data that you need to "anonymize" is delete it.
I'm not sure why this is downvoted. While yes, network effects come and go, currently WhatsApp has a market dominance. I tell people I use Signal, WhatsApp, and Text, but prefer Signal, and most people either use WhatsApp or Text. It is hard to get people to switch. That is the reason Facebook is so dominant, even though it is common for people to dislike a lot of it.
Happens in America, too.
I guess because people chose to upload it there. We can’t stop people from going to YouTube, that’s where the audience is.

It’s a bit concerning that you mention being hosted by a “private” company. Would you prefer the government hosting this data?
I relate to this so hard--about two years elapsed between when I "learned" Javascript on Codecademy and when I first used it in a real project. These courses teach you syntax, and do a pretty shit job at even that.
Automobile infrastructure has enjoyed primacy for about 70 years. What you’re really seeing is just a long-overdue return to the idea that other things matter, too. Neighborhoods aren’t places for other people to get through as quickly as possible. In other words, we’re “destroying” a bunch of transportation infrastructure that shouldn’t ever have been built in the first place (or that was originally built with a very different purpose in mind).
Except you know, California Labor Code section 2870...

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

I'd be happy to know about other states which have similar laws.
Fellow 419-to-Bay-Area transplant. Parents are still there, but even my friends who want to stay local move to Columbus (which is actually growing quite quickly!).

The median age feels like it continues to rise as young people leave more and more.