skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to point out from professional experience that the dangers of HF as stated in this article are not embellished in any way. It is really the stuff of nightmares.

Also it's pretty insane IMO to put it in a bottle labeled 'rust remover'. That's bound to cause accidents like this with people thinking it's just any old stain-away soap.
Every time I hear anything about Flourine, I’m reminded of “Sand Won’t Save You This Time” http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/san...

I also suggest watching the Periodic Table of Videos episode on Flourine: https://youtu.be/vtWp45Eewtw
Home-Built 8-bit CPU with graphics and sound made from scratch using 74HC Logic
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Ok but a serious company wouldn't pay per byte if they were trying to save money. They could buy that much connectivity for like 50k a month. (Though they'd need to get some switches and have a network engineer.)

And if that's audio/video Vs just text, clever NAT hole punching techniques could reduce it if truly needed.

But, it seems WhatsApp was on SoftLayer? In that case their costs might have been vastly higher.
Amazon Web Services is an extensively evolving cloud computing platform which is provided by Amazon. Web services are also called as remote computing services and cloud services.

https://www.besanttechnologies.com/training-courses/amazon-w...
When your customer is an executive who needs to sell their decision to a board or C-level then pitching "IBM Whatever Health Stuff" is a bit harder than "Watson Healthcare" because of marketing.
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I feel that Google Maps search quality has gone down in the past few years. Sometimes searching "Coffee shops" will not show anything within a mile and I have to reposition, press "Search this area" and then it will show the Starbucks a block away.

Probably still better than Apple, which pointed me to a 19-hours-away store when asking for "directions to Albertsons" a couple years ago: https://i.imgur.com/jSCrToj.jpg
Because if they have a huge defacto monopoly, and also a outsized impact on our culture, the impacts of them doing so are far more far-reaching than, say, LiveLeak removing some video (trying to think of a competitor for YT is surprisingly hard).
> REST is HTTP

This is untrue. I hate to quote from Wikipedia, but it sums it up quite nicely: "REST is not a standard in itself, but RESTful implementations make use of standards, such as HTTP, URI, JSON, and XML"

More colloquially: REST is what happens when people mix up transport layers in their head.
The commenter may have called it a "blank page", but Safari doesn't; it just labels the setting as "New tabs open with...", with "Empty page" being one of the choices.
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As in any situation when it comes to performance: measure your own real world performance before making any decisions.

Benchmarks are nice to show that somethings work better than others in theory or "perfect" examples, but real databases tend to be much more complicated and messy, and sometimes just writing smarter queries, creating an index, or changing application logic may have a much bigger impact.
Perhaps, but it depends on your workload, as is described in the article. In any case: do your own measurements on your own database/application to see if it works for you.
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WiebeTech sells a bunch of interesting computer forensics hardware. I’m guessing these are typically used by law enforcement when seizing unlocked computers to keep them unlocked.
The new Nokias¹ with Android One get updates directly from Google, so a good alternative there.

¹ really HMD
My company has plenty of Cobol. While I am not on their part of IT, I used to work together with them for integration. I left with very mixed feelings.

Some bad sidess
* The language is old, in a bad way. Reading cobol learns you pretty fast why todays practices are better than the multi million spaghetti monster of the past.
* IT practices are old. They havent yet embraced lower case. I trieds to tell one of them about UTF-8, but the whole idea that 1 char=1 byte might not be an universal truth was so far out she immediately rejected me as insane.
* IT tooling is unique. These guys did CI/CD in the 80ies, but did it with a whole custom stack. They wrote their own source code control, and added an engine wih auto compiles checked in code, rejects code not according to the very strict rules, does some testing, and manages promotion from dev to test to preprod to prod.
* The database consists of 12 files (we would call them tables). Each of them has exactly 1 index. You either do a full read or an indexed lookup. There are no more files left, they are used up. Quite a lot of nightly batches exist for looking up data not reachable by the index by doing a full read for each record. See it as a kind of manual join.
* Security practices are old. There is no isolation, every application has full access to everything (There is 1 mainframe shared between user data, HR data, payment systems, ...) . If an application crashes, it dumps core. This is considered a feature, as the user can restart without much trouble. The idea that a dump might indicate some kind of exploitable problem is incomprehensible, so it is a continuous fight to keep these guys from connecting cobol straight to the internet.

But even if the technology side is horrible, they provide a lot of business value, especially compared to modern oracle/sap/tata/... 'enterprise class' applications:
* The terminal application is quick, even if the learning curve is horrible. You just type as fast as you can. If cobol cant follow, you'll see a pause on the screen, but don't let that slow you down, the mainframe will catch up.
* There is no sexism here. The male/female mix is approx 50/50.
* These guys know their business. Every edge case of an edge case is known. Compare that with the enterprise applications, where every release proves within a week to be hopelessly unfit for business purposes. We have to throw millions at the new applications just to keep them limping along.
* There is no hubris here. No Architect, no Consultants, no expensive management ideas. A recent migration from cobol to oracle OSB+gui actually required us to add 1/3 of personnel to account for the slowdown caused by people . Yeah we all saw it comming, those wo reported problems were not given raises until we got the message. But cobol culture is 'That can't be done', after which the Architects recoil in horror and let them be.

All in all, Im not sure if this post is an argumant for or against Cobol
HF is extremely scary, the safety precautions taken to work with it at an acid bench really bring this home.

I heard a story once of a student putting a bottle into his backpack and cycling across the city to another university building to use it in another lab. The mind boggles at the stupidity.
My interpretation is that GP is advocating leaving an org if you feel that speaking up is discouraged
Whatsapp is not really a social network, it's a (not very complex) IM. The costs are probably quite different (number of features, long-term storage of media, concurrent access to the same messages, etc). Supposedly they were running with only 50 engineers supporting 900M users when they were acquired. I don't know their hardware costs, but overall it doesn't seem like an expensive operation.
They do, "X-Purpose: preview"
Then that definition of free speech ignores the changes in culture and communication, no? (I’m not even disagreeing with you, I’m more curious here. This article and discussion has brought up interesting points I think)
they can cancel your subscription. because they can always say it is impossible to provide service without said data.

heck they can even rely on other laws to cancel your service any time they want.

in the next years GDPR will change nearly nothing. except that it will kill some smaller businesses.

GDPR is not strongly enforceable, if people think they have a right to something they still need to go to court.

the only thing which might change is that it will be easier to delete accounts and data (which is a good thing).
My Google Pixel disagrees with you, but you do you, bro.
Well if the DA believes they can be tried for other offences the DA should argue that.
Hello! Long-time lurker, and guilty dev behind the garage door. You can see the (broken) code I wrote here:

https://github.com/wpearse/wemos-d1-garage-door-wifi

I'll get around to fixing it later this week.

Also, an apology: I should have used "side-effect-free" instead of "idempotent" in my tweets.
Wasn't that the exact response when Apple introduced the iPhone? "They have no experience making cell phones!"
I agree that the code is interesting. It was specifically the HN title I was talking about, which is not even the title of the original article. Sorry if I wasn't clear. Anyway, it's been updated now.
Hey! I've been thinking about this all day. I thought it was a GET to fetch the title of the page, but it might only be an OPTIONS or HEAD request? I'm not sure. Either way, my code activates the garage door on that endpoint no matter the HTTP verb.
Here’s at least one example where a progressive modern democracy agrees with your point:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-11/criminal-conviction...
The company making $20m/year was seen as a threat by a bigger company making, at the time, $2000m/year. So the bigger company, worth something like $100B at the time, decided it was worth forking $19B to eliminate that threat.

It's that simple.
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I do pay for a Google business account, so that probably biases me in favor of connecting to their services. I use it for the branded email.
Firefox was the last of the players that mattered that could still be described as a "user agent". That's no longer true.
hmm www.rational.com is broken, but is that the Rational from Rational Unified Process?
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Sometimes it's just what the people bring with them, even if the company has "good" culture (whatever that means).

And even in companies with the best culture, I would expect such things to happen if the cost of a mistake is comparable to a person's yearly salary or above that.
I was suggesting the drama caused previously was due to the confusing way it was handled - pay to avoid a header, or to use "official" binaries.

I'm well aware that nginx has a commercial side, which is why I mentioned it as a comparison.
That would comply with GDPR, and is a valid solution.
Can you beat Yoyo's 36?
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Same here, and use GDPR to delete all Social Graph edges siphoned off after the acquisition.
I'd say: a) if you are a US citizen, then FATCA and FBAR already apply to you, and you pay your personal income taxes on your worldwide income anyway, b) if you are not a US citizen, then I'd rather carefully consider the legal implications: your company can now easily be sued in the US, where a single lawsuit can bankrupt you.

I think (b) in particular is not considered by many who look at Stripe Atlas. I consider it a tremendous risk.
I always laugh (while secretly crying) about the stories from high school people write on here. Seems like everybody is going to top-tier _tech high schools_, meanwhile the most computer science I got was being taught Turing by a gym teacher.
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He's also John McCain. Say what you want about his politics but that guy is tough.

"John McCain survived this" is not a pitch I want to hear from anyone, especially a doctor.
This problem is solvable by basic market dynamics. When everyone knows that a JavaScript "Dev" can make $80k and a cobol one can make $190k, people with learn cobol. It isn't hard. If you can grasp one imperative language, you can grasp any of them.
I would certainly say that we are seeing similar trends in the UK regarding the description of the two worlds. It's almost going back to feudalism.

The drawbridge is being drawn up and those not already within the castle over the next few years might never enter again. Very concerning.
Oh my oh! It's my bad. It's fixed now ;)

This was distracted for sure!
Sure. But did they truly believe all those "assurances" about how they could keep the original WhatsApp values indefinitely while getting acquired for an obscene amount of money?
“Toggle” is by definition not idempodent, because you get a different result each and every time. “Open” and “close” are idempodent, but not safe. The result of a GET request should always be idempodent and safe.
Consider the legal implications, too: if your form an Atlas LLC, you can easily be sued in the US.
MySpace would be a closer analogy but still a couple of orders of magnitude off

Geocities arguably suffered the same fate
I was able to cheaply and measurably boost the perf of some heavily optimized deep learning inference stuff through judicious use of prefetch. CPU can only do the job for you if it notices coalesced reads. It won’t do anything about that next buffer you could be pulling in now from a different place while the CPU is busy processing data it already has in the cache.

Benchmaking on realistic workloads is crucial for this kind of work. If you can’t measure the benefit, leave it out, because what is harmless on one arch can be measurably harmful on another. As if that wasn’t bad enough, results can and do differ between compilers, too, even on the same arch.
And now I'm wiping coffee off my monitor :-D
It's fixed now ;)
Well, messaging is baked in - even multimedia messaging - of mobile technology, but greedy telcos had to charge 0.10€ for each so people just associated them to expensive and jumped as soon as the first viable option emerged.
HF is a scary bond. I think the only other stuff that scares me more is CF3 and FOOF, the first being very very good at burning stuff that normally doesn't burn like Asbestos and Sand, the later combusting explosively when coming into contact with Water Ice at 90K.

To be honest, Flourine is a scary atom. A lot of the bonds it forms are also scary. And toxic.
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20 miles per day and 5K per day are not comparable. Probability of injury is a function of the quantity/intensity you are performing the action, and of course running 7x farther will be result in more injury.
It is useful in case where the hardware prefetcher is not helpful. That is, indirect memory access (e.g. graph traversal), constantly accessing different pages (eg column wise access of a matrix with >4k kB rows)
Howeve, finding the right perfetch distance is key. Too early and you wasted an instruction. Too late and your cache line might already be evicted, degrading performance. When perfetch instructions were introduced, unit prefetches were commonly fine. Now you should probably do a sweep to find an ideal value.

Prefer giving your optimising compiler a prefetch hint, it will be better at guessing the distance and be less architecture-dependant.
It seems to be creating ERC20 tokens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERC20

I've invested up to 99c to make some TimCoins and should be able to sell you a few shortly.
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> you can't just walk into an Apple store and get an issue fixed

The vast majority of people can't do that anyhow due to the rarity of Apple stores. For example there are two on the island of Ireland, for a population of seven million.

Most people have to get the i-devices fixed by a third-party just like they do with Android.
A link to "things I won't work with"? Well there goes my entire day!
On the other hand, typing on a smartphone is faster in Japanese. (If you use the 10-key input method.)
FedEx, UPS, Amazon Logistics, basically every delivery company. Everyone in delivery these days is an "independent contractor" with no control over their route or hours, working for a business that does nothing but deliveries.
"Invisible fire" reminded me of something which is almost completely invisible while it burns: methanol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZEEuCHdWFA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku7TdLeEGsQ
You need the ether for the etherium network to process the smart contract.
I see you've read that terrible book by uncle Bob and now you're a professional coder. :)
Determinism is certainly a huge part of it, but FPGAs are insanely badass at computing prowess - you can create a custom architecture to execute whatever it is you're trying to compute.
For some (non-IT) companies programmers are always a sunk cost, so this math doesn't work there.
Consider using a better geocoder? https://pelias.io
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Most definitely in automated setups, i.e. in production. (I personally never depend on virtualenvs in production, preferring to have a fully isolated environment either via Docker or even better a dedicated VM.)

But in development, where you manually switch between environments, a centralised setup is great. You don't have to worry about gitignoring the virtualenv directory, or maintaining paths in general -- a common problem with virtualenv in your code directory is that IDEs and linters and similar tools tend to just cut through and parse everything, unless explicitly prevented. With virtualfish/virtualenvwrapper, the process is simply `workon {envname}` and you have everything in place.
Of course it's entirely possible, depending upon your use-cases. If you want to use your phone as a communication, navigation and browsing device then there is no need to touch Google. You can disable Play, Maps, Chrome, Drive etc and install alternatives. Even WhatsApp offer a direct APK download, I wish more vendors did.

But if you want to play the latest games , install your bank's app or use voice agent then you'll need Google Play and an account.
Self-delusion maybe?
I got that you were talking about this law, but what I was missing was what you thought made this particular law different than others which would affect them. Now I think it's clearer.

That said, I'm not sure I agree that part-time wouldn't be that bad. It works for Walmart because their employees have low fixed costs for working (essentially just the commuting), so working fewer hours is still worthwhile.

But Uber depends on drivers buying new cars, which often they pay off by driving many hours per day. Once you limit that, they will lose everyone except the casual drivers.

The alternatives I see to this are not great for Uber: they either have to (1) buy and maintain their own fleet, or (2) accept competition so that drivers can fill up their daily schedule by working for multiple companies.
Despite failing chemistry in high school (and never looking at it again afterward), I loved Derek Lowe's "Things I Won't Work With" column.

He did an excellent job of describing some truly terrifying chemical substances in a lighthearted and engaging way.
HTTP is an implementation of REST.
GET requests should have no side effects. In other words NOOP is idempotent
The intersection of full-stack web devs from the commercial line-of-business world; and hardware/embedded hackers brings a lot of room for accidents IMO. I'm not saying any one of these groups are bad or inept. I'm in the former and completely accept that I'm new to embedded programming. It seems kool and I wanna learn about it. But I can also see the flip side where a hardware hacker sees query strings for toggling an output as a perfectly reasonable interface. Do we expect the embedded guys to grok HTTP/REST? The web-dev would be like "no, no, that has to be POST or PUT". But these things are going to happen. We don't yet have a large pool of experts across both fields.

It's no surprise the level of compromise and breach when you intersect what were pretty distinct skillsets and dump them in the mixing bowl together. That's what this IoT thing is like - it's a bunch of household and industrial chemicals all poured into the one container. It's not going to be very safe.
I'm sure that's a big part of it when every app wants to do a data grab. I'm also left thinking US law doesn't really do proportionate after a few of these discussions! :)

For us in Europe 20 years of DPA must help - I doubt there's many here would want to go back to pre-data protection.
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I have a fairly high end Android phone (OnePlus 3) and Snapchat freezes up all the time. Video pretty much always stutters without fail. IIRC it was the same on my Nexus 5 as well.
LLC members can be other LLCs or corporations.
Your call. IIUC, it covers EU citizens not just residents. I only mention this because way you phrased that sounds like you’re dropping the region not just the nationalities.
I'm assuming you don't run a business. 2-3x sounds in the right ballpark to me.
Yeah, speaking of graph traversal, when I was working on the Mono runtime performance team at Xamarin, it helped considerably in the garbage collector (SGen) when we added some manual prefetching to scanning the object graph, but it took a fair amount of benchmarking to find the sweet spot.
> you'd build a REST application

Nah, nerds would come out of the woodwork to inform you that what you've built is not a real REST.
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Because they are developers?
That's cool, but not for me.

I didn't buy Apple products before they went x86, and I won't buy any after, either.
Thanks, I'm not a native speaker, and I thought either/or was a xor.
The counter-argument is that we’re (mostly) talking about profitable companies making billions a year, which will be wasting tens or hundreds of millions anyway on unneccessary spending, poor strategic decisions, and other standard corporate cash sinks.

Why not gain reputation and good will by making users happy and deliberately cultivating a reputation for low-frustration, responsive, thoughtful and reliable products?

Of course this is the opposite of “Get shit out fast, fix it later” and would surely be very boring to work on.

But even so.
They are not a public service nor to they have to pretend to be one.

But they do pretend that, all the time. They are a common carrier when it suits them and a publisher with editorial control when it suits them. That’s not reasonable and they must be forced to choose one or the other.
Also, having your garage door opened with unauthorized requests seems like looking for trouble
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I upvoted because it's funny not because I don't believe in benevolence. I imagine others did too.

Those wanting to be "exploiting them for fun and profit" will probably be launching multi million dollar ICOs, not joking about crapcoin generators.
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He might have meant, e.g., that iPhone X has a wildly different set of gestures and shortcuts. Like, guided mode being triple-power instead of triple home, battery/volume/etc menu swiping from upper left corner instead of from below, apps being minimized vía swiping up instead of home button, etc, the list is long.
It sounds like they've been fighting for users' best interests (and somewhat winning) for the past 4 years. Perhaps they were just naive.
that seems like a wide median to me.
Most of the time, RAII is a good idea. Not always, though.

https://www.google.ru/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=%23&ved=...

(Sorry for weird url, YouTube seems to be currently blocked here and I'm too lazy to wait for a VPN connection).