skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly I don't think this is that big a deal even though it is a crappy thing for Comcast to do.

Most services that cord-cutters use heavily (Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, etc.) are built to operate normally on LTE connections, where average bandwidth is something like 30Mbps. So 60Mbps is actually fine.
I wouldn't say less efficient but with larger margins. I could probably do the work of 2 my colleagues if I was really pressed and was forced to work overtime. Instead, I work something like 5-6 hours a day. This sounds like inefficiency - however, when people get sick, when they go on holidays, when new products are to be released and we need to do something extra fast - it's business as usual and no extra sweat is involved. Pure comfort for everyone, including the marketing and sales teams.

When I confront it with the times I worked for a small company... You had no choice but to work hard. If you didn't do it, it wasn't done. Deadlines were pushed forward, everybody was unhappy. There was no margin for anything, so I had to work overtime very often. These two approaches are incomparable. (Of course you can easily find opposite examples, especially in big consulting firms, so take this with a grain of salt.)
A critical aspect of that is the distribution of engineering skill is bimodal, if not multi modal.

People want a lot of top end coders. The lower and middle, far less so.

Lumping all comp sci labor into one skill and ability bracket prevents nuanced understanding.
I wouldn't go that far. I would absolutely love for some tool, and pipenv as as fine as any other, to replace everything else. But right now it doesn't seem to be ready.
I've thought about this a lot, and reached a conclusion that feels a bit novel... in that I haven't seen it written about much.

The larger the company, the greater the share of all the mental energy of the total mental energy is spent internally competing for position.
This is very important info. I've seen some founders get tripped up over this. Hopefully Stripe Atlas LLC provides support for foreign entity registration and taxes too (I would assume they do).
StackOverflow OpenId login is being discontinued: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/307647/support-for-...
They don't retain staff. But the ones who retire or leave can generally get a very large contract when things like this pop up.

Until, of course, they are all gone. At which point the system will need to be rewritten by IBM, Oracle or some other useless, gigantic consulting firm.
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Well, this particular slowdown was caused by the Spectre / Meltdown patch.

In particular, the Linux KPTI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_page-table_isolation) which prevents Meltdown from affecting the Kernel. The hardware fix is simple: buy AMD Epyc instead. At least, in the nearterm. Intel's "Icelake" system will have the hardware fix so that KPTI can die sometime in 2019. Its not normal to flush the TLB on every systemcall. But its a necessary precaution as long as the CPU is vulnerable to Meltdown.
Author Here.

Using crypto hashes to anonymize data is one of those mistakes I've seen several times, and wanted to draw some attention to the issue so that hopefully we can all learn from it.

Let me know if you have any questions.
> Big companies are efficient in terms of serving their customers and extracting money from them.

Efficient in what parameter(s), compared to the service and money extraction performance of small companies?

Big companies extract an absolute bigger volume of money and provide a bigger volume of service; that is undeniable.

But a measure of some sort efficiency need some sort of denominator under that.

E.g. from the point of view of a top brass executive getting rich, a bigger company is certainly much more efficient than a small one.
Autopilot should not be accessible to drivers until their driving habits have been assessed and baselined. If autopilot is known to drive more safely than the individual human driver in environments X, Y, and Z then it should be made available in those environments, if not encouraged. That might not make an easy sell since a major value prop is inaccessible to many of the people who really want to use it, but it's the most reasonable, safest path.

I also imagine that cars will learn from both human and each others' driving patterns over time, which (under effective guidance) should enable an enormous improvement in a relatively short period of time.
I'm a retard.

> However, I believe the compile time differences significantly outweigh the compile time differences.

I meant to say "the compile time differences are significantly greater than the language-independent differences".
get an onion address its FREE (and no renewals), and great for personal use. I put a comment with more details but it was blocked so I'm trying to avoid keywords here. I'm running a gitlab and a sftp server on an old laptop at home (no server fees) which I can access anywhere in the world without dealing with static ip's or changing router settings.
I'm old enough to remember when a significant part of the "dream of the Internet" was that knowledge workers could work anywhere with an ISP.

Obviously that dream was not widely realized, but there are some employers that will allow you to write code from the countryside.
"We've increased speeds 17 times in the last 17 years."

My experience is that they increase the speed, and then a few months later they raise the price. Then I have to switch to a lower speed to get a price similar to what I was paying before. It's dishonest and sleazy.
While reading this article, I imagined an Eternal September writ large across the whole industry. Maybe in the beginning it was a few idealistic visionaries, who attracted other idealists who could get behind the vision. Then it succeeded wildly, and attracted everyone and thus became merely human. A mix of the worst and the best, and probably in proportion closer to 80/20 than 50/50. The vision became a game, one that need only be stable, but not optimal or humanist in its value system.
Antecdotally in my experience there is also the fact that in large companies some functions no longer need to exist. That being said you have leaders who arent going to volunteer this and lose thier power or job so they clamp down and create middle management holds such as bureacracy or fierce protection of a function etc.
Why wouldn't "the kids of IT today" ever learn that?
I feel like the authors of this article are being very misleading by using broader terms where they could be more specific, like using system where they could instead say software. The IRS isn't running 60 year old hardware, and the failure was in hardware that was just 18 months old. But because the IRS is running software that is 60 years old, the authors can claim the "system" dates back to the 1960s.

It's also clear the authors don't entirely understand what they're talking about. In the second article linked to, which is written by an author of this article, he states "[t]he Individual Master File, a massive application written in the antiquated and low-level Assembly programming language" as if to imply there is but one assembly language.

A GAO report I found chasing the last link in the article indicates that the two oldest systems in the Government are the IMF and Business Master File (BMF) which it says both run on IBM Hardware. My guess would be that the IRS is running modern z/Architecture mainframes in System 360 Compatibility mode. The System 360 dates back to the early 60s and IBM has maintained backward compatibility with it all the way up through z/Architecture systems. This would also explain why they're so far over budget and behind schedule.
I come from a small town in Germany, and in those towns it was very popular to build those kinds of streets in the 80s and 90s (I think, probably still is). It was definitely nice not to have heavy traffic around. But the images in the article made me laugh. None of that stuff they show ever happened around where I lived. We kids played in the back yards and in the gardens, but not on the street.
Anyone know what is the total cost of Striple Atlas? What others cost beside the $500 one time fee? Will really appreciated some breakdown numbers
>"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

... which is a very good example of Catch 22 logic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22_(logic)

I personally prefer Groucho Marx :

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/04/18/groucho-resigns/

“I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.”
We generally send our patches upstream but they can take some time to land. This will just always be the case. We test that everything builds with stock LLVM, you’ll probably just get some test failures from the unpatched bugs.
Seconded that:

> Not getting root on your own machine as a developer?

was the origin of this thread, and there are tons of places where developers are not permitted root access to their own dev machines. We are not all talking about prod instances.

I have this conversation with my own counterparts in network / platform / infosec / application teams (I am an app dev), and in some cases the issue is conflated because dev environments are based on a copy of prod, and the compromise of such prod-esque data sources would be almost equally as catastrophic as an actual prod compromise.

If this is your environment, then don't be that guy and make it worse by changing the subject from dev to prod. Don't conflate the issue. Dev is not prod and it should not have a copy of sensitive prod data in it. If your environment won't permit you to have a (structural-only) copy of prod that you can use to do your development work unfettered, with full access, then you should complain about it, or tell your devs to complain if it affects them in their work and not such a big deal for yours.

Developers write factories, mocks, and stubs all the time to isolate tests from confounding variables such as a shared dev instance that is temporarily out of commission for some reason, and so they don't have to put prod data samples into their test cases, and in general for portability of the build. Then someone comes along and says "it would be too expensive to make a proper dev environment with realistic fake data in it, just give them a copy of Prod" and they're all stuck with it forever henceforth.

It's absolute madness, sure, but it's not misrepresented. This is a real problem for plenty of folks.
TBH, there are a couple of things I think StS could improve regarding its GUI.

Moving the energy stat next to the End Turn button would probably make it harder to forget to spend it - you'd think only youtubers do that because they're distracted by commentating (looking at you, NL), but it happens to all of us.

I've also found it weird that the draw deck is on the left but the hand adds new cards from the right, so the card draw animation has cards flying in from the left to the right and then moving back left again.

(I don't participate in the StS reddit but I'm sure these things have been brought up there.)
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> It'd just be a matter of time until Netflix, etc. only run well on the upgraded speed.

I don't think this is true. Netflix and co have an incentive to run well on the lowest common denominator connection.

Sure you might not get 4K, but you can watch pretty much anything in their streaming library uninterrupted on 10Mbps of bandwidth.
https://blog.xkcd.com/2009/04/03/what-happened-to-my-laptop/
To add on to the mess, Poetry seems like a strong contestant for a well-designed Python dependency management solution: https://github.com/sdispater/poetry
And that, folks, is enterprise software services/consulting in a nutshell!!
I remember, there is a Swiss guy in HK who is trying to reanimate an abandoned nineties era fab for use by of opensource electronics.
Threatening someone with consequences if they perform some action may not prevent them from doing what they are determined to do, but it will dissuade many. The entire basis of modern society and law is built on the idea of threatening people if they break the law, rather than completely preventing them from doing anything illegal. This is not control in, say, the unix permissions sense, but it's control in common parlance.

What are you actually trying to say here?
Why is applied physicist in quotes? Elon has a ivy league physics degree, was accepted at Stanford in applied physics, and has clearly applied a knowledge of physics at numerous companies.
I just started using pipenv for a small personal project, and I like it. The usage is similar to git which I prefer over the weird bash activate mangling that a normal virtualenv does.
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What kind of hardware was it running on? The article is not very specific about that.

(At first I thought that they upgraded IBM mainframe to z14, and that caused the crash, but it's not yet 60 years old.)
We don't yet foreign entity registration in the product, but you could imagine us automating this, in addition to the Delaware franchise tax filing and registered agent services which we already handle.
The specific recital is here: https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-42/

A screen capture is the easiest way to achieve compliance but the regulation leaves open other methods as long as you can show that someone gave consent and to what exactly. (IMO you could also store the HTML of the webpage they viewed at the time)
It's more like it took them an entire day to figure out how to reboot a VM instance.
Besides https://18f.gsa.gov/ are there any other agencies, NGO's, or other organizations working on modernizing the government? And is there a path for private citizens who work in the tech sector to become more involved?

Seems unfair for the government to have to "compete" with private companies to offer services using decades old technology. Or in the case of the IRS, it seems wasteful and inefficient.
While the interview articulates several problems in need of solutions, it's not clear that Netflix-DRM-style TV business models are the answer.
Yes and no, a lot of libraries have been built on top of the feature while it was unstable. It’s been in nightly for quite a while at this point.

Of course, more libraries are needed as well, but there’s already some higher level stuff. See https://github.com/AdamNiederer/faster for example. And const generics, coming to nightly near the end of the year, will be another step up. It's true overall that numeric stuff is a weakness, but we'll get there!
I'm surprised that there was no mention of a salt used in a secure server to generate the hashes and act as an oracle. Adding pepper at the customer site already seemed like a good idea. Of course this is still hard and requires diligence for those who care about their customers and data security.
It's just advertising.
IANAL but my understanding is that bundling is only an antitrust violation when you have a monopoly. They were already offering cable/internet bundles in these areas with cost savings, so I don't see how this changes anything from the antitrust standpoint.
Buttfuck Gyro is nothing if not an utter and total glory hound. I often wonder if his parents ignored him?
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> TV+Internet is cheaper than Internet alone

Not true. Check your bill. TV+Internet might be cheaper when only counting the base rate of TV, but when you get TV you also get tons of fees piled on. FCC fees, Local Cable Access fees, Franchise fees, Cable Box fees, Taxes, etc. It will be different depending on where you live, but when I added up all the fees it added almost $15 extra per month just for basic cable.

It's still cheaper to just pay extra for internet without cable TV and get an OTA antenna.
NASA's Cancelled Lunar Rover Reflects an Identity Crisis in US Space
Does it support things like mathjax? This is a really important question to me.
I am so, so excited that I will be able to leave Comcast for good in November. Sonic, a local ISP, has been blitz building out fiber in the East Bay Area. Comcast is abusive of their monopoly status in areas and their demise cannot come quickly enough.
> So, you allocate memory in C-land and have Go structs that wrap your pointers. However, now cleanup becomes interesting. You do not want to rely on finalizers, since they are not guaranteed to run.

I did similar thing with C# more than once. Not with TensorFlow, but with my only C++ libraries that also used SIMD and therefore required aligned memory buffers.

It worked just fine. There’s IDisposable for deterministic cleanup, and finalizers as a safety net. Unmanaged interop, i.e. [DllImport], is supported on all platforms, e.g. on Linux it imports from *.so libraries.
Very unlikely that Netflix will have any problems whatsoever at any of the speeds being discussed. Netflix only needs around 10Mbps to run very, very well.
Out of curiosity, are you guys thinking of something like an UpCounsel for startup/technology-focused accountants?
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They use very broad terms to imply it was 60 year old hardware that failed but early on in the article state it was an 18 month old piece of hardware in a "system" that dates back to the 60s. If you dig into some of the other links and a GAO report you learn that there's two programs, the IMF and BMF, that are partially written in assembly that dates back to the 60s.

They're most likely running some z/Architecture in System 360 virtualization mode.
Creating, Running and Deploying a Google Cloud Function
OpenSMTPD new config
Hosting Jupyter Notebooks for 100k Users [video]
Nearly 40% of Tech Employees Say They Consumed Cannabis in the Past Six Months
I was really impressed with Concurrent Ruby (https://github.com/ruby-concurrency/concurrent-ruby). OpenSC2K is also really impressive (https://github.com/rage8885/OpenSC2K).
Isn't he up on corruption charges?
Didn't they get more than what was expected from the API? The user accepted his profile information but they also got his friends information.

Based on Wikipedia:
> Abuse is the improper usage or treatment of an entity, often to unfairly or improperly gain benefit.

That seems like they used the API improperly to access his friends information and got the friends information.

For sure Facebook shouldn't have given that information, but it was also clear that information wasn't supposed to be there, that Cambridge Analytica were aware of it and abused it.
Until your organization makes you jump though hoops to get their cert.
> They would've known, had they read

Let me stop you right there. We're talking about people who are using quiz apps here...
https://stripe.com/atlas Ctrl-F for "ongoing costs"

It's impossible to give you a fully inclusive quote without knowing more of your situation, and I'm not qualified to comment on e.g. tax consequences for you if you live outside the United States, but broadly speaking the total cost of ownership ranges from about $1k to about $2k depending on circumstances (C corp vs LLC, number of founders, whether founders are US-based or not, etc). This includes annual costs for Delaware taxes but doesn't include e.g. corporate or personal income taxes.
Netflix also has CDN caches all over Comcast's nodes.
The first quote makes sense, the latter two are at best mistaken.

> Michael Polanyi: not all knowledge is "formalizable". Actually recipes are an example of his: two cooks following the same recipe may give drastically different results.

... or rather, our formalizations are lossy for the purpose of their usage, lossily interpreted by their users, or simply not good.

Recipes are a good example of a lossy formalization, lossily interpreted (very much on purpose, to keep the recipe a reasonable size and to put only a reasonable amount of effort/time into cooking for the circumstance).

They are in no way indicative of our inability to formalize (and indeed changes due to environment, whether they be ingredients, humidity, temperature, etc. are in fact encoded in some more sophisticated recipes, or more commonly in baking).

> Roger Penrose: If the human mind were a computer, why does it seem not bound by the constraints Gödel's theorem implies for a formal axiomatic system?

It's 'extremely hard' to show that the mind would somehow escape being bound by this (a very incomplete reading as to why can be found at [1]).

This is like suggesting that the mind isn't subject to complexity theory by observing that we can factor 'large numbers' in reasonable time.

[1]: https://thefutureprimaeval.net/godel-vs-the-human-brain/
I'm not sure I understand the image, but to my knowledge you can't just do any html -> pdf with pandoc.
Its crazy how reasonable ycombinator is compared to reddit.

Reddit is dominated by tesla's marketing team. Upvoting, downvoting, and commenting.

Here you get a real discussion regarding Elon's outlandish promises.
It's good that her tumor isn't cancerous, but she's going to be out of action for at least a year. I see other people saying that she can make a full recovery, but this is not the type of thing you ever fully recover from.
Two of my girlfriends had brain tumors, both in their 20s. It's life changing, if not life shattering.
IBM mainframe assembler is actually somewhat abstracted from the hardware. The original assembler is very CISC-like, but today it's running on RISC-like cores.

As for the hardware, I/O is done through channel programs, which can have any device as a backend - it's a generic way to do DMA.

There is a lot of legacy stuff (like CCKD, VTAM) but more or less it's all emulated today by the hardware/software.
When I was a little kid in Eastern Europe we played in the street, footbal, catch, other games.

Cars were pretty rare, one every 5 minutes, we would collectively pay attention and just yell "car" when one was coming and get on the sidewalks. There was no adult supervision, just us 5-10 year olds.

Of course, if that kind of thing would happen today some parents would probably go to prison.
Yes, after Patio11 replied I clicked on the guide and there is reference to a stock operating agreement drafted by Orrick.

Their Operating Agreement is drafted so the resigning member would require unanimous consent of all the other members to resign.
Why don’t cable companies charge by megabyte used, instead of by speed? That way they would have an incentment to give you the fastest possible connection, since that would potentially mean, that you would be consuming more data. They might even give you a discount on your Netflix subscription.

Is the current pricing structure simply because consumers have become so accostumed to playing a flat rate, or is there something else, that I am missing?
I think the "everyone can be a millionaire via college" mentality has created a focus on higher education (engineering, medical school, law school etc.) ... and dissuaded people from professions which may be very worthwhile (welder, autoshop-owner) ... but will cap out at wages of $200k-$300k.

We've made these jobs seem "dirty" and low class when they're not.
> It'd just be a matter of time until Netflix, etc. only run well on the upgraded speed

I think you overestimate the bandwidth requirements of Netflix.

I only have a 30 mbps internet connection, and even that's more than enough for Netflix's highest bitrates.

Source: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306