skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thanks for linking to that!

> Thomas Wouters asked if he had looked at PyPy. Shapiro said the company had, but there was only a modest bump in performance for its workload. He was not the one who did the work, however. Wouters noted that PyPy is more than "Python with a JIT" because it has its own data model as well.

This is interesting. How much was a "modest bump" in performance ? And why was the bump in performance not a reason for adoption ?
Does Pypy break a lot of stuff ?

Oh and this

> Some of what Shapiro presented did not sit well with Guido van Rossum, who loudly objected to Shapiro's tone, which was condescending, he said. Van Rossum thought that Shapiro did not really mean to be condescending, but that was how he came across and it was not appreciated. The presentation made it sound like Shapiro and his colleagues were the first to think about these issues and to recognize the inefficiencies, but that is not the case. Shapiro was momentarily flustered by the outburst and its vehemence, but got back on track fairly quickly.

> Shapiro's overall point was that he felt Python sacrificed its performance for flexibility and generality, but the dynamic features are typically not used heavily in performance-sensitive production workloads. So he believes it makes sense to optimize for the common case at the expense of the less-common cases. But Shapiro may not be aware that the Python core developers have often preferred simpler, more understandable code that is easier to read and follow, over more complex algorithms and data structures in the interpreter. Some performance may well have been sacrificed for readability.
It's not defined. It was left intentionally ambiguous in the GDPR so member states have some flexibility in definition.

I've got a call with a lawyer on Monday to clarify some bits of the GDPR. Number one Q for me is "how far can you take legitimate interests?".

Some lawyers are advising that marketing data and usage falls under legitimate interest, in a way that these higes drives for consent seem unnecessary.

If anyone else has any questions, I can ask and feedback. I'm sure I'll have those questions too.
My comment contrasted parent and GP.

> > Custom work requires much more knowledge.
> Anyone can learn.[...] like software engineering.

Math is hard.

BTW I tried the recurse method for about a year, but it became impossible to find some prerequisites - I think because certain basics are assumed, and not always explicitly taught at any stage. A kind of oral tradition. So I'm now refreshing (and sometimes learning) high school algebra/pre-calculus at Khan Academy (and Math SE).

Though that mightn't apply to someone with solid high school maths already. My high schooling was interrupted, also maybe I'm a bit stupid, and also need deeper explanation to get it.
If David 'Avocado' Wolfe said that water is wet I would reflexively have to check the faucets.

'Chocolate is an octave of sun energy. In fact it's the energy of the center of the sun. It's a male energy that comes down off the sun and it.. actually, of all the plants, the cacao is right on line target the center of the sun, which we call in our body, the heart, and actually cacao is right up with the center of the sun, which is the center of the heart, which is called the sacred heart.'

- David Wolfe, new-age huckster and scam artist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80O4gezNSnY
It's an interesting question, whether or not the data is representative (or what demographic is the data representative of).

Are there any studies done of the demographic distribution of Turkers?
> Aren't they important?

They might be, but does enabling you to buy LSD over the internet really justify a $300 billion market cap?
It's certainly true that even before the GDPR, almost any nontrivial business could reasonably be argued to be violating some mostly-unenforced law. I don't see that as a reason to shrug, and make the problem one step worse.

Selective enforcement of commercial law is a routine tool of unfree states--look at something like the tax charges against The Cambodia Daily. To trust in regulatory discretion is to trust that no government in the EU--a continent that within living memory hosted Francisco Franco, Giorgios Papadopoulos, and much worse--will ever be run by people you disagree with. In the extreme, a dictator can always ignore or rewrite the law; but somewhere in the slide from our present democracy to that, I don't think it's unimaginable that the GDPR could be abused.

I support privacy regulation. I don't see why it requires us to abandon the rule of law.

ETA: Downvote if you trust Viktor Orban, I guess? I'm presuming a strong case of "it can't happen here"....
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For sure technicians that do these are a thing for finishing work, who may have AS degrees instead of BS EE. I've worked with them as well. They were always referred to as technicians that EE's hand-off more of the board-level debugging to (or even GDS II for ASIC design..). The core datapath processing algorithms were always done by EE's, though.
Don’t use strongVPN. They shared my info. Got a letter from some Hollywood lawyers after someone had been running a torrent download over my VPN (would share my WiFi on and off from my phone with visiting colleagues, if they had trouble with our corporate VPN and someone probably had a movie torrent download or seed running in the background by mistake).
> I get the impression that it is an end of an era for the internet.

This is an era many of us won't regret.
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requires a highly sophisticated thrust balance that
must be able to reliably detect very small thrust with
a resolution down to the nano-Newton range, block
electromagnetic interactions as much as possible
and limit any balance-vacuum chamber wall
interactions.

The thrust, if any, is so weak it's down in the noise. For a propulsion system, that's a big problem. It's like cold fusion in that way.
In languages with destructuring syntax, you get the best of both worlds.
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I am not sure if you are joking...but one should not imagine the situation like a tiny space ship inside an egg pushing against the egg shell from within.
Back around 2000, shortly after The Matrix came out and everyone was buying "those" Nokia phones, I was tasked with writing a couple of applets for a certain UK mobile phone operator.

One applet was to design operator logos. The other was to compose ringtones. Both popular things at the time. I was given access to an SMS gateway, a PDF of the Nokia message format and a deadline.

The exact UI was phone-dependent, but typically these updates would pop up a confirm box saying "Accept new ringtone?" or something similar. I was surprised to discover that this was triggered by sending an SMS, because there was usually no indication that a message had been received. If you were lucky you would be told where the file had come from, but often the phone just assumed it was an update from the network. On some phones there wasn't even an alert, it would just obey, silently.

The message just had to start with "//SCKL", followed by a code, followed by some data. That's it. On first reading I assumed the "header" part would require direct access to the SMS gateway, like the SMTP HELO or similar.

Nope. First thing I tried once I had some PoC data was to send a message from my phone directly to a colleague. It worked.

Over the course of that project I sent so many of those text messages I still can't get the code //SCKL1581 out of my head. JFTR, sending someone a really awful ringtone (a single diminished fifth or something) is way more annoying than sending them "0" as an operator logo, especially if their phone only has one ringtone.

https://www.activexperts.com/sms-component/sms/sckl/
Younneed a DPO if you 10 employees or more. Fornhiavcase, he most likely just needs to update his privacy policy and have a form to collect users requests (like TypeForm) and make sure that he handles them (event if it's manually deletion in database).
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I have zero idea how people are using snapchat. Even as a programmer, I find their UX extremely hard to understand, enjoy and use. It's the shittiest app that is on my phone and I have opened it only twice in a year.
I've certainly come to that conclusion, although one person is not a trend. I'm in the minority among the people I talk to. I think more people see them achieving something that looked impossible, so something even more impossible doesn't seem like an obstacle.
If you don't have a copy of Cracking The Coding Interview I'd suggest getting one. Also:

https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university
Kinda like they don't work on multiple chat apps simultaneously - that would be too silly of them to be believable, right?
> It would still be blackmail, I think, if you threatened to take someone's tweet and put it on the front page of the NY Times unless you receive a lifetime supply of M&M's and Diet Coke ...

Haha... wow, such a good synopsis of the state of media today.

Yeah, this is a good argument. It also suggests, though, that criminally relevant distinctions between blackmail and publication are strained.
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This is hardly surprising but at the same time I can't help but feel that it's what the vindictive misanthropes who wrote the laws that these men exploited intended.
Have you ever worked in a corporation? Corporation can work simultaneously on three extremely similar projects and each team might not even know that two others exist. Not due to secrecy, just due to mess.
Twitter is falling in to same prey... About 30% of the tweets I see are what other people retweeted and liked. Just show me their own tweets damn it!
Yes. A priest is not supposed to baptise without such a "reasonable expectation". (Although if he does it anyway, he has broken the rules, and could be disciplined for it, but the baptism is nonetheless valid.)

One Catholic parent is the usual heuristic but it isn't actually the rule so isn't absolutely binding. For example, if a non-Catholic is known to regularly attend Catholic services, but for whatever reason is hesitating in formally converting, a priest may very well agree to such a parent's request to baptise their child.
GDPR compliance takes resources. I would say for a small business it takes about 1 or 2 days. Not hard work but tedious. In the end you will have around 5 documents that will show your processes, what you do to keep data save, a plan how you deal with questions from customers and regulators, that you trained your employees and that you choose your subs carefully.

Essentially that's it.

I am no lawyer but I am a CPO.

Pro tip: Speak with the regulators they are on your side.
I respect his right to do whatever he would like with his own hobby, but we should be clear that the guy is stating he doesn’t have the resources, based on a series of misunderstandings.

So, for example, he says he is required to appoint a DPO.

The U.K. Information Commissioner has this to say:

>Do we need to appoint a Data Protection Officer?

A> Under the GDPR, you must appoint a DPO if:

> you are a public authority (except for courts acting in their judicial capacity);

> your core activities require large scale, regular and systematic monitoring of individuals (for example, online behaviour tracking);

> * or your core activities consist of large scale processing of special categories of data or data relating to criminal convictions and offences.
Came to HN for tech tips. Stayed for self-sacrifice in the name of social progress.
Not convince execs/managers that machine learning, NLP and "AI" are magic solutions for everything.
Ban carrying knives next? And 3D printers; gonna need a license and a pile of DRM phoning home to make sure you didn't make a banned object.
Well, now it seems like we agree in full.

My point all along was that police don't have any statutory authority to use force in any greater measure than anyone else, and yet they seem to get away with it - as you point out, free from both criminal and civil liability.

Shit man, I don't support qualified immunity at all. It has always been a bit of charlatan law IMO.

I understood (and still understand) the original comment as taking the position that this discrimination is somehow based in statute, when, as far as I can tell, it isn't.
Oddly, GDPR gives 3 reasons why you would need a DPO:

1. you're a public authority (NHS practices are an example)

2. Large scale processing

3. Large scale processing of sensitive data

They don't specify what large scale means. They also haven't specified how sensitive data qualifies the third statement. One can assume the threshold is lower but the GDPR doesn't specify any thresholds with regards to this.
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Things tech is allowed to do in 2018:

* Disrupt ${thing}
* Solve a clearly defined problem
* Harvest personal data for a variety of ethically questionable reasons.
* Distributed transactions ledgers (NOTE: Blockchain only)

Nothing else is acceptable.
When I was taking chemistry classes... a few decades ago, organic chemistry was "all the rage". This was with the professors at a highly regarded if smaller undergraduate chemistry program.

Inorganic chemistry, some of which actually interested me more, seemed to be considered at least by a fair fraction of them comparatively sterile and having a more constrained future, especially with respect to the budding careers of us future chemists. I don't think that was a complete nor monolithic opinion, but I do remember it being a significant one that was being actively impressed upon impressionable young students.

Then, while organic chemistry didn't exactly decline, the semi-conductor industry and related applications, as well as a big spate of other advanced materials engineering, all took off.

It gets pretty hard to predict what's going to be hot, in the future -- and when.

Work at being at least somewhat of a polyglot, and you get to enjoy it all!
It seems odd to me that iPhone wouldn't spike, especially so around 2007. Am I reading this wrong?
Aye, and you'd be well within your rights to do so, but I am doubtful that this approach will preempt the majority of people assuming rudeness on your part.
BTW, FB has this "See First" feature where you can mark your friends to show their posts first. That has improved FB's usability to me just to borderline. Unfortunately they don't let me chose more than 30 people. It's mind numbing what kind of morons FB has hired who makes these decisions. Why the fuck I don't want to see more than 30 friends post first? Even worse, why the fuck can't they figure this out from all the decade worth of data they have on me?
I have never seen him code, but I personally spoke with weev a number of times while he was a regular at a (in)famous SF hackerspace.

He demonstrated a thorough familiarity with ptmalloc internals, enough to correct someone else's remark about fastbins (meanwhile taking frighteningly large hits of whippets).

Additionally, he was the first person I had ever heard mention Rust.... wayyy back in 2012 (I'm embarrassed to say I thought he was talking about Racket and tried to correct him - I was 19 and thought I knew everything). He seemed to know quite a bit about the language even then.

He continued to discuss other topics arising from this with other hackers. One such conversation I remember more clearly was his exchange with another hacker (a quite skilled one by my estimation) where he seemed to speak rather cogently about the relative merits of a complete semantic tableaux and SMT solvers to determine "real ptr lifetime" (beyond just adhering to a set of idioms that enable a constraint solver to verify reference use).

So if he can't code PHP, then that's even more impressive.

As an aside - in person, he came across as very warm, funny, charming and even deliberately inclusive.

It feels strange now, but long ago, if you looked at him with the right shades on, he'd seem to give a nudge-and-a-wink that the "trolling", including his iconoclastic project of the time: the posthumous baptism of Muhammad's remains via becoming a Mormon deacon (of some sort??) were all intended to be thought-provoking irreverence rather than chaotic evil. No matter what was discussed he always gave the impression there was something more there, something almost hermetic.

In those intervening years my view of him has assumed a different proportion. Those weren't all harmless culturejamming tricks pulled off in the name of some Discordian spirit which lies somewhere behind the neocortex of the hacker mindset. At that time, and many years before then, there were pranks, tricks and trolls that were unimaginably cruel, purposeless and petty.

Since, prison has hardened him further into a wicked racist, who, lacking a better word, is insane.
Maybe he did and it didn't work for some reason and he thought it was good. Shit happens. I think the most worrying part is not having been caught in code review. Signal does code review, right?
Here is a blog post on this topic:

https://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2018-route-based-vpn-wireg...

Didn't tried it myself but it looks solid
If we demand that publicly funded universities adopt open access Elsevier will be gone in a few years.

Elsevier will happily publish your papers as open access (for a small service fee).
Weird part about it too is that if they get the "wow" response they want from baiting, impressing, over doating, or whatever; they tend to be disgusted at the person responds as intended. If someone feels creeped out or get's what is happening and pulls away (especially if explictly/dramatically), they get very interested and focus on the mystery of the thing they can't have.

I've been around more than a few narcissists, psychopaths, and BPD people in my life. In general I'm sympathetic, but I'm also a magnet because I was raised by one. Took me a long time (and therapy) to realize that when I meet someone and 10 minutes later I think we are going to be best friends that it was a programmed ride.

Almost all of them that I've met are very high IQ individuals. They can exude a sort of confidence, especially psychopaths because of the lack of a strong emotional tether. At the core is an insecurity about how smart they know they are, a compulsive desire to maintain dominance of attention, and a sort of boredom about how dumb everyone is. The boredom about how dumb people are also isn't in the least true, but it's a feeling with built in confirmation bias. Smart people move away from them quickly and they don't see the emotional heisman move people do to avoid them. They don't realize that a lot of people that stick with them know who they are and what they are doing, but love them anyways too.

Personality disorders are complicated as hell. Some of the most interesting people I've ever met are afflicted. Many of them I would love to randomly share a cab with again, but don't want them to know where I live or work. They ARE treatable though if someone wants to do the work! It's important to know that if you have one close to you. That and also strong boundaries are your friend.
Yes, I agree. Sometimes there were so tricky cases that it was impossible to explain why that tool matched those deals.
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I'm curious if there is an analogue for the black-blue/gold-white dress. I always saw it as black and blue (which it turned out to be), and held the consious beliefs that "this clearly is an overexposed photo" and "the black and blue color combo is something quite common while I've barely ever seen any gold and white clothing". I wonder if holding those beliefs can have an influence on the unconcious processing of the visual information.

Similarly, for this clip, Laurel is a name (and also otherwise a word) that I've heard quite a few times in my live, while I've never heard Yanny neither as a name nor a regular word.
It seems you are calling for Qubes OS [1], which does that but using VMs (which should be more secure than containers).

It will take a looong time for "standard" OSes to get there, if they ever do. The required changes in UX are very significant...

[1] https://www.qubes-os.org/
Just my 2 cents. 13 years ago I used to always have cavities every time I went to the dentist. Then got told to leave toothpaste on my teeth instead of rinsing after brushing (I only brush once a day). Haven't had any issues since, so I'm guessing the floride has a local effect.
Intel has been on the decline for years now. They have tried to innovate new product lines and have mostly failed in almost everything they have tried to do. They are invisible in the mobile space, and soon even Apple won’t be using them in their products. They failed completely in IOT (Edison), still don’t have a 1:1 competitor with NVidia, and are going to miss out on the self-driving car revolution. They don’t really have any kind of Cloud or software business. Basically they’ve been riding on x86 and that gravy train is showing it’s age. They have recently been doing some cool things with drones, but I’m not sure that’s going to last and I fully expect it to fail eventually.

Operational style management is important when you have a product that needs to be tuned and improved incrementally. But that same style of management is ill-suited and emotionally bankrupt for creative types who are the source and inspiration of the product vision in the first place and it shows in Intel’s floundering roadmap.

One size fits all problem management and single minded solutions do not work. A process is a tool but not a replacement for empathy nor thinking.
Yeah I don't know anybody personally who feels like a winner because they have clean drinking water. It's universal where I live. In places where it's not, you might feel like a winner when the neighboring village doesn't have it, and sucks to be them.
I thought reddit went to cassandra.
The hard problem with voting systems isn’t counting the votes, but insuring that each eligible person casts at most one vote.

Blockchain based voting systems might help prevent the rare case of multiple voting, but AFACT, do nothing to protect an unscrupulous government from stuffing the ballot box with fabricated votes. Ultimately, like the other issues GP raised, the technology seems to do little to solve the underlying social problems.
The reports for people who are just new in the system and for people who had their data deleted by request are different.
I've been turking once, made a $100 worth of Amazon credits and bought a first version of Kindle :) good old days
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I haven't been on Facebook for 6 and 7 years and still often feel like I'm missing out and find it difficult to stay in the loop on events as well as staying connected with new acquaintences. How about that?
That's because, despite being called "publishers", publishing is not the main function academic publishers like Elsevier are being used for. Their main function is identifying and recognising the most valued academics in each field. So obviously academics are going to pay whatever amount of public money is needed and available to get that stamp of approval, because otherwise they'll be out of a job in a very competitive job market.

Edit: The argument in more detail: https://medium.com/flockademic/to-fix-scholarly-publishing-d...
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I'm told yes by my colleagues in political science. They seem to think highly of it. Don't have the citations myself sorry