skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is that most people will happily (or not so happily) trade salary and job stability for surveillance. Modern corporations are basically authoritarian so the trend towards total surveillance will increase in my view.
IANAL, but I'm not sure that's exactly true. As far as I know, in 49 states (not Louisiana), if there's not a law about it we fall back on some system based on english common law.
> “You may never want to be chipped but if you’re a millennial, you have no problems. They think it’s cool.”

If that's true to any appreciable degree, that really makes my generation the biggest sellouts there ever were.
The Argo project is a workflow engine built on top of kubernetes. Workflows are written as yaml templates and support DAGs as well as loops and conditionals.

https://github.com/argoproj/argo

We use this at my company to stitch together various scientific software packages each of which can take minutes to 10s of hours to run. Argo supports retrying, resubmitting, suspending, and resuming workflows. It really is a neat project, especially if you are already using kubernetes!
Integrating MEMS and ICs [pdf]
“He chose ..... poorly.”
Decontructing the “Unix philosophy”
If you use a Mac without in client decryption, you’re fine. Also, if you use little snitch, you’d catch the request going out if it was hosted on a site you haven’t white listed.

Also, who allows image loading by default? Disable this if you haven’t yet. Spammers abused this for tracking a long time ago.
I find this to be an eminently reasonable perspective, which did not deserve to be downvoted.

Existential anxiety can be extremely debilitating. If one plausible interpretation of time brings you comfort, there's no harm in focusing on it.
How did you get started doing volunteer book reviews?
Not OP, but we built a product around it and though Camunda is reliable and fast enough for our use, the developer experience is pretty gross.

The BPMN gets saved out as an XML document, but the editor doesn't do a good job of making the format consistent. This makes changes to the BPMN basically impossible to code review without downloading the old and new copies and visually inspecting, which is a chore for large workflows. Especially when variable inputs and outputs require clicking into each node.

Small code snippets in either JS or a Java plugin (jar) can be embedded and used to massage variables and track state. These are also difficult to code review and test as you essentially need to write a harness that mimics Camunda to run them.

All of our new products are using simpler workflows via FaaS and queues (RabbitMQ). If we ever needed large workflows again I'd lean towards something like Airflow.
Exactly. Both yarn and npm cli support this for nodejs.
Any chance of 3D-printing lenses? Frames seem easy, but being able to automate lens creation may be able to bypass these big monopolies.

Whatever happened to these water-filled lenses? https://gizmodo.com/5116969/eyeglasses-with-fluid-filled-sac... (2008)
The west isn't forcing them, but it's choosing them for manufacturing because they are the cheapest. One reason they are cheap is because of no environmental regulation.

There's a great documentary on YouTube about the ship breaking industry in Sri Lanka. Rich nations selling old ships for scrap to a very poor nation who couldn't care less about the environment or workers rights. Much better to dump it there than in a western nation where asbestos must be mitigated and oily pipes can't be welded on the beach.

See also China. Especially a few years ago when their "smoggy cities" photos were making headlines. The west chides them on their pollution, yet where do all your consumer devices come from and why do they come from there and not your country ? Of course they're more polluted when they do most of the manufacturing for the world.
All of the reasons I listed...?
We developed and use Argo (https://github.com/argoproj/argo), a Kubernetes-native workflow engine. Argo is currently used by companies like Cyrus Biotechnology, Gladly, Google, Intuit, and NVIDIA. Currently collecting use cases and requirements on a Kubernetes-native eventing framework for Argo (https://github.com/argoproj/argo-events/issues/1) to make it easier to kick off workflows.
If that's true, what do they do with that information?
Good work. I was digging around the original study looking for the gd photo. Some of the geo data was available but I have no idea where they buried the photo in there.
It's interesting to see what some people consider "common" knowledge. Or maybe how common "common" is.

I grew up in Florida's coastal area where houses are built on stilts (this is to spare the house in case of hurricanes and flooding). People live upstairs and the downstairs areas are largely empty. The empty space underneath the house is where people park their cars. This means when I was growing up and learning how to drive garages aren't a thing. No one told me about running a car in a garage. Later on, all the places I lived in did not have garages either. It's only in the last few years that I actually had a garage.

Did I know about running cars in a garage is a bad idea? I had a vague notion from pop culture and stories of people gassing themselves as a form of suicide (hello "Office Space"!). I had no idea how long is "too long".

More over, I've been parking my car inside the garage and then shutting the car off as my garage door comes down or slightly after (I sort of have to because the car's built-in garage door opener doesn't work when the car is off). I did this for a couple of years and nothing has happened. This lulled me into a false sense of security.

Maybe this is a more ingrained into the majority of people's heads because they grew up with garages but that's never the case where I grew up.
Consultants are like good lawyers...They have no skin in the game but none the less they act as your agent.

Put another way, it's the consultant's job to tell you what you might not want to hear. In plenty of orgs / cultures this isn't the case. In such cases, staff doesn't like consultants because from the front line the consultant is stating the obvious. However, it really management and leadership who should get the heat because they are the ones who define the culture where info doesn't easily transfer across the layers from see'ers and do'ers to the decision makers.
Right, and I guess because the tax office buys its furniture from private companies there is a tax-industrial complex too?

I'd say you are now pretty clearly arguing for diluting the meaning of the "military-industrial complex" context to nothingness.
> This is a cultural problem, not a technological one.

Its about poverty. Almost none of the communities that border these rivers will have access to organised waste disposal, never mind recycling. So the trash goes into the river. Thats bad, and I suspect that its known to be bad by the people involved, but where are the alternatives?

Check out [1] for some pretty horrifying descriptions of what plastic pollution is doing to coastal communities in Cambodia. Quote: "according to Water.Org, about four million people in Cambodia still lack access to safe water, leaving them with no alternative but to buy endless bottled water, perpetuating the environmentally destructive cycle. [...] this plastic waste that all the people here live amongst is unavoidable- they are not about to feed their babies the black muddy liquid that comes out of the taps, it’s poison.”

Clearly the solution involves people not throwing plastic into the rivers, but labelling dirt-poor people in a poisoned environment as having a "cultural problem" isn't going to help.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/25/mountains-and-...
Why do you even want friends?
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Scottish Prime Minister Aims to Slash Obesity by Half
Availability heuristic?
Are you aware of all the Star Wars licensed books and artwork?

Even when other people gain the right to make derivative works, the cultural concept of canon separates certain works as authoritative from the mass of non-canonical fanfiction.

If Disney did not own copyright over the existing Monkey Island games, and trademarks on the Monkey Island characters and settings, a new game by the original creators of the game would almost certainly be received as canonical.

It would be like Tim Cain making another Fallout game, even though Bethesda owns the rights to the franchise now. Indeed, with both him and Feargus Urquhart together at Obsidian, one might argue that they have at least as much canon right to the franchise as Bethesda, who owns the actual legal rights. Similar with Fargo, Stackpole, and Danforth at inXile making Wasteland sequels, except they actually had to buy the rights to the trademarks. Or it would be like Meretzky making another Planetfall sequel, yet Activision has just been sitting on the rights to do that for decades.

The original rights have long been transferred to different corporate owners, in some cases several times.

There is definitely room to change copyright and trademark such that some rights are permanently invested in the individual contributors to a work, that cannot be quashed or transferred, regardless of work-for-hire status or corporate transfers. When a studio goes under and fires everyone, yet retains all rights that get transferred to a successor company that just sits on them, that isn't encouraging the creation of new works. It's forcing the actual creators to go find new jobs, where they are legally forbidden from continuing their previous work. It might be appropriate to allow some rights to escheat back to the creators, with the successor corporation getting something more like an automatic license.

Imagine if someone like Disney lost the right to draw Oswald the Lucky Rabbit to Universal Studios, who poached all his animators out from beneath him except Iwerks. They'd have to start all over with a completely new character that no one knew about, and directly compete against their own previous work, that would then be out of their control. And then they'd have to see Oswald pulled away from even those poached animators, by corporate fiat and a poker bet by Lantz, only to be buried shortly thereafter by Woody Woodpecker.

Separating the rights from the creatives entirely seems to have been somewhat unwise, judging by the history. Some rights now are literally too complicated for anyone to unravel, thereby preventing not only derivative works, but even just new copies on the market. How bad would it be, really, to just go to the named author (or their estate) to grant new licenses, instead of trying to chase down a corporate paper trail of transfers and contracts?
>macOS is much more coherent ecosystem when it comes to native.

Then again if you try to run a gtk3 app like Fractal mentioned above on Mac OS, you will see that it looks exactly like a Gnome application.
Grocery store bags used to all be paper back in my day! Then someone demanded they be replaced with plastic.
This is an issue of encoding.

Live in C (or assembly) and there are no issues with what is NULL.
Fuchsia's TCP/IP stack and file system utilities are currently written in Go.
We don't intentionally throw our garbage directly into the ocean, but it still makes its way there. Follow a garbage truck for a while and note how much loose trash falls out either while it's driving around or while it's picking up a garbage can and collecting the contents. Realize that much of the garbage in the street will be washed down a storm drain, usually without a filter, and that the storm drain will dump into a creek or river.
> Ask HN: Why aren’t ‘team retrospectives’ a thing in ‘traditional’ industries?

They are.

> However, most ‘traditional’ industries don’t seem to be adopting this seemingly superior way or working.

The software industry actually got this from a variety of related things in traditional manufacturing, particularly lean methods; it's not universal in traditional industry, but then, it's not universal in software, even in places claiming to be using agile methods (which are often doing top-down cargo cult variants of Scrum.)
Fox didn't gamble $250 million on Avatar or $200 million on Titanic without something else paying the bills.
Love the idea, but I don't understand it at all. Where's the clues? Boxes aren't numbered. Why are there input text fields? Why is the crossword filled out already?

I've never seen a puzzle with only seven or fewer boxes in any direction. If working, would need to see a version with at least 12-15 boxes across and down.
After reading through this thread; I think of Shrek

The big scary Ogre comes to the rescue instead of Prince Charming. Something about government plans for land and evil fairy God mothers.

---
And then there is Frozen,

A Girl is taught to conceal, not feel, and turns the whole place into an icicle and is in many ways considered the wicked person.
I'm currently working on a project where -- in serverless.yml -- a single API gateway path for all HTTP methods leads to a Flask app... largely because this scheme seems much much easier and faster to test and develop locally.

Are there any particular benefits to exporting and reimplementing all of that routing and organizational logic into instructions that "program" the API Gateway instead?

In this particular case, the API is solely for external consumption by a third party
Thanks for the synopsis as I don't see a lot of information on the Lispworks and Allegro sites.
Jenkins, but my pipelines are mostly data pipelines (taking source data to convert to something else) nightly.
One tip, is to keep re-using them as long as you can. We have non-biodegradable trashcan liners for our kitchen trash-can. It helps that we recycle, compost, and are vegan (so nothing particularly icky is in the trash). We can usually go 2-3 months on a single kitchen trash bag, they usually give out because the corners wear out and start to tear.
I thought libraries could be technologies. If that's wrong, then I used the wrong word.

I probably characterized the list wrong anyway, as you've pointed out, since HTML decidedly has not outlived its usefulness. Perhaps it's a list of web things prominently used 15 years ago.

I would normally use "technologies" here, but it seems we have a difference of definition.
From an essay I wrote in 2015 on "Why Encryption Use Is Problematical When Advocating For Social Change": http://pdfernhout.net/why-encryption-use-is-problematical-wh...
"In general, a system intended to ensure private communications is only as secure as its weakest link. If any of these levels is compromised (hardware, firmware, OS, application, algorithm theory, algorithm implementation, user error, user loyalty, etc.) then your communications are compromised. ... If you want to build a mass movement, at some point, you need to engage people. In practice, for social psychology reasons, engaging people is very difficult, if not impossible, to do completely anonymously in an untraceable way. People have historically built mass movements without computers or the internet. It's not clear if the internet really makes this easier for activists or instead just for the status quo who wants to monitor them. If you work in public, you don't have to fear loss of secure communications because you never structure your movement to rely on them. If you rely on "secure" communications, then you may set yourself up to fail when such communications are compromised. If your point is to build a mass movement, then where should your focus be? ..."
"Nothing is Cheaper than proof of work"[1]. The best that can be said about Proof of Stake is that you get marginally better security while sacrificing liveliness / allowing the consensus layer to be captured by regulators [2]. PoW forces the machine to advance, if you refuse (or are forced to ignore) a block, the business dies but the network moves forward. If PoS was new and research was underfunded, you might have a plausible claim that it might turn into a workable solution.
The fact of the matter is, it's been 6 years since PoS' proposal and millions of dollars in R&D funds have been pumped into trying to unsuccessfully obviate PoW.

[1] http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/
[2] https://twitter.com/NickSzabo4/status/956461360161935361 "Conjectured governance under proof-of-stake seems to involve programmers & other amateurs making legal & accounting decisions. Bitcoin governance does not. Even when lawyers & accountants properly take over PoS governance, PoW governance will likely be far more socially scalable."
Using Flywheel Batteries to Charge Electric Vehicles in Ten Minutes
That one's mine. Sorry. I missed the bin. Where can I go to get it back?
Well, an academic paper is basically code; you have a lot of dependencies in there, and if you don't get all your #includes right, it'll likely fail to compile.

Similarly, knowledge management is inherently multi-disciplinary, so there areaot of libraries that need to be referenced. It's often easier (or necessary) to get a domain-specific SME for the topic on the list of contributing authors.

Still not as bad as some hard science papers though.
I love tries for larger data sets, and have used them many times for longest prefix matching problems.

However, they inevitably involve pointer chasing, are quite branchy, and not really amenable to SIMD optimizations. They also do not have any means in place for doing a fast-path negative match, which was important for me.

I think you'd really struggle to get anything based on pointer chasing and binary search to compete with the CPU cycle counts I was seeing toward the end for the assembly versions (e.g. 6 cycles for negative match, 14 for prefix match, 21 for worst-case false-positive negative match).

I comment a little bit about it here: http://trent.me/is-prefix-of-string-in-table/#other-applicat...

> The other nice side-effect is that it forces you to pick which table a given string should go in. I made this decision by looking at which types occurred most frequently, and simply put those in the first table. Less frequent types go in subsequent tables.

> I have a hunch there's a lot of mileage in that approach; that is, linear scanning an array of string tables until a match is found. There will be an inflection point where some form of a log(n) binary tree search will perform better overall, but it would be very interesting to see how many strings you need to potentially match against before that point is hit.

> Unless the likelihood of matching any given string in your set is completely random, by ordering the strings in your tables by how frequently they occur, the amortized cost of parsing a chunk of text would be very competitive using this approach, I would think.

> A fun experiment for next time, perhaps!
Yeah, the ugly baby problem, often combined with the desire for best practices results but a complete aversion to best practices.

The consultants can cover the scope and do their job, but if the client doesn't listen and exectute then it's like the long gone consultants will be blamed. The status quo persists, etc.
Tim cook is a awesome COO...So yes to Tim Cook. No to running Tesla.

Isn't operations what Tesla needs right now?
> job stability

i doubt it. surveillance means less stability as there are more reasons to fire people.
The Complexity of Coffee
but what percentage of ad spend on the internet is actually ROI justified? I'd guess it's pretty low, right? I got the impression it's dominated by big brand advertisers that can't calculate ad spend ROI anyway.
DARPA is already featuring spot mini like robot in one of their new YT videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUCHN2Fyt_0 at 1:56
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How about two or three dollars? You need to give them something on top of transaction costs.

I actually think a paper might as well charge $10-50 per article because they won’t make anything charging little enough to attract tire-kickers, and above $1 they won’t get many to pay besides people who have a strong interest in the content and people using the company card.
As an easy counterpoint to this scenario, Tim Schafer and Double Fine talked Disney into letting them revisit/enhance Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle, and Full Throttle. Disney has no problem relicensing IP, it just doesn't care to sell it.

(IIRC, Tim Schafer has even mentioned they have the option to create sequels in some of the licenses, but they don't have strong ideas for them at the moment.)
Well, if you set the ack freq. to 0 then TCP becomes UDP.

Right now it's hard coded to 2 which is just weird.
From George Carlin:

"The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we're gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, 'cause that's what it does. It's a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it's true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn't share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn't know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, "Why are we here?"
"Plastic... asshole."

Full quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/251836-we-re-so-self-import...
I don't know about more common, but this was in the related links: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/almond-milk-obsession-...
We just released v1 of Desole, an error-tracking system you can install in your AWS account. Desole enables organisations to track application exceptions and errors without having to choose between the convenience of software-as-a-service and the security of a self-hosted solution.

You fully control the data, so it is easy to enforce compliance, encryption and data security requirements. At the same time, Desole uses highly-scalable AWS resources that can easily handle massive traffic, and auto-size on demand, so you do not have to worry about operating costs or administration.

The first version brings integration with CloudWatch metrics, S3 storage, ElasticSearch and AWS Pinpoint.
I'd imagine the people that had to clean up after him were a lot more sensitive about it. Posting the source for historical reasons would be one way to make amends.
I live in Finland where recycling is wide-spread, and most buildings have facilities for disposing of:

* Plastics

* Cardboard

* Paper

* "Biological stuff"

My single biggest gripe is that the biological (i.e. food) waste has to be put in biodegradable bags, and these break very very easily when moist. The end result is that you need to throw out quartyer-empty bags every day, rather than full bags every few days. If you gamble chances are your bag will tear en route to the garden/central bins.
Their function is like any business in a Capitalist Society. Profit over everything. Integrity doesn't pay the bills or buy you a new Ferrari. It's sad to see the things these days being excused as 'journalism'.
Your post seems to suggest that we shouldn't use Docker and instead we should hire... smart people? Those are two entirely separate things.

> The rub is that there is not single answer, each IT project has its own peculiarities and history, I mean, of course there are patterns but Docker won't solve all problems, nor Python nor Go. It depends.

Docker goes a long way to solving exactly that problem, though. It allows you cover any variety of peculiarities and history by tailoring each and every app's environment appropriately. You seem to dislike Docker because it is buzz-worthy. Sometimes the buzz is onto something.
This does not at all seem like a rigorous proof
> every single little thing that involves this company has to be front page finance news

Tesla actively sought this attention
there’s 200,000 employees so maybe they use it to help them make broad decisions about how different areas are doing.