skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Edit: in case it’s not clear, your “unless they own the network” remark is an assertion that Net Neitrality should not exist in any form.”

Excuse me? I was describing what would be needed for your comparison to make sense. There’s no sensible path from that to “Net Neutrality should not exist in any form.”
> how is a transpiler different from a bytecode compiler, except that the bytecode is human readable?

The bytecode is human readable.
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OK, I'll investigate that solution when I get a chance. I reported it to tech support a year or two ago and they were fairly confused.
Conversely, why should I care about the trillions of people here after I die? Why should I care if humanity dies in it's birthplace or spreads across the universe like a virus?

To me, a future with a trillion happy people is not better than a future with a million happy people just because there are more happy people. Life has no inherent value that makes me consider it worth spreading.
In the united states we hold that people have a right to exist and a right to freely express themselves. Even express yourself like you are right now.

However both commercial speech and collection of personal data may be subject to both regulation and technical limitation without raising a constitutional question unlike you know killing people with inconvenient ideas.

Your industry is odious and if 90% of it dies not much will be lost. You don't have a right to make a living in a certain fashion if the way you make a living is detrimental to the rest of us.

Even if I'm the 0.000000013% I and people like myself who don't work in marketing are the 99.999% Our well being matters more than your paycheck.

Personal data collection has a good chance to effect millions negatively in the coming years and I can't imagine why we who stand to lose wouldn't regard people like yourself as the enemy.

If you don't like making french fries apply whatever useful skills you possess to good ends elsewhere.
Intel's aim at ARM market ended when they killed Atom and had to layoff 11 percent of its workforce working on Atom. Doesn't help that most Atom chips had such a huge flaw that it scared Intel out of there wits and forced them establish a cash reserve to deal with the blunder.
> Dumb question: Is it possible to create a utility or even a hack that performs "random access" into tar archives?

Yes. If the tar file is on a seek-able medium, just read the headers only and build an index to the offsets of the file contents from the header data.

Then use the offsets index to seek to just the item of interest and read out only it and nothing more.

Now, does such a utility already exist? The answer seems to be yes: https://github.com/devsnd/tarindexer
Google Duplex beat the Turing test
Thank you so much for pointing that out! As the author of the original, it's irksome to see kudos (and revenue) go to outlets that re-re-report a story.
Just to clarify, Salesforce doesn't live on data. Salesforce primary business is CRM tools, where the data belongs to Salesforce customers. Salesforce is not tricking its customers' customers in giving them data for one purpose and then using it for another purpose and selling it to advertisers. Salesforce simply makes money from the CRM license. Not through data trading.
Yeah, corporate attorneys and the legal system at large have never dealt with extortionists with your creativity before. I mean, doing it anonymously AND with a ticking time bomb element, only a true master villain could have thought of such a brilliant scheme!
You can read all the headers without reading the whole file by just seeking over the file data....
I am on the one hand happy to hear about this, but I couldn't help but laugh at the way it was reported on NPR. They said Democrats see this as an issue that can bring voters to the polls. I immediately thought of how few people even know what the heck net neutrality is (about 1 in 4 [0]). Either NPR is making stuff up or the Democrats are seriously in need of some new advice.
[0]:https://americanactionnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02....
> Here we don't have elections that matter because thanks to redistricting and gerrymandering, the outcome (along party lines) is well established.

All that means is that the general election doesn't matter, and so you need to move your vote to whatever comes before the general election in your district to make it matter.

1. Register for the party that the redistricting and gerrymandering favors.

2. Vote in that party's primaries or participate in their caucuses to support candidates who are closer to center.

Some will object that step #1 is dishonest. I might agree in districts where the district boundaries are actually sensible based on economics and other demographics factors other than party. In districts where one party has redrawn the boundaries to give itself a major structural advantage, they have stolen your vote. Joining their party is simply taking it back. If they do not like that, then they can fix the district boundaries.
I think that the idea of technology saving us from our inherent natural tendencies is nice to think about but ultimately naive.
People rely on fingerprints to provide proof of identity. But there's not really that much variation in fingers, and fingerprints have a high false positive rate. Fingerprints are going to go the way of the polygraph, and get banned from court.
+1 on the great idea!

(I'm the other half of this team. I tackle the UX/UI parts)

@encyclic, i'm curious about how you typically approach enabling 2FA.
- How do you typically choose which services to enable 2FA for?
- What do you do now if a service doesn't have 2FA OR doesn't have the type of 2FA appropriate for your situation?

As Conorgil145 mentioned, we have this on our roadmap and have some ideas about how to approach this. But understanding how you approach things now will definitely help us to craft a more effective solution.
you don't need USB, it can be done using WiFi
An important heads up: "Parsing Bash is Undecidable".
https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/10/20.html
Have a co-worker who moved from California to Spokane, sold his house for over a million and bought an equivalent house on large acreage lot for less than half. His parents moved 2 years ago, doing the same thing.

And hes not the only one, the large 20+ acre lots being craved up in the rural areas. Sold to California transplants. These houses on acrage are going for about 500-600k each, creating large tracks of new high taxable for the rural cities. And normally too expensive for locals, so transplants are the ones buying these large plots.

Also, I have inlaws on the Deer Park city council, California retirees moving in have been buying up the houses over 200k. They actually ran out of houses in the smaller city just north of Spokane. The new golf course has empty plots just waiting for new homes to be built.

When you can get average old houses in town for around 120k, and land outside the city for 40k, you can see why people are moving.

I have land north of Spokane, that I plan on retiring on, well and power already installed, just an hour north, and away from people. Throw a log cabin home or manufactured double wide with metal roof on it. Only issue is Internet is limited to Verizon LTE, but by the time I'm retired, wireless internet from sat and cell will be common. Thanks SpaceX!

Also, when I left Spokane for Seattle for work 20+ years ago, Spokane put in Fiber in all the downtown for cities. The ISP was working at couled get bandwidth cheap.

Also spokane has businesses that do cloud based services like banking backups and hosting companies. Wages go for about 20-30k cheaper than Seattle, just about the amount that makes the difference in a mortgage. A old high school friend works at a web hosting business for company, and they have almost 100 employees. Expect more with companies moving out of the big cities for places like Spokane.

But, the commute times are starting to go up, I hear my friends telling me how its getting bad. But I cant believe its as bad as Seattle.
When do these developers say enough is enough? Twitter has behaved like an abusive husband to them for pretty much their entire relationship. Insofar as distributed web stuff goes, Twitter would be like the easiest ever service to swap out.
I'm not sure what you are saying. Your wine enthusiast friends were not able to identify the red wines served at the correct temperature in a blind setting?

That's not that surprising though! I enjoy drinking wine but I am really terrible at blind tasting. However, I have done blind tastings with people who _are_ trained sommeliers and it's very humbling to watch them taste and then methodically eliminate incorrect results until they eventually come up with the correct answer. Now, they are not always perfect, but for the most part they always at least get within the ballpark, whereas I am all over the map.

So, from my experience at least, I do believe that identifying wine in a blind tasting is a trainable skill, and it's not just hocus pocus.
Create Vertex Element and Add It to a Mesh, Import/Export of Collada 3D Models
This is remarkably off-beat for the GNU project. Tar files are far from the most ideal tool for container images because they are sequential archives and thus extraction cannot be done using any parallelism (without adding an index and being in a seekable medium, see the rest of this comment). I should really write a blog post about this.

Another problem is that there is no way to just get the latest entry in a multi-layered image without scanning every layer sequentially (this can be made faster with a top-level index but I don't think anyone has implemented this yet -- I am working on it for umoci but nobody else will probably use it even if I implement it). This means you have to extract all of the archives.

Yet another problem is that if you have a layer which just includes a metadata change (like the mode of a file), then you have to include a full copy of the file into the archive (same goes for a single bit change in the file contents -- even if the file is 10GB in size). This balloons up the archive size needlessly due to restrictions in the tar format (no way of representing a metadata entry in a standard-complying way), and increases the effect of the previous problem I mentioned.

And all of the above ignores the fact that tar archives are not actually standardised (you have at least 3 "extension" formats -- GNU, PAX, and libarchive), and different implementations produce vastly different archive outputs and structures (causing problems with making them content-addressable). To be fair, this is a fairly solved problem at this point (though sparse archives are sort of unsolved) but it requires storing the metadata of the archive structure in addition to the archive.

Despite all of this Docker and OCI (and AppC) all use tar archives, so this isn't really a revolutionary blog post (it's sort of what everyone does, but nobody is really happy about it). In the OCI we are working on switching to a format that solves the above problems by having a history for each file (so the layering is implemented in the archiving layer rather than on top) and having an index where we store all of the files in the content-addressable storage layer. I believe we also will implement content-based-chunking for deduplication to allow us to handle minor changes in files without blowing up image sizes. These are things you cannot do in tar archives and are fundamentally limited.

I appreciate that tar is a very good tool (and we shouldn't reinvent good tools), but not wanting to improve the state-of-the-art over literal tape archives seems a bit too nostalgic to me. Especially when there are clear problems with the current format, with obvious ways of improving them.
Yes, which is why I said subconsciously.
> And there's a line of underwater islands all the way to Siberia.

Aka the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian%E2%80%93Emperor_seamo...
I mean, I guess this is not too surprising. There is that well-referenced Schneier article about how we react most to risks that are unfamiliar and rare (overestimating and valuing them), while believing as low risk those things which are mundane and common but much more likely to kill us day to day.

General hunger is familiar to everyone, even though dying of it now should be immoral to allow to happen. But being killed by a volcano is new and scary.

Hence the data they observe.
Well at least you live up to your username
Citation needed for what? For proving that GDPR compliance is expensive?

https://iapp.org/news/a/recent-survey-shows-gdpr-compliance-...

https://www.ft.com/content/0d47ffe4-ccb6-11e7-b781-794ce08b2...

https://www.dri.org/home/2018/02/26/gdpr-it-s-coming-it-s-ex...

https://www.wandera.com/blog/gdpr-expensive-data-breach-pena...

Those were just on the first page of Google. There are hundreds of others. That's not even counting my own experience with it.
1) List the number of containers running pre-fix versions of images of libssl-using server software. 2) Bump the version of the images you're using as a base for your server images to post-libssl-fix and push.
My landlord (in NY) offers a sizeable reward for referring new tenants. It's posted everywhere in the building. Are you claiming this is illegal?
It's not about being able to track everybody. You're right, nobody cares about that.

It's about being able to track anybody.
If you have a diagnosed medical condition, FMLA is an option. Depending on which state you are in, you will be able to go on short term disability and not go broke. Talk to your health care provider and your FMLA provider.
Marshall McLuhan – The Man, the Mystery, the Life (2011)
> JavaScript is more enjoyable than Python to me. You can’t really say no to that.

Indeed I can't. I can say no to "JS is more enjoyable than Python", which is what you said in your upstream comment.

> JavaScript is for people who want to get things done quickly and efficiently and have their program work everywhere

If by "everywhere" you mean "in a browser", sure. I don't see how that's related to the common definition of "everywhere", though.

> Python is for people who like to think they are doing things “the right way” as if there were such a thing.

I don't know what you mean by that.
I expect they'll be ruled as unable to rely on that coerced consent in the end, given how strictly the requirements for acceptable consent are defined. But they will be able to delay such a final ruling for quite a while with appeals, and maybe make arguments to mitigate the possible fines down to a lower level of any.
Base enthusiasm matters a lot, since it drives turnout.

And the only thing that matters in elections in the US is turnout and undecideds (of whom there are very few).
I mean, it should exist according to wiki's rules since there are so many people using the term. Wiki intentionally doesn't try to independently verify any research, but just serves as a collation of ideas.

What I would do is ask 'what part there is any different than any other compiler?'
Scientists to grow 'mini-brains' using Neanderthal DNA
Yep, this page set my fan running.
You setup and manage K8s and all the kernel tunings for the host systems so the NAT layers are optimized ?
> To suggest that your concerns and what constitutes a single voter issue for you is wrong is condescending.

> Since you think net neutrality is a stupid single voter issue then I suggest it not be one for you.

This argument seems to have finished on the wrong point.

It isn't that net neutrality or any other issues have more or less value (although they intrinsically do -- that's for the individual to decide). Instead it's that single issue voting is severely short-sighted since the very same politician may support several other policies contradicting your own well-being.

Yes the example above is extreme but this is what it attempts to convey.
That's a detail of the extraction tool. In umoci (which extracts tar archives as part of an OCI image)[1] you can remap the users or even extract as yourself and then add an xattr which represents the original owner in the archive (which is then read back when creating a new tar archive from the delta of the rootfs).

[1]: https://github.com/openSUSE/umoci
It is what happened, but it took a paradigm shift (aircraft carriers) not an increase in computational (fire-)power.

The Japanese actually invested heavily in the biggest battleship in the world. It was soundly defeated at sea by an inferior force with an aircraft carrier at Leyte Gulf during World War II.
What are the best Reddit clones these days? I've seen voat but heard it's overrun by the alt right. Hubski seemed interesting but basically seems dead now. Anything else out there? Reddit is really losing its appeal to me with their desktop/mobile site changes. That and I feel the contents been getting less interesting. Like it's just memes or sensational politics everywhere. Maybe I'm just getting old.
Their redesign looks like something you would have seen in the early 2000s. It's (barely) one step above a Geocities site.
I taught gifted education at a prestigious middle school for five years. Over 300 kids came through my classroom during that time.

I saw it all. Seizures. Fistfights. One girl was pretty sure there were secret messages from the principal in the tests I gave. Lots of them started taking drugs early too.

The culmination happened in the Fall of 2012, when one girl convinced her friends that, if they killed themselves, they'd wake up already graduated from college, with school behind them. Luckily, they didn't succeed. And so, in a class of 30 people, I had 6 out and in a mental hospital.

Mad geniuses. They're real.
I don't think that's the point. Sure you can vote with your wallet, but it is still pretty annoying to have an insurance salesperson or a telemarketer make an irrelevant sales pitch to you every few minutes.

While targetted ads should technically alleviate this annoyance, in reality it doesn't really work as well as advertised (pardon the pun).
Very cool! It sounds like you followed a similar approach that the NY Times used in their recipe parsing approach, correct?

How does your API handle ingredients with multiple options (e.g. "1 1/2 cups seedless red or green grapes")?
That's due to regulation, combined with hardware manufacturers correctly choosing to load the firmware by the driver/host, instead of some on-board permanent storage.
Note that there are reasonably performance 802.11n cards with non-reverse-engineered open source firmware. They iirc use the ath9k driver, and are the result of the manufacturer opening them up to both Linux and BSD kernel license compatible status. They are great for hacking and there are some with 5GHz support. You have to keep in mind that hacking the firmware might violate the RF spectrum laws, which is relevant as much as GDPR compliance: if they can excert legal pressure on you, and do more than send angry letters and call you in the middle of the night, you have to consider if those
jurisdiction's laws forbid your doings.

TLDR: they exist, they are not expensive, they can't do 802.11ac or 802.11ad, hacking the kernel-license compatible source might violate FCC or similar regulations and could well be punished harsh in case someone complains about what you do and you'r behavior is provably non-spec-conformant.

Be careful, and choose your hardware wisely to not use binary blobs. Also I assume you use an old CPU, if you wanna go the linux-libre route.
I have a system where I'm not sure yet which OS it will get, but I already (with help, and soldering) removed the Intel ME from the firmware, and might even physically remove the processor that would have executed this, or do this soft and just cut it from power or something.
If the all-you-can-eat subscription is run by the chains they might also be hoping to make back what they lose on ticket sales in concession sales.

Moviepass doesn't get any of that sweet concession stand money and they'd have a hard time convincing theaters that they should unless they start leveraging their user base (i.e. threatening to drop MoviePass from working at Cineplex) to pressure theaters. Even then they add so little value to the system that it'd be hard for them to do that while sustaining a competitive advantage against new market entrants.

MoviePass is just a terrible idea to be in as an independent business.
Google's version long predated Max Schrems's activism or the GDPR. But, as a sibling reply says, the legislation and lawsuits probably made them put greater and more systematic resources into it.
The redesign is a single page app, so refreshing it is not a normal workload. I can understand a large amount of pageviews on the old site since each person has to constantly reload everything, but in the redesign a user should only have to load everything just once (or a couple times depending on how many tabs they want to open). Or did they address this and I just missed it?
Wait, aren’t you working on analog chips?
That's not "rhetoric" that's how the internet has worked for decades.

Group A and Group B are already paying their own bills for internet traffic via peering agreements and cash when there is unequal traffic on one side.

It's not like there is competition for last mile internet service in most of the United States. If Comcast decided they wanted to charge netflix specifically more and not just charge the owner of the network they are peering with - what choice does Netflix or it's user have?

And if Comcast wanted to start Comflix and zero rate it and charge all other providers more, then what?

Before you bring up T-mobile's zero rating of video content, T-mobile zero rates any provider from Netflix to UGetP0rn.com (hopefully that's not a real website) as long as they meet the technical requirements and no money changes hands.
Reminds me of Haber-Bosch, credited for saving billions of lives via synthetic fertilizer.
http://www.scienceheroes.com/
Hacker News isn't a bad alternative ;)
> we have too many non-programmers in the community, that simply want something to work and get on with theirs life

The impact of those people in the ecosystem is zero, though. They don't inconvenience anyone by producing badly-written libraries, they literally do their job, produce what they want to produce and everyone is happy. I'm not sure why they get lumped in with "this problem".

I don't know why I hear this a lot, it certainly doesn't echo my experience. I've rarely had dependency problems, even the regular requirements.txt (without pinning to specific versions) tends to work well enough on reasonably current code. Pipenv pretty much solves the problem by introducing a lockfile.
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I'd say that a compiler has to have something close to an AST. Assemblers don't. Babel does.
Parent is probably referring to amdahls law - which limits speedup in parallel computing systems https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
Headline is wrong. 68GJ per month, not GW, which is roughly 26kW.
It's a type of compiler. Just like a truck is a type of vehicle, and a car is another type of vehicle.
In theory, but surprisingly not in practice. Often the most innovative ideas come from scrappy businesses without tons of funding off the bat. Look at healthcare insurance - not a lot of newcomers, despite some very high profit margins.
I understand the concept of deep decision trees. But if you have to do that much effort even to distinguish them, maybe the distinction is not that important, and the contempt for the snobbery is justified?
To be a statistician is to ignore experience. I once interviewed someone who was a statistics major. When I asked him a performance optimization question, the first thing he told me is that he'd write a program to compute the standard deviation of running time. He could've solved it in two minutes just by running the thing. No hire.