skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what we know from Google about Duplex:

"To train the system in a new domain, we use real-time supervised training. This is comparable to the training practices of many disciplines, where an instructor supervises a student as they are doing their job, providing guidance as needed, and making sure that the task is performed at the instructor’s level of quality. In the Duplex system, experienced operators act as the instructors. By monitoring the system as it makes phone calls in a new domain, they can affect the behavior of the system in real time as needed. This continues until the system performs at the desired quality level, at which point the supervision stops and the system can make calls autonomously." --
> we have to contemplate whether logical reasoning causes human level intelligence

Human level _logical_ reasoning has not existed for long time and can't be the cause of human level intelligence because it is very little used in practice. Natural logic has existed little over 2000 years among subset of intellectuals as a method for reasoning.

Natural reasoning is one of the causes of human level intelligence It's basically just a bag of heuristic rules used in qualitative, action-change and taxonomical reasoning. There is no evidence that deduction has significant role in commonsense reasoning.
I’ve been so annoyed with all these show politics and people buying into it since forever. It’s as if no one ever asked themselves, “but wait a minute, when I throw plastic away in the garbage, how would it end up contributing to the plastic soup?”
Yahoo also uses Bing. You may be thinking of Yandex, another search engine DDG taps from besides Bing.
What do you think the RtbF means for a service like DDG?
"meaningful"

The idea that every tracker and targeted ad is some sort of meaningful privacy violation is pretty silly.
Healthcare tech is quite different from porting software to AIX/IBM i. I would be surprised if 1% of the people let go were actually willing to transfer into that sort of work.
When you say the majority vs the minority, what do you mean? edit: To Clarify, which groups are you labeling as such?
An open source tool for AWS EC2 rightsizing analysis
I'm all for eliminating plastic cotton buds. They're too flimsy to really do anything of value anyway. The rolled-paper stemmed cotton buds are by far the superior product, and better for the environment, apparently. Better yet are Japanese bamboo ear picks. If you really want to scratch your brain from ear to ear, those are the way to do it.
As a data point, Finland is ending their basic income program: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43866700

I wish they'd release as much data as possible regarding the experiment so other cities and countries could have actual data to look at instead of hypotheses.
>> the mining cost of bitcoin should not affect its value any more than the cost of printing regular currency...

This is a frequently made logic mistake. Proof of work determines the value of the currency strongly because it is inherently interconnected with the sustainability of the underlying network operation. That is why it is often explained as "the ledger is the currency".

Mining is not only for creating new coins but also for validating transactions and propagating of the ledger.

Therefore cryptocurrency is a different paradigm where direct comparisons are not always possible and result in wrong conclusions.
How Technology Companies Alienate Women During Recruitment
> Reddit is 80% government, politics and news propaganda and 20% ads ( movies, music, etc ).

I am a heavy Reddit user and I don't notice any of these things, except when I specifically go looking for them. Curate your subreddit list and unsubscribe from all the default subs - they are all garbage, and that isn't even Reddit's fault, it's just inevitable once they reach a certain size.
What landlord would continue to rent an apartment out for $X when it's easily possible to rent it out for $X+2000 or $X+1500 (not capturing the whole surplus, but a majority of it, say)?
American capitalism vs European capitalism at its best.
> Oh right, I was wrongly thinking you'd have to memcmp the whole size of the filter.

Yeah, it's just k single-bit lookups - ideally you do something to get them into clusters, like dividing the database into sub-filters, so you're doing random lookups into, say, a 32KB chunk instead of a whole 2GB filter.

> Did you look into Cuckoo filters as well?

Cuckoo filters look like an interesting alternative and looking at them more closely is on the to-do. I don't think they'd have any significant space savings, though - they're similarly about 75% the size of the equivalent bloom filter. Maybe they'd be faster for lookups?

I'd also be interested in playing with matrix filters[1], which supposedly get close to the theoretical limits for these sorts of structures. Implementing them seems rather more involved, sadly - particularly given the only reference I can find is a fairly inscrutable CS paper. Show us the code damnit.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1845
Sigh. Its quite depressing to see Americans rely on brand names rather than the original meaning of the word.

It would almost make you want to take an Advil.
How a Recalled SUV Destroyed $45M in Cars and Sparked a Legal Battle
Actually, calcifying plankton have been increasing 10x in abundance (i.e. an order of magnitude) in the North Atlantic over the last 45 years, as carbon input into ocean waters has increased. ... "This finding was diametrically opposed to what scientists had expected since coccolithophores make their plates out of calcium carbonate, which is becoming more difficult as the ocean becomes more acidic and pH is reduced." [1]

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160116215419.h...
After seeing that "App-ocalypse" video, I realised: the intersection between "people that like the new privacy law" and "people who can make a cool video" is probably much smaller than the intersection with people who don't like the new privacy law. EA (say) can probably make a much more effective campaign than (say) Stallman.

This worries me in this case in particular, but it's a worry in general: how to reach audiences outside the science/tech sphere. Not many programmers want to be Youtubers, but that seems to be the only reasonable choice.
I never understood outright bans on stuff like this. Why not tax these products enough to price-in their externalities?
Also Bitcoin has been declared dead 299 times already: https://99bitcoins.com/obituary-stats/

Maybe the futures will have some impact, but I wouldn't be surprised if in hindsight it will turn out that futures didn't have any impact at all.
Lacks the broth. That mayb have some qualities that help?

In any case, egg and bacon breakfasts haven't cured hangovers for me, sadly.
In which case, I am completely against this legislation. The supposed harm being addressed is nebulous, if it even exists.
I've been using disposable paper-stem cotton buds for a while, for the simple reason that they are flushable (or so it says on the box; some people disagree). Glad to see plastic ones on their way out given the superior alternatives.
Yes, but this is both a global problem and a local one. Not all plastic waste travels long distances, and certainly isn't a global problem in the Mediterranean or Baltic. It is still worth Europe limiting plastic waste, even if no-one else does anything.

In the end, for the open oceans, it requires everyone to act. This is not sufficient, but it's still a good start.
Humble request: can anyone explain whether or not Span<T> is interesting if you mostly work with application code (as opposed to, say, low-level or framework code) and never work with unmanaged/native code, and why?

From my perspective, it seems like something that'll be used in the guts of ASP.NET and the rest of the base class library that will benefit the performance of my code, but I'd never really use it directly.
There aren't really "hundreds" of CAs in a sense that matters here.

Last time somebody insisted on this I actually counted, I forget the answer I got, but it's less than three figures.

You can get a bigger number if your idea of "effective against every client on the web" is "It works in Internet Explorer". Microsoft is very... liberal in accepting new CAs controlled by corporate or sovereign entities.

But if you expect "every client on the web" to include Chrome on Android phones, Safari on iPhones and Firefox everywhere, not just Internet Explorer, then you're talking about dozens, not hundreds, mostly because of the work done by Mozilla.

And most of those CAs are fairly small. Forget a nice API you can just make an HTTP request to and get your certificate in seconds, some of them are going to expect you to wait until business hours and talk to them on the telephone.
But this is for college tuition, not community college tuition, and California is very much the outlier. Also, this focuses on particular areas of need for Walmart:

> Walmart will pay only for degrees in business and supply-chain management because those areas of study “will be relevant across the industry and for future work opportunities,” according to spokeswoman Erica Jones.

They also cover books and supplies, which I imagine would be way more expensive without a single standardized curriculum across all of their employees.
This reminds me of research into embodied cognition, but that's more physical than visual. http://elevr.com/vr-data-and-embodied-cognition/ Here's a few experiments in how making new tools to feel things out physically can help people learn new ideas. http://voicesofvr.com/515-embodied-cognition-experiments-wit...
Keep in mind that Best Buy will ban you from returns if it is a frequent thing or other factors (type of items, etc). Obviously this won't affect most people but if you tend to try things and return then don't do it with Best Buy.

http://www.businessinsider.com/best-buy-punishes-customers-f...
Pseudonymous then.

P.s. Facebook doesn't sell data. It sells ads, targeted using the data it holds.
Atari's Retro Console Launches Pre-Orders, Quickly Crashes Indiegogo
Non-autonomous boats already service some cities (e.g. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dhl-amsterdam-boat/in-ams...)

MIT cooperates with the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (http://news.mit.edu/2018/fleet-autonomous-boats-service-citi...), so they likely know that doesn’t need researching.
Honestly asking - would it be a good thing or a bad thing if the major high cost of living areas like cities in the CA such San Francisco, Orange County, etc., were actually significantly funding UBI to people with a permanent address in a lower cost of living Central California city long term?
Part of the problem is that we have been running a trade deficit for decades in the first place.
Just because we don't take the side of what the tech companies tell us (which obviously will try to portray it negatively, it's in their interest to do so) doesn't mean that we think GDPR or similar laws are perfect either. I think the true effects of GDPR will take 5-10 years to develop and we'll see then if it was a good idea. I'm just glad I grew up in a world where I had easy free access to very powerful online tools because I cannot say if the same will be true in the future.
Reddit has the illusion of anonymity which gives its users a false sense of privacy so they can act the way they truly are (parallels to Westworld if you watch the show).

It would be incredibly easy for Reddit to de-anonymize its user base, the same way Facebook was trying to do with medical metadata, and sell that info (at least for the US users, given GDPR in EU now)
No relationship to the 18.04 LTS, but we were following that release closely. We started testing on 18.04 at the start of the year, and offering Docker images for it at around the same time. We're also watching the Alpine 3.8 release closely.
No. Here's the full text of the right to erasure. Pay attention to all the reasons given for why processors can ignore the request to erase data.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/

But then look at para 3.

> Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to the extent that processing is necessary:

> for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information;
Arthur Anderson also did accounting for WorldCom
The hardest thing is just finding routine. Freedom via constraints is a great thing. Once I started to plan out my entire day (and then week), my productivity skyrocketed.
I’m really surprised Yahoo is #7, I thought Yahoo was all but dead.
Even if UBI does nothing for homelessness, I'd rather be homeless with an extra 2k per month than without!

I'd have a much nicer van down by the river...
Not to mention that in the world of npm, a package is often just a single function (like leftpad).
Hugely underrated in the tech-blogger-sphere: reading books (not audiobooks), lots of them, and from a wide genre, time, and style spectrum. It's not just about plowing through the 10,000 hours, it's also about taking inspiration from really great writers. Writing every day and exclusively listening to non-fiction won't make much of a dent on your quality graph.
When issues like this come up, I think the right outcome is to support the popular choice as the default, and support the unpopular choice, but with a penalty.

For example, forcing extra code to be inserted, that is, a check (or even a call out to a library), so one unified semantic is followed, and there is no undefined behaviour. Of course, you wouldn't mandate how the semantics are followed.

The problem is, it was very hard for us to accept this kind of solution when we grew up feeling like every cycle counted, so that's what I blame for a lot of the UB we see today in the standard.
What do animals want?
So everyone is getting an extra $7,500, assuming they make at least that much? How isn't that just a tax credit on W2 taxes?

It would make sense to assume there is some cut off, and given how government cut offs work in the past, it would be reasonable to assume the cut off will be implemented in a fashion that creates a graph where sometimes raises will result in less pay, at least when combined with existing government aid programs.
Selling your body for money and buying crack with it could be a choice by a free, consenting individual, but society has decided both the prostitution and the crack are choices too corrosive to society to be allowed. The individual is not held sacrosanct, especially when he/she acts against the group.

What remains to be decided here is whether the collection of data by "surveillance capitalists" is corrosive enough to society to be forbidden or restricted as well.
After all, this isn't reddit, right? :)
Fleet of autonomous boats could service some cities, reducing road traffic
If people are on the internet, they're not going back to radio because of GDPR.
> These retail jobs need to pay a living wage.

In many rural areas, $11 / hour is a living wage. Not comfortable, surely, but feasible.
It means different things in different contexts. For instance in r/southafrica there is a majority of Afrikaaners on the subreddit despite being a minority (10%) of the country. Any anti-Afrikaaner content is quickly dismissed and downvoted. In r/TwoXChromosome engaging in any discussion on the wage gap as a function of anything other than sexism is met with downvotes. In any majority US subreddit conservative posts may be dismissed and downvoted into oblivion. This tool of upvote/downvote is used to suppress non hive mind opinions on the site and I didn't necessarily mean this in the US specific context.
Rare element to provide better material for high-speed electronics
hysteria? Google, Facebook, et al had billions of dollars worth of complaints filed against them the first day it took effect.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17154175

And those same groups filed against LinkedIn, Apple, and Amazon too: https://www.zdnet.com/article/gdpr-attacks-first-google-face...

It sounds to me like the critics of the law were right. Instapaper pulling out before it took affect was a good move if they weren't ready. The cases were filed minutes after the law took affect.
The justification is complete nonsense. The claimed goal is to reduce the amount of plastic that ends up in the ocean. But I fail to see how the straw used to drink a cold chocolate in a restaurant in Vienna could ever end up in the ocean. So the basic premise does not seem to be very well-reasoned. Maybe I'm cynical, but I cannot get rid of the suspicion that this law is mainly about virtue signalling. It seems to be designed to maximize PR impact: they chose a topic that everyone agrees with (saving the environment), that everyone understands, and that does no serious harm to any politically powerful entity. Well done, micro-managing overlords of the European Commission!
Please re-read what I wrote and what I was replying to. I'm stating that an additional, slight increase in CO2 capture by the mechanism of ocean waves is not as such a sky-is-falling discovery, because there are enormous quantities of organisms in the ocean that very successfully feed on this CO2.
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How is the example in this article and the article is based on not equivalent to the C functionality?

Yes, the JIT is able to take advantage of runtime code generation to embed the final loaded address in the compiled assembly, which is something C _cannot do_ or at least does not do in its default configuration to support PIC, symbol interposition and other features.

JITs can have all the same support, but because of runtime code generation (which comes with its own costs) the final call-site can be more efficient.

So it's a reasonable rule of thumb, but it has plenty of exceptions. Other examples include JITs creating code optimized to the runtime-observed data distribution and JITs efficiently using specific hardware features of the current hardware rather than statically compiling in lowest-common-denominator or trying to use runtime dispatch.
RISCy History
Correct. Most developers will not deal with it much directly, particularly not in the way that it is used in the "guts" of the product.
Somewhat cheesy title but “Secrets of Power Negotiating” is a classic: https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Power-Negotiating-15th-Annive...
You assert that technical craft was key I think by inferring the bent of the associated methodology of each the people involved?

I don't agree, I think the main aim of agile was to solve the extreme dysfunction with the business-side and non-technical people, and there it has succeeded. (This is perhaps also reflected in your observation that XP interest has ebbed while scrum continues to climb in popularity.)

Have you had a look at the context inthe history statement in the manifesto:
http://agilemanifesto.org/history.html

Quotes from that:
"At the core, I believe Agile Methodologists are really about "mushy" stuff—about delivering good products to customers by operating in an environment that does more than talk about "people as our most important asset" but actually "acts" as if people were the most important, and lose the word "asset". So in the final analysis, the meteoric rise of interest in—and sometimes tremendous criticism of—Agile Methodologies is about the mushy stuff of values and culture."

"For example, I think that ultimately, Extreme Programming has mushroomed in use and interest, not because of pair-programming or refactoring, but because, taken as a whole, the practices define a developer community freed from the baggage of Dilbertesque corporations."
Because we're all sick of using skin color and whether or not you have a dick as the two primary metrics for diversity.

I'm not saying the picture isn't lacking racial diversity, just we're sick of people harping on about it.
> It feels like this will be for managers or soon to be managers.

Which, in my experience, is basically anyone who shows up consistently and can pass a drug test from time to time.
I don't get the impression they are spending a whole lot on community management.

In a way, that's a big part of what I see as their largest problem - they are relying on the zeal of the subreddit moderators to work for free. (They should have a model which allows moderators for large subreddits to get paid. And for the subscribers to vote for moderators.)

This is why the large subreddits are so incredibly polarized in either left or right directions - the moderators are not paid to deal with things fairly, they are there spending their time working free - the only benefit they get is that they get to enforce their particular political choice onto others in their subreddit.

Look at e.g. r/politics and r/the_donald as extreme examples of what I'm talking about.
But it didn't actually enable short selling, it created a USD-settled market for betting on the price of Bitcoin, which is a very different thing. The article is simply wrong.
The requirement to provide service with or without tracking consent is already a part of GDPR. And it's a key feature, because without it, companies would use the "agree to it or you just can't use our service" nonsense we've already suffered.
That's simply not true. Consider an investor with $10000 to throw into the market. And now examine two scenarios:

Scenario 1: The spot market price of Bitcoin is $10000. The futures market for 5-day-out Bitcoin is $7000.

Should this investor: (a) Buy one actual bitcoin; or (b) buy 1.4 cash-settled 5-day out bitcoins, and then as soon as the market settles, take the settlement cash and buy bitcoin at the same settlement price (which will net approximately 1.4 bitcoin)?

The answer is obvious. In this case, the reduced futures market price has caused an investor to not buy from the spot market -- which has a negative effect on the spot market price relative to had the futures market not existed (in which case the investor would have had to buy BTC itself).

Senario 2:
Spot bitcoin price is $10000, 5 day out futures price is $14000. Again, where should the bitcoin-wanting investor put their money? The spot market, obviously.

(Scenario 1 also creates an incentive for current BTC holders to sell their bitcoin for cash, and buy 5-day-out bitcoin on the futures market instead, and pocket the difference. If you hold 1 BTC, you can turn it into 1.4 BTC in 5 days -- most rational investors would take that bet. Which directly decreases the spot market price by creating more demand to sell BTC.)
I imagine useful-but-not-inherently-profitable stuff like this would be supported voluntarily by its userbase. And if you're as popular as Reddit, I guess there must be a couple of big patrons whose support alone is bigger than the upkeep costs.
What if you use Reddit the way I do when posting anonymously: I post on throwaway accounts and delete the accounts every few weeks. The account names aren’t saved in the posts, and the posts aren’t linked in any visible way.

I’m sure Reddit has code in the back end to track people, but afaik thanks to Reddit’s general lack of ads, there just aren’t a ton of DMPs, so there aren’t a lot of data points to correlate with.
Note that the variables in the "Detecting an operating system" section are for detecting the target operating system, not the host (what CMake is running on). If you use a toolchain file to cross-compile from Linux to Windows, for example, WIN32 will be defined instead of UNIX.