skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great that he is alive.

But if this was a sting, it's not a good move by Ukraine/Kiev. It's just going to help future disinformation by the Putin regime. I wonder what their intended goal was?

>John Schindler @20committee

Exactly.

Incredibly stupid move by Kyiv.

Lots of ways to deter Kremlin wetwork without playing Western media for idiots.

>Steven Sullivan @compliancedivis

Right. The next time the Kremlin orders someone's ticket punched they're going to claim they're not really dead.

https://twitter.com/20committee/status/1001834917054042112
(John Schindler: ex-NSA, deep knowledge of Western intel, has had some scandals but is a reliable source and has editorial indep at his current pub.)
With enough money, I'm sure a whitepaper can be written to support getting Cancer screenings at 20. If you make most of your money off removing polyps then the way to increase revenue is to get more people screenings.
"'The continuing run-up in home prices above the pace of income growth is simply not sustainable,' wrote Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors,"

Oh, yeah? Just because people aren't making the money to afford those houses? Earlier, it was pointed out that the high prices are due to "demand and low supply". People are going to do what they've always done if they want a house in a desirable area: both spouses work, and you're mortgaged to the hilt.

Just a few days ago the wife and I were walking the dogs in our Redmond, WA neighborhood. Lots of 30 year old houses, not extravagant, used to be a "working class" neighborhood. Saw a house for sale that was $1MM asking. I can't find the Zillow listing (might have already sold), but it was nothing all that special. Our house is the low end, 1200sq. ft. @ $650K. That's where you start in Redmond.

So I went home, and out of curiosity ran some quick numbers on what a $1MM house payment would be: $4200/month. Even making Microsoft money, that's a tough nut to make. Our house, were we to have to buy it again: something like $3200/month. So unless you're making six figures, you're not going to keep the house payment to 25-30% of take-home.

"Sustainable"? If there's demand, and low inventory (Redmond supposedly has inventory measured in weeks), I don't see why prices won't keep going up.
Porsche dealerships using augmented reality to diagnose and repair cars
That's good to know. 1Gbit is our "max" but that works just fine for the company's "network share" If we ever were to start hitting our bandwidth caps, I can pay to increase those, but the speed is pretty much fixed without changing providers. If speed were to ever be an issue, I would probably look at a different service like yours. It would be a massive hit at your current pricing, though.
Europe sure is fed up with free services and relevant ads. What motivated them to this point, who knows - were tracking ads coming into their houses at night and making a mess of their pots and pans? Do Europeans take some strange enjoyment in having to spend more money, the same as they do for everything from food to taxes?
Sprints are a shit idea and need to die a horrible death. The number of times we've had to break up some functional requirements for no reason other than to meet some stupid concept isn't funny ultimately it's a waste of time in itself
Getting your first UX design job: Step by step
> Referring to cruise control as a "robot" is, in hindsight, idiotic.

Much like 'AI' the definition of 'robot' shrinks to the pool of things which technology has not conquered. That is to say - Speech Recognition is not AI, Image Recognition is not AI, etc etc. As soon as it has its own name, we no longer call it AI or robotics.
In other news HIPAA apparently doesn't exist because "Data is data".
Since the 80s but only tiny or imperfect stones. The true diamond age is when we can make large structural things with diamonds. Imagine an aircraft wing made from a honeycomb of diamond rather than aluminum.
There has already been a lot of discussion about GDPR in the recent weeks, but one thing that shocked me is that the regulation is seriously described like this:

From https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da... :

> The GDPR does not specify how to make a valid request. Therefore, an individual can make a subject access request to you verbally or in writing. It can also be made to any part of your organisation (including by social media) and does not have to be to a specific person or contact point.

> A request does not have to include the phrase 'subject access request' or Article 15 of the GDPR, as long as it is clear that the individual is asking for their own personal data.

> This presents a challenge as any of your employees could receive a valid request. However, you have a legal responsibility to identify that an individual has made a request to you and handle it accordingly.

In a normal world, I think only officers or registered agents can be addressed legal requests, how here any government though it was a good idea that "any of your employees could receive a valid request" and that it's a legal responsibility to handle it correctly. This is just mind blowing to me.
Yep, and in doing so, you just traded "feature engineering" for graph design and data prep, no? And that's my response to these sorts. And their usual response to me is to grumble that I don't know what I'm doing. I've started tuning them out of my existence because they seem to have nothing to contribute to it.
They will report what they're told by the official source, as they did in this case. This isn't on the mainstream media. I'm not entirely convinced you read the article!

edit: there's some confusion over my statement "this isn't on the mainstream media". I mean that this isn't the mainstream media's fault.
Author here: seriously I'm here at the front page for the second day in the a row!?

The sheer viral popularity of this post, which really was just a bunch of relatively loose thoughts indicates that there is something in the air regarding AI winter. Maybe people are really sick of all that hype pumping...

Just a note: I'm a bit overwhelmed so I can't address all the criticism. One thing I would like to state however, is that I'm actually a fan of connectionism. I think we are doing it naively though and instead of focusing on the right problem we inflate a hype bubble. There are applications where DL really shines and there is no question about that. But in case of autonomy and robotics we have not even defined the problems well enough, not to mention solving anything. But unfortunately, those are the areas where most best/expectations sit, therefore I'm worried about the winter.
Google demonetized videos that their sponsors wanted demonetized. Now, I don't know, but I find it rather far fetched that Google's large sponsors are exclusively part of the 'radical political left', but even if they are - they're the ones spending the money. Imgur could try and court those video makers to produce for example gun safety videos on imgur, but to make a profit they have to also attract advertisers. Pushing a set of content that the advertising have already found unattractive seems like a bad way of bringing those advertisers across.
Which is a higher distinction, Scrum Master, Web Master, or Dungeon Master?
WASM is a stack machine, which does not add to security. You sense that no real VM specialist, nor one in field of security put hand to its design.

When I first read the specs, it screamed to me "VM design 101." It feels to be someones master thesis, more than a piece of production software. Just as the original Netscape Javascript 1.0 was.

It will have its fair share of "typeof null" style bugs to come.
Moore’s Law and the Origin of Life (2013)
Ambien maker responds to Roseanne: Racism is ‘not a known side effect’
Is there a prevailing approach to thinking about (accounting for?) false negatives in ground truth data? I'm new to this area, and the question is relevant for my current work. By definition, you simply don't know anything about false negatives unless you have some estimate of specificity in addition to your labeled data, but can anything be done?
No magic, just clickbait, or creative accounting.

> The combustor then ignites a mixture of natural gas and oxygen, which is extracted from the atmosphere in a separate facility. This heats up the CO2 in the loop that drives the turbine, but it also produces additional CO2 that must be siphoned off to keep the system in balance.

The power plant still produces CO2, but they are planning in the future to sell or burry the CO2, so it magically doesn't count.

Apparently they get pure CO2 instead of mix with Nitrogen and other air parts, and that somehow makes the CO2 easier to reuse, but the creative accounting of the "zero-emission" claim makes me skeptical.
At a certain scale the pooling becomes the bottleneck. PGB has to keep state of the connection and manage it’s life time. All this currently happens on a single core. So it doesn’t help you to tune postgres itself if PGB doesn’t keep up.

Many solve this by running multiple instances of PGB (usually each on a dedicated processor) and use some kind of load balancing (haproxy, DNS, ...) to balance the connections.

This fork removes the need for the load balancing as it does it out of the box.

BTW this is only an issue if you’ve many connections to Postgres. We have thousands servers[0] connecting in and also run a citus[1] where the queries are distributed to many workers (with addition of citus MX that now allows each server to behave as a coordinator)[2].

At a small scale you are fine with the default postgres though.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/customers/pex/

[1] https://www.citusdata.com/customers/pex

[2] https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2016/09/22/announcing-citus-m...
> Having a lower bound

This is exactly the opposite of what GDPR says. If I am Satan himself and I do terrible things with the data of millions of people the maximum possible fine available is €20m or 4% of turnover, whichever is higher.

There is no lower bound. When a penalty is applied they're likely to be about €1000. But often penalties won't be applied, the regulator will ask the company to come back into compliance and give advice on how to do so.

> of €10M in penalties with no respect to how much data the company holds is what makes this taxing for startups.

...and GDPR is full of caveats about how much data is held, and how it's held, and how the company responds after a leak.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-83-gdpr/

> When deciding whether to impose an administrative fine and deciding on the amount of the administrative fine in each individual case due regard shall be given to the following:

> the nature, gravity and duration of the infringement taking into account the nature scope or purpose of the processing concerned as well as the number of data subjects affected and the level of damage suffered by them;

> the intentional or negligent character of the infringement;

> any action taken by the controller or processor to mitigate the damage suffered by data subjects;

> the degree of responsibility of the controller or processor taking into account technical and organisational measures implemented by them pursuant to Articles 25 and 32;

> any relevant previous infringements by the controller or processor;

> the degree of cooperation with the supervisory authority, in order to remedy the infringement and mitigate the possible adverse effects of the infringement;

> the categories of personal data affected by the infringement;

> the manner in which the infringement became known to the supervisory authority, in particular whether, and if so to what extent, the controller or processor notified the infringement;

> where measures referred to in Article 58(2) have previously been ordered against the controller or processor concerned with regard to the same subject-matter, compliance with those measures;

> adherence to approved codes of conduct pursuant to Article 40 or approved certification mechanisms pursuant to Article 42; and

> any other aggravating or mitigating factor applicable to the circumstances of the case, such as financial benefits gained, or losses avoided, directly or indirectly, from the infringement.
There's a curious anti-intellectual trend in HN where people think they can explain things simply without "fancy ideas".

Scarcity on it's own doesn't explain it. Your grandma's locket is scarce (only 1) yet no one will pay anything for it.
I have a friend that requires this shot. He has to stay unemployed so that the government will pay for it.
It's true that US free speech is generally more expansive than European free speech (though that's not universally true: Sweden's freedom of the press laws are more expansive than the US's, for instance), but it's important to note that it is in no way an absolute right even in the US. There are "time, place and manner" restrictions on free speech in the US (yelling fire in a crowded theatre, having to get permits for public protests, etc.) and there are whole categories of speech that are outlawed fully (like libel, slander and intimidation).

European countries draw a slightly different line than the US does (for instance including hate speech in the list of banned speech), but it's a difference in degree, not in kind.
> Microsoft, the company they nearly vanquished a decade ago, is releasing better products.

Google nearly vanquished Microsoft a decade ago?
Where can I read more about this bit of history :) ?

IMO, Axios [0] seem to do a better job of criticizing Google's Duplex AI claims, as they repeatedly reached out to their contacts at Google for answers.

0: https://www.axios.com/google-ai-demo-questions-9a57afad-9854...
This is already the case.

The EU gets to do this the same way that the US can use secondary sanctions to enforce its will on Iran despite the EU notionally still being in the JCPOA. There've been noises about protecting European companies doing business in Iran from US sanctions - note that they have been coming from people on the margins, this isn't going to happen. That kind of power is just the privilege of being a large, wealthy trading block and it's basically the reason the EU exists.

What would happen if The Netherlands or Poland tried to individually enforce a regulation as onerous as the GDPR on all companies holding data on their citizens? Nothing. Either companies would just withdraw from those markets or they would rely on the impossibility of enforcement. The EU is a sovereignty compromise that gives up some local de jure sovereignty for greater EU-wide de facto sovereignty.
Only tangentially related, but it reminds me of the story 17776 - What Football Will Look Like in the Future.

https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
Please, do. I wonder if AWS with their aws s3 cp and linuxes with rsync are infringing this patent.
Which means it's essentially a free-for-all. If everybody is your enemy, then you still have enemies.
Isn't there slavery (sexual and otherwise) everywhere islam went ? I mean, the prophet kept slaves (and had extramarital sex with some of them, and this is not doubted or controversial). He also forced some of his other slaves to work, and he confirmed the right for an owner to do whatever he wanted with his/her slaves, including controversially kill them without the need for an explanation.

Why would it be any different in the Ottoman empire ?
This. Someone just needs to know how to wrap it in a package that still makes some central big business a ton of money and it will take right off by itself !). Some large health club chain needs to work on getting certified as a medical care provider and developing package products. Would probably need to partner with a supplement manufacturer with deep pockets to have any chance of success.
He mentions Singularity as inspiration which is exactly what came to my mind.

This isn’t an unproven space. Singularity proved you can use a single global address space (given 64-bit) and software to isolate processes - something MS Research called Software Isolated Processes.

This requires a verifiable bytecode/VM system so the kernel can verify the instruction stream at load time. In a way, WebAssembly is even easier to verify than C#.

It’s obviously a research toy but that isn’t a bad thing.
I use Processing whenever I teach an intro to programming workshop or course. It's kind of the perfect language for beginners.

First, it eliminates the need to navigate the programming ecosystem. Rather than having to choose python, Ruby, js, or C on day one, processing lets you get students up and running quickly. No need to install local servers or compilers or interpreters, just install processing.

Second, because it makes visual programs easy, it lets students develop an intuition for the effects of their code faster. A negative sign makes itself obvious when you see an object moving in the wrong direction.

Finally, it's fun. Students get to make interactive games that keep them interested, rather than yet another Fibonacci sequence calculator. I think this is the most important thing to nail in the early days of a programming education. Build fun things to keep you motivated to learn more.

It also has a pretty easy progression into JavaScript, so students have a clear next step if they wish to break into "real" programming languages after their course.

All in all I only have good things to say about Processing, as long as it's used in the right educational context. Glad to see it's still doing well.
Where are the generative capabilities? It seems there is no macro-like thing in Zig, though there are comptime parameters (and I guess: monomorphized templates).
> This would still likely be cheaper than $20,00 a month.

I'm not sure about that. Non drug interventions that are effective, and not generally cheap. Consider that providers of those services are incentivized to capture as much profit as possible. If the alternative to there service is set to let's say arbitrarily $20k, they can probably charge in that neighborhood as well, or higher if the insurance companies can be convinced to pay more.
> Nope, don't understand the trade offs if you're suggesting scrum is slower than waterfall. That just doesn't line up with my experience. "Results may vary," though.

The idea is that if you have a well defined problem domain and you know exactly what the software is that you have to deliver, you don't need the short cycles, and all the meetings and pokering and whatnot would just be a waste of time. You know what you need to make, so you can just continue working.
tl; dr: experts disagree.
> I've seen a lot of that evidence, in threads like this, in the original post, and also empirical evidence in my own work experience with Scrum as both a developer and a manager across several organizations of various ages and sizes.

'evidence' found in Hackernews posts?

> I'm confident the evidence shows zero efficacy

this will surely help with selecting evidence, given that you know already the findings.

> This is pedantic to the point of making me suspect you're just trolling to argue with anyone who doesn't like Scrum. Yes, indeed, two different sentences claimed two separate but compatible and related things. Shocking!

How about deciding what you want to say: a) scrum makes it worse or b) scrum does not help?

> This is abject nonsense.

Really? Before we have worked with RUP and Agile RUP. Compared to that Scrum is tiny.

> like mandating that all teams should be cross-functional, which is totally disconnected from business realities in many cases, especially for teams whose sole business value is highly specialized domain area.

The team should be cross-functional based on the product the team develops.

> This presumes that there always exists some "reproducible way"

This actually presumes that I identify successful practices which can be applied in many projects. We did.

> You're just denying the premise that customized, situation-specific or team-specific workflows could be the right way.

No, I'm not denying it, but when my team had success with Continuous Integration, I probably would use that in the next project - when applicable. It would also be a surprise if in a new project I would need to start from scratch to completely redesign workflows and team communication, without any prior knowledge/practices applicable.

I've worked for a few decades in software projects and in software consulting - often I was responsible for project and team setups. Often developing new stuff. I can easily imagine that other domains work differently.
Thank you for being the kind of owner I want.

I recently quit a job because I was the only one on the team "capable" (or that felt confident/comfortable) saying "No."

As a "devops" (loosely defined on our team) I felt my focus was uptime and error rates which sometimes is counter to new features (what managers want)...
wow. i had never thought of it like that. thank you.
There is no particular burden of proof. No one cares whether you approve of Scrum or not.

But what are you comparing Scrum to? Define your specific objections and propose an alternative.
Is a packet filter really as complex and with as much room for error as a WASM VM?
Neither do meat, dairy, and other animal products.
And since panspermia is necessarily done with microbes, they would get outnumbered and munched by our microbes if they arrived after our tree dominated our planet. Unless other planets happened to give birth to hardier, more virulent microbes, then welcome Andromeda Strain.
I'm sorry but what TV show are we watching right now Alias, Scandal I'm sure this didn't just REALLY happen.
My experience is that a good team does a good job. A bad team doesn’t.

My experience is that sprints interrupt my workflow to such an extent that I can no longer get anything done. In other words, they make a good team bad.
Are you an entrepreneur with a profitable business or successful exit?

If not, 30K might represent 6-12 months of personal runway to build your own business.
They were also contributing to Swift on Linux and Go was ported to their platforms by them.
As someone who loves red meat, I find 25% extremely significant on a personal level.
I assumed the parent meant a criminal penalty. But, I still don't understand why anyone would want the government to have such a capricious legislative power.
Descartes’ robot daughter and the zombie problem
Sorry to give you homework but do you have any links? Or maybe someone else does?
Enemy and counterparty are not the same. When I negotiate with my landlord, they aren’t my enemy. They’re someone I’m negotiating with.
The EER on their ground source heat pump is abysmal.

For a 4 ton pump, they have 17.5 EER, 3.9 COP

For the O(same price) for the unit, the waterfurnace 7 series is 41.0 EER, 5.3 COP.

(Both can provide all hot water, etc).

The waterfurnace also carries a 10 year warranty instead of 5 year labor/10 year parts.

Can't speak to the drilling rig, which also seems interesting.
Tell that to Equifax.
Sometimes - heck, perhaps most times - when Scrum is involved, some organisations are just too fscked to save. Over time, the "leadership" have reacted to market forces by imposing variations on processes, cuts, reorgs and redundancies. The result is a workforce who, even if they were given total autonomy and unlimited resources, would be unable to turn things around.

Not that these execs would see it like that. Instead, they hear this Scrum thing has worked wonders elsewhere so they wheel it in and, if it fails this time, it's clearly the crappy workers who are to blame. "Management was right about that all along."

I take other commenters' point about strong leadership making a difference. Fully agree with that. But some situations are simply unrecoverable no matter how great the team.
Are you saying you have projects that show 0 progress of any kind after 1 month, but still succeed later? What is happening in that first month?
I don't think things like GDPR and "free press" are in conflict like you think they are.... at least you haven't explained how they are supposedly in conflict.

HIPAA exists... and it doesn't prevent the press from using that information.