skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those people, in those positions, probably don't need much in the way of process. If you really can just sit down with the owner of the business, hash things out with them, and then go build something that does what they need then you're golden. And guess what, you're probably doing agile without even knowing it, because agile is attempting to reproduce that in organisations where you can't just put a single developer and a the CEO in a room and expect that to happen.
What you say is true of today. I'm talking about the future.

I think it's foolish to bet against cloud game streaming technology reaching the point where it is good enough for _most_ people, and when it does I'd be even further surprised if Valve aren't at least trying to be a major player. LAN based game streaming is always going to be a relatively niche feature, as gaming PCs are increasingly niche. Cheap tablets/phones/laptops that could use a cloud based service number well into the billions at this point.

As for your point about lag - sure it's not going to be as low latency as a local LAN system, but honestly I don't think a lot of customers will notice this too much or care - people are already happy with 30FPS consoles with often terrible controller latency on some titles. Sure there will be those who still want the best, and they will continue to build expensive gaming towers. The Playstation Now game streaming service has been relatively successful despite having all of these problems and more. I recently finished The Last Of Us on playstation now. Again, it wasn't the best, but it was very close to "good enough".

Many kids today are happy playing "Fortnite" on a phone. A phone, playing an online FPS with touch controls... It's clear that perfect playing conditions are not the primary driver for a lot of people.
But... my eyes. They burn. Thank heavens for developer tools and the ability to delete backgrounds.

Jokes aside, good call linking that. Super short, super influential, super relevant to the conversation at hand.
I have heard that before. Immediately after a promotion it's best to use the new title in a job search. Pretty sad.
Yea I did weddings in both China and the US. (Way cheaper city in China than HK too). US wedding probably cost us $13-15k including plane tickets. Chinese wedding we were way up, but gave all the money to parent. She was lugging a giant bag of cash though.
They are targeting People in the Northeast first (NY), where Fuel Oil and Propane are very common sources of heat.
I think cost is the biggest issue. If you want to reduce heating and cooling costs via investments then insulation + solar can cheaply make a huge difference.

Ground source scales well if you have a large building and a large body of water near by then the payback time is short. But at single family home level it's just not that useful.
You need a lot of software to manage and track consent, plus the history of all interactions for audit purposes.

GDRP forces usage of a CRM.

Just like every complication of tax law benefits HR Block, TurboTax, etc.
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Didn't have issues with the starting the trial on FF 61 Beta, with uBlock and Privacy Badger enabled.

The service looks fairly good, but the speeds are not impressive. It looks Azure is used (and you can test your speed on it here http://www.azurespeed.com/Azure/UploadLargeFile)
For big companies, this is a small problem to implement. For small companies, it's a big problem.

I am all for protecting the consumer but GDPR is going too far with what I would call optics rather than actual consumer protection. I.e. things that look and sounds like they are protecting the user when they are really just adding more bureaucracy to the companies.
I think in light of recent processor bugs, there's also an argument that software protection is easier to patch than hardware protection.
Linux already allows untrusted user code to be run in a ring 0 VM, via BPF/eBPF. Honestly, given the choice between Web Assembly and eBPF to run in kernel mode, I'd go with Web Assembly. The fewer secure VMs that have to be audited, the better.
huh? Why didn't you just use rsync?
It's by far the biggest example of fiscal irresponsibility. What's particularly egregious is when the families of the bride (_cough_ her mother _cough_) or groom push them towards spending they can't afford. The wedding industry preys on those weak emotions knowing that many couples won't push back on the non-sense.
interesting project. it's not safe, but definatly i like this kind of application of system software.

It might be interesting to try and run the webassembly in a VM ring 0 where the ring -1 can do some security routines and checks on it, but that might be beyond the scope and intent of this project.
That's exactly what this is. GDPR is untenable and creates magical rights where none exist. You don't own information about you. Data is data. The only reasonable thing I can see out of it is getting companies to clarify (simplify) their EULAs.
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"The point of the tax law was to lower the cost of employment and investment in the US. [...] The hope being that lower costs cause companies to value US labor more, which tightens the labor market."

The point of the tax cut was to get more money in the hands of owners of corporations. And, so far, it's working quite well. We won't see much wage growth for one big reason, the Fed has and will continue to raise interest rates at the slightest sign of inflation.
This particular victory condition -- highest life/score when one player is eliminated -- seems to have been reinvented a few times. Nexus Ops used it as one possible way to win (although not the main way). Then David Sirlin used it as the victory condition in [the multiplayer variants of] a few of his games, apparently unaware of its earlier use in Nexus Ops. And now here's another reinvention (quite possibly earlier than the two I mentioned :P ). Interesting.
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> Normally, this would be super dangerous, but WebAssembly is designed to run safely on remote computers, so it can be securely sandboxed without losing performance.

This throws away the very important security property of defense in depth. A system design should include interlocking levels of security, so even if there is a vulnerability in one place, extra work may be required to exploit it.
Is there any verifiable time in history when such a complicated multi-actor system actually did increase wages? Or is this the cold fusion of government policy?
The four points of the Agile Manifesto follow the pattern of “valuing the preferred over the less critical.” Seems to me that a valid — if not infallible — corollary is that if you practice the preferred TO THE EXCLUSION of the less critical you’re guaranteed to accumulate technical debt. The more fastidiously the less critical is ignored the more catastrophic the reckoning will be.
A lot of why our users enjoy MASV is because it's dead simple to use for non-technical users. Not that syncthing is very hard but as a video pro dealing with clients the easier it is for them to just click a download button the more likely it will happen. Also because it's pay-as-you-go it's easy to charge back the transfer cost as a part of the project bill.
Like I said the last time this subject came up, fine. That's totally fine. I don't care which incumbents will be okay in a world with better laws around privacy. I want better laws around privacy.

If your startup to unseat Salesforce requires doing tricky or infelicitous shit with my personal data, I don't want you to be able to operate, full stop. Your business shouldn't exist, if its existence requires schlepping or selling my data in a bad way.

The rights to privacy that some new laws could give us is simply more important than that.
I've had the privilege to have the proactive version of this discussion: A discussion was had about an employee and then the question was asked "If they left, how much would we pay to hire someone the replace them? Let's give them a raise to that amount now and avoid that mess."
Is this price for monthly bandwidth or for storage?
What kind of notes? I am not an expert in GDPR law since I don't track people, hopefully someone here would explain exactly what is PI and what is tracking and if will apply in this exact case.
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Can we just take a step back and admit that treating an IP address as personal information is patently ridiculous?
Sure, but the PM is there for a reason and the PM has roles. There is overlap with what developers can be doing, but we are trained/encouraged to punt to the PM for such decisions, questions, and suggestions.

I get it, but it's now how I do my best work, proxying questions and discussions through a gatekeeper.
That already exists via the "DISCARD" command: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-discard.h...
Just watched. Great video. Thnx for sharing!
Right, that's an interesting observation as well. The number of journals is huge. What this means is that libraries usually do not buy individual subscriptions. Instead, what happens is that they negotiate so-called "Big Deals" with the big traditional publishers. In other words, they pay a large sum of money for a package of subscriptions to a large number of journals from a single publisher. Typically, these packages contain a few of the really big name journals, and a really long tail of journals of varying relevance. Publishers also own many journals which presumably mainly exist to boost those numbers in order to negotiate a higher price, and also has the effect of removing downwards price pressure by decreasing transparency in the market. Theoretically, the per-journal price is a lot lower in such a big deal than individual subscriptions would have been, but it's not quite clear how many of those subscriptions you really need.

Of course, "need" is already a vague term - preferably, all publicly funded research would be available in the first place, but that's not the world we currently live in.

Unfortunately, that's both the reason why adding a subscription journal instead of an Open Access one is bad, as well as why a boycott doesn't affect much change other than that resulting of its publicity. On the scale of those big deals, saying "we don't need that specific ML journal since interesting research hardly gets submitted there" doesn't drive the collective price down that much.

(In fact, I'd wager that those prices are mostly driven by how far librarians managed to stretch their budgets, rather than by the value provided by the specific included journals or the cost spent producing them.)
It's no worse than what Linux already allows via eBPF.
He is very much alive.

Here is the latest article by theguardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/30/russian-journa...
He is right. This has been a long time coming.

Your stupid hot take about how he’s not practicing what he preaches, or how this is bad for innovation, or how better ads are a good thing, doesn’t matter. this is the most important piece of tech legislation at least since the dmca and it’s a courageous jump forward with some kinks that will get worked out.
I just want to say comments like these make me very happy. It really captures a kind of 'hacker spirit' that I try to be part of (and not just when it comes to programming). Thanks!
AI winters are a result of a massive disparity between the expectations of the general public and the reality of where the technology currently sits. Just like an asset bubble, the value of the industry as a whole pops as people collectively realize that AI, while not being worthless, is worth significantly less than they thought.

Understand that in pop-sci circles over the past several years the general public is being exposed to stories warning about the singularity by well respected people like Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk (http://time.com/3614349/artificial-intelligence-singularity-...). Autonomous vehicles are on the roads and Boston Dynamics is showing very real robot demonstrations. Deep learning is breaking records in what we thought was possible with machine learning. All of this progress has excited an irrational exuberance in the general public.

But people don't have a good concept of what these technologies can't do, mainly because researchers, business people, and journalists don't want to tell them--they want the money and attention. But eventually the general public wises up to the unfulfillment of expectations, and drives their attention elsewhere. Here we have the AI winter.
It appears they are using a better drilling method https://blog.x.company/introducing-dandelion-2706eded169a
I was being cynical as we have a nest that underperforms and sometimes behaves erratically.
The website focuses on exploiting subsidies to install. I'd like to know more about Dandelion in case I missed something, will be interesting to get feedback on effectiveness, performance and noise levels
>it learned how to play chess well

This. Learning to play a game is one thing. Learning how to teach computers to learn a game is another thing. Yes chess programs have been good before, but that's missing the point a little bit. The novel bit is not that it can beat another computer, but how it learned how to do so.
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The US needs a law that exempts American businesses from GDPR if they have no presence in Europe.
Diamonds are OK for jewelry. Moissanite is prettier (IMO) and cheaper.

Diamonds are great for tools (single-point diamond turning is /awesome/[1], diamond is a great abrasive for non-ferric materials, etc).

[1] http://www.nanotechsys.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Nanote... (check out the feedback resolution on the X & Y axes. Then check out the maximum deviation from straightness: 0.75um/350mm X, 1.0um/500mm Y!!!) It's a lathe that can produce optical components like mirrors and lenses with no further grinding or polishing operations!
How come we don't have a good P2P file transfer system that everyone can use now? Having a server sit in between just passing it along seems like a waste.
While I agree with you I'll add another...

For a new company that hasn't built the product yet this is a small(ish) problem to implement. New products can bake in privacy thinking directly from the first line of code.

Who gets hit the hardest by this are small companies with legacy systems. Who don't necessarily have the budget to dive into the legacy stuff.
I mean that would only take the energy of 200 Quadrillion Hiroshima nuclear bombs. No biggy.
how about instead, we err on the side of privacy instead of billion dollar companies that don’t pay taxes for once.
This looks pretty interesting. Will definitely spend some time testing it.

Shameless plug. We have recently forked pgbouncer to add multicore support[0]. We are running in production for couple of weeks and the performance is great.

Our design is very straightforward. Instead of touching the current code, we've extended it by a manager, that spins workers, which are essentially forks of pgbouncer itself (one per core, or whatever you specify in the settings), and then distributes the connections between the clients and the workers. So if you decide not to use the multiprocessing part, you can just turn it off and you will be running the same old pgbouncer you are used to. It also allows for the code to be merged to the original code base without any significant changes.

[0] https://github.com/pexeso/pgbouncer-smp
Doubly so when legal precedent exists that IP isn’t sufficient enough to identify a person.
The general claim people make suggesting things like Right To Be Forgotten or Right To Privacy is that it violates "free speech", and particularly, that via Citizens United, the US currently claims corporations have the right of free speech. Google believes, for instance, all limitations on how it provides search results as an infringement on Google's right to "say" whatever they want.

Of course, we already have a variety of limitations on free speech, plenty of laws that restrict what companies and and cannot disclose about other entities, and GDPR would be no different.
Three things:

1)

Ordinary Matter ~10^53 kg (4.9%)

Dark Matter ~5*10^53 kg 26.8%

Dark Energy ~1.3*10^54 kg 68.3%

Undiscovered ? ?

We are only made up of < 1/20th of the universe's matter budget, and at that, most of Ordinary Matter is in stars and black-holes (we think). There's not a lot of matter out there (as a percent) left for life to be made of. As for the majority of the budget? Well, we know dark matter falls down ... that's about it right now (kinda). And Dark Energy? Yeah, it makes things fall up. It's ok, makes no sense to anyone else either. I put 'Undiscovered' there, as it seems we are making discoveries about the universe at a pretty rapid rate these last few centuries, so this budget is likely not even close to the real thing.

Also, people talk a lot about not meeting aliens, but just talking to them. Based on the fact that we have little/no idea how Dark Matter and Energy works, and we only really use radio signals (when funding permits), it may be like trying to whisper at the Queen of England while standing in Norway; a telephone would be much better.

2) Tom Scott on immortality and risk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5a6wrJpxP4

3) Life may be so abundant in the universe that it's not worth talking or meeting up with. What would you say to a single mayfly if you could talk to one on it's level? No scientist or other person has bothered to try, and I think there's a good reason for that.
You may also want to look into using rsync as an alternative to scp. rsync is much smarter about how it syncs data, so it should be better for your use case.
Yeah, sorry...I meant to say you're NOT way off :) (edited). $2k / hr is probably about right if they're claiming $1134.
context switches / syscalls cost a lot of cycles to save and reload cpu context. you basically need to push all stuff to memory related to context, registers, flags, stack pointers et.c etc., then load the ones for kernel space, perform some call, and switch back. This means a lot of overhead is saved, especially for small functions.

https://wiki.osdev.org/Context_Switching
Can’t all this GDPR stuff be abstracted away into a framework? Or at least some kind of pattern/generator tooling?

It seems like there’s room for an enterprise framework that does all the compliance work for you (for US gov contacts, i18n, user info download etc). Maybe calling it enterprise is a misnomer. Maybe it’s a spec that framework’s can target or comply with?
Hey! In terms of maxing out your bandwidth there are a few options. Aspera uses UDP which adds some overhead to the transfers and requires you to install plugins or software to connect both ends. The way we max out your bandwidth is by reducing the latency between you and the server closest to you then using javascript to push multiple TCP flows at the same time which also can effectively fill your pipe. On the download side of things we route the data across premium cloud networks and use TCP acceleration in the cloud to enable fast downloads. TCP acceleration tech only needs to be on the sending device so it requires no plugins on the download side versus UDP. Not having plugins is a big benefit though because there are less firewall concerns and it means you can use our service in more restrictive IT environments.
The GDPR only does so when it can be used to identify a specific human, in which circumstance it's not ridiculous. It would be ridiculous as an absolute unqualified rule.
I can see why you'd think that. I just want to put on the record that all of the project managers I've worked with have been extremely competent and a joy to work with.

The problem is not the people, it's the methodology that gets in the way of people doing their jobs.
The poor implementations of agile that Scrum encourages are what is devaluing project management, not my post.
More CO2 will be turned into Coral, there's lots of feedback loops here
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That was an awful lot of work compared with "install XFCE".
Aspera uses UDP to work around issues sending large files over long distances on big pipes, which TCP usually isn't great for (1). How does MASV handle this over TCP? Do you have some 'tcp accelerators' in between or it is just heavily chunked content?

1. https://paulgrevink.wordpress.com/2017/09/08/about-long-fat-...
I presume you know that rsync is a better solution to the problem. Not all of us do. Would you mind explaining why rsync is a better solution?
That sounds like a Sorkin production where everyone is unrealistically smart and rational.
How does this compare to other mock api tools, for example, mockoon? What's your secret sauce?
I have thought about it. A lot.

I'm told I work too slow, dive too deep. Now I'm trying to figure out how to do just 80%, "good enough".

When I was a kid, I published shareware. After getting a few 3:00am wake up calls from irate customers, I said "never again". I spent 15 years designing, engineering away technical support calls. It mostly worked. Later on... When my team(s) burned a CD, we rarely had to issue patches, hot fixes.

Customers loved us.

I thought that was the pinnacle of human achievement.

Now, I feel like I'm still fighting battles over things no one cares about any more.
What does that have to do with the article?