skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this isn't what the GP is referring to, it should be. I found this book and it's sequel a very fun and quick read.
Patches on top of patches are not the only way to maintain software.
Well now you know what the market cap is for snake oil. For the first time we've gotten a clear view of the market size -- and with that kind of size there's no doubt this won't be the last one.
Political and social institutions are systems that require system level solutions.

A call for individual impetus or responsibility to fix system issues isn't necessarily wrong, but it's usually futile.

Consider: some set of features that identify an individual, over time, begin to predict a worse or less ideal state. Is the cause and solution most likely to be a collective individual moral failure, requiring a collective individual improvement? It's possible. But is it likely?

Or perhaps a better question, is this proposed solution likely to improve the state of the world to one we all like? "Be better, it's not our responsibility to fix your issues." If this is repeated enough does the trend reverse? Or if it doesn't reverse, do we simply not care? If we don't think this will reverse the trend, and if we do care, then this seems like a poor strategy.

You don't have to care or not care about any individual, and you don't have to take any individuals belief or claim at face value. That's the difference between trying to divide up lines and attribute moral defect to society or individual, and trying to map out a complex system at understand solutions that aren't about assigning blame or worth, but rather improving society for all.

Still, an ability to have empathy for those who suffer, whether they are part of your side of the culture war or not, is (only in my opinion) a beautiful trait.
The now Italy region had a new leader every year for a stretch, until eventually Julius Caesar. We see as the video progresses, the mean leader reign per country/region seems to go up significantly. Like the bubbling cauldron is congealing.

I don't think what you're observing there is plausibly described as an instance of some general law of increasing stability. What you're talking about is the transition from the Roman republic, with a(n unwritten) constitution that mandated annual elections, to the Roman empire, whose rulers (typically) remained in place until death.
>declining to date someone because they're fat is now firmly seen as a bullying tactic

what world do you live on? Declining to date someone and bullying them are very obviously different things.
Machine Learning Algorithms in a Different Context: Smooth Fields from Particles
I second that delicious Melbourne coffee.
I heard that from a hardware professor, but he way saying it was running calculations to generate electrical interference on the board to influence nearby (logically unrelated) calculations.

I think he was saying it was a genetic algorithm on an FPGA board. It was designing circuits by simulating them (in hardware), but if you actually tried to build the design in a custom chip it wouldn't work because you'd only have kept the circuit logic, not the interference properties.
No one dates a fatty. This is why fatties have to get rich to get women.
> it's worth being aware of the connection

Reading charitably, I think you mean "being aware of the possible connection". The connection with marriage still seems speculative.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Rocks

“Moderate use of porn” doesn’t have to mean hardcore pornography. Playboy and erotic novels are probably not equivalent to Anal Whores 3.

Similarly, I’ve also heard the argument that high-speed internet pornography and “tube” sites in particular are the problem, because of how they present to the user a never-ending stream of novelty, and not necessarily because of the particular type of content.

If that’s the case then obviously the argument about moderation would have its merits.
There are externalities that they want to control for some people but not others or through a means other than a price hike on everyone.
A paper some time back about performing large-scale host computations through (ab)using the TCP handshake for arithmetic.
Holy crap. There are a ton of what look like auto-generated or temporary emails in those lists. There are also a lot of what appear to be legitimate emails. That took all of two seconds.

The first two links I clicked gave me lists of emails.

The third one gave me a list of colon-delimited emails and passwords.

https://vk.com/doc-75521656_324259084

That's a massive blunder.
Not when you're estimating the cost to develop a specific chip. I can avoid the per-project NRE by simply not doing the project.

And, again, if a project produces more chips, then more of the fab production costs will be amortized across that project. The definition of Non-Recurring Engineering costs are that they are fixed and don't increase as the unit volume goes up: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-recurring_engineering

The way the fab could be considered NRE is if the fab were built only for this chip. (Or if a fixed percent of it was). In advance.
Precisely! If they are bypassing the breakers, then that's "breaking and entering" on the public utility's property -- the mining isn't the "unauthorized" part.
Europe? Don't worry. Become a Muslim. Rape is expected in their culture and nothing won't happen in a court if you got this card blanc.
Mirror Drop - Colorful raytraced 3D puzzle game
I read that and don’t see the inconsistency with regards to free speech. If he did call for budget reductions on universities that do not protect it, that’s logically consistent with supporting free speech even if the budget reduction caused less (in his view) non-free speech.

As an American I can’t wrap my head around the Canadian acceptance of criminal penalties to compel speech, based on the evolving views of an extrajudicial tribunal.

It’s terrifying to have that power in the hands of the far right or far left.
Matrix multiplication involves moving across one matrix in column order and the other matrix in row order. So it turns out that both row or column ordering make no difference. I think that matrix multiplication is one of the best examples of a deceptivly simple problem. It shows how far ALL code is from peak performance. We can only strive to be within an order or two from peak performance.
I think bitcoin is kinda dumb too, but I do have some confidence in blockchain tech generally based on its history so far (ie, the good parts of bitcoin).

> I don't know where to begin with this Bitcoin crap

Begin by addressing the actual strengths of blockchain tech (I think the weaknesses are fairly stated in this thread).

So far, in its short life, it has provided:

1) A store of value that can be easily held on the person and that lives outside the state-corporate banking infrastructure

2) A way to buy psychoactive compounds and other medicines which have been wrongly (and violently) prohibited.

Although I have no problem with Pokemon, nor do I judge people's proclivity to collect them, I do think that cryptocurrency has already achieved something that Pokemon haven't.

edit: Ouch - quite a lot of downvotes with no rebuttal. I guess we're in an anti-blockchain mood this morning.
This is such a weird statement.

What hardware realm? They're involved all over.

Right now they're absolutely crushing the camera market - the A73 and AR73 are taking the world by storm, with tons of Canon and Nikon DSLR converts (Including myself). Their GM lenses are the sharpest available at a lot of focal lengths, the bokeh is close to the top of readily available modern lenses, etc. They're certainly competing there.

Their UHS-II cards are some of the fastest on the market.

The PS4 is the leader in lifetime sales vs. other consoles.

What hardware are you talking about?
I knew a guy who worked in the university IT department where I did my post-grad. He made more there than in Japan, and the cost of living was insanely low.
actually, he's a tenured professor at UToronto, has 9600 citations, and ran a clinical psychiatry practice for 20 years - including some time at Harvard. So, he's had more success at academic pursuits than like 99.99% of people. The fact that the opposite of what you just said is true, and the truth could have been found a keystroke away on Wikipedia tells me that you consume information from very biased sources and don't question it at all.
Thoughts on Five Years of Emerging Languages (2014)
Really good find.
I agree with most of this but each language is different and each language encourages different things. I think the most important thing to do as a software developer is to research the problem domain before writing a single line of code and pick the language which fits the project most. I happen to use Kotlin because out of the languages I have experience with this is the one I'm most comfortable with and the one which fits my problem domains best.
> yet I can't help but wonder what would happen if a guy wrote something like that about weight or boob size, for example?

Have you browsed men's profiles on Tinder? You're comparing 50% of the actual data to your imagination here.
Someone posted a comment mentioning that coffee shops are a good metric for cultural development when trying to look for a new city
I understand that a company which has invested in these maps wants a ROI, but really, the polygons should be in the public domain and improved on accuracy. I can imagine a lot of people would be interested to work on this.
> A given engineer is not better or worse in some absolute sense.

I'll just address this first: Often they are. It is idealist and simplistic to claim otherwise. Some surgeons are better at performing surgery than others, some engineers are better at building bridges than others, and some programmers are better at programming than others. They're not inherently better people, but that's not relevant.

I think the view expressed in your comment is overly reductionist. Of course everyone works on teams, and of course there are more factors at play than simply being better at some task in a vacuum. But that doesn't change facts like:

* Some people are smarter than others

* Some people are more dedicated than others

* Some people have more experience than others

* Some people have life circumstances that allow them to contribute more than others

* Some people have values more in line with the company's success than others

This is kind of what I mean by "the world as it is" vs "the world as you want it to be." The points above are common sense to people that don't have the world view expressed in your comment. The idea that all people are equally valuable is only true in the abstract sense. When you actually need to accomplish a concrete goal (like putting a man on the moon), some people are absolutely more valuable than others toward doing that, and an organization that pretends that's not the case is shooting itself in the foot.

Having a meritocratic structure doesn't even inherently mean individualist. It could be measured at the team or project level. It also doesn't have to be (and typically isn't) exactly the measurable contributions ("load-bearing capacity") to the goal itself that determines the best "engineer." More often your "best" engineer is the one who is easy to work with, embraces tough challenges, and can adapt well to changes.

But honestly: I think everyone already knows these things. That's why I see this more as virtue signaling: it's one thing to change a governance statement. It's another when it's actually put into practice.
I don't see any contact info in your profile, but I would be happy to follow up via email.
why do you say this? i want to understand your point of view.
Someone sent a link to a simple programming online game. Player had to provide isntruction for an character walking araound a square level, gathering stars. Never could find it again after a month...
The argument is for a trend far beyond that; that perhaps those cycles do matter but there is a 700 year trend in one direction.

Even the globalism to nationalism trends that drove both world wars (after common wisdom thought them impossible since economies were too linked) is really a small factor, at least in the analysis of the article.

I don't even think that your analysis is correct in a broader context. The fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of manoralism (and constant conflict in Europe) was not innovation and didn't particularly drive it. The staunch nationalism of the Chinese empire didn't drive innovation (though it did mean less conflict).

WWII may have held in it (or pushed forward) the seeds of much great innovation - rocket science, computing, plastics, antibiotics, nuclear science, etc. But what innovation would have occurred without it? What would the lives lost have contributed?

I don't think it's fair to say that rapid change is only possible in such an environment of conflict. Great advances occurred in the interwar years, too.
>It’s mostly young single western men I see willing to take the pay cuts to live in Japan.

My SO and I have seriously discussed moving to Tokyo when it comes time to raise a family. We're both pretty disappointed with the culture here in the US that makes it difficult to let your kids be independent and self reliant (See: Parents getting their kids taken away for letting them walk to the park, etc), and we've loved the time we've spent in Tokyo.

The salary situation makes this pretty tough, though.
You hit the nail head on. I don't think it makes sense to write code like language X in language Y. If you try to do so you'll just get upset and quit.
Off topic, but browsers should be appending the referrer page in the history list when openning a new browser tab. Countless times i've lost an article because i opened a link and much later discovered i had somehow closed the opener page.
The article is a bit shallow but this is an interesting topic.

The GDPR is in a sense modeled after the German Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, BDSG) and in many respects very similar. So it might be interesting how candidate data has been and is handled in Germany. The following are my personal takeaways from when I did hiring for a small business.
I'm by no means an expert so take them with a grain of salt:

1. If you can outsource the hiring process, do it.
It will save you a lot of headaches.

2. Keep correspondence with applicants separate from your
other business correspondence. The reason is that data retention
rules are very different for both types of correspondence.
As a rule of thumb: Ordinary business mail has to
be archived for at least 10 years in Germany.

3. You cannot keep applicant data at will. You need a reason. Valid reasons are:

- the data is needed for the application process

- the applicant has given you consent to keep the data

At any point in time you have the applicant data you need one of those reasons, you don't need both. At first you are covered because you need the data to conduct the hiring process.

Consensus is that you can keep application data for a maximum of six months after the application process has ended. The end of the application process is determined in most cases by the date of the rejection letter.

The six months isn't arbitrary but determined by the maximum
of various periods for filing suit. If I remember correctly the anti-
discrimination law (Allgemeine Gleichbehandlungsgesetz, AGG) is the
determining factor.

You can ask your candidate in the rejection letter for consent
to keep their data for a specified amount of time and I've heard
that some companies do this. We decided against this because
keeping track of the additional deadlines for deletion would
have been to complicated for little benefit.

Deletion of application data means erasure of all personally
identifiable information. This includes backups.

One last thing. The original post states the following question:

> Can you quickly and efficiently respond to an employee’s data subject rights request?

I think this is misguided. Yes, sure, you should be able to respond to this request, but in practice it will never happen. As long as the candidate is in
the application process (plus 6 months) they will never ask for their data and even if they did it would be easy to answer. After that you have no personally identifiable information of the candidate and the answer is also easy.
Interesting that Hitler and Napoleon were over in the blink of an eye, relatively speaking.
FWIU next gen DLT moving out of proof of work will probably change the electricity consumption profiles anyway. it would be really stupid to spend just a dime trying to meet that demand.
Marginal flight cost might be pennies, but they will also have to account for the cost of the drones, maintenance, repair, replacement, and liability for damages that they do.
Thanks - working thru setting all the pieces in play before leaving and not chasing the VC money.
I'd played that a while ago. It's rather odd how much it screws with my intuition both at the start of a session and after I stop playing. It takes a minute for my brain to switch modes.
Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions
Yes. Perhaps the next major Wikipedia - like project :-)
Wow! Makes you think of all the different ways black hat hackers can advise this!
Someone commented: "how things have changed, emacs and vim are partners and the enemy is Eclipse and Visual Studio"

A play on words of an episode in star trek the next generation, where someone from the past wakes up to realize that now humans and Klingons are friends and the enemy are the ferengi and the borg.
karimdag's summary is pretty complete (and very good). I also recommend the book - it's mostly very practical, generally free of the "one magic trick to fix your life" sentiment, and it has enough humor and voice to make it worth reading end to end. I thought I'd share the few tidbits I highlighted and got the most out of.

- He talks a lot about luck, but mostly in the context of managing it, not making it. His advice sort of combines the two old sayings about "the harder I work, the luckier I get" and "worker smarter not harder." Manage your opportunities and skills so you can capitalize on luck; find and take high percentage shots.

- "In our messy, flawed lives, the nearest we can get to truth is consistency".

- "Some people act much more decisively than others. And that can be both persuasive and useful. Decisiveness looks like leadership."

- He is a big proponent of the concept of managing personal energy ("The way I approach the problem of multiple priorities is by focusing on just one main metric: my energy"), I really agree with this and found this book to be one of the best treatments of the idea. He explicitly contrasts energy with passion: "Energy is good. Passion is bullshit". "Success causes passion more than passion causes success", i.e. don't rely on passion.

- "The trick to eating right is to keep willpower out of the equation for your diet. Laziness can make you choose healthy foods if you are clever enough to make those foods the most convenient in your house." In my experience, this works very well, and not just with food. Work hard to set yourself up for lazy success.

- That last bullet goes very well with what I think is the best advice in the book: "If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it." "Success has a price, but the reality is that the price is negotiable. If you pick the right system, the price will be a lot nearer what you're willing to pay". People often wish for things but never actually decide to have them. Set yourself up for success, focus on making smart choices to make things easy for yourself.
Is there a source for this quote? I'm having trouble finding it.
I really appreciate this comment.

I agree and this has made me rethink my comment and the angle I took.

The suicide of famous artists such as Chris Cornell and Scott Hutchison - particularly Hutchison - has really shocked me and made me think more widely about what it means to live happily as a man these days. I think we need more people thinking about it positively. And more people need to embrace and encourage civility as you've done.

It's so easy to fling rocks in the culture wars, and satisfying too, but in a junk food way.

As you say, there's a bigger picture.

Thank you.

I like the war and peace reference too ;)
Whoops, sorry about that. Fixed :)
This thread. I tried to find it a month later, but couldn't remember anything to search for.

Regards, future pcf
By definition sex workers are the opposite of monogamy.

Also what are you objecting to here? Prostitution in general? Having it subsidized by the state?

This argument:

> They point to how in the Netherlands, the disabled have access to sex worker services, subsidized by the state. They claim that their inability to find sexual partners is comparable to a disability, and therefore the state should help.

This is not absurd. In the Netherlands prostitution is legal, anyone can buy the services of a sex worker. I don't know if it's true that the state subsidizes it for disabled people. If they do I imagine the idea is that having sex is an right and if you can't get it on your own (by either for free or by paying it) the state should supply it. Extending it to incels is not a huge leap.
If you're fine with running untrusted third-party code on your website, that's your prerogative. The European Union will shed no tears if you choose geoblocking over responsible business practices.
I realize it's easy to speak in a derogatory manner about something we don't like and hope it will go away, but I think that ignores the reality: for now, and for several years, a lot of people have made a lot of money. It may be an opportunity, or it may be a problem that needs addressing, but after 9+ years, I think there comes a point where it's no longer a sinkhole.
Wish Go had a more complete UI lib. Libui sounds promising though.
I don’t know, but the main point of zoning laws is to prevent disturbances (like you can’t run a shop or a bar in a residential building for obvious noise and crowd concerns), but I don’t see why mining would be problematic. I’d rather have miners in the building rather than the drug-dealing kids that attract police every other week or so. Mining is very peaceful, you just install a piece of hardware and let it run (no noise, no damage, etc).
This. Your first 1,000kWh in a month are at a reduced rate. Each kWh thereafter is at a premium rate. Easy.
Solaris had XML config files and wouldn't boot if you had a tab character in vfstab.
Eh, live grenades are dangerous because their dosage is discrete. There's a qualitative difference. And if you argue that any amount of porn is harmful, well, that's a really strong claim and requires better arguments than silly analogues.
> small group

Dunno, seems like what we can label as "incels" (outside tiny violent group that pushed this term to mainstream) could now easily represent 50% of single male population. That's pretty bad for society. Look at Japan what is happening there. Or into China where planned male overpopulation is causing massive problems in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos (stealing women) and they don't do the usual way of curbing excess males by the means of war, like practiced in the Middle East.
Yes, if the area is zoned residential, you are not allowed to use it for commercial purposes. You'd have to convince the code enforcement board and/or potentially other relevant authorities that the use was non-residential. Even to make the "weekend getaway with attached server room" argument, you have to be in an area that is zoned for temporary housing.
If this is your explanation for disparate outcomes, it does not strike me as a good one. No population has gone through more stress than post-war Jewish immigrants yet their children were the most successful cohort in America. Chinese immigrants were subjected to horrific racism and yet they are far more successful than gentile whites on average.

Whatever the explanation, Lysenkoist propagation of intergenerational trama is unlikely to be correct, though it may prove politically expedient.