skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re right, but obviously the advantage that used to give them isn’t working out anymore.

AMD’s interconnect seems fast enough, and they don’t have the yield/cost problems from massive single die chips.
> A tax IS a punishment

A tax is a legitimate cost of a functioning economy as much as an electricity bill or a truckload of cement. That tax pays for the infrastructure which makes that same transaction possible in the first place.

Ideally the cost of participation in the economy should scale linearly with how much excess benefit you derive. Total benefit minus the cost of being a functioning human in the society. This requires the insight that a person who has $1,000 of discretionary money every week has a lot more than ten times the excess benefit as someone who has just $100 discretionary every week.

Put another way, from the perspective of a rich person, it's in my interest to have everyone else in society well fed, free of disease, mentally healthy and able to work productively. The best way for rich people to ensure that is to require them all to pay a much larger proportion of taxes.
This is lazy thinking. You could say the same thing about planetary motion but the ellipse equation does a pretty good job giving us a null hypothesis to build up from.

If you’re a materialist then you’re going to believe that all of the minute biological details are relevant. If you’re a functionalist you can work at a more abstract level. From the 12 years of research I did in this space (both CS and Bio) I can tell you for certain that we can learn a lot more from a functionalist approach.

And the reason we “can’t understand” 1000 layer deep neural networks is again because we don’t have a good theory of these types of computational systems. For instance I can tell you that most of the interactions w_ijk are completely spurious and if you cull the network you actually end up with a circuit that you can understand in the same way any EE undergrad can identify a 3 bit adder from the circuit topology.
oh i would do anything for love... but i won't do that
It is also illegal to scrape AZ, since if you scrape it , it means you don’t own this content and you are just stilling products data added to the site by produsts proper owners.
It's just me, but I view the lack of OO features in Elixir as a really good thing. You still have structs and some other OOish type stuff, but the emphasis on composition and modularity has really made Elixir programs a joy to read and understand.

The lack of a single binary isn't a fully fair criticism. While technically it is true, it doesn't describe the shipping experience. You will need Erlang installed on the target machine, but using escript you basically ship a "single binary/file" and it includes everything it needs to run. It's quite elegant, and erlang is super easy to install on basically all *nix systems.
Which of the tiers are you talking about?
> use webmail ... Posteo logged me out every few minutes

Lets me assume, that you're always logged in. Google thanks you for that, much easier to link this browser's history and searches to your account.
I haven’t found a replacement for Gmail yet. I’ve tried fastmail and ProtonMail but both have limitations.

From a search engine perspective I’ve switched to DuckDuckGo and I’m impressed with how good it has gotten.

With maps I’ve tried various solutions including mapquest, Microsoft, and Apple but nothing comes close to Google Maps.
All the better to make you feel smarter than they are,

get excited by the filthy lucre of 'flip this house' shows,

and then be super receptive to home improvement advertising.
And we have not started genetically engineering this mutation into humans, why exactly?
One (completely nonsensical) theory I’ve heard from antivaxxers is that that polio is still widespread, even within the US, but doctors refuse to diagnose it (either because they’re part of the conspiracy or because they believe polio has been eradicated and therefore don’t consider it as a diagnosis). This is of course absurd on its face but that doesn’t matter to antivax folks.

There’s no way to predict how a reappearance would be interpreted by this community but I think they’d just say “see? This is what we were saying all along, vaccines don’t work, polio never went away.”
I personally find general-purpose Swift surprising because I'd assumed that they'd have to make various language/runtime compromises, solely for backwards compatibility with Objective C, that it'd always be relegated as a niche, iOS-only language.

Admittedly, this is a somewhat naive assumption, but it also based on my experience of Scala/etc. languages building on top of the JVM.

Any input/data on that opinion?
Uhm 2014 ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICloud_leaks_of_celebrity_phot...

By comparaison, while there have been a few issues with Google, for a company that processes so much personal data, their track record is excellent. I can't think of any major personal data leak that could be attributed to Google.

Maybe Apple got better within these 4 years, TBH, they most likely did. However, I don't consider 4 years to be a "long time" for a tech giant. Their privacy focus is relatively recent.
>When I tried out Posteo it was extremely annoying that it logged me out every few minutes

I haven't encountered this with my personal email server nor heard of it from anyone else. I think this might just be an issue with Posteo.

It's easier if you don't try to move all at once. Spend some time looking at different email options and move that. Do calendar later. Get rid of Google Apps on your Android later still. Gradual change is much easier.
> There would be no way to reverse decade old decisions that simply aren't the right decision anymore. Every new feature would need to be built on top of code from 1984.

Of all the reasons to prefer a new language, this is the worst one from a platform perspective.

C and POSIX allowed Unix to conquer the world. They allow code written since the 1980s to run with minimal modifications even on modern systems. The other major operating system family -- Windows -- is also strongly associated with backward compatibility.

Everybody always wants to throw away the legacy code, because maintaining it is expensive. But throwing it all away and starting over from scratch can be more expensive. Especially when you're dealing with millions of lines of third party code. Which is why the only platforms that are still popular after 30+ years are the ones that didn't force everybody to do that.
You're kidding, right? If you're unable to stop in time you are, by definition, tailgating.

You're supposed to keep a safe following distance where you avoid a collision if the vehicle in front of you stops suddenly.
There are still a number of venerable projects hosted on SF; here are a few:

ReactOS https://sourceforge.net/projects/reactos/

FreeDOS https://sourceforge.net/projects/freedos/

hdparm https://sourceforge.net/projects/hdparm/

7-Zip https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/
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Can you elaborate on the limitations you experienced with fastmail and protonmail?
Besides the JVM and its langs, others with big communities are golang and typescript.
The original US business is dead. The article is about that. It says that operations in Asia are also fine.
Not downvoting, but I think England on its own has what it takes to do well.
This is ridiculous. It is the same company, Ads driven company, you're expecting to be nice just because you paid few dollars.
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The more "normal" (bad word but you get what i mean) people using protonmail, the weaker that signal becomes :) Same deal with Tor
>One theory I’ve heard from antivaxxers is that that polio is still widespread, even within the US, but doctors refuse to diagnose it

Please take a look at this [1] & [2]. It is similar to what you are saying.

[1] https://www.livemint.com/Politics/XS6vPor5jFX3vKkaE7Ri6H/Ind...

[2] http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/is-india-actually-free...
Just because something is using "quantum effects" does not make it a "quantum computer".

Regular old transistors use "quantum effects" left and right, but they're ultimately just classical computing devices.
think this is a generational backlash.

50s: wallpaper

60s: modern/minimal

70s: mix

80s: wallpaper

90s/2000s: modern/minimal

now: back to wallpaper, apparrently

obviously this is oversimplifying the styles of the era, but yes.
If not, close to it. Very early investments in AirBNB, Dropbox, ...
Why do you need a scooter for a half mile? Just the extra speed?
That would be a difficult claim to make, when Polio is only observed in the unvaccinated.
This is equivalent to saying "visual art is just basic arithmetic" because you found out that the relationships between colors can be described with bit operations on their RGB values.
Is it still tacky if you actually run your own MTA?
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If that is so, Bill Gates is stupid. Because anyone with enough resources can make polio virus in a lab..

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1490301/
Wallpaper has deep roots as a descendent of ancient Roman wall paintings and frescos to follow. Even the content carries over almost unphased if you consider Roman wall paintings to match the neovictorian styles we know of our grandparents having and frescos to match the popular ikea-like full wall coverings in the contemporary modern hotels.
Oh okay. Good to know, honestly did not know that is the policy and at least in India all the overhead bins are filled with mostly backpacks and small items only (but then we're a country of rule breakers so it doesn't come as a surprise to me). It's mostly ladies handbags which I've seen people put under seats only.

Regardless will remember this next time. Thanks.
Would you mind sharing more links to these blogs ?
No, the G Suite product has a clearly defined privacy policy that's quite different to the usual Google one. If Google violates it they'll be liable to be sued for millions, at the least.

It's not "expecting to be nice", it's "entering into a legal and business relationship that stipulates niceness".
I have used Fastmail for years with a custom domain without a single problem. Amazingly great communications from the company too. Highly recommended but not free. (Less than $2/month though - so almost free.)
I think it's more about adhering to ones own values than keeping your mail secure from rouge nation states. For example, I don't use google (except for the occasional search) and use privacy focused products almost exclusively instead. Yet if a government agency decides to violate my privacy, they wont find anything of interest.

It's about doing what you can.

Besides, using privacy focused products sends a clear signal to companies that privacy is something we want.
Agree with this entirely. There are so many long term issues that you avoid by building things this way.

Plus the run time gives you benefits that you're not getting in any server side language that doesn't run on the BEAM. There's BEAM and everything else...and everything else is a really crowded field.
Intel was selling 18-core chips for >$2,400 then when Threadripper came out Intel released the 18-core i9 for "only" $2,000, so that is something of a price drop.

Also, Intel's $350 8700K was cheaper at launch than AMD's $450 1800X even though the 8700K is faster in gaming.
I think of AMD's current approach - a microarchitecture with slower cores, but more cores, than Intel - as very similar to what Sun/Oracle tried to do from 2005 to 2010 with the Niagara family (UltraSPARC T1-T3).

Each core in those chips was seriously underclocked compared to a Xeon of similar vintage and price point (1-1.67 GHz; compared to 1.6 GHz to 3 or more), and lacked features like out-of-order execution and big caches that are almost minimum requirements for a modern server CPU. Sun hoped to make up for the slow cores in server applications with having more cores and having multiple threads per core (though with a simpler technology than SMT/hyper-threading).

However, Oracle eventually decided to focus on single-threaded performance with its more recent chips - it turns out that no OoO and < 2 GHz nominal speeds look pretty bad for many server applications. My suspicion is that even though the CPU-bound parts of games are becoming more multi-threaded, AMD will be forced to fix its slower architecture or lose out to Intel again in the server AND high-end desktop markets in a few years.
The ones here in Australia aren't independent and are currently in voluntary administration. For example they stopped accepting their customer loyalty cards, the one next to me seems to have stopped restocking as well. There are however some bidders to take over the entire Asian arm so it could be fine.
> Getting a secure RNG right is important.

Why are you bringing up secure RNGs? PCG isn't in this category.

Getting a non-secure RNG right is important. There are plenty of simulation applications which rely on RNGs like these to make high-quality statistically random selection results.
To be clear, the new owners did indeed -- not supposedly -- stop that behavior on day-one of their ownership.
Yeah that was in the area of unforgivable as far as I'm concerned.
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Posteo is very aggressive on privacy, reducing exposure, and keeping information safer. So a shorter webmail session timeout may be related to this. Depending on the use case, if this were the only issue with Posteo, the GP could’ve used Firefox with one of the many tab reload or tab refresh extensions to keep the logged in session alive.
Companies get hit with multi-million dollar fines for violating their privacy policies. So there's your incentive.

I just don't see open source as better protecting privacy. See for example the telemetry in .NET Core or VS Code [1]. Users discover this stuff by watching network traffic, not through code audits.

1: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/16131
I used to like OO, but ever since I got a taste of functional programming with Elixir, I haven’t looked back. It’s a very elegant language and an absolute joy to program in.
Sure. I'm not really trying to criticize the code, it's just that a lot of this looks foreign and unconventional to me.

1. requests.Session() is a class. IDK what request.session() invokes (see https://github.com/tducret/amazon-scraper-python/blob/master...).

2. Isn't one of the points of using Session() that it'll persist stuff like cookies and headers? So why is it re-defining the headers multiple times? (e.g. both GET and POST in the same session have their own respective but identical headers).

3. Is the use of `arg=""` idiomatic? For example in https://github.com/tducret/amazon-scraper-python/blob/master...

4. Using raw list indices without some kind of helper function to catch index and other errors when parsing is not really a good idea in scraping (e.g. `selection[0].text.strip()`.
Interesting stuff, thanks for posting it. I’m sure this is what’s informing what I heard. True or not it’s yet another reminder that politicians need to be informed by data and not the other way around.
Proposal to shorten copyright to 5-10 years wouldn't prevent philosophy of free software to function.

It would be additional incentive to release the source code after it enters public domain.
My first tries with Rust programming language
Program to generate regexes that match numbers divisible by N
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This is a gross overestimate of how far behind AMD is in single core performance. We're talking a few lost frames per second in games not some crazy sun vs oracle stuff.
Definitely. He dismissed it mostly because he doesn't like camelCase? seems like a silly reason to dismiss a language. I've been around enough different ecosystems to know that style is something you get used to. snake case, camel case, same-line curly brace, give it a few weeks and you won't really notice. It's a silly reason to dismiss a language.
It's not similar at all. AMD's cores are 10-20% slower while Niagara was 80-90% slower. And AMD isn't intentionally slower; they designed the Zen core for maximum single-thread performance but they just didn't do as good a job as Intel because their budget is vastly smaller.
Apple doesn't have the data that Google et al has. All of the ML that apple does for example is done on-device or is privatized [0]. This goes for all of their services that Google has built their business off of: Messages, Siri, Maps, etc. People don't respect Apple's security because they trust Apple, they respect it because Apple has intentionally shot themselves in the foot if they wished to sell their data in the future.

[0] https://machinelearning.apple.com/2017/12/06/learning-with-p...
I think half of my comments on hacker news are how much I love Fastmail, which I've used for email, calendar, and contacts for a decade now.
That ship has sailed.

SourceForge has little to offer in their API:https://anypoint.mulesoft.com/apiplatform/sourceforge/#/port...

Bitbucket for comparison: https://developer.atlassian.com/bitbucket/api/2/reference/re...
If your use of G Suite is only for email (and calendar), and if you don’t need phone support, there are better paid options out there that are a lot cheaper. Mailbox.org, Fastmail, Protonmail, Posteo (this one doesn’t allow custom domains) and more.
My primary goal of using Google alternatives is to deprive Alphabet of revenue. Privacy benefits are secondary.
Depends on your market, it appears for me, most of Europe is Safari / Chrome, but Japan is almost entirely IE 11, China is mix of IE / 360 Browser. Sometimes it's not easy to not care.
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I do this. It has nothing to do with an advantage. I'm just tired of sitting.
Yes, in a way, that's true. You can make free software more compatible with copyrights by turning it into open source.

But you can also remove roadblocks in copyright to make commercial model closer to open source. Which is what I am talking about, and it would make it also beneficial for the open source developers.

After all, if the open source model benefits everybody, why should only developers make the concession?
There are secure AEAD constructions that are <1cpb today, and they do extra MAC work that a simple PRF in a CSPRNG doesn't need to do. I'm sure PCG is faster, but for the overwhelming majority of applications, it's not so much faster as to matter; meanwhile, a fast CSPRNG also gives you security, which you might find you need later on.
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Keepass as well.
They’re under different ownership; the new owners were apologetic about that nonsense and stopped it immediately. I don’t want to punish people for buying and fixing venerable Internet infrastructure, so though I was angry about the compromised downloads, I’ve no problem downloading from SourceForge since then.
Gotta feel bad for SourceForge the new owners reversed the malpractices of its previous owners immediately and yet the damage is permanently done. I'll never understand why some think distributing spyware / malware for money is even remotely right in any way, shape, and form. How is any of it legal half the time...
I'd be happy if languages would adopt Vec2 Vec3 and Vec4 as standard data types - both float and double. I understand there are ways to create these in most any language, I just want them standardized so we can all write code the same way and get the performance of some vector instructions without using intrinsics.

Yes. Over 15 years ago I proposed a library for Vec2, Vec3, and Vec4 to the C++ standards committee. It's the one from Graphics Gems, but rewritten as all inline.[1] The C++ standards people wanted more usage of templates.

A few academic projects use that code.

[1] http://www.animats.com/source/index.html
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Some people trust a company to outlive their domain registrations, and hence prefer not to use a custom domain.

A custom domain, commonly of the <firstnamelastname> format, also leaks personal information every time it’s used, whereas a consumer mail provider domain name doesn’t (as long as one chooses a somewhat random address).
> What would be more efficient is if we went from aisle to window (in columns, rather than rows), so that each aisle person could get out (the entirety from front to back of the plane), get their luggage, then all walk off the plane. Then you do the next column of people, closer to the window, and do the same. In doing this, at least everyone would be grabbing their bags at the same time, effectively pipelining the operation. The only thing that doesn't surprise me is that people don't do the most efficient thing.

Yes this is fairly efficient (and the reverse is true of boarding airplanes), however it's wholly unrealistic to expect or require people to do this as there are a significant portion of travelers who sit in groups. You're not going to convince a parent to deplane before their children simply because they sat in the aisle seat.
Original author of Turbo Pascal, chief architect of Delphi, lead architect of C#, creator of TypeScript. Does anyone else in language design have as many accolades as this or designed languages on which trillions of dollars of commerce depend?
> A disturbance of the field at a point only affects the value of the field in the immediate spacetime surroundings, just like a water wave.

Ok, I see that's local (though not mechanical, as you say).

I think a magnetic field (as from a magnet, not a wave) is not local though? So, the transmissiin of modulation is "local", but the field itself is "at a distance"?
Is a multi-million dollar fine enough to matter?

Let’s assume Apple violated their privacy policy and was fined $999 million, the highest “multi-million dollar” fine they could be assessed. That’s just barely more than 1% of their market cap.

Fines are definitely incentive to do right but the fine must be felt. I’m not aware of any cases where the tech giants have been levied a fine that really hits them hard.
The theory goes that if you show symptoms consistent of polio the doctors say “have you been vaccinated?” If you haven’t then they say “must be polio” and if you have they say “well it can’t be polio, must be something else.”
I had a former student who wanted to work on Wymysorys.
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I am not aware of Readdle doing anything bad or having a bad reputation. How is it bad for privacy, just asking because I’m a regular user and would switch if it’s not good for privacy.
The iPhone 5s is the first one with a great secure enclave, and it was planned out a lot longer than 4 years ago.
I’ve used the freely hosted online spreadsheet from Framasoft. It’s somewhat primitive for today, but gets the job done! It will remain one of my goto solutions to use where I need more privacy.
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As a 31 year old, I have no idea. I run several meetups & it helps with some things, but you get to a point where your group becomes insulated. You only meet new, fresh people when you do different things. There's also a difference between making friends for the sake of making friends & solid, meaningful relationships like stated here.
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