skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no. You’re assuming all systems have a sane way of integrating. You’re also assuming that whoever build this has knowledge of all moving parts and has thought through all edge cases.

When you put in the killswitch, is this for a step, for a workflow, for a subsystem, for the whole thing? It’s alluring to think that you have the option to stop everything, but do you really want to stop everything if there are thousands of things happening in the system?
Can a human think through what happens to what in this situation? If the builders of the system missed it, what are the odds that an operator will catch it?

For example: gas stations. They have a big red button that stops everything. If a pump if on fire it makes sense. If the trash can near the pump is full and you cannot throw your garbage away would anyone stop everything for the can to be emptied?
Perhaps. But do they really need to be daily? Maybe 2 or 3x a week.
You've said nothing wrong, and at the same time I'm not sure how that contradicts my point. A large trade deficit does indicate that one country's protectionism outweighs the other (i.e. larger tariffs result in a deficit).
Is Fuchsia an experimental project or does Google actually have commercial plans for it?
This is where networking comes in. Find people that have sold businesses, work with connected law firms, investors, etc. Also, people that run / work at mature incubators or bigger vc firms would be a good place to start. Now that I'm thinking about it, people on the BD / corp dev side of BigCos would probably know who good bankers are.
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Everything here, but with an important tweak to step 1: it's impossible to know what needs fixed until you've actually gone through the motions of trying things as they are today. It's easy to come in pushing all your 'best practice', but any of it could be a bad idea in any particular scenario, and it's impossible to know without context

I don't think I've introduced anything revolutionary in the last few places I've been (going back ~2 years+), and that's also a fine outcome. Often it turns out that causing disruption to something that works well enough is far more counterproductive than simply leaving things as they are. Save the churn for a big change that really provides an important benefit, otherwise it's not worth the time
Ought to be a train fare.
Yeah you just need to either find empty land to build said highrises, which doesn't exist, or force people out of their houses through eminent domain. Shocking that homeowners would vote against that.
The same folks voting for these laws have always hated poor people and immigrant families. In the DC suburbs where I grew up, there is tons of coded racist language around extended-family living situations (because hispanic immigrants disproportionately tend to have extended family living with them). They say “we want to preserve the character of the neighborhood” but what they mean is that they don’t like the idea of living near lower-income families who might try to afford to live in their neighborhood by having relatives share the expense. They don’t like apartments for the same reason: apartment complexes are one of the few ways in which lower-income people can afford to live in a wealthy school district. (In the snotty DC suburb where I grew up, people mocked folks who lived in the few apartment complexes in the area. Only after I grew up did I realize that these were perfectly nice, normal apartment complexes.)

There is nothing that brings out peoples’ racist character like housing and schools (check out city-data or the various forums for folks with kids in D.C.-area public schools).
There's plenty of non-EU news to link to.
Agreed, if the data are from a database table, it's likely that all the tables in the database were exposed. Depends on the method of intrusion, e.g. did they get access to a database backup, access to the live database, access to something a developer carelessly left unprotected in EC2, etc.

Also their statement "We have no reason to believe that any other MyHeritage systems were compromised" is a fancy way of saying "we have no idea what happened" and equivalent in my mind to "We have no reason to believe that any other MyHeritage systems were not compromised.
I can believe it. Spot instances have been such a great deal for hardcore model training on AWS.
The logic in that case isn't really that twisted. One single guy growing more than allowed for personal use won't move the market but if the court ruled in his favor anyone would be able to do the same which would reduce the demand for wheat. If the government has the authority to regulate price controls at the national level control of all supply is kind of required.
Literally just listened to his podcast he did with Freakonomics Radio yesterday. Definitely a great mind.

For all of you developers/operations folks out there, I recommend reading his book The Checklist Manifesto. Every team can learn so much from that book about their everyday practices. We read it at our company book club, and began taking checklists and documentation much more seriously which I attribute too much better productivity, operations and less siloed dev.
Do you have a source for that? I recall reading it was about as addictive as nicotine which I'm sure gets well over 10% of smokers addicted.
It's ambiguous, I read it as the hashes being different for each customer out of a mistaken assumption that no two customers have the same password. A salt isn't really a "key" for a hash function, because it isn't going to tell you by itself what the original unhashed value is, and neither will it by itself give you the final hash.
The queue up button does nothing on my phone. iPhone x, 11.4 in Safari
Such Great Choice! Atul Gawande is the definition of integrity. On this basis alone I would subscribe as a individual or company co-founder. Bravo!
this title could be improved, at first glance it seems to imply he will be CEO of Amazon AND some healthcare company from Berkshire. that's not the case.
I like it! But for me ssh already provides a simple and secure way to move files from one place or another..

tar -cf - ./files.txt ./orDir/ | ssh host "(cd /dest/dir; tar -xf -)"

Given that ssh it so ubiquitous I think this will always be my go to.
> I think this has to do with the psychology of disgust sensitivity. Conservatives tend to have stronger senses of disgust than liberals and especially libertarians

Hague is no other than a former Conservative Party leader.

The Norwegian government is led by a Conservative Party, too - and they're in the process of decriminalizing illicit drug use.
I can thoroughly recommend reading Atul Gawande's "Checklist Manifesto". The premise, on the face of it, is mundane, but the stories that back up the claims are thoroughly enjoyable to read. http://atulgawande.com/book/the-checklist-manifesto/
The "old news publishers" employ actual journalists. They should not be allowed to die off.
Mixed emotions here - on the one hand - its not an accounting firm and they are very clear that it wasn't done in accordance with Generally Accepted Auditing Standards and so that gives the firm FSS a cop out should anything go wrong.
On the other hand - a reputed firm has staked its reputation to do this - and being wrong would destroy their credibility.
The 120Hz display on my iPad Pro gives me the same feeling, and I don't use it for anything important.

Using my iPhone immediately after makes the phone display feel cheap for a bit.
From my understanding of how SWIFT works, USA should have logs of every transaction to/from these accounts. Should be pretty straightforward to calculate final balance, assuming that account info is known. Unless someone was just shipping containers of cash. I wonder if there is a way to get answer from USA authorities regarding that.
"Privileged & Confidential"

Heh.

Anyway, follow https://twitter.com/Bitfinexed for some more happiness arount them.
This is the kind of healthcare CEO most health tech startups should have -- someone who lives and breathes the system, intimately knows it's flaws but still has the vision and desire to change it. That is the rare and valuable skill in healthcare -- even more rare than engineering or operations skill

Rushika Fernandopulle, the healthcare CEO I most admire, fits this profile
What I haven't heard mentioned yet is, that for the big companies like Google and Facebook, there won't actually be much change in regards to upload filters, because they already do this. The DMCA has led to quite a similar problem for them, so that for example youtube provides big license holders with backend to decide themselves which videos to block for reasons of copyright infringement. So in the end, they wont even have to do anything, they already have the infrastructure in place to overblock and have indeed done so for many years.

But at the same time, where this becomes really disastrous is smaller communities, where admins and moderators have no chance of checking every post themselves for violations and neither the technological means to do it automatically.

In Germany at least, this was from time to time reason for lawsuits but until now, the consensus of the courts was, that it is enough for the admin to remove the offending content after he was made aware of it. This changes now of course, which makes it practically impossible to offer these kind of services if you are not a big company with huge resources. I know Forums and the like are not as far spread as they once were, but this will make it practically impossible to create these kind of communities.
The Supreme Court case that you're speaking of set no precedent that a business can refuse service due to gender or sexual orientation.

They ruled that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission violated the Free Exercise clause of the first amendment by not properly respecting Jack Phillips' religious beliefs during their hearings on the matter.

That's why everyone was saying that it was a "narrow" ruling - they did not rule on the "wide" question, which was about businesses discriminating based on sexual orientation.

The ruling can be read here [1]. It's pretty short and easy to read, if you want to know more about the case.

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-111_j4el.pdf
Looks useful! It'd be great if I can see which stage of investment the investor focuses on though
Silicon Valley homeowners are telling that to their neighbours. That's not surprising! They benefit from the externalities created by Facebook's high salaries.
You can have a ridiculously care-free existence too if you take out loans for the yearly income of the 1% for a couple years.

Except these people voluntarily spend what is essentially their free time working to improve skills and the economy of the country
The government doesn’t take land by eminent domain to build high rises. (At least, not in Cupertino.) What these folks re voting for is laws to restrict what property owners can build on the land they own.
Bitfinex would never! They are totally legit and have a healthy but separate relation to Tether, in no way shape or form colluding with each other.
So they have a larger operating single account than a lot of countries have for revenue.

If they were a country, they'd be #140, with just one account. #133 for their total according to the report.

I find it very hard to believe that a company that has that amount, would be anywhere close to US borders, since... there has been no audit of any sort, by anyone; including governments.
having the source code be open doesn't necessarily make it trustable, but it definitely has an added benefit. like op says, proprietary code is untrustable by design.

there is also the fact that I cannot take the code and compile it myself, proprietary solutions like the nvidia linux driver for example have given me headaches so many times, it would be nice if there was some form of entry to the code to at least get a vague idea of what the code is supposed to be doing. I basically have to pray for software to do what I want, when it doesn't the whole solution due to it's closedness/unadaptivity becomes useless to me.
It's incorrect to blame Facebook for the rising rents. The landlords' greed must be blamed.
Nice backpedaling.
San Francisco and surrounding areas are sort of isolated geographically right? If rents become so high won't that essentially drive lower income people completely out of the area?

Maybe over time they move away and then how would lower income jobs be filled? Will wage hikes be necessary, which would then likely drive costs up?
This style of post is everywhere. It is really "short" Vs. "long" term thinking.

Let's say they followed through with your ideas/criticism: They allow unlimited multi-story flats to get built, the area is now full of the things. Population density will increase further, but major infrastructure won't, so now you need bigger roads, more roads, maybe a subway, smog goes through the roof, activity areas (e.g. parks, recreation) disappears into building or more roads, and now suddenly Cupertino is downtown LA at rush hour and nobody wants to live there.

Or Cupertino can say "no" keep the atmosphere that has made it successful, including its medium density housing, keep population down, keep room for activities, keep road congestion at its current levels, and only have room for a small handful of large companies instead of infinite amounts.

Spinning this as "they just hate poor people" is definitely a great way of distracting from the core issues though.
Sure, but most of it isn't particularly interesting for EU readers. The vast majority isn't even in their own language.
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First of all, we've had people actually praise the app, second, no one deserves a Porsche. Except Bohr maybe :)
Or you offer sufficiently high prices for their land that they opt to sell? The problem is that people vote to make it illegal to build multi-family homes, no matter how high the price.
Only temporarily. A lot of publishers would be happy to increase their current market share to cover EU content. At least for English, French and Spanish, I could easily see some foreign media boosting their traffic.
The whole point of the ticket is that it's unclear and ambiguous throughout their website. Also, the OSS version doesn't even have a different name. It's still just "VSCode". Compare this to Chromium which has a related-but-distinct name and related-but-distinct icon.

The point I was trying to make is that I myself am immersed in the target community for this software, yet the messaging was not clear to me. I use React, I've worked with Electron, Atom is my go-to editor. I am VSCode's target user, and I did not remotely get the message. That suggests their messaging was either really bad, or intentionally misleading.
We just said we'd ban you if you ranted like this again, and you did it again, so we've banned you.
No I mean, Tether, as a company, has two bank accounts, and in just two plain-jane bank accounts, has 2 billion USD. The FDIC limit is 250k.

Tomorrow if there is a crises, Tether goes from a 2 billion dollar company to a 500k company.

No company would do that. They would either spread across as many banks as possible to stretch out FDIC as much as they can, or they would keep their cash invested in some kind of relatively stable asset.
Yes, but it would also work if ICE just killed them on arrival.
"so we are actually paying about 5ns/op for defer"

Yeah, it's in the class of "things you should know about when optimizing tight loops", but not "things you should always be worrying about"; remember 5ns is on the order of a branch mispredict or an L2 cache miss [1]. If you haven't already squeezed out all the main memory accesses you can from your algorithm at 100ns a pop, or if you're in code dealing with networks (routinely micro seconds, even within datacenters; milli seconds if you have to leave), or files, or anything else like that, micro-optimizing defers is not going to have any visible results to your speed but can very badly damage your code's correctness and ease of writing and modifying.

The other thing to know about defers is that they are not declarations, they are instructions; every time the program counter moves past one, another defer call is added to the stack of calls to make while exiting the function. So you do have to be careful about deferring in a loop, not so much because it's "dangerous" but just because it's easy to be unaware that the defers are not declarations. If you intend to do it, it's fine, it can just bite you if you do it accidentally.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832
I just got the new Oculus Go and it is a game changer. Cheap, made for mass consumption and impressive as hell. I thought it would be another cardboard but no, it’s the revolution we were all waiting for. I’m writing a blogpost about my first game of Catan online, playing a board game with two strangers from different place in the world. It was insane, an experience I’ve never had before.
> SOFTWARE OR SORCE CODE

you have a typo in your copyright.
I wish we had a Sketchpad-style CAD interface on the reMarkable tablet. It could be the 'real' dynabook.
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Or you allow property owners to replace their existing buildings with bigger ones?

It also seems odd that in a city where Apple could buy a massive plot of land for their HQ somewhat recently there's no free space left?
I think the process would include having the team become aware of the situation and improving their editor configuration to stop littering whitespace everywhere. Otherwise I agree, that seems like a waste of time to do in isolation.

I'd probably address it more completely if so many files are going to be touched, and whitespace is only one symptom of bad formatting connections. Perhaps everyone should employ the same formatter on save, for example. There is far more value in that. Getting rid of only superfluous whitespace is a bit of a time sink for what you get in return (as much as it drives me nuts).
This is (imo) a terrible failing in our political thinking.

We narrate our stories using abstractions & personifications, mixing symbolic and regular language. What we end up is more poetry than anything. It sounds good when it expresses our feelings. This is (to quote Monty python) no basis for a system of government (or thought).

What/who's intention was it, that you mention above? Are we talking about actual individuals collaborating knowingly to achieve these goals or is this a "nation weeps" sort of abstraction. What, in less poetic terms does "the real goal" really mean?

How does this explain drug policies in Japan or Azerbaijan?

I mean, I definitely agree that Machiavellian dynamics were involved. Electoral feedback loops. Racism. All these played a role.

But.. when someone insists about the "real reason" without demystifying the abstractions... I think we've left the realm or rational discussion. We're in religion territory.
> Population density will increase further, but major infrastructure won't, so now you need bigger roads, maybe a subway, smog goes through the roof

Los Angeles is a case study in urban transportation failure. The sprawl encouraged by Silicon Valley's low-density preference is more of a contributor to the region's traffic and pollution problems.

> Or Cupertino can say "no" keep the atmosphere that has made it successful

To be clear, I'm not saying Cupertino should say "yes". Just that the natural consequence of "no" is higher housing prices and people being relocated as a function of income. (Also, the area becoming less attractive to startups vis-à-vis large companies.)
How did racial bias in enforcement cause violent crime rates to skyrocket starting in the 1960s when the drug war was initiated in the 1980s?
I am sure such concerns can be hedged with a fee decent enough. Decent enough to pay some scapegoat or other, should push come to shove.
Thanks for bringing this up! The name of the CEO didn't ring any bells for me until your comment. I've read the book and loved it; I second the recommendation.
Accuracy is key, here. I came into my current job with some pretty awful tests in place that “passed” and showed good coverage but did absolutely nothing for actually hitting the necessary cases...
I actually started this this with 1 comment genuinely asking how people could possibly endorse illegal immigration. No one actually expressed any defensible position, and they still haven’t. When people reply, I need to respond to those comments.

And what I said stands. I rarely comment here anymore. I have as much right to be here as you do.
I once wrote a thesis on DMCA and Youtube during that huge Viacom vs Youtube litigation was going on. The copyright holders wanted to shift more of the burden of detecting and blocking copyright breach onto the web services by removing the DMCA safe harbor. Youtube ultimately won the case but they also implemented much of what Viacom wanted anyway - a fairly aggressive content filter that probably caught most of what Viacom wanted. However, the automated systems also prevented the posting of much fair use content since it can't really make the nuanced judgement call between blatant copying and fair uses. If Viacom had won that case, Youtube would have been forced to be much more restrictive in their automated filtering. Other video platforms would either have had to invest in the filtering tech or go out of business.
The Coase theorem says that where there are two rational negotiating parties, the laws governing property rights don't really matter. The parties will generally negotiate their way to an optimal outcome. What does matter is the impact of those laws on the transaction costs. The transaction costs are higher for smaller parties and for parties where there is no significant financial interests at stake.

Thus in evaluating these new laws, it's not really Google or big European news that we need to consider - rather we should ask how small news aggregators, independent bloggers, small news outlets, and individual readers going to react to this. Are small content creators going to go through the trouble of negotiating payment schemes with each and every news aggregator and vice versa?

All laws that increase transaction costs will concentrate more market power in larger firms that have the scale to deal with the additional costs and undermine smaller players who do not. Lawmakers focus too much on the Google and the like. Google can look after itself.
How fascinating! I'll have to keep that in mind too if and when I get that deep.
The coal and steel union was set up to prevent another WW2 as it's main purpose. And I think that part is still important since when you trade you don't fight.. Usually :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Coal_and_Steel_Commun...
> On the other hand, you never, ever actually performed in that role, with the new responsibilities.

For what it's worth - that's not necessarily true. Several places I have worked gave promotions in retrospect - after you have been performing the additional responsibilities for a while. It's sort of like a 'dry run' - they want to make sure you can do it before officially thrusting it on you.