skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a big blank spot in the complaint, which tells me they broke or got around the encryption somehow. If it was in cleartext they would have said so because it would have added to their case.
And Linux Journal.
Thanks! I'll look into let-rec, I've never heard of it before :)

Everything in my language is an expression, so I guess you could say every literal in the language is first-class.

I was thinking for i/o, I could use promises. The promise would resolve to whatever type makes sense for that resource- defined either by a library or by the program.

Of course, that brings up "arbitrary operations at runtime". My target after transpiling is JavaScript, which has a wonderful JIT compiler already. I need to learn source mapping and stuff so I can make error-tracing work nicely, as it's simply not possible to catch any possible error at compile-time.
Only for Google to spam-hole anything sally sends...
We've shipped something simple and non-mission-critical in production (URL rewriting for ad placements).

It has been pretty much set-and-forget. Last anyone had to even look at it was almost 3 years ago, and afaik it's still working (our ad sales team would be complaining loudly if it weren't).

For something peripheral like that, it's nice not to have to run servers for it or devote any energy to keeping it running.

In terms of both server costs and upkeep costs, the economics have been highly favorable.

I'm not sure I'd use it yet for something mission-critical or that shipped changes frequently. My recollection is that when we did have to adjust it, debugging was a bear. Tho tooling for that may have improved in the last 30 months.
Are you implying that discord, slack, et al have a better privacy model?
Aka a bouncer?
Thanks. I’m sorry too. I really hope the next generation is better.

My biggest worry is that they will “fix” the keyboard problem by extending the touchbar to the entire keyboard area and renaming it the “Touch Board”.
Sorry you had the bad experience, but do you think this is the average experience someone has with Apple products?

I also agree that you have to put in a decent effort to get things fixed, but you have to compare Apple to what the experience is like with other companies. I've definitely had situations that were very difficult to deal with over the phone, and situations where I had to send my laptop in for weeks in order for it to get fixed. What is the current standard for non-Apple computers, as far as getting things repaired?

(FWIW, I am also considering linux on lenovo)
Mach-O Tricks [pdf]
People have a dislike for Mark not because he took risks but because he didn't let other people solve the problems they clearly had, which is dangerous. The reason there are so many conspiracy theories about him is because he's made the line between stupid and malicious near impossible to differentiate.
Furthermore, the difficulties it mentions are pretty much universal across languages.
Sometimes 2nd chances involve starting at the bottom and bilding up.

This is skeevy.
Usability is a big and important consideration in creating beginners.

Slack has been excellent at introducing irc inspired, and irc borrowed concepts of bots, channels, aliases to the masses.

Oddly slack had a pretty painful sign up in the beginning to keep people on different subdomains.

I'm not sure if today's modern standards are going to look much better looking back in 5 years.

Maybe the measure of old techs is how much they still dominate from what is transferable and endures, like the concept of IRC->Slack, email->messaging, and forums to social media.

There is a fair question to ask how many new things are novel, vs rebooted or reincarnated. Bittorrent maybe, blockchain for sure.
Automated Binary Analysis on iOS [pdf]
And logging and services that aren’t hacky god clients and user accounts as first class and...

IRC has had literal decades to be improved and only now do people get serious about it after Slack and friends sucked all the oxygen out of the room.

Older isn’t necessarily better either. IRC has stagnated hard, about the only thing it has on the competitors is that it’s free.
> It's worth reminding ourselves that the root comment was an absolutist assertion about the folly of outsourcing.

Even that strikes me as a mischaracterization, or, at best, taking just one statement out of context.

It was an assertion about the folly of relinquishing control, not being prepared for that lack of control, and thereby subsequently suffering a prod outage.
> I'd also put consciousness up there, because it's fundamentally distinct from measurable things.

No one knows that it is not measurable. Is love measurable? is hunger? happiness? they seem to be as measurable as consciousness, that is to say we can at least measure them in binary as either present or not.
The lack of familiarity with irc from slack only users seems to reveal an unfamiliarity with irc being a connected universe of many slack sites being on one network.
I don't think it's your kanji writing; I can't figure out what it's supposed to do. I'm assuming it's supposed to autocomplete my kanji, but it failed at that, for both 国, 本, and 三. I'm pretty confident I wrote them right, especially the last one :)

It seems to just write random kanji based on the last stroke or something. But, writing random kanji has a certain coolness factor. Especially if I could copy-paste a kanji and get it to write it for me so that I know what the stroke order is supposed to be.
> Bloomberg cited the original opinion but didn't link to it

I found it at

http://decisions.courts.state.ny.us/ad3/Decisions/2018/52523...

if you'd like to have a look; this includes both the opinion and the dissent.
It depends on whether the motivations for those overexertions were realizations or corruptions of that strategy.
Oh I read what letrec was, that is exactly the solution I was looking for! :)
It is like symbols once internalized like strings, could be used as a tool of thought.
Ethical Considerations of Working at a Military Defense Company
Yeah, but if you're less experienced, or if you're more devoted to your potential profit than to your customers, you might agree to the term, and then realize what you just said, leaving you with the (immature but perhaps "seemed reasonable") situation we see here - doing nothing until the acquisition is complete and then immediately abiding by the terms.
How do you know this? Does gitlab have telemetry in its base installation?
Creators of Star Control II are raising money for legal defense
Currently building a startup off of serverless tech. Hoping to have few enough API calls that it is actually cheaper this way.

I'll soon see if the back of the envelop calculations were correct. :)
Even if they are the only thing left, it doesn't mean you should have a high level of confidence in the conclusions you make based off of them. (In fact, you almost certainly shouldn't...)
I suspect you would have said the same thing two years ago.
If you want to watch helplessly as a word is ruined in real time, I recommend "iconic". I'm not even sure what it's supposed to mean any more: in informal speech it seems to be a synonym of "awesome", which by now has devolved into another word for "good".
Arguably, this is Rust.
What is the common pattern?
Third-party doctrine has been on borrowed time since at least Jones with Sotomayor's concurrence. Carpenter paves the way for moving the legal understanding of privacy beyond narrow property talk and the ill-suited third-party doctrine.
Irc created more new social connections than many networks that came after. Same goes for bbs. We need to find the next thing that truly connects people.
Hit or miss for me. It doesn't want to fill in anything if I draw the enclosure of "wind": 風. Also fails to find some of the simplest kanji; completions for just a stroke or two are quite complex. E.g. a simple downstroke suggests mouth 口, with just two more strokes, or 土 and whatnot, but .. 出てきてくれない. :) It is also stumped if I draw the first two strokes of 山; it wasn't trained on this character, to complete that middle stroke, and basically doesn't want to do anything else, either.

Some out-of-order inference would be cool. E.g. draw the bottom four dots (fire) of 煎, and have various top parts emerge. For that purpose, it would be good if there were a reference frame. That is to say: an underlying square box to serve as a target for the supplied input. If you draw something near the bottom of the empty box, then it's understood by the neural network to be a bottom part of the kanji requiring a top. I think the whole concept could really benefit from a precise agreement between the user and the neural net about the bounding box.
Lambda et al have some serious shortcoming and a lot more work needs to be put into these serverless platforms. The approach they're taking I don't think will last. It really needs a redesign/restructure.

I think serverless is the future... but not today.. in 5-10 years. That sounds like a long way off, but it's not.. it'll pass in no time. And maybe they'll improve it enough by then to make it viable.

I wouldn't build anything serious with it, unless you're ok rewriting it a few years from now.
I am. I'm trying to illustrate why that opinion of the court is not actually absurd or insane.

You might not like its implications, but there are other, worse, implications if merely speaking about a subject (e.g. a candidate) can be considered a form of corruption.
Cloudwatch logs have been a big game changer versus on-disk logs for us. Getting into larger clusters (and larger log files), figuring out what’s happening in log files became somewhat arduous. https://github.com/jorgebastida/awslogs for viewing / tailing / searching is a lot easier. It’s also fairly straightforward to get logs streamed through to ELK hosted within AWS, if you’re interested in that angle.
> Sure, it's possible to write shell scripts to do that. But why? Unless you're targeting a PDP11 or the Busybox-linked /bin/sh in your initramfs, is shell scripting really the best option?

It's still the best option when you want absolute portability and minimum dependency, like in an installation script. Another benefit of the shell is that for a random user of your script, they're more likely to know the shell language and be able to read the script, than if you used something like python, since they use it, at least basically, in their everyday use or administration of their system.
10 years if working for in public service or an approved non-profit agency and the amount forgiven is not counted as taxable income.

However, there is currently at least one lawsuit pending because the gov't is trying to talk its way out of providing the forgiveness. Essentially telling the group that they were mistakenly approved for the program.

Also people should read the program's fine print (in the FAQs). There is no guarantee that the program will remain or that the commitment will be honored.
I feel like we moved away from clever into this copy this exact way culture.
>America is not where opportunity is these days

Yes, but the living standards in the United States are far higher. Sure you may never become a billionaire here like you can in China, but you can breathe the air and the traffic isn't that bad. The schools are better, the houses are bigger. China may get there, but I know where I'd rather be over the next 20-30 years. And they can always move back.
That's a good thought. The only good reason to shut them down so abruptly is if they posed an existential threat to Twitter itself. The threat of GDPR fines or sanctions might have done it.
I didn't invent that question. It's a been a question that people have had for millenia.

Some people believe that one has a soul that exists before one is born in to a body. So in a way that's an answer to this question -- an answer that's been around for thousands of years. Clearly many people are concerned about it. I'm far from the only one, much less the first one.
I backed that project, and I really like the scissors I received. Terribly sad to hear about the all-too-human real-life difficulties with the firm.
The ACES study really backs up what you're talking about. Adults with high ACE scores (Adverse Childhood Experiences) have a much higher rate of multiple diseases than adults with low scores. https://acestoohigh.com/
To start, consider not thinking in terms of it being a "defense" company.

> If you were chosen to be on the Manhatten project and opted not to join, the bombs still would have been made. People still would have died. YOU are not integral to anything that happens afterward. If the government wants something, they will get it with or without you.

Oh wow, no one has ever heard / refuted that totally novel argument before!
That would, of course, be stupid.

But given the capability to know such information, you'd also know the names and email addresses of all passengers. So just send a report on the pilot to them all. From a thoroughly anonymized and proxied account. Including yourself as a recipient.
I really wish I could say the same. The face recognition almost always works but fails when I need or want it the most. I don’t mind if it fails in an elevator but while I’m half awake in bed it’s incredibly annoying. Anecdotal but I wish I had the fingerprint reader again.
I had a hand-me-down TRS 80 Model 100 rather than a C64. Got my first "IBM clone" PC in 1990 or 1991 IIRC. Totally missed out on the other 8bit micros, but I learned a hell of a lot with that Model 100. :)
Comcast:  Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems
I am confused :S

From your other post:
"In both Gluon and Haskell, functions without arguments can be represented as functions over the unit type:
f: () -> SomeType"

Isn't `f` a constant here too?, how is this different than getChar?
(I get I don't understand something here but not sure what)
Lot's of empty claims.

> some serious shortcoming and a lot more work needs to be put into these serverless platforms

Not actionable at all

> The approach they're taking I don't think will last

No reason given

> It really needs a redesign/restructure

Nothing here too

> And maybe they'll improve it enough by then to make it viable

What makes it (un)viable?
One man's stumbling block is another man's competency test.
tragedy of the commons.

If nobody felt prey to the gig economy boom, millenials aging would be opening new service jobs anyway.
The indictment says he used the username 'Josh'.
Okay, but it's not. Make source vs. sink explicit and it will be obvious because the method will be defined on source and not on sink.
It says a lot that you felt the need to hedge against the assumption that you were talking about religious beliefs. These days it seems like there’s a materialist mindset that assumes anyone who questions certain assumptions about consciousness (e.g. that it is a creation of the brain that begins and ends when the brain does) has ventured into the terrain of religion, the supernatural, or “magic” (whatever that’s supposed to mean). It doesn’t seem to occur to people that consciousness itself is completely inexplicable and therefore all bets are off regarding its true nature. These assumptions people have are based on faith (yes, faith) in a hypothetical explanation that has yet to materialize. Until scientists cross the Explanatory Gap (which is more like a chasm), nobody has the right to tell anyone that their speculation about consciousness is kooky or unscientific or whatever. The only thing that’s unscientific is letting one’s thought be constrained by rigid dogma regarding what is and isn’t possible.

I feel your pain (if I’m understanding you correctly, that is). It sucks to be trapped in a no-man’s-land between scientific dogma and religious dogma. We need a better way forward.
I think that's the author's point; the assertion here is that most people with "gaming disorder" probably "have" it as a symptom of one or more underlying disorders. Most people would - by a reasonable psychologist, at least - be diagnosed with those underlying conditions; the folks pushing for an official recognition of "gaming disorder" are not reasonable psychologists.
I would add Free will to it. Does it exist?
That's fair. I'm the founder of a company building a serverless platform. I didn't want to write specifics because it may reveal details about our approach.
> Faked so incredibly well that it will withstand expert analysis at trial? That they faked years of activity (down to the inode level of the filesystem) by this guy and didn't make a single mistake?

At this point, we don't know that it will. That's making the argument out to be stronger than it is.
Slack is not a successor to IRC because it's not a protocol. It's just another monolithic chat application.
gdpr where do I delete! my account
gdpr where do I delete!
In a decimal world it is convenient to count 2, 3, 2, 3, etc. [or for me what I’m saying to myself is more like, 2, 5, 2, 10, 2, 15, 2, 20, ...]

In base 12, it is convenient to count 4 groups of 3. This is definitely easier and more efficient than decimal counting.
You front production with an API gateway and version your APIs. You turn migrations into a business validation and testing process rather than a technical dependency; using the load balancer / gateway as the control lever.

In this way, serverless can actually be WAY better than traditional methods for dealing with frequent changes. You can have many valid endpoints, but only one “production” endpoint that changes based on business rules (or even split for A/B testing)
I recently read about Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme, created by Adi Shamir, one of the creators of RSA. I've been fascinated by its elegance and simplicity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing
This is why suggestions that women should hide their gender in online forums etc to avoid online drama are such BS. This woman could only give push back at all because she has a public reputation in her own name. If women have to hide their identities to avoid sexual harassment and other drama, they are denied this entirely. As this example shows, a public professional reputation has real value and real power.
One time in the 80s I took a date to a sushi place in Santa Monica. We ate, talked, had a nice time. When I went to pay, David Byrne was sitting right by the cash register. I'm sure he saw that I recognized him when we locked eyes very briefly, but I didn't bother him, just paid and left. (My date didn't recognize him -- so no second date.)

My theory is, why bother people just because they're famous? Unless they're looking for it, which is why I had a nice conversation with Moon Unit Zappa on Broadway in Seattle at the 76 station, where she was camped out promoting her movie The Spirit of '76.
If they are self-sustaining, why do they need handouts from the UK government? Especially in a time of austerity?
That's a horrible admin. Sure, you can stuff an admin full of cards and tiles and widgets like that one does, but it doesn't make it better!

Information density suffers, scannability goes out the door!
My canonical source is my eyes, having opened up all three types ;-)

But the sibling comment has pictures and is right about the ram.
>about the only thing it has on the competitors is that it’s free.

It's more than 'free'. It's an open standard. You can write a slack client in your favorite language and it will continue to work for years.

Slack does not compete with that.
Yes. Let me know if you want me to like actually expand on it (versus just wondering what FCF stood for)
I've heard this before and literally every time I hear it my mind is blown.

As a native English speaker, I cannot see any similar patterns between German in English when I happen across random conversations on a site like Reddit in German. But looking at romance languages, I can see more similarities.

Maybe it's because of my childhood environment in Texas, where most English speakers learn some basic Spanish by interacting with other people.

I would love to see a passage of German that can be intuitively reasoned about by an English speaker with no experience with German solely based on context and perhaps root words.

In all honesty I'd probably get confused though. :(
I wonder how this fits into the 21% of the total emissions... being 33% (fossil fuels) of the 64% (human induced sources)

https://whatsyourimpact.org/greenhouse-gases/methane-emissio...
The comparative effect between CO2 and methane varies as we vary the timeframe. One thing we do know - reducing methane will have an immediate impact, whereas reducing CO2 will have a lasting impact.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-018-0026-8
You could have read the entire sentence -- while there were some remnants of the pre-revolution education teaching in schools, there were Nobels. Once they had died out, and the new generation educated in Soviet schools by Soviet-educated teachers appeared, Nobels went away.

I guess you have never heard about genetics? It's generally considered to be a science. Except in USSR where for a long time it was officially termed a pseudo-science and a call-girl of imperialism.
When I first moved here 20+ years ago. Doing a summer trip on the highway and windshield and front grill of the car would be covered with insects. Now ... hardly anything. Whatever is killing off the bees, is a big problem. But we may have also irreversibly killed off many other insects. It's actually shocking to me, no one actually noticed the change.
I'm not sure you're basing your statements on anything but conjecture, but Cook has repeatedly stated the opposite:

https://www.fastcompany.com/40525409/why-apple-is-the-worlds...
Congressional candidate uses Tinder to attract potential voters
care to explain what those drawbacks are?
We have our backend processing for both https://doarama.com and https://ayvri.com done in lambda.

All of https://ayvri.com is built using serverless.

(we'll be migrating from doarama to ayvri in the coming weeks)

For our processing we handled 200k uploads in one hour on ayvri when we where building scenes for the Wings for Life event (the World's largest organized run).

When just relying on serverless triggering an event from s3, the cost was high due to the volume of scaling, time in spinning up new services, etc. etc. We built a queuing system which manages load and then spins-up new instances based on the load in the queue. This resulted in a much faster response, and SIGNIFICANT reduction in cost.

For the ayvri website, some pages are slow due to the lambda's not being warm, and I'm surprised users haven't complained. The important stuff is kept warm, and we're working on scaling that out for more responsiveness across the site.

As far as visibility into the app, I'm not going to pretend this is a solved problem. At the moment, we have most of the visibility we need via cloudwatch, and we have built some of our own analytics.

We had one instance where there was an issue between db connectivity which we were not able to resolve. We have put it down to a short networking issue between services. It lasted for 5 minutes one Sunday morning and then went away. So we had enough visibility into the service not being available, but failed in deeper understanding of where the problem was.

If you have further questions I can help with, feel free to reach out.

I will say, that I bought into serverless and went whole hog. I probably don't recommend that. We jump through some hoops we probably wouldn't need to if we had run our website via an ec2 instance and cloud-formation managing the scaling.

However, we have a few of our services which can come under high load quickly, and we don't need to scale up the entire site to serve those, such as our track processing. We believe Serverless was the correct decision for those processes.
For which ones? Like smartphones I can install any software I want on, or cars that do not actively try to kill me? Or we could just settle on a car that has build standard slightly higher than a used Yugo (although Tesla might need to stretch quite a bit to rise to Yugo quality level)?