skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We couldn't operate their business and continue collecting data from their customers, while continuing to meet our own high standards as a global company."

My hunch as an outsider is that Smyte wasn't GDPR compliant. Their leadership knew it, they knew they couldn't easily become so (for instance, they may have been using Kafka in a way where compaction wouldn't help, and didn't want to build an encryption-based monstrosity [0]), realized that they wouldn't increase in value as a business due to that risk, took an acquihire for cheap in order to give their employees a decent landing and give a return to their investors, and couldn't tell anyone about these plans in advance because it might jeopardize the transaction.

EDIT: They were indeed using Kafka per [1], and due to the strict latency requirements on their business, that may have ruled out the type of encryption scheme in [0].

[0] https://danlebrero.com/2018/04/11/kafka-gdpr-event-sourcing/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ByXQfIq5uU
If I build a business that is 100% automated and requires no employees and is wildly profitable, is it immoral of me to not hire people I don't need?
On the flip side asset deals also let acquisitions proceed that would otherwise be blocked due to uncertainty about liability, which is another way of saying that the acquirer can't properly assess value of the investment. I have been through this process and have some experience with the type of issues that can arise--in our case they had nothing to do with screwing customers. It's possible Smyte would have just disappeared anyway.

Moreover recovering damages in this kind of case is time-consuming, doubtful, and too late to fix anything. (Like closing the door after the horse is gone.)

What's left is reputation--the names of the founders of Smyte are listed at https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/smyte. I would have some pretty hard questions if they ever showed up in a deal or looking for work.

p.s., According to the Techcrunch page "Smyte stops bad actors on marketplaces and social networks." You can't make this stuff up.
I had the same opinion about symbols until I learned some APL. It taught me that symbols can be so useful as they are in math.

It is true that non-math people, hardware guys, or graphic designers may not be able to understand a complex equation and think it is just some kind of hieroglyph, but the right notation can help to make things more clear. Anyway, it is very likely that, for example, a graphic designer would not be able to understand the Maxwell equations even if we wrote "rotational of the electric field" instead of using symbols.

I am not claiming that symbols are always the best solution, but I think they have their place and there is usually a sweet spot for the problem at hand. I'd suggest you to try to keep an open mind.

All this said, there are many (way too many) terrible examples.
When doing business, you have to look after yourself. In this case you could have been follwing what the co-founder was doing, and you should have brought up that you don't consider it fair.

Things are simpler when there is some simple measure of "fairness", such as salary. With equity it is always more complex, since equity also relates to the risk position, is hard to assign value to, etc.
I watched as a Lack of emoji support took down a critical production database for over 100 non-profit organizations in 2015 and made ripples across the charitable giving sector.

All because someone included a smiley emoji while making a donation to a local community foundation. Lessons were learned because of poor planning admittedly but if you don't take emoji support seriously it's probably because you haven't suffered through a critical outage from poorly supporting character encodings.

We aren't a chat company. We don't even write email clients. We process transsctions. And we lost millions because of a single emoji.
> Which crypto should I buy?

RSA and AES are good choices, but you shouldn't have to buy and implementation, as there are several good open source ones available for free.

> How do you spot a crypto scam?

One important clue: is the crypto algorithm being kept secret? Good cypto should rely on the key for security, if the algorithm is not available for inspection, it's likely weak.

There's a saying: "never roll your own crypto." Creating cypto is very hard, so unless you have the relevant skill and expertise, what you make will likely have fatal flaws.
"Creating a tight association between the government, the media, and corporate interests is too last century"

This is how it has been throughout history. Why do you think this is different now?
1 the road was NOT poorly lit

2 self-driving software recognized obstacle just fine, but was programmed to DO NOTHING
My experience matches the parent's. Of a good 70 classmates the only two who went back had trouble finding work here. I suspect your business school experience might differ from an engineering department. A substantial personality difference wouldn't surprise me.
When I was 13 I wrote a C program that wrote random data to a file. I had the idea to try executing these files. Most of them did nothing, but I remember that one did end up causing the printer to print out pages of gibberish.

Years later I found myself wondering how that even worked in the first place. Surely the chance of generating a valid executable was basically zero. Now I know why.

I wish I had kept that executable, it would've been interesting to disassemble it.
(And rustfix for the “go fix” equivalent.)
The article is very relevant, it's using "reactions" instead of a full "me too" comment or email.

Slack just happens to express reactions using emoji.
We're just outside the 495, our lot is just under 5 acres. There's a acre minimum zoning requirement in some areas, but most lots in our area are larger.
I think it's asserting specifically that the management of Twitter has had the privilege of not having to deal with discrimination and harassment.
>What's the down low on IRCv3?

Well, it is, but it's slow. IRCCloud and KiwiIRC both use it, and IRC.com will support it as well. There are some exciting new plans surrounding encrypted voice and video on the Kiwi side, for example.

>doesn't really solve the problems that Discord solves

What specifically? Hard to address that one without more granular discussion points.

>it also doesn't feel like we're making progress towards it

It could be argued that IRC.com is going to be a major step toward more rapid progress, between the foundation funding development, and the likelihood that it will be an enormous network that's V3 compatible.
Reworking Payments in the US
Exact divisors are not what they are cracked up to be. By and large most divisions will wind up falling on an inexact division. One neat property of a prime base is that detecting exact divisions is easy: Just count trailing zeros in your result. E.g:. Ob110010 / 0b101 == 0b1010 which has the expected number of zeros at the end. You can't count on this in decimals, e.g. 50 / 25 == 2.
> The only difference in whether data is creepy or not lies in the answer to a single question

Not at all.

> Did you willingly provide it AND REMEMBER?

People have inherent expectations and soft historical memories. The idea that consent is some boundary line is a dystopian legal mechanic, which is specifically at odds with the psychology of humans. Agreeing to something doesn't affect if it's "creepy" (a psychological defense mechanism).
I’m not too surprised by the relatively strong showing of 128GB memory. I’ve worked with scientific datasets where the primary constraint was always memory. So we would always be chasing motherboards with the most memory support, and with such a machine around why not have it as your desktop :-)
I suspect that the people wanting "an urban zone", want one without all the drawbacks.

Once you include the drawbacks that can not be removed, you will find they are living exactly where they want to live.

The kind of analysis in this report is one of those "lying with statistics" things, because I don't think it's measuring what the authors think it's measuring.
What was the offer?
Kiwi IRC developer here that was sponsored and hired by LTM back in November, so I can give you a first hand account of how things are playing out.

Andrew is very passionate about IRC as you can see from the post. Most people developing IRC projects do it in their spare time which makes progressing them difficult. This was my personal position back in November. Since I was hired, I have been able to work on Kiwi IRC, introduce many new features and grow the project, all while the project is still open source. The biggest part - Andrew/LTM does not own kiwiirc. That is purely a separate project that he wanted to grow and he did so without taking ownership of it.

I have always been pushing for open sourcing projects - especially in the IRC community as it needs projects to flourish to compete with alternative and closed sourced messaging systems. I am now starting irc.com with funding from Andrew and London Trust Media with the exact same mindset. Hopefully we can combine and push IRC standards with the existing IRC community - that is, existing IRC server and client developers that may not have anything to do with irc.com.

For the IRC networks such as freenode, they are a vital network for open source developers and communities which I think we can all agree would be very upsetting if that was to be interrupted. London Trust Media has had no interference with the running of the network and does not plan to, other than providing sponsor support to keep the servers running.
So does this Supreme Court ruling mean that when the Oakland Police and FBI used a Stingray to locate an attempted murder suspect without a warrant their actions were illegal? We must hold the FBI accountable for their violation of the 4th Amendment.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/fbi-didnt-need-w...
For folks who didn't read the article, the real problem is that methane is much more efficient a greenhouse gas at trapping heat compared to CO2: by some estimates, 86 TIMES more potent.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-bad-of-a-gree...
Every time the "same" item is sold by many vendors or has many look-a-like, I approach with caution. And that goes for maybe fake brand or obviously cheap product. It is a every growing pain to shop on Amazon because so many things fall in one of these two category.
Yes, except the type argument appears in parameter position, which is typically contravariant.
MP Clive Efford Intervenes in Landlady and Council Drama
Prosecute the messenger; leave the criminal conspiracy untouched.
You can find a working version at

https://web.archive.org/web/20170629073046/https://www.quake...

The argument is that there's no way to move the whole IRC ecosystem to use TLS (including with enforcement of certificate checks on the client side) and so the security benefits will be radically degraded by patchwork adoption, because if even one channel participant accepts a MITM attack, all channel participants' communications will be exposed.

This seems correct to me, but I still don't find it to be an argument against TLS on IRC, just an argument that security indications perhaps shouldn't be presented to users to confirm that their communications are secure since they do depend on behaviors of remote clients that the local user's client can't confirm easily. After all, suppose you're in a channel with only 3 or 4 people and all of them are enforcing certificate checks. Then you have gotten lucky and received a tangible security improvement. Likewise for direct messages with one other user. But indeed, in the common case of a large heterogeneous IRC channel, probably there will most often be no security gain in practice against a powerful network adversary.

(And it's also a benefit for a user who's individually concerned about a nearby network adversary more than about pervasive monitoring.)
I count in 3's because that's how I was taught to count newspapers when I was a paper boy. I didn't really question it but you're quite right that it's just as easy to see 3 items as 2, and it's faster. You just have to get used to the sequence but that's much easier than remembering all the multiples of 3. Our brains are great at remembering the next item in a sequence even if we can't randomly access them very well.
Shouldn't the correct title be "New methane leak estimate dwarfs government estimates"

From the article...

"They then extrapolated the figures to estimate methane leaks at the national level."
Nothing quite as fun as piping a postscript to a printer in you college Unix lab and watching garbage being spewed out. Meanwhile due to misconfigured permissions, you cannot cancel the job. So you quietly shut of the printer and walk out of the lab.
I don't care what you're 'leaning' towards or what you can do without, this is about what's good for the nation.

This kind of legislation is not pertinent to the average citizen and this whole debate is being conducted in an environment of hysteria around the cambridge analytica episode which is being fueled by political opportunism.
I've heard that Twitch implements some of IRCv3 (or at least uses that format for some of their custom message attributes); however my impression the last time I gave just a glance at IRCv3 was more of a cautionary learning example.

My biggest issue with the protocol is that if I want to develop for an advanced data interchange protocol there shouldn't be any optional extras. Everything should be in the spec and required of real clients. (I can, however, envision a protocol in which 'relay servers' exist that don't need to fully understand a message to pass it's content.)
That's a counterexample to the article, not the person you are replying to, right?

In fact that's such a strong counterexample to the article you can basically discount it entirely.

> will not build denser properties because they’re riskier.

Or because people don't want them. What's riskier about them?
SAAS (Software as a Service) Platform Architecture
TLDR -: Knowing self is valuable info but like everything - in moderation.

Good viewpoint but this article does the same thing as Esalen did - look inside and find your worth to extreme...of course every thing has a dark side and so the Esalen approach led to failure is because of self....

As I see, there are two ways to look at this.
1. We are all in a actors/actress in this play called life and there are always going to be good moments and bad moments. So human potential movement has its dark/bad side and there's that.
2. Secondly, I have been on a journey inwards so this is my perspective. It's valuable to look inside and find the authentic you..though the way our human society functions, we tend to follow/do what other people tell their image of us...so it's valuable to see one's authentic self. When I say authentic self, to me it means that one is able to find something worth doing that is also paying their bills...
Not saying we shouldn't pay attention when some estimates are wrong, but perhaps it's not the best idea to take an alarmist's attitude: https://motls.blogspot.com/2018/06/hansens-testimony-30th-an...
I just did a cursory search, and houston has mandatory parking minimums. Those are one of the most sprawl policies you can find.

It also mandates setbacks from the street, wide roads, and long blocks.

Overall Houston does a lot of stuff right! But, I think they have still baked sprawl into their system.

From what I can see, my dense Montreal neighbourbood would be illegal in Houston. (It's illegal almost everywhere in North America, of course)

https://marketurbanism.com/2016/09/19/how-houston-regulates-...
> China isn't going full-bore on a market economy and democratic system... the Chinese in such a configuration would be absolutely un-stoppable

This is ideology. For growth, it is the outcome that matters. Democracies can make terrible decisions (Brexit) and authoritarian regimes can make great ones. In particular, government investment is a primary driver of economic growth, and China has a fabulous track record of five year plans for transportation, manufacturing, energy, technology, etc. Note that government investment represents state allocation of capital as an alternative to markets. On other aspects such as rent seeking or productivity, it is also unclear whether democracies would be better.

On the micro scale, I agree that markets are needed for efficient allocation and on this scale China is completely capitalist. It has private property rights and free markets. On issues such as consumer protections, China's markets are more free than those in the West.
Thanks for the pointer. It seems oriented towards a team or company, but I think it could easily serve as a "better OneTab". And at that, it's better at pretty much everything except that you have to sign up for it as a service rather than storing it locally.
> The current US government approach to immigrants, legal or otherwise, would seem designed to convince immigrants to go elsewhere.

I'm curious where you live and wether or not you can actually, personally, witness the effects of legal immigration there. In SoCal, where I've spent the last decade+, what you're saying rings completely hollow, to me. I have seen literal tour buses of mainland Chinese folks touring new developments, inside of my own new development, in fact, as recently as this spring. If what you're saying were true, why aren't these folks getting the message? That they're touring these homes this way is a discussion for another day. But, as far as I can tell, the only morale panic happening about legal immigration to the United States is happening with American citizens.

> I think China will be fine given that it can simply shut down exports to the US if T​r​u​m​p's tariff pettiness starts to sting. Where, precisely, do you think your phones and computers are manufactured?

What does that have to do with anything?
Let IRC die. Shit protocol, horrible usability.
It really depends on who was negotiating, whose paper was used to write the contract, and how much each side wanted the deal. Legacy enterprises like Disney often force vendors to use the legacy company's paper, which case substantial protections would be written in or the deal would not happen.

Self-service web services on the other hand generally come with take-it-or-leave-it conditions of use. When's the last time you redlined Github terms of use when starting a project? ;)
We have a lot of different execution environments (compiled to JS with debug compiler, compiled to JS with optimizing compiler, JIT VM, AoT VM, bytecode interpreter, Android, iOS, etc.) so that makes it a little more complex.

We do have allocation tracking in some of those, but that doesn't always get you as much as you'd expect. Discovering that, say, "oh, this list was deserialized by the JSON API" still means it could have come from dozens of different regions of the program.
yep, despite Zuckerberg's attempt to turn a social network(s) into an online stalking tool for your unrequited lover.
That's pretty tone-deaf. No matter what the guys qualities are that name is toxic.
Also much more on methane in particular:
https://motls.blogspot.com/search?q=methane
I believe the article has failed to realize that "self-reporting" evidence is weaker than actions, not stronger. If you listen to the Freakonomics podcast for any length of time, you would realize that the weakest, most likely to not really be true, form of evidence is self-reporting. When self-reporting/answering surveys, people commonly give the answer they are "expected" to give. The actions then reveal their real preferences, which can differ substantially.

With a topic as sensitive as urban density, where city planners have been bombarding us with the "right-answer" of high-density living for decades, I would expect people to over-report preferring high-density living, especially on a survey conducted by someone trying to prove their case that people prefer high-density housing.
I found this to be really interesting and appealing (as did, probably, most people on this site), but I can't look past how incredibly subjective and biased it is. No actual data is cited anywhere; the only subject expert even mentioned is Malthus. Therefore as much sense as it makes from my own anecdotal perspective, I'm hesitant to take it seriously.
Fake* Kanji! Some of them had me questioning my knowledge.
Frey is a Swiss chocolate brand.
>For some reason that period of tremendous growth barely helped millennials.

I don't think it's just us, though it probably disproportionately is. What wealth small and medium towns had has moved to cities, you just won't have a good job unless you move to the city.

Something about it all seems so sinister. Not everyone can be an engineer or a doctor. If society is to function people need to be able to live a reasonable life just being mildly productive.
it's better _for slack_ than nothing.

having that feature, as poorly-implemented as it is [0], ticks a box for some orgs that will keep them using slack instead of investigating other chat setups.

[0] to slack's credit, threads are (very) slowly getting (a little bit) better. My list of a dozen or so things that I hate about threads got one of the issues fixed sometime in the last few months.
A lot of people and news articles focus a lot on the fact that Uber disabled the built-in auto-braking features of the Volvo but don't seem to understand that 2 braking systems does not make a vehicle twice as safe in fact it can do just the opposite and can account for a lot of oddity in your self-driving code. Not to mention I don't expect Uber to use Volvo's with this exact auto-braking system (and version) for forever so it makes sense for them to disable it.
Why convince? People use IRC because they want to. There is no need to appeal to the masses.
I don't see anywhere to login really.
I don't know which material library you are using, but literally the exact opposite of that is spelled out explicitly in the material design documents.

Actions shouldn't wait on animations ever.
DL4J contributor here. I spoke with our team so the differences in performance are likely explained by array ordering. ND4J, for good reason, requires F ordering because of limitations in cuBLAS. While I haven't had the opportunity to closely examine the Neanderthal comparison (I'm also not a clojure user), the likely explanation is that there's an implicit ordering impacting this.

Deeplearning4j is written around F ordering and ND4J supports this. Admittedly, our ordering API is not obvious to the average user.

Here's an example test you can run yourself that demonstrates ordering: https://gist.github.com/raver119/92b615704ca1bf169aa23a6a6e7...

o.n.i.TensorFlowImportTest - Orders: CCC; Time: 11532 ns;
o.n.i.TensorFlowImportTest - Orders: CCF; Time: 2101 ns;
o.n.i.TensorFlowImportTest - Orders: CFC; Time: 10202 ns;
o.n.i.TensorFlowImportTest - Orders: CFF; Time: 1960 ns;
o.n.i.TensorFlowImportTest - Orders: FCC; Time: 10744 ns;
o.n.i.TensorFlowImportTest - Orders: FCF; Time: 1717 ns;
o.n.i.TensorFlowImportTest - Orders: FFC; Time: 10097 ns;
o.n.i.TensorFlowImportTest - Orders: FFF; Time: 1716 ns;

We also profiled the above test and confirmed that F -> C ordering adds significant overhead. I can share screenshots if anyone is interested.
Oddly enough...

The only farrier I know isn't a blacksmith. Actually I don't remember what her full time job is.

And the only person I've ever known who did custom ironwork was a software tester.

Go figure!
My point was that we shouldn't point the finger at Smyte because that lets the blame drop on the floor when the "Smyte" brand evaporates.

Twitter owns this now and the way to ensure it's their reputation that is affected over the long term is by correctly calling this a "Twitter" failure.
Mathematically speaking, base 1 doesn't make any sense. Using 1 as a radix yields something incoherent. But I think you mean simply making a mark for every unit (like how most people count inventory) which is definitely more fundamental in a different way.