skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the contrary, we've come to rely on extremely intermittent enforcement, because both the "total enforcement" and "no enforcement" outcomes are bad.
Why tie one program's update cycle to the update cycle of the entire OS? It would unnecessarily slow down updates to Edge.

This is the opposite strategy that Microsoft adopted with .NET Core, where everything is being moved to smaller, individual packages so they can be updated on their own schedule instead of being tied to the overall framework version.
And that would make me very happy.
But cryptofascists will put you on a blocktrain.
It runs awful on my work computer, but fine on home computer.
In summary: “You can’t have it all. If you want to be fair in one way, you might necessarily be unfair in another definition that also sounds reasonable.”
The "years for a human" implies a different context than rapid individual results.
It's quite a good filter, they can get user feedback with less risk of negative reviews.
Sometimes the key thing is to make a choice, any choice is better than paralysis. This is often the case for military action during war for example, which is why it's usual for countries to have an executive military leadership which makes decisions immediately and is answerable to a ponderous legislature only after the fact. Most large organisations will face at least a few decisions in this category.

A corporate entity should have someone who has authority to do so, is willing to make those decisions, and accepts responsibility for their consequences even when bad. In principle this is the CEO role.

But much more often the right choice is essential, paralysis is better than the wrong choice, at least for a while, so we can afford to dither while we get the choice right. Of course if you're sure you're right this is frustrating - why wait for others to see your POV. But I have very little trust in anybody who hasn't noticed that they're often wrong. Such a person is inevitably short-sighted and their judgement untrustworthy, whereas those who know they're sometimes wrong should be patient to find out if this is one of those times.

Knowing whether you're facing a "any choice is better than no choice" situation is much easier than knowing the right answer, and I think "easier to ask forgiveness" is about people who take this approach when they know that permission is an option and choose not to take it. We should try to make permission easier, and forgiveness harder to avoid rewarding this undesirable behaviour.

Finally though sometimes choice is an illusion. It is not worth anybody's effort to give or deny permission for the inevitable, and we shouldn't praise the "decision" to accede to it. Recognising that something is inevitable and thus not subject to choice is trickier, and you can waste a lot of time discussing whether to do A or B when everybody in the discussions knows actually C will happen and the choice won't matter. Learn to let it go.
Dkron.io – Distributed job scheduling system
Right! Math would be so much easier if PI was a round number so let’s get legislation to define it that way.
No. Take the example of the algorithm designed to tell whether people charged with a crime would commit another crime within two years:

> Comparing black and white defendants, the journalists found that a disproportionate number of black defendants were ‘false positives’: they were classified by COMPAS as high risk but subsequently not charged with another crime.

It goes on to note that there are other potential measures of bias, such as false negatives, and that external factors such as different arrest rates may bias the data. But it's clear that this issue is more complex than "researchers are trying to get the algorithms to be politically correct".
The GDPR hasn't been used to threaten any smaller players. Many small players got paranoid because the GDPR allowed for large financial penalties in severe cases and against major players; but that's not the same as proactively threatening small players.

The biggest problem with the GDPR is the FUD that surrounded it. How often is it that people are charged to the maximum effect of the law? Yet for some bizarre reason that's exactly what people thought would happen against every small operation once GDPR came into effect.
Does the UK queen pay taxes in the UK? I'm pretty sure the royal family was exempt at one point, but I haven't followed it for a long time. I think they actually receive funds from the tax payer.
One of the ways around this conundrum is to use a meta-search engine, Searx [1] being a good example. Not only does this do away with the search bias (by not keeping any search history to base that bias on as well as by mixing up all searches from all users to make it harder to profile those users by other means), it also shows results from other engines besides Google. You can run your own instance of Searx [2] or use one of the public instances [3].

[1] https://www.searx.me/

[2] https://github.com/asciimoo/searx

[3] https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances
Let me rephrase:
I believe that the EU overstepped what ought to have been their mandate when they went from industry regulation (ECSC, etc) to a super-governmental government.

> The Maastricht Treaty explicitly formed a supranational organization

Their is not entirely the case though. The EU is able to deliver some pretty severe penalties to member states not complying with EU mandates laws and regulations.
Proposed is the key word here. You should have a look at how it happens in other legislatures. Sometimes in the American system the initial text-writing is done entirely by lobbyists.
> The optimizing compiler did not generate ideal code for array destructuring. For example, swapping variables using [a, b] = [b, a] used to be twice as slow as const tmp = a; a = b; b = tmp. Once we unblocked escape analysis to eliminate all temporary allocation, array destructuring with a temporary array is as fast as a sequence of assignments.

I enjoy seeing updates like this to learn more about how the engine works, but: these changes are exactly the reason you _don't_ want to design your code around specific micro-optimizations, particularly when it comes to JS. They're at parity now and it is quite possible that 6 or 12 or 24 weeks from now, the cleaner destructuring approach will actually be faster than the tmp-var approach. Remember this the next time someone suggests in code review that you should design your code to meet the whims of the JS engine.
> That's what is being proposed

No it isn't. Just read the damn thing.

http://www.consilium.europa.eu/media/35373/st09134-en18.pdf
Dr. Doom or Mr. Realist? Nouriel Roubini Says Regulation Will Kill Bitcoin
Ready to be run in Docker, and they also have an OSS release[1] and I believe it is based on Airbnb Chronos[2]

[1] https://github.com/victorcoder/dkron

[2] https://mesos.github.io/chronos/
That's not what happening.

The current attacks on the Internet are sponsered by Axel Springer (largest newspaper buisness in Europe) and the result of massive lobbying. They even used openly pressure and the supporters in the EU are fed bullshit stories. There is a useless lex Google in Germany called Leistungsschutzrecht, the link-tax is the attempt to a weaponized version through the EU - sponsered by the CDU and conservative and right-wing politicans.

Their hope is to somehow rescue their broken revenue model and make everyone pay for their content.

Upload filters are likely the lobbying result of the content companies.
> Several of these differences mirror what Muotri has found studying neuronal development in the brains of children with autism. "I don't want families to conclude that I'm comparing autistic kids to Neanderthals, but it's an important observation," says Muotri, who has a stepson with autism. "In modern humans, these types of changes are linked to defects in brain development that are needed for socialization. If we believe that's one of our advantages over Neanderthals, it's relevant."
I dont think you will ever see the prices of unused cards drop that much in the future.
> or we enforce it consistently

Why do you think it isn't enforced consistently? The vast majority of copyright infringement isn't a criminal offence, but a civil matter, which means the rights-holders are the correct people to take action if they wish.
I’d consider being fired a poor outcome, so I’m not sure I’m getting your point. After a manager fires a “bad performer” to look good, what further consequences are they exposed to?
It doesn’t need to be unable to be precluded at compile-time to be UB. The expression “1 << -3” can be precluded at compile-time, yet it compiles just fine: instead it invokes UB.

Doing something at runtime is a different concept from having a runtime.

In any case, C, in fact, often does have a runtime. What do you think executes main()?
There are very few things that can utterly destroy my small business, even forgetting to file my HST was a minor fine.

GDPR is one of those things.
JuNest: Arch-based distro that runs on unprivileged hosts
What made you to switch, I'm curious? Passwords is by far most sensitive data ever, way above tracking. So for passwords I trust no service to store them. KeepassXC encrypts them with your master password that you type every time, and you can now sync that encrypted database safely using iCloud Drive or Dropbox or whatever.

I do store some non-critical passwords in Safari, it uses Keychain and Apple is pretty good on security. I would not store passwords in other browsers though.
These links might be of interest to contact MEPs about this issue:

https://changecopyright.org/en-US/
https://www.saveyourinternet.eu/
https://act.openmedia.org/savethelink-call
https://edri.org/next-steps-copyright-directive-article-13/
https://juliareda.eu/2018/06/not-giving-up/
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Perhaps people began seeing postmodernism's deconstruction of beauty, love, soul, and truth as too stark to endure.
I saw the use of “she” and appreciated what I saw as a conscious attempt at inclusion.

In fairness, I don’t think the parent comment is a criticism of GP, just a complaint about how women in tech are treated in general.
climate change has become an apocalyptic orthodox religion for secular pessimists, just like technology is an idealized utopia for materialistic optimists. this tends to happen when you build a world view on a single pillar and it starts sinking and tipping over, prophecies and pronouncements of certain doom or visions of heaven naturally follow.

the real issue is that modern education is not cross disciplinary so you have highly specialized people creeping into fields they don't understand and making basic errors of judgement based on pre-conceived ideas of what ought to be. you see this for example in the interplay between physics, mathematics, computer science and engineering. the physicist wants statistics over big data sets, the mathematician wants abstract tools and automatic proof theorems, the engineer wants practical numerical solutions and modelling and the computer scientist is fixated on throughput and efficiency of generative algorithms. is this even true? has anyone stopped and said, what are we actually doing? is there a bigger plan here, are we trying to work towards a common goal, or has the ladder we climbed been pulled away?

the relativistic revolution and subsequent collapse of the western world, the church, the state and the individual all dissolving into a jumbled mess of professional agitators applying some bayesian strategy of influence maximization is an unfortunate consequence of a change in world order, from west to east. being on the wrong side of the cyber curtain is a slow bleak dawn, with the intellectual and political elite always the last to realize the surrounding darkness.

globalization is an example of a desperate last gasp of a former dominant culture trying to exert control and influence over a world increasingly more alien and separate from it. the irony of course is in the conceit of the name itself. project the growth of asia and africa forwards for another half-century, then work backwards and try to understand the hysteria behind fossil fuel usage and the impact this will have on the balance of world power if 3+ billion new people become electrified and industrialized.
Yes that was true six months ago it is not any more.
A mid-level web developer where I live might make $50-55k a year.

US $100k a year salaries are not the norm world wide.
Interplanetary telemetry compression
No, really. https://help.netflix.com/en/node/55763
Very excited to see more improvements with V8. I am worried however about how good google chrome is and how it completely dominates in some markets. I hope that Firefox can continue to improve (Quamtum is great!) and stay relevant especially since Electron Apps are popular and it’s not certain that some day they won’t include Google telemetry.
The killer feature of tmux and screen is that it doesn’t kill your working processes when you lose your ssh connection or your terminal emulator crashes. If you (or your boss) is into peer programming, two people can attach a single tmux session instead of crowding around a single screen. The fact that you can crate terminal tiles and sub-windows is icing on the cake to being able to persist work across login sessions
(Continental) Europeans have always tended to put individual rights over the needs of business. GDPR falls into this mindset quite neatly and is thus reasonable.

This new copyright law though seems quite a departure. TBH a law that is practically speaking unenforceable is not a law. I'm surprised it has been allowed to get this far.
The description you gave is of a dysfunctional organization.

If it's expected that a rule is to be broken to get a task done, the risk of the backfiring will be borne by the rule breaker. If i am am employee, i will not risk breaking any rule that i have not gotten in writing from somebody higher up that they're OK'ing.

Or, i will have to be paid more for taking on the risk.
Wait, why is the metric we're using to judge legislation whether it's "against industry" and "for the people"? This sort of viewpoint will just reinforce American stereotypes that all of Europe is some French-style capitalist hating blob. Industry is people! GDPR hurts the most for small firms created and run by people who already spent years slaving away at large corporations and decided to strike out on their own, only to be squashed by huge compliance costs that Google can pay but they cannot.

Also, this whole "GDPR has good intentions therefore it's good" idea that is cropping up on this thread is very problematic. We don't judge laws by their intentions but by their outcomes.
Why does that guide have you delete all the preinstalled UWP apps and Windows Defender?

I naturally did the first steps in the setup process they suggested, and also did some work to get regular system search instead of Cortana, but deleting sticky notes seems excessive.
Take a Photo of Everything You Eat
Is it really a dumb comparison when it involves literal concentration camps?
I'm not sure how much IG Stories or Snapchat accounts you follow - but at least the ones I usually follow don't need any compatibility with traditional TVs. It's mostly people talking (portrait mode works well for...portraits) or showing something while holding their phone with one hand. Widescreen video isn't really necessary for that.
Skeptics in the committee could have stopped this if I counted correctly, but they rather use it as bait to create more skeptics than to implement their own policies.

While it could get ratified into law, at this point it seems out of character of the EU in general. It might have been intended as a shot across the bow towards search engines, and to get a bargaining chips for some other legislation or initive that also somehow includes the search engines.

But whether it's ratified or not, a lot of damage has already been done, as this is just too easily made into very plausible EU-skeptic newbites even though some of the skeptic representatives had a hand in it.

I'm not a particular fan of several aspects of EU, but when the alternatives looks mostly the same old tired nationalistic yearnings if they are thought out at all, I'll take the EU any day.
Cool idea but I noticed you stopped after week 43.

What caused you to 'break the chain'?

Was it getting a chore just to come up with technologies to explore?
Proposals are all too frequently written by unelected bureaucrats in any democracy. I don't like it much but at least elected officials do get the final say before it becomes enshrined into law. This is as true for the EU as it is for the UK and American law makings too. Not that I see that as a huge benefit because elected bureaucrats are often even less aware of the subject their making policy on than their unelected peers.

Plus while I'm obviously not going to defend the EU's copyright reform proposal (hopefully it will be rejected in July) the other governments I've listed haven't got a much better track record for copyright reform themselves.
> innovative and illegal

Why do IP laws apply to the internet, exactly?
Jumped to 950 MB, settled at ~800 MB. Deferred loading seems to do a lot, so I could imagine that different usage patterns make a big difference, but that would need a detailed look into how Firefox and Chrome manage memory for "stale" tabs. If I remember right Mozilla recently added improvements there, getting rid of their memory more aggressively?
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As an anecdote, when my team was moving to c++11 I decided to give a presentation on the important features, and when they should be used\avoided. I thought it would take a couple of hours to make a presentation, however it ended up taking me a fair bit longer because once I decided I wanted to tell other people about features, I felt I needed to know them inside out to be able to explain the inevitable questions.

What ended up happening was I gave my presentation and (I hope) the team learned a bunch, but I probably got the most out of it I think. I understand a lot of those concepts at a deeper level than I did before, and it's helped me a lot in my career.
What is not working? I have been using google flights to book trips for months without issues now. The only google services I've had some trouble with firefox are hangouts, and even that is fixed.
Not sure what you are quoting from (you seem to quote but it's not from the article listed).

It was changed in later updates, but as rolled out originally, it most definitely shared wifi networks unexpectedly in some configuration (perhpas only on upgrades, not on new installs, I don't remember the exact details -- but there was a wifi breach where I worked at the time in which wifisense turned out to be the culprit without anyone explicitly enabling it). See [0]. Microsoft is playing loose with your data, and has been for the past 5 years at the very least. You may not care, but I do, and your refusal to accept that is simple baffling.

[0] https://threatpost.com/microsoft-quietly-kills-controversial...
Can you point to the article of the proposed regulation that you're talking about please?
Do you work at Facebook?
> Sometimes in the American system the initial text-writing is done entirely by lobbyists

But many times it's not. Any Congressman or Senator can introduce legislature onto the floor of their house. The requirement that proposals originate in the Commission is problematic.

The Council, moreover, is analogous to a meeting of State Governors or Attorneys General. The only truly democratic arm of the EU is the Parliament. Its role at the end of the chain is problematic. (Contrast that with the analog in the American system, the House of Representatives, where appropriations bills are required to originate.)
Bernie Madoff might have some advice on this matter.
Diamonds are forever, but Nvidia GPUs are for 24 months.
> For some subset of the problems available ML works very well indeed, for others it may be a marginal improvement and in many cases ML is just dragged in to a project even though it has no place there

How to recognize which problems are well-suited for ML? Are there any rules of thumb for (relative) laymen already?
> Example: the boss in on board and we can’t sit here for several minutes running checklists;

If your boss does not notice that the aircraft stood idle for too short a time, and he doesn't fire you straight away, than the culture of safety did not permeate your company enough.
It worked extremely well for Mark Pilgrim.
> #1 Mandatory filtering of uploaded user content. This is to prevent possible copyright infringement. There are two things that will happen: the large companies will generate upload filter mechanism that won’t work perfectly so they will deny many uploads. Smaller companies won’t be able sustain an upload functionality. Thanks for killing innovation and supporting large monopolies

I find this actually quite good. Companies accepting "user uploaded content" are mostly entirely pointless, cost a lot of bandwidth and unnecessarily centralise yet another part of our lives. Anything which harms them will effectively be a net positive.

> #2 Link Tax: publishers want to be compensated if you link to their content. This is to prevent google and the like to profit from publishers content without “paying” for it. This is totally absurd. Again, two things will happen: large corporations will stop linking to publishers site (see how google Spain stopped their news offering) and second everybody posting links online publically will become an outlaw.

Note that it’s not a link tax but a tax to use snippets of the article. You’re quite fine linking to an article, but reproducing parts of it won’t be ok. Right now this is already a somewhat grey area and, again, it won’t exactly hurt anyone but the right people.

So, sure, this is some extra burden yadda yadda, but mostly it will just limit pointless business activities sucking up bandwidth.
Sometimes. Not all the time. As a way to avoid decision making paralysis in a public safety or military context I agree. In business we're not saving lives or taking them.
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This seems par for most courses.

Most often someone who already knows a bit about some language will explore a framework which they have no knowledge in.

Results vary...
I bring caffeine pills with me now when I travel so I don't have to go out for my daily coffee. But I enjoy brewing my own coffee at home.
I do back-end C#, mostly.

If you try and find tutorials or examples on something in C# I would say that 90% of it's pure garbage

Yet the bloggers of these pieces write in such a way that someone with little experience would look at it and think the blogger knows what he is doing. Often the code is so far removed from what would be deemed production ready that the trivial, and poorly implemented, example is absolutely worthless at best and at worst quite misleading.

I don't understand the ego of wanting to have a blog and talk about something you clearly aren't an expert in.