skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IPFS is not a storage platform - or if so, it's a temporary, short-term storage platform whose purpose it is to cache and deliver content - especially highly-requested content - to users. It can't be a long-term storage platform because there's no way to ensure that other people will store your content long-term!
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It's around 15 miles but up a windy mountain. More like a 40 minute drive.
Maybe they were under the impression that he could have left an explosive device in or around the facility - going by the above comments - and closing the facility for that time was required until they were 100% sure that no device existed?

One explanation I suppose.
Wow, it seemed straight forward for the first 10 minutes or so, when he introduced the biggest challenge: gyroscopic motion due to the high speed rotation. this is a gripping video.
So the question is, after the incredible track record for fraud by Wall Street businesses like them, why do major companies and investors still trust them?
(Shrug) I'm sure both countries are more than up to the technical challenge of synthesizing small quantities of pretty much anything in a research laboratory. But why would either country have sent people to the UK to assassinate the Skripals and pin it on Russians? What's the motive?

Are the Swiss in on it, too? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-russia/russian-agen...
Amazingly cool. If he can find some lighter batteries with the same output it would make a huge improvement in stability I am assuming.
Hey, thanks for the data point. I'm actually fairly interested in Flutter, but I have no interest at all in Dart since I find it severely lacking compared to modern, more popular production languages for mobile development such as TypeScript or Kotlin (which have features such as algebraic data types which have become an absolute must-have for me and my team), to the point it completely deters me from adopting it.

Is there any chance that the Flutter core could get bindings to another language in the future? Regardless, thank you for your work on Flutter; if not Flutter, at least it has paved the way for demonstrating a "native-imitation" makes a lot of sense with regards to developer productivity and performance, something that sorely needed more buy-in from the mobile community.
Harsh but fair. I've been doing java for about 25 years and consider myself an expert in that language. I know absolutely nobody that does desktop applications in Java these days (swing or javafx) at this point and that has been true for well over a decade. I get approached by recruiters for lots of shit I would never do but Java desktop aint one of those things. The last time I did anything swing related must have been 15 years ago and it was a questionable choice then already. The only popular swing applications I know of are developer tools like intellij. I've never encountered anything javafx in the wild.
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There really isn't an alternative for what Flutter does, which is high quality cross platform apps that don't require separate UI code. Xamarin has Forms, but the UX is not nearly at the level of what you get from Flutter, and it would require some serious rework of how they render their widgets for that to change. Other solutions like Qt are just lagging behind, as much as I wish that weren't the case. Ultimately I think Google has the ability to make Flutter the primary platform for developing mobile apps in the future, if they emphasize it as the preferred way of making new Android apps and especially if they make it relatively easy to integrate Flutter into existing native apps. If it were possible to easily drop one screen into an iOS and Android app with Flutter, this would start getting immediate adoption because of how much time and money it can save. Ultimately that matters a lot more than "Google baggage" that only a small fraction of developers really care about.
Sure, that is a familiar explanation of the utility of trade from Econ 101. But it does involve simplifying assumptions.

What you're leaving out, is that "voluntary" transactions have effects on third parties who do not consent, and also true consent of those directly involved requires that they accurately and equally understand the consequences of their actions, which is often not true in real life.

I feel like there is a third issue that I have difficulty articulating, relating to the fact that people are bound to round small probabilities to zero, which means that there is an economy of scale to exploitative behavior.
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> It's just quite hard to verify that they answer you have is a sufficiently correct one.

Why? It seems to me that estimating the confidence of a prediction by the quality of measurements is not an infrequent machine learning task. It'd be more complex for a driving algorithm than calculating the confidence interval of a linear regression, but it's in the same theme.
It's amazing to see a paper referring to Solomonoff on HN. It does seem that if ever there was a time for his work it is now.

I find his writing obscure, and in person I could almost never understand anything he said. He really never fit in with the world of symbolic AI (called GOFAI these days).
Yeah. Seems very disingenuous for Ben to claim Michelle went to jail for this practice when it was her own personal tax evasion that she was punished for.
I guess the Internet Archive could just throw everything it has into IPFS and pin it. It's not much better than the current situation (in which the Archive is the backup for all those old academic sites and forum threads that have rotted away) but on IPFS instead.
Utility is an non-measurable unit with no connection to anything real that economics textbooks use to help people conceptualize basic theory. Capital creation versus rent seeking are concepts grounded in reality with real consequences. Creating money does not necessitate capital creation or increased well being. I suggest reading about the broken window fallacy to understand why you are wrong.
If you approach debugging in a very minimalist way,

you should never use a debugger

because it only serves to complicate things

using the I/O subsystem to debug your program

is a far more efficient way to debug.

If you do things this way,

you orthogonalize the optimization side of your compiler

from the mess created by trying to assist the debugging process

via the rather complex and intrusive (from the compiler's perspective) component called the debugger
I wonder why Warren Buffet doesn't do this? Maybe his income is too low?
Yes, these numbers (GH stars, SO questions, etc.) don't seem to tell much.

A few months ago I read that React is way ahead of and still growing much faster than Vue, but people nevertheless hype it based on its GH stars.
I’d just inform them that your rates are going up on such and such a date. I’d also be ready to find another job (as you should always be if you’re contracting).
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They are hardly the only group guilty of that, Americans did it last year in the German election, and there isn't evidence that this is an example of Russian propaganda.
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I should have added that it only applies to some companies.

Finance is a special case because if a lot of traders leave at the same time, the ones who stay will have more capital to play with.

Consulting/contracting/auditing firms are very different: they are committed to specific projects for specific clients and have already negotiated the fees. So it's real trouble if employees leave all at once--you cannot simply move their projects/clients to the employees who stay (because it creates even more overworked employees who will leave asap after the next bonus).

Also these projects may be much shorter than a year, some audit works are done within one-two weeks. If the firm negotiated a 2 weeks project for $XX fees and the employees on that project manage to finish the project for far less resources, the firm knows that they made a huge profit on that project. The firm may give these employees an instant bonus so that the employees are incentivised to reiterate the performance for the next project.
I think Jaron's argument is that there was a choice to either "take payment for internet services" or "have them free and market". The later won out and now its not just marketing it manipulating to keep engagement so they can market more.

that's my takeaway of Jaron's points in his Tavis Smiley interview. (The transcript seems to not be there anymore)

part 1
https://wgby.org/episode/57812
part 2
https://wgby.org/episode/57813

edit:payback has the transcript (click to show)

https://web.archive.org/web/20180206043916/http://www.pbs.or...

https://web.archive.org/web/20180214180024/http://www.pbs.or...
In the future I have a feeling that's the sound you hear before death is approaching in a battlefield. Much the same way as the sound of jets overhead or the squeal of dive bombers in WW2 or the whistling of artillery in WW1.
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>> I show that the suggested justification of Occam's razor does not work, and I argue that the relevant notion of simplicity as compressibility is problematic itself

This is just sad.
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I was expecting some sort of dynamic feedback system based on a gyro sensor, but apparently the compensation is just hard-coded? I'm amazed that can work.
Print the name of concert-goer on the ticket. Require photo ID at the entrance to the venue.

No resales, get a refund from the ticket seller if you can't go.
Intrinsic value has a very specific meaning in the options world (different from the everyday meaning you are referring to): https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/intrinsicvalue.asp
The counterpoint is that the "bonus" amount seems larger when given as a single payment, and doubly so since most people only budget against their paycheck. Add in the end of year holiday season and it's very effective.
The great development experience is largely tied into Dart and it's toolchain, not to mention all of the underlying Dart code in the project. However, you can get the same kind of control flow out of Dart albeit with a little less static checking (https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/33079) so from a pragmatic standpoint this really shouldn't be something that's holding you back. The cost of not having ADTs is much lower than the cost of maintaining two separate iOS and Android apps (or even dealing with the downsides of other cross platform approaches IMO).
Honestly wearing a helmet is about one of the highest ROI and lowest effort things to do. It's absolutely the smart move to wear a helmet.

The statistics tell the story, and your brain is the number 1 thing you should worry about protecting. Just look at the long term impacts that even light concussions have in a sport like Football. You can seriously screw your life up in something like a scooter accident when you go down hard head-first onto concrete.
> On the other hand, that's a completely unacceptable excuse to bar women from something.

So what do you do? Force him to do something he doesn't want? As far as I'm aware, his choice isn't illegal and he's free to choose it and face the social repercussions. It's clear he'd rather take the heat from people complaining about that choice than to deal with the internet trolls and the rumors they start.
As a woman living in the Third World I will never take the "issue" of women and gaming seriously.
It seems to me that, with the exception of a rogue employee, all of those examples are at a greater risk of occurring with a small, independent provider. Google almost certainly has more security resources, more legal resources and political clout, and isn’t likely to be acquired any time soon.

I can’t say I love having Google track me, but I don’t feel any better about someone else doing it either.
I connected quite a bit earlier, mostly Usenet and BBS’, and when EFnet came along a lot of that. People like to talk about Eternal September and other depredations of communities, but the truth is that while things functioned more smoothly earlier on, it was always a bunch of people and people more or less act like warring groups of primates. If someone had come back from the future and only told us about the extent of the internet in this time, I think that a lot of people could have extrapolates the shit-show of today from what we’d experienced back then.

The only semi-surprise was the move to mobile devices opening the internet up to people who are almost too stupid to live. Not just tribal, not just willing to fight for their version of reality, but dumb as rocks. There used to at least be a filter (which steadily widened) of needing to know how to use a computer and get online. That is just gone now, and we’re in the true agora.

It is not fun, and all of which is to say it is as you say, a sociology problem. BJT it exists in this form because of powerful and ubiquitous technology. It’s also true that the underlying sociological problem has been ruthlessly capitalized on by people who realized we warring primates could be readily exploited for attention and therefore, revenue. It was always going to be messy, but instead of people trying to fight against then current, some of the richest, most powerful and brightest people are actively trying to sweep people away for money.
At one point there wasn't an alternative to Angular either, look what we have now. Not only that, there's still native. Which means anyone can easily hold out that is on the fence for who knows what comes in the future.

Principles matter at some level, which is why many businesses abandoned Godaddy a few years back. But also there's simple budget considerations. Google has cost us tons of money over the years adjusting to their services. Now we don't have to anymore, and it's a relief.

If I am forced to spend money I'd rather spend it on something competition than to bolstering a belligerent monopoly and also support a system that will still be around, or at the very least, give two craps about our situation.

Maybe you are too young to remember the bad old days with Microsoft was the mean kid on the block. Google is getting worse than Microsoft ever was. And that is really bad.

(edit:React confusion)
(earlier non electric)
I've thought about this, and wondered if I should just show my W-2 if asked about my current salary in a negotiation. It doesn't differentiate between salary and bonus. I would have no problem stating outright that I don't care how they pay me, so long as it's a hard offer and adds up to the right amount.
I'm not too familiar with Fabric, but that sounds like it would count, because it was a technology that external developers were building on that got shut down without a clear migration path.
That means the price of a cryptocurrency should be tightly correlated to the hashes per second. I believe that is not the case, but I've only looked at bitcoin.
It’s not Ninja’s job to fix the immaturity of children. Nor is it reasonable to expect that he could even if he wanted to. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to tame hundreds of children in your chat? Let alone hundreds of thousands.

It’s totally fair that Ninja wants to limit his family’s exposure to that toxic environment.

It’s no secret that women are subjected to excessive abuse in gaming communities (especially streaming to children/young teens.) But they stream by choice and expose themselves to that by choice. Ninja can choose to not expose himself to that, and that’s not “completely unacceptable.”
I still don't understand why git became so popular in comparison to Mercurial. Mercurial seems like a much more friendly and sane system. I hope adding it to Gitlab will help its popularity.
I'm fine with s/Trump administration/deep state; the question stands.
Working from the 10K end-host number in the paper with a radix of 43 and 722 total router nodes, it’s the case that a given switch connects ~15 end-hosts. Fifteen downlinks to 43 uplinks seems pretty wasteful in its own right.

The numbers you cite are closer to realistic: a modified Clos fabric consisting of a four-way spine of 8-slot chassis with 36 100G blades connecting a full complement of 288 leaves, each with 4x100G up and 40x10G down (no oversubscription, at least nominally) leaves us with 11.5K hosts connected by a total of 292 switches. Even if the modular switches are 10X the cost of the ToR this is still markedly cheaper than 700+ ToR’s (and this doesn’t include actual power/cooling costs and the opportunity cost of space lost).

This also doesn’t include cabling/transceiver cost differences: 722 * 43 * 2 (62K) vs 288 * 4 * 2 (2.3K). That’s literally an order of magnitude difference.

Even if the design were approached using single-speed connections (ex: 48x10G up divided over 16 spines, 48x10G down locally) there’s still a pretty compelling numerical advantage to Clos: ~210 96x10G ToR’s and 16 16-slot chassis for 10K hosts is 226 devices and ~20K transceivers. If we assume the spines cost 10X the leaves then 370X is still almost half of 722X.
Interesting. Is there a practical reason limiting its' adoption?
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Fabric had it coming. Twitter sold it because they no longer wanted to focus on it.

When Google bought it, it felt a lot like buying the market. What Fabric tools are you going to miss, which Firebase does not have/support?

It doesn't make sense for Google to maintain two platforms that do the same thing indefinitely.

Twitter didn't have viable alternatives. They could have sold it to someone else, but who?

- Apple? Forget about Android support
- Facebook? Not interested, they killed Parse
- Google? Made sense, because the value of Fabric was the number of devs using it.

Fabric Crash Analytics was a strong product, why not bring in the team that developed it to gradually bring its features into Firebase?

Fabric is not a good example; it wasn't "abandoned" as developers were given alternatives. It also works better for us developers, because now I don't have to bundle a Fabric SDK and a Firebase SDK.

Lastly, given that Twitter is shutting down access to third-parties to their API, the value of Fabric's integration with Twitter might have dwindled for some people.
You're spot on here. As I understand, the Russian state was quite surprised at the capabilities of Western detection science. It was certainly not common knowledge that low-concentration alpha emitters (still plenty poisonous) could be detected in blood, nor that the assassins could be tracked all the way back to Russia just from their limited exposure.
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My knowledge about this is largely from Jonathan Glover's excellent/depressing Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century.

I thought 'harming civilians' is the fairly recent development. Battles usually always used to be between two armies on a field, away from cities. At the beginning of WWII, bombing cities was not even considered by the Allies; by the end, they were doing it themselves, justified by the Germans V2s bombing cities in Britain. The Germans justified that by saying the WWI British blockade of Germany was aimed at starving the people and killed many more. In the Nuremberg trials, the standard was "stuff they did that we didn't", but that standard had been slipping constantly during the century, as that book makes plain.

Perhaps most frightening was the description of the 'decision' to drop the atomic bombs on Japan, which wasn't even a decision, but a series of misunderstandings between a few different groups. No-one made a decision.
guess i’m just not familiar with it. and i feel like i’m in the target age group for his book. “paddy wagon” is from long long ago ...
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Yes, I recall hearing this reputation shielding explained on Freakonomics:

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/live-event-ticket-market-scr...
If there’s one thing that gets my goat it’s overly aggressive poets. The media really need to pay attention to this widespread problem. Once in Detroit a 15-line sonnet almost got me into fisticuffs with the so-called poet. Let’s just say I grew up in the mean streets of Anaheim and she didn’t stand a chance.
>just read all 109 pages of legaleze!
No. The source code is shipped to a system integrator based in China, vetted by both parties and under strict NDA, who then edit the code with required changes, compile and ship the binary to government users.

MS have, for a long time, allowed major customers to audit Windows source code on site but they are still forbidden from making copies. The whole setup is meant to avoid shipping source code directly.
I feel that many regular people have given up the notion of actively tweeting their own content. The friends I follow on Twitter don't tweet very often nowadays, and when they do it's often in response to a tweet made by an account with a large following. I mostly stay on Twitter to keep up to date with news from certain groups and organizations (for example, YC). To me, at least, it doesn't really feel like "Facebook with short posts only" anymore, but more "place where you can read and comment on casual thoughts and updates from your favorite celebs and companies".
How is this legal? Don't they need to register was a political action campaign? What the hell? They must at a minimum describe and disclose their methods, procedures, determination factors, cash flow/conflicts of interest and some kind of transparent audit log. Who determines "fake news" -- a subjective term. The whole premise is that they don't believe people can determine that for themselve and must be "managed". What a travesty of our democracy. Big tech big brother.
How do you know the postgres implementation is naive? I've worked on several analytics platforms...including offshoots of google analytics within Google itself, and this problem domain is ridiculously easy to shard on natural partitions. And after sharding, you can start to do roll-ups, which Google Analytics does internally.

By 2014 when I left, we had a few petabytes of analytics data for a very small but high traffic set of customers. Could we query all of that at once within a reasonable online SLA? No. We partitioned and sharded the data easily and only queried the partitions we needed.

If I were to do this now and didn't need near real-time (what is real-time?) I'd use sqlite. Otherwise I'ld use trickle-n-flip on postgres or mysql. There are literally 10+ year-old books[1] on this wrt RDBMS.

And yes, even with 2000 clients reaching billions of requests per day, only the top few stressed the system. The rest is long tail.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Data-Warehousing-Handbook-Rob-Mattiso...
> To play devil's advocate, why should people continue to be compensated for work they did long ago?

We often don't know which songs are worth millions and which are worth tens until years later.

If we believe that people who write songs should be compensated roughly proportionally to how valuable their songs are, it is hard to think of a way to actually do that which does not involve compensation long after the song is written.
I assume you mean metrics for how much something has been downloaded from a node you own, right? If so, you can monitor "ipfs log tail" for which blocks have been downloaded and by whom. You can also monitor how much content a specific peer has asked from you and such.
I've never thought of retroactively applying gender pronouns. The binary trans people I know don't judge what they used to be call. For a gender fluid person, they is the safe bet. The New Yorker article mentions one such person in such a way
Parent is correct, Bohmian mechanics violates (1), but we already knew this. Bohmian mehanics allows for systems in quantum non-equilibrium, which is a unique concept to Bohmian mehanics. Unfortunately we don't know how to create such a state to test for it.