skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, it's what I've been using in production all along and maybe the rise of docker will mean that fewer people are directly installing the JDK on their production machines. Still, I bet there will still be some unfortunate souls that run the Oracle JDK in production without knowing the rules have changed.
Far from it. When Java gets pattern matching, Scala will have moved to version 3.0 with trait parameters, union and intersection types, implicit functions, type lambdas, cleaner macros and many more.

Also, Scala compiler slowness is virtually not a problem any more since introduction of Zinc 1.0. During development, I get repeatedly compile times around 2-5 seconds on Scala 2.11, and recent Scala 2.12.x / 2.13.x showed to be typically 30%-100% faster than 2.11.x.
Decentralized? No, it's "IBM Food Trust". So how is this any better or different from hosting a database on IBM's server? Secured by a PoW? Doubt it.

Here's the closest I could find to technical info:

> IBM Food Trust's blockchain solution, on the other hand, is permissioned so invited members know exactly with whom they are transacting, similar to what happens between business partners today. Participants also determine what data is seen by whom, thereby providing information on a need-to-know basis. Smart contracts also run on our blockchain, allowing business logic to help solve disputes, automatically execute contracts, and build trust.
I think the whole concept of "final say" is both poorly defined and poorly thought out. Should people not be allowed to speak their mind? Should they not be free to do work (merit) in the direction of their choosing? It should be up to the project owners if the work should be included in their project or not, but "final say"? Pffft.
Anyone can trivially contribute with a false identity to most projects, so it makes no sense to try to "prevent Hitler from contributing".
I've been contracting for 8 years now. I'd recommend CWjobs / ContractRecruit and PurelyIT - just search and refine based on location / skills / required rate.
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The point is that the binary encoding is the same for ROR and MOV, and only the disassembly of the binary is special cased: if it has a shift, it's disassembled into the ROR text with the shift otherwise it is displayed as a MOV. RRX is a special case to ROR as ROR is to MOV.

The ARM Instruction Set PDF I'm looking at only lists MOV as a real instruction -- one with a distinct opcode -- out of the above three.
vfork() is even harder to use correctly than fork().

posix_spawn() is not a silver bullet either. Its API is cumbersome, it severly limits what you could do in the child process before exec(), and has no sane way to handle errors in the pre-exec() stage.

And AFACIS the glibc implementation of posix_spawn() doesn't even fix the memory duplication problem out of the box. It uses vfork() only if you use the non-standard POSIX_SPAWN_USEVFORK flag.
There is a difference, and in practice as in theory, it matters a lot. You can delete your data on your Google account - that gets rid of your data. Deleting that data after it was sold to 3rd parties is like trying to delete your drunk party picture from the internet. Sure, you can try to invoke GDPR, but that's going to be hard when the data was sold to some Chinese company that doesn't operate financially in Europe.
> It's ironic that users who click "remember my password" are 10x more likely to forget their password.

How is that ironic? People who can't remember their password would have the most reason to let an external apparatus save it for them.
Can't one solve the problem of tracking food contamination with a simple key value store that tracks supplier id and the food batch information? Whats the advantage of using blockchain here?
This establishes the "dictator for life" idiom without bothering with the figleaf of "benevolent".
Walmart requires lettuce, spinach suppliers to submit information to a database.
The real estate around Concord and Lincoln is quite expensive. And there is no "alone" there- Walden Pond is quite popular, all year 'round.
>if Hitler picked up coding, a code-of-merit based project wouldn't object to him contributing to it, while most of the code of conducts I've seen would not. So it really comes down to: where do we draw the line?

There's no need to draw the line. As long as Hitler writes good code and behaves well on project's mailing lists, issue trackers etc., I would have no problem with him being a project member.
Probably for the marketing.

The link to the actual description is behind a register wall, but there is a bunch of marketing gibberish at:

https://www.ibm.com/blockchain/solutions/food-trust

There's no proof of work or similar and participants can limit who has access to the data they contribute, so it basically is just a data sharing system run by a central party.
Perhaps GM can also use their super fancy studies to realise that having owned my car for 8 years I can recite the navigation system's safety notice from memory and don't need it to be displayed every single time I use it. I don't even use it for navigation most of the time, I just like it to display the name of the road I'm currently on or sometimes my current map position. Having a message pop up that I need to dismiss is so annoying.

It's a total clusterfuck of an UX.
> I'm cruious, who imposes that fine

The executive branch can ( via executive order, treasury sanctions, etc ) and of course congress can.

> and how do they enforce payment?

By threat of financial collapse.

> Can the US Government FORCE a French Bank to pay them a fine?

Yes and no. Are we going to invade france and force the bank to pay the fine? No. Could we threaten to place sanctions on the bank and exclude it from international financial system. Yes.

> Surely a French bank could just say "no thanks".

It can. But then it would immediately collapse. No international bank can survive a US sanction because the US runs the international finance system. There is reason why the swiss banking system submitted to US demands to turn over customer data a few years ago. Economic sanctions on switzerland would turn it into north korea or venezuela.

People mistakenly think that US sanctions means that the US won't do business with a certain country. US sanctions means that everyone doing business with the US can't do business with a certain country.

US sanctions essentially forces the world to choose between the US and country X. The US being the largest economy and the heart of the international financial system wins every time.

It's why there is so much drama with US sanctions on iran. It's not that we won't do business with iran. It's that everyone who wants a business relationship with the US can't do business with iran.
The usage of the word “blockchain” in a marketing puff piece.
I was going to write exactly what you just published. You can’t imagine how I identify with you.
Yeah, Hyperledger Fabric.

https://www.ibm.com/blockchain/solutions/food-trust#1225961
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Unnecessary rubbish. The article even mentions that larger growers already have a similar(one can assume non-blockchain) system in place. This is the product of excited executives listening to buzzwords and the always shameless IBM ready to play along.
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What was the application process like, so many years out of school? Did you need old transcripts? Recommendation letters from supervisors?
iPhone or Android does not matter. You need to disable microphone access to Instagram, Facebook and Facebook Messenger if you wish them to not listen to you.

Actually if you are on Android I'm pretty sure there is no way to disable google listening to you 24/7.
Sounds like another buzzword charged write-once database.
I was not thinking about self hosting at home.
Probably, but there's a difference between "US doing whatever it feels like whenever it feels like it" and "US acting in concert with the rest of the world".
To avoid reading advice on how to improve my career.

I've always made decisions without thinking how it will impact my career.
The way to use YouTube is as nothing more than a video hosting site, watching videos and managing playlists through other (offline) means. I wrote some shell scripts to do this years ago on my HTPC.

I'm not alone in this; others have made far more polished applications like https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube
That's a technique called splicing, specifically it refers to "splicing" two videos in the middle, in this case one with real input and one faked. It is surprisingly possible (and often easy) to detect splices based on minute details.

Splicing isn't always cheating, it can be used for other reasons.

I can't prove that he isn't, strictly speaking, but Kosmic is a highly respected runner and has the skills to make this record.
I think what blockchain refers to in this case is a database of transactions which can't be altered without participants noticing.
>Nightwish to Drake

We really are living in a dystopia now aren't we?
I have similar story: corporate experience in process design and implementation and moved to consulting with idea of using knowledge and connections. What I realized I have no way to sell to big business. And s.m.b. don't use erp, let alone bpmn. s.m.b are quite happy keeping notes in spreadsheets and smartphones. Most of the market for bpmn comes from regulation and certification e.g. ISO certification requires processes to be reproducible and documented (with appr. software) and the list goes on say if company goes public and all of that. No s.m.b has this requirement, so there's no marketing to them.
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The problem is that people don’t see a problem and go looking for solutions.

People see a technology and go looking for ways to apply it.

Sure, a blockchain can be used to solve this problem. But should it? Probably not. It’s hard to find technical information but it seems like the same could have been accomplished with an easier solution.
I know of the Super Meat Boy example (I've seen the Apollo Legend videos too). Was that run streamed live?
Can’t wait to have one of this for our weekly code reviews.
Chilling story, the key point to me as a programmer is:

>According to Petrov and other sources, the false alarm was eventually traced to the satellite, which picked up the sun's reflection off the tops of clouds and mistook it for a missile launch. The computer program that was supposed to filter out such information was rewritten.

Every programmer should read this as a reminder of how a software bug can have catastrophic consequences. And I know it's hard, as deadlines come closer, the time dedicated to find bugs drops accordingly.
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> Individual characteristics, including but not limited to, body, sex, sexual preference, race, language, religion, nationality, or political preferences are irrelevant in the scope of the project and will not be taken into account concerning your value or that of your contribution to the project.

This sounds good, but a clause like this can easily backfire. What happens if a high ranking member is (whether they know it or not) a bigot or sexist? Anytime someone tries to challenge them calling out their behavior, they're likely to point to this Code and say "stop making this about gender/race as that violates the code of merit". They can use the very rules meant to stop them as a weapon to silence those who would criticize.

The document presumes good intentions by all those participating. Good intentions don't work- mechanisms do. I see no mechanisms here.
The whole point of Scala are its advanced features like implicits, higher kinds and macros, and not just syntactic sugar like in Kotlin. Therefore you won't appreciate Scala by just shortly playing with it.

Also in 2018 interop issues or missing tooling problems are long gone.
IBM is quietly brushing its Watson mess under the carpet and now they’re trying to focus on blockchain. However this is just as substanceless and full of marketing fluff as Watson was.

There’s nothing being done here that couldn’t or shouldn’t just be handled with a traditional database. Having IBM “run it” also sort of defeats the whole decentralized aspect of blockchain technologies.

You don’t need “blockchain” to track where your produce came from. This is just a marketing play through and though.
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The new Gmail, Adwords, and Analytics run horribly slow in FF, so I have a separate Chromium portable installation simply for those pages. It's so annoying that Google only cares how their own products run in Chrome.
Maybe it’s required by law since my mother’s VW and now Subaru print a similar message each time as well.
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I asked if I could work remotely full time. The company office was originally a transplant from another state, and they had a few full time remote employees still from the other state.

As soon as I could work remote, I sold my house and moved across country. After moving I updated the city/state on my resume and immediately started receiving much better offers.
I don't think you can meaningfully call yourself a "consultant" without having at least a handful of years of industry experience; I think you can probably get started as a contractor just a few years into your career (I personally wouldn't hire someone starting out from scratch as a contractor, though perhaps other people would).

Emails always gladly received!
I'm an "ETF Guy" so I listen to a lot of the wonky ETF and Finance-related podcasts:

- Behind the Markets with Jeremy Schwartz

- Invest like the Best - with O'Shaughnessy - not just finance stuff. example: Recent podcast on "Tracking" wild animals in the bush was great.

- The Curious Investor - AQR's new Podcast on financial factors and the like

- The Meb Faber Show - Meb Faber runs a fund and has
interesting guests

- The Monthly Dirtcast - ex-Lehman guy who started a popular daily financial newsletter. Still OK - needs help editing and more frequency.

- Trillions - ETF-Focused Bloomberg podcast with Eric Balchunas. Trillions refers to the $5tr in ETF assets today

Other Stuff

- 99% Invisible - interesting random stuff - well produced

- Bowery Boys - NYC history

- Desert Island Discs - long running radio interviews on the BBC

- How I Built This - interviews with Entrepreneurs - highly
recommended (NPR)

- Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman

- Pod Save America - Ex-Obama guys discussing the past week's news

- Real Time with Bill Maher - audio of his HBO show - never actually seen the show - you miss out on some visuals but fun to listen to his ranting.

- Wait Wait Dont Tell Me, This American Life, The Moth - 3 well-produced NPR podcasts. Wait Wait is a game show with the latest week's news - fun background noise for me. This American Life has interesting stories but can get a bit slow.

- Radiolab - the audio formatting bothers me - but they have interesting stories.

- Freakonomics - declined in quality a bit from a few years ago - but still nice to listen to.

- Joe Rogan Experience - Long (1-3 hour) podcasts - But Im always amazed at Joe Rogan's ability to connect with guests. I like his interview style, the cadence of his questions and how he gets people to open up. See Elon Musk's latest interview - also on Youtube.

Edit & Request for Podcasts (RFP): I note that either a lot of podcasts - or at least the ones I get recommended to me - tend to be "left-leaning" politically. I'm on the lookout for more right-leaning podcasts that balance this out a bit. I see one comment below suggesting "Left Right & Centre" may help... Other ideas?
Archived/paywall-free version:

http://archive.is/RSoqh
If you want to really be able to "watch later", I recommend downloading the video.
I'd assumed that was the intent: if someone says "my contributions are not being taken seriously because I'm a woman" or "I sent in a patch request and the maintainer asked for nudes", this code facilitates banning the complainer from the project.
ha, that's a nice counterpart to the 'trivial' thread above
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18071820
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Where does anything in this article or anywhere in the title does it say the word, "Decentralized?" Where are you getting that from?
Is the address bar still kind of slow when typing?
"buzzword charged" is a great expression.
I've heard good things about maps.me, but I've only used it briefly. The quality depends a lot on your location.
Have Google said they can't see your data when syncing?
No, this is clearly a direct contradiction of a standard code of conduct; its intent appears to be to rule all the behaviour of the participants, especially the established ones, out of consideration.
Sync isn't turned on by default. Sign in is. They're different settings.
Because collecting user information is Google’s main business.
but then wouldn't TAS also be able to use it?
welcome to the nosql of 2018
yeah, the difference is that allies will comply, enemies will not and neutral countries will trade favours for compliance. How is that an improvement? It's just going to be politicking. International affairs are not generally an exercise in everyone teaming up to stand up to the baddies.
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Despite what you might assume from being on HN, the same is true in the US. Most jobs are corporate enterprises software here to.
This reminds me so much of working at another, much stodgier big tech company and the feeling of slow malaise I developed over years.

I read some essays by Paul Graham, started my own business, and never listened to some faceless entity above me making bad decisions again.

I hope you don't put up with this nonsense.
Do you have any details of which ones? I have not discovered any so far - everything seems to work just as well in Firefox (e.g. gmail, youtube, search, maps, adwords, adsense, analytics, cloud console, webmaster tools are the ones I requently use on Firefox with zero issues)
By that stage I was already working as a “technical architect” (in reality glorified system designer). I was allowed credit for a couple of units based on industry experience. Combined with the fact I had a bachelor degree (though in the unrelated discipline of physics), that was sufficient to get me in. Being a full-fee paying student didn’t hurt either.
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GM should name their next model "The Abyss" - "when you stare at it, it stares back at you".

Seems like so much of the tech/business ecosystem is now centered around spying on you. Your OS, amazon's echo, social media, laptops, etc.
(Image) Do I need a blockchain?

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> My DNA is not a secret. The traces that shed from my body are not my property. Anybody is welcome to capture these traces if they come into that person's possession, whether it's fallen strand of hair or a DNA profiling system in an airport.

Umm, yeah, that sounds totally reasonable to me. If I shed cells all over the earth, is every piece of matter that was ever part of me my property in perpetuity? Obviously not. When I excrete or shed or discard, the matter with which I have parted ways becomes in the public domain of nature and subject to whatever exercise the public creatures may desire, from consumption for nutrition to examination for insight.

Sure man, follow me around and grab traces of my DNA is you want. It's none of my business.
Your version does not have the same punch as the buzzwordful headline.
Of course it will. Fads come and go. Remember when everything was going to be CORBA? Or when all user interfaces were done in Flash?

And right now AI/ML is taking over from blockchain, and lots of it will be written by people who don't know what a linear regression is and once heard of p-hacking but couldn't make up an example of it.
For cars? Anything old and "unconnected" would qualify.
Do you know who's going to gravitate toward projects with a Code of Merit instead of a Code of Conduct?

People who are ostracized by projects with a Code of Conduct.

Or, to put it another way, if you're a jerk and you argue with other contributors about an on-topic issue in a jerky way, then under a Code of Merit, you still come out on top as long as you're technically correct (the best kind of correct!), even if it leaves other contributors feeling put down.

Granted, there is some overlap. For example, both the Code of Merit and most codes of conduct disallow disparaging remarks based on protected characteristics. But the Code of Merit disallows them because they're considered irrelevant to the project, whereas codes of conduct disallow them because they're affronts to dignity.

I do take issue with many codes of conduct in the tech space, because I think they tend to be written in a bubble world where everyone assumes that everyone else thinks just like them, but a Code of Merit sounds like it's even more problematic.
The thing the allies did know and the Germans largely ignored was the fact that their Ciphers could be vulnerable. They tested them. Despite some pockets of dissent the Germans thought enigma was totally secure and never subjected it to proper analysis from their side. Also the German hierarchy during the war made it difficult for dissenting voices from the ranks to be heard on these topics.

Donitz was one exception. He suspected the allies were breaking enigma and hence the security of the naval enigma's was increased. I believe he advocated for more changes but was stopped or ran out of time.

After the war the allies sent in teams of intelligence operatives to assess how much the Germans knew about allied codebreaking and intelligence efforts. What they found was that the secrecy of Ultra worked and held throughout the war.

James
Sydney felt an order of magnitude larger than Boston or Seattle. The population density was staggering compared to those cities. It took hours to get away from urban sprawl and feel like you were out of the city
To let everyone in on a little !secret, the 'objections' to these encodings is satire, something that was laid on a bit thick at the end of this post. There have been no real objections to ARM so far. x86 is a different story, the AAD/AAM instructions being the biggest example. In that case, being able to do something at the machine level that the assembly level abstracts away (converting bases other than base 10). Regardless of any kind of usefulness, any non 1-to-1 mappings between abstractions highly interest me.
The people who run the web viewers decided that they only wanted to show content from people who had actively opted in.

But no-one's in charge. Someone else could make a web viewer that shows all public posts without opt-in. (Public posts on SSB are signed cryptographically but not encrypted.)
There is no such thing as bad publicity? The article is a marketing piece in any case. There is no actual analysis but lots of nice product photos.
That's overly dramatic. Both Chrome and Firefox are excellent browsers, and are developed in the open for all to see. They are examples of open source done right.
As a regular fan of MMA and occasional watcher of boxing, I can't think of a single example of the sports' governing bodies overturning a corrupt result, even in the Olympics. Occasionally judges will be fired later; that's it.

PEDs are enforced almost sporadically; I wish they didn't bother.

Edit: By corrupt result I meant corrupt or inaccurate judging.