skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Let’s for the sake of argument assume that the governments stated reasons are what they are going after.

Okay but there's no "sake" about, that's literally what we are trying to establish. If you don't believe that a logical progression of existing laws and processes into new mediums is there reason why these policy changes are taking place, contrary to basic reasoning and explicit statements from these governments while pushing for these changes, you have to have an actual reason why you believe this not to be the case.

>I mean, to me the fact that they acknowledge that anyone serious about privacy can take measures to circumvent it pretty much blows the story that this will be effective at catching people smuggling weapons designs or other serious crimes out of the water.

There are plenty of ways to get away with murder but that doesn't mean we take it off the law books because of its efficacy. That's a really silly view point.

>But you’ll surely concede that doing something at increased scale often changes the nature of that thing?

As I said in my original post, it's worth discussing and certainly worth finding a solution too. But the particular governments we're talking about have well stated reasons for their policy changes, they aren't doing it to be draconian. We all started clumping our data together. Governments didn't increase the scope of what they were looking for.

>That means it changes the nature of the request, and can’t be considered along the same lines as a suitcase.

But that's exactly what it is. There's a reason we have have "files" and "folders" as basic user data organization schemes. Border policies haven't actually changed in any of dramatic fashion. Again we just started storing more data by other data, data they were already inspecting. You might argue that this little fact is the basis for why the policy should be changed, but you have to actually argue it.
They do via crt.sh, the article just doesn't note what crt.sh sources are: https://crt.sh/monitored-logs
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> But whoever made that decision, it was on the hardware side, not anyone at Microsoft.

The hardware supported more than 1MB, as later CPUs proved. However, MS-DOS didn't really support it, as EMS/XMS proved:

https://www.filfre.net/2017/04/the-640-k-barrier/

I'd say that you've got it backwards, in my opinion. And in the opinion of that fine article I linked.
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Noone is opposing the argument "reduce bullshit" (we're just pointing out it's unrealistic). But the argument "reduce bullshit because women" is simply sexist.
The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...

(Edit: for the record, the "simplistic summary" is not mine. It's the title of the article.)
I’m sure you could find a way to prove it’s better; I’d rather just do a great job for everyone and let the results speak for themselves
External DSLs (even with "cross-language bindings") are much worse to work with than than internal ones and SQL is no exception. IMO what's really needed is a willingness for databases to step away from SQL and expose an API that's more friendly to modern programming languages (or better yet, make the database embeddable as a library rather than a framework you have to build your application into). The eDSLs help a little, but as long as they're obliged to compile into SQL strings there's a limit to how effective they can be.
This is so true of the Austrian startup scene, I had to double-check that it wasn't written by someone I know.

IMHO, the worst thing a startup can do in Austria is get involved with AWS funding .. state funding of tech. Its just so deflating, it removes the incentive to actually be productive and work on the needs of the end-user; the customer. This is not something Austrians, at least the startup generation, get right .. and I feel very strongly that its a consequence of the welfare generation, who equate "got free money from the government" with 'success'.

I'd love to see the funding dry up in the scene. There are so many innovative groups here in Austria, but they're just not hungry enough. They don't have the drive, or the motivation, to launch in their markets and do what needs to be done to service people. Service is not a part of Austrian culture. But, I feel, it never will be for as long as state welfare is the first handout expected by founders.
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We use mediawiki. Not perfect but does the job.

- https://www.mediawiki.org

Also, two alternatives that I wanted to test but never had the time to:

- https://www.bookstackapp.com/

- https://wiki.js.org/
That's the interesting part. We're better off because of some but not all new languages having been invented.
My interest in the different paradigms and approaches to data visualization stems from some problems I'm working on having a lot of parallels with how plotting library APIs work.

Personally, my main encounter with plotting was in Python. I'm not a big fan of matplotlib, I got the impression that with increasing plot complexity, code complexity grew exponentially. Then there's bokeh [0], which I preferred to matplotlib, due to it being more declarative. HoloViews [1] is more declarative than both matplotlib and bokeh, and boasts that "usually [you can] express what you want to do in very few lines of code, letting you focus on what you are trying to explore and convey, not on the process of plotting". I've not used HoloViews yet.

Then I've heard of R's ggplot [2], which is based on (or inspired by?) The Grammar of Graphics [3]. This books is definitely something I want to check out.

Vega [4], an “assembly language” for visualization, is neither here nor there as far as this discussion goes, but nonetheless I just stumbled upon it and I'm quite optimistic about the initiative. Maybe someone will not have heard of it.

[0] https://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/docs/user_guide/concepts....
[1] http://holoviews.org/
[2] http://r4ds.had.co.nz/data-visualisation.htm
[3] https://www.amazon.com/Grammar-Graphics-Statistics-Computing...
[4] https://vega.github.io/vega/about/
A lot of people do care about more than just the technical aspects of the job, like what the company does. When that's intentionally obfuscated and the all the locations are government-y towns, then one is left to make assumptions — like that they'd be building software that spies on their fellow citizens or helps bomb people in faraway countries. Many people would be turned off by contributing to software like that even if the technical challenges are interesting.

And I didn't even say it was suspicious that the name was omitted in the job post. I said it was suspicious that when someone asked and someone else answered, apparently incorrectly, you got defensive but still didn't issue a correction. It's weird.
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> It has been downhill ever since with Russia and China doing largely whatever they want.

That's a riot. Is that before or after China annexed Tibet and culturally destroyed it? Before or after they annexed Hong Kong entirely against the will of the people of Hong Kong?

Before or after Russia annexed most of Eastern Europe and held it hostage for nearly half a century? Poland for example is a very large nation, it has only been free of Russia for less than 30 years now.

China and Russia do whatever they want, insofar as they can. That will never change and it's true of all great power nations throughout history.
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The problems of allocating memory addresses in global scale requires distributed probabilistic addressing or otherwise inefficient address space distributions.

You don't want to share the same compact memory allocator with the malloc(3) from the other side of the galaxy, or even different city.
millions in blood money, too.
There are countries that are so enlightened that they don’t officially have capital punishment, but the police are rumored to not try that hard to capture certain criminals alive (not all countries without capital punishment are like this). I don’t consider that progress, but not everyone agrees with me.
So then, one can advocate against the use of social media in general or Facebook in particular, (ironically) run targeted ads on these platforms to educate the users, etc.

In truth, I think social media as we know it is on the way out anyway. The new generation will rebel against it, and might go back to writing hand-written letters to each other for all I know. I feel like giving these companies all this attention and treating them as "the new utilities" that are forever to stay here and must be regulated also psychologically cements their position as such.
Cool, I’m curious, does anyone know - which langauge would use fewest number of characters, to create TicTacToe?
> A quick review of the budget and supporting Commerce Department Appendix suggests the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has received everything it requested ($3,586,193,000), and will not suffer the indignity of fee diversion...

https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/05/23/uspto-3-6-billion-pres...

more about the fee diversion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Patent_and_Trade...

The USPTO isn't mentioned in the congressional budget resolutions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_United_States_federal_bud...

> Congress Approves $1.3 Trillion Spending Bill, Averting a Shutdown

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/us/politics/house-passes-...
I have never had a Facebook account. How can they demand something I have never had?
I'm working with Kubernetes recently and the learning curve is quite hard. I hope the team will improve kubectl to make it more user-friendly (error messages are hard to understand for beginners).

A lot of cloud providers now have a way to easily deploy and manage a k8s cluster on their servers but I cannot find a tools that help with the deployment of a basic service, something like dokku but on Kubernetes.

http://dokku.viewdocs.io/dokku/
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1. DTAG transit to where?

2. Assuming you don't really mean paying for transit, but paying DTAG for accepting traffic that DTAG's paying customers have requested to be sent to them from Hetzner:

2.1 Why?

2.2 When you say "they should pay", what you are really saying is "all of Hetzner's customers should pay". Thanks, but I am not interested. I intentionally don't use DTAG as a customer, and I am not interested in subsidizing those who do.
He's also gamed them a few times to accidentally cover good data. Most notably when he "leaked" the low jobs numbers and CNN/NYT covered it non stop
Speaking as someone who was the "re-implementee" in some cases (i.e. our mixed C/C++ regex library Hyperscan has had some ideas borrowed for your regex library in Rust) I'd say things aren't 100% simple here.

I think there is a strong tendency of people programming in new languages to be overly convinced of the elegance and superiority of their new language as a result of (a) getting to rewrite software without the burden of those fussy, irritating existing users and (b) getting to 'rebuild' software without the rather exhausting process of feeling your way to an algorithm or system that never existed before.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with either of these things, but sometimes I think people working in hip new languages tend to mistake the elegance and superiority of their new language for the advantages conferred by a "rework". I bet I could build a pretty elegant regular expression system in C/C++ if I got to start from scratch, too!

This isn't a statement about one language being better than another, and I'm aware of how vexed a problem it is to compare new languages with old. If you built a pile of nonesuch systems in your new language people would complain that they can't compare these systems with stuff that they're familiar with. :-)

I'd just call for a bit of caution in assessing new languages being pressed into service for old, familiar tasks.
That reminds me that this exchange happened: https://mobile.twitter.com/mchooyah/status/10381406460565012...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone

If you're going to argue against an assertion, you should include an argument.
This scenario always reminds me of Apple's ~$300B in cash reserves. Let's assume, which likely won't be true however I don't have experience with infrastructure scaling, that Apple Watch will take a total of $10B to develop to its "full" version and bring to full scale of expected sales. That leaves a lot of unallocated resources. In certain circumstances it does work to wait for a model to mature enough before copying/making your own version of it, leveraging your audience as a marketing channel, such as Apple did with Apple Music - and it perhaps can work with vehicles as well; it won't take a $300B injection of capital, though Apple will be sitting pretty if they make all of the right moves, I hope along side with Tesla - though Elon's "bad boy" ways are turning him from someone I have considered a great role model, into viewing him as someone who's not done enough emotional work, healing emotional wounds, and could spiral dangerously out of control if he doesn't find non-medication forms of help and practices for self-care, to gain and maintain his health; physical-mental-emotional-spiritual.
It seems like you're arguing in favor of a different language rather than a different implementation of Python. If you wanted to implement, say, the Python class/'object' type in a thread-safe way that didn't rely on a GIL and still freed memory according to approximately the same GC promises as the Python interpreter, I suspect you'd end up implementing something GIL-like in Scheme or Lisp (though my experience extends only to some Clojure and Racket in school, so I may be unaware of the capabilities of some other dialects).

If you wanted to implement a language that looked a little like Python but had your favored Lisp's GC semantics and data structures, I'm sure you could. But it wouldn't be Python.

That's without getting into the significant speed tradeoffs--you can make these languages fast, and I get the impression that there has been a ton of progress there in the last decade. But when Python was being created, and when it had to deal with the implications of concurrency in its chosen semantics? Not so. As I originally said: was it theoretically possible to build Python or equivalent on top of a non-C platform at the time? Sure. But I doubt that would have saved it from tradeoffs at least as severe as the GIL, and it definitely would not have been the pragmatic choice--"let's build it on $lisp_dialect and then spend time optimizing that dialect's runtime to be fast enough for us to put an interpreted scripting language on top of it" seems an unlikely strategy.
And that's fine too, it's perfectly ok to disagree with the choices others make. But that's as far as it goes, you wouldn't like someone else telling you how to spend your time without getting anything in return either.

I'd bet most developers would be fine with supporting and incrementally improving if they made enough money from that to do what they really want to do on the side.

I would take a minute or two to reflect on all the time and energy that hundreds of thousands of individuals give away for free. It's easy to forget how far we've come by standing on their shoulders.
Linus Torvalds on the other hand did indeed say ”Anybody who needs more than 64Mb/task - tough cookies” on the original Linux announcement email chain.
What's the relevance of the quote?
I appreciate that your conclusion was that the starting position helps determine the strategy necessary for success, rather than your starting position already determining your ability to succeed.

A lot of comments in these kinds of threads just assume a kind of fatalism that success is determined purely by change and the circumstances of your birth.
This scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM#t=1h28s (at 1:00:28) shows why people would think that.
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All startups go through a cargo cult phase. What differentiates the successful ones from the non-successful/zombie ones is that it is recognised as a phase, and people work damn hard to get out of the cargo-cult zone.

When you have a handout to keep you fat, this isn't really conducive to recognising the cargo cult fallacy. It 'feels' like you're successful at your cult, because after all: money is there, and people have given it to you, i.e. the planes arrived and cargo fell out of the sky.

But this is so deceptive. The only way to escape the cargo cult phase is to actually build the real things which real people - strangers, beyond the horizon - actually want. Not, those things your local government bureaucrat wants but rather the things that non-native, out-of-scope real customers want.

Recognising the cargo cultism takes real balls. Not a lot of people have the balls for it, alas.
+ Arthur Ashkin, at 96, is the oldest nobel prize laureate ever ( https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/nobel-laureates-by-a... ), and declined an interview this morning because he is "busy doing research". He did much of is research at Bell Labs and has his own lab at home now.

+ The most cited Strickland / Mourou paper is this one: Compression of amplified chirped optical pulses. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.673... It has a humble length of 3 pages and has collected 4600 citations in 23 years.

+ This is a good time to remember Lise Meitner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner#Nobel_Prize_for_n... and check out James Watson's 'opinion' of Rosalind Franklin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBWPzdyyPic But also note that Marie Curie was one of very few nobel laureates who got awarded twice, and she got her awards very early on in the history of the nobel prize ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nobel_laureates_with_... ).
Tesla delivered 83,500 vehicles in the third quarter, more than expected
I agree choosing your own ending would be a big mistake for most shows including Black Mirror. Like I said, I can't remember where I heard this but I was hoping the kind of 'interaction' that Charlie Brooker would introduce would be less explicit (i.e. you choose an option on the screen) and more implicit (e.g. you watch the show for a second time). If it was done in the right way, I think it could enhance the experience.
My main concern is that the big government will be used by big corporations with massive compliance and legal departments to shut down any emerging competition that refuses to be bought out.
I was trying to remember if autovectorization worked better with intrinsics, but I don't really know that much about it.
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Basically you only need to go through their ID hassle once when you submit the first order on an account, at least that's been my experience. After that it's generally entirely painless to order further servers.
We get a ton of bot traffic from Hetzner servers.
Well, when you're not supposed to be doing a universal study, what happened to you is your first line of evidence.

If all scientific evidence says oranges are harmless, and you eat one and have to puke, then you'll avoid it, and rightly so, based on your empirical observation of 1.
"it sends a message that no one is above the law."
apart from politicians, bankers, etc...
But is GDPR really making the kind of difference people wanted?

What I see, is that mostly companies continue the same behavior, but now with a disclosure you are prompted to accept.

I predicted everyone would just accept those terms in exchange for free services they already have invested into. Now we just have an extra annoyance. Has anything substantially changed?
Given this issue a lot of thought, mostly after reading Jeffery Pfeffer's views about how most CEO biographies are designed to kick the ladder away behind them.

Given the exponential / power law distribution of returns, if you are anywhere on the left hand side of that curve, you are doing phenomenally well, even if your actual place on it is random. This curve is the mechanism behind the Matthew Effect as well. To get there, you just need to survive long enough to end up on it somewhat randomly. The competitive environments in offices are really about getting exposure to opportunity - not reaping the rewards of work. This is why some seemingly dumb people do well. They have the relationships that get them exposure to the opportunities to end up somewhere randomly on that exponential curve.

You'll notice that people who fail or stagnate in offices are the ones who have been isolated from peers, customers, sales people, and other sources of exposure to randomness, and that is not an accident. Highly successful people ensure they are at the front of the queue for those random opportunities, and whether they do that through merit or mendacity is ultimately immaterial. Being smart is not about problem solving or abstraction, it's an instinct for always getting the option on opportunity.

Absolutely recommend Pfeffer on this.
For some reason, I wondered if this object was made of cobalt (goblin ore).
For comparison, Ceres[1] has a 473 km radius and is considered a dwarf planet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)