skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies, like countries, don't have feelings. Back in school my history teacher was very insistent on that fact, if you said something like "country xy was provoked to enter the war" he'd really tear into you. He taught us to spot propaganda and the motivations of individuals.
An Empirical Analysis of Single Sign-On Hijacking and Session Management [pdf]
You're shouting and I have a feeling that no matter what gets written here it will not satisfy you, so game over.
Who’s Exposing China’s Hacking Army?
> Access to clean water, cheap and healthy food, energy, infrastructure.

Clean water access? Paid for my government. Cheap and healthy food? Government subsidies. Energy? Government funds majority of research. Infrastructure was mostly inlaid by Government implemented New Deal/other job creation programs.

Corporations had little to no involvement in 'doing the work' here. Access to cheap/healthy food was before corporations were the majority of agriculture due to government subsidy. Energy is largely built on research which is largely funded by the government. The majority of interstate groundwork as it's been laid out today was started by the government's roadbuilding job-creation programs.

While large legal entities may have their benefits, one shouldn't subscribe undue merit to them in the pursuit of attempting to dissuade undue chagrin.
Bcal v2.0 storage expression calculator released
I am, however, prepared to order something through them in hopes of making them instinctually associate this type of behavior with reward.
The silver lining is that devs actually really like the device. Despite the hype/reality factor that tainted the initial reviews the consensus is that the device itself is actually quite good. If all you read are the negatives, especially hit pieces from Guttag then I could see why you have the point of view you do. In fact you'll be hard pressed to find any reviews outside of Guttag and Palmer Luckey who state the device is bad:

Hololens developers:

https://brekel.com/category/magic-leap/

https://medium.com/futurepi/magic-leap-one-in-depth-review-b...

AR/VR reporters:

https://twitter.com/kentbye/status/1038927438279888896?s=21

https://uploadvr.com/heres-what-actual-developers-think-of-t...

New content is getting praise:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/19/17876488/angry-birds-magi...

And this is just the start. Their dev conference is in a week. Lots more to see and I don't think they're going anywhere for a very long time.
I have an almost complete set of /70 parts in the closet, but no front panel. By the time I started buying parts people had realized the panels looked cool and were paying high $$ for them to make wall-art!
This sounds eerily like the broken windows fallacy.
but being shouty and emotional isn't conditional on being right. In fact, being right is infamously hard to establish, assuming "rightness" is something you can even measure for the question at hand. So going for shouty means you're going to be heard, but you're no more likely to be right. The rationalist approach is to optimise for "rightness", or to be "less wrong" you could say. The problem is that the niche of people who take ideas from the community and market them to the wider world remains largely unfilled, especially compared to more-shouty-but-less-concerned-about-right political factions.
Can Chinese citizens actually buy a house, or is the market still limited to long-term leases?
I don't know what to tell you. The sensationalism is there because it's a catastrophic problem that requires major action.

There's consensus that a very bad thing is happening, its effects are already being felt, and they will get much worse over time. Scientists have tried to communicate this in every way, but people have hemmed and hawed or outright denied it for so long that it's going to be bad no matter what at this point. There are still things that can be done to reduce the impact, but the picture isn't good.
> This just sounds like a lot of opinion expressed as if it were a fact

It's arguably overstated, but I'm curious if you would argue that there are languages created in the past 15 years that create as big of a productivity boost as Assembly -> C or C -> something with a GC?
Generative Coding – “The Nature of Code” Ported to Three.js
Greg Kroah-Hartman explains how the kernel community is securing Linux
Now that RAM is relatively cheap and garbage collection algos are pretty decent, immutability should be the default, because it eliminates an entire class of bugs while enabling benefits like "easy" lock-free concurrency, etc.

Here's a project I'm excited about, I think it's the first fully-functional/immutable/declarative cross-platform GUI library in existence https://github.com/boydm/scenic Still pretty rudimentary but has made great strides in a year and the demo is pretty amazing (especially given how NOTORIOUSLY gui toolkits are typically OOP/procedural/mutable)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QNxLNMq3Uw

Boyd Multerer got famous via Xbox Live.
We don't have a minimum wage, the Swiss voted against it in 2014 (1), but yes, most people are paid more than CHF/$20.

(1) https://www.bbc.com/news/business-27459178
This could be apocryphal (there was free beer at the company meeting), but I think I recall he (Gates) mentioned at the time that the existence of a solid chipset to support the 8088 was something that drove the ultimate decision.
> Don't forget the Supercharger network
For some reason, the majority of the "competition" does forget the supercharger network. Its the reason Tesla is a road-trip car, and capable of being your primary/only vehicle.

Meanwhile all other EVs are nothing more than commuter cars. Maybe suitable for day-trips if you're really lucky.

Tesla also acknowledges that you need these high-speed charging stations conveniently located along the highway. Not in the middle of town, and certainly not in the parking lot of a store you'd never spend more than 10 minutes at.
https://github.com/zhoubear/open-paperless
4 Examples of Data Lakes on Amazon S3
In the very long term we're all dead. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't actively work to prevent that for as long as possible. Just because you'll die of old age at some point it's not okay for me to torture you to death.
Please explain the nuance between a regulation and a law. I understand them to be different terms for government enforced actions. Is there a distinction in China I am not groking with my americentric bias?
"Our marketing person sat in the room with engineers for 3 years. It's no wonder they can now emulate a team of engineers"

The amount by which engineering egos are inflated is amazing. Guess what - being a lawyer takes a bit more work than being on a legal case for three years. Why, as opposed to engineers, there's actually a bar they are held to.
This is crudely circular; the concept "proof" presupposes identity.

The Law of Identity is not "proved" (nor disproved) but validated. You used the Law of Identity throughout your blog post, you cannot escape it. Any argument or claim to knowledge includes identity as a presupposition (even arguments denying it) and once you realize this, that is the validation. It is an axiom.
Thank you. Let us take US market as an example. Can you please help me understand what (successful) solutions are available in the market for
1) SEO
2) Affiliate partnerships
3) PR
4) Content Marketing
5) PPC
6) referrals (how is it different from Affiliate partnership)
This was reported just the other day:

"The original HoloLens has been out for a long time now, so a new (hopefully cheaper) version is overdue, but it now looks like we won’t see it before 2020."

https://www.techradar.com/news/hololens-20-could-be-delayed-...
When you realize AWS/GCE/Azure costs you about $0.1/GB for bandwidth, it scares me it can be DDoSed to the point your bill goes out of the normal proportion so easily. Other places have TBs of bandwidth within their < $50 plans.
Personalized children's books – Scalable? $10k a day target
Didn't they sell control of the MTA to the state?
If the rules of the game are that we only act out of self-interest, then I would only praise you if it directly benefits me in some way. Is that the sort of relationship you would like to have with everyone in your own life?
Porn in Trump's America
I spent 6 months writing my first 8 books and to try self-publishing within the personalised content space. Hope to make $10k a day because I think content is scalable as long as it is good enough. Thoughts? Feedback on how to improve the product very much welcome!
I fully agree, except that McDonald's actually is a lot more expensive now than in the past, which I think helps make your point:

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4119246-big-mac-index-may-t...
Hyperloop Pod Could Carry Passengers Next Year
If they don't disclose in time, or are found to have been able to have prevented the breach, they could face some serious fines in the EU under GDPR.

At odds with the Armageddon-like comments in the Twitter thread, this is still to be worked out. It is not a certainty.
> Nobody has claimed that transitioning to a new programming languages doesn't have a non-trivial cost.

I was replying to the argument that the work is not at the expense of anything else because it wouldn't happen otherwise.

> This just sounds like a lot of opinion expressed as if it were a fact.

I think it's pretty well supported. The cost of developing software from scratch has not decreased significantly since ~2000 (there have been gains due to the availability of lots of open source libraries). In the mid eighties, Brooks claimed that no single language improvement would give us a 10x productivity gain over a single decade. While at the time his prediction was seen as overly pessimistic, it's been three decadades and we still haven't gained a 10x boost with all improvements combined (barring, maybe, the availability of open source libraries, which has nothing to do with language improvements). You can see clearly that companies are not migrating en-masse to some new language (as they did with assembly->C or C->Java/C#). Instead, many languages are being used, none so far seems to have a definitive advantage that encourages the majority of the industry to migrate. You do see plenty of claims, but no major bottom-line impact that causes decision-makers to say, "we must use that!" as was the case with previous generations, where, BTW, significant advantages became apparent quite quickly.
Project Alexandria: Common Sense AI [video]
Fine with me… and I work for myself and make less than minimum wage.

But some of MY customers may end up more able to pay me. I have repeatedly seen a tight correlation betweeen how well I do, and labor share of the economy. If this is real then it'll benefit me, all the more so if it becomes a trend.
Amazon provides generous education benefits to their hourly employees: https://www.aboutamazon.com/working-at-amazon/career-choice

Which is both a good thing for workers and something that makes sense for Amazon to provide. Amazon, believe it or not, doesn't actually want to hire and deal with workers who perceive themselves as perpetually and inevitably poor. They want to hire hardworking, ambitious people who want to move on to bigger and better things. Positioning themselves as a way up for hardworking, ambitious people who haven't developed marketable skills yet puts them in a position to benefit from the labor of hardworking, ambitious people, who are generally the most valuable people to employ.

The notion of minimum wage jobs as a stopgap that allows people to support themselves just long enough to improve their future earning prospects, as you point out, doesn't make sense--unless those people have the ability to improve their future earning prospects. Amazon is one of the very few employers, then, for whom it does make sense.

Ironically, Sanders and Amazon's other critics would probably much rather that Amazon pay people just enough money to spend their entire lives working in a warehouse for minimum wage than for Amazon to provide this education benefit. That's because someone who spends a year or two working at an Amazon warehouse, takes advantage of the education benefit, and transitions into a higher earning job is not going to believe Sanders' demagoguery.
The minimum wage in Australia doesn't work the same way as it does in the US. Australian workers will under an award -- effectively a industry-specific contract negotiated by the respective union. An Amazon worker would likely be on the Storage Services and Wholesale Award.

This starts at $20.72 (14.92 USD) for fulltime, and $25.90 (18.64 USD) for casual work.

There's higher wages based on experience and responsibilities, as well as penalty rates. Public holiday pay starts at $56.98 (41.01 USD).

As someone who has recently moved from Melbourne to Boston; if anything I feel like Australia has a lower cost of living. According to the one source I found, prices including rent in Boston, MA are 36.53% higher than in Melbourne

https://www.fairwork.gov.au/ArticleDocuments/872/storage-ser...

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
Once I started using Firefox Focus, I was surprised at how rarely I actually needed to browse the web un-anonymously. I don't need to be logged in to search, use Wikipedia, or read news online.

Focus is perfect for bite-sized browsing. Read and then throw the session away.
Not in my department, but I have no idea how representative it is.
There are CEO's who haven't written a book. Maybe you're like those guys.
I read that comment as adding a new dimension to the discussion: the wage dimension. I think it is an important part of the discussion. In my experience it is well known that startups pay poorly and make up for it with a lottery ticket, and many companies piggy-back on that widespread knowledge to pay similarly poorly ("competitive pay" where the competition are startups) despite not actually having that lottery ticket to include in the deal.

Don't get me wrong, I feel for these companies. They are in a bind. There is no way they can pay salaries competitive with big corporations, and they've made a (wise, IMO) decision to avoid funding and grow organically, which precludes them from compensating through a seat at the exit table. Personally I think the solution for companies like this is employee ownership and dividends. This seems to align incentives properly. I don't see this being done much (at all?) though, which makes me wonder whether there are ugly pitfalls I'm unfamiliar with.
A lot easier said than done when Apple stops signing old iOS versions immediately.
Thanks.... that's a little disappointing, but I appreciate the info.

I have a TV that does that too. I get random artistic photos from Google rather than the curated family photos I would prefer.
This is a great article and I love HAproxy. Even so much that I wrote a REST-like wrapper for it a couple of years ago to turn HAproxy into an API gateway. It touched many of the points in the article. Maybe useful for people in the field https://github.com/magneticio/vamp-router
The rich will not have less, they will have a lot more (in dollars at least), because they are mostly storing wealth in inflation-proof assets. And businesses owners will make more than 10x, because when you increase the wages from $10/hr to $50/hr, the amount of spare (fun) money actually grows much more than 5x.

That will hurt the current middle class the most, those earning close to $50/hr. These are skilled professionals who will get equalized with someone who dropped out of high school. It's actually a good example of why socialism is such a dumb idea.
I actually built this kit recently. I'm now gradually building a collection of these front-panel-simulation machines. (Last year, I built his PiDP-8 kit.)
Wouldn't a multi-stage dockerfile fix the problems of having N layers or is it N for the entire file?
Flexipack is gone. https://www.hetzner.com/flexipack/ just shows the additional hardware prices. I posted this to https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/148931/hetzner-drops-f... mid-July.
The more interesting question is how you would feel if one of the inbound stars was inbound directly toward our sun.
true, i would offer it more an 'interesting similarities' kind of comment than a call to action.
> Equifax lost the personal data of all Americans and is doing fine.

Because Equifax lost the personal data of _Americans_.

Not all nations/regulators are so hands-off and Facebook is an international company with the vast majority of its users outside the US.
How AI could compose a personalized soundtrack to your life [video]]
I claim (without any evidence) that increasing the palette of legal drugs would reduce the demand for the nastiest ones.

Furthermore, making drug use legal and moving law enforcement resources to addiction treatment would make more people seek help in battling their addiction.

One of the nastiest facets of war on drugs is that it creates criminals of people who harm no one and stigmatize them to the outskirts of the society.
My org made a similar transition. It's hard to articulate exactly precisely how much we saved as our "production" or revenue generating environments are roughly the same.

We transitioned out of AWS where we had relatively well managed instances of our stack managed with chef and terraform to GKE in Google Cloud where we migrated to a helm chart and custom orchestration tooling on top of that.

Prior to the migration I'd say that 80% of our instances were idle. Currently, all of our k8s nodes with 16 cores are running with an average load 5-7. We try to keep enough headroom to prevent any waiting or queuing, which is an entire medium blog post unto itself.

So, roughly the same or a little more "production" workload, but the number of non-prod instances of our stack quadrupled. Anyone in the org at any time can spin up an instance of the stack for a custom sales demo, to debug an issue, to test a feature, or anything else. There was a great deal of pent up demand that nobody expected and which caused my team to thrash a bit to catch up to when we made the transition.

All in all, our GCP spend is about 20% less than our AWS spend was. We're getting a lot more utility for a little less money.
Well, to me it's like the way Shakespeare, e e cummings, and Kool Keith all write in the same language.

Context switching between working on work codebase, Chromium code base, and various third party C++ codebases is a headache as much for their basic differences in coding style (use of whitespace, capitalization, naming, etc.) as for their wildly varying build/metabuild processes.

And of course, each implements and then extensively uses their own library features like reference-counted pointers, managed GC pointers, collection data structures, iterator-like abstractions, etc.
Great, I hope he's right.

However, the AI that has panned out so far (whatever subset of the Hard Problem of Consciousness we've been able to...I don't really want to say solve. Address? Attempt?) in the current summer has done very little to further any of these goals, and has done quite a bit to advance many of the aspects he's worrying about.

So when are we going to start seeing evidence that these kinds of lofty prophecies will pan out? Or is the idea that it's going to arrive all at once like the Messiah, and save us from ourselves. I'm very excited about and deeply interested in Artificial Intelligence the discipline. Artificial Intelligence the Religion, I could do without.
Tesla has a product that people want, and, importantly appeals to the new generation of prospective car owners in a way the other auto manufactures can't come close to even hoping. Youth haven't really been interested in cars in the same way and with the same level of excitement they once were for awhile now until Tesla came along.

To put simply, they will eventually figure out their manufacturing and economies of scale (they are already well on their way to doing so) and when that happens it will be a dramatic rise and unseating of power. We've seen time and time again market share and dominance means very little in the long term and the ability to manufacture a car isn't an exclusive right to the current incumbents.
The Facebook Hack Exposes an Internet-Wide Failure
Last Jedi: strategic politicization of pop culture via social media manipulation
A story about a migration to Kubernetes.

(As it is, I expected it to be about migrating k8s version. (Still much better than OP though...))
That's actually another part I should have not included in that rant, because the truth is that healthcare didn't even enter my mind for the most part.

I didn't actually even have any medical coverage at all at that point in my life. There was no reason to. If I got sick or injured to the point that I couldn't work, i'd lose everything anyway, so the worry of some extra medical bills didn't enter my mind, and I didn't exactly have a ton of free time, so I just never bothered to look into medicaid.

I also didn't look into unemployment, so I don't know what my options there were either, since I wasn't really ever unemployed at any point (luckily!)

I'm trying to show what it's like to have to juggle that kind of stuff, while looking for another job as a way to get across what it's like. That kind of stuff is why people don't report workplace issues, it's why unions don't get started, it's why people will do anything to keep the job they have, because the alternative is much much worse in a lot of cases. Not to mention the crushing blow to your morale when you have to use the few hundred dollars you managed to save up over the last few months, it feels like you are taking 2 steps backwards and none forwards, and it really hurts.

And while there are often ways out of each problem individually, the crushing pressure of all of them all building up at once and the feeling that you won't ever get out of it is just so much to handle. And even if there are ways out of it, nobody wants to help you, nobody wants to explain the process. Even at this point in my life, I would have to google what to do to even start the process of getting medicaid. And if I were back then and my phone had just been cut off, I wouldn't know how to even do that. If i'm being completely honest, at the time I thought medicaid was another term for medicare, but different (and in my mind, medicare was for old people, and still didn't cover everything). I knew there was something for poor people, but I had no idea if I would qualify, what i'd have to do to get it, and even what to look up.
And also it will improve the quality cohort of the workforce they can target.
No, the point of the 'quote' is people trying to make a point that 'even Bill Gates' can't predict the future need for technology requirements expanding.

Of course that's wrong, and most of the time it is used by people who don't understand the trade offs made in incremental advancements in tech standards.
Cuda has
Cooperative Groups now on Volta and Turing architectures. This allows for synchronization between entire workgroups rather than just locally. So you can pretty much keep your entire job on the GPU even if it involves multiple kernels. Really important for complex jobs where performance is a must.

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/cooperative-groups
All of this is on it's way.
depending on what you mean by distributed tracing, it may already be doable
I would recommend this article about impressions and facts to you: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont...

It's super good, carefully studied, and overall a well written read.
Which represents an extremely tiny slice of available opportunities, and they are often hiring for skills/skill level that developers qualified to work at the typical startup don't have.
> If you think these do anything at all to prevent tracking, you're unfortunately sadly mistaken :(

It definitely stops them from identifying me as logged into Facebook, Twitter... via social share buttons.

> "A bit"? That's... well, the only thing I can say is that you indeed seem not to care about this.

Correct, and I wonder what harm people who complain about this have actually ever come to?