skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh but this gets better!

This is a great dissertation on how the GeoPolitics will play this little game out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc_4Z1oiXhY

- by Gwynne Dyer
They're pretty big and got into the design tools game early on
The article indeed conveys no meaning at all to those not acquainted with the mathematical jargon it relies on.

Many scientific Wikipedia articles have improved in this regard over the last few years, but this one (along with many others in the field of mathematics) remains of little interest to non-mathematicians unready to synthesize and internalize the vast quantity of information in the articles of relevant linked terms.

I don’t see this changing any time soon without a lot of concerted effort.

(For the record, I’m someone who did not grok the significance of the article’s subject in the slightest.)
Yep, people keep rewriting the history, but I remember it exactly: there was enormous enthusiasm and hype around G+. Developers, tech enthusiasts everywhere were "queuing around the block" to get on board with it and to stick it to Facebook. Then Google did two things:

- announced no API access
- real names policy debacle

Between those two things they completely destroyed all good will and within months it was essentially dead. I actually think it was a larger turning point that made developers significantly more cynical about Google overall.
"SSE speed" is the most meaningful term I've ever seen.

Ryzen doesn't have 256-bit wide units, so 256-bit instructions take 2x as long.

The benefit of that is that Ryzen doesn't throttle the clock speed of the whole chip when executing AVX2 instructions :P

Intel's widening of units has brought a giant downclocking problem: https://blog.cloudflare.com/on-the-dangers-of-intels-frequen...
And you are using the internet statistics fallacy in an argument (did you know that 42.42% of statistics are made up on the spot?).

Considering the # of drones in operation at the moment, we can assume a MUCH lower risk to manned aviation assets than .01%. I'm sure that regulations aren't being driven by statistics (unfortunately, with things that get lots of attention, they rarely are).
USCIS considers pretty much everything that results in monetary gains (other than investing) as "working". Even renting your own house counts as working, so people on H1B can't do that either.
>But Diaspora has them.

Oh is diaspora still alive? I would use it, but I'd guess I'd have even fewer friends there than on Google+
It's a fad. That said, the texture/sweetness of the pearls can vary a lot. (They're pretty finicky to cook correctly), so you are going to get a pretty big range of quality.

That said, I prefer egg custard if I get milk tea.
They could have survived the real names policy debate, if the API had been there. But that was one hell of a double-whammy.
99.99% is a wild assumption merely to illustrate the fallacy in thinking that just because something is unlikely doesn't mean it won't happen.

And I'm all for "don't let perfect be the enemy of good" in many situations...but none of them are where people die if mistakes happen.
How do you find such an experienced therapist? What do you mean by "all our problems are basically psychological or spiritual"?

Why do we have to slog through crackpottery for insight?
Maybe even three stories; there's another bit in that Google blog post about Google making their API permission prompts for Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and contacts more fine-grained and locking them down with policy measures.
That's not what happens though -- people have shrieking tantrums that you aren't doing X for free, or enough, or high quality enough, or that an engineer made a mistake, etc etc etc... And if you ask why they trusted their incredibly precious things to a service for which they don't pay, you get yelled at more.

eg "You said free, and now you're telling me I can't store 20TB of videos on your service! Un-fucking-believable". Cue all the statements (from free customers) that they'll never pay :rolleyes:

See also the threads on here when a company has increased prices.
> The people who say that are the ones who pay for programmer time

TYPICALLY the ones I hear that from are developers who aren't in charge of money/budget, and usually don't ever think about the cost of anything. The 'shiny/new' syndrome, coupled with little oversight, leads to nasty $ surprises later on.

And yep, "programmer time is more expensive" all night long. But at some point, other expenses are coming out of someone's budget someplace. Just because it's less than some other line item doesn't mean those costs can't add up to more than was expected (or needed, or budgeted for).
first half starts to look like a troll comment, and it's probably too late for those down voting to realize the sarcasm which is apparent in the second half of your comment :D
But none of these jobs are available for people without university degree.
I didn't know the Navy does, or that it forbids moustaches on their own. Is that a recent change? Or maybe depends on rank or post? It conflicts with stories I've heard re: my uncle (who was a submarine commander in the 90's) being barred from beards but not from moustaches, and thus growing his out to ridiculous lengths at the annoyance of my aunt.
If this is a topic you'd like to know more about or donate to, consider: https://viaheartproject.org
On the flip side, every once in a while in the fish-shell GitHub repo we get an idiot that files an issue titled “is this even maintained?” because there is a non-zero number of opened issues (or I file a bug on GH and the the repo owner closes it immediately as “will revisit later” so the issue count doesn’t go up).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
So it's remaining as a product for enterprise customers. Does this mean every enterprise instance will have it's own instance of g+, or will they be able to interact with other enterprises? And will I be able to move my profile from domain to domain if I move companies?
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On demand cloud compute and storage killed the Hadoop beast. Python/C++ tooling is slowly gaining marketshare back to the HPC glory days where MPI was king.

Once IBM mainframe, the king of CAp, is put in a major AWS/MS/GCP data center expect them to gobble Cloudera. Or Principal corporation goes nuts and starts taking on Guidewire.
They don't tell them to directly kill anyone. Because very few people attack firefighters.

Indirectly, however they do recommend that. If the burning building is very dangerously unstable, firefighter SOP is not to enter to try to save anyone who might still be alive (nor permit others to do the same).
Who the FUCK would care? Why is this on hacker news???
>We made Google+ with privacy in mind and therefore keep this API’s log data for only two weeks. That means we cannot confirm which users were impacted by this bug.

Wait, so they only keep two weeks worth of logs and within these logs they did not find anyone abusing this flaw. How can they be certain for any time period from two week prior ?
I have a feeling a war would do more damage to the climate than someone pulling out of the paris agreement would ever do, if that's how you're suggesting how to enforce compliance
It’s always a people problem.

You have to force people to own every ticket or they will just rot.
It appears you're saying that only "100%" and "0%" states are distinguishable from each other, and that the universe of the superposition of states boils down to "some do and some do not", which are all indistinguishable from each other.

Can you clarify that that's what you're asserting? That's what it looks like, and I sincerely hope I'm wrong, because that's a very weird hill to defend.
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Thank you for the explanation! I completely lost track of Intel processor branding after the "Core"/"Core 2"/"Core 2 Duo" era, and these model names have been a complete mystery.
You're right. It's incredibly easy to ignore things that aren't immediately in front of me. Like the human rights abuses ongoing in China, which aren't really part of my immediate daily life and I don't generally think about much.

With that said, is it possible that this passage could be interpreted more charitably? Perhaps some might read it as a comment on how demanding perfection can cause more negative effects while seeking to prevent negative effects.

For example, where might our technology be if our species had refused to extract or smelt metals until we had the ability to do so without any emissions of any sort?

It's not about what real preventable human tragedies can be averted, but aren't, because of the evils of human greed you wisely point to. It's about accepting that imperfect improvements to alleviate human pain and reducing human lives lost can, sometimes, be preferable to hoping for perfection at some future date.
Thank you for sharing this. I am so sorry for your loss. Your writing really spoke to me. I immediately texted my wife to tell her how much I appreciate and love her. Having kids really does a number on a relationship. The routine and obligations are exhausting and tedious. Thank you for the reminder to zoom out and be grateful for all that she is and does.
I find "consumer Google+" much more confusing than "sunset(ting)".
Another even more egregious example -- around 10 or so years ago, I was a big proponent of the writing website Urbis. It was a site where you could submit a piece of writing and get feedback from other users. You can still see its activity on the Wayback Machine. It was an interesting site still without equal as far as I can tell.

From what I understand, one day, the creator decided that the site wasn't making him any money and shut it all down. I foolishly didn't back anything up and all my prose was gone. Granted, my teenage writing wasn't about to win any awards or woo any publishers. But some of the stuff I wrote was meaningful reflections on experiences at the time, meticulously edited and reviewed, and I still wish I would have been able to read them now.

What really irks me is that all he had to do was give me one day and I would have been able to save all my stuff. I have very little sympathy for any company that does anything like what Rachel describes here.
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Yeah, good points. I haven't used G+ in so long that I've forgotten the process. I think it was because I had way too many groups that I thought I was going to use, so each new connection required more though than necessary. You are right though, once you put someone in a group there isn't much more management necessary.
https://www.zompist.com/spell.html

"Whenever the subject comes up, someone is sure to bring up […] Shaw's ghoti-- a word which illustrates only Shaw's wiseacre ignorance. English spelling may be a nightmare, but it does have rules, and by those rules, ghoti can only be pronounced like goatee."
When did you last see a plus button?
Isn’t the news section of the Journal walled off from the editorial section? As a regular reader of the Journal’s news section (but not the editorial), I find its reporting to be quite solid usually.
Amazing, now we know why he has temporarily retired from kernel leadership and what he is really up to.
Seems like those competitions where people write one-liners have their merits.
Net revenue CHANGE might be the one metric that makes sense.

The reason to track any metric is to know if you should continue, stop, or go all-in. If you are flatlining - or going down - that's a HUGE sign to quit. If you have steady growth, easy as she goes. Explosive growth, you might want to double down.
"cheap remote workers" isn't quite the point, it's more access to talent that's not geographically next to you. I know it's not your main point but I just wanted to add this note. :) Most companies who do remote and are successful at it, don't pay a discount on employees. In fact in many cases the pay is very competitive with SF/NY standards.
>Ask yourself why you consider it right to shame them by name, when OP did not consider it right to do so. [...] ,

The other possibility that you didn't seem to consider is that the author (Rachel Kroll) is withholding the website's name to protect herself and not the company. If she only heard about the company's video deletion via second hand information, she'd understandably be hesitant to name the company in her blog. The person telling her the story may have not gotten the facts exactly right.

>and without doxxing them.

If a user can factually state that <RealName> cooking website deleted videos, that's not "doxxing" the company. That's a very peculiar word to use and it doesn't apply to this situation. If someone factually states that the MS Windows 10 upgrade deletes users' files, that's not "doxxing Microsoft".
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Most model editors for CRUD aren't boxes and lines, since as you say moving around and connecting boxes isn't generally useful. So I'm not sure why you were starting with that UI.

To me, projectional editing is the most sensible type of programming. Unfortunately projectional editors have not had as warm a reception on HN, because programming is narrowly defined by complex text editing. Anything with a UI and programmers are afraid they will be accused of being users. It's dumb, and most won't realize it or admit it, but that's what it comes down to.
I never realized Twitter curated timeslines because I don't follow enough people for it to cut anything out. It is effectively a chronological order of posts by people I follow.
Don't forget Toronto's crack-smoking mayor Rob Ford. Stephen Harper's government was extremely "conservative" (corrupt and anti-science).

I have lived in both Alberta and Quebec. The casual, open, and brutal racism against Native Americans in both provinces is disgusting and makes any anti-immigrant sentiments seem tame in comparison.
I loved the idea of Circles and I used Google+ a lot in the early days. It all seemed to go to shit with the unified account business.
As someone who regularly works with CrowdTangle data, I can confirm the article's assertion that LADbible/Unilad's Facebook numbers are nuts.
separate the boba and the tea with a sieve. eat boba. drink tea.
I tell everyone the same thing: I don't know any specific details more than anyone else. But what I do know is how Amazon operates and makes decisions: via data, not feelings.

My guess is that there are two teams. One has spent the last few years (long before the HQ2 announcement) building an incredible formula that estimates the expected return over the next 25 years for opening HQ2 in a given city, given these 100+ variables. The second team is collecting those 100+ variables for each city, maybe making analyses on cities to make better estimates on what those numbers look like.

The decision will then boil down to the city with the highest number popping out of the formula.

That's what I would expect from Amazon at least. I have no actual knowledge of what the process really is. Then again, after the Fire Phone fiasco it's clear not all of Amazon's decisions are made this way.
I drive a Model X and I got it precisely because of the extra space :)
When did "there was a vulnerability" become "there was a breach" ?

I don't understand why it's being reported as a breach.
I work in EdTech and would like to think that there is always $ for the kids.
Ah government, the "original corporation" that occasionally decides your grandmother is a problem, organizes a pogrom, and shoots her.
Are you referring to the 8086k?
If you would like to read the book again: http://1984.surge.sh
I strongly believe stuff like this doesn't happen by accident. It's easy to write pieces about how a soulless algorithm is determining stuff and we can all be sad about it, but in my experience, that's rarely true.

There's almost always at least a software developer (or technical person of some sort) calling out "Hey, are you sure we should rank by $X? It will have this edge case in situations $Y and $X?". Usually they get steamrolled by a "product" person who's invented some new terminology for whatever shady shit they are pushing now. "It's just growth hacking" "complimentary contextually relevant ads will improve the user experience".

People know. They always know. They just choose to feign ignorance when they get busted.
It's going to be very interesting to see where all the tabletop gaming people land. G+ got a lot of pickup in that hobby because the early API blended tools, like Hangouts with overlays and easily segmented discussion groups, that worked well with online tabletop gaming. Roll20 integrated well with G+ (at least until Google killed the Hangouts API in April 2017).

The early adopters reached enough of a critical mass that others used it solely because of who was already there, making it an actual social network for at least that purpose.

Much like when Reader folded, G+'s critical mass is going to spread out to a half-dozen other places and refragment. And like Reader's exit, there's a vacuum right now for someone to jump in with something better and charge a nominal amount for it.
> under 10%

Source of this number, please?
I think even that is being too generous. If you’ve ever set up any kind of public-facing server, no matter how obscure, you know that scans for vulnerabilities are constant. Whoops, you didn’t install that urgent Apache update because you were on vacation with no SSL access? You’re pwned.

Centralization does have drawbacks, but it in terms of security it is a major step up from homerun servers in many ways.
What do you believe to be the cause of that abject poverty?
I didn't downvote, but I'd guess that they (a) want an authoritative reference to the story you're sharing, or (b) figure the point is moot because these errors still happen, even if less often than depicted by the study, and that ought to be enough to justify using ECC.

Like I said though, just a guess.
If you're bringing in multiple separate WASM libraries, they'll run separately from each other. Don't give them access to any memory they shouldn't have access to.

Note that this is considerably better than Javascript, because without going out of your way to make an iframe, separate Javascript scripts aren't isolated from each other, so you don't know if one of them is modifying a prototype or hooking around other variables in the global scope.

By default, separate WASM modules don't have access to the same memory.
You took the best decision. It's not worth even a million dollars per year, if living in the US means bonded labor. The amount of stress that comes along with it is mind numbing.
Chrome linux 11835

Firefox linux 2132
I survived the 4 years they blasted Google+ signups at me without signing up once with my account. Luckily that dissipated after a while and things got less annoying every time I signed in. I imagine most people clicked "I agree" and created their public page. But it was really awful for the rest of us that didn't want that.
Thanks! (I’m CTO, SW at Oura, but not an Oura founder).

New firmware and Android release coming soon that likely will help with your issue
Any better suggestions?

Ones that actually work as intended in the general case, and don't frequently malfunction by getting a bunch of people exiled, consigned to real poverty, or killed?
In my opinion the entire privacy breach is a non-issue. Here is what I think happened:

Some engineer at Google found a bug in Google Plus that could be used to access private data. The issue was investigated by the security team. They find that no harm was done. Incidents like this happen somewhat regularly at any tech company. Normally nobody thinks twice about it or even thinks about disclosing it to the public.

However, Google wanted to shut down Google Plus and wanted to avoid a backslash like with Google Reader. They used this bug as a pretext. Before Google releases this blog post, the post gets leaked the WSJ. The WSJ then puts a spin on it that Google didn't expect, because the narrative fits well into the current news cycle.
Loads of people are depending on it, in spite of all Google's constant attempts to kill it. It started out as the best social network, and I've gotten to know tons of great people, projects and products there. It has really enriched my life in a way I don't see Facebook or Twitter doing. My Google+ friends and I will definitely miss it.
"In 10 years, he pledged on June 30, 2004, the worst of San Francisco’s homeless problem would be gone. [...] A decade and roughly $1.5 billion later, the city has succeeded in moving 19,500 homeless people off its streets, roughly equivalent to relocating the entire Castro district. But despite that major effort, the homeless population hasn’t budged, showing that as one homeless person is helped, another takes his place." https://www.sfchronicle.com/archive/item/A-decade-of-homeles...

The homeless population has remained steady about 5,000 - 6,000 people. It suggests some sort of equilibrium and that the predominate dynamics at play are far more complex than issues of housing costs and "gentrification".

If you have a mental illness or drug addiction problem, it's actually not too difficult to get off the streets in relatively short order if you choose. If you lack either of those handicaps you're likely to leave altogether. But in the aggregate there's a certain tolerance people have (especially for the mentally ill and drug addicted) for living in homeless conditions, and people (especially the mentally ill, drug addicted, and people who live on the street) don't like rules.

Also note that the number of living-on-street homeless today is the same as over a decade ago. (I qualify homeless because if you live in certain types of housing you're still classified as homeless under various regulatory guidelines used to allocate funding.) Removing compulsory treatment and other consequences to get off the street has, at best, been a wash in terms of homeless numbers. (More likely contributed to overall increase.) However, it very clearly has resulted in homeless flouting normative behaviors even more. Most mentally ill and drug addicts were and are capable of avoiding using the streets as a latrine because despite the same number of street homeless the environmental conditions are far worse today than at any other time, even though the numbers are unchanged. Which means they were and are capable of responding to consequences. If you're all carrot and no stick, don't be surprised at the results. It's something that's undeniable at this point. We can't only blame unjust laws or difficult economic situations, not in the aggregate.
Just like grocery stores putting milk and bread way in the back so you have to walk by all those high margin items.
Not if they want a reasonable amount of people to actually see what they’ve written...
If you want to go the mentioned "rewrite-whole-history" route, I have used BFG Repo Cleaner [0] successfully in the past. It's way faster than git-filter-branch [1].

Another thing: You can work with shallow clones. If the commit is ancient, no need to pull the whole history of a project.

[0]: https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/

[1]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-filter-branch
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Since RISC-V is being mentioned here, thought maybe I took the opportunity to ask about it. I would like to learn more about instruction set, I know very little about it so I was planning on purchasing a book called Computer Organization and Design, it comes in three flavors: MIPS, RISC-V, and ARM. Which one would be the best option to read of those given, or which one would be the most relevant where I would get the most value out of it. Can anyone provide a minimal suggestion? Thank you in advance!