skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why "Big Brother conspiracy theory"? It sounds like a great tool for them, it wouldn't be the first time a government passes similar laws for that reason. For instance, the law https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/election-trol... passed in the UK: without a clear definition of what a troll is, you can easily get rid of your opponent by saying he's an internet troll (and you can probably prove it for just about anybody, everyone has made at least 1 questionable comment, if anything as a kid).

The EU is not the US.

If it was the US I would definitely put lobbying as the only or main reason for passing such a law, but the EU doesn't seem to be as favorable to lobbists (see GMOs, labelling laws), while they seem to love pushing their agenda no matter what nowadays (see attacking other member states like Hungary and Poland), and creating a just-in-case legal framework to better their chances makes very much sense for them, IMHO.

That's what I think, anyway. No one knows, for sure it's not the official explanation that it helps content creators, or they're unbelievably incompetent.
do you also smirk while you're having "exactly the same dining experience" at applebee's?
That doesn't work. They'll only reach places already colonized.
Of course they'd err on the side of caution in this case.

I think this is symptomatic of an underlying problem with the increasingly centralised Internet.

It used to be that if you wanted to share content online, you put it on your web site and others could visit. If it was infringing someone else's copyright and they objected, they would send a friendly message and/or legal C&D notice to you, and you'd probably all be sensible about things.

Today, ISPs don't tend to provide everyone with some basic web hosting allowance any more, while a tiny number of huge third party content hosts are making staggering amounts of money from redistributing others' content as a middleman. However, those hosts typically have no obligation to anyone to provide this service.

So all the small creators are making themselves beholden to businesses that see them as the tree that money grows on but are quite happy to cut off a whole branch if there's any fruit that might be rotten rather than risk spoiling the lot.

On top of that, a significant proportion of people are also uploading other people's content to the hosting services, but for some reason the hosting services get to have magic legal shields that mean they can be running extremely lucrative business models based in no small part on turning a blind eye to being accessories to infringement, all while offering debatable social benefits over what we used to have instead.

So I think "erring on the side of caution" is probably understating things. The hosting services would do almost anything to defend that legal shield and their business model, because as things stand the hosts are basically laughing all the way to the bank while mysteriously immune to the normal laws that apply to you and me and while having no real obligation to the people who provide the very content on which the hosting service depends.
> Every YouTube creator that I follow has at least one video whose purpose is to rail against YouTube's mystifying demonetization policies, their trigger-happy DMCA policies that aggressively favor major copyright holders

To be fair, youtube was forced to do so because of corporate, news/media and political pressure. People forget that youtube also fought against the DMCA and corporate/media pressure before they lost.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ezp4xa/youtube-is...

https://www.recode.net/2016/6/20/11974514/taylor-swift-youtu...

> Listening to the CEO of YouTube cry "but think of the content creators!" is about as transparently self-serving as a US politician crying "but think of the children!"

Of course it is self-serving. But it's also true. Youtube has been consistent in their support of fair use because as you pointed out, it's in their own self interest.

The problem for youtube is that content creators on youtube aren't organized or powerful like the media companies. And whatever you think, they have to follow the law and like most companies, they are going to err on the side of caution when they are forced to.
Yikes! Not a good look! Ding ding ding, nope nope nope!
Not now, you can use old Z370.
So basically what this does is avoid locking the database while migrating? Obviously (and the README mentions this) the two releases have to be backwards- and forwards-compatible, so with this backend you avoid locking for other processes while migrating.

Very useful, especially for long migrations, but I would like to see a bit more detail about how this library achieves this, what the caveats are, etc.

EDIT: Never mind, there's a comprehensive "how it works" section farther down, I just needed to scroll far enough. This is very useful.
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> ‘Aren’t we all in the legal field to some extent?’

I heard a CCO complaining that non-legal people should not have access to any contracts. Her claim was that they would read those contracts and think they understand them, while in fact they won't. She considered this a too great risk because only legal people could truly understand them.

She'll love this piece.
I’m guessing 100% here that it’s the number of options or RSUs roughly equal to 15% of the salary. Even if it was 20% of the current salary it isn’t a good deal.
The problem isn't DMCA. The problem is Content ID, which allows rights holders to take down other creators' content automatically.

YouTube goes out of its way to grant rights holders a level of control that wouldn't be possible with a strict interpretation of the DMCA because an illegitimate DMCA takedown request would be a felony whereas an illegitimate Content ID claim goes unpunished.

EDIT: Note however that Article 13 strongly implies a system like Content ID. So the irony is that for YouTube Article 13 doesn't really change anything and the filter they complain about is bad for all the same reasons Content ID is bad.
Because this was the first time in the history of linux this happened (a non-LTS release that wasn't by Linus himself) and Linus also wanted to take this as an opportunity to apologize for his behavior. Linux is a huge and very important project, so I'm not surprised this deal was a big deal and had a lot of coverage in HN or reddit.
That's true, but I think there's a lot of less technologically proficient people for whom this actually works better.

Like, as tech nerds we have no problem navigating lists of lists of settings, we can usually guess where a setting will be if it exists. But for a lot of people, just asking "Hey Siri, can you make the letters bigger?" would be more accessible.
> ...or trying gestures until something happens.

That is a good definition of discovery...
The timing is impeccable, would you not agree?
Reminds me of how for a while Peru was one of two countries where something owned by Coca-Cola wan't the most popular soft drink, instead it was Inca Kola; that ended with partial buyout of the local producer.

(The other was Scotland with Barr's Irn Bru, now a casualty in the War On Sugar)
I can't believe that the government would blackmail Tim Cook into writing such a strongly worded rebuttal and then, weeks later when the story is not making the front pages anymore, have him write a call for retraction which brings this story back in the news cycle. That makes zero practical sense. That's the problem with many conspiracy theories: they make it seem like the people pulling the strings are incredibly clever and powerful while at the same time completely clueless and coming up with extremely complex plans to achieve mundane goals.

I could believe it if the denials so far felt incomplete or ambiguously worded as if they were tiptoeing around something that they were not allowed to disclose. I could believe it if all we had coming from Apple and Amazon was the usual lawyer-speak "I won't confirm of deny" bullshit. Instead we've had completely unambiguous "this is completely false and never happened". If it turns out to be a lie it's going to be devastating for the trust in Apple or Amazon.

I mean think about it, if for some reason the US or Chinese agencies wanted to downplay or shift the blame they had so many easier ways to do it that would put them in an awkward position if somebody manages to prove the existence of these backdoored mobos. If the best spin they could come up with was "just deny everything and make sure to do so at a regular interval so people are constantly aware of our denial" they really need better PR people.
Like SQLite? Well played if you ask me.. https://www.sqlite.org/codeofconduct.html
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And how does the author know what the inside of a shoe tastes like?
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C++ doesn't support designated initialisers.
> Is it just me or was the knee-jerk 'racism!' on everything immigration-related in the article off-putting?

Agreed. Impartial evaluation of facts seems to be dead.
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Bypass Paywalls – A Firefox extension to bypass paywalls of many news sites
there is actually no observable proof that anything about the inner inner earth we 'know' is correct.
for lack of a better theory and any kind of observations, like with any science, we accept the most likely theory untill it's proven wrong >.> which it might or might not be in the future. to say you know exactly how the core of the earth looks like is just plain silly. it's like saying the universe is infinite or finite. there is no proof or fact. just theory upon theory upon theory. not saying it's bad to theorize, but confirmation? that would be a sample from earths core...... not some wild speculation base on observations of processes very far from what is being theorized about
iPhones have hit the point that their main target audience is people who have 4+ years of experience using iPhones.
People who are either older than me (TV and radio era) or younger than me (mobile apps) look at me like I'm crazy when I seriously suggest ending all advertising. It's a terrible blight on society and you don't really recognize it until you haven't seen an ad for a month or two. (I use Firefox on my phone with an adblocker, and I don't use apps that show ads. I don't watch cable. I really have not seen an ad in I don't know how long.)
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There is already widespread censorship and suppression of dissent [1] and content on these platforms by new 'ministry of truth' government formations like the Atlantic Council that are completely arbitrary with no due process or transparency.

The EFF was recently interviewed [1] and discussed some of these issues and highlighted the importance the Santa Clara principles [2] for more transparent operation.

It's better to have formalized mechanisms than arbitrary behind the scenes processes these companies are running anyway with no transparency. Creators do not benefit from lack of transparency and no due process so this sudden concern for users on article 13 by Youtube and others without rolling out some due process consistent with the Santa Clara principles is entirely self serving and insincere.

[1] https://therealnews.com/stories/social-media-purge-silences-...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/09/santa-cla...
Your link only shows total fish protein, not bottom feeders. Fish such as plaice and sole form a miniscule portion of the Nordic cuisine, and is mostly favored by older people anyway (anecdotal, don't have numbers).
Their automated policing system is horrific. I make how to marketing videos with no music in the background, and randomly get strikes for copyright that I have to appeal to keep my account in good standing. I used to not understand all the love hate that creators have with the platform but I'm slowly getting it.
>the energy embodied in aluminum

See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_energy

>the rate at which that carpet you specified off-gasses

I think the general idea behind this one is know that the materials you select can have an adverse effect on those who have to live with them. Carpet is one example to illustrate the point
Clearly nobody lives in a legal vacuum. Those days have been gone for a couple of millennia.
Geometry of spacetime as a quantum information processing device
Something like a map with symbols for brands and bars for aggregate expenditure? Add some way to warp through time to show how your personal spending habits have changed.

You could call it Cost of Living.
It's not only synthetic benchmarks. Compilation speed improvement is very real, rendering speed, some simulations, etc. If your workloads are very light, you don't need K-class CPU at all. That said, ThreadRipper should be even better for those tasks at similar price and provides additional features like ECC support, more PCI lanes.

IMO 9900K is awesome if you need best in class single-thread performance for one task and good multithread performance for another task. It would be good for me, for example. I like to play WoW and this game is pretty much single-core limited to provide even 60 FPS. And I'm using my PC for development, so improvements for compilation time are nice as well. Whether I would want to pay that price is another matter, I definitely won't buy new Intel CPU until they fix those Meltdown issues causing significant slowdown in some tasks. And if AMD will reach 5+ GHz by that time, I'll happily switch without second thought.
famous scientists are probably exceptional enough to not be accounted into statistics. The questions is why they breed less.
In this case, the people are really just part of the system.

If an attacker can fool the people into getting funds out of the cold wallet, then they are available for an attacker to steal.

The only way to avoid the people being fooled is to have full auditing of every customer account balance. One needs to ensure that hot wallet + cold wallet >= all customers account balances.

Doing that auditing in a secure way is really hard.
Are you sure this is true for everybody everywhere?

My experience is the exact opposite
>“This legislation poses a threat to both your livelihood and your ability to share your voice with the world,” Wojcicki wrote. “And, if implemented as proposed, Article 13 threatens hundreds of thousands of jobs, European Creators, businesses, artists, and everyone they employ. The proposal will force platforms, like YouTube, to prioritize content from a small number of large companies.

I find it extremely hard to believe that an ad business that depends on scale and a long tail of videos, would ever just limit it to videos produced by big companies.

I'm sure they'll make do even if it passes, because they literally have no choice.
The same reason you do hello world before proceeding to more complex software engineering.
> Why did Linus make such fanfare about his departure

I'm not sure he did. AFAICT he wrote an email on the Linux mailing explaining that he was taking some time off and why. He also did an interview or two, presumably because he was asked.

He probably realised that a portion of the internet would go bananas but that's not entirely his doing.
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Besides enforcing religious beliefs with history of multiple genocides, this is bad CoC.

It is toothless. What are procedures when someone in community breaks rules? There is no board to decide, no email to report, no process to take place. Do I pray to the Lord?

This is pure trolling without merit.
The peak TDP is another controversial point. Interesting page from the Anandtech review:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13400/intel-9th-gen-core-i9-9...

Fully loading an i9-9900K will consume 170W. Note that this is POV-Ray, a ray tracer, which can be reasonably defined as real-world application.

When stress tests are performed, like the following:

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/stress-test-cpu-pc-guid...

the peak is 205W, which is extremely high (when compared to the touted 95W TDP).

AMD is actually transparent on the ThreadRipper power requirements - the reported TDP is 180W, and stress tests confirm that value for several models. In this respect, Intel is arguably cheating.
I wonder if AMD could get an advantage (marketing and benchmark-wise), by declaring a low TDP of 95W, while having an effective 200+ one.
hey! we are also heading to websummit! would be great to meet up, i think both our companies could create great synergy together!

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A friend made this neat E2E encryption library for Discord. Still a work in progress. Feedback and PRs are welcome. :)
A New Company Helps People Flee San Francisco's Ridiculous Cost of Living
Even if you object to their choices of black surnames, they also ran experiments with male and female names, and with hispanic names. In those cases, resume screeners were all but certain as to the race and sex of the applicant. Still, there was almost no discrimination detected.

Honestly, I feel like I'm playing whack-a-mole here. You started by claiming that there was a massive gender & race bias:

> CVs/books sent around with just the name/gender changed and the huge difference in response rate to see the bias.

When I corrected that and linked to a study, you replied with an argument based on a misreading. When I corrected your misreading, you fell back to, "I don't think you can meaningfully isolate class and race, since they're so inter-related in the US." If that's the case, then it also refutes the conclusions of the original (flawed) studies claiming racism. After all, if your argument is true, those can be just as easily explained as classism.

I'm not sure there is anything that could convince you that you are mistaken.
I work with a ton of people from Grandes Ecoles and while I think they're generally great coders, certainly as much so as if they'd spent their whole education madly typing as fast as humanly possible, as juniors they're not much better than the "indent and write lots of comments" level.

I've been to a "regular" university and I'm pretty sure I said some variant of "I write lots of comments" w/r/t my code maintenance approach in a very early interview. I could have written any algorithm you gave me -- but I had no idea what maintaining an application with users entailed.

My experience is you can't really "teach" writing maintainable code beyond just having people fix bugs for 6 months in a million-line codebase that's reasonably well written.
Honda Accords being on the list of top most stolen models at one time.

Yes, there is demand for those car parts, but most importantly, late-90’s Honda are incredibly easy to steal. They didn’t fix that until the 2000 model.

It’s so well known that you need something like a club to stop those cars from disappearing.
I don't see how that exact description couldn't be used when writing about a man. In fact I assumed it was a man at the start of the quote (haven't read the article yet).
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I'm pretty sure that many monks individuals did the best they could with what they were given. That is very different from it being true for the whole order of the Benedictine.

At the same time I do believe that the spirit of Christianity, Islam and most other religions is inherently good, positive and inclusive and there are definitely people that use that as a guide to improve themselves and their lives.

BUT, even if the spirit is good, the actual history says that these organisation shouldn't be held on a moral high ground for anything because they don't deserve it.

Moreover, even today, chances are that if you are a non-conforming individual in a very religious community you are subject to isolation, bullying and shaming.

And that's why I find it of very bad taste to use this as a CoC that should guide integration: if I have been bullied from my ultra-religious community, for example because I am bisexual, then I'll not find that a very welcoming sign.
I'm looking for a portable workstation, so I guess that would be the P-series for me. They're a bit heavier than my current Macbook, though; my 2011 17" MBP weights about 3 kg, while the 17" P71 and P72 start at 3.4 kg.

People already complain my laptop is too heavy. Maybe I should start looking at smaller screen sizes after all.
You're moving goal posts so far I don't even understand what your point is. Malloc vs GC doesn't matter at all because you can decide to not use it if you don't want to in Rust, C, C++. The vast majority of performance sensitive code avoids dynamic allocation of memory at all costs by either preallocating a large chunk of memory upfront and reusing it or by only using the stack. When no allocations are performed in a time critical section of code it is not affected by other threads making allocations. This is what a predictable runtime model is.

Programming languages like javascript or python always dynamically allocate every single object. When the GC does it's job it has to stop all threads and therefore will stop your time critical code even if you avoid allocating inside it. This is what is commonly understood as an unpredictable runtime model.

What does predictable allocations even mean? Allocation is always predictable, it will happen when you use "new" (Java), "Box::new"(Rust), malloc, etc. The unpredictable aspect is the stop the world pause caused by garbage collection.
Your complaint regarding custom allocators doesn't make sense because arena allocators [0] and probably others are available in rust.

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.1.0/arena/index.html
I'd be happy to cheer them on if there were any indication that this represented a legitimate change of heart. But we all know that as soon as they get their way in Europe, their concern for creators will mysteriously and instantly evaporate. I believe that favoring small players over large ones is a benefit to society, so I will continue to dismiss YouTube's outright hypocrisy until such time as they have earned the benefit of the doubt.
I wouldn't be suprised with Jupyter notebooks and all that.
I intend to slug it out with Windows 10 if I switch from MacBook to ThinkPad.

I love Linux (Arch/KDE enthusiast) but there are benefits to Windows too: it generally has better support for gaming, gamedev (all the gamedev live streamers I follow seem to be perfectly productive with Windows), C# development, Adobe apps, and deeper hardware integration (biometrics/Windows Hello and touchscreen support). There still seems to be a huge stigma with using Windows in some developer communities, but I think I can live with that…
http://www.basicknowledge101.com/subjects/space.html has interesting details about Earth e.g. Earth day was only 6 hours long 4.5 Billion years ago
This is so weird why is she complaining? YouTube already has this copyright censor system requested by Article 13 built with ContentID none of their potential competition has, I don't think it would be hard to comply for them and its not like they ever really cared for small content creators in the first place. This just sounds like double speak, in reality Alphabet will be delighted to have the EU shoot itself in the face like that, they won't bribe/lobby the EU for its removal guaranteed.
Totally agree with you. I love how it fits in, gives my Javascript a structure. It does one thing and does it well. Love it!
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