skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a consultant who works with enterprises of all sizes (all sizes that could still be considered "enterprise" sized at least) and I've only encountered one that has used anything serverless, and then only in one production application. And I touch basically every IT application/environment across the entire business.

Now I don't want to say my experience is perfectly indicative of what big companies are doing in general, but I certainly haven't noticed this trend. Even containers are just starting to catch on in the enterprise market, and a lot of enterprise software doesn't currently support containerization.
At the risk of sounding pedantic, it says they "filed legal action". They may have just filed for an injunction.
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Because HN has a lot of tech startup minded people who view the potential downfall of industry giants as a massive opportunity.
The trouble with echo-chamber platforms is they preach to the choir by reinforcing biases, beliefs and wedge issues, further dividing and conquering society into various polarized, separate subcultures. There ought to be a microblog platform that supports written debate of every belief, such that arguments can be settled online rather than spill over into the real world. The powers that be love it when the "little people" argue over abortion, climate change, separation of church and state, criminal justice, the War on Drugs, et cetera ad infinitum. Without civilized debate, a civilized society is impossible.
Are you American because it sounds like you're an American and you hate your government?

There are countries where taxes actually pay things like healthcare, unemployment benefits or retirement and not financing wars in the middle east.
See for yourself how many sites run Google AdSense and Analytics. It was eye opening for me. Google is the internet.
Assuming the recipient has none of the files you are sending, combining many small files into a tar can increase performance since the disk reads will be more sequential than random. Then when you perform the rsync using compress (if the tar file is compressible) means you'll save some bandwidth. You still need to untar the files on the other end though. So, end to end, whether you'll save time is specific to your situation and up for debate.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/30953/tar-rsync-unt...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20587648/can-i-rsync-a-t...
we have a far better track record of combating injustice with free and open speech than without it.
This is exactly the plot of a Mathnet episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj-XMRu_q4s
A refrain that is very true in NYC.

It is a bit off-putting (and just wrong) to read the author talk about white male privilege being a comparable head start to her half a million dollars of family money she’s received. (And 28,000/yr still coming!) For an essay centered on owning up to personal privilege it still has some serious short comings in recognizing how extreme her wealth privilege is versus almost all intrinsic characteristic in society privileges.
The PC port of Dark Souls was really bad, with the KB+M controls being particularly stupid. Since the developer never felt like fixing it, I found that enough to swear off the developer and their games forever.

I'm sure the game would work fine with KB+M if the port developers were competent.
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Perhaps it's an innate behavior to reduce items of discussion to actionable and in actionable? Ie, there's so many things to discuss these days and so much of it is wrong, broken, corrupt, etc; rather than labeling everything "we should really try to fix that" I think humans naturally ignore what they feel that can't change.

I hope it's clear that I'm not choosing a side here, I'm simply discussing your question - why do we do that?
Throwaway account created to spew vile. Shame to see this garbage on HN.
What's the difference between a car salesman and a software salesman? The car salesman knows he's lying to you.
This is a very old gimmick, as old as the first light weight fiber based bodyvest invented in the 60s.

Richard Davis in 1975 was one of the first ones to do this stunt on a body vest. Check out the video here => https://youtu.be/IwBLL7Z3OvU?t=91

I do vaguely remember seeing someone put the Kevlar vest (invented in the 1960s) also to test in a similar manner i.e. by wearing it and getting shot, but I can't seem to find that video (maybe I had it wrong).

> Stephanie Kwolek, who died Wednesday at 90, was a DuPont Co. chemist who in 1965 invented Kevlar, the lightweight, stronger-than-steel fiber used in bulletproof vests and other body armor around the world.

> A pioneer as a woman in heavily male field, Kwolek made the breakthrough while working on specialty fibers at a DuPont laboratory in Wilmington. She developed a liquid crystalline solution that could be spun into exceptionally tough fibers, several times
stronger by weight than steel.

Source: https://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2014/06/stephanie_kw...
1: what if they were providing refrigerators?

2: This is daily delivery, so just have a driver remove all day-old food and bring new food

4: what if driver is responsible for that?
Outline link: https://outline.com/893xwr

The Economist is another website that seems to have been plagued by GDPR and other current web publishing trends.
We've updated the link from https://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/888408/16, which points to this.
Agreed, but the idea that any publicly traded company can or will have ethics is an equally absurd idea. I tend to think of companies as Darwinian machines whose evolutionary 'fitness function' is the maximization of profits.
> Everything can become a culture war on Twitter. I follow a somewhat abstract modernist composer’s Twitter, which so far has been entirely about music and performance dates, and now it is up in flames because someone has decided to drag this artist into MeToo movement polemics.

Then unfollow the guy. Seriously, it's that simple. You have the power to curate your own experience, that's my point.

> It has also been pointed out that a lot of discussion forums for the arts and literature are pretty quiet these days compared to years past, and activity is only boosted when someone posts something politically provocative.

Unfollow

I can't tell you how to cure your favorite subcultures of their bullshit, I'm telling you how to have a pleasant experience on Twitter. If that means your Twitter timeline becomes emptied, you'll have to find new people to follow.

> We live in an unhealthy society where people are looking for a fight, and that desire might outweigh their interest in talking about anything besides politics.

No, that's actually just what your slice of "society" is like. Mine isn't like that, because I curate it not to be like that.
> but otherwise who, exactly, would wear this?

I dunno, I could see it making sense for the people who went to that Bitcoin conference in Mexico. Or people traveling in unstable regions generally who want to blend in, but also don't want some basic protection against getting kidnapped or killed.
Disclaimer: I'm not a tax advisor or anything, just a humble payer.

The notion of "the family" is not a thing unless you're talking about dependents. Transferring money from one person to another is income for the person receiving the money. It's not being taxed twice, just once per time "earned". (and it's not even taxed until the limit per the comment in this thread! TIL)

To allow for these kinds of gifts they limit the amount that is tax free. Allowing unlimited gifts to "family" would likely result in all businesses being "family" businesses, etc etc. Lots of downstream ramifications.

So this seems to answer "how do I help my kids a reasonable amount without being taxed without creating a giant dodge"

Giant dodges are best done using LLCs and ownership by other family members. Typically this overhead costs a lot more to manage though, so it's only available to the super wealthy.

I kid here, a bit. But it's clearly also something being done quite often.
I hear this reasoning regularly, and I'm still not convinced of it. I don't necessarily think the old way was "good", but the "least bad" workable solution. Centralised media and so on do have inherent biases, but they are also held accountable when they publish incorrect information.

The problem we have today is not that information is widely available, but that disinformation is widely available and all but impossible to distinguish from real information. We're seeing time and time again, in elections across the world, that false propaganda spread virally through social media is having a meaningful effect on the way people vote. I, too, would love to imagine that a "general skepticism over new information" will develop, but we're not seeing any signs of that. If anything it's the opposite.
>Like we all do with our ISAs and pensions

I think it's a bit disingenuous to suggest it's like that, because the average person is not worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

Sorry but you cannot in good faith compare the impact of tax avoidance by Amazon to an individual's pension.

The problem really is that the loopholes are inaccessible to regular small businesses. A lot of small companies _do_ pay a fair level of tax which makes it difficult to compete with a company that doew not.
There's tens of thousands of manually decensored manga, you could download and compare them to original to identify censored regions and use as training I suppose.
The funding would be for driving the development of the application further, and not to "keep me eating". Right now "it screams" single developer all over. I agree that the app needs validation.

About a month ago I've put Mailchimp signup forms on my website - to see if there is any interest in the app. This is not ideal however, without a demo of the app (sign up for what?)

Proof that people actually want/need the service - yes, this is a good point, I am still trying to figure out how to validate this without having a finished product... Thanks!
If the clothing is functional, stylish, and priced right then why not?

You can think of them as being just another clothing company. If you had the option for your normal clothes to be bulletproof with no downsides, who would opt out.
Nobody is compelled to take methamphetamines or heroin, especially not the first time. Yes, physical addiction is a beastly problem beyond simply quitting cold turkey - but you sort of put yourself in that boat to begin with.

It's a bit like not knowing how to swim, and deciding to jump into the ocean. If you don't know how to swim, don't jump in the ocean.
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> At the risk of sounding pedantic, it says they "filed legal action". They may have just filed for an injunction.

Which is a suit for equitable relief (now, your pedantry might be accurate if excessively pedantic if the claim was that they had filed a lawsuit, since a suit in equity is not a suit at law, but since it was just “suing”, which applies equally to a suit in equity, the pedantry is misplaced even with the possibility you point to.)
> doctors and nurses worked and what they bill hourly

Those guys are typically salaried, and that's likely one unknown.

Another one is the legislatively imposed obligation that they provide [expensive] ER services to anyone who walks in regardless of insurance coverage requiring the hospital to potentially eat up the cost.
It was a nice read, but the article is clearly biased. It just says "suffer a bit today to have nicer tomorrow", but when you play the long game, tomorrow will be the same as today. You suffered yesterday, you suffer today, you will suffer tomorrow, but for how long? No one guarantees that after years of suffering you'll reach your desired goal. The question is, with the life being so short, is it worth playing the long goal or should you just enjoy your life and party till sunrise while you still can?
>How is that even a legal possibility?

Walker didn't do it unilaterally; the legislature passed a law to exempt Foxconn specifically. They are considering giving Kimberly-Clark a similar deal:

https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/gop-law...

Wisconsin is under one-party control, which makes many things legally possible.
At this point basecamp has a bit of a 'broken clock is right twice a day feel' that drives a content marketing machine for their SMB product. This is a classic one: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2585-facebook-is-not-worth-33...

What basecamp is promoting is totally fine, but at this point you have to recognize that bootstrap / small biz style vs. VC style biz are two different kinds with their own tradeoffs and the emotionalism in the articles are not that necessary.

But the emotionalism behind the articles is probably what makes the content stick, as people frustrated with their current work environment get inspired by SvN blog articles to start their own SMB and buy basecamp products to organize their business.
Believe me. You can be politically aware and still fall into a hallucination bubble.

However I will say that Engineers, good ones, are accustomed to being wrong and taking the initiative to change their thinking.
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It's about inheritance taxes. Without a limit, an easy loophole would be that a parent could give all their money to their kids before they die and avoid inheritance tax entirely. (Instead, they need a more complicated loophole using a trust.)

But federal inheritance tax doesn't kick in until you leave over 11 million to an individual, and many states don't have an inheritance tax, so most people won't need to worry about this. (Not legal advice, states differ, etc.)
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Enterprise storage reps make used car salesmen look like angels.
It really depends on the game.

One that I want to give thumbs up in particular is Age of Wonders (https://www.gog.com/game/age_of_wonders). It's a 2D turn-based strategy that was released in late 1999. Even back then it was unusual in explicitly supporting Windows NT, and perhaps that's why it continued to work just fine with 2K, XP etc.

But what's even more interesting is that they made the UI to resize according to the resolution, and resize it does - it supports literally any resolution (I tried it on 4K!), and it will properly resize everything. Of course, the widgets and the fonts are still bitmap, so everything's tiny - but even so, still impressive.

All in all, I'd say it's a good example of Win32 API stability. Windows upheld its part of the bargain, and a game like AoW that used all those APIs (DirectDraw etc) strictly as documented still works. The ones that don't work are generally the ones that made assumptions that were valid then, but no longer are.
> They have a negative impact on our domestic businesses (traditional brick and mortar, as well as home-grown digital businesses

I have a home grown, UK based digital business. This is going to affect me negatively more than the continued existence of the FAANG companies.
"The fact that prohibited drugs are nevertheless so widespread, that it is trivial to get access to them if you want to, is prima facie evidence that prohibition doesn't work"

This is false. It is not trivial to get hard drugs. Most people have no idea how, and if they go that route it's risky.

If drugs were allowed to be in the corners store, you'd see a 100x increase in their use.

Drug prohibition keeps drugs in relatively small terms. Without it, it'd be as common as beer or wine.
The claim was not that they were listening to calls (which they also directly claim they don't do, according to your article), it was that Facebook listens to you through the app. They've also explicitly stated they don't do that, as well.
It's a fair question. Personally though, I come down on the exact opposite side of the question – all gifts should be highly taxed, with maybe a nominal tax-free allowance of a few thousand dollars.

Making large gifts tax-free is just another big advantage that kids born to rich parents get over those born into less-fortunate circumstances. If we're in favor of equality of opportunity (and almost everyone claims to be), much stronger inheritance/gift taxes seem like a really obvious place to start.

I wrote some thoughts on this a few months ago: https://corbt.com/posts/2018/04/25/a-100-estate-tax.html
> How do you break this loop?

Crowded market, half-baked product, no sales? Honest answer is stop here, learn from your own post-mortem, add this project to your portfolio and move on. Next time you will do better.
Vespene is pretty new so a lot of things are up for grabs. Pipelines were implemented in about a day, so the potential to make rapid upgrades is pretty big.

That all being said, I think you have 95% of that right there today with http://docs.vespene.io/importing.html

This is a JSON file, and it can define what pipeline a project is part of, and what stage it is in that pipeline.

So it's like "this project is part of the analytics pipeline, and it is part of the deployment stage".

But you still have to make the analytics pipeline in the GUI right now. This means that you have to say (and this is all) the analytics pipeline has the following stages in order: A, B, C, and then D.

I think it's quite possible to have the definition OF the analytics pipeline in the vespene.json too, but it's a bit of a question of which one wins if there are conflicting definitions.

If you want to stop by talk.vespene.io this would be a great thing to bounce ideas around on!
de-anonymized names tend to help - petermcneeley replying to randomguy23
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Well, let's go...

> Quantum key exchange is a way to distribute keys, which will be used in some symmetric encryption scheme

The largest use of an asymmetrical cryptographic algorithm is key distribution, for use with a symmetric algorithm.

> That scheme has security that does not depend on any "difficulty" conjectures. It is "information theoretically perfect" modulo implementation bugs.

Up to this point, I've never seen any design of quantum encryption that provides any actual security. It's an abstract property of them that there should be one way to get physical security, just like it's a property of computing that there should be some good NP-hard problem one can base a cryptographic algorithm on. AFAIK, both are open problems.
Technology evolves. As it evolves, it becomes more sophisticated and the roles themselves become more specialised.

Twenty years ago you could have a designer writing simple HTML/CSS pages and then a Java developer filling in the functionality with JSP pages.

Today, the advent of sophisticated frameworks like React, and the browser becoming a highly capable development platform, it makes perfect sense to identify a separation of design-oriented UI/UX developer roles who are presentation experts and more engineering-oriented devs who focus on immutable state stores, app architecture, API design, implementation performance, testing, etc.

We really need good names for these two roles.
And most importantly: YouTube lacks a dang. The volume of comments that are processed vastly exceeds what human moderation could possibly do, and community up-or-down-flag moderation of comments has massive known vulnerabilities to sock-puppeteering and signal-jamming. It's an extremely ripe target for this type of manipulation.
Sure but did you have any other interaction with the internet about these topics? Did you search Google for tree house building codes? Did you search Pinterest or Instagram for ideas?

I have heard this anecdote many times but I don't believe Facebook is actually recording everything we say. Mostly because I don't think our phones have that kind of battery life. I do think they have data on essentially everything you do online.
See my earlier reply about http://docs.vespene.io/importing.html - though I'm pretty darn open to making this do a lot more in the .vespene file.
This post is nonsense.

Lots of people hold gold. These people musy sell their gold to pay taxes.

This does not drive the price of gold down to 0, because that's not it works.

Bitcoin is exactly the same as any other commodity.
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I dislike how people use "conspiracy theory" so dismissively these days. They were likely referring to what was shown in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptiWBrd9YbQ.
Link to a review that contradicts Tomas?
Interesting. Looking at the Euler equation again as Argand plane rotation, would e^-ix be a form of clockwise rotation?
Using the methodology of:

https://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/eulers-formula.html

as a reference template, e^-ix would seem to involve:

(taylor cosine series) - i * (taylor sine series)

or e^-ix = cos x - i sin x = -1

which suggests another twist to the familiar identity:

e^ix * e^-ix = (cos x + i sin x) * (cos x - i sin x) = (cos x)^2 + (sin x)^2 = (-1) ^ 2 = 1 = e^0
You don't need a conductor at every door to allow all door embarking/disembarking. Look at metro north, or SunRail. They both allow all door boarding without a conductor at each door. Raised platforms is something that could help to achieve process improvement.
The "limits" are being placed here by other organizations that don't want to touch Gab with a 10-foot pole.

Gab is perfectly free to entertain whatever politics they like, unfortunately for them, the eco-system around them is also free to react by refusing service to them.

Maybe they'll need to switch to a listserv? Whatever the case, it is perfectly OK to deny Gab services, just as it would be OK to deny doing business with Facebook or Twitter.
Waltham has that. Within walking distance of the commuter rail station (which is also a bus nexus), there are apartment buildings, two supermarkets, a large number of restaurants, and most of the other non-big-box store types you want. A nice movie theater, too. Waltham has a big stock of rental housing because there are two colleges (Brandeis in the south and Bentley in the north). Crime tends towards shoplifting and driving with a suspended license.

It's 23 minutes on the commuter rail to North Station, less to Porter Square. The 70 bus runs to Central Square Cambridge, stopping at the Arsenal Mall along the way.

Come be my neighbor.
I mostly don't read these articles, but some random observations:

Facebook never clicked for me. I deleted it, went back, still couldn't make it work, deleted it again, started a new account and was banned. Whatevs. It seems to not click for a lot of folks inclined to hang in spaces like HN. Some folks who never really got it and perhaps felt left out that "everyone else was on it" may take glee in watching it fall and may feel some sense of vindication or the like.

There are truly terrible things being fostered by Facebook in some parts of the world, such as some developing countries. If you care about human rights, it's not unreasonable to feel like Facebook is a pox upon humanity and deserves to die.

(Complete 180 from the last point:) Facebook is a seemingly trivial thing. Taking glee in watching it burn can be good distraction from worse things happening in the world.

Finding a "bad guy" to blame things on helps a lot of people feel better about their own life choices, whether that is reasonable or not.

Humans just aren't monoliths. There is no single uniform answer here. There are around 5 million visitors a month to HN and however many of them are happy to see FB go down, each will have myriad different reasons for feeling that way.