skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean that you upload a zip file to their web page and they buy a new USB drive, write the content of the zip file and send it using the post office?

[Bonus point if they can make the USB drive read only.]

[Bonus point if they can send also a CD/DVD. (Does people still have a CD/DVD-ROM?)]
I have not read the article, but I find the choice of date interesting. 2038 is unix rollover time [1]. It does not appear to be mentioned in the article so it might be a coincidence.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

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> but the meek will inherit the earth when judgement day begins on the 19th of January 2038 at 03:14:07 UTC.

I stand corrected, Unix rollover time is exactly why this date was chosen. It must have broken AI safety protocols in the robots which turned them into killing machines. Cool, I will read this article tonight.
Which of these statements are likely to be true:

When developing applications with multiple different types of files (XML, HTML, JSON, Javascript, etc)

A) They prefer to use different editors for each of type of file.
B) They prefer to use a single editor that supports all the formats.

How about:

A) Text editors don't typically support multiple different file formats.
B) Text editors typically support multiple different file formats.
Especially in long running anime series this is highly visible. They are often based on the manga as a source material. Eventually the anime will catch up with the manga and to avoid that the anime has to be stretched with "filler content".

Producing an anime series requires a far far bigger team and is significantly more expensive than a manga so why is this happening in the first place? Why can't they just add more people to work on the manga? The artists are not the bottleneck. The authors of the story are the bottleneck. They have to come up with an original story and this is not the type of problem where adding more people helps.
Tika is what we use. It's not perfect, but it works pretty well for our purposes.
The key here is Misuse under the FBI's guidelines which are no where near as strict as they should be under a properly enforced 4th amendment, most of what the FBI collects in the first place should be unconstitutional for them to have if we had a properly enforced constitution, unfortunately we do not.
That's ridiculous, maybe I'm over-involved with my kids but I'd think your parents would go to bat for you in that one. The school making you fail other classes over that is unacceptable
That wouldn't do, it'd be discriminatory—anthropologistist even.
My experience is that you can't have a generic good recommender system. It all depends on your business but if you just want a mixture between using navigation data and item data lightfm works pretty well for the generic case
What I mean is that it's become a major part of the US's economy. Globally, this industry probably generates 100s of billions of dollars, and those companies mostly spend their revenue on more software, more hardware, more research, more computer scientists, more computer engineers, etc. Indirectly, probably almost all of us here are partially paid from the ad-network-value-chain. And, what about all of the open source products that have been funded by these companies.
> How hard can it be to build a publishing website in a privacy-respecting manner? It's been a while since GDPR was introduced.

Why should they even bother?
So... incredibly lucrative if Ready Player One is to be believed.
You can just read the thread linked from that bug.

* Endpoint compromise is (and has been for awhile) outside of Chrome's threat model. This comes up a lot. The simple way to understand it is that the Chromium team refuses to get into an arms race with malware developers to protect secrets from code running at the same (or greater) privilege level as Chromium itself.†

* Token Binding is a particularly complicated feature, so the effort/reward calculation was unfriendly.

* Nobody was using it (on the clientside, with extension developers or people enabling the feature flag, or on the serverside, with major sites actually enabling it).

* Token Binding alters the semantics for cookies, which the rest of the development ecosystem generally assumes to be simple bearer tokens, which has the effect of breaking features and extensions that depend on those semantics. Again, if the reward were higher, this wouldn't have been a dealbreaker.

Token binding is, I think, pretty much a dead letter at this point.

† FWIW: I think this is a super-reasonable position for them to take.
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True, _sometimes_ they can't.
> Delphi code base (which is Object Pascal right?)

Object Pascal was created by Apple with feedback from Niklaus Wirth for Lisa and Mac OS implementation.

Other Pascal vendors eventually copied the extensions, most notably Borland.

When they released Delphi, they kept calling it Object Pascal, although most of what was in Apple's MPW and Turbo Pascal variants is mostly legacy.

As for the rest I will have to agree to disagree.

- I love that I already had those OOP features and modules in 1992 vs bare bones C;

- I consider proper TDD (Type Driven Programming) a good practice;

- pointers are type checked, not sure what you mean here

- No macros is plus, the large majority at ISO C++ is creating safer alternatives for each use case

- OOP is quite useful in many use cases. I loved Turbo Vision and OWL.

> Of course, the Delphi code I wrote is just as unsafe as if it was in C.

Naturally one can disable all safety buttons and go full speed, but here lies the beauty of Algol linage of languages.

Type safe by default and if one really requires that extra mile, then escape hatches are in place.

Thing is, for 99% of most applications that is largely unnecessary.
Sounds like a labor mis-allocation bubble.

Bubbles burst. Furthermore bubbles should burst, for the health of the economy.
Congestion Control III: RED
> How hard can it be to build a publishing website in a privacy-respecting manner? It's been a while since GDPR was introduced.

I can understand why a newspaper whose subscriber base is in southern California would not want to spend the time and money necessary to comply with European privacy regulations. It's unlikely that the benefits for the business would outweigh the costs.
I found a new person to follow! From this blogpost and her wikipedia page I'm impressed.

I wonder though -- is the fear of the Robot Uprising of 2038 founded, to her, or is that applied drama by the blog author?
Isn't it a little ironic that your example of a problematic counterpart for Gab.ai is itself a site in part dedicated to boycotts?
Yeah, blame the victim some more. That's a good look.
And this from the fourth largest newspaper in the entire US and the largest newspaper of the second largest city, no less.

I just in Europe last week and it was infuriating how many US-based newspapers couldn't even be loaded. Americans travel abroad, and foreigners read domestic news sources. The LA Times isn't just local news; it's cited widely in, say, Wikipedia articles, and those are read globally. So to refuse to display any content in Europe is a huge middle finger.
When Apache Groovy was first released, it offered closures and dynamic typing on the JVM ecosystem, but nowadays Java has lambdas and inferred typing, so Groovy doesn't really have much fundamentally different to offer anymore. And since version 2.x, Groovy is also "trying to compete on Java's home turf" because it has static-typing annotations, but Kotlin and Scala are probably better choices if you want static typing on the JVM because it was baked into them from the get-go instead of being bolted on as in Groovy 2.x.
It immediately errored out on the server. Also, I recognize your username from a transitive dependency, I think from blackfriday (markdown library), so thanks for your contribution!
Man, this article fits all the media hyped industries. Gamedesign, Actress, Model.
IIRC from my brief skim this morning, it's $50MM over three years, so it might make more sense to think about it in terms of $16MM/yr.

edit: I misread this
I'm planning on going.
> As a member of upper management, how would you address this then?

By specifying what is and what isn't allowed wrt. user data in products. By ensuring it gets included in new employee training, and communicating that exposing the company to data-related risks is a serious, fireable offense. By having internal checks and audits that monitor data risk and keep it low. I.e. basically the same things you'd address risk of financial malfeasance.

> Move way from "devops" and back toward a world where there's a clear isolation between ops and development?

It's not really about "devops" vs. dev/ops separation - it's about not moving fast and breaking other people's things. You can solve that with good professional practices, but there needs to be an incentive to adopt them (as opposed to the existing incentives to ignore them, in pursue of short-term profit).
I'm going to present an unpopular opinion: Why should they?

I'm all for a free & open internet but I'm not for the internet complying to regulations set by governing bodies that do not represent the entire globe.

I believe that if a government should choose to attempt to regulate and enforce what we can build online and how then they (and their constituents) should be dealt with in a hostile manner.
What requirements of this law do you believe would be impracticable to comply with without millions of VC funding?
>The issue is that normally a user has to enter their password in Chrome or, if you want their cookies, you need to modify the chrome binary itself to steal them

or you could go to the site, autofill the password, then extract the password input's value using the dev console.
I think recommendation systems actually are pretty good at recommending stuff you already like. I think a lot of us tend to buzz right past those as "well, obviously I've seen that already" and don't take note that it actually hit the nail right on the head for the first 5-10 results.

The trick is to find stuff that cuts across the space in some sense—stuff that's out of your current wheelhouse, but still has features that you would like. (E.g. I like the music of both David Rawlings and Mark Ribot, even though they are in wildly different genres, because they both have a certain ear for melody and relationship with dissonance that I like.) I don't think anyone is doing that well yet.
I'm going to chime in here since everyone downvoted the OP. My guess is he got the Gmail account early. This was a known bug early with Gmail. They fixed the signups, but it seems there were some issues that continued if you had already gotten an email address that collided prior to the"fix".

I created an account for my daughter that had this issue and it was really messed up; we can see emails sent and received by another person which included a bunch of personal information; job application conversations, flight details, etc...

We ended up just switching our daughter to a new address, but if we had a more malicious nature; this is a big security issue.
That's a non-sequitur response; all of these are VC-funded startups that could easily have paid to comply with this proposal.
What I am stating is that to re-write existing systems, regardless how rotten they might be, someone needs to pay for the work to happen.

What many tend to forget on those "X re-written in Y" posts.

Pay Per Hour * Total Hours Effort = Money Spent on Rewrite

Additionally what I am saying is that languages that come with the OS SDK have first class privileges and experience shows that 99% of the companies won't look elsewhere.

For example, in commercial UNIX days, you would get C and C++ compilers as part of the base SDK. The vendors that had support for additional languages like Ada, had them as additional modules.

So any dev wanting to push for language X needed to make a case why the company needed to put extra money on the table instead of going with what they already got.

A similar process happens on mobile and Web platforms nowadays, you either go with what is available out of the box or try to shoehorn an external toolchain and then deal with all integration issues and additional development costs ($$$) that might arise.
Why would you do this instead of using pymc3?
Do you believe LA Times misjudged their cost-benefit analysis of EU publication?

Or do you think a cost-benefit is the wrong approach?
TorGuard or NordVPN

I country switch quite a lot these days. Video won't load? pick the Canadian VPN. Website won't load from Europe? use the New York VPN. The crypto exchange doesn't accept US customers? Use the Iceland VPN. Netflix pretends not to have a show anymore? Use the Australia VPN.

There was a time when I thought this would be a ridiculous suggestion, but at this point the VPN software is very convenient and they have such a wide array of servers in different countries, and regulations make the net much more fragmented. It is second nature for me now.
As the Devil's Advocate, one can argue that the fraud was perpetrated at the peon level of the loan originators, who originated loans to people that could not afford the loans. The executives hands were washed clean by the ratings agencies that gave out AAA ratings. Those high ratings were "reasonable" because the loans were consolidated into CDOs and the top traunche(s) of the CDOs can handle a few missed payments from some of the debtors. In hindsight, many of those products probably should not have been AAA rated (especially ones that consolidated lower traunches of other CDOs). If there was a law that stated that ratings agency executives go to jail when AAA rated products fail (i.e., make them strictly liable for top rated products instead of relying on reputation alone), those executives would likely pay better attention to which products get AAA ratings. Looking back, there was no such law and the ratings agencies were free to give out improper ratings backed by their reputations.

Skipping back to private consumer data, a law that clearly states that executives go to jail when there is a breach of private consumer data would likely increase the chances that the executives will pay better attention to what data is collected, how data is stored, and how data is protected.

Tangential topic: an interesting regulatory idea would be to have mandatory jail time for all executives (and board members) of a company of a minimum size that is successfully sued in a class action for more than X dollars. Make it strictly liable so that no direct knowledge is required to convict so as to punish executives who allow their companies to harm the public. If an executive allows their company to harm the public, then that person is not fit to serve as an executive.
It's kind of weird that it's linked to the repo, and not the documentation.
https://eventstore.org/docs/event-sourcing-basics/index.html
You think someone can compete with Google or Facebook without massive amounts of capital?
All it took to get around At Ease was to hit the interrupt or programmers key (which on newer Macs was cmd + the power button on the keyboard). That brought up the micro debugger, and you just had to type "G FINDER" and it'd dump you right out to the Finder.

Eventually our folks replaced At Ease with some other app, (Cyber something, control something? no idea) but they setup a hotkey to disable it which was nothing less than shift + K. That didn't last long at all, with Karla, Kyle, Keith, and Katie getting incredibly frustrated just trying to type their name.
Is it similar to the word "bro" in mandarin? :P
Especially for a regional newspaper.
Catch 22. The killer robots will be quite proficient in tracking electromagnetic radiation.
So what sort of negative consequences, that outweigh the benefits, do you see here?
No, he couldn't. I think you need to read the draft more carefully. Flappy Bird, in the scenario you describe, is explicitly exempt from imprisonment under this proposal.
I'm pretty sure that for many political brochures these words could be used interchangeably
To make money? I mean, they can choose to do that in whatever way they like, their decision to lock out such a huge market just seems odd.
I had a bad experience interviewing with Facebook’s Product Data Scientist group. I had two initial calls with a recruiter, was told to expect outreach for a third, and never heard from them again. I followed up twice – radio silence.
Those lucky fruit flies and llamas.
I suppose the implicit question is more; what are they doing that is likely to be in violation of some (relatively mundane, tbf) privacy regulations.

The only thing gdpr really changed was the size of the fine...
Gusto is searching for a creative product leader to launch a new initiative
Again, I believe this is simply false. The provision carrying "decades in prison" applies only to companies making over a billion dollars in revenue, and only in the very limited case where a particular officer of the company knowingly mis-certifies a report to the FTC.
> It feels like what you’re saying is ... “why would an average tech worker want to move to somewhere that isn’t a spitting image of California and SV culture?” ... Expecting other places to coddle your tastes and expectations

I mean, this was the topic at hand. I recognize it hurts to hear one's chosen home disparaged, but when you're trying to recruit candidates into a location, you can't exactly demand they put up or shut up. You're not just competing with LA, you're also competing with SF, Portland, and Seattle, as well as Denver and other cities in Colorado. The 'blue bastion in a red state' pitch for specific cities basically relies on the supreme court to protect blue cities from their state governments, and well, we probably need to see a term or two of today's Supreme Court before we understand the full ramifications of recent appointments.

On the other hand, Amazon's HQ2 strategy seems to be 'let's find a lower CoL city to house all the accountants and HR specialists', so nationwide recruiting may not be an actual concern.
How is this a bubble? Unlike previous bubbles, the current technology surge is actually funded by real value, real demand, real revenues, and gigantic profits.
Recommending Griffith to study quantum mechanics is just plain wrong. It's inconsistent, have many gaps in the material. There's a book superior in many regards to Griffith
- the "Quantum Mechanics: Concepts and Applications" by Zettili.
Maybe. That compensation would still have to come out of company's coffers. Either way, this law will definitely make large companies spend money - as it should, because that's what you buy back risk with.
A big part of that is comparative population size, and the general "connectedness" of the fanbases. All online communities are trending worse and worse, and gaming is not unaffected.
Tbh thats still a better outcome than the status quo isn’t it: a single hack is now limited in damage, and multiple are required to do the equivalent of todays scenarios
No? I haven’t tried almond milk, but rice milk tastes similar.
The author’s argument is that a highly irradiated landscape would be too energetic for silicon based memory to work as it’s now designed. I’m not an EE but I’ve spoken with some engineers of early silicon systems which had to account for high energy cosmic rays flipping the bits within RAM in a random fashion. My guess is that using a solution like Hamming codes would not work when retrieving arbitrary data at a large scale.
Using a cookie for non-essential functionality would be enough.
> It's unlikely that the benefits for the business would outweigh the costs.

On the Internet, nobody cares where you are located. The fact that one cannot be bothered to serve their bytes, at basically marginal networking costs (and some fixed one-time investment) to hundreds of millions of potential additional readers shows bad business judgement and poor leadership.
MUDs were advanced data processing systems. As a kid I wrapped my head around one with a 100k line code base. That has led to quite a successful career and I still use a lot of the same techniques I learned.
"My dad had bought me a 101 electronics kit from radio shack..."

Proud to say I had the same kit. Santa is the man.
Distage: Pure Staged Dependency Injection and Faking Kind Polymorphism in Scala
> If you know that your induced demand will be filled in the same way that current demand is being filled, then creating more demand is irresponsible, if it can be avoided. What benefit does wasting so much energy have?

I think you misunderstand PoW. Energy is not wasted, energy is spent to provide the security level that is demanded by the market. Nobody will spend a joule mining bitcoin unless it is profitable.

> At least Siberian homes using mining to heat their house in the winter have a good side effect

This is actually a bad thing, because it means mining is inefficient. Primary purpose of mining is to convert energy into PoW, if you get heat doing that - you’re not getting as much PoW as you could’ve got.
“Controlled”
An even earlier bug in Unix that considers "file.txt" and "FILE.TXT" two different files is still causing user anguish to this day. I mean, honestly, can any of you raise your hand and say that's made your life better?
Breaking the Law of Information Non-growth
I remember that. Every single time I booted.
I've long held a less charitable suspicion that at least applies to politics: rational thought seldom results in a position that unfairly favors one group over another.

If you want your side to beat others, you want irrational ideas and motives that justify violent and deceptive actions.
Many many free software projects are started by people who don't get paid for it. Those people start their project in whatever language they want. If someone wants to write webserver software in Java or an OS in Object Pascal, they can do it.

Successful projects may get financial support from companies later. I doubt that these companies are overly selective towards "obviously bad languages". I don't buy that there are any mechanisms in place to get cynic or outraged about. Maybe it _is_ just that some languages are more productive.