skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Germany, the notary is actually required to read out loud the entire contract and make sure each clause is clear, valid and understood by all parties.

I always thought this was a stupid, overly expensive and bureaucratic process when incorporating a company. However, for a house purchase contract it was surprisingly useful (but still ridiculously expensive...notary costs here are more or less a fixed percentage of the transaction worth).
I also like this email where he explained to a CS student the difference between spinlocks and semaphores.

https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/semaphores.html
This is easily testable because:

1. Not all single char typos are bitflips and when you test it statistically you get more traffic for bitflips than typos. It's a bit more complicated, some typos are really common because they're close to the key.

2. You can look at the raw traffic that comes in and tell what is a simple get request with a fat finger (GET https://en.7ikipedia.org/ vs GET https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=america&title=Sp...).

Source: I have some domains that are bitsquats of some high traffic domains. I get access token headers when I do a raw dump of the traffic. (I turned off the servers after satisfying my curiosity.)

Want to stop randos from getting some tiny portion of your traffic's access tokens? Use client side keys and send signed / encrypted access tokens or even full requests.

Yeah I know. It's so far down the list it doesn't matter. But every combination of github.com, microsoft.com, etc is bitsquatted, so this attack can be considered ongoing. This is doubly true if you're on a domain like .co.uk which is a stupid subdomain of .uk and now that .uk addresses are available someone can buy ko.uk and bitsquat the entire fucking country.
These problems are really common with 50+ year old infrastructure. Looks at the NYC subway from 50 or even 70 years ago and it looks about the same as it does now:

Now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Subway_map#/medi...

1968: https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/irvingtr...

1948: https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/system_1...

The problem is basic day to day maintenance is really not
enough, infrastructure get's increasingly complex and expensive over time. Now compare this with you example city's 70 years ago and it's a rather different situation. Singapore for example did not even start construction on a subway system until 1982.
I guess you don't really know unless there is some inside type information. Often currencies are officially supported by governments but with bitcoin the parties seem secretive.
I will go to my grave not understanding why this is so complex and difficult for people to understand and politicians to fix.

Wages are stagnant, save for a handful of sectors, in which they're growing quickly. Housing prices are rising due to limited supply and backward policies towards new construction. Inequality therefore expands exponentially, creating a city of haves-and-have nots.

Either reduce inequality through taxes and social re-distribution programs, or build more housing supply. Preferably both.
This article made me so mad.
This is free on GKE and I believe AKS, but of course if you're doing this yourself for some reason, you need to compare it with the alternatives.
Vi user here. Will definitely check this out. Thanks for the work.
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And more importantly whole community learned from this.
To the barricades!
This brings back good memories of survival "events" when I was on my King's Scout journey during my high school years. Until one plays an agent in a constrained environment where tech resources are scarce that they truly appreciate having some experience on primitive methods like these. And they work surprisingly well too.
Yes, L line in NYC is automatic train control system. If one is to walk to the end of every L train platform, one would see a sign that says "Automated Train Control System is in Effect"

It requires conductors because of the union contract requires them. Not only it requires an engineer "driving" the train (aka pushing a button "I'm here") but also the second one looking to make sure that the train doors can be closed ( or closing them on the person )

So just on the L train MTA can cut 50% of the conductors by fully engaging automated train control and merging door checker engineer duties with the "I'm here" engineer duties.
> When there is a market for something, that will result in more of it.

So, we should ban not only production, but third-party possession or distribution of any photography/video depicting either results of crime or the actual commission of crime, because it creates a market for crime?
Can't you make the same argument about education?
There is an entire youtube cottage hobby of putting full pirated movies with distortion. The distortion goes beyond simple things like color casts, so I'm guessing they are trying to escape some sort of perceptual hashing. Often the movies don't take the full frame and there are lens flare like overlays put on the images. The audio is also distorted.
Another choice scam that these people do is file claims against people already mired debt on the off chance that they are so deep into it that they have lost track of whom they owe what and no longer have the energy to dispute another claim.
Thanks -- added an issue for the linear search https://github.com/rottytooth/rot8000/issues/2 -- will place a limit on chars in that textbox as well
Craigslist stopped adult ads after FOSTA passed
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/craigslist...
But BackPage, which was essentially a CL clone, carried on until the owners were arrested

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investiga...
Should also change spaces to zero-width spaces, which would then make it less obvious where the word breaks are.
Can't stop laughing evilly at the thought of him instead tearing into a 4-year-old like

Christ, Maisa, your reasoning is weak as hell, and then you come up with THIS shit. Heck no. In fact, not a fucking way in hell. Look yourself in the mirror, Maisa. This patch is ugly, and then you have the gall to quote the "the last s is sad" thing in commit... compared to the diseased abortion you just posted...

EDIT: Shoot I keep having to edit to add more virtue signalling. This is wrong, do not do this to children. Hopefully you didn't need to be told that. Also, Linus is trying harder now. But this is a joke. Someone will make it. It's funny because it's wrong. (Nothing is less funny than when exactly what's supposed to happen, happens.) But Linus did totally say this to someone; I just changed the name.
No, having an image of [thing] is not the same as having [thing], ceci n'est pas une pipe. Replicators would change that, true.

Reductively, a gun is a pile of atoms, like everything else, but unlike child pornography, it has the capability of acting upon the material world.
Speaking of screen-to-watch data transfer, the Timex Data Link watch somehow accomplished this in the mid-90s. There must have been some dark magic to make it work on a watch-battery powered processor at the time.

https://youtu.be/2VmtPaiOBwI
Autodesk to Acquire PlanGrid (YC W12) to Accelerate Construction Productivity
It was at the world crypto economic forum. I can't remember who it was, but he had a beard and olive skin, so that should hopefully narrow it down a bit. I just stumbled in there while wandering out of another presentation I thought was dull. I think he was going off script for whatever the topic was.
Principles for a TLA-Resistant, Email Service in Wake of Lavabit (2013)
It's also worth noting that Heinlein was heavily influenced by his time in the military, and he considered that influence to be a positive one. Unlike Haldeman (of Forever War fame), who portrays armed conflicts much more negatively, with a bigger focus on sheer luck.
Where to begin?

1) Universities, and I mean through official channels, are not great at creating startups. I'd rather they focus on basic research. No, Google was not started 'by' Stanford, etc. The biggest company I know of to come out of a university (founded by a professor) is Broadcom in 1991. Anyone know of a bigger one?

2) Be skeptical of the "$416,442,265" in funding claim. How many of those companies would have gotten funding anyways? This is a tactic incubator programs use: claim affiliation with a successful startup that's about to get a lot more funding. Then the startup gets to employ a "co-founder" for peanuts.

3) I don't think universities do a great job of protecting the rights contingent labor. See: grad school. I can see this program as being very abusive to participants.

Further, this is _exactly_ the type of thing that H-1B critics would point to as an abuse of the system. Honestly it's odd seeing this done out in the open and celebrated.
I was pretty confused by how he framed this video.

What was weird was his constant reiteration of the point that he's been living well, enjoying a well-to-do, leisurely sounding lifestyle. I mean, if that's the case, good for him, but why would he keep stressing that point so heavily in a video about how he lost a lot of his clients' wealth?

It sounds like he's someone who did inspire confidence in investors, but how would his self-described behavior do that?
I've heard good things from Kelsey Hightower's https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way
I believe those chef and puppet scripts won't help you resurrect a project from 5 years ago. You'll practically have to rewrite all the scripts to get it up and running in whatever new hotness is around in 2023. Package names will have changed, new config systems will be invented, and previous workarounds for bugs will now cause bugs.
The point is that the order of the measurements is irrelevant: QM predicts the same probability distribution of outcomes. So the problem can be solved using either order and the response is the same. I am not sure what premise of Copenhagen is being contradicted.

Edit: solving the problem in the "natural" order would give the same probabilities but is much more difficult to handle. You need to get a probabilistic outcome for the position of each single photon on the screen, which "collapses" the state and determines the wave function of the other photon. At this point, the first photon has been detected somewhere but it can only be labeled as "interference" or "not interference" later after the detection of the second photon. The probability of being labeled as "interference" or "not interference" does depend on the position (because the collapsed wave function depends on what the outcome of the previous measurement was). When everything is said and done, looking at the subset of events labeled "interference" there is an interference pattern and looking at the subset of events labeled "not interference" there is not an interference pattern. There is no mystery.
"If something's not working well, abandon it" is pretty pathetic advice. There are very clear ways to fix the problem, the only cause for pessimism is whether the people in charge will do the right things.
You are right about everything except the t. When we observe the supernova, we will call that moment t=0.
"people are cashing out any gains and closing things out this year prior to filling taxes."

Hahaha gains. thats a funny joke.
Even today bitcoin is a serious energy concern. Currently the network uses as much energy as Denmark, while commanding a 0.033% share of cashless transactions. Which countries will bitcoin surpass in energy usage in 2019 as mining gets exponentially more difficult by design?
They can take the bus. Don't you have night buses?
> As best as I can tell the only reason string theory exists is because if dimensions=11 the equations for general relativity pop out.

This gets at the essential feature that seems to be driving string theory research (or at least a major one), but I think it's an overstatement as you state it. String theory is popular because it appears to hold out the hope of a theory of quantum gravity. But to my knowledge nobody has shown that the equations of general relativity pop out from an 11-dimensional string theory model; that is still vaporware. There are results which suggest (at least to string theorists) that that should be possible, but nobody has actually done it yet.
> I'm pretty sure the reason they ended up rejecting me was that I mentioned the technical interviewer that I think containers, container infrastructures (like Kubernetes) and even cloud infrastructure is being overused/used without giving too much thought about it as if it came free (in the sense of setup and operating complexity).

I'd like to understand your thoughts more on why you believe cloud infrastructure is being "overused/used without giving too much thought ..." and more specifically, what the other options are.

I've come from a background of racking physical servers, plugging them into a network and having a PXE process install the OS for the client. It took a day to provision a single server in an enterprise hosting environment. It was mostly automated.

Speaking strictly "in the sense of setup and operating complexity", I'd love to know your thoughts on how dedicated physical servers in a local DC can outperform cloud based infrastructure in terms of (vast) availability and per-second billing. I don't think you could and I'd even be willing to pay for us to do an experiment: you call your local DC and have 30 high-end servers provisioned faster than me using the command-line.

You also put "... containers, container infrastructures (like Kubernetes) ..." under the same banner. I'd like to address this also, but to be fair and honest, I agree that Kubernetes is heavily overused and so I won't address it here. I'm mainly interested in how you consider containers to be overused given their simple as a concept and equally easy to get in place.

Put another way: in what way have you seen containers being abused? I want to avoid doing that my self and would love your thoughts on the matter.

To continue, if we take a rack full of high-end physical, dedicated servers and we want to deploy a Ruby Rails application (a very powerful, common software stack), how would you sell me a bare mental, direct-to-OS deployment of a Rails application versus using containers to deploy the same application?

Two of the biggest benefits to containers that make me put the effort into deploying them is portability and security. It's one "box" you have to logistically ship to a system and one command to open it and have its services supplied to the network. If the box is hacked due to an exploit, the hacker is trapped in the box and isn't roaming around the host server's file system looking for credit card details.

There's a good reason Discourse, for example, only support Docker has a means of deploying their application: it makes it easier.

> Now it's containers and microservices.

Yeah, microservices have been blown way out of proportion in our industry. They're amazing and great when you're Netflix, Facebook, Google, or Amazon, but there are only four companies that are that big and I just named them.
There’s very little substance to this, beyond a general bemoaning of various societal ills. The only hint of a concrete statement comes in the title and first paragraphs, which vaguely flirt with the idea that there is something wrong with democratic voting.
HA is self-healing. And for things that don't do HA very well, there are hot spares that can be activated in 30 seconds. Depends on the SLA, though, as with most things. Most things in my firm can be stood up within two minutes' time should there be an issue with something.
it seems pretty obvious to me what he was doing was contrasting what someone imagines race relations being like and what his actual experience is as a black man in the south

It's quite annoying that it needs to be explained like this, since it should be pretty painfully apparent, but yes.

Sorry but I'm (personally) not particularly inclined to favorably entertain what someone "imagines" about dog-whistle terminology. Their proximity to the ebbs and flows of southern racial 'charm' doesn't hold a candle to what I actually lived through and experienced first hand for 30 years-as a direct recipient of aggressive, racially loaded behavior and speech.
This point is glossed over in the article but H1B visa workers cannot start their own companies and employ themselves. The best case scenario for anyone on this program is spend 2-3 years in university while building a network. You can't work on your startup during this phase. Get a GC and then start working on your startup idea. For some countries like China and India GC takes more than 10 years so this program is not an option for people in those countries.
> One had even grabbed his father’s retirement money

How? Aren’t retirement accounts protected by ERISA?
The complexity lies in the web of incentives that make up regional and local politics. The people most negatively affected have the least clout politically. The people with the most political influence have a vested interest in ensuring housing prices don't drop. So as a result, the optimal choice for a politician isn't the optimal choice for the city as a whole. Not to mention policies like rent control that can produce a huge sort term political gain, at the expense of making drastically harder to build more housing in the future.
Yeah, I had the same reaction. I've noticed it whenever I see adults putting in an undue amount of effort 'just' to maintain a child's innocent expectation of a certain kind of universal justice.

It's so not a part of the adult lifestyle anymore that suddenly being confronted with it affects those sensitive to it deeply.

Christmas culture and thematics seems to target this dynamic.
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In NYC the L and soon the 7 could be operated with one person, but the union insists two remain onboard for "safety."
Why not just go to Penn Station planning on taking the train to the final destination, then Uber on the off chance there ends of being a problem with the train?

The MTA has problems, but it still usually gets you where you need to go.
Looking for Syllabus 2.0
What Is a Computer Science Degree Really Like
AutoDesk acquires construction productivity software startup PlanGrid for $875M
On a service that has been up for almost 20 years, same code base, thousands of daily users, the first server was constantly on 100% CPU. The second server, averaged around 10% CPU with lots of spikes. The third server, now average below 1% CPU usage. Next time I need to upgrade I will probably get a "NUC", or a smarphone, or something even smaller. But it's not only CPU's that has gotten better. The first server also maxed out the bandwidth! And now, although with less users, the bandwidth usage is less then 1% Started out on 0.5Mbit DSL, and it's now on a Gbit fiber.
I don't disagree with this sentiment, but it's worth pointing out that nearly all transportation projects from the "old days" around the world were done by private companies, and often met a swift end in bankruptcy. Creditors lost a lot, but the assets were then picked up by others, and refined through years of trial and error into endeavors of modest profitability. Only our sepia-colored glasses and the survival bias of remaining parts makes it look like people back then had it figured out, and we don't.

Private rail systems in Europe eventually were nationalized during the warring decades of the 1900s and remained that way longer than in the US, while in the US the government spun up Amtrak to relieve rail operators from passenger rail and its rapidly declining revenues, while letting freight railroads go through waves of mergers until only a handful remained. Soon after Amtrak, the airline industry was deregulated, and airlines proceeded to copy the idea: rack up costs, declare bankruptcy, sell, reset.

Truth is, big, ambitious construction projects, and big, ambitious service networks have always sucked, and the ones that remain went through many cycles of overruns and disappointment and service reduction before they stuck. Maybe what ought to worry us isn't that we've lost the magic touch of delivering ambitious, long-running deliverables (railroads, infrastructure, cities, government services...) sustainably, but that we never mastered it in the first place, and the things we have now are the much-recycled husks of former grand ideas that managed to eke by.
There is nothing "cargo cult" about realizing that PHP is just way more difficult to work with and maintain in any large or long-term project than basically any of the more modern "culty" languages (especially the functional ones, which focus on determinism/reliability/transparency, unlike, say, PHP which last I heard has flagging tests in its very own test suite, and does the same "complexity hiding" (read: brushing tech debt under the rug) that every OOP language with an ORM does.

That said, good on you for running a successful business well using tried-and-true tech, can't knock that!
Another stunt ... will ten parents please back off
US planning export controls on AI and other emerging tech
This Is How People Can Actually Afford to Live in Seattle
I know what rent-seeking means, and I understand your point, but I disagree with it. I think you are giving the MPEG-G folks too much credit here.

Unfortunately, the (software) patent system does not distinguish between people actually innovating and rent-seekers. Patents very explicitly give their owners broad rights to shut down any use of their patented inventions through injunctions.

If you think that the MPEG-G patents are not going to be enforced in case someone was already doing what they were doing before the patent was granted, well, have I got a bridge to sell you...

As for MPEG-G creating value, I think that is highly debatable. See this post: https://datageekdom.blogspot.com/2018/09/, which summarizes the MPEG-G situation as "Patents + extensive high profile marketing + lack of evidence for benefit".

That's not a valuable contribution to society. It's simply a tax on the bio-informatics community.
>It's very rare for new rules to apply retroactively — why is this surprising?

Surely you would only be applying rules retroactively if you were engaged in reopening finished arbitration?

Cancelling a current process that is still in open session, on the basis that you have already publicly agreed that employees being forced into that process is unfair, is not being retrospective.
I use Docker for my single server because it (and its ecosystem) offers a straightforward path for:

1. Deployment

2. Distribution (I don't have to build a package for every platform)

3. Supervisory

4. Standard logging

5. Configuration management

6. Infrastructure as code

7. Process isolation (not perfect, but I can get some reasonable protection without managing VMs or figuring out how to roll my own isolation and permissioning)

8. Networking

Basically I don't have to be a professional sysadmin but a "mere" engineer (yes, yes, in a perfect world I would have time to learn everything "properly", but for all its faults, Docker lets me build something useful Right Now).

EDIT: For downvoters, I'd really appreciate more elaborate feedback.
Salaries are a huge contributor to the budget, and there are many roles, starting with conductors, that are unnecessary or could be modified/retrained.
How can we accomplish this without being a nanny state? I see more and more that people that are on fringes don't even want to try to work anymore because they don't have to with all the safety nets in place. I don't know the answer, but I think I do know why you will go to your grave without it being solved - GOP vs Dems solution to this is the exact opposite, and we are permanently stuck. We can't go full bore on either solution (both of which can probably work to some extent) but instead we're 100% deadlocked for the rest of time.