skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>why do people assume a local government will be the end all to services?

Because they don't realize that Parks and Rec is a show about a fictional utopia where government is capable of doing things and isn't all a bunch of fiefdoms trying to burn through money less the money be allocated to a different fiefdom.

Like seriously, once you see how that sausage is made you'll never want to eat it. There's good people in government but that doesn't mean it's possible for them to accomplish good things in government.
Its easy, all you have to think is "what happened first - did they order the keyboard and then discover evidence it might have been tampered with, or did they have the concern, overlook it because 'need a good keyboard, who cares about big brother', and then place the order regardless?"

D'uh .. Its the first option. We didn't think about it much, ordered the keyboard config we wanted, thought about the interception/implant issue, paid close attention to the wrapping upon receipt of the laptop, decided that we'd probably been intercepted along the way somewhere ..
I'm disappointed that the mods changed the title from "Write good commit message" (which is the actual title of the article) to "Write good commit messages," because I think this was an intentional, subtle joke by the author to make the title resemble a commit message.
If anyone wants to walk through these ideas more slowly I write about them in http://ballingt.com/interactive-interpreter-undo and implement this in https://github.com/thomasballinger/rlundo but as you say, eventually decided I had to implement an interpreter for which serialization of state was more efficient and all external resources had amenable interfaces http://dalsegno.ballingt.com/
I mainly love it because it encourages refactoring
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2027 SEPT 19th,

you are being fined

$300 DOLLARS

for improper behavior. Said behavior was

DIGITAL PENETRATION, NASAL

IMPROPER DISPOSAL / DISPERSAL OF BODILY FLUIDS (NASAL)

LEWD OR IMPROPER CONDUCT (NOSE-PICKING)

Fine will be assessed from your credit number on file. Have a nice day."
Wow, that sounds awfully annoying. Thanks for the link.

I dont get why these companies go unresponsive when selling a high end product. They must be happy in their little niche market position, without much competition.
Fair point - the Ashcroft polls, funded by the UK's Conservative party, called the 2015 election as a tie, although it turned out to be a major victory by the Conservatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_United_Kingdom_general_el...
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UPD: up now.
Sometimes reading comments on HN I feel like I stumbled into opposite-land.

Private operators are far more "notoriously corrupt" than local government. At large scale, government representation starts to break down and the will of the majority can become distorted. But at a local level, this is absolutely the better alternative to private ownership of what should be considered a fundamental human right.
Loki was reliable in that he was chaos incarnate. To misappropriate another bit of pop culture, "you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest."
Why We Get the Wrong Politicians - Isabel Hardman

A very real world and practical look at UK politics. When it costs £100,000 from your own pocket to stand, and councillor jobs (that are the training ground for MPs) are part-time but spread throughout working hours, we aren't really selecting politicians from a diverse pool.
I worked as a server in an American restaurant when I was in college (not long ago).

my perspective as an employee: I definitely would remember which customers tipped well. anyone who walked into the restaurant would at least get the minimum treatment my boss expected, but I would often go above and beyond for people I knew tipped well. I usually averaged around $12-15/hr after tips, in a state where the minimum wage was $8.50 or so. this is just speculation of course, but I really doubt I would have made that much money if it had to come direct from the business (ie no tipping culture).

my perspective as a customer: tipping allows me to decide whether I want to pay extra for good service. if I just go to some restaurant occasionally, I'll just tip 18% or whatever and they at least won't spit in my food. on the other hand, if I go to some place all the time, I can tip 25% or more and get great service every time I go.

tipping allows people who care about good service to pay for it, and it allows servers to allocate more of their time/attention to their best customers. having experienced both sides of it, I'm really not sure what the problem is, unless you're just visiting and don't understand the system.
You mean like the university of London has done for over 100 years:
https://london.ac.uk/ways-study/distance-learning

https://london.ac.uk/courses

Currently taking their graduate math diploma, from the London School of Economics (part of university of London),the whole thing will be around $3000, with the registration and exam fees separate, so you only pay for what you use, in a way
More Scrutiny for Confucius Institutes; One to Close
Thanks for writing about GitLab.

If you are wondering what's the Auto DevOps - GitLab Auto DevOps eliminates the complexities of getting going with automated software delivery by automatically setting up the pipeline and necessary integrations. You can find out more info at the landing page [1] and the documentation [2].

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/product/auto-devops/

[2] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/autodevops/
I just wonder how many consumer applications actually need more than 3 GiBs of RAM per process (and I fear to imagine such an app and the idea these are going to become common). As for now only professional (data science, graphics/multimedia editing, CAD etc) and server-side apps may need that much AFAIK, 64-bit pointers seem a waste on an average PC.
I highly recommend The Dictator's Handbook in order to fully understand the de facto politics going on in governments.
What can we do? Send it back to Apple? Still trying to determine if we should.
Hospital workers at a local hospital have warned me personally to never use a treadmill desk. They tried them for some of the staff and after one injury per week for a while — to people’s noses, mouths, and faces — the treadmill desks were banned outright.

They are not a viable substitute for being away for monitor. It’ll work fine for a while, but the eventual injuries that occur are to the most sensitive human-social area available: your face.

Overwork isn’t worth that. Please take breaks instead of using a treadmill desk.
Someone has spent not only the time to recreate a period correct dress, but also do a well written write up of it for the rest of us.

I'm not particularly interested in sewing, and don't wear dresses (well only on weekends ;) ). But its great that other people are interested in that.

Surely the best thing about the internet is stumbling across some blog about some niche interest you had never even considered before, and being enlightened by it. I much rather this than some web 2.0 social media platform with no vowels in the name.

I suppose you could make the argument that HN is for developers, and so should only contain developer things, I don't think the field would advance very rapidly if no one even brought in anything from outside the field. Just wait, next month some web 3.0 doohicky will be announced, informed by this very article.
i think their cookiewall may depend on js. i'm blocking both of them and can see it fine.
Yes. Having the option of being redeployed elsewhere or called back but not doing so is not the same thing as not having that option.
= Finished =

* Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari

* Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

* The Quants

* All About ADHD: A Family Resource for Helping Your Child Succeed With ADHD

* Still Procrastinating? The No Regrets Guide To Getting It Done

* Why Does He Do That? Inside The Minds of Angry And Controlling Men

* Killing Pablo

* Blackhawk Down (re-read)

* Revelation Space. Banks. (re-read)

= Finished Chapters Required For A Course =

* Essential University Physics, Volume 1. Wolfson.

* Linear Algebra, A First Course. Kutler.

* A Concise Introduction to Linear Algebra. Schay.

* Biology I: Cells, Molecular Biology, and Genetics. Custom Text (York University, BIOL 1000).

* Chemistry, A Molecular Approach. Tro et. al.

= In Progress =

* 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari

* Time Reborn: From the Crisis In Physics to the Future of the Universe. Smolin.

* Freemium Mobile Games: Design & Monetization
At least in English and German the 'board' (or 'bord' part earlier) means 'side of a ship' (but it is derived from board as piece of wood, but not necessarily the rudder, see 'Backbord' in modern German for the opposite side).

See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/starboard#Etymology for details.
I have worked at such companies too. But I must state: "Everybody does it" doesn't make it not outrageous.

Every F500 company does it because they're cowards who don't want to pay the full cost of labor. Let's not praise cowardly behavior or make excuses for them.
This is indeed weird; a 4 letter domain name that also happens to be an english word is worth a couple millions.
Well, market manipulation is illegal. If the articles are true (factual), the activity is probably OK, but if the individual is making up rumours with the primary goal of affecting the market to profit from it, that is definitely illegal.
I think that it can also be perceived as derivative from goggles[0], and it fits pretty good.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goggles
Almost Two Years Late, Spinn Keeps Spinning and Backers Become More Restless
Obviously you got to be quite and not complain and then magically fix the laws. Quitely. Shhh.
Show HN: Strength News – An HN-inspired website for sport and gym enthusiasts
Two-letter TLDs are country codes. Republic of Serbia isn't that big of a stretch, especially since it's relatively new (2008) and there are already so many that follow .s* pattern.

Unless you create a new country, .go ain't happening.

That being said, Montenegro scored a freaking gold mine with .me.
What is the purpose of log aggregation without indexing?
Less powerful but more automatic: I added a reload modules key to bpython (F6) for this and an auto reload which reruns the repl session each time an imported module changes (F5)
The Obesity Code by Jason Fung M.D.

Completely changed my world view on how to lose weight.
"loss in caching" means you have pieces of x64 glibc in your $I as well as pieces of x32 glibc in your $I, and I$ space is rather limited.
This is exactly right.

I think what we're seeing in tech broadly is that a lot of idealistic people with great intentions are starting to run into the "real world" outputs of business and law without fully groking what is behind it.

All they see is this person is treated different than that person and want to fix an apparent inequity. Thats commendable to some degree and we need that as a voice if there is something that should be changed, but I think better informed, more experienced people should put the brakes on this stuff becoming overblown. Otherwise we risk real concerns being ignored because people see crying Wolf too often.
The 1000 concurrency is a default limit, and we're very happy to raise it if you need more. The instructions for a limit increase request are here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/concurrent-exec...

(Source: I work on Lambda at AWS)
> You're lobbying for the public to foot the bill for public infrastructure to be used solely by private entities

By this token this describes basically all public infrastructure then. It's not like roads were built with the idea that only public employees would use them.

> then intentionally introducing inefficiencies

Compared to the inefficiency of having ISPs have to build multiple separate physical networks? This service can be provided to ISPs at zero cost if it really worries you.

> I'm guessing after customers pay more taxes and still have the same internet bill.

Well duh, internet is priced based on how much people value it, not how much it costs to provide. Even in a world where the infrastructure is publicly owned no ISP would dare kill the golden calf by significantly cutting prices. ISPs typically compete in the other direction by providing better service at a given price.

> public internet is a failure

This wouldn't be 'public internet' by any reasonable definition, this would be local loop unbundling. It provides the means for an ISP to enter the market without significant construction costs. Any promise that this will reduce prices or lead to better service is purely speculative.
So what did they know? How to program in Java or python?
This is a blanket generalization and easily doesn't apply to housekeeping staff or any other number of support roles outside of engineering efforts.

So hard to imagine that a codebase needs janitors too?
Isn't the use of a lawsuit to deter speaking out illegal (SLAPP)?
I used to view Digital Ocean as kind of a play toy, good for experimenting and not much else, but these days they're a key player for sure and they've been a super reliable VPS host. Can't wait to try out some container stuff.
Also, the city doesn’t do the whole deal necessarily — they can do things like lay the fiber, then lease it to various providers to figure out transit from the local plant across the internet.

This would be more like the dial-up days, where the line to connect to the network is fairly independent from who provides the service.
Could you elaborate a bit on the whistleblower stuff falling apart?
> Harry Potter #1 (too low of a reading level)

The series is great and worth a read, even for your superior reading level.
>Imagine living in a Town with less than 2.5k people living in rural midwest...

And:

>Elected officials care and respond to votes and the smaller the area of control, the easier it is to get your voice heard...

I think either you haven't lived in such a town, or small towns in Wisconsin, where I'm from, are atypical in this regard. Not sure which, since I've never personally lived in any small town outside of Wisconsin.

In my experience, bronco21016 is right to be suspicious of local government. But again, YMMV. Different places may have different dynamics.
+1 for Ryan North, his books are filled to the brim with wit
> Whenever people mention what they are paying for insurance, it usually seems to be higher than mine

That's almost surely because of your $1000 deductible. That's very high... mine is $100 for just one reference point.

> So, that suggests my insurance company breaks even if I go about 5-10 years between at-fault accidents

That would be a "break even" point, but insurance companies attempt to turn a profit, so this suggests they expect majority of their customers to not have an event every 5-10 years, but on average a longer interval. They also account for non-traffic accidents, such as vandalism, broken window, theft, etc... none of which involve the driver being "at fault" or hitting something, which was the original assertion by the GP.
Fair points - thanks for the comments.
Whatever, there should better be competition. If one ISP (a big corporation or a municipality) does it a way you don't like and you can't switch to another one that's sad.
On some axes, sure. On others: there is a basic social contract that underpins...well...society. And it's telling, to me, that Google is conflating "following the law" and "what might possibly cost us rounding errors in additional benefits" in the documentation quoted in the Guardian piece, to be honest: they're tipping their hand here.

And I don't think it's nearly as murky as some folks want it to look. Let's be real: more often than not, when somebody's doing something dirty, they know it's dirty.
Your Kindle can connect with a Goodreads account and will update when you're finished.
> The first check you can make is to verify that a request’s origin and referer headers match the location of the website. These headers can’t be programmatically set

Can I stop reading right here? The referer header is presumably the oftenest spoofed header on the planet.
Yeah, and the training described in the article is a direct result of these tax rules.
"duck" is also used often in the context of not giving an answer (e.g. "duck the issue"), which is an unfortunate connotation for a search engine.
is that literally true? I thought not
Right, but my point was that now that they've done the work on the infrastructure, a bash-like native Windows shell would be really great.
I saw this post the other day, but this just seems like it is going to involve even more outrage at FB when the algorithm presents something incorrectly. Getting ads for "You just lost a child, would you like to call a helpline?" are going to outrage just as many people, which is why I expect they just stay away from that type of subject matter all together.
"It was obvious that the internet had great potential from the start"

> Actually, many people thought the internet had very limited potential

"PROVE THAT BLOCKCHAIN HAS POTENTIAL."

Seems like your argument is a bit inconsistent. But I can give you a handful of hugely interesting applications for blockchain technology off the top of my head.

- Borderless currency that relies on no nation-state.

- Complex financial instruments which require no 3rd party to make them possible (the MakerDAO project is very interesting, for example).

- Storing any type of record where it is important to have an immutable log of those records. Property ownership is a big one, as is any other kind of title (cars, boats, etc). Another good one is transparent supply chains that can be fudged for one reason or another.

- Censorship-resistant web applications (social media, news, forums).

- Provably fair gambling

- Interesting gaming applications, such as in-game merchandise that can be used across different games created by different people / companies without needing to rely on the solvency of a particular provider.
> 3. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Now watch the show. Even better with a visual look at the world of Gilead.
A model that works really well in large parts of New England is "town meeting" - all the citizens of the town who want to get together annually or semiannually and vote on all the important issues. There are also selectmen, who generally guide the way, and other town staff, who manage the day to day issues, but control is fundamentally in control of the citizens. It only works in towns with a population up to about 10,000 though, before it becomes infeasible to get all those people together and the town needs to react more quickly.

In a lot of small towns around here they require that two ISPs provide coverage, so there is actual competition and we get great service fairly cheaply.
The last government I remember that wanted every citizen as a potential spy was the German “Democratic” “Republic”. They should have patented their business model and sold it to Australia.
750words is amazing
It's probably more accurate to think of insider trading as being about trading on privileged access to information. Being non-public is more about who could, in principle, get that information rather than it being generally available.

In the Brexit case, there couldn't be an insider issue as the polling companies aren't inside anything relevant.

The grey area here is solely due to the law that says that exit polls can't be made public before the polls close. That is separate from insider laws but does relate to a question about what does "public" mean in that law.

In principle you might fall foul of insider trading if you had privileged information from the BofE, say, that they were going to make an unexpected rate move before it was announced. Similarly, if someone on Theresa May's staff bet against the pound on Sunday night, there may be a case as killing the vote on Monday was sure to trash Sterling.
That's a lot of swaps! I played around with a simulated annealing approach in my lunch break which consistently gets down to 383.xx with about 10000 swaps, or 379.xx in 100000 swaps. I've yet to tweak the annealing parameters to see if I can get down to (or beat) the 378 example in the article.

It's basically the same as the swap() function in advent.py except you sometimes allow swaps that result in worse scores according to an ever-decreasing probability ("temperature"). The added controlled randomness allows you to break out of local minima at the start and hone in on the local optimum towards the end.

EDIT: after a little tweaking of the temperature schedule I got 377.59 after 10K swaps.
Good luck today, will be watching from my office ;)
Anandtech's article is even more detailed and has a reasonable interesting interview at the end.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13699/intel-architecture-day-...
And none of this strikes you as a problem?
I also came up with something like this: https://streaking.app
It's not in the general population's interest for collections of workers to be able to extract wealth from employers by imposing collective bargaining on them. This is Econ 101. You don't raise the standard of living through expropriation of wealth.

In the long run, involuntary transfers of income and other violations of market rights stunt wage growth by reducing the incentive to invest, and to perform well at one's workplace, both of which inhibit growth in productivity.
Many small towns definitely do listen to their residents. Not all, unfortunately.
Patch into the Matrix at the Linux command line
In Russia it's not market forces that push for internet access monopolization, but the government, as it wants Chinese-style mass surveillance and censorship.
For areas where occasional failure and/or occasional required provider changes are tolerable (basic education, for example, may not qualify as one of these):

competitive market > govt control > uncompetitive market

to be more realistic, there's overlap at the ends of these - you can find some local govts that outperformed competitive markets and some uncompetitive markets that outperform local govts, but on average, the above generalization works.

The real pain is that all the incentives that make capitalism work well ALSO incentivize finding ways to break the market, so a competitive market won't stay competitive forever just by existing.
What makes it easier to predict what code will never allocate more than 3GB than to predict what might become performance critical? How do the failure modes differ if the prediction is incorrect?
Thats fair; the logo was a last minute thing, we'll work on a new one...
64 bit pointers are pretty important for security. When using ASLR, a certain number of the bits cannot be randomized. This leaves you with a randomization space of about 12 bits with 32-bit addresses, but over 40 bits of randomization with 64 bit addresses.
Shorting major currencies is easier than shorting stocks. It's done fairly easily on the futures market, where you create a contract (effectively with the exchange) that says you agree to deliver a certain number of pounds at a predetermined point in the future in exchange for a certain number of dollars today. If the pound falls relative to the dollar, you make a profit.
Easy test: does IBM have a staff of mainframe site install engineers, who don't take direction from IBM's customer but rather from IBM's management, and can reasonably be expected to work on more than one site install during the length of their employment at IBM? That looks like an IBM employee to me.

Or does IBM sell development services to the customer, hire the workforce, turn over day-to-day management to the customer and fire the engineers when the setup job is done? That looks like the customer hired IBM as a cut-out.
pretty awesome. except I saw accidental penis via dick.com and my fat fingers.

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