skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an Australian front end developer currently sitting in the UK, my plan has always been to go home in 5 or so years. Am now deeply concerned with what the industry will look like in that time, not only are there major bandwidth issues due to the NBN mess but laws like this that carelessly punch holes in security make a bunch of startups non starters onshore.
Does not sound odd, but in your case you will store results on disk, rather than in memory? That means that there might be some overhead in (de-)serialization and also some restrictions on what kind of data can be stored as an intermediate result?
As is tradition, every year our Intelligence and Security Service post a Christmas Puzzle with challenging/cryptographic puzzles. Translation from Dutch is a extra difficulty step.
wkhtmltopdf could have been a shout
Isn't it bloody easy enough already to pay for stuff? Fintech startups (this one with its dubious implementation especially) with huge valuations make me sad...
Also, you don't need to worry about server security or server setup outside of the code you're running. With a typical VPS, you'd have to install software updates yourself and have a plan for how to set up a server from scratch again if needed (nontrivial if you do a lot of setup manually over SSH).

Essentially, a good way to set something up that requires minimal maintenance.
Sorry to be nit-picky, but that sounds conspiracy theory-ish. The link you provided does not back-up your claim of the NSA having hacked the Starwood database. The linked article makes it sound like as a by-product of massively vacuuming up internet traffic, GCHQ has been able to track hotel booking confirmations sent to gov.whatever addresses. Which is noteworthy but (legally and morally) not as sinister as active measures.
With the difference that you pay per request instead of per month / year. Mind you, given how cheap LAMP webhosts can be, I'm fairly sure they would be cheaper if you don't need the autoscaling.
In the spirit of the comment with the quote which includes this part: "teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea", I think a lot of what you suggest can be learnt if one adopts a different mindset while communicating. I learnt a lot just by consciously practicing "what set of assumptions or circumstances would make this person's statements correct/valid" instead of "let me see how I can explain to this person that s/he is wrong". Even if the other person is holding on to a position which is objectively incorrect, it makes it much easier to see how s/he came to that position. Anyway, the gist of what I'm trying to say is that without a change in mindset, there is no motivation to function in a different manner. So, it might appear that some people will always work in a certain way but I think if they are motivated to change, then it's not really an extraordinary thing for them to undergo a notable transformation.
> You can't expect an opposition, who are in a very strong position right now to die on their sword for what is, for the vast majority of Australians, a fringe issue.

I think you make an intuitive point here that warrants attention: you’re not wrong, someone is free to “pick their battles”, and be strategical. And that’s fine.

However, when they do, they should face the consequences.

Supposedly, this is a fringe issue, and only the people on HN will care. So we shouldn’t chastise them for being strategical.

But you are on HN! This is where those few people are, who care! So this is where they are held to account. If nobody else does, great, then you were right and it was a fringe issue. But that’s not up to you to decide.

It’s essentially like a market. If Apple decides to “piss off” developers by removing the F keys, do we tell people on HN not to be crybabies because “it’s a fringe issue”? “You know they were right from their perspective, so keep buying Apple products”? No. Those who liked F keys enough will stop, and the market will decide how important it really was and who was right.

Same with political issues.

This is not idealism. This is people choosing their battles. The Australian government did. The people here do. Just a market for votes. Nothing idealistic about it.
> Latency.

On my own testing (GNOME, latest Kernel, as well as Sway temporarily) latency and FPS were better on Wayland than X11 (though only on my beefier graphics card, windows rendered on the second one had higher latency and comparatively lower FPS than expected. But I don't game on that card.

>One thing I need regularly, namely OpenGL pass-through via SSH, will never be possible with Wayland.

Correct because Wayland isn't a network-like protocol as X is (though I've had X network passthrough break or fill up a gigabit ethernet connection worth of bandwidth on more than one occasion).

If you want remote desktop on Wayland, you need a tool specifically designed for that.

It's the unix mindset after all; why have one tool (X) do everything when you can have lots of tools interact and each solves it's own little problems (Wayland + tools)?

>Wayland should only care about tearing when I play full screen games.

If you run a game on wayland you usually get control over the screen anyway when you go fullscreen, once you have exclusive control you can go tearing all you want.

Though with adaptive sync becoming more common (and already being common on laptops) the perfect frame is less costly than tearing; the display will run at the FPS you can manage (within bounds). For it to work you only need to VSync and the GPU driver handles the rest.

In my experience, Wayland has way better and smoother performance than X on adaptive sync displays.
I'm not sure why so many people here are arguing with the "little known" part. Like many of you I owe a lot to compiz due to trying to get wobbly windows working 10+ years ago. But my mother has never heard of it, despite the fact that she'd have a vague idea of what "Linux" is if I asked her. That's the point.
Opera is dead, and I'm sad about that. Implementing features that made Opera great is the best course of action, IMNSHO.
So you switched to Chrome?! Where the analytics stuff is not just a single fuck-up (followed by an apology) but built-in? Where all of a sudden "delete cookies" means "delete cookies except for those by Google"?

I don't get it. Criticizing Mozilla for those things is fair, but switching to Chrome as a reaction to them doesn't make sense to me.
That was also my point. I was just pointing out that the idea that electrons shoot through the insulation to end up in the floating gate was not true.
Just like old shared webhosting :)
>And I doubt that the late college chain has anything recoverable.

Yeah, that’s why I latched on to the FDIC example: Institutions pay in at the start, so the money is there to do the bailout.
Then they iterate? Nowhere does this say that the CEO stays out of the way. CEO can act as the editor, co-designer, arbiter, curator and whatever. Like you hear how Steve Jobs operated.

Mode two thinking does not mean you can't be critical. In fact, critique is critical for the best end result. It means you must understand how to skillfully switch between type 1 goal oriented and type 2 creative mode. That's the trick - you need BOTH. And utilizing mode 1 so that it does not kill mode 2 is really hard. You have to be compassionate, emphatic and work from the common understanding that everyone is striving towards the same goal.

It's "Build this my grandest design to me now!" vs. "Ok, hotshot, show me what you can build and we can tweak that into the ultimate ship".
I did not intend to troll anyone; my comment was sincere.

I am well aware of the rules and refuse, now as ever, to participate in pointless flaming on HN. I don’t think anyone wants that.

I will err on the side of not commenting in the future if I am unable to estimate people’s potential upset responses. (I hope you can understand the potential error bars around such an undertaking; one person’s sincere opinion is another person’s “trollish”.)

(Note that I think moderating such on-topic discussion harms the overall range of thought on HN, but it’s your site and your rules and I endeavor to obey them. I am sorry for taking up your time.)
I am surprised no one here is talking about the price of oil and its relation to the downfall of the Soviet empire. To me, it is by far the biggest factor.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2016/01/21/oil-pric...
No programming approach is perfect but some programming approaches are better than others.
I started programming with a statically typed language for many years and then I went back and forth between dynamically and statically typed several times in my professional career.
Once you've developed good programming habbits (which statically typed languages can help you to learn), ultimately, dynamically typed is better.
Dynamically typed languages are simpler, faster to write, easier to change, easier and faster to test and debug, focus on raw logic instead of semantics, interact with external services more easily (JSON is the most popular data interchange format and it doesn't carry type information), integrate better with unrelated systems (no type conflicts when integrating different projects).

Functional programming is really nice for some things but ultimately, you need to store state somewhere and often you don't want to store all the data in your entire system inside a single monolothic store or database - Often, you want data to be close to the logic which operates on it; having a global data store is often just as bad as using global variable names in your application; it can lead to conflicts (forces you to think about data in a system-wide way; not accounting for data from external systems) and makes it hard to track where the data is used within the system.
>AV1 in contrast is supposed to be free of patents

It is not, it never was, and never will be. It is only Royalty Free.
Is this what HN has become?
Something being lawful doesn't imply it's moral. The line is blurred, since slave labor can be enshrined in law as the responsibility to their country, making slavery a lawful order.

In my opinion, responsibilities are better fulfilled by things like paying taxes and not being a nuisance.
Oh yeah it's definitely a weird Translate bug.

"Krigsskipet gjør en unnamanøver" translates to "The war ship is doing nightmare". "først en unnamanøver" to "first a young man", "unnamanøver i siste liten" is "last minute kidnap".

Translate seems very confused by that word.
Haha so funny, thank you
I don't know why you get downvoted. I have the same question. A warship is loaded with radars, and he didn't run into a small non metallic object.
Here: https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/ci/merge_request_pipelines/index....
I would say, if you managed to cross compile your new browser into a statically linked binary executable weighting a few hundred kilobytes, it would become trivial to distribute and a very attractive “platform”.
> True the post it's disagreeing with picked weak examples. But other than that pretty much all of its overall points were actually very accurate.

That's what I initially thought. But how can the overall points possibly be right if they lead to exactly the wrong conclusions in most or all of the specific examples? At best the part you quote is vacuous and unhelpful for actually making technical decisions.
Well according to this the word translates the kidney AND robbery?!

Thanks all.
Does it really? As far as I understand it, in a traditional webhost you have a certain set of resources allocated to your account for which you pay even when 0 traffic hits it. Serverless consists of an isolated chuck of logic that runs only when a request hits your server. When the traffic is 0, server resources are blocked on an idle service.
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i never believed that hype, but i loved the wobbly gobbly effects. Given linux desktop's general unsatisfaction, they were making it quite fun. The fact that it didn't crash easily helped.
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> Would an Australian employee of 1Password be forced to lie to us

Any employee could be forced to lie to you.

Section 317C of the Act outlines what sorts of products and services come under its jurisdiction. The primary test is whether you have one or more Australian users.

You do not need to be an Australian resident or company to be affected by this law. If you have Australian users, you are subject to the Act.

https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display....
IKOS  a static analyzer for C/C++ based on the theory of Abstract Interpretation
It's not their own definition, this was the default definition just a few years ago.
I focused on reading books about politics & technology. These are my favorites

- Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future by Joi Ito (4.5/5)

- Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella (4.5/5)

- Becoming by Michelle Obama (4.9/5)
Yes. Though I've done this before as well. It was always hard for me to name them. It's like reading clocks, hard as well.
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The problem is 4K are streamed in much higher bitrate, making the video looks better. But in reality, if 1080P had the same bitrate you might not be able to tell the difference. Standard Youtube using VP9 stream 4K at nearly 20Mbps. Most of the best encoded BluRay torrent aren't even using this bitrate, and they are still using x264.
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No in Norway they cannot. The Coast Guard is after Russian Vodka Smugglers and the Navy is watching for Russian Sneak Attack. It does not work if the enemy knows where you are.
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I suspect it’s more that Carmack isn’t one to reminisce to the same degree as Romero. Romero clearly makes games because he loves playing them, whereas Carmack does so as a technical challenge. For Romero, Doom is a highlight of his life for emotional reasons, Carmack, on the other hand, mostly seems to view a game being fun as an unnecessary side effect of it being technically impressive.

They are different types of people, and they both are probably adults at this point, at least sufficiently to acknowledge that their common ground is having a beer and discussing cool new stuff once in a while rather than the style of friendship which would involve being willing to take a bullet for one another. If their interests intersect then they can talk and be excited but those points are too fewer to call it a deep friendship. It is mutual appreciation of technology and cool stuff.

I would not read into it that they are unfriendly though, just that the type of friendship is bounded by interests and passions and I doubt either one has hard feelings about the past.
There are 3.6.x releases [...] Where is the source code?
Is this addressing any of the cold start problems?

One of the things that attracts me to Serverless is not paying anything (or vey little) until a project is properly off the ground.

But with things like Heroku there’s a ridiculous delay to start up if here hasn’t been a request for a while.

Does Serverless / this implementation of Serverless address that at all?
Probably because all the scientists have not been shifting that consensus like the latest diet fads??
This is a very good point. I'd only considered it in the context of an individual.
You keep using that word.
True, definitely Amazon is heavy on the Serverless marketing/filter bubble.
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So, a few thoughts from a person with a condition that significantly impacts how my body processes salt:

1. After years of pursuing diet and lifestyle approaches to managing my condition and reading up on health stuff generally (and talking to people with PhDs in topics like Chemistry and Biology), I concluded that the circulatory system is the means by which all of the body interacts with all other parts of the body. So if one thing is out of whack in one part of the body, the primary way it impacts some other part of the body is by way of how it impacts blood health. At this point, I think this should be viewed as a kind of "Biology 101" thing and I'm not very impressed with dramatic pronouncements that the gut impacts blood vessel health in the brain, le gasp. To me, that's kind of "Well, duh!"

2. The body uses various molecules in conjunction with various others, so one of the things you see is that adding more of X by itself will naturally cause chemical derangement. Salt in particular works in conjunction with a number of other minerals and the natural source of salt -- the sea -- contains a variety of other minerals. "Table salt" is not how nature supplies us with salt. It is, itself, chemically deranged from the get go and very much on purpose.

One of the things they put in table salt is a chemical to make it pour easier. We assume this chemical is harmless, but I'm not aware of any actual studies on what it does to the body, especially not if you start consuming a lot more of it than "normal". So if you are consuming a lot of table salt, you are likely consuming other things that aren't normal while not getting the variety of minerals found in ocean water. I found high quality sea salts that had that variety of minerals to be highly helpful in regulating my body's relationship to salt. Getting more salt helped me, but only if it was accompanied by the right minerals, the right carbs and the right fats. It took some experimenting to find the right combo.

3. About 70 to 80 percent of the immune cells in the body are found in the gut. So, your gut is a primary part of your immune function. It really should be no surprise at all that what you eat impacts immune function.

4. I found it enormously helpful to read up on Altitude Sickness. This was a huge Aha! moment for me that makes it clear how the blood connects different organs.

You begin peeing at altitude well before you are at any risk of suffering Altitude Sickness because the thin air means you can't breathe out as much blood gas wastes as you normally would, so your body starts shunting the excess blood gas wastes through the kidneys to get rid of them. This has other consequences, such as dragging salt and other electrolytes out with it. So you need not only more fluids at altitude, but also more electrolytes as well. Heat waves above 105F and hiking at altitude are about the only time I consume Gatorade.
I don't think h265 will ever be widespread as h264. I am counting on H266, which has an industry formed alliance MC-IF for patents and they include All most of the original H.263, H.264, H.265 members. ( Missing Qualcomm )

Hopefully they will work out a deal and move things forward.
There is also https://www.netsurf-browser.org/

Small as a mouse, fast as a cheetah and available for free. NetSurf is a multi-platform web browser for RISC OS, UNIX-like platforms (including Linux), Mac OS X, and more.
A couple solutions:

1. tuition money goes in escrow. It's refunded if the college goes under. It's paid out otherwise.

2. buy insurance. You get a payout of your tuition if the college fails.
You can still travel and work across europe for now, as long as a brexit deal is reached. You have a fine startup scene in the baltic, crazy startup in Paris and Berlin (tbh, it'll be easier in germany right now), you have really professinnal, interesting companies in the Netherlands, Lille or Hambourg if your thing is devops/non-web dev. With the AI4EU project, you can also land a job building tools for machine learning[1]. We have plenty of oportunities here.

[1] Honestly, it'll mostly be integrating different ML opensource solutions together and maybe some FOSS contribution from what i've seen.
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Yeah, there is some risk. It's not the concrete on the side though but some rough rocks on the bottom which can be quite nasty... That's why locals refer beginners to the second wave in Munich which is located in Thalkirchen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFHYffdBNmI

Some of the local surfers actually found a company which is constructing river waves based on simulation:

http://riverwaveproject.com/
Norwegian here. Indeed, "Krigsskipet gjør først en unnamanøver i siste liten", means "The war ship initially performs a last-minute evasive maneuver". Skimming this, I dismissed kidney robbery as some navy lingo I'm not familiar with, but it's a really bizarre error in translation.
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As mentioned before, there is a company found by some locals doing exactly that:

http://riverwaveproject.com/
That's not even accounting that Hetzner doesn't bill incoming and internal traffic, which AWS does.

This is incorrect. AWS does not charge for incoming traffic nor does it charge for internal traffic within the same zone.
I mean don't you see it's lights.

One problem in this case appears (among other things) to have been too many lights. The Sola TS apparently had full deck lights on, something you're only supposed to have while docked, and which made the boat blend in with the background lights from the terminal.
True. Many countries require military service of one sort or another. And more generally, governments do tend to view their citizens as resources. I recall a great book on the history of data science. But not the title :( One of the drivers, as I recall, was knowing resources to plan wars.

Still, the juxtaposition of "lawful" and "government" makes me smile.
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Most people use different batches but the same manufacturer, mostly because they remember advice from back when you could get a hardware raid card that would synchronize your scsi drives.

Also, though, because most serious RAIDs contain more drives than you can find manufacturers of hard drives.
Having flashbacks to the cube with gears in that everyone used to love.

I hate animations now, they make the desktop feel less responsive in my opinion.
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I feel the whole "not paying for underused server" argument is pointless when a serverless solution is way more expensive than paying for an idle server.
Would someone mind explaining how to set this for a user (ahem, myself), who've not set environment variables in firefox? A Kubuntu user.
Thought experiment: how large, either in number or geographic area, does a group of people forcing someone to do something against their will have to be to make it no longer slavery?
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Does pre-existing bias in datasets harm AI?
If anyone can be shown in court to have know it was a scam then they should certainly have any money clawed back off them.
I mean, that's just shoddy reasoning or laziness of the client. If you make a medical app like that, you clearly have a lawful basis for processing based on the "contract" lawful basis. So the only issue would be taking care how it's used, and having a policy in place for handling that data.
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As other comments mentioned, just use the Linux sub-system + I would add Cmder as an alternative to the horrible native console.

Edit: Cmder - http://cmder.net/
This is not what "serverless" means nowadays.

What "serverless" means, in the context of the article (and basically how anyone uses it today), is "AWS Lambda" (or FaaS). The name is kinda stupid, since it still uses servers; it's just that you don't need to care about them and scaling is done magically by Amazon.