skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your right about the aspects of the Dreamcast being a legit 3D console. I do remember at the time though a lot of people bying into Sony marketing regarding their “emotion engine” chip that would render 75 gagillion whats its a second and would be the most astonishing thing you have ever saw. Once the system was released it was pretty underwhelming from a visual perspective, but that didn’t stop many people from arguing with me about how graphically superior it was.
I don't see my post having any hostility or dismissiveness towards others' points of view.

Sure, I'm dismissive of the films, but, by asking for opinion, don't I implicitly assert that that's subjective?
seems to be a awesome engineer too.
You must be kidding here. That movie is a great example of how NOT to compress an entire novel into 2 hours.
1) Identify hoarders with machine learning.

2) "We believe you are hoarding, and this is why: . . . "

3) Terminate charging account of hoarders.
As much as it is easy to license from ARM and use TSM as a foundry, it does not make much economic sense.

Look at Google's purchase of Motorola. They ended up selling Motorola to Lenova.

The hardware industry and specifically the chip industry is very specialized. If your code competency is not chip making, it really does not make sense to try to enter the industry.
> But since its enforcement can be completely contrary to the intent, intent only matters to the enforcers if they want it to matter.

Right, and my argument is that with legislation intended to serve the people, (GDPR), enforcement is likely to be much closer in line with the intent than say Article 13, which is the other way around, (serving corporations, not people).

Enforcers are newer as aggressive when protecting individuals as they are when protecting corporate interests. Apart from corruption, this is simply because of the leverage corporations have that individuals lack, (control of the flow of capital).
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HTTP Headers can do amazing things, it’s unfortunate they are so overlooked. I would say in security, where I work, good headers are the backbone of good web application security.

They are:

X-XSS-Protection

X-Frame-Options

Content-Security-Policy

Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS)

X-Frame-Options

Expect-CT

Feature-Policy

All of these can be set very quickly in your Apache2.conf.
They could, but they won't (barring a change in the ecosystem). Basically everyone does exactly this when a bank doesn't have a federated login system. Take, for example, Personal Capital.
I literally said 'Rails is a framework for building webapp, whereas Go is a language with a standard library'. what's your point?
The state doesn't have to change the law. The lawsuits which he lost were based on the existing law.

As for violence, the only ones who were manhandled by the state have been surfers, not Khosla.
I don't understand the question. How does one get "a web of data that can be processed directly and indirectly by machines" without some sort of API?

Wasn't it issues like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web#Challenges which killed the Semantic Web dream?
Call me crazy, but I don't think that a Crucial MX300 is the best choice for an enterprise worthy ZFS drive. I get what the author is concerned about, but I wouldn't be that surprised that a consumer level SSD failed in what sounds like a heavily used fileserver.
I used Erlang before Elixir and it was awesome, albeit with a syntax that required getting used too. I've often looked at bridging the gap between Ruby and Erlang, and closely watched and tested solutions like Reia [0], Erlectricity [1] and Ernie [2].

I was delighted when Jose started getting involved in the space and released Elixir. Thanks Jose!

[0] http://reia-lang.org

[1] https://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2007/05/erlectricity-erlan...

[2] https://github.com/mojombo/ernie
What does the recent Australian legislation change?

If the mail wasn’t encrypted, FastMail already had the duty to provide the Australian government with whatever asked (through NSL equivalents)

And if you pgp encrypt before sending, they can’t read the content even if they really want to.

Recent legislation in Australia is horrible, and affects a lot of things but somehow Email service doesn’t seem to be one of them. (Don’t let an Australian mail app do the encryption for you, though; those should be considered compromised)
I have 8GB RAM. It doesn't matter to me that Chrome would be faster if it could eat 4 times the whole RAM I have - what matters is that it's not.

Also, it's a pretty weird test case to compare performance, probably not related to anything that actually matters. What's more, Firefox tries to style the drop-down to match with the system UI, while Chrome doesn't even bother.
Verizon writes down the value of Yahoo/AOL by 4.6B
This is for technical people, find a market first. If one does not exist, you are fighting a bigger uphill battle.
"Fake but accurate"?
I do think these aggregated services are a net benefit to the fintech ecosystem overall. However, any service that uses a Plaid type service still could be selling transaction data to third-parties. For instance, Acorns:

https://www.acorns.com/privacy/

>>> Acorns uses Plaid Inc. (“Plaid”) to gather your data from financial institutions...

>>> Acorns and Empyr will use transaction information from your Acorns debit card in connection with the Found Money Plus program as follows:

... to provide participating merchants or Empyr aggregated and anonymized information relating specifically to registered card activity solely to allow participating merchants and Empyr to assess the results of their campaign(s);
I don't remember it being discussed. At that time, I and my parents lived in the USA, my one and only sibling in Israel. Me and my brother would exchange letters like may be twice a year. Likewise, my friends who lived in other cities, we exchanged letters just a few times a year max. So, it was normal for us not to communicate that much. It's not like we were texting each other every day and then suddenly went dark.
Amazon is launching a full e-commerce operation in Sweden
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Google CEO Says He Leads 'Without Political Bias' in Congressional Testimony
Story is written by an "environmental crime" reporter, so I'm going to assume is slanted from the start.

Other posters have already said it: Story is DuPont's waster solutions segment is opening a reverse osmosis water filter factory in Saudi Arabia, but it's a conspiracy because a completely unrelated spill at a DuPont plant happened a few years ago in New Jersey.

I cover petrochemicals daily, and I get really irate when non-industry reporters decide to be Erin Brokovich and try to "expose the evil chemical companies" who are allegedly bringing about the destruction of life as we know it.

"DuPont has spread pollution around the world"

So have people in Third World countries whose growing middle class have greatly outstripped their rudimentary waste management. Go complain about the Asian fishers who cut lines and throw garbage in the water.
Ernie was my first foray into Erlang (run many production elixir apps now). It's still humming along in one of our legacy services. Never had an issue or downtime event
I've been engineering software for almost 30 years and no languages have ever been more enjoyable for me to work with than Erlang and now Elixir. I'd like to thank the teams behind both languages for making my career interesting again.

Specifically, I love working with pattern matching, OTP, and the functional nature of both languages. Thanks Erlang (and Elixir) guys!
> "you give Plaid your username and password, and Plaid scrapers on their servers log into your online banking account"

So your username and password are just kept in some internal database somewhere? The scrapers probably decrypt the credentials in-memory.

Also - "scraping" data off of an undocumented API sounds risky. How can I guarantee a "scraper" won't accidentally mess something up for me?
I find this interesting, because in Dallas the scooters have proven much less problematic than the bikes.

The bikes could best be described as "a throbbing mass of externalities", but the scooters have largely avoided these problems... except for the issue with people illegally riding them on the sidewalk and nearly running pedestrians over. But that's minor compared to all the problems the bikes had.
How can you possibly have complaints about how GDPR is enforced? No regulators have enforced it yet, the first GDPR case ever is expected to be heard in late February.

This reads like a generic batch of "law bad" mumbo jumbo with "gdpr" dropped in like a mad lib.
> literate programming is heavily used in notebook environments (ipython, RMarkdown, Mathematica, etc)

Do any of those actually implement Literate Programming as DK intended? As in "you can move the code around to wherever makes most sense for your narrative"? As best I know, almost all "literate programming" today is just the intermingling of code and text blocks (e.g. Docco et al) in the same order the code would have to be anyway (i.e. there's no TANGLE, only WEAVE.)
I don't know about anyone else, but I did not like your comment because it mixes up tons of technical and high-level detail and also does so in incredibly long form.

You could have reduced the idea to "instead of embedding microchips in other microchips, why not make a device that simply allows one to disable the device remotely? Surely the size requirements would be much smaller"

Instead you go semi-technical about something you know semi-nothing about.
"The first is piracy probably didn’t lead to the failure of the Dreamcast. They didn’t sell many of the consoles... if it was a piracy issue then you’d expect they’d sell many consoles, but few games (the line up of games was really good)."

If memory serves me... and it doesn't always terribly well, but still... I think you can make the even stronger argument that by the time the piracy was widespread and convenient, the console had already visibly failed. It took a while to get to the point where you could torrent an arbitrary game, burn it, and play it. You can tell that a console is going to fail to another before the last game is shipped. The PS2 was clearly going to crush the Dreamcast before it had literally passed it in numbers. I don't think the Dreamcast's fate would have materially changed if it was pirate-proof.
"When a HD died early, you could also imagine undetected manufacturing flaws that finally gave way. With SSDs, at least in theory that shouldn't happen"

Why shouldn't it? Isn't it just hardware too?

"With spinning HDs, drives might die abruptly but you could at least construct narratives about what could have happened to do that"

Why can't you do the same with SSDs?

It feels like the author's main complaint is the frustration of not understanding SSD hardware as well.

Is this a valid complaint? Are SSDs magical in some way? I'm not an expert but... It's just hardware with pieces that do stuff. Why can't we come up with an understanding of why it fails?
In a New Survey, Teachers Say There’s a Disconnect in Computer Science Education
Accelerating cures in the genomic age
So all these services are storing plaintext passwords for the banks?
This 8000-year-old ‘gum’ holds surprises about ancient toolmakers
The article claims that the hardware contained no "OS" and that all discs were self-contained full-linked OSes.
That's how I understand it too.

As a matter of fairness and good PR, it would be great if scooter companies could find ways to enforce this themselves rather than creating grunt work for the local police.

One way to do this is with better fraud detection. There are probably many signals, but an obvious one is to look at per-account trends and ask: did the scooters charged by this account have an unnaturally low rate of being picked up and ridden by users? Even after accounting for other variables including demand in that location at that time and charge available on that scooter? If so, that suggests something has prevented people from riding them, so probably hoarding. Then you temporarily suspend or permanently ban the account.

Of course, it's possible scooter companies know they can solve these things, but they just haven't bothered yet. While they're in growth mode, they may feel their resources should be used solving other problems and Mets prefer just to throw money at the problem by putting more scooters on the street.
You might, if you can with certainty say: oh, look, this was a propaganda op by these agents of this TLA.
google has 50 billion dollars in cash lmao

court is unfavorable but it's less unfavorable if you do a class action lawsuit, which is the whole point.
Graphene unlocks new potential for ‘smart textiles’
Also, parenting and childing were different back then (the 70's). For example, I remember when I was 16 I secretly hitchhiked solo from Detroit to Washington DC and then Chicago and back to Detroit. I explained my absence to my parents by telling them that I was riding with some friends to DC, that is, it was totally okay for three 16 year old boys to take off to another city back then. Now, I think a lot more parents wouldn't allow their kids to do that.
TBH if you’re talking to a reporter, thats a bad way to answer a question. “It’s technically possible” is the sort of sound bite someone will grab while ignoring the 5 minute spiel on IPMI and bus interfaces etc. that follows. Be very careful about giving short quotable statements in plain English that you don’t want to see in print.
I loved Spielberg's "A.I. Artificial Intelligence". I know it's not everyone's favorite movie but I keep thinking about it "in a deep manner" (for lack of a better phrase) from time to time, it makes me question my essence as a human being: "Would I be able to love a robot child? Yes, I would, wouldn't I? Or would I? I know I should, robots like the ones presented in the movie are just like humans, I should love them the same, if not more" and stuff like that.
If the flood of bikeshare companies in Dallas are any indication, it's "with".

The Dallas City Council passed a law allowing dockless bikeshare, and suddenly about six Chinese companies all dumped hundreds—if not thousands—of bikes each in Dallas, causing every kind of externality you can imagine. Dallas opened the door a crack, and the companies stampeded through hard enough to break the frame.
Retail, Transportation Among Industries Most Impacted by AI – CIO Journal
Hundreds of locked-in AAPL shareholders who react with venom to anyone perceived to be hurting their financial performance, irrespective of truth or morality. (Same is true for FB and GOOG.)
Their competition is mostly "old" guys who can easily and "cheaply" create and manage their own infrastructure.

In other words, when they "educate" young people about "The Cloud" and how is "The Best Way, the Only Way", they win because after a few years people got used to AWS as a fact of life and young professionals don't know how to administer a Linux box anymore.
> Because you can't disallow access if they don't agree to data collection

Yes you can, if the data is necessary to provide the service. If the data is just generic spying for profit, completely unrelated to the service provided, then you shouldn't be asking for it in the first place.
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yeah but what if you were not really interested in current mainstream pop culture even when you were younger? i don't listen radio crap for long time, have clue about celebrities and i have similar child as you, same goes for TV shows where i am very picky and i don't have Facebook, twitter or other social network account besides Reddit, let alone youngsters snapchat or Instagram which i find meaningless already now, not 10-15 years from now when my children will be teenagers
Microsoft Is on Its Way Bringing Internet to 3M People in Rural America by 2022
I've had a few SSD's give me random issues, and they are so hard to pin down, sometimes they just work, other times they abruptly stop, or just aren't detected until like 3 reboots later and they work fine. After you've had troubles they make you feel like you are hanging on a hope that the ground won't fall out from under you.

You also CAN'T HEAR if there is an issue, which acts as another warning sign that something might be going wrong or will go wrong soon. Loud tickings or clickings or overwork is a sure sign to start backing up and get ready to buy a new drive!
New attack could make website security captchas obsolete – Lancaster University
You'll escape that by getting specialized hardware. There's just too much broken stuff on the PC. (There was once that thing that become widespread, people used to call them "telephones". Nobody has them anymore, what's a shame.)

Anyway, I don't really get what problem WebRTC solves, except for the non-problem of having to run specialized software on the clients. Instead it adds another set of broken mic settings...
I don't think that the security of Bloomberg and Slack are even comparable. The nature of chat in finance requires messages to be stored by a third party by definition since most of the communications occur in group chats and between banks/traders.
>> Hence, we try to isolate business logic from effects and implement the former as pure functions.

This is a valuable insight. Especially if your main programming language supports both functional and procedural and/or OOP approaches;
This statement offers a good guideline as to where the boundary should be.

I find that functional programming is great for business logic but not as great for more concrete logic where performance is important.
For example, when dealing with low level concrete objects like sockets.
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Or you can apply Goodhart's Law[0] and try to picture how wrong that can also go.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
The number of organizations that want to spy on you is astonishing.
This is what I remember. Back in 2008 I had a Intel Core Duo laptop with 1GB RAM, and Firefox 3 (I think that was the version number), was horribly slow on it, when previous versions ran extremely smoothly.

When Chrome came out sometime in Fall '08, I used it, and it was faster than whatever FF version I had installed. So I kept using it.
One can only hope this would make it to the US as well. The problem largely seems to be banks being ancient behemoths in terms of technology, and introducing APIs like this poses a significant risk from security and policy perspective. Plus its not going to be a major source of revenue either, so why bother?
Amazing strategy game in browser. Works on mobile as well
Chris Anderson wrote a book on these sort of "pricing" systems: _Free: The Future of a Radical Price_ [1].

Worth a read if you're into this idea. It includes some interesting historical examples of creative selling.

Can't say I _agree_ with the book, but glad I read it.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Free-Future-Radical-Chris-Anderson/dp....
Yeah, it became hard to define. That's pretty cool for users in the short run, but pretty bad in the long run, from a systems point of view. In other words, web surely had its moments, but unfortunately the biggest one is this peak-web thing we're talking about.
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This is absolutely right. A mature company should be hiring the best person for each role defined as the person that can do the job the best (of course price is another issue). Hiring people because of some
preconceived idea of culture is usually code for agism or worse discriminations
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-11/china-arrests-form...

China arrested a former Canadian diplomat in reprisal, what a surprise that the West was the original aggressor
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I found the complete GDI set quite easy to find, I believe it's available via torrent from archive.org
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Companies have to build tools that grants any law enforcement agency access to whatever data they want on whomever they want. For an email provider, these tools could include a search function that lets them look through every email on the platform. Or they could just ask them to mail them a daily dump of all new messages on a floppy disk. The point being, FastMail can’t tell the world what assistance and access their granting the government and there is no oversight or even transparency that could spark public debates on what is reasonable and what isn’t.

This satirical video is a good introduction to the changes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW-OMR-iWOE
In my opinion, 2001 feels cold, empty, and sterile when compared to Solaris by Tarkovsky. They both use space travel to touch on themes about the human experience, but Solaris is miles ahead dealing with human psyche.

It's like Kubrick sanitized humanity out of 2001.
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Maybe "oppression" is too strong a word, but some definitely take advantage (in a negative context) of others because of their status. For example, I work on a gov't site where we are required to buy from minority-owned groups. Well they know this so they charge outrageous prices when selling to us and we can't do anything about it. This is with tax money to boot.
One-month in, parenthood in TrueAccord
Elixir's syntax may look more aesthetically pleasing than Erlan's, but Erlang's is way more consistent and simpler once you get used to it/understand the rules.
That was the goal but they were acquihired by Silicon Valley Bank. https://www.svb.com/news/company-news/api-banking-startup-st...
The "should have" pressed the sources for hard proof, or found examples in the wild of adulterated servers before publishing the story. That ship has sailed, of course.

But if what was reported was actually true the best thing that can happen now, for Bloomberg and the public, is for their sources to step forward voluntarily with proof.

Admittedly, that will take a lot of courage in today's political climate, but if it's not all just bullshit, highly principled people may do it.

What I would like to know is what the Bloomberg reporters expected would happen as a result of this story?? Did they think Supermicro and Apple would just admit it? Then what?
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have likely only read a few articles that poorly summarize all of the history and complexity of the case.

And, you know, the multiple courts that have ruled against him.
The only reason why this is a problem is because some people are doing this the hard way, manually creating Visual Studio project files for all 32 (or more) configurations. This is wasteful. There are better ways to do this.

You should probably be using tools that generate the Visual Studio projects for you. Some of these tools have been around for a long time, many of them are quite mature. You should be using GYP, CMake, Bazel, or something similar for building. These tools all work on Windows in addition to working on macOS and Linux. Hell, if these tools don’t work for you, then writing a Python script which spits out the Visual Studio projects is not out of the question either… I’ve done it, it’s not terrible!

If you are choosing to make a library header-only just because it’s too hard to build otherwise, well, my request is that you spend a day learning a build system which is not Visual Studio, and see if next time you make a library, you don’t restructure the code just to avoid learning how build systems work.