skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not certain we need to make this accessible to "the next billion". We like to dress up these actions in virtue but the truth is we hook people up because it's a business. Facebook devastated our social fabric. I don't think it should have been invented. But here we are with its nuclear fallout all because some young douche thought it was a good idea.

If everyone owned a personal cloud box, security procedures would quickly fall off a cliff, those people are now the new botnet.

Maybe leave people alone, stop sticking our fingers in all the places they might stick to money. Let the geeks take care of their little tribe.
This are the platforms we need more. Not this, hey I invited this new coin named XYZ around my/this service which will revolutionize the industry, ICO & trading soon blablabla "whitepapaer" & "scam" & "fill-my-pocket scheme" here.

Just build something around Bitcoin or Ethereum for the payment/payout centric problems in this world and use a very good exchangable well established, EXISTING cryptocurrency. No need to reinvent the wheel again&again.
It currently says:

> SpaceX, citing a need to get “leaner,” said Friday it will lay off more than 10% of its roughly 6,000 employees.

And no further mention of number of employees. Perhaps a previous edit had a typo.
You didn't prove or disprove anything because correlation does not imply causation. Unless you have a study to show that people are murdering each other specifically because of income tax it could have been due to literally anything else.

For instance, the divorce rate in Maine in perfectly correlated to per capita consumption of margarine, but one doesn't cause the other (http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations) -- or, for instance, the Dick Act was passed just a few years before WWI but it certainly didn't cause that either.
Ah, gotcha. I’ve seen a system like that at my doctor’s office, it always seems really clever. You just type whatever in, and if it means something, the system will link it up or help you complete the value or whatever. That would be much better than Jira’s strict fields.
I had a lot of issues with getting Google Fi. On Wi-Fi the calls wouldn’t go through. If it did the quality of voice was not good. When receiving calls there was a delay after I accept the call when the caller couldn’t hear me. When my wife was in Manhattan her phone stopped working completely. she had to use the phone of her friend to call me. And we moved from iPhone to android and we hated the experience.
>The reason given why Sargon of Akkad was banned, was because he used some unsavory language to try and offend white nationalists on a YouTube stream

This is obscuring what was said. Specifically, he said:

"You’re acting like a bunch of n * * * * * s, just so you know. You act like white n * * * * * s."

and

"Look, you carry on, but don’t expect me to then have a debate with one of your f * * gots.…Like why would I bother?…Maybe you’re just acting like a n * * * * r, mate? Have you considered that? Do you think white people act like this?"

It's not even the words themselves, it's the deeper implication ("Do you think white people act like this?").

I see this as no different from a TV network firing a host who said a whole bunch of racist stuff that didn't happen to be said on the TV network. Why should they continue to give this person money if they don't want to?
No, they'll keep firing people until there's only one guy left who's sole job it is to push a button to initiate a rocket-launch.
I don't think quoting the dictionary here makes you look especially smart.

Are you railing against the use of "rob" with an intangible noun? Would you cry foul at phrases like "robbed of their dignity?" Do you ignore alternative definitions like "to deprive of something unjustly or injuriously?"[0]

Do you believe that nobody involved in centralization conceals or misrepresents the truth? Does a marketer never overstate the benefits of their hosted solution?

[0] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/robbed
This might be a silly question but when do you think there will be a global tax? Something akin to a world government tax? The US has it to some extent when it taxes citizens outside the country but even that can be escaped.

There was someone who said something like "Don't tax money that can move." It would be interesting to see all of the countries figure out a way for it to happen anyway.
Taken straight from the ULA playbook!
According to some comments from employees, the company had an all-hands meeting where everyone was sent home and told to check their email over the weekend to find out if they're being laid off or not: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/af1n7f/spacex_will_...
So you wanna SDN.
If you have ever seen any attempt by any volunteer-run FLOSS team to solve nationwide social problems with technology you would know this to be a Lovecraftian nightmare, and not a solution.
100 CALL CHAR(96, "995A3C3C3C3C2221")
110 CALL CHAR(97, "1899FF3C3C3C4484")
Someone can probably confirm if it's still the case, but based on their Glassdoor reviews they have done stack ranking in the past which is often used to cull the bottom X% each year.
Support for Google's current products like Android is already abysmal, so I can't even imagine what support for a discontinued product looks like ...
Finer points of murder – the recent history of political assassination
So if ZipCars are parked in a public parking lot, can we steal those under that logic? How about city-owned bike share bikes?
I also thought so. No pictures and it was not clear from the article if thus sculptures were still standing.

A quick search turned up an article with pictures: https://www.aperturetours.com/blog/dragons
You’ll find that if you do this, you start getting emails directly to your gmail anyway. I never give out my gmail address, but I use gmail and they happily report my gmail address when they send email as my “real” account. (Both email addresses are included in emails I send.) And upstream they are happy to respond to that gmail account when people hit the reply button.

So I have tons of people who would essentially seem my contact as a black hole if I abandoned my gmail address at this point, because Google seems to have deliberately crafted their clients to prefer the gmail address rather than the “real” address. Essentially treating the gmail address as if it’s a reply-to.
I don't think the Zune was really a networked device. It just literally wouldn't turn on for a day.

Having a date on your microwave could be useful for things like updating the clock for daylight savings time. Or it may be that the clock overflow causes the entire firmware to crash in 2038, bricking an otherwise still functioning device.
Immortal maybe but never indestructable.
It is because there might be a pretty big overlap of patrons between you and someone who will get banned which like now would result in people stopping donating through Patreon because a creator they donated to was deplatofrmed which affects multiple channels.
I've never had a chance to play with Forth, but Starting Forth was one of the first good computer books I ever read.

https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/
Has anybody done any work on mapping die shots onto the microarchitecture features?

The only thing I've found is work by this guy (about a decade old now):
http://chip-architect.com/news/2003_09_21_Detailed_Architect...

Would be very interested in seeing more on these lines.
Thomas Hobbes: A grim portrait of human nature
Why the doom and gloom posts making rather wild assumptions about who is getting laid off or what it signals?
The very first paragraph on linkeddata.org says it is for "exposing, sharing, and connecting pieces of data, information, and knowledge on the Semantic Web using URIs and RDF."
If you are affected by the layoffs in Los Angeles, working in software engineering (esp. on ERP and internal tools), UI/UX, or supply chain — my company, Lumi is hiring https://www.lumi.com/jobs
That might also be a USGS reference marker, used for topographic surveys.
Yep, the warped logic of stack ranking still infects HR thought to this day, in some quarters anyway. It's one of those notions that sounds brilliant at first, but then when you think it all the way through, it reveals itself as patently bizarre and misguided.

As noted, it creates a really unhealthy intra-team sabotage mindset as everybody competes to avoid being at the bottom of the stack. It puts managers in a horrible spot, having to rank 'n' purge when maybe their team was humming along wonderfully all year. It creates an atmosphere of awful fear and dread that distracts from the work.

As one of my buddies said back when MS was still using this accursed system -- "If they'd used stack-ranking at Los Alamos, hell, Oppenheimer would probably have had to fire Feynman!" {obviously not reflective of the historical reality, but I think pithy nonetheless}
There would have to be an implementation of KYC. My idea, at least initially, would be to vet lists of creators manually, based on current prominence in social media.
Mint requires you to buy at least 3 months at a time.
ah, yes, the egalitarian workplace. logical
I never had much of an opinion on corporate tax rates in either direction prior to the debate before the latest tax bill passed - I was much more concerned with (IMO too low) top level marginal income tax rates and capital gains rates.

But having understood, and now seen, the resulting huge transfer of wealth to large owners of capital (including, in a smaller way, 401k holding people like me) with paltry or negative gain for large numbers of lower middle income people living paycheck to paycheck, has been an education to say the least.
Thanks very much for the link. They only show how many layoffs, and not percentage of workforce. Still, good data.
An oversimplified story is that BETA is the response from the creators of SIMULA (arguably the first object-oriented language) to the languages it inspired (e.g., Smalltalk and C++). More here: [1]

There are some interesting and unique concepts in BETA, but IIRC the most interesting is the "pattern":

>The abstraction mechanisms include class, procedure, function, coroutine, process, exception and many more, all unified into the ultimate abstraction mechanism: the pattern. In addition to the pattern, BETA has subpattern, virtual pattern and pattern variable. This unification gives a uniform treatment of abstraction mechanisms and a number of new ones. Most object-oriented languages have classes, subclasses and virtual procedures, and some have procedure variables. Since a pattern is a generalization of abstraction mechanisms like class, procedure, function, etc., the notions of subpattern, virtual pattern and pattern variable also apply to these abstraction mechanisms. In addition to the above mentioned abstraction mechanisms, the pattern subsumes notions such as generic package and task type as known from Ada.

[1] http://kristennygaard.org/FORSKNINGSDOK_MAPPE/F_BETA_hovedsi...
Be aware that $15/mo is promotional pricing. It's more like $23 or so a month after the first 3 months. I use Mint and like it.
Are you sure about PayPal? Because I believe I have read quite a few pathetic stories -- similar in tone to the posted article about Google Fi -- about PayPal accounts being frozen with no recourse, for example[1]. And PayPal settled a class-action lawsuit on just this topic[2].

[1] http://www.paypalwarning.com/paypal-frozen-account/

[2] https://www.doctorofcredit.com/paypal-class-action-lawsuit-f...
An actual hazard? Can't you walk around them? It isn't correct for them to be blocking access, but I too spend time in San Jose and the vast majority of the time, they're parked on the sidewalk, but far from blocking it unless you need to walk 6-abreast.

I personally love those scooters. They open up mobility in a way that public transport can't. I'm more concerned about dangerous, mentally ill, drug addicted homeless people robbing or harassing me. A scooter never shit on the sidewalk.
Obviously the signing of example.com by .com must be secure itself. Otherwise no crypto delegation is secure, including tls signing.

> where DANE replaces X.509 CAs

Much easier migration actually. Just patch all firefox/etc to accept example.com's DNSSEC key as root ca. Then example.com can create its own tls cert. A very simple and minor patch to tls codebase.
Maybe, maybe not. Consider it in terms of your own workplace: if you worked on a team of 10, and one person got laid off, would that seem so huge? I think the question is whether this round of layoffs is in response to an acute cash flow issue or just part of long-term financial prudency. They fact that they waited until after Christmas and are providing 8 weeks of pay and benefits makes me hopeful that it's the latter.

Also, given that Falcon 9 is now essentially "done", I expect there probably is a fair bit of internal capacity that's accumulated during its development which can be cut. For example, SpaceX is famous for building a lot of components in house, but perhaps they'll move more to using subcontractors for Falcon 9 parts. That might free up money to spend on R&D. The challenge will be to become leaner and save money in the core launch business without compromising standards. It'll only take a couple of accidents to trash their reputation.
To get around paywall: https://outline.com/Ewv9xM
Same with Reddit and Voat.
What happened to Hatereon?
That depends on what you mean by efficient.

Let's say you want to build a road that connects 12 houses. You can do that without the government. You just need everyone to agree on who contributes what, who you hire to do the work, what happens if something goes wrong, who else is allowed to drive on the road, how maintenance happens, who polices the rules, and so on, and so forth.

This does occasionally work out in real life, but mostly people bitterly argue over the whole thing and it never happens. Having a government set some sort of policy and doing the planning is usually far more effective, even if it pays more than is necessary for the actual work that gets done. The government may pay more per mile of road, but the road has a higher odds of getting built.
Same. I did some troubleshooting and it had to do with the Google Home thinking another device (my phone) was using my google play music. Luckily they fixed it.
From what I've heard from the SpaceX and ULA people I know (although there may be some sample bias because most of the SpaceX people I know quit due to the hours), that's not really the case. ULA is more of a 9-5 company, especially for union folks, whereas SpaceX is more of a 60-80 hours/week kind of place.
I think their headcount surprises a lot of people. SpaceX has gotten very big over the past few years trying to carve out market share and evolve F9. The old incumbent competition (ULA) has around 3500 employees. Part of the difference in headcount is likely because SpaceX does a lot more in-house manufacturing, but still it seems like a large differential.
The source i linked to gives a breakdown of how the public school money is spent in the second section, titled 'Where are schools spending their money?' You can see that Public schools have many legitimate expenses that private schools don't, along with bureaucratic overhead.

However, the reason my school could get away with such a small ratio, even compared to other private schools that cost the same, is because it is an independent study school - I only went two days a week for a few hours a day.

Imagine you have one teacher working for 10 hours and 10 students. If each student goes all 10 hours, your ratio is 1:10. If each student goes only 1 hour, your ratio is 1:1.
Zune wouldn't boot because the real time clock keeps time in MM:DD:YY HH:MM:SS which is utterly wrong.
Yes I can run my own top level dns. Yes, people can chose to use my dns or they can chose to use the google one. The question is why would they do either, why would they pick mine over the google one, or the google one, over mine.

You can argue that the google dns can sign the answer with a cert you trust, thus you know you got the right answer. And then, when you get the address of the service you want to talk to, you can check their cert and know for sure you are again talking to the thing you want to talk to.

And here lies the problem, how are you going to check those certs? Are you going to queue at a google office and obtain a cert on a usb stick, then import that in you environment, then do the same for all other services you want to talk to? Or are you going to trust a central authority? What if this central authority is messing with you? What if someone up the chain is messing with your central?

Let's not talk about how your router might send your dns request to some guy's home server that answers to 8.8.8.8, instead of google and you can't do shit about it...

Everything we know about internet works the way it works, because everybody involved agrees to do the right thing, from ip routing, to dns resolving, to certs verifying. All of this is based on a set of rules set by a central authority, that everybody choses to follow. You can't speak about web decentralization as long as proving who you are is a very centralized system.
Why is not a physical, mathematical or scientific question, but rather a philosophical one.

Personally I believe there is no why (no causality at all). Rather we love to think it exists because it reduces our uncertainty. It's too much to accept our whole reality is just a bunch of random coincidences.
I always assumed they were just making a point. I'm not sure what that point was but I guess they consider it made.
> this is Brian from Massassi

Oh man, thanks so much. That site's awesome.

Jedi Knight's one of only three online shooters I ever played much of (Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and one of the Elite Force games, I forget which, being the others) and the only one I ever got good enough at to be accused of "hacking" at least a couple times a session (never, ever did). It has a special place in my heart. Thank you for your work in the community.
To be fair Pearl does not speak in the same terms as the statisticians. Collider is a weird word and an M structure is even weirder. Graphical models suffer similarly.
Of course it's a fad. Services like this always appear in the midst of some specifically viral form of outrage, trying to exploit that opportunity while it's hot.
It's because projections for large launch demand are softer for the next few years than had previously been expected. It was thought that that weakness would give way and demand would perk back up. This layoff is happening because that's no longer expected to happen and they're not going to need the staff to match a much greater launch rate.

What does it mean? It more or less officially confirms that Starlink is the only way they can finance the plans for Mars and BFR. There isn't going to be a huge uptick in launches in the coming years, such that that will be enough to dent their capital requirements. Musk has been attempting to finance some of SpaceX's capital demands with debt recently to avoid further diluting his stake, because it risks pushing him below a controlling interest. It's very questionable whether he'll be able to hold the line on that if the launch rate is going to remain fairly stagnant versus 2018.
I think so. Even better: drm free mp4s
Avaya's previous network architecture (their networking business is now owned by Extreme) wasn't at all centrally managed. I'd go as far to say SPBM is the anti-thesis of centralized networking management. It didn't use VXLAN either.
Isn't wealth generation something that should be supported also? Tax the rentiers not the producers. Not all rich people are the same. Most high income people hide their income as capital gains, in any case.

I wonder what the total value of land is in the US compared to buildings and other assets (subtract land value from stock values) and what the tax rate would have to be to replace the income tax?
Any links on what the Bird founder did?
DataFrames.jl doesn't parameterize on its types and tries to rely on function barriers to be fast enough. That's what gives it the speed issue. IMO this isn't the best idea. It's not difficult to write a data table that's easier to optimize than that, but you would have to give up some of the flexibility.
The bacteria in your gut may reveal your true age
I once attended a panel discussion with Dijkstra and Larry Loucks of IBM, along with a couple of other professors who were completely outclassed by those two. The speaking styles were radically different: EWD was slow and very precise, it was clear that he was thinking deeply about the topics; Larry was fast, facile, and rather shallow, he was of the IBM style (he who talks loudest is in charge).
> A country isn't a household, its balance sheet can have debt permanently, etc. etc.

Is that really different than a household?

The problem with a debt isn't that you have to pay it off. Actually, your creditors were prefer that you didn't and instead pay them interest until the day you die after which they'll collect the debt from your estate.

The problem with debt is that you have to pay interest all of the time. Countries with debt are necessarily purchasing less goods and services for their citizens then if they didn't have to spend some portion of their income paying the interest.

So, the fundamental reason why it's better (all else being equal) to avoid being in debt is the same in either case. Its not about the future day when you'll have to pay the debt, it is interest you are paying now.
> When I'm listening to someone's opinion, I'd like to know more about them, so I can decide for myself how seriously to take it.

This outlook is alien to me. I'm quite the opposite; I'm happy reading and judging anonymous comments purely on the strength of the argument being made there and then (although I don't ignore the background and history of a commenter when that is available to me).

Not attacking your point of view; just very interesting to see an approach described so different to mine.
Actually, the TV Guide example uses data that updates constantly. Every single interaction a user has is recorded and is used by other systems. The guide also changes based on user-specific views or preferences. Another example is Netflix's famous user-specific recommendations, which, changing constantly and whose algorithm is regularly fine-tuned, is a strategic feature. Even just playing a single show requires a dozen different calls to authorize its playing, based on a number of considerations.

Finding the number of retweets is also more difficult, because there's other data that gets recorded too. Not only do you have your own data now, you now have the data of everyone else that retweeted you. Is it your data, or theirs? Who is caching it, and how long? How does refreshing the cache effect consistency of each user's views? With decentralized applications you have to choose what kind of functionality you will support.

But, yes, in theory, if you allowed only one service provider to use some given data, you could rely on caching (read: holding a copy of data indefinitely) to a good extent. But as soon as you have multiple using it, you enter the extremely hairy world of multi-master high-availability strong-consistency replication. AKA, absolute hell. But this isn't even the most difficult problem to me.

We already had some good data access standards. The question is, why weren't sites using them to allow data interoperability/mobility? Answer: they didn't want to. So even if you create a technical solution for all of this, the best you will get is the Facebooks of the world publishing a read-only calendar feed, clunky, slow export tools, and single-feature one-way application integrations. Like we have now.

I don't see an ethical or social reason to decouple the data from the services I use, and I don't think the majority of the world population does, either. The only ethical/social concern I have is with the very existence of the service, which is a different concern.
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