skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe in a simple model of capitalism.

You may call it capitalism, but even the birds and the bees "understand" the concept of investing now for future gains.

> Example: no one invests in a nuclear power plant - unless the state insures the thing, finances (incl. all the costs that come from technological and construction problems) the thing all through...

That's just not true, lots of private capital has financed reactors before. Note that I never claimed that nuclear reactors are economically sensible (especially counting in disasters), but that if they were they would finance themselves. Indeed, there's a lot of hard-to-calculate risk in a nuclear reactor, which is bad from an investment standpoint.

> But it hasn't. France has built nuclear for many reasons - for example France is a country with nuclear weapons and thus has an interest in nuclear technology.

So what? The U.S. has the one of the largest nuclear arsenals in the world, yet they barely do nuclear at all.

> There is also an ideological trend to large state-driven/owned technologies.

So why don't they build giant state owned wind turbines?

> That's not how it works in the energy landscape. Check out TEPCO. The Japanese state does not let it die.

Whatever they do, the company isn't going to (be able to) pay the bill, unless they're not in fact bankrupt.

> You are shifting the goal post all the time. If enough countries do it (for example in the EU), then it matters.

Not really. Which countries are you talking about? The EU makes up maybe 10% of CO2 emissions and a big part of that isn't related to electricity. Think of all the research you could fund with the money spent on that forced premature rollout of renewable energy in Germany. Think of all the money that still needs to be spent to make it work. Think of what you actually achieved in terms of CO2 goals, so far. It's an absolute embarrassment.
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Error budget = the actual downtime duration your site can still afford within a given time frame.

If you have the SLA of your outside APIs, you may compute your own maximum possible SLO and deduce from that your full error budget. But your error budget will diminish over time, as you use it.

Say your site depends on 3 external APIs having each a 99% SLA, your best possible site SLO would be 99% x 99% x 99% = 97% (= your site is, at best, as much reliable as the product of the reliability of your dependencies).

That is, unless your site has some built-in tactics for the specific downtime scenarios of these APIs (caching, retry, slow down, graceful limitation of features, etc.).

Should you pick a lower SLA than your SLO for your site then? Always. Things happen.

Let's take 95% SLA for simplicity.

Your max error budget would be, for 30 days, as a formula:

+ total time frame (say, 30 days = 720 hours)
- target availability (at 97% avail. that would be 684 hours)
- total downtime you've had already within this time frame
= 36 hours or less

That's a start. Then you may track your actual production own indexes and adjust accordingly.

Reminder: https://enqueuezero.com/the-difference-between-sli-slo-and-s...
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GDPR requires that you log when you use information from a user in models, reports etc so this would probably have to be logged and disclosed.

You would also need explicit concent to use the date of birth for advertising purposes.
You can watch reviews of printers online, and they show quality of print.
>Most fake watches are sold to people who know that they're buying a fake watch.

Counterfeit watches are a serious problem; the American Watch and Clock Institute sell a DVD on identifying fake Rolexes, with the target audience being professionals in the watch industry. Innocent parties can (and frequently do) pay large sums of money for worthless fakes.

https://www.awci.com/online-store/dvd/

It's one thing selling a replica "Bolek GMT-Master" with a standard ETA movement in a white box, but it's quite another thing to sell a very convincing counterfeit complete with Rolex-branded packaging and a counterfeit certificate of authenticity. If the counterfeiters are so honourable and have no intent to deceive, why don't they discreetly engrave the word "REPLICA" on the caseback, case, movement main plate and bracelet?

The moral line in the sand is putting the word "Rolex" on the dial. I have absolutely no issue with someone making a watch that copies the form and function of a Rolex watch, but I take great exception to someone using their name.

Trademark is an absolutely essential part of modern commerce. Trademark infringement is tantamount to identity theft - counterfeiting is a fundamental attack on the reputation of the counterfeiting victim and has a corrosive effect on trust. There are legitimate arguments against patent and copyright law, but I see no legitimate argument against trademark law.
I first tried reading the book a few years ago and also decided it was bullshit, but not for the same reason. The tone and style of writing certainly didn’t help.

Incidentally, even before reading it this time I believed that I liked the taste. I realised later that I really didn’t like the taste after all.

I commend you if you’ve managed to stop of your own accord without any effort. The problem is that a lot of people will try that like me and then fall back because they don’t have the mental framework to maintain the realisation that smoking is worthless.
Yes, as well as libraries, tools, applications that are not in the hands of one or few companies only.

Plenty of technologies get hyped up by companies and later on bent out of shape or dropped.
Addiction should not be seen as abnormal, it is actually extremely normal. Humans and all other animals need to actually addict to activities as this is part of the survival mechanics needed to perpetuate the species.

However this addiction function exists at 'lower' level than the intellect, which is why its so hard for the higher function (the tiny conscious part) of the brain to stop an unwanted addiction.

You grow out of addiction when the lower level brain decides that your addiction is not actually required for you to get food or sex.

You can accelerate removing an unwanted addiction by paying very close attention to the mechanics of the activity and by simply introducing new activities especially if those activities are completed with food or sex.
Yes because I will forget to type -p 5223 at some point. If you set up a non standard port against my recommendation and I get banned for trying 22, you better be on call 24/7 for free to unban me.
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For ads, you probably don't need to tell people about the "birthstone". But if that automatic processing "produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her" (such as denying a credit card or job offer), then you have to give the person "meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for [them]."
You would really have to back up that argument with some kind of evidence.
Ecosystem wise, it's the Lua ecosystem. Compatible, from both sides of the coin.

It's classes are fantastic when working with structures that lean that way, like in games. (I've used it a fair bit with Love2d.)

Comprehensions and stabby-procs are also something that are nice to have. Makes it easier in some cases. Just more consistent in others.
Wait, I was under the impression that most devs will be using legacy C++ codebases through the Rust FFI. If that's the case, then I don't see why one would be concerned about the internals of the C++ module system. In my experience most native teams are sunsetting C++ and moving to Rust.
AFAIK Kotlin only supports exhaustiveness if the result is assigned to a variable.
This C++ code actually compiles with clang++. Incredible!

int main(int argc, char *argv<::>)
<%
if (argc not_eq 1 and argc not_eq 2) <% return 1; %>
return 0;
%>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraphs_and_trigraphs#C
That guy is a machinist but also a smith, an engineer, an artist,... he is a true artisan that live from his craft.
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All living beings want to dominate, it's genetics: if you dominate you can pass down your genes easier.

We definitely came close to being wiped out by bacteria. Several times. And no, we don't have more human "strains".

Bacteria totally dominated us before antibiotics, and this hard conquered defense wall is already evaporating, and fast.
From what I've found, Netflix's highest quality audio is a lossy 640 kbps Dolby Digital+ (E-AC3) stream. For comparison, the highest quality BluRay audio would be the lossless formats Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA. Both of these formats support variable bit rate encoding, and from my personal library I'm seeing average bit rates of 4727 kbps for Atmos TrueHD and 2525 kbps for DTS-HD MA.
What are they used for ?
Isn't this the same approach that Google used with Android version of java and it didn't work out for them?
You're 100% right that people shouldn't have an attitude of "this harmful part of my life will fix itself". Although I don't think just observing that you'll likely "grow out" of it makes the article dangerous. People also tend to grow out of violent behavior (how many hyper-violent 20 v.s. 80 year olds are there?). That doesn't mean it's not harmful behavior when you're younger, or that it doesn't need to be addressed at that point.

But it's just as dangerous to propose that simply because you have issues in your life that some religiously-motivated program like AA is the way to go.

We should provide people with help that's scientifically developed and proved to be effective, and AA and its various sister programs are neither of those. They're just "get the drunks to worship god instead" programs. In recent years they've gained the thin veneer of talking about a "higher power" instead of "god", without becoming any more scientific or empirically-supported as a result.

If you have a problem with addiction start by talking to your physician, not a church group.
Happened to me all the time. I fondly remember dreaming of an infinite minesweeper plane where I could effortlessly solve pattern after pattern, forever.

That's when I realized that dreams are a mechanism the brain uses to train itself in a best-effort simulation of recent new challenges. Probably for committing new learnings from conscious understanding roughly analogous to symbolic AI to subconscious pattern matching more similar to ML. Months after I remembered those minesweeper dreams, I was able to multitask any though process that did not involve eyes and hands parallel to the game, in fact I solved my fastest boards when my conscious mind was completely distracted from the game. (and it was an addiction, and I've grown or of it)
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I also believe addictions are a normal thing. But it's still a complex topic. E.g. what if food or sex are your addiction?
offtopic, are the diagrams made in photoshop or something more approachable?
Please do correct me if I am wrong, but isn't multiple dispatch basically typeclasses + pattern matching?
The parent is a controversial opinion and one that I do not entirely share, but as a person who has lived in Singapore for a while I am comfortable saying that it's a legitimate, plausible opinion.

To the people down-voting it because you disagree, please rescind your vote and supply a rebuttal in words.
> It puts the tools of mass propaganda in reach of ordinary people.

But this is exactly what we're saying is not new.

It only appears new to some because the 20th century was characterized by both expensive, government-licensed mass media (radio and television) and by the consolidation of the media industry. These factors had the effect of taking media access away from the common man and giving authority to a new set of gatekeepers, as well as (we've increasingly seen), the government, which the media depends on, and which is also much more easily able to control the output of the media than previously.

In the past, there was an incredible proliferation of newspapers, not by any means all or even mostly owned by the rich, and even the common man could afford to take out an ad or have some pamphlets printed. By doing this he could easily achieve obtain a regional and even a national audience.

And in pre-printing press societies, most non-state news traveled by word of mouth, which was free and could not be controlled by the state except with difficulty. You might object this wasn't mass media, but the objection is moot - one person speaking in the Assembly in Athens was sufficient to move the entire state.

It appears that Internet media is quickly moving toward the 20th century model - owned and controlled by a small contingent of very wealthy men. The difference is that yes, the content is produced by the people, rather than generated by an editor and his staff, but nevertheless, it's clear that with government and established media pressure, social media networks are all too happy to control what opinions are allowed on their platform.
In my mind the best way to make people realize this is to reward refactoring.

To the opposite many organizations in my personal experience view it as a waste and a risk. This is often because they are only rewarding enhancement/defect user stories, testing the wrong things (if they are testing at all), and placing too much emphasis on weak diff tools as a substitute for an actual code review.

When you are only rewarding user story completion those who complete the most stories (not how) are the most rewarded. If your team contains insecure people it means achievement by code style, otherwise it means to do what is fastest. If you are locked into stories by sprint cycle it means lots of time to stare out the window.
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Yes, a brave decision indeed; I was wondering how it was approved till I read the connection today.
Exactly. That's why I say that the speed argument is a bit obsolete by now. We can have the best of the two worlds with python! Elegance/simplicity and speed.

The focus on the speed of execution also downplays two other important aspects of python: speed of writing code and possibility to visualize results easily. As a theorist these two aspects outweigh any argument in favor of Fortran. The only serious competition to python for me is mathematica.
Numpy/Scipy are fast, because their backend is written in Fortran :)
This is something that only humans care about, not computers. And humans can be accommodated by prettyprinting - or, in a pinch, by roundtrip conversion from an ASCII-only format to a "rich", Unicode-based one, and back. But let computers have their simple, ASCII-based identifier names. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode is a thing, and is routinely used for "native-language" domain names. But guess what, these domain names are still ASCII under the hood!

(Indeed, we should arguably move away from the notion of a single character string as the only human-facing semantics that an identifier is associated with-- there should be a higher layer, perhaps with multiple choices of e.g. native language, formatting and the like. Human facing semantics are closer to "literate" documentation than to anything that compilers should have to deal with. Yes, the "native", underlying representation should still be something that we can somehow make sense of - I'm not saying that our identifiers should be GUIDs or anything like that! But it will only be resorted to in a pinch.)
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So funny you should recommend Rolex, because I actually know a few people who own them(and they all bought them brand new) and the prevailing opinion is that they are absolute crap at actually being a watch - they just drift a lot in short amount of time - one of my friends says his is can be as much as 10 minutes out every month(!!!!!) and that's a 5k watch!!!

I'm personally saving up for an Omega, you can get a timeless design for 2-3k, and those watches are truly indestructible and actually keep time accurately.
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Key quotes:

> Lack of transparency makes it impossible for users to exercise their rights under GDPR. There is no way to verify, correct or delete marketing categories that have been assigned to us, even though we are talking about our personal data.

and

> Under GDPR, processing special category [medical information; political affiliation; religious or philosophical views; sexuality; and information revealing racial or ethnic origin] data generally requires explicit consent from users — with only very narrow exceptions, such as for protecting the vital interests of the data subjects

The last quote is particularly troublesome, as Article 9 GDPR [1] is explicit about this: processing this data is prohibited by default, and none of the exemptions seem to apply even by a stretch of imagination.

Assigning such labels may be the norm from the Ad industry's point of view, but that is simply no longer possible under the GDPR.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-9-gdpr/
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I agree there's a limit, but why 2019 specifically? How do we know it hasn't plateaued already, or that it won't only do so in 2025? Is there any data on it?
As with all architecture there are good and bad examples (with bad examples usually lost over time - leaving only the good), and with brutalism in particular issues with poor maintenance. Maintain any building of any age and architectural 'school' poorly and it will become rundown, shabby, and unpleasant to live in/around.

I walk through the Barbican frequently, which is rightly a much celebrated building, and find it an extremely elevating experience. I also recently visited Royan Cathedral which is honestly one of the most beautiful I've ever been in. I think many brutalist buildings have been blighted by decades of neglect almost from right after they were built. That's not going to leave the best impression on anybody.
tnx, updated
"... that I don't understand ..." might be core to the problem. With your Linux/Unix tooling you have a lot more experience and invested time in learning. That knowledge isn't easily transferable. I noticed the same when I once in a while try to do "simple" stuff on Windows. However if I look at my full-time Windows colleagues they have comparable productivity on Windows to me on Linux and fail on Linux similarly to me on Windows. I could sit down and learn, and sometimes I do a bit, but for the larger time my interests are elsewhere.
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I have online/digital subscriptions for the New York Times ($48/year) the Washington Post ($19/year) and The Guardian (€60/year). Totally worth it for me.
> figures: he was an SRE at Google, nowhere close to any ML/DL efforts

> Ric Szopa is the CTO in Residence at Inovo.vc. Prior to Inovo, Ric was the CTO at MicroscopeIT, a software house specializing in computer vision, robotics, and microscope image processing. Before that he worked on YouTube’s database infrastructure at Google, in Mountain View, California and Zurich, Switzerland. Ric studied Philosophy at the University of Warsaw and Artificial Intelligence at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
But that would still be single dispatch, right?

Multiple dispatch means functions are generic, and all arguments are considered when deciding which implementation to call.

Snigl supports both multiple dispatch and pattern matching, as does Common Lisp.
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Here are some more details about it https://about.gitlab.com/2016/04/07/gitlab-pages-setup/ and https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/pages/introduction.h...
I believe it has something to do with the layoffs at Gannett, HuffPost and BuzzFeed, although they don't get mentioned in that article.

Further reference: https://twitter.com/JeremyLittau/status/1088503510184927233
My experience of Singapore taught me that it appears to lack diversity of culture/experience to the uninitiated, but it absolutely is there—it just fits within a (much) narrower dynamic range than most other cities. But there is diversity within the nuances once your eyes adjust to the subtle shades.

My advice is to avoid going back to the same places too often. There is an endless list of great places to discover; Singapore might be small relative to Earth, but it's still huge relative to one lifetime.
You normally buy commercial jets?
We commonly used the GSL library.

http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/
The dynamic explained here isn’t some cliff we are collectively approaching as the article seems to say. Instead, it’s been a drag on people’s willingness to sign up for subscription services and likelihood to churn off of them all along.
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I have wanted, for a while now, for news sites to get together and figure out some shared form of monetization - pay a single rate, and get access NYT, Huffpo, bloomberg, etc., maybe with an option to pay more depending how much or on which sites I read the article.

Or a single site where I could access and manage subscriptions to multiple sites. I WANT to subscribe to newspapers/new sites, but I don't want to be subscribed to 5 different subscription schemes and juggling that.
Including this one?
What kind of games did you play if I may ask?

I'm a casual gamer but at times I do lose grip on reality when playing certain games. I feel like understanding what causes the addictive behavior really helps.

For instance most RPG titles employ the same techniques as gambling, and gaming addiction is often equivalent to gambling addiction. Before getting excited about that item drop, think of it as just pure math (probabilty theory) and that it's nothing special about you finding that item.

Unfortunately this type of gambling in video games has a more severe form these days, with the increasing trend of microtransactions and "loot boxes". These can impact your wallet as opposed to just your time.
Does this guy know that before the internet most people paid money to subscribe to newspapers and magazines?

"The growth of the subscription model has been one of the biggest developments in online journalism in the past few years ... The subscription model makes a lot of sense for publishers. The advertising-based model that supported the industry for 100 years doesn’t work in a digital world where ..."

No, the subscription model has been the basis for the industry for the past 100 years.

He goes on:

"You can’t expect people to subscribe to their local paper (which is vital to democracy, we tell them) AND The New York Times and the Washington Post (because Democracy Dies in the Dark) AND Netflix AND Hulu AND HBO Go AND The Athletic AND ESPN Plus AND their favorite podcast on Patreon AND …"

Yet people were subscribed to a daily paper, 1 or 2 monthly magazines and a cable package with added charges for sports channels.
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GSL has its own set of license 'problems' to be aware of in that it's GPL and not LGPL.