skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although a lot of the recommendations are great, and to me it also looks like there are specific hosting problems at play, possibly serious overcommit by the provider or some plugin problems, I do think there's a deeper issue:

> What am I missing? How can I be in so much trouble in 2019 with such a relatively modest task?

Something is not quite right with our web-platform when we have these sorts of problems, and the solutions also require quite a bit of sophistication.

As an experiment, I recently switched my http://objective.st site to run on Objective-Smalltalk itself on a Digital Ocean $5/month droplet (their smallest). Surprisingly made it to the HN front-page and didn't hiccup, despite an egregious memory leak on my part (fixed now).

This was reported as "blazing fast"[1], despite being a single binary hosted in Frankfurt, having no CDN support and no static files, with everything served from the embedded web-server. Heck, I haven't even hooked up gzip-compression

I don't log much, so I don't really know how much traffic it's getting. I do know that hitting it with wrk remotely I got around 1000 requests/s, locally on the same box it was around 8K. So I think there's plenty of headroom. Oh, and the logs do show continuous attempts to break in POSTing to what I presume are php vulnerabilities.

I am emphatically not saying I did something amazing or even particularly good, everything was somewhere between straightforward and egregiously simple-minded, and there were other (mostly easy) ways of accomplishing the same thing. Previously the same site was served using static files running the same code as a static site generator.

However, it does confirm my suspicion that we've path-depended ourselves into a corner.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18965054
> For many, owning a car to commute will make as much sense as owning a cell tower to scroll Instagram.

This is total rubbish. I don't believe for a second that taking a self-driving uber to work and back everyday will be cheaper than driving my own car.
Where do you stand morally?

You may be right, but it's not right
Most coders are very anxious and scared type of character. I never met a coder who is macho and mafia type.
There's a few obvious areas.

Don't really see it as an opportunity to save face myself. More an opportunity for those who were the driving force behind Brexit (who entirely coincidentally have significant offshore business interests) to create UK buying opportunities. Opportunities that will arise as our livestock farmers compete against terrible US welfare standards. Despite UK population having shown for decades they want better welfare than even EU standards.

We'd probably lose CE or BSI marks, environmental protections, EU regional food protections, and the price and generic restrictions within the NHS most likely. I'm not sure even the Tories would dare open us up to US healthcare companies, yet. They'll move as far as they think they can get away with.

Then there'll be all the industries that will benefit from harmonisation of UK and US regulatory differences. ie, The US majors will benefit from the GB garage sale of newly failing businesses as Theresa May's fine negotiating team ask for nothing in return except a paper hat.

Edit: ps, Bentley are Volkswagen owned.
Agreed. Newport's book makes a strong case that deep work is increasingly rare, valuable, and meaningful. But it goes way beyond the "what" and the "why", providing the "how", in the form of specific, pragmatic, actionable guidance for achieving just that. Anecdotally, it's been working for me.
SLAM - the "flying crowbar"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_Low_Altitude_Missil...
Very very cool. I love their approach of looking for similarity metrics that are less sensitive to local misalignment, and this is something I'me very interested in exploring in the future.

I'm not completely convinced by their distinction between "tone-based" and "structure-based", though. When they talk about structure, it seems to primarily mean 'edges'. Instead maybe a more useful distinction would be between "local optimization" (at the level of a single printed character), and optimizing "globally" or over a wider area of the image, and so allowing an iterative optimizer to find a really compact representation.
Yes. This was pre-'89
> What's the definition of DAU anyway?

AFAIK, you count the number unique users each day, and then compute the average over a period like a quarter. Media reports often make it sound like a DAU is someone who uses a service each and every day, but this is obviously wrong.
"Less political knowledge" right....
This is addressed in the article:

"The risk with A.I. is that these biases become automated and invisible — that we begin to accept the wisdom of machines over the wisdom of our own clinical and moral intuition. Many A.I. programs are black boxes: We don’t know exactly what’s going on inside and why they produce the output they do. But we may increasingly be expected to honor their recommendations."
Netherlands. People actually feel safe when they have a contract that allows them to be terminated when they get Alzheimer's for example.

People want to live but on their own terms. Not spending 20 years in diapers tied to a bed or all alone wasting away with only a robot to talk to.
More generally, I feel Google should wherever possible have an exit plan for any product they launch. Make sure the account/code systems etc can be separated if they wish.

This big launch and plug pull are an ongoing problem and creating loss of trust and uptake.

A good solution IMO would be to (wherever viable) let willing devs continue a product when Google decide they are out. Be it open source the project, or offer it to teams that worked on it if they want to continue it as a business under a new brand.
Just because it's a crutch doesn't mean it shouldn't be used. It means you should use it until you have a tool that can do better (your healed leg?).

As far as I can tell Musk insists walking unassisted with a broken leg is better than using a crutch because a good leg is better than a crutch. Sure, but he's not providing a good leg, he's providing a broken one. It's like telling people to drag their broken leg today because 3 months from now it will be better than a crutch. And he's not taking this route because today's cars do better with normal cameras than with LIDAR (future cars might though what good is that today?) but because it's cheaper while still allowing big claims.

Use the right tool at the right time. In the meantime develop the next tool and start using it when it becomes appropriate.
That's a bad argument, every dangerous profession also has lots of experienced people that still choose to work there.
Apple isn't specifically saving anyone here, they're specifically enforcing the terms of their Enterprise app distribution program.

If, however, you want to make a wider argument about whether or not it's reasonable for Apple to take a very opinionated view of how their main computing platform should apply security/privacy protections, you're very welcome to do so. I happen to greatly value the choices Apple has made for iOS, and I encourage everyone who disagrees, to go and use Android.
First thing that comes to mind is Facebook Events, people around me use it all the time to organise birthday parties, moving, weddings and whatnot. Multiple people said to me that they "no longer use facebook but still use Facebook Events because it is great". Another example would be Messenger, at least here it is the only place where really almost everybody is, Whatsapp had that place before but that is Facebook too. And really, since they removed the weird snapchat-like stories thing from Messenger it there is nothing wrong with it, had Facebook not been what it is, I'd probably like it too.
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I doubt we will launch a massive campaign against phones unless they kill literally hundreds of thousands like smoking has. It's more likely we will have to for vaping or marijuana use, if they turn out to cause cancer in the millions now using those daily.
Yes, that is a religious belief.
> I hope we stop buying in. When a politician tells us a country is evil, we need to start asking for receipts.

Well, there’s the minor issue of Iran’s totalitarian regime consistently announcing their intent to destroy Israel and devestate the U.S.A, and taking actual steps to support the same.

I am Israeli and completely left-wing by the way, and believe there are many steps both Israel and the U.S. could take to mitigate the threat from Iran without war, such as strengthening moderate forces in the middle-east, which they do not take. I consider our own prime minister a thoroughly evil man.

But the fact remains that Iran’s own statements and actions are extreme.
Yeah, except that the US has reduced emissions more than any other country and is highly competitive on a per-capita percentage basis.
Very much agreed, the friend-of-a-friend aspect of privacy is very rarely considered in these discussions.
I don’t normally check profiles before responding to comments. It appeared to be sarcasm to me. Sudan does have problems (both North and South) and U.S. politicians have commented upon them.

Thanks for letting me know. And that last sentence wasn’t sarcasm on my part!
You realize hangouts supported SMS previously and they removed the functionality to try to get people to use Allo, right?
Blockchain is a game changer in that regard. Micropayments we just not economically feasible to this point because of the high fixed costs to settle and process payments. I.e if I want to sell an article for 50cts with PayPal, PayPal would take 30 cts. Blockchain enables much cheaper processing. We at Satoshipay (https://satoshipay.io/) have built such a solution for Publishers and just announced our first big partnership with Europe's leading digital publisher, Axel Springer (https://medium.com/@SatoshiPay/satoshipay-and-axel-springer-...)
One of the realisations from after the result was Leave had no plan at all. Nothing admissible or written. I'm sure Rees Mogg had a plan, but it wouldn't have won votes, so that's staying in his head.

The Scottish Independence referendum had a plan running to hundreds of pages. Good bits and bad bits, but a good few people had put thought into what came next.

Leave had a bus, with a slogan.
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I'm not sure if "in violation of contract" counts as illegal in this case.
> The choice of continued concious existence is literally the only real natural right we have.

We have several choices and we make them each second. A choice to respond to this comment or not, for example. And even in a tragic scenario where you can't make any choice about your body, you may still have many others - see Hawking for example.
That's a complete non-sequitur. The complaint was that the owner of the device doesn't have the choice to install software that wasn't approved by Apple. The fact that you only want to install software approved by Apple is completely irrelevant to the question of whether you should be able to install whatever you want, because your ability to install whatever you want does not in any way affect your ability to only install software approved by Apple.

You only buying Nike shoes does not require that all other companies are banned from selling shoes, you only eating McDonald's burgers does not require all other restaurants to be closed, and you only buying software through Apple does not require that there is no other ways to install software either, that's just authoritarian bullshit.
> when your cheap stuff comes from China

Yeah except neither party to this deal is producing "cheap stuff". Both consider themselves to be very much "top tier".

> edit - to clarify, the point i'm trying to make is that it really doesn't cost much to ship stuff halfway around the world, especially en masse

Yeah, if the stuff is "cheap". Like dramatically cheaper than what you can produce at home.
Funny thing: often enough, in person or in the media, you'll hear ex-voters give their reasons for sitting out an election or quitting voting altogether. I've never heard anyone say "it became obvious I was not any good at it" or anything of the sort.
The use of ratio can be a bit misleading. But in this context positive ratio means positive difference between kills and losses. A 1:1000 ratio for example is mathematically positive but would translate to 1 - 1000 = -999. Negative "ratio".
With Postgres, it's perfectly safe and supported if you just do it according to the documentation using pg_start/stop_backup and also archive your WALs properly. Most databases have something similar.
well if all the government needs is money and it can solve all its citizens' problems, that's great news because the government can print money. Someone should have tried this earlier.
> mechanical power generators

Well I never ... I wouldn't have thought that would be something the US would need to import ...

> works of art

Doesn't this refer to a lot of the branding work done by the likes of Starbucks, Amazon etc. which then get written off against tax or something (hence value is quite inflated).
Using Firefox on Android with uBlock Origin enabled, I was redirected to some "onlinexperiences.com" site that displayed "System Check" and then a constantly growing number of lines containing only "Browser".

Then I tried the stock Android Browser and it passed the browser check, but redirected to a login page.

Going back to Firefox and disabling uBlock Origin, I was able to access a description of the talk and the video itself. So I conclude that the video is available without login, but you have to use Firefox and allow yourself to be tracked.

Pretty grating "online experience" for something hosted on a mozilla.org subdomain.

Edit: the video file is here: https://airmo-7feeef12f503ef5d.s3.amazonaws.com/2014/02/06/4...
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Remind me again which country has been the only one in history to actually use atomic weapons on their enemies, killing tens of thousands of innocent people as collateral damage.
Numbers, please.

Also, starting from the US emissions per capita, it's really not hard to reduce it.
>Human experience dies with the person who acquired it...

unless they wrote it down.
No problem... I realize my initial answer was pretty useless. "batch" has a specific meaning in Odata but of course you wouldn't know that unless you already knew Odata.
I think you're being a bit harsh.

The central limit theorem does hold for iid rv (independent identically distributed random variables) with finite mean and variance. Now, those assumptions can be relaxed (the rv need not be independent, but they can't be too dependent, and they need not have finite variance, but they can't be too "far out"), and some of the pertinent proofs are only a few decades old; but you can hardly expect a survey with 135 proofs to cover all the subtleties.

Some of the other points may be more egregious howlers, but, again, come on - this is not the definite reference for any one of those theorems.
Related tangent: Newport's book "Deep Work" is excellent.

It makes a strong case that deep work is increasingly rare, valuable, and meaningful. But it goes way beyond the "what" and the "why", providing the "how", in the form of specific, pragmatic, actionable guidance for achieving just that. Anecdotally, it's been very helpful for me.
Author here. This is a personal advertising platform. Whenever I write a post on the web, I put a link to this page. This way my advertisers get traffic, and I receive funding for my future projects (and charity).

I would like anybody to be able to do the same. Or maybe invent other use cases. Here is the source code: https://github.com/porobov/million-ether-homepage-2-contract.... It is well documented and can be used for education (smart contract upgradeability, oracles, ERC-721 token, web3).

The project is called The Million Ether Homepage. It is like the well-known Million Dollar Homepage but with some blockchain-powered cool features:
- buy pixels and own them for life (or for as long as Ethereum is available)
- sell or rent pixels out with no commission
- put ads to the pixels you own and replace it anytime
- trade pixels through 3rd party decentralized exchanges (ERC721 token standard implemented).
- the price for a 10x10 pixels block starts with $1 and doubles every 10% sold.

The first version was launched back in 2016. It collected $11k for charity. This version also sends 80% of income to charity.

It is at Minimal Viable Product stage and a bit clumsy. You'll need Metamask extension for your browser and some ether.

Would love to hear your thoughts.
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I think you're missing the point - if anything the reasons you gave would be cause for it to be downvoted, because it's still an anwer, just a bad one. The reason it would be deleted as unconstructive is the creativity, which is discouraged in the push for professionalism.
Yeah, it definitely has the appearance of undercutting the importance of Huawei's alleged actions of breaking sanctions the US has imposed on Iran.

Be interesting which side Canada chooses. They might even get a wall out of it.
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I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. I returned from Sudan recently [0] and it is a fascinating country full of wonderful people and rich in culture - you will love visiting there! The Sudanese continue to suffer badly economically however, partly as a result of being on the US "State Sponsors of Terrorism" list [0] even though I firmly believe they no longer deserve to be there. Sudan still has many problems to tackle aside from this, but the US continuing to keep them on the terror list is without doubt only serving to make things worse.

Inflation is a huge problem in Sudan, largely brought on due to a lack of foreign exchange and trade (I had to take in enough USD to cover my entire trip). During my two week visit the Sudanese pound was devalued 39% overnight [2] and prices for common items rose noticeably during my stay. I came away feeling a huge amount of empathy for the locals who are finding it increasingly difficult to even afford basics such as bread there.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10156632235706760&...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Sponsors_of_Terrorism_(U...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-07/sudan-rev...
On the non-reflective cases we at least see that we can forge small but very hard problems too. The most simple ones are the infinite loops testing some whole number related property, like: Goldbach conjecture, Fermat's theorem.

Now we know the program of the second case never halts but it was not an easy proof, the first one is still open.
It's just funny how every single open policy that US has that supports real freedom is either being gamed or swept away now. We're done.
If you mean with competitive that the US is among the countries with the highest per capita emissions then you are right.
Haha I was sure this was going to be about PLR. Alright, story time.

Around 2007, when I was in undergrad, I started getting really interested in cryptography. At the time TrueCrypt was a very popular project in crypto circles, and I spent a lot of time hanging out on the TC forums, soaking up as much information as I could.

As a journalism major, the extreme secrecy of crypto-geeks naturally piqued my curiosity. I started digging into who ran TrueCrypt and its forums. After a bit of googling and whois, I hit a brick wall in the form of LLCs in the Cayman Islands. I therefore did what anybody in my position would do: I just asked people on the TC forums what was going on.

Within minutes, a very popular poster whose handle was `plr` reached out to me, essentially saying "yeah... that is weird! What do you know?". I told him everything, which wasn't much, but he still seemed super interested. We exchanged messages for a few weeks and followed up on a few leads. After a while, plr stopped replying to me. I figured he got bored.

Years later (= 2016, I think), this came out: https://magazine.atavist.com/he-always-had-a-dark-side

tl;dr: I was internet friends with Paul Le Roux.
Thinking that an embargo is going to solve the problem is misleading and it's only going to make things worst. The population is going to confort themselves that the occidental nations are evil, you give valid arguments to the dictatorial power, only the population is going to suffer.

Conversely opening the market creates bounds between countries and opens the population's mind that will impose the democracy by itself.
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I don't think the UK would be exporting Starbucks or Amazon branding?
you just gonna throw this out or will you back up your claims by some sources? because looking here[0] tells a very different story. while there has been a reduction since 1980, it has not been "more than any other country". and crucially, per capita emissions are pretty bad in the US.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
If I understand you correctly those "you are leaving example.com" interstitial pages with a redirect are a solution to this problem. Although they are not so pleasant.
Yes and no.

I am guessing he intended to surrender immediately when challenged, he just never was. It's a civilised country, so we tend to not have have shoot-first-ask-questions-later policies, at least not while I was pulling guard duty.

This is entirely reasonable, as there's not that much damage you can do between being challenged and surrendering (or not as it may be), at least at the fairly mundane mechanised infantry battalion I was stationed at. What are you going to do, steal a tank? Good luck with that! (Go for missiles instead!) I guess things might be a bit tougher at the base where they house the American nukes. If it is, I would presume there to be very obvious signage.

I do remember the story of a guard officer trying a bit too hard to test his troops and not surrendering when challenged repeatedly (different base). He was shot in accordance with the rules of engagement. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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They totally would. It's a tax thing. IP transfer happens between national operating units all the time for just this reason.
it would be interesting to know if and when they noticed it was missing
> [people] are not currently practically computable, but it seems physically possible to simulate them.

To be fair, it being physically possible to simulate people doesn't mean that human mind is computable/decidable.

Even if the "low-level" physical behavior of simulated neurons could be formalized, there's the possibility that the "high level" mind could belong to a different "emergent" layer that can't be represented by an axiomatic system.

In essence, you would have a computer program that represents a human mind, but the answers to problems asked to that mind would be evaluated as human replies, not formal expressions; and human replies are not axiomatic.
Actually, the one that will kill Facebook will be... itself. It's been alienating more and more people. The older generation will eventually die out leaving maybe just businesses, pages and some groups.

But facebook already knows this and has two solutions: Whatsapp and Instagram. You ain't going anywhere.
I read a book called [Acid Alex][1] with a very similar story. Also born in Zimbabwe, also moved to SA. Became a drug dealer.... - great book btw.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Acid-Alex-Al-Lovejoy/dp/1439249407
Which major data centers or internet infrastructure are most at risk from coming sea level rise?
I found this: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/07/16/chart-of-the-week-the...

Which agrees in total tons. I didn't find anything per capita, or relative to current emissions.
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