skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"All European market production is being consolidated to Japan, where the company is based"

It really isn't a Brexit story.

Material Brexit issues are interesting, but just as interesting is the fact that every single issue facing the UK seems to be drawn into the narrative, whether it should be or not.

Brexit is therefore just as much a story of warring perceptions, as it is any kind of reality.
More in detail:

http://szdaily.sznews.com/PC/layout/201902/19/node_01.html#c...

http://szdaily.sznews.com/PC/layout/201902/19/node_03.html#c...
I'm a white man in the industry. My understanding was that blinding resulted in less diverse hiring, so blinding was abandoned.

I work with some women. But more men. AFAIK my company actively recruits women.
New Latin is still being invented, in academic circles, for naming new things.
Is that because of Russian data-residency requirements?
You can still use s3, even if you aren’t totally in aws.
Check what time of day your call happened. Daytime? Then its probably not stored.
I work at Doug's company, Cycorp. I've only been there for a couple of years, but they definitely have something truly unique.
You need both; they aren't substitutable. And great anything is hard to get so hire as many as you can of either category.
American colonization, people often living in makeshift cabins of wood and toiling for subsistence, was happening at the same time that the Renaissance Period was in full swing in mainland Europe! People did not come to America because it was comfortable or attractive in normal ways. Far from it, for many centuries there was new disease, hostile natives, and a severe lack of many of the comforts of 'civilized' life. But it offered lots of other things aside from comfort:

- Freedom of expression without governmental control. At the time this was primarily related to religion, but expression was and is valuable in and of itself.

- The ability to potentially create new social and political systems. Many government systems are driven by inertia, not merit. New lands offers opportunity for improvement. This needn't mean colonization level, but even simple individual autonomy which gets into the next point.

- Simply seeking a plot of land for oneself. Throughout Europe feudal governments claimed all land and then nepotistically allocated it. Things such as hunting could face severe consequences if not state approved. Even farming generally required entailed you giving nearly all your production away to the state.

- Many were poor people looking to try to find some mixture of the above and more generally to start a new life. They generally made their way to the new land through contracts of indentured servitude. They'd work for 'x' years in exchange for their passage and eventual freedom.

And so on. The US constitution is a distinct reminders of the motivations of colonization. We were designed to be a country with a weak central government and strong, effectively independent, state governments. Think about the first five amendments of the constitution: You have free speech, you can gather and bear arms, you don't have to let soldiers into your home, the government can't search you without reason, the government can't force you to speak in court if you feel it is not in your interest. This amendments all speak very strongly to the nature and ethos of those that were coming to the new world.

And while the exact details are quite different, I expect we'll see a similar ethos driving people to new planets. Eventually people will come to take Mars' selfies, go on a tour group to Olympus Mons, and of course to have some 0.3g sex. But that time won't be for a very long time to come. The colonies won't be anywhere near ready for that for decades, and even the technology for such stuff is still far off. Planetary alignment means there is a very short window for transiting between the planets. With current and near future tech going to Mars is a 2 year trip minimum. Those seeking novelty will likely need to look elsewhere for quite some time. I think Moon tourism certainly has some potential for these sort of pursuits. Andy Weir already coined it our most latter appeal above -- 'Moon Poon'.
China is fast becoming a fascist capitalistic country with the government acting as CEO or a board member with a majority of stock: "...Hong Kong will set up financing and investment platform for the Belt and Road Initiative..." Well, what if they don't want too?
I know this is dangerous close to the nature /nurture no-man's land but my own pet theory is that schizophrenia is a loop deformation. Every habitat swings, as in the circumstances are unstable going from a plenty of food to no food, zero disease to plague, nil predation to over predation. All this happens in evolutionary short time, meaning it should be invisible to the blind and deaf process that stupidly adapts to whatever is not worst enough for the circumstances. I found that schizophrenia beeing one of these specializations to a swinging habitat, as a theory, had a lot of explanationary power. Unfortunately it has sad implications. If you are adapted to circumstances, it makes only sence to prolong these circumstances. If the habitat swings back, the dormant version will lie in wait looking for epi genetic triggers, that allow this loop adaption to pre-emptive return and attempt to spread displacing other loop adaption. I do not know if a discussion on this can remain civilised.
You can still use s3, even if you aren’t in aws.
> and to encourage businesses to come to their country?

Bitcoin mining is a business and it comes to the country. Goal achieved.
Making a video game is not fun. Designing one is, but there's so much elbow grease needed to get a design to production that most people who want to make one don't ever complete.

Companies like Activision wants to reduce the risks of failure (where failure means sales don't reach target). Therefore, they cannot trust experimentation (where all the fun in game making comes from). Anyone looking for this should instead turn indie!
Calibre is the library, reading in the library can be less optimal than reading at home :-)
In that case it was ~60 servers, so losing any single server made little difference, but yes it of course needs to be a consideration if your number of servers is low enough.

It was also a fully virtualised setup that could also tie in rented dedicated servers or cloud instances via VPNs as needed. So where it made sense or if we had an urgent need, we had the ability to spin things up as needed.

E.g. we had racks in London, but rented servers at Hetzner in Germany (Hetzner got close to the cost of the colocated servers, though mostly because rack space in London is ridiculously expensive; it might actually have saved us money to put servers in their colo facilities in Germany, even with the cost of travel to/from them occasionally)
How is this comment possibly downvoted?

The facts of the article poignantly contradict the headline, which is quite common as the Brexit narrative is distorted daily in all directions.

Japan is withdrawing from Europe, point blank, this really isn't so much a Brexit issue, certainly not warranted in the title.
That's not reversible -- there is no preceding state for the one-cell state.
You are right that it's near impossible and unpractical to test all edgecases. But your example goes into the wrong direction. Shouldn't you build your system completely agnostic of time interpretation changes? A DST transition is not actually changing the time. The bug here seems to be coming from system clock updates. I honestly also never thought testing against system clock updates. If I schedule something to happen in 10 seconds I never expected the system clock might be shifting backwards and 10 seconds might become minutes or more. But that should be so super rare.

What is a realistic code example that might have problems with system clock updates?
An etl job could take an infinite amount of time. I am not trying to be cute by saying this but the point is that some ETL jobs might be as simple as loading data from a file others could involve millions of transformations. There is no limit to what you can do in ETL. This is not just loading the data from a file and providing it to xgboost.
I'm literarly hanging on the edge of the seat in this self inflicted catastrophe that is Brexit.

I view it as an experiment in what happens when common sense fails to win in an election.

I'm a EU citizen and Brexit will have negative impact, but I really want them to see this through, preferably in a no deal fashion.

I want to see what happens. Was it realy project Fear, or - what I belive - this will spell total shit for UK for comming years and decades.
music producers are one of the most Apple-leaning crowds, and yet they feel like they are being ignored by Apple. [...] this is a small market in the grand scheme of things.

This is the same point that’s often made about developers. But if it’s not developers and it’s not music producers, what is the large market for Macs that dwarfs everything else? And are they at least getting the products and features they want?
Came here to say this! This program would be even cooler if it supported the dict protocol in addition to scraping OED.

The dict protocol and CLI tool [1] were invented to solve the exact problem of browsing dictionaries without a bloaty web browser. You may wish to check them out.

On debian, sudo apt-get install dict, and you're off and running.

The most popular dict server may also be queried via a web UI [2] if you'd like to try it out before installing any software. It queries a few public-domain dictionaries, WordNet, plus some fun stuff like the Jargon File.

This being an open standard, you may also run your own dict server if you wish. It's pretty cool. dict has become a vital part of my CLI workflow since I discovered it many years ago. Its only downside is that it's blocked by some corporate firewalls =(

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DICT

[2] http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict
Bill Gates Asks His 46.5M Followers to Give Up Teachers' Names, Email Addresses
Ha! Talk about your theory to practice experiments. The grape becomes a plasma, and the glass contains it - brilliant!!!
Did you see the steps being performed in the workflow? How would you perform these steps on hadoop and what kind of times would you expect for the different steps in the workflow?
A Programmable 8-Bit Computer Created Using Traditional Embroidery Techniques
Have you already converted all your savings to bitcoin?
This is whataboutism. We have data showing that referrals disproportionately benefit white men [1]. But what about introverts, you say? Don't we care about them?

Sure? But what about introverts? Nothing about their unfair treatment entails that adopting a policy that disproportionately benefits white men is good for introverts or diversity.

[1] https://www.payscale.com/data/job-referrals

A survey of 53,000 employees.

> Referrals benefit white men more than any other demographic group. Our research shows that, holding all else constant, female and minority applicants are much less likely to receive referrals than their white male counterparts: white women are 12 percent less likely; men of color are 26 percent less likely and women of color are 35 percent less likely to receive a referral.
> "All European market production is being consolidated to Japan, where the company is based"

I don't know if your conclusion is true or not, but I don't understand why you think that statement demonstrates it? A company could easily decide that, due to Brexit, it is no longer worth manufacturing offshore at all, because the European market overall is now fragmented too much (manufacturing in either region incurs export costs to the other).
And as we state in the post. This does not include ML times since we wanted to show how much faster we were making ETL. The ML timing differences are even starker than ETL.
If you try reading my comments again you will realize I’m not claiming military and politics are “going” somewhere because of crypto.
You are trying to tell me that its an unlucky coincidence that the businesses are shutting down right around Brexit deadline, and Brexit nothing has to do with it?

Sure.
Anyone knows if there is a ebook reader that supports Android/Linux and can sync book/progress between machines?
Perhaps orthecreedence would also support shutting down all kinds of other useless services. I know I would, but since we're commenting on an article about cryptocoins, the discussion about Bitcoin is more relevant than a discussion about luxury cars.
Netflix Records All of Your Bandersnatch Choices, GDPR Request Reveals
I don't see Macs going to OLED for a long time. OLED is very hard to control burn in for system with static GUI elements. All brands pulled their OLED laptops last year (2017 OLED laptops went back to LCD in 2018) and they just restarted their efforts this year. Macs don't even have touch screens.
Here's an idea that says otherwise.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1097550055400181760.html
Part of being part of a protected class is that you are protected from retaliation for complaining about being discriminated against. Not sure that political views would fit here.
bought the lowest end macbook pro 2017(coz that's the only one without the touchbar). applecare has replaced(drumroll):

1.Keyboard

2.Screen for weird glitching issues

and now the wifi refuses to connect to 5ghz bands

i use a bluetooth mechanical keyboard now...
Yeah, i was eying the Lenovo Yoga s940 but it has 3x USB C vs the 2X USBC and a USB A in the older c930. Might just get the older one because of that.
It seems China proper has over-extended itself with the BRI and is going to use Hong Kong resources now... The rest of the objectives just seem contrived.
Has power really become centralized though? I agree that large portions of the institutions that we traditionally consider as being "powerful" have become corrupt, but I have a hard time qualifying any of them as "centralized". Maybe I'm being pedantic, but "centralized" to me would be another way of saying "can respond quickly and decisively when required" (whether the response is appropriate or sufficient or any other measure of "good" is a different discussion).

I just don't see the current state of the West as "centralized" at all, even with the rise of populist governments that at least pretend like they want to centralize this power. Could any governments in the west actually mount a response to climate change? Seems like the answer is a deafening "no". What about other potential global catastrophes, like a massive war? In my judgement western governments seem extremely slow and sclerotic in their response to mounting defense problems (migration, the rise of China, a recalcitrant Russia). The most they seem able to do is sell some arms to other countries, further decentralizing their authority to actually influence any of this directly. So I have little faith that, say, the United States could competently mount a draft (would we even have enough able bodied males to make a difference?) for example.

>INEQUALITY AND OLIGARCHY: Wealth and political inequality can be central drivers of social disintegration, as can oligarchy and centralisation of power among leaders. This not only causes social distress, but handicaps a society’s ability to respond to ecological, social and economic problems.

I guess I don't understand what point is trying to be made here. As western countries have become more diverse, both demographically and politically, of course responding to these problems becomes more difficult as more groups have their own interests at heart - but this seems to be a feature not a bug of liberal governance. Is the point here that in the current state only billionaires would be able to gather enough institutional power to coordinate a response? That sounds awfully "Great Man" of the author - though I doubt that was his intention.
> what is the large market for Macs that dwarfs everything else?

Hipsters?
These works are best experienced in person. The scale, texture — it all plays a role. It helps to imagine the context, to imagine what if was like for these works to emerge when they did. But, I think Jasper Johns can definitely be appreciated without any of that — just standing in front of one of his works, taking it in like it’s a landscape; just something to experience.
Logic Without Metaphysics
per Transaction calculations are completely flawed. If transaction cost was the primary goal - bitcoin would have been a centralized mysql database. Decentralized and secure ownership of your assets that doesn’t involve trust, politics and military is what important in bitcoin.

And by the way with payment channels all your numbers are irrelevant anyway because your assumption of 4 tx/sec goes out the window. Try again with 4 trillion tx/sec. And keep in mind that there is no upper limit.
Lambda engineer here (I'm one of the authors).

As bubblethink already mentioned, the article is arguing that batch processing jobs (e.g. those characteristic of Deep Learning) don't benefit substantially from cloud infrastructure.

High availability, edge processing, fast network upload, and the lego blocks for creating redundancy are moot.

Most training algorithms automatically recover if a node goes down. That covers all required failure handling.
How is Amazon’s pulling out of NY related to Brexit?
The purpose of blazing is to accelerate GPU workloads. SQL is just a language we provide users as an interface for performing complex transformations in the rapids eco system. rapids.ai

We aren't targeting enterprise sql users specifically. We are targeting people using GPUs that want to accelerate the process of making information available to those gpus by leveraging the GPUs for the process of parsing (CSV), decompressing (Parquet) and then transforming data to make it suitable for machine learning, classifying etc.
Two Phase Commit or Not
Patient Data: Who Owns It? Who Can Improve It? What's It Worth?
Hopefully not, with any luck they learnt from the last time they tried this [1]. Besides, it's basically a free-for-all at times outside the major cities anyway.

Additionally, in reality it's not that great a problem - see the UK's connection to the Continent. I guess if the New Territories ever get fully absorbed back into the Mainland, then the border delineation might be tempting to erase and that'll cause problems.

edit: That said, Japan has pulled it off before [2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_the_road_in_China#Dri...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/730_(transport)
thanks for looking at the site.i fixed the bug now. btw nice photographs on your site.
Ordering transactions.
No FB2 support, not very useful.
Obviously not claiming it's the best, but I recently redesigned my freelance page if you want to borrow some ideas:

https://www.seanw.org/

Aimed for minimal but nice looking, and tried to push all the tech jargon to the side so you can ignore it if you're non-technical.
Well so far it's been good for HK owners because it allows mainland Chinese to stash their capital in HK.
Nobody uses ravendb or akka.
Patriotic Joker YouTube Channel
To them brexit is a colossal cardboard box sitting on camel. They have no idea what’s even in it let alone compute how much it weighs.
Environmental costs are( to some minor degree ) included in the energy costs and payed by Bitcoin users. Markets tend to favor efficiency and bitcoins compets with less energy intensive crypto currencies. In the end, the most cost-efficient project should win - which will also reduce environmental costs. This process is slowed down by the fact that only a tiny part of the environmental costs is represented in the energy costs.
Yes those are two bloated stdlibs.
Alibaba Is the Force Behind Hit Chinese Communist Party App
Hey, don’t forget some goodies:

1.1. The hospital is built and operated according to guidelines and specifications set by a consulting firm that had no previous experience building hospitals.

It’s been a cluster fcuk with things missing or completely out of place.

1.2: Appointed Head of operation was a previous employee of the aforementioned consulting firm.
More than 80% of the billing from said firm lacked specification but was of course approved by... drumroll ...head of operation!

There other interesting bits as well, but these stood out to me at the time.

It’s all frankly a brilliant piece of right wing “entrepreneurship”.
It costs way less than current financial system costs even normalized for market cap or transaction volume because it involves politics and military.
Back in my day they called this UXSS and people all worked together to do everything in their power to stop it from ever happening.
It's been awhile since I've used it but Moon+ Reader on Android can sync progress to google drive. At the time the syncing wasn't super reliable, but it worked sometimes.
Just out of curiosity, may I ask what your bias is against electron?
Did you watch it? He is extremely careful, in many ways... And it did seem likely to have a positive effect on the guy's life, from what I could tell.
Moving back to Japan is hardly the low cost option.
The Bias Is Built In: How Administrative Records Mask Racially Biased Policing
It was also featured in the NYT's Art & Design section: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/arts/design/helsinki-libr...

Quote from Tommi Laitio, an executive director in Helsinki city:

“We often think that things like social cohesion or democracy are just words, but in spaces like these they really come to life,” Mr. Laitio said. “You need some social infrastructure for communities to work. You can’t build them on friendship, or this abstract idea of living together.”
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Bitcoin is the most energy efficient way to establish distributed and trust less consensus. Have better ideas - link me to your whitepaper, I’m sure you will become more famous than satoshi.
> we've known for a long time that atoms are not indivisible.

I do not agree with your statement that "we've known for a long time that atoms are not indivisible." Lucretius makes very clear that atoms are forever indivisible entities. So, _by definition_, we call an indivisible object an atom. If it is divisible it is not an atom, according to the original definition of the word.

What happened is that, physicists named an object an "atom" and when they resolved that object they named "atom" into its constituent parts, they claimed to have divided an indivisible atom. No. This is only a play on words.

Unfortunately, we see this process of loading old words with new meanings in physics all the time. No definition is sacred in physics. As you wrote, "In modern usage, 'materialism' is synonymous with 'physicalism'." This simply means that physicists changed the meaning of the word "material."

This process confuses me a lot. I even have a short essay about why physics must be semantics.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lV91S8enG4TqkxfO3XkA...
os x 10.4.. :-) Yeah. But still, pages either work or they don't, never seen that effect before. It's the linked-to page.
I have no idea whether I could study hard enough to work at Google. What I do know is that I don’t like large companies and I have no desire to move to the west coast.
It is being sold for what, $5 and is actively being supported. I assume that it's being developed by a single developer in their own time. If charging for it lets them make a living from their clearly valuable work then what's the problem?

Working on open source is fantastic but most realistic projects are sponsored in some way or form. I doubt that sponsorship works works for an eReader app, so this is a good solution.

TLDR; our fellow developer deserves to get paid for their clearly awesome work.
> Disconnecting ego from the work was the first big lesson I had when I started working in software

I wish it was my first big lesson, it took me way to long to learn and my mental health suffered greatly until I did.
Do you have some examples of that? Links? I should do an Ask about it I guess.. Examples seem hard to come by.
Israel Shoots for the Moon with Privately Funded Spacecraft