skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No specific location, just need the right to work in the US - Everything is remote/online
Of course it's hard to make behavioral changes. That's part of the reason it's such a worthwhile goal.
There are millions of Do not Trespass signs out there, the difference is that they have some legal weight.

Ten years ago it would have been a different matter, but it doesn't seem that far fetched to get do not track to be the legal equivalent of a "no" on those GDPR consent forms, but with no options for dark patterns and no way to re-query on every page load for those who opt-out.
>No, no it is not. I assure you, it is not correct.

Language evolves, and this means that the rules of grammar do too. The MLA already allows for pronoun usage to match that of the preferred pronoun of whomever you are writing about, and are considering allowing for the singular they in general. Some style guidelines already allow it. Others still proscribe it.

Plenty of news organizations, including the Washington Post, have set their style guidelines to use the singular they.

It's grammatically correct in plenty of places today, and the current trend is for that to increase, not decrease. You're fighting a losing battle here.
Maybe the interesting part of the smartphone ARM story is the degree to which Apple has used custom silicon to optimize speed and power for their own specific workloads and software.

Why couldn't ARM-based servers do the same thing? I understand why a generic ARM-based CPU might not win against a generic ARM-based x86 CPU at running cross-compiled code in Linux. But what if the server has a custom ARM-based chip that is a component of a toolchain that is optimized for that code, all the way down to the processor?

Imagine a cloud service where instead of selecting a Linux distro for your application servers, you select cloud server images based on what type of code you're running--which, behind the scenes, are handing off (all or part of) the workload to optimized silicon.

I don't have the technical chops to detail how this would work. But I think my understanding of Apple's chip success is correct: that they customize their silicon for the specific hardware and software they plan to sell. They can do that because they own the entire stack.

I think if any company is going to do that in the server space, it would have to be the big cloud owners. No one else would have the scale to afford the investment and realize the gains, and control of the full stack from hardware to software to networking. And sure, enough, that is who are embarking on custom chip projects:

https://www.thestreet.com/opinion/why-tech-giants-are-design...

So, maybe the result won't be simply "ARM beats x86," but rather "a forest of custom-purpose silicon designs collectively beat x86, and ARM helped grow the forest."
> That sucks. I'd still take that over some percentage of the population just not having access to care, or having a huge number of medical bankruptcies.

Yup. I'd rather wait 10 hours in ER for something non-life-threatening than get immediate care and spend the next 10 weeks fighting with insurance companies or filing for bankruptcy.
> Asking someone who hasn’t been recently exposed to computing theory to write a balanced parentheses recognizer is asking them to reinvent the basic research of people like Kleene and von Dyck, extemporaneously. And then write code under the interviewer’s watching eye. That is unlikely to show these candidates in their best light, and the results become very uneven.

> Outside of a special-case like certain CS students, this question is likely to give very inconsistent results, and those results are going to be dominated by a candidate’s recent familiarity with the underlying problem, rather than their coding skills.

> In most cases, that makes for a bad interview question.

This only makes it a bad interview question if the goal of the question is to only hire the candidates that can code the solution.

Otherwise, it can be a very good interview question. How do they go about "reinvent[ing] the basic research of people like Kleene and von Dyck, extemporaneously"? What questions do they ask? What ideas do they come up with? What resources do they say they would consult? Under pressure, how do they behave? If they make a mistake, are they coachable? Do they lash out or double-down on mistakes? If they mention using a language's regex, do they understand the performance tradeoffs of various different features?

There is a lot to see by asking the question beyond just "whether or not candidate X can code a solution".
Does your boss have a neice that can fix your arm bootloader? He probably has one that can fix your windows bootloader.

This stuff was "dark arts" that we committed to muscle memory in the 90s, and no normal mere mortal will ever learn why the safe mode menu existed, how to hotkey into a boot selection menu, or to boot up a live disk to restore system files. None of that is possible with, say, u-boot. You need to know the kernel load addr, the partition layout, and a ton of crap that just isn't portable from one device to another, and that that's AFTER your done fighting the thing for root access!

Arm workstations Just Won't Work the same way those super permissive x86 workstations did, and that will make them crap for developing on.
Linus said "the cross-development model is so relatively painful". What you described is a relatively painful effort of chasing the word alignments. Wouldn't it be better not to worry about alignments at all and spend your time on something more productive? I think this is his point - if non-productive effort can be avoided, people will avoid it.
Quad Microsystem
Interesting that the author namechecks novelists, journalists and folk-artists tangentially related to his subject, but in almost every case neglects to credit the designers and publishers of the games in the article, even though that information is printed on the boards themselves and can be read - just - in a couple of the images. Can he explain why he thinks it's appropriate to show respect to the creators of respectable artforms, but none for those who made the objects he's discussing?
And either the merchant or the company gets stuck with the $5 dispute, while the guilty party enjoys a free $5. Nice system!
I guess I might as well move to Cloudflare Registrar entirely then?
Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?
Sounds like they have a bad manager. Yes some people are bad at their job, and that includes developers, but in every case I've encountered it, their manager enabled it. It could be an equally arrogant bad manager, or a milquetoast bad manager. Servility in a manager is a bad attribute. They should be someone who seeks out the demure contrarian and acts as their advocate, should the manager find their position compelling. Not everyone is confrontational, that isn't the problem though. If the manager isn't seeking out contrary opinions, and only acts obsequious to their developers? That's a stool pigeon of a manager. Bad manager and bad developer? Good luck with that combination.
I believe as long as the transformation function is invertible (no information is lost), it ought to be a valid approach. The Box-Cox function as far as I can tell is invertible.

If a transformation f has the property (f^-1 o f)(x) = x then (f^-1 o g o f)(x) should be valid -- though how to rigorously demonstrate this in all cases evades me for now. (there are some conditions that need to be satisfied)

Rob Hyndman, the author of the "forecast" package in R, also thinks it's ok (slide 17 [1])

[1] https://robjhyndman.com/talks/RevolutionR/7-Transformations....
Unless the trolls had bought the patents from a company that had assigned themselves a license.

As far as I'm aware, its quite common to retain rights to a patent portfolio, when selling it on.
Not exactly get licenses, but the licensing requirement is voided for code distributed in such a way.

That is, suppose Startup Inc. published code related to software patent on GitHub owned by GitHub Inc., to which it has granted license. This means anyone who downloads the code from there, no matter the license, has no licensing requirement (not the same as grant or getting a license).

If the code is published under a license that does not specifically exclude a patent grant, it is also patent exhausted. (Of course, if the license prohibits redistribution, GitHub cannot host it for the public.)
What do you do when you have multiple types of grouping? E.g. Parentheses and braces and brackets in a programming language?
Is anyone else increasingly uncomfortable with the "we'll solve the certificate problem by deferring to centralized registrars that surely keep their keys private from state actors."
I mean, this is potentially not a risk if there is a recognizable way of communicating low-bandwidth fingerprints of the next encryption level, like ZRTP verification on voice. But note how WebRTC has done the same thing? And efforts to solve the problem are talked about and then, somehow, nothing ever happens with the standards.

It's enough to drive one paranoid.
I think it's more that their legal department is busy with enabling their business. Which is doing well.
Typically industry lobbying is performed through industry associations, not by companies themselves.

Why would Apple shoulder the burden of the lobbying effort when all of the other tech companies would be happy to ride their coat-tails?

Additionally, the political climate re IP lobbying in the past 5 years has been non-optimal to push for changes. Apple has been involved in several very large IP disputes, which makes their involvement look self serving, the AIA was relatively new and some people wanted to wait to see if it would be effective, a new USPTO director came in only a year ago* (prior to which the previous director was very unlikely to make large changes at the end of their mandate), and the current administration is very hostile towards coastal IP-centric business.

*Oh, and he's fucking horrible: https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2018/10/19/iancu-risk-takers-pate...
Netflix Nearly Lost Its Footing During the Recession and What It Did to Recover
Bukowski's books glorify drinking like the movie Leaving Las Vegas glorifies drinking: the trailer may give you the impression they're about getting drunk and having fun, but sit through the whole actual thing, and having a drink is the last thing on your mind.
It's a reason to be cautious about making hand-wavy dismissals based on a handful of counterexample cases when some of the underlying outrage is based on real, systemic injustices.
The question is not only escape velocity, if you want to fly away from the Moon, you still need to escape Earth and the Sun. The other part of the problem on Earth is atmosphere with its drag and the fact that some kind of propulsion, like ionic, is impossible.

Edit: hmmm... it seems that escaping Earth and the Sun would be easier from the Moon, since the Moon trajectory components include already the 9 km/s and 30 km/s of Moon and Earth's orbits. Once in Moon's orbit, with the right angle and a little push, you should be able to escape Sun.
> How do you know for example that it is not the case that what I experience as "red" is what, if you experienced it the way I did, you would call "blue"?

Because the words "red" and "blue" can be calibrated by reference to external objects. You and I both call stop signs "red" and the sky on a clear sunny day "blue". So if, for example, somebody invented a device that could "translate" your experiences into my brain, and the device "translated" your experience of looking at a stop sign into something that my brain decoded as "blue", I wouldn't conclude that your experience of colors was different from mine: I would conclude that the translator device was broken.
5G Is Going to Transform Smartphones Eventually
> It's just typical American ignorance about anything outside of America

That's a generalization about hundreds of millions of people. You were very clear.

When it comes to education, according to the PISA, at a 15 year old level of development, the US ranks just behind Norway and ahead of France, Sweden and Austria on science; ahead of Israel and Greece on mathematics and just behind Slovakia; ahead of Spain, Austria and Switzerland on reading and just behind the UK, France, Sweden and Denmark.

On reading the US is one point behind the UK, and two points behind France; the UK is 37 points behind Singapore (the top) for comparison of the scale.

The US is 20 points behind the UK in mathematics; the UK is 72 points behind Singapore and 29 points behind Switzerland.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/15/u-s-students...
Same reason Nodejs got popular. Same reason Electron is popular now. It's what people know and have at hand. People always follow the path of least resistance. This is a first principle.
Interesting. I have been playing NFL with crypto at https://cryptocup.io and now are doing soccer.
Idea similar, but using crypto and smart contracts. Great UX as well
It sounds way cooler than it was. For some reason I openened up the server box and during a reboot I saw the LED on the motherboard flickering in a way I didn't expect. So we tried to change PSU and then everything worked.
The Decentralized Charity Ecosystem
Can I take this idea and use it in Germany? There is a huge demand of IT / programming skills, but the market is simply empty, because of the traditional crafts in industry, where most of the young people go.

Offering this would possibly rise the interest in IT related skills and capture intelligent people.
Really it is more a matter of expression and reading - they're still there but not expressed in the same way nor your cues and conventions picked up necessarily. Just because their tone may not convey it doesn't mean they have deadened emotions - that is depression.

Think of it like a cat vs a dog wagging a tail. Usually a cat with a wagging tail is agitated - a dog with one is happy. Just because a cat with a wagging tail swats at you doesn't mean they are happy to attack - it means they are stressed out and you disregarded their clear signal!

I say usually because there are outlier cases that learn the other conventions. See Tally the Husky for an example who even does the "cat-loafing" pose of hiding all legs while sitting.
Non-chrome OS: It syncs your Chrome browser settings (bookmarks, credentials, etc).

On other Chrome OS: It syncs your Chrome browser + the OS settings.
The author concedes that smart contracts will likely find their niche one day.

...but I think that they have already found a good one: dramatically increasing the difficulty of collusion in any m-of-n scheme. Technologies which rely on m-of-n such as Shamir's Secret Sharing and Threshold Proxy Re-encryption (disclaimer: I work at NuCypher) have never found widespread use because the ease of collusion among unknown third parties is easy enough to warrant using known third parties (and once you do that, the use cases for such schemes tend to evaporate).

But look at the upcoming cohort of solid blockchain projects: many of them use smart contracts for collusion resistance.
Speaking as someone that's a fan of independent, local businesses and struggled with running one for 10 years: no business best described by the words "independent" and "local" can compete on all aspects of customer service with a megacorp. The resources just ain't there for it.

It will have higher prices or poorer service, if one is opened at all.
State of Commercial Real Estate Innovation
Love this, fwiw. I'm in the UK, or I'd be on it.

Anyway, is it literally $40k you pay 15% ($6k), below you pay nothing?

Is there any sort of tax saving, do "graduates" pay tax on the full amount but pay out 15% to an "educational trust"?

Are you a non-profit?
The federal law requires b or it isn't valid. The only reason the Feds are allowed to regulate drugs at all is through 'b' and the ICC.
They've already been exposed by the OPM breach.
I saw an insane amount of Transmeta PCs in Japan circa 2005 during the "netbook era" running Windows. It was quite a surprise.
why is that so? any plans to change it in the future (or to help with acquiring that right)?
Unfortunately not every country has a small claims system. Also, I’m not entirely sure how etherum contracts work but if using them means money is transferred automatically upon objectivly measured completion, then I would very much like that even if I did have access to a small claims court.
May I know what is the requirements for who would join that team?
Don't you see that his answer has nothing to do with a hacker mindset? It's an assertion that making your development and production environments as close as possible will save you from unexpected grief, coupled with an observation that this has driven server architectures historically. Especially with subtle problems like performance issues. I find it a very sensible conclusion.

Of course it didn't hurt that x86 quickly became the price/performance leader for servers, but he makes a good case that this will continue for at least the near future.
You can store hashes in the blockchain for auditing, you don't need to store the actual data.
We think this type of model (paying people to learn) is part of a bigger macro trend: content widely available on the internet, better learning tools, more work remotely. I think one day we will go international (and recoup investment via staffing) but not for right now.
The last few lines are spot-on:

>Bukowski unquestionably lived a life much darker and hungrier and more desperate than that of most writers. But in his writing he paused at the black threshold and backed away. He was probably wise.

Yes, Bukowski presented a heavily edited portrait of his alcoholism, but that discretion is the only thing protecting the sick charm that makes his work so interesting. A step or two further and the light would be completely shut out.
I haven't read the book yet, but I have watched his Talks at Google talk on the topic [1] a couple of times (1 hour), highly recommended.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmSAYlu0NcY
> We have a plan to make GitLab use less resources

I used to use gitlab at work daily and releases would mention how performance is being tackled consistently. However, I have not seen any large improvements at all, suggesting that there is an impenetrable wall made of the underlying technologies.

Gitlab is based primarily on Ruby-on-Rails, which doesn't particularly shine with neither memory usage nor performance. What sort of effort would even reduce the use of resources significantly, short of a rewrite?
Even in a controlled testing environment, it would be difficult to distinguish the signature of an autonomous weapon system from a remote-controlled unmanned system.

On the battlefield, it will be impossible.

The only difference between a system with a human firebreak and a fully autonomous weapon is the flip of a bit.

Treaties will not be effective at preventing the development of these weapons. Any illusions will be shattered by the first bad actor.

An arms race in this space is inevitable; realistically it has already begun.
OP here: in this podcast episode, some leading free software advocates from the Software Freedom Conservancy give a 'confessional' about the proprietary software they use and how its so hard to avoid compromises now. It comes after their ogg/podcast was on hiatus for 1-2 years.
How do you differ from Lambda School? What do you think you do better than them?
If a child can’t learn the way we teach, we should teach the way they learn
SWIFT is a messaging system, not a settlement system. Its also far slower than blockchain, more complex, and more prone to error. I think around 6% of transactions just disappear.
While it's not strictly the case, I'll tend to agree that I have a big productivity advantage by sharing an architecture between my workstation and my server.

I want a RISC-V workstation, and if the counterpart on the server side existed, that'd probably be the change I'd make (if any).
Most fundamental jobs out there would not make anyone a millionaire
Don’t get me wrong. There are times when details should be discussed, but not when it’s coming out of some desire to engage in a power struggle and show everyone else how smart and in control you are.
> Guys, this works. It's literally how the world works.

There's no question that it works. The question that blockchain-like solutions seek to explore, is whether it works better than a technological solution which can eliminate most of the layers you describe.

The world is deeply complex, more complex than any single human can understand. If operating in the world can be simplified to the point of being understandable by individuals, or if the size of the foundations you have to trust or rely on can be made significantly smaller, that could be worth it.
Yes! Defense is easier than offense in general, especially with time to prepare.

One area that should be investigated is sticky hairy counter measures. Just think about what kills your vacuum cleaner?

Or what about rip-stop protective clothing that can kill a chainsaw in a split second? (I have my leg now because of protective chaps with kevlar fibers. Grubbing out a nasty old stump, one moment of inattention and the chain bit my leg, but the fibers jammed the saw in an instant. I looked down and it actually took me a few moments to realize that the rip in my chaps with the streamers of kevlar hanging down could have been my own precious meat! Man did I shiver, and send up a prayer of gratitude for the folks who made the chaps!)

Anyhow, once you start thinking defensively the ideas flow readily.

One idea I want to try is a thing that shoots those plastic balls (for the plastic ball pits you play in) but with a non-Newtonian goo (like cornstarch goo) that goes stiff at greater energies but is fluid at lesser. Result: anti-riot "foam". People can't run around and flail in it but you can still move around (to e.g. provide first aid). There could be an enzyme or something that can be sprayed to dissolve the goo... etc.
Well that might or might not align with the short-term business goals of someone. I agree that's stupid und not sustainable, but people have different goals. Like quaterly sales on Falcon Wing Doors and the bonus at the end of the year, and then you move on.
Can you give details because it sounds extremely unlikely that a union would act to stop their members being able to get a new job that recognises their experience -- can't the companies employing those unionised workers just fire 10% every year and cut wages dramatically?

Can't you just leave the union, move jobs?

I'm guessing this is going to be one of those "I can't believe USA thinks it's a [good example of a] democracy moment"?!?

So, pics or it didn't happen??
1 million lines of code in 1000 pages would come out to 500 lines of code per side of page. You'd need a big magnifying glass to get through that.

The book covers an old version of linux which had a few thousand lines of code.
Me too. In large part because paper ballots offer these guarantees.

But there's a swath of elections and voting going on (in universities, within political parties or unions, etc., but also official elections in parts of the US or in Estonia) that that use e-voting to cut costs or improve participation. They currently lack these guarantees yet those elected end up in charge of millions in budget.
That talk was how I ended up buying the book.
Changes in the Rust Core Team
What makes it mystical is that there is color as a physical phenomenon (which relies on rods and cones etc.), and color as a subjective experience which occurs entirely in the thought space of consciousness. Typically the mapping between the two is relatively standard and static, but imagine a situation in which your consciousness registers something which has not correlate in the physical world. That doesn't make it any less real to your consciousness.
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