skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand it it targets people hosting darknet markets and aims to allow for longer sentences for just making the market available independent from having to proof individual crimes committed through it. If i had to guess its a law as a reaction to the last two big busts of darknet markets/Forums in Germany. DeutschlandImDarkweb and Elysium. In both cases, the admins were largely sentenced for crimes unrelated to hosting the site. DeutschlandImDarkweb for aiding a murder by allowing the weapon sales to the munich shooter and Elysium for actually raping kids.

With this law it will no longer be necessary to proof that individual sales through the platform actually happened. Not great, but (still) far away from outlawing tor exit nodes.
What is it with Germany and a continual bias toward fascism?
Yup - base trim pulls less, but the 37K touring ups the towing considerably.

FWIW, I've found CVTs are pretty straightforward for towing things at the right weight while on the road, but admittedly might tow less then a more conventional transmission would get you. I love the gas mileage improvement though. 30+ on the Outback, reliably (highway)
I agree with you in principle. I'll add that we've been in a post-truth world since mass media, long before internet use became mainstream. We shouldn't act like this is a new problem just because people got comfortable with the way the previous information-overlords managed to do things.
People's actual interests aren't necessarily their stated interests, though. The notion of people as unitary individuals with a coherent executive isn't even right. The agglomeration of desires and drives that I call "me" might spin a good story about who I am and what I want, but it's basically a work of fiction.

EDIT> Aspirational fiction, perhaps.
My theory is that there are two basic ways of understanding the world around you and solving problems. Statistically and structurally.

Everyone can do statistical problem solving. At least everyone who can talk. What you do is that you start making sounds when you're an infant and then you receive positive or negative feedback. This continues until suddenly you know how to talk.

Similarly, in industrial chicken raising you need to differentiate between male and female chicks right after they're born. However, there isn't any guide to determine the difference. Instead what you do is that you take one person who knows how to do it and pair them with someone who doesn't know how to do it. The person who doesn't know how to do it will guess at the sex of the chick and they will be corrected by the person who does know how to do it. After enough time you have two people who know how to do it.

Sounding familiar yet?

Most people learn programming languages in a statistical fashion. They try a bunch of stuff and get positive or negative results (compile fails, runtime errors, etc). However, just like determining whether a chick is a male or female in the chicken raising industry, nobody can really give you the specification of how to program. All they can do is tell you that you are doing it wrong or doing it right for any given scenario.

Now of course there are problems with the statistical method (also benefits, but we're interested in failure right now). 1) You can't say why you're right [in order to do that you have to sit down an analyze what you've been doing in a structural fashion]. 2) The only teaching method you know involves telling people they're wrong when your gut tells you they're wrong. 3) You'll have a terrible intuition for any situation that only causes a failure after a period of time or some of the time (think undefined behavior in C).

If you have only learned programming statistically and haven't sat down and reflected on what the structure of what you're doing actually is, then when you are faced with information that is contrary to what you know your natural reaction is going to be to listen to your gut (even if your gut is wrong) and provide the same negative response that you got when you were first learning.

Additionally, the only "reasons" that you'll be able to give are paper thin metaphors and thought terminating cliches that don't stand up to even the smallest amount of examination.

The end result? You get a bunch of programmers that freak out every time a new language comes out.
Thank you for this story :)

He clearly had no idea he'd be burdening generations of programmers preparing for interviews.
In my experience as a math teacher, there's a lot of sources of math anxiety. There are a few I see the most:

* Stereotype threat.

* High school students thinking "I was good at math in 3rd grade, so I need to be good at math now."/"I was bad at math in 3rd grade, so I will be bad at math now." while not taking into account the differences in the subject and themselves over that time.

* Students never being told that math is actually difficult and requires perseverance, encountering a struggle for the first time in math, and taking it as a personal failing rather than the expected order of things.
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In my experience, you acquire (i.a.) your behaviors, your values, and in particular your coping mechanism to most degree from your parents (or whoever raised you).

Your peers never have enough lever on you. The way kids look up to and depend on the love of their main care-giver(s) is irreplaceable.

I'm not talking about superficial things, like swearing, walking, etc.

It is sometimes frightening to realize how much of you is "just acquired". The way you treat people, the way you react to situations, the way you talk to your loved ones when you're angry. Once you realize there would be other ways: shocking.
Instead of having Xcode be available on PCs, which we all know are free to own.

Yeah, right.
On Social Media the results would have been published six years before the research even started and political tweets would have already labelled opponents for believing the wrong thing.
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Or producers of the goods that I purchase could pick a better way to deliver it to me. If I want product X then I am stuck with whatever way the company producing X decides to use. That they then try to shift the burden of proper disposal to me is the greatest red herring of our time.
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Valid points, but the demonetization of British accents in hollywood seems to have started in the late 80s or early 90s

Perhaps it's due to Alexis Carriington
> Education? Eh... not really expensive in the US, is it? the US student loan debt is swelling at about $1.5 trillion... and counting. It speaks volume as to how costly education is in the US. [1]

Education in the US is not unavoidably expensive. Quoting student loan aggregates does nothing to account for the number of students who took tens or hundreds of thousands worth of loans they didn't really need because they rejected an affordable alternative in order to go to their target school.

In 1998 I rejected my target school because attending would have cost me a minimum of $12,000/year out of pocket. I stayed local and graduated with no loans. 21 years later, if I started in 2019, I would still graduate without loans from that same school.

> Healthcare? Hugely expensive for a country as "rich" as the US. Unless, of course, you work for a generous employer and in that case, everything is paid for. Wait a second, I'm told not all employers provide a healthcare plan along with a 401k plan? That's unfortunate. Let's also remind ourselves that the US doesn't provide universal healthcare for all its citizens unlike other advanced industrialized countries. So if you happen to be jobless? You're SOL. Awe-effing-some. Let's move on... [2]

I don't have rebuttal to this point, but based on your tone I don't think you have any interest in discussing it in good faith anyway.

> Housing? In SF/SV/NYC/Seattle/Washington/any major US city, housing is extremely expensive as is housing in any major European metropolis such as London/Paris/Munich/Zurich. I bet the $300,000 nice house you mention in your comment must be somewhere in the countryside where nobody lives, right? Let's make this clear: houses located in the middle of nowhere in any European country also cost zilch. Let's take France for instance: 30K euros gets you a 100 sqm house (even bigger sometimes) in the Creuse region. Yeah nobody wants to live there but hey at least I can own a large house for the price of a car. [3]

"You bet" very wrong. The house I used to have in Dallas is worth $275,000 at the moment. Many of the houses in suburban New Jersey are less than $400,000, and some are even less than $300,000.[1] . Less stock in Maryland[2], but there are still many options.

> I could go on and on. I haven't even touched on other topics such as Internet, groceries, rent or insurance. Your comment comes across as plain ignorant and downward complacent. I don't get this tendency of always sugarcoating the US, as though it would make it magically more appealing to the average Joe to move there.

I'm sure you could, but it would just serve to further demonstrate your bias, condescension, and ignorance.

> Please back up your claims next time with articles or sources. Just use your favourite search engine.

The irony of this snark is that you have done a rather poor job of this yourself.

[1] https://www.redfin.com/minorcivildivision/70/NJ/Lyndhurst-To...

[2] https://www.redfin.com/city/31343/MD/Wheaton/filter/property...
This is a bunch of FUD.

* No, using a colo saves you way more than just 20%. In one of our facilities, our org has maybe ~15k servers under management and dc costs are ~ 1 million/mo. Build out of the cages and racks wasn't incredibly expensive, I think ~2 million. Power isn't insane either.

* I have no idea what he's talking about re: the fiber statement. We have a blend of different backbone providers that give us ~100 gigabit for ~$0.60 per gig. Compared to bandwidth costs for AWS, it's dirt cheap.

* You don't need ultra fast hot swappable robotic arms if you're not FAANG. With a handful of dc techs and a simple monitoring system, you can swap out disks just as easily, at the expense of a little more opex.

* PCI requires no consultants, its terms are pretty black and white - you will need an ISA though. HIPAA and can be more of a bear, but your org will need this consultation regardless of whether you own a dc or put it in the cloud. AWS does not give you automatic compliance.

* Yes I can totally believe that working at Google, you'd give TCOs that make Google look good.

Literally none of us except Lyft's operations knows what's good for Lyft. 100 million a year is a ton of cash, but gives them presence around the world. My company has datacenters around the world and it is very operationally complex to maintain them. It's definitely not for everyone, but this guy is making it sound worse than it actually is.
I agree completely. For me part of the issue is that getting angry (or pretending to) does work at certain ages! Right now my 6 and 3 year old sleep in a bunk bed. The 3 year old lately has been prodding the 6 year old when they are supposed to be falling asleep. I could come in and act out a play or be nice for an hour until he falls asleep out of exhaustion or I could come in with a stern voice and a touch of a yell and he gets upset for a few seconds but then goes to sleep.

Parenting is always a series of trade offs. On one hand maybe I am not teaching him how to self regulate and go to sleep. On the other he gets an extra hour of sleep. The reality is there is probably a better solution that I haven’t thought of but there is only so much time to research and explore each little issue that comes along!
The Feds still require a certain amount to be sold. They don’t specify that it has to be blended with gasoline, but that’s the easiest way to achieve the requirement. That doesn’t tell us much about what would happen in the absence of such a requirement.
I believe telling small children scary stories so they would refrain from doing something particular damaging is quite common among many cultures. Vietnamese in the old days for example were doing exactly the same. The problem is however that people can easily abuse this technique to manipulate children to get whatever they want. And when children once grow older or are particularly smart, they would mistrust it and everything adults had told them, clearly more damaging than beneficial. Ghosts story in one’s childhood was very common in Vietnam and no doubt they have contributed much to the widespread superstition and belief in supernatural things in Vietnam. Which is supposedly no problem for the Inuits but undeniably very problematic for any modern economy.

Using story telling and personification to teach children empathy is another common technique. In general I find them quite effective and would recommend them unconditionally if there is no problem with the time constraint modern life must be facing. In a culture where a time span of days have not much meaning, I guest all people can sit down, wait for the child to calm itself and then talk and tell stories to teach them. However it is sometimes almost impossible or at least very very hard to wait for a naughty, tantrum throwing child to calm itself down in a modern society. I think of the situation in a supermarket where a mother has to obey certain rules and at the same time has to finish the shopping to make supper on time or in a packed classroom where teachers has only 45 minutes to achieve something or on an airport/airplane.

Certainly, yelling at small children or even spanking them is not optimal and often not very helpful but anger is not the evil per se either. The key is to choose wisely how to act on this particular feeling. Suppressing or even disguising it under a friendly facade is not helpful, often even damaging for one’s mental health and relationships.
Just ordered Make: Electronics and a cheap electronics starter kit with a breadboard and some basic components. Thanks for the inspiration.
Oh totally.
They never claimed Germany was. The wiki link in GP doesn't list Germany as being a part of the five eyes.
Yes. But parent didn't contest that.
They rather made the point that you have to pay to "live" in that ecosystem. MacOS is officially only supported on Apple hardware ...
So it's not free and the fact that XCode is is therefore a moot point to that line of reasoning.
Let me be clear - I'm not blaming American parents at all for this - as you point out it's a result of culture (although I'd say it worked 30y ago as well and you also had cars there). The thing is just if I can choose (and I can), I'd not move there with children.
And lightning works with USB-C. The narrative here is supposed to be that we're all certain Apple was working really hard to try and make a universal adapter to their device and just couldn't because it wasn't far enough along?
The problem with enterprise software is the same problem with most issues we see from the producer side - those doing the work are completely different in alignment and requirements / needs than those that make the decisions to purchase for those. In Agile (and devops), the greatest friction is squarely around the reality that there's a manager caste that pushes down and makes decisions with very little feedback loops or misaligned incentives by all the stakeholders involved, and this causes churn within the group. For the buyers and the users of the software, their requirements are oftentimes lost. In your scenario, users with more power over their day-to-day software will demand better software and be empowered to select alternatives, but in more traditional organizations there will be a lot less churn comparatively because users will simply put up with bad things forcibly.

Almost all the "radical" software and project management practices to show up (and when implemented successfully at least) in the past 15 years aims to give more power to workers and to de-scope the role of management from pure decision-makers into a more supportive role with more intense feedback. There is a very consistent theme that organizations where these efforts fail are ones where management uses new processes and tooling to exert their existing political power to achieve results instead of also transforming themselves.
> “Nope, still entirely invalid.”

hey, words have meanings. you didn’t invalidate the argument nor did you even argue against it. invalidating an argument would have been pointing out a structural deficiency in the logic. arguing against would be pointing out the falsity of one or more points with counterfactuals. you did neither.

it’s true that emissions are transferred from car to power plant, so that’s a valid argument (edit: because it’s logically sound, not just because it’s true). you accepted and built on that argument by saying it’s a good thing for a bunch of reasons. so your opening sentence was entirely unnecessary.
Sad/angry/sick macs the world over would like a word with you.
Genetic algorithms: cool name and damn simple (2009)
There have been other exchanges getting hacked after him. How come none of them get jailed time and only Mark?
I have the impression that Ben Adida is no longer advocating cryptographic voting technologies. Which is encouraging.

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I live in a slightly upper class area in Gurgaon since it's walking distance to my workplace and hence save on commute.

Rent and expenses is almost 30k INR (roundabout $450) a month.
Apart from that it's all takeout food money and any movies or shopping you might do.

My initial pay was a little too low to afford the place I am living at since I'd almost always run out of money by the end of the month and was living paycheck to paycheck. The first raise did improve situations a bit and I could easily save around 10k INR per month.

My current salary affords me very comfortable living with enough to invest for the future and still have around 30k INR per month in savings.
It does seem like they are focused now on companies who already have traction, which makes the 7% offer and the mentoring less valuable. If you're really early stage, then it's a good deal but if they don't take early stage companies anymore then there's a mismatch.

I've seen the same thing happen with Shark Tank which used to take wild gambles on unproven entrepreneurs but now wants everyone to have sales before they invest.
I have a bottle of this replica whisky. Got it as a gift last year. I'm not enough of an enthusiast to say much more than "yes, this does taste very good" but I do very much enjoy the story around it.
What has changed is Apple has a direct competitor product.

Firstly, that competitor product has technical advantages as it can access APIs that Spotify cannot (SiriKit, background audio on earlier versions of WatchOS).

Secondly, that competitor product is at a financial advantage because of the 30% fee.

It's not the fee itself that's the issue. It's that Apple is (arguably) using it's control of the platform to compete unfairly against Spotify.
i think western culture's disdain for people good at maths and stem in general is being ignored
Annexation and being belligerent are two different things. You can be the latter without doing the former. In that regard the US hasn't a stellar track record.

>China just recently used its military to annex territory the size of India

I am not sure what you are talking about.
Totally makes sense I just think it's slightly confusing in that context. Anyway, awesome article I enjoyed the read!
Although they're light years better because of their experience, not because of any inherent merit that starting a company suddenly revealed. By far the most disgusting implementation of meritocracy is when people believe that some people are simply better than others, and their track record is a way of identifying them, when in truth, most people's track record is dumb luck but that dumb luck shaped them into quite different (and differently useful) humans.

The corollary to this is it's always worth to give a young person who has great desire to help a chance, no matter where they come from, because maybe this dumb luck (or grace on your part) will make them into, well, the kind of person that starts and sells their company.
If you read up on FBs response, it's clear that only people who signed into those sites with Facebook would have given Netflix and spotify access to PMs. The user would have to agree to a permission dialog at least before the companies would have access.
This is a horrible post. It advocates to just throwing out research and replacing it with black boxes. Sure, they approximate (or even fully extract) the actual behaviour, but they are opaque.

I'd like to remind everyone that science is in the business of understanding, making things less opaque, less magic and engineering benefits from both.
Maybe they could have a reasonably efficient setup instead?

Not sure how you can possibly pay 0.14$ in computing for a single ride (if that's accurate). That's more than 3 hours of a t3.medium instance for example...
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also this thinking seems very one-size-has-to-fit-all, cloud/datacenter focused. why would lyft need HIPAA compliance??
How do you gain access to this capability? I tried, couldn’t find it.
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You couldn't be more wrong.
There is nothing hypocritical about using opensource licensed software under the terms of that software license.
isn't it a global phenomenon at this point? it is trendy to call for a smaller world/craft anti-populace measures lest it get "out of control". the internet is basically the wild west and just like the wild west it will be tamed for profit
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The problem with laws like these is just as you say... How do you draw the line? Vague laws allow the government to draw the line wherever they want to achieve their goals. It's speculation yes, but abusing and reinterpreting vague laws is something governments do quite regularly when it suites their needs.

Unless you specifically clarify things, even the part you seem to think is clear can be interpreted differently. You say that a Tor node does not meet the criteria that "access is restricted by specific technical measures". But one could easily argue that Tor is a "specific technical measures" and access is to a Tor Node is restricted because you need to know what software to install and how to install it in order to access the Node.

It could also be argued that any encrypted communications is "restricted" in that it's private. It's restricted to the parties involved and not visible to outside observers.