skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how many processes are not automated because of peer pressure of 996. Heard stories about when India was just opening as a outsourcing hub, people would use notepad to create HTML pages. As that means more billable hours. No syntax highlighting, macro and other support. Something similar must happen for 996 to be practical.
Here is 500 fps film of the Saturn V launch for Apollo 11, narrated by Mark Gray. It explains the sequence of events over the course of 8+ minutes (30 seconds real time).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKtVpvzUF1Y
"why?"

Advertising and SEO happened. There is simply too much garbage out there and even Google has run out of ideas for how to filter it out. So they've resorted to curating by favouring the largest commercial sites. Essentially, they've turned the internet into cable TV (isn't that what all the big players wanted anyway?).
This isn't quite true and you've pretty much identified the reason why. Academics are not investors and their objective isn't to profit but to publish their research.

Academics identify a pattern that generates superior risk-adjusted returns and then publish their findings - this then leads to the anomaly disappearing as investors trade away the alpha. [0] The track record of an academic can therefore only be meaningfully discussed in terms of how well their model performs in back-testing. Saying they don't have a good track record misses this point.

Perhaps there are successful academic investors who achieve alpha and don't publish their research, however they wouldn't show up in any meta analysis.

[0] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3054718
Yeah, I was wondering that too,

How does muscle memory work?

Does space out activity work the same way that spacing out studying work?

Especially since muscle fatigue is a real limit on athletic training.

I wonder what could be done trying to optimize sports practice schedules around this idea.
But with "as many as 500 high-explosive bombs and more than 60,000 incendiary bombs" you'd think they could have hit the bunker a few times?
With images taken 6 months apart, spanning earths orbit of the sun, you might be able to detect some parallax motion of the nearest stars.
Keeping a private "playground" code repository that hosts various "trivial"/useless projects you've flash through in your brain during free time. For most of us, a simple application prototype is good enough.

Keep them buried for some period (maybe a month or so), then review back your code and see what's the good, bad & ugly you used to have (e.g algorithm usage, memory allocation, code style, correctness). I love this kind of "writer's retrospection" to see how much we've grown.
If you just select 80/20 there's no mean variance optimization going on...

If you want to do mvo, there's tons of free tools on the web. Or is very easy to build one yourself in Excel. You need the solver and at least a year of historical data for each name.IEX cloud has a fantastic free API for this.
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I'm talking about trying to make a shared library versus a static library vs an executable, or include different directories. I'm not talking about depending on '-O2' for correctness. Likewise with different versions of a library in different locations. And even in the case of more obscure flags, the cause is usually bad or incompatible compilers or libraries, not 'bad code' on the part of the project. A build system needs to be able to deal with a large variety of situations, because ultimately the responsibility for making the project build is on the project and the build system, not the user and their environment.
Extremely fascinating, thank you.
Do you have systems with concurrency and non-trivial resource sharing? That is where TLA+ seems very useful, to use at the design stage.
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But FPGAs are still much more expensive than using GPUs overall, even if you include the cost of the computer.
> Can you explain a bit more on your VPN setup? Did you create it on the same machine as the router itself?

Yes.

Essentially it operates as a mult-home router.

Traffic on VLAN2 goes directly out to the ISP. This is useful for low latency needs such as online gaming. It is useful when you need your real IP address and do not want to trip security systems such as a online banking site might have.

VLAN 3 is used for everything else, downloading packages (apt, pacman etc, and all my web browsing). The router will send all traffic through the VPN ie tun0.

In addition I can be on VLAN3, and have "exceptions" such as to my mailserver even when on VLAN3 (my VPN VLAN).

I used CONNMARK, for this. In these circumstances the connections from VLAN3 are normally marked with a connection mark[0].

[0]: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Linux_Router_with_VPN_on_a...

I am at the moment finishing up the configs as Jinja templates, so that one may just input their configuration into the JSON configuration files and it will populate all the configs with envtpl https://github.com/andreasjansson/envtpl it would be trivial for one to extend this into an implementation orchestrated by something like Ansible.

I use that on combination with Yadm https://yadm.io and store it in my dotfiles.
My bad must have been a miscommunication here. I was about to expand on those key differences between payment gateways vs Merchant of Records. http://bit.ly/2Us1OWM - Could still be an interesting read as it explores those key elements of what you have to juggle.
Note: Redis 6 expiration will no longer be based on random sampling but will take keys sorted by expire time in a radix tree, so all this problems are going away because of an architectural change. I talked about this in the latest 1/2 years in several conferences but never wrote anything. I'll follow up with an implementation inside the unstable branch soon since this need to stabilize and be tested a lot before Redis 6 goes stable.
Adobe is arguably the worst offender. They made their app icons look like entries in the periodic table. For marketing purpose, I suppose the scheme is very clever.
“Fortunately, EFF is an organization that definitely knows its rights and how to exercise them.”

Exactly. Of all the orgs to send a BS take down notice to, the EFF would be the last I’d pick a fight with.
The issue is the physical inevitability of performing a political act.

1. There have been instances of photos of black people being postprocessed to make their skin darker. For example, OJ Simpson's mug shot on Time's cover was "artistically interpreted" [1] and attack ads against Obama darkened his skin [2]. Also of Kerry Washington's skin being made lighter [3].

2. Some people interpreted darkening photos as a political move, embodying a belief that dark skin is scary. And lightening the photos as embodying a belief that light skin is more beautiful.

3. Photographers can't keep their hands off the postprocessing tools. And even if they could, they've still got to choose an aperture and exposure when they take the photo.

4. Some people would say, because lightening and darkening black people's skin is political, and photography can't avoid lightening and darkening, photography is inherently political. (and that saying you don't photograph black people is more political, not less)

Of course, some would see that argument as a bit of a stretch. I can understand where it's coming from I just don't agree - or at least, I'm not sure what it means in terms of my personal actions.

[1] http://hoaxes.org/photo_database/image/darkened_mug_shot/
[2] https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/05/obama-street-...
[3] https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/news/a3610...
> I’ve wondered how effective this is in securing post of credit cards. I assume over time thieves simply remember the return addresses used.

It shouldn't matter. Last 10 years or so, my cards had to be activated online first, before becoming useful.
Tried?
I remember this "oops": http://fortune.com/2018/07/25/youtube-slow-mozilla-firefox-c... use of a deprecated API was slowing YouTube. Others may remember other oopses.
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A big problem of early Quantum Firefox on HiDPI Macs was its high battery usage. I think it got slightly better with later releases, but I don't have data to support that.
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do you have a HDD? perhaps that's memory to disk caching. I have ZERO clue, just guessing.
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There is some nuance required here, since ‘corporation’ is such a vague term. Even Mozilla Corporation, which is wholly owned by the not-for-profit Mozilla Foundation, is a for-profit organisation (i.e. it aims to turn a profit and is taxed) which which reinvests its profit back into Mozilla’s projects and and other work which Mozilla considers to be in the public interest for a free and open Internet.

Everyone has to question the stated goals and desires of corporations, and ask things like e.g who is the corporation accountable to (shareholders? themselves?) and how open is the corporation about how it invests its profit. Attempting to turn a profit is in itself not necessarily an indication that everything they do is in the sole pursuit of profit for itself.
When outsourcing content have you always just hired freelance writers or hired agencies?

I didn't want to manage a bunch of freelance writers so I went out looking for an agency to help execute our content strategy but it seemed almost all agencies were pitching way more on helping with strategy and less on their ability to create content.
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In case you're not trolling, it's likely that the commenter you're replying to doesn't speak English as a first language.

Considering the topic of this post (and the hanzi in their comment), I'd venture to say s/he speaks some dialect of Chinese as a first language.
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or something Andy Samberg would say on Nine-Nine.
IMO a two year old needs exactly zero screen time. For them the world is never a boring place.
I don't know why I'm getting down votes for this, its a reasonable question.

To answer my own question triethylborane is indeed used to ignite the main fuel.

https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Triethylborane-used-as-a-start...
Which law? It's not what the GDPR is requiring.
Sorry, I'm not a native speaker, that may lead to some problem because Chinese grammar can be very different to English. Maybe I should start to use grammarly from now on.

Sum up the post:

1. What Jack Ma is trying to do, is equalizing Personal strive and overwork (for him).

2. In China, company have many ways to force employees stay in long hour without literally say so. For example "When boss don't leave, you don't leave", and/or giving out tasks that you can't finish without overwork.
Different culture. Even here in HK, people wear their overtime as a badge of honour (if you check IG before bedtime, everyone is taking pics of their nearly empty office with a timestamp). Your standing is society is elevated by being important enough that you had to stay at work until midnight and people will say "oh they're so hard working"
I love the GOV.uk website. It comes across as very, very well designed (phrased like that because I'm no designer, I can only judge as a dumb user). I use it and most Hugo-based websites as my ideal target for clear information accessibility.
Thanks for the blast from the past :)
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> Why wouldn't you think this?

Because you’re Asian? (My dad once asked me, when he perceived I was slacking as a teenager: “Do you know how to work a sixteen hour day?” Worked fine for him—he grew up in a village in Bangladesh and sent two kids to college in the United States. Writ large, it seemed to work pretty well for Japan and Korea as well, which went from developing nations to developed nations in a few generations.

In a place like China, you have to work hard. Most do it on a farm or factory. You’re lucky if you can do it in an office.)
My ISP does not actually track me to detect copyright infringement. Companies appointed by the right holders detect infringement by posing as other fellow pirates and waiting for your torrent client to share parts of the copyrighted content with them. They don’t track you per-se, they just use the torrent protocol how it’s supposed to be used which inherently discloses your IP address.

> which exist with everything from google to your phone to ycombinator to google analytics

I keep my Google usage to a minimum and Google Analytics is blocked by an ad-blocker on all my devices. Just because I’m talking about Facebook here doesn’t mean Google is good. All non-opt-in tracking needs to die. If tracking is so good and harmless then surely making it opt-in wouldn’t make a difference as everyone would opt-in anyway, right?

> ycombinator

YC’s business model is not cancerous and does not involve tracking people, so even if they have the possibility to do so (although their tracking would be nowhere near what FB does) I trust them not to do it just because they don’t need to.

> Give me a concrete missuse, not just specualtions based on selctively who you like or dont.

Not really misuse (the system worked exactly as designed), but here’s an example of how tracking can backfire: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...

Also, do we have to wait for misuse to happen before taking steps to prevent it? We know it’s possible and such a goldmine of data can be very damaging if misused, so why wait for it to actually be misused? Let’s take action now and make sure it can’t be misused in the future.
Market manipulation is illegal and it would be pretty obvious if Bloomberg was participating in this activity
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I'm getting "500 Internal Error"
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EU cookie law [1].

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX...
Barbara Oakley's book "A Mind For Numbers" talks about this.
MFC I'm not so sure about, but ATL or even better WTL would probably do the job.
See also:

telnet telnetsnake.de 2325

telnet milek7.pl
The article addresses this issue and suggests the opposite is true:

> In 2019, what do most of the top-ranked blogs have in common? They skip filler introductions, keep their paragraphs short, and get to the point.

Maybe those approaches of needlessly long text with irrelevatn backstories are simply outdated?
This one: http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm

I'm surprised you assumed it was GDPR since the cookie popups have been around for years and are hard to miss.
i'd say it is constructive criticise more than "ripping someone apart". yes constructive criticism can make you feel bad, it doesn't mean it was intended to be hurtful. is this a class that just isn't taught nowadays
Please take your snopes trash elsewhere.

"If an organization like Snopes feels it is ok to hire partisan employees who have run for public office on behalf of a particular political party and employ them as fact checkers where they have a high likelihood of being asked to weigh in on material aligned with or contrary to their views, how can they reasonably be expected to act as neutral arbitrators of the truth?"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/12/22/the-dai...
Calling it here.

Rugowsky will end up leaving the company and be given his own Jeopardy-style trivia show by Amazon.
> key rotation you use the new Secrets Manager.

True, but that gets very expensive very quickly. We keep all our config for each environment in SSM pretty cheaply. (we have >1000 config items, most of which aren't and don't need encryption)h

We basically treat SSM like Vault from hashicorp

1) We have a linters in the CI pipeline, they help but are not perfect.

2) true, but not where the references are, thats the killer bit. If you have > two people working on a script, and they each put in a !Ref or !GetAtt, its exceptionally difficult to debug.

3) once you have a dependency graph, you know the order in which things come up. You need to generate the graph before you start calling APIs.

For example, you have a a property that you've spelt wrong, isn't the right data type, or isn't valid for that type of config. All of those can be evaluated when the dependency graph is generated. However, they are not, they are differed to when the API is called.

This gets very tedious if you are using anything ECS/fargate/rds, as the debug loop can be > 3 hours. This can be mitigated if you use uniquely named items, allowing multiple stacks.
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Agreed, its still algorithmic though.

To return to the Hacker News example, if I read whatever is at number 1 on the front page of HN via a search engine, I don't think it would give 'you may also like' recommendations to anything approximating the HN front page. They would be things relevant to the article.
You can't do any form of user testing or heatmaps with server logs. And whilst real user testing is undertaken, sometimes the passive collection of heatmap data etc. is best done in an unbiased environment (i.e. you don't know you are being tested).
Working with Generics in Swift often made me feel I was missing something, pushing me to refactor my code once things started pushing past the trivial usage of generics because types started fighting back. Indeed I noticed that the requirement that types are declared “from the outside” made things harder.

Another thing is combining protocols with generics. That feels a lot more convoluted than might be necessary.

Seeing people express exactly what is the problem and what could be a solution is impressive. I hope we’ll see reverse generics soon.
I still don’t understand why all of a sudden Craig Wright is wanting to unmask himself as satoshi.

It’s just strange - there was a reason to keep the founder of bitcoin private and now all of a sudden there is a reason this person claiming to be satoshi.

? What’s that reason
I found another more modified version here:
https://github.com/pyk/0xblockchain

They claim to be using PostgreSQL in production, certain irony that (at time of writing) their site is down. :(
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What is the best way to cloak an affiliate link in 2019? I am not asking about deceiving visitors (client site clearly mentions they receive a commission), but they are more bothered about competitors knowing their affiliate ids/links etc.
This is an excellent analogy.

Personally I'm surprised by Google's attitude to a11y/Firefox because all their products have millions of users. 10% doesn't sound like much, but 10% (Firefox market share) of 50 million is more than the population of many countries.

I guess they rationalise it by saying "our product is new, with 0 users right now. Let's focus on the largest segments of users (Chrome, non-a11y) and ship an MVP. If it sticks, let's expand to Firefox, do the a11y work etc." If I was in that PM's shoes, this makes sense to me. As a user ... it feels wrong.
> tui-based MMO

As in, a MUD [1]? There are still a few around.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD
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I imagine they’re using analytics to improve the website, not to sell you more medicine. Imagine running a hospital without knowing where you had queues, people getting lost, broken doorways, etc. Analytics is just that.

I guess you’re worried about it being used more nefariously, especially by the third-party trackers themselves. If so, I’m also a little concerned about that, but I think the good probably outweighs the bad.
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> I made a few dollars, a working laptop found some home, and i threw less into the trash!

I love this about auctions, it seems to preserve value. Rather than e-waste going for scrap it might go to a collector, upcycler, charity, or specialist recycler.
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But why should I as the user of an interface care whether something is implemented as a function or whether it's just a reference to a pure value?

For instance, let's imagine in some C++-like language I had two list implementations: one static and one dynamic:

class StaticList {
...
int count; // set at initialization time
}

class DynamicList {
...
int count() {
... // compute the count dynamically
return count;
}
}

Here `count` is conceptually the same between these two implementations, but if I want to get that value, I have to access it differently:

int c1 = staticList.count;
int c2 = dynamicList.count();

But that difference is essentially an implementation detail which means nothing to the client. The Swift way just lets me express my interface however I decide is most fitting.
As an end user, what difference does the size of the source tree make?

So long as the OS is stable, performant and has a pleasant GUI that you can interact with (or cmdline if that's your thing), was does it matter?

I'm pretty sure no user in the history of users ever cared about such a thing.
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We can see all that from here though.
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The breaks are always about the same length here so it's more like: hit skip 30s forward four times and you're good.
unrelated but this reminded me of my favourite telnet server: towel.blinkenlights.nl
Support for the old version comes in minor/patch releases.
It's already there.... native ads, designed to fit perfectly in the content around it
I thought HQ was incredibly polished when it launched. Props to the tech team regardless of the management mess.
I wanted to say the same thing.
Learning to cook your own food, gives you so much control. That is necessary, if one wants to control their weight.
Definitely fan-made. The formatting feels off, probably because it was originally a text file that was converted into a PDF. Thus you see section headings with proportional font, but body text in monospace with ASCII art diagrams and tables.
Google Datastore [1] works the same way. I imagine it's because indexes can be configured per row. So for example if you have a boolean value and only ever query for it to be true then you might set the index on only if it's true. The reason you might want to use indexes scarcely is because they cost money. For Google Datastore they used to cost extra write operations and storage. Now they just cost storage.

--

[1] https://cloud.google.com/datastore/
Lots of drama here, but the real problem was obvious from the start: no path to making money. They literally gave it away daily. Anyone with half a brain could see where this was headed.
> Ironically the secrecy didn’t actually work.

If Russia knew the location of every command center bunker with less than 100% certainty, then it did work. If instead of the actual command center they knew the location of the 10 potential alternate locations, then they would need to spend 10 nukes instead of 1 (pretty much any concrete bunker is able to withstand anything but a direct hit from a megaton-size nuclear bomb). That complicates a lot the nuclear calculus, even when you have thousands of warheads. In the end, this may have been a small factor in the fact WW3 never happened.
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