skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree, there is an old saying "What gets measured gets managed" These numbers are handy (we look at similar numbers) but they absolutely do not tell the whole story and it's dangerous to think they do. You can often find yourself optimizing the wrong area and in large organizations even marginalizing your best performers because they don't fit the mold.
Important business lesson, make sure you include locals in your business because we can always learn something new.
> Do you mean that the US can't afford to give universal heath coverage to everyone if the entire world migrated in

Pretty much. I doubt much of Europe, who already do have universal coverage, would migrate, but there would still probably be too much migration at once to handle with an open borders policy if you wanted to give everyone coming in the same quality of care, (which of course you would).
* Every Dr Who, ever.

* Hitch Hiker's Guide.

* All of Blake's 7.

And that's without trying. There's definitely a business there but the BBC just aren't chasing it.
Well there is Britbox[1] for folks outside the UK, formed by ITV & BBC. I've only known that they are now launching in the UK.

[1] https://www.britbox.com/home
I quite like using iPlayer - not as slick as Netflix or Hulu, but not as bad as Sky Go.
Yes, crossing the border illegally is a crime. Criminals are detained. If you get arrested for a minor crime as an American citizen, you are also detained and separated from your family. This is neither shocking nor unexpected.

The other issue is far more complex. Obviously there must be a cutoff with some path to citizenship for those allowed to stay but this is why strong border security helps by preventing the issue in the first place.
That's like a landslide were each pebble of dirt doesn't consider itself responsible for what's happening, on a bigger scale, even tho all the pebbles keep doing the same thing leading to bigger scale consequences in the first place.

Many a mickle makes a muckle, this applies to pretty much everything.

If everybody keeps acting like their individual contributions are completely meaningless, then nobody will change anything about their own ways and thus large scale change will remain a pipe-dream.
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This is akin to saying that Math 55 is impossible and neglects that he didn’t claim to complete the requirements for an MIT degree but for a Computer Science Major. That’s two years of classes, not four, and if your aim is to pass the exams for them rather than learn everything to mastery doing it in one year seems possible if still incredibly hard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_55
Your problem seems to be, that you need arguments to convince someone to do something that you want him to do. I don't care if you're not convinced. I don't need you doing something for my benefit.
You could fake the welcome/configuration screen too (maybe with a jailbreak tweak) if they completely overlook phones that display it.
Thinking about the current efficiency of big lasers, a sub also has the benefit of being able to dump heat fast.
New technology can be a prerequisite to solve certain non-technical problems, but it’s not the technology itself that solves the problem. Wikipedia is a good example. It probably wouldn’t work without the technology, but just building a wiki platform is not enough to get people to volunteer to collaborate on writing high quality encyclopedic articles. Arguably, the vast majority of the work that has gone into creating Wikipedia has not been technical.
Depends on the size. When operating your own servers, you need to recreate all that cloud providers do for you:

- maintain the physical machines

- build or rent data centers

- have people to operate, maintain, upgrade the machines

- set up, build, maintain, update, upgrade infrastructure for your projects to work on your machines

All these costs are not insignificant when you need more and more machines. And as it was mentioned above, they don't do well when demand is variable: when you no longer need as many machines, you can't just decommission them. When demand spikes, you can't install new servers instantly.
Common mistakes in PostgreSQL
Before even looking at the article I must ask: is simple counterexample of using data correctly important argument? Or should we consider the whole body of work.

Generally speaking must look the relevance and validity of data and methods used in each case. Even if it's correct it can be collected and used to argue intentionally misleading way. "Using data" is not enough for science.
Spam countermeasures have led to some fascinating new technologies. In addition to the one cited in the article was Hashcash, which was developed a few years earlier:

http://www.hashcash.org/papers/hashcash.pdf

Hashcash requires the sender to expend a small quantity of computational work, and attach a proof of this to the email before a recipient even opens it. The underlying assumption is that the burden would be insignificant for a real email sender, but onerous for a spammer.

The approach inspired the powerful anti-spam system at the center of Bitcoin.

It might be interesting to catalog all of the most innovative early approaches to combating spam, and the unrelated technologies that later arose from them.
I was pretty active on Tumblr in 2010 had thousands of followers when that was "big" back then and its sad they never asked for paid subscriptions with minor aesthetic features. I would of happily paid $5 a month to use my domain with my Tumblr blog instead they gave that away too. Charge for GIF avatar features. Charge to be able to have access to / or to post NSFW content.

This ads first mentality for profitability is stupid. Lastly throw in an ad here or there for different musicians under their respective tags if you want ads. Talk about contextual advertising that wouldnt bother me if I had seen it. Like maybe a band is doing a concert in my own bam!

The way I used Tumblr I may of paid $10 a month for a premium account if they just made it all the worthwhile. They also provide asset hosting for free. Come on!
> Software as a Service is impossible to pirate and generates continuous income rather than a single upfront fee. That’s all you really need to know to understand why there is less and less desktop software coming to the market these days.

Sounds very cynical and short sighted to me.

Pros to customer: Nothing to install. Can be used on any operating system with a web browser. Updates and security patches are performed automatically. Can share documents and collaborate more easily.

Pros to developer: Easier to support multiple platforms. Easier to upgrade users and migrate data.

> So yeah, sure, if you were to build a piece of desktop software from a clean sheet of paper today, this is a really good guide on how to do that. But nobody is going to. Because it makes no business sense to do so.

Imagine having to install Trello, Google Docs, Slack etc. manually everywhere you wanted to use it, deal with updates yourself and ask people you wanted to collaborate with to do the same. That makes no sense in terms of ease of use.
The problem in Germany is that energy costs have spiralled out of control. They have greatly expanded renewable energy sources, but have not been able to decommission a lot of fossil fuel plants because they still need them to serve peak demand at times when renewable sources are not on-line. However lack of investment in fossil plants, which they hoped to decommission, means they are ageing and prone to outages. It's only buying nuclear power from France to plug the gaps that's keeping them operational.

It's unfortunate, but such mistakes are far from inevitable in the policies of other countries. The will was there, but hard lessons had to be learned.

Yes France's nuclear power is going to be expensive long term, but French per capita greenhouse gas emissions are incredibly low. About 2/3 of the EU average and a bit over a quarter of the US. Factor in any kind of reasonable carbon tax cost, then combine it with an increased contribution from renewable, and French nuclear starts to look quite viable.
I would definitely drop one of the four services I currently have and trade up for BBC if they had a substantial catalog. Without a doubt I would do that, in fact, I now really want to see a service with that type of content. I didn’t even realize I wanted it until now...
The trouble is that there is a regulator (OFCOM) that will not allow them to do things like this, because it would prejudice commercial broadcasting rivals (apparently).
It is a really cool discovery, but it is still not room temperature superconductivity...
Are we saying that the military can't shoot down some prototype that some company is trying to show off? If so, then I would suggest the demo was a success.
iPlayer is specifically the BBC. You can watch ITV’s or Channel 4’s catch-up (non-live) services legally without having a TV license, unless the rules changed since I left the country.
Until a few years ago I was using Blackberry OS 10, which allowed for getting a backup image of the phone through USB (backing up literally everything). It also had "securely wipe device" functionality (or something along those lines) to make sure restoring files after a whipe was impossible/harder.

I'm still blown away by the fact that (unrooted) Android does not offer such basic functionality. Even many years later. And by the fact that Android is spyware by design, but thats another discussion.

According to another comment here Iphone also has similar backup features to BBOS10.

Conclusion: don't buy an Android phone and do as describe in parent post?
>> You can have border controls but not agree to use massive data sifting programs to enforce them.

Why not exactly? I don't understand this argument that government should not use tools to enforce laws effectively.
I long for the day when security is the default state. I wonder if legislation could help address the never ending stream of things like this.
In the US there is a 1st amendment exception for obscenity under which these kind of prohibitions leverage.

Obscenity itself requires an average expectation of what obscenity is, otherwise the exception dissipates entirely.

It is therefore easy for me to see that the technological availability of this would change it. there would be attempts by executive branch and legislature that are obliged to simply say something “should” be illegal, and a court wouldnt be able to agree with that on constitutional grounds
OTOH he might just be writing for the pleasure of it and getting self-feedback from it (the more you explain something the better you understand it).
New York Times is taking down its paywall for World Press Freedom Day
> he problem with this is that you’re also implying that the brain (and human mind) is a deterministic system.

This is not a problem. This is a conclusion from the assumptions. Just because you don't like the conclusion does not mean it's incorrect.

Does a transistor have free will? does a protein? a bacteria? A sponge? A mouse? A dolphin? A human?

Another point of view of "free will" is that it's what we call a system that is so complex, has such good feedback loops and is so nuanced that it is capable of influencing itself. That is not exclusive with determinism.
> I would of
> I may of

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/could-have-should-ha...
Women in Tech is a family issue – for our families, companies and our society
I think this argument assumes that frequent deploys and good CI/CD is a silver bullet for every possible problem with releasing something.

You could release a well tested new feature with perfect ease and see nominal stats for hours after, and still have a problem you don’t see.

Maybe your new Calculator Widget 2000 works great for everyone except Big Enterprise Customer Bob. And maybe Bob doesn’t log on until 7 hours later because you’re in London and he’s in San Francisco. When he starts up the Widget, his mixture of data causes a pathological database behaviour. It’s a performance mistake in your code (that’s hard to find even with rigorous unit testing and manual QA).

Knock on effects follow like your task workers getting overloaded. So you have to saunter back in late on a Friday to fix it. You tiredly misdiagnose it as a usage spike, maybe some big new customer came on. You spin up 20 new worker nodes. Doesn’t help enough, tasks are executing too slowly. You figure it’s one of those mysterious intermittent performance issues in GKE. You begin to upgrade the cluster software in a desperate attempt, your thinking muddled by too many Friday dinner whiskys, to resolve it through the traditional GKE incantations. But cluster upgrades take forever and when you finally see the real problem and roll back your code it’s 2 am and your partner fell asleep on the couch and your kid wakes up at 6 am and God why did you deploy your well tested small new feature on a Friday?
When i was young I used to record Jools Holland on VCR and make mix tapes of individual tracks that I enjoyed, it was great fun and made for relatively unique audio.

I'd love to be able to just buy the digital audio (heck, the videos, I can strip the audio out) on a track by track basis. They never made it available, so I can't vOv
> But nobody is going to. Because it makes no business sense to do so.

If your only objective is making money, that's correct. If your aim is to achieve something more, you may still want to take this risk in spite of knowing you'll earn less.
Listen to jungle sounds with the SAFE project
Sorry, but what makes you claim that Germany's attempts have "failed"? We have a strong growth in reneweable energy production, over 40% of all electricity produced was reneweable. The total of 2019 is 45% so far. All of this in the presence of obvious coal protectionism. If anything, all of this is encouragement to push harder for a quicker transition.
look downthread for examples

open borders, hugging illegal aliens is de rigeur amongst the vanguard of the proletariat
PHP Static Methods and Properties
My guess would be that the close of small shops is due more to sales lost to online shopping than the natural rise of rent costs.
Anyone checked if that is actually faster than just using grep on the blockdevice? I've used grep the few times I've had a need for it, and just copied the source off the terminal when its found something. (Tell grep to give you some lines before and after a match, and tell it to treat the blockdevice as plain-text)..
You usually get some trash before/after the matches, those could be terminal control characers, but a those can be trimmed with, drumroll: tr.
We will one day gain new biodiversity, but not on human timescales. Evolution moves far far slower than climate change. We are going to loose many things.
This already has been told hundredths of times, but if you don't like working for Amazon then... don't. It's harsh but it does stand

Edit: grammar
It's not like there was no oversight. As noted in the article, their boss was in on it, and "the rest of us leveraged our OldTuber status to approve the code review." so there was review. They short-circuited a number of the usual steps, but it's not like there was a single person who made all the decisions.
>At what point does the process switch over from releasing greenhouse gasses to vegetation removing them again?

After all the methane is released from the clathrates.

Presumably you are not going to have it turn into a carbon sink until it is a good site for things to grow and that is not while there is still permafrost.
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I feel the dat project (https://datproject.org/) ticks some boxes you want as a base protocol. Dat itself is an easy-to-use tool for syncing large files between machines, but its core (http://awesome.datproject.org/hypercore) gives you everything you need to build on top of.

With dat you have:
- urls to individual files, with the understanding that they will change over time
- built-in encryption and non-repudiability of every change
- storage wherever you want, no peer is more important than any other
Show HN: URL as SPA Seed State
How would you have sealed borders with illegal immigrants? Where would they have come from? And if the border is sealed, why would they not be removed?
My gripe really isn't with SaaS. My gripe is less about "app" software. My gripe is with printers, scanners, smart phones, IoT devices, TVs, Cricuts, which only work by sending all your data into the cloud...

If you can send my data into the cloud you should also give me the ability to easily mock your cloud API so I can also send the data somewhere else...
Could I write a spelling and grammar checker that works under such a system? Or a language translation service. Or a red-eye reduction or image filtering (Instagram/Snapchat type filters) algorithm on photos? In a context where the author of the document is not the same and doesn’t trust the author of the algorithm(s) and both authors wish to keep the details of their content/algorithm hidden from the other party.

It’s a genuine question for which I’ve done a small amount of google/Wikipedia reading, but I suspect the answer is “no, of course not”, but I’ve been surprised before by tech/crypto solutions that I didn’t know the details of.
I'm not sure that's ever been true. You need a licence to watch any broadcast TV because it also pays for the infrastructure the other channels use.
The goal in Scrabble is to crush your friends and hear their lamentations as I get double words scores while blocking their potential expansions. It is not this fun thing that people keep talking about.
The same could be said for Go. And it still doesn’t explain the statement on performance. I see nothing close to objective benchmarks. I think the language is interesting though and hope this will be published.
Will Denver Vote to Decriminalize Magic Mushrooms?
I'm just guessing, but based on experiences with my family and the people they know in Texas, the people who most support this kind of behavior are also the people who see little reason to travel outside the US.

Thus, they never personally experience the pain or inconvenience of their policies. Furthermore, since outsiders (_immigrants_) are considered to be bad or dangerous, any policy that dissuades them from even coming the the US is supported.

Some may think my observations are ridiculous, but come spend some time in rural or southern US. Sit with the locals while they watch Fox news and echo what they hear.
`sudo apt get install trello gdocs slack` wouldn't be exactly taxing (I realise it d doesn't work that way, but it could). You can just have a web/net link with apt-url too.

I imagine it's similarly easy with chef/puppet, etc..

One of my problems on Ubu is that it's so easy to install stuff that I can acquire a lot of unused cruft; mind you it's mostly a mental problem now with disk sizes as they are.
I agree that SaaS is more convenient in the short term on both sides, but people have been using desktop-based software for a long time so I don't think it's accurate to say it makes no sense. Like anything else, there are tradeoffs.

Desktop software works "forever" (as long as the underlying OS and drivers don't break support for it, at least) and the longer you use it, the more value you get for your money. SaaS works until the company that maintains it stops supporting it, and the value scaling is basically the reverse of desktop software.
Parent is right though, these things could have been done decades ago and are only being done now because it is relatively convenient. On the whole, people seem unwilling to make any significant sacrifice for the sake of our future. As a result we will suffer catastrophically as a species. If we're lucky, we will learn from it and in the far future we'll be able to progress while avoiding such shortsightedness.
Energy costs in Germany haven't spiralled "out of control". Yes, electricity is quite expensive for private and small business customers, but that is, because large industry does not bear any of the transitioning costs. The coal plants are kept operating, because it is profitable to the power companies and so far no one has stopped them. This has somewhat improved in 2018. There are no "power outages" because of lacking energy supply. Equally wrong (but often told by certain people) is the story of French nuclear power supporting the grid. It is actually the opposite, when for example in warm summers German solar power delivers critical support to the French grid. Due to the lack of cooling water, nuclear energy often is challenged to match the requirements. On top of that, Germany is a net exporter of electricity (mostly due to the too high coal production, but that hopefully stops soon).
Considering how poor infosec is in most organizations (and countries), it's safe to assume that parties other than just your country have access to your data.
They are still around:

https://beikebiotech.com

https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.a...

They've been around since 2005 and have a large network of clinics. You'd think they would have got shut down by now if they were a scam like Theranos.

Any sources on them being a scam?
The BBC does want to do it - they are being prevented by regulation.
You can charge subscriptions for installed software as well. Oracle is an example, as is every other on premise Enterprise software
iPlayer has two versions, one for tv and one for radio. The radio iPlayer is being rebranded to BBC Sounds.

You need a licence if you use the tv iPlayer. You don't need a licence if you use the radio iPlayer.
I recently came across this idea to prevent friend request spam on social media, using the Lightning network. The idea is that the person sending you the friend request must attach a small amount of money (in the form of a special lightning payment). If the friend request is legitimate, you can accept it (and not claim the money). But if it's spam you reject the friend request but take the money instead. This is different than Hashcash in that it incurs real monetary costs to the attacker. Instead of using compute resources (for the mining algorithm), the money would actually end up in your pocket.
There are many many video content hosting sites, there are countless twitter clones, and there are a crazy amount of sites doing things like Facebook with profiles and such. Because people are choosing to use mainly those doesn’t stop anyone from using others. This isn’t like a utility or phone company where people literally had no alternatives. No one is stopping any of us from connecting to Mastodon for example and even better, no one is stopping us from setting up our own Mastodon servers and connecting that very server up to the wider Mastodon network... There is no Monopoly here.

Because more people choose to eat McDonalds burgers than the local dive bar burgers, does this mean McDonalds has a monopoly on burgers?
Have things changed recently? The way I remember it (a few years back) was that you didn't need a licence to watch non-live iPlayer, so you could watch yesterday's programmes on iPlayer without the need for a licence.
And we won't, for the same reasons they didn't in the past: it is too inconvenient. If we are ever to solve problems like this we need to embed within our culture the desire to sacrifice convenience for a future we may never see, and that's more or less the antithesis of current cultural norms. We need to take responsibility for this ourselves on an individual level and stop just pointing fingers and making excuses why it can't be done.
Understating isn't necessarily lying. The value of intangibles on a balance sheet often comes down to a guess in some range.
The API works off SPIRV, it doesn't know anything about GLSL. The latter is only used by the examples for convenience.
My car has a touch screen and I hate it. Aside from being crap, I cannot safely use it while driving.
You need a license to watch broadcast TV, or to watch content on BBC iPlayer. If you're watching archived content on 4od or itv player, you don't need a licence, but if you're watching on iPlayer you do