skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OSS Kubernetes packaging solution for saving an entire Kubernetes cluster
That's true... and that's why we should push for 2 things to happen when it is found that a business knowingly broke the law (or knew it was at risk of breaking and went on anyways) :
- a "proportionate" fine should never be less than 100% of the profits derived from their behaviour
- whoever authorized the company to go forward should be personally on the hook too
I would agree. But the skeptic in me thinks that once this behaviour is mainstream enough, people will forget how outraging it is and just accept it.
No really, computable real store the AST of the computation to lazily compute digits as they are needed (which is an interesting idea but memory hungry at scale) while Haskell approach is more akind to a form of general type deduction.

Note that I first meet computable numbers in Haskell :
https://wiki.haskell.org/Applications_and_libraries/Mathemat...
Please don't post shallow dismissals and please don't be snarky. These are two of the site guidelines:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Your comment would be just fine without that last sentence.
Interesting. So what makes it virtualization? What's "virtual" or "virtualized" about it?
The title is catchy, but I don't think it exactly fits the article.
> huge risk

Folks do side projects all the time. How often do they describe it as a "huge risk?"
>How popular things are is a part of the context of pop culture, and most youtube content is pop culture.

Only with respect to people you know talking about it. Not just arbitrary metrics. Rating systems are part of the context of putting valuations on ads, not part of culture. Whatever impact they do have is based on advertisers trying to reel you in by applying the bandwagon fallacy and stoking your sense of FOMO. It's not something edifying.
You may have been misinformed about the effectiveness of keeping Bluetooth "turned off".
Best Practices for a Successful Development Project
Thanks for explaining this in more detail, it's hard to get a simple summary from google on a specific comparison like this.
For an in depth look at state sponsored manipulations, look up Jtrig's paper from the gchq.
There is a dry technical description at http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml-4.08/manual046.ht... . And a more illustrative description at https://jobjo.github.io/2019/04/24/ocaml-has-some-new-shiny-... .
Who is eliding those things?
>This implies that some trusted expert at this trusted institution authored, reviewed, and published this content.

No it does not. It is a blog post. Tons of people have blogs on that domain. There is absolutely no standard of authority or correctness involved. You are falsely inferring that there are trusted experts involved. There is no factual basis for that belief.
That is just a text change, very superficial
http://www.unz.com/article/how-many-germans-died-under-raf-b...
Starsky CEO here: Currently, cargo theft is less of an issue than F&F would have you believe, and unfortunately seems more driver related than land piracy.

It certainly is something that I think of, but safety engineering requires simpler processes (because simpler means less things need to go right, which is good when things are breaking). I'd rather pay more for cargo insurance than have more complicated logic that causes more accidents with people.
I think the analogy to junk food is instructive. Both fast food and YouTube maximise revenue while minimising costs by exploiting human flaws and foibles, and do so much more effectively than was possible 100 years ago. It is creating an environment that is radically different than the one we evolved in.

Watching hours of YouTube - obesity of the mind. Kind of.
What i meant is that they are cargo culting in their interviewing method but this does not necessarily mean that they don't know what they are doing day to day.
useless to you != useless to everyone. Linux is GPL'd and very useful. Just ask Red Hat if you don't believe me.
The notion of "by itself" is dubious in this context at best. You can only check up to finite precision that two numbers are equal. For something more, you need computer algebra, which is a tall order.

Even if you have computer algebra, math says it's not possible to check that arbitrary expressions are equal. It's an undecidable problem. So with that, I don't fault a computable reals package not being able to detect that x == y in an expression x/y.
I don't quite know what a "whole house fan" is - is that air conditioning? I guess it might help depending on the size of the house, the size of the bedroom, and whether the air comes from outside. I feel like it's to do with gas conditions - too much CO2, too little oxygen, carbon monoxide buildup, some kind of material outgassing - who knows.

Winter is trickier, but as I live in a relatively mild climate I usually deal by keeping the bedroom door shut, the room heating off, and snuggling under a thick duvet with pyjamas. You sleep better in cooler conditions anyway. If it's really cold out, I'll air the whole house while I'm not at home and the heating's off anyway - then I sleep with the bedroom door open, in the hope that I at least get the benefit of the larger volume.

In Europe, as you say, a very large number of people smoke, even though they're just as aware of the health problems as Americans. I think America's advantage there is less to do with health consciousness and more to do with a kind of low-key puritanism - smoking is stigmatized and is seen as a moral failing in a way that it isn't in Europe.
tl;dr: It feels like generational warfare because it is.

If you're not lucky in the job / skills market and don't have family willing to lend you money, housing prices in desirable metro areas are so out of control that there's a good chance you'll never be able to afford to buy one without making big sacrifices to save way more than the average rate.
Eventually it will happen.
Incentivizing value for stockholders above all else is a good way to ensure incredibly anti-consumer practices grow in popularity. Something you might only begin to notice when your kids start getting recommended games from their friends that require you to gamble with IAP to get a new dance or something.
The QBasic community is excellent and pretty active (peaked around 2008 or so, though). Check out http://www.petesqbsite.com/ to learn more.
And it took ages. What’s your point?
This shows that by using cherry-picked examples, you can prove anything.

Elite musicians are all super relaxed and chill? Some are, some aren't. For every story of a relaxed musician, I can find you a super successful one that would literally run from gig to gig on weekends. If you're willing to ignore all evidence to the contrary and willing to use a single study to confirm what you already believe, I guess life becomes a lot simpler. Probably helps sell more of them books, too.

Working on your weaknesses can be good if that's something you've avoided doing and doing so would help you advance your skills. What a weird, confrontational way Cal Newport has of getting a reasonable idea across.

It's one of the infinite number of things that are neither necessary nor sufficient to create "success" or be "elite", because those are largely in your own mind and based on how you feel about what's happened rather than what has happened.
Interesting perspective. The author's basic point is that you should, to quote the article, "Avoid Flow. Do What Does Not Come Easy". This is in the context of playing piano, so it might be a pitfall there. In my experience though, "doing what does come easy" is a reasonably foolproof and enjoyable way to enter flow; but you can still maintain that state subsequently while meaningfully challenging yourself. Your mileage may vary!
> It must? No, it doesn't have to do a damn thing.

Subject to the laws of the jurisdiction in which it operates, of course. We could - if we so wanted - pass laws to regulate this behavior. That is perhaps the best option, in my own opinion.

> It's a product from a publicly traded company, therefore it "must" return value for stockholders.

The dogma that it "must" return value for shareholders is not an absolute rule[1]; rather it's a set of market expectations and some decisions from Delaware (which have an outsize impact on business law) that encourage it. But it's not required. In fact, many states allow a type of corporation that specifically and directly allows directors to pursue non-shareholder-value goals - the benefit corporation[2].

> The author is out of touch with reality.

Please re-read the HN guidelines[3].

> Stop feeding your kids youtube if you don't want them exposed to youtube. It's a private service(youtube), not a public park.

This is the doctrine of "caveat emptor," essentially - that a consumer is ultimately responsible for all behavior. However, a wealth of regulation exists because that's unworkable in practice. The FDA and the EPA come to mind, but we also regulate concepts like "false advertising." Your stance here ignores the realities of life in service of ideological purism.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20190327123200/https://www.washin...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There's a menu with "New Project" and "Close Project." Never had to read a manual, for that part anyway.
I think this article misrepresents the actual issue here, but also the FB lawyer's argument, as described in the article, is also missing the point.

Focusing on the number of people being told is a red herring; what matters is the expectation of privacy per se, which is another way of saying, how likely do I think it is that the N people I'm sharing this with will share it with someone outside this group? Or, more properly, how likely do I think it is that someone OTHER than the N people immediately present will get this information?

If the CEO of a big company sends an email marked "confidential" to 10,000 employees, each of whom has a contract requiring them to not share insider information with people outside the company, I think that's a pretty solid expectation of privacy even if the number of people involved is large. One way to think of it is: would the police need a warrant to intercept that email? I'd be shocked if even the FB lawyer said that they would not.

On the other hand, if I'm meeting with just one person, but that meeting is in a public place like a cafe, then I can't reasonably say that I'd expect that meeting to be private. The police could put an undercover officer at the table next to me, transcribing everything I said.

So the true question is not whether you need to have 1, or 10, or 100 friends that you share information with in order to no longer have an expectation of privacy; the question is, to the people USING Facebook (and not the company), did they think they were sending a communication like an email, where they were specifying recipients and only those recipients would see it? Or did they think they were participating in a public forum, where who knows who could be listening?
I answer to brother below.

Anyhow, if it get the job done, just carry on.

The importance of a random snippet of code of a random company is so small that is pointless to discuss about it.

Just don't let him do any design work and be quick to throw away bad code and refactor.

You got all your tests and procedure in place so it should not be that hard.

We are really overestimating the importance and difficulties of our work.
This sounds interesting, I want to look into it further. However, my immediate thought is what about the naming conflict with the very popular PHP framework?

http://www.slimframework.com/
It's just that I keep finding cool hats/phats like this that feel that way. :) I'm wondering about the possibility of building a high latency Kubernetes cluster to make use of the excess compute of some of the Raspberry Pis.

The HomelabOS project https://gitlab.com/NickBusey/HomelabOS is something I have been looking at. It would be neat if I could use a handful of Pis across the house wasting cycles for something like that in a kubernetes style fashion.

One other since you're the poster and presumably work at Pimoroni, is there a preferred distributor in the US?
Except you said.

> There are enough conventional munitions stockpiled by major power to do this 10 times more than with ICBMs alone

Now you are saying that you don't have to vapourise a city.

Except there are enough nukes to obliterate every major city on the planet with the side effects killing the rest.
> "It tells us that most human beings are not so bad, except for the ones who are, and that’s valuable information."

this sentiment underlies the misperception of risks like terrorism, school shootings, and child abduction.

tangentially, billy pilgrim was a great little southern folk rock band. wish they'd made more music.
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Thanks for the review. I feel like I gave them too much of a trust :(

Matrix devs, instead of battling the reviewer here, please make a proper blog post and explain what is really going on here. Tell us the truth about your data handling and the data retention.

The reviewer did his own share of work. If there are mistaken parts in his reporting, please correctly explain them in a civilized way in a possible blog post.

thanks
We do a bunch of stuff superset doesn't. Mostly related to filters and how they're implemented. We never mess with user's query. We only supply filters to it. Superset doesn't let users write optimized queries. We replaced superset for one of our largest clients and they are extremely happy with the move. This is pure js as well, nothing like superset tech stack wise.
No. As you yourself recognise (presumably, as you put the "must" in scare quotes and italics), that companies "must" maximise shareholder value is a goal contingent on our decisions and policies, not some natural law.

Of course, it is incumbent on us individually to behave responsibly. But there is space for public policy and regulation, even of YouTube.
I wasn’t disagreeing. Just adding that their code shows they don’t understand goto and labels either.
I read what you say and want to flip it around back at you - Aren't you just projecting your own power in lieu of your perceived loss of power?

Even your framing of your market space projects a sense of power.

GPL actually doesn't protect you from your fear. The AGPL does, but I don't know much that uses that.
Robinhood had a similar disruptive position, which earns interest on uninvested cash in customer accounts along with payments from order flow, etc. So I can imagine a similar economy of scale and pass through models w/ Bits.
> Open your device as soon as you can, take out the battery,

If only our devices were user-friendly instead of planned obsolescent.
This pushing of best practices you speak of is clustering especially in the geographic area where the norm is frequent job-hopping (before you fully reap what your practices sow), and where many also celebrate "move fast, and break things" during each employment stopover?
App level bluetooth permissioning is actually planned as a part of iOS 13

https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-13-preview/features/
Not quite. FREE SOFTWARE in that context is "free as in freedom" not "free as in beer." I can most certainly sell you for money software licensed under the GPL (if I make the corresponding sources available) with no other obligations on my part.

Of course, today you're probably not going to have a lot of luck selling something that your potential customer can just download from elsewhere for free. So, in practice, you're going to have to provide other services/benefits that go into a commercial product.

But there's nothing in the GPL that prohibits you from just selling a bunch of bits subject to the requirements of the license and calling it a day.
I wonder if the usage of any data by advertisers was the hardest regulated, could you stifle demand for certain types of data sources. If you need to show a verifiable paper trail that leads back to a trusted acceptance from the individual user, then it would hopefully make advertisers think twice about their data sources as many technologies out there now rely on user fingerprinting to skirt privacy regulations, and could never provide proof of consent for collecting their data.
The very first time I read his book, over a decade ago, I really sympathized with his cries for Dresden. But it didn't last for me:

http://www.fallen.io/ww2/
> What's the point of dumping a bunch of Google results here? At least half the results are about implementations of pretty traditional etatistical / econometric inference techniques.

Here are some tools for causal inference (and a process for finding projects to contribute to instead of arguing about insufficiency of AI/ML for our very special problem domain here). At least one AGI implementation doesn't need to do causal inference in order to predict the outcomes of actions in a noisy field.

Weather forecasting models don't / don't need to do causal inference.

> A/B testing

Is multi-armed bandit feasible for the domain? Or, in practice, are there too many concurrent changes in variables to have any sort of a controlled experiment. Then, aren't you trying to do causal inference with mostly observational data.

> I really don't see how a RL would help with any of this. Care to come up with something concrete?

The practice of developing models and continuing on with them when they seem to fit and citations or impact reinforce is very much entirely an exercise in RL. This is a control system with a feedback loop. A "Cybernetic system". It's not unique. It's not too hard for symbolic or neural AI/ML. Stronger AI can or could do [causal] inference.
Michelin's Puncture-Proof Tire Prototype Could Make Flats a Thing of the Past
Yeah it'd be great if there was some kind of enclosure and holes / open spaces for the sensors.

Even better if there was a combined case which let you have the Raspberry Zero and this unit in one small thing.
> but don't expect to do the same in Joe's ice cream parlor and not get thrown out

The link GP posted is literally about that, when "Joe's ice cream parlor" is actually the entire city, maybe you should.
> For example, many people access the US markets through Delaware "because they heard" and have no idea what the other 49 states

Unless another state has a very compelling benefit, why make things riskier and difficult?

Usually you want to find a solution that you can see works, that has a good network effects for professional services, and that has the largest number of similar businesses for stability (so that the state is not interested in causing problems directly or by side-effect, and the state has aligned incentives to help foreign businesses).

The same thing occurs with offshore havens. Network effects matter.

Network effects is given as a major reason for why YC recommends Delaware C-Corps: https://www.lawtrades.com/answers/y-combinator-startups-go-c...
You will never get most good talent to go contract to hire. This market is far to competitive to have to put up with that kind of risk.
Democratic government and human rights are separate things. Generally the latter follows the former, but there have been scenarios in which an unelected government upholds rights. China currently has neither democratic representation nor human rights.
What about all the people around the world who can't afford to pay for the services that adtech currently pays for for them? Why do you feel you can make the decision to get rid of adtech on their behalf?
I’d probably just start with a blank Word doc, write an introduction and mock up some diagrams using the inbuilt tools Word has. I don’t think a template is required for a small web app. Hire someone to build it who doesn’t just blindly follow specs to the letter. You’d get a better outcome. And you can spend less time on making the spec a contract and more a simple communication tool that is the beginning of a dialogue.
There's also StandardRB, it's like StandardJS but for ruby:

https://github.com/testdouble/standard

Lightning talk about it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLyV5hOqGQ8

Edit: I posted it on its own if you want to discuss:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20186231
What about when youtube marketed a specific product for children, but then it turned out they were letting really, really weird stuff in there.
Bob Lutz Talks Tesla and Panel Gaps
What would be advised in the following situation if one wanted to follow chaos engineering principles:

- there's a service that needs config data from a DB on another node to initialize itself to become useful
- should the service die if it doesn't have connection to the DB on startup (so that the error propagates), or should it start and perform retry indefinitely until DB connection is set? Until that happens it sends back error code to its consumers.
If state capitalism is capitalism, then National-socialism is socialism.
A little discussion from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14712361
I'd like to know how the company behind the robot manages to get away with charging the cost of a small car for this glorified Roomba with a stick.

I must be in the wrong line of work or something...
> top tier talent at...

Must be looking to get out for some reason. Doing a small side-project shouldn't be a big impediment.

> I would avoid ever getting myself put into that position.

Extreme risk-averse behavior can cause problems on the other side. Easy enough to give a small-project a try and cut out early when red-flags are actually encountered.

Just the cost of doing business, IMHO.
I'm sorry but this is such BS. There are what, a dozen other engineering industries out there? EE, Civil, Mechanical, Aeronautical etc. and in not a single one of them do they do this monkey dance. It would be absurd to ask a Aeronautical Engineer to do something like derive the Navier-Stokes Equation on a whiteboard and its equally absurd to play the same game with SWE's, you all have just been bamboozled and strong-armed by employers into accepting it as a valid practice. I doubt you would be willing to say that those other industries are failures or hire low quality engineers because they don't torture their employees with essentially pointless trivia games.

In fact one might say that the Aeronautics industry is in far better shape than the Software industry, a failure in one of their systems results in people dying but I can go to any major tech companies websites and experience a bug on any given day.
Starsky CEO here: surprisingly it's both. Truck drivers have limited productivity (freight rates set by the market, cant drive more than one truck at a time), but it's also a large fragmented industry where many players have a zero-sum mindset.

Shippers often take too long to load your truck, which costs you scarce driving time. Your carrier might stiff you on you last weeks pay, because driving is too hectic and they're too far away for you to chase them in small claims court.

There arent enough drivers, but the industry also has many bad actors who are mean to the drivers that there are.
We have a calibration guide coming, of course it can't compare to high end equipment but it's plenty good enough for most people's uses!
I just send every long article to Pocket.

Then I read it in my Kobo.

Total win/win in my book.