skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the top down organization of humans and labor, complete with warring states.

I'm rather unsure how this would NOT be considered similar to nation-state organization. Yes, a slightly smaller scale in some cases perhaps but there is still the over-arching governmental authority

edited to add: I love how people down-vote impulsively without context for argument
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance#Purposes
Monadic Scripting in F# for Computer Games (2011) [pdf]
I've heard of at least one case where money was transferred out of someone's bank account through online banking and he was held liable. The user claimed fraud but since the intruder used his username and password the bank refused to refund the money claiming he had a responsibility to secure his username and password.
Making Art with a Plotter
Good luck living in a world without stable orbits and without a cross product. Stable orbits only exist in 3 dimensions [1]. Cross product only exists in 3 and 7 dimensions [2] thanks to quaternions and octonions.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand%27s_theorem

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-dimensional_cross_produc...
Yeah, that's a "Why not both?" situation right there.

It does do important stuff for the business folks, and made it way easier for them in a really cool (at the time) way.

They've gotten bigger via tons of acquisitions and of course when you're an early adopter to an area, it also makes it harder to move when the next new thing comes up.

So yeah, it's clunky and legacy, parts of it slowly getting better, but also not going away quickly either because those who invested in it invested too much to pivot this soon. See also things like Hadoop or anything from IBM or Oracle.
(2015)
(and apparently the 11th time this is posted)
This is a good answer. Certainly the difference between F100 and a startup that's pre product market fit must be pretty intense. On one hand you have very explicit role definitions and often near unlimited resources. On the other you have near unlimited autonomy but severely constrained resources.
You tossed out a statistic on library submissions and are debating psychology(mindshare). Nothing is dwindling on the long term for Perl.

>>Dev ops have moved to Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc, and Python and other languages are used as the glue.

This is glue? Sorry but we seem to come from very different worlds.

>>Also far smaller, devs wise.

Wow, Just wow!

You probably won't like to hear this, but this how most of the software world works:

1. C based backend language: Java. C Based embedded/speed requirement systems: C/C++

2. Glue: Shell/Perl

3. Web dev: Node, Java(Webservices)

4. Lisp Based languages backend: Clojure/Racket.

5. ML based languages backend: F#, OCaml, Haskell.

6. Database: SQL.

There are other special languages which rule their domain. But this is how bulk of the world works.

Data science area is still a extremely small part of even the web dev world, let alone the broader software ecosystem.
Regarding the Apple case, note that Apple's initial defense covered virtually every possible defense in such a case. That wasn't a corporate statement, and indeed another of the defenses was that any claims about the product were fair and accurate.

This is just a standard legal tactic to have every option available (including puffery) if the suit moves forward. And for that claim any reasonable judge would have disagreed but they can include it if they want to really pursue it.

And that lawsuit was dismissed because the limiting factor were flaws with the AT&T network, not the device.

I agree with the overwhelming sentiment of your claim, but at the same time there are consumers who go out of their way to be "mislead" because it can be a profitable venture.
... assuming the price of gold does not fall to almost $0. Anyway, gold has a lot of industrial applications, so it would be nice.

The annual mining of gold is about 3000 tons. In a very optimistic scenario, let's assume a weekly rocket with 20 tons of gold, that increase the annual production in 1000 tons. Probably enough to reduce the prize, but not to $0.
Party poopers :-P
A Hook Library for Golang
How many 9s do you need? I have long said you just need more than humans: one is probably enough for that... Getting to 1 9 is pretty hard though.
> There are immaculately clean cities in east asia

Isn't it because they have armies of cleaning people in the streets ? A friend of mine told me about it, I think he was in South Korea, Seoul perhaps, at the time. He told me people mostly act the same but their cities are more efficient at cleaning the mess before it piles up. I don't know if there are other laws similar to that [0] but it probably explain some behaviours too.

I agree with the underlying point though, some people just don't give a shit. I visited a small greek island last year and was appalled to see that locals were throwing their trash, old furnitures, construction materials, &c. over a cliff, straight to the ocean.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewing_gum_ban_in_Singapore
I would say that iPadOS is the exception that proves the rule. The only reason it starts with an 'i' is because it's name derives directly from a 10 year old product.
> Syria

umm. how about those 'moderate rebels'?

pretty sure the US and its regional allies were the ones stirring the pot in the middle east since hussein/gaddafi/mubarak..
Our whole society is based on trying to make things easy and convenient. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that people have the same attitude towards traveling and nature. Iceland could fix this easily by making places less accessible but then the tourist money would stop flowing. In the end they have to make a choice. Limit accessibility or number of tourists and lose some money or accept the negative consequences and keep the money flowing.
“Semantic” eh? I don’t think that word means what the authors of the framework think it means. :)
We need an alternative internet where anonymity between two parties is impossible.

Not a place for entertainment, but where government or business transactions can be safely conducted.

A search engine would be of secondary importance.
Maybe it's time to go retro. I don't see any 'ONE MILLIONTH VISITOR!' banner ads any more, time to bring those back..?
I don't know what percentage of Iceland's tourists are behaving in the manner described by the article, but I disagree. There's nothing wrong with educating tourists about proper conduct in a guest country. Some will just ignore the admonitions but others may adjust their behavior. I do agree that a country should account for possible ecological/environmental costs and factor that into fees passed onto tourists.
Yeah, this is a tricky scenario. It would not be cool if we were neighbors and I dumped nasty shit in the water nearby.

On the other hand, developing nations have been dumping nasty shit in the air for years as a tradeoff for an improved standard of living. If I was someone living in poverty in a developing nation, I'd hope you would respect my right to burn some coal to improve my standard of living.
I'd argue that forums and blogs require more effort.

Read a cool blog post? Nobody around you will ever give a shit, because in order to do so, they'd have to read it too. Shared a photo from a vacation? It might start a conversation or two with people around you, while you receive dozens or hundreds of affirmations (in the form of likes).

I don't like to use social networks, but that's what I fall back on when I have a few minutes to spare. I rarely look at my list of articles I've saved for later — who has time for that?
Agree. Robotics hasn’t even really penetrated the market for treatment or diagnostics yet. There are many opportunities.
This, how many photos of the same scene are required ? 1
Searchie CEO Sahiqa Bennett Is Selected for Amazon Prime’s the Social Movement
One way to replace search is to return to curation by trusted parties. Rather than anyone putting a web page up and then a passive crawler finding it and telling everyone about it, (why should I trust any search engine crawler,) we could "load" our search engine with lists of websites. These lists are published and maintained by curators that we have explicitly chosen to trust. When we type into the search box it can only return results from sites present on our personal lists.

e.g. someone's list of installed lists might look like:

- New York Public Library reference list

- Good Housekeeping list of consumer goods

- YCombinator list of tech news

- California education system approved sources

- Joe Internet's surprisingly popular list of JavaScript news and resources

How do you find out about these lists and add them? Word of mouth and advertising the old fashioned way. Marketplaces created specifically to be "curators of curators". Premium payments for things like Amazing Black Friday Deals 2019 which, if you liked, you'll buy again in 2020 and tell your friends.

There are two points to this. First, new websites only enter your search graph when you make a trust decision about a curator - trust you can revoke or redistribute whenever you want. Second, your list-of-lists serves as an overview of your own biases. You can't read conspiracy theory websites without first trusting "Insane Jake's Real Truth the Govt Won't Tell You". Which is your call to make! But at least you made a call rather than some outrage optimizing algorithm making it for you.

I guess this would start as a browser plugin. If there's interest let's build it FOSS.

Edit: Or maybe it starts as a layer on top of an existing search engine. Are you hiring, DDG? :P
definitely this. When looking for a good photo, you look basically with one eye and with a set frame, deliberately turning off the 3D immersive experience. I've learned this trick after countless very bad images of very beautiful things, but it's equally important to be able to turn off this mode and enjoy the full experience.
I would guess that as third party cookie blocking becomes more popular, the more aggressive sites will fall back to IP tracking more often.
Well, I don't think there can be a fairy godmother. Someone has to pay for all of this.

I do want things to be different though, and it starts with people taking on a lot more personal responsibility. Our whole society needs to reintegrate that concept into who we are and how we're raised. A lot of people are very quick to blame others for their mistakes and look to them to fix their problems.
> I'm not sure why they're so common given that they seem to only make things worse.

Air hand dryer:

One purchase - zero daily maintenance needs.

Paper towels:

Continuous purchase expense (buying new stock) - continuous daily maintenance needs (resupply of dispenser), increased refuse expense (all the discarded paper towels increase the refuse stream size).

When you tally up the expenses for "air dryer" vs. "paper towels" for a busy restroom and over a reasonable time span (say 1 year) the cost differential is why air dryers are so common.

Of course, some owners also advertise the environmental aspects, but the true reality is the air dryer is there because it saves the restroom owner a significant amount of money each year.
>By regulation, the users can never be worse off than they would have otherwise been, because liquidity providers must run their bid-ask spread within the larger market's spread.

But TFA clearly demonstrates how they are. By removing retail investors the order flow to public market makers is much riskier. Those market makers will respond by increasing the spread to account for the increased risk. So yes, the retail investors get a price that is (very slightly) better than public price but the public price is dramatically worse than it otherwise would be. It's a net loss for the retail investor and public market maker while being a win for the internalized market makers.
Booking service for Coliving facilities in Japan opens its β version officially
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The difference is we aren't disturbing anyone while learning programming languages - the biggest nuisance I can think of is a newbie writing wrong/out-of-date tutorials on the web. Whereas photography by its very nature can be super annoying to others - you have to be polite and wait for some dumb tourist is taking a photo of his girlfriend, you can't enjoy anything in peace with flashes going off all around etc.
Cool. :)

FWIW, it's not really intended to be some edict with zero exceptions. How it's done matters.

I don't have any pithy advice for how to do it well. I'm still trying to sort that out myself.

I like being helpful and I hate seeing people suffer and I'm chronically ill myself, so I tend to feel like that ought to count for something in terms of being viewed as a good faith effort (other people don't always agree). Nonetheless, I recently got cussed at and blocked by someone on Twitter who was having an especially rough time. (Granted, the topic in that case was suicide, but I didn't know that when I first said something.)

When you're in a lot of pain all the time, it's really easy for things to just rub you the wrong way and get on your very last nerve when you just want to participate in the conversation like a normal person and be treated like a contributor.

I've started asking people if they want suggestions from a random internet stranger and respecting it if they say "no thanks." Or offering suggestions in a low key fashion if they are actively soliciting feedback. (This list is not comprehensive.)

Have a great day.
I went there in the winter (when things are generally a bit cheaper) a couple of years ago and it wasn't too bad. Food, however, was incredibly expensive everywhere. No where else have I spent nearly $20 USD for a meal at a fast food restaurant.
The Death of the SaaS LTV/CAC
It's the cyber-version of speaking with a British accent.
Try Yellowstone in the summer if you want ruined. Non-stop traffic jams, trash everywhere, random punk kids carving crap into every tree on a path they meet, and nearly every tree seems to have carvings scraped off it multiple times.
They do. Though note that VMMXX (Vanguard Prime Money Market) pays a bit more than VMFXX (Vanguard Federal Money Market.) VMFXX / Federal is their default settlement fund, so if you have large cash holdings it is still advantageous to put it into alternate funds.
8 of the 10 most polluted rivers in the world are in East Asia. Of the top polluted cities in the world 8 of 10 are in Asia. Your analysis falls apart with even a cursory search.

Those rivers and cities are all in the manufacturing regions that supply goods to customers in the west. The root cause of the pollution is our consumerism coupled to the governments of Eastern countries enabling exceptionally cheap labor that we exploit. To blame the nations of East Asia for the problem is a pretty poor analysis on your part.
The specifics of this - the request to judge a prize one is clearly unqualified for - are we as software engineers particularly vulnerable to? Most people would, I think, conclude "this is fake, because why would I be asked to do this?". But I often think that as software engineers we fancy ourselves to have more insight into other fields than we really do. Does this ring true to anyone else?
In Facebook's Own Words This Week 'There Is No Privacy' on Its Platform
What incentive did Google have to agree to such a contract?
Lots of small businesses use these funds. It’s just not a good fit for a VC backed “startup”.

Also, just like SV folks know the lingo and rules around VC investors, you need to get the grant or contract lingo and process.

You need to be wary of wasting your time. One government entity that I know of will happily have you spend lots on money on upfront compliance and insurance, and then offer minimal or trivial contract opportunities. On the other hand, I know another guy who literally got free mentoring and training for his folks as part of a program, and built a 250-person company that was initially seeded by a single contract.
This is a fascinating story. It's funny though how, with compromised accounts at a highly reputable university and a 0-day exploit in one of the most-used pieces of software out there, they still managed to make basic grammatical errors in their phishing email. I mean, these people were clearly not messing around. Their attack(s) were highly targeted. And yet they still didn't check their written english!

If it hasn't already been tried, perhaps it's worth building a spam-blocker which checks for bad grammar and increases the spam score for every mistake found.
Autogrid's Japan project could be world's largest virtual power plant
Lying like, did stuff at one firm, which she never did there... But, as I said, everyone she knows did that... Maybe for woman in tech stuff is worse, and they need to lie to get a job, or because everyone is lying you need to lie too to get even a chance, who knows...
Also reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_status
This makes sense from a corporate perspective. But consumers seem to prefer it, as well. As do workers.
The zero mainly comes from the ability to scale for free. Sure it costs a few million bucks to maintain Linux (or whatever), but when divided by billions of copies the per unit cost becomes effectively zero.
How would Merkle DAGs be relevant?
Well, we have two notions:

1) Government can't do anything right, and we need no regulation.

2) Capitalism will f-k people over without regulation, and we need maximum regulation.

Neither is true. Markets work pretty well where they work, and regulations work pretty well when they're well-designed. Both work pretty badly when they're corrupted, gamed, or poorly-designed. I see very few discussions of what works well, versus a left-right push-pull.
Outline/Mirror: https://outline.com/sAfBVT
Could we please have a link without paywall, or, even better - original study link please?
The APA considers them the same thing.
If you'd eaten the local cuisine it would have been cheaper. Importing goods to an island is expensive.
Walking on moss and sitting on glaciers. Whatever is Iceland going to do about such anti-social and destructive behavior?
Depends on the time. In the early morning, not so much.
Sorting integer arrays: security, speed, and verification [pdf]
There is a difference between individual pollution and state level pollution though.

Germany may pollute the air/rivers less than China but come to Berlin; in some neighbourhoods you might think you teleported to a third world country where trash are simply threw in the streets to rot for weeks if not months before the public services finally do something.
Which is irrelevant, as they can have them without posting them, as it's something for others to marvel to.
More internet controlled robots!
Cached version of article http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https%3...
FWIW, I would probably count that as a reason to prefer autonomous cars, not as a reason to prefer human drivers. People are pretty bad decision makers. I would much rather have life or death decisions made by a team of engineers using data from thousands of actual incidents to inform their thinking.
If you are an automotive company you need a self driving plan (not always a division) as risk control. If your competitor comes out with a self driving car that is statically safer than humans you might find your manual driven cars banned from the road. Having some IP in self driving cars is thus a good way to ensure that should that happen you can get good license terms for their tech (play nice with us, or we will sue your for patent violation). Note that good license terms can be millions of dollars.

A plan means either you have a division, or you have an agreement that you can use someone else's if it works out. Either works.

As car makers discover self driving cars are hard they worry less about the risk and put less into development.
[Warning ascerbic and anecdotal story below]

Iceland was the goto choice for my colleagues at a startup in London. A few days before they typically went and forked out top dollar for premium outdoor gear (Rab / Fjallraven) and discussed their plans to mount Kirkjufell.

Iceland is the mecca for many hipsters at least for the UK.

I put it down to Sigur Ros, Game of Thrones and that its still not a very touristy place.

Like most hipsters, they know the price of everything but not the value. They check into their AirBnB place and use their phone as their main method of interacting in the area, rather than interact with the locals and build an appreciation of customs and the lay of the land.

Anyways back to the story, one of these well kitted out souls managed to sprain their ankles going for a leasurely walk in the boggy areas of Iceland, only 5 minutes after leaving their hotel.

I just worry now that the Scottish government are trying to market the highlands and outer islands as the "Iceland of the UK".
Have you used OpenSSL? It sucks. The API returns strange and inconsistent error codes. Error reporting was terrible. Strange non orthogonalities abound. It is a lesson on how not to design an API. The only reason it got traction was it was first and no one bothered to do better.
And yet, the majority of Americans (narrowly, even young americans) don't use adblockers.
Kind of like the Good Old Days™? Jokes aside, Search engines are for stuff we don't know... I get my news from some sites, this one for example, and I don't depend o Google for that... But when I want to know about the viability of zipping a UTF-8 encoded text to save space on my DB, there is no way to get may answer without a search engine...
this was exactly my thought when I made https://scrambled-eggs.xyz/ , now I pay for gmail, google calendar, photos and etc way more than money