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>Even a small blog is a moderately complicated project, especially if it uses a build system. And building even a minimal independent commercial site requires very specialised skills and plenty of time.

Sorry, but when was it common for people to write and host their own blog and commercial sites, and when was this less than moderately complicated?

I remember Geocities and other similar sites offering server-side includes and CGI scripting, and of course services like Blogger and Livejournal existed, but I don't think writing your own blogware was ever really a common thing.

>And even if there were, CSS and HTML - never mind js - are now so complex beginners can't just pick them up by dabbling.

You can still write perfectly simple 90's style HTML and CSS, and vanilla javascript, even in Notepad (although I wouldn't recommend it just because I don't like Notepad.) You're mistaking the bloat and increasing complexity of the enterprise web development environment and tooling with what are still basic components. The web really hasn't changed that much, what's changed is what people put on it.
You have to live in Greece to eventually qualify for citizenship, which isn't exactly "access to the rest of the EU" if you want to pursue that route.

https://www.goldenvisas.com/citizenship-by-investment-greece

> Because of the need to reside in the country the Greek golden visa program is considered a residency investment program rather than citizenship by investment. However the option for citizenship is there for those committed to living in Greece.
There was some unrest in the community just recently when Ton reminded everybody that Blender is GPL and that commercial plug-ins need to be GPL as well.
Python3 module made as a wrapper of fake-useragent brittle API
> east bay where foreign nationals would pay residents of the high school to essentially adopt their kid so they could enroll

"Essentially adopt"? That's kind of like "essentially pregnant", no?

Assuming they weren't legally adopting the kids, it sounds like you're describing an exchange program, which is a time-honored tradition around the world.
Of course people (including many at NASA) have been speculating about how to generate market-driven demand for a very long time (at least for as long as NASA has existed in the case of reports coming from there). The more I learn about the (lack of) history in commercialization of space, the more I doubt I will actually see significant exo-terrestrial colonies within my lifetime.
The nissan leaf has "telematics". That said, you can physically unplug it.
Chris Kraft, First NASA Flight Director, Has Died
There are two problems with your statement:

1. If the United States does not honor Chinese IP, that calls into question all patents in the United States. It sends a message that American courts will ignore intellectual property when the US government tells them to. Law becomes political and arbitrary.

2. Discussion of Chinese non-respect for IP is hugely overblown. Compared to other developing countries, Chinese IP enforcement is actually fairly good, and it's been improving rapidly over the past several years. Nowadays, Western companies regularly sue over IP in Chinese courts, and they usually win. China is one of the largest venues for IP litigation in the world now.

Given the huge volume of patent royalties that American companies earn in China, it would be very foolish for the US to blow up the global patent system. The US probably has more to lose here, given that it's a more developed country with more IP.
I've been toying with the idea that the time spent creating by artists (musicians, creative writers, fine arts, indy game devs) is valued at $0 by society. Because there have always been an will always be people who do it for $0. What is valued and rewarded is the effort involved in marketing, distribution, performance and all those bits people don't want to do for free but have too. If you want art to pay as a full time job, you need to (at least) put in full time hours to the 'work' part and be capable of doing them at a somewhat professional level. It kind of justifies why publishers, galleries and similar still exist, despite this being the age of direct creator -> consumer sales. You are often better off getting a day job and outsourcing the boring parts of your hobby to a publisher or paying gallery commissions.
None of this really counters the core point - that we don't know how long it will be before we have AGI. Is there some way to define consciousness that will be discovered in the future that makes the problem possible?
An also not something that I would want patented, nor patentable.
I don't deserve to be in such esteemed company, but I'm glad you like it.
Doesn’t it by its nature _have_ to be an international airport? It’s about the same size as the city of San Francisco. It’s not going to be regional so people can fly from seven miles east back to seven miles west.
I doubt any company, especially in SV, takes a PR hit from age discrimination, which seems to be widely accepted and barely punished. Google just wants to swat away the plaintiffs like annoying gnats.
in my example I'm launching two compare-and-swap operations (op1 and op2) at the same time.

The correct order (in the presence of synchronization) would be [op1_read, op1_write, op2_read, op2_write].

The incorrect order (without synchronization) is [op1_read, op2_read, op1_write, op2_write].

In the second trace, op2_write will overwrite op1_write with the data from its stale read. The correctness issue here isn't dependent on nondeterminism, just on lack of synchronization.
This would be nice if it was possible, but 4 years is simply too short of a timeline to do things like the moon-return project. We might as well shut down the manned space program at that point.
I keep feeling like I'm following in the steps of giants with lpeg. I loved my introduction to it when I was big on Lua. Some of those operators take functions with such strange signatures - until you try to do something clever later, and your realize you're being passed exactly the arguments you need to make it work.
I hate the complete lack of transparency in garments. We need to know all the details, including the weave?

For someone that sweats a lot in hot & humid climates, why does one white cotton shirt show the sweat, and another doesn't? Why do I feel cooler with a thicker cotton shirt than a thinner one?
sigh... once again, you are making the same argument that everyone else always makes, which is "these other countries over here are doing bad things, therefore lets support more countries doing bad things!".

> are pretty much what the US does all the time

Completely irrelevant.

> the US sends special forces

Completely irrelevant.

> The US has been doing that almost everywhere

Completely irrelevant.

> extend their sphere of influence to neighbouring countries in the region than the US, who have just absolutely fucking nothing to do in the region

Completely irrelevant.

> The idea that e.g. the US had a special right to control the Strait of Hormuz is, simply put, absurd.

Completely irrelevant.

> US foreign politics and Western foreign politics in general are muddling up the two issues

Completely irrelevant

> Allying with Saudi Arabia

Completely irrelevant.

> US government is ideologically very close to the theocratic apparatus in Iran.

Completely irrelevant.

Here, let me explain again. If a country is doing bad thing X, where in this case, the bad thing is "funding militant groups in an area", then I do not feel sympathy for it, if sanctions are levied on them. They are doing a bad thing that I don't want them to do. Therefore I don't feel bad about economic retaliations.

It does not matter how many other countries you bring up who are doing A, B, C, D or Z. It is completely irrelevant to the true fact that Iran is indeed still funding militants in the region, and therefore I do not feel bad for them for suffering under economic sanctions.

In my world, more bad countries get sanctioned. In your world, more bad countries get away with their bad things.

"This other country is also doing a bad thing!" is not an excuse that I will every accept, and if your response is to keep bringing up more bad things that you think others are doing, well I don't care. It is completely irrelevant to the true fact that Iran is indeed funding militants in the area, and therefore I do not feel bad about the sanctions.
When you are in hackers news your new gods are: shoehorning JS everywhere, Go and complaining how women get discriminated in the tech industry. Disagree -> dv.
It's not clear that you can limit a buyer's ability to resell it on any market without a contract with the buyer that may or may not be legal or enforcable based on jurisdiction. It also doesn't seem likely that people willing to defraud people with any agreement.
Why Job Seekers Get Ghosted, and What They Can Do to Stop It
Sometimes you have to drive through Death Valley to get to other places and cell reception is kind of important in a place like that. Imagine having a baby in your car, it breaks down with no cell reception and it's 130F temperatures outside
Do you have any high-quality clothing stores that you recommend?
Even though this is only 18 papers, correlation with h5-index for conferences they were published is inescapable!

Conference | reproducibility | h5-index
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KDD | 43% | 77
WWW | 33% | 70
SIGIR | 25% | 55
RecSys | 13% | 40
Thank you for posting this. I’ve recently become much more interested in how to determine the quality of clothing, and your descriptions of how to think of it are very helpful!
Robinhood sells their order flow to the likes of Citadel, Virtu, etc.. These are called "internalizers" and they will often "Pay for Order Flow" or pfof. pfof flow is certainly profitable, because its "retail" and bi-directional. But it's not THAT profitable. For the big guys, it might be a few $10s of millions of dollars in revenue/years. But that revenue is significantly defrayed by the cost to purchase the flow - which is easily in the $10s of millions/year as well. Net net, its still a drop in the bucket compared to money being made in other strategies.

Typically, these pfof arrangements require price improvement from the bid-ask. So the retail guy benefits a negligible amount on their trade (1/10th of a penny for example). This may be good for the retail guys in aggregate. There is also some immediacy to an order getting filled (also a requirement) that may not be there if the internalizers didnt exist.

Robinhood's valuation comes from the net interest (borrowing short and lending long) and from the upsell of services.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20276551 << refer to the excellent article and discussion here about how brokerages make money.

Where attention should be turned is whether RobinHood is investing or gambling. More money is lost punting on the markets than through any arrangements to hi-freq guys.
In your own thesis you point out that the naive recursive-descent algorithm has exponential runtime and that's why we use Packrat parsing instead? Meaning you have a choice of at least 2 algorithms that you need to pick between when parsing with your PEG, not just one?

Or alternatively you could claim no CFG needs an algorithm either, since you could just use recursive descent on everything...
maybe that totalitarianism is the default and that "freedom" is a recent development that has been very hard won. It is not the default state of things. If you lose it i.e the state becomes totalitarian, it is orders of magnitude harder to go back the other way.
I’m happy and haven’t had to buy lunch in the last couple of months. :-) I’ve still got a year or so till it kills me.
It is difficult on my wife, family and friends.
Structured programming, in the specific sense that we are both talking about, was such an influential paradigm that most programmers today, other than those using assembler, haven't seen anything else. Maybe that is why the author of this article seems to think 'spaghetti code' simply means large functions.

And I'm just pointing out that in this particular case, Turing completeness was very useful in decisively stopping what would have otherwise been an unending and inconclusive argument, and, regardless of whether or not it can justifiably be called a low bar, it was good enough in this case. Furthermore, It does the same in many other cases: for example, in the question of whether there are ISAs that are more computationally powerful than others. It seems to be, or at least have been, very useful in computer science even if it does not have much relevance to everyday coding, and it may not seem much of a big deal because the questions that it has solved are no longer (or never became) problems.
> I thought Salesforce (founded 20 years ago) should be a good example, but their market cap is still well below SAP's.

Wouldn't chalk that up as a counter example. Just on how slow Enterprise migrations are.
> Wouldn't this leave us with Qualcomm once again the only manafacturer of cellular modems for everyone else?

They already are.
Is that a universally agreed-upon goal?
For it to be original it must be non-obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art. Don;t know if that makes things any clearer.
> They keep claiming their stuff is more secure; is that wrong?

The docker daemon has a large surface area and also has fairly hefty privileges. It's a juicy target of attack.

A platform can take various actions to further lock down the runtime with AppArmor or SELinux, but out of the box you wind up hearing the motto that "containers don't contain".

Notably, the docker daemon has too many responsibilities. It's a builder. It's a shipper. It's a runner. It's everything to everyone, which makes for a convenient installation process but means that a subversion of any of these functions potentially allows someone to drill sideways into one of the others.

> Being beholden to a desperate competitor isn't just marketing; it could be a matter of survival and a strategic response seems reasonable.

I'm prepared to go with: the engineers thought it was a good idea and product management didn't gainsay them. It's been a common theme from multiple tech companies in the past year or two. Google, Amazon, Red Hat, Pivotal (which is where I work) have all been chipping away at breaking off parts of the daemon's responsibilities.
This very much depends on the product but note that is exactly why I listed other possibilities. If Linux support was a big opportunity they’d know — maybe not precisely but enough to know it was hurting them.

I’ve been using Linux for around 25 years, some of that selling commercial software and most buying. There’s a very noisy contingent of the community who make a lot of noise but never actually buy anything. You’ll go broke chasing their feature requests because there’s always one more thing before they can switch.
I had much the same experience as you, but the new UI update is similar to the Blender UI update in that it's incredibly more usable.
“Per data day”. Is this pricing per single date?
Why would you need a fully sealed biosphere? It's not like we're going on a solitary one way trip. We've kept the ISS running for enough years to prove that, in terms of biosphere anyway, we have the technology to build a base on the moon or Mars.
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> don't attract the typical west coast brogrammer set

Isn't this just discrimination against a different demographic?
Author here, we've also got a GitHub repository with information on reproducing our results and other information available.

[1] https://github.com/cmeiklejohn/partisan-usenix-atc-2019

[2] http://partisan.cloud
My girlfriend works in this industry, and I'm grateful for this article teaching me how complicated her work is!

When she first told me she works with Gerber files on a daily basis, I couldn't believe it. I thought those were just for designing PCBs! In fact, I still think that if she could transfer her skills, she could probably get a visa more easily. It's fun to walk around the sewing shops too, which have lots of little blue drawers, quite similar to the electronics stores that I enjoy.

I had a fashion idea once: a tailored shirt with a red hem, so that the white buttons would be reminiscent of the windows in the cheatline on old aeroplanes. It seems the whole industry is built on branding and marketing though, so the technical side is practically a commodity.

Nevertheless, I'm still pleased to see sewing machines in the hackerspace. I often need to fix my trousers - it's great that they have lots of pockets and the thin fabric dries quickly, but they keep ripping in an embarrassing place between my legs when cycling.
What about LEO broadband? I mean, I get that space junk is an issue too but it seems better to invest in global Internet via satellite.
Start with Python and a highly-rated book on Amazon. You will learn the same concepts with any language. You will have more fun an learn faster with an easy language like Python.
This is self-deception. While technically you are right, you don't actually have full 8GB to allocate to JS bloat apps. After the OS and all the other necessary stuff what you will always have running in the background like browser etc. you'll be left with 4-6GB.
You can never have enough connectivity.
> Most people are not putting spoonfuls of beef in their coffee.

That could be... interesting. It could be in the form of beef bullion, so you really could put in a spoonful.

But I wonder if bacon would be better...
It wasn't an obviously wrong call.

At a time when a sock puppet attracted millions in VC, it wasn't unreasonable to worry about better capitalized competitors overtaking you.
Awesome. Good for her.
For summer, don’t forget linen, which is amazing at evaporative cooling. Linen blends can be decent too if you’re concerned about wrinkles and hate ironing.
1) Indeed we are doing a few of the things on the checklist to build AGI.

2) Our focus is on helping improve medical and clinical science and cancer tooling first.

3) If we needed AGI to cure cancer, perhaps we'd be working directly on AGI. If anyone thinks this is the case, please let me know, as at the moment I don't think it is.
This article is strangely Marxist which detracts from the valid points it makes. The idea that Sillicon Valley is the "apotheosis of Capitalism" doesn't square with the fact that it is one of the most left wing areas in the US, and it is unclear how the author thinks that "class-consciousness" will solve anything.

But if all you've got is Marx, everything looks like a class war.
This looks like an incredibly forward thinking move. Connecting South America to Africa will provide the opportunity for a wast array of new inter-continental online businesses, focused on countries that today aren't seen as "online hubs".
>. And: If there aren’t any pills on the garment when you try it on (not even on the collar, cuffs or inner thighs), the item gets a major thumbs up.

From my understanding, this is something that manufacturers have been gaming a lot by treating cheap quality wool so it is very soft and does not pill while in the store but after 2 or 3 washes you will realize that it pills like crazy.
While that rougher wool (because it has longer fibers) might be itchy in the store but it will soften up and won't pill.

Same thing with selvedge denim. 10 years ago it was synonym with quality.

Nowadays it means absolutely nothing (when it isn't just a fake selvedge).
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That’s about the same as Dropbox — do they offer versioning and minimum retention periods?
good grief. talk about proving the point....

not even a jp fan here...
DISCLAIMER: No association with Dropbox.

There's no real justification for outrage over a free product/service. They've paid your cloud storage and associated compute bills, and continue to pay for it, for whatever your usage is - effectively paying you - which should be incentive enough.

VC funded startups have (wrongfully) conditioned users into expecting the moon for $0.

Just flipping the tables a bit - if you ever build your own product/service, wouldn't you want payment for the value it offers to customers?
This looks like yet one of another silly articles along the lines of "do animals feel emotions".

The interactions between humans and cats/dogs are complex, we've evolved together. We don't have a chemical definition of love in humans, the species we understand best, so why bother with measuring serotonin levels an other such nonsense in cats?

All I know is that when my aunt and uncle left the country, their cat waited at the door for their return each day, every day for months. And when they were finally reunited, the first thing the cat did was sit on my uncle's lap.

Nearly every cat/dog owner can tell you a story of a deep personal attachment their cat/dog showed towards them, a story of how these animals depend so much on very specific humans they bond with. (There's one in the article!)

Why then seek for more "proof" in chemistry? You aren't going to measure vasopressin and oxytocin levels in your partner to know whether they love you. And it's not them telling you the three words that makes you know for sure anyway.

So stop doubting love. That works great with humans, too, after all.
'Risks exponential runtime', is what it literally says. Ford also said 'risk of exponential parse time'. PEG without Packrat can work for many grammars just fine. I was also talking in the context of PEG under composition, where the problem is at its worst.

You don't need an extra algorithm to parse. You'd just like one to make sure it runs reasonably fast.

You can't use recursive descent on everything - how do you build a reclusive descent parser for an ambiguous grammar? You'd have to introduce some extra rules. That's the parsing algorithm, distinct from the grammar.
Heat and power (think PoE class) are other constraints to take into consideration.
New York state has banned cat declawing
And who the hell do they think they are to know what’s better for the humanity?

Their arrogance is dangerous indeed.
merino + lyocel make for some awesome underwear.

I have progressively replaced all my socks and boxers with ones made from these fabrics.
You could make a pile of shit popular if you had similar access to Silicon Valley funding and marketing machines.
How refreshing to see something like this on HN; I want to iterate that there is an inextricable link between textiles and computer technology going back to the invention of the loom
> But, in my experience, Mac versions of Linux tools are not A) Posix compliant, B) outdated, C) don't have the exact same functionality, and/or D) Abandoned.

You’d definitely want to use Hombrew: you can get the GNU utilities instead of the BSD ones Apple tends to ship, at the latest versions, and it’s a single command to update everything.
"Redux" Event Sourcing for the JS hype-machine.

Nothing is dead about event sourcing, other then the mob has moved forward in the hype cycle.