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Google ends free tier for Cloud Translation API v2/v3
Received the following

>> Current pricing for the Translation API v3 includes a free tier (no charges) for the first 500k characters of Text Translations (SKU E205-31DB-F1F4) each month. Effective November 1, 2019, we’re replacing the free tier with a $10 usage credit (equivalent to 500k characters of Text Translations), which will be applied to your billing account each month.

The usage credit:

Will be applied once per billing account per month.
Will be applied to both existing and new customers of the Translation API v2 and Translation API v3.
Can be used across both the Translation API v2 and Translation API v3.
Applies to the covered SKUs listed below, so any combination of usage will be charged against this credit up to a maximum of $10, after which any usage above this limit will be charged per normal pricing.
Will not roll over if unused, but will be reset each month.
Will not appear in the SKU description for Translate.
If it works so well for the (who knows how many) people using the defaults, who is to say that they are “wrong”?
An RDBMS! Very simple once you get the hang of them, and it's a very easy way to benchmark your effectiveness in a language because they have quantifiable and (very) perceivable performance differences between implementations.
When the New York City Subway Became Itself
https://unpkg.com/ as well

cdnjs doesn't work well with es6 modules or at least requires more manual labor. unpkg and jsdelivr work because they keep the structure defined in the package.json
Google employees are turning to third-party browsers amid privacy concerns
Program shutdown is not supposed to be handled "gracefully", simply because there's no guarantee that your program will be able to gracefully shut down. Google itself doesn't handle program shutdown at all. Your program must be written so that it's safe to outright kill it at any moment, because at scale that's what's going to happen from time to time whether you want it or not. It is best to shed this illusion that your program will have the opportunity to shut down in an orderly fashion, because when it runs on tens of thousands of computers, you can pretty much count on graceful shutdown not happening at least every now and then.

This has the added benefit of making the datacenters easier to manage. Say you have a bunch of workloads packed into racks of servers. Say one of those racks needs an electrical upgrade or hardware replacement. If all programs are preemptible by design, you can just tell cluster management software (Borg) to kill them and restart the tasks elsewhere. Or, in fact, you could even just pull the plug on the rack without telling Borg to do anything. Because workloads are spread out between fault domains, only a small fraction of tasks gets restarted elsewhere, and a properly designed system will not corrupt data or even let the external users know that anything happened.
My two person household pays less for electricity than for Internet access. The panic about high power prices is way overblown.
> "perceived harm"

That's the entire problem isn't it? Perceived by who? Do people actually know the truth or is it just what they assume? How is this kind of policy not immediately susceptible to all sorts of abuse?
I think it's more likely to be a front for the black market in UFO parts being traded between US, Russia and China.
Seems to me like Cloudflare would be in a position where they could effectively decide on a new official fork and make sure it is one that is more sustainably maintained, then.
Oh that's a nice idea. I bet the parsing and handling of the relational algebra could vary quite a bit depending if it's a functional programming language or C-like.
A Fiat-PSA Merger Looks Like a Go
You can use VS Code + remote & Docker: https://medium.com/@ianpartridge/swift-development-in-docker...
>Those who know about us have power over us. Obfuscation may be our best digital weapon.

Interesting, we could use tools like deepfake to fake images & videos of ourselves in order to increase the level of obfuscation.

Perhaps we can even analyze our writing styles and then use GPT-2 to produce writing that matches our styles, and flood the web with that.

Anonymity through noise.
I wonder if anyone else does this.
I have a private, env-var only repo per project that I very simply import (git clone) while building. I'm sure there are some risks like possible leakage if a team member's github account is compromised but it seems like a very nice, clean way of managing secrets. I even get the benefit of a version control.
And I'm guessing that most consumers don't even go to the GitHub project, but rather through the website. And even there, they won't notice that they're not using the latest version.
This the normal in open source sadly. Most companies don't bother paying what they use so there are few people who can maintain such projects.

I mean even the Linux Kernel was maintained like that a few years ago.
Yeah the fuse is the actual hosting and the second is the index page. So you could fork the repo, reach out to Cloudflare and start on newcdnjs.com for the index and newcdnjs.cloudflare.com for hosting.
Yes! It's one tool in the software engineering toolbox! It's a great tool for some problems!

Due to the hype it becomes a goal in some organizations however. "We need to do machine learning because we have big data" or some such. Doesn't matter if the problem could've been solved in 5% of the time and cost with 20 lines of code, thou shalt use machine learning.

It doesn't help that data scientists (creating and training the ML model) and software developers (creating and maintaining the software) usually come from different backgrounds, requiring a "data engineer" as an additional intermediary.

It always a problem with hype, blockchain (or merkle trees) has the same problem but worse, because the problems it solves well are rarer and more narrow.
That's a bookmark
Human-controlled robots shown to make manufacturing safer, more efficient
No, a strong state ensures that the regulations are in place. A _nation_ is an identity assumed by a group of people.
http://screenprism.com/insights/article/what-are-the-differe...

[..] the movie takes place in a crowded Los Angeles whereas the novel is set in a nearly abandoned San Francisco.

So why is The City by the Bay deserted? Well, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is set after World War Terminus (WWT), a deadly conflict that’s destroyed the Earth with its radioactive fallout. Most of the planet’s animals have gone extinct, and a large amount of the human population is suffering from physical and mental defects. These unfortunates are nicknamed “chicken heads,” and the novel introduces us to one of these handicapped humans, an ambulance driver named J.R. Isidore. Fans of the film can probably guess that Isidore is the inspiration for J.R. Sebastian. Of course, while Isidore is mentally challenged, Sebastian is an inventor-genius suffering from Methuselah Syndrome.

Thanks to the radiation, most of the healthy humans have immigrated to off-world colonies where they’re paired with robotic servants (andies). Of course, there are a few “normal” people who’ve elected to stay on Earth, such as Deckard. The remaining humans are obsessed with animals, and since most creatures were wiped out thanks to WWT, live pets have become a major status symbol.
[...]

It’s a good write up. It goes on to compare PKD’s andies and Ridley Scott’s replicants.
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410 GONE is a potential problem in any important open source project with a low bus factor.
Australia and it's approach to climate change is rather depressing.

There have plenty of signs indicating the country is facing serious climate change issues. But despite these warnings, we as a nation have had decades with little or no action.

However, if the current Spring is any indication this Summer might be a turning point.

The record Spring temperatures suggest we might be in for a record breaking hot Summer.

Not only will that mean a worsening of the current drought conditions, but it also greatly increases the risk of serious bush fires (i.e wild fires).

As recent Australian history has shown, when it gets hot and windy those are the perfect conditions for uncontrollably, raging bush fires.
I don't have to manage it at our company, so from a user perspective it's good enough.

Sure, there are some issues once in a while. Like with everything.
Maybe if they hadn't been killing women and children with depleted uranium then maybe, just maybe, they wouldn't be getting cancer today.
Wait until you hear about OpenSSL.
Zero Sum and Null Set are both muscular pew pew novels, written by an MIT grad. I enjoyed them, but found myself oddly bothered by the fact that they feature telepathy. That said, if you enjoy muscular pew-pew novels and enjoy dilithium crystal-type science talk but where the words actually make sense because they're used by someone who knows actual science ... you'll enjoy this.
FYI, WhatsApp added end-to-end encryption after Facebook acquisition.
We’ve worked quite a bit with this in the public sector where programmers are hard to come by. Basically we’d like to train the regular business to do things like data analysis, RPA and basic work-flow forms in drag-and-drop tools.

But it’s proven almost impossible to achieve it because people just don’t get it. We’re talking about PHDs in economics who can’t wrap their heads around a for loop.

I’m sure they could learn if you gave them enough time, but no one is going to do that.
I actually sort of thought this was the common POV for anyone within tech. Controlling google searches for your name, putting fake content on social media, etc. are obviously only way to create enough noise to direct algorithms to outcomes you’d prefer no?
Reddit search (or adding site:reddit.com to Google queries) is extremely useful for product reviews, travel advice, etc. Google used to have a Discussions tab, which served a similar purpose, but they dropped it and many searches show the same information repeated N times.
I cannot tell from your comment whether 2-6k/month before tax should be considered a lot or a little. I think in the major tech centers that 2-6k/month is quite low for anyone with significant experience (>5 yrs). Do you disagree?
And here's my version of Gauss-Legendre:

[[lmp lnp lap lbp ltp lqp lOxp]sD]sT # enable debug tracing

[0sn [ln 1+ sn]sN
1sa [la dsc lb + 2/ sa]sA
1 2v/sb [lc lb *v sb]sB
1 4/st [lt lc la- 2^ lq* - st]sT
1sq [lq 2* sq]sQ
]sI
[lDx lNx lAx lBx lTx lQx lnlm>Z]sZ
[la lb+ 2^ lt 4* /]sO

[Ksk k sm lIx lZx lOx lkk]sP # ( iterations precision -- pi )

Usage is the same as with the Chudnovsky version from my other comment. Assuming the above script is located in gl.dc:

$ dc -f gl.dc -e '15 10010 lPxp'

That gives about 10k digits accurately.

It's pretty much just a the implementation one would expect. The only tricky part is ordering the variable updates, since those have interdependencies. Both 'a' and 'b' depend ond each other, so we're force to create an intermediate variable, that's what 'c' is in the above.

Anyway!
And infrastructure cost is 2-3 million dollars per year to have PyPI running. https://twitter.com/dstufft/status/1127320131359653890
That’s a logical fallacy. Killing some with a skirt is misuse. Killing some with a device that was purposely made to kill someone isn’t misuse. It might also be self-defence, man slaughter or any or a multitude of other things but you’re not using the gun for something it wasn’t designed to do.
A+ Reference Manual
It won't be right. You'll never have proper specs.

Be able to get feedback from a customer/stakeholder early and often.

Instead of aiming for correctness, aim to be able to respond to change.
> You could never direct 100% of it

No, but you could direct enough of it that anything left is too dim to see unless you've got really good eyes ("eyes" in this case being whatever sensors we're using to detect black-body radiation).

> someone will still see you if they are in the path of the beam.

Space is big. What's the chance that we'd actually cross paths with that beam?

On the other hand, space is big. That beam would probably hit something eventually, and I suspect in that case we might pick up a reflection.

> It appears to be an exercise in futility.

Assuming the point is actually to hide. Maybe instead it's an attempt to recapture some of that energy otherwise lost as heat?
If anyone is now itching to read a Jack London novel, Standard Ebooks has a selection (including The Call of The Wild) for free: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jack-london/
I wouldn't say Nietzsche "embraced the nihilism". Embraced atheism, sure. Even The Anti-Christ I think says not a word against Jesus, who he seems to admire, but is aimed against the corruption of Jesus' teachings by priests and the Church. His teacher Schopenhauer–the first atheist modern western philosopher?–has much more of that nihilistic vibe - it would be better not to live, happiness is negative, lasting happiness impossible, the world is essentially annoying and horrible etc. Schopenhauer's also very Buddhisty–even had a bust of Buddha in his house–although I think arrived at his conclusions independently. Nietzsche at least tried to say Yes. Music was very important to both of them–S played flute, Nietzsche piano–and music was even more important in S's philosophy than Nietzsche's. Only through art, especially music, can we escape the miserable pressure of the Will, i.e. unconscious/life force/animal nature. Reading Schopenhauer's main book seems like Freud + Darwin. One of the essays in N's first book is the fascinating Schopenhauer as Educator. The chapters on S and N in Santayana's very readable and funny Egotism in German Philosophy are maybe the best, most insightful thing written about them.

I read a lot of Kierkegaard years ago - for a while he and Nietzsche were my two best friends! I avoided K's christian stuff - way too angsty for me, and over issues that mean nothing to me. (Well, I did have a religious phase where I could agree with him that christians are nowhere near christian enough!) But I love a lot of his other stuff. Maybe my favourite is Either/Or - some parts of it - the aphorisms, Crop Rotation etc. It's very funny stuff. He's either very compressed or extremely long-winded. And the endless whining about Regine gets very tedious..
Not it can't. It can tell you how you imagine the afterlife to be, which is a different thing.
https://zeit.co/

Supports Node.js, static and docker containers.

Very easy to use with custom domains.
No activity since Oct 3. I wouldn't draw any strong conclusion from this in either direction.
> This frees people up to be teachers and scientists and any number of other things that are about developing new knowledge or preserving and passing on existing knowledge.

I think the problem with this is that not everyone is cut out to be a teacher or scientist, or other kind of knowledge worker.

I left school at 16 and before I worked as a computer programmer I worked various minimum wage jobs for about 10 years. Some of those people are suitable for knowledge work (like me), but the vast majority ... yeah nah. At the risk of sounding condescending, but I don't think they have the interest, aptitude, or both.

I mean, in principle I agree with your reply, but I think it will be a lot harder than it sounds.
A significant fraction of the historical rate of return on capital is attributable to the combination of population growth and inflation. Without those the size of the fund you would need to cover a material fraction of government spending would be implausibly large.

Sovereign wealth funds also aren't all that different economically from taxation, in the sense that the profits from what the fund is invested in go to funding government programs rather than being reinvested in private enterprise. If the fund was large enough to be relevant, that would become an issue for the economy.
I think by lake they mean s3 and similar alternatives (like hdf is for hadoop). This is not crazy as processing s3 files is quite easy. What you say is true but the problem is that no analyst deals only with one db, they have to deal with an increasing number of data sources, that’s what the lake is for. I also don’t believe you need a warehouse after the lake and that one source of truth is pipe dreams, so I’m with you this architecture is not 100% what companies probably need.
Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity (1976) [pdf]
Not just the UK, most international diplomacy is done through Whatsapp: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/04/why-do-di...
Remember reading that thread the developer was saying something like "this is an ML library, not a statistics library". The subtext he is trying to convey is. I do ML! I am a higher-being. If you want statistically accurate function names then I don't care about you. Because you are likely a statistician, a lower being than me! I am a ML practitioner, a HIGHER-being. I don't take shit from lower-beings like you". What an arsehole.
> It's like doing math in local notation

Math is taught in Arabic, using Arabic notation and written from right to left in many Arabic countries. That is basically the only form of math I’m personally familiar with.
Yes, here's the context: https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/clustering.html
the advice I lean toward is that you need to make an effort to have strong relationships and people in your life rather than find ways to learn to be strong without them.
As I recall the financial incentives for renewables have changed sharply to the worse. Which easily explains a reluctance in investing further into the segment.
If you truly want to prepare for an apocalyptic event then you need to start building a community, acquiring survival skills, learning how to produce food and to communicate with other members of your local community without using modern means.

Sure, the land you bought might end up prime real estate sometime in the future, and that means that everyone will know it and flock there, regardless of how remote it is.
Hmm, one might think there's a trend in how almost none of the 'programmable programming languages' catch on. Lithp, Rebol, Forth, Nemerle, this one. Perhaps it has something to do with readability being more important than writeability? Me, I find macros and implicits repulsive. Give me Zig over LX any day (Zig purposefully contains no macro facility).
Nice app for me. I can save quote i like. Thanks team
Thermodynamics has something to say about this. Reconfiguring atoms into a preferred configuration subset means a reduction in system entropy, which requires venting entropy elsewhere. That means shedding heat from the Earth. The rate at which you can do that goes with the fourth power of the planet's surface temperature. There's a maximum temperature beyond which the planet's molecules will start reconfiguring themselves into configurations you don't prefer. So there's a maximum rate at which you can rearrange the system to make it better. There's also, presumably, a maximally preferred arrangement of Earth's molecules, beyond which any further reconfiguration would be a backward step. The alternative would imply a cycle of configurations that are each preferable to one another.

Remember, "infinite" does not mean "a really big finite amount that's just too big for me to imagine".
Maybe it's because I've cut his testicles
Not saying this is the case for spacex, but in my field (totally not space or engineering or software (but very much "tech" (physics/chemistry)) related), these types of interview are for weeding out the non-standard folks (of which there are many, including me but many of us (including me) have become good at hiding it). A person with high E would presumably (but not always because it is indeed a difficult task, casualties are regrettable but expected) "grok" the task and begin feeding the right keywords to the recruiter. Once you realize the game, it becomes fairly easy. Just read the job description and sprinkle the keywords provided therein.
Show HN: A bullet-hell game made in Haskell
When i first chanced upon Jack London in my school library, i was blown by the way he writes from a Dog's perspective. It feels like the animal is talking to you just like a human is. He has been my favorite author ever since. His short story Bâtard is my all time favorite.
Sweden, Finland and Denmark are also very apt examples, none of whom have oil.

(Norway also uses very little of its oil revenue, saving most of it)
Details: since when is Hessen the most populous state? It’s only on sixth place with less than 10% of the population (6.2m).
Wages and conditions in the industry suggest if anything there is a glut of pilots. The pilots that do have jobs work on short term contracts with no job security. It is very much a buyer’s market with a few legacy exceptions such as BA where the union is very strong.
Do you have a source? Like, I'd pay money for good sleep tracking, (especially if it's fitbit-level money... I would pay more) but everything I've seen thinks that if I'm in bed and quietly, say, reading a book, I'm asleep until I move.
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Thanks, but we are kinda thousands of kilometers apart!
I cannot help but wonder if the use of such tools as the ones listed in the article are not just "privacy theater", in the same sense that we have come to realize that much of what happens in the name of security is just "security theater". Ironically, of course, is that much of what happens in the name of security is exactly what takes away our privacy in the first place.

What is needed is for people to tangibly suffer from lack of privacy. It is obvious to people how they suffer from lack of security.

Germans remember what a lack of privacy can do (Stasi in East Germany), and as a consequence, they are much more privacy-minded than in many other places.

What will be the wake up call for other nations?
Know Your Algorithms: Stop using hardware to solve software problems
My team (those who want to) and I spend about one hour per day working out over lunch.
As team manager I believe these positive effects far outweighs the time “lost”, on so many levels.

“Working out” is difficult for many, but it can be so many things. For a year or so we spent time on movement training, something I highly recommend in general.
Definitely check out the browser extension TrackMeNot, mentioned in the article: it runs searches in the background to obfuscate what internet behavior is actually yours.

https://trackmenot.io/
Terminology used by specialists within their area of expertise often don’t.