skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This problem has sort of been visible for a bit, the first time I remember it was toward that latter half of 2018. I felt this was sort of an even-handed pondering of the ramifications.

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2019/01/29/1548762302000/Don-t-f...

One bit in there is this:

>Second, as a result of the above, nobody really knows what the true cost of regulating the system is, or to what degree Basel III has changed the market in terms of elasticity.

In the OP article, this was the thing where I have mixed feelings:

>JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon has put the blame on regulators themselves. He said in October that his firm had the cash and willingness to calm short-term funding markets but liquidity rules for banks held it back.

On the one hand, I think it reasonable to sprinkle a little salt over anything coming from the global banks, especially when they are telling you they want to be regulated less. But on the other hand, JPMorgan for whatever reason really does seem to want to be that quasi-lender of last resort at the right price. They did it last year. I think Kaminska in my linked article has a pretty fair view that post-crisis regulation changed the game in ways we might not fully acknowledge or be aware of.
Something that we did get was better positioning to launch intelligence operations in Iran. Afghanistan and Iran share a considerable border. It would presume that if the United States felt Iran was a threat, building some type of forward intelligence operation Afghanistan might be beneficial.
I think one could argue that similar parallels could be drawn to global trade, with respect to variance in work ethic/productivity across different cultures (as a substitute for variance due to cognitive enhancement).
I think it refers to growing a salt crystal out of a super-saturated saltwater at room temperature.
Congrats, hopefully you'll be able to port it back to Zinc sometime over 2020.
I think Elon Musk's companies are great examples.

"Make humans an interplanetary species"
"Accelerate the adoption of sustainable energy"

These tag lines are much more aspirational than the actual things the companies are currently building (rockets and cars).
What a about the people that identify CEO is trying to sell smoke?

Some people are tired to hear the same story again and again, in one place or another.

When will we empower transparency?
How to turn $20M into $340M in 15 seconds (by attacking Maker DAO)
I wasn't saying anything beyond his usage hasn't inhibited him economically. He wasn't born with an electric car company, a rocket company, and a tunnel-boring company so he has amassed those things at the very least in spite of his usage.
I thought the article got better later on, but, the opening couple of paragraphs that emphasized story telling were very weak.

Senior leadership has a much better understanding of the business context and long term plan than I do, but, I have a much better understanding of the problem details in my specific domain.

What I find most valuable from senior leadership is clear feedback about how what we are doing fits in the broader context of what the company is doing, as well as specific high level feedback on the roadmap of our org.

The story format can be helpful to frame a vision of how you'd like a product launch to go, but, it's not suitable at all for most of the communication a CEO/SVP does.
Well, that's my point. It's about the same size as the average US state. Any time a nordic country is mentioned, there's this same comment that it is obviously easier to do XYZ there because of the small population. Well, it must be equally easy to do it in a US state, right?

Furthermore, most countries in the world have a population less than 10 million. Finland is a normal sized country - it's the US that's anomalous in that it's more like 50 normal sized countries in a union.
Honestly, O(n^2) is probably okay for a diagnostic tool that's only meant to be run occasionally-- I'd like to know why Google's IT department felt the need to schedule it to run so frequently.
I see that the underlying IP to Geo data is consolidated by MaxMind. Where does MaxMind get this data? I wish this data was open sourced.
They got to feed their industrial machine. That money re-entered the American and Global economies in ways that non-warfare economies could never provide.

It was never about making the country peaceful or stopping al qaeda (though I’m sure there were realpolitik reasons, such as staving off Russian influence).
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Payment processors have a way to block prepaid cards, and I wouldn't be surprised if many organizations used these as a blunt instrument to prevent fraud. A political organization can probably even decide to treat those transactions as though they were anonymous cash donations.

Though, I'm thinking of the US, so this may be different in Canada or elsewhere.

See, e.g., https://support.stripe.com/questions/find-the-type-of-card-a...

> The funding parameter of the card object exposes whether the card is a credit, debit, or prepaid card. A card may be unknown if Stripe was unable to determine its funding type.
That presupposes that you can start with a big pile of bad APIs and somehow incrementally approach something worth having. That's not consistent with my experience. In my experience the innermost APIs, the ones that get written down first, are effectively cast in stone and dictate the quality of the whole product, forever. The first draft of a system is the one that should have all its APIs worked out with a pencil before any code is written. You get these accidental complexity explosions precisely because someone thought it was easy and obvious to write a function returning std::vector<string> (or whatever) and didn't consider from the caller's point of view that making the function take an output iterator might be less complex.
sometimes it was correct to choose O(n) instead of O(1). if you know you're only going to have very few elements, linear search on a vector can be faster than a hashtable lookup or rb-tree traversal and use less memory for the data structure. later on some clown decides to expose your private function for their own convenience and starts calling it with thousands of elements.
That's simply not true. It's been a concern for decades.
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> They were told that a specific change "must not" go into a release, it was OK for it to wait for the next patch release.

To be fair, the two clauses of this sentence are somewhat confusing: If it is "OK to wait" it somehow implies that "you don't have to", while "must not" is indeed imperative.
I'm almost inclined to agree but I think that would be optimistic. The U.S got a lot of collateral damage to itself and that region for $2T. That $2T fed and grew a now hopelessly bloated war-hawk adjacent bureaucracy that continues to weigh the country down and waste a significant portion of the very sizable lower to middle-class tax payments, not to mention stoke nativist fears and increased police militarization domestically and an ever-present domestic surveillance apparatus, which can't even keep its own intel safe.

Afghanistan is another step in a long line of post WWII follies that stretches back to Vietnam and earlier. What a tremendous waste of resources.
It fuel industrial complex, now they know if they'll need it next time - where the shortcomings lie.
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Of course. Since men outnumber women in pretty much any industry.
How can you increase your Android smartphone performance
Unix-based OSs won't stand still.

To replace them we'd have to see a circumstance where it makes sense to start from scratch and rewrite everything vs. incrementally improve what's already there.

I can't predict the future, but the market forces needed for some kind of new OS to make sense would have to be tremendous. As time passes and we build more and more on top of existing OSs it becomes less and less likely that we'll switch away from them because it will become more and more costly.

Perhaps a state could create a unique OS as a hegemonic strategy. They could make people, companies and other states use it as a pre-condition of participating in their economic sphere. That could provide the incentive to use it even though it would take decades to catch up to existing OSs. China is the only one I can think of that could have a chance at this, though I still think the cost would be too high for them. North Korea would probably love to do it, but it seems unlikely they'd ever be in a position to influence other states to that degree.
Narratives are things that fill in the holes between the facts. You can't make sense of the world without them. We also call them "models" sometimes. Whenever there's ambiguity or not enough evidence, or uncertainty about how something might play out, it's a narrative (informed by the facts, but not a fact itself) that tells you how to proceed.
I always feel a need to state this to folks who are not aware of geolocation and ip addresses: Geolocation based on IP is very unreliable and should be used only for soft-analytics at best.

Example: It is not fit for security postures (in theory). One can dump all the CURRENT v4 routes being advertised out of China and block them via blackholes/firewalls/etc. However immediately after that a rogue operator could hijack a non-China affiliated prefix, use it for badness, and then release the hijacked prefix.

Most Geolocation services that are static (point in time) will not detect the above scenario. BGP-based monitoring services will, but that's a step up $$$ wise.
And for all the channels which really are relying on that revenue? Are you paying for YouTube Premium? Are you signing up to support the creator on Patreon? Are you paying channel memberships?

What's left to fund your favourite content when none of this happens?
The numbers don't include finance which is probably why no NYC. San Diego is a bit surprising but Boston presumably counts all the biotech in Cambridge in addition to the satellite offices of the various West Coast "tech" companies and other high-tech.
Excerpt: "I decided that the interactions were too complex to be worth analyzing in detail, especially without any thread names to give clues about what the 25 different threads in svchost.exe (3024) were doing."

Future OS/Compiler Programming Note: It would be nice if threads could be individually named and those thread names shown/slowed/stopped/debugged in whatever tool implements Task Manager like functionality...
> But would this only be for EU-hosted data?

No, GDPR request are for your personal info no matter where they are physically stored. In the case of Google it's very likely that they replicate their databases across multiple datacenters, at least it's what the SRE book indicates.
"The final total is unknown, but experts project another trillion dollars in costs over the next 40 years as wounded and disabled veterans age and need more services."

Add to this the unquantifiable lost opportunity from dead civilians, dead soldiers...
There's only more cars if there are more jobs, at least if you're looking at rush hour traffic. Adding residences in megacities like LA and SF isn't likely to increase the number of jobs, it will reduce the number of people commuting 30+ miles into the city, and thereby reduce the number of cars on the road (even if everyone still drives.)
There are easier ways to use MaxMind data without injecting a third party.
In the 15+ years of ridicule, armchair psychologists, and unsolicited advice that I've had to endure, this comment is definitely the most flavorful and interesting one. I like it!

I'll be sure to name my daily carry "Trusty Sidearm of Destiny"
This. An ad-free, recommendations-free, comment-free, subscription-free YouTube. Just a search bar with an advanced search feature. That way I can just watch what I need to, not what I want to.
It is very common in social science research to anonymize participants by not revealing their location. This is an important ethical rule that is used to protect participants’ data. I believe that is why these authors were unclear about the bank.
Social cost would be at best very difficult to quantify, though, making it quite hard to handle. "Increased partisan tensions" due to social media, for instance, is not the sort of thing the cost of which one can quantify and mitigate.

Your point that the things which can be done with information collected are constantly in flux, and I agree the ability to retroactively change terms of service to cover previously-collected data is ridiculous and implies an illusory contract which is not legally valid. No one should be able to run through a neural net data collected in the nineties. However, it's also not reasonable to demand that old data be removed, as it's produced at least as much by the server as by the client (e.g. access logs are typically produced by server-side monitoring of server-side software). The most sensible option is for companies to require explicit agreement to TOS changes to continue using the service, and use new data only under that policy while using the old data under the old policy. It's additional compliance overhead, certainly, but it's no different from how a client contract would be treated.

> professional malfeasance and malice aforethought

You are not the arbiter of such things, but thank you for your opinion. There's also a site guideline about assuming good faith, so you're in violation of that.
I agree but I don't see worth.com openly criticizing its audience.
Wake me up when the Bay Area (and California, and other places) becomes community-minded enough to care about solutions.

My experience has been that it's a bunch of factions who can't/won't work together toward a common good.

Until that changes, you can create all the smart, rational, reasonable, fact-based, win-win proposals you want, but they aren't going to happen if people aren't even trying to cooperate.
Wowzas! Love this list as always
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And yet they are well known as companies that do a lot of drumming up and assigning.
That’s why MaxMind charges for more accurate data. It requires actual effort...
I build it in a container for work and didn't find it that difficult to be honest. And Google has plenty of example Dockerfiles that show the steps needed.

The only real system dependencies are Java8, maven and texlive (and Python/R if you build for that). Then it's `make-distribution.sh` with the appropriate flags. Scala and everything else that is needed is downloaded by maven. The resulting directory is self-contained assuming you have java8 runtime on your target machine.
That could be underestimating the truly catastrophic nature of O(n^2). Blows up very very fast. From milliseconds to seconds to days to decades. Pretty much anything that grows at all, must not be subject to the terrible power of O(n^2)
I agree that all web-based mail clients are pretty low. Gmail/Outlook/other clearly-developed alternatives are good, but they also have native counterparts

Given a high-quality (good UX, etc.) web-based client would be available, would you consider switching?
Absolutely. If we simply said "eat in this period and you'll lose weight!" you'd find someone gorging themselves into an excess of calories.
I don't have "user" peers. I just use it to connect the VMs.
So around 50 I guess.
> If I'm on contract cutting together some hack's godawful kung fu action film, the last thing I want to hear is the fiction he tells himself to get to sleep every night.

Hum, no, that would be a lot of bullshit to accept. But I am sure you'll like to know you are helping creating a godawful kung fu action film. And it's very likely you'll like to hear on how successful the move will be.
Why do people still travel for business meetings?
RiseUp summit in Egypt prevented me from attending
Hello,
We have a popular summit in Egypt called RiseUp summit.
They had a competition yesterday by the pyramids in Giza.

My startup is a semi-finalist in that competition, they refused to let me attend it though.

This summit is receiving funds from the international bank and other funds to waste it on private parties they make,and money never goes to entrepreneurs.
> By having control over which required dependencies are downloaded.

Again, Nix adds nothing to the discussion. The problem stated by the OP was caused by the (broken) way that the custom build system of a specific package was designed to work, which failed to adhere to the standard practices enforced by Debian's packaging process.

If the packagers of said software project followed Debian's practices then the problem wouldn't exist.

You're parroting that Nix also enables users to specify dependencies. Ok, so it works just like any other package system. What does that have to do with the problem being discussed? Nothing.
Yes! The fact that it's not in pfSense is pretty much the only reason why I'm still using openvpn.
Also, for those too young to remember answering machines, they spawned a lot of scenes in thriller movies where someone had to break into a place to get an answering machine tape, either to ascertain what was on it or to swap it out with a blank tape so that the intended recipient didn’t receive it. Even in some romantic comedies where someone confessed their love in a message and then regretted it.

Also, the mechanics of answering machines is why they have the “please leave the message after the beep.” The greeting was stored at the beginning of the tape (no solid state memory!), but there could be a lot of messages already on the machine. So the machine would rewind the tape to the beginning in standby mode, play the greeting, then fast forward to the first section of blank tape. Since this would be a variable amount of time, they played a beep so the caller knew when recording was starting. This could be a long wait for people with lots of messages. When the greeting could be stored in solid state, this was an advertised feature, as were the completely solid state machines.
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Yeah, but who decides if it's a defect? Maybe the defect is subtle and only manifests in rare cases and the upstream rightfully decides that after a risk/payoff analysis, it's not worth fixing it.

Or maybe he agrees and fixes it and it's included in distributions 7 years later.

I've changed 5 jobs in 7 years (because of life circumstances) and I'm not even a job hopper... How is any commercial shop going to plan around 7 year time frames?
Iran is as much of a threat as Iraq and Afghanistan were
I hope you only walk to work or Uni. Do you know the carbon footprint of bike, car, train production you use to travel?
"If you are building a product, please don't do a mac-only release"

See, that's why it would be web-based, to not tie it down to any OS. I'm held tight in the Apple ecosystem and I'm actively looking for web-based solutions as opposed to local ones just on the off-chance I might want to make the jump one day to something else
This is more meant as something that supplements migrations, as a “time machine” of your database so to speak. You would run it before you do any kind of potentially destructive operation on your database, such as running or rolling back a migration. Not all migrations are reversible (for example, migrations that drop columns), so you cannot easily go back to before you ran that migration. It’s also convenient when you check out an older version of your code - you can just restore the database as it was at that point in time. You could run a command in a git hook to enforce saving a new version when you tag a new release for example. In any case, it makes your database less of a black box, and it basically becomes ok to destroy it - because you can so easily make a new snapshot and go back to how it was before.
I often see O(n^2) algorithms that can be reduced to O(2n) at the very least. One of the best things I gained from school was the red flag that fires off in my mind any time I see a loop nested in a loop.
POSIX threads can be individually named. They inherit the name of their creator if you don't set one.
Having used both AWS Lamda + DynamoDB and Firebase Functions + Firestore, I would say Firebase is much much simpler than AWS anything and documentation is just excellent. However Firestore has major restrictions and is ridiculously expensive.

I guess great open-source starter kits still didn't catch up to serverless stuff so it makes jumping in a bit harder. And yes, the restrictions all need workarounds for now. But every year I check serverless stuff, it gets better. I guess it is just not there yet at the moment.
You're not wrong, but IMHO the proper place for that sort of optimization is inside the dictionary class/module/whatever. It knows why the optimization is there and the conditions under which it makes sense.

For application code it's probably better to express clearly what you're trying to do, in this case keyed lookup. Throwing in a linear search at that level isn't just dangerous, it's potentially confusing to people reading the code later.
On average, it looks like it's about μ=$3,655.91 per flight hour (σ=$2,036.95), with a high correlation with maximum passengers.

Cost per hour, per passenger is μ=$320.28, σ=$67.45, assuming the plane is full.

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2015/november/1...
that depends on where you currently are on the ladder because the ladder is on a platform that's slowly (and maybe accelerating) sinking.
This almost feels like spam. A badly-written "article" (which is just a collection of facts) with a clickbait title and then a call for donations accepting like 50 different cryptocurrencies.
Have you ever drove to the local grocery?

If so, why didn’t you use a bicycle.

A car vs a bicycle seems to me to be way more extreme than an individual flying on a personal jet to a location a commercial jet can’t access (people forgot that there’s exists 10s of thousands of remote small airports private planes, not commercial, can fly too that might otherwise require an indivisible to fly commercial to the local major airport and then drive another few hours to get too)
Edit: deleted due to crossed wires on my part.
Yea this seems like more of a competence-related problem than age-rated. I never even considered that I might have to ask candidates if they knew the difference between git and github but now I wonder....
Yes, you'd obviously need a moderate-sized capacitor bank as I said elsewhere.
I'm reminded of this story[1] about the game's fire propagation:

There's a funny anecdote about that. A few months after Dominic told me I had to propagate fire to everything, I had it working in my test environment, and I decided to give it a try in the game.

I launched the game and decided to attack a small camp with five or six guards. There was an explosive barrel there, so I shot a single round into it. The barrel exploded and sets fire to the grass underneath, and the fire spread to the camp and set fire to the hut.

The hut set fire to the trees nearby, and the flames reached a propane tank, which went flying in every direction, setting fire to everything in its path.

One of the guards then caught fire and, in his panic, set more things on fire. Within two minutes, as far as I could see, literally miles of terrain were on fire. Every single tree, every hut, everything. The result was that I had killed every guard by shooting a single round and that my PC was now reduced to a crawling speed.

[1] https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/111851/Interview_How_Far...
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