skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>GraphQL is popular because the query ergonomics fit well with the component architecture everyone is using these days

Were they using that architecture prior to moving to GraphQL, or did the tail wag the dog in most cases?
We’re living good lives in their metropolis of plutonium because we’re not yet fully aware of the consequences.

Rather like how a hundred years ago people happily put radium in toothpaste and soap. Nothing better than a healthy glow to your morning routine - until the consequences arrive.

What will be the result of building the sort of global, hyper-targeted surveillance and propaganda machines spearheaded by google and Facebook, and will our descendants think we’re as dangerously naive as we do about those who made radioactive chocolate?
But we're not talking about predatory payday loans, which are not even legal in China.

If you want to say that QE is "neoliberal" and that this is sort of like QE except bottom up instead of top down, I guess I could see your point although I would argue that it's convoluted because the bottom up vs. top down is a major distinction that no longer makes the two similar.

Also, I disagree that predatory lending is a cornerstone of the modern Democratic party, but that's neither here nor there.
Sounds like you and and I disagree as to what constitutes a dense urban environment.
I've yet to see an old concrete building that's aged with dignity, rather than aging with 'what's with those big drippy stains, doesn't anybody wash around here?'.
"Every tax, however, is to the person who pays it a badge, not of slavery but of liberty. It denotes that he is a subject to government, indeed, but that, as he has some property, he cannot himself be the property of a master."
What do you actually think I can do? I feel pretty helpless and confused right now about how much an individual can actually do and why so little is being done globally.

Current things I do / have done are:

- Attend rallies occasionally.

- Divested most of my money where applicable.

- Invest in energy companies and tech.

- I went vegetarian for 2 years. I do eat meat again now,
but not a great deal and mostly fish and chicken when I do.

- Have not owned a car for about 2 years, I cycle and use public transport.

- Fly less than once a year currently. I live abroad so
sometimes I do need to go home to visit family.

- Buy essential things like clothes from companies who do things sustainably such as Patagonia. Don't really buy junk.

- Buy a monthly subscription to Climeworks.

As an individual I can do my bit; But clearly there is a limited amount of things I can do. I can't force countries to stop burning coal for power generation for example, which let's be honest, is the real crux of the issue. When I catch public transport, it's usually backed by coal or diesel right now.

What I don't get is this coal love affair that politicians can't seem to get over. We have so much to lose from climate change, including economically, so why do people love it so? It seems to be somewhat of an addiction. There seems to be a kind of "strength in denying" that older people enjoy to see in politicians. I don't really understand it but if this attitude changes, can be changed we'd instantly start on the correct path.

I also don't understand why simple and more cheap counter measures aren't being implemented rapidly.For example, afforestation. Is this because it's an admission something is wrong so most Governments won't do that so there is no commitment in it?

What is the actual the blocker here really? Corruption? Ignorance? Lobbying? We need to identify it and address it very quickly if we all want to survive and have a decent quality of life. This is why I have compassion for deniers, they don't really understand or want to admit how bad their lives will be.

On a personal level, I'm between jobs now looking for new things. I'm optimistic about the transition to renewables happening. The renewable tech is moving so fast and becoming so cheap I can see more and more of the grid changing quickly, at least in the developed world (which isn't enough on it's own); However I'm a little surprised at how little is being done to remove existing Co2. This also needs to happen.

I'm really considering how I can change my career to work on direct air capture tech or renewables even though this is far from my where my expertise lie as I'm in software.
Also:

* The ridiculous nosql fad that led to a tsunami of databases with horribly invalid data because constraints aren't sexy.

* The ridiculous academic fetish that triggered the leetcode phenomenon and led to a tsunami of developers who can code a quicksort in their sleep but still don't have the first clue about structuring code or data properly.
“My understanding is that [the group] will still function as a mailing list, which is for all practical purposes, what people use this as,” https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/17/20919630/yahoo-groups-uk...
MKL-DNN is not MKL though. I think MKL-DNN is fairly specific to Intel CPUs though if you want maximum performance. It'll necessarily make certain assumptions about instruction throughput and latency, something that's pretty much certain to be different on AMD in some cases. In super tight kernels such minute differences often boil down to much lower performance. So if AMD wants to do a good job, they'll need, at least in some cases, to detect AMD CPUs and JIT their own specialized kernels that perform well on AMD.
Ha, ha! Well, there's some high quality material there too, but I take your point. In the right context, like "history from below," all kinds of material can be high quality!
It's amazing to me how bad the reddit.com desktop browser experience is. I have no affiliation with Apollo, but the 3rd party native app makes Reddit actually usable.
I was just saying that collaboration with RT is a big red flag. Talking about tweet itself it's definitely not correct at least in anti-feminist part. Also whole tweet intention is kind of ad hominem, original article discussed Zhukov's speech and his sentence, not his personality.
> "The millenial angst"

It's called depression.
This guy's father worked for Russian government space agency, trained to be a cosmonaut. Now he's in the court watching the same government prosecute his son for political youtube videos. It is a disturbing sign when authorities press baseless charges against children of people who served their country their whole life.
weird. works for me on iphone 8
I don’t want to draw any attention to the post. It’s made it ~15 years in silence so I don’t want to make a change of strategy.
MDMA was originally used as a couples therapy drug in the early 20th century. It is a heart opening medicine that gently removes your ego. It is very powerful and beautiful. All about set and setting.
They've been protesting for weeks it probably feel that way but it wont
close() is partially handled by any language with scoped resources. There's lots of them.

Injections are handled by any language with taint, although that became less popular. Perl had it. Anything with typed orm also has something similar (for example Esqueleto in Haskell)
What does he do with it? Maybe it's a worthwhile expense? Most of his life's efforts so far seem to be in the best interest of humanity, from what I have read at least.
Héctor Garcia-Molina, 1953–2019
Conspiracy to cheat workers out of billions of dollars of wages comes to mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

There’s also the project to build a government logged and censored search engine to get back into China.

https://thinkprogress.org/google-dragonfly-china-censorship-...
You said: "If your concern is just spam, it's trivial to block an offending address. Why do you need to fracture your address? It seems like you're creating a massive headache both for yourself and for those who want to deal with you."

...and the reason is spammers keep changing (or faking) their "from" information. Also, maybe I should look up that "Plan for Spam" essay you mentioned.
Cultural genocide.
OK, thanks for explaining this. Just my 2 cents then: big companies make decisions like this based on the potential PR win/loss. If ignoring you keeps the PR delta at 0, while allowing to export the data exposes them to even a minimal risk (I dunno, someone's private details buried in), they will ignore, or even actively resist you.

Politically, you need to arrange it so that cooperating with you will give Verizon a small PR boost, while ignoring you will be seen negatively by the public. This thread had a good example of interesting data that is worth preserving, so I would try reaching out to news companies (NY Times and whatnot) to see if anyone wants to publish a piece. Phrasing this positively and ensuring enough people see it, would greatly increase the chances of cooperation from Verizon.
actually email and letters are something which the gdpr falls short in some countries. especially germany. since basically the constitution is above the gdpr and depending on the letter/email the content of the letter does not need to be acknowledged or showed (gdpr also means you can access your data) to the person who want his data deleted/showed/whatever.
Exactly this. Old reddit is good for you but bad. Just disable old reddit already. Liberate me!
> Memory might need to be cleaned up if the program was being run embedded in something else

Just unmap the heap pages. Don't run the GC!

> global destructors, while not guaranteed, can be very helpful if you let them run

If you want them to run on exit then you want Runtime.runFinalizersOnExit, not the GC. Finalizers are non-deterministic, asynchronous, and would take an indefinite number of GC cycles to run them for all objects.
This is mentioned obliquely in the top-level comment for this thread:

> solaris/macos approach … of calling libc stubs
Galagon, a Galaga Atari VCS Port, Released on Cart
Don't forget Shenandoah headed by G1's lead Christine Flood! I don't know enough to compare it to ZGC but it's an exciting time in Java's GC lineup.
Many are protesting to avoid the collapse...
Absolutely brilliant. There's an entire untapped market of sub prime credit that will rack up a few dollars balance then be trapped in the minimum payment cycle forever. Very low risk and huge upside. I'm surprised this hasn't caught on in the US yet.
>>>Why would it be easier or more efficient to program a suit to direct a human to perform a specific operation than program a robot to perform the same operation?

Just off the top of my head I would say the amount of power needed to drive a humans muscles would be exponentially less.
You also may not need to program things like balance, walking, object avoidance or abort sequences if coding for a symbiotic human machine as these would be instinctual on the human side.

>>>How would it be cheaper or more efficient to maintain a human than a robot?

This is bit trickier, but I would say the big one is the fact that humans have a built in regenerative system.
Also a human can tell you what hurts, this would require less diagnostics maybe?

This is all speculative anyways, but it would be nice to control even one of my arms via cnc, I could do calligraphy like a pro, paint like a master, even play the piano like a prodigy just by downloading a bit of code. I don't see any issues with morality if someone programs their own body to preform those tasks.
Are you really trying to say that the utility of a free map of the entire world that includes street level views of the entire developed world is negated because it has too many sponsored pins?

Alright lol
I have used both AHK and AutoIt and find AutoIt much simpler to understand (and also has clearer documentation).

https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/
AI on Acid: An Implementation of Distributed Transactions for AI Applications
curiousmarc's videos on repairing an apollo guidance computer. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-_93BVApb59FWrLZfdli...
It's more than that, though. I've been working this weekend on a basic Reddit frontend (https://reddit.spiffy.tech) and it feels much faster to load the front page there on my phone than the mobile Reddit web app.
Ugh. One thing that drives me nuts is the fact that Microsoft makes it very difficult to use drivers written for the previous release on the new release.

I remember Windows 3.1 ".386" drivers that weren't compatible with Windows 95 that introduced ".VXD" drivers compatible up to Windows ME.

I remember NT 4 drivers becoming incompatible with XP that introduced WDM. XP drivers stopped being compatible with Vista that introduced WDF architecture for drivers. If I recall correctly, it should still be possible to run pre-WDF NT drivers on Vista.

However, every single release starting with Vista uses the same WDF driver architecture. I am puzzled why can't I use Vista drivers on Windows 10 without resorting to hacks.

That is my biggest problem with Microsoft - unless the vendor elects to re-release code flagging the new release as supported, my hardware effectively is tied to Windows life span.
It’s not so much hiring people more interested in activism than their jobs, it’s that Google positioned themselves as something better than all the others. A company determined to do the right thing.

This naturally attracts people who are interested in making a difference and want to work somewhere that aligns with their values. You don’t go and work for somewhere like Phillip Morris or Oracle if you care about making the world a better place - and neither company would claim they’re trying to do so.

But Google said they were different, and it’s disillusioning to discover that somewhere you love and have worked hard for is just as evil as everywhere else - moreso as it wasn’t up-front about it.

And then you’re going to want to do something about it.
This, precisely.

I would add, there are some DL/ML business components which are in heavy use in some industries which given the companies size are giant productions deployments of "IA" (not expert systems or other automation technologies), so you could say we are actually living somehow in the principle of a golden age of "IA" (DL/ML techniques), but DL/ML techniques - at least what is known publicly to be the state of the art - has some practical limits (i.e. power consumption to traing useful models), but workarounds for those limits are being heavyly studied or solutions are being tested (as we speak indeed).

What's here for sure, it's a golden age of data: you can extract (meta)data from almost everything running on a CPU/GPU, the "likes" in everything are the users training models, not exactly the models you imagine (because you can associate/correlate some scenarios - "a birthday party at the office" - with others you would think are a lot different - "a christmas party at the bar" - but they'are not so different actually, and the features found by the training are more or less - it should be a % - interchangeable.

So yeah, every "like" out there is training something behind the scene.
https://www.wired.com/2003/01/google-10/

"Of the Google triumvirate, Schmidt makes sure the company stays on course financially and strategically; Page keeps busy in the R&D lab, cranking out new features; and the 29-year-old Brin, in his role as Google's conscience and head policymaker, spends his days gripping the moral tiller - and in so doing, imposes his worldview on everyone else."
New Biomass Map to Take Stock of the World’s Carbon
Funny, I find softback more durable. Hardback books seem “brittle”. Their rigidity makes me more likely to separate the binding from the cardboard shell and “break” the book, which never happens with my softcover copies.
Unfortunately tests in dynamic languages often don't help. I've run into too many issues where dependencies were mocked with parameters the dev thought were expected. (Or were expected in previous version of some library) With time, it all falls apart without real interface checks.
The state wants to spend $150 billion to achieve what a competent private sector contractor could for only $20 million. Nothing new here.
Curious what generation you hail from that you boil this down to a millennial issue.
- much lighter
- can fit more on bookshelves with less room / meant for apartments
- some people don't like dust jackets or the cardboard feel
- better for smaller hands
- i personally love seeing the creases in the spine and other little hints of a well-read paperback; read a few of mine at least 50+ times and they're still hanging in there.
If the definition of attraction is to be read to encompass everything that makes you like a person, doesn't it make the original statement vacuous? "Liking each other is what helps couples stay together?" I suppose it's true that few couples ever got divorced who wanted to be together. But it doesn't tell us anything.
What the Expert Panel Should Have Told You About Impeachment but Didn't
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8d77KV__gI Peristent Virtual Memory in the Great New Operating System In The Sky -- probably the only video on YouTube talking about KeyKOS besides Norm Hardy's ocap talk in 2017.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEDCXTpx0R8 OCAP 2017 Keynote Norm Hardy -- Much oral history about KeyKOS and successor systems by Norm Hardy (sadly now deceased), who was one of the main originators of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVm938gMWl0 RustConf 2017 -- Closing Keynote: Safe Systems Software and the Future of Computing by Joe Duffy -- Joe Duffy's retrospective talk on the Midori project at RustConf 2017.

There's a lot of stuff out there, but I thought I would drop these three in particular because they don't have particularly high viewership compared to their historical value as anecdotes.
I agree on the first point. The second is perhaps understandable if you read the whole exchange. You know they initially gave us 13 days before they cut off storing any more of the group emails (that is, new emails)? With an outcry, they increased that to 20. Many thousands of people were scrambling to find a new home. We are now reaching the end of the line (the last week) before the archives themselves are gone, and they have blocked the main concerted attempt to save some of that history. So, some level of frustration is in order.
Thanks. I think it's pretty crazy to make something internationally illegal that most people don't even know the definition of.
He didn't say it takes a lawyer to install solar panels. Just that it would probably take a lawyer to install them and sell the excess power to your neighbors. I'm guessing the same would be true in the UK.
Says a lot about people tbh. I've had frontend dev's work around backend issues instead of reporting them.
Yes, I agree that current technologies in deployment are insufficient for many of the things described, especially language understanding. A few of my previous posts this year expressed skepticism of current tech in detail.

I work in NLP/NLU and foresee some of future advances that will enable them.

Moreover, BERT et al models that were just invented over the last 1-2 years may already allow the implementation of basic versions of these human language technologies. In many domains, they are on-par with humans in answering multiple-choice/span selection questions. See, for example:

https://gluebenchmark.com/leaderboard

http://www.qizhexie.com/data/RACE_leaderboard.html

I also agree that technologies are not silver bullets. They are enablers/accelerators of improvement in process and efficiency that can increase human well-being.
The first definition I see for attraction is "pleasing to the senses" and the second is "sexually alluring." If OP meant something more than physical, then "attraction" was a misleading word choice.

Even with your definition of attraction, attraction-based love is fundamentally self-serving, and those who practice it rob themselves of the beauty of blind commitment in loving relationships.
100 years ago, lots of them were.
So are you saying that because Zhukov is, you claim, a right-winger, that means that his criticisms of Russia are wrong, and that Russia is actually a pretty good place?

Oh, and by the way, I don't know if Zhukov actually is a right winger, but Putin definitely is.
Oh? I assumed web-based email is superior to a client installed on your machine since it's... in the cloud as opposed to local.

I can see you're not thinking of it that way. What's your underlying thought on web-based email vs local client?
How does this compare to Kedro?
Yes - taking a job as an early startup employee is 99% of the time an idiotic move.
I find the "did Musk found Tesla thing" petty and unnecessary. Without Musk it would have been a footnote in history.

But I dislike your assertion that just because SV companies feel free to rewrite their history, we should consider that canonical.

It's totally valid to point out that Musk wasn't a founder, though using it as some kind of slight is juvenile.

eBay is free to claim it was invented to sell Pez dispensers and we're free to point out that's PR spin. Neither side is in the wrong.
Finalizers were deprecated two years ago, and might be removed altogether in the not-too-distant-future.
Only if your project is already mostly C++ and you would like to use your C++ compiler for everything, to keep the build process simpler.
So would this mean that people with beach homes in Miami could make the Chinese pay to replace their homes each time they are wiped out by a hurricane exacerbated by climate change (i.e. all of them according to current thinking)?
I hope this doesn't sound naive, but what does the M in VzM stand for?
Yes, I'm the author of the blog (RCA). No, I haven't studied this narrow question, though it's somewhat tangential to the arguments I've advanced (outcomes; prices; aggregate costs; etc). I have, however, seen several studies that suggest "medical bankruptcies" have very little to do with medical debt and much to do with the effects of their health on their employment/earned income (also similar patterns in Canada and some other comps in the available data...)

https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMp1716604
"I will endeavor to take joy in having this chance—the chance to be tested in the name of values I hold dear. In the end, Your Honor, the more frightening my future, the broader the smile with which I look at it. Thank you.”

Outstanding courage.
Yeah not volunteering for that mate.
I am not sure whether I have enough information to answer your question, but:

Do you know his the day to day business for a PM looks like, so did you completely understand the business and the problem? If not I suggest to reach out to PMs in your network like in your family, your friends or just through LinkedIn or sth (LinkedIn worked for me here). Ask them whether they help you validating a business idea. Make a (video) call with them and ask them questions to identify where and in what situation your MVP would be helpful. I guess you have some hypotheses that you should verify. That helps you with the first step: Validating that there is a real problem.

Then you can go on with the next step and reach out to (new) PMs (again: LinkedIn may be useful here). You are now in a situation where you should know about their daily business such that you can ask questions that lead to the problem. Once this becomes clear to them, say you are building a solution. Ask them whether that would pay for that or better about how much they are willing to pay. You can even try different prices and ask them whether they would pay the price.

I am not sure if you have to be able to sell a product before MVP stage. If it is really only a month to go, I would build it and then go back to the PMs you talked to earlier. If they all changed their minds suddenly, then your solution is not the answer to the problem or the problem is not frequent / real / big enough, but you only lost 1 month. But maybe they are happy and are willing to help you.

Best wishes from my side; and don't give up yet ;-)
No, because there will be some people (I used to be one of them) who are running exit nodes and aren't working with or under the control of attackers.