skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes - subjunctive. It comes from English's Germanic roots. Compare the German, "Wenn ich König von Deutschland wäre..." to the English translation, "If I were King of Germany..." and note the similarity of the verbs "wäre" and "were."

In English, what looks like a plural form ("were") in place of a singular ("was") actually comes from a Germanic singular form of the subjunctive. Both the German words "waren" (plural indicative form - "we/they were ...") and "wäre" (singular subjunctive form - "(if) I/he were") become "were" in English.

(And to confuse things, in English, the plural subjunctive is also "were" and is thus indistinguishable from the indicative. "We were kings..." v. "If we were kings...")

In both languages, the subjunctive is used in this case for a condition contrary to fact - I am not the King of Germany (nor am I a German pop singer from the 80s!).
Wait wait but what if Nirvana was a one-person band? OR what if you don't know?
Saudi Arabia says Hi and thanks for the nuclear!
Whenever this site pops up I always end up going to http://textfiles.com/bbs/MINDVOX/voices.txt - I recall Mindvox in Wired and that kind of thing but it was ever so slightly before my time..
I wrote an actual piece about PGP:

https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html

I stand by what I wrote in this post as well, but it's not a good first read for people surprised that cryptographers hate PGP.
Looking at Coronavirus.data.gov.uk
> EDIT: the way some downvote on HN makes me sad.

There are many 'trolls' around here (comes with the popularity), who will downvote based on opinion to begin with, instead of writing a counter-argument (or their "problem" with the post is simplistic, first-degree, unsophisticated).

Ignore them. Those who come to read/learn usually do. We read arguments, rebuttals or agreements, and seldom consider scores at face value.

Also, engagement is probably the real salience of votes, whether up or down: it means someone got 'triggered' enough to click, and that usually means you touched something (assuming the comment isn't misleading, factually wrong, etc).

Typically, a post such as yours is interesting, and warrants no downvotes whatsoever.
Skim: Fuzzy Finder (Rust)
I would argue that we know that most people who did lived. Most people, even on the losing side, of ancient battles survived the experience. Formations tended to break and people flee long before all people were dead.
What is "pantone"? That's missing from the website.
Sometimes I think PTSD is the standard human experience. Industrialization, certain civil/human rights, and psychology insights have changed that some.
Of course yes, sorry. I should have said the Mediterranean Islands Malta/Cyprus in the the south. Thanks!
Yeah, the GDPR was an evolution of data protection, not a revolution.

The previous European legislation on this was the Data Protection Directive from 1995, predating Google by three years.
I think it could be achieved by the caddy and uptoc. But, uptoc need implement a HTTPDriver for upload the dist to your hosting.
Ask HN: Looking for Subscription Management Service
Hi all,

please imagine you are running an ISP.

You offer different services (like connectivity or web-hosting) with different configurations (speed, storage capacity) and also products (server, router).

Your sales people need to manipulate the configuration on demand. (for example: sales should be able to modify the running contract and add another 100MB storage capacity to a customer).

You want to integrate different payment providers with that.

Ideally we would invent a new service or product inside the ISP. Then define a template to configure this new service. We throw that into that new 'tool'.
Now the sales-team can bundle services+products into packages and sell them magically.

The ISP infrastructure would only get signals like 'enable X with config Y for customer Z' or 'pause service X for customer Z'.
I hope this is not too abstract. The ISP as example as I assume most can at least imagine how diverse and complex their offerings could be.

Do you have a recommendation for some SaaS that I should check out? (EU data protection compliance is required.)

Or, in case my approach is wrong: How should I look at a topic like this?

Thanks for your input.
was reading your first blog post (https://zerodha.tech/blog/hello-world/) and amused that your tech team is only 30.
Controlling My A/C with a Gameboy
You can't get more focused than textfiles. This is an online museum about a specific aspect of internet lore and history. Jason Scott is an archivist/historian.
One concept is "heavier than air" flight is throwing air downward.

Visuals help: [1] https://aviationphoto.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Paul-Bo... [2] https://www.popphoto.com/sites/popphoto.com/files/import/201... [3] https://imgur.com/gallery/EHW7D [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfY5ZQDzC5s&t=192
I'm a nobody and I don't have any work that I'm ready to show you.

You shouldn't take my advice, I very well may not know what I'm talking about. I'm just laying down some beliefs I've got that I plan on testing out. You can't know if you've got a market fit unless you try. That's all I'm advocating.

People give advice on everything here every day, a lot of them won't tell you that they very well could be wrong, but I'm very aware I may be.
It's hosted on wikipedia.org, follows the stylesheet for Wikipedia articles and below it states:
"From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"
Well, it's murky, but some easy thought experiments might bring clarity:
* Should we raise humans on factory farms, in order to increase the amount of conscious experience?
* if so, and assuming that humans pay more attention to aversive stimuli than positive/neutral stimuli, should we deliberately torture them?

Both propositions are obviously horrible. But why? The answer is similar to why the death of worms < chickens < pet dogs < people < great people.

Consciousness is a matter of connected/integrated complexity; as a result, millions of worms do not eventually produce the depth and richness of human consciousness. Secondly, consciousness is dependent upon other conscious beings; our consciousness isn't really our own, it is part of a shared web. So, consciousness that does not participate in that shared web is less conscious, in a real sense, than consciousness that does.

For both these reasons, if we value consciousness, the only real benefits of factory farmed chickens would come from how they help contribute to the overall conscious ecosystem. Perhaps they let us build more integrated complexity, in which case, thanks.
It works like this: imagine we create some new Bank. Customer A deposits his life savings of 1 million hackerbucks.

Now our Bank loans out 50,000 of those hackerbucks to Customer B. It does this by crediting her account with 50,000 hackerbucks, but notice that Customer A still has 1 million in his account - so now there's 1,050,000 hackerbucks in apparent existence - we've created 50,000 hackerbucks from thin air. If Customer B withdraws the loan money to go spend it, the Bank will have 950,000 in reserves and an asset worth 50,000 (the loan). Customer B will have 50,000 in cash.

What we've actually done is increase the "M2", one of the measures of how much money is in the economy.

If Customer B either repays the loan or defaults on it, that new money disappears. In the loan repayment case, the Bank goes back to having 1,000,000 in reserves, and in the loan default case the loan asset becomes worthless and it is left with only 950,000 in reserves (the other 50,000 is out there with wherever Customer B spent it).
- why tax people?

So that common services (eg. healthcare in Canada, education everywhere, roads) can be collectively paid for.

- why even work? Can't we just print enough money for everyone and live happily ever after?

Because there wouldn't be enough resources. (Fiat) currency is just a medium of exchange for real stuff. Instead of growing wheat and trading it for your wooden furniture, the state provides a medium of exchange so we can both just transact in money. eg. when I don't need more furniture but you still need wheat.

Money =/= wealth
> - why tax people?

Printing money is actually more or less equivalent to a tax, because it reduces the value of the existing money supply.

> - Can't we just print enough money for everyone and live happily ever after?

No, because printing money redistributes wealth, it doesn't create it.
So you can pay to do a single course and get real accreditation? Or did you do it through a MOOC provider
Well, that raises further questions. How could a chicken farm or chicken meat in a freezer be more efficient forms of calorie storage than a grain silo or a shipment of flour? Do you have a source?
> The median salary in the UK is around 29K GBP. I wouldn't say that 58K (70K CHF) is a "should be expected to exist at all times" salary.

No, but if someone on £58k is expected to work unreasonable amounts of overtime without sufficient compensation they probably won't suffer too much if they decide to switch jobs.
I bet that American intelligence officials looking to snag naive foreign cyber operatives are looking at each other and laughing too.
MPV Ready “First Time Home Buyer Checklist”
Yep. Even something far more subtle like a hoodie with a Gold Morning symbol on the sleeve would sell very well.

Edit: as for the rabbit hole, I spent a fair amount of my free time over the course of three months reading this. It definitely sucked me in.
Wow, there are an awful lot of articles plagued by eastern European nationalists trying to re-write history and reality!
It's better to say: The biggest investment is your time.

Sweat = Equity
This is a fair point, but it isn't really a problem for most people. Nvidia GPUs aren't much more expensive than a matching AMD GPU for students/researchers.

Once you get in the entreprise market, Nvidia is simply killing it with their low power consumption and low profile cards (P4/T4) so it usually isn't a problem and no one really care for the price difference.
> In France, for example, the GDPR law haven’t still been transcribed in French law.

This is a common misconception.

Directives need to be transcribed into national law but Regulations - like the GDPR - have direct effect and do not.

Regulations become the law of the member states as soon as they are passed, by virtue of the treaties.
I don't think they'll ever do that. They would lose a significant majority of those of us who use Mac laptops to develop real software.

They'll make cross-platform development between iOS and macOS easier, they're already doing that -- but getting rid of macOS (which is essentially what you're saying) isn't smart for them.
Can you actually name a mainstream language that doesn't have NaNs with that behavior? Python, Ruby, Go, Rust, Java, JavaScript, etc all do.

Or maybe what you're saying is really just that they shouldn't have them, and every modern language has gotten this wrong?
This is perhaps one of the few places where software developers could learn something from hardware development: In hardware description languages everything happens in parallel by default. A large chip project has many components that communicate typically fully asynchronously over some network / bus. Tools for debugging these systems are

- A GUI that allows one to trace all state changes down to the single bit level.

- Assertions based on linear temporal logic to verify invariants.

- Conventions around how to model transactions at various levels of abstraction, as well on how to monitor and extract these transaction from the "wire protocol".
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Did he actually enjoy living that way? To me, that sounds like the result of having no real options and playing video games constantly to avoid facing that reality...
> All features work without JavaScript

Bravo!
Agile is a short-lived V cycle repeated for ever.

Legacy V-cycles (needs - spec - code - test - integration - product) were such that everything was written down and planned in advance for months/years. So, if the customer had made an error, his/her needs had changed... you were basically screwed.

Agile advocates for Short V cycles while getting often user feedback. But it's a V cycle.

- PO speaks to the customer = get needs
- PO writes tickets, UX design something = specification
- And then it follows the classical cycle : develop, test, integrate, deliver.

What's remain around agile (ceremonies & co) feel much more like bullshit to me, and people follow it religiously without understanding the core idea of agile as they think V cycle is an insult.
The Challenges of Regulating Warez Trading:) [pdf]
I don't mind advertising, as a concept.

I mind bad noise to signal ratios.

As cost of production plummeted, switching flow of data from "pull" to "push", I've had to transition from foraging to filtering strategies.

I've always been good at foraging.

I'm much less good at filtering. Worsened by my inability to keep my foraging habits in check.
> The entirety of the author's 'hypothesis' (sic) rests upon ignoring that nurture, context, is highly determinant in forming psychological references, relative perceptions, hence reactions, profiles.

Huh? The author's hypothesis is that nurture and context were all-important in helping people avoid PTSD.
I always find myself holding this view ...

Until someone bumps an MPI version and I can't fix my God damn build for a week
CoronaMaison: Stay at Home Artistic Challenge
You'd think Khronos would learn from their (many) past mistakes with OpenGL but apparently they seem to miraculously have found some leftover foot left to shoot. I guess hindsight is 20/20 and all that but it's pretty crazy that they seem to miss the mark so reliably over the years.
That's quite fair! I can't quite put my finger on how we have quite a few ways of using "quite" to mean quite different things. In all my examples, the meaning is quite similar. Quite the challenge, really.
Sure, and that's just like a net effect of a gift from the creditor to the debtor, which doesn't have any effect on the money supply.
> It is like Khronos keeps missing the point why developers jump into more productive eco-systems.

Implementation and standardization should go hand-in-hand, to make sure that you don't standardize something that's unimplementable.

If you can't find companies to implement the standard while it's being developed, then maybe nobody cares?
Couldn't it be solved with a universal template? Something like bootstrapper for computation applications?
As an outsider reading this, it sounds like OpenGL vs DirectX all over again - an open API is good, but a good API is better.
> A lot of this gets into whether you think punishment is the desired outcome or behavioral changes.

It's both, surely.

Behavioural change won't last unless there are punishments for non-compliance.
Relativity.

I just can't grok it.

I can't understand how time would flow differently depending of your speed.

I don't get why C is a constant no matter the referential, for any other object the speed is relative to your referential. I just don't see how those 2 are compatible.
per the link in the parent comment, only 13% of food waste occurs in the supermarket. Supermarkets do waste a lot but there is a lot of work to do elsewhere.

If less waste occurred elsewhere perhaps less would be sold, but I do not see why that would necessitate a planned economy. In fact, 43% of the waste is in the household. This is an addressable gap that doesn't require legislation, just for just for people to be more diligent about the first two Rs in Reduce/Reuse/Recycle.
For systems using MPI there is the TotalView debugger, which is pretty good
IMHO GDPR has been (as of yet at least) a net loss to society. It hasn't, and probably never will, change the status quo of the biggest data hoggers (Facebook, Google et.al). It have increased my annoyance on the web with even more crap interruptions about cookies etc. It has increased administration in so many places in our society where data is collected in totally non-harmful ways with no real functioning opt-out, like phone numbers in kids football associations or contact info for parents in schools etc. Remember that even data stored on papers are covered by GDPR.

I think my gripe is that organisations becoming "GDPR compliant" mainly has created systems for collecting consent or focusing on which cloud platform to not use, rather than creating any real change by e.g not using systems with piss poor security to begin with.

Almost like if we created regulation around banning bad roads, and all that happened was that people had to start signing papers saying they accepted the risk of bad roads.

But I guess it will take some time to see real change, hopefully it will come someday.
Using search, it looks like a couple of years ago a user frequently posted Zenkit related links.
I built it from source to see if it was what I needed and it so scratched my itch that I paid the $20 as a contribution.

I don't do any professional development on my iPad, I just like having the ability to mosh/ssh back into my machines at home to run a script or push a quick edit to my personal github.
Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data – PaPoC 2020
I don't know that this is regional so much as colloquial vs. formal. In the US people recognize that the subjunctive is technically correct and use it in formal writing. But it's very common to violate this rule in speech, so much so that to my ears it sounds less "wrong" than "informal."

As far as musicians go, you can find examples of people on both sides of the pond using or not using the subjunctive. Beyoncé sings "If I were a boy," while Thom Yorke sings "I wish I was special."
I didn't mean it was equivalent to the charge of an electron. What I was wondering is how do heat and light impart more kinetic energy to physical objects? Light may be the quantity of a photon but heat seems to be more of an analog property. And what are some ramifications of these energized particles in small spaces like enclosed gasses or large unenclosed spaces with effects like the weather.
dgraph.io uses posting lists.

I think the state of the art is https://github.com/GraphBLAS.

Examples: https://github.com/michelp/pggraphblas & https://github.com/RedisGraph/RedisGraph/
I used to write many text files in my youth. I also had many for download on my BBS.

Some of the larger zines (like Phrack) still exist, but only release new ones every few years. Back in the day (90's) it was every month!
>There is literally nothing stopping anyone from doing that.

Other than the fact that it's a serious felony.

Additionally how are voter ID laws going to change this? It already requires some level of cooperation by the kid in that they don't show up and vote themselves.

If you're talking about absentee ballots, whatever you're using to identify the kid, the parents likely have access to--copy of id, birth certificate etc... So voter ID isn't going to stop this either.

>But coordination attacks are not the only thing that matters.

Coordination of some kind is required to change the results of an election. If even a few thousand random parents around the country decide to risk jail time to vote for their kid, it isn't going to impact the results of the election, so hardening against this kind of attack is a very low priority. Particularly when there's no cost effective means to stop it.
Can you call it "your data" if it is not being stored on your hard drive?
This is undoubtedly true. My point is, if you don't build, you can't do any of what you are laying out. My point isn't that you should recreate Instagram, but that these kind of apps and apps like it are not difficult. Virality is worth more than you think, and figuring out how to make 80k a year is much easier than trying to make a unicorn.

It took Twitter 10 years to increase the message size. It's not hard to incrementally do that as a single founder, you can probably make changes like it in a single night, and you can probably do that with a lot more ease than if yo've got a team and expectations.
> I've lost all respect for people who operate as the middleman between the development team and the business side, mostly because when it comes down to choosing a side, they'll side with the business, and play their politics game.

Don't let this stereotype poison your career. Not everyone is like that, but if you assume they are, they likely will be. Relationships are so key.
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60GHz is covered in IEEE 802.11a - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ad
On the Prospect of a Depression
I currently use Golang (Google Language) + Svelte (React killer framework)
Implementing a Moderation Enforcement Framework
The consequences are supposed to be inflation. Instead, we seem to only get asset inflation (houses, stocks) and not consumer goods inflation (flour). From a former econ prof who I spoke to recently: the central bankers aren't thinking about inequality or inflation right now, they're just trying to avoid the apocalypse.

The liquidity injected is supposed to be taken out later, thus removing the inflationary distortion. Whether it will or not is anyone's guess. 2008's injections have yet to be taken out.

Central banks are easier creditors because, while autonomous, they are the same country as the government! So it's technically like owing yourself money. A central bank that cooperates with the debtor country (itself) would never force a default, and is thus never an acute problem. Of course, infinite money printing should lead to dangerous inflation.
I worked in a company that had at least 100 repos, often with interdependencies, and was managing it well using svn.

Then we migrated to Git, which doesn't have a good equivalent to svn's externals, and things kind of went to heck for a while. We eventually hacked together an in-house system that brought back some of what we were missing, but it never worked as smoothly as svn externals did.

I was originally one of the advocates of moving to Git. Hindsight being 20/20, after the dust settled I realized we would have been fine staying on svn, anyway. With such a high number of individual repositories, blocking on each other and nasty merge conflicts were rarely a problem in practice because we had over 100 swim lanes clearly marked in the pool. Lots more swim lanes than we had developers.

FWIW, one team dealt with it by migrating just their stuff to their own monorepo, and I wasn't too impressed by that outcome, either. They started seeing an outsize rate of technical debt accumulation as things that previously were easier to keep well modularized started naturally getting more tangled together. I realize that is a problem that can easily be managed with just a little effort. But, like every other dev problem that can easily be managed with just a little effort, it wasn't.
Maybe the workflow could be reversed. First let the workers put the product wherever they feel like; then get the information into the application. From user perspective, the easiest way would be to take a photo of the shelf using their smartphone. (Either the worker is required to take the photo after putting a product on the shelf, or you would have another worker periodically walking through the shop, making photos. I assume the products do not change their places often.) The picture would be analyzed, possibly additional questions asked. The image recognition could be helped by a database that would know which products are typically placed next to which ones.

Okay, I assume the client's next question would be: "Why does it take 10 years and 10 million dollars?"
Unless the PM is going to write the entire feature themselves, check-in perms aren't going to do much.
Einstein's (summarized) quote, "Time is a persistent illusion"
German minister set to introduce permanent 'right to work from home'
I don't disagree and wouldn't do this myself