skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The more we remove privacy by tech the less we lose it by law

On its face, that seems like a false dichotomy. Can you expand?

Generally, I see the erosion of our right against unreasonable search and seizure to be something that hurts everyone (regardless of an individual's ability to make fewer searchable spaces).
The study shows natural immunity with a single dose is the most effective. I have little faith in a vaccine that can't be trusted to mitigate a controlled infection. What would be the point of the vaccine if it only "might" help prevent infection? Otherwise, if it is only effective %5 of the time but has nasty side effects 1% of the time, then you're taking a much bigger risk don't you think?
Another classic from the snake oil pushers - trying to deflect criticism by painting it as personal offense. I don't know you and said nothing about you outside of what you just posted here. I met a lot of consultants pushing the stuff like you and I'm talking about that stuff that they and you push and how they and you do it.
Anyone can create IP. It's not something only the wealthy can do.
If you tell people they're missing out on valuable information and they understand the implications, I'm sure they'll start caring.

BRB gonna stare at the sky and check that the stars are still moving as expected :p
I think you could find someone through a smart contract discussion chat room.

Discord most of the time is good for this. Maybe Reddit too.
We have to be. A little distraction let's you look at the code with fresh eyes — or so I say.
one could argue that in the long term book buying consumers are protected from a monopoly that would probably appear
I wonder if a midpoint for this sort of work would be if a major distro or several declared they would move to GIL-free Python?

System python at least is generally only recommended to be used for system libs, and that's a relatively supportable set. Developers use virtualenv's and their own specific interpreter, but it would certainly move the needle on what language people were by default scripting and thinking in.
Money is largely controlled by a small group of investors and central banks. [citation needed]
Am I being cynical in that you could have simply replaced swcpack with “webpack” 6 years ago and it would have made perfect sense? Feels like we have been here before…
Does this account for the total number of any given profession? Otherwise we’ll always see professions that are just highly represented in the general population.
Solar Power May Be the Next Victim of China’s Coal Shortage
so wait for new job
Sci-Fi Icon Neal Stephenson Finally Takes on Global Warming
This might benefit me personally, but not many others. The library here is pretty much unused, existing books are very out of date and we don't have the shelf space for more without removing the older ones. Even if we do that, nobody uses it, so it becomes cyclical.

The core problem is ease of access. With loaning out a book there's anxiety with what happens if you damage or lose it, as there's so much stuff that slips through the cracks with the constant diverse requirements of university work.

My peers also will not be bothered to go through the effort, because it would be most likely a loan that comes from another uni so they'd have to specifically know the title, request it, wait for it to show up, etc.
I know a SWE (not you) married to a former dairy-farmer who now does QC for a production line. Is that close enough?
So is skillful language use. We nonetheless think it is achievable without using wetware.
> the ecosystem is still dominated by a concentration of key players, making the ecosystem susceptible to systemic risk like a 51 percent attack, where a group of miners could take control of the majority of the network.

Never mind that doing so would destroy the value of the cap/opex invested.

But yea... bitcoin is dead, again.
While at the company, we were busy trying to solve problems during a critical period. The criticism has been fierce for Facebook - but make no mistake, our teams made enormous difference within the company, and the world would look very different than it does today without the work of integrity workers within the company. This continues to be true to this day.

Coming out publicly over the years has done very little. Even now, with all the attention, it is questionable what will actually change. We are much less interested in virtue signaling, taking the high ground, etc. than working with folks who are interested to carve a path forward. We are dedicating our lives to this work to find solutions over the long-term, whether it is in the spotlight, or not.
Per jrockway's cool videos he posted in another comment, it's likely a bead of nickel or iron, mentioned at this timestamp:

https://youtu.be/0xD7SvtPAMM?t=389
The difference is that traditional money is up front about that fact and doesn't use decentralization as a selling point.
Will then be mandating slow shopping next?
Very often unpaid
I'm a little confused to be reading comments where people are nostalgic for that. I feel like I always have to remind people that the web was horrible back then. All I remember from that era is that everyone used Myspace, which allowed you to load arbitrary Javascript and CSS into your profile page. When you visited a new person's page, it was a crap shoot as to whether or not it would slow your browser to a crawl because of all the auto playing videos and javascript animations. And also it seems to have allowed any number of XSS attacks. So maybe the code was "unique" but it was all unified in its singular purpose to annoy you and crash your browser and get your account hacked.

If you consider Myspace to be the apogee of that internet generation then you could say Facebook was the product that killed it off completely, which now seems to bring its own hell of annoyances, security issues, and autoplaying videos. Maybe not much has really changed after all?
I'd say modern science is concerned with selling something while science is the discovery of what currently exists.
Thanks for the therapeutic insight stranger.

I guess enabling a bad thing is not a crime and never has been. First they sugared up our drinks and food, now they are sugaring-up our day-to-day.

Maybe I am just cranky.

Time to start the #IEatFirst campaign - Pictures of partially eaten food only!
Isn’t that nepotism?
Regrettably I hit refresh, but one word it said did not exist was "geochronology"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geochronology
If 99.8% of people can have all their information sized by law enforcement then law enforcement won't see the point of a costly political battle to overturn the 4th amendment.

Much like advertising those of us tech savvy enough to install add blockers are subsidized by those who don't.
My wife tells me: I love how when you listen to music you only listen to the music created by you.

So yes, it’s true, I’m my own audience of one. And I like it that way.
Agreement or disagreement - my point is each company does both good and bad. What people choose to see is somewhat colored by your previous position/bias just like everyone else. Will be the devil's advocate here.

Microsoft advanced personal computing for the majority especially outside the US where Apple pretty much was non-existent for a long time. I would argue through its life Microsoft has advanced personal computing more than most of the other tech firms. Growing up every office, every PC, every time I tried to code mostly it was on an IBM-compatible machine. Apple for a very long time wasn't very competitive IMO from a product perspective, and I think recent developments are overhyped compared to some of the big innovations of the 80's, 90's (i.e. Windows 95 was big, moving from Windows XP to Mac OS is a lot less so IMO). In fact on an Apple machine most people are just doing what they did previously on their Windows machines - just needing more power to do so (surfing the internet, office productivity, etc).

I'm glad that Apple are trying another CPU, just like I'm glad AMD do and Intel did in the long distant past. Competitiveness, not culture is what drives companies to do this. But w.r.t development/coding they aren't the leader, and their walled garden doesn't personally make their dev tech stack endearing. I don't agree they are the fastest all the time (even with the M1), and I personally don't like MacOS despite being forced to use it for work daily for many years. I see the M1 somewhat as a TSMC victory and their 5nm process + Apple wanting total control to differentiate/move away from a competitive PC market to a monopoly like one. At least Microsoft wanted/encouraged PC competition and didn't charge that much for Windows on top even back in the 90's/2000's.

For a long time you could get PC's that were faster for cheaper than Mac's. While Apple's approach to vertical integration has an advantage short term w.r.t efficiency its definitely allows an "embrace and extinguish" strategy - long term having hardware as interoperable commodity (CPU, GPU, etc) is better for competitive priced computing IMO. As a buyer more suppliers means a more competitive market - vertical integration is something most companies would love to pull off as it product differentiates and creates economic margins. Apple is the worst on this aspect. They aren't an open platform and the only thing capping their price and forcing them to improve is because they are still the underdog market share wise and they want to beat the PC market. Not a fan of the Apple ecosystem lock in but that's just me, its worse than Android/Google.

Obviously they all have bad points but that's my point. All these companies have their good and bad sides. I just feel the hate Microsoft gets a lot more hate vs other tech companies. Especially given recent changes, is a bit over the top.
"many South Koreans" might include the creators but I would prefer if they could find a tweet or a Korean interview with the creators to actually be sure.
Frank Herbert on Environmentalism
I wonder if this project is what Carl's friend Aaron Swartz was working on that he got prosecuted for until he committed suicide.
This would be more useful if happiness factored in somehow.

For instance, are software devs happy with other software devs? I could imagine getting a bit tired of knowing the other person too well and blending work and home life too much. Like, maybe you want to go on a vacation without thinking about programming, but would that really be possible?
What if you were drafted, served in a war overseas and came back with severe PTSD? For my parents generation that was a real thing that caused a lot of divorces.
Amazon pays tons of sales tax.
> Never mind that doing so would destroy the value of the cap/opex invested.

"Bitcoin is centralized, but that's OK because the central authorities can be trusted to do the right thing" isn't exactly a compelling argument. Especially when decentralization is supposed to be one of Bitcoin's major selling points.
I think you're right on target with the multi-tenant SAAS services. They often suffer from the "long-tail" problem, where the tiny customers without much usage cost too much to host. And of course, that's one of the big problems the CockroachDB Serverless architecture solves.

There's no technical reason why CockroachDB Serverless couldn't support that scenario - it's more of a product/business/sales question. I think we'd be very open to talking with companies that have that kind of problem to solve.
But average users are clearly aware of many high profile iPhone features that inherently involve Apple “remotely accessing the device,” assuming you're include all cases where the iPhone software can be configured to send data from the device to Apple servers. That’s what all iCloud services explicitly do.
The singer of the Rolling Stones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Jagger
I’m presuming that Apple wants to scan for CSAM, which I think they do. Personally, I’m also in favor of tightly-regulated scanning for CSAM.

The fact that they don’t support E2EE, despite their strong pro-privacy stance, supports my presumption. So it comes back to the same argument: presuming Apple is going to scan cloud images for CSAM (which, again, all other major provides already do, to my knowledge), then it’s just a question of how.

For someone like me, who believes scanning for CSAM is worthwhile, Apple’s solution is far superior and privacy-preserving compared to, say, Microsoft’s.

I think this argument really comes down to “no scanning at all” vs. “carefully applied scanning,” but that’s not how it’s framed by the people objecting. I think it’s because that’s an argument they’re not likely to win. And so, if they “win,” I think we’ll just end up with cheap and dumb server-side scanning, which would take a whole lot less effort and political trouble for Apple… and ironically, be much easier to subvert in the ways people against CSS worry about.
As a massive fan of the book and someone who enjoyed the film and think it was excellent, my reservations about it boil down to the fact that Denis' directing style feels somewhat restrained compared to his previous films. My impression watching it for the first time was that the film was very fast-paced and as a result felt as though it was glossing over the lore. I chalk this up to the fact that the film has a LOT of narrative ground to cover, and even at 2.5 hours long the film could've still run for much longer.

In my estimation what we end up missing as a result of this economy in storytelling is the feeling of "living" in the scene. There are few, if any, opportunities for the film to slow down and allow the viewer to immerse themselves in the gravity of each scene. What's missing is the opportunity for the viewer to reflect upon the information they are receiving and to figure things out as the characters are figuring them out, or before they do. There is little in the way of quiet moments that allow the viewer to process and come to certain realizations themselves. Unfortunately this is not a luxury that this movie is able to provide without making for a very long film.

That said, I still love it.
65 leaves a lot of life for a guy with the money to get the best health care.
That...isn't what I thought "Classics" meant.

Like, I know someone who got a degree in Classics and the core curriculum seems to be reading and translating Greek + Latin + a modern language, either French, German, Italian, or modern Greek.

Example course:

"Roman Invective and Verbal Abuse

An exploration of the world of Roman verbal assault. Readings in Latin will range from inscriptions on sling bullets and walls, to scurrilous pamphlets, to formal full-blown invective speeches. We will investigate especially how themes within Roman invective reveal broader cultural values."

"The Roman Novel

Students will read substantial portions of the two surviving Roman novels, Petronius’ Satyricon and Apuleius’s Metamorphoses (or Asinus Aureus). In addition to improving reading speed and ability, the class will introduce the genre of the ancient novel. Students will be assigned secondary readings relating to the novels and will be expected not only to translate, but also to give oral reports on assigned topics and provide commentary on designated sections of the text."

You also concentrate in literature, archeology, or history.
I want to emphasize the fully part of fully parallelized with this.

It's very common to multi-thread something across three threads for example.

But something that is perfectly parallelized across all your threads, or at least 8 or more, that's actually something I almost never see in end user devices.

And yeah, ultimately having 4 "big" cores that are as fast as possible matters for those use cases that are threaded across a limited number of cores.
Even with people keeping their relationships secret, I doubt SS numbers are that high in the software industry.
You've picked two films by a single Korean director who is outspoken about his views, which his hardly a good way to show it's a recurring theme across the media in general.

I could pick Atlanta and The Wire and say American media is commonly critical of police. Or turn around and pick CSI and Law & Order and say that American media is commonly supportive of police. It hardly says something about the overall landscape. And thats even picking shows with different directors!
It's a bad thing from the secretary's point of view if a) she consents to the advances and b) successfully leverages that into a marriage with far greater benefits for her and her offspring.

Needless to say, those are pretty big ifs.
Yes, but the distinction between "stores private data E2E encrypted on a secure server" and "uploads private data for Apple employees to review" is a bright line. Informed consent means we can't extrapolate from one to the other, if we pretend to be ethical.

It's not as if Apple's marketing doesn't heavily emphasize the "private", "E2E encrypted" aspects already.
See my peer reply to mdekkers.
I would be interested in seeing how different branding terms evolve in the literature; e.g., "machine learning" vs "artificial intelligence" vs "neural net" or "surrogate model" vs "digital twin" vs "response surface". There a number of terms of art that have substantial overlap, but which term ends up being used depends on the audience, which often includes grant providers. I suspect the popularity of these terms evolves according to what terms appeal the most to funding agencies.
How do physical books not depend on copyright? The author still needs to get paid, and printing is fairly cheap.
Your examples aren't equivalent. You're comparing the failure of a prototype or proof-of-concept under stress to the failure of production models under expected conditions.

The real risk you're incurring by deploying a prototype to production until traction is demonstrated and scaling becomes an issue is that deferring the design of the 'real' system risks succumbing to second-system syndrome and prematurely trying to make it a 'platform'.

Roughly, the first version just has to work, the second has to scale, and the third (assuming you get there that soon) is the one that starts needing to be refactored/generalized into various reusable subsystems.
Since 1990, when the number of people living in extreme poverty peaked at 1.9 billion, we have been on the steady march towards eradicating extreme poverty. Despite the fact that there are almost 6 billion more people alive today than at the turn of last century, the number of people living in extreme poverty has reduced from 1.3 billion to 730 million [1]. Despite its flaws, the Green revolution and the modern system of agriculture has saved billions of people from starvation.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty#the-number-of-peo...
So right now in California, there is a huge gap between what ebikes are capable of, and what is considered a motorized scooter/motorcycle. It's starting to cause issues on roads and trails and will need to be addressed ASAP.

Links below, but basically, it's trivial to build or buy an electric bike that will hit 40mph, 50mph, or more, and thousands of these bikes in all shapes and forms are already out there. Yet the law assume pedaled ebikes will top out at 28mph and then it addresses motorbikes and mopeds. With nothing in between.

So all these kids (and many adults) are out there riding Surrons going 40mph+ down main roads and dirt trails, pretending they're just class 3 ebikes that need neither a driver's license nor a motorcycle license. Kids end up getting mad at cops telling them they can't ride where they're riding, but the fact is there needs to be clearer guidelines for what is and isn't an ebike.

All that said, this a transformative area, mark my words. Imagine if Apple were to suddenly develop a range of smart ebikes that go up to 50mph and were linked into your health monitoring, etc. eTrikes for the huge number of retired Boomers and eBikes with knobby tires for the kiddos, and a mid range for the millennial commuter. All powered by the Apple eMotor™...

https://i1.wp.com/bikinginla.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/...

https://www.chp.ca.gov/programs-services/programs/california...
Well I learned something. But if you represent a list as a lift of strings wouldn’t it have to parse them as Argv in the c implementation? It has been a while but only 17 years since I wrote TCL commands but each one started with a list of strings. Maybe the byte code interpreter doesn’t work with older C extensions? But the main selling point of TCL was easy extension.
Indeed. This is my new strategy at the place I work, where I can't get acceptance of new interesting "a few years out there" ideas for our product line, but I can file for IP for such ideas. I'm actually encouraged to. It's a great outlet for the creative if you've got the organization to help out.
You didn’t.

And also, the whole reason Amazon named it that is because they are pledging to make the arena powered by renewable energy. You can certainly argue how significant that is, but it certainly doesn’t seem all that different from buying a park and naming it after climate change.
Apologies! I'd actually JUST added that (at about 2:30 in the morning). I'll remove it for now and do some testing. Didn't expect it would be intrusive on mobile - sorry!
Wikitravel and Wikivoyage articles are usually functionally identical. There are sometimes information that are in one and not the other, or vice versa.

However, when I look at actual edit history, wikivoyage seems indeed more active. So you got a point there.

I usually check both.
> It just removes the price out of the equation.

I too welcome our post-scarcity future :)
Ah that makes sense.

The high performance cores are very similar iirc, accounting for binning and density. But if Apple has upgraded just the efficiency cores this time around that makes sense.
Ask HN: How flaky are your builds?
For those who work on large monoliths with > 50 active developers

Maintaining master build success rate above 80% seems to be a big problem at this scale.

More processes and check help, but only to an extent, and have side effects.

I'm interested in hearing what percent of feature / master builds you run are flaky?

How does your build champions ensure that a failed build doesn't end up blocking several hundred developers?

Is it even possible to control the entropy at this scale, or futile effort?
I do tend to get carried away with tabs.. :)

I'm also generally working in Clojure/CIDER which eats tons of memory. The JVM just doesn't give back memory easily. I need to see if maybe there is some JVM setting I can set that would help. I even have issues with this on my 8GB daily-use laptop

Then you carelessly do something intensive, blow through your memory limit and the OOM-killer nukes your process
92% of them do per TFA[1]? Also my experience is that most professional musicians are not married to other professional musicians.

1: Well if you consider that teachers could be music teachers, that still puts an upper bound of 25% or so of all musicians marrying other musicians.
Thanks for letting me know. I've removed it on mobile.