skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Either way he righted a wrong. His outcome was to stop a media service from releasing non-important but damaging information and Gawker's was to exploit private information illegally obtained for profit.

It's a better way to spend money than on a boat.
There sure are a lot of people with very little experience with drugs sounding off here. Downplaying the power of amphetamines. hrm.
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I don't understand how a free speech absolutist supports a copyright-based retribution approach. "Absolutist" may not mean what you think it means.
Very clever, young man; it's simulations all the way down.
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Intel and AMD are market leaders in raw price/performance. They drop mad money on custom designs at cutting-edge nodes to do it, too. The Cavium chips might be custom but probably standard cell. Cost way less. Further, you get 16 RISC cores with no x86 baggage, they run Linux, PCI form factor, and low power. Onboard are usually accelerators for TCP/IP, compression, encryption, and so on that run in Gbps that your processor cores don't have to handle. The CPU cores themselves run pretty fast.

The hybrid seemed like one of the best designs. Probably why AMD started copying it with their semi-custom business followed by Intel. But those are still full-on x86 processors with all kinds of circuits you probably don't need plus maybe some backdoors for AMT, etc. Cavium's design is much more interesting and maybe safer. I've mainly encouraged people to clone it with RISC-V cores rather than straight-up buy them. ;)

The newer ones are pretty impressive in performance and accelerators, though:

https://www.cavium.com/OCTEON-III_CN7XXX.html
Firing seems like a toxic move, especially without knowing what happened. I'd like to think that Amazon has multiple layers of alerts built into place for situations like this, so this was probably a complex bug (perhaps a perfect storm of faulty configurations like what happened with Google's Cloud offering not too long ago).

I'd say that number is probably a ceiling on their losses, and that the actual number should be much lower. I'm super curious if non-tech news organizations will pick up this story, in which case the biggest hit could be from the PR. That being said, it doesn't seem like such a bad time to go down.
1. What does a person's sexuality have ANYTHING AT ALL to do with VC funding? It blows my mind how much people care about who someone else is screwing!!! That's a private thing. Keep it at home.

2. If Thiel wanted anyone to know, it is his privilege to do so. It doesn't matter that it was not offensive to further_tech. Do you think it MAY have been offensive to Thiel?
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Great work on this. We're actually moving in a similar direction at Serverless with full Cloudformation support in our current development branch for all the reasons you listed. Would love to chat sometime, email is in my account page.
>Microsoft's video games revenue has been climbing steadily since the Minecraft acquisition, and it increased by $367 million in the 2015 financial year "mainly due to sales of Minecraft."

Is that really a lot? How much more do they need to sell to get their money back from what they spent to buy Minecraft in the first place?
So why is Musk better qualified to talk about this than every stoner high school kid who read the first few pages of Descartes, saw the Matrix or simply used their imagination when playing a SimCity style video game?
You'll have to talk to the/a Simulator. Hopefully they've simulated a nice afterlife for us.
I'd guess the same. The new company is a GmbH (German version of a "Ltd." AFAIK), not a stock corporation. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesellschaft_mit_beschränkter_...
Interesting. In my mid-sized town, the local, independent taxi firm has all of them. The app, text messaging when you book, when the driver is on his way, when he's at your front door along with the make, colour and license plate of the car, etc etc.
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Read the article:

To get rid of everything, you can press the “More” button, select “Delete options” and then “Advanced” and click through.
> In Docker that's called a Dockerfile. It does exactly what you describe.

Actually it does not, as SMF is part of the fault management architecture, which is part of the Solaris self-healing technology: unlike the Docker file, SMF will watch over services and restart them if necessary, if configuration files are specified as dependencies and they change, SMF will call the service's refresh method. Docker is just a delivery mechanism, whereas SMF is part of something bigger and far more powerful. SMF ties into FMA, which actually watches over not just software, but hardware down to the individual chips in the memory slots (when not running on virtual hardware). Even on zones, SMF provides the benefit of uniform diagnostics. Docker isn't designed for any of that, which is why he had to hack on the microservice setup.

> fmadm
Usage: fmadm [-P prog] [-q] [cmd [args ... ]]

fmadm config - display fault manager configuration
fmadm faulty [-afgiprsv] [-u <uuid>] [-n <max_fault>] - display list of faulty resources
fmadm flush <fmri> ... - flush cached state for resource
fmadm load <path> - load specified fault manager module
fmadm repaired <fmri>|label> - notify fault manager that resource has been repaired
fmadm acquit <fmri> [<uuid>] | label [<uuid>] | <uuid> - acquit resource or acquit case
fmadm replaced <fmri>|label - notify fault manager that resource has been replaced
fmadm reset [-s serd] <module> - reset module or sub-component
fmadm rotate <logname> - rotate log file
fmadm unload <module> - unload specified fault manager module

That up there is science fiction in Docker. As is something like this:

> svcs -xv bacula
svc:/site/bacula:sd (Bacula storage daemon)
State: online since Sat Apr 23 06:54:00 2016
See: man -M /opt/abcd/share/man -s 1M bacula-sd
See: /var/svc/log/site-bacula:sd.log
Impact: None.

svc:/site/bacula:fd (Bacula file daemon configuration)
State: online since Sat Apr 23 06:54:00 2016
See: man -M /opt/abcd/share/man -s 1M bacula-fd
See: /var/svc/log/site-bacula:fd.log
Impact: None.

svc:/site/bacula:dir (Bacula host specific configuration)
State: online since Sat Apr 23 06:54:00 2016
See: man -M /opt/abcd/share/man -s 1M bacula-dir
See: /var/svc/log/site-bacula:dir.log
Impact: None.

> The fully functional containers you've described have been available for Linux for years before SmartOS was first released, first as OpenVZ and then as LXC.

Actually no, since the "containers" are zones in SmartOS, and I've been using zones since 2006, when they first came out in Solaris 10 update 2. This was before OpenVZ and LXC.

Zones gave me virtual UNIX servers. Solaris containers gave me caps on those servers. Both came in one package back in 2006. SmartOS, being a freeware open source Solaris derivative leverages all that technology, plus a whole bunch more which neither Solaris nor GNU/Linux nor Docker have. Designed for exactly what the author of the original article was trying to hack up together, minus all the hacking.
^ fact.

again the amount of ignorance to drugs displayed in this thread is frightening. people who have only used amphetamines for less than 10 years, or drugs at all, telling us all about them. facepalm.
One metric I'd be interested in, if it could be objectively measured, is rate of technical progress in private vs. government efforts, and, total $ spent by both enterprises.

Intuitively, I would say it is much faster in private industry, however, it is also more dispersed and not coordinated.
Yes!

;-)
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True. And if that's the case, it becomes a bit like wondering why people wear more clothing to keep warm rather than just trusting their bodies' natural defense against the elements---given that their ancestors clearly got by for thousands of years with just their skin and a maybe few scraps of cloth or animal hide if the going got REALLY tough, who needs down-lined jackets?
Not in the government.
I once caused a 60 minute outage at Amazon and the next day my manager and my skip both begged me not to blame myself and freak out and quit.

Mistakes happen. Sometimes they are really expensive.
Can't companies and products simply hit a natural limit? There are inherent limitations to any given "thing" and perhaps Twitter has found its own terminal velocity.
Do the targets of the NSLs now have standing to file suits?
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This is a funny joke.
The US has 4 major cellular carriers--AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon. Most of the EU has just three carriers.
10 Hackers Who Made History (2011). Has anything changed since then?
"How Sleep Clears the Brain" (literally, actual "stuff" is removed)

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-sle...
> I'm saying that artists can be trusted to understand their own situation and act in their own interest

I'm saying this indeed is wrong in 90% of the cases because the big media companies are intentionally deceptive, and control the message that the artists are getting. Try reading a bunch of blogs of musicians getting fed up by the companies - they're easy to find, and most of yet stories are very similar. They're promised everything and get nothing.

> possibly with the help of lawyers or organisations that support them.

I'm saying this is a necessity with independent organizations that actually care about the individuals, because right now they don't have that kind of support.
I agree with most of this, but it should be noted that $16/hour as 1099 income is not at all the same thing as $16/hour as a regular W2 employee. A rough equivalent would be about $11/hour. I think that's high still, as there are costs other than maintenance...like gasoline.
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It exists today in steel pipe mills in the US, where the noise is such it is impossible to hear a voice -- even shouted -- from further than a foot away. Radios are similarly useless due to background noise, so a catalog of hand gestures are used to communicate across the factory floor. It is almost impossible to communicate the wall of sound in one of these factories with words.

On a side note, I would be curious to learn if this improvised sign language is consistent between mills, or regions.)

In these same pipe mills I saw another curious method of communication which the employees referred to as "Mexican radio". (This was in south Texas where the preponderance of employees were Latino). The worker at one end of a 40-50 foot long pipe would put his ear to the end of the open pipe, and the worker at the other end would yell into the pipe. It worked surprisingly well (frankly better than yelling from a foot away into open air) but the safety officers weren't too keen on the idea as it put soft body parts (faces and ears) next to potentially razor-sharp pipe ends. Hand gestures were preferred and crossed any English/Spanish language barriers as well.
The "Simulation Argument" by Nick Bostrom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnl6nY8YKHs

Even if it is true, it changes nothing. Since this is the world we have to deal with and there is no indication we can influence the (supposed) simulation. If our world/universe is a simulation, it is simply too good.

I also recommend to read "The Big Picture" by Sean Carrol, chapter 11 "Is It Okay to Doubt Everything?" deals with these kinds of thought experiments (including Bostrom).

The 2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate was about "Is the Universe a Simulation?":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgSZA3NPpBs
vi master race! shakes fist
If it turns out she has defrauded investors/customers by spending their money on conventional testing rather than developing new technology, then it is a matter for concern even if she "only" gets away with a few mil. But that's for the courts.
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This happens a lot with Musk, through no fault of his own. For example, on The Late Show, he talks about terraforming Mars with nukes, which has certainly been on the Wikipedia page of the subject for a long time, but many articles reported on it like he came up with the idea himself, when he never claimed anything of the sort.
The same could be said about any media company.

He did not "righted a wrong". This was a vicious "eye for an eye".
Sacrifice a goat to appease the simulators. When you die, they'll transfer your consciousness to a robot outside the simulation.

Serious question: any practiced religions that are built around that sort of idea?
I forgot to specify - How do I transfer my consciousness out of the simulation, without dying?
What French or non-American companies are they hitting for over a billion dollars? So far, we have Google (U.S.) and McDonalds (U.S.). In the past, Europe pulled same stuff on Microsoft but I don't remember if it was E.U. or what country.
So, news companies (owned by rich people) which have been able to print untrue or private things with impunity are mad because someone richer than them decided to retaliate. Rich people mad at richer people for threatening their power.

This is basically why I find most money in politics stories to be laughable since these publishers sure spend a lot of money on ink.

Reuters is just mad they might actually step on the wrong person and be held accountable.
The article wasn't clear. Does this prevent Apple from selling used (refurbished) iPhone period or can they sell them if they also sell new ones?
What he's really saying is, "I'm taking an extreme materialist view of the mind in order to grab headlines in a time when AI is becoming hot, which will further my access to human resources." Elon Musk does not really think that we are in a simulation. He's not saving the world. He's not trying to help humanity escape earth and colonize Mars. I think we've had enough of this. He's playing a massive chess game against other billionaires, and he's playing it extremely well, having amassed millions of intelligent, talented tech followers in the process who are willing to work for him in exchange for prestige and a lower salary, thereby helping him reach his goal of beating Bill Gates / Warren Buffet / etc.
I'd speculate that access() was inadvertently left open before, Apple subsequently sandboxed it, this broke Blizzard, and Apple put in an exemption for them to avoid breaking millions of people's games.

But that's a complete guess.
Certainly they can. The issue is that the stockholders had previously believed that this limit was much much higher. They also, to some degree, still believe that (And maybe they are right. Maybe not. It's hard to say!). So if you are the management team at twitter and your stockholders think you could be doing better you are at constant risk of getting fired.
I am always impressed the building standards and systems in Germany.

I had a look at these doors as I was intruiged and beguiled by them. They always felt substantial and well-engineered to me. I found that one typically buys a 'door set' which includes a frame and door which have been made to work, lock, seal etc together. You can then fix the door set into your building. In the UK this is not typically the case, I don't know about the states or elsewhere.

The systems for tiling are also wonderful and exported throughout the world (see Schluter). There is a trend of concealing toilet cisterns by companies such as Gerberit, although I hear these aren't as reliable as the doors. I'm still on the lookout for more of these systems (I can see there's a standard for residential electric circuit breakers, I haven't got to the bottom of those yet). I love how well thought-out they are.
He makes it clear he's speaking of an advanced intelligence as he explains how soon (relatively speaking) we'll be creating such simulations.
In our case, we use queues in ha-mode:all and queue ownership isn't as much of an issue there. Our biggest limiter for some of our workloads is actually message size, not velocity. That may change in the future.

You're absolutely correct re load balancing for high-performance/ceilings/etc. It's not a huge issue for our use, but I can how it can be for others. In my previous environment, for example, it was absolutely critical.

I'm sure this tool isn't for everyone, for us it was about making cluster startup easier and letting RabbitMQ handle that instead of a configuration management system like Chef/etc.

For example, our test environment is torn down every night on an autoscaling schedule and rebuilt in the morning. Not having to worry about config management for starting up a new RabbitMQ cluster on demand is a nice feature. :)

Thanks for pointing out the clear (and accurate) concerns one must consider when running RabbitMQ @ scale. It sounds your experiences are similar to my own with where the gotchas can be.
Not only are they losing money, they're giving customers who otherwise never would, motivation to seek out competition they might not come back from.
"Is there a flaw in the argument?" - I don't see a flaw because I can't see any argument in the first place.

How is the (let's say, quite likely) hypothesis that eventually we're going to create VR that's ingistinguishable from actual reality supposed to logically lead to the notion that there's a billion to one chance we're living in VR right now?

It feels like something along the lines of the "???? PROFIT!!!!" meme (originated from a South Park episode). Clearly a crucial step is missing
And I'm sitting here being forced to pay for Professional Indemnity insurance.
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> "DAX is also working in modern kernels, and it was a relatively trivial job to implement DAX."

What is DAX? Is that like an execute-in-place feature that means we don't need paging to execute code?

If so, is this feature generally useful for all QEmu use cases?
I wish that I could just come to the full-throated defense of MIT's publications, but I think we all know how press offices can be, and that doesn't reflect on the researchers or academics IMO.
The fact that Gawker sucks is not a matter of debate, and it was not the topic of the article.

The fact that you, without irony, see fit to compare Thiel's actions to those of the EFF proves the relevance of the article.
Turn off Voice & Audio Activity,

https://www.google.com/settings/accounthistory/audio

> When Voice & Audio Activity is off, voice searches will be stored using anonymous identifiers. This information won't be saved to your Google Account even if you're signed in.

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/6030020
I used to work in problem management at a big company. The answer is no unless it was deliberate.
Not exactly.

If the company is hoarding cash, distributing dividends usually increases the stock price, since cash value is not included in the stock price. This is actually very important to understand, cash DOES NOT change a company's valuation (there are some exceptions and edge cases).

And corporate cash is usually invested in low-risk, liquid securities, which return far less than the average cost of capital for the company.

In other words, shareholders will be happier with the cash in their hands than in the company's bank account.
hey at least Marissa Mayer has experience and isn't an unrepentant fraud
Computing technology is developing rapidly, which he cites as the reason it is likely we are simulated. However, if we are in a simulation, the laws of physics are likely different from those in "base reality." Moore's law in the sim would have no basis in underlying reality. The sim creator may have tuned the laws of physics to make it easy to develop microprocessors, when in base reality it is difficult. So I don't think his argument is valid at all.
You really think he's motivated by greed?
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> he's paying it extremely well

heh.
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Or have 2 cars (or god forbid, more if your kids drive) and include a few thousand mile trips here and there and it isn't very hard to get there.
It's very exciting, but as these therapies become more successful, we're going to have to tackle the adverse reactions both acute, and chronic. Granted, you're surviving cancer so that's not the primary concern, but it will be a concern.
Bias can exert itself in subtle ways. Merely the knowledge that the big boss has a stake in this area is enough to bias reporting on it, the big boss doesn't have to get involved personally or even have the slightest potential of doing so.
There is no good reason for an introductory computer architecture class to make its assignments due at 6am

"It needs to be turned in by the earliest time I might feel like starting work in the morning."
If you're sleep deprived you need to check the privileges around you. :)
they say they lose 1% of revenue from every extra 100ms of page load time, how much do you think they would lose from 4 hours of downtime?