skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So in gitlabs case, they have a load that they can monitor and predict. They are looking at 60+ processors, so they can plan to add 10% (6 procs at a time) and grow. They know their load, so the likely need to spin 150% of current capacity isn't something on their plan. I'll give you that there are companies that have erratic loads that are hard to predict, they make sense to place in something that can grow 100% on an email.

Big companies, most of their servers have a pretty stable load, it's unlikely things like internal email, Sharepoint, ERP/MAP systems will take a spike. It's only things like front end order processing that takes the hit.

There are lots of businesses that make sense and some that don't

I like the concept of "racing to the bottom" but they are still making money. But lets take your comment of the Value Added Services other than the ability to spin up capacity. What's the cost to Gitlab to pull this together and keep it running? There is an overflow every day on HN articles about operations monitors, containers, network monitoring. The tools are there, its an effort to glue them together, but then they are there.

So I'll still posit there is cases that the dollars to own are less than the dollars to rent. And I'll agree with your cases of rent because of capacity blowouts is key. The issue, is your ops team savvy enough to figure out what to keep/own, what to rent?
Even as Americans are getting their heads around fentanyl, it is being eclipsed. In September, the DEA issued a warning about the rise of a fentanyl variant that is 100 times more powerful – carfentanil, a drug used to tranquilise elephants.

Wait! Fentanly is 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine, but carfentanil is 100 times more potent than fentanyl, and folks are still taking it.

That's nuts, just freakign nuts.
That requires 110k$ and you can't just take money with that rate, it's margin. So you should have more than 110k$ to take some of that money and replace them with margin.
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I was confused by it too, although it captures many of my own sentiments very closely.

The way I tend to think of this is that the government's best role is to increase competition. Sometimes this means increased regulation, sometimes it means decreased regulation, depending on the market and situation. Sometimes the government should provide more services, sometimes it means it should exit.

My biggest concern about all of this is that the regulatory capture and rent-seeking solutions don't get applied equally--that the banner of libertarianism is used to prop up certain monopolies and tear down their competition.

So, for example, we have a concerted effort to tear down labor unions while maintaining or even expanding obscene "intellectual property" laws that do little but stifle free speech. It's for these reasons I have concerns about tearing down, as opposed to reforming, unions, which are often the last best defense against exploitation when the government doesn't act to protect its citizens. I have little sympathy for arguments that public school teachers earning 35k a year, with decent benefits, are somehow not worthy of that scant protection against the ultra-wealthy who want to hoard even more money through their own government protections. It's not only hypocritical, but morally bankrupt to argue that the humble public school teacher should somehow be stripped of all their protection, while the financial market should somehow be saved from the consequences of their reckless mistakes, or should be protected from competitors who "steal their ideas." Who is more of a crybaby? Or is it a psychopath?

Even in his examples, he uses architecture and law to illustrate problems with licensing systems, but omits discussion of medical licensing, which is arguably far more pernicious in terms of its societal costs because it has such wide-reaching scope (I'd argue the failed war on drugs, not to mention lack of access to health care services, are examples of the long reach of overly strict medical licensing). Note that you are legally entitled to represent yourself legally, but not to treat yourself as you see best. I find it troubling that he seems (perhaps unintentionally, or only by suggestion) to confuse accreditation, which are often systems set up by fields themselves, with actual legally enforced licensing regimes. I see nothing wrong with accreditation--it's a way for private citizens to certify themselves by third parties--but I do have problems with licensure, which mandate certain certification regimes.

Anyway, it's an interesting read. I wish there were more discussions around these issues, and about building up alternative systems and what they would look like.
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I see nothing there which indicates that he has written even a single line of code in the past 30 years.
This does depend a lot on geographical location. You're not going to get free racks in a major carrier exchange point in Manhattan, or downtown Seattle, or close to the urban core of San Francisco. There will definitely be a significant quantity discount, as you increase in numbers, and a lot of your cost will be power and not racks.

In somewhere that is very close (OSI layer 1) topologically to a major traffic interexchange point, you will definitely be paying somehow for the monthly cost of the square footage occupied. For example a colo in 60 Hudson or 25 Broadway in NYC, or in one Wilshire in LA.

Large-scale colocation pricing that is based on power only will be found in locations that are not also major traffic inter exchange points. For example quincy WA or the many data centers in suburban new jersey.
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Are you talking about server-rendered websites with NodeJS?
Draggable and editable tab component in website
I believe the downvotes are due to "+1" not adding anything to the conversation, as opposed to people disagreeing with the sentiment.
Would you be interested in traveling to Cuba to have that surgery performed inexpensively? I'm working on an agency to match US healthcare consumers with service providers in Cuba, Mexico, Canada, and Thailand who will provide the same service at a fraction of the cost with quality exceeding that available in the US (and am doing market research).

This is my way of hacking a lack of universal healthcare until the US gets its shit together.
Broker will sell your stocks to prevent it's losses.
Most ad blockers completely remove the elements, will little ill-effect.
Philosophy is trying to answer questions that do not have answers. Mathematics studies that which does not exist (in the real world).

Yet, they are both useful.
We need to tax obese people. And insurers need to be able to charge more (say double) and have much higher premiums for the fat and obese.
I don't know much about this stuff, but won't that stop working if they ever decide to expand to multiple geographical sites, to reduce latency to customers in different locations? In that case, different sites can receive requests for the same repositories, and ideally each site would be able to provide read only access without synchronization, with some smarts for maintaining caches, deciding which site should 'own' each file, etc. They could roll their own logic for that, but doesn't that pretty much exactly describe the job of a distributed filesystem? So they'd end up wanting Ceph anyway, so they may as well get experience with it now.
I'm a liberal with minor libertarian sympathies and I'll say that Fox News is bad, but I think it the average article on Fox is a far cry from what we're talking about with regard to fake news.

I can also point to cases where the NYTimes has reported quite badly (Judith Miller, for instance), but all the major players are in the business of more or less accurate reporting colored by various editorial biases.

That's in contrast to the things I see relatives sharing on Facebook where my first inclination is "time to go check snopes".
If you read The Enquirer, you know exactly what you're getting: Batboy and Elvis sightings. It's a less funny version of The Onion. Maybe it sells some ads, but no one with two brain cells to rub together thinks it's true. If your "friend" links to an article in the "Denver Guardian," you're not sure whether you're getting low-quality news that attempts to be true, lies pushing an agenda, or junk wrapped around ads to make a few dollars.
It's literally impossible to gain weight from drinking diet soda. It doesn't have food energy. It can't break thermodynamics. It can only be explained by other factors like people over compensating with other calorie consumption.
uBlock Origin can't even block twitch. very bad blocker.
I wish they weren't necessary. In an ideal world, advertisers would work to present me with relevant ads that aren't intrusive. How else will I learn about new products and services? But I can't take a chance on getting infected with malware, and the current practices are far too intrusive (which of 3 floating Javascript floating windows do I have to close first to read the content I came for, as they fight to be top-most?)
Kalman filters can get really complicated (EKF, UKF, adaptive, etc etc) and needs to be tuned with the correct covariances.

Complementary filters works well enough and is very simple to implement even if you're a noob (e.g., high pass on accelerometer and low pass on gyro).
We know for sure that obesity is bad. Tax fat people.
Why don't ad based agencies allow users to opt out at 2x whatever they would have earned from the ads?

Seems to benefit all involved, the content providers get the money, the users who are willing to pay a few $0.01 don't see ads, and the ad agency makes more money. Doubly so because the remaining ads will be worth more.
Nice! Under "Make it Lively" there is a typo, should be "Loading" not "Loadig"
> What I'm trying to say is that explicitly acknowledging and approving do not scale well.

Why do we need to scale? Many authors are self-hosting and self-publishing. I love reading, but I don't wan't my favourite content to be aggregated by some huge service which sells ads on-top of it indiscriminately.

I'm sure there are hosting services which will handle traffic spikes and charge accordingly.

I'm not advocating for no large services on the web. Obviously infrastructure-heavy services will be large (AWS, Google Search, Netflix, and so on). But two of those examples charge directly, and Google Search ads aren't particularly bad because they show up during a search and not on top of content that I want to read.
This [1] works well if you're behind NATs where you don't have control over port-forwarding settings, ie. Public HotSpots, etc.

[1] https://github.com/beameio/beame-insta-ssl
> Eating paleo sounds great, but remember that few of our ancestors expected to live past 30.

Life expectancy in pre-modern eras may have been around 30-ish years, but that mostly reflects extremely high levels of infant mortality. If you could reach adulthood, you usually expected to die around 50-60.
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To quote another post:

> generally sucks at the hardware level because most CPUs are register-based

Whoa, hold on there folks. This is not a CPU register VM. It's a 'register-based VM' and it isn't even that.

iconst 1 vs set t3, t1
iconst 2 set t4, t2
iadd add t3, t4, t5

t1 through t5 are allocated in the stack frame. They are NOT magically somehow mapped to x86_64 registers R8-12.

Actually, calling this a register-based VM is just wrong. It's lazy thinking but really it's just wrong. The value of t1 will be in memory.

Yes, it's standard terminology which easily lets people misunderstand what's happening under the hood, as in the above quoted case. The article doesn't even say virtual registers which would have helped. It could. It should. It doesn't.

BTW, a good interpreter will cache the top of stack in a CPU register.
As it turns out, very few software engineers can build sophisticated applications on top of KV stores.
'ghosting' happens because our world these days is way too litigious. Any type of rejection email or phone call could be used in a lawsuit against the company or recruiter.

People hate to be rejected for any reason and many just want the person/company rejecting them to suffer.

This isn't anything new. It's been happening for as long as I've been working (30+ years) and probably even before this.
Of course! It was either that or some public domain clone. The commander I remember using was black and white only. I vaguely remember using "dc" to launch it? Google doesn't find much.
I've been using win10 since it came out, despise it, never used the holographic blue lady.
They're pirates, and probably will kill you either way. Best to jump ship and hit em with some ads.
> As someone who has run large scale Ceph before (though not CephFS, thankfully), it's not easy to run at scale. We had a team of 5 software engineers as well as an Ops and Hardware team, and we had to do a lot to get it stable. It's not as easy as installing it and walking away.

Can you give some examples of the problems you ran into?
It does eliminate ads entirely when it can know with certainty it won't change the page layout.

I see it most with ads in paragraph breaks.
I too have built out several racks of SuperMicro twins.

I'm never buying another SuperMicro, for many reasons. The amount of cabling for properly redundant connections is a killer; it's at least three cables per system (five in our case); a rack will have hundreds of wires to manage. Access to the blade is in the back, where the cables are, and you have to think ahead and route things cleverly if you want be able to remove blades later.

The comment about doing something other than three 48-port switches is bang on. And if you're running Juniper hardware, avoid the temptation to make a Virtual Chassis (because it becomes a single point of failure, honest, and you will hate yourself when you have to do a firmware upgrade).

19KW is still a ton of power, and I'm surprised the datacenter isn't worried (none of the datacenters we use worldwide go much above 16KW usable). Also, you need to make sure you're on redundant circuits, and that things still work one of the power legs totally off. Make sure you know what kind of PDU you need (two-phase or three-phase), and that you load the phases equally.
"I'd divide the money equally to deomstrate that I care about my crew, and build trust"

Escorted by security from the building
I interpret the parenthetical as meaning the feedback they received sometimes contained the "non invasive" precision and other times it didn't and they're addressing both at once.

So my guess they would respond the same and you already their response.

To be brutally honest it is your point that I don't understand. What is the core issue being raised that wasn't addressed and why would it matter so much that it invalidate the whole thing.
so, enter an invalid command, then press and hold backspace.

kind of hilarious. wonder why that is..?
came here to say this.

But now I ask "How about a study on whether it incited behavior change in convicted?"
Not really. Microsoft has almost no ad business. Most of its ads are actually sold by AOL.

Are you complaining about actual paid advertisements, eg for beer, or the "suggestions" that you can turn off?
I think you're ignoring the fact that many times when you do something like that, you'll make much less than you put in. In order to make it desirable to do something risky, there has to be some payoff, otherwise you might as well just get a job with a guaranteed salary (this is oversimplifying, there are other benefits to starting your own thing, but I don't agree that economic benefit shouldn't be one of them if you want people to keep starting companies)
All of your data and IOPs could be handled by a single Pure Storage FlashBlade. This would significantly simplify almost everything about your system. (I'm an investor, but generally wouldn't point this out unless someone is seriously considering on premise deployment.)
> Being rude to customers and coworkers will get you fired.

Being fired because you're rude to customers or coworkers is obviously not a free-speech issue, that is a "disruption to the work environment" issue.

> Being in the news for being a huge dick outside of work, like the ESPN reporter was (she was caught on camera berating a clerk) will get you fired.

Once again, not a free-speech issue. If your job is to represent an organization as a professional public figure and you tarnish your public image by acting like a dick in public, that is clearly a situation where you cannot do your job effectively and so it makes sense that you might be fired.

> You MUST own up and take responsibility for your actions. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from responsibility and accountability.

That's an oft repeated platitude that doesn't really add much to the discussion because just about everyone agrees with that statement. If one's actions are causing a disruption at work or bad publicity for one's employer, it's natural that those actions might jeopardize one's job. What I'm talking about is calling for someone to be fired after they say things you disagree with as punishment for saying those things; the distinction between that and the former is that the employer's actions can be justified without taking into account whether or not the employer agrees with the employees speech, at the end of the day if you're bad for business the employer is not obligated to endure the burden of your choices, however, when individuals seek to get others fired because they dislike their speech or ideas, that is antithetical to the notion of free speech.
It was Communism, then War on Drugs, then Terrorism, all really well designed and extremely effective pr narratives.

I always wondered what would come next in the list, I think it might be "Fake News". It is a great PR concept - it is simple, fits in a hashtag, good for Twitter mud flinging, and also invokes powerful emotions: "External entities are brainwashing and controlling the citizens of my country".

What happened to the media and how propaganda worked during this election cycle is interesting to study. It will probably be digested and analyzed for years to come.

Mass media here has always been subservient to those in power, but it had to maintain this minimal facade of being "balanced" and "impartial". A lot of consumers didn't want to believe otherwise so it kind of worked out. But something happened, out of desperation or foolishness they have lifted the curtain too much. That was a fatal mistake. Too many people saw how the sausage was made, it became hard to ignore it. I am talking about telling people blatant lies and treating them like idiots, stuff like "these documents are illegal to read, it is different for the media, come to use for interpretation", "Wikileaks doctored all these emails", or "Russian hackers are hiding in the bushes in rural Wisconsin, with laptops and USB keys hacking voting machines" and so on.

Another way, to interpret the "Fake News" phenomenon is to think of a cornered rat. How it will start biting and attacking because it sees no way out. It thinks it is the end and it has nothing to lose. Perhaps "Fake News" is such a response from the media. It lost control and it is a way of lashing out.
It's a bait and switch. Left-leaning people will push for vague policies within Google, FaceBook, and Twitter to curtail fake news. These policies will be applied inconsistently, which is why they will be purposefully vague. Both fake news and ideologically-improper news that also happens to be true will be filtered.
How do most stack based VM represent instructions? When I went through a phase of writing VMs, the approach I used was to represent everything with a single byte. if a "push" byte was encountered, it would scan ahead 8 more instructions and construct an int. So it had the overhead of having to decode and encode actual data, but the instruction stream was very dense.

I imagine in the real world, they use something like

union instruction_packet {
int64 value;
int8[8] instructions;
}

Which would be less space efficient (when you hit a push instruction you'd need to move to the next packet, even if it was the first element of the array) but gets rid of the decoding/encoding problem.
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+1 - This book actually rekindled my love for gaming and reminded me of the passion for computers that contributed to me deciding to become a developer in the first place.
> Nvidia does have the Tegra, for the Android tablet market.

Which isn't used anywhere except a couple of tablets according to Wikipedia. Samsung, inarguably leader of the high-class Android manufacturers, uses either its own SoCs or Qualcomm. Many cheaper phones use Mediatek or Allwinner chipsets.
You are totally correct. There is an utter crisis in news media today. There is no desire for journalistic integrity and the bias of each source is as plain as day.

You can trust nothing at face value anymore. Even if there was a news source that kept it to "just the facts" minus all spin and hyperbole bias will creep in via WHICH facts are being reported.

What makes one homicide or police shooting national news while the steady stream of deaths in Chicago go unmentioned?

http://homicides.suntimes.com/

Or better yet, why not also show the number of people who die every day heart disease and cancer? The media seems resolute in warping our perception of risks toward political agendas.

If there are ways to aggregate this kind of data daily or weekly it would be an excellent opportunity so use algorithms and user applied filters to attempt to create a source of news with the least bias possible.

Edit: haha and now this article has been flagged for the second time. Pretty hilarious how determined people are to maintaining their echo chambers.
Nowadays? Yes, absolutely. Their job nowadays is to influence, rather than inform. I wouldn't shed a single tear to see all of them gone tomorrow.

Your subtle signalling of including Breitbart in your list of things that will do unspecified bad things to "the civil society" did not go unseen.
I believe this is a standard bit of terminology: it means that the virtual machine is implemented with virtual registers. Google "lua registers", for instance.
Thank you! I'll edit it now.
On the other hand, I stopped drinking all diet sodas and just drank water / carbonated water the last year. Absolutely no difference. Didn't even notice the lack of caffeine going from 6 diet dr peppers per day down to 0.
s/acrually/actually/ (phone keyboards...)
Windows 10 is the best version of Windows to date. What do you despise about it.
Google does it with more than just news. Try shopping for a gun using google or craigslist sometime. (you can't)

Edit: This post has been flagged for the second time now. An effective tactic for making stories drop unnaturally fast. IMO it's a hidden and incidious form of censorship and bias found in social media:

http://i.imgur.com/Ba9Rt1C.png
This is completely non-responsive.
Yeah the IO monad will, but it isn't generally true of monads. Infant the maybe monad Will cease early on Nothing by design. So it is a brain shift.
Cortana is partly a cloud-based AI service, which is somewhat like Siri and Google Now, and it works with Bing.

Does Siri give you any choice about using Safari? Does Google Now give you any choice about using Chrome?
Interesting, thanks for explaining. I thought it might be due to the risk of counterfeit, but I thought there must be some way of verifying still. Sounds like if there is, it's out of reach of many of the money changers.