skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if that price is due to low production and that the price would come down with mass production in war. Maybe not the case here but I always assume this is the case with expensive new weapons that are likely mostly r&d costs being spread across relatively few orders in peacetime.
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Straight out of M.T. Anderson's Feed. Have you read it? Read it! (Or listen to it, there's a really great audio book of it)
I completely agree. Perhaps things have changed for some of these plugins since I last tried them, but the only one that has not only basically matched Vim but exceeded it is Evil for Emacs.
Yeah, and have the labor board give them a "stern talking to"?

Not worth your time, nor return on time invested.
It'll be an interesting development if somebody manages to put a real laser weapon like this in the field and it ends up being effective against vehicles and aircraft. Missiles are expensive and relatively slow; a laser weapon could potentially shoot down missiles and aircraft so fast as to be a game-changer.

There's been a lot of noise about whether aircraft carriers and other capital ships are viable at all in the face of high-speed anti-ship missiles. Intercepting them with CIWS and counter-missiles is dicey, but a good laser system could make anti-ship missiles useless.

On the other hand, you have to wonder if operating aircraft at all might become non-viable if your enemy has weapons like that. Speed might become much less important and stealth much more important.
How heavily have you tested it? I haven't tried implementing Paxos myself, but anecdotally, it's very hard to get it completely right. And when it's being used as key low-level infrastructure, it has to be completely right.

This blog post we're discussing agrees: "I planned to finish it in a couple of days, but the whole endeavor lasted a couple of months, the first version has consistency issues, so I had to mock the network and to introduce fault injections to catch the bugs. [...] Single Decree Paxos seems simpler than Raft and Multi-Paxos but remains complex enough to spend months of weekends in chasing consistency."

Your approach of using many small Paxos instances is very interesting, though! I'd love to see some real world performance comparisons.
This is the adult equivalent of a box fort, right?
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

Sure, a mass refactoring is going to cause a lot of pain to merge in, but you shouldn't be making massive pull requests in the first place. I don't think small refactoring here and there should be an issue. It's not like we've never dealt with merge conflicts before.

If your company is discouraging refactoring because it will cause merge conflicts, that's probably not a good sign of things to come.
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Honestly one of the only reasons I keep it is because I have so many movies that I've rated and didn't want that time investment to go to waste. I guess now that isn't going to be a factor.
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Netflix's star rating system is really poorly designed. Of course people clicked on a thumbs up/thumbs down widget more. I used Netflix for months before I even noticed the star rating was interactive.

I wish they would invest in a quality star rating system like Amazon's, rather than dumbing down the UI.
The great news here for Switch owners is that it means that Nintendo sees the platform size trending to point that will be large enough to start to attract attention of 3rd parties. The Wii U never got to this point and really suffered by essentially being a system of only Nintendo games.
Some yes, some no.

Let's remember that mental health care is not as easy as a magic pill. It can take months to stabilize someone. Someone with schizophrenia may have difficulty staying on a regimen. (The side effects are bad in many cases, and the drugs aren't a magic cure.) Some people would do best in a psychiatric ward more permanently, for example, but that's including housing.

Bipolar treatment can stop working and it can take months to get things readjusted.

Inversely, homelessness exacerbates mental illness in many ways, and stabilizing the housing situation goes a long way toward stabilizing the mental illness.
JS vs sparse C++? Cut comments and change coding style and you can easily get close to 500 lines.

One thing I think is worth touching on is the pipelining ability of multi-paxos that is missing when you have a single register with the Synod protocol. For key-value operations, it's not a problem. For a true replicated state machine, this can hinder performance.

In Replicant[1] I added pipelining to ensure Paxos was unlikely to be a bottleneck to replicated state machines. For complex state machines, the state machine becomes CPU bound.

[1] https://github.com/rescrv/replicant
Aha, I misunderstood, I thought Netflix was going to recommend movies or not based on that rating system, without giving us the background. I would still prefer something more fine grained though.
Interesting. Does one salary stay the same with this agreement?
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Great feedback. Thank you. I like the idea of calling it mentoring.
> The unit cost of the PAC-3 MSE missile is $3.94 million in FY 2016.

(Source: http://www.fi-aeroweb.com/Defense/Patriot-PAC-3-MSE.html)
There's so much stuff like that in the game! My brother comes by regularly to play on a separate account and while we try to go to different areas there's still quite a bit of overlap. It's incredibly how much stuff is in all those areas that he visits that I haven't even seen, but it's even more incredible how much stuff one of us missed in the areas we both explored.

And considering that we're both pretty serious gamers and compulsive 'find everything' personalities, I suspect more casual games could replay the game from the start multiple times and still discover new stuff that is 'significant' (as opposed to 'minor' stuff like new items, korok seeds, or shrines).
I'm confused by this. My brother has an office in downtown SLC near the Rio Grande building, and it's pretty clear when I visit him that there are hundreds of homeless people living in that neighborhood alone. Pioneer Park is also covered in homeless people.

If that is less than 200 people either I don't understand what "homeless" means or something is... off. How does one define "chronic homelessness?"

I really want it to be true. I have seen first hand how hard so many people work to help the homeless; through nonprofits, the government, and the LDS Church. But declaring "victory" over homelessness rings pretty hollow if you walk the streets of Salt Lake City.
Do we do relevant XKCD here at HN? Cos https://xkcd.com/1172/
You're right! It does sound like life coaching. I just don't like the negative connotations.
...and no progress yet.
People have said that it's only a matter of time before all manual labor is replaced by machines since the industrial revolution started.

Yet it keeps not having happened just yet.

EDIT: I'm talking about all human work, not just physical labor. The "manual labor" part of the quote confuses my intended point.
Sure, there's nice stuff about the Switch. It depends on how much you dislike the idea of spending an extra $100+ and having zero other games to play.
Did you hit your head though? Even "low" speed for a car can be 20mph; you can hit a stationary object and be thrown around pretty severely.

That said yeah if you're "wiping out" more than like once every few years you're doing something seriously wrong (or at least taking an unnecessary risk). I've only once had any kind of incident on my cycling commute.
Actually both. When you reduce the pressure of a fluid its temperature goes down (you've used aerosol cans, right? Also that's how fridges work.)
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How much time have you spent in Bakersfield?
Making implicit assumptions about the environment is wrong.

An instance may be running in virtual environment where time freezes are possible. A human may make an error and rollback time to 1970.

It's impossible to eliminate all these factors so yes I don't trust time but I trust CPU.

Maybe CockroachDB is doing it correctly but the terrible default settings make this optimisation negligible because when the leader dies the system hangs for 12 seconds.
Agreed, that's why I said it'd still work. But the shape does contribute to its efficiency, otherwise manufacturers wouldn't spend money trying out different shapes, adding winglet etc...
I guess what to call it should also depend on what people search for when they're trying to find what it is I'm offering...
I guess I'm out of the loop then, because I see no other meaning for the first comma when the second one is there.

To me it's the second sentence where the commas meaning is ambiguous. Almost like the writer is confused and two entities are its singular "mother."
This is what I would do if I had to, but the real problem here is that we are trying to represent something that sounds fine when spoken aloud. It doesn't work as well in written form because if all the ambiguities pointed out above. So the better writer changes the sentence itself to read more fluently and not force the reader to parse something that is grammatically correct but ultimately clumsy. Maybe it needs to become two sentences to be clear, and that's ok.
Well, depends on who you are talking to, but if they are somewhat educated, it can be helpful to draw a parallel to democracy vs. authoritarian government: Even if you trust a certain political leader, establishing a structure where power is concentrated too much is dangerous. Democracy isn't so much about finding the best possible leader, but rather about preventing a worst possible leader from obtaining too much power, because that is what fucks up society.
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One thing that sticks in my mind after a business trip to SLC (SaltConf last year) were the ubiquitous red signs urging people to turn away panhandlers. If people actually take notice, I'd be willing to bet this results in the problem being hidden a lot more than it is in some other cities.

The admittedly surface impression I got was that the city is hostile to the homeless.
The line between safe housing and healthcare really starts to blur when you start talking about people with severe mental health issues. Another side is that debt from expensive medical care can result in homelessness. It all should be considered basic welfare that we should be providing instead of gutting.
ARQ is pretty awesome, set and forget encryption with hourly,daily,weekly,monthly snaps. Connects to just about every possible cloud service.
It might just be a battle of the algorithms then... is your radar + laser interceptor better than their missiles' agility and countermeasures?
Indeed pocdb is not intended to be a fully "ready" implementation. There are likely liveness bugs (that can be mitigated by periodically calling work_state_machine on every write outstanding), but it is unlikely to have safety bugs stemming from protocol misunderstandings (any safety bug is likely a small typo).

My main projects using Paxos are Replicant[1] and Consus[2], both of which have consumed significantly more time to get Paxos correct.

[1] https://github.com/rescrv/replicant
[2] http://consus.io/
The way I've felt this effect the most is with traversal. Climbing is a problem until you get better gear, craft better food, etc. I'll see something on a mountain peak that I want and think "I'll need to increase my stamina and prepare before I attempt that!"

There are other kinds of traversal that feels this way too, but I'll leave the discovery to you.
Not every homeless person is chronically homeless. A lot of homeless people have skills (so don't look down on them), but they're going through a rough time. After a while, they pick themselves up, go into rehab or whatever, and become non-homeless again.
While I'm always suspicious of the word "Best" when applied to a list this does look quite interesting. Looks like a lot of the material overlaps but I'm guessing that's not a bad thing for complex material like this.
Assuming they haven't developed a deep neural net to generate PR-speak, I really want to understand the human(s) who wrote that. How do these people operate? I would assume they know they're spouting pure bullshit, know that everyone knows that, and simply don't care, but I'm not in that business.
I'll be brief because I have a class to go to, but...

Let's say for the sake of example, we're at a party. It's not just any party. It's a party for developers. 99% of the conversations at this party are routine, most people will say predictable things and things are kept very, very professional. As it should be! These are professionals, talking to other professionals about professional topics. Discourse is maintained and curated at a high-level at this party/conference.

But, for whatever reason, they've now offered a special "room" for certain developers who want to say things that might be unprofessional, that might incite anger in some users, that might be politically incorrect, that might be not appropriate for a party setting. But! And here's the caveat: this special room is actually populated by many developers and some of the elder party-goers can VOUCH for good party-members when they see them making good points and bring the conversation out of the VIP room into the broader party. Moreover, they can keep the private conversations private and maybe nod their heads at some comments that are particularly insightful but that are taboo. It's a source of honey for the type of developers I would be talking to in real life anyway. I wouldn't discuss Marxist politics with a mealy-mouthed developer who can't even spell Afghanistan, so why waste my breath in the main room trying to convince him of a radical academic topic that uses expletives and other politically incorrect things?

So let's recap: I can still go to this party. I can still have my comments seen by the people at the party who I WANT them to see. AND on top of that, when I say something insightful I have the ability to have my conversation taken out of the VIP room and into the broader party.

In the meantime I would only like to talk to the developers who are a.) politically incorrect (so they turn show-dead on) b.) value minority opinions (so they turn show-dead on) and c.) enjoy giving me an upvote donation when I'm not rabble-rousing (so they turn-dead on).

It's a win-win for me. Without a doubt.
> I originally wanted to use Dropbox to sync a shared folder

This makes it even more funny, because I thought of that too! Wow, feels like reading an autobiography ;)
More like, "Boils the contents of your skull, which then bursts like a microwaved egg."
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An active radar set in the missile, guidance computer, actuators, with power source and antennas, all hardened enough to tolerate being on a rocket accelerating hard to Mach 2, plus the missile itself with an engine big enough to get it to ~80k ft, plus a warhead and proximity fuse. I have no problem believing that it costs $3 Million.
really? i used inbox since the closed beta as well, but recently (january) switched to another mail provider and can't say i really miss it.

its kinda nice, but it was pretty easy to replace it with some static mail routing rules (and the added benefit of a wildcard email address, making $whatever@domain.tld possible, consequently making these rules even easier).
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It's just another way of framing the same phenomenon (albeit one that makes much more sense to me than high school fluid dynamics). What gets left out of the pressure explanation is what pressure is, which is a statistical representation of Newton's third law applied over huge numbers of tiny things moving in random directions in a given frame of reference
Globalization, automation, and illegal immigration are the absolute biggest reasons why the lower and middle classes are suffering in the United States. Corporations are having no problems finding profits. We need to increase the demand for labor to give the uneducated a potential for a comfortable life in this country.
You were getting screwed. Most stores that close at say 9pm, still scheduling workers until 11pm to "Close" the store.

The worst part is it was probably just some shitty manager making 35k a year looking for a good year end review or a tiny bonus.

There is no way the corporate policy was unpaid overtime.
Aside from the "hyperloop" part, the idea that an important consideration of transit planning is connecting urban centers with surrounding suburban and rural areas to support commuting, exchange of goods, etc., is hardly novel; it's fairly central to transit planning everywhere, including the Bay Area (and including projects like California High Speed Rail, whose initial operating segment will link Central Valley communities to Silicon Valley.)
I work in an area of finance technology connected to this process. It's no different than escalation in any other form of criminality. Cops wear armor, criminals buy armor-piercing rounds. Auditors looks deeper, so the pertinent information is masked deeper.

At this point, the major gap in our financial regulatory process is at the detection layer, not the investigations layer. If you can keep specific scenarios under wraps, you can avoid things quite easily, especially if the scenarios you do cover are impressively complex and thorough. So you hire PhDs in math and physics to identify and create your algorithms. They do a great job identifying scenarios where known criminal activity occurs, but they aren't informed on the specific, complicated, and should-be-totally-illegal actions your firm is engaged in, so they are basically shooting in the dark with no chance of finding the real misdeeds. These algorithms are genius-level complex, greatly reducing the number of government employees that will be able to decipher them. You create hundreds or thousands of them, making it prohibitively difficult for anyone in a regulatory agency to take the time to understand them all, then you assure the regulators you have all your bases covered. You show them the evidence of all the wrongdoing you've identified (also an insurmountable mountain of data) and if you do not leave any glaring holes, they have to nod and walk away.

Financial regulations are important, but the idea that regulators could every truly keep the financial markets from abusing the rest of us is nonsense. They can only do so much.
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Indeed, the copy is insipid. It boggles the mind how someone (even a committee) could write "partners [...] our guest [...] share their tales" and expect to be taken seriously.
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Having relatives in city government I have overheard that Utah's proud achievement was accomplished by "adjustments made to their demographic surveys". And that this was seen as a very economical solution to the problem.
You know what? You're right. That is a huge difference, or at least, it was. Now? I think we're seeing a turning point on both; we see what happens in Syria, but realize that we're in no position to prosecute anyone... when people care at all.

That said, until very recently I would have agreed with you completely.
Does anyone remember Patrick Norton on The ScreenSavers on TechTV in the 00s complaining about websites keeping access logs? Heck we even complained about cookies back then. The sick thing about the privacy trap is that they slow-cook you to the point where _not_ snooping on users becomes something akin to a business risk.
> you have to wonder if operating aircraft at all might become non-viable

Yay F-35!
Thanks very much, I always get the most useful answers on HN.
It was interesting to hear about this, then drive down Rio Grande street or around Pioneer Park and see the massive tent cities and tons of homeless people. Things got really bad downtown the last year or so.

I wonder if this is a case of Salt Lake doing such a good job that homeless from other states were attracted here?
The way I understand their explanation is that users tend to view the act of rating as a stronger endorsement than it actually is. In other words, users think their ratings are more predictive of what they would enjoy in the future than the implicit signals that can be derived from actual behaviour. Netflix concluded that it's better to boost the weak(er) signal by encouraging users to rate more. They will continue to use it on top of the stronger implicit signals to provide personalized ratings, which they will display as a percentage match as long as it's greater than 50%.

So their recommendations may actually improve.
I have to disagree pretty heartily. Looking at Steam numbers and information from Valve directly, there is no indication that people are suddenly or even slowly abandoning new game sales in preference to games with extended content lifecycles.

Perhaps what you are seeing is that with an increased number of gamers (this is supported by data), these types of games have an even bigger audience than before.

There has always been classes of gamers who prefer mastery of a small number of games versus preferring new experiences. Some people have played Counter Strike for fifteen years and WoW for almost as long. On the other hand there are gamers like me who prefer a constant stream of new experiences.
Sounds great, we can have lots of popular, busy, prosperous, well connected cities?
> I literally spent part of an evening with a beer

Just one? :)

Consensus algorithms are _fascinating_! And +1 for https://blog.acolyer.org/ , I'll often read his blog over lunch.

Another great paper is https://research.google.com/archive/paxos_made_live.html which talks about what it's like to realistically run Paxos. There's a ton of corner cases, engineering realities, and optimizations to be done to make Paxos work well in practice.

Another good resource is the Raft GitHub page[1] which links to the paper, has an interactive visualization, and a plethora of talks by various people.

Raft is the backbone of opensource, I'd be curious to hear from any Googlers in the know whether there's deficiencies in Raft that lead to continued use of Paxos, or if it's experience (and already battle-tested code) with Paxos that leads them to continue deploying Paxos-backed systems.

[1] https://raft.github.io/
Accounting for your average person, who do you estimate is more likely to cancel: The person watching hundreds of hours of meaningless action movies and TV, or the person subscribing but rarely/never watching anything? By average I mean not prone to suddenly realizing they want/feel sufficiently motivated to spend those hundreds of hours on something else, or posting on hacker news.

Speaking anecdotally, the one (temporary) time I canceled was when I found myself in the paying-but-not-using category.
> 100% remote gigs are intrinsically riskier and lower paying. You compete with every worldwide Tom, Dick, or Harry who is capable of remaining awake during business hours.

How does that claim not apply equally to moving to a city with a large employee pool like the Bay Area?
I guess it depends how valuable that service is.

Right now, I can't imagine that being served content "more relevant to me" is so valuable as to warrant a corporation systematically recording my doings. My current reaction is: I'm perfectly capable of finding relevant stuff on my own, thank you very much.

But I'd be happy to be proved wrong.
So, is now when everyone starts to put mirrors on their missiles, tanks, and aircraft?