skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up in a country where Internet wasn't a priority by any means and still isn't. Yet it went from dialup to gigabit fiber and worst case scenario DSL in less than a decade, along with GPRS/EDGE and soon afterwards 3G and 4G.

If you build from scratch, adopting the latest technologies makes sense. If automation technology becomes mature, any new factory will likely use it from the get-go...
This is absolutely why German unions are awesome, read this:
"Labor leaders at Volkswagen's (VOWG_p.DE) luxury Audi brand have asked top management to assign production of an all-electric model to the carmaker's main plant in Germany, concerned they might lose out as electric cars gain in importance."

The reason for the Union speaking out is twofold:
The workers want to have the necessary skill set in building EV and they also want the company to stay in front of the market. This kind of communication allows management to actually see those things that they couldn't perceive in their normal view from atop.
It doesn't quite get dd, as well.

http://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=dd+if%3D%2Fdev%2Furandom...
Hoodie’s Plan for Open Source Financial Sustainability
i discovered this site about two years ago. I still use it for explaining commands that I run across on StackOverflow before I run them in my own terminal.
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The suggestion doesn't seem so obviously ridiculous that it should be dismissed that easily. Bear in mind that the total quantity of material we're talking about is relatively small: a few thousand tons a year, which is far less than the capacity of a single typical container ship.

The economic value of nuclear waste is basically zero, so you only really have to worry about theft for purposes like terrorism. And even if somebody does break into your secure facility, it's hard to imagine an easy way for them to get significant amounts of material out. Seems to me that you wouldn't have to try very hard to make a storage facility more secure than the nuclear plants themselves. Probably the biggest obstacles would be political, not technical.
TIL that git calls itself "the stupid content tracker"
Google just open sourced their open source policy. Who else?
> How do I know you're not logging my traffic and selling it?

The same way you know any VPN company isn't. You just have to take their word for it.

Why is the word of a fly-by-night VPN provider any better than a HN poster?
I think free fare and door to door service would be pretty good already.

Paying them for time lost in traffic seems like it's going too far. After all, its not the taxpayers fault they are in a wheelchair. We don't need to compensate them.
Statistically, it's very safe to be a turkey on a turkey farm until shortly before Thanksgiving.

A lot of stuff that is theoretically guaranteed to be a disaster looks very safe and profitable until shortly before disaster strikes.
One of our servers stopped responding for 30 seconds every once in a while.

Spent some time trying to figure out why. No luck.

Spent some more time.

Eventually I realized that the log timestamps were weird - it looked like the query had been sent a response, but the log message appeared 30 seconds later.

I instrumented the servers to measure disk latency. I noticed massive spikes in latency every few hours. Couldn't figure out why. Then someone told me the servers were running on virtual machines with a shared NetApp for storage... and it all came together.

Every few hours a multi-gigabyte file was delivered to each machine. This was a design that had originally been done for physical machines. With virtual machines, 30 copies of a multi-gigabyte file were being dumped to a single NetApp, filling up the file server's memory buffer and making disk latency spike since it was waiting for physical writes.

Meanwhile, the server I was debugging was doing log writes in the main I/O thread, so it blocked on handling requests when this happened.

I went and talked to team lead for the server. "Oh yeah, we fixed that recently, logging will be in its own thread as of next release."

:facepalm:

Moral of the story:

1. Talk to the people maintaining the software before you spend too much time debugging.

2. Disks do block, don't assume they won't.

3. Changes to operational setups can have significant, hard to predict impacts.

If you want to hear more stories, I'm writing a weekly email with one of my programming or career mistakes: https://softwareclown.com
Yet people will cry "whataboutism" while ignoring the fact that just because no D's voted for this, it's just one of many pendulums in which they both take fucking turns doing the same thing. On that next peice of legislation, all D's vote yay and no R's, so it's obviously the D's fault!

Congress is completely corrupt. They don't write legislation, k-street does. They don't read legislation they pass. When confronted, they waffle about benefits to corporations being beneficial to their constituents. Almost all are in violation of their oath.

After much deliberation I think reprent.us has it right, the only way for us to take of this issue is for a new rallying cry to elect third-parties and indepedents to take away the majorities of both parties. (which is also how we get an independent or third-party elected president by taking the 270 votes away from both parties and the vote goes to the house).

We need to stop letting people push the farcicle duverger's law as if it's irrefutable fact, because it's not.
> If they can't kill themselves on a train, they'll just go to the nearest bridge.

That's not true. Method substitution takes years.
I prefer the TI-92, the last of the 'big' calculators.
I read, or peruse, too much. You can thank Digg RSS Reader...

Fun stuff : xkcd and the like, 4 sites

News: Chinese edition NYT and the like, 11 sites

Technical: Hacker News, Venture Beat, ARS Technica, etc. 12 sites

Daily I maybe read / peruse ~100 articles out of what is summarized in the RSS feeds. Meaning, I see an article headline, it interests me enough to actually click to open the underlying website article. Maybe half of what I open I spend 10 seconds looking at only to immediately close. Half of what remains gets a speed read scan through. Maybe 5-10 articles a day get a thorough slow read. I try not to comment as much as humanly possible. I need to do other stuff in life youknowwhatimean....
They mention that the F1 instance is using Xilinx's UltraScale+ FPGAs and that they have approx. 6800 DSP slices.

You can see that they must be targeting the VU9P from the product selection guide (pdf) here:

http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/selection-guides...

From the guide:

VU9P:
6840 DSP slices,
2.3M flip-flops,
1.1M LUTs
36Mb distributed RAM
76Mb block RAM
270Mb ultra RAM

Additional documentation is linked on the last page of the selector guide.

Note that these specs are per FPGA. An F1 instance comes with up to 8 of these devices.
40 Recipes for Cooking Public Budgets
It is not clear to me that the magazine was actually explicitly trying to write a story about adversity, or whether they are just trying to write a story about being black, and implied that this should include adversity (which is what the Brian had a problem with, if it's a racially-based implication). Indeed, it does seem to be more of the latter, at least if his words are taken at face value:

"I was approached by Inc. Magazine for a feature on the life of a successful Black entrepreneur."
Or, just normal people who don't want to have a kid before they're ready? I'm 24 and plan on getting this pretty much as soon as it's available in the US. What's so hard to believe about an average guy wanting this, who isn't part of the stereotypical "cool kid" clique?
Less than $120 / month (or about $30 per week) unlimited subway/bus pass is really quite a bargain. Perhaps the best bargain in NYC.
You're answering the question "what instruments do you like to play the most", which is different from "what are the 'best' instruments".

The last question implies some kind of absolute value system, not just your own personal taste (even if you're the one making the ranking).
Remember that it's not just people in wheelchairs who benefit from accessibility though. The elderly, injured infirm, people with small children etc. also find accessibility helpful.

Modern accessibility policy is focused in a large part around allowing people with accessibility requirement to live as normal a life as possible. It's not going to change overnight, but by making sure that all new construction and refurbishments are accessible, over time the situation will improve. The only quibble is over the extent of funding that will be made available.
Looking at the response headers from your own site, everything is being served up from Fastly edge servers. Why wouldn't you serve your own site from your own infrastructure?

The reason I even bothered to look at the response headers is because I'm a huge fan of Fastly and wanted to see what you guys were sending back to compare. Turns out they look identical because they are Fastly headers and Fastly edge servers.

And maybe have a look at Fastly pricing: https://www.fastly.com/pricing $0.0075 / 10,000 requests seems much more reasonable than your $0.05 / 1,000 requests...
Maybe the Indian creator feels that this is less of an issue in their culture and conflates culture with race?

Perhaps Western would be a better adjective. I agree with you though, as it stands skin colour seems to have little to do with it.
The British prime minister and cabinet are all elected. They are elected MPs like any other, who are selected by their party to perform additional duties. That is not at all the case with the members of the European Commission.
In 2007, John Hawks criticized[1] Lorber's claim.

[1]: http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/brain/development/ten_pe...
Lyft Shuttle works like a bus route
> Pollution is a violation of a shared resource

Isn't "user privacy" is a collective noun that describes a shared resource? I.e., Tor's anonymity pool.
How is it emotional to simply describe how people are acting? I don't understand your comment's relevancy?

How would you describe the EU's actions right now? Rather than firing Junker and reforming, they're going to try and punish the UK to try and frighten their own citizens into staying EU members.

That's not rational or a considered response, that's an emotional one at odds with what is best for all of Europe's citizens.
Animats, you've been at this longer than anybody on HN from what I can see, question for you: What in your estimate is going to be the failure rate of these self-driving set-ups and what kind of failsafe measures to gracefully shut-down are still on the table once a major sensor fails?

I'm wondering about this because I miss this element in most of the discussions around the theme, a human having a heart attack or a stroke behind the wheel is almost certainly going to cause an accident (one sided at best, multiple vehicles at worst). But I don't quite see how that translates into sensor failure (or even CPU failure) in a self driving car.
Wow, there are so many interesting bits here that I felt compelled to comment on some:

1. "... they gave thanks that they were permitted to see so much, and begged forgiveness for their desire to see more.” When I discover with mind-blowing physical discovery (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules%E2%80%93Corona_Boreal...) I sometimes feel this way about humanity's great foray into the universe.

2. "He writes the science fiction that would have existed in an earlier era, had science existed then." I interpret this to be a very insightful comment on what SF is. Some people take SF to be inventing stuff, humans always did that sort of thing through mythology (in fact one can argue that in the past we had much more of it and science kills it). OTOH I think the real SF is taking a scientific framework and tweaking parts of it what-ifs to demonstrate aspects of humanity, in way any other work of literature operates. This does require science.

3. "Chiang’s vision of a world without faith, in which the certain and proven existence of God is troubling, rather than reassuring." This is absolutely true, if the existence of God were to be proven beyond doubt (which, if you think about it seems paradoxical) existence would be intolerable, much more so than if the reverse was proven.

4. "I believe that the universe is deterministic, but that the most meaningful definition of free will is compatible with determinism”. Spot on! "We must believe in free will -- we have no choice." - Isaac Bashevis Singer

5. “There’s a book by Umberto Eco called ‘The Search for the Perfect Language,’ ” he said. Great book that I would recommend to anyone.

6. "In “Understand,” he pointed out, the protagonist learns to reprogram his own mind." After finishing Snow Crash I have been thinking that some form of brain hacking should be possible using light pulses and linguistics as input (http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11187/are-the-langu...).

Altogether an amazing guy, ordering his books from Amazon right now.
I was under the impression that CL compilers already had to do a lot of fairly complicated static analysis to achieve acceptable performance, because of dynamic typing.
Yeah, but its a gun (I assume AK-47 but could be the other ones) that most American gun owners have never held. AR-15 would probably be a better comparison gun since its basically "I can add anything without a gunsmith" popular.
It's certainly past time that some tiny fraction of the billions of dollars spent on accessibility were spent subsidizing modes of travel that don't require such bland and dehumanized environs. Elevators on medium-sized buildings (and subways) are a nuisance, in that they make most of the population less healthy in exchange for 0.7% of the population being able to explore every nook. If the law hadn't cemented handicapped rights to use dated technology, many people already would be using something capable of climbing stairs. Yes, that "something" would probably cost more than a wheelchair that could have been manufactured in 1950. Since the mobility of the handicapped is in society's interest, society can subsidize it, rather than mandating that brick-and-mortar businesses do so.
Lovely! Bookmarking for future use!

Some quick notes on my way back from work:

1. Broken on mobile :(. Default layout is a mess, and "request desktop site" has the lines going to the edge of the screen, making them invisible. S7, Android, Firefox.

2. Totally neeeds to be done as an Emacs mode (preferably offline). Both for checking a particular command and during writing shell scripts.
Stories of your life and others has got to be one of my favorite collections of science fiction short stories.

Any other recommendations?
Obsolete stuff. I groaned as I examined this - Gould, really? This is old noise, that I resented raising mere dust in University decades ago. Thankfully a lot of these old distractrations have been swept aside, since. Do read up on the Gould controversies before citing him. If you knew of them already, it would have been kinder to others to note them.
I feel like it would be very difficult to make a bot that produces history that is indistinguishable from a human user.
I worked as a mechanical engineer in the nuclear power industry for a couple years and this happened frequently even for normal power plants.

Like, one of the first projects I worked on was diagnosing a malfunctioning valve where most of the work was finite element analysis on computers, but we still had to send someone to take measurements and temperature readings since the company that made the valve no longer existed (and I'm not sure how you'd ship something like that since it was very large and used with contaminated water)
In Brooklyn’s Kosher Pizza War, Modern Tastes Battle Ancient Law
Detail: it's not a "visible lightwave" cell, it captures near infra red and other part of the non visible spectrum, so the usual light energy is not absorbed, it's 95%+ transparent for us, but it yields some voltage. I don't have the figures (I should have looked at); the first company I've seen was Ubiquitous Energy (from a Stanford or MIT lab prof. circa 2013). I've read on some research paper that there are other in the competition.

Maybe the power output is too low.. considering how many zillions of office windows could be converted I assumed they'd be as famous as tesla.
> Why not further devolve sovereignty further to the british isles, regions, cities or counties?

That's a great idea, and precisely what they do in Switzerland. Stuff that's local is decided locally. What days are holidays? Depends on what canton you're in. How are schools organised? Local. What are taxes? Local.

That doesn't mean you can't organise some things on a national level, for instance the military, and federal projects like the excellent technical universities. And there's a federal tax to go with it.

If little regions had more power it would be a lot easier as an individual to shop around for the area you like, and for experiments to be made.
In some sense the human programmer is also "a compiler", which needs a domain expert to "program" him to do his job.

So maybe one interesting division isn't between what type of technology, but about when a domain expert prefers working with a tool than a programmer.

But also, maybe the game example isn't the best here - one thing i noticed in the past, reading through the academic literature - is that often - you see some researchers just plug machine learning to problems that highly skilled humans has struggled with for years, and gotten good results.
The one I've seen (and been impressed with) uses http://smmry.com/ to condense articles to a tldr.
Airia Raw – Speed Hacked Racing Flat
The more I think about it the odder the line. I've been around a lot of guns, but that is not one family of guns I have seen in person.
> "I highly suspect it is plain cheaper (and more convenient) to just subsidize private car rides for disabled people"

This is true, and also why NYC has ParaTransit for disabled people, which amounts to an on-demand car/minibus service that is paid for by the transit agency.

The service levels are pretty terrible, though, because it turns out the private operators that actually provision these rides don't have a lot of incentive to go through the costs of operating accessible vehicles to address such a small market. Wait times for a vehicle are extremely long.

More importantly, disability and motion-handicaps are not binary, nor are they always permanent. There exist a large number of people who have difficulty climbing stairs who are not wheelchair-bound (see: the elderly, the pregnant, people coming from the airport...), and there exist a significant number of people who temporarily suffer from motion handicaps, whose handicaps are too temporary to be enrolled in ParaTransit (see: a guy with a leg cast).

Accessible stations and vehicles help these people also, not just the stereotype of the permanent wheelchair-bound person. The reality is that accessiblity features in our infrastructure benefit a lot more than those who are permanently or completely handicapped.
Looks good, one comment on tooling though:

Don't screw around with other .NET decompilers, use dnSpy.

https://github.com/0xd4d/dnSpy

It's fully open source, integrates with deobfuscators and includes a binary-level debugger which doesn't require VS separately. Plus it lets you patch assemblies and export debugged data easily which is how I extract most .NET-based packers these days.
TSA defends pat-down of Texas boy
When people think of better solutions, regulations often change.

For example, there used to be a law in chicago that saloons needed to have a place to tie up at least 10 horse. That law quickly became outdated when the next best thing, the car, came around.
I am not an expert but many seem to consider the increased handling risk related to the toxicity and activity of plutonium and other products, especially considering terrorism, and also the risk for weaponizing the enriched plutonium.

But I agree; Coal is not the future. Either.
This is NOT modern - it's well out of date. And more of the discredited Gould.
You press MRC twice.
That actually relieves some concerns I had, given the root comment (which I have to admit, caused some distress). I imagine there are more people currently in the Navy that might leave if the demand and pay were high enough. Hopefully that covers enough of the important skill-sets needed.
No SSH Here: Ticketmaster’s Take on Containerization, Integration, and Change
Too bad the article's author hadn't read other Chiang's works: I'd love to see an article which derives "Understand", "Seventy-Two Letters", "The Evolution of Human Science" or "Exhalation" from the personal history.
Vienna retro-fitted every subway station with wheelchair and stroller compatible elevators.

Don't discount the latter, so much easier for parents to use the subway that way.

It totally can be done. The US carved off a slice of every sidewalk to allow for ramps for wheelchairs, nationwide.
> We've had to bring that forward a year because one side effect is also a symptom of cancer or polyps.

Can you please elaborate on this, or link me something? Without going into too much detail, my partner has an implant, and has been having a cancer scare recently. I would really like to know more about these side effects of the implant, which as you say, are also symptoms of cancer / polyps.
Didn't you hear? dd is a 'cult', and you should use 'standard' commands like pv instead, so this is totally okay, in fact good.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13896675
>Too many people have access; and therefore I assume anything open-source has zero security.

I don't think it's fair that you were downvoted, but this is an idea that developers and IS professionals tend to disagree with [1]. Even detractors don't feel that higher code availability correlates with lower levels of application security.

1 - https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2004/10/the_non-sec...
Not to mention, some people can't have kids (I know this is not super relevant to a discussion on birth control). Are their lives completely devoid of meaning?

Yes, having kids brings meaning to a lot of people's lives. It's certainly not the only way to lead a fulfilled life, though. In fact, with populations booming everywhere, I'd say it's a good thing that less people want kids.

I know of many people who DO have kids who are constantly bitching about how annoying it is to have kids. They smile through their teeth and say it's the best thing they've ever done, but it's obvious they're reading the script society has handed them while silently thinking "what the hell have I gotten myself into?"

Nothing wrong with not having kids!
Seems like a waste of bullets and the potential to spray some poison everywhere. I would go with thick gloves and a bucket.
Aye, I read it and it's been a long time since I found a short story collection that made me miss university. Lots to unpack in those stories.
:eyeroll: Sure, and MIT managed to transmit data wirelessly at 1 Tb/s one time. But we're talking about the real world and regular consumer hardware here.
Well, good thing it looks like it's going to be largely private hands doing the work, and there'll be no shortage of volunteers.
You and your lack of adventure can stay exactly where you are :)
It's 100% not my responsibility to somehow give people in countries I've never been to jobs.

Let's get rid of the saviour complex.
His newer short stories.
> What's interesting for me is I feel like this armchair psychologizing we all do is getting worse.

I'm sorry, but you have to admit if you read back your own comment, it's mostly filled with armchair psychologizing.