skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how all that would change if you only had a portion of any of the files, at what point would they draw the line?

Either way it's a damn difficult question to answer, but God's be damned if I wouldn't prefer a distributed internet.
IPv6. Apple made it work with "Back to my Mac". It's not hard.
It'll be interesting to see how small town dynamics influences the ratings. I can just imagine a Corner Gas scenario.
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Look at the geography and population downstream of the Three Gorges Dam in China for an extreme worst-case scenario.
> It doesn't imply that the customer didn't get what they paid for.

But in this case we are talking about bricking hardware remotely in retribution for a negative review. And we have people using the "Firing customers" rhetoric to insinuate that the needs of the corporation are more important than the needs of the human.

[I think we're basically in agreement, just expanding on my point]
So, having played/worked with a few time-series databases, this just doesn't seem to fit the picture we're used to. For applications having to store a set of well-defined time-series in a more optimal way, it looks great. As a generic time-series database on the other hand, this sounds like a maintenance nightmare.

I quite like Postgresql (and deploy it all the time), and I'm no fan of nosql stuff, which just means you don't have to properly analyze your database structure before-hand, but with time-series it's different matter. The data you tend to send to generic time-series databases tends to be very unpredictable. I currently don't care what data is sent to Prometheus or Influx. This includes, but is not limited to ZFS stats of our storage, system load, network traffic, VMWare, nginx/haproxy, application usage and errors, ... I know that when I'll need it, I'll have it available and can try to correlate the data at any point in the future. In TimescaleDB it looks like I would have to pre-create tables fitting all those stats, which would make it an absolute pain in the ass.

As counter-intuitive as it sounds, to do it properly/flexible/usable in a real world, you should impose a fixed/limited database structure. The tgres project mentioned elsewhere in this thread seems a lot more useful for 'generic' cases. Maybe they can be combined in some way.

Also, some other important things in the time-series world are a REST api. Yes you might want advanced SQL to query data, but no you don't want that to insert it. Pretty much any application can do http(s) stuff without any additional libraries (except when you're talking about C/C++ things). Postgres on the other hand? Oh no I need a JDBC driver for this Java app, I need an extra Python library for X, ... Not to mention you suddenly have to manage database pools in the applications and have something that is a potential bottleneck.

Then, no Grafana support is a no-go. It is the de-facto standard visualization tool these days.

What about retention policies, you don't need ms-accurate data-points from 2 years ago, when talking about many data-points, you might want to aggregate this. Though since the data set in TimescaleDB will be limited due to specific data-sets, this could be less of a problem.
Level 21 was pretty hard for me. It lacked the explanation that fr goes from 0 to 100 like %.
If you build browser-based applications that open websites in new tabs and programatically interact with them then I imagine it'd be handy. I'm making a test builder to generate user scripts and e2e tests more easily, so having the app open in one tab talking to a site you're working with in another would be a possible use case. I've actually written my app as Chrome devtools extension though, so it already has access to everything through a background script and an injected content script. If I ever move it to being web-based I'd use something like this to do communication between tabs.

Looking at Wingify's website it seems they're doing something similar with A/B testing - they (presumably) have an app that sits in one tab and a two of copies of the target site in two more tabs, so changes made in their app are reflected in the two versions of the target site. That's a total guess though.
"Others argue that ISPs should be treated differently because consumers face a unique lack of choice and competition in the broadband marketplace. But that claim doesn’t hold up to scrutiny either. For example, according to one industry analysis, Google dominates desktop search with an estimated 81 percent market share (and 96 percent of the mobile search market), whereas Verizon, the largest mobile broadband provider, holds only an estimated 35 percent of its market."

How hard is it to change your search engine?
How hard is it to change your ISP?
Bitcoin will not replace fiat according to Feds
This of course assumes you don't mind letting Facebook know what you're reading.
Visited Cologne and stayed in an Ibis.
Ah I'm thinking of it wrong. The indexes are not the boxes but the splits in between.

| <- 0 1 -> | <- 1 2 -> | <- 2 3 -> |

That makes more sense.
>AFAIK, we have yet to see a clause of "I'll sell you this IoT device for a one-off payment of $X and I can arbitrarily decide to stop it working as long as I pay you $X and nothing more"

Not court cases, but IoT customers do get abandoned.

Google's Nest bought Revolv and shut it down. As far as I know, they offered nothing at all as compensation. These were $300 devices. No related successful court cases from end users, as far as I know...and that's worse than what I suggested...no refund.
Nuclear is a large construction project as well.
there are libraries, it shouldn't be difficult for them to add that.

Oh, they say the following on their issue tracker:

> zeronet protocol is different from torrent, so libtorrent will not work.

So the headline is misleading?
AI will speak its own language soon. OpenAI showed the way
Is it just me, or is the amazon topgear absolutely unwatchable? It seems like a cheap ripoff and none of them seem remotely emotionally invested in it. Is it just the US market ruining car shows? Wheeler Dealers also comes to mind as having been ruined lately.
I've got to say that my Comcast home internet is already bordering on "not worth the money" if it gets any more expensive I will cancel it and just use the free wifi that is available at almost any cafe or coffee shop.
Right, what you describe are largely the effects of the overreaction, as I was describing elsewhere.

There was no actual need to shut down the other plants, etc.
The "during normal operation" referred to the coal plants, which should be pretty obvious.
I clicked on this expecting to hear the reasoning behind this legislation explained in layman's terms. Instead I got another rant about the liberal media. I wish we as a society could find a way past the issue of media bias. It pollutes every issue and makes public discourse a lost cause.
Unsurprising. It's not the kind of thing the readers of _hacker news_ would ever upvote...
For Rust https://github.com/dropbox/rust-brotli
With a VPN of course ... right?
The "3 ways people usually fuck up" starting at 14:30 was great!

• Be boring

• Make money immediately

• Focus on distribution

+ Charge vs. opportunity cost
(not cost to provide service)

That last one is pretty unique and could probably benefit many here with some additional input from you. I've heard that it makes sense to charge based on value added, but not much about how starting a small business needs to compete with the founder's missed alternatives.
France has been reprocessing for decades. Other projects were stopped for largely political reasons. Waste disposal is a political problem.
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It wouldn't. The OP has fallen victim to the "long half-life = bad" fallacy.

A long half-life means that the material is less radioactive. By definition.
These physicists observations won't achieve anything other than to corroborate the existing hypothesis. Proof requires a lot more than just observation.
I don't think they are at the bottom economically, I am saying I will charge a rediculously large fee.
Looks like Cinema 4D and OctaneRender.
Portable AC Power Outlet with 100W USB-C Power Delivery Releases on April 10th
The transit authority, since they would be the one screening and training the driver and other staff. However, if the transit authority failed to respond in an adequate manner, then it would fall back on the local government overseeing the transit authority.

Perhaps you would disagree, but it seems clear to me that a) Uber's driver screening process is inadequate, and b) the risk is magnified by it being a 1:1 ratio of passengers to drivers (vs a mass transit vehicle where bystanders can intervene), and c) Uber is massive compared to Innisfil, so there will be very little "overseeing" going on there.

All in all, this adds up to a situation where the town and its elected representatives will end up with very little control or accountability about how the service is being run.
Because they like to eat yummy foods
Can't read, seems to be behind a paywall
People are I hope aware of the ability of abuse reporting systems to themselves become channels of abuse. Facebook's real names policy is exploited by anti-trans campaigners to force people off the platform, for example. Anyone should be aware of the risks of automated threshold systems being abused: if all you have to do is get 100 accounts to press "report abuse", that will be abused very quickly.

Local standards also present problems. Do we really want to go along with e.g. Pakistan arresting people for blasphemy?

It's definitely true that anti-abuse systems can be themselves abused, though most of the systems that you're talking about are partly due to the anti-abuse systems being centralized, right? I also see a lot of comments here along the lines of "but that's censorship!" But the article is discussing decentralized anti-abuse systems which allow individuals to set up their own opt-in filters which apply to themselves and their communities (which means different people might have different filters). Do you think that's different?
Opta only provides "on the ball" data for soccer, I know that much, and will only provide it in 5 minute increments.

There is much more accurate data available in Premier League games via ChyronHego, but they don't make that available real-time, and in fact the only people who get to see it are the clubs who are involved in the game.

There is a big, big demand for better real-time tracking of open play sports such as Soccer. Discreate "round-based" play games (baseball, NFL, etc.) are much simpler in some respects.
Huh, didn't know this existed, been using Elk for a while. Wonder how it compares to Splunk (which I still have yet to try), the blogpost below covers what it cost to ingest 250GB of logs a day with Greylog.

Apparently Splunk would be $160k a year for that kind of volume. Anyone work with Splunk extensively care to comment?

https://thehftguy.com/2016/09/12/250-gbday-of-logs-with-gray...
The golden rule about storing a password is to not store a password...
I can't wait till SQRL takes off
I mean... that fixed it, but why didn't it like Chrome 56? Seems like a bug.
Why We Start Companies
Solaris is one of those rare stories that has been reinterpreted multiple times in very different ways, and they are all interesting. Both films and the book are good, but with different tones and focuses.
https://zeronet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
>I haven't seen the movie, but somebody really needs to turn down the artificial film grain in the linked video here.

This is more likely to be render noise from pre-production tests.
Vultr: half the price of DigitalOcean
Inkdrop has reached $1,000 sales
We had this exact problem before, we had a single-page-app console for sales agents and they would open up a lot of tabs, one for each conversation. If we didn't sync between the tabs, a lot of alerts and whatnot would have been duplicated.
10 machines with a 10% chance of failure roughly equal to 100 machines with a 1% of failure.

I think confusingly worded, as n increases the reliability of each node has to increase correspondingly to get the convergence. I'm not sure what real system this reflects, but I suppose it's an indication of at what point the problems of scale will bite (if you know your rough failure rate).
Interesting facts about black and white photography
I don't know what you are trying to say.

50 years of operation of hundreds of plants. We could have had a repeat of all of the accidents every year and it would still be one of the safest alternatives.

Heck, we could have Chernobyl every year, and even based on the current worst case estimates of reduced life expectancy and counting every one of them as a death, we'd still not compensate for 1 Banqiao failure, or more than 1-2 years worth of coal.

But we're not having a Chernobyl every year. What we are having is vast numbers of preventable deaths due to other types of power generation.

We're talking millions dead over the last 50 years due to other types of plants.
Lot of money is moving around but you need first take a look to other stuff and and activities rather than coding/refcatoring.

Try see other people activities and have a look how much they spend for basic services you could improve. If you suck at UX/UI, give some money to someone else who could do it for you

what matters is how fast you can release something, do not speed time in courses or fancy optimisations

Also do not focus on a side project alone, let create 3 or 4 project a year
Argonne Invents Reusable Sponge That Soaks Up Oil to Revolutionize Spill Cleanup
Lack of anonymity in ZeroNet is a big problem.
Hell yes, to both those points.

At least IPFS is working hard towards Tor integration. That might be something one day.
Show HN: Clusterman – Manage server clusters remotely
Change the way you deliver a presentation and interact with your audience
... and client libraries would need connection details for both nodes, so they can find the new master after failover.

That would be awesome, but stock Postgres only provides some of the building blocks.

For past few days I've been investigating stolon [1]. Conceptually, it makes sense to me. And so far it seems to work. But it's not simple to set up and maintain. For example, for leader election it uses etcd or consul. So initially you had one service that must not go down, --now you have two! ;-)

[1] https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon
Also loved how they cherry picked Verizon but failed to mention Comcast (largest terrestrial broadband provider by far) or AT&T (their combined cellular and terrestrial footprint is second only to Comcast). Meanwhile, ongoing mergers (Charter has been a continuous target, most recent suitor being TWC) mean fewer and fewer choices.

It was at that point I realized this was a partisan polemic and not a balanced analysis.
I'll be honest (realizing it's not a popular opinion): I find it more than a bit hypocritical that when Musk pulled the same thing, everyone on HN seemed to support Musk. Yet this guy is just a complete jerk... because?

I personally think they were both completely in the wrong, but I get where he's coming from. Heck, the guy probably hangs out here and felt like he was in the right given the reaction to Musk's childish stunt.
Twitter took years to deploy notification syncing across clients (if I read a message on mobile, it gets marked as read on desktop). Is it really so hard to believe that deploying a "spam filter" for hate speech is difficult for them?

I agree that the technology exists (and plenty of other solutions mentioned in the article). But saying that because the technology exists and hasn't been deployed therefore there is no abuse problem is a hilariously bad non sequitir.
[iOS] Create a Protocol-Oriented Animations Library in Swift 3
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I probably would not. Anything work related is already done over ssh, so effectively that's a VPN.
yeah, physics proofs (and the scientific method in general) rely on empirical data whereas mathematical proofs rely on deductive reasoning from existing proven statements. It's literally the opposite approach.
Amazon may refund up to $70M in IAPs
1) Massive earthquake

2) Devastating tsunami

3) Crippling fire causing loss of power to all control circuitry.

Even with all that, the number of direct radiation casualties was zero. There are about six workers who got more than a lifetime allowed dose of radiation. They may have an increased cancer risk.

1) How many do you suppose would have died had it been a hydroelectric dam of similar capacity? (hint: a lot more than six)

2) Just how safe does something have to be?
>> But then I need to be able to open a connection from my phone to the device. With NATs, Dynamic IPs, ISP configured firewalls/routers and so on, this is decidedly non-trivial.

There's always a "but". ISPs need more regulation. They need to be carriers of bits, and they should be forced to hand out fixed IP addresses (IPV6 makes this trivial) or even blocks /8 to homes. In the meantime there is dynamic DNS. It seems like a better idea to fix the problems standing in the way than to run every IoT device through remote servers. If you do that, you're making a choice and it's not in the customers best interest.

I for one will never participate in IoT that works the way these things do today. My furnace needs to fucking work all the time. Having a fancy NEST fail without a network connection is not an option. A simple mercury switch is more reliable and doesn't collect information about me.
Interesting thanks for the info. I'm in the UK and generally here if you go to University you will get a student accommodation for the first. Then you'll get your own apartment with friends for the remaining years and this would generally carry on until you're in a serious relationship and can share accommodation with your partner. Personally having also tried the living by myself thing for a year I much prefer sharing a house with a few other people (and I'm very introverted). Living by yourself quickly becomes very lonely and living with new people quite regularly is a great way to meet friends and learn about other cultures, particularly if you're living in a cosmopolitan city. Of course the main issue is still cost but for I know a lot of people that can afford a 1br apartment but would see that as a waste of money when sharing is much cheaper with few downsides (unless you get stuck with terrible room mates, but generally people are ok).
There are no physicists' observations here, as I get it, it is all theoretical work, which is essentially mathematics. It is not rigorous mathematics, otherwise we would actually have a proof, but just a proposed reasoning that in time might be made rigorous and become a real proof. Future will tell us.
Yes, the title should be changed to the original. Thanks for pointing it out!
If we are nitpicking like this: It uses cryptographic hash functions and not merely the hash functions commonly used by hash tables.
How to share data between laptop and smartphone Tutorial
It's easy to add a VPN.
Who are the journalists most at risk of burnout?
I did try benchmarking the author's two loops (e.g. ignoring my __restrict__ version) at 100m iterations: https://gist.github.com/MaulingMonkey/92f856664094d54bd84a25...

My i7-5930K @ 3.50 GHz chews through 100m iterations in about:

170±5ms for the rust-style loop
140±5ms for the c++-style loop

So ~1.7ns versus ~1.4ns per iteration? I'm not 100% confident in my profiling results in that when culled down to just two calls, I've sometimes seen both benchmarks weigh in roughly the same at ~140kus for the 100m loop. Why the rust version ends up faster in this specific circumstance is beyond me (bursting before thermal cutoff?) This may be down to CPU power states, which I'm failing to control here?

That said, anything with a loop seems to consistently favor the C++ loop here (including comparing "cpp" only and "rust" only versions of the benchmarking snippet). Benchmarking disassembly looks equivalent. Pinning to a core doesn't significantly alter my results (keeping one core pegged at 100% this way does slightly improve my results by a few ms - presumably evicting any background system processes from that core?)

TL;DR: What rust did in the follow up post also wasn't actually an optimization, in at least one microbenchmark. Interesting!

EDIT: A key reminder: When optimizing or investigating performance, always be profiling. If you're optimizing without profiling, you're not optimizing! (The minor exaggerations of this paragraph have not been optimized for effectiveness, I lack perf data...)
So cable and all its burdens is just followimg the cordcutters. Please amazon, let the sportsball fools pay their own way. I cut cable partly to avoid paying the sports tax.
>Oh no, Grid Garden doesn't work on this browser. It requires a browser that supports CSS grid, such as the latest version of Firefox, Chrome, or Safari. Use one of those to get gardening!

Is Chrome 56 so outdates that this grid box doesn't work with it?

Or, perhaps, does the game only check if I'm running the "latest" version, regardless of which browsers do or do not actually work with Grid Garden?

Edit: Oh, wow, 56 is that outdated. Talk about cutting edge technology?
Yeah, this argument really undermines his credibility. I do think we need a rational justification for the vote, as there has been some hysteria. If this direct response wasn't that, I don't think we'll get one
SpaceX just launched and landed an orbital-class booster for the second time in history, a few days ago. It's not unfeasible to think they'll be able to launch their own satellites for very cheap, with the upcoming Falcon Heavy, with block 5 (improved version of the rocket for quick reuse) and after refining their inspection procedures.
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Using Ansible for infrastructure
Because Chrome 56 doesn't support CSS Grid. It's really new.
I saw this video a while back. Pretty good stuff. Any good protocol-oriented book suggestions?
Hello there. I created Clusterman to better manage my server clusters. Currently, it's doing a bunch of tasks for my websites, like auto set up servers, install firewall rules, run git pull on webhook, manage and transfer files, etc.

Check it out :-)
We're moving forward as always. Latest features would include distributed pubsub, filestore (allows you to add files without duplicating them) and interop between the browser and desktop nodes. Any specific part you're looking at?
> So even without a meltdown, you risk many lives in the future. Just because not many people have died yet does not make it a safe energy choice.

Even if that's true, compared to the certain deaths per year caused by coal it still wins out.
An awesome list of high-quality datasets (news, review, languages and more)
"Chernobyl was never state of the art"

Right. Chernobyl-style designs were rejected at a very early stage in the West.
Every Day We Must Sweep
It's plausible that providing an advanced diagnosis AI on the phone (unlike purely passive information e.g. wikipedia) falls under existing laws that regulate medical services, and would make the provider liable for violating these regulations even if noone has damaged themselves yet.