skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, one of the downsides of X1 devkits being just normal retail units was that you only had 1 gigabit ethernet and no extra connectors. With PS4 devkit you can connect using a USB 3.0 and transfer builds much quicker than over ethernet - so it looks like Microsoft is finally catching up there.
Personally I don't think we can accept Capitalism and global markets to be more powerful than any individual nation.

Especially given the current trend in automation, the risk that a relatively small group of capitalists will slowly take full control of almost all the means of production is real.

Another huge problem of having a world run by corporations is the environmental situation. Personally I cannot accept a world where profit is considered more important than the environment to such an extent.

I don't know what the solution to this problem may be.
Alternatives to capitalism have been proposed in the past, and are continuously studied now, but shifting to another economical system would not be easy, if possible at all at this point.
There's zero correlation between efficient taxing and corrupt governments.

The "we want to break government so that people don't trust it" shit doesn't make sense. Why not opt for a good government that you can reasonably trust, and do away with the anxiety and potential harm a shitty government causes?

It's like saying you don't wear your seatbelt because the fear of dying makes you drive more carefully.
RabbitMQ – Run a highly available cluster with Docker and HAProxy
There is a need for global antitrust and environmental agencies.
Today somebody on Reddit linked to this video which talks about the process of money influencing politics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig

It doesn't discuss the role of the judicial system. It's all about the legislative aspects of US government. It's pretty compelling and well made. Hopefully a bipartisan movement can have some impact.

The video was made by https://represent.us/
> Because in recent years, it's become fashionable to hate business

Hmmmm, funny that, I can't imagine it has anything to do with people being fed up with being ruthlessly and endlessly fucked by businesses for so much as a minor gain on their bottom line.

Being in favour of regulation != Implying that all regulation is good and perfect. Regulation can be hard to get right, but it's there to protect the interests of the public (which should necessarily override any corporate interest).

Case in point: we now need net neutrality regulation, to ensure that we preserve (ironically) some of the very things that make the internet so great: low barrier to entry, fair and equal access etc etc.

Want to know what happens when uber squeezes it's competition out and then runs out of VC money? They'll shamelessly extort the money out of the consumer. So yeah, I'm pretty happy to watch them burn.

> creeping distaste for anyone who would seriously consider startups' interests over the interests of the individual.

But why are they so deserving? What makes a startup special that they would be preferenced above people and communities?

> /r/LateStageCapitalism (a subreddit whose explicit purpose is to hate rich people the same way some people hate minorities)

If by "hating rich people" you mean "taking issue with rampant exploitation of people and resources by corporations", then yeah, is say they have some pretty legitimate complaints.

> Some technology would not happen at all without startups, such as airbnb

Right, because only startup culture would have come up with the revolutionary idea of a bedsit. Truly an idea we've never before had in history.
Proposal: Afrikan Countries That Shutdown Internet Should Be Denied IP Addresses
Just filed my FBAR and every year it feels like the requirements change so they have a reason to convict you of something. This year they just moved the due date up by a few months for no apparent reason. I'm simply lucky that I happened to do it now (I normally procrastinate until June); that's a good $10,000 fine if they believe it was accidental; $100,000 otherwise.

I'm fine with taxes, but filing taxes in the US is utter bullshit.

To give credit where it's due, though, the state of California has free online filing (Calfile) , which is nice.
FUNNY THE PRESIDENT LIES DEAD IN a COFFIN,SUSPECTS ARRESTED AND SHERIFF HAS CU
Delimited continuations with monadic functions in Common Lisp
> providing that we use Kubernetes in combination with networked storage that guarantees reliability

What kind of networked storage do people like with kubernetes? I've recently set up a small cluster not in any cloud, and persistent cross-node storage is a concern. There's quite a few options such as glusterfs, but I'd be curious to know if anyone here knows about the tradeoffs.
Regardless of your opinions, United is now getting sued by the doctor. So it doesn't seem like reality actually agrees with your sentiments.
The US is similar, and this is part of why few people know how much they pay in tax.

Ask a person what their refund was, and they'll know, but total tax? Few do.
Thanks for this. As I mentioned in previous comment, I couldn't find much about Stolon.
One of things I likee in stolon is the proxy, it enforce connections to the right PostgreSQL master and forcibly closes connections to unelected masters. Which is not present in Patroni, but I guess it should be doable using consul's service discovery and dynamic DNS. (I am not sure if this can be done using etcd and zookeper).
I think you're both right. It's okay to have them locally or on feature branches for communication and note taking purposes. But they should never live for any prolonged time in your production code.
REI has actually begun a fairly substantial investment in improving the quality of their private brand in recent years, actually building an engineering team to take a critical look at everything that they're putting out instead of just relying on the word of whoever they're sourcing it from. I would expect the REI brand to improve a good bit in the coming years
Hm. No. Just the outcome:

"1993 and 2005, air conditioners in the U.S. increased in efficiency by 28%, but by 2005, homes with air conditioning increased their consumption of energy for their air conditioners by 37%."

Jevons sends you his greetings I guess.
I see.

Perhaps they could do a virtual machine type of thing like they did when they transitioned to Intel (was it called Rosetta?).
Managing time with std::chrono
try it for yourself - my team did, initially I sent the guy doing the tests away for screwing up the sums because I didn't believe it could be as good as he said. I was wrong - it was. This was a relatively early CNN as well. AGNN and RNN are revolutions in themselves and everyone is now scrambling to understand and harness them.

Our GPU kit has got 6 times better in 2 years.

Exciting times.
>No useful voice recognition/speech synthesis, no gesture tracking etc.

Those are gimmicks anyway. Unless incapacitated for some reason, nobody wants to talk to their programs -- except if it is combined with very advanced/strong AI to just utter some command and have them figure out all the rest (try talking out aloud for an hour for e.g. writing a post -- it gets old very soon). Making gestures in the air even less so, unless you want to switch on the lights (e.g. something you do very rare) or play a gesture tracking game to get fit. Those Minority Report style UIs is something that goods look in movies, but is not a good idea in practice (just like the translucent glass monitors they use in those movies. What's the idea there, who thought that, outside of a HUD, it makes sense to have anybody/anything on the other side of the glass compete with the on-screen data for your attention?).

>a clunky device requiring lots of cables and holes in the casing, showing flat image at 4K at best and average quality audio, typing every single letter of a every command to get something done. No useful voice recognition/speech synthesis, no gesture tracking etc.

You make the pinnacle of modern technology sound bad. Perhaps born quite recently and lacking some context?

Some of the sneer doesn't even make sense. "4K at best" -- the eye has a certain physiology, and for a laptop screen that's 15 or even 17 inches beyond 4K is marginal returns (and after that, no returns at all).

And "average quality audio"? Not sure what you have in mind, but audio in laptops is constrained by the speakers, not by the soundcard or CPU. It's trivial to have a great DAC in a laptop that can do 192Khz/24bit that's better than what a human can hear (or even tolerate: 24bit dynamic range allows for building-crushing audio).
How else could they cope with growing needs for goods or, say, entertaiment as their civilization develops?

Or would you then argue that intelligent life could develop sort of moratorium on further development in line with their value system?
Show HN: Truple - Screenshot Monitoring/Accountability App for Android
Mastercard Start Path Global 2017 for Startups
That's not what I meant to say. Sorry, reading back on what I wrote I can see my wording was a bit ambiguous. They are definitely positively correlated.

The chart shows that from about 2010 onward, manufacturing output has been growing, but at a steadily declining (but still positive) rate. So manufacturing output was still growing until it hit zero growth in 2014 and started crawling along the floor, roughly at a steady-state.

So between 2010 and 2014, manufacturing should have been consuming more electricity (in absolute terms) from one year to the next. I suppose if manufacturing became less energy intensive per unit of output over that period then they could have contributed to reduced energy usage. Since I'm just some random internet dude reading a chart (who doesn't live in the US) I have no idea if that's the case.

Um, you wouldn't happen to know by any chance? :)
>Assume applications increase their CPU demands significantly over the coming decades. Why? Who knows. Maybe (very plausibly) extremely advanced (compared to today) AI use & integration.*

I'm willing to bet that "extremely advanced AI use" will not come to applications in the "coming decades". It's another fad (in fact a cyclic fad, it had made the same promises back in the 80s), like all the buzzwords that take over an industry for 3-5 years and then give way to the next.

In 2040, for all the predictions for its transformation or demise, the business and home desktop will look more or less like it does now.
Dexter, of Dexter's Laboratory fame, thought of it (of course). See "Morning Stretch": https://youtu.be/DWU5U8NxeCA?t=33m32s

In view of all the complications he discovered, maybe a room (or house) which simply stops biological aging of those inside would be preferable... at least until the government starts taking notice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_Station_(novel)

In stories connecting different worlds, time sometimes runs at different rates. A classic example would be the Chronicles of Narnia: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/94204/how-much-tim...

Of course, to somebody living in a world where time runs fast, venturing out into the "normal" universe would be equivalent to stepping into your imagined room. This happens in one of the better Star Trek Voyager episodes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_of_an_Eye_(Star_Trek:_Vo...
I don't look forward to seeing how it will be twisted beyond recognition.
Thanks, I was deep off, Cell Line (reading too much genetics these days).. Compiling Level
How Advantageous Are Three Phase Transformers?
A good thing of Mender.io is that is a complete solution:
it has both a client that runs on the embedded device and performs the update, but is also has a server to manage the updates on a lot of devices.
Video games run perfectly reasonably for a casual player, and even some low-level competitive players, on a mid-spec laptop. Not everybody demands that the latest Crytek game run at 60fps on extra-high settings 100% of the time. Aside from that - most people don't do those things either. A laptop is totally feasible as a replacement for the 99.99% of people who could also get away with a 5 year old desktop.
Isn't this a strawman argument though?

I mean, I have an electric water heater (annoying, I know). It runs at 2500 Watts. That's 60 hWh a day!! A good €250 or so a month! Insanity!

Except I don't run it all day.
I've recently raised the same questions here, and there are indeed a couple reasons that favor searching for organic life. The short version is:

- Complex structures are likely to require an element with 4 valence electrones, and carbon is the simplest one of them (lowest mass number), which also provides it with better properties like reactivity compared to e.g. silicium

- Hydrogen and oxygen are two of the simplest elements, so probably more likely to exist than anything else with similar properties (if you hear hoof steps, you think of horses, not zebras)

- The only life forms we know so fare are based on organic structures, so we know the requirements if its existence and what to look out for

See my original comment[1] and its replies for more details.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13668440
Well, an interesting and yet humbling, depressing read.

What a way to start my morning.
Worth noting that this could also lead to incredibly worsened suburban sprawl, as the factors which make driving a long distance to work suck (time, cost) are obviated.
Congressional Fundraising: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2016) is a serious eye opener:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylomy1Aw9Hk
Speaking of BS meetings: http://amzn.to/2oeIpEs

Seriously. Good. Stuff.

"Where did This Book Come From?

I wrote this book because someone paid me to. But I also wrote it because I had a deadline.
I began jotting down meeting tricks in the summer of 2007 while working for Yahoo!, as I observed them firsthand in meetings with Directors, VPs, Senior VPs, and Senior VP Directors. Seven years later I became a manager at Google and got invited to even more meetings than I ever had before. How did I achieve such an intense trajectory over the course of my luminous career? I went to meetings, and I looked damn smart in them."

I bought this book for my coffee table at home. It's worth the laughs. Sometimes my passive aggressive thoughts make me want to bring it into work and leave on my desk. Or my boss' desk. Or my boss' boss' desk.
> GPUs have turned out to be more generally useful than expected.

It's not only raw power. GPU programming comes with builtin asynchronism (waiting on promises of computations, so you can hide latency) and a memory hierarchy (local, block, global, host memory) each one being more local and smaller than the next level.
This makes caching much more efficient, since a lot of values don't need to escape the thread/warp/block. The problem on CPUs is that memory is flat and considered equal.
> Laptops have always been substantially more efficient than desktops.

Not when you compare like to like. You should be comparing those feeble laptops with NUCs.
I was thinking this is a very important and worthwhile topic. But the article reads like bullet points dreamed up in one minute and then filled up with sweet cotton.
Yes, i mean, its not like a company locked the telephone away because they feared a damage to their gramophone disc sales. That would be shortsighted madness, company's are incapable off, if you read the history books released by their PR-Departments.
Show HN: Angular Translate Json
pre-filled forms will probably help a largeish proportion of americans who have dead-simple taxes.

once you start doing absolutely anything else (having a side job, renting out property, participating in the stock market, having income in multiple states, etc etc etc), you're in the byzantine territory of income/deductions/credits/AMT where nearly every line on every form involves reading the instructions for that line (and yes, nearly every line has its own instructions) and reflecting on your life to decide whether you think that purchase qualifies as a deduction, or what percent of your car's annual depreciation you can allocate as a business expense, or whether you need to declare your 2014 California refund as income on your 2015 Oregon taxes. Money ping-pongs around, getting taxed coming and going (you pay tax on your salary and tax again when you use that money to pay for gasoline (and a very few of these taxes are multiplicative instead of additive, so you can in fact pay tax _on the tax you're paying to buy gas_)).

I'm really not doing justice to the intricacies of the tax system. I would really enjoy reading a James Mickens tribute to it.

Pre-filled forms aren't going to help navigate the insanity, unless the governments (federal and all the states) have access to data about every transaction, every penny that flows through your household.
Hi!

I've been​ using Pascal's angular translate module, since it launched, but moving to latest Angular it's been pretty frustrating not having it at hand. So, I've made a easy to use, angular2 and up, module that has almost same functionality.

I'd love to hear your feedback and if there's anything, please file an issue.

Cheers!
| [Cop:] May I see your license and registration?
| Ah certainly...
| [Cop:] What you're doing?
| Chewin' chocolate
| [Cop:] Where did ya get it?
| Doggy dropped it
| [Cop:] ...carry on

Butthole Surfers - Chewing George Lucas' chocolate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VES_srfHmQE
Doesn't HAProxy provide such functionality?
Patroni has REST API which can be used by HAProxy for a health-check.

patroni:8008/master will return http status code 200 only if the node running as elected master

patroni:8008/replica will return http status code 200 if node running as replica.

And final missing bit is a automation of generation of haproxy.cfg - it could be done with confd: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/confd

And here is an example of template file: https://github.com/zalando/patroni/blob/master/extras/confd/...
What intuition makes you believe that once you have microbial live + some kind of stability (low levels of ionizing radiation + a decent level of chemical stability, so not too hot), evolution to advanced multicellular organisms is not pretty much the default?

I'd be more or less inclined to believe that once you have the first microbes advanced enough to support cell2cell signaling, and some kind of "condensed blueprint information mechanism" (what DNA is on Earth), the rest of the ring would pretty much be unavoidable, though slow.

Human-level intelligence might be rarer, in that you'd probably need a quite few evolutions to plateau + extinction cycles (think cambrian extinction, dinosaurs' extinction and probably a few others), most likely more than we had on Earth (I's assume we kind of got lucky), probably since what you get to something like "monkey level intelligence", most increases in intelligence would be disadvantageous for survival, unless they happen in a species with a tool-usage-friendly body plan + some pack/social tendency + environment change to challenge them to evolve but not to extinct + "construction friendly solid-ish environment" (I imagine dolphins, squids and octopuses, and most monkeys plateaued because they lacked at least one ingredient of the magic combination, and this tends to be the rule...), but this should pretty much happen.

And then you have the fact that our galaxy should have a few billions or tens of billions of Earth like planets based on what we know (probably more "life friendly" planets if you allow that other chemistries than "carbon + liquid water" could support life), it's pretty much unavoidable that there are quite a few human level species in the gallaxy.

The scary bit it that there should be quite a few above that, that probably went past their first singularity/transcendence event and are no longer constrained by biology and individual mortality and probably dumped their biological bodies long ago... scary being the fact that we don't see any sign of their presence.
Depends on how much of my consciousness I am able to put into the AI that becomes the singularity.
Ok, but the vast majority of American households never have to worry about any of that.
> I cannot accept a world where profit is considered more important than the environment to such an extent.

Are you sure that government operations produce less pollution?

Anyhow, the way to deal with pollution in a market based economy is to tax it.
> desktops are getting more efficient, too. You can have an impressive amount of computing power (GPU and CPU) with a couple hundred watts.

Jeeze, my desktop, a full socket 1150 Core i3, is under 100 watts. Heck, I have a file server with twelve 3.5" hard drives and a 4 core socket 1150 Xeon that draws under 200 watts with everything spinning.
Apple-Nintendo seems more likely in the context of offshore cash reserves.
They offer support contracts at $99 for 100 devices, and an unknown per device discount after that.
> Contains no passive voice.

Passenger is used as the subject, rather than object in your quoted passage. To see it in active voice, change "one of the passengers was politely asked...", to "SOME_SUBJECT politely asked one of the passengers...".

I've oversimplified, since it could be argued as active by adding the word "who",

"one of the passengers who was politely asked to deplane refused..."

but even if that's the case, then the master dodge phrase "it became necessary" cut SOME_SUBJECT from the second part. Note that the passenger is not doing the contacting in

"...and it became necessary to contact Chicago Aviation Officers to help."
I recently watched Capra's "Mr Smith goes to Washington" (1941). The more it changes, the more it stays the same...

Anyone who didn't see it should go watch it, it's still worth it.
New investigation: Europe’s dire dependency on Microsoft
I think the largest disadvantage is, that you won't get real high availability. Promoting a slave to a master is done in a second. Restarting the master can take some time (especially when it crashed previously).
There is also the problem of losing the storage volume of your master node (ebs block storage do neither have 100% availability, nor 100% durability). In this case you can't recover your master.
I am not sure, will HAProxy forcibly close connections to old master in case of a failover?
It's taken seriously where I live. I think it depends on where you live?

In the Bay Area--it's a big deal. So many little towns police squads will pull you over, just salivating, over a marginal DUI.

The one thing I liked about Texas is they have a seemingly more rational approach to DUI's. I heard courts will take into consideration a person's ability to handle alcohol.

We act like we all are the same, but there's people I won't drive with if they have had one drink.

I'm not defending drunk driving. Where I live, some nights--it looks like it's a fee grab, and not a safety thing?
You can't compare CPUs from different architectures (ARM vs Intel) based purely on clock speed. There are a lot of other differences which mean things like the A10 generally aren't faster than similarly-clocked laptop chips.
Wouldnt it be possible to have the CAN chip only send data to the iot microprocessor? So not attaching the Tx but only Rx. As far as I understand CAN it is a bus everything is dropped on, without an actual request-response system.

Now everything from the car could be read but nothing can be controlled.
In France I only need to fill in charity donations opening tax reductions, and digitally sign the web form. Takes about 3 minutes.
I agree with the limits in campaigns, I am not from US and here too lot of money it is spent in campaigns and after election the politicians must pay the money back with favors, so IMO no limits encourages corruption, and the money spent on campaigns could be used in a better way.