skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was looking at this laptop with 32Gb RAM for development work, where I would be using multiple VirtualBox VMs to simulate (small) clusters. I also would need it to travel well and connect to foreign wifi AP's.

I have a MacBook Pro with Retina display, but I don't like it for developing - it's mostly gathering dust.

My workstation and personal laptop are running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed/KDE, which I love.

I don't mind using a Windows OS as long as I can launch a VM for my development.

But I guess the Dell XPS 15 9560 may not be my best choice given the real-world problems I am reading here.
Now i find myself reminded of an article on OSNews of all placed that i dug up a while back.

https://www.osnews.com/print/6282/The_Command_Line_-_The_Bes...
That sounds like a great idea. By leveraging Fossil's existing UI and getting it to work with Git, it might really gain a lot of traction, and become a viable alternative to roll-your-own-github services like GitLab Community Edition.
Of course, this is only comparing to fossil sources, not solar, wind, or other renewables (except biomass).

I don't think this is going to matter in the end, though. The best, most optimistic arguments the nuclear proponents can make would still take 20-30 years to build out enough to make a standard-deviation difference in greenhouse gasses.

Meanwhile, solar/wind are already hitting production costs that rival or beat nuclear, with lower setup costs and other barriers to entry. A wide variety of storage are being actively developed (with real investor support) to cache cheap surplus production from solar/wind, making a mostly-solar grid viable. What will our solar/wind/storage grid look like in 30 years?

Nuclear as a stepping-stone to solar won't matter. It's faster and easier to just to straight to solar.
Some (controversial) ways we run our engineering team
It's not perfect, but it's not the end of the world. I'd prefer it if they'd stop the 'oh, but the app is 50% faster' modals; who installs apps like that these days?
Haha. That's so funny. You should have been around when my grandmother died. They took her for a pretty penny. Not that I care because I didn't want any money from her anyway but they sure know who their marks are.

In Poland just about every interaction with the church has a price tag attached to it, ditto in Spain. There's a reason the Vatican is lined with gold and it has precious little to do with the Medicis and everything to do with tithe, real estate, compound interest and outright scams.
I would not be surprised if they shift everyone to the new view but allow users to switch back to the old style via preferences.
Revealing quote from Baez in this article: "I’m ... eager to dig deeper into open reaction networks. They’re a small but nontrivial step toward my dream of a mathematics of living systems. My working hypothesis is that living systems seem ‘messy’ to physicists because they operate at a higher level of abstraction. That’s what I’m trying to explore."
Some alternative's I have bookmarked:

https://hubski.com/

https://lobste.rs/

https://snapzu.com

https://soylentnews.org/

and Voat.

I don't really use them so I can't do a good review.
I had some more bookmarked but can't find them at the moment.
Rather than coming up with a set of emotional safeguards to deal with poor engineering management, why not just find a better manager ?
Just act like real people. Admit that you are not sure about something, have doctors talk to each other and not make the patient run back and forth, don't "protect" the patient from bad news (they have no problems giving the news that you owe 10000 dollars).

For example, if one doctor is not sure about something another doctor said, they don't seem to be able to pick up the phone and ask the other doctor to clarify. Instead they often assume something and work with that assumption or they make the patient go back to the other doctor which costs days or weeks to set up and hours of appointments.
I like how one can call themselves "senior developer" after merely 6 years (at most) in the field.
How can giphy with its current functionality possibility cost that much to run? I feel like it should be able to run for over a century with the amount that it has in the bank right now. Bandwidth is cheap and it's not exactly compute intensive or labor intensive.

I could distribute that thing across a global cluster of VPSes with cheap bandwidth (Vultr, Digital Ocean, OVH) and host it for peanuts. Given that it's drowning in VC money my guess is that it's all at AWS, not using S3, and over-engineered to Juicero levels. They're probably using Kubernetes, a dozen different database and message bus protocols, and a whole sprawling Rube Goldberg machine of a microservices architecture to... host gifs.

... and yeah that nose candy valuation is ludicrous. There is no way.
I think it's a Go joke. Just be glad it's not called "m"!
I've had workmen on my roof for damaged slates due to high wind, so again, with a Tesla roof this could conceivably be a negative death rate of the solar tiles are stronger than standard tiles, which they claim they are.
He claims in published interviews that the only time he was out any money was for the cost of the domain name.
Ah, that makes sense. I've always assumed there's some powerful technical limitation, and it didn't seem to be in the reaction itself or the availability of fuel.
I don't want to live next to a nuclear power plant, but I would be fine with living near a dozen of them.

You see, that higher number implies a greater infrastructural and economic investment. Further, the sole large power plant in an area is automatically a military target, whereas if the same capacity were split across many facilities it becomes impractical to attack or control them all.

I'd love to see each municipality in the US above a certain population own and operate its own small reactor, using it to power the municipal utilities. But I do have a bit of a problem with a federal agency operating the only nuclear reactor in a 100-mile radius. It just ends up managed differently, becoming a political power center in addition to an electrical power center.
> why should these bits be worth more than the output of /dev/random, or some bits that make up a MP3 file?

Well why don't you generate some bits from /dev/random and see how much people will offer you for them?

The reason Bitcoin is worth more than arbitrary bits is because it can't be faked (you can't just create more bits for free and spend them again) and because everybody else agrees that they're worth something. The same properties that any system of money requires.

EDIT: And what do you think it means to be "backed by full faith and credit"? It sounds grandiose but is meaningless.
Ask HN: How do you backup your company's data?
How do you backup your company's data, especially data kept in a database? How often? Where do you store the backups? How do you know that the backup process actually runs successfully?
Not to mention not having some nuclear waste to store for the rest of the foreseeable future.
As long as the shrinkage is predicable, you could still have very good tolerances
A simple Jpeg defense for the attack from OpenAI authors
One thing I do when a new attack is published is to see if the 'jpeg' defense works. That is, will the jpeg compressed version of the adversarial image retain its adversarial threat?
Turns out the attack from OpenAI authors does not pass this jpeg defense test.

Please note:

1: There have been a couple of studies of the effect of JPG compression on adversarial images. See:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.02900.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.00853.pdf

2: This is NOT a 'Voila - Busted!' dissemination. The most straightforward idea for a counter-attack is to include jpeg compression part of the transformations set (T) in the paper. That said, the defender only has to concoct a custom transformation that is not covered in T. For ex, I also found that a scanned paper printout of the image did not retain its adversarial threat (posted on the original blog).

3: This is a work in progress. Github link: https://github.com/vinayprabhu/Jpeg_Defense
if you had sftp access ... shouldn't you have had ssh access?
Along the lines of "fun question, I'll take a stab at it just for giggles"; this would be far more interesting as an interview question than "estimate how many soccer balls can fit in a 747".

Average botnet size is 20,000 compromised PC's. Srizbi is estimated at 450,000. Another vector I'd explore is teaming up with crypto-miners. As I understand it, there are no economic returns tapping into the CPUs any longer, so miners are using only GPUs and ASICs; if this is true, they'll have some spare CPU cycles, that they'd probably be willing to rent out to get some marginal returns on the CPUs that have to run and manage the mining chips, running a JVM or some other VM. If we can do that, then we can probably tap 2-3M hosts, many of them rotating in and out per day.

Throw out an army of mechanical turk assignments to get real humans to register fake accounts. They get paid upon submitting an account and password, which your scraping servers verify, then change the password and commandeer. Perhaps have them register the fake account while running under a container or VM on their computer; the container/VM is instrumented to capture all activity. The activity metrics and data are uploaded to a deep learning system, that identifies the patterns that work and the ones that don't, and uses that to guide the developers of what to randomize, and by how much.

Add in a component to randomly invite/follow other fake and real accounts, and generate Markov-chain-generated copypasta. Set aside a portion of the fake accounts to only build up networks of users. Initially restrict the market of customers to those who only want once-a-year-updated data. As the network builds, use the notification of changes to selectively scrape only changed user profiles, and upsell for more up-to-date profiles at that time.

If I was LinkedIn, I'd probably concentrate on infiltrating botnet operators, and shutting them down. It would be one large cat-and-mouse game.
How concerned are you about cosmic rays?
> AI, on the other hand, is not so simple, and to try to simplify it to that point is not going to create any productive discussion on the reality of AI.

I agree with you, however it's not impossible. Simplification is needed on the carrier level that houses such AI.

Movies are a great way to let our minds wander and dream to forget about the gaps in technology. Then some breakthrough happens and in a few years the yesterdays impossible sci-fi dream becomes a boring shiny toy.
It would be clever to store issues and PRs on a special branch in the repository. I can't currently think of why this wouldn't work (apart from business-wise, it would reduce lock-in considerably).
Ask HN: Is there room for apps like “X, but for Brazil?”
I see many businesses on the US taking advantage of great software tools - talking mostly about SaaS applications - to grow revenue, get smart metrics or even as a customizable CRM.

In Brazil - and I am sure in many other countries - the SaaS market isn't a hit among the average business owners. I am talking about restaurant owners, local breweries, artists, freelancers, etc. SaaS tools are used mainly by startups and digital agencies, and it doesn't get much far from that (source: I live here).

I suspect the main reason for this is due to language, which itself is big a barrier for most people who live here. Many folks do know how to read english, but using it for work tasks on a daily basis is a complete different story.

So it got me thinking, are there opportunities for making the same apps we use and love, but localized for a different country? Kind of treating it as niche.

Are you aware of any successful cases that made the "Basecamp, but in Japanese" or the "Intercom, but Russian"?

Please note I am not talking about having a landing page with an option to switch languages, I know many companies have this. What I refer to is explicitly targeting different cultures with marketing, content and even product features.
I went part time a couple of years ago when my wife changed jobs and I wanted to spend more time with children & cut childcare costs.

My experience was negative.

I found that I didn't have the time anymore to get everything I needed to, do the work, market myself, learn new skills, deal with all the admin etc etc. Things started to drift and ended up losing motivation and customers.

However I wouldn't change anything. I got to spend much more time with my family, but from a career perspective I have certainly stagnated.

I am looking forward to going back full time in 12 months when my youngest starts secondary school.

Everybody's situation is different and you are not going to know how it will pan out until you try it.
Maybe not public ones, but I'm pretty sure they perform internal post mortems when they have outages.
Note that it was just as cool to do that for Gen X when they were at a similar age, and even moreso for the Boomers in their time (who, to be fair, had much more of a highly visible subgroup making a flamboyant show of rejecting their elder's values than either of the following generations did.)

That's just the eternal ways of the world.
Reddit just raised a new round that values the company at $1.8B
>What are solar prices like in the night? /s

Is that a rhetorical question? Because night time usage largely relies on battery storage for which economies of scale are also reducing the cost in a similar predictable fashion.
Cmail: easy-to-setup, easy-to-configure and secure mail server
Forking implies inheriting the design, including all its flaws. You can hack around with the codebase all you like, but if you can't fix the design issues, because it would be breaking interoperability, you're a bit limited in what you can do.

Other init systems were sufficiently constained in scope that they could be swapped out with relative ease, and modified or rewritten entirely as you liked.
How is it going to get "~1000s times faster" ust by using rsync? Rsync'll still be using the ssh channel to connect

Unless by "~1000s times faster" it means "skip all the files it doesn't need to transfer" ... which is not transferring faster - it's transferring less
As a person who actually likes nuclear energy:

The issue I have with Nuclear is that we have not managed to fix the waste issue, and nobody seems to want to talk about it.

I'm not a huge fan of "salting the earth" for 10,000 years.

And when you say "it's safe", you're inherently ignoring that you basically have this toxic waste that is too costly to shoot into space and too dangerous to keep anywhere on earth for 10,000 years where it wont eventually harm the ecosystem.
Interesting. Im super worried a redesign will kill the site.

However, at the same time (after thinking about it), I can see it as a necessary step.

Without a redesign it'll be hard for them to implement a way to make money. I assume, that is also how they increased the valuation; by promising increased profits.
> a cashless society is far easier to control as purchases can be blocked at anytime as a goods or services can be declared illegal

Certainly easier, but it wouldn't stop trading (IIRC, there are already cases of, e.g., swapping stolen goods for drugs).

Won't stop people trying to get rid of cash though :/
It is not that easy. There's always a point of 'very slow return that requires no humans to succeed'.

Otherwise, we could just fill the Sahara with trees in a decade. It is not going to happen.
I live pretty close to the San Onofre Nuclear station. They made some upgrades planned for 20 years of operation in 2010, and ended up shutting down the reactor due to premature wear in 2012, and are now planning to decommission the station. I'd be more worried about the financial concerns as an excuse to continue operating an unsafe station if I wasn't seeing the opposite happening in my own back yard right now.
I'm referring to the cards in circulation number. The original claim was about a percentage of consumers, not a percentage of transactions so to me that is the more relevant number.

Either way, 100% - 23% = 77% which is > than 70% so the point stands. Visa + Mastercard alone are over 70% using the purchase volume numbers
All Citibank Phone Lines Have Been Down for Past 3+ Hrs
Lisp. Unless you don't count Clojure, Lisp could be expected to persist another 50 years.
Why Distillery? The story behind the name
If you have a memory leak, and a ramdisk, and no swap then the OOM killer will trigger.

Hopefully it will target the program with the memory leak, but this is not guaranteed.

Swap is useful because you can shift unused memory onto disk. There are many programs that allocate (and write) a lot of memory that they never afterward use.

By having swap you make more room for cache in memory.

SSD doesn't matter here - this is not swap thrashing, but rather occasional writes.
As long as reddit allows sub-reddits to display their feeds how they like, they should be fine. reddit's strength is allowing reddit to be tailored to every individual user.
Lift heavy; do Jiu Jitsu - deter the manager from ever attempting to verbally abuse you lest risking discordance. Relish in your newfound mental clarity.
If you're lucky you have someone to drive you to one specialist after another, and all they seem to care about is their fee.

People don't need hand holding, but they don't need to put up with doctors who are deep in professional deniability.

I don't have a solution.

I watched my father go through hell with his cancer diagnosis. They had residents comming into his hospital room Palpating his liver tumor. The last straw was when this very young person came in, and started to lift his gown.

I had a feeling what was going on, but asked anyways, "What are you doing?" White smock, "Oh, I need to palpate the patient!" Me, "You are the third person pushing into his right upper quadrant, for no apparant reason? Are you a resident, and just learning on my father?" The person abruptly left the room.

All the doctors said we can't help you father, but we had to drag him into their fancy offices. And they loved his insurance plan. It was a good one. Paid 90% of whatever they charged, and they charged.

Specialist, "Well after reviewing your chart, I can't help."

Rinse repeat, after another doctor's office call. "I would like to see you!"

Done. I thought Pallitive Care would be efficient.

Then a call from a Doctor. "I can help you." He also gave a speech on drinking. I knew at the time, this little stocky dude was enticed by the good insurance, but what do I know?

Well, after a week, my dad gets the call. "I'm sorry. I can't help you." He did seem sincerely dissapointed.

Weeks later my father slowly wither away in pain. The hospice doctors never quite gave enough medication.

(It got to the point, if I knew a drug dealer, I would have gone out to buy heroin for my father. Great system?")
You can't force people to be happy, productive members of society. Imposing that on someone leads to bitterness and resentment. Furthermore, it's boring. If we all define ourselves as being productive workers, can't you see something more important would be lost?
I wrote a PR[1] for NixOS that adds a postage service. Just add the following to your configuration.nix to enable a postage web server:

{
services.postage = {
enable = true;
connections = {
"local" = "hostaddr=127.0.0.1 port=5432 dbname=postgres";
};
};
}

BTW the postage devs were very helpful in fixing packaging issues.

[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/27796
The value of trees is much higher than the commercial value of their wood.
The free speech part of Voat is great. I don't think it's so much overrun as that the only people there are the ones with radical opinions.

I wouldn't use Voat for other reasons, but that's just me.
Couldn't the longest game be infinite if it's down to 2 kings and they just move back and forth?
I'm hoping it will bring better search functionality, but the search will probably still suck plus ad gifs pasted throughout. Their search functionality has autocomplete as if it might know what you're looking for. The results are typically mediocre though. So here's hoping that they use the ad money wisely to improve the search algo.
Yep but even there the people with the large amounts of capital won once GPU's stopped been effective since they could afford ASIC's.

I think on some level society has always known this, having access to large amounts of capital doesn't guarantee you'd win but if someone offered me the choice between starting a game of monopoly with $100 or $100,000 I know which I'd pick.

Fun trivia aside, Monopoly was created to demonstrate that activities that promote wealth creation are more beneficial than ones that allow monopolists to run amock.
> It feels like you can go an entire career without switching databases.

I wish I could say that. I've done more than I care to count. The issue is usually one of the following:

1) converting between types of storage layers (SQL/NoSQL/flat file). I've never seen an abstraction layer that could handle MongoDB and later be converted to Postgres for example (a real migration I had to do once) and still do justice to either backend.

2) Hopefully you pick a storage layer for a good reason. For example, say you picked Postgres because you have Geospatial needs. Business later dictates you have to use MySQL "for reasons", what abstraction layer is going to help there to not require code refactor?

3) If you are doing things right, there's more than App code that interfaces with the DB. You've got the entire devops chain (backups, automation, etc) that will likely need to be rewritten. This can take an immense amount of work as well.

Anyway, not saying it's not possible, but I've found it a good litmus test of another engineer if they think moving to another storage layer should be simple. It's not always, but still more often than not shows inexperience or over optimism.
No thank you. I hope there's a simple way to disable this.
But what if Reddit, which has tons of great content, blocks access to Google search, focuses on building a really good search engine, and strongly marketing it via sharing search results in their platform, could this become popular ?

And while $200M doesn't fit a design change, search engines are expensive.
I'm guessing he's referring to this article:

https://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-another-product-disrupted-an...

Which had quite a lot of visibility a few years ago.
One thing is simply missing from the piece. You can't really distinguish between the civil use of nuclear power and the military use.

Maybe there is some reactor design which can fix this but the reactors which are currently being build are not those designs. Also they are build for 60+ years. A lot can happen in 60 years.

Discussing an energy source just by pointing about future developments is not the answer. The EPR reactors in Finland and France are several times over budget and took much longer than planed to build. In the time you could have build wind turbines and solar cells all over the country with an equivalent or higher amount of power output. And according to the current statistics every added kilowatt would have been cheaper than the last one.

Also you might now say, but solar and wind are not always available. But at the same time you think that all problems with nuclear can be overcome but not the storage of electricity?
I partly answered your question in a comment above. If you'd like me to go more in depth, happy too!
A huge amount of reddit users (I think 70%+) use ad blockers.
What is the rest of the forseeable future exactly?

If we use breeder reactors we can get the half life down to 500 years which is easily dealt with via stuff like glass entombment.

The current nuclear waste solution is ignoring a lot of advances from the 90's.