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> I keep meaning to dig into Fossil, but I have no faith I could convince a team to use it.

Developer or Fossil and SQLite here: I agree. In my experience, you'd have better luck convincing the team to switch from vi to emacs. For all its many and well-documented faults, the Git/GitHub paradigm is what people want to use because it is what they are familiar with.

All the same, I intend to keep right on using Fossil, thank you very much!

So here is the idea I've been thinking of lately: What if Fossil were ported or enhanced to use Git's low-level file-formats so that unmodified git clients could seamlessly push and pull against the (enhanced) Fossil server. Call the new system "Fit" (Fossil+Git). Using Fit, you could stand up a GitHub replacement for an individual project in 5 minutes using nothing more than a 2-line CGI script. Git fan-boys could continue to use their preferred interface, while others who prefer a more rational and user-friendly design could use the Fossil-like "fit" command. Everybody could share code, and everybody would have a nice web-based interface with which to collaborate with tickets and wiki and all the other cool (and to my mind essential) stuff that Fossil provides. And nobody who already knows git would be forced to learn a new command-line interface.

I'd be all over writing the code for "Fit", except that I'm already over-extended. Anybody who thinks this is a good idea and would like to pitch in and collaborate, please contact me privately. Thanks.
We should try to use as much as possible renewable resources and save precious, expensive, rare elements to be used only for scientific research purposes and space missions (propulsion and power plants).
We have many alternatives on earth but we don't have energetic alternatives on other planets and outer space.
We are just wasting the opportunity to go far.
> In general, no one cares. No one cares if you're partially wrong, no one cares if you're a little off or awkward, no one beyond your family/SO and close friends gives a flying fuck about your emotions.

Took me awhile to figure this one out, but once I did, life was significantly better.
Hrmf, did i get my CEOs confused. Could have sworn there was some BDSM stuff involved as well. Or was that some other FOSS project?
At 21TFLOPS for 400 USD it has good potential in the machine learning field, yes.

AFAIK AMD is busy pushing out support for MIOpen into Tensorflow etc.
Had a Dell 7537 (non XPS) and it is honestly the worst machine I have ever used, from physical reliability (broken hinges and parts) through to flat out non-functional components including numerous issues with Wifi. After falling for the looks, I've vowed never to get a Dell again.
Good luck ever convincing doctors (or the general public, legislators, etc.) to let themselves be replaced by machines. Working in healthcare, everything ML/AI related has to be worded very carefully as something that helps doctors spend time doing other things, rather than replacing what they do. People aren't super comfortable with the idea of AI in medicine yet, and physicians have a history of being extremely protectionist when it comes to their jobs.

What's going to happen when this starts becoming a reality is that doctors will start bringing up Dr. House level medical sleuthing tales as proof that machines can never replace physicians in medicine. Obviously this will just be confirmation/survivorship bias, but few people even know what those terms mean. I bet it will take decades for AI to be integrated with medicine after it's ready to do so.
Demystifying the Selfish Mining Bet
The Chernobyl 30 km Exclusion Zone is actually not that bad, apart from the slight radioactivity. Since there's no human interference, it's essentially a sanctuary for local wildlife.
Everyone opposed to public salaries thinks they're the special snowflakes with a secret sweetheart deal.
I half expected this to be a "format and install Linux" post
Others decide because we allow them too. We could make an effort to read less about the private habits of others. "That's private, I'm not clicking it." And yet for all the privacy advocates on HN, there's still a great deal of interest in salacious stories.
I came to a similar realization a few years ago. Helped a lot with dating.

You are the only constant in your life. The only person with complete continuity (outside any mishaps/substances). That moment you're obsessing over? To everyone else it's just a 3min awkward interaction with a random person they're never going to see again. Or a bit of weirdness in a relationship that's going to last a small fraction of their life if you're lucky.

Relax, do stuff, experiment, have fun. You're the only one who cares. Say something random, see what happens.
Any data hoarding and/or selling of this kind by anyone—credit card companies, loyalty cards, ISPs, Google, Amazon, creepy phone-wifi location spying in stores, anyone and anything like this—is de facto spying for the government. As has been discussed many times, keeping oneself clean of this spying (nearly impossible, but for the sake of argument) isn't enough because others' data leaks yours.

Anyone against government access to this stuff ought to be for strict limits/prohibitions on its collection by any entity. It's toxic and should be eliminated.
> The management competence and institutional knowledge needed to build these large, insanely expensive projects seems to have disappeared.

And whose fault is that? Not the fault of nuclear-power supporters and advocates! Nuclear didn't die, it was killed.
We are doing it today. We of course sell it as assisting the doctor. Partly because of things like FDA and legislation, partly because doctors and reluctant to change. In due time they will value the algorithms decision over their own and the balance will shift. It is like the chess computer. They claimed it could never beat them, they tried, and they lost. Our algorithms run against millions of other cases in milliseconds. A number a human brain cannot possibly contain no matter how experienced. And each new case adds to its power. Not only the cases one doctor sees, but that every doctor in the world sees. It's numbers really.

Healthcare becomes the next industrial revolution. Of course nothing is ready yet. Not only doctors but also law needs to change. When an algorithm makes a false negative, who will we sue?

Note I do not say doctors will no longer be needed. They very much will be. But their work shifts towards the social part of the job. Guide the patient, help him/her understand. Assure. Etc.
> It is certainly the case that trust in such machines could be misplaced.

Right but if that's the case, you're going to have to count them by hand at some point. So what do the machines bring to the table, if their whole purpose is to avoid that?
not sure where the confusion is.

below the marketing language this is exactly those 2 points. guess it is easier if you work in enterprise, this business speak is a different language. pretty verbose, low information density.
Chernobyl was not unlucky. This was organisational failure and technical failure - few to none knew about xenon pit and that positive void coefficient was a compromise at the time to fulfill the demands.

Fukushima? I'd say ignoring the known geological situation and dangers (no excuse for that IMHO) and the design of the backup cooling system that fails on a flood is also not unlucky.

It's compromises to save cost and ignore dangers both times.

We also have rotting reactors here in Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tihange_Nuclear_Power_Station
> Drones with chainsaws however are just plain badass

Original battle bots ++
Weirdly, every story I read about this as it starts to happen on windy/sunny weekends and holidays is headlined "Excess solar/wind blah blah" and when you read the story, there's still coal and gas powered electricity production happening at the same time.

Even in your entirely hypothetical example you say they're having to pay natgas and coal to stop production.

Is it just me or is that really weird?

I mean turning off coal and gas is kind of the point, isn't it?
No source of energy is clean, in that respect. The best you can do is separate one time production and continuing operating pollution, and account for both. Using that to show pollution per Mhh at 5, 10 and 20 year intervals should be sufficient.
What happened at craigslist?
Under 1 TB is still commodity hardware with many of these DBMS. 5-10 TB is commodity hardware plus a few extra drives.

Sharding, or splitting out into "big data" databases has its own cost, a cost which is frequently greater than the $20k worth of hardware.
Doesn't pretty much any kind of mail-in option* already have that limitation, and don't most jurisdictions already have some kind of mail-in option?

*(maybe not ones where you actually have to product a documented reason why you can't vote in person)
I had no idea either. I use it almost every day.
The problem with nuclear goes back to the beginning. The original reason for nuclear research, and even the first reactors, was to breed bomb material. Nuclear power was an extension of "atoms for peace" which was originally political cover to continue weapons programs.

Some commercial reactors are secretly used for this purpose even today.

Nuclear may have a bright future but it's extremely difficult to cleave energy from the state interest in weapons. And I'm not just talking about the US, this is an issue with nuclear power worldwide.

The biggest blunder was using nuclear technology for bombs first. I'm afraid the word is forever tainted by history.
> I wonder how much the health outcome could be improved by treating patients more humanely.

Treating patients more humanely costs money, while health care is just another business, human care is just for the people that can afford it. She is lucky to have you by her side. For you, she is not just a business, she is a beloved human being.
I believe they manage their own hardware in a datacenter
Doesn't this go both ways, though? You've discussed the worst-case outcome of using nuclear power at length. But I've yet to see you address, anywhere in this thread, the worst-case outcome of not using nuclear power and using greenhouse gas-emitting power sources instead.
This is basically Air Drop with extra features and an open API .

As @pat2man mentions, It would've been great if Apple and Google made this an open standard instead of having their own proprietary solutions.
> What needs to happen now, if the big media companies want to defend their constitutional protections, is that some media company that isn't Gawker and doesn't behave in the same recklessly malicious manner needs to win a case.

Which costs millions. Who should foot the bill for that?

> Thereby confirming that the actual details of the Gawker trial are in fact relevant and so long as they act like sincere, responsible journalists who treat their 1st amendment protections with a modicum of respect and humility, they don't have to worry about a jury slapping them with a $140 million punishment.

They only have to worry about spending millions on lawyers to argue the cases!

It's not just that media outlets are afraid of losing the cases. As a media outlet, if you have to argue the case in front of a jury, you've already lost. It's better from a financial risk point of view to just not publish anything that might get you sued.

The issue with the Gawker case is that it has encouraged rich celebrity plaintiffs with little to lose to sue media outlets, who stand to suffer significant financial losses even if they win the case. R. Kelly is willing to lose a million dollars for a chance to save his reputation, which is worth far more than that to him. A media outlet isn't willing to lose a million dollars to a piece that'll earn far less than that in revenue. Hence the media self-censors.
Fukushima was constructed well before the Chernobyl disaster. It was not a new, safer design; No lessons learned from Chernobyl were incorporated.
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> "Do I have to feel that I grasp the "Warrior" mentality in order to tell someone they're being rude?"

The point of the article is that for some people it's impossible to respond in that situation, hence the "stun-locked". You feel the adrenaline rushing, but something holds you back. The author describes this fairly comprehensively.

Also, if you look at this guy's achievements, he's no blogger. I remember studying his lock free hash table implementation at one point.

But alas, I do agree with you that all this stuff is pseudo-scientific, and could well use some epistemic framework.
Characteristics of PVS-Studio by the Example of EFL Core, 15% of False Positives
Quote Selected Text lab has disappeared in Gmail
Yes, and those same people who drive to work in a car are willing to do so even though there's a tiny chance that they'll suddenly have an epileptic seizure and plow into a crowd of pedestrians on the sidewalk. So it's clearly not true that people only care about worst-case possibilities, without regard to the level of risk.
You can't simply drop something into the sun. The effort required is approximately the same as to lift it all the way up there.
Amiga was well above the offerings from Apple. Amiga had a AppleOS emmulator and the Amiga was actually faster in emmulation then on Apple's metal.

My dad's friend had a store and we had a Mac sitting next to the Amiga and he would get so mad when we would run the emmulator on Amega and compare it to the Mac OS 6.

The Amiga's analogue color (4,096) was 8 years ahead of Mac's digit color which took FOREVER to come out. I was always so frustrated that people just asumed that the Apple computer was just better for graphics back then since it was SO easy to see the difference.

Seriously Mac had monochrome and Amiga had this! Amiga 2000 1987 tv commercial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I84Oir2G4aw

My friend had this beast and we had it hooked up to a WHOLE 1 GB Hard drive. We then got a Video Toaster for our church in 1991 and gave the computer to them. They used it till 2000.
Well, if you are okay with some nonzero additional effort, then kitchen supplies like an Instant Pot or a Sous-vide heater fall into the joint categories of

A) < $100

B) Saving $1000/year relative to a certain level of cuisine consumption.
... It may surprise some HN readers, but AWS outages aren't the only reason other sites go down. Having multi-AZ just means you're resilient to a localised, single-AZ AWS failure. It doesn't help for the 1000 other ways your service could go down.
High level of dissatisfaction on Google Groups, and yet, Google does not respond. WTF?

We should request a lot of people here on HackerNews to go to "Settings" -> "Send Feedback" and let Google know what a ridiculously stupid thing this is.
Facebook shut down AI engine after it develops its own lanugage to communicate
You buried the lede a bit. The image contains a slur in its proposal to kill all Jews
Take it from me (MySQL performance engineer).. if you are on AWS, the secret sauce is very tight data modelling.
AWS is very unforgiving if you use it badly - on physical, you could have gotten away with a lot more.
Some config tweaks will take you a bit further and smoothen those peaks, but data modelling(includes indexing, partitioning) is where you will get the most benefit.
InnoDB performance drops off if you don't have hotspots in your data access, and is still really good otherwise.

This doesn't take away from TokuDB though - which is pretty awesome in any case.
Google Calendar now plays nicer with Microsoft Exchange
I agree that the full environmental cost should be known in all cases, but I hope you expect that the bias is somewhat justified by the fact that uranium functions as a fuel while solar and battery materials are multiple-use.
> 9/11 happened because someone outside the government planned it and it didn't need that many to work. If the US government was behind it the way the conspiracy theories are told, it would have had to involve tens of thousands of people.

Would it?

First off - I don't believe the evidence supports the US government doing it. I'm not saying there aren't any unanswered or uninvestigated questions, only that the evidence we do have and has been investigated doesn't support it being an "inside job". That said...

Why couldn't Bin Laden have been supplied money and plans via say the CIA or something? Obviously covertly, in such a manner that Bin Laden wasn't aware that this was being done on the behest of the CIA. If the money and such were coming from some black-ops line item in the budget, and things were kept extremely tight inside the government agency and abroad, I honestly don't think 10000+ people would be in the know, or need to be used. It could probably be done with fewer than 100 people, and if those 100 people were dedicated enough, they would likely all keep mum about it, especially if the plan succeeded.

Basically, I'm postulating on the fictional idea that there could be a group of people, high up in a government or other quasi-government agency, who are (in effect) led and acting on a hardcore fundamentalist belief system that says that (for whatever reason) the US needs to experience this attack and for it to happen in such a manner to change things. Essentially, an inside rogue terrorist cell. Perhaps it was built up over the decades since the Reagan years (or even further back), with the idea that once large enough, the plan would be carried out in such a way to not implicate them, and ultimately install their guy at the top. Kinda a slow-mo coup or something, with the attack being the illegal precursor to the takeover via legal means (because of terror and fear pushing people to vote in a much different manner - perhaps manipulated as well).

Probable? Not likely, outside of Tom Clancy novel. Possible? Well - perhaps. We've learned of stranger things in history, long after the events have passed.

Ultimately, there's no evidence for any of this being the case, and it's just a fictional possibility. But I don't think it is something that would require 10000+ people to pull off; that's only necessary if the group doing the work needs it done "now" - and isn't willing to wait decades for the final shoe to drop.
Exactly the same as explaining to a paying, non-technical customer why you haven't found the bug at the core of his issue yet and thereby given a fixdate is not possible right now.

It's clearly broken, so why the hell is it not simple to know whats wrong and how to fix it?

And this is for software you've written and you have the full source code for.

Don't envy doctors at all.
> Margaret Sullivan is The Washington Post’s media columnist. Previously, she was The New York Times public editor, and the chief editor of The Buffalo News, her hometown paper.[1]

> A columnist is someone who writes for publication in a series, creating an article that usually offers commentary and opinions. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and other publications, including blogs. They take the form of a short essay by a specific writer who offers a personal point of view. In some instances, a column has been written by a composite or a team, appearing under a pseudonym, or (in effect) a brand name. Some columnists appear on a daily or weekly basis and later reprint the same material in book collections.[2]

The first quote is from the author's blurb at the bottom of OP's post. The second is straight from the definition of Columnist. I think her disclosure was adequate, as it assumes those reading her story understand that columnists' jobs are to give their own commentary.

[1.] Scroll to the bottom of the OP's article and you'll see the author's name and role at the WaPo.

[2.] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columnist
Show HN: TensorFire
They're hosted at Rackspace. I'm not sure if they're hosted on the Public Cloud or whether they have a dedicated hardware or what though.
The even scarier scenario is:

0) AI "becomes self-aware," hides

1) US military builds up arsenal of autonomous killing machines and nuclear missiles

2) US military connects all of these to the Internet

3) AI by default has control of these

4) AI wipes out humanity in massive, overwhelming strike
Exactly,

Heavy use metal parts are often milled/shaped into a blank, then forged.

Forging involves heating the part, then hammering it into shape using specialized jigs (reverse imprint of the part). Most metals have a grain structure, similar to wood. The combination of heat and pressure bends the metal's grain structure around the contours of the part. This imparts a tremendous amount of strength compared to milling or casting. Since milling generally cuts into the grain at arbitrary angles, while casting often creates a disorganized grain structure (there are newer casting techniques which give better results).

The parts are often milled again, to ensure exact dimensions. Then finish/treatments are applied.
HBO Programming Stolen in Cyberattack
RNA is extraordinary because it can encode information in a way it can be replicated AND perform chemical reactions like a protein would. It does both of these things way less efficiently than DNA for storage and proteins for enzymatic reactions.

It's an excellent starting point.
It's surreal reading the phrase, "History of the IBM PC".
I wish they'd lobby this harder overseas. I moved to Europe 10 months ago and one of my biggest qualms with seemingly almost every single vendor here is that they only take cash and in the rare cases they also take card, they only take some cards (sometimes Visa, sometimes Maestro, sometimes MasterCard, etc).

I would give up my purchasing history to everyone in the world if it meant I could use a single card to actually pay for 80% of things on a day-to-day basis. Cash sucks.
The way humans tend to overvalue short term gain and underplay long term consequences is well covered. This line of thinking bleeds heavily into politics and how our societies organize. Would like to know if it is actually an apex predator thing, it might just be part of being a mortal animal.
That's a valid argument. The one in the article misses out that rather important nuance.
As opposed to...the entire planet being affected, like it is with fossil fuels?
take short breaks ...

for me 5 minutes after every 40 works well ...
The discussion I have seen so far on this thread go something like this:

1. Nuclear is really safe. The best.
2. Someone brings up an incident that actually happened.
3. Apologists excuse the incidents that happened because
a. It wasnt designed right
b. It was due to corruption
c. It was bad planning.
etc.

We live in the real world here.
You dont prove nuclear is safe by excusing every accident
and actually using the disaster to prove how safe it is.
As of 2015 Craigslist was valued at an estimated $5 billion and had annual revenues in excess of $381 million. Not sure what it is today 2 years later but my guess is more now. Plus CL has been around for 20 years now. It is a cash cow and serves over 20 million page views a month. I don't really consider that a downfall.
If you're a backend developer who gets frustrated by the whack-a-mole quality of doing frontend layout with your current understanding, I recommend http://book.mixu.net/css/
Yes but little to no new stuff is getting fitted with this when installed outside of Germany. It significantly puts the price of installs up. You have to dump the power somewhere and it's not cheap/easy to.