skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
200M users, 20 MB per user daily (optimistically) gives 4 petabytes per day. I'd say the average user transfer might be way higher in reality so we're talking here dual digit petabytes on daily basis. How much will it cost you on Vultr, Digital Ocean or OVH? I'm asking out of curiosity because I'm not much into hosting, but I think it might be quite expensive after all? ;)
> But you lose an entire city once in a while.

I can only see two cases of this. Chernobyl and Fukushima. Chernobyl was early on and they pushed it well past what their safety ratings were. Fukushima, they messed up on the calculations on the 1000 year tsunami. The latter is definitely a more reasonable case to point to "things can go wrong". Because that was definitely human error.

My issue though, is we're stuck with tech that is half a century old. This would be insane to do in any other industry. Technology has progressed, but it hasn't gone into industry. PBRs can be a lot safer, and there are a lot more fail safe reactor designs. We can do small reactors with high efficiency, leading to easier containment IF there is a disaster. I love nuclear, but I do agree that building these gen II reactors is unsafe. But the new ones? I think that's the only way we're going to tackle climate change within the time frame we're aiming for.
Their desire to protect it is legit, but it doesn't necessarily give them a right to do so.

A long time ago, companies that were compiling phonebooks also thought that they could use e.g. copyright to prevent others from using that compiled data for commercial gain. They were wrong, because copyright doesn't protect "mere aggregation" of data, as courts have ruled.

In this case, LinkedIn is not arguing on the basis of copyright, so it's a different legal argument. But the essence of the case is they same - they want to have a business model around aggregating other people's data and then providing access to that data, while limiting what people who access it can do with it. They don't have a right to this business model. If technical means of restricting access don't work, or if adopting them means that they drive most of their customers away, tough luck.
> I forget whether JDK 9 supports Graal and what the latest release date for 9 is

Java 9 (Oracle and OpenJDK) supports JVMCI, which is the interface Graal needs, and Java 9 is out on the 21st of September.

> Graal.js is released as open source

There's no news on this.
It is the safest and the slowest and most expensive.
Could it be that the surprise is actually at the fact of the materials being dumped into the ocean rather than contained in landfills and the like?
If the goal is to "teach them a lesson", it seems like a suitably chastened Gawker that actually survived would learn more than anyone else. They can't learn much if they're not around anymore.
This news seems to pop up every few months ever since it was first reported on about 10 years ago.
This doesn't improve the current docs or tutorials.
The UK has about 200 warheads.

The US has almost 7,000.

The US has never used commercial power reactors to produce plutonium, because they simply aren't well-suited for the purpose.
As well as larger more interconnected grids (probably utilizing HVDC).

It reminds me of this onion article [1]. Its obviously hyperbole, there are actual real issues to resolve but compared with building nuclear weapons and going to the moon?

[1] http://www.theonion.com/article/scientists-politely-remind-w...
As much as I can see those topics as being enablers of Libertarian ideals or as being "libertarian"-themed, I don't think the majority of their proponents on HN promote them for those reasons.

I must say, I did miss the discussions/writings on property rights. Would have been interesting, as it's one of the two fundamental tenets of Libertarianism.
> excgarating

I commit to re-use this as often as possible!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Excgarated

An inspiring new word invented by a redditor on March 23, 2014. The redditor was actually trying to spell exaggerated. This word was misspelled so horribly that when it was googled the only thing that came up was a link to the comment itself.
What if I build a new public search engine and LinkedIn blocks me because I am not Google or Bing?
They could stop potential (and much needed) competitors.
I can perfectly understand if you disagree with me and am happy to discuss. But I don't feel like anything in my post was misleading or incorrect, so I'm confused as to why I'm being downvoted?
I'm not sure that's a good example at all.
Frankly, acting as nonplussed and bothered is the best approach.

Ahole: Your code broke while demoing it. You're a shit dev and you should feel shit.

Example You: Damn right, absolute shit. At least I do a pre-demo check before trying to show my shit to people.
Well, this is what the SQL standard is for: to reduce the amount of work to be done in migrating between databases.

That said, I much prefer to put all this logic into SQL, and to use PostgreSQL, than the alternatives. There's any number of reasons for this:

- direct access to the DB is not dangerous if the logic needed to keep it consistent... is in the DB

- you don't have to replicate this logic if you add new front-ends

- SQL is very expressive, so you'll end up having less code using SQL than anything else -- this also means that RDBMS migration costs need not be as high as one might think, since there will be less SQL than the equivalent for the front-end

- updating business logic is easier to do atomically
I believe we had molten salt prototypes already at that time. If that design were favoured, instead of pressurised water, I bet it would have been pretty damn safe.

I believe they achieved relatively high standards despite the lack of funds anyway. (By the way, molten salt is coming back, but mostly lack the funding necessary to prototype bigger reactors.)
Actually, per Wikipedia, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has been known about since 1988

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch
One highlight point to me, is that as an employee posting on an identifiable account, you have two options: Convey the same view as your employer, or remain silent lest you risk being fired. (No matter how much a company claims this isn't the case, it pretty much is, particularly revolving around talk about that employer specifically.) I doubt there exists a public post where a Googler says they think Google should be broken up Ma Bell style, or where they state that Google's attitude on privacy is broken and wrong; anyone who said such would no longer be a Googler. And of course, since you're surrounded 8+ hours a day by people who generally find your employer and it's practices agreeable, you've got a natural bias anyways.

Therefore, the participation of employees adds a lean in their favor, and disclosure, if it doesn't neutralize it, at least flags it so people are aware.

Mind you, knowing you're a Googler, I did upvote your original comment, because I thought it was accurate and had value. And I do see the concern about people being dismissive of others based on their employers, particularly in comments not directly related to the topic being discussed. (Imagine trying to comment here with "Uber, Inc." after your name.)
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Jon Ronson on bespoke porn: ‘Nothing is too weird. We consider all requests’
> I'm not sure that any of these UI frameworks are going to get much traction, simply because they aren't as flexible, and don't solve web problems as well as the existing solutions.

That's a great point.

Here's a clarifying question: regardless of the quality of HTML5 standards, does access to inline svg DOM nodes fulfill an important purpose? If you think the answer is yes, then QML cannot replace HTML5 because its primitives are less expressive than SVG paths.
Unfortunately, your observation applies to all American companies.

Diversity can contribute value in many contexts, but diversity for the sake of diversity is a distraction. Homogeneity can also contribute in many contexts as well. Homogeneity and diversity exist on a spectrum and the right balance between those two depends on what you're optimizing for. There is no silver bullet.

That all said, the only diversity that really matters is diversity of knowledge, experiences, opinions and thoughts. Not all experiences, opinions and thoughts are relevant to the task at hand. Diversity of identity is generally a poor proxy for the type of diversity that has utility.
To be attractive to github users it would have to have a better issue tracker and a better patch review system. Given that sqlite uses a mailing list for both I'm guessing it doesn't have that.
When platforms become as ubiquitous as YouTube or Facebook it doesn't feel much different than a government regulating speech.
I have an XPS 13 and the coil whine is one of the things that annoyed me the most, seems like they don't care at all. I've briefly used a Thinkpad and on that front is dead silent.

If they continue to provide a model with a Linux distribution installed, I would like to support them and purchase their products again, but that defect is the only thing I would like to see it fixed.
Not just the rewrite but I worry very much about their entire current philosophical approach to transparent content vs view curations. The selective content filtering with r/popular vs r/all, the ever heavier embedding of native ads in the mobile apps, spez editing user comments in database, ohanian hiding in the background while yishan and ellen took the heat.

I fear the redesign is just a symptom of a larger widening philosophical divergence between the founders and the Ron-Paul-sympathetic user base.
> But it's not. LinkedIn's data is their entire business.

"There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea that just because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with guaranteeing such a profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is supported by neither statute or common law. Neither corporations or individuals have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."

> If HiQ wants access to the type of data they are scraping from LinkedIn, they can build that data themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R....
What do you think about a stable coin for commerce? Makes sense, no?
When Should a Child Be Taken from His Parents? – The New Yorker
Cultivating an enthusiast base is very much a viable strategy toward marketing a product if you also play the rest of the game correctly. Apple products are viewed as luxury goods because of their appearance and interface, but they also had a 'cool' factor to them as a consequence of being favored by creative professionals circa 2005-2010 when the iPod and then iPhone were coming into their own. People like easy-to-use, but being one of the 'in' crowd also has a huge influence on how people adopt technology.
Its especially hilarious considering Reddit really took off because of Digg making a huge re-design mistake.

One thing that drives me nuts about the new profile pages is that comments are not even shown on the first page when it was the almost the ENTIRE content of the previous "profile" page. Really silly to hide it behind the 2nd tab and only cater to content submitters who are a massive minority of users (but that's obviously where the corporate money will come from...)
Pressurised water reactors still rely on active security. Molten salt for instance allows passive designs.
Seems like Job websites like Indeed Prime and Google's new job product are serious competitors to LinkedIn.

LinkedIn is almost entirely worthless without the occasional good lead from a recruiter. I find it's mostly drowned out by the huge amounts of insignificant skin peddlers who dole out one worthless lead after another, looking for some fresh skin to peddle.
This is exactly what I was looking for!

Now if only it had an Android app, will have to use the mobile site for now!
I put my disclaimer in my profile and I usually make it obvious from my comment I work for Google, but I really tire of putting a disclaimer in each and every message, it gets tedious after a while.

Perhaps HN should implement some kind of badget/sigfile/etc extension for this purpose.

But I'll also note that in my response, I didn't comment on whether or not what Google was going is a good thing, or even going about it in the right way, I merely commented that the information being speculated on is inaccurate and that there was a crypto-conference presentation that gave some details of what Google is doing that contradict what some of the commenters imply.

I actually understand the skepticism and I think it is related to the secrecy of the mechanism and if a peer reviewed paper were published, it might do much more to alleviate fears.
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I was just having this conversation last night. My response was that in almost every sci-fi story where AI existed, it also was regulated. Usually as a major plot device of the story i.e. Neuromancer and iRobot to name a couple.

Additionally from another conversation awhile back a friend made the statement that scientific research should be free to pursue knowledge regardless of ethical concerns. That pursuit of knowledge was the highest goal, regardless of consequences. At which point we all universally exclaimed "UNIT 731 !!!" My poor friend was so embarrassed of their belligerence on the matter that they emphatically asked to be slapped in the face! Now whenever anyone in our group gets that defensive on a subject and is so clearly wrong they get a slap in the face.

AI's a tricky matter. It's unknown how advanced it really is at the moment and the risks are potentially very serious. It'll be an interesting debate to watch unfold. I hope we make the right decision.
How Amazon Is Installing IoT into Your Home
Honest question, why is it cool that they're re-writing?

To me this signals that the company has stagnated, or has grown beyond technology; it's an engineering team with no new ideas, no innovation, that's desperately trying to remain relevant in a company that is becoming less and less about the technology.

That's just my experience, but think about it. If a company has other revenue streams they can capture using new tech, how could they justify a rewrite vs. developing that new tech?
>design containment for a moderate level of failure

What on earth does this mean? When would an (as of yet) uncontained failure be considered moderate?
Reflecting on the founding, growth and maturing of Overleaf
We're all gonna make it.
>never used commercial power reactors to produce plutonium

That's not true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Valley_Demonstration_Proj...
You really think 200M people are transferring 20MB/day of gifs?

If your numbers really are accurate then it underscores the insanity of the valuation. If the costs are intrinsically high then you'd need a high value advertising niche to make this profitable.
A good youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFKQ85T69sYhifDHF7dnPgw/vid...

Kind of like a quick guide:

https://elixirschool.com
http://elixirbridge.org/02_Intro_to_Elixir/01-why-program-wh...

I think Elixir isn't that hard about syntax. Just start to do something and learn it on the go, see how people do it.

I have experience with it, quite nice:
https://github.com/yeo/betterdev.link/tree/master/community/...

Which power: http://one.betterdev.link
> Unfortunately, credit card companies/banks/etc have been selling purchasing histories, to pretty much all comers, for years.

Do you have evidence of this?
PFT looks like one of those blogs that is just made up stuff, but it is a pretty good source. I feel like their layout actually harms their credibility though.
That's not the problem. The problem is that ones opinions regarding the entity responsible for issuing their paycheck are inherently less valuable, and this context is important for others reading.

You might think you are completely objective and unbiased, as do most others, and maybe you are. But, most people are fooling themselves a little. Nobody will admit to themselves, let alone others, that they work for someone evil.

So really, if you want a place of real discussion and debate, it's important to tie people to their companies in cases where they are participating in discussions about these companies.
The Fallacies of Web Application Performance
This post is either meta or deja-vu... I swear someone commented this last week.
You can already get into a small-scale CNC mill for under $10k to make parts, look at the Tormach offering.

For better or worse it's a long ways from "machining/printing a part" to having something ready to sell. Even just dealing with aluminum (easy to machine), you have deburring, polishing and/or tumbling, and (probably) anodizing standing in the way of selling your new consumer part. Some of that is fairly easy to get going with - small scale anodize is problematic.
This news is unsavory for many of us as it breaks the bubble. In no world is it realistic that each employee report safety issues directly to the CEO. That comment when heard by internal staff actually says the opposite, report it to me and you risk your job.

[edit: I love Musk and all his visionary work. Consider it this way, think of Musks usual week and how much he's up to, now imagine on a day he's announcing a new Space X breakthrough that you are working on site and there is an issue with the batch of door handles that have just arrived to you from the warehouse. What should you do? Are you just going to stop work on the assembly and drop Musk a line?)]

[edit 2: Seems Musk didn't actually say he wanted to be contacted directly by employees facing safety issues, see below]
It's a lot easier to get your foot in the door when you're coming from a Google/FB/etc. In general, there's a presumption that you have been exposed and followed good practices and have a fairly strong technical background, although it's worth double-checking on some of those. More importantly, if you've worked for a company that I know follows bad practices or where other candidates I've interviewed have really flopped, you'll be tested a bit more than normal. There are really very few of the latter thankfully.
This is a great resource RE indexing: http://use-the-index-luke.com/
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There seems to be an unfortunate number of "TODO: Add image here"-type blocks in this. Other than that, a quick glance seems good to me.
I was there for most of that, as well as the shadow-ban days. I left and never went back because of that.
I think it's just an outcome of of the comparatively good state of the scientific community today which in turn doesn't necessitate contrarianism or radicalism. Galileo would probably think that r/science is among the worst of subreddits.
> Where does the outrage come from? We all know we all watch porn.

Let's say Politician A runs on a platform of making legislation and supporting other things that make the lives of LGBTQ difficult (or dangerous). He gets totally awesome support, everyone loves him.

Then it is found that Politician A is browsing twink pr0n on his work computer. Or worse, he is blackmailed because of it, becomes corrupted, then is outed for his browsing habits.

You don't think this can't have real consequences? What if this was found long before, and he is being coerced into introducing legislation by some more powerful person or group who will expose his (now hypocritical) habits to the public, unless he pushes for legislation that will punish those that other group/person wants?

That's only one example (probably flawed in ways), but people get really bent when a politician says one thing, but is secretly doing another and it is found out - especially when that politician is doing things that oppress others. Some call it self-hate, or projection, or similar - which it may be. Whatever it is, it is justified to feel angry over such things.

What I don't understand is why people keep giving politicians such "benefit of doubt" before electing them - we always seem to regret it in some manner afterward (sometimes only a bit, sometimes a lot - very, very rarely do we see or get someone who is a benefit to everyone).
It was a content model change, not the pixels that sent users to Reddit. Digg started allowing brands who paid them to have a firehose (RSS feed) post ability.
MyRocks is intended to be a general purpose storage engine for MySQL. It was not built specifically for the UDB tier.
You don't have to A/B test whether a good product is better than a redesigned crappy one.
"I hope we make the right decision."

Most likely only after a lot of wrong decisions. that's how history always has played out.
I think what works in dating works in such scenarios too.

You ask a girl out she says no, you have to just move on to the next one. You have to tell yourself she does not know you yet properly and it is her loss. Our brain is very good at forgetting failures over time. You do it sufficient number of times and you learn to take No like a champ. Spending too much time thinking about that one failure will only result in waste of time. Of course it goes without saying that you need to see how to improve things over time.

I was lucky to learn this lesson quickly. Every year I remind my boss that the salary needs to be either adjusted for inflation (and real estate inflation) or I should be put a performance improvement plan because if my performance is down you should not keep me employed.
Yes it's a consensus user-generarated content or facts are not liable to copy rights, I am not sure about the legality however it should not take long to prove as such.

I meant there is nothing that LinkedIn 'created' out of that users data. But it's little complex or little immoral to steal users data hosted on their infrastructure that costs them a lot.
I think you're missing the point. I'm not looking to have a computer in RNA that rivals a even a 6502 in instructions per second. I'm not looking to play Doom on it. "Performance expectations" don't even apply.

I'm talking about making biological modification and hacking as easy as the Arduino has made computer hacking. I'm talking about being able hack biological systems from your desktop by creating cellular machines that could be injected into living beings.

One day, enterprising hackers might use such tools to attempt to cure their own diseases, combat aging, etc. Who knows how people would want to use this kind of technology... add some THC producing RNA to yeast samples and make beer that produces a pot-like high?