skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's competition in another sense. I'm east of Fort Collins where there's a pretty significant anti-government streak: but if Comcast manages to suck more than most government services they may have a problem.

They don't have to be the best or even only free-market option: they have to avoid pissing off their customer base enough that people vote for a municipal option. Not sure they're doing very well at that...
I don't see a problem if you have 50k total in investing 5k in a high risk thing. as long as 45k of it's in a more secure situation.
So did they solve the Trolley Problem?
The US established an entire Twitter clone in Cuba with the aim of fomenting a revolution.
To be fair, the game theory of the Segwit + 2MB blocksize "compromise" was well understood:

"Give me the whip!"

"Throw me the idol! ... No time to argue!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ920fat50M

This is why Bitcoin Cash was forked off from the legacy chain before Segwit was added.
Residents are generally happy with the other municipal utilities provided in Fort Collins.
> In this case, it's not that the grad student is getting to take classes (this is tuition we're talking about, remember) for the university, nor is it that the school is benefiting from the student taking classes.

Why not? The grad student's real job is research. The tuition is for classes to make them better researchers.
It's almost as if money in politics is the death of ethics. Almost.
I bought a Samsung 65" 1080p "Smart" TV 2.5 years ago where that seems possible.
Configurable and extendable Task pipeline
~"Capitalism is the worst system ever devised except for all the others." ;)

Until we get to a Star Trek-like unlimited resources, it is the best way to allocate our resources to properly incentivize progress and innovation.
If you are talking about dedicated servers: Those are unmanaged, Hetzner does not monitor those.

Regarding grandparent: What kind of hardware failure? I had to change different types of hardware in the past. For HDD changes you send a full SMART result + possibly the logs showing that the RAID kicked the faulty disk and they replace the faulty disk in 30 minutes (and one time even apologized that it took 2 hours for a low-priority-support server). In all cases the actual downtime was < 5 minutes, because of RAID. For possibly broken fans I simply stated that according to my Munin logs show consistent temperatures near the upper limit and asked whether they could take a look. They added an additional fan within 30 minutes, again with actual downtime < 5 minutes.

Most of my replacements were during the night in Germany, that might have helped, because there are possibly less requests in parallel. And I always had hard logs proving my HDD failures.
Well, that's arguable, but that's hardly the extent of US psyops. http://www.adweek.com/digital/us-secretly-built-cubas-twitte...
Still, not everyone is on an OLED screen. Especially on desktops.
This is an interesting line of discussion. How do you know you are optimally utilizing the hardware you do have? For example, is each machine running at near 100% cpu? Is the network card saturated? Is the database the bottleneck? How about the search indexing operation? What metrics are you tracking and how are you tracking them? If you're at liberty to discuss, it would be highly enlightening!
Was pretty curious about this until I saw that awful "e" word thanks for the heads up.
It's a rule of thumb for "normal" cars.

If anything it takes less power to stop just as fast as you accelerate because of this wonderful thing called the atmosphere.

The problem is that stopping as fast as you accelerate is still too slow to be satisfactory in a lot of cases.

On low end cars that don't have enough power to roast the tires at any speed in any gear you need more braking power than engine power because you need to be able to use 100% of available traction to get from 60-0 for obvious "think of the children" reasons.

Nobody cares if your Yaris doesn't have enough engine to use every available bit of traction to get from 0-60.

Basically "you should be able to brake 30% harder than you accelerate" is a good rule of thumb for economy cars.

When you start talking high horsepower to weight ratios or other vehicular "extremes" rules of thumb don't really work.
It also comes with an unmetered 1 Gbit/sec port.

Assuming it's perfect, and you push it for a full month, AWS egress charges for that 328 terabytes: $20684.
Maybe Uber is like an organizational Gaspode[1], in which so many bad ideas are all running amok at once that it all keeps working, somehow.

[1]: https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Gaspode

>is only still alive because the various diseases are too busy fighting each other to kill him
I still don't really understand why people were so against a block size increase.

I get that there are centralisation risks if the block size increases too much, but it doesn't really seem as though increasing to 2mb really make such a big difference?

Am I missing something?
And "preponderance of evidence" means 50/50 plus a feather.
Now what does Breitbart have to say about it?
I think it's more likely that the problem (bias) has always been there, but society is only now willing to even entertain the idea that it's real, despite the studies and data showing it is. I used to feel like you did, when I was a college kid. I liked to believe I had gotten where I was because I worked hard, not because I was a white dude. Then I got out in the real world and saw situations just like the one described in the study quoted by the article:

>For example, in one pair of reviews a female employee was described as having “analysis paralysis.” A man with the same behavior was praised for his careful thoughtfulness.
Yes, they have a history or doing it at home, too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
Hello Sam and/or Max,

I'm French too and I read your blog sometimes ;-)

Is the following what you suggest:

You create an index, and the index creation takes 30 seconds. Then instead of writing directly to SQLite (which won't work since the index creation blocks other writers) you suggest to store the write in a queue (for example another SQLite database for durability), and have a worker apply the write to the main database when the index creation is done?
I’d be curious to see how hardware stacks up against events/second end2end as well.

In fact that would be the single most interesting point.

At least a ballpark of say around 20 machines with recent Xeons with ~ X gb ram to process say those 8k/sec.

P.S. In fact calculation were fairly lax and it should closer to 10k/s.
Bitcoin will do very well...until it doesn't.
Contact Pressure for Rough Surfaces: A Tutorial
> More real world example an API at my work logs routinely more then 20M+ events per day, all indexed for NRT search. It’s just a byproduct of the actual work though.

But do your events require you to process gigabytes of debug symbol data per event? Or through megabytes of JSON sourcemap data to unobfuscate stacktrace where some operations are not even possible in linear time?

Don't forget a Sentry event is not a simple data blob we store. It requires very expensive and complex processing.
There are two problems with downtowns, in a tiny city, giant city, whatever.

First of all downtown already has a purpose which is to extract middle class home equity, run it thru the retail and restaurant wringer where 95% of businesses fail in the first two years or whatever. Its easy for the city to run downtown; the city doesn't have to worry about parking, for example, because those businesses are designed to fail and new suckers appear as fast as home equity loans can be sold so they don't need parking for businesses that don't have customers LOL. This also becomes self fulfilling, downtown is for dead businesses so why would I go there unless I had to because by definition the businesses downtown suck or they wouldn't be downtown where businesses go to die?

Secondly the downtown has drunks, criminals, crazy people, panhandlers, drug addicts in various state of withdrawl, buskers, homeless, and many/most cities are constrained to the light touch, which is nice for those folks, but also means nobody wants to go there. Crazy people have to go somewhere, and downtown has the church mission and a park by the river and a liquor store for self medication. I'm not even remotely interested in hanging out with those people, so I'll go to the Target at the interstate exit instead, or more than a generation ago I'd have gone to a mall where security is at least not non-existent. Your example of a park bench will have a homeless person sleeping on it, the scenic pond will have a drunk peeing in it, the cafes nobody wants to sit at because of aggressive panhandlers and the smell of excrement from the streets and alleys... You're asking for the whites-only exburbs where the average sales price is above $800K to keep out the riff raff that's 30+ miles out of town, I live by those places and they're cool but unachievable for 90% of the population. I live in the 3rd richest suburb in my metro area and even here our downtown is dying, getting overrun. The economy of the future is clustered around interstate exits not some arbitrary place where a railroad put a depot 150 years ago.
You only need to charge it if your actually driving the next day. So, that's generally less of an issue.

Worst case use an extension cord and most cars will charge overnight.
Here in Brazil there are hundreds of american NGOs organizing groups and events about libertarianism, free market, capitalism, neoliberalism and most of them if not all support selling national companies and resources to foreign (aka american) companies.
The real explanation is that cities make competing hard through well intentioned but misguided requirements. Getting a cable franchise means shouldering substantial public interest obligations, in particular the obligation to serve a whole city without regard to proven demand. (You can tell that’s the real reason because waiver of that requirement was the key concession Google demanded where it rolled out Fiber.)

Your financial viability as an infrastructure provider is do, instead by your uptake rate. Most of your cost is in passing each house. Your cost per customer is thus driven by your uptake ratio (subscribers divided by houses passed). Fiber deployments struggle to get to 0.4 or so, meaning you have to pass 2.5 houses for each paying customer. Forcing build out in all neighborhoods tanks your uptake ratio by forcing you to build in lots of places where people can’t necessarily afford your service.
Predicting Workloads for Improved Resource Management in Large Cloud Platforms [pdf]
> Retail is mostly about entertainment now, primarily for women. Women like to shop for clothes and try stuff on. They like to be taken out to restaurants and movies and go to these with their friends. They like to go see their personal trainer at the gym. They like to go and get their hair and nails done and gossip. They send their kids to the math tutor. They send their littler kid to gymboree. They have a coffee at Starbucks.

This paragraph is so ridiculous. All of it is just little patronizing insults about women for normal things men and women like to do. As a male, I also like shopping for clothes, going to restaurants and movies with my friends (women are 'taken'), going to the gym (women go 'for their personal trainer', because we all know they can't do it alone), and getting my hair cut and nails worked on (women also need to gossip). I've even heard tell of men sending their kids to tutors and gymborees and having coffee at Starbucks. Crazy, right?

It's interesting that you start by insulting the parent with this generalization about their 'alpha-nerd' status, and then drop straight into a parody of men's and women's stereotypes from the 1950s, and then finish with a pablum point about people still wanting to leave the house.
The Cloud-to-Butt plugin makes that particularly poignant.
you are correct. there is nothing wrong with giving humans the tools they want/need to be the better versions of themselves.
ARM Takes Wing: Qualcomm ARM vs. Intel CPU Comparison
> How is this news?

It isn't news. It's propaganda. NYTimes and WaPo have been spearheading a political/propaganda campaign against social media ( fb, reddit, youtube, etc ) to reign them in. The last thing the nytimes wants is competition to the propaganda arena.

Traditional media has been trying to get social media to fall in line for nearly a decade. The last election put a sense on urgency in the establishment and the media mouthpieces they control. Also it helps to scapegoat russia, china, etc for how ineffective the media was last election in shaping the narrative.
> so anyone not producing or repairing those things are superfluous to you

But we don't program in a void, right? Somebody has to create work for us and those would be the ones doing "superfluous" things. In other words, nobody would need our programming if all they did was supporting our programming.
Pointing out that poor people (especially poor ethnic minorities) have cellphones and TVs and that many have trouble finding and holding jobs without doing any further investigation of people’s circumstances or any attempt at empathy is a favorite talking point of race-baiting politicians on the right who want to drum up outrage in support of cutting basic social services and public infrastructure, so they can return the money to their rich donors.

But having a cellphone and a TV doesn’t provide someone a reasonable standard of living if they can’t also afford housing, basic medical care, nutritious food, childcare, schooling, transportation, wintertime heating, clothing, and the like. People who are lacking basic necessities like shelter and access to transportation, and who often additionally suffer from injuries, mental illness, chronic depression/anxiety, substance abuse problems, etc., and even more often face systemic discrimination (if only for gaps in their resume, poor hygiene, etc.), find it incredibly difficult to fix every problem in their lives by themselves and pull off a complicated and time-demanding middle-class lifestyle. Blaming them for their own predicament is cruel and counterproductive, even in those cases where there were a list of poor choices involved, and often has the effect of whitewashing situations where people ended up getting screwed by fraud and abuse (either systematic or personal). It is based on a fallacious world-view wherein people are inherently virtuous or sinful, and the sinful are both irredeemable and deserve whatever misery they get.

(Which is not to discount the benefits of gadgets: The prices of consumer electronics have been pushed down to incredibly cheap levels by massive economies of scale, people have a strong demand for communications and entertainment, and having access to such tools makes a big positive difference on people’s lives. But it doesn’t replace food and shelter.)
A Universe in One Line of Code with 10 PRINT
The latency you speak of is not noticeable to an end user, unless that end user is an HFT client. Great reference though.
yes it does. hetzner easy accounts for half of ours.

are you actually involved in mitigating attacks, or do you think it just sounds unbelievable?
>2. The whole idea of inequality, while potentially useful, kind of assumes a fixed pie

This is incorrect assumption.

The idea behind too much inequality being bad assumes feedback loop. If you want to grow the pie, every non zero-sum investment into production and innovation must be matched by equivalent increase in consumption that creates the ROI.

Post industrial economies are 60-70% private consumption, rest is government spending. All busines-to-business earnings flow from these two if you follow the money. Every product and industry has their money flowing trough private consumption or government spending, including WhatsApp.

If too much of the money flows into the richest people, they only consume fraction of what they earn. Rest of their money is spend buying property or investments (increasing property prices or recusing P/E values). Economy turns into rent seeking, ROI decreases and the pie stops growing.

All innovations that grow economy must pay themselves by producing money flow goes into the private consumers or to the governments pay collecting taxes. If private consumption is reduced, then either governments must step up and pay welfare benefits and invest into stuff like military or else the real economy slows down.

Growth economy is not a pipeline that has the beginning and the end. It's a loop where money flows to other direction and products flow to the opposite direction. Income equality is not categorically bad. __too_much__ income inequality creates a stunt that directs too much money into capital goods and reduces the overall flow.
The article states Uber stopped using a stacked ranking system.

> Microsoft Corp. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. have faced similar legal challenges; both firms and, more recently, Uber, have abandoned the practice.
the harmony works with my firetv as well. So now I need to figure out how to get some bluetooth protocol to work. I need a good remote for the raspberry pi. I'd like alexa integration too.

Now this just sounds like a project. sigh.
Well I think it's a multifaceted issue, but I am not educated on how your home itself contributes to the radiation profile so I left that bit of speculation out.
I think you make a lot of good points. Not having grown up in the US, I don't have an immediate aversion towards malls. And as a guy who loves fashion, malls offer me a way to checkout a whole bunch of different styles, which is worth the slightly higher prices (at least for me anyways). Besides, they do have sales when the prices are somewhat better.

But even I have embraced online stores. Every major fashion brand has an online store, and its just much too convenient to order online rather than have to drive to a mall etc.etc. I would rather, read a book or hang out with friends over a beer.

Which brings me to an excellent observation you made: most stores in malls are reorienting to serve more women. I think women love the social aspects of shopping (i.e. trying out new clothes with friends and getting their opinions) as much as the actual shopping itself, which is probably why many women continue to go to malls.

I think Malls are missing out on some great opportunities to be entertainment centers. They get the footfall; instead of orienting towards selling shit, they should be trying to provide some kind of experience.
I felt the same way about prison guard unions lobbying against legal recreational weed. Like, what even is a good thing you could pretend this is about?
I think small blockers are concerned that short-term fixes like increasing the block size will cause long-term scaling solutions to never be developed, necessitating more and more short-term fixes.
Serving a static web page 8-50k times per second and doing some really complex processing 8-50k times per second are worlds apart.
Preface: Whether these fears are reasonable I am not saying either way. I am answering your question about how a ban on municipal broadband could be justified.

Another way to describe municipal broadband: state-run media pipeline. Allowing the government to control the last mile of the Internet. Port all those fears you have about Comcast violating net neutrality, stifling competition, spying on users.. Now, increase the power from "firm that can put other firms out of business" to "group of people who can put other people in jail."
Indeed, especially considering how bad the exponential fit is for working set, it is pretty evident that it is not just growing exponentially, but faster than that.

Of course the article just had to include this bit:

> If we look at these results in graphical form, it’s very obvious what’s going on

When it really is not obvious at all what is going on.
Firefox tabs do shrink. Then, once they get to a width where shrinking any more would start negatively impacting the ability to use the UI, they start to scroll. Until you reach this point, the tab scrolling UI is hidden, so there's no concern for anyone who doesn't use tabs heavily.
Yet I don't see people claiming it's the fault of C++

A major driving force behind the development of Rust is that exact claim.
Ok, true. Some clarification is necessary.

We get hit everyday by 1-2 intrusion attacks as well as a few DDOS a month...and the intrusion attacks are mostly from anonymised address or singled-out ISP IPs...but of the ones that come from Cloud based organisations, 80% or more is Hetzner.

We've never seen attacks from AWS/Google Cloud/Rackspace, etc... but Hetzner shows up in our logs a lot.
What are the advantages of this over something like pinboard.in?
Ah, but if CNBC put that as the headline they couldn't spin it as part of an evil Trump anti-CNN conspiracy...
In the town of West Henrietta, there actually is competition for trash pickup as it is not provided by the town or county.
Braking power is proportional to mass and velocity. Larger mass moving faster needs bigger brakes.

Electric motors can be used to provide some braking via regeneration, but even so braking generally comes down to "how much heat can you dissipate". A small, slow (relatively speaking) city car won't have as much heat to dissipate, so there are more options when braking.
How REBEL Plays Chess [pdf]
Why do you think you can’t? Have you tried? If you have a business that looks somewhat like Apple’s does (producing goods in China and selling internationally). I don’t think it would be very hard to keep revenue out of the US tax system.

I would guess you could setup an offshore company in a region with zero corporation tax and conduct the majority of international business via this? Moving funds back to the US is trickier, but then it is for Apple too.
Google, the PayPal of data. Hope you don't need it when we say you can't have it!
Control of the society

What does it even mean ?

How do you make the government accountable, transparent and openly documented ? Mystery to me
> Driving is not hard. It isn't even remotely dangerous compared to many jobs

Hate to point out the obvious, but 35,000 people die every year in US because of driving. That's a lot of deaths. I would vote for avoiding those deaths - even though I enjoy a recreational drive once a year or so (all other times for me driving is a blood-boiling waste of life called commute).
https://www.leadpages.net/pricing
So, if a male commenter were to complement her on her sexy outfit, which category does that fall into? And who is harmed by a project called pantyshot? Or posters of sexualised fantasy/anime women in skimpy clothing?
Pretty good actually. My main gripe with the DMV is the time spent waiting in line. That's hard to scale. To make the line go faster you need to hire more people. Your driver's license is an important security touch point, so it's going to be hard to move away from getting it in person. An ISP is pretty different from that, right?
These companies are a LOT more than ISP's.
That is not really sexy, no more then swimming shorts. I don't know what all dudes in here have with speedo. I suspect Americans are picking it cause they are disgusted by that for some weird reason.

Sexy dudes targeted at women look different.

Also, electrotechnics is full of sex jokes. And I have seen presentations with bikiny or other women in them for no reason. It is not like sexualitu was not there previously, it is just that it was not produced by women.
I am just channeling Gary Bernhardt who is the best. He also tweeted at one point that we will oil snakes into extinction.