skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sam Altman loves China; he'll ignore everything bad about it except the (certain) libertarian aspects (which doesn't conflict with the government)

EDIT: whoever modded me down, take a look at http://blog.samaltman.com/china or https://techcrunch.com/video/sam-altman-of-yc-china-remains-...
An intro they only use once is part of the "actual show".
This bit confused me:

> China bans all activists' commemorations and highly regulates online discussion of the incident, including censoring criticism. But it is marked annually by activists elsewhere in the world, particularly in Hong Kong and Taiwan. [Emphasis added.]

Hong Kong is part of China, albeit as a special administrative region. So does the ban not apply in HK? Or does it apply in theory, but in practice is not enforced? Or are HK-based activists just more willing to flout the ban?
Not bad $300 retail. Looks like a great way to get into microtuning and atonal scales for electronic music as well ;)

https://www.midi.org/articles/microtuning-and-alternative-in...
The last one. There's no stopping these activites in Hong Kong. (for the moment)

It is becoming very clear however, that a serious crackdown from Beijing is coming. Not on this particular incident, but in general on the political freedom in Hong Kong. It is becoming undeniable China demanded Hong Kong back in order to destroy it.

But when it will arrive. Good question.
A couple things to unpack here:

Firstly, I'm not sure we're reading the same article, but by my summary count, the total death toll for all combined US war crimes detailed in that article isn't much more than 10,000.

Next, the veracity of some of those claims is questionable at best.

Finally, it should be noted that the Tiananmen Square protests, were, in fact, protests. This was not an action against civilians during war time, this was an action taken by a government against it's own citizens who were protesting.

Is killing unarmed soldiers or civilians in war time justified? Generally no. But it's a different type of crime when you're in the middle of a war zone. Humans don't deal well with the insane nature of war, and so they do horrible things. That's not an excuse, mind you. But I think collateral damage in a war and civilian casualties in a war zone are very different scenarios than Tiananmen Square.
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> plans already in place to replace these systems

I think a typical mainframe customer is more likely to just cease to exist due to random chance/bad business decisions/market shifting/stuff than it is to move off mainframes to another platform. We're talking about very long time spans and very stable systems here.
What else is new.

Let me guess: they’re paid by the government so they need to make an extra buck.
I miss plan9/9front's plot(1) too.
No, it doesn't exists on any BSD or GNU OS as base.
And no, Gnuplot is an extra and is not actually a GNU tool.
OpenBSD guys should create a BSD plotutils counterpart.
MacOS 10.13.2 has serious problems with network shares
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Lest we forget, this is still the same government that mowed down 10,000 innocent lives, that still runs China today. They've gotten better at hiding behind marketing, propaganda, and strong arming other countries, but they're still ruled by a small, powerful group of elders that control every aspects of Chinese people's lives.

It's sad that we keep feeding this dangerous psychopath which threatens democracy and freedom worldwide. This psychopath will eventually cause harm to a few countries (Taiwan, South Korea) when said and done, maybe enable North Korea to strike a few nuclear missiles into Los Angeles or Tokyo, who knows.
Well if you want to nitpick, isn't what you describe communism instead?
I guess the value of the land isn't all that high. It's already a particularly empty part of the pretty empty US.

And as far as protecting land value, that shouldn't be funded at a national level (it could be somewhat subsidized by cheap loans or something), it should be funded by the owners of the land.
Still not fair comparison, as these were also "their own". Not saying "us vs. them" is something to aspire to, but I think we can all agree that a military's responsibility to their own populace is a bit larger than their responsibility to an enemy populace.
Great example of how we must be ever watchful. Consumer protections are a must.
Given how prevelent these rulers are in the industry, it seems a little disingenuous for the article to make it sound like it was dreamed up from scratch. More like “this type of ruler is a good idea, we should have one of our own”.
Not sure what you mean about Waymo/Uber. Are you suggesting it’s just an act of poaching as opposed to theft of tons of coincidental intellectual property and industrial espionage?
Let me guess: Your ISP is injecting fake DNS responses.
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Forever is such a long time. There are no new projects started on mainframes and there's a definite, if still quite flat, trajectory towards moving things off the mainframe. So eventually it will die, but it will be decades.
Sure, but they will also raise prices and charge for fast lanes to make up that spending and more.
Project Fi gives you, in their own words a "contract-free plan". It isn't supposed to be some kind of year-long service or something.
Don’t Fear the Call for Papers
apt install whois
> What do you want people to do, to treat their feelings like jurors, "that evidence has been obtained improperly, you are instructed to disregard it."?

You seem to be saying that the feelings of anyone in a community should serve as a veto on anyone else's membership in the community. Am I understanding you correctly?
Oh, for sure.

If the poster's gonna compare apples to oranges, though, they should at least compare the full apple instead of a tiny sliver of it.
I just went to my local phone shop and had them replace my iPhone 6's battery. It was almost unusable before, now it runs like it did new.

Apple needs to handle this in a different way; at least making it obvious for their users what is going and giving them options on how to handle it.

However since I use my phone every day; I can't really what for that and a battery replacement or a new phone were my only options.
Probably not in the short term because the products are targeted at different market segments. Kubernetes, as one would expect for a Google product is targeted at operations staff. Docker Swarm, like Docker, is targeted bottom up from individual developers. Swarm extends Docker. Kubernetes extends servers.
China's economic growth in the last couple of decades has in a way been terrible for the long-term future of Hong Kong. When Hong Kong was transferred from the British to the Chinese, there was some question about whether you could have the prosperity of a market economy without the political freedom of a democracy. I'd imagine China was hesitant to mess too much with Hong Kong in fear of killing its economy. But it turns out that you can have markets without democracy; you need the rule of law but it doesn't matter if people get to vote on the government that makes the laws. That eliminates the long-term incentive to maintain Hong Kong as a separate system.
Not to mention the support (or notorious lack-thereof) that Google seems to provide.
Color me jaded, but I'm pretty sure this happens in every industry across the world.

http://www.vocativ.com/212533/big-tobacco-doctors/index.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4778168/US-doctors...
I'm very confused. The biggest opponent of spying technology has built a closed source monitoring app and wants us all to use it?

Please correct me and tell me it's completely open source.
We dual write event data to BigQuery and Redshift. BigQuery is incredibly cheap at the storage level, but can be pricey to run queries against large datasets. Personally I am not a fan of paying per-query.

Historically BigQuery data was immutable. You could delete a table, but you couldn't modify or delete a single row. That support was added recently, but there are daily limits imposed on those actions.

I'm a big fan of immutable data, up until you find that someone made a mistake somewhere. Naturally you can make modifications in ETL, but if you do that long enough your ETL job is a mess of time-based if statements.

We originally moved to also support Redshift because of BigQuery not supporting row level updates at that time. Someone on the content site would forget to put an & between URL params and our source data would be busted. Like I said, immutable data is great as long as you never make mistakes...

I'm also not a huge fan of nested records. If you use BigQuery, do yourself a favor and make sure you have a uuid field (it's a good practice any way). When you get data back from the client it can be a pain to piece records back together (nested records come back as single rows for the most part). This makes certain queries really fast, but it can be a pain to work with in aggregate.

My preferred setup these days is to dual write to Redshift and BigQuery. We run almost all analysis off of Redshift, but have a natural backup of data stored elsewhere. And like I said, BigQuery storage rates are dirt cheap. And if our Redshift cluster goes down for any reason, we can hop over to BigQuery to find what we need (and backfill any missing data points).
Ask HN: Has working remotely harmed your career growth?
There’s a lot of talk about remote work nowadays. But has the lack of being able to be with co-workers harmed your career over the long run? Especially if the team is a mixture of remote and co-located people? How have you tried to mitigate that?
Congrats on launching, Zach! Wondering if massively mutltiplayer CLI games are the Next Big Thing for procrastinating programmers? Instead of something that requires 30 fps rendition, however, it may be prudent to start with an HQ Trivia style multiple choice live game show ;)
How would our current civilization weather an Ice Age?
> So don't use them for 2-factor authentication anywhere.

Don't use phone based 2FA if you can avoid it. TOTP is always better.
Scientists identify hidden genetic variation that helps drive evolution
I have used both. My biggest aha moment with BQ was realising it isn’t “sql to query a database”, but “map reduce as a sql”. Redshift really feels like a DB: I’m always worrying about the number of the runtime complexity of my sql, the number of nodes in my fleet, how my joins work, it just feels like a big big DB. BQ is less like that. I’m thinking in terms of memory complexity of my operation : N, log N, etc. Always having as many nodes available as it can be parallelised to. You’re writing a map reduce job on your data, and it’s... it feels like the more appropriate boundary for abstraction.

This is a bit hand wavy, but there is really no better way to get a feel for it than to try it. And think of it less as a db, and more as a map reduce cluster :) if that helps.
Yes! A classic:

GDC Vault - I Shot You First: Networking the Gameplay of HALO REACH

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014345/I-Shot-You-First-Networ...
> *
Please correct me and tell me it's completely open source.*

Ok: https://guardianproject.github.io/haven/
Thanks. Important bit for them to leave out of the article..
You ever see the shock and awe videos of Baghdad? That our government approvingly worked with cable news to make sure everyone saw it? For an operation very much not endorsed by the UN or international community?

Good thing that's not a war crime, though.
cash would mean smaller profit margins and less of a spectacle

A 60 inch TV sounds more impressive than $200
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Having helped a few people sign up for the Project Fi service (and deciding not to myself) I can tell you that Google is very clear about the implications of setting up Fi when you currently have a Google Voice number.

Google has decided you can only have one number.

So you can either port (yes it is an actual port) your number from GV to Fi when you sign up, or you can get a new Fi number and give up your GV number.

The author has nobody to blame but himself if he's confused about what happened here.
The host often mentions the number of viewers, so it'd be weird for them to be having multiple different numbers. The numbers might not be real, but this would imply they should at least be consistent.
The thing being "spent" is no longer electricity but rather is the value of the work being completed.

That means the value would change if new ways to solve the problems arise. But currently the value changes based on your electricity bill (new tech could disrupt that too).
Sweden or Germany?
With all due respect for the research or the researchers, and if I read the paper correctly, they discovered that inducing vibrations to something sensible to vibrations (at a given "right" frequency of course) causes malfunctioning of the something.

And, though technically it can be said (as stated in the conclusions) that the technnique may represent a "non-contact DoS attack", the experiments with speakers placed at 15 and 25 cm from the device cases don't really qualify for "feasability of real-world attack".

I mean if you can get access to be able to place a speaker within 15, 25 (or even 500 cm for that matters) from a device, there are much easier ways to attack it.

If you could somehow transmit the sound waves/vibrations with enough intensity to be able to affect a hard disk from another room or from the outside of a building, then that would be a feasible realworld atttack.
I think it's a bit silly to request someone to edit their comment. If you have a good point, then your comment will stand alone without the demand.

But I've reread both comments and I still can't spot the outrage.

It seems to me that you think "society has transitioned to office work" somehow means that all people not working in an office are not part of society. Not quite sure yet though because you seem to want everyone else to draw the final conclusion for you as if it were self-evident after linking to google image search for a lean-to.
Writing a personal automation API
Ive had that happen. Only killed 1 or 2 disks but it knocked a lot more disks offline requiring a reboot. Not bad out of 2 racks I guess.

In that case the valve holding back the gas failed so it was an unexpected release. Would not have wanted to be in there at the time - no warning!
What if you find out about their view from someone else? i.e. their "actions" do not happen in your presence, but in their private life.
A (medium-length) primer on energy, greenhouse gas, intermittency, and nuclear
Coal plant shutdown results in fetal health improvement
But wouldn't the discovery that your living in a simulation be part of the simulation? Would it mean that there is no such thing as free will?
They do mention that you'd essentially need a spare phone, and that you'd most likely have to have it plugged in 24/7
Are there any databases successfully in production in high-value transactional environments other than oracle or DB2? I have to believe a lot of the pain coinbase is experiencing stems from their decision to use mongodb - which I love and use daily, but would never, ever have chosen over Oracle for high transaction bitcoin exchange.

I wonder if anybody has done a write up on this oracle/db2 versus “others” in the super-high-value back office scenario.
Would have been interesting to hear about "what not to talk about", if there's anything.

I do think his point about talking to an audience adjacent interests is a good idea.
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No mention of the cause: Diverting the Mississippi River. In the 20's / 30's The Army Core of Engineers built a series of levees to redirect the Mississippi to flow east of its natural course. Before then, the river would seasonally shift back and forth (think of the end of a garden house spraying left and right).

It naturally wanted to flow into the Atchafalaya Basin, instead all the silt and sand that would've gone into building the wetlands is being diverted and dumped directly into Gulf.

Look at a map sometime and you can clearly see it, the "toe" of Louisiana (south of New Orleans) is growing out into the gulf, this is the trillions of tons of silt and sand. Meanwhile the "heel" is shrinking, as the Gulf slowly erodes it.

Note: This is not an anti ACoE diatribe. Its just that anytime this story gets national coverage they fail to mention the cause, which is locally well known and well understood.
Did recount judge have a conflict of interest?
I like this example (especially as the dataset is simple, but new to me).

For something simpler, starting from very shallow networks (and expanding them step by step), I wrote "Starting deep learning hands-on: image classification on CIFAR-10" https://blog.deepsense.ai/deep-learning-hands-on-image-class....
I and another couple I know of are married/engaged 5 years after meeting on OKC. Maybe it's more effective in rural environments? Social meetups don't really exist outside of major cities, and finding compatible partners is difficult in lower population areas.
I didn't down-vote you but whomever did, probably did it because you didn't read the article.

Second paragraph:
"At 62-years-old, she was the youngest member of the team, but all the members had something in common beyond their age: none had ever played Counter Strike before."
How about syntax highlighting?

Keep up the great work on usql
Nice. But I'm sure there must be at least 4-5 such apps that were made, but never got much traction. I have seen apps that monitor surroundings using the camera, but someone must have combined all sensor data before as well.
Start deep learning hands-on: image classification in Keras on CIFAR-10
I think SAP keeps Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise on life support due to it still being used for financial applications.
Shock and awe was a brief bombing campaign that hit military and administrative buildings late at night when they were empty. I saw the buildings. They were not apartment blocks. If anyone died in that campaign it was purely by accident.
I was easily able to port my Google Voice number back after leaving Fi.
John McPhee wrote about this. Not everyone forgets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Control_of_Nature
Wow! Even today I have a transcriptionist and assumed "transcribe" meant they have have a mechanical turk-like service doing that. And I have Fi. I do think I have at times seen the speech-to-text conversion improved.
> You ever see the shock and awe videos of Baghdad?

The ones using precision munitions on generally evacuated government buildings?

You're really going to try comparing that to massacring unarmed protesters?
I am more than happy to address your concerns.

You are absolutely right about the wealth inequality. There are also deep inequalities within Malaysian society not just along socio-economic lines, but also racial lines. It's a complex, multi-faceted issue.

My comment was intended to be a simple set of observations about diet and the broader society of Malaysia, relating to the one of the article's points: Rising obesity.
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So you want me to install surveillance software on my phone to stop other people from accessing my phone?
The monster beneath: the volcano underneath Naples
For some definition of "value". The reality seems to be that much of Louisiana is terribly polluted. People are stuck in homes which have lost much of their value due to both encroaching industrial plants and (thus) poor environmental quality. I just finished reading Strangers in Their Own Land, and the author goes into a lot of detail about this.

I had never heard of salt dome storage until reading this book. Scary stuff.

https://thenewpress.com/books/strangers-their-own-land
Both investment banks I worked at were massive Sybase ASE shops. Oracle costs too much for what you get.
"...preventative measures for the moment..." doesn't sound particularly reassuring when making long term real estate investment decisions. But I suppose people who buy property in Miami Beach don't really care about losing the 10 million they put into that condo or whatever. That's probably a rounding error for those people. And I'm pretty sure there is no critical infrastructure in Miami, so it wouldn't matter to the rest of us anyway.

Places like New Orleans, Norfolk, Portland, Houston, New York etc should probably take priority. Those are the places where if they disappeared tomorrow, people in other places in the US would definitely feel a pinch. Not just the US either... if some of those ports disappeared, it would directly affect the nutritional intake of children in other parts of the world.
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Is Azure SQL Data Warehouse comparable to either of these? It's distributed on the backend, and more or less standard T-SQL on the front end.
See also "Stranger Things Alphabet Wall, Part 2: MQTT in the Upside Down"

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2017/12/22/diy-alphabet-wall-m...
I stumbled across his videos about a month ago and couldn't stop watching. Great stuff!
You become smarter until roughly age 25. Naturally, your brain needs more of a challenge then.

Is Factorio popular among kids?
Its not a ideology - a ideology can be questioned and challenged, but to question the absolute truth, that must be madness, heresy and regression.

What i really miss, is a discussion about the "value" Californian culture creates, as these are quite different. Some are universal beneficial, and some are just plain redistribution of pre-existing wealth cycles with shock and awe.

Ueber e.g. compared to actual, value creating innovations is one huge disappointment, its basically the recreation of the taxi-industry with new owners.
And this kind of worthless pseudo-innovations, who antagonize the rest of societys world-wide to Californian culture have become a rather large percentage of the created "value" over the years.

We already can see the toxic outpoor created by these well disguised redistribution hacks on societys structure, as hatred is shoveled towards societys outliers- and once we are Peak Scapegoat, the attacked party, will turn on us. All those counter-culture propagandists will do, what they always did, when the water gets hot and turn on a dime on us.

As all revolutions in history, this one will eat its children.
So one should buy a bathtub and seasoning for the occasion.

At least we saw it coming, years ahead- although we couldn't prevent it.

'It was late night, when the Primepurge reached its peak.One by one in the highrise nearby, the lights had flickered out, and now the carnage could be heard in the floors below.
Or was it just techno with a bad vocal? Maybe everything was good and under control again, maybe the spiral of insanity had stopped turning. Then the cellphone chimed.
'Your package has arrived' the device exclaimed happily, while the videofeed showed, several hooded figures with guns and knifes drawn from there delivery packages, slipped in through the door.
For a moment, the disconnected cables, a protection symbol against the bad spirit of the Aglos shimered, then the lights went out and the lifesign trackers at the inhabitants wrist, one by one started yelling for help.'
I wonder if you could change what a HDD writes or reads with a specific pattern of vibrations, making it "fail" selectively.
This is a nice toy application. Yay .. something other than MNIST! Is there a similar toy application for RNNs/LSTMs? I don't find the standard text generating application to be compelling. I've been looking for a simple dataset for teaching/learning purposes ... something like accelerometer or acoustic data. Haven't found a great one yet for recurrent networks.
The Apple A series processors are ARM based...
Will MUDs make a comeback?