skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shell invests in Nashville solar firm, but it’s no less an oil company
You read that? I took one look and noped out.
Canada legalized marijuana, the US did not react.

Mexico could legalize marijuana with little US recourse.

Heroin and Cocaine might be problematic.
You are on their property, on a domain that carry their first and last name. I think it's safe to say that they are free to use a friendly tone in that context.
Tragedy of the commons? I want all of my money lent out, but I also want the bank to have a reserve in case I need it, which means none of your money lent out.

The only way out of this is for customers to bargain collectively for the proper reserve ratio.
Is it possible that the online book is stealing some posible revenue that would come from support?
Yep. Came here to say exactly this (electricity takes all paths) and then saw your reply.
I had the idea, years ago when I still thought some day I'd write a programming language, that somewhere between type inference and programmatic type inspection that there is space for promoting a type based on your inspection. Especially if you're using Static Single Assignment inside of your compiler.

For instance:

Object foo = inputArgument1;

if (foo typeof function) {
// in this block foo is a function.
foo(bar);
}

Where this breaks down on legibility is when people rely too much on inductive reasoning (you can only get into this block if three other things are true... except now there's a bug so that's no longer true) or they keep reassigning to 'foo' willy nilly through their code. But if those are the sorts of people who lose out to the benefit of everyone else, I'm not even sad.
Care to point out where you think we're getting our meanings crossed? (In a way that isn't snarky would be nice).

And you should also explain why you think my claims of irrelevance are solely based on my whims, when I've provided my reasons right along side my claims.

If you were interested in a discussion, for example, you'd provide reasons why you think your arguments against curl-piped-to-sh don't also apply to, say, downloading software installers. If you can't do that, then those arguments are irrelevant in a discussion where curl-piped-to-sh is being singled out.
But part of the point is that in real problems you state what you want, not realising that other things might be necessary. Here it turns out to be necessary that C is on the ground, but that is something that the system should be able to deduce from the goals given.

As I've said elsewhere, this is a minimal example of the kind of thing that can be required. This sort of thing can and does occur "in disguise" as a tiny, hidden sub-component of real problems, where you, the human, don't have the luxury of going "Oh, it's obvious what's wrong."
As pointed out elsewhere there is a much simpler explanation available in the exclusionary zoning rules, that many feel in our daily lives.

* 41 percent of San Franciscans spend 30 to 50 percent on rent, despite a lot of rent control for longer-tenure residents and a population average income being $104k as well as median $77k.

* Zoning rules have restricted the housing supply so much that the median age of a San Francisco building is 1964, despite multiple boom times after that which should have lead to upzoning. http://demomemo.blogspot.com/2017/02/age-of-housing-stock-by...

* On the peninsula there is one housing unit for every four jobs. Cities have build offices and garnish the income from that, but forces the externalities on housing and infrastructure onto surrounding cities because city boundaries does not reflect where those fall

A lot of problems solve themselves when a one bedroom doesn't cost $3600 per month. We have plenty of space to build up and are mainly limited by zoning that.

There is no question in my mind that when even my tech friends can't afford to live on their own a normal middle class family is in trouble.
Other than a couple of occasions where things have run slowly, giving me time to kill the process I choose, I've not noticed any benefit.

Picking a random machine, there is 600MB of swap used. "top" shows where about 50MB is used (Hadoop daemons, systemd bits) but I don't know what the rest is. I guess it could backfire, since logind is swapped out, and I might want to log in on the serial console if the machine is very busy.
Montreal: $150 CAD for 1000/100 with Bell.
off the top of my head:

* non-equal-cost loadbalancing (give the Skylake boxes 25% more traffic than the Broadwell boxes)

* ECMP doesn't know anything about service health, so what happens when one app server out of 10 gets wedged and stops responding to requests?

* TLS termination on the proxy means you limit what machines need to hold your private keys.

* what if you want to load-balance or direct traffic based on something other than a 5-tuple hash?

* ECMP doesn't scale very well. Not all that long ago, at $DAYJOB, we had scalability problems because a certain large network vendor couldn't do more than 8 next hops for a single prefix.
Google Arts and Culture Experiments
> It's never going to be only about hard work.

The hard work idea is another manifestation of the Labor Theory of Value. Working hard at the wrong thing will get one absolutely nowhere. It's really about working smart, not necessarily hard.
Parsing c is almost trivial. It is the explanations, such as the article, through disjointed examples instead of the method.

A simple way for a human to parse a c type is to start at the identifier, go to the right as long as you can, then go to the left if you must.
What is being a freemason like?
Plea bargains (Verständigung in Strafsachen, § 257c StPO) happen in Germany, but not in murder cases, though a sentence might be reduced for a cooperative accused. They are more common in complicated financial crimes or small scale crimes like theft. There’s also a limited frame in which the judge decides on the punishment, it would be extremely odd that a potential sentence of 30 years is reduced to 2 years. Having less extreme prison sentences and a right to a paid lawyer reduces the pressure on the defendant.
If I were building a model, I would estimate my customers average hourly income and figure that is how to calculate break even in a time vs money calculation for a flight. I make 60 an hour (low for regular flyers I bet), a flight change adds 4 hours, so a $240 cost difference for each direct flight is realistic. That might turn into real money if you scale it.
How about Microsoft's AI School
https://aischool.microsoft.com
Not exactly what you're looking for, but I've been working on http://startyourownisp.com. It's focused on wireless rather than fiber but could still be applicable.
I recall encountering the claim that hospitals will mark up the initial bill because they are used to dealing with insurance companies, and said companies will turn over very stone possible to drive the price down. Thus the markup is done to ensure the hospital get their expenses covered after the insurance companies are done with them.
Ironically, the obese tend to have low overall healthcare spending. You die early and spare them the extreme levels of spending that typically occur during care of the elderly.
Bridgewave shipped 60 GHz products 6 years before Siklu... Ignore the Ignitenet, it's a USB 802.11ad dongle glued into a radome. It's a toy. The Mikrotik doesn't have the reach to be a serious product. You can use "real" 60 GHz PTP stuff at five nines at 500-600 meters distance in a moderate rain zone, the mikrotik is good for maybe 90 meters.
The Floppotron: Sweet Dreams
That's pretty interesting. It must be extremely risky for local employees to alert the main offices to lock down. I'd imagine obstruction of justice isn't a crime your average employee would risk.
> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Instead, please send it to hn@ycombinator.com.

Oops. Sorry.

> For reference, I can still flag comments, and one can never flag comments that are replying to your submissions or comments.

I see, it's just me then, thanks.
Twitter Employees View “Everything You Post” Including Private “Sex Messages”
It seems possible these particular articles fell out of Google's index for some other reason than they are not indexing "old" stuff. That's kind of a big leap to make without many more examples.
> ate the cost.

If they ate the cost, someone else paid for it. Which means that prices in general take this into account. I'm not judging OP, but saying that the ability to apply that technique is not= the solution to the general problem. (Healthcare is expensive).
I am always a bit surprised that HBase/Phoenix aren't more widely celebrated in the scale out database scene vs Cassandra, MongoDB, etc but a lot of people designing new systems as users of these DB systems have NFC what they are doing and I guess are swayed by marketing stickers and tshirts? G's BigTable/Spanner if you can afford to outsource..
Insurance (including Medicare and Medicaid) can and do push back against things they identify as inappropriate treatment. There are many problems with this system -- too restrictive in some places, not restrictive enough in others -- but in theory this could be improved to act as a reasonable check on rogue doctors.

Another relevant effect worth noting here is CYA medicine: doctors order tests aimed at catching highly unlikely conditions to protect themselves against the hypothetical lawsuit that asks "why didn't you test for that?" Whatever the truth is about malpractice suits, the perception in the industry seems to be that these cases are overwhelmingly biased against doctors if even one question can be raised about the course of treatment.
Hmm...I just tried on iPhone 7/iOS 11.2.2, and it still works, albeit takes very long to start.
The whole op-ed piece is weasel wording, really.
Applying CAP to come up with useful/practical conclusions is a lot harder than it seems.

The fact that S3 offers the form of strong-consistency that it does means that S3 is already suffering most of the "problems" that strong-consistency implies. If S3 suffered a particularly bad network split, it may not be able to serve reads because it can't be sure that a write didn't happen elsewhere. This obviously applies to new keys (due to their documented guarantees.)

To demonstrate why CAP doesn't say enough to be interesting: imagine building an S3 by starting with etcd (which is based on Raft.) etcd is CP but has scalability/availability issues, so it won't scale out well. Now run multiple independent etcd clusters and shard your keyspace onto those clusters. Now you have arbitrary scalability and your availability is better than a single etcd cluster. Now of course if you were building an S3 you wouldn't actually run it like this (the same process could participate in different Paxos/Raft logs at the same time) but that's the high-level idea.

My point: You can get arbitrarily more availability and throughput without sacrificing strong-consistency, except in some really odd scenarios (no machine can talk to another machine, for example, and you must replicate to multiple machines.) CAP is about 100% availability (vs. 99.9999999%) but some scenarios are dumb and 100% isn't usually necessary. The key to this is that keys in S3/GCS are independent; there are no cross-key transactions.

Eric Brewer (coined the term CAP) wrote about this with respect to Spanner here: "Spanner, TrueTime &
The CAP Theorem" https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
TIL children might cause cancer.
34C3 – Reverse engineering FPGAs
Ya, could do a negative income tax bracket and eliminate all other forms of safety nets besides healthcare.
I can't really point to a whole lot of productivity when traveling anyway. And, if I'm being honest, I will sometimes take connections to fly preferred (because of programs) airlines on longer flights. But, yeah, it's more time and that many more opportunities to have blown up travel plans that do lose significant chunks of time.
"Dissecting FPGAs from bottom up, extracting schematics and documenting bitstream formats

Event large
In this talk I describe the basic makeup of FPGAs and how I reverse engineered the Xilinx 7 Series and Lattice iCE40 Series together with the implications.

FPGAs are used in many applications ranging from networking, wireless communications to high performance computing, ASIC prototyping and so forth.

They would be perfect to create true open source hardware but we would still be bound to use proprietary toolchains provided by the manufacturers.

To generate a valid configuration file this toolchain needs to know every single wire, switch, possible connection, logic block and the corresponding bits to configure each them.

In other words you are required to have the blueprints of the FPGA in your toolchain to be able to do the place&routing and generation of the bitstream file from your netlist.

Naturally manufacturers do not like to disclose this information, possibly because someone could reverse engineer valuable intellectual property cores.

I will explain each component used in FPGAs from Lattice and Xilinx, like switchboxes, the interconnect, logic blocks, memory blocks.

Furthermore I will talk about how I reverse engineered the 7 Series from Xilinx and the iCE40 from Lattice.

At the end I will demonstrate how to create your own bitstream by hand, implementing a small logic circuit and testing it live on a Zynq 7000 FPGA from Xilinx."

Source for the description: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2017/Fahrplan/events...
Especially since Apple claimed this was impossible in 2014.

https://www.google.com/amp/appleinsider.com/articles/14/09/1...
>most preferred shares isn't just protection from routine dilution

There's some misinformation there. Preferred shares do not have protection from "routine dilution". In fact, dilution is the very mechanism to sell more equity to subsequent investors at a higher price. (E.g. When Accel Partners invested $12 million for 15% equity of Facebook in 2005, they got diluted when Microsoft later invested $240 million to buy 1.6% equity in 2007.)

The "anti-dilution" provision that VCs get is not for "routine dilution". Instead, it's for a really bad event called a "down round"[1] where the next investor pays less than the current investor. We could ask The Universe why employees don't get the same anti-dilution protection but I think it's a moot point... If the company is getting devalued, employees are gonna worry way more about finding a better job somewhere else instead of staying employed on a sinking ship. In other words, a "down round anti-dilution" protection for employees is kind of mathematically pointless.

On the other hand, the type of favorable "anti dilution" for employees that most people are thinking about such as as a 1% grant at hire, and staying at 1% through all subsequent positive "up rounds", and finally at IPO -- is something even VCs don't get. Nobody has that type of dilution protection. Not the founders, nor angels, nor any investors. The closest approximation would be a provision for VCs to pay for more shares to keep their % ownership the same. That's more like "pay to play" rather than "anti dilution". In any case, people don't need that type of dilution protection because what matters is the #_of_shares_ multiplied by _price_.

[1] https://www.feld.com/archives/2005/03/term-sheet-anti-diluti...
> On what basis are you making such a statement?

That's whats being thought on elementary school traditionally, haha.

You don't have to look far though. Look at the usage of Khat by Somalians and Kratom by Thai. If its easily available and socially accepted, its gonna fly and will be very difficult to get rid of.

I can't wrap my head around using meth. Speed alone makes my head swirl and everything go fast. Exactly which performance would be enhanced by an even stronger upper? Or is it people with undiagnosed ADHD who resort to meth?

In Europe though, I know drugs like these are used in clubs, but so is XTC (MDMA & relatives) and GHB. XTC seems to be more rare in Eastern Europe where speed is more rampant. Whereas heroin usage is on an all time low. But theres people who go to clubs Thu/Fri/Sat (yeah, it starts on Thu for some reason). And if they use multiple times a week, yep then it goes quickly downhill.

> That's why I don't think there's some kind of "large untapped market" for substances like these. Most people are still rational actors and if otherwise content and happy with their life won't start with destructive behavior on the sole basis of a substance being "super addictive".

Oh, I do! All these young goths who automutilate themselves (though a niche subculture, I admit), teenagers in general cause of being unsure as well as having to perform (study). If its more widely and easier available, its also cheaper, and more accepted.

To be fair, I've also seen people addicted to booze, weed, and cigarettes. Its just that these drugs are more socially accepted.
Why would this count as obstruction of justice?
The 10x thing is a common misconception generated by the fact that 10 is a nice round number that works well for this type of just-so story.

The Wikipedia article on reserve requirements has a handy table by country, from which you can see that the required ratio is actually less than 10 in most of the developed world.

In fact, several countries have no reserve requirements at all! Following your logic, those countries should be even more volatile than whatever is going on in crypto currency land. I think we can safely conclude your logic is flawed.

Mind you, I still think the whole tether business is extremely fishy. I'm just annoyed by the spread of monetary just-so stories that pretend to apply to the real world. Reserve requirements are a red herring in modern monetary systems, because central banks will always guarantee liquidity by acting as a lender of last resort.
Planks helped a lot with mine. Also, deadlifts, but I urge you to learn proper form.
> Hardware design is extremely important, and with Nintendo's commitment to continually finishing last in the GFX arms race, it's all they have.

I'd like to point out that the Gamecube was much better than the Playstation 2 in terms of graphics.

In fact, I'd say that they learned their lesson about being a "Me Too" player that generation, and began to focus on usability and innovation instead of raw speed. This is a lesson they should have learned from their portables, but somehow never applied it to their consoles.
"""The name is an allusion to "Aliens," in which Sigourney Weaver's Ripley character says "Nuke the entire site from orbit.""""

Oh gosh, what a meeting that must have been with the devs who came up with this codename. This should go down in Tech History.
I don't think that the US government would react drastically if Mexico legalized cannabis. I think that it would react drastically if Mexico legalized "hard" drugs, as ttul suggested.

On further consideration, I don't know if legalizing all drugs in Mexico would really hurt drug smuggling profits. The value of the product would still be much higher on the US side of the border. Legalization would just decrease the costs to source the drugs in Mexico. Lower barriers-to-entry into the smuggling business might reduce profit margins for smugglers as a group, depending on how violent the competition is. For a historical parallel, I guess I should read up on how Canada's economy and violent crime rates were affected by US Prohibition, when alcohol became much more valuable on the US side of the border than the Canadian side.
The US military has used phones’ on/off state in the Middle Eastern war theaters as an indication of potential terrorist activity. Based on other meta data like the number of hops to a known terrorist phone number (phone number A contacted phone number B which contacted phone number C which has contact with a terrorist’s phone number) and the temporal proximity to (assumed) terrorists switching their phones off and on, you got a terrorist rating. If you were unlucky, you got drone-murdered. I can’t find the exact source but this article[1] describes the practice of drone-murdering potential terrorists, and the Talibans counter-strategy.

[1] https://www.rt.com/news/nsa-drones-civilian-casualties-383/
The BSD style license is the problem. The LGPL license is not. They are fulfilling the LGPL license.
Bill and Melinda Gates Are Paying Off Nigeria's $76M Debt to Japan
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16124165
The Quantum Spy Author David Ignatius on the Future of High-Tech Espionage
I get that. Do you know the history of the CMS billing schedules? They called Dr. DeBakey and he sent a couple of his fellows to Washinton and they priced out every single thing. That has been revised, amended, and addended many times since, but yes, I'm well aware.

The point is that there's no shopping around in the emergent cases. You can't say "Well, in my incapacitated, mid-stroke state, let me check the menu of the 3 nearest hospitals for the cost of a stroke admission." It ranges from "nothing to do here, looks like it was a TIA, patient demands to go home" to "We need to take your wife to the OR for an emergent craniotomy and clot removal to decompress the foramen of Monroe. Right now. Because minutes are brain cells."
Texas Instruments' New Headlights Dazzle with a Million Pixels
Agree. AWS aurora is closest to spanner and would work for 95% of use-cases... master-master, cross-colo or geo-replication is great problem for less than 2% of companies...
Alerting the central offices isn't a crime, and whoever is in the central offices can vanish behind a wall of bureaucratic malicious compliance.
Google Project Zero-discovered flaw allows remote execution by malicious site if remote access in enabled in the client with no password set. This is not uncommon since people assume restricting to localhost will prevent access outside the host machine.
We may never get to know these reasons. Moreover, from the point of view of the author they might be irrelevant. What matters is that Google is not indexing them, whereas the competition does.

(I agree looking for one's own articles is a specific case - in most other situations you'd want to know Google's reasons very badly.)
Well sure. Consistency is great and for years most DBs people really used gave you all of the ACID guarantees. Then, huge scar came along. At extreme scale, sometimes you have to trade things for speed. But that extreme scale is a problem that frankly most people don't have.

So don't trade off a good attribute unless it's absolutely necessary. Seems sensible
Your assumption that "someone else paid for it" only holds if the price was directly tied to external costs and not their own profit.
Deliberately hiding or destroying evidence to prevent it being found by police executing a proper search warrant is certainly obstruction of justice.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1519
A few years ago they put up an old index people could, well, google in.

I wonder if they have any other index snapshots stashed away somewhere, I would love to do that again. Even if only to retrieve the urls of old homestead websites I had back then.
Freedom of Expression and the Flight from Reason
It's likely that the cost was nowhere near $12000. These huge bills are often the result of runaway price inflation and system-gaming and are totally untethered from cost.
Ah, fair point. The main difference is that the games I was playing were not explicitly designed for grey scale. If I had been playing on a GameBoy emulator, I wouldn't have even noticed!
at the very least conspiracy to obstruct
Hi HN! You found my site again. Here's the previous discussion from almost exactly year ago (warning, this links to the profane version): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13437182
Could have sworn that phone radios have a unique identifier independent of the customer id (stored in a sim or the phone depending on the network tech).
They should legalize the raw materials, unprocessed coca leaves, which people could chew. Unprocessed poppies, unprocessed Marijuana, meaning that hash, hash oil, etc would be illegal.