skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In my research, raft followers would still be thinking for themselves.

There is a lot more going on than vanilla raft. Cockroach's range lease feature (which is NOT the same as the raft leader election) automatically moves the lease to the node that minimizes latency. You can control this behavior via meta data and matching rules. I'd suggest skimming: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/demo-follow-the-wo...

Again, you're making a lot of assumptions that seem rooted in "cockroach == a raft cluster". There's a lot more going on than that.
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> existing citizens who own and live in these locations take priority

Yep, wealthy land owners, clearly the group that needs protecting.

Actually, can anyone name a major US city where most of the growth came from itself, rather than an influx?
18F always had the air of a demonstration project in all but name: in the long term, government IT needs either are so different from industry that hiring short-tour private industry vets the way 18F is structured to is nonsense, or (and I think this is more likely) are similar enough that what needs to happen is that government hiring and treatment (including, but not limited to, pay) of IT staff (including IT managers, not just technicians) needs to improve so that they are more competitive across the board in hiring the best people, not just having a place where they attract a few people to try to fix the messes that the rest are making, whether through inadequate technical skills or poor management of tech programs and staff. So it probably should have withered, one way or the other.

But what seems to be happening is neither of those, but just general neglect. But that is kind of par for the course in this Administration when the office isn't one with enough connection to hot-button partisan issues to be the target of outright malice.
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There are a lot of things tech doesn't do right. But tech, in this context, is just a growth industry. There will be another growth industry in 30-50 years, and the exact same pressures will happen again. Will these cities be capable of supporting that industry? Or do they want to remain small towns for their existing population forever? Or, worse, do they want to treat tech as some sort of special case, so they can have entire abandoned neighborhoods full of overbuilt property just for Google because they thought there will never be another Google and they have to do special things for Google in particular?

NYC at least decided to take the first route decades ago, and has survived lots of industries moving in and out.
> The European system

Thats not a thing. In Switzerland you pay healthcare yourself to a private company as well. As well as most of your pension savings are on a private contract. I am also certain Childcare needs to be paid out of your own pocket in nearly all countries around here. Except you are thinking of "Kindergeld" (Children Money) which adds a little to your household if you have children.

You also would profit from all of it while you are here and just cash out (most) of it when you go again, i dont see why this would be a bad deal.

TL:DR; You just generalized europe for whatever reason.
For the curious, The J. Caesar quote "L xvh wklv dss hyhubgdb, dqg L oryh lw!" can be decoded with the following command:

echo 'L xvh wklv dss hyhubgdb, dqg L oryh lw!' | tr '[D-ZA-Cd-za-c]' '[A-Za-z]'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher

Well played @tsucres. Well played.
Don't know the model, but it's a Kyocera. Before this job, I'd only been exposed to that brand as one of the cheap printers for the Commodore 64. I guess it's come a long way!
Oseltamivir. (Tamiflu)

My ex-girlfriend (7years) is a big deal chemist at GILD. So I share some under the covers knowledge here. GILD produces some of the best anti-virals on the market [i] (HIV is now a condition). When GILD discovered the power of Oseltamivir it knew they would not be able to produce the scale needed. They sold their rights to Roche. Roche being a sick pro-profits-first company basically shelved the product. Roche wasn't interested in the 'cure' for the flu they were interested in treating the symptoms. But, as it turns out, china was impacted with bird flu during this period -- and gave no shit about patents and wanted to just save their population. Phone calls were made and china basically was going to produce it at at massive scale. Thus, Roche quickly started producing the product. Oseltamivir is amazing at fighting the flu virus. The original purpose was to take Oseltamivir when you have sick family members or know you might be coming down with symptoms. Recently, I came down with the flu (I had the vaccine), I took 4 pills over 2 days and it was turned into a slight cold. It could save lives. Doctors know this and are reluctant to prescribe it -- since they know it is in short supply and critical populations should get it first. Ironically, doctors reluctance to prescribe it - actually reduces the supply. I say to you, get it, keep it in your refrigerator -- when your 65+ year old dad gets the flu give it to him immediately.

[i] https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2018/02/07/gil...
and soon it'll be clusters of boosters, there's space to fit another 4 in a hexagonal pattern. you could lift a mini hexagonal mars base fully assembled that way, land it and land the next one quite close.
There are economies of scale and reliability when you're building large numbers of something.

Yes. One of the biggest predictors of reliability in aerospace systems in general is time in operation---the longer you've actually run something, the closer it approaches the upper limit of reliability for that component. Running 27 small copies gives you 27x the time in operation vs a single big-ass engine.

The downside is complexity, and in particular unknown failure interactions which could bring down the entire system in a cascade. As long as many of the components are identical, though, an improvement in reliability of that component should translate directly into lower probability of failure interactions since there are fewer failures, period.
My employer already had that problem solved in 2006, thanks to JEE.

An EAR packaged with everything needed by the application.

Each service, or micro-service as it is fashionable now, got their own EAR.

Deployment of UNIX based OS, JEE application server, Oracle and respective EAR packages, done.
Yes, the subreddit was used.
I really enjoyed building this and I'd rather share that with everyone than turn it into a business.
I may turn it into a donationware in the future if it gets attention and takes time to maintain.
Always interesting how this topic starts (at least?) 3 different discussions.

* Whether your local time should change twice a year

* If the answer is "no", whether your local time should be equivalent to the current DST or standard time (aka "summer" vs "winter" time)

* Whether we should be using time zones at all

Please know which question you're ranting about before you actually rant, thanks. Lots of orthogonality here.
It's a great place but so busy that id be loathe to drop in for a working lunch. That place and the Rockefeller center concourse are some of the rare places in the world where getting lunch can be more stressful than work
Because then it's denormalized and it's failing to separate concerns. It's storing both the time something happened and the thing strip of longitude it was nominally deemed to have taken place in.
Usually, but sometimes not.
Tesla is taking a breather from its staggering cash burn-rate
Then you could just use a metal plate or glass, but we use the wood in order to protect the blade of the knife also. You'd have to re-sharp the chef knifes every few minutes if they were used on the surface harder than the blade.
Does this thing detect ethnicity? Because the roasts were on point.
Combined into one image for a quick comparison: https://i.imgur.com/ery4SA1.jpg
You are correct, Switzerland is a bit different than most other European countries.
It is and it isn't; that is, from a language perspective, the big thing here is type-level integers, which we accepted an RFC for, but is going to take some time to land due to implementation work being tough. It'll get there though!

As for a library ffast-math, it's mostly that we rarely hear people asking for it. I think that many people who want to do numerics stuff are waiting on the above; once it lands, I think more people will start writing libraries. Time will tell!
It might be! If a joke makes less sense, it probably is original.
Local time is very idiosyncratic - the hands of the clock on your wall move forwards, backwards, repeat the same hours, skip hours and dance at the will of your people and politicians.

Needless to say, this may cause issues in computers. The only clocks that stay consistent and dependable are the ones in UTC land.

So the people mirror the clocks of their local government, but computers mirror the UTC clocks.
Their comment on the “HACK” section seems to indicate that they took “this is a hack” to mean security vulnerability instead of lazy programming.
If anybody doesn't know, MVP stand for "Minimal Viable Product." It's not listed in the article.
Ask HN: Can we invent a new form of government?
Clearly none of them mentioned here seem to be good enough to be considered for future?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Forms_of_government

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/List_of_forms_of_government
New York Googler here.

Chelsea Market is actually 19 different buildings on the same block that have merged together over time. The floor layout is truly crazy. Some floors are staggered by a full half height at the interface between buildings, there are exterior courtyards on the inside of the block that are roofed over, and buildings are of differing height. You can see it all on Google Maps; contrast with 111 8th Ave next door (where I sit) that is all one proper building. https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7402908,-74.0061411,325a,35y...

And yeah, we already have a huge amount of office space in Chelsea Market, up to six floors now, and presumably buying the entire block made sense vs continuing to rent.

Hopefully the ground floor marketspace itself won't be affected. I can't imagine we'd kick all that out, though. It wouldn't be a good look. Chelsea Market is an iconic tourist destination.
I look at these "solutions" and they don't seem to add much to how application servers work.
(1) Consult an attorney, please

(2) I found msyelf facing a very similar situation myself recently, and if you contact me via the address in my profile I would be happy to both give you a referral as to (1) and to trade notes about what I was able to find out this (as you have nailed it) rather messy and sensitive subject. Absolute confidentiality will be assured.

Good luck.
Prevent a bad hire: get your talent mix right
Just spent the last 2 months of my life implementing IS4. So far its really powerful and flexible. I haven't done much research on Cierge but it looks like a neat out of the box solution for people who need a quick and easy solution for SSO.
Apple's top-secret iBoot firmware source code spills onto GitHub
> friends and family round ?
Are you kidding ? not everybody is privileged to have family or friends with money to invest.
No need to apologize. This source, which Apple intended to stay private, may (or may not) still reveal exploitable vulnerabilities, which would need to be patched, if they exist, but it's not immediately obvious either way.
I'm still amazed how bad the Twitter.com UI is. The fact stuff like Hootsuite,tweetdeck and a zillion similar tools exist to effectively make twitter usable if you follow more than a dozen people is crazy.

There is a whole bunch of innovation waiting to happen: for instance Twitter could build a community around creating and sharing 'lists' for just about any topic. I wanted to make a 'list' for every Canadian MP but man that's a lot of work and surely someone has done it already but I have no clue how to find that 'list'.
Given the recent problems with collisions on Navy ships I might be a little nervous serving aboard one that is designed to defeat naval radar. It would be pretty embarrassing to sink the newest destroyer because some big cargo ship couldn't see it in the dark and ran over it.
You call it hyperbole, yet you just also verified that the scarcity is a real problem.

> If you're hiring k8s guys who don't know etcd and the backend of k8s [...] then you're not hiring Seniors who have worked on k8s for several years.

> Finding someone with 2+ years of k8s experience who isn't a Xoogler is fairly rare right now because 2 years ago it wasn't the market behemoth that it is right now.

Indeed, there's not enough people who know how to run it for as broadly as it's spread; for how much it's hyped.

If there's a thousand people out there who have that level of experience, I'd be surprised. And in an industry running hundreds of thousands of clusters (or more!), that's just too few people.
Got some new update on govalidator 1.8, waiting for the new stable release
What is it with Google and food warehouses? Its Chicago HQ used to be a meat cold storage facility.

https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2015/03/12/dogs-and-adap...
I don't know if it is ironic or if there is something I didn't understand...

That's because you just described traffic lights.

Now, I don't think a lot of biological research have been done when deciding the colors of traffic lights, there is research about why they feel so obvious.

The idea is: Red is the most noticeable color, good for signaling danger or requiring attention. Green is distinct from red, it is also the brightest color, so it is good as a complement for red. Yellow is simply the intermediate between red and green.
The recently popular "worst X ever!" idiom, and its variations, pretty much end my ability to take the person who uses them seriously.
Easy: you invoice from wherever you're based. Exempt from tax in the US, taxed in your home jurisdiction. Expenses tax deductible.
Take a look at all of the failed landings[1], even after they land on the barge they still go boom(or RUD if you prefer that term) when the structural integrity is lost.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ
Untraceable Search Engines – Alternatives to Google
They want the entire building badly for years now so it makes sense to overpay and grab the deal right now before another developer comes in with a more competitive offer, knowing Google would not move away! $2B for this is not expensive, considered how much they had paid to other short-term leases. Moving to and decorating new office space will cost them many millions. If they can own the building, $2B is a big saving in the next decade (and I presume the purchase would come with a property tax credit). Google has enough money to buy ten of these in NYC. Finally consider the property value should Google ever want to sell the property or lending out.

Though if this was up to me, I would buy a land and build another giant Google Campus. But that's just me.
So? It's not like he said that's the only way.
agree on the German requirement that can be hard. Though I have contracted out many times Americans and Brits to my clients. The biggest difficulties I have had placing foreigners were Munich (anywhere in Bavaria), and Stuttgart (strangely). Best places to place foreigners were Berlin (start-ups in Berlin often have no money to even consider well paid consultants) but there are some firms (Soundcloud & Co) who I am aware have some real international rockstars on their portfolio. Well funded Berlin based start-ups are well positioned to hire from the same pool as Apple, Google & Co.

In case of Switzerland I think it is similar: Switzerland has one of the highest rates of foreigners in their workforce in all of continental Europe. The options there are limited (if you're in Banking, Insurance you should have no problem around Zurich/Zug and even work on some exciting blockchain stuff) Other areas in CH would be security (both start-ups and well established mobile operators looking for experts). The typical SaaS landscape is too small both in CH and in Germany to compete with high traffic platforms from the US (some small "regional champions" excluded).

You can certainly find something in both Germany and Switzerland (even you don't speak German) provided you have the skills.
Confession: when I open up twitter, the thing that excites me most is when I see that patio11 has tweeted. His stuff is just an absolute must-read for me. He uses twitter almost like a blog, which is different than most other people I follow.

Some people use twitter like it's facebook, some people use it merely as a pointer to other content, some people use it to argue, some people use it to interact with major brands / corporations. I'm not sure if this is a strength or a weakness of the platform.

I guess the important thing is that it's getting used.
ESRI
It's usually racist.
> Yep, wealthy land owners, clearly the group that needs protecting.

Wealthy land owners = citizens who have most of their personal wealth/retirements savings tied up in the equity of their home that has slowly appreciated over years or decades.

How terribly different than tech companies and employees using copyright (source code) and vast quantities of data to reap enormous returns and salaries (respectively).

This isn't David vs Goliath. This is New Boss vs Old Boss. Big Tech needs to get over itself. It's the new bad guy.
Why would it begin to feel like a Google cafeteria? We have actual Google cafeterias (including in Chelsea Market, on the eighth floor). Chelsea Market is a huge tourist draw. Googlers generally don't eat there because it's crowded and the food costs money.

We do go out at night to The Tippler, a bar beneath the market, though. That definitely feels like an extension of Google space on weeknights.
Easy to convert to an open office I guess?
Seems that in a sense the Zumwalt is the first casualty of China’s new anti-ship ballistic missile system.
Not All Ops Are Created Equal [pdf]
Did the Navy ever figure out what the solution to the 155-millimeter Advanced Gun Systems ammo problem?
They are generating about 600 mil in free cash flow. Their revenues aren't growing. Other than acquisition there is no way to justify a 24 billion dollar valuation.
Woah, in all seriousness please let me know where $161k + great benefits is "hundreds of thousands" lower than similar private sector SWE jobs in total comp. I will be applying today. (I'm obviously assuming you're not comparing compensation for a swe at 18F with head of BeyondCorp or something, because that would be disingenuous and you seem like a reasonable person)
Explosives are routinely destroyed in controlled explosions, controlled detonations allow for us to choose when and where the ordnance detonates, minimizing collateral damage. Towing it is too dangerous when you don't know when it will detonate (imagine it detonating in port, even at sea it could kill the ship crew), and allowing it to just sit at sea leaves it at risk for detonating in the vicinity of an unsuspecting vessel.
Same applies to JEE application servers.

They are basically an OS, with containarized applications.

Thanks to them I stopped caring about the underlying OS.
NYC metro area population is ~21M. It's way more dense than Colorado, so it's not surprising that a large company moving into NYC doesn't change it much.
> The Russian Soyuz rocket has five engines, each of which has six thrust chambers.

RD-107 on the four side blocks has 6 chambers, RD-108 on the central block has 8 chambers.
Thanks for reading these comments and updating your code! I personally appreciate the effort.
Oh, come on. Shockingly high?
I live in the Netherlands, our summers are probably closer to Canada than Texas and it’s still way too hot to be outside un direct sunlight during summers.
And JEE :)
The Greek language is very very close to an encoding of language sounds.
> GS-15 is $164,200 for Bay Area, which is not the highest, but we're hardly struggling.

Don't you need a Ph.D. for most GS-15 jobs though?
No point in having a service you cant use :)
I can relate to this.

I'm a master's swimmer, but I'm only really now picking up pace after having to take a couple of years off to properly build strength in my shoulders to carry on after a rotator cuff injury.

Around May 2016 I decided to try jumping back into the squad training after just under a year of rehab. It was my first session back; I was massively unfit. At the end of the session the coach got us to do a 100m race. I was up against a couple of guys who'd been faster than me in the session and was determined to show I hadn't slipped that much. I ended up swimming a 1:07 for the 100m free beating one of the faster guys. I couldn't believe the time. I don't really know what happened, but I REALLY wanted to win this race and just went for it. A few weeks after this my shoulder wasn't holding up to the training volume and I had to drop back into more gym rehab type stuff.

I finally got back into the pool properly around May of last year. The best time I've swum in a similar scenario since has been a 1:07 and I'm the fittest and strongest I've been for years.
Its not about Switzerland only tho. The whole laws around social structure, taxes, remote work, are not unified at all within europe.

There are countries where your arguments are completely true (Germany for example i would guess) but others already are different enough to make them invalid again (Austria for example has no paid childcare, and healthcare is force deducted from your wage and usually even more expensive than in Switzerland)

I just like to enrage about phrases like "european system" :)

To avoid triggering phrase nazis like me talking about the "EU" instead of "Europe" often makes it more correct :)
That would be 100% the decision of the Captain who chose to sit in a busy shipping lane showing no lights. The civilians captains going about their legitimate business, in a shipping lane, showing running lights, and restricted in ability to manoeuvre, have been blameless in all collisions to date.
Uber Case Study – The State of Autonomous Transport
https://github.com/zacharycarter/nuklear-nim/

Nim's syntax is very python like, but it's statically typed and compiles to C. Best of both worlds.
Yes.

JEE application servers already offer all the benefits of containers and OS independence.
Reversing Alinsky's Rules: Create Positive Sum Negotiation, Enable Collaboration
> That doesn't compute. If that's the case, then why pay for a smart doorlock? Just stop locking your door.

Your insurance company might feel otherwise. Security theatre serves a purpose, but acting like a deadbolt is some amazing security measure is ridiculous.

> They caved in and offered a full refund /for the hub/, which is the minority cost. No refunds on the compatible bulbs, thermostats, etc that it was made to work with.

Which is why standards are good. Buy ZigBee bulbs and compatible items. Lack of standardization is common in all new industries. Taking one token example and using it to paint the entire concept as bad is also ridiculous.

> You're trying to be sarcastic and paint me as a luddite, but you don't know the domain you're opining about. You really /don't/ want a car with a remote start mate, they're already well broken and have been for years.

I'm well familiar with the issues with remote start. I'm also familiar with the ability that spark plug has to thwart a traditional key.

Once again, if you want to steal a car it's not hard. This is what I'm talking about. For some reason people insist on holding digital locks to this ridiculous standard, when we all know that 99% of consumer locks are intended to "keep honest people honest" and not to actually thwart a real criminal.

Digital/IoT locks meet and exceed that standard IMO. You're letting perfect be the enemy of good, and it does come off as luddite FUD. "I'm scared of this change and what it could do, so better to just stick with the devil I know."