skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another way of looking at this is, "35 states have not reported a scandal where cops had sex with prisoners in their custody."
IOW, in 15 states, an incident surfaced that forced the state legislature into passing a law.
That'd be pretty cool, not sure how many people might want that too, but an interesting thought!
There's a difference between an established functional government and a revolutionary government.
Why not remembee your friend's IP address by heart? Come on. No one is "forcing" people to forget their friends' numbers. They could have always entered it even now. They CHOSE to stop remembering new ones and just press the thing in their contacts.

Are you one of those people who remembers every password on every site, because you think a password manager will one day screw you?
I had a similar experience trying to locate a widely referenced standard - I wrote the standards body to see how too get a copy. No dice. I eventually found a reference to our being replaced by another standard, which is widely available, but the standards body sort of black holed the original.

The search was a lot of fun, though!
> Synaptics driver leaked memory whenever a process was created

Funny! I found out the same issue last week and ended up just uninstalling the driver (not sure how permanent that is, but I'd like to think it is). I thought I was going crazy - why I was hitting pagefile after 28 days of uptime but only using around 8/32 real GB of memory! I loaded up the ram viewer tool and was aghast - hundreds of thousands of zombie processes! Death by a thousand cuts!
Make a deal with your friend. Tell him you'll work on a part time basis, for just enough income to survive.

He'll know you're doing it just for your startup but at the same time he'll get your expertise and knowledge at least on a part time basis for a discount.
Android P will support iPhone X-style notches and feature a dramatic redesign
Fiber for San Francisco Conference Today at 10AM
The legal alternatives are a start. I wouldn't say they are good.

Outages, exclusive availability, time-delayed availability, poor quality transcodes and poor overall quality, and literally every damn service decided that $10/month is a good price.

Which it might be, for any one service. I don't want to start paying $10/month (or equivalant) for Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, HBO, Disney, Sportify, etc.
Heck if I know. Atom seems to have mindshare.
Seems obvious to me that the guy wasn't interested in the job when he was told to do fizzbuzz, hence the stunt. Being "egotistical" was kinda the whole point.
Again, are they? Define "better".
I hope torrents stay strong. No way I could've cultivated my love for films and music without Karagarga and What/Redacted, respectively.
The article states "[Iceland] has seen a marked increase in the number of new data centres, often built by firms wishing to tout green credentials. Nearly 100% of energy in Iceland comes from renewable sources."

Unless that's false, Iceland looks like it is still about as environmentally friendly as it was before agreeing to build Moonlite. Perhaps the more interesting question is what Iceland will do to meet the increase in domestic energy demand. Presumably a crude first-order response will be to increase input costs across the board by jacking up commercial electricity rates (assuming they can differentiate between retail vs. commercial facilities).
> Am I becoming an old curmudgeon or is understanding operating systems just not seen as necessary these days?

What you've written doesn't even rate "curmudgeon" status, it's just silly. I suggest that you read the author's work a little more thoroughly and then question whether your assumption that the author does not understand operating systems is correct.
> Contrast this to antibiotics...However, I excrete those antibiotics in urine and stool.

Well that’s just some hand wavy pseudoscience right there.

Regarding the OPV Polio Vaccine, from the Global Polio Eradication Project site - “For several weeks after vaccination the vaccine virus replicates in the intestine, is excreted and can be spread to others in close contact”

Source: http://polioeradication.org/polio-today/polio-prevention/the...
I know people don't know what to expect from tpu performance, but does anyone actually get 100tops out of Volta? I thought you'd have to spin the tensorcores and never touch memory, which is...not realistic.

I know you hedged by saying "back of the envelope", but I'd much rather compare on real benchmarks than based on cited peak performance numbers, which are kind of meaningless.
I was and am referring to the common understanding of the term, not a particular dictionary definition. If I say "envision an example of technology" and the first thing that leaps to your mind is a stone wheel, a club, or a campfire, rather than a syringe, computer, space ship, robot, car, or similar, fair enough, for you it's not oxymoronic/paradoxical, but I'd say that puts you in the minority.
I think it's important to separate:

* People who just want to watch "something", often while multitasking

* People who like a show / movie, and want to own it for future re-watching

"Watch something" has vastly improved. There are huge collections of content available online, TV/movies from all eras, Youtube's "amateur" video content, Twitch streams, and of course social media as a passive entertaining time-sink.

But the experience for fans, in my opinion, hasn't improved much.

The choices are: buy disks, or pay for multiple subscriptions to content owners (eg HBO Go for Game of Thrones). Otherwise you depend on a subscription that may drop content in the future, or a purchased stream (eg Amazon instant video) with variable performance and online-only availability. I'd argue we regressed - disks and disk players are more expensive, while streams are added costs if you want to buy the disk. It's also getting harder to rip disks for personal archival. I still regularly pirate movies, even after purchasing the movie - stealing is sadly the easiest way to get a non-DRM digital copy.
For a very simple reason: Linux/KVM, being a paravirtualized, hard partitioning solution is vastly inferior to kernel virtualization in SmartOS. Additionally, Kubernetes is an order of magnitude more complex to run than Triton.

Whether the author owes me anything or not is irrelevant: I‘d still like to know why he keeps on doing that.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

Peak ops/second isn’t the only thing that matters though. You have to be able to feed the units. The V100 does lots of finer-grained matrix multiplies which can make it harder to keep up.

Don’t get me wrong, the V100 is a great chip. And we’re all looking forward to more (preferably third-party) benchmark results, to tease out when one is the better choice for a workload. But don’t just compare ops/second or any other architectural number.
Depends on if you want factual technical measurements or subjective human opinions
When my first son was born, my wife subscribed to a website called something along the lines of "The Net Midwife". A former midwife answered health questions from parents.

All her answers were available online for free but if you wanted her to answer your questions, you would have to pay for the subscription.

Why would you want to pay for something which was freely available to you?

Well as it turns out, even though 99% of the questions parents asked were already answered parent's had this idea that their child was unique and they would ask questions like "my child coughs and it says a little noise everything she inhales right after"

The only group of people more naive and easy to persuade are modern dog people.
I wonder if the personal financial information on everyone in congress and the executive branch are in the data. You'd think they would get right on it given that they are equally at risk.
I would ask that unless you have solid statistics, please do not assume this. I feel it is incredibly disrespectful to the developers who put out a great product that is legal and people legally use. Like other comments, I use Plex to format shift my legally purchased DVDs and CDs onto a media server. I also use it to legally DVR OTA TV.

There are also countries outside of the USA in which format shifting DVDs is explicitly legal (France for example).
European rail companies have claimed rail can be competitive for up to 4 hours, which matches my impressions of these journeys. London-Amsterdam and London-Frankfurt (which DB were talking about running at one stage before the problems with the new ICE models - don't know if that's still planned at some point or not) make sense, but that's about the limit tbh.
Diversify AWS EC2 spot instances with different cost, stability characteristics
The automation Paradox
> My experience in driving through California's interior doesn't jibe with that headline.

So, how does driving through the interior with apparently zero knowledge of what the relevant goals are do anything to inform you of whether cities are meeting them.

> When I stop for lunch or a break I like to check out the local real estate scene and its often the case in these cities that there are many houses and other living accommodations available at modest prices.

Modest for you, perhaps. Modest for the incomes in the area? Probsbly less so. In any case, does this tell you anything about whether they are meeting the needs assessments that look at availability in multiple levels? Probably not.

> Hard to imagine a city like Mojave not meeting it "goal".

Mojave is a “census-designated place” in unincorporated Kern County; it not a city or other jurisdiction of its own subject to the targets; Kern County is (the headline about cities is wrong, jurisdictions subject to the targets include both cities and counties, the latter for their unincorporated areas.)

Kern County is among those not meeting targets, though only in the Above Moderate income Regional Housing Needs Assessment, not the Low or Very Low income assessments.
Does anyone really expect proper stereo from a single speaker?
This is just about as delicate an information-security problem as the world has faced.

It'd be one thing if you got a letter in the mail re: your personal exposure, but there's a very serious assumption that everyone is glossing over:

Do you want EVERYONE to know more about what Equifax lost about EVERYONE &, more importantly, you want it RIGHT NOW?

Well I guess so do I; the easier for me to ruin you and all your friends' credit & then get me a new-new sweeeet new yacht 4 to cruise around in some tropical country without an extradition treaty.

Mass disclosure before adequate protection or remediation measures (assuming any are possible) is IRRESPONSIBLE BC INFORMATION IS REALLY POWERFUL...this includes more metadata about what Equifax lost. You don't know what disclosure right-now will expose you to. This seems pretty clearly like an "err on the side of caution" situation.
Microsoft uses FPGAs for Deep Learning. Source:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/22/microsoft-brainwave-aims-t...
It's worth noting that Google Cloud has its own terms of service that is very different from what you may be thinking of: https://cloud.google.com/terms/

Also, even Google's general consume terms of service really isn't what you think: https://www.google.com/policies/terms/

"You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours."
'Private' just means 'limited'. We are still talking about multiple distinct counterparties transacting with each other.

Public blockchains replace the need for trust with, essentially, energy usage. That's what gets you your validity, despite operating in a hostile environment. They give you a shared, single source of truth about the state of whatever system you've embodied on that blockchain. The problem they are solving is the undesirability (or impossibility) of trusting an intermediary.

Private blockchains replace the need for reconciliation between parties who minimally trust* one another with a method for provably ensuring everybody has and will get the same information. They also give you a shared, single source of truth about the state of your particular market, but you get that in an environment where parties on the network are assumed to be behaving well. The problem these solve is the cost and complexity in establishing a trusted third party. It isn't hard technically to have a reliable ledger, but it is hard structurally and operationally.

The point of a private blockchain is to mutualize the infrastructure required to form that single source of truth. You could do it with a trusted intermediary operating a big shared database, but you'd have to set one up in a market where that doesn't exist and assign to them complete responsibility for your record keeping. Private blockchains are a way for parties with a shared problem - the cost of reconciling their independent books - to construct a solution that doesn't require forming and staffing some new industry utility, or abrogating control over their own records (so they can maintain secrecy of trade data, for example.)

*I mean by this, they have stronger economic and legal incentives to cooperate in doing business with each other than they do in ripping off the other guy. Put another way, their horizon for trusting a counterparty extends beyond the immediate transaction on the table at any given moment. This isn't the case in anonymous individual peer-to-peer transactions.
The legal alternatives are good? What a joke. That might be partially true in some parts of the world, but is plain wrong in most of the world.
More housing needs to be built. Even if it mostly for high income people, since high income people will always beat lower income people.
I didn’t realize this before I wrote some freelance journalism myself, but the author of a piece almost never writes the headline. It just seems to accrue one in the editorial process after you submit your draft, and you often don’t know what it’s called until you read the published version yourself. So criticizing a journalist for their headline is criticizing them for something they very likely had no part in.
Hadn't heard of jrnl before. Love how clean it is and the tagging is awesome. Will definitely be using this, thanks!
That's a very good point, but I think in the absence of a legal entity of a corporation or similar, you would see contracts written (with suppliers for example) to limit liability anyways. Contracts between people would become vastly more complex, but still often provide the same benefit.

Because corporations are ultimately people, any restraints on them are essentially restraints on people. There is a very fine and difficult to draw line between a person talking about this awesome idea he has and a CEO talking about this awesome product he has, but the law does try to draw that line and I think is often fairly good at it.
Programming “Mentors”
Glad to hear it, had no idea
Spark scheduling on Kubernetes demystified
There have been studies on that very thing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/06/04/the-b...

If you look, Figures 21 and 22 show usage rates to be about the same. However, if you look down at Figure 10, you'll see a huge disparity in arrest rates.
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Wow, really smart guys...
Europe's A400M army plane may see some features axed
The amount of money a household can spend on a mortgage increases drastically as income increases. Because, for the most part, the costs of raising a family doesn't have to increase in proportion to income.

What this means is that a family making $100k/yr can spend dramatically more than one making $50k/yr, and making $200k can spend more on housing their the other two families make in a year.

In most cities, this plays out by having islands of expensive neighborhoods in desirable areas. And housing decreases proportional to desirability as you get out. The problem in some cities in California is that there are so many extremely wealthy families, that the island of desirability has become so large that there are no affordable housing anywhere close to where the good jobs are, so lower income people are forced to commute for longer and longer.

Most other cities do not have the same numbers of extremely wealthy people. But in every city where a large number of disproportionately wealthy people move in, a housing crisis seems to follow.

It used to be, living closer to the city meant a compromise in some other area. Maybe you lived in an apartment and took the bus everywhere because you couldn't afford to have a house and a car in the neighborhood you want to be in. But now, people can afford to have a single family home with a garage in areas that really should be limited to large apartments.
> isn't even recognized as rape outside of Sweden.

Having sex with an unconscious person, even someone asleep, is against the law in some jurisdictions. Really depends on how they define consent (in England's case sleep is "black-letter" lack of consent).

Specific to England: https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/rape-and-sexual-offenc...
Wrong.

https://www.hdmi.org/press/press_release.aspx?prid=133

> September 4, 2013 – IFA 2013 – HDMI Forum, Inc., a non-profit, mutual benefit corporation, today announced the release of Version 2.0 of the HDMI Specification. This latest HDMI Specification, the first to be developed by the HDMI Forum, offers a significant increase in bandwidth (up to 18Gbps) to support new features such as 4K@50/60 (2160p),
HDMI 2.0 does 4k@60.
Now if only more tech reviewers gave out raw data or even actually measured. Too many just read off the specs and go yep sounds good!
Travelers wanting to donate blood, think again
Blockchain: A Very Short History of Ethereum Everyone Should Read
Tell us more! How many transactions per second do you process? Do you use multiple databases?
Let's work backwards: what problem does Bitcoin actually solve? It successfully incentivizes continued upkeep of its blockchain, making it a useful, global, trustless, pseudonymous, immutable, long-lived database.

You don't need a tinfoil hat to appreciate the utility of a datastore whose continued operation and upkeep is ensured by the promise of vesting, and successfully leverages market forces and emergent market behavior to ensure its own longevity. And, it provides a market-based incentive for the community to be on the lookout for sybil attacks.

Later chains have been targeted for more specific applications more explicitly. Some focus on exchange of value, some focus on store of value, some focus on the continuity of records. These are useful properties, and those who dismiss blockchains clearly do so within the context of extreme hype about their potential applicability to other aspects of life. That's what this article is -- like hundreds of others: an attempt to bring the hype back down to earth and promote a more measured conversation.
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Same here. I still have all my physical CDs from the past 25-odd years but they are in sitting in boxes after being ripped. 99% my "TV watching" is time-shifted using the Shield, with a combination of streaming and downloaded stuff. I have weaned myself off of all physical media except for vinyl records (don't ask - it's a hobby). I wired my house with Cat5e and everything lives on a fat XFS formatted RAID array.

Now that I have a streaming subscription to Tidal (CD quality) I find very little reason to look to alternative music sources. With Amazon Prime the same goes for a lot of TV and movies. But for niche stuff there will always be torrent sites.

Speaking only for myself, blocking commercials is probably the biggest motivator for myself in seeking DVD sets and/or series of TV shows. Once you have stopped watching "live TV" you'd be surprised how sensitive you become commercials blasting every 10 minutes. Kind of like turning off your ad blocker (I honestly don't know how people survive the web without those things). I'm willing to pay for the "privilege" of not being yelled at every 10 minutes...
The Meta-Problem of Consciousness [pdf]
2018 Global NGO Technology Report
I am a bit surprised, having received mine last Friday, I was very disappointed by the sound quality but even more with the actual features themselves. Of course this is highly subjective but I will keep my two Sonos Play:1 stereo and return the HomePod. I just wish Sonos Play:1 had a line-in or/and bluetooth connectivity...
> The CPS lawyer also told Ny that year: “It is simply amazing how much work this case is generating. It sometimes seems like an industry. Please do not think this case is being dealt with as just another extradition.”

Pure government corruption and waste. If those lawyers was speaking of an official policy decision of the CPS, how many laws would they be breaking?
not very active
Frankly, the fact that the case was a bit vague and woolly and was initially dropped then reopened after an appeal from the accusers' lawyer, at which point Assange avoided charges by moving jurisdictions is a point in favour of the argument that Assange is considerably more likely to be trying to avoid an awkward trial than the victim of some massive government conspiracy against him.
The one time I had to validate email addresses without using another library, I settled on /.+@.+\..+/

Basically the same as yours, but validate that a TLD exists.

Technically, this would fail on a few valid email addresses: foo@localhost, foo@.co, or foo@2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334

All those are valid, but we decided that none of those would apply to any of our customers.
So show actual decline the article would have to use some metric based on absolute bitorrent bandwidth. Instead it uses percentages of total traffic. So it could just be showing that Nefix has gotten popular, not anything about bitorrent.
We haven't been denied yet - we've been taking the friendly approach - meeting with board members, neighbors and attempting to address concerns before our hearing. CaRLA looks like a great resource if we were denied after all of this effort. We're attempting to build a small home and accessory apartment which will contribute in a small way to the supply of lower cost rentals which are scarce.
How does one install something which runs from RAM and requires no installation?
When I started Optimizely with my co-founder, Pete Koomen, our goal was to enable anyone in the world to do website A/B testing. I believed then, as I do now, that we are democratizing the scientific method. That said, when a company doesn’t consider experimentation a business critical process, they are unlikely to dedicate the internal resources necessary to make it successful. We experimented (ha!) with a free plan to see if it would be a good model for getting customers to dip their toe into A/B testing. Turns out, the data showed it wasn’t as effective as a robust free trial, which we continue to offer for all products.

Also, A/B testing is far from dead. Companies that have a culture of experimentation have grown their market cap by 756% in the last five years. See our Opticon keynote for more context: https://www.optimizely.com/opticon/
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. This whole concept is a tin-foil pipe dream. It will never see mainstream adoption because data can be really profitable. What business would choose to eliminate a revenue stream for no reason like this?

Plus, as a user, I don't like analytic data being collected. As a software provider, analytics drive nearly every decision.

I like the spirit of what Solid is trying to do, but as long as targeted advertising works better than randomizing every ad you see (it always will), there's zero reason for any profit-seeking entity to choose it.