skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ubuntu, but I have tried Tumbleweed, Arch and OpenBSD on these laptops and no issues whatsoever. Works OOTB for Ubuntu. For OpenbSD, I had to dl the "non-free" firmware for Wifi but em0 (ethernet) works out of the box
English is my second language and I barely notice most mistakes but this and the death of proper use of "whose" really, really bother me for some reason.
I wonder if archive.org analyses the data to see what's "useless" or not
Why I changed my mind about nuclear power
At best this is a lagging indicator in a fast moving world. If you assume that those raising an A round in 2017 started their company two years earlier it makes a lot of sense.

I think pg said it best is his essay beating the averages:

"When you choose technology, you have to ignore what other people are doing, and consider only what will work the best"
If the hackers have compromised the service to the point they are able to manipulate the service unnoticed, isn't the horse already a little out of the barn?
I've lived in San Francisco and I've lived in Europe, and while SF isn't quite as bad as other places in the USA (for example, Philadelphia), I was still shocked at how fat everyone was.
I think they just tend to be well written and well researched, so people upvote them. That being said, if you want to get around the paywall, just open the link in a private browsing window.
Yeah. "DevOps" originated as a naive attempt to fix this issue by eliminating the "wall" between the roles, but it was quickly misunderstood.

The old-school, master of the universe-style sysadmin who had to use advanced wizardry developed out of deep knowledge and intuition about how the computer worked at a fundamental level is still the ideal developer OR operator. But it's hard to find people who even understand this role, let alone people who are hiring for it.

People only seem to understand pigeonholes, despite occasional well-intended attempts to unify, that generally have disastrous results. You just need a special breed to get someone who can really function up and down the stack, and every company should seek out, train, and develop such highly-empowered "tech special forces", for lack of a better term. It's tragic that so many companies don't realize this.
Good point, but I don't think it's as hard as you suggest, and no personal interest sacrifice is required.

For example, by growing clover, the orchards would not only attract bees, but also provide fertilization to the trees (when the nitrogen stored in the clover is released when the clover dies back a bit after each mowing).

Are there additional costs? Sure, but if viewed as an investment, those costs pay for themselves eventually. I think there are orchards already practicing this, but I would bet the majority aren't aware of such practices (market education needed).
>On the contrary, it means that the stakes of the natural sciences exceed the expertise of the natural sciences and reach over into the arts. This makes a close collaboration of the life sciences with the human sciences imperative.

Why do new findings like this lead people to conclude that “science needs philosophy” It’s never the philosophers that make the findings.

And it’s not like the laws of physics will need to be re-written.
Ditto. This is great. A shame that so many of the comments are a out why this sucks for a particular use case, instead of "well done!"
The NYTimes is widely known, read, and linked to across the web, so it's not surprising that it shows up on HN as well with regularity. There's nothing going on with respect to voting rings or whatnot: I'd be surprised if there weren't more than a few NYT (or WSJ or WaPo) submissions on the front page every day just due to their prominence as publishers.

While I'm sure there are HN members who have subscriptions, as you note, there are a few articles available for free, and there are a few workarounds for the paywall as well, often posted in the comments.
In engineering companies, Excel + VBA will never go away. Most engineers who are not CompE or CS folks really do not want to program. Excel is powerful for nonprogrammers, and the allure of automating some of it with VBA is almost impossible to resist. Excel gives you a platform where you can feed in numbers, do some calculations with a click of a button, and produce charts - all in one file. And it's trivial to tweak if you need to change something. An engineer with little programming knowledge can be "operational" quickly, and the "tool" is safe to pass around to customers.

I had to live with this for a few years and hated it. Fortunately, the Ipython notebook (now Jupyter) and Pandas came along, and to some extent I managed to stop using Excel.
The next time some politician tells you regulations are always bad

Regulations published only after the Executive is a lame duck are usually bad, done only to reward some patron.

Regulations timed to not start until after the Executive leaves office shouldn't be allowed in the first place.
What permit? Permit to do what? Does anyone have control over these guys, or is it just money talking? I don’t care about their junk in space, but here on Earth there are some forms of life that don’t appreciate such arrogance and would like to understand why government is in bed with Musk and who is going to benefit from that
You know, I did misread what you said. The rest of your post is entirely true.

I saw the kind of argument that I'm used to hearing lispers make and overreacted. My issue is I'm not really sure that lisp is actually better at doing things at a lower level. You have more freedom with syntax, sure, but I'm not at all convinced that's the same thing as building things up from the bottom. Rust, for example, will let you do low level things that lisp really can't, and Ocaml will let you build up typologies in ways lisp isn't made to.

At the end of the day, languages really aren't that different, especially modern ones, you're mostly working with the same abstractions, and the question becomes is syntactic freedom more important or is a growing community more important? That actually is my biggest issue with lisp (and most other language) evangelism. It's a bunch of claims that aren't really rooted in any kind of evidence.
There's nothing particularly unhealthy about a little bit of egg yolk, oil (dressing), or bacon. Added sugar in the dressing may be more problematic.
That's a good point. I wasn't thinking about thought in that way, but I think you're right.

I still put thought in a different realm since (at least for the cases where the price tag is bullshit) informed thoughts have the potential to counteract a purely sensory illusion... A different realm, but definitely an overlapping one.
Office stuff and human relations sound like the CEO's job to me. If not CEO, someone the CEO hires to do it.

It's not like you're pulling this working-remote stuff on him out of the blue. The success you've found so far is every bit a result of your work arrangements. You're the one shouldering the burden of extreme commuting, what's the CEO sacrificing?

We don't have enough information to decide if your CEO is failing to lead, you as CTO are failing to delegate, or both.
Not public, just the government. And Chinese government has better security than Equifax at least.
Any mention of the NSA paying them to keep a dodgy RNG in there?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-nsa-rsa/excl...
Tesla starts beta-testing new Autopilot update with new feature
Maybe I can offer personal insight here: finding comfort in discomfort, pleasure in pain and motivation in embarrassment really is the key, at least to me.
Dropbox: https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/15/why-dropbox-decided-to-dro...

Github: https://githubengineering.com/evolution-of-our-data-centers/

Backblaze: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/our-secret-data-center/

Twitter: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...

LinkedIn: http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/content-tracks/design-buil...

FastMail: https://www.fastmail.com/help/ourservice/security.html

Stack Overflow: http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/7/21/stackoverflow-upda...

Wikipedia: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers

OpenStreetMap: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/tag/infrastructure/

The Internet Archive: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/16/head_like_a_memory_...

Gitlab tried, but didn't have the necessary in-house experience before they made the attempt: https://about.gitlab.com/2017/03/02/why-we-are-not-leaving-t...

Instagram was migrated from AWS onto Facebook's infrastructure: https://www.wired.com/2014/06/facebook-instagram/

WhatsApp was migrated from IBM to Facebook infrastructure: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/07/facebook-planning-to-move-wh...

Hacker News and Pinboard (acq. Delicious) run on a single server.

It's not hard, but you do need to know what you're doing and have resources to do it (most orgs rent colo space in someone else's datacenter, they don't build their own). There's a reason AWS margins are so high (which leaves a lot of cost savings to be had when your workload isn't highly variable). Any questions, email is in my profile. I spent ~16 years building data centers, hosting environments, infrastructure, etc.
Everybody duck He's carrying a square root
I thought The Boring Company was going after shuttles that carried cars with people inside, not just people. If indeed that is their plan then foot distance to a metro is not going to matter for them.
Are these things true or equivalent? These areas are not necessarily booming. They are stable with few consumers of the goods.

At this point, every scheming hustler is in the market for a bit coin miner. Same in a gold rush -- any fool can dig with a shovel. It's not until boredom or consolidation happens that the shovel maker margins start getting thinner.
I had to look up “prowler sled” as I’d never heard of it. That does look intense!

[1]: https://drjohnrusin.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-pr...
Getting Started with MapD
A Day at a Time: Christa Wolf’s Life Under Surveillance
Eh, C/Java is an Algol, too.

You know, like how Scala/Scheme is a Lisp.
You may want to give "The Religion of the Future" by Roberto Mangabeira Unger a read. I'm nearly through with it, myself, and he lays forth many of the same thoughts present in this post while attempting to describe a new spirituality.
You articulated my thoughts perfectly, thanks.
Note that the modern gospel is any net business dont give a crap about costs, only growth and the ability to raise money.

This has been explicity stated by the saas business ‘gurus’

So even at 3$ per user that goes lower pretty quickly.

Plus they get alliance w/goog. Aws is a force but if i had a choice id have goog as a best friend over amazon.

Preferably id build my own data center and keep those assets.
Yeah, this is just bad advice. I think for most indy developers patents aren't worth the trouble for defending your IP against other indys--which, in the context of the article is probably what he meant. But for defending yourself against major players? Absolutely. And if you want a major player to buy you (instead of buying one of your competitors) it'll be the key differentiator.
This is interesting, that water absorbs carbon dioxide after being distilled. I didn't know that. (source google stuff)

Doesn't this mean that distilled water re-mineralizes itself? Hard to call it out on not having minerals if it does... So either it's acidic and has minerals, or it's neutral and doesn't. Either way it doesn't seem bad at all and seems self correcting... (which is very interesting)

But is it still safe to drink? Evidently it's still the closest to ph neutral as water can get, says this source at least.

>"According to doctors like Andrew Weil, distilled water is generally as close to a neutral pH as people can get, and it is perfectly safe to drink."

https://www.reference.com/science/ph-distilled-water-7-0-46e...
Another testimony. I already play/played several sports.

Unfortunately, school PE focused on team and socially popular sports. Here that meant things like rugby, afl, soccer, basketball, etc. Sports I had and continue to have no interest in and due to not really getting a growth spurt until about 15-16, really wasn't built for.

And even when we did then do a fortnight of say "racquet sports", what was the point when you could beat the teacher and everyone else. PS: I still remember I got a B for that.

Luckily I was already active, so I had the benefit of NOT being turned off physical activity by school PE, but god damn did I despise that class, and so did almost everyone else I know that didn't already play the anointed games.

Never heard a good review of school PE until earlier post...
76,000 colonies. A colonie is about 4,000 individual bees.

320 colonies at 4,000 are roughly 1,280,000 honeybees.

In fact BOBs are 10 times more effective than honeybees. They pollinate at a time where honeybees are still asleep.

And 4,000 is considered a small colonie. They go up to 70,000 and more in the right season.
What I want to know is if I send an iMessage to someone who is, unbeknownst to me, living in or visiting China, does that mean my private information is now going to be shared with the Chinese government without my knowledge?

I get that we have “no” or very little privacy now. But I’m wondering if Apple is making it clear to users in the US that their private messages may be siphoned off and exploited by governments of countries they have never been to.
Olympic athletes are a tiny population and there is no program, for instance, to let mediocre athletes in, while there are programs to let economically disadvantaged students into college. I think it should be quite possible to control for those effects.
That typically means you gave them too much too fast. It's best for their digestive system to very slowly ease them into the new food. A few kibbles (or partial teaspoons if wet) mixed into their old food at first, and then gradually increase over two weeks, until the new food completely offsets the old food.
This post makes me very sad. I am often reminded that the best tech rarely wins. I've never had to use Intellij until my current job, but it is more obvious to me than ever than Eclipse, at least for Java development, is superior to Intellij. Was the free model not enough to sustain it, unlike Intellij, which sells its IDE, or is there another major cause for most of the world drifting to the inferior choice?
Mozilla: fighting for more Internet regulation!
And, in my part of Texas, we call the lil roads next to highways as "feeders" where I've never met someone else that uses that word. And I suspect that nobody cares.
Cockpit uses hostnamed, networkmanager, and other services for configuration, not 'ip' or 'hostname'.

Everything you can see is persistent.
Seattle's Sound Transit light-rail riders increasing by the millions
I immediately thought of Blitz Basic too, which is how I got started programming. They recently took down the website for it, which made me sad, as I used to frequent the forum a lot.
Noise will definitely help if random noise is added to every input image before the neural network sees it, in production. Essentially, a pre-input pipeline state that a bad actor cannot predict, making single pixel deception totally neutered.

I think what needs to be done here is to add a threshold of correlation between the input pixels. Consider that the problem is that 1 pixel change in the deviously right way, can be equivalent to the change when multiple pixels are changed in the proper way -- the derivative of the cost function. So clearly there needs to be a way to design / tell the network that 1 pixel change cannot be nearly as strong as changing multiple pixels relationships, in terms of cost function value change.

From what I can garner, the only way to accomplish this is to make sure the number of nodes in the hidden layers is strictly monotonically decreasing. By using the last layer as a "grab bag" for classification, with 100s of nodes greater than the previous layers, the network becomes vulnerable to single pixel attacks. There have to be ways to design classification styles networks without the fan-out.
Great write up, thanks!

I hadn't heard of Terraform before, so thanks for the introduction. I have recently been attempting to familiarize myself better with systems infrastructure, and it looks interesting. I'll have to do some reading on it.

I have a question. You mentioned that Whimsical's back-end, "mostly serves as a lightweight layer between the client and the data store." Does this mean that you do most of the data munging client side so that once it arrives server side, most of the work is already done? And if so, what do the trade-offs look like in such a scenario? If I'm understanding correctly, this means the client is fatter, but there's less load on the server, meaning cheaper infrastructure costs. Is this a correct way of looking at it?

I'm just a junior dev trying to gain a better understanding of large systems, so forgive me for any ignorance or misunderstanding.
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