skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On FreeBSD systems there are two great commands that are not available on other systems.

These are 'gstat' and 'top -m io' commands, both I/O related.

Often in top/htop there is not much happening but the server is very slow, a lot of the times its because of I/O operations.

The 'gstat' command will tell You (besides other useful statistics) how much the storage devices are loaded:

# gstat
dT: 1.001s w: 1.000s
L(q) ops/s r/s kBps ms/r w/s kBps ms/w %busy Name
1 9679 9614 4807 0.1 63 671 0.2 82.3| ada0
0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0| ada0p1
0 65 0 0 0.0 63 671 0.2 1.4| ada0p2
0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0| ada0p3
0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0| gpt/boot
0 65 0 0 0.0 63 671 0.2 1.5| gpt/sys
0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0| gpt/local
0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0| zvol/local/SWAP

The 'top -m io' show which processes does how much I/O:

# top -m io -o total 10
last pid: 51154; load averages: 0.31, 0.31, 0.28 up 3+18:01:00 14:58:15
54 processes: 1 running, 53 sleeping
CPU: 2.4% user, 0.0% nice, 15.3% system, 5.3% interrupt, 77.1% idle
Mem: 345M Active, 1236M Inact, 153M Laundry, 2158M Wired, 3903M Free
ARC: 834M Total, 46M MFU, 295M MRU, 160K Anon, 5006K Header, 488M Other
67M Compressed, 274M Uncompressed, 4.08:1 Ratio
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free

PID USERNAME VCSW IVCSW READ WRITE FAULT TOTAL PERCENT COMMAND
51021 vermaden 6005 16 6005 0 0 6005 99.92% dd
51154 vermaden 8 9 5 0 0 5 0.08% top
51036 vermaden 6 10 0 0 0 0 0.00% xterm
50907 vermaden 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% zsh
50905 vermaden 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% xterm
50815 vermaden 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% zsh
50813 vermaden 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% xterm
50755 vermaden 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% tail
41780 vermaden 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% leafpad
41255 vermaden 29 11 0 0 0 0 0.00% firefox

Another command that is very useful on FreeBSD is 'vmstat -i' which show how much interrupts are happening:

# vmstat -i
interrupt total rate
irq1: atkbd0 75135 0
irq9: acpi0 2575929 8
irq12: psm0 135060 0
irq16: ehci0 1532065 5
irq23: ehci1 3265677 10
cpu0:timer 102772345 317
cpu1:timer 94199942 291
irq264: vgapci0 370466 1
irq265: em0 7017 0
irq266: hdac0 1904427 6
irq268: iwn0 148690342 459
irq270: sdhci_pci0 147 0
irq272: ahci0 20875039 64
Total 376403591 1161

I always suffer when I have to debug Linux systems because of lack of these commands.

Regards,
vermaden
As an ex-fb employee I don't think fb did anything wrong and fb is just a scapegoat now.

Media tries to blame brexit and trump on fb instead of realising that a large portion of the population actually want trump, brexit, no immigration, muslim bans etc. Hey, but it is easier to think that the people were tricked into voting like that.
Facebook collects and uses data about people who don't have accounts with them: by definition there is no consent. They also collect and use the same kinds of data for their registered users, even if these users never explicitly consented to it.
This isn’t an LED (in fact it isn’t a diode at all). Can we rename the submission title?
I don't see information in the article about how much he paid for it - but if he's been a driver for long I doubt that he paid anywhere near that much.
Slaves because they have to work at all? Or slaves because flipping burgers doesn't pay for for a McMansion? Because someone else makes millions does that absolve someone else from working at all at whatever value they can provide?
> This is Hacker News not Reddit

The distinction is diminishing over time.
We're (hopefully) about to reach a critical mass where people realise how much power these companies have simply by having our data and you're worried that Facebook dies in the collateral damage?
> their very obvious consent form

I haven't used FB in a long time and I never used their mobile app, so here's a genuine request: do you have a screenshot or some example of how they gather consent for this?
Yeah this is such a simple improvement over the current payment cartel, dodging the scaling issues and taxation issues through its conservatism. I wish we could all switch to this and then resume comparing altcoins.
thank you, my savior
DeBeers already got crushed by Canadian mines. Their cartel fell apart 10+ years ago.
Exactly, what's funnier is that CleverTap is an Indian product with a majority of their team being based out of India (including the top management).

I reckon they became a US based company post funding or more recently... and because of that Modi has received a lot more fire from the media.
That's the most expensive path. New superconductors let us shrink the same design for much cheaper development; MIT's ARC project and Tokamak Energy are pursuing this.
> it was always a stable asset. Because regulation didn't allow non-medallion taxis in the city.

In fact it was not a stable asset. Medallion values had increased dramatically in a relatively short amount of time. They went up in price by four fold in ten years for both corporate and individual. [1]

Is it rational to buy something after an extreme price appreciation like that, with the assumption that it couldn't possibly go back down?

[1] https://i.imgur.com/TeJiCpf.png
I've always had the thought that the reason is likely that if you have the money to pay for $40/year then you're likely potentially worth more to advertisers, and therefore they wouldn't want to give an option/leak to exclude the most valuable eyeballs from advertisers.
I’ve never had a LinkedIn account (and have got myself into some sort of internal blacklist) and I’ve never felt disadvantaged career-wise or even been asked if I have an account.
I'm glad you brought this up.

I remember this incident and what is striking about it is:

- How seriously the fake memo was taken by some in the media; and

- Just how bad a fake it was. Like it was literally just printed off from Word and photocopied at Kinkos. Had someone instead used a typewriter from the era and not been seen at Kinkos it could well have been a different story.

If it had been a reasonable fake it may well have changed the result of the election. People on the right like to argue the media has a "liberal bias". These sorts of incidents don't really help.
> A lot of mental disorders exhibit co-morbidity with depression.

> [...]

> In this thread, there an insightful comment that reads: it's like realizing that you are short... after decades of being told that the only reason you can't reach as high as most people is because you are lazy.

> When you said "people often use it as an excuse to not work towards improving themselves", that is exactly what the author of the comment meant by "being told [that they're] lazy". No matter how much a short person "work[s] towards improving themselves", they will not get taller. They instead find ways to work around the issue, like carrying stepladders with them.

Or summarized more concisely: One needs a diagnosis because other people are simply a##holes.
But this is what most advertising attempt to do so why is it evil just because they are better at it than others?

No one is forced to use FB as far as I know.
I think you need a citation for that last point. This is the exact logic that got us the 2008 crash.
Your "Javascript delenda est" comment from a few years ago -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11447851 -- is still one of the best things I've ever read on HN.
Maybe a bit off topic:

I'm not using facebook a lot as of late. I just scroll through my feed and close the app when I'm bored. I don't click, share, write posts anymore...

I could delete facebook, but what's stopping me from doing it, is sharing of my vacation photo's with my friends and different groups that our friends use to discuss different plans (as where we can go in the weekend or organise a vacation together...)

Is there a good alternative for these 2 things:

- Online album for photo's? The same goes to: where can I see pics of my friends?
- Site/app to organise things (whatsapp is enough to organise small things (evening events, dinners, ...), but no trips...)
It does suck. This happens quite a bit with land rezoning. Where a govt change to a long designation increases or lower value. For land rezoning, the property owner can be compensated (https://finance-commerce.com/2011/08/lost-real-estate-value-...).

With Uber it’s a bit different as rideshare is different than hailed cab, so the city didn’t actually take an action that resulted in value.
I don't see why they need to be 10x better.

If every car could match the best that humans can do 24x7 that should prevent almost all casualties.

I imagine the best possible driver to be a world-class rally driver who:

1. never drinks

2. never speeds

3. never drives whilst tired

4. drives without emotion/adrenaline (test pilots talk about the importance of having no adrenaline as the best way to perform)

5. Always keeps a 3-4s distance from the car in front

But I believe that when self-driving cars can match humans which is actually the hard part, then they can become 10x better because similar to airline pilots they can be trained on extreme events and so are able to respond much faster in situations that even the best unprepared human could do.
For VGA I2C one could use the HDMI port. I think it's called dtoverlay=i2c2_yes_i_know_what_i_am_doing or similar.
Absolutely, people change their opinions all the time, they don't need an excuse, rather, a welcoming pat on the back. It's a good thing!
> "That ties in with what scientists call “ambient awareness” — a theory that having access to regular, small, seemingly disconnected bits of information about a person’s life can build stronger social connections, help us feel more bonded and make us happier."

I used to keep a list of people I wanted to be able to remember and stay in touch with. On paper. For most of them, I had no phone number, street address, email address, nothing-- only a name, and a desire to have some kind of contact again in the future. I was fairly certain I might never be able to track some of them down again.

I don't need the list any longer. Those people are all on Facebook. There is no other single place I can easily reconnect with them, let alone see how they're doing and what they're thinking without having to interrupt them and ask them to set aside time for me. I consider this pretty vital to my quality of life, and have no replacement for it.

Does it suck that one corporation owns this experience? Sure, in an abstract sense, but for the time being, there is no alternative. And thus far, there is nothing negative about it for me other than 'data which could potentially maybe be used against me somehow in the future'. I don't really share anything other than neutral/positive moments in my life, and I don't seek out anything other than how my old friends & extended family are doing. So I'm quite okay with it.

People have been hating on it and loudly deleting their profiles for many years. If they posted a bunch of stupid crap, I guess I could see why. But that seems to me like a problem which is easily avoided.
There's are more kinds of UNIX than Linux, and not all of them have deprecated perfectly functional tools.
The improvements in Promise performance are going to really help in async/await heavy codebases, and it's in time for Node 10!
Energy is already incredibly cheap. In developed countries it's something like 10-20% of household spending, which is a really nice bonus if you get most of that to spend on something else, but it's also not going to dramatically change the lifestyles of those people (who basically enjoy access to limitless food and water, with quite abundant access to other materials).

It's also set to get dramatically cheaper as solar really takes off in the coming years.
So it's evil because it's more successful? Not sure I understand the rationale here.
> Isn't the surprise of many that this was used for political purposes in a way that significantly differs from the expected pattern (micro targeting vs generic political advertising)?

Also not a surprise, it was well-known that the 2012 Obama campaign used targeted advertising and the media at the time raved about this brilliant use of an emerging technology. No one at the time saw fit to question them or Facebook. Let's all just be intellectually honest here: people only care because Trump made effective use of social media.
Next Big ICO Scam, Banking with Blockchain API??
I came across this site today http://lynqchain.com/, looks too good to be true! they are promising to bind banking and blockchain together with an API, they have NatWest on board apparently but it looks too good to be true.

I am guessing the next step is a fully blown ICO, looks like these ICO is the best way to get rich now.
When consenting to 'upload my contacts from my phone', I think very few people will interpret that as 'upload my complete call and text history'. Is it the user's fault for assuming Facebook is doing what it says it is? Should the user assume that they are being lied to by default and embark on a research project every time they want to use a product?

If Facebook presents the user with an alternate simple-to-understand representation of their EULA, it their responsibility to be fair and honest in this alternate representation. I think it is completely fair to blame them for failing to do so.
Was it Foxconn that was blocked from acquiring an American company earlier this month? Is this acquisition a order of magnitude smaller?

Is it strange that this wasn’t blocked as well?
Many people use their personal phones for work calls. They may have inadvertently breached NDAs, and in some cases laws, by not paying attention to their privacy settings.
In order to get a clearer picture of what Peterson is about, I did the unthinkable and watched a lot of his lectures. My opinion is that he's extremely thoughtful, formidable not so much in original thought, but careful synthesis of the many well-known sources he draws on most, and above all worthwhile. That is I think he says a ton of things that are fascinating (as Scott says, kind of in the Gladwell sense) and things that a lot of people could do with hearing these days. As far as the Gladwell thing goes, it's different because Peterson isn't making many scientific claims, or even claims as such. He's an intellectual psychologist synthesizing a - again, not original, but lucidly formulated - perspective on the human psyche itself. Not claiming how the world is, but how it is to us in our biological body-minds, which for many purposes is the only place that matters. His message is Jung meets Dostoevsky meets Joseph Campbell meets C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton, but also meets Peterson.
There's an awful lot of people posting "we knew it was bad already, why do you care now?" Remarkably consistently across all articles relating to Facebook. Clearly you want nothing done about this and are happy with this low level of privacy. But on the other hand a lot of people have been unhappy with it for a long time; suddenly the dam has broken and the public discussion in the media is taking an interest.

This happens with many scandals. I'm reminded of LIBOR "rigging", which all the participants thought was entirely normal.
There are a lot of choices on this spectrum between "good & moral" and "evil".
It seems to me we are in a desperate situation - we need to decarbonise energy, but so far have only made a tiny tiny scratch with intermittent, low-density renewables. So I don't get the sanguine attitude to whether we need fusion. It looks very much like we need something else, if we're ruling out fission.
Hello! I'd be interested to hear what you think the correct interpretation of these CIs are in this case. Failing that can you explain what is wrong with saying something like "with xx% confidence we can conclude that the rate is within these bounds" is?

The assumption of using Poisson seems pretty solid to me, given we are talking about x events in some continuum (miles traveled in this case), but always happy to hear any cogent objections.
OK, let's say the Volvo system gets precedence. How will the Uber system ever learn how to behave when the Volvo system is no longer in place?

If we were talking about a production system, I would agree, but I don't think this is appropriate for the training phase.

Redundancy is only essential if the potential for failure is unacceptable. If you remove that (by not driving in public streets), it isn't.
Well then said Canadian mine owners had better buckle up.
Front End Computer Science Basics: Boolean Logic
> But it was never built as a backup system.

The collision avoidance system? The fail-safe that's meant to ensure the car doesn't hit something when the human driver screws up? The one that works with an entirely separate autonomous intelligence (aka, the human) controlling the car? The one explicitly designed to trigger emergency brakeing even if the primary controller is trying to do something else? The kind of system installed on many other AI controlled cars to avoid this exact type of disaster?

That backup system?

Look, it's entirely possible that for some reason this specific safety system conflicted with the current version of Uber's system, but we have zero data to suggest that, and if so, it's something specific to those two systems in that particular vehicle (and suggests a severe issue with Uber's system to boot). There's no general issue here.

> There's 2 chefs.

Yes, and sometimes one of them takes over from the other one. That's how this works.
RT is not "mainstream media" in any sensible way, it's Russian state propaganda TV.
The Vanity Fair article about this featured a screenshot if you scroll down a little bit: https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/25/facebook-denies-it-collect...
If we get a universal basic income set equal to a living wage, then the "gig economy" can go back to being actual gigs, that is, people doing a bit extra to get a bit extra.
Show HN: Mojibake Steganography
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Mainly just making a concerted effort, when something went wrong, to go back and analyze why it went wrong and what I should have done differently. It took a lot of trial and error (like 10-20 years worth), and even today I will sometimes freeze up in social situations because all of the things I can think of to do in some situation are being flagged as "wrong" based on some prior experience.

Perhaps you should write this down as a concise theory with falsifiable predictions of what kind of social behavior people really expect.
It was a knowing play-on-words; forgive the triviality, but it was too perfect an opportunity ;)
The underlying issue is that these VC backed companies break the law to gain a business advantage and face no real consequences, especially if they are successful. But if individuals and small companies attempt to break these very same laws they get crushed.

It's almost as though if you've been to Stanford and are backed by well-connected VC's, you're able to recklessly break the law in the name of "disruptive" technology. But I wouldn't place the blame on these people. It's the whole system, which appears to be getting exponentially more rotten as each day passes.
When I and a lot of people I know signed up, an active .edu email was required. It was like the unprofessional kids' version of LinkedIn. The implicit conditions of the agreement to sign up for an account - that only other students and academic faculty could use the service and engage with content - were completely abandoned after they had cornered a part of their "social graph".
That's funny, as I'd say that;

>"Contact uploading is optional. People are expressly asked if they want to give permission to upload their contacts from their phone – it’s explained right there in the apps when you get started."

doesn't really cover the complaint from Dylan McKay regarding;

> "metadata about every text message I've ever received or sent"

and;

> "the metadata of every cellular call I've ever made, including time and duration"
Maybe is personality thing, most techie, including me, are introvert so the idea of social media is repulsive, even evil. In contrary, to many other people social media is an utility.

Like it or not, The next generation society/culture will be influenced much by social media so I either will embrace it or risk being out of touch with society.
Look up 401K. Which were mostly invested into Enron shares.
I'll try to explain why I'm enamored with the guy, though I do try and resist it. I've fallen victim to a few cult followings in my past - Ayn Rand in my teens and then Noam Chomsky in my early twenties. So I know the danger signs of falling into an ideological trapping, and I do see that happening with some of Peterson's fans.

But I don't care about the fight against "Postmodern Neo-Marxism" or any of his discussion about free speech. His value for me is due to his religious content. I, like many people my age, grew up in a conservatively religious household and became irreligious as soon as I left home. I thought of it as breaking free from burdensome constraints.

But after years of attempting to "simply be a good person", I've found that there is indeed some kind of void that needs to be filled. And yet, I just cannot go back to being (in my case) an evangelical christian. Once you're out, you're out. So where should a modern, rational, scientifically literate person do when they need a deeper source of particularly religious meaning in their life? Peterson is the first person I've come across who has even come close to answering that question adequately. No matter how many faults the man has, he has done me this kindness. All the rest is fluff to me.

I do think he's a bit of a prophet, in that he has the ability to inspire conviction without guilt, passion without irresponsibility, and courage without hubris.
There's an awful lot of people posting "we knew it was bad already, why do you care now?" Remarkably consistently across all articles relating to Facebook. Clearly you want nothing done about this and are happy with this low level of privacy. But on the other hand a lot of people have been unhappy with it for a long time; suddenly the dam has broken and the public discussion in the media is taking an interest.

This happens with many scandals. I'm reminded of LIBOR "rigging", which all the participants thought was entirely normal.

Speaking of financial services, the UK had a long run of "pensions mis-selling" scandals. https://pensionsorter.co.uk/pensions-scandals/ ; I put the personal information leaking into the same category. People were presented with options they did not fully understand the implications of and then induced into picking ones which turned out badly for them. This kind of thing is why so many people hate the financial services industry, and the data mining industry is going to end up the same way if they're not careful.
>The definition of artificial intelligence is the ability to perform a task that would normally require human intelligence.

Do you have any specific sources that define it as that?

>An ABS system would fit into this definition as it is a task that normally would require human sensing the conditions to know how to apply the breaks.

Responding to stimuli does not require any intelligence, let alone human intelligence.
I found the best quote from the article to be the last:

> “Horses in Central Park are regulated,” he pointed out. “There’s 150 of them. They make a great living there, the guys on the horse and buggies. Say Uber comes in and says, ‘We want to bring in Uber horses. And we want to add 100,000.’ And let’s see how the market will handle it. We know what’s going to happen. No one will make money. They’re all around Central Park. And now no one can go anywhere because there are now 100,000 horses in Central Park. It would be considered madness to do that. They wouldn’t do it. Yet when it comes to the yellow cab industry, for 50 years all we could have was 13,000 cabs, and then within a year or two we’re going to add 100,000. Let’s see how the market works on that! We know how the market works.”
Mind = software.

Pen & Pencil are just environment variables.
It appears to me that the 'evilness' is being exhibited by the companies that decide to build crappy products. I don't see that Facebook algorithms designed to target people with similar profiles to those who have already clicked is inherently evil.