skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I first read this, I assumed Samba had started a file streaming service/app for Android TV to stream movies from Samba shares.

Admittedly, a few seconds of thinking made me realise they'd never do that... but it's easy to see why people are getting confused, which is EXACTLY where Trademark stuff comes in.
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Why would a dumb tv cost less than a smart one? Presumably the manufacturers are making money on each sale because of the ad tech. So wouldn't TV's without the tech cost more?
A lot of people are in Florida, so you end up with more headlines then from smaller states...
NetBSD peeps: if you want to play with UEFI and PSCI support, check out https://github.com/andreiw/RaspberryPiPkg

This is a 64-bit UEFI firmware for RPi3 that uses ATF for PSCI, and has USB, HDMI and SD card support. It has been successfully booting FreeBSD, SUSE Leap 42.3 and Ubuntu 18.04.
Even if your dependencies are not formally verified, it is useful to formalize your expectations of them.
Fundamentally, your database availability matters more than anything else at the moment for your SLO. So it is important to understand what keeps the DB team from delivering a solution that has better measured SLA. If they’re fighting similar problems as yourself such as legacy software and the business has made supporting that (even at the cost of torpedoing newer projects) higher priority you need to accurately and objectively show how your deficiencies are solely related to the organizational priorities. If the DB team is just run poorly, understaffed, etc. it’s even more important to be a politically aware engineer to be successful.

Is there even any application or service that exists in your enterprise that can show high availability while using that database? Be careful to not become the pawn of a leader that is getting thrown under the bus by incumbents by being tasked with basically impossible duties and objectives. Even if the person’s intentions are noble that simply increases the chances of failure and your lessons therefore become lost (most large organizations and cultures seem to have a poor job reflecting carefully upon failures compared to trying to replicate successes no matter how circumstantial the nature of success).
This is such a false premise. What you don’t realize about those jobs is they go out of their way to diminish what people earn. “Burger flippers” are not hired full time. They give them full time -1 hour just to avoid providing benefits. They’ll even break up a workers schedule and require them work two different locations in the same day. They are not paid for travel time and the hours don’t add up to full time.

Then there are sewage workers. I recall on “Dirty Jobs” the divers that have to work on submerged pipes make large amounts of money (six figures iirc).

I advocate for UBI because we really do have enough to feed and house everyone. The UBI isn’t a quota system - merely a per deim to purchase the bare minimum. That won’t place artificial prices on commodities nor force labor. People will still purchase goods and services on a relative, trade-off basis. The current system forces labor.

As for whether people will then decide to not work for burger joints: if a business needs to resort to the business practices I mentioned earlier in order to operate then maybe that business isn’t needed by society. Further, people with a UBI will see the minimal hours scheduled as a bonus - they’re just adding another income stream to their UBI at that point. And yes, the line for cutting off either should not exist or be high enough to be negligible at the trade off point.
You must be American then because that's the American format.

Different countries and languages have different format of numbers. That's one of the most common issue in internationalization.

If you send a bill for a 5,000 dollars service, expect your international customers to send you back five dollars. The comma is broadly interpreted as the decimal separator.
This is essentially incorrect. Renewables have predictable generation when deployed on a large scale, and gas peaker plants can respond to changes as needed. With the simplistic model of the article (nuclear + wind), it is easy to reach the wrong conclusion.
That wasn't convincing. Obviously someone else (or a machine) would have to load/unload. Sure there will be routes that doesn't automate well, where the destination don't have the knowledge or scale for taking care of loading etc. but for the most parts it would be trivial compared to getting the truck to drive.
i tried to turn these tables into graphs because charts of numbers weren't doing much for me. but i suck at spreadsheets, so i don't know how to label these: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZFWiqXesq8SlOZ3uW9Om...

(the bars are raw/cached/canonical, and the groups on the X axis are min/max/median/90th)
Is this true? C# and Go both have a nice way to clean up disposables on early return. I'd imagine most languages are similar these days?
In the physical world there's no such thing as a system with preconditions that can "work perfectly". There will always be a boundary region where is is hard to say whether the precondition is present and the system is unpredictable.

What we really mean when we say a system is reliable/perfect is that the conditions which can cause failure are so rare that they can be neglected. Any system that depends on things that are inside normal experience: rain, day/night, errant pedestrians, earthquakes, and so on can never be trusted to act reliably/perfectly. A "reliable" system might be excused for messing up under conditions such as meteor strikes or falling space stations.
MemGEN: Memory Is All You Need
This is called the Federal Reserve Bank and it is indeed separate from the tax and fraud portions of the federal government in the US.

But the rest of your post is pretty silly. How does a secure digital exchange protect against fraud? It doesn't.
No, context doesn't matter. The CEO of a publicly traded company is treated by law as knowing that putatively material statements they make about their company in a public forum will be taken at face value. If they want to make a joke, they can make it in private, or they can make it about something non-material, or they can make it in a large press release which also includes a disclaimer that the whole thing is a joke.
On my 4-year-old MacBook Pro PHP 7.2 is 4 times as fast as Python 3.6 for parsing log files with a regex.
Doesn't that require the active cooperation of all parties involved?
Oh, looks like their calculations and dashboard crashed past their predicted reentry time. It was reentry theater, on par with security theater.
Yes. People often misunderstand that verifying transactions with blockchain is intrinsically difficult which is not the case. The hard part is making a ledger that can't be rewritten.

And mining is actually less akin to solving math problems and more akin to, well, actually mining. That is, digging around enough until you find some gold.
The consequence isn't criminal, it's civil. Literally any person who traded on the basis of this tweet can potentially sue Musk for damages (depending on which side of the trade they were on), and courts have upheld liability in such circumstances.
I like this, been thinking similar. My current ideal solution is data retention cap, something reasonable like 7 years. Next people should have archiving tools and make use of fair use. This would give realistic view of what others may archive, help inform their online conduct. Screenshots are the best medium to archive tweets etc imo, captures as viewed.
> That being said, 95% of the times the word "blockcahin" is uttered these days, what follows is most likely bullshit.

This is true -- it's also true the 5% is pretty damn interesting.

There are plenty of interesting tokens out there. Some of them are tackling real problems. That's pretty exciting. I don't begrudge someone who's trying to solve something.

The historical analogs are lazy in my view. The financial and political system we operate in today has done plenty of damage. Indeed, some of the key examples listed on the slide.

The last global financial crisis wasn't that long ago (and wasn't that "reversible", certain people may recall). You could spin every one of those dot-points as commentary on our existing financial systems.

Doesn't mean blockchain is going to fix it. In fact, I have many doubts and concerns. There is so much to do. However, I really like that people are trying.
I made a similar tool and host some audio here. You can tap and read: http://book.vidalab.co/
An RPi can handle 720p at best, and no Netflix/Prime. Certainly not at 4k with HDR.
April 1st as an opportunity to bring people the info that Google is kind of evil.

+1
I do kind of find it annoying that we use the word distributed when its a clustered/consensus system. In my mind distributed should mean actors can work independently of each other but that's not really the case here. But this ship has sailed.
Steven Pinker put it better then I could have when he wrote:

No one has ever recruited activists to a cause by announcing that things are getting better, and bearers of good news are often advised to keep their mouths shut lest they lull people into complacency. Also, a large swath of our intellectual culture is loath to admit that there could be anything good about civilization, modernity, and Western society.

My favourite example is this that in Australia we have no nuclear electricity generation large as a result of the good intentions of Greenpeace and The Wilderness Society, the later of which is largely responsible for there being no new hydro electric power stations in Australia after they were success in blocking the Franklin River dam project. That and there being pretty much no good sites left.

That realisation and my ensuing confusion resulted in me withdrawal from the whole debate with the hope that greater minds will work toward improving the situation.
What do we do about people who don't get the joke?
The problem with Tesla’s ‘autopilot’ is that it’s anything but.

Asking drivers to keep their eyes on the road and hands on the wheel while not steering guarantees that their attention will wander, because their brain isn’t getting enough stimulus to keep focused on the task.

I don’t know why it’s not clear to most people by now. The current Tesla ‘autopilot’ is simply more dangerous than manual driving because it harms human reaction time during emergencies.

Tesla is using legalese to blame people for this fully predictable effect when crashes do happen, but I suspect it’s only a matter of time before they’re forced to rebrand Autopilot as a lane assist technology which is all it is. Its only use as a safety system is to maintain control of the car is the driver becomes incapacitated, and safely bring it to a complete stop.
> ability to trade instantly with anyone anywhere with no fees

Neither of those statements has ever been true and in recent years they've been ludicrously untrue — affluent people in developed countries were complaining about the transaction costs and they're supposed to be transformative for people in a developing country?
he actually drove a NYC taxi for decades to pay bills, buy his first house on the lower east side, etc. in his autobiography, reflecting on it he simply states "i enjoyed driving a cab" for many of the same reasons Uber markets today.
Not going to lie, I forgot it's April 1st and though it was real at first.
This is unprofessional and inappropriate on so many levels. The only reason I would expect someone to behave like this is if they have a trump card or they have made some observation in their favor that they aren't revealing.
Ok. Maybe then we should abolish such asinine laws. If there is one thing the Romans got right it was caveat emptor.
Why Most Fish Farmers Fail
I'd come across Seneca's message from this book[0]: "Let us prepare our minds as if we'd come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing, Let us balance life's books each day.... The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time."

[0] - https://www.amazon.com/Daily-Stoic-Meditations-Wisdom-Persev...
I stumbled onto these guys a few years back when I was going nuts about base 18 (which you can do on a standard 5x2 abacus!). I think they have their own symbols for digits > 9 instead of using 'a' and 'b' in the hexadecimal fashion.

Non-standard radixes are pretty fun, and it makes you think about nebulous questions like "what does ten mean", and if you happen to carry that train of thought way past the station, "what does it mean to be a number?"
Doing something you love 40 hours a week can easily rob you of that love, depending on your situation.
Same here, and I was about to rage when I had a face-slap moment and a good chuckle. This was very well done.
You've never visited Africa, have you?
Right, intermittency is the biggest challenge renewables have but this is not an unsolvable problem. Forecasting and storage along with some automation will accelerate the transition to largely renewable powered electricity grid. The price of generation is too cheap to ignore. These solutions are still in their infancy but I think (I’m bias as I work in this space building said solutions) will become the standard operation in less than a decade. That isn’t to say most developed countries won’t still be using fossil fuels (especially nuclear due to cost to build and gas due to its speed to ramp up and down), but purely for economical reasons, the transition will happen and these intermittency issues will be resolved in the next 10ish years IMO.
Automate the stuff people don't like doing, redistribute the proceeds and products, and let everyone reap the bounty. Do we really need fast food anyway?
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You can probably hack one together by styling a <input type="number">
Excel has it and it's a complete nightmare. Never know in advance what's the locale of the document and the excel.
“Burger flipping” is not a good nor service critical to society. It’s convenience food and expensive at that. No ones dying because they didn’t eat at McDonalds. If you can afford a burger then you can afford milk and cereal for more than one meal - just an example.

I argue people will be more willing to take menial work with a UBI. Because with UBI people will move from working to survive to working for luxury. Ie the UBI won’t buy them a nicer apartment, but the UBI plus a cruddy but simple job will.
the corollary to "time flies when you're having fun" is that misery never ends. Chronic depression and entry level retail is the next worst thing to immortality...
I spent several hours watching MIT's presentations about this reactor design.

- The inner wall of the reactor is 3D-printed and replaced annually. This is easy because they've found they can make joints in the superconducting tape that add very little resistance, allowing them to include hinges letting them open the reactor.

- Surrounding the inner wall is FLiBe molten salt. It's heated by the neutron radiation, acts as coolant for the thermal cycle, and as the breeding blanket (each high-energy neutron releasing two neutrons from impact with beryllium, providing plenty of neutrons for breeding tritium from lithium). Having a liquid blanket makes tritium harvesting easier.

- Stronger magnetic fields damp down plasma instabilities, making containment easier. For years MIT has been running the Alcator C-Mod, which has more powerful fields than any other tokamak in the world, so they have some direct experience here.

- The neutron-activated wastes would only need containment for several decades.

(I don't know anything about the diverter, and I'm interested if you want to get into more detail.)

The MIT folks argue that we understand tokamak plasmas much better than any other configuration, and have gotten far closer to breakeven than alternative designs, so that's where we should focus.

However, there are some projects working on aneutronic fusion, mainly with p-B11. The biggest project is Tri Alpha, with $500M invested. They've achieved stable plasma at 10M degrees, and are about to start testing a new reactor which should reach 100M degrees. If the plasma continues working as the expect, they think it's a straightforward path to a production reactor; of course there could be surprises.

Another approach is laser fusion with petawatt picosecond lasers. We're not far off from having a laser with the specs to attempt this, and these lasers improve by a factor of ten every three years.

Helion, funded by YCombinator, is attempting a hybrid D-D/D-He3 reaction. (The output of D-D is half He3, and half tritium which decays to He3 with a 12-year half-life.) They say the hybrid reaction would release only 6% of its energy as neutron radiation. I don't know how it's going though.
I ordered a mug as support, as a (nerdy) collector's item, and because the joke it was well done. Not necessarily in that order.
Really? In Australia we still see large wind and solar ramp events that are hard to forecast and predict even with some of the most modern weather forecasting approaches, these are solvable problems but I think calling renewables predictable is a bit hand-wavy IMO.
It's a trouble of writing template once though and it is not that much work. I worked on this at my previous employer and it was alright, little frustrating but once it was done, it was done until you redesign the pages.

Disc: Googler but nowhere close to AMP.
Florida Man. You're talking about Florida Man.
> DNS resolvers inherently can't use a catchy domain because they are what have to be queried in order to figure out the IP address of a domain. It's a chicken and egg problem. And, if we wanted the service to be of help in times of crisis like the attempted Turkish coup, we needed something easy enough to remember and spraypaint on walls.

In fact, people wrote that DNS address on walls just to get away with the censorship of the government so you wouldn't be helping the government..
The non-JS version takes 1/3 loading time of the JS version: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/180402_0J_6a3f29516e9a8bcf... vs http://www.webpagetest.org/result/180402_Z3_1bd3e53e1be2668c...
Autonomous cars are not coming.

A certain amount of over familiarity with western driving conditions blinds these attempts to the reality that there are two worlds on the roads - the legal and socially manufactured layer and reality.

Which is why looking at the actual problem space, like nations where road rules tend to be ignored, makes it clear that what you actually have to solve for.

It has been highlighted before - but the autonomous car can only work if the road itself is active / aware
The MIT design essentially solves those two issues. Scale is smaller with stronger magnetic fields, and embrittlement is confined to an inner wall which is easily replaced once a year.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4991016
But it's not the autopilot that's taking evasive action, as would be the case in a self driving car. TCAS merely advises the pilot that there's traffic that's too close, and instructs the pilot to take evasive action (climb, descend, etc.).
Could we do that with solar and wind?
not just wget -N in a polite loop?
I agree that it was a mistake (too easy to make the joke compared to the fact that SEC doesn't allow it), but Elon is very far from running Tesla to the ground.
Many of the investors understand that the transition to sustainability is a long term, hard, investment heavy process that takes decades and needs higher automation to be revenue positive than what's available at the current car factories.

Anyways if you're sure of yourself, just join the people who short TSLA (and got burned by it so far).
However ping to 127.1 works the same as localhost.
You need dnscrypt-proxy for this.
TL;DR for the article: Huge margins and outsourced manufacturing and logistics.
While developing immature technology, yes. Maybe three people total (driver, and someone monitoring the driver, and someone else monitoring the scene from a camera up on a small boom pole).
> "I don't see the risk of gouging my eyes out as being very high"

You're absolutely right about this. The risk is very low. But the stakes are extremely high. It's the insurance problem: how much are you willing to pay to prevent a rare but extremely hazardous even in the future?

To a lot of people (maybe most) wearing glasses if they don't need correction seems silly. I can't argue with that, but in my case, my sunglasses saved me from an expensive, painful surgery and possible disability. The experience made me feel that the "insurance" of wearing glasses habitually was an acceptable cost to bear if it could keep that from happening again. I'm no actuary; it really is just a feeling. And feelings are what all of us rely on most when we evaluate risk, whether we like it or not. My feeling is not likely any more valid than yours, because it's based on my values and experiences, and your's may be entirely different.

Now, its totally possible for these extra barriers to interfere with one's life. Again I think about how many kids are discouraged from riding bikes because of the oppressive safety gear. Or suppose I miss a plane because I can't find my fake glasses. When that happens it'll be time to question whether my reliance on my protective barriers is healthy. I think that's the issue your comments anticipate, and you're right about that too.
Interestingly, I see a lot of parallels between the feelings you have described and how people who are opposed to immigration describe their position. Basically, they want the place they call home to remain the way it is, because it’s comfortable and they’re worried that mass immigration will change that (or has already changed that).
No idea what rights you'd have in the US, I'm not a citizen :-)
Self-driving car companies are "newbies" who could learn from railway companies, which have decades of experience with keeping drivers alert in vehicles that keep moving without driver action. For example, locomotives have "dead man" switches to make sure the driver is still on the job. Japanese drivers are trained to point and vocalise. Why shouldn't the car drivers be required to call and point out every hazard whilst in autonomous mode?

Maybe part of the problem is that the self-driving companies view their drivers as temporary measures, so choose to invest their resources into the machine component rather than the human component?
Can I use that as a quote in my city simulator?
You make it sound like Germany doesn’t have poor people. That is most certainly not the case. In fact if you consider percentages, more Germans than Americans live below poverty level.
I've been vanquished!
On WiFi in Cambridge NZ

PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=7.65 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=59 time=8.53 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=59 time=10.2 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=59 time=8.04 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=59 time=7.92 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=59 time=7.85 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=59 time=7.88 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=59 time=7.73 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=59 time=7.73 ms
Near Lisbon on residential FTTH:

ping dig
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1.1.1.1 3.2 4
1.0.0.1 2.9 4
8.8.8.8 36.5 40
8.8.4.4 36.3 42

These are only averages though, and by testing a bit more with uncached domains I found the first hit will take a lot longer with cloudflare than with google.
Definitely read that as Twitch.tv.

Oh the ideas...
Mattress-packing via machine pix:

https://twitter.com/machinepix/status/965691925712875521

Instead of merely airing the bed each morning I run a dehumidifer. Hopefully this will reduce mould & mites. Now HN can tell me why my personal mattress hack is a bad idea.
http://archive.is/qOdV7
Given the media circus that started what choice did Tesla have? If this was really an problem why didn't they make Tesla do a NDA?