skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not quite true. More parts == more things that can fail, but whether those failures result in the entire system failing depends on how you've combined the parts.

If you make each of the pieces required parts of the whole, then yes - adding more of them will increase the chance that the whole system fails. But in kubernetes, the additional pieces (nodes) are all redundant parts of the whole, and can fail without affecting the availability of the whole system. The more nodes you add, the more redundancy you're adding, and the less chance that the system as a whole will be affected.

Mathematically:

If a component fails F% of the time, then adding N of them "in series" (all of them need to work) means your whole system fails with a (1-(1-F)^N)% chance. Iow, as N goes up, the system approaches (1-0)% => 100% chance of failure.

Otoh, if you combine the parts "in parallel", and you only need any one[1] of the components to work in order for the whole system to work, then the system has a F^N% chance of failure. As N goes up, this system approaches 0% chance of failure.

[1] Kubernetes (etcd) isn't quite this redundant, since etcd needs a majority quorum to be functional not just any single node. But the principle is similar and still gets more reliable as you add nodes.
A moderately capable smartphone can be had for $100 and up, especially if you're not aiming for the latest model. That makes it very competitive with laptops, and provides the owner with communications, mapping, and access to all kinds of services which will make it easier to get by and considerably easier to do things like job hunting. Dismissing it as an expensive luxury is absurd.
Exactly, Apple just doesn't need ads because of their physical product and brand strength. If you rely on ads, what actual value are you (or could you be) providing that you're not charging for. And then, why not, why choose ads instead and data harvesting? If Facebook started charging for their services, would people happily start paying or would they suddenly realise there are equal/better alternatives once cost is a factor?

Will be interesting to see what happens with Apple if the i-products do ever decline significantly. (I believe their Brand is strong enough to sell their other services effectively so long as they get the price right).
AIM = AOL Instant Messenger
AOL = America OnLine

It makes sense.
I did that and ended up homeless in L.A. for a summer.
I worked part time for a couple of years before I ended up full time in my profession. It's a luxury few people have, but quite common in my line of work.

But having hired people, I see this from the other end. I have precisely one person under me. It's all we can afford and I'm in municipal government, so positions are not easy to create. Given that situation, and how hard it is to get rid of someone, I have to be really careful who I hire and that means favoring experience. I expect more supervisors than not are in my position, wanting to mentor but not being able to take the risk.
If you do a search for "three black teenagers" you now see all the top results are screenshots of the mug shots that people saw when they previously searched for the term. So basically the discussion around it makes it more prominent not less. Not saying this is right or wrong, just pointing out the results are basically being reinforced.

Now when you do a search for "three white teenagers" you mostly get mug shots of black teens.
Does NYT just let anybody write for them nowadays? This article came off as very... amateurish.
McConnell bill would legalize hemp as agricultural product
Surprisingly, avoiding GMO foods may not be as viable as one might think:

> Currently, up to 92% of U.S. corn is genetically engineered (GE), as are 94% of soybeans and 94% of cotton (cottonseed oil is often used in food products). It has been estimated that upwards of 75% of processed foods on supermarket shelves – from soda to soup, crackers to condiments – contain genetically engineered ingredients. [1]

[1] https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/issues/311/ge-foods/abou...
Does OB1 have a source of income?
I can speak objectively about this because I watch the network every day. Tens of thousands of listings on the network and the vast overwhelming majority are legal and moral. People use it because it's cheaper and more private than alternatives.

There are some illegal drugs on the network. Thus far I haven't seen any evidence of the other stuff you've claimed.

Perhaps it's human nature that people will eventually abuse the technology in that way, but it doesn't mean the technology isn't valuable, and it doesn't mean that the benefits don't outweigh the costs.

This is obviously an age-old debate about new technology, but if we had the mindset that any technology that can be used for evil shouldn't be allowed to exist then we wouldn't have TCP/IP and HTTP and SMS and SMTP, etc.
Phyno – One Chance Ft. Kranium
> "She was wearing a miniskirt in a sketchy part of town" is never an excuse!

More like: she left all her bright-red sports car car doors open with the windows rolled down, parked unattended in a sketchy part of town
Earliest Known Human Footprints in North America Found on Canadian Island
I call bullshit. I searched "entry level developer" on indeed and spot checked 10 of them. Not one said 3 years experience required.
It's pretty sweet when you need to read code in a console that's limited to 80 characters. Also, it makes it easy to have two files opened side-by-side.
Viable, but not a good strategy for everyone. GMOs are often cheaper, due to higher yields and greater resistance to pests. It _might_ be healthier to avoid them, but that's another example of eating healthy being a luxury.

Better to investigate, report, regulate, so all society can benefit from the benefits of targeted engineering without fear.
Going by the body text of your question, I guess 4 years. I first started coding web pages with free hosts like Geocities and Angelfire. 2 years later I dove into PHP which compared to HMTL and CSS looked very foreign to me at the time, having no prior experience with procedural languages.

However, I have gotten accustomed to that as well, to build websites with dynamically generated web pages, and query strings and forms to fetch data from databases. This was still non-OOP and without frameworks, but it worked for me.

My first ever paid web development job was for a freelance client who needed a simple intranet application for private auctions. He seemed fine with my knowledge of PHP and MySQL, and was able to get the job fine in the entire month that it took.
I'm less worried about explicitly unethical people than I am about somebody just out of college in their first job whose boss asks them to build something ethically dubious. Professional ethics instruction would A) help determine if something was unethical ("My boss told me to add a feature to our social network app to vacuum up every call and text message made on a device that has our app installed. Should I do that?") and B) provide a framework for people to push back on and censure unethical requests.
My point is that there are no indictments on anything related to collusion with Russians to interfere wit US elections.
I don't like spam filters. Because I've been burned too many times, missing important messages that got flagged as spam. So I end up having to look through all the spam anyway.

I did hate the Demand Media bullshit, however. But as I've said, I'd rather that Google flagged that stuff, and let me filter it out. I mean, maybe I'm researching an article about Demand Media. How could I do it if Google is suppressing it? Could Google perhaps have an "expert" option? Analogous to "family friendly" or whatever it's called.
Caching implies short term use. Yes, all of the things he mentioned could be useful for short term caching.

We both know that modern social tech is built on big data crunching, meta data analysis, and using "micro-pyschology" (adding up all the small habits) to influence people.

Do you use a search engine? Do your friends use Social media? Have you been photographed in the last 3 years and stored on a google/facebook server? As much as you want to believe "your data" is not a part of this dataset, you are absolutely a node on this graph.

My fav eye-opener: Facebook tells you about your friend's photos that you could be tagged in. Most people forget that facebook could also tell you about the strangers photos you are in, but it would freak you out.
This may be the original article
http://fox2now.com/2018/02/20/high-school-student-learns-to-...
That's... somewhat of an over-simplification
Every job application I have filled out in the past two years has asked for a Linked In profile (even though it is technically optional).
Even then - it was the thief who stole it who was "to blame".

I've walked past plenty of open doors, topless convertibles, unattended bicycles - without being compelled to steal anything.

To push the analogy too far - building a robot to check every parked car to see if it's unlocked and stealing the ones that are - is not OK, even though they were unlocked.
Lots of people in webrtc are critically concerned with the safety and privacy of their users.
I live in a region where very many are vehemently 'anti-GMO'. It's clear within seconds of talking to such people here that they have only the dimmest notion of what GMOs actually are, but they know they are Evil. They also know that all GMOs are created by Monsanto (which is Evil). It is not dissimilar to their opposition to much "allopathic medicine", which comes from Big Pharma (Evil). The dividing line between good and evil is not inherently related to corporations, because these folk don't abjure solar panels, 4WDs or mobile 'phones, the manufacturers of which are presumably Good. Even Big Pharma, which is Evil, is at the same time Good when it flogs them supplements. It is all a little confusing.
What do you mean by that? What is "intermediate IT"? And what benefits do you see of a bespoke compartmentalisation system over Qubes?
(I am a physicist who used to work on a WIMP detector). WIMP funding has certainly gotten the largest share of funding. Part of the reason is probably that we know how to build detectors good enough to reach a swath of parameter space and the relative popularity of supersymmetry. I've heard some people suggest that part of the reason for funding such expensive WIMP experiments is that we know exactly where the limits of the detection technique lie and they are reachable given enough money.
Facebook, Reddit, HN.
Lots of good common sense advice and practical experience there. I've had my fair share as a devops/sysadmin working on crazy systems (more worse than better haha). So it's unsurprising how common sense isn't always put into practice.

I do believe caching to be the proverbial Swiss Army Knife of performance. Some of its tools can be used properly and others as band-aid / stop gap. Even band-aids serve a useful purpose. But I can definitely see how a system can accrue technical debt when over leveraging caching.

But to believe in prevalent, perfectly built systems is to deny the status quo of the landscape. When you democratize development like WordPress has done with its plugins and Node has done with npm, as popular examples, you definitely have it coming.
Would it be possible to amend the Constitution twice to accomplish this? First, amend the part that prohibits changing Senate representation, then amend the Senate representation?
You can buy all organic or non-GMO certified foods.
> all the "open always wins" from the FOSS types

Can you produce any quote from any Free Software or Open Source developer or advocate that supports your statement in this context of Facebook being better than Apple because they're "open"? Because even though both companies are terrible at freedom, they're terrible in very different ways, turning any comparison into a false equivalence.
I'm thinking law enforcement will come knocking whether you take fees or not. Especially with the recent legislation.

Craigslist took down their personals and they don't make any money off of it.
> A viable option actually

We've come up with a definition for "GMO" which is about as arbitrary as "plants grown on the north side of a mountain."

Look at a wild carrot [1]. There is no good reason for plants to stuff their roots with beta carotene. But nutrient-rich roots are tastier and healthier, so we bred them. It blows my mind that someone might consider a mutation bred [2] vegetable healthier or safer than one where the desired gene is precisely injected.

The economics of GMO produce are compelling. They will be produced. All anti-GMO consumers guarantee is having their views, tastes and concerns ignored as agriculture develops. That lack of consumer input is, in my opinion, unhealthy for us all.

[1] http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/wild.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_breeding
I believe the headline is using local in the plainest sense of proximity. NGC 1052-DF2, the galaxy in question here, is only 65 million light-years away. That's not terribly far away, cosmically speaking.
Some individual rights need to be protected against the "tyranny of the majority." For example, a person with an unpopular view should still enjoy free speech. And of course, a majority should not be allowed to vote to enslave a minority.
On the topic of intellectual property, you are completely wrong. Plant patents predate GMO (like 50 years) and they are not "enabled by GMO" in any sense whatsoever.
Yes you can, I’ve been in tech companies where a fair few of my colleagues are not interested in tech. They want to be part of a “winning” organisation and make money.

I sure as hell wouldn’t hire someone who has no interest in what my company is doing and that level of interest would have to increase relative to the role.

What tends to happen is you get very slick operators who don’t produce anything because they don’t understand/don’t care and all they do is get information from A spin it in a way that makes them look fantastic and push it to B.

Given enough people like that in a tech org it’ll collapse.
The ANSI/ISO standards came out nearly a decade after Oracle's DB was released.

Before that, Oracle ripped off Chamberlin and Boyce's work. Which they should be able to do, because APIs shouldn't be copyright-able.
The market always clears, but while that's good for the market, it's not necessarily good for the participants.

For example, if women don't apply for jobs unless they meet 100% of the listed requirements [1], and men are much more willing to fudge it, that means this particular market won't clear in a fair manner. This hiring data isn't public, so a company won't lose sales over it, so the market can't correct it on the other end, either.

And that's probably not the only way to slice the set of job-seekers into people who will/won't apply for a job based on the requirements. Essentially, impossible-sounding criteria do filter your set of applicants, but not by the criteria you claim to care about.

[1]: https://hbr.org/2014/08/why-women-dont-apply-for-jobs-unless...
Right, but they have 11b in revenue. They claim to be operating today with a 27% margin on the model S, if an investor dropped the model 3 and focused on producing just the S an investor would easily pay more then the 20b they have in outstanding dept to get that revenue. To claim that a company with that much revenue and that much equipment and investment is worth 0 is so far from being rational.
The ISS isn't floating, it's in freefall. We've been doing rendezvous in freefall for half a century. Launching out of a deep gravity well at 0.9g means a rocket operating with a tremendous amount of thrust and a launch pad (or area) for the rocket to take off from. Making a precision landing through atmosphere from interplanetary cruise onto a floating platform is also very difficult. SpaceX has managed to achieve something similar but much less challenging and with much lower stakes and it requires a vessel that uses thousands of tonnes of concrete and steel.
How about "contains genetic modifications that are strictly Copyright (C) Mother Nature". Seems like a good first approximation at a working definition.

So, "north side of the mountain" is non-GMO right off the bat.
Why isn't a basic version of proof of work a reasonable approximation of that for the time being? Ex. to provide a review you must also provide a value that when postpended to your review gives a hash containing some properties that scales with the number of reviews. This doesn't solve decentralized reputation at all but does prevent review bombing.
Searching for "Asian girls" or "Mexican girls", etc, produces similar results.

I can see the rationale for altering the algorithm for words like "girls".

It's also interesting that, for example, the results for "swedish girls" are much tamer. Even though that's sort of a long standing phrase that was very sexual.
> producing a plant that is resistant to certain herbicides so that you can douse the heck out of the crop to kill everything else

I think you're referring to Round-up Ready? Wasn't the point of that program to reduce pesticide use?
I'd actually argue that at least as important (if and only if this isn't the case) would be

3) Not having extensive WORM backups and a plan to simply nuke and repave everything, or even quickly substituting in duplicate clean hardware kept cold for emergency. This should include (to the extent possible) running everything isolated while infection source is determined.

I mean yes, both your points are important too though with caveats. For 1, it's not necessarily the case they had mission critical systems on the Internet. There are significant ways that malware can cross even decent air gaps (let alone softer protections). And of course sometimes even mission critical equipment does in fact need to have a WAN link, though in that case I'd hoped it'd have protects wrt their intranet.

For 2, yes to that also if Boeing just plain didn't patch when they could have. But particularly when dealing with a lot of heavy duty industrial control applications sometimes enormously expensive hardware will only work with very old systems and/or have other baroque and fragile dependencies. Perhaps more to the point, there are zero days out there too, and Boeing should be ready even if this was an entirely unknown vulnerability rather then an old one. Or for that matter if a bunch of their critical computers simply exploded into flame.

At their level I'd expect a very concrete and specific action plan to simply bootstrap from scratch in a worst case and bring themselves back up from mere computer failure within a few days at worst and with a limited amount of data lost. Of course, like I said at the start, maybe that is in fact what they're executing, the article was light on details. If they are having to do a "swap in fresh hardware/reimage/restore while preventing reinfection" scenario across tons of systems in a hurry that would indeed be an All Hands On Deck critical event, albeit one with hopefully a relatively deterministic time frame. While it wouldn't stun me to see even a big engineering oriented company like that mess up here in a facepalm way I also don't want to jump to conclusions too fast. Clearly something has gone wrong, but if they have a worst case plan all in place ready to go and practiced and are now executing, it wouldn't be good they'd have to but that's what worst case plans are for.
Lior Ron, The co-founder of self-driving trucking startup Otto, has left Uber
I remember my ICQ number (1998-2002ish), my compuserve id (1996-1998), and my first house phone number (1984-1993), and two school friend's hosue numbers (1993-2000), and the Live and Kicking number (081 811 8181, which dates it to 1990-1995). I can also tell you, just about, my mobile phone number (2006-now) and wife's (2003-now). I can also tell you both my passport numbers and expiry dates. Couldn't tell you my home phone number, let alone anybody else's.

You remember numbers you use a lot, I have no idea why I remember by ICQ number though.
Extremely slick. Love it.
It sounds bad only in English and partly because of the foreign spelling. In Bulgarian it the name spells and reads “Uran”.
So that's 6 generations in 20 years?
Predicting the Future – Music Industry Version
I didn't see that comment as excusing anything.

I think we all agree Google should do as much as possible to improve results. But at the same time, if Google gets it right 99 times out of 100, the 100th is what will get an article like this written on it. That doesn't excuse that, it explains why it happens.

> Your second paragraph explains why Google, the search tool, has a striking history of bias against black women

The article says "Google has a striking history of racism", which you interpret as "Google results have included things which are strikingly racist." That's one interpretation, but it seems equally valid to interpret "Google has a striking history of racism" with "Google has been very racist" (after all, if I said, "Bob has a striking history of racism" you'd be right to assume I think Bob is a racist).

I think some of the controversy around this article stems from these interpretations, one of which is a far worse accusation than the other.
Or if you use arch linux you can get it here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-ibm-plex-git/

(I have to change as now it downloads the whole repo as it used to be in a giant repo with no release.)
Not referring to any specific program; note that pesticide /= herbicide.
> Apple got this right from the beginning despite years of criticism about the "walled garden".

Being a walled garden is independent of privacy. The calendar app on macOS Calendar app allows me to share my calendars in an open format (ICAL) and interoperates with other calendar apps through that specification. It respects my privacy by not sharing anything I don't ask it to without being "walled".

Signal is open and secure; iMessage could be a non-proprietary format and remain just as private.

> all the press coverage of some app developer crying about App Store rejections or onerous rules.

As far as I'm aware a lot of these weren't for privacy matters [1] and are sometimes a little much [2] (this one is specially absurd: [3]).

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/08/apples-widened-ban-on-temp...

[2]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16992830/apple-emoji-crack...

[3]: https://medium.com/@alariccole/apple-literally-stole-my-thun...

PS:

> all the "open always wins" from the FOSS types

I don't think that means what you think it means. FOSS and privacy are tangential matters.
I'm not super familiar with ipfs, is that sufficient to cover yourself legally speaking? Does the company host any server nodes itself?
Not currently. Now that the base protocol is becoming stable we're going to start focusing on growing and starting for-profit products and services.
Looks like it was a guest piece, which may explain (while not excuse) what you're seeing:

> "Cal Newport is an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University and the author of “Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World” (Grand Central)."

As an aside, during the expansion of media online, a lot of traditional media picked up a lot of bloggers. In some cases they were included in sections that distinguished between the traditional staff and the blogs, and were held to different journalistic standards, often on different teams. (Don't read this to mean that there aren't excellent bloggers; indeed there are.) That distinction has fallen away so it's not always obvious. Then again, people often mistake editorials and opinion pieces for news articles when it's right there in the header.
>>Where are Panasonic’s utility scale batteries?

where ever somebody wants them.

>>Sure, Panasonic manufactures the 2170 cells, but they aren’t in the same game as Tesla.

While true Tesla is a value-add on those cells, but like 99% a value add for themselves. The quick question is if one of them died would the other survive...