skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google Search is arguably just a mirror. And ideally, that's what it should be.

I disagree this is the ideal. The first implementation of PageRank makes a very big assumption: that people who write webpages and control websites can be trusted to link to worthwhile content. If webmasters and web producers skew a certain way, then PageRank/BackRub will also skew that way.

Google original mission statement was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." Being a mirror of web content would only partially solve that mission, and that's assuming webmasters/producers are acting in good faith. Would it really be ideal for Google to be a "mirror" of link counts for "miserable failure" [0] and "Did the Holocaust Happen?" [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb

[1] https://searchengineland.com/google-holocaust-denial-site-go...
Once you start down this hole it can be hard to know what to believe by it's very nature. Hard evidence is hard to come by, and absolutes like "no reason to believe" become hard to justify. There are at least some reports that Assange turned down leaks related to the Kremlin.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-le...
In the original whistle-blowing interview the whistle-blower (Wylie) says that he was the one which initiated this whole project:

> At 24, he came up with an idea that led to the foundation of a company called Cambridge Analytica

> It was Wylie who came up with that idea and oversaw its realisation.

> Alexander Nix, then CEO of SCL Elections, made Wylie an offer he couldn’t resist. “He said: ‘We’ll give you total freedom. Experiment. Come and test out all your crazy ideas.’”

> But Wylie wasn’t just talking about fashion. He had recently been exposed to a new discipline: “information operations”, which ranks alongside land, sea, air and space in the US military’s doctrine of the “five-dimensional battle space”
Its amazing your getting downvoted. Anyone who even looked at bond pricing in the last few years would be shocked by an 8% yield, and a 2% short term move. Those numbers are simply not normal for any healthy company post 2008.
>I doubt that here, on HN, most of us would go so deep with conspiracy, but rational thinking did not lead me to the conclusion that Putin is responsible this time.

Please lay out evidence supporting this claim. Given you're being rational about it, you should be able to do so.
And thermal noise is - almost by definition - the best source of white noise you can get in this world...
Edited to mention Varnish.

Also, adding caches is still resource scaling.

This is a semantically correct. Caching can indeed cut down on resource usage. It isn't always a scale-up operation.
Guix builds on top of most or many ideas of Stow giving even more power. I started using Guix on ubuntu some time ago and then found about stow later, but haven't used it.
Twitter you can carefully curate what you want to see.
Facebook , you don't decide to curate what you want to see ( exclude ads )
I would look for news articles / press releases talking about firms that received a lot of new funding, are planning to make a lot of new hires, or who just signed some big customers. If you're looking for small firms, you might also want to keep connected with management at co-working spaces.
Is it a purposeful tactic to undermine Tesla and slow the inevitsbile domination of electric vehicles?
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Something I never thought I would write, but here it is:

"Those curly braces are gorgeous"
I also keep user-specific binaries in ~/.local/bin. IMO, keeping things clearly separated between the user and system is just the most sensible approach. It also keeps the home directory fairly free of clutter.

Something that bugs me about the XDG Base Directory Specification [0] is that the default is to have a `.config` and `.local` folder in your home directory. I'd rather it all be placed under the single hidden local folder.

On macOS you have ~/Library for user-specific files, /Library for global non-system files, and /System/Library for system files. I think if you use the Network Location feature some apps will also store different preferences in ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost, although I haven't really used the feature so I might be mistaken. Honestly, changing your system preferences based on your location makes tons of sense to me! For a portable system, it doesn't make sense to use the same settings in your home network as when you're in an untrusted network such as a coffee shop or airport.

[0] https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-...
*For anyone who has Twitter blocked

All social apps grow until you need a newsfeed

All newsfeeds grow until you need an algorithmic feed

All algorithmic feeds grow until you get fed up of not
seeing stuff/seeing the wrong stuff & leave for new apps with less overload

All those new apps grow until...
> A Ninth Circuit decision [...] in favor of Google would not have created any obvious circuit split and wouldn't have upset the status quo of the software industry.

Go on, finish the thought, and make your conclusion explicit. Because by any reasonable reading, you're suggesting that the Supreme Court would not have granted Oracle's petition if Google prevailed in the Ninth Circuit. And yet you start by saying that this isn't your argument. Be explicit.
Bloomberg has an entire page to track Model 3 production. The production ramp is there: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/

Credit rating agencies have defined rules and many institutions have policies on what mix of bonds they have. Investors do over-react to short term news.
No, but I believe you could make it clear.
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In my experience the GitLab Runner on k8s should utilized the cache. Are you using Docker-in-Docker by chance? By default, I don't think it can cache data between jobs.
I disagree and want to note a worrying the - It's only different on HN where Apple seems to get a free pass and its security foibles tend to be forgotten or simply ignored. We may like to present ourselves as impartial but we're an echo chamber like many other online communities.
I don't know why I don't trust this Christopher Wylie. They way he is pictured, filmed etc. looks over produced, like he is trying to lie to me. I can't put it in words but something is fishy about him. In one of his interviews I found out that CA has sue him, so he did not care about anything, he did something wrong to CA, they sue, he blows the whistle to save his *. Is not about "oh, I care so much about the data of millions of people and I can't live any more with the guilt", its about his own skin. If its your own skin that you care about please don't picture in a victim/tormented soul, it makes me hate you just for that.
It sure looks like it was designed by committee. It is one of the ugliest typefaces I have ever seen and, having studied typography, I have seen some really shitty ones. What were they thinking with the f and r? This is Times New Roman all over again.
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Sure, but it overcomplicates something that doesn't need to be made more complicated to be understood. If the simplest explanation works then that is usually the right one.

In this case: Assange/WikiLeaks have an agenda: to hit America where it hurts, by exposing their actions on the world stage and by creating as big a rift between the different political sides in the United States as they could manage. In that they are no different from Al Queada or the Russians, their goals align and so you get some pretty strange bedfellows.

Assange is a 'useful idiot' to Russia when he's go between for content hacked from US servers by the Russians that they can't be seen to release directly.

I agree with you that it is not incompatible but it is too paranoid for me to take into account until there is some actual proof. He could be a double agent too, he could be anything. But my money is on him being an idealistic, narcissistic hacker with a political agenda that amounts to 'Reduce American Influence in any way possible'. And if that involves cooperating with the Russians (knowingly or otherwise) that does not necessarily mean he is a Russian agent.

By contrast, Paul Manafort, who made many millions of dollars working for the Russians and who has his hands all over the 2016 election cycle and the damage done to Ukraine to me would qualify as a Russian agent.

I'm pretty sure if there was any proof that Assange was an actual Russian agent it would have been used to pressure Ecuador to turn him over since the Ecuadorians would definitely not want to be seen as 'harboring a Russian agent' versus 'harboring a left wing anti-American hacker'. The former doesn't play nearly as good at the home front as the latter.
Well unless the front of the vehicle simply evaporated I don't see how what I said is incorrect.

You can clearly see at 30s the outline of the inferno on the tire. It completely incinerated all the shreds of car were destroyed from the crash.

Even at the beginning of the video, where it shows where the front of the vehicle should've been, it too is barely there because it was incinerated but the batteries.

It takes first responders hours to deal with, sounds like Tesla has traded gasoline for a much more lethal battery. Once again, cost externalization.
Woah!

I found this article from 2007 where Hubble found a "ring" of dark matter that seemed to ripple out from a collision : https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/news/dark_matter_r...

Could this galaxy be an example of what the galaxy with the "ring" might look like some day far in the future? Fascinating stuff.
Tesla: A Disruptive Force with a Debt Problem?

https://youtu.be/HxkbUrNYvmY
That screen is limited to navigation; having a different screen for other tools is also possible in the shell (using modes - like Vim). It has really nothing to do with being a GUI or not.

Can you do equally efficient in a command line shell?

Well, of course; that's what aliases are for.

Not only it saves key presses, its also less stuff to remember and therefore much easier to use.

No argument there; I was disagreeing with a specific point, not making a case for the overall superiority of the shell.
I wouldn't expect gravity to be linear, but exponential just like time in general relativity.
I fly frequently and i do like being subsidised by other passengers (pay less), I've written my own robot that monitors flight prices and alerts when prices go down (that way i can workout the trend)
If they don't, I'm sure my national data protection commission will be happy to remind them.
I don't want Tesla to fail because I like what Elon Musk is doing for the world.

However, the production timeline issues combined with the poor quality of Model 3 cars which have already been released is a big concern of mine, to the point where my confidence is lowered in the company. I really want to believe he'll find a way out of this but it's not hard to see why investors are worried.
Nice to see you're still around

Thanks.

I went through a lot of changes in a short period of time and basically rebooted my entire internet life for various reasons. Some people have noticed I changed handles here and some haven't. To try to clear up any remaining confusion, I recently noted in my other profile that I am now posting under this handle.
If you scroll with your mouse, you can actually scroll past that IBM logo. It's an animation. After the logo, you get a nice huge button to the next section.

I didn't even spot this at first, a friend did.
Stress testing asynchronous REST service with Gatling
I take it you couldn't sell it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10062110
https://www.cxoadvisory.com/gurus/

There are various services (e.g. StarMine) that seek to rate actual (e.g. professional) analyst firms.

But generally speaking, nobody's abnormally right over the long term.
"I'm in awe of your truly marvelously disgusting hack. That is truly a work of art."

Ha. How should one take such a comment?
> There is so much demand for their cars that they cannot make enough of them.

You mean, because they have priced them below the price that would clear their ability to produce, and have either inadequate resources or inadequate competence to scale production to meet the quantity demanded at the current price. So, they are failing at either production or pricing or both, and losing money because of it.
It's sort of a weird story, on the one hand it's apparently not hard to make and it's been known about for some time[0], and it has a clearly Russian name with a clearly Russian pedigree. It makes for a poor assassination agent if you care about being traced.

On the other hand, having a clearly Russian pedigree may be precisely the reason it was used; either to send a strong message to would-be dissenters in the Russian intelligence sphere or to make it look like a Russian hit.

Spooks doing what spooks do, it seems.

0: https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/556148/
What do you mean by "porting" facebook data? Moving it to another platform? There is already a way to download all the data facebook has on you.
Fun fact: ICQ is still the IM of choice for online porn professionals
Yields on bonds go up when when bond price goes down. You can think of it this way: Tesla bond would have to pay 8% for investors just to be on par (break even), given the current interest rate regime. Of course, bond pays the fixed rate agreed at the issuance, so if you are bondholder, your bond is now worth less, and - if you sell it now - you realize the loss. Put another way, if Tesla to issue new bonds, they have to issue them _at least_ with 8% coupon, because investors will demand premium for risk.
You'd be floating in a haze of CO2 and sulphuric acid garnished with hydrogen sulphide, battered by raging convective winds which would make it very hard indeed to stay at a fixed altitude - which means the outer temperature would fluctuate by 10C to 50C or so without massively powerful altitude control.

You can't just drift there as if you're in a hot air balloon eating sandwiches and enjoying the view.

Venus might not be completely impossible, but it's still one of the less hospitable destinations in the solar system.

Also, smelly because of the H2S.
Slashdot, Gizmodo, Slashdot, HN here :)
Not to worry. It sucks on mobile too. The whole thing feels like a throwback designery Flash landing page. Took way too long to scroll before seeing full typeset paragraphs of the font.
Why would that be true, though? Are straight men more likely than gay men to be looking for gay pornography?

At some point you've got to accept that googling "hot teens" won't get you resources on the treatment of hyperthermia in young people.
> The possibility of financial collapse is very real, they start losing the ability to keep the lights on at that fancy plant in Nevada this year.

I disagree. They have a $230 million bond payment due this year but that seems survivable to me.

The $920 million payment due March2019 is the difficult one.

Even if the company were to collapse, I wouldn't expect it to collapse until 2019 at the earliest.
The bloomberg tracker predicts a rate of around 2000 https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/

I wouldn't say they are laughably behind. Projects do get delayed. My own projects got delayed by multiple months. The California high speed rail is 3 years delayed ! Its better to do it right than to just hurry things.
Arab girl accuses Trump of sexual harassment
>because of short term production issues

I agree with ironjunkie that Tesla is too hype to fail; Tesla has had production issues since the start of the Model S... 6 years is no longer 'short term'
Actually had to double check this to make sure it wasn't in the sources. It seems the the encoder basically sees the trees as only having a small difference, but really visually it's quite large. The solution is a better distortion function in the encoder - libaom's is simple but dumb. (luckily this means no decoder or format changes)
> The first SLTS kernel will be based on the 4.4 LTS release and will be maintained by Ben Hutchings

That guy is a genius: he probably managed to secure a job for at least the next twenty years.
I just saw the dashcam of the bicyclist getting hit. It seems like had waymo's lidar been installed, the cyclist would have been detected.
It started out as 'reveal corruption and help people' and somewhere along the way morphed into 'USA antagonists-R-us', or even just plain old 'anti-establishment'.

There is a good chance that reviewing all that Iraq war footage resulted in some good old radicalization.
>We're probably not going to see AV1 implementations on the same level as x264 for at least a few years.

True, on that note, over at the Doom9 forums, the x265 spokesperson there said that they will consider making a AV1 encoder should there be a market.

Given the massive amount of support gathered for AV1 from web and hardware giants, and how it's a royalty free codec and thus in a great position to be the next generation 'de facto' video standard on the web, I'd wager there is a good market for a third party encoder from excellent developers like those behind x265.
Live by the sword, die by the sword. Tesla is a product of media hype. Nobody is dropping deposits for the opportunity to buy a new Ford Focus either — that’s hype.

When things are good, hype is great. Not so much when things start to implode.
SF YIMBY pro-development campaign is $40K in debt over delayed ballot measure
Isn't that what "unfollow" is for? For people who are obnoxious and you don't want to hear from, but you don't want to actually go all the way to unfriending (which would make it impossible to interact with them at all, basically, and also be noticeable to them). That's how I use it anyway.

I've also noticed that FB now has a "snooze for 30 days" option that you can select, instead of just unfollow/unfriend. Not sure how long this has been around (I'm a very casual FB user) but it seems designed with those people who can't help spouting off over and over about a particular current event in mind.
I've never understood what long-term value people see in Tesla. There is no major technical advantage in their motor or battery technology. Autopilot is nowhere near full self-driving and Tesla is not any further ahead on that than other players in the market (they're just more willing to hype it and ship unfinished products). Their cars are nice, but not amazing compared to other manufacturers in the same price range (in fact, build quality is notably worse in many ways).

Yes, Tesla was a bit ahead of everyone else to market, but how are they going to compete when they're not the only one in the "luxury electric car" space?
Is Tesla still being propped by US taxpayers? If so looks like you folks are up for another round of "private profits, social losses" again.
Read the second line as well to make conclusions.
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The same thing happened with the radioactive tea. The perpetrators must have known it would be traced back to the source, and that is exactly why you use a substance like that, the murder is a byproduct of sending a message that will be heard loud-and-clear by the people you are targeting.
The difficult comparison here is that we have never seen any company monopolize so much of media as we have facebook and google do world wide. The only comparable example I see is possibly disney, and I wouldn't be surprised to see facebook and google succeeding far into the future due to well targeted acquisitions.

Additionally, it's important to remember that all of the largest american oil companies today are descendants of standard oil, and I imagine such could very well be likely if any of these other big monopolies were broken up today when it comes to the internet.
The most offensively poorly-engineered page I've been to in years, all to promote Arial...Sorry, our totally original grotesque font inspired by Helvetica, don't steal!.

What is IBM even doing that's worthwhile?
I've worked through a lot of this on my own as part of a previous job. Sadly it's such a new field that it can be hard to find any single resource that covers large swaths at once.. not even sure where to begin. I ended up piecing it all together after months of research and experimentation. Hit me up if you have any specific questions - email in profile.
> The only way I know to play FFVI now is with an SNES Classic

Or with literally any SNES emulator?
Who’s Making Sure That Self-Driving Cars Are Safe?
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thanks for the intuitive explanation
Christine Peterson: What is the nanotech revolution about? [video] (2017)
>Too many people believe in the vision of Elon to let this fall apart because of short term production issues.

Most people don't know throw billions of dollars around on infirm beliefs, they do it on an expectation of return. If Tesla is getting to the point where the finances no longer support the dream you shouldn't expect billionaires to behave much differently from the markets.

>If anything, this could be a good thing for Tesla as it might attract other owner/operator expertise to the firm.

Oh please, surely techies have seen this 'this is good for bitcoin' enough that they're not going to fall for the same dumb scam with Tesla.
There are proposals being debated for this. The article mentions specifically this one: https://github.com/domenic/package-name-maps
for some definition of "galaxy" - sort of https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120306-dark...
Install happy chick[1]. It has basically all the games for quite a number of old systems.

1: http://happychick.hk/
so if dark matter effects are missing from tiny galaxies is that evidence that dark matter is not undetectable massy particles but that gravity just behaves differently at huge scales?
I'm curious about how many people were on the internet at Myspace's peak though.

Seems a lot of the online world is on Facebook now, but technology does make it very easy to switch platforms at a moment's notice when the new thing comes out. As you've stated, it's MUCH harder to change a core part of one's identity.
"These filters can claim that a given entry is definitely not represented in a set of entries, or might be represented in the set."

unless the Cuckoo filter has any two filled buckets, right? Which is a pretty critical failure mode not mentioned here. (What do you do then, accept the small new false-negative likelihood? start over with another filter?)
I managed to get a line to disappear. I feel like a winner.
> My own projects got delayed by multiple months.

Do you have $230 million dollars payment due in half-a-year, and $920 million due in a few months after that?

> Its better to do it right than to just hurry things.

Sure it is. But the CEO has to keep the bills paid, and the bill is about to come due. I think its reasonable for people to feel worried right now.

Elon has managed to scrounge up money out of nowhere before. The Model 3 reservation system raised $300 million nearly instantly for instance. So these aren't unfathomable numbers at all.

But its a risk.
That's a pretty good argument for never turning on local news. It's garbage, just the video version of clickbait "journalism" in most cases.

(There is some good investigative journalism still being done on TV, but it's overwhelmed by "gotcha" stories and naked if-it-bleeds-it-leads sensationalism.)
Microsoft's Windows 7 Meltdown fixes from January, February made PCs less secure
Saw this just the other day [0], looks pretty neat.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16682940