skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calm down. Assuming bad faith is for Reddit, not here.

Your argument is making a straw man. You are the first commenter to bring up public utilities. Everybody needs water. Systems that are accountable to local government are the most effective way to get it. Usually that is with a publicly-owned water corporation.

A basket of goods is far different. Back to the subject actually at hand: some people will need cloth diapers. Others disposable. A government employee would need to administer the program in that town or district.

The inflexibility of the program would mean that some parents would not use all their diapers and would dispose of them. Other unfortunate parents would need way more. Also, what size diapers? Benchmark this against weight? A physical bottom measurement? Not all children use diapers at the same rate.

Hopefully this example gives you an idea of the complexities involved in centralized management. Empirically, baskets of goods are less efficient and more costly when centrally administered.
So awesome. You don’t need vitamins, because your food has enough. Why? Because vitamins are added to your food.
I was walking in Manhattan at a pretty busy corner, and noticed this supplement store. Typically they're filtered and you forget you ever saw it. But I couldnt help but think about the amounts of pills or supplements this store had. The various varieties for any kind of "need" one might have. How was it selling enough to rent real estate...

I wondered how do people by this stuff believing it helps them (as opposed to the usual remedy of sleep, exercise, and good diet). Than I asked my self, maybe I'm missing something! Should I be taking supplements too?
If your application is:

1) Distributed (e.g. n equal processes running on n machines)
2) Needs some shared state across nodes
3) Would like that state to have SQL semantics (relations, transactions, etc.)
4) Not to heavy on writes to this shared state (I might provide some ballpark numbers at some point)
5) Wants to avoid the operational overhead of an external storage system (mysql, postgresql)
6) Wants to be fault-tolerant and have transparent failovers

then dqlite might be a good choice.
Depends on the person. I've seen some of them just send straight-up latin characters without translating it to a Chinese character.
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There's a difference in searching the Internet and searching your own data. On the Internet, there's much more of everything than you'd ever need, and close to none of it is something you've created, or even seen before. So you use search to get some reasonably relevant results. The search doesn't have to be - and isn't - complete nor correct.

On the filesystem, I'd like to know the data browser isn't hiding files from me by reporting only "top 100 relevant results", or not indexing half of it because $reasons, or not showing them because of faulty query. Being able to iterate through all files on your disk in a tree-like fashion seems like a feature.
Very interesting and well done video.

This made me think of Uridium on the good old C64, for the reason of parallax scrolling.
This is over my head, no question.

It'd be really cool if someone could ELI5 how such an encoding method could be setup without first sharing something analogous to private keys or one-time pads.
Building 8, who is responsible for this project, is under the direction of the same person who wrote the memo about "questionable practices", incidental deaths and "connecting people".

The previous director quit after less than two years. There are videos on YouTube of motivational speeches for Building 8 projects. I watched one; it felt like cult-like.

One of these Building 8 projects, Aloha - a video chat device, was set to launch next month but they have sidelined it, for obvious reasons.

Apparently they took surveys and users did not trust FB; they were worried the device would be used to spy on them.

Then they considered marketing it as "a device for letting the elderly easily communicate with their families." They also considered selling it under a name other than Facebook.

Source:

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-andrew-bosworth-to-...
Loan words are a universal phenomenon.
English is like Facebook, it has a huge network effect now, making it hard for people to leave, even if they want to.
When you have the biggest guns, and show willingness to roll them out, anything is whatever you say it is.

See: the UN.
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The problem usually starts to occur when the company that starts subverting your rights is too monopolistic on a market with either a high barrier to entry or a strong networking effect (CPU/GPU vendors and social networks).

In this case choosing another vendor may not be easy (find a GPU that isn't AMD/NVidia/Matrox and that works with most games or find a social network that allows the same reach as facebook or find a video sharing site with the same ad revenue and reach as youtube)
Not sure if it generalizes for the entire filesystem - not all files are modified due to explicit user action. Software keeps logging all the time. Many applications update their config files when closing, or during runtime. Saving a document in a program may trigger saving another 3 files elsewhere. All in all, it seems like a recipe for seeing the least relevant data first.
BedrockDB requires to operate a separate process, whereas you can embed dqlite in your Go application (pretty much in the SQLite philosophy). Also, afaik BedrockDB patches upstream SQLite with some more intrusive changes than dqlite (e.g. for supporting concurrent writes). The SQLite patch that dqlite requires is pretty minimal and just adds hooks to internal WAL events.
I should clarify that I mean on high end workstations and compute/build servers now. Machines that no one sees or touches, and are only required because you are already in the Apple ecosystem, and need to do e.g. builds using xcode, or video rendering using some OS X software.

Apple make excellent laptops, phones etc. but those are products in a completely different category.

I think lots of people use macs to run linux (especially developers). The number of people that run Windows exclusively on Mac is probably pretty small though.
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> perhaps indirectly via a member of congress

That's the part of the phrase everyone forgets: "Military-Industrial-Congressional complex".
The Secret Life of Machines is available here: http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/SLOM/index.html

If you're ever in Southwold, on the Suffolk coast, Tim Hunkin (the presenter) has his "Under the Pier Show" on the pier. Well worth a look. http://underthepier.com/
I would imagine it would be used similarly to etcd, zookeeper, consul, etc. as a distributed configuration store, with the advantage of being SQL and the schema goodness that comes along with that.
But that's just a Cloudflare policy, isn't it?

Or are you arguing that even Cloudflare couldn't get raw DNS traffic?
Archaeology for cyborgs
Really? I’ve never seen pinyin written except as a learning aid (and as part of the modern keyboard input process). Chinese speakers will even air-draw characters if the context doesn’t make it clear in spoken language.
If your parents are from Europe, there's a good chance that all the administrative papers (including driving licence) were available in French and a lot of the main buildings would have French signs at that time. Just look at the old train station of Sofia for example: https://24timezones.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/img_0033.jpg, the new one has English instead of French now.
Keep in mind that dot sizes are hugely exaggerated. Additionally, it's hard to see how the slow moving dots can collide, this visualization can only show the general sense of "how much stuff there is in orbit", which can be entirely misleading and doesn't reflect the real problem.

To be helpful in understanding the problem, it should probably include collision probabilities and relative velocities involved. It will be immediately ovious that, for example, GEO is absolutely safe despite having quite a bunch of "dots", and the most dangerous place is 15 and 14 orbits per day Sun-syhchronous orbits, where the most remote sensing stuff lives.
>APNIC gets to see the noise as well as the DNS traffic

>Huston emphasised that APNIC intends to protect users' privacy. "DNS is remarkably informative about what users do, if you inspect it closely, and none of us are interested in doing that," he said.

Maybe it is reasonable to take them at their word as they seem trustworthy, but we should at least consider the fact that at least some of this DNS traffic is indeed being analyzed.
No. The MacBook Pro as implemented is a prosumer machine at best. A Pro machine would have higher end components at the BTO level. 1) larger size for greater battery capacity, 2) Xeon-D as an option, 3) 32-64 Gig of RAM, 4) High end graphics, 5) better keyboard. User replaceable drive, and memory. Apple has the capital to build a Halo laptop, just as they do for phones. They simply chose not to.
I didn't see anything about being 'hooked' in the article. Might have missed it, otherwise the title is clickbait
There's no reason why other Romance languages can't incorporate loan words in the same way. In fact, they all do. English is nothing special.
Electric/Electronic is not better than ICE.

Most of the problems in my modern car come from failures in the electrical / electronic subsystems.

Meanwhile my grandpas no bs 1980's Honda Accord is still going with just some lube and gasoline.

When you make a motherboard that works properly for more than 5 years, let us know.
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“Ready Player One” Is More Fact Than Fiction
Only using whatsapp without other facebook accounts should still be fine. Whatsapp has end2end encryption (unlike FB messenger) and if you don't use other FB products they can't use your data for ads. Obviously not as good as an independent messenger but will cause the same revenue loss for FB.
It is all about "what language do I need to learn to have a good income". The difficulty of language matters little, as long as speaking the language badly is still more profitable than not speaking it at all.

That is partially about economic power (if your country offers many good jobs, people near you have an incentive to learn your language), and partially about military power (if you can make another country speak your language at gunpoint, at least in government-related jobs, their economical power becomes another argument for learning your language).

Therefore the popularity of Chinese will depend on how easy it will be for people who learn Chinese to increase their income. Compared with the expected increase of income from learning English.

Argument "but most important people in China speak English anyway" is less relevant if learning Chinese provides you even better advantage from cooperating with them. For example, most people in Germany speak English, but I suppose that being fluent in German still makes it easier to find a job in Germany.
Wow, the FB workers are disgusting as Zuck and the company itself.
So far as I can tell, the only reasonably common deficiencies are vitamin D and magnesium, and among women anemia.

Every other deficiency is in the tenths of a percent range, well outside of the level at which people in the general population would be treated if it were e.g. antibiotics or other non dietary drugs.
> that Facebook won't buy

Facebook will buy because it’s profitable to buy. Monopoly power is a known mode of market failure. (Note: you don’t need 100% of a market for the deleterious effects of monopoly power to manifest.)

The only solution is blocking future acquisitions and breaking up Facebook.
What are yellow dots ? Object A , Object B
I think he means the _release_ of the source code is the outcome, not the code itself.
> I doubt there's some cataclysmic cliff or that it can't be turned around.

For any shop with a dozen mac pros running some mac software package it's a huge step to switch to PC if it also means switching the whole software stack. At this point there are probably a whole lot of shops that struggle with very old pros, or have started buying the iMac pro. But I'm sure there are shops that also held on for a long time and finally gave up and swapped both hardware and software because they grew tired of waiting (I know of a couple - but anecdata isn't data, so these are guesses).

The only reason Apple broke tradition and disclosed that a new pro is coming is to convince shops like these to hang in there for another year.
I'm working towards a 1.0 release. At that point documentation will be more complete and the plumbing needed to use it in an app should be also reduced.

I think the best explanation of why you'd use it over PG or MySQL is the same as why you'd use SQLite over them:

https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html

With dqlite you also get HA, fault-tolerance and transparent failover, if you're willing to trade it with a bit of performance.
> privacy-conscious people have been warning

Saying. And what was said was obviously not heard. Tangibility helps any pitch. We shouldn’t fault people for agreeing later versus sooner; at the end of the day, agreement trumps the alternative.
The form factor is one of the issues with the current design. Or simply add a third product line: MacBook Workstation.
Thicker for a larger battery, cooling and higher end CPU/GPU and moar RAM. Xeon class processors as an option.
Try to use vaapi decoders. mpv has some flags for this and you need some packages but thats how I got tear free video (and lower resource usage on video too)
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Hey! We have made our first webinar! It includes a demo showing solving a real life problem in Java with RDS.

You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmAw24uquK0
Does all this garbage traffic affect the performance of Cloudflare's servers? There must be some cost (performance and $$$) to filter this traffic. Was that a consideration when deciding whether to use 1.1.1.1 instead of some other IP address? :)
Ehm, they are the world standard in manufacturing, and that standard rather famously includes letting humans do a lot of the general assembly. No one is raining on Toyota, they are excellent at almost everything.

Musk is trying to beat the standard.
Indeed, but whoever is behind it, for whatever personal benefits, is doing the society in general a favor. Hopefully the horrible company gets destroyed and so does the CEO.
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You have to listen to him no longer than 2 minutes, to realize it doesn't matter how good of a drawer Disney was; first and foremost he wan an engineer!

Just listen how he explains the problem with the Moon, and then goes to explain solution. Clear cut: problem we faced, and solution we applied. That's where genius of people (and financial success) like Mr. Disney comes from.

This guy might have been put in Lockheed's Skunkworks labs with the task to design a solid rocket booster, and he would be just fine.
I think some of the "transfer" part comes from the fact that there are actually three different games involved (Sonic 1, 2 and 3).
Maybe hooked is over doing it - probably overly optimistic or misguided is more correct. But this passage is most relevant.

> Often, preliminary studies fuel irrational exuberance about a promising dietary supplement, leading millions of people to buy in to the trend. Many never stop. They continue even though more rigorous studies — which can take many years to complete — almost never find that vitamins prevent disease, and in some cases cause harm.
... why not relevant commentator? He's got the geek cred.
Probably fishing for info for their competitor portfolio companies? Not sure why you’d take this call without a goal for yourself ...
Legitimate question: Are their processes/procedures/direction so well documented a brand new crew could just pick right up where the current folks left off?
Of course it's not the latter. $1bn is like a couple of days of trading volume at GDAX alone.
There is a report by UBS for what it is worth: https://www.ubs.com/global/en/wealth-management/chief-invest...

US seems to be """safe""" as per the report.
It is true that Chinese characters contain so much nonphonetic information that writing can be understood even if you've written something that would be total nonsense if spoken aloud. And similarly, that extra information can substitute for a certain amount of context.

But it's obviously not necessary, because all writing still has just as much context as speech does. The fact that you need the context less doesn't somehow make it go away.
It’ll be interesting to see what China will do after it runs out of US imports to tax (which it will before the US does due to the trade surplus). I hope it leaves the $1 trillion in US treasuries alone.
If only the 2013 Can Pro used normal PCIe connectors for the GPUs. Then you could bungie cord a couple of new GPU cards on the outside of the can, connect them using PCIe risers and cables, and power them off an external PC power supply instead of using the Can's power supply.
How do you know where the requests came from without IP addresses? Do you log ASN or something?
They might offer that as a configuration option but not the base config.
Different cards offer different reward structures. I currently have sixteen (16) credit cards, but I'm certainly an outlier.

For everyday purchases I use one card for restaurants and gas, another card for groceries and yet another for everything else. Then two other of my cards have rotating bonus categories, so I may use one of those for gas one quarter and for restaurants next quarter.

And, at minimum, you should always have a backup, like a sibling comment points out. Especially when travelling, you don't want to be in the middle of nowhere trying to buy meal only to find out your card has fraudulent transactions and the new one has to be mailed to your house.
Especially Vitamin C. It's added everywhere because it's a preservative.
Could be done in a font with ligatures.

Turns out that ligatures in common font formats are quite powerful! See e.g. http://www.sansbullshitsans.com/ or https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
> by law you cannot gain ownership of it by providing capital

How do you stop (say) a hundred people getting together and agreeing to do just that, without having a state? Most people prefer job security rather than part ownership (revealed preference).
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Vitamin D supplementation is also still controversial, so there isn't even good consensus on that.
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Just what the world needs, yet another would-you-like-my-version-of-clustering-with-that virtual environments tool...
If you like old instructional videos and documentaries, the Internet Archive has a bunch of them, particularly in the Prelinger Archives.

Here are a few favorites...

Private Life of a Cat (silent): https://archive.org/details/PrivateL1947

Back of the Mike: https://archive.org/details/Backofth1938

How a Watch Works: https://archive.org/details/HowaWatc1949

Using the Bank: https://archive.org/details/Usingthe1947
Imagine it like this: maybe you joined your field (be it software or academia) with dreams of making the world better. So it shouldn't matter to you who does the problem solving, as long as the problems get solved and the world gets better in a timely manner. But then, you've found a gig solving an important problem, with ok-ish pay. And you've also found yourself with dreams of a home, a spouse, maybe children. And suddenly, it starts to matter to you whether or not you get paid, so that you can fulfill your dreams. Maybe someone else could do your important work better than you. But then you won't have money to support your family. So it's gaming time, and now you end up focusing on "a future in <your field>".
I expect that no human from APNIC or Cloudflare will ever look at raw data from 1.1.1.1, nor will any of it be recorded, or used in aggregated data that retains any personal information.

As personal information count full IP addresses, the content of requests, or any set of data that can be used to recover these.

That is what "we respect your privacy" means.
Correlates, yes. But one of the best students I've met, who in a mock visa interview answered the question "it costs a lot of money to live in America. Can you afford it?" with "we have a hundred million RMB", was basically unable to function in conversation. (In the same interview, which was meant to be conducted in English, more than three quarters of her responses were just "什么意思？".)

Some people aren't interested in learning languages. Some people have tremendous difficulty.
Thank you! I feel like I'm watching this trainwreck in slow motion by myself, as we used to inch - but now barrell - towards regulating the internet into oblivion. This is ironic, of course, because the internet is meant to be decentralized and deregulated, and the very people pushing for regulation are the same ones that oppose legislation in other aspects (e.g. encryption). It's a very short hop from wanting Facebook to comply with some law, to compelling Facebook to turn over user data to verify the law has not been broken.
So you have to learn German to work better in Germany, and French in France. You can list every country like that. But if you want to work with anyone in the world with one language, that's english. And that's its power, the new latin.

I can see some people learning a specific language because they plan to work with/in a specific country but I can't think of any language that seriously rivals english as a universal language.
1) ignore, 2) read between the lines and beyond the headlines, 3) question everything.
If a tree in the forest...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16771087

Similar post at the same time.
Did this one go up because it has a shorted title?
> Fun fact: There are no such things as "spelling bees" in Spanish speaking countries.

Not so surprising, this is a uniquely american thing~, there is no such thins as spelling bees^ in the rest of the anglosphere either.

~ It's probably bleeding out to the rest of the world now.

^ "spelling bee" itself has an interesting etymology: http://spellingbee.com/origin-term-spelling-bee

edit - how the hell do you escape an asterix on HN?
Find of examples of what you consider to be well documented software, copy what they did.
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Testing always helps, no doubts about that. But there are still some situations where testing is just not enough. No amount of unit testing can check the behavior of your code in a real production environment.
Can google pull a swift move?
Same one as before.
Not all people calling themselves anarchists (or Christians, or Muslims, or intellectuals, or X for any value of X) are actually X.

Sure, "no true Scotsman", but still; what you're describing is indeed fascism, it has nothing to do with any principles of anarchism I'm aware of.
I can't use emoji on here, but you could use them to write the date.

2017Earth04Moon06Sun perhaps.

Or, we already have (but don't use) the astronomical symbols. Most people understand the male and female symbols.
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Stripe has always been one of those products so well presented and with guidelines so simple. But this presentation today is a total failure. Makes the billing complicated and everyone doesn’t understand what the service does with detail. You’ll need to update the page to explain a lot.
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That’s our policy and we’ve hired outside auditors to ensure we’re honoring it. If you have suggestions of what else we can do to prove we’re a company of our word, LMK.
It's Sonic, clearing it is really easy for humans.