skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla as a company will be fine if they start focusing more on other initiatives (trailer trucks, solar panels, batteries, etc).

“Self-driving” fancy/family cars aren't a good solution for the future of our already populated cities. Mass transit is. Hyperloop/TBC have a lot more growth potential than Tesla's Model (x) line does.

I was one of Tesla motors' biggest fans but I can't in good faith support them (not Tesla Inc) over a proper public transport solution. It is at best a short term solution and doesn't push humanity forward.

10-20 years down the line I can see them spinning off the Passenger car division, or they will see it impacting their other projects negatively.
GKE? A bit too much?
Another company that tried to do a lot of cool automation, perhaps ahead of their time, was Webvan.
One thing I forgot to mention is that you are still trusting trust – the builder needs to be verified for the output to be verified.
They’re also shooting themselves in the foot. They’re without a doubt less competitively positioned from a developer POV now. In my opinion. Even from a startup who isn’t technical. More percentages just get scary when you have people like Braintree keeping it simple...

Also Stripe still rely on their partners to drive business to them at the end of the day. No denying that it’s a big part of their funnel. A startup looking at their offering cold now will just be confused as well. What even is it? Some people think it’s a checkout when it’s not. It’s just s slightly more advanced subscription api with a price tag.

Also by cannibalising their partners will dry up their eco system. Chances are the partners do a better job as they’re focused on it. Can’t be perfect at everything.

I’ll see what they have to say on the call I have with them tomorrow.
I'm not speaking from experience, but git-annex comes to mind: https://git-annex.branchable.com/tips/metadata_driven_views/
According to the "Show HN" guidelines:

"Blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they can't be Show HNs."[1]

A post that asks someone to send you a message to try something out is essentially a signup page, not an application that someone can just try.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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In your other comment you made this point

>What do you need to make a modern enterprise? You need tools and you need labor. Some people provide labor, and others provide the tools. Some people who can provide tools, don't necessarily want to provide labor. They are shareholders without being workers.

But the thing is, this only needs to exist this way in a capitalist society. In all your points, you seem to not grasp that the underlying economic system of an anarchist society would in no way resemble the current state of affairs.

In much the same way the economy under a feudalist society does not resemble a capitalist society, and yet fields were tilled and walls built without shareholders.

The fact is that if you abolish capital (by returning collective control over the means of production to the workers) there is no section of society, no "other that provides the tools". The people who provide the tools are other workers, working in other fields, and they supply the workers in the field which uses the tools with the tools. There is no unproductive segment of society such as there is today which lays claim to the wealth without doing any of the labour. This means that there cannot be the accumulation of wealth that we see today, as instead of being horded and spent on the whims of a few, it is immediately pumped back into society.

The state and capitalism are symbiotic. The state only exists to keep capitalist enterprise in check, that is why the state perform functions that we do not believe should be performed for profit (why so many countries have welfare systems, healthcare systems and militaries to maintain the states primacy).

Otherwise everything would be performed by private enterprise (i.e. your anarcho-capitalist ideal) which would very quickly lead to corporate feudalism and private armies.

There is no way for the state to not exist and capitalism to exist at the same time, and seeing as both structures are the root cause of many issues in society, the abolition of both is necessary through decentralization and worker led confederations of labor, rather than the current system of capitalist led governments and businesses.
But as fadvise can reliably only be implemented in the host kernel, the one in hypervisor is basically a noop.
The fix that needs to be made here is in Git, which fails to process line endings in a sane way (and includes a bunch of insane, poorly documented config options that approach the problem completely sideways).
After looking through the repo, I'm still not sure exactly why you would want / need this. What exactly is the use-case here?
You have precisely identified half the problem that anarcho-syndicalists (the Chomsky type) see with our economic system: that some people want to provide capital to an enterprise in exchange for ownership. The other half of the problem is that as markets work (relative scarcity of capital vs labor) the people who provide the capital end up collecting most of the profits of the enterprise. Which has resulted in the enormous wealth inequalities of our times.

The anarcho-syndicalist solution is simple. If an enterprise is bigger than say 30 people, by law you cannot gain ownership of it by providing capital. In fact, the shareholding system is rather simple. If there are N people who provide labor to the enterprise, then each of them get roughly 1/Nth ownership of the enterprise. Sure, people doing more technical or more difficult work might receive a bigger salary than people doing more manual labor but it will be very difficult for anyone to amass relative massive wealth.

Sure, in such a economic system, collecting capital will be hard to enterprises. "Growth" might slow down etc etc, but at least people will be fairly reimbursed for their labor.
I have thought about file tagging for over a decade, before setting out to write the article. But a timeline-oriented file organization only came to my awareness near the end of writing the first draft.

A year has passed since I wrote the article, and the idea of timeline presentation has grown on me a lot. Especially because I use numerous data systems daily that are already time-oriented: Every chat program, email, Twitter, Facebook personal profile timeline, the "recent documents" view in major popular applications like Microsoft Office or Adobe Reader.

You should find this blurb in my article helpful:

> The Lifestreams Software Architecture http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/freeman/dissertation/etf.pdf (185 pages)

> Comprehensively designs and tests a system for workflow and archival, based on chronological presentation plus keyword and attribute filtering.

Thanks for your compliments on the thoroughness of my exposition. I did a lot of research and thinking as preparation for writing. I wanted to see how other people viewed the problem of file organization and what kind of solutions they proposed. I wanted to find weaknesses in my arguments and to avoid repeating unnecessary work, and of course I wanted to move toward the best solution.
Except no one from a bootcamp is adding "BSc Computer Science" behind their name. And somehow they're getting decent jobs.
Apart from Marx not one of those individuals has made any positive contribution to anarcho-communism, so I don't see your point.

Tell me your thoughts on Revolutionary Catalonia, or the Free Territory of Ukraine? Or the EZLN in Chiapas?

You're so keen to claim a complete understanding of Communist History, please explain these attempts.
I disagree, it's the only way to make the public aware of the issue and got the corporate hierarchy to expedite OS patching. Not that it's necessary in this case.
Their notation is unfamiliar to me, so it's very hard to follow. The scheme I think they're describing relies on sequences of cyphertexts being independent, but surely the government-mandated backdoored protocol could enforce a rule like 'a stream of messages taken two at a time must be first greater than, then less than, one another.' That probably means I'm missing something.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16764321
FB users would have to pay to opt out of data-driven ads, says Sandberg
They should. It looks like Waymo & partners will easily beat them to market on the electric & autonomous car future, anyway.

Big energy companies tend to have a market cap at least 10x big car companies, anyway. That's where their future is.

The only way I see that they could turn the car business around is if they somehow get to full autonomy in the market very soon, and then (per master plan part deux) essentially are selling cars as a means of having car owners investing in their autonomous rides network. The clock is ticking on that, though; Waymo seem to be scaling very aggressively.
Nice debugging story but the conclusion was totally wrong! The author even knows this. If they would be logging 3-4x the usual rate they would have seen the same problem on bare metal too. Nothing to do with docker or competing containers or whatever.
It might be more popular as many data science courses use Python and therefore students don't have to get their code to compile.

Seriously though, I think people are drawn to data science out of a desire to create stories with some underlying support (data/evidence) in order to influence policy or business decisions.
Why Did Neanderthals Have Such a Distinctive Face Shape?
I'd imagine part of any reinforcement learning approach would be randomly tweaking the physics for each run, to make it robust against small changes and errors. Handling the different games (assuming they're similar enough) should just be an extension of that.
Anyone here on HN affected?
Yeah, all those ads about how they're going to fix fake ads, and clickbait ads, and so on, all over the L stops...

They're buying ads that try to influence public opinion, about how they mishandled orgs buying ads that try to influence public opinion. :)
I loved your post man. I think you are right about the rebranding of Applied Stat as ML|AI. I love stuff like these. I did take 3 Stat course in university. Currently I am working as a dev.I took a course in my free time http://codingthematrix.com/ and loved the programming part of it. Do you happen to know some courses where one would have stat part as well as the programming par?
>Doing it as a technological bank shot is even trickier

OTOH, if ever you're going to end-run the money-changers, it'd be by supplanting their money with something that can't be controlled/centralized.
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I don’t see your logic. Of course new features of a US company are going to be focussed on their home market first.

And claiming that regulation in EU is stifling business is a bit naive. Regulation is everywhere. Have you ever tried to sell an app that uses encryption (like TLS or SSH) on the app store? The stuff you need to do in the US for „export compliance“ is ridiculous (even if it‘s an app that wasn‘t written in the US in the first place)
Hi. Have you tried managing a collection of shortcuts? How do you deal with recategorization, removing files, renaming files, moving files to different storage devices, etc.?

The article has a whole section illustrating why both hardlinks and softlinks won't work in the general case. https://www.nayuki.io/page/designing-better-file-organizatio...
Skeptical a bit about "usage-based" billing and interested to hear others' thoughts. Isn't a major profit-driver for many subscription-based businesses the breakage?
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> Sure, you could argue that you're "better than the other guy" or "they started it", but that's a pretty low bar. It just means you're both unethical.

Something about supporting the military when it means resisting oppressive authoritarian hegemony, for instance, seems pretty ethical to me.
I agree with the book. I'm critiquing your application of the concept.
Hah, one of the many reasons being scammed into buying a model S was they promised Tesla owners would have first access to Model 3 back in Oct'16 but they failed to mention that the base $35 + 5K autopilot model would be another year later after the $49+5K model
By its nature data science work is very undefined. There is not yet a widely established design path for data science as there is for software development. The risk for someone starting their career in data science is that they will end up in an organization that doesn't know how to data science. So I'd recommend steering young folk to larger teams that have PhD level Statisticians.
> At first people doubted SpaceX can replace NASA

SpaceX cannot replace NASA, at least not yet. SpaceX is a component supplier to NASA like Boeing, United Launch Alliance, etc. There's a whole lot of other stuff that NASA does that SpaceX is not even trying to do.
Energy is the bottleneck. Lasers don't provide that much kinetic energy... so you're either briefly firing a powerful laser or continuously firing a small laser. The other energy cost is movement, I don't know how often the satellite would have to move to find debris but the larger satellite has more mass while the smaller one has to expend energy to match debris orbits.

Works in theory, but it seems impractical to me.
The government is endorsing block chain but for some reason decided to block crypto.
We used that phrase in some Tradewar games during the BBS Era.
Solution seems elementary. Require all property owners (the corporate head if not private) to register properties by direct application (in a set time). If said property remains unregistered, it may -immediately- be auctioned, forfeit.
Gold diggers
Awesome job on making it easy to add usage based plans. I've found Stripe's customer service to be a notch above the rest.

Request to folks at Stripe ( @pc / @tarstarr ) : Please do something to protect small business owners against fraudulent payments (i.e. with stolen cards). Even if they follow all recommended practices by Stripe, it's very likely that there are a handful of stolen cards that will fly under the radar and hit them negatively.

I'd say if the merchant is not at fault due to a stolen card being used on their site, they should not get penalized for it. The chargeback fee is one thing, the worse part is the dispute rate going up. This threatens the existence of any business if their account is suspended by Stripe.
Not the banks, the vendors. It’s a great coup that banks have convinced customers they cover credit card fraud when really visa/MasterCard go and take the money back from the seller.
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16755530
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> well otherwise you starve to death

That's why such work is a good thing, not a bad thing. It saves people from starving to death. Which is what happens periodically during famines in extremely undeveloped countries, such as most of history.
Possibly. I think the line runs along how the resources are exposed. That is, if they are literally manageable as a service (e.g. via API or management console), then yeah.

No expert on the terminology here, though. Just how I understand the term.
This is a bizarre statement from a PR perspective.
I can only imagine what your earlier deleted comment was.

If someone was searching for "How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found", I would assume they meant to hide, not to commit suicide.

I've worked at sea. A mariner would not need to search for that if the intention was suicide.
Damn it, I was going to work on exactly this -- my goals were slightly different but basically the same paxos/raft/gossip + sqlite and see how far I could take it.

Note for those who are interested in cool-stuff-with-SQLite, there's a similar project called RQLite (mentioned in the README):

https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite

The main differences are laid out in the README, but IMO it really all boils down to the fact that since it's single-writer quorum'd there's only one node actually doing writes, and they've just chosen to replicate right-before (right after?) the WAL commit (I think this is what they're calling frames, basically one chunk of the WAL content), not at the point of receiving a query. This is more like having a read secondary more than anything (I also assume writes are redirected to master).

It says in the readme that it should be expected to be slower than RQlite, I'd love to see some numbers.

I do really like this though -- can't wait to pour through the code and see if there's anything I can learn.
Yes Google/waymo has been at it since 2009. Musk better deliver the self-driving vaporware [1] he started selling since Oct'16 as shown in the video in https://www.tesla.com/autopilot before he can stall the lawsuit [2] any further...

1. https://www.hbsslaw.com/uploads/case_downloads/tesla_ap2/tes...

2.
https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/21195146/Dean_Sheik...
I don't think NOAA just noticed this. I think a SpaceX competitor pushed them to act, perhaps indirectly via a member of congress. The obvious suspect is United Launch Alliance.
You really think Berkeley's top-ranked PhD program is recruiting people who couldn't find jobs?

It is well known that PhD programmes churn out far more PhDs than can reasonably be employed in their field.

I mean, including friends and former colleagues I probably know maybe 300 people with PhDs. Of those I can count on my fingers those actually doing research in academia, probably one hand those on tenure track. But do you really think any of them slogged through the programme in Physics or Biology just to get a software job writing CRUD apps, or prettying up BI reports?
BeFS extended file attributes are a good example to point out. I watched this excellent talk which shows the power of live queries: https://systemswe.love/archive/minneapolis-2017/ivan-richwal...

Unfortunately, file attributes is not a feature I want to see. They don't solve the problems with naming files or deduplicating files. Metadata is attached to a file, so when the file is gone the metadata is gone. I instead proposed that metadata can be freestanding, and can exist even if the main file is missing. Relevant section to read: https://www.nayuki.io/page/designing-better-file-organizatio...

I did read the entire book "Practical File System Design with the Be File System", but didn't find it helpful for what I was working on. I can skip the low-level bits because I'll probably build on top of a NoSQL database or something.
It might be unethical, but the risk is zero. Apple isn't going to sue you. Running unlicensed Windows is a significantly bigger risk.
CEO's most pressing issue: talent, or so they say
It’s still better. Instacart has a completely separate “crowdsourced” database. Amazon at least has comprehensive SKUs and prices.
You're absolutely right, though I assume using Apache/nginx with a reverse proxy is pretty standard for this type of scenario. Having a single static binary makes it convenient for developing, testing, and deploying.
They might get wise to the "it's a secret" tactic and add that case to their decision tree.
Facebook retracted Zuckerberg’s messages from recipients’ inboxes
An Image Signature for Any Kind of Image
How does it compare to RocksDB?

edit: I'm sorry, I was thinking of BedrockDB.
Facebook executives repeat this line that they don’t sell or share your data. Except, they share your data, because that’s what got them into this mess. Why don’t they ever explain what they actually DO do with the data?
Facebook should really try offering a subscription that matches their revenue per user in that country. In the US it would be under $2 per month. Maybe no one will sign up but they have no excuse for not trying.
This is such an obvious solution to privacy concerns that they'll probably be forced to do it in Europe with onerous new rules in a few years if they do nothing.
They've been having a cash crunch since day one; the only reason they exist is that the American taxpayer has been milked to the tune of $4.9 billion to support them.
I'm in opto/bio/eng. I think you misunderstand the 'real' reason for research papers as they currently stand: Money. It's a bit of a path, but I'll try and explain.

In the US at least, research costs a LOT of cash. Many departments are chronically underfunded. In my state, the university only gets ~10% of it's funding from the state-house. The rest is grants. The only real writers of grants are the professor corps. So, departments look to the professors to fund the enterprise. Some of my advisers spent about 40 hours per week just on grant writing, neglecting the teaching and research hours required alongside. It is not a fun/good job. So most/all research is done by students, mostly PhD students, with little to no input from their advisers, and it's a stressful mess. As a result, most research is, well, amateur. Stats get mangled, code quality is non-existent, rats get loose, etc. Yes, yes, none of that 'actually' happens, but for real? It's a shitshow.

So, where does that leave the PhD student that has been in the program for 7 years? They may have one first author paper, if that, a thumb-drive filled with nearly unreadable 'data', and a dozen failed experiments. Failed experiments don't get published, mostly because science is hard and doing all the controls to say that you have a genuine/real failure is much harder. So the professor, now running into a very firm deadline to graduate the student via the grad office, must rush and publish something, just to get the student to leave. The professor's track record in graduating students is part of their evaluation, as well as their publication record. Hence, the unreadable graduation paper; one of two types of unreadable paper.

This paper is a targeted missile that is meant to do one thing: get the student off the payroll. It is not meant to be good, or a viable piece of science. It is never meant to be replicated. It is trying to be obtuse. It is there just to graduate a student, nothing more, nothing less.

The other class of unreadable paper is the turf-war paper. These papers are also meant to be just readable enough, but not so much as to be repeatable. The reason is that the paper is a 'big' paper. What is published is meant to stake a claim in a 'big' area of the field. Hopefully this will guarantee more funding in the future as now that professor is a 'big' player in it. Hopefully no others can report that it is unrepeatable before the next grant comes in. The trick is make certain that the paper exposes just enough of the experimental design as to truly 'claim' the new big thing, but not enough that you can replicate at all. Karl Disseroth is infamous for this in the bio world. The paper creates jazz, but safeguards the turf of the lab from any other lab that may want to replicate it independently; they need the first lab to re-do it, and they must come with funding in hand.

So, to sum up: papers are weapons. One type is the missile that causes a student to graduate. The other is a trap with a golden idol on it.
Projects like this(sparsely documented, tiny) always seem to be just internal tools that the company just threw out into the world just because they can. Not that I'm ungrateful, but without any sort of explanation as to why I'd use this over a clustered MySQL or Postgres it's a little hard to make heads or tails about whether I should care.
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