skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Enterprise drives usually have ultra caps with enough energy to power the writeback of the writebuffer to stable storage in case of power loss, thus your write latency is just the time it takes to hit the memory buffer, typically dominated by the PCIe transfer, that is, a few µs (unless of course, the buffer has filled but that means hitting peak write bandwidth).

Consumer drives typically don't pay for this, but instead good drives buffer writes in SLC flash which has lower latency than MLC.

ADDENDUM: funny thing is that you have to actively manage the energy in the caps; the writebuffer must never have more data than you have energy to write back. This becomes especially important on power-up where the empty cap is charging.
Don't ask anything that might embarass your boss, or his/her boss.
Last I heard, buying a "burner" phone in this way has been outlawed in many states.
Wow, this is awesome. This is a great way to help everyone take a step forward into the future. The public having a larger understanding of AI will be extremely important as it becomes a larger part of our lives.
That's right, it might even hurt his mission, but it doesn't make him less right.
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Oh, the industry as it stands is absolutely evil. Marketing isn't inherently evil, but this instantion is.

Also, it's not "paranoia" when you are being tracked. And while there's not much you can do, there's no reason to not do little things you can.
Fantastic question. So the obvious answer is grow the company, right? That's pretty much what Amazon did for 20 years. Eschew profit in favour of reinvesting in building the company as big as possible. Not really our style, we'd rather keep the company small, but there's definitely still room to grow quite a lot from where we are now.

Beyond that point, we can spend money on anything which reasonably furthers the mission of the organisation - which has many aspects but the main ones in our case revolve around creation and education for journalism and open source software.

Some pipedream ideas we throw around from time to time:

- M&A (boring/obvious answer, but valuable)

- Create either grant-funding, or sensible investment funding (like indie.vc) for other open source projects and publishers.

- Create an independent media company, reporting on issues and stories we care about (running on Ghost)

- Buy some land and build a collaborative space for us and for others to work on open source, journalism and social good projects
I don't think we want an outright ban. I certainly have the right to allow a corporation to access my location if I choose to. There may be cases where an individual would judge it in their interest to allow a corporation to have such access.

The problem with the current setup is that we don't know who's gaining access, when they're gaining it, what they're doing with it, etc. Once the cell carriers have it, there's no easy way of knowing who they are selling the data to, and who that entity sells it to in turn, and so on.

Sadly, I don't see a good way to resolve this at the moment. If you use a cell-phone the carrier can always get your (at last approximate) location through triangulation. And regulation only makes sense if you trust the State, and I would like to think we've all learned better than to do that by now. So what do we do?
It's not about physics but about economics. Improvements go where revenue goes. For consumers that outcome is known.
Not sure anyone would lose their jobs.

1) Be an investigative Journalist

2) Purchase access to these location vendors data

3) Correlate data with known mobile numbers of politicians

4) Find things in data that might be of interest to readers (e.g. "politician x was noted to be in the same place as Lobbyist y on 5 different occasions")

5) Publish Story :)
If they "don't generally care", they wouldn't be collecting that data to begin with.
Are you complaining about the complexity of file format itself? My understanding is it's pretty simple: a linked list of headers with the contents of each file after each header. Or are you complaining that it doesn't do compression itself like ZIPs do?
Besides my chair (a HM Embody whose price I still don't like thinking about), the most comfortable/enjoyable thing I've ever bought for my work was my first mechanical keyboard, a Vortex Pok3r 60% keyboard with a set of SA profile keycaps. A good keyboard makes a world of difference. At the moment, I'm actually in the middle of building a custom 65% keyboard. Just waiting on the PCB to arrive after the first one was damaged in transit.

It's a bug. Once you get bit, you'll gladly jump down the keyboard rabbit hole.
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yeah but... then the customer doesn't have their phone

I need my phone, especially when I'm out
Most developers are working on systems that they have no interest in using in their spare time.
This 'make' thing is a powerful tool, actually.
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It starts with that weird ink drawing of a goat for a logo, it just screams “70’s green screen”

And this is coming from a genx open source / Linux guy. What it must look like to the current generation?!?!
It would be a nice problem to have, eh?

Some things which come to mind:

- lower prices

- hire more staff to provide new features

- make everything faster and more reliable

- provide more free services

- give everyone raises

- donate to charities which are reasonably related to the aims of the non-profit

- make investments to improve the long-term financial health of the non-profit.
This article (from downthread) suggests that 60 comes from the Sumerians, who had a base-60 number system, and 24 comes from the Egyptians, who had a base-12 number system. Although it agrees that 12 and 60 are conveniently divisible in the way you describe, I'm not finding any evidence to connect this specifically to sailors, or even to people dividing up shifts. Rather it seems likely that the civilization's numeric base was chosen first, and then it was applied to timekeeping.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-time-divi...
Write software, probably.
Makefiles aren't scary. But they're also not particularly good.

I use Rake (or Gulp, or whatever) because then I can use Ruby (or JavaScript, or whatever). Shell plumbing is fine for informal and small-scale stuff, and I make my code conform if somebody down the line (who may be me) wants to get out their duct tape, but the world is more complex than what /bin/sh can see. Shell is the lowest common denominator. Expecting everything to at all times be written in and for that lowest common denominator is not reasonable. We're a tool-using species and we refine tools over time to make them better. The profusion of tools happens because they iterate on each other to be better. If old tools were sufficient, people would use them because learning new ones is hard.

So, yes, you do need to learn those tools. Or invent a shell that isn't tooth-pullingly difficult to use with a JSON file (and do not say `jq`, I love `jq` as an inspector but it does not step to `JSON.parse` and a working subscript operator). Or change `make` so that a git checkout won't trigger a full rebuild. Lots of baseline, stump-simple things that `make` is just not going to do for you because it's built for a frankly outmoded method of development.
Expose's by investigative Journalists have often made politicians angry, but they have also effected change.

My idea is based on the fact that in my experience people rarely really care about privacy until it personally affects them.
Don't ask if you don't have to.
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Maybe you should spend more time learning what value adds they provide.
As a "major theme", the author takes:

> Consider for example Hadoop. Nobody seems to know how to build Hadoop from scratch. It’s an incredible mess of dependencies, version requirements and build tools.

And as the major introduction to the blog post:

> I’m not complaining about old-school sysadmins. They know how to keep systems running, manage update and upgrade paths.

Huh? Old-school sysadmins know how to keep systems running, manage updates and upgrades. At the same time nobody knows how to build Hadoop from scratch. At the same time, Hadoop build instructions themselves have curl|sh scripts or mirrors and the wiki page is outdated. And it uses Java (and thus maven/ivy). And that downloads the internet.

According to the blog, Hadoop, maven/ivy/sbt/any dependency manager, package managers, and everything is broken. But the tagline is:

> This rant is about containers, prebuilt VMs

What does any of this have to do with the "Age of containers" and pre-built VMs? Is the author just talking about Gentoo/LFS-style "compile the whole system from scratch"?

This feels like an incredibly rushed rant. I can only envision the author requiring to setup hadoop for the first time, breaking their head for a few days (it happens), and taking it out on everything.
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Airplane mode would work, yes. But it only works against the cell provider. The on-phone GPS can still work and sync the data later.
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The clearest explanation of why this happens is at the end:

Before, admins would try hard to prevent security holes, now they call themselves “devops” and happily introduce them to the network themselves!

1) The merging of devs into the sysadmin role was a product of:
the work of sysadmins (particularly systems change control and security compliance) not being valued in our culture.

2) Devs delighted to be free of the shackles placed upon them by sysadmins who were encumbered by the concerns expressed in this article.

If you were a devop who resolved to fix the problems bemoaned in this article, my guess is you would turn around in 60 days to discover you'd become a sysadmin.
In the sense that it’s a blogging platform, sure. But that’s about where the similarities end
Web-Assembly makes it easier to use a language of a shop's choice. While choice is often good, it doesn't solve the original problem of a common standard language in terms of what devs actually use.

Actually using JavaScript (JS) as an assembly language seems the better route to the same goal. JS client engines can then be optimized for that standard to get speed, but older or non-optimized clients can still "run" stuff, just not as fast.

In other words, define a JS sub-language/API as the "assembly" then optimize clients to run that sub-language faster. The engines may put functions common to the sub-language in front of the internal function-lookup hashes for speed, for example. You'd then get the same results as WebAssembly but not "break" old clients: they'd just run slower than the newer/optimized clients.
The author fails to mention that the pancreatic cancer that killed Jobs was likely caused or exacerbated by the heavy fruit intake (his diet was far heavier on fruit juice than the article implies).
>but maybe university staff are generally more humane

Yeah I would say that's probably true.

In private industry this wouldn't work at all. Because most managers will retaliate. Mostly they'll just do things like giving you short term grunt work because they don't want you on anything long term. The worst managers will just flat out fire you.
I see how you made that mistake now. SSDs typically have many (eg 10s-100s) program operations happening in parallel. They also pack each write into something around 16kb or larger units so it's possible multiple b+ op are in each program.
I wish there was something like an updated Make, a tool that works for everything but updated to 2018.

For instance Make works based on timestamps and therefore works very poorly together with git. Switch to another branch and you can get weird effects based on what files were updated and not and often trigger needless rebuilds. And everyone uses git these days.

GNU Make, just using hashes instead of timestamps, would be a huge step forward.
Snowdens' revelations had a massive effect on the tech. sector.

It provided security people with ammunition to push things like encryption of data over "private" network connections, which prevented their misuse by governments (or at least made it harder)

It also pushed tech. companies to publicly take positions on government spying, in general by insisting they wouldn't co-operate.
Yeah exactly. Compare the self-driving fatalities from Uber and Tesla and see the immense bias.
I’d argue they should be part of Product.

The skills overlap much better there: user research, usability testing, copywriting, information design... these are all things UX teams think about and are part of making good docs.

The only similarity between engineering projects and documentation projects is... there are engineers around.
It is sad that often, a slightly less appealing .com domain is a better choice than a slick domain on an unreliable tld.
Dreampress's non-shared hosting plans include "Wordpress Service Updates" which surely includes core Wordpress updates and updates to plugins they include, like Jetpack. It might also cover updating a list of the most popular plugins.

For security beyond running updated software, it includes a Wordpress-tuned web application firewall and the $24.95/month tier includes "Malware Scanning & Repair."
Interesting. In my experience the vast majority of companies consider their employees disposable commodities.

See: micromanagement, use of the term "resource" to refer to people, layoffs as soon as there is a bad quarter and the stock price takes a little dip, shoddy "open plan" working conditions, and all the other things companies tend to do. If you have found a better situation, hang onto it with both hands and don't let go!
What a pile load of propaganda.
I thought for sure the story was going to be an Aesops Fable moral story along the lines of discrimination against trans people is illegal and wrong and the "rest of the story" is Susan's first name was Jack until six months ago, therefore no one has any idea who Susan is.

Also this is a sales position; not being overly detailed about the product's occasional quirk is not an on the job problem... if the applicant can talk a good talk and behave in a professional manner there doesn't seem to be an issue. Classic philosophical religious debate for centuries, is it more important to have right behavior or right thoughts?
couldn't resist:

there are people who make a whole living doing that :V
Hadoop is a rather extreme example... It's bad, but not everything nowadays is. Many newer pieces of software install entirely from source with one command.

Also, this is not at all endemic of containers, there's simply zero connection. Dockerfiles tend to be very simple and easy to reason about. The most complex application I have is around 50 lines of Dockerfile, and that's mostly just made more complicated to arrange things for the best layer caching.

I suppose we're supposed to believe that this is somehow worse than the days of debugging m4 macros and autotools just to get a build that doesn't work.
People text so much because there is an expectation the other person is going to respond pretty quickly. There is definitely value derived from having people accessible all the time, and I doubt a service would sell if people weren't.
From the "unusually fair billing policy" section on the pricing page:

> Our plans are limited by how many readers you have, and how often they visit your publication. We only enforce these limits on a 3 month rolling average, so we'll never make you upgrade plans if you happen to have one big traffic spike or particularly successful month.
> We wanted to know: What would it look like if you built a technology startup which could not make anyone rich. If you eliminated all the promises of wealth from the roadmap up front, and tried to build a good company, how would that affect the product, business, customers, and every little decision in between?

...

> We're currently looking at testing an affiliate program whereby we'll pay out a 30% commission every single month on the lifetime revenue of anyone referred to Ghost(Pro).

...

I believe this is called colocating your money and your mouth. I'm inspired.
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As experts, what general and specific requirements do you think a command and control software for fire services should have?

Where do you think the trends in that software will go?

Do you know which is currently the best or one of the best software in this field? ¿Why?

Thank you
Ever hear of the Highway of Tears? Canada has its own racial issues.
> "These tools don't use the thing I like!"

Pretty much. I know several admins who appear to be joining a growing pool of luddites who rail against anything new. They're particularly butt-mad about anyone drawing more salary than them. "DevOps" is their favored totem to direct their ire at.

I used to try and convince them otherwise, but it turned out to be a completely futile waste of time. At the end of the day, persistent FUD just means a more lucrative job market for the engineers who are pragmatic and fearless enough to give an honest try at making the newer paradigms work for their employers.
Who on earth uses .io for production critical domains?
I'm not really disagreeing with you, performance comparisons between gc and non-gc languages DO tend show otherwise, but consider this: a common GC strategy in C++ is arena allocation. Faster allocations and deallocations but more memory overhead. It's still C++ but a little faster in the right situation.
While I generally agree with your statement, that is nowhere near the worst case scenario.

I've experienced awesome interns who were worth their weight in gold, but I've also experienced interns who were nothing but a massive distraction for the team, a complete waste of time in a startup environment where time is the least available resource, and source of nothing but drama regularly disturbing the entire team.
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Its refusal to package firmware binaries, for one, even if that firmware is required to have a useful machine. I'm looking at AMD specifically here, where recent graphics cards (including APU's) don't even do text-mode without the firmware.

(edit: I understand the why of it, and even agree on principle, but it still prevents me from running linux-libre on most of my systems)
> But sommeliers can absolutely taste a wine and produce fairly reliable estimates of country, region, appellation, variety, etc.

This is what I'm asking if there's any firm evidence of. Do you know of any?

> That's essentially what they are trained to do, their exam is literally that.

One can equivalently say that healing the body is what acupuncturists do, and what their exams cover. That's all well and good, but if they can actually do it one should expect there to be research to that effect, right?
Whats wrong with Makefiles?; they're quick and easy ways to describe how to build simple and _not super_ complicated systems.

I've found this to be a great resource, hope you find it useful:

* http://gromnitsky.users.sourceforge.net/articles/notes-for-n...
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This extension is only mildly useful. The UTM parameters are generally pretty coarse-grained. They don't add information that comes close to individually identifying users. Especially compared to the rest of what Google Analytics tracks by default, the additional data from UTM parameters is very small.

Your privacy is much more impacted by the GCLID and DCLID query parameters, which are added by AdWords and DoubleClick campaigns respectively. This are auto-generated by their respective tools and are much more granular.
Sometimes it's good to give them a repetitive project where you give them one task and have them repeat it. I once trained an intern to do molecular biology from basically nothing, he made 50 mutants and tested 25 in three months. He got a publication out of that.

On the other hand, I have an intern now, who I've taught go (she made a cli and learned tdd) and had her set up a tensorflow deep learning pipeline, which is not repetitive and very exploratory.
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This would easily fall into one of the many permitted exceptional cases.
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The article mentions Canadian carriers too.
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There are plenty of mechanisms in the container ecosystem to address each of the problems the author states. Building software isn't all that it is cracked up to be and it isn't very fun. Often times build steps for open source projects are not well documented or the build process is inherently difficult to push a paid product. Example: nginx
Voice over WiFi definintely works. I don’t think “works” is the word you are looking for. “Won’t have great coverage” is maybe what you were going for.

A WiFi-based network with stronger privacy characteristics would be valuable to the small part of the market who cares more about privacy than coverage. Those people exist, ya?
I'm not clear if you missed the point here? This isn't aggregate data, it's obtaining the location of a specific individual just by knowing their phone number. It can be done without their knowledge or consent.

By your webserver analogy, the equivalent would be more akin to google publishing the contact details and search queries of anyone using the service.
If I buy a product and they ask where I heard about it, I make a decision whether I want to tell them or not and if not, I will tell them nothing or if they insist on something, a lie.

These parameters make the choice for me. They have no benefit for me but block my right to determine what I want to give away.

You do not have a right to track me. As for these parameters being harmless to my privacy, I will be the judge of that. In my opinion everything that allows you to see something about me harms my privacy, so not allowing you to see it benefits my privacy. It’s just a matter of how much I allow you to harm my privacy.
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It's a rant, my inclination is that it has to do with a very specific situation the author is facing at work.
That is so interesting. What was the symbol for that?
how exactly do you use a fraction of a cycle? i would assume that it would be fractional on average, but then again I can't exactly speak for my expertise on how instructions map to cycles and if it's solely an integer mapping
The analogy is not a good one because the human sense/perception of taste is not a narrow classifier trained on limited data. I can taste something I've never tasted before and still a) describe the flavor, b) determine that it is different from other flavors I've tasted before, and c) recognize the new flavor again in the future.

If people with trained palates for wine cannot tell a chilled red apart from a white, or a room-temperature white apart from a red, it may not prove that the conventional wisdom around wine tasting is bullshit, but it sure suggests it strongly.
Magic ... obviously
I mean these days having a powerful computer on my desk is less of a benefit - that can be a machine in the closet or sitting on a rack. The machine on my desk just needs to drive a couple displays and run a browser.

I mean it depends on what you do - but for many people it's a realistic solution.
UTMs are aesthetically unpleasing to me and that's all the reason I need to get rid of them.
How do you expect this data to be used in your favor? If there is a technical glitch/human error and your data is intermingled with someone else's, it will be used against you silently and you will have no recourse.
Debian has made great strides towards this too.