skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suddenly feel like I'm back in the Bush administration. Can we get our permanent code orange alerts back?

The biggest threats to nuclear peace at the moment are India/Pakistan, Israel, the United States, and Russia. I'd like to emphasize that the US is the biggest threat to world peace of all of the above, though a general nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India isn't implausible.

Don't let the media distract you from the real story. It is the ambitions of nation states and their imperial capitalist backers that are the threat to civilized life on Earth.

You can watch Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsburg discuss the prospect of Nuclear War here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imXAiv53_o8
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I remember the 1989 Loma Prieta quake in California. It was not chaotic. The TV news was still on, emergency services were doing their jobs, the tap water never stopped working, the power was back on the next morning, and there was not much if any of looting or similar crimes. Fewer than 100 people died, in an area with a population of more than 6 million people at the time.

It's also worth noting that a magnitude 8 earthquake in one part of California will have little effect in other parts. It's a pretty big place. LA could be totally destroyed and we would barely feel it here in San Jose.

I don't take your prediction of "complete chaos" very seriously.
Consider that the majority of federal tax revenues are generated by top income earners. It’s more of a wealth transfer between different groups of the wealthy.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/10/06/a-closer-loo...
It still means these dies have to be fabbed and binned separately. Epyc and Ryzen are different dies and not interchangeable, they are not "the same die used across the whole lineup".
Aliexpress takes around 30 to 60 days for shipping, what about Amazon in the US?
"________ is not very complex and uses pretty much only textbook data structures and algorithms" is pretty much a false statement for any engineered product.
And sorry, that folder structure in #1 has no sense
Basic toiletries and other consumables using Amazon Subscribe and Save.
I think it's valuable to make you and everyone else more afraid. I'm constantly astounded at how little people care about the very real possibility of nuclear war. It was on everyone's mind when I was growing up in the 80s, but when the USSR collapsed, the concern evaporated even though the arsenals very much did not.

Avoiding nuclear war should be one of our top priorities (and was one of the major factors deciding my 2016 vote), yet it's hardly ever discussed. It's a bit crazy.
My laptop buzzes loudly if I slouch or put my hands on my face. Minimal effort implementation; damianmoore/tensorflow-image-classifier, fswebcam, cron, aplay.
The UIs were part of Fishworks which became the ZFS Storage Appliance. A more fair question would be, why hasn't your storage appliance vendor (like Pure Storage, EMC or whatever) implemented the UIs (and maybe they have?).

As others point out dynamic tracing facilities should be there with bcc but to be honest you shouldn't even need dynamic tracing to create those graphs, just disk I/O queues, service time and throughput. I know how to get that easily on FreeBSD from libgeom(3), I'm sure it's not too hard on Linux either in one of the pseudo-filesystems.

[libgeom(3)] https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=libgeom&sektion=3
Can you open source this? Sounds helpful
Oh boy, great question. Over the last couple of months, I've been writing apps for a single user: me. Here's what all I've built so far:

1. A custom twitter client

I feel like tweeting whenever I get an insight so I post a tweet several times a day. But I whenever I used to tweet, I'd get pulled into an endless stream of notifications and timeline. So I wrote myself a client that does only one thing: posting of tweets. It has no timeline, no notification. In case you want to use it, it's hosted on https://tweetaway.herokuapp.com/

2. Site-specific search (along with Google)

I find great content on HN, so I built myself a stupidly simple website which opens up Google.com and site:ycombinator.com +keyword whenever I search. Using it, I've come across so many interesting threads that I would have never discovered. E.g. when I searched for entropy, I came across this gem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14709896

You can access it at https://dualsearch.glitch.me/ (you'll require a Chrome addon to modify Cross-origin headers because Google doesn't open in Iframe)

3. I miss my cat at work, so I built a Chrome plugin that shows an icon of her + a funny one-liner https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/orbit-the-cat/fjni...

4. Last weekend, I wrote a twitter bot that retweets my old tweets that got many retweets (to resurface them in US timezone, because at that time I'm asleep)
Ask HN: Is designing programs stressful to you?
The general consensus is that programming is mostly enjoyable, but I've heard less about the actual design part. Is design a series of problem to solve like programming is, or is it more of a chaotic creative process?
If you want to play around with locations and yields to see the levels of damage somewhere else, try NUKEMAP: http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

Scary stuff.
Seasonal. Affective. Disorder.

It rampages through the city like a plague every December through March.

Leave home in the dark, get home in the dark, it's overcast when you do go outside.

Snow comes and goes, it gently falls constantly due to "lake effect", and you'll have a few 10" snowstorms from November through February. Plus a couple random 40-60 degree days where it all melts off.

There is a ski hill (Cannonsburg) half an hour away, but it's only a hill - not a mountain. People ice fish, snowmobile, play hockey, and generally enjoy the winter - but you have to get out and use the right lights, or else you'll join most of the rest of the city in some mild depression.

When my son graduates high school, and our network of great schools, family, and friends becomes less of a tie, I'm running.
This is called our "Extended Deterrence". We also had nukes in South Korea for some time. Some of our NATO allies of course have their own weapons (UK, France).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea_and_weapons_of_mas...

EDIT: An interesting point about the history of extended deterrence is that the US put nukes in Turkey and that precipitated the Cuban Missile crisis as the Soviets felt they needed parity. Turkey is in the same ballpark range from Moscow as Cuba is from Washington D.C. This history is not often told to make it seem as though Washington was responding to some kind of unprovoked aggression.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/01/the-rea...
Pushing music onto my phone. I have Termux installed, and can thus run `sshd` on Termux (I have ssh keys copied over), and then copy any music I want into a temporary directory on my desktop and use https://github.com/ehmry/dir2opus to convert everything to 96kbps opus and push it over using rsync and then cleanup the temporary directory:

`python2 ~/builds/dir2opus/dir2opus -a -b 96 --delete-input . -r && rsync -av --progress -e "ssh -p 8022" . 192.168.1.111:"/sdcard/Music/music-OPUS/" && rm ./* -rf #music`

Likewise audiobooks, but to 24kbps opus:

`python2 ~/builds/dir2opus/dir2opus -a -b 24 --delete-input . -r && rsync -av --progress -e "ssh -p 8022" . 192.168.1.111:"/sdcard/Audiobooks/" && rm ./* -rf #audiobooks`
Supreme Court surveillance opinion nudges us to think nationally, act locally
Where would you even look for such workers? Is there a good place? What kind of jobs Cambodians specialize in?
Policies of an outlet can be determined by volume and slant, even op-eds. Opinion pieces help drive a narrative that regular stories do as well. It's not like, to view NYT's ads, you knew the article you were visiting. They're next to each other in search engine results. This isn't on a site named nytimesopinion.com.

The sheer volume of articles now, regardless of whether you tell people they are in different forms, are there to drive views and, when categorized by topics, build the momentum to view more on all sides of the paper. This is not the print days of old. They are using all sections to obtain eyes and calling most of them news. Pretending what are basically blogs with official seals as what used to be print pieces ignores the sheer volume and collective value they have nowadays. The noise is much too large to compare to the past.

> Facebook has been a regular part of the news cycle precisely because it is so central to an ongoing dialog regarding privacy, regulatory regimes and the power of a single corporate entity.

Disagree. The news cycle is driving the dialog at this point, not responding to it. It's clear in the vast number of sustanceless articles. The disturbing part is that you accept your pitchfork, bow, and parrot these views while telling others what they have to learn before they can be critical.
>About half of potential radiation exposure occurs within the first hour, and 80 percent occurs within the first day.

I was not aware of that, interesting.
Not even that, it looks like a binary of Skype was included in the repo according to the takedown notice.
U.S. Plans Curbs on Chinese Investment, Citing Security Risks
Also this:

> But quite often [Facebook is] managed like [a marketplace], because in many ways, that’s exactly what it is: a giant, multisided marketplace for buying and selling, in which the largest party — the users — doesn’t do the buying or the selling. A social network’s profitable transactions involve everyone but the users. Ad rates are even determined, in many cases, by auction. If eBay is a machine for finding the right price for a pair of shoes, Facebook — behind the veneer of enabling human connection — is a machine for discovering the right price for a pair of eyeballs. Your eyeballs.
> you should consume more real vanilla, as that will result in more work for them, thus increasing their incomes.

or you can pass laws to bring in temporary migrants from African countries to do the extra work and still keep wages down.
For searching HN, also (using searx.me): `ddg !hn topic here`
The other point was sites are often trying to address social issues with market solutions. Facebook's mission is social connection but its profit is attention bidding.
> The initial roll-out of 500 computers will cost US$369 each

I was expecting a around a third of that number. How affordable is $369? (I'd appreciate anyone who better knows economics or Cambodia chiming in.)

Wikipedia says per capita GDP using PPP (which I believe is the appropriate conversion for this purpose) is ~$4,300 per year, so the computer costs around a month of typical income (as distributed to everyone, not just to the workers).

At that level of income, people probably don't have much that's disposable; I would assume almost all goes to necessities. I could imagine a developer spending a month's income on a badly needed computer, but their market is people who haven't used one before. How many of them will invest in one?

Of course the person behind this project knows Cambodia far better than I do and must be well aware of the affordability issue. I wonder what their solution is. Maybe the target is a wealthier subset of the population and maybe there's a good reason; for example, maybe that level of wealth is required for reliable electricity.
The author has the privilege to not have to raise his child the way he was, because he is very successful and rich. Once you have economic wealth, you reach higher and higher on the Maslov's Hierarchy of Needs. He and his children have the privilege and luxury of pursuing the top echelon, which is self-fulfillment. He doesn't have to force education down his children's throats because they will inherit his and his wife's wealth. His children can graduate from a city college and still be millionaires from their inheritance.

His parents didn't have that luxury, and most of us do not either. So it might not have been pretty, but it did exactly the job that his parents wanted to do. This is how families pull themselves out of the cycle of poverty, through unapologetic adherence to top education and work ethic.
I'm posting to second this. It is a genuinely well-done show, and the creator made it a point to be as accurate as the plot allows regarding orbital mechanics, ablation cascades, and the like. It is well worth a watch.
>Under the plan, the White House would use one of the most significant legal measures available to declare China’s investment in U.S. companies involved in technologies such as new-energy vehicles, robotics and aerospace a threat...

Can anyone here speak to the ($) volume of Chinese investment in these areas? Is there actually a lot of ($) demonstrated interest or should this be understood more as a political (press) opportunity?

Thanks.
The author even put the word in single quotes because he knew it wasn't really censorship, but still used the word anyway because everyone likes being the victim. Although, before the hive-mind downvote squad gets me too, I must say PeerTube is still a great idea.
It would be such a political risk to keep one in a target country without telling them, and they can already deliver them without much hassle when they need to.

It would be a constant threat not to the US (they don't know it is there) but to the Russia or China who at anytime could be found out and the response will not be what they want.

Only in the case that you want to set it off is it a net benefit, and even if you did it anonymously... the response still could be what Russia and or China wouldn't want.

There is really no good reason to do it, particularly since they could deliver one anytime fairly quickly if they needed to.

Much less risky to play politics remotely. ...
>Peter Thiel — an early Facebook investor and board member — with his funding of lawsuits against media companies and his eclectic and severe right-wing politics.

The take away of Thiel glaringly missed Palantir in favor of some digs.
Hey, I currently live pretty close by to Ann Arbor. Have any more details on this JavaScript meetup?
Actually, sometimes no, or at least aggregate. The volume being used to drive clicks makes it real hard to see the forest for the trees. Even on HN, one can rarely distinguish serious FB news from these dumb opinion pieces.
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In most of history cultural exchange happened not by enlightened people seeking out other cultures, but through conquest. In the case of China, by the Mongols, for example. Or in the very language we are communicating in - which is a weird mixture of Germanic and French thanks to William the Conqueror.
Ask HN: What do people not understand about being a software developer?
Hyperledger Fabric: How to Setup Application from Scratch Using Nodejs
Interesting! Monarch butterflies have a similar device.

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms5164
At 42%, BITMAIN Approaching 51% of Total Bitcoin Network Hashrate
Go library to make beautiful line graphs ╭┈╯ with no dependencies
Really good point.
In the long-term it's to their detriment. If the company finds itself on the decline, they may look back on it as a missed opportunity.
We’ve mostly lost track of our ability to talk about things of technical interest on the front end. It’s common to see framework soup (though OP explained themselves well in their response). I have to put headphones on when junior engineers talk JavaScript tech, it makes me too angry/amused and they probably should be talking about it anyway since it will help their careers if they pick the right ones.

Sadly a similar thing has happened to programming languages, we use languages just for their libraries. The language itself must be treated as an empty vessel for the ML/Numeric/Web/Physics whatever it is you need. Or programmers you need to hire. This bothers me but is the purpose of our industry, to minimize construction time through reuse.
To offer another perspective on defensive patents, it's worth taking a look at the Defensive Patent Licence devised by Jason Schultz and Jennifer Urban. https://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/facpubs/2149/
1) It’s not a low risk, it’s happened to me at least a few times

2) It’s not a risk that exists at competitors like Walmart and Target

3) For some categories like baby food, even a low risk of counterfeit product is unacceptable
We're /inventing/, Grommie!
No, we're talking about historical (i.e. real) Cortez, which is evident from your very own reference to his 'rape' which has nothing to do with the film 'Apocalypto'.

The reference to 'rape' I interpreted metaphorically, and you indicated you meant it literally - which I don't think applies given the historical facts of Aztecs, Cortez et. al. in real history ... whereas one could arguably use the 'rape' in the metaphorical sense and it would in fact apply within reason, at least as a creative description.

Also, nobody has suggested Cortez was a great dude, rather, that he wasn't part of a 'death cult' that pulled the beating hearts out of hundreds of thousands of slaves, women, and children, and inserted straws for the gods to drink blood, skinned them alive and wore their skin for good luck etc. ... which is altogether another level of crazy. It requires a hefty dose of moral equivalence to even try to equate regular colonization/conquest, which is the most common type of geopolitical activity in history by far, with the 'death cult' Aztec stuff, which doesn't really seem to have any real historical parallel.
Database migrations typically refer to schema/ddl changes to an application along side deployment of a new version.

Everything I've ever heard and read has told me that containers aren't a good for for this type of long-term service that gets refreshed infrequently.

That was a safe rule of thumb 5 years ago. Since then support for scheduling a persistent volume to be available along side your long running container has become a bog standard and boring feature.
And don't forget the 'serviceability' of your product in the Kuiper Belt.
>There's no discussion of this anywhere, really, since the for profit platform is so powerful that some people are literally afraid to criticize them in public.

Really? Every other article about Google is criticizing how much data they collect. Meanwhile, websites are literally being blacklisted via the Domain Name System (by Google specifically) for undesirable political speech. So much for only governments can engage in censorship.
The only thing I remember about Ann Arbor is my mom visiting a hospital there for some reason. It seemed like a small quaint town, definitely not as bad as Monroe.
I'm not going to call anyone out here, but why do people keep using the word orthogonal?

It doesn't even compute. It doesn't even make any sense, in how they use it in relation to the topic.

Are the issues at right angles of one another? No.

Are the issues statistically independent of one another? Perhaps.

I suggest to use a more appropriate descriptive word to describe the situation.

You folks should read the urban meaning of orthogonal, to understand how people roll their eyes at you, when you inappropriately use the term.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=orthogonal

Just another friendly PSA.
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Yes, indeed. As one of my friends puts it: "I have four children. Three grown, and one that got older."
Why do the style guides of these large organisations often insist on the ludicrous capitalisation of "EBay" when it appears at the start of a sentence?
Why the Short-Lived Pony Express Still Fascinates Us
To be fair, Loma Prieta was only a 6.9 on the Richter scale. A magnitude 8.0 quake would be > 10x stronger, slightly bigger than the 1906 SF earthquake.

I think you're right that the effect on California would be pretty ho-hum, though. California prepares for earthquakes; most of the building codes are designed for > magnitude 8 quakes, major companies headquartered here have earthquake drills to maintain continuity of business, schools teach kids what to do in an earthquake, and I'd bet that first responders and hospitals all drill for what to do. The electricity & Internet would likely go down, because PG&E and Comcast seemingly can't keep them running even in the absence of natural disasters. And transportation would be a problem - even the mudslides last winter managed to take out all the roads over the mountain and large sections of highway 1. But I don't think you'd see large-scale chaos or civil disorder, at least in Northern California.

No idea whether you'd see the same in SoCal; aside from them expecting a larger quake, sooner, than the Bay Area, they haven't had one since before urbanization. I suspect their building codes are the same, though, so unless it's Santa Ana wind season they'll probably do okay.
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"gadget" by Nicholas Freeling. (1977)

https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Gadget.html?id=DrMOA...
of course it stops working at some point because the next level of achievement is simply a higher bar that weeds out more people.
IDK if it's the same, but https://github.com/pyskell/slouchy is an implementation.
“Bursty” Communication Can Help Remote Teams Thrive – Behavioral Scientist
In addition to the 'not even comparable' level of atrocity, the scale of the direct victims of the Inquisition also paled in comparison to the full and complete systematic mass murder of the Aztec rituals.

At very least the eradication of the craziest death cult in history was a bonus for everyone.
I'll certainky take a look at it
That novel is a work of a legend. Especially, the future part. Ecen Christopher nolan won't be able to do justice to this novel.(maybe he could)
> When I became a parent, I felt the wonder and uncertainty that accompany the awesome responsibility of fatherhood. But I was absolutely sure of one thing: The childhood I devise for my two young daughters will look nothing like mine. They will feel valued and supported. They will know home as a place of joy and fun. They will never wonder whether their father’s love is conditioned on an unblemished report card.

I wonder if that does your kids or anyone else a favor. As someone in position similar to the author, I've chosen to Tiger parent my kids. As my Asian immigrant parents understood: money is really important. It matters so much that financial stress is a leading cause of divorce and people die because they don't have the money for proper healthcare. I don't want my kids to suffer for lack of money. Nor do I want them to feel like they can have their cake and eat it too because they can depend on their parents' money.

There's also a question of whether it helps anyone else. Our world is facing immense challenges. Many of the things cans we've been kicking down the road for these past decades are going to pile up on the generation to come. Their generation needs people slaving away in labs or in front of computers. That need might be existential. Your kids shouldn't get a pass on that just because they are privileged and their parents were well-off enough that they could be comfortable without necessarily striving.
So bad they're good is also quite fun

I still have fond memories of Westwood's Command & Conquer cutscenes (and the CGI!) because it was so cheesy and low budget
> There is literature legion on the implementation of the database that would assuage you, should you concern yourself with reading it. I don't think you need to. Trust that many many smart people have engineered many many decades of excellent software.

can you recommend some material?
Agreed on all parts, I'd love to know what an ad-free experience would cost on some of these sites...shouldn't be more than 1-3 pennies per article I'd imagine?
The paywalls need to change, but until we get microtransactions supported by all the major browsers (not just Brave) in a way that won't be hacked...or socially-engineered too easily (latter is perhaps a tall order), I fear we are stuck