skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm just saying we need to accept that a concerningly large portion of the US voting population has no clue, no understanding at all, and further, they don't care. They just vote for representatives of their tribe.

Until there's a way to disrupt that, to break up this tribe into smaller, less significant groups, this is how things are going to be.

It's not that they're relatively uneducated, but that they're negatively uneducated: viewers of Fox News know less about world events than people who don't watch any news at all.
As it so happens, I'm building a side project centered around cataloging art. I'm curious - what is "Hathi"?
Don't think Microsoft would go that far for funsies.
Good for them. Seriously.

Nerverthelss, in the case of France, it seems mostly redundant. 80% of supply being nuclear means there's much more baseload than variable supply. Storage would be less of a concern.
No, option one is: you get everything and have to pay off any debts that come with it.

Option two: you refuse the entire inheritance, get nothing but also don't get any debts.
He posted the exact conversation with the technical person in charge. They were considering using the submarine for the youngest as a backup plan. Just because they weren't forced to use it means nothing. During the Chilean mine rescue, there were 2 extra drills going at the same time using different technology.
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How do we save x million children from poverty, disease, etc? Well, we need to mobilize huge trans-national organizations, we need to drive systemic changes, we need multi-year disease intervention programs, etc.

How do we save a dozen kids trapped in a cave? If we put together some resources we can save all their lives within a week or so.

Also, starving kids have traditionally motivated enormous outpourings of effort, so your hypothetical straw man comparison isn't very accurate.
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So a modern day version of “The Truman Show”?
Yes, that's a fair summary. We chose 2 GB/day because our own home installations have stayed under that when we ingest netflow, DNS lookups, collectd hardware stats, and syslogs. We think it's enough to be actually useful to a home user, especially in combination with our ingesters (https://dev.gravwell.io/docs/#!quickstart/downloads.md)
For a pure Java stack, you might not find any advantage in Docker.

There is still one however -- Kubernetes. Run many instances of a Docker container in Kubernetes as a cluster.

Oh, but I can set up various Java technology clusters without Kubernetes.

Think of Kubernetes as doing for clusters what an OS does for a single computer.

1960s:
Joe: can I use the computer today to run my workload?
Bob: yeah, but my workload is running the computer until about 3 PM.

Today:
Joe: can I use the (let's say Hadoop) cluster to run my workload?
Bob: yeah, but my workload is running the cluster until about 3 PM.

An OS lets Joe and Bob both use the computer at the same time.

Kubernetes lets Joe and Bob both use a generalized cluster at the same time.

Joe has his Docker container (say a Java workload set up as a Hadoop node).

Bob has his Docker container (say some other kind of Java parallel computing workload, or maybe Python or other).

Joe tells Kubernetes to run 50 instances of his workload.

Bob tells Kubernetes to run 30 instances of his workload.

Joe and Bob's workloads can each see each their own nodes on a private network that cannot see the other's nodes on the network.

Maybe the physical hardware cluster only has 45 nodes. Kubernetes might schedule multiple docker containers running on the same physical node.

Kubernetes is something you would expect from Google running a giant data center where many different people want to run multiple-node clusters ad-hoc at any given time. Even multiple instances of the same type of workload, such as Jane wanting her own 50 node Hadoop, while Carol runs a 40 node Hadoop cluster, but they don't interfere with each other.
My understanding is some things (e.g. Google Chrome, Google and Microsoft fonts) can't be put in the main Arch Linux repos for copyright reasons.
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It is really just an acknowledgement that buybacks are more tax efficient dividends. So now "value" companies, instead of paying dividends, perform stock buybacks.

It is a tax efficiency thing, nothing more.
Of course, one should be careful about what one installs on their system. Even more so an Arch user, which should be technical saavy in the first place.

Anyways, I know I don't manually review everything I install on my system, I trust the packet manager.

I'm not an Arch user so I don't know, but doest the AUR repo have some kind of code signing or automatic analysis of the packages?
I absolutely love scrolling on 120Hz displays. It feels so much more natural when the letters aren't blurry as they move under your fingers. Indeed, the iPad Pros have the feature, but they aren't nearly as popular as iPhones. I tried on the Razer Phone, can't wait to have it on mine.
But if you have Amazon turk workers 'scraping' the data is that illegal?
So... what were they doing with the hijacks? Using it to evade IP reputation bans for spamming?
Ants actually serve a purpose in the ecosystem. Mosquitoes are unique in that many ecologists believe mosquito eradication would not adversely affect other species.
1000x yes. I live my dream life because of it - can travel anywhere in the world and never have to worry about going broke.
I still use jQuery regularly. It works well and doesn't get in the way. I'd rather work on a jQuery codebase written by a good engineer than a React codebase written by an average engineer, and there's no amount you could pay me to work on a Javascript codebase written by a bad engineer.

The problem you've identified is that most code, in general, is terrible. The code written by people who chase trends tends to be worse than average.
The theorem says that you specifically can't communicate with entanglement alone. It's spooky, but just non-spooky enough to forbid building an ansible. If you poke one part of an entangled pair, you can't actually force which state you will get. You will get a measurement, and the other can be measured as well and they will both be observed in some state- but you can't push one leftwards to get the other to go rightwards.

If you could, high speed traders would not bother with microwave links.

Quantum networks are (in theory) impossible to snoop on without detection, so they are useful for distributing cryptographic keys. They might be useful to pass quantum states around between quantum computers if they're reliable enough.
How long did they measure this for, and how long is that relative to the lifecycle / reproductive cycle of a mosquito? Is there any reason to believe the mosquito population won't quickly (or if not quickly, then eventually) bounce back?
Fine, meta-stable. :-)
AUR PKGBUILDs are much more restricted than this, since they're restricted to a fakeroot.

Of course, if you're ultimately going to run the program, the binary set up by the PKGBUILD has a lot of control. But the PKGBUILD itself is limited in what it can do (to things like listing your installed packages, getting `uname -a`--the stuff mentioned in the article).
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> Buybacks are almost solely to artificially trigger stock option targets for CEOs, right? Otherwise that is money that should be paid out as a dividend or reinvested into operations and research.

No buybacks provide a potential tax advantage for investors. Dividends have tax consequences in the year that they're received. Buybacks lift the price of the stock by an equivalent amount but do not force the investor to realize the gains so they can defer the taxes to a later date.
Companies don’t buy stock when they think it’s going to go down in the future.
I was doing this with COM twenty years ago. It had the same advantages of modularity and language independence but without the unnecessary headaches of a distributed system.

I take your point, but it saddens me that there aren't better ways of achieving this modularity nowadays.
The problem is it's not clear when to use what. Some get confused and use it in the wrong place. Here are some questions to ask before you use microservices.

Does the service need an independent and dedicated team to manage its complexities, or is it a "part time" job? Try a Stored Procedure first if its the second.

Is the existing organization structure (command hierarchy) prepared and ready for a dedicated service? (Conway's law) Remember, sharing a service introduces a dependency between all service users. Sharing ain't free.

Do you really have a scalability problem, or have you just not bothered to tune existing processes and queries? Don't scrap a car just because it has a flat tire.
> Yes, autophagy is selective.

Is it? How does it affect lean body mass and muscle mass?
Based on what I know of their ASNs, yes.
Thanks for this, and wanting to know more! We're working on expanding our docs to add this.
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but they are champion of privacy or something like that. And google who walked out of China because they refused to bend to their rules are the bad guys.
As much as it pains me to say this because I absolutely hate junk mail: internet service providers should be like the USPS, with an obligation to deliver all the content regardless of the content.

The internet is (arguably) more powerful today than the telephone is, or ever was, as a tool for mass communication, learning, and dissention. If the government allows companies to stifle this resource without themselves providing an unbiased alternative, then the government has effectively, indirectly, snuffed out a very important medium for free speech in the 21st century.
Cooperating with China is cooperating with authoritarianism and human rights abuses.
Honestly, the region shouldn't matter. If you want you could add a little notice that it's English-only for now, but there's absolutely no reason to limit this to a particular country. It's a totally free service and it doesn't involve complicated region-specific licensing agreements, so where someone lives quite simply does not matter.
Companies hoard cash because they want to ensure continuity.

I loose respect for companies which go an extra mile to exploit loopholes. All companies do it. For example - Apple borrows money to pay dividend to stock owners even though they have unbelievable amount of money. But somehow the messed up US tax code this action sounds logical.
I'm guessing, the Surface Go wasn't designed with gamers in mind.

If Ford made a small, efficient engine I might ask what they are going to use it in. Aside from SUVs and trucks, what is it that people are buying from Ford that makes the small engine interesting?

Nobody is talking about cool new Windows software and so the Windows ecosystem feels stagnant. With the number of Windows machines out there, you know that can't be true.
Ah nice -- yeah we have a similar interview that tests debugging as well so glad to hear other people do it. We have found it really effective as it is a skill that is often overlooked in technical interviews but is something you do on a day-to-day basis. We have it so some tests fail despite the fact they LOOK like they should pass. Props to you for having a practical technical interview :)
Github issue tracking doubling as a personal blog = effin genius
I agree with the other commenters on this subthread that buybacks are most often times simply a more tax efficient way of handing back profits to shareholders. I think it's a good thing that companies share profit gains with shareholders. At a certain point, well run and well focused companies can saturate their market domain but still have amazing fundamentals.

You have to ask yourself, particularly as a shareholder but also a member of society, do you want the company to extend into other industries where they could not only be over-extending themselves beyond their core competency but also over-exposing themselves to macro-economics, geo-politics and anti-trust issues.

Do we want all companies to chase monopolies in multiple domains like Amazon? Should Verizon/Comcast/etc. use its monopoly profits from telecom to go after media, then cloud computing and then conquer consumer goods and healthcare or should it just return profits to share holders? If the money goes back to the shareholder, then the shareholder can go find the category leader in those other domains and invest it more wisely.

That said buybacks can definitely be manipulated by some management teams to game their compensation, which is a definitely bad thing.
I mean, all they need is a few hand tools and an optical comparator for the parts and some creativity for the code.
Yeah! The demoscene was releasing size restricted albums (music disks) for decades before vaporwave was even thought of as a term.

Here's half a million songs: https://modarchive.org/
If one accepts that one is an emotional animal, and that over-suppression of emotional irrationality can lead to mental illness and non-adaptive stress responses, then the rational thing to do is to let yourself be irrational. Escape the local minima.
There's some screenshots in the high-level quickstart (https://dev.gravwell.io/docs/#!quickstart/quickstart.md) but in general we do seem to be pretty demo-sparse on the main site. I'd also suggest checking out this older blog post about WiFi analytics (https://www.gravwell.io/blog/wifi-analytics-wild-west-hackin...) with the caveat that some things may have been refined a bit since that time.

Edit: we're putting screenshots into the blog post now
Actually the data suggests the reverse.
I ran SID in a embedded customer box testing unreleased software, I did run it in KVM from a stable release since I wouldn’t have physical access if something went wrong, glad I did.
> (his friend’s phone specified the region as the US and the language as English, followed by Chinese.)

I use the Chinese keyboard as a very rudimentary Mandarin speaker. Does this mean the Chinese government was still getting information on my chat history even though I'm a US citizen?!
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I have to read your essay in more detail. I see a lot i disagree with. But if the gist of what your saying is is "ignoring luck will help you persevere" I can see the logic.

However, I'm not advocating a cynical mindset. I'm advocating a compassionate one, and a realistic one. If you don't think luck matters, you can delude yourself into thinking the people below you didn't work hard enough, or that you must be especially talented and driven to have gotten where you are.

I've also seen people hurt themselves with that mindset. The guy who risks everything on some business venture that's doomed to fail, yet he thinks he can beat the odds because he's smarter or more hard-working.

How about having an absurdist approach towards luck. "I'm probably going to fail, and I'm going to do it anyway." It's honest, it's compassionate, and it doesn't discourage you from trying the impossible. That's how I think, and it's worked well for me.
Unfortunately, as far as I know, no-one can license Dolby NR anymore. If you want to record or playback tape with noise reduction you're pretty much limited to "vintage" equipment.
Well said. I used the term 'relatively' because most(?) of them can at least turn on fox news, whereas 70 years ago very few would be able to operate a modern TV to get at fox news without at least 30 seconds of being taught how.
> "Computer Science" does not seem very very interested in the provability of their science

...uh, what computer science are you talking about? Formal verification is a huge part of CS, and provability is a tiny part of what makes science science - systematic study through observation and experimentation. Science is a discipline, not in itself a fact to be proved.

Also, what parts of CS do you think are inapplicable to general purpose computing?
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Fact is, they're building more coal plants in the country because they can more quickly meet energy demands with coal and as of last September the world was building coal plants faster than they were being closed (and I suspect China is).
> How could you see it as anything but a gender issue?

She is the one who verbally attacked someone in a public forum. She is the one who attempted to make it a gender issue. It is not.

The original issue was her aggressive and rude response to a player. When she responded by implicitly accusing the player of sexism, she injected politics into what was an otherwise nonpolitical event - which in turn incited a far larger group against her.
It’s not the Supreme Court’s job to make policy. This is a job for Congress.
Bind variables are the ? in "SELECT fname, lname, pcode FROM cust WHERE id = ?" and they're a better choice than concatenating the ID you want into the SQL string because (a) it prevents SQL injection and (b) it lets the query optimiser cache plans.

We have plenty of complicated queries - when we've got complex SQL queries, we find it valuable to have pure SQL as you can paste it into a tool that lets you execute it on the database and view the results, the explain plans, and suchlike.
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"Even trade secrets often only buy you a small amount of time these days before a competitor reverse engineers your technology" -- this tends to undermine the idea that good algorithms would remain secret without software patents.

Someone else suggested that you can hide some kinds of algorithms if you only provide software-as-a-service. That way there's never even a binary available for reverse engineering. The same applies for software that is used just internally, like if an aircraft manufacturer has their own geometric modeling kernel that aircraft buyers never get near. But even with NDAs for employees and no external distribution of software, good ideas leak as people change jobs and find inspiration from systems they built/used before. Sometimes the main thing you need to know is that a particular line of research was fruitful; exactly reproducing the original implementation is less important.

I tend to think that it would usually take less than the 20 years of patent exclusivity for a good, intended-to-remain-secret algorithm to diffuse out of a for-profit company, or to be independently invented again by somebody who will publish regardless of patentability. Pondering a world without software patents, is it worth it to learn about a good idea 10 years "late" (assuming secrecy is attempted), in exchange for being able to freely use that idea 10 years "early"? I say with complete confidence: maybe.
Oh sorry, should have linked: https://hathitrust.org . It’s a super-comprehensive set of book and magazine scans. Think Google Books, but with actual content and a proper advanced search.
I started to make something similar with Node, since I wanted to use Node to make containers rather than shell scripts (I don't think learning shell scripts should be a prereq for NoOps). Unfortunately I got distracted, before I eliminated the need for a Dockerfile (it had a wrapper Dockerfile that ran npm scripts) https://github.com/diodejs/dev/blob/master/Dockerfile

It's based on a plain alpine container, with the idea that you can run `apk remove node` when you're done to clean it up if you don't need node once the container is built.

A lot of people are missing that this is really about replacing shell scripts with Maven or Gradle. You can still build a fat JAR.
> Mac users seem to be more likely [...] to evangelize apps than Windows users do

I 100% agree and I think it's a shame. There's not enough joy in Windows world.

Thank you for the list of applications. I'm going to check them out. Groupy looks immediately interesting to me because I prefer to work on a single monitor (I do use virtual desktops though).
Update your linkedin and clearly define your goal to work in a traditional data-center. There are still plenty of mid to large companies that have a need for traditional engineering and system administration. It is actually getting much harder to find people with this experience.

Pipeline engineering is just one tiny piece of system architecture, engineering and administration. The flood of requests you are seeing are the small to mid sized companies experimenting in public cloud to reduce costs. One size does not fit all.

Certainly position yourself as someone that can (re)build their infrastructure to create a solid foundation on which all manor of automation can be created and simplified.
That might be how it seems if you hang around on HN but activity in the Ruby and Rails communities is still increasing. New conferences, new implementations, and thousands of new developers.
I’m not a zealot on the subject but I do believe some form of equally-distributed sterilization is the only way the human race can be saved from itself. That’s a very hard conversation I’d like to see broached.
There is nothing like the real thing. I tried a high-quality print of a work where the foreground was cutouts glued to the background, thinking that the lack of detail would the difference unnoticeable, but it still lacked everything that made the original special. That's the problem with prints of artwork: The first 99% is a nice picture, it's the last 1% that is the genius. Lots of people can play the notes John Coltrane played, but they are missing that 1% (a different take, I suppose, on 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration).

You can find places that make sell actual oil paintings that reproduce originals - i.e., they hire an artist to reproduce the original. It's not a scam; I don't think they put the original signature on. I haven't tried one and, as you might surmise, I'm not optimistic. Maybe I'll try something technically simple, such as a Miro. It's the only way I'll ever get to see a Miro in my living room.
That's just what you get when you hire accountants that know what they're doing and are obligated to pursue the path which results in the lowest amount of tax paid as permitted by law.

If Apple didn't do this they'd get sued. Activist shareholders would be all over them in an instant.

That puts them in a tough spot. I'm sure Apple would rather that loophole was closed, it's really absurd that they have to do all this just to make it work, but there's nothing they can do about it.

The problem here is that the US tax system is utterly bizarre.
So is working with the US, or Britain, or like 90% of the governments in the world (hell, probably closer to 100%)
N agents are placed in a square grid, each with T_k "talent", chosen from a Normal distribution with mean, m, and variance, v, (chosen to be in the neighborhood of [0,1], e.g. m = 0.6, v = 0.1) and C_k initial capital, with all C_k chosen to be the same initially. N/2 "events" are also placed on the grid, with p of them being "lucky" and (1-p) of them being "unlucky".

The simulation is run with the "events" wandering around randomly. If an event "hits" an agent, the agent doubles their capital (C_k) with probability T_k, trying to encapsulate the idea of "when preparation meets opportunity". In other words an agent's capital doubles proportional to their "skill" if a "lucky" event hits them.

An agent's capital is halved if an unlucky event hits them.

After running the simulation for a certain amount of time, a Pareto distribution is observed for the distribution of capital (C_k). That is, with an initial distribution of "skill" as Gaussian/Normal, the wealth distribution that results is power law.
As a bonus Apple should add a bug that crashes US-region messenger every time someone types Trump or reads Trump's tweets :)
Interesting - I hadn't caught that another employee was fired for defending her. Without seeing his exact remarks and their context, that strikes me as an overreaction.